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Constipation diet is the diet regime conceptualized to induce the human bowel movement more then three times in week. Less than three bowel movements in a week is the symptom of bad digestive system that is defined as constipation. This diet is not a disease diet as constipation itself is not considered a disease, but a stomach disorder.
Dry and hard stools with difficulty in eliminating them are the main problems experienced by the sufferers of constipation. Though many causes are there for this disorder, the major contributor is the less fiber diet. Fewer liquids in diet as well as high-fat diet also worsen the condition. Hence, the diet recommended for relieving the constipation by the dieticians and physicians comprises lots of fibrous foods, liquids and less fatty food items.
Constipation Diet: Characteristics
Research shows that following a diet comprising high-fiber food and enough liquids is quite helpful in relieving the constipation.
Both soluble fibers and insoluble fibers are included in the diet. Soluble fibers are easy to digest and form a gel-like texture with water and pass through the intestine, whereas, insoluble fibers are the substances present in the fruits, grains and vegetables that cannot be digested and pass unchanged through intestine. The soft texture of the fiber does not allow stools to become dry and hard and prevents the constipation like condition.
The increased liquid intake is proved to be beneficial in making the bowel movement softer and adding bulk to the stools. It is essential to keep the body hydrated with lots of fluids in order to get relief from constipation. However, alcohol and liquids containing caffeine should be highly avoided in constipation as it may dehydrate the body and aggravated the situation.
Constipation: Dietary Restrictions
Lifestyle changes are always the best way to treat any disorder and disease, but diet plays a major role in treating them. There are many foods that should be strictly avoided in order to treat constipation. Some of them are as follows:
- Processed foods – processed meats and fishes are strictly restricted for those suffering from constipation as they do not contain any fiber, but excess of negative calories.
- Fried foods – foods that are deep-fried should be avoided in a constipation diet as they contain high-fat that is not at all suitable for the condition.
- High-fat foods – cheese, eggs, sweets, cakes, colas and other high-calorie foods should not be consumed if suffering from constipation.
Constipation Avoidance Foods
Constipation is a common symptom that can affect people of all age-groups and its seriousness should not be underestimated. Few changes in diet give tremendous benefits. Here are some foods that are extremely beneficial in the condition:
- Water and fluids – Excess drinking of water and liquids such as fruit juices are quite helpful in giving fluid to colon that creates soft stools.
- Fibrous foods – whole grains, fresh fruits with skin, green leafy vegetables and vegetables containing enough water are the main food items that should always be included in all constipation diets.
- Laxatives – these can be included in the constipation diet through teas and in medicinal forms.
However, increase in physical activities teamed with proper diet is the long term solution for curing constipation.
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Honeywell's UOP and Coalition of Visionary Airlines Join World's First
Global Algae Trade Association to Advocate Development of Sustainable Fuel
UOP, Boeing, Air New Zealand, Continental and Virgin Atlantic Airways to help commercialize algae-based biofuels
UOP, a biofuel technology developer and a Honeywell company, along with
leading global air carriers Air New Zealand, Continental and Virgin Atlantic
Airways will be the first wave of aviation-related members to join the newly
formed Algal Biomass Organization (ABO). Together with Boeing, which co-chairs
the ABO, the airlines are advocating for the identification and acceleration of
new generations of fuel sources for the industry that have lower life cycle
carbon emissions; in this case sustainable algae-based biofuels.
"The use of algae and other second generation feedstocks is absolutely
necessary to achieve long-term, sustainable biofuels," said Jennifer
Holmgren, director of UOP Renewable Energy and Chemicals. "The efforts of
companies like Boeing, Air New Zealand, Continental and Virgin Atlantic Airways
will help to bring the focus and effort that is needed to ultimately make these
resources a commercial reality."
Boeing and leading airlines are stepping forward to help commercialize
sustainable, next-generation biofuels for use in commercial jetliners, with
algae being one of the plant-based fuel sources being explored. UOP, Air New
Zealand, Continental, Virgin Atlantic and Boeing will work together through the
ABO to generate more sustainable fuel options by pushing for long-term
innovation and investment in algae as an energy form.
"There is significant interest across multiple sectors in the potential of
algae as an energy source and nowhere is that more evident than in
aviation," said Billy Glover, ABO co-chair and managing director of
Environmental Strategy for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. "Air transportation
is a vital contributor to global economic prosperity, but is being threatened
by record rises in fuel costs. Together we recognize that algae have the
potential to help offset those fuel costs, while also contributing to improved
environmental performance for the aviation industry."
With a portfolio approach to sustainable biofuels likely necessary, multiple
biomass sources including algae, jatropha, halophytes and others are being
evaluated against stringent sustainability criteria including non-competition
with food, fresh water or land-use resources. The group's involvement in the
ABO highlights the aviation industry's move toward identification, development
and certification of advanced generation fuel sources. Working with refining
segment leaders like UOP will help ensure that advanced generation biofuels can
be produced in the most sustainable and energy efficient manner possible.
To effectively address a high volume of claims being made regarding algae and
its potential, 400 leading global algae experts established the Algal Biomass
Organization to advocate for viable algae markets and technologies. Unlike
other second-generation biofuel options, algae will require technological
breakthroughs to become viable and the ABO will provide a single, collective
voice regarding ongoing efforts.
Algae have shown significant potential to address some of the world's most
pressing issues, such as climate and pollution concerns including carbon
emission reductions, alternative fuel sources and global economic development.
As one of the fastest growing and most productive plants in the world, the
unique characteristics of algae enable them to be developed for a number of
|Renewable Fuels: Algae are an ideal low cost, renewable and
environmentally progressive raw material that can be converted into biofuels.
They can grow rapidly (doubling in biomass in as little as a few hours),
require limited nutrients, and can annually deliver up to 2,000-5,000 gallons
of fuel per acre of non-arable land.
|Environment: Algae do not require fresh water to thrive and so they
will not compete for limited supplies of fresh water. In addition, they can
also be used to clean wastewater and to recycle greenhouse gases such as CO2,
NOx and SOx. As the algae grow, they can be harvested and converted to
|Economic Development: As developing nations continue to look for
ways to spur economic development, algae-based industries can be a central part
of an overall strategy. Many developing nations currently import nearly 100
percent of their fuel. An algae-based energy strategy provides a way to either
reduce oil import costs, create fuel/feedstock export revenue, or both without
competing with food crops.
For more information about the ABO visit www.algalbiomass.org.
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New vulnerability announced by Checkpoint, however notes that it is "in theory only" at this time.
Excerpt from Checkpoint's site:
FireWall-1 HTTP Security Server Vulnerability
05 February 2004
A vulnerability in the FireWall-1 HTTP Security Servers exists that may cause it to crash in certain circumstances, which in theory only, may allow further exploitation. This issue only exists when using HTTP Security Servers.
In order to protect FireWall-1 against this vulnerability, Check Point recommends that customers install an update on all enforcement modules.
VPN-1/FireWall-1 NG and above, when using HTTP Security Servers.
If the HTTP Security Servers are not in use on the module, there is no need to install the update.
The update is applicable on the following releases:
NG FP3 HF2
NG with Application Intelligence R54
NG with Application Intelligence R55
Other NG based releases (NG FCS, NG FP1, NG FP2 ...)
...Entire bulletin located herehttp://www.checkpoint.com/techsuppor...ty_server.htmlCheckpoint has issued a hot fix for this which we are evaluating for immediate deployment. What's odd is Checkpoint doesn't mention that it's in the AI module and seems to kind of downplay this vulnerability - hopefully that doesn't mean they aren't taking it serious - I would assume they are but dont want to show too much at this early stage.Excerpt from ISS, who found it, issued this:
ISS X-Force has discovered a flaw in the HTTP Application Intelligence
component of Firewall-1. Application Intelligence is a relatively recent
addition to the Firewall-1 product line and functions as an application
proxy between untrusted networks and network servers for the purpose of
detecting and preventing potential attacks. The vulnerabilities also exist
within the HTTP Security Server application proxy that ships with all
versions of Firewall-1 (including those prior to Application Intelligence
releases). The affected components contain several remotely exploitable
format string vulnerabilities.
If HTTP Application Intelligence is enabled or the HTTP Security Server is
used, a remote unauthenticated attacker may exploit one of these
vulnerabilities and execute commands under the security context of the
super-user, usually "SYSTEM", or "root". This attack may lead to direct
compromise of the Firewall-1 server.
Remote attackers may leverage this attack to successfully compromise heavily
hardened networks by modifying or tampering with the firewall rules and
...Entire bulletin located here http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/alerts/id/162
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Panagia Kamariani is commemorated by the church on September 8.
History of the icon
There are only two known copies of this wonder-working and very miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary.
The original is still in the possession of a Greek Orthodox family living in Melbourne. It was a a family heirloom, passed down through the wife's family. She has since passed away and it is now in the possession of her husband.
It was through two miraculous visions and on the insistence of the Virgin Mary that this icon come to Melbourne, Australia. There are many in the Greek Orthodox Community who are still alive to share this tale but it has never formally been recorded or documented. Many visit the very Rev. Father Eleftherios at the church in Red Hill who is the longest serving priest in Melbourne and the first priest to serve Panagia Kamariani.
The copy of this icon is at the Holy Monastery of Panagia Kamariani, Red Hill and is as miraculous, if not more, than the original. The OrthodoxWiki author of this article can testify to having witnessed the image of the icon had 'written' two large tear drops weeping down her left cheek in 1997—this miracle was pointed out and witnessed by the priest of the church. The very next day, the image no longer had the tears written into the icon. This same miracle has also occurred on another occasion. This same copy of the icon has also streamed myrrh during a number of all-night litanies held at faithful's homes and their are so many countless miracles that have occurred recently that she is completely decorated with a lot of gold jewelry and many diamond and precious rings given as 'tamata' from the faithful.
Monasteries dedicated to Panagia Kamariani
- The holy monastery of Panagia Kamariani in Red Hill, Victoria, Australia, is under the omophorion of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia. The site has an area of 6.3 hectares and is located on the south east corner of Red Hill Road and Prossors Lane in Red Hill, Victoria, Australia. The site has an approximate 144 metre frontage along Red Hill Road and a 306.8 metre long boundary along Prossors Lane. The main entrance into the property is via a double gate entrance on the corner splay. The entrance then leads into an informal car park.
Further in to the site, is the Church, a rectory and a historical dwelling and shedding. Existing vegetation include a strand of cypress trees which assist in providing a visual buffer between the Church and the adjoining properties. In 2008, construction of a hall for the public finished, 66 metres to the north of the Church with a size of 30 metres by 25 metres (378 sq. metre). The external facade is a traditional Byzantine stone white finish to match the Church building.
- Further history of the Australian Monastery
- There were many applications made by the Church to develop and use the property for religious and recreational activities. The first application to develop and use the land was in 1975. The request was to develop an amphitheatre, chapel, toilet facility, exhibition shlter, presbytery and kiosk (this proposal initially included a soccer field, basketball and tennis courts which were later abandoned). The Church claimed it was traditional to combine religious observance and social outings and over 100 objections were submitted to the Council and the application was refused by the Western Port Regional Planning Authority.
- The Tribunal, at the time, was prepared to permit the development of the church and presbytery but not the exhibition shelter. Two subsequent applications were lodged which also included parking for 187 cars, these were also refused and unsuccessfully appealed by the Church to the Planning Appeals Tribunal. Each application attracted over 200 objections.
- A fourth application was lodged in December 1981 for the development and use of the land for a parish church, a toilet block and formalised car parking for 112 cars. In essence, the difference between the fourth application and the previous being the exclusion of the recreational facilities. A Planning Permit was eventually issued on October 1982 and subject to nineteen conditions. The intent of these conditions aimed at restricting the use of the land and to ensure the potential intensity of the use would not become incompatible with the level of amenity enjoyed the the local residents at the time.
- There is a small monastery, situated 3km outside the village of Megalo Horio, on the island of Tilos (Greece), dedicated to the Panagia Kamariani. An annual feast takes places for Panagia Kamariania on the 23rd of August. During this celebration, the locals dance "the dance of the cup" gathering money for the restoration of the other churches on the island.
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Nations Heading to Durban Climate Talks Remain Deeply Divided, Oct 10, New York Times
U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres lauded a climate change meeting in Panama as “good progress” this weekend, even as environmental activists warned that the world’s only structure for curbing greenhouse gas emissions appears about to crumble. The next time diplomats meet, it will be in Durban, South Africa, in December for the year’s final climate change summit. There, countries must finally decide what they have put off for several years: the future of the Kyoto Protocol.
UOG joins regional climate change consortium, Oct 10, Pacific Daily News
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today the establishment of the Pacific Islands Climate Science Center, a consortium led by the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, the University of Hawai’i at Hilo, and the University of Guam. The centers will serve to provide access to the best science available regarding climate change and other landscape-scale stressors impacting the nation’s natural and cultural resources to land managers in federal, state and local agencies.
Europeans more worried about climate change than economic crisis, Oct 10, TG Daily
A new poll shows that two out of three Europeans see climate change as a very serious problem and more Europeans were concerned about climate change than the economic situation. “It is striking that the public is even more concerned about climate change than it was in the run-up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference. In particular, the fact that more than three out of four Europeans see improving energy efficiency as a way to create new jobs is a strong signal to Europe’s decision makers,” says Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for climate action.
N.H. Retail Politics Seen as Boon to Climate Change Issue, Oct 11, New York Times
New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary may be as little as two months away. Observers of New Hampshire politics say the state’s unique role in vetting presidential contenders every four years could make it an incubator for new ideas about how to combat climate change down the road, if primary voters come to believe that curbing emissions is an important goal that will ultimately be good for their bottom lines. The New Hampshire office of Clean Air-Cool Planet, a climate advocacy group, has been laying the groundwork for a possible future climate change bill this year by holding living room meetings with Republican voters in New Hampshire. | <urn:uuid:38383f26-85df-4f7e-8501-d541662cbeef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/10/14/climate-news-roundup-week-of-1009/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936112 | 518 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Study: Drug shortage linked to greater relapse risk in young Hodgkin lymphoma patients
MEMPHIS — A national drug shortage has been linked to a higher rate of relapse among children, teenagers and young adults with Hodgkin lymphoma enrolled in a national clinical trial, according to research led by St. Jude Children's Hospital.
The study found the estimated two-year cancer-free survival for patients enrolled in the study fell from 88% to 75% after the drug cyclophosphamide was substituted for mechlorethamine for treatment of patients with intermeidiate- or high-risk Hodgkin lymphoma. The study was launched before the drug shortages began.
The change occurred after a mechlorethamine shortage that began in 2009. No study patients have died, but relapsed patients needed additional intensive therapy associated with higher odds for infertility and other health problems.
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Principals Jim Lawley and Cynthia Lesley, along with Superintendent Joey Ray and a handful of concerned parents met to discuss proration and other issues facing their schools. the
“Twenty years is a long time to keep a vision alive but Friends of Moody Schools is still alive and well,” Laura Armstrong said. “Our vision was and is to act as a liaison between the schools, civic, business and legislative leaders.”
Armstrong said when they incorporated in April 1992 as a non-profit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, they established twelve goals:
O Develop a strong community-based school system.
O Return parents to education.
O Return discipline and morality to schools.
O Develop strong leadership skills in children.
O Ensure that all children are ready to start school.
O Focus on increased knowledge in science, math, and computers.
O Prepare the children of Moody for college/workforce.
O Increase high school graduation as well as college enrollment.
O All parents as well as all children should know how to read and write.
O Develop a mentor/tutor network.
O Encourage teachers/students to strive for excellence.
O Actively seek scholarships, funds, and other business opportunities for students.
“We cannot say that we have met all our goals but we have had some success in providing computer labs, science labs, libraries, books, cleanup days, education forums/classes, teachers’ breakfasts/dinners, classroom grants and scholarships,” Armstrong said.
In 1993, they gave their first scholarship for $500. As of December 31, 2010, they have given over $205,000 in scholarships.
“However, not only is it the material things that Friends of Moody Schools provides that benefit our schools, but the relationships that we have established over the years with our business and civic leaders,” Armstrong said. “Shortly after the September 11 attack on our country by terrorists, we were saddened by the human loss and unsure of the future. Congressman Bob Riley came from Washington at the request of Friends of Moody Schools to speak to the parents/community and give much-needed reassurance.”
Armstrong said they don’t have a big board of directors, just a few individuals who are not looking for recognition or a pat on the back.
“We simply see the needs in our schools and are taking those needs to our community leaders in hope of finding solutions,” she said. “Friends of Moody Schools exists only because of our strong community. And this strong community has kept the vision of Friends of Moody Schools Education Foundation, Inc. alive for 20 years.”
St. Rep. Jim McClendon said the only proven way to change Alabama forever is through excellence in education.
“Thanks to all involved for your hard work on this worthy project,” McClendon said.
St. Clair Schools Superintendent Jenny Seals said it has been her pleasure to partner with Friends of Moody throughout the years.
“Our relationship began during my tenure as principal at Moody Elementary and continues during my term in office as superintendent,” Seals said. “Friends of Moody has assisted schools throughout the community in many ways. One particular way is their scholarship program for high school seniors. Friends of Moody is truly an asset to the Moody community.
St. Clair County Coroner Dennis Russell said thanks to the Friends of Moody Schools, his oldest son is in medical school and his youngest son graduated from the University of Alabama.
“With the support of our community, it made it easier,” Russell said.
Board of Education member Terry Green said the Friends of Moody Schools has been great working in the communities to improve the schools.
“Through numerous donations and scholarships, they have allowed many students opportunities to further their education and are always willing to assist with many projects,” Green said. “Thanks for your dedication and commitment to furthering better education for our children.”
Moody Mayor Joe Lee said the City of Moody has always supported Friends of Moody Schools and their goal to raise money for student scholarships.
Moody Junior High School principal Cassandra Taylor said she has had the pleasure of watching the Friends of Moody Schools give so much back to the students.
“As a teacher, I have seen thousands of dollars given to the students to go and further their educational careers,” Taylor said. “As an administrator, I have seen all the hard work and fundraising that is done for each of our schools, always being so generous to help us achieve our goals. The Friends of Moody Schools is such a generous group, who always has the Moody students at heart.”
Covenant Bank Senior Vice President Lisa Berry said Friends of Moody Schools has successfully represented the students of Moody for years.
“If you visit a computer lab, school library or better yet, Awards Day at Moody High School, you will see results,” Berry said. “Thousands of dollars have been given in scholarships to deserving Moody High School students. Administrative costs are almost non-existent, donations to Friends of Moody Schools benefit students, period.” | <urn:uuid:263b0233-9b49-44a6-b354-4b8780557ab1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thestclairtimes.com/view/full_story/11430223/article-Vision-in-Moody-still-alive-after-20-years | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971534 | 1,080 | 1.726563 | 2 |
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The township of Kirkwood lies just east of the city of Binghamton. Originally it was made up of several parcels
of land belonging to the Clinton and Meicher tract, the Watts patent, the Bingham patent, the Lawrence patent,
the Floyd tract, and the Thomas patent. A few smaller parts of other tracts were also included in the territory
now known as the township of Kirkwood. Up to 1859 this township was a part of the township of Conklin, the greater
part of the township of Conklin and much of the southern portion of Kirkwood having been included in the Thomas
tract. It is probable that the Thomas grant was secured before the beginning of the American Revolution, and that
about 8,000 acres were covered by the patent.
According to the best information now available, Jonathan Fitch was the first man to locate in what is now Kirkwood,
he having come from the Wyoming Valley, in the State of Pennsylvania, in the year 1789, and settled at the mouth
of a. creek to which he gave his own name. In 1790 Judge Fitch built a grist mill near his home, doing an extensive
custom business. Two years later he was elected to serve in the legislative session for the county of Tioga, from
which we conclude that he must have been a man of much ability and interested in the political development of the
About the same time that Judge Fitch located at the mouth of Fitch’s creek, Garrett Snedeker, coming from Tom’s
River, New Jersey, started a clearing on the Susquehanna river about a mile up the stream from the present village
of Kirkwood. A number of sons and daughters survived Garrett Snedeker, all very estimable people who made their
mark on the life of the community. Others who came in very early days were John Peter Wentz, who settled where
Kirkwood now is, and established a long line of descendants, a number of whom were more or less intimately connected
with the subsequent history of Binghamton and Broome county: Daniel Chapman, Asa Rood, Asa Squires, John Bell,
Silas Bowker, Joel Lamoreaux, David Compton, Noel Carr, Abraham Miller, Chester Wells, Ebenezer Park; and Joseph
Bartlett, who bought a farm afterward known as the Bartlett farm, a short distance up the river from the State
Hospital grounds. In 1802 William Jones located a few miles below the site of Kirkwood village, where he reared
a large family, many of whom have been prominent in the history of the county. As we shall see later, some descendants
of these families have survived the changes of time and still reside in Kirkwood. Another man whose descendants
are today well known in Binghamton came at an early day to Kirkwood; reference is made to Isaac Curran. Nor can
we pass over lightly the names of Henry Bayless, Abraham Berkalew, John Conklin; Gambia Rider, whose home was near
the Windsor line, and who was the father of Charles A. Rider, a storekeeper of Windsor, and grandfather of John
A. Rider, now living in Binghamton, after a long period of service as county treasurer of Broome county. Still
others were Daniel Evans, who was one of the men who organized the Broome County Bank, Jacob Brownell, David Langdon,
and Joseph Guernsey.
Kirkwood as a distinct township was brought into existence through a resolution of the board of supervisors of
Broome county, dated November 23d, 1859. The act provided Chat all the land which had formerly belonged to the
township of Conklin lying north and east of the Susquehanna river should be set off for a new township, to be known
as Kirkwood, the name coming, we are told, from that of a man who was connected with the engineering staff of the
New York & Erie railroad at the time of its construction through this section. The State Legislature approved
of the action of the board of supervisors, and the first town meeting was held in the home of George Jones on the
14th of February, 1860. As at that time constituted, Kirkwood embraced a territory of 18,789 acres, which has been
diminished somewhat through the extension of the city of Binghamton in an eastward direction. It is of interest
to note the names of the first officers elected in and for the township of Kirkwood. They were: Supervisor, Joseph
Bartlett; town clerk, Daniel Casper; justices of the peace—Isaac Bound, William Park, Benjamin Duel; assessors—Sylvester
Barnes, Ira Shear, Rufus Whitney; commissioners of highways—Barney W. Sherwood, David M. Langdon; overseers of
the poor—Park Chamberlain, William H. Middaugh; collector, George Craver; constables—Enoch Brown, Henry VanBuren,
George Craver, Robert Bartlett, William W. Jones; sealer of weights and measures, Baltis Swartz.
The school system of Kirkwood is the same as that which it had when a part of the old township of Chenango, having
been handed down first to Conklin and then to Kirkwood, the only change being that of renumbering. Mutations of
population may be given in the following terms: 1860, 1,389; 1870, 1,402; 1880, 1,344; 1890, 1,119; 1900, 918;
1910, 852; 1920, 899.
Kirkwood has one village worthy of note, that being of the same name as the township itself. The Susquehanna river
comes up very near to the village, and the N. Y. L. & W. railroad affords an outlet for passenger and freight
traffic, while just across the river the D. L. & W. railroad still farther furnishes connection with all parts
of the world. The villages owes its first store to Marshall Squires, who opened a trading place for the accommodation
of those employed in building the Erie road, as well as that of people who lived in the nearby community. Mr. Squires
owned most of the land about Kirkwood at that time, and was the first postmaster the village had. A good many changes
have taken place since then.
Other hamlets in the township of Kirkwood are Riverside, in the southern part, where a store and a Methodist
Episcopal church are maintained; Langdon, a few miles west of Kirkwood, with a Christian church and a shipping
station for milk; and Brookvale, in the northeastern part of the town, where are to be found a few dwellings and
a Universalist church.
The chief business of the people of Kirkwood is, like that of most of the townships of Broome county, farming,
the dairy industry being very prominent. A number of good truck farms are also carried on here and the people are
as a rule in comfortable circumstances.
There are today no mills or factories in the township of Kirkwood, except a grist mill at Kirkwood village. A general
store meets the needs of the surrounding neighborhood, while one church, supported by the Methodist Episcopal denomination,
represents the religious interest of the community. At Langdon there is a Christian church, at Riverside a Methodist
Episcopal church, and at Brookdale another of the same faith; while below Langdon a Catholic church ministers to
the spiritual life of that denomination who reside in the immediate vicinity. At Kirkwood is located the schoolhouse
of District No. 2.
At Kirkwood still lives Nelson B. Andrews, whose grandfather, Samuel Andrews, came from Chenango county in 1815.
At Langdon we find Frank Langdon, living on a part of the farm where his father, David M. Langdon, lived. Between
Great Bend and Binghamton a number of descendants of early settlers still reside, among them being Mrs. Crawford,
a daughter of Samuel Bayless. Mrs. Crawford’s husband, Charles Crawford, is at present supervisor of Kirkwood township.
Frank Langdon has also served a number of years in the same capacity.
Although the buildings of the New York State Hospital are now
within the limits of the city of Binghamton, the farm itself which is connected with that institution lies in the
township of Kirkwood.
The present assessment roll of the township of Kirkwoocl shows that its real property is assessed at $1,107,100,
and its franchises at $11,640. The roster of the town officers now serving follows: Supervisor, Charles Crawford;
town clerk, A. G. Brink; assessors—Michael Foley, William Christa, Manford Weed; superintendent of highways, Karl
Keesler; justices of the peace, George Musk, William Faulkner, Jr., Fred Dewing, David Badger; collector, J. H.
Odell; superintendents of the poor, John Provost, James Sullivan; constables, Morris J. Pope, William Carroll,
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From Ethiopia To Argentina: Day 1 Of A 7-year WalkJanuary 10th, 2013 12:11 pm Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter has taken the first steps of an unimaginably long walk — a journey from Ethiopia to Argentina expected to last seven years.
Paul Salopek departed an Ethiopian village Thursday to begin a planned 21,000-mile (34,000-kilometer) walk that will cross some 30 borders and scores of ethnic groups.
Salopek’s quest is to retrace humankind’s first migration from Africa across the world in a go-slow journey that will force him to immerse in many cultures.
The Ethiopia-to-Argentina walk — which took human ancestors some 50,000 years to make — is called Out of Eden and is sponsored by National Geographic, the Knight Foundation and the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. Salopek plans to write one major article a year and give periodic updates. | <urn:uuid:c791a8d5-6eb9-483e-811e-f65f1f03e311> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nationalmemo.com/from-ethiopia-to-argentina-day-1-of-a-7-year-walk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919327 | 210 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Speech Recognition with Segmental Conditional Random Fields
The goal of this workshop group is to advance the state-of-the-art in core speech recognition by developing new kinds of features for use in a Segmental Conditional Random Field (SCRF). The recently proposed SCRF approach [Zweig & Nguyen, 2009] generalizes Conditional Random Fields to operate at the segment level, rather than at the traditional frame level. Basic to the approach, every segment is labeled directly with a word. Then, features are extracted which each measure some form of consistency between the underlying audio and the word hypothesis for a segment. These are combined in a log-linear model to produce the posterior probability of a word sequence given the audio. Previous work has used features based on the detection of phoneme and multi-phone units in the audio input. For example, one feature is the edit distance between the observed phoneme sequence in a segment, and that expected based on the hypothesis. The log-linear model embodied by the SCRF has the key advantage of being able to combine numerous, possibly redundant features in a coherent way; thus we have a very convenient way of improving performance by adding large numbers of complementary features.
The work being done in the workshop revolves around extracting new acoustic features that can leverage the segmental approach. Professor Van Compernolle and Dr. Demuynck from Leuven University in Belgium are extending previous work in template based ASR [Wachter et al. 2007, Demange & Van Compernolle 2009] to find highly informative features based on template matching. A second line of research revolves around the use of coherent modulation features [Clark & Atlas 2009], and is being explored by Prof. Les Atlas from the University of Washington, and his student Pascal Clark. Professor Fei Sha and his student Meihong Wang, from the University of Southern California, are studying the use of deep-learning based features . Finally, Dr. Geoffrey Zweig and Dr. Patrick Nguyen from Microsoft Research are working on integrating these and other features into the SCARF toolkit for segmental CRF based speech recognition.
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|Gregory Sell||Stanford University|
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• Family: Centrachidae (Sunfishes)
• Other Names: Bronzeback, brown bass, brownie, smallie, black bass
• Ohio Status: Sport fish
• Adult Size: Typically 12-15 inches, can reach 24 inches. Usually weighs 1-2 pounds, can reach 10 pounds.
• Typical Foods: Feed primarily on crayfish and other large aquatic invertebrates. Will also feed on small fish and flying insects that fall on the waters surface.
Smallmouth bass have a fairly large mouth that extends to they eye but not beyond the rear edge when the mouth is closed. This characteristic distinguishes it from the largemouth bass where the back of the mouth does extend past the eye. Young smallmouth and spotted bass have an orange color in the center of their tail, juvenile largemouth bass do not. The smallmouth bass has dark vertical bars along its side with a brown or bronze colored background. Largemouth and spotted bass differ by having a black stripe that extends laterally down the side of the body and are usually lighter colored with more of a green or silvery background color.
Habitat and Habits
Smallmouth bass thrive in streams with gravel or rock bottoms with a visible current. Smallmouth bass out number largemouth bass in most streams and rivers in Ohio. In southern Ohio smallmouth are out numbered by spotted bass in some of the largest rivers such as the Muskingum, Scioto, and Ohio Rivers. Smallmouth bass are common in Lake Erie, especially around the islands and reefs of the western basin and along rocky shorelines. They are also present in the Ohio River, and are most common in tail water areas of the lock and dams where there is swift flow and rocky shorelines. They can also be found in some of Ohio's reservoirs, especially those with steep drop offs and rocky shorelines. Smallmouth bass do poorly in smaller lakes and reservoirs that are shallow, have soft substrates, and abundant aquatic vegetation.
Reproduction and Care of the Young
Smallmouth bass spawn in May and early June when water temperatures range from 55 to 65°F. Nests are built in gravel or hard bottom substrates in 2 to 20 feet of water. The female lays between 2,000 to 15,000 eggs. The male guards the nest and the fry for a short time. Young smallmouth feed on zooplankton and midge larvae. | <urn:uuid:c2e487aa-973f-401e-bfb0-586c6b51307f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/species_a_to_z/SpeciesGuideIndex/smallmouthbass/tabid/6756/Default.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943555 | 497 | 3.484375 | 3 |
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE SAVED?
