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I have had a few friends ask about sleep training and emailed them my notes. I thought I would post them here too, in case anyone else finds them useful. I got a lot of advice from friends myself, especially Kate Pounder, for which I am eternally grateful. Also, I drew a lot of this from Baby Love, by Robin Barker, and Sleep Sense. And of course we nuanced it to suit our little bubba. We did the training at 12 weeks – some say to wait, but we couldn’t any more, as Ellie was refusing to sleep at all by then. Please add your advice too – every baby is different as we all know too well!
Here are some of my top tips for sleep training:
The objective is to teach your baby how to fall asleep on her own, in her cot. You want her to know her parents are never far away, and meanwhile, she is safe in her cot and able to fall asleep and go back to sleep, all by herself, from one sleep cycle to the next.
For the night time sleep: the book says that once the baby is about 6 kgs, they can sleep through the night i.e. 12 hours. Some babies may not last that long without a feed – you are going to be the best judge of this.
The following advice applies to the night time sleep AND naps. We found it was best to be consistent for naps and the night time sleep, so Ellie really got the message.
1. Make sure her room is quiet and dark. You may need to put up a blanket over the blinds. Make sure there is nothing in the cot apart from the mattress and sheet – no toys, no mobiles. No longer use dummies or any other pacifiers. If you need a sleep prop because the baby doesn’t suck her thumb, then use a small soft cloth or blanket, which the baby associates with sleep. But nothing that you are going to have to replace every hour (like a dummy) – use something they can get hold of themselves if they wake during the night and need it.
2. Make sure she is getting sleepy but is still awake before you put her in the cot. This means if possible, no falling asleep whilst feeding – I used to tickle Ellie’s feet so she did not fall asleep while feeding!
3. Have a simple routine pre-nap and night-time sleep. Eg for naps, we would always pick Ellie up, rock her a bit by the window saying “sssh” for about 30 seconds. Then we would put her in her sleeping bag and put her in the cot, all the while saying “ssh” and using the same words, e.g. “nap time” for naps and “sleepy time, night night” for the night time sleep. The night time sleep routine was a bit longer – i.e. when we thought she had about 20 minutes left of her awake time, we would do dinner, then bath, then feed, then the rocking/sssh ssh. We would always make the living room relatively dark before the night time sleep too – so when she came out of the bath, she understood that it was now night time.
4. When you put her in her cot, just give her a quick pat and ssh and then leave. Don’t linger. She is now learning to go to sleep by herself, without your help. If she starts crying once she is in the cot, wait for about 10 minutes if you can, before you go in to soothe her. If 10 minutes is a bit too hard on you, then try for 6.
5. When you go in to soothe her, just pat her a bit on the chest, whilst ssshing. Don’t spend too long there – less than a minute. You don’t even have to wait until he has stopped crying.
She will probably start crying again (if she ever stopped!). Try to wait a bit longer this time before you go in again. The books recommend you give her 10 minutes, then 20 minutes, then 30 minutes and so on. I say, just try to wait a bit longer each time – but do what is best for you. DO NOT PICK THE BABY UP unless there might be something wrong – e.g. poopy nappy – then you address this and put the baby straight back to bed. Do NOT feed the baby – if you really think she is thirsty, then give her some water in a bottle. She has to learn that crying, when you can reasonably assume she should be sleeping, will not lead to rewards any more.
6. Do the same things for naps. The key with naps is, DO NOT pick her up until she has been asleep. You now only reward SLEEP with being picked up, and nothing else. She might wake up after one cycle, and make some noises. Try and gauge whether these are “I am up and awake!” noises, or tired noises. If you think they are tired noises, you can ignore her and see if she re-settles. If she doesn’t resettle and actually starts full-on crying, but you think she should still be asleep, you can repeat the above process of patting, then leaving her for 10 minutes, etc. Personally I found this a bit hard to keep up for naps, so I would let her get up after one cycle if she seemed to be awake. This sometimes meant the next awake period was a bit cranky, but once she is up, she is up – no going to sleep on mummy, or ANYWHERE but the cot.
7. Once you start this training, try to stick to it as much as you can. Otherwise you are putting yourself through all sorts of agonies for nothing!
Here is some stuff you probably already know, but anyhow…
By about three months of age, babies can really only stay awake for about 1.5 hours. Ellie could sustain a bit less e.g. about 1.25 hours, but some babies can last longer. You are the best judge. Basically, by around 3 months, I would wait for the first yawn after an hour. As soon as I saw the second yawn, it was nap time. Other tired signs are not wanting to hold eye contact any more; grizzling; balling hand into fists; arching back. Once they start arching their backs, there is a good chance they are overtired and might cry a bit when they are put down. So be prepared for that .
Make sure the baby has expended a bit of energy whilst awake – e.g. wriggling, rolling, crawling, bouncing…. Otherwise they might not feel like sleeping even though they are tired (we have all been there…)
Night time waking:
You know best if your baby still needs feeds during the night. With Ellie, she didn’t really need night time feeds after 3 months. I knew this because once or twice, she woke up crying because there was a thunderstorm, so I went in to comfort her (I thought that was a reasonable reason for waking up, and warranted a cuddle) and offered her some milk, which she wasn’t really into. This happened twice, so I knew she wasn’t waking because she was hungry – so I knew I could leave her to sleep all night, even if she woke up and cried.
For night time waking, if you don’t think it is because of legitimate hunger, then repeat the same process outlined above in steps 4 and 5. Only get the baby up if you think there eight be something wrong – e.g. the baby has a cold and might need a drink of water, or has a poopy nappy, or a thunderstorm scared them awake. If you do get the baby up, don’t keep them up long, and don’t give them milk (unless you really think they are hungry). I would check Ellie’s nappy, keeping her in her room and keeping the lights low but bright enough for her to see me or Yen (for reassurance). Once we checked the nappy, offered her some water, and checked she was OK, she would be straight back into the sleeping bag, rock rock, sssh, then back in the cot.
Ellie got the hang of this after a few nights initially, but would keep crying for up to an hour some nights, for the next month. We just kept doing the same thing. Every few weeks, she would cry for up to an hour at the night-time bedtime, right until the age of about 12 months. This would happen if she was overtired, or if she was going through a “wonder week” (developmental phase). Sometimes she would wake in the middle of the night and cry for up to an hour. We just kept doing the same thing.
At about 10-12 weeks, Ellie started sucking her thumb. That was fantastic. If your baby doesn’t suck her thumb, she might like a security blanket (a small soft cloth) to hold or suck which she can associate with bed time. If you give her this, make sure it is something you can easily get a replica of in case you ever lose it. Do NOT give her a dummy or anything you will have to keep putting back in her mouth. Giv her something she can grab for herself.
Again you probably know this, but babies have sleep cycles of about 45-50 minutes. The first 20-25 minutes they are sort of dozing, so they can be accidentally woken really easily – you need to be fairly quiet! They will grizzle and cry and grumble too, or sing and coo. Ignore it unless it becomes proper crying, and then you start the 10 minutes, 20 minutes etc routine.
At about 20-25 minutes, they will fall asleep deeply for about 10 minutes. Yay!
hen they start coming back out of this for the remaining 20-25 minutes – sort of like dozing.
At about 45-50 minutes, they wake up fully and need to be able to get themselves back to sleep – this goes for naps and night-time, if the nap is meant to be longer than one cycle. This is where all your hard work pays off, because they have learned to get themselves back to sleep and don’t need your help.
Ellie went through a phase, at about 6 or 8 months I think, of only napping for one cycle at a time, four times a day. Before that, she had been having 2 hour naps or thereabouts. Eventually she consolidated again and had one or two longer naps of about 1.5 hours. I used to get her up when I thought she “sounded” awake – a bit hit and miss, but I wanted her to learn that she does get picked up after sleeping, if she is genuinely awake.
They are all different of course. Ellie was a good napper after she did the sleep training – I think she had a lot of catching up to do! She used to nap for a couple of hours at a time, with a shorter nap in the late afternoon. I think she used to nap four times a day, until she was about 6 months, then 3 times a day until she was about 9 or 10 months, and then 2 times a day (she still lodes this, but is in the process of dropping a nap).
The transitions to fewer naps can be tricky – when Ellie was dropping her late afternoon nap and going to 2 naps, I kept putting her down for the third nap because she was tired, but she would cry for about 50 minutes, not wanting to sleep. This left me in a bind because it was getting too late in the day to wait her out until she fell asleep, but if I didn’t, I would be rewarding crying and getting her up before she had fallen asleep! This was tricky because we started to undo some of the training – she started to cry before her night time sleep again.
So we stretched put her awake times for the morning and midday sessions, and dropped the third nap altogether – better to keep her up rather than undo her sleep training. So that worked.
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Last updated: April 19, 2012 - 7:47pm
State and local governments need better risk management processes for disasters, including cyberattacks, according to Andy Purdy, acting director of the National Cyber Security Division during the George W. Bush administration. Governments at all levels need be more proactive to prevent infiltration, Purdy said.
Purdy, now the chief cybersecurity strategist at Computer Sciences Corp., said that federal, state, local and private groups need more preventive planning to safeguard their data. Purdy is a former member of both the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the White House team that drafted the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. State and local decision-makers should ask questions that lead to assessments, Purdy said. “They need to have some idea of — and this deals with physical and cyber — what’s the risk profile. What do they need to do about it?” he said.
Comprehensive risk management was one of four strategic national priorities that Purdy outlined for improved national cybersecurity. All involve public-private collaboration:
- Assess risk and prioritize measures to mitigate risks to government systems.
- Create cyber-preparedness protocols and situational awareness for critical infrastructure.
- Delineate response actions.
- Continue research and development to ensure that everyone involved has the best actionable intelligence.
- Administration turns to industry for support on cybersecurity order
- Combating Billions of Cyber-Threats Requires International Collaboration
- US companies pushed to disclose cyber attacks
- White House: Executive order is 'not magical,' cyber bill still needed
- Break a wall of silence on cyberattacks
- Software developers are to blame for most cyberattacks, say security experts
- Brennan: Google attacks heighten concern about national security
- Sen McCain: Don't give Homeland Security lead in defending against cyberattacks
- Research Firm Predicts Federal Cyber-Security Market Surpassing $10.5 Billion by 2015
- Our cybersecurity needs to improve
- Cybersecurity: Time to Act?
- Without cyber response policies, U.S. can only denounce China attacks
- Security Breach May Have Compromised Federal Login Fobs
- Private US networks vulnerable to cyberattack - Pentagon
- DHS Sec Napolitano Gives Rundown on U.S. Cybersecurity Efforts
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This assessment is being put to the voters, due to a long-term issue that has plagued our fire district for decades. When Prop 13 was passed in 1978, the apportionments of taxes were allocated for levels of services at that point in time. Since East County was mostly rural, a very small proportion of our taxes were directed to the fire district.
Currently, East County has matured into a suburban/urban area, home to many families, commuters and new businesses. We have outgrown what was deemed to be adequate emergency services, which were fit for a rural community over three decades ago. The district has been underfunded for years and the reserve account has been exhausted.
We have seen our district struggle for many years, recently moving to local control but without any increased funding. Control of the district was transferred to a local board so it would be clear that necessary funding would remain local. With the lack of revenue, our firefighters have been responsible by doing more with less, but even that has not been enough.
Financial reserves have been spent down, and most recently several of our local fire stations had to be closed and remain shut. Without an immediate change in revenue, more remaining firehouses will be closed and the entire district would be cut to only three fire stations serving over 250 square miles.
In this very possible scenario, many communities will be without fire stations, fire engines or firefighters. This level of service would be completely unacceptable. When a major emergency occurs, all of our resources would be deployed, leaving the remaining communities vulnerable until engines from other agencies can backfill stations and assist with any other emergencies.
While fire department staffing varies slightly from agency to agency, the industry standard is the staffing of three firefighters per engine (often one of them trained as a paramedic). Having a paramedic with advanced life-saving skills first on scene can mean the difference between life and death. Further, OSHA standards mandate that a minimum of four firefighters must be on scene to enter a burning structure.
In far East County our fire district has been severely understaffed and unable to offer paramedic/advanced life support, first-responder services to the citizens that it serves.
Simply put, we would have only three fire stations to cover all emergencies in the district, which includes Brentwood, Oakley, Discovery Bay, Byron, Bethel Island, Knightsen and Morgan Territory. This is not a scare tactic, but is the reality facing every citizen served by the fire district.
The district does not have a spending problem – it has a revenue problem. Due to the nature of emergency response, it is equally as important to look at the district as a whole and not as a service to any one community. One structure fire, one large grass fire, one multi-casualty incident or one multi-vehicle accident will instantly deplete the resources from all the firehouses.
If we as citizens take ownership of our fire district and pass this measure, we will begin the recovery of our emergency services to a level that many expect when they are injured or are in need of fire suppression. As a community, we need to insure our safety and that of our firefighters.
Don’t be misled by arguments that are inaccurate or focused solely on anti-tax measures. If our emergency services diminish, we will likely see greater increases in insurance rates offsetting any “savings.” Measure S insures that we will have the fastest and best possible emergency care available.
We have an opportunity to save our fire district and begin implementing fire services that we can all be proud of and stand behind. As a community, the ultimate priority is public safety. Please join us in supporting Measure S.
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Music means different things to different people, even for deaf people. Music is able to do wonders: to cure a body and a soul. It can be a muse and the greatest helper. Music can be very different. Music is everywhere. Music which is created by people helps us to express ourselves and to understand others. It is an essential part of our life. Music is able to give us a relief, but on the other hand to become a torture. Music is the reason of rows between children and parents, but also the ground for friendship between them.
Music is so different, and it is very difficult to draw the line between different kinds of music. Like Avril Lavigne: she is a Canadian pop-star playing nice rock-music.
Avril Lavigne was able to hear music since she was just a baby. Music together with words was her aim. Avril Lavigne biography usually begins with the words "Anything, but ordinary"- that is the title of her song from her first album "Let go" and her motto.
She was a girl from a very ordinary little town but she was persistent enough to get what she has now. She was a boyish girl; making performance everywhere it was possible. She was singing in church choir, on town fairs and school performances. And once she was noticed by a person who helped her - yet a teenager - to move to Manhattan. And childish dreams came true to her life. She released her first album being just 18. Next year she got several prizes as the girl who released the best album of the year. Her motto: "Anything, but ordinary" sums up her life best.
Now she is working on her third album. The Avril Lavigne albums - "Let go" and "Under my skin" were a great success and it is the third best album in the world - only Eminem and Nelly managed to sell more copies of their albums. And it is surely anything, but ordinary.
Avril Lavigne loves to skate, to hunt, to play hockey. She is so happy to have an opportunity to travel around the world now with the big company of extreme sportsmen. And it is anything, but ordinary.
Avril Lavigne was just twelve, when she wrote her first song. Since 2 years old she was singing and imagining a several thousand crowd listening to her. She was so persistent in reaching her aim, even more persistent than some grown-ups. And it is anything, but ordinary.
She is quite willful, she insists on the idea that she is sincere - she sings, what she feels, she dresses in the way she prefers and she behaves as she wants. This teenage revolt drew much attention to her, but in her second album she turned out to be a professional musician and pop-singer -she has her own style, and everything in her new album is in accordance with the style. And it is anything, but ordinary.
Surely she is a very talented girl. She loves her guitar and even thinks it is able to cure her from different sicknesses and from feeling bad and sad. Avril Lavigne takes the guitar when she feels blue and needs someone to talk with. And it seems that honesty is the secret of success.
She is anything but an ordinary girl. We believe that she has many really amazing things in store for us. Let's go, girl. Here you are - anything, but ordinary. Enjoy the Avril Lavigne music!
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The procedure of eliminating contaminants and mucus from your large intestine and its walls is known as colon cleansing. If your large intestine is liberated from all the accumulated squanders over the years, you will be sure of a total excellent physical condition and you might lose a few pounds from your weight. The P&B shake is considered a natural colon cleansing formula that includes psyllium husk powder and bentonite clay. One of the solutions in a triumphant P&B colon cleanser is to drink plenty of water. However, you must not expect instant outcome from drinking P&B shake because you will only see the mucus being eliminated from your colon after several days of taking the formula. Here are some secrets on how to cleanse the colon with P&B shakes.
First, you have to get ready with the things needed in making the shake for colon cleansing. You have to prepare bentonite clay, psyllium husk powder, two glasses of water, measuring spoons and spoon.
Gauge one teaspoon bentonite clay and incorporate it to a glass of water you had previously prepared. Then you should measure one teaspoon psyllium husk powder and incorporate it to the glass of water containing bentonite clay. Whisk the mixture thoroughly and once the psyllium husk powder and bentonite clay had been dissolved thoroughly, you can drink the shake right away. Make sure to drink the prepared shake with an empty stomach. After gulping down the shake, drink the next glass of water you had previously prepared.
Do the same procedure by drinking two glasses of prepared shakes daily for about five to seven days. Bear in mind to drink the shake as soon as you wake up in the morning and prior to retiring at night.
For the second recipe, you have to prepare one tablespoon liquid bentonite in either pill or powder form. This must be desiccated first before utilizing by means of adding two tablespoons of water to one tablespoon of bentonite powder then leave the mixture overnight. The outcome must be a thick gel or similar to the texture of a yogurt. Prepare one to two tablespoons psyllium husks (whole, coarse, or powder) and eight ounces of drinking water or juice.
Incorporate one tablespoon of bentonite and one to two tablespoons of psyllium to eight ounces of water or juice. Stir very well then drink right away for the reason that the mixture will swell up if you are not going to gulp it down immediately and you can no longer drink it.
Begin by taking one shake daily while your body is still adjusting to the solution then slowly intensify it to as many as four daily. Make sure to take this P&B shake one hour before taking any food, medication or supplements and do not forget to drink lots of water because it will soak up water from your body.
The efficacy of P&B shakes when it comes to colon cleansing can be intensified if you are going to go on fasting. The initial effect of drinking P&B shake is a dark colored solid stool, but it will lighten gradually as a sign of development from the detoxification process.
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The Alliance aims to help decrease health care disparities and enhance the quality of health care by improving diabetes prevention and management services primarily in underserved low-income communities for people of color. We see the processes by which this impact is achieved as equal in importance to the outcomes realized. Through the five year experience, the Alliance will not only have a direct impact on clinical outcomes and the lives of underserved people, we will also learn what works, what doesn’t work, and how community collaboration and organizational change can sustain the most promising interventions.
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- Across the five grantee projects (RTI cross-site evaluation)
- Individually for each grantee project
- Quantitative and qualitative findings for both the cross-site and individual grantee evaluations
In addition, outcomes will be reported in the following areas:
- Patient stories
- Lessons Learned
- Sustained systems change efforts achieved by the five sites, e.g., changes in health care systems providing diabetes care, permanent employment of outreach staff or clinic staff, organizational policy changes, and so on).
Please direct questions regarding the Alliance evaluation activities to Julia Dodge, Deputy Director at: email@example.com
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Ten years ago Sue Monk Kidd was a traditionally grounded Christian writer. But like her engaging narrator Lily Owens, Kidd is on a spiritual journey, heralded by her 1996 nonfiction work The Dance of the Dissident Daughter and confirmed in this captivating first novel about love and forgiveness.
Midrash refers to the rabbinic tradition of interpretation that explores scripture beyond its literal meanings. The verse by verse interpretations generated by midrashic commentary bind the Talmud, the rabbinic traditions and the Bible into a complex, inexhaustible source of religious significance.
Set in 14th-century France during the time of the Inquisition against the heretics known as the Cathari, this is a story about love and obsession. Its passions finally achieve mature expression in an unlikely threesome: the sodomite cobbler Arnaud Lizier, his mute wife, Grazida, and the concupiscent priest of Montaillou, Pierre Clergue.
In the closing lines of Louise Erdrich's new novel, Father Damien Modeste, who has been the priest at the Objibwe reservation of Little No Horse for many years, is being buried in the nearby lake. "As the dark water claimed him, his features blurred. His body wavered for a time between the surface and the feminine depth below," Erdrich writes.
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Roaming the Australian Outback. Exploring the thriving metropolis of Sydney.
Wandering historic castles in Eisenstadt, Austria. Attending concerts in Vienna.
These once-in-a-lifetime experiences were everyday occurrences for Donald Pollock, professor of communications, and Kathleen Lamkin, professor of music, on their recent sabbaticals from the University of La Verne.
Pollock is no stranger to sabbaticals. He taught a semester at the University of Cheltanham and Gloucester, a Brethren Colleges Abroad school in England, on his last sabbatical. However, Pollock realized that he did not accomplish certain things he wanted to do for himself.
Six years later, Pollock decided to take another sabbatical – this time, for a whole school year.
In fall 2004, Pollock stayed in the area and continued to manage the LVTV station. He worked on various film projects and taped the theater department’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
On Jan. 31, Pollock, with his wife and two children in tow, ventured to Macquarie University outside Sydney, Australia. At the BCA sister-school, he enrolled in two classes: Introduction to Indigenous Studies and an Aboriginal art course, which was taught at a museum. Pollock was the first visiting academic in the university’s Indigenous Studies program.
“Macquarie has a huge international studies program,” Pollock said. “The budget of their international studies program is as big as the budget of the University of La Verne.”
In addition to his studies, Pollock’s main focus was interviewing up-and-coming Aboriginal filmmakers, whose talents are impacting today’s film world.
Pollock did much of his research at the Australian National Film School, which was located on the college’s campus.
“I watched a lot of movies,” Pollock said, laughing in retrospect. “I spent the first months just watching stuff.”
Pollock received a grant from ULV to put together video interviews and clips regarding the recent developments of Aboriginal films.
Pollock first visited Australia in 1987, where he was drawn to Aboriginal artwork. He notes that it was an “interesting time,” when many Aborigines started to attend art schools and, as a result, combined their traditional, cultural themes with modern techniques.
Twenty years later, Aborigines began to embark on another, more modern, art form: film.
Pollock said this led to an “explosion” of Aboriginal filmmakers over the past ten years.
“Until the English came, the Aborigines had a strong oral tradition,” Pollock said. “This tends to make them exceptional storytellers.”
The Aborigines are the original settlers of Australia, who have inhabited the continent for the past 50,000 years.
When Europeans wiped out much of their population in the late-1700s, many Aboriginal survivors were forced to live on the impoverished outskirts of urban areas or on reserved land, designated by the government.
Aboriginal people were denied basic rights, and many of their cultural traditions were muffled.
It was not until the mid-1960s that the Australian government slowly gave Aborigines certain freedoms the rest of the Australian public already had.
However, even today, many Aboriginal Australians struggle with poverty, unemployment and lack of education.
Pollock noted that many Aboriginal films dealt with the historic conflict between the “invaders” and the indigenous people.
“Their films are striking a cord with people around the world,” Pollock said.
In January, Pollock will attend a conference in Hawaii to talk about the world of video and television in central Australia throughout the last 20 years, mainly focusing on Aboriginal-produced work.
“Twenty years ago, they didn’t have the technology for TV in remote Australia,” Pollock said.
During his semester abroad, Pollock also explored various parts of the Australian Outback and traveled to the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, also a BCA sister-school. The University of Otago is the oldest college in New Zealand, founded in 1869.
Although Pollock is glad to be back at La Verne, he does miss certain aspects of living in another country.
“We’re all so busy here,” he said, “but in Australia, it is a much slower pace. It has been a much slower pace. It has been hard to readjust."
Meanwhile, 9,931 miles from Sydney, Lamkin braved the cold weather on her own sabbatical in Eisenstadt, Austria. Lamkin, who has visited Eisenstadt for the past 22 years, was researching newly discovered documents in the historic Forchtenstein Castle.
Lamkin first heard of these rare documents two summers ago when scholars in Eisenstadt found administrative papers, collected by the Esterhazy princes. Before her sabbatical began, scholars sent information, which served as “background reading” for Lamkin.
Also in preparation, she took a short trip to Austria in fall 2004, where she spoke with various archivists in Vienna, as well as editors and other experts.
On Jan. 7, Lamkin arrived in Eisenstadt. She found that the town was very supportive, welcoming her upcoming work.
“The town was excited,” Lamkin said. “They were thrilled that someone from California was doing research.”
Lamkin mainly focused on paperwork between 1790 and 1809, the last 19 years of composer Joseph Haydn’s life. She wanted to research all the musicians who worked with Haydn. The documents listed valuable information about the musicians, such as their names, their date of employment, music they performed and their salaries, as well as their marital status and hospital records.
Joseph Haydn was a composer who served as chief music director for the Esterhazy family. As part of his duties, he conducted an ensemble of 15 to 20 musicians and composed music his royal employers demanded.
Many historians have dubbed him the “father of the symphony and the string quartet” because he raised the bar in regards to artistic expression and sophistication, and paved the way for other musicians, such as Beethoven.
Initially, Lamkin’s goal was to write an article about what music was like in society during that particular time period. In the article, Lamkin included biographies of all the musicians listed in the royal documents.
Lamkin, with Austrian scholars Josef Pratl and Heribert Scheck, researched in Forchtenstein Castle every day to explore new material.
“The research was in old script,” Lamkin said. “An ‘A’ didn’t look like an ‘A’ and an ‘S’ didn’t look like an ‘S’. The different form of lettering was challenging and the spelling was not uniform. Many of the musicians’ names were also spelled differently.”
As Lamkin looked through hundreds of pictures on her computer, she remembered climbing a ladder and going through the unorganized, dusty paperwork, which was stacked in bundles shelf after shelf.
“The rooms [of the castle] were not lit and it was cold because there was no heat,” Lamkin said. “We had to wear coats every day because it was wintertime in Austria.”
However, Pratl, Scheck and Lamkin found one well-lit room in the castle and brought their computers to decipher and record the papers.
Due to the vast amount of information discovered, Lamkin’s article grew into 120 pages. It will now be featured in the second part of the Eisenstadt Haydn Reports Volume 5, an Austrian journal.
“It’s exciting to be on the cutting edge of something new,” Lamkin said. “I felt very lucky of this whole research process.”
Lamkin lived alone in an apartment for the duration of her trip. In her spare time, she met with old friends, who took her to dinners and to concerts in Vienna.
Lamkin returned to the U.S. in mid-March; however, her work was far from complete. She then spent much of her time writing.
Pratl and Scheck continued to send her more deciphered information they found, which she continued to incorporate in her work.
“I'm very excited for Dr. Lamkin regarding the prestigious opportunity she had this past spring in Austria,” ULV Professor of Music Reed Gratz said.
“As one of the leading Haydn scholars, this not only has contributed to her knowledge but to her status in the field of musicology as well.”
In the summer, Lamkin returned to Eisenstadt to show the castle’s archives to American musicologists. She then participated in the city’s classical music festival, which she and her husband, Michael Deane Lamkin, currently produce each year.
“It is good being back,” Lamkin said. “The sabbatical was very intense.”
However, the intensity has not completely disappeared since Lamkin settled into her usual routine at ULV. She continues to incorporate her colleagues’ new discoveries into her writings, while conducting classes.
“Sabbaticals are critical,” Lamkin said. “They enrich the faculty, scholarship and ultimately the students.”
Tracy Spicer can be reached at email@example.com.
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Celebrate Father's Day with special gift for dad - his good health
Alan Padua, M.D., a family practice specialist at St. Anthony's Family Medicine
Every June it’s the same old dilemma – what to get Dad for Father’s Day. The man can only wear so many ties and sweatpants; he already owns three sets of barbecuing utensils, and he still hasn’t broken the seal on that “bucket o’ nuts” you gifted him with last year.
What could you give him that would be both original and practical, but that also would let him know how much you love and appreciate him every day of the year? How about a gift of good health?
Men of all ages are notorious for avoiding visiting their doctors, unless it’s a real emergency. Yet, regular health screenings are the best way to detect signs of diseases before any symptoms are present.
Nothing could be simpler than a blood pressure check – the results of which could prevent a heart attack. A blood test for diabetes takes only minutes – and could prevent kidney failure and/or blindness. A cholesterol screening is equally quick and easy – and could reduce the risk of vascular disease and/or stroke.
Alan Padua, M.D., a family practice specialist at St. Anthony’s Family Medicine, offers the following suggested schedule for health screenings at any age:
Routine physical exam – schedule a preventive health visit every one to two years, beginning at age 40; beginning at age 50, schedule a visit every year.
Blood pressure – get tested at least every two years if your reading is below 120/80; get tested once a year if it’s between 120/80 and 139/89; discuss treatment with your doctor if your blood pressure is 140/90 or higher.
Cholesterol – starting at age 35, get a cholesterol test regularly. Ask your doctor how often you need your cholesterol tested. Frequency may vary, due to personal risk factors.
Diabetes – get screened for diabetes if your blood pressure is higher than 135/80 or if you take medicine for high blood pressure. Otherwise, ask your doctor how often you need to be tested. Frequency may vary, due to personal risk factors.
Colorectal cancer – get screened at age 50 (earlier if you have a family history of colorectal cancer). Several different tests can detect this cancer; ask your doctor which type and frequency of test is best for you.
Prostate cancer – have a digital rectal exam at age 40 (earlier if you have a family history) and annually thereafter. Ask you doctor about whether or not he/she recommends a PSA blood test.
Skin cancer – perform a self exam monthly and have a clinical exam every three years (more often if you have a family history of skin cancer).
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm – one-time screening for men, between the ages of 65 and 75, who have a history of smoking.
Additionally: be sure all immunizations are up to date, get a flu shot annually and a tetanus vaccination every 10 years. Talk with your doctor about other vaccinations you might need, such as shots to prevent pneumonia and shingles.
Now, print out this list, wrap it in pretty paper, tie it with a bow and present it to your dad on Father’s Day. Say, “I want you to live long and well and I will do whatever it takes to make that happen. I will make the appointment with your doctor, drive or accompany you to the doctor’s office and nag you until you agree to make the visit.
“Your health is important to me. You are important to me. Happy Father’s Day!”
St. Anthony’s Family Medicine is located at 12700 Southfork Road, Suite 230. To make an appointment with Dr. Alan Padua or any other St. Anthony’s Medical Center physician, call 314-ANTHONY (268-4669).
For information, please call our Health Access Line at 314-ANTHONY (268-4669) or 800-554-9550 or visit find a physician online.
At St. Anthony's, our vision is to be the area's premier health care organization
— and your first choice for health care services.
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WebMD Medical News
Laura J. Martin, MD
June 9, 2010 (Chicago) -- Supplements that contain a chemical found in green tea show promise for delaying or preventing the need for chemotherapy in people with early-stage chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
The chemical is called epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). In a small preliminary studyof 42 CLL patientswho took pills containing EGCG, about one-third showed a 20% or greater drop in their leukemia cell count that was sustained for at least several months.
Since the patients in the study had such early-stage disease that most had no symptoms, the FDA and the researchers agreed that a drop in leukemia cell count would be used as a surrogate marker for disease activity, says study head Tait Shanafelt, MD, a hematologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
In the 29 patients who had enlarged lymph nodes, 20 saw their node size cut in half or more following treatment, he tells WebMD.
Patients took the EGCG pills twice a day for six months. EGCG was generally well tolerated, but three patients had serious side effects: one had abdominal pain, one had severe fatigue, and one had substantially elevated liver enzymes.
The findings were presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting.
Laboratory studies in a variety of tumor types have shown that EGCG cuts off the nutrient-rich blood supply to tumors and directly kills off cancer cells, Shanafelt says. Last year his team published a small study showing EGCG appears to be safe.
If the findings are confirmed and long-term safety established in larger, longer studies, the hope is that EGCG supplements can delay or prevent chemo, he says.
CLL is a very slow growing leukemia, he says. "So for the 70% to 80% of patients diagnosed at an early stage, we wait for the development of symptoms to start chemotherapy," Shanafelt says.
The other potential niche is to use ECCG as maintenance therapy to prevent recurrence in patients who are in remission, Shanafelt says.
EGCG supplements can be bought at any health food store, and Shanafelt says he receives about one email a month from CLL patients who claim they help.
Pending further study, Shanafelt doesn't advise taking the supplements, which contain much more EGCG than you can get from green tea.
But if you are going to swallow them, at least tell your oncologist and get blood tests to check your liver enzymes every six weeks, he says.
Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center's John Byrd, MD, who served as discussant for the presentation, says that patients who saw early reports of effectiveness in the literature often ask him if they should be taking EGCG.
The new findings suggest EGCG is generally well tolerated and appears to have some benefit for some patients, he says.
But much more work is needed, Byrd says.
This study was presented at a medical conference. The findings should be considered preliminary as they have not yet undergone the "peer review" process, in which outside experts scrutinize the data prior to publication in a medical journal.
