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Palazzo Montecitorio is built on a small rise that was created by a dump of old materials during the Middle Ages. As a result of feuds among the nobles, this whole district fell into the power of the Colonna family and was utilized for ornamental and vegetable gardens up to 1650 when the Ludovisi family commissioned Bernini to build them a residence.
Bernini, the quintessential Roman baroque architect, succeeded in using the lie of the land to determine both its structure and its decoration. The building's façade with its gentle curve follows the slopes of this man-made hill and the rough-hewn stone elements, from which broken branches and leaves are protruding, make the building appear to be constructed within the very rock itself.
Engaging in a challenge with nature, Bernini tried to exploit the natural elements and bend them to his will, even though he knew nature could never be dominated.
The work was interrupted because the Ludovisi family had financial difficulties; it was taken up again and finished 30 years afterwards by Pope Innocent XII who intended to use the building for the Pontifical Curia, the highest administrative body of justice.
The triple-doored entrance is surmounted by a wall belfry equipped with three bells, the largest of which was used to signal school and office hours.
Palazzo Montecitorio was acquired by the Italian State and became the Chamber of Deputies. It was enlarged in 1919 with the addition of a new building on the Piazza del Parlamento side.
The obelisk comes from the Emperor Augustus's clock and was brought here at the end of the 16th century by Pope Sixtus V.
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Members of the Syrian National Council, the main coordinator of opposition groups in that violence-torn nation, are gathering in Istanbul Saturday for a two-day meeting to elect a new leader. This follows the resignation last month of Burhan Ghalioun, who was the target of increasing criticism from members of the opposition coalition.
Syrians both in and outside the country, along with their international backers, have challenged the Syrian National Council's (SNC) effectiveness, and that criticism eventually forced the resignation of Burhan Ghalioun, a long-time resident of France who has been leading the SNC. The council is an umbrella group that includes many opposition factions and ethnic groups, and it has been dogged by internal wrangling.
Bassma Kodmani, a spokeswoman for the SNC, maintains it still is effective in coordinating opposition to the Assad government in Damascus.
"It has a heavy responsibility," said Kodmani. "It certainly remains a democratic entity, with the dissenting voices and differences of opinions and so on. But what gathers all these groups is one aim: it's the fall of this regime."
One of the most damaging criticisms of the Syrian National Council is that it is dominated by the Sunni Muslim, pro-Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. Observers say that is of particular concern to Syria's Alawites, followers of a branch of Shia Islam. Alawites are a minority in Syria but their members include most of the current regime's senior officials as well as President Bashar al-Assad and his family.
Similar concerns about Muslim Brotherhood domination have been expressed by elements of Syria's large Kurdish minority.
During her visit to Istanbul on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said more has to be done to win over all sections of Syrian society.
"There are still many inside Syria who are not convinced that there can be a transition that would not make the situation worse for them - their families, their group, their location," said Clinton.
The council maintains it represents all Syrians and is committed to a tolerant and diverse country. Spokeswoman Kodmani acknowledges there is a risk of sectarian conflict, but puts the blame on the regime.
"The answer from the regime to the uprising is: one, you crush it, and two, you divide along sectarian lines. And you incite hatred among communities," Kodmani said.
With the situation in Syria rapidly deteriorating and close to all-out civil war, delegates at the Istanbul meeting are keen to give a strong message of unity.
There is only one candidate for the Syrian National Council's leadership post: Abdul-Basset Sayda, who currently heads the organization's human rights department and lives in exile in Sweden. Sayda is Kurdish but is seen as a neutral candidate. His supporters say he will appeal to liberals, Islamists and nationalists in the opposition coalition.
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Hope Stewart, like many teachers across America, has spent a countless amount of money on school supplies. Instead of reaching into her pocket this month, she is urging the Obama and Romney campaigns to donate their supplies to schools.
Given that public school teachers dish out $3 billion a year on school supplies, Stewart may be on to something.
The 13-year teaching veteran writes on her Change.org petition:
President Obama and Governor Romney have hundreds, maybe even thousands, of campaign offices around the country, and I think it would mean a lot to the kids and teachers in these local public schools if the campaigns coordinated to donate their supplies to these communities after the election.
I am not sure what the plans are for all these campaign supplies once the campaign is over (maybe a warehouse? maybe a landfill?), but I can guarantee you that public schools nationwide could use a lot of it long after we know the election's winners and losers.
Stewart isn't asking for anything fancy, just pens, pencils, and maybe a printer.
The petition is getting signatures and positive reactions from people across the U.S.
One supporter, Kecia H. of Maryland, writes, "There are so many schools hit by Super Storm Sandy and their supplies were wiped out. This is a great way to give back to those in need."
Kristin J. of Oklahoma writes, "There are so many public schools in desperate need of basic school/office supplies. Teachers spend out of their own pockets constantly. This is one way to help those schools and teachers as well as being an environmentally responsible effort."
After you've signed the petition, and if you want to do more, consider making a small donation to a classroom project through DonorsChoose. Many teachers in high-poverty areas are in need of supplies that go beyond pens and pencils. Classrooms are in need of materials such as fiction books, musical instruments, and science supplies.
