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2008: "A Jokers' International Day of Action on Global Warming"
This idea was brought to us by Headline’s Theatre in Vancouver after Adam Ward, a Joker* from Fairhaven, Washington, USA attended some of Headline’s global warming events in November called: 2º of Fear and Desire. These events were "an intimate evening of theatre (without a play) that investigate our fears, desires and challenges to change our behaviours that hurt the planet".
What would happen if Jokers* from around the world all created local events on climate issues on the same day? What kind of energy could be created on this issue to, even in a small way, move responses to global warming forward?
Sheatre responded with events that were held on March 16, 2008.
2005: "Brush Strokes"
The book launch of 'Brush Strokes' in November
of 2005 marked the 20th anniversary of Sheatre.
The launch included the performance of poetic
sketches of Tom Thomson and our contemporary
world, featuring readings by select experienced
and new authors, including Liz Zetlin, Daniel
Kolos and Anne Wellwood, Dianne Joyce, Joan
Chandler, Lynn Wyville, and Ezra Braves, with
special musical guest David Sereda.
A professional collective creation about an
historic foundry based on archives and the stories
2000: Sheatre presented BUILDING OUR
A workshop at "The Time of Our Lives "
International Festival of Reminiscence Theatre
in London, England.
Cats steal the birds ancient boney secrets...
and the little birds want them back before the
Pterodactyl Spirit dies. Can they reunite the
Spirit with the Bones in time?
A delightful tale created by youth from Cape
Croker First Nations and area about cultural
heritage, native justice and children's rights...
"Turning on the Light" was a visual
art exhibition cosponsored by the Tom Thompson
Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, and the Sexual
Assault Centre of Grey and Bruce as an educational
vehicle about sexual assault...
1997: "The Ripple
Sheatre conducted three workshops at "The
Ripple Effect" International Festival of
Theatre of the Oppressed.
1996: Sheatre produced "Womenfolk",
A cutting-edge retreat and festival attracting
approximately 1,000 women.
1994: Professional Theatre training programs
Launched in the communities of Cape Croker
First Nation Reserve and Owen Sound, setting
the pattern for cross-cultural summer experiences
that we run for the next five years.
1994: "Here Today, Gone This Afternoon",
A music theatre forum about problems faced
by employees and their families in the wake
of a layoff,
tours throughout Grey-Bruce. Featuring songs
by Larry Jensen, this play
premieres the use of this artform for public
audiences in this region of Ontario.
1994: Featured artist at Michigan Womyn's
Sheatre produces the theatre forum about lesbian
vampirism with women from around North America.
1994: Sheatre is featured in the book
Theatre and Therapy (New York: Routledge, 1994).
1993: Moving north to Grey & Bruce
Sheatre produces the anti-racism theatre forum
"Under My Skin", which tours to school
and educational audiences for two years. The
play is created with Native and non-native students
at Wiarton District High School.
1992: Joan Chandler, Artistic Director,
goes to England
As a cultural ambassador for the Province of
Ontario, conducting training workshops in Popular
Theatre and Forum Theatre with groups and professionals.
1991: Our video, "Shelter Me: The
Power of Popular Theatre",
Was in the program of the 20th anniversary
International Conference of Theatre of the Oppressed
in Paris, France.
1990 - 1994: Using forum theatre,
Sheatre works extensively with people with
disabilities in Ontario, helping to put advocacy
issues at the forefront of community development.
1989: Sheatre produced the first interactive
live televised theatre forum event in Ontario
Only the second such event in the world.
The first known officially invited popular
theatre presentation made to a government body
sitting in session anywhere in the world.
We have been presented at Tom Thomson Days Festival
since its inception in 2002 until present,
The Time of Our Lives International Festival of
Reminiscence Theatre (2000, London UK),
The Trillium Foundation's Caring Communities Conference
Tthe Ripple Effect International Festival (1997),
The Three Fires Sacred Assembly (1997),
The Michigan Women's Music Festival (1994) &
Bread & Butter International Popular Theatre
Our video, "Shelter Me: The Power of Popular
Theatre", was in the program of the 20th
anniversary International Conference of Theatre
of the Oppressed in Paris, France (1991). Joan
Chandler and Sheatre are featured in the book
"Playing Boal: Theatre and Therapy"
(N.Y: Routledge, 1994).
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SWALCO has launched a brand-new recycling campaign, “Recycle First. Trash Last.” The campaign encourages all Lake County residents to place a priority on recycling first, and trashing what’s left. Instead of immediately thinking about throwing away that empty shampoo bottle, for example, ask yourself “is that recyclable?” (The answer, by the way, is yes!) For a full list of what is accepted in Lake County, click here.
While many residents in Lake County already do a good job at recycling, we can always do better. Check out the campaign at www.RecycleFirstTrashLast.org and learn more about curbside recycling in Lake County, the campaign and what you can and cannot recycle.
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Solving Diophantine Equations
Date: 04/18/2008 at 14:26:34 From: Garrett Subject: Solutions to 7x^2 + 1 = y^3 over integers (possibly reals). I have recently delved into the world of Diophantine equations, elliptic curves, and number fields. Looking at the equation 7x^2 + 1 = y^3 I have computationally found integer solutions (x>=0): (x,y) = (0,1), (1,2), (3,4), and (39,22) but hit round-off issues around x = 1.05*10^6. Still, being able to search beyond 10^6 makes me question if these are the only integer solutions. Could you please answer the questions as to the number of integer solutions to this equation and either provide an upper bound for finite solutions (or find all solutions) or how to generate infinite solutions? Could you also address this question in x,y over reals? I have only begun reading about elliptic curves and the different methods used to solve these types of equations. I am hoping another solution of this type of question will help me to better understand how to go about solving these types of questions. Thanks for the help!
Date: 04/18/2008 at 21:23:57 From: Doctor Vogler Subject: Re: Solutions to 7x^2 + 1 = y^3 over integers (possibly reals). Hi Garrett, Thanks for writing to Dr. Math. You are correct that you have an elliptic curve. Finding the real points is easy. For every real number x, you can set y = (7x^2 + 1)^(1/3). Alternately, y has to be at least 1, since 7x^2 >= 0, but whenever y >= 1, there are two solutions for x, namely sqrt((y^3 - 1)/7) and -sqrt((y^3 - 1)/7). You can plot this curve on a graphing calculator or computer graphing program to see what it looks like. Finding all of the integer points is *much* harder. There are often easy methods to prove that there are no integer points on such an equation, but these methods don't work when there are some. Methods for finding all integer points on an elliptic curve use much of the structure of an elliptic curve. If you want to use programs to help you with your curve, then you should put it in standard (Weierstrass) form. If you set v = 49x u = 7y and you multiply your equation by 7^3 = 343, then you get v^2 = u^3 - 343 which is an elliptic curve in standard form. Many elliptic curves (in fact, about half of them) have only finitely many rational solutions. And finding the rational solutions is generally much easier than finding the integer solutions. So if there are only finitely many rational solutions, then you just check which ones are integer solutions. I describe how to find the rational solutions in these answers: Solving System of Equations Using Elliptic Curves http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/70511.html Using Elliptical Curves to Solve an Arithmetic Sequence http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/69827.html Unfortunately for you, there are infinitely many rational solutions, since your curve has rank 1, and torsion of order 2. That is, all integer multiples of the point (u, v) = (14, 49), along with all such points plus the torsion point (7, 0) are rational points on your curve (and this gives you all rational points). These multiples include . . . -5(14, 49) = (3397814/477481, -1374504341/329939371) -5(14, 49) + (7, 0) = (10082548/7921, 32015140437/704969) -4(14, 49) = (6512/169, -523921/2197) -4(14, 49) + (7, 0) = (62146/5329, 13715247/389017) -3(14, 49) = (763/9, 21070/27) -3(14, 49) + (7, 0) = (889/100, -18963/1000) -2(14, 49) = (8, 13) -2(14, 49) + (7, 0) = (154, -1911) -1(14, 49) = (14, -49) -1(14, 49) + (7, 0) = (28, 147) 0(14, 49) = 0 0(14, 49) + (7, 0) = (7, 0) 1(14, 49) = (14, 49) 1(14, 49) + (7, 0) = (28, -147) 2(14, 49) = (8, -13) 2(14, 49) + (7, 0) = (154, 1911) 3(14, 49) = (763/9, -21070/27) 3(14, 49) + (7, 0) = (889/100, 18963/1000) 4(14, 49) = (6512/169, 523921/2197) 4(14, 49) + (7, 0) = (62146/5329, -13715247/389017) 5(14, 49) = (3397814/477481, 1374504341/329939371) 5(14, 49) + (7, 0) = (10082548/7921, -32015140437/704969) . . . and so on. (I computed the rank in mwrank, and the above points in Pari, as described in the above answers I linked.) The (x, y) values you can get by dividing v by 49 and u by 7. But every elliptic curve has only finitely many integer solutions (this is known as Siegel's Theorem), so when there are infinitely many rational points, it can be hard to be sure that you have found all of the integer ones. There are three general methods for doing this, all of them described in detail in the book "The Algorithmic Resolution of Diophantine Equations" by Nigel P. Smart. But all three methods are quite complicated and take a significant amount of computation, enough to make anyone do it on a computer. But you can find all integer solutions and *prove* that you have them all. Of course, if you don't need a complete proof, then you use the fact that the number of digits in the numerators *and* denominators of the x and y coordinates of the point n(4, 4) is roughly a multiple of n^2 (and this becomes less rough as n gets large), which means that you're not likely to get a denominator of 1 (i.e. an integer solution) when n is remotely large. So you check the first small integers like the ones I already did, and when you see the denominator get big and keep growing, you can be pretty confident that you aren't going to find any more integers. If you have any questions about this or need more help, please write back and show me what you have been able to do, and I will try to offer further suggestions. - Doctor Vogler, The Math Forum http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
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15/12/2006 - The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee review of U.S. aid, including humanitarian assistance, noted many changes following the events of 11 September 2001. Development is now part of the foundation of the U.S. National Security Strategy. The DAC urged that there should be more explicit focus within the Strategy on poverty reduction.
With a record high USD 27.6 billion of official development assistance in 2005, the United States ranked first among DAC members in terms of aid volume. This represented 0.22% of its Gross National Income, twice the percentage registered in 2002; the DAC average is 0.33%. More than a third of this amount went to Iraq reconstruction and debt relief. Reflecting this, the Department of Defense accounted for 21.7% of ODA in 2005.
The review makes several recommendations to assist the U.S. in making its national programme of development co-operation more effective. It particularly encouraged the United States to use the current spirit of reform to better co-ordinate the multiple U.S. actors and programmes around a coherent national development strategy, based upon the new Framework for Foreign Assistance. Similarly, in the spirit of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, the United States is invited to use this opportunity to work more closely with donors and other partners in recipient countries.
The Development Assistance Committee, which brings together the major aid donors that are members of the OECD, has issued its Main Findings and Recommendations.
The Peer Review, led by Canada and the United Kingdom, took place on 07 December 2006. The US Delegation attending the review meeting was headed by Mr. James Kunder, Acting Deputy Administrator, United States Agency for International Development.
For further information, journalists are invited to contact Helen Fisher at the OECD's Media Division (tel. 1 45 24 80 97).
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Ours is a nation whose shores are teeming with experts. They are vital to our existence. We could barely function on daily basis if not for these titans of knowledge and purveyors of wisdom. We know these things because it’s what they tell us.
Our experts tell us what to do, how to think, where we should go, how to live our lives, what we should say, what we shouldn’t say, how long to boil an egg, how long not boil an egg, that eggs are bad for you, now they’re not, now they are again. Our experts tell us what we should believe in, and in what we shouldn’t.
When we feel miserable, they us why we feel miserable.
When we don’t feel miserable, they tell us why we should feel miserable.
When we feel happy, they knock some sense into us, so that we can get back to the business of being miserable.
If not for the tireless work of experts, I would still be living under the dark veil of happiness.
We expect our experts to be articulate and prepared. That’s why the following encounter between child developement experts on a local cable television show, so greatly disturbed me.
The names have been changed to protect the innocent. The facts have been changed to make it more entertaining.
Host: Today we have three experts in child developement. Brenda, Wendell and Ted are here to tell you what you’re doing right, or more likely, what you’re doing wrong. Let’s start with you Brenda.
Brenda: I believe that a child should be encouraged to express himself in any way that his creative inclinations may lead, even if these inclinations seem a little odd.
Host: Can you give us an example?
Brenda: Certainly. If your child chooses to express himself by, and this is just a randomexample, sitting in the backyard all day and stuffing fistfuls of grass and crickets into his mouth, who’s to say there’s anything wrong with that.
Host: Really? Because that does seems kind of weird to me. Wendell, what do you think?
Wendell: It is weird, and more than a little gross. Children should be strongly discouraged from any behavior that casts them as an outsider or as different from the rest. Children can be predatory and mean. They’ll chase you down the street, making loud squeaking noises and hurling chunks of cheese at you. Have you ever been pelted with a chunk of Swiss cheese? It really hurts.
Host: Okay, that was weird too. Ted, have you any thoughts…normal or otherwise?
Ted: Yes. I believe that Brenda is mentally unstable and on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I also believe that Wendell looks entirely too much like a rat.
Host: Of course you do. Brenda, Wendell, would either of you like to respond?
Brenda sat in disgusted silence with her arms folded.
Wendell sat and twitched nervously, glaring at Ted down his long nose, with his beady little eyes.
Host: And of course neither of you do. Ted, was that your expert opinion?
Ted: Absolutely. Brenda is a nut-job, and Wendell is a rat-boy.
At this point Brenda buried her face in her hands and began to sob. It seemed that she was under a great deal of stress, a level of stress not at all helped by the fact that she has a child who likes to sit in the backyard all day, and stuff fistfuls of grass and crickets into his mouth.
Wendell began to chitter wildly, lunged at Ted and bit him in the nose.
Ted screamed and bled, a lot.
Host: Well, I think it’s time for us to go to a commercial, and possibly call security.
What hope is there for our society if this is how our experts behave. I’m feeling so disconsolate, I might just sit in the backyard all day and stuff fistfuls of grass and crickets into my mouth.
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Lead researcher in the study was Ken Donaldson, from the MRC/University of Edinburgh Center for Inflammation Research, Queen’s Medical Research Institute, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
The conclusions of the Donaldson study are stated online in the journal Nature Nanotechnology under the title “Carbon nanotubes introduced into the abdominal cavity of mice show asbestos-like pathogenicity in a pilot study.”
The researchers involved in the study and the paper are: Craig A. Poland, Rodger Duffin, William A. H. Wallace, Simon Brown, William MacNee, Ken Donaldson (all from MRC/University of Edinburgh, Centre for Inflammation Research, Queen's Medical Research Institute, Edinburgh, UK), Ian Kinloch (from the School of Materials, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK), Andrew Maynard (from Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, U.S.A.), Anthony Seaton (from Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, UK), and Vicki Stone (from School of Life Sciences, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK).
They state in the abstract of their paper, “Carbon nanotubes have distinctive characteristics, but their needle-like fibre shape has been compared to asbestos, raising concerns that widespread use of carbon nanotubes may lead to mesothelioma, cancer of the lining of the lungs caused by exposure to asbestos.”
Nanotubes are shaped like rolled-up sheets of carbon. Their length can be one million times longer than their width. They do not weigh very much but are stronger than steel. Nanotubes are considered to have been discovered in the early 1990s, although research was performed as early as the 1950s in the Soviet Union and the United States, and nanotubes produced between the 1950s and 1990s.
They are now used in such industries as electronics, nanotechnology, optics, and materials science to produce very strong materials. Nanotubes are efficient conductors of heat, along with their property of having extraordinary strength.
To study if long straight carbon nanotubes can cause mesothelioma, the Donaldson team “injected multi-walled carbon nanotubes and asbestos fibres between the membranes lining the lungs and abdominal organs in mice.” [Chemistry World: “Carbon nanotubes behave like asbestos”]
Specifically, they injected four groups of mice. One group was injected with short nanotubes, only about five microns in length. A second group received long nanotubes about twenty microns in length. A third group was injected with asbestos, and a fourth group with small carbon clumps. Some of the mice were analyzed the next day, while others were studied after one week.
They found, “… that exposing the mesothelial lining of the body cavity of mice, as a surrogate for the mesothelial lining of the chest cavity, to long multiwalled carbon nanotubes results in asbestos-like, length-dependent, pathogenic behaviour. This includes inflammation and the formation of lesions known as granulomas.”
Specifically, the mice injected with long nanotubes or asbestos developed lesions on the tissue lining. The other mice, those injected with short nanotubes or small carbon clumps, did not.
Donaldson says that macrophages, which are cells whose job is to contact and destroy foreign bodies, are unable to eliminate the nanotubes because they are too long. With more nanotubes appearing in the abdomen (and macrophages unable to get rid of them), inflammation results and eventually leads to tumors.
Such action is similar to asbestos fibers that get caught in the outer lining of the lungs after being inhaled by humans. Donaldson states, “Anything that's thin, long, and doesn't easily dissolve in body fluids has got to come under suspicion as behaving like asbestos.” [Chemistry World]
They concluded: “This is of considerable importance, because research and business communities continue to invest heavily in carbon nanotubes for a wide range of products under the assumption that they are no more hazardous than graphite. Our results suggest the need for further research and great caution before introducing such products into the market if long-term harm is to be avoided.”
Donaldson states, "We need more research on the toxicology of these materials, and the exposure to them in workplaces.” [Chemistry World]
Donaldson performed earlier research on nanotubes and their similarity to asbestos. Please read on.
RECRUITMENT & RETENTION REPORT 2013HIRE OR FIRE? BUY OR BUILD
2013 is well underway and Australian companies need to know whether they should invest in IT skills training or pay a premium for the people they need.
If you want to know which choices are being made in your sector, what skills are hard to find, which sectors intend to hire or fire and where the IT spend is going, this free report is must have.
William Atkins completed educational degrees in science (bachelor’s in physics and mathematics) from Illinois State University (Normal, United States) and business (master’s in entrepreneurship and bachelor’s in industrial relations) from Western Illinois University
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The primary GOAL and perhaps the only goal of both the Republicans and the Democrats is to increase their power. That means getting more members into positions of power and responsibility. It might be by getting members elected to office or it might be by getting members appointed or even hired into key positions of power.
The GOAL of parties IS NOT to improve your life, improve the economy, increase our security or help you out. Those are occasionally means to an end! And the END GAME is to increase their power and control.
If the Republicans REALLY WANTED to accomplish any of their stated objectives they would stop their relentless pattern of obstructionism and seek common ground with the Democrats. Likewise, if President Obama REALLY wanted to reach his goals he would cease his relentless campaigning and compromise with Republicans.
Why doesn't this happen? Because the GOAL is to get more members elected. President Obama is considerably more interested in getting reelected than in helping Americans. So he very falsely claims Republicans stand in the way of issue "A" or proposition "B" because he wants the issues to aid his reelection.
Occasionally politicians actually speak the truth. Republican Senator Mitch McConnell made that mistake when he honestly said his main goal was to "defeat President Obama," His Number One Priority wasn't reviving the economy or putting people back to work, it was to defeat the President four years in the future!!
My advice to my fellow Liberals (and to Conservatives, too), is to relentlessly work to achieve your goals. Look for pathways to success. That will OFTEN lead you to support, work with and even elect a member of the opposite party. More often it will lead you to look for solutions outside of government.
Think outside the box. Be driven by your principles and not guided by the false promises of one candidate or another.
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Programs for Teachers
Art and Environment
July 10th - 11th 2013 | 8:30 - 3:30pm | $50
Join fellow members of the Arkansas Art Educators for this two-day professional development experience that will enhance your artistic and classroom practices.
Learn more here.
Teacher Summer Institute | Teaching from Works of Art
June 24 – 28, 2013, 8:30 to 3:30 pm
Many teachers want to incorporate arts integration strategies in their classroom, but may not feel that they have the skills. Teaching from works of art can feel overwhelming, especially for teachers who have never taken art history or studio arts. This week-long professional development will introduce teachers to the methodology and process of teaching from works of art.
The application for Teaching from Works of Art has closed.
Saturday Sessions for Teachers
Saturday Sessions are immersive programs that will enable teachers to learn more about the artworks in the Museum's collection, and then incorporate them into the classroom. Teachers will focus on selected works in the collection through hands-on visual and language arts activities, as well as interactive dialogue in the galleries. In this session, teachers will have the opportunity to learn about historical events through the perspective of artists. Artistic intent and context will be explored through interactive gallery discussion, writing, and hands-on art activities. All materials and light refreshments will be provided. Three professional development hours are available to those who attend, approved by the State Department of Education.
There are no new Saturday Sessions at this time. Sign up for our eNewsletter for updates on upcoming programs and events.
Professional Development for your Faculty
Crystal Bridges offers teacher professional development for your school or district faculty. These sessions are led by Museum Education staff and provide teachers with the tools and strategies they need to teach from works of art in the Museum's collection, including images and other resources for use in the classroom. The cost for these sessions is $50 per 25 teachers. Capacity limits us to 50 participants per session.
Request for Professional Development for the 2013-2014 school year will be available May 1st.
Professional Development request form
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A joint project to improve child protection by the City of Edinburgh Council and NHS Lothian has been commended for a prestigious prize for innovation.
The Child Protection Register Online project (CPR Online) was commended in the Government to Government category in this year's BT Awards for Innovation which recognises projects demonstrating effective joined-up working by at least two public sector organisations.
"This is a superb accolade for the Council, NHS Lothian and partners in the neighbouring councils," enthuses Councillor Donald Wilson, lead member for modernising government at the City of Edinburgh Council. "We see CPR-Online as a key tool in ensuring that key organisations work together to ensure the safety of children at risk. It's an excellent example of our Smart City vision to 'join up' services with our partners to give better services to the public."
"This crucial system gives authorised practitioners in NHS Lothian and councils in the Lothians secure electronic access to data from the Edinburgh and the Lothians' Child Protection Register," explained Dr Helen Hammond, the lead paediatrician for child protection at NHS Lothian. "It allows practitioners to make informed decisions about children known to be at risk in full knowledge of their child protection status."
The Child Protection Register Online Project gives doctors and social workers online access to medical and other records for children on the Child Protection Register for Edinburgh and the Lothians.
The immediate access means healthcare professionals know all the facts when deciding what actions to implement if a vulnerable child is taken to hospital or seen in other medical settings.
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Chinchilla & Degu Health
Due to the density of their fur, chinchillas are pretty immune to fleas and other skin parasites. They are, however, prone to dietary deficiencies and fungal skin problems if not fed or housed correctly.
The chinchillas fur is a good indicator of its condition. A dull coat may be due to zinc deficiency. 'Cotton fur' where the coat takes on a cotton-like appearance and the fibres are weak and wavy, occurs where the diet is too high in protein.
Males kept with females, and less commonly males housed together, may suffer from 'fur ring' where fur gets wrapped in a band around the penis, usually during mating. A male that is ready for breeding or has just mated may have enlarged or swollen testicles. This is quite normal unless they are also hard and painful in which case he will need to be examined by a vet.
Malocclusion of the teeth is the most common problem that brings chinchilla owners to the vet. The reasons for it occurring are often a mixture of hereditary factors and diet. Signs to watch for are weight loss and drooling. Watery eyes can also be a sign of dental problems.
The chinchilla illustrated has naturally yellow teeth of the right length. The teeth are not maloccluded, it is just that the jaw is so flexible that the teeth appear to be out because of the way the chin's head is being held.
Fits can be caused by eating cold foods leading to colic; excess exercise; calcium or vitamin B complex deficiency or infection. A chinchilla that has had a fit should be checked out by a vet to determine the cause and proper treatment.
Davidson Chinchillas have good articles on Chinchilla Health including post-operative care and wound management.
Azure Chinchillas have a lot ofuseful information on their site
Degus are prone to diabetes, fatty liver, cataracts and mouth problems. Their teeth are naturally yellow. An adult degu with white teeth has a serious health problem. Most health problems in degus can be prevented by correct diet and hygiene. They should not be kept in cages with a wire mesh base because this can lead to foot injury and infection or pododermatitis.
Degus shed their tail if caught by the tail by a predator. This is painful and the tail does not grow back. Never hold your degu by the tail.
Degus are prone to mouth infections, but these can be prevented by keeping the water bottle scrupulously clean. If infections occur despite this, try adding a very small amount of Grapefruit Seed Extract, such as Citricidal, to the drinking water. Colloidal silver and aloe vera are a good healing combination for sore mouths.
Unless you have ready homes for the degu babies it is better not to breed at all. Related animals should never be bred from as degues are already too inbred, having been bred originally from a pool of only 10 originally imported animals. Baby degus should be separated into male and female at 6 weeks to prevent the females being impregnated by their brothers. Young animals should not be bred from, females should be 6 months old
Pregnancy lasts 3 months and the male helps look after the babies which are born fully furred and with their eyes open. Average litter size is 5 but larger litters are not uncommon. Although there is a risk of post partum mating, the female is normally not fertile again until the litter is weaned at around 5 weeks. The young remain in the nest for the first few days after birth before venturing out on their own.
When several females litter at the same time, the babies stay in the same nest and are suckled communally. Degu females have 4 teats. Degus pair for life and male degus pine for their female. The decision to keep a breeding pair means you have to consider the risk of the female having too many babies in close succession versus the upset of taking the male away. One alternative is to have the male neutered.
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Augusta changed considerably between 1885 and 1950. The town that folks began to call The Garden City attracted Northern guests because of its mild winters.
Grand hotels such as the Bon Air and Partridge Inn catered to presidents of companies and U.S. presidents.
The visitors also brought golf -- a game new to this area -- and from that grew an Augusta tradition of fine courses that ultimately led to the creation of the Augusta National Golf Club and the annual Masters Tournament.
Though the mills along the canal continued to hum, the agrarian economy of the region began to wane. New opportunities arose and Augusta continued -- as it always had -- to reinvent itself.
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On March 30, 2005, Sarah Weddington, the lawyer who argued Roe v. Wade before the U.S. Supreme Court gave a speech at Grand Valley University. I was thinking of attending but didn't because of the lateness of the event (starting at 9:15 p.m.), the weather (Thunderstorms), and a tragic accident closed part of the highway. And I partly would prefer to watch Lost with my wife as opposed to listen to a pro-abortion speech. I was mostly looking forward to asking some questions to Ms. Weddington. Questions like:
Do you think abortion should be rarer than it currently is? If yes, why?
Do you think that it is a problem that approximately 50% of our nation's abortions are performed on women who've already had at least one abortion and approximately 20% of abortions are performed on women who've had 2 or more abortions?
Is human life intrinsically or instrumentally valuable?
Do you think that an child who survives an abortion attempt deserves the right to life? Or in other words, does the "right to abortion" include the right to a successful abortion?
I missed the Weddington speech but after reading some quotes compiled by the Grand Rapids Press, I realized that I didn't miss much.
For the reporter's synopsis it appears that Ms. Weddington focused a lot on back-alley/coathanger abortions but it also appears that she attempted to address the question of when life begins. Here's her response:
"The law never treated fetuses as persons. The Constitution says 'all persons born or naturalized.' We celebrate birthdays not conception days. We don't have funerals for miscarriages. With child custody laws, it always was birth as the critical moment."
I'm relying solely on the reporter's quotes but this to me shows why the pro-choice establishment is losing the struggle for America's heart over abortion. Ms. Weddington simply cannot answer the question. Instead of talking about when life begins, she immediately talks about personhood and law. She can't say "life begins at birth" because anyone who's felt the kick of unborn child or heard a fetal heartbeat knows that life begins long before birth. Instead, Weddington is forced to rely on ludicrous arguments.
Section 1 of the 14th Amendment reads, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Weddington seems to intrepret this to mean "All (who became) persons (by being) born or naturalized in the United States...." The problem with this intrepretation is that immigrants who aren't legal citizens wouldn't be constitutional persons and would therefore not have the right to life under our Constitution. It seems that the correct intrepretation of this should be "All persons (who were) born or naturalized in the United States." Which means that neither birth nor naturalization is what makes one a person. It is fairly clear that naturalization doesn't make one a person so why should being born make one a person?
The "celebrate birthdays not conception days" line seems like an argument a middle-schooler would use. How does whether we celebrate birth (an event whose exact time can be easily known) or conception (an event whose exact time is up in the air) determine whether a being is deserving of rights or not? I guess if you get one of these cards your life was valuable before birth?
We don't have funerals for miscarriages? So whether we bury something or have a ceremony when an entity dies determines if that entity is valuable and deserving of protection? Does that mean some goldfish (remember the Cosby show where they had a ceremony for Rudy's goldfish before flushing it) are more valuable than human fetuses? Besides being illogical, Weddington is also factual wrong. There are numerous funerals and other types of memorials for miscarried children. Here are just a few examples.
Maybe it's me but just saying that miscarriage line seems to show a certain level of heartlessness towards miscarried children and the parents who lose a child by miscarriage. Many of these people grieve for extended periods of time for their child yet Weddington is more than happy to depersonize the unborn because a large portion of miscarried children aren't buried.
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The Beatles wave to fans as they arrive at the Los Angeles airport for a press conference in August 1964.
The Beatles - Here, There and Everywhere
Paul McCartney wrote this song alongside John Lennon’s swimming pool in Weybridge while waiting for Lennon to wake up.
“I sat out by the pool on one of the sun chairs with my guitar and started strumming in E, and soon had a few chords, and I think by the time he’d woken up, I had pretty much written the song, so we took it indoors and finished it up […] When I sang it in the studio I remember thinking, I’ll sing it like Marianne Faithfull; something no one would ever know… So that was a little voice, I used an almost falsetto voice and double-tracked it. My Marianne Faithfull impression.” - Paul McCartney
“We Lost George?”
Central Park. 1964.
I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that`s the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.
Happy Birthday, Rindo Starr!
TWO THINGS FOR YOU!
1. All Together Now: A Tribute To The Beatles at Gallery Nucleus this Saturday July7th. Includes the painting above called “Shoeless Bros”
2. San Diego Comic Con all next week starting on Wednesday night. I will be at Booth #2235 with Bolt City Productions and other places that i will mention next week.
but mark those things down!
Your day breaks, your mind aches,
You find that all her words of kindness linger on,
When she no longer needs you.
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Colbert Looks At Tea Party Coloring Books For Kids (VIDEO)
Last night on "The Colbert Report," Colbert kicked off his "Tip Of The Hat/Wag Of The Finger" segment with a tip of his hat to the publishing company responsible for a new Tea Party coloring book. The activity book uses pictures and games to teach children about Tea Party values.
In Colbert's opinion, the coloring book is much more comprehensive than "that other conservative kids' activity book: the Republican 'Pledge to America."' It features patriotic images captioned with lengthy diatribes about limiting the Federal Government's power, because "nothing brings joy to a child than a five-clause sentence," as Colbert said.
In fact, Colbert enjoyed the book so much that he offered suggestions for other Tea Party books, such as Christine O'Donnell's "Rainy Day Book Of Masturbation Alternatives" or "Down On The Farm With Carl Paladino," which features a story about a woman and a horse that will probably confuse and scar children more than help them learn.
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When I begin writing, I find it helps me to close my eyes and imagine what the film will look like beginning to end. Usually, there is some piece of music that I have come across that I like and that fits the mood of the scene or story. This music becomes my anchor, in a sense, as it allows me to always return to the screenplay and to get back into the mood of the piece.
With my eyes now closed, I imagine the first scene that I am writing played out in front of me on the screen. The characters each have a purpose in the scene, a goal, so to speak, and each wants to accomplish that goal. As the scene progresses in my head, I write down the dialogue I hear between them; the conversation as it would play out in real life. I try to make each scene impart some information; either through the characters speaking or in many cases, their reactions to what is being said. Sometimes there is nothing to say. The silence alone can tell you so much about what the character is feeling, thinking or even ignoring. I love films that allow the viewer to connect to the energy of what is going on between the characters. I feel the audience is smart enough to get the subtleties of the exchange.
Have you ever overheard a conversation where you weren’t there in the beginning of the conversation but within seconds or a minute or two, you start to see the overall picture of what is going on. You begin to piece together the little bits of information that enables you to ‘get’ the bigger picture? That is what I try to incorporate in my writing. I want the viewer to figure it out as opposed to having all the information handed to them via dialogue. It adds mystery and using your cognitive powers as a viewer allows them to be further engaged in what is going on. One of the little gems I remember being imparted to me while I studied at Playhouse West in Los Angeles was that very often, what is the most compelling thing in a scene is not what is being said, but what’s not being said. Therein lies the conflict that makes for interesting viewing.