SOURCES:American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting 2010, Chicago, June 4-8, 2010.Tait Shanafelt, MD, department of hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.John Byrd, MD, associate director, clinical translational research, Ohio State University, Comprehensive Cancer Center-Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, Columbus.
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SHABBAT HOL HAMOED PESAH
April 15, 2006 - 17 Nisan 5766
Annual: Exodus 33:12 - 34:26 (Etz Hayim, p. 538; Hertz p. 362)
Maftir: Numbers 28:19 - 25 (Etz Hayim, p.932; Hertz p. 695)
Haftarah: Ezekiel 37:1 - 14 (Etz Hayim, p. 1308; Hertz p. 1015)
Prepared by Rabbi Michael Gold
Congregation Beth Torah, Tamarac, FL
Department of Congregational Services
Rabbi Paul Drazen, Director
Pesah celebrates the birth of the Jewish people as a nation. It tells the great story of redemption - we were slaves and now we are free. The observance of Pesah began with the Pascal offering on the fourteenth of Nissan. The sacrifice was eaten by groups of families; no leftovers were allowed. It was eaten with matzah and bitter herbs, symbolizing the unleavened bread that had no time to rise, and symbolizing as well the bitterness of life in Egypt. Today we no longer offer sacrifices, but we have a special shank bone and eat a piece of matzah, called the afikoman, to symbolize the Pascal offering.
The festival of Passover begins on the fifteenth of Nissan. For seven days no hametz - items such as leavened bread and cake - may be eaten or even found in a Jewish home. (In the Diaspora, traditional Jews keep the festival for eight days, with the first two and the last two days being full festivals, with no work allowed.) All such foods are removed and nullified before the festival, and even the dishes, pots, and cutlery must be changed for it.
On the first night of Passover - in the Diaspora the first two nights - a special ritual meal is eaten. During that meal, the seder, people sit around the table reading the story of the exodus from a special book called a Haggada, and eat many symbolic foods. The Passover seder is probably the most observed religious tradition among Jews.
One day of Passover always falls on Shabbat. If it is not one of the festival days, it is called Hol Hamoed Shabbat. There is a special Torah reading telling of the events following the Golden Calf and various ritual laws. The haftarah tells Ezekiel's famous vision of the valley of the dry bones.
Issue #1 - Did It Really Happen?
"You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your ranks out of the land of Egypt; you shall observe this day throughout the ages as an institution for all time" (Exodus 12:17)
- Did the events of Passover really happen as the Bible describes? And if the events were not as described, does that really matter? Or is the important issue what we learn from these events through the lens of our history?
- One explanation: scientists today speak about emergent properties. These are properties of an object that make it greater than the parts. For example, the brain is made up of hundreds of thousands of interconnected neurons. Each individual neuron can be studied and described. We cannot see the mind in any one or even any small set of neurons. Only when we put all these neurons together does the mind emerge. The mind is an emergent property of the brain. So it is throughout the universe that properties emerge, that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
- We also see emergent properties when we study history. A number of individual events take place. Water turns to blood; maybe the red water was real blood or maybe simply the way the water looked due to red algae. Frogs multiplied in the land. A plague struck and killed many prominent firstborn sons, including the son of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. An Israelite man who grew up in Pharaoh's household had the clout to become the chief agitator for freedom for a group of slaves. A number of individual events occurred, none of which seem to reflect the hand of God. Put them all together, however, and suddenly a vision emerges. These are more than random events, just as the mind is more than a bunch of connected neurons. Put them together and suddenly we see the hand of God.
- This view of God's role in unfolding events fits into the modern scientific paradigm. Until Einstein, scientists were reductionists, attempting to understand the universe by breaking it down into its smallest parts. The whole was simply the sum of the parts. After Einstein, scientists realize that the whole is far more than the parts. Reductionism no longer works. We cannot understand the human soul by studying individual neurons, and we cannot understand God's role in history by studying individual events. Only by taking the broader view can we see God's role in history, that it was God who brought us out of Egypt.
Issue #2 - Valley of the Bones
"And he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O you dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God to these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live" (Ezekiel 37:4-5)
- What do you think Ezekiel was trying to tell us in his vision of bones coming back to life? Why is this image so powerful to Jews? Why do we read this at Passover? (Note - Is it possible that going from the Holocaust to the rebirth of Israel in three short years could be understood as an example of the resurrection spoken of in this chapter?)
- There is a force of life at work in the universe. Jews have always identified God with life. At the High Holy Days, we say over and over, "Remember us to life, O King Who loves life, and write us in the Book of Life, for Your sake O God of life." If God is the force of life, how does that play out in the world of creation? Does God bring the dead to life? What about in the world of history?
- If there is a force of life at work in the universe, unfortunately there is also a force of death. What is that force and how does it manifest itself in our world? How can we join forces with the force of life over the force of death?
- What is the symbolism of the Passover song Had Gadya(One Little Kid), where in the end God slays the Angel of Death? In the end, will life overcome death? If God cannot overcome death, what does that say about God's power?
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Full Title: Reasons for Establishing the Colony of Georgia, with regard to the Trade of Great Britain, the Increase of our People, and the Employment and Support it will afford to great Numbers of our own Poor, as well as foreign persecuted Protestants. With some Account of the Country, and the Design of the Trustees. By Benjamin Martin, Esq; Second Edition. London: Printed for W. Meadows, at the Angel in Cornhill, MDCCXXXIII.
For ESTABLISHING the
COLONY of GEORGIA.
IT is undoubtedly a self-evident Maxim, that the Wealth of a Nation consists in the Numbers of her People. But this holds true so far only, as Employment is, or can be found for them; if there be any Poor, who do not, or cannot add to the Riches of their Country by Labour, they must lie a dead Weight on the Publick; and as every wise Government, like the Bees, should not suffer any Drones in the State, these Poor should be situated in such Places, where they might be easy themselves, and useful to the Commonwealth.
IF this can be done by transplanting such as are necessitous and starving here, and consequently unnecessary; it is incumbent on us, at this Time more particularly, to promote and enlarge our Settlements abroad with unusual Industry, when the Attention of almost all the Powers in Europe is turn’d towards the Improvement of theirs. The French are continually underming us both in the East and West-Indies. The Emperor is attempting the same: Portugal owes her Riches chiefly to her Plantations: Sweden, Denmark, and Germany find themselves poor, because they have none at present, tho’ they abound with laborious Men. The Colonies of Spain supply the Want of Industry in her Natives, and Trade in her Towns: If the Scarcity of her People at home is imputed to them, I think it unjust; it is evidently owing to the Nature of her Government, her Religion, and its Inquisition: As may be seen by Italy, who has no Colonies, yet is thin of Inhabitants, especially in the Pope’s Dominions: And tho’ as rich a Soil as any in the World, yet her People are poor, and the Country in many Places uncultivated, by shutting up those, who would serve their Maker in a better Manner by being industrious, and would be more useful Members of Society as Plowmen than as Monks. IT is at all Times our Interest to naturalize as much as we can the Products of other Countries; especially such as we purchase of Foreigners with ready Money, or otherwise to our Disadvantage; such as are necessary or useful to support, or carry on our Manufactures: Such as we have a great Demand for: And such as we can raise ourselves as good in Kind as any other Country can furnish us with. Because by so doing we not only gain a new Provision for our Poor, and an Increase of our People by increasing their Employment; but by raising such Materials ourselves, our Manufactures come the cheaper to us, whereby we are enabled to cope with other Nations in foreign Markets, and at the same Time prevent our Home Consumption of them being a Luxury too prejudicial to us.
I HOPE in the following Tract to make these evidently appear, and shew the Advantages that must accrue to our Trade by establishing the Colony of Georgia. I shall give some Account of the Country, and the Proceedings of the Trustees, and with Candor take Notice of the Objections that are made to this Design, and endeavour to answer them in the clearest and fullest Manner I can. I think it may be proved that we have many, who are, and will be useless at home, and that the settling such a Colony with these, and the foreign persecuted Protestants is consistent with the Interest and Reputation of Great-Britain.TO show the Disadvantage under which we purchase some fo the Products of other Countries, I shall begin with the Italian Trade, the Balance of which is every Year above 300, 000 l. against us, as appears by Accounts taken from the Custom-house Books. And this Balance is occasion’d by the large Importation of Silk, bought there with our ready Money, tho’ we can raise Raw Silk of equal Goodness in Georgia, and are now enabled to work it up here in as great Perfection as the Italians themselves. THAT we can raise it, we have sufficient Proof by an Importation of it from Carolina for several Years, tho’ for want of Hands only to carry it on, the Quantity imported has been too small for any thing more than Trials. With many navigable Rivers for the Convenience of its Trade, the Country is extremely rich and fruitful. It produces white Mulberry-Trees wild, and in great Abundance. The Air, as it is healthy for Man, (the Latitude about 32,) is also proper for the Silk-worms; and as Care is the principal Thing requisite in nourishing and feeding these, every Person from Childhood to old Age can be of Use. But the Goodness of this Silk will appear fully by the following Letter from a Gentleman, whose Name will carry more Weight, than any Thing I can offer in behalf of it. This Letter was written to the Trustees for establishing the Colony. A Copy here of it is here Printed, with the Gentleman’s Leave. . . .
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Monique L. Dixon, J.D., is the Director of the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Program of OSI-Baltimore. She is responsible for developing, monitoring, and evaluating criminal and juvenile justice funding strategies for OSI-Baltimore, which seeks to reduce the overuse of incarceration as well as its social and economic costs. Prior to joining OSI-Baltimore, Dixon served as senior staff attorney at Advancement Project in Washington, D.C., a non-profit civil rights organization. She also co-authored several reports on zero tolerance school discipline policies that lead youth from schools to prisons.
Terry Hickey is the Executive Director of Community Law In Action, Inc., a nonprofit organization he founded in 1998. CLIA is dedicated to engaging youth as problem solvers and active citizens. Terry is an attorney who also teaches classes at the University of Maryland School of Law and UMBC, where he teaches courses on urban problem solving and legislative advocacy.
PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome back to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Baltimore. And this is a continuing discussion about how to have a safer community in Baltimore.There's a big debate going on here about whether or not Baltimore needs a new youth prison for youth charged as adults. About $100 million is planned for that by the state of Maryland. But is that really going to make people safer? And if it isn't, what will?Now joining us to discuss all of this is Terry Hickey. Terry is the executive director of Community Law in Action, a nonprofit organization he founded in 1998. And Monique Dixon. She's deputy director of OSI-Baltimore and director of its criminal and juvenile justice program. Thank you both for joining us.MONIQUE DIXON, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, OSI-BALTIMORE: Thank you.TERRY HICKEY, EXEC. DIRECTOR, COMMUNITY LAW IN ACTION: Thank you.JAY: So that's the question. Ifâpeople can watch part one of this interview and the rest of our series, and you'll find most people think that the prison really isn't going to make the community safer. So if it isn't, what would?DIXON: Well, in terms of youth crime, young people need things to do. I mean, at the same time that we're planning on buildingâthat the state is planning on building a new jail, recreational centers will close. Our schools, you know, many of the schools are old. And you can't learn in an environment that's not welcoming. So instead ofâwe need to invest more in schools, recreational centers. We need to invest more in youth jobs. Young people are out. You know, my grandmother always says a idle mind is the devil's workshop. Right? So if you don't have anything to do during the day, young people hang out and of course get involved in mischievous events and acts. But if employment is offered to young people and they are learning skills and how to become productive adults, I really believe you'll see a difference, a continued decrease in youth crime here in the city.JAY: I mean, that is part of the issue we touched on in the first part of the interview, which is there actually isn't this big crime wave going on in Baltimore, and, you know, maybe, you know, you know, The Wire is over, the seasons are done. That isn'tâthere isn't this, but there is a feeling there is. And if you talk to people and if you askâ. We did a sort of a little editorial survey on front porches in East Baltimore, and we asked people walking by, what would you like us to do stories about. And, well, number one was boarded-up housing, why are so many houses boarded up. But number two was we're fed up with the crime.DIXON: Right. So crime is happening. I mean, I'm not denying that crime is happening in the city. And people who live in neighborhoods where it's occurring will attest to that. I'm talking about youth crime that will leadâserious youth crime thatâif you look at the statistics, it is going down. And building a jail, however, is not going to reduce crime in the city. It just isn't. It hasn't so far. You know. And to have an expectation thatâ. You can't build your way out of a crime situation. You have to do things differently. And providing young people with recreational centers, jobs, and, you know, strong schools, and adults with employment as wellâ. You know, we're in a city that has a high poverty rate. People are not working. We have to provide opportunities for the residents of this city.JAY: But when you talk to people in the community whoâand I think it should be emphasized this isn't like some white-black debate in Baltimore. You know, a large number of people in the African-American community either support this prison or at least support cracking down. You know, they want troublemakers off the streets. And so it's a community debate. And they're saying that okay, maybe you do need all that stuff, but in the meantime we need to be able to walk to the store without getting robbed.DIXON: Sure.HICKEY: I'm sorry. There's an important point at this, though, is that this youth jail, they want to build a bigger, shinier building. One already exists. It's at the BCDC. There is a youth jail right now that has had no negligible impact, except we see youth crime going down dramatically at that level. And to reiterate, there'sâyou know, where there were a hundred-something, there are now 36 youth there. We are seeing things in the juvenile system working. There is a system for this.But what's happening is that this is diverting the real discussion. This is taking, you know, the people that live in these communities away from a discussion of holding DJS accountable, away from an idea about where are serious deep-end youth that commit serious crimes. Aren't they being sent to the right places for treatment? They're backed up in the pipeline now because we don't have the resources. Right now there's been plans for three years to build a youth treatment facility near the city to treat those serious cases. They can't get that money. But yet we're talking about spending almost $100 million of taxpayer money to build a building that every single economic and sociological and criminology example says isn't going to work [crosstalk]JAY: And maybe for 40 or 50 kids.HICKEY: Exactly.JAY: There was a report called the Proposed Alternative Action Plan for Construction of a Youth Jail in Baltimore, and it proposed what to do with this money if it was just made available instead of for the prison. And I take it that it isn't as simple as that, just because if it doesn't go to the prison, maybe it won't go to anything. But if you took that money and applied it, one of the proposals was $30 million for aging public schools and construction program, $15 million for parks and recreation centers, $10 million for community-based youth villages providing wraparound services, $8 million for community-based alternative to detention, renovation of vacant homes that serve homeless youth $7 million, community vocational training centers for $5 million, employment one-stop center for youth $5 million. I mean, it seems a no-brainer that if the object is a safer community, $100 million doing that is going to do more than 40 kids sitting in holding facilities.HICKEY: Sure. Sure.JAY: What is the politics of this?HICKEY: Well, you know, first of all, what I think human nature isâand I did it myself before I got involved in this workâis you tend to picture the most hardened 17-year-old that you imagine sitting in that jail, and then your mind puts them in a rec center, you know, or outside of school and thinks, well, that's silly, that's not going to help. The problem is we never got to them at the right time. Those things didn't exist thatâ. I worked with these kids. You know, that 12-year-old becomes that 17-year-old. But they weren't born that way, and it's about that lack of opportunity. And we never get to that conversation, or if we do, it seemsâand let's be honestâit seems like a light and breezy, naive way of looking at these kids. But if you get to know them, that's just simply not the case. It's about prioritizing. And that's what we need to start to do is to prioritize and not get misdirected and not buy into misperceptions about what's really going to work.JAY: What is the actual response when you sit down with politicians and say this to them? What do they say to you? I don't understand how they argue with you.DIXON: There is a memo of understanding between the department and theâthe Department of Public Safety and the Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Justice. The conditions at the jail are so poor that it attracted the attention of the Department of Justice back in 2000.JAY: Federally.DIXON: Federal. And the federal investigators came in and looked at the jail, the youth section as well as the women's section, and found that, you know, number one, the individuals at the jail were not keeping youth separated from adults, which is required by law, and that the physical plan just was not in the condition that was the best environmentâfrankly, a humane environmentâfor anyone. And so the federal government entered into an agreement, in order to avoid litigation, that the department should improve conditions and make sure that youth and adults are separated.JAY: Is some of this money federal money?DIXON: The money for the new jail?JAY: For the prison?DIXON: No. No.JAY: So it's not like they're going to lose some federal money if they don't build a prison.DIXON: Right. And the federal government did not require a new facility. They wanted the department to come up with a plan for keeping the young people separate and for improving the conditions. So the governor and the secretary's response is: we have this agreement with the federal government to improve conditions, and this is the solution. Building a new jail is the solution from their perspective.JAY: So what's the answer to that, if they say, we've gotâwe made the deal, and it's good for the kids, it's better for the kids than in that terrible other institution? So why not?HICKEY: Well, and, see, there we agree. A lot of us that have worked in that facility with kids agree they shouldn't be there. But like Monique said, the Department of Justice isn't saying they have to spend an almost $100 millionâbuild a $100 million facility. They need to do something. They need to find another facility where kids can go. They need to stop charging youth as adults altogether. They need to put youth in juvenile facilities even if they're awaiting adult trials.These are all decisions. These are priorities. These are policy decisions that can be made. When NCCD issued their reportâ. The department is really hanging on to theâ. If you do nothing, you don't need more than a 117-bed facilityâif you do nothing. And it's a status quo argument, which government often falls into.JAY: "Do nothing" meaning there's no social programs.HICKEY: Make no change, do nothing, add no programs, do nothing for kids, don't do anything with the juvenile system.JAY: You just want to get these kids out of that institution and put them in this one.HICKEY: Keep going like you're doing. And we would argue that even from when NCCD did those numbers a year ago, that it's much lower even now.DIXON: Yes.HICKEY: But if you look at the rest of the NCCD report and any of the studies that we found out there, there are things you can do. You can simply findâyou have to have the political will, but you can find room in juvenile facilities. You can cut down the number of charges in a staggered sense. You can slowly phase out the different charges for charging youth as adults. Some have brokered other suggestions as well. But all of those involve taking it down to almost none at all.There's a bill up this year in front of the general assembly that would have all youth go to the juvenile system first, even if they'reâin the facilities, even if they're awaiting trial in the adult system. That bill's still being heard. It's still there. If it passes, that cancels out the need for this facility altogether. So why invest taxpayer money any further in this when we are seeing legislators start to say, you know, I'm okay with that bill, I kind of like it, why are we charging them at all? And we're seeing a renewed energy around why are we charging them as adults.JAY: Charging as adults, yeah.HICKEY: Why are we doing that? And we're hopeful that, if not this year, next year you're going to see legislative will behind the idea of not doing it. Then we're going to have a really big, really useless building sitting in East Baltimore that's yet another example of how we miscalculated to the detriment of our kids.JAY: So the bottom line here is if you'reâyou know, you can have two objectives: how can we spend $100 million, or how can we have a safer community. I mean, if you're wedded to the idea of a jail, you have one set of considerations. But if the real issue is community safety, what should people in the community be doing, both about this issue of the prison and about a safer community?DIXON: Many of the recommendations made in the alliance's action plan that you mentioned, particularly the reallocation of funding, came from community meetings that many of our grantee organizations organize. And so the need for Youth Villages and youth jobsâall the creative things that came up in that list came from community residents. And what we would say to them is take those lists to, you know, leaders in your community through your city council members and begin working with policymakers to have those things that community members believe they need in their neighborhoods come into their neighborhoods. I think that, you know, there's a sense of hopelessness that nothing can be done. But I think what we're seeing is that when communities organize themselves and really make demands of government, then you can see some change. And so we really encourage different neighborhoods around the city to continue to do what they're doing, and particularly around this jail andâ.JAY: But you haven't seen too much change on this yet.DIXON: Well, Iâ.JAY: And there's been a lot of activity.DIXON: There hasn'tâ. Well, I guess I'm just a hopeless optimist. You know, I reallyâthere has beenâthe discussions have shifted. Even the way this has been covered in the news is changing. And I think that if we continue to show the illogical way that the state is trying to move, build this jail, that other people will realize it. And, you know, I think it'll take time. We didn't get into this situation overnight. And so it will take some time.JAY: 'Cause it's not just about stopping the jail. It'sâthe reallocation of the funds is sort of the bigger deal, isn't it?DIXON: That's right. That's right.HICKEY: In fact, I see the jail has a critical distraction. I see the jail as something we've been fightingâ. Remember, this was supposed to break ground in 2010, and capital projects like this break ground generally when they're supposed to break ground, and there's no construction money in the budget for this next year, which means it's another year out, it's four years before this thing gets built, even if the state gets its way, which I don't think with the tidal shift we're seeing in Annapolis it's going to. People are starting to ask questions about the use of our money. You know, if they don't buy into the youth piece, they buy into the fiscal responsibility piece: our money is too important to take these kind of chances, either on the money side or the kids' side. And, you know, I'm a father, I live in the city, I know about how important safety is, but I would ask people not to give up on these kids, because the kids that aren't involved in these things, which are the vast majority, feel that, and that's not what they want either. They want to be assets in their neighborhood andâ.JAY: 'Cause the real issue here is the decay of the public school system, isn't it? I mean, and I'm not saying we can get into that now, but prison or no prison, you have a decaying public school system, which is going to lead to kids that are going to wind up getting involved in things they get charged for.HICKEY: Sure, which comes back to us as a community deciding as a priority where we spend our money. And that's what I hope this fight over the jail is going to eliminate once and for all.JAY: Okay. Thanks very much for joining us. We're going to be doing town hall debates about the jail and public policy, and certainly drilling into the whole issue of the public school system, and we'll be doing a lot more from Baltimore. So thank you. And thank you for joining us on The Real News Network.
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A crane operator working on a transit project in San Francisco unearthed a tooth of a woolly mammoth on Monday. Paleontologist James Allen told ABC News’ San Francisco affiliate, KGO-TV, that the tooth was believed to be between 10,000 and 11,000 years old, and that the fossil was in good condition.
“The Bay was a grassy valley with herds of these extinct critters just roaming around,” said Allen. “It’s a big deal, so we can study it, get some age dates, which help us figure out tectonics [and] seismicity like the San Andreas Fault.”
The 10-inch long fragment of tooth was found by crane operator Brandon Valasik 110 feet underground.
“I was excavating using a hammer grab and going through a layer of sand, when suddenly I noticed some strange object that came out,” Valasik told KGO-TV. “A few people tried to convince me that it was just a rock, but it just looked too perfect to be a rock.”
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The fire started in the back of the restaurant, right off the dock.
The owner of the building saw flames coming out the back at one point. Lincoln Fire Inspector Chuck Schweitzer says a carelessly discarded cigarette caused the fire. Damage is estimated at $20,000.
Firefighters were called to the fire Monday at around noon to save a Haymarket building more than a century old.
"All things considered, very fortunate. 125 year old building, and we sure don't want anything to happen to it—it's the old Harper Brother's saddle and harness factory," Jon Camp, the building's owner said.
And he says Vincenzo's, where the fire started in the back, has been in the building for almost 20 years. With a fully restored facility, he was surprised when the fire started.
"We've come in and completely renovated—put in new electrical, plumbing, just retaining the historical ambiance. that's another perplexion—what exactly caused this? Wanna find out," Camp said.
"It could have been a lot worse—glad it happened at this time and not 1 o'clock in the morning or something like that," Vincenzo's co-owner said.
It wasn't a huge fire, but given the cold temperatures, the fire chief called a second alarm to keep the firefighters safe.
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The wonderment of being inquisitive! A student’s joy of entering a classroom and knowing it is a place of inquiry and investigations, a place for personal improvement and growth in academic achievement! This picture represents our third grade classrooms. Our 3rd grade team works closely with each other as they share responsibilities for student learning. Our 3rd grade team knows that children have varying interests in their reading and very different abilities in their writing skills. And, to that with that focus, they create a program which allows for each child to excel.
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Senior academicians and vice-chancellors of distance learning educational institutions in Africa under the auspices of the African Council for Distance Education (ACDE) have resolved to curb teachers’ shortage in the content presently standing at 3.6 million.
The resolve to that end was reached at a three-day meeting held in Dar es Salaam recently, during which participants also underscored a need for smart partnership among stakeholders in order to curb the problem seriously.
According to ACDE Executive Board President Prof Tolly Mbwette, the challenge of teachers’ shortage called for smart partnership in addressing the problem.
He was briefing journalists yesterday in Dar es Salaam shortly after returning from the meeting that was held in Zanzibar.
Prof Mbwette said that participants at the meeting expressed commitment to adequately deal with the problem.
Earlier, when opening the ACDE Executive Board, Zanzibar Minister Abdallah Ramadhan Shaban said exploitation of Open and Distance Learning (ODL) mode of education delivery through collaboration was very gratifying and befitting.
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The Fourth of July holiday weekend won't be plagued by a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) as Christmas was for many in 2003. Friday afternoon USDA officials announced that the inconclusive rapid test result reported on June 29 was a confirmed false positive.
Deputy Administrator John Clifford of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) released a statement saying an immunohistochemistry test was negative for BSE upon confirmatory testing. USDA's National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) in Ames, Iowa conducted the test on the inconclusive screening test sample.
Marketing and Management Editor Arlan Suderman predicts that the announcement should allow prices to bounce back on Tuesday, but traders will be more apprehensive about building long (bought) positions in the cattle market. "The recent announcements have heightened their awareness of the possibility of another case of mad cow disease," he says.
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The Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprise Program is a joint initiative of the City of Evansville and Vanderburgh County. It was established in order to provide opportunities for businesses that are owned by minorites or women to sell products and services to local government. The City and County recognize the Indiana Department of Administration's (IDOA) certification program.
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A minority business enterprise (MBE) is one that is owned and controlled by at least 51% minority member(s). Minority group members are citizens of the United States who are Black, Hispanic, Asian Pacific Islanders, American Indians or Alaskan Natives.
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Chicago's Picasso Remains a Symbol of the 'City of the Big Shoulders'
The relationship between Picasso and the City of Chicago is a fascinating one.
The Art Institute of Chicago is presenting a major exhibition that will celebrate its holdings of works by artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) through May, 2013. More than 250 of the finest examples of the Art Institute’s collection of Picasso’s paintings, sculpture, prints, and drawings as well as major loans from private collections in the city will be on display. The exhibition will coincide with the centennial of the Armory Show at the Art Institute, the first major exhibition of avant-garde European art presented in the United States and the first time Picasso’s works were displayed in an American museum. The exhibition will be the first major Picasso exhibition organized by the Art Institute in almost 30 years.
The museum began its collection of works by Picasso in the early 1920s with two figural drawings ("Seated Male Nude" and "Sketches of a Young Woman and a Man," 1905 and 1904/05, respectively), and in 1926 welcomed "Old Guitarist" (late 1903–early 1904) as a generous gift of Frederic Clay and Helen Birch Bartlett. Over time, the collection has expanded to include paintings such as the classically inspired "Mother and Child" (1921) as well as landmark sculptures including the cubist "Head of a Woman (Fernande)" (1909). In addition, the museum boasts an exceptional collection of works on paper that include the monumental "Woman Washing Her Feet" (1944) and impressions of his most iconic works such as "The Frugal Meal" (1904), one of only three examples of the famous Blue Period etching actually printed in blue ink. The exhibition will provide viewers a rare opportunity to chart Picasso’s wide-ranging interests and explorations.
The presentation will not only survey Picasso’s extensive material experimentations, but also subjects that are emblematic of the artist, including the emotive individuals of his Blue and Rose periods, the bold geometric forms of his Cubist years, the monumental personages from his post–World War II production, and his specific contributions to the city of Chicago. Special presentations on the themes and influences of the artist will be showcased throughout the museum’s encyclopedic collection, allowing visitors to explore the broad and enduring impact of the eminent artist.
In 1960, the Public Building Commission of Chicago approved a plan for a 31-story civic center., it was decided that a monumental sculpture would grace the plaza. "It was suggested that we put names in a hat, and, remarkably enough, everyone had chosen Pablo Picasso," said one of the Commission. Picasso's name was presented to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, who said, "If you gentlemen think he's the greatest, that's what we want for Chicago, and you go ahead."
Picasso was 82 years old at the time. He was living on the French Riviera and "not one to make appointments." However, a relentless campaign by Chicago leaders led to Picasso agreeing to create the sculpture.
Once Mayor Daley approved the work, ("It looks like the wings of justice," Daley is reported to have told aides), he sent an aide back to Picasso with a check for $100,000 as payment. The artist, who had never specified a fee, examined it, and then refused it saying, "This is my gift to the people of Chicago."
On August 15, 1967, the city dedicated the statue at a festive ceremony attended by thousands of Chicagoans who had crowded into the Plaza, in front of what was known then as the Chicago Civic Center. Mayor Daley's press secretary, recalls the lowering of the shroud at the unveiling: "I nearly dropped dead because the thing didn't come down right away. But finally it came down and low and behold everybody gasped, "What is it. . .?" The public's response was loud and varied, and the controversy continues to this day.
The Chicago Picasso (often just The Picasso), is 50 feet tall and weighs 162 short tons The Cubist sculpture by Picasso was the first such major public artwork in Downtown Chicago, and has become a popular landmark.
Visitors to Daley Plaza can often be seen climbing on and sliding down the base of the sculpture.
The cost of constructing the sculpture was $352,000, paid mostly by three charitable foundations: the Woods Charitable Fund, the Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Foundation, and the Field Foundation of Illinois.
Before fabrication of the final steel sculpture was started, a 3.5 meter (~12 feet) tall wooden model was constructed for Picasso to approve.
The efforts of the City of Chicago to publicize the sculpture — staging a number of press events before the sculpture was completed, and displaying the maquette without a copyright notice — were cited as evidence in a 1970 U.S. District Court case where the judge ruled that the city's actions had resulted in the sculpture being dedicated to the public domain.
The sculpture was initially met with controversy. Before the Picasso sculpture, public sculptural artwork in Chicago was mainly of historical figures. One derisive Chicago City Council alderman immediately proposed replacing it with a statue of Ernie Banks, the Chicago Cubs icon.
Newspaper columnist Mike Royko, wrote: “Interesting design, I’m sure. But the fact is, it has a long stupid face and looks like some giant insect that is about to eat a smaller, weaker insect.” Royko did credit Picasso with understanding the soul of Chicago. “Its eyes are like the eyes of every slum owner who made a buck off the small and weak. And of every building inspector who took a wad from a slum owner to make it all possible.... You’d think he’d been riding the L all his life.”
Although Picasso never explained what the sculpture was intended to represent, it may have been inspired by a French woman, Sylvette David, now known as Lydia Corbett, who posed for Picasso in 1954. Then 19 years old and living in Vallauris, France, Corbett would accompany her artist boyfriend as he delivered chairs made of metal, wood and rope. One of those deliveries was to Picasso, who was struck by her high ponytail and long neck. "He made many portraits of her. At the time, most people thought he was drawing the actress Brigitte Bardot. But in fact, he was inspired by [Corbett]," Picasso's grandson Olivier Widmaier Picasso told the Chicago Sun-Times in 2004.
"I think the Chicago Sculpture was inspired by her," said the grandson, author of Picasso, the Real Family Story. Picasso made 40 works inspired by her, said the grandson, including The Girl Who Said No, reflecting their platonic relationship. The quality of the Picasso's sculpture inspired other artists such as Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, Claes Oldenburg and Henry Moore. Acceptance from these artists influenced the acceptance from Chicagoans.
It was mentioned (and appears) in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers during the chase scene leading to the Richard J. Daley Center, and can also be seen briefly in the 1993 film The Fugitive, as Kimble (and then his pursuers) run across the plaza.
Today, the Chicago Picasso has become a well known meeting spot for Chicagoans. Depending on the season and time of the month there are musical performances, farmer's markets, a Christkindlmarkt, and other Chicago affairs are held around the Picasso statue in front of Daley Plaza.
Visit your public library for more resources:
A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932.
John Richardson, (2007).
Art historian Richardson became acquainted with Picasso during the 1950s, and his firsthand knowledge adds zing to his extraordinarily vivid and perceptive biography of the master artist, a landmark work that now fills three substantial volumes. Here Richardson illuminates one of the most productive yet least understood periods in Picasso’s long, bold artistic quest. This is Picasso in his prime, and a biography so ensnaring in its details and provocative in its interpretation, Richardson leaves the reader hungry for still more.
— Excerpt of review by Donna Seaman first published November 1, 2007 (Booklist).
Picasso and American Art
Michael FitzGerald, (2006).