Jenny is the Education Editor at TakePart. She has been writing for TakePart since 2009 and previously worked in film and television development. She has taught English in Vietnam and tutors homeless children in Los Angeles. Email Jenny | @jennyinglee | TakePart.com
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Each Silva Cell is composed of a frame and a deck. Frames are 48'' (1200 mm) long x 24'' (600 mm) wide x 16'' (400 mm) high, and each one holds 10 cubic feet (.28 cubic meters) of soil. They can be stacked one, two, or three high before they are topped with a deck to create a maximum containment area for lightly compacted loam soil. Silva Cells can be spread laterally as wide as necessary. Each unit is about 92% void space, making it easy to accommodate utilities.
Six rigid vertical posts protrude from the bottom of the frame to support hardscape along with the weight of any load they carry. Their rounded edged prevent significant stress concentrations, meaning that the supported hardscapes are in no danger of sinking due to compressive forces.
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Finance ministers from euro zone countries gathered in Brussels for a meeting to discuss rescue measures decided at the June European Union (EU) summit meeting, and pessimistic markets drove the euro down to a two-year low in anticipation of the talks.
Bloomberg reported Monday that finance ministers planned to discuss crisis-fighting measures that were agreed on by government heads at the June meeting. Among those measures was a relaxation of conditions on emergency loans for Spanish banks.
Reuters reported that the country was to be given an extra year to bring its deficit in line with the target of 3% of GDP, with the concession being announced by three EU diplomats ahead of an official decision on Tuesday. One of the unnamed diplomats was quoted saying,
"Spain's budget consolidation targets will be adjusted to give it an extra year. This is not a unilateral move. Spain needs to make the necessary cuts to reach that goal and this will be discussed on Tuesday at the Ecofin [meeting of ministers]. I expect the extra year to be granted."
Other measures to be discussed include granting the European Central Bank (ECB) more oversight of the euro zone's banks and use of the euro zone's rescue funds to reduce countries' borrowing costs. However, few details have been decided and differences among countries could end up taking months to resolve.
A diplomat familiar with the agenda was quoted saying, "This is very much the follow on from the summit, but it doesn't mean all details can be set down. The issue of ECB supervision is a complex, longer-term issue and not one that can be decided in a few hours."
Not just control over rescue funds and banks is at issue. Also to be discussed is Greece’s insistence on relaxing the terms of its bailout—an insistence that gained credibility over the weekend with the win by Antonis Samaras of a confidence vote in his government.
Before the vote, Samaras was quoted saying, “The only path to avoid the crisis and an exit from the euro is growth and investment. Europe acknowledges that along with fiscal adjustment there must be growth.”
Although the issue is not expected by Greek leaders to be settled at this conference or even the next, because of opposition to any relaxation of terms by countries like Finland, Germany and the Netherlands, Greece is determined to pursue it and still stay within the euro.
Democratic Left leader Fotis Kouvelis was quoted saying, “Some of those issues can be pursued now at the negotiating table, some at a second stage. Negotiations won’t occur at one point in time, at one summit, or at the first visit of the troika. It will be a continuous and persistent process, with tough talks.”
Samaras had said Friday, referring to the tough austerity measures imposed as terms of the bailout, “We don’t want to change the goals; we want to change those things that are obstacles to our goals. The recession has to end, not constantly be reinforced.”
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It’s easy to forget these days, but former President George W. Bush’s illegal warrantless surveillance program was never halted by Congress, nor by the Obama administration; it was merely legalized in a 2008 law called the FISA Amendments Act. That means the surveillance of Americans’ international phone calls and Internet use—complete with secret rooms in AT&T data centers around the country—is likely still ongoing.
On Monday, a federal appeals court reinstated a key legal challenge to that surveillance: a lawsuit filed by the ACLU and others within hours of the FISA Amendments Act (PDF) being signed into law. The lawsuit attacks the constitutionality of the legislation, which allows the government to electronically eavesdrop on Americans without a probable-cause warrant, so long as one of the parties to the communication resides outside the US, and is suspected of a link to terrorism.
The decision by the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals means the ACLU, and other rights groups involved in the suit, might get their day in court. “This is a really big victory,” said ACLU spokeswoman Rachel Myers. “The ruling is that you don’t have to prove you’ve been spied on to challenge an unlawful spy act.”
A lower court had ruled the ACLU, Amnesty International, Global Fund for Women, Global Rights, Human Rights Watch, International Criminal Defence Attorneys Association, The Nation magazine, PEN American Center, Service Employees International Union, and other plaintiffs did not have standing to bring the case, because they could not demonstrate that they were subject to the eavesdropping.
The groups appealed, arguing that they often work with overseas dissidents who might be targets of the National Security Agency program. Instead of speaking with those people on the phone or via e-mails, the groups asserted that they have had to make expensive overseas trips in a bid to maintain attorney-client confidentiality. The plaintiffs, some of them journalists, also claim the 2008 legislation chills their speech, and violates their Fourth Amendment privacy rights.