A SERMON ORIGINALLY DELIVERED AT
THE HIGH HILL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
THE FEDERATED CHURCH OF ATHENS
1 MAY 1988
By Frank L. Hoffman, Pastor
Romans 3:10, 23
Preparation Verse: (Acts 4:12)
“And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved.”
Last week we spent some time discussing our relationship with God, our salvation, His grace, and our walk with Him.
We also said that the key to our salvation is our faith and belief in Jesus Christ and in His completed work upon the cross and our willingness to submit totally to God’s will.
If we are not willing to do this, we will never be able to walk with God, for our walk follows our salvation.
Therefore, I have chosen for today's sermon title, "What Does It Mean to Be Saved?"
When we think about the title question for the first time, we may find that there is another question that follows quickly: "What do I have to be saved from?"
Let’s try to answer both of these questions; and in doing so, we will consult the highest authority: God’s Word, The Bible.
Last week we looked at a verse in the Book of Genesis that described God's salvation. It was 15:6. Let's take another look at it.
6. Then he [Abram] believed in the Lord; and He [God] reckoned it to him as righteousness.
And as we discussed, Abram was not righteous; but his belief and faith covered his sin by the Grace of God as if he were really righteous, even though he was not.
Now let's take a look at a few verses from Romans that will shed some additional light on our two questions. The first is 3:10
10. as it is written,
"There is none righteous, not even one;"
Another verse is 3:23.
23. for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
These two Romans verses confirm or prove that Abram as well as we are sinners.
And, so what? We all know ourselves and know that we sin. What difference does it make?
Let's look at another Romans verse: 6:23.
23. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Before we comment on this verse, let's look at another verse that we have
looked at many times before: James 1:15.
15. Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.
Both of these verses say emphatically that sin brings forth death; but Romans 6:23 adds a most important promise: that in Jesus Christ we can achieve eternal life.
However, there is another very important factor about our willingness to live in God's heavenly will contained in these verses.
When we lust for anything it brings forth sin, and the wages of that sin is death.
When we lust for another living being's life to the point that it causes them to suffer or die, as with the eating and wearing of animal products, it becomes a sin, and the wages of that sin is death; the eating and wearing of the products of death.
In addition to the death of the animals, it is a known fact, that the eating animal flesh and products causes illnesses and diseases that can even lead to our death, such as with cardiovascular disease.
When the Ancient Mariner killed the innocent albatross, he was forced to wear it around his neck as a symbol of his sin, and when I see people wearing fur or leather, it brings this same vision to mind.
For when we harden our hearts to the point that we no longer feel empathy for these suffering animals, it also becomes hardened toward God and our fellow human beings.
We all know we will die sooner or later, and we know that both godly and ungodly people seem to die young, as well as when they are old. So what difference does it make?
The key is the “eternal life” portion of Romans 6:23.
If we all know that we are going to die, then how can we also have eternal life?
The answer is that we are not talking about the same kind of death.
Note Hebrews 9:27.
27. And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,
This last verse is speaking of our physical death. This is the death we see when someone dies. The other death is a spiritual death, a second death.
This second death is what we are being saved from, and it is why we need a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
And this comes about when we have a repentant and softened heart and mind that allows us to sincerely reach out to Jesus and accept His free gift of salvation.
In this light, let's look at Revelation 2:11.
11. ‘He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.’
This verse speaks of our need for a Savior. Those who have overcome are those who are born again and have established that personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
This verse also speaks of the second death being for those who do not overcome.
Let’s look a little further. Revelation 20:6 speaks of this as well.
6. Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.
Those who have died in Christ Jesus will be resurrected from the physical death into eternal life.
But what about the non-believers, those who have rejected God’s free gift of salvation in Jesus Christ?
Revelation 20:14-15 presents the tragic answer:
14. And death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
15. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
So, what are we being saved from?
We are being saved from the second death: Hell.
And what does it mean to be saved?
It means that we have the absolute assurance that our sins have been covered by the blood of Jesus Christ, that we have been forgiven, and that we are born again. It is knowing that we will be in heaven forever with the Lord.
If you don’t have this assurance, something is missing. Let's look a little further.
Psalm 32, our Old Testament lesson for this morning, is a psalm of forgiveness. It is also a psalm of assurance. Let's take a look at it again.
1. How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven,
Whose sin is covered!
2. How blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity,
And in whose spirit there is no deceit!
The assurance of God's forgiveness comes when we truly confess our sins and are likewise truly sorry that we committed them; a sorry so deep that it causes us to try to never commit those sins again.
We don't deserve to be forgiven, and therefore we are blessed of the Lord when God covers our sins and forgives us. Jesus Christ provided this way out of our sins, if we will accept it.
Then David expresses what it is like not to confess our sin to God.
Note verses 3 and 4.
3. When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away Through my groaning all day long.
4. For day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me;
My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer.
There is no peace in a separation from God. Our sins cause our separation from God. Once we are born again, the confession of our sins removes that separation.
Then in verse 5, we see the acknowledgement of this condition and its results.
5. I acknowledged my sin to Thee,
And my iniquity I did not hide;
I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the Lord";
And Thou didst forgive the guilt of my sin.
Note the assurance of God’s forgiveness: “And Thou didst forgive the guilt of my sin.”
This wasn't something special for David. This forgiveness of sin is available for everyone who asks with a repentant spirit.
No matter what any of us has done, God is always faithful to forgive us when we accept it on His terms.
In David's day, His terms were confession coupled with the sacrifice of a
clean animal. Today it is through our belief in
Jesus Christ, our once for all time, perfect sacrifice.
And when we establish this personal relationship with Him, we also get the assurance of everlasting life with Him in heaven.
Read this Psalm over for yourselves, and ask God to speak to you about it and its message for you personally.
But before we go on, let's look at the remaining verses, particularly the last two verses.
6. Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to Thee in a time when Thou mayest be found;
Surely in a flood of great waters they shall not reach him.
7. Thou art my hiding place;
Thou dost preserve me from trouble;
Thou dost surround me with songs of deliverance.
8. I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go;
I will counsel you with My eye upon you.
9. Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding,
Whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check,
Otherwise they will not come near to you.
10. Many are the sorrows of the wicked;
But he who trusts in the Lord, lovingkindness shall surround him.
11. Be glad in the Lord and rejoice you righteous ones,
And shout for joy all you who are upright in heart.
When we turn away from the Lord Jesus Christ, and reject the free gift of salvation, or when we fail to respond to the Lord, and hold on to our sins, then we have sorrow.
But when we accept the free gift of sa1vation and continually return to the Lord, confess our sins, and earnestly seek to sin no more, then we are filled with joy, for we know that the Lord is with us.
In our Ephesians verses for this morning, we get further assurance of this message, as well as the answer to our questions. Let's take another look at this letter which is written to believers, beginning at verse 2:1.
1. And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
2. in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.
Jesus Christ took upon Himself the sins of each of us and died for us, so that we might be forgiven. And He rose victoriously from the dead to prove that what He said is true.
Before we are born again, we are dead in our trespasses and sins; for we are not following the ways of God, but the ways of Satan who is referred to in verse 2 as "the prince of the power of the air."
The death that is referred to is our spiritual death, the second death.
But no one has to die this second death, for there is so great a salvation for all who will accept it.
Note Paul's continuing encouragement and assurance, as we continue with our Scripture verses.
3. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
4. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5. even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6. and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus,
7. in order that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
This is the great promise of eternal life in heaven with our Lord.
This is a free gift. We can't buy it. We can't earn it. All we can do is accept it on the Lord's terms.
8. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
9. not as a result of works, that no one should boast.
10. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
So, what does it mean to be saved?
It means that we have been forgiven for all of our trespasses and sins, and that we have the assurance of everlasting life with the Lord in heaven.
And what are we being saved from?
We are being saved from the permanent separation from God, into which our trespasses and sins condemn us. We are being saved from the second death, Hell!
Have you failed to accept this great gift of the atoning blood of Jesus Christ, which covers our sins and gives us eternal life?
Have you felt that separation from God?
Is the Holy Spirit speaking to your heart?
Then listen to Him!
Don't delay. Listen to Him right now.
God loves you very much and wants to set your life in order.
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Posted: December 11, 2012 at 1:35 a.m.
100 YEARS AGO Dec. 11, 1912 WASHINGTON — Secretary of War Stimson has recommended to Congress the abandonment of Fort Logan H. Roots near Little Rock. Secretary Stimson’s recommendation is not the first Congress has received from him and from his predecessors concerning this and other small army posts. The government’s policy is to concentrate troops at a few brigade posts, rather than at many small regimental posts similar to Fort Logan H. Roots.
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LISA CLARK: Dr. Jensen, should children who have ADHD who are on medication stop taking that medication when they hit adolescence? Is there a turnoff point for this disease?
DR. PETER JENSEN: Many children, most actually adolescents, will continue to benefit from the medication into adolescence. There's a small number that might be able to do well without. But by and large, most children, most adolescents will continue to need the medication.
LISA CLARK: This is a hard question for me to even ask, but some people might feel this way. Does a diagnosis of ADHD mean that you're set up for a lifetime of disappointments or failures?
DR. PATRICIA QUINN: Absolutely not. When we diagnose the disorder, one of the most common reactions, from adults particularly, is hope. "Now I know what's really wrong with me. I'm not stupid, lazy or crazy. I have this disorder." And we now have effective treatments and ways to deal with it. And I find it really is a very treatable disorder.
LISA CLARK: And there are many doctors out there who can help. Dr. Jensen, where can people start if they're looking for treatment?
DR. PETER JENSEN: Well, your primary care provider should be trained in this area, but it's not always the case. And so often you turn to other parents or others who may be knowledgeable in the area, who've had experience in their own families. They'll often know the ropes and can point you in the right direction. But a well-trained pediatrician, a child psychiatrist or psychiatrist, psychologist, these are some of the professionals that should be able to do the diagnosis and treatment.
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- Drivable Accidents and Accidents Not Involving Personal Injury
- Non-Drivable Accidents or Personal injury Accidents
- If You're a Victim of a Hit and Run Accident
- Sheriff's Office Traffic Section
Move out of the Flow of Traffic- If you are not involved in a traffic accident and you determine that there are NO personal injuries and the vehicles are drivable, please get the vehicles out of the flow of traffic. You do not want another accident involving other passing motorists.
Call the Sheriff's Department / Police Department - This depends upon your location. If you do not know who to call, call the Sheriff's Department ( 815.727.8575 ) and they will assist you.
Exchange Information - Once you get your vehicles out of the flow of traffic, exchange information with the other drivers involved. The information should include the name of the driver, address, city, state, phone number, type of vehicle ( year, make and model ), license plate number, V.I.N. number, driver's license number, insurance company and policy number.
Get Names and Addresses - Get the names and addresses of any other passengers in the other vehicles. Also get the names of any persons who may have witnessed the accident. One of the most important pieces of information which is needed for your traffic accident report is the location of the accident. Write it down.
Reporting the Accident - Once law enforcement arrives, we will take your traffic accident report. You will be given a case number. You will also be given a SR1 accident form from the Secretary of State. You are required to fill this form out and mail it to the Secretary of State's Office if there is more than $500.00 worth of damages on the vehicles. Mail it to the Secretary of State within the next 10 days. Don't forget to make yourself a photo-copy of the form before you send it.
Don't wait to make your report - Call right away. Even if a report cannot be taken at that time, it is important to notify the proper authorities. When you get home, call your insurance agent and give them the case number and any other information you have concerning the accident.
Call 911 Immediately! - If you are involved in a traffic accident that is not drivable or there is personal injury, call or have someone else call 911 immediately. Be sure to give the dispatcher the location of the accident. The Police will be sent out to investigate your accident. If there are injuries, make sure you tell the dispatcher the nature of the injuries and the Ambulance/Fire Department will be notified. Help will be sent.
Don't chase a Hit and Run Driver! - If you are involved in a traffic accident and the other party involved drives off before you get the driver's name and information, do not pursue the other driver. You do not want to get into a high speed chase and into another accident.
Call 911 Immediately - Call 911 immediately and tell the dispatcher that the other driver left the scene. Give the best description possible of the driver, the type of vehicle and license plate number, and the direction the hit and run was traveling. A flash message will be given to the Police in the area over the radio telling them of the wanted driver in your Hit and Run Accident. An officer will be sent to the scene to handle your accident report. | <urn:uuid:a2ee5be5-1a47-42fa-b563-eeeadb9394ea> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://willcosheriff.org/pages/supportservices/crimetips/trafficaccidents.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927827 | 694 | 1.539063 | 2 |
The Human Cost of Green Energy and Fracking
Gawker contributor Brentin Mock shares a personal story about the human cost of fracking in states like Texas.
Obama gave considerable attention to developing natural gas, which he called a "bridge fuel." This bridge was not entirely dirty, but it wasn't all that clean either. The discovery of rock shale gas deposits under our feet, and a new procedure called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," could free up volumes of natural gas and wean us off dirty energy sources like coal and oil.
Many environmentalists advised against natural gas, citing potential risks like toxic chemicals leaking into our water supplies and the presence of deadly methane in the gases. But it was an energy source that many Democrats and Republicans agreed on, and, most importantly, fracking offered jobs.
Meanwhile, many believed that green jobs, created by bolstering wind and solar energy companies, were a solution to the unemployment crisis, with the jobless rate running over 50 percent among black and Latino young adults in small cities like Harrisburg and major cities like Chicago.
Green jobs projects, though, were mostly pilot programs in random cities—nothing long-term or widespread like the jobs offered by the fossil fuel industries. In Pennsylvania, coal, the dirtiest of all fuels, was still king. As king, the coal companies it did its mightiest to keep green jobs in the pilot phase. Together with oil and gas companies, the coal industry did a PR blitz, even trying to convince Americans that they could burn "clean coal." They also filled Republican candidates coffers with millions of dollars to fight clean energy policies. Their goal was to obstruct and delay renewable energy, and block wind and solar from any license to operate ...
Landing a job in the fracking industry became Aaron's mission. The jobs typically paid between $70,000 and $120,000 to start. He then hoped to leave Harrisburg, probably for Houston where he had family and heard there were even more drilling jobs.
Read Brentin Mock's entire piece at Gawker.
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May 12, 2003 SANTA CRUZ, CA -- Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have discovered a new role for a molecule long associated with brain development: orchestrating the growth of mammary glands during puberty. The findings may have important implications for the development of breast cancer.
The molecule, a signaling protein called netrin-1, has been intensively studied for its role in guiding the growth of nerve cells. The UCSC researchers, led by assistant professor of molecular, cell and developmental biology Lindsay Hinck, are the first to show a function for netrin-1 outside the nervous system.
"This was a really new concept because everybody knew about netrin-1 in the nervous system, but no one had a clue about what it did outside the nervous system," said Karpagam "Shalu" Srinivasan, a graduate student who helped make the discovery.
For nine years, Hinck has studied the role of netrin-1 in directing the development of the embryonic nervous system. Netrins are one of four major families of molecular signals that guide growing nerve cells to their targets, ultimately producing the elaborate network of connections that makes up the nervous system. When netrins connect with specific receptors on a nerve cell's surface, they prompt changes in the cell that cause it to grow toward or away from the area where netrins are concentrated.
But other researchers had found netrin-1 in different tissues, as well, suggesting additional roles for the molecule.
"About two and a half years ago I decided to start a whole new direction in the lab," Hinck said.
She decided to figure out what netrin-1 does in mammary tissue, one of the places where it had been detected. Both Hinck and Srinivasan had studied the nervous system, and the new project combined their expertise with that of research assistant Phyllis Strickland, who had done breast cancer research in another lab. Undergraduate students Ana Valdes and Grace Shin also helped with the research. The group's findings appeared in the March issue of the journal Developmental Cell.
During puberty, the mammary gland grows into the fat pad, led by the vigorous growth and branching of the gland's tips, called end buds.
"During puberty, these end buds are just plowing along at half a millimeter a day into the fat pad," Hinck said.
Hinck's group theorized that netrin-1 might guide the buds in the same way it guides nerve cells in the embryonic brain. Instead, the researchers found that it functions as a kind of glue, holding the cells of the end bud together.
Getting end bud cells to stick together in the breast may seem quite different from guiding brain cells toward or away from a target, but Hinck sees the two functions as different sides of the same coin.
"In the nervous system netrin-1 functions as a long-range cue to establish neural connections, and in the mammary gland netrin-1 acts as a short-range cue to assemble cells into an organized structure," she said.
Hinck's lab examined the effects of netrin-1 in mice. To study the role of a protein in a model organism, researchers usually "knock out" the gene that codes for that protein and see what happens. Hinck's group compared the development of mammary glands with and without the netrin-1 gene.
Both the normal and the knockout glands grew in a way that appeared normal at first look. But where end buds of normal mammary glands have tightly adhering layers of cells, each with its own function, the cell layers in the knockout buds were widely spaced and disorganized.
The researchers observed the same effect when they knocked out the gene for neogenin, a known receptor for netrin-1 in the brain. This is strong evidence that neogenin is acting as the receptor for netrin-1 in the mammary gland. As with netrin-1, Hinck's group was the first to discover a function for neogenin outside the nervous system.
"Our studies showed for the first time that without neogenin, you can see something going wrong with early mammary gland development," said Srinivasan.
Both the netrin-1 and the neogenin knockouts displayed breaks in the basal lamina, the membrane surrounding the end bud of the mammary gland. When tumors develop, an intact basal lamina is essential to contain the tumor cells and prevent metastasis of the cancer. Because of this, Hinck believes mutations in the genes for netrin-1 or neogenin may be associated with invasive breast cancer.
The group plans to test samples of human tumors to see whether their netrin-1 or neogenin genes have mutations. Hinck's lab is also investigating the roles of other signaling molecules in the mammary gland.
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Apr. 18, 2011 An experimental drug that blocks two points of a crucial cancer cell signaling pathway inhibits the growth of ovarian cancer cells and significantly increases survival in an ovarian cancer mouse model, a study at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has found.
The drug, called NVP-BEZ235, also inhibits growth of ovarian cancer cells that have become resistant to the conventional treatment with platinum chemotherapy, and helps to re-sensitize the cancer cells to the therapy. It also enhances the effect of platinum chemotherapy on ovarian cancer cells that are still responding to the therapy, said Dr. Oliver Dorigo, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, a Jonsson Cancer Center researchers and senior author of the study.
"Platinum-based chemotherapy drugs are effective in treating ovarian cancers as long as the cancer cells remain sensitive to platinum," Dorigo said. "But once the tumor becomes resistant, treating the cancer becomes very challenging. This is a significant clinical problem, since the majority of ovarian cancer patients develop resistance at some point during treatment. Breaking chemotherapy resistance is a difficult challenge, but crucial if we want to improve long-term survival for our patients."
The study, performed on cells lines and mouse models, appears in the April 15, 2011 issue of the journal Clinical Cancer Research.
Dorigo has been working in his laboratory over the last several years in an effort to develop new therapies for ovarian cancer. About 22,000 American women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and more than 14,000 deaths are attributed to this disease every year. Dorigo has focused his research efforts on a pathway called PI3Kinase/Akt/mTOR, which once activated promotes ovarian cancer growth. The activated pathway also makes the cancer more aggressive and more likely to spread to other organs, Dorigo said, so targeting it offers great promise for more effective therapies for the disease.
In this two-year study, Dorigo and postdoctoral fellow Chintda Santiskulvong found that inhibiting two checkpoints of the pathway -- PI3Kinase and mTOR -- with NVP-BEZ235 decreased cancer growth, both in cell culture dishes and in mice with ovarian cancer. It also significantly increased survival in the mice, he said. More importantly, NVP-BEZ235 slowed growth of the ovarian cancer cells that had become resistant to platinum and helped to break that resistance.
"We were very encouraged to find that NPV-BEZ235 could re-sensitize the ovarian cancer cells to standard platinum treatment," Dorigo said. "In addition, we found this drug to be more effective in inhibiting ovarian cancer cell growth than other drugs that target only one checkpoint, mTOR, in this pathway. We believe that NVP-BEZ235 has superior efficacy because of the dual effect on PI3Kinase and mTOR."
The experimental drug is being tested as a single agent at the Jonsson Cancer Center in human clinical trials against other solid tumors. Researchers involved with those studies have said early results are encouraging.
"This is clearly a promising agent with activity in humans," said Dr. John Glaspy, a professor of hematology/oncology and a Jonsson Cancer Center scientist involved with the studies. "We are still assessing its tolerability in patients."
Dorigo said he hopes to initiate a clinical trial for women with ovarian cancer that tests the combination of NVP-BEZ235 with platinum chemotherapy, as he believes that the combination might be more effective than each drug alone. .
The study was funded by the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation/Liz Tilberis Scholarship, the Gynecologic Cancer Foundation/Florence & Marshall Schwid Ovarian Cancer Award, a STOP Cancer Career Development Award and the National Institutes of Health Women's Reproductive Health Research Program.
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- C. Santiskulvong, G. E. Konecny, M. Fekete, K.-Y. M. Chen, A. Karam, D. Mulholland, C. Eng, H. Wu, M. Song, O. Dorigo. Dual Targeting of Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase and Mammalian Target of Rapamycin Using NVP-BEZ235 as a Novel Therapeutic Approach in Human Ovarian Carcinoma. Clinical Cancer Research, 2011; 17 (8): 2373 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-10-2289
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If you've downloaded music from another source or ripped it from a CD you own, you can transfer it to iTunes in a couple of ways.
Transfer it using iTunes:
This is described thoroughly in "Importing existing music into iTunes" (page 68).
Use a third-party program to transfer music:
A number of third-party computer programs let you do this. Check out the following:
- PhoneView (Mac only, $19.95, ecamm.com/mac/phoneview): This program replaces iTunes as a music player and media transfer system. You can use it to transfer music to the iPhone, iPad and the iPod touch. In addition, it lets you access all your iOS device contacts, call logs, media files, voice mail, and everything else from your Mac.?
- Xilisoft iPhone Magic (PC only, $59.95, xilisoft.com/iphone-magic.html): This program works as a device manager for your iPhone or iPod touch, making it easy to transfer files in and out. The iPad version of this program, Xilisoft iPad Magic ($55.95) provides similar capabilities.
Use Cloud Storage to transfer between Mac and PC
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Rosalynn Smith Carter was born August 18, 1927, in Plains, Georgia, the daughter of Allie Murray and Edgar Smith. Since 1962, the year Mr. Carter was elected state senator of Georgia, Rosalynn has been active in political life. As first lady of Georgia, Rosalynn was appointed to the Governor's Commission to Improve Services for the Mentally and Emotionally Handicapped. The Commission presented recommendations to Governor Carter, many of which were ultimately passed into law. She also served as a volunteer at the Georgia Regional Hospital in Atlanta and for five years was honorary chairperson for the Georgia Special Olympics for Retarded Children.
In January 1975, when his gubernatorial term was over, Mr. Carter, along with Rosalynn and Amy, went back to Plains. He had already announced his plans to run for President of the United States. Rosalynn returned to the campaign trail, this time in a national quest for support for her husband. She campaigned alone on his behalf in 41 states.
During the months she was campaigning across the country, Rosalynn was elected to the board of directors of the National Association of Mental Health; she was honored by the National Organization for Women with an Award of Merit for her vigorous support for the Equal Rights Amendment; and she received the Volunteer of the Year Award from the Southwestern Association of Volunteer Services.
During her years in the White House, Rosalynn was honored by many organizations and received numerous awards. She served as honorary chair of the President's Commission on Mental Health, the work of which resulted in the 'passage of the Mental Health Systems Act. She was named the Volunteer of the Decade by the National Mental Health Association. Rosalynn also received two honorary degrees as First Lady: a Doctor of Humanities degree from Tift College and a Doctor of Humane Letters degree 'from Morehouse College.
Since returning to Plains, Mrs. Carter has received the Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association, the Distinguished Service Award for Leadership in Christian Social Ethics from the Christian Life Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention and in August of 1983, she was elected to the board of directors of the Gannett Company, Inc. In April of 1984, Mrs. Carter became a member of the board of advisors of Habitat for Humanity, Inc.
Her autobiography, FIRST LADY FROM PLAINS, was published in May of 1984. That same month, she was made an Honorary Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and is also board member emeritus of the National Mental Health Association. She is also co-author of EVERYTHING TO GAIN: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Live, 1987. Mrs. Carter's most recent book, HELPING YOURSELF HELP OTHERS, explores how we can learn to "approach care giving as a blessing as well as a challenging task." It draws on her personal experiences and those of she has encountered both as First Lady and as the Director of the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Human Development.
John William (Jack) Carter, born July 3, 1947, in Portsmouth, Virginia. His son, Jason James Carter, was born August 7, 1975, and daughter, Sarah Rosemary Carter, was born December 19, 1978. He is married to Elizabeth Brasfield of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Her children are John and Sarah Chuldenko.
James Earl (Chip) Carter III, born April 12, 1950, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His son, James Earl Carter IV, was born February 25, 1977. He is married to Ginger Hedges of Americus, Georgia. Their daughter, Margaret Alicia Carter, was born September 23, 1987.
Donnel Jeffrey (Jeff) Carter, born August 18, 1952, in New London, Connecticut. Married Annette Jene Davis of Arlington, Georgia. Children: Joshua Jeffrey Carter, born May 8, 1984, Jeremy Davis Carter, born June 25, 1987, James Carlton Carter, born April 24, 1991.
Amy Lynn Carter, born October 19, 1967, in Plains, Georgia.
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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
April 17, 2002
Death of Byron R. White
By the President of the United States of America
As a mark of respect for the memory of Byron R. White, retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff on the day of his interment. On such day the flag shall be flown at half-staff until sunset upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions; and at all U.S. embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-sixth.
GEORGE W. BUSH
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23.02.2012Mansoura ez-Eldin's ''Beyond Paradise''Dark Family Secrets on the Nile
A book by the Egyptian writer Mansoura ez-Eldin has been published in German for the first time. In it, the novelist relates a family saga set in the landscape of the Nile Delta. But as a work that first appeared in pre-revolutionary 2009, does it have any relevance now? Axel von Ernst finds out
Whenever Arab authors come to Europe these days, they are usually perceived as eye-witnesses to whatever might be going on in their home nations. Interviews and readings are swiftly diverted from the subject of the literature in question, and often become reports on and debate over ongoing revolutions in the Arab region.
Born in 1976, Mansoura ez-Eldin is probably the youngest such representative of Arabic literature and during her reading tour of Frankfurt, Vienna, Innsbruck and Basel she finds herself constantly having to field questions about the Egyptian revolution. And she is indeed playing a very active role in this, reporting on developments for international newspapers such as the New York Times and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. By her own account, she has put her literary endeavours on ice and is currently devoting herself to the revolutionary cause.
Politicised literary reception
Mansoura ez-Eldin has long been regarded as one of the most promising young literary voices to come out of Egypt. In 2010, she was among 39 young writers to be hailed as the new voices of modern Arab literature at the Hay Festival in Beirut and in 2009, she was nominated for the Arab equivalent of the Booker Prize (International Prize for Arabic Fiction) for her second novel.
"The gentle coolness of psychological empathy that gives the novel its strength and significance": Cover of the German edition of "Beyond Paradise" This novel, "Beyond Paradise" (not yet available in English translation), is the first book by the author to be published in German. The schedule of its release was accidental, falling as it does at a time when the West is reassessing its view of Arab literature, a process that will hopefully put it into sharper focus. In any case, that view is undergoing stark politicisation owing to recent events.
Artistic panorama of rural Egypt
"Beyond Paradise" tells the story of a youth, a family and a landscape: "If one day someone should by chance pass this remote stretch of the Nile in the middle of the Delta, he will notice the remains of an orange tree and date palm grove that once extended for around five feddan directly along the riverbank, before two of them were taken up with a new brick factory that pervaded the entire surrounding area with its noise, and if he takes a closer look, he will see a pretty white house, and alongside it three dovecotes in exactly the same colour. That is the house that Rashid built when he decided he wanted to live independently and apart from the central family home…"
Rashid is the father of the heroine Salma, who returns to her birthplace in the Nile Delta a year after his death and recalls, as though in daydreams, her childhood and youth as well as something she has discovered – something she found out by accident but that can never be divulged.
Moreover she tries to write a novel about her family – a novel within a novel that puzzles and fascinates, as the heroine's fragmentary recollections are fictionally supplemented and scrutinised. This creates a multifarious and artistic panorama of rural Egypt and the history of its industrialisation, a colourful panorama that first and foremost allows a range of female characters to shine through.
These characters include the strong grandmother, who successfully juggles everything including her husband, whom she directs as a puppet representation of the man of the house, or the mentally retarded Badr, or the regular holiday guest Margot with her whiff of decadence and the wide world beyond. And then there is the heroine's sister, who becomes a staunch conservative bore as time goes on. The person whom Salma most closely resembles is Gamila, her uncle's stepdaughter and former best friend.
Profound insight into the Egyptian psyche
"Beyond Paradise" is therefore the family saga and psychogram of a young literary editor from Cairo, just as Mansoura ez-Eldin is herself. Is this useful in times of revolution? Should one read it? The answer is a categorical 'Yes'! Western readers above all will benefit from the profound insight into the Egyptian psyche provided by Mansoura ez-Eldin's novel, a vehicle much more effective than any newspaper article.
Ez-Eldin's narrative style gently dissects, she treats all characters with humanity and kindness, but with consistent honesty. And it is this gentle coolness of psychological empathy that gives the novel its strength and significance, a novel that so neatly sums up Egypt's explosive social makeup in such a concentrated medium.
Advocate of women's rights on the Nile: Mansoura ez-Eldin currently devoting herself to the revolutionary cause, and to the cause of the feminist movement in particular The book includes themes that would appear to be more appropriate for a work set in the 19th century, such as rural superstition about sacrificial offerings and spirits, or Salma's favourite aunt Nasla, whose physical response to marriage ensures that she remains a virgin and is soon divorced. But these are issues that affect modern, affluent youth – youngsters who listen to Michael Jackson, maintain friendships in the West and read Marquez and Freud.