Although “Pablo Picasso never set foot in America,” the protean artist had a profound impact on American art. In this groundbreaking and exhaustively researched study, FitzGerald takes measure of Picasso’s influence, serving up a feast of juicy art-world tales of fervent advocacy and outright hostility. As the unbelievably prolific Picasso changed styles as readily as the mythological beings that inspired him changed shapes, American critics and artists scrambled to keep pace. From the small Picasso still life Max Weber brought to New York in 1909 to Picasso’s first exhibit two years later in Alfred Stieglitz’s now legendary gallery to major museum exhibitions, the story of Picasso’s art in America sheds new light on the evolution of modern American art.
— Excerpt of review by Donna Seaman first published November 1, 2006 (Booklist).
Picasso’s War: The Destruction of Guernica, and the Masterpiece that Changed the World
Russell Martin, (2002).
Picasso hadn’t yet agreed to create a mural for Spain’s pavilion in Paris’ 1937 international exposition, but once news of the Nazi bombing and utter destruction of the historic Basque town of Guernica reached the expatriate Spanish artist, visions of a painting in protest of that horrific massacre of innocents quickly coalesced. The result was the immense masterpiece Guernica , which, as Martin so resoundingly chronicles, became “the world’s most recognized symbol of war’s brutality.” —Excerpt of review by Donna Seaman first published November 1, 2002 (Booklist).
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Maquette of Chicago Picasso Art Institute of Chicago
2. The Red Armchair, Pablo Picasso. 1931. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Saidenberg. © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
3.Sculpture by Picasso in front of Daley Center (Chicago).
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Tick-borne lymphadenopathy (TIBOLA) was first described in 1997 in a patient in France. The causative agent, Rickettsia slovaca, is transmitted by Dermacentor ticks.
In southwestern Germany we encountered a patient with a tick bite at the dorsal scalp that resulted in an eschar and nuchal lymphadenopathy. Additionally, fever, malaise as well as elevated inflammatory markers and transaminases occurred. The characteristic clinical picture along with positive antibody testing for rickettsiae of the tick-borne spotted fever group strongly suggest the diagnosis TIBOLA.
Human rickettsioses are emerging infections. Clinicians should be aware of TIBOLA as a newly described rickettsial disease. As in our case, TIBOLA may be encountered in regions/countries where R. slovaca and Dermacentor ticks are prevalent but autochthonous acquisition was not described before.
Rickettsiae are obligate intracellular gram negative bacteria transmitted in the natural environment by vectors such as ticks, fleas, lice, and mites. Of medical importance are Rickettsiae of the typhus group (R. prowazekii, R. typhi) and Rickettsiae of the tick-borne spotted fever group (e.g. R. rickettsii, R. conorii, R. africae), which now compromises more than 20 different species as several new species have been identified in recent years .
Tick-borne lymphadenopathy (TIBOLA) was first described in 1997 in a female patient in France and is defined as the association of a tick bite resulting in an inoculation eschar on the scalp and enlargened cervical lymphnodes in the absence of a rash . Although the causative agent of TIBOLA, Rickettsia slovaca, is prevalent in Dermacentor ticks in Germany, until 2009 no case of TIBOLA has been described. Here we report the first case of TIBOLA acquired in Germany.
In February 2009, a 67-year-old female patient sought medical advice one week after suffering from a tick bite at the dorsal scalp. She had acquired the tick in southern Germany in the vicinity of Freiburg (Baden-Wuerttemberg). Two days after removal of the tick she noticed redness followed by ulcer formation at the biting site along with swollen regional lymph nodes. She presented with high fever (40°C), malaise, headache and nuchal lymphadenopathy. At the site of the tick bite an eschar with edematous margins was present (Figure 1). The remaining physical examination was unremarkable. She denied animal contacts and had not been anywhere else than in the vicinity of Freiburg. Laboratory investigations revealed a white blood cell count of 8.3 × 109/L, C-reactive protein of 112 mg/L (normal < 5 mg/L), moderately elevated transaminases (ALT 133 U/L [normal < 35 U/L], AST 99 U/L [< 35 U/L], γ-GT 158 U/L [< 40 U/L]) and mildly elevated LDH (314 U/L [< 214 U/L]). Blood cultures were negative and cultures of dermal swabs obtained from the eschar revealed normal skin flora. Computed tomography revealed imbibition of the subcutaneous tissue underneath the eschar (Figure 2) and non-necrotizing lymphadenitis of the draining lymph nodes without evidence of cervical or mediastinal abscess formation (Figure 3). Antibody testing for Francisella tularensis, Borrelia burgdorferi, Rickettsia prowazekii, Rickettsia typhi and Yersinia enterocolitica was negative. She was empirically treated with ampicillin/sulbactam and ciprofloxacin, three days after initiation of antibiotic treatment defervescence and clinical improvement could be noticed.
Figure 1. Inoculation eschar. A 67-year old woman with an inoculation eschar with central necrosis, edematous margins and erythematous halo at the former site of the tick bite.
Figure 2. Head computed tomography scan. Imbibition of subcutaneous tissue underneath the eschar (arrow).
Figure 3. Neck computed tomography scan. Non-necrotizing lymphadenitis (arrow) along the draining lymph nodes without evidence of cervical or mediastinal abscess formation (courtesy of Mathias Langer, University Hospital Freiburg, Germany).
In serial serum samples (day 7, 17 and 24) specific antibody testing for rickettsiae of the tick-borne spotted fever group revealed a seroconversion (indirect immunofluorescence assay (Figure 4): R. conorii IgG [Fuller Laboratories], <1:32, 1:512, 1:1024, respectively; R. helvetica IgG [in house], <1:32, 1:32, 1:128, respectively). Skin-biopsy of the eschar was not performed. The patient recovered without further complications, a change to specific anti-rickettsial antibiotic therapy, i.e. doxycylin was not necessary.
Figure 4. Indirect immunofluorescence assay using R. conorii (dilution 1:256).
Human rickettsioses occur worldwide and are considered to be emerging infections . One of the newly discovered rickettsial diseases is tick-borne lymphadenopathy (TIBOLA). The causative agent, Rickettsia slovaca, was discovered in 1968 in Slovakia, but was being considered as non-pathogenic until 1997 [2,4]. R. slovaca is transmitted almost exclusively by Dermacentor marginatus and rarely by Dermacentor reticulatus ticks (Figure 5).
Figure 5. Adult Dermacentor spp. ticks are vectors of R. slovaca and R. raoultii. D. marginatus and D. reticulatus tick bites are preferentially located in the scalp region, the majority of tick bites occur during the colder months. R. slovaca and R. raoultii are maintained within Dermacentor spp. by transovarial and transstadial transmission (courtesy of Heinz Mehlhorn, Duesseldorf University, Germany).
Here we report the case of a female Caucasian patient presenting with the characteristic clinical features of TIBOLA. In our patient the tick was not available for genus and species identification, however, the season late winter/early spring and the localisation of the tick bite on the scalp strongly suggest a bite due to D. marginatus which is prevalent in the vicinity of Freiburg. Noteworthy, TIBOLA is one of the rare tick-borne diseases that is more common in the cold season. As reported in several case series, females are at higher risk of TIBOLA, the mean age is 30-35 years with a substantial proportion of cases occurring in children. Apart from TIBOLA, two other acronyms were proposed for this clinical entity: Dermacentor-borne necrosis erythema and lymphadenopathy (DEBONEL) or scalp eschar and neck lymphadenopathy after tick bite (SENLAT) .
R. slovaca has been described in Dermacentor ticks in many European countries including France, Greece, Hungary, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, and others. In Germany, R. slovaca has been found in D. marginatus ticks in Baden-Wuerttemberg in the area of the Rhine valley and recently in the Main valley in the vicinity of Aschaffenburg, Bavaria .
Within the last years, detection of R. slovaca from human cases has been increasingly reported from France, Hungary, Spain and Italy [4,8-10]. It is remarkable that although R. slovaca was isolated in ticks in Germany already 30 years ago, no human case of TIBOLA in Germany has been described until recently. As a consequence of the case presented here and another case of 2009 from southern Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany must be added to the list of countries where autochthonous acquisition of TIBOLA has occurred. R. slovaca infections seem to be more widespread over Germany as has been found so far since our case was several hundred kilometers south of the case described in Rhineland-Palatinate. Including the recently described detection of Rickettsia aeschlimannii, up to now seven rickettsial species have been reported in Germany .
Apart from R. slovaca, the rickettsial genotypes RpA4, DnS14 and DnS28 belonging to a new spotted fever group species recently named R. raoultii have been implicated in the etiology of TIBOLA . Due to only minor antigenetic differences among all spotted fever group rickettsiae, serology is not able to discriminate within members of this group and unambiguous (sub)species-specific diagnosis can only be made by PCR from skin biopsies or swab specimen of the eschar . As R. raoultii is prevalent in D. reticulatis ticks in southern Germany and skin biopsy/PCR was not performed, we cannot rule out TIBOLA due to R. raoultii. However, our patient suffered from high fever and pronounced malaise. This strongly favours an infection due to R. slovaca since R. raoultii is considered to be less pathogenic and to cause a milder form of TIBOLA [12,14].
Noteworthy, apart from fever and malaise our patient presented with moderately elevated transaminases indicating hepatic involvement in the course of infection. Further evaluation included abdominal/hepatic ultrasonography which was unremarkable. Antibody testing for Coxiella burnetii was negative. Improvement of ALT/AST during antibiotic treatment argues against drug induced hepatitis due to ampicillin/sulbactam or ciprofloxacin.
The differential diagnosis in patients with an eschar includes rickettsial infections, cutaneous anthrax, tularaemia, necrotic arachnidism (brown recluse spider bite), scrub typhus (Orientia tsutsugamushi), rat bite fever (Spirillum minus), staphylococcal or streptococcal ecthyma, and, as discussed recently, infection due to Bartonella henselae . However, in the context of a previous tick bite, infection due to Francisella tularensis, or possibly B. henselae, as well as staphylococcal or streptococcal superinfection occur as most likely diagnoses.
As for other rickettsioses the treatment of choice is considered to be a 7 to 10 day course of doxycycline (100 mg twice daily for adults), with ciprofloxacin or azithromycin/clarithromycin as possible alternative agents. Severe complications as seen in other rickettsiosis (e.g. epidemic typhus, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Mediterranean Spotted Fever) have not been described in TIBOLA so far.
Our knowledge on geographic distribution, epidemiology and ecology of rickettsiae is currently evolving. The prevalence of rickettsial diseases in Germany and elsewhere is probably underestimated. TIBOLA should be noticed as an emerging infection, partly due to an increasing spread of Dermacentor marginatus ticks. Clinicians should be aware of TIBOLA as a tick-borne disease as well as of the local prevalence of rickettsial species and their potential vectors. In typical cases (as in the patient reported here) awareness of TIBOLA enables a rather reliable clinical diagnosis that typically results in incisive diagnostic approaches and simple, unexpensive treatment.
Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this case report.
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
SR took care of the patient and drafted and wrote the manuscript. SSch confirmed immunofluorescence assays and contributed to draft the manuscript. CT took care of the patient and revised the manuscript. KdW took care of the patient and revised the manuscript. SW performed and interpreted immunofluorescence assays and contributed to draft the manuscript. WVK coordinated and edited the manuscript. GD confirmed immunofluorescence assay results and contributed in coordination and editing of the manuscript. All authors have read the manuscript and approved its final version.
Acknowledgements and Funding
We thank Prof. Heinz Mehlhorn, Duesseldorf University, for providing the photograph of Dermacentor spp. and Prof. Mathias Langer, Radiology Department, University Hospital Freiburg, for providing the computed tomography scans.
Zentralbl Bakteriol Orig A 1977, 239:275-281. PubMed Abstract
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As 2012 sees a bullfight ban come into force in Spain’s Catalonia region, WSPA is now working to halt the cruel practice across Latin America.
On Jan. 1, 2012, the lengthy battle to ban bullfighting in the Spanish region of Catalonia finally draws to a close, as last year’s prohibition goes into effect. The hard-fought measure followed massive campaigning on a local scale by the PROU citizens’ platform, as well global efforts by WSPA and other organizations, and the 165,000 global WSPA supporters who gave their support for the ban.
“The ban on bullfighting in Catalonia is a tremendous success for anti-bullfight campaigners in Spain, and gives hope to those fighting for similar bans across the world,” said Dirk Jan Verdonk, Programs Manager at WSPA. “I would like to thank the 180,000 local citizens who demanded an end to this horrific practice in Catalonia and without whom a ban could not have been achieved, as well as all our supporters who brought international pressure to the Catalonian parliament.”
This successful campaign saw our largest ever advocacy action – 165,000 WSPA supporters advocated for the ban – and support from celebrity Ricky Gervais.
After Spain, the world’s biggest bullfight audiences are seen in Mexico and Colombia, and WSPA is becoming increasingly involved in efforts to ban the practice in both countries.
In Mexico, we are working with local partner Asociación Mexicana por los Derechos de los Animales (AMEDEA) to enact a ban through a national debate on altering laws governing public spectacles. We also participated in a recent anti-bullfight summit in Mexico City, where possible changes to the law were discussed with our partners.
Perhaps most promisingly, Mexico City – the city where the most bulls are killed in the ring – is currently debating implementing a bullfight ban through a vote in its assembly. The Green Party has proposed the legislation, which is supported by WSPA and our partners.
We are urging our supporters to demand a ban in this city of 22 million inhabitants by signing this petition addressed to Mr. José Luis Muñoz Soria, President of the Public Administration Commission of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Mexico, who chairs the commission charged with studying the initiative to ban bullfighting. The letter requests a prompt date for a vote on a ban at the Legislative Assembly.
Marcela Vargas, Campaigns Manager at WSPA Latin America said, “After WSPA supporters’ invaluable support for the successful ban in Catalonia, I now urge all those who find bullfighting horrific and cruel to join us in trying to ban bullfighting in the city that currently kills most bulls internationally: Mexico City.”
In bullfighting’s other large market, Colombia, WSPA has been involved with securing a ban in the municipality of Zapatoca, the first to do so in the country. We are also working with local partners in the city of Medellin to encourage the public and politicians not to attend bullfights.
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Finding aid prepared by Katie L.B. Henningsen
Bland Ballard letter
1877 May 26
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Bland Ballard (1819-1879) was a United States federal judge. Born in Shelby County, Kentucky, Ballard spent most of his adult life in Louisville, Kentucky. His son, Bland Ballard, Jr., was a student at Princeton University.
In the Bland Ballard letter, Ballard writes to his son's physician at Princeton to solicit more information on an ear infection his son has developed.
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Microsoft is so confident that its search engine Bing outperforms Google that is has created the Bing It On Challenge. But an academic study released earlier this year suggests that the best engine for you depends on the terms you're searching.
The marketing campaign (tag line: “Break The Google Habit”) was announced Thursday on the Microsoft blog, and it is modeled on the 1980s Pepsi Challenge.
Like the Pepsi Challenge, this challenge pits two market leaders in a blind, head-to-head test. Then it was Pepsi and Coke, now it's Bing and Google.
You can go to a special site to conduct five searches and get two blind lists of results. You rate each list for how it satisfied your search. Microsoft is wagering that a lot of Google users will be surprised to find out they like Bing results best.
When I took the challenge, Google won 3-1 with one draw.
I half-suspect that I picked Google's results because I habitually use Google, and its results somehow feel more familiar to me when they are presented alongside Bing results.
More comprehensive tests done by Microsoft, results of which were announced yesterday on the Bing blog, found that people preferred Bing results over Google by a margin of two-to-one in a blind test.
But recent research indicates that I preferred Google results more because of the actual search terms I used than any other factor.
The study, by Indian researchers and published in January in the journal International Journal on Computer Science and Engineering suggests Bing and Google have complementary strengths based on search terms themselves.
For example, I used simple and short terms: Dave Copeland, Boston restaurants, social media in the classroom.
The study by Tauqeer Ahmad Usmani of Kumaun University, Durgesh Pant of Uttarakhand Open University and Dr. Ashutosh Kumar Bhatt of the Birla Institute of Applied Science, found that Google outperforms Bing on simple one-word queries. Bing generally delivered more precise results for simple, multi-word queries and complex multi-word queries.
Google Remains More Relative
In addition to measuring the precision of simple one-word, simple multi-word and complex multi-word search queries in both Google and Bing, the researchers measured the relative recall of each -- that is, how many of the sites returned were relevant.
In all three categories of search terms, Google returned more-relative results than Bing.
That means that in simple multi-word and complex multi-word queries, Bing may give the site you’re looking for as a top result, but Google will more often give a wider range of relevant results to your search.
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PIEC kicks off Thursday to celebrate 40 years of ESA
When the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, it proved to be a great step forward in showing the United States’ and Congress’ commitment to preserving our nation’s natural heritage and protecting native plants and animals from becoming extinct.
In honor of the 40th anniversary of the ESA, the 19th annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference at the University of Florida Levin College of Law will focus on the evolution of endangered species protection over the past four decades. “The Endangered Species Act at 40: Polishing the Crown Jewel,” will be held Feb. 21-23 at UF Law.
“I’m very excited about this year’s conference,” said UF Law Professor and Director of the Environmental and Land Use Law Program Mary Jane Angelo. “We are bringing in experts from around the U.S. to discuss the act’s many successes, such as the recovery of our national symbol, the bald eagle, as well as significant challenges we face in the future such as addressing impacts from habitat loss and climate change.”
Keynote speakers for this year’s conference include Carl Safina, founding president of the Blue Ocean Institute and award winning author of Song for the Blue Ocean and Eye of the Albatross, and Zygmunt Plater and Patrick Parenteau, attorneys in the landmark decision of Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill et al. – temporarily halting the completion of the Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River in order to protect the snail darter, an endangered species of fish.
The conference will also include multiple panel discussions, a workshop sponsored by The Florida Bar, and training opportunities for both attorneys and those outside the legal field.
UF Law student and PIEC co-chair Chelsea Sims said the PIEC is one of the largest student-run conferences in the nation.
“It’s a great opportunity for UF students to engage with cutting edge issues surrounding endangered species such as the Florida panther, corals, sea turtles, manatees and more,” Sims said.
To view the agenda and register for the conference, visit http://www.law.ufl.edu/academics/concentration/elul/public-interest-environmental-conference. UF Law students and faculty attend free-of-charge. Select “student” when registering.
“Any student that is interested in learning about the status of endangered species, the role of climate change, or the interface of science and policy regulating endangered species will enjoy this free event at the law school campus,” said Rachael Bruce, UF Law student and PIEC co-chair. “Please come out and join us.”
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|The WWW was originally built to be a text only resource. Back in the good old days, the founders of the web didn’t consider images or designer fonts a viable part of the information highway. The web was meant to be a quick and easy way to exchange information in a “plain text” format. |
Then came the designers who wanted to create webpages that looked more like their print alternatives. This meant that we needed a way to add images and special fonts to the pages. Images came first, with the gif and jpeg file formats. But, designer fonts lagged behind and the web designer was limited to adding font-based graphics and FlashR to their webpages if they wanted to use a designer font.
If you design websites or just graphics for websites, text and fonts are important elements in your design. It is still almost impossible to avoid the many problems with using fonts on the web. Maybe I should say the lack of fonts on the web.
Up to this point, there was very little web designers could do about the lack of standard fonts for use on webpages. Because it is impossible to know what font files your site visitors have on their hard drive, web designers have been limited to the use of the standard Windows and Mac fonts. It is very common to see a line of CSS code such as the one below that gives the browser a few choices of fonts most likely to be on the viewer’s hard drive.
font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", Verdana, sans-serif;
You may have heard of one solution to this problem, embedding fonts, that has been around for some time. Font embedding technology was built into Microsoft Internet Explorer as early as version 4. However, this lead to a second problem which was the violation of the font designer’s copyright. It was, and still is, difficult to tell which fonts were released under a license that allowed font embedding. Not only was it a chore to keep track of the many levels of copyright permissions, but the ease of downloading fonts from the web lead to many copyright violation issues.
Another on-going problem is the variations in the way different web browsers display fonts. Because each popular browser, and even different versions of the same browser, can vary greatly in display issues, the only fool-proof way to use fonts on the web is still to create graphics or Adobe Flash each time you want to add a non-standard font to your webpage. However, this leads to problems with search engines because these images and Flash aren't as search engine friendly as text.
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Networking is the single most effective way to find a job and keep it. For some people, the art of networking comes very naturally. For others, nothing causes them more anxiety than the idea of it. Part of being a good attorney is networking effectively in order to gain clients, increase your book of business, and advance in your career. You will never stop having to network throughout your life, even if you choose an alternative position, and the practice of law is a profession in which you will always have to do it whether you are in private practice, public service, academia or government.
The following guide covers the basics of networking effectively: click here for the guide.
Most lawyers are not "trained HR professionals" and therefore their interviewing styles, and the sorts of questions they ask, vary widely from individual to individual. Most lawyers who interview law students try to put them at ease and make it an enjoyable experience. Each interviewer's style is unique, and often the lawyer who interviews you will not have a list of prepared questions. Recently, however, a number of law firms have begun asking what are known as "behavioral" interview questions. Don't be surprised, therefore, if occasionally you encounter questions that begin with the phrase "Tell me about a time when you . . . " or "Describe a situation in which you . . . "
The most successful interviews usually are characterized by an easy give-and-take, of a conversational nature. However, to help you prepare for interviews, we have compiled below a list of some of the most commonly-asked questions that you're likely to encounter in a legal job interview.
Why (and/or when) did you decide to go to law school?
Why did you decide to attend the University of Wisconsin Law School?
Now that you're IN law school, how do you like it?
What courses have you liked best so far? What courses have you liked least? Why?
What areas of law interest you? Do you have any idea what area of practice you would like to work in? Why?
Tell me about your journal article [moot court topic][LAIP experience][last summer's job].
What did you get out of this past summer's experience? What did you enjoy most?
Tell me about your grades. [What is your class standing/class rank?].
What is it about our firm/organization that interests you? [Why do you want to work for us?]
What other firms/organizations are you interviewing with?
What other cities are you interviewing in?
Tell me about yourself.
I see from your resume that you're an officer of the ___ student organization. Has that been a worthwhile experience? What have you learned from it?
What do you consider to be your greatest strengths and weaknesses?
How do you spend your spare time? [What are your hobbies?]
Tell me something about yourself that isn't on your resume.
Are you on law review? Moot court? If not, why not?
What's your favorite movie? What books have you read lately (not counting law school books)?
What do you see yourself doing five years from now?
Did you receive an offer to return from the organization you worked for last summer?
I see that last summer you worked at ________. Why did you decide to do that?
Why do you want to work in ____ (city)? What ties do you have to this city/region?
Give me an example of a time when you used good judgment and logic in solving a problem.
Tell me about a time when you had to go above and beyond the call of duty in order to get a job done.
What is your typical way of dealing with conflict? Give me an example.
Be prepared to discuss knowledgeably anything that is on your resume, because that is the document that the interviewer will be looking at while talking to you, and which he/she will use to choose topics to talk to you about. If your interviewer has a writing sample from you, be sure to refresh your recollection about the subject matter of the document, so that you can talk about it intelligently.
Questions You Might Want to Ask
At some point in the interview, the interviewer will "turn the tables" and ask you if you have any questions for him/her. At this point the ball is in your court, and it is incumbent upon you to keep the conversation going by asking some questions. These should be questions that reveal that you have done your homework and know something about the organization you're interviewing with.
Interviewer: "So, now that I've found out a little about you, do you have any questions for me?"
Student (after awkward silence): "Ummm . . . No, I think you've answered everything. Thanks."
Message to Interviewer: This student isn't really interested in my firm.
Do not let this happen to you! In preparing for your interviews, it is vitally important to have a number of thoughtful, relevant, insightful questions to ask the interviewer. This is true whether you are preparing for a 20 minute on-campus interview with just one person or a half-day off-campus interview where you meet with numerous people. Asking questions conveys self-confidence, thorough preparation and sincere interest in the firm/organization.
Try to come up with questions based on your independent research about each firm/organization and/or interviewer (and try to phrase the questions in a way that indicates you've done some advance research). Also, when formulating your questions, think about what attributes are most important to you in a legal employer. Stability and future of the firm? Working conditions? Training/mentoring programs? High profile cases or nationally-recognized clients? Commitment to community service? Once you have come up with a list of attributes, try to incorporate them into your questions. It is perfectly appropriate to glean the information you are seeking through general questions about the firm/organization or relevant (and non-intrusive) questions about your interviewer personally.
Finally, do not ask questions if the answers are readily available through the usual pre-interview research sources, such as the firm's/organization's web site, marketing brochure or NALP Directory listing (e.g., "How many female partners does your firm have?"). Also, avoid questions that would be more appropriate after you have received an offer, such as questions about salary, vacation and other benefits.
The following are sample questions; however, as mentioned above, you should only ask questions that elicit answers in which you have genuine interest. Otherwise, your questions may appear disingenuous and cause more harm than good.
I noticed on your web site that ________is one of your clients. What type of work do you do for them? What departments in your firm are currently the busiest/least busy? I understand that the firm just opened an office in Hong Kong. What prompted that decision? What are the firm's expectations for future growth, and in what areas? What distinguishes your firm from similar firms in (Chicago, Milwaukee, etc.)? How long have you (interviewer) worked at this firm/organization/agency?What did you do before joining the firm/organization/agency? Why did you decide to join the firm/organization/agency? What do you enjoy most about working for the firm/organization/agency?What types of projects do summer clerks/interns work on?[ONLY if not described on the employer's website]
How, and how often, are summer employees evaluated?[ONLY if not described on the employer's website]
How is feedback provided during the summer? How do summer employees get their assignments?[ONLY if not described on the employer's website]
How many offers did you make to summer associates last year? How many of those offers were accepted? What do you like best about your (job/position/firm/organization/agency)? What do you like least about your (job/position/firm/organization/agency)? How much client contact am I likely to have in my first two years? Are associates assigned to one partner or are they part of a pool available to work with several partners? How long does it normally take for a new lawyer to be able to participate in a trial? How is work assigned? How are new lawyers supervised? How are new lawyers evaluated? Which of your practice areas are expanding? What new areas of practice does the firm/organization/agency want to move into? What are the firm's/organization's/agency's priorities? Does the firm/organization/agency expect to grow in the next five years and, if so, how? More associates, more lateral hires, more offices? How have you seen your own practice evolve? What is expected in terms of participation in professional organizations? What is the firm's policy on pro bono and community activities? What do you think sets this firm/organization/agency apart from others of its type? How would you describe the firm's/organization's/agency's personality/firm culture?
Remember to tailor your questions based on your research on the firm or organization.
Questions such as "I noticed that your firm just added an intellectual property department. Why did the firm decide to do that? Are there other practice areas that the firm is considering adding?" show that you have researched the firm and are at least a little bit savvy about law firm management and growth. Other good questions are ones such as "What are the fastest-growing areas of the firm?" or "Which firms do you consider to be your competition in the local market?" Do not ask questions that you could easily have found the answer to on the firm's website, and don't ask questions that will make it seem as if you are only interested in getting paid a lot and working as little as possible. If you run out of ideas for questions to ask, remember that you can always ask the interviewers about their career paths: whether they began their legal careers with this organization; how they got involved in the practice area they specialize in; what they like best or least about the firm/their practice area; what a typical work day is like for them. Law firm merger activity in the city in which the firm is located can also be an interesting topic to bring up.
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Iran incentives to include Boeing parts - report
Incentives to be offered on Tuesday to Iran aimed at resolving the Islamic Republic's nuclear confrontation with the West include a proposal to allow Tehran to purchase aircraft parts from Boeing Co. and Airbus, the New York Times reported on Monday.
The incentives, to be presented to Iran by European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, will include proposals to waive trade sanctions to allow Iran to upgrade its aging aircraft fleet as well as purchase U.S. agricultural technology, according to the report. READ MORE
The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- plus Germany agreed on the package of incentives last week in Vienna, the Times said, citing European diplomats and a senior Bush administration official, speaking anonymously.
As widely expected, the offer includes a commitment from the six nations to support Iran's plan for a civilian nuclear energy program, including joint projects to build light-water nuclear reactions.
The six nations also agreed to back Iran's membership in the World Trade Organization, the newspaper reported.
The report characterized the decision to include the sale of aircraft parts from Boeing (BA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and Airbus (EAD.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) as "a huge step, particularly for the United States."
Iran has been subject to American sanctions that hinder the purchase of spare parts for nearly all the planes of civilian carrier Iran Air and its air force since its 1979 Islamic revolution.
The offers are contingent on an agreement by Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities.
The package does not, however, include any specific threat of military action should Iran refuse to suspend those activities, the Times report said.
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Could anyone tell me what the difference is??
makin' my own greenburst electric guitar
Barbell curl uses a bar and are just typical curls with your palms facing the ceiling... hammer curls are done with dumbbells and you keep your palms facing toward each other during the entire curl motion. Hope that helps.
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Works your biceps at different angles. I'm fairly sure that hammer curls work your brachialis more and brachioradialis which is basically your lower bicep and forearm.
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Hammercurls are also a great way to train your forearms, Brachioradialis - the muscle that goes along the inner side of your forearm to the wrist of your hand.
Synergists when doing Hammercurls are also, Brachialis and Biceps Brachii.
Btw IŽd recommend doing more barbell curls than hammercurls if u want to make your biceps grow bigger and better. But include Hammercurls for fun and variation.
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Loving relationships are built on a foundation of trust. For couples to live happily ever after, they must be able to trust one another with sensitive information, including knowledge of personal finances. If a couple isn’t on the same page – if they’re fighting about money – dark times lie ahead. Jill Gianola, a registered financial advisor with the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors, has some advice for how couples can best avoid money arguments.
Know your money personality
Using money wisely means different things to different people. Some see money as a path to short-term happiness, while others view it as a sign of future security. Once you understand how you and your partner view money, you can begin to form a meeting of the minds when it comes to planning your finances. Hopefully, your money personalities are reasonably compatible.
Share feelings and experiences
Rather than using a credit card statement like a cudgel to subdue your overspending mate, come down from the pulpit and share your feelings. Even talk about how you learned about money, and encourage your significant other to do the same.
Set aside a quiet time and place to talk with your partner about money attitudes. This is not the time to drag out the credit card statements or lecture your partner. Instead, talk about how money was handled when you were growing up. Share your fears and talk about what you hope your money will accomplish.
Talk about your savings goals
There are always larger financial goals on the horizon, such as funding a home, buying a car, or preparing for education or retirement. If you stay focused on the long-term goals as a couple, you can more easily commit to saving enough each month to reach those goals within a reasonable time frame. Thinking long term and knowing you can achieve your goals brings a confidence melts away a great deal of stress.
Your own private slush fund
This is nothing nefarious. Each partner should have some of their own money socked away, for them and only them. Use it for eating out with friends, or whatever impulse expenses that don’t fit into the larger budget.
Go for the switcheroo
If your money personality is significantly different than your partner’s, all may not be lost. An exercise in empathy could do the trick. Take a week to switch roles. If beloved is a binger and you’re a hoarder, try some role reversal and see what happens. Once the binger gets a close look at the books, perhaps they’ll see how much damage regularly unchecked impulse can do. Just make sure they pay the bills during the process.
If all else fails, call in the cavalry
If arguing over money simply can’t be helped, a neutral third party may be the answer. A financial planner can help arguing couples to define their goals with greater clarity and lay out an effective strategy. The next step beyond that would be couples therapy, as money probably isn’t the only issue on which you and your mate clash.
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Our versatile physics B.A. curriculum allows you to pursue the profound links between physics and other subjects. You may do this in any of the College's schools. You may even choose to double-major in physics and in another discipline. One student, for example, earned degrees in physics and anthropology; another, in physics and audio production, a concentration in the television-radio major in Ithaca’s School of Communications.
You can graduate with a degree in physics while specializing in a specific area, such as astronomy, geophysics, or electronics. Using our performance-based teaching laboratory, our faculty will introduce you to the latest methods in physics education. Like our other physics programs, the B.A. option provides ample opportunities for hands-on research. Our students and faculty have analyzed data from NASA's Spitzer space telescope; collaborated on magnetic surveys of archaeological sites; studied the process of asteroid crater formation; investigated the properties of materials at low temperatures; and assisted with the acoustic monitoring of elephants in West Africa.
Most of our recent alumni have continued their educations in graduate school. Others have accepted positions at high-technology companies such as Intel, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin, or have chosen to teach. With a physics degree from Ithaca College, you'll be prepared to compete in a variety of fields, including science, math, engineering, computing, technology, and education.
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The History of MegaFoodMegaFood and Nutrient History
MegaFood has always been at the forefront of innovative nutrient supplementation. In 1973 we recognized the importance of Food in nutrient utilization. We have maintained our original edge by creating products based on the importance of Food. MegaFood products take the nutritional marketplace to the next level.