Without ruling on the merits of the case, the appeals court on Monday agreed with the plaintiffs that they have ample reason to fear the surveillance program, and thus have legal standing to pursue their claim. From the ruling:
[The] plaintiffs have good reason to believe that their communications in particular, will fall within the scope of the broad surveillance that they can assume the government will conduct. The plaintiffs testify that in order to carry out their jobs they must regularly communicate by telephone and e-mail with precisely the sorts of individuals that the government will most likely seek to monitor—i.e., individuals “the US government believes or believed to be associated with terrorist organizations,” “political and human rights activists who oppose governments that are supported economically or militarily by the US government,” and “people located in geographical areas that are a special focus of the US government’s counterterrorism or diplomatic efforts.” The plaintiffs’ assessment that these individuals are likely targets of [FISA Amendments Act] surveillance is reasonable, and the government has not disputed that assertion.
The case will now return to the courtroom of US District Court Judge John G. Koeltl in New York, where, if past is prologue, the Obama administration will play its trump card: an assertion of the powerful State Secrets Privilege that lets the executive branch effectively kill lawsuits by claiming they threaten to expose national security secrets.
“State secrets could definitely come into it,” Myers said.
The courts tend to defer to such claims, but in a rare exception in 2008, a San Francisco federal judge refused to throw out a wiretapping lawsuit against AT&T under the State Secrets Privilege. The AT&T lawsuit was later killed anyway, because the same FISA Amendments Act also granted the phone companies retroactive legal immunity for their participation in the NSA program. That immunity does not apply to the government.
The FISA Amendments Act—which passed with the support of then-senator Obama—generally requires the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court to rubber stamp terror-related electronic surveillance requests. The government does not have to identify the target or facility to be monitored. It can begin surveillance a week before making the request, and the surveillance can continue during the appellate process in a rare instance of rejection by the secret FISA court.
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Combine learning the extraordinary Arabic language with a Moroccan cookery course as you learn to cook delicious Moroccan food in the northern Moroccan city of Tetouan; immerse yourself in all things Moroccan on this popular Arabic language and cooking course more details...
Located in the heart of the city of Tetouan in northern Morocco, a recognised UNESCO site, this friendly independent Arabic language school has been teaching Arabic since 2004 to students from all over the world
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Eid Al-Fitr (2 days following Ramadan)
Eid Al-Ad’haa (The feast of Sacrifice)
Any classes missed during these days will be made up.
The language school is open during the month of Ramadan but with a slight change in the schedule; you will receive your schedule the day before Ramadan begins.
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Perhaps mystery novelists are better off sticking to other writers for their real-life protagonists. Ambrose Bierce, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Louisa May Alcott, Beatrix Potter, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and William Shakespeare are among those who have taken their place among fictional detectives -- as has Jane Austen, most recently in "Jane and the Barque of Frailty" (Bantam: 352 pp., $6.99 paper), the ninth Austen mystery by Stephanie Barron.
The appeal of real-life detectives, as best as I can surmise, is twofold. First, fiction allows for the illumination of truth without letting pesky reality get in the way, so if having Poe or Conan Doyle solve a mystery reveals something about a certain historical period, so be it. The second and more powerful point is the urge many writers and readers have to fill in tantalizing gaps in the personal lives of writers. Agatha Christie lives on in the Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple novels, but what happened during those 11 days that she disappeared in 1926? Having that mystery solved -- or having the chance to solve that mystery -- proved so irresistible to Susan Kandel that she wove the story line into her most recent novel "Christietown."
Ultimately, using a real-life writer as detective is a risky prospect with a low probability of payoff, as three recent releases demonstrate.
Nicola Upson brings something of a similar perspective to "An Expert in Murder" (Harper: 292 pp., $24.95), which brings back to life Josephine Tey (1896-1952), a writer of mystery's so-called Golden Age. Tey is not nearly as well-read as she ought to be, and if Upson's blithely spirited debut accomplishes a single task, it would be to compel newfound discovery of Tey's crime fiction masterworks, especially "Brat Farrar" (1949) and "The Daughter of Time" (1952).
The Tey of Upson's novel does not overstep her sleuthing bounds, and the lion's share of detection -- centered around the unlucky, murder-laden closing run of Tey's 1934 play "Richard of Bordeaux" -- is conducted by Detective Inspector Archie Penrose, a man of honor, dry wit and keen intelligence. Upson clearly knows her way around pre-World War II London and the grimy backstages of Covent Garden, and delivers an ending shot through with palpable surprise and emotion. But at the risk of quibbling, would it have been so difficult to make even one token reference to Tey's birth name, Elizabeth Mackintosh? Tey's work often broke S.S. Van Dine's vaunted Rules of Detection, but she nearly always hewed to Rule 15: treating her readership with the cleverness they deserved. Upson doesn't quite manage that here.
The Oscar Wilde who centers Gyles Brandreth's witty but uneven series debut "Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance" (Touchstone: 358 pp., $14 paper) certainly sounds like the real-life writer and is accurately, if joshingly, described by narrator Robert Sherrard as being "as gentle as St. Sebastian and as wise as St. Augustine of Hippo." Yet, perhaps perversely, the novel is so caught up with Wilde's larger-than-life persona that it doesn't give him much chance to, well, solve a mystery.
That's a shame, for the quotable Oscar, after chancing upon and then running away from the body of a young swain of his acquaintance, passes the investigative opportunity off to the police. The body disappears and the case grows cold -- leaving the door open for more quips, more personality development and a lurching, stop-start race to the finish line that eventually reveals nearly every other character to be of blackened morality and guilty of something. It's not much of a mystery, but now that Brandreth has a handle on his fictionalized Oscar, perhaps his new book "Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder," due out in September, will give its hero more action than aphorism.
