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John Hofmeister, Shell Oil’s former U.S. CEO, told CNBC that looming EU sanctions aimed at punishing Iran for continuing its nuclear program will be “a non-event.”
On July 1, the EU will ban oil imports from Iran and will prohibit the insuring of ships carrying the country’s crude.
“It’s just a headline,” Hofmeister told “ Power Lunch .” “It sounds like tough talk, but the reality is there’s almost no substance to the policy.”
Oil is a global commodity and it will find its market wherever it goes, said Hofmeister, founder and CEO of the nonprofit Citizens for Affordable Energy. He doesn’t expect the sanctions to have much impact on oil prices, which have been falling ahead even with sanctions looming. U.S. light, sweet crude is now trading at its lowest levels in nearly eight months .
Strong production has been partly behind the recent weakness in crude. “There’s plenty of oil out there,” Hofmeister said. “And even if Iran’s oil isn’t purchased by as many customers, the Obama administration has basically eviscerated its own efforts to harm Iran by granting waivers.” He also said he can’t imagine the U.S. administration stopping China from buying Iranian oil.Page 1 of 2 | Next Page
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The vessel was deployed for the Ba'ku cultural observation mission in the Briar Patch in 2375, and was later hijacked by Lieutenant Commander Data and used this vessel to attack Ru'afo's flagship, causing considerable damage to it. The USS Enterprise-E later arrived to locate the mission scoutship and to attempt to deactivate Data.
While the Enterprise-E's shuttlecraft, piloted by Jean-Luc Picard and Worf, approached the Ba'ku planet, Data used the planets' rings to mask his approach towards the shuttlecraft. He then surprised the shuttlecraft by giving chase and firing upon it.
Attempts to transport Data from the scoutship failed as he initiated a transport inhibitor, forcing the Enterprise-E shuttlecraft to forcefully dock with the mission scout by locking onto it by means of the docking clamps. Upon doing so, they were able to access the mission scout though its docking hatch on the ventral hull. (Star Trek: Insurrection)
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Jabs and Immunisations
While it doesn't quite rank alongside buying a bikini or a new pair of board shorts, investigating the jabs and immunisations you will need for your gap year travels is every bit as important.
Just imagine the fun you'll miss if you are inside with the chills, or even worse, transported to the hospital! Before you begin your travels, set aside time to visit your GP or local travel clinic and discuss the medical preparations you will need to stay healthy during the adventure of a lifetime.
Disgusting DiseasesTravelling can put you in close contact with all sorts of disgusting diseases. Discuss your travel plans with your GP, and see what jabs or medication you might need. You might want to ask your GP about:
Cholera - while a travel certificate is no longer needed in most countries, it is smart to inquire about the oral vaccine.
Diphtheria - while you probably had an immunisation against diphtheria during childhood, investigate if you need a booster.
Hepatitis A - spread via food, water and faeces, it is important to maintain scrupulous sanitary standards to head off an "hep A" infection. Vaccination is available.
Hepatitis B - this infection of the liver is caught when exposed to contaminated blood. Immunisation is available, but may not be offered if your GP feels that you will not likely be in contact with a source.
Japanese encephalitis - there is a vaccine against this fairly rare disease, but it will probably only be discussed with travellers hoping to visit rural Japanese villages during the monsoon season.
Malaria - transmitted via mosquito bite, malaria is a nightmare for all travellers. Antimalarial drugs will differ according to the region you will be visiting. Prescribed as a course of tablets, this treatment should be started two weeks before travelling, during travel, and up to six weeks after returning home.
Meningitis - while a vaccine may fight against some strains, there is not a vaccine available for every identified variation.
Polio - while it is likely you received a jab as a child, investigate if you would benefit from a booster.
Typhoid - caught from contaminated food, drink or water, this disease is crippling and a vaccination is recommended to most travellers. Boosters may be required every few years.
Yellow Fever - also transmitted via mosquito bite, yellow fever can turn a dream trip into a nightmare. An international certificate is required to prove vaccination in many parts of the world, and certification lasts for ten years.
Arranging for ImmunisationsBegin investigating the jabs and immunisations you will need to travel several months before your planned departure.
This will give you enough time to run through a risk assessment with your medical provider to determine which jabs and immunisations you will need. Once you know which immunisations, if any, you will need you can schedule your vaccinations with enough time for them to take effect.
You will need you pay for the immunisations yourself as the NHS rarely foots the bill, it is a good idea to check and compare the prices at travel clinics to the prices at your GP surgery. Also organise proper documentation of all medical treatment, including those that may be needed for visa applications.
Further ResourcesIf you want to learn more about the diseases, jabs and immunisations encountered when travelling, check out:
- The NHS "Health Advice for Travellers" leaflet available at local post offices.
- The Department of Health's "Health Advice for Travellers" page.
- The NHS' "Travel Vaccines" page.
- Your local GP or travel clinic.
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Human rights activists are criticizing Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara's regime for only arresting and charging his enemies following a six-month, post-electoral power struggle that plunged the country back into civil war.
This week saw dozens of allies to former Ivorian leader, Laurent Gbagbo, face charges in relation to post-electoral violence, including 58 army officers accused Thursday of crimes ranging from murder and rape to buying illegal arms and recruiting mercenaries.
In total, Ivory Coast has charged as many as 94 military and political allies of Mr. Gbagbo, who remains under arrest following his capture by forces loyal to current president, Alassane Ouattara, in April.
Since taking office in May, Mr. Ouattara has repeatedly promised to investigate abuses and bring perpetrators on both sides to justice.
Rights groups say he must follow up his statements with action.
Vice President of the Ivorian Movement for Human Rights, Doumbia Yacouba, says so far, only Gbagbo allies have been arrested, even though it has been established and recognized by the government that there were violent acts committed by both sides. Yacouba says for justice to be credible, it must be balanced. He says they expect to see arrests made in Mr. Ouattara's camp as well.
Yacouba says the justice system is still in disorder, but once prisons are operational again and judges are trained and back in their offices, there will be no more excuses.
Pressure on the new president to act is expected to increase following Thursday's announcement by the U.N. Mission in Ivory Coast that the country's armed forces have carried out 26 extrajudicial killings in the past month, many of them in the country's still volatile west.
The rights representative for the U.N. mission, Guillaume Ngefa, said his office has documented more than 100 human rights violations between mid-July and mid-August. He said those included 85 illegal arrests.
The Republican Forces of Ivory Coast, as the country's new integrated army is called, incorporates former rebel fighters from the North who were instrumental in bringing Mr. Ouattara to power.
Matt Wells is the Ivory Coast researcher for international watchdog, Human Rights Watch. "It's less and less possible each day for the government to claim that these are just out of control elements. This is now the official army of Cote d'Ivoire, and it's time for the government both its civilian and military leaders to step up and make sure that there is control," he said.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has documented reprisal killings, war crimes and abuses by forces loyal to Mr. Ouattara both during and after their April offensive.
HRW expressed concern earlier this week when Mr. Ouattara promoted two former rebel commanders who have been accused of grave human rights abuses to new posts within the Republican Forces.
One of them, Martin Kouakou Fofié, has been on the U.N. Security Council sanctions list since 2006 for violations committed during the first Ivorian conflict.
HRW researcher Wells says these commanders need to be brought to justice. "Certainly there's the reality that many of these commanders, of the former Forces Nouvelles that became the Republican Forces, swept Ouattara into power, but at the same time Ouattara owes more than anything to the victims on both sides in order to move the country forward, to remove the country from the nightmare of impunity that has haunted it for the past decade," he said.
Violence began in Ivory Coast following a November presidential poll when Mr. Gbagbo refused to concede defeat to Mr. Ouattara. Pro-Gbagbo militia and security forces are accused of turning heavy artillery on civilians and inciting attacks of West African immigrants, among other abuses.
In all, rights groups say the post-electoral crisis killed more than 3,000 civilians and displaced hundreds of thousands.
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One way to understand the currency dynamics of 2013 is to review the intermarket performances of the last four years and grasp the relationships between currencies, equities and commodities.
In assessing a currency’s overall strength, we measure its performance against gold, a common denominator. The “Gold vs. FX” column in “Four-year intermarket performance” shows gold increased the most against the Japanese yen (JPY) in 2012, implying that JPY is the weakest currency.
• 2012 proved the best performing year for equities since 2009 via the cumulative annual returns of major global indexes. Aggressive central bank easing around the world helped establish “backstops” against Eurozone woes and fiscal cliff uncertainty.
• There were some glaring similarities between 2012 and 2009 in the currency space — JPY was the year’s weakest currency followed by the U.S. dollar. Both the Norwegian kroner and New Zealand dollar ranked among the top currencies (against which gold underperformed). Both years involved aggressive central bank stimulus.
• The JPY-Nikkei inverse relationship remained alive and well with the Nikkei posting its biggest annual gain since 2005, and JPY posting its sharpest loss against gold since 2009.
• Commodities fared better in 2012 than 2011, but underperformed in 2010 and 2009. U.S. crude oil was the only “major” commodity to fall against the dollar. Gold’s overall showing against the 11 currencies was weaker than in any of the previous five years.
USD: The U.S. dollar was the year’s second worst performing currency. But the more interesting observation is that of gold and the U.S. dollar. Gold posted single-digit gains vs. all major currencies, with the exception of the JPY, against which it rallied 21%.
Euro: After a poor 2011 and a dismal 2010, the EUR/USD had a major accomplishment in 2012 — posting nine winning months. The last time this happened was in 2002. Draghi’s vow in July to do all it takes to save the euro triggered the crucial stabilization of the currency, to the detriment of eroding periphery yield spreads.
JPY: The Abe government’s vow to reinflate the economy was manifested in historical breakouts of major yen pairs. Several pairs rose above their 200-week moving average for the first time in more than four years.
Later this year, we’re likely to see indications from the Fed about slowing the pace of asset purchases. Some markets may react to this as the near-end of quantitative easing, but with the Fed aiming to reduce unemployment to 6.5%, asset purchases are here to stay. Combined with improved prospects for rating upgrades in Greece and Italy, this will pave the way for +15% gains in global equities in Q1-Q3, keep the U.S. dollar under pressure and further punish the yen.
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All About Locks
Without their locks the two Wey Navigations would not function. The seventeen locks between Godalming and Weybridge allow the level of water along the canal to be managed providing enough depth for vessels to navigate whilst also allowing controlled passage between the sections of waterway.
There are 13 locks on the Wey Navigation and 4 on the Godalming Navigation.
A lock has a simple function, that being to provide a control to maintain or change the level of water within a stretch of a navigation. A typical lock has a chamber dug into the channel and is lined with brick, although the early locks along the Wey were turf lined. Gates with a system of gearing to allow a paddle to be raised and lowered to allow or restrict the flow of water are hinged to enable them to be opened and closed by pushing on a heavy balance beam which protrudes horizontally from the gate to provide sufficient leverage, particularly useful given the heavy weight of the gates found on the Wey Navigations.
There are two common types of locks found on British waterways and these were originally both found on the Wey and Godalming Navigations. Today modernisation has left only the easier to operate pound locks, and even these have been dramatically improved in their construction and operation to facilitate their use by the large numbers of relatively inexperienced pleasure boaters that help keep the waterway a viable proposition.
A Pound Lock is effectively the placing of two Flash Locks (see below) close together to provide a simple method of raising or lowering the level of water to enable craft to effectively navigate upstream or downstream. The lock also provides a guarantee that the water level between the individual locks will be maintained to a degree that vessels won’t run aground. The chamber dug into the bed of the river is large enough to accommodate the type of craft typically plying the navigation. At each end gates robust enough to withhold the pressure of water are hung from substantial <> and contain within them paddles that can be raised and lowered to control the flow of water.
Some pound locks have a single gate upstream as this gate is a lot shorter and hence lighter than the bottom gates. However those on the Wey are double gates as the lock chambers are relatively wide and would result in an overly heavy single gate.
Pound locks were invented in Holland, although there were primitive examples in Italy by 1440. Archaeologists have postulated that remains of river structures in Egypt are pound locks dating back to the reign of Pharoah Seneferu, the great pyramid builder, app. 2600 BC.
A Flash Lock is effectively a weir with a single gate to allow boats to navigate beyond the structure. Originally very simple structures allowing boards to be dropped into place across the water to build up depth later versions used movable gates. Flash locks did exist on the Wey in the early days but were replaced with pound locks as soon as it became practical to do so. Flash locks are extremely difficult to navigate and inherently dangerous, often resulting in damage to vessels and injury to their crews.
When closed the gates allowed the stretch of river behind them to fill with water. As there was only a single gate without any method of containing the water, once the gate was opened the water would rush out down to the lower level of the river on the other side gradually depleting the water level upstream. Boats would literally have to ride the rush of water to move to the next level, an extremely difficult manoeuvre if you’re having to haul a barge upstream against the flow of water with only horse or human power to do so, although winches were later installed to aid the process. Flash locks were also called Navigation Weirs and Staunches.
The stretch of canal lying between two locks is called the Pound, with the length of the Pound depending upon how rapidly the terrain was falling away. In some canals the Pound may only be a few feet, and in others many miles. The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal for example has to navigate steep terrain and features locks that act like a staircase with a series of interlinked gates and chambers in the case of Botterham, or individual locks a few feet apart at Bratch. The fall of the Wey is gentle, dropping only 98 feet (30 m) over the full 87 miles (140 km) of the river, with the Navigations only contending with the last 20 miles (32 kim). This amount of fall only requires a lock every few miles.
Working a vessel through a lock is termed 'to lock'. A Lock Wheeler was a member of the barge crew who traveled ahead, often by bicycle, to prepare the locks.
On navigable waterways large posts, Lock Distance Posts, are set into the riverbank fifteen or twenty yards (14 – 18 m) from the head and tail of a lock. The first boat to pass the post has claim to the lock.
Most of the locks on the Wey Navigation were originally turf-sided. The chamber was excavated to ensure that it was wide enough to accommodate a barge, which was considerably wider than the narrowboats that you now commonly see along the waterway today. At either end of the chamber substantial walls of timber were built in order to support the massive and heavy lock gates, which had to be strong enough to bear considerable water pressure. The rest of the lock sides between the gates and these retaining walls did not have to be particularly robust and were left as sloping bare earth over which turf was allowed to grow. Provided they didn’t leak water these earth banks worked perfectly well, although on the Wey half-height timber walls were built from end to end in order to keep the heavy barges in line with the gates.
Alders are very common trees along the river and once felled and sawn make for a very hard wood that resists movement after repeated wetting and drying. Alder was therefore a perfect wood for constructing lock gates.
In the 20th century all of the Wey locks were renovated and rebuilt at one time or another in concrete or brick and providing the lock chambers with vertical walls throughout their full length. This, and the adopting of modern winding mechanisms and lock paddles that were easier to operate, were brought in both to assist the inexperienced pleasure boaters of today and to meet stringent safety regulations. Walsham Gates (GR: TQ050578) on the Wey Navigation near Ripley in Surrey is a flood lock that still has turf-sides and the original system of pegged boards to raise and lower the paddles in the gates.
How a Lock Operates
The principles of pound lock operation are simple.
The paddles are raised and lowered using a windlass, similar in appearance to a car’s wheelbrace, that is attached to the paddle’s square tapering bar and turned in the appropriate direction. The term ‘windlass’ comes from Middle English ‘wyndlas’ with origins in Old Norse ‘vindass’ meaning ‘winding pole’.
This method is a relatively modern adaptation as the original locks required that boards be manually levered up whilst straddling precariously on the beam of the gates above the water and wielding a 3 ft (1 m) crowbar.
© Wey River 2005 - 2012
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GED Classes in Casco MI
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The General Education Development (GED) exam covers basic subjects that students are taught in high school. Subjects covered in GED classes include writing, reading, social studies, math, and science. Those are the subject areas that make up the General Education Development exam in Michigan.
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Perl 6: Revision 155
Welcome to the Official Perl 6 Wiki and Home Page
Perl 6 is the "Super-Perl" successor of Perl 5: "The Perl 6 design process is about keeping what works in Perl 5, fixing what doesn't, and adding what's missing. That means there will be a few fundamental changes to the language, a large number of extensions to existing features, and a handful of completely new ideas. These modifications, enhancements, and innovations will work together to make the future Perl even more insanely great...." — Damian Conway (2003).
This Wiki is organized into the following sections:
Perl 6 News
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AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to millions of articles from top publications available through your library.
Text of article by Sajjad Shaukat headlined "India's soft corner for Israel" published by Pakistani newspaper Pakistan Observer website on 8 October
Islamabad, 8 October: India established its diplomatic relations with Israel in 1992, but recently these ties have accelerated as India has a soft corner of Israel. In this connection, in the last week of July this year, Israel hosted a delegation of Indian visiting editors and correspondents.
The delegation visited the famous security fence, Jerusalem and Sderot. The members of the group were taken on helicopters along the Israeli border with Gaza and Lebanon. In this respect, Tel Aviv also arranged a briefing regarding recent developments such as increase in humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, which was exaggerated - the Israeli requirement to secure its coastline in the form of continued sea blockade, economic progress of the West Bank and Israeli efforts for peace. A similar type of trip was also arranged for all the foreign journalists based in Israel.
During the second week of July 2010, Tel Aviv had also received a delegation of the Indian parliamentarians for the same purpose after the incident of Israeli attack on the aid flotilla. Notably, that delegation consisted of the members from all the major Indian political parties like Indian National Congress, …
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Photo Caption: Don Kincaid, director of the Body Donor Program at OU's Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, speaks about the respect students have for the donors and their families.
During the season of giving, charity abounds. But Athens is also home to another donation program that provides a profound resource for the betterment of humankind.
The Ohio University Heritage College of Medicine's Willed Body Program is one of seven in the state of Ohio. With a state-of-the-art facility, the program and its cadaver donors have been making an invaluable contribution to the advancement of medical science. The program gets up to 100 donors annually.
The Athens NEWS recently took a tour of the program's facilities, led by OU-HCOM Director of Anatomical Studies Larry Witmer and director of the body donor program Don Kincaid.
Kincaid said that the donor program in Athens has been active for more than 30 years.
"A lot of the schools, there's a cost to the family; but with us there isn't," Kincaid said. "If a person is signed up with the program, there is no cost to them."
OU-HCOM's Willed Body Program operates off of word-of-mouth, he said, and there is no advertising. Prospective donors contact Kincaid's office, paperwork is filled out, and a file created for the donor.
"The majority of these people, they're wanting to further medical education," he said. "We accept people from anywhere within the state of Ohio." And many come from this area.
A lot of the donors are medical professionals such as doctors and nurses who remember what it meant to their education.
"There's no substitute for it," Kincaid said about the value of such a resource in the medical community.
Witmer said that for many medical students, the labs that come from the program are one of the most profound parts of their medical training.
"It's the very first thing that they do," he said. "It's their first class, and in a sense it's their first patient. And so years later they may remember details about the person they dissected. They may remember the name and the cause of death; what they found; the experience they had. It winds up being a very influential experience for all of the students."
Witmer, who runs the labs, said many students come in with a fair amount of trepidation. In many cases, the students are unsure of how they will react.
"We respect that," he said. "We respect that they are, in many ways, facing death, something there are many phobias about and concerns about."
Both the cadavers and the feelings of the students, he said, are approached with utmost respect. At the end of each table, students are given the first name of the deceased, the age at death, occupation and cause of death.
"The students regard all of our cadavers really as very special things," Witmer said. "What has happened for these people is they have made a remarkable gift to our medical school, and really to the medical profession and to health care in general. They are allowing themselves to be studied by this next generation of healers."
Witmer said few things are as fundamental to medicine as the structure of the human body. All disease and all health emanates from the fact that humans are corporeal beings composed of parts, he said.
"To start out trying to understand how those parts are arranged is going to be central to any medical student's education," he said.
Witmer said that after a number of remodels over the past several years, Ohio University has one of the top state-of-the-art anatomy facilities in the country. The lab itself features two rows of about a dozen bodies in each row. Complete with video monitors, microphones and cameras, the whole class is able to follow along if a discovery is made such as a joint replacement. Also, while many labs assign up to eight or more students per table, at OU-HCOM only four students are assigned to each table, allowing for a much more involved experience for each student.
"We're very fortunate here to have that ratio," Kincaid said.
He noted one advantage to having such a large lab is that as students explore other tables and not just the body they're dissecting, they also get a feel for the variation in the human body between individuals.
"Things are not always where they are supposed to be," he said. "There is variation in everybody."
Another feature of the facilities is the ability of Kincaid to perform plastination – a polymer preservation technique – on various parts, allowing medical students to have real-life experience with essential organs and body parts. Pointing to a plastic replica of a spinal cord and an actual preserved human spinal cord, Kincaid noted that if somebody is coming at him with a needle, he'd rather they have the real thing in mind than a plastic replica.
"Having resources like this helps to really engage the students," Witmer said.
The availability of plastination in the facility means that something can be discovered during a lab and then preserved for future study, he added. Witmer noted that very few medical schools have the ability to do this.
On monitors throughout the room, the facility also features computerized visualizations of aspects of the human bodies, which were all created in-house. This allows students to follow along with intricate computerized anatomical replicas of actual donors.
One very special event put on by OU-HCOM comes each June when the facility holds a memorial service for the families of their donors.
"Once their loved ones pass away, they come here," Witmer said. "So they don't have a typical funeral."
All of the medical students attend the non-denominational ceremony.
"It's a remarkable service," he said. "There are testimonials by the students as to how important of a gift that these people and their families have made."
In many cases, he said, this is a family decision. Often, generations of families are body donors.
"It's a very special program, that memorial service," Kincaid said, "because the loved ones actually see and hear about the impacts that their decision has had on the training of physicians. It's actually moving. It's remarkable."
He noted that there have been instances where a family member who was undecided about the donation came to the service and ended up deciding to donate as well.
Witmer said that the trust that donors put in the medical school is important.
"That trust that these people have put in us to treat their remains with respect, and honor, and to have that gift have an impact, that's something that we take very seriously and impart that to our medical students," he said.
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Following a one year grant of £9,230 from The National Lottery: Awards for All scheme in August 2011 to help young people who are struggling to cope with grief or caring duties, we are able to report that:
We worked alongside young people and their parents to develop a range of leaflets relating to:
- “Talking with a Child about Death”
- “Sibling Support” Groups for 5 – 11yr olds & 12 – 16 yr olds
- Parents guide: “Supporting Bereaved Children & Young People”
- “Support for Bereaved Parents”
- “Counselling Support”
- Professionals Guide: “Supporting Bereaved Parents”
to download the leaflets
We thank the Royal College of Psychiatrists for their support in developing the information packs and giving permission to host links to their website on topics relating to Bereavement and Mental Health in a range of languages.
We worked with 24 parents of children with life limited / threatening conditions living in Coastal Kent regions to develop local Self-Help Support Groups reducing isolation and sharing information. We continue to offer support to such parents whilst encouraging the development of local networks of support.
We developed a training package for schools to promote awareness of ‘loss and change’ in staff and students. Our work students focused on normalising loss / bereavement as a transitional process, offering space for discussion on how people respond to loss and where access support. Work with staff related to developing pragmatic approaches to supporting students and becoming aware of how we sometimes unintentionally thwart exploration of loss by young people.
During the project we engaged 535 students and 190 school staff.
We developed 16 group sessions for 49 pre-bereaved and bereaved siblings of children who access our services. The sessions were a combination of therapeutic play and self-directed discussions where siblings explored and shared their experiences. From experience we know that many siblings speak of feeling ‘different’ and sometimes ‘isolated’ from their friends due to their experiences. At the request of the siblings we are developing a specific email address for them access information / support, along with a digital newsletter, which is designed and produced by sibling for siblings.
With thanks to the families, Awards for All, Royal College of Psychiatrists and partner schools we have been able to develop resources that will benefit children / young people living with life limited / threatening conditions, their siblings, parents and other professionals.
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The T plans to change the site for the Medical District Station from 12th Avenue and Rosedale to Mistletoe Boulevard where the station will be within walking distance for more area residents and for employees and users of nearby medical facilities.
The Medical District is among 14 stations that are part of the 37-mile TEX Rail passenger line that will travel from southwest Fort Worth, through downtown Fort Worth, on to Grapevine and into the north end of DFW Airport with a target to open in late 2016.
The new Mistletoe Avenue site addresses the issues that had emerged at the 12th Street site since it was submitted along with 13 other stations as part of The T's Draft Environmental Impact Statement in 2008.
The new Medical District station location will be incorporated into the environmental documentation that will be submitted to the Federal Transit Administration. Public meetings will take place on the environmental document before it is finalized. The Final Environmental Impact Statement is expected to be submitted by early next year.
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Solar energy conversion with embedded maximum power point tracking (MPPT) –
Active power optimizers or micro-inverters
A major problem facing solar energy system designers is determining the best, most cost effective method to extract power from a solar array and deliver it to the AC grid. Of equal importance is how to solve the problem of shading. A shaded panel can burn out and reduce functionality of an entire string of panels. Methods will be presented to solve this problem.
A literal bird’s eye view of a typical solar system is shown in Figure 1
Solar panels are mounted on the roof of a building facing southwest. Southern exposure is obvious. Southwest exposure is frequently needed to capture the afternoon sun. A typical solar panel delivers 24VDC. Solar panels connected in series drive an inverter which connects to the grid. Grid voltage to a home or business is 115VAC or 230VAC. The peak value for a 230VAC system is 325V. The series connected panels form an array which typically provides 350VDC to the inverter to power the grid.2. Voltage, current and power characteristics of a solar cell
The equivalent of a solar cell is shown in Figure 2
The cell contains a PN junction and can be treated like a diode. The current through the diode is the same as a standard diode and is called the dark current. The current generator produces a current in the opposite direction proportional to the absorbed light. Series resistance Rs represents conduction losses where power loss is proportional to the square of the output current. Parallel resistance Rp is caused by leakage current due to poor insulation around the edge of the cell. The effect of Rs and Rp on a solar panel’s output characteristics will be shown later in this section.
From the basic diode representation, a solar cell’s current as a function of voltage and power as a function of voltage is developed. Figure 3
shows the I-V characteristic of a solar cell with no illumination.
Figure 3Figure 4
shows the cell’s I-V characteristic with light applied.
Since the cell produces power, we are used to seeing a current vs. voltage curve flipped upside down as in Figure 5
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The death toll caused by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami that struck northeastern Japan on March 11 continues to rise. More than 350,000 have been left homeless. Radiation from nuclear meltdowns poses an additional threat to the survivors, most of whom are living without access to clean water, electricity, or a means of communication. Our thoughts are with the victims of this devastating disaster. If you would like to support relief efforts, you can learn more on Charity Navigator—the website provides guidance on how to make the most effective donation and lists reputable aid organizations launching an emergency response to the disaster.
Posted March 14, 2011.
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The Lungs Have Their Own Emergency Defense Unit
Some cells in the lungs actually spray a natural biocide over bacteria and other microbes. This way, microbes and bacteria that enter through the respiratory tract and manage to reach the lungs alive are killed there.
Obviously, it's not possible for lung cells to recognize harmful substances, much less know to produce whatever's needed to neutralize them. Cells are devoid of abilities such as thinking, cognition, decision-making, or planning. These are all products of God, the One Who created it all in harmony and balance, and regulation with the heavens and the Earth. By making just one cell perform acts with such consciousness that dumbfounds human beings, God displays signs of His infinite knowledge and wisdom.
Cells in the lungs have their own defense system. Immediately identifying microbes that enter the body through the respiratory tract, they secrete a substance that neutralizes these microbes.
That a tiny cell invisible to the naked eye can distinguish between microbes and other substances is a great miracle, because if it makes the wrong decision, it could neutralize a substance the body actually needs.
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By Mary Plumb | September 3, 2012
There are many diverse and wonderfully informative blogs on the election. I’ll post a sample after a few thoughts of my own.
I am intrigued by eclipse charts (and their path of visibility), including the prenatal solar eclipse. Working with the prenatal solar eclipse (PNSE) was initially introduced by Edward Johndro and Charles Jayne in the 30s and expanded by Bill Meridian. (I reviewed his recent book, The Predictive Power of Eclipse Paths, for the Aug./Sep. TMA.)
Bill gave a workshop at UAC in May with his latest research, which includes his reading of heretofore unpublished early work of Johndro and Jayne. In the workshop (and the book) he describes finding the “birth eclipse,” which can be before or after the actual birth date. (To find the birth eclipse, you first consider all the eclipses for about a year around the birth (i.e., prenatal and postnatal, solar and lunar) to see which is the best fit, with connections to the natal chart being one important factor.
I’m starting to research this expanded view of the birth eclipse, but I have used the PNSE for a while. (1)
Barack Obama’s prenatal solar eclipse is 27° Aquarius, conjunct the U.S. Sibly Moon, which I feel shows his connection to the American populace (at least enough of us to get elected to the presidency once.)