After I have finished writing the general plot points, I ask myself how the scene should look cinematically. I do not use Final Cut Pro as I have an older Mac (I use iMovie’11) so I have no way of changing the color correction in post if I want a scene to look subdued or colorful, cold or warm. What I do is to dial that picture setting into my Canon 7D first so that I can have a consistant look to the related scenes. In my short film ‘Inoa’, I wanted the flashback scenes to have a warm tone to them so I chose the Kodachrome algorithm I had downloaded into my camera and for the present day scenes, I wanted a cool tone which I accomplished using the Marvels Cine algorithm which replicates Fuji film stock. Thus, I had two different looks to act as a thread in which the viewer could understand what was present day and what was a flashback.
Next, I went through and wrote down my shot list. Shot by shot, from beginning to end, making notes as to whether it was exterior or interior, day or night, same day or different day, the frame rate (24, 25, 50 or 60 fps), and also the picture setting chosen for that shot. That way, I always had a list I could refer to to make sure I was not forgetting something. One thing I didn’t do was to make notes as to the aperture setting I did end up filming with in each take. Usually, that can be found on the CF card by pressing the info button while the card is in the camera. But I felt afterward, that having it written down along with the other notations, would be a good learning tool when editing shots and seeing whether I underexposed or overexposed the shot. Yes, you can change it in post but it’s always a good idea to teach your eye and mind to connect the two and to know what you can fiddle with later on another shoot. The screen on the camera is very good and as I have a 3x viewfinder attached when I shoot, it allows my eye to see the screen with more detail and to check my focus. There is a way to use your Macbook as a monitor utilizing the Canon EOS utility software that comes with the camera.
I prefer natural lighting and was blessed that the actors I was working with had a flat that had lots of diffused light coming in through big windows. I tried to position the action close to the light source so that I could take advantage of the light without using practical lighting sources as the kelvin temperatures are different and can make it difficult to mesh the shots together. Again, I had no lighting assistants. I was on my own. If you are shooting interiors, look for the best possible light sources and keep in mind that overcast days are better light wise for you than sunny brilliant days that create harsh shadows. But if you piece has that look, than go for it. My film needed a soft, cool tone to it and I was grateful that I got it. Remember, don’t be afraid of shadows. They can add a cinematic look to your piece that would be very expensive to replicate by hiring lighting pro’s.
Sound is as important as the image quality when you shoot. I didn’t have a sound person to record sound but I did have a Rode shotgun mic attached to my camera which recorded better sound than the onboard mic. The sound was good but after the fact, I realized that I should have taken advantage of my Zoom H4N digital recorder also so that I had two sources (tracks) of sound when editing. The one mistake I did make was forgetting to record room tone. Even though I planned on having music over a large portion of the film, I still could have used this track as a nice tonal blanket for the dialogue scenes I did shoot. I would recommend recording 30 to 60 seconds of room tone in each set or room you do shoot in and also don’t forget to record outdoor tone for dialogue that takes place outside especially in the city. Paris is such a great energetic city that it would be a shame not to capture some of that for whatever film you are planning to shoot.
In the end, I didn’t get to film the second day of shots that I originally scripted for the film, so I had to look at the footage and see if I could make it work in an adjusted story arc. By doing that, I allowed myself an opportunity to learn how to make a liability turn itself into a positive thing for me.
If you are an aspiring filmmaker who has also made mistakes while filming, what advice would you give to others based on your experiences? I would love for you to share your thoughts.
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Social Security for International Staff
ALERT - SPRING 2009
There has been some confusion this spring about possible changes in the requirement for international staff to obtain social security cards. There has been no change to the IRS regulation. International staff are considered employees by the IRS because they receive pocket money and some times other benefits such as room and board. As employees, they must obtain a social security card. The Department of Homeland Security also states in its regulations that all foreign workers must obtain social security cards. This means all categories of international workers including those with J1 (camp counselor and summer work travel) or other exchange visas.
This requirement has been in effect since 1997. We urge you to work closely with your sponsoring agency and your local social security office to obtain these cards. If the cards do not arrive before the staff members leave your site, please return them to the social security office. Do not mail them to the staff members in their home countries.
American Camp Association urges camps to abide by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) ruling and obtain Social Security numbers for all international staff.
Effective 1/1/97, Social Security numbers are required of J-1 international counselors and summer work travel participants. Since international staff receive pocket money and room and board in some instances, they are considered employees by the definition of the IRS. The regulations require Social Security numbers for all persons with over $2,750 in income; but, at the same time exclude certain persons required to file only federal income tax "informational returns". It is important to note that this minimum includes all money received in the United States and not just money that summer work travel participants receive from your camp. Summer work travel participants may work in other places after they have completed their camp obligation. International camp counselors may not.
International staff are subject to background checks once they apply for a Social Security number – this requirement is tied to action by the Department of Homeland Security. This background check is separate from the check they get in their home country to participate in the exchange program. This check cannot begin until the individual is physically within the United States and can add weeks on to the process of the application for a Social Security number.
Camps can pay staff without an actual number as long as the staff member has applied with the Social Security Administration. Your local Social Security office can give you a copy of the memo generated at the national level to show you are operating in good faith when your staff apply for their numbers.
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Previously I have written about the benefits of light therapy in treating seasonal affective disorder. Light therapy is a popular choice with those looking for a drug-free approach to dealing with SAD or the ‘winter blues’. An equally important consideration is how diet affects mood and symptoms in those with SAD – and in particular the importance of the macronutrients carbohydrate, protein and fat in the management of this condition.
Hormones and SAD
SAD is characterised by symptoms such as low mood, carbohydrate cravings, weight gain and fatigue (1, 2). These symptoms are linked to hormones that control our mood and energy levels.
Our body’s natural anti-depressant hormone, serotonin, is stimulated by light. The more light we have during the daytime, the more serotonin we produce. In the darker months of autumn and winter, serotonin levels can drop, resulting in feelings such as low mood, lack of energy and food cravings.
Likewise, darkness stimulates the hormone melatonin, which lowers body temperature and causes tiredness and feelings of fatigue.
How can diet help?
Those with SAD are thought to crave sugary and starchy foods because these types of carbohydrate temporarily boost levels of the body’s natural anti-depressant serotonin. These types of foods also boost energy levels and raise body temperature, countering the effects of melatonin.
Eating this type of diet can only be a temporary ‘fix’ however. In fact, a carbohydrate-rich diet based around sugary and starchy foods, leads to unstable blood sugar levels. This in turn can create a variety of symptoms that we might link to the ‘winter blues’ – moodiness, fatigue, foggy thinking and food cravings.
The solution is to eat a diet based around ‘low glycemic index’ carbohydrates that help to keep blood sugar levels stable. Whole grains such as brown rice and oats, as well as fresh fruits and vegetables are the wisest choices of carbohydrate.
Including a source of lean protein (such as chicken, turkey, eggs, beans or lentils) with each main meal is also a good idea. This helps the body in two ways. Firstly, including protein with each meal helps to control blood sugar levels, fighting off energy dips and cravings. Secondly, protein provides a source of the amino acid tryptophan, which the body can convert to serotonin. Including foods high in tryptophan – such as chicken, tuna, tofu, eggs, nuts, seeds and milk – in your daily diet can help to support your body in making serotonin.
Finally, healthy fats have been extensively studied in relation to depression and mood. Omega-3 fats also have a role in the production and utilisation of serotonin. Inflammatory chemicals in the body can cause serotonin deficiency in the brain. Omega-3 oils can reduce levels of these inflammatory chemicals, therefore helping to boost the brain’s serotonin levels.
The importance of omega-3 in dealing with SAD might explain the low incidence of SAD in Icelanders who have a diet high in oily fish (3). Ensuring a good level of omega-3 in your diet is essential. Including oily fish such as sardines, mackerel, herring or salmon in your diet can help to boost levels of omega-3, as can eating flaxseed oil, walnuts and omega-3 eggs.
Formal research in this area is limited, with many studies simply looking at the impact of a single meal on symptoms of SAD. This is an inadequate assessment of the role of diet. One study that looked at the longer term impact of diet on SAD showed promising results (4). I have certainly found in clinical practice that patients need to be consistent in their dietary choices in order to see an improvement in symptoms over time.
A well-managed diet, along with light therapy (such as a sunrise alarm clock or SAD light box), appears to be a safe approach to managing SAD. Of course carbohydrates, protein and fats are not the only nutrients of importance to those with the winter blues. Part 3 will examine the evidence behind other nutrients and dietary supplements in the support of SAD.
Written by Nadia Mason
1. Sher L. Genetic studies of seasonal affective disorder and seasonality. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 2001, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 105-110.
2. Magnusson A, Boivin D. Seasonal affective disorder: an overview. Chronobiology Int. 2003. 20(2):189-207.
3. Cott J, Hibbeln JR. Lack of seasonal mood change in Icelanders. American Journal of Psychiatry. 2001.
4. Wells, A, et al. (1998) Alterations in mood after changing to a low-fat diet. British Journal of Nutrition 79(1):23-30.
5. Image courtesy of Marcuso.
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Friday, 30 May 2008
With the summer holiday season almost upon us, supermarkets are stocking up their shelves with sun creams all claiming to offer us the optimum protection available from the sun, although recent tests have just revealed that 3 leading sun creams do not offer the protection promised on the bottles, first of all M&S's factor 15 only scored 7.1 in lab tests, Tesco's Factor 15 only came out as 12 and finally Malibu High Protection Lotion only scored 10.2 & not 15 as claimed.
Other brands were scored as well & some of the highly rated ones were Sanisbury's Factor 15, Ambre Solaire, Nivea as well as the one I would recommend, Boots Soltan. Sainsbury's lotion is only £3 which just shows you really don't have to splash the cash to get the best results.
Taking note of the SPF number of suncare products is very important, the numbering system applied to sunscreens is to advise on selecting the correct sunscreen for your skin type. The higher the number the greater the protection, the number indicates how much time can be spent in the sun before burning. For example if you use an SPF of 4, you could stay in the sun four times longer before burning as you would without any protection.
If you have fair skin it is more likely that you will burn quickly without any sunscreen and you may well still burn if your SPF is not strong enough. SPF 30 should provide sufficient coverage of any skin type, a higher SPF such as SPF 50 will provide more protection for very fair skins as well as young children. Medium skinned people are probably best to use SPF 15 or higher, darker skins do not need as much protection to their skin although the skin can still be damaged with over exposure to the sun so it is best to use SPF8.
To maximise your skin's protection from damaging sunrays, sunscream should be re-applied at least every 4 hours and more frequently if you are in & out the water. Apply generously to face, nose, neck, hands and feet as these areas are generally prone to burning, as well as the shoulders, chest & neck.
Always apply an After Sun lotion in the evening to moistuise & sooth the skin, even with sun cream applied your skin will loose moisture in the heat, also look out for creams that are rich in Vitamin E & Aloe Vera as these are great for the skin after being in the sun.
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Sunday, the 1600 block of Gregg Street will be renamed Leevy Lane to honor the late community leader and funeral home director Isaac Samuel Leevy.
The 4:30 p.m. ceremony will be at Leevys Funeral Home, 1831 Taylor St. in Columbia.
Mayor Steve Benjamin and members of City Council are recognizing the man who, in 1930, established the first black-owned gas station at Taylor and Gregg Streets. In 1932, he remodeled the building into The Leevys Funeral Home, a local landmark for 80 years now.
Leevy founded the Leevy Department Store and Victory Savings Bank, now S.C. Community Bank. He rose through the ranks of the Republican Party and, during segregation, ran for a number of public offices, including City Council and Congress. His grandson is lawyer I.S. Leevy Johnson, who in 1970 became one of the first African Americans elected to the state Legislature since Reconstruction.
Sundays ceremony will mark the 44th anniversary of Isaac Samuel Leevys passing.
-- Dawn Hinshaw
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Our SECFOR guys from South Carolina were not only the cream of that proud state, but they were funnier than hell to boot. Their original explanations for Afghan phenomena were imaginative and often hilarious.
Many areas of Afghanistan are boulder-strewn. In one place on the J-bad Highway where the passes open up into a mountain-bordered plain, it actually looked like they were boulder farming.
Thousands of large round boulders looked like they had been purposely arranged in rows. I chuckled to myself from the turret of the humvee as we rolled along and I saw these fields of boulders. We would encounter areas in many areas of the country where the fields of boulders were just mind-boggling. Like a carton of bb's scattered on a living room carpet, the thousands of boulders had been there for eons.
SGT Burt Schtickum, (who is still recovering from a torn aorta and resultant valve replacement that he narrowly but miraculously survived,) decided that the fields of large round rocks were, in fact, Taliban eggs. Taliban, SGT Schtickum reasoned, were hatched from these eggs cleverly disguised as rocks in much the same way that killdeer eggs look like pebbles.
These eggs, he maintains, have lain dormant for generations, Godzilla-like; and are activated to spawn by contact with diesel exhaust. Fiendish. As we patrolled, this sage of Afghan naturalism explained, we stirred our own foes with the exhaust plumes belched from our humvees.
It's hard to argue with the sheer Darwinian logic SGT Schtickum applied to the constant supply of Taliban we were presented with.
Here is one of our drives through fields of Taliban eggs. We were on a back road in Kapisa Province when we were suddenly surrounded by scads of them. As you can tell from the quantity of unspawned Taliban, we're in deep over there.
Some day someone will recognize SGT Schtickum's work in this dusty realm where science meets insurgency. The odor of Nobel mixed with diesel exhaust wafts through the air. That will be a proud day.
Keep on keepin' on, Burt. Hope you're 100% soon.
It was my turn to drive. Jacques Pulvier was up in the turret. When we got to the next village and dismounted, he looked like a frosted doughnut. Frosted Jacques; it's a good look for him.
In Memory Bright, Black Knights
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Yesterday was a full day indeed. The main event? The California State Science Fair. The venue? The California Science Center (just across the road from USC). Here’s a picture of it in case you’ve never been:
(Click for larger view.) California Science Center (with one of my personal emergency escape crafts cleverly disguised somewhere in the picture – all scientists have emergency escape craft, by the way – along with our plans to take over the world, our lab coat, and so forth…)
The time? 7:00am. Yes, we start early, as there is a lot to do for the long morning. The judges all gather in the IMAX theatre for a briefing about the ins and outs of the organization this year, the times at which various things will happen, and a reminder about some of the finer points of judging.
At 8:00am we broke up into groups of judges who will judge various sections. Mine was Applied Mechanics and Structures – Senior. Here, we decided on our collective strategy concerning how we’ll go around the various displays, making sure at least five judges (there were ten of us in total) see each project once in the first round of interviews. We’ll compare notes during the break at 11:00am, agree which ones we should all have seen – in order to focus on deciding which ones get which prizes or honourable mentions. I forgot to take a picture of our group of judges sitting around the table chatting. Most of the judges in my group were people from the aerospace industry, I gathered. About three or four people were new to the whole thing, and so some of us explained a bit about the things that we ought to be looking out for in the judging. This also (given the section were were to judge, and given the makeup of the judging panel – many coming from an industry where the place where the science and engineering are quite thoroughly – and necessarily – mixed together) leads to discussion about making sure to distinguish between a great science project and a great engineering project. It’s also good to be aware, when making comparisons, of the vast differences in resources that some entrants have access to. These two things, to my mind, are very important (and we all agreed). A kid (especially one with access to lots of resources, for example) can dazzle an unwary judge with lots of fancy cool equipment and build something that is truly wonderful and admirable, but that does not necessarily mean that they would have done as much science as the next entrant who has done some very careful scientific experimentation with a innovative way of answering a clearly stated question, but in a less spectacular setting – perhaps mostly using more affordable household items.
Well, with that in mind, we all went off to meet the youngsters! See the project listings here. This is the best part, of course… talking with all those enthusiastic young people presenting their ideas, their projects they’ve been spending so much spare time on (giving me a pleasant feeling of nostalgia for all the time I spent as a youth building things in my room, and “labs” and “hideouts” as I called the various places I would retreat to in order to make my project plans, take apart radios and other bits of equipment, building all sorts of things….), sometimes with huge amounts of confidence, sometimes with a great deal of nerves, hesitation, etc.
(Click for larger view.) Two winners and an honorable mention. Left is Christoper Lee, who did marvellous work on studying fuel cell physics, middle is Laurel Kroo, who actually won our whole section with her new and highly original design for buoyancy engine for an underwater glider (for exploration), and to the right is Johnnie Kwok, who studied the relative merits of various types of truss bridges…. he’d built 56 of them or so!
One’s role there is to let them speak, mostly, and listen. Perhaps a gentle question here and there to steer them along here and there to learn what they’ve done, to clarify a point or two, or to make a suggestion about something they’ve done (ideas for the next year’s improvements, for example).
This wonderful (but yes, exhausting) time takes the whole morning running from 8:30am to 12:30pm, with a that discussion break in between. We discussed together projects we saw, argued (amiably) a bit about the pros and cons of various ones, and steadily arrived at our list of prizes and honourable mentions. We were all very satisfied with our list, and our duties were at an end.
(Click for larger view.) Two of the groups who had a lot of fun launching things (potatoes in one case – guess which- and bottles of lead shot for the other) over great distances. Names are not in order, but on the Left: Dylan Beatty; Jack Holman; Garrett Morgan and Right: Alexander Berry; Katherine Corradini; Bernard Kozacik
I spotted a number of other USC faculty helping out with this as well. Of course, there’s Chris Gould, who runs so much of the organisation of the California State Science fair, but there was also Stephan Haas and Vitaly Kresin from Physics and Astronomy, who were judging on other sections (various sorts of physics and astronomy topics). I also saw Michelle Arbeitman, a professor from Molecular Biology. This was a particularly nice case, since (as she told me) Michelle herself was one of those enthusiastic youngsters in this very science fair, many years ago.
I wanted to stay and hang out with some of the judges from my section a bit more, and to see the announcements of all the prizes to the assembled students and families (see them beginning to gather for that in the picture below – Click for larger view.):
…but I had to dash off and be all formal and professorial at a three-hour long committee meeting for (and later, with) the Provost, back across the street.
Luckily, I could end the long day with some excellent physics discussion, hanging out with Bee (in town to talk physics, give a seminar the next day (picture right), etc.) in Santa Monica at the Real Food Daily restaurant, a place so intensely focused on being healthy that you leave the place craving something like a Hostess twinkie followed by a coke and a cup of table salt, just to balance out the universe a bit. I’ll have to try a bit more of their menu before I am enthusiastic about it. My Mexican-inspired vegan dish was a bit bland.
Home at 11:00pm. Exhausted, but with a sense of having had a fulfilling day. Crashed out.
Some Related Asymptotia Posts (not exhaustive):
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The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) approved terms and conditions to be issued with a Request for Proposal (RFP), a process that allows Design-Build teams to bid on construction of the first high-speed rail project in California.
Five Design-Build teams qualified for a short list and will compete for contracts to build the backbone of the high-speed rail system in the Central Valley. Proposals will be scored on whether they meet strict guidelines for technical competence, deadline schedules, methods of operation and costs. The winning bid will include a CHSRA policy and goal that says 30% of the work will go to small businesses.
CHSRA agreed to award a $2 million stipend to Design-Build teams that submit bids but are not awarded the contract. Stipends are a common engineering industry practice that partially compensates companies that participate in the RFP process.
The first segment of the high-speed rail project will extend 25 miles from near the city of Madera to south of the city of Fresno. It will create an estimated 100,000 job-years over the next five years and one million job-years over the next 20 years, according to the agency.
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) will pay for half of the $1.5 to $2 billion project. Proposition 1A, the High-Speed Passenger Train Act, approved by voters in 2008, will supply money for CHSRA's portion of the funding.
The CHSRA board of directors also voted to support the development of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Southern California transportation agencies. It outlines a shared commitment to development of high-speed rail in Southern California while providing funding for local early investment projects that will improve rail service immediately.
Agencies that have already approved the MOU include Southern California Association of Governments, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Riverside County Transportation Commission, San Diego Association of Governments, San Bernardino Associated Governments and the Southern California Regional Rail Authority (Metrolink).
Specifically, the CHSRA would identify $1 billion in Prop 1A or other funds that could be used for early investment projects along the high-speed rail corridors, as defined in the authority's Business Plan. Meanwhile, regional agencies would work with the CHSRA to find matching funds in order to improve existing railways and deliver the high-speed rail system sooner to Southern California. The coordinated effort defines a new interagency partnership that further promotes intermodal connectivity.
All agencies will coordinate to develop a Candidate Project list for early investment in Southern California by 2020. In addition, the agencies will prepare performance criteria for selecting and prioritizing the projects from the Candidate Project list. These projects will be recommended to the Legislature, which is uniquely responsible for approval and appropriation.
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Catalytic Reduction of Dinitrogen to Ammonia with Protons and Electrons
In chemistry, the term “metathesis” refers to a chemical reaction in which bonds between different atoms are broken and the atoms recombine to create a new molecule—a process that has been likened to dancers switching partners. As a bench chemist at E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Richard Schrock discovered the mechanism by which catalytic agents influence metathesis in carbon compounds, paving the way to synthesize pharmaceuticals, plastics, industrial chemicals, and other new substances. Along with two other chemists, Schrock received the 2005 Nobel Prize for advancing the use of metathesis. “The synthesis methods developed by the [Nobel] Laureates have rapidly become common tools in academic research,” said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in awarding the prize. “With catalytic metathesis the synthesis routes are shorter, giving more product and fewer restproducts. This leads to cleaner and more environmentally friendly production.”
Schrock, now the Frederick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry at MIT, delivered three lectures in March, 2007 as University Lecturer in the Chemistry Department. The University Lecture Series is sponsored by Sigma-Aldrich.
Date: March 23, 2007
Location: Merkert 127
Sponsor(s): Chemistry Department
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"Real Time" Traffic Message Boards Debut
MassDOT Secretary and CEO Richard A. Davey this week unveiled new message boards offering real time traffic information along the Interstate 93 corridor from Canton to the New Hampshire border.
MassDOT Secretary Davey said, “Real time traffic data will better allow people to plan their commutes giving them greater control over their day. These initiatives are further examples of the Patrick-Murray Administration's commitment to improving the customer experience through innovation.”
The Real Time Traffic Management pilot includes I-93 Northbound and Southbound travel time information via 22 signs. The signs display travel times in segments between various interchanges. For example, drivers passing Pelham Street in Methuen see on average a 14 minute travel time to Route 128 in Woburn. As traffic slows, road sensors send updated travel times every minute to the message boards letting drivers know how long it will be until they reach their destination.
Drivers will also notice these boards on highways approaching I-93. On I-95 Northbound before Neponset Street drivers will see the time it takes to reach the Braintree Split. MassDOT is working to link this real time information for customers via 511 and also in the future make it accessible to third parties through its open data initiative.
This week, MassDOT also debuted online seven additional cameras for residents and visitors interested in road conditions on Cape Cod at mass.gov/massdot (cameras 224 to 230). The Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority is now hosting two new cameras on its website: capecodtransit.org.
Six message boards are also being deployed to communicate road conditions. Plans to provide even further resources for Cape Cod travelers are in progress. Beyond I-93 and Route 6, MassDOT is next hoping to bring this statewide real time traffic initiative to Western Massachusetts along I-91.
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New York AG Takes On "Reciprocity" Gun Bill
As it currently stands, the Second Amendment guarantees U.S. citizens the right to own firearms. But each state is permitted to place its own restrictions on the types of firearms -- and the manner in which they're possessed -- that people are allowed to own.
A bill making its way through Congress would grant "reciprocity" for gun owners in states where they don't actually live. In other words, if you can carry a concealed handgun under Ohio law, an Ohio resident can carry a concealed weapon in New York -- regardless of New York's gun laws.
The bill is designed to keep gun owners from getting arrested in other states where gun laws might be different than they are in the state in which they live. But New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman ain't havin' it.
Schneiderman is leading a coalition of attorneys general who oppose "The National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act" and "The Respecting States Rights and Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act," which he says "would force states like New York, and the other co-signing states, to abandon their own gun laws by allowing out-of-state visitors to carry concealed firearms based on their home state's less safe laws, rather than those of the state they are entering."
In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the attorneys general expressed their concern that "the bill would restrict their states' ability to control who may and may not carry a concealed weapon within their borders, undermine the ability of police to verify the validity of gun permits, and allow gun traffickers to more easily bring illegal guns into their respective states.
"These two bills would force states to recognize concealed carry permits issued by any other states, even those with poor oversight and weaker permitting standards," the attorneys general wrote. "These bills would create a lowest common denominator approach to public safety that would endanger police and make it more difficult to prosecute gun traffickers."
Scheniderman says, that in 2011, about 68 percent of guns recovered in connection with crimes committed in New York State originally came from outside the state. That said, all of those guns found their way to New York without the help of a reciprocity law.
See the attorneys general's letter below.
The Honorable Harry Reid The Honorable Mitch McConnell
U.S. Senate Majority Leader U.S. Senate Republican Leader
522 Hart Senate Office Building 317 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510 Washington, D.C. 20510
RE: Attorney General Opposition To S. 2188, "The National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act" (Begich-Manchin) and S. 2213, "The Respecting States Rights and Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act" (Thune-Vitter)
Dear Majority Leader Reid and Republican Leader McConnell:
We write to respectfully urge you and your caucuses to oppose S. 2188, "The National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act" and S. 2213, "The Respecting States Rights and Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act." These two bills would force states to recognize concealed carry permits issued by any other states, even those with poor oversight and weaker permitting standards. These bills would create a lowest common denominator approach to public safety that would endanger police and make it more difficult to prosecute gun traffickers.
S. 2188 and S. 2213 trample on states' rights by overriding our states' legislative and regulatory authority to determine who can - and who cannot - carry hidden and loaded guns in public. For example, many states have established standards that go beyond federal law in order to keep concealed weapons out of the hands of violent misdemeanants, alcohol abusers, teenagers, and people who have not completed basic safety training. S. 2188 and S. 2213 would gut this framework, and impose the weakest state permitting and verification standards on all other states.
Under current law, states are free to enter into, refuse, or revoke concealed carry reciprocity agreements with other states. These agreements are often contingent on states having comparable permitting standards. For example, authorities in Nevada and New Mexico made the decision to stop recognizing carry permits issued by Utah, which does not require live-fire instruction as part of its training requirements. Nevada has also ended reciprocity with Florida, which only requires individuals to renew their permits every seven years. States would lose this discretion under forced reciprocity.
As Attorneys General, we are most troubled by the threat to public safety posed by local law enforcement's inability to promptly verify out-of-state permits. Contrary to claims by proponents of national concealed carry reciprocity legislation, varying state standards make it nearly impossible for our law enforcement agencies to quickly determine if a carry permit from another state is valid. This further jeopardizes the safety of police and the public. In addition, there is no comprehensive national database or inquiry system that alerts law enforcement officers when a concealed carry permit is counterfeit, expired, or has recently been revoked.
In fact, some states also fail to adequately track their own permit issuances and revocations. The Georgia Bureau of Investigations has confirmed it cannot determine when a state permit-holder breaks the law; recently enacted Wisconsin law prohibits law enforcement from accessing permitting information during traffic stops or for purposes of investigating potential criminal activity; and Florida issued permits to more than 1,400 people who previously pleaded guilty or no contest to felonies, 216 people with outstanding warrants, 128 people with active domestic violence injunctions, and six registered sex offenders.
The police officers in our states are already putting their lives on the line when they stop potentially dangerous individuals on the street. Forcing these officers to conduct traffic stops and other police activity with no ability to authenticate every other state's carry permits would pose an extraordinary and unnecessary risk.
Forced reciprocity is opposed by national organizations including: the International Association of Chiefs of Police; the Major Cities Chiefs Association, representing the police chiefs of 62 major U.S. cities; the National Network to End Domestic Violence, representing 56 state and territorial domestic violence coalitions; the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys; as well as various state law enforcement associations and law enforcement leaders. Forced reciprocity is also opposed by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a bipartisan coalition of more than 650 mayors who collectively represent 54 million Americans.
We urge you to stand up for America's law enforcement community and oppose S. 2188 and S. 2213.
Eric T. Schneiderman
New York Attorney General
Kamala D. Harris
California Attorney General
Connecticut Attorney General
David M. Louie
Hawaii Attorney General
Illinois Attorney General
Douglas F. Gansler
Maryland Attorney General
Martha M. Coakley
Massachusetts Attorney General
Catherine Cortez Masto
Nevada Attorney General
Oregon Attorney General
Pennsylvania Attorney General-Elect
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Highlights from series 8
Sunday, September 09 2012
As the revolutions gained momentum in the Arab world, the eighth season of The Doha Debates launched at the heart of it all - in Cairo. The debate focused on a controversial issue at the time – was the military really interested in genuine reform and would it retire from politics and return to the barracks after elections?
The situation in Syria was next on the agenda. November’s debate discussed President Bashar al-Assad’s future, generating impassioned responses from the audience who wanted to know when the leader would step down. A resounding 91 percent of the audience voted in favour of the motion that it was time for Assad to go.
A debate on Bahrain followed, with speakers and audience members arguing passionately on whether the country’s rulers could be trusted to implement reforms in the wake of violence in the Kingdom.
In January, the team travelled to Istanbul to hold a debate at Bogazici University on Turkey’s growing political role in the Middle East.
Returning to their home base of Qatar in February, the Debates first all-female panel discussed women’s rights after the Arab Spring. A lively debate on marrying first cousins followed, which included an emotional, eye-opening exchange from the panel which focused on the medical and social issues related to marriage between close family members.
After Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti called for the destruction of churches in the region – April’s debate had religious leaders discussing the future of religious minorities in the Middle East.
And the curtains closed on season eight with a discussion on censorship in art. The debate, inspired by the Gulf’s growing art scene, challenged the audience’s perceptions on what should or should not be censored.
Watch the highlights to get a taste or the full debates to see more.
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Dr. Greene’s Answer:
Kare and Robert, your daughter is beautiful!
Often newborns surprise their parents with the amount of noise they make when they breathe, particularly after eating. The cells which line the nasal passages make a similar amount of mucus as they would in an adult, but the surface to volume ratio of the nasal passages is much larger. Proportionally there is much more mucus in a newborn than in an older child. This is why it is completely normal for newborns to sneeze frequently.
Because the passageways are so flexible and narrow, air coming through them often makes a snorting or gurgling sound. This will be particularly evident when your daughter is lying on her back, or after she nurses, when she has not cleared the mucus for a long time. In addition to the extra mucus, she may get some milk in her nose as she feeds.
Gurgling is a normal part of being a baby. In some babies though, the trachea or windpipe is too floppy. If the noise you hear is primarily when she is breathing in, or if she makes a crowing noise, let your doctor know. There are a few conditions where the structures of the nose, mouth, or throat may not have formed completely. This is correctable, if noticed, so here are a few things you might look for:
- your baby turns blue or white during feeding or gurgling
- your baby is not gaining weight well
- your baby develops a significant cough
- your baby cannot cry
- your baby does not seem satisfied after feeding
If any of these occur you should see your doctor to determine the cause of the gurgling. Otherwise, relax and enjoy the magical time when your daughter is so small. In only a few months she will have doubled in weight and these precious newborn sounds will be a thing of the past.
Last reviewed: April 28, 2008
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – On television this week, Democrats will roar in unison for President Barack Obama.
On the streets outside the Democratic National Convention, it’s not that simple.
Democrats of every stripe have descended on Charlotte, hoping to shape the party’s agenda.
One of the most contentious debates is about schools, especially teachers. And Colorado is right in the middle of it.
About 200 people showed up Tuesday for a town hall by Democrats for Education Reform that featured, among others, state Sen. Mike Johnston, D-Denver, and U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder.
Both are supporters of data-driven reforms in the schools, stricter standards for teachers and better use of charter schools. Johnston sponsored a bill in 2010 that ended “tenure as we know it” for teachers and allowed job protections only for high-performing teachers, based in part on how well their students do on standardized tests.
Job protections “ought to be earned based on performance, and they ought to be kept based on performance,” said Johnston, a former teacher and principal.
The idea is controversial inside the party, and its reception with major allies like teachers unions has ranged from frosty to hostile.
But President Barack Obama’s administration has supported many of the same changes Johnston has backed, and that has angered some of his fans.
Outside the event, three women stood wearing signs that read “trust teachers” and bearing large fake pencils fashioned out of yellow foam tubes. They tried to attend the town hall but weren’t allowed in.
Carol Sawyer, a Charlotte parent and member of a local pro-public school group called Mecklenberg ACTS, was one of the protesters, and she said Obama has let her down but not lost her support.
“I am very disappointed. I fully support President Obama, and I want him to be re-elected,” she said, but she doesn’t like Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s agenda of “excessive testing” in schools.
She also opposes charter schools, which Democrats for Education Reform supports.
“They don’t improve education, and they are creating a hyper-segregated system,” Sawyer said.
The party’s official platform, adopted Tuesday, calls for respecting and rewarding teachers and uses careful language when it talks about firing ineffective ones.
“We also believe in carefully crafted evaluation systems that give struggling teachers a chance to succeed and protect due process if another teacher has to be put in the classroom. We also recognize there is no substitute for a parent’s involvement in their child’s education,” the platform says.