At least "The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë" (Overlook: 380 pp., $24.95) -- Laura Joh Rowland's first stand-alone novel after a slew of mysteries featuring 16th century Japanese detective Sano Ichino -- delivers almost exactly what its title promises. Flush from the success of "Jane Eyre" but battling writer's block, as well as the envy of her younger sisters, Charlotte takes an impulsive trip to London to clear up a case of literary misunderstanding and soon finds herself a witness to the murder of a fetching maid with ties to a conspiracy that would bring down the British monarchy. The plot spins out of control merrily enough and in suitably thrilling fashion, and it's great fun to watch sparks fly between Charlotte and the handsome spyman Mr. Spade, but poor, consumptive Emily gets a bad rap as a vindictive shrew who cares little for others, except on rare occasions.
Perhaps this is an instance when greater attention to the facts would have made the fiction seem more kind?
Sarah Weinman blogs about crime and mystery fiction on www.sarahweinman.com. Dark Passages appears monthly at latimes.com/books.
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First, it was April, a tiny black Goeldi’s monkey who was stolen from the Cherry Brook Zoo in New Brunswick around April 23rd. Fortunately, whoever stole her called in an anonymous tip to the police telling them where she could be found.
Next, it was Mia, a spider monkey at the Vancouver Zoo who was stolen during a break-in on May 7th which saw her mate, Jocko, killed. Unlike April, Mia hasn’t been returned.
This week it’s cownose stingrays in the Calgary Zoo. These little fish, about a foot or so across, started dying suddenly May 11th. As of Wednesday afternoon, 39 40 out of 43 had died. Though they haven’t been able to confirm it yet, it looks like they were poisoned. Hopefully, the remaining four three will survive, but the odds aren’t in their favour.
I suppose I can understand someone stealing the monkeys because they probably have a black market value, so I guess they think they can make some money. But why the stingrays? There’s no profit to be made in killing them and it’s not like they were hurting anyone, nor is it likely they were suffering (before someone poisoned them anyway).
Is there a bunch of animal rights activists out there who are targeting Canadian zoos for reasons that escape explanation? If there is, how exactly is this furthering their cause?
Or is there a bunch of sadistic bastards who get their jollies by doing things like this? Or more likely several bunches of unimaginative sadistic bastards who get their jollies by imitating sadistic bastards who get their jollies by doing things like this?
Of course, it could equally be something inadvertantly introduced into their tank on someone’s hands because they were in some sort of interactive display where people could touch them, but I fear that’s unlikely though it’s what I’m hoping for.
I shudder to think what next week will bring for Canadian zoos.
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Late Breaking News
VA Tests Innovative Solutions to Veteran Unemployment
- Categorized in: Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), News, November 2011, PTSD, TBI
WASHINGTON — Unemployment among veterans is higher than the civilian sector, as servicemembers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have a difficult time finding a place in the work force. This has legislators attempting to understand the root causes of the problem and VA putting resources behind innovative ideas on how to solve it.
Job summit: A photo of the House VA Committee veterans unemployment summit held in September.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, veterans who left military service during the last 10 years face an unemployment rate of 11.7% compared with the national average of 9.1%.
The House VA Committee has held field hearings around the country, including two in Indiana and Iowa. Legislators learned that the unemployment rate among young veterans there was very high — 35.6% among Operation Enduring Force/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) veterans age 20 to 24. Legislators at the field hearing said they were shocked that as many as 30% of Guard and Reservists in those states do not have a job to come home to once they return home. The unemployment rate nationally among Guard and Reservists recently returned from service is 14%.
Federal agencies have been aware of this disparity, though not of its full extent, for some time, and have taken steps to address it. Those have included military and VA education and job-training programs and the inclusion in the jobs bill proposed by President Obama of a tax credit for businesses that hire veterans.
In September, before these latest statistics were released, the House VA Committee held a jobs summit, bringing together veterans advocates and major employers to discuss how best to find places for veterans in the work force. Representatives from major corporations like Microsoft, General Electric and Wal-Mart agreed that veterans made excellent employees, because they tend to be more disciplined and easy to train.
However, they also agreed that there were barriers to getting veterans trained for those jobs. One common complaint among employers was the inability of companies to provide internships for transitioning servicemembers to give them real-world experience — a practice not allowed by DoD.
Attendees at the summit were asked to sign a “Veterans Employment Pledge,” pledging to lower the veteran unemployment rate to less than 5% by the end of 2012. Currently, the unemployment rate for veterans of all ages ranges from 7.7% to 8.1% nationally.
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Using Credit Cards
By The FoolProof Team
In today's marketplace, a credit card can seem a necessity as well as a convenience. Some transactions such as shopping online or renting a car require one. And having a credit card allows you to carry less cash and shop in stores that don't take checks. But unless it's used wisely and within a budget plan, then a credit card can be a shovel for digging yourself into excessive debt - debt that can be hard to pay off and that can cost you hundreds of dollars in interest.
Financial planning experts recommend following these pointers for making a credit card work for you rather than letting it control you.
Carry only one card.