There was a solar eclipse on August 11, 1961, a week after Obama’s birth. This postnatal eclipse chart is also interesting: the lunation is 18° Leo, the degree of his natal Descendant. The Ascendant of the eclipse (set for the birthplace) is 1°12’ Gemini, quite closely conjunct to his natal Moon (3°21’ Gemini).
I haven’t looked more deeply into this eclipse and his life story, but Bill Meridian has found that a person can have more than one eclipse that is significant in the life. (This presumably might be especially true for someone of Barack Obama’s fame and prominence.)
Although these eclipses around Obama’s birth show striking angular connections, this is not always the case, nor is it the only way to determine which eclipse around a birth date is especially significant. Bill gives examples, for instance, of a planet’s prominence in the eclipse chart signifying a defining theme in the individual’s life. Also, the eclipse path can show important connections in the life. (He gives an example of his own birth eclipse, which goes through Vienna, where his wife was born and he resides.)
Mitt Romney was born on March 12, 1947. Here are a few initial observations about the four eclipses surrounding his birth. (The eclipses are set for Detroit, his birthplace.)
The prenatal solar eclipse (PNSE) was on November 23, 1946 at 0°49’ Sagittarius, conjunct Romney’s natal Descendant.
The Ascendant is 11°01’ Aquarius; Romney’s natal Venus is at 8°32’ Aquarius opposite Pluto 11 21’ Leo. (Who can argue that vast — and hidden? — wealth is a part of Romney’s story?) At first glance this chart does seem to be relevant: there was a solar eclipse on May 2012 at 0°20’ Gemini and on Election Day in November, transiting Neptune will be at 0°22’ Pisces, squaring this degree.
There was a prenatal lunar eclipse on December 8, 1946 at 16°03’ Gemini. The Ascendant (in Detroit) is 15°25 Pisces, conjunct Romney’s natal Mercury (13°55’), the ruler of his Gemini rising and the Sun (21°11’), both in the natal 10th house (whole signs).
On May 20, 1947, a few months after his birth, there was a solar eclipse at 28°42’ Taurus, opposite his natal Moon-Jupiter conjunction. (Johndro found that eclipses conjunct or opposite a natal planet make that planet powerful for the entire life.) This chart has 20° Cancer Ascending and 0° Aries on the Midheaven.
This eclipse will be exact by secondary progression in February 2016, suggesting that that will be vital in his biography. (This axiom, originally described by Johndro, is something I have found to be very consistently true.) (2)
Eclipses come in pairs: the lunar eclipse on June 3, 1947 was at 12°22’ Gemini, conjunct the Sibly Ascendant/Descendant. The Ascendant is 7°54 Libra, with Neptune sitting right there at 8°06’ Libra. (This eclipse will not perfect by secondary progression until spring of 2030, when Romney would be 84 years old.)
Now, on to some of our fine astrologer friends on the election.
Patrick Watson (with Chris Brennan) wrote a prediction in April. He uses Zodiacal Releasing. “Zodiacal Releasing from the Lot of Spirit is particularly useful for studying different periods in a person’s professional life, as it is capable of showing high points and low points during the course of a person’s career.”
Here is Chris Brennan’s day-by-day analysis of the Republican National Convention:
And his article on Mercury stationing retrograde on Election Day.
Susan Miller is short and to the point in Business Week.
Lynn Hayes has a nice summary of the famous UAC panel (and her own assessment).
Wolfstar, who uses the Scorpio rising chart for the U.S., explains details of his method for predicting at Neptune Cafe. He includes the inaugural day chart, the condition of the Midheaven and its ruler in the candidates’ charts, and their respective connections to the U.S. horoscope.
Larry Schwimmer writes on The Romney-Ryan Ticket at Huffington Post. (Next week he’ll discuss the Obama-Biden ticket.)
(1) If you’re interested in this technique, here’s a blog on Michelle Obama’s PNSE.
And another PNSE story currently in the news: I wrote about activist Rachel Corrie a few years ago.
With no known birth time, I looked at her PNSE chart (set for the birthplace). Her PNSE degree is 8° Pisces. On August 28, several days before the Full Moon at 8° Pisces, an Israeli civil court ruled that the military was not responsible for Rachel Corrie’s death.
New York times blog
(2) Following this reasoning, Barack Obama’s postnatal solar eclipse mentioned above (August 11, 1961) would mark his 6th year as pivotal in his biography.
Have a happy Labor Day and a good week, everyone.
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Threads of quality – internal or external
Millions of external and internal threads have to be made for countless mass-produced parts in all kinds of machines and motors. In most cases manufacturers use extremely strong materials that withstand the heaviest of stresses – tempering steel, for instance. The IQ-Plus tap drill from LMT Fette illustrates the kind of innovations that the LMT developers bring to these demanding requirements. The basic idea of its "intelligent" IQ-Plus coating is astonishing. The development engineers have combined an extremely hard, wear-resistant base layer with a somewhat "softer" carbide layer. This adapts itself to the particular stresses during the run-in phase of hole tapping.
The method of cold-forming threads and profiles with roller systems, now proven millions of times over, was also developed by LMT Fette. Since that time the technology and the rolling heads have continuously been further developed and improved.
Whether for tap drilling or for chipless internal thread forming, and whether machining with cooling lubricant, using minimal lubrication or dry machining – for every method of manufacture, LMT offers you the optimum tool concept.
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BONE MARROW ASPIRATE AND BIOPSY:
The bone marrow aspirate smear was dilute and hypocellular and suboptimal for evaluation. However, the biopsy was hypercellular (95% cellular) and was composed almost entirely of immature cells (blasts), usually with inconspicuous nucleoli and scant amounts of cytoplasm. Mitotic figures were easily found. Some nuclei exhibit a folded appearance. Scattered among the abnormal cells are small numbers of erythroid, myeloid and megakaryocytic cells. In the aspirate, the blasts demonstrated dispersed chromatin, rounded and folded nuclei and some exhibited cytoplasmic vacuoles. Occasional immature cells displayed slight granulation. The bony trabeculae were unremarkable.
Flow cytometric immunophenotypic studies were performed to further characterize the immature cells seen on the bone marrow biopsy:
MOLECULAR CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS
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Images: Bold Alligator 12 [Image 23 of 29]
Marines assigned to the 8th Engineer Support Battalion Bridge Company and sailors assigned to Navy Mobile Construction Battalion 133 Bridge Detachment tow an Improved Ribbon Bridge during Exercise Bold Alligator 2012, the largest amphibious exercise in the past 10 years. The exercise represents the Navy and Marine Corps' revitalization of the full range of amphibious operations. The exercise focuses on today's fight with today's forces, while showcasing the advantages of seabasing. This exercise will take place Jan. 30 - Feb. 12, 2012, afloat and ashore in and around Virginia and North Carolina.
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China loses favour with Japanese tourists
A survey by a Japanese travel agent body has shown that political tensions between Japan and China are having a dramatic effect on tourism between the two countries.
The 2012 Travel Market Trends Survey, by the Japan Association of Travel Agents, showed that package tours from Japan to China are down by almost 80 per cent since October.
Bookings for the first three months of 2013 are also down by between 75 and 80 per cent.
Spokesman for the Japan Association of Travel Agents, Hiroyuki Seishi, says anti-Japan demonstrations taking place in China have made Japanese tourists wary of travelling to the country.
"Because of a political issue like Senkaku Island, the Japanese people is very nervous about the safety issue," Mr Seishi told Radio Australia's Asia Pacific.
The disputed islands, called Senkaku by Japan and Diaoyu by China, are administered by Japan but claimed by both countries, as well as Taiwan.
Tensions came to a head in September last year after Japan's government bought a small group of the islands from a private owner.
Tokyo's hopes of diffusing the situation backfired, and violent anti-Japanese demonstrations and strident editorials erupted in China.
Business travel between the countries has continued, but Mr Seishi says tourists are unlikely to return soon.
An escalation of the conflict could be costly economically, with two-way trade valued at $350 billion.
Over 14,000 Japanese companies operate in China.
Japanese tourists are now turning to the United States and Canada, but the strong Australian dollar has seen Australia lose popularity as a destination of choice.
"Australia...used to be a honeymoon destination for package tourists," Mr Seishi said.
"But Japanese people do not go to Australia now."
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Dodoma — THE government is in the process of increasing the number of technical schools in different parts of the country. There are currently eight such schools only.
Responding to the basic question by Anna Mary Stella Mallac (Special Seats - Chadema) on whether the government was ready to revive job skills programme in both primary and secondary schools to curb unemployment among the youth, the Deputy Minister for Education and Vocational Training, Mr Phillip Mulugo, said it planned to increase such schools.
Mr Mulugo said that job skills were still being taught in schools both at primary and secondary level and that the concept of job skills was very broad and included different ways of how to deal with the hardships of life.
"These skills include education on environment, health, entrepreneurship and social education. In accordance to the Education Policy and Training of 1995, life skills include carpentry, agriculture and livestock, pottery, masonry, blacksmithing, painting and home economics," he explained.
In her supplementary question, Ms Sabrina Sungura (Special Seats - Chadema) wanted to know if there were plans to extend the primary school duration for another four years to impart students with job skills.
But much to her dismay, Mr Mulugo replied that job skills were already taught in primary and secondary schools.
In another development, the government has announced that it was planning to raise entry marks into teacher training colleges in order to improve quality.
In his supplementary question, Mr Albert Obama Ntabaliba (Manyovu -CCM) inquired what it meant for the youths after the government brought down entry points from 28 to 27 and raised the issue of teachers not reporting to their workstations especially in Kigoma where 54 per cent of them had not.
Mr Ntabaliba also wanted the government to establish a university in Kigoma region especially now that oil and gas had been discovered, yet many youths lacked the skills to do specialized jobs that go with the drilling of oil and gas.
Mr Muhugo said that in 2011 when the entry points were at 28, 71,000 students were legible to join but there was only a capacity for 7,000 and even after cutting it down to 27, there were 42,000 legible, yet only 6,800 were needed.
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BLM is Also Considering an Alternative to Replace Wild Stallions with Geldings (Again)
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is proposing a "capture, treat and release" (CTR) roundup with the removal of at least 79 horses from 625-square-miles of public lands in the Cedar Mountain and Onaqui Herd Management Areas (HMAs) in Utah. Despite its mandate to protect wild horses and the fact that these HMAs are designated by Congress as wild horse habitat, Utah BLM allocates the majority of the resources in these HMAs to thousands of privately-owned livestock, instead of federally-protected wild horses.
While AWHPC supports the CTR portion of the action, and applauds the BLM for proposing to maintain the natural 50/50 herd sex ratio, it is of great concern that this proposed action also includes the removal of 79 wild horses living inside and outside of the HMAs. The agency maintains that yearlings and horses living outside the invisible boundaries of the HMA must be removed.
Also under consideration for this roundup is the permanent sterilization (castration) of 40 stallions. Experts have documented that the castration of wild stallions is detrimental to the health of the individual horses, the herds and wild horse society as a whole. AWHPC opposes the replacement of free-roaming, wild stallions with castrated males.
The proposed roundup is scheduled to take place in late winter, beginning on February 20th, when mares are heavily pregnant or nursing newborn foals. The trauma of late winter roundups has been documented to cause pregnant mares to suffer spontaneous abortions and also jeopordizes the newborn foals. (Note: The Environmental Assessment states that the roundup would take place in January, which contradicts both the BLM press release and BLM roundup schedule.)
We must tell the agency that, while we support CTR roundups, they must also take the following actions.
► Cancel plans to remove any horses.
► Cancel any plans to castrate (geld) any stallions.
► Schedule the roundup at a safer time of year.
► Conduct all CTR roundups maintaining existing social bands (families).
Take Easy Action below to submit your comments on the proposed roundup and please share this alert with friends and family!
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Dora Bas Rivka Silver O'H
Nehemiah Does a Lot of Great Things, But Is Perhaps a Little Too Pleased With Himself
On the day they dedicated the wall around Jerusalem, they read the Book of Devarim (Deuteronomy), which comprises the farewell address of Moses. They read how the men of Ammon and Moab were not permitted to join Israel because of the way they treated the Jews in the wilderness. Not only were they inhospitable, they hired Balaam to curse the Jews, though G-d turned the curse into a blessing. When the people heard this, they separated from marrying the Ammonites and Moabites who had been living among them.
Prior to this, Elyashiv the priest had placed some of Tovia's belongings in a Temple chamber formerly used for actual Temple needs. (Nehemiah was away from Jerusalem when this occurred, so he didn't know about it.) It burned Nehemiah up that Elyashiv would clear a place in the Temple for Tovia, the troublemaker who had joined Sanvalat in opposing the wall reconstruction. He had Tovia's possessions removed, purified the chamber, and restored it to its proper use.
After that, Nehemiah discovered that the Levites had not been given their due portions, forcing them to go to the fields to collect them themselves. Nehemiah confronted the leaders and demanded to know why the Temple was unstaffed. When he learned the reason, Nehemiah arranged for the tithes to be brought to the Temple and for officers to distribute them accordingly. Nehemiah asked that G-d remember him for this.
Nehemiah also discovered that the people were desecrating Shabbos (the Sabbath) in order to bring their produce to Jerusalem. He went to the people on market day and warned them about this. There was also a problem with merchants from Tyre transacting business with Jews on Shabbos, so Nehemiah confronted the leaders about permitting this - after all, it was one of the sins that led to the exile in the first place! Nehemiah arranged for the gates to remain closed and to be guarded for the duration of Shabbos. The merchants camped outside the gates once or twice, expecting that they'd open eventually, so Nehemiah told them to get lost. After that, Jerusalem was business-free on the Sabbath; Nehemiah asked that G-d remember him for this, too.
Finally, Nehemiah observed that many Jews had intermarried and half of their children didn't even speak Hebrew. He opposed the intermarriage - sometimes even physically - and made the people swear not to allow their children to intermarry. Even King Solomon, wise as he was, was led into sin by his non-Jewish wives - do they really think they can do any better?
Elyashiv's grandson was married to Sanvalat's daughter. Between the intermarriage and his relationship with the enemy, that spelled trouble, so Nehemiah drove him away. He asked G-d to remember his crusade against intermarriage, as well. (While Nehemiah had the best intentions in his requests that G-d recall his deeds, you may recall from chapter 5 that this was considered an inappropriate request and it is why Ezra is credited with Nehemiah's Book.)
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"Vaisampayana said, 'O smiter of foes, when Devaki's son of mighty arms set out (for Hastinapura), ten mighty car-warriors, capable of slaying hostile heroes, fully armed, followed in his train. And a thousand foot-soldiers, and a thousand horsemen, and attendants by hundreds, also formed his train, carrying, O king, provisions in abundance.'
"Janamejaya said, 'How did the illustrious slayer of Madhu, of Dasarha's race, proceed on his journey? And what omens were seen when that hero set out?'
"Vaisampayana continued, 'Listen to me as I narrate all those natural and unnatural omens that were noticed at the time when the illustrious Krishna departed (for Hastinapura). Though there were no clouds in the sky, yet the roll of thunder accompanied by flashes of lightning was heard. And fleecy clouds in a clear sky rained incessantly in the rear! The seven large rivers including the Sindhu (Indus) though flowing eastwards then flowed in opposite directions. The very directions seemed to be reversed and nothing could be distinguished. Fires blazed up everywhere, O monarch, and the earth trembled repeatedly. The contents of wells and water-vessels by hundreds swelled up and ran out. The whole universe was enveloped in darkness. The atmosphere being filled with dust, neither the cardinal nor the subsidiary points of the horizon could, O king, be distinguished. Loud roars were heard in the sky without any being being visible from whom these could emanate. This wonderful phenomenon, O king, was noticed all over the country. A south-westerly wind, with the harsh rattle of the thunder, uprooting trees by the thousands, crushed the city of Hastinapura. In those places, however, O Bharata, through which he of Vrishni's race passed, delicious breezes blew and everything became auspicious. Showers of lotuses and fragrant flowers fell there. The very road became delightful, being free from prickly grass and thorns. At those places where he stayed, Brahmanas by thousands glorified that giver of wealth with (laudation) and worshipped him with dishes of curds, ghee, honey, and presents of wealth. The very women, coming out on the road, strewed wild flowers of great fragrance on the person of that illustrious hero, devoted to the welfare of all creatures. He then came upon a delightful spot called Salibhavana which was filled with every kind of crops, a spot that was delicious and sacred, after having, O bull of the Bharata race, seen various villages abounding in bees, and picturesque to the eye, and delightful to the heart, and after having passed through diverse cities and kingdoms. Always cheerful and of good hearts, well-protected by the Bharatas and therefore free from all anxieties on account of the designs of invaders, and unacquainted with calamities of any kind, many of the citizens of Upaplavya, coming out of their town, stood together on the way, desirous of beholding Krishna. And beholding that illustrious one
resembling a blazing fire arrived at the spot, they worshipped him who deserved their worship with all the honours of a guest arrived in their abode. When at last that slayer of hostile heroes, Kesava, came to Vrikasthala, the sun seemed to redden the sky by his straggling rays of light. Alighting from his car, he duly went through the usual purificatory rites, and ordering the steeds to be unharnessed, he set himself to say his evening prayers. And Daruka also, setting the steeds free, tended them according to the rules of equine science, and taking off the yokes and traces, let them loose. After this was done, the slayer of Madhu said, 'Here must we pass the night for the sake of Yudhishthira's mission. Ascertaining that to be his intention, the attendants soon set a temporary abode and prepared in a trice excellent food and drink. Amongst the Brahmanas, O king, that resided in the village, they that were of noble and high descent, modest, and obedient to the injunctions of the Vedas in their conduct, approached that illustrious chastiser of foes, Hrishikesa, and honoured him with their benedictions and auspicious speeches. And having honoured him of Dasarha's race that deserveth honour from every one, they placed at the disposal of that illustrious person their houses, abounding in wealth. Saying unto them--'Enough'--the illustrious Krishna paid them proper homage, each according to his rank, and wending with them to their house, he returned in their company to his own (tent). And feeding all the Brahmanas with sweet-meats and himself taking his meals with them, Kesava passed the night happily there.'"
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The William C. Crowell Collection (1901-1981) includes a business ledger, plumbing catalogue, and three photograph albums
of construction projects.
William C. Crowell was born on a farm near Argyle in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, in 1871. He studied architecture at Puget Sound Business
College while apprenticed to his brother as a carpenter in Seattle, Washington. In 1894 he came to Pasadena, California as
a carpenter. The following year he went to Guatemala, where he founded his own contracting business in 1897. Later that year,
Crowell returned to Pasadena and ran the Wm. C. Crowell Company until 1939, when he turned the business over to his son, Robert A. Crowell, who operated it until 1971, when he was succeeded
as company president by Ron T. Aday at the newly formed Crowell Planning and Construction Corporation. The construction firm built many well-known commercial, public, and school buildings in Pasadena and surrounding cities,
many designed by notable architects such as Greene & Greene, Julia Morgan, Myron Hunt, and Gordon Kaufmann. Until 1938, the Crowell Company constructed all the buildings on the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) campus. The firm also built the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, the Pasadena Public Library, the original Pasadena High School,
the Henry E. Huntington Library, the Pasadena YMCA and YWCA, and several University of Redlands Buildings.
Use of the materials is governed by all applicable copyright law. The Pasadena Museum of History reserves the right to restrict
any materials from reproduction at any time. Property rights reside with the Pasadena Museum of History. Literary rights
are retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. The Museum's physical ownership of the materials in its collection
does not imply ownership of copyright. It is the user's responibility to reslove any copyright issues related to the use
and distribution of reproduced materials. For permission to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Pasadena Museum of
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If what our Communists and other left-wingers are saying is anything to go by, there is no greater enemy to humankind than the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the related World Bank (WB) that incorporates the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), even though the much-accursed and condemned IMF is the main source for the replenishment of the National Bank’s gold and hard-currency reserves when the budget deficit grows.
Incidentally, the Reds of all hues either do not know, which is typical of them, or deliberately hush up, which is equally characteristic of them, the role of the USSR and Comrade Stalin in the creation of these “instruments of imperialist financial expansion.”
The international financial systems began to be shaped in the early 19th century after the Napoleonic wars. At the time, the world’s only superpower, in the literal and figurative meaning of the word, was the British Empire on which the Sun never set. Naturally, its currency – the pound sterling freely convertible into gold – became the core of this system. This system existed, with some variations, until the outbreak of World War One.
The 1929-30 great depression forced the gold standard and currency-to-gold conversion to be abandoned. Naturally, World War Two, which brought about tremendous ruinations and hardships, also greatly undermined the world’s economy and financial system.
In the period between the two world wars and especially after the economic crisis, countries usually made their settlements in gold or in pounds and dollars, with the yellow metal playing first fiddle. This adversely affected the world trade turnover and seriously weakened the financial system of states, especially those with a militarized economy. Suffice it to say that Germany had a 26-ton gold reserve in 1938, but, as a result of plundering the occupied countries, it managed to raise it by 1,200 tons, even though the Netherlands, Norway, and partly Belgium had managed to evacuate their gold to Britain. The neutral states demanded gold, dollars, or, in the last resort, Swiss francs for molybdenum, zinc, and tungsten which were of bad need in the military industry. This considerably limited the German economy’s potential.
Preparations for a postwar financial system began as long ago as in 1941. Although the well-known English economist John Keynes took an active part in this, it is the Americans – above all, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau and his deputy Harry Dexter White – who played the key role.
The latter of the two is considered as rather a contradictory figure in the US. The contemporaries reproached White for “Stalinism” because he took a positive view of the USSR’s state-run economic model. His biographer David Rees alleges that White maintained secret ties with the US Communist Party and was even the Soviet agent of influence. The former Soviet intelligence officer Oleg Gordievsky wrote that White had been recruited by the NKVD in 1935-36. Present-day Russian publications expose his role in drawing the US into a war against Japan on the Soviet secret services’ instructions (Operation Snow). In all likelihood, this is a pure speculation because the US-Japan war was caused by the factors that are much more serious than the activity of some intelligence officers or agents of influence. Moreover, Pres. Roosevelt was by no means a person susceptible to any influence. Yet White had never hidden his affection for the USSR.
The USSR needed money. To mobilize foreign currency, first of all, dollars, delegations of Soviet soldiers and officers, who had glorified themselves by battlefield exploits, would travel to the US. A delegation with the outstanding theater personality Solomon Mikhoels at the head went to the US to forge ties with big-time Jewish capitalists. Its mission was not only to raise funds, but also to seek ways to approach Albert Einstein and the scientific circles involved in making the nuclear bomb. They brilliantly managed to fulfill both tasks. The Soviet defense fund acquired donations worth dozens of millions of dollars. But this was a drop in the ocean.
To receive serious funds, Stalin discussed the Soviet plan of establishing the Jewish Autonomous Republic and an autonomous district, respectively, in the Crimea and eastern Belarus with Eric Johnston, President of the US Chamber of Commerce, in June 1943. US business circles were prepared to make available over 10 billion dollars as direct investments and interest-free loans for this purpose. It was an enormous amount for those times. Suffice to recall that wartime lend-lease supplies to the USSR were worth 9 billion dollars. Stalin was even prepared to create special economic conditions, such as a free economic area, for this kind of autonomy and let in the foreign refugees who had survived after the Holocaust. This was also aimed at making an alternative to the Jewish part of Palestine. It was quite a profound and well-considered plan. It remained on the agenda until the end of 1945, when it was dropped. The choice was made in favor of establishing the State of Israel.
Stalin discussed again the problem of funding the USSR postwar reconstruction, this time on the highest official level, with Pres. Roosevelt at the Teheran Conference. The US president planned to establish a financial UN of sorts to stabilize and develop the world economy. Accordingly, the Soviet Union was promised a 6 billion-dollar-worth reconstruction lend-lease scheme on very favorable terms.
It was intended to convene a conference of United Nations allies and representatives of neutral states to work out the foundations of a world financial system. Moreover, this conference was being convened well before the UN constituent conference.
Stalin did not know much about indices of securities, dealers, stock exchanges, the subtleties of currency systems, etc. But he knew very well that the country needed money. Yet Moscow at first took a cautious approach to the plan of a new monetary system. It seems to be clear that American industrialists need new markets, but why should they invest money in this and thus revitalize their potential rivals? Sticking to Marxist dogmas, Stalin failed to immediately understand what caused the Americans, and then the British, to do what they were doing. The same happened when Roosevelt and Churchill demanded at the Casablanca Conference in January 1943 that Germany and Japan unconditionally surrender. Stalin was suspicious of this demand and hesitated for a long time about his position in this matter. The USSR agreed to this as late as in September of that year on the eve of the Teheran Conference.
It was not until Moscow received an encoded message from Donald Maclean, a Soviet agent and member of the famous Cambridge Five, in April 1944 that Stalin accepted the invitation to take part in a financial conference to be held in July 1944 at the resort city of Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, USA. Maclean, who worked as First Secretary at the British Embassy in Washington, reported that the US was ready to bring up its aid to the Soviet Union to 10 billion dollars. On Stalin’s instructions, People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs Molotov cabled to the Soviet Embassy in the US that the USSR was ready to take part in the Bretton Woods Conference. A delegation with Deputy People’s Commissar for Trade, Stepanov, at the head was sent.
A year later, the Crimean (Yalta) Conference resolved that Germany pay reparations worth a total 20 billion dollars: 10 billion to the USSR, 8 billion to Britain and the US combined, and 2 billion to all the others. But the amount agreed upon with Roosevelt was not part of the Soviet “Yalta quota.” In other words, Stalin could count on an enormous amount of 20 billion dollars in 1944-45.
But, after the death of Roosevelt in April 1945, the situation began to change fast. As soon as in May 1945, an acute crisis broke out over Trieste, which might have resulted in the armed clashes between the British troops in Italy and the Yugoslav army. Moscow supported Belgrade, only to walk out on it later to reach a compromise with the Allies. Tito paid Stalin back for this in 1948.
A civil war raged in Greece between the local communists and the government. The former received weapons and money as aid via Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. But the biggest source of problems was Poland. Non-communist leaders were ousted from the government, arrested, or emigrated. It was clear that there would be no democratic elections in Eastern Europe occupied by the USSR. Although there still were democratic elections in Hungary, their results were annulled and non-communist leaders were simply arrested. The same thing occurred in all Eastern European countries except for Czechoslovakia. Its turn came in February 1948.
This situation confirmed US State Department analysts’ worst forecasts: there was going to be no cooperation with the USSR after the war. This was also reflected in the financial sphere. Instead of opting for UN financial aid in the shape of the IMF, Washington focused on the Marshall Plan under which aid was to be given by the US itself rather than by international organizations. Naturally, this did not fit in with Stalin’s plans, and in December 1945 the USSR refused to ratify the Bretton Woods agreement.
From then on, the abbreviation “IMF” became a longtime bugbear for Soviet propaganda and its latter-day followers. The ensuing political cold war soon continued in the financial sphere as well.
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Motor industry giant Ford has set out the steps it is taking to reduce the carbon footprint of its supply chain in its “2009/10 Blueprint for Sustainability: The Future at Work”.
In May Ford set out plans to survey its 35 top global suppliers on their energy use and estimated greenhouse gas emissions. The 35 suppliers represent close to 30 per cent of Ford’s $65 billion in annual procurement spending.
“Suppliers play an important role as we look to reduce our overall carbon footprint and drive more efficiency in an energy constrained world,” said Tony Brown, Ford group vice president, Global Purchasing. “This initiative builds on our leadership in collaborating with suppliers and gives them a way to participate in solving an issue that faces our entire industry.”
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Dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) are acute febrile diseases, found in the tropics, with a geographical spread similar to malaria. Caused by one of four closely related virus serotypes of the genus Flavivirus, family Flaviviridae, each serotype is sufficiently different that there is no cross-protection and epidemics caused by multiple serotypes (hyperendemicity) can occur. Dengue is transmitted to humans by the mosquito Aedes aegypti (rarely Aedes albopictus).
"While traveling in Southeast Asia in 1994 at the age of 20, I contracted Dengue Fever. I had a rather severe type which affected most of the major joints in my body: knees, shoulders, elbows, hips. The symptoms of joint pain were supposed to disappear with time, but I unfortunately have experienced arthritis-like symptoms and bursitis which have failed to disappear from my knees.
"When returning to the U.S., I bewildered doctors because none of them had experienced treating dengue fever. I was referred to a rheumatologist and an infectious disease specialist. They each gave me anti-inflammatory meds and hoped the pain would eventually fade with time. During the three months after contracting the disease, I had a hard time walking, standing up, and sitting down. My joints would throb and become stiff and swollen when I was sedentary, but the pain of movement hurt just as bad, so I stayed immobile for fear of injuring myself further.
I had cortizone shots in both knees, but after a few months, gave up on medical treatment because it didn't seem to be helping and I didn't like putting so many drugs into my body with no positive results. For the first three years I modified my diet, took vitamin supplements, tried several anti-inflammatories, and took steriods. Some things would ease the pain temporarily, but the residual pain never left. I wanted the strength back in my knees to allow me to explore the world with the youth and vigor my age alone should allow me.