MegaFood created FoodBased Nutrition in our Essentials™ line in 1973. FoodBased Nutrition is the delivery of supplements with nutrient-rich whole foods. At MegaFood the nutrient-rich Whole Foods must represent at least 70% of the total weight of the formula. Not just any Foods - the Right Foods that make a Food Based supplement work at the highest level.
Full Color Spectrum
Why be concerned about color in your Supplement?
Worldwide research, including studies done by the National Cancer Institute, indicates the importance of including a full spectrum of colorful whole foods (red, blue, green, yellow, orange) in the daily diet. The color pigments in Whole Foods, such as anthocyanins, carotenes, chlorophyll and flavonoids, are recognized as being essential protective components of our diet. Essentials™ helps meet the challenge by including a daily dose of full color spectrum pigments in our formulas.
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Measuring Supplement Quality has always been an issue. In 2003 MegaFood set a new standard for the Foods used in supplements. MegaFood established quality standards by setting minimum levels of specific marker compounds for each Food used in our formulas. These markers indicate phytonutrient activity and therefore measure Quality.
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MegaFood formulas, starting in 1973, have utilized all known categories of Food Factors. Science has proven that a maximum of Food Factors in a supplement yields optimal results. With well over 100,000 known Food Factors in seven defined categories it is important to include as broad a range as possible. MegaFood includes all seven known categories in our formulas.
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Nutritional Therapeutix™ is formulated to maximize the body's physiological Specific Response to nutritive material. The overwhelming knowledge that Food is the ultimate healer led to an examination of how the currently available therapeutic products were delivered. There was a void in regard to Food's essential role in Specific Response. This is the reason for MegaFood's entry into Therapeutic Formulas. Nutritional Therapeutix™ Formulas set a new standard for cellular delivery of therapeutic nutrients based on the importance of Food in healing.
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UN, World Bank to jointly address global challengesAugust 10th, 2012 - 12:53 pm ICT by IANS
United Nations, Aug 10 (IANS) The UN and the World Bank agreed Thursday to work more closely in addressing global challenges, including sustainable development, health and education.
In his meeting with Kim Jim Yong, new president of the World Bank, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the two organisations are “strongest partners” in addressing peace and development agenda and are very happy to work together very closely, reported Xinhua.
“We will work regularly, to raise awareness, as well as to mobilise resources, and mobilise political will to help member states to achieve these goals (Millennium Development Goals),” said Ban.
Ban also discussed with Kim global health issues, saying: “Our target is to save 16 million women and children who would be dying needlessly from preventable diseases. I really count on Dr. Kim’s leadership on that.”
It was the first time that Kim was visiting the UN headquarters since he assumed the post July 1.
- UN offers to help India in checking HIV transmission - Apr 26, 2012
- UN chief Ban Ki-moon arrives in India - Apr 26, 2012
- UN chief to visit India this week (Lead) - Apr 24, 2012
- Be a global citizen, Ban Ki-moon tells India's youth - Apr 27, 2012
- Profiles of candidates for World Bank president - Mar 24, 2012
- Obama nominates Jim Yong Kim to head World Bank - Mar 24, 2012
- U.N. Secretary General Ban to visit Canada on Wednesday - May 10, 2010
- UN chief to travel to quake-hit Japan - Aug 03, 2011
- UN chief to visit India - Apr 24, 2012
- Ban to meet business leaders for UN health agenda - Apr 28, 2012
- World Bank must help tackle global growth risks: New chief - Jul 03, 2012
- UN chief lauds India's role in Security Council - Apr 27, 2012
- UN chief urges Afghanistan to prioritise anti-drugs effort - Feb 17, 2012
- Russia to back US nominee as world bank chief - Apr 14, 2012
- Involve developing countries in MDG, Speaker tells UN chief - Apr 28, 2012
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The wave base is the maximum depth at which a water wave's passage causes significant water motion. For water depths larger than the wave base, bottom sediments are no longer stirred by the wave motion above.
In deep water, the water particles are moved in a circular orbital motion when a wave passes. The radius of the circle of motion for any given water molecule decreases exponentially with increasing depth. The wave base, which is the depth of influence of a water wave, is about half the wavelength. At depths greater than half the wavelength, the water motion is less than 4% of its value at the water surface and may be neglected.
There are typically two wave bases, the fair weather wave base (FWWB) and the storm wave base (SWB). The fair weather wave base refers to the depth beneath the waves under normal conditions and the portion of the seafloor that is agitated by this everyday wave action is known as the Upper shoreface. The storm wave base refers to the depths beneath storm-driven waves and can be much deeper. The portion of the seafloor that is only agitated by storm-driven wave action is known as the Lower shoreface.
For instance, in a pool of water 1 metre deep, a wave with a 2-metre wavelength would barely be moving the water at the bottom. In the same pool, a wave with a wavelength of half a meter would not be able to cause water movement on the bottom.
See also
- R. G. Dean and R. A. Dalrymple (1991). Water wave mechanics for engineers and scientists. Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering 2. World Scientific, Singapore. ISBN 978-981-02-0420-4.
- At a depth of half the wave length, the amplitude of the water particle motion by the waves has been reduced to e-π ≈ 0.04 times it value at the water surface.
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As the federal government refuses to recognize the UN treaty on the rights of the disabled, a growing number of cities are incorporating international human rights standards into their policymaking.
Along with marijuana decriminalization in other states, the success of Proposition 36 in California is a ray of hope for those trapped in the abyss of the War on Drugs.
Some hospitals, like St. Joe's in Ann Arbor, are seeking out local food—but for the local food movement, meeting their needs is a challenge.
Turnout for a popular ballot measure that would fully legalize marijuana could determine whether Obama or Romney wins this important swing state.
Has the first lady’s anti-obesity campaign been too accommodating toward the food industry?
In this election and after, we need to write a new story for our changing nation that places care and connection at the center.
One in ten Asian Americans carry hepatitis B, and before the Affordable Care Act, that 10 percent could be denied health insurance based on this pre-existing condition.
The hollowing out of America, up close and personal.
The healthcare law ushers in a new reality for transgender people, long subjected to outrageous discrimination and disrespect by medical providers.
There is a certain kind of madness in peddling guns to Americans while dismantling our mental health system.
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“She created her own world, and I created mine,” explains George Rodrigue to his audience at the Alexandria Museum of Art last week, as he nods from a New Mexico landscape (left of the podium; click photo to enlarge) to his own wet Blue Dog canvas.
I made a mental note to remember the line, the nicest thing he’s ever said about artist Georgia O’Keeffe (related post here).
“I’ve been to Ghost Ranch,” he continued, “and this painting has no relationship to the actual mountains. But that’s okay. That’s the prerogative of the artist, to interpret what he or she sees and make it their own.”
Normally in an auditorium, this unusual painting demonstration occurred within the museum’s largest exhibition space, surrounded by Copley to Warhol, a collection of thirty American masterpieces from the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), on tour throughout Louisiana during 2011 as the museum celebrates its centennial.
In a bit of irony, NOMA also tours its significant Rodrigue collection this year, an exhibition recently ended in Monroe at the Masur Museum (story here) and opening July 23rd in Baton Rouge at the LSU Museum of Art (story here), followed by the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum in Shreveport this fall. Due to logistical problems, however, Alexandria missed the Rodrigue show.
The Anne and Wendell Gauthier family of New Orleans came to the rescue, loaning Alexandria the Saga of the Acadians, a series of fifteen paintings created by Rodrigue between 1985 and 1989. Without an auditorium, the museum’s lecture plans, we assumed, included the small gallery housing these works.
Be sure and click the photo to enlarge-
(pictured above, the Saga of the Acadians, as it appeared in the Lake Charles Calcasieu Museum earlier this year; for a detailed history of this important series of paintings visit here)
Anticipating a large crowd, the Alexandria Museum of Art had other ideas, however, which is how George ended up nodding to Georgia O’Keeffe, and I ended up speaking in the presence of Mrs. Asher B. Wertheimer, I immediately thought to myself, as the London socialite stared at me from across the room.
It was recently that I dove into the scandalous story of John Singer Sargent and Madame X for the post “American Artists in Paris.” Now the elegant Mrs. Wertheimer watched me as though she were the face of art history and patronage, evaluating my delivery and checking my facts.
(pictured, John Singer Sargent’s Portrait of Mrs. Asher B. Wertheimer, 1898)
George painted as I shared his story with the audience. He worked quickly, with large brushes and paint straight from the tube, completing a painting in less than one hour for entertainment’s sake, only to repaint it later over several days in his studio. As he turned a blank canvas into something else, I spoke, reacting to the great works in the room.
As a young man returned from art school, I explained, George made the decision almost immediately to paint Louisiana. He visited the New Orleans Museum of Art and studied the great masters, especially the Hudson River School. He reacted to the works of Richard Clague, Joseph Meeker and Ellsworth Woodward.
I gestured to the dreamland of visual aides hanging on the wall. The heads turned from George’s canvas, straining instead to see this European style, both the birds-eye view of the classically trained artists and the painted reflections of the Impressionists.
(pictured, a landscape by Richard Clague, 1816-1878)
For George, this is not Louisiana. He found his own direction, pushing the oak tree to the front of his canvas, cutting it off at the top so that the light shines from beneath its moss and branches, and defining his distinct shape with hard edges. From the beginning, he graphically interpreted Louisiana with hopes of preserving the fading Cajun culture.
(pictured, Rodrigue in his studio, 1971)
“The difference between everyday art and great art is that everyday art might look good when you first see it, but after two or three days you lose interest.
“These paintings,” explained George Rodrigue as he gestured to the walls, “continue to ask questions; they retain mystery; and they retain a distinct quality so strong that each artist holds his own among the others, even in a room of paintings spanning two hundred years.”
A man raised his hand.
“Your painting looks alive to me,” he said. “I watched you paint, and yet I can’t explain in my mind why your approach differs from illustration. I see it, but I don’t understand it. How did you paint something that looks so alive?”
George referenced the walls again, unable to resist the energy in the room, as though America’s greatest artists depended on his answer.
“It’s in the artist’s mind, in his approach,” he explained, as he looked towards Warhol, Rivers and Inness. “All of the paintings here look alive. In great art the viewer has a constant communication with the painting, no matter what the painting’s age.
“An illustrator’s role in creating art is to hold the viewer’s attention for two or three minutes. He doesn’t intend his art to have a lasting effect with permanent communication.”
Following the painting demonstration, George visited with the crowd. Some remembered him selling his paintings on the road from the trunk of his car. Others shared their children’s versions of Blue Dog. One couple presented him with a letter describing their feelings for Tee Coon Gone Fishing:
“Tee Coon looks wonderful in our dining room, and he reminds us daily how happy we are to be ‘home’ in Louisiana. Your painting is one of our most treasured possessions.”
Another pointed out a Rodrigue steamboat painting, circa 1972, donated by their family to the Alexandria Museum of Art.
George ended the evening with a favorite piece of advice recalled from art school:
“Art is like a yardstick (held horizontally) with the Mona Lisa at one end and black paint on a black canvas at the other. Most artists move back and forth along the stick, getting nowhere. It’s important, however, to find your place on that stick and go up.”
He looked again at the masterpieces hanging in the room, pausing with begrudging respect at the O’Keeffe.
“Once you’re up here,” he continued, pointing to an imaginary spot in the air some two feet above the imaginary stick, “you are by yourself.”
“Once you’re up here,” he emphasized, “no one can touch you.”
Pictured above, George Rodrigue celebrates the opening of his new foundation offices this week at Magazine and Julia Streets, in the New Orleans Arts District
Rodrigue’s Saga of the Acadians and NOMA’s Copley to Warhol continue at the Alexandria Museum of Art through July 1, 2011; also on view, award-winning artwork from our sixteen 2011 scholarship finalists, sponsored by the George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts
The Alexandria Town Talk reviews Rodrigue’s visit in an article here
This week for Gambit: "Breakfast at Lea's Pies," an account of our adventures on the road as we returned from Alexandria
I hope you’ll join me on twitter this month as I post photographs and musings from George Rodrigue’s studio in Carmel, California
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At this moment our company looks for a software to encrypt the whole disk drives on laptops.
I see that many companies and government institutions use Utimaco Safeguard Easy.
First, we looked at this software as well.
However, it seems that the tool that is supposed to make laptops more secure has some serious problems related to password and key distribution.
For deployement in big companies, Utimaco recommend to implement centralized management.
The management is done via CFG-files that are pushed via SMS, Active Directory or otherwise.
These CFG files contain encryption keys for hard disks and floppy, as well as user passwords and backup passwords for recovery.
The content of the file is supposedly "encrypted" as Utimaco's manual says. However, it seems that the encryption keys are hardcoded directly in the EXE file. So, they are easily recoverable and all these CFG files can be easily compromised.
I am just wondering whether it has been discussed here and someone else has seen this problem before?
I know that many government and bank institutions use this product, am I the only person to see this security whole?
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"If privilege and oppression are visible only as issues for oppressed groups, then privileged groups don’t have to feel responsible or accountable or even involved. Men can feel good-even virtuous-when they show any concern for “women’s issues” or just don’t behave in overtly sexist ways. They can regard the slightest gesture in support of gender equality-from saying they favor equal pay to doing the dinner dishes-as a sign of what good people they are. And men can take comfort from the illusion that women can achieve justice for themselves by resolving women’s issues with some help from benevolent men but without radically affecting men’s lives or how patriarchal society is organized, including its male-identified core values."
Allan G. Johnson (via wretchedoftheearth)
Opinion: Latina Stereotypes Still Rule TV and Films
Latina stereotypes - the hot mami, the sassy spitfire, the shy maid -have been around forever. It’s time to see some smart Latinas represented.
What Latina stereotypes do you see in the media?
this should not have floored me but OH MY GOODNESS DID IT THOUGH
another one of those posts that fucks with your whole world view (in a good way)
So let me get this straight… Dudebro objectified a woman’s body… for attention.
Men’s rights groups, convinced that men are the biggest victims of modern society, have been busy attacking, defunding, and repealing laws that have been very effective at protecting women and lowering rates of domestic violence. They’re wrong and they’re dangerous and they need to be stopped.
(trigger warning for generalized MRA bullshit)
(Boston Magazine) - If your last memory of men’s groups is Robert Bly and the boys banging on drums in the woods, you likely have no idea how the movement has mutated. Today, men’s rights groups tend to be organized around the belief that this country has launched a “war on fatherhood.” To them, the rise of feminism resulted in the fall of man, with males now being relegated to the periphery of society. In their eyes, the media portray men as feckless buffoons, legislative bodies unfairly target them, and biased courts blindly punish guiltless husbands. (Full disclosure: I was a producer of the 2011 documentary No Way Out But One, which examined the family court system.)
Nationally, groups like Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) and A Voice for Men have helped slow the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act—which would provide $660 million in funding for shelters, legal aid, and other programs to protect battered women—by convincing conservative House Republicans that the law shouldn’t include immigrants, Native Americans, and LGBT victims. SAVE claims the law is biased, noting in a fact sheet titled “Seven Key Facts About Domestic Violence” that “female initiation of partner violence is the leading reason for the woman becoming a victim of subsequent violence.” In other words: She was asking for it, officer.
"Prejudice against women, however, has deep and far-reaching consequences that do a lot more than make them feel bad, for it supports an entire system that privileges men at women’s expense. Sexist prejudice doesn’t just target individual women, for it is fundamentally about women and strikes at femaleness itself in every instance. Each expression of antifemale prejudice always amounts to more than what is said, for it reaffirms a cultural legacy of patriarchal privilege and oppression. When a particular woman is treated as less intelligent, less serious, and less important than the men she works with, for example, this specific view of her is easily linked to the patriarchal idea that women in general are inferior to men. When men ignore her ideas and suggestions or pay more attention to her looks than to her work, they do so with a cultural authority that damages her far more than similar treatment directed at a man.
Since patriarchal culture values maleness, the weight behind antimale prejudice is limited primarily to the individual woman who expresses it and is therefore easier to discount (“She must not like men”). And however hurt men might feel, they can always turn to the compensations of male privilege and a mainstream culture that sends continuing messages of inherent male value. In this sense, the issue isn’t whether prejudice hurts-it hurts everyone it touches. But prejudice against women wounds in deeper and more complex ways than does prejudice against men because the hurt is magnified by a patriarchal system that spreads it by association to all women and that systematically links it to male privilege.
Because prejudice affects women and men so differently, calling antimale prejudice “sexism” distorts the reality of how systems of privilege work. Prejudice against women not only harms individual women, but perpetuates an oppressive system based on gender that harms women more deeply than any isolated instance of hurtful speech or discrimination. Antimale prejudice may hurt individual men, but it isn’t connected to a system that devalues maleness and oppresses men as a result. The difference between the two is so great that we need to distinguish the one from the other, and that’s what words like “sexism” and “racism” are for. Sexism distinguishes simple gender prejudice-which can affect men and women both-from the much deeper and broader consequence of expressing and perpetuating privilege and oppression. Without this distinction, we treat all harm as equivalent without taking into account important differences on both the personal and the social levels in what causes it and what it does to people."
Allan G. Johnson, The Gender Knot (via wretchedoftheearth)
Sexism is such a thing in Trek. For all his utopian ideals, Roddenberry was bad at rising above his own flaws, sexism being the most obvious. (Not misogyny, mind. Dude seems to have been a sincere and dedicated advocate for female empowerment in spite of his own weird ideas about “what women are like.”) And that has utterly permeated Trek ever since.
I mean, is there any more glorious example of men not knowing how to write women than Deanna Troi? Data is a robot and Worf is a badass and Geordie has frigging cyborg eyes, but what do we give our token superpowered lady? Feelings powers. Oh, and all but invariably her episodes are those goddamn “alien shows up, Troi falls in lurrrve, feelings feelings feelings” plots, because Sagan forbid she end up in any other situation, ever.
Worse, some dumbfuck in the writers’ room eventually went “picard has his flute and riker has his beard and data has his cat and worf has his stupid parentheses sword, how should we humanize troi? oh i know: MAKE HER OBSESSED WITH CHOCOLATE.”
“bitches love chocolate”
Of course, supreme badass Dr. Crusher was constantly being undermined at the script stage by her precocious twerp of an offspring, and I’m not even going to get into the writers’ bizarre treatment of Tasha “Rape Gangs” Yar. (I will say that Ro Laren got unusually good writing. For the, what, five episodes she appeared in?) But when an actor is like “please, please, please can I wear the fucking uniform like every other fucking person in the cast?” and the writers answer, “no, trust us, your character is more comfortable with her cleavage showing,” you know what? That is some bullshit is what.
And it’s not just an unpleasant legacy that people moved away from post-Roddenberry. How about that long-running plot in DS9 where Kira is reduced to nothing more than a handy replacement womb for my baby, my baby! Homegirl is literally forced by medical necessity to go through another woman’s entire pregnancy, and it is never once addressed how fucked up this is, except that gee it sure does make Miles O’Brien’s marriage awkward!
Or Voyager? I haven’t watched Voyager for the same reason Jeff Winger isn’t into Glee (“I hate it! I don’t understand the appeal at all!”), but reliable hearsay from breathless fans informs me that, like Picard, Trek’s first female captain likes to turn the holodeck into an outlet for her wistful daydreams. Of course, there’s a slight difference: Picard fantasizes about being a detective from pulpy noir adventure novels, while Janeway fantasizes about being a governess. You read that correctly: a motherfucking nanny from the motherfucking Victorian era. Because heaven forfend that in a world where it ain’t even a thing for a woman to command a starship, that woman not pine for BABIES TO TAKE CARE OF and (no I will not get over this) THE. MOTHERFUCKING. VICTORIAN ERA!!!
So no, it didn’t surprise me to see an all-male, all-white, all-manchild creative team behind the Trek reboot. It’s fitting, in a way. And I’m going to go ahead and piss all the fanboys off by pointing out that the reboot is by far the best movie Trek has ever produced. Whine that it’s “bad Trek” all you want; nothing other than Wrath of Khan comes even close to being as solid a cinema experience. If anything about the reboot did surprise me, it’s that there was so little sexism in the finished product, in spite of its pedigree and the involvement of questionable minds like Lindelof. The treatment of Orions alone made me want to applaud.
So, as always: progress is slow. Progress is frustrating. But progress is progress.
I really only want to say two things. 1) ENSIGN RO WAS MY GIRL 2) Kira was so fantastic in the pilot episode of DS9 and so meh in every episode after that. She got defanged in a major way. 3) Dax got some good writing, but they were treating her as a male, due to her previous host being male. Very telling.
males are disgusting even before they hit puberty
f_cking little entitled b_stard i hate men
Yes, sadly we are.
Seriously, we all need to consider how we’re bringing up the kids, especially the boys, in our lives. We need to reevaluate how we react to shit like this, which happens all the time. We need to think about what we’re sending out when this is deemed as ‘cute’ when actually we’re watching a little girl be repeatedly kissed when she’s constantly expressed she doesn’t want to. This type of thing is teaching boys that girls must always accept and be grateful for the attention and affection boys offer, even when the girls do not themselves want it, and that these boys are owed reciprocity.
Comedians Who Use Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, etc for Humor Think They’re Edgy
When in fact you just seem like a senile 85 year old with pants up to your nipples rambling about back when “them damn devil women weren’t allowed to control their eeeeeeeevil vaginas.”
Congrats, you have actually succeeded in becoming grandpa Simpson. You are the least controversial, shocking, revolutionary standup comedian on the planet, your jokes were hackneyed in 1955.
This is you:
You are not saying what we’re all thinking, but too scared to say, you’re saying what literally everyone else in society got over thinking decades ago. You are an anachronism, get back in your own millenium.
Omnibus of scumbags
Some responses to things I’ve seen on my Dash today, compiled here so as to spare you from multiple posts about people being ignorant jerks about stupid shit:
Tard the cat: The owners are shitty people and the name is ugly ableism. I have no patience for people defending them. You can think the cat is cute without justifying or minimizing its owners shittiness. See: How to be a fan of problematic things.
Wil Wheaton: Or how not to behave when you’re being called out for doing something stupid. Don’t double down on a mistake by deflecting criticism for it or whining about your feelings. Intent isn’t magic. Good intentions don’t erase bad actions or consequences. Ovary up, apologize, learn something from your mistake, and move on. Can’t be arsed to do that? Goodbye.
People against Black James Bond: This doesn’t erase English culture. There are and have been black people in England for centuries. Also, James Bond is a fictional character. Queen Elizabeth, Shakespeare, Churchill and Jane Austen are all real people. Changing their ethnicity or race would be weird, but there’s absolutely nothing about James Bond as a character that makes him essentially white. He’s a debonair British spy and ladies’ man. Nothing about those character traits = whiteness. If you think they are, then you need to take a good, hard look at yourself.
Fighting hate with hate: It’s misleading to equate the hatefulness of bigotry with the anger of the oppressed. Context matters. The hatred of oppressive bigots is unwarranted, unjustifiable aggression toward marginalized and disempowered peoples for characteristics they can’t control. The hatred of the oppressed is a reaction to that aggression—it didn’t spring from nowhere. Let me repeat this: bigotry is aggression. An aggressive response to bigotry is the self-preservation instinct kicking in. Treating the two things as though they were the same is wrong.
James Gunn: is a homophobic, misogynist sack of shit. See what I did there?
"The host societies of migrant Filipina domestic workers should also be held more accountable for their welfare and for that of their families. These women’s work allows First World women to enter the paid labor force. As one Dutch employer states, “There are people who would look after children, but other things are more fun. Carers from other countries, if we can use their surplus carers, that’s a solution."
The Care Crisis in the Philippines: Children and Transnational Families in the New Global Economy by Rhacel Salazar Parrena
Most receiving countries have yet to recognize the contributions of their migrant care workers. They have consistently ignored these workers’ rights and limited their full incorporation into society. The wages of migrant workers are so low that they cannot afford to bring their own families to join them, or to regularly visit their children in the Philippines; relegated to the status of guest workers, they are restricted to the low-wage employment sector, and with very few exceptions, the migration of their spouses and children is also restricted.” These arrangements work to the benefit of employers, since migrant care workers can give the best possible care for their employers’ families when they are free of care-giving responsibilities to their own families. But there is a dire need to lobby for more inclusive policies,and for employers to develop a sense of accountability for their workers’ children. After all, migrant workers significantly help their employers to reduce their families’ care deficit.
I’d like to draw the attention of white feminists here. Why are immigrants’ rights, and the rights of domestics who are women of color, not an intregal part of your platform? Why isn’t Caitlin Moran, Jessica Valentine, or any other major white feminist talking about the care crisis in third world nations as impoverished women facing daunting lives move to entirely new worlds to take care of WHITE CHILDREN so that WHITE WOMEN can go to work?
Your advocacy, your movement, is built on the backs of THESE WOMEN and Black women who have had to IGNORE THEIR OWN FAMILIES, THEIR OWN CHILDREN, SO THAT YOU COULD LEAVE THE HOUSE.
If there is ever an issue that is FOUNDATIONAL to the lives of well-to-do white women or Western feminists in general, it is the appalling way domestic workers are treated. While that Caribbean nanny, Black mami, or Filipina au pair takes care of your child, did you ever stop to think about their families and the lives they’ve left behind?
How without immigrants or women of color, white women wouldn’t be able to work at their own leisure? That white men wouldn’t enjoy the knowledge that there is no such thing as a care crisis in America?(via rafsimon-murderer)
GIRL GAME HOW??? CONTROLLER NO VAGINA FIT!!!
Him: *to his GF* oh look at her necklace *points at my Creeper necklace*
Me: Yeah, I love it, you can get them in Game for about 15 quid…
Him: *total change in attitude* Do you even PLAY computer games?!
Me: OMG who even ASKS that?!?!
Me: *walks away*
male privilege is systematically oppressing women and saying they have a “persecution complex” when they notice
Anytime I hear the term “systematically oppress,” my brain shuts off and my ears close.
Just shut up, no one cares about your tumblr SJ BS. Maybe I would listen if this were real life.
LOL case in point
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Japanese warship to visit Chinahttp://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-06/02/content_6729296.htm
Updated: 2008-06-02 15:30
A Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force warship will visit China later this month as part of the mutual visits by the two navies. The missile destroyer, Takanami, will be the first Japanese warship making appearance in a Chinese harbor since the end of the World War II, said a report from the domestic newspaper, Global Times.
The paper, mainly dedicated to covering international affairs, reported the visit has nothing to do with the current relief operation in China's quake-hit Sichuan province.
The Chinese navy destroyer, Shenzhen, paid a four-day visit to Tokyo in November 2007 as part of the activities marking the 35th anniversary of the normalization of bilateral ties.
It's also the first visit by a Chinese warship to Japan since 1891.
China and Japan reached an agreement on the mutual visits of the two navies in October 2000, which was later put on hold due to the Yasukuni Shrine visits by then Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
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Christine D. Keating, PhD , Pennsylvania State University
We are investigating the self-assembly of partially-filled nanotubes to evaluate the potential of this assembly strategy for solar cell fabrication. Our bottom-up approach relies primarily on density differences between the filled and open ends of the nanotubes to drive assembly of vertically-oriented arrays. Thus far, we have used silica nanotubes partially filled with metal (usually gold) as a test system that provides a large offset in their center of mass; this helps orient the wires as they sediment and facilitates assembly. The assembly mechanism is quite general and therefore should be applicable to a wide range of materials, substrates, and geometries. As columnar structures have shown to be effective in solar cells, we proposed to use this method as a low-cost means to construct nano- and microparticles into functional substrates for solar energy harvesting. Over the past year, we have progressed in our understanding of the assembly mechanism and moved towards systems more compatible with solar applications.
To understand whether this approach can be applied to solar collection arrays, several key questions must be addressed, including: the scalability of the assembly approach, the impact of solution properties (viscosity, ionic strength), and the range of particle types that can be assembled in this manner (size, aspect ratio, center-of-mass, and material composition). This year, we demonstrated assembly on a >10 cm2 substrate with standing percentages equivalent to smaller substrates (ca. 60% of particles were standing). This well exceeds nearly all literature self-assembly methods for generating columnar arrays, and requires no microfabrication, vacuum, or applied fields. We also demonstrated high assembly percentages for particles with aspect ratios >40, as well as assembly from more viscous solutions, which resulted only in a slower rate of assembly but no difference in the outcome. These experiments suggest that a wide variety of solvents and/or additivies, e.g., sensitizing dyes, polymers, additional nanoparticles, could be incorporated without preventing assembly; future experiments will test this hypothesis.
We are investigating assembly in microfabricated wells as a means to increase standing percentages, especially for solid nanowires or other particles with centers of mass not well suited for the simple gravity-driven approach described above. This approach also provides control over the spatial location of the standing arrays on a substrate, which will ultimately make it possible to perform post-assembly processing and on-chip integration. In our initial experiments, photoresist microwells increased standing percentages for the partially-filled silica tubes to an average of 95%, with many wells having complete 100% assembly (see figure). While assemblies on open surfaces are disrupted by drying, microwells provided stability during the drying process, making it possible to perform electron microscopy based characterization of the arrays while still in the microwells. We have employed electroplating techniques to anchor the assemblies to the surface, allowing removal of the photoresist microwells without loss of the assembled particle arrays.
Finally, we are in the process of testing the assembly both on planar substrates and in microwells for particles with nonmetallic cores, e.g., Si, Cu2O, ZnO, CdSe, etc., and new coatings, e.g., TiO2, ZnO. Microwell patterns will be examined on new substrates including transparent conductive films, e.g., indium-doped tin oxide, carbon nanotube films, and flexible substrates, for example, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). Once these particles have been assembled we will begin our characterization studies on both individual and arrays of nanowires. Harvesting solar energy is an important goal in today's society. Through our self-assembly methods, we hope to provide a low-cost, simple route for producing columnar arrays. This approach should be applicable for assembling various desirable combinations of nanomaterials and substrates.
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KUWAIT CITY (AP) - U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the Syrian government seems to have slowed preparations for the possible use of chemical weapons against rebel targets.
Last week U.S. officials said there was evidence that Syrian forces had begun preparing sarin, a nerve agent, for possible use in bombs.
Panetta told reporters flying with him from Washington to Kuwait that the threat was no longer escalating, although he was not specific about any Syrian military preparations.
He said the U.S. hasn't seen "anything new indicating any aggressive steps to move forward."
Panetta says he'd like to believe Syrian President Bashar Assad "got the message" when other countries warned against using chemical weapons. But he's still concerned that if "the regime is threatened with collapse, they might resort to these kinds of weapons."
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If only history had been taught like this in school. As the Professor points out, I wouldn't have had time to read a tome such as this when I was in high school, but I don't think I would have forgotten the historical content, had it appealed this much to me then.
Catherine, her life from being a German princess, to Russian despot, as seen from her point of view....well, as much as can be gleaned from her own and others memoirs and letters. The perfect historical novel, written by a witty scholar.
This is a huge book, but it is going really quickly and I am smitten with it. Today is the perfect dark day to curl up and pretend one is part of the Russian court.
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Magallania (Punta Arenas)
On-line version ISSN 0718-2244
MORENO J, RODRIGO A. Chiloé Archipelago and the Jesuits: The geographic enviroment of the mission in the XVII and XVIII centuries. Magallania [online]. 2011, vol.39, n.2, pp. 47-55. ISSN 0718-2244. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-22442011000200004.
The present article has the aim of showing how the particularity of the geographic enviroment of Chiloé was a conditioner of the Missionary Methodology that the Jesuits applied there between the XVII and XVIII centuries. The archipelago is composed by one main Island and more than thirty minor ones populated mainly by aborigines of the Huilliche tribe who were mostly bound by the Encomienda labour system. Spanish presence was concentrated in the town of Castro that lies on the eastern shore of the main Island and was founded on 1567. At that at the date was the southernmost urban enclave of the world. The Jesuits, using an uncommon system for permanent Missions, used the fying or Circular system of Mission as the core of what was considered a successful apostolate.
Keywords : Chiloé; mission; jesuits; geography; archipelago.
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Three books that give voice to the disorienting ordeal of losing someone.
BY: Nora Gallagher
Sorrow's Company: Writers on Loss & Grief
Edited by DeWitt Henry
Beacon, 214 pp.
Speak to Me: Grief, Love and What Endures
By Marcie Hershman
Beacon, 104 pp.
For Those We Love but See No Longer
By the Reverend Lisa Belcher Hamilton
Paraclete, 188 pp.
