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Radiologists in Corydon (IA)
- A radiologist utilizes radiologic methodologies to diagnose and treat disease. Physicians practicing in the field of radiology most often specialize in radiology, diagnostic radiology, radiation oncology, or radiological physics.
- Diagnostic Radiology
- A radiologist who utilizes x-ray, radionuclides, ultrasound, and electromagnetic radiation to diagnose and treat disease.
- Radiation Oncology
- A radiologist who deals with the therapeutic applications of radiant energy and its modifiers and the study and management of disease, especially malignant tumors.
- Radiological Physics
- A radiological physicist deals with the diagnostic and therapeutic applications of roentgen rays, gamma rays from sealed sources, ultrasonic radiation, and radio-frequency radiation, as well as the equipment associated with their production and use, including radiation safety.
- A radiologist who diagnoses and treats diseases utilizing imaging procedures as they relate to the brain, spine and spinal cord, head, neck , and organs of special sense in adults and children.
- Nuclear Radiology
- A radiologist who is involved in the analysis and imaging of radionuclides and radiolabeled substances in vitro and in vivo for diagnosis, and the administration of radionuclides and radiolabeled substances for the treatment of disease.
- Pediatric Radiology
- A radiologist who is proficient in all forms of diagnostic imaging as it pertains to the treatment of diseases in the newborn, infant, child, and adolescent. This specialist has knowledge of both imaging and interventional procedures related to the care and management of diseases of children. A pediatric radiologist must be highly knowledgeable of all organ systems as they relate to growth and development, congenital malformations, diseases peculiar to infants and children, and diseases that begin in childhood but cause substantial residual impairment in adulthood.
- Vascular & Interventional Radiology
- A radiologist who diagnoses and treats diseases by various radiologic imaging modalities. These include fluoroscopy, digital radiography, computed tomography, sonography and magnetic resonance imaging.
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One of the witnesses to last month's fatal elevator accident in a Manhattan office building has taken legal action in the case. Pei-Sze Cheng reports.
Buildings Department records show there were numerous elevator violations at a Manhattan office building where an elevator crushed a 41-year-old advertising executive to death.
City inspectors cited 11 violations against 13 elevators at the Madison Avenue tower immediately after the fatal Dec. 14 accident, NBC New York has confirmed.
The cause of that elevator's malfunction has not yet been determined. That elevator has only been cited for a paperwork problem.
It was one of several elevators in the building that lacked a "certificate of compliance.''
Records show that other elevators had more serious problems. One elevator's cable was not lined up with a groove on a pulley that moves the cable.
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Why Join an Organization?
Why are student organizations important? What do students get out of being involved?
Student organizations are a vital part of our law school community. These organizations afford students the opportunity to develop professional relationships, offer support during the challenging days of school and give students the opportunity to become involved in their law school and the community at large.
Is participation in a student organization something to include on a resume? Do hiring partners really care if a student was part of an organization?
Students benefit from having student organization membership as well as leadership positions on their resume. It provides opportunities for good discussion during interviews and help hiring partners get to know the law student. These discussions, in some instances, allow prospective employers the chance to learn what issues that are of interest to the law student.
Does it serve as a job networking opportunity for later? How can students make the experience/membership work for them?
Student organization membership and leadership positions are a source of commonality that can provide a connection between the candidate and the person conducting the interview; these interactions are often the ones that allow the walls of intimidation that are otherwise present during an interview to dissipate and allow the true personality to shine. Through the commitment and active participation in organizations, students show future potential in future commitments including professional organizations and their career.
How can I join an organization?
Each year, at the School of Law's new student orientation, representatives of the student organizations participate in a Street Fair to introduce students to the many opportunities for involvement at the School Additionally, each week in the LawNews there are announcements of meeting times or activities sponsored by various organizations which are open to all to attend. Also see the listing of the executive board for this year's active student organizations here. Feel free to contact them for more information about joining their organization. | <urn:uuid:d49edf08-1cf9-4535-897a-ebb94a36d9f7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://slu.edu/school-of-law-home/student-life/student-organizations/why-join-an-organization | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970054 | 368 | 1.617188 | 2 |
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The Krasnoyarsk Dam
is a 124 metres (407 ft) high concrete
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gravity dam located on the Yenisey River about 30 kilometres (19 mi) upstream from Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk is a city and the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Yenisei River. It is the third largest city in Siberia, with the population of 973,891. Krasnoyarsk is an important junction of the Trans-Siberian Railway and one of Russia's largest producers of...
Divnogorsk is a town in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Yenisei River, southeast of Krasnoyarsk. Population: Town status was granted to it in 1963.Town's main industrial facility is Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric dam on the Yenisei River....
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. It was constructed from 1956 to 1972 and supplies 6,000 MW of power, mostly used to supply the KrAZ (Krasnoyarsky Aluminievyy Zavod, Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Plant). Both power and aluminum plants are controlled by the RUSAL company.
As a result of the damming, the Krasnoyarskoye reservoir was created. This reservoir, also known as Krasnoyarskoye More (Krasnoyarsk Sea), has an area of 2000 square kilometres (772.2 sq mi) and a volume of 73.3 cubic kilometres (18 cu mi). It is 388 km (241 mi) in length and 15 km (9 mi) in width at its widest, has an average depth of 36.6 m (120.1 ft), and a depth of 105 m (344 ft) near the dam.
The Krasnoyarsk dam has greatly affected the local climate. Before the dam was built, the Yenisey in that area was free from ice around 196 days per year. Now it is free from ice the entire year up to 300 to 400 km downstream. The huge amount of water stored in Krasnoyarskoye reservoir makes the local climate more warm and humid.
The dam is equipped with a canal inclined plane
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to allow passage of ships. Different from other installations it is in fact an electric rack railway. At the time of its construction, this feat of modern engineering allowed for ships to be physically re-moved in only 90 minutes. Held to be a landmark symbol of Krasnoyarsk, it is depicted on the 10-ruble bill
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The magazine's 2013 rankings were published this week.
On mobile? You can see interactive map here. Newsweek has ranked Lake Forest High School as the #211 high school in the country and seventh best in Illinois. For its rankings, Newsweek sent out a survey to more than 5,000 high schools in the U.S., with about 2,500 schools responding in 2013. You can see the details about Lake Forest High School's ranking, and every other ranked high school by clicking on the markers in the interactive map above. Lake Forest Community High School District 115 Superintedent Michael Simeck thinks the ranking only starts to scratch the surface explaining the school's excellence. “Lake Forest High School is consistently ranked as one of the top schools in the state and nation," Simeck said. "Of course we are …
U.S. News & World Report releases 4th annual edition.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Lake Forest High School is ranked 15th in the state, and 439th nationally, according to the annual U.S. News & World Report article ranking the best high schools in the nation. The data used was based on the 2009-10 school year. The rankings were drawn from a pool of 22,000 public high schools in 49 states as well as the District of Columbia, and methodology included test scores, state assessments and college-level coursework, such as AP or IB programs. Lake Forest was listed as 82 percent proficient in reading and 84 percent proficient in math based on Advanced Placement and International Baccelaureate exams, according to the magazine. The high school was awarded one of 20 gold medals in the state, and a high school must achieve a gold … | <urn:uuid:a73ecf36-4635-401a-90dd-98ce47cc2d01> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lakeforest.patch.com/topics/High+School+Rankings | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969773 | 349 | 1.609375 | 2 |
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We are convinced that the best opportunities go to those who are most prepared to compete in the professional and educational marketplace.
The Career Center staff empowers students and alumni to develop appropriate skills and an understanding of career resources necessary to identify, pursue, and achieve their career goals. We also work with employers, faculty, and staff to ensure successful collaboration with students in finding meaningful and rewarding internship and employment opportunities!
Take advantage of workshops and other career preparation events, one-on-one consultations for resume writing, interview skills, career planning, and more. Attend internship and job fairs, hosted by the Career Center, where you can meet hundreds of employers from a wide variety of career fields. Our staff can help you find meaningful internships as well as assist you in the job search process.
Bison CareerLink, our on-line recruitment and job search database, provides access to internship, part-time and full-time job opportunities posted by employers who are looking for Gallaudet students and graduates. Bison CareerLink also allows you to view employer profiles, upload your resume, and learn about upcoming career related events and programs. Log into Bison CareerLink to get started
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At least one observer speculated that the crash of Air France 447 may have been caused by a software failure. Most reports have focused instead on pitot tubes (speed sensors), but as an ABC News story put it, "Virtually no hypothesis or theory about what happened is off the table."
Information Week's Paul McDougall was one of the earliest to suggest a software failure of some sort -- based not particularly on the specifics of Air France 447 or the Airbus 330, but a reminder that there had been recent problems with the Air Data Inertial Reference Unit (ADIRU) on previous flights. McDougall and others may or may not be onto something here, but there is reason to be concerned about software-enabled systems reliability and the complex interdependency that evolves between pilots and the fly-by-wire technology that supports them.
Meanwhile Time Inc added to the speculation about possible technology failures. Revisiting that same previous ADIRU failure on a Quantas flight in October 2008, Time's Jeffrey Iverson suggested that the Quantas investigation had not reached a satisfactory conclusion:
. . . Even if there are recommendations to be made, it's unlikely they will come anytime soon. According to an aviation source close to the Australian investigation, Qantas remains perplexed by the phenomenon, finding that since October 2008 that particular A330 has never suffered a repeat ADIRU failure, even when flying the same routes under similar conditions. "So it's something they need to get to the bottom of," says the industry insider, who requested anonymity. "Because it's so unpredictable — it happens one time, and then never happens again — they're still trying to work out what it is." | <urn:uuid:af2d090b-eda8-4eb5-89d4-105c081f633e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.glitchreporter.com/2009/06/air-france-447-software-risk.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962751 | 347 | 1.945313 | 2 |
QUANTIFYING LANDSCAPE FACTORS INFLUENCING SOIL PRODUCTIVITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Title: Comparison of field-scale herbicide and runoff losses: An eight year field investigation
Submitted to: Journal of Environmental Quality
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: June 1, 2010
Publication Date: September 14, 2011
Citation: Gish, T.J., Prueger, J.H., Daughtry, C.S., Kustas, W.P., McKee, L.G., Russ, A.L. 2011. Comparison of field-scale herbicide and runoff losses: An eight year field investigation. Journal of Environmental Quality. 40:1432-1442.
Interpretive Summary: Herbicides play an important role in maintaining worldwide food and fiber production by controlling weeds that compete for water and nutrients. Unfortunately, herbicides can also be toxic to humans and are difficult to monitor since they can exit an agricultural field simultaneously through three loss pathways: surface runoff, leaching to groundwater, or volatilization into the atmosphere. The distribution of herbicides between these three loss pathways is a function of herbicide physical and chemical properties as well as soil and climatic variables. To maintain productive and sustainable agricultural systems there is a need to understand field-scale processes governing herbicide use and off-site movement. An eight year investigation using state of the art instrumentation was used to determine how much atrazine and metolachlor (two widely used herbicides) were lost through runoff and volatilization over an eight year period. Results show that volatilization for these two herbicides were much greater than runoff losses even though both have low vapor pressures and runoff was thought to be the major loss pathway. For 6 of the 8 years annual herbicides runoff losses were much less than 1% of that applied. The largest annual runoff loss never exceeded 4.6% of that applied for metolachlor while atrazine runoff never exceeded 1.9% of that applied. On the other hand, metolachlor volatilization losses after 5 days ranged from 5 to 63% of that applied and 2 to 11% of that applied for atrazine. This research demonstrates that volatilization is perhaps least understood yet most critical loss pathway governing herbicide behavior in nearly level, sandy loam soils and will need to be understood if sustainable practices are to be developed.
An 8-year study was conducted to compare field-scale herbicide volatilization and surface runoff losses, and to better understand field-scale factors influencing year to year variability in these loss pathways. The 21 ha research site used for this study is located at the USDA-ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, in Beltsville Maryland. Site location, soil properties, herbicide formulations, and agricultural management remained unchanged throughout the duration of the study. Metolachlor and atrazine were co-applied as a surface broadcast spray, while runoff and concentration profiles in the atmosphere were monitored. Herbicide runoff monitoring was initiated a month before application with a 46-cm H-flume and continued through harvesting. A flux gradient technique was used to compute volatilization fluxes for the first 5-days after application using herbicide concentration profiles and turbulent fluxes of heat and water vapor as determined from eddy covariance measurements. Additionally, twenty locations were randomly selected each year and subsequently sampled predawn at 4:30 am (EST) each morning to determine surface soil moisture and herbicide concentrations within the top 5 cm of soil. Results demonstrate that herbicide volatilization for these two herbicides were much greater than runoff losses even though both have low vapor pressures and runoff was thought to be the major loss pathway. Annual herbicides runoff losses were typically << 1%. The largest annual runoff loss for metolachlor never exceeded 4.6% while atrazine runoff never exceeded 1.9% of that applied. On the other hand, herbicide volatilization losses after 5 days ranged from 5 to 63% of that applied for metolachlor and 2 to 11% of that applied for atrazine. This research demonstrates that volatilization is perhaps least understood yet most critical loss pathway governing herbicide behavior in nearly level, sandy loam soils. | <urn:uuid:20e1cc77-4509-4ef9-98c9-019f0eea6347> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publications.htm?SEQ_NO_115=249831 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945165 | 899 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Eduroam simplifies wireless access for travelers
The campus has joined eduroam, a service that gives UC Davis faculty, students and staff free, easy and secure access to wireless networks when they travel to other universities all across the world.
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Student computer recommendations updated for 2013-14
The question returns each year as new students prepare to enroll at UC Davis: What kind of computer should they bring? The set of recommended computer configurations for students, recently updated for 2013-14, has guidance.
Improve your knowledge of Web accessibility on May 9
Learn more about Web accessibility--and if you manage Web pages, get them tested--at the free Global Accessibility Awareness Day event at UC Davis this Thursday, May 9.
Registration opens for IT Security Symposium at UC Davis
Registration has opened for the 2013 IT Security Symposium, an event for University of California IT professionals to be held June 18-19 at UC Davis.
Part of rSmart is sold; no changes to SmartSite are expected
rSmart, an open-source software services company, has sold its learning management division to Asahi Net International. The division hosts SmartSite for UC Davis, but no changes to SmartSite are expected.
Privacy-enhancing software available at no or low-cost for personal use
Identity Finder Home Edition, a software program that scans personally owned computers and reports the presence of high-risk personal identity information (PII), is now available for private use at low cost to UC Davis faculty and staff, and no cost to students.
Levin addresses emerging topics of academic tech in UC Davis blog
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Join 600 of your UC Davis colleagues and make your online life safer
As of November 30, more than 600 faculty and staff at UC Davis have completed a short, online University of California course that shows them how to protect Social Security numbers, bank and health account data, and other sensitive information stored in computers.
Campus wireless users will need to accept new certificate Oct. 29
UC Davis faculty, students and staff who access moobilenetx or resnetx from their laptops--and in some cases, from their smartphones or tablets--will be prompted to accept a new security certificate the first time they use their device on either wireless network after 8 a.m. Monday, Oct. 29.
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SmartSite upgrade finishes early
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Policies to promote stability and growth
Economic stability enables other macro-economic objectives to be achieved, such as stable prices and stable and sustainable growth. It also creates the right environment for job creation and a balance of payments. This is largely because stability creates certainty and confidence and this encourages investment in technology and human capital.
Unfortunately, an unintended consequence of globalisation is the increased likelihood of economic shocks, including supply side shocks like oil and commodity price shocks, and demand side shocks like the credit crunch.
Policies to promote stability
Built-in automatic fiscal stabilisers, which include progressive taxes and escalating welfare payments, provide a shock absorber to stabilise an economy following an economic shock. The combined effect of these is to create fiscal drag during periods of unusually strong growth, and fiscal boost during periods of very weak growth or negative growth. Negative or positive demand side shocks can be stabilised more quickly when automatic stabilisers are built-in to the tax-benefit system.
Floating exchange rates
Floating exchange rates are also seen as an automatic stabiliser. In the event of either a negative demand or supply side shock affecting an economy, the exchange rate will fall as currency traders sell the currency, leading to a fall in export prices and an automatic increase in competitiveness. Assuming foreign demand is price elastic, export revenue will rise, and, via an upward multiplier effect, aggregate demand will bounce back.
Flexible labour markets
The third automatic stabiliser is flexible labour markets. In the events of a demand side shock, like the credit crunch, aggregate demand will fall and firms will experience a fall in demand for their products. If the labour market is inflexible, full-time workers may be made redundant, and their spending will fall. Assuming a downward multiplier effect, national income will fall further, and the economy may plunge into a recession. However, with a more flexible labour market, a number of flexible responses can occur, which stabilise the economy. For example, instead of making workers redundant, pay can be reduced so that unemployment is avoided. In addition, full-time workers can go part-time, again avoiding full-blown unemployment. Finally, a more flexible and mobile workforce can move quickly from areas or industries with low demand to areas or industries with higher demand.
In addition to these automatic stabilisers, short-term stability can be maintained by altering monetary conditions, such as raising or lowering interest rates, or by expanding or contracting the money supply. Most national economies and monetary unions review monetary policy on an ongoing monthly basis.
Sustainable economic growth occurs because of increases in aggregate demand and supply. However, long-term sustainable growth ultimately depends on supply-side improvements because balance of payments and inflationary problems are less likely when the productivity of factors improves. Policies to promote growth include:
Technology policy refers to policies where government provides incentives for private firms to invest into new technology. These incentives could be in the form of grants, cheap loans, or tax relief.
Human capital development
Investment in human capital by allocating more resources to education and training is widely regarded at critical to the success of developing and developed economies. Human capital development provides key skills and knowledge to enable increases in productivity and efficiency.
Reducing red-tape and de-regulation
A key driver of growth for both developed and developing countries is FDI, and this can be encouraged by reducing red tape and unnecessary regulation, and opening up markets to overseas investors.
National governments can provide incentives for individuals to start their own business and for small businesses to expand.
Redesigning the tax and benefit system to increase the labour activity rate and encourage work and discourage idleness is clearly an important option for countries wishing to improve their supply-side performance.
Increasing competitiveness and contestability
Another important stimulus to supply-side growth is to increase the degree of competitiveness in the micro-economy by promoting contestability, reducing barriers to entry, and by deregulating markets to encourage new entrants.
Sustainability can also be achieved by encouraging the formation of new markets which exploit new technology or new trading methods. The newly emerging markets for waste and carbon credits, and the development of carbon offsetting schemes, are recent examples of how new markets can emerge, with or without government support.
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The wall of the bladder is lined with cells called transitional cells and squamous cells. More than 90 percent of bladder cancers begin in the transitional cells. This type of bladder cancer is called transitional cell carcinoma. About 8 percent of bladder cancer patients have squamous cell carcinomas.
Cancer only in cells in the lining of the bladder is called superficial bladder cancer. This type of bladder cancer often comes back after treatment, but it does not tend to progress. If the tumor recurs, the disease often recurs as another superficial cancer in the bladder. Cancer that begins as a superficial tumor may grow through the lining and into the muscular wall of the bladder. This is known as invasive cancer. Invasive cancer may extend through the bladder wall. It may grow into a nearby organ such as the uterus or vagina in women or the prostate gland in men. It also may spread to other parts of the body.
When bladder cancer spreads outside the bladder, cancer cells are often found in nearby lymph nodes. If the cancer has reached these nodes, cancer cells may have spread to other lymph nodes or other organs, such as the lungs, liver or bones.
When cancer spreads or metastasizes from its original place to another part of the body, the new tumor has the same kind of abnormal cells and the same name as the primary tumor. For example, if bladder cancer spreads to the lungs, the cancer cells in the lungs are actually bladder cancer cells. The disease is metastatic bladder cancer, not lung cancer. It is treated as bladder cancer, not as lung cancer. Doctors sometimes call the new tumor "distant" disease.
Fortunately, the majority of bladder cancers do not grow rapidly and can be treated without major surgery. Thus, most patients with bladder cancer are not at risk of developing a cancer that will spread and become life threatening. Early detection is vital; it allows the prompt treatment that gives patients the best chance for a favorable outlook.
Common symptoms of bladder cancer include:
These symptoms are not sure signs of bladder cancer. Infections, benign tumors, bladder stones or other problems also can cause these symptoms.
If a patient has symptoms that suggest bladder cancer, the doctor may check general signs of health and may order lab tests. The person may have one or more of the following procedures:
People with bladder cancer have many treatment options, including surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy or biological therapy. Some patients may receive a combination of therapies.
Surgery is a common treatment for bladder cancer. The type of surgery depends largely on the stage and grade of the tumor. Your doctor can explain each type of surgery and discuss which is most suitable for you.
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Published in Bioterrorism Week, October 7th, 2002
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The world had hints of Taliban’s religious fanaticism before March 2001. Kite-flying was banned, as was music, the education of girls and colorful clothes. Six months after the destruction of the statues of Bamiyan, on 9/11, we would learn much more about the Taliban. The terrorists behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States belonged to al-Qaida, which had been given a safe haven in Afghanistan by the Taliban.
In reporting on the purported destruction of historical artifacts by jihadists in northern Mali last weekend, the Associated Press dutifully connected the event to what happened almost 12 years ago in Bamiyan. Last weekend as jihadists were fleeing the Mali city of Timbuktu, they torched buildings believed to contain what the Guardian newspaper described as “manuscripts [that] had survived for centuries in Timbuktu, on the remote south-west fringe of the Sahara desert.”
“The vast majority of the texts were written in Arabic. A few were in African languages, such as Songhai, Tamashek and Bambara. There was even one in Hebrew. They covered a diverse range of topics including astronomy, poetry, music, medicine and women’s rights. The oldest dated from 1204,” the Guardian reported. A promising update that all might not be lost arrived by the middle of last week. News reports indicated that many of the manuscripts were hidden from the Islamists before the libraries were torched.
What a minute. Let’s take a few steps back. What’s going on in Mali, you might be asking? More importantly, you might wonder, why should I care? Allow me to attempt an answer. More precisely, I’ve turned to some trusted sources for insight.
Writing late last month in Foreign Affairs magazine, Susanna Wing declared, “The last few months have shaken Mali to its core. In March 2012, the country’s 20-year relationship with democracy ended abruptly after a group of low-ranking military officers overthrew the government.” Over 2012, various factions seeking to break away from Mali battled for control of the northern part of the landlocked west African nation. Supporting those rebels are Islamist groups that have attempted to institute an extreme version of Sharia law, the code used by the Taliban to terrorize Afghanis.
A Jan. 18 notice from the U.S. State Department warned Americans “against all travel to Mali because of ongoing fighting in northern and central Mali, fluid political conditions, the loss of government control of Mali’s Northern provinces, and continuing threats of attacks and kidnappings of westerners.”
Enter France’s military into Mali, which was once a French colony. Earlier this year, 3,700 French soldiers supported by air power sought to take back northern Mali from the Islamists. The French named the operation Serval, which The Wall Street Journal reports is an “African wildcat known for its startling leaps to capture prey.”
Malians recently liberated by the French described life under the radical rule of the Islamists. Adiarratou Sanogo, a 30-year-old school teacher, told The New York Times she was required to cover her head. “They shook a stick at me and said I must cover up or they would beat me,” she said. “I ran inside to find a scarf.”
The French effort is seen as preventing radical jihadists affiliated with al-Qaida from establishing a base camp in northern Mali. Because of this, Western governments, including the United States, provided assistance to French forces.
Heading into the weekend and with the jihadists on the run, the French were in high spirits. The action was said to have boosted the sagging poll numbers of French President François Hollande. On Thursday, Laurent Fabius, France’s foreign minister, signaled a next phase of the operation, “We decided to put in the means and the necessary number of soldiers to strike hard. But the French contingent will not stay like this. We will leave very quickly.” The hope is that African peacekeepers will maintain order until Mali gets back on its feet.
Perhaps France’s one-month war is part of a trend. Ten years ago last week — on Jan. 28, 2003 — President George W. Bush’s State of the Union address made the case for an invasion of Iraq. By the time Americans discovered many of the reasons offered were based on fictions, half-truths and exaggerations, it was too late to prevent the massive loss of blood and treasure that accompanied the U.S. occupation of Iraq. It seems more likely that Western nations will follow the limited Mali model than the one attempted in Iraq last decade.
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The University of Colorado Boulder and NASA will host public talks exploring space science and life aboard the International Space Station on Sept. 20 and 21. These campus events are being held in conjunction with NASA's traveling multimedia exhibit "Destination: Station," which immerses visitors in the story of the space station and includes hands-on activities, imagery and audio and visual technology. The exhibit runs from Sept. 17 through Oct. 28 at the Wings Over the Rockies museum in Denver.
On Wednesday, Sept. 21, during "An Evening with Jim Voss," the former NASA astronaut will talk and answer questions about his space missions, living on the International Space Station and the legacy of the now-retired Space Shuttle. Voss, who is one of two astronauts affiliated as faculty at CU-Boulder, joined the aerospace engineering sciences department following his NASA career, which included five spaceflights, 202 days in space and four spacewalks. The talk, which begins at 7 p.m. at Fiske Planetarium, will include a live conversation with Public Affairs Officer Kelly Humphries inside the International Space Station Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Humphries is a 25-year veteran "voice" of mission control for NASA Television. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3.50 for children and seniors. The event is free for CU students with a valid student ID. Advance reservations can be made by contacting Fiske Planetarium at 303-492-5002.
The next day during "Utilization on the International Space Station: Past, Present and Future," Tara M. Ruttley, an associate program scientist for the International Space Station, will give research scientists an insight into the process for placing their experiments aboard the station. The event is free and will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 22, at Fiske Planetarium. Seating is on a first-come, first-seated basis.
"CU-Boulder is a national leader among public universities for research collaborations with NASA," said Matt Benjamin, education programs manager at Fiske Planetarium. "We are excited to provide an opportunity for our research community to sit down and hear firsthand about the process and what kind of research does well on the International Space Station."
Several CU-Boulder programs, including the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, BioServe, Colorado Space Grant Consortium and the CU student group Students for the Exploration and Development of Space will participate in an Expo at the Wings over the Rockies Museum from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sept. 23. The event is open to the public and will include exhibits from many of Colorado's space-related organizations and live talks from NASA personnel.
CU-Boulder is the only institution in the world to have designed and built space instruments that have been launched by NASA to every planet in the solar system and is one of the leading institutions for both solar and lunar science. CU-Boulder scientists have garnered significant observing time on the Hubble Space Telescope since its launch in 1990, and designed a $70 million instrument now riding on Hubble to observe the early history of the universe. The campus has 18 astronaut affiliates, is a national leader among public universities in NASA-funded research, and is involved in a number of both national and international space science partnerships.
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Smashing many forms of cancer may need some good luck, but you cannot enable yourself to depend on getting privileged so that you can overcome it. Put simply, you should never ever really count on miracles or some experimental therapy to instantly heal you. Fortune may possibly engage in a part, nevertheless, you ought to concentrate on investing in the time and effort to defeat cancer.
One of many alternative solutions to cancer which you can add as well as your medical doctors requests can be a brain and body therapy treatment. This therapy treatment focuses on behavior, faith and inner thoughts. The treatment options can include hypnosis, biofeedback and counseling. These techniques will not likely heal cancer but can considerably make positive changes to mindset about this and give your mental lifestyle an enhancement.
It is necessary for ladies who happen to be acquiring cancer therapy to not get expecting a baby. Chemo and radiation might cause major delivery effects in fetuses. Should you be currently pregnant and then determine which you have cancer, your health care provider might possibly get alternate treatment options which can be risk-free for you and the fetus.
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“American” Corporations Adding More Jobs Overseas Than at Home
Many corporations refer to themselves as American companies, but that statement does not mean what it used to. Most of our largest corporations are now multinational, with little loyalty to their home country. With unemployment holding steady at unacceptably high levels, adding jobs is more important than ever. Unfortunately the largest corporations seem to be investing in jobs overseas while leaving the American labor force behind. With job-killing free trade agreements in place, there is little incentive to do otherwise.
The Wall Street Journal recently did an analysis of job creation by the 35 largest corporations who file their employment statistics with the federal government. Over the past two years these companies have added 113,000 jobs in the United States, but they added 333,000 jobs overseas in that same time period. Just a few of the companies included are GE, Caterpillar and International Paper, all of which are manufacturers of goods and all of which added substantially more jobs overseas than they did in the United States.
Some would argue that American companies adding jobs anywhere in the world is beneficial, but this argument falls flat. Many times these jobs that are added overseas are direct, lower cost replacements for American jobs. Additionally, the profits that are derived from these jobs are rarely brought back to the United States. Instead, they are kept in offshore tax-haven accounts.
The president has proposed giving tax incentives to companies that bring jobs back to the United States while penalizing those that outsource. Republicans have insisted that the problem is that taxes are too high on American corporations. It is true that we need to create favorable conditions for American corporations to be able to compete, but there are clearly bigger problems than taxes. GE effectively pays no taxes, yet they continue to cut jobs in the United States while creating them overseas.