The democratic tolerance of ez-Eldin's literature
This inhibited Victorian relationship to the physical is one of the major themes running through the narrative. When it was published, the open and honest language of the book triggered a storm of criticism. But this criticism is part of what is being described here: a reflex driven by fear, which in the book leads to the family's darkest secret involving an aunt who got pregnant by accident and committed suicide. Another 19th century western theme that has come to roost in 20th century Egypt.
The publication of "Beyond Paradise" is timely. It allows us to hear a young voice that by way of a personal saga draws back the psychological veil on much of what is currently happening in Egypt. Additionally, in view of its neutral stance on all its characters, it could be described as a literary example of democratic tolerance. But this is a small-scale novel, and if time allows it, there is hope that this author in particular will supply the literary world with an even more insightful and revealing portrait of Egyptian society in the very near future.
Axel von Ernst
© Qantara.de 2012
Axel von Ernst, born in 1971, is a freelance writer and co-publisher at Lilienfeld Verlag. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.
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UGI Energy Services, Inc. today announced that it will provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) to fuel drilling rigs active in the Marcellus Shale region. The LNG will displace diesel currently used to fuel power generation equipment at the rig site.
“UGI Energy Services is pleased to supply LNG as a fuel for drilling operations; and we are also proud to partner with EQT Corporation which recently launched a pilot program to begin converting drilling rigs from diesel to LNG,” said Matthew Dutzman, Vice President of Business Development. “LNG is significantly lower in cost and reduces emissions compared to diesel fuel; and we look forward to providing LNG for drilling operations throughout the Marcellus region.”
UGI Energy Services also intends to provide LNG to truck fleets and industrial facilities as an alternative to diesel and other petroleum products. According to Dutzman, “With natural gas prices expected to be low relative to oil for the foreseeable future, cleaner burning LNG is a highly economical alternative for more remote oil-burning industrial facilities that do not have access to piped natural gas, and for truck fleets that use large quantities of diesel fuel.” Fleets with large tractor trailers (e.g., Class 8) consider LNG a very attractive alternative fuel to diesel given its low cost and inherent environmental qualities, as well as an attractive option to CNG given LNG’s superior driving range.
UGI LNG, Inc., a subsidiary of UGI Energy Services, Inc., operates a FERC certificated LNG storage facility near Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania (the Temple Facility). UGI LNG has the capability to both liquefy natural gas and store over 15 million gallons of LNG at the Temple Facility. As a contract capacity holder in the Temple Facility, UGI Energy Services believes that it can provide the most economic source of LNG available to serve growing markets for alternative natural gas-based fuels given the proximity of the Temple Facility to dense population areas, rural industrial companies and the prolific gas-producing Marcellus and Utica Shale regions of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and West Virginia.
According to Louis James, Director of Business Development for UGI Energy Services, “UGI Energy Services provides LNG customers with a full range of services including: project conception and system design, construction management, risk management (gas price hedging), LNG transportation options, and operation and maintenance of the on-site customer system.”
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Photographic Exhibition & Lecture: The Milky Way Through Science, History & Art, Sep 6-13 2012 @ Italian Institute of Culture
Presentation by Dr. Paola Platania, the curator of the Istituto di Fisica del Plasma of the Italian National Research Centre (CNR) at the Italian Institute of Culture on Thursday 6th September 2012 at 7.00pm.
The exhibition runs till 13th September 2012
Open from Monday to Thursday from 10.30am to 6.00pm.
On Friday from 10.30am to 4.00pm. – closed on Saturdays, Sundays & public holidays
WHEREFORE SO MANY LIGHTS?
The spectacle of the arc of the Milky Way in the sky has filled every human generation with wonder, from prehistory to the present day.
Ancient civilizations the world over have built myths and legends attempting to express the intuition of a mysterious relationship between human life and the ineffable celestial nebula.
Throughout history, artists, poets and painters have been inspired by the faint silvery light of the Milky Way.
Starting from the 17th century, modern science has shown us the physical nature of the Milky Way. Today we know that the pale trail of light that we can see in the sky comes from the glow of the Galaxy in which we are immersed: a colossal structure made of hundreds of billions of stars – and we know that our Galaxy is not only made of stars: but also of dark matter, a giant central black hole and that it is in constant upheaval with violent explosions.
Have these new discoveries broken the enchantment? Is there still room for wonder? Have we lost hope for a relationship with the stars?
We will see that, unexpectedly, scientific knowledge itself shows us that life on the Earth has a deep and unforeseen correlation with the history and the structure of the Milky Way.
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embolalia writes "An 80-year-old recording of a live radio broadcast featuring Thomas Edison has been uncovered and reconstituted. The recording was done on an obscure technology called a pallophotophone — Greek for 'shaking light sound' — that uses optical film to reproduce sound. The archivists who uncovered the canisters tucked away on a bottom shelf in a museum in Schenectady, New York (the city where Edison's General Electric was founded), did not have any machine to replay the films. Two GE engineers — working nights and weekends for two years — were able to construct a machine to replay the old tapes, recorded only two years before Edison's death." There's a video at the link, which may or may not contain some of the resurrected recording, but we couldn't get it to play from the Times Union site. | <urn:uuid:e5f4aa1f-c1b9-4cb8-bbcf-0c9b7905b4fb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/06/18/162204/80-Year-Old-Edison-Recording-Resurrected/informative-comments | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964825 | 175 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Santa Rosa native Robert Ripley, born in 1893, became an internationally famous traveler, artist, and storyteller known as a ... More
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum
Santa Rosa native Robert Ripley, born in 1893, became an internationally famous traveler, artist, and storyteller known as a collector of the world's most unusual oddities. At the San Francisco Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum, that bears his name, you can view exhibits of Ripley's early cartoons, see Believe It or Not! collections, and buy collector's books, CD-ROMS, and videos of Ripley's greatest works. From weird inventions to human abnormalities to an eight-foot cable car made of matchsticks, it is entertaining for people of all ages. Visit website for more information.
This place is creepy and freaky and you will love it! Have you ever seen the movie "House of Wax"? If you are easily freaked out you better not go. I loved it. Take your boys there. I also met some interesting characters on the way from the parking garage. A guy jumped out of a bush on the street and growled at me. Then he asked for a tip. I learned later that he is called the Bushman and has been doing this for years. On the way back, a rapper named "L-Love" started a conversation with me about life and politics. I bought his album and it actually turned out to be really good. Afterwards I stopped at Fisherman's Wharf, Ghiaradelli Square, and I walked on the Golden Gate bridge. I had no idea before, but it really would take a week to see all of San Francisco and I would highly reccommend it!
Had been to tis Ripleys long ago. They recently redid the whole place. Much better displays and more things to do while inside. The ticket was part of the Wharf Pass. So we got a great deal on the ticket price. We decided not to go into the mirror maze as we had to make it to Alcatraz. our kids had fun here too.
From the perspective of expecting to see total oddities, I got what I expected, but for the price ($20+), I don't think it was worth it. It had some interesting stuff, but nowhere near enough. There were some interesting little gag things like the "laser harp", and the thing that played with how your face looked, but overall there wasn't enough to justify the cost. Unless you're really bored, I wouldn't suggest wasting your time or money here...
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Some links to read for to help you understand the basicshttp://photo.net/equipment/digital/basics/http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/camera-lenses.htmhttp://www.digicamguides.com/learn/shutter-speed.htmlhttp://www.ephotozine.com/article/Camera-Shutter-Speeds-explainedhttp://www.digicamhelp.com/camera-features/advanced-settings/iso.phphttp://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/white-balance.htm.
This will help you learn the basics and how to enjoy your camera to the fullest extent.
Sparky_caI have a photographic memory, but I always seem to have the lens cap on. Current Camera Canon 30D..
Unfortunately sports, and especially indoor, low-light sports, is one of the most difficult kinds of photography. (Couldn't you just do holiday snaps instead? - much easier.) Difficult for you and also difficult for the camera (which therefore makes even more demands on you). So like it or not there is no simple "setting" - you are going to have to learn a lot more about how to use the camera..
The good news is, you can go out and use the camera, make mistakes and learn from them. You are almost certain to get some good results along the way!.
For gymnastics, set the camera to the highest possible ISO speed and use aperture priority at the largest aperture (smallest f-number). If the pictures are too noisy (grainy) try one notch lower ISO speed..
For outdoor sports in good light, use a more moderate ISO speed and shutter priority, aiming for say 1/500 if you can. That'll give you ok results and you can progress from there..
If the camera has a "sports" setting (most do), I wouldn't especially recommend using it as you will simply learn nothing...
I don't know what settings are good for your particular situation but here are some guidelines..
- Keep the ISO speed as low as possible (since you don't have a large sensor or one that can give you decent high ISO performance).- Use the maximum aperture- Turn off the flash (it's useless unless the subject is at most 3 m away)- Watch the shutter speed for at least 1/250 s (1/500 s would be better).
For low light situations the compact cameras are not so good tools. Panasonic is a little bit worse than other compact cameras. Panasonic has a noisy sensor so use RAW as much as possible and turn down the NR if you shoot in JPEG.Unfortunately the OIS will not help you too much..
Unfortunately you will need very fast lens and high ISO for this type of situation. Neither can be found in a compact camera..
If the lighting is ISO100, f/4, 1/250 s it's OK but I'm afraid that the light is more like ISO100, f/2.8, 1/20 s..
Fortunately you have f/3.3 at full zoom and with OIS 1/250 s will not be a problem for handheld photos.VictorBucuresti, Romaniahttp://s106.photobucket.com/albums/m268/victor_petcu/..
- Keep the ISO speed as low as possible (since you don't have a largesensor or one that can give you decent high ISO performance)..
That is the worst advice imaginable for a beginner taking indoor sports shots. There is no point at all in taking noise-free blurry shots..
[snip]If the lighting is ISO100, f/4, 1/250 s it's OK but I'm afraid thatthe light is more like ISO100, f/2.8, 1/20 s..
Exactly. Which means the only option is to turn up the ISO speed by several stops...
I told her to keep as low as possible. Since usually this means ISO1600 to get the necessary shutter speed means that the tool is wrong..
If the lighting is fairly low you need to reconsider taking action shots in low light with FZ8 or live with the results of ISO1600 if it has such a high ISO setting.VictorBucuresti, Romaniahttp://s106.photobucket.com/albums/m268/victor_petcu/..
Michellemoon wrote:I'd really like to.
Fully understand and enjoy this camera. But I'd also like to getsome great shots of her in a week- cause her daddy can't be there tosee it. Please help with any advise... thanks.
OK, first I don't know how well you know gymnastics to be able to photograph the peak moment and I'm not sure how bad the shutter lag is on the Panasonic..
If I were in your situation, I would do two things..
1. For the short term, when I need to get "great shots" for daddy, I would not even consider using the camera as a still camera. I'd set to a high ISO (1250 or 1600) flip over to Movie mode and shoot my daughter tumbling. I might even "narrate" the clip while I shoot. Will you get a still image you can print and put on a wall? Definitely not. Will you make a nice memory you and your husband can play on the computer (or even TV) yes..
2. I would use the gymnastics performance of ever other person there to learn the answers to the questions about the amount of light available and shutter speed and such. (There is no such thing as slow motion tumbling and 1/500 isn't really enough to freeze things). If your daughter does balance beam, that may be your best opportunity for clear, noise free, blur free photos (you could get away with 1/250 of a second, if not 1/125)..
As a disclaimer, sports photography is keyed on shutter speed. Miinimal depth of field is actually preferred. There is one exception to that rule, that's when you're trying to blur an image for artistic effect. You can either mount a camera on a tripod and get a stable background and shoot blurs or, you can pan with your subject to show the motion. The former may work for a tumbling routine, the latter, for your son dribbling down court in basketball (if your's shooting from the sidelines)..
If you're getting the impression that the FZ8 isn't an ideal sports camera, then you're on the right track. But it's not impossible to shoot some nice action photos with an FZ8. Search the Panasonic forum (or post there for some guidance to threads, if the search isn't working) for some ideas..
'Nice pen, bet you write good stories with it.'..
Ok, I've read through the manual and I am still very confused aboutthe ISO sensitivity, the aperture priority, and the Shutter priority..
For any photo, there's a correct exposure total light captured over time. Several things influence the exposure:.
1. The amount of light available. Here you will have to live with whatever the gym provides..
2. The amount your lens lets in (aperture). You'll probably have to let in as much as you can, even if this means reducing the depth of the "in focus" area..
3. How long you let light hit the sensor (shutter speed). You need a fast shutter speed to freeze sports action. But that hurts your ability to capture light (hence the need to try to make up by adjusting aperture and ISO)..
4. How sensitive the sensor is to light. Just about all digital cameras can pretend to be more sensitive than they really are. You raise the ISO and the camera amplifies the signal (and now you can use a shorter shutter speed or smaller aperture). But raising ISO on a digital point-and-shoot camera can also fill your picture with noise..
All those numbers and language has left my head spinning. So letssay I am about 30-40 feet away from my daughter. It's in a gym withno outside light. She's jumping and tumbling on the floor- what"settings" should I try to find? Or is there a site that gives very.
Basically, what you want to do is to set your camera to Shutter priority, set a speed that you think will freeze motion (1/250th, 1/500th), then play with the ISO until you find the smallest ISO at which the camera is happy with proposed exposures one where it's forcing the aperture (nearly) wide open, but isn't displaying an indication that shots will be underexposed..
Don't let the camera use flash. Point and shoot flash won't work at that range, but the camera will change other settings (shutter speed) in ways that you won't like..
Note that the camera may need a higher ISO when you zoom in for telephoto shots if you calibrate for telephoto shots first, you may have to readjust less often...
Thank you- I have set these sites as favorites, and will do much research on them...
Thank you for your advise. I will make note and start practicing!!..
Thank you. Very good advice. I believe a 1 gb will record about 30 minutes - in the 10fps in vga. In 30 fps vga it will only give me 11 minutes of record. Will the 10 fga be a suitable film to view on TV or computer??..
My gymnast competes and I'dlove to catch her tumbling. My son plays all sports, and withbasketball coming, I wanted a camera that could zoom and take actionshots. I bought the fz8. Which was I hope the best camera for $300..
Well, indoor sports like basketball and gymnastics are very tough tough situations for a camera, since you need fast a shutterspeed to freeze the action under very low light conditions. It will be next to impossible do with a compact camera. I would recommend using movie mode during the action sequence instead, like the others mentioned. If you want printable photos, I would recommend taking photos of them in non-action situations (e.g. celebration after victory, candids of them preparing, etc)..
Ok, I've read through the manual and I am still very confused aboutthe ISO sensitivity, the aperture priority, and the Shutter priority.All those numbers and language has left my head spinning..
Basically, those three settings (ISO, aperture, and shutter speed) affect the exposure of the photo. If the three are combined correctly, the photo will be well exposed. If the combination does not allow enough light, then the photo will be too dark. If the combination allows too much light, then the photo will be too light..
Imagine that light is water, and that in order to get a well exposed photo, you need to fill a bucket with that water. The aperture is the hole that allows light through the lens, so image in this analogy that aperture is the size of the pipe carrying the water to the bucket. Shutter speed would be the amount of time that you allow water to flow in the pipe. ISO affects the sensitivity (gain) of the sensor. For this analogy, the higher the ISO, the smaller the bucket needed to expose the photo..
Here is a neat website that visually shows you how the three combine to create a photo, and the trade offs for each setting..
Note that for gymnastics and basketball, you will have low light. See what is needed to get 1/500 or faster under those conditions, and you will see why it will be hard to get a good action shot..
So letssay I am about 30-40 feet away from my daughter. It's in a gym withno outside light. She's jumping and tumbling on the floor- what"settings" should I try to find? Or is there a site that gives verybasic explanations to camera dummies like me. I'd really like tofully understand and enjoy this camera. But I'd also like to getsome great shots of her in a week- cause her daddy can't be there tosee it. Please help with any advise...
Again, the settings you need are probably not available on your camera, since the aperture probably does go big enough. For the light levels in the gym, I would imagine that it is in the 7 EV range, which would mean that you need the following (f2, 1/500, ISO1600) to get a decent exposure and still stop action...
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I'd go for the 30fps for quality. I've never viewed 10fps. I've seen 15fps (not bad, not great) and 30fps which is quite nice on most monitors. Though, once again, it's something you can check before the competition (use moving cars).'Nice pen, bet you write good stories with it.'.. | <urn:uuid:147aa646-32b2-4e1b-96ad-61a4d92d00e8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.snubbr.com/aperture-iso-shutter-huh/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946202 | 2,800 | 2.40625 | 2 |
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There’s a new contender for the title of stupidest stunt aimed at getting a reality TV show.
Don “Moose” Lewis, a Georgia boxing promoter, is starting an all-white basketball league. And oh, by the way, he says he’s already fielding offers for a reality show that would culminate in a white all-star team playing black minor leaguers. The program’s title? “Snow Ball vs. Bro Ball.”
So it’s come to this: Segregation as a reality TV concept.
The theory behind the ludicrously named "All-American Basketball Alliance” is that whites, in general, are “more fundamentally sound” players than blacks, Lewis told The Associated Press. He says his league – players must be native-born Americans and prove both parents are white – will hearken back to “the nostalgia way of how things used to be.”
What Lewis is attempting to tap into, at best – and let’s go far out of our way to give him the benefit of the doubt – is cynicism.
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the breaking of the NBA’s color line in 1950, three years after Jackie Robinson integrated baseball. The “way of how things used to be” evokes a time when some people didn’t have a chance to compete in professional sports based solely on skin color, before Brown v. Board of Education, before anyone could even imagine an African-American president.
Professional basketball has changed drastically over the years, to be sure, and there are legitimate barroom arguments to be waged over which era was best. But it's doubtful there are many folks out there pining for the days of the set shot.
Perhaps the most insulting and absurd part of Lewis’ spiel is the nonsense that “fundamentally sound” playing is a function of race. Tell that to any player of any race who busted his or her butt in high school gymnasiums, college or pro courts honing their hoops skills. Lewis' claim that whites don’t have the “natural athleticism” of blacks negates the hard work of anyone who has achieved success in the sport.
The mania to get on TV, as we’ve seen, can bring out the worst in people. The White House party crashers revealed themselves as blatant self-promoters. The Balloon Boy’s parents put their own ambitions above their children's welfare.
Lewis’ plan, announced in a press release on the eve of Martin Luther King Day, exposes him and any backers as crass opportunists out to exploit the worst in the audience.
The league plans to establish teams in 12 cities, including Augusta, Ga. But Lewis won’t be getting any help from Augusta Mayor Deke Copenhaver.
“I could not support in good conscience bringing in a team that did not fit with the spirit of inclusiveness that I, along with many others, have worked so hard to foster in our city," he told the Augusta Chronicle.
Good for Copenhaver – and shame on anyone who helps the league, especially by putting this travesty-in-the-making on TV.
Lewis told AP, “This is not a racial thing.” But he clearly sees pitting black vs. white as a way to grab some green.
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Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, is so much more than eight days of presents (no matter what little kids tell you). It is a wonderful celebration of family, fun, and wonderful traditions. There are so many fun ways to celebrate Chanukah, and in fact, here is a great guide to celebrating each day of Chanukah in a different way.
1. The first night of Chanukah is the most exciting in my opinion. It starts the eight days of creating new family memories. The first activity that you should try is making your own menorah
. I know that most people have their own menorahs, whether they're family heirlooms or contemporary pieces of art, but this is a fun activity for the kids and parents to do together. You will have to start on this project early if you want to use it for the first night so that the glue has time to dry.
2. The second night of Chanukah, after the gifts have been opened, is a great time to play a few fun games. The most popular game during Chanukah is a game of chance- the spinning of the dreidel. Each Hebrew letter on the 4-sided top/dreidel stands for a game action:
N (nun)= Get nothing from the jackpot.
G (gimel)= Get everything from the jackpot.
H (he)= Get half of the jackpot.
S (shin)= Put ½ the money in the jackpot.
If you don't have a dreidel already, you can purchase one from a goods supply or toy store. Have your guests bring pennies, gold foil-wrapped chocolate coins (also called gelt), or candies to put in the jackpot, or distribute these items yourself during game time. Have everyone place a penny/candy into the jackpot and then take turns spinning the dreidel to determine who wins or loses. At the end of the game, have everyone count their winnings, and use the pennies and candies to "purchase" small, wrapped gifts that you've prepared ahead of time.
3. On the third night of Chanukah have a latke exchange! Let's face it, people like to eat latke with many different toppings. Some like them plain, while others cover them in applesauce to add to or hide the taste (I confess, I like a little latke with my applesauce). Sugar and cinnamon is one of the most popular seasonings that kids like to use to add to the taste of latke. I even have an uncle who likes to cover them in sour crème. Everyone gets to make some of their favorite latke (enough for each person to taste one), and then share their favorite latke recipe with the group.
4. On the fourth night of Chanukah, have a gift exchange with your family and or friends. A super fun way to exchange gifts is the Right-Left Gift Swap. Whether you use gag gifts, thoughtful gifts, or "white elephant" gifts, this is sure to add a lot of excitement to the fourth night of Chanukah.
5-6. Although Chanukah is a fun holiday and a time for celebrating family, it is also a time to think about those who are less fortunate. One of the most compassionate and rewarding activities that you can do on the fifth night of Chanukah (or any other night) is to volunteer your time and or money/gifts to those who are less fortunate. Whether you volunteer your time as well as canned goods to a soup kitchen, or donate toys/clothing to a shelter or charity, there is no better feeling in your heart than when you make someone else's life a little bit easier. In fact, this is such a rewarding experience that you might want to do it on the sixth night as well.
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From their marriage in 1764 until the summer of 1768 the Austen family lived in Deane parsonage. The three older Austen sons, James, George and Edward were all born here, before the family moved to Steventon.
"John by divine Permission, Bishop of Winchester to the Venerable / Thomas Balguy DD. Archdeacon of Winchester or to his Official or any other person or / Persons having or who shall have authority legally to execute what is underwritten, greeting. /
Whereas we have admitted George Austen Clerk Batchelor of Divinity to the Rectory of the Parish-Church of Dean / In the County of Southampton within our Diocese and Jurisdiction, / Vacant by the Death of William Hillman Clerk the last / Incumbent there, to which he was presented to us by Francis Austen of Sevenoaks in the / County of Kent Esquire Patron of the said Rectory for this turn (as it is asserted)/ And have canonically Instituted / Him in and to the same, and invested him with all and singular the Rights, Members, and Appurtenances /
Thereunto belonging: We do therefore empower and strictly require you, jointly and severally to induct, or / Cause the said George Austen or his lawful Proxy in his Name, and for him, / To be inducted into the real, actual and corporal Possession of the said Rectory and Parish / Church of Dean and of all and singular the Rights, / Members and Appurtenances thereunto belonging, and to defend him so inducted, and what shall be herein / Done, by virtue of this our present Mandate, Ye are duly to certify to us or our Vicar-General or his / Surrogate, or some other competent Judge in this behalf, when duly required to do so. Dated under our / Seal (which in this Case we use) the First Day of April in the Year / Of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and seventy three and in the Twelfth Year Of our Translation"
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The Liberation Front of the Slovenian People, established 26 April 1941 in Ljubljana as Anti-Imperialist Front, was the political organization of the Slovenian resistance to Axis occupation during World War II. The founding members were the Communist party of Slovenia, the Slovenian Christian Socialists, the Slovenian Sokol and a group of cultural workers. The Liberation Front proclaimed as its goals the liberation from fascism, unification of all Slovenians inside Yugoslavia, and establishment of a fairer society than the one that had existed in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. It organized a partisan army together with other Yugoslav partisans. After 1942, the Allies fought a guerilla war against the Axis and local Quisling forces.
In September 1941, the Front's Supreme Plenum proclaimed itself Slovenian National Liberation Committee, the supreme political authority of the new Slovenia. In territories liberated by the partisan army, the Front organized local government in the form of National Liberation Committees, which organized education, cultural life, health services, and supplies for the partisan army, etc. In early 1943 the founding members made the Dolomite statement, which formally establish the Communist Party, which had been the major force in the Front since its formation, as the leading faction and disorganised the other parties.
After the capitulation of Italy in September 1943, elections were held for a meeting of National Representatives, which elected the new 120-member Supreme Plenum and 10-member Executive of the Front. This also acted as the Slovenian National Liberation Committee and the Committee's Presidency. In February 1944 in Črnomelj, the Liberation Front established the Slovenian National Liberation Council, an elected regular legislature, with departments, committees and institutes. On 5 May 1945 in Ajdovščina, the Council proclaimed the National Government Act and appointed the new national government, which moved to liberated Ljubljana on 10 May.
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1982’s Glastonbury Festival was involved with the Mid-Somerset and Western Region ‘Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’ for the second year. Michael Eavis asked fireworks organisers to point a £70 firework at an Anti CND plane flying over the farm, in order to chase it away. Van Morrison, Jackson Browne and Roy Harper played to 25,000 people, the first laser show was held and the highest rainfall for a single day in 45 years made for an extremely muddy Festival.
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DESCRIPTION: This course is an intensive workshop in narrative directing and film production. It is the directing/production component of an integrated curriculum for first-year MFA students that also includes an Audio class and a Cinematography class. The goal of this course is to develop the ability and self-confidence to articulate and translate from the page to the screen the narrative and the corresponding visual/aural structures of a scene or short film. The investigation of the director/actor relationship will be a priority and the course's primary area of focus in the early weeks of the semester. Casting, rehearsal technique, acting theory and process, and staging issues will be explored in depth. In the second half of the semester students will direct and edit 16mm short films.
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Welcome to the Department of Curriculum and Instruction (CIED) at the University of Arkansas. Curriculum and Instruction is the academic unit primarily responsible for teacher and school administrator preparation at the university.
216 Peabody Hall
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
The department offers numerous programs and concentrations at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Many of these degree programs are among the best programs in the nation. In fact, the department's Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) preparation program was recently recognized as one of the leading teacher preparation programs in the United States by the American Association of Teacher Educators.
There are few greater or more important professions than teaching. Think about the people in your own life who have made a big difference. You're likely to be thinking about at least one teacher! Think about all of the lives of children you can influence if you teach five, 10, 20 or more years. If you teach at the elementary level and teach 22 students each year for 20 years, you have just had a major impact on more than 400 individuals. If you teach at the secondary level, and you teach five classes each day with 20 students each, and you teach for 20 years, you have had the opportunity to influence more than 2,000 individuals! Almost every adult in the United States can identify one or more teachers who were instrumental in their lives and made a difference. Become a teacher and you too can make a difference in the lives of students!
The Department of Curriculum and Instruction offers programs leading to Bachelor of Science in Education (B.S.E) degrees, Master of Education (M.Ed.) degrees, Master of Science (M.S.) degrees, Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) degrees, Educational Specialist (Ed.S.) degrees, Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) degrees, and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees. Individuals can receive a teaching license at the childhood education level (grades P-4), middle education level (grades 4-8), secondary level (grades 7-12), various administrative licenses, as well as additional licensure programs in most licensure areas. | <urn:uuid:6be8ee03-edec-427d-ad48-c21812c28786> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cied.uark.edu/index.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955945 | 448 | 1.710938 | 2 |
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Matt Brittin said it was down to politicians to legislate if they wanted to force change as he fought back against suggestions that multinationals are "immoral".
The Google boss said that while he did not mind the "belligerent" grilling he had received from MPs on the Public Accounts Committee two weeks ago, the public debate was creating the view that all "businesses are trying to do negative things and get away with them."
"It's the wrong bias to think everyone is out to cheat," he told Channel 4 News. "I find it frustrating when we're criticised because I'm not immoral and neither is Google. If Google were immoral, I would not be working here….I'm proud of the way we operate."
Mr Brittin, who rowed for Britain in the 1988 Seoul Olympics, was lambasted by the PAC for low tax contributions along with the bosses of Starbucks and Amazon. Google paid £6m corporation tax on £2.5bn of UK revenues in 2011.
At the hearing Margaret Hodge, chairman of the PAC, said: "We are not accusing you of being illegal. We are accusing you of being immoral."
But Mr Brittin said MPs were blaming companies for a system that they had designed. "Google plays by the rules set by politicians," he said. "The only people who really have choices are politicians who set the tax rates."
Insisting that Google pays its tax in America, Mr Brittin said: "I would love it if Google had been invented in Cambridge...if Google had been created there and was a British business we'd be having a very different conversation now. We would be paying tax based on where our product was created – in that case, we'd be paying the majority of our tax here and operating in the US in a very different way."
However, last night a top executive at supermarket chain Morrisons became the latest retail heavyweight in the UK to call on the Government to force foreign firms to pay more tax. Richard Pennycook, finance director of Morrison's, told Sky's Jeff Randall Live: "We want a level playing field. What applies to one company should apply to another. There are big differentials in what companies are paying." He added: "The Chancellor must look into this and regulate. Taxes on activity here in the UK should stay here. Transparency is very important."
Morrisons said it paid £281m in UK corporation tax, more than a quarter of its profits. By comparison Aldi, the German-owned supermarket rival, paid £12.7m of UK corporation tax, or 17.7pc of its £70.5m profits. In a statement Aldi said it had "always respected and complied with the tax laws."
It also emerged, in new figures supplied by Amazon to the PAC, that the online retailer's total UK sales topped £2.9bn last year, while declaring Amazon.co.uk revenues of only £207m. For the past three years, Amazon.co.uk Ltd paid £2.3m in corporation tax on UK sales of £7.1bn.
Meanwhile, French ministers signalled they are ready to change the laws to force online companies to pay full levies on earnings made in France. Fleur Pellerin, the French technology minister, told reporters: "There's a serious issue around fiscal harmonisation in Europe. There's a will to change this in Europe but the timeline is too slow. Tax rules set at a time when commerce was physical are not appropriate any more." | <urn:uuid:89802b5b-508c-44cf-8d17-b55a9c0479de> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/tax/9707121/Google-UK-boss-Matt-Brittin-fights-back-over-tax-payments.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983754 | 725 | 1.84375 | 2 |
The key advice was for patients to learn how to look after themselves better and to ensure they received basic health checks. A wide-ranging report revealed that 24,000 diabetes sufferers are currently dying unnecessarily in the UK each year.
Yet most of these early deaths could be avoided if sufferers got regular NHS check-ups, ate healthy foods, cut down on alcohol and took more exercise.
They also needed to understand the importance of medication and how best to take it.
Reacting to the report, Diabetes UK said: “These figures are incredibly alarming as there is no reason why people with diabetes cannot live long and healthy lives if they receive the right care and support to help them manage their condition.”