"My housemate introduced me to Bikram's yoga, and amazingly, it has helped my constant knee pain dissipate. I saw immediate improvement, as in, following class one, and have been practicing for six months so far. I notice a significant difference in my pain level when I go to yoga. My leg strength has improved so much. I found instant results with yoga which months of physical therapy failed to provide.
I was amazed at what I was able to accomplish at yoga...I just listened to the instructor and followed her directions. My knees didn't give up on me!!
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It's time for newspaper endorsements to go the way of soapboxes, whistle-stop tours, and emery boards bearing a candidate's name. By pursuing a partisan, presumptuous path on the editorial page, newspapers encourage questions about their objectivity elsewhere and put themselves on a level with other mediums that have cheapened the civic debate.
While technological advances have done wonders for our connectivity, ability to withdraw cash, and access to directions, they have also spawned a plethora of media outlets and opinion-makers all shouting for attention and professing to know what's in voters' best interest.
Take your pick. Cable TV, talk radio, the blogosphere, Facebook, and Twitter are a partisan cacophony. Here, all candidates and issues get defined according to simplistic, easily divisible ideological and partisan grounds. In this faux debate, every controversy gets reduced to the equivalent of a Republican-Democrat, left-right, blue state-red state split screen.
Unrepresented are those voices offering opinions incapable of being so strictly defined. That's because like certain of our political parties, these forums demand purity of thought. There's no nuance allowed, and any expression of subtlety is dismissed as wishy-washy weakness.
This is no environment for newspapers to cloud their true role by joining the ranks of pundits, particularly when fewer readers are relying on their election recommendations. A Pew survey released in January 2004 found that over the previous four years, a nod of approval from an editorial board had become less influential in voters' eyes (and, in fact, actually came to "dissuade as many Americans as they persuade," according to Pew).
Meanwhile, a study conducted in January and February of 2008 by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center found that endorsements had a relatively minimal effect on voters' decisions. During the presidential primaries that year, for example, nearly equal proportions of respondents said the New York Times' endorsement of John McCain increased the likelihood that they'd vote for him (7 percent) as said they'd be less likely to do so (6 percent). "A large majority (83 percent)," the study's authors noted, "reported that knowing of the endorsement made no difference in their level of support."
The credibility of the news pages is directly dependent on the perception of their objectivity. That's different from the everyday extremes of talk radio, cable TV, or the blogosphere. There, ratings and pageviews are driven by ideology and passion. Newspapers, on the other hand, are dependent upon authenticity.
Fairly or not, however, the presence of political endorsements erodes that perception of objectivity. The average voter probably doesn't distinguish between the considerations of the editorial board -- whose job it is to debate issues of public significance and offer an opinion on them -- and the reportage on the front page.
Maybe with good reason. According to a study released in June of 2002 by two political science professors at Arizona State University, incumbent U.S. senators who received the endorsement of their state's most circulated newspaper could expect press coverage (and headlines) with a more favorable tone, featuring more positive treatment of their policy views and fewer attributed criticisms within that coverage. Moreover, the authors found that incumbent senators enjoyed an increase in positive coverage after the endorsement in their favor had been published.
"I think newspapers need to know how endorsement decisions may inadvertently influence coverage of candidates on the news pages," Kim Fridkin Kahn, one of the authors of the Arizona State study, told me in an e-mail message. "If editors and reporters are aware of this, perhaps the relationship between endorsement decisions and coverage patterns would diminish."
Or perhaps newspaper editorial boards will abandon the practice of offering endorsements altogether.
When any newspaper lines up alongside Glenn Beck or Keith Olbermann, they unnecessarily compromise their status as objective sources of fact at a time when an increasing number of media outlets traffic in ideologically driven, artificial political debates. The vaunted wall separating news coverage and editorializing is sacrificed -- apparently based on the assumption that readers are capable of consuming the paper's reportage from the campaign trail, but unable to come to their own conclusions as a result of that information.
I say that voters who want to be told in writing what to do should fire up their inkjet and print out the Huffington Post or Drudge Report. Or immerse themselves in talk radio or cable TV. Newspapers, on the other hand, have the chance to swap decision-making for detachment. In so doing, they'd claim the high ground in today's relentlessly divided media environment.
Michael Smerconish writes a weekly column for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Readers may contact him via www.smerconish.com.
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For many of us, the sound of a familiar clock tick reminds us of home. Grandfather or tall case clocks offer some of the loveliest of chimes ranging from St. Michaels to Westminster. The serene ticking and tocking of many clocks provides comfort. And clocks have personalities, like late 19th century mantle clocks, 1950s souvenir clocks from various locales, or brass carriage clocks.
For instance, my mother has a circa 1960s Seth Thomas clock made in Connecticut that we lovingly refer to as "time bomb." It sounds like a time bomb. We used to announce the time around our house with the quip, "Time bomb says 8:30 a.m." While all clocks have a rhythm or beat (a tick and a tock), my Mom's Seth Thomas certainly had a distinctive sound that was immediately recognizable to members of my family.
No matter what type of clock you have, there are some simple ways to keep your clock working well.
It is typically a good idea to keep clocks fully wound. Some clocks are supposed to be wound clockwise, others counterclockwise. If you don't know the direction that you should wind your clock, don't just experiment. Don't overwind it either. Ask an expert.
A clock's beat is important to diagnosing its issues. An uneven or missed beat means that your clock may not be level. Some clocks must rest on a level surface. Clocks that use pendulums, or atmos (atmospheric-driven) clocks need to be on level surfaces to run properly. Check mantles, bookcases, tables or other clock surfaces with a spirit level.
Clocks are home bodies, and sometimes a clock that ran just fine in one home won't run well in a new home. What's more, moving a clock may cause damage. If you intend to move a clock, be it a wall clock or a tall case clock, it is wise to consult a clock professional first.
The pendulum's length says a lot about how a clock will run. For instance, the longer the pendulum, the slower the clock will run. Some clocks have an adjustment with F (fast) and S (slow) marked on the works so the clock may be adjusted when a clock is running too slowly or too quickly.
If you intend to move or relocate your clock, it is wise to remove the pendulum first. If you have a key that accompanies your clock, remember that it is a vital piece of equipment that is necessary to keep your clock working. Don't give it up to anyone. Like your car keys, it will be a big headache if you lose the key to your clock.
Dr. Lori presents antiques appraisal events nationwide and is the expert appraiser on the Discovery Channel's "Auction Kings." VisitDrLoriV.com, facebook.com/doctorlori or call 888-431-1010.
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Viticulture - n. : the cultivation or culture of grapes
Enology - n. :a science that deals with wine and wine making
The V&E Department combines the sciences of viticulture and enology in a single research and teaching unit that encompasses all of the scientific disciplines that impact grape growing and winemaking. For over one hundred years the University of California has maintained an active and productive program in research and education in viticulture and enology. The continuing excellence of the Department has enabled California growers and vintners to develop practices that have allowed the Golden State to achieve its potential and become a premier wine-producing region.
Viticulture & Enology
Undergraduate Admission Requirements
A carefully planned program of high school courses provides you with the best preparation for University work. Prospective students should take college preparatory courses that will challenge them to work hard and will prepare them beyond minimum levels of competence in reading, writing and mathematics. A student who is well prepared for University work will have taken four years of English in high school, four years of mathematics, two to three years of foreign language, two to three years of laboratory science, one year of history, and one or more years of art or humanities as outlined below. Please see UC Davis Admission...
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It’s a well known fact that when you bring a baby home, sleep becomes an issue of most importance. Most of us start making decisions about where baby will sleep once we find out we’re pregnant. We start looking at cribs and bassinets, and it can be overwhelming to make a decision, but we finally do, and then we wait. When baby finally shows up, however, those ideas don’t always go the way we had planned. Where baby sleeps is a personal choice but there are straightforward guidelines as to what the baby’s sleep environment should look like.
It is recommended to have baby sleep in the same room as you for the first 3 to 6 months. This is a SIDS risk reduction measure. By having the baby sleep in the same room as the parents, their risk for SIDS can be cut in half.
If the baby will sleep in a crib, bassinet, portable play yard, mini-crib, cradle, or co-sleeper, please make sure they are current in their safety design. If you’re planning on using a pre-owned infant sleep contraption (ISC), please check for recalls.
Regardless of which ISC you use, follow these guidelines...
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A Web design should be effective, attractive yet simple to get the target audience. You need to have good amount of ideas each day for designing a proper website. If you are born creative, website designing is an ideal profession for you. Creative people are able to get magical ideas and are able to find answers to complex problems easily. Each new website has a definite question arising out of it, and once you answer to that question, you can use it as a springboard for whole of the solution. The idea should go on in your mind continuously. You can paste it on the wall or can keep a printed copy of it for constant reference. This would help you judge whether your solution/idea answers that question specifically or not. A brief idea can be a good concept. Ideas need to be crafted. Idea sessions can be utilized by a team of experts for idea generation. You can also individually generate your own idea by sitting in front of a blank screen of computer or while staring at a blank paper.
The idea session
The idea sessions are crucial for generating ideas and many great concepts have arisen out of these brainstorming sessions. The role of the idea session facilitator is crucial. The facilitator should be ideally trained for the process. The facilitator should provide the ideal foundation and manage the brainstorming session from the start to the end with efficiency. The facilitator should be expert in his job and should be able to squeeze out the best of ideas from the team.
Go as per rules and procedures
The session for idea generation should run as per set rules and procedures. The session should start with introduction of the team members. This would help in breaking the ice and help in team cajoling. The brief should then be described to the team in specific and detailed manner. The rules should also be explained to the attendees in the beginning of the session.
Rules of the session
The rules should be about each and every aspect of idea generation. All ideas should be considered equal. The primary objective of the session should be to generate a number of ideas. There should be no judging for ideas. Analysis of the ideas should take place after the session ends. The objective of the session should be to have fun in a cordial atmosphere. The time should be considered and one idea should be addressed at a time
The first burst of ideas from the team members should be recorded. The ideas can also be listed as per preference. The four r’s of revolution expression, related world and random links should be used by the facilitator to squeeze the ideas continuously out of the attendees and further processing of the ideally generated ideas should be done. The passion-meter should then be used to judge the ideas. The passion-meter is a fancy sticker name. The ideas could be categorized according to the feel they generate.
About the author: Alia Haley is a blogger by profession. She loves writing on luxury and technology. Beside this she is fond of mobile games. In her free time she loves playing game on her cell phone.
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Abraham Zapruder Interview TranscriptAbout the Collections
This transcript is taken from videotape of the live broadcast seen nationwide on ABC on November 22, 1963. The interviewer, seated on the left, is WFAA-TV program director Jay Watson. On the right is Abraham Zapruder. The interview is part of the Museum's WFAA-TV Collection.
WATSON: A gentleman just walked in our studio that I am meeting for the first time as well as you. This is WFAA-TV in Dallas, Texas. May I have your name please, sir?
ZAPRUDER: My name is Abraham Zapruder.
WATSON: Mr. Zapruda?
ZAPRUDER: Zapruder, yes sir.
WATSON: Zapruda. And would you tell us your story please, sir?
ZAPRUDER: I got out in, uh, about a half-hour earlier to get a good spot to shoot some pictures. And I found a spot, one of these concrete blocks they have down near that park, near the underpass. And I got on top there, there was another girl from my office, she was right behind me. And as I was shooting, as the president was coming down from Houston Street making his turn, it was about a half-way down there, I heard a shot, and he slumped to the side, like this. Then I heard another shot or two, I couldn't say it was one or two, and I saw his head practically open up, all blood and everything, and I kept on shooting. That's about all, I'm just sick, I can't …
WATSON: I think that pretty well expresses the entire feelings of the whole world.
ZAPRUDER: Terrible, terrible.
WATSON: You have the film in your camera; we'll try to get …
ZAPRUDER: Yes, I brought it on the studio, now.
WATSON: … we'll try to get that processed and have it as soon as possible.
WFAA then shows a videotape of the hearse with Kennedy's body leaving the Parkland Memorial Hospital driveway. Watson next shows a photograph of the Texas School Book Depository and points to the sixth floor window.
WATSON: There is a picture of the window where the gun was allegedly fired from that killed President Kennedy …
ZAPRUDER: I must have been in the line of fire.
WATSON: … today. Excuse me; go ahead, sir.
ZAPRUDER: I say I must have been in the line of fire where I seen that picture where it was. I was right on that, uh, concrete block, as I said. And as I explained before, is a sickening scene. At first I thought perhaps it's a, uh, it sounded like, uh, somebody make a joke, you hear a, a shot and somebody grabs their stomach.
[The interview ends here.]
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Get Free Screenings to Help Fight Cancer
You can take control of your health with Medicare’s preventive benefits. Get free screenings to detect cancer early, when treatment works best. Preventing and stopping the progress of chronic diseases improves your health and quality of life. It also helps Medicare spend less on long-term illnesses that could have been prevented.
If you have Medicare, you can get the following screenings:
- Colorectal cancer screenings – four different screenings to detect colon and rectal cancers, each is covered as needed for all people age 50 and older
- Prostate cancer screenings – covered for all men age 50 or older
- Mammograms – screenings to detect breast cancer, covered for all women age 40 or older
- Pap test and pelvic exams – screenings to detect cervical and vaginal cancers, covered for all women
- Smoking cessation counseling – help quitting smoking, to help prevent lung, throat, and other cancers; covered for all people who use tobacco
Call your doctor’s office to set up your yearly preventive visit, where you can ask about any risk factors that may affect you, and schedule your preventive screenings. Your doctor can also help you keep track of when you should get screenings and which kinds are right for you.
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Research finds that Black women and lower-income patients are less likely to be included.
Because of our tumultuous past with the medical system — the Tuskegee Experiments being a prime example — it’s no wonder why so many African-Americans may have serious reservations to participate in experimental clinical trials. But, given the steep racial disparities and death rates, especially among those suffering with cancer, these experimental treatments could be the difference between life and death.
Just look at breast cancer. More than 1,700 black women each year die from the disease — that’s almost two times higher than white women.
But growing research is finding that our mentality isn’t the sole purpose why we don’t take part in clinical trials. Studies show that African-Americans are not being asked by the medical community to participate.
Earlier this year, a University of California, Davis study found that most African-American women being treated for breast cancer were not asked to take part in clinical trials. Researchers interviewed 137 Black women and found that while they were satisfied with care, 78 percent were not asked to be in a clinical trial or given any information about clinical trials that may be beneficial for their type of breast cancer. And this is important because 78 percent of the women interviewed claimed that they would have enrolled if eligible.
But even if patients are told about a clinical trial and are eligible, a new report suggests that being low-income could deter patients.
Researchers from SWOG Statistical Center at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center surveyed 5,500 adults diagnosed with breast, lung, colon or prostate cancer and found that only 40 percent had discussed clinical trials. Patients making $50,000 or less were 30 percent less likely to participate in a clinical trial compared to those who make more money, and patients making $20,000 less were 44 percent less likely to be in a clinical trial.
"This is the first time in a large, national study that we have actual patient-reported income on which to base this finding," study lead author Joseph Unger said in a news release. "Our study found that after accounting for all factors such as age, education, sex, race, medical conditions and distance to a clinic, income on its own was associated with a patient's clinical trial participation."
So why is this the case?
Lower-income patients, the study showed, were more concerned about how to pay for their participation in a clinical trial than higher-income patients. The researchers suggested some possible financial barriers might be direct costs, such as co-pays, and indirect costs, such as having to take time off work.
When it comes to clinical trials and alleviating the breast cancer death rates among Black women, yes, more needs to be done to mend these old wounds of mistrust. But we need more research to address these other institutionalized factors — income and doctors not being forthcoming with information — if we really want to provide more access to treatment for the women who need it the most.
Would you be in a clinical trial? Learn more about what they are here.
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(Photo: Matt McClain for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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When the SWAT team came for Richard Paey in 1997, officers battered down the front door of the Florida home he shared with his wife and their two children. Paey is a paraplegic who uses a wheelchair after a car accident and a botched back surgery. He also suffers from multiple sclerosis. Paey was accused of distributing the medication he used to treat his chronic pain, even though there was no evidence he had sold or given away a single pill. Thanks to Florida’s draconian drug laws, he was eventually convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Paey’s prosecution was an outrage, and it generated significant media attention. In 2007, after Paey had served nearly four years of his sentence, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist gave him a full pardon. Yet Scott Andringa, who prosecuted the case as an assistant state attorney in New Port Richey, has never expressed a hint of remorse. In fact, Andringa, now a defense attorney in private practice, brags about his efforts to imprison Paey on his professional website, noting that he “was the prosecutor assigned to a controversial drug trafficking case that was later profiled on 60 Minutes, Nightline, and in the New York Times.”
And now Andringa wants to be a judge. In December he announced his candidacy in Pinellas County’s 2012 elections. The position currently is held by Andringa’s father, who is retiring. As of this writing, no one has filed to oppose him.
At the time of his arrest, Paey was undergoing high-dose opioid therapy, a relatively new form of treatment for chronic pain that titrates doses upward as a patient develops tolerance. The tolerance eventually plateaus, but at that point the patient is taking large doses of narcotics every day, enough to kill someone who has not built up the same tolerance. Paey was initially under the care of a New Jersey physician, but he found it difficult to find treatment when his family moved to Florida, a state overcome by anti-opioid hysteria. Depending on whom you believe, either Paey’s New Jersey doctor illegally sent him several prescriptions to continue his treatment or Paey forged those prescriptions. In any case, a local pharmacist, alarmed at the volume of medication Paey was taking, tipped off the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office.
Although Andringa has conceded he had no evidence Paey was selling or giving away medication, Florida law allowed him to charge Paey with distribution because of the alleged forgeries and the volume of medication he possessed.
But simply because the law allows a charge does not mean it is merited or in the interest of justice. And here’s where Andringa’s discretion comes into question. Over the years, Andringa has said he is “proud” of putting Richard Paey in prison, that he has “no personal or professional” regret about the case, and that he’s certain his office “did the right thing.”
Paey’s time in prison was rough. He spent more than 30 days in solitary confinement—retaliation, he believes, for telling his story to New York Times columnist John Tierney. When I interviewed him in 2007, he described systematic sleep deprivation, psychological abuse, and jail cells with little air circulation where the heat index could top 100 degrees.
Andringa did not have to file distribution charges, and he could have asked the judge to waive the mandatory minimum 25-year sentence in Paey’s case. He didn’t. He would later tell Tampa’s Weekly Planet, “As a [prosecutor], you normally charge the highest crime that you can prove.” That’s one way of approaching the job. Another would be to charge someone with a crime only when doing so serves justice. (Andringa did not respond to my request for comment.)
The injustice of treating Paey as a drug trafficker is clear from the enormous disparity between the sentence he received and the punishment he would have gotten under a plea deal Andringa offered him. Paey would have received only probation and counseling if he admitted he was a drug addict and pleaded guilty to attempted drug distribution. Paey refused. He wasn’t a dealer and, more important to him, he wasn’t an addict. He was a patient. He was no more addicted to pain medication than a diabetic is to insulin. The pills merely helped him live a more normal life.
Andringa still could have gone to trial only on the attempted distribution charge, or he could have prosecuted Paey for forgery. He could have chosen not to prosecute Paey at all. Instead, he threw the book at Paey—punishment for his obstinacy. Andringa told the Weekly Planet, “I understand someone wanting to have their day in court. But they have to accept that with that there’s a risk, and in the case of Richard Paey it was a 25-year mandatory minimum, which he knowingly and willingly accepted.”
The state tried Paey three times before it got a conviction, and then only after the jury foreman told fellow jurors that the sentence would be no worse than probation. Andringa used some form of the phrase drug addict eight times in his closing argument. He charged Paey as a trafficker but was clearly trying him for being an addict. Even assuming the facts most unfavorable to Paey, he was neither. At worst, he was guilty of forging prescriptions, not to get high but to get the medical treatment he needed.
That he required such treatment is not in dispute. While in prison, he received morphine via a subdermal pump. “It became a comedy of bureaucracies,” Paey told me. “One agency prosecutes me for taking too much medication. And that was their explanation—that my dose was too high for one person to be taking, therefore I must be selling it.…Then I get to prison, and the doctors examine my records and my medical history, and they decide that as doctors, they have to give me this medication…in higher doses than what I’d been getting before.”
Andringa recently started a blog to coincide with his campaign for judge. In a post titled “Thoughts About ‘The System,’ ” he chastises those who say the criminal justice system is flawed. Andringa explains that “The System” is run by “a group of people who are as capable, or fallible, as any other group of people one might find.” He adds, “When mistakes are made, time is wasted, scarce resources are squandered and the primary and axiomatic mission of the criminal justice system; to see that justice is done, is thwarted…I believe the appropriate question is not whether ‘The System’ is flawed, but whether one or more of the people involved has failed; as we all will from time to time.”
It’s an eloquent (if peculiarly punctuated) passage, but it isn’t accurate. A system that identifies, compensates for, and attempts to correct mistakes would be what Andringa describes: a good system complicated by human failing. A system that rewards human failing is broken.
Scott Andringa’s defense of “The System” is actually a strong argument for keeping Scott Andringa far away from a judge’s gavel. Andringa not only squandered scarce resources in his prosecution of Paey; he ignored his responsibility “to see that justice is done.” He continues to fail by refusing to acknowledge that the case was a travesty of justice. If he is rewarded with a promotion to judge, a position where he’ll be charged with ensuring that others accused of crimes are treated fairly, then “The System” will have failed.
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You might think that you come off all charmingly Alan Rickman or Emma Thompson, but don’t think Americans aren’t incensed by bits of your Britishness. If you want to make friends in these parts, avoid the following:
1. Over cooking your vegetables
The authentic British way to prepare edible plants is to immerse them in boiling water for a fortnight. Americans think this is weird and unpleasant, to which I say: “Until you’ve had a carrot disintegrate on your tongue, you haven’t lived.”
2. Being standoffish
When strangers in shops and people I pass on the street make eye contact, nod or say “Hi!” I like to reply with an icy stare or low growl. Lately, I’ve come to understand that this is not the done thing, but I can’t help it because I’m British. I was raised in a land where a sneer is worth a thousand smiles.
3. Thinking all Americans are flag-wielding fatties with firearms
Oh you crazy Yanks with your big guns and trousers that could fit three normal people in each of the legs! However inaccurate, we Brits love to believe this is the blueprint for every American. Understandably, they’re not amused.
4. Not tipping
Most Brits would rather undergo weekly colonoscopies than leave a fat stack of bills for their poorly paid waitress. You might think you can get away with leaving skimpy tips but the locals have noticed and now we have a reputation.
5. Your reluctance to “share”
The British stiff upper lip is considered a disadvantage over here. By all means, Americans, breakdown and cry – tell us something deep and dark – but do not expect us to reciprocate. But Brits be warned: your silence will only buy you pitying looks and unsolicited therapist referrals.
6. Believing that Americans have no sense of irony
This myth persists amongst Brits to the irritation of many an irony-literate American. What you will notice is that, on occasion, your new countrymen won’t pick up on our brand of sarcasm. That’s because to the untrained ear, a British person being serious sounds almost exactly the same as one in mocking, sardonic mode.
7. Having terrible teeth and neglected nails
As any American will tell you, the British suffer from a severe case of hand, foot and mouth. If your teeth look like chipped, moldering tombstones and your fingers are topped with jagged, dirty claws, don’t expect to get many party invites.
8. Not being able to tell a fifty from a five
To us, all dollar bills look alike: greenish oblongs with a dead bloke on one side and a spooky pyramid on the other. Poorly manicured hand on heart, that’s the reason I keep putting down ones instead of twenties at the supermarket.
9. Moaning about missing curry and Marks and Spencer.
Wherever you are in the U.S., there’s wonderful food just waiting to be snaffled, but I guarantee it won’t be a fragrant chicken dansak or a dreamy M&S steak and ale pie. My US friends are sick of hearing about the curry and pie-shaped hole in my life and stomach.
10. Your lack of interest in health
Doctors are for wimps. Much better to ignore that pulsating lump in your abdomen and go to the pub. This is not the American way. Here, if you’re not having regular swabs, scans or biopsies, you’re doing something wrong, and your American friends won’t hesitate to stick a pin in your bravado.
What other British quirks drive Americans bonkers? See also: 10 Things Americans Do That Drive British People Nuts
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For several years, until the pattern was confirmed, the field geography class at Bemidji State University did a survey of parking on and off campus within seven blocks of campus. The results always showed that there were enough vacant spaces in campus lots to hold all of the cars that were parked on adjacent streets. The only exceptions were when contractors were using parts of lots to store equipment and construction materials.
Anecdotally, the parking closest to campus was mostly occupied by BSU staff and faculty who tended to arrive before students. Interviews showed that students spent more time searching for spaces than it would have taken to walk from the first available space or from any campus lot. They claimed to save time when they walked back to their cars after classes. Benefits of walking a few extra blocks were mentioned a few times by students driving in from further away, who headed straight for the John Glas lot every time, so that they knew exactly how long it would take to get to their first class.
The major point was that there was no shortage of spaces for students, faculty and staff on campus. Perhaps this will help as the city tries to resolve this 50-year-old issue.
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Junior Archaeology at Oriental Institute
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
If your child longs to be the 21st century's Indiana Jones (do they even know who that is anymore?), head to the Oriental Institute Museum March 25 for some hands-on experience in archaeology.
At Junior Archaeologists, families with kids 5 and up will be assigned different trenches that correspond to the eras the museum covers, from pre-history until about 500 B.C. Then they'll get to dig, using authentic archaeological tools, and discover replicas of actual artifacts found in Megiddo, a site in ancient Israel, including items from Egypt, Mesopotamia and Persia.
Family programs coordinator Kat Silverstein says the day also will provide an introduction to archaeological techniques and principles, including the Law of Superposition, which says that the oldest artifacts are on the bottom and the newest on top.
There will be a discussion about what the families found, and then later, they can get a tour of the museum and learn more about the ancient cultures they literally just dug up.
Junior Archaeologists is one of the museum's new family programs, which included making clay pots in January and exploring Nubian culture in February.
"Right now, our audience is really academic and it's a lot of older folks," Silverstein says. "We are in the middle of a really family-friendly area, and we want the next generation to come in here and experience our collections in a new way. … We're putting our toe in the water and seeing what happens."
Silverstein says the museum, with its emphasis on the ancient world, appeals to families, and there are family activity cards in each gallery. Kid-friendly highlights of the collection include a giant statue of King Tut, who took the throne when he was only 9, large parts of an Assyrian palace, games, toys, and a perpetual kid favorite: mummies.
"I think they'll enjoy picturing the past and getting to engage in that kind of romance and fantasy of the ancient Middle East and Egypt," Silverstein says. "It's pretty fun for everyone. Everyone's pretty surprised when they come here of what we have."
And as any aspiring archaeologist knows, the element of surprise is key when you're in the business of digging up the past.
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As an American taxpayer who has watched our country shell out trillions in the Middle East, I wondering if that region would have been better off without our meddling ( "Obama and the Arab spring" May 20).
For example and close to home , the Maryland Army National Guard is in Egypt, and our National Guard is also involved in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. America has been bombing Libya (under a NATO umbrella); we're asking the leader of Yemen to "step down," and we've imposed sanctions against Syria's President Assad. I believe we still have a military presence in Kuwait, and it looks like Bahrain's King Al Khalifa will soon be a U.S. target.
Egypt has been forgiven $1 billion of its debt in hopes that nation will emulate the United States, which is doubtful. And we all know America has also been actively involved with the Israeli-Palestinian peace process for over half a century. As far as the other Mideast countries, no doubt the long tentacles of American foreign policy are present there as well.
I believe the best policy for this country right now is to back off. I'm tired of seeing our blood and treasure squandered in the Middle East, and I'm tired of the unending news about the region. Of course, we're dependent on oil, but we should stay out of Mideast internal affairs. The culture and history of that part of the world is entirely different from ours.
Frankly, I believe America's Middle Eastern adventures to have been a waste of time, exorbitantly expensive and rarely gain a worthwhile result. Let's worry about our problems here at home first!
Rosalind Ellis, Baltimore
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Database Management Software is a package of software that has the ability to control computer programs that involves creation, maintenance as well as use of the database. It permits numerous group to create and develop databases for several applications. The database can be collaborated with data record, files and other objects. It permits multiple users to spontaneously access the same database. There are several database models namely relational model and object model. It can provide solution for query languages since it is also designed as high level programming languages. It also gives solution in controlling data access, enforcing data integrity, managing concurrency control and ability in recovering the database after several failures. It has the ability to restore back up file and maintain the security and privacy of the database.
The DBMS is located at the core of most database applications. There are database servers that can hold the actual databases and run only the application as well as related software. DBMS is usually built around the custom multi tasking kernel that can support numerous networks.