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But before starting, I have many biases, but the one that comes to mind as an American is that I tend to worry more about individual rights than collective rights. And I worry about governments interfering too much, and I worry about people who worry too much. For instance, lots of folks worry about the new immigrants to the US not learning English. I would rather the market and the society have its impact, which will be to protect English, than impose the state upon the individuals. If they want to send their kids to private school in Spanish, that is their choice.
Anyhow, here is what I wrote while waiting for my internet connection to work again after the break:
What is the threat to French in Canada? The answer that motivates much of the policy and politics is not the present but the past. Because of the past Tyranny of the Majority, French was threatened with English political and economic dominance in Quebec and a Rest of Canada that was uninterested in either being bilingual or maintaining a French Quebec. Over the past forty years or so, politics, institutions and demographics have made a dramatic difference. Quebec has significant powers to protect French. The changes in demography has meant that politicians must play to a largely Francophone audience, so that there are incentives to protect French, and, as I have argued over the past few days—over-protect it. At the Canadian level, for the recent past and the near future, it has become clear that one must do quite well in Quebec to win a national majority, giving Quebec significant influence over who runs Canada. Plus the crises over the past few decades has provided Quebec with significant bargaining leverage as well.
So, what does threaten French in Quebec? Wait, first, some realities to be made clear: 80% of Quebec is Francophone and then 10% is Anglophone and the rest are Allophone. But what does that mean? Well, the 80% of the population speaks French. 10% of the population has English as a first language, but many of these folks are bilingual. And the allophones are folks whose first language is neither French nor English but probably end up speaking three or more languages. At least that has been my experience in the stores and streets of Montreal, where I hear individuals speaking three languages.
The perception is that French is threatened in Montreal because the percentage of families that speak French first at home has declined somewhat. To be clear, this has not been because there has been a huge influx of Anglophones or even of Allophones. Rather, it has been the reality that French families have been moving to the suburbs to the North and South. Why? Because the houses are cheaper, the services are probably better, and the taxes are lower. Montreal is facing some significant problems that make it less desirable than it once was—but those problems are not about language.
Well, language politics may matter in all of this, but not because English is dominating, but because Quebec as a province does not treat Montreal terribly well and because Montreal is poorly run. The last municipal election was between a mayor that had many corruption controversies, a woman who was widely reviled for her past policies that had been pretty hostile to much of Montreal, and another competitor who was seen as not entirely stable, I guess.
Anyway, the key is that the perception of a threat is much greater than the reality of what is really going on—that the new generation of Anglophones is increasingly bilingual, the Allophones are multilingual, and the Francophones desire but cannot get access to as much English education as they would like. It sometimes feels like I am the only unilingual person in town. Obvious, that is not true.
So, what is the threat to French in Quebec? Not immigrants, for one. Quebec controls immigration to the province, so it can and does favor immigration from those parts of the world where French is spoken. The downside for some nationalists is that this means that more French-speaking immigrants means more non-white immigrants—Haitians, Lebanese, etc. But for the point here, the best place to influence the composition of the society is at the border, and Quebec already controls that.
The only real challenge or risk is not from hordes of Americans, Aussies, Brits, Kiwis, and other Anglophones outside the country but from the rest of Canada. Quebec cannot prohibit Canadians from moving to Quebec. One could imagine a million or two Anglophones from other parts of Canada moving to Quebec to upset the balance of power somewhat. Sure. Given the higher taxes, lower wages, and often worse services, there is no risk of this either. The flow has been very much in the opposite direction, and perhaps it has evened out. But there really is no probability of Canadians reversing the demographic shifts of the past.
So again, what is the threat to French? And the answer is the obvious one—being located near the US and an increasingly connected world where English is the primary language of business and culture. Not the only language, but the increasingly common one. French has lost to English in Romania, for instance, despite Romania’s history and its membership in the Francophonie. Unless Quebec invests in jamming devices, its proximity to the US means that English TV, movies, and radio will continue to penetrate the province.
Even if Quebec were able to gain significant power over the airwaves (a stance has surprisingly gotten little play) and require content rules not unlike those that require 30% of the music to be Canadian to require more or exclusively French media, the 21st century will not allow it. Close the English movie theaters and people can access stuff online. Prohibit American TV programs on Quebec cable and satellite dishes, and the gray market on satellite dishes that get American and other foreign programming will boom. Same for radio with the advent of satellite radio. Blocking the internet a la China so that only French media gets through is theoretically possible, I guess, but would be, well, extraordinarily repressive and very difficult technologically.
More important, Quebec has to exist in a world of English if it wants to trade with the rest of the world. The Chinese are not going to invest in learning French when English will do just fine. So, the real threat to French in Quebec is the need for Francophones to learn English so that they can compete on world markets. That is why Francophones go to English CEGEPs (the strange Quebec institution that bridges high school and university—part vocational, part junior college, part prep school). And that is why McGill continues to attract many Francophones. There are other very good universities in Quebec where French is the language of instruction (Université de Montréal), but many French-speakers pick McGill, the notoriously Anglophone entity in the heart of Montreal, precisely because they know what it takes to succeed.
So, the threat to French in Quebec is not that severe and so we must question whether the methods used to protect it are proportionate to the threat. The Francophones have won many big battles over the years to get here, deservedly so, and moving from here forwards is not going to reverse those gains in any significant way. The political incentives are what they are. The English in Quebec have marginal political influence, and that is not going to change.
The Francophones in Quebec can choose to govern better than the English in Canada used to or not. They can choose to inflict a tyranny of the majority on the local minorities or not. But if they choose the former (and this is not a foregone conclusion since real support for independence and other extreme policies is decidedly mixed), it will not be due to a real threat and the policies will have a marginal impact on the realities of language in Quebec. But it may win votes.
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As the world moves deeper and deeper into sin, this wonderful Church stands like a giant granite boulder.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn referred to shortsighted concessions: “A process of giving up and giving up and giving up and hoping and hoping and hoping that perhaps at some point the wolf will have had enough.”
My wonderful young friends, let me promise you, the wolf will never have enough.
Oliver Wendell Holmes said: “Where the spirit invades the heart, there can be no rest. For even in the dark of night, one link of the chain still holds, one light that will not go out.”
Doesn’t it make you deeply grateful to belong to a church with apostles and prophets at the head—knowing that one link will always hold, one light will never go out? As the world moves deeper and deeper into sin, this wonderful Church stands like a giant granite boulder.
Aren’t you proud that the Church teaches us the truth? We don’t have to wonder about earrings for boys and men, tattoos, spiked hair, the four-letter words, and obscene gestures. We have prophets who model the standards. They teach that the Ten Commandments are not outdated. The word of the Lord has thundered down through the generations: “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain” (Ex. 20:7). Profaning God’s name is a great offense to the Spirit, and to do so is Satan’s great ploy to mock our God.
Jehovah also declared, “Thou shalt not steal” (Ex. 20:15). Stealing is an affront to God. This commandment is one of only 10. Cheating, lying, bearing false witness are all types of stealing.
Beloved youth, aren’t you thankful to God that the apostles and prophets never waver on sin? No matter how strong the winds of public opinion may blow, the Church is immovable. “God has commanded that the sacred powers of procreation are to be employed only between man and woman, lawfully wedded as husband and wife.” 1
Those who espouse perverse principles and deviant behavior are living in sin. Laws, consensus, consenting adults that teach contrary to the gospel are wrong even if the majority accepts them. Sin is sin, and that is God’s truth. The Apostle Paul declared, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” (1 Cor. 3:16).
Pornography is evil. I love the story told at the funeral of Henry Eyring’s father. When he was a young man coming across the border from the Mexican colonies to the United States, the customs man said, “Son, do you have any pornography in your suitcase or trunks?” He responded, “No sir, we don’t even own a pornograph.” It’s wonderful to be that pure and naive. We know pornography is addictive and destructive. It has companions it travels with: drinking, smoking, and drugs. It uses some types of music, dancing, the Internet, and television. Those who produce it are godless and have no conscience. They know the consequences, but they don’t care. Like those who peddle drugs, they will never be around to pick up the pieces when you’re all broken up. But we will—your parents, bishops, and leaders.
Be careful who you make your close friends. Two men were talking, and one said, “Hey, Joe, I passed your house the other day.” And Joe said, “Thanks.” Be grateful if you are not included in the wrong groups. There will always be a strong warning come to you beforehand.
Rudyard Kipling said:
Your friends are a safeguard.
A word to adults and parents. Elder Bruce R. McConkie’s father counseled that when we violate any commandment, however small, our youth may choose to violate a commandment later on in life perhaps 10 times or 100 times worse and justify it on the basis of the small commandment we broke. 3
One of the most important influences on the religiosity of our youth is the spontaneous religious discussions in our homes. When we discuss the things we love most, not because they are scheduled—i.e., family home evening, prayer, or scripture study—but just because they are so precious to us, they have a profound influence on our children.
Grady Bogue, college professor, said: “Rightly done, teaching is a precious work. It is, however, the one human endeavor most damaging in consequence when done without care or competence. To carry a student in harm’s way because of either ignorance or arrogance—because we do not know or do not care—is an act far worse than a bungled surgery. Our mistakes will not bleed. Instead, they carry hidden scars whose mean and tragic consequence may not be seen until years have passed and remedy is painful and impossible.” 4
Youth, do not feel oppressed by obedience. Obedience is a wonderful and a great privilege. In Abraham 4:18 [Abr. 4:18] it states, “And the Gods watched those things which they had ordered until they obeyed.” What if the elements had not obeyed? They would have been damned or held back. So it is with us. Obedience to God is truly the only way to really be free and exercise our agency. Satan teaches the opposite and, with each wrong choice, binds us with chains. I promise you, obedience is a wonderful privilege.
When I was a boy, my mother had to go to work at Garfield Smelter and work like a man to help support the seven children. She worked the graveyard shift as much as she could, I’m sure to be with us during the day. I don’t know when the poor woman slept. One Saturday morning, she got off work about 7:00 or 8:00 A.M. She went to bed for a couple of hours and then got up. She had invited all her relatives to dinner. There must have been 35 or 40. She decorated the tables and arranged the chairs and put all the dishes and silverware out. She cooked and baked all day long. The dirty pots and pans and dishes stacked up.
Everyone came to dinner, and after dinner all the dirty dishes were brought into the kitchen. The food was cleared and stacked on the table and cupboards; then the kitchen door was closed and the family began to visit. It was about 8:00 P.M.
I remember standing all alone in the kitchen. In my young mind, I thought: My mother worked all night; she has worked all day to get this dinner. When everyone leaves, she will have to do the dishes and put the food away. It will take two or three hours, and that’s not fair. Then I thought, I will do them.
I washed the dishes, did the silverware, the glassware. We didn’t have an electric dishwasher; ours was a manual dishwasher, and that night I was manual. I used a half-dozen dish towels. I was drenched from head to foot. I put the food away, cleaned off the table and drainboards; then I got down on my hands and knees and scrubbed the floor. When I was finished, I thought the kitchen was immaculate. It took about three hours.
Then I heard the chairs shuffling, and everyone left. The front door closed, and I heard my mother coming to the kitchen. I was pleased and thought she would be. The door swung open, and even at the age of 11, I recognized that she was startled. She looked around the kitchen, looked at me, and then there was a look I didn’t recognize at the time. I do now. It was something like “Thanks. I am tired. I think you understand, and I love you.” And she came over and hugged me. There was a light in her eye and a warmth in my heart. I learned it is a wonderful feeling to turn on the lights in our parents’ eyes.
Another time—it was the Sunday before Thanksgiving, about 1943—I went to priesthood meeting. There was a large framed board. It had the pictures of all the young men serving in the military. Priests who had been at the sacrament table a few months earlier were now in the war. Each week it would be updated. Those who were killed in action had a gold star by their picture; those who had been wounded, a red star; and those missing in action, a white star. Every week, as a 12-year-old deacon, I checked to see who had been killed or wounded.
In quorum meeting that morning, the member of the bishopric said: “This Thursday is Thanksgiving. We ought to all have family prayer in our homes.” Then he said, “Let’s put on the blackboard the things we are grateful for.” We did, and he said, “Include these things in your Thanksgiving prayer.” I got sick to my stomach, as we never had a prayer or blessing.
That night at 6:30 we went to sacrament meeting. At the end of the meeting, the bishop stood up and was very tender. He told about the young men from our ward who had been killed and wounded. He talked about our liberty, our freedom, our flag, and this great country, and our blessings. Then he said, “I’d hope every single family would kneel and have family prayer on Thanksgiving Day and thank God for His blessings.”
My heart ached. I thought, How can we have family prayer? I wanted to be obedient. I hardly slept all Sunday night. I wanted to have a prayer for Thanksgiving. I even thought I would say it if someone asked me, but I was too shy to volunteer. I worried all day Monday, and all day Tuesday, and Wednesday at school.
Dad did not come home on Wednesday until early in the morning. Thursday we all got up. There were five boys and two sisters. We skipped breakfast so we would have a real appetite for Thanksgiving dinner. To work up an appetite, we went to a nearby field and dug a hole six feet deep and six feet wide. We made a trench to it as a hideout. I remember with every shovelful of dirt, I thought, Please, Heavenly Father, let us have a prayer.
Finally at 2:30, my mother called us to come and eat. We cleaned up and sat at the table. Somehow Mom had managed to have a turkey with all the trimmings. She put all the food on the table, including the turkey. I thought my heart would burst. Time was running out. I looked at my father, then my mother. I thought, Please, now, someone, anyone, please can’t we have a prayer. I was almost panicky; then all of a sudden everyone started to eat. I had worked hard all morning and afternoon to work up an appetite, but I wasn’t hungry. I didn’t want to eat. I wanted to pray more than anything else in this world, and it was too late.
Beloved youth, be grateful for parents who have prayer and read the scriptures. Prize family home evening. Be grateful for those who teach and train you.
My young friends, there is so much that is wonderful, worthwhile in this grand world. I love President Hinckley’s constant reference to the love and confidence, the greatness, that he feels in you, our beloved youth.
Prepare to go to the temple. A wonderful verse describes it:
And President Joseph F. Smith taught: “After we have done all we could do for the cause of truth, and withstood the evil that men have brought upon us, and we have been overwhelmed by their wrongs, it is still our duty to stand. We cannot give up; we must not lie down. Great causes are not won in a single generation.” 6
Young men and young women, raise the standard; carry the torch for your generation. We have absolute confidence you will.
I thank God for the one link that still holds, the one light that will not go out. Remember how blessed you are to have prayer in your homes. And always try to put lights in your mothers’ eyes. That’s the least we can all do for them.
We love you, our beloved youth, and pray God to bless each one of you. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
1. “The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” Ensign, Nov. 1995, 102.
2. Rudyard Kipling’s Verse (1935), 559.
3. Conversation with Brit McConkie.
4. “A Friend of Mine: Notes on the Gift of Teaching,” Vital Speeches, 15 July 1988, 615.
5. Poem by Orson F. Whitney; quoted in Spencer W. Kimball, “The Things of Eternity—Stand We in Jeopardy?” Ensign, Jan. 1977, 7.
6. Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith (1998), 107.
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Several times a day, Atena Asiaii pulls her maroon prayer rug from under her bed and lines it up on the scuffed linoleum floor, kneeling on it to face northeast, the direction of Mecca. She has figured out which corner to turn toward without the help of a compass because her roommate, Yael Richardson, prays facing East, the direction of their dorm-room door. Far beyond it lies Jerusalem.
They're both college sophomores. They like gossiping about guys and eating ice cream. They're taking beginning Arabic. But what unites them most is the very thing people might expect to keep them apart: their religious devotion.
Living together as a Muslim and a Jew wasn't intended to be a statement. Yael and Atena met as freshmen at Brown University and decided to request a room together the next year in Interfaith House - a dorm where matters of faith are the stuff of spontaneous conversations in the halls.
The house was especially appealing for Atena, who had had a chilly reception from her freshman roommate. They were mismatched on everything from sleeping habits to moral values, Atena says. But worse, her roommate was bothered when Atena prayed silently in their room. Atena tried her best to time her prayer for when her roommate was out.
The awkward situation made Atena, the American daughter of Iranian immigrants, acutely aware of her Muslim identity. It made her feel different. Now she feels blessed to be free from that burden. She prays in her room whenever she wants to, and she never feels "different," because Yael does the same. At times they even find themselves praying simultaneously.
Among the books on the shelf above Atena's desk is a paperback Koran, its spine cracked from use. Yael's side of the room is a mirror image, except that her shelf bears a Torah. Both their walls have posters of events they've helped plan for their respective religious organizations.
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Tortilla (Spanish Omelette)
I sometimes marvel how it is that three basic, very inexpensive ingredients – eggs, onions and potatoes – can be transformed into something so utterly sublime. Yet it's simply the way the Spanish make their omelettes. A Spanish omelette, or tortilla, is not better than a French one, and it certainly takes longer to make, but in this age of complicated, overstated, fussy food, it's a joy to know that simplicity can still win the day. A well-made tortilla served with a salad and a bottle of wine can give two or more people a luxury meal at any time and at a very low cost.
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This recipe is taken from Delia Smith’s Complete Cookery Course, Delia Smith’s Complete Illustrated Cookery Course, Delia's Vegetarian Collection and The Evening Standard Cookbook.
First some points to note. The size of the frying pan is important: a base measurement of 8 inches (20 cm) diameter is about right for two to three people. If using a larger pan for more people, it should not be too heavy because you need to turn the omelette out using both hands. Use a non-stick pan if you don't have a well-seasoned frying pan. An enormous asset here is a flat saucepan lid or large plate that fits the pan.
Tortilla can be served as a main course or, because it is good served cold, it makes excellent picnic food cut into wedges and wrapped in clingfilm. In Spain they serve it as tapas, cut into small cubes and speared with cocktail sticks – lovely with chilled amontillado sherry. The Spanish also serve tortilla sandwiched between chunks of crusty bread – sounds yummy but very fattening!
First of all, peel and cut the onion in half, then thinly slice each half and separate the layers into half-moon shapes. Now thinly pare the potatoes using a potato peeler and slice them into thin rounds – you have to work pretty quickly here because you don't want the slices to brown. When they are sliced, rub them in a clean tea cloth to get them as dry as possible.
Next, heat 2 tablespoons of the olive oil in the frying pan and, when it's smoking hot, add the potatoes and onions. Toss them around in the oil to get a good coating, then turn the heat right down to its lowest setting, add a generous sprinkling of salt and pepper, put a lid on the frying pan and let the onions and potatoes cook gently for 20 minutes, or until tender. Turn them over halfway through and shake the pan from time to time, as they are not supposed to brown very much but just gently stew in the oil.
Meanwhile, break the eggs into a large bowl and, using a fork, whisk them lightly – it's important not to overbeat them. Finally, add some seasoning. When the onions and potatoes are cooked, quickly transfer them to the eggs in the bowl.
Put the frying pan back on the heat, add the rest of the oil and turn the heat back up to medium. Then mix the potato and eggs thoroughly before pouring the whole lot into the frying pan and turning the heat down to its lowest setting immediately. Now forget all about French omelettes and be patient, because it's going to take 20-25 minutes to cook slowly, uncovered. Every now and then draw the edge in gently with a palette knife, as this will give it a lovely rounded edge. When there is virtually no liquid egg left on the surface of the omelette, turn it over to cook the other side. To do this, place a flat lid or plate over the pan, carefully invert both so that the omelette is on the lid or plate. Put the pan back on the heat and use the palette knife to gently ease the omelette back in. Give it about 2 minutes more, then turn the heat off and leave it for a further 5 minutes to settle. It should then be cooked through but still moist in the centre. Serve hot or cold, cut in wedges, with a salad and a glass of Rioja – it's brilliant.
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Brad Rath, 2L
In February 1998, the Alabama Supreme Court decided an issue of first impression by limiting the rights of riparian landowners. It heard the appeal of landowners who owned land on a man-made lake and who assumed they could use the entire lake for recreation. The Court determined that because the lake was artificial and non-navigable, the landowners only held rights to the surface-waters.
The land in dispute was a piece of property bordering Chelsea Place Lake located southeast of Birmingham. The story of the property begins with Clarence Hatcher who, in 1979, sold part of the property to a church when the adjoining lake bed was dry. The church repaired a dam, restoring the man-made lake, and flooded parts of Hatcher's property. Hatcher acquired a license to use the entire lake for recreational purposes but, in 1985, when the Wehbys purchased Hatcher's property, they failed to secure such a license. In fact, their title insurance policy stated "riparian rights are neither guaranteed nor insured." As riparian landowners, the Wehbys anticipated using the lake and claimed the right to use it ran with the property.
In June 1991, SouthTrust Bank acquired the neighboring church property and sought a court ruling that Hatcher had no right, title, or interest in the property or the lake. Eventually, the property was transferred to the Turpins, the defendants.
Meanwhile, the Wehbys attempted to sell their property in 1995, but confusion over the lake rights prevented the sale. As a result, the Wehbys sued the Turpins for the right to use the entire lake for recreational purposes. They claimed that the lake was "public" and open to their use. The Turpins countered that because the lake was private, the Wehbys' interest was limited to the portion of the lake overlying their property. The parties also disputed the existence of an easement. The trial court granted the Turpins summary judgment and the Wehbys appealed.
Fighting for Riparian Rights
On appeal, the Wehbys argued that because their land is partially flooded and contiguous to the lake, they had littoral or riparian rights in the entire surface waters above the lake bed.1 However, the question of control over the surface waters of a private, non-navigable lake is one of first impression in Alabama. As a result, the Alabama Supreme Court looked to the law of other jurisdictions "to gain a better understanding of the origins and evolution of littoral or riparian rights."2
Courts resolve this issue using two distinct rules. A majority of jurisdictions follow the common law rule which states that owners of land underlying the surface waters of a man-made, non-navigable lake are entitled to control of only that portion of the lake lying over the land they own. The civil law rule states that an owner of land abutting or extending into portions of a lake, navigable or not, is entitled to the reasonable use and enjoyment of the entire lake.
The Wehbys urged the court to follow the civil law rule. Even though the court acknowledged that the common law rule may "frustrate the beneficial use and enjoyment of an important recreational resource," it explained that Alabama is a common law state and is bound by the common law rule.3 By adopting the common law rule, the court limited the rights of owners of land beneath man-made, non-navigable lakes to surface water rights in the waters above their land. Thus, without a covenant, agreement or statute to the contrary, the landowners had no right to use that portion of the lake beyond their boundaries.
The Wehbys then argued that even if Alabama follows the common law rule, it should not apply to Chelsea Place Lake because it is a public water. The Wehbys relied on the Alabama law that states "any water impounded by the construction of any lock or dam . . . placed across the channel of a navigable stream is declared a public water."4 The Wehbys claim that the stream that feeds Chelsea Place Lake, the Yellowleaf Creek, is navigable. The damming of the creek created a public water, giving all landowners the right to recreate on its surface waters.
In order to determine if Yellowleaf Creek is a navigable waterway, the court turned to the federal and state tests for navigability. First, the court reviewed the standard the U.S. Supreme Court established in the 1870 case, The Daniel Ball, which requires a public navigable river to be "navigable in fact." A waterway is navigable in fact when it may be used "in [its] ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel" may be conducted on water.5 The court also relied on the Eleventh Circuit rule that "the fact that a waterway is on occasion susceptible to navigability during brief periods of flood or high water" does not mean it is navigable.6 Finally, under Alabama law, a stream is navigable if it "has an aptitude for beneficial public servitude, capable of being traversed for a considerable part of the year."7
The Wehbys offered for evidence of navigability that Yellowleaf Creek is capable of being traversed by fishing boats and canoes during some parts of the year. The court rejected this evidence requiring that navigability exist for a considerable part of the year. Therefore, the creek was held to be non-navigable and the lake was deemed private under the Alabama Code, limiting the Wehbys use to only those waters over their land or to those lands for which they held an easement.
Court Encourages Use of Easements
Even though the court limited riparian rights along man-made, non-navigable waterways, it encouraged riparian landowners to acquire an easement for use of the entire lake.
The Wehbys argued that even though their other arguments failed, they possessed an easement, either express or implied, to use the entire lake for recreation. The court quickly found that the Wehbys held neither.
The previous owner, Hatcher, failed to obtain
an express easement from the church; rather, he merely obtained permission
in the form of a license which was not renewed at the time of the Wehbys'
purchase. An implied easement exists if there is "original unity of
ownership...and that use [is] open, visible, continuous and reasonably
necessary."8 Because Hatcher lacked a legal interest in the lake bed
and had no authority to transfer any personal right, the Wehbys did
not ensure an easement by virtue of purchasing the land and could not
claim surface water rights.
Alabama joins the majority of jurisdictions holding
that owners of land extending beneath an artificial, non-navigable lake
possess only surface-water rights in the waters above their land. This
decision serves as a caution to riparian landowners to establish an
easement to ensure their use of lakes such as Chelsea Place Lake.
1. Littoral rights are rights of the owners of land abutting surface waters of a lake or sea. Riparian rights are rights of owners of land abutting a stream. However, the term "riparian" commonly refers to water rights in either context. See 78 Am.Jur.2d Waters § 260; Defining Littoral Rights, 17:2 Water Log 3 (1997).
2. Wehby at 1246 - 47.
3. Id. at 1248 - 49.
4. Ala. Code § 9-11-80(a) (1998).
5. The Daniel Ball, 77 U.S. 557, 563 (1870).
6. U.S. v. Harrell, 926 F.2d 1036, 1040 (11th Cir. 1991).
7. Rhodes v. Otis, 33 Ala. 578, 597-8 (1859).
8. Wehby at 1250.
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The picaresque novel is a very popular sub-genre of the prose fiction, it includes a lot of humorist elements to tell a story on a realistic and sarcastic way. It is believed to have started with Lazarillo de Tormes. Some modern examples of picaresque novels are 'The White Tiger' and 'Diary of a Viagra Fiend'.
The term books online may refer to one or more alternatives, and you can learn more about them here at legacybooksonline.com. First of all, books online may allude to written resources found on the internet which resemble a traditional book. The similarities usually are that the information is presented in pages, which can be read sequentially or flipping from one to the next, and that the pages are read passively, with little to no interaction or multimedia. Even though this type of books online can only be read online for the most part, some maybe printed and/or downloaded. Additionally, those publications that have become part of the public domain may be reproduced by any website.
This kind of books online should not be mistaken for ebooks. An ebook, also known as an electronic book, e-book, or digital book, is a book published in digital form, either a digital version of an already existing book, or one which does not have a printed equivalent. An example of this is Stephen King's novella Riding the Bullet, which did not appear in traditional format until a few years after it debuted as a downloadable book. Ebooks are generally read on specialized pieces of hardware called e-readers, though sometimes personal computers and cellphones can perform the same task. These devices allow consumers to buy, download, browse, and read ebooks. Some of the advantages are that e-books take less physical space, and never go out of print. This however, does not spell the end for book stores, since what changes is the format, but not the transaction itself.
Speaking of which, book stores that sell books online have existed for quite a while. In addition to purveying ebooks, they also sell regular ones as well, much like everything can be bought and sold over the internet nowadays. One of the most successful online book store is Amazon, so much so that it has branched out over the years and become the biggest online retailer in the world. On the other hand, regular book stores may take special orders of books they do not have in stock, but buying online on behalf of a customer, and holding on to them until the customer goes to the book store to pick them up and take them home.
Books online can also be made available by people who have attempted to write a work of literature (novel, biography, etc) but do not have a distribution deal, so they take to sell their books through their own websites. As can be seen here on legacybooksonline.com, this type of technology can lead to larger book availability. Hopefully though, electronic books will serve as a complement for traditional books, and not become a full replacement.
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GOVERNOR ANNOUNCES STATE PREPARATIONS FOR H1N1
Encourages vaccination to prevent flu and announces free vaccination for uninsured
NEWARK –Governor Jon S. Corzine announced an aggressive initiative today to prepare to handle any resurgence of H1NI influenza this fall. The Governor was joined by Health Commissioner Heather Howard, Education Commissioner Lucille Davy, State Epidemiologist Dr. Tina Tan, Dr. Jeffrey Boscamp, Chairman and Physician in Chief, the Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center, SDA CEO Kris Kolluri and Newark Schools Superintendent Dr. Clifford Janey.
“As you have heard the public health experts say before, H1N1 influenza is a cause for concern, but not a cause for alarm.” the Governor stressed. “Prevention is the best medicine for ensuring that workplaces stay productive, schools stay open, and most important, that families are safe.
At my direction, the Department of Health and Senior Services and other agencies are taking action to ensure the State is prepared for any challenges that a resurgence of H1N1 influenza may bring this fall season.”
The highlights of the Corzine Administration’s plan include:
- Free vaccinations for the 1.3 million uninsured New Jerseyans at public health clinics in ever county throughout the State. For those insured, the vaccine will be covered by their provider.
- A public education campaign from the Department of Health and Senior Services encouraging hand washing, covering coughs and sneezes, and having both children and adults stay home for 24 hours after a fever subsides.
- Ongoing coordination with school districts around the state to monitor absences and implement practices to keep schools open.
- Working with school districts to establish a voluntary vaccination plan available at health clinics.
- Providing a ‘Find a Flu Shot’ link on the Department of Health and Senior Services website (www.state.nj.us/health/) for consumers to find locations where vaccinations are available.
The Governor strongly encouraged New Jersey residents to get a seasonal flu shot and H1N1 flu shot when it is deemed safe and effective by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) and the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). Information about the HIN1 vaccine will be posted on the Department of Health and Senior Services website when the vaccine becomes available.
State agencies have ramped up preparation and response efforts since the emergence of the novel flu strain last April. The Department of Health and Senior Services in conjunction with its H1N1 response partners conducted a multi-day Pandemic Influenza Response Summit this summer to prepare all partners to rapidly implement response operations throughout the State if necessary.
“I also know many families are concerned about H1N1 in schools and knowing this, we have taken measures to keep our schools are prepared,” added the Governor. “Let me be clear, the goal is to keep schools open so healthy kids can learn and for sick kids to stay home. Let’s keep our schools open and our kids healthy.”
Last week, the Departments of Education and Health and Senior Services held a preparedness summit for county and local school officials to coordinate H1N1 planning, including guidance on school closures and the continuity of educational services and the Commission on Higher Education has worked to keep college officials updated on the state’s H1N1 influenza preparedness efforts.
“DOE and DHSS have been working with school officials and local health officials for months to develop plans for strategies to slow the spread of the flu, the potential for high rates of absenteeism and the need for educational continuity programs should schools have to close for significant periods of time,” said Commissioner Davy. “I have been impressed with the efforts demonstrated by school officials throughout the state, both last spring and in the months leading up to this new school year. They know they have a major role to play and they are committed to ensuring that should the need arise, plans can be carried out with as little disruption to community life as possible.”
In addition, New Jersey was awarded $16 million from the federal government to strengthen the State’s pandemic influenza planning initiatives by helping state and local health agencies and health care facilities with vaccination, surge capacity and continuity of operations.
“This is not the beginning of our preparedness efforts,” said Health and Senior Services Commissioner Heather Howard. “We have been preparing for nearly a decade. We have taken the lessons learned from the spring H1N1 influenza outbreak and we continue to refine our preparedness plans.”
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AFTER NEARLY 40 HOURS inside the basement of Landmark Education's world headquarters, I have not Transformed. Nor have I "popped" like microwave popcorn, as the Forum Leader striding back and forth at the front of the windowless gray room has promised. In fact, by the time he starts yelling and stabbing the board with a piece of chalk around hour 36, it's become clear that I'll be the hard kernel left at the bottom of this three-and-a-half-day Landmark Forum. I have, however, Invented the Possibility of a Future in which I get a big, fat raise, a Future I'll Choose to Powerfully Enroll my bosses in, now that I am open to Miracles Around Money.
My reluctance to achieve Breakthrough Results is clearly not shared by many of my fellow Forum attendees. Even on day one, most seem positively elated to have plunked down 500 bucks for a more efficient, passionate, powerful life. "Hey, it's cheaper than therapy," a therapist-turned-real estate agent tells me. He ponders how to persuade one of his employees to pony up for the Forum. She's going through a rough patch, he explains—the recession, her marriage.
Not that being broke or brokenhearted would make her a minority in this room; several attendees talk about being between jobs, and one woman says she's on welfare. In the scribbled shorthand of my furtive notes, PW stands for "incidents of public weeping." I lose track after the PW count hits 65.
Landmark Education, a for-profit "employee-owned" private company, took in $89 million last year offering leadership and development seminars (and cruises, and dating services, and courses for kids and teens). It claims that more than 1 million seekers have sat through its basic training, which is offered in seven languages in 20 countries. Its consulting firm, the Vanto Group, has coached employees from Apple, ExxonMobil, JPMorgan Chase, and the Pentagon.
