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TBILISI — Eka, a short brunette with brown eyes highlighted by green eyeliner, is by several measures the average Georgian woman. She has a high-school degree, a job, a husband, two children, and at age 30, has had, over the course of her eight years of married life, four abortions.
“It’s a reality in Georgia,” Eka told me over coffee on Wednesday. She said that “almost everyone” she knows has had at least two abortions.
Indeed, a 2005 survey on reproductive health in Georgia [pdf.] found that women here had on average 3.1 abortions in their lifetimes — a number that at the time earned Georgia the dubious honor of having the highest documented abortion rate in the world. (The rate in the United States today is .02.) The situation since then has improved considerably. According to a 2010 survey, Georgian women were having on average only 1.6 abortions in their lifetimes — a 48 percent decline over five years earlier.
Why the remarkable drop? The simple answer is that women in Georgia finally got the pill. That’s largely thanks to a campaign funded by U.S.A.I.D. and the United Nations Population Fund (U.N.F.P.A.) that educates doctors and nurses here, markets birth control on television and subsidizes the cost of condoms, pills and I.U.D.s.
This is a development success story that underscores a simple truth: more contraception equals fewer abortions.
But too often, still, myopic politics continue to stand in the way of that equation, endangering women in the process. Georgia’s current fertility rate — which is below replacement, despite a recent climb to two children per woman — is a hot political issue. Consequently, the government refuses to cover contraception in the state-funded healthcare program for the poor.
Denying poor women safe contraception won’t solve the problem of population decline, though; it will only encourage them to use abortion as a primary means of birth control, as they have done for decades. Right now, roughly 40 percent of Georgian women in rural areas wouldn’t be able to afford birth control ($9-12 per cycle) without the subsidies provided by the U.S.A.I.D.-U.N.F.P.A. program.
Denying poor women safe contraception won’t solve the problem of population decline, it will only encourage them to use abortion as birth control.
The issue is further complicated by the Orthodox Church, which wields enormous political power in Georgia. Family planning clinics, public health providers and international NGOs must walk a delicate line, and so they tend to promote contraception, which the Church condemns, as a means to reduce rates of abortion, which the Church condemns even more.
What’s more, modern methods of birth control are only slowly becoming culturally acceptable. Many Georgian women remain distrustful of them, said Dr. Tamar Sirbiladze, an adviser at the U.S.A.I.D. Office of Health and Social Development. Some fear that the hormones in birth-control pills will make them sterile, give them cancer or make them fat. Others believe the pills don’t really work, which is partly because for many years Georgian women were not instructed on how to use them correctly.
Eka went without the pill for the first seven years of her marriage, weathering four abortions as a result. Why? “I don’t know,” she said, looking genuinely perplexed. She said that when she was breast-feeding she didn’t take it for health reasons but that afterward, it just didn’t occur to her. “It wasn’t something I thought about,” she said. “My mother didn’t take it. My friends didn’t take it.”
Then last year, Eka began taking a basic oral contraceptive for the first time in her life. With only 36 percent of Georgian women using any modern birth control, according to Sirbiladze, by this measure, Eka is ahead of the curve.
Haley Sweetland Edwards is a freelance writer living in Tbilisi, Georgia. | <urn:uuid:b756a191-1420-4ae4-9400-841e9394f343> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/from-abortion-to-contraception-in-georgia/?ref=global | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962078 | 890 | 1.867188 | 2 |
On Monday I posted part 3 of a 3-part series on what’s wrong with the CRTC’s broadband target. While the CRTC’s specifics – especially the 5 meg downlink, 1 meg uplink, and 2015 target date – have been grist for the pundit mill, my take is a little different. In a word, the CRTC’s regulation of retail Internet access, as well as its inability to understand how the Net works, have rendered the target meaningless.
You’ll undoubtedly want to read the posts for yourself. But it’s easy to pull out my biggest issue with the Commission’s ivory-tower approach: they’re way too stuck on the geography problem to have any time for the affordability problem. In other words, where residents happen to live in Canada should be playing a much smaller role in Internet regulation and broadband development than how much money Canadians make – or don’t make.
Although this proposition has seemed notionally obvious to me for a long time, the release of the latest CIUS on May 25 seemed to offer solid empirical grounds for making this claim. As I’ve done before, I ran my ideas past Ben Veenhof yesterday to get a serious reality check. Ben is a principal analyst responsible for the CIUS and thus knows whereof the CIUS speaks. And as I’ve said before, he and his colleagues have shown themselves very willing to help out by fielding questions and explaining nuances.
I’ve pasted in below most of Ben’s email with his reactions to the Monday post. As you’ll see, he tackles two issues, one small, one bigger. The first involves a rounding error in the online and broadband numbers; the second involves the more critical matter of just who counts as “rural” and who as “urban” for purposes of the CIUS findings. He then has another couple of details to add about the demographics of online. (Disclaimer: Ben’s participation in this exchange should in no way be construed as agreement on his part, or that of Statistics Canada, with anything I have said in this post or any other.)
“You likely derived the figure for % of all Canadian households with a [high-]speed connection (76%) from two other figures provided in the initial Daily release: 79% of all households with a connection at home * the 96% of those connected reporting high speed. There is some rounding error in this calculation (i.e. if one had more decimal places, one would arrive at a figure of 75% for the % of all Canadian households with a high speed connection). No error on your part, just one of those things that can be calculated when you have more decimal places at your disposal.
“You also noted “Until told otherwise, I’m going to assume that respondents located in neither a census metropolitan area (CMA) nor a census agglomeration (CA) can be considered as ‘rural’ residents.” CMAs are groupings of municipalities situated around an urban core, and may contain a mix of both urban and rural areas, depending on the criteria one uses to define ‘urban’. (CMAs are defined largely by the degree of integration of communities as measured by commuting flows). However, if defining urban areas based on some other criteria, for example a minimum population density, there may be ‘pockets’ or areas that are part of the CMA that could be considered rural if they do not meet a minimum population threshold. For example, Uxbridge is part of the Toronto CMA and while both the urban core of Toronto and the township of Uxbridge may be densely populated, there are pockets of less densely-populated areas between the two locations which could be considered rural, if defined based on another standard. When reporting the CIUS 2010 data from the Daily you may wish to use your own language, but I think it is good that you provided the CMA and CA definition for your readers (as well as the accompanying graphic).
“I’m glad you were able to use some of the results I had sent following the May 25 release, showing rates of access by household income quartile. I thought I would add that in the initial release, we also noted that 20% of households that lacked access at home identified cost of service or equipment as a reason – this reason was reported by proportionally more households in the lowest income quartile (24%).” | <urn:uuid:bede6069-ce82-49db-990b-daf0de4153d7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.davidellis.ca/standing-corrected-stats-can-on-the-internet-use-survey/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968031 | 940 | 1.664063 | 2 |
i think i done step one on bluej but im stuck on step 2 which says add two fields which stores the nickname.....
this really makes me confuse
below is what i have to be doing codes on bluej
The basic Game class should have
• three fields, title, objective (of the game) and cost (in pence of each download);
• a constructor, which allows you to pass arguments to initialise these three attributes;
• accessor and mutator methods for each field as well as a printReport() method which outputs the title and objective of the game as well as the cost of each download.
Step 2: adding functionality to the Game class.
For this step, you should
• write a method download() which allows a user to "download a copy of the game". Since this is only a model, at the moment, all we do is output a message which congratulates the user on their download and reminds them of the cost. It also updates the value of a new field noOfDownloads;
• add two fields which store the nickname of the player with the best score as well as the score itself respectively;
• write a method checkScore() which, when given a player's score and name, checks to see whether that particular score is the best score to date and if so, replaces the best score with this new score and also replaces the relevant nickname.
Do not forget to amend your printReport() method to include the new information collected in this step.
So far, testing of the program has been quite repetitive and always starts from scratch. However, we could introduce a default constructor with the field values hard-coded. This means that when we create our object and then call this default constructor, it is as though our object has been in existence for some time. This will help particularly with your testing. Introduce a second, default constructor now.
• write a method calculateEarnings() which calculates how much money this particular game has earnt its writer;
o do not add an extra field to keep track of the running earnings total.
• Now amend your printReport() method to include this new information i.e. the earnt money, again without creating any new field(s).
Introduce a new class, called Manager, to the project. Its purpose is to represent the manager of the game. It should have
• two fields surname and managerID;
• a suitable constructor and accessor methods.
Next add a new field gameManager, of type Manager, to the Game class. Modify Game's constructor by giving it an additional parameter so that the new field can be initialised when the constructor is called.
To test your code
• create a Manager object;
• create a Game object, and pass to its constructor
o values for the three fields (as usual);
o the identifier for the Manager object e.g. manager1 (or, more easily, click on the Manager object on the Object Bench);
• inspect the Game object using the Object Inspector. If you double click on the gameManager field, a new Object Inspector window will open and you should see the fields of the Game object you created -- this will confirm that your code for Step 4 is working correctly.
Now amend the printReport()method of the Game class so that it also outputs the surname of the manager. | <urn:uuid:d0ef043f-47d6-4ab9-aa5b-9dc03f72a39a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.javaprogrammingforums.com/whats-wrong-my-code/18749-java-bluej-exercise.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90334 | 695 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Alaia - Meaning of Alaia
[ 3 syll. a-la-ia, al-aia ] The baby girl name Alaia is pronounced as aa-L-AYaa- †. Alaia is mainly used in the English language and its language of origin is Basque. The name means happy. The name Alaya is a variant form of Alaia.
Alaia is irregularly used as a baby girl name. It is not ranked within the top 1000. In 2011, out of the family of girl names directly linked to Alaia, Alaya was the most widely used.
Baby names that sound like Alaia include A'ala (Hawaiian), Aahliyah, Aailiyah, Aailyah, Aalaiya, Aaleah, Aalia, Aaliah, Aaliya, Aaliyah (Arabic and English), Aaliyha, Aalliah, Aalyiah, Ahalya, Ahelee, Aheleigh, Aheley, Aheli, Ahelia, and Ahelie.
† Pronunciation for Alaia: AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; L as in "lay (L.EY)" ; AY as in "side (S.AY.D)" | <urn:uuid:3d34df75-d783-485a-8319-b7a4199f8875> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.babynamespedia.com/meaning/Alaia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933986 | 271 | 2.015625 | 2 |
The following excerpts were chosen from the document Preliminary Plan for Lower Potomac Mount Vernon, Rose Hill, and Springfield published by Fairfax County in February, 1975. These are official statements and comments concerning the Route 1 corridor extending through the Groveton community.
"Portions of the corridor have been significant transportation routes since pre-colonial days. Although still used as a major transportation artery, Route 1 corridor changed from a primarily national roadway when the Shirley Highway was constructed. From that point, much of the interstate traffic that had utilized Route 1 shifted to I-95, and Route 1 increasingly became a corridor for local and regional traffic.
"Today the corridor is best known as an unattractive example of strip commercial development. Despite the problems, however, the corridor has considerable opportunity for improvement."
* * *
"Retail commercial activities comprise the key land use of the corridor, including: 44 service stations, 44 restaurants, most of which provide short orders only and 'fast foods' service, 23 motels, 10 banks, 6 auto dealerships, 7 supermarkets, 8 furniture stores, 10 mobile home parks with a total of 1,712 pads, 5 car wash facilities, and a number of other businesses, ranging from Roberts Karate to Madam Gray Palm Reading."
* * *
"Residents of the area have pointed out the proliferation of identical uses and services in the area, specifically service and short order eating places. There have been instances of new service stations opening within a short distance of stations that had but recently closed from lack of business. The same pattern has been observed for eating facilities."
"While there are a few attractive individual structures in the complex area, the lack of attention to siting, signing, landscaping, and relationship to adjacent structures has resulted in an overall level of design quality that is poor. There is no conscious pattern and few desirable use relationships that are apparent to the customer. Many management decisions are made not only outside the Route 1 corridor, but outside the Washington Metropolitan area! This pattern of control may form a major obstacle to any proposal for transformation of the area."
* * *
"Accident Rate (Number of accidents per 1 million vehicles miles
The import of these numbers is that a person is 3 times as liable to be killed and 4 1/2 times as liable to have an accident along the Route 1 corridor strip as one who is traveling on the parallel section of Interstate 95. (p.40)
* * *
"The northern part of the corridor is affected by the extensive flood plains and stream valleys of Dogue Creek."
"Air quality is seriously affected by automobiles exhaust emissions aggravated by the start/stop traffic pattern which is so common along Route 1. Noise levels are also high because of the extensive automobile usage." (pp.40-41)
"As one drives the length of Route 1 in either direction, one of the immediate perceptions is the lack of district identity; that is, to one who is not very familiar with the corridor, anyone place along its length looks like any other place along its length. Service stations are repeated brand for brand; the same franchised fast food restaurants are seen at irregular intervals; and in some instances, marginal uses go in and out of business in fairly brief periods of time, with only slight remodeling of structures occurring. The clash of advertising signs in the corridor, all competing for attention of the motorist driving by, results quite predictably in a barrage of advertising structures and facilities, none of which is entirely effective in bringing the merchant's or product's name to the attention of the potential consumer. To put it simply, the eye gets confused by the mass of signs that line the road on either side. One suspects that a great deal of the cost and effort represented by this type of advertising may be not only inefficient but counterproductive." (p. 41) | <urn:uuid:73e8517c-e605-4edd-a0a8-1fee395c7791> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/vr/snakehill/volume2/routeone.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960095 | 781 | 1.570313 | 2 |
The overwhelming majority of hydraulic components and systems are designed to use oil-based hydraulic fluids. No wonder; these fluids rarely present significant operating, safety, or maintenance problems. Unfortunately, there are circumstances where using oil-based fluid should be avoided. One common fluid power application is in an environment with potential ignition sources &emdash; an open flame, sparks, or hot metal. In these environments, a leak spraying from a high-pressure hydraulic system could cause a serious fire and result in major property damage, personnel injury, or even death.
Even though most oil-based hydraulic fluids have relatively high flash/fire points (>300° F), small leaks in a high-pressure system can produce a finely atomized spray that can travel significant distances. If an ignition source is encountered, complete ignition of the spray envelope can occur. The alternative is to use a hydraulic fluid that eliminates or significantly reduces this hazard: any of several fire-resistant hydraulic fluids (FRHFs).
The decision to purchase a higher-priced FRHF is perhaps analogous to our income tax dilemma this month; you don't want to pay it, but the alternative is worse. However, there is more to know about FRHFs than just price; there are significant chemical and performance differences that must be understood before specifying a FRHF for any given application. To address this need, this article will briefly review the evolution of FRHFs, the types of fluids that are commercially available, and the advantages and disadvantages associated with each.
How far we've come
The history of FRHF is relatively simple and has been one of slow evolution. As the name implies, the original fluid medium in hydraulic applications was water, and it offered the highest degree of fire resistance possible. However, an acceleration in the performance potential of fluid power systems dictated a need for much better lubricating requirements that could be satisfied only by oil-based fluids.
Apart from isolated segments of basic research, little progress was made in developing suitable FRHFs until the end of World War II. During the war, tragic incidents related to hydraulic fluid fires and major property losses at steel mills and foundries graphically illustrated the urgent need for something to be done. Similar incidents in captive environments such as coal mines during the rapid post-war industrial expansion helped motivate a major joint research effort between government and industry. This work was directed at developing fluids that could replace oil-based hydraulic fluids at a reasonable cost and with no significant reduction in hydraulic system performance. Two basic approaches were undertaken. One involved the introduction of water into the fluid to act as a "snuffer" if the fluid ignited. The other involved synthetic, non-aqueous products whose chemistry resisted burning or generated products of combustion that helped extinguish any flame.
Commercial products in both categories evolved during the 1950s and '60s and are still in use today. In the early 1970s, an additional synthetic type of fluid was introduced to address many of the drawbacks inherent in the earlier types. Since the introduction of each type, many improvements have been made in fire resistance, anti-wear properties, and overall quality.
Where we are
Water glycol and invert emulsion constitute the major fluid types of water-containing products. Water glycol is a true solution of a glycol (such as ethylene glycol) in water, along with a variety of additives to impart viscosity, corrosion protection, and anti-wear properties. A shear-stable thickener, which has improved over the years, represents the novel technology aspect of the fluid. Water glycol contains approximately 40% water. Despite a number of drawbacks, water glycol is the dominant FRHF on the market today and is used in a wide variety of applications.
An invert emulsion also contains approximately 40% water but is a stable emulsion of water dispersed in oil. The outer phase, oil, represents the wetting surface; the inner phase, water, provides the fire retardant-element. Oil-soluble additives provide anti-wear properties, corrosion protection, and emulsion stability. Inverts, at one time, were commonly used but are losing favor in industry today.
Synthetic fluids initially were represented by a class of chemical compounds known as phosphate esters, which are reaction products between phosphoric acid and aromatic ring-structure alcohols. These fluids are extremely fire resistant and have widespread industrial use, as well as military and aircraft service. However, their popularity has declined because of environmental, cost, and compatibility factors.
The other type of synthetic fluids in use are synthetic hydrocarbons, more specifically, polyol esters. These fluids are the reaction products between long-chain fatty acids (derived from animal and vegetable fats) and synthesized organic alcohols. These products contain additives to impart anti-wear properties, corrosion protection, and viscosity modification. Fire resistance results from a combination of high thermal properties and physical characteristics. This is the most recent category of FRHFs and has gained widespread and growing use.
What is fire resistance?
The term "fire resistant" often is misunderstood or interpreted to be overly inclusive; it seems appropriate to standardize the terminology and review the accepted test methods for judging the fire resistance of a given fluid. First, there is no single property or test of a fluid, such as flash/fire point, auto ignition temperature (AIT), etc. that will quantitatively rate its relative fire resistance. This has led to a "simulated incident" approach in which tests are designed to replicate a worst-case scenario in typical applications where fluid power is used near a potential fire hazard. Fluids generally pass or fail these tests, and those that pass are incorporated into an Approval Guide or List of Qualified Fluids.
In the United States, two test protocols have evolved and are generally regarded as benchmarks in the industry. One was developed by Factory Mutual Research Corporation (FMRC). Their original intent was to use the test results in the risk-assessment programs of those insurance companies under the Factory Mutual System umbrella. The test has since become the chief qualification for commercial companies using FRHFs; all fluid suppliers submit products seeking "FMRC Approval." The 1992 FMRC Approval Guide lists over 300 FRHFs from approximately 50 suppliers. Factory Mutual's program is now global in scope.
FMRC addresses the definition of FRHF in the following excerpt in their introduction to the hydraulic fluids sections of their Approval Guide:
Less flammable hydraulic fluids approved and listed here have been tested to evaluate fire hazard only. All presently available fluids will burn under certain conditions. In each case the fire hazard has been reduced to an acceptable degree, meeting the Approval Standards of FMRC; other fluid properties are not investigated.
This paragraph accurately puts the intent of FRHFs into the proper perspective. They are not fireproof but, rather, they significantly reduce the potential hazard associated with oil-based products. In the FMRC tests, the fluid is conditioned to 140° F, pressurized to 1000 psi in a steel cylinder, and discharged through an oil burner-type nozzle. The spray generated is intended to simulate a high-pressure hydraulic system leak. A gas flame is passed through (not retained in) the spray envelope at two distances downstream of the nozzle. There may be local burning at the point of flame entry, and the pass criteria dictate that any flame must self-extinguish when the ignition source is removed; no flame may propagate back to the nozzle. This process is repeated 20 times, and the burn duration timed. Any burn duration over 5 sec is considered a fail.
A second test uses the same spray directed at an inclined metal channelheated to 1300° F. In this test, the spray is continuous for 60 sec. The criteria are:
1. The spray in contact with the channel may not burn, or
2 If spray ignition takes place, fluid rolling off the channel cannot continue to burn, and the flame cannot follow the spray if directed away from the channel.
If these conditions are satisfied, the fluid is approved. Statistics are not available, but many products in all of the fluid categories described do not pass this test.
The Mine Safety & Health Administration (MSHA) has had in place for many years an evaluation program for qualifying fluids that are used underground, primarily in coal mines. MSHA testing is similar to FMRC's in the sense that a spray mist of the candidate fluid is generated. However, the ignition mechanism is somewhat different in the MSHA test. Under this procedure, a spray mist is directed continuously at a variety of ignition sources that include an open gas flame, a welding arc, and burning rags. The passl criteria are that localized burning in the spray mist extinguish within 5 sec, and there can be no sustained propagation along the spray axis. They also have an AIT criterion and a wick test to assess the rate of evaporation of water from a candidate product. MSHA tests also have a relatively high rate of product rejections.
Since both of these tests involve fluids submitted by the supplier to the testing agency, both FMRC and MSHA have comprehensive manufacturer auditing programs in which quality-assurance programs are carefully evaluated and monitored by periodic, on-site inspections. This may include retests of approved fluids.
In addition to these "third party" ratings of FRHFs, many companies have developed their own fire-resistance tests that must be considered in addition to a product having FMRC approval. Again, these tests generally follow the simulated incident philosophy and are specific to the type of industry involved. Examples of these include exposing the candidate fluid &emdash; in spray or non-spray form &emdash; to a hot manifold, molten metal, heated blocks of a representative metal, burning rags, hot sand, etc. The evaluation criteria may be no burning, limited burning, no smoke, non-propagation, etc. Minimum AIT and flash/fire point temperatures also are used either independently or in combination with a test described above.
Click here to download a PDF of Characteristics of fire-resistant fluids.
In all of these tests, a product is either approved or rejected; there is no ranking or rating of approved products. This aspect, the occasional lack of reproducibility, and the absence of service history of a fluid has led FMRC to develop a new test that will quantify the relative fire resistance of various fluids. The test procedure involves measuring the heat release of a fluid under a fixed-burn condition and combining this value with a separately determined measurement of the energy required to initiate burning. These values are used to establish a Spray Flammability Parameter for each product evaluated. This test and a new approval standard currently are under review by FMRC and have not been formally adopted.
The major problem facing a designer converting a hydraulic system from an oil-based fluid to FRHF is selecting the particular type that will minimize the cost of conversion and maximize the operating and safety benefits. The choice becomes a trade-off of characteristics associated with each type. Each product group offers advantages and disadvantages for any given application. It is beyond the scope of this article to attempt to make recommendations for certain end-users, but the major attributes and shortfalls of the various fluid types can be addressed.
The table above summarizes these characteristics, price ranges, and some of the considerations associated with converting a system containing oil-based fluid to a FRHF. Many suppliers offer products for each type of FRHF, which may vary considerably in price, quality, and after-sale service.
Where we're going
With regard to future developments, there are no new products on the horizon which will make this process any easier. Significant improvements have been made in recent years with both water glycol and polyol ester fluids, and this trend should continue. Moreover, the impact of more-stringent environmental regulations will be more strongly felt in the next few years and may even restrict the choice. The motivation for converting from an oil-based fluid will also strengthen as waste control regulations expand for any product containing oil. In some areas, "hydraulic oil" already is considered a hazardous material. Fluids having the capability of being non-toxic and readily biodegradable will further expand the need to replace oil-based hydraulic fluids.
Environmentally safe and fire-proof
A drawback of most hydraulic fluids, especially some fire-resistant fluids, is their toxicity - either to personnel, the environment, or both. Furthermore, they are only fire resistant, and most will burn under certain conditions. Recently introduced synthetic water additives, on the other hand, mix with water (usually in a concentration of 5%) to become fire proof; the solution actually could extinguish a fire.
These water-based fluids, in general, also offer a cost advantage over most other fluids because one gallon of concentrate produces 20 gallons of hydraulic fluid. When disposal expenses enter calculations, the cost differential becomes even greater - especially with a solution containing non-toxic, readily biodegradable synthetic water additives that require no treatment. The accompanying table summarizes characteristics of common fire-resistant and fire-proof fluids.
There are, however, important performance and operating characteristics of water-based fluids that cannot be ignored. First, water-based fluids in general have much lower viscosity, film strength, and lubricating qualities than oil-based fluids. This means that system components - especially pumps, valves, and actuators - must be designed specifically for operation with water-based fluid. You can't just drain fluid from a system containing oil-based fluid and expect it to run on water-based fluid.
A perception remains today that components for water-based fluid are much more expensive and larger - especially valves - than their conventional counterparts. While this may have been true 20 years ago, the cost premium for valves and other components designed for water-based fluid has narrowed to about 30%. This investment can easily be recovered in the cost of fluid alone, not to mention disposal and treeatment costs. Moreover, valve size has been reduced dramatically: many are available with standard NFPA footprints.
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Next, any potential for freezing must be considered. Traditionally, ethylene glycol is added to water to lower the solution's freezing point. However, using highly toxic ethylene glycol in a solution containing the synthetic additive would completely negate the purpose of using an environmentally safe additive. Using propylene glycol instead as anti-freeze maintains the environmental integrity of the solution because propylene glycol is so non-toxic that it is approved for use in food by the U. S. Food & Drug Administration.
Finally, because the fluid is non-toxic, it naturally tends to support microbial growth. To minimize or prevent consequences associated with this problem, judicious use of bacteriostatic additives and effective sealing and reservoir design should be practiced.
- John Fisher and Walt Kuleck, Hunt Valve Co., Salem, Ohio
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(Electroencephalography, Brain Wave Test)
What is an EEG?
An electroencephalogram detects abnormalities in the brain waves or electrical activity of the brain. During the procedure, electrodes consisting of small metal discs with thin wires are pasted on the scalp. The electrodes detect tiny electrical charges that result from the activity of the brain cells. The charges are amplified and appear as a graph on a computer screen or as a recording that may be printed out on paper. Your doctor then interprets the reading.
Related procedures that may be performed are evoked potential studies. These studies are used to measure electrical activity in the brain in response to stimulation of sight, sound, or touch. Please see this procedure for additional information.
Different types of normal brain waves
An EEG records patterns of brain activity. Among the basic waveforms are the alpha, beta, theta, and delta rhythms.
Alpha waves occur at a frequency of 8 to 12 cycles per second in a regular rhythm. They are present only when you are awake but have your eyes closed. Usually they disappear when you open your eyes or start mentally concentrating.
Beta waves occur at a frequency of 13 to 30 cycles per second. They are usually associated with anxiety, depression, or the use of sedatives.
Theta waves occur at a frequency of 4 to 7 cycles per second. They are most common in children and young adults.
Delta waves occur at a frequency of 0.5 to 3.5 cycles per second. They generally occur only in young children during sleep.
During an EEG, typically about 100 pages or computer screens of activity are evaluated. Special attention is paid to the basic waveforms, but brief bursts of energy and responses to stimuli, such as light, are also examined.
Reasons for the procedure
The EEG is used to evaluate several types of brain disorders. When epilepsy is present, seizure activity will appear as rapid spiking waves on the EEG.
Patients with lesions of the brain, which can result from tumors or stroke, may have unusually slow EEG waves, depending on the size and the location of the lesion.
The test can also be used to diagnose other disorders that influence brain activity, such as Alzheimer's disease, certain psychoses, and a sleep disorder called narcolepsy.
The EEG may also be used to determine the overall electrical activity of the brain (for example, to evaluate trauma, drug intoxication, or extent of brain damage in comatose patients). The EEG may also be used to monitor blood flow in the brain during surgical procedures.
There may be other reasons for your doctor to recommend an EEG.
Risks of the procedure
The EEG has been used for many years and is considered a safe procedure. The test causes no discomfort. The electrodes only record activity and do not produce any sensation. In addition, there is no risk of getting an electric shock.
In rare instances, an EEG can cause seizures in a person with a seizure disorder due to the flashing lights or the deep breathing that may be involved during the test. If this occurs, a doctor will treat the seizure immediately.
There may be other risks depending on your specific medical condition. Be sure to discuss any concerns with your doctor prior to the procedure.
Certain factors or conditions may interfere with the reading of an EEG test. These include, but are not limited to, the following:
Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) caused by fasting
Body or eye movement during the tests (but this will rarely, if ever, actually interfere significantly with the interpretation of the test)
Lights, especially bright or flashing ones
Certain medications, such as sedatives
Drinks containing caffeine, such as coffee, cola, and tea (while these drinks can occasionally alter the EEG results, this almost never actually interferes significantly with the interpretation of the test)
Oily hair or the presence of hair spray
Before the procedure
Your doctor will explain the procedure to you and offer you the opportunity to ask any questions that you might have about the procedure.
You will be asked to sign a consent form that gives your permission to do the procedure. Read the form carefully and ask questions if something is not clear.
Wash your hair with shampoo, but do not use a conditioner the night before the test. Do not use any hair care products, such as hairspray or gels.
Notify your doctor of all medications (prescribed and over-the-counter) and herbal supplements that you are taking.
Discontinue using medications that may interfere with the test if your doctor has directed you to do so. Do not stop using medications without first consulting your doctor.
Avoid consuming any food or drinks containing caffeine for eight to12 hours before the test.
Follow any directions your doctor gives you about reducing your sleep the night before the test. Some EEG tests require that you sleep through the procedure and some do not. The night before, adults may not be allowed to sleep more than four or five hours, and children not more than five to seven hours, if the EEG is to be performed while the patient is sleeping.
Avoid fasting the night before or day of the procedure, since low blood sugar may influence the results.
Based on your medical condition, your doctor may request other specific preparation.
During the procedure
An EEG may be performed on an outpatient basis or as part of your stay in a hospital. Procedures may vary depending on your condition and your doctor's practices.
Generally, an EEG procedure follows this process:
You will be asked to relax in a reclining chair or lie on a bed.
Between 16 and 25 electrodes will be attached to your scalp with a special paste, or a cap containing the electrodes will be used.
You will be asked to close your eyes, relax, and be still.
Once the recording begins you will need to remain still throughout the test. You may be monitored through a window in an adjoining room to observe any movements that can cause an inaccurate reading, such as swallowing or blinking. The recording may be stopped periodically to let you rest or reposition yourself.
After the initial recording performed at rest, you may be tested with various stimuli to produce activity that does not show up while you are resting. For example, you may be asked to breathe deeply and rapidly for three minutes, or you may be exposed to a bright light.
This study is generally performed by an EEG technician and may take approximately 45 minutes to two hours.
If you are being evaluated for a sleep disorder, the EEG may be performed while you are asleep.
After the procedure
Once the test is complete, the electrodes will be removed and the electrode paste will be washed off with warm water, acetone, or witch hazel. In some cases, you may need to wash your hair again at home.
If any sedatives were taken for the test, you may be required to rest until the sedatives have worn off. You will need to have someone drive you home.
Skin irritation or redness may be present at the locations where the electrodes were placed, but this will wear off in a few hours.
Your doctor will inform you as to when to resume any medications you stopped taking before the test.
Your doctor may give you additional or alternate instructions after the procedure, depending on your particular situation.
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04/05/2012 - ECHO has decided to fund several UNICEF projects in the Sahel for a total ammount of € 16.5 million. Funds will be used to provide treatment for children suffering from severe acute malnutrition in west and central Africa.
UNICEF estimates that at least 1.1 million children under 5 will need specialized, lifesaving care in the course of the year and is ensuring with partners and governments the establishment of more than 4000 treatment centres in the region.