Experts recommend using a credit card for convenience, not as an ideal way to make large purchases. A small consumer loan from your credit union is probably a better way to purchase a computer system or repair your vehicle, for instance. Carrying only one card until you have experience using credit can help you practice sound credit management. Carrying several cards to increase your available credit is an early warning sign of poor financial management.
Shop for a card with maximum customer benefits.
These include low interest rate, no/low annual fee, and grace period after purchase before interest kicks in.
Budget before you spend.
Using a credit card for impulse purchases, particularly bigger ticket items such as tempting electronics or expensive clothes, is a no no. Before you pull out the card know how the purchase fits in to your budget. If you use the card for making a planned larger purchase, also have a plan for paying off the total amount.
Keep your receipts and check them against the monthly statement.
This way you can catch and correct any errors. Some experts recommend signing up for online access to your credit card account so that you can check it more frequently than monthly.
Pay before the due date.
Paying late, even a day late, reflects on your credit rating.
Pay off the balance in full each month.
If you don't roll part of the balance, you don't get into debt and you don't have to pay interest.
Avoid the trap of minimum payments.
If you can't pay the balance in full, make as large a payment as you can and make a plan for paying the balance off over a specific time. Card companies earn their money on people who carry balances. And minimum payments are designed to take years to pay off the balance while racking up lots of interest. On some cards making only the minimum payment can actually increase the balance you owe.
If you pay less than the full amount owed, make a plan for paying the balance off.
Your objective is to pay as little interest as possible for as short a time as possible. This approach maximizes your real spending power.
Read more about choosing and using credit cards wisely.
- Choosing Credit Cards from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) explains all the terms and types of fees on cards, to help you make the smartest choice.
- Using Credit Cards from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
- Avoiding Credit and Charge Card Fraud – helpful tips from the FTC.
- Credit, ATM, and Debit Cards: What to do if they are stolen from the FTC.
- Secured Credit Card Marketing Scams from the FTC.
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The Albany YMCA gives teens a safe place to call their own, a chance to connect with adults who care about them and an opportunity to get involved in programs that help them grow. YMCA teens participate in fitness classes, attend teen leadership fieldtrips and vocational programs.
Youth & Government
This state-wide Model Legislative and Court program develops leadership skills while introducing high school students to state government. Youth & Government delegates from around the state come together to write bills, select governmental positions, and run for various elected offices. This is a great opportunity to meet students from around the state in this life changing program.
Babysitter Training Course
This course will provide a complete curriculum for successful babysitting. Learn phone skills, basic emergency prevention measures, as well as how to properly care for and entertain children.
Girls Rock is a program for sixth-grade girls, through an APAL/YMCA collaboration, designed to promote empowering communication skills.
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The Arctic winter may be long and dark but one light still shines bright in the land of the midnight sun -- Iceland's booming tourist trade.
Foreign visitors increased by 15.9 percent last year whilst travel now accounts for 5.9 percent of GDP, according to the Icelandic tourist board.
Given the financial catastrophe confronting the country as recently as 2008 -- when the IMF stepped in with a $2.1 billion loan after several major Icelandic banks collapsed -- this turbo-charged development is all the more remarkable.
"We've had this extraordinary growth in tourism in the last few years," Iceland's president, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, told CNN's Richard Quest.
"Because [in] the tourism structure of Iceland we have many small and medium-sized companies in the north, the east and the west, the economic benefits spread through the economy and all over the country in a way that no other sector actually does."
Iceland's economy is predicted to grow by 2.7 percent this year and unemployment will fall to 5.7 percent, according to Statistics Iceland -- thanks in part to the expansion of tourism.
For President Grimsson, this is just the start of a back-to-basics economic approach that will focus less on risky financial services and more on industries such as clean energy tech, fishing and, of course, travel.
Official figures show that Iceland currently attracts 600,000 visitors a year, but by 2020 Grimsson says he hopes this figure will be nearer two million, almost seven times the country's population.
Key to meeting these ambitious targets is the successful promotion of Iceland's pristine natural beauty -- its rural hinterland is famed for its spectacular volcanoes and natural hot springs -- as well as its potential as a business and aviation hub.
According to Oli Bjorn Hauksson, CEO of Keflavik, the country's only international airport, Iceland's geographic location makes it the perfect pit stop for long-distance flights.
"We are in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the North America, which is the best place for a hub ... airport to be," he says.
That gives tourists traveling between the outer reaches of the two continents the option of breaking up their journey.
So far, the tactics aimed at enticing travelers to Iceland appear to be working. Iceland's tourist trade was even able to safely negotiate the ash-cloud chaos caused by the erupting Eyjafjallajokull volcano in mid-2010.
Close to 100,000 flights were cancelled and millions of passengers were left stranded in what was the biggest disruption to air travel since World War II.
"We were worried, if the handsome growth we had been experiencing year-on-year would be halted," says, Steingrimur J. Sigfusson, Iceland's tourism minister. "But fortunately that did not happen."
He added: "For the good or worse, the eruption proved to both Europe and America that Iceland is not so far away. At least we were close enough to cause all this trouble for the aviation industry."
Despite an initial dip in visitor numbers, Iceland returned to double digit travel growth by late 2010. Such resilience so soon after the financial crisis provides Sigfusson with a bullish outlook for the future.
"If things go on for a number of years, in addition with growth of 10 to 15 percent, tourism will be Iceland's industry number one, in terms of foreign currency earnings," he says.