These large corporations are some of the most fervent lobbyists for new free trade agreements. Multinationals push for these free trade policies, while the American people have expressed their displeasure with these agreements over and over. These agreements are what makes it profitable for corporations to manufacture overseas rather than here in the United States. Corporations may operate overseas for a variety of reasons, but low-cost labor and low or nonexistent environmental and labor standards are certainly part of the allure. By repealing our free trade policies we could make it more attractive for them to move operations back home, where they would have to operate under the standards Americans have worked hard to establish. | <urn:uuid:09f7d34a-2cdc-40ea-8c04-8442a2aafabc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://economyincrisis.org/content/american-corporations-adding-more-jobs-overseas-than-at-home | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968564 | 501 | 2.015625 | 2 |
09 May 2012 12:17 [Source: ICIS news]
LONDON (ICIS)--European naphtha prices have fallen by approximately 15% over the past month, according to ICIS data on Wednesday.
This is attributed to a combination of lower Brent crude oil prices and poor demand for naphtha exerting downward pressure on the crack spread.
At 10:00 GMT, the naphtha range was assessed at $912-920/tonne CIF (cost, insurance and freight) NWE (northwest Europe). July Brent crude oil was trading at $111.61/bbl and the June naphtha crack spread was at minus $8.70/bbl.
Just over a month ago, on 5 April, naphtha was assessed at $1,071-1,077/tonne CIF NWE. May Brent was trading at $122.70/bbl and the April naphtha crack spread was at minus $2.70/bbl.
Brent crude oil prices have softened during recent weeks on economic fears. The effect has been exacerbated during recent days by growing political uncertainty in the eurozone region.
Naphtha refining margins continue to face downward pressure because of poor demand from the gasoline sector and the petrochemical industry. A lack of arbitrage opportunities is also resulting in an oversupply building up in Europe.
“Arbs [out of Europe] are closed,” a trader said on 4 May. “Or at least to Asia, it’s difficult to make it work. And petchems are not buying much [naphtha] because of the propane-naphtha spread.”
On the same date, rival feedstock propane was trading at around $200/tonne below naphtha, ensuring that petrochemical buyers opted for the former wherever possible.
While gasoline refining margins strengthened on 8 May, US demand for gasoline remained lacklustre, limiting requirements for blending components such as naphtha.
There are fears that European naphtha oversupply will build further if arbitrage opportunities fail to materialise as refineries come back on line following the maintenance period. This could exert further downward pressure on prices.
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You'll Sink Our Battleship!
Ex-commanders of the USS Constitution are pushing a plan to let the fabled ship sail to other cities. Fellow officers who oppose the scheme say there’s just one problem: Old Ironsides might not survive the trip.
Retired U.S. Navy Captain Christopher Melhuish stands on the plank deck of the USS Constitution as a tug gently nudges the ship he commanded from 1997 to 1999 into Boston Harbor. Onboard with him are two other former commanders, as well as about 150 Navy chief petty officer candidates clad in blue overalls, hoisting thick lines to set the sails. The wind catches the sails, and the storied frigate–the oldest commissioned warship still afloat–comes to life. The sailors cheer.
A decade ago, the very idea of the Constitution under sail was enough to generate bulwark-to-bulwark news coverage. On this perfect August day, though, only a sparse crowd watches from Castle Island. True, it’s a Friday, and the outing was given little advance publicity.
But the nonchalance that now greets the Constitution‘s occasional forays into the harbor only fuels Melhuish’s view of the ship–that it’s become a "pier-side relic" taken for granted by Bostonians, who at the same time claim it as their exclusive property.
It’s also a view that puts Melhuish at odds with another former Constitution commander, Robert Gillen, who, as it happens, is standing just a few feet away near the mast. As a kid, the Charlestown native used to swim over to the ship and climb up its weathered oak sides. After helming the Constitution from 1978 to 1980, he ran the nationwide "Pennies Campaign" that raised $260,000 from schoolchildren and other donors to pay for the new sails the Constitution unfurled in 1997. He and Melhuish largely ignore each other throughout the journey, except when they’re ceremonially piped on- and off-board. To those familiar with the backstory, this is hardly a surprise: The two men have come to lead the opposing sides of a high-stakes battle over the future of the 210-year-old national treasure.
The debate centers on the Navy’s ongoing planning for the upcoming bicentennial of the War of 1812, in which the Constitution played a famously pivotal role. Melhuish–who’s convinced the Constitution is sound enough to safely withstand journeys much greater than its regular harbor tours–has a grand vision for the event: He wants to station the ship off Baltimore’s Fort McHenry, site of the British bombardment that inspired Francis Scott Key to write what became "The Star-Spangled Banner." Such a display, he says, "would stop the country cold." But in order for it to happen, the Navy would have to change long-standing rules that strictly confine the ship to Massachusetts Bay, and allow it to sail only under very favorable conditions. To loosen those constraints and permit open-ocean travel, says Gillen and his camp, is to put the ship in serious jeopardy, and could even lead to the unthinkable: sinking Old Ironsides. It’s a dire prediction, to be sure. But the way Gillen and company see it, there’s evidence to suggest that, going forward, the Navy should take extreme caution with the most irreplaceable part of its fleet.
The roots of the dispute over what the Constitution should and should not be allowed to do date back a decade, to the $12 million overhaul the ship underwent between 1992 and 1996. One of the big targets of those repairs was the ship’s severe "hog," a 14-inch warp it had developed along the length of its keel that was destabilizing the vessel and pulling its boards out of flush. To correct the problem, the Naval Historical Center (NHC), the Navy department in charge of the ship’s maintenance, came up with a historically faithful fix by installing a series of long "diagonal riders," wooden supports that run along the curve of the hull. Had the repair crew not been able to pull off that solution, "we would have had to take the ship out of water," says Donald Turner, who was NHC production manager at the time.
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Thus rehabbed, the Constitution was considered fit to mark its 200th birthday in 1997 in grand style. On July 20 of that year, the ship left its berth in Charlestown and headed into the Atlantic, bound for Marblehead, escorted by a Navy frigate and destroyer and filmed by hovering choppers. For 40 minutes of the two-day journey, it sailed under its own power, the first time it had done so in 116 years. Otherwise it was towed, often with sails up, bathed in pomp and glory.
For the most part, the trip went smoothly. But on the way back to Boston, something happened. While former commanders disagree on the severity of the incident, it continues to stoke the debate over what the ship is capable of. What is known for certain is this: The Constitution was running late. Darkness was falling, and another photo op awaited in the harbor, so the order was given to speed up the tow. With the ship moving faster than the wind, the sails billowed toward the stern and backed up against the masts. The NHC’s Richard Wallace, who was serving as captain of the main mast and manager of the civilian crew, watched anxiously–sailing ships are built to go forward, and when their sails start pulling in reverse, it puts strain on the whole craft. "Once you loosen up the rigging, anything can happen to that ship," says Wallace, who has since retired from the Navy. Standing nearby was Herman Sudholz, who had served as the Constitution‘s commanding officer from 1980 to 1985. "We both saw what was happening and just shook our heads," Sudholz recalls. "The entire structure was being stressed, and it was all because we had to meet a schedule." The situation was quickly corrected and no serious damage was done, but Wallace, and Sudholz, remain concerned. "Here it’s 10 years later," Sudholz says, "and I’m worried about that same sort of thing happening again."
Melhuish argues that it’s not unusual for a tall ship’s sails to back against its masts. In fact, the Constitution used a backing maneuver in its battle against the HMS Cyane, one of the five British warships it vanquished in the War of 1812. During the tow through the harbor this August, he pointed to the sails as they backed against the masts yet again, with no apparent ill effect.
In addition, Melhuish and his supporters, including Michael Beck, the commander during the Marblehead trip, say trials and tests before and after that 1997 voyage proved the ship’s capability to safely travel greater distances. Indeed, a Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) report on a May 20, 1998, tow trial through Boston Harbor conducted with an eye toward possible future trips stated the ship was "in a good state of repair and is capable of withstanding conditions"–namely, limited wind and waves, with good visibility.
The problem, say Melhuish’s critics, is that out in the open sea, there’s no way to guarantee the sort of mild conditions the Constitution enjoyed during that test. And in fact, their concern is echoed in the same NAVSEA report held up by Melhuish and his camp: The document notes that while the weather on the day of the trial was significantly calmer than predicted, it could have just as easily gone the other way, posing a "substantial risk" to the ship.
This is especially worrisome for Wallace, due to his unique familiarity with a significant weakness in the Constitution‘s structure. In the early 1970s, while doing maintenance work on the ship, Wallace and his crew discovered that about 40 of its futtocks, the curved timbers that serve as the hull’s ribs, had badly decayed. Because the ship was not in dry dock, they could replace the compromised futtocks only down to the waterline, which meant swapping original timbers that were up to 20
feet long with new ones averaging just 4 feet in length. The result, Wallace says, is a hull less able to withstand unpredictable currents. "With any kind of large sea movement, and with those short futtocks in there, you could have a collapse of some of the framing of the ship," Wallace says. That would be very bad news for Old Ironsides. "I’ve seen many wooden ships gone all of a sudden," he says, citing the Pride of Baltimore, a replica 19th-century Baltimore Clipper topsail schooner built just 30 years ago that went under in a freak squall in 1986, killing the captain and three others.
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"The Constitution is a wooden ship. It could sink," he says. "I worked on that ship from the bottom of the keel to the masts and rigging for 25 years. Every hair on my body still stands at attention when I see her move. When I hear some of the things they tried or are trying to do, it makes me nervous."
After the success of the Marblehead outing in 1997, it looked as though more travel was in the cards for the Constitution: Besides scheduled trips to Gloucester and Portsmouth in 1998, the Navy was considering sending the ship to Newport in 1999, and New York City in 2000. Fearing that enthusiasm was overcoming caution, in April 1998 Gillen scrambled to organize a press conference at the Charlestown Navy Yard, during which he and three other former commanding officers said problems with the ship’s "structural integrity" gave them "grave concerns about the safety of Old Ironsides."
The sentiment was shared by several powerful local pols, including Mayor Tom Menino, Congressman Joe Moakley, and Senator Ted Kennedy–whose grandfather John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald was instrumental in bringing the Constitution back to Boston in 1897–who were alarmed by the thought of losing one of the city’s top tourism draws for any length of time whatsoever. A few weeks before the press conference, Melhuish and his then boss, Rear Admiral Bud Langston, had met with Menino to discuss what they had in mind for Old Ironsides. "We had a vision to safely share the ship with our nation by visiting other cities," says Langston. "I explained that because of Marblehead, the number of visitors to the Constitution doubled" from 512,539 in 1995 to more than 1 million after that voyage. "But the mayor said he’d mine the harbor before he’d let out the Constitution again." Langston, who as a Navy aviator had survived more than 300 combat missions, was taken aback by this response. "I guess I didn’t understand Boston politics," he says.
Whether due to the Gillen press conference, political pressure, or both, in June 1998 the Navy abruptly announced that all pending trips of the Constitution—including the Gloucester and Portsmouth visits, just weeks away—were off. "I simply cannot justify the risk of unexpected weather harming this national treasure," said Admiral Jay Johnson, chief of naval operations. (Ted Kennedy was particularly ecstatic, which was somewhat ironic, considering that he himself had supported a failed bid to send the ship down to New York in 1963. "Old Ironsides has been saved once again," he exclaimed.)
Melhuish says his crew was "shell-shocked" by the decision. He believed then—as he does now—that the threat posed by weather is vastly overstated, thanks to advances in forecasting technology. "I had felt we could quite easily take the ship down to New York City, mooring it right under the Statue of Liberty with the president aboard. Some people thought it would be a dangerous Navy PR stunt. But it was about the ship and how to bring it to the people.
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"I’m not saying the ship should sail up and down the coast," he adds. "But I want to unshackle the political debate so we can have a rational, dispassionate discussion" about what Old Ironsides can–and should–be used for. "The Constitution is capable of unique events that can bind the country together, and with proper planning, it can be done."
For now, at least, the Constitution isn’t going anywhere. Last month it began "routine restorations" expected to run through 2009, meaning it won’t be leading the parade when the Tall Ships return to Boston that year. (That’s actually fine by Melhuish, who says, "For the Constitution to be a nautical hood ornament for Tall Ships regattas is demeaning.")
Still, both sides are girding for a fight. Melhuish is pushing Congress to designate the ship the United States’ "ship of state"; while that wouldn’t allay structural concerns, he believes it would at least remind Bostonians of who really owns the vessel. His efforts to loose the Constitution from Massachusetts Bay are backed by Michael Beck, the commander during the Marblehead journey, who says of the Constitution, "No other symbol can achieve what she could on a national basis. When the Constitution sails, all the dangers that surround her represent the exact threats or concerns we might have as a civilization." For his part, the tactically minded Gillen is laying a little lower, though he was moved to draft a rebuttal to a June Naval History magazine piece by Melhuish calling for the Navy to set free the ship.
In between is the Navy, trying to remain cool amid the flaring passions. "Nothing is ruled in or out at this point," says NHC spokesman Jack Green. "The question of the ship going to other ports and what it would be allowed to do or not do will be reviewed, based on a variety of budgetary, technical, and historical factors." Especially budgetary: For the Constitution to travel far south likely means making part of the trip via the Cape Cod Canal, and to clear the cape’s bridges the upper masts and all their rigging would have to be removed and then reassembled–a costly proposition.
Sitting in his Charlestown office, the ship’s current commanding officer, Captain William A. Bullard III, notes that whatever position they take, all his predecessors are equally genuine in their conviction. "It’s impossible not to establish a deep and personal connection with this ship," he says. "The War of 1812 was huge for this nation, and there are a lot of special things this ship can do for its bicentennial."
Bullard’s command will probably end before 2012. But if the Navy decides that Old Ironsides can safely fly its flag far beyond Boston, would he want to be at its helm? "Who wouldn’t?" he says, staring out at the masts and rigging filling his window. "Who wouldn’t?"
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What is the best way to represent 3D in 2D? This was one of the difficulties expressed in feedback from the Stockholm workshop where the 'interpreting technologies in use' diagram was presented: an analytical matrix comprising x,y, and z axes and offering descriptors that span active to passive, isolated to social and formal to informal. It is not a simple process to create a legible and visually attractive representation of a 3D matrix on a flat page. This is probably why in my original working of this diagram the formal to informal polarity was not included as an axes even though it is more than ever a vital part of how we interpret our use of technologies - as a brief aside I feel this dimension to be particularly relevant when we consider how emerging Web 2.0 technologies, that are in their wider internet usage largely informal, change in style and nature of their usage pattern when placed in more formal settings ... such as education ... a good example being the institutional deployment of blogging tools.
With the three axes to deal with during the workshop one of the participants, Per Filipsson from the Nationellt Centrum för Flexibelt Lärande put forward some rough sketches and in a series of emails since the Open Classroom Conference he has kindly sent me the digital versions which are both excellent and engaging representations, thanks Per:
Vision one: 3D matrix for 'interpreting technologies in use'
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Hamaayan / The Torah Spring
Edited by Shlomo Katz
Contributing Editor: Daniel Dadusc
Volume XIII, No. 37
19 Tammuz 5759
July 3, 1999
Orach Chaim 128:34-36
Daf Yomi: Beitza 38
Yerushalmi Chagigah 12
In the middle of the census which is described in this week's
parashah, we read that Korach's sons were not killed along with
him during his rebellion. The midrash comments: "Thus people
say, the world stands on three pillars, and some say, on the
three sons of Korach." What does this mean?
R' Eliezer David Gruenwald z"l (rabbi of Visheve and Satmar;
died 1928) explains: We learn in Pirkei Avot (Ch. 4), "Jealousy,
desire and honor drive a person from the world." These faults
are the root causes of the three cardinal sins: jealousy leads to
murder, desire leads to adultery, and honor leads to idolatry.
(Both the idolator and a person who seeks honor for himself
lessen G-d's honor.)
We also are taught that the world stands on three pillars:
Torah, Divine service and acts of kindness. Torah is the
antidote for desire, for licentiousness cannot creep into a mind
that is active. Acts of kindness are the antidote for jealousy.
Finally, Divine service is the antidote for honor, as one who is
a faithful servant of Hashem does not seek honor for himself.
Korach's sons were named Asir, Elkanah and Aviasaf. "Asir"
means "tied" and alludes to the reins that one places on his
desires. "Elkanah" means "G-d acquired," and one who remembers
that Hashem owns everything will not feel jealousy. Finally,
"Aviasaf" means "My father gathered," and alludes to death, the
thought of which squelches the need for honor. This is how
Korach's three sons are the pillars on which the world stands.
"Pinchas, the son of Elazar, the son of Aharon the Kohen,
turned back My wrath from upon Bnei Yisrael . . ." (25:11)
R' Yosef Yaavetz z"l (Spain and Italy; 1435-1507) writes: This
verse teaches that man is rewarded separately for each detail of
his actions. Specifically, Hashem judges the worth of a man's
deeds by who the man is, by what he has done, and by who
benefitted from what was done, and then He pays accordingly.
Who was Pinchas? He was not a hot-blooded and experienced
warrior, whom one might expect to take a spear and avenge
Hashem's honor. Rather, he was "the son of Elazar, the son of
Aharon the Kohen."
What did Pinchas do? "[He] turned back My wrath."
Who benefitted from Pinchas' deed? "Bnei Yisrael," Hashem's
beloved. (Kol Sifrei R' Yosef Yaavetz Vol. II)
"Behold! I give him My covenant of peace." (25:12)
R' Menachem Mendel Stern z"l (rabbi of Sighet; died 1834)
explains: The promise that Hashem made in this verse is the same
as that of the verse (Zechariah 3:7), "I will let you walk among
those who stand here [i.e., the angels]." Hashem promised: You
will never fall from the level that you have achieved. A similar
promise was made to Avraham in the verse (Bereishit 15:1), "I am
a shield for you."
Pinchas was promised that the yetzer hara would make peace with
him. Why? Because man's role is to withstand the tests that
confront him and thereby to subdue the yetzer hara. The harder
the test, the more the yetzer hara is subdued as a result. The
test that Pinchas faced at the end of last week's parashah was
sufficiently difficult that he subdued the yetzer hara entirely.
"Behold! I give him My covenant of peace . . . because he
took vengeance for his G-d, and he atoned for Bnei Yisrael."
R' Chananiah Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum z"l (rabbi of Sighet; died
1904) asks: Here, Pinchas was rewarded for acting with a
vengeance to defend G-d's honor. Yet, Chazal teach that Pinchas
is the same person as Eliyahu Hanavi, and we read in the haftarah
(Melachim I 19:17) that Hashem dismissed Eliyahu as His prophet
because Eliyahu acted in a similar manner! [Ed. note: This
haftarah is read only when Parashat Pinchas falls before the 17th
of Tammuz] As Eliyahu himself says there (verse 14): "I have
acted with great zeal for Hashem." What changed?
He answers: Like Eliyahu, Pinchas acted with vengeance. Unlike
Eliyahu, Pinchas also "atoned for Bnei Yisrael." Only when these
two traits are combined can vengeance be acceptable.
(Kedushat Yom Tov)
"May Hashem, G-d of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man
over the assembly, who will go out before them and come in
before them . . . and let the assembly of Hashem not be like
sheep that have no shepherd." (27:16-17)
R' Menachem Mendel Hager z"l (the"Visheve Rebbe"; died 1942)
explains: Hashem frequently credits the Jewish people in the
present with mitzvot and good deeds that they will perform in the
future. For example, the Exodus took place because Bnei Yisrael
would later receive the Torah at Har Sinai (see Shmot 3:12).
It was this trait of Hashem that Moshe referred to when he
recited the above prayer: Appoint a leader "who will go out
before them," i.e., who will be capable of "reminding" You of the
good deeds that Your children will do in the future. This is why
Moshe referred to the Jews as a flock in need of a shepherd; a
shepherd watches his sheep because of the benefit that he will
derive in future. Right now, he has no use for the sheep. Note
also that the initials of the phrase "Elokei ha'ruchot le'chol
bassar"/"G-d of the spirits of all flesh" spell "le'haba"/"in the
Why is Hashem able to reward us in advance for our future good
deeds? Because we have a "chezkat kashrut"/"presumption of
respectability" because of the merit of the Patriarchs. Thus,
the initials of the phrase (from the story of the akeidah,
Bereishit 22:11), "ha'ma'achelet le'shchot et b'no"/"the knife to
sacrifice his son," also spell "le'haba"/"in the future." The
same is true of the phrase (Bemidbar 23:21), "Lo hibit avven
be'Yaakov"/"He has seen no iniquity in Yaakov."
Another place where these initials are found is in the words of
Esav's complaint to his father (Bereishit 27:37), "Halo atzalta
li berachah"/"Did you not save a blessing for me?" This verse
suggests that Esav tried (unsuccessfully) to misappropriate the
merit of the Patriarchs.
(She'eirit Menachem I)
Why exactly does the merit of the Patriarchs protect us? How
can Hashem, the Source of Justice, take into consideration the
fact that the defendant who is on trial before Him is the
descendant of His "friend"?
R' Eliyahu Dessler z"l (died 1953) explains: Every person has
the free choice to do good or evil. However, every descendant of
Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov is inherently good at his core
because of the spiritual genetic code which he inherited from
those Patriarchs. When Hashem takes into account the merits of
the Patriarchs it is merely a recognition of this fact. It is as
if a judge would say, "For the crime that you committed, you
should be sentenced to a prison term. However, because you come
from a good home where you can be rehabilitated, I will release
you to your parents' custody."
(Michtav M'Eliyahu Vol I, pp.8-14)
Letters from Our Sages
This week's letter was written by R' Yehonasan Steif z"l
(pre-war rabbi of Budapest; died in New York in 1958) to R'
Yosef Schwartz of Grosswardein, Hungary (now Oradea,
Romania). The letter is dated "Monday, [of the week of Ki]
Tisah, 5703 ," and is printed in She'eilot U'teshuvot
Mahari Steif, No. 90.
I received your letter. In your humility you ask me to tell
you regarding the mesorah [the body of knowledge dealing with the
correct spelling, punctuation and pronunciation of Tanach], who
authored it, who transmitted it and who was the first one to
expound on it homiletically in the style of the Ba'al Haturim [a
14th century work].
I have written on this extensively . . . and here I will repeat
the main points which are well known. Everyone says that the
wise men of Teveryah wrote the mesorah. There were two sages
shortly after the time of R' Saadiah Gaon z"l [9th century] whose
names were R' Aharon (some say R' Moshe) ben Asher z"l and R'
Yaakov ben Naftali z"l. In some cases we rely on the readings of
Ben Asher, and Rambam, too, relied on him, and this is the custom
of Western Jewry. In the East, however, they rely on Ben
Naftali. The mesorah itself is a wondrous wisdom . . .
In the introduction [to his work on Chumash], I mentioned the
words of the Tikkunei Zohar . . . : "The small mesorah and the
great mesorah were delivered into the hands of the faithful
shepherd." This proves that the essence of the mesorah was given
to Moshe at Sinai. (See also Nedarim 36b). However, the sages
of later generations expanded upon this subject based upon the
rules that were handed down to them . . .
In the work Meivin Chidot, the author takes issue with the
masters of aggadah and dialectics who expound homiletically on
the mesorah. He writes about them that they have betrayed her
[the mesorah] and sold her . . .
Who was the first one to expound in this manner, I do not know
at present, but it is clear to me that it is legitimate to do so.
[R' Steif then cites a proof from the Talmud Yerushalmi, Megillah
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George T.W. Patrick, 1878
Scope and Contents
The George T.W. Patrick papers include reprints, a 1946 journal, and a transcript of George Thomas White Patrick, an autobiography. Teacher and Philosopher, by Herbert Martin.
George Thomas White Patrick was born August 19, 1857, in North Boscawen, New Hampshire. He grew up in Lyons (Clinton), Iowa, where he attended high school. He received his A.B. degree in 1878 from the State University of Iowa. After graduation he served as temporary high school principal in Marengo, Iowa, for three months. Following that position he was asked to teach for six months in Cedar Falls, Iowa, public schools. When that position ended he moved to Leadville and Crested Butte, Colorado, from 1879 until fall 1882.
Patrick took his B.D. degree from Yale Divinity School in 1885. While studying at Yale his focus changed to philosophy. He attended Johns Hopkins University and took his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1888. In 1894 he studied at Leipzig University and Berlin University in Germany.
Dr. Patrick began his career at the State University of Iowa in September 1887 as head of the Department of Mental and Moral Science, and Didactics. Didactics was later named the Department of Pedagogy, followed by the Department of Education. Although he was in Didactics until 1891, he found the opportunity to teach just one course in the history of education, with the majority of his time devoted to philosophy and psychology.
At SUI, Dr. Patrick established one of the first psychological laboratories in 1890, modeled after the Johns Hopkins laboratory established in 1883. J. Allen Gilbert was hired in 1895 to supervise the laboratory. He and Patrick conducted sleep deprivation experiments and published their findings in the Psychological Review and in the University of Iowa Studies in Psychology.
Patrick married Maud Lyall November 28, 1889, and had two sons, Walden and David. He retired in 1931 and moved to California. George T.W. Patrick died May 21, 1949.
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Folder, "Gilbert, J. Allen," Faculty and Staff Vertical Files collection (RG 01.15.03)
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Papers of Carl E. Seashore (RG99.0164)
Patrick, George T.W., "Founding the Psychological Laboratory at the State University of Iowa: an Historical Sketch." Iowa Journal of History and Politics 30 (July 1932): 404-416
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Toronto, Canada - The weather report from Mars is great, thanks to the Optech lidar technology at the heart of NASA's Phoenix Mars mission. The Phoenix Mars lander made a dramatic landing on the Red Planet on Sunday, May 25th after a journey of 10 months and hundreds of millions of miles through deep space. The first lidar results from Mars arrived late in the evening of May 28th, amid cheers and applause from NASA officials and science team members gathered at JPL and the Science Mission Operations centre at the University of Arizona.
The Phoenix lidar was designed and built by Optech in partnership with MDA Space Missions, with funding from the Canadian Space Agency. The analytical lidar, which probes the atmosphere above the lander, is the first of its kind to be sent to another world. The Phoenix mission is also the first of its kind, selected by NASA from an initial set of over 20 mission proposals, designed to land in the north polar region of Mars to study the atmosphere and look for habitability supporting life.
"The data look great and all aspects of the system are working well," reported Dr. Allan Carswell from the mission operations centre. "I send my congratulations along with those of the Principal Investigator (PI), Peter Smith to the whole team at Optech who worked so hard to achieve this outstanding success." Optech founder and Chairman Allan Carswell is recognized as the true father of the Phoenix lidar instrument. After decades of pioneering work developing the analytic lidar theory, and following terrestrial test campaigns chasing dust devils in the desert, Dr.Carswell was the initial PI of the Canadian contribution to the NASA Phoenix mission, leading the Canadian Science Team and creating the initial design for the lidar system. Allan remains a key participant of the Canadian Science Team, now led by former student Jim Whiteway from York University.
Optech lidar technology aboard the NASA Phoenix mission is teaching scientists about the Martian climate and,in doing so, helping us to understand the factors that affect climate change back here on Earth. "We look forward now to having the Phoenix lidar open a new chapter in the understanding of the Martian atmosphere,” said Dr. Carswell. "In the days ahead lidar measurements will be made during bot h day and night to provide a highly detailed picture of the atmosphere throughout the mission."
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Posted on | April 17, 2008 | By David Linn | Add Your Comments
Over the last few years, we have had some interesting Pesach posts here on Beyond BT. In case you might have missed some, here are some highlights:
Rabbi Rosenblum reminds us that everyone needs to pitch in when it comes to Pesach cleaning in Who’s Cleaning for Pesach?
I wrote about how I came to make my own seders fairly early in life inThe Making of a Pesach Seder
Here is the link for the Beyond BT Guide to the Seder compiled by Mark Frankel.
The Haggadah relates that:
In every generation a person is obligated to regard himself as if he had come out of Mitzrayim, as it is says: “You shall tell your child on that day, it is because of this that Hashem did for me when I left Mitzrayim.” Mark Frankel asks Is it Possible to Really See Ourselves as Leaving Mitzrayim? and in this mp3 Rabbi Moshe Gordon explores some of the classical approaches to understanding and fulfilling this Mitzvah.
The Fifteen Steps of the Pesach Seder serve as the framework for our fulfillment of the mitzvah to tell the story of our exodus from Egypt. They have been compared to the 15 Steps leading up to the Beis Hamikdash in that both sets of stairs are used to bring us to a greater level of unity with Hashem. The haggadah has been called the most commented upon work of liturgy. Commentary on the haggadah serves many purposes: it broadens our understanding of the mitzvos of the night; it brings greater appreciation for the miracles Hashem performed for us; and it makes the Seder night and all of Pesach more relevant to us. Join us as we climb the fifteen steps together by presenting a short vort/dvar torah by different bloggers/commenters. Let’s Climb.
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Gardening and TicksApril 14, 2012
It may only be mid April on the calendar, but I found my first tick yesterday. I know ticks are part of gardening, but I sure could go a season without getting bit and having to remove those little suckers.
It doesn’t help that I live in New Hampshire where there are no less than 15 different types of ticks being carried around by the most popular host which is a white-footed mouse. Now you have two of my least favorite parts of gardening – ticks and rodents.