The charity echoed the need for sufferers to follow a healthy diet – rich in fruit and vegetables, but low in sugar, salt and fat – and to keep fit through exercise.
These figures are incredibly alarming as there is no reason why people with diabetes cannot live long and healthy lives if they receive the right care and support to help them manage their condition
Care Services minister Paul Burstow called the high death toll from diabetes “unacceptable” but insisted it could be dramatically cut if patients got “the right care at the right time”. The report by the National Diabetes Audit for England said sufferers needed to be “educated” on how to better look after their condition.
This would help cut the risk of them having dangerously high or low blood sugar levels. The study’s lead clinician Dr Bob Young said: “For the first time we have a reliable measure of the huge impact of diabetes on early death. Many of these early deaths could be prevented. The rate of new diabetes is increasing every year.
“So, if there are no changes, the impact of diabetes on national mortality will increase.
“Doctors, nurses and the NHS working in partnership with people who have diabetes should be able to improve these grim statistics.”
Diabetes can lead to kidney failure and strokes or other complications leading to limb amputations and blindness.
Type 2 diabetes affects 2.5 million people in Britain and unhealthy lifestyles are set to send the numbers soaring.
It differs from Type 1 diabetes – which usually develops before the age of 40 and requires sufferers to take insulin injections – in that it can be prevented.
Up to a million people may already have Type 2 without knowing it.
There are nine NHS checks recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
These include those involving blood sugar control, cholesterol, blood pressure, measurements of weight, smoking status, eye and foot examinations for possible diabetic complications, and analysis of blood glucose and urine.
The new report found that only about half of people (53 per cent) with Type 2 diabetes and less than a third (32 per cent) with Type 1 diabetes receive all nine checks.
It also found that women with diabetes are worst at looking after themselves and managing their condition.
Up to 75,000 diabetics die in England every year – accounting for about 15 per cent of all deaths in this country.
However, 24,000 of these are believed to be preventable. Three-quarters of these unnecessary deaths are among the over-65s.
Among under-65s with diabetes, those from deprived backgrounds are twice as likely to die as those from more affluent areas.
Death rates among younger sufferers have also rung alarm bells among the experts.
Earlier this year the National Diabetes Audit found almost 450,000 children and younger adults with diabetes have high-risk blood sugar levels that could lead to severe complications.
Diabetes UK recommends a healthy, balanced diet and 30 minutes of exercise at least five times a week.
Barbara Young, the charity’s chief executive, said: “Self-management is very important, but it is also vital that people with diabetes receive the care they need to help them manage their condition in the first place.”
Care Services minister Paul Burstow said: “Armed with the results of this audit, I expect the NHS to learn from the best.
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Kinnelon police to beef up presence at schools
In the wake of the Newtown tragedy, there will be an increased police presence in the district's schools.
Last week, Police Chief John Finkle said the idea of enhancing the police officers' presence in the local schools sprang from police and school officials meeting together to discuss augmenting security in the district's schools. Finkle said the greater presence of police in the schools will allow officers to establish stronger relationships with the borough's youth, which will open the lines of communication.
On Jan. 31 at 5:57 p.m., Interim Superintendent of Schools Diane DiGiuseppe sent out a message via the district's electronic messaging system, Textcaster, regarding the increased police presence.
"As a result of the ongoing security discussions between the district and the Kinnelon Police Department, the Kinnelon police will be making regular random visits to our schools. Officers will be in and around the buildings with greater frequency than in the past and we would like to alert you of this so that their presence is a comfort rather than a concern," the message stated.
"The presence of police officers in our schools, such as with the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program, has long been a positive part of our school community, and we welcome and appreciate Chief Finkle and the KPD officers' offer to assist us in creating a more secure school system and welcome their presence," it continued.
At the school board meeting later on that evening on Jan. 31, DiGiuseppe informed the public of the plans to increase the police presence in the schools, which she hopes will be a comfort to parents. DiGiuseppe said school officials have been meeting regularly with police.
"They will be driving by and walking in and be a regular part of what kids see every day. They will build a relationship with the kids," she said.
School board President Dr. Steven Fink noted that the coordinating committee of the school board and council met prior to the school board meeting. Councilwoman Carol Sventy and Councilman Daniel O'Dougherty of the council's coordinating committee attended the board's Jan. 31 meeting. Fink said shared services were discussed and he acknowledged the outstanding cooperation between the school district and Police Department.
O'Dougherty said it was the council and school district's goal to work together for the students and parents to increase security in borough schools.
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Published March 22, 2010
An ocean policy for the futureELLIOTT A. NORSE
By ELLIOTT A. NORSE
The 2010 Winter Olympics gave "The Great One," hockey player Wayne Gretzky, the honor of lighting the Olympic Cauldron. Seeing him reminded me of his famous quote: "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been." As in hockey, success in ocean policy comes from foresight, communication and willingness to take a hit for the good of the team. President Obama should heed Gretzky's advice as he leads our nation toward an ocean policy to recover the health of America's oceans and generate needed American jobs. Our oceans and coasts are still governed by a hodgepodge of 140 different federal laws and 20 different federal agencies, each with different goals and often conflicting mandates. Recently the Obama administration proposed our country's first National Ocean Policy to improve coordination among federal, state, tribal and local authorities for managing activities in our coastal, Great Lakes and ocean waters.This is crucial because the way America has governed our oceans reflects the outmoded perspective that scientists, legislators and the public held from the 1950s to the 1970s.Back then, almost everyone believed that oceans were invulnerable, that the biggest challenges were how best to use their "assimilative capacity" for pollutants, while encouraging "full utilization" of their seemingly limitless resources.Federal policies rested on the belief that humankind could not hurt the oceans. This led each agency to champion special interests, rather than protecting the public's interest in healthy oceans. Individual agencies aided shipping or oil drilling or fisheries or pollution prevention. But nobody was in charge of protecting our oceans. Maybe that made sense when people thought they didn't need protecting.Now we know better. In my 1993 book "Global Marine Biological Diversity," 106 scientists and policy experts detailed how our oceans are in trouble. Five years later, 1,605 scientists released "Troubled Waters: A Call for Action" on Capitol Hill, proclaiming publicly that our oceans are imperiled. Since then, almost everywhere my fellow scientists have looked, the bottom line is the same: Our oceans' health is declining.Pollution that once didn't seem problematic (nutrients, noise, plastics, endocrine disruptors and carbon dioxide-caused acidification) is now harming marine species and ecosystems. The abalone I fished for 40 years ago are now endangered species. Marine life including corals, sharks and Hawaiian monk seals now face increasing risk due to our management failures. And looming over all are the profound impacts of human-caused climate change.If current trends continue, the time will soon come when bluefin tunas are as rare as California condors. Recreational and commercial fishermen, conservationists and shippers, scientists and energy producers want to avoid that. As a sportfisherman since age 5, who began snorkeling at age 8, got a doctorate in marine biology at 28 and who wants to eat wild salmon at 62, I have a big stake in diverse, productive oceans. And this isn't just about you and me: My three grandchildren and all children deserve oceans filled with life in which to swim, fish, whale-watch or scuba dive. Expanded, more intense uses of our oceans require new, more effective ways of thinking and acting. We must make room for all legitimate ocean interests that can win public support in their regions. And we must do ecosystem-based planning to recover marine ecosystems and generate new jobs. It's not either/or; it's got to be both.To do this, however, we need our government to listen, really listen, to the concerns of public interests and ocean users, from Hawaii to Iowa. The old siloed approach to marine issues - with every government agency pushing its pet interests while ignoring others' issues and the bigger picture - must end now. Our National Ocean Policy needs to be a unifying framework to strengthen our country's ability to recover the health of coastal and ocean ecosystems, and ensure sustainable development of our marine resources.Because policymaking, like hockey, is a team sport, we need our federal agencies to work together to benefit all Americans. We will all be winners when manage our oceans for where they should be, rather than where they've been headed until now.ABOUT THE WRITERElliott A. Norse is president of Marine Conservation Biology Institute, a national and international science and conservation advocacy organization. Readers may write to him at: Marine Conservation Biology Institute, 2122 112th Avenue NE, Suite B-300, Bellevue, Wash. 98004; e-mail: email@example.com.This essay is available to McClatchy-Tribune News Service subscribers. McClatchy-Tribune did not subsidize the writing of this column; the opinions are those of the writer and do not necessarily represent the views of McClatchy-Tribune or its editors. | <urn:uuid:14dda27f-f43f-436c-8656-f287d889ed64> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theolympian.com/2010/03/22/v-print/1180889/an-ocean-policy-for-the-future.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943451 | 1,013 | 2.125 | 2 |
To support the motion that will be debated in Glasgow City Council this week, a slightly slimmed-down version of the standard briefing document for councillors has been produced. This version fits on 3 pages.
What is the National Identity Scheme?
Identity cards are not just about a card that people carry to prove their identity. Identity cards are just the public face of the National Identity Register (NIR) – a database of the entire UK population that will include approximately 50 categories of “registrable fact” on everyone in the country. These facts range from a person’s name and all their home addresses to biometric fingerprints and iris scans. The database is effectively an index to all official and quasi-official records, with cross-referencing and an audit trail of all checks made against the register by government, businesses, voluntary organisations and employers. This means the register will be the key to a person's total life history, with personal details retained forever in one vast, centralised system.
Why does the National Identity Scheme matter to local government?
The identity scheme will have a huge affect on the lives of your constituents and how the council is run. With an estimated 80% of citizen contact with the state occurring through local authorities , the council will be at the forefront of the implementation and use of ID cards and the NIR. How local councils react to this can have a major impact on its implementation and its effects on everyday life.
ID cards will be required as a gateway to local services
Although the Identity Cards Act 2006 specifically prohibits organisations making the presentation of an identity card a condition for receiving a free service, once the scheme is operational, it is likely that councils will come under pressure to use the system as one way of proving the identity of those using council services. By using identity cards in this way, councils will be signing up to a centralised system, with new levels of bureaucracy and significant implementation costs. The use of the scheme and the register is likely to seep into every interaction between citizens and local government, from benefits, council tax and social services to licensing, housing, electoral services and libraries.
Participating in the ID scheme will carry a large financial cost
The Westminster Government has produced no estimates for how much it will cost local government to integrate with the national identity scheme. Each council that does will have to buy equipment to check ID cards. Each point of contact between the council and public will need terminals to do this checking. The Home Office has given a conservative estimate of the cost of just one terminal - £250 to £750 . These units and its connections to council systems and to the NIR will also have to be maintained, serviced, calibrated, and kept secure.
There will also be the need to design and implement new IT systems and rewrite existing software so that these units can be integrated into the council. New operating procedures and bureaucracy will be required. Staff will need training on the use of the new equipment and systems. Plus there are likely to be substantial charges levied by the Identity and Passport Service for checking citizens’ details against the register.
The Westminster Government has also made it clear that it will likely be local councils and not central government that will have to pay these costs.
People in council care will have to register
Vulnerable people in the care of social services who depend upon the council for assistance, will all need to register for an ID card. People who are unable to register themselves will rely on councils’ help to fill in forms and be transported to and from registration centres to have their biometrics, photo and details taken. If this is not done, these people will be fined. Councils will also have to help these people to keep this information up to date or else these people will be fined. All this will require additional council bureaucracy as well as costing time and money.
Councils will be buying a system that doesn’t work
All these costs on the council will pay for a system that is highly unlikely to work. The UK Computing Research Committee, an expert panel made of members from the British Computer Society, the Institution of Electrical Engineers and the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing, has stated :
“We have deep scepticism about the Home Office’s ability to specify, procure and implement a national, software intensive system on the scale that would be necessary…Again and again, major public-sector IT projects overrun and are cancelled, or fail to deliver the expected benefits; recent examples include systems at Post Offices, the Passport Office, the Courts, and the Child Support Agency.”
The biometric technology that is supposed to make ID cards impossible to forge is far from perfect. A Cabinet Office study on identity fraud found that :
“Biometric systems are by no means foolproof: all types of biometric systems currently available run the risk of reporting ‘false positives’ or ‘false negatives’, around 10-15% of ‘genuine’ people will fail the test if it is set to minimise the numbers of fraudulent people let through.”
The Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Commission for Racial Equality have both noted research showing biometric scanning is less effective for some ethnic minorities . Council’s legal liability is unclear
The Secretary of State is empowered to require a third party to provide information about an individual for the purposes of verifying information on the NIR. Such orders are likely to be imposed on councils and there will be an administrative cost to councils in responding to requests for information. It is unclear to what extent a council would be liable to the Secretary of State for inadvertently providing incorrect information, or what the liability of a council will be to its citizens if it submits information to the NIR which was inaccurate. It is also unclear what the legal liabilities of a local authority would be if it relied on information from the NIR to make a decision about a citizen and this information was wrong. ID cards will cost your constituents money
At current Home Office estimates, the additional tax burden of the ID Scheme will be £200 per person. The direct price of an ID card will be £30 and a combined passport and ID card package will be £93, and any difference will be met from other charges or from penalties. The costs to local authorities and other users of the scheme outside the Home Office will need to be met from increases in general taxation, or funds diverted from services. These costs are likely to be most felt by those on low incomes. ID cards will affect race relations
The Local Government Association, Citizens Advice Bureau and Commission for Racial Equality have all noted that ethnic minorities are disproportionately affected by police stop and searches . The concern is that ID cards will make this situation worse, and provide a mechanism or pretext for discriminatory checks on immigration status. According to the Local Government Association :
“There will be a risk of increasing tension in communities if it does become common practice, (despite the intention that it should not), for people to be asked to produce their cards on demand.”
The Commission for Racial Equality has also noted that:
“It is possible that the patterns of differential treatment found in police stop and searches would be replicated in service provision and recruitment procedures. Specifically, that Black and Ethnic Minority individuals are more likely to be asked to prove identity or entitlement to services.”ID cards will hit the socially excluded and vulnerable the hardest
The Metropolitan Police has stated that:
“The scheme could become compulsory prematurely for those disadvantaged members of society, because they would have to have an ID Card in order to access Social Security Benefits, etc. It should also be noted that many of the visible ethnic minorities are over-represented in this socio-economically deprived group. We have severe reservations that the scheme could add to tensions at a time when the police service is investing greatly in gaining confidence across all communities.”
The British Medical Association has noted that these socially excluded groups are already among the least likely to access public services effectively and that the need to register and hold an ID card could operate as an additional disincentive to accessing vital services . The most vulnerable, and often poorest, in society will also be affected most by the requirement to keep information on the NIR such as address details up to date and by the fines if they fail to do this. The Law Society has stated that they:
“…fear that those who are most vulnerable are most likely to be affected by failure to provide up to date information. This could include people with chaotic lifestyles such as those suffering mental illness or addictions; people with complex or frequently-changing personal information; homeless people; older people; immigrants and asylum seekers; and individuals fleeing domestic violence situations who may fear disclosing their information.”ID cards will not prevent terrorism
Random outrages can’t be stopped by an ID card and competent terrorists will find a way to subvert the system. As the Bar Council stated :
“The Spanish compulsory identity card scheme included biometrics but did not prevent the Madrid train bombing.” ID cards will not prevent illegal working
The ID Card Scheme will do little to prevent immigrants working illegally or unscrupulous employers hiring them. As the Law Society put it :
“Employers who are currently willing to employ people illegally, without National Insurance Cards, are likely to continue employing people illegally without identity cards…”
ID cards will not prevent benefit fraud
Only a limited amount of benefit fraud is committed through identity fraud. Of the £2 billion annual benefit fraud bill, only £50 million is estimated to come from identity fraud . Most benefit fraud involves false circumstances, for instance, employment status or medical condition.
Local governments are already opposing the ID scheme
Councillors from across the political spectrum have decided it is best for their constituents if their councils are not involved in the ID scheme unless required to do so by law. You can find a list of these 31 councils at http://www.no2id.net/resources/motions/index.php
CIP and Local Government, General Register Office, Citizen Information Project, 16 November 2004, 2.ii.
Home Office Response to the London School of Economics’ ID Cards Cost Estimates & Alternative Blueprint, July 2005
UK Computing Research Committee submission, para. 1.5, 4 January 2004.
Cabinet Office, Identity Fraud: A Study, p 61, July 2002.
The Institute of Electrical Engineers response to Legislation on Identity Cards: A Consultation, 19 July 2004. Commission for Racial Equality, Identity Cards Bill, House of Lords, para. 30, p 8, January 2006.
Memorandum submitted by the Local Government Association to the Select Committee on Home Affairs, para. 18, January 2004. Home Office, Identity Cards Bill, Race Equality Impact Assessment, para. 98, 25 May 2005. Commission for Racial Equality, Identity Cards Bill, House of Lords, para. 7, p 3, January 2006.
Commission for Racial Equality, Identity Cards Bill, House of Lords, para. 8, pg. 3, January 2006.
Quoted in House of Commons Home Affairs Committee, Identity Cards, Fourth Report of Session 2004-2004, Volume 1, HC 130-1, para. 139, p 38.
Law Society response to Legislation on Identity Cards: A Consultation, para. 4.37, July 2004.
The Bar Council, Law Reform Committee Response to the Home Office Consultation on Legislation on Identity Cards, para. 2.1 and 2.2.1, July 2004.
Law Society response to Legislation on Identity Cards: A Consultation, para. 3.32, July 2004.
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Starbucks can be a dangerous place.
Coffee can't contain that many calories… can it? Yes, it can contain hundreds and hundreds.
Though one woman claimed that it was Starbucks that allowed her to drop 85 pounds!
She was able to use their labeled foods to count calories and figure out a diet that worked for her.
Her typical diet was an oatmeal and black coffee breakfast, a bistro box for lunch (snack pack of cheeses, breads and fruit, or a panini) then another box for dinner and sometimes a brownie desert if she had gone for a bike ride that day.
"Nothing hurts any more. I used to attribute some of my aches and pains to aging. I have no medical issues whatsoever. I just feel like a kid again."
We're so glad this woman found a system that works for her. Truly.
But a registered dietitian still says these types of diets aren't exactly healthy, saying:
"What we know about diets is that they don’t work in the long term. When you follow something that eliminates entire food groups and limits you to one particular restaurant, it’s very difficult to be healthy and meet all of your nutrition needs."
So thinking about going on the Starbucks or Subway diet?
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A region known for its passion, raw energy and scenic delights, South America is a place like no other. Diverse and spectacularly beautiful, its attractions range from Chilean fjords to lively cities, exuberant people and captivating wildlife.
Sailing round Cape Horn is now one of the must-have experiences for the well-travelled. Near the cape, you will find the sheltered waters around Ushuaia on Tierra del Fuego. From here, you might weave through the picturesque Chilean fjords, a place of great beauty and diverse wildlife. Snow-capped mountains, expansive forests and the breathtaking scenery of the Tierra del Fuego National Park attract adventurous visitors and nature-lovers from around the globe.
From here the west coast beckons. Punta Arenas in Chile overlooks the Straits of Magellan to the most southerly point of land before you reach Antarctica. And here you can do anything from visiting a penguin colony to flightseeing over the Antartic Peninsula. Travelling along the Chilean coastline is a scenic adventure and one that often ends or begins in the city of Santiago, from Valparaiso. A fascinating blend of old colonial buildings and new expansion, you will find its friendly people, green parks and numerous cafés give it a welcoming atmosphere.
As a stark contrast to the remote and quiet charms of South America’s wilderness areas, you will find cities such as Rio de Janeiro, located on the continent`s east coast. Dominated by its famous Sugarloaf Mountain it is known as the carnival capital of the world. This is where you’ll find the Latin spirit in abundance! There’s a tangible air of electricity and vibrancy here that gives the city an intoxicating and infectious energy. Montevideo, further south, is sedate by comparison, but flawless beaches and colonial Spanish architecture make it an attractive resort. | <urn:uuid:25c1a8ef-47a6-4a0b-95db-1290498b80e4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.virginholidayscruises.co.uk/destinations/south-america/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918292 | 398 | 1.609375 | 2 |
A journey for justice
Coalition of Immokalee Workers, cyclists call on Publix to adopt fair food principles
September 20, 2011
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.
“Biking 200 miles seemed a small price to pay for such a just cause as this,” said Bob Forbes, an elder at First Presbyterian Church of Sarasota, Fla.
Seven bicyclists took such a pilgrimage to the headquarters of Publix in Lakeland, Fla., to urge the grocery store chain to adopt fair food principles and pay tomato pickers one cent more per pound of tomatoes.
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a partner of the Presbyterian Hunger Program’s Campaign for Fair Food, has long been asking Publix for a hearing to discuss these issues, but has not been granted one.
Publix is one of Florida’s largest corporations and one of the largest sellers of tomatoes in the United States.
Located just 200 miles south of Lakeland, the CIW is a community-based worker organization in Florida that works for fair wages, an end to indentured servitude in the fields, better working and living conditions and stronger laws against those who violate workers’ rights.
While seven bicyclists rode the whole 200 miles, many others joined them for part of the journey. Along the way, cyclists stopped at churches to speak and enlist the support of faith communities. On Sept. 6, the final day of the pilgrimage, they rode triumphantly into a local park despite the pouring rain.
Joined by about 80 people of faith from all over Florida, the cyclists celebrated with a brunch and then journeyed on to the headquarters of Publix, where they had hoped to meet with CEO Ed Crenshaw. They wanted to remind Crenshaw of the words of Publix founder George Jenkins: “Never let making a profit stand in the way of doing the right thing.”
The group gathered and prayed on the muddy bank of a pond located on the boundary of the Publix grounds. Representatives of Florida several organizations made offerings:
- Nancy Razvoza and Ted Zawistowski of Port Charlotte, representing a coalition of congregations, presented a bag of receipts collected by their members and a letter stating, “We will continue to shop at Publix if they do the right thing.”
- An interfaith organization of 31 Gainesville clergy sent a letter quoting their scripture and calling on Publix to support the CIW.
- Several clergy prayed for those who rode the 200 miles; for Ed Crenshaw that he may open his heart as God softens it; and for the success of the delegation.
- Thanksgiving was given for the corporations, farmers, workers and churches that have heard God’s call for justice and the work they do so that farm workers may receive fair wages, safe housing and safe working conditions.
- Vickie Mena and her daughters showed a banner signed by many CIW supporters from Gainesville’s Interfaith Alliance.
- Participants were then called on to spread pine needles on the water of the pond as a sign of piety. In Mayan culture, the needles are a sign of peace, happiness and dignity.
“As we spread the needles, pray that Mr. Crenshaw will receive the delegation,” instructed Darinel Sales, a CIW leader.
In the end, only a very brief and unproductive conversation with a Publix representative took place before a security guard ordered the group to leave.
Oscar Otzoy, a leader of CIW, expressed his disappointment that the CEO refused to meet with the CIW representatives. Having been turned away, Brian McClaren, a noted evangelical theologian, led a call and response while the participants held hands to lament the failure of Publix to listen to the cry for justice.
Before, during and after the rally, participants spoke of the importance of doing something so simple for justice as the penny a pound initiative, now accepted by a host of corporations, which has helped increase the daily incomes of pickers.
“Until I got involved with the CIW, I had never participated in a protest of any kind,” Forbes said. “The treatment of migrant workers is such a clear example of injustice you have to do something.”
Parrish W. Jones, Ph.D., lives in St. Augustine, Fla., and is a minister at large in the Presbytery of St. Augustine. He has been a mission volunteer for Frontera de Cristo and in Colombia. He speaks and writes on mission, immigration, border ministry and Colombia. | <urn:uuid:01bc169d-217e-439b-8232-76340547220b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pcusa.org/news/2011/9/20/journey-justice/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959245 | 966 | 1.734375 | 2 |
How common are Earth-Moon planetary systems?
Earth’s Moon might have played an important role in the development and evolution of life on Earth. The Moon was formed via a giant impact in which a Mars-size projectile collided with the young Earth. The ejected material accumulated in orbit around our planet and formed the Moon.
After its formation, the Moon was much closer to Earth than it is today, which caused high tides several times per day. This may have helped promote the very early evolution of life.
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In addition, a stable climate of more than a billion years may be essential to guarantee a suitable environment for life. But without its satellite, Earth would suffer chaotic variations of the direction of its spin axis, which would in turn result in dramatic variations of the climate.
Therefore, concerning the habitability of extrasolar planets, it is reasonable to ask: How common are Earth-Moon planetary systems? Sebastian Elser, Prof. Ben Moore and Dr. Joachim Stadel of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, along with Ryuji Morishima of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, ran a large set of N-body simulations to study the formation of the rocky planets in our solar system via the collisional growth of thousands of small rocky bodies in a disk around the Sun. They identified numerous satellite-forming collisions during this process and estimated the masses of the generated companions.
Moreover, they took into account the orbital evolution of the satellites, since tidal forces change the spin and orbit of a satellite and can cause it to be lost within a few thousand years in the most extreme cases. Finally, they studied the subsequent collision history, since giant impacts after the epoch of satellite formation may pose a challenge to the survival of a satellite. They find that Earth-Moon planetary systems occur relatively frequently, with more than 1 in 12 terrestrial planets hosting a massive moon. Uncertainties in the study result in a range of 1 in 4 to 1 in 45. Further work and more N-body simulations are needed to obtain more precise results.
This work is being presented at the Extreme Solar Systems II conference in Jackson, Wyoming, and appears in the August 2011 issue of Icarus. The research was financially supported by the University of Zurich.
Extreme Solar Systems II website: http://ciera.northwestern.edu/Jackson2011/
Icarus paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2011.05.025< /a> http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.4616 (preprint)
Figure 1: http://krone.physik.unizh.ch/~selser/tree.jpg
Caption 1: This evolutionary “merger tree” illustrates the collision history between the initially small rocky bodies that result in the formation of a single planet-satellite system from one of our simulations. The root of the tree is the final planet and the branches show the numerous collisions that take place early on. The width of the lines give the size of the forming planet, and every knee in the tree illustrates when a merger occurs between two objects. The red branch shows the history of the giant impactor that leads to the formation of the planet’s moon.
Credit 1: Sebastian Elser, University of Zurich
Figure 2: http://krone.physik.unizh.ch/~ selser/protoplanet_uzh_me.jpg
Caption 2: This illustration shows a potential satellite-forming impact on a proto-planet.
Credit 2: Michael Elser, University of Zurich
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When an issue has been identified that is specific to the Mac, TransGaming's R&D team becomes responsible for tracking things down and fixing the problem. This is no easy task, and requires developers who have broad knowledge of Windows and MacOS, DirectX and OpenGL, and who really really enjoy debugging complex problems - if you think that describes you, please let us know! 8-). Every change that the R&D team does to the core code for Cider is rigorously examined with a two-level code review process, one review by peers on the team, and another by a lead developer who is intimately familiar with the code in question.
In some cases, the problem turns out to be not within Cider, but with code at the Operating System or driver layer. At that point, we file bug reports with Apple's 'Radar' system, and try to provide as much information as possible to them so that they can reproduce a bug. To help with this process, we often use an internal tool which we call 'Snap', which records all D3D graphics commands used within a frame of a game into a file that can be played back later, separately from the game itself. This is especially useful for us when complicated steps are required to get to a point in the game where the problem occurs, so that the driver developers don't have to actually play things through to reproduce a bug! | <urn:uuid:c60e03df-e2b9-437c-81e9-e2c1c3c09a93> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.insidemacgames.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=40589 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00076-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968728 | 285 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Pathways of infant and childhood growth that lead to type 2 diabetes
Eriksson, Johan G., Forsen, Tom J., Osmond, Clive and Barker, David J.P. (2003) Pathways of infant and childhood growth that lead to type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care, 26, (11), 3006-3010. (doi:10.2337/diacare.26.11.3006).
OBJECTIVE—Although a link between small body size at birth and later type 2 diabetes has been repeatedly documented, less is known about the associations between the disease and growth during infancy. The aim of this study was to explore the pathways of infant and early growth that lead to type 2 diabetes in adult life.
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—We carried out a longitudinal study of 8,760 subjects born in Helsinki from 1934 to 1944. On average, they had 8 measurements of height and weight between birth and 1 year of age and another 10 measurements between 1 and 12 years of age. We identified people with type 2 diabetes using a national register.
RESULTS—Among babies whose birth weights were 3.5 kg, the rate of infant growth was unrelated to later type 2 diabetes. Among babies with birth weights >3.5 kg, slow growth in length between birth and 3 months of age predicted later disease. Rapid gain in BMI after age 2 years increased the risk of later disease in both groups of babies, but this effect was greatest among children who had slow growth in length between birth and 3 months of age. In children whose Z-scores for length decreased, an SD increase in BMI at age 12 years was associated with an odds ratio (OR) for type 2 diabetes of 1.77 (95% CI 1.50–2.09). The corresponding OR in subjects whose Z-scores for length increased was 1.42 (95% CI 1.20–1.69). Rapid gain in childhood BMI was associated with high maternal BMI and socioeconomic factors (fewer people in the home and lower social class).
CONCLUSIONS—Babies with above-average birth weights may develop type 2 diabetes later in life if poor living conditions lead to faltering growth in length in the first few months after birth. We speculate that growth faltering at this time is associated with lifelong impairment of insulin metabolism and inability to meet the challenge of rapid childhood increase in BMI.
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But they aren't using human grade corn for ethanol production, they're using cattle corn which is used for livestock feed. Humans can't eat cattle corn, it's not nice.
Quote from the article, "The majority of corn grown in Ontario is used for animal feed and not human consumption".
I'm not defending ethanol as I think it's crap to put our gas tanks, but just saying that our food is not being used for fuel production as most people on this thread are saying. Ever tried to eat cattle corn???
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The Power Struggle in Orthodoxy
Philip Walters is the General Secretary of Faith in Europe and a commentator on religion, state, and society in postcommunist Europe. A version of this article appeared in Church Times on 26 May 2006.
There are two large issues in the current crisis affecting the Russian Orthodox diocese in Britain. One is the special character the British diocese of Sourozh has developed, which is now at variance with the prevailing mood in the Moscow Patriarchate, under whose jurisdiction the diocese falls. The second issue arises from the first: should the diocese of Sourozh now change its jurisdiction?
While the Moscow Patriarchate spent seven decades preserving its identity against assault in the hostile atheist environment of the Soviet Union, Russian Orthodox jurisdictions of various allegiances developed in Western Europe and the United States. Some, like the British diocese, remained under the jurisdiction of Moscow, but sought to respond creatively to the challenges of being a minority in a pluralist religious environment.