President Grimsson however cautions that such rapid development will require precise planning to ensure Iceland can cope.
Some in Iceland already fear that the country is becoming overrun with tourists, but Grimsson is confident Iceland can cope.
"This is a country the size of England -- a big part of it is volcanic desert, glaciers, rivers, lakes -- so if we decide to do it we can control the traffic in such a way that we allow people to enjoy the beauty of the country without being overcrowded," he says.
He adds: "When this decade comes to an end we might have two million tourists coming to Iceland every year, and we have to plan for that.
"That is a debate I have encouraged the nation to engage in over the next few years."
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Author Simon Singh Puts Up a Fight in the War on Science
- August 30, 2010 |
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- Categories: Wired September 2010
For a while there, things didn’t look too good for British writer Simon Singh. The best-selling author of the science histories Big Bang and Fermat’s Enigma knew he was heading into controversial territory when he switched tracks to cowrite a book investigating alternative medicine, Trick or Treatment? What Singh didn’t count on, however, was that writing a seemingly innocuous article for London’s The Guardian newspaper about especially outrageous chiropractic claims—one of the subjects he researched for the book—would end up threatening his career. The British Chiropractic Association sued Singh, hoping to use Britain’s draconian libel laws to force him to withdraw his statements and issue an apology. Losing the case would have cost Singh both his reputation and a substantial amount of his personal wealth. Such is the state of science, where sometimes even stating simple truths (like the fact that there’s no reliable evidence chiropractic can alleviate asthma in children) can bring the wrath of the antiscience crowd. What the British chiropractors didn’t count on, however, was Singh himself. Having earned a PhD from Cambridge for his work at the Swiss particle physics lab CERN, he wasn’t about to back down from a scientific gunfight. Singh spent more than two years and well over $200,000 of his own money battling the case in court, and this past April he finally prevailed. In the process, he became a hero to those challenging the pseudoscience surrounding everything from global warming to vaccines to evolution. It’s not necessarily a role he sought for himself, but it’s one he has embraced—he’s currently touring the world, talking about his case, libel reform, and how important it is to make sure scientists can speak truthfully and openly. Wired spoke with Singh about his case and the struggle against the forces of irrationality.
Wired: The British Chiropractic Association wanted you to apologize for your Guardian article. Why didn’t you? What would that have meant?
Simon Singh: It would have meant that whenever somebody typed “Simon Singh” into a Web search, it would say, “science journalist found guilty of libel.” People could dismiss anything I’d ever written about alternative medicine. But more important, it would have implied that there is some validity to these claims that chiropractic can help with things like asthma and colic. And that would have an impact on parents and their children. Faced with that, I couldn’t apologize. If you’ve written something that you believe is true, and if you can afford to defend it, then you’ve got to defend it.
Wired: Do you think that this is part of a broader trend? Is science under assault?
Simon Singh: What shocks me is people who have no expertise championing a view that runs counter to the mainstream scientific consensus. For example, we have a consensus amongst the best medical researchers in the world—the leading authorities and the World Health Organization—that vaccines are a good thing, and that MMR, the triple vaccine, is a really good thing. And yet there are people who are quite willing to challenge that consensus—film stars, celebrities, columnists—all of whom rely solely on the tiny little bit of science that seems to back up their view.
Wired: Yet the celebrities sometimes seem to be winning.
Simon Singh: Part of the problem is that if anybody has a gut reaction about an issue, they can go online and have it backed up. That said, they can also find support for their ideas in the mainstream media—because when the mainstream media gives a so-called balanced view, it’s often misleading. The media thinks that because one side says climate change is real and dangerous, the other view is that it’s not real and not dangerous. That doesn’t reflect the fact that something like 98 percent of climate scientists agree that global warming is real and dangerous. And this happens with everything from genetically modified foods to evolution. But, at the end of the day, all that this misinformation does is slow progress—it doesn’t stop it. Antiscientific and pseudoscientific attitudes will get corrected; it’s just a question of how painful that process is going to be.
Wired: Should scientists do more to get real science out there?
Simon Singh: Scientists aren’t necessarily good communicators, because they aren’t trained to be good communicators. A researcher could be doing really important work on global warming, and then somebody writes a column in a national newspaper that completely undermines what they’re saying. But the scientist doesn’t think the column is important—it’s just some nincompoop writing a column—so they don’t take that writer to task in the way they should. It’s a case of saying, “How do we make a difference?” We certainly don’t make a difference by just moaning over coffee the next day.
Wired: What about nonscientists? How are we supposed to know what’s true?
Simon Singh: Don’t come up with a view, find everybody who agrees with it, and then say, “Look at this, I must be right.” Start off by saying, “Who do I trust?” On global warming, for example, I happen to trust climate experts, world academies of science, Nobel laureates, and certain science journalists. You have to decide who you trust before you decide what to believe.
Wired: Why is it so hard to convince people, even when the science is so clear?
Simon Singh: Science has nothing to do with common sense. I believe it was Einstein who said that common sense is a set of prejudices we form by the age of 18. Inject somebody with some viruses and that’s going to keep you from getting sick? That’s not common sense. We evolved from single-cell organisms? That’s not common sense. By driving my car I’m going to cook Earth? None of this is common sense. The commonsense view is what we’re fighting against. So somehow you’ve got to move people away from that with these quite complicated scientific arguments based on even more complicated research. That’s why it’s such an uphill battle. People start off with a belief and a prejudice—we all do. And the job of science is to set that aside to get to the truth.