There are obvious things I normally do to avoid tick bites including staying out of overgrown brush areas in the summer, wearing light-colored clothing, long sleeves, long pants, and hat, using insect repellent containing Deet, and checking myself.
This week as we continued our spring cleanup, we took down a couple of trees, cut down wild brambles and picked up fallen branches on the edge of the yard where it meets the wetlands. We raked leaves off the beds, and shoveled four yards of wood chips.
I consistently wore long sleeves, long pants, and hat, but it didn’t occur to me to spray because I thought it was too early.
Once bit by this nasty creature, I had to think about the potential of Lyme disease which can have deadly repercussions. I went to our state website and reviewed the fact sheet about Lyme disease. I will continue to monitor the bite site which is thankfully not showing any inflammation.
Usually living near the coast of NH is a benefit, however, when it comes to ticks 85% of them live closer to the coast than inland.
I’ll get the Off! Insect Repellent out this week, keep it handy with my gardening tools, and start spraying regardless of the date on the calendar. The ticks are alive and well and looking for a nice, warm place to hunker down which isn’t going to be me if I can prevent it.
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TORONTO, ON—Government intervention in Canada’s prescription drug market through regulation, price controls, and public drug insurance programs fails to make prescription drugs more affordable for consumers, finds a new report released today by the Fraser Institute, Canada’s leading public policy think-tank.
“Canadian health policies are based on the assumption that many people won’t be able to afford prescription drugs unless government regulates the market and controls prices. But personal drug costs in the U.S. are just as affordable, on average, as in Canada, and the U.S. has a freer and more competitive market than Canada,” said Mark Rovere, Fraser Institute associate director of health policy studies and co-author of Average Personal Affordability of Prescription Drug Spending in Canada and the United States 2011
“The evidence shows that affordability is not a valid justification for broad-based government intervention in prescription drug markets, and that means the public cost of supporting this government intervention is basically wasted money.”
To measure affordability, the report examines per-capita spending on prescription drugs by both Canadians and Americans as a percentage of per-capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and as a percentage of per-capita after-tax income in 2010, the most recent year for which data is publicly available.
The results indicate that both Canadians and Americans are spending nearly the same percentage of their per-capita GDP on prescription drugs—in Canada, 1.6 per cent of per-capita GDP, compared to 1.8 per cent in the United States. As a percentage of after-tax income, per-capita spending on prescription drugs was also nearly the same, totaling 2.5 per cent of per-capita personal disposable income in Canada, compared to 2.3 per cent in the United States.
The report also found the number of prescriptions dispensed per capita was nearly the same in both countries in 2010: 14.9 prescriptions per person in Canada versus 12.9 per person in the U.S.
The report concludes that personal affordability of prescription drug spending is virtually identical between the two countries for two main reasons: per-capita American incomes are higher than in Canada, especially after taxes, helping to make personal drug spending a smaller percentage of income in the United States, and Canadian consumers pay more than twice what Americans pay for identical generic drugs.
“High prices for generic prescription drugs offset any potential cost-savings consumers enjoy from lower brand-name drug prices in Canada,” Rovere said.
“Americans also tend to substitute lower-priced drugs for higher-priced versions more often than Canadians.”
A 2010 study co-authored by Rovere confirmed that average retail prices for generic drugs in Canada were 73 per cent of the price of their brand-name equivalents, compared with just 17 per cent of the price of their brand-name equivalents in the United States.
Rovere also notes that Americans enjoy faster access to the latest advancements in drug treatments.
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Whether boats sink or float, Lake Ellyn Cardboard Regatta will be a spectacle
When you're competing in a boat race, the obvious goal is making it back to shore safely and, ideally, in first place.
But for some sailors in the Lake Ellyn Cardboard Regatta, sinking is not only a goal, it's celebrated.
If you go
What: Lake Ellyn Cardboard Regatta
When: Noon Saturday, June 30
Where: Lake Ellyn Park, 645 Lenox Road, Glen Ellyn
Cost: Free to spectators
Info: (630) 858-2462 or gepark.org
Last year, a group of judges — Glen Ellyn Park District staff members and volunteers — awarded the SS Saturation for the best display of sinking. The award for sinking usually honors how "gracefully" sailors succumb to Lake Ellyn's waters, says Jeannie Robinson, a park district recreation supervisor.
The annual event returns at noon Saturday, June 30, at Lake Ellyn Park, 645 Lenox Road, Glen Ellyn. More than 30 entries are expected to compete on — and possibly in and under — a 200-yard course.
In a previous race, she recalled one crew built a vessel boasting a replica of the Empire State Building. Naturally, one sailor donned a gorilla costume and attempted to scale it like King Kong. The tower completely collapsed in the water, Robinson said.
"It's not always function but aesthetics that people are going for," she said.
The regatta rules are straight-forward: crews must build boats out of corrugated cardboard and use paddles or oars to propel their vessel. The fastest boat in each heat wins the first-place award.
In the spirit of fair competition, sailors are divided into three categories and subcategories of youths and adults. The "legends" are sailors with five or more years of building experience; the "yachtsmen" have less than five years of experience; and the "schooners" are first-timers.
The park district also has offered a boat-building seminar with insider tips from previous winners.
"They obviously don't give away all their secrets," Robinson said.
Despite the limited materials, past entries' designs have included anything and everything right up to a roughly 12-foot-tall Energizer bunny, Robinson said.
That ingenuity appeals to Ed Klemm, the play-by-play announcer for the race. You can spot Klemm, nicknamed "Skipper," wearing a nautical-themed hat.
For about 90 minutes before the race, Klemm methodically prepares by interviewing crews and learning the back stories of each boat — some engineered months in advance or others just in the days leading up to the regatta.
"I kind of do like a roving reporter and really get to talk to people," said Klemm, whose day job is as a speech teacher at Wheaton North High School.
Saturday's event will mark Klemm's third year as announcer.
"I think there's some excitement or wonderment in 'Is this thing going to float?'" Klemm said. "'Is it going to make it around the course?'"
Whether boats sink, finish or win, the regatta's an entertaining, family-friendly event for crowds perched along Lake Ellyn's shore, Klemm said.
"Bottom line, it's fun," he said.
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During their first two years, all students at Wheaton take courses that provide a foundation for further exploration and for the major. The schedule of courses identifies courses that fulfill these requirements by using a letter code in the last column of the course listing.
First-Year Seminar. Each section of this course focuses on a different topic, but each is designed to illustrate how differently people may interpret or understand these topics in the arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences. Required of students in their first semester, the course is designed to foster active learning and class participation and stresses many of the skills needed for success at Wheaton.
Writing. Unless exempted on the basis of Advanced Placement test scores or Wheaton’s English placement procedure, all students complete a section of English 101 in the first year. The course is taught in small groups on a variety of topics; the instructional emphasis is on developing writing skills. Across all levels of the major, students will encounter increasing emphasis on writing within the discipline.
Foreign Language. Each student completes at least two semesters of study in a single language at a level appropriate to the student’s proficiency. Advanced language courses may also fulfill the arts and humanities requirement. Wheaton offers language instruction in Chinese, French, German, Ancient Greek, Italian, Latin, Russian, Japanese, Arabic and Spanish. Students are encouraged to include language courses early in their course of study, as this may open other opportunities, such as study abroad or work in major fields (international relations, art history or philosophy). Students for whom English is a second language may be able to fulfill this requirement with a combination of English 060 and English 101. Consult with the English Department or Academic Advising.
Quantitative Analysis. Students must complete one course that emphasizes quantitative analysis. Courses with the QA designation include courses in math, computer science and logic, and some statistical methods courses. Math courses are designed both for students planning to continue in math or use math in other areas and for students who do not expect to study math in depth. Some math courses also are linked with other courses (in art or English literature, for example) and can count toward the Connections requirement.
Beyond the West. Recognizing that most students will have had substantial exposure to the perspectives of Western societies (Europe and English-speaking North America), students must complete at least one course that focuses on an aspect of non-Western societies. These courses are offered in several different departments, and may serve other parts of the curriculum, such as Connections or the major. Because the Wheaton curriculum emphasizes issues of race, gender and global perspectives throughout the curriculum, a Foundations course in history, culture or issues that have been traditionally excluded from Western inquiry will enhance a student’s entire academic career.
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I am reading Susan Freinkel’s book, Plastic, A Toxic Love Story.
The book is comprehensive, and a fascinating read about the history of plastic and products familiar to all of us. It also got me feeling depressed, and then alarmed about the future and the environment my grandchildren will inhabit.
Ms. Freinkel chooses eight objects to help tell the story of plastic: The comb, the chair, the Frisbee, the IV bag, the disposable lighter, the grocery bag, the soda bottle and the credit card.
She examines how these objects are made, the history, the culture of plastics, and how synthetics affect our health and environment.
There is a comment from a speaker at a plastics manufacturer’s conference in 1956, quoted as saying “Your future is in the garbage wagon”. How true…and it turns out that today, the average American throws away 300 pounds of packaging a year — and this mountain of containers and wrappings accounts for about 1/3 of the municipal waste stream.
Initially, we had to be taught to throw away plastic items — especially after the depression era culture of “use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without”.
But it did not take long for us to absorb the lessons — especially because everyone was becoming more prosperous — at the same time when many disposable products were entering the market. Life magazine dubbed this (then) new era “Throwaway Living” .
The thing is…in these modern times, the abundance of plastic waste is not exclusive to a wealthy country like the United States. Plastic waste is also an issue for the poor.
So…you would think that when you don’t have the money to spend on disposable utensils and other disposable conveniences, the issue of plastic trash is minimized.
Unfortunately, that is not the case in a country like the Philippines. Because the poor can afford to buy only the bare necessities…these items are packed in very small, plastic packages. Snack foods too, are packed in tiny packages, and remnants of these tiny packages are often seen at the beach, by the side of the road…well, all over really.
Can you imagine buying only a clove of garlic, as pictured below, from a local market…
or just enough spice, or salt for cooking the day’s family meal?
or to buy detergent and laundry products to wash just a few items of clothing?
I am part of this plastics generation — and problem — and feel propelled into doing something, before it is too late.
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I went away full, but the LORD has brought me home empty. Why should you call me Naomi when the LORD has caused me to suffer and the Almighty has sent such tragedy?"
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Ruth chapter 1
1:1 | In the days when the judges ruled in Israel, a man from Bethlehem in Judah left the country because of a severe famine. He took his wife and two sons and went to live in the country of Moab.
1:3 | Elimelech died and Naomi was left with her two sons.
1:4 | The two sons married Moabite women. One married a woman named Orpah, and the other a woman named Ruth. But about ten years later,
1:5 | both Mahlon and Kilion died. This left Naomi alone, without her husband or sons.
1:6 | Then Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had blessed his people in Judah by giving them good crops again. So Naomi and her daughters-in-law got ready to leave Moab to return to her homeland.
1:7 | With her two daughters-in-law she set out from the place where she had been living, and they took the road that would lead them back to Judah.
1:9 | May the LORD bless you with the security of another marriage." Then she kissed them good-bye, and they all broke down and wept.
1:10 | "No," they said. "We want to go with you to your people."
1:11 | But Naomi replied, "Why should you go on with me? Can I still give birth to other sons who could grow up to be your husbands?
1:13 | Would you wait for them to grow up and refuse to marry someone else? No, of course not, my daughters! Things are far more bitter for me than for you, because the LORD himself has caused me to suffer."
1:14 | And again they wept together, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye. But Ruth insisted on staying with Naomi.
1:15 | "See," Naomi said to her, "your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods. You should do the same."
1:17 | I will die where you die and will be buried there. May the LORD punish me severely if I allow anything but death to separate us!"
1:18 | So when Naomi saw that Ruth had made up her mind to go with her, she stopped urging her.
1:19 | So the two of them continued on their journey. When they came to Bethlehem, the entire town was stirred by their arrival. "Is it really Naomi?" the women asked.
1:21 | I went away full, but the LORD has brought me home empty. Why should you call me Naomi when the LORD has caused me to suffer and the Almighty has sent such tragedy?"
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Gilbert Ross is medical director at the American Council on Science and Health.
"The EU’s new tobacco policy statement, ostensibly designed to promote public health, will have the opposite effect: Far from reducing the toll of “tobacco,” millions will be condemned to ongoing addiction to smoking, half of whom will die as a direct result.
The World Health Organization predicts that if current trends continue, the likely toll of “tobacco” will amount to one billion lives cut short worldwide.
By tobacco, however, anyone with knowledge of the spectrum of tobacco-related disease knows it’s the inhalation of cigarette smoke hundreds of thousands of times over decades that would be responsible if that catastrophic prediction comes to pass - the relative harm of non-combustible tobacco and nicotine-delivery products is in the order of one percent that of smoking.
Yet the new policy guidelines barely tinker with lethal, addictive cigarettes while effectively banning products that have been shown to help smokers quit.
The European Commission has released the draft of its latest Tobacco Products Directive, expressing the overall approach to regulation of tobacco and nicotine products planned for the 500 million residents of the 27 countries of the EU.
While some parts of it may have a beneficial impact on smoking rates, albeit minor, the net effect will be, paradoxically but inevitably, damaging to Europeans’ health. The directive proposes to continue (indeed strengthen) the prior ban on Swedish smokeless tobacco, known as snus.
Worse, restrictions and regulations dealing with the relatively new devices known as e-cigarettes will effectively ban them.
In the EU, where fully one-third of the adult population still smokes, there are almost 700,000 smoking-related deaths each year. The region is number one worldwide in the devastating effects of smoking — with this exception: In Sweden, the only EU country where snus is not banned, only 16% smoke.
This fact has been validated since those statistics began to be accumulated after World War II. The Swedish male population consumes more nicotine in the form of snus than from cigarettes - and they have the lowest rate of smoking-related disease and death in Europe to show for it.
Yet when Sweden was admitted into the EU in 1995, the continental ban on snus was in effect, and the country had to get an exemption to continue to manufacture and sell snus.
Enlightened public health experts in the region, and elsewhere, had hoped that the new directive would ease these restrictions, given the clear evidence of its efficacy in reducing the harm of tobacco, while the approved products for helping smokers quit fail over 90% of the time.
Electronic cigarettes, first sold outside China only over the past seven years or so, have few solid studies attesting to their benefits for helping smokers quit. But millions of smokers have offered case studies in networks and chat rooms of “vapers,” their own term for e-cigarette use, offering testimony to their efficacy in helping them quit and pleading for authorities to allow them continued access.
The product, in various forms, essentially supplies the drug smokers crave - nicotine - without the toxic, deadly smoke. The vaporised nicotine is inhaled with flavourings and substances such as propylene glycol, all completely harmless based on years of safe use.
So why would any official directive aimed at improving health advocate banning, in effect, effective and relatively harmless nicotine-delivery methods that help smokers quit, while allowing the most harmful consumer product - cigarettes - to keep on killing?
No valid explanation comes to mind. Some say that all tobacco is dangerous, so why allow snus? Others allege that the cigarette look-alike, e-cigarettes, impede the policy of “de-normalisation” of smoking, since users of e-cigarettes may appear to be smoking.
And others say they believe that smokeless tobacco or e-cigarettes may entice youngsters into a nicotine-dependent lifestyle, and eventually into smoking - although there is no evidence supporting that “gateway” effect and plenty against it.
Continuing the ban on smokeless tobacco in the EU is antithetical to public health for many reasons. Adding what amounts to a ban on e-cigarettes will tie the hands of millions of EU smokers desperate to quit, and force a like amount of successful quitters back on to lethal addictive cigarettes.
The bottom line is that the current draft directive, if approved by the nations of the EU, will allow the continued sale of pharmaceutical products sold as aids to smoking cessation, which have been shown over and over again to be largely ineffective.
Cigarettes will remain available on every street corner, and lack of effective cessation aids will help the cigarette industry maintain its hugely profitable European markets. Big Pharma and Big Tobacco will be the winners, while condemning millions of smokers to cruel death or disability.
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Brief description of Cadmium yellow/red:
The range of cadmium pigments, yellow, orange, red are basically cadmium yellow (cadmium sulfide) with some selenium added in place of sulfur (cadmium selenide). Therefore cadmium sulfide can be made in various shades ranging from yellow, orange to red. indeed, mineral pigment produced from cadmium sulphide when heated with selenium becomes red. It has very high hiding power and good permanence. A cadmium red was available as a commercial product from 1919. The pigment was used sparingly due to the scarcity of cadmium metal and therefore because was more expansive.
Names for Cadmium yellow/red:
|Alternative names:||Cadmium yellow: aurora yellow; cadmium red: selenium red, cadmium scarlet,|
|Word origin:||The name "Cadmium yellow/red" comes from The name "Cadmium" comes from Latin cadmia = zinc ore calamine, from Greek kadmeia = Cadmean earth, first found near Thebes, city founded by the Phoenician prince Cadmus..|
Cadmium yellow: cadmium sulfide (CdS)
Cadmium orange/red: cadmium sulfide (CdS) + cadmium selenide (CdSe) in varying proportion
Example of use by artists:
Cadmium red comes for Matisse
The Red Studio, Henri Matisse — Museum of Modern Art, New York
Matisse was much taken with this strong new red, which has excellent stability. He recounts that he attempted, unsuccessfully, to persuade Renoir to adopt a “cadmium red” in place of the traditional cinnabar. Matisse inherited the use of intense cadmium red, a 19th century invention, from the Impressionists. The critic John Rusell called this canvas "a crucial moment in the history of painting. Color is on top, and making the most of it." | <urn:uuid:00d3d8ba-9591-4b91-acba-4fc02277ef03> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.webexhibits.org/pigments/indiv/overview/cdyellowred.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918683 | 446 | 3.34375 | 3 |
During her recent motorcades, the Prime Minister gave out thousands of delicate ceramic teacups. While she rode and waved, crime raged on, like the proverbial bull in a china shop. Her Minister of National Security Jack Warner promises plenty police stations, officers, and vehicles. It is of itself no crime plan. It is the PNM and UNC anti-crime garbage being recycled, while the boss lady hands out fake china bearing her painted-on smile.
Teacups and crime aside, not even media mogul Rupert Murdoch could rival Minister Warner's latest machination. On the heels of Warner's about turn on Mayor Louis Lee Sing's version of the meeting with so-called gang leaders, the Sunday Express (August 26) reports that Warner wants control of the daily Newsday and weekly T&T Mirror newspapers. Such a deal would be unprecedented, uncomfortable, and from Murdoch's standpoint, enviable.
In 2011 Murdoch's UK News of the World newspaper folded under pressure, admitting it published several stories using privileged information gathered from illegal phone hacking, and payments to police and public officials. In the local political minefield, any politician with direct access to tons of privileged information can do some damage. If that politician has unrestricted access to newspapers, the damage can be irreversible. And, if that politician is a minister with no cogent anti-crime plan, the combination of privileged information and publication resources can create a lot of distractions and mischief.
What is clear is that even as Minister Warner has time for personal business pursuits, he does not have an anti-crime plan. At best, Warner proposes to take the country back to 2000. In Brian Kuei Tung's 2000/2001 budget statement, he described the investment in manpower, machinery and more police stations. In 2000 Kuei Tung fell into the trap of treating these elements as the plan, "the part of our crime fighting programme with the most immediate impact". Then, like now, there was really no plan.
The idea back then, as it is now, was not to root out criminal behaviour from top to bottom, starting at the top, but to lock up criminals, starting at the bottom. In 2000 Kuei Tung proposed an increased police presence with over 700 new officers on foot, mobile and highway patrol, and a new Rapid Response Unit. He also spoke about 12 new police stations, two new divisional headquarters and 200 new police vehicles.
Between 2003 and 2010, the PNM read from the same playbook. In 2003, the PNM proposed five new police stations, a police station repair programme, and over 100 new vehicles; in 2004 they laid on the "Special Security Commission to act as a Think Tank on crime prevention and detection"; and in 2005, it was 2,050 bulletproof vests and 630 police safety vests; 100 new vehicles; the intake of 744 new officers and the creation of 118 new posts on the staff establishment of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS).
Now, Warner proposes the same old things, and like the PNM and UNC of the past, offers no reason for again going down the failed route. It's more new police stations; vehicles and other equipment; and manpower. And, PNM-style, it's the usual meetings with the so-called gang leaders, the usual Warner-style turn-around which has Mayor Lee Sing flat-footed and Warner dribbling the facts in the other direction, and the usual Partnership spin, which will label Warner's proposed newspaper acquisition as a private matter.
Of course, the ownership of newspapers by serving ministers of government is not unusual, even locally, with media businessman Ken Gordon once serving as a government senator and minister. In 1924, the UK House of Commons devised guidance for ministers with interests in newspapers, to operate as an addition to the already well-established principle that ministers would not participate in their private commercial interests while serving in government. Warner's disclosure suggests that the principle is not well established in the Partnership.
This is just another mind-boggling development in Minister Warner's political career. In the past, businessmen-turned-ministers placed private business interests into a blind trust, distancing themselves. Of course, this Government has its own rules: the Minister of Sport allegedly still works privately as a swim coach and the Minister of Health was carrying on his private medical practice. From the outset, Warner was granted special privileges, retaining his FIFA responsibilities, payments and opportunities to travel on FIFA business, while holding political positions as party chairman, Minister and Member of Parliament.
There are serious risks in this specific proposal. The biggest public interest risk in newspapers being owned or controlled by a Minister of National Security, is that this Minister has not distanced himself from his private commercial interests and appears to be still involved. If it persists, there will be the temptation for his journalists to use the Minister as a primary source of inside information and vice-versa, temptation by a loquacious Minister to use his newspaper business for a predictable list of political and personal purposes.
Whether or not it is ever used, Minister Warner's private newspaper interests will potentially have direct access to the State's power of information, including national security resources to spy, snoop and stalk. Could you imagine the salacious headlines under the Warner brand, fuelled by the type of information crossing the desk of the country's Minister-at-large? A tantalising prospect, especially when you consider that amongst this Minister's personal advisers, there are seasoned media men. Who, but the UNC's party Chairman, could conceive of putting the power of information-snooping and media-scooping into one politician's hands?
This disclosure that he is still dabbling in private deals suggests that fighting crime is not taking up enough of Minister Warner's time. His recent anti-crime measures were predictable PNM and UNC fare, and will fail. And just as predictable, the PM and AG will applaud Minister Warner's anti-crime fortitude, label his newspaper plan as private business, and declare the raging crime as a storm in the PM's delicate little teacup.
* Clarence Rambharat is an
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Autodesk Launches Architectural Studio in Europe, Expanding Offerings to the Global Design Community
Innovative Digital Design Environment Now Available in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and English
27 September, 2002-Autodesk, the world's leading design software and digital content company, announced the availability of Autodesk Architectural Studio 2, a conceptual design creation tool for architects and other building industry professionals, in many countries in Europe in French, Italian, German, Spanish and International English beginning September 13, 2002. Like their counterparts in North America, European designers can now benefit from Architectural Studio's ability to create early, loose sketches and rough conceptual models in digital form. This capability ensures a continuous digital workflow, enhancing communication between design and production teams while saving time in design development.
"I've dreamt about this product for years," said Larry Oltmanns, design partner of the London office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. "Autodesk Architectural Studio will take us a giant step closer to the virtual office, allowing me to interact with my team in the most natural sense, as we've always done, by talking and sketching."
Integrated Design Process
Architectural Studio provides simple, intuitive tools like pencils, markers and trace paper that allow designers to sketch or model design concepts on a pen tablet or computer as they would by hand. Bringing principals and senior designers trained in traditional drawing methods into the digital arena for the first time, Architectural Studio facilitates design reviews and promotes mentoring within the office, offering a common communication platform for senior and junior members of the practice.
In a single, integrated workflow, designers export freehand drawings and 3D study models created in Architectural Studio for use in other Autodesk design solutions, such as Autodesk Revit, Autodesk Architectural Desktop, AutoCAD, or Autodesk VIZ software, for further development. They can work in context, aggregating photographs, animations or renderings, freehand sketches, conceptual 3D models and hard-line drawings in a multimedia environment that encourages swifter resolution of complex design problems while serving as a compelling presentation medium.
"Many of our European customers have been eagerly waiting for Architectural Studio to become available in their region," said Phil Bernstein, FAIA, vice president of Autodesk's Building Industry Division. "With this European release, Architectural Studio also becomes a meaningful design platform for international design practices using integrated Autodesk software solutions."
Customers in many countries in Europe can purchase a perpetual license for Autodesk Architectural Studio, with a one-year subscription contract, beginning September 13, 2002. For more information on purchasing Architectural Studio, contact an Autodesk Authorised Reseller or visit http://www.autodesk.com.
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A freak accident causes Superman to change places with his evil counterpart from a parallel dimension.
When a mexican dam fractures, Batman and Wonder Woman make sure it collapses, destroying a village. Meanwhile Superman tries to make Mount Vesuvius erupt. At the Hall of Justice, Superman responds to a Trouble Alert about the volcano. He tries to stop it erupting, but fails. The blast causes him and the sinister Superman from a parallel universe to switch places. Superman is discovered by the Super Enemies who take him to their Hall of Evil. When they find he is different they hold him prisoner. Meanwhile, in our universe the double pretends to be good, hoping to eventually take over the planet. When he steals gold in Switzerland, he has to hold Batman and Robin in a tra be good, hoping to eventually take over the planet. When he steals gold in Switzerland, he has to hold Batman and Robin in a trap. Meanwhile, Superman escapes and avoids the police to get help from a scientist at Metropolis University. She provides an anti-matter flask, and asks him to return to help the evil universe. Meanwhile, Wonder Woman and Aquaman rescue Batman and Robin. The Super Friends try to stop the evil Superman, who is ransoming oil in Saudi Arabia, but find they're losing. In the alternate universe, Superman manages to use the flask at the volcano, despite attacks from the Super Enemies and evil Gleek. Superman's return to our universe causes the other Superman's return. Superman tells the Super Friends he promised they'd help the people of the parallel universe.
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Year of the Tauren
The year 2009 is the year of the Ox, or more appropriately, the year of the Tauren.
According to the lunar calendar, the new year begins today, and it’s a time to honor the elders. Taurens deeply honor their elders, and this is reflected in their customs. They are also a strong and noble race.
According to one Chinese legend, the 12 animals argued as to who would be the first animal in the 12-year cycle. The gods decided to hold a contest in which the animals must cross a river. The first animal to cross the river would be the first on the chart followed by the other animals according to their finish. The rat was the smallest of the animals and was expected by the other animals to finish last. Quickly, the 12 animals jumped into the river, but unknown to the ox, the rat had jumped on his back. As the ox was about to jump on the riverbank to claim first place, the rat jumped off his back and won the race. (source)
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Inside Matheson, Workers Discover Time Capsule from 1965
October 3, 2011
The time capsule will be opened at the ceremonial launch to the demolition on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 11:30 a.m.
On Friday, September 30, the construction crew working on Matheson Hall uncovered a time capsule while removing the 1965 plaque from the entrance of the building. The time capsule will be opened during tomorrow’s sledge hammer ceremony at 11:30 a.m., with Dean George Tsetsekos presiding.
Matheson Hall will eventually become a 12-story, 177,500 square-foot business center that will house the Bennett S. LeBow College of Business at 33rd and Market Streets. It’s a massive project; students and passersby should get used to the construction-zone look for at least the next two years.
Workers are currently taking down the pedestrian bridge that connects the Pearlstein Business Learning Center and Matheson. Once the bridge is down, a covered, ground-level walkway will be installed in the area between Pearlstein and the construction site to allow easy walking access into the heart of campus. By November, Matheson Hall should be stripped down to its foundation and groundbreaking for construction of the new building will be held in the spring. The new building is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2013 and occupied in the spring of 2014.
You can follow this exciting building project as it happens at www.buildinglebow.com. The site features regular construction updates, videos, floor plans and renderings and a form to share favorite Matheson memories.
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Mizue Aizeki is a documentary photographer. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications including Colorlines, The Progressive, L.A. Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, Z Magazine, and The Nation. She has also exhibited her work in several venues, such as the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco. Mizue was born in Japan.
At the age of two, she and the rest of her family migrated to New York, where she was raised. In her early-20s, Mizue moved to Los Angeles, where she enrolled at the University of Calfornia, Los Angeles (UCLA), from which she received a BA in geography and a MA in urban and regional planning (with a focus on community organizing). It was during this time that Mizue became a political activist. Following graduation, Mizue worked for a many years as a researcher and strategist for a labor union with a very heavy immigrant membership. In addition to being the mother of two young girls, she continues to be a social justice activist, working on matters related to migrant and worker rights, and anti-racism. She is also a board member of Families For Freedom, a New York-based multi-ethnic defense network by and for immigrants facing and fighting deportation.
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Big City, mafia, skyscrapers, blues, basketball--lots of things run through my head when I think of the “Windy City,” but everything is not as it seems to be, not even in Chicago. Take the nickname, for instance. Even if I can imagine the wind coming in from Lake Michigan can be both strong and cold sometimes, this is not the reason Chicago is called “The Windy City”. It is rather because of the unstable political climate this city has experienced for some time now.