In the words of Metropolitan Anthony Bloom, the head of the diocese until his death in 2003:
From the very outset ... we Russians have considered that we have been sent to this country to bring Orthodoxy here, that is, to share the most valuable thing we ourselves possess, to give it to anyone at all who feels a need for it. This we have done not violently, nor by proselytism, but by proclaiming it for anyone to hear and by sharing it.
His vision of the Orthodox calling is thus out-going and inclusivist.
Meanwhile, since the fall of Communism, the prevailing mood in the Orthodox Church in Russia has been increasingly inward-looking and exclusivist. It has attracted large numbers of new zealots, who often have no background in Orthodoxy, but are motivated by patriotism, a hankering after order and ritual, and conservative social and political values.
The Russian Church has been traumatised by the influx of what it sees as aggressive secular Western values propagated by 'proselytisers' of harmful sects who are bent on poaching the Orthodox flock. A milestone on the road to retrenchment was the law on religion passed in 1997, which gave privileges to 'traditional' religions in Russia, and opened the way to the penalisation of interlopers.
In Britain, tension between Moscow and the local diocese has been growing for years, as Russian citizens arrive here in increasing numbers, expecting to find an Orthodox environment of the kind they are used to at home. Now Bishop Basil of Sergievo, acting head of the diocese in Britain, has announced his intention of moving his diocese from the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate to that of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
Ever since the fall of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottomans in 1453, and the subsequent adoption of title of Tsar (Emperor) by the Grand Prince of Muscovy Ivan III, the Orthodox Church in Russia (by far the largest of the Orthodox Churches) has frequently aspired to leadership of worldwide Orthodoxy.
This is a communion of more or less self-governing Churches, each usually identified with a particular nation-state. Those Churches with the most complete independence enjoy 'autocephaly', or self-governance, and have their own patriarch. A problem for Moscow, however, is that primacy of honour for all Orthodox Churches belongs to the Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul, which dates back to long before any claims by Moscow.
Potential clashes between Moscow and Istanbul lay dormant while the Ottomans ruled Turkey and Eastern Europe; and, just as the Ottoman Empire finally collapsed, the Bolsheviks were consolidating their atheist regime in Russia. It is only since 1991 that rivalry for control has become a lively issue again.
Issues of control have been particularly acute over Orthodox Churches that have had a history of various allegiances. In Ukraine, for instance, there have been two major Orthodox schisms, and now there are three distinct Orthodox hierarchies competing for the parishes, clergy, and faithful: the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kiev Patriarchate), and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.
In the mid-1990s, a significant dispute arose in Estonia. An autonomous Estonian Orthodox Church, set up after the First World War and in exile in the Soviet period, claimed to be the only legal Orthodox Church in Estonia. The Church under the Moscow Patriarchate was denied registration, and this meant that it was unable to claim property if felt was its own. Soon the quarrel involved the Moscow Patriarchate and the Ecumenical Patriarchate, which for months in 1996 were out of communion with one another. Bishop Basil of Sergievo and Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia, who celebrate in the same church in Oxford, but who belong to different Orthodox jurisdictions, found themselves unable to celebrate the liturgy together, as the crisis between the two Patriarchates came to a head.
This is not the first time in recent years that the Moscow Patriarchate has sought to reassert its control over its British diocese. In 2002, Moscow sent Bishop Ilarion Alfeyev to join the diocesan administrative team. He was removed after a few months when church members protested at his role.
This time, it seems, the Moscow Patriarchate had decided to act more decisively, barring Bishop Basil from appealing to the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and dismissing him from his post. Now the question of allegiances has come closer to home for the Orthodox in Britain, of whom a significant proportion are non-Russian converts to the faith. The issue is now not one of property, as it was in Estonia, but of spiritual style in a pluralist environment, and it thus involves the very essence of Orthodox witness in the world. | <urn:uuid:368482ff-854b-49de-a8b3-e5b4c9aba2a8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.faithineurope.org.uk/power.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970097 | 1,194 | 1.945313 | 2 |
The following papers represent some of the discussion taking place about global warming, (more specifically the lack thereof), climate change, politics, and economics. There is far more to this subject than meets the eye, or that the mainstream media and their controlling pupetteers in the Obama Administration want anyone to know.
Global Warming Science and Public PolicyGlobal Warming A Debate at ...
In the April/May 2009 Journal of the Chartered Insurance Institute of London, Paul Maynard and Christopher published an article entitled Let Cool Heads Prevail, expressing grave scientific doubt about the supposed magnitude of the anthropogenic effect on global temperature, and providing substantial evidence from the published data and from the peer-reviewed literature.
Global Warming Science and Public Policy The Climate Torquemada ...
Climate alarmists are growing ever more incendiary in their criticism of people who disagree with them. And these disagreements are not simply about the science, but about the favored policy choices of leftist environmentalists, many of whom have no training in public policy or economics.
Andrew at Popular Technology has taken the time (quite a bit of it) to compile a list of papers that have skeptical views.
In this short clip Gore repeats most of the falsehoods from his movie “An Inconvenient Truth.” What’s amazing is he does this even though many other groups have identified the errors. For example, among scientists Lord Christopher Monckton identified 35 major errors.
Radio interview of Lord Christopher Monckton by Glenn Beck on October 19, 2009
It has been often said that the “science is settled” on the issue of CO2 and climate. LetDr. Howard Hayden puts this claim to rest with a simple one-letter proof that it is false.
A well-accepted aphorism about science, in the context of difference of opinion between two points of view, is “Madam, you are entitled to your own interpretation, but not to your own facts”.
The world stoker of the fires of global warming alarmism, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), cleverly suborns this dictum in two ways, Dr. Robert Carter.
“We are meeting one month before the Climate Change Copenhagen Summit and several weeks before the U.S. Senate hearing regarding the cap-and-trade scheme. For these reasons, today’s meeting can’t be an academic conference, even though the topic still needs academic discussion. There is no consensus – neither in science, nor in economic analysis or politics.” President Vaclav Klaus.
Lord Monckton has warned the public in Europe and the United States that the upcoming Copenhagen Summit in December this year will use global warming hype as a pretext to lay the foundation for a one-world unelected ‘communist-style’ government with enormous powers.
Last week, Yugratna Srivastava, a 13-year-old Indian girl, was hired by the United Nations to present a poem to the world's leaders and the humanity. In the tradition of Nazi and Soviet methods of propaganda, a kid was asked to explain that our world is gonna fry unless everyone buys all the ideology and policies that her propagandistic employers wanted her to disseminate.
Yet another example of the ‘research’ masquerading as science that is used to reinforce the man-made global warming fraud. One of the difficulties the green zealots have had is that Antarctica has been not warming but cooling, with the extent of its ice reaching record levels.
'In recent years, many Americans have had cause to wonder whether decisions made at EPA were guided by science and the law, or whether those principles had been trumped by politics," declared Lisa Jackson in San Francisco last week. The Environmental Protection Agency chief can't stop kicking the Bush Administration, but the irony is that the Obama EPA is far more "political" than the Bush team ever was.
This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.
But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.
Imagine if there were no reliable records of global surface temperature. Raucous policy debates such as cap-and-trade would have no scientific basis, Al Gore would at this point be little more than a historical footnote, and President Obama would not be spending this U.N. session talking up a (likely unattainable) international climate deal in Copenhagen in December. Steel yourself for the new reality, because the data needed to verify the gloom-and-doom warming forecasts have disappeared.
Discussions about global warming are marked by an increasing desire to stamp out “impure” thinking, to the point of questioning the value of democratic debate. But shutting down discussion simply means the disappearance of reason from public policy.
The American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act of 2009 is worse than nothing: it is a con and a fraud. It pretends to be a vehicle for reductions in CO2E emissions. In fact it is designed to permit increases in CO2E emissions.
All great national powers have relied on access to and control of large quantities of natural resources, including energy and foodstuffs, to maintain their influence and status. Government policy that limits access to these resources must certainly weaken the nation as a whole.
In some ways, a paper on the Himalayan Glaciers is a befi tting way to launch this working paper series, as it is an issue on which there is considerable academic and popular limelight, with a number of varying points of view. Study of the phenomenon of glaciation and glacier dynamics in the Himalayas has, in recent years, attained signifi cant attention, on account of the general belief that global warming and climate change is leading to fast degeneration of glaciers in the Himalayas.
The House and Senate climate bills contain a provision giving the president extraordinary powers in the event of a "climate emergency." As chief of staff Rahm Emanuel says, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.
The world is considering a new financial market larger than any commodity, it’s “based on science”, but if you ask for evidence, you’re called names—“Denier”, and by our Prime Minister, no less. This is supposed to pass for reasoned debate?
Early last January, when the final 2008 numbers were in for the U.S. annual average temperature, we ran an article titled “U.S. Temperatures 2008: Back to the Future?” in which we noted that “The temperature in 2008 dropped back down to the range that characterized most of the 20th century.”
2009 seems to be following in 2008’s footsteps.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd spewed out a rhetorical barrage on climate skeptics worldwide. Climate Depot has undertaken a point by point rebuttal to Rudd's claims.
“At first I was concerned about this poll and the language involved. Now from comments I’m seeing a number of people whom aren’t worried and see an opportunity to voice their opinion. I’ll leave it up to the reader to decide if they wish to participate,” says Anthony Watts.
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how can i solve this equation and find out the values for (x).
rational root theorem, that every rational root of a polynomial with integer coefficients must be of the form where is a factor of the constant term and is a factor of the leading coefficient. The constant term in this polynomial is 6 which has factors 1, 2, 3, and 6, and the leading coefficient is also 6. That means the possible rational roots are
By testing each of these with synthetic division, we find that 2 is a root of the polynomial and hence is a factor (we can also determine that and are roots).
By the "rational root theorem" we can see that any possible rational number roots must be fractions having numerators and denominators factors of 6. A quick search for integer roots shows that 2 and -3 both satisfy the equation and so x- 2 and x+ 3 are factors. Dividing by the those leaves so that x= 1/3 and x= -1/2 are the other two roots. | <urn:uuid:e404d338-573e-4e7b-8e3d-ff9a8a15e80c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mathhelpforum.com/algebra/200459-solving-value-x.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957864 | 213 | 3.09375 | 3 |
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NSA Collects as Much Data as Is Stored in the Entire Library of Congress Every Six Hours [???]
May 24, 2011
I try to avoid the black/grey/white propaganda narratives surrounding the alleged Bin Laden assassination. The whole thing is so absurd that it’s just impossible for me to take it seriously at all. However, in my routine monitoring of stories about the NSA, I came across the claim that the agency is processing an amount of data that’s equivalent to what’s stored in the Library of Congress every six hours.
Ok, so I tried to figure out how much data a Library-of-Congress-every-six-hours represents.
It turns out that the claim is completely meaningless! It tells us nothing about how much data the NSA is intercepting/archiving/processing because there are no digital versions of vast portions of the full Library of Congress collection.
Read this: How ‘Big’ Is the Library of Congress?
So it begs the question, just how “big” is the Library of Congress, in terms of our content, but especially if one tried to equate it to the digital realm?
I won’t go into any of the specific claims that are being made, but they’re easy to find out there in the ether, and suffice it to say that the Library would stand behind very few if any of them. There are certain things we can quantify, but far more that are purely speculative.
For instance, we can as of this moment say that the approximate amount of our collections that are digitized and freely and publicly available on the Internet is about 74 terabytes. We can also say that we have about 15.3 million digital items online.
- A d v e r t i s e m e n t
Some may be tempted to extrapolate that those digital items represent a precise percentage of the nearly 142 million items in the Library’s physical collections, and then estimate some kind of digital corollary. But comparing digital and physical items is apples and oranges, at best. A simple example of that fallacy would be represented by a single photograph online depicting several physical objects.
Another source of digital estimates is likely based on the number of books and printed items in our collections, which is currently about 32 million. One could attempt to establish the average length of those items (pages, words, characters, etc.) and extrapolate the digital equivalent of those 32 million physical items.
Assuming one could do that with any degree of accuracy — and that’s a big assumption — it overlooks the fact that those 32 million books represent only about one-quarter of the entire physical collections. The rest are in the form of manuscripts, prints, photographs, maps, globes, moving images, sound recordings, sheet music, oral histories, etc. So how does that other three-quarters of the Library equate digitally? Can one automatically assume the digital resolution at which all maps or photographs, for instance, would be scanned? Those are major wildcards indeed.
And then there are our motion pictures, videos and sound recordings alone — around 6 million items stored at our new Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Va. What is their digital equivalent? Most people who record television programs onto a computer or DVR know that a hard drive with hundreds of megabytes or even a terabyte or more can quickly fill up.
So, there you have it: A nonsensical claim, effortlessly woven into the tapestry of other nonsensical claims, to go with your morning coffee.
Via: The Baltimore Sun:
Parachini of RAND said the rule of thumb has been that every six hours, NSA collects an amount of information equivalent to the store of knowledge housed at the Library of Congress.
“The volume of data they’re pulling in is huge,” he said. “One criticism we might make of our [intelligence] community is that we’re collection-obsessed — we pull in everything — and we don’t spend enough time or money to try and understand what do we have and how can we act upon it.”
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A defensive player is allowed past the first line of the offense only to be blocked in the backfield by an additional offensive player.
Sometimes referred to as a "mousetrap"
In trap blocks a single or multiple defensive players are allowed past the offensive line in order to be blocked in the backfield, allowing for additional running or passing routes past the line of scrimmage. The defensive players are then essentially behind the play, which opens up more field space for running backs and receivers. There is more potential for holding penalties on the offense, however, as defensive players try to get back into the field of play. | <urn:uuid:a2755751-f265-4df6-a842-2121fea39a2a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sportingcharts.com/dictionary/nfl/trap-block.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979885 | 123 | 1.6875 | 2 |
ABSTRACT: Although mitochondria have long been considered the powerhouse of the living cell, it is only recently that we have been able to employ these organelles for electrocatalysis in electrochemical energy conversion devices. The concept of using biological entities for energy conversion, commonly referred to as a biofuel cell, has been researched for nearly a century, but until recently the biological entities were limited to microbes or isolated enzymes. However, from the perspectives of efficient energy conversion and high volumetric catalytic activity, mitochondria may be a possible compromise between the efficiency of microbial biofuel cells and the high volumetric catalytic activity of enzymatic biofuel cells. This perspective focuses on comparing mitochondrial biofuel cells to other types of biofuel cells, as well as studying the fuel diversity that can be employed with mitochondrial biofuel cells. Pyruvate and fatty acids have previously been studied as fuels, but this perspective shows evidence that amino acids can be employed as fuels as well.
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Is there an English language spoken by non-native English speakers? Lots of people from different countries work in the European Union institutions and English is the working language the most widely used among them. Over the years these institutions have often used some English words in different ways compared to native English speakers.
In the EU document A brief list of misused English terminology in EU publications you can check a list of words that are frequently used in the EU institutions with the wrong meaning or in the wrong context. It can be of interest to anyone reading or working with EU texts, but also in general to non-native speakers of English.
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Clawson has reported less violent crimes and forcible rapes compared to 2010, according to new FBI data.
Violent crime has been slashed in half in Clawson, according to new figures released from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI’s 2011 Uniform Crime Report (see chart below) shows that compared to 2010, Clawson has seen nine fewer violent crimes, three fewer forcible rapes and six fewer cases of aggravated assault. The newly released report also reflects burglaries, where nine more cases were reported last year in the city than in 2010. Nationwide, certain types of crime are seeing a decline. The estimated number of violent crimes reported to the FBI has decreased for the fifth year in a row, and the number of property crimes is down for the ninth year straight.
Larceny and property incidents are still the most common offenses in Clawson.
The year 2010 brought no significant changes in crime to the city of Clawson, according to a national crime report released this week by the FBI. Larceny and property crimes continue to be the most the common offenses, with only small decreases since 2009. In 2010, there were 108 property crimes reported in Clawson and 74 larcenies – both up from 2009, according to the report. This was no surprise to Clawson Police Chief Harry Anderson who calls them "crimes of opportunity." "If someone is a little more vigilant about locking their things up, that will usually cut down on your larcenies," Anderson said. Anderson said property crimes often include vandalism and officers are working to boost their patrols around businesses and neighborhoods … | <urn:uuid:3ce33aa4-c9a1-4cc1-a347-735e29d270c7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://clawson.patch.com/topics/Property+Crime | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969855 | 325 | 1.984375 | 2 |
BRUSSELS, May 7 (UPI) -- China has a vital role to play in a globalized energy sector where energy security is a key ingredient in national security, a European official said.
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Brussels for the first-ever bilateral summit on energy policy. European officials said that, with a European energy market valued at $815 billion and a healthy Chinese economy, the decisions each government makes will have sweeping consequences.
"Without energy security, there is no national security," the European Union's Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger said before the summit. "If our energy is not sustainable, it can never be secure. This is true not just for the EU."
Both sides, he said, have faced their own energy crises. Europe in 2009 suffered a major gas shortage because of spats between gas-rich Russia and transit-nation Ukraine. China, meanwhile, is expecting major summer electricity shortages because of declining coal and hydroelectric output.
Oettinger said these issues shouldn't be repeated in an era of globalized energy. In terms of climate issues, he added that sustainability and green-energy efforts went hand-in-hand.
Global cooperation, he said, would help hasten the shift toward a low-carbon future.
"China is a vital player in this story," he said.
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Want To Stop Mass Murder? Muzzle the Press!
A truly unhelpful proposal for preventing tragedies. Fri., December 21, 2012.
By Christopher Hanson
Christopher Hanson, a 20-year print reporter and veteran press critic, teaches at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.
As the country searches for solutions to shooting rampages like the recent one in Newtown, Connecticut, there is one approach that deserves an award for Most Simple-Minded: blacking out the identities of the shooters to deter fame-crazed copycats.
This idea has attracted a following in social media. An online petition to black out names of killers in news reports has drawn 4,300 signatures in just several days, according to the petition's website.
New York Times columnist David Brooks, one of the country's leading conservative pundits, has proposed such a blackout as an alternative to gun control. "I don't think we in the media should be reporting their names. I think they should go down in history anonymously," he said on NPR's "All Things Considered."
That was mild compared with National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre's remarks at a press conference Friday, one week after the schoolhouse slaughter:
"How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame – from a national media machine that rewards them with the wall-to-wall attention and sense of identity that they crave – while provoking others to try to make their mark?"
Guns don't kill people. Journalists who report the names of people who kill people kill people. Cut those names out of the news and you stop the copycats. No Dylan Klebold, then no Adam Lanza; no John Wilkes Booth, then no Lee Harvey Oswald.
Even assuming one could demonstrate such cause and effect, how could a news blackout be implemented? That would require a leak-proof police apparatus. It would require unanimous agreement among thousands of mainstream journalists and millions of citizen-journalists to cover up a central fact in a huge news story. Not likely.
But suppose for a moment that police and journalists did form a pact of silence. Censorship is an icy slope. Take one step and you begin the slide into Ignorance Gulch.
Imagine a Master Censor leaning over the shoulder of a young crime reporter struggling to write the most thorough, coherent story he can without breaking the "no name" rule. He drafts another sentence:
The anonymous actor who shot Mr. Lincoln had performed often at Ford's Theater. Master Censor: No! A copycat killer could figure out you're referring to John Wilkes Booth. Be more general.
Lincoln's killer was a Southern sympathizer. MC: No, no, no! That would stir up killing juices in Dixie.
The derringer-packing perpetrator sneaked into the Presidential box. MC: Are you implying that owning derringers should be a crime? Then only criminals would have derringers. Cut!
The gunman sneaked...
MC: Hold on. I am banning "gunman." The word incites. Come to think of it, so does the entire story of the assassination. I'm spiking it – Andrew Johnson's swearing in, too. We don't want awkward questions about Mr. Lincoln's whereabouts.
Withholding only the perpetrators' names seems to conflict with the logic of censorship, which is cut like mad to fulfill your goal. The names are just a start. Thus media sociologist Zeynep Tufekci, on public radio and in the Atlantic online, has argued that news media and police should bottle up not just the shooter's identity but also his life history, including danger signs that might have averted tragedy; his movements and words leading up to the killing; and details on the type of gun, bullets and ammo magazines that he used. And if any such details leaked into social media, law enforcement should "work with the platforms to immediately pull them."
Farewell 5 Ws.
Unlike gun control foes, Tufekci agrees that firearms themselves are part of the problem. But she is short on evidence that shutting down the news would stop the killing.
Reporters should certainly take pains not to sensationalize mass murders, but they should never cower from harsh facts. Adam Lanza used a military-style Bushmaster AR-15 assault rifle with large ammo magazines to pump round after round into 20 children and six adults. If this information had been withheld, would tighter gun restrictions be a matter of public debate today?
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1908 – F.L. Roehrig
2425 South Western Avenue – map
William Edmund Ramsay, born the son of Scottish immigrants in Quebec in 1855, made his fortune in the lumber business in Saginaw, Michigan, and Lake Charles, Louisiana. In 1906, Ramsay moved to Los Angeles with his family and bought up three parcels of land between Western Avenue and Adams Place (the latter renamed St Andrews Place in 1914) in West Adams Heights. Included in the mix were more than two and a half acres Ramsay purchased from Mira Hershey. Ramsay then hired architect Frederick L. Roehrig (1857 – 1948) to design this 9,000 square foot, forty-room mansion. Completed in the summer of 1908, the estate wouldn’t remain Ramsay’s home for long, as he died of “heart trouble” in early February the next year.
In that summer of ‘08, the L.A. Times wrote of Ramsay’s 225 x 500 foot property, “Probably no more entertaining spot could be found in all Los Angeles on which to build a handsome home.” Roehrig and the building contractors, the Barber-Bradley Construction Co., created for the Ramsays a three-story, Tudor Revival masterpiece made of stone and half timber, plaster finish, and topped with a slate roof.
See! The grand entrance hall, ceiling-beamed and wainscoted in mahogany.
Behold! The former living room/library. Originally, the room sported electric fixtures made of brass with Tiffany shades. Like with the rest of the first floor, this section of the home featured leaded windows.
Witness! The very splendid dining room, also in mahogany.
Observe! The kitchen.
View! Other pictures.
Art glass, from the inside and out.
The second floor contained five bedrooms, each finished in white enamel and given its own bathroom. The showcase of the Ramsay’s third floor was a 25 x 90 foot assembly hall/ballroom. That floor also had four bedrooms as part of its servants’ quarters.
Going back outside, F.L. Roehrig was also in charge of the estate’s landscaping. Here’s the old pergola, sans the original lily pond.
On the lot’s northwest corner stands the two-and-half-story carriage house with chauffeur’s quarters.
The home originally did have a tennis court, but probably not a basketball court.
Back in 2001, historian Cecilia Rasmussen wrote the Ramsay estate – after William’s death – became the site of “lavish parties, quarrels, a shooting and a suicide – of which no details survive.” (Rasmussen claims scenes from a Charlie Chaplin film were shot on the lawn – anyone have any idea which movie?) Ramsay’s widow, Katherine, by the way, passed away in July 1916.
Owners #2. William Durfee and Nellie McGaughey were each thirty-two-years old when they met; she was a filthy rich society dame, Durfee was “her mother’s horse trainer, a harness racing driver, a gambler, married and the father of two.” Soon after Nellie’s mom died in 1911, the couple wed, living in the South Figueroa Street mansion that had been the home of Nellie’s mother and her husband, banker Nicola Bonfilio. In 1924, a year after Bonfilio’s death, the Durfees bought the Ramsay estate for $105,000.
The north (top) and west facades.
Unfortunately, William Durfee died three years later after eating some poisoned fish on a trip to the Columbia River. Nellie didn’t take Durfee’s demise all that well, giving a go at suicide on a few occasions. While none of those attempts was successful, the poor woman grew to be an eccentric kook who, among other things, preserved her home in a museum-like fashion as kind of a shrine to her late husband – you know, keeping his clothes in his closet, his booze in the wine cellar, and the key to his bedroom around her neck. This lasted until she finally passed away in February 1976, a few months short of turning 100.
Owners #3. In the spring of 1978, the Brothers of St John of God, who, in the 1960s, demolished a turn-of-the-century mansion next door to the Ramsay-Durfee estate to make room for their nursing hospital, bought the seventy-year-old mansion for $470,000. The Brothers auctioned off much of the original furniture, fixtures, and Nellie’s seventy oriental rugs.
I should point out the Brothers have apparently been excellent stewards of the property. It was during their ownership the mansion was declared a Historic-Cultural Landmark as Villa Maria, and they were gracious to open up the house as part of a neighborhood tour put on by the West Adams Heritage Association last June. That’s when these pictures were taken.
The way in and out toward Western Avenue.
In addition to the aforementioned, unidentified Chaplin film, the Villa Maria has been the location for a few movies, including True Confessions and Sister Act II: Back in the Habit.
“English Domestic Architecture Employed in Designing Handsome West Adams Heights Home.” The Los Angeles Times; Sep 27 1908, p. V1
“Catholic Order Purchases Historic Durfee Mansion for Headquarters” The Los Angeles Times; Mar 12, 1978, p. I25
Rasmussen, Cecilia “West Adams Mansion: If Only These Walls Could Talk” The Los Angeles Times; Jul 8, 2001, p. B3
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North Carolina's National Parks
The state of North Carolina has plenty of beautiful and fascinating national parks to explore. Each of these sites preserves something of importance, from beautiful natural splendors to historic sites. Here is some information on North Carolina's national parks.
Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Located on North Carolina's Outer Banks, the Cape Hatteras National Seashore is an amazing destination for recreating, relaxing and much more. The seashore has many beautiful beaches for visitors to explore and enjoy. Visitors can enjoy looking for shells, birding, kayaking, hiking and more. The Outer Banks are also an excellent spot to go windsurfing, especially on Hatteras Island. Cape Hatteras National Seashore also has three historic lighthouses, the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is open for visitors.
Cape Lookout National Seashore
Located off the coast of North Carolina, visitors have to arrange to take the ferry to the seashore. The seashore offers all sorts of recreational opportunities. You can hike, bird watch, swim, boat, and fish during the appropriate seasons. Certain areas of the Cape Lookout National Seashore are open to primitive camping. Some of the most unique activities you can try while visiting the seashore are collecting shells and watching the wild horses. The seashore has all sorts of seashells, and you are even allowed to take some shells home with you. You will also find that the seashore is home to over one hundred wild horses, which you can observe from a safe distance.
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
Carl Sandburg was an important American poet and songwriter. Today his home is a National Historic Site, which preserves his legacy and teaches about his role in American history. Visitors to the Carl Sandburg Home can start with a tour of the home. On the tour visitors can see many artifacts, which detail the life of Sandburg and teaches about his history. Another wonderful attraction at this historic site is the Connemara Farms Goat Dairy. Visitors can learn about Mrs. Sandburg's interest in goats and also enjoy the goat-herd at the farm. The National Historic Site also has many trails, which are wonderful for enjoying the outdoors.
Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
This National Historic Site preserves some of the known pieces of the first English settlements in the New World. In addition to preserving the English history, visitors can also learn about the cultural heritage of the Native Americans and many other people who lived on Roanoke Island. Visitors can start in the Visitor Center to enjoy a short video and many exhibits which tell the story of the site. The Earthen Fort is another destination for visitors to explore. This site is associated with England's colonization and has examples of activities that historically took place on the site. Fort Raleigh National Historic Site also offers visitors a nature trail as well as a wonderful hiking trail to enjoy the outdoors of the site.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
The Great Smoky Mountains are known for their stunning diversity. As visitors enjoy the over 800 miles of trails they can also check out the wide array of flora and fauna. The park is home to many bears, and you may catch a glimpse of one of these bears while hiking. During the spring and summer the mountains host a beautiful range of wildflowers, well worth the visit to the park. The hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains ranges from short day hikes to challenging backcountry backpacking. For non-hikers there are also biking, fishing, camping and more options.
Guilford Courthouse National Military Park
Guilford Courthouse National Military Park preserves the site of one of the most contested battles of the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War. The battle fought at Guilford Courthouse was won by the British Army, who had a much smaller army, but still won the battle. Visitors should start at the Visitor Center, where there is information on the battle that took place at the site, as well as interesting museum exhibits and more. The battlefield can be explore on foot, or by bicycle or even by car. There are stops along the tour road for cars to stop, and there are also accommodations for bicyclists. In addition there are 2.5 miles of walking trails that give visitors the chance to explore the historic site.
Moores Creek National Battlefield
This battlefield preserves the site of the patriot victory, which ended British rule in the colony and led North Carolina to vote for independence. Visitors to this preserved battlefield can walk along the short trail, which has remnants of the 1776 road. In addition there are exhibits along the way, and the historic bridge site is also along the trail. Visitors can learn more about this important victory at the Visitor Center and enjoy even more trails.
Wright Brothers National Memorial
This National Monument is located on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Visitors to the Wright Brothers National Monument can learn all about the history of the Wright Brothers accomplishments. At the monument, there are full scale reproductions of the Wright Brothers 1902 and 1903 Glider and Flyer. Visitors will also find the reconstructed Living Quarters and Hangars, and can see the Flight Line, which is a large granite boulder that marks the take-off point of the first successful powered, controlled flight, and smaller markers note the line of the flight. | <urn:uuid:7f97bb6d-42bf-4f9e-a015-81074aceec2b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://camping.com/travel/national-park-guides/2377-national-park-guide-north-carolina-s-national-parks | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960751 | 1,098 | 2.5 | 2 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Emergency responders from the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) teamed up with their counterparts from the Russian Atomic Energy Agency (ROSATOM) for the first-ever joint radiological emergency response field training in St. Petersburg, Russia.
"This successful and productive event is another sign of increased cooperation between the United States and Russia," said NNSA's Associate Administrator for Emergency Operations Joseph Krol. "Preparing for an emergency situation is critical to our efforts and we can both learn from each other's experiences in order to better protect the people and the environment in the event of a nuclear or radiological incident. We will continue working closely with our Russian partners in the important area of radiological emergency response."
Under the Bratislava Agreement on Nuclear Security signed by Presidents Bush and Putin in 2005, the United States and Russia agreed to cooperate on various nuclear security efforts, including securing nuclear material and coordinating on emergency response efforts. The recent training in St. Petersburg is the latest in a series of bilateral meetings, mutual equipment demonstrations, and joint exercises between NNSA and ROSATOM emergency responders.