Though it's hardly a secret, Landmark does not advertise that it is the buttoned-down reincarnation of the ultimate '70s self-actualization philosophy, est. Erhard Seminars Training was founded by Werner Erhard, a former used car salesman who'd changed his name from Jack Rosenberg, moved to Northern California, and dabbled in Dale Carnegie, Zen, and Scientology before seizing upon the idea that you, and only you, are responsible for your own happiness or unhappiness, success or failure. Est's marathon Transformation sessions were legendary for their confrontational tactics (Erhard calling his students "assholes"), inscrutable platitudes ("What is, is, and what ain't, ain't"), and the pressure put on participants to bring in new recruits for the next cycle of seminars.
In 1985, Erhard changed est's name to the innocuous-sounding The Forum. Amid controversy over his convoluted tax records, he left the country in 1991 and slid into obscurity. But before he did, he sold the company's "technology" to his former employees, who used it to create The Landmark Forum. Erhard's brother, Harry Rosenberg, is Landmark's CEO.
Like a successful grad of its own program, Landmark has shed its past hang-ups and realized Breakthrough Results. "We are on the list of offerings in the human-resources departments in hundreds of companies and organizations around the world," boasts PR director Deborah Beroset. The company's language of personal productivity, confidence, and communication (much of it trademarked) has become white noise in corporate America—and possibly in your personal circle, too. "Authentic life," anyone?
Landmark's corporate clients bring not just respectability but more warm bodies bearing checks. (Landmark relies entirely on word-of-mouth advertising.) The yoga apparel chain Lululemon pays for its employees to enroll in Landmark. Other firms have been sued by employees claiming they were pressured to attend the Forum: In 2007, a Virginia man accused his former employer of firing him for his "refusal to embrace Landmark religious beliefs." Not that Landmark itself condones such arm twisting. At the start of my session, we were asked to affirm that we were attending of our own free will. A couple of people who confessed otherwise were asked to leave. Still, I talked with several who'd been sent by their employers.
The profitable field Landmark helped pioneer is now crowded with life coaches, time-management gurus, and productivity bloggers. Like David Allen's Getting Things Done or Stephen Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Landmark is just one of dozens of quasi-philosophies that promise to empty your inbox and fulfill your personal goals. And maybe survive the recession. Since the Great Depression, when Dale Carnegie's seminars on how to win friends and influence people became popular, the personal development industry has bloomed under darkening economic skies. Forget work/life balance; that's so 2008. How to do more in less time is today's hot productivity trend. (Landmark's website touts a survey in which one-third of Forum grads reported that their incomes rose at least 25 percent after participating; 94 percent of those attributed it to the program.) Yet if Landmark is just another outpost in lifehacking country, why does it seem so insidious?
Part of it is the in-your-face, hard-sell ethos embedded in the corporate DNA it inherited from est. Forum grads are urged to stay involved and "invite" friends and family. After finishing the Forum, I received calls asking me to volunteer at the Landmark call center and come in for one-on-one coaching. The company also vigorously guards its reputation from critics. After I told Beroset I'd be writing an article on my mixed feelings about the Forum, she called several times and sent me an email that might be described as threatening—but in the most benign, centered kind of way.
I first heard about Landmark while working as a Peace Corps recruiter. Every now and again I'd see it listed at the end of someone's resume, occupying the same spot as, say, a Kiwanis leadership award, or a pastime like water polo. Applicants described it as a professional development seminar—most had been signed up by employers—and gave glowing reports. "You should try it," they invariably added. I forgot about the whole thing until a generally sane, well-meaning friend called me one weekend with a frog in his throat. He was at some time-management seminar, he'd really gotten a lot out of this thing, and would I want to come by and learn more next Tuesday night? It was hard to say no. But then I googled Landmark.
Eventually, as part of an ongoing attempt to hack my own overscheduled life, I did sign up for the Landmark Forum. I vowed to go in with an open mind and to follow the rules, no matter how restrictive. That meant taking just one meal break per 13-hour session, no Advil or other over-the-counter drugs, no speaking out unless called to the microphone by the Leader, and wearing my name tag at all times. I signed a six-page disclaimer in which I declared that I understood that after attending the Forum, people with no history of mental or emotional problems had experienced "brief, temporary episodes of emotional upset ranging from heightened activity...to mild psychotic-like behavior."
At 9 a.m. on a Friday I find myself sardined into a basement room with 129 other people, listening to David Cunningham, a boomer in a dark suit and bright purple shirt, whose first language seems to be Tent-Revival Baptist Preacher. (I later learn that he was raised a fundamentalist in Florida.) He informs us that he has personally led more than 50,000 people to Transformation. He's here to tell us that "anything you want for yourself and your life is available from being here this weekend." He starts by taking a few questions from the floor. A querulous man observes that the phrases carefully ruler-lined on the chalkboard seem like poor English. ("In The Landmark Forum you will bring forth the presence of a New Realm of Possibility for yourself and your life.") David agrees. "It's very poor English. You know why? Because the usual confines of language would not allow your Transformation this weekend."
Another man is called to the mic. He wants to know how Landmark is different from est. David sighs. "If I had to sum it up, here's what I'd say: They're both about Transformation, but est was very experiential. It was the '70s, okay? Your access was an experience. Your access this weekend is going to be just through conversation. We realized we could do it just through conversation." And that's the last we hear of that.
A slight, blond woman sitting next to me confides that she's here only because her boyfriend paid her way—with the subtext that this was an offer she couldn't refuse. She shows me a packet of notes tied with a bow. They're from a friend who attended a Forum and thought it was brainwashing. In the corner of the top sheet is written, "To be opened on 'breaks.'" Why "breaks" in quotes, I wonder?
I soon find out. "Break" is a misleading term at an all-day workshop that offers no snacks, no drinks other than Dixie cups of water, a single mealtime, and only loosely scheduled pauses to use the bathroom. Also, every break has a corresponding assignment. The first one: Call someone who'd like to hear from you and tell them where you are. I call my brother. "So, it's like the Hare Krishnas of time management," he says slowly. On the next break, I hide in a bathroom stall and read a Landmark flyer seemingly translated from Martian: "What would it be like if the San Francisco center was your center of being, and reflected in this, you were being your center?...What if your way of being in the center gives the center its being and you are given your being from the space created in the center?"
By ten o'clock Friday night, 13 hours in, David is curing headaches with visualization techniques (an old Erhard trick) and redefining basic math. "How many items am I holding up?" he asks, holding up a Kleenex box and a chalkboard eraser. "Two," we say in unison. He puts the eraser down. "Now how many am I holding up?" he asks. One? "Two," he says. "The box and everything else." We repeat this until it makes sense—kind of. David promises that tomorrow, people will start to pop.
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For Release: April 26, 2010
David Corriveau, Media Relations Officer, Dartmouth Medical School, at David.A.Corriveau@Dartmouth.edu or 603-653-0771
Study: Parental guidance on movies curbs drinking
Hanover, N.H.—After examining the responses of thousands of northern New England middle-schoolers to questions about their movie-viewing habits over two years, Dartmouth pediatricians Susanne E. Tanski, M.D., M.P.H, and James D. Sargent, M.D., are reporting that parents who steer their sons and daughters away from R-rated films usually prevail against peer pressure on kids to drink alcohol.
The study, part of a long line of research at Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) into the influence of mass-media in general and adult-themed movies in particular on risky behavior of young people, appears in the May issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
"We think this is a very important aspect of parenting, and one that is often overlooked," says Sargent, a professor of pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) who served as principal investigator in the study. "The research to date suggests that keeping kids from R-rated movies can help keep them from drinking, smoking, and doing a lot of other things that parents don't want them to do."
Collaborating with researchers from the University of Oregon and the University of Michigan, Tanski and Sargent examined follow-up calls to 3,577 fifth- to eighth-graders who - in an initial, paper-and-pencil survey of 4,655 middle-schoolers - reported never drinking alcohol. Over the next 13 to 26 months, trained telephone interviewers reached 2,406 of the never-drinkers. Of that group, 3 percent said they had started drinking when questioned in the follow-up phone survey. That compared with 19 percent of their peers who'd said at the outset that their parents "sometimes" let them see R-rated films, and one-quarter of middle-schoolers who'd said their parents allowed such movies "all the time."
While observing that one could argue that parents who restrict access to R movies are simply more careful in general - keeping tabs on their children's friends or making sure their kids have no access to alcohol at home - the researchers say they also asked questions gauging the youngsters' perception of parents' responsiveness and ability to set and enforce limits. Even with such factors considered, the team still found a link between exposure to R-rated movies - 90 percent of which show characters drinking alcohol - and the likelihood of early consumption of spirits.
Sargent adds that other research -- such as a study he and another team published earlier this year -- suggests that children who see R-rated movies become more prone to 'sensation seeking' and risk taking.
"We think seeing the adult content actually changes their personality," Sargent says, adding that PG-13 movies, as well as many TV shows, also frequently portray drinking and other adult situations. The American Academy of Pediatrics currently recommends that children watch no more than one to two hours of "quality" media, including movies, TV, and videos, each day.
"The sample within this study area is a regional, largely white group," the researchers write in the study. "Additional studies in multiethnic samples are warranted."
Read more about recent DMS research into mass-media influences on risky youth behavior - including fast-food eating habits - at:
- Sargent charts tobacco's temptations
- Sargent, colleagues target cinematic smoking
- Both good and bad movie characters who smoke influence teens to do the same, according to Dartmouth researchers
- Dartmouth researchers study trends in how movies depict cigarette use
- DMS study links movie scenes, youth food choices
- Some movie smoking is still rising
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Wi-Fi is quickly becoming a key part of almost every broadband providers' network strategy. But is the day soon coming when Wi-Fi will no longer be free?
That's a big unanswered question as operators signal they'd like to get more value out of their Wi-Fi networks.
According to a recent survey from Analysys Mason, on behalf of Amdocs, more wireless and cable operators than ever have deployed Wi-Fi networks. But many of these service providers see these networks, which are often offered to subscribers for free, as potential revenue generating assets in the future.
Most broadband service providers -- 89 percent of them -- have deployed Wi-Fi in some fashion to either offload wireless traffic or extend services to customers, according to the survey. And 40 percent of service providers indicated in the survey that they expect Wi-Fi to be more than a solution for simply offloading congested networks and are interested in using it to provide incremental value to their customers.
There are already a large number of operators who have begun monetizing their Wi-Fi networks. In fact, according to the survey 57 percent of service providers with Wi-Fi networks say they're making money in some way from those networks.
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There are many interesting topics for oral presentations. The topics depend on your students’ level and interest. To begin with, may be it would be a good idea to ask your students what they would like to talk about. In this way, their motivation and commitment to the preparation and participation to the oral presentation will be increased. From the suggestions they would give you, you could choose one and use it for an oral presentation topic. Then, any common discussion topics linked to sports, hobbies, interesting facts, odd jobs, trips, dreams, social/political issues, etc. can work when well presented to the students.
I hope that my thoughts will help you somehow.
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Topanga State Beach — On July 31, 2012 Jared Tennison was surfing at Topanga State Beach, located north of Sunset Beach. It was 6:45 AM and he had been on the water about 45 minutes. It was overcast with an estimated air temperature of 65 degrees Fahrenheit. The ocean was calm and about 20 feet deep over a rocky bottom with an estimated temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Water visibility was limited due to very murky conditions. Pelicans and Sea Gulls were diving on baitfish in the area that would occasionally ‘jump' out of the water. No marine mammals were observed in the area. Tennison reported; “I was sitting on my board about 100 yards out from shore when all of a sudden I felt a bump on my leg. I looked down and saw something dark grey and felt something move against my board. I thought I had drifted shallower and hit a rock (trying to avoid thinking shark) but I realized I was still in deeper water. I then felt a large jolt against the bottom of my board and at the same time something pressing lightly against my leg. I was knocked off my board into the water by the impact. My hand brushed against something and got a bunch of small cuts. When I fell off my board I felt a huge rush of water push me parallel to the beach. I then sprinted to shore dragging my board and watched for 30 minutes but never saw the shark again.” This is the fifth authenticated shark attack this year from the Pacific Coast. Please report any shark sighting, encounter, or attack to the Shark Research Committee.
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Definition of vassalage :
1. A territory held in vassalage.
2. Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks.
3. The state of being a vassal, or feudatory.
4. Valorous service, such as that performed by a vassal; valor; prowess; courage.
5. Vassals, collectively; vassalry.
servility (part of speech: noun)
homage, slavishness, serfdom, humility, acquiescence, servility, lowliness, humbleness, duty, docility, subservience, submissiveness, servitude, yieldingness, deference, fealty, inferiority, genuflection, subjection, willingness, subordination, devotion, complaisance, obedience
- He also declined the yet more dazzling present of a crown from the then master of the continent, who would have set him on the throne of Poland- but, of a truth, under the vassalage of the Emperor of the French! - "Thaddeus of Warsaw", Jane Porter.
- The Romish church, taking advantage of favourable incidents, had reduced the kingdom of Sicily to the same state of feudal vassalage which she pretended to extend over England, and which, by reason of the distance, as well as high spirit of this latter kingdom, she was not able to maintain. - "The History of England, Volume I", David Hume.
- In the homage vouchsafed to mere rank there enters always a sense of humiliation, and in the observances of respect men tender to royalty, the idea of vassalage presents itself most prominently; whereas in the other case, the chivalrous devotion is not alloyed by this meaner servitude, and men never lift their heads more haughtily than after they have bowed them in lowly deference to loveliness. - "The Fortunes Of Glencore", Charles James Lever.
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Phaseout of HCFCs (Class II Ozone-Depleting Substances)
Class II Substances (HCFCs)
Class II controlled substances are compounds that have an ozone depletion
potential (ODP) less than 0.2, and are all hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs). HCFCs were developed as transitional substitutes for Class I substances and
are subject to a later phaseout schedule than Class I substances.
Listing and ODPs of HCFCs (Class II Substances)
Although there are currently 34 controlled HCFCs, only a few are commonly used. The most widely used have been HCFC-22 (usually a refrigerant), HCFC-141b (a solvent and foam-blowing agent), and HCFC-142b (a foam-blowing agent and component in refrigerant blends). A list of other HCFCs and their uses can be found here.
The Phaseout of HCFCs
As a Party to the Montreal Protocol, the U.S. must incrementally decrease HCFC consumption and production, culminating in a complete HCFC phaseout in 2030. The major milestones that are upcoming for developed countries are a reduction in 2015 to at least 90 percent below baseline HCFC levels and a reduction in 2020 to at least 99.5 percent below baseline.
Section 605 of the Clean Air Act sets the U.S. phaseout targets for Class II substances. In 1993, the EPA established the phaseout framework and the "worst-first" approach that focused first on HCFC-22, HCFC-141b, and HCFC-142b because these three HCFCs have the highest ozone depletıon potentıal of all HCFCs. To meet the required 2004 reduction, the EPA phased out HCFC-141b in 2003 and froze the production and consumption of HCFC-22 and HCFC-142b. In 2009, EPA reduced the production and import of virgin HCFC-22 and HCFC-142b and limited the use of those compounds to meet the Montreal Protocol's 2010 milestones. In 2015, the Clean Air Act further limits the use of HCFCs. EPA plans to stop allowing production and import of virgin HCFC-22 by 2020.
Implementing the 2010-2014 Phasedown Step
In December 2009, EPA published two rules concerning the 2010 Phasedown Step:
- 2009 HCFC Allocation Rule (277 KB, 37 pp., About PDF)
- Pre-Charged Appliances Rule (198 KB, 18 pp., About PDF)
Proposed versions of these rules are also available:
- 2008 HCFC Allocation Proposed Rule (153 KB, 26 pp.)
- Pre-Charged Appliances Proposed Rule (216 KB, 12 pp.)
EPA ensures that HCFC consumption in the U.S. is 75% below the U.S. baseline (as required under the Montreal Protocol) by issuing allowances to producers and importers of HCFCs. The "2009 HCFC Allocation Rule" allocated allowances for each year between 2010 and 2014. To meet the stepdown, the number of allowances for HCFC-22 and HCFC-142b were less than for the 2003-2009 control periods. EPA also issued allowances for HCFC-123, HCFC-124, HCFC-225ca, and HCFC-225cb. The rules also limited the use of virgin HCFC-22 and HCFC-142b to existing refrigeration and air-conditioning equipment. The "Pre-Charged Appliances Rule" banned the sale or distribution of air-conditioning and refrigeration products containing HCFC-22, HCFC-142b, or blends containing one or both of these substances, beginning January 1, 2010.
The "2009 HCFC Allocation Rule" was challenged in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Arkema v EPA. In August, 2010, the court decided against EPA. EPA interprets the Court’s decision as vacating the portion of the rule that establishes company-by-company production and consumption baselines and calendar-year allowances for HCFC-22 and HCFC-142b. All other aspects of the rule are intact. On August 5, 2011, EPA issued an interim final rule that established new company-by-company HCFC-22 and HCFC-142b baselines and allocated production and consumption allowances for 2011.
On March 27, 2013, EPA finalized another rule in response to the Arkema decision that provides HCFC-22 and HCFC-142b allowances for 2012-2014.
Demand for HCFC-22 in Existing Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Equipment
HCFC-22 is also referred to as R-22. It is a popular refrigerant that is commonly used in a variety of refrigeration and air-conditioning equipment, including:
HCFC-22 is often used as a component in refrigerant blends. Some common end uses for some refrigerant blends that contain HCFC-22 follow:
EPA has modeled the demand for HCFC-22 for use in existing air-conditioning and refrigeration equipment. EPA has based the allowance levels
in part on that estimated demand. Since November 2005 EPA released three
draft versions of its Servicing Tail report for public comment. The
final and 2008 drafts of the report are below:
2009 Final Report: Projected Servicing Needs in the U.S. Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Sector (PDF) (48 pp, 964 K)
2008 Draft Servicing Tail Report (51 pp, 332 K)
Accelerated Phaseout of Class II Controlled Substances (1993): This action, among other things, established the phaseout schedule for HCFC-22, HCFC-141b, and HCFC-142b. Specifically, this action banned the production and consumption of HCFC-141b as of January 1, 2003, and limited the production and consumption of HCFC-142b and HCFC-22 between 2010 and 2020 to the servicing of equipment manufactured prior to January 1, 2010.
Allowance System for Controlling HCFC Production, Import, and Export (2003): This action established the HCFC allowance system and allocated allowances for HCFC-22 and HCFC-142b for the 2003-2009 control periods. This action also established the petition process for exemptions to the January 1, 2003, phaseout of HCFC-141b.
- Final Rule (January 21, 2003; 68 FR 2819)
- Proposed Rule (July 20, 2001; 66 FR 38063)
- Advanced Notice of Proposed Rule (April 5, 1999; 64 FR 16373)
Technical Corrections and Minor Amendments to the 2003 Allowance System:
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Most college students don’t graduate “on time,” especially in public institutions. That is, many require five years, or six, to get their bachelor’s degrees; or three years to obtain their associate’s. . Expenses being what they are, many students have to hold down jobs and enroll part-time.
So, the standard benchmark for the rate of college completion is 150 percent of the standard, straight-through time to a degree — six years for bachelor’s, three years for associates. But what about eight years and four years? When students take 200 percent of the “standard” time to a degree, are the much more likely to finish?
No, we learn from a recent publication of the National Center for Education Statistics, which tracked completion rates over eight years and four years.
Not too many additional students finished in that extra time.
Here are the completion rates for public bachelor’s institutions …
4 years: 29 percent
6 years: 54.7 percent
8 years: 58. 3 percent
and for public community colleges:
2 years: 11.5 percent
3 years: 22.0 percent
4 years: 28.4 percent
So, one might infer that if a student hasn’t got the degree after six years (or three), odds are he or she won’t … ever.
But wait. All these federal graduation statistics track first-year-full-time students at just one institution — the one they enter as freshman. If they don’t graduate from that school, they’re not counted toward the school’s completion rate. (The standard completion rate doesn’t take account of transfers, so it’s a lousy measure — “deeply flawed,” as the Chronicle of Education intones in a recent “primer.”)
So, it’s not so surprising that the public college eight-year graduation rate is only 3.6 percentiles higher. Those are students who have stuck it out at the same school for eight years! Really, outside of “Doonesbury,” how many students hang around the same campus year after year without getting a diploma? Sure there are some, but we bet the lion’s share are on the West Coast, where it’s warmer.
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Taking Notes: Exploring Meaning through Drawing
Central Library, Lobby Gallery
In the Artists Words
Language isn’t always what it appears to be. It is fluid and continues to evolve as it seeks to define the unknown. Some words change their meaning while others become irrelevant or obsolete. Drawing has become for this artist a way of maintaining a sense of self during periods of fundamental change. In an attempt to connect the personal to the social, Taking Notes uses drawing as a means to imagine a pictorial language, a way of writing toward the unknown and in the process learning to accept difference.
By using words and their meaning as jumping off point, I have chosen three ways to interpret the transformation of meaning through drawing: works on paper, a book drawing and video. I use the build up of calligraphic marks on a surface to express various approaches to one idea. Every mark is an opportunity to travel to an unknown pictorial space. These drawings are made in the process of exploring meaning, which once revealed, is then covered up and changed into something new.
In the dictionary piece, ink drawings are created on over 1500 pages of the now obsolete Webster’s 9th New Collegiate Dictionary. Words and their meaning have become obscured and made inaccessible by the drawings, in the way that language can sometimes hide instead of articulate what we intend to say. It was made as a metaphor to rethink sometimes outmoded belief systems.
The video drawing chooses the library itself as its main character. A library is where information of all sorts is made accessible to a wide public. I attempt to portray the library as a vehicle of knowledge and the organizer of ideas. While pathways to accessibility may change over time, it is still up to the individual to make sense of it. With Taking Notes, drawing becomes one person’s attempt to come to terms with the unknown.
About the Artist
Margaret Neill earned a MFA degree at Brooklyn College in 1984. She has exhibited her work in commercial and not for profit settings. Including the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, the Czech Republic at the Monastery Plazy and the Mixed Media Gallery of Block Island, RI.
Since 1994, Margaret has been affiliated with the Kentler International Drawing Space where she made large scale charcoal drawings directly on the walls and has been a regular participant in shows there ever since.
In Feb. 2000 she was Artist in Residence at Hiram College. Most recently, Neill was accepted as visiting instructor during Winter Term 20001 at Middlebury College in Vermont.
In addition to works on paper and painting, she works in a variety of formats, from wall drawings to book drawings, to a limited edition book of photographs, entitled, COMMON PLACE: Earth Sea Sky.
This is the first in a series of three shows that the Kentler International Drawing Space will be organizing in conjunction with the Brooklyn Public Library.
The Kentler International Drawing Space, located in Red Hook, Brooklyn, is dedicated to bringing to the public drawings and works on paper by artists, both nationally and internationally; presenting important and timely contemporary art as part of the cultural fabric of a community.
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IN CHINA and Myanmar, winners of Nobel prizes are kept in prison or under house arrest. In the United States, that's not done. Instead, a Nobel laureate is being held hostage to the partisan machinations of Republicans in the Senate.
Most Americans probably never heard of Peter Diamond before he won the Nobel Prize in economics last week. Economists, unless they work in a president's administration, tend to fly under the popular radar.
The Senate, however, has heard of Mr. Diamond, a professor for more than four decades at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Other economists say he's brilliant. Senate Republicans say he doesn't have enough experience to serve on the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors.
Mr. Diamond and two other economists won the Nobel Prize for their research on unemployment. Specifically, they examined how government policies can help people find jobs or ease the impact of joblessness. As the Fed mulls policies to try to put 15 million Americans back to work, Mr. Diamond's experience would appear absolutely relevant.
Sen. Richard Shelby (R., Ala.) is thought to be holding up the nomination. In August, he complained that the economist didn't have on-the-job experience setting monetary policy. Of course, there is no job that trains people to be on the Fed board. Everyone, including Mr. Diamond's former student, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, learned by doing.
A “hold” is a parliamentary tactic that lets a senator keep an issue from being voted on by implicitly threatening to filibuster. In its most nefarious form, the hold is placed secretly, so voters don't know who's to blame.
This year, Mr. Shelby took the concept a giant leap forward when he put a blanket hold on some 70 Obama nominees in an attempt to secure earmarks worth billions of dollars to his home state. His hold on the Diamond nomination is of the more garden variety, but it highlights the need at least to limit this abused senatorial prerogative.
Mr. Diamond is held hostage to election-year maneuvering. America is denied the services of a man recognized by nearly everyone except Mr. Shelby as one of the best economic minds in the world.
Victor Williams, a Catholic University law professor, argued in the Huffington Post last week that President Obama should ignore a GOP ploy to prevent recess appointments and name Mr. Diamond to the Fed board. With unemployment hovering near 10 percent nationally, the idea is worth considering.
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The 8th World Conference on Sport, Culture and Education came to a successful conclusion in Amsterdam (Netherlands) today, with more than 500 participants from 110 countries issuing a call to action in a unanimously approved final Declaration.
The Amsterdam Declaration was tabled by International Olympic Committee (IOC) Commission for Culture and Olympic Education Chairman Lambis V. Nikolaou at the closing ceremony. It contains a set of recommendations that refer to a range of topics including the important role of the athletes’ entourage, next year’s fifth UNESCO World Sport Ministers Conference (MINEPS V), social media and educational programmes for athletes.
Among the action points contained in the Declaration, the participants called for making it an obligation for authorities to include values-based education and physical education in school curricula; for using of all types of media to send messages on sport, the Olympic values, education and healthy lifestyles as enshrined in the IOC’s Youth Strategy; for supporting the introduction and enhancement of educational programmes for athletes which equip them with employability skills necessary for their post-high performance careers; and for working with public authorities to protect sportspersons.
Read the full text of the Amsterdam Declaration here.
In line with the Conference motto “Olympism powered by Youth”, the debate featured numerous young speakers and Olympians. During a dedicated youth session, participants of the Youth Olympic Games and other young leaders presented action and ideas in regard to the empowerment of young people in various fields. The focus of the Conference this year was on the policies, practice and potential of sport and Olympism as they relate to culture and education.
With that in mind, representatives from the sporting community, the United Nations system, civil society organisations, special interest groups, academia, governments, non-governmental organisations, the corporate sector and the media were invited to attend and share their experiences in interactive plenary and dialogue sessions designed to encourage fruitful discussions.
“We have had a really excellent World Conference, and I would like to thank the organisers for their work,” said IOC President Jacques Rogge. “Our task at this Conference was to seek new and better ways to share the Olympic values and the benefits of sport with young people around the world. We need to speak to young people in their language and we need to go where they are, physically, but also in the virtual world on social media platforms. We have accomplished a lot this week in a very interactive and stimulating environment, and the Amsterdam Declaration will guide us in our way forward.”
Lambis V. Nikolaou, Chairman of the IOC’s Commission for Culture and Olympic Education Commission, said:
“I think we can all agree it was a highly productive Conference. Once again, the inclusion of young people in the programme proved to be a huge success. It is now up to us all to work together to bring to fruition the action plan adopted today, by showing young people that sport can help them to give the best of themselves.”
The Conference was organised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in partnership with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and in collaboration with the National Olympic Committee of the Netherlands (NOC*NSF) and the city of Amsterdam.
For more information, please contact the IOC Media Relations Team:
Tel: +41 21 621 6000 e-mail: email@example.com, or visit our web site at www.olympic.org.
For an extensive selection of photos available shortly after each event, please follow us on Flickr.
To request archive photos and footage, please contact our Images team at: firstname.lastname@example.org
For up-to-the-minute information on the IOC and regular updates, please follow us on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
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There's nothing like a fresh install of Windows to clear your mind, but it comes at a cost: you have to set everything up again, just the way you like it. Here's how to reinstall Windows, migrate your important settings, and leave the clutter behind.
You don't have to regularly reinstall Windows just to keep things clean, but that doesn't mean you'll never have to do it again. Maybe you just bought or built a new computer, or maybe you didn't take care of your computer as well as you thought and you have to do a clean install. Maybe you just want to wipe the slate clean for that new, fresh feeling. A clean slate is nice, but it also means you're going to spend the rest of the weekend setting up all your old programs, settings, and system tweaks, half of which you've probably forgotten because you set them up so long ago. Here, we'll go through some tips on how to back up your most important settings and tweaks, and restore them on your new system.
Part One: The Preparation
Before you reinstall Windows, you're going to want to go through all your stuff and back up the programs, settings, and tweaks you want to take with you. Here's what we recommend.
Step One: Export a List of Your Programs
Before you do anything else, it's handy to have a list of all your currently installed programs so you know what settings to back up, and which programs you want to reinstall later on. The easiest way to do this is with CCleaner (a program everyone should have installed). Just open it up and export a list of your programs:
- Open up CCleaner (you can do this quickly by right-clicking the Recycle Bin and choosing "Open CCleaner" from the menu).
- Head to the "Tools" section in the left sidebar.
- Click the "Save to text file" button in the bottom right-hand corner, and choose where you want to save it.
Save the file in your Dropbox or on a USB stick so you have it after you do your clean install.
Step Two: Back Up Your Windows Settings
Next, you should back up any Windows settings you can so you don't have to do too much tweaking after you reinstall. The best way to do this is with Windows Easy Transfer, Windows' built-in migration program for just such occasions. It can back up app settings too, but it's not very good at it, so we aren't going to use it for that today.
To start it up, just open the Start menu (or screen) and type Windows Easy Transfer. When it pops up, you'll get a description of what it can do. Click Next and choose an external hard disk or USB flash drive for your files. Tell it that tihs is your "old" PC, and it will scan your users for items to back up. Click Customize to tweak the selection. In this case, we recommend unchecking everything and just backing up "Windows Settings," though you can use this to back up your documents and files too (see below).
Step Three: Back Up Your Documents and Files
Before you reinstall Windows, you'll obviously want to back up your documents, music, movies, and other files just like you always would. I usually just copy these to an external drive or move them with Windows Easy Transfer as described above, though if you back up your computer regularly (which you should), you can always just restore them from your backup later on as well.
Step Four: Back Up Your Program Settings
Next, you'll want to back up all the settings you've worked so hard crafting on each of those programs (at least the ones you plan to keep). Different programs store their settings in different places, but here are the main places you should look:
Your AppData Folder: This folder, located at
C:\Users\yourusername\AppData, is where the majority of your programs store their settings (usually under the
Roaming subfolder). Usually you'll see a folder with the name of the program or its developer, with a number of files inside. You'll want to back up the program's entire folder.
Your "My Documents" Folder: You know where this is already. If you open it up, you should see a few folders for other programs on your system, which often contain user settings or tweaks that you'll want to save. Back those folders up individually, just like the AppData folders.
Your Program Files Folder: Most programs won't store settings in the Program Files folder, but it might store other important stuff, like plugins or themes you installed after the fact. If that's the case for the program in question, it's a good idea to back up its folder in
C:\Program Files (or
C:\Program Files (x86)) for good measure.
Your Registry: Some programs, like Fences, store all of their settings in your Registry. This is pretty easy to back up: just press the Windows key, type
regedit, and press Enter. Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software and scroll down to the program in question—in Fences' case, under
Stardock\Fences. Right-click on the program's folder in the registry and choose Export to back it up.
Games: If you play any games, the above tricks should work, but we recommend using a program like GameSave Manager to make the process infinitely more simple. It'll search for games on your system, find where their save files are stored, and back up everything for you.
Again, different programs will store settings in different places, so if you're unsure, do a bit of research before you start. If a program has the ability to "export" or "back up" its settings to a file, that can be handy as well.
Once you find the folder(s) in which a program stores its files, copy that folder to your Dropbox or a USB stick. I also like to put a text file with that folder indicating the path to where it was stored. For example, if I were to back up Pidgin's settings, I'd back up the
.libpurple folder in my AppData and the
Plugins folder in Pidgin's Program Files. I'd then create a text folder that noted where each of these two folders came from, so i know where to put them when I restore them later on.
Repeat this process for each of your important programs, and you should have everything you need to reinstall them later on without losing your settings. This sounds like it'll take awhile, but it shouldn't—it only took me a few minutes to back up all the important settings from my favorite programs.
Step Five: Create .Reg Files For Your System Tweaks
If you're an intense tweaker, you've probably edited the Windows Registry to enable some awesome under-the-hood power-ups, like hiding items in Windows Explorer or speeding up the Windows taskbar. The easiest way to back these up, says Justin Garrison, is to save a .reg file for each tweak in your Drobpox or USB stick. That way, whenever you reinstall Windows, you can just double-click on your .reg files to install those tweaks instantly.
Most of your tweaks probably already have .reg scripts floating around the net, so do some Googling to see if someone's already created one. If not, you can always do a little research and create the file yourself too.