The software is composed of DBMS engine wherein it has the ability to accept request from the subsystems and change then into physical equivalent. Data definition subsystem is the component in which it helps the users to generate and maintain data dictionary and define the composition of the file in a certain database. Data manipulation subsystem allows the users to add, change, delete information in the database and question it to gain information.
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When I look at contemporary public discourse, no day seems to go by without at least someone mentioning the threat of Islam. Last week Dutch MP Geert Wilders even went as far as to call for a ban on the Koran itself, comparing it in true Godwin style to Hitler’s Mein Kampf, because “it incites violence in the name of a fascist ideologyâ€. His idea was widely condemned, even by people who would normally sympathize with at least some of his views, but the fact that he was confident enough to put this idea to the test is very telling. Islam is a hot topic and the threat of Islam, the Islamic monster as it were, either perceived or real, sells.
At the same time there has been real violence in the name of Islam. 9-11 and the bombings in London and Madrid are obvious examples but, the scope of the inflicted destruction notwithstanding, they could be placed in a wider geopolitical context. Far more telling, for me, was the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh. He was killed in the name of Islam by a young, Dutch Muslim extremist of Moroccan descent called Mohammed Bouyeri. This particular murder has been as devastating as the aforementioned bombings, not in scope but in psychological impact. He brought the threat of Islam home… from the inside out. His religious radicalization leading up to his murder of Theo van Gogh cannot be explained merely by geopolitical events or by what some people, like Wilders, would call inherent traits of the Islamic religion. The prosecutor in his murder trial formulated it like this: “The defendant rejects our democracy. He even wants to bring down our democracy.â€
The murder of Theo van Gogh was seen as proof of the failure of multiculturalism and, much more important, a direct link was established, in the public mind, between Muslim immigrants and religious violence. What had thus far been a sociological problem, the cultural integration of immigrants who had, by the way, been around for decades, turned into a debate on the position of, in this case Islamist, religion in Western society. Islam, in short, had become a subversive force in Western society threatening traditional values and democracy. Islam was no longer just another religion, it had become a political, assertive and proactive force. Again, in the public mind. I remember fifteen odd years ago there already were lively debates on the position of immigrants in Western society. But those debates hardly ever considered religion. What exactly happened between then and now? Why did some young Western Muslims radicalize and how did they, arguably a minority within a minority, manage to have such an impact on Western public opinion?
With these introductory questions I can finally introduce world renowned expert on Islam Olivier Roy and his excellent new book Secularism confronts Islam, published by Columbia University Press. As far as the body of the book goes, Columbia University Press already did a great job summarizing this online:
Analyzing the French case in particular, in which the tension between Islam and the conception of Western secularism is exacerbated, Roy makes important distinctions between Arab and non-Arab Muslims, hegemony and tolerance, and the role of the umma and the sharia in Muslim religious life. He pits Muslim religious revivalism against similar movements in the West, such as evangelical Protestantism and Jehovah’s Witnesses, and refutes the myth of a single “Muslim community” by detailing different groups and their inability to overcome their differences.
The great value of Secularism confronts Islam, which should make it a lasting classic, is that it recognizes the complexity of the issues at hand and that it offers us, by revealing their diverse and often surprising underlying dynamics, the tools to understand them better. Olivier Roy hands his readers a wealth of material that will allow them to interpret past, ongoing and future developments in a more objective and different manner. And, maybe most important of all, he reduces “the Islamic threat†to its just proportions and, in doing so, gives us the means to deal, both intellectually and emotionally, in a more appropriate and effective way with that very same threat. One example to illustrate this:
Laïcité creates religion by making it a category apart that has to be isolated and circumscribed. It reinforces religious identities rather than allowing them to dissolve in more diversified practices and identities.
In other words, by fighting a monster the wrong way, you can actually make that monster stronger.
Olivier Roy does not necessarily provide conclusive, foolproof all-encompassing answers to the questions I asked in my introduction, but he does provide a wealth of insights that may help us understand not only what is going on, but how things have developed and how they should be seen in a wider context. To rephrase it using my monster metaphor: Who is the Frankenstein behind the monster and how tall and threatening is that monster really?
It is here that Olivier Roy excels. Instead of focusing on the monster itself, I am of course talking about the public perception in the West of Islam, he takes a hard look at the surroundings and circumstances in which it was created. In the preface to Secularism confronts Islam, which can be found online on this page of the Columbia University Press website, he states:
The redefinition of the relations between religion and politics is a new challenge for the West, and not only because of Islam. Islam is a mirror in which the West projects its own identity crisis. We live in a postculturalist society, and this postculturalism is the very foundation of the contemporary religious revival.
With this observation Olivier Roy takes his readers on an intellectual, yet fact-based, journey that ends with another remarkable observation:
What I have attempted to show here is that even fundamentalism has at bottom incorporated the religious space of the West (individualism, separation between politics and religion) and is striving to promote its conservative, indeed reactionary, values in a discourse and practice that mirror those of Christian and Jewish conservatives. The problem is not Islam but religion or, rather, the contemporary forms of the revival of religion.
Olivier Roy comes to this conclusion by analyzing the true meaning and origin of the French laïcité policy and by contrasting laïcité with secularism, by exploring the different attitudes different countries in the West have adopted to Islam and immigration, by comparing neofundamentalist doctrines (and finding too many similarities for comfort), by explaining the political dimension of religion, by pointing out the importance of and quest for identity, etcetera. In the end it all comes together nicely and clearly and the reader is left, not necessarily with clear-cut answers to the (re)integration of religion, and notably Islam, in Western societies, but with a clearer vision of all the different elements that are working together in (re)shaping our societies.
In short, even when Secularism confronts Islam focusses on the confrontation between Islam and secularist values, which, as Olivier Roy demonstrates, are not necessarily exclusively Western, it is most of all a work that, by its sheer depth, inspires readers to think about many other concepts. It inspires readers to even rethink some of those concepts in order to gain a better understanding of all the dynamics at play. As we all know, the first step in solving a problem is understanding that problem. Or, to pick up my silly monster metaphor again, if you are afraid of something, the best thing to do is to confront the scary monster by trying to understand it. More often than not you will find it to be much less threatening than you initially thought it would be. The monster may even confront you with yourself… Or, in this case, with the dynamics of our own societies.
So, if you feel the need to chase some monsters, imagined or real, from under your beds, go and read Olivier Roy’s Secularism confronts Islam. As he himself states this is:
…an invitation to think about Islam in the same framework as we think about other religions and about the religious phenomenon itself. This is true respect for the other and the true criticial spirit.
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Department of Public Health and Human Services, Statistical Report March 2011 Report. This pdf document contains the full report, which is bookmarked. To access individual tables and figures in Excel or pdf format, please use the Table of Contents below.
TABLE OF CONTENTSFIGURE 1 Temporary Assistance For Needy Families (TANF) Financial Assistance
FIGURE 2 Medical Assistance (MA)
FIGURE 3 SNAP (FS)
TABLE 1 Summary Of Public Assistance And Medical Care
TABLE 2 Temporary Assistance For Needy Families (TANF) Financial Assistance: By Unemployed And Regular Cases
TABLE 3 Temporary Assistance For Needy Families TANF) Financial Assistance, by County Compared to the Same Month Last year and Five Years Ago
TABLE 4 Medical Assistance By County Compared With Same Month Last Year and Five Years Ago
TABLE 5 Medical Assistance by County, Number of Recipients and Amount of Payments by Type of Service
TABLE 6 Medical Assistance by County, Number or Recipients and Amount of Payments by Basis of Eligibility
FIGURE 4 Medical Assistance Percent By Type Of Service
TABLE 7 Percent Of Population Receiving Temporary Assistance For Needy Families (TANF) Financial Assistance And SNAP (FS)
TABLE 8 Number of Households Receiving SNAP and Value of SNAP issued, by County.
TABLE 9 Child Care by County, Kids, Days and Expenditures by Category
TABLE 10 Low Income Energy Assistance, by County
FIGURE 5 Low Income Energy Assistance
TABLE 11 Children's Health Insurance Program, Number of Recipients and Amount of Payments By Type of Service and By County
TABLE 12 Mental Health (Medicaid) By County Compared With The Same Month Last Year and Five Years Ago
TABLE 13 State Mental Health (Non-Medicaid) by County Compared With the Same Month Last Year And Five Years Ago
PREPARED BY - DEPARTMENT OF
PUBLIC HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
OFFICE OF BUDGET AND FINANCE DIVISION
EXPLANATION OF PROGRAMS
TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES (TANF): Consist of three programs: Job Supplement Program (JSP) provides options to a cash grant such as Medicaid coverage, child care assistance or a one-time employment-related payment; Pathways Program a time limited monthly cash grant and opportunities leading to self-sufficiency; and Community Services Program (CSP) a cash assistance program designed for individuals who have used all of their Pathways benefits but have not achieved self-sufficiency.
SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (SNAP): This program supplements the food costs of low income households with benefits that are redeemable for groceries. This data is reported by household (case), recipient, and amount. There are two kinds of assistance: Public-Assistance -- SNAP households in which all members receive income from TANF or SSI. All other SNAP households are considered Non-Assistance. Amounts reflect the actual value of benefits issued.
MEDICAL ASSISTANCE (MEDICAID)*: Payment of medical costs for TANF and SSI individuals and families, and for others who qualify. Each person is counted as a case. Cases are unduplicated by county and by state. For example, if a case moves between counties, the case would be counted in both counties, but only once in the state total. For Table 6 'Child' refers to children under 19 years of age and is comprised of TANF, Foster care, Ribicoff, Poverty level infant, and Subsidized adoption children.
LOW INCOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (LIEAP): Direct payment to fuel vendors for heating on behalf of low income families and senior citizens. The season runs from October 1 through April 30.
VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION: Evaluation, counseling, training, medical and an array of other services to people with physical and mental disabilities which constitutes or results in a substantial impediment to employment and the person requires and can benefit from vocational rehabilitation services to enter, engage, or retain gainful employment.
VISUAL SERVICES: Evaluation, counseling, training, medical treatment, orientation and mobility services, and special low-vision aides to assist the visually impaired become as independent as possible.
CHILD CARE: There are five broad child care programs including TANF, non TANF, Working Caretaker Relative, CPS, and Tribal IV-E. The majority of programs are designed to help low income families become or remain self-sufficient. Clients must either be working or attending approved education or training activities and in some cases must pay a copayment. Other programs serve as a system support for children in the foster care system or who receive TANF only child grants.
CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM: The Children's Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) is a federal and state funded insurance plan for for children up to 19 years old. Household income must meet eligibility requirements. CHIP will become a part of the Health Montana Kids Plan effective October 2009. CHIP covers a wide array of medical services, dental services and eyeglasses for eligible children.
MENTAL HEALTH (MEDICAID): Consumers eligible for services include Medicaid recipients and other low income Montana's with severe mental illness or emotional disturbance.
STATE FUNDED MENTAL HEALTH (NON-MEDICAID): Montana Medicaid and the Montana Mental Health Services Plan provide medically necessary mental health services to eligible individuals. Eligibility for the Mental Health Services plan is established for adults who have an income at or below 150%.
of the federal poverty level and who have been determined by a licensed mental health professional to have a severe disabling mental illness. Children and adolescents who are eligible for CHIP and who have been determined to have a serious emotional disturbance are eligible for the Mental Health Services Plan. A limited number of children who have been found ineligible for CHIP, but have a family income less than 150% of the federal poverty level and have a serious emotional disturbance may also be enrolled in the Mental Health Services Plan and receive a basic plan of benefits.
* Cases, recipients, and payments are derived from agency payrolls.
Questions/Address change? Contact Robert Hamud at (406) 444-4578.
Page last updated 06/14/2011
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RFID technology is rapidly gaining ground in the access control industry. One
area where it can provide significant advantages is in vehicle access control.
Cars, trucks, or other vehicles‐‐even forklifts in warehouse environments‐‐can
be tagged with passive RFID transmitters. When a restricted area, or a parking
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The renowned eco-theologian Thomas Berry died in the early morning of June 1st at the distinguished age of 94. Even though we never met Berry, many of our contributors and close friends were deeply inspired by his life and work, including leading evolutionary thinkers like Brian Swimme, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Michael Dowd, and Connie Barlow. Berry was greatly influenced by the evolutionary cosmology of French Jesuit priest Pierre Teihard de Chardin. A Catholic priest himself, Berry will be best remembered for helping the religious traditions to recognize the ecological crisis as a deeply spiritual issue. The following is an excerpt from his article “The Spirituality of the Earth” (1990):
We need a spirituality that emerges out of a reality deeper than ourselves, even deeper than life, a spirituality that is as deep as the earth process itself, a spirituality born out of the solar system and even out of the heavens beyond the solar system. There in the stars is where the primordial elements take shape in both their physical and psychic aspects. There is a certain triviality in any spiritual discipline that does not experience itself as supported by the spiritual as well as the physical dynamics of the entire cosmic-earth process. A spirituality is a mode of being in which not only the divine and the human commune with each other, but we discover ourselves in the universe and the universe discovers itself in us.
To listen to a special tribute to Berry by evolutionary biologist Connie Barlow, click here.
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Presto! Space-Time Blurriness Vanishes
Physicists have been knocking themselves silly devising theories to show how, in the tiny world of electrons, quarks, and gluons, the fabric of space is full of gaps and time appears jittery. Perhaps they can relax now. In February a team of astrophysicists showed that time and space may be smooth after all.
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, Richard Lieu of the University of Alabama at Huntsville and his colleagues snapped images of a galaxy located 4 billion light-years away. It was a perfect test case: The “foamy” texture of space-time was expected to slightly alter the speed of light waves as they traveled across such a vast distance.
Collectively, the effect would be to throw the waves of light from the galaxy out of phase; waves that started out even and lined up would be out of step with one another when they reached Earth. Lieu expected this effect would produce a slight blurry distortion around the galaxy. Instead, he saw a distinctive pattern that can be produced only if all the light reaches the telescope at precisely the same time. No blurriness, no foaminess.
The results, which were reproduced in March by a separate European team, raise serious questions for astronomers as well as physicists. If space-time is smooth, black holes cannot exist, and the Big Bang couldn’t have happened. “Without fuzziness, all of the matter and energy of the universe has to be packed, at the moment of creation, into a volume that is zero, with infinite temperature and infinite density. It is an impossible thing to contemplate, and it cannot be reconciled with the current Big Bang theory,” Lieu says.
The theorists are not worried. “The best models of quantum gravity are not ruled out by these results,” says Lee Smolin of the Perimeter Institute, a nonprofit physics institute in Waterloo, Ontario. Y. Jack Ng, a theoretical physicist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, regards the findings as fundamentally flawed.
Space-time foaminess will have a random effect on light waves, he says, speeding them up at some times and slowing them down at others. Because of this mixed effect, a wave will fall out of phase with its neighbors much more slowly than Lieu’s team figured. “They overestimated the cumulative blurring effect, by a factor of at least a thousand trillion,” Ng says. “No wonder they didn’t find it.”
We Can See Clearly Now
The Milky Way galaxy is so dusty that most light telescopes can’t get a sharp picture of it. However, the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), begun five years ago, has been exploiting the ability of longer-wavelength infrared light to slip past the debris and create clearer images.
In March a dramatic composite portrait based on millions of images collected by two 1.3-meter telescopes in Arizona and Chile was released. At the center is the Milky Way galaxy; the rusty blush through the middle is composed of dense dust clouds. More than 1 million galaxies, color coded by distance, also appear.
Those in blue are nearest, the green are at a moderate distance, and the red are farthest away. The portrait shows “the texture of the universe,” says Michael Skrutskie, head of the survey’s science team. “It is a relic of the beginning of the universe, when tiny fluctuations in density grew to become clusters of galaxies, and filaments of clusters, and voids between filaments. By analyzing the distribution of galaxies in the sky, we can tell something about what those original fluctuations were.”
Neptune Rocks Early Solar System
Today our solar system looks calm and orderly, but Rodney Gomes has found evidence of its chaotic beginnings. Gomes, a planetary scientist at the National Observatory in Rio de Janeiro, has been studying the Kuiper belt, a group of asteroids orbiting beyond Pluto. In February he announced that some of these objects originated much closer to the sun but were exiled into darkness by Neptune’s gravity.
Astronomers have recently realized that the Kuiper belt contains two populations. One consists of grayish rocks that circle the sun in the same plane as Earth. The other, a rakishly red group, zings around on trajectories tipped as much as 40 degrees from horizontal. The origin of the off-kilter bodies has been a mystery. To have their orbits so skewed, these asteroids must have encountered something with serious gravitational oomph—a planet, for example. Neptune has the requisite mass, but it seemed too far away to cause trouble.
When Gomes ran computer simulations, he realized Neptune probably was the culprit after all. The second group could have formed near Neptune and then been knocked out to distant, tipped orbits when they inched too close to the planet. Gomes’s model implies that the other Kuiper belt objects might also have formed far closer in than they are now. “This means that the disk from which the planets formed was much more compact than usually supposed, with an outer edge where Neptune is today,” Gomes says. “These findings may have implications for how planetary systems around other stars could form and where and how big the planets would be.”
Neutron Star Fizzles
The fate of most stars in the universe, including our own sun, is to implode, collapsing from a huge mass millions of miles across into a sphere barely 10 miles wide that spins around hundreds of times a second. Most of what astrophysicists know about these curious remnants, called neutron stars, is based on theory and limited observations. So researchers were startled to learn in June that the first good measure of a young neutron star’s magnetic field defied all predictions.
Giovanni Bignami, director of the Centre d’Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements in Toulouse, France, aimed a sensitive camera aboard the XMM-Newton orbiting X-ray observatory at a young neutron star labeled 1E1207.4-5209. After three days of tracking, Bignami and his colleagues had collected a detailed X-ray spectrum and a good look at the star’s magnetic field.
Theory predicts that what neutron stars lack in size, they more than make up for in strong magnetic fields, which result from charged particles crackling through the iron crust surrounding the hideously dense ball of uncharged neutrons within the star. Although a typical star has a magnetic field of about 100 gauss, neutron stars are thought to have magnetic fields of up to 1 trillion gauss. But Bignami’s team calculated that the magnetic field of 1E1207.4-5209 is one-thirtieth as strong as it should be. “Either it means that the theory is wrong,” says Bignami, or the star “might have a debris disk around it, like a protoplanetary disk or an overgrown system of Saturnian rings, which could create the same effect.”
Plasma Devils Brighten the Sun
In June a team of astronomers announced that new images of the sun’s surface could explain why our star brightens and dims over the course of an 11-year cycle. Using a Swedish telescope built to study the sun exclusively, the researchers recorded enormous walls of plasma, or roiling superheated gases. They extend 200 miles high and up to 1,000 miles wide, covering the sun’s surface like a sheet of bubble wrap.
The team, led by Bruce Lites of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, and Tom Berger of Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, reported that the sides of the plasma walls were much brighter than their tops. When more of the walls form during the peak of the solar cycle, more of these bright sides can be seen along the rim of the sun. As a result, more of the sun’s radiation heads toward Earth.
“We need to understand exactly what the magnitude of this [radiation] is and whether it is having any effect on our climate,” Berger says.
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Neanderthal ManGAMBIER, Ohio (March 18, 2011)
Paleoanthropologist Bruce Hardy, who knows Neanderthals, gives the Presidential Lecture on Tuesday at 11:10 a.m. in Olin Auditorium on the subject "Neanderthals - Too Stupid to Live?"
Hardy, associate professor of anthropology and department chair, has been a high-profile defender of the Neanderthals and their survival fitness, which kept them going for more than 200,000 years. His research has focused on understanding the behavioral changes associated with the transition from Neanderthals to modern humans.
"Neanderthals have a bad reputation, one that goes back to their initial discovery over 150 years ago," Hardy said. "Based on our current assumptions, we have created an image of a human that was literally too stupid to live."
And he sees more in the modern attitude toward Neanderthals, which "reflects our broader treatment of human diversity," he said. "They are the ultimate 'other' to which we compare ourselves to feel superior. Rather than follow our long-held assumptions about Neanderthal inferiority, we need to look at the evidence in its entirety and let it tell the story. In doing so, we may find that Neanderthals were not so different than us."
His findings based on research into the similarities between Neanderthals and early modern humans were noted on the Web site of Scientific American in 2009. Hardy studied artifacts at the Hohle Fels site in Germany, noting that modern humans created a larger variety of tools but Neanderthals engaged in mostly the same activities and did well. His findings were presented that year at the annual meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society in Chicago.
He was quoted at www.nature.com in October about the discovery of flour residue on grinding stones in Europe from about 30,000 years ago, before the dawn of agriculture. Hardy told Nature, "This is not isolated to a small group of people. It's a regular part of subsistence for humans," he said. "If you get that much meat in your diet not balanced out with other nutrients, you get protein poisoning." The comment was also picked up by Discover magazine. A December story in the Los Angeles Times about Neanderthals enjoying a diverse diet with plants included comments by Hardy, who said, "We've painted a pretty unrealistic picture of Neanderthals as dimwitted," he said. "For some 200,000 years in Europe, they were really successful. They were prospering."
Hardy was also featured in a Columbus Dispatch story in January about his research with student David Hohl '12 on the hunting acumen of Neanderthals.
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Taiwan courts continued recognition as an independent country from select Latin American nations, while Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tries to bolster ties to regional allies.
Over the next week, an important leader from a widely rejected government will be touring Latin America looking to shore up his country's international legitimacy in the face of increasing pressure and rejection.
Obviously, I'm talking about Taiwanese Foreign Affairs Minister Timothy Yang.
The inaugurations of Presidents Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua and Otto Perez in Guatemala are an opportunity for Taiwan to send a high-level delegation to Central America and the Caribbean and shore up support in the few remaining countries that continue to recognize its legitimacy as an independent country. Yang began his trip in St. Lucia, which changed its recognition from mainland China to Taiwan in 2006 and has been generously rewarded with infrastructure projects since that time. With concerns that Nicaraguan President Ortega has considered changing recognition and Guatemala is getting a new president whose views on the China/Taiwan issue aren't particularly concrete, this is a serious trip for Taiwan to hold its ground in Central America.
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The skull of the primitive flatfish Heteronectes, with views of the left- and right-hand sides. The left-hand side shows an eye that has migrated toward the top of the skull, but not reached the other side, in this adult specimen. Image by M. Friedman
DEERFIELD, IL (June, 25, 2012) - Those delicious flatfishes, like halibut and sole, are also evolutionary puzzles. Their profoundly asymmetrical heads have one of the most unusual body plans among all backboned animals (vertebrates) but the evolution of their bizarre anatomy has long been a mystery. How did flatfishes, with both of their eyes on one side of their head, evolve? So puzzling was the anatomy of flounders and their kin that they were used in early arguments against Darwin and his theory of natural selection. Skeptics wondered how such unusual features could have slowly evolved whilst remaining advantageous for the fishes’ survival.
A new fossil discovery described in the latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology by Oxford University researcher Dr Matt Friedman finally solves the mystery. Friedman’s fossil fish, named Heteronectes (meaning ‘different swimmer’), was found in 50 million year old marine rocks from northern Italy. This study provides the first detailed description of a primitive flatfish, revealing that the migrated eye had not yet crossed to the opposite side of the skull in early members of this group. Heteronectes, with its flattened form,shows the perfect intermediate stage between most fish with eyes on each side of the head and specialized flatfishes where both eyes are on the same side.
“This fossil comes from Bolca in northern Italy, a site that has literally been mined for hundreds of years for its fossil fishes. This remarkable site provides a snapshot of an early coral reef assemblage. Reefs are well known as biodiversity hotspots, so it is perhaps not surprising that Bolca provides us with the first evidence of many modern fish groups,” said Friedman. “Our understanding of the relationships of some of these groups is in a state of change with the increasing influx of molecular genetic studies. Fossils have not contributed very much to this debate, but specimens like that of Heteronectes reveal the superb level of detail that can be extracted from extinct species.
The skeleton of the primitive flatfish Heteronectes shown as an
x-ray image (top), photograph before preparation (middle), and
photograph after preparation (bottom). Image by M. Friedman.
Friedman noted that “The specimen itself was discovered—with no identification—in a museum collection in Vienna. It just goes to show that even well-known fossil sites can yield important surprises, and that not all new discoveries take place in the field.”
“This is a profound discovery which clearly shows that intermediate fossil forms, which according to certain creationist theories shouldn’t exist, are regularly turning up as scientists keep looking for them,” says Dr. John Long of the Natural History Museum of LA County, an expert in fossil fishes who was not involved in the study.
About the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
Founded in 1940 by thirty-four paleontologists, the Society now has more than 2,300 members representing professionals, students, artists, preparators, and others interested in VP. It is organized exclusively for educational and scientific purposes, with the object of advancing the science of vertebrate paleontology.
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (JVP) is the leading journal of professional vertebrate paleontology and the flagship publication of the Society. It was founded in 1980 by Dr. Jiri Zidek and publishes contributions on all aspects of vertebrate paleontology.
For complimentary access to the full article beginning June 27, visit: www.tandfonline.com/ujvp20/current
The article appears in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(4) published by Taylor and Francis
Citation: Friedman, M. 2012. Osteology of †Heteronectes chaneti (Acanthomorpha, Pleuronectiformes), an Eocene stem flatfish, with a discussion of flatfish sister-group relationships. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (32)4: 735-756.
Journal Web site: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology: http://www.vertpaleo.org
AUTHOR CONTACT INFORMATION
Dr Matt Friedman
Phone: +44 (0) 1865 272035
OTHER EXPERTS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE STUDY
From the ichthyology angle: Eric Hilton, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, firstname.lastname@example.org; Thomas Near, email@example.com
From the evolutionary development angle: Marcelo Sánchez, Univeristy of Zurich, firstname.lastname@example.org
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Between 1950 and 1975, about 6,720 service members took part in experiments involving exposures to 254 different chemicals. These experiments were conducted at US Army Laboratories at Edgewood Arsenal, MD. These experiments were conducted primarily to learn how various agents would affect humans. These experiments tested protective clothing and evaluated the impact of chemical warfare agents on military personnel. The VA’s Office of Public Health provides more details on these tests.
There are no tests today that can confirm exposure to agents that occurred decades in the past. However a good history and physical examination can provide valuable information and help determine a Veteran's risk of developing health problems related to the exposure.
Long-term psychological effects are possible from the trauma associated with being a human test subject. If you are concerned about possible effects from exposure during these experiments, please contact your health care provider who can assist you in determining possible exposures and health effects.
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*Links will take you outside of the Department of Veterans Affairs web site. VA does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of the linked web sites.
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By Marie Rippel
Copyright © 2008 by Marie Rippel
All About Learning Press
"If there are mice in their barn, they're going to need a cat" is a perfect example of why some students (and even some adults) have trouble with homophones. "Spell-check" won't catch homophone errors—because it's about meaning, not spelling. It's so important that kids learn these language arts skills when they're young.
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Mother of God and Our Mother
The Council of Ephesus in the year 431 officially affirmed what the Church had always believed, that Mary is rightly called Theotokos or “Mother of God.” There was great celebration in the city of Ephesus and in Rome a certain nobleman decided to give his entire estate to the building of a grand church in honor of the Mother of God. When deciding where to build the church, it was revealed in a vision that the church should be built on the hill where snow would fall on the following day, August 5th. Despite being the middle of summer, the following day found the Esquiline hill covered in snow and the Basilica of St. Mary Major was built on this site. Today’s feast is thus also known as Our Lady of the Snows. Over the centuries the people of Rome have come to this church to implore the intercession of Our Lady in times of difficulty. We have no greater intercessor among the saints than the Mother of God, for she is also our mother.
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Sensible Soccer was originally an Amiga football game designed to eshew realism in favour of fast-paced gameplay. In this way it followed in the footsteps of earlier games such those in the Kick Off series by Anco, but improved on the formula significantly by providing a much larger view of the pitch, a simpler, yet still deep, control scheme and a notably better, more cartoony, art style.
Like those in the Kick Off games, Sensible Soccer's footie players run around the pitch at what feel like absurd break-neck speeds, particularly to newcomers to the game. For this reason, the increased pitch view is a marked improvement; now the user has a chance to process where their player is headed, what their passing options are, and which opposition players they will need to deal play around. This opened up the opportunity to play a fast flowing passing style of game that felt very rewarding.
In yet another parallel to the Kick Off series, the dribbling mechanic in this game was not done in the common videogame style at the time. Where most other games favoured the 'ball glued to feet' mechanic, Sensible Soccer preferred a looser system, where a dribbling player could easily leave the ball behind if they tried to make sudden turns at speed.
The game featured a selection of teams from the top leagues throughout Europe, as well as better known international teams. The Amiga and PC versions featured real player names, while the Genesis version was relegated to having slightly altered fake names, presumably due to licensing issues.