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Connections 20073. Visual Literacy
This arts and humanities, social science connection allows a shared focus in both courses on multiple literacies, ways of seeing and ways of knowing. Specifically, this connection offers students opportunities to explore visual literacy and the power of composition and arrangement of form in creating meaning. Both courses are at the foundations level, and both teach students skills and strategies for negotiating meaning in many contexts. | <urn:uuid:5f93e8a6-4e16-4da5-a798-94cb09848831> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wheatoncollege.edu/catalog/conx_20073/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932786 | 83 | 2.21875 | 2 |
George Murray Levick, scientist with the 1910 Antarctic expedition led by Captain Scott, conducted a study on the "Sexual Habits of Adelie Penguins." His paper was considered too "graphic" for publication and remained unknown until recently.
According to The Guardian, Levick, a biologist and medical officer on Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole in 1910, was a "typical Edwardian gentleman" who was simply horrified at his observations of the "sexual depravity" of penguins. When he returned with the paper to England, his "graphic account" of field observations was considered unfit for publication.
The Guardian reports that Levick's first major shock during his field observations of the "sexual habits" of the penguins came when he observed a young male penguin attempting to have sex with a dead female. And as if that was not shocking enough, during the summer of 1911-12, he observed among the colony of Adelies at Cape Adare, males seeking to have sex with female corpses that had died the previous season and some sexually coercing females and chicks and killing them in the process.
Levick ascribed what he termed the "astonishing depravity" of the penguins to the sexual habits of "hooligan males" in the colony. According to Time, Levick, fearing to expose the reading public to the horrors of penguin homosexuality, necrophilia, masturbation and rape he witnessed, coded his report in Greek so that only highly educated gentlemen would read and appreciate the depth of depravity of penguins in the Antarctic wild.
BBC reports that when Levick returned to England, he "submitted this extraordinary and graphic account of sexual behaviour of the Adelie penguins, which the academic world of the post-Edwardian era found a little too difficult to publish." Douglas Russell, curator of birds at the Natural History Museum, who discovered a copy of the paper recently, commented: "...reports and memos [went] back and forth at the museum about this particular paper. They didn't seem to know what to do with it. In the end they decided to cut this paper. It is clear they felt it was too challenging to openly publish.”
When his volume in English language titled "Natural History of the Adelie Penguins" was published, care to taken to preserve public decency by expunging the "graphic section" titled "Sexual Habits of Adelie Penguins" that gave detailed account of the sexual behavior of the penguins.
According to BBC, the then keeper of zoology at the Natural History Museum decided to produce 100 copies of the paper and distribute among an exclusive circle of scientists. Thus, anxiety to preserve "public decency" deprived the scientific community and the general public information on the "remarkable sexual antics" of the Adelie. Levick's paper was lost to science and the information contained was unknown until about 50 years later, when a less squeamish generation of scientists discovered the facts themselves.
But recently, a copy of "Sexual Habits of the Adelie Penguin" was discovered. The Telegraph reports that Douglas Russell, curator of birds at the Natural History Museum, discovered a copy of the paper among records of Scott's polar expedition and had it published in the journal Polar Record.
According to The Telegraph, Russell described the paper: “The manuscript is quite extraordinary. It is the most graphic account of challenging sexual behaviour you are every going to read. It is challenging now, but for 1915 when he submitted it for publication, it was extraordinary. It would have been a bombshell if they had published it at the time. At the time homosexuality was still illegal, so one reason he encoded his notes (in Greek) could be that he was fearful of the legal implications of his observations.”
BBC reports that Russell described how he found the paper: "I just happened to be going through the file on George Murray Levick when I shifted some papers and found underneath them this extraordinary paper which was headed 'the sexual habits of the Adelie penguin, not for publication' in large black type."'
Russell admits that the Levick's blow-by-blow account of penguin sexual perversion and "astonish depravity" was indeed "graphic." But Rusell found it "fascinating" rather than "offensive." He said: "It's just full of accounts of sexual coercion, sexual and physical abuse of chicks, non-procreative sex, and finishes with an account of what he considers homosexual behaviour, and it was fascinating."
The Guardian reports Russell did an analysis of Levick's paper co-authored with two colleagues, William Sladen and David Ainley. Part of the analysis read: "The pamphlet, declined for publication with the official Scott expedition reports, commented on the frequency of sexual activity, auto-erotic behaviour, and seemingly aberrant behaviour of young unpaired males and females, including necrophilia, sexual coercion, sexual and physical abuse of chicks and homosexual behaviour. His observations were, however, accurate, valid and, with the benefit of hindsight, deserving of publication."
In the paper Levick writes with evident feelings of disgust about the antics of male Adelies, who gather in "little hooligan bands of half a dozen or more and hang about the outskirts of the knolls, whose inhabitants they annoy by their constant acts of depravity." The Guardian reports that Levick described how "Injured females are mounted by members of these 'gangs,' others have their chicks 'misused before the very eyes of its parents.' Some chicks are crushed and injured, others are killed..."
More recent studies have explained the behavior of the "hooligan males" and have given insight that may throw light on aspects of "aberrant" human sexual behavior. According to the studies, the "hooligans" were young males who have no experience of how to behave and tend therefore to respond to "inappropriate cues." For instance, a young male would readily confuse a dead female frozen in the snow, and lying with an eye half-open, with the typical posture of a sexually receptive female, and thus attempt to mate. The results of this simple error of judgement among the inexperienced males are what uninformed anthropomorphizing observers would call "shocking" observations of "necrophilia."
The Guardian reports that scientists also note that penguins being human-like, because of their bipedal posture, tend to have their behaviour interpreted in anthropomorphic terms. Russell observed the anthropomorphizing tendency in Levick: "He was just completely shocked. He, to a certain extent, falls into the same trap as an awful lot of people in seeing penguins as bipedal birds and seeing them as little people. They're not.They are birds and should be interpreted as such."
According to Russell,"Levick was... a gentlemen traveling with a group of men in very difficult circumstances, witnessing behaviour he neither expected nor understood. It is not surprising that he was shocked by his findings."
Levick and his colleagues were lucky to survive the expedition. The were stranded in the cold wastes of the Antarctic over an entire winter after their expedition ship, the Terra Nova, could not pick them up because pack ice blocked its route. The men spent the winter huddled in an ice cave with no provisions and were forced to survive on "blubber, cooked with blubber" eaten in the light of "blubber lamps." According to an account of the hardship they endured over the winter, "Their clothes and gear were soaked with blubber, and the soot blackened them, their sleeping bags, cookers, walls and roof, choked their throats and inflamed their eyes."
The men made it back to England in 1913, and Levick served in the First World War. After the war, he founded the British Schools Exploring Society in 1932, and died in June 1956.
His obituary described him as a "truly great English gentleman."
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Earlier last week, just before Christmas, a story broke regarding the toy industry. Major toy manufacturers, namely Hasbro and Mattel, are reportedly worried that they are becoming obsolete.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Sean McGowan, managing director of equity research at Needham & Company, said, “The top two guys, Mattel and Hasbro, they are terrified. They should be terrified, but the official party line is they’re not terrified.”
The scapegoat for toy companies? Technology. The large toy manufacturers are convinced that tablets and smartphones are the culprit for toy sales being down across the board. After all, Mattel’s top selling product in 2012 was a cellphone case.
It’s obvious that children and more technologically advanced than ever before. Many children are now being given tablets and smartphones at increasingly young ages. Parents not wanting to resell that first-generation iPad for a fraction of the cost, would rather give it to their child to play with.
I recently saw the effect of a Kindle Fire on my own two-year-old nephew. While he plays with it only under close supervision, and only for short periods of time, his favorite game by far is the Angry Birds spinoff “Bad Piggies”. It’s rare to go more than a few hours without him asking if he can play his “piggy airplane” game.
So, according to Hasbro and Mattel, he’s been seduced by the allure of tablet computing, making him no longer want traditional toys. Not quite. My nephew spent the majority of his time playing with his toy trains and cars. In fact, the train set he got for Christmas seemed to hold his attention longer than the Kindle did.
Does my toddler nephew eschew traditional toys in favor of the Kindle and the Wii? Not at all. In fact, he had a lot of fun playing with an empty box at one point. Young children will play with anything.
If children still enjoy traditional toys, then, why are toy manufacturers losing sales at such a rapid rate?
Toys are way too expensive.
Looking at the bestselling toys on the Toys ‘R Us Action Figures – Cartoon & Comics page, the first result is an Optimus Prime helmet for $19.98, followed by a Power Rangers Deluxe Megazord for $34.99, a Thor Avengers action figure for $22.99, and Avengers Hulk Hands for $22.99.
The top-selling Kindle game apps are Minecraft – Pocket Edition for $6.99 (a really high price for a Kindle game), Cut the Rope for $0.99, Plants vs. Zombies for $0.99, and Angry Birds Star Wars Premium HD for $2.99.
The top four Kindle game apps, together, are a fraction of the cost of any of the top four Toys ‘R Us action figures.
When it comes down to the basic numbers, it makes more sense to download $2.99 Angry Birds to a hand-me-down iPad than it does to spend $22.99 on an action figure.
Playsets have always been expensive, and every child remembers being denied a Sewer Lair or Barbie’s Dream House because it was too expensive. With prices of these items reaching up to and over $150 in some instances, it’s actually more cost effective to buy a tablet and load it up with cheap and free games.
Part of the problem is that toy companies are raising prices for collectors. The $22.99 Avengers figures, the $17.99 The Dark Knight Rises figures – those are hardly intended for children. As a collector, you’re inclined to pay a bit of a premium when you know the piece is for display and isn’t going to end up in someone’s mouth or nose.
However, prices are getting to a point where childless people with mountains of disposable income (yeah, right) don’t have the means to buy toys to collect. Increasingly, the need to put gas in our cars to get to work means that we’re holding off on buying new toys, hoping that we can snag them on ebay in six months for a discount.
The toy industry is at a disadvantage here. They have to pay for licensing, production, shipping, and marketing. Digital games don’t have to produce a physical product, cutting out a lot of cost right there. It’s difficult for traditional toys to compete on price. There is a legitimate concern here. However, the price disparity is getting too large to ignore, and consumers see premium priced toys in this economy as a luxury that can be easily substituted by video games.
If the toy manufacturers truly are worried, and they want their toys in the hands of children, they need to bring down their prices. People want to buy toys. Everyone loves a physical product; adults will always want to display collectibles and children will always want a tangible toy. Tablets and computers aren’t the bad guys here, but the ones that are catering to the entertainment needs of the people. The toy companies need to understand that. Quickly. | <urn:uuid:3a378e05-9a4a-43de-a987-3b2bdae764b8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://panelsonpages.com/?p=58857 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962623 | 1,081 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Obama continued, noting that his stem-cell decision was just the starting point for a larger reevaluation of the role scientists will play in his administration: "It is about letting scientists like those here today do their jobs, free from manipulation or coercion, and listening to what they tell us, even when it's inconvenient--especially when it's inconvenient."
But critics of human embryo-destructive research have never been hostile to science. The dispute is not about whether stem-cell science should proceed; it is about how it will proceed. Will it go forward in a way that respects all human life? Or will it regard the taking of human life in its early stages as justified by the desire to advance biomedical knowledge and seek therapies? Listening to scientists who tell us what they want to do doesn't mean we should give them a blank check; we need to determine if what they're proposing, especially when it's inconvenient for unborn human life, is what they should be doing...
After seven years and two campaigns of the Democrats attacking the Republicans over President Bush's stem-cell policy, Obama evidently thought he had to make good on his promise to promote and fund embryo-destructive research, even if it is now scientifically superfluous. And superfluous is exactly what the past year and a half of stem-cell breakthroughs have made it.
The University of Michigan has 400 human embryos they plan to kill to create embryonic stem cell lines.
Tom McClusky explains what prolifers riders are. And no, they’re not prolife people who journey from place to place on horseback.
Who wants bad, inaccurate headlines? Here are just a few regarding Obama’s embryonic stem cell funding announcement.
BBC News: Obama ends stem cell funding ban
New York Times: Obama Lifts Bush’s Strict Limits on Stem Cell Research (the article later describes Bush’s policy as “a careful compromise”)
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- Schupan & Sons CEO on the Pride and Profitability of Being Green
"We're all on this planet together, and if you do the right things you hope it has a multiplier effect," says Schupan. "I have children, and I want them to be proud of how we operate and handle our business. Our employees want to be proud of the values of their employer."
- Catastrophic coal ash releases serve as a backdrop to regulatory battle
The United States generates millions of tons of coal ash, mostly related to the combustion of coal to generate energy. The ash is stored in landfills or open impoundments that are not currently regulated under federal laws governing solid and hazardous wastes. Despite high profile releases of tons of coal ash, EPA regulation is still not a certainty.
- Crippen Dealership: Driving a green initiative for dealerships
"Greening our dealership was the right thing to do - not only for sales, but also for the environment."
- Oakland University student Alex Kozlowski is recycling for a better future
"Throughout the course of human history we've had three revolutions: agricultural, industrial, technological and the inevitable fourth one will be the sustainability revolution," says Kozlowski. "It's just a matter of time and we need to make it happen if we want to survive on this planet.
- Kirk Heinze: Why don't more of us recycle?
National studies suggest that even when people have ready access to recycling-either curbside or at a nearby center-most still don't get into the habit. According to Tom Emmerich, President of Kalamazoo-based Schupan Recycling, the key is not necessarily convenience; rather, it is education.
More Plastic Bottles in Our Landfills? Ford Has a Better Idea - Carpeting
- Laura Sinclair talks with Kirk Heinze
By Caitlin Cox
“We have a very aggressive sustainability group,” says Sinclair. “We continually look at unique things to put in vehicles to make sure we meet or exceed our durability and performance standards, so that the customer doesn’t notice a difference in its use, but yet we are recycling and helping the environment by keeping reusable products out of landfills.”
Using recycled products such as plastic (in this case, PET bottles with a recycling code of one), is just one way Ford is able to decrease its carbon footprint.
“We are able to use 25, recycled 20 ounce plastic bottles for every vehicle,” says Sinclair.
Water bottles are easily recyclable since polyester is the main component. This allows Ford to upgrade a material that has been used for many years both in floor carpeting and in vehicle carpeting, says Sinclair.
To overcome problems with streaking and durability in recycled plastic, Sinclair says Ford modified its production process to ensure the plastic bottles meet durability qualifications and essentially act as a virgin material, thus causing no reduction in quality.
Another reason to purchase the eco-friendly vehicle, says Sinclair, is that there is no added cost.
“It is actually cost-neutral or cost-saving compared to the virgin plastic, which is harder to come by.”
Along with recycled plastic, engineers are also working on several exciting bio-based projects that include the use of soy foam in seats. Other naturally occurring materials like hemp, wheat and coconut-based products are also the focus of research and development efforts at Ford.
“Ford is always looking for new and different things to do to that will help enhance our sustainability blueprint,” says Sinclair. “In order for us to drive change, we must maintain our holistic plan that spans the economic, environmental and cultural dimensions of sustainability.”
Sinclair’s commitment to a more eco-friendly planet does not end when she leaves the office. As a mom, she also helps her five and two-year-old children recycle at home.
“I am able to incorporate some of the recycling tactics I work on at Ford into what I teach my children about recycling in our home.”
With Ford’s interest in decreasing its carbon footprint and increasing its use of eco-friendly materials, Sinclair says she is optimistic about the future.
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See the opportunities that an MBA degree could offer.
Thinking about going back to school to earn your Master of Business Administration (MBA)?
Looking at new employment numbers, there may be no time like the present.
A recent analysis of career placement data for 2009 and 2010 by U.S. News revealed that 75.7 percent of 2010 MBA graduates were hired within three months of graduation, up from 70.8 percent in 2009.
Think an MBA might benefit you? Join us as we explore seven MBA specializations that could help you climb the corporate ladder. In addition to required core courses, most business schools allow you to concentrate on one of these key disciplines:
- Business Administration
- Health Care Administration
- Human Resources (HR)
Keep reading to see if one of these MBA specializations is right for you.
Business administration is the meat and potatoes of business school, or what most schools call the core curriculum. In this program, you would take courses like accounting, communications, economics, HR, marketing, and technology. You'll also likely work independently and in groups, pouring over case studies and giving presentations to your peers.
Potential career paths: Mastering business administration can help you develop a broad-based background that could help prepare you to move into any number of avenues in today's multi-faceted business world. An administrative services manager, as one example, has an average income of $81,530, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Another position that many MBA students hope to rise into eventually is general manager, a position with an average yearly compensation of $110,550.*
Getting an MBA with an emphasis in health care administration could give you an in-depth understanding of the country's biggest and fastest growing industry. Health care specific classes might cover the sweeping governmental reform that is changing the way health care is delivered. You also might study the technological advances that are helping move electronic records online while also debating issues like patients' privacy rights.
Potential career paths: Whether you're interested in overseeing pharmaceutical manufacturing at a large plant overseas, working as a fundraising manager at a major hospital, or helping lead a team of sales professionals in the medical device industry, there is no shortage of exciting management options to pursue. Hospital health services managers have an average yearly compensation of $96,660, according to the Department of Labor.*
Earning your MBA with a management specialization could give you a top-to-bottom view of everything and everyone in an organization. You'll likely learn about general management principles while also studying methods that are unique to different disciplines like heath care or technology. Typical courses include risk management, leadership and team-building strategies, and project and supply chain management. Along the way you might build key problem-solving and communication skills that you could put to work right away.
Potential career paths: An MBA with a focus on management could be a great calling card to employers who are looking for employees who have what it takes to grow into senior roles. One route to success would be to start as a project manager and work your way up the ladder. Positions like distribution manager and purchasing manager have average yearly incomes of $85,470 and $96,910 respectively, according to the Department of Labor.*
This particular career-focused specialization is a good match for MBA students with strong interpersonal skills. While an undergraduate degree in HR is a helpful gateway to entry-level positions, earning an MBA with a focus on HR is a fantastic way to gain an understanding of complex issues like labor law and union issues. This type of program generally includes coursework in collective bargaining and labor economics, which are key areas top-level HR pros must master.
Potential career paths: An advanced degree like this one is increasingly important and "highly recommended" when trying to land senior HR positions, according to the Department of Labor. Some students move into a related career track as a contract negotiator or mediator, while others gravitate to a more traditional HR track. HR managers have an average annual wage of $105,510, according to the Department of Labor.*
Identifying a company or organization's competitive advantage and sustaining it is at the heart of this MBA specialization. By studying marketing and communications, you could learn how to design, sell, package, and spread products and messages to your intended audience, whether it's locally or globally. Along the way you're likely to study everything from advertising and sales to promotions and public relations (PR).
Potential career paths: Specializing in marketing/communications while getting your MBA could be great prep for a career in public relations, marketing, sales, or advertising. Management roles in these areas require smart, business-savvy professionals with strong communication skills. According to the Department of Labor, PR managers have an average income of $101,850 while marketing managers average at $120,070.*
The timing for getting an MBA with a focus on technology couldn't be better, according to QS World MBA Tour, which reported a 39 percent spike in MBA hiring for the technology sector in 2010. Getting an MBA that focuses on technology could help you to stay relevant in this rapidly evolving industry, particularly if you have an undergraduate background in computer or information technology (IT), though it's not required. In this type of program, you could learn how to manage a technology team while studying strategies for a networked economy.
Potential career paths: While many students move into technology product management, you could also be prepared to work in related areas like mergers and acquisitions for IT firms. The computer software industry is another exciting career possibility for those with a technology-focused MBA. According to the Department of Labor, the average compensation for software publisher managers is $136,580.*
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Approximately 4,200 women die from cervical cancer each year and research shows when African-American women are diagnosed they are twice as likely to die as their Caucasian peers.
Regular Pap smear testing is vital in preventing and diagnosing the disease, otherwise a woman will not know she has it.
At age 25, that was Tamika Felder’s experience. If not for a doctor’s visit to investigate a boil under her arm, Felder would not have known that she had cervical cancer.
“After I graduated from college, I got a freelance gig with no benefits. I went without health insurance for several years, which meant I could not get annual testing. Then I landed a job with insurance benefits. Shortly after I got the job, I went to the emergency room because of a boil, and the doctor happened to ask me when I had my last Pap smear,” says Felder, who was diagnosed in 2001.
“Since I had not had a Pap smear, the emergency room doctor ordered one and that is how I was diagnosed, otherwise I would not be here,” Felder says.
Following the diagnosis, Felder had a full or radical hysterectomy, chemotherapy and radiation—and was left without the ability to bear children. She also became one of the estimated 11,967 women who are diagnosed with cervical cancer every year.
The treatment, Felder says, “was very difficult and I felt like I lost my chance for a happily ever after, but when I think about women who are no longer here, I feel like I cannot complain because they left families behind.”
Most cervical cancer cases are caused by the HPV virus or the human papilloma virus. HPV, a very common sexually transmitted infection, is transmitted by skin-to-skin contact.
Although Hispanic women have higher incidences of cervical cancer compared to other ethnicities, African-American women are 40 percent more likely to develop the disease, and tend to have lower five-year survival rates, too. These statistics are often attributed to lack of regular Pap smear screenings, but one study sponsored by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities suggests this is also because African-American women have a more difficult time ridding the HPV virus from their systems.
“There are no symptoms for HPV and early cervical cancer is often asymptomatic,” says Dr. Estelle Whitney, a physician at Christiana Care Health Systems in Delaware. “So it’s important for women to get regular Pap smears.”
Felder used her difficult experience as an opportunity to educate and encourage others about cervical cancer. In 2005, she formed Tamika and Friends, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness about cervical cancer and its link to HPV. January is cervical health awareness month, and Felder stresses that routine screenings such as the Pap smear test make cervical cancer one of the most preventable forms of cancer.
Dr. Peter Grossman, an Augusta, Ga.-based obstetrician-gynecologist echoes that fact with other positive points about prevention and treatment.
“Well, there are four great things we know about cervical cancer: We have a precursor in cervical dysplasia (abnormal changes in the cells on the cervix surface); We know the cause, which is HPV; We have a great screening test with the Pap smear; and it takes a long time to develop, about 10 to 20 years from the initial exposure to HPV to the development of cervical cancer,” Grossman explains.
There are many different strains of HPV and Grossman says, “There are probably about 20 types associated with cancer of the genital tract, but 90 percent of them are associated with two particular strains, HPV 16 and HPV 18.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, vaccines [such as Gardisil® and Cervarix®] protect against the HPV types that most often cause cervical, vaginal, and vulvar cancers. Vaccines are recommended for 11- and 12-year-old girls, and also can be given to females ages 13–26 who did not get any or all of the shots when they were younger.
Risk factors include a compromised immune system, chlamydia, being overweight, multiple sexual partners, and unprotected sex. Smoking also compounds the risk of developing cervical cancer.
“[Cancer-causing molecules from smoking] embed themselves in cervical mucus, and women who smoke are less likely to clear the HPV virus,” Grossman says.
Though routine testing is critical, Pap smears are not 100 percent, Grossman says. There is a 20 to 30 percent chance of a false-negative where the test does not pick up a cancerous lesion.
In 2007, Quita Gibson was diagnosed with cervical cancer days after an annual Pap smear.
“I didn’t understand why it was happening to me because I did what I was supposed to. I got a Pap smear every year,” Gibson says.
Fortunately, Gibson was diagnosed at stage 1A1, which is early, and after discussing treatment options with her doctor, she elected to only remove her cervix instead of a full hysterectomy. Even so, she was told her chances of conceiving a child, or carrying a baby to term, would be slim even with fertility drugs. But Gibson became pregnant about two years after being cancer free. Her son Avion will be four this August.
Like Felder, Gibson uses her experience to raise awareness. She founded Walk2Inspire, and hosts information events and walks in her community.
Felder beat the odds, too, and she got the happily-ever-after she feared cervical cancer had robbed her of. She is engaged to be married this spring. “I am engaged to a wonderful man and he has a daughter, so I’m going to be a stepmom,” Felder says.
Felder admits she still has rough days sometimes, but finds strength in educating others about the importance of Pap smear testing.
“Preventing cervical cancer is the easy part. It’s one of the only cancers that we know cause of…and it’s one of the ones we can start winning the war against,” Felder says.
You’re at higher risk of developing cervical cancer if:
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Towering Over Wyoming
Prior to pouring the concrete, our engineering team ran a 4" copper strap under ground to bring up over the lip of the tower base. This provided a deep grounding system for electrical safety, along with an ERI Mag Rod for extra protection.
The main tower stands at approximately 1,050', with a pair of giant plates with 2" thick solid steel meeting near the apex. The final 100' or so comprise the ERI Lambda mounting section, a free-standing segment with a 3' sway in either direction for wind resistance. Giant bolts connect tower lights and a 10-bay ERI antenna to the Lambda mounting surface.
The ERI SHPX antenna is a 10-bay design, providing plenty of gain to hit a 100kW ERP without requiring larger transmitters. The Lambda section can be rotated, which allowed us to point the antenna in the direction that best matched our desired output pattern. The bottom bay of the antenna sits at approximately 1,040' to maintain a consistent output pattern and distance. Radomes were added to the antenna to prevent ice accumulation.
Eastern Wyoming is in the middle of a construction boom, and finding a contractor to build a new transmitter facility in a remote location proved impossible. We contracted with Thermo Bond of Elk Point, SD, to deliver a pre-built, customized building to house the transmitters.
Following approval of the design, the shelter arrived fully assembled with lights, electrical layouts, grounding systems and HVAC ventilation, among other attributes. Thermo Bond shipped the building by truck from South Dakota, and it was lifted off the truck using a crane and set on the concrete pad. The building was pre-inspected and included all the required electrical drops for the Harris HT30 transmitters, which simplified installation. A quarter-inch steel plate was also added to the roof for ice protection, and electrical was run into the building off the nearby three-phase transformer.
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A Guide to the Paralee Parish Diary, 1917-1919
Paralee Parish was a field nurse in the U. S. Army Nursing Corp stationed in Paris, France, during World War I. She was returned to the United States in February 1919.
Photocopies of a diary and clippings compose the Paralee Parish Diary, 1917-1918, documenting Parish’s life as a U. S. Army field nurse stationed in Paris, France, during World War I. The diary describes Parish’s social life as well as field conditions and casualties, including profiles of some of her officer patients. An article from a Parisian paper concerns the armistice and clippings from British papers describe wartime movements and policies. The diary ends with Parish’s notification of her return to the states.
This collection is open for research use.
Paralee Parish Diary, 1917-1919, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
This collection processed by A. Mills, 1976.
Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center’s "History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light" project, 2009-2011.
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This year, garbage seemed like the albatross around the neck for the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). The issue that seemed insurmountable became the reason for the transfer of one palike Commissioner, even as uncleared mounds threatened to affect public health. The issue, though not unique to a growing city such as Bangalore, was even featured in the international media.
The garbage problem began when the communities living around the landfills in Mavallipura, Doddaballapur and Mandur on the city’s outskirts began protesting against the dumping of city’s waste in their villages. The communities resisted dumping and consequently, tonnes of garbage started mounting across the city. It is pertinent to mention that the city generates around 4,000 tonnes of garbage every day.
The BBMP has failed to ensure that the companies managing the landfills processed the garbage scientifically. This was the main reason for the communities to protest against the BBMP, as the indiscriminate dumping of unprocessed garbage in their villages had not just contaminated groundwater, but also affected their health.
The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board noting that the garbage was not being processed scientifically, as prescribed under the Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000, ordered the closure of Mavallipura dump yard.
The civic body, waking up to the need of the hour, framed the garbage bye-laws and even made segregation of waste at source mandatory. Though it became mandatory on October 1, very few citizens are actually segregating the waste that they produce. It is a different matter that it failed to ensure that garbage contractors took steps to further segregate the garbage and keep the city environs clean.
The High Court of Karnataka has, on several occasions, taken both the Government and BBMP to task for failing to solve the crisis. The BBMP has now identified land for setting up processing units. The government’s expert committee is looking at various technologies to process the waste that is generated in the city every day, besides clearing the nearly 40 lakh tonnes of accumulated garbage in the landfills.
Soon after the garbage crisis intensified in the city, the BBMP proposed to set up dry waste collection centres (DWCC) across the city and 16 bio-methanisation plants. However, four months after it was proposed, there are just 24 collection centres. BBMP sources claimed that there are 20 more in other parts of the city that are ready to be commissioned. The BBMP had also asked the bulk generators, including hotels, restaurants and multi-dwelling apartment complexes, to manage the 1,500 tonnes of waste generated within their premises.
It has now proposed to set up waste processing centres in each Assembly constituency. So far, all these proposals have remained on paper and it remains to be seen when they will actually be implemented.
Meanwhile, measures taken to break the garbage cartel have yielded little result. The BBMP spends nearly Rs. 500 crore on garbage disposal, double of what other major metropolitan cities actually spend. This year saw the BBMP float new garbage tenders with stringent terms and conditions. Some conditions were relaxed to ensure more people could participate in the tenders. Consequently, the new tenders received good response from new contractors. However, the BBMP’s hopes of breaking the old cartel’s hold on the garbage disposal system were dashed, as the new contractors are still not able to take up work on the field, having failed to mobilise the required men and machinery.
The new contractors have blamed the old contractors and allege that they (old contractors) have been threatening to damage their vehicles and instigating workers from joining them (new contractors). The new contractors have now been able to take up work only in two zones — Yelahanka and Rajarajeshwarinagar. BBMP sources said that the civic body was now thinking of re-tendering the other packages in six zones where the new contractors are yet to take up work.