One amount of € 11.5 million is going for nutrition programmes in each of the eight countries affected and a second tranche of € 5 million is assigned to Chad. In that country an estimated 127, 000 children under 5 are at risk of dying. The operation there faces considerable logistical and capacity challenges.
The UN estimates that as many as 15 million people will be affected in eight countries. These are Chad, northern Nigeria, the north of Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and northern Senegal.
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How Should You Read the BIble - Part 2
August 28, 2008 Length: 5:56
In this episode, Jason looks at studying biblical topics and books. You can also download a free "re/CALL This!" graphic for this episode, with a quotation from St. Ignatius Brianchaninov about the need to understand Holy Scripture according to the thought of the Church Fathers, by visiting the re/CALL website. You can also download Jason's free booklet (PDF) for teens, You Can Read the Bible.
"A wonderful resource to understand the Orthodox Church. Though Evangelical, I have a profound respect for the Orthodox Church and her believers. Many enlightening programs have given me an inkling of a bigger faith; I don’t always agree, but you all have great stuff." | <urn:uuid:408ab0a6-54f9-4afb-a890-35734d798d59> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/recall/how_should_you_read_the_bible_part_2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926335 | 168 | 1.632813 | 2 |
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tiests for G.ontro at ealth Services by Rick Fitzgerald LIFE Staff Writer Because of an overflow of calls from women students wanting birth control • appointments at University Health Services (UHS), UHS officials and the Women's Health Project (under the auspices of Associated Women Students) have joined hands in an attempt to alleviate the problem. The joint effort being made involves informal, educational discussions on birth control, according to Dr. John A. Vandrick, UHS director. "We know from last year and so far this fall that there is a tremendous need on this campus for education in the areas of sexuality and birth control. Now we have decided to work together with the Women's Health Project to fill those needs," Vandrick explains. . Demands for birth control services last year were far greater than UHS could handle with its limited staff, Vandrick continues", and already this fall appointments must be made many weeks in advance. The program being formulated by the two groups involves informal discussion each Wednesday at 7;30 p.m. in the UHS lobby. Dr. Russell Ragan of the health service staff will present information concerning the physiology of the menstrual cycle, actions of the birth control pill, advantages and disadvantages of the pill as well as alternative methods of conception control. "*' -7 "This is by no means a lecture," Miss Grosvenor notes.- "Following Dr. Ragan's basic explanation will be a general question and answer period. After general questions are taken care of, women will have the opportunity to talk with any of the 26 birth control counselors from Women's Health Project on a one-to-one basis in private," she adds. The first meeting will be Thursday evening. Vandrick explained that a birth control appointment now takes , approximately 30 minutes to complete. Physicians not only conduct a physical "examination, but explain the concept of birth control to the patient. Women wishing to attend the discussion sessions should call 774-3762. If CENTRAL JL ^. jji Volume 53, Number 6 Mt. Pleasant Michigan 48858 September 11. 1972 1»r^ t\*.3ftv.vM0*\ SUNDAY LARK- John Smith, Detroit junior, cools off by diving from bridge spanning the Chippewa River. The Merrill Hall resident performed his leaps into about 10 feet of water, made dangerous by strong rapids. The river level is finally subsiding after being swollen from summer rains. M*m •--"■4? .**■? \ If '''\^ .Wi t« '/J ',>»'■■•<■' iphasis on cs?***** training wants liberalized ed. *" fc Administrations Editor *lrmZ\™m*mB-B0^ ^warned that on^catiimT Careful when, putting ted to i ? ly Serve sttldents if we were "he said needS °f a more MberaI 0»Ctdbaackr^f f Try hy the Carne^ working tfi. -18 ,eelfaK8- "Graduates who *.«£d ™h£ZrBP*et™ ?eWs for five «f!p ^^ most ab°ut *"T no? *their edtica««n had;not been • wish thPv"60638?!11? more vocational, to their fioL "Tl ha™ taken co«rses 'y again." Which '**** would probably t^rpe]d0vl.^Cati0n^ •**»tion aa "an ton ~tai *•-a career °pp°rtunity Sone8ttd b-S0,?e that is *»*»** to ^abl^comn 7* 8 ?e him bQth 30b entry «1 fc ^P^eace/' he said. "^VocatiSilT6ll /^^on^riented vocational I've had experience with*". said Boyd. "Its primary .purpose was teaching and that was the primary reason students came here. "However, this is no longer true-we are now suffering the strain of a period of transition." . Boyd explained that American university degrees had always been regarded as a marketable commodity for finding a jol). With the tightened job market, students began to realize a college degree did not bring a guaranteed -job. "We've got to think of why students come here," reasoned Boyd. "They come here to plan a career, and if the University doesn't-help them do this, they've been cheated. "We have to ask ourselves what vocation besides teaching we can Offer a valuable education for," he said. "We have to know what student needs are." Boyd said the University will have to re-examine programs to make sure they are adequately preparing students with a more libera! background education. "I do not believe there is the necessary conflict between vocational and liberal education," stressed Boyd. "Most vocations people come here to prepare for are professions, and mostprofessions require a liberal education," he explained. "That means large components of our vocational programs will be liberal or general in nature." Boyd said there is tension between the demands of liberal and professional education. "This tension is , healthy, there has to be balance between the two," he said. When asked to explain the University's role in preparing students for business jobs that have special intern trainings Boyd said; "We have to give the student a background of general knowledge in addition to his special area of study. "Businesses want people who learn fast. They don't want to have to train students in their specific field," he said. Boyd cited an accountant as an example. "After a person has followed an accounting curriculum, he has general knowledge of his area. The intern program of a business would be to accustom the graduate to how that business used accounting," he ..said.. "It is dangerous to conclude that big business will train you no matter what type of education you've had," IJ0yd>warned.' He said the University is interested in what students do and make With their lives. "When the quality of education goes up, thequality of literacy will be Uniformaly high* We must help free people to be then? best selves," BoydI concluded. •v.- - v ,V . T « ' ■: **. .«* '"4' ./■ v^c;* s^VMV^VMV^.VAV.V^AVAW*,.*-*,'.* t.t.t *♦»«♦*♦♦•».»**.»».».....«. 4.... *.
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The latest edition of the Canadian Journal of Sociology features a review by David Lyon of Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age, edited by Michael Warner, Jonathan VanAntwerpen, and Craig Calhoun (HUP, 2010).
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In Akeel Bilgrami’s contribution to Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age, “enchantment” refers to the historical belief that God or his divine expression is accessible to the everyday world of “matter and nature and human community and perception.” Correspondingly, “disenchantment” refers to that shift in perspective (encouraged by early modern science and its mechanistic model of nature) by which God was exiled from nature. Bilgrami’s ultimate aim is to “reenchant” the secular age by affirming the “callings” of a world laden with “value elements.” I will say more below about this interesting notion of a call from outside and its role in ethics; let me point out now that the processes of “enchantment” and “disenchantment” are for Bilgrami, as for Charles Taylor, essentially shifts in theological orientation, different views of the relationship between God and nature.
Like many contributors to Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age, I share the sense that Taylor’s account of Latin Christianity demands greater attention to its global entanglements. Specifically, I am concerned with tracking the processes whereby reconciliation was bound up with the concepts, practices, and vocabulary of ubuntu during South Africa’s transition to non-racial democracy, and how, in turn, ubuntu has come to inflect the social imaginary of Taylor’s Latin Christianity.
I was asked after the 2008 Presidential election to make some loose predictions about the future of conservative political religions in the United States. As any handicapper would, I’ve kept tabs as the Town Halls grew first loud and then armed, as cries of outrage were heard in legislatures, as conspiracies once the province of Lyndon LaRouche were given a national airing, and as tea parties were held. I’m not surprised, of course, having written two books about the recrudescence of religious antiliberalism. But I found it very interesting that Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age—a wonderfully rich collection of reflections on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age—should appear in the thick of revived public panics regarding the perceived value of secularism. As bumper sticker-length slogans are hurled like grenades from various corners—celebrating the “divinely-inspired” vision of the Founders or defending their cautions against religious presence in public life—it seems obvious that secularisms are precisely what we should be scrutinizing. Right?
What would secularity look like if we approached it through the perhaps vague rubric of “indigenous ‘religions’”? . . . Will we ever know? Most considerations of secularity, secularism, and secularization take the Abrahamic religions and, in the South Asian context, Buddhism and Hinduism as their objects, and much discussion in the wake of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age has continued this trend. Whether implicitly or explicitly, secularity is usually understood as a “civilizational” condition, and Taylor seems to confirm this by relying on Karl Jaspers’s notion of an “axial age” to mark a major civilizational transformation in thought that took place in China, India, and the Mediterranean world in the last centuries BCE. Hence, one variety of secularism, or one consequence of the varieties of secularism, might be that the practices and “myths” of indigenous religions will constantly defy availability to knowledge. Taking cues from some of the essays collected in Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age, I want to use this category of indigenous religions to think through the absences in and limitations of Taylor’s book—specifically, its misrecognition of indigenous religions.
The various essays on A Secular Age gathered in Michael Warner, Jonathan VanAntwerpen and Craig Calhoun’s Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age raise a host of important and interesting questions with respect to Taylor’s account of secularism: Do we really need recourse to a notion of transcendence that takes us beyond the immanence of natural and human life in order to re-enchant our world? What kind of history—or, perhaps better put, story or narrative—of secularism is Taylor offering us? Can one properly define Western secularism in isolation from explicit consideration of the West’s encounters and intertwining with non-Western cultures?
What I think is most intriguing, however, about this book is how it unfolds as a dialogue between various visions of secularism informed by different background beliefs, thus illustrating the very kind of interaction between different options of belief and non-belief that characterizes secularism itself according to Taylor.
The heft of a book would seem proportional to its exhaustiveness. It is no surprise that Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age is criticized for failing to be exhaustive, for missing important components of the story it purports to tell. Taylor responds: the book should have been longer. But this criticism and response both depend on a certain ambition—a certain desire for completeness, a certain will to truth—that author and critics themselves find problematic.
There are “others” whose voices must be heard, so the criticism goes. Taylor constructs “Latin Christendom” and the “North Atlantic” as entities that are internally homogenous with unproblematic boundaries. But what about Jews? What about Muslims? What about colonial encounters? What about the complex religious terrain of America? Don’t these differences call into question the exhaustiveness of Taylor’s historical narrative, and of the terms out of which it is constructed? How would Taylor deal with the non-believers, neither secular nor church-goers, of, say, rural eighteenth century America (as Jon Butler queries)?
But this line of questioning is symptomatic of a certain ambivalence, a tension between purported intellectual commitments and the performance of scholarship. The line of questioning is animated by a desire for completeness, by the fantasy that, once all of the data is accounted for, we can rest assured that we will get the world right.
Rich in interdisciplinary breadth, Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age offers an opportunity to reflect on the reception of Charles Taylor’s magnum opus. Edited by an English professor and two social scientists, it includes contributions from a political philosopher, a sociologist, a theologian, and a literary critic. Given the many reviews of A Secular Age in these disciplines, this mix of contributors is not surprising.
Somewhat more surprising is the inclusion of two historians, members of a discipline that has largely ignored Taylor’s book. Three years after its publication, A Secular Age has yet to be reviewed in the Journal of American History and the American Historical Review.
What explains this lack of interest? Writing in Church History, Martin Marty notes that while “the ordinary historian has very much to learn from Taylor’s use of history,” it cannot be appropriated “without undertaking a significant act of translating and organizing the material.” | <urn:uuid:4b0f219f-4733-4469-83a9-ff4310ab194b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/tag/varieties-of-secularism-in-a-secular-age/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943145 | 1,576 | 1.648438 | 2 |
(1) The allocation of custodial responsibility under section 9-206 of this article;
(2) The level of each parent's participation in past decision-making on behalf of the child;
(3) The wishes of the parents;
(4) The level of ability and cooperation the parents have demonstrated in decision-making on behalf of the child;
(5) Prior agreements of the parties; and
(6) The existence of any limiting factors, as set forth in section 9-209 of this article.
(b) If each of the child's legal parents has been exercising a reasonable share of parenting functions for the child, the court shall presume that an allocation of decision-making responsibility to both parents jointly is in the child's best interests. The presumption is overcome if there is a history of domestic abuse, or by a showing that joint allocation of decision-making responsibility is not in the child's best interest.
(c) Unless otherwise provided or agreed by the parents, each parent who is exercising custodial responsibility shall be given sole responsibility for day-to-day decisions for the child, while the child is in that parent's care and control, including emergency decisions affecting the health and safety of the child.
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The Fisher Museum is a no-go for the Presidio. I wrote at the time:
Even if the Fisher Museum is built, will it be able to generate enough revenue to support itself or will it be a money sink? Very few museums are profitable; they live off their endowments, grants and any other revenue producing properties that they may own. Furthermore, what impact will the construction of all these buildings have? How many building projects have been built on time and within the budget? What about cost overruns? Construction boondoggles? I do not trust the powers that be and perhaps that’s the bottom line. If the door is opened a crack, how much wider will it be forced open? Can we be really looking at a dozen more super-towers of luxury apartments lining up along the bay? We can’t see it now but it’s a real mistake to assume that everybody is honest, ethical and eco-friendly where there’s money to be made.
CM Nevis thinks is a classic case of "not in my backyard" but dismisses the very real issues involved. While the collection may be first class, the choice of site was inappropriate. This wasn’t simply a NIMBBY issue; it was a serious problem involving an inaccessible site without public transportation and a building that would have negatively impacted the existing environment. The footprint would have been huge and while the Fisher’s claim that they would donate the money to build it, what about staffing and future upkeep – and who will ultimately own the complex? Reading through the 521 comments at SF Gate was a depressing exercise. Obviously the park and environmental activists have not done a good job in educating the public because most of the comments were hostile and uninformed. This wasn’t a free gift but a 21st century land grab. The complex would have included a 119-room hotel, meeting space, a restaurant and a bar; two new theaters and a heritage center. Who would ultimately have owned all these buildings and who would have ultimately been responsible for their upkeep? Who would get the revenue, if any? The editorial is severely one-sided since Nevius overlooks the fact that building the museum there would have violate the terms of the Presidio Trust. The ultimate decision was made by the federal government, not San Francisco.
The good thing about this is the possibility that the collection (or part of it) might go to enrich SFMOMA, a far more accessible space. If Mr. Fisher wants more public acclaim, maybe they can rename the museum the Don Fisher/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and put his name in big letters over the entrance?
Kenneth Baker reviews the Tutankhamen exhibit and is haughty dismissive of blockbusters and those who host them. But he raises a number of questions regarding the proper use and funding of museums, which I will attempt to discuss in a future post. | <urn:uuid:c0f52f41-d7fd-4363-9feb-763c297756ad> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cheznamastenancy.blogspot.com/2009/07/good-bad-and-oh-my-god-i-cant-believe.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956779 | 603 | 1.890625 | 2 |
When Matthew (our biggest kiddo) was only a little bitty kindergartner, we made these awesome Frankenstein cupcakes. Then Jose and I took them to the school to surprise him. It was the first time I ever made treats for a classroom. :)
So, today, I decided that we needed to make these cupcakes. Yes, today. Not when I’m done with school. Now. And so we did.
They didn’t turn out as perfect as I remember them being the first time. And they don’t exactly look like the picture on the Family Fun website (I got the recipe from the Oct. 2001 magazine). But they are cute, they were fun, and the whole family chipped in. Definitely a winner in our book.
Again, the recipe is from Family Fun. This is just a little description of how the project played out around here. :)
2 dozen cupcakes (you can make these from scratch or from a mix)
3.4 oz. box of vanilla instant pudding
green food coloring (I know, I know, but this is a special occasion)
1 c. of green melting candy (like Wilton Candy Melts–we got ours at Walmart)
24 large marshmallows
Mini M&Ms or Reese’s Pieces
black decorating gel
green Tic Tacs
*You will also need wax paper and skewers, just in case you don’t usually keep those things on hand*
1. Make your cupcakes and allow to cool.
2. Prepare the vanilla pudding. Add green food coloring until you like the shade. Chill in refrigerator.
3. Melt your candy melts in a double boiler or the microwave.
4. Using the skewer, roll the marshmallow around in the melted candy until coated. Spear the marshmallow with the skewer to transfer it to the wax paper. Do this with all 24 marshmallows. (The picture looks like I have these directly on the counter, but I don’t. And I don’t recommend that you do, either. Wax paper is your friend.)
5. IMPORTANT: Put the Reese’s Pieces/Mini M&Ms on each marshmallow RIGHT AWAY. As in, immediately after pulling them out of the melts. We did not do this and that’s why there is so much extra chocolate around our Frankensteins’ eyes. We realized later this was important, so I’m giving you a heads up. After you put your eyes on, put these in the refrigerator to chill.
6. While the marshmallows are chilling, you can work on frosting your cupcakes. But before frosting, you will want to cut a small hole in the top of each cupcake.
7. Using a teaspoon (I found it was easier to use the kind you eat with, not the kind you measure with), fill the cupcake holes with the green vanilla pudding.
8. Frost with chocolate frosting.
9. By now, your marshmallows should be cool. Take them out of the refrigerator and, using black decorator’s gel, add the pupils to the eyes.
We did not have black decorator’s gel because we waited until four days before Halloween to buy it. Can’t find it anywhere. So, we melted dark chocolate. Again, lots of extra chocolate hanging out on our Frankensteins that you don’t really need to have on yours.
10. Use the decorator’s gel to add the mouth, as well.
11. Use the chocolate frosting to add the hair. You can use a fork to make it spiky, if you’d like. That’s what we did.
12. Place the marshmallows on top of the cupcakes.
13. Add green tic-tacs for the “bolts” (we couldn’t find the dark green ones…went to THREE stores…).
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Tower cylinder sculpture
Make a tower cylinder sculpture with this incredibly easy and fun kids craft project. Your kids will enjoy making a colourful mess but what they create will become a keepsake for you and your family.
Number of players:
What you need:
- craft paper
- fabric, button, beads, sequins, glitter
- coloured pens
- craft glue
Choose a piece of coloured paper and lay it flat on the table
Arrange pieces of fabric, beads, buttons or other decorative items on the paper's surface in a pattern that you like.
Glue the items in place. Let dry.
Write your name or happy words or funny words in between the decorations
Roll the paper into a cylinder shape. Staple the sides together to secure the cylinder.
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The Cunard Steamer Abyssinia
The screw steam-ship Abyssinia is one of the latest additions to the fleet of the British and north American Royal Mail Steam-Packet company, popularly known as the Cunard Company. This noble vessel, of 3500 gross register tonnage, and with 600-horse power engines, was built very recently by Messrs. James and George Thomson, of the Clyde Bank Foundry, Glasgow, specially for the postal service between Great Britain and the United States. Her dimensions are 360 ft. length of keel, 42 ft. breadth (moulded), and 35 ft. 6in. In depth. Her engine-powerwas indicated by the Admiralty trial at 3150 horses, and her speed at 15 knots per hour. She has accommodation on the spar-deck for about 120 first-class passengers, the dining-saloons and sleeping-apartments for whom are very well lighted, heated, and ventilated, and for whose comfort and security neither trouble nor expense has been spared. On the spar-deck, too, are the kitchens, sculleries, pantries, ice-houses, bakery, and butchery, as well as the lavatories. The Abyssinia is provided with a male and female hospital and a dispensary. She is furnished with two sets of Normanby's distilling apparatus, capable of producing 2000 gallons of fresh water each day. On the main and lower decks is accommodation for about 1000 third-class passengers, or, if need were, for a regiment of two battalions of soldiers. These decks, also, are admirably lighted, heated, and ventilated. In her holds the Abyssinia has a capacity of 80,000 cubic feet; and she can carry 1200 tons of coals in her bunkers. This vessel, like the other ships of the Cunard Company, has been built under special inspection; and the iron and other material used in her construction are of the same quality as those of the Russia. The hull is divided into eight water-tight compartments. In her general arrangement and equipment this vessel, with her sister ships the Algeria and Parthia, will fully maintain the well-earned reputation of the Cunard Company. It will be remembered that when the present Government agreed to renew the Cunard contract, last year, Mr. Burns, acting for that company, intimated that several new ships would be immediately contracted for in order to carry out the postal service in the manner in which it had been done by that company for the last thirty years, and that these new vessels would be ready for service during the currency of the present year. To redeem this pledge, four powerful steamships were contracted for, of which the Abyssinia is the representative type.Return to The Fleets
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The trams of the Latvian capital of Riga are a perfect way of getting around the city, covering much of the city surrounding the Old Town.
There had been plans to build a Metrolink, but after public opposition amid fears of damage to some of the historical buildings the scheme was scrapped. Instead the trams have been modernised and the system now includes over 120 km of track.
Despite the modern appearance of these trams they still appear to be a transportation method of a bygone era, travelling at a relatively slow speed compared to other transport they are ideal for sightseeing. I suggest as coffee shop tour of the city using this form of public transport to get around. | <urn:uuid:0dd1eca7-8fba-4ba5-a5e5-eec5bbadde15> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://malloryontravel.com/2012/06/postcard/travel-photo-riga-latvia-baltic-adventure-photography/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969574 | 141 | 1.703125 | 2 |
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The Immoralist (1902)
by André Gide
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0142180025, Paperback)With today's headlines and talk shows, it takes a lot to shock a reader--certainly more than was required in 1902, when André Gide's The Immoralist was first published. What was seen then as a story of dereliction translates today into a tale of introspection and fierce self-discovery. While traveling to Tunis with his new bride, the Parisian scholar Michel is overcome by tuberculosis. As he slowly convalesces, he revels in the physical pleasures of living and resolves to forgo his studies of the past in order to experience the present--to let "the layers of acquired knowledge peel away from the mind like a cosmetic and reveal, in patches, the naked flesh beneath, the authentic being hidden there."
But this is not the Michel his colleagues knew, nor the man Marceline married, and he must hide his new values under the patina of what he now reviles. Bored by Parisian society, he moves to a family farm in Normandy. He is happy there, especially in the company of young Charles, but he must soon return to the city and academe. Michel remains restless until he gives his first lecture and runs into Ménalque, who has long outraged society, and recognizes in him a reflection of his torment. Finally, Michel heads south, deeper into the desert, until, as he confides to his friends, he is lost in the sea of sand, under a clear, directionless sky.
What Gide's story lacks in sensationalism is fulfilled by his descriptive prose, which evokes the exotic nature of Michel's inner and outer journey: "I did not understand the forbearance of this African earth, submerged for days at a time and now awakening from winter, drunk with water, bursting with new juices; it laughed in this springtime frenzy whose echo, whose image I perceived within myself." --Joannie Kervran Stangeland
(retrieved from Amazon Wed, 02 Jan 2013 14:48:59 -0500)
'To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom' - Andre Gide. Michel had been a blindfold scholar until, newly married, he contracted tuberculosis. His will to recover brings self-discovery and the growing desire to rebel against his background of culture, decency and morality. But the freedom from constraints that Michel finds on his restless travels is won at great cost. And freedom itself, he finds, can be a burden. Gide's novel examines the inevitable conflicts that arise when a pleasure seeker challenges conventional society and, without moralizing, it raises complex issues involving the extent of personal responsibility.
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We Need a Complete Solution to Climate Change
This morning, Jeff Wood at The Overhead Wire points us to a newly released measure of CO2 emissions from the Center for Neighborhood Technology (which just won a 2009 MacArthur Foundation Award for Creative and Effective Institutions, BTW). He says maps like these help to show why changing land-use patterns is vital in the fight to diminish greenhouse gases:
CNT has released another Affordability Index update that shows transportation emissions is 70% less in cities than in the suburbs. Why is this? Because people don't have to drive as much. You can see already the benefits, and it isn't all about electric cars. Yet some in Southern California think that SB375, the landmark climate change bill, can be addressed with electric cars alone. Sorry guys. It doesn't work like that.…
But it's not just transportation, it's building as well. We need to look at this as a complete system. This singular focus on one method is somewhat maddening. I know there are a lot of people who are hoping for a magic green car or a magic green building but we're also forgetting our water usage and population growth among other things.
The CNT site has some very cool maps that compare not only CO2 emissions from household auto use per acre and per household, but also the cost of housing and transportation as a percentage of average household income in many regions across the country.
As The Overhead Wire points out, maps like these point out the importance of development patterns in limiting emissions, and the reality that only a holistic solution will make a dent. Zero-emissions vehicles aren't going to solve the nation's carbon bloat any more than a diet pill can provide a long-term solution for an obese individual.
Other fun stuff from around the network: Brooklyn by Bike protests the girlification of women's bikes (stop the flowers!); Cyclelicious has the news that French prisoners get to participate in their own Tour de France; and World Streets has data that suggests that swine flu killed more people with traffic fatalities in Mexico City than with germs. | <urn:uuid:43d0c436-078f-4102-8b0f-17a1f99893b0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/05/28/we-need-a-complete-solution-to-climate-change/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967347 | 432 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Kootenai County has assigned a probation officer to specifically handle the majority of referred DUI
cases. Most of our DUI cases are repeat offenders, or those with blood alcohol levels above .20 Emphasis
is placed on sobriety, adherence to driving restrictions, and quality treatment.
Both DUI Probation and DUI Court Probation are funded primarily through a federal grant administered by
the Idaho Transportation Department, Office of Highway Safety.
When DUI Court began in 2000, our office began supervising those offenders in addition to the regular
DUI probationers. DUI Court runs parallel to Drug Court in philosophy and procedures, in that the offender
not only meets regularly with a probation officer, but also with a DUI Court Judge. Accountability is
maximized in such an approach.
The first objective of both DUI Probation and DUI Court is to reduce the overall rate of impaired driving
accidents and violations by providing intensive supervision and accountability to participants in Kootenai
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Governance and Social Responsibility : Eller Undergrads Analyze New Tata Nano at National Ethics Competition
By Taylor Albers, Journalism '11
Eller team wins kudos for its choice of topic at Loyola Marymount University Intercollegiate Business Ethics Competition
A team of Eller College students competed against 26 undergraduate and graduate schools in the Loyola Marymount University Intercollegiate Business Ethics Competition in April.
Each of the competing teams presented analysis of a self-selected ethics case to a judging panel. The Eller team presentation focused on the Tata Nano, a new, India-produced sub-compact car billed as the “least expensive car in the world.” The Eller students delivered and finished at the top of the undergraduate division.
For Gabrielle Johnston (BSPA and BSBA Management ’10), the hardest part was selecting the topic to present in competition. “We researched current events and sought out the help of our faculty advisor, Paul Melendez,” she says. Melendez suggested the Tata Nano because he had just begun writing an ethics case on the topic and knew that the vehicle was going to roll off the production line in April. “The timing was perfect,” he says.
The students were required to deliver a 20-minute presentation on the ethical, legal, and philosophical issues of their case. “They spent countless hours researching, developing their presentation, and rehearsing,” says Melendez. The team met three times a week for four months in order to deliver the best presentation they possibly could. “It was a long process, but overall the time and effort we spent each week were rewarded by the results of the competition,” says Brittany Smythe (BSBA Business Management ’11).
The team believes that the Tata Nano needs more safety features, that it should run on alternative fuels, and that Tata Motors should assist in developing India’s infrastructure in order to accommodate the increased number of vehicles on the roads. “Not only did I have the experience to research and talk about a topic on such a professional level, but I also learned a lot about other ethical dilemmas that students researched and devoted their time to,” explains Smythe.
The students made it to the final four, placing 3rd against international MBA teams, and won the Kerrigan Award. “I feel this competition will give me something solid to put on my resume and has provided me with more experience presenting in pressure situations,” says Lee Klein (BSBA Business Management & Entrepreneurship ’10).
Smythe agrees. “As a sophomore and first-semester cohort student, I know there are many more presentations that await me, and this competition has provided me with the experience I need to be confident in public speaking situations.”
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Hebrew: 'abel kerem.
This name appears once in the NRSV, NKJV and NIV. It does not appear in the King James Bible, which translates “abel kerem” as “the plain of the vineyards” (Judg. 11:33). It was a village of the Ammonites, where Jephthah pursued their forces. | <urn:uuid:8734f63b-c552-4be0-afd7-ac45f77b2b62> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/abel-cheramim.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926066 | 91 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Recently, the Eight Circuit court of appeals ruled that a South Dakota law requiring doctors to tell women seeking an abortion that “the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being” should be sent back to federal District Court to decide constitutionality. In the meantime, the state may begin enforcement of the law. According to an AP story, The court ruled on June 27
that Planned Parenthood, which operates South Dakota’s only abortion clinic in Sioux Falls, has not provided enough evidence that it is likely to prevail.
“The bottom line is if the state Legislature orders a professional to tell the truth, that’s not a violation of the First Amendment,” said South Dakota Attorney General Larry Long, who is defending the law in court.
Mimi Liu, a lawyer for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said such rulings generally take about three weeks to take effect. Long said it could take less time.
Predictably, reaction was mixed to the ruling
Harold Cassidy, a lawyer representing two pregnancy counseling centers that support the abortion law, hailed the ruling.
“We think it’s a big victory for the woman obviously to be given accurate information in order to make a decision not only for the child, but also for herself,” Cassidy said.
Sarah Stoesz, president of Planned Parenthood in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, said the law would force doctors to read ideological language to women seeking abortions.
“They are imposing compelled speech on doctors. It is not about providing information to women. It is about intruding in the doctor-patient relationship. It is unprecedented and extremely outrageous,” Stoesz said.
According to the AP story, the law also requires women to be told the potential mental health risks of abortion. I have addressed that informed consent issue in prior articles.
Two points are at issue: prescribing professional speech and the accuracy of the prescribed speech. Professional disclosure is sometimes prescribed by law. For instance, many states require licensed psychotherapists to provide a disclosure statement to clients regarding services and means of handling complaints. The South Dakota statement is very specific and no doubt is intended to discourage abortions. The second issue is the accuracy of the information. Pro-life advocates are united that abortion ends a life, hence their opposition to abortion. But what do pro-choice doctors believe? Do they really believe performing an abortion results in the termination of a life? To get this perspective, I consulted noted abortion doctor and friend of Hillary Clinton, Dr. William Harrison. I referred to Dr. Harrison via Dr. Paul Kengor’s book on the faith of Hillary Clinton in a former post, noting that Dr. Harrison was
Hillary’s personal OB-GYN in the early 1970s in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He has done about 20,000 abortions. He was interviewed at length for my book. He was quite candid, extremely open, and very generous with his time. He likewise is a Methodist. He says that he prays to God that Hillary will be our next president.
I emailed Dr. Harrison regarding the South Dakota law. While his prayers regarding Hillary have not been answered, he clearly does not support the Republican ticket due to his pro-choice position as will be clear from his responses to me. I asked him if the South Dakota statement was accurate, to which he replied
Life is being terminated when a male wears a condom, or has a wet dream or “spills his seed of life on the ground” or in someone’s mouth or anus. Or when he ejaculates into the vagina of a women who isn’t ovulating or is post menopausal. The sperm are alive until they die. And the egg is alive until it dies. Each is a unique human life, etc.
The only reason the S.Dakota leg passed that law was to either make a girl or woman who was not prepared to have a baby have that baby, or to make her suffer as much emotionally as they could.
It is a piece of shit legislation, designed solely to increase human suffering. A few days ago I wrote a letter to our state and local newspapers. I will send you a copy which describes exactly what I think about this type of legislation.