Part Two: The Restoration
Once you've got everything backed up, it's time to reinstall Windows. Insert the Windows installation disc and boot up from it, or use Windows 8's Reset option in the settings to start from scratch. Once you've got a fresh installation of Windows, it's time to restore all your stuff.
Step Six: Restore Your Windows Settings
Before you do anything else, it's a good idea to restore those Windows settings we backed up earlier. Reopen Windows Easy Transfer on your fresh install, plug in your USB drive with your saved transfer files, and this time choose "This Is My New Computer." It'll restore your Windows settings and your user account that you backed up, along with your Windows settings so you don't have to find them all again.
Step Seven: Reinstall Your Programs
Next, it's time to reinstall all your programs. This can take awhile, but you can speed up the process with a few tools:
Ninite: Ninite is still one of our favorite tools for installing programs quickly. It doesn't have every program out there, but it's a great start. Just check off all the programs you want, and Ninite will create an all-in-one package to install them in one fell swoop. Be sure to check out the Lifehacker Pack for Windows, too, which has its own custom Ninite installer for our most recommended programs.
Chocolatey: If you're more of a command line geek, Chocolatey is a handy utility that brings Linux-style package management to Windows. With a few well-placed commands, you can install a ton of programs at once, bypassing the need for all those separate installers. Again, it doesn't have every program imaginable, but it does have quite a few to get you started.
Portable Apps: If you're tired of downloading installers all the time, you might want to try using portable apps instead. Portable apps essentially let you carry all your programs and settings over to another computer with no installation required. You'll still have to search out each app yourself, but after you do it once, you'll never have to do it again—every clean install from here on out will be much quicker because you'll already have half your apps ready to go. Check out our guide to portable apps for more information.
Once you've installed the bulk of your favorite programs, you may need to open up that text file we got from CCleaner earlier to pick up any stragglers that aren't in Ninite. Install whatever you want, and when you're done, move onto the next step.
Step Eight: Restore Your Documents and Program Settings
Once you've reinstalled your favorite programs, you should restore your documents, music, movies, and other files (in case any of your programs depend on them—like iTunes, for example). This should be pretty easy: just restore them to the same place they were before (e.g., put your music back in
C:\Users\yourusername\Music\iTunes\, or wherever you had it located).
Do the same thing with the app settings you backed up earlier. Open that folder and restore the folders to their original locations in
Program Files (in the case of AppData, you should overwrite any files that are already there). When you start that program, it should inherit all your old settings and it will be like you never left!
Step Nine: Restore Your Registry Tweaks
Lastly, restore any registry tweaks you had. That means double-clicking on your .reg files that had app settings or Windows tweaks stored inside, and redoing any registry tweaks that you couldn't put into a .reg file. Remember, you may need to restart the program in question (or restart your computer altogether) for the registry tweaks to take effect.
It seems like a long and drawn-out process, but you'd be surprised. I had all my settings copied over in a few minutes, and was up and running with most of my favorite programs not too long after reinstalling—it's much, much faster than setting everything up from scratch. Of course, if you like setting everything up from scratch, feel free to do that too. This is just a great compromise between doing a fresh install and keeping all your settings that you don't want to set up again.
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A faithful friend for a difficult journey
Puppy love ... Sophie Delezio and her new best friend, Tara, in Martin Place yesterday. The golden retriever joined the Delezio family in November.
Photo: Bob Pearce
Sophie Delezio held up four tiny fingers and smiled.
The four-year-old, who lost her feet and the fingers from one hand after suffering burns to 85 per cent of her body when a car crashed into her child-care centre in December 2003, was showing how many cups of food she gives her new best friend every day. Tara, a golden retriever, is Sophie's companion dog, trained and provided by Assistance Dogs Australia, a charity set up in 1996 to help people with physical disabilities.
Yesterday Tara and five other companion dogs - Kirra, Nelson, Oakley, Melissa and Tia - strutted through Martin Place, showing the public what they could do.
Now almost 2, Tara joined the Delezio family last November.
"She helps Sophie with her physiotherapy," her mother, Carolyn Martin, said. "She walks with Sophie when she walks with her [artificial] legs.
"When Sophie needs some particular equipment, Tara will bring it over to her.
"Tara sleeps in her bedroom and keeps an eye on her at night."
Sophie's job, in return, is to feed Tara, filling her bowl with the four cups of food.
"Tara has brought a new dimension into Sophie's life," Ms Martin said.
Tara is one of 51 dogs that Assistance Dogs Australia has provided free of charge. Another 34 are undergoing 18 months of training with volunteers, people on work-for-the-dole programs and even inmates at the Kirkconnell Correctional Centre near Bathurst.
Scott Keen, a prison officer at Kirkconnell, said the centre, which has already trained two dogs under the Pups in Prison program, now had six inmates teaching another three dogs to do everything from switching lights on and off to opening doors.
"It's really good for the inmates," Mr Keen said.
"Their eyes light up, and they are so focused."
Training each dog costs $20,000. Assistance Dogs Australia, a non-profit organisation, has 300 volunteers involved in raising and training the animals, walking them and raising the funds.
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( Originally Published 1883 )
" Miraculum proprie dicitur cum aliquid fit proeter ordinem natura , prceter ordinem totius naturae, creatce."—St. Tho., p. 1, q. 110, a. 4.
The articles which have appeared in the October and November numbers of the " Nineteenth Century," on the subject of miracles, have suggested to the writer that out of the innumerable miracles in the Catholic Church, which are considered as well authenticated, a few might be selected, the accounts of which would also show the kind of evidence by which they are supported.
The Scriptures and the Church have always insisted upon miracles, as one of the proofs of the Almighty's power, and as tests of their own credibility.
A miracle assumes that all the operations of nature are completely, immediately, and continually under the power of God. Thus, take the miracle of the passage of the Israelites through the Red Sea. It is quite clear that, not in a general way but directly, every minute particle of water which composed that vast mass was separately and immediately under the control of the Almighty's will. It is the same with every miracle ; it is an influence exercised by the power of the Creator over the atoms, which are thus obedient to the Divine command : and this is not less true if we admit, as we are pressed to do, and as in many cases there is no objection to our admitting, that even miracles are produced by the exercise, through His hand, of the existing powers of nature—as in the above miracle : the wind which drove up the waters of the Red Sea was an existing force of nature. We, therefore, conclude that the same influence pervades all nature, not only when miracles are being wrought, but for ever, and at all times, controlling these atoms. It would seem, indeed, that with God there is no such thing as a miracle—every change which He effects is but the exercise of that control over the powers of nature to produce such a result as He decrees— whilst with man all these operations are miraculous ; and were we not accustomed to the marvels of nature we should call them all quite as miraculous as the wonders which we read of in Scripture. If man had never seen a flower, the transmutation out of the elements from the seed and earth into its marvellous beauty would strike him as miraculous ; and the transmutation out of the elements, of every blade of grass which springs from the earth, would have the same effect upon his mind.
It is true that there is nothing which the modern philosopher is so determined to reject, as not miracles only, but all proofs of their existence, and this, not so much from the fear of being obliged to admit any doctrine of the Christian Faith, as from the innate conviction, that with the proof of one miracle, would be manifested the foundation on which the whole fabric of second causes rests, and he would stand face to face with the great Creator. Yet is it not worth his while, for so joyful a result, to examine, with no determination to reject them, such proofs as can be offered, and apply the most searching investigation to the testimony which can be adduced in their favour ? Would it not be more than a satisfaction, yea, an enduring joy, to know that this beneficent Creator is ever at hand, not only to penetrate all the operations of nature, but also to know and to recognise the minutest actions of his creatures—the generosity of their self-sacrifice, the purity of their love, the tenderness of their kindness, their pursuit of good, and their resistance of evil ; to feel that He who has implanted in our hearts these noble sentiments (copies of his divine perfections) sees also our patient endurance, and,
Knows how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong."
Would it not be some consolation to know that within the Ioving embrace of his fatherly arms we shall breathe out our spirits, at that last hour, which even the scientific man must look forward to with some anxiety, rather than have our hopes sustained with the not very sublime expectation of the philosopher, of,
" Being absorbed into universal things ? "
It is the hope that the perusal of the following miracles may induce a more noble and heavenly aspiration than this, that has induced the writer to collect and publish them.
Before, however, adducing any miracles which have been performed since Apostolic times, it may not be out of place to quote the evidence of Gibbon, a most unwilling witness. He says :
From the first of the fathers to the last of the popes, a succession of bishops, of saints, of martyrs, and of miracles is continued without interruption, and the progress of superstition was so gradual, and almost imperceptible, that we know not in what particular link we should break the chain of tradition. Every age bears testimony to the wonderful events by which it was distinguished, and its testimony appears no less weighty and respectable than that of the preceding generation, till we are insensibly led on to accuse our own inconsistency, if, in the eighth or twelfth century, we deny to the Venerable Bede, or to the holy Bernard, the same degree of confidence which in the second century we had so liberally granted to Justin or Irenaeus. If the truth of any of those miracles is appreciated by their apparent use, and propriety, every age had unbelievers to convince, heretics to confute, and idolatrous nations to convert."—Decline and Fall, Vol. 2, c. 15, p. 308.
And if in the note he says :
" In the long series of ecclesiastical history there does not exist a single instance of a saint, asserting that he himself possessed the gift of miracles" he could not have said anything which would more completely stamp their authenticity ; for the claiming of the power to work miracles would argue such a want of humility, in him who worked them, as would at once cause the Christian reader to doubt their authenticity. To this of Gibbon may be added the remarks of the author of " Faith and Unfaith " in the Nineteenth Century, November, 1882 :
The question, in each case, would be one of evidence, whether the relic were indeed what is asserted; and assuredly, for some miraculous fragments, the evidence that they are, what they profess to be, is overwhelming : while there is less room for doubt than in the case of many an authentic historical record, at which to cavil, would be the very wantonness of scepticism. If then, there be likelihood that any relic associated with Jesus be indeed what is claimed, then, from it, might still flow, the same virtue that healed the sick woman when she touched His garment's hem, for surely it would be the extremest materialism to maintain that a kerchief, or a robe, had efficacy only, while warm from the living bodies of those who wore them. Though it is not easy to frame any satisfactory definition of miracle, that, is fairly complete, which is usually accepted :—' An interruption or reversion of the ordinary laws of nature, whether this takes place by the suspension of those laws or by the interposition of a law that is higher, and overrides the lower.' We may go further, and assert, without danger of serious contra-diction, that whoever has ceased to believe in miracles has lost all true faith in a personal God. And, if God be living, and personal, and the Church a living body, sanctioned and framed by Him—premises taken for granted by the enormous majority of professing Christians—it is absurd to suppose that the organs, so to speak, of miracle became atrophied at some date, not precisely fixed, and that the Being, who once acted through organs and agents, has now ceased to act at all in any true manner."
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Odisha reels under outages
Poor monsoon last year has affected power generation in Odisha. With water levels falling in the reservoirs of hydro-power projects, electricity generation has dipped. People staying at home have to bear power cuts for an hour every day.
Factories are facing three hours of power outages. Industries have been warned they may have to go on forced holiday once a week very soon.
“Load-shedding has become imperative and the factors are beyond our control,” said energy minister Atanu Savyasachi Nayak. He said there is a shortfall of about 500 MW each day; the daily average peak demand for electricity is 3,300 MW.
Most of the shortage is attributed to decrease in power generation by hydropower units. The seven hydel plants in the state are generating only 837 MW electricity against a total installed capacity of 2,085 MW.
Industrialists said businesses have taken a hit. The director of Orissa Sponge Iron Manufacturers’ Association, N K Burma, said industrial production has decreased 30 per cent.
Power demand in Odisha has risen by 1,320 MW in the last four to five years due to industrial growth and the rural electrification drive. The demand is set to rise further as 50 new industrial units, including 34 steel plants, are proposed. Nayak said the situation would improve in the next two years when five out of the 21 proposed coal-fired power plants get ready. “Besides, the government has formed the Orissa Thermal Corporation Limited for setting up a 2,000 MW thermal power plant at Rengali in Angul district. The third and fourth units of Ib Valley thermal project in Jharsuguda district are likely to be completed soon,” said Nayak.
Trade union leader Ramesh Satpathy of oseb (Orissa State Electricity Board) Shramik Mahasangh said the government is making no effort to reduce transmission and electricity losses which is a high 50 per cent. If the government had worked with a vision, there would have been no power cuts this year, he said.
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MORE ON THE DOG PARK
A dog park in Bethel has been a dream of mine for years.
Steve Wight and I co-chair The Bethel Dog Park Committee. We meet bi-monthly. All are welcomed to attend. We are open-minded to all suggestions (pro or con), and hope that as many people as possible will share their thoughts.
One obvious question on many minds: Why are dog parks needed when we have hundreds of acres here in Maine?
To walk with our dogs? Because many dogs cannot be trusted off leash?
Maine also has a leash law. The Rumford court is filled with petty and large dog complaints, all resulting from unleashed dogs. They kill and eat chickens, then have to be muzzled! They create havoc in their neighborhoods. Fight with other dogs even on the other dogs' property!
Roaming without Rabies shots. Poop all over the place. Some dogs don’t have their vaccinations at all no less a license.
The dog park is for everyone. It's a safe, intelligent and protected environment that allows dogs to be dogs. They're pack animals and thrive when together in a dog park. It's a perfect place for the community to hang out even in the winter when we need to ward off cabin fever. The dogs learn from and teach each other new things pack animals do. As we do about them and ourselves.
I have seen tons of dogs that are aggressive on lead, that are suddenly allowed to run free that love it and instantly become friends with the other dogs, because they are free.
The design of the proposed park is borrowed from the Humane Society's in Lewiston. One third of it is for small dogs, 30 pounds or under.
The town of Bethel has a place for all other of its citizens. Let's make room for our beloved dogs, as well.
The Friends of the Bethel Dog Park and our wonderful snowmobilers decided it’s a reasonable and a good thing to do, ever since we all walked the proposed site together. It happily diffused any confusion!
Already we have many dog business here that dog people that are
tourists or new residents may be drawn to. We'd draw people from
everywhere who owned canines.
I, for one, very seldom let Banjo, my dog, off his leash. Without a leash he'd be gonzo!
Many dogs cannot be trusted off lead. A Dog Park is an intelligent, safe and fun way to let our beloved dogs play together without fear of them racing across a road after a squirrel and getting hit by a car.
From my experience, I know that the vast majority of dog owners always keep a careful watch on their dog. I do. I watch Banjo to pick up his poop and am careful about who he’s playing with and how. With any sign of aggression from another dog, I immediately take him away from any potential danger. We take care of our own as well as each other.
There's great community spirit amongst dog owners. If there is a fight, that is between the dog owners involved. It is not something the town need be worried about.
There are Dog Park Rules. We of the Committee are working hard to raise the necessary money to accomplish this.
For ten years I’ve met only one person against the idea. But, they let their dog off lead.
I see no reason we cannot accomplish this most positive project with the town peoples' blessings. There are already people in Bethel willing to volunteer their services where needed, for the love of dogs.
We would be known throughout this country and beyond as a dog-friendly place to visit and live.
Please climb aboard. Your dogs will love you for it.
The committee’s next meeting will be 2/7/13 at the Mahoosuc Land Trust building. We hope to see you there, especially, because it is just a week before our Town’s Board meeting.
Judith Price Diamond
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Systemic Problems with Organic Labeling and Signage: Widespread Market Place MisrepresentationFebruary 15th, 2011
Formal rule change request by The Cornucopia Institute will address problem
CORNUCOPIA, Wis. An investigation by The Cornucopia Institute found numerous stores in several states that carried “organic” signs on shelves of non-organic breakfast cereal, and bulk bins with non-organic granola that had “organic” bin labels.
One specific company, Golden Temple, which manufactures bulk granola under their trade name, and packaged products under the Peace Cereal brand, was responsible for widespread, national labeling problems based on Cornucopia’s research.
Similar problems with mislabeled in-store signs and advertisements of conventional Silk soymilk represented as “organic” had previously been traced to the same cause: the manufacturers of these products changed their products from organic to conventional without changing the product’s barcode. As a result, many retailers were unaware of the change from organic to conventional and continued to label these products as before.
Silk is manufactured and distributed by the WhiteWave division of the dairy giant Dean Foods.
To prevent future problems with mislabeling of conventional or “natural” food as organic, and to protect consumers from false in-store signage, The Cornucopia Institute today filed a formal request with the National Organic Standards Board, the expert panel that advises the Secretary of Agriculture on organic rulemaking, for a rule change in the federal organic standards.
Cornucopia is requesting that food manufacturers be required to change their barcode, the Universal Product Code (UPC), whenever there is a change in the product’s organic status and, additionally, to formally notify their customers.
“Any change in organic status requires new labels and packaging, since the USDA strictly regulates the use of the term “organic” on food packages. We believe that a change in the barcode is a simple step that every manufacturer should be obligated to take to ensure that all distributors and retailers are aware that the product has changed, ” says Charlotte Vallaeys, a Farm and Food Policy Analyst with Cornucopia, a Wisconsin-based food and farm policy group.
Reports of mislabeled bulk bins displaying “organic” signs while containing non-organic Golden Temple granola triggered the investigation and formal request by The Cornucopia Institute. “It’s a tribute to the passion and concern that consumers and retailers have for organic food that they care enough to raise questions when something appears improper,” Vallaeys said about the spontaneous reports received by the organic watchdog group. “The strength of the organic label centers around the vast majority of ethical industry participants that are willing to speak up and tough federal regulations, that include fines and other sanctions when necessary.”
When Cornucopia staff members visited stores in the Midwest and the East Coast, they also found numerous instances of Peace Cereal mislabeled as “organic, ” when the cereal has been conventional for the past three years. Non-organic Peace Cereal was identified as “organic” even in certified organic retail stores. And Cornucopia still found the product listed as organic in at least one West Coast distributor’s catalog.
The Golden Temple bulk granola and Peace Cereal brands are owned by the same company, which was acquired by Hearthside Food Solutions in 2010. Three years ago, the manufacturer of the two brands switched its product line from organic to conventional, without changing any of the product barcodes. While some retailers say they were notified of the change, many were not and continued to purchase and label the products as before, unaware of the change from organic to conventional.
“Our investigation shows that the vast majority of retailers were horrified when they learned that they had mislabeled these products in their stores and unknowingly misled their customers, ” states Vallaeys. “It became clear to us that the problem lies not with the retailers, but with the food manufacturers who fail to change their product’s barcode. It should be their responsibility to ensure that their customers know they are no longer organic. ”
In most stores, the ordering and stocking system is highly automated, and labor is typically provided by entry-level staff. Unless the manufacturer making the change notifies the retailers directly and changes the Universal Product Code, it is unlikely that the employees receiving the shipment will catch the change.
“We found out about Golden Temple’s change from organic to conventional from a representative of another company, ” says Rosemary Mausser, of Three Rivers Co-op in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Mausser made sure the bulk bin labels in her store were updated immediately, but notes that the nearly three-year time lag could have been prevented easily.
“If the manufacturer doesn’t tell us that the product has changed, it’s hard for us to catch the change ourselves, ” says Mausser. “The employees who unload the incoming boxes and fill up the bulk bins at 2 o’clock in the morning cannot be expected to inspect every box to make sure the organic status hasn’t changed. It only seems reasonable that manufacturers should let us know, and a change in the barcode or order number would help serve as a heads-up that something about the product is different,” she adds.
Even the venerable national chain Whole Foods Markets, which displayed inaccurate “organic” signs, was a victim of this “organic shell game” since they relied on the automated database from their prime distributor, United Natural Foods International.
After being notified by Cornucopia, Whole Foods management instituted a chain-wide audit of all in-store signage, which is now in the process of being completed.
In another prominent example that illustrates the need for this rule change, when Dean Foods (White Wave) changed the core product line of their Silk soymilk from organic to conventional without changing the barcode in 2009, many independent retailers were not aware of the switch until a report by The Cornucopia Institute, which was widely covered in the news media (including cover stories in the Chicago Tribune and LA Times), alerted them of the change.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram printed an expose on Dean Foods’ decision to keep the organic product’s barcode on its reformulated non-organic soymilk cartons, reporting that, as a result, “specialty food markets contacted in California, Delaware and Texas said they did not discover the switch for six to nine months.”
Along with a mandatory change in the barcode, The Cornucopia Institute is requesting that manufacturers also be required to alert all customers, including distributors, vendors, brokers and all retailers, when their product no longer qualifies as organic.
“Manufacturers do have the means available to notify their customers, such as when there is a voluntary recall or an undeclared allergen we should know about, ” says Anne Vedder, of Outpost Natural Foods, a member-owned cooperative in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “So it wouldn’t be too much to ask them to notify us as well when there is a downgrade from organic status to conventional, ” she adds.
“I’ll bet you 10 pounds of granola that a manufacturer will do anything in their power to make sure that retailers are notified when their product changes from conventional to organic, ” says Cornucopia’s Mark Kastel, the organization’s Codirector. “That’s because the organic label has real value, and it’s unfair to companies that are truly committed to organics when others profit from the organic label for months, even years, after they discontinue using organic ingredients.”
PLEASE NOTE: These examples of mislabeling are aberrations in the organic industry, and might possibly lead to a loss of consumer confidence in organics.
We believe it is important for the organic industry, especially retailers, to understand current dynamics regarding organic labeling, especially for bulk bin items. We urge all retailers to immediately scrutinize their signage and confirm they are compatible with both the Organic Foods Production Act and general ethical retailing practices.
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antibodies to histag proteins
sbc4 at PO.CWRU.EDU
Fri Sep 13 22:18:53 EST 1996
At 12:19 PM 9/13/96 -0700, you wrote:
>I am planning to make antibodies to histag proteins without cleaving
>the histidine tag. However, I am concerned about getting more
>background in western blots and immunoprecipitations using antibodies
>made to uncleaved histag proteins. Does anyone have any experience in
>this matter ?
I am in the process of screening hybridomas generated from a GST fusion
protein. After screening 95 of them I have found 15 that are positive for my
protein, but only one this is GST positive. If you are going to go after a
polyclonal antibody, you may need to pre clear the his positive species
using some type of HIS affinity matrix.
More information about the Methods
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Server Room DIY, In-House Web Server Requirements
The first installment of this series discussed going in-house vs. using a hosted service to get your personal or small-business site up on the Web. This tutorial continues along the same lines to help you figure out if being your own Web host is right for you. We will look at what you will need to run a Web server, before we jump right into installing and configuring varying servers.
Read Server Room DIY, In-House vs. Hosted to learn the pros and cons of each.
You will find the simplest of setups will likely not require much time to get running and will not cost a cent. Yet when reliability and supportability is a must, you'll probably need to make some purchases and invest a good amount of time. The following sections give you a rundown of the hardware and services required or recommended for hosting your own Web server.
Getting a Domain Name for Your Site
If you would like simplified access to your Web server, you'll need some sort of domain name. Without this type of address you could still bring up your Web site up by typing your Internet connection's IP address (for example, 126.96.36.199) into a Web browser. However, for a prettier and easier-to-remember address you can purchase a domain name of your own (for instance, yourname.com). Here are a few places you may consider when purchasing a domain name:
Another option is to sign-up for a free domain name (e.g., yourname.getmyip.com), which we'll call a host name. You would actually be using a sub-domain of a third party's domain name. You can get this type of domain name from sites that offer dynamic IP address redirection services. You'll likely have to set up this type of service anyway if your Internet connection does not have a permanent or static IP address. Residential and lower priced small-business connections typically don't. A few sites that offer this service, including:
High-Speed Internet Connection
It goes without saying that you'll need an always-on high-speed connection, like a DSL or cable connection. Take into account the following considerations when choosing an Internet Service Provider (ISP):
- Port 80: You should check if your ISP lets traffic through this port, since it's the default port used for Web servers. If you find port 80 isn't open, you can use the alternative Web port of 8080 if your domain registrar supports port-level forwarding.
- ISP Terms: It's best to see if you can legally host a Web server from your Internet connection; more so if you have residential-class Internet service. Some ISPs may have terms in place that restrict residential accounts from hosting a Web server, which can use a great deal of bandwidth.
- Upload Bandwidth: Keep in mind you want the highest upload bandwidth possible for your Internet connection. This upload speed for your connection will be the speed at which people can download files from your server. Even if you're using a residential-class connection that doesn't have a very high upload speed, it's usually enough for an average Web site.
Host Computer to Run the Server Software
You'll need a computer on which to install the server software. We'll call that the host computer. Although the host computer can be used for other day-to-day purposes, it's recommended to dedicate a computer to be the one hosting the server. When the host computer is shut down, logged off, or crashes, you and others on the Web will not be able to access the site.
Here are some decision that must be made when setting up your host computer:
- Network Adapter: You must have the host computer connected to the Internet, either via a direct connection to the Internet modem or to a network. In most cases, a network connection makes the most sense, in which case the host computer must have an Ethernet or wireless network adapter. An Ethernet cable connection is the best way to go since RF interference can cause problems with wireless connections and disrupt the availability of your Web server.
- Firewall: Since you'll be opening up port 80 to the World, you must make sure you have a firewall running on the host computer at all times. This will help prevent unauthorized access and infections to your computer or network. If you're using Windows, you can use Windows Firewall; otherwise you can use a third-party firewall solution for either Windows or Ubuntu.
- Updates: Remember to always keep the OS of your host computer up-to-date to ensure you're protected from the latest known security holes.
UPS for Backup Power
If you would like your Web server to be accessible during power outages at your office or home, look into getting an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) unit. You plug your host computer, network router, and Internet modem into the UPS. If the power goes out, the battery system in the UPS automatically kicks in, without interrupting your computer and devices, to offer power until the lights come back on or the battery runs out.
Now that we have covered the nuts and bolts of setting up your own Web server, the next installments will go more into the nitty gritty of being your own Web host. We'll go step-by-step through setting up the Apache and Microsoft IIS servers. We'll also cover configuring your router and computer to work with your server.
Eric Geier is the founder and president of Sky-Nets, a Wi-Fi Hotspot Network. He is also the author of many networking and computing books, including Home Networking All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (Wiley 2008) and 100 Things You Need to Know about Microsoft Windows Vista (Que 2007).
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On this day in Duluth in 1885, operation of the 1858 Minnesota Point Lighthouse ceased. Built to guide mariners through the Superior Entry (the mouth of the St. Louis River between Minnesota and Wisconsin Point), the structure had problems from the start: it leaked, and the plaster covering its bricks fell off in chunks. The big problem, though, was its location on the ever-shifting sands of Minnesota Point: within a year of its construction, it no longer stood close to the water. By the mid 1880s, it was far enough away to be useless (today it stands about a half mile from the entry). While the Keeper’s House was refurbished and used until 1895, the lighthouse was abandoned, and its lens was installed in a new structure at the outer end of the north pier of the Superior Entry, also in August, 1885. The Superior Entry Pierhead Light was destroyed in the “Mataafa Storm”of November, 1905. Today the Keeper’s House is gone, and the Minnesota Point Lighthouse is a ruin about 30-feet tall, deteriorating and unprotected from vandals.
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Seattle Picks: If You Like Abraham Verghese's "Cutting for Stone"
Annotation:Dr. Abuelaish describes his life in Gaza and his work as the only Palestinian doctor in an Israeli hospital. Despite many personal losses, he refuses to give in to hatred, focusing instead on healing, both among his patients and in his land.
Annotation:The stories in this collection, written by the Nigerian author of "Things Fall Apart," examine political and social issues in Africa during the mid-20th century. Topics range from market day interactions to family tensions over a mixed marriage to a harrowing smallpox outbreak.
Annotation:A cure for an aging syndrome in children would not only make him famous (and rich), but would save two of his young patients and Seattle doctor Henry Moss must decide whether to risk his license and use the medicine before it's legally approved or watch his patients die.
Annotation:This epic novel set during the Sudanese civil war follows the efforts of an American pilot to fly food and medical supplies to a war-ravaged region avoided by the U.N. He is joined by missionaries, aid workers and rebels, but their well-intentioned efforts at times have disastrous outcomes.
Annotation:Marie, a Seattle anesthesiologist, is devastated when a patient dies under her care in the operating room. At the same time, Marie's aging father is losing his ability to live independently. This elegantly-crafted novel is both a page-turner and a compassionate exploration of medical and personal responsibility.
Annotation:Chen, a transplant surgeon, relates her own experiences trying to balance the psychological strain of maintaining a professional demeanor in the face of a patient's death, with the more human, empathetic side of end-of-life care.
Annotation:This autobiographical novel takes the form of a subvocalized memoir by Deng, a Sudanese Lost Boy -- one who was separated from his family during a military raid on his village. Surviving unimaginable horrors, Deng immigrated to America where he finds human nature is the same everywhere and his life is still difficult.
Annotation:After her British parents die in Africa, eight-year-old Lily is raised as a Muslim in a Moroccan shrine. As a young woman, she travels to Ethiopia where she becomes a nurse, but is ostracized for being a foreigner.
Annotation:The author's family fled Ethiopia in the mid-1970s, leaving friends and extended family. In this memoir, Haile discusses her return to Ethiopia 25 years later to see the changes and challenges.
Annotation:Nineteen-year-old Nasarian fights a personal battle for freedom from Kenya's constraints on women and longs for an end to the ongoing violence around her.
Annotation:This powerful, heartbreaking tale of sons and fathers, of friendship and betrayal, is set in Kabul, Afghanistan during the 1970s and onward. As a boy, Amir enjoys a relatively idyllic existence with his best friend, Hassan, but class and familial differences split them apart.
Annotation:Dr. Charles Anderson volunteers to render medical aid to refugees in a fictional Islamic country that has suffered an earthquake and struggles with internal strife. But the refugees don't arrive and the medical staff is left in the midst of a firefight.
Annotation:The complexities of ethical behavior and human love are explored through the stories of rejected orphan Homer Wells, and the dedicated obstetrician and orphanage director, Dr. Wilbur Larch, whose questionable medical practices and drug addiction gradually come to light.
Annotation:Hailsham, a secluded boarding school in England, is remembered by a trio of friends who gradually discover the purpose behind their elite school and careful upbringing in this dystopian tale of medical ethics and human tragedy.
Annotation:A long-standing feud between the McGraths and the Alfredsons, the families who founded a famous hospital near Seattle, continues as the medical staff battles to save lives.
Annotation:Nathan Price, self-proclaimed Baptist missionary, drags his naive wife and four daughters to the Belgian Congo in 1959 to evangelize among the natives. His ignorance and the anti-colonial unrest in the region combine to create disaster for his mission, his family and his potential converts.
Annotation:Twelve interrelated stories follow four fledgling doctors through medical school and beyond as they climb the learning curve, develop good bedside manners and learn lessons in ethics.
Annotation:The compelling fictional story of conjoined twins is told in their own voices in a novel richly imagined and poignant. Rose and Ruby are surprisingly different -- they even have secrets from one another -- and their stories, while similar, are unique.
Annotation:Humor, hope and despair are mixed together in this quietly told tale of an Ethiopian emigre, Sepha, who flees Ethiopia after his father is murdered by revolutionary soldiers. Sepha opens a store in a racially mixed neighborhood of Washington, D.C., where he befriends other Aftrican immigrants as well as a white woman and her spirited biracial daughter.
Annotation:During the fall of Haile Selassie's regime, a physician's family is torn apart by its members' varied reactions to violent circumstances. Told from different perspectives, the novel brings to life the violence, betrayal and devastation of Ethiopia's civil war.
Annotation:Anna's parents use her as a donor for her sick sister's sake. It is, in fact, the chief purpose of her life until she decides to sue her parents for the right to her own body in a riveting tale of love and betrayal.
Annotation:Written by a physician, this compulsively readable novel is a fascinating, multi-layered saga of family, medicine and personal growth set in Ethiopia (also India, Yemen and New York City).
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While other Texas growers were cutting back on their acreage after two tough seasons, Rio Queen in Mission, TX, took a calculated risk and actually increased production. It was a gamble, but perfect weather and proper planning meant an early start to the season and the company will increase yields by 50 percent over 2012.
“We started shipping sweet Texas onions Feb. 16 so we are extremely early,” said Rio Queen President Mike Martin. “We did that by design. We stepped out and took some chances and made an effort to be early and Mother Nature cooperated.”
Part of Rio Queen’s increased acreage was planted to come off early; the weather spurred some of the rest to pick up the pace as well.
“We had a very warm and dry January and February, so not only were our early onions on target, our more traditional plantings are also early,” Mr. Martin said. “We normally shoot to start March 7-9 but our early fields that were intended for that period we’re clipping today, March 1, and they’re ready to pack — we can almost run them right out of the fields, they’re just absolutely beautiful. So we had a big head start on everyone and we are just tickled with how things look at this point.”
So why plant more when other Texas growers are cutting back?