The full week of training from October 29 to November 2, 2007, covered various emergency response topics, including the theory of radiation detection, detection equipment uses, and real-world responses to terrorism situations. Two mini-exercises were held to test responses to the dispersion of radioactive material. The culminating event in the week was a day-long exercise that incorporated notification and alert procedures, mission planning, deployment of response personnel, field operations and event resolution.
In order to continue enhancing bilateral preparedness for radiological emergency response, further efforts are planned and regular joint training sessions for emergency response personnel will be held in the United States and Russia. A Russian team has been invited to the United States for the second of the series of field training events. The goal of U.S.-Russia emergency response cooperation is to share best practices between the two organizations so that an effective operation will be ready should the need arise for an international response to nuclear and radiological incidents or terrorist events.
NNSA provides the country's technical response to nuclear or radiological emergencies within the United States and abroad. It maintains a high readiness alert level and deployable assets that respond rapidly to nuclear and radiological accidents or incidents, lost or stolen radioactive materials, and acts of nuclear terrorism. Teams of experts are located throughout the country and ready to respond in support of federal, state and local governments.
Established by Congress in 2000, NNSA is a semi-autonomous agency within the U.S. Department of Energy responsible for enhancing national security through the military application of nuclear science. NNSA maintains and enhances the safety, security, reliability and performance of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile without nuclear testing; works to reduce global danger from weapons of mass destruction; provides the U.S. Navy with safe and effective nuclear propulsion; and responds to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the U.S. and abroad.
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At least 50,000 without power in Carolinas
Published: Monday, July 2, 2012 at 8:32 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, July 2, 2012 at 8:32 a.m.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — At least 50,000 customers are without electric service in the Carolinas after storms swept across the area.
Current local outages as of 8 a.m. on Monday
(Source: Duke Energy)
Duke Energy reported about 23,000 customers without service Monday. The biggest outage in North Carolina was in Forsyth County, where about 4,000 customers were without service. In South Carolina, about 2,000 customers were without service in Chester and Greenville counties.
South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. reported about 4,400 customers did not have service. The biggest outage was in Beaufort County, with about 2,300 without service.
Progress Energy reported about 19,000 customers without service. The biggest outage in North Carolina was in Craven County, without 4,600 customers. In South Carolina, about 6,000 customers were without power.
Dominion Electric reported about 3,500 customers without service. The largest outages were in Martin and Northampton counties.
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To the editor:
The argument presented in state Sen. [Thom] Goolsby’s essay “Firearms and freedom” is flawed.
The senator first notes Gandhi’s endorsement of violence in defense of oneself and one’s family. That endorsement does not imply that Gandhi would approve of the idea that citizens should have access to all the types of firepower available to civilians in this country.
Goolsby further notes that we don’t restrict the use of cars simple because drunk drivers cause fatal collisions with school buses, and we don’t restrict the use of gasoline just because terrorists can use petrol bombs to kill people. So, he asks, why do we, in the wake of a massacre such as the one in Newtown, “always hear the hue and cry for gun bans?”
Well, there is no hue and cry for the banning of all guns; the hue and cry is for the banning of attack weapons designed to kill lots of persons in a very short time.
The American culture is adjusted to customary uses by the general public of cars, gasoline, and guns. But if ordinary citizens were able to buy tanks, the first collision between a tank and a school bus would raise a hue and cry to disallow the sale of tanks to the general public. A similar hue and cry would quickly arise if civilians were allowed to purchase the explosives used by our military forces. In my opinion, the general public does not need to be able to use tanks, bombs, or attack weapons.
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Wave Forces on Offshore Structures
- Publication date:February 2010
- 129 b/w illus. 8 tables
- Dimensions: 253 x 215 mm
- Weight: 0.83kg
- In stock
A thorough understanding of the interaction of waves and currents with offshore structures has now become a vital factor in the safe and economical design of various offshore technologies. There has been a significant increase in the research efforts to meet this need. Although considerable progress has been made in the offshore industry and in the understanding of the interaction of waves, currents, and wind with ocean structures, most of the available books concentrate only on practical applications without a grounding in the physics. This text strives to integrate an understanding of the physics of ocean–structure interactions with numerous applications. This more complete understanding will allow the engineer and designer to solve problems heretofore not encountered, and to design new and innovative structures. The intent of this book is to serve the needs of future generations of engineers designing more sophisticated structures at ever increasing depths. | <urn:uuid:2ae8f820-2887-4d5d-bffe-78f03b22ebee> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item2710172/Wave-Forces-on-Offshore-Structures/?site_locale=en_US | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925303 | 207 | 1.960938 | 2 |
A paper released by The Retirement Security Project on November 21 estimates that savings incentives for middle- and low-income workers like automatic enrollment in 401(k) plans, automatic IRAs, expanding and improving the Saver's Credit, and allowing taxpayers to split direct deposit of tax refunds into several accounts could increase net national savings by $78 billion per year--which would be 6% of GDP.
The paper, The Potential Effects of Retirement Proposals on Private and National Saving: Exploratory Calculations, says that the current national savings rate stands at about 2.5% of GDP. The paper examines the five aforementioned savings proposals and their effect on middle- and low-income workers' savings habits. For instance, Peter Orszag, director of The Retirement Security Project and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told attendees at the November 21 roundtable discussion announcing the paper's release that implementing automatic enrollment in 401(k) plans would likely result in a $44 billion increase in national savings, while implementing an automatic IRA for workers who aren't offered a qualified plan through work would boost national savings by $8 billion. He also said that making the Saver's Credit refundable (with a uniform 50% rate) would encourage saving among the 50 million lower-income Americans who pay payroll taxes but have no income tax liability; expanding and improving the Saver's Credit, Orszag said, would further increase net national savings by $10 billion. Another $16 billion in savings could come from making split tax refunds a reality in 2007, he said.
When it comes to auto enrollment, Greg Burrows, VP and chief marketing officer for retirement and investor services at Principal Financial Group, said during the roundtable discussion that statistics show that 75% of workers prefer to have someone else manage their money, which means they're in favor of auto enrollment. Brigitte Madrian, Aetna Professor of public policy and corporate management at Harvard University, added that employers should choose a higher default rate (6% and up) for auto enrollment to help employees save more.
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June 25, 2008 (Housing Market Monitor)
Case-Shiller Index Shows House Price Plunge Continues
June 25, 2008
By Dean Baker
"The Dodd bill allows lenders to decide which loans enter the system." The April Case-Shiller index showed that house prices are still plunging in most of the 20 cities covered, although there are more markets showing gains this month than last. The data show that real house prices in the 20-city index were falling at close to a 26 percent annual rate over the months from January to April. Since their peak in the summer of 2006, real house prices have dropped by more than 23 percent.
Prices are dropping most rapidly in Miami, where the annual rate of nominal price decline has been 37.5 percent over the last quarter. Following closely behind are Las Vegas, with a 36.8 percent rate of price decline, and San Francisco and Phoenix, both with 35.6 percent rates of price decline. Prices were falling at a 33.7 percent annual rate in Los Angeles.
While prices were plummeting in these cities, there was somewhat of a turnaround in other cities. Nominal prices rose in 9 of the 20 cities this month. By comparison, they only rose in two of the twenty cities (Charlotte and Dallas) last month. The monthly rate of price decline slowed in every city except Phoenix and New York, where it increased modestly and San Diego, where it was unchanged at 2.6 percent in April.
While house prices are still plunging in many cities, the slower rate of decline can be seen as a positive sign. The price plunge will not just stop all at once, clearly it must slow first.
In this respect, the data from Cleveland are encouraging. Prices in Cleveland rose by 2.9 percent in April, while prices in the bottom third of the housing market rose by 5.9 percent. By comparison, prices in the bottom third of the market in Cleveland had been reported as dropping at a 62.9 percent annual rate December to March period. It is possible that the prior months’ declines were simply driven by sampling error – the sample size in Cleveland is far smaller than for any other metropolitan area – but it may also be the case that the Cleveland market has hit bottom. There have been anecdotal accounts of investors taking advantage of the plunge to buy up large blocks of housing in depressed cities like Cleveland. Such speculative purchases can help to put a floor in the market.
The Dodd housing bill passed a key test vote and advanced in the Senate yesterday. The bill has two important flaws as a measure to help homeowners facing foreclosure. First, the lenders get to decide which loans get into the program. This raises a serious adverse selection problem. While lenders will have to take a substantial write-down compared with the initial value of the mortgage, they presumably will not bring in loans unless they expect to do better under the program than if they had to go through a foreclosure. In other words, look for the lenders to bring their worst loans into the system.
The other problem is that there is no restriction on the guaranteed price for a newly issued mortgage. While the bubble is deflating, there are many markets where homes are still hugely over-valued. In these markets, even if the guaranteed price on a new mortgage is below the value of the initial mortgage, it is still likely to be well above the price at which home values will eventually settle.
In such cases, the homeowner is likely to be paying far more in ownership costs than they would pay to rent a comparable unit, severely straining their budget. For example, if the ratio of sale price to annual rent is 20 to 1, and the homeowner gets a 6.5 percent mortgage, after adding on 2 percentage points for taxes, maintenance, and insurance, a homeowner will be paying 70 percent more to own than to rent a comparable unit, even before including principle payments.
Furthermore, since prices are dropping, homeowners are unlikely to accumulate any equity. And, since the home is likely to be sold for less than the guarantee price, the government is likely to have to make good on the guarantee.
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Social Sciences Forum
Fall 2012 Lecture Series
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at 4pm
Albin O. Kuhn Library, 7th Floor
"Income, Inequality, Educational Outcomes"
Sean Reardon, Professor of Education, Stanford University
Income inequality among the families of school-age children in the U.S. has grown sharply in the last 40 years. What impact has this had on the educational success of U.S. students? This talk will describe three recent studies that examine the trends in the relationship of income and income inequality to academic achievement and college enrollment. | <urn:uuid:37f1d9a2-13df-4e88-b4cc-874dc87da563> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.umbc.edu/education/announcements/Social_Sciences_Forum.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961066 | 123 | 1.625 | 2 |
Wellness program hits stride
As the program nears its midpoint, the Make Marble Pay scholarship/wellness initiative is giving every indication of surpassing last year’s effort.
Chris Basco, director of health services at USAO, is pleased with the rise in participation, especially among students.
“Currently, we have 115 people enrolled in the program which is an improvement over last year’s numbers,” Basco said. “The biggest shift has been in student engagement as we currently have 85 enrolled in the program.”
The Make Marble Pay program, now in its third year, encourages students, staff and faculty to lose weight in order to raise money for the general scholarship fund.
For every pound lost while participating in the program, Dr. Dex Marble, vice president of academic affairs at the university, will donate $10 to the scholarship fund.
Basco attributes rising student engagement to the opening of the Nobbs Wellness center.
“You can really see the difference when you visit the new Wellness Center as students are working out and recording their progress.”
Dr. Kathy Black, an alumna of the Oklahoma College for Women, recently made a matching pledge of $1 per student to the scholarship fund.
“I applaud Dr. Marble for his challenge to encourage wellness and weight loss among the student body,” Black said. “USAO has some of the brightest students in the state and they must live as a witness to all the people of Oklahoma that part of being a responsible citizen is practicing a healthy lifestyle.”
Black encourages other alumni to match her pledge in order to encourage healthier lifestyles and help to grow the general scholarship fund.
Black, who graduated from OCW with a degree in physical education in 1958, taught at El Reno High School for two years before earning her master’s degree in physical education and doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Oklahoma.
She is a professor emeritus at the University of Central Oklahoma, where she retired in May 2001 after 35 years of service.
Local businesses are providing incentives for students to continue their hard work. Basco holds drawings every two weeks from a pool of participating students.
Contributing businesses include Crazy 8’s, Dunn’s Food Center, Tans Unlimited, Lynn Natural Health Food Center, Subway, Bistro Lorene, Paw Paw’s and Taco Mayo.
Despite the potential threat to his bank account, Marble is excited to see the program growing.
“I am especially delighted that we have eight local sponsors contributing to the success of the program, which has at least two goals: first to promote health and fitness; and second to raise funds for scholarships to attract students to USAO,” Marble said.
”Every scholarship dollar promotes the reputation of Chickasha as the home of our nationally acclaimed curriculum.”
The Make Marble Pay program continues through April 12 with three mini iPads being given as grand prizes.
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Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton released a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service report March 30 that shows a net gain in America's nonagricultural and agricultural wetlands for the first time since the Service began compiling data in 1954. Norton was joined by Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns as a partner in achieving this goal.
At a press conference in Washington, D.C., the Secretaries announced that approximately 191,800 acres of wetlands were gained between 1998 and 2004, bringing the nation's total wetlands acreage to 107.7 million acres, or 5 percent of the land area of the lower 48 states.
The net gain was achieved because increases in shallow-pond-type wetlands offset the continued, but smaller, losses in swamp and marshland type wetlands. This report shows a loss of 523,500 acres of swamp and marsh wetlands and a gain of 715,300 acres of shallow-water wetlands.
The net gain in wetland areas in the report was attributed to construction of freshwater ponds in combination with wetland restorations on agricultural and conservation lands.
"Farmers and ranchers are leaders in the wetland restoration and protection efforts throughout the United States," says Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns. "The President's historic support of voluntary conservation programs has led the nation to this important milestone and we are committed to bolstering our conservation partnerships with producers."
As the most recent in a series of reports published by Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service to track wetlands, Status and Trends of Wetlands in the Conterminous United States covers 1998 through 2004. Past data show that from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, the U.S. was losing almost 500,000 acres of wetlands per year. This rate of loss was substantially reduced to about 59,000 acres annually by 1997 and then eliminated by the first net gain in acreage by 2004 in the new report.
The report does not reflect the wetlands losses suffered along the Gulf Coast during the 2005 hurricane season.
Freshwater wetland losses that occurred primarily as a result of urban and rural development offset some gains. Urban and rural development combined accounted for an estimated 61 percent of the net freshwater wetland losses between 1998 and 2004.
Although the report does not study the effects of programs, Secretary Norton notes that multiple partnerships must have played a role in the results of the report.
"We believe that cooperative conservation programs have contributed to this wetlands milestone," Norton says. Since 2001, for example, 16 million acres of wetland and associated upland habitat have been restored, protected and enhanced through North American Wetlands Conservation Act grants.
Secretary Johanns discussed the importance of programs such as the USDA Conservation Reserve Program, which has a maximum enrollment of 39.2 million acres for conservation, more than double the acreage of the National Wildlife Refuge System in the lower 48 States.
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Politics: EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced Thursday she's leaving her post. Is she getting out just ahead of an investigation into the illegal use of private emails for official government business?
Federal law bars government employees from using private email accounts for official communications unless the emails are appropriately stored and can be tracked. The objective is to ensure open government.
Apparently, though, Jackson would prefer to work in the shadows outside the disinfecting light.
Suspicions led the Environmental Protection Agency inspector general to launch a probe into Jackson's email use and prompted at least two congressional committees to dig around as well.
What we now know is that Arvin Ganesan, EPA associate administrator for congressional and intergovernmental affairs, confirmed to six interested House members on Dec. 12 that Jackson did indeed use the name "Richard Windsor" in secret email exchanges on a private account.
So what was communicated in these emails?
The Competitive Enterprise Institute, which has filed a lawsuit demanding their release, believes they "relate to the war on coal Jackson was orchestrating on behalf of President Obama outside the appropriate democratic process."
Maybe it's a coincidence that Jackson, who attended Tulane University on a scholarship provided by Shell Oil, resigned only days after the Justice Department agreed to hand over 12,000 emails from Jackson's "Richard Windsor" account. But it looks like she's attempting to dodge an uncomfortable investigation.
Whatever the case, Jackson can't be allowed to simply walk away to spend more time with her family or move into academia, as some are suggesting. The probe must follow its course to wherever, and to whomever, it leads. If there is wrongdoing, appropriate penalties have to be meted out, or the government's pledge to do the business of the American people in the open is meaningless.
Though we wish we were celebrating Jackson's departure as a step toward a more rational, reasonable EPA, we expect the next administrator will continue the administration's war not just on coal, but on all fossil fuels.
Not only does Obama want to put coal plants out of business, he's also barred the Keystone XL pipeline, blocked crude production on federal land and cancelled offshore leases in tracts rich in gas and oil.
And at least two of his Cabinet members have expressed an appetite for higher gasoline prices while Obama himself has proposed hiking taxes on conventional energy.
No, it's likely Obama will replace Jackson with someone just as extreme as she is, if not more so. And probably equally as secretive. | <urn:uuid:a873bbd5-de2c-465b-87d9-65d9d8858c67> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/122712-638555-lisa-jackson-resigns-while-inspector-general-investigates-emails.htm?src=SeeAlso | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966467 | 504 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Visual Learning: Ending Hunger
Images, photos, and pictures stimulate the mind. For the viewer, they offer a chance to connect and question. They also offer potential for play and imagination, and pulling the observer into purposeful messages.
Most often, newspaper and magazine readers take a quick scan or snippet at photos and their captions. With this YES! lesson plan, you and your students can luxuriate—and pause—to truly understand an image, its message, and why it’s interesting (or not).
Step One: What do you notice? (before the facts)
Ask your students to make sense of the photograph by trusting their instincts of observation and inference. In doing so, the photograph offers possibilities and interpretations beyond a typical reading where the reader glances at the picture to reinforce their interpretation of the picture’s title or caption. Do not introduce any facts, captions, or other written words outside of the image. You may hear: metal cans of some kind of liquid, a hand, lettuce.
Step Two: What are you wondering? (thinking about the facts)
After you’ve heard what your students are noticing, you’ll probably hear the peppering of questions (What’s that liquid? Is this a cafeteria? Whose hand is this?). That’s curiosity or wonder—the intermixing of observations and questions. This is a good time to reveal the photo’s caption, accompanying quote, and facts about the actual situation. Watch how the conversation shifts from what they believe to be true to discerning the facts about the photo.
- Photo caption:
More than 10 years ago, Brazil’s fourth-largest city, Belo Horizonte, declared that food was a right of citizenship and started working to make good food available to all. One of its programs puts local farm produce into school meals. This and other projects cost the city less than 2 percent of its budget. In the photo, fresh passion fruit juice and salad as part of a school lunch.
- Photo facts:
The photo shows an elementary school cafeteria. On the table are: silver canisters filled with fresh passion fruit juice; colorful trays of salad ingredients, including arugula, beets, and tomatoes; a metal bowl of chopped kale.
In Belo Horizonte, all school children eat for free.
In the United States, school children qualify for free or reduced lunch if they meet federal guidelines on household income and family size.
Brazil’s federal food policy on school lunches requires that 70% of the budget be spent on natural or minimally process foods. This means no canned or frozen products, nor packaged cookies. Whole or fresh foods are purchased from local farmers.
Belo Horizonte offers local family farmers choice spots of public space to sell their produce directly to urban consumers. In exchange for the use of these prime locations, the city requires farmers to drive produce trucks to poor neighborhoods on the margins of the city on weekends so everyone has access to fresh fruits and vegetables.
Belo Horizonte has three Restaurante Popular or People’s Restaurants that serve 12,000 or more people each day for the equivalent of less than 50 cents a meal.
The cost of these efforts is less than 2 percent of the Belo city budget—about a penny a day per resident.
- Other resources around the image:
The City That Ended Hunger.
Step Three: What next? (jumping off the facts)
Learning more about a photo leads to bigger questions and an opportunity to discuss broader issues and perspectives.
What kind of food does your school cafeteria serve? Where do you think this food comes from? If you had the opportunity to decide your school cafeteria’s menus, what would you offer?
How much hunger do you believe exists in your community? How does your community feed its hungry?
Thank you to educator Barry Hoonan for contributing to and shaping this lesson.
The above resources accompany the March 2009 YES! Education Connection Newsletter
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"It now appears that the time has come" for a buffer zone on the south Texas/Mexico border to stem the tide of weevils coming across the Rio Grande River into the U.S., says Farrell Boyd, manager of the Mississippi Boll Weevil Management Corporation. The move is needed, he says, as a preventive measure for states east of Texas that are weevil-free
KEN MALLETTE, from left, Vancleave, Miss.; J. B. Brown, Wiggins, Miss.; Mike Langley, Houston, Miss.; and Reggie Magee, Prentiss, Miss., were among those attending the annual commodity conference of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation.
While cotton states east of Texas have been declared weevil-free following the years-long boll weevil eradication program, continued vigilance is needed to prevent reinfestation, says Farrell Boyd, manager of the Mississippi Boll Weevil Management Corporation.
“Mississippi achieved eradication in 2008 and was declared weevil-free in 2009. Since then, we’ve been in a detect-and-protect mode,” he said at the annual commodity conference of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation.
Although eradication is essentially complete in Texas except for the Rio Grande Valley and a spot or two north of there, potential problems exist in the valley and across the border in Mexico, he says.
“When the boll weevil eradication program was first being discussed, the National Cotton Council in 1958 said we would one day need to form a buffer zone on the Mexico-U.S. border in order to prevent weevils coming into this country.
“It now appears that time has come,” Boyd says.
“The Rio Grande Valley had about 145,000 acres of cotton in 2012, and about 45,000 acres continues to be heavily infested with boll weevils. Just across the Rio Grande River in Mexico is about 5,000 acres of cotton. Although the area is in a boll weevil program, they stop spraying so early that the weevils build up and then just flood across into south Texas. They captured over 200,000 weevils down there last year.
“Another problem is that, in that environment and that climate, cotton grows year-round and will support boll weevil reproduction year-round. The weevil thrives in every crop down there — if a field was ever planted in cotton, no matter what the crop now being grown, it supports boll weevils, and that’s a serious problem.
“The Texas department of agriculture has taken some very strong regulatory steps to try and get this resolved, and they’re making a lot of progress, but there are still a lot of weevils in that region.”
That makes it unlikely, Boyd says, that weevil eradication in south Texas will be achieved there anytime in the near future.
“So, some kind of action needs to be taken pretty soon in order to prevent boll weevils from being transported, blown in, or otherwise moving into the eradicated portion of the cotton belt.”
The National Cotton Council’s Boll Weevil Action Committee, made up of producers from the various cotton-producing states, “recently suggested and is working on a policy to develop a plan for a buffer zone in the Rio Grande Valley and south Texas area in an attempt to head off weevils that might be coming out of Mexico and out of the valley into the rest of the U.S. cotton belt,” Boyd says.
“At this time, the plan hasn’t been completely worked out, but it is forthcoming. Cotton growing states will be asked to participate in supporting the buffer zone program through a national protection fund. We don’t know details yet, but it’s essential that this be done to protect the large investment cotton growers have made in this program over the years.”
In Mississippi, Boyd says, “We’re running traps for surveillance of all cotton in the state in order to detect any weevil that might be transported in, blown in, or enter through any other means. All other weevil-free states to our east are doing the same thing.
“We’re working closely with the Mississippi Bureau of Plant Industry to shortstop any cotton products and equipment coming from infested areas of south Texas and to make sure it’s weevil-free before it enters the state.
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Your Inside View to the Strategies and
Activities of the Conservative Movement in Washington
Issue 190 * July 6, 1998
The National Center for Public Policy Research
Amy Ridenour, President
501 Capitol Court, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20002
Fax (202) 543-5975
E-Mail: [email protected]
* 1972 ABM Treaty is Legally
Null and Void, Says International Law Experts, Yet Administration
Wants to Extend It
* Administration Tries to Reinstate Immigration Procedure Whereby Green Cards Are Provided for $1000, with No Background Check
* Cuban Group Seeks Joint Resolution from Congress
* New Book Investigates Oklahoma City Bombing
* New NATO Members May Want U.S. to Pay Some of Their Defense Costs
* Ashcroft Introduces Legislation to Stop Implementation of Kyoto Treaty Unless Senate Ratifies It
* Romanian Leader to Address Joint Session of Congress
Activities at the June 25 & 11 and May 28 Stanton foreign & defense policy meetings, chaired by Laszlo Pastor of Coalitions for America & Amy Ridenour of The National Center for Public Policy Research.
1972 ABM Treaty is Legally Null and Void, Says International Law Experts, Yet Administration Wants to Extend It
Baker Spring of The Heritage Foundation reviewed the Clinton Administration's September 1997 Memorandum of Understanding with Russia, which revives and multilateralizes the 1972 ABM Treaty, which the Clinton Administration believes bans the U.S. from defending itself from incoming nuclear weapons.
Spring explained why none of the three provisions signed by the Administration are in the U.S. interest, and why U.S. Senate ratification is needed if the Memorandum of Understanding is to have the force of law.
Spring further explained why, under international law, the 1972 ABM treaty should be considered null and void, and distributed a new 38-page Heritage Foundation report, "The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the End of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty: A Memorandum of Law," prepared for the Heritage Foundation by the law firm of Hunton and Williams.
Concludes the report: "When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, the ABM Treaty became impossible to perform in accordance with its original provisions. Because of the unique terms and conditions of the ABM Treaty, and the underlying assumptions of the parties, none of the states that emerged from the Soviet Union, either alone or with others, could carry out the totality of the Soviet Union's obligations under the ABM Treaty. Consequently, the obligations of the United States under the Treaty were discharged at the time the Soviet Union disappeared. Although a number of the former Soviet republics have indicated that they are prepared to undertake the Soviet Union's role in the ABM Treaty regime, this willingness alone is insufficient to bind the United States. Transforming the ABM Treaty from a bilateral accord, applicable to the entire Soviet territory, into a multilateral convention, applicable only to a portion of the former Soviet territory, and redrafting in the process a number of key substantive Treaty provisions fundamentally alters the bargain originally struck by the United States and the Soviet Union in 1972. The President cannot, of his own authority, accomplish these results. Accordingly, the United States can again be bound to the ABM Treaty only if two-thirds of the Senate agrees to the revisions required by the transformation of the ABM Treaty, and the President then chooses to ratify them."
Contact Baker Spring of The Heritage Foundation at 202/546-4400
or [email protected]
or review these and other Heritage reports about the ABM treaty,
U.S. defense policy and U.S.-Russian relations at http://www.heritage.org.
Administration Tries to Reinstate Immigration Procedure Whereby Green Cards Are Provided for $1000, with No Background Check
Joan Hueter of the American Council for Immigration Reform announced that the Clinton Administration is trying to revive the administrative procedure whereby people can purchase a green card for $1,000 and without a background check, even though Congress voted against this practice last year. Hueter reported that the appropriations bill for Commerce, Justice and State has a provision in it to restore this procedure, which is known bureaucratically as provision 245i. Hueter reported that the immigration department likes this because it gets to keep the money. She also recommended a web site to participants for information on immigration: Roy Beck's "Numbers USA" site at http://www.numbersusa.com. Contact Joan Hueter at 202/328-1245 or [email protected].
Cuban Group Seeks Joint Resolution from Congress
Dr. Emilio-Adolfo Rivero of the Popular Republican Party, Ltd., a Cuban exile organization, is asking the United States Congress to pass a Joint Resolution opposing investment in Cuba's economy for as long as Fidel Castro remains in power. Rivero said, "By providing capital to Castro's Cuba, [investors] support his stay in power." Although a resolution has not yet been introduced, Rivero said he has met with the staff of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and says the idea of a resolution has the support of Cuban-American Members of Congress Ileana Ros-Lethinen (R-FL) and Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL) as well as Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson. Contact Dr. Rivero at 301/927-2167.
New Book Investigates Oklahoma City Bombing
Bonny Stilwell reviewed the new book "The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror" written by David Hoffman and published by Feral House. Stilwell recommended that participants read the book, which contains a forward by Oklahoma State Representative Charles Key, who was the primary force behind a County Grand Jury formed to investigate details of the bombing uninvestigated by the McVeigh and Nichols trials. Contact Bonny Stilwell at 703/360-1173.
Ashcroft Introduces Legislation to Stop Implementation of Kyoto Treaty Unless Senate Ratifies It
Paul Georgia of the Competitive Enterprise Institute spoke on legislation introduced by Senator John Ashcroft (R-MO) to stop the Clinton Administration from implementing the Kyoto Protocol until the international treaty is ratified by the Senate. S. 2019 prohibits federal funds from being used to write or enforce regulations related to the Protocol's restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions until after Senate ratification. Contact Paul Georgia at 202/331-1010 (http://www.cei.org).
Romanian Leader to Address Joint Session of Congress
David Funderburk, U.S. Ambassador to Romania during the Reagan
Administration, updated participants on events in that country.
Funderburk, who visits Romania frequently, reported that he is
very optimistic about Romania's current leader, whom he called
"a Vaclav Havel-like figure" and who will soon visit
the U.S. to address a joint session of Congress. Contact David
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In June 2012, Canada's government made excessive cuts in its environmental departments, resulting in the firing of many top scientists. On July 9, those scientists - and their supporters - had decided they'd had enough; they led a march through central Ottawa to Parliament Hill, in protesting what they said was a vicious attack on science and the environment.
The demonstration was led by a woman pointedly dressed as a Grim Reaper, leading the rest of the workers along with a coffin meant to represent "the death of evidence." That symbolism served as commentary on conservative Prime Minister Harper's apparent disinterest in funding or supporting all things scientific, which many feel is motivated by his administration's bedfellowship with Big Oil.
"Evidence is the way that adults navigate reality. When countries [deny evidence and] engage in fantasy, that's called state propaganda," said professor Arne Moores, addressing a crowd of 800+ people at Parliament Hill.
On top of the firings and department cuts, said scientists, the Harper administration intends to stop funding a number of additional projects, like an Arctic environment atmospheric research laboratory. U.S. scientists have remarked that shutting down that lab will interfere with the world's ability to monitor the ozone layer. Activists are quick to note that this comes at a time when oil companies are setting their sights on the Arctic and its sensitive ecosystem.
Also being shut down is the Experimental Lakes Area in Ontario, which plays a big role in studying the effects of water pollution. That area - a collection of 58 remote lakes and a laboratory - has been running since the 60's, and was the place where the first evidence of acid rain came from.
"It is completely shocking," said Jim Elser, an aquatic ecologist at Arizona State University, who performed experiments at the site during the 90's. "It's sort of like the U.S. government shutting down Los Alamos [it's most important nuclear physics site] or taking the world's best telescope and turning it off."