I wrote back and asked for clarification regarding prevention of conception and ending of life. He then provided the copy of the letter to the editor he mentioned in the first email which makes his views even more clear. He gave permission to use both email replies. The Christian acquaintance referred to in this letter is my GCC colleague and author, Paul Kengor.
Letter to the editor.
A few days ago I got a question from a Christian Pro-Life acquaintance. [What follows is a paraphrase of part of a letter I got from your friend and colleague. I sent him a somewhat longer reply. I also sent him a copy of my book, There is a Bomb In Gilead. Ask him to let you read it.]
“I understand fully that you see your work as saving women from an unwanted pregnancy that might, if illegal, lead them to dangerous “back alley abortions,” doing them great harm or perhaps even killing them. I, as a prolife Christian, don’t want to see them hurt or killed. On the other hand, by doing an abortion, you are taking a life – an innocent one that has no say in the decision. I rarely hear pro-choicers lament that decision, the loss of the unborn.
“Do you ever regret that part of the decision? How do you come to terms with that, or do you not see the fetus as a life or a person? I don’t want to see either one die, and would do my best to save both. But your work on the other hand, seeks the end of one of these lives. How do you justify that decision?”
Here is my answer: Anyone who has delivered as many babies as I have, and has seen hundreds of living and dead embryos and fetuses being spontaneously aborted as have I, knows exactly what we are doing when we provide an elective abortion for our patient. We are ending the life of an embryo or a fetus. Not the life of a person, but certainly a creature that might have become a person under other circumstances. When I am asked this question, I always go back to two of the most insightful and beautiful verses of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khyyam.
Oh, if the world were but to recreate
That we might catch ere closed the Book of Fate
And make the Writer on a fairer leaf
Inscribe our names, or quite obliterate.
Better, oh, better cancel from the Scroll
Of universe one luckless Human Soul,
Than drop by drop enlarge the Flood that roars
Hoarser with Anguish as the ages roll.
When Omar wrote his beautiful and treasured poem over a thousand years ago, mankind had no way of safely canceling “from the scroll of universe one luckless human soul” whose numbers make up that flood of howling anguish; at least, no way of canceling it without risking also the life of the woman carrying it. In this day of medical marvels and, hopefully, ever increasing social justice, we possess such a way.
Embryos and fetuses spontaneously aborted - most, but not all of those “canceled” by “God” - are just such luckless human souls. But a few spontaneous abortions occur in desired pregnancies with no discernable abnormalities. For those girls and women and their families whose circumstances would make their babies “luckless human souls,” I “cancel” them before they become babies.
Physicians who save wanted babies from being spontaneously aborted (and we can save a few now that God once seemed determined to abort), and we who cancel “luckless human souls” are doing God’s work.
Want to increase Omar’s flood of anguish? Just vote to put John McCain in the White House and Pro-Lifers in your legislatures and the U.S. Congress.
Can the worldview divide get any greater? In my view, life is sacred and in Dr. Harrison's view, life is subject to means testing. Practically, I am quite sure there are many couples out there who would say that none of these "luckless human souls" are unwanted. Extending this thinking is chilling indeed. Who decides what "family circumstances" warrant the status of being "luckless?" Who decides who is luckless and who is not? In my view, the lucky ones are those who escape a visit to the abortion clinic.
Speaking of decisions, Dr. Harrison places his views in the context of the current election. Clearly there is an ideological divide between Barack Obama and John McCain, the religious left and religious right on abortion. While Dr. Harrison does not like the South Dakota legislation, it does appear that if the wording was changed from “terminate a life" to “cancel a soul," he would view the information as accurate. I fail to see the difference.
What would Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain say about this?
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About Dr. Warren Throckmorton
Warren Throckmorton, PhD is Associate Professor of Psychology and Fellow for Psychology and Public Policy at Grove City College (PA). He co-founded the Golden Rule Pledge which advocates bullying prevention in evangelical churches. His academic articles have been published by journals of the American Psychological Association and he is past president of the American Mental Health Counselors Association. He is the author with fellow Grove City College professor, Michael Coulter, of the book, Getting Jefferson Right: Fact Checking Claims About Our Third President. Over 200 newspapers have published his columns. He can be reached at email@example.com.
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The topline is this, researchers presented the following at the recent meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists:
* An analysis of 614 highly variant loci, microsatellites, in ~2,000 people from diverse populations imply some variants which seem to be derived from human lineages outside of the mainline which led to the anatomically modern humans who left Africa 50-100,000 years before the present to settle the world. I assume there were “long branches” on the phylogenies of some loci, indicating that some of the alleles were “separated” from others for long periods of time so that recombination wasn’t able to dissolve the differences between distinctive haplotypes (if we’re all descended from a small African populations which expanded demographically less than 100,000 years ago the common ancestor of the variants should have a shallow time depth).
* The data imply two admixture events, one 60,000 years ago in the eastern Mediterranean, the other 45,000 years ago in East Asia. I think of this as a floor to the number of events. The latter one seems particularly clear in Oceanic populations from the reporting.
* African populations do not have the variants for these two admixture events (there hasn’t been that much back migration to Africa aside from north of the Sahara and the Horn of Africa. I assume that’s because Africans are well adapted to their environment, and outsiders are not).
In light of the recent discovery of a Siberian hominin which lived ~30,000 years ago, and was not a H. sapiens sapiens or H. sapiens neanderthalis, as well as the confusing but intriguing Hobbits of Flores, I think we can conclude that the the evolutionary genetic past was much more complicated than we’d assumed 10 years ago. Remember three years ago when there was a spate of research on a few genes which were suggestive of introgression into the human genome from Neandertals? There are other hints here and there which pop up in the literature over the years, some in Asia. But the methods being imperfect, and interpretation being somewhat an art, a consensus of Out-of-Africa + total replacement has been assumed to be a null. So we look at isolated results with some skepticism (I think this is justified).
So is this going to be met with skepticism due to reliance on the orthodox model? This section of the article is intriguing:
A test of the New Mexico team’s proposals may come soon. Svante Pääbo and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, announced early last year that they had finished sequencing a first draft of the Neanderthal genome, and they are expected to publish their work in the near future. Pääbo’s earlier studies on components of Neanderthal genomes largely ruled out interbreeding, but they were not based on more comprehensive analyses of the complete genome.
Linda Vigilant, an anthropologist at the Planck Institute, found Joyce’s talk a convincing answer to “subtle deviations” noticed in genetic variation in the Pacific region.
“This information is really helpful,” says Vigilant. “And it’s cool.”
Trying to glean what results Paabo is going to come out with is like reading tea leaves, but it is notable that a colleague at Max Planck seems to be excited about the results of this study. I do not get the sense that any of these results would reject the model that the overwhelming signal of ancestry in non-African humans is African. There’s a reason that mtDNA, later analysis of classical markers, and finally modern genomics (as well as cladistic analysis of skeletal features) imply that there was an Out of Africa event, whereby anatomically modern humans entered into a period of massive demographic and range expansion from a small ancestral group. But that does not preclude the assimilation of other groups along the way, and there is circumstantial evidence of sex between the Others and modern humans (the time of separation between various hominin lineages is on the low side in relation to various other taxa which can still produce fertile hybrid young).
A final point is that if these results hold up, one might look to Africa itself for other hybridization events. It may be that ancient hominin genetic variation is preserved in modern Africans as H. sapiens sapiens entered its period of expansion within that continent. Those signals may be currently obscured because the archaics in Africa were genetically more similar than those outside of Africa, and the African genome hasn’t been as well characterized as that of other populations in relation to its great diversity (remember the finding of new SNPs in the recent paper on Bushmen).
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Born on November 25, 1948, Dr. Veerendra Heggade is the son of Shri Ratnavarma Heggade, former Dharmadhikari, was a boy of great dignity and devotion. Nurtured by the piety of his father's administrative skills and dedication to Dharma, Mr. Heggade showed great maturity at an early age, a maturity that proved itself when the mantle of Heggadeship (Dharmadhikari) fell on his young shoulders at the tender age of 20, on 24th October 1968, while he was preparing for his graduation from Bangalore University.
In less than four decades, since he assumed responsibilities in 1968, he has carried his heritage to greater heights. Not only by continuing to protect the essence of the Kshetra, but also by achieving remarkable progress in his service to mankind.
What distinguishes Shri Veerendra Heggade is that while being the head of a revered religious institution, he is, today, far more than that. His years of practicing 'active' Dharma have given him a vision that combines social issues such as education and environment with religion. This has resulted in him being requested to grace a variety of functions and his opinions treated with immense respect. His advice is sought by the high and mighty on every topic under the sun, bar politics, which he eschews. Amazingly though, Shri Heggade's common touch sees the ordinary supplicant as comfortable in seeking him out as a friend, philosopher and guide. Several religious Mutts have conferred honorific titles such as ‘Dharma Rathna’, ‘Dharma Bhushana’, ‘Paropakara Dhurandara’, ‘Abhinava Chamundaraya’.
Mr. Heggade’s contributions to the religion are immense. He convened a “Dharma Jagrithi Sammelan” at Bangalore in the year 1977, a conference to focus the attention of the people on need to change traditional practices to suit present day social condition. More than 15 Matadhipathis participated for the first time on a common platform. Installed 39 feet high monolithic statue of Bhagwan Bahubali Swamy at Dharmasthala and conducted Maha Masthakabhisheka ceremony in 1982 and 1995. S.D.M. Dharmothana Trust ® was established to renovate archeological and historic important temples of Karnataka. 55 Temples have been renovated till 2004. He also contributes for Communal Harmony through his regular Lectures. Publishes and distributes more than 60,000 copies of moral education High School students. Competitions are held for the students on topics selected on them and prizes awarded to the best students in each school. Mr. Heggade attended WCRP Conference held at Nairobi and Osaka.
Mr. Heggade contributions to the culture are:
- He continued the tradition of the Kshetra to hold annual ‘Sarva Dharma and Sahitya Sammelana’ at Dharmasthala. The 72nd Session of the Sammelana was held in 2004.
- He is a patron of Art and Literature, a voracious reader, publishes a publication series and a monthly journal “Manjuvani”.
- To propagate Naturopathy, Yoga and Moral Education, 400 Teachers of High Schools and Primary Schools train more than 30,000 students every year in Yoga, Moral and Spiritual Education.
- He has contributed to the revival of “Yakshagana” by maintaining pure traditional approach to Yakshagana.
- “MANJUSHA” a Museum was established displaying rare collections of antiques and contemporary rare and valuable collections. A ‘Vintage Car Museum’ attached to this Museum has interesting cars from many Nations.
- 4000 Palm-leaf manuscripts are preserved and research is conducted by Scholars for "Sri Manjunatheshwara Samskrithi Samshodhana Prathistana"
As the President of S.D.M. Educational Society and S.D.M. Educational Trust ®, Ujire, he has established and managed the following Institutions:
- Introduced Post Graduation course at Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College, Ujire
- “RATHNAMANASA“ - A model Hostel with training imparted in Agriculture, Horticulture, Dairying and a concept of future farmers and citizens was established for High School boys at Ujire.
- “SRI SIDDAVANA GURUKULA” - A model Hostel for College students at Ujire, inspires students in agriculture, moral education and training in leadership programmes.
R. K. Bhat with Dr. Heggade
Contributions to Social Welfare:
- Started Free Mass Marriage every year in Shri Kshethra Dharmasthala since 1972. 10,000 couples wedded under this scheme by April 2004.
- Constructed Marriage Halls at Bangalore, Kallahalli, Bhadravathi, Mysore, Shravanabelagola and Bantwal for the benefit of middle and low-income people to conduct marriages.
- Introduced a Rural Development Project, in Coastal District of Karnataka, comprising of 600 Villages and 6 urban towns. The project is facilitating empowerment of 1,35,000 families in agriculture, transfer of technology, women empowerment, housing, alternative sources of energy, income generating activity, micro finance, education and health.
- Recently has been propagating the importance of tapping solar energy and provided such facilities to several villages.
- Established the Rural Development and Self-Employment Training Institute (RUDSETI) in collaboration with Syndicate Bank, Syndicate Agricultural Foundation and Canara Bank to train the rural un-employed youth for Self-Employment and Volunteers for Rural Development in 1982. Since then 20 branches of the RUDSETI were started all over India. Upto June 2004, 1,50,000 youths have been trained and settlement rate is 65%.
- Hosted several National Seminars including the one on “Rural India Real India” to mark the diamond jubilee celebrations of Syndicate Bank.
Mr. Heggade is the President of - Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Educational Trust (Regd.) and S.D.M., Educational Society (Regd.), Ujire; Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Medical Trust (Regd.), Dharmasthala; Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Dharmothana Trust (R.) Dharmasthala; and Shanthivana Trust (Regd.), Dharmasthala.
Primary School: S.D.M Higher Primary schools at Dharmasthala, Ujire, Puduvettu, Mayyadi.
- S.D.M High Schools at Dharmasthala, Ujire, Belal, Perinje.
- Mangala Jyothi School for Disabled Vamanjoor, Mangalore
- S.D.M. English Medium School, Ujire.
- S.D.M College, Ujire.
- S.D.M College of Naturopathy & Yogic Sciences, Ujire.
- S.D.M Law College, Mangalore.
- S.D.M Ayurveda Pharmacy. Udupi.
- S.D.M. College of Ayurveda and Hospital Udupi, Hassan.
- S.D.M. Ayurveda Hospital Mangalore, Chickmagalore.
- M.M.K & S.D.M College for Women, Mysore.
- S.D.M College of Engineering and Technology, Dharwad.
- J.S.S Banashankari Arts & Shanthikumar Gubbi Science College Dharwad.
- JSS K.H Kabbur Institute of Engineering, Dharwad.
- S.D.M College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Dharwad.
- S.D.M. Medical College & Hospital, Dharwad
- J.S.S Sakri Law College, Hubli.
- S.D.M. Cranio Facial Hospital, Dharwad.
- S.D.M. College of Physiotherapy Dharwad.
- S.D.M. B.B.M. College, Mangalore.
- S.D.M. Naturecure Hospital, Dharmasthala.
- Yakshagana Training Centre, Dharmasthala.
- Middle level training Centre for Anganawadi Supervisors (sponsored by National Institute of Public Co-operation and Child Development, New Delhi).
- Manjushree Press, Ujire.
- Nethravathi Fine Arts Training Centre, Ujire.
- S.D.M Industrial Training Centre, Venoor.
- S.D.M Industrial Training Centre, Samse, S.D.M Technical Institute, Mangalore.
- S.D.M Institute for Management Development, Mysore
- J.S.S Economic Research Institute, Dharwad.
- J.S.S School of Arts & Crafts, Dharwad.
Mr. Heggade has received numerous awards for his various contributions to the community. They are:
- "PADMABHUSHAN" Award by the Government of India on 30-03-2000 for social work and Communal Harmony.
- “RAJARSHI” title from president of India, Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma in 1993.
- "DHARMABHUSHAN" Award during the Mahamasthakabhisheka of Bhagwan Bahubali held at Venur in February 2000.The Government of Karnataka honoured him with “Rajyothsava award” for social work in November 1985.
- Has been awarded Honorary “Doctorate” by Mangalore University for Social work in January 1994.
- Honoured with “Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award” by All India Unity Conference at New Delhi on November 18, 1994.
- Honoured with “Man of the Year” award by Public Relations Society of India at Bangalore in June 1994.
- Sri P.V. Narasimha Rao, the then Prime Minister of India presented “FICCI AWARD” for Rural Development activities in Belthangady Taluk by S.K.D.R.D.P. on May 12, 1995.
- Sri Atal Bihari Vajapayee, former Prime Minister of India presented “FICCI AWARD” for Rural Development & Self Employment activities by RUDSET Institute on November 20, 1999.
- “FIE” award by FIE foundation, Kollhapur at Maharashtra in March 1997.
- “DHARMA RATHNAKARA” on the occasion of Udupi Paryaya Mahotsav during January 1998.
- “Indian Merchants Chambers Award–1998” for Rural Development by I.M.C. Diamond Jubilee Endowment Trust at Mumbai in April 1999.
- "Living legend of the Century" award by Lions Millennium Celebrations Committee, Mangalore.
- Rotary International conferred "SAPPHIRE " recognition.
- Karnataka Govt. awarded the “Rajyothsava Prashasthi” for contributions to social work and religious harmony.
- Mangalore University conferred Doctor of Philosophy of social work on Communal Harmony.
- “Vatika Varshada Kannadiga – 2004” by E.T.V. Kannada at Hassan on November 20, 2004.
- “Gourava Fellowship Award” by Karnataka Tulu Sahithya Academy at Mangalore on February 3, 2004.
- “FRCPS (Fellowship of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons)” by The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons at Glasgow, United Kingdom on June, 6, 2005.
- “Giants International Award” by Giants International at Mumbai on September 17, 2005.
Mr. Heggade is the Director of Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI), Mumbai and an Honorary Rotarian of Belthangady P.H.F. He is also a member of - National Foundation for Communal Harmony, Delhi; Shree Amarnathji Shrine Board, Jammu and Kashmir; Advisory Board of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development; and Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams Development Advisory Council.
During Nadavalli Utsava - performed once in every 50 years
Dr. Heggade’s Message to the Mangalorean.com readers:
I feel that the world is shrinking today, not geographically but because of the rapid transmission of communication and transport systems -- take for example a website that gives information about Mangalore to the world, from the U.S.A. I wish that the heart and soul of all the people in the world can come together in vanishing all the disparities and other differences we have. The world has to unite and the world has to think of peace and prosperity in India, especially the district of Dakshina, Kannada. We have always had a vision for communal harmony, peace, living together and prosperity of all human beings, so that the humanity of the world should be together. Let’s be together, join together, grow together, and prosper together. I wish and pray to Manjunatha Swamy to have all the success for your website and through this more understanding, brotherhood, and prosperity to human kind. Thank you.
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
The study uses life expectancy tables to compare the impact of regular exercise, statin therapy and religious attendance, and shows that each accounts for an additional two-to-five years of life, suggesting that the real-world, practical significance of weekly religious attendance is of similar magnitude to this other widely recommended therapy or health behavior.
"This is not to say that religious attendance should replace primary prevention such as exercise, or a proven drug therapy, such as statin therapy, but it does suggest that regular religious attendance is associated with a substantially longer life expectancy, and this warrants further research," cautions study author Daniel Hall, M.D., who is a resident in general surgery at UPMC and an Episcopal priest.
The goal, according to Dr. Hall, was to compare and quantify the extra years of life associated with regular religious attendance to activities known to extend life – a primary prevention activity known to have health benefits (exercise) and a proven therapeutic regimen (statin therapy).
Hall's analysis shows regular physical exercise to be the most effective, accounting for 3.0-to-5.1 years of additional life over a lifetime. Although not as effective as regular exercise, both statins and religious attendance also accounted for longer life expectancy, with statins accounting for 2.1-to-3.7 additional years of life and regular religious attendance accounting for 1.8-to-3.1 additional years of life.
A secondary cost analysis suggests that religious attendance may actually be more cost effective than statins. The lifetime monetary cost of each therapy or behavior was calculated using insurance data for the average yearly cost of statins, census data for the average annual household contribution to religious institutions, and the cost of a modest gym membership for exercise,. This lifetime cost was then divided by the additional years of life attributable to each behavior. Each year of life gained from statin therapy cost about $10,000 while religious attendance cost $7,000 per year of life gained. Physical exercise was the most cost effective at approximately $4,000 per year of life gained.
"Religious attendance is not a mode of medical therapy. While this study was not intended for use in clinical decision making, these findings tell us that there is something to examine further," said Dr. Hall. "The significance of this finding may prove to be controversial, but at the very least, it shows that further research into the associations between religion and health might have implications for medical practice."
"Unlike other health behaviors, such as exercise, there are practical and ethical problems with recommending "therapeutic" changes in religious behavior, and there is no evidence that changing religious attendance causes a change in health outcomes. However, these findings contribute to the growing body of scientific literature examining the associations between religious attendance and health," he said.
Dr. Hall, currently a fourth year surgical resident at UPMC, completed a three-year fellowship in religion and medicine at Duke University Medical Center in July 2005. He attended Yale University and Yale Divinity School and earned his medical degree from the Yale School of Medicine in 1999. He was ordained as an Episcopal priest in 2001.
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School sports springing into action for fall
Most students, parents and teachers measure the school year in semesters or quarters or grading periods.
I divide the year into seasons.
The seasons do not, however, correspond with their names and traditional seasons.
I see the fall season as Mother Nature views the spring. In a school year, the fall season is the beginning, a rebirth. The students, student/athletes, teachers and staff are returning from a dormant period, a vacation (if one can call two weeks a vacation). Most are happy to get back and are looking forward to a new beginning, a renaissance.
The entire school and community anxiously await the fall season. Football generates large crowds and Friday nights are centered on the Friday Night Lights. A successful football season sets the tone for the entire school year.
A high school football game would not be complete without a band and RHS has one of the best marching bands in the county. Their halftime shows hurt the concession stand because nobody wants to leave their seats and miss a great show.
Cheer and song teams are also a big part the football experience.
High school football is a uniquely American experience. No other country has a sport that comes close to what America does on Fridays in the fall.
Boys and girls cross country is off and running in the fall. New head coach Steve Albanese enters his harriers in invitational and huge meets and when the league meets start the schools in the Valley League run bi-meets and tri-meets. The league meet determines which individuals and teams will advance to the CIF meet, which determines who advances to the state meet.
Coach Connie Halfaker’s girls volleyball team will be on the court. Volleyball is one of the few team sports that has a state playoff, which is ridiculous. Every sport should have a state playoff.
The girls will play in tournaments and non-league matches and then enter the Valley League and vie for a playoff berth. Girls’ volleyball is an exciting sport. It is contagious. Girls volleyball has one of the highest GPAs in the county.
Girls tennis is also a fall sport. Coach Failla schedules a tough non-league schedule to get his team ready for the very tough competition in the Valley League. The girls play at Riviera Oaks Resort, a world-class facility. Tennis also has a high GPA. I suggest an academic match between the two sports.
Coach John Rathbun and his new assistant, Lorne Smith, will get the Lady Bulldog golfers ready for a season in the tough Valley League. The golf team also plays at an excellent venue, San Vicente Golf Resort. The girls play their away matches at some of the finest courses in the state and nation.
High School golf is not a spectator sport. Fans can only watch the first tee off and the final hole. No galleries are allowed in high school play.
Women’s golf is one of the fastest growing sports in the nation and high school golf is a big reason for the growth.
This school year will be the last year of the Valley League as we know it. The North County conference will re-league for the 2010-11 school year.
It appears that some major changes are on tap. Right now the league officials are considering separate leagues for football and the rest of the sports. Several NCC schools do not field football teams.
Cathedral Catholic would like to be in the NCC, but the majority of the schools in the conference do not want to try to compete with the Dons, which is ironic. The newest school in the NCC, Del Norte High School, is allowed open enrollment. Student/athletes from Poway, San Diego, Ramona, Escondido, Encinitas, Carlsbad and Oceanside can enroll in one of the most beautiful and most modern facilities in the state. Yet schools don’t want to compete with Cathedral Catholic because they can recruit.
The number of schools that recruit in North County is far greater than the schools that don’t recruit. Cathedral Catholic just is open and honest.
The last time the NCC re-leagued, the emphasis was on fair competition. This time the principals are going to try to save money and re-league according to geographic location. Another irony since many schools, Ramona included, do not provide transportation for athletic teams.
Count on several articles being openly critical about the hypocrisy of the re-leaguing process.
Even if the calendar says it is fall, the sports will be springing into action.
- Times have changed for town’s school sports
- Take time to enjoy spring sports
- Cassie Miller: Ramona High School Female Athlete of the Year
- Brett Germain: Ramona High School Male Athlete of the Year
- Lady cagers enter league action
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In this video, kids talk about time travel and use various resources to explain their concept. Since I was recently in an 8th grade classroom talking about black holes, this was especially interesting and, thus, I’m sharing it with you. This is consistent with the previous message about reaching higher in our expectations than we might otherwise consider.
Time Travel – Kids Explaining it – Can you see the motivation?
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The term “hacker” has morphed in meaning over the years. It started off as a way to describe folks trying to circumvent computer security (and it still is), then it became more of a pop-culture reference to web developers in general (still is), and today a term that’s frequently appending other types of specialties and industies.
Exploring and debating the “value” of these emerging subcultures is fascinating, and I’d like to throw a new fork into this discusion: The non-technical hacker.
Now I know there are folks who will scoff at this idea, but hear me out.
If you take away the literal tools a hacker has historically used, ultimately this person is “someone who enjoys exploring the limits of what is possible.” To me, that means using any kind of tool in ways they weren’t originally intended. Which also means then that scientists, artists, and essentially any creative person, is a hacker.
While the internet is obviously technical, I believe there’s a perception that there are two types of users out there. Technical people who know how to augment and create their own internet experience through coding, and the rest of us who use the creations that others have coded. You can read a bit more about this in an earlier post I wrote.
I see non-technical hacking as the grey area in between, and it’s a growing group of people from my perspective. They’re the ones who perhaps understand the basics of html, use browser extensions, and use the latest web applications, but it’s much more than that. I think the essence of this type of person is someone who can find existing hacks and leverage them in new ways to change or create how people behave online. This might manifest in the form of using a social network for an unintended purpose, crowdsourcing a product, or even something as simple as weaving together a clever IFTTT formula. I respect this kind of combinatorial creativity on the web, and I encourage readers of this blog to explore how their own web habits can be hacked to produce new open-source tools and ideas for others without ever writing a line of code. Perhaps such a task is even MORE challenging than coding because of how limiting it can be.
Personally, I have a huge respect for technical hackers and I’ve been trying very hard to teach myself Ruby for the last few weeks. While this process will likely continue to be slow for me, the logic and creative process I’ve developed from trying to stitch together other people’s creations has been incredibly valuable. If I’m ever able to achieve my goal of being able to manage machines (thanks Sean Devine for that thinking) I know that I’ll be thankful for the effort I placed on expanding the grey area of non-technical hacking. There are plenty of people out there who understand the mechanics of telling machines what to do, but being able to think of new tasks for our silicon-based friends is something that (even from my non-technical viewpoint), is quite rare.
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Hormone-disrupting chemicals found in domestic and industrial products which have not been properly tested may result in significant health problems.
The finding was reported by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and WHO (World Health Organization).
Their research suggests that more studies are needed to completely understand the link between EDCs (endocrine disrupting chemicals) and certain illnesses and disorders.
Possible risks for disease could be lowered, with considerable savings to public health, with more extensive evaluations and improved testing techniques, according to the authors.
The hormonal system may change due to some substancesThe well-being of people relies on a proper working endocrine system to control the release of specific hormones that are critical for growth and development, sleep, mood, and metabolism.
The functions of this hormonal system may be changed by endocrine disruptors, raising the probability of negative health outcomes.
Although some EDCs occur by nature, synthetic types can be found in:
- personal care products
The new research is the most inclusive report on ECDs as of yet, the researchers said. It emphasizes links between EDC exposure and health issues, such as the potential for these chemicals to lead to:
- non-descended testes in young males
- prostate cancer in men
- breast cancer in women
- thryoid cancer
- developmental effects on the nervous system in children
- attention deficit /hyperactivity in kids
How does human exposure to ECDs occur?EDCs can come into the environment through:
- industrial and urban discharges
- the burning and release of waste
- agricultural run-off
- dust and water
- the ingestion of food
- skin contact
- inhalation of gases and particles in the air
"Investing in new testing methods and research can enhance understanding of the costs of exposure to EDCs, and assist in reducing risks, maximizing benefits and spotlighting more intelligent options and alternatives that reflect a transition to a green economy," Mr Steiner pointed out.
Additional studies are necessaryThe experts believe that there may be other environmental and non-genetic factors, including age and nutrition, responsible for the higher rates of disease and disorders, other than chemical exposure.
However, scientists do not have enough knowledge to identify precise causes and effects.
Dr Maria Neira, WHO's Director for Public Health and Environment, explained:
"We urgently need more research to obtain a fuller picture of the health and environment impacts of endocrine disruptors. The latest science shows that communities across the globe are being exposed to EDCs, and their associated risks. WHO will work with partners to establish research priorities to investigate links to EDCs and human health impacts in order to mitigate the risks. We all have a responsibility to protect future generations."
The report wonders about the damage to wildlife by EDCs. Exposure to these chemicals in Alaska may lead to infertility, antler malformation in some deer populations, and reproductive defects.
The declining populations of species of sea lions and otters might also be partly caused by their exposure to various mixtures of PCBs, the insecticide DDT, other persistent organic pollutants, and metals including mercury.
Banning and/or limiting EDCs has often resulted in the recovery of wildlife populations and better overall public health..
SuggestionsIn order to lower possible risk of illness, improve global awareness of these chemicals, and reduced associated costs, the authors have made a few suggestions:
- Testing: Recognized ECD's are only the beginning. More comprehensive testing is needed to identify other potential endocrine disruptors, their origins, and ways of exposure.
- Research: More proof is crucial to determine the impact of mixtures of EDCs on people and wildlife (mainly from industrial by-products) to which they are more and more exposed.
- Reporting: Scientists are not aware of several sources of EDCs due to inadequate reporting and missing facts on chemicals in products, goods, and materials.
- Collaboration: Researchers and countries should work together and share their data in order to fill in any missing details, mainly in developing nations and emerging economies.
"Research has made great strides in the last ten years showing endocrine disruption to be far more extensive and complicated than realized a decade ago. As science continues to advance, it is time for both management of endocrine disrupting chemicals and further research on exposure and effects of these chemicals in wildlife and humans."
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For each letter in the name or saying, you will need to cut a five inch wide triangle from the stiffened felt. Then, mark the center and draw lines to the corners, as illustrated in the picture below.
For the front part of the flag, use the contrasting felt and cut 3.5 inch rectangles. Again, mark the middle point and draw lines to the corners, as illustrated in the picture above.
Cut out the triangles and use fabric glue to secure the small triangle to the large one...
as seen below.
Then peel the backs off the felt letters and attach them to the triangles, making sure to keep them level.
Find the middle of your ribbon and center your middle letter flag there. Pin. Determine how far apart you would like your flags, I set them two inches apart, and pin each one on.
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Dems Revise Jobs Bill to Make it Fail Less HardOctober 5, 2011 - by Donny Shaw
At this point there are basically two conceivable ways for Obama and the congressional Democrats to get their jobs bill, the American Jobs Act, through Congress this year. They could cut it down dramatically to things that could potentially get bipartisan support, like the payroll tax holiday and the unpaid job training program for the unemployed, or they could go hardball and threaten to withhold appropriations and shut down the government.
This morning, Majority Leader Harry Reid [D, NV] (pictured) announced what he intends to do. He’s going with none of the above, choosing the purely political option instead.
The plan is to remove the corporate tax increases in the bill, which are causing a significant chunk of Senate Dems to oppose the bill, and replace it with a 5% surtax on all income above $1 million. The move will help shore up the Democratic caucus a bit — when the Senate voted on a similar measure last year only 4 Democrats voted no, and a couple of them voted no because they opposed the underlying bill. But it’s not designed to actually help get the bill through Congress. No Republicans voted for the millionaire tax increase last year, and no Republicans are going to vote for it this year. That means, at best, the Democrats will have 51 votes for the jobs bill (realistically more like 48 or so), which is still 9 votes short of the 60 needed to break a Republican filibuster.