“We took a chance. Our acreage is up tremendously, huge — we have way more in the ground than before. I think we’re going to be up at least 50 percent in volume but we may be up more like two-thirds and the crop just looks phenomenal,” Mr. Martin said. “We planted our early Texas onions thinking our Mexican supplies would be down and they are. We felt like the crop in the Northwest was a little off — not bad don’t get me wrong — but if you look at the reports the storage on hand is way, way down compared to previous years. There are water concerns in south Texas and a number of growers after two pretty tough years were saying they were going to cut back; we confirmed that talking to suppliers so we decided to do just the opposite. We just kind of put together all the pieces of information and laid em out on the table and said, ‘You know what? The compass is saying do more.’ We went against the grain and we planted more. It was a calculated risk. I said then, ‘If this works it’s going to be great but if it doesn’t, I don’t know what we’re going to do.’ “
Now, “The markets are solid, there’s good demand for our sweet onions — we do also have a handful of reds and a handful of whites — but again some risky early plantings paid off,” Mr. Martin said. “So we’re going to be busy.”
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One evening last October, a University of Texas at Austin astronomer named Gary Hill stood behind a lectern at Miss Hattie’s Café and Saloon, which occupies a restored nineteenth- century bank building in downtown San Angelo, and cheerfully proclaimed his ignorance. “We really don’t understand the universe,” he said. “We thought we did, but it turns out we only understand about four percent of it.”
A dozen or so people, among them businessmen, the editor of the local newspaper, a school librarian, and a couple of college professors, had assembled at Miss Hattie’s, where the lace curtains and rose-print wallpaper harked back to a time when the universe was no larger than our own galaxy and Newton’s laws seemed to explain it and a tunnel linked the building where we sat to a nearby bordello. There was something old-fashioned too about the fact that a bespectacled, British-born scientist had traveled from the state capital to give a talk to the curious and that the curious had turned out to hear what he had to say. His subject, on the other hand, was the very future of cosmology and physics and how they might be affected by one telescope in particular, located 212 miles farther west.
Galileo stuck lenses onto either end of an organ pipe; today’s research telescopes, while considerably more elaborate, still perform the same fundamental task of collecting and focusing light. It’s all astronomers have to go on: electromagnetic radiation from distant objects, whether it arrives in the form of X-rays or visible light or radio waves. “We’re detectives, but we can only use what light will give us,” Hill had said to me earlier that day. “So we get fairly ingenious in the ways we analyze light to look for clues.” They rely, for instance, on spectroscopy, the process of separating light emitted by an object in space into its component wavelengths, as a prism does, then analyzing those components. And they invent new tools to analyze the light. To probe deeper and deeper into space, scientists must design better and better detectors, sensitive to the faintest of emissions.
Such instruments don’t come cheaply, which is why Hill and his colleague Karl Gebhardt have periodically taken to the road over the past three and a half years: They’ve been promoting an ambitious $34 million overhaul of a telescope at UT’s McDonald Observatory, in the Davis Mountains of West Texas. Speaking to potential donors in Houston or a luncheon group in Abilene, they’ve been publicizing an endeavor called HETDEX, or the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment, the aim of which is to help attack what some have labeled one of the most important problems in science.
Hill grew up in England but left to go to where the telescopes were, first as a graduate student in Hawaii, then as a postdoctoral researcher in West Texas, in 1988. Finding that certain instruments at the observatory weren’t sensitive enough, he designed and built a new spectrograph on the cheap, still in use today. He is now the observatory’s chief astronomer. At Miss Hattie’s he applied his knack for innovative thinking to the problem of business attire—he wore a striped green shirt and a pink tie—and as he spoke, he grinned and nodded infectiously. “We have a huge opportunity to lay the groundwork in Texas for understanding how the universe has changed through time,” he said. He outlined the goals of the experiment: to conduct the largest survey of other galaxies ever completed and to use that information to measure how the scale of the universe has evolved—and to reinvent the telescope in the process. By doing so, Hill, Gebhardt, and their collaborators hope to better understand what astronomers call dark energy, though no one really knows what the term means: “Dark energy” is a label for a mystery. “The thing is,” Hill told his audience, “it may not be dark and it may not be energy.”
After the presentation had ended and most of the audience had departed, Hill was subjected to a more rigorous interrogation at dinner from Ken Gunter, a tall, poker-faced San Angelo businessman and a member of the McDonald’s Board of Visitors, a statewide group of observatory supporters. This turned into a debate between the gruff West Texan and the polite but impassioned British scientist, while half a dozen others at the table looked on. Though he supports the experiment, Gunter was skeptical as to whether he could raise funds for it. “What is the pragmatic end product, except exciting a bunch of astronomy Ph.D.’s in Austin? Give me something I can identify with. If you want to raise some honest-to-God money, you better start raising some honest-to-God tie back to medical or energy.” That, said Hill, wasn’t the point. The most practical argument he could make for the telescope was that it might excite students in a country where science education was failing and draw better faculty to the university. Gunter seemed unconvinced. “My sense is that most people don’t give two hoots in hell whether the universe is expanding or contracting or moving sideways!” he said, and drew out a cigar.
Earlier that day I’d ridden in a rented suburban with Hill; David Lambert, the director of the observatory; and Joel Barna, its development director, from Midland to Abilene to San Angelo. The flat landscape was staked by the technology of energy production: Near Midland the pump jacks kowtowed to the brush, while farther south a line of soaring silver windmills receded toward the horizon. (One question often posed by lay audiences in Texas, Hill told me, is “How can we harness dark energy for human use?”) It was a warm, hazy morning, and as we’d all risen early to catch a seven o’clock flight from Austin to Midland, a soporific air had fallen over the car, leaving me in a state of sleepy wonderment at one of astronomy’s fundamental principles, that light can ripple for billions of years through the vast universe and
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|BioRegional: An Inventive Model of Sustainability|
|by Elisa Birnbaum|
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Dedicated to creating sustainable communities and production systems, UK-based BioRegional Development Group was co-founded in 1994 by Sue Riddlestone and Pooran Desai to stem what they viewed to be the primary cause of the world’s environmental issues: over-consumption.
Their multi-faceted response first took the form of various innovative enterprises, such as The Laundry, London’s first curbside recycling company. With no minimum collection amount needed, and with a fixed fee per bag, even small companies can use their service (it has since been sold). There’s also MiniMills, developing new small-scale technology to produce paper pulp, and the BioRegional Charcoal Company, supplying locally produced charcoal to national retailers. It's estimated the innovation resulted in an 85% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions generated from the transport of charcoal from producer to store.
Through consultancy, education and informing policy, BioRegional is committed to demonstrating that environmentally sustainable living is a feasible option for everyone. They’ve developed One Planet Living, an approach that, with its accompanying 10 principles, envisions a world in which, "people live happy, healthy lives within the natural limits of the planet.” And they started the One Planet Communities programme, whereby BioRegional helps develop (by way of advisor or coach) a network of the earth’s greenest neighbourhoods.
But BioRegional is probably best known for the Beddington Zero Energy Development. The UK’s largest mixed-use sustainable community, BedZED is an award-winning eco-village situated outside London made up of like-minded folks looking for a sustainable and high quality of life. Riddelstone and Desai live and work out of BedZed, voted fourth most influential green building last year by US Architect magazine (for curious folks, daily tours show you how it’s done).
SEE Change recently sat down with 2009 Skoll Award winner, Riddlestone who shared her thoughts on running the revolutionary social enterprise and her long-standing passion for sustainable communities.
You were an environmental activist well before it was “trendy”; where did these sensibilities originate?
We started developing our idea in 1992 (we became a charity in 1994). Yes, it wasn’t yet mainstream but there was a big enough community thinking this way so we didn’t feel like a total loser. I do remember things like having a little seat at the back for my daughter when we cycled to her school and everyone used to look. Nowadays, a lot of people have that but sometimes I still do feel a bit "out there."
What inspired me to do what I’m doing is the beauty of the world and my feeling that it has an intrinsic right to be left in peace; to leave space for wildlife and wilderness. I remember back in the late 80s, early 90s, issues like Vancouver Island being clear-cut for paper-making. That was one of the things that inspired me to think: how can we make paper more sustainable? And, I suppose as a child I was always very aware. There’s something about appreciating nature at a very young age and appreciating the fellow creatures on the planet. And just feeling it was my responsibility to do what I can because how can a tree or orangutan or a killer whale take responsibility? What can they do?
For me it was about, how can we produce the things that we need in such a way to reduce our impact on wildlife and wilderness. Thinking more locally is a part of that. And that’s why we called ourselves BioRegional, from the idea of local production for local needs. So if we need to make some paper, we’re not going to get it from Vancouver Island. How can we do it more locally? We look to our regional resources to answer that. That led to one stream where we focused on paper production, including the MiniMill technology and small-scale pulp mill.
Tell me about the One Planet Living philosophy.
We’re trying to show that we can have the paper, we can have the charcoal, we can have a nice house, we can have everything, we just have to be more resource-efficient and smart. And then it’s not scary, is it? There’s something about presenting the facts and showing there are ways to do it. We try to dissolve people’s perceptions and barriers and the fact that they think it won’t be nice. We make it more aspirational and attractive.
Solar array at the Sonoma Mountain Village One Planet Community from Codding Enterprises
How did those ideas evolve into BedZed?
We needed a new office and we looked around and decided if we did an eco-village we could live there as well. We approached a green architect to come up with some designs and we tried to sell it to people. It was a £15 million project. When I look back now I think, “What on earth were we thinking?” But what I always found is, even if things seem really audacious, if you can see something worth doing, you just have a do it and people take you seriously. But I do think you have to be professional and business-like in the way you go about it.
There are 100 homes and workspaces, so there’s about 250 people living there plus about 100 coming in every day to work. And then there’s a college for people with learning disabilities. The idea is for people to be sustainable, making it easy to do the right thing and difficult to do the wrong thing. We weren’t architects or planners but we were thinking about it as people who wanted to be sustainable and were going to live there. A low energy building is not just about the building but how you live in it.
We had a green transport plan and we thought, how do we make it easy to live without a car? Luckily, the site is close to public transport and we made a space in the hallway to put bikes and we charged people for parking spaces. And we have London’s first car club. Now they’re all over London. That’s one of the key takeaways when they come to visit us. They say, “Oh yeah, we can do that.” We definitely reduced car use by 50-60%. Obviously, they're partly self-selected, but 50% are renting or workers who don’t have much of a choice but to also join in.
What are some of the other innovations introduced?
It’s a regular mainstream development, that was another innovation. Everything we did we wanted to do mainstream, something that could just work in the market because otherwise how could sustainability ever happen? We’re also really energy efficient. We don’t need central heating; we’re outfitted with energy-saving appliances and supply the remaining with renewable energy. We’ve reduced energy demand and set it up to make it easy to recycle.
Behaviour change is big too. We have metres so when you use a lot of electricity or hot water, it shows on the metre. We had a 45% reduction in energy consumption and we think 20% of that is from human behaviour change. We set up local and sustainable food growing materials. We’ve shown how much human behaviour really makes a difference. And we’ve seen that even though our residents cut impact, they’re happier. On average, people at BedZed know about 20 of their neighbours, whereas the average number is about eight.
We have training, education and consulting to help others do the same. We set up a for-profit property development company. We just finished one project in Brighton with 172 apartments and we’re working around the world. It’s an innovative way for us to grow, setting up in other parts of the world; it's a nice way to grow. We’re trying to show that all around the world you can live sustainable lifestyles. We developed 10 principles as a framework that anyone can use.
People come from all over to check out BedZed; what do you think accounts for its success?
They come from China, Australia, Korea, from everywhere. I meet people all the time who’ve been there. I think part of the reason it’s been so influential is we didn’t just build it and go away. It’s in our community. Although we’re an international NGO and we do all these different things, we’re still very rooted in our community and try to make our own local area sustainable. Part of it is being there, monitoring our residents, writing reports and having a visitor centre. If we didn’t have one, it just wouldn’t be as real.
We didn’t think we’d still be open eight years later. We didn’t think there would still be tour groups. We didn't realize how influential the project would be; we just tried to do a really good job and we didn’t know it would have that impact.
How does the Skoll award impact you?
I think it makes a difference on several levels. It’s nice to have validation of what you’re doing. When someone says, “this is really good,” it means people take you more seriously and it’s validation to other people too. All of them [Skoll winners] are so brilliant, it's quite humbling to be part of the gang. It’s a nice feeling, like a family. The longer you’re in the network, the more you start to link up. Obviously, the Skoll award itself helps in that they give you some coaching on how to replicate for scale and the grant money itself is helpful for that.
What are some key lessons learned?
Be business-like, professional, and do your homework. It’s about sustainability, going back to basics, thinking from scratch because that’s where you can see these genuine opportunities. Look for partners to do projects with you and think, “What’s in it for them?” because there has to be something. From my point of view, we always try really hard to do a good job with pure intentions and that always seems to help.
It’s been an interesting journey. Every day is interesting, intellectually challenging, exciting, worthwhile. I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to do anything except things that inspire them. That’s a message I always say to people: Do what inspires you, what makes your eyes light up. Do it.
*************************************While in London, Elisa stayed at the Lancaster London, recognized for its strong commitment to the environment. Over the years the hotel introduced a variety of environmental initiatives including an Environmental Task Force, an Environmental Policy and an annual internal "Green Awareness Day". What's more, it became the first hotel in London to install beehives on its roof to curb the depleting bee population and reduce the food miles on hotel honey. Thanks to its ongoing efforts in sustainability, the Lancaster London was awarded a number of prestigious honours.
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The biblical ‘Book of Job’ addresses the existence of evil and suffering in a world where a loving, all-powerful God exists. It has been described as ‘the most profound and literary work of the entire Old Testament’.
In ‘Job’, God and Satan discuss the limits of human faith and endurance. God lets Satan force Job to undergo extreme trials and tribulations, including the destruction of his family. Despite this, as God predicted, Job’s faith remains unshaken and he is rewarded by God with the restoration of his health, wealth and family. Here Blake shows Satan torturing Job with boils.
From The Holy Bible (King James version), Book of Job, Chapter II, 3-10
3. And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.4. And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.5. But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.6. And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.7…
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Reporting Reg Chapman
Filed underHigh School Sports Rally, Local, News, Seen On WCCO-TV, Sports, Syndicated Local, Syndicated Sports, Watch + Listen
NEW BRIGHTON, Minn. (WCCO) — Many great athletes come from humble beginnings, but for his entire life, Mark Braun has been fighting to overcome obstacles. He was born with spinal bifida, a birth defect that left his legs upside down and crossed.
His biological parents left him for dead in the bottom of a garbage can in his home country of Jamaica. He was then adopted by a missionary and now is one of the premier wheelchair athletes in the country.
Braun was the star on three back to back national championships wheelchair basketball teams.
The expansion of wheelchair track and field in the Minnesota High School league has allowed Mark Braun to excel in yet another sport.
Irondale High School student Braun is the first male to compete in Minnesota track and field in a wheelchair. He currently holds state records in two of the three events wheelchair athletes can compete in.
“I’m just very excited that we’re allowed to be on the same track with able bodies, we’re allowed to race besides others who aren’t any different,” said Braun. “We may race with adaptions, we aren’t any different and we can do the same things.”
The Minnesota High School league began allowing wheelchair athletes to compete in track and field last year. Braun was the first male to take the challenge.
This year, the league expanded the number of events these athletes can compete in, and there are other changes. For the first time, Braun will compete side by side with athletes who don’t use a wheelchair.
Braun is an all-around athlete. He plays adaptive softball, floor hockey and soccer. He is also a three time national wheelchair basketball champion.
His bedroom, hallway and family room in his home are full of awards, medals and trophies. But it’s track and field that fills a need for camaraderie with the people he sees every day.
“You’re with your other friends, but you’re not with your high school friends and you’re with a program that’s just self-contained,” said Braun.
Braun says he’s glad his classmates are able to see him practice and compete just like the other athletes at school.
When he is on the track, Braun says there is nothing he cannot accomplish.
“If you believe in yourself, you’ll do great,” he said.
His school and state track records are proof of that.
“As a pioneer and to start something like this, you begin being alone and you build up support and you build up friends,” he said.
Braun has built a reputation as a fierce competitor, and his drive and determination set him apart from others.
Irondale track coach Tom Rodefeld says he is honored to have someone like Mark in the program.
“He is a team leader he leads with his character on and off the track,” said Rodefeld. “When he goes to our meets or away meets, it’s so fun to watch him the way he educates the other athletes about his events about himself about his sport in general.”
Braun says every athlete deserves to have the right to race, and he says he will fight for that even after he graduates from Irondale. For now he will keep on striving for inclusion — and, of course, gold medals.
“Each and every achievement has a story behind it, and I look at those stories as a memory to put in the memory book,” said Braun.
His mother Claire keeps good records on where Braun has been and where he’s headed.
“It’s really crucial that a child have a memory to kind of look back on, so if you have all these positive things you don’t have to dwell on the negative,” she said.
She has fostered more than 70 children, many with disabilites. She has adopted eight of them, including Mark. Claire keeps her son grounded and focused on what he can do, like following his dream of one day being an Olympian.
“My times qualify for the Paralympic standards,” said Braun. “So I’m hoping to go to London this summer in the 2012 Paralympic games with Team USA.”
Braun hopes to one day coach other athletes, both those who have the use of their legs as well as those who use a wheelchair to compete.
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- How do you talk to someone who has cancer?
- About cancer
- Hearing the news
- Ways of coping
- Living with cancer
- Sources of support
- Concern for the family and caregivers
- Help and information
- If your loved one decides to stop getting treatment
- If your loved one refuses cancer treatment
- Facing the final stage of life
- Summing up: Talking to the person with cancer
- To learn more
Living with cancer
Cancer is often a disease that lasts a long time, and people may get treatment for many years. Sometimes, people close to the patient who were very involved at first grow distant as the treatment continues over the course of months or years. It’s understandable that you can become “burned out” when supporting a person with cancer. Still, people with cancer need emotional support throughout the entire course of the illness.
Remember that encouragement and support can help people with cancer get a new perspective and have hope, even when they feel beaten down by cancer or its treatment. Also, the support of family and friends helps people with cancer have as normal a life as their illness allows. So, if you are going to be a support person for someone with cancer, try to hang in there for the long term. Being there and then leaving can be very painful for the person who needs you, and can be even worse than never being there at all.
It’s often hard to know if you are crossing boundaries or treating the person with cancer too much like a “cancer patient” and not like your friend or family member. Encourage the person with cancer to let you know if you cross this line. Every person with cancer appreciates the friend or family member who remembers that they used to be a person without cancer—that they had, and still have, strengths and weaknesses, interests, and parts of life that have nothing to do with cancer. Sometimes being the person in the “cancer patient’s” life who remembers the whole person is a special gift.
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I decided to start going through Yasin’s awesome MVC programming tutorials in PyQt(actually doing it instead of just watch) and ran into a little snag when on the first lesson. I entered in all the same code but in the IDE I was using got an error that said:
'module' object has no attribute 'QStringList'
So after digging around and searching I found the answer and wanted to share it. I was using python ver 3.1 and according to what I read on stack overflow here , if you are using PyQt4 and python 3 then you don’t need to use QStrings, in fact that aren’t in the library which is what that error means. so if you are getting that same error simply use a python string list like this:
data = ['one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five']
and all should be well and dandy.
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IP Outreach Research > IP Use and Awareness
|Title:||Survey of Intellectual Property Commercialization in the Higher Education Sector 2003|
|Author:||Cathy Read [Statistics Canada]|
|Focus:||Commercialisation, Economic / Financial Impact|
|Objective:||To illuminate the overall process of intellectual property management in the higher education sector.|
|Sample:||100+ universities/degree-granting colleges (87) and affiliated research hospitals (34)|
|In 2003, 56% of participating hospitals (slightly fewer, with 58% in 1999 and 61% in 2001) and 78% of universities (continuing upward trend, from 62% in 1999 to 68% in 2001) were actively managing (identifying, protecting, promoting and/or commercialising) their intellectual property (IP). IP management infrastructure followed a similar trend: 29% of hospitals (versus 32% and 39% in 1999 and 2001 respectively) and 68% of universities (versus 60% and 62% in 1999 and 2001) had one or more central offices engaged in IP management.
Universities' and hospitals' 2003 operational expenditures on IP management were C$ 36.4 million (1999: C$ 22.0 million; 2001: 28.5 million), of which C$ 10.4 million for patent applications and regular legal expenses. IP created at the institution was in the majority of cases owned by the researcher; however, the "researcher owns" option was generally decreasing, as well as the "no policy on ownership, whereas "joint ownership of IP " institution(s) and researcher" displayed an upward trend. When it comes to researcher requirement to report new IP created, a substantial increase in "always required to report", as well as a notable decrease in "no policy on reporting" were observed in 2003.
In the last 5 years, 51% of universities and affiliated research hospitals have filed a patent application (versus 47.4% in 2001 and 47.6% in 1999). In 2003, hospitals and universities filed 1.252 new patent applications (versus 932 in 2001 and 656 in 1999) and were issued 347 patents (versus 381 in 2001 and 349 in 1999). In total, surveyed universities and hospitals held 3.047 patents (up 43% from 2001, and 59% from 1999). The percentage of patents commercialised amounted to 45%. The number of institutions registering copyright continued to be rather low, reflecting the fact that copyright protection is granted automatically in Canada and that many institutions do not keep detailed records of all works concerned by copyright. While in 2003 no industrial designs or integrated circuit topographies were registered, a total of 31 trademarks were registered by 9 different institutions. 3 institutions protected new plant varieties.
In 2003, universities and hospitals executed a total of 422 new licenses (versus 320 and 232 in 2001 and 1999 respectively) and possessed 1.756 active licenses (up 23.3 % from 2001 and 50.7% from 1999). University and affiliated research hospital royalty income from licensing amounted to C$ 37.8 million (up from C$ 21 million in 1999, but down from C$ 47.6 million in 2001). Between 2001 and 2003, total income from IP increased from C$ 52.5 million to C$ 55.5 million (6%). To date, universities and their affiliated research hospitals have created a total of 876 spin-off companies to commercialise their technologies, in most cases with a view to licensing technology only (37%, down from 41% and 46% in 2001 and 1999 respectively). The value of remaining equity in spin-offs was C$ 52.4 million (up from 45.1 million in 2001, but down from 54.6 million in 1999).
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Chapter XXX.—Religion of Fathers to Be Abandoned.
“Others say, It is wicked if we do not worship those idols which have come down to us from our fathers, and prove false to the religion bequeathed to us by our ancestors. On this principle, if any ones father was a robber or a base fellow, he ought not to change the manner of life handed down to him by his fathers, nor to be recalled from his fathers errors to a better way; and it is reckoned impious if one do not sin with his parents, or does not persist in impiety with them. Others say, We ought not to be troublesome to God, and to be always burdening Him with complaints of our miseries, or with the exigencies of our petitions. How foolish and witless an answer! Do you think it is troublesome to God if you thank Him for His benefits, while you do not think it troublesome to Him if, for His gifts, you render thanks to stocks and stones? And how comes it, that when rain is withheld in a long drought, we all turn our eyes to heaven, and entreat the gift of rain from God Almighty, and all p. 151 of us with our little ones pour out prayers on God and entreat His compassion? But truly ungrateful souls, when they obtain the blessing, quickly forget: for as soon as they have gathered in their harvest or their vintage, straightway they offer the first-fruits to deaf and dumb images, and pay vows in temples or groves for those things which God has bestowed upon them, and then offer sacrifices to demons; and having received a favour, deny the bestower of the favour. 769
Literally, “change the bestower of it for another.”
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City of Shelby History
Ten Essential Facts from Shelby’s History
1. Prior to white settlement, various Native Americans called the Ohio country their home. They include the Shawnee, the Delaware, the Mohican, and the Wyandot tribes.
2. In April 1818, Stephen & Sarah Marvin and her mother, Mrs. Deborah Moyer, arrived from Connecticut. Other early settlers were Mr. & Mrs. Eli Wilson, Mr. & Mrs. Henry Whitney, and Revolutionary War veteran James Gamble and his son, John.
3. Gamble’s Mill Post Office was established in 1826. It was named after the horse-powered grist mill around which the fledgling community grew.
4. On June 26, 1834, James Gamble had laid out “the Town of Shelby.” He named it after Gen. Isaac Shelby, a hero of the Revolutionary War and War of 1812 and first governor of Kentucky. Lot No. 1 was located at the southwest corner of West Main and South Gamble Streets.
5. The first train arrived in Shelby in 1846 on the Sandusky, Mansfield & Newark Railroad (now the Ashland Railway). Shelby Junction is believed to be the site of the first crossing of railroads west of the Allegheny Mountains.
6. Shelby was incorporated as a village in 1853 with William Hiles as the first mayor. In 1921 the village became a city and adopted a charter.
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- Media Center
- Library Overview
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- Library Catalog
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Did you know...
"On the evening of May 13, 1861, General Benjamin Butler and 1,000 Union soldiers arrived at Baltimore's Camden Street Station by train. Under the cover of a thunderstorm, they fortified Federal Hill to ensure the city of Baltimore remained under Union control, after the Pratt Street Riot less than a month earlier."
Maryland's Mixed Legacy
Maryland's Mixed Legacy
|From the desk of|
Volume 2 Issue 2
February 5, 2013
Just eight years after Maryland was born, a man of color named Mathias da Sousa voted as a freeman in the colonial legislature. Two decades later, a rebellious African slave called Antonio was murdered by his master at the same house in St. Mary's City. From the outset, Maryland has been ground zero for the tense drama of race relations that has defined the American Experience.
Placed between America's north and south, Lord Baltimore's Colony became a pivot for the new country's long road to freedom for all. For every step forward, there was retreat in a state split over the issue of slavery and civil rights.
|"Joshua Johnson Manumission Record, July 15 1792," Special Collections, MdHS, MS2865|
As a freed slave named Joshua Johnson painted portraits of up and coming Baltimore families, hundreds of slaves were fleeing Chesapeake plantations seeking refuge with British invaders during the war of 1812.
Before the Civil War, brave Maryland leaders like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass were supporting an Underground Railroad while plantation owners dug in their heels, willing to secede from the union rather than accept an end to slavery. After Maryland led the country, emancipating its slaves in 1864, local Confederates returned from a devastating civil war and ushered in a century of Jim Crow.
|"Rebecca Myring Everette (Mrs. Thomas Everette) and her Children," Joshua Johnson, 1818, MdHS, 1976.96.4|
The paradoxes continued through the first half of the 20th century. After a 1933 lynching on Maryland's Eastern Shore, the last in the state, Baltimore and Thurgood Marshall led the Civil Rights struggle in the 1950s with groundbreaking demonstrations and sit-ins.
Four centuries of Maryland history hold the keys to America's racial ambivalence. The Maryland Historical Society, with rich, nationally recognized collections of memories in its museum and library, is dedicated to weaving that story - not just into Black History Month, but throughout all of its many exhibits and programs. I encourage you to visit our museum and see our special exhibits - such as The Paul Henderson Photograph Collection. Our February events commemorate Maryland's role in the Civil Rights movement, and much more. Do join us.
February Events at
The Maryland Historical Society
"We have a generation that does not know our strength. That we are from the descendents of slaves... how we carried forth. My hope is that the post-Civil Rights Generation can look down through history & see from whence they came." These haunting words were spoken by one of the participants in the For All the World to Hear oral history project.
|"For All the World to Hear Participants," Photo Courtesy: UMBC|
On Tuesday, February 12 from 6-8 pm, you're invited to listen as 10 Baltimore residents share their first-hand experience from the Civil Rights era.
The individuals you will hear from put themselves on the line for freedom demonstrating extraordinary character and courage.
Following this powerful performance, artistic director Harriet Lynn will lead a mediated and interactive audience discussion. Refreshments will be provided.
For All the World to Hear is organized by UMBC's Center for Art, Design & Visual Culture, and made possible by the Maryland Humanities Council.
This important, free event is open to the public. To register, visit our website, or call 410-685-3750 Ext. 377.
The Civil Rights Movement at MdHS
In addition to its oral history collection, The Maryland Historical Society holds an important collection of Civil Rights materials, including The Paul Henderson Photograph Collection, manuscripts, books, journals, pamphlets and other documents.
And if you have yet to see our exhibit "Paul Henderson: Baltimore's Civil Rights Era in Photographs, ca. 1940-1960," I encourage you to take a look. Paul Samuel Henderson (1899-1988) was born in Springfield, Tennessee and moved to Baltimore in 1929, where he worked as staff photographer and occasional writer for the Baltimore Afro-American.
Henderson's photographs capture every day moments of both famous and ordinary African-American citizens of Baltimore over the course of a twenty-year period during the Civil Rights era from 1940 to 1960.
|"Picketers Outside Ford's Theatre," Paul Henderson, 1948, MdHS, HEN.00.A2-178|
The Henderson Photograph Collection contains over six thousand negatives and several hundred prints, of which only a small fraction have been identified. In fact, we continue to work on this with the community today. The Maryland Historical Society acquired the photographs after the Baltimore City Life Museum (also known as the Peale Museum) closed its doors in 1997. The collection came to MdHS unprocessed and with little useful description. In 2010, Towson University's Historic Preservation class began reprocessing and over the past two years interns, volunteers, and staff completed the project. The result is an unparalleled visual record of Civil Rights in Baltimore.
Photographs from The Henderson Collection are on display in the Maryland Historical Society's main gallery, and open to the public Wednesday-Saturday from 10 am-5 pm and Sunday 12 pm-5 pm. For more details, click here.
A Special Civil War Tribute Program
|Roderick Howard II as Christian Fleetwood, image courtesy Harriet Lynn|
In celebration of Black History month, the Maryland Historical Society is hosting a Civil War Tribute Program that will be performed by our own MdHS Players. This 'living history' program will take place on Saturday, February 9 at 2pm. Actors will portray Harriet Tubman and Union Sergeant Major and Medal of Honor recipient Christian Fleetwood.
Some of you may be wondering who Sergeant Major Fleetwood was. In fact, I'm surprised he hasn't been given a larger place in the Civil War history books.
Fleetwood was born in 1840 in Baltimore to free black parents, Charles and Anna Marie. They instilled the importance of learning at an young age - young Christian received an excellent early education, graduated from college at Ashmun Institute in Oxford, Pennsylvania and went on to start one of the first African American newspapers, called the Lyceum Observer, right here in Baltimore.
"I'm particularly fascinated by how well-educated Sergeant Major Fleetwood was," says Roderick Howard II, the actor who portrays Fleetwood. "He travelled to Africa as part of the Maryland Colonization Society and was profoundly influenced by hearing Frederick Douglass speak."
Fleetwood was highly respected by his neighbors and, because of his education, was quickly promoted in the Union Army.
During the battle of Chaffin's Farm in September, 1864, the Union army was outflanked. Two of its color bearers were killed. "Fleetwood picked up the flag and proceeded to march," Roderick continued, "I don't know how he had the courage to carry that flag through the battle field like that!"
But Fleetwood did, and his actions served to rally the Union troops. While the battle ended with no clear victor, Fleetwood's bravery did not go unnoticed. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his efforts - the first African American to receive the distinction.
"The more I learn about Fleetwood, the prouder I am to portray him," Roderick says. "He had the courage to fight for his country despite the fact that not many in the country at the time respected him."
The Maryland Historical Players are not just actors; several also work as Museum Educators, and all of the Players conduct independent research into the characters they portray in order to fully understand their lives. "Sergeant Major Fleetwood completely lost his hearing in one ear and was almost deaf in another, yet after the war he composed Gospel music," Howard said. "He didn't like to speak in public; he let his songs do the talking."
Roderick, we thank you for bringing Sergeant Major Fleetwood to life like you do!
Come see the Roderick's performance of Sergeant Major Fleetwood at 2pm on Saturday, February 9th. No advance reservations are necessary.
And if you are interested in hosting a performance of our MdHS Players at your school or organization, contact Events Manager Katie Caljean at 410-685-3750 ext 337.
Other Events in February
|"George Washington and His Generals at Yorktown," Charles Wilson Peale, 1781, MdHS, 1845.3.1|
Our annual Francis Scott Key Lecture series begins on Thursday, February 7th at 6 pm with a fascinating lecture about "The Fine Art of Portraying George Washington" by Carol Borchert Cadou.
Cadou is the Senior Curator and VP of Collections for George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate. In addition to discussing several important paintings of Washington in the Maryland Historical Society Collection, Ms. Cadou will offer a glimpse into the history and the preservation of the Washington Estate and its rich collection of fine and decorative arts.
Tickets are $40 per lecture, or $175 for the complete Francis Scott Key Lecture series (couples series for $300). See our website for more information and to register. Call 410-685-3750 Ext. 377 for details.
Maritime Lecture Series:
'Free Trade and Sailor's Rights'
On Friday, February 22nd at 6:30 pm, join Paul Gilje, the George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma, as he presents his pioneering research on the question of sailors' rights during the War of 1812. His lecture will be based on the research behind his forthcoming book, Free Trade and Sailor's Rights.