Grief isn't one feeling but several: longing, anxiety, and sorrow, all often mixed with shame or guilt or rage. "No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear," wrote C.S. Lewis in his masterpiece on the subject, "A Grief Observed." "I keep swallowing." Grief is love for another cast adrift; you call and no one answers. Nor can you figure out where the beloved has gone. You can't read or think or cook. In the end, a hole is left, and nothing comes along to fill it.
To make meaning out of one's own grief by writing about it requires a harrowing honesty, since writing about grief slides so easily into sentiment. The work can't be about grief alone but about something else--what the author made of his or her grief. In three new books about grief, one sees the power of grief to reduce writers' egos; to slams its victims so hard as to humble them.
In "Sorrow's Company," DeWitt Henry has collected essays by writers like Tess Gallagher, Jamaica Kincaid, Andre Dubus, and Jane Brox. Nearly every essay in this collection is worth reading--something few anthologies can boast, let alone one on so sensitive a subject.
Tess Gallagher's contribution, "Soul-Making," on the last days of her husband, the writer Raymond Carver, is a most beautiful work about love and the small details that make up a couple's life. But it's equally about how writers make meaning. In writers' lives, Gallagher says, writing and reading and living are all intertwined. It's no surprise that what gave Carver and Gallagher solace as Carver lay dying of lung cancer were words: They read Chekhov and Carver's most recent writings.
A sibling's death produces a different, very specific kind of grief than a spouse's, as Debra Spark's "Last Things" shows. Spark tells of her sister's death from cancer at age 26. She writes about how it feels to miss the person who shared a womb, and a childhood, and a point of view on the family. One's own relationship to life after watching one so young die so hard, Spark observes, is particularly ambivalent. "Our desires, our desires, our desires," Spark writes. "It's a reproach for me, an always unfulfilled wish for my family, and a sad song--it's a dirge--for Cindy." At the end she eats a shortbread cookie dipped in chocolate and finds it "so delicious I start to cry."
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More Anglers vs. Rafters on the Chattooga
We are not sure exactly who in their right mind would want to go white water rafting on the Chattooga River in the first place. Don't these people watch old movies? Currently on the Chattooga boating is allowed only on the lower sections of the river with the upper section, above highway 28, reserved for anglers. However in 2004 American Whitewater filed an appeal that sought to open the entire river to the raft and kayak hatch.
An administrative appeal was filed by American Whitewater in 2004 with Forest Service’s Washington Office. The appeal challenged the boating prohibition on the river above Highway 28. The Washington Office of the Forest Service decided to reverse the agency’s decision to continue to allow floating only below Highway 28, and directed the Regional Forester to conduct a visitor use capacity analysis to help make a more informed decision about how that section of the river should be managed by the agency. Until this work is completed and a revised decision is issued, the relevant provisions of the Sumter’s 1985 plan remain in effect, including the prohibition on floating above Highway 28.
Any floating on the Chattooga River above Highway 28 may only be allowed by Forest Service permits associated with this analysis. Activities allowed during this analysis period are only for data collection purposes, and may or may not be allowed in the agency’s final decision.
The US Forest Service has announced a public meeting on July 27th, 2007 in Highlands, North Carolina for the purpose of giving an update on the status of this appeal. For more information see this press release from the USFS or contact the following people:
Terry Seyden, Public Affairs Officer, National Forests in North Carolina 828-257-4202
Karen McKenzie, Public Affairs Officer, Chattahoochee/Oconee NF 770-297-3061
John Cleeves, Chattooga Analysis Team Leader, Francis Marion/ Sumter NF 803-561-4058
Here is a link to additional information about this subject from the Mountain Bridge Chapter of Trout Unlimited.
Here is a link to previous coverage of this subject on FlyFishMagazine.
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How is Road Work Prioritised?
Each road within the region has an assigned hierarchy and is categorised on a scale according to its design and purpose. See Levels or Service (Road Maintenance) link for full details.
This determines inspection requirements, including a schedule of when roads should be inspected and criteria for maintenance.
Council inspectors use their knowledge and experience to assess defects and record defect data into Council’s Asset Management system, ‘Conquest’, which has defect listings with pre-determined intervention levels.
Road defects are rated accordingly in Conquest against intervention levels. When defects are approaching, or have reached intervention level, maintenance is considered for programming. See Strategic Intervention Levels and Weightings.
Road section coordinators then determine a priority ranking for programmed maintenance works, within Council’s available budget.
Strong consideration is given to emergent road maintenance which could otherwise impose safety risks for traffic.
Asphalted or bitumen sealed roads which are regularly identified as requiring maintenance are closely monitored and assessed for reconstruction or upgrades. These are then prioritised and placed in Council’s future Capital Works program.
Inspectors are aware of the effects of everyday and heavy use on particular roads. They anticipate when large, planned, local social events may add impact by increasing road traffic in certain areas.
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I wanted to start the New Year off with enthusiasm, inspiration, and motivation. I really did but you can’t force that type of stuff. As I was sending out my Happy New Years texts, my phone autocorrected me on numerous occasions, sending out the ominous greeting “Happy New Tears” to friends and family.
Like a lot of families, my family is not good with open, frank conversations about emotions. I can’t even name my feelings most of the time. My emotional vocabulary consists of –Good, Tired, and Bloated. Bloated usually means other things like cranky, lazy, uncomfortable in my own skin.
That sentence was erroneously written ending with “uncomfortable in my own sin”.
I’ve been “bloated” for about three months now. My mother can sense I’m in a funk three days in. I’m not even aware I’m experiencing anything yet. I’m convinced I’m simply bound up.
Mum: Are you ok? You don’t sound good.
Me: Yeah I’m fine. My stomach is lethargic.
Mum: You sound depressed.
There’s nothing like you’re mother telling you “you sound depressed” to under mind your happiness.
Once she gets it in her mind there’s something wrong, you’re doomed. The line of questioning gets more telling and painful.
Mum: Well, I mean, if you feel like you’re not where you should be in life at this age, I can understand that.
Me: No I’m fine.
Mum: I’m sure you want to find someone, I’m not talking marriage but …. It’d just be nice to have someone.
Me: Ok, I gotta go. I’ll talk to you later.
Mum: Ok, well if you need me to give you money let me know.
Me: Mum I’m fine.
Mum: You don’t sound fine.
Me: Can we don’t talk about my emotional state for two consecutive days in a row.
Mum: Awareness is the first step.
You see what I’m saying.
Houdini couldn’t get out of this conversation loop.
This will go on for weeks. It’s a verbal form of Chinese Water Torture. She always wins. Whether she prompts my self awareness or simply convinces me that I am in fact, in the dumps, I finally admit it.
Me: Yeah I think I am a little depressed.
Mum: Oh, you’ll be fine, honey. Did you ever get that Ralph Lauren sweater at Marshalls? If not I’ll send it to you. It’s a great color for you.
Like any good Cunningham once you’ve acquiesced and she has that “Seeeee, I was RIGHT!” moment, she’s more than happy to douse you with compliments.
“I like your new sweater, Kendra”
“Thanks I got it for agreeing with my mother. It’s a wardrobe reminder that she was right”
Thanks for listening!
Kendra is a stand up comic living in Brooklyn where she owns a super comfortable bed. She spends most of her time wondering where the hell her sugar daddy is and hoping he didn’t settle.
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The International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) is a center in the University of Washington's Department of Global Health, in partnership with the University of California, San Francisco. I-TECH has offices in Africa, India, and Haiti, and projects in more than twenty countries. I-TECH's 700 worldwide staff work with local ministries of health, universities, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), medical facilities, and other partners to support the development of a skilled health work force and well-organized national health delivery systems.
Most of I-TECH's projects are organized to follow our Partnership Model, which describes a project cycle in which sustainability and transition to local ownership are key project outcomes.
I-TECH works primarily in the following technical areas:
|I-TECH combines the intellectual talents of leading clinicians, educators, researchers, and instructional designers to form multidisciplinary project teams. This results in innovative, comprehensive, and targeted capacity development activities that are tailored to the needs of individual countries.|
|ACADEMIC AFFILIATION||Supported by the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), I-TECH offers its network of offices and partners access to technical specialists and new research in all areas of global health. I-TECH also links to the 11 university-affiliated AIDS Education and Training Centers in the United States.|
|LEADERSHIP||The Principal Investigator for I-TECH is Dr. King K. Holmes, MD, PhD, Chair of the UW Department of Global Health. Dr. Holmes is one of the most influential infectious disease researchers and mentors of other scientists in the world.|
|GLOBAL PRESENCE||I-TECH is a network of NGOs in 10 countries in southern and eastern Africa, Asia, South America, and the Caribbean region. Additionally, I-TECH implements projects in several countries where it does not maintain a formal presence, with support from its network. More than 85% of I-TECH employees are hired locally.|
|I-TECH has extensive experience in overseas human resource management, risk mitigation, contract monitoring, NGO registration, auditing, and quality assurance. I-TECH builds the capacity of its overseas offices so they can independently manage funds and operate strong in-country programs. Among the skills transferred to local staff are strategic planning, funds development, management systems, report writing, and managing for results.|
|EMPHASIS ON QUALITY
|I-TECH applies the principles of quality improvement to all of its work. Throughout a project cycle, I-TECH leads staff and partners through facilitated reflection on areas for improvement, and helps to address these areas by finding appropriate, relevant solutions.|
|EXPERIENCE WITH DIVERSE
DONORS AND PARTNERS
|I-TECH has extensive experience working with United States government partners, including the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Defense, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The goal of all these partnerships is the development of better human resources for health, and achievement of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).|
I-TECH receives funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the US Department of Defense (DOD), and others. Most of I-TECH's project work is part of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
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proud parents, members of the Tennessee Aquarium’s
seahorse team carefully watch, record and discuss the progress
of the newest additions to their family – a group
of twelve weedy seadragons born at the Aquarium in September.
is one of only two known institutions in the world to successfully
breed these rare animals and raise them. The breeding program
has given the Aquarium a great deal of information about
these rarely studied animals, from seadragon mating rituals
to the feeding habits of newly hatched babies.
caring for seadragons is not for the faint of heart. Like
parents with small children, the seahorse team must adhere
to a strict regimen of feeding, monitoring and then cleaning
up after these creatures.
breed the weedy seadragon, you must ensure that the animals
are sexually mature, healthy, that they have good nutrition
and a proper environment for mating,” said Senior
Aquarist, Thom Demas.
While this may
sound simple, it requires a great deal of diligence. When
the weedy seadragons arrive at the Aquarium they are approximately
3 months old and are quarantined and treated with a fresh
water bath to remove any parasites. The seadragons are then
converted from eating live food to eating frozen food. The
switch to frozen food helps keep the animals disease-free.
Because seadragons have no stomachs, the frozen food must
be of high quality to ensure the animals get adequate nutrition.
In addition to
their nutritional requirements, the weedy seadragons need
an extremely clean environment. Seadragons are very sensitive
to parasites and any foreign matter in the tanks can give
those parasites a place to grow. This means that the tank
filtration systems must be of high quality and the tanks
must be scrubbed down each week. Each tank is also sterilized
using ultraviolet lights.
tanks give the parasites an advantage,” Demas said.
“We have to clean and vacuum the tanks daily to make
sure we don’t give the parasites an opportunity to
get ahead of us.”
sexual maturity after two years and usually begin to display
courtship behavior. However, they must have the proper environment
for breeding. The water temperature must stay between 60
and 66 degrees Fahrenheit, the seadragons must have at least
twelve hours of light, they must have plenty of food and
a water column of proper height.
column height is key,” Demas explained. “When
weedy seadragons mate, they do a courtship dance and then
swim up the water column while facing each other. This is
when the egg transfer occurs. If the water column is too
short, the animals get frustrated and drop the eggs on the
bottom of the tank.”
of the seahorse team paid off and on July 21, 2002, a successful
egg transfer took place. Twenty-eight eggs were transferred
to the male seadragon, who carried them on the underside
of his tail.
After the egg
transfer, the male was separated from his tank mates in
a smaller container. By sequestering the male, the aquarists
hoped to reduce stress to him and the eggs. The container
also made it easier to retrieve the newly hatched babies.
had several problems to overcome when dealing with the expectant
seahorse dad. They had to ensure the seahorse received adequate
nutrition and had a environment, while making sure he did
not experience stress due to being moved or handled. Poor
nutrition, dirty water and stress can cause dropped eggs,
premature births, disease or even death.
24 eggs hatched. It was a great accomplishment, but meant
even more work for the seahorse team.
the baby seadragons were placed in a krisel tank in the
quarantine room. Krisel tanks create a circular current,
and this kept the babies’ food moving in the water
column, making it easier for them to feed. The current also
kept the babies off the floor of the tank, out of any waste
material or leftover food.
only did the baby seadragons require constant feeding (every
four hours), but the size of their food changed as they
grew. This meant that aquarists had to have several sizes
of mysid shrimp on hand at all times. Of course, constant
feeding also meant constant cleaning and members of the
seahorse team had to vacuum the tank at least two times
team also photographs, measures and evaluates the babies
each day, collecting data for scientific research. Many
of the babies were born prematurely, but 12 have survived
and continue to grow. They’ve reached several important
milestones, including their three-month birthday.
continue to exhibit mating behavior and aquarists are hopeful
that more successful egg transfers are in the future.
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For Educators and Students
Education is one of the most important tools we can use to reduce waste. There are many classroom resources on the internet that cover recycling and waste management and other environmental topics. Visit the links in the Educators and Students sections below for more information.
Our state school recycling guide called "Catch the Cycle"
RecycleBowl is a fun, fair and friendly competition among grade schools in the US; the program is in its 2nd year and is associated with America Recycles Day, both being Keep America Beautiful programs. The competition awards cash prizes and bragging rights plus providing teaching moments, and engaging students in taking action in recycling. Public, private and charter schools are eligible; in 2012, the competition includes bottles, cans and paper and lasts for 4 weeks from October 15-November 9. The culmination is on November 15th and reports are due back on December 10th; registration and reporting are all done online via the Re-TRAC system with full instructions provide on the website. The first 1000 schools that register get the coordinator toolkit, so time is of the essence in getting the word out to educators to register early: http://recycle-bowl.org . Registration is now open and must be accomplished by October 9th.
So, notify your schools and school systems to get them started registering; we want Georgia schools to be well represented and to win!!! The Race is On!
The Online Guide to Environmental Education (EE) in Georgia (www.EEinGeorgia.org) includes a directory of over 300 organizations that offer EE resources to Georgia educators. A searchable resource database allows you to locate the grants, contests, outreach programs, curricula, field studies, etc. available from these organizations and others. In addition the statewide calendar includes upcoming EE professional learning workshops, conferences, and symposia. Check out the new EE School Directory and discover the many projects and programs taking place at schools across the state. If your school is a model for EE, consider showcasing your efforts by creating a profile in the directory as well! Plus be sure to subscribe to the free EEinGeorgia monthly E-newsletter to keep up with new EE resources and opportunities posted to the site.
Georgia Green & Healthy Schools (www.greenandhealthy.org) is a collaborative initiative with a mission to assist and support schools in understanding and practicing environmentally sound principles. To participate, students and teachers use assessment tools to conduct school-based investigations on one or more of the six assessment areas (air, energy, facility management, school grounds, solid waste, and water). Results of this program include cost-saving measures that can save schools thousands of dollars a year in energy, water, maintenance, and other costs. The collaborative nature of this program creates a dynamic and more productive learning environment for the students, while fostering a personal investment in the environment. All public and private/independent schools (grades K-12) in Georgia are invited to participate.
Visit the US EPA’s Eco-Portal for Teachers for access to databases, information, and activities for your students.
The Carbon Dioxide Game is a fun, active way to explain the greenhouse effect and human contribution to global climate change. The game can be played with groups of up to 30 students age 10 and older.
Green Teacher is a magazine that is used by many teachers to help enhance environmental programs in their classrooms. Green Teacher provides education for Planet Earth.
Check out the U.S. Green Building Council's High Performance & Healthy Schools Program to increase the health of students, reduce school operational costs, and improve our environment.
Do you have a recycling program in your school? Have you ever wanted to learn more about how you can reduce waste? Start by checking out the EcoKids website!
Earth911 makes every day earth day! Check it out for environmental games, activities, and information.
Make your own recycled paper! Find the instructions here.
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The Château du Champ-de-Bataille, located in the region Haute Normandie, between the commune of Neubourg and Sainte Opportune du Bosc, in the Department Eure, is a baroque castle built in 17th century. It is situated in the Campagne du Neubourg between the rivers Risle and Iton.
The history of the castle goes back to the tenth century, went it was the site of a definitive battle, hence the name Champ-de-Bataille - Battlefield. The two families who reigned over the region under the French feudal system battled for power. They were led by Guillaume Longue Épée, and Robert le Danois. William (Guillaume) won, and with his victory, Normandy gained its independence.
Much later, in 1651, there was a seminal event: Marquis Alexandre de Créqui-Bernieulle (1628-1703), a friend of the Prince of Conde, was exiled to the region by Cardinal Mazarin, who governed France during the minority of Louis XIV. Crequi then decided to build a magnificent palace which recall the splendor of the Court that he would never know. He built the Château du Champ-de-Bataille between 1653 and 1665. Unfortuantely, Crequi died backrupt, but bequeathed the castle to his nephew, Anne-François d'Harcourt, Duc de Beuvron and governor of Normandy. At that time the house was very dilapidated. D'Harcourt then undertook considerable work to restore the glories of yesteryear. But the Revolution interrupted this gigantic task, which remained unfinished for generations.
It languished in the hands of several owners in a ruinous state until Jacques Garcia purchased it in 1999, and transformed it to the glorious house and gardens it is today.
Below: The most famous depiction of Leda and the swan, by Leonardo da Vinci.
Below: A more controversial depiction (does one censor art?)
"Leda and the Swan" is a poem by William Butler Yeats describing the swan's seduction of Leda.
- A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
- Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
- By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
- He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.
- How can those terrified vague fingers push
- The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
- And how can body, laid in that white rush,
- But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?
- A shudder in the loins engenders there
- The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
- And Agamemnon dead.
- Being so caught up,
- So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
- Did she put on his knowledge with his power
- Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?
The Official website for his chateau is here
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Zynga is loaning several of its developers to create a social charity game on Facebook. Development on a "social action" game based on the book Half the Sky by Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn is well underway according to GamesBeat.
The book is about "turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide." The game will be released on Facebook on November 13.
"Zynga’s role in bringing this game to life is particularly special to us," said Half the Sky authors Kristof and WuDunn. "Using a game to potentially reach great numbers of people helps send a message not only that there are challenges women face around the world but also that they bring great spirit and joy to their communities when they can live safe, normal lives."
The game is part of a transmedia effort that ties into a four-hour PBS miniseries. The game is under development from Frima Studio, with Games For Change serving collectively as executive producer. Maro Chermayeff, the president of Show of Force, is also as an executive producer. Chermayeff is making the PBS miniseries, which is set to air on the network Oct. 1-2.
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UP PENINSULA (Australia)- Australia's greatest ancient Aboriginal rock art is at risk of being damaged or destroyed because it sits at the epicentre of the country's resources boom, experts say.
The etchings of men and animals on the rocks of the Burrup Peninsula, some of which are believed to be up to 30,000 years old, lie in Western Australia's remote and mineral-laden Pilbara region.
Images carved onto the red rocks scattering the landscape include kangaroos, lizards and emu tracks as well as the extinct native Tasmanian tiger which died out on the mainland 6,000 years ago. Among the most significant panels are those showing human faces and activities and what experts believe are mythical figures.
"One of the pictures is depicting movement, is showing a man climbing a tree; probably to go hunting a possum or something like that," says archaeologist and anthropologist Sue Smalldon.
"The depiction of movement is quite rare in historic art around the world."
But the peninsula is also seeing increasing industrial activity, including a gas processing plant, a fertiliser factory and iron ore port facilities, making it the only place in Australia to feature on the World Monuments Fund's list of the most endangered sites.
Smalldon believes the rock art has suffered since mining took off in the Pilbara, which holds some of the richest mineral deposits on earth, in the 1960s. "We had nearly one million panels of rock art," Smalldon told AFP.
"That's what so important about it. Yes, it's important to culture, yes, it's important aesthetically and for other reasons. But from an international perspective, it's the greatest concentration of rock art in the world."
She said the threat to the art has intensified in recent years as mining and energy companies drain the region of iron ore, natural gas and other resources to feed the huge demand for raw materials from Asia. Smalldon cites the removal of rock art from the area by energy producer Woodside Petroleum to build a new liquified natural gas (LNG) plant, as an indicator of how industrial development threatens the works. "Archaeologists, anthropologists, Aboriginal people " we all said 'no don't do it'," she said. Woodside said it tried to avoid rock engravings when it designed its Burrup LNG Park but that 170 boulders containing art which could not be avoided were moved to nearby natural settings with the guidance of indigenous custodians.
"No rock art was damaged or destroyed during this process and the relocated boulders are now indistinguishable from the surrounding landscape," a spokesman for the company told AFP.
But Smalldon is unimpressed.
"It's like saying Stonehenge is a round circular site, let's remove two of the stones," she said.
"You're removing a percentage of the rock art and therefore reducing the significance of it. You've got to think of it as the Aboriginal people think of it " as a whole. They see it as a place, they don't see it as individual rock art."
Smalldon has taken other affronts in her explorations over the past seven years including crude graffiti scratched into rocks bearing thousand-year-old images and construction camps built around sacred Aboriginal men's sites.
" Industrial development "an enormous blunder' "
Part of the problem is the lack of management for the art works which are scattered over 88 square kilometres around the peninsula some 1,300 kilometres (800 miles) north of Perth.
The government placed the Burrup rock art on the National Heritage List in mid-2007 but as yet there are no fenced-off areas and no walkways to guide visitors to the sites where kangaroos, echidnas and other native fauna roam wild.
Aboriginal middens, the dumping grounds for the remains of shellfish eaten by local tribes which provide a rich source of material for archaeologists, have been trampled by unsuspecting visitors.
The road into the peninsula has a gas pipeline along one side, while the Burrup Fertiliser factory lies close to important pieces.
People wanting to view the rock art must scramble over boulders for a vantage point and the only nod to authority is a small sign asking visitors to "Please help preserve this site for the future".
"It's just so sad," said Smalldon. "There has been no management for this archaeology to date.
"Anywhere with this level of significance, heritage of this significance, you would have management in place, in my opinion. Somewhere equivalent like Stonehenge or Kakadu " all of those places have management in place."
The lack of management also means it is possible for theft to occur. The worst case involves vandals removing at least one rock face with power tools.
"People take these rocks away. If there's a small rock with an engraving on it, people have been stealing them," Smalldon said.
Robert Bednarik, who since discovering the rock art in the 1960s has been a passionate defender of the area, said the industrial development of the Burrup was an "enormous planning blunder" given the importance of the art.
"Western Australia has one of the lowest population densities in the world. We have oodles of land, we have enormous stretches of coastal spinifex plains that are completely unoccupied," he said.
"And what do we do? We put the biggest industrial development in the country at the same site as the biggest cultural heritage site in the country. It's incredible."
Austrian-born Bednarik, an epistemologist who has published widely on archaeology, believes industrial emissions pose the biggest risk to the art and will gradually strip away the etchings.
"The only rock art, the only petroglyphs that you are going to see 100 years from now are those very, very deeply carved. And they of course are a small minority," he said.
Woodside and the government deny the assertion, saying air monitoring on the Burrup has found air emissions to be well below national and international environmental and health standards and are not impacting rock art.
Western Australia's Deputy Premier Eric Ripper said the state government was establishing Murujuga National Park, to be jointly managed with the indigenous community, over parts of the Burrup that lie in National Heritage areas.
An Aboriginal heritage management plan to guide the protection of indigenous heritage and culture in the wider Dampier Archipelago had also been developed.
"We recognize the immense national cultural and heritage values of the area and believe a cooperative approach between all of these groups is the best way to manage and protect those heritage values," he said.
But local Aboriginal leaders such as Wilfred Hicks, from the Wong-Goo-Tt-Oo people which claim a connection to the Burrup, remain concerned about the site.
"I'm very worried about it. All my people are worried about it because it's destroying all the Aboriginal art," he said.
"To me, there's enough development now, I don't think there should be any more."
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Information for Healthcare Professionals: Pemoline Tablets and Chewable Tablets (marketed as Cylert)
FDA ALERT [10/2005]: Liver Injury Risk and Market Withdrawal
The Agency has concluded that the overall risk of liver toxicity from Cylert and generic pemoline products outweighs the benefits of this drug. In May 2005, Abbott chose to stop sales and marketing of Cylert in the U.S. All generic companies have also agreed to stop sales and marketing of this product (Pemoline tablets and chewable tablets). Cylert is a central nervous system stimulant indicated for the treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This product is considered second line therapy for ADHD because of its association with life threatening hepatic failure (see BOXED WARNING in product label and patient package insert, available at Cylert Labeling Information (PDF - 60KB))
FDA intends to update this page when additional information or analyses become available.
Adverse reactions or quality problems experienced with the use of this Product may be reported to the FDA's MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program either online, by regular mail or by fax, using the contact information at the bottom of this page.
Healthcare professionals who prescribe Cylert, or any of its generics, should transition their patients to an alternative therapy. Cylert will remain available through pharmacies and wholesalers until supplies are exhausted; no additional product will be available.
FDA is aware of 13 reports of liver failure resulting in liver transplant or death, usually within four weeks of onset of signs and symptoms of liver failure. Although the absolute number of reported cases of liver failure with pemoline is not large, the reporting rate for liver failure with pemoline is 10 to 25 times greater than the background rate of liver failure in the general population.
Despite diminished use of Cylert and generic pemoline products since the addition of the boxed warning in 1999 (about 1/5 the number of prescriptions now compared to before the boxed warning) and restrictive labeling (e.g., boxed warning, second line therapy, Medication Guide), a risk of liver failure remains (FDA is aware of 1 new case of pemoline-associated liver failure since the introduction of the boxed warning in 1999). Given the availability of multiple other drug treatments for ADHD, including 1 that is not scheduled and several products that can be given once a day, FDA has concluded that the risk of liver failure with this drug outweighs the potential benefits.
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An integral part of the i-SAFE education program is the maintenance of a database of student survey responses designed to chart students' understanding of the concepts presented, as well as the status and evolution of the Internet behaviors of your students. These brief assessment surveys are completed online and are completely anonymous. They take students less than 10 minutes to complete. Please have your students complete the pre-assessment before their first i-SAFE lesson as a baseline measure of Internet behavior and disposition for the core curriculum lessons; and the post-assessments upon completion of the final i-SAFE lesson to measure core concepts learned from the curriculum. The outcomes assessment, taken 3-6 weeks following completion of the curriculum (and post-assessment) is a measurement of the core concepts retained by your students over time.
Direct your students to this page by beginning at i-SAFE's home page, http://isafe.org then clicking on Assessments from either the Teachers or Students dropdown menu. To proceed to the assessment survey, students need to enter their School ID# at the bottom of this page.
To participate, you will need to enter a School ID# at the bottom of this page to proceed. Please ask your teacher to provide it. Once you enter this number, choose the appropriate grade and the appropriate assessment.
Be sure to click on "Finish" at the end of the assessment.
Parents are urged to complete an i-SAFE survey by clicking on the following link: Click here to participate.
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Orthotics are used for the treatment of Plantar Fasciitis. Plantar Fasciitis is caused when the ligament (Plantar Fascia) is irritated and inflamed. The inflammation and irritation can cause heel pain. Wearing orthotics or supportive insoles is a great way to help reduce the pain and help the healing process. They are most effective because they contract as you walk or run, providing the appropriate amount of support for the heel of the foot as your weight moves and shifts without interfering with the fit of your shoe.
Don’t know what orthotics are? These are basically inserts for your shoe. Here are a few Orthotic related recommendations for those with plantar fasciitis:
1. Plantar Fasciitis Night Splints — you wear these at night to prevent damage to the plantar as you sleep. Helps prevent that spiking heel pain first thing in the morning
2. Plantar Fasciitis Shoe inserts (we recommend the Powerstep Pinnacle Orthotic Insert which is the best reviewed online) — these fit in your shoe to provide more support and comfort
3. Plantar Fasciitis Shoes — special shoes that help provide maximum arch and heel support for your foot (we recommend New Balance Running shoes as the best reviewed for plantar fasciitis problems)
Some people who suffer from Plantar Fasciitis purchase a padded shoe insert from their local drug store to relieve the pain. The issue is that it is merely a padded insert that provides extra padding and nothing more. These tend to do little for the pain and give little relief.
Cushioning alone is does not give enough support the damaged heel and does not support the aflicted ligament which is necessary to help reduce swelling and damage to the tissue. There is also no support given to the arch of the foot, and does not help reduce strain on the ligament.
Orthotics help to correct the misalignment in your foot, reducing pain and can also solve posture problems that have led to the plantar facsiiitis in the beginning. It will also give support to the ligament and reduce pain.
People who wear Orthotics report that when wearing them, they notice their feet feel much better. That standing for long periods of time, walking, or running is less painful. Their feet are more supple and their posture much more improved.
Orthotics for plantar fasciitis or insoles are a good cost effective treatment compared to buying specialty shoes which can be quite costly. The insoles can be used in multiple pairs of shoes just by removing them and placing them in another pair. Which allows you wear your existing shoes while getting the support you need.
There are many other remedies that you may use but the orthotics are more effective in usefulness (you can buy the recommended plantar fasciitis treatment program for a full program on how to cure the problem from start to finish). They are also a simple way to relieve your pain and easier to go about daily life.
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The spring from which the school derives its name still rises in a nearby vlei. The name "Chisipite" is Shona for "spring" and this is what inspired both the fountain badge and the motto "Fons vitae caritas".
Chisipite Senior School opened its doors in 1954 to cater for the students leaving the Junior School which was founded as a farm school in 1929. With 2 members of staff and 48 girls, Chisipite Senior School became the first inter-denominational private girls' secondary school in Central Africa. It is now one of the premier, multicultural girls' schools in the country.
The school is founded on Christian principles with a philosophy embodied in the lines from the school song "to be brave and strong and true and to fill with the world with love my whole life through".
We are proud of the atmosphere of caring and concern for others for which the school is known. It is hoped that each member of the school community will develop a sense of belonging while being accepted and valued as an individual.
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It may come as a shock to my college math professor, but where my family's finances are concerned, I'm a budgeter. Just before a new month begins, I take some time to plan for the month's regular bills as well as any special events or holidays that might require setting some extra money aside. I even have a special notebook to track all this financial data (and shopping for a new notebook every year is half the fun of fiscal responsibility).
But as proactive as I am with my monthly budgeting, I tend to be reactive when it comes to my monthly utility bills. I take a guess at what my bill will be at the beginning of the month, and then I'm either excited when the bill is less than my estimate or—and this is much worse—upset when the bill exceeds my estimate, meaning I have to shuffle funds from some other part of my budget to cover it. Even with some recent efficiency improvements, the process of paying for my home's energy usage over the last few months has started to feel like a low-budget 1950's horror film called Attack of the 50-Foot Utility Bill.
Recently I was on my utility company's Web site preparing to pay another month's bill when I noticed that the site actually puts a wealth of historical information about my energy usage right at my fingertips. There's a chart that compares my energy usage to other similar homes in my area and another that estimates what percentage of my energy usage can be attributed to which appliances. There's even a nifty graph that superimposes my energy usage with information on heating degree days in my area so I can see how the weather plays a role in my utility costs.
But when it comes to budgeting, my favorite section of the site is the chart that compares a single month's energy usage with the same month in previous years. I have nearly two years of energy data for my current home, and it turns out that my usage for a particular month has so far been relatively consistent from one year to the next. Thanks to all this data, I'm ready to get a lot more precise about my energy budgeting in the months ahead. After all, when it comes to surprises of the how-am-I-going-to-pay-for-this variety, fewer is always better.
If your utility doesn't offer these same kind of online energy tracking tools, ENERGY STAR's®Home Energy Yardstick will help you create the same kind of charts and graphs with only a little work on your part. All you'll need is a handful of old utility billing statements and the willingness to do a bit of data entry.
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GOK and UN-HABITAT sign Memorandum of Understanding; Kibera-Soweto chosen for pilot slum upgrading project
Honourable Raila Odinga, the new Minister for Roads, Public works and Housing of the Government of Kenya and Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the "Slum Upgrading Programme for Kenya". The programme hopes to improve housing, infrastructure services and the overall livelihoods of people living and working in informal settlements. One of the major goals is to ensure that the poor are given some form of security of tenure so that they can participate in the improvement of the urban environment. The programme will begin by working on slum upgrading in Nairobi and Kisumu, the lessons learned will then be replicated in other urban areas in Kenya.