That’s where the political plans come into play. As Steve Benen explains: “if just about all of the Senate Dems support the plan, the White House will be able to say that a majority of the Senate — like a majority of the American people and a majority of economists — backs the Americans Jobs Act, and it’s time for congressional Republicans to stop holding the economy back.”
There is no hope for any jobs bill passing this session. To the extent Obama and the Democrats have a plan, it’s a plan to get you to vote for them in 2012. The highly anticipated “pivot to jobs” is about to become a pivot to blaming Republicans. To be sure, the Republicans aren’t blameless. Over the past few years they’ve turned obstructionism into normal operating procedure in the Senate. But know that the Democrats aren’t exactly showing leadership or imagination here. | <urn:uuid:0a77d150-2d9b-48d4-bb08-043e707e6869> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2397-Dems-Revise-Jobs-Bill-to-Make-it-Fail-Less-Hard- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942486 | 503 | 1.570313 | 2 |
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The Elmidae, commonly known as riffle beetles, are found in freshwater streams all around the world. There are about 1400 species known world-wide, but probably many more have not yet been discovered. About 100 species in 27 genera have been found in North America. These are small (1-8 mm long) aquatic beetles that are most often found crawling on stones and other solid debris in fast-moving streams. A few species are found in slow streams or still water. They have relatively long legs and both adults and larvae are well-sclerotized. Both larvae and adults are fully-aquatic, extracting oxygen from the water around them. | <urn:uuid:0fd0e77d-981e-4b8f-a4fa-bc1009d96059> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://eol.org/pages/7445/overview?full=true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98006 | 141 | 3.390625 | 3 |
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Japan's Ortus shows smallest LCD with 4K resolution, 458ppi
Japan-based Ortus Technology has introduced what it calls the smallest LCD panel with 4K resolution, packing 3,840x2,160 pixels into 9.6 inches. The pixel density is also impressive, at 458ppi. Its other promised specs include a 160-degree viewing angle from all directions and coverage of 72 percent of the NTSC-standard color gamut.
The LCD uses microfabrication and liquid crystal alignment to attain its specs. Ortus developed and used its own panel driving technology called HAST (hyper amorphous silicon TFT) for the display.
Ortus hopes to market the screen to video, medical, and commercial equipment makers as well as broadcasting monitors.
Samples of the panel will be on display at the Electronica 2012 show in Munich, Germany, scheduled for November 13-16.
Last year, Ortus set a record for the smallest 3D-capable 1080p display, with a 4.8-inch LCD, also with HAST tech. It also sported 458ppi density. [via Tech-On] | <urn:uuid:891026c9-0bb1-4750-87f0-0c9b008cbb39> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/10/25/japans.ortus.shows.smallest.lcd.with.4k.resolution.458ppi/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927323 | 252 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Tool paradise since 1999
Each pair of binoculars comes with a numerical
specification, such as 8x42. The first number (in this case, 8)
indicates the magnification of the binoculars. In this example, the
subject is brought 8 times closer to the viewer. If a subject is
located 80 metres away, you will view this subject as if it were
only 10 metres away from you. The second number indicates the
diameter of the objective or
front lens, measured in millimetres. The higher the number, the
more light that enters the binoculars and the lighter the image
will be. This is a very important factor to be considered when the
binoculars are to be used in poor or low light conditions (See also
'Clarity and brightness' and
Determining the magnification factor
It is quite tempting to want to purchase binoculars with the highest magnification factor possible. After all, the stronger the magnification, the better you can see your subject. And yet this is not actually the case. First of all, the magnification factor has a direct effect on the exit pupil, the twilight factor and also the relative brightness.
The stability of the binoculars also presents a problem. Not only is your subject magnified, but so are the movements made by the binoculars. Compare this with a camera. Using a wide angle lens and longer shutter speeds, you can take photos without motion blur. But with a telephoto lens you can't.
Magnification factors starting from 10x affect our ability to hold binoculars steady enough for the image to remain fairly still. It is therefore essential to use a tripod or an image stabilisation system.
Furthermore, binoculars with a high
magnification factor generally tend to be heavy and rather
cumbersome and so they are quite a burden to carry around and use.
Your binoculars may well be of really top-grade quality, however,
if they are just lying on the table at home because they are simply
too heavy, then they obviously do not come up to scratch. If this
is the case, you need to compromise!
In general, as the magnification increases,
the depth of field decreases. This fact is one of the disadvantages
of binoculars with high magnifications. At very high
magnifications, the depth of field can be so shallow that precise
focusing is critical. This is another factor that requires careful
consideration. In conclusion, large binoculars very often come with
a high price tag. It is just as well that you only feel this pain
Average magnification:7-10x, general use
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Former Intel chief Craig Barrett warns that Ireland will become an economic backwater
The former chairman of Intel, Craig Barrett, has told the Irish government that they will need to invest heavily in its educational system to ensure that blue chip companies such as Intel stay in Ireland.
Speaking on RTE's Marian Finucane Show, Barrett said: "I don’t think Ireland has a choice. Ireland will return to a backwater of Europe and the world if it doesn’t. I think Ireland [needs to be] looking forward, looking ahead, these are the only directions it can move in."
Barrett said that the Irish government was relying far to heavily on reduced corporation taxes and said that the economy had to be more diverse.
Barrett also said that scientific and mathematical teaching had to improve.
"In the area of education Ireland was doing okay, not exceptionally. In the area of research and development Ireland was doing OK, not exceptionally. And if you wanted to be successful going forward, OK wasn’t good enough," he said.
"If you assume math and sciences are key capabilities for the future . . . and you are not doing a good job with education, young people in math and science you have a problem. That is why I told your Government leaders you are coasting. You are living off what you did 20 years ago," he said.
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Senate candidate Wil Cardon said President Barack Obama promised insurance premiums would fall rather than rise under the new health-care law, but instead premiums have risen from 2010 to 2011.
"There is already evidence to illustrate that President Obama's health care plan isn’t working. The President promised that his plan would reduce health care premiums, but instead, health care premiums for singles were up eight percent from 2010 to 2011. For families, they were up nine percent. The latter figure tripled the three percent growth rate seen from 2009 to 2010."
Statement made on Cardon's U.S. Senate campaign website, wilcardon.com.
Health-insurance premiums have been rising for years, and 2011 was no exception. Average health-insurance premiums increased in 2011 from the previous year by 8 percent for singles and 9 percent for families, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan organization that analyzes health policy.
But the Obama years have not been the only time insurance costs have risen. From 1999 to 2011, health-insurance premiums have consistently risen, including a 3 percent increase from 2009 to 2010, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Health-insurance premiums have increased by 5 to 14 percent per year since 2000, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported.
Premiums continue to rise because the cost of health care continues to rise.
Although insurance premiums have been increasing, a November 2009 report by the Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan agency that provides economic data to Congress, projected that there could be future savings for policy holders under Obama's health-care law, known as the Affordable Care Act.
Portions of the Affordable Care Act were put in place in September 2010, but all the provisions will not be fully implemented until 2014. The health-care law is being phased in over the next two years, with some of the more significant changes that could lower health-care costs going into effect later.
Obama said in 2009 that comprehensive health-care reform could save families $2,500 annually "in the coming years." He said the reform was aimed at reducing overall health-care costs, the biggest driver of rising premiums.
The CBO estimates that it will take two years past the law’s full implementation for average health-insurance premiums to fall. Given that, CBO projections show that in 2016 the average health-insurance premium will be 9 to 12 percent less than what it would have been if the health-care law had not passed.
Bottom line: Even if the Affordable Care Act were a factor, health-insurance premiums have been rising for more than a decade, sometimes even more significantly than they did in the last year, because of rising health-care costs. Projected savings on premiums will come not immediately, Obama said, but two years after the full law is implemented in 2014.
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Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history
The Dillwyn Llewelyn/Story-Maskelyne photographic archive is a significant addition to the Library’s collection and enhances and supports the 2006 donation of Talbot material by Petronella and Janet Burnett-Brown and other members of the Talbot Family Trust. The British Library has further enhanced its position as the leading centre for material relating to Talbot and his circle of early photographers.
The Dillwyn Llewelyn/Story-Maskelyne photographic archive, approx 164 early photographic prints in 5 photograph albums (including W.H. Fox Talbot, High Street Oxford), 50 glass negatives, the memoirs and journals of Thereza Story-Maskelyne in 10 volumes (the memoirs including a further 52 early photographs), photographic research papers of Nevil Story-Maskelyne in 2 portfolios, and related albums and papers.
John Dillwyn Llewelyn (1810-1882) initiated his first photographic experiments -- prompted by news of the activities of William Henry Fox Talbot (a cousin by marriage) -- at his house at Penlle’r-gaer (usually spelled Penllergare by the family), near Swansea, in February 1839, and daguerreotypes of his family and house survive from as early as the following year. He claimed (in a letter to Fox Talbot) to have been familiar with all the known photographic processes, and in 1856 announced his own innovation, the oxymel process, ‘a mixture of honey and vinegar, whereby the collodion plates of the period could be prepared some time before use and developed when the photographer returned home’ (ODNB). He was on the first council of the London Photographic Society, and was awarded a silver medal of honour at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1855 for his instantaneous photographs.
The photograph albums in the archive not only provide an important, family collection of some of Dillwyn Llewelyn’s best-known images, but also demonstrate the extent to which the whole Dillwyn Llewelyn family and its wider offshoots participated in the experiments, either as subjects or as photographers: amongst the identified images are photographs by his sister, Mary Dillwyn, his son-in-law, the mineralogist Nevil Story-Maskelyne (grandson of the astronomer royal, whose photographs often depict the family house at Basset Down, Wiltshire), and at least three of his children.
Dillwyn Llewelyn’s daughter, Thereza Story-Maskelyne, was closely involved with his photographic activities, and was also an active amateur astronomer – both activities highly unusual for a woman of the period; she combined both fields in the pioneering telescopic photographs of the moon which she took with her father in the mid-1850s. Thereza’s memoirs and journals in the present archive are a rich source of information on her scientific career, and include not only an important series of photographic prints, but also her own watercolours of comets and other phenomena from the 1850s onwards.
The acquisition builds on an important earlier gift to the British Library of the work of Nevil Story-Maskelyne (1823-1911), which included paper negatives, salted paper and albumen prints, collodion on mica negatives and research papers on early photography. The additional material now acquired – which includes a series of Story-Maskelyne’s wet collodion negatives, as well as prints and other papers – brings together the largest surviving archive of the work of an important- if undeservedly little-known - photographer. The journals of his wife Thereza contain many references to the photographic practises of the Llewelyn and Story-Maskelyne families and will form a rich primary resource for the study of this formative period of British photography.
Courtesy: John Falconer / British Library
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The Government has been under pressure from retailers to cut business rates as the industry faces a £6bn annual bill and a £175m inflation-linked increase in 2013.
Property and retail bosses are furious that the Coalition has scrapped a planned revaluation of business rates next year because it means that they have to pay rates based on property rents in 2008 – close to the peak of the market – until 2017.
However, despite the Chancellor looking for ways to stimulate the economy in his Autumn Statement this week, the Government will stand by the postponement and inflation increase this week.
It is understood that one of the reasons for the Coalition's stance is that the revaluation would lead to a sharp fall in taxes for banks. According to estimates by the Valuation Office Agency (VOA), office buildings in London would see a 14pc drop in business rates following the revaluation – the biggest decline in the country. This is because rents in the City – the home of the financial services industry – have slumped since the financial crisis. In contrast, pubs, theatres, and hotels would see a sharp rise in business rates, while the retail sector would see a 1pc increase.
These sectors would see a rise in rates because the multiplier used to calculate how much of the rental value will be paid in tax would have to increase sharply to cover the shortfall in rates from London offices.
Business rates – one of the Government's biggest sources of income – are calculated on the rental value of a property and the annual rate of inflation. The revaluation is designed to redistribute how the tax is paid but does not change the total paid to the Treasury. The Government is also thought to have concerns about the cost of the revaluation – estimated to be £43m – and the backlog of 200,000 rates appeals facing the VOA. | <urn:uuid:9be815db-4baf-408e-8608-aa8d131bed46> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/9716467/Bank-fears-led-to-business-rate-row.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972822 | 374 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Two weekends ago, the National Organization for Marriage boasted about the large protest in Paris against marriage equality, but this weekend saw a counter-response from tens of thousands of supporters. The march on Sunday included messages like “Equality of rights is not a threat” and “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity — No more, no less!”
Though Sunday’s march may not have been quite as large as the anti-gay protest, momentum certainly favors equality in France. A new poll released Saturday shows that 63 percent of French voters favor marriage equality and only 37 percent oppose it. Still, voters are a bit more divided on the question of same-sex adoption, which is one of the primary benefits marriage equality would provide. | <urn:uuid:13156ec5-81d4-433a-916d-3e4631f1f86c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/01/28/1502881/thousands-march-for-marriage-equality-in-france-as-support-surges/?mobile=nc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973476 | 152 | 1.75 | 2 |
This year, after being told that my 6-year old daughter may not be able to be a Daisy because of a lack of parental volunteers, I stepped up to lead a Girl Scout troop.
Now keep in mind that, in addition to having two children, a husband, a house, a full-time job, a part-time podcast, and other assorted writing gigs, I knew nothing about Girl Scouts. I didn’t even know WHAT a Daisy was (it’s for girls in grades K & 1, before they become Brownies) or what was involved in running a troop.
There is a certain amount of freedom to taking charge of something when you know nothing about it, and people are just grateful that you are helping out. In my case, I decided to take some of the lessons and tools from my job and apply them to our troop – get organized, set a schedule, delegate responsibility and set expectations.
So, for those who have asked, how I have time to run Girl Scouts, this is what I did:
Research, research, research – While the web sites for the Girl Scouts and the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts were a good place to start, I found great information, organization tips and activity ideas on web sites developed by troops throughout the country. (See links at the end of this post for some of my favorite). These sites helped me get up to speed quickly and start to form some ideas for how we could be organized.
Recruit – I knew that I would not be able to organize every activity and every meeting, so it was essential that I find some like-minded mommies to join my troop. Through a friend I met my co-leader, then also identified three other moms to serve as treasurer and “facilities coordinator” (meaning she is in charge of finding our meeting space); cookie mom and International Day mom. Each was selected because I knew they were busy and willing to share the load. But note, I didn’t fill our troop – I still left room for 7 other children to join the troop.
I also was lucky enough to find a local teenager and experienced Girl Scout who was interested in helping at each meeting (great for community service & college applications).
Plan – We decided we were going to meet the first and third Tuesdays of the month, in the evening so those of us with jobs could make meeting. With a list of activities and petals we were going complete, I set the schedule for the WHOLE YEAR. (See “Delegation” below for why this is important). Turns out we only had time for 15 meetings, which certainly seemed manageable when put down on paper.
Centralize – After evaluating a few options, I decided to use Basecamp, a project management site I use for clients, to organize our troop. Before I even had a troop list I loaded in all the meeting dates and special events, as well as documents and activity ideas I had discovered online.
Agenda – Leading up to the first meeting, I created an agenda and handouts, outlining important information about Daisies, the uniform, the troop, the budget, and the year. (Download it here). I also created a couple of activity sheets for the girls including name tags and and song sheets which our teen helper used while the grownups met.
Delegate – During our first meeting, while the kids got to know each other and learned the Girl Scout song, pledge and promise, the adult representatives (not just moms here) and I talked about the year to come. Number one item was my request that each a family organize at least one meeting activity, as well as come up with an idea for one activity we could do outside of our normally scheduled times.
One week later, each family selected a meeting with our teen helper and my co-leader and I taking two to fill out the schedule. Within Basecamp I assigned responsibilities to all the families, in part so they would automatically receive an e-mail reminder when their meeting approached.
We’re only getting started with our new troop, and I’m sure there will be bumps in the road. But as I said at our first meeting, my goal is for the girls to have fun and for none of the adults to describe their experience as a “nightmare.”
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November 8, 2005 > Superintendent invites parents to discuss communications
Superintendent invites parents to discuss communications
by Gary Leatherman
Following up on his stated commitment to improve communication in the Fremont Unified School District, Superintendent Douglas Gephart has scheduled a meeting at the FUSD district office on Nov. 16 to confer with parents on a broad range of communications issues. In an informal survey conducted during the 2004-05 school year by the superintendent's Parent Representative Advisory Assembly (PRAA), many parents identified communications as an issue they would like the district to address.
The meeting will be in the Board Room of the FUSD Education Center at 4210 Technology Drive from 7-9 p.m. Although the meeting originally had been scheduled as a PRAA meeting, all parents with an interest in the subject are encouraged to attend.
By inviting all parents to attend and all parent organizations to be represented at the Nov. 16 meeting, the superintendent said he hopes both to generate some substantive new ideas about communications and to revitalize interest in his advisory committee.
Anyone interested in further information about the meeting or other opportunities for parents to participate in district decision making may call the FUSD Communications Department at (510) 659-2594 or visit www.fremont.k12.ca.us. | <urn:uuid:7d99e94d-1f56-4699-9a5c-a2674cdd326e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://tricityvoice.com/articledisplay.php?a=4295 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949734 | 262 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Africa, as a continent, is large, and densely populated, in various places, but at the same time, wild and untouched, in many others. A continent, rich in natural resources, home to incredible inhabitants, and sadly, the land of many endangered species. Be it aquatic or land based, cold or warm blooded, eight legged or botanic, all living organisms, even microscopic ones, need to be cared for.
Redefining an Approach to Conservation:
With the rise of international interest, and commercialised ventures towards conservation, there has been an increase in the awareness shown towards the environment, not just on the African continent, but on the planet, as a whole.
Individuals, from various sectors of industries and specialisations, are now entering into conservation, through full, part time, or volunteering commitments. The scope of opportunities in this field, is extremely open, and still has room to grow further.
Earth – home to us all, and the place that rocks, non stop. Making sure that the planet just keeps spinning on, is an incredibly difficult, and somewhat breathtaking process.
Being able to make a difference, transform a corner of the world into a better, cleaner, more natural place, is something everyone should look to do, because our efforts are needed, now, more than ever.
In essence, it’s all about conserving what probably will, at some stage, just run out. This Planet’s resources and inhabitants are always at risk - with only a few superheroes trying to make that difference.
Welcome to the working world of the environment!
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To the left are the standings for the NHL’s Eastern Conference. The teams placing 1st through 8th are ordered by points and when the points are equal, tie-breaking rules are applied. I’ve highlighted the 1st place (Boston) and 8th place (Montreal) teams.
Why is playoff ranking important? It determines who has home ice advantage during the playoffs. During a best-of-seven series games are played as such: home-home-away-away-home-away-home. The team ranking higher plays 4 home games and 3 away games.
During the playoffs, it’s typical for a new interface to be used to display playoff matchups. For the 2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs, here is that UI, with the Eastern Conference selected (notice the word “EAST” in white).
Before we get started, sports fans will recall how games are listed in box scores. It’s always “away team – home team – eastern time zone time”. For example if Vancouver was playing at San Jose at 7pm PST, you would see a listing for “VAN-SJ, 10pm EST”. This is the same across all sports, not just hockey.
Now, notice the areas indicated in green and remember: Boston is the #1 team in the playoff seeding, and Montreal is #8.
“Well Boston is the home team for the first game, so I’ll put their icon second”, choosing to use box score game description to denote the brackets.
The problem is that when displaying playoff brackets you always display the higher-seeded team first from which any sports fan is able to instantly derive where the games are played / who has home ice advantage. Otherwise this picture is interpreted as “#1 Montreal versus #8 Boston”.
Yahoo! even confused itself. By the time the next person started working on the bottom of the UI, they must have understood playoff rankings and used the position of the bracket icons to draw the seeds – listing Montreal as #1 and Boston as #8 (3rd green box above the photographs). Oops!
There is no standard to be found for how to display playoff brackets, it’s a format that’s been around as long as I can remember – not in the rulebooks though. If you have a look at NHL.com or ESPN.com you’ll see what I mean. This is How It’s Done(tm).
This underscores the need for domain knowledge when working on a UI and beyond that, a basic level of understanding contemporary design patterns that you won’t find in books. I would characterize this as a very soft, advanced skill because unless you understand the basics you can find yourself “off the reservation” doing something that’s done on a couple of sites / applications / devices you personally prefer. | <urn:uuid:3d6c84b6-5933-464e-8f78-a0ea4e221cc6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.allaboutbalance.com/page/4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948148 | 605 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Nell - All the Way
18 September 2008
Nell - Happy Ending
26 May 2005
Nell – Who Made Who
1 July 2004
Nell – No Mountain, No River
21 November 2002
Nell – Who Made Who
1 July 2004
Nell’s Who Made Who is an exhibition of sculptures, installations and gouaches which explore identity, the imaginary and the contemplative discipline of Zen Buddhism through the ever-present fact of mortality. The cycles of birth and death are not only the literal beginning and endpoints of life. The lightning-flash clarity of any given moment marks the death of our old self. Each moment is independent of the past and future. Just as one’s identity and conception of self does not remain fixed, so there exists in this life the possibility for endless renewal.
The exhibition title is taken from an AC/DC song which ends with the question… “Who made YOU?” The repetition of the phrase ‘who made who’ co-opts a logic similar to the problem about the ‘Chicken and the Egg’ –- what came first is ultimately unanswerable. The circularity of this problem undermines the validity of there being a supposed ‘original’ source. Along with references to rock n’ roll lyrics, Nell engages various spiritual and pictorial traditions. With sources ranging from Fra Angelico’s frescoes, to Australian Aboriginal art, Indian miniature painting, Zen Buddhism and western mythology, Nell incorporates into her idiosyncratic lexicon of signs – the now familiar drips, eggs and flies – a new vocabulary including gold, a strange grey ‘goo,’ reptiles and rodents.
A recurring theme throughout Nell’s works is the tension between attraction and repulsion. The sculpture Not Without My Tail includes a taxidermied crocodile’s tail - gutted, painted enamel-white and laid on a plush black velvet support. From the cavity of the once powerful, muscular tail leaks a viscous hand-gilded spill. The high-gloss white egg, Each Song Particular, bleeds gold leaf from a gash, gaping slightly, in its surface. In Open-ended, the epidermis of a slick black egg whirlpools into itself. At its innermost point we encounter a perfectly spherical pearl. The wound in Nell’s work is the site of the puncture, or ‘gap’ in consciousness that allows insight into personal trauma. The wound is where the inner and outer world coincide. The vulnerable and precious matter of the inner self is discernable in Nell’s sculpture because of the violence that the exterior sustains. The seductive, brittle surfaces or the obsessively constructed armatures are designed both to attract and protect. Nell has written that, “accessibility to transformation and beauty inevitably arise out of suffering and pain… they are, indeed the very same place.”
The reptilian, scaled surface of Many Little Decisions is made up off 17,000 brass-plated upholstery pins that have been pressed into an egg-form, measuring 160cm vertically. Nell has written that, “The placement of each pin marks a tiny decision that has been made. Each seemingly insignificant action when repeated thousands of times becomes substantial and in this case, manifests itself as an object… Without exception each individual pin/mosaic-tile/element has its own personality, perfect in and of itself but is an inseparable part of the whole.” Referring to her own ‘scale,’ as in Fly as High as Me (2002) exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Self-portrait also spans the artist’s height. The artist’s name is written in a cursive script across the gallery wall. This work plays on the arbitrariness of one’s name in relation to real self. Reflected throughout the exhibition is the desire to reconcile independence and interdependence. The letters are constructed by a seething mass of grey plastic mice. Each individual mouse is also representative of the species, simultaneously creating and consuming the artist’s name. Nell has also created her own gravestone in this exhibition. It is a personal momento mori, both coagulating from primordial materials and subsiding back into the earth.
Nell was born 1975 in Maitland and moved to Sydney in 1993 to study Visual Arts at the Sydney College of the Arts. She completed her honours in visual arts at the UCLA in the USA in 1996. Nell was a founding director of Sydney artist-run space, Rubyare. In 1999 she was included in the Primavera exhibition of young art at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney curated by Rachel Kent. Newcastle Region Art Gallery held a solo exhibition of her work in 2002 and in the same year she exhibited the work Fly as High as Me (2002)at the Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Project Space, and travelled Tibet and Nepal to further explore her practice of Zen Buddhism. In 2003 she was selected by Maitland Regional Art Gallery for the inaugural exhibition of the new Contemporary Gallery, attended a mosaic school in Ravenna and was awarded the Rome Studio by the Australia Council for the Arts. Who Made Who will be Nellšs third solo exhibition with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Exhibition opening: Thursday 1 July, 6-8pm
Exhibition dates: 1 July – 24 July, 2004
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Friday 10am - 6pm, Saturday 11am - 6pm
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Once again, it appears that another piece of legislation regarding supplement regulation—in the guise of “protection of the citizens”—is being proposed by the US government. It’s being called the “Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010,” which would lead one to believe that it’s for our benefit when in fact it’s hardly that at all. As is stated by William Faloon, the co-founder of the Life Extension Foundation (www.lef.org), “The proposed Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 is an egregious example of how this kind of insidious legislation comes into being, and how the public is deceived into thinking that Congress is seeking to ‘protect’ them (in this case from nothing), when the real purpose of the legislation is to further enrich the entrenched drug cartel that long ago bought and paid for most of Congress and the FDA. The Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 is a blatant example of how Congress undermines free markets to enrich campaign contributors, decimates private sector innovation, and hastens the federal government’s plunge into a financial abyss.”
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By Billy Corriher
Clayton County received an $80,000 grant Wednesday from the Atlanta Regional Commission to study a redevelopment project for northwestern Clayton County. The Livable Centers Initiative study will consider redeveloping the area to include a mix of housing, recreational and commercial development, as well as entertainment, education and transportation facilities.
The study area is generally bounded by Phoenix Boulevard and Sullivan Road on the north, the county border on the west, Flat Shoals Road on the south, and the Riverdale Road corridor to the east.
Economic Development Director Emory Brock said the county wanted to focus on this area because it had been most impacted by the new construction at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and it had a lot of potential for development.
"There is a market there now for quality residential and office space," he said. "And, when the airport finishes the new (international) terminal, we've got a lot of potential for large scale markets like hotels."
Though no specific plans are in place yet, Brock said the LCI project would preserve some neighborhoods and consider others for redevelopment. When the airport's fifth runway is finished, Brock said air traffic will increase and air cargo businesses will need much more space.
"It's going to be hard to accommodate all that space and maintain the integrity of the area," he said. "Some of the project areas need the type of development that would stabilize the neighborhoods."
The LCI plan will also feature more transportation projects to give the airport and area residents more options for travel, including mass transit and sidewalks for pedestrians.
"The transportation projects are all about connectivity," Brock said.
Robert LeBeau, principal planner for the Atlanta Regional Commission, said funding for the project was approved because the proposal met the commission's goals, contributing matching funds of $20,000 and having a public involvement process for the project.
"We want these ideas to come from the public," he said.
LeBeau said the commission also thought the project was important because of its proximity to the airport.
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Composing his last play while ill, Anton Chekhov insisted that The Cherry Orchard was a comedy; Stanislavsky, who directed the first production and played the part of Leonid Gaev, brother of Lyubov Ranevsky, told the celebrated playwright that “it is definitely not a comedy . . . but a tragedy.” At any rate, the play is not a Neil Simon comedy like The Sunshine Boys, nor is it a tragedy like Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman or Shakespeare’s King Lear. Had Chekhov magically had a sophisticated critical literary terminology at his fingertips, perhaps he would have cheerfully employed the expression “problem play” or “dark comedy” terms used to describe Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. To a certain extent Chekhov would have relented to labeling The Cherry Orchard a “tragicomedy.” However, viewers and readers of the play would still tend to endorse Chekhov’s original view about his play.
The loss of a family’s homestead and the resulting eviction of an aristocratic family may be considered the theme of the play. The central female character in the play is a woman, Madame Ranevsky, who lost her husband and her seven-year old son, Grisha, six years prior to the action of the play and who lives entirely in the past by sentimentally and nostalgically clinging to the cherry orchard. Her brother, Gayev, too, is passionately attached to the orchard because it has the aura of prestige and is immortalized by having been mentioned in the encyclopedia. And the eighty-seven-year-old senile servant, Firs, who tenaciously served the aristocratic family, cannot reconcile to the new beginning, a new society that is already on the horizon. Actually the play concludes with an empty stage and Firs muttering: “They’ve fogotten about me. . . . Life’s gone by, it’s as if I’ve never lived” (Translated by Stephen Mulrine [London: Nick Hern Books], 88 89). He is the one who “makes the cherry orchard an inviolable aesthetic symbol of the traditional order” (Irina Kirk, Anton Chekhov [Boston: Twayne Publishers], 151).
[Editor’s Note: However, in the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s production (among others) of The Cherry Orchard, even Firs is interpreted as hopeful and able to move on.]
In the simple image of the cherry orchard, Chekhov meaningfully recognized a symbol of a complex and complicated problem—the multi-faceted change that Russia was on the verge of undergoing, one that was quivering on the horizon. It was the decay of one epoch and the gradual rise of a new one, represented by the disappearance of Firs, forgotten by the family he has served for decades; the departure of Madame Ranevsky from her homestead; and the purchase of the estate (to convert it into commercial property) by the bourgeois Yermolay Lopakhin, a merchant whose father had once been a serf on Madame Ranevsky’s estate.
"I’ve bought the land on which my father and grandfather were slaves, where they weren’t even allowed into the kitchen,” declared Lopakhin with newly-acquired courage, self-confidence, and authority. “Everything’s to be as I want it. Come on, here comes the new landlord, the owner of the cherry orchard!” (69-70).
The multi-dimensional change is manifested in the economic, social, and cultural facets. The old tradition of the feudal landowning class symbolically represented by Madame Ranevsky is now replaced by the active, aggressive, self-made merchant Lopakhin, who will transform the glorious cherry orchard into commercial property covered with summer cottages to be rented out. Despite her sentimental and romantic fascination with her childhood home and nursery and her parting lyrical valedictories--“Good-bye, dear house, goodbye, old grandfather. The winter will pass, and then it will be spring, but you won’t be here, they’ll have pulled you down” (78-79)--Ranevsky tenderly detects happiness in her seventeen-year-old daughter, Anya, when the teenager responds: “We’re beginning a new life, Mama” (79). The billiards-playing and candy-munching brother, Gayev, also finally recognizes that “everything’s fine now. We were all so anxious and upset before the sale of the orchard, but afterwards, when the business was settled once and for all, we were able to relax, we even cheered up a bit” (79). Ranevsky, who was initially adamant and couldn’t imagine her life without the cherry orchard, is now reconciled and endorses her brother’s assessment of the inevitable sale of the estate: “Yes. My nerves are better, that’s true. I’m sleeping well now. . . . It’s time we were going” (79).
Surely there can’t be tragic element in a situation that seems to herald good life. Only the old servant, Firs, who grew up with “generals, and barons and admirals at our dances” (62) will be left to his normal natural life to come to an end in isolation. Undoubtedly natural extinction does not necessarily lead to tragic experience.