On July 2, 1812, Captain David Porter raised a banner on the USS Essex proclaiming "A free trade and sailors rights," thus creating a political slogan that explained the War of 1812. Free trade demanded the protection of American commerce, while sailors' rights insisted that the British end the impressment of seamen from American ships.
Repeated for decades in Congress and in taverns, the slogan reminds us today that our second war with Great Britain was not a mistake. It was a contest for the ideals of the American Revolution bringing together both the high culture of the Enlightenment to establish a new political economy and the low culture of the common folk to assert the equality of humankind. Understanding the War of 1812 and the motto that came to explain it - free trade and sailors' rights - allows us to better comprehend the origins of the American nation.
The book is already receiving critical acclaim; Annette Gordon-Reed of Harvard Law School says, "This is a fascinating work; an extremely valuable contribution to the literature on the Early American Republic. With rich detail, Gilje shows how a simple, but powerful, slogan kept the promise of the American Revolution alive in the hearts and minds of those outside the corridors of power."
This is a free event, and light refreshments will be served. To register, visit our website or call 410-685-3750 Ext. 377
'Baltimore Bootleggers Bash!'
"Not many people know this, but Baltimore was a prime spot for bootleggers in the 1920s," says Chandler Denison, Chairman of the Young Defenders of the Maryland Historical Society. "While the rest of America had 'dry' laws that outlawed the sale of liquor, Maryland never endorsed Prohibition. And Baltimore, in particular, was viewed as a hotbed of resistance. Our city's independent spirit really showed through."
Celebrating this storied past, the Young Defenders of the Maryland Historical Society are presenting a night of glamour and revelry - speakeasy-style -at 9pm on February 23. The event, called the 'Baltimore Bootleggers Bash,' will be held at Meli Restaurant in historic Fells Point (1636 Thames Street, Baltimore, MD 21231). Formal dress and 1920s attire is encouraged.
The Baltimore Bootleggers Bash will feature heavy hors d'oeuvres, special Prohibition cocktails, a full open bar, and special small-batch liquor from The American Still Life Collection, provided by The Country Vintner.
The great Swingin' Swamis - named 'one of the premier area party bands' by Baltimore Magazine - will be playing jazz and 1920s-era standards.
"We are hosting this event in honor of the history that shaped our city, and in celebration of Baltimore's fiercely independent spirit," Denison said.
About the Young Defenders
The Young Defenders of the Maryland Historical Society are focused on reinvigorating history in Maryland through social engagement and historical events. "The Bootleggers Bash is our inaugural event," Denison said, "We are really excited about it. We want to introduce Maryland's rich and intriguing history to a new generation of Old Line State residents."
Ticket prices: $65.00 (advance purchase); $75.00 (day of event); $55.00 (members of the Maryland Historical Society).
Tickets can be purchased securely online at www.mdhs.org/events or by calling 410.685.3750 x399.
All proceeds will support the Maryland Historical Society. The Baltimore Bootleggers Bash is being presented by Ruff Roofers, Maryland's preferred roofing contractors crowning the Maryland State House, Baltimore City Hall, and properties throughout the state. Additional support is generously provided by Batoff Associates, P.A., Venable Foundation, Roundtop Mountain Resort, KatzAbosch, ShopRite, Clinkee, The Country Vitner, and Flying Dog Brewery.
Our February Book Sale!
We're once again opening our vaults and deeply discounting our publications - this time, for Black History Month!
Our handsome, 3-set African American Studies Bundle is regularly $70 - but through February 28, you can own it for just $40. That's a 40% discount!
* Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake- Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage 1775-1865, by T. Stephen Whitman
* A Guide to the History of Slavery in Maryland, by the Maryland State Archives and the University of Maryland College Park
* On Afric's Shore- the History of Maryland in Liberia 1834-1857, by Richard L. Hall
And, you can save an extra 10% on ALL of these individual items, listed below:
-- On Afric's Shore
-Can A Coal Scuttle Fly?
-A Guide to the History of Slavery in MD
-Thurgood Marshall - American Revolutionary
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This building resides in the Station North Arts District of Baltimore and was built in 1897 as a factory complex for the Crown Cork and Seal Company. The Company's founder, Montgomery County native William Painter, is famed for making nearly 100 patents. Painter's crowning achievement, the Crown Cork, was a predecessor to the modern bottle cap and gained almost immediate use after its invention 1892, replacing the traditional corks used to stop sodas and beers. Countless Crown Corks left the factory and for a time it was the center for the new industry. Today, the factory produces work with more erudite ends and goes by a different name. Name that building!
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Founded in 1844, The Maryland Historical Society Museum and Library occupies an entire city block in the Mount Vernon district of Baltimore. The society's mission is to "collect, preserve, and interpret the objects and materials that reflect Maryland's diverse cultural heritage." The Society is home to the original manuscript of the Star-Spangled Banner and publishes a quarterly titled "Maryland Historical Magazine."
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Do you want to turn your old PC into a digital Jukebox?
Feb 13, 2012, 09:01 (0 Talkback[s])
[ Thanks to Linuxaria for this link.
"The possibilities are many: the first, that i will examine, is
Music Player Daemon, or how about an alternative project to Music
Player Daemon based on the famous Apache Web server: Ampache! It?s
not the goal of this article to give a full guide to this software,
but I highly recommend you to visit his site. It ?a really great
project which gives also the possibility of streaming music online.
Let me assure you that is easier to try than to explain,
"Now back on the practical part of the Music Player Daemon
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files (Ogg-Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, Wave and AIFF) audio streams
(Ogg-Vorbis, MP3), Client programs communicate with MPD to
manipulate playback, the playlist, and the database. It is not a
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"It looks like a very simple music player, however, it gives you
the opportunity to do whatever you want with very few resources
"Install MPD, if possible, from the repositories of your distro.
But remember that it is just a demon, and that you will need to use
it through a client. As a client you can choose ?gmpc?, ?qtmpc? or
?ncmpc?. As wikipedia say: ?The client/server architecture provides
several advantages over all-inclusive music players. Clients may
communicate with the server remotely over an intranet or over the
Internet. The server can be a headless computer located anywhere on
the network. Music playback can continue seamlessly when not using
X or restarting X. Different clients can be used for different
purposes ? a lightweight client left open all the time for
controlling playback with a more fully featured client used for
intensive database searches. Several clients can use the same
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- Omega 3 belongs to a group of ‘good fats’ called essential fatty acids
- They are called ‘essential’ because the body can’t make them itself and so needs to get them from food sources
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- Growing Up Milk has added Omega 3
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“”Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
|The dismal "science"|
|More about economics|
Most people agree that it has been more productive than any other economic system the world has tried, and requires comparatively small amounts of centralized oversight to keep it from running out of control. However, critics of capitalism object to the fact that the benefits of this often fall disproportionately to the rich, pointing to persistent and in some cases growing material and social divides in capitalist societies, and believe that other economic systems are more just or can improve on capitalism.
In particular, capitalism is a far sight better than its predecessors, mercantilism and guilds, and has outlasted the idea of a command economy; it has also proven itself much more compatible with liberal social ideals than either of these systems. There is a body of academic literature that suggests that capitalism may in fact be a prerequisite for the growth of progressive social values, or at the very least something that can help with their spread. On the other hand, there have been plenty of countries that loosened economic restrictions while maintaining violations of political and civil rights, leading some observers to comment that it may be that capitalism is a necessary but not sufficient condition for political freedom.
What exactly IS capitalism?
- The right for each person to have sacrosanct and untransferable ownership of his/her own mind and body;
- The exclusive right to do whatever he/she wishes with his/her own property.
This entails, in theory, that one does not have to work except on terms acceptable to him/her. However, this also means that employers do not have to provide work except on terms acceptable to them, so people are not free to set the terms of their employment and both parties must arrange a compromise that they both find acceptable. This concept of mutual benefit is an important idea in capitalist theory - the idea that no exchange will take place unless both parties benefit, barring fraud. This assumes that both parties to a contract have comparable amounts of social, political, and economic power, so it doesn't always pan out the way Milton Friedman promised.
While the exact origins of the private-property concept are hard to trace, it's widely recognized that capitalism developed pretty organically in the 18th century, possibly in popular response to Enlightenment philosophers such as John Locke. Feudalism and (later) mercantilism had protected ruling economic classes in Europe reaching back to the 9th century. Capitalism slowly undid these centers of power as entrepreneurs convinced landowners to invest in businesses enterprises, developed their own means of production, exploited the peasants for their cheap labor, and contributed to increasing standards of living.
Capitalism has trucked along, exploiting peasants and increasing standards of living into the present. There may have been a few people who disagreed along the way, but their country imploded so almost everybody has written off the idea of a complete alternative. Capitalism is also well known for inspiring such stoic and moral attitudes in the people who benefit from its fruits.
Capitalist societies in history
No societies of notable size have allowed for complete laissez-faire (or "leave it alone") capitalism. Moreover, no mainstream economists now view this as an admirable state of being, and even ardent pro-capitalism economists view extreme minimization of the government as politically unfeasible. It became clear in the age of monopolistic trusts that, in a totally unregulated free market, there is nothing to keep the more powerful and wealthy from manipulating the economy. The effect of these manipulations is to close markets to competition and coerce workers into below-equilibrium wages, thereby making a total free market a far cry from "free". The question has instead become to what extent societies and markets should be regulated. Three examples of this tension follow:
- United States of America: The United States has long been viewed as one of the freest economies in the world. Despite some not-insignificant increases in government size since the more laissez-faire 19th century, the US still ranks highly in economic freedom. The United States is (for now) the largest economy in the world, producing roughly 23% of world GDP. Most economists believe it is the relative freedom to start a business, secure property rights and stable political environment that allow for this growth. Other commentators believe this success is due to aggressive imperialism in which the US government bullies, bombs, and intimidates other nations into giving up resources. Yet others point to the tremendous natural resources available on US territory as the reason for this wealth.
- Singapore: This tiny city-state is rated one of the economically freest countries in the world, and it has obtained considerable wealth despite its lack of natural resources. However, the state (also known as "Disneyland with the Death Penalty") has draconian social laws that run contrary to the theory of free-market capitalism, restraining (for example) free trade in chewing gum. Singapore is also considered state-capitalist, which is but a hair away from the dreaded s-word.
- Japan: Since the end of World War II, Japan has flourished as a capitalist nation striving for more economic expansion. Following rebuilding under the Marshall Plan, Japan was internationally viewed as a rising power and a model for other countries to emulate. However, as predictable capitalists, Japan went into a recession in 1990. Unfortunately, they never came out. It's hard to say exactly what is going on, but just to be safe capitalists are blaming old people and their social safety net.
Capitalism and American politics
Conservatives and Republicans fancy themselves defenders of capitalism, or pretend they are for the sake of party unity. Though some right wing measures are indeed pro-free-market (e.g., offshore drilling, reduced spending, reduction of income taxes, deregulation), the fact is that conservatives and Republicans have been just as hostile to capitalism as liberals and Democrats. Examples of this include George W. Bush's tariffs on steel that could make a liberal economist cry, conservative think tanks coming up with crazy liberal ideas such as the individual health insurance mandate, and an ongoing war on drugs that seems counter-intuitive if you claim to believe that free-markets are great because people best know how to run their own lives.
In a similar vein, one could point out that Democrats have been as friendly to the free-market as have conservatives and Republicans, as seen in the Clinton administration's many neoliberal reforms, such as welfare reform and friendliness towards businesses.
Capitalism and religion
Religious people involve themselves in politics all over the spectrum, usually claiming that God personally shares their political beliefs. For this reason, most of them are cranks and the powers-that-be appease them only as much as necessary to get their votes; hence, the Christian right's failure to bring in a theocracy.
Although there is a strong tradition of religious involvement in left-wing politics (e.g., the early Christian church vs. the Roman Empire, Liberation theology), in the United States most politicians who make religion an explicit part of their political identity are right-wingers and adhere to a form of Christianity that fits these beliefs.
This is ironic, because most of the particular policies that set the Religious Right apart from the secular right are contrary to the principles of free-market capitalism; however, knowing so would require reading and that's difficult. Capitalism is rooted in the Lockean notion of self-ownership and self-determination, and there is little evidence that Locke was implying the government should be used to stop gay people from getting married or teenage girls from aborting their pregnancy. Christians seem to want capitalism in that they want BMWs and leather bound Bibles, but if other people want to spend their money on cocaine and hookers then clearly freedom is going a little too far. Another layer of irony is added when you consider that Christ spoke out, in no uncertain terms, against what is considered today to be the core of capitalist doctrine. It took an act of staggering cognitive dissonance — helped along by the fact that, due to the influence of Marxism, anti-capitalist politics in the 20th century had become firmly associated with atheism — for Jesus to be portrayed as a long-haired version of Ronald Reagan. Seriously, anybody who has not had the joy of asking a wealthy fundamentalist to explain Matthew 19:24 to them should get down to their nearest Baptist Church immediately and start asking around. It's the most awkward fifteen seconds of half-remembered excuses. (Some, however, have actively attempted to reconcile theology and laissez-faire ideology as in the Reconstructionists' concept of "Christian economics.")
A truly free market, which is based on self-ownership as opposed to the doctrine that all people are the chattel property of God, is a Christian fundamentalist's worst dream; the only reason they sometimes pretend to defend it is because they can't spell "theocracy."
Max Weber, the pioneering sociologist, argued that Protestant religious sentiment (what he called the "Protestant work ethic") was a primary factor in the development of capitalism. Other people insist that this is wrong, and that Protestant religious sentiment was actually a primary factor in the development of capitalism — but only indirectly, through the increased literacy that it caused.
Criticisms of capitalism
Ideologies like socialism, communism, and fascism are all categorically opposed to free-market capitalism for various reasons, such that it oppresses workers or spits in the face of tradition. Fascism, historically, kept in some facets of what it defined to be capitalism, such as formal private ownership (although vastly restricting what "ownership" means), while communism kept in some facets of what it defined to be capitalism, such as worker oppression.
Milder criticisms of unregulated capitalism are made by everyone except fanatical libertarians and anarcho-capitalists.
This stems from the observation that capitalism, at its heart, is about each person working to benefit themselves as much as possible, and without regulations to ensure that this benefit does not come at the expense of others, capitalism changes into something altogether different. Even the strongest proponents of capitalism among economists allow for government intervention to address, if nothing else, these kinds of negative externalities.
Quotes about capitalism
"I could say to you that I have done more good for my fellow men than you can ever hope to accomplish --- but I will not say it, because I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist." - Ayn Rand, extreme free-market devotee, Atlas Shrugged.
"With all its flaws, capitalism remains the most productive economic engine we have yet invented. Like Churchill's line about democracy, it is the worst of all economic systems, except for all the others." - Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek, June 22, 2009.
"Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate." - Bertrand Russell, Philosopher and mathematician.
"Our merchants and master-manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people." - Adam Smith, notable anti-capitalist.
"We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions." - Adolf Hitler, model anti-libertarian.
See also
- Capitalism by George Reisman
- Capitalism explained
- "Capitalism has killed democracy"
- "The political economy of hunger"
- The shit we have to deal with everyday
- ↑ On the other hand, some of the least unequal states are those that practice modified versions of capitalism, such as the Nordic countries.
- ↑ Thomas Friedman referred to this as the "McDonald's Effect".
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/business/25bernie.html?pagewanted=all
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzGDZ9nThro
- ↑ http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2021097,00.html
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGRSDecufLk&feature=related
- ↑ http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
- ↑ http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2011/02/weodata/index.aspx
- ↑ http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
- ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/japans-economic-crisis-is-a-cautionary-tale-for-the-united-states/2012/03/09/gIQAb8fx5R_story.html
- ↑ http://www.economist.com/node/17492860
- ↑ http://www.economist.com/node/1021395
- ↑ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204618704576641190920152366.html
- ↑ http://bible.cc/matthew/19-24.htm
- ↑ Sascha O. Becker and Ludger Wößmann. Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History. Munich Discussion Paper No. 2007-7
- ↑ Snow Crash and Diamond Age in particular
- ↑ Notably Jennifer Government and Syrup
- ↑ A private statement made by Hitler on March 24, 1942. Cited in "Hitler's Secret Conversations." Translated by Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens. Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc. 1953. p. 294.
- ↑ Sceptical Essays (1928), Chapter 13
- ↑ Wealth of Nations
- ↑ Hitler Quotation from Boston University Page
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The tourist is telling someone on the Air Pacific plane that they are going to Nuddy.
‘No it’s Noddy,’ says someone.
‘No, it’s Nahndee.’
‘Can’t be as there’s no ‘n’ in it!’ says the first speaker.
Well, it is so. Nadi airport and town is pronounced NAHndee.
It gets complicated in Fiji because the letters ‘d’ has an ‘n’ in front of it, and ‘b’ have an added ‘m’ in front of it, ‘c’ is pronounced ‘th’, ‘g’
is pronounced as ‘ng’ and ‘q’ as ‘ngg’ and so on.
So what is Ba town? Mbbah? And Lautoka? This is usually shortened to La-TOH-ka (by me, anyway). Rakiraki is not Rocky-rocky but RA-kee-RA-kee. And Labasa? Lah-MBAH-sah with the emphasis on the second syllable.
In Australia we have our difficulties also. Tallangatta is not pronounced like Wangaratta or Coolangatta but as TaLLANGatta not WANGaratta. A cartoon by George Haddon shows the arguments about naming country towns in Victoria, Australia. Of course Geelong, where we live is pronounced as Jill-LONG and Corio Bay not as Cor-i-oh but as Cor-AY-oh. Melbourne is not Mel-burn or Mel-borne, but as MEL-bun. So have a good time when you are in Fee-chee or in Os-TRAY-lee-yah.
Now how about singing that song 'I've been everywhere man' and use these names, mainly from Vanua Levu.
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Created by: Stephanie Klauck
My kids and I love using our creative talents to make fun little surprises for their classmates during the different holidays throughout the school year, and Easter is no exception! We decided to make fun little Easter baskets this year that held some chocolate treats. No gift is complete without a card, so we made matching cards as well. Grab some supplies and follow the instructions below to make this fun little Easter treat!
Supplies from The Paper Mill Store .com:
- Quickutz Silhouette
- Quickutz Silhouette Bunny Basket Template
- Hero Arts Stamp
- Hero Arts Shadow Ink
- Colorbox Chalk Ink
- Cut out the template for the Easter bunny basket in the colors needed to assemble the final project (I used green, pink, white and black cardstock) You'll want to cut the actual bunny parts out twice so you can use them for the card as well.
- Before you assemble the box part of the template, stamp swirl design with green shadow ink. (You can use any design for the box; it just adds a little bit of interest to the finished project.)
- Assemble the box and bunny head and adhere all pieces to the box.
- To create the grass inside the basket, cut vellum into thin strips and crinkle up. Add desired amount to the inside of the box.
- Finish it off with some chocolate candy treats!
- Create card from green cardstock measuring 3-1/4" x 2-3/4".
- Print sentiment on brown cardstock measuring 2-1/2" x 2-1/4" and adhere to front of card.
- Assemble the bunny head and adhere to the front of the card. I used the feet as hands and adhered them slightly under the head to make it look as though the bunny was peeking over the cardstock piece that says "Happy Easter."
- Now you have an adorable Easter treat that any child would love!
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Artists throughout history have had patrons to assign value to their work, and now one sculptor has Reddit to serve that role.
Thanks to the community’s encouragement, a dragon sculpture made out of CD shards is quickly becoming the pinnacle of artistic achievement.
On Tuesday, redditor Amon-A-Boat introduced r/pics to Alduin the Data Eater, her Skyrim-inspired sculpture. Amon-A-Boat, who said she is 17 years old, spent 80 hours creating the dragon out of wire mesh, a glue gun, and 136 blank CDs.
“I knew I wanted to do a project using blank CDs because I had a ton of them laying around that would never get used. I did a lot of experimenting on them (like sticking them in a microwave and heating them with an Oxy torch) before I discovered I could cut them into shapes with a band saw. I really wanted to do something with wings, and I was pretty hooked on Skyrim at the time, so thus, Alduin, the Data Eater was born.”
Amon-A-Boat created the labor intensive dragon for her high school art class, but redditors were quick to regard it as far more than a school project. The dragon quickly became an overnight sensation and the subject of multiple macros.
“I know I'm just some guy from the internet, but I'd definitely pay for that,” oa5is wrote. “I admire originality more than anything else when it comes to art and I've never seen anything like this!
Putting Amon-A-Boat’s 80 hours of labor and the sculpture’s sizeable bulk into the equation, the conversation quickly turned from one of admiration to one of appraisal.
“Based on art I've seen for sale at science fiction conventions, I'd guesstimate that at a significant convention with a good art show, you'd be a fool to ask less than $500 for it, you'd have a decent chance at $1000 (especially at a very large convention such as Worldcon or DragonCon), and I wouldn't rule out that if you asked $1500 or $2000 you might get lucky and have a buyer come along,” themcp wrote.
This seemed like a fair price to Atreyu401, who offered to buy it immediately.
“I will give you $2500 for it RIGHT NOW. I happen to collect things like this,” he wrote.
With admirers climbing into the thousands, however, Atreyu401 will have to get in line. Amon-A-Boat said she’s “still debating” her many offers to buy.
“Really I'm just shock[ed] this is getting so much attention,” she wrote.
Photo via Amon-A-Boat
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HANK'S bat is a Louisville Slugger (model
S2) with signature barrel stamp.
GIANT THIRD BASEMAN
Hank Thompson used this bat in an August 1954 series with the Cardinals
at Busch Stadium. The eventual '54 National League pennant
winners and World Series champions took three out of four from
the Redbirds. Thompson contributed a two-run circuit-clout his
22nd of the season in the second game, a 7-4 New York
win. He had three hits in the third game in which the
Giants won, 4-1. He finished the '54 season with 26 home runs
and 86 RBIs, many in the clutch down the stretch to help fend off
HANK THOMPSON was a member of the Major League's
first all-Black outfield during the 1951 World Series when he played
right field in place of injured Don
Mueller. With Thompson in the Giants outfield that day were
center fielder Willie Mays
and left fielder Monte Irvin.
was only player to break the color barrier for teams in both leagues
Willard Brown were first black teammates to play in a Major league
Hank Thompson began his Major League career on
July 17, 1947, with the St. Louis Browns at age 22. He played for
nine seasons on two different teams and ended his big league
playing career in 1956. Thompson was the only player to break the
color barrier for teams in both leagues the St. Louis Browns
(1947) in the American League and the New York Giants (1949) in
the National League.
In 1942 at age 17, Thompson played right field for the Kansas City
Monarchs of the Negro League, batting around .300. The following
year, he was drafted into the Army where he was a machine gunner
with the 1695th Combat Engineers at the Battle of the Bulge. Sergeant
Thompson was discharged in 1946 and returned to the Monarchs.
With the start of the 1947 season, history was
made when Jackie Robinson broke the color line with the Brooklyn
Dodgers. A few months later, Thompson's contract, along with teammate
Willard Brown, was sold to the St. Louis Browns. On July 17, Thompson
became the third Negro League player to play in the Major Leagues.
Shortly after debuting for the Browns in July 1947, he was joined
by Brown to become the first black teammates to appear in a game.
Thompson was with St. Louis a little over a month and hit .256 in
78 at bats, playing in 27 games mainly at second base. On August
23, he was released and he rejoined the Monarchs through the 1948
WITH THE ST. LOUIS BROWNS, Thompson, on
July 17, 1947, became the third
Black player in
the Major Leagues.
On July 4, 1949 the New York Giants called him and Monte Irvin up
from the Giants' Jersey City farm club. Thompson received $2,500 over
the league minimum of $5,000. By signing with the Giants, Thompson
earned a unique place in baseball history as the first Black to play
in the National and American leagues.
When Thompson batted against the Dodgers' Don Newcombe in 1949 it
was the first time in Major
League history a black batter faced a black pitcher. Also, in
the 1951 World Series, he played right field in place of injured Don
Mueller, with Willie Mays
and Irvin, creating the
first all-Black outfield in Major League history.
Other significant Thompson firsts included his appearance as a Brownie
against Cleveland's Larry Doby in an August 9, 1947 doubleheader,
making it the first time Black players of opposing teams appeared
on the field at the same time.
The left-handed hitter enjoyed his best season in 1953 when he hit
.302 with 24 home runs, and finished his career with a .267 lifetime
average, with 801 hits.
HANK THOMPSON: Did you know...
....Thompson's contract was sold to Minneapolis of the American Association in 1957, where he finished his career.
Thompson played in two World Series 1951 and 1954. In the 1954 World Series against the Indians he hit .364 and drew a four-game series record of seven walks.
...Thompson was born December 8, 1925 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He died September 30, 1969 in Fresno, California at age 43.
HANK THOMPSON, above
left, with Giant teammate Willie
Mays at the Polo Grounds in 1951.
HANK THOMPSON played for nine
seasons on two different teams and ended his big league playing
career in 1956. Thompson was the only
player to break the color barrier for
teams in both leagues the St. Louis Browns (1947) in the American
League and the New York Giants (1949)
in the National League.
THE DODOGERS' Gil
Hodges tries to take out Thompson to break up a double play
during a cross-town rivalry game at Ebbets Field in the 50s.
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Statistics and infographics are best understood if used together with a metaphor or analogy. We explain how to make this work for you.
Displaying data as a story is challenging, yet figuring out how to do this is a hot topic these days.
In this guest blog post I recently wrote, I explain how to bring storytelling and story elements into displays of data (infographics) to create stronger connections to readers plus more powerful knowledge transfer.
I hope it helps everyone as they work with stories in their business, and data in their presentations.
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General Henry W. Halleck assumes the role of general-in-chief of all Union forces in an effort to better coordinate the overall Union war effort, which is floundering.
A native of New York, Halleck graduated from West Point in 1839. He showed such promise that he was allowed the rare privilege of teaching while still a student at the academy. He served during the Mexican-American War, became involved in California politics, and was a railroad president before the outbreak of the Civil War.
In 1861, Halleck was appointed major general. Placed in charge of the Department of the Missouri, his work brought quick results. He quickly organized the forces in Missouri into effective units and kept Missouri in the Union. Halleck's duties were soon expanded, and the department was renamed the Department of the Mississippi. He showed great strategic vision in planning campaigns from his St. Louis headquarters, but was less successful when he took to the field—as he did during the Corinth, Mississippi campaign, in which the Confederates escaped his much larger Yankee force.
President Abraham Lincoln recognized Halleck's abilities and brought him to Washington, D.C., as general-in-chief. Under his direction, Union successes continued in the west, but Halleck was unable to orchestrate any progress in Virginia or to enact an overall strategic vision to defeat the Confederates. He bickered with various commanders of the Army of the Potomac, such as George B. McClellan, Ambrose Burnside, Joseph Hooker, and George Meade. His abrasive personality did not endear him to the press or his subordinates.
In 1864, President Lincoln moved Halleck to a higher position as chief of staff for the army while appointing General Ulysses S. Grant general-in-chief, but this was really in recognition of the fact that Halleck failed to effectively direct the armies. Freed from the burden of strategic planning, Halleck's new role allowed him to utilize his bureaucratic talents. Nicknamed "Old Brains" for his organizational efficiency, Halleck effectively supplied Grant's campaign against Robert E. Lee in 1864.
Halleck remained in the army until his death in 1872. Despite his shortcomings as a strategic planner, his organizational skills contributed significantly to the Union victory.
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Toyota iQ helps Google
We are well aware that Google and it’s ambitious projects have always made people wonder “How is it possible”. One such thing was the Google street view. When it was launched, everyone was wondering how could they see pictures of their house or office building. The answer is that, Google uses many cars, to drive around towns, capturing pictures of buildings, which appear on google maps later.
Last year, when street view went to Belgium, they used the same methods, to bring the buildings on to the maps. But apparently, the cars that they used in Belgium, were too big for many streets. Toyota saw this as a marketing opportunity and went to help Google, with their iQ.
The same thing could have been possible with the Smart for two, or an Aston Martin Cygnet (which is nothing but a luxury version of the iQ). But Toyota was the one to jump at it first. Very clever stuff from Toyota, aptly highlighting the compactness of the iQ. However we are not able to understand why Toyota, a Japanese company, had to use a Kannada song as the background track, in the Belgian Market??
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In 2001, the National Marine Sanctuary Programs "Islands in the Stream" expedition explored deep-water habitats from North Carolina to the coast of Belize. Building on this work, the NOAA Office of Ocean Explorations "Islands in the Stream 2002: Exploring Underwater Oases" will host four scientific investigations geared toward learning more about high-relief areas along the continental shelf break and slope from the eastern coast of Florida to North Carolina an area known as the South Atlantic Bight. These important and understudied habitats peppered throughout the region provide critically important habitat for a wide variety of marine organisms.
The expedition will use the R/V Seward Johnson and the Johnson-Sea-Link submersible, owned and operated by the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution (HBOI), to provide researchers direct access to this rarely seen underwater world. Investigators also will use a variety of sampling techniques to complement the videotape and still images collected by the submersible. By extending their research into unknown areas, scientists and natural resource managers will have the opportunity to gather information that will be useful for developing new and innovative ideas for habitat and resource protection.
Each project will be conducted by groups of interdisciplinary investigators led by scientists from the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve, and the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution (HBOI). Read on to learn more about each of these projects.
July 28-August 5
Characterization of Deep Reef Habitat, with Particular Emphasis on Discovery, Exploration and Description of Reef Fish Spawning Sites
Populations of economically valuable reef fishes have been declining for at least two decades in the South Atlantic Bight region, affecting the food chain from the top predators down to the bottom-dwelling invertebrate communities. The goal of this project is to discover and explore spawning locations of reef fishes in the area, and to describe how underlying features and oceanographic processes interact to provide habitat for associated species.
Scientists will use a submersible to collect video and still images of the shelf-edge reefs, as well as samples of sediment, rocks, and marine organisms for further analysis. Sidescan sonar will be used to determine characteristics of bottom topography at scales larger than the submersible can explore. In addition, traditional sampling methods such as towing nets, measuring conductivity, temperature and density of water, and grabbing sediment samples using instruments deployed from the deck of the ship, will be used to help identify potential spawning habitats and to further characterize these reefs. The results will support protective management strategies to sustain the exploited fish species that utilize these spawning locations.
Exploration of Outer Shelf and Slope Habitats off the Carolinas.
The North Carolina Shelf consists of a wide range of habitats, many of which are rarely, if ever, visited. The existing data, however, indicate that the shelf includes numerous high-relief outcrops, ancient reefs and shorelines, and potentially extensive hard-bottom communities, all of which typically support a variety of commercially important and unique fish species. Because the data is scarce, scientists have a limited understanding of the shelf's habitats, species distribution, and ecological function.
Two adjacent but uniquely different habitats will be studied. The first will be the outer shelf hardgrounds (80-200 m deep) that are marked by a large number of high-relief reef features. The second will be the middle-slope deep corals (400-500 m deep), where Lophelia, a species of deep-water coral, forms widespread reefs. Scientists will use the submersible to collect videotape and still photographs of these areas, and samples will be collected to assess the community structure and faunal interactions. Scientist also will sample these areas by towing nets along the bottom, through mid-water, and at the surface to determine the overall ecology of these areas.
Discovery of New Resources with Pharmaceutical Potential
Natural products have always been a rich source of medicinal drugs. Traditionally, such drugs have come from terrestrial sources. It has been predicted that the marine environment, however, may contain 80% of the worlds plant and animal species. This huge potential for new medicines from our oceans has already proven to be productive, as 12 natural marine products are currently in advanced preclinical or clinical evaluation.
This project seeks to explore currently untapped sources of new drugs that may be applied in the long term to the development of compounds used to study, diagnose or treat human diseases, including cancer, infectious diseases, diseases of the immune system, cardiovascular disease, and disorders of the central nervous system. Related to this primary objective is the development of alternative methods for the production of bioactive compounds instead of harvesting them from nature.
Exploration of Vision and Bioluminescence in the Deep-sea Benthos
Scientists have observed that the eyes of highly mobile (pelagic) fish species tend to get smaller in the deep ocean. This makes sense, as there is less light further in the ocean, and therefore less need for big eyes. In contrast, the eyes of bottom (benthic) dwelling species increase with depth. Why would species living at the bottom of the ocean have such big eyes when virtually no sunlight is capable of reaching their home? What are these benthic animals seeing?
Bioluminescence is light produced by a chemical reaction within an organism. In deep-water ocean areas (below the photic zone), it is the only source of light available. In order to observe this phenomenon naturally, the science team plans to deploy a special low-light camera from the submersible. The team also will deploy baited "light-tight" traps to catch some of these benthic species for further analysis, allowing them to be brought to the surface without having their eyes damaged by the suns bright light. Scientists will then be able to observe and dissect the intact eyes.