Teams usually had three star players who could outperform their peers slightly. Teams used a hidden, internal rating system to determine player speed and other attributes.
The game was played using a simple, one button control scheme. A tap of the button would pass the ball along the ground in the direction the player was currently running, with a level of auto aiming towards nearby players of the same team. Holding the button down would result in a kick that would loft the ball into the air. From there, the height and power was controlled using an 'aftertouch' system relative to the player's current directional movement; if the joystick remained pushed in the same direction, a low, hard shot would be used. If it was released to a neutral position, a lofted ball would be played. If the joystick was pulled back to the opposite direction, the ball would be given a powerful, distance lob high into the air. On top of this control, left and right swerve could be applied to the ball in varying degrees based on how soon after the kick they were pushed. In a very simple way, Sensible Software had created a system which gave players a huge amount of control over how they played the ball around the field.
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I'll give an example that isn't from a world championship match, and isn't recent either. In fact, it doesn't even have an en passant capture in it. (Bear with me.) It does have a world champion playing in it, though, and more importantly, I hope it illustrates the following: even when no en passant capture actually occurs in a game, the fact that it is possible might be playing a very big role. This is not entirely unrelated to the old chess saying, "the threat is stronger than the execution."
In the game Alekhine - Yates (London 1922), we have the following position after black's thirty-first move:
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1. g3 1... Ba6 (1... g5+ 2. hxg6) 2. Rf7 Kh7 3. Rcc7 Rg8 4. Nd7 Kh8 5. Nf6 Rgf8 6. Rxg7! Rxf6 7. Ke5 7... 1-0 (7... Rff8 8. Rh7+ Kg8 9. Rcg7#) (7... Raf8 8. Rh7+ Kg8 9. Rcg7#)
Alekhine has boldly played his king forward with the idea of infiltrating the black position via e5. On the previous move, Yates had attacked his g-pawn with
31. ... Bf1 and Alekhine replies simply with
32. g3 to keep the pawn safe, ready to get back to business after that. Looking at the position, we can see that if Alekhine didn't have the en passant capture at his disposal, then Yates would be able to checkmate him with
32. ... g5. But since the rule is in effect, Alekhine's king is actually perfectly safe, and in a strong position to help his other forces attack.
Now Alekhine didn't have to play
32. g3 setting up this "pseudo-mate" possibility. But still the point is that the white pawn on h5 and its en passant threat plays a big part in Alekhine's suffocating clamp on the black position, and his successful invasion. Yates resigned only a few moves later, with Alekhine's king delivering the final blow on e5:
32. ... Ba6 33. Rf7 Kh7 34. Rcc7 Rg8 35. Nd7 Kh8 36. Nf6 Rgf8 37. Rxg7! Rxf6 38. Ke5 1-0.
Yates must lose his rook, because if either rook moves to f8, Alekhine has mate in two with
39. Rh7+ Kg8 40. Rcg7#. To reiterate the larger point:
Many potential en passant captures that never actually occur, because the mere possibility of it discourages the other player from ever making the two-square advance in the first place, still play a major role in the game. This aspect - the most effective en passant is perhaps the one you never see - is one reason why, superficially, the en passant capture might seem like a less important/significant feature of chess than it actually is.
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You can buy a car called the Wheego Whip now, but it's not what most people would consider a "real car." It's a Neighborhood Electric Vehicle, or NEV. The Whip that is now on the market will only hit speeds up to 35 miles per hour, has a range of about 40 miles on a single charge and costs about $20,000. All of that makes the Whip well suited for short commutes or running errands around town.
As an NEV, the Whip can legally forgo certain safety features such as airbags, although the basics, like three-point seatbelts, are still required. Additionally, the Whip isn't required to go through the same crash tests as cars that can drive at higher speeds.But Wheego has plans to turn the Whip into a real highway capable car, with a better battery and more safety features. The company has just started crash tests on the new model.
NEXT: Coda Automotive
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The Face Research Lab is run by Ben Jones and Lisa DeBruine and is based in the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Glasgow.
Our research on face perception has been funded by the ERC (Europe), ESRC (UK), Wellcome Trust (UK), National Science Foundation (USA), Nuffield Foundation (UK), and NSERC (Canada).
Face perception: social, neuropsychological and comparative perspectives, the special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B guest edited by Anthony Little, Benedict Jones and Lisa DeBruine, is now available online.
Visit FaceResearch.org, our online psychology testing website where the Face Research Lab is running a number of short, interesting online psychology experiments about face and voice preferences. It was recently listed by the New York Times as one of the Best Online Psychology Tests. You can also learn about the technology we use for face research.
- 01 May 2013 » Ben gave a talk at the University of Cambridge's Biological Anthropology department.
- 26 April 2013 » Congratulations to Michal Kandrik, who was awarded an ESRC Studentship to complete his PhD in our lab.
- 24 April 2013 » Congratulations to Amanda, who successfully defended her PhD and is now Dr Hahn.
- 23 April 2013 » Congratulations to Ieva Zeromskaite, who has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Biomedical Vacation Scholarship to work in the lab over the summer.
- 25 March 2013 » The lab presented 1 talk and 3 posters at the 2013 EHBEA conference in Amsterdam.
- 18 February 2013 » Lisa has progressed to the final round of the ERC Starting Grants competition.
- 15 February 2013 » Lisa was shortlisted for a British Academy Wolfson Research Professorship.
- 30 January 2013 » Lisa and Corey are both speaking about the Behavioral Immune System today at the the University of Dundee's Evolution and Behavior Workshop.
- 24 January 2013 » Ben is giving a talk as part of the Vision@UCL seminar series today on the lab's work on pathogens, fertility and mate preferences.
- 14 January 2013 » Lisa has been appointed Deputy Editor of the Journal of Evolutionary Psychology and as an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Psychology.
- 13 January 2013 » Several of our papers on individual differences in mate preferences are listed in Elsevier journals' updated lists of the most cited articles since 2008. These journals include Evolution and Human Behavior and Personality and Individual Differences.
- 20 December 2012 » Ben and Lisa have been appointed as members of the ESRC's Peer Review College.
- 09 December 2012 » Congratulations to Chris Watkins, who was awarded his PhD today with no corrections. Chris has a permanent lectureship at University of Abertay.
- 26 November 2012 » Congratulations to Rowan Tinlin, who recently completed an MRes working in the Face Research Lab and will graduate with a Distinction.
- 14 November 2012 » We have a new paper demonstrating the importance of vulnerability to disease for individual differences in men's mate preference in press with Biological Psychology.
- 23 October 2012 » Congratulations to our new MSc student, Michal Kandrik, on having his first paper accepted!
- 18 September 2012 » We have had two new papers demonstrating links between pathogens and mate preferences accepted for publication in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology and Behavioral Ecology.
- 07 September 2012 » Our event at the British Science Festival, Dating, Mating and Relating, is fully booked.
- 03 September 2012 » Lisa has been invited to join the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Psychology as an Associate Editor, starting January 2013.
- 10 August 2012 » Congratulations to Jovana Vukovic, our former PhD student, who has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at West Texas A&M University. Jovana will start her new job in January 2013.
- 01 August 2012 » We are delighted to welcome Amanda Hahn to the lab. She has started a 5-year postdoctoral position on our ERC-funded project.
- 20 July 2012 » Lisa was featured in an article on Science's Careers website on How to Collaborate.
- 16 July 2012 » A paper reporting our recent work on sociosexuality and partnership status with Don Sacco has been accepted for publication in Personality and Individual Differences.
- 12 July 2012 » There is an interesting article in Scientific American that features Corey Fincher's work on pathogens and sociality.
- 07 July 2012 » We are delighted to welcome Claire Fisher to the lab. Claire will be working as a research assistant on our ERC project.
- 01 July 2012 » We were recently awarded 1.35 million euros by the European Research Council (ERC) for a five-year project to further explore the effects of endogenous and exogenous hormones on various aspects of face perception. This project starts on 1 July 2012.
- 16 June 2012 » Lisa was awarded the Human Behavior and Evolution Society's Early Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution at the annual conference in New Mexico (USA).
- 04 June 2012 » Congratulations to our postgraduate student Chris Watkins, who has been offered a full-time, permanent lectureship at University of Abertay. Chris will take up his new position in September.
- 27 April 2012 » Our paper on the link between women's testosterone levels and face preferences is currently one of Hormones and Behaviour's ten most cited papers from the last five years. Ben's paper with Tony Little on the effect of menstrual cycle phase on women's preferences for masculine male body shapes is also on the same list.
- 25 April 2012 » Our paper on kin recognition with our colleague, Danny Krupp, has been accepted for publication at Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
- 01 February 2012 » We welcome Corey Fincher, our new ESRC-funded postdoctoral research fellow.
- Older news »
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In order to define and explain a binary option and its function in the financial markets, it is important to define what a financial “option” is first.
An option is basically a contract between a buyer and a seller in which the buyer obtains the right but not the obligation to purchase a financial asset at a specific price during a predetermined time frame. The seller, on the other hand, accepts the obligation to fulfill the transaction specified in the option if the buyer chooses to exercise the option. The option’s value is based upon the value of the financial asset that it is derived from which can be a share of stock, a bond, a currency or a futures contract among other things.
Simply put, if Trader A purchases a call option from Trader B for a barrel of oil at $75, it means that Trader A nows has the right to purchase a barrel of oil at $75 from Trader B should he choose to, in other words, he is under no obligation to purchase the barrel.
Using the example above, Trader B could also choose to purchase a put option from Trader A for $75 which would mean that Trader A would be obligated to purchase a barrel of Trader B’s oil at $75 should Trader B decide to exercise his option.
The keys terms to know for options transactions are:
Underlying asset: The financial asset that an option contract is based on and that will be sold or purchased depending on the option’s terms. In the examples above, it was one barrel of oil.
Strike price/Exercise price: The price at which the transaction stipulated in the option will occur. In the examples above it was $75.
Call option: An option that bestows the right to buy the underlying asset.
Put option: An option that grants the right to sell the underlying asset.
In addition to these terms, it’s important to understand that there are various types of options that have different rules regarding how and when they may be exercised: American and European options are the two most common types of options.
Here are examples and scenarios of how American and European options function and what purpose they serve in the global financial markets.
X purchases an option for a barrel of oil from Y on November 1st in which X obtains the right but not the obligation to buy a barrel of oil for $100 on or before December 1st. On November 17th, the price of a barrel of oil rises to $125 so X chooses to exercise his option and Y must sell X a barrel of oil for $100. X thereby saves himself $25 by exercising his option with Y.
X purchases an option for a barrel of oil from Y on November 1st in which X obtains the right but not the obligation to buy a barrel of oil for $100 on December 1st. On December 1st, the price of a barrel of oil is actually $115 and the option is exercised so Y must sell X a barrel for $100. X thereby saves himself $15 on a barrel of oil with this option investment.
In sum, the main difference between American and European option styles is that American options can be exercised on or before the expiry time and European options can be exercised at expiry time only.
Since American-style options can be exercised at various times before the option’s expiry, it’s important to know when to exercise an American-style option. In order to do so, many people subscribe to options trading signals which offer an indication of when the markets provide a prime opportunity to exercise the options and cash in on the option’s underlying asset.
Now that we’ve established what an option is and how financial options are used in the global financial markets, understanding the way binary options function and the way they are used by traders around the world will be much more intuitive.
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Earthlings who want to monitor the landing of the rover “Curiosity” on Mars are invited to the the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center for a program on the space mission tonight.
Starting at 7:30 p.m., the program will cover the spacecraft’s entry into the Martian atmosphere at about 13,200 mph, braking with a supersonic parachute and the firing of retro rockets just before dropping the 2,000-pound “Curiosity” rover onto the surface.
The rover is set to land at 10:31 p.m. Pacific Time but, because of the radio lag time across such a great expanse, mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena will not know if the landing was successful until 14 minutes afterward.
NASA has called the $2.5 billion mission its most complex. The spacecraft has been traveling through space — Mars is about 35 million miles away — since its Nov. 26 launch from Cape Canaveral.
The JPL engineers, which have six alumni of San Diego State University among their ranks, according to SDSU, have taken to calling the landing of the car-sized craft “seven minutes of terror.”
“Curiosity” carries 10 instruments and a laser designed to study the makeup of the red planet’s atmosphere and geology, provide daily weather data and hunt for water.
If the rover lands safely, some of the instruments will blast rocks and then use a spectrograph to study the resulting vapor, according to the online publication Wired Science.
The event at the Fleet will include a presentation on “Curiosity” by Jerry Hilburn of NASA and the JPL, a planetarium presentation on Mars by Lisa Will, the museum’s resident astronomer, a video called “Seven Minutes of Terror,” and a live video feed of NASA coverage of the landing.
The event is open to the public and costs $8. It is ticketed separately from normal admissions and memberships.
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Health Watch - Vices: Beer
Health Watch is a Public Service of the Office of News and Publications and is intended to provide general information only and should not replace the advice of a medical professional. You should contact your physician if you have questions about any of these topics.
This week on Health Watch, we’re talking about vices that could be hazardous to your health. Drinking to excess is a vice and a health hazard, but is it possible that there could be some health benefits to alcohol use?
Drinking excessively can be bad for your health and your safety, but moderate alcohol use has some benefits. For instance, moderate consumption of red wine has been shown to help improve heart health. Now it looks like beer could help build stronger bones. Researchers in California say the silicon found in beers, particularly pale ales, can help improve bone strength. Lona Sandon, a registered dietitian at UT Southwestern Medical Center, says a better way to build strong bones is to eat a calcium-rich diet. You’d have to drink far more than the recommended amount of beer to get the amount of silicon that would help – about two liters a day. Moderate beer intake is more like two 12-ounce beers a day for men and one for women.
Health Watch is heard Monday through Friday nationwide on ABC Satellite Radio. Call your local radio station and ask if they carry the program.
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Microsoft, Yahoo Give User Data to Politicians
According to a new report, Microsoft and Yahoo have been handing over the names, zip codes, and other personal information of their clients to both major U.S. political parties. Worse yet, those targeted have no idea that they are the victims of a political ploy.
Seeing targeted advertisements is nothing new to those who frequent the Internet. In the milliseconds that it takes for a page to load, advertisers can identify a user visiting a site and display ads based on what they know about a user.
For example, someone checking the Euro Cup scores on the ESPN website might see an advertisement for soccer shoes on the very next page.
Political Targeting Seeks People by Name
But political targeting seeks out individual voters by name. In order to do so, political affiliates scan stacks of public voting records, using such criteria as party registration, turnout history, and previous donations.
The campaigns themselves often hire external companies that refine these voter lists with information not publicly available (like income, education, magazine subscriptions, and purchasing habits).
However, finding potential voters online can be difficult, since no public record connects individuals to a particular Internet address. (Source: oyetimes.com)
According to a new report from the site ProPublica, that's where Microsoft and Yahoo come into the picture.
Microsoft, Yahoo Provide Missing Links
ProPublica says that these companies house vast stores of user data (the basis of the "cookies", or tiny bits of user information related to Internet activity, that get placed on users' computers) that can be of immense use to political campaigns.
Political campaigners on both sides of the fence know this information exists and have reportedly worked with both Yahoo and Microsoft to acquire it. It's recently been reported that Microsoft was contacted by President Obama's re-election camp about this data.
On the other end, Targeted Victory (a firm that specializes in digital political targeting) has performed nearly $4 million worth of political targeting work on behalf of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign since March 2012.
Yahoo, however, is perfectly lucid about working with political targeting firm CampaignGrid to design advertising. (Source: propublica.org)
Meanwhile, Google and Facebook have publicly denied offering this kind of service to political parties.
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"On top are the Haves with power, money, food, security, and luxury. They suffocate in their surpluses while the Have-Nots starve. Numerically the Haves have always been the fewest. The Haves want to keep things as they are and are opposed to change." Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals
It is ironic that the people described as Haves in Saul Alinsky's community organizing primer Rules for Radicals mirror public sector unions so closely. Alinsky had a cluttered view of the world, full of contradictions and conspiracies and moral convolutions to justify his tactics. His wretched little book will probably vex us for a dozen more generations, as it is easy to read and requires little effort to memorize the self-justifying rules. His confused disciples in Wisconsin envisioned themselves as the freedom fighters of old, using words like "justice" and "freedom" and "democracy" as they contradict each of those concepts to protect their right to steal from the taxpayer.
Alinsky was successful in twisting the ethics of his followers, removing the boundaries of civility and honor as long as the cause is loosely "just." Case in point, on Monday a group of school children, presumably accompanied their teacher and with permission from their parents chanted slogans against Wisconsin Governor Walker in the state capital building while a man shouted what sounded like "This is what democracy looks like" as the children finished their chant. Perhaps the man was a union "activist" who had graduated from Wisconsin's schools, which apparently do not teach history or civics, because he confused "special interest intimidation" with the democratic process of elections and legislative debate. Then again, he could have been from Ohio, or Michigan or D.C., as the loudest voices heard in Wisconsin these last weeks were from national unions, using Wisconsin as a battleground in the longer war against American freedoms.
Wisconsin was Democrat political theater at its finest. Milking the civil rights movement for every drop of sympathy, the Rev. Jesse Jackson recited his tired rhyming shtick on the steps of the state house, conflating the conflict there with a time of actual injustice. Ironically and sadly, Students for a Democratic Society demonstrated in solidarity with a privileged minority of "haves" to undermine the democratic process. The courses taught by their well-compensated professors left out critical analysis. A bonus for the unions, they got naïve teenage foot soldiers and bearded graduate students to shout and rampage and shove democracy aside for nothing. Real thugs are so expensive.
"You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral arguments." Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals
The mass-produced signs used by demonstrators and the statements used by leftist pundits and political apparatchiks, held the predictable moral rhetoric intended to convince the public that theirs was a fight against tyranny. Yet, the people placed Republicans in power in Wisconsin in a free and fair election. Democrats fled to Illinois when they could not defeat the governor's necessary and long overdue austerity measures, within the rules of a democratic legislature. So beholden to union special interests they abandoned their responsibility to the states citizens, an act of political cowardice that has become the Democrat standard. Their actions show they do not respect or accept the duties and constraints placed upon citizen legislators within the constitutions of the nation and their state.
Elections are either won or lost within our political system, there is no other alternative. Those who win have the approval of the majority of citizens for the policies and legislation they have promised to enact. That reality usually prevents what happened in Wisconsin. It assumes both sides accept that the rule of law is in the best interest of all. A setback means a legislator struggles harder or reassesses, working to bring about the legislation they feel is best for the constituency whose interests they represent. If they lose, they do not refuse to play or unleash foul-mouthed thugs on the institutions they so recently spent into insolvency. No Democratic Republic can operate for long when one side sabotages the process when they do not get their way.
The public sector unions are saying clearly and loudly that they deserve privileges and status denied the vast majority of the citizens whose taxes pay their inflated salaries, and implicit in their violent rhetoric is the threat that if they do not get their way they will burn the statehouse down, even kill their political opponents. They further let us know that their privileges should come off the backs of those whose labors are much greater and whose rewards are far less, peasants to their royal status, "have-not" to their "have." This is the truth of the national debate under the Democrats. President Obama, the great divider, is a stooge of union bosses. The latter care nothing about citizens not members of their union.
This totalitarian minority has no problem with forcing the majority to endure the consequences of their greed. Like all states and cities where union corruption holds sway, those consequences are unemployment, high taxes, insolvency, welfare cultures, crime, high drop-out rates and out-of-state flight. Michigan, New York, Illinois and Chicago, New Orleans, Detroit as well as countless others are cases in point and cautionary tales. But this is not really a political battle, it is an ideological one, where the very foundations of the Republic are at stake.
What happened in Wisconsin was no less than a fascist putsch, their aspiring oppressors lost only because of the dignified and stubborn leadership of their governor. Its failure was not a sure thing. Americans saw the true face of those who want to rule us. It is a vicious, arrogant and voraciously greedy face, full of disdain and contempt for our institutions and the rights of our citizens. It is in its bones anti-Democratic and anti-American. It will do whatever it takes to take and keep power; it will break any law and crush any opponent if it can.
From a death threat, Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald received last week:
"We feel that you and your republican dictators have to die. This is how it is going to happen: I as well as many others know where you and your family live, it's a matter of public records. We have all planned to assault you by arriving at your house and putting a nice little bullet in your head. However, this isn't enough. We also have decided that this may not be enough to send the message. So we have built several bombs that we have placed in various locations around the areas in which we know that you frequent. This includes, your house, your car, the state capitol, and well I won't tell you all of them because that's just no fun."
The would-be assassin also threatened the wives and children of Republican legislators in their deluded missive:
"Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your families will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks. Please explain to them that this is because if we get rid of you and your families then it will save the rights of 300,000 people and also be able to close the deficit that you have created. I hope you have a good time in hell. Read below for more information on possible scenarios in which you will die."
The real fight for "justice" has begun where it should have, in the heartland. If we are to keep the ideal of individual freedom alive and our Republic prosperous, the forces that trashed Wisconsin's state capitol and threatened the lives of innocent children must be defeated in every state and city. Wisconsin is America in a microcosm; the same issues afflict the nation at large. We are fighting for democracy and the rule of law against an elite class, in this case public sector extortionists and a Democrat party of co-conspirators.
Plato said that, "One of the penalties of not participating in politics is that you will be governed by your inferiors." In this case, it means one day losing our freedom to unelected power brokers, going through the empty motions of democracy, where legislature's rubber stamp affluence for the elite minority and every taxpayer pays tribute to union dictators and their pet politicians.
For example, since the Haves publicly pose as the custodians of responsibility, morality, law, and justice (which are frequently strangers to each others), they can be constantly pushed to live up to their own book of morality and regulations. No organizations, including organized religion, can live up to the letter of its own book. You can club them to death with their "book" of rules and regulations. This is what that great revolutionary, Paul of Tarsus, knew when he wrote to the Corinthians: "Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit, for the letter killeth." -- Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, P.152
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By Denise Dick
Ninth-graders who aren’t enrolled in one of the school district’s specialty programs will return to East High School next year, where they’ll be housed in a small-school environment.
The city schools’ Academic Distress Commission approved Superintendent Connie Hathorn’s plan for the change at a meeting Thursday.
“Smaller schools have been well-researched to benefit students,” Doug Hiscox, deputy superintendent for academic affairs, told commission members.
Benefits include higher student achievement, increased attendance, higher teacher satisfaction and improved school climate.
This year, eighth- and ninth-graders are housed at P. Ross Berry on the East Side, a change implemented as part of Hathorn’s revitalization plan.
“Smaller schools may be especially important for disadvantaged students by more-individualized attention and teachers being able to address different learning styles,” said the proposals submitted to the commission. “Also, smaller schools may promote substantially improved achievement and higher graduation rates.”
Another change next year divides students at the University Project Learning Center. Those students in second through 12th grades haven’t been successful either behaviorally or academically in a traditional school setting. The school is housed in the former Mary Haddow School on the East Side.
Next year, UPLC students in second through fifth grades will move to Kirkmere Elementary School on the West Side. Sixth- through eighth-graders will go to the second floor of P. Ross Berry.
Ninth- through 12th-graders will remain at Mary Haddow.
The commission also approved that change.
“The main purpose of the district is to improve the academic success rate, increase student attendance, improve student behavior and have the students return to a typical instructional setting,” the proposal says. “Also, placement of grades two to eight in the proposed buildings will provide students an environment where they can visualize how other students in their age [group] obtain success in a typical setting.”
Also at the meeting, Adrienne O’Neill, commission chairwoman, told Lock P. Beachum Sr., school board president, the board shouldn’t appoint a treasurer until after a regular commission meeting May 17.
Treasurer William Johnson plans to retire in July, and the board had narrowed to four a list of finalists to replace him. Last month, Beachum sent a letter to the commission asking for its members’ recommendation on the treasurer appointment.
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The goal of the Saving Energy in Public Schools program is to reduce energy use in West Virginia public schools by 10 percent.
The program will assist county school systems by providing training in ENERGY STAR® benchmarking and financial tools such as Portfolio Manager and TargetFinder. The West Virginia University Institute of Technology, in partnership with the West Virginia Department of Education and the West Virginia Division of Energy, will provide energy audits to individual school systems in support of their benchmarking activities.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. How many schools are participating?
A. Forty-two of West Virginia’s 55 county school systems have been trained to use ENERGY STAR® benchmarking tools.
Q. How can schools know they are doing well?
A. Benchmarking is a first step in identifying energy costs and potential energy savings areas. Benchmarking activity provides a comparative score based on the score of similar buildings across the nation. A school that has a score in the 75th percentile or above is eligible for an ENERGY STAR® Building Label. Schools that improve their scores by 10 percent to 30 percent a year above their initial score also are eligible to win recognition for their efforts.
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WILMINGTON - On Sunday, Sept. 2, the Fifth Annual Habitat Awareness Day will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Adirondack Wildlife Refuge & Rehabilitation Center in Wilmington.
There is no admission charge although donations are appreciated.
Steve and Wendy Hall own and operate the Adirondack Wildlife Refuge & Rehabilitation Center. Wendy has federal permits along with New?York state and U.S.D.A. licenses for wildlife rehabilitation and education, and Steve builds enclosures and helps care for each new rescue as needed. They are able to help the injured wildlife with the help of community donations.
Wendy feels it is important to offer residents and visitors alike the opportunity to learn about the wildlife that share the local habitat.
"I want to create an awareness of indicator species, and an understanding of what a wonderful benefit they are to us in our efforts to read the health of our environment," she said. Curt Stager, a local ecologist, paleoclimatologist and science journalist is one speaker at this year's event. Representatives from North Country Wild Care, The Nature Conservancy, Eastern Coyote Research, Ausable River Assoc, Beyond Human, Audubon Society and more will be present to share their knowledge as well.
Adirondack Wildlife Refuge & Rehabilitation Center is located at 977 Springfield Road in Wilmington.
For more information, visit www.adirondackwildlife.org or call 518-946-2428.
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What do little girls in princess dresses and teenagers at proms have in common? More than you might think!
Last week, a new survey found that nationwide, U.S. teens and their families will spend an average of $1,000 on this year’s prom. In my region, the northeast, the average is double that–a whopping $2,000 per family. With such numbers, the article argues, “Prom is the new wedding.”
Why is lavish spending on proms on the rise? USA Today reports:
Teen girls view prom as their “red-carpet moment” and are “heavily influenced” by celebrities who walk actual red carpets in designer gowns. “It’s a rite of passage, and there’s a legacy of how you look at your prom. Girls want to dress to impress.”
In other words, the intense consumerism of prom may be fueled by a wish to be like a celebrity for a night: the center of attention, all eyes on her, enjoying the spotlight.
But with such pleasures come intense pressure–the pressure of public scrutiny, with a fear of condemnation if the girl fails to achieve an idealized look. External scrutiny may be real or imagined. It may take place on facebook or at an afterparty. But self-scrutiny will most likely take place in the mirror, as a girl turns her critical eye on her own reflection to gauge whether she measures up to the ideal. No sympathy, no compassion–just judgments.
It’s easy for critics to wag their fingers at teen girls and their parents for enabling this behavior. However, prom spending can’t be removed from its cultural context. For one thing, girls face a marketing machine that makes such spending seem necessary (see any teen magazine during prom season for details). But more importantly, our culture socializes girls to be consumers who treat themselves as commodities–packaged to be gazed upon, admired, and desired.
Consider all the toddler girls who want nothing more than to be miniature Disney Princesses: Some are so insistent on their princess identities that they will wear nothing but princess play clothes, and protest with tearful heartbreak at every well-intended reality check. For the families of discerning young preschool consumers, this can become a costly interest to support: Disney-branded princess dresses start at about $45 at the Disney Store; accessories like matching shoes, tiaras, and purses are sold separately.
The Disney princess dresses can cost twice that or more if purchased at a Disney theme park during a family vacation, while a full princess makeover at Disney’s popular Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique can set parents back an additional $50-$190 or more (dress not included). But Disney persuades parents that these costs are worthwhile, for the memories will last a lifetime: As the signs at Disney’s parks say, “Let the memories begin.”
And so the toddler girl’s $100-$200 princess dress-up experience sets the stage for the $1,000-$2,000 prom.
What the toddlers and teens are buying is a fantasy. Teen girls who aspire to have a “red-carpet moment” at prom–like couples who now spend an average of $27,000 on their dream weddings–are spending their money to display a glamorous image for a single evening. The marketing machine insists that moment will “last a lifetime,” which makes all the spending seem worthwhile. The advertising narrative tells girls, “You’re worth it! Go ahead and be glamorous. Show everyone the real you.”
But this prom experience isn’t so much “real” as aspirational. Just like little girls (and beautiful brides) are not really princesses, girls at prom are playing dress-up, too. Yes, it’s a lot of fun to do so–but as many girls do in fact know, prom can be just as fun on a smaller budget. (As one teen who reported happily finding a gown on consignment said last year, “Being frugal is cool.”) When exorbitant spending seems necessary and inevitable, though, the marketers are winning–aided and abetted by a culture that teaches girls that a primary source of their value is their appearances.