BBMP sources point out that the citizens too had the responsibility of helping the civic body keep the city environs clean. “The citizens should not litter and dump garbage indiscriminately. Garbage must be segregated into wet and dry and handed over to the pourakarmikas who pick it up every day,” they said.
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How You Earn Your UVEI MAT or MEd Degree
Below you will find descriptions of the ten Competencies that, along with the Competencies earned for certification, constitute our MAT & MEd curricula. As with our programs in certification for teachers and principals, these ten UVEI Competencies describe what you will know and be able to do in earning your degree. The most important aspect of our program is that you are in charge of the pace and purpose of your learning. Although your fellow MAT & MEd candidates will meet together in seminars and will often read the same texts, discuss the same issues, and share drafts written on similar topics, the depth and intensity of your graduate work is up to you. Seminar faculty will challenge you, guide you, and help you assess your work at different stages.
That said, ours is not a “go-it-alone” program. We encourage the habits of collegiality and collaboration because we think them essential to the transformation we seek. Similar to the tension between “schools-as-they-are” and “schools-as-they-should-be,” the tension between your work as an individual and your work in groups is, we believe, productive of your growth.
The Competencies that Define the UVEI Master of Arts in Teaching or Master of Education with a Concentration in School Leadership
1. Candidate is able to identify major terms, concepts, and movements of educational practice in the 20th and 21st century and to discuss them in relation to current challenges in student learning.
2. Candidate understands how the “educational system” functions in diverse communities, and under what conditions that system embraces or resists change.
3. Candidate is able to formulate, based on readings, discussions, and experience, a coherent personal and professional “Transformative Vision” of educational strategies that can serve as a guide to current practice and future professional development.
4. Candidate analyzes strengths and weaknesses in content-related knowledge [MAT] or in school leadership skills and knowledge [MEd] and develops a plan to enhance further knowledge in areas of intended teaching/leadership.
5. Candidate is able to construct and maintain an electronic record of work in schools that effectively synthesizes and shows evidence of achievement of the program competencies.
6. Candidate is able to design a research-based project or study that a) explores a major aspect of a classroom’s or a school’s educational purposes; b) can be carried out during one or more semesters; c) has the backing of colleagues and administrators.
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Pelagianism: I hate it, but it is very British. It is really a variant of Arianism which says God did not truly become Man, because Jesus was not truly God.
Pelagianism denies the action of Grace in the world, man is saved by his own goodness and efforts, rather than by God.
It is what we do, rather than what God does that matters, therefore the value of the sacraments is the psychological effect they have in our lives, rather than the direct intervention of God. It denies the power of Grace, of the role of the Blessed Virgin, of miracles, of the power of prayer: Pelagians above all would deny the role of the Holy Spirit, of His act of sanctification. Wherever there is attempt to place man at the heart of the faith, there we should expect to find Pelagianism.
Pelagianism expects Man to be strong rather God's grace to be powerful. Catholicism, or as we could call it, mainstream Christianity, acknowledges mankind is weak and wholly dependant on those things God gives him.
Signs of the Pelagian:
The Church is a human construct, there is nothing or little of Grace about it.
The Liturgy and prayer is about how it makes us feel. Feelings rather than Grace are important.
Revelation is not a given, something given for today and all time, but something of that past that depends on our interpretation.
Ultimately Pelagianism says God is irrelevant to society and to the individual.
Pelagians tend to have a poor view of mankind, what see is what you get, because their is no room for Grace. It is also elitist, insofar as it values a human being by his goodness, his talents, his skills, his willpower.
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Cowles Hill Cemetery
This cemetery is located 6 miles to the NW of Nebraska City, off Highway 73/75, on the NE corner of the intersection of 55th & 'D' roads.
"Cowles Hill Cemetery, located in Wyoming Precinct, consists of three acres in the Southwest corner of the Southeast quarter of Section 15, Township nine, Range three, Otoe County, Nebraska. The Cemetery Association was organized August 5, 1870 at a meeting held in the Giles School House.
This organization, with J.H. Gregg as chairman and A.T. McCartney as clerk, purchased a plot of ground from Mr. & Mrs. Charles Cowles fir the sum of $50.00 on December 26, 1872. Two of the Cowles children had previously been buried on this plot of ground. Cowles Hill Cemetery Association held the first Memorial services in 1896 in the Wyoming Methodist Church next to the cemetery. These services have been held annually for eighty-six years in the same building.
In 1938 a boulder, seven feet high and weighing ten tons, was placed near the gate to the cemetery. A plaque, on this stone, bears the inscription, 'In memory of the Pioneers of This Community.' The cemetery is maintained by a perpetual care fund established in 1929. The cemetery is a tribute to our founding fathers and posterity." (1)
Burial Listing: A complete listing of burials can be found in the 'Cowles Hill Cemetery' documents listed on the left side of this page. Burials can be researched by an alphabetical listing, or by lot number as well. *(Updated: 27 Jan 2012 by Mary Hanke)
Point of Contact:
Cowles Hill Cemetery Association
804 Central Ave.
Nebraska City, NE 68410-2409
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We’ve been using MongoDB for a year and a half at ThoughtLeadr. During that time we’ve gone from elation to depression using this trendy NoSQL datastore. Based on the documentation, it’s not hard to see why you’d get pulled in. A schemaless, performant database that can utilize both sharding and replica sets to mantain high availability at nearly limitless scale. Well, I guess I should have known that when something is too good to be true, it probably isn’t. Here’s the lowdown of MongoDB’s web-scale breakdown.
I’ll admit that I didn’t realize the global lock (now database level lock) was such a major issue when I first started using MongoDB. I’ve never written database internals myself before. While that doesn’t excuse me from doing my homework, I bought into 10Gen’s benchmark’s page. Oh wait, they don’t have benchmarks? Strange, I remember reading all these great articles about MongoDB’s performance when I picked it up. Way Backmachine to the rescue. This is one of the most frustrating aspects of working with MongoDB, the global lock has far greater repercussions in production than what you see in the benchmarks. I’ll get into specifics below but the global lock is a reoccurring theme throughout, a serious flaw in any database design, that should have be represented more honestly.
MapReduce is useless at web scale
When you run a MapReduce job against a database, the global write lock stops any other process from manipulating that data. Meaning if you run a moderate number of MapReduces per hour you massively degrade application performance against those collections. Plus, you can block the rest of replica set from sync’ing in a timely fashion, which can cause “primary” database switches and accidental loss of data.
Sysadmin tooling is painful
Every major sysadmin tool is a blocking process. Most of this falls back on the global write lock issues or immature tooling but in practical terms if you need to modify your database structure in production you’ll be forced to have downtime.
Here’s a great example, database compaction only works if you are under 50% disk utilization. Let me repeat that again. Database compaction only works if you’re not using more than half your disk. Have you ever created a collection only to realize later that you don’t really need it? If you have over half your disk in use, you’ll need to take one of the replica set members offline and delete the entire database manually then bring it back up to sync all the data from the primary. Only after it has completed sync’ing, a process that can take days, can you set that system to primary and do the same with the other members of the replica set.
A woeful lack of production grade tooling
We never really felt the need to use an ORM tool with MongoDB since its JSON data structures map nicely to both Python and Haskell (our core languages) analogs. However, after using MongoDB in production for over a year, migrations became a real pain. There’s no mature tools to simplify this process – forcing any adopter to eventually roll their own migration system. Plus, there wasn’t a clear best practice for migrating objects in storage. Do you use a framework to lazy migrate objects as you need them? Or run a migration script to update all the data at one time (updating some objects even if you never use them again)? The answer is both, heavily dependent on the situation. When you spend most of your time in the NoSQL world, it’s easy to forget migration support is built into SQL with the ALTER TABLE command.
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About the Event:
In this address, Bruce examined the future of cyber war and cyber security. Mr. Schneier explored the current debate on the threat of cyber war, asking whether or not the threat had been over-stated. He then explored the range of attacks that have taken place, including the Latvian DOS attack and the Stuxnet worm. The address concluded with an exploration of the future of international treaties on cyber war.
About the Speaker:
Bruce Schneier is Chief Security Technology Officer of BT, an internationally renowned security technologist and author. Described by The Economist as a "security guru," he is best known as a candid and lucid security critic and commentator. His bestselling books include Applied Cryptography, Secrets and Lies, Beyond Fear and Schneier on Security. | <urn:uuid:4eddfa22-1c6c-450f-a7d4-93cf7b733b33> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cyberwarzone.com/cyberwarfare/bruce-schneier-cyber-war-and-cyber-crime?page=414 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955083 | 160 | 2 | 2 |
Grace Under Pressure – and Under Budget
When architects designed the $9.3 million Illinois State Emergency Operations Center with 18,000 square feet of perforated copper, wrapped around the exterior, they needed a perforator that could help them make their design a reality. With extensive expertise in turning architects’ designs into reality, Accurate Perforating was selected as the supplier of choice. To complete this project, Accurate would have to deliver on its core practices of effective client communication, customized manufacturing capabilities and precise craftsmanship. Failure to complete the project on time and within budget could result in the forfeiture of $9.3 million of federal funding and jeopardize the security of the Operations Center.
As a result of the tragic terrorist attacks of September 11th, the US government formed the Department of Homeland Security and established a $50 million grant to fund the design and construction of state-centralized emergency operation centers. This would allow emergency operations handling the intelligence, assessment and response for terrorist and natural disasters to exist under one roof.
In March of 2004, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich announced that the new State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) would be located in Springfield, Illinois and would house the State Terrorism Intelligence Center, the Illinois Terrorism Task Force, the Radiological Emergency Assessment Center and response personnel from the Illinois Emergency Management Agency. To fund the project, Illinois had been allocated $9.3 million from the federal grant, the second highest allocation in the country. However, the grant required that the project stay within the budget and be completed within 18 months.
The state of Illinois’ Capital Development Board would oversee the design, engineering and construction of the complex. Award-winning, Chicago-based DeStefano + Partners would be the architects. The DeStefano + Partners’ design specified the use of the 18,000 square feet of perforated copper panels as exterior cladding to the SEOC. RPS Engineering, a subcontractor, would be in charge of the installation of the panels. As well as being esthetically pleasing, the screen would serve three practical functions: help diminish heat and glare from the sun without dramatically reducing light; provide security by reducing the ability to see into the facility; and serve as protection against nature’s rage in the heart of Tornado Alley.
Thanks to a progressive pricing structure and attentive, detailed service during the proposal process, Accurate Perforating was assigned the project and given the specifications. The paneling was to be formed using a special 6-inch-deep sheet made from 32-ounce copper, double the typical weight. The screen would be perforated with ½-inch round holes on ¾-inch staggered centers. The screen’s overlapping panels would be bolted to a tubular frame affixed to the building’s exterior. The panels would be attached to the frame in overlapping sections.
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Accurate’s attention to detail and advanced CAD capabilities identified the fit of each panel against each other, and to its respective place on the frame. Once the panel design and specifications were reviewed and approved, Accurate created the custom tooling required to punch the panels. The pre-production design was authorized and the production run began. Shortly thereafter, the fabricated panels were shipped to the Springfield site and attached to the structure – they fit perfectly.
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By Steve Goldstein, MarketWatch
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- After stock markets reacted with dismay to the Federal Reserve's rate cuts, the central bank is now working on steps, which could be announced in days, to help banks lend more easily to each other, according to two separate reports.
The Wall Street Journal reported, without attribution, that Fed officials continue to consider ways of using various tools -- including the discount rate -- to combat banks' unwillingness to lend even to each other, which they view as a threat to economic growth.
The central bank could take action within days, the Journal reported. See story at WSJ.com (subscription required).
A variety of steps, widely discussed in the markets, are likely to be on the table. These include: another cut in the discount rate; longer-term loans to money-market dealers; easier collateral rules for loans from the Fed; and other steps last taken in 1999 to alleviate funding pressures ahead of the year 2000, when many feared a "Y2K" computer bug would disrupt markets and create economic havoc, the Journal reported.
Changes in the discount rate can be made by the Fed board in Washington without the approval of the entire 17-member policy-making Federal Open Market Committee, which sets the federal-funds rate target, the report added.
The Financial Times, also without attribution, said a new liquidity facility could be announced as soon as Wednesday, with a facility that will auction loans to banks. See story at FT.com.
This would allow the Fed to provide liquidity directly to a large number of financial institutions against a wide range of collateral without the stigma of its existing discount window loans, the FT reported.
The reports gave a lift to U.S. stock futures on Wednesday. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 87 points. The main blue-chip index lost 294 points on Tuesday.
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This site, aimed at teaching science and math to adolescent girls, has games, projects, and activities that you can integrate into your own classroom. Lesson plans for projects, ranging from caves to music & sounds to dinosaurs, can be used to help your students understand concepts and find the excitement in learning.
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Comments by C. L. Troupe - 16 Feb 2007
ANSWERING THE (OFF-TOPIC) ISSUES ON SALVATION
I appreciate any and all dialog about the Scriptures in general and salvation in particular. Those who have read my article on salvation should understand that the topic was salvation. My focus was in dealing with the issues of salvation by grace through faith as opposed to those who teach that salvation is something we must earn – or even can earn.
I also dealt with the Biblical definition of salvation. The entire focus was salvation and what a person must do in order to be saved – and know it.
But it seems Mr. Coombs wants to argue about whether human beings have a conscious, non-corporeal soul which survives the physical death of the body, and goes immediately to either a place of comfort or a place of torment. I am definitely up to that, and I will more than gladly deal with that issue at length.
Mr. Coombs also seems to present himself as an expert on the “original languages,” accusing the translators of the Authorized Version (and the overwhelming majority of all the other Bible scholars in the world) of “transliterating,” by moving a comma to the wrong place. Then he corrects them by telling us where the comma should be placed, and also refers to his own book as a source of authority.
Like I said, I will gladly deal with the false doctrine of “soul sleeping,” but first I want to offer a response to some of his other (off-topic) comments.
In keeping with the separation of comment and response, I will print Mr. Coombs’ remarks in a different font style:
Mr. Coombs’ remarks and quotations will appear in the Arial font like this.
My responses will remain in this (Time New Roman) font like this. So, let the games begin:
Here below is the first of his comments I want to deal with:
Your understanding and translation of this verse (Luke 23:43) is totally wrong, as are the translations that transliterate this sentence as:
"And Jesus said unto him, verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in Paradise." (King James).
First off, this verse, in both the NIV and KJV, was not “transliterated.” It was properly and accurately translated. And every reputable translation committee on the planet translates it the same way. And secondly, you obviously do not know what the word “transliterate” means.
Transliteration is the spelling of a word from another language (often another language with a different alphabet) using the letters of one’s own alphabet in order to approximate the close pronunciation of it.
A common example of transliterating a word is when we write the Greek word agape using English letters as: “agape.” Please, for credibility’s sake, find out what a word means before you use it in public.
I am also concerned as to why anyone would want to use The Watchtower Society’s New World (so-called) “translation” for anything other than an ultimate example of unregenerate man’s attempt to alter Scripture to fit his own preconceived ideas. It is the most corrupt and perverted piece of work the Watch Tower Society has ever published, and nobody (except Jehovah’s Witnesses and their ilk) actually takes it seriously.
His next statement concerns his totally off-base interpretation of 1Corinthians 15:22:
"For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."
The word ALL in the above verses is Pantos, the plural of Pas meaning ALL - not just people but all things, all manner of, everything, anything whatsoever, every, every kind or variety, including all creatures that have ever been alive – even including prehistoric creatures.
You obviously have no idea what the terms “…in Adam…” and “…in Christ…” mean! If a person is just barely literate he or she should be able to read those verses in their context and see that Paul’s entire discourse is about the fall (and salvation) of human beings!
Hint: ALL human beings (not animals) are “in” Adam, but NOT all human beings are “in” Christ!
The word “all” in 1st Corinthians 15 most certainly does NOT mean “all creatures that ever lived.”
The word itself simply means all that there is. It includes everything and excludes nothing. However, even the word “all” can be limited by the context in which it is used.
Modern example: If my grandson and I were standing in our kitchen, and I told him to empty all the trashcans, he (not being stupid) would know and understand that I did NOT intend for him to empty all of the trashcans in the world – or even all the trashcans on our street. He would understand that I was speaking from within the context of our home, and thus limiting the word “all” to include only the trashcans in our home.
Bible example: When the apostle Paul says (in Philippians 4:13) “…I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me…” he is not claiming to be able to do all things in the sense of having the ability to do anything or everything imaginable. He is only telling us that he is able to do “all” of the things that he just mentioned in the previous verses.
The word has a similar limitation in 1st Corinthians 15, limiting the “all” only to all those who are in Christ.
Being saved by the hearing and believing of the gospel and the receiving of Christ as one’s savior is a transaction that takes place between God and man – exclusively! It does NOT include our pets, barn yard animals, or the beasts of the wild.
Jesus did not die on the cross to save animals. Animals cannot sin. Animals cannot repent (nor are they required to repent). Salvation is designed, intended, and offered, exclusively to human beings – not animals.
Peter is talking about Jesus in Acts 4:12 as he tells us of the means and the recipients of salvation:
“…neither is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven, given among MEN whereby WE must be saved…”
Please understand that I am not saying there aren’t animals in heaven, or that there will not be animals on the “new earth” (Jesus is described in Revelation as coming out of heaven riding on a white horse). We may even be reunited with our beloved pets (I’m counting on it). But if that turns out to be true, it will only be because of God’s great love and compassion – not because the animals had a salvation experience.
The next statement is equally ludicrous:
It is very difficult to discern the pure truth with so many different denominations and translations of the Holy Scriptures – In fact unless one goes back to the original languages it is nearly impossible, unless one receives understanding of the truth by revelation from the Great Holy Spirit.
Here’s what I suspect about your “going back” to the original languages – and I assume you mean the original languages of the Bible: You do seem to be saying that the English speaking peoples of the world do not in fact have the Word of God – unless we can read and understand the “original” Hebrew and Greek. Or else we, like yourself (?) must have it divinely translated and interpreted for us directly from the “Holy Spirit.”
Which of these are you saying? Are you saying that you are trained (and fluently proficient in the Hebrew and Greek? Or that your understanding of Scripture is superior because you are getting a direct translation-feed from the Holy Spirit?
I think everything you know about New Testament Greek you’ve copied from Watchtower Society magazines. And I think your “understanding” of the above noted verse of Scripture has more to do with an overactive imagination than anything else.
I am aware that the things of the spirit of God must be spiritually discerned, but the spiritual discerning of the Scriptures, is not some kind of mystical experience whereby the meaning of the Word of God is made to mean something other than what it actually says when we read it.
The next statement I cite only partially:
I prove conclusively that the word everlasting does not mean never ending. . . .
No, actually you don’t. You are only repeating what the Watchtower authors and the other soul sleepers publish. Such people claim that the Greek word “aionion” (and all variations, cases and tenses of it) simply means, “a long period of time with an eventual ending.”
So, evidently you must believe that Jesus died on the cross so that we can receive forgiveness of our sins and be given a life that is not never ending? Or be given a life that has a beginning and an eventual ending? Don’t we already have that?
The last paragraph is an obvious sarcasm, but the point is that even the New World so-called, “translation” renders “…eis tous aionas ton aionon…” as “…for ever and ever…” every place that word structure appears EXCEPT where it pertains to eternal punishment.
The problem the soul sleepers have with “aionion” isn’t really with its meaning of eternal or never-ending so much as it is with their private notions against the concept of eternal torment.
Okay, I am going to deal with the issue of the comma. But first consider the following:
But in some other of the modern translations including "New World Translation of the HOLY SCRIPTURES." This verse is translated as:
'And he said to him: "Truly I tell you today, You will be with me in Paradise."' (New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures).
You mention “some other modern translations,” including the New World, but the only one you cite is the Watchtower’s! No big deal, I just want everyone to know where you are getting your doctrinal information and your “knowledge” in the “…original languages…”
Here is the next statement that makes no sense. He question’s the thief’s salvation:
“…the thief will be … assessed at the Great White Throne Judgement and serving out his sentence – if any…”
I maintain that the thief will not be at the Great White throne Judgment. That judgment is reserved for those who die in their sins. Jesus said that the thief would be with Him, in Paradise, and yes, that very day. And even if you disagree with the time-frame, you simply have no reason whatsoever to doubt that Jesus had forgiven the thief, and promised him that he would be with Him in paradise – eventually according to your interpretation.
Read the book Revelation (in a trustworthy translation), and you will see that those who stand before the Great White Throne are cast into the lake of fire.
And now, about that comma.
There is but one reason for anyone wanting to move the comma to where it appears after the word “today.” That reason cannot be a more accurate translation from the Greek, or even a more superior knowledge of the Greek, for as Mr. Coombs so rightly states, there were no punctuation marks in the original Greek of the New Testament.
It is a simple (yet blatant) attempt to manipulate a punctuation mark in order to have Jesus saying something other than what He had actually said.
Move the comma and you have a much better chance of convincing the ignorant and unsuspecting that Jesus was telling the repentant thief. . . . .
“…truly I am telling you TODAY (as opposed to yesterday or last week some time – just so you will know what day it is that I am telling you this), you will (some day) be with me in paradise (eventually), but not actually today, because when you die, you’ll just be dead.”
The soul sleepers desperately need that comma shifted around so as to validate their false doctrine of soul sleeping.
Leave the comma where it is, and you have Jesus telling the thief that they will be together in paradise that very day – which is not only grammatically accurate, but also in keeping with the overall counsel of God’s Word.
One interesting attempt to rationalize the moving of the comma is telling us that Jesus was simply using a manner of speech, such as when we say things like, “…I am telling you right now…” Thus Jesus saying, “…truly I tell you today, . . .”
The only problem is, Jesus didn’t talk like that. You may go back and read all through the four gospels, and see the many, many times when Jesus would say, “…verily I say…” and even when He was being emphatic, “…verily, verily I say…” You will see that He NEVER went around saying anything even close to “…verily I say to you today…” Or, “…I am telling you right now…” That simply was not His style.
The jury has been out on this issue for many, many years and all of the reputable scholars and translators – and legitimate theologians – have ruled. When Christians die, their souls leave the body and are ushered immediately into the presence of the Lord to await the resurrection and the rapture of the living saints – and the comma stays where it is.
In Christ’s service,
C.L. (Chuck) Troupe
PS: I am not a “lurker.” Frank invited me to post, and I do so only at his pleasure.
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There are numerous seasonings that are regarded as Jamaican spices, but they are not indigenous to Jamaica or the Caribbean. Many times when someone thinks about a Jamaican spice they would finalized it all with a seasoning called “All spice” (Jamaican pimento) but of course there are a lot more spices and ingredients that had been introduced into the Jamaican cuisine.
The Jamaican cuisine used a kaleidoscope of spices, cultures and foods from all over the world. This blend of spices could range from mild, spicy to very spicy even hot. A spicy meal for Jamaicans means that the meal is well seasoned, on the other hand this well seasoned meal could mean hot in other countries.
Jamaican spices have benefited well from the rich soil of Jamaica and the natural methods used in cultivating them. For example you will find that the Jamaican scallion is far more potent and flavorful than a scallion found in North America.
Ginger is another example of a Jamaican spice and is rated the best in the world as a result of its high potency. Its strength and flavor has generated naturally and was never genetically induced. This is attributed to the climate in Jamaica and the rich soil composition.
When using the Jamaican spices one has to understand that timing and quantity plays a great role. Jamaican spices work in combination, when disproportioned it will have an opposing effect, one spice to another. Many Jamaican spices are over-powering and could change the final outcome of the dish completely, so practice and measurement is important.
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One of the trademarks of the current recession has been widespread unemployment. As a result, anyone looking for a job right now should probably cast a wide net and include government jobs in their search for a regular paycheck.
Public-sector employment is sometimes seen as the booby prize of the job market. But there some lucrative opportunities out there. According to data from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, the highest-paying government jobs outside of elective office have annual salaries of more than $85,000 and include jobs in a wide array of fields, including law, medicine, science, and finance.
As in the private sector, anyone expecting to be hired in these government jobs needs to achieve a baseline level of expertise. Fortunately, tax dollars not only pay these salaries, but also help fund internships that will give prospective hires the skills they’ll need to find full-time employment in these positions.
As one might expect, some of the highest-paying government jobs are held by elected officials. The largest government salary goes to the president of the U.S, who earns $400,000 a year. Interestingly, the vice president is not the second-highest paid government employee. That distinction belongs to the Postmaster General, whose annual salary is $245,000. The Speaker of the House earns $223,500 annually, the Senate majority leader earns $193,400, and the vice president brings home nearly half the president's salary at $227,300 a year.
So what can job-seekers expect from a public sector paycheck? Using data from the Office of Personnel Management, CNBC.com collected the annual salaries of employees in 10 of the high-earning government jobs, and compared them with the salaries from the same jobs in the private sector, utilizing data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Some are jobs are better-paying in the private sector and some have higher salaries in government positions...regardless, they all pay well.
What are some of the highest-paying government jobs? Click ahead and find out.
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AS I REMEMBER
In the early spring of 1891 I went as a bride to what was once old Muchakinock, an Indian name that was derived from a nearby creek meaning, I was told, "hard to cross." It was a mining camp five or six miles from Oskaloosa, the county seat.
The camp, as it was called, had formerly been inhabited by white miners. When they went on a strike the Chicago and Northwestern Coal Company, who owned the mines, brought in colored miners and their families from Staunton, Charlottsville, and other towns in Virginia. These colored men knew nothing of mining but were taught coal-mining by men hired by the Company. Besides the colored people there were also a goodly number of Swedes.
Overshadowing the town to the south was a huge pile of smoking slag, which when fanned by the wind would burst into a flame looking like a small mountain.
A branch of the C. and N. W. Railroad ran west through the town, which was often used as a street especially in muddy weather.
The coal company not only owned the mines but owned and operated a General Merchandise store, which had a system known as Order Days running, say, from the first to the fifth of the month according to the number of people and the division of the town. On these days the miners or their wives would order groceries, etc., supposedly to last a month or until the next Order Day. To the clerks it meant work and more work, for many times they would have to work all night putting up orders with no extra pay. To the women it was like a great social gathering where they could get together and visit or learn the latest news of the town, perhaps the death of a miner caused by falling slate or the birth of twins having been brought into the world by Old Lady Ross, the midwife of the town, who in her black and white apron was usually kept busy.
The store used the check system, checks ranging from one to ten dollars, and as small purchases were made the clerks would punch the check according to the amount of the purchase, so no money was used in exchange. The amount of the checks would be taken out of the miner's pay-check before the next pay day.
After a time the Superintendent suggested a Colony, an organization whereby the single men by paying 75 cents per month and the married men $1.50 per month could have medical attention in case of sickness without being a probable burden on the county.
The new camp was named Buxton, after the Superintendent of the Mines, a name that was destined for more than a score of years to take its place among other towns of the state. It carried with it all the traditions of the old town, yet it attracted many people from various towns and cities of Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, and Missouri, in fact from everywhere.
I am sure I am safe in saying that when the town, Buxton, was at its height, no other town in Iowa could boast so many professional and business people of our own group. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, druggists, pharmacists, undertakers, postmaster, Justice of the Peace, constables, clerks, members of the school board, and what have you were all there.
H.A. Armstrong who owned and operated the meat markets in both camps acquired considerable wealth, and I might say was a man of strong convictions and advocated that the solution of the race problem could be accomplished by inter-marriage and in his own life practiced what he preached.
The following persons were prominent at some time in camp and the positions they held: Dr. E. A. Carter now of Detriot, Michigan; Dr. C. G. Robinson of Chicago; Dr. Williams; Dr. H. H. London, and Dr. Taylor; Lawyers, Geo. W. Woodson and Jas. Spears; Druggists and Pharmacists, B. F. Cooper and Ike and Hattie Hutchinson; Undertaker, S. Billings; Postmaster, Ed Mills; Dentist, L. R. Willis; Music teachers, Cora Thomas, Josie Meadows, Mollie Tibbs, Mrs. Will Lee, and Mrs. Dumond (wife of the Congregational Minister); Justice of the Peace, E. A. London; Constable, Tom Romans. James Roberts manufactured Cuban Hand Made Havana Cigars and did a wholesale and retail business.
The Granberry Bros., manufacturers of tailor made clothes, satisfied the most discriminating customer.
Peter Abington, the caterer, kept his wagon on the street all day long selling ice cream, pies, bread, butter, and eggs.
There was a newly constructed General Merchandise Store with the same old and newly added clerks.
The Buxton Savings Bank occupied one end of the store building with Mrs. Lottie Baxter, the daughter of H. A. Armstrong, as cashier.
Among other business ventures in Buxton that stand out in my memory are: Lewis Reasby with his hamburger and hot dog stand across from the company store and in front of the Y.M.C.A. His comical manner of crying his wares would attract passers-by, who would stop and listen to him, then find themselves thrusting their hands into their pockets and saying, "A hot dog please."
London and London, the business of E. A. and W. H. who dealt in sewing machines and musical instruments, was located in the Thomas Block.
Yes, Buxton had a newspaper too, namely, the "Buxton Advocate." It was a weekly, edited and owned by R. B. Montgomery.