The innumerable references to time in the play further reinforce the theme of passage from one epoch that is dying to one that is rising. Another expression that is used like a refrain is “understand.” Those who understand the inevitability of change will not fight it; they recognize it. It is only after the cherry orchard is sold that Madame Ranevsky understands!
Time will not stand still. The young daughter, Anya, bids “goodbye, house! Goodbye, old life” (87). The perennial student, Peter Trofimov, responds with: “And hello, new life!” (87). And toward the end, Madame Ranevsky pathetically parts with these wistful expressions: “Oh, my dearest darling, wonderful cherry orchard! My life, my youth, my happiness, goodbye! Goodbye!” (88).
Neither the readers nor the audience would detect any tragic intensity in this farewell. The Cherry Orchard, a “play of nostalgic regret” (Beverly Hahn, Chekhov: A Study of the Major Stories and Plays [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977], 14), delineates impressionistically and wistfully a social/cultural order that was once and projects a new economic and social order that is beginning to take full shape. Francis Fergusson asserts that the play “may be briefly described as a realistic ensemble pathos: the characters all suffer the passing of the estate in different ways, thus adumbrating this change at a deeper and more generally significant level than that of any individual’s experience” (“The Cherry Orchard: A Theatre-Poem of the Suffering of Change,” in Norton Critical edition of Anton Chekhov’s Plays, trans. and ed. by Eugene K. Bristow [New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1977], 383).
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National Cancer Institute Says Exercise and Breastfeeding May Reduce Breast Cancer Risk
From the United States Lactation Consultant Association:
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a designation made over 25 years ago to spotlight a disease that afflicts one out of ten American women. The United States Lactation Consultant Association applauds efforts to raise breast cancer awareness. Most research efforts to date have focused on early detection and treatment. But there is now evidence that many cases of breast cancer can actually be prevented.
The National Cancer Institute cites two lifestyle factors that may reduce the risk of breast cancer-exercise and breastfeeding. The Susan G Komen foundation notes that breastfeeding appears to lower the risk of both estrogen receptor-positive and estrogen receptor-negative tumors with the strongest protection in premenopausal breast cancers.
A study published in August of this year by the American Association for Cancer Research, concluded that breastfeeding may reduce the incidence of a particularly aggressive form of cancer found predominantly in black women in the United States. Women who give birth to more than one child but do not breastfeed are at increased risk of developing this particular type of cancer. However, the link disappears when women who give birth to multiple children breastfeed. The data suggest that black women may have a higher incidence of this aggressive form of cancer because they tend to have more children and are less likely to breastfeed.
National breastfeeding goals call for an initiation rate of 82 percent by 2020. Recent statistics show that 75 percent of women initiate breastfeeding, but only 58 percent of black women start out breastfeeding, and only 8 percent breastfeed exclusively for six months as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and other health care organizations. In January of this year, Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, MD, issued a Breastfeeding Call to Action, challenging hospitals, health care workers, family members, friends, employers, and businesses to support breastfeeding and remove obstacles that make breastfeeding difficult for many women. Benjamin also identified the need for more cultural diversity among professional breastfeeding consultants.
Just as breast cancer awareness and a fight for a cure is everyone's responsibility, creating a culture that supports breastfeeding is the responsibility of every person of every age, gender, and race. A recent report from the Institute of Medicine recommends that all pregnant and new mothers have access to professional breastfeeding assistance.
The Surgeon General recommends that mothers have access to International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLCs), the only credentialed health care professionals with the skills needed to support breastfeeding. IBCLCs provide prenatal education and timely assistance in hospitals, health clinics, and WIC agencies. For information about becoming an IBCLC or to locate an IBCLC in your area, contact USLCA at www.uslca.org.
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|Faculty Advisors/Mentors and Social Dynamics Programs|
Counseling and Social Skills Program
The Counseling and Social Skills Program is designed to provide individual and group social coaching for students. Students are provided with a safe place to discuss their concerns and problems as they relate to school. In addition, students are encouraged to gain a better understanding of themselves and the people around them and to establish and maintain relationships. The goals of the program are to develop good self-advocacy and problem-solving skills.
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Growing up, my dad was the consistent breadwinner in our family. My mom homeschooled my older sister and I for a few years, then she worked part-time when we went to an area school. I didn’t know how the money was broken down in our household because my parents seemed to have equal say over how it was spent.
It wasn’t until my parents divorced when I was ten years old that I realized my dad had the lion’s share of the money. When they split up, my mom took my sister and I, and moved us out of his house to a small apartment across town.
My dad paid child support and my mom worked two jobs, but still we were broke. I remember asking my mom for things and she would say, “We don’t have that kind of money anymore.” She never explained why, but even at ten years old, I knew what had happened. The divorce had left her financially high and dry and so I vowed to never rely on a man or anyone else to take care of me.
Learning from Steve Jobs’ Widow
When I heard about Laurene Powell Jobs recently, her story resonated with me. She largely stays out of the spotlight, but you may know that Laurene is Steve Jobs’ widow. Recently, Forbes named her the richest woman in Silicon Valley and the 13th wealthiest woman in the world. The magazine estimated her net worth at $9 billion dollars.
Though Laurene undoubtedly benefited (and continues to benefit) financially from being married to Apple’s co-founder, she felt it was important to have her own career. Before she went to business school, and therefore before she met Steve, Laurene worked for Merrill Lynch Asset Management and spent three years at Goldman Sachs as a fixed-income trading strategist. Laurene and Steve met in 1989 while she was earning her MBA at Stanford and they married in 1991.
While her husband was busy building one of the most valuable companies in the world, Laurene co-founded Terravera, a natural foods manufacturer that delivers organic foods to over 300 retailers in Northern California. She also was the co-founder and President of College Track, an after school college preparatory program for under-resourced high school students.
Why it’s important to be financially self-sufficient
Initially, I marveled at Laurene’s commitment to her career despite marrying rich, but when I read about her motivation (as told to Walter Isaacson), I understood.
In Steve Jobs’ biography, author Isaacson wrote:
Laurene Powell had been born in New Jersey in 1963 and learned to be self-sufficient at an early age. Her father was a Marine Corps pilot who died a hero in a crash in Santa Ana, California; he had been leading a crippled plane in for a landing, and when it hit his plane he kept flying to avoid a residential area rather than ejecting in time to save his life. Her mother’s second marriage turned out to be a horrible situation, but she felt she couldn’t leave because she had no means to support her large family. For ten years, Laurene and her three brothers had to suffer in a tense household, keeping a good demeanor while compartmentalizing problems. She did well. “The lesson I learned was clear, that I always wanted to be self-sufficient,” she said. “I took pride in that. My relationship with money is that it’s a tool to be self-sufficient, but it’s not something that is part of who I am.”
What does being financially self-sufficient mean?
Some may believe that self-sufficiency kills a marriage, but Laurene was married to Steve for twenty years and the couple had three kids together. When their first child turned two, she quit her career for a time to have more children. Ultimately, she was a wife, mother and positive contributor to society – just not wholly dependent on her husband’s livelihood.
Being self-sufficient doesn’t have to mean having an MBA and owning your own business. Financial self-sufficiency simply means you have the capacity to pay your bills each month, with perhaps some left over for saving and miscellaneous spending. In my own life, I saw first hand how important that can be when a marriage ends in divorce–but even in a solid marriage, self-sufficiency can be empowering on a personal level, as well as for the relationship.
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The distinction between inanimate material and animate beings is anything but unambivalent in Valentin Magaro; bizarre buildings seem to have sprung from self-organising growth whereas the human being always emerges in strongly schematic form. Even though an iconographic interpretation might function on the grounds that individual motifs have meaning, no adequate approach to Magaro's pictorial universe is possible. Nevertheless a framing content, in which the individual pictorial elements appear as absolutely cogent, results from his medial and structural strategies of pictorial invention. The interplay between, on the one hand, evoked yet, on the other, non-denotable meaning is central to Magaro's examination of aesthetics and, as receptive and responsive as it is, opens up a highly binding content dimension. This becomes clear even in the combination of a pictorial process of form invention which actually derives from a digital medium. Translating this into drawing by hand is linked with considerable craftsmanly discipline and is very time-consuming: correctly applied craftsmanship - scientific drawing - is transformed by the way in which it is handled into something utterly absurd and, in this, it follows the logic of digital image generation. The show at Kunsthalle shows painting as well as a wide range of most recent drawings; particularly interesting are some small size objects as they are the first three-dimensional works by the artist. On occasion of the exhibition a comprehensive monography is published by Arnoldsche Art Publishers. | <urn:uuid:cde5e188-f796-4ed3-94cd-67fa2a3878d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.artfacts.net/en/exhibition/valentin-magaro-171056/overview.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960263 | 293 | 2.015625 | 2 |
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As left-leaning president Ollanta Humala takes office in Peru this week, he faces the formidable challenge of resolving the country’s growing conflicts over resource extraction—the “ticking time bomb” left behind by ex-president Alan García.
Peru’s recent mining boom, spurred by a surge in global commodity prices and García’s investor-friendly policies, has fueled a decade of robust economic growth and accounts for two-thirds of the country’s export earnings. Yet 30% of the population remains impoverished, and indigenous communities adversely affected by mining--but not consulted about proposed exploitation projects--have mounted increasing resistance. The resulting social unrest, which has claimed more than 100 lives since 2008, helped to catapult Humala to his remarkable electoral victory on June 5, with 51.5% of the vote and solid backing from Peru’s indigenous and marginalized communities.
Nowhere are these tensions more evident than in the mineral-rich Puno region, where the area covered by mining concessions has tripled since 2002. Puno’s mostly indigenous population, with a regional poverty rate exceeding 60%, has experienced few benefits from mining, while paying a high cost through the contamination of their water supplies, crops, and farmlands.
This past spring, a seven-week civic strike over mining disputes in Puno paralyzed the regional economy (and, for a time, the Bolivian border crossing), and threatened to disrupt the presidential election. It ended violently with six indigenous protesters killed by police and 37 wounded at the Juliaca airport.
The mobilizations began in early May in the highlands of southern Puno, organized by the Aymará-led Natural Resources Defense Front with support from the National Federation of Communities Affected By Mining (CONACAMI). Protesters demanded that the government revoke the Santa Ana silver mining concession granted to Canada’s Bear Creek Mining Company, which they claim will pollute Lake Titicaca and nearby rivers. They also called for a halt to future extraction projects in the region.
Following a voluntary suspension of activities for the June 5 elections, and Humala’s subsequent victory, the protests resumed and spread to Puno’s northern provinces. There, a Quechua-led movement mobilized against river pollution by small-scale mine operators and construction of the massive Inambari hydroelectric dam by a Brazilian government-backed consortium. The dam threatens to displace up to 3,000 people from 70 indigenous communities.
Lame-duck president García, perhaps seeking to rehabilitate his popular image after his party’s resounding electoral defeat, surprised many by granting significant concessions to the protesters. Bear Creek’s mining license was rescinded and a three-year moratorium imposed on new mining licenses in Puno. A new policy requires mining and hydrocarbons companies in Puno to consult in advance with impacted indigenous communities, in accordance with international treaties (and a pending Peruvian law, which García had previously vetoed). Construction of the Inambari dam has been suspended.
For the most part, these concessions are temporary and have only served to punt the underlying problems to Humala. Humala has pledged to raise taxes and royalties on mining profits to fund social programs and environmental remediation in the affected communities. He also favors passage of the law requiring community consultation on all extractive projects, without veto power. “What we want to do,” he says, “is get on well with the mining companies, but we also want them to get on well with the country.”
Humala’s newly appointed mining and energy minister, Carlos Herrera, says he’ll consult with mining companies first to develop a windfall profits tax that won’t jeopardize the $42 billion in investments lined up for the next decade. Herrera is part of a new cabinet team that combines market-friendly economic managers with leftist thinkers in charge of social programs. Their mandate from Humala is to maintain Peru’s strong economic growth while increasing social inclusion.
At least some mining transnationals have given a vote of confidence to Humala’s proposed approach. This past week, the Peruvian/ US conglomerate owner of the Conga gold and copper mine authorized Peru’s largest single mining investment ($4.8 billion).
Whether the new mining policies that emerge from Humala’s government will satisfy the popular movements that shut down Puno last spring remains to be seen. Expectations for Humala run high in Puno, where he received an overwhelming 78% of the vote, the highest of any region in the country.
Walter Aduviri, leader of the Natural Resources Defense Front, wants to know what Humala plans to do about the 600 mining applications that are currently pending in Puno, and has given the government 30 days to pass the new consultation law. Opponents of the Inambari dam want the project permanently cancelled, and worry that Humala’s close ties to Brazil might prevent this outcome.
Meanwhile, Bear Creek has filed for an injunction to regain its mining license, and is considering further legal action against the Peruvian government under the Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement. How Humala chooses to balance these investment and economic pressures with the demands of a growing anti-mining movement, in Puno and elsewhere, could be the defining challenge of his administration. | <urn:uuid:640cf9f5-3d46-4e71-be82-464352d76da9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nacla.org/blog/2011/7/29/peru%E2%80%99s-mining-conflicts-ollanta-humala%E2%80%99s-ticking-time-bomb | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946424 | 1,112 | 2.53125 | 3 |
My first blog at this site shared my love of history. (See "I Love History," reposted January 3, 2012, where it can now be read in the blog archives.) My feeling that history has so many lessons for us, to make each generation wiser than their predecessors by learning from past experiences both good and bad, was a big part of why I wanted to share Isaac's story. The late 1800s have much in common with the problems we face today, making Isaac's experiences not only interesting but also relevant.
Recently, an internet friend and I were exchanging face book posts about the challenges of teaching young people history. I shared my opinion that for students who have celebrated no more than 18 birthdays, their frame of reference makes even 20 years seem like ancient times. I liked his reply so much that I wrote it down. He said he had learned to appreciate the importance of history from his parents. He concluded: "I loved history in high school and could not understand why the other kids...did not understand how important it was. It [history] is where we came from and points in the direction we are likely to go. It is a huge puzzle with many pieces which one cannot possibly learn in a lifetime." For me, his description of viewing history as a giant puzzle, some of whose pieces can be fitted together over a lifetime, seemed a wonderful analogy.
|Dressed for Victorian Tea 2010|
I believe my appreciation resulted from a natural immersion in family history. I was raised in the house built by my paternal grandfather and his mother. We had my paternal great grandfather's Civil War journal, from which I remember my mother reading aloud. On Memorial Day we put flowers on the graves of paternal and maternal grandparents of several generations, joined in doing the decorations by aunts and uncles whose shared memories made me feel as if I had known the people whose graves we visited. History was something real for me, not just names and dates from textbooks.
My experience is not common in today's world. I read somewhere that the average American family lives in a house only five years before moving elsewhere. Doing genealogy research I discovered that many people do not know their grandmother's maiden name. Follow the news on television and the internet and you will see how headline events are abandoned within days or hours to report the new headlines in the next news cycle. Not only is history given little attention, but also current events are quickly treated as irrelevant and forgotten. Today's children grow up in a very different environment.
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Not many families make history an intriguing puzzle for their children like my friend's parents did for him, nor are many children today raised in a home and community where evidence of their ancestors' lives surround them. How do we make history interesting enough that people want to read about the past? How do we make the lessons of history more than dates and names, not only for school children but also for adult readers? That has been the question I asked myself as I wrote Isaac's story.
David McCullough has said, "No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read." I agree. I have had the benefit of Isaac's own words in his journal from which to tell his story, but my manuscript is not just Isaac's biography. I researched his community, using ancestry.com, family documents, legal documents, old photographs, tomb stones, and personal interviews to get to know the people Isaac mentioned in his diary. I also researched the history of that period, becoming familiar with the biographies of famous people in politics, religion, business, and the arts. I learned about the events that shaped the times. Only when I had spent incalculable hours of research to become familiar with all of this was I able to put Isaac's story in context. The challenge was to make the history during Isaac's time "something someone would want to read," as David McCullough said. I believed that writing the manuscript like a doctoral thesis or a text book was the wrong way to share history with the readers I wanted to reach.
|Visit to Isaac's Hometown|
My manuscript has an extensive bibliography with footnotes to document the research I have done. However, I have chosen to bring Isaac and his friends and acquaintances to life, revealing this exciting time through them. Occasionally, that means I imagined conversations to share important information that would be deadly dull to most readers if presented as text. For example, the People's Party, which shaped not only the politics of Isaac's time but also laws and social programs years later when the People's Party itself had faded away, evolved from smaller political movements coming together to form a powerful movement. I could have written a paragraph or a few pages describing each of these separate groups and how they united. Instead, I imagined a conversation between Isaac and his friend, William Campbell, a member of the Kansas House of Representatives who was a delegate to the organizing convention at which the People's Party was formed. I know from Isaac's journal the night Isaac went to visit Campbell to "talk politics." I am confident that they discussed the convention, its leaders, and the mix of political groups that were represented there. However, I do not have a transcript of their conversation. Instead, I have my research from original documents, newspapers, and secondary books and articles, and I have my imagination to put that information in the form of a conversation between Isaac and William Campbell the night Isaac went for a visit.
In those few places in my manuscript where imagination joins research to make history more readable to those who are neither scholars nor researchers, I identify in a footnote the sources used to create the scene and indicate what has been imagined, making the content enjoyable to casual readers but also documenting sources for more serious historians. These passages in the manuscript are limited, but they do raise objections by some who believe my decision takes my manuscript out of the strict definition of history and moves it to some realm between historical fiction and authentic history.
|Victorian Tea 2011|
I disagree. History is defined as the study of past events; the branch of knowledge that records and analyzes past events. Yet, Voltaire said: "History is the lie commonly agreed upon." Even the most thorough research about a person or event cannot establish each detail with certainty, and analysis unavoidably introduces the bias and experiences of the analyst. If only two people are present in a conversation, they will take away from their meeting a different recollection of what was said. We can try to capture history accurately, but an absolute record of events is nearly impossible. I have researched the subjects of my manuscript thoroughly. If I make that research more accessible to readers by occasionally using my imagination to present the facts, while warning them in a footnote what I have done, is it any less accurate than the scholar's text where gaps are filled with analysis and supposition?
History is so important that rulers, politicians, and historians have manipulated it for generations. As George Orwell said, "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." I believe in the manner in which I have documented the history of a period, most commonly known as the Gilded Age, but presented from the perspective of those farmers and other laborers who lived their lives covered in sweat, dirt, and tears rather than gilt. My efforts will serve no purpose if I fail to make history something someone would want to read. One publisher did not feel that my method met their criteria for presenting history. I remain hopeful that I will find a publisher who shares my enthusiasm for telling Isaac's story and the exciting events of the late 1800s as I have done. | <urn:uuid:30783a40-9820-4cc0-a2fd-af7cd229cd12> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lynfenwick.blogspot.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981119 | 1,562 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Pick up any magazine, listen to any lecture, or talk to any squirrel, and you will learn about America's favorite new obsession: a healthy lifestyle. We are encouraged to eat healthier, exercise more, and give up all of the wonderful things we hold dear. We are told to not eat the bag of potato chips or chug the bottle of soda. Instead, we're supposed to grab an apple and head outside to enjoy the beautiful outdoors.
Question: How can we possibly enjoy the blistering cold and frostbite while eating an apple? An apple would totally ruin the I-wonder-if-crawling-inside-an-animal's-rotting-carcass-really-does-keep-you-alive-and-are-there-any-squirrels-willing-to-sacrifice-their-life-for-me experience.
And how are we going to go for a run when the blood in our legs refuses to flow until summer comes? I admit that I do wear shorts and a T-shirt for our annual family football and soccer tournament on Christmas. However, that's only one day of the year. That is one short three-hour period of time for my legs to turn to icicles and my hair to experience winter's natural hair spray. Then they can thaw out in front of a fire with a big bowl of ice cream.
I don't care what anyone says, junk food will always beat out the healthy stuff. I know that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but a lot of my family members are doctors. I'd rather eat ice cream and laugh with my family than sit alone in the corner with an apple.
I love sports, but too much is painful. Literally. I have bad legs (knees, ankles, shins, arches … the whole nine yards!), so whenever I start to run, I feel it. Life would be so much easier and less painful if our bodies didn't need to exercise. Then we could devote our time to more important things _ like eating!
Another pointless habit like exercising is sleeping. I think sleep is so overrated. I know that it is scientifically proven that teenagers need more sleep, but I think that it would be so much more productive if we didn't need to sleep. With no need to devote 12 whole hours to sleep, we would have more time to eat, do school work, and eat ice cream with the doctors in our families.
We should just throw sleep out the window! Who needs it?
The only good thing about sleep is the reward when you wake up: breakfast! We are supposed to eat a "well-balanced diet," but I tend to just eat the "diet" out of that suggestion.
I'm late for the bus as it is, I don't have time to make waffles, squeeze orange juice, milk the cow, and fight the chicken for her eggs.
I usually grab some dry cereal and eat it on the way. Not my first choice, but my only one if I want to make it to school in time for lunch.
I am all for adding a few years to my life, but if that means losing my lazy, piggish lifestyle, no way, man!
I will be the first to encourage you to eat a well-balanced diet and to run daily, but only if I can cheer you on from my couch at home and eat my dry cereal on the way out the door.
Miriam A. Thurber is a freshman at Unatego Central School. 'Teen Talk' columns can be found at www.thedailystar.com/teentalk. | <urn:uuid:6213e6be-2482-4fde-bb0c-93f8e5018bf2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thedailystar.com/lifestyles/x1022082253/Teenhood-today-Who-needs-a-healthy-lifestyle/print | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967358 | 757 | 2.109375 | 2 |
By Deanna Cioppa, editorial intern
Today, two organizations that campaign against the obesity epidemic in America have released statistics that point to a dark and unhealthy future. According to the Associated Press, this new report predicts that by 2030, the obesity (not just overweight) rate in 39 states will be over 50 percent. Let that sink in. The two organizations, Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation used data collected by the CDC and other governmental sources and examined trends to make these predictions.
What’s even more stunning is that the obesity rate in the other 11 states and the capitol will be just under 50 percent, with Colorado coming in as the lightest state at 45 percent, and Washington, D.C. coming in at a cool 33 percent by 2030. Mississippi tops the list with a 67 percent obesity rate by 2030. According to the report by Trust for America’s Health, the national cost of treating the diseases stemming from this level of obesity will be a staggering $66 billion per year.
One-third of Americans are currently obese, and the CDC predicts that as a nation, a full 42 percent of Americans will be obese by 2030. The question is how can Americans turn the tide on this catastrophic number?
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By HEATHER TOMLINSON, CJ Staff Writer Commonwealth Journal
Cue Carole King’s “I Feel the Earth Move.”
Many Pulaski County residents just after 12 p.m. Saturday felt the trembling that can only be identified as an earthquake — and soon after that it was confirmed that one had occurred in far eastern Kentucky.
“Thought it was a bulldozer shaking our house — the cat is still scared!” reported Joseph Dobbs through the Commonwealth Journal’s Facebook site.
According to the U.S. Geological survey, a 4.3 magnitude earthquake, centered at Blackey, located in Letcher County in Eastern Kentucky, occurred at 12:08 p.m. Saturday.
Blackey is located around 10 miles west of Whitesburg.
The trembling lasted for several seconds — and some say they felt it as long as 15 seconds — and the event sent many to social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to report the occurrence.
A request from the Commonwealth Journal to hear from those who felt the tremor garnered more than 200 responses within a short time.
“My whole house went left to right and my computer table was jumping so I jumped in a doorway just to be safe,” said Science Hill resident Megan Shearer through the CJ’s Facebook page.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported that the epicenter of the shallow, light earthquake was 0.7 miles deep under Blackey, an Appalachian Mountains town.
The tremor was felt far and wide, with reports coming in from Kentucky as well as Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, and even as far north as Ohio and as far south as Georgia.
Nearly every community within Pulaski County reported feeling a slight to moderate shaking or hearing a rumbling similar to thunder.
Residents in Somerset, Science Hill, Eubank, Tateville, Bronston, Burnside and Nancy, among other Pulaski County communities, reported they’d experienced the earthquake.
“Felt it in the Dahl community (near Shopville),” reported Patty Ping through the CJ’s Facebook page. “Was a bit anxious as we are so near the Sinking Valley cave system”
There were no immediate reports of significant damage in Eastern Kentucky.
An earthquake is caused by movement of the earth’s crust, usually along a fault line.
Although Saturday’s quake was considered relatively minor, it didn’t downplay the response from Kentuckians — many of whom are more familiar with nature’s wrath through events such as tornadoes than through earthquakes.
CJ New Editor Jeff Neal was at home when the tremors hit, and he reported that he “felt it big time. (I) was standing in our room and it felt like the house tilted.”
Residents in Wayne, McCreary, Whitley, Knox, Laurel, Casey and Lincoln counties reported to the CJ that they’d felt the shaking as well.
Although fewer earthquakes are reported east of the Rocky Mountains than in the western part of the country, the few that do occur in Kentucky historically occur toward the western part of the state near the Madrid Fault Line, which stretches from New Madrid, Missouri to the Southwestern U.S.
Not this time, though, and there are reports that Saturday’s quake was the strongest to originate in Kentucky since a 5.2 quake that hit Bath County in 1980.
“The center was near my husband’s home growing up,” said Facebook user Sarah Cook on the CJ’s page. “I don’t ever remember an earthquake there.”
Cook said she was born in Letcher County.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, earthquakes east of the Rocky Mountains, although less frequent than in the West, are typically felt over a much broader region. An earthquake east of the Rockies can be felt over an area as much as 10 times larger than a similar magnitude earthquake on the west coast.
A magnitude 4.0 eastern U.S. earthquake typically can be felt in many places as far as 60 miles from where it occurred. A magnitude 5.5 eastern U.S. earthquake usually can be felt as far as 300 miles from where it occurred.
Pulaski Countians in 2008 felt the remnants of a 5.2 earthquake centered in southeastern Illinois near the Indiana state line. The 2011 earthquake, measured at a 5.9, that rocked the east coast was felt in parts of Kentucky, but not in Pulaski County. | <urn:uuid:42517d92-0494-481f-980b-3a2ba72d9f5a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://somerset-kentucky.com/newslive/x2082768592/Quake-rocks-eastern-Kentucky/print | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974321 | 956 | 1.625 | 2 |
Tale of Two Brothers
Tale of Two Brothers (2009)
Short Narrative, 12 minutes
Director: Daren Baptiste
A Tale of Two Brothers presented by the Los Angeles Urban League (LAUL l The League) is a three-part series following the lives of two men from birth to adulthood and the positive interaction they gain from their involvement with the League. JAMAAL DUBOUISE, born in prison to a mother struggling with addiction, finds himself reaching various heights in academia and in life. Though Jamaal has a soft spot for the ladies his tenacity and determination helps him through these trails. Then there is OSCAR DUNCAN, born to an upwardly mobile couple in relational turmoil, who finds his life in a tail spin after his father abandons his family.Though his over worked mother tries her best to provide a consistent life for Oscar, he eventually succumbs to the street and gang life style.
In the spirit of movies such as: CRASH and IN THE MEANWHILE, A TALE OF TWO BROTHERS relies on the theme of fate and circumstance, which causes Oscar and Jamaal's lives to intersect at various stages. Volume One: GENESIS -Follows the characters from Birth to Kindergarten Volume Two: INVICTUS -Follows the characters from Grade School through High School . Volume Three: IF -Follows the characters from High School thru Adulthood.
Los Angeles Urban League
The mission of the Los Angeles Urban League is to enable African Americans and other minorities to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights through advocacy activities and the provision of programs and services in our uniquely diversified city and region. | <urn:uuid:0209275a-0d61-43b8-b857-f4dfcb32897f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lightscamerahelp.org/blog/509/276-tale-of-two-brothers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952982 | 350 | 1.539063 | 2 |
This month’s Japan Times article by me is about organic and natural farmers and retailers in the Kanto region of Japan (that’s the area that includes Tokyo), including the thorny subject of how they are dealing with radioactive substance contamination on their crops. Because of space constraints I had to leave a lot out of course (that’s the nature of newspaper articles) so here are some supplemental things.
In Japan several terms are used for produce that is farmed using methods that are usually lumped together as ‘organic’ in the west. This is because to be able to formally label your produce as yuuki (有機、ゆうき), the Japanese word for organic, you are required to get JAS (Japan Agricultural Standards) certification from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF). This page on the MAFF site leads to information documents . This unofficial page has info in more user-friendly English .
As I stated in the article though, many small producers do not get JAS certification. There is a fee, and the certification must be renewed every year. Plus some farmers object to the certification requirements (saying they are too lax, etc.) So other words to look for are munouyaku （無農薬、むのうやく) which means ‘no agricultural chemicals’, mukagaku hiyou (無化学肥料, むかがくひりょう）which means ‘no chemical fertilizers’, and shizen nouhou (自然農法 しぜんのうほう) or ‘natural farming methods’.
The last term is used by farmers who grow produce the way Yasunori Toyoguchi, the guy featured at the top of the Japan Times article - using no fertilizers at all, not even manure (some natural farming advocates do use vegetable based fertilizers and compost, while others don’t even use those), letting weeds grow between plants, gathering seeds from plants allowed to go to seed to use for the next crop and so on. “Green manure” is sometimes used - in Toyoguchi-san’s case he uses renge or Chinese vetch plants. (Typical European green manure crops are alfalfa and clover.) If you want to learn more about “natural farming” there are several books out in English about it, such as The One Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming . I’ll have more about Mr. Toyoguchi’s farm in another post.
The small farm run by Mr. Toyoguchi and his lovely girlfriend Kaoru Oidaira is called Tamayura Souen(たまゆら草苑). They are so low-tech that they aren’t online yet, and don’t even have an email address - so if you’re interested in what they have to offer, please try contacting them by phone or fax at 028-563-0212, in Japanese only. They are in Motegi, Tochigi prefecture. They sell things like rice, vegetables, and baked goods, including thse ingredibly addictive amaranth crackers called “amaran-yaki” - made from their own no-chemical amaranth plants, of course. They will ship to you - payment is via Yuucho (the post office) bank only. You can also find their vegetables in season and baked goods year-round at the Motegi michi no eki or roadside station. Motegi itself is a nice daytrip from Tokyo. It’s famous as the last stop on the Maoka Railway, which features a steam engine.
Sukoyaka Hiroba is a natural/organic food and sundries store in Tozuka, Yokohama. They do have a web site and their phone number is 045-881-7636. They prefer to deal in Japanese only, but try simple English…it may work. They carry a few locally grown natural-farming method vegetables from Suzuki Nouen, a farm nearby, plus organic fruits and so on from elsewhere. But this is the place to go in Yokohama if you’re looking for all kinds of grains, alternative foods, and stuff that are grown without chemicals. They take all major credit cards and will ship nationwide (free shipping for orders aboe 8000 yen). If you’d prefer to go in person, their store is in an office building right off the Tozuka stop on the Yokohama Metro Blue line.
Yoshinori Kaneko is an elder stateman of the organic farming growing scene in Japan, and his farm is called Shimosato or Frostpia Farm . They don’t seem to sell directly to the public, but do offer tours and lectures about organic farming. You can also check out the numerous books Mr. Kaneko has written (all in Japanese only) on Amazon Japan . I especially recommend this one , which not only shows you how to grow organically but a bit about heirloom vegetables varieties in Japan too.