Readers: What’s your take on the rising cost of proms? Have you or your daughters spent this much? Or, do you have any examples of great recent prom experiences that didn’t succumb to the pressures to spend, spend, spend? Any tips on where to shop?
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Since he spends way too much time programming robots, Pavel Petrovic, felt he should delegate the task of walking his robot dog… to his other robot. No, that isn’t the real story, but there isn’t a lot of justification for the project besides it being a neat trick. LEGO IR tower support for WowWee bots had already been developed, but Pavel decided to try controlling the bots using the LEGO RCX. BrickOS provides direct control of the RCX’s IR port. Pavel’s program lets the simple LEGO bot issues commands to the RoboPet to lead it around the room. It works, but isn’t too reliable because there is no way for the RCX to determine the absolute position of the dog. Have a look at Pavel’s site to see videos of it in action.
[thanks Robert Oschler]
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Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is monitoring imported food products, including dairy, to determine compliance with new Food Sanitation Law provisions on chemical residues. Over the next year, Japan will randomly collect nearly 12,000 food samples for antibiotics, including a minimum of 446 shipments of dairy products.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recognizes that six beta lactams are widely used in treating disease in lactating dairy cattle and are the most likely to cause a residue in milk if misused. These are penicillin, ceftiofur, cloxacillin, cephapirin, amoxicillin, and ampicillin.
In addition, MHLW will take almost 13,000 food samples for additives, including at least 445 shipments of dairy products, and more than 15,000 food samples for constituents such as bacteria and microorganisms, including 596 consignments of dairy products.
Japan's updated Food Sanitation Law includes the so-called "positive list" - maximum residue limits for 799 agricultural chemicals, feed additives and veterinary drugs.
The U.S. Dairy Export Council, representing the overseas trade interests of the U.S. dairy industry, has analyzed the new Japanese law in context with U.S. regulation, residue monitoring and compliance. The organization provided a report to Japanese buyers and other stakeholders documenting the safety of U.S. dairy products, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration National Drug Residue Milk Monitoring Program showing that 99.99% milk samples collected in 2004 tested negative for drug residues.
The consequences of breaching the new law can be severe. When a violation is identified during sampling, MHLW will increase testing to 50% of the shipments from either the country of origin, the processor or the shipper of the product; Japan has the latitude to decide which of the three based on the results of the test. After a second violation, MHLW will test every shipment and hold consignments in port until test results confirm compliance. This increased surveillance will continue for a year after no further violations are found.
In addition, the MHLW will publish the names and addresses of importers who have violated the new law, as well as the names of the violating imported foods. The list is published on the MHLW website, which is updated every one to two weeks.
"These new enforcement measures put U.S. dairy exporters on notice to make sure every shipment of cheese, whey, lactose and other dairy products to Japan meets food-safety regulations," says Diane Lewis, USDEC's vice president of market access and regulatory affairs. "Japanese inspectors will cast as wide a net as necessary to ensure compliance; if they can't be confident in isolating a "hot" product to a specific supplier, they'll expand testing to include all suppliers from the source country. In other words, one bad apple has the potential to spoil the whole bunch."
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01. 1933 All-Star Game
“Baseball’s newest contribution to the romance of American sports, the All-Star Game, made its debut on July 6, 1933, at Chicago’s Comiskey Park. It was initiated at the insistence of Arch Ward, a sports editor for the Chicago Tribune, to coincide with the celebration of the city’s “Century of Progress” Exposition. By the 1930′s, baseball had already established itself as America’s favorite pastime and the national exposition provided the perfect stage to introduce baseball’s best to the rest of the country. Many did not believe that a contest of this magnitude could possibly live up to the fan’s expectations, especially for those who lived in the far western states and had never been to a major league baseball game.” (Baseball Almanac).
02. Pittsburgh bike ‘hoarder’ opens museum, shop to showcase his collection (Above)
“Craig Morrow has a simple reason for creating Bicycle Heaven, a combination museum and vintage parts shop tucked into the warehouse district along a bicycle trail on the north shore of Pittsburgh’s Ohio River: He loves bicycles and wants everyone else to love them, too.” (Washington Post).
03. A Yacht, A Mustache: How A President Hid His Tumor
“In the summer of 1893, President Grover Cleveland disappeared for four days to have secret surgery on a yacht. It was the beginning of his second term as president and the country was entering a depression, a delicate time in which a president’s health was inextricably linked to that of the nation. So Cleveland decided to keep the surgery a secret — and so it stayed for years.” (NPR).
04. The Fickle Needle of Fate: Who the Hell Puts a Turntable in a Car’s Dashboard?
“You’re working in the parts department of a Plymouth dealership, car demo disc in your hand, campaign coverage of Nixon and Kennedy chattering away from another car in the garage. And you’re wondering: Who the hell puts a turntable in a car’s dashboard?” (Believer).
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More than two-thirds of San Antonians say “range anxiety” would keep them from buying an electric vehicle.
Concern that a plug-in car could run out of juice before reaching a charging station was higher here than nationwide, said Pete Hardigan, environmental policy and safety engineering manager for Ford Motor Co., which commissioned the survey.
That's in part because Texans tend to drive farther than the rest of the country, he said — a quarter of all Lone Star commuters drive more than an hour each way, compared to 20 percent nationwide.
“You guys are driving a lot,” said Hardigan, who was in San Antonio on Tuesday as part of Ford's nationwide “clean vehicle” tour.
The company brought a range of new and soon-to-be available all-electric, hybrid and fuel-efficient cars to the University of Texas at San Antonio Downtown Campus for test drives and outreach.
More than half of San Antonians said they'd be interested in buying an electric vehicle, Hardigan reported. Gas savings would be the main reason, respondents told Ford, but gas would have to cost $5 to $6 a gallon before they'd buy.
Ford's findings are in line with those working locally to create the infrastructure needed to support the small but growing category of electric vehicles, said Bill Barker of the city's Office of Environmental Policy.
The city is working with CPS Energy, the Texas Sustainable Energy Research Institute and other partners, including the Department of Energy, to add charging stations throughout the city, and offer rebates for home charging stations.
Early adopters are buying the cars now, Barker said, but sales are limited by the lack of availability. As gas prices increase, more will turn to plug-in, hybrids and other types of electric cars.
“That's important for San Antonio,” he said, “because it reduces the amount of money that flows out.”
Barker was comparing the money drivers spend on gasoline, much of which leaves the local economy, versus paying CPS Energy to plug a car into a specialized socket in the garage.
Because it's owned by the city, CPS sends 14 percent of its revenues to city coffers and is spent locally.
An average driver could save between 71 and 86 percent of their current fuel costs by switching to an electric car, according to Julia Jones, a CPS Energy research manager in charge of the utility's electric vehicle unit.
CPS' research also show a decrease in carbon emissions from between 62 and 81 percent, depending on the car's miles per gallon and miles driven annually.
More than a third of CPS' electricity generation comes from coal, however, meaning some of the additional demand from electric cars could increase emissions from the dirtiest sources of power.
But most drivers will be plugging in overnight, Jones said, so most of the power to recharge will come from emission-free West Texas wind, which blows strongest at night.
That's the hope, anyway. The utility must also plan for the possibility of drivers coming home at 5 p.m. and plugging in, when demand for power is at its peak, and thus most expensive and scarce.
Educating consumers about when to plug in is just one issue utilities must resolve as it works to integrate electric cars into the grid.
“The policy questions are some of the biggest concerns,” she said. “Maybe even bigger than the technology questions.”
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Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940) was a man who, to this day, is the tallest person in medical history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. Wadlow is sometimes known as the Alton Giant or Giant of Illinois because of his upbringing in Alton, Illinois.
Wadlow reached 8 feet 11.1 inches (2.72 m) in height and weighed 490 pounds (220 kg) at his death at age 22. His great size and his continued growth in adulthood was due to hypertrophy of his pituitary gland which results in an abnormally high level of human growth hormone. He showed no indication of an end to his growth even at the time of his death.
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LOS ANGELES, April 27 (UPI) -- A first evaluation of the Clean Water Act's effects on west coast ocean waters reveals major successes, researchers at the University of Southern California say.
USC scientists said levels of copper, cadmium, lead and other metals in Southern California's coastal waters have declined over the past 40 years since the 1972 passage of the Clean Water Act.
The improvement in coastal water quality can be attributed to sewage treatment regulations that were part of the act, researchers said.
"We can see that if we remove the contaminants from wastewater, eventually the ocean responds and cleans itself. The system is resilient to some extent," Sergio Sanudo-Wilhelmy, a USC professor of biological and Earth sciences, said.
The USC researchers compared water samples from roughly 30 locations along the Southern California coast to samples taken in the exact same locations in 1976 by two researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz, Kenneth Bruland and Robert Franks.
"We wanted to assume that the Clean Water Act was working, but we needed good data to allow us to compare water conditions 'before and after,'" Sanudo-Wilhelmy said in a USC release Friday.
"Fortunately for us, we have the data generated by Bruland and Franks. That gave us a rare opportunity to see the impact of cleaning our sewage and see the effect on the coastal ocean."
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ABUJA, Nigeria, May 25 (UPI) --The Nigerian army says it destroyed camps used by Islamist militants to coordinate attacks against communities in northeastern regions of the country.
JAKARTA, May 25 (UPI) --South Korean pop star Psy will perform in Indonesia at a concert celebrating diplomatic ties between the two countries, his management agency said Saturday.
COLOGNE, Germany, May 25 (UPI) --An Apple-1 computer, which sold for $666 when it debuted in 1976, sold for a record $671,400 Saturday at auction in German, the auctioneer said.
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- Aelianus Tacticus, Greek military writer of the 2nd century CE, resident at Rome, is sometimes confused with Claudius Aelianus.
Claudius Aelianus (ca. 175–ca. 235), often seen as just Aelian, born at Praeneste, was a Roman author and teacher of rhetoric who flourished under Septimius Severus and probably outlived Elagabalus, who died in 222. He spoke Greek so perfectly that he was called "honey-tongued" (meliglossos); Roman-born, he preferred Greek authors, and wrote in a slightly archaizing Greek himself.
His two chief works are valuable for the numerous quotations from the works of earlier authors, which are otherwise lost, and for the surprising lore, which offers unexpected glimpses into the Greco-Roman world-view.
De Natura Animalium (Περί Ζώων Ιδιότητος)
On the Nature of Animals,
("On the Characteristics of Animals" is an alternative title; usually cited, though, by its Latin title), is a curious collection, in 17 books, of brief stories of natural history, sometimes selected with an eye to conveying allegorical moral lessons, sometimes because they are just so astonishing:
- "The Beaver is an amphibious creature: by day it lives hidden in rivers, but at night it roams the land, feeding itself with anything that it can find. Now it understands the reason why hunters come after it with such eagerness and impetuosity, and it puts down its head and with its teeth cuts off its testicles and throws them in their path, as a prudent man who, falling into the hands of robbers, sacrifices all that he is carrying, to save his life, and forfeits his possessions by way of ransom. If however it has already saved its life by self-castration and is again pursued, then it stands up and reveals that it offers no ground for their eager pursuit, and releases the hunters from all further exertions, for they esteem its flesh less. Often however Beavers with testicles intact, after escaping as far away as possible, have drawn in the coveted part, and with great skill and ingenuity tricked their pursuers, pretending that they no longer possessed what they were keeping in concealment."
The Loeb Classical Library introduction characterizes the book as
- "an appealing collection of facts and fables about the animal kingdom that invites the reader to ponder contrasts between human and animal behavior."
Aelian's anecdotes on animals rarely depend on direct observation: they are almost entirely taken from written sources, often Pliny the Elder, but also other authors and works now lost, to whom he is thus a valuable witness. He is more attentive to marine life than might be expected, though, and this seems to reflect first-hand personal interest; he often quotes "fishermen". At times he strikes the modern reader as thoroughly credulous, but at others he specifically states that he is merely reporting what is told by others, and even that he does not believe them. Aelian's work is one of the sources of medieval natural history and of the bestiaries of the Middle Ages; in some ways an allegory of the moral world, an Emblem Book.
The text as it has come down to us is badly mangled and garbled and replete with later interpolations. Conrad Gessner (or Gesner), the Swiss scientist and natural historian of the Renaissance, made a Latin translation of Aelian's work, to give it a wider European audience. An English translation by A. F. Scholfield has been published in the Loeb Classical Library, 3 vols. (19-59).
Varia Historia (Ποικίλη Ιστορία)
— for the most part preserved only in an abridged form — is Aelian's other well-known work, a miscellany of anecdotes and biographical sketches, lists, pithy maxims, and descriptions of natural wonders and strange local customs, in 14 books, with many surprises for the cultural historian and the mythographer
, anecdotes about the famous Greek philosophers, poets, historians, and playwrights and myths instructively retold. The emphasis is on various
moralizing tales about heroes and rulers, athletes and wise men; reports about food and drink, different styles in dress or lovers, local habits in giving gifts or entertainments, or in religious beliefs and death customs; and comments on Greek painting. Aelian gives an account of fly fishing
, using lures
of red wool and feathers, of lacquerwork, serpent
worship — Essentially the Various History
is a Classical "magazine
" in the original senses of that word. He is not perfectly trustworthy in details, and his agenda is always to inculcate culturally "correct" Stoic
opinions, perhaps so that his readers will not feel guilty, but Jane Ellen Harrison
found survivals of archaic rites mentioned by Aelian very illuminating in her Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
The first printing was in 1545. The standard modern text is Mervin R. Dilts's, of 1974.
Two English translations of the Various History, by Fleming (1576) and Stanley (1665) made Aelian's miscellany available to English readers, but after 1665 no English translation appeared, until three English translations appeared almost simultaneously: James G. DeVoto, Claudius Aelianus: Ποιϰίλης Ἱοτορίας ("Varia Historia") Chicago, 1995; Diane Ostrom Johnson, An English Translation of Claudius Aelianus' "Varia Historia", 1997; and N. G. Wilson, Aelian: Historical Miscellany in the Loeb Classical Library.
Considerable fragments of two other works, On Providence
and Divine Manifestations
, are preserved in the early medieval encyclopedia, the Suda.
Twenty "letters from a farmer" after the manner of Alciphron
are also attributed to him. The letters are invented compositions to a fictitious correspondent, which are a device for vignettes of agricultural and rural life, set in Attica, though mellifluous Aelian once boasted that he had never been outside Italy, never been aboard a ship (which is at variance, though, with his own statement, de Natura Animalium
XI.40, that he had seen the bull Serapis
with his own eyes). Thus conclusions about actual agriculture in the Letters
are as likely to evoke Latium
. The fragments have been edited in 1998 by D. Domingo-Foraste, but are not available in English. The Letters
are available in the Loeb Classical Library, translated by Allen Rogers Benner and Francis H. Fobes (1949).
Historiae animalium by Gesner
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
ONE MONTH TO GO! Time to talk turkey in SoCal
|It's just a little over a month away from opening day of the spring turkey season and reports into Western Outdoor News from hunters, guides, outfitters and biologists indicate that we could be in for a good season. Last year was a tough one for many hunters out in the woods hoping to shoot a long beard. There were plenty of toms and jakes out there, but they stopped gobbling early in the season, which made for very difficult hunting for those who lacked patience or didn't have a good place to pattern the movement of birds all day long.
Unfortunately, it looks like one of the premier ranches to hunt Merriam's turkey will remain closed this spring. The Tejon Ranch closed up its hunting operation last month, hopefully on a temporary basis, but there was no time frame given as to when they might reopen to public hunting and that's a big loss to turkey hunters who want to continue the quest of shooting a grand slam on turkey.
There have been some concerns among those contacted by WON about the long warm periods we had in late January and right on through the middle of this month. Those warmer than normal days, with lots of sun, could have kicked the first peak of the breeding season into gear earlier than what traditionally occurs in Southern California.
Western Outdoor News contacted John Massie, a retired Department of Fish and Game biologist who specialized in upland game birds and turkey, and the following is what this knowledgeable turkey hunter had to say about the upcoming season.
"We have already started our turkey route survey for 2012. Almost everything looks typical for late January and early February. Lots of turkeys in tight flocks of up to 60 birds at a time, BUT one thing that is a little unsettling is the number of single wandering gobblers we have been seeing in the higher parts of eastern San Diego County. While we would expect the birds to leave the winter flocks to be the older and more experienced hens, what we have seen are gobblers walking around in singles and pairs."
Massie went on to say, "It could be an early onset of dispersal which would not be good for the hunter. While it is certainly possible that we could have missed seeing single hens as they are pretty secretive when they are looking for nest sites, so far, we haven't noted one hen in about 12 hours of scouting a vast area." And then Massie added, "With that exception, the numbers of birds looks real good. The poults we've seen are so big that you have trouble telling them apart from their mothers."
Turkey hunters looking for that Merriam's turkey this season don't have to look beyond booking a hunt with Mike Berry Guide Service based out of Bakersfield. WON checked in with outfitter Berry about his hunting program and he responded with the following: "
We offer one day fully guided hunts on private ranches along the foothills of the western slopes of the High Sierra that encompass nearly 20,000 acres of good Merriam's turkey habitat. Our top turkey guide has years of experience and really knows the terrain and turkey pattern on the three ranches hunted."
There was good word on turkey season coming from the Paso Robles area when master guide Doug Roth of Camp Five filed his report with WON.
"It's looking like another good year. An excellent carryover of two and three year old toms should make hunting a trophy gobbler productive. If this weather continues we will have a great opener. I do have one concern with the recent weather pattern and I am hoping for more rain to grow food and improve nesting conditions for this year's breeding season."
Also reporting from the Paso Robles, but an area closer to the coast was Anderson Taxidermy and Guide Service headed up by Don Anderson. "The ranch property that we hunt receives little hunting pressure which makes for excellent turkey hunting. There was a very good hatch of birds this past spring, which put a lot of jakes and jennies on the ground that only bodes well for the future. Last year we had 100 per cent success and most every bird shot sported a beard measuring 10 inches or more." Central Coast Outfitters, LLC is now booking combo turkey and hog hunts for the spring season. Hunts occur on private ranches along the coast and some properties just over the coastal range.
Fort Hunter Liggett will be open for the spring turkey season and hunters interested in hunting this military base should make immediate contact for booking information and other details by calling (831) 386-3310. Unfortunately, Camp Roberts will remain closed through the 2012 hunting season as they continue to do construction and military training on this base consisting of thousands of acres of prime turkey habitat.
Turkey hunting should be pretty good around Poza, Atascadero and up into the foothill ranches around Parkfield. Guide Clayton Grant of Bitterwater Outfitters reported to WON that ranches he hunts are holding good numbers of gobblers and they are still pretty bunched up. Guided hunts take place on private ranches with only limited hunting pressure on the birds. Parkfield guide Roger Miller feels it will be a good year to harvest a long bearded carryover tom as a result of fewer birds killed out of a huntable population last spring and passing on jakes last season.
For those just getting into turkey hunting there will be a very good seminar on turkey hunting and calling conducted by Dieter Kaboth of Hunter's Specialties at the Fred Hall Tackle and Boat Show in Long Beach. According to show associate-producer Mike Lum, Kaboth will talk about turkey hunting, pass on timely turkey hunting techniques and answer questions during his seminar. Lum also added that this year's show will feature more in the way of firearms, hunting accessories and destinations.
There is some pretty new hot ammo for turkey hunting on dealers' shelves right now. Federal introduced their Premium Heavyweight Turkey line with the addition of a No.6 and No. 7, 1 and a quarter ounce load in a 12 ga. shell that produces approximately 50 per-cent less recoil than its 3-inch Heavyweight loads. New Hevi-Metal Turkey loads are available in both 12 and 20 gauges in a No. 4 layered shot, Rio ammo has in its line of high performance loads the M50 Magnum Game Load 50 in a variety of shot sizes and Kent now offers its Ultimate Turkey load featuring Kent's Diamond Lead Shot with 366 pellets in a 3-inch 12 ga. shell with excellent patterning.
Turkey hunters looking for a place to hunt on public land and get a chance at hunting the big flocks of birds that surround Lake Sutherland should make plans on attending the 2012 Spring Turkey Tune Up and Lottery for Turkey Hunts at Lake Sutherland that will be held Feb. 25 at San Vicente Reservoir off Moreno Ave. in Lakeside. The event is co-sponsored by the San Diego Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation and the City of San Diego Public Utilities Department. It starts are 8:30 a.m. with the drawing for turkey hunts beginning at noon.
BIG TOM FOR ANDY — Andy McCormick shot this big gobbler towards the end of last season after spending nearly a half a day getting into a position where the bird was interested in coming to a decoy with very little calling. The big tom was shot with an Escort Extreme Magnum semi-auto in Realtree Max-4 camo. PHOTO COURTESY OF LEGACY SPORTS INTERNATIONAL
HEN AND POULTS — There was a good turkey hatch last spring with lots of jakes and jennies surviving the summer season thanks to excellent habitat, food and cover in most all turkey hunting areas in Southern California. There should be lots of jakes to hunt this spring. PHOTO COURTESY OF JOHN MASSIE
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Are Underachieving Artists Simply Underpricing?
Let’s take a look at art. Because part of the artist’s dilemma is how to price a particular piece. And this is related to our questions about underachievers.
I’ve been coaching Paula, a Chicago-based artist who is a high potential. (If you’re know the numbers, she coded as 4L at 32.) She’s an amazing individual, someone who had Pres. George Bush, Sr. call her up; knew Vice Pres. (and Hoosier Son) Dan Quayle, being quite chatty with him; and knows an amazing list of well-known American artists who always take her phone calls. In addition to producing a decent and diverse body of work.
But she struggled to make ends meet in Chicago.
Here’s the secret: she worked at the wrong level, in the wrong area, and underpriced herself so much that people assumed that she was incompetent.
Paula’s art is crap at $450.
But at $4,500 it’s a bit pricey.
What’s the deal? How can she raise her prices by an order of magnitude and be seen as a better deal?
It has to do with people’s ability to judge higher levels of work, and the role money plays as a proxy in that.
As my brother said when he was a recruiter, once someone has been stupid enough to pay you $100k, everyone will assume that you’re worth it. That’s why in the corporate world hiring managers always want to know your salary history. They use it because they don’t know how to evaluate people’s capacity for work (what work level they can currently work at) nor the work level of the job role. And let’s not get into paying a fair wage.
The same thing happens with artists. Most people have no idea how to judge the intrinsic value of a work. Why is painting worth “worth four times its auction price” if the Rembrandt Project “chooses to reevaluate the work and decides it is a Rembrandt after all.” [NYT 1993] Because no one really knows what a work of art is worth.
Add to that the fact that artists’ language of achievement is different from people who work within business organizations, and you have the need for a proxy for value. A higher number on a piece implies that it is worth that much.
And then there’s the problem with ‘free’. Lowder tells the story of his newsletter. He discovered that if he raised the rate he could get more subscriptions. “Of course if I went too far my sales would decline, but if I figured out the right price point I could actually increase my margins and sell more subscriptions.”
He goes on to tell about a subscriber who had seen his original (cheap) newsletter ad. Seeing the price, the man:
figured that at the low price point I’d initially set for the newsletter the information was probably crap. A couple of years later he received another marketing piece with the higher price and not remembering the first marketing piece he figured that the information was probably high end stuff.
I learned this lesson myself, although it is one that I am always relearning. If you underprice yourself, people see you as a moron. Not only that, but they evaluate your work as if it was priced correctly, as if you were really working at a much lower level. And big work looks like laziness, foolishness and stupidity when evaluated as lower level work.
Are you cheating yourself out of your career because you are not pricing yourself appropriately?
We’ll be looking at pricing yourself appropriately over the next couple of weeks.
Because you are the killer app.
(Thanks to Lisa Deam, my wife, who got her PhD in art history and has taught on many of the issues surrounding works of art and their valuations. I have sat through many happy hours hearing her discuss these things, but the ideas here are my own.)
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We’ve all purchased a chocolate candy bar from a vending machine, but have you ever dreamed of purchasing gold from a vending machine? Well, now you can. According to a CNN.com article last week, German company named Gold-to-go is rapidly making gold bar vending machines, and opened its first gold dispensing machine in May. This machine comes about as a result of high demand for physical gold as a safe way to safeguard cash in an uncertain economy. Much the same way people have been purchasing gold and diamond jewelry as an investment for hundreds of years now, a gold vending machine gives people the satisfaction of knowing their money is safely in their hands.
Patrizio Locatelli, the owner of SE 6, a company in Italy that pays people cash for their gold jewelry and gold items, said that “When you see exchange rates going up and down every day with the euro under so much pressure and stocks decreasing, this gold machine seemed like a very sound idea. In times like these you must think of somewhere else to put your money, and physical gold still has a great appeal for everyone.”
With gold prices at an all time high of about $1,250 an ounce, it isn’t hard to see the truth in Locatelli’s words. The demand for gold has grown rapidly and very consistently, and this is because gold is commonly seen as a “safe-haven asset,” meaning that it actually gains value in an uncertain economy. This is because while banks can fail and currencies can rapidly increase or decrease in value, gold will always be the primary form of currency and investment in any sort of economy.
How can the average investor, who can’t afford $1,250 gold bars, get into investing in gold? As highlighted in a previous blog article, gold jewelry was first created as a way to tangibly hold onto and safeguard money. By turning gold into jewelry such as gold rings, bracelets and necklaces, people had the safety and assurance of knowing their money was safe in their hands, and not left to the mercy of an unpredictable economy. By purchasing jewelry, you are not only showing others you have money, but that you are smart enough to invest it in something you can turn into cash in bad times, unlike that plasma TV or new car that will lose their value days after you take them home from the store.
Simply put, gold is the easiest and safest way to invest your money. Those who can’t afford to buy a lot of it can’t lose by purchasing jewelry from a trusted vendor. Whether you are purchasing a gold wedding ring to propose to your significant other, or are purchasing a diamond bracelet for your dad on father’s day, gold, in any size, shape or form, is a smart way to show your love. And until your next visit to Dubai or Germany, the first two places with gold vending machines, gold jewelry is a great place to start.
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In PYM (On Sale March 1), recently canned professor of American literature Chris Jaynes is obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe’s strange and only novel,The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. When Jaynes discovers an old manuscript of a memoir that seems to confirm the reality of Poe’s fiction, he conspires to get to Antarctica, the setting for Poe's book, in hopes of discovering Tsalal, the remote and mythic land of pure and utter blackness that Poe describes with horror. Jaynes imagines it to be the last untouched bastion of the African Diaspora and the key to his personal salvation.
For his expedition, Jaynes convenes an all-black crew – some members are going to the South Pole in search of adventure, some for natural resources to exploit, and, for Jaynes at least, the mythical world of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. But soon, he and his fellow adventurers find themselves unable to make contact with the rest of the world and enslaved by the giant white ice creatures that also appear in Poe's Narrative. With little but the firsthand account from which Poe derived his seafaring tale, a bag of bones, and a stash of Little Debbie snack cakes, Jaynes embarks on an expedition under the permafrost of Antarctica, beneath the surface of American history, and behind one of literature’s great mysteries.
A riveting adventure novel and a cutting, insightful meditation on race, literature, and obsession, PYM is sure to be one of the most inventive and engaging novels of 2011.
“Social criticism rubs shoulders with cutting satire in this high-concept adventure…[Pym] is caustically hilarious as it offers a memorable take on America's ‘racial pathology’ and ‘the whole ugly story of our world.’” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“An acutely humorous, very original story that will delight lovers of literature and fantasy alike.”—Kirkus, starred review
“[A] romp that surprises on every page. Funny, insightful, racially important, Pym is a death-defying adventure and a probing examination of notions of race, even at the farthest ends of the earth.” – Booklist
“You can trust the veracity of this account: Pym is a spectacularly sly and nimble-footed send-up of this world, the next world, and all points in between. A satire with heart, as courageous as it is cunning.” —Colson Whitehead, author of Sag Harbor
“Johnson's new novel is nothing short of fantastic, in every sense. I fell in love with the voice, the tone and the world of Pym. This is an adventure novel, a work of historical and social commentary, a rumination on identity. The only problem I could find with this novel is that I didn't write it. It's a beautiful piece of work.” —Percival Everett, author of I Am Not Sidney Poitier
“Johnson has come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and he's all out of bubble gum. Pym is an adventure, a satire, and a bracing political debate all rolled into one brilliant novel. Edgar Allen Poe has inspired many authors but Mat Johnson has the inspired audacity to both honor and discredit the man, often in the same sentence. I imagine Poe choking on half the things Johnson writes in this novel, and tipping his tiny hat in admiration to the rest.” —Victor LaValle, author of Big Machine
“Johnson writes with all the probing intelligence of James Baldwin, the scalding satire of Dany Laferriere and the technique of a master craftsman, all of which make him one of the most exciting, important and gifted writers of his generation. Pym is a moving and accomplished novel.” —Chris Abani, author of GraceLand and the Virgin of Flames
“Pym reframes far more than Poe – it reframes everything American,from the whiteness of Ahab’s whale to Detroit bus drivers; from DNA testing to tenure review; from the Gatsbyesque dream of romantic love to the dream of Utopia; from our fear of life to our love of death. No one today writes inside the brilliant black mind better.” —Alice Randall, author of The Wind Done Gone and Rebel Yell
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A post from Dave Pollard a while back. It is short, so I'll just quote the whole thing:
Nobel chemist and pioneer complexity expert Ilya Prigogine is cited by my friend Andrew Campbell as saying that nature has no secrets -- everything we want or need to know in the world is waiting to be discovered. That means it is waiting for us to be ready to learn it, which presupposes that we have: Very well said, Dave. Can't say it better, so I'll just say what it brings up for me.