The Y.M.C.A. was a large three story structure built diagonally across from the company store. It was built expressly for the colored miners, and when they seemed reluctant to take advantage of the opportunity, the Supt. indicated that he would turn it over to the white people. Our people, after reconsideration, pledged cooperation and then a very efficient secretary in the person of L. E. Johnson was engaged.
The first floor of the building contained offices and recreation rooms. The second a spacious auditorium with stage and dressing rooms. The third floor was occupied by rooms for the many secret orders. To the north of the large building was a smaller building containing a swimming pool for the younger group with their own secretary.
The Langlois sisters, better known as the French Women, displayed moving pictures every night, which afforded a very enjoyable recreation for the miners and families. Road shows as well as moving pictures were featured in the auditorium. Among them East Lynne and the Count of Monte Cristo.
Among the many noted Negroes who entertained packed houses were Hallie Q. Brown, Booker T. Washington, Blind Boone and Roscoe Conklin Simmons.
I must not forget to relate to you about the roller skating rinks and the added recreation it afforded the younger folks, and I might add some older ones too. You ought to have seen how these boys and girls did skate! The jolting jitterbug of today was a mild comparison.
Various parts of Buxton were named for the leading citizens of that section, thus: Coopertown town took its name after B. F. Cooper, the leading Negro druggist there, or in fact, the leading druggist in the state at that time. Gainesville was named for Reubin Gaines, a well-to-do man in the community.
There was one part of the camp in which we lived that was known as “Gobbler's Nob.” Why, I never knew, but I do know it was an elevation at the foot of which was a ravine that could be reached by a foot bridge in rainy or muddy weather.
“Sharp End,” I suppose, was the sudden termination of the town to the south, and located in this area was a drug store owned and operated by Ike Hutchinson, whose wife Hattie was the registered pharmacist.
Following the road a little farther west was a grocery store managed by J. W. Neely, who also was a pharmacist. By all means we must not forget H. D. (Hustler) Williams looking out for business
Near the depot Anderson Perkins and Son
operated a hotel and confectionary. They advertised
good meals and first class
service. Hotel rates $1 .00
A. G. Rhodes owned a shoe shop and did repairing while you waited, he also sold foot form shoes to order
If you desired an old-fashioned meal and did not wish to go home or bother to cook on a hot day, all you had to do was to stop in Jeffer's Restaurant, run by Andy Jeffers and his wife, Maggie.
The hair dressing, manicuring, face massage, and chiropody was all done by Madam Ella Yancy. She was an honor graduate of the New York College of Hairdressing. Madam Yancy was Buxton's best specialist in scalp treatment. “If your hair won’t grow, won't straighten, all you have to do is to see Madam Yancy and find out the reason and get a remedy”; and “If your wrinkles won’t leave and your cheeks won’t fill out, see Madam Yancy”; and “If your corns bother you and just won’t stop hurting, see Madam Yancy."
Rev. Lucas operated an up-to-date bakery and kept the town supplied with fresh bread.
Manie Lobbins had a livery barn in the Sharp End, and since this was in the horse and buggy days no one was required to take Hobson's choice.
If you wanted coffee like your mother made, you would go to the Rising Sun Restaurant in Coopertown, operated by Mrs. Anna Lobbins. She would serve you a hot lunch or a complete dinner at reasonable prices.
Peter Carey's barber
shop was also in this section, located across from Cooper's Drug
Store. He was always in whenever one
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The schools took the name of the streets, if we may call them streets, on which they were located or the section of town. Thus we had a Fifth Street School, an Eleventh Street School, and a Swede Town School. They were two story buildings of four rooms, each thus employing twelve teachers.
The rooms were all well filled with pupils and often a teacher would have to instruct several grades. The grade work done in these schools compared favorably with any in the state. For instance, whenever pupils from these schools went to school in other places, I have been told by the teachers of other towns that they were always glad to get the Buxton children because of their thoroughness.
After several years the number of pupils to enter High School became greater so the School Board erected a large building east of the Fifth Street School maintaining two years of High School to begin with. They employed a Prof. Gilliam as Superintendent.
After one year of occupancy it burned down just the Sunday before the beginning of the first semester of the second year. The cause of the loss was said to have been due to the construction of the building. It was never rebuilt so to other towns in the state High School pupils had to continue to go.
The closing exercises of school, which marked the graduation of the eighth grade pupils was always looked forward to with great anticipation, and at such times the County Superintendent was usually present. To the Y.M.C.A. we went and the plays, pageants, and drills were always greeted with cheers and enthusiasm.
I now remember some things concerning the store. Two things one could not purchase were revolvers and alcoholic patent medicines, the kind in which alcohol was so prevalent that it became a cheap grade of whiskey. At one time a certain patent medicine was withdrawn from the stock when a miner was found drunk with two bottles, empty, in his pockets.
The store at night after the miners had cleaned up and eaten their supper was like a large auditorium where the miners gathered to trade, smoke, and visit. There was no comment on loafing. The manager considered it far better to have them pass their time in that manner than in the nearby saloons. One proprietor of the store said at one time that he had within a three year period cause to remove only one drunkard from the building. The store was a boon to the town and the miner's friend always.
About 1921 many of the pioneers were destined to be moved to another coal field as the mines at Buxton were just about worked out. The new camp was called Haydock, still in Monroe County about eighteen miles distant over hills and valleys. Fewer still were willing to follow up the unstable life of a miner and so many continued to go to various cities. The camp had already been populated by many white miners and their families, mainly from Illinois, thus there were less colored people and very few business ventures.
The Buxton Wonders, a ball team of the camp, enjoyed an enviable reputation for being one of the best teams in the state. Some of the boys on this team were: George Neal, Cliff Wallace, and Skinny Wilson.
Some intimation at times endeavored to decry the law-abiding attitude of the camp owing to the fact that two or three crimes were committed. When we think of the duration of the town and the diversity of its population - say 4000 or more- few indeed were the tragedies.
The churches of the new camp were about the same type structures as the ones in the old town, perhaps somewhat larger with different interior arrangement. There were in the life of the community two Baptist Churches, one Methodist, a Congregational Church, and the Church of God. The Congregational services were held in the Y.M.C.A.
I think I never saw church members so spiritually imbued. I recall a revival at the A.M.E. Church with an eleven year old evangelist, Lonnie Dennis. Well, grown-ups were converted in that meeting that I’m sure that as long as they lived, putting it in the words of James Weldon Johnson, “were true to their God and true to their native land.” Truly a little child led them.
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, New York-based photographer Stanley Greenberg
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In his new book,
Greenberg visited nearly twenty particle accelerators--including Fermilab, CERN, and Japan's J-PARC--where physicists are investigating the properties of matter and trying to figure out what happened just after the Big Bang. Or as a physicist at Fermilab described it to him, places where they "smash things into other things and see what happens."
In the intricate and massive machinery we see the work of engineers and designers, but the images are stark, futuristic, and sometimes lonely. A few parked bicycles in one photo, some scribbling on a control panel in another, are the only hints of the people at work here. It's as though some great discovery--or catastrophe--has happened and everyone has left the scene.
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|Designer(s)||Peter Olotka, Jack Kittredge, Bill Eberle, Bill Norton|
|Publisher(s)||Eon Products, Inc, West End Games, Games Workshop Mayfair Games, Avalon Hill, Fantasy Flight Games|
|Players||3–6+ (depending on edition)|
|Setup time||5-10 minutes|
|Playing time||20-120+ minutes|
|Skill(s) required||Prediction, diplomacy, card management|
Cosmic Encounter is a science fiction-themed strategy board game, designed by "Future Pastimes" (collectively, Peter Olotka, Jack Kittredge and Bill Eberle, with Bill Norton) and originally published by Eon Games in 1977. In it, each player takes the role of a particular alien species attempting to establish control over the universe, each with a unique power to break one of the rules of the game. In 1992, a new edition of Cosmic Encounter won the Origins Award for Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Boardgame of 1991, and placed 6th in the Deutscher Spiele Preis. The game was inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame in 1997.
Cosmic Encounter is a dynamic and social game, with players being encouraged to interact, argue, form alliances, make deals, double-cross, and occasionally work together to protect the common good. Most editions of the game are designed for three to six players, although official rules exist for playing with as few as two or as many as eight players.
Cosmic Encounter is based on a fixed set of rules which are subsequently modified by other elements of the game.
Each player begins with a color-coded "home system" containing five planets, and twenty tokens representing starships that populate these planets as bases. A central "Warp" is used to place defeated ships for all players. The game goal, in general, is to occupy five bases on planets outside one's home system. The player is dealt a hand of seven cards from the normal card deck, which includes three types of cards normally. Two types are Encounter cards, including numbered Attack cards and Compromise/Negotiation cards, while the third type are "edicts"/"artifacts".
On a player's turn, they retrieve one ship from the Warp, and then turn a card on a second deck, the color-coded "Destiny" deck, indicating which system they must attack. Using a special "attack cone" indicator, the player selects which opponent on which planet to attack, and then places from 1 to 4 ships on the cone. Both the attacker and defender can ask the other players individually to ally with their side, committing up to 4 ships on either side of the conflict.
Once allies have committed to the combat, the attacker and defender select an "Encounter" card, which is either a numbered Attack card, or a Compromise/Negotiation card. If both cards are Attack cards, the total of the attack value and number of allied ships are added for both sides, and the side with the larger value wins with the defending player winning in case of ties. If the attacking side wins, the defender's base is lost and all ships and allies' ships are sent to the Warp, while the attacker and their allies gain the base on that planet. If the defending side wins, the attacker and allies' ships are sent to the Warp, and defending allies gain a bonus of either a ship from the warp or a new card for each ship risked. If one side plays a Compromise card against a numbered card, they immediately lose, but they, though not their allies, get "compensation" from the victor such as by drawing cards from the victor's hand. If both players use Compromise cards, they have one minute to make a deal, such as exchanging bases, while all allies are sent back to their respective bases. If a deal can't be made, both players lose ships. The player then draws a card and play proceeds to the next player.
To aid in timing, each turn is broken down into a number of phases, and cards and powers will typically indicate which phases the game elements can be played in. In particular, the edicts/artifacts cards, which generate an immediate effect such as releasing all tokens from the Warp, may only be played during specific phases which will be listed on the card, while certain features of alien powers can only be triggered in specific phases.
The game becomes complex with the introduction of alien powers. These are typically drawn randomly at the start of the game and known to all players; however, variants exist where players can select their powers, use multiple powers simultaneously, or hide their powers until they are used. Each power gives the player a way to bend the core rules to their advantages, typically in one of the following ways:
- Continuous effects, such as the Macron where each ship is valued as 4 ships
- Combat resolution effects, such as the Void where any ship that loses against it is pulled from the game instead of going to the Warp
- Victory condition changes, such as Masochist that wins if it loses all its ships
- Role-playing elements, such as the Sniveler, where the player, if they are in the losing position, must whine to the other players to gain benefits.
A player's alien power is only active if they control three or more bases in their home system, and if lost, can be regained by taken back a third base.
More advanced optional game components can add further levels of complexity and unpredictability. No edition has all of the optional components. They include:
- Flares: Cards that grant a limited version of an alien power, or, if used by the player that possesses that power, a significant advantageous gain.
- Lucre: In-game currency that allows more control of resources (such as buying more cards for one's hand). Multiple alien powers affect Lucre.
- Moons: Colonies on moons do not count towards victory conditions, but occupying one grants access to its special ability. Moon abilities can be powerful (such as retaining an alien power when it would normally be lost), while others are best described as "silly" (such as forcing the owner to speak in rhyme).
- Special planetary systems: Printed on the reverse side of the normal systems in most prints of Cosmic Encounter, the special systems have additional rules in regards to the player's initial setup, colonies, and victory conditions.
- Technologies: An array of boosts and special abilities, none of which can be used right away. Technology cards are placed face down on the table. The owner may move one ship from a planet onto the card at the start of any player's turn. Once the number of ships on the card meets the card's cost, technology is "discovered," the ships return, and the card is flipped face up. The power of technology cards varies wildly. The Xenon lasers card costs two ships, and its owner may change encounter scores by one point. The Omega missile card costs eight ships, and destroys a planet.
- Rewards: A deck's worth of incentives, reward cards can only be drawn by victorious defensive allies. Reward cards include "kickers," multipliers for encounter cards, and "rifts," booby traps that free ships from the warp, or send ships there if they ever change hands.
Some players have created their own "homemade" powers, and have posted these along with other various game extensions on the Internet.
Major variants include multiple-power games (in which players have multiple alien powers at once) and hidden-power games (in which powers are not revealed until their first use). Official variants include rules for adding a seventh or eighth player, and there has been a version providing enough components for a ten-player game (when combined with a previous release).
The original version of Cosmic Encounter had exactly six alien powers and was designed for up to six players. This edition was nearly published by Parker Brothers in the mid-1970s; when it was not, the designers founded Eon Games to publish it.
The first Eon edition was released in 1977. It allowed up to four players and included fifteen alien powers. Over the next five years, Eon released nine expansions, adding sixty more alien powers, components for a fifth and sixth player, and several new types of pieces, including "Flare" cards, money (Lucre), Moons, and special power planet systems. The artwork on these early editions included images painted by Dean Morrissey.
In 1986, the game was republished in the U.S. by West End Games. The game used the same deck of cards and number of players, and the same powers with five additional powers from Eon expansion sets #1 and #2. However, the cards and tokens were incompatible with the Eon edition. Meanwhile, in the UK, the game was published by Games Workshop. The GW edition supported six players, with powers from the Eon base set and some of the first three expansions.
In 1991, the game was licensed by Mayfair Games. Mayfair published Cosmic Encounter, an expansion called More Cosmic Encounter (1992), and a stripped-down introductory version of the game called Simply Cosmic (1995). The Mayfair edition revised some powers from the original Eon set, introduced many more, and significantly revised some of the existing components. It also introduced several new components. By combining the three Mayfair products, it is possible to play a 10-player game.
On August 17, 2007, Fantasy Flight Games announced plans to reprint the game "in the Summer of 2008." This was later updated to "November 2008." Game designer Kevin Wilson gave demonstrations of the Fantasy Flight Cosmic Encounter version at Gen Con 2008. This was released in December 2008, and included 50 alien powers, a new Technology variant, and support for 5 players. Fantasy Flight released an expansion set called "Cosmic Incursion" in February 2010 that added 20 aliens (some new and some old), ships for a sixth player, and a "Rewards" deck which includes, among other things, Kickers and Rifts. In February 2011, Fantasy Flight released the second expansion set, "Cosmic Conflict", which included 20 alien powers, ships for a seventh player, and a "Hazard" deck which adds special conditions to encounters. The third expansion set, "Cosmic Alliance," was released in early 2012, containing new alien powers, kit for an eighth player and rules for team play. A fourth, as-yet-unnamed expansion is expected in 2013, and a fifth "fan-designed" set is currently under development on the Cosmic Encounter facebook page.
Online version
In 2003, original designer Peter Olotka and partners launched a new version called Cosmic Encounter Online that may be played over the internet. As of 2010[update], this version has 35 powers, including four new aliens and two more that are designed for online play (such as Dork, which blocks other players' screens).
The possibility of an organic and completely different experience every time one plays was one of the influences in the design of the card game Magic: The Gathering. Magic designer Richard Garfield has often cited Cosmic Encounter as being influential in the design of Magic, going so far as to say, "[Magic's] most influential ancestor is a game for which I have no end of respect: Cosmic Encounter."
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- Cosmic Encounter's Facebook page
- Cosmic Encounter Online Cosmic Encounter Online
- Fantasy Flight Games' Cosmic Encounter page
- Cosmic Encounter Library showing the complete version history along with photos and components as well as general CE information.
- TheDiceTower.com Interview with game designer Peter Olotka, June 13, 2005
- GameSpy.com Interview with game designer Peter Olotka, January 2002
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
by David S. Landes
Norton, 650 pp., $30.00
“If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference.” So David Landes sums up the message of his book. The title he chose and the histories of particular nations that he explores with wit and impressive learning are thus part of a sustained criticism of neoclassical economists’ faith in the power of free markets to affect all peoples similarly and thus maximize wealth and well-being. Landes, on the contrary, argues that the historical record shows: 1) “The gains from trade are unequal.” 2) “The export and import of jobs is not the same as trade in commodities.” 3) The “comparative advantage” a nation may have in international trade “is not fixed, and it can move for and against.” 4) “Just because markets give signals does not mean that people will respond timely or well. Some people do this better than others, and culture can make all the difference.”
Yet Landes does not “advocate any particular national policy…. I just want to say that the current pattern of technological diffusion and catch-up development will press hard on the haves, especially the individual victims of economic regrouping, while bringing ‘goodies’ and hope to some of the have-nots, and despair, disappointment and anger to many of the others.” Not a very cheerful prognosis for the United States, therefore, or for the world. Yet the book concludes on a rather different note:
History tells us that the most successful cures for poverty come from within…. What counts is work, thrift, honesty, patience, tenacity…. The people who live to work are a small and fortunate elite. But it is an elite open to newcomers, self-selected, the kind of people who accentuate the positive…. Edu-cated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right. The one lesson that emerges is the need to keep trying.
Landes himself is among the “small but fortunate elite” he admires, a man who “lives to work,” and keeps on trying to understand the economic history of the world. His book is the fruit of an academic tradition of economic history that began in the 1880s when Arnold Toynbee (uncle of the famous historian Arnold J. Toynbee), while lecturing at Oxford on the reign of King George III, invented the term and concept of “Industrial Revolution.” Since then, innumerable scholars have both challenged the concept and reaffirmed it; they have explored its antecedents in Britain and Western Europe, studied the diffusion of the “revolution,” and argued about why it occurred when and where it did. Landes’s earlier book, The Unbound Prometheus (1969), remains a splendid summation of this long debate, with special emphasis on, and sensitivity to, changing technologies of production in Western Europe.
His new book expands the scope of his previous work.
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A U.S. Senator is calling for a freeze in ethanol subsidies rather than continuing on the present course of expanding them through 2022.
On December 19, 2007, President Bush signed into law the Energy Independence and Security Act. This legislation had several positive features, including higher fuel standards for cars and greater investment in renewable energies, such as solar power. However, the bill required a huge spike in the biofuel production requirement from 7.5 billion in 2012 to 36 billion gallons in 2022. This was a well-intentioned measure, but it was also impractical. Nearly all our domestic corn and grain supply is needed to meet this mandate, robbing the world of one of its most important sources of food.
We are already seeing the ill effects of this measure. Last year, 25 percent of America’s corn crop was diverted to produce ethanol. In 2008, that number will grow to 30-35 percent, and it will soar even higher in the years to come. Furthermore, the trend of farmers supplanting other grains with corn is decreasing the supply of numerous agricultural products. When the supply of those products goes down, the price inevitably goes up. Subsequently, the cost of feeding farm and ranch animals increases and the cost is passed to consumers of beef, poultry, and pork products. Since February 2006, the price of corn, wheat, and soybean has increased by more than 240%. Rising food prices are hitting the pockets of lower-income Americans and people who live on fixed incomes.
While the blame for higher costs shouldn’t rest exclusively with biofuels – drought and rising oil costs are contributing factors – the expansion of biofuels has been a major source of the problem. The International Food Policy Research Institute estimates that biofuel production accounts for between one-quarter and one-third of the recent spike in global commodity prices. For the first time in 30 years, food riots are breaking out in many parts of the globe, including major countries such as Mexico, Pakistan, and Indonesia. The fact that America’s energy policies are creating global instability should concern the leaders of both political parties.
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For my dad's birthday last month, I gave him a copy of the new book The Most Human Human: What Talking With Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive, by Brian Christian. When Adam Gopnik, in The New Yorker, called the book "terrific" and "one of the rare successful literary offspring of Gödel Escher Bach," I knew that this would be a perfect gift for my computer-geek, philosophically inclined Dad. Upon further research, I liked how the author, Brian Christian, has degrees in computer science, philosophy and poetry, and was born in 1984. He's an overachieving Millennial, in short, and it makes me proud that my generation has reached the point where we are writing erudite books that get rave reviews in The New Yorker and can be given to our baby-boomer parents.
So I purchased the book, read the introduction for kicks, and was sufficiently intrigued that I ended up reading the whole thing before giving it to Dad (I knew he wouldn't mind).
As the New Yorker comparison to Gödel Escher Bach would imply, The Most Human Human is a difficult book to sum up and covers a wide range of topics. Fundamentally, it is an investigation into what intellectual processes humans can still do better than computers, and how that can help us to understand our place in the world and get the most out of being alive. If our humanity does not lie purely in our intellectual capacity, where does it lie?
I should note, for those of you who are put off (rather than encouraged) by the comparison to Gödel Escher Bach, that The Most Human Human is much shorter than Gödel Escher Bach and probably more accessible -- it will make you think, but does not require you to understand symbolic logic. In addition, The Most Human Human has a moral-philosophical-humanistic component that I don't remember being present in Gödel Escher Bach. (Some indication of Brian Christian's tone can be discerned from the fact that one of the book's epigraphs comes from David Foster Wallace and Wallace is quoted several times in the text. How Millennial of Christian!) It's a warmer and more inviting book, I think.
The Most Human Human covers a lot of ground, so people with a wide variety of interests and concerns are likely to get something out of it. Clearly, one of the big themes of the book is human verbal and non-verbal communication -- and clearly, that's something I also think about a lot, because I write plays. Christian even cites the work of playwrights in his text -- discussing David Mamet, for instance, in a section on how human dialogue tends to be far more circuitous and discursive and filled with interruptions than computers are capable of. I love the fusion of art and science!
The Most Human Human, therefore, has given me some ideas on how to be a better playwright -- not just a better human being. In one fascinating section, Christian explains that chatbots these days excel at "stateless conversation," that is, conversation where their response depends only on the last thing that you said. But they're not so good at taking into account the overall arc of the conversation, and even worse at taking into account the conversation they had with you yesterday.
One of the earliest chatbots (late 1980s) was MGonz, which was designed to be verbally abusive, belligerent, and argumentative -- and succeeded in fooling a lot of people into thinking it was a human being.
"As becomes painfully clear from reading the MGonz transcripts, argument is stateless," Christian notes. "I've seen it happen between friends: 'Once again, you've neglected to do what you've promised.' 'Oh, there you go right in with that tone of yours!' 'Great, let's just dodge the issue and talk about my tone instead! You're so defensive!' 'You're the one being defensive! This is just like the time you x!' 'For the millionth time, I did not even remotely x! You're the one who...' And on and on. A close reading of this dialogue, with MGonz in mind, turns up something interesting, and very telling: each remark after the first is only about the previous remark. The friends' conversation has become stateless, unanchored from all context. [... Thus] there's a sense in which verbal abuse is simply less complex than other forms of conversation."
When I read Christian's invented sample of "stateless argument," I realized that if I read this same dialogue in a play, I would consider it terrible playwriting. I know this sort of thing happens in real life, but it seems to happen even more often in the work of bad or inexperienced playwrights. Being taught that "drama is conflict," some newbie playwrights confuse endless argument or bickering with genuine dramatic conflict. Their plays tend to consist of two relatively generic characters quibbling with and criticizing and insulting one another in generic -- in stateless -- ways.
But if you know exactly who these characters are, their relationship to one another and their prior history, the deeper reasons why they are arguing, you can write a good dialogue scene that doesn't degenerate into mindless bickering.
Good playwriting (and good chatbots) take prior conversation and prior history into account, the way that human beings do, unconsciously, in real life; bad playwriting (and bad chatbots) is stateless.
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Theway to getbest deal is tolearn allwecan beforenegotiating. The more we know the stronger we will be in discussions. We aretalkingof course mainly aboutbuying consumer goods direct from China and/or other emerging exporterslike India and Indonesia for resale in our respective countries.
1. We willlikely negotiatewith ...
1. Manufacturer (factory),or
2. Middle Person between usand the factory (generally called a "trader"),or
3. Ourown Sourcing Agent (an independent personwe appoint to source product and negotiateprice for us).
A"Supplier" iseither a manufacturer or atrader(who buysfrom the factory or from other traders for on-sale to us).
2. We use ourStep 2 knowledge to quickly **** out dud suppliers...
Knowingprecisely what productcertificationweneed, if any(see Due Diligence Step 2) is one thing. But, discoveringwhether the certificateactually exists is quite another. We use thisdiscovery process to quickly eliminatemost, but not all, of the dud suppliers (and,something is not normal if dud suppliers are not chasing our order).
Broadly, each Western country has itsown compulsory Standards for consumer goods.Certificationthata productcomplieswithStandards isissued by an independent laboratory afterrigorous technical tests.There'sUL, and EN and AS and etc fordifferentcountriesseen in Step 2.These certificates / lab tests can cost $10-$50k for a product that retails for just $10.
Words like"Made to UL xxx Standard"are commonly seen on suppliers' marketing and quotation material. However, those words per se mean nothing.I find thatabout70% of suppliers who respond to my buying leads hold no certificate forthese reasons:
1. The suppliermerely believesthe product is made to theStandardbutthe factory has not submitted the product for testing(hence words like "Made to xxx Standard"can arisefrommere belief rather thanfromexistence of an actualcertificate), or
2.The factory's main buyer,not the factory, holds the certificate/sbecause thebuyer itselfobtained and paid for the certificate/s, or
3.The factory has commenced the certification process but the certificate will not be available for a further3-6 months, or
4.The supplier's marketing claims in respect of certificates and quality standardare outrightfraudulent.
Don't forget the Chinese domestic market ishuge. Accordingly,many thriving and very genuine Chinese factories don't really understandforeign "Standards"when they startsellingto the West.
It's easy for a learner-buyerto get hooked into the long process of getting quotes, obtaining samples, doing market research and financial modelling around a product only to discover six months down the track that the projectis pie-in-the-sky becausethe product is notcertified.
In summary, knowing our Step 2 Due Diligencetechnical knowledge and then applying this knowledge in our very first discussion with a supplier is critical to the decision of whether to deal further with a supplier. Typical discussion goes like this:
Buyer: "I needa UL certificate."
Seller: "We make the product to UL Standard."
Dumb Buyer: "Great."
Smart Buyer: "Do you have the certificate?"
Smart Buyer: "Will you send copy of the certificate to me before I order a sample of the product?"
Genuine Seller: "Yes, no problem."
Dud Seller: (any one of 1,000 reasons why the certificate is not available).
3. MOQis a reasonablerequirement ...
Minimum Order Quantity(MOQ) causesmuch tension between buyers and suppliers. The problem is that manybuyers see theirorder as "large" while in reality the ordermay represent just2 minutes of production line time fora largeChinese factoryservicing the world.
It is uncommercial for a factory to deal with buyers who wantjust 2 minutes of its production line time.Basically the job of amodern factory is toproduce goods straight off big production lines directlyinto20' and 40' containers for immediate dispatch to warehouse / shipping.And,middle traders, who buycontainer loadsfrom the factory,arenotvirtual retailers ofjust half a dozenproducts to western buyers.
MOQ isall about "economy of scale".The cost of a job topaint onlyone square metre of our home will vastly exceed the cost, per square metre, to paint our entire home.The planningtimethat went into that one square metre job wasnear the same planningtime as painting our whole home.The same principal applies to a Chinese factory or a large trader in quickly moving goods.Hence the need for "MOQ" else the manufacturer or trader would also be retailers.
Think of a single product asa pyramid where "shop retail" is the base of the pyramid.The closer we get to the base the greater the mass of activity and therefore the greaterprice. Our order worth a couple of million dollars puts us near the top of the pyramid in paying smallestprice but our order for 20 items puts usnear the retail price base.
Buying less thanMOQ for market research:
Buyer: "We understand your 1,000 unit MOQ but we need your help for market research."
Buyer: "Do you think buyers in our country will like your product?"
Seller: "Of course."
Buyer: "We need 100 units to see if you are right."
Seller: "Many people in your country already buy ourproduct."
Buyer: "I know, but we want to sell to [our town / age group / income group / or as applicable]. They don't buy your product.
Seller: "I see."
Buyer: "We want to try your product on 100 of these peoplebefore we buyMOQ."
Seller: "That will cost more than MOQ price."
Buyer: "It's only research. Our research budget isMOQ price. Wemust see if our target market will like your product. We need your help."
Seller: [blah blah and finally agrees]
4. Don't be afraid of Middle Persons ...
Middle traders raise uncertainty in the mind of the buyer.Thebuyer naturally wantsto tracethe manufacturer forbetter price (not knowing the manufacturer has huge MOQ and is not interested).Chinese traders too often try to get around this buyer psychological problem by representing theyare the actual manufacturer.The potboils over when the buyer finds he/she is not dealing with the manufacturer.
Don't be afraid of middle persons who buy large quantities from the factory forresale to Western buyers.Small Western buyers (of less than $1m pa turnover) could not exist without them.But for these traders,near all Chineseproductswould go direct to the Wal-Mart's and other huge chain stores of this world. We need these middle Chinese traders for buying big chunks from factories andon-selling smaller chunks to us. Their margins are typically only around 5-10% (or should be).
If in doubt, hire one of the good little Chinese helpers who arewell know in these forum pagesto sort the wheat from the chaff.These helpers can do some pretty amazing work for aone or twohundred dollars. Might just be the best investment you ever make.