The success of this expedition depends on partnerships, which provide an opportunity for scientists, natural resource managers, and educators from many public and private agencies and institutions to collaborate to fulfill a common set of goals and objectives. The following is a list of some of the institutions engaged in this endeavor:
NOAA, Office of Ocean Exploration
NOAA, National Ocean Service, Special Projects Office
NOAA, National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research
NOAA, Office of Ocean and Atmospheric Research, National Undersea Research Program
United States Geological Survey
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution
North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve
North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
College of Charleston
Charleston County School of the Arts
Coastal Carolina University
South Carolina, Sandhills Intermediate School
Southampton Oceanography Centre
Johns Hopkins University
University of Florida
University of Lund, Sweden.
Sign up for the Ocean Explorer E-mail Update List.
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Industrial ag teacher gets national honor
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ABOUT THE GROUP
The National Association of Agricultural Educators is the professional association for agricultural educators. Its mission is "professionals providing agricultural education for the global community through visionary leadership, advocacy and service."
The national office is in Lexington, Ky.
For Ardy Tiner, being an agricultural educator is all about illuminating the talents of his students.
"You have to help the students succeed in something that maybe they didn't think was possible," the 28-year-old Industrial High School teacher said.
Recently, Tiner's own success was illuminated by a national award for agricultural educators.
Tiner was selected for a Teachers Turn the Key Award from the National Association of Agricultural Educators, which will give the third-year teacher the opportunity to meet and bounce ideas off other professionals across the nation. Along with about 20 other nationwide winners, Tiner was awarded a trip to St. Louis for the association's convention in November.
"I'm kind of overwhelmed by the whole thing," Tiner said. "I knew I loved what I did. I just didn't know if other people would be able to see that."
Tiner received the Texas Turn the Key Award after submitting a two-inch binder full of recommendations, his teaching philosophy and proof of his students' accomplishments, among other things. He said he was surprised to learn that he was later the only Texas teacher to be selected for the national award.
The award is aimed toward agriculture teachers who are near the beginning of their careers, with the intent of attracting more young people into the profession. It's a mission Tiner was on board with.
"I just wanted to try to achieve something to try to encourage my friends to go into this profession as well," he said.
He's no stranger to encouragement, either.
Tiner told the story of a student he convinced to join FFA after hearing the student sing one day. The student went on to place in the top 10 in the Texas FFA talent contest, and he now helps pay his way through college with singing gigs.
"It ... gave him a confidence boost in what he can do," Tiner said.
Tiner said it's witnessing that type of success that drives him.
"Just to see the look on their faces - that's what kind of motivates me," he said.
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By using patch-modelling in Max the artist can create complicated stuff as organic models.
Here you can see the head of the astronaut which was done in Max 3.1 and of course one has to have experience in 2D & 3D spline modeling and be familiar with the Vertex Bezier and Corner and where to use them, for example. One of the important points here is that the cells which make up a net created from the spline design should be at least a triangle and in the perfect state a square, and this process should be completed by assigning a "Surface"-modifier, the spline is then replaced by a skin, but if the spline model contains more sides in some parts the result won't come out at all. The pictures can show this process. Also you can download
the Max file. In the following you can learn more about 2D&3D splines.
1. Good skin 2. Perfect Skin 3. Doesn't lead to skin...
In 2D&3D spline modelling in MAX, special tools should be used. One of the points is that the vertices should be visible. We have to go to "Spline Property" and checkmark the "Vertex Ticks" (the image on the left), also snap should be fully used here, so click on "Snap Toggle" then right click so Grid and Snap Settings are displayed, then only by activating "Endpoint" the environment is ready for 2D&3D spline modeling.
In the stage below we can see how by clicking on the Create panel, then turning on Shapes and clicking Line, the base splines are drawn on the X,Y,Z axis to start the head design.Then we need to draw other splines. Here we just need to design half of the head.To see more download this Max file
I prefered to add a Relax modifier to the layers of the model and UVW mapping was assigned to it in cylindrical way.
The image above shows the layers used in modifier histyory (stack).To have the best possible mapping we have to use the "UVW Unwrap" modifier. Now in this stage the drawing of the model is completed. All the splines should be attached but better not welded because the result might be different, then a mirror is cloned from it (image on the left). The selected red spline is deleted. By using vertex snap the two headhalves come close so that the vertices of their two edges meet eachother and overlap. Again all the splines should be attached but better not welded.
In this stage the web spline is completed. Now by adding a "Surface"-modifier the model becomes a patch.
All maps used on the head are presented here:
1 - Diffuse Map
2 - Bump Map
3 - Specualr Map
After adding the eyes and the glasses the head is completed. By editing the splines
ar the bottom of the modifier history, different gestures of face can be set and
can also be used for morphs.
This is another character I made with the same method in Max3.1. The texture is more complicated, so I used lots of layers in multitexture channels. You can see two of these textures below, one of which is Diffuse and the other a Bump map. Above you can see the model in 3 phases. The right shows the patch net, the middle is without material and textures and the one on the left is the completed model.
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(Last Updated on : 26/10/2010)
Dhoti, a cloth-piece covering the lower part of the body from the waist, is a kind of traditional drapery, bearing the signature of the heritage of Indian civilisation. This single piece of rectangular stitchless cloth , measuring about 5 yards in length, can give a man an air of elegance, inherent to his culture.
Dhoti is known by different names in various states and languages. Punjabis call it Laacha , Malayalamis , the Mundu , Bengalis, the Dhuti , The Tamilians, refer it as Vaetti, people of Telegu, the Pancha, Marathis, the Dhotar and those of Kannada , pronounce it as Panche.
In the north and the east of India, the natives don themselves in Dhoti, topped off by a upper Kurta, called as Panjabi in the east of India, especially in Bengal.
The pairing , undergoes a change in the south of India.There, a Dhoti,is associated by angavastram, an unstitched piece of cloth passed around the shoulders . This definitely, augments the dignity in the outlook of the wearer. Sometimes, in place of an angavastram, a chokka, a version of shirt or jubba , a local type of kurta .
A dhoti is the coventional male costume for attending official meetings, or ceremonial occcassions, in the entire nation. Even, today`s young generation, flaunt themselves in Dhotis, ornately designed , happen to be their foremost priority , during festivals, social-gatherings and ceremonies.It not only furnishes them with an ethnic look, which is the in-thing now, but oivcreasesthe element of dignity, related to manliness.
This attire of eminence, Dhoti is the costume of most of the national icons too. Ranging from the ministers, politicians, national leaders, to the cultural cultivators , like musicians, poets, and men of letters, represent the nation, being Dhoti clad.
Indeed, dhoti was the insignia of national tradition, a strong pillar of Ghandhi`s championing of indigenous culture , in the face of the oppressive enforcement cast by the British regime in India. The glorification of Dhoti, was a constituent programme of Satyagraha movement, initiated by the venerated Bapu, the Father of India, Gandhi, during the national war of Independence in India.
Gandhi, himself used to be dressed in Dhoti, to personify the teeming millions of the country, starting ftrom the humble farmers to the elite class, as all had Dhoti as their common dress.
Dhoti , in this hi-tech age, is till date, the daily garment for many regions, in India. Forexample, the regal Rajputs, proudly display themselves in Dhoti.
The Bengali manner of Dhoti-draping is quite artistic .Dhoti, with sober but attractive patterns, are arranged in proper pleats, with the front portion of the cloth , being held firmly as japanese fan. Dhoti is the hereditary groom`s costume in Bengali marraiges.
Again, the manner of wearing is differernt in Tamil Nadu. One famous style is the Pancha Katcham, i.e. five knots or five folds.
A Dhoti, normally comes in shades of white, crème or beige.
In South India, and specifically in Tamil Nadu, the material of Dhotis, known as Magatam or Pattu Pancha, is in general , silk, while the fabric could be of tussar, or silk, or comfortable cotton in Bengal. Crimson, Dhotis called Sowlay, is the uniform of the temple-priests in Maharashtra.
It is obvious, without a debate, that Dhoti is an integral part of our cultural context, and daily customs and religion. Dhoti , as an Indian traditional costume, contains, the very impression of Indianness, needful to project our national identity, before the entire world.
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The Register’s mobile share (how many of the total page views come from smartphones) continues to grow, edging towards 50 percent.
The chart, at right, shows the climb of smartphone news consumers. The large jump seen in early 2012 is because analytics were improved in our mobile app allowing us to see all user activity in the app (before that we could only see some of what people viewed during a visit)
A timeline of the mobile share for the month of July over the past few years:
- 2008: 0.10%
- 2009: 6.12%
- 2010: 9.27%
- 2011: 13.98%
- 2012: 40.58%
Tracking the mobile share helps to understand the changing nature of our audience. Gone are the days when people just got news from one medium – be it the newspaper, radio or television.
Today’s population is getting information in all sorts of ways and our job is to deliver news how and where people want the information.
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The Early Preschool classroom is designed with the child in mind. The Early Preschool classroom places a large emphasis on curriculum, as well as potty training.
Our staff will work with your child’s individual needs to become fully potty trained if they are not already. We have developed a system that is sure to make potty training a rewarding experience for both parent and child.
Teachers will begin largely focusing on the children’s fine motor skills. The children will learn the correct way to hold and handle a pencil, use scissors to cut a straight line, and tracing letters and numbers
Our staff will implement lesson plans that will focus on language arts, math/cognitive, science/sensory, art, motor skills, and music and movement. The children will be required to master the recognition of all shapes and colors before entering the preschool classroom. Along with mastering the recognition of shapes and colors they will be working on continuing to recognize letters, numbers, their name in print, and their friends names in print.
The children will be exploring the outside world with outside play time (weather permitting). The children will enjoy a wonderful playground with age appropriate equipment where they can climb, run, and ride bikes on our bike path.
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Tech or No Tech: A Great Teacher is Key
“Even within the United States, the best schools are not the most tricked-out ones,” writes Amanda Ripley in a Slate article called “Brilliance in a Box” posted yesterday.
“In most of the highest-performing systems, technology is remarkably absent from classrooms,” says Andreas Schleicher, a veteran education analyst for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development who spends much of his time visiting schools around the world to find out what they are doing right (or wrong). “I have no explanation why that is the case, but it does seem that those systems place their efforts primarily on pedagogical practice rather than digital gadgets.”
Seems to me that it’s not so much about he-who-has-the-most-toys-wins but how resourceful teachers use the technology. The tools are just a means to an end. Faster test scores, closer communication with students, collaborative assignments, customized learning based on each student’s skill — those are ways that technology can make a teacher’s job easier and the learning process more enjoyable.
And as always, underlying all of this, a great teacher is absolutely instrumental in the process. The resourceful teacher can use a ball of string to captivate her students. Imagine what she could do with more.
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Top Tips for Giving Video Games or Gaming Systems
To view or download a PDF version, click here.
Video games are a great way to keep your kids entertained, educated and even physically active during the holiday season. But just as with any activity, parents need to take steps to educate themselves and ensure they are choosing games that are age and content appropriate.
The National Cyber Security Alliance teamed up with the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), a-profit, self-regulatory that provides parents with a variety of tools and resources to help them make informed purchase decisions when it comes to games for their family.
Here are our top tips for parents when giving a video game or gaming system:
- Check the rating: Just like movies and TV shows, some games are meant for children and others are really intended for adults to play. From ‘E for Everyone’ to ‘M for Mature,’ Rating Categories and Content Descriptors appear on nearly all video and computer games sold in the U.S. and Canada and are an easy guide to gauge age-appropriateness. Learn more at: http://www.esrb.org/ratings/ratings_guide.jsp.
- Get the detailed facts: For parents who want more specific information, Rating Summaries provide a detailed description of content that factored into a game’s rating, including examples. These can be found on the ESRB website or via their free mobile app, which is available for iPhone, Android and Windows phones. Learn more at: http://www.esrb.org/ratingsummaries.
- Refer to the experts: Video game store associates (who are often gamers themselves) and other parents can be valuable resources for guidance about a game, and game review websites often have photos and videos to help a parent get acquainted with game content. Learn more at: http://www.esrb.org/about/resources.jsp.
- Take time to STOP. THINK. CONNECT.: Today's devices are as powerful and connected as any PC or laptop. Before your kids sit down to play, take security precautions, understand the consequences of your actions and behaviors and enjoy the benefits of the Internet. Learn more at: www.stopthinkconnect.org.
- Keep a clean machine: All Internet-enabled devices need to be kept up-to-date to protect them from malware and other threats. Security protections are built in and updated on a regular basis. Take time to make sure all the mobile devices in your house have the latest protections. Before you start playing, be sure your computer/gaming system has the latest operating system, software - including anti-virus protection, web browsers and apps.
- Activate parental controls: Game consoles offer parental control features that allow parents to restrict games by ESRB rating, manage online access, and even limit how much time a child can use the system. Learn more at: http://www.esrb.org/about/settingcontrols.jsp.
- Protect kids’ privacy: Because online-enabled games can allow players to speak with one another, kids should know that they shouldn’t share personal information with others, even people they think they can trust. And that’s not limited to e-mail addresses and phone numbers, either; kids should know not to share personal details like where they go to school, where their parents work or what their weekend plans are. Make sure your child’s user name does not give away their real full name, location, gender, age, or any other personal information. (Examples: beach01, book2). Your kids should also use an avatar, not an actual picture of themselves.
- Be vigilant about cyberbullies: Cyberbullying is a growing concern as more and more kids go online, and just like on a real playground there can be the occasional bully in the game world as well. Talk to your kids about their online gameplay and make sure they know who to turn to if they encounter a bully, online or off. And do everyone a favor by reporting misbehavers to a game publisher or its online community moderator. Learn more at: http://www.esrb.org/about/familyguide.jsp .
For additional information about the ESRB, visit www.esrb.org. For more gaming tips from the NCSA, visit: http://www.staysafeonline.org/stay-safe-online/for-parents/gaming-tips.
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In San Francisco Unified (SFUSD) last year, 40 out of 1,924 teachers (2%) received bad reviews. Over the past five years, an average of 2.7% teachers received marks of “unsatisfactory” or “needs improvement.” In nearby San Jose and Oakland, only around 1% of teachers received poor ratings.
Abuse of Data Leads To Abuse Of Teachers
The Ed Deformers love to hold up numbers like these as proof that the teacher evaluation system is broken. What the Ed Deformers are actually demonstrating by such abuse of data is their own ignorance and incompetence. Low numbers of unsatisfactory reviews does not prove that the evaluation system is broken any more than high temperatures indicate a broken thermometer. These results could mean that there are actually very few bad teachers. There is no reason to assume that there must be more bad teachers than are being caught by the current system or that there is necessarily a bell curve of teacher aptitude.
On the contrary; many evaluation systems, like that used in California, are based on benchmarks or standards that teachers are expected to work toward. Teacher training programs, student teaching experiences and professional development are generally geared toward these standards. Teachers are assessed on these standards yearly until they have achieved tenure, and every two to four years thereafter. In the assessment process, teachers can receive evaluations of unsatisfactory, satisfactory or better. Obviously, unsatisfactory implies that some standards have not been met, while satisfactory means that they have. While some teachers are certainly better than others at any given standard, a rating of “satisfactory” must still be accepted for what it is: the ability to sufficiently perform one’s job. Thus, contrary to all the anti-teacher rhetoric, we should expect the vast majority of teachers be able to meet these standards if they have been adequately trained, as most have.
That this is true should be clear by examining a sampling of the California teaching standards:
- 1.4 The teacher actively engages all students in problem solving and critical thinking within and across subject areas
- 2.2 The teacher maintains a safe learning environment in which all students are treated fairly and respectfully
- 2.4 The teacher ensures that expectations for student behavior are established early, consistently maintained, and clearly understood
- 3.1 The teacher demonstrates knowledge of subject matter content and students’ cognitive development
- 5.1 The teacher establishes and communicates learning goals for all students
- 5.4 The teacher uses the results of assessments to guide instruction
- 6.3 The teacher collaborates with faculty and staff
Each of these standards is clearly an important part of good teaching (as are the others I left out for the sake of space). They are relatively easy to learn, both through training and practice, and to demonstrate to administrators who are evaluating teachers. Therefore, it should not be surprising that the vast majority of teachers get positive revues. It is not only what we should expect for evaluations based on standards (rather than test scores), but what we should desire for our children.
Excellent Teaching Does Not Always Produce Excellent Students
On the other hand, receiving a satisfactory to excellent review, indeed being an excellent teacher, cannot guarantee that every student is learning the student content standards. This is because students come to school with a range of prerequisite skills and social development, familial support structures, and material security (or lack thereof) that influence their academic success. Therefore, it is entirely possible, indeed likely, that we can have good teachers with bad student test scores. This may be part of the reason for the irrational assumption that there must be many more bad teachers out there than are caught under current evaluation systems.
Evaluation Systems are Limited by Their Evaluators
Another problem is that administrators are stretched thin with all their other responsibilities, which means that they seldom have the time for many classroom observations of their teachers or to give adequate attention to teacher portfolios. This may result in some teachers receiving satisfactory evaluations when in fact they actually need improvement.
Irrational Reforms Can’t Solve Imaginary Problems
Oakland Superintendent Anthony Smith said “We have to create a better evaluation system that really names what high-quality instruction looks like,” but we already have that in California. The Standards for the Teaching Professional clearly identify the qualities of good teaching. His solution to include student performance in teacher evaluations, in contrast, is irrational and cannot possibly help to achieve his goal. Student test scores tell us nothing about what good teaching should look like. Student achievement data is at best a proxy that may or may not tell us anything about the quality of teaching. For example, a good student may do well on a test, even when the teaching is very poor, because that student already knew how to study, and had considerable background knowledge, high self-efficacy and the ability to focus for extended periods of time. Student achievement data, unlike teaching standards, tell us nothing about methods to motivate students, or how to reach low income students, English language learners or special needs students. In contrast, while benchmark or standards-based evaluations do not guarantee improved test scores, they can and generally do describe what good teaching should look like and can help teachers reflect upon their teaching and improve.
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Krakatoa is a volcanic island that is located near Indonesia and it was in August of 1883 when it erupted and killed thousands of people making it one of the worst geologic disasters.
A heavy explosion rocked the center of town in the morning! At least 40 people were injured.
"There is a sound of thunder boomed from Mount Batuwara. There is also a frightening shock earth, total darkness, thunder and lightning. Then came the storm winds and rain storms darken the horrible and all over the world. A great flood came from Mount Batuwara and flows east towards Mount Kamula …. When the water drowning, Java separated into two, creating islands of Sumatra "
Understand the risks associated with nuclear power plants and their role in meeting future energy demands across the country.
Several scenarios of a probable earth’s destruction which may happen in the future.
There have been positive and negative responses to this event and in this article you will see how it hit the people and the environment.
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While mercury concentrations in freshwater fish are much higher than in saltwater fish, Duke University researchers have found that saltwater fish—including tuna, mackerel and shark—are a greater health threat to humans.
In freshwater, harmful methylmercury latches onto decayed plants and animal matter, which sunlight can more easily break down. But in seawater, methylmercury latches onto chloride (salt), which doesn’t degrade as easily, and marine life ingests it.
Fish and shellfish have a natural tendency to store methylmercury in their organs, which makes them the leading source of mercury ingestion for humans. A potent neurotoxin, methylmercury can cause kidney problems, neurological disorders and even death, says Heileen Hsu-Kim, PhD, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering. Fetuses exposed to it can develop the same conditions, as well as learning disabilities.
Ingested mercury accumulates in the human body, and Dr. Hsu-Kim says Americans have a high rate of exposure. In fact, 8% of U.S. women exhibit levels that exceed national guidelines.
Dr. Hsu-Kim believes scientists and policymakers should focus on the effects of mercury in oceans instead of freshwater. (Currently, the Environmental Protection Agency and Food and Drug Administration make no distinction.)
As you make your grocery list, check mercury levels in specific fish and seafood by visiting the Environmental Defense Fund’s Seafood Selector.
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Japan's statement on Monday that it would not inscribe new targets under a second commitment phase of the Kyoto Protocol has provoked sharp reactions from NGOs at the Cancun United Nations climate change conference here.
The ‘Friends of the Earth,' at a press briefing, attacked Japan for its “illegal” refusal to consider a second commitment period, sparking off alarm that this move could well mean the end of the Kyoto Protocol when the first commitment period ends in 2012.
Mohamed Adow of ‘Christian Aid' said Japan's statement imperilled the only chance of a binding treaty on reducing emissions. It would undermine the Cancun negotiations and put millions of lives at risk. He appealed to other Annex 1 or developed countries to isolate Japan by reaffirming their commitment to the Kyoto Protocol.
Others said Japan's case that the Kyoto Protocol was inadequate because it captured only about 25 per cent of global emissions was not tenable. The Protocol was much more than emissions and it defined responsibilities for Annex 1 countries in technology and finance, among other things.
Yuri Onodera of the ‘Friends of the Earth' said he was shocked by Japan's statement and said that it was an act of betrayal. The move could well have come from Japan's concern for economic competitiveness with the U.S. and China. This concern should not come before the interests of global humanity, he said, adding that it was a high level decision by the Prime Minister and indicated a hardline government position.
Japan's move comes at a time when Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), expressed a belief that Cancun can launch a new era in climate change. At a press conference after the inauguration, she said the conference could be successful if parties compromised and governments reached a deal on adaptation, mitigation and technology transfer. Cancun could not solve everything and the outcome must be pragmatic, she pointed out.
Later, she said Japan's statement was not new, and that this was its position even 11 months ago. She said there was no need to single out particular areas of compromise but there could be something in it for everybody.
The U.S. is stoic since it was not a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol. It has said that it will work for agreements on other aspects. It said it was seeking a balanced package of decisions and spoke of being flexible and taking a pragmatic stand.
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Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full contact combat sport that allows a wide variety of fighting techniques and skills, from a mixture of martial arts traditions and non-traditions, to be used in competitions. The rules allow the use of striking and grappling techniques, both while standing and on the ground. Such competitions allow martial artists of different backgrounds to compete.
The roots of mixed martial arts can be traced back to various mixed style contests that took place throughout Europe, Japan and the Pacific Rim during the early 1900s. Modern MMA competition emerged in 1993 with the founding of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, although professional MMA events had been held in Japan by Shooto starting back in 1989. Originally organized with the intention of finding the most effective martial arts for real unarmed combat situations, competitors were pitted against one another with minimal rules for safety. Later promoters adopted many additional rules aimed at increasing safety for competitors and to promote mainstream acceptance of the sport.
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Intel’s Gift for Enthusiasts – Affordable Chips with Unlocked Multipliers
"Intel is gearing up to woo enthusiasts; plans are afoot by the tech major for the release of inexpensive CPUs with unlocked multipliers specifically for overclocking."
Published: 5th March 2010 | Source: Xbit Labs |
Intel is gearing up to woo enthusiasts; plans are afoot by the tech major for the release of inexpensive CPUs with unlocked multipliers specifically for overclocking. If and when the release comes through, it would make life easier for overclockers as they would not have to spend big on personal computers.
Traditionally, neither Intel nor AMD were known for unlocking their CPUs for overclocking as they fear this might damage the chips. But the enthusiast market is notorious for pushing the clock-speeds of anything and everything they can get their hands on, so there isn’t much meaning in trying to keep it down. Over time, both AMD and Intel have started designing chips that have unlocked multipliers specifically for overclockers. AMD was the first to break the price barrier with its Black Edition chips back in 2007.
Now Intel seems to be ready to join the overclocking game. In an interview with Tweakers.net, marketing head for Intel’s chipset division Steve Peterson revealed that the company is looking at new affordable models with unlocked multipliers. While he did not reveal much, Peterson did say that the chips would be created for the LGA1156 form-factor and will be based on the Lynnfield and Clarkdale series of Core i-branded chips.
Intel already has Turbo Boost available on these chipsets, which automatically overclocks those processing cores that are needed and shuts down those that are not in use. With unlocked multipliers, it would be interesting to see how Turbo Boost works, because the system turns itself off if any of Intel’s modern Extreme Edition microprocessors are overclocked. If that’s the case then enthusiasts will have to rely on their own skills for generating extreme speeds from single-threaded or dual-threaded applications or overclocking an inexpensive four-core chip.
This move of offering chips with unlocked multipliers is not a first for Intel; the company already carried out a pilot in China in August 2009 when it sold its Pentium 6500K CPUs with an unlocked multiplier. The company had plans to use the pilot as a base for the decision to launch similar CPUs across the world.
Looks like the results from the pilot must have been encouraging enough, because Intel is ready to roll out new unlocked chips.
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It seems like I waded into the middle of a blog brawl between Razib Khan and his dislike of linguistic anthropologists and linguistic anthropologists. Razib not only commented on this blog but also put a pointer to my entry on the death of the Bo language .
In his entry linking to my article, Razib writes:
“… this experience only reinforces my disrespect for the ‘discourse’ which linguistic anthropologists are introducing into the public domain. There are intellectual reasons to be interested in linguistic isolates not part of the big language families (e.g., Semitic, Indo-European, Niger-Kordofanian, etc.), but no language is “70,000 years old.” The Andaman Islanders are not black-skinned elves, immortals who brought their culture in toto from the ur-heimat of Africa, genetic and cultural fossils who have been in total stasis. Cultural anthropologists presumably understand that all humans are equally ancient, derived from African ancestors, and that all languages and peoples are African (or at least 95% so within the last 100,000 years), but their communication to the public confuses the issue and presents some groups as ‘pristine.’”
I had quoted what the BBC article had reported without being overly skeptical about the details. Based on his comments, I decided to educate myself a little more. A lot of things stuck out as possible outcomes from the quote, different from the one that Razib was quoting. A primary possibility was that the BBC reporter was the culprit, misquoting (I’m not saying deliberately) the linguist in question, Dr. Anvita Abbi. Another puzzling fact was that many, but not all, news outlets quoted that the Bo language was thought to be 70,000 years old. Did they all get it wrong or were they merely picking off a common source ? But, first I wanted to find out the current consensus on when language evolved.
Language is not just a means of communication, but “a distinct piece of the biological makeup of our brains”, not unlike bipedalism, as the famous linguist, Steven Pinker, put it. Language is also not the same as speech, as evidenced by the presence of sign language. And for those of us who think sign language is a fairly modern invention, a signing form of English, Steven Pinker writes in his bestseller, The Language Instinct: “They [sign languages] are found wherever there is a community of deaf people, and each one is a distinct, full language, using the same kinds of grammatical machinery found worldwide in spoken languages. For example, American Sign Language, used by the deaf community in the United States, does not resemble English, or British Sign Language, but relies on agreement and gender systems in a way that is reminiscent of Navajo and Bantu.” Finally, it is important to remember that there are languages which do not have a written form.
These three points are important to understand how we can approach the question of the origin of language. First, humans had to evolve the appropriate neural circuitry for language and they had to evolve the appropriate physical circuitry for speech. But, these two could evolve separately and distinctly. Finally, non-written languages could have been existence before the first written language or written languages could have existed prior to their being set to writing. The Wikipedia quotes the interesting case of Sanskrit, where the earliest parts of Rigveda are thought to have originated around 1500 BC while the first available written version is in the 11th century A.D.
When I asked Shanthala how old did she think language was, smart as she is, she quickly honed in on the question of how could we determine the ages of purely oral languages. If oral languages leave no fossils behind and written languages came much after oral, how can we determine when language evolved ?
We can attempt to answer the question of origin only obliquely, and with an uncertainty that only gets larger as we probe at the edges of the homo lineage. Based on fossil evidence, the oldest modern homo sapiens are dated at about 200,000 years and thought to have migrated out of Africa about 100,000 years ago. The consensus, as far as I can tell from reading the data that I could find, seems to be that human language came into existence somewhere around this period. The idea as stated by Pinker is that all branches of humanity that spread out of Africa evolved language and therefore it must have been around already when the migrations began. Debate about whether a proto language existed before then is the subject of continuing debate. The Wikipedia and especially books such as Pinker’s and Christine Kennealy’s “The First Word” are superb references for those wishing to dig deeper.
Still, is it absurd to say that a language is 70,000 years old ? Languages naturally evolve and it should at least strike one’s skeptical bone that a language could be that old. Even on the extremely remote off chance that this one didn’t, what evidence did they have to speculate its age ? I contacted Dr. Abbi to check if she had indeed said that the Bo language was that old or was the reporter misquoting her. She responded promptly:
“Yes the press has made a mistake. No language in its present form can be claimed to be that old. Linguists can reconstruct with some surety upto 10,000 years and in cases of isolated languages much longer, but certainly not beyond 15000.“
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Malacca (Malay: Melaka, Chinese: 马六甲 ), dubbed as The Historical State (Malay: Negeri Bersejarah) or The Hang Tuah State (Malay: Negeri Hang Tuah) is the third smallest state of Malaysia, after Perlis and Penang. It is located in the southern region of the Malay Peninsula, on the Straits of Malacca. It borders Negeri Sembilan to the north and the state of Johor to the east. The state's capital is Malacca Town.
Although Malacca was once one of the oldest Malay sultanates, the state has no Sultan today. Instead, the head of state is the Yang di-Pertua Negeri or Governor.
Popular historical attractions :
Fort A Famosa: Constructed by the Portuguese in 1511, it suffered severe structural damage during the Dutch invasion. The plan by the British to destroy it was aborted as a result of the intervention of Sir Stamford Raffles in 1808.
A replica of the Melaka Sultanate palace was reconstructed at the foot of St. Paul's Hill. The design is based on the description of the palace from the sixteenth-century 'Malay Annals,' or 'Sejarah Melayu.' It is the only building of its kind in Malaysia, and it provides a rare glimpse of the ancient Malay kingdom that once flourished here. The palace houses the Malacca Cultural Museum, which includes many artifacts of that kingdom. .
St. Paul's Church: Constructed by the Portuguese captain, Duarte Coelho, this church was named "Our Lady of The Hill", but was later turned into a burial ground by the Dutch for their noble dead, and renamed "St. Paul's Church". Currently the church is part of the Malaccan Museums Complex. The body of St. Francis Xavier was interred here temporarily before it was taken to Goa, India.
Portuguese Square Perhaps the right phrase to infer strong affinity to Portugal would be 'Mini Lisbon'. Located within the Portuguese Settlement, the square is the culmination of Portuguese culture in its full splendour and colours.
Stadhuys Building: Constructed in 1650 as the residence of the Dutch Governor and his deputy, the structure reflects Dutch architecture. It is today the "Museum of History and Ethnography". The museum exhibits traditional wedding clothes and artifacts of Melaka, dating back to its days of glory.
Jonker Street (Jalan Hang Jebat): This street is famous for its antique goods. It is also famous for its carnival-like atmosphere during weekend nights.
The Beautiful Architecture of Baba Nyonya Heritage Museum
In Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock (neighboring to Jalan Hang Jebat/Jonker Street) of Melaka, there’s a small museum comprising 3 adjacent townhouses called the Baba Nyonya Heritage Museum. Appearing to be similar in design with other old houses in the old Melaka Chinatown, this privately owned and managed museum is showcasing the best of distinctive cultural values and lifestyle inherited by the Baba Nyonya community and family. It’s not exaggerating to consider this small but comprehensive museum as the gateway of your discovery to the Baba Nyonya cultural establishments.
Last edited by nazrey; August 18th, 2007 at 08:36 AM. Reason: Lagenda MELAKA
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An outstanding Russian pianist and composer, Nikolay Medtner was a student of the Moscow Conservatory. Medtner later was employed as a piano professor there before he left Russia in 1921 to settle in Paris and later in England. Medtner's works are mainly for the piano and voice. All Medtner's piano sonatas became very popular and are frequently performed.Medtner's style is often compared to that of Rachmaninov.
More Medtner sheet music download on EveryNote.com
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I've said for years that "Problems are portable". They go with you no matter where you go. You can temporarily block memories and issues (with alcohol, sex, drugs, and other diversions) but they always come back until they're effectively dealt with.
Think about it as a toothache. The cause of the pain is some kind of infection. You can distract yourself from thinking or feeling the pain for short times. You can numb the pain with aspirin or other pain killers, but until the dentist goes in and cleans out the infection, the source of the pain will remain.
All the wishing and hoping in the world will not make the pain or your painful memories go away. You have to confront them in therapy to get a handle on them and move from being a victim to someone who is a survivor. The survivor knows and remembers what happened but his emotions don't keep him trapped in the victim place any more.
It takes a lot of courage to face the demons, but remember, you are no longer in danger like you were when the abuse happened. It is just your memories and the feelings that are connected to them that makes it so painful.
This place is filled with men who understand and have had the same kind of experiences that make you feel the only way out is suicide. They are living proof that things can and WILL get better, but you have to begin to face the demons in therapy with someone who can help you.
If your experiences with the first therapist have not been good, find another (see "A Consumer's Guide to Therapist Shopping" in the home page under "Find a Therapist").
You can heal and feel better.
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