We have a need to understand -- the challenges we face as a society have never been greater. And although our man-made tools are fragile and clumsy by nature's standards, they give us what we need.
- Capacity to understand: That's not just a function of brain capacity, but also the ability to pay attention and to be open to new ideas and possibilities, and to imagine;
- Need to understand: Either an urgent adaptive/survival need, or intellectual curiosity to discover; and
- Tools to understand: The toolkit with which we were endowed by nature is comparatively poor (consider our relatively feeble eyesight, dim sense of smell, slow speed and inability to fly), but we have compensated for it with our ingenuity, especially at biomimicry -- inventing new tools that mimic the best nature provides.
What we are lacking, I think, is capacity. Despite (or perhaps because of) our large brains we are inattentive, prone to erroneous prejudgement, distrustful of our intuitions and our subconscious knowledge, and we suffer from dreadful and growing imaginative poverty. We are seemingly unable to grasp complex issues and concepts well -- we are so left-brain heavy that we over-analyze and over-simplify, and we are driven (I suspect because of our increasingly poor learning habits) to create mechanistic, complicated explanations for organic, complex phenomena. Then, when these explanations fail, we add further levels of complication, until we have thirteen-dimensional universes with vibrating strings.
We try to deduce when we should induce. We analyze when we should be synthesizing. We look for root causes when we should be looking for patterns. We try to impose order when we should let it emerge and study why it emerged as it did. We try to change and control our environments when we should change ourselves to adapt to them.
So what we should do now is build our capacity to understand -- capacity of attentiveness, openness, imagination, intuition, subconscious awareness, appreciation of complexity, ability to learn and intuit and induce and synthesize and see patterns and adapt and let come and let go. And then show others in our communities why this capacity is so important and help engender it in them, too.
Then we will be ready, together, to discover what nature has been waiting to show us and tell us. No grand unifying theory of everything -- just an understanding of how the world really works, and why our current way of living is unsustainable, unhealthy and unnatural. And what to do to make it better.
Humans have an amazing opportunity, but maybe only within a brief window of time. We can think abstractly, so we can communicate, work together and develop technology. But we're also bad at thinking abstractly, and we fail to include our own shortcomings in the equation.
We have fantastic minds, but we don't have any organized body of knowledge about how they work and what we can do with them. To some degree in various self-help disciplines, but nothing that's integrated into the main things we do together. Science comes with no complementary understanding of the human mind, which is a major oversight, because science is mostly a mental activity. Groups of people perceive stuff and try to construct mental models that allow them to predict what they'll perceive in the future. That's somewhat of a ship without rudder if you don't at the same time have a concept of how you perceive, how you abstract the work into mental models, and how beliefs work.
How do we learn, how do we think, what's the sub-conscious, where does intuition come from? These ought to be very central subjects, but you don't see much more than scattered studies done on one isolated piece of the puzzle or another, which makes for interesting popular science stories about various kinds of experiments and studies. But it is somewhat overlooked that WE ourselves, and our minds are an integral and central component in what we make of the world.
I thought general semantics maybe could have caught on. It isn't everything, but it is at least a valiant attempt of including our mental processes in the practice of science, or politics, or anything else important we do as a society. It is rather dangerous to hand the controls of anything important to a human being who isn't aware that their thoughts are just over-simplified abstractions of reality. People who think that their two-dimensional cartoon mental pictures ARE reality have no business leading countries or operating heavy machinery.
And how do we learn? That ought to be a very central question, because that's largely what we do in life, and what's what we do together. We try to figure out the best ways of doing things, and how to maximize the good things we can do while we're here. Don't we? And yet learning is mostly about occupying kids for 12 or 17 years, having them read a lot of books, and hoping they somehow get something out of that. All due respect to the teachers of the world, but it would make sense if somebody actually put together and applied the very best ways we can find of actually learning.
We ought to be feeling the need already, yes. There are lots of things that aren't working well. We ought to be motivated to do better.
Do we have the tools and the capacity? Not well enough. I suppose we can say that the tools would be the external levers of learning, and capacity would be the internal. We both need to organize some things in the outside world so as to facilitate learning. And we need to organize our internal world so as to actually be learning. As to both, we're somewhat in the stone age. We learn stuff, but very haphazardly.
The challenge is how to effectively deal with complexity, when we mostly are using a part of our mind that is lousy at doing so.
It's the old story of a human being able to pay attention to just 5-7 things at the same time. You might understand a model of a problem or situation if it has 2-3 dimensions to it, but not more. If presented with anything that has more dimensions or variables, you'd tend to default to some favorite cartoon belief that simplifies things into just a few variables. We make as if we're dealing with big, important, complex scenarios, but we do it with those minds that can only think a handful of things at a time. There's a big disconnect.
I think we're actually a lot better wired than we readily think. Your sub-conscious mind deals with millions of variables quite well. Your intuition does great with complexity. You probably do have the equipment you need to operate at a much higher level. But it isn't necessarily going to work if you leave your 5-7 bit mind in charge.
Paying attention, being open, imagining, yes, I'm sure that's part of the puzzle. But those are things you can't put in a test tube and measure, so we have to make some kind of quantum leap over the need to do so. We need to learn how to perceive, how to learn, how to know, how to be conscious of what we know and what we don't know.
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A selection of articles related to princess tsuguko.
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- An Overview of Different Types of Scrying
- Scrying is a method of divination. It consists of gazing into a crystal, a mirror or some water for example, anything shiny really, in order to enter altered mind states...A good cliché that best describes scrying is the gypsy fortune-teller and her large...
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- Jezebel was a Phoenician princess and the daughter of Ethbaal, the king of Baal-worshipping Sidonians. Jezebel literally means
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- Maria Morevna
- Probably not divine as such, there are nevertheless some echoes of a connection with Marena. She is a warrior-princess who figures in one version of the Koshchei cycle. She weds Prince Ivan, and warns him from examining a particular room in her kremlin. In it,...
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- Vasilisa the Wise
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Princess Tsuguko is described in multiple online sources, as addition to our editors' articles, see section below for printable documents, Princess Tsuguko books and related discussion.
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- The Advisory Council on the Imperial House Law Report
- Nov 24, 2005 Princess Tsuguko 19. ( ). Princesss Takamado.
- 2010 Japanese American Leadership Delegation
- of being a member of the Imperial Family, the Princess discussed the responsibility and honor of serving Japan.
- Japanese Women: Lineage and Legacies
- The Crown. Princess. (Masako).
- Secrets of the Shogun's Harem
- Feb 17, 2008 She looks thin and miserable, engulfed in the stiff folds of her many kimonos.
- 2008 NJB Report 0731
- Jul 24, 2008 observe the Tokyo Round with Her Imperial Highness Tsuguko of Takamado.
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- Kuwait Embassy in Japan participates in Arab charity
- TOKYO: Kuwaiti Embassy in Japan participated in an annual bazaar organized by the Association of Arab Ambassadors Wives (Suwag) in Tokyo in the presence of Japanese Princess Tsuguko, the embassy said in a statement yesterday.
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- File:Princess Tsuguko.JPG - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- File:Princess Tsuguko.JPG. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- In Pictures: The 20 Hottest Young Royals - Forbes.com
- Princess Tsuguko of Takamado is the 22-year-old cousin of the reigning emperor of Japan and the eldest daughter of the late Prince Takamado.
- Princess Tsuguko of Takamado - The world's most eligible princesses
- Jun 1, 2011 Princess Tsuguko is the 24-year-old cousin of Akihito, the reigning emperor of Japan, and the eldest daughter of the late Prince Takamado.
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Requests: If you need specific information on this remedy - e.g. a proving or a case info on toxicology or whatsoever, please post a message in the Request area www.homeovision.org/forum/ so that all users may contribute.
Depending upon how a preparation is made witch hazel products contain varying amounts of active compounds such as flavonoids, tannins (hamamelitannin and proanthocyanidins), small amounts of volatile oil, and other components, which may be responsible for its astringent action and to stop bleeding. Tannins have been characterized as hamamelitannin and a number of proanthocyanidins. The bark contains 31 times more hamamelitannin than the leaf extract, so plant part used in preparation is important. In distilled witch hazel products much of the tannin content is lost. A recent study shows there may be more at work in witch hazel than has been previously known. A specially filtered fraction of the extract, containing mostly proanthocyandins, was found to have significant anti-viral activity against Herpes simplex virus type 1. The same fraction was also found to have a strong antiphlogistic (inflammation-reducing) effect. In contrast, fractions high in hamamelitannin were found to have weaker antiviral or antiphlogistic activity.
The significant of this study is that it shows that compounds other than tannins may play a role in witch hazel's recognized antiphlogistic effects, as well as newly recognized topical antiviral activity. Such studies serve to improve products available to consumers by helping manufacturers refine extraction processes to enhance the best possible therapeutic results. Antioxidant, radiation-protective, and anti-inflammatory activity have been confirmed.
Recently hamamelitannin and proanthocyanidins isolated from witch hazel were evaluated for their mechanisms of action in reported anti-inflammatory activity. It was found that some proanthocyanidin fractions inhibit inflammatory mediators derived from arachidonic acid and inhibited the formation of platelet-activation factor, a chemical mediator of inflammatory processes. When it is quelled, so is inflammation. Strong antioxidant activity against superoxide (a highly reactive form of oxygen), released by several enzymes during the inflammatory process may also play a role in witch hazel's anti-inflammatory effects. In a recent study, Japanese researchers sought plant compounds that protect cells in skin tissue from damage against harmful forms of oxygen. Witch hazel was found to have strong activity against reactive oxygen in skin tissue. The scientists proposed that witch hazel extracts should be further researched for their potential application in anti-aging or anti-wrinkling products to apply to the skin.
Scientific literature: Toxicon. 2002 Jan;40(1):83-8. Related Articles, Links Hamamelitannin from Hamamelis virginiana inhibits the tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF)-induced endothelial cell death in vitro.Habtemariam S.School of Chemical and Life Sciences, The University of Greenwich, Wellington Street, London, UK.
The tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF) inhibitory activity of hamamelitannin from Hamamelis virginiana was investigated by assessing the TNF-mediated EAhy926 endothelial cell death and adhesiveness to monocytes. Treatment of the cells by TNF (25 ng/ml) and actinomycin D (0.1ng/ml) resulted in significant DNA fragmentation (34+/-0.6, n=4) and cytotoxicity (97+/-4.5%, n=6) following treatment for 8 and 24h, respectively. One to 100 microM concentrations of hamamelitannin inhibited the TNF-mediated endothelial cell death and DNA fragmentation in a dose-dependent manner. One hundred % protection against TNF-induced DNA fragmentation and cytotoxicity was obtained for hamamelitannin concentrations higher than 10 microM. The protective effect of hamamelitannin was comparable with that of a related compound epigallocatechin gallate while gallic acid was a weak protective agent (<40% protection). EAhy926 endothelial cells upregulated (by 4- to 7-fold) the surface expression of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and adhesiveness to monocytic U937 cells after treatment with TNF (0.5ng/ml) for 6 or 24h. Concentrations (1-100 microM) of hamamelitannin that inhibited the TNF-mediated cell death and DNA fragmentation, however, failed to inhibit the TNF-induced ICAM-1 expression and EAhy926 cell adhesiveness to U937 cells.
Thus, hamamelitannin inhibits the TNF-mediated endothelial cell death without altering the TNF-induced upregulation of endothelial adhesiveness. The observed anti-TNF activity of hamamelitannin may explain the antihamorrhaegic use of H. virginiana in traditional medicine and its claimed use as a protective agent for UV radiation.
Planta Med. 1996 Jun;62(3):241-5. Related Articles, Links Antiviral and antiphlogistic activities of Hamamelis virginiana bark.Erdelmeier CA, Cinatl J Jr, Rabenau H, Doerr HW, Biber A, Koch E.Dr. Willmar Schwabe Arzneimittel, Research and Development, Karlsruhe, Germany.
A crude hydroalcoholic extract from Hamamelis virginiana bark was subjected to ultrafiltration (UF) with a cut-off limit of 3 kDa to obtain a higher and a lower molecular weight fraction. Characterisation of the fractions was attempted with TLC, HPLC, acidic hydrolysis, and chromatography over Sephadex LH-20. The UF-concentrate was shown to consist mainly of oligomeric to polymeric proanthocyanidins (PA). This fraction was found to exhibit significant antiviral activity against Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1). In addition, the UV-concentrate displayed radical scavenging properties, inhibited alpha-glucosidase as well as human leukocyte elastase (HLE), and exhibited strong antiphlogistic effects in the croton oil ear edema test in the mouse. With the exception of the antioxidant potential and the inhibition of HLE-action the lower molecular fraction possessed weaker activities and contained mainly hamamelitannin, catechin, and further, unidentified constituents.
Phytochemistry. 2001 Nov;58(6):949-58. Related Articles, Links
High molecular compounds (polysaccharides and proanthocyanidins) from Hamamelis virginiana bark: influence on human skin keratinocyte proliferation and differentiation and influence on irritated skin.
Deters A, Dauer A, Schnetz E, Fartasch M, Hensel A.Hochschule Wadenswil, University of Applied Sciences, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Glycopharmacy Research Group, Gruental, CH-8820, Wadenswil, Switzerland.
Although extracts from Hamamelis bark have long been used in therapy of skin diseases and in cosmetic formulas there are only few pharmacological investigations verifying the activity of distinct Hamamelis bark constituents. Therefore two major classes of constituents, namely polymeric proanthocyanidins and polysaccharides were isolated from Hamamelis bark and tested concerning their influence on proliferation and differentiation of cultured human keratinocytes. While the polysaccharide fraction, consisting mainly of arabans and arabinogalactans, did not effect human keratinozytes, the proanthocyanidins strongly increased the proliferation of the cells, while the differentiation was not influenced significantly. Within a preliminary cumulative in vivo study on SLS-irritated skin, proanthocyanidins (ProcyanoPlus) were proven to reduce transepidermal water loss and erythema formation. Furthermore, a clinical scoring indicated that procyanidins can influence irritative processes significantly.
Dermatology. 1998;196(3):316-22. Related Articles, Links Anti-inflammatory effect of hamamelis lotion in a UVB erythema test.
Hughes-Formella BJ, Bohnsack K, Rippke F, Benner G, Rudolph M, Tausch I, Gassmueller J.BioSkin, Institute for Dermatological Research and Development, Hamburg, Germany.
Although Hamamelis virginiana has long been used in the traditional treatment of skin diseases, there are few controlled clinical studies defining the extent of its anti-inflammatory action. OBJECTIVE: The anti-inflammatory efficacy of pH5 Eucerin aftersun lotion with 10% hamamelis distillate, the vehicle and a prior aftersun formulation were tested in 30 healthy volunteers using a modified UVB erythema test as model of inflammation.
Four UVB doses ranging from 1 to 2 MED were evaluated in each subject. Test fields on the back were treated occlusively for 48 h following irradiation. Chromametry and visual scoring were used to determine the degree of erythema in the treated fields and an untreated, irradiated control field 7, 24 and 48 h after irradiation.
Erythema suppression ranged from approximately 20% of 7 h to 27% at 48 h in the hamamelis fields. A suppression of 11-15% was recorded in the fields treated with the other lotions. Significant differences were noted between hamamelis and these lotions.
These data provide evidence for an anti-inflammatory action of the aftersun lotion with 10% hamamelis and support the usefulness of the UVB erythema test with multiple UV doses for the testing of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents.J Dermatol Sci. 1995 Jul;10(1):25-34.
Related Articles, Links Protective activity of hamamelitannin on cell damage of murine skin fibroblasts induced by UVB irradiation. Masaki H, Atsumi T, Sakurai H.Shiga Central Laboratory, Noevir Co. Ltd., Youkaichi, Japan.
The protective activities of hamamelitannin (2',5-di-O-galloyl-hamamelose) in Hamamelis virginiana L. and its related compound, gallic acid, on damaged murine skin fibroblasts induced by UVB irradiation were investigated. In order to exclude the UV absorbing effect of the compounds, the protection study was performed such that the fibroblasts were pretreated with hamamelitannin or gallic acid for 24 h before UVB irradiation. At 200 microM concentration, hamamelitannin gave the higher survival of 72.6 +/- 0.4% in comparison with that of gallic acid (35.5 +/- 1.0%), while UVB absorbers such as 2-ethylhexyl p-methoxycinnamate and hexylbenzoate did not show such protection. The scavenging activities of hamamelitannin and gallic acid against active oxygens such as superoxide anion radicals, hydroxyl radicals and singlet oxygens were evaluated using electron spin resonance (ESR-spin trapping method).
Hamamelitannin and gallic acid showed potent scavenging activities against all active oxygens tested. Furthermore, the association of hamamelitannin to fibroblasts was examined by comparing it with that of gallic acid, and the following results were obtained: (1) hamamelitannin reduces the reaction rate of liposome entrapped-nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) with external superoxide anions, and (2) several glycosides associate with fibroblasts.
From these results, it was concluded that hamamelitannin protects murine fibroblasts against external active oxygens by associating with the cell surface through its sugar moiety.
Phytother Res. 2000 Dec;14(8):612-6. Related Articles, Links Antioxidants in medicinal plant extracts. A research study of the antioxidant capacity of Crataegus, Hamamelis and Hydrastis.Periera da Silva A, Rocha R, Silva CM, Mira L, Duarte MF, Florencio MH.Laboratorio de Genetica da Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, 1600 Lisboa, Portugal.
The antioxidant capacity of extracts of Crataegus oxyacantha, Hamamelis virginiana, Hydrastis canadensis, plants native to Europe and North America which have long been used in herbal medicine for the treatment of cardiac and circulatory functions, has been investigated. The total antioxidant potential conferred by all hydrogen donating antioxidants present in these extracts has been assessed by the ABTS assay and the relative order of antioxidant potential has been established. Gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS) has been used for the chemical identification of the antioxidant volatile compounds present in the extracts. The GC-MS data were related to the results obtained using the ABTS assay.
Biol Pharm Bull. 1995 Jan;18(1):162-6. Related Articles, Links Active-oxygen scavenging activity of plant extracts.Masaki H, Sakaki S, Atsumi T, Sakurai H.Shiga Central Laboratory, Noevir Co., Ltd., Youkaichi, Japan.
To find antioxidative compounds present in plants, 65 types of plant extract were tested using the neotetrazolium method for evidence of superoxide anion-scavenging effects and 7 plant extracts were selected for further investigation. The activity of active-oxygen scavengers such as superoxide anion radicals, hydroxyl radicals, singlet oxygens and lipid peroxides in the 7 plant extracts (Aeseclus hippocastanum L., Hamamelis virginiana L. Polygonum cuspidatum Sieb., Quercus robur L., Rosemarinous officinalis L., Salvia officinalis L. and Sanguisorba officinalis L.) was examined in detail by both ESR spin-trapping and malondialdehyde generation. Furthermore, the active-oxygen scavenging activity of these plant extracts was evaluated using a murine dermal fibroblast culture system. Both Aeseclus hippocastanum L. and Hamamelis virginia L. were found to have strong active-oxygen scavenging activity of and protective activity against cell damage induced by active oxygen. Both Aeseclus hippocastanum L. and Hamamelis virginiana L. are proposed as potent plant extracts with potential application as anti-aging or anti-wrinkle material for the skin.
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Summary: McConnell-Brue's Principles of Economics, 16e is the best-selling Principles of Economics textbook and has been teaching students in a clear, unbiased way for 40 years. The 15th edition grew market share because of its clear and careful treatment of principles of economics concepts, its balanced coverage, and its patient explanations. More students have learned their principles of Economics from McConnell-Brue than any other text; 12 million of them. The 16th edition ...show more is a revision that delivers a tight and modern book. ...show lessEdition/Copyright: 16TH 05
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Changing lives, one student at a time.
The mission of the University of California, Merced, Police Department (UCMPD) Mentor Program is to empower at-risk youth in our community and guide them in making positive life choices that enable them to maximize their personal potential through community service, outreach and academic opportunities.
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Your gift to the UCMPD Mentor Program provides needed resources that provide for materials, transportation, nourishment and recreation for mentoring our at-risk youth.
The program utilizes UC Merced student mentors and adult volunteers, who commit to support, guide and befriend a young person for a period of at least one year. By becoming part of the social network of adults and community members who care about the youth, the mentor can help youth develop and reach positive academic, career and personal goals.
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Saturnís southern polar region is haunted by a number of dark storms in this image, including one storm at right of center with a slight brightening around its boundary.
The image was taken with the narrow angle camera on August 10, 2004, from a distance of 8.6 million kilometers (5.3 million miles) from Saturn through a filter sensitive to infrared light. The image scale is 51 kilometers (32 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The imaging team consists of scientists from the US, England, France, and Germany. The imaging operations center and team lead (Dr. C. Porco) are based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
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Book Description: You want to make a fictional world. Twenty authors want to help. There's a moment when you can close your eyes and see a world of your own making. It might start from a grain of sand, the way light filters through the trees, the feel of satin robes, the smell of cooking soup, or simply a wish for somewhere, somewhen else. It happens for different reasons for different people. Something, anything can pull your mind from the boundaries of our mundane world and set it to creating somewhere else. Featuring Maurice Broaddus, Tim Waggoner, Matthew Wayne Selznick, Donald J. Bingle, Janine Spendlove, Bryan Young, and fifteen more authors, these essays range from crafting believable ecosystems, creatures, and legal systems to the ways you can most effectively share your world with your audience. Eighth Day Genesis is meant to help writers with their worlds. The depth of your world is important…even essential. Worlds should be able to be touched, smelled, seen, and heard. Each of these things is vital to creating reality. The smallest details can illuminate volumes. It is surprising what details with bring forth entire feelings, associations, and images. Stereotypes can be broken, archetypes deviated from, and wonder spilled forth like gossip from an old friend. This book will help you fill in those details and create the world you've always imagined.
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Fight back by backing budget, school board urges
After months of debate, the Cowichan Valley School Board has sealed its sentence and presented an illegal deficit budget to the B.C. government.
Board Chair Eden Haythornthwaite isn't giving up yet, she told SunFM News that support from the community has come forward, which she believes may sway the government.
“Cowichan Tribes has passed a resolution supporting both our restoration budget and supporting our board, maintaining our elected representatives, and they are also seeking the same support from the Assembly of First Nations. And I am hoping that this is the sort of thing that will allow the government to review their engagement and to wish to sit with us.”
Haythornthwaite said despite Education Minister George Abbott stating they would be fired if they sent in a deficit budget, she still thinks they can talk this out.
“It is not that I believe they are being untruthful, but I do think that, very often when governments are speaking to the press or sort of making public pronouncements, they may take a somewhat more, not exactly bellicose, but certainly assertive stance, then they may be actually prepared to take in the long run.”
She said they are hopeful the provincial government will recognize that what they call a "restoration budget" was their only response to the "bleak learning conditions created by underfunding."
The board is showing a $3.8 million deficit; Minister Abbott has said that all other districts in the province are showing him a balanced budget.
Hathornthwaite believes if the community comes together and supports the board’s budget, the government will have to listen and come to the negotiation table.
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The Pascha Homily of St. John Chrysostom
If any man be devout and love God, let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast.
If any man be a wise servant, let him rejoicing enter into the joy of his Lord.
If any have labored long in fasting, let him now receive his recompense.
If any have wrought from the first hour, let him today receive his just reward.
If any have come at the third hour, let him with thankfulness keep the feast.
If any have arrived at the sixth hour, let him have no misgivings; because he shall in no wise be deprived therefore.
If any have delayed until the ninth hour, let him draw near, fearing nothing.
If any have tarried even until the eleventh hour, let him, also, be not alarmed at his tardiness; for the Lord, who is jealous of his honor, will accept the last even as the first; he gives rest unto him who comes at the eleventh hour, even as unto him who has wrought from the first hour.
And he shows mercy upon the last, and cares for the first; and to the one he gives, and upon the other he bestows gifts.
And he both accepts the deeds, and welcomes the intention, and honors the acts and praises the offering.
Wherefore, enter you all into the joy of your Lord; and receive your reward, both the first, and likewise the second.
You rich and poor together, hold high festival.
You sober and you heedless, honor the day.
Rejoice today, both you who have fasted and you who have disregarded the fast.
The table is full-laden; feast ye all sumptuously.
The calf is fatted; let no one go hungry away.
Enjoy ye all the feast of faith: Receive ye all the riches of loving-kindness.
Let no one bewail his poverty, for the universal kingdom has been revealed.
Let no one weep for his iniquities, for pardon has shown forth from the grave.
Let no one fear death, for the Savior's death has set us free.
He that was held prisoner of it has annihilated it. By descending into Hell, He made Hell captive.
He embittered it when it tasted of His flesh. And Isaiah, foretelling this, did cry:
Hell, said he, was embittered, when it encountered Thee in the lower regions.
It was embittered, for it was abolished.
It was embittered, for it was mocked.
It was embittered, for it was slain.
It was embittered, for it was overthrown.
It was embittered, for it was fettered in chains.
It took a body, and met God face to face.
It took earth, and encountered Heaven.
It took that which was seen, and fell upon the unseen.
O Death, where is your sting? O Hell, where is your victory?
Christ is risen, and you are overthrown!
Christ is risen, and the demons are fallen!
Christ is risen, and the angels rejoice!
Christ is risen, and life reigns!
Christ is risen, and not one dead remains in the grave!
For Christ, being risen from the dead, is become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. To Him be glory and dominion unto ages of ages. Amen.
About St. John Chrysostom
St. John Chrysostom ("The Golden Tongue") was born at Antioch in about the year 347 into the family of a military-commander, spent his early years studying under the finest philosophers and rhetoricians and was ordained a deacon in the year 381 by the bishop of Antioch Saint Meletios. In 386 St. John was ordained a priest by the bishop of Antioch, Flavian.
Over time, his fame as a holy preacher grew, and in the year 397 with the demise of Archbishop Nektarios of Constantinople - successor to Sainted Gregory the Theologian - Saint John Chrysostom was summoned from Antioch for to be the new Archbishop of Constantinople.
Exiled in 404 and after a long illness because of the exile, he was transferred to Pitius in Abkhazia where he received the Holy Eucharist, and said, "Glory to God for everything!", falling asleep in the Lord on 14 September 407.
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Bone is a living tissue; the body constantly makes new bone and removes old bone. During early childhood and adolescence, the body produces new bone faster than it removes the old. By about age 30, bones reach their peak mass.
Many lifestyle choices influence bone health. Smoking, alcohol abuse, physical inactivity, a diet low in calcium and vitamin D, and certain drugs can lead to bone loss, while proper nutrition and regular weight-bearing exercise can help strengthen bones. Recent research suggests that certain fats in the diet contribute to bone loss, while others may help new bone to form.
The new study examined 78 16-year-old boys and followed up with them during the next eight years to see what effect different fatty acids had on their bone growth. Higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids were associated with greater bone density at age 22 and with gains in bone density in the spine between ages 16 and 22. DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) seemed to contribute most of the bone-building effect.
“We found that concentrations of omega-3 fatty acids, especially DHA, were positively associated with peak bone mineral density in young men,” the authors said in their conclusion.
Omega-3 fatty acids, including DHA, have powerful anti-inflammatory actions and can be useful in treating conditions like asthma, heart disease, depression, and allergies. Fatty fish are the richest food sources of DHA. Try these tasty options:
Other omega-3 fatty acids are in plant foods like soybeans, walnuts, and flaxseeds. The fatty acids in these foods can be partially converted to DHA, but the conversion may not be enough to have the same beneficial effects as DHA from fish oil.
While some risk factors for osteoporosis can’t be changed—such as gender and ethnicity—diet is one thing that can be controlled. By eating a diet rich in calcium and fatty fish, and getting plenty of physical exercise and vitamin D, young people may be able to build strong bones that can last a lifetime.(Am J Clin Nutr 2007;85:803–7)
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GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on Laboratory Refrigerators and Ovens markets. The global market for Laboratory Refrigerators and Ovens is projected to reach US$1.2 billion by 2018. Growth in the market would be primarily driven by new innovations on the product front in the Laboratory Refrigerators and Freezers space, and increasing number of applications in case of Laboratory Ovens.