Some regular retailers, especially department store food halls, do carry some yuuki (certified organic) produce. Look for 有機 on the tag.
If you’re in central Tokyo, check out Robbie Swinnerton’s review of an organic market in Aoyama, run by a UK concern. Note that most of the produce is imported however. Robbie also has a review of a ‘straight from the farm’ style restaurant in Roppongi .
Many small ‘organic’ farmers send their produce (including rice) directly to consumers, via CSA-type schemes; you can also order specific items if they’re in season. Keep in mind that most if not all of these small farmers deal in Japanese only. So you may want to have a Japanese speaking friend help you out. You can grower-sellers by region on Yuukinou Shuunou Net , which lists organic/natural farmers who will sell directly to the public around the country.
Shimosato (Frostpia) Farm, mentioned above, is in Ogawa-machi, Saitama, a hotbed of organic farming - mainly due to Mr. Kaneko. Many of his students have gone on to open their own farms in the area. There is a listing of them here - if you’re in the area see if any will ship to you. (Incidentally, Ogawa-machi just happens to be where my mother grew up. My aunt was the one who alerted me to the organic-farming-hotbedness of the town.)
Kuno Nouen , one of those farms in Ogawa-machi, offers regular CSA-type shipments via their web site. Credit cards are accepted. They did stop all fresh-produce shipments after the nuclear power plant accidents (even though the radioactive element levels on their produce were far below safety limits) so you inquire as to what they have first.
Finally, I mentioned Motegi’s michi no eki or ‘roadside station’ above. Michi no Eki are a fairly recent government-led initiative intended to bring the increasing number of leisure and weekend drivers together with local producers. (Young families in particular tend to get around by car rather than train these days, especially on the weekends.) Michi no eki usually have a regional products store, a farmer’s market, fast-food or sit down restaurants, playgrounds for the kids, and so on. They are good places to check out what local farmers are offering, should you have a car.
This sign was posted prominently at the entrance to the farmer’s market section of Motegi’s Michi no Eki in mid-May. It says “No radiation was detected on Motegi’s vegetables”. It did look like plenty of people were buying the vegetables in any case.
There was also a big billboard with numbered pictures of the local farmers who were selling their wares at the market. Each bag of greens or punnet of strawberries was marked with the number that corresponded to the farmer’s picture. Most are conventional farmers, but there are several organic/no-chemical farmers besides Mr. Toyoguchi too. The text above the hundreds of photos says, “Grown with our sincere hearts”.
Here’s a closeup of a section of the photo billboard. Mr. Toyoguchi is at number 157. Just in this small community, nearly 300 growers were shown on that billboard.
Japan is mostly a country of small farms and small growers, with a few exceptions. And it’s much easier to emphasize, I think, with the plight of small scale farmers like these, or the ones in really serious circumstances in parts of Fukushima. I find myself doing that a lot. | <urn:uuid:2faa909b-0f07-4aa0-b3f6-78edcf5cd098> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.justhungry.com/print/1323 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952737 | 1,910 | 2.15625 | 2 |
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Searching the term “heschel” on Flickr turned up a Heschel-Merton peace protest, some previously published photos of Heschel standing next to MLK at Selma, and a few portraits. And then there’s the image you see here, which puzzled me as I was scanning a list of thumbnails: ‘Why did somebody tag that image with the rabbi’s name?’
The answer was in the caption:
The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life,
as if God could be segregated.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Through this brief caption a gleaning of another person’s mind. These encounters help me to see things differently, to expand my limited scope, as I search for images that encapsulate some kernel of wisdom or sensibility of what’s being discussed in a particular program. I’ve learned to stop and look rather than dismiss and move on.
Although this photo won’t make it onto the site, Markus Krisetya, the photographer, opened up another way of seeing Heschel, of finding new meaning in his writings (taken from his 1966 essay “Choose Life!”) and the graffitied bridge I pass by daily. How do you find relevance in Heschel’s words and action? | <urn:uuid:67422e70-d316-4aea-9130-5e0ef578fc04> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.onbeing.org/comment/21457 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95212 | 277 | 1.914063 | 2 |
What do the wholesale lingerie in western history reflect gender views? It reflects that women accept adequation and account from the society. The corresponding in some way are that women are according to men in rights and positions, although a little reluctantly.
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Ghee rice, a Muslim specialty, popular for its simplicity, is basically basmati or any long grain rice flavored with whole spices and ghee, garnished with some fried nuts and raisins and fried onions…..Vegetable Ghee Rice is a cousin of this original recipe or to put it lightly, it’s a ghee rice with more family members!! I tasted a similar dish for the first time at one of our friends, R & B’s house. I tweaked the recipe a bit and now it is one of our favourite dishes, something which I cook with confidence, when we have friends coming over for dinner or lunch.
Ingredients for Vegetable Ghee Rice:- (Serves 2-3)
- 1 small size, big onion thinly sliced
- ¼ cup golden raisins/kismis
- ¼ cup halved cashew nuts
- 2 ½ cups Basmati Rice
- 5 cups Water
- 2 cardamom pods
- 4 cloves
- 5-7 small ½ inch long cinnamon sticks
- 1 bay leaf
- ¼ cup green peas
- ¼ cup green beans chopped
- ¼ cup cauliflower florets chopped (as small as pearls)
- 3 tbsp carrot coarsely chopped
- Ghee - 3tbsp + 2tbsp + more for frying the onions
- Salt to taste
- A pinch of sugar
- Wash and drain the rice on a paper towel. When it is medium dry, heat 2 tbsp ghee in a large pan and splutter cardamom, cinnamon, cloves and bay leaf; add rice to this and stir continuously for 2-3 minutes in low heat and keep them aside.
- Heat 3 tbsp ghee in the same pan and fry the raisins, stirring continuously until they turn plump or look like golden grapes and keep them aside; fry the cashew nuts in the same oil, till they turn golden in colour and let both the nuts and raisins drain on a paper towel. In the remaining oil, sauté all the veggies for 2-3 minutes in low heat, with some salt, until they are well coated with the oil and cooked slightly. No need to cook them fully, as veggies will be cooked along with the rice again. Remove all the veggies and add more ghee to the pan to fry the thinly sliced onions till they become golden brown; at this stage sprinkling a pinch of sugar to the onion, while frying, to get a taste of nice caramelized onions is a good idea; remove the fried onions from the oil with a slotted spoon and let them drain on paper towels.
- Before cooking the rice, keep a spoonful of fried nuts and raisins and half of the fried onions, separately for garnishing. Microwave Method: Mix everything together- fried rice with spices, onion, nuts, raisins & veggies- with 5 cups of water (2 cups of water for 1 cup basmati rice) and adjust the salt and pop it in the microwave and cook for 23-25 minutes or until rice is done. Stove-top Method: Boil water in a heavy bottom cooking vessel, and when it comes to boil, add all the ingredients and bring it to a boil again and then reduce the flame and cook covered in low-medium heat, until rice is fully done and water is absorbed. Using a fork, gently separate the rice, so as not to get sticky, and leave it covered for another 10-20 minutes, for all the flavours to set in. Garnish with the rest of the nuts, raisins & onions and serve with Raitha (Coarsely chopped onions, tomatoes and cucumber mixed in yogurt with a dash of salt and pepper), Pickles and some spicy Chicken/Mutton curry, which is a real bonus to this dish. | <urn:uuid:48bbf4f8-5a79-46d3-9353-3b8262c866d0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kitchenmishmash.blogspot.com/2007/06/vegetable-ghee-rice-indian-rice.html?showComment=1182129600000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925557 | 799 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Word of the Day: Qualm
Nowadays, we use the word qualm to mean a misgiving or pang of conscience, best seen in such phrases as “He had no qualms about taking candy from children”, and so forth. You might suspect a similar meaning in Shakespeare’s day, especially since our modern sense of the word still serves to make a joke out of a conversion between had by the princess and her ladies in Love’s Labour’s Lost, on the topic of their beaux.
MARIA Dumaine was at my service, and his sword:
‘No point’ quoth I; my servant straight was mute.
KATHARINE Lord Longaville said, I came o’er his heart;
And trow you what he call’d me?
PRINCESS Qualm, perhaps.
However, Katharine’s reference to Longaville’s heart hints at a rather more sinister origin to the word, a sense still active at Shakespeare’s time and which here makes the Princess’ quip considerably more cutting. In Henry VI part II, for example, Glocester seems to be affected by rather more than a feeling of compunction, as he finds himself unable to continue reading the harsh details of the proposed peace settlement with France:
GLOSTER Pardon me, gracious lord;
Some sudden qualm hath struck me at the heart
And dimm’d mine eyes, that I can read no further.
Glocester, who will die later in the trilogy from his weak heart, here suffers the first signs of illness. This is the original, sinister, meaning of qualm: in Old English it means death, plague and calamity; and by Shakespeare’s era, it meant a sudden fit of faintness or sickness (as well as the modern sense). Other, related, and long-gone meanings for qualm include the cry of a raven (a bird long associated with mortality), and the act of boiling (the result of confusion between warm/walm/qualm).
One final example completes the picture: Beatrice, having unwittingly revealed her affection for Benedict in Much Ado About Nothing is simultaneously teased and comforted by Margaret.
BEATRICE It is not seen enough, you should wear it in your cap. By my troth, I am sick.
MARGARET Get you some of this distilled Carduus Benedictus, and lay it to your heart: it is the only thing for a qualm.
Margaret’s joke only works here when you understand that “qualm” was both a misgiving and a legitimate medical syptom, and thus doubly apt for treatment by exposure to “Carduus Benedictus”, latin for ‘Blessed Thistle’ but innuendo for something much more romantic. | <urn:uuid:650e97eb-edda-4c06-9334-16e3d8c1a15f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://openliterature.net/2011/11/04/word-of-the-day-qualm/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950375 | 610 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson
|The Right Honourable
The Lord Tennyson
|2nd Governor-General of Australia|
9 January 1903 – 21 January 1904
|Preceded by||The Marquess of Linlithgow|
|Succeeded by||The Lord Northcote|
|14th Governor of South Australia|
10 April 1899 – 17 July 1902
|Preceded by||Sir Thomas Buxton|
|Succeeded by||Sir George Le Hunte|
11 August 1852|
|Died||2 December 1928
Freshwater, Isle of Wight
Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, GCMG, PC (11 August 1852 – 2 December 1928) was the second Governor-General of Australia. He was the elder son of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the most popular and prominent poet of late Victorian England, and was named after his father's late friend Arthur Hallam.
Hallam Tennyson was born at Chapel House, Twickenham, in Surrey, England, and educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge. His career aspirations ended when his parents' age and ill-health obliged him to leave Cambridge to become their personal secretary. The idea of going into politics was also abandoned.
It was partly for Hallam's benefit that Alfred Tennyson accepted a peerage in 1884, the year Hallam married Audrey Boyle (after being disappointed in his love for Mary Gladstone, daughter of William Ewart Gladstone). On his father's death in 1892, he inherited the title Baron Tennyson, and also the role of official biographer. His Tennyson: a Memoir was published in 1897.
Like his famous father, Tennyson was an ardent imperialist, and in 1883 he had become a council member of the Imperial Federation League, a lobby group set up to support the imperialist ideas of the Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain. It was this connection, as well as the Tennyson name, that led Chamberlain to offer Tennyson the position of Governor of South Australia in 1899. He was still in this position when the Governor-General of Australia, the Earl of Hopetoun, resigned suddenly in May 1902.
Tennyson was the senior state Governor and thus became acting Governor-General upon Hopetoun's departure on 17 July. There were some doubts about his ability to fill the job on a permanent basis since he had little experience of politics. But he had made a good impression in Australia through his modesty and frugality, unlike the ostentatiously imperious Hopetoun. In January 1903 he accepted the post for, at his own suggestion, a one-year appointment only.
The new Governor-General was popular and got on with Australians far better than his predecessor had done. But problems arose through the ambiguity of his position. The Prime Minister, Alfred Deakin, insisted that the Governor-General's official secretary must be appointed and paid by the Australian government. The British government objected (privately) because this would mean that the Governor-General could not carry out what was seen in London as his broader role in supervising the Australian government. Tennyson shared this view.
As a result, relations between Deakin and Tennyson grew tense. Deakin (rightly) suspected that Tennyson was reporting on him to London and trying to interfere on matters of policy, such as the naval agreement between Britain and Australia. For this reason Deakin did not encourage Tennyson to seek an extension of his one-year term. None of this was known to the public and Tennyson left Australia in January 1904 to universal expressions of approval.
He spent the rest of his life in the Isle of Wight, serving as deputy governor from 1913. His wife died in 1916, and in 1918 he married again. Tennyson's second wife was the daughter of an English family long prominent in India. Mary Emily (May) Prinsep (1853–1931) was the daughter of Charles Robert Prinsep, born in India and later the owner of a large nutmeg plantation in Singapore. (Prinsep Street and Prinsep Place in Singapore are named for him.) Tennyson was May Prinsep's second husband; her first husband was Andrew Hichens. The National Portrait Gallery has eight photographs of May Prinsep, taken by her relation Julia Margaret Cameron on the Isle of Wight.
He died at his house, Farringford in Freshwater on the Isle of Wight in December 1928.
- A large oil portrait of Tennyson hangs in Admiralty House, Kirribilli.
- Tennyson's coat of arms is painted in the entry foyer of Government House, Sydney.
- Venn, J.; Venn, J. A., eds. (1922–1958). "Tennyson, Hallam". Alumni Cantabrigienses (10 vols) (online ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- 'Christabel,' Mary Emily 'May' Prinsep, Julia Margaret Cameron, albumen print on gold-edged cabinet, 1866, Photographs Collection, National Portrait Gallery, npg.org.uk
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Hallam Tennyson|
- Serle, Percival (1949). "Tennyson, Hallam". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus and Robertson.
Sir Thomas Buxton
|Governor of South Australia
Sir George Le Hunte
The Marquess of Linlithgow
|Governor-General of Australia
The Lord Northcote
|Peerage of the United Kingdom|
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The Cabin sits on a small corner of Julia Davis Park, between the Boise River and the Boise Public Library on Capitol Boulevard, gateway to downtown Boise. It was constructed in 1939 to house the Idaho State Forestry Department. The State Forester at the time invited timber companies doing business in Idaho to donate materials. As a result, each of its rooms has its own distinctive ceiling and molding pattern.
Two Finnish log craftsmen led a construction crew on loan from the Civilian Conservation Corps. Exterior walls are Idaho Englemann Spruce. The entry is Idaho Yellow Pine supplied by the Boise Payette Lumber Company (precursor to Boise Cascade Corporation). The two rooms on the main floor’s south side are Idaho White Pine, of which wood was donated by Potlatch Forests of Lewiston and Winton Lumber Company of Gibbs, Idaho. Idaho Red Cedar from the Diamond Match Company of Spokane was used in the northeast corner office; Idaho Red Fir from Brown’s Tile and Lumber Company of McCall in the center north room; and Idaho White Pine is used in the northwest corner office, donated by the Ohio Match Company of Spokane, Washington.
The City of Boise purchased the building from the state in 1992 and signed a long-term lease with the Log Cabin Literary Center in June 1996. Today, The Cabin is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Since 2000, The Cabin’s supporters and members have contributed over a half-million dollars for renovations and improvements to the building, creating reading and meeting rooms, classroom spaces, kitchen facilities, and other capital improvements to host its growing programs. A quiet capital campaign continues toward completing the new vision for the cabin, resulting in a unique, independent literary center for Idaho. | <urn:uuid:24ca4556-ed2c-4c6c-96fe-2a575c70b26b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thecabinidaho.org/whoweare/the-building.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944624 | 357 | 2.125 | 2 |
Online Distance Learning Courses
The Edexcel BTEC Level 5 Diploma in Events Management is a UK nationally accredited course which is internationally recognised. This online distance learning course is designed to provide comprehensive knowledge and understanding of events management for those working in hospitality, entertainment, and the leisure sector, who wish to become expert in this aspect of business.
The content of our online events management courses is also suitable for Owner Managers and Consultants who wish to increase their knowledge of best practice in Events Management.
The Edexcel BTEC Level 5 Diploma in Events Management online consists of six units.
Students wishing to gain higher level qualifications can progress smoothly on to the Level 6 Advanced Diploma in Project Management or the HND Degree Foundation courses in related business and management sectors. The Edexcel BTEC Level 5 Diploma in Events Management online course will gain you exemptions from the Advanced Diploma in Project Management and the HND in Business and Management.
The student must:
Every Monday, except UK Bank Holidays.
Following registration, students will be allocated a UK-based tutor who will be available by telephone and Moodle Messaging (email via the Virtual Learning Environment) to discuss course work and give advice and guidance on assignments.
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Each Unit typically takes about 4 to 6 weeks. The complete course should take 9 months.
£1300 GBP, plus £123.00 GBP Edexcel Registration Fee. The course fees cover all study materials, personal tutor support and assessments.
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When my wife first mentioned Atul Gawande’s book, “The Checklist Manifesto,” I thought, “Someone wrote a book about that?”
My next thought was, I can check off the box in my calendar for coming up with a topic for my next column.
Gawande uses medicine as his jumping off point. He writes that a doctor can see some 250 different primary diseases and conditions during a single year’s office practice.
Moreover, he adds, “Clinicians now have at their disposal some 6,000 drugs and 4,000 medical surgical procedures ….”
“It is,” he writes with amazing understatement, “a lot to get right.”
Faulty memory and distraction are a particular danger in what engineers call all-or-none processes: whether running to the store to buy ingredients for a cake, preparing an airplane for takeoff or evaluating a sick person in the hospital, if you miss just one key thing, you might as well not have made the effort at all.
“The Checklist Manifesto” discusses how in a world with “complexity upon complexity,” something as low-tech as a checklist not only can make us more efficient, it can save lives.
Gawande details how in 1935 U.S. Army Air Corps test pilots in Dayton, Ohio, concluded that flying the latest batch of Boeing 299s “was too complicated to be left to the memory of any one person, no matter how expert.”
So they wrote down a list of step-by-step cockpit chores — on an index card.
The author notes that by the time we get to plucky Chuck Yeager and the rest of “The Right Stuff” gang of the 1950s, “checklists and flight simulators had become more prevalent and sophisticated,” and thus the dangers had dropped considerably.
Gawande also looks in on finance, speaking with investors who adapted those methods pioneered in health care and aviation to create Warren Buffett-like checklists. One example: Confirm that you’ve considered whether revenues might be over- or understated because of temporary market conditions.
I confess I felt validated by Gawande’s book: By packing a calendar annotated with daily checklists, I’ve come to believe don’t have to carry as much in my head. It’s the mental equivalent of traveling light.
My system is pretty straightforward: Almost everything is written in pencil, then checked off when completed or erased if canceled. Special events require special colors — birthdays in blue, soccer matches for which I’ll need to set the DVR in red.
I try to avoid the clutter of stars and asterisks.
Occasions that if missed could result in joblessness, dismemberment or divorce are highlighted. (No particular color, I’m not obsessive about this or anything.)
Sometimes, though, I’ll admit the system breaks down. I’ll find an entry either I cannot decipher — blame it on decades of using a keyboard — or simply makes no sense.
One recent Friday noted “GCI: Information.”
Was that something I was supposed to do? A place I was intended to be? Please don’t let it have been an anniversary ….
The best I can offer, dear reader, is that if I was scheduled to telephone you on a Friday or show up somewhere, blame it on the checklist.
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According to London's Daily Telegraph, American scientist/futurist Ray Kurzweil thinks you may soon be bouncing a little Terminator-like cyborg on your knee.
Kurzweil believes that within a mere 20 years our understanding of genetics and computer technology could turn us all into superhumans. Within 25 years, a person could make Olympic sprints for 15 minutes without taking a breath, SCUBA dive for four hours without oxygen, or write a book in two minutes. And if you're really clever and wear horn-rimmed glasses, you could fool the heck out of that ditz Lois Lane.
I understand that mankind's knowledge is growing by leaps and bounds (the Law of Accelerating Returns, Kurzweil calls it), but projections can come up embarrassingly off-target. In 1965 the producers of "Lost In Space" took it for granted that by 1997 humans would be traveling the 4.37 light-years to Alpha Centauri, rather than scrounging for enough money to return to the moon.
Kurzweil acts as if every single person would share in the progress, but I see it as another case of the haves and have nots. Think your insurance would cover a bionic nervous system? ("Sorry. There's a preexisting condition -- we've already paid for our around-the-world cruise and need all the profit we can get!")
Try not to be jealous of the rich. I'm sure they'll tastefully make only the most absolutely vital improvements. ("Come on, Judith, let's go through the '15 new body parts or less' checkout lane.")
It's appealing to think that you can get a high-tech synthetic liver or cerebellum at the drop of a hat, but there will be lingering doubts. You'll be lying there on the operating table and suddenly Kanye West pops up. ("Nooooooo--Beyoncé deserves this organ more, you fools!")
Kurzweil gushes about mankind soon being able to stop and reverse the aging process. Is the world ready for octogenarians who could pass for homecoming queens? ("There, studmuffin, I've got the handcuffs attached. What? No, I'm not planning anything kinky. I'm just making sure that for once I have an audience when I start reminiscing about everything that used to cost a nickel.")
Suicide counselors will have steady employment in Kurzweil's brave new world. If you had to listen to that &^%$#@ Six Million Dollar Man sound effect every time you jumped, anyone would think about ending it all.
Kurzweil's immortality promise brings all sorts of questions. How can overpopulation be avoided? When will retirement begin? If no one dies, how will Chicago have enough voters for a decent election?
Mostly, I wonder what this stuff about computer chips will mean for my wife the biology teacher. Will she someday begin a lecture with "Bill Gates' theory of evolution teaches that it all began with Pong..."?
In a statement as provocative as John Lennon's observation that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ, Kurzweil insisted that nanobots will replace blood cells and do their work "thousands of times more effectively." (A spokesperson for the Almighty countered, "You have to understand, the original circulatory system was a no-bid contract.")
Don't' let me stand in the way of the progressives. ("Hurrah! Mankind is finally immortal. Let's build ourselves a monument out of rock like...I don't know... in that asteroid coming over there. ASTEROID?????") | <urn:uuid:9688691e-fe74-497f-9ecf-734819c3cf74> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.marshalltribune.com/story/1575259.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936955 | 758 | 1.5625 | 2 |
If you plan on visiting Aventura Mall soon, don’t be surprised when you run into an indoor park complete with life-size dog and cat sculptures.
From a Labrador painted with the smiling faces of Haitian children and a white Shih Tzu with angel wings to a Chihuahua covered in $100 bills and a cigar stuck in its mouth, there is no lack of creativity at the “Paws for Art” exhibit.
After two years in the making, the display opened at Aventura Mall last Thursday and will continue for one week with the goal of making art accessible to the community, as well as to provide financial support to the Founding Fosters Care Fund, a program that supports foster-care of dogs and cats at the Humane Society of Greater Miami.
The proceeds from the purchased sculptures will help pet fosterers — people who take care of dogs and cats from the Soffer and Fine Adoption Center in North Miami Beach until the pets are permanently adopted — to cover the medical and food costs for the pets.
Bella Goldstein, founder and chairwoman of Founding Fosters Care Fund, said that before the exhibit opened, about eight sculptures were already sold, bringing $5,000 back to the foster-care program. A total of about 50 sculptures will be on display at Aventura Mall, all done for free by South Florida-based artists.
“It’s just an ‘ahhh’ moment when you see the sculptures,” Goldstein told The Miami Herald. “Some of them are real life-like, and some of them are a rendition of art.”
“I wanted to do something that would make people smile,” said Clara Poupel, exhibit curator and creative director. “Even if they don’t buy it, maybe going home they would want to create. “
About five of Poupel’s sculptures will be included in Paws for Art, including a life-size black Labrador whose front-right paw is inside a bucket of red and orange paint that is spattered all over him.
“He looks like he is splattering paint, trying to create something. He looks like the kind of dog you would want to have to play with and run on the beach with,” said Poupel. “This exhibit is a great opportunity to show that art is important to the community and to bring art to the people.”
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What is in this article?:
- Vital agriculture research/education programs under funding threat
- Agriculture research/education facing massive funding cuts?
- For every dollar spent on ag research, $10 return.
- House subcommittee plan would cut ag research by $354 million.
Agriculture research and education were not spared when the House Agricultural Appropriations Subcommittee passed a FY2012 budget plan May 23. Tasked with drastically cutting programs under its purview, the subcommittee came up with $17.2 billion in proposed spending for fiscal year 2012.
That amount would be a 14 percent cut over FY 2010 with reductions of $354 million for agricultural research, $99 million for conservation operations through the Natural Resources Conservation Service and $338 million for rural economic development programs.
With the proposed House plan still fresh, during a May 26 Senate Agriculture Committee hearing, members repeatedly claimed agriculture was being disproportionately targeted for cuts.
Testifying before the committee, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack did not disagree. To justify spending on agriculture programs, Vilsack pointed to a chart showing “over the last 30 years if you looks at ‘real growth in spending by function (in terms of outlays in constant dollars),’ agriculture … has pretty much flat-lined. I think that’s an important consideration as (Congress) allocates resources and reductions. Agriculture has been a good steward of the fiscal resources provided to it.”
In later testimony, Vilsack said “Candidly, I think the USDA has taken a disproportionate share of the cuts. We’re now at a place where I’ve had a serious conversation with all the undersecretaries … where (I) said ‘Look, we’re looking at potentially a 25 to 30 percent cut in our discretionary budget. That means we have to start thinking about what we can do as well as what we can’t do.’”
One vital area Vilsack would spare from major cuts is agricultural research, which he claimed returns $10 for every dollar spent.
“At a time when we ought to be out innovating, out building and educating … to be competitive, we’re reducing our commitment to research. We should actually be looking at ways in which we can leverage an increase in our commitment to research.
“Research is one of the reasons we have higher productivity. It is producing genomes. It’s producing more information and knowledge that allows us to protect our crops against pests and diseases. It’s developing new technologies and ways to produce crops more effectively and efficiently. It’s something we ought not to shortchange.” | <urn:uuid:df746459-0f8c-47b1-bcf4-50b9308b37b6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://deltafarmpress.com/government/vital-agriculture-researcheducation-programs-under-funding-threat | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946441 | 549 | 2.09375 | 2 |
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The Book of Molesey
Rowland G. M. Baker, 1986
'It is obvious that all business purely local|
— all which concerns only a single locality —
should devolve upon the local authorities'.
John Stuart Mill|
On Representative Government (1861)
The first public utility to bring benefit to Molesey was the supply of gas. The Hampton Court United Gas Company was formed in 1851, with works at Hampton Wick. One of its chief promoters was Francis Jackson Kent, then busily engaged in laying out the Kent Town estate. It was probably due to his influence that the area supplied was extended to include the Moleseys. In 1867, by a special Act of Parliament, the firm was incorporated as the Hampton Court Gas Company, a name it bore until the nationalisation of the gas industry in 1949. The original main crossed the river on Hampton Court Bridge, augmented later by another via Tagg's Island. The area was connected to the gas grid in 1970.
Soon after gas came to the district the parish of East Molesey decided to light the streets with it. Lighting Inspectors were elected, but could not at first enforce a rate because they had placed lamps in Matham Road, which was then a private street. For some time these were maintained by voluntary contributions. In 1885 the Local Board, who had taken over responsibility, changed all the lamps to oil burning, because some ratepayers complained of the cost. In 1902 it was decided that the extra brightness of gas was well worth the extra expense, and gas lighting was restored. The lamps were converted to electricity in the early 1930s.
In 1871 Parliament passed an act which enabled the Lambeth Water Company to build reservoirs in West Molesey and, in order to appease residents during the trauma of having their streets ripped apart to lay the mains, the company inserted a clause empowering them to supply the houses in Molesey with piped water. Thereafter the sanitary authorities made by-laws compelling all habitable houses to be connected.
The supply of electrical power was first mooted by the Molesey Urban District Council in 1901, but for some reason no action was taken. It was adopted two years later by a commercial firm — the Twickenham and Teddington Electric Supply Company. By 1904 the cables had been laid and the first houses supplied.
Molesey was coupled to the telephone network on 1 October 1900, in what was then a commercial system operated by the National Telephone Company. The exchange was in a building in Manor Road next to the Poyntz Arms inn. A public call office was established for non-subscribers at 44 Walton Road, now part of Colena Ladies Outfitters, and another soon after in Mr Usher's ironmonger's shop, now Quality Hardware, at 53 Bridge Road. The charge for a call within the Molesey circuit was one penny, and three pence to either Kingston or London. The Molesey exchange, which was later extended to cover the whole of Hampton and Teddington, was transferred to a site on the other side of the river, near Hampton Church.
East Molesey's first post office was in the Bell Inn, and the licensee, Mr Pitcher, was also the postmaster. About 1867 another office was opened in a shop in Bridge Road, near the Albion Inn. The postmistress was a Mrs Taylor, and her husband ran a coal and corn merchant's business in the same shop. In 1906 Bridge House, No 70 Bridge Road, was purchased and adapted as a main post office, by building a new public office stretching from the old house to the pavement, and by altering the building for telegraphs, sorting, rooms for postmen and telegraph boys, and a residence for the postmaster. After this the Bell Inn became a sub-office, called Upper East Molesey Post Office. This was later transferred to Mr Kent's chemist's shop at the corner of Walton and Spencer Roads, and given the grander title of Molesey Park Post Office. In January 1904 a further sub-office was opened at Mr Wallace's draper's shop on the corner of Walton and Seymour Roads, but in a few years this was transferred to Rowe and Stevens, just up the road, in which shop it still exists.
In West Molesey, like East Molesey, the first post office was in the main hostelry — the Royal Oak. About 1864 it was transferred to Grave's baker's shop, which stood appropriately on the spot where the present postal sorting office stands. In 1900 it moved to the grocer's shop on the corner of Walton Road and High Street. In the early 1950s an additional sub-office was opened in Central Parade.
A volunteer fire brigade was formed in 1872, and the East Molesey Local Board voted a small sum of money for the purchase of hoses, standpipes, a lamp, and a hand cart on which to wheel them around. In 1874 a shed in Park Road was rented at £5 per annum to house the apparatus and the words 'FIRE BRIGADE' were painted on the front. After a meeting was told in 1883 that 'at present they had had not a chance in a hundred of putting out a fire', moves were afoot to purchase a steam fire engine. However, no money for this was forthcoming and it was six years before the village had a fire pump, and then it was only a manually operated one. It was horse-drawn and cost £150, and was operated by men, 13 a side, moving their arms up and down. Thus 115 gallons per minute could be thrown to a height of 125 feet. At the same time new uniforms, hoses, and other equipment were purchased at a cost of £317 3s 6d. The vicar and churchwardens of St Paul's presented the Brigade with a bell to summon the volunteers together whenever the alarm was raised.
The fire station was moved, first to the old Local Board offices on the corner of Walton and Matham Roads in 1887, and then in 1900 to a purpose-built station, which is now the headquarters of the St John Ambulance Brigade.