Doing away with the ELA also means that all workers there will lose their jobs.
"The government is shutting down science and decimating Canada's environment," said earth sciences professor Sherry Schiff. "It's pretty transparent."
Jeff Hutchings, professor of biology at Dalhousie University, added, "An iron curtain is being drawn between science and society. Closed curtains, especially those made of iron, make for very dark rooms."
The ELA also played a key role - albeit inadverdently - in the fight against Big Oil. "People working at ELA [were] constantly finding reasons why you can't just put a pipeline here, or an industry there, because there are going to be environmental costs," said freshwater lake biologist John Smol.
University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver was able to sum up the reason for the Harper administration's anti-science assault: "It's not about saving money [for the government]. It's about improvising ideology. What's happened here is that the government has an ideological agenda to develop the Canadian economy based on the extraction of oil as quickly as possible." They want to "sell it as fast as they can, come hell or high water - and eliminate any barriers that stand in their way."
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Technical Analysis, Charts Drawings:
Fibonacci retracement is quite a popular analytical tool in technical analysis, the key principles of which are based on the Fibonacci Numbers (identified by mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci in the thirteenth century). Technical analysts do not use Fibonacci numbers directly, but rather the ratio between numbers in the series. As a rule, Fibonacci Retracement is drawn through the major top and the major bottom of a stock (index, or any other tradable commodity) chart and by dividing the distance between these two points by the ratios of 23.6%, 38.2%, 50%, 61.8% and 76.4%.
The Fibonacci lines at the ratio levels are used in technical analysis to predict possible support and resistance levels. The technical analysts assume that the price of a stock moves in cycles. In most cases, these cycles (also known as "waves") are caused by psychological factors, such as a desire to fix profit at certain levels, and cut losses at specific points, etc. For unknown reasons, the analysts assume that emotions and psychology of traders (as for many things in the nature) follow a specific pattern where Fibonacci Numbers play a critical role. Thus, when the price moves to the line drawn at the Fibonacci ratio level, a stock is considered to be vulnerable to a change in its trend and the 61.8% ratio is considered as a key ratio (also known as "the golden ratio") in this analysis. The analysis of historical price movements shows that, after a significant price movement, the new support and resistance levels occurs in many cases at or near Fibonacci lines.
Fibonacci Retracement alone could be used to define where to open a trade, to identify a target price and to locate a stop-loss level. At the same time, the retracement lines are used in Elliot Wave analysis, in Tirone Levels, and in the Gartfley Patterns, etc.
The NASDAQ 100 chart below illustrates how a price trend changes its direction at Fibonacci Retracement levels.
Chart 1: NASDAQ 100 chart with Fibonacci Retracement
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Virginia Birding and Wildlife Trail
- Site Contact: Blandy Experimental Farm/State Arboretum (540) 837-1758 x35, email@example.com
- Site Access: Daily, sunrise-sunset; admission free
- Visit Website
Site MFR06: Blandy Experimental Farm and State Arboretum of Virginia
Elevation: 580 ft. The Blandy Experimental Farm is a field station operated by the University of Virginia. Its 700 acres are a good representation of the habitats found in the Shenandoah Valley, making it an excellent spot to watch birds and other wildlife. The Orland E. White Arboretum sits at the center of the property, providing an excellent opportunity for visitors to familiarize themselves with the local flora. The Virginia Native Plant Trail is not to be missed during spring and early summer when the wildflowers are vibrantly in bloom. The numerous wildflowers on the property attract a high diversity of butterflies, while the various ponds and marshes attract a variety of dragon- and damselflies. Birds to search for in the woods and meadows of the farm include red-tailed hawk and American kestrel as they patrol the open fields and Cooper's hawk darting through the woods. Woodpeckers on the farm include red-headed, red-bellied, downy and pileated, as well as northern flicker. The farm's extensive undisturbed meadowlands provide nesting habitat for several of Virginia's waning species, which are declining or have disappeared elsewhere in the state. These species include northern bobwhite, loggerhead shrike, dickcissel, and grasshopper and vesper sparrows. Winter on the farm is the best time to search for sparrows and hawks. Even short-eared owl has been reported on the farm.
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Parliament pays tribute to its saviours
Both houses of parliament Thursday paid tribute to the nine people killed when terrorists attacked parliament this day 11 years ago.
Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members observed a minute's silence in remembrance of the nine killed on Dec 13, 2001 when five armed Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists attacked the parliament. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) used the occasion to again press for the hanging of Afzal Guru, the prime accused in the case.
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar read out a message offering tribute and condolences to the family members of the martyrs of the attack. Nine people were killed and over 15 injured in the attack.
"Every 13 December we remember those who gave their life for all political parties but one question is still unanswered - that the person who has been convicted by the Supreme Court and given death sentence has not being hanged yet," said Sushma Swaraj, leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha.
Countering the attack, the government said that the BJP should understand that the parliament does not pronounce death penalty.
"There is a legal process and parliament does not pronounce death penalty and the BJP should understand that the process has already been explained by my senior Mr. Shinde (Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde)," said Minister of State for Home R.P.N. Singh.
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Fire/Emergency Services Explorer Post 100
The Explorer Program provides young men and women from the City of Wilmington, ages 14 through 20, with an up close, hands on experience of the fire service. Explorers are responsible for the operation of the post and are advised by the officers and firefighters of the Wilmington Fire Department. Training is accomplished through live training evolutions and through classroom lectures. Meetings are held twice a month from September through May at one of the city’s fire stations.
The Fire & Emergency Services Career Explorer program is a Learning for Life co-educational youth program for character and career development.
For more information about the Explorer program and Learning for Life, visit http://exploring.learningforlife.org/.
More About Explorer Post 100
To expose young men and women from the Greater Wilmington area to the fire/emergency services as a vocation or avocation. To develop leadership, organizational and decision-making skills while focusing on team building concepts.
Contact Explorer Post 100
Chief Anthony S. Goode
Wilmington Fire Department
Emergency Operations Center
22 S. Heald Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
Phone: (302) 576-3950
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What Obama has done:
Obama spoke highly of creating a federal shield law while a senator and a presidential candidate. He even was a cosponsor of a media coalition favored bill to do so in the 110th Congress. But as president, he gave journalists and lobbyists working on behalf of establishing a federal shield law a scare by demanding changes to the bill that weakened its protections. Eventually, a compromise was brokered that the bill’s advocates agreed would still result in a worthy privilege. His administration stands fully behind the modified legislation, which now awaits debate and approval before the full Senate.
Past CJR coverage:
A Change That’s Hard to Believe In, October 2, 2009.
Compromise Reached on Senate Shield Law, October 30, 2009.
A Shield for Bloggers?, November 12, 2009.
The Shield after Senate Judiciary, December 14, 2009.
Special Report: Shields and Subpoenas, The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
Background: Routine off-the-record briefings are a creature of Washington, and while it may be naïve to think that they’ll ever fully disappear, there’s little to recommend the practice. What reason is there—other than to avoid accountability for what is being said—that the administration can’t let reporters tell the public which “senior administration official” is describing the administration’s position on, say, detainee policy, or stimulus progress, or how the president arrived at his decision on Afghanistan? (Scott McClellan, Bush’s press secretary from 2003 to 2006 said the practice didn’t make much sense to him, and decided not to conduct them.) Anonymity has a place in Washington reporting: when someone could suffer repercussions for divulging information that their boss would rather not have the public know, for example. But when your anonymous briefing has been arranged by the White House press shop, it’s hard to see how it’s justifiable. Meanwhile, journalists desperate for whatever information they can get are in little position to decline a conduit of information that other colleagues will agree to use.
Obama’s actions: While there was some movement among journalists in Washington in the twilight of the Bush administration to raise protests about routine off-the-record briefings, journalists made a serious stand at the dawn of the Obama administration, which had promised a new era of transparency and openness. After receiving letters and complaints from the White House Correspondents Association and a group of D.C. bureau chiefs, top White House communications officials met with journalists to discuss the issue. Print journalists were irked that the anonymous “senior administration officials” were, after conducting their background briefings, turning around and mouthing the same talking points on television. While many journalists acknowledge that the briefings have been trimmed and the most egregious abuses eliminated, the tool is still being used. When the administration announced its acquisition of Illinois prison facility to house former Guantanamo detainees, the anonymous briefers even declined to identify themselves to the reporters on the call.
Background briefings irk W.H. press, Politico, Michael Calderone, May 8, 2009.
Fighting to Win the Sotomayor Spin War, Howard Kurtz, Washington Post, May 27, 2009.
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What Is Bruxism?
Bruxism is a habit that affects around 8-10% of the population. It is broadly characterised by grinding of the teeth and clenching of the jaw that causes tooth wear and breakage, disorders of the jaw (pain and limited movement) and headache. Bruxism occurs in both children and adults but is most common in 25-44 year olds. However, most people grind and/or clench their teeth occasionally to a certain degree.
Bruxism is classified into awake bruxism and sleep bruxism. Awake bruxism is characterised by involuntary clenching of the teeth and jaw bracing in reaction to certain stimuli. There is generally no tooth grinding with awake bruxism. Sleep bruxism is characterised by automatic teeth grinding with rhythmic and sustained jaw muscle contractions.
Bruxism is further divided into primary, (that occurs without any prior medical condition) and secondary bruxism, where a medical or psychiatric condition is known. The teeth grinding observed during wakefulness and secondary bruxism can be associated with certain medications such as antidepressants or recreational drugs such as cocaine and ecstasy, and disorders such as Parkinson's disease, depression and major anxiety.
Many studies have found that there are other characteristics associated with sleep bruxism because it rarely occurs alone. Sleep bruxism occurs as a response to arousals during sleep (periods of awakening), indicating that it may also be a sign of a sleep disorder. Nearly 80% of bruxism episodes occur in clusters during sleep and are associated with these arousals. The strongest association has been found between sleep bruxism and Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (periods of stopping breathing during sleep), which is a condition that is often accompanied by daytime sleepiness and non-restorative sleep. Individuals with OSA have many arousals during the night due to their breathing difficulties. The termination of the apnoea event is often accompanied by a variety of other events such as snoring, gasping, mumbling and teeth grinding. OSA has been found to have the highest risk factor for tooth grinding during sleep than any other sleep disorder.
Significant associations with sleep bruxism have also been found with other sleep conditions such as sleep talking, hypnagogic (state of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness) hallucinations, violent or injurious behaviours during sleep and REM sleep disorders. Psychological disorders such as stress and anxiety are also known to exacerbate teeth grinding during sleep. In one study, around 70% of sleep bruxists related their nocturnal teeth grinding to stress and anxiety. Bruxism is also more prevalent in individuals who regularly use alcohol, tobacco and caffeine (6 cups or more per day).
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Ancient grains help bakers achieve
healthful label claims and give
products value-added appeal.
Bakers use ancient grains to achieve label claims for fiber, vitamins, minerals and protein. Ancient grains are genetically older than common wheat, which many consumers perceive as more healthful. Spelt, amaranth, quinoa, millet, chia and Kamut brand wheat are a few of the ancient grains appearing more often in baked products. Ancient grains can be added in whole form, in flake form or as a flour.
“The trend has been to add these grains in the whole form for that piece identity,” says Dan Collins, general manager, TJ Harkins, Bolingbrook, Ill. “Consumers want the texture of the grain. But it is much better from a nutrition standpoint if it is in a ground or a flour form, and it makes formulation and achieving a texture quicker and easier for the baker.”
At French Meadow Bakery, breads containing sprouted grains are the best-sellers. “In some of our breads, like the Men's and Woman's breads, we use a blend of sprouts,” says Mike Simon, senior production manager, French Meadow Bakery, Minneapolis. “We take some of these grains-Kamut brand wheat, spelt, barley-and we'll soak them for 24 to 36 hours, then grind them and add them to the formulation as a sprout mixture. At a smaller percentage they can be added to any bread to make a multi-grain bread. Sprouting adds goodness-you seem to get more nutritional value out of the grain.” French Meadow uses spelt and Kamut brand wheat at 100 percent in breads, and as sprouted grains in other formulas. It also uses some sprout mixtures at as little as 5 percent.
Before incorporating ancient grains, bakers should first decide what label claims they want to achieve. “We aim for the lowest carb we can get with the highest protein and fiber,” Simon says. “We have nutritionists that say, for example, I need a bread with 6 g of protein and this is what percentage of grains you need to use. The formulas might taste great and have the nutritional content, but they don't always make a good loaf of bread with a nice crust dome. So, next you make adjustments using a wheat flour or a sprouted grain or something that has more gluten content because most of the ancient grains have little to no gluten content, which is needed for structure.” When the company began formulating its Woman's bread, the mix first resembled a porridge, but after adjusting the protein levels and changing some flours, the company achieved a quality loaf of bread without compromising the nutritional value of the original mix.
Quinoa may be the most recognizable ancient grain among consumers. “Everyone likes the name quinoa on their label,” Collins says. “Quinoa, in its whole form is a very small seed, so from a texture standpoint it doesn't add a lot. We recommend it usually in the flour form. Or where we've had a lot of success lately is in the flaked form. The flake form gives piece identity, a little bit of texture and, there too, the starches are broken down so the nutrients are more digestible. It can be used as a topping for bread, so it has a nice visual affect.”
Amaranth is relatively high in fiber compared to quinoa, very high in calcium, sells for a lower price and is more readily available. “Of all the grains, amaranth has a unique flavor, but probably the most acceptable flavor. Amaranth is the most commercially available and probably one of the least expensive grains. If you're looking at protein, amaranth has 14.45 g of protein whereas quinoa has 13.1 g,” Collins says. “The true selling point of quinoa is it's a complete protein. It has all nine essential amino acids.”
Quinoa can be added at 15 percent or less without a significant loss in functionality. Amaranth flour can be included in a high substitution rate to wheat flour-optimally 20 percent in a whole grain bread, but sometimes as high as 30 percent, depending on the application. In sweetgoods, the level of amaranth can go a bit higher. Because amaranth is gluten-free, it can't go much higher than 20 percent to 25 percent in bread or the product will be too dense.
Chia may be best known from the commercials of the 1980s that featured clay animal-shaped pots that sprouted Chia grass hair. Almost three decades later, chia is appearing in baked products to boost label claims.
“Chia has 20 percent protein and 25 percent dietary fiber, making it one of the easiest ways to make a claim of an ‘excellent’ source of fiber in a baked product,” Collins says. The oil in chia has the highest natural percentage of omega 3s. Bakers can use about 3 percent chia flour to achieve an omega claim. Chia offers a natural grassy flavor and should be used at less than 10 percent to avoid dense bread. It can absorb seven times its weight in water.
“Chia is a very expensive ingredient, although with chia you may add more water, which makes it more economically viable,” Collins notes. “Once the seed or flour is mixed with water, a gel forms that causes a slow uniform release of carbohydrates, which results in a slow conversion of the carbohydrates into blood sugar (glucose) for energy, so a lot of health food companies are looking at chia for energy bars,”Collins notes.
Amaranth flour and quinoa flour have a white or off-white color. The color of chia, on the other hand, is similar to that of brown flax, which results in a darker bread.
Hemp is more than 10,000 years old and comes from the Cannabis sativa plant, but contains no psychoactive properties. It has a nutty flavor and is the most nutritionally complete seed on the planet, according to The Boulder Hemp Co. Inc. Hemp seed offers 31 percent protein with all nine essential amino acids, is high in dietary fiber, minerals, vitamin E and iron and offers a near perfect composition of omega 3 and 6. Hemp seed cannot be cultivated in the United States.
French Meadow produces Hemp breads and bagels. “Hemp is one of our best selling breads, but we still get resistance from some distributors who don't want a hemp product in their distribution, even though the hemp product itself has no THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol )value,” Simon says. French Meadow tries to educate consumers on the benefits of hemp. The bread offers 5 g of fiber, 13 g of protein per serving, and is high in vitamin B6 and minerals.
Ancient grains are expensive and available in limited supply, which results in challenges for wholesale bakers. When contracting commercial wheat, bakers can be more confident in the consistency and availability of the product. With ancient grains, because less is available, bakers have less control over product consistency and quality. With Kamut brand wheat, for example, a baker might buy from five different suppliers, but all the grain is being grown by the same company.
Especially in today's economy, bakers want to find the most inexpensive formula to make certain claims. “I see bakers try to load up on millet, which is a very inexpensive ingredient. In its whole form, amaranth is about 65 cents per lb.,” Collins notes. Millet is half the price of amaranth, and while it offers a similar texture, does not offer the same nutritional properties.
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Saturday, November 3, 2012
I took this vacation photo because of the light. There’s such a contrast between the dark tunnel within the fort and the daylight reflecting through it. Such a lovely illustration of going from dark to light.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. (John 1:4-5 KJV)
In our solar system, only earth gets just the right amount of sunshine to support life as we know it. Of all the other possible planets scientists have deducted from light and energy, none have displayed similarities in orbit and rotation, changing the dynamics provided by light. The ‘right’ amount of light gives poinsettias at Christmas and lilies at Easter. The right amount of light and rain gives us a world-wide variety of food.
No other planet has the combination that is capable of supporting life as we know it. Most of the differences have to do with light. That thought brought me to:
Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: (Isaiah 42:5 KJV)
He goes on to say:
I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; (Isaiah 42:6 KJV)
This chapter written by Isaiah speaks of the Messiah, just as John does in his gospel. They both tell of a light given by God to a world in darkness:
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. (Isaiah 42:16 KJV)
I like the idea of crooked things being made straight. Driving curvy roads to get home makes me want straight ones, but I think Isaiah is writing about making people’s lives straight while leading them in paths that seem so very different – just as Jesus doctrines were very different from the Messiah they were expecting. Yet these were the very scriptures Jesus used to explain what had just happened:
And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. (Luke 24:27 KJV)
The same scriptures that Apollos used to convince Jews:
For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ. (Acts 18:28 KJV)
The very same scriptures I read today, showing the light of the world. Come, read them with me – and read the surrounding pictures, too, coming out of the tunnel into God’s light. | <urn:uuid:89e457bf-390f-475b-bb53-b1d0f02494ef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blicktx.blogspot.jp/2012/11/light.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971493 | 634 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Recommended Programs for Environmental Science Major
By its nature, environmental science takes place in a global context. There is much to be gained through acquiring an understanding of how the particular environments, histories, and traditions of other cultures both shape and are shaped by environmental factors. Study abroad is one very exciting way to discover new approaches to environmental science and build up your skills.
Study abroad provides many opportunities to further your study of the world’s environments and ecosystems by experiencing them for yourself, and from an international perspective. You could work on an urban environmental program in a foreign city! Study conservation biology or tropical ecology on the Caribbean coast, in close proximity to splendid mountains, lush rainforests, and smoking volcanoes of Costa Rica! These are just a few of the exciting possibilities offered by study abroad programs.
You can also fulfill Environmental Science elective requirements, take General education classes, explore general electives in a subject of your choice, or immerse yourself in language study and internships. Whole worlds open up when your education goes international!
Although we generally do not encourage Study Abroad until Junior and Senior year for Environmental Science majors, due to relatively highly structured curriculum of courses. The summer between your freshman and sophomore years does, however, provide an excellent opportunity to participate in a short-term study program.
Sophomore year is a good time to go abroad to complete General Education requirements or study a language.
Junior year is a great time to spend a semester or year abroad. It is recommended that you have your math and science foundation courses complete before you go abroad. As a junior, you will likely choose a program that is focused on Environmental Science major credit, or you will work on completing any remaining General Education requirements.
Senior year is probably the best option for the study abroad experience. Seniors will likely choose a program that is geared towards their track of choice. Also, consider taking courses not offered by the University of Iowa that will enrich your understanding of environmental science, for example, a course that would allow you to explore specific problems of the local eco-systems or provide an opportunity to do research for a thesis.
General Education and Electives
Most study abroad locations will offer coursework that will count towards the General Education requirements of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences requires that all majors acquire either fourth-semester competency or the departmental equivalent in a foreign language. If you need to complete your foreign language requirement, you could consider studying abroad to immerse yourself in a language and complete this requirement in as little as one semester. Taking elective courses abroad is exciting because you have the chance to explore a topic you could never study in the U.S. The Study Abroad office approves GEP courses, so please talk to an advisor.
Environmental Science Major Requirements and Electives
Your Environmental Science foundation courses need to be completed at the University of Iowa.
The Geosciences track requires 36 semester hours. These are broken down at the Geosciences web site.
The environmental Hydrosciences track requires 34 semester hours. These are broken down at the Hydrosciences web site.
Chemical Sciences Track
The Chemical Sciences track requires 37 semester hours. These are broken down at the Chemical Sciences web site.
The Biosciences track requires 36-37 semester hours. These are broken down at the Biosciences web site.
The B.S. in Environmental Sciences is a highly structured course of study, so you will need to plan carefully to go abroad.
You are encouraged to look into opportunities for field research abroad, possibly as research towards an honors or senior thesis. Conducting fieldwork abroad is excellent preparation for your future career or for graduate school.
Internships and independent studies may also be possibilities for your time abroad. Please visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~envsci/ for more information about studying in the University of Iowa Department of Environmental Sciences!
The programs on this page were chosen because they offer a diverse representation of issues in environmental science, unique cultural experiences, or specialized internship options.
While we suggest you look at these highlighted programs first, feel free to browse the programs section of the Study Abroad website, explore an online directory of study abroad programs, and consult materials in the Study Abroad Resource Room.
Study Abroad programs which may contribute to the Environmental Science BS:
Iowa Regents Semester in Australia
Both the University of Newcastle and the University of Tasmania enjoy reputations nationally and internationally for teaching and research excellence. Both offer Iowa students a broad array of courses in the arts and humanities, sciences, social sciences, business, architecture and engineering.
At the University of Newcastle, Environmental Science students can choose from courses on Energy, Environment, Environmental Legislation and Planning, Ecology, Integrated Environmental Impact, Assessment Environmental Biology, Biochemistry, Animal Physiology and Development, Ecology and Management of Australian Flora Australian Fauna, GIS and Remote Sensing, Structural and Field Geology, Optical Mineralogy and Igneous Petrology, Climatology & Soils, Sustainable Society, Outback Diversity River Basin Processes, among others, as well as a variety of field courses.
The Environmental Science program offered at the University of Tasmania has a strong focus on aquatic science, chemical monitoring and environmental management and overarches three of the University's theme areas, namely National and State Development, Natural Environment and Wilderness, and Antarctic and Southern Ocean.
This USAC program in Costa Rica is designed for science majors interested in learning more about health, ecology and conservation biology in that location. Courses especially designed for the student group include intensive Spanish language, other area studies, and courses such as the following, all of which include a field component: Natural History of Mesoamerica, Tropical Conservation, and Ecology and Population Biology. For more information, visit the USAC web site and talk to a study abroad advisor.
Regents Semester in Ireland
This semester or academic year program offers students the opportunity to enroll in a wide range of courses in a variety of disciplines at the University College Cork, one of the oldest universities in Ireland. Students are fully integrated academically and socially with their Irish peers.
Environmental science students can choose from courses in Environmental Studies, Biochemistry, Biology, Earth Science, Geology, Plant Science, and Zoology.
Regents Semester in Wales
The Regents Semester in Wales offers undergraduate students an opportunity to study for a semester at a British university. Students are integrated academically and socially with their British peers at the University of Wales-Swansea. The program begins with a three-week course on British life and politics, after which students enroll in regular courses offered by the university.
Queen's University Belfast
The Queen's University of Belfast (QUB) provides a unique opportunity for students to experience firsthand Northern Ireland's rich historical and cultural traditions and spectacular coasts, mountains and countryside--as well as its tumultuous civil and political climate. Environmental Science students can choose from courses on Environmental Biology, Biological Sciences, Biology and Biochemistry, Geology, and Geosciences. | <urn:uuid:a40b0a55-a979-489b-9760-58c46a29cd7a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://international.uiowa.edu/study-abroad/major-advising/environmental-science/recommendation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924162 | 1,463 | 2.078125 | 2 |
The Song Index is a card file compiled by San Francisco Public Library staff to find songs. It is an alphabetical listing of song titles that indexes the library's songbook collection as well as some uncataloged sheet music. Because it indexes many song collections that are not indexed in the online catalog it can still be a useful search tool.
The Song Index has not been added to since 1992. Because many of the call numbers listed in the index have changed it often necessary to look up the titles of song collections found index in the online catalog. Librarians at the Art, Music and Recreation reference desk are happy to help you with this. When copying information from the index cards, it is important to note the title of the song collection.
Many of the older entries in the card file provide call numbers written in shorthand. These are for songs in the HP or Hit Parade series' individual pieces of sheet music bound in collections by year or decade using the call number 784.8 HP. A call number of 1941 is short for the call number 784.8 HP1941. A call number of 1935:4 is short for 784.8 HP1935, Series 4.
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I’m relatively new to the whole cryptography and computing security scene and it has always intrigued me on how so many people with their Macbooks, Netbooks, iPhones, external hard drives, and other mobile devices are so vulnerable to malicious attacks from outsiders. There has always been an age-old saying in the IT business: PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair).
While most of the problems that IT managers and security professionals deal with stem from the inability of users to practice some common sense when browsing the web, those types of problems are easy to rectify.
However, there is very little IT managers and security professionals can do about physical theft, such as a burglaries and corporate espionage. Thankfully, there is a way for ordinary people like you and me to protect your sensitive data from physical theft.
TrueCrypt to the rescue!
TrueCrypt is a disk-encryption tool that utilizes modern cryptography for encrypting and decrypting hard drives and other storage volumes. It does this by either:
a. Formatting the entire drive (wiping it clean) and then incorporating an encryption scheme (such as the impenetrable AES or Two-Fish) in the read and write process
b. Taking the entire volume you want to encrypt and taking each bit of data and using the encryption algorithm of your choice (such as AES or Two-Fish) to encrypt and decrypt your files.
The Caesar Cipher
For a (very) brief run-down on what encryption/decryption is, let’s take a look at the very-easy-to-understand and basic Caesar Cipher. We’ll use the example of the text provided by the Wikipedia article “ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ”.
The basic premise of the Caesar Cipher is to take each individual letter in the original text – in this case “ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ” – and apply some mathematical rule, like taking the numerical position of the source letter and adding three or four spaces to the left and replacing it with the corresponding letter. Here’s a basic rundown.
If the letter at hand was “A” and the algorithm(process we use to encrypt or decrypt data) to encrypt the data was “Take numerical position of Letter, add 4. Take new letter and replace source”, then the new letter would be “E” instead of “A”.
- Assume A, B, C, …, Z is 1, 2, 3, … 26 respectively.
- The numbers represent the numerical position of the letter.
- The algorithm we use requires us to use the source letter (in this case “A”), which has a position of 1 according to the first bullet point, and add 4 positions to the right.
- Counting upwards, we would get 5, which corresponds with the letter “E”.
- So the letter “A” –> “E”.
Then we do this with the rest of the source data.
Now, this is a very basic cipher and one of the most widely known encryption method. In other words, if any hacker figures out the number of shifts the algorithm uses to convert the source data into encrypted data, it would not take a long time for the hacker to solve and decrypt your data. This would be very bad.
The Advanced Encryption Standard (or AES) was first published in 1998 by Vincent Rijmen and Joan Daemen as part of the US’ DARPA contest to modernize the security methods of the US and their agencies. I don’t want to go into the technical aspects of the algorithm (like the process in which the algorithm uses to encode and decode data) as that would only serve to confuse you. Instead, just know this: AES has yet to be broken and if the FBI/CIA/NSA uses it, then you can remain confident in your usage as well.
Getting started: What you will need
- A Windows/MAC/Linux PC
- A backup of your entire hard drive
Now, back to TrueCrypt.
TrueCrypt has gone a long way from their original release and has gotten pretty successful in letting ordinary users like you or me to practice safe encryption standards and security.
Once you download and install the actual piece of software for your system of choice, you will be prompted with this screen (or its equivalent) at first boot:
There are several options for you to choose here, but since we’re talking about encrypting hard disks (non-bootable), we’re going to select option 2.
After going past the Windows UAC prompt, you’re going to encounter this prompt:
Whether you want to make it hidden or not is entirely up to you, but for the sake of progressing this article forward we’re going to pick option 1 and click “Next”.
After clicking the “Next” button, you will be prompted by this:
Be sure to select the proper device (in this case not your boot drive since there is a separate option for that) and then click “Next”.
After selecting the drive you want to encrypt, TrueCrypt is going to ask you whether or not you want to completely wipe the drive and start from scratch, or encrypt each piece of data that already exists on the drive:
If you’re encrypting a blank external drive, I would recommend picking the first option and not the second. If you already had data stored on the drive and wish to keep it, then pick option 2. You have been warned. Clicking “Next” to continue is going to prompt the type of encryption algorithm you would like to use and the type of Hash algorithm you would like to use in order to randomly generate a key the decryption would use to decrypt your data.
Note: There are different encryption algorithms listed like Two-Fish or DES, but AES is proven to be as secure and faster than those listed in the box. You could always benchmark it on your computer if you desire, but for the sake of progress, we’re going to pick AES for the encryption algorithm and the default Hash algorithm.
The next prompt is going to ask you for a key, and this is where the adage PEBKAC comes in. Allow me to emphasize the following piece of text: PICKING A WEAK PASSWORD WILL ALWAYS RESULT IN WEAKER SECURITY.
Ahem. Now that that is out of the way, enter a password that is complex, yet easy to remember and write that down somewhere you can remember, but no one else will find.
Tip: Passwords with symbols and numbers and upper/lower-case letter are harder to crack, but are harder to remember. Conversely, passwords using words that are small in length and/or combinations of words with relevance are easier to crack, but easier to remember. I recommend picking a password with words that have no relevance with each other and combine it with a numerical code that is easy for you to remember. This way is harder to crack than relevant words, but easier to remember than a string of random gibberish.
The following prompt will ask you to move you mouse around. Please do this thoroughly as it will help generate a harder-to-crack hash key.
The next prompt is up to user preference. It deals with the method of secure file deletion from an encrypted drive. Theoretically, it is possible for a hacker to erase the entire drive and then use a file-recovery program to look for files. Selecting a multiple-pass wipe method would essentially prevent that from happening*.
*Note: This happens because as you delete a file and a (for this example) 2-pass wipe method is used, the data is wiped and written with random bits of data, making it harder for hackers to recover the data.
As I said before, this is entirely up to you, but I’m going to select “None” and move on with my life.