San Jose, CA (PRWEB) October 08, 2012
Follow us on LinkedIn – In recent times, energy efficiency has emerged as the major factor influencing the choice of laboratory refrigerators/freezers as well as laboratory ovens among end-users. This can be mainly attributed to the topical rise in operating costs in recent times, due to which laboratories across the globe are faced with the compelling need to optimize expenditures. Accordingly, laboratories are taking a closer examination of various product aspects, such as sample compatibility, storage capacity, energy consumption as well as rates and generation of noise and heat in smaller areas, before making a purchasing decision. Laboratory refrigerators/freezers, unlike conventional food storage refrigerators, are usually equipped with mechanically circulated air system, sturdy cabinet and an air-cooled refrigeration system. In order to provide efficient laboratory refrigeration systems there is a need for designing systems that remove heat and yield low temperatures.
Over the past few years, the global laboratory refrigerators and freezers market has been witnessing new innovations on the product front. Some of these innovations such as ejector-expansion refrigeration, the Stirling engine, magnetic cooling, phase-change gels and thermoacoustic refrigeration are slowly being incorporated into the products. Also, the laboratory refrigerators/freezers market is expected to witness high levels of innovation concerning alternative refrigerants in the upcoming years. In fact, the development of effective and safe alternative refrigerants is expected to take centre stage, and even spearhead future innovations in the market over the next few years. The segment is also witnessing a rising popularity of hydrocarbon freezers in recent times. This trend can be primarily attributed to the benefits that hydrocarbon technology offers.
On the other hand, growth in the laboratory ovens space would mainly stem from expanding applications. Laboratory ovens are generally used for heating the samples gently, preparing or curing composites and materials, regenerating catalysts and desiccants, and drying heat-resistant equipment and glassware. Of late, however, laboratory ovens are finding use in a variety of new applications. For instance, chemists have started using laboratory ovens for removing solvents and drying thin film batteries. Additionally, laboratories in the food industry sector are using laboratory ovens for desiccating the samples and determining their moisture content.
As stated by the new market research report on Laboratory Refrigerators and Ovens, the US represents the largest regional market for laboratory refrigerators and ovens in the world. However, majority of the growth is expected to emanate from Asia-Pacific, driven by enhancement in research and development initiatives across the region. Accordingly, the Asia-Pacific market for laboratory refrigerators and ovens is forecast to grow at a compounded annual rate of around 7.0% over the analysis period.
Major players in the global marketplace include Carbolite Ltd., Chart Industries Inc., Marvel Scientific, New Brunswick Scientific Co., NuAire Inc., Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd., SPX Corp., Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Thermogenesis Corp., among others.
The research report titled “Laboratory Refrigerators and Ovens: A Global Strategic Business Report” announced by Global Industry Analysts, Inc., provides a comprehensive review of market trends, issues, drivers, company profiles, mergers, acquisitions and other strategic industry activities. The report provides market estimates and projections by value (in US$ million) for major geographic markets including the United States, Canada, Japan, Europe (France, Germany, Italy, UK, and Rest of Europe), Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Rest of World.
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Global Industry Analysts, Inc., (GIA) is a leading publisher of off-the-shelf market research. Founded in 1987, the company currently employs over 800 people worldwide. Annually, GIA publishes more than 1300 full-scale research reports and analyzes 40,000+ market and technology trends while monitoring more than 126,000 Companies worldwide. Serving over 9500 clients in 27 countries, GIA is recognized today, as one of the world's largest and reputed market research firms.
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Your kitchen is filled with many wonderful foods and cooking tools in a variety of colors, sizes, and shapes. It is the perfect laboratory for exploring some of the first topics children learn in school: color, shape, and size. Understanding these concepts is important because your child uses them in observing, comparing, and discussing all she sees and encounters. The ability to notice, use, and voice similarities and differences are at the heart of beginning math, science, and reading skills. So take a look around your kitchen and try the ideas below, or your own, to see how many different ways you and your child can celebrate these three basic concepts with food!
Have an orange meal. One way to focus on a particular color is to have a meal all in the same color. This will help your child to not only focus on learning the name of a particular color, but also it will help her see the many different shades of a particular color. For example, not all oranges are the exact same shade! As you and your child prepare the meal, discuss the differences she notices in the colors. Are some dark and some light? Which foods have other colors mixed in? For an orange meal, consider serving macaroni and cheese, sweet potatoes, carrot sticks, and orange juice.
Bake a rainbow cake. This cake has a surprising secret!
Make your favorite angel-food cake mix, and divide the batter into three bowls.
Add four drops of a single food color into each bowl. (Try using the primary colors of red, yellow, and blue.)
Randomly drop the colored batter by big spoonfuls into a prepared cake food pan, and bake according to package directions.
- Ask a question: What will the cake will look like when it comes out of the oven? The surprise is that at first the cake looks brown (and thus a bit disappointing). But when you and your child carefully cut the cake (with a serrated knife, in a sawing movement), you both will see how the colors mixed to make a rainbow inside. Beautiful!
Make green eggs and ham. Add a few drops of green food coloring to scrambled eggs. Do the green scrambled eggs taste different than yellow scrambled eggs?
Be a color scientist. Compare the taste of brown rice versus white rice; orange sweet potato versus white potato; and red grapes versus green grapes. Do the different colors have different tastes?
Eat a square meal. We have all heard of the importance of eating a square meal of healthy foods, but why not have a really "square" meal? Serve waffles (big and little squares) with a side dish of pineapple chunks for breakfast. Have a snack of square cheese slices on square crackers placed on a square napkin. As you are preparing and enjoying your meals, ask your child to notice the similarities and differences between the different squares. Help her notice that all the squares have four sides, but can be various sizes. For a fun challenge, give your child a slice of pre-wrapped American cheese. As she unwraps it, ask her how she can fold her cheese square into a triangle (point to point).
Make shape kebobs. Patterning is an important part of learning how to use shapes mathematically. Experiences with patterns help your child understand the concept of a number line. You and your child can use stick skewers to make a repeating shape kebab pattern with square pineapple cubes, banana rounds, and triangles cut out of melon pieces. Ask your child to say the shape names as you skewer your fruit kebabs, repeating the "square-circle-triangle" pattern along the stick. Voicing the pattern helps your child hear and feel the pattern, as well as see it.
Use cookie cutters for tea sandwiches. Celebrate all shapes by using shaped cookie cutters (in a heart, circle, and so on) to make sandwiches for a dainty tea party. Spread bread with cream cheese, and use the cutters to cut the bread into different sandwich shapes. Try mixing shapes by topping the sandwiches with differently shaped toppings, such as a cucumber or tomato slice on square bread, or a triangle of cheese cut from a square on a round sandwich. Talk about the shape names as you prepare the sandwiches. How is a triangle different from a square? How is a circle different from both of them?
Bake little, medium, and big cookies. Use graduated-size (small, medium, large) star-shaped cookie cutters to make simple sugar cookies from your favorite recipe. Ask your child to line up the cookies for icing in the order of their size. You will be asking her to use the math skill of seriating — core to understanding the number line. Ask your child, "What size is this cookie? Which is the largest cookie?"
You bake big, she bakes small. When you bake cakes or breads, double your recipe so that you can use your regular-sized pan and your child can use mini tins or loaf pans. Invite her stuffed animal friends, and share a big and little meal together! Ask a question: Does food in different sizes taste different?
Have a taste test to compare foods in various sizes, such as regular and cherry tomatoes, miniature squash and normal-sized squash, or small, medium, and large pretzels. Ask, "How do they taste? Which do you like best?"
Eat by Color
- red-skinned potatoes
- red peppers
- tomato sauce
- baby beets
- sweet potatoes
- acorn squash
- mango juice
- yellow beans
- yellow squash
- tiny (Chinese) corn
- corn muffins
- salad greens
- broccoli flowers
- mashed potatoes
- vanilla ice cream
- peeled apples
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The European Central Bank pondered an interest rate cut on Thursday and predicted the euro zone economy would shrink again in 2013, leaving the door open to a possible reduction in borrowing costs early next year.
ECB President Mario Draghi said the policymaking Governing Council held a wide discussion on interest rates before opting to leave them on hold. The euro fell against the dollar and the yen in response.
The Council also touched on the idea of cutting its deposit rate into negative territory. By effectively charging banks for their deposits rather than paying them interest, the ECB could push banks to put their money to work elsewhere.
"There was a wide discussion ... but the consensus was to leave the rates unchanged," Draghi told a news conference, a hint that opinions differed about what course to take. When there is unanimity, the ECB chief generally says so.
In the end, the ECB left its main interest rate at a record low 0.75 percent for the fifth month running despite new forecasts which suggest the euro area economy will contract next year as it has this. It left the deposit rate at zero.
On the idea of negative deposit rates, Draghi said: "We briefly touched upon the complexities that such a measure would involve and possible unintended consequences, but we didn't elaborate any further."
The bank's new staff projections put gross domestic product in a range of falling by 0.9 percent to growing by just 0.3 percent next year, suggesting contraction is far more likely than not. Draghi said downside risks prevailed.
In September, the ECB's staff had penciled in a significantly higher range of -0.4 to +1.4 percent for the euro area economy.
"The somewhat downbeat ECB forecasts, the somber tone of the ECB statement and Draghi's admission that the ECB had a 'wide discussion' over many issues including a potential rate cut also keep the door open for a cut in early 2013," said Berenberg Bank economist Holger Schmieding.
The Governing Council's decision to leave its main interest rate unchanged for now matched economists' expectations in a Reuters poll, which also showed opinion was split down the middle over the chances of a cut early next year.
"Later in 2013, economic activity should gradually recover as global demand strengthens and our accommodative monetary policy stance and significantly improved financial market confidence work their way through the economy," Draghi said.
But a political impasse over the United States' fiscal policy, which could presage steep tax hikes and budget cuts if a deal is not reached, could also dampen sentiment for longer, he said.
The level of uncertainty was reflected in the ECB's first attempt to forecast 2014, for which it penciled in growth of between 0.2 and 2.2 percent. The midpoint forecast for 2012 was pushed slightly lower to -0.5 percent.
The ECB will also continue to supply euro zone banks with all the liquidity they ask for in the central bank's refinancing operations at least until July 2013, Draghi said.
WAITING FOR SPAIN
While financial markets have calmed since the European Union and the International Monetary Fund put in place further steps to help Greece, and the ECB promised to do what it takes to preserve the euro, the bloc's economy has sunk into recession from which it shows few signs of emerging soon.
An inflation forecast of 1.1 to 2.1 percent next year -- compared with the ECB's target of close to but below two percent -- means there appears to be plenty of room to cut rates further.
But some at the central bank are wary of taking any action that could see the bloc's governments soft-pedal on budget consolidation efforts. Others, it seems, feel the economy warrants more stimulus now.
Market interest rates vary greatly across the 17-country bloc and the ECB is focused primarily on fixing what it calls the 'transmission mechanism' for passing on its rates to all corners of the euro area before.
The most obvious way of doing that would be using the ECB's yet to be used new bond-buying scheme, which could drive down government borrowing costs.
The ECB has not yet bought any sovereign debt under its new program -- dubbed Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) -- because Spain, which is seen as most likely to become the first country to make use of the new support measure, has not yet fulfilled the precondition of asking for help from the euro zone's rescue fund.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has said he wants assurances that ECB intervention would bring down Spain's debt yields, Draghi refused to commit to any targets for bringing down Spanish borrowing costs.
"The conditions under which the OMT is going to be activated are very straight," he said. "They don't talk about negotiations or a certain interest rate or anything like that."
(Writing by Mike Peacock/Paul Carrel. Editing by Jeremy Gaunt.)
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It's official: QE3 has created jobs.
Yes, that oversimplifies some key issues regarding cause and effect and data analysis. But the fact remains that just weeks after the Federal Reserve launched its $40 million monthly mortgage-bond-buying plan, with an open-ended mandate predicated specifically on employment gains, Friday's first post-QE3 monthly reading from the Labor Department showed the unemployment rate unexpectedly falling to 7.8% in September from 8.2% in August.
It was fitting timing for a report that looked unexpectedly impressive on the surface, but had many observers questioning the underlying math. Earlier in the week, Mitt Romney had revived a moribund campaign by using an aggressive, high-energy delivery to upstage a lackluster President Obama in their first debate. But it was viewed as a victory of style more than of substance, as political pundits subsequently criticized many of Romney's claims and statistics as misleading or simply false.
Similarly, the jobs report provided a flashy headline number—unemployment falling below 8% for the first time since Obama took office in January 2009—for the current administration to brandish during the final month of the presidential campaign. But skeptics quickly questioned the magnitude and convenient timing of such a drop. Former GE CEO Jack Welch even took to Twitter Friday with this characteristically brusque musing: "Unbelievable jobs numbers…these Chicago guys will do anything…can't debate so change numbers."
Beyond such partisan conspiracy-theorizing, even level-headed market observers raised questions about the numbers behind the drop in the unemployment figure, especially how much of it was due to an increase in part-time workers who would rather have full-time jobs. Of the 873,000 people the Bureau of Labor Statistics said found jobs last month, 600,000 had to settle for part-time work because it was all they could find. These involuntary part-time workers are counted in the so-called underemployment rate, and that rate didn't budge last month. It is still stuck at a woefully high 14.7%.
Stocks perked up immediately after the jobs report's release but quickly lost their enthusiasm. Treasuries sold off early but soon stabilized as people looked past the headline figure and decoded the underlying statistics. Ten-year note yields ended the week at 1.736%, up from 1.647% a week ago, and 30-year bond yields rose to 2.967% from 2.839%.
These Treasury levels have been remarkably consistent over the past month. Get used to that. The consensus among fixed-income fund managers is that there's almost nothing on the horizon for the remainder of 2012 that should push 10-year yields out of their current band, which is roughly between 1.6% and 2%. With an election next month and a fiscal cliff looming beyond that, people are going to keep parking their money in Treasuries. Meanwhile, the Brookings Institution on Friday projected the unemployment rate to remain constant at 7.8% over the next six months, making any further pre-election data surprises less likely.
ONE THING THAT HAS SHIFTED in the past few weeks post-QE3 is where income investors are putting their money. Funds and ETFs that invest in junk bonds—which are fresh off record-low yields and record-high dollar prices in September—have now seen two straight weeks of outflows after the torrential inflows during most of 2012 had raised concerns about overvaluation. Similarly, dividend stock funds saw weekly outflows for the first time since June, according to data provider EPFR Global.
On the flip side, EPFR says inflows to mortgage-backed bond funds—those buoyed most by the Fed—hit a 17-week high, while diversified global bond funds saw their second-highest weekly inflow total so far this year. Short-term corporate-bond funds received unusually strong inflows for the size of that asset class, while munis and emerging-market bonds saw continued steady inflows.
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Humans and mice have been close companions for thousands of years
Scientists say that studying the genes of mice will reveal new information about patterns of human migration.
They say the rodents have often been fellow travellers when populations set off in search of new places to live - and the details can be recovered.
A paper published in a Royal Society journal analyses the genetic make-up of house mice from more than 100 locations across the UK.
It shows that one distinct strain most probably arrived with the Vikings.
Rodents from Orkney are among those helping the scientists. It has been shown that mice from the islands have a DNA signature similar to their Scandinavian relations.
But these house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) were also found in areas around the Atlantic coast of Europe reached by the Norse explorers, said Professor Jeremy Searle, from York University.
"If we look at the genetic patterning of the mice, we find they have patterning that very much relates to human history; and so we get a particular genetic type of mouse that is found in the region where the Norwegian Vikings operated," he told BBC News.
"What this suggests to us is that the Norwegian Vikings were taking these mice around and they were taking a particular genetic type; because there are all sorts of genetic types and the particular type that happened to be where the first Vikings picked them up is the one that got spread around."
Much of Britain has another strain with genetic similarities to a type in Germany.
It is thought this rodent probably arrived from continental Europe with Iron Age people.
The humble house mouse has its origin as a species in Asia and migrated on foot to the Middle East, becoming firmly established in the first agricultural settlements - no doubt enjoying the abundant food to be found in grain stores.
"Interestingly, [the house mice] didn't migrate into Europe at the same time as agriculture, about 8,000 years ago," Professor Earle explained.
"They only migrated in about 3,000 years ago. And the reason for this is that it wasn't until the Iron Age that we got the development of large settlements in western Europe. The house mouse needs these large settlements in order to survive and out-compete the local field mouse."
Professor Searle said future studies with mice could help document more fine-scale Viking movements such as the colonisation of different parts of Faroe, Iceland and even North America.
Professor Searle and colleagues publish their research in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
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- "I have a bad feeling about this!"
- ―Wedge Antilles before he starts the mission
During this mission to the planet Destrillion in the year 3 ABY, Wedge Antilles was assigned to pinpoint critical targets in an Imperial Tibanna Gas facility for a squad of Y-wings to bomb. Antilles flew through the tunnels leading to the facility and engaged a new Imperial starfighter squadron. He subsequently took out the fighters and discovered that there was in fact no facility.
Alliance Intelligence received information about an Imperial tibanna gas installation conducting scientific weapons research in the Destrillion system. General Crix Madine was given a task force, including the ace pilots of Rogue Squadron to destroy the installation.
- "They've activated some sort of force field. I'm trapped!"
"Wedge, we can't reach you. You're on your own."
- ―Wedge Antilles and Crix Madine.
Commander Wedge Antilles of Rogue Squadron flew an A-wing and was in command of a squad of BTL Y-wing starfighters toward the facility. General Madine contacted him and informed him of his mission objectives. Antilles noticed the energy fields protecting the facility included a series of corridors and volunteered to fly through them. In the tunnel, Antilles encountered about two squadrons of TIE Hunters flying around a Tibanna gas platform. Antilles later relayed the presence of the squadron to Madine, and stated that he hadn't encountered them before, with Madine then deducing that they were most likely the Empire's new Hunter line of TIE fighters: The Hunters were a new TIE series designed to match the capabilities of the X-wings of the Rebel Alliance. Madine contacted Antilles and warned him of the dangers the new TIEs posed. Force fields activated, blocking the corridors. Antilles subsequently engaged the Imperial fighters and was able to destroy them with the help of his A-wing's missiles. With the TIES gone, the force fields deactivated. Antilles then contacted Madine, who ordered the pilot to continue into the second tunnel to locate the facility.Continuing to the end of the tunnels, Antilles discovered that there was no facility; there was just was a convoy of transports about to jump to hyperspace. Antilles contacted Madine with this fact, and Madine ordered him to return to the fleet. In truth, the battle was a diversion in order to lure a Rebel convoy near Dubrillion and destroy it using Dubrillion's superlaser.
Behind the scenesEdit
- "Infiltrate the Empire's secret research facility. Locate vital targets, and transmit their coordinates to the Y-wing groups."
- ―Mission briefing for "Deception at Destrillion"
This event was a mission appearing in the 2003 video game Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike. In the Developer's Commentary, it was revealed there was to be an extended mission, but was cut out for time. It would have involved an infiltration of the facility via a walker, and calling Y-wings targeting sensitive areas. The player was originally tasked with destroying a floating installation. The A-wing is the default craft for the mission but it is possible to fly another craft in later run-throughs.
The mission, "Deception at Destrillion," contained a tech upgrade. However, it was not within the Destrillion level itself. It was, however, in the Dubrillion half of the mission.
- Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike (First appearance)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
- ↑ This mission during Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike takes place in 3 ABY. Wedge Antilles becomes Rogue Leader after the Battle of Hoth, which The New Essential Chronology places in in 3 ABY.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike: The Official Nintendo Player's Guide
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LinuxCertified Announces its next Embedded and Real-Time Linux Development Training course.
LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, announced its next Embedded and Real-Time Linux Development class to be held in San Francisco Bay Area from February 8th - 10th, 2012.
The course covers the key issues in embedding Linux. Such questions as: why Linux, how to embed Linux, and how to measure and obtain real-time performance in Linux are examined. Taught by veterans in the field, this course provides an in-depth analysis of the subject. The course will be useful both for managers looking to identify correct tools and resources for their projects as well as developers looking to hone their skills before taking on a serious Embedded and Real-Time Linux project.
Details on this course are available at:
This workshop is also available as an on-site class throughout North America.
About LinuxCertified, Inc.
The mission of LinuxCertified, Inc is to help our clients benefit from significant savings of effectively using Linux and Open-Source software in their IT and development infrastructure. Our core offerings are:
- Linux trained and certified professionals
- Implementation and development services using Open-Source software
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This is why there will never be peace in the Middle East
|Ziad Al-Bandak, the Palestinian president's adviser for religious affairs, places flowers at the Auschwitz death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on July 27|
According to a Reuters story on NBC News, Hamas spokesman Fozzy Bear, sorry Fawzi Barhoum had this to say:
|Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum|
"It was an unjustified and unhelpful visit that served only the Zionist occupation," and "a marketing of a false Zionist alleged tragedy." and that the visit came "at the expense of a real Palestinian tragedy."I'm sure that 6 million murdered Jews would have loved to disagree with him. The real "Palestinian tragedy" Mr. Barhoum is that leaders like you continue to indoctrinate your people with messages of hate and blame as opposed to messages of peace and understanding.
I've said it before and I will say it again. There will NEVER be peace in the Middle East until there is not a single Jew on a single square foot of land in the Holy Land. Groups like Hamas and individuals like Mr. Barhoum continue to make my point.
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Cingular Wireless will turbocharge its data services in 2005 with the planned deployment of 3G technology that will initially deliver average data speeds of 400Kbps to 700Kbps, with bursts to several megabits per second, leaping past rival EV-DO technology that delivers 300kbp to 500kbp throughputs, with bursts up to 2.4Mbps in the Verizon network.
Cingular will begin to offer compatible handsets in the fourth quarter of 2005 from Motorola, Nokia and LG, and expects to offer 3G services in the top 100 markets by the end of 2006.
Cingular, the nation's largest carrier following its acquisition of AT&T Wireless, will deploy a technology called Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) with High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA). The technology can eventually deliver data downloads at theoretical bursts up to 14.4Mbps, exceeding the speeds of today's Wi-Fi hot spots.
UMTS/HSPDA will deliver such enhanced services as high-speed Internet access at wired broadband speeds, audio/video streaming for business customers, high-resolution digital-image and video sending and receiving, and advanced multiplayer gaming. Unlike other currently deployed cellular data technologies, UMTS also offers simultaneous voice and data sessions, enabling consumers to make a voice call while downloading e-mail or browsing the Internet.
For now, Cingular will continue to use GSM for voice and will dedicate UMTS for data, but UMTS can be used for voice in the future to expand voice capacity.
Cingular said it intends to make the high-speed network available to its regional and rural roaming partners.
Current Cingular subscribers can use EDGE technology to download data at speeds up to 135kbps in Cingular markets covering more than 260 million people.
Earlier this year, AT&T Wireless launched the first commercial UMTS wireless networks in the United States in Dallas, Detroit, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle. Those services, which currently lack HSPDA, deliver average throughputs of 220kbps to 320kbps, with bursts up to 384kbps. In the six markets, the carrier offers hybrid W-CDMA/GSM phones from Motorola and Nokia and a Lucent/Novatel PC Card through direct distribution channels. Those phones will be usable in Cingular's planned UMTS markets.
Cingular said its recent acquisition of AT&T Wireless provided the company with the spectrum needed to deploy UMTS nationwide. Cingular's Allover network covers 268 million people.
In integrating the AT&T and Cingular networks, Cingular said subscribers should begin experiencing fewer blocked calls and better in-building penetration.
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A fifth-generation New Zealander and MyHeritage user, Carol Marriott is working on a few mysteries of history involving her family, which arrived in 1842.
The Martha Ridgway was the sixth immigrant ship sent by the New Zealand Company.
Its second voyage left Liverpool on November 6, 1841, and arrived behind Boulder Bank in Nelson Haven on April 7, 1842.
Among the steerage class married couples were Charles, 30, and Sarah Inkersell, 32, who had registered with a New Zealand company agent in Burton-on-Trent, and Eli and Ellen Cropper, with their 3-month-old daughter Mary Ann, who had registered in Halifax.
In the overcrowded shared deck space surrounded by deaths, births, terrible storms and extreme temperatures, the two couples would have come to know each other well.
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In honor of Women’s History Month, much of this week’s Local Show was focused squarely on the influential women in Minneapolis’s rock scene. And what an interesting project it’s been, tracing everything back to the very beginning.
Many associate Babes and Toyland and the bands they would share bills with—Zuzu’s Petals, Smut, the Menstrual Tramps, etc.—with the beginning of the all-girl rock band boom here in the Twin Cities, but in reality the women who blazed the trail for the more genre-balanced scene we enjoy today actually got to work in the early ’80s.
One of those bands, Têtes Noires, actually holds the title of the first all-female band from Minneapolis. Of course, Minnesotan women’s history extends back much further than this—to this day, our most commercially successful group is still vocal trio the Andrews Sisters—but Têtes Noires emerged after a very male-dominated period of rock music in the Cities, and whether they knew it or not, they would stand and the forefront of a new era for women in Minnesota music.
Têtes Noires were active from 1983-1987 and independently released an EP and full-length, American Dream, before signing to Rounder Records. The sextet were known for intricate vocal harmonies (which, to my ear, sound an awful lot like the Andrews Sisters at times) and arty, experimental rock music; for the first part of their career they didn’t employ a drummer, and would rely on clapping and guitar and synth parts to keep the beat.
To learn more about Têtes Noires, I got a hold of members Camille Gage and Angela Frucci—and, as it turns out, Angela happens to be hard at work remixing and reissuing their debut full-length American Dream. Learn more about the group in the audio interview below.
The Clams emerged just a few short years later, playing their first gig in 1985. The quartet were a more straightforward rock group, and garnered frequent comparisons to the Rolling Stones. Though they didn’t release as many albums as Têtes Noires, they earned a reputation as a solid live act, and gigged everywhere from First Ave to the Stillwater state penitentiary.
In the clip below, hear frontwoman Cindy Lawson, drummer Karen Gratz, and bassist Patsy Joe reminisce about their time performing in the group.
Both groups also brought in lots of old photos and flyers to share, and I’ve scanned many of those in below.
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When it comes to buying a car, you’re often far better off seeking a loan directly from a bank or credit union than going through the dealership, because dealers often add hidden finance charges.
The group examined data from bonds backed by car loans and survey information from 25 auto finance companies with a combined 1.7 million accounts and found that dealers often marked up interest rates but didn’t disclose the markups. In 2009, the average markup was 2.47 percentage points, and the average extra payment was $714 per consumer over the life of the loan.
As car sales dipped in the slow economy, dealers felt pressured to make more money on the “back end,” as it’s known in the industry — that is, through making car loans and selling extras like accessories and service contracts to car buyers. Car sales dropped 20 percent from 2007 to 2009, but markup volume grew 24 percent during that period — to $25.8 billion from $20.8 billion — mostly due to increased markups on used cars, the report found.
While the markups can raise the cost of new car loans, used car loans usually get higher markups, as do borrowers with less than stellar credit histories. Say, for example, a borrower’s credit score qualifies him for a 60-month used car loan of $17,500 at 8 percent interest, but the dealer adds a markup of 2.5 percent. At 10.5 percent, the loan costs $1,278 more. (That amount is much higher than the average $714 because the average includes loans with no markups. Such loans are probably made to borrowers with very good credit, or those savvy enough to know what sort of rate they would qualify for based on their credit score, said Kathleen Day, spokeswoman for the Center for Responsible Lending.)
The extra charges are often particularly burdensome for less credit-worthy borrowers, and can increase the likelihood that such consumers will default on the loan or have the car repossessed, the report said.
Yet most consumers aren’t aware that dealers can mark up rates without their consent and often don’t know what the interest rate is on their car loan. Dealer finance staff members may tell buyers the rate quoted is “the rate that is available,” rather than the “best rate they qualify for,” to avoid legal challenges over deceptive practices, the report said. Consumers who said they believed their dealer gave them the “best” loan possible actually paid rates 1.9 to 2.1 percentage points higher than others with similar credit standing.
The report proposes having finance companies pay dealerships a flat fee for arranging loans, which would compensate them for their time but reduce the potential for abuse. A federal requirement for an interest rate disclosure, like those used for mortgage loans, is also warranted, the report said. (Sounds like yet another job for the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
Meantime, what can consumers do? The report makes the following suggestions:
- Consider seeking preapproval for financing from a bank or credit union before visiting the dealership. At the very least, it will provide a point of comparison if the dealer makes a loan offer.
- If you do obtain financing from the dealer, realize that everything in the loan is negotiable — including the interest rate.
- Check your credit scores ahead of time to help estimate what sort of interest rate you should be able to obtain.
Have you tried negotiating finance rates with a car dealer? What was the result?
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