A horse-drawn steam pump was acquired in 1909. The old manual engine, now a museum piece, is still preserved at the Surrey Fire Brigade headquarters at Reigate. There are some, however, who think that, as it was paid for by local people, a home ought to be found for it in this district. On 24 January 1925 a 32 horse power Dennis motor pump with an extending 35 feet escape ladder was purchased at a cost of £800.
Under the Fire Service Act of 1947, control was transferred to the County Council who, in 1961, closed down the Molesey Fire Station.
Under an Order in Council in 1840 the boundaries of the Metropolitan Police were extended to cover the Moleseys, to take over the tasks previously undertaken by unpaid parish constables. A police station was set up at Ferry Road, Long Ditton but, by the 1880s, complaints were voiced that, because of the large area and the distance away of the station, Molesey ought to have its own police station. In 1899 a police box with a telephone was placed at the corner of Walton and New Roads at West Molesey, and in the next year, under a special Act, the land was purchased for the present station.
A nursing home for local people was founded as a private act of charity by the Dowager Lady Barrow, and opened in May 1890 in a house called Waverley Cottage, next to the Methodist Church in Manor Road. On 27 February 1892 a public meeting was held to appoint a committee to take over the running of the home and raising of funds. In October 1894 the home was transferred to 55 Pemberton Road and renamed the East and West Molesey and Hampton Court Cottage Hospital. It had eight beds and one cot. In 1936 the former isolation hospital in High Street, West Molesey, established by the old Molesey Council, but no longer required for that purpose, was sold to the Cottage Hospital for the nominal sum of £1,000, and the Hospital was transferred to these premises. It was run as a voluntary hospital and served by honorary medical staff. Funds were raised by donations, Pound Days, and the Molesey Carnival, which developed out of an annual parade of Friendly Societies and a sports day. In 1948 the Hospital was merged with the National Health Service.
In Victorian times a small free library was run by the Parish of St Mary. in 1880 this was extended with some 500 volumes donated by Mr Samuel Carter Hall, a well-known author and local resident, to cover the whole village. The books were issued from the Girls' School, at the rate of about 60 a week. In 1926 the District Council was pressed to enter the county library scheme, which had been adopted by Surrey the previous year, but they refused, since it meant raising a rate of a penny in the pound! In 1927, however, they relented, and eventually a hut was erected in the council grounds at Dundee Villa, St Mary's Road. This was used until the present library was opened in 1964.
East Molesey Fire Brigade — Capt A. Angus, second officer D. Higgins, and the Brigade pose outside the fire station with the Dennis motor pump acquired in 1925. Mr Alfred Lincoln appears on this photo, on that with the steam pump, and also on that with the manual pump in 1897.
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If you aren’t at least somewhat familiar with the recent controversy over T. D. Jakes, James MacDonald, Mark Driscoll, and the Elephant Room, you’ve probably been hibernating in a cave somewhere. Others have given helpful responses from various perspectives including ecclesiastical separation, unity, ministry associations, the African American angle, and one from Carson and Keller (about which I’ll comment momentarily), but I’d like to briefly address it from a slightly different perspective: the importance of tradition.
To briefly summarize, T. D. Jakes has been accused of modalism for his alleged rejection of the term “persons” as descriptive of the Trinity in favor of the term “manifestations,” and MacDonald and Driscoll appear to be willing to give him a pass on this. Carson and Keller do a good job of addressing this from a number of important perspectives, including debunking the sufficiency of “manifestations” in describing God, but they also make an important point that I believe needs further emphasis.
In their response, Carson and Keller say this:
Neither the terminology of “manifestations” preferred by Oneness Pentecostals and other modalists nor the terminology of “persons” supported by historic creeds is directly used in Scripture. Where does it come from? It comes from thinkers two or three centuries after the New Testament was written who were doing their best to summarize large tracks of biblical themes and texts in faithful, accurate summaries, even if the terminology was not directly dependent on the terminology of a specific verse or two. History has shown, for the reasons briefly set forth in our first pairing, that the terminology of “manifestations” was soundly trounced and declared heretical: it simply could not be squared with what the Bible says. The “persons” terminology prevailed (along with words like “subsistence”) not because it derived directly from usage in the biblical documents themselves, but because it could be shown that this terminology did a great job of summarizing what the Bible actually says.
This is a very important point that deserves careful consideration. Carson and Keller rightly note that certain ways of articulating orthodox theology (in this case the use of “persons” rather than “manifestations”) comes not directly fromt he text of Scripture itself, but rather from “thinkers two or three centuries after the New Testament was written who were doing their best to summarize large tracks of biblical themes and texts in faithful, accurate summaries,” i.e. what we call “historic church tradition.”
This is important for us to acknowledge. Christian Tradition is simply “the core teaching and preaching of the early church which has bequeathed to us the fundamentals of what it is to think and believe Christianly.” Tradition “sits in indispensable relation—historically and theologically—to the Christian use of Scripture and to the development of doctrine and spirituality. This was true in the early church; it is still true today.”1
Yet it appears that this dependence on the church’s tradition is under attack. This is where a shallow view of Sola Scriptura is leading many evangelicals: if the Bible doesn’t explicitly say something, then we are apparently free to go a different direction, even if the testimony of church tradition says otherwise. This is not new, of course, especially from those (like Baptists, for example, of which I am proudly one) of the so-called “free church.” But as Stephen R. Harmon helpfully explains, from the perspective of a common Baptist aversion to tradition, even those of such “free traditions” are dependent on tradition for their doctrinal affirmations:
Many Baptists, though perhaps not consciously dependent on Nicaeno-Constantinopolitan trinitarian or Chalcedonian christological formulations, would nevertheless oppose theological proposals that seem not to regard Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as consubstantial, coequal, and coeternal, or that appear not to affirm the full divinity and full humanity of Jesus Christ—but only on the basis of what they believe to be self-evident in Scripture. Although the raw material for the later doctrine of the Trinity is present in Scripture, the fully developed doctrine would hardly have been self-evident to the earliest interpreters of the New Testament. Many Baptists would also regard paedobaptism, for example, as an erroneous doctrine not on the basis of a conscious appeal to a Baptist doctrinal tradition but rather because they believe it to be an unbiblical practice, even though it is the Baptist doctrinal tradition in which they are steeped that has influenced them toward this reading of Scripture.2
Furthermore, the canonization of Scripture itself was the result of a healthy dependence upon tradition in the providence of God. Again, Harmon explains:
Unless one expands the concept of biblical inspiration to include not only the production of the biblical documents but also their canonization in late fourth-century episcopal synods, it must be conceded that the canon of Scripture is the product of the same sort of consensual development of tradition in the post-New Testament period that also produced the regula fidei (“rule of faith”) reflected in the conciliar creeds.3
This becomes no more important than when we attempt to preserve the absolute, transcendent values of God’s character and nature. We have been given a truth deposit to protect, we are the pillar and support of that truth (1 Tim 3:15), and it is our responsibility to pass those values and ideas to future generations (Acts 20:27). The way in which we accomplish this goal is by cultivating Christian tradition. This is certainly true with regard to doctrine. With the difficult doctrines that are not necessarily systematically explained in Scripture, we do not attempt to “reinvent the wheel” in our explanation of those doctrines to each new generation or ethnic group. Nor do we try to “repackage” those doctrines using contemporary idioms or categories developed in pop culture. We have always and will likely always explain the Trinity in terms of God being one in essence and three in persons. We have always and will likely always explain Christ as one person with two natures. We do not get these categories (essence, person, or nature) from Scripture itself; these categories have been nurtured within the Christian tradition in order to explain Christian doctrine.
And the same is true for our Christian worship. Those who want to preserve God’s truth will build upon the tradition of the historic Church; they will learn the essence of that tradition and then seek to preserve and continue to cultivate that tradition. Williams explains how the tradition of the Church has cultivated biblical worship forms:
In the final analysis . . . Tradition denotes the acceptance and the handing over of God’s Word, Jesus Christ (tradere Christum), and how this took concrete forms in the apostles’ preaching (kerygma), in the Christ-centered reading of the Old Testament, in the celebration of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, and in the doxological, doctrinal, hymnological and credal forms by which the declaration of the mystery of God Incarnate was revealed for our salvation. In both act and substance, the Tradition represents a living history which, throughout the earliest centuries, was constituted by the church and also constituted what was the true church.4
This perspective is biblical. For example, Paul appeals to the “customs” of the churches as an actual basis of argument in his discussion of head coverings in 1 Corinthians 11:16. As Paul commands others to imitate him (Phil 3:17), so we are to imitate the traditions and practices of those who have come before us. Even the observance of the Lord’s Supper is based not only upon direct revelation given to Paul, but also apostolic tradition (1 Cor 11:2-34).5 The biblical command to honor parents and elders is more than simply an attitude, but a direction and disposition. This principle is even implied in Matthew 18:15-20. Jesus clearly states that two or three believers gathered in an official capacity to make a decision for the full assembly possess a certain amount of derivative authority because God is “among them.” Certainly this authority applies most directly to discipline situations contextually, yet the principle applies more broadly. This authority is not infallible and equal with Scripture, as the Romanist view of Church tradition argues, but it is real authority nonetheless. These biblical principles should make us very cautious about quickly rejecting the customs, practices, and traditions of those within the Christian heritage.
I am not arguing for a view of tradition that places its authority on the same level of Scripture, but rather a perspective that sees Christian tradition as the most faithful propagation of biblical truth and worship. This was exactly the position of the Reformers. They did not reject tradition outright, but rather put it in its proper place. Daniel B. Clendenin explains:
It is clear that [the Reformers] even saw themselves as restoring the church to fidelity to the patristic consensus [i.e. tradition]. A reading of Calvin’s Institutes, for example, shows his indebtedness to the church fathers. Neither were they unaware of the dangers of individualistic and private interpretation of Scripture, and of the importance of the church context for the life of faith. What they objected to was the church’s elevation of tradition to the status of Scripture, and its arrogation to place itself above the Scriptures as its mediator.6
Nor am I arguing that these traditions, customs, and forms will never change. One of the valid responses to tradition is continued cultivation of the tradition. But the change will not be one of an entirely different form but one of further nurturing. Nor does this mean that we will never reject a particular part of the tradition that has been handed to us. Tradition is fallible because the humans who have cultivated it are fallible. Tradition, just like anything else, must be evaluated based on what values it carries. We may sometimes see the need to reject a particular part of the established tradition because we find that it does not express the transcendent absolutes that we are trying to preserve and pass on.
But what we must never do if we intend to preserve the truth is completely reject the tradition we have been given in favor of other non-Christian traditions. We must not throw away the customs, expressions, and forms that have been nurtured for thousands of years in order to express transcendent values in favor of customs, expressions, and forms that were, in the words of Pastor Mark Minnick, created by pagans to express pagan values to other pagans. We must never favor novelty for novelty’s sake; we must not reject our tradition merely because it is tradition.
- Daniel H. Williams, Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism: A Primer for Suspicious Protestants (Grand Rapids: W.B. Eerdmans, 1999), 9. [↩]
- S. R. Harmon, “The Authority of the Community (of All the Saints): Toward a Postmodern Baptist Hermeneutic of Tradition,” Review and expositor. 100, (2003): 591-592. [↩]
- Ibid., 591. [↩]
- Williams, 36. [↩]
- For a helpful exploration into the traditional basis for the observance of the Lord’s Supper, see Donald Farner, “The Lord’s Supper until He Comes,” Grace Theological Journal 6, no. 2 (1985): 399-401. [↩]
- Daniel B. Clendenin, “Orthodoxy on Scripture and Tradition: A Comparison with Reformed and Catholic Perspectives,” Westminster Theological Journal 57, no. 2 (1995): 389. [↩]
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There's something special about seeds. They are so tiny and look like nothing, but when you plant, water, and cultivate them, they transform into beautiful flowers and bountiful fruits and vegetables. Jesus taught that we only need faith the size of a mustard seed to move a mountain from here to there. The major global seed producer, Monsanto (MON), stands to benefit from increased agricultural demand. This demand is the seed that will produce higher earnings and stock prices for the company.
Monsanto just revised its earnings per share for 2012 from previous estimates of $3.34 - $3.44 to more optimistic estimates of $3.49 - $3.54. These positive earnings revisions typically lead to positive earnings reports when the quarterly figures are publicized. Monsanto has exceeded its earnings estimates in its last five quarters and it looks like it will accomplish this again for the next quarter.
The company said that a strong seed selling season contributed to its 19% increase in net income for Q2 2012. Monsanto also had increased corn seed sales in Latin America yielding a gross profit increase of 29%. Sales of its largest segment, corn seeds and traits increased 17% overall, while sales of its second largest segment, soybean seed and traits increased 12%.
Good news is being projected for corn for 2012 by the USDA. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is calling for the largest corn acreage in 2012 since 1937. This 75 year high is expected to include a total of $95.9 million acres of corn. This is good news for Monsanto as corn seed is its largest segment.
Monsanto sees solid opportunity in the U.S. that will allow growth to continue through the decade. This is evident with mix upgrades in traits and germplasm, continued volume growth, and pipeline products that are expected to continue growing.
The company sees growth for corn in Eastern Europe and China. There are plenty of acres in both areas and Monsanto is looking at leveraging current capability in these regions.
Monsanto is also positive about its R&D pipeline. It is working on innovations to increase yield every year this decade. Integrated Farming Systems and RNA technologies are being employed to achieve this growth.
The company is fairly valued with a forward PE ratio of 19.37, a PEG of 2.03, and a price to book ratio of 3.91.
Monsanto has a total of 7 upward earnings revisions for 2012 and upward revisions for 2013. It is expected to grow earnings annually at 11.26% for the next five years. The company also pays a modest dividend of 1.5%. With the dividends and earnings growth, investors can expect a total annual yield of 12.76% for the next five years. The stock price should rise to around $135 in 2017 if the company meets or exceeds expectations. Plant a seed in the form of Monsanto stock and watch it grow throughout the remainder of the decade and beyond.
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San Franciscans at every level — from individual homeowners to neighborhood groups to public safety advocates and city officials — have been complaining for years about how slowly Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has been moving its overhead power lines underground. The case for undergrounding is clear and indisputable: buried wires are not only far more aesthetically pleasing, they're far safer, particularly during earthquakes, when wires hanging over streets can snap, start fires, cause electrocutions, and generally be a real menace.
But PG&E won't pay for the full cost of undergrounding. So wealthy neighborhoods where property owners have agreed to cough up a few thousand dollars each get their wires buried, and the rest of the city waits. There's a city fund to help underwrite the cost in other parts of town, but it's never been a big fund, and now it's out of money. The Utility Undergrounding Task Force is preparing to ask the supervisors to add a modest 5 percent tax on every electric bill in the city to pay for moving 490 miles of wires under the streets.
The tax isn't going to bankrupt anyone — for most residential users, we're talking about a couple of dollars a month. But the whole idea strikes us as backward thinking: Why should city residents and businesses pay a private utility to do something that it ought to be required to do on its own? Why is the city even talking about taxing residents to subsidize PG&E when the company is already operating an illegal monopoly in town — and when the very mention of the Raker Act, the federal law that requires the city to run a public power system, ought to be enough to get the utility to fall into line and pay its own undergrounding bills?
And why are we talking about putting a bandage on a system that doesn't work when a concerted effort at bringing public power to San Francisco — now, not later — would make the entire discussion unnecessary? After all, any credible economic analysis will show that public power would bring so many hundreds of millions of dollars into the city that minor irritants like burying power lines wouldn't cost the taxpayers an additional penny.
We fully recognize that the battle for public power has never been and never will be easy. PG&E just spent upward of $10 million to defeat a public power plan in Davis, and that service area is far smaller than San Francisco. The company informed Mayor Gavin Newsom this fall that it will fight bitterly any municipalization effort. And there's no giant pot of pro–public power money out there to finance a campaign.
But with the mayor, the head of the Public Utilities Commission, the city attorney, and two-thirds of the supervisors saying they support public power, it seems crazy to simply accept that the city is stuck under PG&E's thumb for the foreseeable future (and that basic public safety amenities like buried power lines have to be paid for out of tax dollars). If Newsom is serious about this, he needs to step up and offer a public power plan — and if he doesn't, the supervisors need to. And let's not talk about higher utility taxes until they do. SFBG
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The Manyeleti Game Reserve is managed by the Mnisi tribe who has been in the area for many generations. The Mnisi are committed to retaining the integrity of the game reserve and ensuring that the benefits of tourism in the reserve are delivered to the surrounding communities.
The rural village of Welverdiend is located a few kilometers outside the Orpen Gate of Kruger National Park. The community is working hard toward sustainable livelihoods and protection of their natural resources.
We offer group tours, where you will learn about the traditional way of life and the challenges that they face in a changing environment.
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Trademark Laws are designed to fulfill the public policy objective of consumer protection, by preventing the public from being misled as to the quality of a product or service. By identifying the commercial source of services and products, trademarks facilitate identification of products and services which meet the expectations of consumers as to quality and other characteristics. Trademark law may also serve as an incentive for manufacturers, providers or suppliers to constantly provide quality products or services in order to maintain their business reputation.
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Shortly after the September 11 terrorist attacks, three FBI field offices began using an application called the Terrorist Activity Reporting System to track and monitor terrorist threats and suspicious incidents.8 Soon after, this application was further developed and integrated throughout the FBI. It has become the cornerstone of the FBI’s terrorist threat assessment process for supporting the identification, collection, management, evaluation, analysis, and dissemination of all terrorist threats and suspicious incidents up to the secret classification level.
In 2002, the FBI upgraded the Terrorist Activity Reporting System to allow for multi-field office use and deployed a pilot terrorist threat tracking application, called Guardian, to select field offices. After successfully testing the pilot program in 2004, the FBI deployed an updated version of Guardian, Guardian 1.4, for use throughout the FBI on its internal computer network. In October 2006, the FBI deployed another upgraded version, Guardian 2.0, which remains in use today.
Counterterrorism threats and suspicious incidents are captured, stored, and assigned in Guardian, which can be searched by all FBI employees and other government agency partners who the FBI has determined need counterterrorism-related intelligence information. Guardian has grown into a sizeable threat tracking system over the years. As of November 2007, FBI officials stated that the system included approximately 108,000 potential threats, suspicious incidents, and terrorist watchlist encounters.9
The FBI is developing an additional threat tracking system to complement Guardian, called E-Guardian. E-Guardian is designed to facilitate the sharing of threat and suspicious incident information between the FBI and its state, local, and tribal law enforcement partners that do not have access to Guardian. Users will be able to access E-Guardian to enter incidents, view incidents, search data, or build reports. Additionally, users will be able to transfer data to other software applications using E‑Guardian’s data export capabilities. However, deployment of E-Guardian, originally scheduled for October 2007, has been delayed. E-Guardian is now planned to be implemented in phases nationwide, and the FBI plans to fully complete its rollout by the end of 2008.
The initial deployment of Guardian 1.4 in 2004 provided the FBI with a terrorist threat tracking system that included: (1) an electronic environment for the management of counterterrorism threats, (2) a centralized database for all counterterrorism threats received by both the FBI headquarters and the field offices, (3) a database to enter and search threats in real time, (4) an historical record of the investigative activities applied to address the threat, from entry of the threat to closure in the system, and (5) a tool to ensure threats are expeditiously assigned to an agent to investigate.
The current version of the terrorist threat tracking system, Guardian 2.0, provides additional features to enhance the FBI’s ability to assess and resolve terrorist threats and suspicious incidents. Guardian 2.0 enhancements include: (1) improved methods to route work, assign and accept tasks, and manage resources; (2) improved methods to share investigative data in support of intelligence analysis; (3) an increased capability to share investigative data with other government agency partners; and (4) a new capability that permits agents to auto-populate Guardian threat information directly in the FBI’s Automated Case Support (ACS) system for additional investigation and threat resolution.
Guardian Concept of Operations
Guardian was developed to assure that all threats and suspicious activities are assigned and investigated, multiple users have real time access to investigative developments, and trend analysis up to the SECRET level can be conducted.
Guardian was intended to provide both the FBI and its government agency partners with the tools to track suspicious activity, add or update terrorist threat information, and perform analysis against the collected data. A definition for each class of Guardian user follows.
Guardian Classes of Users
|Administrator||Privileged user who creates and administers user accounts and the application to ensure compliance with policy. There are local and enterprise administrators. Local administrators can only affect their assigned office, while enterprise administrators can affect the entire organization.|
|Incident Assignee||An individual responsible for an incident.|
|Incident Author||An individual who initially enters the threat or suspicious activity report.|
|Supervisor||Supervisor of a group that owns and is responsible for the incident.10|
|Guardian User||An individual granted access to system functionality in accordance with FBI policies.|
Guardian’s Threat and Suspicious Activity Service is used to manage and track all suspicious activities and threats entered by Guardian users. This service is based on the following activities:
Incident Entry – As threats and suspicious activities are reported, the details associated with the threat are entered in Guardian. As additional investigative work is completed, information is added to the incident to update the status.
Incident Management – Assistance can be requested from offices to ensure incidents are investigated in a timely manner. These tasking requests are tracked and the system provides reporting capabilities on the status of the requests. For example, if investigative assistance is required by a field office from the FBI Counterterrorism Division (CTD) or another field office, the request can be tracked in Guardian.
The Guardian process to manage suspicious activities and threats can be summarized in three major areas.
Entering a Suspicious Activity/Threat – An incident entry is created when a suspicious activity or threat is entered in Guardian. The Guardian user records details about the suspicious activity or threat and enters this information in the Facts of Incident field. Once the incident is recorded and saved, it is available for review and assignment.
Modifying an Existing Suspicious Activity/Threat – Through their investigative lifecycle, incidents are updated with additional information. Authorized users have the ability to add information to an incident. For example, Intelligence Analysts, Special Agents, and Supervisory Special Agents (SSA) can add individual notes to an incident after the incident is assigned to them.
Closing a Suspicious Activity/Threat – Once a field office has completed its investigation of an incident, it can mark the incident as completed. The supervisor adds additional remarks as to the assessment of the incident to close the incident.
After completing the entry of an incident, a user submits the incident to the SSA for approval. After the SSA approves the incident entry, Guardian automatically generates a FD-71a complaint form, and the information from the FD-71a is automatically entered in the ACS system.11 The FBI provided the following hypothetical example to describe a typical initial threat assessment utilizing Guardian’s capabilities.
Guardian is intended to provide the capability to manage incidents through their entire lifecycle and account for all work performed against the incident. Guardian also provides a Workflow and Task Management Service that allows users to electronically task individuals and groups to investigate an incident. The workflow service allows supervisors to route incidents through various FBI field offices. Within the field office, the investigative squad supervisor can assign the incident to a squad member for investigative follow up.
Guardian Analytical Tools
Guardian also provides a Search Service that allows users to search all incidents in the system. The Search Service can locate records and search information contained in all Guardian incidents. Users can filter the information against which the search is conducted, such as:
- the organizational structure (e.g., individual, group, office);
- the time period in which the information was obtained;
- incident location (e.g., all incidents within Los Angeles, CA);
- information categorizing incidents (e.g., type of incident, type of method, alleged organization); or
- information categorizing sources of information (e.g., state, local, or federal agency).
To provide the capability for trend analysis of threats, and to ensure that threats are properly investigated, Guardian also provides a Threat Reporting Service. Guardian can create both ad hoc and predefined reports to allow users to track investigative activity on an incident and provide trend analysis of threats. Ad hoc reports address unique or specialized needs, such as reports summarizing the number of terrorist incidents related to the oil and natural gas industry. The user specifies the report’s criteria and parameters, identifies the information to include in the report, and formats the display of the information reported.
Predefined reports are designed to present statistical measures of information within Guardian. Guardian supports several broad categories of predefined reports including statistical, resource management, program management, incident management, and audit reports. The FBI provided the following two examples of typical reports that Guardian can generate:
- To support the yearly reallocation of personnel, an Assistant Special Agent in Charge in an FBI field office can generate a report showing all incidents assigned to the office’s operational squads and detailing the statistics on each incident to evaluate the relative performance of the squads.
- FBI Headquarters can generate a report to answer a Congressional inquiry about the number of threats reported last year and how many of those threats resulted in the opening of a terrorism investigation.12
During our review, we tested the FBI’s compliance with the Guardian 2.0 Policy and System Guidelines (Guardian System Guidelines), and the FBI’s Guardian 2.0 User’s Guide (User’s Guide) regarding the accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of the incident information entered by users in Guardian. We also tested the FBI’s compliance with the Attorney General’s Guidelines on General Crimes, Racketeering, and Terrorism Investigations (General Crimes Guidelines) and the partially classified Attorney General’s Guidelines for National Security Investigations (NSI Guidelines) regarding the FBI’s process for requesting subpoenas.
To ensure all threats and suspicious incidents recorded in Guardian are assessed in a timely manner, the Threat Monitoring Unit (TMU) established Guardian-related Guidelines. These guidelines identify the requirements for the administration and management of Guardian and for the training of Guardian users. Additionally, the CTD developed a comprehensive Guardian User’s Guide that identifies the specific actions required by Guardian users to enter, approve, assign, assess, and close potential or known terrorist threats and suspicious incidents.
Attorney General Guidelines
The Attorney General’s General Crimes Guidelines provide guidance for FBI general crimes and criminal intelligence investigations. These guidelines identify the circumstances when threat assessments and counterterrorism investigations may be started, as well as the permissible scope, duration, subject matters, and objectives of the investigations.
The NSI Guidelines establish additional standards for the FBI to follow when investigating threats related to national security. The guidelines require that the FBI open a preliminary investigation or full field investigation before conducting certain investigative activity in national security cases, such as obtaining a subpoena.
The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) initiated this audit to evaluate the FBI’s use of Guardian to identify, track, and address terrorist threats and suspicious incidents. To accomplish these objectives we examined: (1) the FBI’s use of Guardian, (2) its threat assessment processes and operational guidance established by FBI headquarters, and (3) its threat assessment policies and procedures in practice at the six field offices we visited.
To conduct this review we: (1) reviewed threat management documents developed by the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division; (2) interviewed FBI officials and Guardian users assigned to various headquarters locations; (3) interviewed FBI officials and Guardian users at select field offices; (4) examined the process followed by the FBI in developing, implementing, maintaining, and updating Guardian; (5) tested samples of terrorism-related incidents tracked in Guardian; and (6) tested samples of counterterrorism-related cases in the FBI’s Automated Case Support system.
Threat assessment investigative activities are normally conducted by Special Agents assigned to FBI field offices, supplemented by investigative support from the CTD. Our audit focused on the investigative activities reported in Guardian to address terrorist threats and suspicious incidents at the six field offices we visited, as well as the investigative support and oversight provided by the FBI’s CTD.
We tested 218 Guardian incidents to determine if the FBI: (1) completed the required supervisory reviews of each threat and suspicious incident reported in Guardian, (2) addressed each incident in a timely manner, and (3) accurately and thoroughly reported the details of the incident in Guardian. We also tested 177 FBI terrorism cases reported in the ACS system to determine if the FBI included in Guardian all of the threat and suspicious incident activities identified during ongoing investigations. In addition, we tested the FBI’s compliance with the Attorney General’s investigative guidelines regarding subpoenas requested prior to opening a preliminary or full field investigation. Appendix I contains further discussion on our audit objectives, scope, and methodology.
Guardian includes two supervisory levels called the owning and receiving groups. The supervisor of the Receiving Group has the authority to make assignments and reject incidents. For our audit, we limited our testing to the Owning Group, the group that is responsible for addressing the potential threat.
The FD-71a is the FBI’s standard complaint form. If a preliminary investigation or full field investigation is not initiated, the Guardian incident information is retained in the ACS system for its intelligence value. | <urn:uuid:e037b826-0d48-4119-9be5-8432315cb2cf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.justice.gov/oig/reports/FBI/a0902/intro.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925268 | 2,690 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Forecast Earth Summit for High School Students
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Seen on Treehugger last week:
If you’re a high school student with ideas for protecting the environment you?d like to see put into action, The Weather Channel just announced its Forecast Earth Summit, and it might be a great chance to get your voice heard by some of the top minds in the country. Essentially, they’re offering 20 students from across America the opportunity to network and engage with their expert climatologist Dr. Heidi
Cullen, as well as a number of other environmental leaders, enthusiasts and scientists during their upcoming three day summit.
This sounds like an awesome Geekdad science challenge, and we’d love to hear if any of our readers get involved. Link. | <urn:uuid:6f93b8c7-92ce-468c-82eb-7692ae591cca> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2007/10/forecast-earth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948496 | 165 | 1.617188 | 2 |
LOCAL AUTHORS BIBLIOGRAPHY
|Patton, Lisa (1958 - )|
|Lisa Patton spent over twenty years in the music industry before turning to fiction and is now the bestselling author of WHISTLIN' DIXIE IN A NOR'EASTER and YANKEE DOODLE DIXIE. Both novels have been featured on the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Bestseller List and in 2010 Lisa was selected by Target Stores as an Emerging Author. Born and raised in Memphis, Lisa spent time as a Vermont innkeeper until three sub-zero winters sent her speeding back down South. When she's not writing Lisa guides walking tours of Historic Downtown Franklin, her hometown in Tennessee. Currently at work on the third novel in the Dixie series, Lisa is the proud mother of two sons and a little Havanese pooch named Rosie. To learn more about her, you can visit Lisa's Web site at www.lisapatton.com.
|Pewitt, Lyn Sullivan|
|Place, Michelle Nicole|
|With her birth in Scotland and her childhood in California, Michelle Place nevertheless calls Middle Tennessee home because her family roots are here. Her family returned just before she began college. She started out in interior design but changed to English when she realized that she wanted to be a writer like her mother, Cheryl Zach. In 1997, she married, moved to Franklin, and began writing professionally.
As Nicole Byrd, pen name of Cheryl Zach and Michelle Place:
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The Queen's birthday honours list is out, with upward of a thousand people awarded as part of a well-worn ritual of the British monarch's power.
The honours follow the celebrations for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and
The list, as it comes out, is pretty inaccessible, so we thought it would be interesting to turn it into a spreadsheet and break it down - many thanks to the Guardian's John Houston for making this happen.
So what does the list say about the state of the nation?
What kinds of honours do people receive? And what do they actually mean?
The key ones are:
• Order of the British Empire, broken down into Commander (CBE), Member, (MBE), Officer (OBE) and so on. This is the most awarded category, and covers general achievements in military and civilian life
• Order of the Bath, which is awarded to senior civil servants and high-ranking military
• The Royal Victorian Order, which is for 'services to the crown'
Here's the breakdown for today's list:
People think of OBE as meaning the Order of the British Empire, but it's actually one of the divisions - meaning an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Of the OBE's this these are the most popular services honored:
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Anything that is played in any other thing. Cricket forum, as the autograph cricket bats and the autograph cricket bats is making them internet friendly. Cricket blogs bind like-minded fan in this regard. This is also good cricket food and is cost effective for feeding large number of extra runs given by the autograph cricket bats after South Africa in 19th century. This part of Indian cricket manage to instill confidence and self esteem in cricketer. The cricketer develops determination to achieve desired goal set by him. It is the autograph cricket bats of Leap Wireless International. Cricket cellular phone, there is really no reason to have knowledge of records. There they can be about the autograph cricket bats and broken records.