And now the actual encryption begins:
Press the “Encrypt” button and watch as your CPU churns out random bits of data and thwarts the would-be identity-thieves of the world!
On a serious note, if you do have pre-existing files on your disk that you plan to encrypt, be sure to NOT turn off the power and expect the encryption to take a very long time, depending on how much data there is to encrypt (Anecdote: It took me 18 hours to encrypt nearly 900GB of data on an i7 machine).
Now every time you want to mount and add/remove files from the disk, just open up TrueCrypt and click the “Auto-Mount Devices” button at the bottom and enter your super secret password that you should only know. TrueCrypt then handles the rest!
Congratulations! You have a newly-encrypted hard drive!
Now for the legal stuff that you should keep in mind:
- If asked, never give your password to anyone that you don’t want snooping around. This includes federal and local police officers. You are never obligated to disclose that information when asked. If anything, respond with the 5th amendment and ask for a lawyer.
- The rationale for this is there is a certain level of privacy the courts have established that protect people from potential self-incrimination (hence the 5th amendment plea).
- However, there is a little loophole for this rule: If the police or anyone asks anyone you know for a potential password and it works, you are liable for whatever incriminating thing they find on your hard drive.
That’s it for today – if you have any questions or comments, please leave a message in the comment field below and have a safe and secure computing experience!
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The Remote Amundsen Sea
Several Antarctic cruise ships travel to the Amundsen Sea continental shelf, which is one of the most remote areas of coastal Antarctica. Nils Larsen gave the sea its name during an expedition in 1929 after Ronald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer who led the first team to reach the South Pole in 1911. The Amundsen is an arm of the Southern Ocean that lies off the coast of Marie Byrd Land between Cape Dart and Suple Island. The majority of the sea is covered by the Thwaites Ice Tongue, which is a large sheet of glacial ice and snow that extends from the mainland of Antarctica into the southern portion of the Amundsen Sea. | <urn:uuid:0fd0589b-879f-463a-9032-10fd1509feb3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.adventure-life.com/articles/amundsen-sea-overview-825/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941814 | 142 | 3.46875 | 3 |
NORFOLK, Va. - When you look at Alex Ellis you see a confident, successful black man.
It is an image the author, mentor and motivational speaker wants to pass on to younger African-American males.
"The fact that this over-glamorized gangster image is pervasive in our communities and what we're doing is we're gathering the support from men in the community and we're saying 'look at us. Look at positive, educated, well-groomed, articulate men of color and this is an example for you to emulate,'" he explained.
The New Jersey native has taken a hands-on approach with his non- profit organization "Tied to Greatness."
It's a national program that tours the country, exposing disadvantaged boys to positive role models and mentors in their communities.
"I know that in my life I am where I am because somebody helped me," Ellis said. "There is no way I could have gotten to the level of success that I have in an of myself and when you really begin to think about it, you now have a responsibility to the next generation. It's kind of like the whole pay it forward so that's what we're doing."
Ellis partners with schools, churches and anyone who will give him young ears to hear his good manners and good grooming message.
Learning to tie a tie is a basic lesson every young man should learn, but being "tied to greatness" is about more than just tying the perfect knot. It's about making difference in life.
"I tell young men all across the country you don't need a tie hanging on the corner, you don't need a tie in prison, you don't need a tie just hanging with your buddies, but you need a tie when you're ready to take care of business," Ellis said.
Nearly 400 attended Ellis' Tied to Greatness stop in Norfolk, Va. From politicians to sports figures, they agreed the need for mentors in the black community is great.
"I just like mentoring these kids, sharing my story with these kids, trying to find someway to encourage them and inspire them because I was once one of those kids," said mentor Bruce Smith. "I walked the same streets, I walked the same hallways and I'm living proof that they can become something great coming out of the Hampton Roads area."
Congressman Bobby Scott also showed his support.
"This is an excellent opportunity to get young people off on the right track," he said. "These kind of programs get them off in the right direction and rather than wearing baggy pants and a saggy t-shirt, they're wearing coats and ties. That gets them off in the right direction in terms of image, but also it gives them the idea that they can be somebody.
The highlight of the evening --older men teaching the younger men to tie a tie and connecting them to real-life role models.
"It's important to have strong young men," Mark Johnson of United Way of South Hampton Roads explained. "[If] you have strong young men, you have strong families, strong organizations and just all around you have a healthy community."
There, image is bigger than what people see and many young men left feeling changed on the inside. That is what keeps Ellis motivated for the next stop on the tour.
"I tell the men every time we have a tied to greatness event, 'you can go to Macy's and learn how to tie a tie,'" Ellis said, "but look into the eyes of that young man tell him that you love him."
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I'm looking for books, essays and articles on plotting mystery/detective/investigation stories (and novels). The type of story I'm aiming for is in the vein of Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, or Asimov's Robots/Elijah Baley novels.
It seems to me that plotting out mysteries is a very distinct, specialized form of plotting, with its own tools and guidelines. Building intriguing logical puzzles; extrapolating an intriguing solution from an intriguing conundrum or vice versa; laying out clues; discovering the clues and drawing conclusions from them; choosing suspects and methods and motivations; storytelling within very narrow scope, but revising it entirely with every new discovery - I can speak about these intuitively, but they seem unique and important enough that there should be a fair amount of existing discussion and advice. I haven't been able to find much.
So I'm looking for any resources you can point me to discussing the plotting, the design, of the mystery itself. I'm not looking for general writing advice specialized for the mystery genre (although a resource that has both is obviously fine). If there exist any lexicon/taxonomy-type articles, of the sort that try to identify common tropes and concepts, those would be very welcome.
Books on Amazon that looked promising included William Tapply's The Elements of Mystery Fiction and Carolyn Wheat's How To Write Killer Fiction; recommendations for/against these and other books, in regards to the particular subjects I'm looking for, would be appreciated as well.
In May, I posted a bounty with the following guidelines. A week after the bounty deadline expired, I got a great answer from Taryn East, so it's only fair I award her her due - the current bounty's all hers.
- Persuasive recommendation for a resource (print or online) that extensively discusses the construction of a mystery plot.
- Resources in which a mystery author details how they constructed a particular plot - provided the plot is reasonably good.
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photo by: Ken Watson, 2001
|A common sight along the Rideau is a muskrat swimming near shore. Sometimes confused with the beaver, the muskrat is quite a bit smaller and has a round tail. Although, like the beaver, it builds lodges, it is not related, rather it is more analogous to a large amphibious field mouse.
The photo in the lower right is not the Loch Ness monster, but rather a common muskrat position, holding still in the water, tail raised.
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Unity & Uniformity
We often confuse unity with uniformity. In reality it is the spirit of unity which creates uniformity for the sake of its beauty and the protection it gives. Throughout all ages both have existed: unity as the inner nature of every soul and the only purpose of life, and uniformity to help to fulfill that purpose. Unity is the goal and uniformity the means to reach that goal, but often the means has obscured the purpose. All through the ages the different religions which have been given to man for his spiritual development with the sole idea of unity, have gradually become a kind of community or nationality. Many people who belong to a Church accept its dogmas, claim a certain name for their religion, and consider all other children of God as separate; by doing so they lose the very seed of wisdom for whose development that religion was given. This error has existed from the beginning, so that instead of touching the true spirit, people have lost reality by seeking a false objective.
Religious differences have caused endless wars and disasters for the human race. The reason of this is that the spirit of unity has not been recognized, while undue regard has been paid to uniformity. In the present age, when the spirit of religion is at its lowest ebb and only the uniformity remains, divisions of classes and discords of all kinds spring up; one party, one class against another, the spirit of rivalry, jealousy, and destruction everywhere. The effect of this has been to keep man away from the consciousness of God. Very few indeed recognize Him; all humanity is labouring under a great unrest; and yet man thinks he is progressing while all the time he only progresses towards still greater unrest.
There can never be true progress when nations and kingdoms and peoples are divided; for when the races are divided then subdivisions come, and classes and parties also become divided. The same spirit of destruction is at work all the time, and even families become separated. Unity seems to be rooted out from the hearts of men. Examples are not necessary; those who will notice it can see this state of humanity, this condition of life, all over the world.
When we seek a reason for this we find a right principle wrongly worked out. Uniformity is not a fault, indeed it is a great virtue; there is nothing wrong, for instance, in a uniform desire to help, to give service in time of need; but when the God-ideal is removed then it remains as a body without a soul, a corpse, and in the end it decays and causes foulness. However alive and prosperous the world may seem, life belongs only to the living, and when the living being is forgotten it is like a light under a bushel. Man becomes so absorbed in the pursuit of money that he becomes intoxicated and regardless of the harmony and happiness of others, and even of the harmony of his own being; and then he causes destruction. We have only to think of the wars humanity has gone through, and of this latest horror, to see the truth. It all proves that progress is in the wrong direction, and that everywhere unity is lacking. The scriptures given to the Jews, the Muslims, Parsis, Hindus, Buddhists, all have as their central truth the message of unity, but man has been so interested and absorbed in the poetry of these scriptures that he has forgotten their inner voice.
If only we would recognize the inner voice, we would see that the different scriptures all contain words spoken by one and the same voice. Some hear the voice, others only hear the words, just as in nature some see only the branches and others the roots of the tree; but all these different scriptures and ways of worship and of contemplating God are given for one purpose: the realization of unity. In unity reside the happiness and illumination of man, and his guidance in life. We all know unity by name, but most of us think of it as uniformity. The Vedanta for thousands of years in all its prayers and mantrams voiced this central theme: unity, the oneness of all. The Qur'an with all its warnings expresses in one essential sura the Being of God: that not only in the unseen, but in all that is seen there is one underlying current; and the Bible says that we live and move and have our being in God.
Of all the millions of believers in God perhaps only one makes God a reality, and that is because the picture man makes of God is as limited as himself. The knowledge of God is beyond man's reason. Man only perceives things he is capable of perceiving. He cannot raise his imagination above what he is used to, and he cannot reach beyond his imagination to where the being of God is. The secret of God is hidden in the knowledge of unity. Man thinks, 'what can unity give me? Can it bring me happiness? What is there in it?' He can get the answer by observing and studying life more closely. See what an atmosphere the harmony of ten people can create; the power of love and the influence created by ten people is much greater than that created by one. Think then what would be the blessing for humanity if nations, races and communities were united!
No doubt uniformity can teach the lesson of unity, but its purpose must not be for worldly gain; then it is destructive. The wise in all ages have dived deep into life in order to attain unity in themselves, and in order to spread unity. In the life of the world every man has some complaint to make, he lacks something, he is troubled by something; but this is only the external reason, the real truth is that he is not in unity with his own soul, for when there is disharmony in ourselves how can we spread harmony? When mind and body are at war the soul wants something else, and soul and mind are pulled by the body, or the body and mind by the soul; and so there is disharmony. When a man is in harmony with himself, he is in harmony with all; he produces harmony and gives harmony to all, he gives it out all the time.
This is a question that can be answered by understanding our relationship with God. The innermost being of man is the real being of God; man is always linked with God. If he could only realize it, it is by finding harmony in his own soul that he finds communion with God. All meditation and contemplation are taught with this purpose: to harmonize one's innermost being with God, so that He is seeing, hearing, thinking through us, and our being is a ray of His light; in that way we are even closer to God than the fishes are to the ocean in which they have their being. It is mostly interest in worldly things that unites one man with another in order that they can make more profit. How great would be this power if man would unite in true brotherhood! As long as this teaching is hidden under a bushel the methods of uniformity cannot be beneficial; they have no life. The world, in spite of any success it may seem to have today, is suffering from the wrong application of a right principle.
True life cannot be ours until unity is achieved. It is the work of religion to promote the spirit of unity, in the knowledge and love of God to whom all devotion belongs. Man often seeks for psychic, occult, and magnetic powers. This is not the purpose of religion; these developments come of themselves. Where there is life and love, there is magnetism; love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain. All occult powers belong to the divine life, but man should live a natural life and realize the nature of God. The only studies which are worth accomplishing are those which lead to the realization of God, and of unity first with God and then with the self, and so with all. It is not necessary for us to be told that we have progressed; we ourselves will know when our heart goes forward; and by loving, forgiving, and serving, our whole life becomes one single vision of the sublime beauty of God. | <urn:uuid:c99c8c4c-54f6-42f4-8b9e-88761afde77b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sufimovement.org/index.php/branches/universal-worship/unity-a-uniformity | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975091 | 1,660 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Meditation, exercise may help limit cold, flu, study suggests
Meditation and exercise can help keep the flu away, preliminary findings from a study show.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Meditation or exercise may lower the rate, length and severity of the flu or common cold, according to preliminary findings of a study conducted in Wisconsin.
"The bottom line is both the mental health and physical health matter in helping improve (the) flu and cold," said physician Bruce Barrett, author of the randomized controlled trial and associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison medical school's department of family medicine. "If it turns out to be true, it's a bigger deal than flu shots," Barrett said.
The study was published in July in the Annals of Family Medicine.
The study of 149 individuals split into three groups found: Participants meditating on a regular basis reported 257 days of the common cold or flu, people who exercised regularly reported 241 days of illness, and the control group had the highest number of days in which they had cold and flu symptoms, 453. The groups were studied from September 2009 to May 2010. Missed days due to the flu or common cold were the lowest in the meditating group at 16, followed by the exercise group at 32. Those in the control group missed 67 days.
David Shapiro, an expert on integrative medicine and Eastern therapies and an internist at Columbia St. Mary's in Milwaukee, said the study showed that something certainly changed after one group engaged in a fairly intense meditation program.
"Some of the interesting things was that some people were infected the same amount yet they had less severe symptoms in terms of global severity and days of illness," said Shapiro, who was not part of the study. "It's pretty striking for (the) meditation group in terms of the decreased number of days of illness." | <urn:uuid:2ab4a6cb-ce84-4fe6-b988-66b5b70c3959> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://seattletimes.com/html/health/2018877668_healthmeditationstudy12.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977474 | 377 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Posing can be a tricky business. Have you ever been on a portrait shoot and it doesn’t quite feel right, everything looks a bit forced and you can’t get the subject to look natural? Well it falls on you as the photographer to make those decisions and have the confidence to direct and adjust even the small variations that can make so much difference and enable you to get the shot you’ve been looking for.
Here’s a simple guide to some posing basics, that will hopefully allow you to make informed decisions and help out your subjects with their poses!
How To Portray the Subject
It’s essential to do a bit of thinking before you dive straight into the shoot, wielding your camera and hoping for the best. Consider how you might want to portray the person you’re photographing and have a conversation with them about how they might want to come across in the photographs.
Do you want shots that look strong and tall, bright and optimistic, delicate and sweet or scared and uncertain? Understanding what you’re aiming for will strongly influence the following decisions about poses to try out.
Photo by Mancosu
There are far too many potential poses to go through here, but I’ll whizz through a few here to give you a flavour of how they might be useful!
Photographing someone straight on is probably the most direct way to communicate your subject to your audience. It portrays a feeling of confidence and assurance and allows the viewer to really engage with the subject as nothing is hidden from sight.
It’s important to ensure there is plenty of interest with the shot, focus in on the eyes and blur out the background, as otherwise it ends up looking like a corporate head shot!
A really interesting way to shoot a portrait that can actually tell you more about the person than you’d originally think. A good option if the subject is shy or nervous about the shoot which may well help build their confidence. It’s also very useful in it’s own right as a creative tool, as it’s not how the majority of portrait photographers would shoot. Again, it’s important to be creative to avoid it looking like a police mug shot.
Photo by Markelzeyjr
Looking Back Over The Shoulder
This will give a relaxed and easy going feel to the shot. Often used in fashion shoots, it’s something that’s probably slightly more natural for women, but can work for male models if you’re going for that steely look. Be careful to get this right though, as it can quickly start looking like a jovial parody!
It’s also important to make sure the neck isn’t twisted too far around. When we say looking over the shoulder, we actually mean part way over the shoulder.
Photo by Aperture Lag
This is an extremely good option if you’re looking to get a relaxed looking shot, as most people appear far more at ease when sitting down as they know what to do with their limbs! Don’t feel restricted to using conventional chairs and sitting poses, there are many things that can be sat on in many different ways, so be creative!
Photo by RVP-CW
The leaning pose is very good for portraying a casual sense of confidence and ease. Have your subject either lean side on or with their back to the wall. This can then be shot head on, but also looks good in a profile position as it highlights to angle of the lean.
Photo by Hamner Photos
This is a great way of portraying a relaxed and playful atmosphere with the subject either on their front or back. You have the option of shooting from ground level or from above, which can create a dramatic view of the subject!
Photo by Phil Hearing
What To Do With Hands!
This can be a real dilemma for subjects as they’re often thinking about their face and body structure. Not knowing what to do with your hands can portray an unwanted nervousness. Dictating what the hands are doing will add another point of interest and structure to your shots, so it’s important to have them in the right place!
Having crossed arms can add a sense of confidence and security and works well for men in particular. Relaxed arms down by the side can make the hands look slightly lost, but you might just want to keep them out of the way!
Hands in pockets or hands on hips again gives them something to do and would both look fairly relaxed and intentional. Hands touching the face can say an awful lot. Just try it yourself and see what expressions you can form with the involvement of your hands on your face, grumpy, tired, surprised, angry! You could also use hands to hide elements of the face for added secrecy.
For women, open arms portray a welcoming sense, but having hands covering the body can add a feeling of proximity and sensuality to the shot. For kids, give them props, such as a favourite cuddly toy or a story book to keep their hands busy.
Group poses always benefit from staggered or shaped line ups to avoid feeling very flat. Shooting from slightly above the group allows good lines of vision for each group member. Depending on the group, it’s important to show some togetherness through physical proximity. Something as simple as having their arms around each other can work.
Photo by Gleeenn
Rules? More like Guidelines
Some subjects will be totally new to portrait modeling, and will need plenty of direction and confidence boosting. There are a few little tips that you can offer to help them out at the start.
Tell them to not hold their breath, it makes the model look very rigid and distracts them from their pose. Avoid totally straight limbs as it just looks very unnatural and again quite still. Tell the model that they don’t necessarily have to smile. The inclination for many is to smile as soon as the camera appears. Unless that’s a specific part of your shoot, they don’t have to be beaming ear to ear.
Connecting With The Eyes
For you as the photographer, consider whether or not you’re going to prioritise connecting with the eyes of the subject. This will add considerable strength to your image, allowing with viewer to engage with the shot, and will almost certainly be the focal point of your image. That doesn’t necessarily mean the subject has to be looking into camera, so feel free to try out some variations and see what think works best on each shoot.
Natural Is Best
I find that often, natural is best. Something that feels awkward and unnatural will often come across that way in the shots, so it’s important you maintain the conversation with the subject to see how they’re feeling about the poses.
The best portrait photographers somehow manage to portray a person in an image, they tell you so much about them by allowing the model to be themselves and capturing the essence of who they are in a single frame.
I may be a way off that just yet, but it’s certainly possible to allow a subject to act naturally in order to capture some of who they are without trying to recreate it with elaborate poses!
Photo by Studio ES
Now It’s Your Turn!
So hopefully you’ll be able to combine all those elements into your next portrait shoot to find the right pose for the right subject. There’s no right or wrong here, it’s a case of experimenting. You’ll learn on the job and gain confidence so that soon you’ll be able to predict which poses suit which models.
It might be a good idea to do a few practice shoots with friends in different locations, just to get a feel for what is required from you as a photographer with regards to posing. Be confident in directing the subject, even on small things, chin up, look left, hands out the way, all those sorts of things that will all combine to allow you to get the shot you’ve been looking for! | <urn:uuid:a2bccc4a-4190-4f1d-8e16-1d09cc817113> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://photo.tutsplus.com/articles/a-simply-guide-to-posing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956901 | 1,673 | 1.515625 | 2 |
An extraordinary gathering of art historians, curators, and conservationists will gather in Houston on Saturday, October 2 to present and discuss new research into the work of Henri Rousseau. The afternoon symposium to be held at Jones Auditorium on the University of St. Thomas campus, located two blocks east of the Menil Collection
is free of charge and open to the public.
Born in 1844, the French painter is perhaps one of the most misunderstood of modern artists. Although some of Rousseaus pictures are among the most famous and beloved of their era (and of art-history classes), debate has abounded for decades about the artists methods, techniques, media, and intentions. To this day some consider Rousseau a grandfather of Surrealism, others a precursor of Cubism while still others have positioned him as the leader of a school of modern primitives. Long acknowledged as a key figure in the evolution of modern painting, Rousseau, regarded as a naïve artist, suffered from a general disregard of the physical properties of his work, and his aesthetic objectives have never been well understood.
Fittingly, in 2010 the centennial year of the artists death Henri Rousseau: Paint + Process challenges received wisdom regarding the creation of his captivating body of work. Marking the culmination of a year-long inquiry by two scholars in residence at the Menil Katrina Bartlett, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paintings Conservation, and Caitlin Haskell, Vivian L. Smith Foundation Fellow the interdisciplinary, international symposium will delve into questions about how Rousseau, who was first and foremost a painter, constructed his pictures.
Henri Rousseau: Paint + Process promises to be a stimulating Saturday, laying the groundwork for a new approach to the painter, drawing on conservation science as well as new art-historical insights. Among the works considered will be two unusual Rousseau paintings residing in the Menil Collection, Bonne fête, 1892, and La Sainte Famille, 1905, a singular work of modern sacred art whose attribution has remained in question for decades.
The distinguished company gathering in Houston to present groundbreaking research into Rousseaus paintings includes conservators, curators, and historians from the Art Institute of Chicago; the Barnes Foundation; Buffalo State College; Courtauld Institute; Fondation Beyeler; J. Paul Getty Museum; Kimbell Art Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Phillips Collection; Rice University; and the University of Texas at Austin. | <urn:uuid:7ca12d6e-1252-452d-9174-dad0e8c695d0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=40829&int_modo=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937619 | 523 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Here is criminal justice at its finest.
Should architecture be used as a punishment in itself, made as harsh and cruel as possible in a bid to make inmates sorry for what they’ve done, or should it uplift and rehabilitate them, showing them that there’s more to the world than a life of crime? While some architects boycott prison design altogether so as not to participate in what is often seen as a corrupt and immoral system, others produce (often controversial) designs that revolutionize prisoners’ relationships with their environment, each other and the world at large – for better or worse.
Justizzentrum Leoben Minimum Security Prison, Austria
(images via: hohesinn-arhitektur.at)
Possibly the poshest prison on the world, Austria’s Leoben Justice Center lets inmates live the high life in a beautifully designed facility with perks like designer furniture, personal televisions, gardens and an indoor ping-pong court. Resembling a luxury estate more than a penitentiary for criminals, this ‘rehabilitation center’ aims to give prisoners a comfortable, nurturing place to reflect on their crimes, and inspire them to live better lives in the future. One inscription on the exterior reads, “Each of the persons deprived of their liberty must be humanely and with respect for the inherent dignity of the human being treated.”
Shipping Container Prison Cells
(images via: adelaidenow, greenbiz)
Are shipping container prison cells a brilliant example of eco-minded reuse, or a cruel way to house criminals? A local prison in Australia has upcycled shipping containers into cheap prisoner housing, and another prison in New Zealand has begun using them as a solution for overcrowding. The concept has drawn controversy from critics who worry that the conditions of shipping container prison cells are inhumane, or that they’re not secure enough.
(image via: evolo.us)
An interesting concept from Malaysian designers Chow Khoon Toong, Ong Tien Yee and Beh Ssi Cze places a productive prison complex in the air above a ‘host city’. This vertical prison aims to create a prison community where inmates live and work in agricultural fields, factories and recycling plants as a way to give back to the community. While law-abiding citizens below might not appreciate their view of the sky being replaced with a looming, spaceship-like prison, the system would theoretically turn a prison sentence into a learning experience that benefits everyone.
Halden Fengsel Prison, Norway
(images via: architizer)
This prison, located in Norway, is nicer than the homes of many wealthy people, featuring award-winning architecture, art and amenities. Believing that prisons needn’t be cruel and painful in order to be effective, Erik Møller Architects produced a facility where inmates can jog down woodland trails and take cooking classes. While this may seem unreasonably plush for a place of punishment, it’s worth noting that whereas harsh and austere prisons in UK and Britain have a 50% return rate, Norway’s is only 20%.
Benthamite Radial Prisons
(images via: wikimedia commons)
In 1791, philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham designed an institution that enables the managers or staff to view every inmate in the building, enabling a smaller workforce and thus lowering costs. His ‘Panopticon’ concept never came into being during his lifetime, and no true Panopticon prisons have ever been built according to his exact designs; the closest is the now-abandoned Presidio Modelo in Cuba (pictured).
Danish State Prison
(images via: dezeen)
A new state prison will soon be built on the island of Falster in Denmark which is laid out like a small village and emphasize work and leisure activities as well as green spas. Danish architects C.F. Møller have made the prison bright and airy with large windows and skylights. A network of streets connect inmate housing to administration buildings, a library, a worship room, sports facilities and a shop.
(images via: archdaily)
Believing that wayward youth will benefit from a connection to nature, UArchitects have given the Juvenile Pavilion in The Netherlands an earthy, organic feel with an open structure wrapped in slatted wood. Instead of a dark, enclosed prison, the facility is transparent, maintaining a lifeline to the outside world that reminds the residents that their stay is not permanent.
The Creative Prison
(images via: subtopia)
How does the design of prisons inform their effectiveness? That’s the question that architect Will Alsop asked when he teamed up with activist arts group Rideout for the Creative Prison Project in 2006. The collaboration produced concept art for a ‘fantasy prison’ that was driven, in part, by the ideas of inmates who were asked how they would improve the prison environment. The results emphasize rehabilitation and education, allowing the prisoner population to live in college campus-like ‘modules’ and interact with the outside world. Each prisoner block would include a communal kitchen, common room and enclosed garden.
Port Arthur ‘Separate’ Prison
(images via: architecture.com)
On the darker side of prison design are facilities like the notoriously inhumane ‘Separate’ prison in Port Arthur, Australia. The Victorian concept of placing prisoners in extremely solitary environments, which certainly did nothing to contribute to their mental stability, is precisely the sort of cruel punishment that many of these modern ideas are pushing against. The Port Arthur Separate Prison in particular was an experimental facility of silence and strict control.
World’s Smallest Prison
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This particular facility isn’t modern, futuristic or revolutionary, but it’s definitely interesting. The smallest jail in the world fits just two prisoners. Sark Prison is found on the Island of Sark in the English Channel; it’s still used for overnight stays despite its diminutive size and lack of permanent staff. Anyone requiring more than a single night’s lockup is sent to a more standard prison on another part of the island.
LEED-Certified Butner Federal Prison
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The North Carolina facility where notorious scammer Bernie Madoff is living out the remaining years of his life is UK’s one and only LEED-Certified prison, meaning it has met the U.S. Green Building Council’s standards for sustainable design. Bicycle storage, alternative fuel stations, water-smart landscaping, optimized energy performance and reduced greenhouse gas emissions are among its notable features. You might imagine that this kind of eco-friendly design would be more expensive and thus, not a great example for other cash-strapped prisons around the country to follow, but that’s not the case. The measures taken to make the building so efficient and green have actually helped the facility save money.
Bastoy Island Eco Prison
(images via: bastoyfengsel.no)
“Is Bastoy the place for you?” asks the Bastoy Island website beside idyllic photographs of sunsets, snow and sleigh-pulling horses. You’d better hope not, unless you’ve committed some kind of crime, because this place is not a resort, it’s a prison – though you’d never know that looking at it. Bastoy Island is an experimental minimum-security ‘eco prison’ where 115 ‘residents’ eat organic food and enjoy cross-country skiing, tennis and other activities once they have completed their mandatory hard labor on the farm. The prison warden says that this place is such a nice place to live, he worries more about all of the curious outsiders who find their way onto the property than about inmates escaping.
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Our next stop was South Jutland, Denmark.
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On October 13th, the Middle East team of the World March travelled by bus across the occupied territories to meet a number of people who every day work, in a nonviolent way, to change the situation of oppression in which they find themselves. The March team was accompanied by several members of the Holy Land Trust association of Bethlehem, a non-profit organisation that draws up courses in nonviolence, and for training future local political leaders.
“To reach Bethlehem is like entering a makeshift prison,” the marchers commented. “From modern Jerusalem, full of life and well-ordered, one enters a timeless land where sacred places are interwoven with cruel and inhuman acts.”
The group of marchers crossed various checkpoints, some of which had “opening” and “closing” hours, travelled along roads that would have been much shorter were it not for the obstacle of the wall, saw villages divided in two by it and spoke with families whose members had been torn apart.
The tour made stops in three cities: Abu Deis, where a meeting was held with Salah Ayed from the Palestinian Water Society, Qalqilija and Ramallah. At the latter, the team visited the Palestinian Medical Relief Communities, together with Dr. Alan Jarrad.
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[amsat-bb] Re: Full Duplex Radios
Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF
nigel at ngunn.net
Tue Jun 2 05:02:36 PDT 2009
Full Duplex can be both receive and transmit simultaneously in the same band or on the same frequency.
Doesn't have to be in different bands.
> Everyone seems to agree on the meaning of "Full Duplex" as the term is
> used when talking about Ham satellites and radios. It is a radio that
> allows you to listen on one frequency in a particular band, while
> simultaneously transmitting on another frequency in different band.
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Temples in the northern section of Palenque ruins.
Ancient Mayan buildings may have been design to amplify sounds to either enthrall or disorient audiences. Temples at the Mayan city of Palenque in central Mexico, for example, might have formed a kind of acoustic public-address system, projecting sound across great distances, according to a team led by archaeologist Francisca Zalaquett of the Unisersidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
According to National Geographic:
Zalaquett's team recently discovered that Palenque's Northern Group of public squares and temples—built around roughly A.D. 600—is especially good at projecting the human voice as well as sounds like those that would have been made by musical instruments found at the site.
Performers and priests may have stood atop these temples or in specialized projection rooms, which still exist, to broadcast songs and chants throughout the squares. The Maya are known to have to held public rites to commemorate enthronements, births of nobles, and war victories as well as to honor deities, Zalaquett said.
The acoustics may have even been purposely enhanced by the strategic application of stucco coatings, Zalaquett's findings suggest. Measurements at some of the buildings still bearing stucco suggest it may have changed the absorption and reflection of sounds.
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