5. Hidden costs ... price is not just price...
Our negotiation posture will include all or many of thesereal costs:
1. FOB price (Price is usually quoted FOB,save where goods are sentby air or courier.)
2.Manufacturer's Warranty (What happens when end consumers claim forproduct replacement orrepair, in context 5-10% is not unusual?)
3. Percentageof defective goods allowable per shipment (There is near no such thing asa shipment "free of defect".)
4. Late delivery costs (What actualfinancial damage will I suffer if my order is not supplied on time?)
5. Supplier's moving input costs (What happens if the cost of raw materials to the supplier sharply increases before my order is produced, in context the supplier will usually request me to pay more despite a quote thatlooks like fixed price?)
6. Product Liability Insurance (What happens if I am sued in my own country for manufacturerneglect and/orproduct misrepresentation and the like?)
7. Freight Forwarder Issues (Particularly forBroken Container Loads - BLCs - in mainland China.)
6. Our negotiating posture,in summary of above ...
1. Are we dealing with Manufacturer, Trader or our own Sourcing Agent?
2. We use our knowledge of Certifications to **** out dud suppliers and to save getting caught up in fruitless negotiations for product we cannot, in any event, resell in our own country.
3. MOQ is a reasonable requirement but the supplier may sell smaller quantity for market research (if we push hard).
4. We are not afraid of middle traders. They are our partners to get around manufacturer's big MOQ requirements.
5. Price is not just price. Many supplier relatedelementsother than the quoted price make up thesupplier's real price and each needs to be negotiated.
And, for a hundred dollars or sowe can hire a smartindependent Chinese helper to assist when the going gets tough.
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A number of projects have sought to build free software providing similar functionality to Lotus Notes. Many are coming from different directions, trying to replicate different base abilities:
A platform for customized client/server applications (Casbah)
A platform for collaborative computing (PINN)
A platform distributed modular workflow (Yoga)
A platform for distributed messaging (Citadel/UX)
Not unlike the story of the blind men and the elephant, each group of developers has a slightly different perspective on what is useful about systems like Lotus Notes.
There is a "spinoff" project of the Mnemonic Browser Project formerly called "Mediator" but now called Gather that seeks to provide similar "groupware" functionality to those provided by Lotus Notes and Netscape Communicator.
As such, it may be characterized as an attempt to provide high levels of interactivity, which would take it beyond the distributed data/replication/discussion group functionality in Notes.
This project is pretty much dead.
The Yoga Project is seeking to provide a more direct emulation of the functionality of Lotus Notes.
This project is in the design phase, and appears to be heading towards a more "direct" attempt to replicate the functionality of Notes:
Using RPCs or CORBA to split the system into modular components;
Distributed data replication using Sleepycat/Berkeley DB.
Note that nothing is preventing the construction of additional interfaces (say, via CORBA) to connect Yoga to Relational Databases such as PostgreSQL. Yoga nonetheless needs some "base" data store, and this ideally should be a DBMS that is small, simple, and fast.
Cryptographic components to provide security and authentication would presumably need to be produced outside the US.
Initial efforts are being directed towards development of the database portion.
The name was originally Gnuotes.
And here is yet another project building groupware "solutions." It bases things on a mature BBS system known as Citadel. (I rather think that Citadel predates the IBM PC...)
It uses the traditional sorts of BBS conferencing features to replicate "messages" from server to server, in a fashion reminiscent of NNTP.
Haystack - a user-oriented Information Retrieval system
Based on PostgreSQL.
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About Myrtle Schools
- There are 2 K-12 schools in Myrtle, MS, including 2 public schools. Myrtle public schools belong to one districts, Union County School District.
- There are 2 Myrtle elementary schools, 2 Myrtle middle schools and 2 Myrtle high schools.
Contact Education.com with questions or feedback about SchoolFinder.
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Most repeated measures ANOVAs have time as the repeated measure; I was wondering about using a repeated measure that is not time.
Say we fed two groups of animals different diets. At the end of the experiment, we sample the tissues, and measure ~30 different compounds (e.g. different fatty acids [FA]). Animals are sampled but once. Each FA is not independent of each other, as some of these compounds are converted from one form to another. As such, they are frequently moderately correlated with each other.
Would it be fair to treat each compound as a repeated measure, with diet as a between subjects factor? Thus, the interaction between Diet X FA would tell me if the FA content differed among diets?
I note that in many papers, researchers would perform 25-30 separate ANOVAs; one on each compound. Yet, these compounds are not independent of each other, as they are each measured simultaneously on the same animals.
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In popularizations, people tunnel through walls or doors. But what can really tunnel through a graphene sheet without tearing it? According to Wikipedia, a single layer of graphene absorbs 2.3 % ...
I have some questions concerning the calculations made by Hawking in the 80-90's using Euclidean (canonical) quantum gravity on gravitational instantons. Were those tunnelings only between identical ... | <urn:uuid:011ca8e0-7d9b-4f7a-8eed-34f455f467cb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tunneling?sort=unanswered&pagesize=50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.902892 | 79 | 1.84375 | 2 |
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Making higher education more affordable and accessible is vital for America's success in the 21st century and beyond, President Obama said Friday.
"[This] is going to be one of the most important issues that not just you face, but this entire country faces: How can we make sure that everybody is getting the kind of education they need to personally succeed but also to build up this nation," Obama told an audience at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, "because in this economy, there is no greater predictor of individual success than a good education."
A college degree is the best tool one can have to achieve the American promise that "if you work hard, if you are applying yourself, if you are doing the right thing, you can do well enough to raise a family and own a home and send your own kids to college, put away a little for retirement, create products or services -- be part of something that is adding value to this country and maybe changing the world," Obama said. "That's what you're striving for. That's what the American Dream is all about."
He repeated his State of the Union call to Congress to extend tuition tax credits and double the number of work-study jobs over the next five years.
He also repeated his challenge to universities not to constantly raise tuition.
"Look, we can't just keep on subsidizing skyrocketing tuition. If tuition is going up faster than inflation, faster than even healthcare is going up, no matter how much we subsidize it, sooner or later, we're going to run out of money," Obama said.
"We are putting colleges on notice. … You can't assume that you'll just jack up tuition every single year. If you can't stop tuition from going up, then the funding you get from taxpayers each year will go down. We should push colleges to do better. We should hold them accountable if they don't."
Obama also challenged states to restore funding for higher education and announced a "Race to the Top" competition to encourage college affordability.
"We're telling the states, if you can find new ways to bring down the cost of college and make it easier for more students to graduate, we'll help you do it," Obama said. "We will give you additional federal support if you are doing a good job of making sure that all of you aren't loaded up with debt when you graduate from college."
Obama also touched on other issues from his State of the Union address Tuesday, including energy independence and security, revamping the tax code for businesses and individuals, extending the payroll tax cut for the full year and taxing millionaires to help lower the federal deficit.
"We've got to choose," he said. "When it comes to paying our fair share, I believe we should follow the [U.S. billionaire] Warren Buffett rule. If you make more than $1 million a year, then you should pay a tax rate of at least 30 percent. On other hand … if you make less than $250,000 … then your taxes shouldn't go up."
While giving shout-outs to political dignitaries attending the speech, Obama also recognized Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson.
"I hear you're coming back, man," Obama said. "That is a good deal for Michigan."
When a member of the audience shouted "Denard Robinson in 2012," Obama told the star quarterback, "They're trying to draft you for president."
To the audience, Obama said, "He's got to graduate before he runs for president. There's an age limit."
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Before J’s first trip to the dentist, we did a quick unit on teeth. We talked about why to brush/floss, how to, especially bad foods, etc. Here’s an activiity we did that turned out pretty fun and useful.
You’ll Need: At least one teeth photo (laminated), toothbrush, water, various foods (the stickyer the better!)
We started a new tooth brushing song during this activity. I got tired of our normal brushing song (This is the way we brush our teeth… like the mulberry song) and decided we needed a change. J thinks our new brushing song is fun. I sing to the tune of “I’m Gonna Wash that Man Right Outta My Hair”… and just change the words to… I’m gonna brush that cheese right off of my teeth, I’m gonna brush those blueberries right off those back teeth… filling in whatever he just ate and wherever I’m brushing in his mouth. He likes to remind me all the different foods I have to brush off. A year later and he still loves to sing this song!
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I am on a National Park kick right now. It began last week with a helpful reminder that it was free national park day and I also posted the days for the year. Well that was a great post and I enjoyed it. Then a few days later my dad emailed me with questions that I felt like were good questions and thus they are being turned into a blog. So here we go!
Hey which states have the most national parks?
Tied in first place is Alaska and California with 8 followed by Utah with 5 and Colorado with 4 (wiki answers)
How many does Utah have?
Also what’s the difference between national parks and national monuments?
National Parks are designated by congress. National monuments are set aside by the president.
And which states by square miles have the most space devoted to national parks and which have the most by percentage of the state devoted to NPs?
This question is not so simple to look up, but lets say this Alaska smokes the competition when it comes to square kilometers coming in around 131,000.
As for the second part of this question, I think California might come in first, but I would have to go tabulate the numbers of roughly 50 national parks for almost all 50 states. I neither have the time to go do this, nor does the national park service because I did not find it there either.
Des every state have at least one national park?
Which parks are the top 5 visited? How many people visit the parks?
Rank Park Name Visitation
1 Great Smoky Mountains NP- 9,289,215
2 Grand Canyon NP- 4,279,439
3 Yosemite NP- 3,242,644
4 Yellowstone NP- 2,870,295
5 Olympic NP- 2,749,197
6 Rocky Mountain NP- 2,743,676
7 Zion NP- 2,567,350
8 Cuyahoga Valley NP- 2,468,816
9 Grand Teton NP- 2,406,476
10 Acadia NP- 2,083,588 | <urn:uuid:e297abc9-fc46-48b6-b8e5-422c24543fd6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://southernutahhiking.com/2013/01/26/national-parks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96702 | 428 | 1.742188 | 2 |
THE BOOK OF DUCK DECOYS.
|In Somerset, especially about the vast morasses of Glastonbury, Decoys have long existed-a dozen or more. The wild moorlands and flooded marshes formerly so numerous in that county were highly favourable for attracting wildfowl. But later on I shall treat of the Decoys and their respective counties in alphabetical order, and shall give the history and position of each as distinctly as possible.|
| This was a famous family of Decoymen who came from Friskney, in Lincolnshire, at the beginning of the present century, the various members of which constructed or remodelled nearly all our best Decoys, past and present, and a few of their descendants are still in active work as Decoymen to this day.|
The Skeltons were unrivalled in their knowledge of Decoying and skill in the construction of Decoys, and were, as I have said, the first to introduce into Norfolk the small pools of their native district in lieu of the large lakes previously used as Decoys in that county.
The first of the name to leave Lincolnshire was "Old George Skelton"; he was brought to Somerton in 1807 by Mr. Huntington, to design a Decoy for him on his estate, an account of which transaction I have given.
Old George was accompanied or soon followed by his four sons, George, William, Richard, and Henry.
Old George, as stated, made, and till his death worked, the Winterton Decoy in Norfolk. He died in 1840, aged eighty, and was buried in Winterton Churchyard.
His son William removed to Combe Abbey, Warwickshire, where he made a Decoy for Lord Craven, and worked it till his death in 1867, at the age of seventy-eight; he also made several others, including Lord Caledon's in Ireland. William had two sons, of whom one, T. Gilbert Skelton, lately constructed (1885) Lord Lilford's Decoy near Thrapstone, and the other holds a large farm under Lord Powerscourt in Ireland.
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New Company to Use Regenerative Medicine in Cornea Transplants
By Jeremy Summers, NCBiotech Writer
Ocular Systems, Inc. (OSI), Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the North Carolina Eye Bank have announced the formation of a new company based on new technology for engineering replacement corneas for transplantation.
Funding for the new company, known as HCEC, LLC (Human Cultured Endothelial Cells), came in part from a Collaborative Funding Grant from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
"Today's announcement is the culmination of more than four years of planning and research," said OSI CEO Jerry Barker, who is the new company's managing partner. "We believe this innovative initiative has the potential to change the face of corneal transplantation. The formation of HCEC, LLC will enable the team to expedite research and development efforts and move toward commercialization at a much faster pace."
A new approach to improving vision
The new approach to cornea transplantation involves isolating cells from traditional donor corneas and using them to grow replacement corneal tissue in the lab.
The cornea is the transparent dome at the front of the eye that helps with focus. The cells that line the inside of the cornea, known as corneal endothelial cells (CECs), pump fluid out of the cornea. If these cells become diseased or damaged, vision is blurred. Because CECs cannot repair themselves, the standard treatment is to replace the cornea or cells with tissue from a cadaveric donor.
Current surgical techniques involve replacing a patient's damaged CECs with a very thin layer of tissue containing cells from a cadaveric donor cornea. The new cells pump fluid out of the cornea, restoring corneal clarity. With the advent of this procedure, there has been increased demand for donor tissue with healthy CECs. The goal of the new partnership is to use regenerative medicine technology to meet this increased demand.
"The technique of bioengineering replacement tissues using cells and scaffolds can theoretically be applied to almost any tissue in the body," said Anthony Atala, M.D., director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. "We are delighted to be OSI's academic partner in this project."
Company to help meet global need
Though it has not yet been tested in patients, the technology could potentially benefit multiple patients suffering from impaired vision since it uses just a few cells from donor corneas, whereas traditional corneal transplantation requires an entire cornea to help a single patient.
"The global need for corneal tissue for transplantation far exceeds the supply," said Dean Vavra, director of the North Carolina Eye Bank. "We are excited to be part of this innovative approach to sight restoration that has the potential to increase the availability of corneal tissue."
OSI initially funded and is the sponsor of the project while Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine is conducting the research. The partnership between these two companies and the North Caroline Eye Bank is the type of collaborative effort that fits in with the strategic goal of the Piedmont Triad Research Park.
"It is exciting that a collaboration based in the Piedmont Triad research Park, right here in Winston-Salem, has the potential to create products that can bring benefits to patients throughout the world," said Eric Tomlinson D.Sc., Ph.D., PTRP president and Chief Innovation Officer at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. "This project is an example of the innovation that can be sparked in a research-park environment."
The company aims to advance their technology to the next level, which includes conducting the additional studies needed to apply to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin studies in human patients, which is expected to take several years.
About Ocular Systems, Inc.
Ocular Systems, Inc. is located in Winston-Salem’s Piedmont Triad Research Park. OSI was the first company dedicated to the processing of human corneal tissue for endothelial replacement surgeries. Founded in 2004, the company is an FDA-registered human tissue establishment. OSI manufacturers the EndoSerter® and EndoSaver® corneal endothelium delivery devices used to deliver corneal endothelial allografts into the eye during a specialized transplant procedure. OSI is committed to delivering to physicians innovative solutions to help patients improve their vision. | <urn:uuid:5c610f4d-951c-4830-a5c1-5665346c5188> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ncbiotech.org/article/new-company-use-regenerative-medicine-cornea-transplants | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940028 | 927 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Web Design Correlates With Purchase Power
Though beauty is in the eye of the beholder, new research shows that a Web site’s “quality” plays a significant role in driving purchase intent and consumer satisfaction.
Online ad network Undertone and its research partners at the IPG Media Lab show a “halo effect,” which exists for brands that run video ads on high-quality sites.
Using eye tracking, facial coding and panel surveys to measure reactions to video advertising, the research partners found that site quality emerged as the element that had the highest single contribution to purchase intent above player size, player placement and playback method.
Still, how do Undertone and IPG define quality? “Undertone relied on Trust Metrics site ratings to judge a site's overall ‘quality,’” says Jared Skolnick, VP of product marketing at Undertone. Trust Metrics rates sites on a scale of 0-100, in 20-point increments. "High quality" referred to sites scoring an 81 or higher on Trust Metrics' scale, while low quality is a 40 or below.
“These scores are determined by a site's publishing and editorial principles, including the caliber of the on-site content, and an ad's visibility on the page,” Skolnick said.
Undertone and IPG also found that auto-play ad units draw immediate attention and create higher awareness than click-to-play ads, but tend to elicit a more negative emotional reaction from viewers.
Buyers “should be aware of the strengths and weaknesses of different video formats,” said Skolnick.
“Some types of video drive higher awareness than others … but potentially at the risk of a negative brand association,” Skolnick added.
Click-to-play ads, by contrast, elicit more positive emotional reactions and drive higher engagement rates as well as greater intent to purchase, according to Skolnick.
Overall, nearly 50% of video satisfaction rates stemmed from site quality, while larger video players evoke higher levels of brand awareness among consumers and can mitigate the negative effects often associated with auto-play ads. The position of the video unit on the page was found to have little meaningful impact on an ad’s efficacy. | <urn:uuid:3d84b274-d9ed-4304-b3c5-fbaf3b29a098> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/188574/web-design-correlates-with-purchase-power.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934299 | 472 | 1.5 | 2 |
Why we're freezing near the fiscal cliffAugust 23, 2012: 11:58 AM ET
The culture of stagnation in Congress is creeping into the business world. What will it take to get unstuck as America moves towards the fiscal cliff?
President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney are both taking to the podium, talking up job creation and business recovery. Yet in the short term, government leaders are keeping employees waiting -- and scared -- in the wings. President Obama, for example, told Congress Tuesday that he planned to extend the existing pay freeze for federal workers through this coming March.
The great irony is that while the candidates campaign on moving the country forward, said country is essentially frozen. Congress doesn't make bold political moves during election time, and is particularly stagnant this year in terms of doing anything bipartisan. It was a huge red flag when the Congressional "super committee" failed to pass a bipartisan debt deal in 2011 -- the deal was supposed to outline how to reduce the budget by at least $1.2 trillion over ten years. Since then, the debate in Congress over how to cut spending has become increasingly important and increasingly polarized. Businesses, to protect themselves from the potential effects of the cliff, are freezing up too.
The "fiscal cliff" refers to a handful of sweeping government spending cuts that will happen in January should the government fail to agree on a less drastic, more bipartisan policy. As of now, roughly $7 trillion worth of tax increases and spending cuts will go into effect this coming January. The cuts include measures such as a $55 billion cut in defense spending, an additional $55 billion cut to non-defense spending, a shrinking of unemployment benefits and an increase income tax, among others. The U.S. does need to cut spending, but it would probably be better to cut it with a policy that looks more like a scalpel than a rusty machete.
Unfortunately Congress has been dragging, and that stagnation has been creeping into business. Small businesses, scared of the potential effects of the fiscal cliff, are freezing hiring and holding off on long-term investments. American politicians and business leaders are finding themselves caught in a world that will require decisive action to survive, and caught in a flat-footed leadership culture where people are too scared to move.
"I don't see so much formal planning as deer-in-the-headlights kind of behavior," says Alan Beckenstein, Professor of Business Administration at University of Virginia's Darden School.
Frozen businesses may frustrate job seekers, but it's important to view this stagnation in context, Beckenstein says. Over the past four years, businesses have struggled to survive on short-term financial fixes. "They've done a damn good job of doing things which keep their earnings up or prevent them from falling." Since the crisis, he says, businesses have effectively mortgaged the long term to generate cash flow fast. They've generally held off on R&D, and invested less in branding. In some senses, it has paid off. The S&P 500, for example, hit 14,000 on the morning of August 21 -- its highest point since May 2008.
Hence the hesitancy for corporate leaders to make bold moves. Companies have been told they're doing well, and stocks have recovered, in many cases because of cautious corporate spending in a difficult economy. Similarly, CEOs are often rewarded for short-term fixes. CEO pay, "is not necessarily aligned with the economic environment at any point at time," says Sydney Finkelstein, a professor of management at Dartmouth's Tuck Executive Education program. CEOs paid in stock can sometimes cash it out more quickly than it would take long-term measures for the health of the company to kick in.
That's at the heart of the Congressional gridlock too -- the policy that helps the economy over time takes longer than a term in office. The culture has grown particularly toxic now. In fact, it has been off-putting enough to spur some people to leave politics, meaning the partisan atmosphere could get even worse next year. Last week, California Congressman Dennis Cardoza resigned from his position, citing the inability for Congress to actually do anything as part of the reason for quitting. At the beginning of August, Republican Representative Steve LaTourette of Ohio said he was planning to leave his post this coming January, mentioning that in Congress, "compromise" had become a dirty word.
The solution for businesses might be to move forward as much as possible without waiting on Washington. True, some government contractors have to hold tight and react to the fallout from the coming cuts. But plenty of smart business leaders can diversify and prepare to get ahead during a crisis, says Finkelstein. Crises always create opportunities for really innovative businesses. He says, "You end up in a position to take advantage of some of the turmoil some of the other companies might be in, because they haven't been as prudent in managing their resources." Businesses, he says, should focus on taking market share away from struggling competitors.
Scary as it is, it might be best for businesses to go ahead and bank on the long run, says Darden's Beckenstein: "Personally, I'm rooting for a move of thinking towards the intermediate- to long-term and say to hell with the short-term and create the future, because the short-term is just doomed to be crummy. We're stuck in a valley, and it's hard, and where's the leadership going to come from?"
Certainly not from Washington any time soon. | <urn:uuid:e83dcc2b-cdb2-4e38-a89d-83196f7de846> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/23/businesses-fiscal-cliff-congress/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972914 | 1,139 | 1.625 | 2 |
July 29, 2011
| by EH Staff
A reader wrote in to our Ask-a-Pro forum for help with understanding speaker specifications. The reader asked: “What are the best spec’s to look at when buying surround sound speakers. If a speaker’s frequency response is 47hz - 30khz and another is 58hz - 30khz which is better and why?”
Our resident audio authority Bob Archer, from CE Pro Magazine, offered this advice:
Unfortunately, determining a speaker’s applicability to a given installation is not as easy as looking at the specifications.
Frequency response can be a useful number in giving you a guideline in how dynamically the speaker will perform (it’s ability to create low frequency, midrange and high frequency content) , but there are other specs such as efficiency and impedance that are important too.
With the numbers you’ve provided (speaker A 47Hz to 30kHz vs. speaker B 58Hz to 30kHz) the frequency response numbers tell us that in theory speaker A plays a little bit deeper than speaker B. That is of course as I mentioned a guideline that’s subject to factors such as the room environment the speakers are placed in.
Speaker response, along with impedance, speaker sensitivity rating and to a lesser extend power handling are to many the specifications worth looking at.
Quickly going over these numbers: Impedance is the “load” the speaker presents to the amplifier. Look for numbers such as 8 ohms as this indicates the speaker is easier to drive than a 4 ohm speaker.
Sensitivity indicates how easily a speaker converts power into sound. In theory a speaker rated with a 91dB level should play twice as loud as a speaker rated at 88dB. So, for example it would take a 300 watt amp to drive an 88dB speaker to play as loud as a 91dB sensitive speaker driven by a 150 watt amplifier.
Power handling is a number that everyone defines differently, so this can be a tough number to go by, but in theory you wouldn’t want to use a 400 watt amp to drive a speaker rated to a maximum power handling of 80 watts.
Read Acoustics Matter: Tips for Home Theater Speakers
The most important factors to go by when evaluating a speaker for rear surround is the application in which you intend to use the product. There are three basic types of rear surround speakers: direct radiating, bipolar and dipole. Direct radiating speakers are traditional speakers the disperse sound directly from their front baffles (where the speaker drivers are located). Bipolar speakers are designed to disperse sound in a spherical pattern to fill a larger space and dipole speakers look nearly identical to bipolar speakers and they accomplish a similar goal of filling wide spaces, but they work through a dispersion pattern that looks like a figure-eight pattern. Bipolar and dipole speakers features drivers on the front and back of their cabinets or if they are specifically designed for rear surround they may have a flat backside that designed to hang on a wall, a front with a midrange/woofer driver and angled sides that employ tweeters that spray higher frequencies to the sides.
Read more about bipole and dipole speakers here.
The major difference with a dipole and bipolar speaker is that a dipole’s side or rear drivers are wired out of phase from the front drivers. A bipolar speaker’s drivers are all wired in phase with one another.
Your goal will be through the use of specifications and application scenarios will be to determine if you want a direct radiating speaker, which tend to sound more focused or a bipolar or dipole speaker that tend to sound more diffuse, but are capable of filling a larger space with sound.
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Favoritism is found everywhere I workplace, in family, in office, on kids, from grandparents, for parents and so on. Favoritism is an evil that ahs the capability to break up the bondage between the closets of two people. When favoritism is shown on one person, obviously the other person feels neglected and will result in despondency and despair. Favoritism should not be shown by true leaders who have the responsibility to lead a group of people, party or nation. Similar ns cool, favoritism slowly but surely create a void in the minds of other neglected students and create a scar in their memory. “God does not show favoritism “are the words of bible. Each individual has his or her won merit and this should be identified and appreciated. If this truth in dawned on the minds favoritism will never occur. There are a lot of quotes on favoritism that suggest how evil it is and what are is effects. Read them and share them with others. | <urn:uuid:c629d238-7e0b-4db8-ae7d-d398968e8751> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.searchquotes.com/quotes/about/Favoritism/1/popular/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969735 | 202 | 1.9375 | 2 |
He did not know why he was doing it, why he was approaching the dying man: he did not know what he felt as he saw Snape’s at his neck. Harry took off the invisibility cloak and looked down upon the man he hated, whose widening black eyes found Harry as he cried to speak.
Harry bent over him, and Snape seized the front of his robes and pulled him close. A terrible rasping, gurgling noise issued from Snape’s throat.
“Take … it… . Take … it… .”
Something more than blood was leaking from Snape. Silvery blue, neither gas nor liquid, it gushed form his mouth and his ears and his eyes, and Harry knew what it was, but did not know what to do.
A flask, conjured from thin air, was thrust into his shaking hand by Hermione. Harry lifted the silvery substance into it with his wand. When the flask was full to the brim, and Snape looked as though there was no blood left in him, his grip on Harry’s robes slackened.
“Look … at … me… .” he whispered.
The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving them fixed, blank, and empty. The hand holding Harry thudded to the floor, and Snape moved no more.
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The Cup of Redemption
by Barney Kasdan, Messianic Rabbi
Our G-d, the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, loves symbolism. Perhaps it is because He realizes that we mortals have a difficult time comprehending the things of the Spirit. Yet G-d wants us to understand Him, indeed to know Him in a very personal way. Nowhere does the use of symbolism shine forth more strongly than in the Biblical Holy Day of Pesach, Passover. Through the course of the Seder meal, we make use of a rather strange variety of elements such as parsley, horseradish, and matzah. Yet, all of this is vital for believers to understand not only because it is based on Biblical commandments, but also because the Messiah Yeshua (Jesus of Nazareth) celebrated this beautiful Feast. In fact He chose Pesach to teach His followers many lessons about the work that He could accomplish as Messiah.
For generations Israel has celebrated the 4 Cups of Passover. These were to symbolize the 4 promises which G-d made to our people in Exodus 6:6-7: “I will bring you out…I will deliver you…I will redeem you…then I will take you for my people.” What promises these are to celebrate! For Messianic believers the third cup is especially significant.
The Cup of Redemption, as it is called, was of course to remind the Jew of our physical redemption. It is a rich word (ga alti) that G-d uses to describe a slave being bought out of the slave market. And if anyone could understand the concept of redemption it was that generation that was delivered from Egypt! For over 400 years our people had been literal slaves but suddenly they were set free. In a most dramatic way G-d illustrated this redemption through the slaying of the Passover Lamb:
“for the L-rd will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the L-rd will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you.” (Exodus 12:33)
Even after that first Passover, Jews continued to remember the redemption; not with the literal blood on the doorposts, but with the third cup of the Passover Seder called the Cup of Redemption. We were slaves, but now we are free! How? By the death of that innocent Passover lamb. To many modern Jews this might sound like outdated superstition. But I can’t think of a more practical way to test the true faith of a person; afterall, faith is merely submitting to what G-d says we should do. G-d was showing us that redemption would be realized only as we trusted in His way. We must be brought out of slavery by the purchase made by G-d Himself.
In light of this history of the Cup of Redemption, it is fascinating to take a look at the Passover Seder that Yeshua celebrated with His disciples. He had already proclaimed time and again that He was in fact the Messiah sent from G-d. He had performed many attesting miracles to back up those claims to our people. But what symbol could illustrate to the Jewish disciples the reality of Messiah’s redemption?
“And He took a cup (the third cup) and gave thanks and gave it to them saying ‘Drink from it, all of you; for this is My blood of the covenant which is to be shed on behalf of many for forgiveness of sins.” (Matthew 26:27-28)
Imagine the impact this must have had on those disciples! They had celebrated Pesach for many years. Every year they drank the third cup, the Cup of Redemption, to commemorate the physical deliverance from the bondage of Egypt; a deliverance that was symbolically paid for by the death of an innocent lamb. Yeshua of course joyfully celebrated this historical deliverance as well. It was a miracle of G-d! But what is amazing about that last Passover Seder is that Yeshua expanded the meaning of many of the symbols. For Messianic believers the third cup would now also commemorate the spiritual redemption from the bondage of sin and death. This redemption would likewise be purchased by the death of an innocent sacrifice. Not that lamb of Passover, but of the greater fulfillment; the Lamb of G-d, the Messiah Himself! As the disciples raised that Cup of Redemption, they were to remember the blood of the lamb in Egypt. Now this spiritual message would be fulfilled, as Yeshua said “this (cup) is My blood of the Covenant!”