"The existence of slums is of great concern to the Government as they accommodate a large proportion of the urban population who suffer the most deplorable and inhuman living conditions, threatening the country's social and economic growth. The situation is aggravated by HIV/AIDS pandemic that is now prevalent in these settlements," said Honourable Odinga at the signing ceremony. "The achievements made under this programme and the subsequent phases spell hope for improved livelihoods in the settlements."
In her address, Mrs. Tibaijuka congratulated the Minister and the new government and the people of Kenya on a peaceful transition that was an example to all the countries in the region. "The challenge facing the new leaders in Kenya and all over Africa is how to manage the rapid rate of urbanisation. With over 50% of the population of most towns and cities living in slums and squatter settlements, it is critical to design innovative strategies to upgrade the slums. UN-HABITAT looks forward to collaborating with the Government of Kenya on mobilising international support to improve the living conditions of the urban poor."
In conclusion, Hon. Odinga announced that the first slum to be upgraded in Kenya would be the area of Kibera Soweto which had received a grant of $250,000 from the Cities Alliance, a joint initiative of UN-HABITAT and the World Bank which includes 8 bilateral donors. This initial grant will be used to initiate procedures such as mapping of the area, establishing systems of evaluation and compensation, and the design of proposals to attract additional investments in the upgrading of the area in collaboration with the community. The site, which is part of the largest slum in sub-Saharan Africa, was chosen as part of the Nairobi Situation Analysis that was undertaken, with other stakeholders and partners, in 2001 and 2002.
EDITOR'S NOTE AND BACKGROUND MATERIAL:
The MOU formalised UN-HABITAT's work with the Government of Kenya on the Slum Upgrading Programme for Kenya. The programme is the result of a meeting between the former President of Kenya, H.E. Hon. Daniel Arap Moi, and Mrs. Tibaijuka, the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, in November 2000.
- Aims & Objectives:
The aim of the programme is to improve the housing, infrastructure, services and the overall livelihood of people living and working in the informal settlements. One of the major aims of the project is to ensure that the poor are given some form of security of tenure so that they can participate in the improvement of their living conditions. The programme includes the upgrading of selected pilot areas, policy reform and the strengthening of institutional arrangements necessary for city-wide upgrading. A longer term objective is to consolidate the lessons learned from slum upgrading efforts in Nairobi and Kisumu in order to extend it to other areas in Kenya.
- Nairobi Situation Analysis:
The Collaborative Slum Upgrading Programme has already produced the Nairobi Situation Analysis, a thorough examination of the history and status of all the slums and squatter settlements in Nairobi. This was produced in consultation with a number of working groups comprising the public sector, the private sector, grassroots organisations, NGOs and donor communities. According to this study, over 60 % of the population of Nairobi live in one of the 133 informal settlements which, in total, occupy only 5% of the land. This initial research has helped pave the way for a more detailed analysis of a number of slums that could be selected for upgrading.
- Slum Rent Survey:
One of the major undertakings by the Collaborative Slum Upgrading initiative was a rent study that was undertaken with a view to supplementing the Nairobi Situation Analysis. This appraisal was undertaken in order to weigh the rights of the poor against the financial requirements of landlords. The initial findings show that rents charged by structure owners are exploitative because landlords are not required to invest in maintenance, improvements or the provision of services such as electricity. In fact, the study suggests that acquiring a slum property is one of the most lucrative investments in Kenya. The return on investment in a slum is under two years as compared to ten to fifteen years in the formal property market. Such vast profits are driven by the absence of title deeds because land is often allocated informally to persons who become, in effect, structure owners and not real landlords. The study concludes that because the rental market in slums is not covered by any rent regulation act, the rental sector is adrift from the accountability of bye-laws and regulations. This leaves ordinary slum dwellers without any security of tenure, they can be - and are- evicted at a moment's notice, often with violence.
- Cities Alliance
Recently, the Collaborative Slum Upgrading Programme was awarded a grant of US $250,000 by the Cities Alliance which is a joint initiative by UN-HABITAT and the World Bank and includes 10 bilateral cooperation agencies from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States of America. The Swedish International Development Agency, SIDA, has also agreed to augment this grant with technical support to look at the possibilities of land reform. These grants will fund the preparatory phase which will include the following activities:
- Initiation of Upgrading Methods and Procedures in a chosen slum: This includes Social and Economic Mapping, Physical Mapping, Valuation, Compensation, Community-Based Mortgage Finance Systems, Local Management of Community Funds, Policy Development, Media, Outreach and Promotion, Capacity Building, Analysis and Development of Tools, Models and Methods, Monitoring and Evaluation.
- Peer Exchange, Training and Capacity Building: including international exchanges of slum dwellers/local government officials to and from India, South Africa and the Philippines; targeted training programs directed to local and central government officials; and related, wider capacity building efforts.
- Policy Reform: entails building upon the preliminary report on a Policy Framework for Slum Upgrading, linking this to parallel initiatives anticipated by the NARC government (land policy, housing policy, informal labour policy, local government reform policy, etc.); and contributing to emerging legislation necessary for the realisation of policy changes.
- Institutional Strengthening: in the case of Nairobi, this will involve efforts by the Nairobi City Council, associations of slum dwellers and CBOs, professional associations of the private sector, and the NGO community specialising in land and shelter to identify structures and institutional arrangements for urban upgrading, throughout Nairobi and nationally.
For further information, please contact: Mr. Sharad Shankardass, Spokesperson, or Ms. Zahra Hassan, Press & Media Liaison, Press & Media Relations Unit, Tel: (254 2) 624060, Fax: (254 2) 624060, E-mail: email@example.com, Website: http://www.unhabitat.org
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May 21, 2013
Nader Was Right: Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama
Posted on Aug 10, 2009
By Chris Hedges
The American empire has not altered under Barack Obama. It kills as brutally and indiscriminately in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan as it did under George W. Bush. It steals from the U.S. treasury to enrich the corporate elite as rapaciously. It will not give us universal health care, abolish the Bush secrecy laws, end torture or “extraordinary rendition,” restore habeas corpus or halt the warrantless wiretapping and monitoring of citizens. It will not push through significant environmental reform, regulate Wall Street or end our relationship with private contractors that provide mercenary armies to fight our imperial wars and produce useless and costly weapons systems.
The sad reality is that all the well-meaning groups and individuals who challenge our permanent war economy and the doctrine of pre-emptive war, who care about sustainable energy, fight for civil liberties and want corporate malfeasance to end, were once again suckered by the Democratic Party. They were had. It is not a new story. The Democrats have been doing this to us since Bill Clinton. It is the same old merry-go-round, only with Obama branding. And if we have not learned by now that the system is broken, that as citizens we do not matter to our political elite, that we live in a corporate state where our welfare and our interests are irrelevant, we are in serious trouble. Our last hope is to step outside of the two-party system and build movements that defy the Democrats and the Republicans. If we fail to do this, we will continue to undergo a corporate coup d’etat in slow motion that will end in feudalism.
We owe Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney and the Green Party an apology. They were right. If a few million of us had had the temerity to stand behind our ideals rather than our illusions and the empty slogans peddled by the Obama campaign, we would have a platform. We forgot that social reform never comes from accommodating the power structure but from frightening it. The Liberty Party, which fought slavery, the suffragists who battled for women’s rights, the labor movement, and the civil rights movement knew that the question was not how do we get good people to rule—those attracted to power tend to be venal mediocrities—but how do we limit the damage the powerful do to us. These mass movements were the engines for social reform, the correctives to our democracy and the true protectors of the rights of citizens. We have surrendered this power. It is vital to reclaim it. Where is the foreclosure movement? Where is the robust universal health care or anti-war movement? Where is the militant movement for sustainable energy?
“Something is broken,” Nader said when I reached him at his family home in Connecticut. “We are not at the Bangladesh level in terms of passivity, but we are getting there. No one sees anything changing. There is no new political party to give people a choice. The progressive forces have no hammer. When they abandoned our campaign, they told the Democrats we have nowhere to go and will take whatever you give us. The Democrats are under no heat in the electoral arena from the left.
“There comes a point when the public imbibes the ultimatum of the plutocracy,” Nader said when asked about public apathy. “They have bought into the belief that if it protests, it will be brutalized by the police. If they have Muslim names, they will be subjected to Patriot Act treatment. This has scared the hell out of the underclass. They will be called terrorists.
“They have been broken,” Nader said of the working class. “How many times have their employers threatened them with going abroad? How many times have they threatened the workers with outsourcing? The polls on job insecurity are record-high by those who have employment. And the liberal intelligentsia have failed them. They [the intellectuals] have bought into carping and making lecture fees as the senior fellow at the institute of so-and-so. Look at the top 50 intelligentsia—not one of them supported our campaign, not one of them has urged for street action and marches.”
Our task is to build movements that can act as a counterweight to the corporate rape of America. We must opt out of the mainstream. We must articulate and stand behind a viable and uncompromising socialism, one that is firmly and unequivocally on the side of working men and women. We must give up the self-delusion that we can influence the power elite from the inside. We must become as militant as those who are seeking our enslavement. If we remain passive as we undergo the largest transference of wealth upward in American history, our open society will die. The working class is being plunged into desperation that will soon rival the misery endured by the working class in China and India. And the Democratic Party, including Obama, is a willing accomplice.
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Do you ever wonder how seeming successfully ants forage for rich sources of food, bees move a beehive to more suitable locations, flocks of birds fly in formation? How come a tree falling in Ohio causes fifty five million people in the Northeast of the US and Canada to loose their electrical power? Why the actions of a few in an once in the financial district in London impact so significantly the World financial markets? Why do critical infrastructures, e.g., cellular and mobile networks, fail in times of crisis, when they are most needed? How do bot-nets spread and compromise millions of computers in the internet? Can companies understand the viral behavior of their three million (did you say eighty million) (mobile) customers? These and others are background and motivational examples that guide us in this course whose goal is the study of relatively dumb agents that sense, process, and cooperate locally but whose collective, coordinated activity leads to the emergence of complex behaviors. Among others, the course will develop basic tools to understand: i) the modeling of these highly networked, large scale structures (e.g., colonies of agents, networks of physical systems, cyber physical systems ii) how to predict the behavior of these networked systems iii) how to derive and study the properties (e.g., convergence and performance) of distributed algorithms for inference and data assimilation. The course will develop graph representations and introduce tools from spectral graph theory, will cover the basics from queueing theory, Markov point processes, and stochastic networks to predict behaviors under several types of stress conditions and asymptotic regimens, and will explore consensus algorithms and several classes of distributed inference algorithms operating under infrastructure failures (intermittent random sensor and channel failures,) different resource constraints (e.g., power or bandwidth,) or random protocols (e.g., gossip.) The course is essentially self-contained. There will be a mix of homework, midterm exams, and projects. Students will take an active role by exploring examples of applications and applying network science concepts to fully develop the analysis of their preferred applications.
Pre-requisites: Probability theory.
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At CES 2013, NVIDIA unveiled its first venture into the gaming handheld market with Project Shield, a 5-inch “pure” Android gaming device that can not only play Android games but also stream any PC game to it.
Boasting a “console-grade” game controller and an impressive 5-10 hour battery life, Project Shield can push 720p graphics, as well as 4K video and games straight to an external display. Project Shield will sport NVIDIA’s new Tegra 4 mobile processor, which the company claims is six times faster than Tegra 3. The chip can fuel resolution of upto 2560×1600 and 1080p at 120Hz. It’s also the first Tegra to support 4G LTE and use ARM’s new Cortex A15 architecture.
The handheld will be customizable through its back panel, which will allow various skins to appiled. This is where the “Sheild” part of the name comes from. The back panel also carries an HDMI port, microSD slot, and a 3.5mm jack.
The most interesting part about the handheld is that it can stream any PC game via Wi-Fi, including Steam titles. This will only be possible if the user has an NVIDIA GeForce GPU in their PC. Users can also play their PC games on any TV through the HDMI port without actually being near to the PC, as long as a Wi-Fi connection exists. This is a great Wii U like solution for users who may want to play their games away from their PC, or do not want to build a separate PC to play it on their TV.
There is no word on pricing or availability, but NVIDIA has said that the device still needs a bit of polish before it’s ready for release
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Created: March 2, 2006
Latest Update: March 2, 2006
Restorative justice is an approach to restoring the community to a sense of justice and fairness in which both the person who has harmed an other and the vicitm of harm both feel that they have been heard in good faith and that they will be accepted fully into the community and helped by the community to get back to normalcy. To do that we need to understand the one who offended, the victim, the community and the normative aspects of its culture. In other words, in a community where women are prohibited from showing themselves to strangers, the community norms will be very different from ones in which young people are encouraged to date and mix without restraint. And there are lots of normative rules in between, for lots of different cultures.
That means we need to listen in good faith to all parties, and then work out understandings of responsibility and respect and clear communication through which the community can let the offender know that some breaking of rules will not be tolerated by the community collectively.
Therapeutic jurisprudence is a similar approach on a much grander scale. In therapeutic jurisprudence the criminal justice system and its players are incorporated into a similar process. If the system, from crimiinal justice enforcement on down stands firmly together in listening in good faith to all parties, insisting upon standards of normative behavior, and works together as a community, we might be able to get back to governance discourse and real transformation on some of the major social and economic problems we face today.
Definition of restorative justice:"Restorative justice philosophy differs from retributive justice primarily in how harm and accountability are conceptualized.From the restorative justice perspective,“Crime is a violation of people and relationships.It creates obligations to make things right.Justice involves the victims,the offender,and the community in a search for solutions which [sic ] promote repair,,reconciliation,and reassurance ” ((Zehr,1990,p.181)."
From p. 5, Disposition and Treatment of Juvenile Sex Offenders.pdf.
Courts, especially juvenile courts, often fail to make victims feel that they have been given justice:
"Strang (2002) described the experiences of victims of juvenile offenders throughout Western criminal justice systems as consisting of lack of attention to questions of restitution and repair of the harm, neglect of emotional reactions such as fear and anger, routine lack of communication about court dates and the progress of the case, exclusion from decision making, and no participating role. Juvenile justice systems do little to address the stigmatizing impact on families when a member is labeled a sex offender and the potential of families to resolve problems is largely ignored."
From p. 5, Disposition and Treatment of Juvenile Sex Offenders.pdf.
Concern for the underlying behavior (unstated assumptions) that led to the offense originally:"The conference participants then turn their attention to developing a plan to make reparations to the victim, rehabilitate the offender, and undertake steps that will strengthen community bonds and make amends for the harm caused to the fabric of relationships."
From p. 13, Disposition and Treatment of Juvenile Sex Offenders.pdf.
- David Wexler suggests that "[a]n example of a legal rule that could be examined from a therapeutic jurisprudence perspective is the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' provision that bars military service for one who acknowledges being gay or bisexual." International Network on therapeutic Jurisprudence, TJ: An Overview.
He then asks: "Therapeutic jurisprudence is a framework for asking questions and for raising certain questions that might otherwise go unaddressed. The answers to those questions are often empirical. Is Kay Kavanaugh right in suggesting that the rule has this chilling effect on other conversational topics?" What do you think?
Consider what Kay Kavanaugh says:
"if someone is gay in the military and cannot talk about that, then that person may also be afraid to talk about many other things as well because those other things are likely to raise the question of the legally prohibited topic. . . So where you went on vacation and with whom may be things you're not comfortable talking about because this topic could raise the question of whether you're gay, and that is the prohibited conversational topic . . .
Therefore, the author of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" article, Kay Kavanagh, suggested that the law, in practice, may cause great isolation, marginality, and superficiality in social relations for a gay person in the military, perhaps above and beyond what was anticipated when this provision was drafted. . . . Perhaps it was drafted with the thought that one's sexual life is personal, and that it makes sense, therefore, for us not to ask about it and for people not to talk about it. . . . It was perhaps based on the assumption that one's sexual life was a very isolated topic that doesn't spill over into other aspects of social life. . . . Kay Kavanagh's piece suggests, and I think with very good reason, that it does spill over into other areas; therefore, this is a richer look at that law and its implications."
- So therapeutic jusisprudence helps make us aware of questions we might otherwise not think to ask. But then it asks a second question. What is that second question?
Consider: "Secondly, even if true empirically, there remains the normative question: what, if anything, should we do about that rule?" From International Network on therapeutic Jurisprudence, TJ: An Overview. Kavanaugh's argument about the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy suggests that it has a much greater impact than we might at first think. So the fact of that impact might be "true empirically." The second question, a "normative" question, is about how the asking or telling would fit into our normative structure. Would it be "right" or "wrong" in our normative expectations to ask that we do something about the rule, to make it's impact less harmful for the person who must observe the rule?
Wexler says that the normative "should" question is the one we might never get to, if a therapeutic approach hadn't made us aware of the questions of emotional impact. The questions of emotional and economic and social impact can be answered within the limits of behavioral methodology as empirical questions. Then we stand a better chance of making better choices when it comes to the normative "should" questions.
"Should we do it? Is it going to be too time consuming? Do judges have the time to do this? That's the normative question that gets raised by all of this. But I suggest that we're now asking questions that otherwise we might not be asking at all.
"Another way in which therapeutic jurisprudence has tried to use information from behavioral science relates to cognitive distortions of offenders, especially sex offenders. . . . Therapists suggest that in order to take a first step in the treatment of offenders, one needs to tackle offender denial or minimization. . . . The offenders also need to take responsibility and to be accountable. . . . They need to overcome the cognitive distortions of denial and minimization, such as "I didn't do it," or "I did it but it wasn't my idea," and "I did it and it was my idea but it wasn't for sexual gratification." . . .
"The next example I am going to use will tie into Dr. Miller's discussion about rights and responsibilities. (82) I have been interested in some recent literature that relates to relapse prevention planning principles and how they may be brought into the law.
"For years there was a real pessimism in rehabilitation and rehabilitative efforts. (83) Starting in the 1970s, when Martinson suggested that nothing really worked, there was a long period of time when people were giving up on rehabilitation. (84)
"More recently, it looks like there are certain kinds of rehabilitative programs and packages, particularly the cognitive/behavioral variety, that look rather promising. (85) One type of these cognitive behavioral treatments encourages offenders to think through the chain of events that lead to criminality and then tries to get the offenders to stop and think in advance. (86) This will enable an offender to figure out two things: (1) what are the high risk situations, in my case, for criminality or juvenile delinquency; and (2) how can the high risk situations be avoided, or how can the situations be coped with if they arise? (87)
"These situations may be things such as realizing you are very much at risk on Friday nights after having partied with such and such person. The offender may decide that he or she shouldn't go out Friday nights. This determination is a way of avoiding high risk behaviors. (88) Instead of going out on Friday night with Joe and getting into trouble, the offender may choose to stay home. But what happens the next night when Joe calls or what happens when Joe knocks on the offender's door?
"Therapists have developed approaches of working with these issues, and of having offenders prepare relapse prevention plans. (89) There are also certain programs, like "reasoning and rehabilitation" type programs, that teach offenders cognitive self change, to stop and think and figure out consequences, to anticipate high risk situations, and to learn to avoid and cope with them. (90)
"These programs seem to be reasonably successful. (91) One of the issues that I am interested in now, from a therapeutic jurisprudence standpoint, is how this might be brought into the law. In one obvious sense, these problem-solving, reasoning and rehabilitation type of programs can be made widely available in correctional and community settings. (92) A way of linking them even more to the law, of course, would be to say that as a condition of probation or parole, one might have to attend or complete one of these courses. (93)
"A more subtle way of thinking about this in therapeutic jurisprudence terms, however, is to ask how reasoning and rehabilitation can be made part of the legal process itself. (94) The suggestion here is that if a judge or parole board becomes familiar with these techniques and is about to consider someone for probation, the judge might say, "I'm going to consider you but I want you to come up with a type of preliminary plan that we will use as a basis of discussion. I want you to figure out why I should grant you probation and why I should be comfortable that you're going to succeed. In order for me to feel comfortable, I need to know what you regard to be high risk situations and how you're going to avoid them or cope with them." (95)
"If that approach is followed, courts will be promoting cognitive self-charge as part and parcel of the sentencing process itself. (96) The process may operate this way: "I realize I mess up on Friday nights; therefore, I propose that I will stay home Friday nights." Suddenly, it is not a judge imposing something on you. It's something you are coming up with so you should think it is fair. You have a voice in it, and presumably your compliance with this condition will also be better."
From International Network on therapeutic Jurisprudence, TJ: An Overview. At the end of the file.
- Training in Rehabilitation for Juvenile Offenders UC Davis Extension. Primarily a training ad. But useful info. Take a look."Expectations of the juvenile justice system are rising amid increasing public concerns about juvenile crime and violence. Probation officers face pressure to meet conflicting demands for incarceration and rehabilitation. Juvenile probation departments are now responsible for meeting the needs of minors from dysfunctional families and with multiple needs-including educational deficits, psychiatric disorders and substance abuse problems."
- Disposition and Treatment of Juvenile Sex Offenders.pdf PDF file. You'll need Acrobat Reader. Article prepared for publication on a restorative justice approach to juvenile sex offenders. Emphasis is placed initially on the victim's situatedness and on restoring a sense of justice and security to the victim. As we speak of the role of juvenile justice we need to look at the needs of the offenders and seek curative ways to reform their behavior, as the authors suggest in the second half of the paragraph below (from the abstract):"When cases are referred to therapeutic options,multiple system therapies have the strongest empirical success record.However,these approaches also pay scant attention to healing the impact of crime on victims and family members.Incorporating restorative justice principles could strengthen sex offender treatment by involving the direct victims,fostering shared emotion,acknowledgement of wrongdoing,apology,and reparation. These practices enhance the likelihood that victims are satisfied they have received fair justice,strengthen social control within the community,reduce recidivism,and enhance the benefits to offenders by promoting cognitive reframing,empathy, restoration of self-esteem,and community re-integration."
- Therapeutic Jurisprudence Defined Website of Bruce J. Winick. Definition which basically doesn't say anything. jeanne"Therapeutic jurisprudence is the study of law's healing potential. An interdisciplinary approach to legal scholarship that has a law reform agenda, therapeutic jurisprudence seeks to assess the therapeutic and counter-therapeutic consequences of law and how it is applied and to effect legal change designed to increase the former and diminish the latter."
But if you hunt around on the site you'll find that he calls "civic commitment" a thrapeutic jurisprudential model. Hmmm. Not one that goes very far in solving the real problems, I should think. But thats just my opinion. jeanne
- Preventing Sexual Violence: How Society Should Cope With Sex Offenders John Q. La Fond, JD. On the American Psychological Association Website. Co-edited with Winick, at least in one version. The site inexplicably refrains from giving any useful information on what the book recommends or why.
- International Network on Therapeutic Jurisprudence David B. Wexler, Director. Works with Winick, above. Gives a reasonable definition of therapeutic jurisprudence. jeanne" . . . therapeutic jurisprudence is a perspective that regards the law as a social force that produces behaviors and consequences. . . therapeutic jurisprudence does not itself suggest that therapeutic goals should trump other ones. . . . It does not support paternalism, coercion, and so on. . . . It is simply a way of looking at the law in a richer way, and then bringing to the table some of these areas and issues that previously have gone unnoticed. . . . Therapeutic jurisprudence simply suggests that we think about these issues and see if they can be factored into our law-making, lawyering, or judging."
This link, if you scroll down, will give you some conceptual linkage to the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" army policy. jeanne
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Property rights - overviewTrusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996
An application under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 (TOLATA 1996), s 14 may be made by a trustee of land or a beneficiary with an interest in property subject to a trust of land. The court has a broad discretionary range of powers to make orders regarding the exercise of the trustees’ functions or to the nature and extent of beneficiaries’ interests, including a sale or postponement of sale.
Beneficial interests are determined and declared under established principles of trust law.
In Jones v Kernott the Supreme Court held, inter alia, that the following principles apply:
the starting point where a family home is bought in joint names is that they own the property as joint tenants in law and equity
that presumption can be displaced by evidence that their common intention was, in fact, different, either when the property was purchased or later
common intention is to be objectively deduced (inferred) from the conduct and dealings between the parties
where it is clear that they had a different intention at the outset or had changed their original intention, but it is not possible to infer an actual intention as to their respective shares, then the court is entitled to impute an intention that each is entitled to the share which the court considers fair having regard to the whole course of dealing between them in relation to the property
each case will turn on its own facts; and
financial contributions are relevant but there are many other factors which may enable the court to decide what shares were either intended or fair
TOLATA 1996, s 15 requires a court to consider a checklist under TOLATA 1996, s 14, to include:
the intention of the trust creator or creators
the purposes for which the property subject to the trust is held
the welfare of any minor
the interests of any secured creditor
Proceedings are commenced in either:
the High Court (Chancery or Family Division)
the county court for the area in which the property is situate, or where the defendant to the application resides
The court has power under the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (CPR 1998) Part 30 to transfer between courts and between divisions.
Part 8 of the CPR 1998 is used where the court’s decision is unlikely to involve a substantial dispute of fact and where a property is owned by cohabitants in joint names. For example the other party refuses to sell the home.
CPR 1998, Part 7 procedure should be used if there is likely to be a substantial dispute of fact. Many courts require the proceedings to commence as a Part 8 claim and to then continue as a Part 7 claim. Enquiries should be made of the court of issue. The claimant’s statement of case must be filed with the claim.
On or after issue of a claim form the applicant may seek an injunction to prevent disposal of the property. The principles in CPR 1998 Part 25 should be followed.
Occupation of the family home
The Family Law Act 1996, Pt IV governs rights to apply for occupation orders. Beneficiaries have rights of occupation under TOLATA 1996. If a claimant establishes a beneficial interest in the property, the court may determine the occupational rights that result under the trust. The parties may have contractual or other equitable rights that confer a right of occupation. If an applicant fails to establish a beneficial interest in a property or a statutory right to occupy, they may demonstrate a contractual licence to remain there resulting from the property owner’s conduct.
While the parties live together, the owner gives the other a licence to occupy their home. If no consideration is given, then if the relationship breaks down, the owner may recover exclusive possession by giving the other notice to quit. If the licensee has given up a right or suffered detriment to live with the owner, a contractual licence may be established enabling:
the occupant to remain at the property for life or while the property is needed to care for children of the relationship, or
the occupant to remain subject to reasonable notice, so that immediate possession will not be provided.
A licence by estoppel may also arise if the property owner leads the other to believe that the right of exclusive possession will not be enforced and the other acts to their detriment in reliance on such a promise.
Rights of occupation against third parties
If the contractual licence gives rise to an interest under a constructive trust, it will be enforceable against a purchaser of the family home provided the purchaser has notice of the licence or if it constitutes an overriding interest.
A non-tenant cohabitant who is deserted, or where their partner defaults on rent payment, is not entitled to remain in possession of the family home and should enquire whether the landlord is prepared to accept rent.
If the mortgage is in the name of one cohabitant only, the other cohabitant has no contractual obligation to the mortgagee. Where the cohabitant borrower defaults on mortgage payments, the other cohabitant could ask the court to adjourn possession proceedings to enable them to find alternative accommodation, or to offer payment to the lender.
A minor cohabitant who has occupied a property and lived with a bankrupt when the bankruptcy petition was presented may establish limited rights of occupations for a year.
Married Women’s Property Act 1882, s 17
The Married Women's Property Act 1882, s 17 enables a court to declare ownership of real and personal property, and to order or postpone a sale. Injunctions can be obtained to preserve or detain property.
It applies to formerly engaged couples and parties who separate and do not divorce, or to those who divorce and remarry quickly. The courts discourage applications under s 17. It does not apply to property disputes between cohabitants. TOLATA 1996, s 14 and the Law of Property Act 1925, s 188 must be used instead by cohabitants.
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No Child’s Play: Children in the Holocaust: Creativity and Play
Selected Panels from the Exhibition
After the Nazis’ rise to power in 1933, the plight of German Jews worsened steadily…
Many parents decided to part from their children and send them away in order to assure their future.
Before the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, Youth Aliyah succeeded in bringing some 5,000 children to Palestine. Another 9,000 found shelter in Great Britain after Kristallnacht in November 1938. Many thousands, however, sought asylum unsuccessfully.
Most of the children who emigrated never saw their parents again.
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The exciting worlds of technology, machines, and computers can be explored through the Hempfield Technology Education Department. Through a variety of courses, students gain valuable exposure to problem solving, making career choices, and developing life-long skills. The program is designed for and around the individual learner. We teach for the success of every individual, helping him/her meet individual needs, interests, and career objectives.
In Grade 7, students take "Exploring Technology", which introduces students to the evolution of technology and its basic systems of bio-technology, communication, construction, manufacturing, and energy, power, and transportation systems. Students are introduced to KeyCreator and Print Shop software through hands-on activities that require students to work both cooperatively and independently.
Technology education continues in 8th grade with "Applying Technology", which prepares students to expand on the basic technology concepts and skills acquired in seventh grade. Students continue to develop problem-solving skills through hands-on activities using KeyCreator and Print Shop software.
Once at the high school, students are encouraged to elect any of the technology education courses listed to the side. The teachers in Hempfield's Technology Education Department are eager to help students become successful in today's technological society. The program has a tradition of excellence that offers all students the opportunity for exciting and rewarding experiences. Technology Education truly is for everyone!
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Savers suffering the effects of historically low interest rates should be spending rather than saving, the deputy governor of the Bank of England has suggested.
Speaking to Channel 4 news on 27 September, Charlie Bean said the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank was trying to encourage more spending.
Bean was quoted saying: “What we’re trying to do by our policy is encourage more spending, ideally we’d like to see that in the form of more business spending but part of the mechanism that might encourage that is having more household spending so in the short term we want to see households not saving more but spending more.”
The comments sparked a strong reaction from pensions commentator Dr Ros Altmann.
Altmann accused the Bank of England of chasing short-term growth and ignoring the damage low interest rates were having on pensions.
“The economic crisis resulted from too much debt and not enough saving – but short-sighted policy is repeating the same errors by undermining savers and damaging pensions,” she said.
She said the policy ignored the perils posed by low rates to pensions.
“Pension liabilities have soared, while annuity rates have plunged, which means people’s pensions have been decimated. In an aging population, such policies are dangerously short-sighted.”
Altmann went on to criticise the Bank for removing savings incentives, saying that business needed to spend but households should be encourage to pay back debt and build up reserves to sustain them in older age, ‘not to keep spending like there is no tomorrow.’
Speaking to Channel 4 news Charlie Bean said savers shouldn’t necessarily expect to be able to live just off their income when interest rates were low and they may have to eat into their capital.
“It’s very much swings and roundabouts. At the current juncture, savers might be suffering as a result of bank rate being at low levels but there will be times in the future as there have been times in the past when they will be doing very well out of the fact that interest rates are at a relatively high level and I think that’s something savers should bear in mind.”
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Today is the first day of winter. The weather was cool and crisp when we woke up, a very pleasant surprise after the 80 degree weather we have been experiencing! We live in Florida, experiencing snow is very unlikely, so for the first day of winter we made homemade snow.
Homemade snow is great for sensory play! The only ingredients that you need to make homemade snow are cornstarch and shaving cream. I find that the amounts are never exact, but it seems about two boxes of cornstarch and one can of shaving cream result in fabulous white sensory snow! You can also add a few drops of essential oil or glitter to enhance the sensory experience.
Keep adding shaving cream and mixing until it feels like snow!!
My kids LOVE playing with this. They have never experienced real snow…..
We went through all of our snow in one afternoon due to numerous snowball fights.
However, if you save yours and it dries out some just add a little shaving cream and your snow will be good as new!
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Scientific tests reveal iPhone contains hazardous chemicals and materials, says GreenpeaceOct 18, 2007
Amsterdam, 15 October 2007 – Apple’s iPhone contains hazardous chemicals and materials, according to the results of scientific tests commissioned by Greenpeace. The insight into the components of the iPhone is presented in the Greenpeace report, ‘Missed call: the iPhone’s hazardous chemicals’. Apple launched the iPhone into the US market in June 2007. The discovery of hazardous chemicals suggests that Apple is failing to make early progress, even in entirely new product lines, towards achieving its commitment to phase-out all uses of brominated compounds and PVC by the end of 2008.
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|Bill Jr. back 2nd from left|
William Massey born 1916 and died 1984. He was a bachelor who lived in the sleepy town of St. Mary's Ontario his entire life. I'll call him Bill Jr.