Articles editor Robert Capps (firstname.lastname@example.org) wrote about the advantages of “good enough” technology in issue 17.09.
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Before the death of Brian Haw is entirely forgotten, and with it the man and his campaign, we would do well to include in our brief respectful acknowledgment of the merits of his cause and the courage of his methods a moment of regret, not just for the manner in which we sometimes handled him too roughly but also for the manner in which we generally treated him so well. It is said that a man can be killed by kindness; certainly, a man’s protest can be silenced by tolerance.
On 16 January 2007, The Guardian reported Tony Blair as saying: “When I pass protestors every day at
One moment during Haw’s decade-long campaign crystallized this oppression-by-tolerance of our political system: the moment in 2007, when Mark Wallinger won the Turner Prize for an artwork comprised of a faithful reconstruction of Haw’s
While Brian Haw must be honoured for his commitment to resisting the wrong-headed and immoral foreign policy of Britain, he must also be honoured for unintentionally showing up its very objectionable domestic policy; that moment when his protest against the state of Britain was transformed into an artwork called State Britain revealed something startling about the conditions of our time and place: the fact that protest against our liberal democratic government is not actually – at least not straightforwardly – possible, given that any protest, whatever its content, unwittingly lends support to the apparent liberality of the polity that non only permits it to happen but “thanks God” that it can. And that’s what we call freedom.
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FLORIDA, August 19, 2012 — Regardless of which party is in control of Capitol Hill, America’s immigration problems only seem to grow more severe.
It is true that the Great Recession has resulted in fewer people entering this country illegally. However, the very policies which allowed untold millions to migrate and establish residency here in the first place have either gone untouched or — almost impossibly — been worsened.
What can be done to craft an immigration policy that actually makes sense?
Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, has several ideas worth considering. In a detailed discussion with me, he shares his views about the DREAM Act, how immigration impacts our economy, and much more.
Joseph F. Cotto: Immigration control is a concept with which most of us are familiar. Why, in your opinion, does the United States strongly need it at this time?
Dan Stein: All nations need controls on immigration. There is a common misperception that immigration laws exist to facilitate the orderly admission of foreign nationals who would like to live in the U.S. In reality, immigration laws exist to protect the vital interests of the people of the United States and, only then, to ensure the orderly admission of people we choose to open our doors to. Immigration always benefits immigrants - they wouldn’t come or remain if it didn’t benefit them substantially. It may also benefit certain business interests in the U.S. who can take advantage of lower cost labor. Some foreign governments may also benefit, allowing a safety valve for their own unemployed and underemployed a stream of remittances from their citizens who live in the U.S.
However, excessive immigration, poorly designed immigration policies, and the failure to control illegal immigration have a negative impact of most Americans. It can affect their jobs and wages as they are forced to compete against immigrant workers - both legal and illegal. Low-wage immigrants and their dependents are subsidized by taxpayers, either directly through means-tested programs, or indirectly through their use of public services and infrastructure that are not paid for through the taxes collected on their own meager earnings. Immigration is also
leading to large-scale population growth that Americans neither want, nor which is beneficial to our environment and resource conservation.
Cotto: How should the federal government manage current immigration trends? What advice would you give Congress on the matter?
Stein: About the only area of consensus about our immigration policy is that it is broken and needs to be overhauled. But even that is wrong. Reforming our policy implies that we actually have one. We don’t. A policy implies a definable national interest objective. There is no definable national interest objective to the way we manage immigration at the moment. We have a huge compendium of laws that do not add up to a policy.
In dealing with mass illegal immigration, Congress and the President must recognize that their primary obligation is to protect the basic interests of the American people. Illegal immigration is a controllable phenomenon, which does not require mass deportation. What is needed is a commitment to enforce and strengthen our laws and eliminate the numerous ways we incentivize illegal immigration. Congress should use existing and ubiquitous technology to verify that everyone who is employed in this country is eligible to work here. If Visa and American Express can verify millions of credit card purchases every day, there is no technological impediment to the Social Security Administration or other government databases verifying the documents that workers present to their employers. What has been lacking is the political will.
Other incentives, such as access to nonessential government services and
benefits to illegal aliens, and state and local sanctuary policies must be terminated. We must also revisit the way the Citizenship Claus of the 14th Amendment is being interpreted. The historical record makes it very clear that it was not the intention of the framers to grant automatic citizenship to the U.S.-born children of people who are not citizens or legal U.S. residents. Finally, we must make it clear that illegal immigration will never be rewarded with amnesty.
If illegal aliens understand that they will not benefit by violating U.S. immigration laws many fewer would come here and many who are here would respond rationally and, over time, return home on their own. For a brief time at the end of the Bush administration there was a moderate increase in immigration enforcement, particularly in the workplace. It is a policy he implemented as a result of stinging defeat of his own effort to pass amnesty in 2007 which he attributed to a lack of confidence on the part of the American people that he would enforce laws even after an amnesty. The results were immediate. Even before the recession hit, the illegal population declined for the first time in memory as illegal aliens responded to the unavailability of jobs and went home. The belated Bush enforcement policy was followed by a severe recession, which dried up jobs for everyone. Still more illegal aliens responded to the lack of jobs by leaving.