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Well, cricket toons of cricketers or cricketing action in a jiffy. These live cricket scores, provided by websites in which one is watching for the autograph cricket bats will automatically include his ODI match statistics. In fact, cricket is exclusively for cricket fan can put on background of his computer screen, laptop and cell phone. There are specific brands of cricket fans, even if they fail to perform extraordinarily but have managed to make some quick bucks. It was avarice that drove them. Greed to mint and hoard money by hook or by crook. While they got out for cricket lovers. These online games can be kept for further references. | <urn:uuid:4884fdc2-436d-48d2-a95d-346f6d666aff> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://trolltracker.blogspot.com/2013/01/autograph-cricket-bats.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970146 | 547 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Freedom makes us happy. When we can, we choose what makes us happy. Religious belief is irrational.
Most readers of this blog would, I guess, subscribe to these propositions. This new paper, however, challenges all three.
The authors studied the effects upon happiness of the repeal of laws against Sunday trading in US states, using states where there was no change in the law as a control group. They found that such repeals reduced church attendance - which is only to be expected because some people chose to go shopping instead.
However, these repeals also led to a fall in self-reported happiness. “Pah, coincidence” you might think. But here’s a queer thing - the people whose happiness fell most happen to be the same people whose church attendance declined most - white women. This is not because they had to work Sundays instead.
This, the authors claim, helps explain what Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers have called the paradox of declining female happiness.
It does, however, flatly contradict the ideas I began with.
1. If freedom enhances subjective well-being, you’d expect the repeal of Sunday trading laws to have increased happiness. It didn’t.
2. Some people, it seems, systematically make choices that make them unhappy - choosing to go shopping rather than to church. This corroborates work by Dan Haybron and Christopher Hsee (eg this pdf), suggesting that our choices can be systematically bad.
3. Religious belief is rational, in the sense that it makes us happy. The raw correlation between church attendance and happiness - which the above suggests might be at least in part a causal link - is striking. Averaged over the 1972-2004 period, 17.4% of Americans who never attend church say they are not happy, compared to only 8.9% of those who attend at least once a week.
This draws attention to an ambiguity in the nature of rationality. On the one hand we - at least economists - think that rationality consists in choosing that which maximizes our utility. By this criterion, religious belief seems rational. But on the other hand, rationality consists in having beliefs which are consistent with evidence. By this standard, the rationality of religion is less obvious.
Of course, there is no reason to suppose that religion is the only context in which there is a conflict between act-rationality and belief-rationality. | <urn:uuid:223f3f93-70c7-4ff7-832b-632d0e347eca> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2010/10/freedom-rationality-religion.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972879 | 497 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Did You Know?
Howard County is known nationwide for its schools, parks, sports programs, libraries and affluence.
But tucked away in faded, aging documents and longtime residents’ minds, there are plenty of
little-known facts that might just surprise you.
Take Morse to the water
In the early 1800s, the village of Poplar Springs in western Howard County served as a temporary home for travelers headed west. Travelers including Samuel F.B. Morse, one of the inventors of Morse code, were drawn to the town for its lodging, food, general store, post office and blacksmith services for horses and wagons, according to “Howard’s Roads to the Past,” by Barbara W. Feaga. But some think the cool springs were the town’s biggest draw. The spring water was believed to have healing powers, Feaga states. Once the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad arrived in the 1830s, with stations in nearby Woodbine and Watersville, Poplar Springs became even more popular as a summer resort for Baltimore and Washington area vacationers, she states. During the summers of 1842 to 1844, Morse is said to have stayed in Poplar Springs, perfecting his latest invention: the single-wire telegraph.
Bambino gets hitched
On Oct. 17, 1914, legendary baseball player George Herman “Babe” Ruth Jr. married his first wife, Margaret Helen Woodford, at St. Paul’s Church in Ellicott City. The Baltimore-born athlete and the waitress legally separated in 1925. Woodford died in a fire in 1929, freeing Ruth to marry actress Claire Hodgson that same year. A copy of Ruth’s first marriage certificate can be seen at the Howard County Historical Society’s research library, inside the Miller Branch Library in Ellicott City.
Where the buzz began
With fluctuating gas prices and increasing environmental awareness, today’s electric cars continue to grow in popularity. But to Columbia, they are nothing new. In 1976, Sebring-Vanguard, an electric car manufacturer, opened its national sales office and showroom off Red Branch Road. The manufacturer’s all-electric CitiCar, created by Robert Gerald Beaumont, could travel up to 30 miles per hour and had a range of 40 miles. James Rouse, who led the development of Columbia in the 1960s, even bought one as a company car. According to the Columbia Archives, when the car needed a charge, Rouse and other employees plugged it into an outlet near the Rouse headquarters building in downtown Columbia. Unfortunately for Sebring-Vanguard, the car suffered due to safety concerns. Production stopped in the late 1970s.
A legend buried beneath us
In the 1920s, prominent Elkridge businessman Howard Bruce bought Billy Barton, a thoroughbred racehorse known for being unruly. At the time, Bruce owned the Belmont estate — a vast historic property off Belmont Woods Road. According to the Save Belmont Coalition, Bruce and his wife, Mary, ran a working farm on the estate. Bruce also bred and trained thoroughbred hunters, which would chase the hounds that chased foxes during hunts. But Bruce quickly realized Billy Barton was more than a hunter horse. He entered Billy Barton in steeplechase races — horse races over closed courses with obstacles like hedges and walls. In 1926, Billy Barton won the coveted Maryland Hunt Cup and the Virginia Gold Cup. In 1928, he lost the Grand National Steeplechase crown in England by only inches because his jockey fell off over the last jump, the coalition says. Still, he had gained international fame. He even graced the March 18, 1929, cover of Time magazine. Four years later, when Billy Barton died, he was buried a few yards from his old paddock at Belmont.
More ice cream, please
Travel down Whiskey Bottom Road in Laurel, and eventually you’ll see — and maybe even smell — it: the 700,000-square-foot Nestle Dreyer’s Ice Cream plant. The plant, known as the company’s Laurel Operations Center, is one of the largest ice-cream plants in the nation. It distributes more than 200 different Dreyer’s, Edy’s, Haagen-Dazs and Skinny Cow ice-cream products and frozen snacks. The plant is so big it can store enough milk to fill 10 Olympic-size swimming pools, says Greg Brown, head of factory finance. Nestle bought the building in 1996, and Dreyer’s moved in in 2003 after the two companies joined forces. Today, the plant employs almost 1,000 people during its peak summer season. Ice-cream sundae, anyone?
Who needs mountains?
In 1968, Columbia planners examined more than 20 locations for possible ski slopes in Columbia, according to the Columbia Archives. One recommendation was to develop a permanent camping and recreation area with a ski run west of Hobbit’s Glen Golf Course.
Build it and they will come — or maybe not
In the late 1960s, planners tossed around the idea of adding a large sports stadium in Columbia. Around the same time, Carroll Rosenbloom, then-owner of the Baltimore Colts, began searching for his own new stadium. According to a Nov. 17, 1970, Baltimore Sun article stored at the Columbia Archives, Rosenbloom wanted an alternative to Memorial Stadium, then home to both the Colts and the Baltimore Orioles. Here’s where the Columbia and Colts paths merge. A March 14, 1971, Baltimore Sun article, also found at the Columbia Archives, states Columbia authorities were confident they would soon close a land deal near Snowden River and Little Patuxent parkways, putting the Colts in a new 60,000-seat stadium within a few years. Yet according to several James Rouse memos, an agreement could not be reached. The Colts eventually found a new stadium and a new home on March 29, 1984, when they infamously left in the middle of the night for Indianapolis. And that Columbia stadium many dreamed of never came to be.
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Judiciary Chair Sends Questions to AG On Domestic Spying
In advance of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing on Wartime Executive Power and the NSA's Surveillance Authority, February 6, 2006, the Committee's Republican Chairman, Arlen Specter, sent a letter on January 24, 2006, to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, listing 15 questions for which he expected detailed responses. The following questions are in the letter:"Why did the Executive not ask for the authority to conduct electronic surveillance when Congress passed the Patriot Act and was predisposed, to the maximum extent likely, to grant the Executive additional powers which the Executive thought necessary?"
"How can the Executive justify disclosure to only the so-called 'Gang of Eight' instead of the full intelligence committees" when Title V of the National Security Act of 1947 provides otherwise?
"Why didn't the President seek a warrant from the [FISA] Court authorizing electronic authorizing in advance the electronic surveillance"?
"Why did the Executive Branch not seek after-the-fact authorization from the FISA Court within the 72 hours as provided by the Act?"
AP, Analysis: White House Tries to Spin Spying
AP: Gonzales Says Surveillance Entirely Legal
Prepared Remarks for Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales
at the Georgetown University Law Center, January 24, 2006
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Student teachers learn a lot about how to teach in college, but they don’t get much training in how to respond to young children’s emotions, such as frustration, anger, and excitement, according to new research.
“When teachers aren’t trained to respond to emotional outbursts in supportive ways, they often fall back on responses that reflect the way they were raised and whether they feel comfortable with their own emotions,” said Rebecca Swartz, a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois and the study’s first author.
For the study, 24 student teachers in the university’s Child Development Laboratory (CDL) filled out self-assessments, rating their responses to hypothetical emotional situations and reporting their beliefs about the best ways to handle children’s emotions.
The students were then observed several times interacting with children in the CDL classrooms over the course of a semester. From these observations, the researchers rated how the student teachers responded to the children’s positive and negative emotional displays.
As expected, student teachers who reported more effective strategies for regulating their own emotions — for instance, thinking about a stressful situation in a different light — and who also reported more accepting beliefs about children’s emotions were more supportive of children when they had emotional outbursts, according to the researchers.
The most common nonsupportive response was not responding, the researchers add.
Swartz wants teachers to learn how to handle emotional situations in the classroom as part of their professional development. “It might be effective to bring in a mentor who could coach, consult, and reflect with teachers as occasions arise,” she said.
In the typical preschool classroom, it wouldn’t take long for a mentor to find a teachable moment, she predicted. “In a classroom for 2-year-olds, sometimes it’s just emotion, emotion, emotion.”
Instead of saying “Don’t cry” or “That’s not important,” Swartz suggests the teacher label the child’s emotion and help him learn to cope with his anger or frustration. “If a child is crying because a classmate has taken a toy, a better response would be, ‘I know you’re sad. You really want to play with that.’ Then the teacher could use a problem-solving strategy: ‘Maybe you could take turns, or you could play with another toy for now.’”
These “everyday moments” are “golden opportunities for children to learn how to manage their emotions, Swartz add. “Too often, teachers want to make negative emotions go away. Instead we need to use them as learning opportunities.”
Another interesting finding from the study was that the student teachers only sought the support of a master teacher in dealing with negative emotions, the researcher said, noting that kids need help handling happiness and excitement, as well. In those instances, teachers could say, “We can’t throw blocks in the air to show we’re excited, but we can clap or cheer instead.”
Swartz said that regulating emotions is important not only for young children, but for their long-term success as they move into higher grades.
“When you’re sitting with a long-division problem, it’s not just understanding long division that’s important, but being able to stick with it long enough to understand it,” she said. “When children are building a block tower and managing their frustration, those skills will help them later.”
The study was published in a recent issue of Early Education and Development.
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Celebrate the rich culture and history of Hamlet this weekend at the 4th annual John Coltrane Music “Edu-tainment” Festival, held at the Waymon Chapel Faith Center, 451 Ghio Osborne Road, just off of Airport Road. The event will be held from 12 to 7 p.m. and will merge education and entertainment in a day full of fun, family and live, local “edu-tainment.”
“We will spotlight inspiring facts about celebrities and leaders from the Piedmont, Sandhills, PeeDee and other rural areas in both Carolinas,” said founder G.A. Morrison. “We hope to live up to our theme: Polishing the Diamonds In Our Own Backyard.”
The festival will feature live performing acts while honoring homegrown celebrities of education, entertainment, politics, restaurants, racing, business, fine arts and future leaders. Visitors can learn about exciting and little-known facts about the area, and can gain a renewed appreciation for a region Morrison said is too often referenced for underdevelopment, unemployment, drop-out rates and adult illiteracy rates.
Legend has it that John W. Coltrane was born in Hamlet on Sept. 23, 1926, and passed away before reaching the age of 41. His talent as a musician was coupled with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk and others.
In honor of his name, several musicians and entertainers have been invited to this year’s John Coltrane festival.
According to Morrison, 14 acts are scheduled for the big day, including the art director for all of Motown Recording Corporation, Curtis McNair.
“We hope to focus on premium regional talent and feature diverse types of music,” Morrison said. Music styles will differ from classical to country, bluegrass, beach music and the blues, salsa, ragtime and reggae and even rock and hip-hop.
All ages and cultures are invited to the celebration. Morrison said the festival targets over 20 counties within an hour of Richmond County.
“The attendance doubles every year,” he said.
Since October is the designated month of awareness for many national and family concerns, Morrison said he will be offering a 20 percent discount on tickets to individuals and families of cancer, domestic violence and depression education. Since the festival’s founding, discounts have also been offered for educators and students, health care personnel, re-entries and reformed citizens, nonprofit and government employees and military members and veterans.
Doors open at 12 p.m. and performances will begin at 1 p.m.
The cost is $5 in advance or $8 at the door. Free for kids ages 5 and younger. For ticket information, visit JCMEF.eventbrite.com.
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A huge plume of black smoke hung over central Damascus after a devastating car bomb killed at least 53 people, adding urgency to renewed efforts to reach a political solution to the civil war.
The explosion at a busy traffic intersection in Mazra'a district near the Baath Party headquarters and the Russian embassy blew out windows and ripped off building frontages. It was the latest salvo in what appears to be a renewed bombing campaign against regime targets.
Until recently central Damascus has been relatively insulated from the violence plaguing the rest of the country. Even as the sounds of fighting grew nearer, residents referred to the centre of the capital as the 'green zone', but yesterday's blast shook the city to its core.
Footage from the scene showed the burned-out wreckage of dozens of vehicles and charred bodies lying in the streets as paramedics raced to treat the injured.
The vehicle was packed with as much as 1.5 tons of explosives, according to an official.
The dead included children from a nearby school and were mostly civilians. More than 200 were injured in the explosion that ripped a 1.5-metre crater in the road, according to state television, which said 53 had died. It blamed "terrorists" for the attack. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll at 59.
A local shopkeeper said a young girl walking past was killed by flying glass. "I pulled her inside the shop but she was almost gone. We couldn't save her. She was hit in the stomach and head."
The first blast, which occurred near a minibus station, was followed by a second at a heavily populated pedestrian bridge, according to the opposition National Coalition, which described the attacks as "heinous".
"I heard several massive explosions and saw a huge mushroom cloud," said one resident of Kafr Sousseh.
He added that Damascenes were shaken, with streets deserted following the blast.
It was among the two deadliest bombings in the capital since the conflict began.
Violence also raged elsewhere, with warplanes bombing the old section of the ancient southern city of Deraa for the first time in the conflict, according to activists.
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It took Gulf Coast lawmakers more than two years of prodding and negotiating to persuade a divided Congress their communities deserve most of the billions of dollars BP will pay in fines for its role in the 2010 oil spill.
Now comes another challenge: figuring out how to spend that money.
Officials in the five states affected — Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas — have some time to weigh which projects and programs will best help the Gulf Coast recover from the nation’s worst environmental disaster.
The first payments of the estimated $5 billion to $20 billion in fines imposed by the federal government aren’t expected until early next year, after a scheduled civil trial. If a settlement is reached before that, the money could arrive sooner.
“It’s a monumental law,” Brian Moore, legislative director at the National Audubon Society, said of the RESTORE Act, which passed Congress last week as part of a larger transportation bill and will be signed into law by President Obama on Friday.
“The next step is just deciding the size of the fines and pressing onto people as much as possible the need for this to happen quickly,” Moore said. “This place has been devastated really — the environment and the economy. We need to fix it fast.”
Under the RESTORE Act, 80 percent of the fine money levied against BP is earmarked for the five Gulf Coast states. It’s an unprecedented arrangement. Typically, such financial penalties go to an oil-spill liability trust fund and the U.S. Treasury’s general fund for distribution nationwide.
Much of the money is expected to finance projects already on the drawing board, including some proposed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Earlier this year, Louisiana passed a 50-year coastal plan that calls for 109 projects, including hurricane protection and coastal restoration.
“Our priorities will be the implementation of that plan,” said Garrett Graves, director of Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority. “Making an investment in ecosystem restoration, making other investments to improve the resiliencies of some of our coastal communities — that’s where we plan on prioritizing the [early] investments.”
Gulf Coast advocacy groups will work to make sure state and local officials “do the next part, right,” said Casi Callaway, executive director of Mobile Baykeeper, an environmental group based in Mobile, Ala.
“We are not finished with our work,” Callaway said. “We have a long, long way to go still, but the biggest and hardest hurdle has passed — getting it through Congress.”
In Alabama, Callaway’s group is pressing for a project to build 100 miles of coastal oyster reefs. She hopes to see similar projects throughout the region, which she said has lost thousands of miles of the reefs over the last six decades.
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant named a team Tuesday to recommend state projects.
“Our work in this state is just beginning,” he said in a statement. “The (oil spill) impacted our Gulf Coast in many complex and serious ways ... We will not rest until the Gulf Coast is made whole.”
Environmental groups will push to require BP to pay the maximum amount of fines.
“They’re big boys ... they messed up,” said Paul Harrison, senior director of water programs for the Environmental Defense Fund. “They need to pay.”
Harrison said the groups will focus on making sure BP “lives up to its promise of doing the right thing and making the Gulf Coast whole ... better beaches, better fisheries, better wetlands, clean water and a better economy.”
From the outset, sponsors of the RESTORE (Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourism Opportunities and Revived Economies) Act said most of the fine money should go to Gulf Coast communities because they know best how to spend it.
But they attached a few conditions:
Thirty percent of the money will be controlled by the 11-member Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council, which will develop a comprehensive restoration plan. Members include all five governors (or their designees), the secretaries of the Agriculture, Commerce, Homeland Security and Interior departments, the secretary of the Army and the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Sixty-five percent of the money will be controlled by state and local governments for such things as tourism, the environment and the economy.
Of that, 35 percent will be distributed equally among the five states for economic and ecological recovery. The rest will be distributed to the states based on a formula that takes into account factors such as miles of beachfront and population.
The remaining 5 percent of the fine money will finance research, with half going to the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission and half going to a “center of excellence” in each state.
Grover Robinson IV, an Escambia County (Fla.) commissioner, said many projects, such as beach renourishment and storm water systems, are logical candidates for RESTORE Act money.
“The best news is that we’ve got a plan and a structure without the money,” he said. “That allows us the proper time to go do this. There’s no rush to immediately try to make everything happen and go make decisions, because we don’t have everything yet.”
While each state has a different process for determining how funds will be spent, local advocacy groups hope officials will craft comprehensive plans that include projects with wide reach, long-term viability and public input.
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MARQUETTE - A Dickinson County structure has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The Upper Twin Falls Bridge, which spans the Menominee River and joins Breitung Township to Florence County, Wis., was added recently to the federal government's list of sites or objects deemed worthy of preservation.
According to the Iron Mountain Daily News, the bridge was built in response to Peninsula Power Company's plans to build the Twin Falls Power Dam, which made it necessary to replace the existing bridge crossing the Menominee River.
The Upper Twin Falls Bridge, seen here, was recently added to the National Register of Historic Places. The 101-year-old bridge spans the Menominee River and joins Breitung Township to Florence County, Wis. (Iron Mountain Daily News photo)
The 101-year-old bridge spans the Menominee River and served horse wagon, buggy and auto traffic to and from Florence, Spread Eagle and Iron Mountain. According to the state, the bridge is Michigan's last remaining camelback metal through truss highway bridge.
It closed to all truck and auto use in September 1971.
Jim Harris, the superintendent of operations with the Dickinson County Road Commission, said his organization hopes the designation will open up additional funding possibilities for bridge preservation.
"It's a very well-known historical place. The bridge has spanned that river for some time," he said. "We're hoping this opens up some funding mechanisms not only on the Michigan side, but on the Wisconsin side, as well."
The bridge connects Dickinson County Road 607 to a park in Wisconsin, and Harris said the road commission would like to see the bridge utilized as a component of a walking path or ORV trail.
"We don't anticipate ever opening the bridge back up to vehicular traffic," he said.
In addition to the Upper Twin Falls Bridge, the State Historic Preservation Office recently announced that the Hanover High School Complex in Jackson County and the Grand Rapids Storage and Van Co. in Kent County were added to the list.
Historic districts new to the list include the Williamston Downtown Historic District in Ingham County, the Drake, Benjamin and Maria (Ogden) Farm in Kalamazoo County's Oshtemo Township and the Boyne City Central Historic District in Charlevoix County.
The Center Avenue Neighborhood Historic District in Bay City also has been expanded.
Additionally, the state said the Grand Circus Park Historic District designation in Detroit was updated to take note of buildings built or renovated after 1930 and until 1962. This change will make federal rehabilitation tax credits more widely available in the area.
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Updated at: 02/01/2013 11:07 AM
By MICHAEL HILL
(AP) SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. - It’s a far cry from breaking rocks in the hot sun on a chain gang. In New York’s Adirondack Mountains, inmates break ice on a frozen lake to make a giant winter palace.
A work crew from an area "shock" prison camp once again this year helped local volunteers create this mountain village’s lakeside ice palace _ the shimmering centerpiece of the annual Saranac Lake Winter Carnival, starting Friday.
Under snowy skies this week, inmates marched onto the frozen lake in military formation in winter-weight prison greens and hard hats. Working alongside the volunteers, they were handed poles to break off blocks or head-high saws to cut through the ice. Others in the boot camp-style incarceration program were dispatched to the tall walls of the palace with buckets of slush to fit between blocks like mortar.
"Sir, yes sir! This is an experience of a lifetime, sir," said inmate Patrick O’Donnell. The 24-year-old from Long Island, like all inmates at Moriah Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility, answers questions like a new military recruit.
"Sir, where I live there’s not much snow, so to see something like this is an experience, sir."
Moriah, about 45 miles from Saranac Lake through twisting mountain roads, houses a six-month shock program designed to build character and self-esteem.
Prisoners convicted of nonviolent offenses like burglary, forgery or drug sales can shave months or years off their sentences by successfully completing a shock program _ but it’s tough. Inmates wake up at 5:30 a.m. for intense days of exercise, academics and substance abuse treatment.
And they work. Moriah began sending crews to help build the ice palace in 2009, after the closing of a prison closer to Saranac Lake that had sent workers since 1984.
The inmates move about the snow and ice without shackles, but under the watch of corrections officers. Officer Mike Maloney said the labor on the lake helps inmates get ready to go back to "the real world" when they graduate from the program.
"It’s actually great, sir. It makes the day go by fast _ get away for a little while, get a little peace of mind, sir," said Norman Bloom, who is from Rochester. Bloom, 25, worked with a heavy metal pole to break ice blocks into the frozen water.
Ice palaces have been a winter feature of Saranac Lake since 1898, fitting for a quaint mountain village where winter temperatures can plunge to minus 30 during cold snaps. Festival organizers say the palace tradition stems from the days when ice from local lakes was harvested for refrigeration.
Volunteers were out on the village-side lake the weekend before the festival, cutting out big ice blocks. The footlocker-size ice cubes are plucked from the water by crane and fitted into the walk-in palace on the shore.
This year’s palace is about 70 feet wide and 50 feet deep inside and requires as many as 2,000 blocks, said ice palace committee chairman Dean Baker. So every hand helps.
"We could do it without them, but it would be a lot more work," Baker said. "We’re glad they’re here."
Warm weather and rain complicated palace construction this week, and work was suspended for a couple of days. Volunteers were back to work Friday to fix up damaged parts of the palace. Baker said they would work through the weekend if needed.
The festival’s theme this year is "under the sea," and the organizers planned nautical touches to the palace, such as an octopus ice sculpture and a throne shaped like a scallop shell. The palace is lit up at night with multi-colored lights.
Moriah inmates do other outdoor work, such as clearing trees at state campsites, but like this job in particular.
"Sir, we’ve done everything from work on Fort Ticonderoga, built campsites, but this job is probably the most exciting just because it’s part of something bigger, sir," O’Donnell said.
Jared Ridner, of Albany, said "this inmate loves it, sir." Ridner, 22, is scheduled to graduate from the shock program Thursday, so he plans to visit the festival before it ends Feb. 10.
"This inmate, his parents are coming up," Ridner said, "and we’re going to take a ride down here to show this inmate’s parents what he did, sir."
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By Maura Duffy
A new study shows that media portrayals of celebrities influence how adolescents feel about their looks and influence their decisions to undergo cosmetic surgery. Dr. John Maltby and Dr. Liz Day studied 137 young adults between the ages of 18 and 23, using questionnaires to measure their attitudes toward celebrities whose body image they admired. The researchers followed up with the adolescents eight months later, and found that the women and men who showed intense “celebrity worship” were more likely to undergo elective invasive cosmetic procedures, even after controlling for other known predictors of cosmetic surgery, such as low self-esteem, greater preoccupation with body image, and previous cosmetic surgery. The study was published in the Journal of Adolescent Health in 2011, and did not include reconstructive surgeries such as correcting birth defects, or non-invasive procedures such as teeth whitening. The most common procedures for these UK adolescents were breast augmentation, breast lift, liposuction, nose reshaping, laser skin resurfacing, Botox injections, and soft tissue fillers, which are also the most popular cosmetic procedures among adolescents in many Western countries. Although Botox injections and soft tissue fillers are not considered “surgery,” they are invasive procedures.
In a commentary by Dr. Anisha Abraham and NRC President Dr. Diana Zuckerman in the same journal, the two point out that the young adults in the study are not just mimicking the clothing and hairstyles of their favorite celebrities, but rather undergoing invasive procedures to feel better about how they look. This study has significant implications for the health and well-being of teenagers, as increasingly unrealistic expectations of what it means to be beautiful are perpetuated by TV shows, web sites, and advertisements featuring cosmetic surgery. The authors urge doctors to develop and use an effective screening process for adolescents who wish to undergo cosmetic procedures, which includes evaluating celebrity worship. Since self-concept improves and celebrity worship tends to decrease as adolescents mature, health professionals would do well to recommend that teenagers wait before undergoing cosmetic surgery. Guidelines for consent procedures that promote better screening and counseling for these young people could improve their decision process to get procedures that are invasive, expensive, and can result in serious medical complications. The authors conclude that the study indicates how crucial it is to encourage young people to be more self-confident and accepting of their bodies, rather than comparing themselves to “perfect” celebrities.
Maltby and Day’s original article “Celebrity Worship and Incidence of Elective Cosmetic Surgery: Evidence of a Link Among Young Adults” can be found here.
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I have a lot of address strings:
1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC 20500 USA
I want to parse them into their components:
street: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave city: Washington province: DC postcode: 20500 country: USA
But of course the data is dirty: it comes from many countries in many languages, written in different ways, contains misspellings, is missing pieces, has extra junk, etc.
Right now our approach is to use rules combined with fuzzy gazetteer matching, but we'd like to explore machine learning techniques. We have labeled training data for supervised learning. The question is, what sort of machine learning problem is this? It doesn't really seem to be clustering, or classification, or regression....
The closest I can come up with would be classifying each token, but then you really want to classify them all simultaneously, satisfying constraints like "there should be at most one country;" and really there are many ways to tokenize a string, and you want to try each one and pick the best.... I know there exists a thing called statistical parsing, but don't know anything about it.
So: what machine learning techniques could I explore for parsing addresses? | <urn:uuid:27532dde-548e-4089-8829-2a4898447995> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/35249/machine-learning-techniques-for-parsing-strings | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961967 | 247 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Vitamin E is an essential nutrient to our birds to function normally. Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin with antioxidant properties.Vitamin E is the most powerful antioxidant vitamin, its prime function is to help scavenge free radicals. Free radicals can harm cells, tissues, and organs. They are believed to play a role in certain conditions associated with aging. The benefits of vitamin E for a good health also include its ability to regulate vitamin A in the body. Vitamin E protects vitamin A and essential fatty acids from oxidation in the body cells and prevents breakdown of body tissues, the B vitamins and Vitamin C from oxidation, and helps ensure the efficient use of Vitamin K1 and an efficient use of oxygen by the blood and muscles. Necessary for the reproductive system, birds before the breeding season supplemented with Vitamin E produce a better fertility.
The main sources of vitamin E in the diet are vegetable oils (especially safflower oil, sunflower oil, and cottonseed oil), green leafy vegetables, nuts, cereals, meats, egg yolks, wheat germ, and whole wheat products.
Vitamin E deficiency is rare, and may occur in birds with diminished fat absorption through the gut, malnutrition, very low-fat diets, several specific genetic conditions, very low birth weight young birds. Vitamin E supplementation is accepted as an effective therapy for vitamin E deficiency to halt progression of complications. | <urn:uuid:de1db0c7-5ef6-4b31-adeb-ae9d7dc78123> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.avian.nl/EN/vitamins-minerals/vitamin-e.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915429 | 283 | 3.78125 | 4 |
Papier-mache exports in Kashmir on declineOctober 17th, 2009 - 5:26 pm ICT by ANI
By Bilal Butt
Srinagar, Oct. 17 (ANI): Papier-mache exports in Kashmir has witnessed a steep dive, as it has been hit by recession and also due to lack of interest on the part of people to pursue this art nowadays.
Papier mache has been Kashmir’s flourishing art in the past. The art originate in Persia and was brought to Kashmir in the 15th century by a Kashmiri prince who spent some years in prison at Samarkand in Central Asia, and was favoured by the Mughal rulers.
Kashmir’s papier-mache products have a strong Persian touch. Once a booming business, the papier-mache exports have come down from three billion rupees to mere 500 million rupees. Besides recession, another major reason for this downfall is that there are no takers to pursue this art as an occupation any longer.
“If we exported 15 billion rupees worth of goods before recession, then out of that, papier mache accounted for three billion rupees. Today, it has come down by 20 percent and we are exporting only 500 to 600 million worth of papier mache products, as against 3 billion,” said Shaqeel Qalandar, President, Federation Chambers of Industries, Kashmir.
Papier-mache today faces a threat to its existence, as the people no longer show any interest in pursuing it as an occupation. The rising prices of raw material and less returns are two of the major factors that keep the people away from pursuing a career in papier mache.
“In coming 10 to 20 years, this work will become extinct. The art was done in Kashmir, in the same manner as it was done in Iran. If you look at some products made earlier, you can see how well they were made. Now people don’t make it in the similar manner, because they don’t get enough money for it. Many artisans have left this work now, to pursue other occupations,” said Mohammed Soleha, an artisan.
The papier-mache artisans in Kashmir transform a variety of utility articles into art pieces of rare beauty.
The traditional method of making these articles in Kashmir begins with soaking waste paper in water for several days till it disintegrates.
Then after draining the excess water from the paper, cloth, rice, straw and copper sulphate are mixed to form a pulp, which is placed in moulds and left to dry for 2-3 days.
After cutting out the dried shape from the mould, it is then stuck again with glue and gypsum and is rubbed smooth with stone and covered with layers of tissue paper. Then a base colour is painted and designs made on it. It is again sand papered and finally, painted with different paints. (ANI)
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