His uncle Bill Massey was born 1894 and died in 1967. He too was a bachelor who to our knowledge never left St. Mary's. Let's call him Bill Sr.
|Bill Massey Sr.|
When Bill Jr. died in 1984 his brother Mike cleared out Bill's house and found two objects which he gave to my husband (Bill's brother's grandson). Mike did not know where one of the items came from or why his brother had it but he knew that the second item belonged to their uncle Bill who was born in 1894. Mike did not know why his Uncle Bill (Sr.) had this particular item.
2. A watch fob with a two annas coin from India dated 1897. On the reverse of the coin is a shamrock with a green stone. The shamrock has been soldered on. Not known if it was ever owned by Bill Sr.
The gun would have been an unusual gun to find in North America years ago. As far as we can find out they were never sold commercially in this country. This gun was basically only used by the Polish Army, the Russian Army and some European Police Forces so it is curious how it ended up in the sleepy little town of St. Mary's Ontario.
Neither of the uncles (Bill Sr. or Bill Jr.) ever traveled overseas as far as we can determine. Bill Sr. born in 1894 would have been too young to be the original owner of the gun. Did it belong to his father Thomas Massey?
Also noteworthy perhaps is the fact that Uncle Bill Sr, the man who we know the gun once belonged to, was 18 when his father Thomas died. It might make sense that a gun belonging to his dad would be given to him as a memento. But the puzzle remains - how was the gun obtained and by who? And... do the watch fob and India coin go with the gun? In other words were they owned by the same man?
I should also mention that neither of the Bills collected antiques or were sentimental. They had no other family treasures in their homes. So why keep this gun and watch fob?
The Massey family were not wealthy. They were not sophisticated. They didn't travel. They were hard-working labourers who lived and died in St. Mary's. The Massey family history was passed down, any heirlooms were also passed down and treasured and family stories known and told about each member of the family. But nothing was ever heard of any of the family going off on an adventure or joining the army and leaving Canada.
Did one of the Massey men win these items in a poker game? Bill Sr. was a barber and perhaps one of his customers paid for their haircut and shave with the gun. We have no clues and no idea as to what the story is. But we think there just might be an adventure related to these items and waiting to be found.
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A profile of Len Wilkinson
by Dave Liverman
Len Wilkinson's 1938 season led Jim Swanton to say of him "for one brief year Wilkinson looked like a leg-spinner out of the top drawer". That year he took 151 wickets at an average of 23.38, and looked like the best leg-spinner in England - he was just 21. He toured South Africa the following winter, and topped the first-class averages, as well as playing in three Tests with some success. He was never to recapture the form that led him to these heights, although he did record his best bowling figures of 8/53 against Hampshire in 1939, he was unable to re-gain a place in the Test team. He returned to the Lancashire side after the long break for the War, but failed to keep his place in the side, and retired in 1947. He was a poor bat, his total of first-class runs (321) only just outpacing his wickets (282).
(Article: Copyright © 2003 Dave Liverman)
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Obama won't get credit for helping the economy
If anything keeps President Barack Obama awake at night, it is surely the plight of Gordon Brown, the dour British prime minister sent packing by an ungrateful electorate. Brooding in his Scottish redoubts, the hurt and rejected Brown, driven by the white heat of self-justification, sat down to write a memoir in which he pondered what went wrong.
When the financial crisis of 2008 hit, hadn’t he done everything he could to prevent Britain from slipping over the precipice into economic collapse? Brown was a brilliant economist who had lifted Britain to new levels of prosperity. He took his ingenious rescue plan to the G-20, where he was greeted as a hero. Obama and the other world leaders followed his example — and halted the Great Recession in its tracks.Continue Reading
Had it not been for Brown’s steady hand on the tiller in the midst of the greatest economic storm since 1929, the world would have tipped into penury and despair.
But as Brown found when it came time to make his case, it is impossibly difficult to prove a negative. His mastery of economics may have saved the world — but since disaster was averted, there was nothing much to show for his perspicacity except a sluggish recovery, a huge pile of debt and the absence of mass unemployment.
In the history of the world’s disasters, everyone recalls Edward Smith, the captain of the Titanic. No one remembers the captain who dodged an iceberg. Sometimes, thankless citizens don’t deserve their brilliant leaders. As U.S. voters like to put it, “What have you done for me lately?”
Now it is Obama’s turn to learn that ugly truth. He cannot, like Brown, claim authorship of a plan to avert the Great Recession. He inherited a scheme concocted by the Treasury team of predecessor President George W. Bush. He left some of Bush’s economic team, like Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, in place to minimize disruption. Timothy Geithner, who helped plan the rescue when he was at the New York Fed, was taken on by Obama and remains there still.
The Bush remedy was wildly expensive and entailed taking on massive new levels of debt. Obama took it on trust that Bush’s people had their sums right because time was of the essence. Every day spent hesitating brought them closer to the edge of that cliff.
Obama acted and the policy worked. There was no Great Recession. Or, at least, the profound recession that we are now experiencing, longer and deeper than any in 80 years, would have been a Great Depression II had Obama not acted.
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Since I figured out how to post photos, here is a photo of the bee heaters I mentioned in my earlier post for old computer power supplies. Obviously these are NOT necessary for full sized hives, but if youíre an experimenter or just playing around with some smaller colonies, these can be fun to play with.
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I would include a photo of the finished potted up heaters, but theyíre all in my hives
Weíre expecting 0F this week.
There are numerous ways to make heat, the nice attribute of this approach is the surface of the heater doesnít get extremely hot and it doesnít put off visible light. Iíve used 1.8 Ohm resistors here because they were cheap but any resistors will work as long as you check your math and donít exceed the power rating of each resistor.
If you donít have a spare computer power supply, a landscaping light transformer will work too; 12Volts AC in that case. It is nice to have a thermostat on your system too so you donít overheat your bees!
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Monday of the 16th Week
The Gospel of Mark 12:13-17
At that time, the chief priests and scribes sent Jesus some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to entrap him in his talk. And they came and said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are true, and care for no man; for you do not regard the position of men, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? Should we pay them, or should we not?" But knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, "Why put me to the test? Bring me a coin, and let me look at it." And they brought one. And he said to them, "Whose likeness and inscription is this?" They said to him, "Caesar's." Jesus said to them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." And they were amazed at him.
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The English Gospel text used is based on the Revised Standard Version from "The Holy and Sacred Gospel" by Holy Cross Press, Brookline, MA.
The Revised Standard Version of the Bible is copyrighted 1946, 1952, 1971, and 1973 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. and used by permission.
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Science in Christian Perspective
From: JASA 14 (September 1962): 84.
Since science has only proximate answers to ultimate questions, the basic tension experienced today is not one of science versus theology but rather one of naturalism versus theism.
We have seen that the psychiatrist should examine Christian faith because he is a scientist, a healer, a philosopher, and above all a person, with guilt, anxiety, conflict, and other personal traits. Similarly, all scientists are persons, and all persons are responsible to God.
The theological view on critical ethical decisions in science stresses above all, the fact that every decision involves obedience. This is a dimension which has an absolute character. It is impossible to avoid responsibility.
Certain theological assumptions are therefore basic. These include man's relationship to God as a creation. Because man is created, the reality of man depends on a priori conditions or transcendental reality. It is impossible for man to avoid this status. Man is either obedient to his Creator or he is disobedient, sinful. Neutrality is impossible. But this does not necessitate a rigid determinism, for such causality can exist only between the objects of creation. There is a relationship of men to God that goes far beyond observation and even beyond rational description and analysis. This is a basic article of faith.
This leads to the paradox of both absolute freedom and absolute dependence on God. Man as a slave of sin has lost his freedom (Romans 7). It is in obedience to God that a person becomes himself and gains his freedoms an autonomous being-the true or genuine ex istence which involves possessing eternal life. Thus it is truth that has made man free. Obedience is following God's purpose for the entire universe.
There are at least three significant areas of obedience First, God has commanded us to subdue the earth with the promise that, as we do so, He will bless us. Hi blessing is hence linked with man's scientific work. Ye all science is subject to human limitations or sin. There is a danger in making the means a purpose in itself.
Second, God speaks through me; I am God' addressee. Through God's encounter with me, the gos pel addresses me through Jesus Christ.
Third, man is incorporated into the eschatological community (church) as a result. The Christian is ir the body of Christ. He is therefore responsible to the entire Christian community. When we depersonalize the gospel, we pervert it. We must protect obedience We must safeguard Christian values and transmit then to future generations.
In obedience in our personal behavior as well as in the Christian community, we can rejoice in God's Word and Will. All scientists in this symposium have pointed toward this obedience.
*Condensation of an address presented at the 8th regiona meeting of the North Central Section of the ASA, April 7 1962, as part of a symposium on "Critical Ethical Decision in Science."
* *Dr. Rozentals is Professor of New Testament, Luthe Theological Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota.
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U.S. consumer debt rose in the final months of 2012 for the first time in four years, a sign that Americans may be starting to reach the end of cutting back on credit, data from the New York Federal Reserve showed on Thursday.
Total consumer debt rose 0.3 per cent to $11.34-trillion (U.S.) in the fourth quarter of last year compared to the previous quarter, the New York Fed said in its quarterly household debt and credit report.
Consumer debt peaked in the third quarter of 2008 as the global financial crisis was taking hold. Since then, debt has fallen by about by 10 per cent, or $1.3-trillion, in large part due to a drop in outstanding mortgages as Americans modified or defaulted on their loans.
With consumer activity accounting for about two-thirds of the economy, signs of more appetite for debt could bode well for the overall recovery.
“The data provides early evidence that consumers may be reaching the end of the four-year deleveraging cycle, though we’ll need to see if this is sustained in upcoming quarters,” Andrew Haughwout, vice president and economist at the New York Fed, said in a statement.
Delinquency rates continued to improve with 8.6 per cent of debt in some stage of delinquency, down from 8.9 per cent in the third quarter. As well, fewer Americans were delinquent on their home loans, with 5.6 per cent of mortgages 90 days or more behind on payments, down from 5.9 per cent.
Mortgage balances were roughly unchanged at $8.03-trillion, though the amount of new loans made in the fourth quarter rose to $533-billion. Originations have been increasing since hitting a bottom in the third quarter of 2011.
As Americans have been paring back on housing debt, student loans have been on the rise. Outstanding student loans rose by $10-billion to $966-billion last quarter.
The amount of student loans that were 90 days or more past due rose to 11.7 per cent.
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Samuel ha-NagidArticle Free Pass
Samuel ha-Nagid, Arabic Ismail Ibn Nagrelʿa (born 993, Córdoba, Spain—died 1055/56, Granada), Talmudic scholar, grammarian, philologist, poet, warrior, and statesman who for two decades was the power behind the throne of the caliphate of Granada.
As a youth Samuel received a thorough education in all branches of Jewish and Islāmic knowledge and mastered Arabic calligraphy, a rare achievement among Jews. When Córdoba was sacked in 1013 by the Berbers, a north African people believing in Islām, Samuel fled to Málaga, at that time part of the Muslim kingdom of Granada.
Samuel’s unusual linguistic and calligraphic skills caught the attention of the Granadan vizier, who employed him as his private secretary. He soon became an invaluable political adviser to the vizier, who, at his death, commended Samuel to the caliph Ḥabbūs. The caliph made Samuel the new vizier, and as such he assumed direction of Granada’s diplomatic and military affairs.
Ḥabbūs died in 1037. Although his elder, pleasure-loving son then assumed the throne, Samuel was the caliph in fact if not in actuality. He steered Granada through years of continuous warfare and actively participated in all major campaigns. His influence became so great that he was even able to arrange for his son Joseph to succeed him as vizier.
Samuel was also nagid (Hebrew: “chief ”) of Granadan Jewry. As such, he appointed all the judges and headed the Talmudic academy. He is generally believed to be the author of Mevo ha-Talmud (“Introduction to the Talmud”), a long-lived Talmudic manual. He also wrote a concordance to the Bible, encouraged learning in all fields, and became a respected, even revered figure among both Arabs and Jews.
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Saturday, December 29, 2012
(Are you seeing Jesus? No, you're actually looking at a photo of a couple holding their new baby who is wearing a bonnet--looks like Jesus's forehead)
Grant calls it matrixing, but honestly the technical term is:
(Wikipedia) It is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records played in reverse.
How does this apply to ghost hunting? You ever listen to the weird shit Zak comes up with on his EVP replays??? He is so out there in left field with hearing all kinds of language on his garbled recording flubs that he's kind of starting to worry me. How about the tons of orbs with faces people send in?
It is in human nature to either relate things to faces--a reflection of our own reference as humans and the importance of human faces in recognizing our people, but also in words. We often hear our own name spoken when it isn't. We identify with our name and anything sounding like a voice, we assume is calling us. Humans are rather egocentric that way. Let's look at some cool examples...
Some people see faces in orbs....
See a face in this wall?
See a screaming mouth?
I see this old photo of my knees and I see cherub faces with full cheeks, button noses, eyes, and a swath of cherub `fro above...
at 2:30 AM
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Verifying the LSA carbon reporting process?
Expert comment by Michael Gifford, Carbon Trust Certification Limited
The LSA will be engaging with members in the coming months to explore the value of external verification and this article describes how Carbon Trust Certification could provide independence and rigour to the annual submission of reports to the LSA.
Who are we?
Carbon Trust Certification Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Carbon Trust, a not-for-dividend organisation that was established in 2001 by the government to accelerate progress towards a low carbon economy.
We developed and launched the Carbon Trust Standard (CTS) based on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and ISO 14064 and established a tough new standard that organisations committed to reducing their carbon emissions could attain.
To do so they need to meet three criteria:
1. data to measure their carbon emissions;
2. policies for carbon governance, carbon accounting and carbon management to show how the organisation plans to manage its future carbon;
3. reduce their carbon emissions over the preceding three years.
These same three criteria are integral to the Legal Sector Alliance (LSA) Protocol.
What do we do?
We verify carbon footprints for organisations, products and services. To do this we have two teams of verifiers: one is internal and accredited by UKAS to ISO14065; the other is external and comprises 83 independent specialist engineers. Each of these carefully reviews and verifies spreadsheets prepared by our customers and they also review their qualitative submissions. The process is clear: the bar is set in published methodologies and verifiers are trained to examine the data submitted by clients impartially and to review evidence that supports the data. If the submission exceeds the level at which the bar is set, it is verified. If it does not, it fails.
What could we do for Legal Sector Alliance?
We undertake verifications for clients against other standards than our own; for example, CTS was selected by DEFRA to be one of two Early Action Metrics in the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme and is now approved by Carbon Disclosure Project as one that meets its verification criteria. We are clear on the requirements of the LSA Protocol, having been involved in reviewing these before the launch of your scheme. Today, a growing number of LSA members are also certified under CTS and we can see, for these firms, there is an overlap in the reporting to us and LSA.
Why adopt independent verification?
LSA members do not, at present, undergo external verification of their submissions. Many might see the advantages of having an independent, impartial view from a specialist third party that understands carbon reduction. We can offer a verification service that reviews qualitative submissions against the ‘seven principles’ and, for those that prepare and submit carbon footprint data, we can verify this too. We could provide a ‘static service’ that simply reviews the commentary and verifies the underlying data. Alternatively, we could provide a more ‘active service’ that seeks to benchmark submissions against anonymised competitors, to show how the organisation under review compares with competing firms in the sector. In every instance we can provide an independent view on your submissions, a level of rigour to the process and the added value that flows from a meeting with an experienced verifier.
Michael Gifford is Head of Operations and Delivery Partners, Carbon Trust Certification Limited
For further information please contact: firstname.lastname@example.org
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Poverty, sickness, war and every other form of injustice are part and parcel of the world in which we live today. No one can ignore them. If we wish to achieve a more equitable human environment, we must make an even greater effort to meet the demands of humanitarian partnership.
How we behave and what we do will form the measuring rod for our humanity and sense of social responsibility. For more than 15 years, Sanofi has been committed to humanitarian partnership, building on its rich heritage, broad expertise and core values.
When we created the Sanofi Espoir Foundation on October 2, 2010, our goal was to provide an appropriate framework and resource platform for helping reduce healthcare inequalities over the long term, in addition to our capacity to respond immediately to humanitarian emergencies. Our actions are determined by the quality of the partnerships we have forged, and a creative approach to helping those who are most in need to escape from the vicious circle of disease and poverty.
I am convinced that these humanitarian partnerships - fruitful blends of ideas and skills closely tailored to the needs of specific communities and countries - will stimulate social innovation and help reduce major healthcare inequalities.
Humanitarian partnership means giving a small part of ourselves to others. It should be a global standard, and a powerful beacon of hope to a world in need.
President of the Sanofi Espoir Foundation
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A grass called Miscanthus could yield more ethanol than switchgrass or corn. Lots more.
By Dawn Stover
Posted 08.15.2008 at 10:38 am 14 Comments
Move over, switchgrass. There's a new miracle crop on the horizon. Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign indicates that a perennial grass named Miscanthus x giganteus can produce about two and a half times more ethanol per acre than either corn or switchgrass.
Five amazing, clean technologies that will set us free, in this month's energy-focused issue. Also: how to build a better bomb detector, the robotic toys that are raising your children, a human catapult, the world's smallest arcade, and much more.
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Conrad C. Lautenbacher Jr., who headed NOAA under George W. Bush’s administration, said he understands Lubchenco’s mandate to fund “high-ticket items” that include climate research and satellites for severe weather forecasting.
“But I really believe it’s a mistake to shut it down,” he said. “It is an important national asset. We’re an island nation, and we depend on the ocean. We need to stay connected to the ocean and understand and learn about it.”
The ocean also has been invaluable about learning about space. Since 2001, Bill Todd has directed 16 NEEMO (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Projects) at Aquarius.
“If this goes away, we do not have another place to turn,” Todd said. “Our ability to do engineering and training is going to be degraded. Can we still go to an asteroid and still train astronauts? Of course. But it’s going to be way more costly.
“I guarantee you in less than five years, people will be kicking themselves saying: ‘What in the hell were we thinking. Why did we get rid of this unbelievable national and global resource that benefits so many for so little?’ ”
Aquarius is not a program without flaws. Many past and current employees of Aquarius say in recent years it suffered from a lack of high-level support from both NOAA and UNC-Wilmington.
“A lack of support was why I left,” said Ellen Prager, Aquarius’ former chief scientist. “You can’t push a program forward and look to the future, while fighting with the organization that is supposed to be running it.”
Aquarius employees say they also were restrained by overzealous safety regulations and fear of litigation, which became worse after the 2009 death of a 36-year-old technical diver while working on a Navy project. The cause of death was a rare malfunction of a rebreather, which scrubs carbon dioxide from exhaled air and recirculates it so air tanks will last longer.
“We had so many ridiculous rules we could barely operate,” said Dominic Landucci, Aquarius’ communications guru, who was laid off this month after nearly 10 years.
Prager and Koblick said they would like to see the development of the next generation of underwater habitats. While NOAA is relying more on remote cameras, remote operating vehicles and censors to do ocean research, Prager and Koblick say they do not replace the curiosity and passion of humans to learn about the sea.
Koblick is one of the pioneers in underwater habitats, first working on the Tektite project in 1969 in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He later developed and operated the La Chalupa Research Laboratory, the largest and most technologically advanced habitat of the time. It operated in more than 100 feet of water off the coast of Puerto Rico until funding ran out in 1976. Years later he was watching a Burt Reynolds movie and saw the habitat virtually abandoned in the New River in Miami. He saved it and turned it into the Jules Undersea Lodge. It sits in a small lagoon in Key Largo, where any diver can get a taste of underwater living. Koblick also heads the Marine Resources Development Foundation that operates MarineLab Underseas Laboratory, a small habitat used primarily by students .
But his underwater habitats do not do man in the sea research. “I’m afraid if Aquarius goes away, there will never be another one,” Koblick said. “It’s too big a job to start from scratch.”
Aquarius has a brain trust that exists nowhere else in the world. The long-term monitoring that is being done at the site also is irreplaceable.
“Some say what we’re doing is old hat, but it’s really not,” said associate operations director Otto Rutten, an 18-year employee of Aquarius.
Cooper, Aquarius’ former operations director, blames himself for not doing enough to publicize their numerous accomplishments on a lean budget. “Not being part of the Beltway three-piece suiters, I felt the best way to survive was stay as invisible as possible,” he said. “Maybe that hurt us.”
But the ocean has always played second fiddle to the atmosphere and space in attention and funding. Ben Hellwarth, who wrote the new book SEALAB: America’s Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor, said if Aquarius’ possible last mission had been the United States’ possible last trip to the space station or orbit, “We’d be hearing a lot more about it. Maybe the sea is seen as a dark and spooky place and the heavens up there are good and celestial and sparkling.”
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Bill Davenhall: Your health depends on where you live (9 min video, TED, Oct. 2009)
Also shown here: Bill Davenhall: Your health depends on where you live (9 min You-Tube)
And discussed here: Heart Attack Rates (Acute Myocardial Infarction per 100,000 Medicare Enrollees) (ERSI, 2005)
The focus today is on a new branch of environmental health called GEO Medicine that looks at geography applied to environmental health and epidemiology, using various new tools including Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and tracking tools such as those found on smart phones. The speaker points out that while lifestyle and genetics are often included on one’s medical history file, rarely is there a record of where one lived and what was the environment . By extension to his own “place history”, he shows how this can help to identify in advance what diseases to expect in old age.
To see Key Quotes and Links to key reports about this post, click HERE
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Here’s my latest Muse article
for Nature News. I hope it does not sound in any way critical of the peg paper (reference 3), which is a very nice read.
A survey of the cognitive benefits of music makes a valid case for its educational importance. But that's not the best reason to teach all children music.
Remember the Mozart effect? Thanks to a suggestion in 1993 that listening to Mozart makes you cleverer, there has been a flood of compilation CDs filled with classical tunes that will allegedly boost your baby’s brain power.
Yet there’s no evidence for this claim, and indeed the original ‘Mozart effect’ paper did not make it. It reported a slight, short-term performance enhancement in some spatial tasks when preceded by listening to Mozart as opposed to sitting in silence. Some follow-up studies replicated the effect, others did not. None found it specific to Mozart; one study showed that pop music could have the same effect on schoolchildren . It seems this curious but marginal effect stems from the cognitive benefits of any enjoyable auditory stimulus, which need not even be musical.
The original claim doubtless had such inordinate impact because it plays to a long-standing suspicion that music makes you smarter. And as neuroscientists Nina Kraus and Bharath Chandrasekaran of Northwestern University in Illinois point out in a review
in Nature Reviews Neuroscience , there is good evidence that music training reshapes the brain in ways that convey broader cognitive benefits. It can, they say, lead to ‘changes throughout the auditory system that prime musicians for listening challenges beyond music processing’ – such as interpreting language.
This is no surprise. Many sorts of mental training and learning alter the brain, just as physical training alters the body, and learning-related structural differences between the brains of musicians and non-musicians are well established . Moreover, both neurological and psychological tests show that music processing draws on cognitive resources that are not music-specific, such as pitch processing, memory and pattern recognition – so cultivating these mental functions through music would naturally be expected to have a wider payoff. The interactions are two-way: the pitch sensitivity imbued by tonal languages such as Mandarin Chinese, for example, enhances the ability to name a musical note just from hearing it (called absolute pitch) .
We can hardly be surprised, meanwhile, that music lessons improve childrens’ IQ , given that these will nourish general faculties such as memory, coordination and attentiveness. Kraus and Chandrasekaran now point out that, thanks to the brain’s plasticity (ability to ‘rewire’ itself), musical training sharpens our sensitivity to pitch, timing and timbre, and as a result our capacity to discern emotional intonation in speech, to learn our native and foreign languages, and to identify statistical regularities in abstract sound stimuli.
Yet all these benefits of music education have done rather little to alter a common perception that music is an optional extra to be offered (beyond tokenistic exposure) only if children have the time and inclination. Ethnomusicologist John Blacking put it more damningly: we insist that musicality is a rare gift, so that music is to be created by a tiny minority for the passive consumption of the majority . Having spent years among African cultures that recognized no such distinctions, Blacking was appalled at the way this elitism labelled most people ‘unmusical’.
Kraus and Chandrasekaran rightly argue that the marginalization of music training in schools ‘should be reassessed’ in light of the benefits it may offer by ‘improving learning skills and listening ability’. But it will be a sad day when the only way to persuade educationalists to embrace music is via its side-effects on cognition and intelligence. We should be especially wary of that argument in this age of cost-benefit analyses, targets and utilitarian impact assessments. Music should indeed be celebrated (and studied) as a gymnasium for the mind; but ultimately its value lies with the way it enriches, socializes and humanizes us qua music.
And while in no way detracting from the validity of calling for music to be essential in education, it’s significant that musical training, like any other pleasure, has its hazards when taken to excess. I was recently privileged to discuss with the pianist Leon Fleisher his traumatic but fascinating struggle with focal dystonia, a condition that results in localized loss of muscle control. Fleisher’s dazzling career as a concert pianist was almost ended in the early 1960s when he found that two fingers of his right hand insisted on curling up. After several decades of teaching and one-handed playing, Fleisher regained the use of both hands through a regime of deep massage and injections of botox to relax the muscles. But he says his condition is still present, and he must constantly battle against it.
Focal dystonia is not a muscular problem (like cramp) but a neural one: over-training disrupts the feedback between muscles and brain, expanding the representation of the hand in the sensory cortex until the neural correlates of the fingers blur. It is the dark side of neural plasticity, and not so uncommon – an estimated one in a hundred professional musicians suffer from it, though some do so in secrecy, fearful of admitting to the debilitating problem.
We would be hugely impoverished without virtuosi such as Fleisher. But his plight serves as a reminder that hot-housing has its dangers, not only for the performers but (as Blacking) suggests for the rest of us. Give us fine music, but rough music too.
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3. Kraus, N. & Chandrasekaran, B. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 11, 599-605 (2010).
4. Gaser, C. & Schlaug, G. J. Neurosci. 23, 9240-9245 (2003).
5. Patel, A. D. Music, Language, and the Brain (Oxford University Press, New York, 2008).
6. Deutsch, D., Henthorn, T., Marvin, E. & Xu, H.-S. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119, 719-722 (2006).
7. Schellenberg, E. G. J. Educ. Psychol. 98, 457-468 (2006).
8. Blacking, J. How Musical Is Man? (Faber & Faber, London, 1976).
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Definition of transferability
n. - The quality or state of being transferable. 2
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Progress in Florida
Progress Energy Florida is committed to finding cleaner and more efficient ways to generate electricity. That commitment extends to the exploration of alternative energies in research projects such as a current trial of a hydrogen fuel cell at a Largo, Florida, nursing home that will provide hallway and safety lighting for the facility if hurricanes or other emergencies interrupt power. Until such projects one day yield practical and cost-effective results, Progress Energy Florida focuses on helping customers save money by making their homes as energy efficient as possible. That’s why the electric utility, which serves 35 counties throughout central and north Florida, partners with local builders to enhance the efficiency of new homes through its Home Advantage program.
Home Advantage is a comprehensive, cooperative program that not only provides builders incentives to construct energy-efficient homes, but also distinguishes their properties from others in the market.Home Advantage is designed to improve energy efficiency in the following three new construction segments: residential site-built homes,manufactured homes, and multifamily homes.
Through the program, builders receive cash incentives directly from Progress Energy for installing qualifying heat pumps, upgraded levels of insulation, or high-performance windows. Some of these homes can qualify for EPA’s Energy Star designation with guidance from Progress Energy. Builders also receive free promotional materials, such as yard signs, that target prospective new clients. Plus, they have the support of Progress Energy’s Home Advantage consumer advertising and promotional campaign.
Builders select from three levels of participation. At the entry level, they are installing electric heat pumps and centrally ducted systems with mastic.At the upper levels, they qualify for incentives ranging from $100 to $350 per home, depending on the efficiency of the heat pump installed, the R-factor of insulation, and/or the solar heat gain of the windows.
The three levels of the Home Advantage program are detailed below.
Level One—Home Advantage Energy Saver Homes
The heating source is an all-electric heat pump. The builder must agree to construct air-conditioning ducts using a mastic sealant on all connections and joints.This ensures the new home has a relatively tight system that won’t waste energy through air leakage.
Level Two—Home Advantage Energy Saver Plus Homes
In addition to sealing the duct system with mastic, the builder must install high-efficiency heating and cooling systems.New homes must have either R-30 attic insulation or R-19 with radiant barrier, or ductwork designed using the Air Conditioning Contractors Association (ACCA) Manual D calculation so the right amount of conditioned air is delivered to each room. Home Advantage program coordinators can provide efficiency requirements and recommendations.
Minimum standards are:
• a SEER of 14/heating season performance factor of 7.8 ($100 per system installed);
• a SEER of 16/heating season performance factor of 8.1 ($300 per system installed); and
• high-performance windows—windows must be labeled by the National Fenestration Rating Council with a solar heat gain coefficient of less than or equal to 0.50 and a U-factor of less than or equal to 0.75.
Level Three—Home Advantage Premium Energy Saver/Energy Star Homes
The home must be at least 15% more efficient than the 2006 Florida Energy Code, while maintaining or improving indoor air quality and comfort—one of the highest standards in new home energy efficiency.Also,buyers could qualify for an energy-efficient mortgage by installing high-efficiency equipment as part of the Energy Star program. Builders who have partnered with Progress Energy and EPA have pledged that they are committed to energy-efficient design and delivering energy-saving homes that cost less to own and operate.
“Our industry, overall, is taking on a greater role in environmental protection,” says Boris W. Diaz, professional building designer for Masterpiece Homes—one of the builders of Home Advantage Premium Energy Saver/Energy Star Homes.
“Customers expect it, and Masterpiece Homes is committed to doing what we can to help the healing process of our environment, world, and way of living,” Diaz says.“Our partnership with Progress Energy and Energy Star clearly conveys this to our customers; plus, our customers benefit in so many ways, both tangible— like lower electric bills—and intangible— a better world for their children.There is no downside to this program.”
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A bipartisan group of governors is putting pressure on Congress to authorize the FDA to establish ?an efficient and effective abbreviated pathway for approval of generic versions of biophar-maceuticals.? In their letter to Congress, the governors argued that ?competition from generic drugs is already saving billions of health care dollars each year, but?generics and the savings they provide are not available for medicines approved as biopharmaceuticals??expensive medications that can cost patients as much as $200,000 annually.
There is ?little hope that Americans will have the benefit of generic versions of other biopharmaceuticals until Congress passes legislation authorizing the FDA to create an efficient and effective abbreviated pathway for approval of generic versions of biopharmaceuticals,? the governors said.
The involvement of 18 governors from Vermont to Oregon drew cheers from officials at the Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA). ?Our nation?s governors understand all too well that the high costs of biopharmaceuticals are keeping needed medicines out of the hands of Americans,? said GPhA President and Chief Executive Officer Kathleen Jaeger.
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OK, actually, I do agree with the director of the Observatory here. I can go Franciscan and welcome Brother Green Hairy Alien. But did he have to say "extraterrestrial brother"? Why not just wave a red flag in front of my blog and scream "POST ME! POST ME!"
(AP) VATICAN CITY - Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview published Tuesday.
The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the, was quoted as saying the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.
"How can we rule out that life may have developed elsewhere?" Funes said. "Just as we consider earthly creatures as 'a brother,' and 'sister,' why should we not talk about an 'extraterrestrial brother'? It would still be part of creation."
In the interview by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Funes said that such a notion "doesn't contradict our faith" because aliens would still be God's creatures. Ruling out the existence of aliens would be like "putting limits" on God's creative freedom, he said.
And, uh, clearly he hasn't been watching the latest version of Doctor Who. If those aliens are our brothers and sisters, we have some serious Fall action going on outside of humanity.
Full story here.
HT: Ray at Stella Borealis.
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The Advocacy and Resource Center in Sheridan has been around for three decades helping victims of all violent crimes. While the center most typically deals with cases where the woman is the victim, they have been seeing more and more men reach out for assistance over the years as well. Victim Advocate Rhonda Weber says that can be attributed to law enforcement's involvement.
Weber says that even though they have been helping more men over the years, there is still that stigma that goes along with a male reaching out for help.
Weber said that they've assisted males for a number of different reasons, but that stalking is probably the most common crime for which the victim is a male.
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Multistate Outbreak of Human Salmonella Enteritidis Infections Associated with Shell Eggs
Posted October 19, 2010
This outbreak appears to be over. However, Salmonella is an important cause of human illness in the United States. More information about Salmonella, and steps people can take to reduce their risk of infection, can be found on the CDC Salmonella Web Page.