Today most Christians recognize this symbolism in what is called the “Eucharist,” “Communion,” or “The L-rds Supper.” But with proper understanding of Bible history, I think we can see that it is really the spiritual reality behind Passover. It was not something new that Yeshua created, but rather the fulfillment of something very old.
For this reason, the Passover Seder does not become less important for believers in Yeshua (contrary to what some may say). But indeed it becomes all the more important as G-d’s teaching tool of our redemption! For us it is a great privilege to gather at the Passover table, to lift the Cup of Redemption and to celebrate the redemption paid for by our Messiah. As Rabbi Saul of Tarsus reminded the early believers:
“For Messiah our Passover also has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the Feast! ” (1 Cor. 5:8)
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Attacks actively exploit code-execution bug in Windows
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in Microsoft's Windows operating system that allows them to remotely execute malicious code when victims visit a booby-trapped website.
"These attacks are being distributed both via malicious web pages intended for Internet Explorer users and through Office documents," Andrew Lyons, a Google security engineer, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday. "Users running Windows XP up to and including Windows 7 are known to be vulnerable."
In their own advisory, Microsoft officials confirmed the active attacks and encouraged customers to apply a temporary fix as soon as possible. The vulnerability exploits an uninitialized variable in XML Core Services, which is installed by default in all supported versions of Windows. Users of Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007 are also susceptible.
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Massachusetts Historical Society Seminars
The Society's five seminar series offer an excellent opportunity to meet accomplished scholars and authors. Join us to explore topics in-depth in a conversational setting, and help to shape works-in-progress. The stimulating and convivial atmosphere of these late afternoon sessions continues during the light supper that follows each program. With the exception of the New England Biography Seminar, meetings revolve around the discussion of a precirculated paper: sessions begin with remarks from the presenters and an assigned commentator, after which the discussion is opened to the floor. Most programs take place at the Society, and all are welcome.
Seminars are underwritten in part by Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Massachusetts.
The Five Series
The Boston Area Early American History Seminar provides a forum for local scholars as well as members of the general public to discuss all aspects of North American history and culture from the first English colonization to the Civil War. Programs are not confined to Massachusetts topics.
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The Boston Environmental History Seminar is an occasion for scholars as well as interested members of the public to discuss aspects of American environmental history from prehistory to the present day. Presenters come from a variety of disciplines including history, urban planning, and environmental management.
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The Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar provides a setting for local scholars as well as members of the general public to discuss all aspects of American immigration as well as urban history and culture. Programs may address one or both historical subfields and are not confined to Massachusetts topics.
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The Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender invites scholars and students to meet periodically and discuss new research. Sessions may consider any aspect of the history of women and gender without chronological limitations. A collaboration of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and the Massachusetts Historical Society, the seminar meets in turn at the facilities of the two sponsors.
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The New England Biography Seminar is a forum for writers and readers alike to engage in an ongoing discussion about the historical, literary, and methodological questions that make biography a challenging and rewarding undertaking. Leading authors of the genre will offer their insights and inspiration. This seminar features roundtable discussions rather than focusing on pre-circulated papers.
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Poll: Healthcare Internet Research RisesThe results of a new poll released yesterday estimate that 98 million Americans regularly use the Internet to find health information.
The poll from Harris Interactive, Rochester, NY, found that 114 million people -- 56 percent of the U.S. population -- were accessing the Internet. Of that number, 86 percent use the Web to look up healthcare information. A similar poll in 1998 found that 71 percent used the Internet for such purposes.
Of those looking up information, 13 percent said they looked for themselves and family members "often," 40 percent said "sometimes," and 33 percent said "very occasionally."
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Speech to text software
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America's middle class struggles as family members lose jobs, run out of savings and sink toward poverty. NBC's Lester Holt reports.
By Izhar Harpaz
BOULDER, Colo. – The small communities that dot the picturesque mountain landscape outside Boulder, Colo., conjure up an image from long before the great recession. Here the manicured lawns and expensive cars are a testament to the achievements of a fiercely independent and educated middle class; a 21st century version of suburban bliss. But often these days, the closed doors of well-kept houses hide a decidedly different reality: hushed conversation about food stamps and Medicaid, depleted bank accounts and 401K’s, kitchen shelves stocked with groceries from food pantries.
"It's this dirty little secret,” said Joyce Welch, a stay-at-home mother of three whose husband, a mechanical engineer, lost his job six months ago. “Everybody is supposed to be able to buy the new car, supposed to buy the new house. And what we don't talk about is people who struggle, and they're struggling more and more." The Welch family lives in Superior, a Boulder suburb that was listed by Money Magazine as one of the “Top 20 best places to live in America” in 2011. Neighboring Louisville was ranked number one.
The evidence that times are rough for many suburban middle class families is not merely anecdotal. For Dateline NBC’s upcoming special “America Now: Lost in Suburbia,” airing Sunday, June 24th at 8pm/7c, Boulder County's Department of Housing and Human Services provided the number of Louisville and Superior residents that relied on public safety nets to make ends meet. And while these affluent communities still boast some of the lowest poverty levels in Colorado, the statistics were nonetheless startling: since 2008 the combined number of families on Medicaid more than doubled, as did the number of people utilizing food assistance. Lafayette, another well-to-do suburb in East Boulder County experienced similar increases.
And it isn’t just happening in Boulder County. A 2011 study by the Brookings Institute revealed that for the first time in United States history there were more poor people living in the suburbs than in cities. The research, based on the most recent United States Census data, showed that a record 15.4 million suburban residents lived below the poverty line last year, up 11.5% from the year before, and that “by 2010, suburbs were home to one-third of the nation’s poor population—outranking cities (27.5 percent), small metro areas (20.5 percent), and non-metropolitan communities (18.7 percent)."
The Brookings Institute study examined the percentage change of suburban poor populations between 2000 and 2010 in the 95 largest metro areas in the US. It found that in 16 of them the suburban poor population more than doubled during that time. The Denver metro area which includes some Boulder suburbs saw an increase of 96.4%. And while many of the suburban poor are newly arrived immigrants or transplants from the inner cities, a significant number are formerly middle class families who have fallen victim to the most recent recession.
The need for help may transcend any published statistics. Sarah Nelson, the program director at the Sister Carmen Community Center, a non-profit organization in Lafayette, Colorado, that provides financial assistance to low-income families in East Boulder County, said that Sister Carmen’s share of clients from Louisville and Superior rose from four percent in 2010 to a whopping twenty-two percent by the end of 2011. Many of these formerly middle-class families, Nelson said, have struggled under the radar and have not accessed public assistance programs: "Their resources are drained. They've utilized all of their savings, all of their retirement funds. Their unemployment's run out. They've gotten as much help from family and friends as they possibly can. And we're their last resort.”
Joyce Welch’s financial stress was exacerbated by the medical bills for one of her children, who suffers from a debilitating chromosomal disorder; the out-of-pocket costs of almost $30,000 a year had left the family with no savings. So she saw no choice but to turn to Sister Carmen for assistance. It was, she said, one of the most difficult things she has had to do in her life. “To have to actually vocalize, ‘I can't do the basics. I have to have help.’ That is something that is just hard… I want to be able to do it on my own. I want to be the one to help others, not the one who has to ask for help.” But with her husband’s unemployment check as the family’s only source of income, Joyce has joined the at least three and half million suburbanites who have fallen below the U.S. poverty line since 2007. She did what she felt she had to do for her three children; sign up for Medicaid and Food Stamps. Sister Carmen offered to supplement her food shopping with monthly visits to their food pantry, so that Joyce could shift some money she would have otherwise spent on food to other important bills. Reluctantly, Joyce agreed.
Boulder County’s Department of Housing and Human Services has tried to reach out to struggling formerly middle class families like the Welches before they hit rock bottom. "Safety nets are historically built to try to catch people right before they hit the pavement,” said HHS director Frank Alexander, "if we can get people before they fall we can serve a lot more people in a lot better way and we don't have to just clean up the mess on the street."
According to Alexander, helping a family in need with their mortgage or rent payments may cost the county in excess of $10,000 in temporary “front end” assistance, but if that money prevents homelessness and all its associated economic and social ills it can save the county much more than that. "We know that if a senior who's trying to live independently in the community ends up in a nursing home, that that shifts cost to $75-85,000 a year. We know that if a family's in a home and they get foreclosed upon, it costs us almost $80,000 as a community with that home being foreclosed upon. And the interventions that we can do as a human service system with our community partners are much less costly. The time duration is much more limited. And the outcomes for the families and individuals are much better.”
Boulder County has signed up non-profit organizations like the Sister Carmen Community Center to be conduits for some of its front-end services. With the center’s help Joyce Welch and her family qualified for county rent assistance until August 2012, enough time, Joyce hoped, for her husband to find a job that will get the family back on their financial feet. But for now, she has begrudgingly accepted that she has become a new and different statistic of poverty in America.
“People like me are on food stamps. It’s people who want to go to work and can’t find work and don’t have an alternative,” she said, drawing an invisible square around her face, “I am the face of food stamps in 2012. I'm the face of Medicaid in 2012. I don’t like it, you know, I don't sit there and wanna scream it from the mountaintop. But this is reality. This is my reality. This is the reality for more and more people in America."
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Tsavo maneaters - Wiki
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[Photo] The Tsavo Man-Eaters on display in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. Date: 26 November 2006. Photo by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mikedk9109 Rights: Released into the public domain (by the author).
In March 1898, during the building of the Uganda Railway, engineer Lt. Col. John Henry Patterson led the construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in Kenya. During the construction period, many railway workers were killed by two maneless male lions, which dragged men from their tents at night and devoured them.
The workers built bomas (thorn fences) around their camp to keep the maneaters out; but the maneaters were able to crawl through. Patterson set traps and tried several times to ambush the lions at night from a tree. After repeated unsuccessful endeavors, he finally shot the first lion on 9th December, 1898. Three weeks later, the second beast was found and killed. By that point, the maneaters had killed 135 workers according to Patterson's calculations.
There is speculation that the maneaters in the region had developed a taste for humans as a result of the slave trade. Another theory suggests that an outbreak of rinderpest disease had decimated the lions' usual prey, forcing them to find alternative food sources. Upon examining the skulls and jaws of the lions in the 1990s, some scientists concluded that the two were suffering from abscesses in their gums, and were in too much pain to hunt tougher animals. This theory was in fact discussed on the National Geographic Channel explaining how abscesses in the gums force the lions to take on easier prey, both "slower and more fragile". There has also been a confirmed link to the man eater attacks in Tanzania. Both lions were maneless and had abscesses in their gums. In 2000, a proposal was submitted to the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History that the attacks could be related to the lions scavenging the bodies of improperly buried railroad workers. Museum staff made a comprehensive review of Patterson's journals in which he recorded that many burial mounds, made by piling rocks over bodies, had been disturbed and the bodies eaten. Based on this evidence, it is most likely that the two bachelor males had acquired a taste for humans by scavenging the graves of deceased railroad workers, eventually modifying their feeding behavior to the snatching of sleeping workers from their tents. This explanation is now included in the Museum's display.
After two-and-a-half decades as Patterson's floor rugs, the lions' skins were sold to the Chicago Field Museum for a sum of $5,000 US. They are currently on display there.
Patterson's accounts were published in his book The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and later dramatized in the movies Bwana Devil and The Ghost and the Darkness. ("The Ghost" and "The Darkness" were names given to the two man-eating lions).
The Tsavo maneaters were maneless male lions and were above average size for their kind. Patterson claimed that the lions were able to withstand several shots from his rifle. Tsavo Lions are generally maneless and also larger and more aggressive than lions from other regions.
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Agree With Cardiologists
Dark chocolate, red wine, etc…
I agree with the cardiologists. You can’t eat these foods and think that it will make your heart completely and utterly healthy. Like they said, there’s no magic bullet. It’s comprehensive: making smart nutritional choices daily, exercising, reducing stress, etc.
If you don’t drink alcohol, don’t start because you think it’s healthy!
If you don’t drink coffee, don’t start because the news comes out with all these benefits!
If you don’t eat chocolate, don’t start because it will “prevent heart disease!”
The point is, enjoy in small quantities if you like them, don’t force yourself to eat or drink things you don’t like just because you think it will “prevent heart disease.” There are tons of other foods and drinks that have heart-healthy benefits: fruits, veggies, whole grains, and good old fashioned water!
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Mar. 22, 2002 An animal's ability to move - like the kicking of a developing baby or the crawling and walking of insects - is intrinsic, not dependent on sensory stimulation, says a University of Toronto neurobiologist.
"All animals, from worms to humans, have rhythmic movements that underlie locomotion," says Max Suster, a post-doctoral fellow at U of T at Mississauga and lead author of a paper in the March 14 issue of Nature. "The question is whether this ability is built into the neurons of central nervous systems or whether sensory input from the outside world helps organize those movements so that they are suitable to real life. Our research suggests that the development of embryonic motor systems is largely intrinsic to central nervous systems and not dependent on sensory cues like touch or smell."
Suster and University of Cambridge professor Michael Bate examined the development of rhythmical movements in a type of fruit fly known as Drosophila. They compared fly embryos that received sensory input to those deprived of stimulation through methods of genetic engineering.
"We discovered, somewhat surprisingly, that the ones without sensory references still performed enough movements to get out of their egg case and crawl," says Suster. "The rhythmic movements were essentially the same, regardless of whether the embryo received stimuli or not. The amazing thing is that it was demonstrated so clearly, something that we haven't seen before."
Movements generally have certain rhythmic properties to them and it has been known for some time that central pattern generators - specialized groups of neurons in the nervous system - produce these rhythmic movements, which are essential for all forms of locomotion and reflexes, says Suster.
He says all animals, including humans, have fundamentally the same kinds of rhythmic movements. "We all depend on these types of circuits or central pattern generators. What the research tells us is that even when embryos are deprived of sensory references, they still develop rhythmic movements. And that leads us to the suggestion that these movements are, to a large extent, coded in the intrinsic properties of neurons within the central nervous system, so much so that they are sufficient to drive the movements."
However, the researchers also discovered that a lack of sensory information - while not necessary for coordinated movement in the embryo - did influence movement in the larval stage. Once the embryos hatched from their shells, they exhibited inappropriate movement such as moving backwards, swinging their heads frequently and crawling upside down. This strongly suggests that sensory information plays a crucial role in directional movement and that without such information, animals are unable to adapt to their surroundings, search for food and survive, Suster says.
This research was supported by the Venezuelan National Academy of Sciences and a grant from the Wellcome Trust.
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Energy Efficiency: The First Line of Defense
To enhance U.S. energy security, reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and strengthen the economy, the Obama administration has made clean and renewable energy a top priority. But most of the payoff for that investment will be over the long term. Energy efficiency is the fastest, cheapest and cleanest solution to implement now.
Professor Nicole Woolsey Biggart, director of the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center, shared her insights on energy efficiency at the 14th annual Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles in May. She joined Geoff Chapin, founder and CEO of Next Step Living Inc.; James Davis, president of Chevron Energy Solutions; and David Arfin, CEO of First Energy Finance, to address ways to accelerate energy efficiency technologies, practices and behavioral changes.
Established in 1998 by the non-partisan think tank, the Milken Institute Global Conference explores the most pressing social, political and economic challenges. Among the participants are hundreds of CEOs from the world’s top-tier companies; senior foreign and U.S. government officials; forward-thinking academic experts; journalists; and leaders in global capital markets, education, health care and philanthropy.
Biggart continues to travel to top business schools and international conferences to present her research on how commercial construction industry practices thwart the use of more efficient, innovative and greener technologies. Most recently, she shared this research, co-authored with Professor Thomas D. Beamish of the UC Davis Sociology Department, at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, Austin, and at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University.
In November, Biggart served as a biennial advisory board member at one of Germany’s most prestigious and successful research organizations, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. The institute’s interests include economic sociology and political economy with a specific focus on the European Union. rays08_1.eps | <urn:uuid:04f20480-e342-4147-a409-64a3f2625981> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gsm.ucdavis.edu/innovator-article/energy-efficiency-first-line-defense | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924114 | 399 | 2.234375 | 2 |
When Katie Finnegan and Erica Bell quit their day jobs at a New York-based consulting firm in May 2012 to work on their online fashion startup, Hukkster, they hadn't raised a single cent of funding. The company wasn't even earning any revenue when the twentysomethings decided to jettison their steady paychecks for the promise of startup stardom.
"We were bootstrapping with our own savings to build out the first version of the website," Finnegan says. "It was not the safest leap of faith."
Ballsy? Yes. Impetuous? Perhaps. Recommended? Not always. Dumping a paying job to launch an unproven business concept with no profits is a big risk. But some founders do it anyway, and for entrepreneurs who are looking to secure investors, it may be a must. "Investors are going to want you in there full-time," says Chris Carey of Brooklyn's Chris Carey Advisors. "They want to know that you're working 100 hours a week on your idea."
For entrepreneurs who plan to bootstrap their way to profitability, keeping cash flowing in from a day job when their companies aren't earning much is a matter of necessity. If you take a realistic look beforehand at what you'll need to do to get your startup going, you should have a better idea of when--or if--it'll be safe to quit your day job. What you uncover by following the four steps below may be the spark you need to stay committed to your dream--or it may be an indicator that you should go back to square one.
1. Gather financial statements.
You'll need to create at least three financial documents for your business: a profit-and-loss statement, a balance sheet and a statement of cash flow. "The [profit-and-loss statement] shows you whether you're making or losing money. The balance sheet shows you how much money you have, and cash flow shows you the sources of cash," Carey says. Together, the three will provide you with an accurate snapshot of your business.
2. Forecast business performance.
With the documents above, piece together a realistic forecast of how your business will perform each month. You'll need to know how much cash you can expect to generate today and down the road.
As you build the business, you'll need to factor in sales growth along with added expenses, according to Carey. Steer clear of rosy estimates; be brutally conservative. "Typically, entrepreneurs will be overly optimistic about revenue and over-optimistic about containing costs," he says.
3. Factor in your personal costs.
When you quit your day job, you'll want to keep your business afloat, but don't forget about personal expenses like rent or mortgage. List business costs such as salaries, travel fees, benefits and auto expenses for you and any employees. Leave out costs associated with certain niceties you'd like in the future, such as healthcare benefits or new equipment--they're irrelevant to your goal: quitting your day job. As for assigning yourself a salary, "Just make it whatever you need to get by, nothing more," Carey says.
4. Get a second opinion.
Even the most level-headed entrepreneurs should ask for a second opinion before moving forward, says Kevin Spain, a general partner with Emergence Capital Partners, a venture firm in San Mateo, Calif. While an accountant is likely worth his or her weight in gold during this process, you might also tap a trusted colleague or friend for an opinion. Says Spain, "Have someone who you trust take a look at your financial projections to ensure you're not being overly optimistic."
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How To Adjust A Shimano 21 Speed Bicycle
Not sure how to adjust your Shimano 21 speed bicycle? If that sounds like you, instead of taking your bicycle to the nearest bicycle repair shop and spending a lot of money to get it adjusted, why not print out this how-to guide and pay for the parts you need? If this sounds like a good idea, take the following list of materials to the store.
- Five millimeter Allen wrench
- Needle nose pliers
- The first step to adjusting your new Shimano 21 speed bicycle is to adjust the rear derailleur. This is done by using a five millimeter Allen wrench to loosen the anchor bolt. Once you have loosened the anchor you can move onto the next step.
The next step to adjusting your Shimano 21 speed bicycle is to pull the cable through the anchor until it is tight. Once the anchor is tight all you need to is tighten the anchor bolt.
- The third step is to adjust the front derailleur. You may think adjusting the front derailleur is like adjusting the rear one. Wrong. As you can tell from the first step, instead of loosening an anchor, you are going to change the bike's front gears to the lowest gear. After you have done that, adjust the front derailleur just like you adjusted the rear ones.
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“I feel like a Jehovah’s Witness.”
This was my daughter’s flat response when I asked her about her first day of door to door canvassing in Ohio last week.
Back on November 2nd, three busloads of students from her Manhattan based college set off to the battleground state of Ohio – collectively knocking on 56,787 doors in Cuyahoga County in an effort to inform residents. Although the group was there to support one party, their role was not to recruit but rather to offer guidance on the voting process to residents who were already registered for that party.
She had looked forward to the trip for weeks; however, it didn’t take long for her to question her role.
“I don’t think this is my thing” she bemoaned, describing the cold temperatures, numerous slammed doors, and questionable accommodations. “So many political ads combined with such bad weather makes Cleveland feel like a dystopia.”
“I sometimes felt like I was intruding on people's right to privacy,” remarked Emma Hede-Brierley, a freshman from Massachusetts, who told me she had never done “anything political before.” “We were told to ask them who they were voting for. Personally, I would not like someone to ask me outright who I was voting for, so it felt weird to pose the question to random strangers.”
By the end of the second day, while thoroughly exhausted and colder than she had ever been, my daughter sounded less deflated. “A lady in a wheel chair came to the door today,” she said. “We talked about health care. I told her the location of her voting place.”
It was clear why my daughter sounded better – she had begun making connections.
“Although it was freezing cold, the walks tiring and the houses often difficult to find,” said Emma, “speaking to the few supporters who opened their doors was inspiring. Many were happy to see us working to elect their candidate. They reaffirmed my belief in the importance of our canvassing.”
Fellow student, Zach Wilson, who hails from the mid-west, was struck by how an initial, irritated, protest of, “what do you want!” from within the house, would frequently lead to an opened door once Zach revealed his party affiliation. What often followed, Zach discovered, was an opportunity to supply information the resident did not know about how and where to vote.
“Many of these residents might not have had the opportunity to vote for their candidate simply because they lacked information about the voting process.”
“I can’t believe Election Day is not a national holiday,” my daughter later said – a perspective she would not have gained without this experience. “I never realized how hard it is for many people to get to the polls on time or to avoid waiting in long, inconvenient lines.”
Emma felt fortunate to have seen a variety of neighborhoods due to the fact that her group switched locations nearly every day.
“We started in a very low socio-economic neighborhood, then went to an extremely wealthy one and on the last day worked around apartment complexes and middle-class neighborhoods.” Emma said. “It was really interesting to see how the socio-economic position of the neighborhood affected the voting tendencies of the people.”
On the third day, a driver pulled over and asked my daughter if she was out canvassing. Bracing herself for a possible confrontation, my daughter responded that yes, she was. The woman in the car was relieved. As it turns out she had no idea where she was supposed to vote and needed help.
Later, on our nightly phone call, my daughter said this was turning out to be one of the most memorable and positive experiences she has ever had.
After four days of being chilled to the bone, knocking on countless doors, little sleep, fast food, and an occasional raucous slur from extremists in the opposing camp, they boarded the bus for the long journey back to NYC. Although it certainly added a nice finishing touch when along the journey, they discovered that their candidate had won the election; I think what they got out of the experience and what they will remember involved so much more.
Emma came to realize the futility of narrow minded politics:
“The chants/pep-talks orchestrated by the group leaders,” said Emma “which were meant to fire us up and get us ready for the day of canvassing, conversely made me feel disconnected from the mission.”
“Instead of insulting and criticizing the opposition group - with whom Democrats need to cooperate anyway to accomplish anything for this country,” Emma continued, “the leaders could have voiced more positive positions,”
When asked what, overall she had gained from this experience, Emma remarked:
“Knowing that our work in Cuyahoga County actually made a difference in the election because it helped swing Ohio blue. Our work doubled the amount of people who got out and voted, which in a blue county was essential to helping Obama win Ohio.”
These students experienced a part of America they may never have otherwise and, more importantly were able to meet a few of the faces behind the “issues” and to connect with individuals they rarely if ever encounter in their college life.
“Would I ever want to canvass again?” reflected Emma, “Probably not. But together with the support of friends who encouraged us every day to keep going, we were able to accomplish what we set out to do.” | <urn:uuid:8546a2cf-16a9-4ef2-976c-0f9c34409a31> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://newtown.patch.com/groups/suzy-deyoungs-blog/p/bp--door-to-door-politics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986993 | 1,186 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Berkeley Explains Why Google Trumps Microsoft
- 12:46 PM
The University of California at Berkeley has chosen Google over Microsoft for its campus-wide email and calendar services, and it will tell you why — in great detail.
Google and Microsoft are locked in a battle for the hearts and minds of businesses, government agencies, and schools across the globe, each touting its own suite of business applications as the greatest thing since sliced bread. Sometimes, Google wins, and sometimes Microsoft. But Berkeley’s choice is worth noting because the university so carefully explained why it picked one over the other. Though both Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365 are billed as “cloud” services, they are very different things. Google is built to operate entirely on the web, while Microsoft’s suite still leans on local software.
Berkeley plumped for Gmail and Google Calendar in part because they’re cheap — Google offers its Apps to schools and colleges for free — but the university looked at far more than just price. This week, it laid out a detailed comparison of Google and Microsoft on its public website. “We’re a public university so we want to be transparent about the decision,” Shelton Waggener, the UC Berkeley CIO, tells Wired.
While Google came out ahead in a large majority of Berkeley’s email-related evaluations, Waggener said that the decision was not as easy as it may look on paper. With the school’s roughly 70,000 students and staff already using so many web and software tools on their own, he said, the IT department must consider not only its own preferences but the preferences of so many others. “We recognize that whatever choice we make, we’ll have to continually re-evaluate,” he says. “These aren’t permanent decisions anymore.”
The school started looking for new services in part because of recent outages on its existing email system, CalMail. Google’s ability to move the school from CalMail to Gmail in an estimated six to ten weeks was an important consideration, according to Berkeley’s report. “A UC Berkeley migration to Google can start faster and with less infrastructure investment,” the report says. “Google’s solution is optimized for web-based interaction. It is designed to be quickly provisioned and a migration to Google could begin more quickly than one to Office 365.”
Office 365, the report says, would require the installation and configuration of local software before any migration could begin and a “significant change” the company’s mail routing infrastructure. “Office 365 offers an integrated experience for on-premise and cloud users,” it reads. “This comes at a greater ongoing, operational expense and complexity of maintaining central infrastructure.” The report also cites recent news that the University of Nebraska still hasn’t completed its migration to Office 365 despite being one of the first universities to sign-up for the service after its debut this past summer.
All that said, Berkeley liked that Microsoft would allow the company to better straddle the line between local software and services in the proverbial cloud.
The university also liked Gmail because it’s already used by a large swath of students and faculty. The report notes that a “significant” percentage of UC Berkeley’s student body is familiar with Gmail and that a large number of students are already forwarding their existing school email to a Gmail address. After the move to Gmail, the report says, it would be easy for users to retain multiple, separate email accounts. By contrast, there’s not a consumer version of Office 365 comparable to Gmail, the report says, and Microsoft’s solution would force users to consolidate separate accounts into one.
But Google’s victory wasn’t completely one-sided. Microsoft scored well on calendar tools, with the University arguing that a move to Office 365 would cause fewer problems for calendar “power users” — those who “may schedule dozens of meetings a day for several administrators and keep track of one to two dozen calendars minute by minute.” The report says that only about 5 percent of the people on campus are power users, but they account for about fifty percent of calendar use. “The lessened functionality in Google would be a detriment to these power users’ productivity going forward,” the report says.
Microsoft also came out ahead on security. After examining such security issues as authentication, encryption of stored email, and guarantee on where data will be stored, the university feels that Microsoft has a clear edge. “Google is inferior on all fronts,” the report says, “but only by a small margin.”
Asked to comment on the Berkeley report, Microsoft pointed to Berkeley’s recent decision to use some of its other software on campus, including Windows. “Productivity is in our DNA,” reads a statement from Microsoft. “This is a market we understand well and care about deeply. We’re delivering the power and familiarity of Office as part of easily consumer cloud solutions that non competitor can match.”
But behind the scenes, according to Berkeley’s Shelton Waggener, Microsoft has contacted the university to take issue with its report, requesting certain changes be made. He also said that several other universities have phoned to thank him for laying out the university’s thinking in such detail.
Berkeley’s very public report spotlights yet another clash of the tech titans. But when you consider the university’s efforts to accommodate what students and faculty are already using — and its ultimate choice of Google — it raises a larger question. Why do schools even provide an email account anyway? Gmail and most web-based clients are free. Schools — especially state school strapped for funding — could save on huge infrastructure costs by cutting the email systems and just letting student use their own accounts. An email address would just be one more data point gathered during registration, like a phone or social security number.
Waggener’s office is considering the question, and he notes that campus surveys find that many students prefer to receive information via text messages and Facebook rather than email. “It’s fair to say that email is for old people,” he says with a laugh. But Waggener is also serving the university’s entire staff and faculty. The university still believes in a unified infrastructure, and all things considered, email and calendars are still a very important part of that. Waggener says that if Berkeley changed technologies with the arrival of each new thing, it would still be using MySpace. “You have to be prepared to move, but you can’t be schizophrenic about it,” he says. “I would rather build the tools to let students choose.” | <urn:uuid:ff1dc728-824a-432a-989a-0f4d84eb8630> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/12/berkeley-google-docs-microsoft/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953341 | 1,423 | 1.726563 | 2 |