Number of Salmonella Enteritidis cases matching PFGE pattern JEGX01.0004 reported to PulseNet, United States, 2010
CDC continues to collaborate with public health officials in multiple states, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service to investigate a nationwide increase of Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) infections with an indistinguishable pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) pattern JEGX01.0004. This is the most common PFGE pattern for SE in the PulseNet database. Investigators are using DNA analysis of SE bacteria obtained through diagnostic testing to identify cases of illness and restaurant or event clusters (where more than one ill person with the outbreak strain has eaten) that may be part of this outbreak. Because the SE PFGE pattern commonly occurs in the United States, some of the cases identified may not be related to this outbreak.
Investigation of the Outbreak
In July 2010, CDC identified a nationwide sustained increase in the number of Salmonella Enteritidis isolates with PFGE pattern JEGX01.0004 uploaded to PulseNet, the national subtyping network made up of state and local public health laboratories and federal food regulatory laboratories that performs molecular surveillance of foodborne infections. This increase began in May 2010 and is evident in the epidemic curve, or epi curve. The number of reports increased substantially in July when the peak of the outbreak appears to have occurred. From May 1 to September 7, 2010, a total of 2,612 illnesses were reported. However, some cases from this period have not been reported yet, and some of these cases may not be related to this outbreak. Based on the previous 5 years of reports to PulseNet, we would expect approximately 1,093 total illnesses during this same period. This means there are approximately 1,519 reported illnesses that are likely to be associated with this outbreak. Many states have reported increases of this pattern since May. Because of the large number of expected cases during this period, standard methods of molecular subtyping alone are not sufficient to determine which reported cases might be outbreak-associated. CDC is currently evaluating advanced molecular methodologies to see if they help distinguish between outbreak-related cases and sporadic (or background) cases.
Illnesses that occurred after August 5, 2010 might not yet be reported due to the time it takes between when a person becomes ill and when the illness is reported. This takes an average of 2 to 3 weeks for Salmonella. For more details, please see the Salmonella Outbreak Investigations: Timeline for Reporting Cases.
Epidemiologic investigations conducted by public health officials in 11 states since April have identified 29 restaurants or event clusters where more than one ill person with the outbreak strain has eaten. Data from these investigations suggest that shell eggs are a likely source of infections in many of these restaurants or event clusters. Wright County Egg, in Galt, Iowa, was an egg supplier in 15 of these 29 restaurants or event clusters; three are clusters that have been recently reported, but occurred earlier in the outbreak. Traceback investigations are ongoing for several of these clusters. A formal traceback was conducted by state partners in California, Colorado, and Minnesota, in collaboration with FDA and CDC, to find a common source of shell eggs. Wright County Egg in Iowa was found as the common source of the shell eggs associated with three of the clusters. Through traceback and FDA investigational findings, Hillandale Farms of Iowa, Inc., was identified as another potential source of contaminated shell eggs contributing to this outbreak. FDA is nearing completion of initial investigations at both of these firms in Iowa. The investigations involve sampling, records review and looking for potential sources of contamination, such as feed. FDA’s inspectional observations, in addition to sample results, indicate substantial potential for Salmonella to have persisted in the environment and to have contaminated eggs (see 483 Inspectional Observations on the Egg Recall).
Laboratory Testing of Environmental Samples
FDA has collected nearly 600 samples from Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms of Iowa during this investigation. The majority of these samples are still undergoing laboratory testing and results are pending. To date, FDA's testing of of seven environmental samples identified Salmonella with PFGE patterns indistinguishable from the outbreak strain. Six of these positive samples were collected from manure, as well as traffic areas such as walkways, equipment, other surfaces in and around the farm, and from the feed mill at Wright County Egg in Iowa. The feed was provided to pullets (young female chickens or hens) raised at Wright County Egg facilities in Iowa. Pullets are distributed to all premises at Wright County Egg in Iowa and Hillandale Farms in Iowa. The seventh positive sample was collected from egg water wash in a packing facility in Hillandale Farms of Iowa. These findings indicate that Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms of Iowa are the likely sources of the contaminated shell eggs. FDA has not found that this feed was distributed to any companies other than Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms of Iowa.
On August 13, 2010, Wright County Egg of Galt, Iowa, conducted a nationwide voluntary recall of shell eggs. On August 18, 2010, Wright County Egg expanded its recall. On August 20, 2010, Hillandale Farms of Iowa conducted a nationwide voluntary recall of shell eggs. Additional recall updates related to this outbreak are listed on FDA's website.
Clinical Features/Signs and Symptoms
A person infected with Salmonella Enteritidis usually has fever, abdominal cramps, and diarrhea beginning 12 to 72 hours after consuming a contaminated food or beverage. The illness usually lasts 4 to 7 days, and most persons recover without antibiotic treatment. However, the diarrhea can be severe, and hospitalization may be required. The elderly, infants, and those with impaired immune systems may have a more serious illness. In these patients, the infection may spread from the intestines to the blood stream, and then to other body sites and can cause death unless the person is treated promptly with antibiotics. For more information, visit CDC’s Salmonella Enteritidis website.
Advice to Consumers
- Don’t eat recalled eggs. Recalled eggs might still be in grocery stores, restaurants, and consumers' homes. Consumers who have recalled eggs should discard them or return them to their retailer for a refund. A searchable database of products affected by the recall is available to consumers.
- Individuals who think they might have become ill from eating recalled eggs should consult their health care providers.
- Keep eggs refrigerated at ≤ 45° F (≤7° C) at all times.
- Discard cracked or dirty eggs.
- Wash hands and all food contact surface areas (counter tops, utensils, and cutting boards) with soap and water after contact with raw eggs. Then, disinfect the food contact surfaces using a sanitizing agent, such as bleach, following label instructions.
- Eggs should be cooked until both the white and the yolk are firm and eaten promptly after cooking.
- Do not keep eggs warm or at room temperature for more than 2 hours.
- Refrigerate unused or leftover egg-containing foods promptly.
- Avoid eating raw eggs.
- Individuals wishing to further reduce their risk may consider using pasteurized, in-shell eggs.
- Avoid restaurant dishes made with raw or undercooked, unpasteurized eggs. Restaurants should use pasteurized eggs in any recipe (such as Hollandaise sauce or Caesar salad dressing) that calls for raw eggs.
- Consumption of raw or undercooked eggs should be avoided, especially by young children, elderly persons, and persons with weakened immune systems or debilitating illness.
Advice to Egg Producers
- Flock-based SE-control programs that include routine microbiologic testing are mandatory for producers with more than 50,000 hens, as of July 9, 2010, under FDA's egg safety rule.
Advice to Retail and Food Service Establishments and Institutional Settings
- In retail and food service establishments, pasteurized egg products or pasteurized in-shell eggs are recommended in place of pooled eggs or raw or undercooked shell eggs. If used, raw shell eggs should be fully cooked. If shell eggs are served undercooked, a consumer advisory should be posted in accordance with the local Food Code.
- In hospitals, nursing homes, adult or childcare facilities, schools, senior centers, and other facilities pasteurized egg products or pasteurized in-shell eggs should be used in place of pooled eggs or raw or undercooked eggs.
- Eggs should be purchased or received from a distributor refrigerated and stored refrigerated at ≤ 45° F (≤7° C) at all times.
- CDC FAQs: Salmonella Enteritidis
- Description of the Steps In a Foodborne Outbreak Investigation
- CDC's Role During a Multi-State Foodborne Outbreak Investigation
- Salmonella Enteritidis Outbreak in Shell Eggs (September 3, 2010)
- FDA 483 Inspectional Observations on the Egg Recall (August 31, 2010)
- Shell Eggs Recall Product List
- FDA Recalls, Market Withdrawals & Safety Alerts
- Tips to Reduce Your Risk of Salmonella from Eggs [PODCAST – 4:00 minutes]
- Keeping Live Poultry [CDC Feature]
CDC's Role in Food Safety
As an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), CDC leads federal efforts to gather data on foodborne illnesses, investigate foodborne illnesses and outbreaks, and monitor the effectiveness of prevention and control efforts. CDC is not a food safety regulatory agency but works closely with the food safety regulatory agencies, in particular with HHS' U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Food Safety and Inspection Service within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). CDC also plays a key role in building state and local health department epidemiology, laboratory, and environmental health capacity to support foodborne disease surveillance and outbreak response. Notably, CDC data can be used to help document the effectiveness of regulatory interventions.
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Adam’s RibArticle Free Pass
Adam’s Rib, American romantic comedy film, directed by George Cukor and released in 1949, that was a vehicle for the powerhouse pairing of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in a classic battle of the sexes.
The plot involves a husband and wife (played by Tracy and Hepburn) who are lawyers on opposite sides of an attempted murder case that has the overtones of female empowerment. The courtroom dramatics spill over into the lawyers’ home life with amusing consequences, and an opportunistic neighbour (played by David Wayne) wastes no time in putting the moves on Hepburn when he sees her marriage in turmoil.
Judy Holliday excelled in a star-making role as a vengeful wife who shoots her adulterous husband, and scene-stealer Wayne delivered one of the most famous anti-lawyer lines in cinema history: “Lawyers should never marry other lawyers. This is called inbreeding, from which comes idiot children and more lawyers.” Adam’s Rib was the sixth of Tracy and Hepburn’s nine cinematic collaborations.
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The Family Channel
OPENING SPIEL: Today, one of these four players will win a fabulous vacation to (insert trip), as we play Jumble: The Interactive Game. The scramble board game millions of Americans have played for years. And here's the host of the show, Wink Martindale!
One of three interactive game shows produced for the Family Channel after Trivial Pursuit.
Four contestants compete in an interactive game based on the newspaper word game.
The game is played in three rounds. In each round, the contestants were shown a series of scrambled-up or "jumbled" words, and their job was to unscramble them. Host Martindale read four clues to four words (one for each clue). Each word is three and four letters long. On each clue, the contestants typed in the correct word by pressing the buttons on their telephone keypads. They typed in according to the letters over the numbers; for example, if the correct word was rice, then they must press "7, 4, 2, 3". The contestants have 10 seconds on each clue to type in the word, and if any of them are correct, they score points according to how fast they punched in up to 1,000. After playing the four clues, the players then tried to unscramble one more word. This last word uses circled letters from the first four words and it is part of a caption punchline to a cartoon riddle. The contestants have the usual 10 seconds to solve the riddle; same rules apply. For example: (this was used on the show) "Why did Susie leave the classroom while carrying a chair?" The punchline would currently say "Teacher said to take her ____."; and the circled jumble would say "TEAS" The answer to that riddle would be: "Teacher said to take her SEAT. (7, 3, 2, 8)". After all four clues/words and the cartoon riddle were played, the players with the highest scores advanced to the next round.
Four players played round one with the three highest scorers advancing to round two.
Three players played round two with the two highest scorers advancing to round three.
Two players competed in the final round, and the player with the highest score wins the game and will also receive a trip and one other prize. The runner-up received a prize of his/her own.
When each round with the studio players was done, home viewers could call a special 1-900 number. For a cost of $4.98, they could play a game of "Interactive Jumble". This was played exactly like a round of the studio game, and home viewers answered with their touch-tone telephone. The home viewer with the highest score would win a small prize and the right to enter a weekly playoff, played the same as before. The winner of this playoff would receive a trip.
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Model of a hospital instrument steriliser, England, 1931-1940
This small-scale model represents a sterilizer or most likely an autoclave. An autoclave sterilizes instruments using heat and high pressure prior to their use in an operating theatre. This model shows the red and green valves on the front and the trays used to place instruments in the device. This model may have been used by travelling salesmen to show the products of Chas F Thackray Ltd, who made the full-size version. Thackray’s was a surgical and medical equipment maker from 1902 to 1990, based in Leeds and London. When the company was sold in 1990, Paul Thackray, a former director, established a charitable trust and set up the Thackray Museum in Leeds in 1997 to display his collection.
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A machine used to sterilise instruments or materials with high pressure and heat or pressurised steam.
Glossary: model - representation
Use for a scaled representation of an object or structure, usually three-dimensional. The item is often idealised or modified to make it conceptually easier to understand.
An instrument used to make objects sterile by killing or eliminating agents such as fungi, bacteria and viruses.
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A year ago i had this brilliant idea, about how to resolve the college 1 and done rule, and I would like to revisit that again this year. Every year around NBA draft time or when the NBA's CBA is up for re-negotiation there is always talk about the NBA's stance on when players can be eligible to enter the draft. As it stands right now, a player must attend college for 1 year before entering the draft; and or be 18 or older and 1 year removed from his graduating high school class. In my opinion this really does not benefit any of the parties involved
KOBE "BEAN" BRYANT IN HIS ROOKIER YEAR, ONE OF THE FIRST TO SUCCESSFULLY MAKE THE JUMP FROM HIGH SCHOOL TO PRO
* If you're the student athlete you don't get to make the jump to go pro and earn guaranteed money early even though in just about every other sport this option is available to you with the exception of football.
* You miss out on a chance to play with some of the best players in the world and get early pro basketball experience.
* You're risking getting hurt and potentially ending the chance to take advantage of an opportunity of a lifetime.
* Lastly you will have to endure "dorm life" for a year, ok this is not so bad, when I was in school I loved this experience...but it is not for everyone.
Kyrie technically a 1 and done guy, but he played only 11 college games before making the jump but he was ready for the league none the lessNBA
* Potentially may lose out on a game changing talent due to injury.
* Clubs lose a year to develop a young guy in the fashion more accustomed to their team's style of play. (Some team may prefer that take year at a college program to develop)
* If you are not a contending title team you basically waste a scholarship for a year, though you may reap benefits financially.
* The college programs will be hurt in the long run, team chemistry and player development is lost if guys are only there for a year. (No real program building)
* will continue to have players and programs slapped with penalties for players receiving extra benefits or taking money from boosters. (More likely to take a risk if they know they will only be there for a year anyway)
* I'm pretty sure more arguments can be made for each of these sides, but i am not a wise guy who claims to know everything so use your imagination and fill in anything i may have left out.
So the players pretty much suffer the most from the current way things are setup, and they are the leading source for both the NBA and NCAA for making money. So here is what i think the NBA can do to help out, all those involved. I am going to call it the...
FIRST THINGS FIRST:
Make it a mandatory 2 years that kids have to attend college, or 2 years removed from their high school graduating class to be eligible to enter the draft ..., but here is the caveat.
The 2 years are only mandatory by those student athletes who are not invited after their senior year in high school or first year of college to enter the NBA draft.
Here is how it would work; after a player completes high school...you know walk across the stage grab the diploma, smile, take pics...etc. If he is considered a 5 star guy and has NBA potential he can get invited to enter the NBA draft.
NOO THIS IS NOT A BEFORE AND AFTER OF CHRIS "BIRDMAN" ANDERSON, BUT THIS IS ROBERT SWIFT, A KID WHO ENTERED THE DRAFT RIGHT AFTER HIS SENIOR SEASON IN HIGH SCHOOL. HE DIDN'T PAN OUT, HE PROBABLY HAS MORE TATTOO'S THAN POINTS IN THE NBA
The NBA would setup a committee of, scouts, recruiters, board members whatever you want to call them to watch and keep track of, monitor, and evaluate the nation's top preps and freshman basketball players. At the end of their perspective seasons the committee will get together and determine who is ready for the NBA: physically, mentally, emotionally, athletically, and from a potential stand point. These invitations will also have team demand taken into consideration, NBA team scouts will also submit their input on which kids they think are capable of making the jump or who their teams have high interest in.
DAJUN WAGNER WAS SUPPOSE TO BE THE CAVS SAVIOR AND THE SECOND COMING OF ALLEN IVERSON BEFORE LEBRON CAME ALONG, HE WAS A ONE AND DONE GUY OUT OF MEMPHIS BUT HEALTH PROBLEMS ENDED HIS CAREER EARLY
There will be a standard cap or limit of invitations that can be given for each level.
High school players will get 5-7 invitations for straight to the league guys and in rare circumstance 1-2 d-league draft invitations.
*the d-league invites will be good for guys who may have all the talent in the world but just can't make the grades to get a d1 scholarship, or a guy who is beyond the college level but maybe a hair short of the NBA level.
College freshmen will get 5-7 invitations for those players who are one and done guys, as well as the 5 invitations for d-league only.
The 5 players, 7 if you count the potential high school selections can be called up at any time, and NBA teams can claim these players right when they are drafted. If a team does claim one of these guys then that team is responsible for their salary, this salary will not be counted towards their cap until they are called up.
This setup will prevent a flood of young guys entering the draft prematurely when they are not ready. Which i think when straight of high school to the NBA was an option was really watering down the league with undeveloped talent, and sometimes a waste of bench space...just keeping it real.
I believe the group should be start off as a pool of 20 or so guys and eventually narrowed down to the 10 or 12 guys total who will be invited to the d-league or NBA. During this process of evaluation these players and families if it is a high school athlete will be interviewed, just as if they were applying for a job. Invitations can be lost or won during that process, pending how they do during their interviews.
i don't think that those among the committee should do the interviews, but various VIP's of the league. The likes of: Adam silver, Stu Jackson, Billy hunter, owners, GM's...etc. After a first interview there will be a second interview with the commissioner.
THESE GUYS NEED NO INTRODUCTION, LEBRON THE MOST ANTICIPATED PLAYER TO ENTER THE NBA, IN NBA HISTORY, FROM HIGH SCHOOL OR COLLEGE MADE AN IMPACT RIGHT AWAY AND IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE BEST IN THE GAME. MELO IN ONE YEAR WON A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP AT SYRACUSE AND IS NOW ONE OF THE BEST SCORERS IN THE LEAGUE.
I think those among the committee should remain anonymous to avoid being harassed. We don't want David's "momma and them" hassling members of the committee to get their kid an invitation. Their identity should only be known by a selected few.
This idea would be even more possible if at the college levels some sort of pay or stipend is given to student athletes,as my home state is in the process of trying to get such LEGISLATION PASSED, AFTER THE INFAMOUS "TATTOO GATE" went down. It's probably a long shot something like this happens, after all this is just the opinion of an average guy from the couch!
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Things are heating up politically here in Wisconsin. Republicans against Democrats. Democrats against Republicans. State senators “hiding” in Illinois, the governor answering prank calls, tens of thousands of people protesting in Madison, yes, the political machines are moving, and there isn’t any sign of it slowing down soon.
What I have been observing on all sides of these issues is hatred, vitriol, and presumptions about motivations that are certainly uncharitable, and very often slander or worse. And we are not talking about the “other” people. I am talking about Christians, even members of our own congregation. The conversations happen in bible classes, on the phone, on Facebook or Twitter, and really anywhere that people gather. I’m quite certain I have been as guilty of it as anyone.
All of this begs the question: what does it mean to be a Christian in these times? How am I to treat someone with whom I disagree? What if I believe their behavior is not only wrong politically, but is sinful? How am I to interact with them?
The Scriptures are quite clear on this. Let’s start with the Eighth Commandment and Explanation:
You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
What does this mean?
We should fear and love God so that we do not tell lies about our neighbor, betray him, slander him, or hurt his reputation, but defend him, speak well of him, and explain everything in the kindest way.
Note a couple things from this commandment and explanation:
- This is not about faith or lack thereof. This commandment is how we are to treat fellow human beings, always and everywhere. Period. There is really no such thing as how we are to treat fellow Christians versus how we are to treat unbelievers. Love does not see political or racial divisions. It does not discriminate between believers and unbelievers. God did not come into our flesh to save those who agreed with Him. He came to save the lost, the rebelling, the haters and backbiters. He came to save us. And because of this, how we treat one another is a reflection of what we believe about how God should treat us.
- This is not about motivation. I’m sure this will come as a surprise to some, but people can be jerks. Politicians can lie. So can unions. So can political action groups (either organized or self-appointed). So can Christians. So can I. So can you. If the commandments only applied when the other person had proper motivation, the world would be an even more wicked place than it already is.
- This is not about reciprocity. Anytime we are talking about the Law, there is always a tit-for-tat sense about it in our minds. “I will not do this, if they won’t, either.” That’s not Christian. It’s tempting, but it’s not right.
- Slander means speaking about another person in such a way that hurts their reputation. This applies to presidents and governors, labor and management, men and women, parents and children, siblings, friends and the like. If my goal is to hurt another person, then I am in the wrong. Please note, I am not saying anything about the issues or the content of the arguments at all. I am simply saying that if my goal is to hurt another person, that is against God’s Word, regardless of any political motivation or affiliation.
So if this is what we are not supposed to do, what are we supposed to do? Again, the Scriptures have the answer for us:
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Philippians 4:8
This is not a blanket “always look on the bright side of life” approach on the part of St. Paul. What he is saying is the positive side to the 8th Commandment. Rather than focus on the negative, why not look to the good? You will live longer, and will be much more at peace in the process. Here’s another:
But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. 1 Corinthians 8:9
As a Christian, we are not to flaunt our rights in such a way that others may fall away from the faith. How I say things and approach issues in the political (left hand kingdom) realm speaks volumes as to what I believe about God and how He works in the world. And again:
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Proverbs 31:8
None of this is an argument for quietism, or political head-in-the-sandedness. We are obligated to look out for the well being of our neighbor. I am my brother’s keeper. How I go about showing love to my neighbor may be different than how you go about it. But make no mistake about it: that is your job as a Christian, and mine. I am not speaking politically here in terms of social welfare state versus free market, or anything else. I am simply saying that I have a responsibility as an individual to care for those around me, to speak up and defend those who cannot defend themselves, and to show mercy to my neighbor, because God has had mercy upon me.
Finally, I would be deeply suspicious of anyone that argues “the bible says we must side this way” in a nice, simple and unambiguous fashion. How we are to treat one another is clear in the Scriptures. We are to love one another. What is not at all clear in the Bible is how that translates into political practices in a representative democracy (republic) such as ours. We can disagree. We may have deeply divergent views on the political future of our state. That is okay. The Church is big enough. We can take it.
So in summary, this is how I would commend you as fellow Christians to behave in our time of political turmoil:
- Don’t concern yourself with motivations, secret plots, conspiracies and the like. Human beings will always operate in these ways, and today is no different than a hundred years ago.
- Do concern yourself with what the issues actually are, and not the personalities involved.
- Remember that Christians of goodwill can disagree on how love is to be shown to the neighbor. This does not mean someone who disagrees with you isn’t a Christian. It means that they understand things differently that you do.
- Our unity in faith is immeasurably more important than our unity in politics. If you have found that political agreement is more important to you than who you will be spending eternity with (or where!), then I would suggest your priorities are out of whack and need serious examination.
I hope this is of benefit to you. God bless us all in in these interesting times.
Pastor Todd A. Peperkorn, STM
Thursday of Sexagesima
March 3, 2011
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- Special Sections
- Public Notices
The Great Delta Bear Affair was first observed in 2002 on the 100th anniversary of President Theodore Roosevelt’s famous bear hunt in Sharkey County, Mississippi which led to the creation of the Teddy Bear. This year’s theme is “Baby Bear Blues.” The festival will be held on Saturday, October 23, 2010 on the grounds of the Sharkey County courthouse in Rolling Fork. Events will begin at 7:30 a.m. and conclude with fireworks just after dark. Rolling Fork is located on Highway 61 approximately 40 miles south of Leland and 40 miles north of Vicksburg.
The festival also highlights our state’s bountiful natural resources and commemorates Roosevelt's famous 1902 bear hunt. President Roosevelt and his savvy guide, Holt Collier, tromped through the woods of Sharkey County in search of bears. They found one, and the rest, as they say, is history. The Great Delta Bear Affair is one of the most unique festivals in the Delta.
Many people attend the annual festival each fall and enjoy many free seminars, special events and other various entertainments. At the Sharkey-Issaquena Library there will be storytelling with Doris Jones at 10:30 followed by a live snake presentation with Terry Vandeventer at 11:30 and then a seminar on black bear research at 1:30 with Stephanie Simek. Other events this year include a 5K Run/Walk at 8:00 a.m., a Teddy Bear Fun Run for ages 5 to 12 at 9:00 a.m. and the ever popular chainsaw woodcarving demonstrations throughout the day by Dayton Scoggins.
There will be Prehistoric Mound driving tours at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., which will begin at the U.S. Department of Agriculture building located on Frontage Road just off Highway 61. These tours will be led by Mr. Sam Brookes who is an archaeologist with the U.S. Forest Service.
Entertainment on the main stage will kick off at 9:00 a.m. with the Sharkey-Issaquena Mass Choir and will conclude at 7:00 p.m. with an amazing display of fireworks. During the day, there will be other entertainment which includes Meredith Virden with Bryan Ledford, the King Edward Blues band, Boogie Boys, Eupora, the Grayhounds and more. Food, arts and crafts vendors and other exhibits will open at 9:00 that morning.
There will be a bungee jump, a giant blow up slide, space jump and rock climbing wall for the children starting at 11:00 a.m. and concluding at 4:00 p.m. Tickets must be purchased for the games.
Since its debut, the Great Delta Bear Affair has helped educate many people about the history and current status of the endangered black bear in Mississippi. Make time to take part in this celebration that promotes the return of the Louisiana black bear to Mississippi. For more information about the festival, call (662) 873‑6261.
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Residents say the best is yet to come for the Tannery Arts Center. Plus: A look at the center’s funding and the hurdles ahead.
One year ago, on a cold and drizzly November day, more than 100 artists and their families camped outside of the soon-to-be Tannery Arts Center with hopes of securing a residence. Today, nearly 230 people live in the 100 Tannery live/work units, where the household artists work on everything from painting to poetry, piano to ballet, and pottery to hip-hop.
The center, a long time in the making, began as a mere dream of Santa Cruz arts organizations that hoped for a day when local artists and nonprofits could have an affordable home. The Santa Cruz Cultural Council had completed a Cultural Action Plan in 1999 that assessed local arts, concluding that it was a $32 million per year industry that employed 750 full-time equivalents and paid $3 million in taxes, according to Tannery Arts Center Director George Newell. The hitch was the high cost of living that was sending local talent over the hill. “You need affordable housing, you need an affordable studio, and you need some venues in which to present your art,” says Newell, describing the findings of the study.
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At a dedication ceremony held Nov. 10 in Atlanta, Norfolk Southern Corp. named a rail welding facility after the late Hubert Rose, a 43-year NS veteran who retired as the Class I's senior assistant vice president of maintenance of way and structures and planning in 1991.
Rose, who died in January, joined Southern Railway as a surveyor in 1948. In 1971, he was named chief engineer, and in 1976, he was promoted to AVP of maintenance of way and structures.
Rose headed the maintenance-of-way group for 15 years. During his tenure, he led a transition from installing jointed rail, 39- or 78-foot sections of track that are bolted together, to continuous-welded rail, or 1,440-foot sections of rail that are welded together to form one continuous track. Continuous-welded rail is stronger, provides a smoother ride, requires less maintenance and allows trains to travel at higher speeds, NS officials said in a prepared statement.
"Hubert Rose was an industry leader in the maintenance of rail infrastructure, and he is the person most identified with helping Norfolk Southern take advantage of the benefits of continuous-welded rail, saving millions of dollars in maintenance costs and preventing derailments," said NS Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Wick Moorman.
The Atlanta rail fabrication plant opened in 1958. The more than 30-acre complex — which includes plants for rail welding and renewal, switch panels, track panels and rail reclamation — produces quarter-mile strands of rail for use on mainline tracks, and reconditioned rail for use on secondary lines and industrial sidings.
Browse articles on Norfolk Southern on Progressive Railroading
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State of the Climate
The State of the Climate is a collection of monthly summaries recapping climate-related occurrences on both a global and national scale.
- Global Analysis — a summary of global temperatures and precipitation, placing the data into a historical perspective
- Upper Air — tropospheric and stratospheric temperatures, with data placed into historical perspective
- Global Snow & Ice — a global view of snow and ice, placing the data into a historical perspective
- Global Hazards — weather-related hazards and disasters around the world
- El Niño/Southern Oscillation — atmospheric and oceanic conditions related to ENSO
- National Overview — a summary of national and regional temperatures and precipitation, placing the data into a historical perspective
- Drought — drought in the U.S.
- Wildfires — a summary of wildland fires in the U.S. and related weather and climate conditions
- Hurricanes & Tropical Storms — hurricanes and tropical storms that affect the U.S. and its territories
- National Snow & Ice — snow and ice in the U.S.
- Tornadoes — a summary of tornadic activity in the U.S.
- Synoptic Discussion — a summary of synoptic activity in the U.S.
Global Summary Information - April 2013
April 2013 global temperatures were 13th highest on record
Year-to-date eighth warmest period on record; North American snow cover extent third largest on record.
The globally-averaged temperature for April 2013 was the 13th warmest April since record keeping began in 1880. April 2013 also marks the 37th consecutive April and 338th consecutive month with a global temperature above the 20th century average.
Many areas of the world experienced higher-than-average monthly temperatures, including southern Europe, central Asia, the Russian Far East, southwestern Australia, southern Argentina, and western Greenland. Meanwhile, most of North America, northern and western Europe, northeastern Asia, central South America, and much of equatorial Africa were notably below average.
Global temperature highlights: April
- The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces during April was the 13th highest on record for April, at 57.64°F (14.22°C) or 0.94°F (0.52°C) above the 20th century average. The margin of error associated with this temperature is ±0.14°F (0.08°C).
- April marked the 37th consecutive April and 338th consecutive month with a global temperature above the 20th century average. The last below-average April temperature was April 1976 and the last below-average temperature for any month was February 1985.
- The global land temperature was the 17th warmest April on record, at 1.28°F (0.71°C) above the 20th century average of 46.5°F (8.1°C). The margin of error is ±0.20°F (0.11°C).
- Some national highlights are included below:
- Australia had its fifth warmest April monthly maximum temperature on record since national records began in 1900, at 2.95°F (1.64°C) above the 1961–1990 average. At the state level, Western Australia reported its third highest monthly maximum temperature and fifth highest monthly minimum temperature.
- The average April temperature across the United Kingdom was 2.0°F (1.1°C) below the 1981–2010 average, tying with 2012 as the coolest April since 1989.
- The average April temperature across South Korea was 3.4°F (1.9°C) below the 1981–2010 average, marking the third coldest April since national records began in 1973. The average maximum temperature was also third lowest, while the average minimum temperature was second lowest on record.
- For the ocean, the April global sea surface temperature was 0.79°F (0.44°C), above the 20th century average of 60.9°F (16.0°C), tying with 2001 and 2009 as the seventh warmest for April on record. The margin of error is ±0.07°F (0.04°C).
- Neither El Niño nor La Niña conditions were present across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean during April, with sea surface temperatures below average in the far eastern equatorial Pacific. According to NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, neutral conditions continue to be favored over the next few months.
Precipitation highlights: April
- As is typical, monthly precipitation varied greatly across the globe during April. Record wetness was observed over part of the north central United States, eastern Burkina Faso, and part of eastern Russia. Record dryness was scattered across several locales around the globe, including northern Chile, central Colombia, southeastern Egypt, and part of northern Sudan.
- Following the declaration of drought conditions in March across much of New Zealand, more than double average April rainfall was recorded in the upper South Island and Tauranga. Motueka received 267 percent of its average April rainfall, with almost half of this occurring in a single day.
Polar ice highlights: April and Seasonal
- According to data from the Rutgers Global Snow Lab, the Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent for April was the ninth largest in the 47-year period of record and the largest since 1996. The April snow cover extent was 12.4 million square miles, 0.8 million square miles above the 1981–2010 average of 11.6 million square miles. Above-average snow cover was present for both Eurasia and North America, which had their 19th and 3rd largest April snow cover extents on record, respectively.
- According to data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, the average April Arctic sea ice extent was 5.55 million square miles, approximately 150,000 square miles (2.6 percent) below the 1981–2010 average of 5.70 million square miles, resulting in the seventh smallest monthly April extent on record.
- Antarctic sea ice extent was 3.12 million square miles, 260,000 square miles (9.1 percent) above the 1981–2010 average of 2.86 million square miles. This marked the fifth largest April Antarctic sea ice extent on record.
Global temperature highlights: Year-to-date
- The first four months of 2013 (January–April) tied with 2009 as the eighth warmest such period on record, with a combined global land and ocean average surface temperature of 1.01°F (0.56°C) above the 20th century average of 54.8°F (12.6°C). The margin of error is ±0.18°F (0.10°C).
- The January–April worldwide land surface temperature was 1.71°F (0.95°C) above the 20th century average, making it the 10th warmest such period on record. The margin of error is ±0.38°F (0.21°C).
- The global ocean surface temperature for the year-to-date was 0.76°F (0.42°C) above average, making it the eighth warmest such period on record. The margin of error is ±0.09°F (0.05°C).
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