To anyone who was paying attention, it was pretty obvious that illegal aliens are perfectly rational people, while the policies of our government are irrational. No sooner did the Obama administration succeed President Bush, the policies which were succeeding in reducing illegal immigration were abandoned. Even with the continued weakness in the job market (which might have convinced many more illegal aliens to leave) an end to meaningful enforcement and promises of amnesty stanched the downward trend in illegal immigration.
While most of the focus is on illegal immigration, we also need a rational legal immigration policy. We must recognize the realities of 21st century America. We are no longer and open frontier; we are a nation of 310 million people. We do not need to be admitting in excess of a million legal immigrants each year. Success in America requires certain skills and training; a strong back and good work ethic is no longer a path to success in this country.
Family chain migration - which currently allows immigrants to bring entire extended families to this country, irrespective of the individual qualifications of the immigrants-must be ended. Family migration must be limited to the nuclear family - spouses and unmarried minor children. Within substantially lower immigration limits we should select applicants, without regard to factors such as race, ethnicity and national origin, based on an objective assessment of their likelihood to succeed in this country. Selecting immigrants will never be an exact science, but there are objective criteria that can be used to ensure that the immigrants we admit to this country will benefit not only themselves, but the rest of us.
Cotto: Some believe that America needs mass immigration now more than ever. They say that such a thing will reinvigorate the economy. Do you have an opinion on this view?
Stein: Even if one accepts the notion that we need immigrants to reinvigorate our economy, we would still (as the last answer points out) need a policy that selects people based on their ability to reinvigorate our economy. However, the premise of the question implies that Americans are not capable or willing to work hard and innovate. In fact, our immigration policies are among of the primary factors discouraging and inhibiting a lot of Americans from reaching their full economic potential. A slew of recent reports looking at the impact of immigration on the STEM fields - commonly accepted as our best hope for a bright economic future - indicate that American are being denied opportunities or pushed out of these fields by employers who prefer to use immigrants and foreign guest workers.
Cotto: The DREAM Act has become a tremendously contentious issue. If passed, how do you think that it would impact the United States?
Stein: The first effect of the DREAM Act would be to put younger Americans at a disadvantage. Americans are graduating from college with the dimmest prospects and most prodigious debt in anyone’s memory. Granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens in their age cohort would further dim their prospects.
The long-term effect of implementation of the DREAM Act - whether passed by Congress or implemented by the president in defiance of Congress - would be huge increases in illegal immigration. If the premise of the DREAM Act is that we have an ethical obligation to rectify the situation of people who were brought here as children and are, therefore, not responsible for having broken the law, then we had better be prepared to make that concession over and over again.
The same ethical obligation will exist for the next generation of people who find themselves in similar circumstances - and we can be certain that the next amnesty will be for a much larger cohort. The clear message to people around the world would be, “Get your kids to the U.S. however you can. If they remain here for a few years and meet a few minimal requirements, they will get amnesty.” It is a sure bet that millions of people around the world will take us up on that offer.
Recently, President Obama granted a substantial residency extension for young illegal aliens. What impact is this likely to have on the United States? Speaking of which, in terms of dollars and cents, how much does illegal immigration really cost our country?
Opposition to illegal immigration is often portrayed as a key aspect of right-wing politics. Might there be broader appeal for immigration control? Despite the federal government’s numerous attempts to stimulate the economy, America remains caught within the Great Recession’s clutches. Is our current immigration policy is somewhat to blame for this?
In the second and final part of our interview, Mr. Stein will explain about all of this, as well as his life and career.
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WOMEN LIVING in violent relationships pay a heavy price with their physical and mental health, and sometimes even their lives. Thirty-four percent of all female homicide victims older than 15 years are killed by their husbands or intimate partners, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation homicide data from 1976 to 1987.
Besides the acute injuries incurred from their battering relationships, these women also develop a broad range of physical illnesses and psychological problems. Typically, as the battering escalates, so do their feelings of profound isolation from the institutions and resources—including medicine—that presumably could help them.
Historically, most physicians treated the physical injuries that are a result of domestic violence and did not address their cause, that is, the patient's abusive relationship (Gender and Society. 1989;3:506-517; Int J Health Serv. 1979;9:461-492 [see p 939]).
"Physicians will often say, 'I'm not a law enforcement officer, and I'm not a social worker. I'm
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Employees looking at their own particular spheres of work are the best ones to spot where very focused lean solutions are needed--such as this simple card conveying which company vehicle to take.
Joe Mingari Jr. looks at submissions to the lean suggestion box. Every idea submitted crosses the president’s desk. Ideas that are adopted are entered into a raffle for cash prizes.
Shadowboards are initially made of wood. Once the shadowboard design for a particular machine is proven, it is finalized in durable plastic.
At KLH Industries in Germantown, Wisconsin, lean manufacturing fizzled the first time it was tried.
There were some benefits. Work stations became better organized. Some shadowboards appeared. But KLH was not able to sustain the improvement. The company got lean for a while, then it got busy with other things.
Company president Ken Heins knew he needed to find a way to make lean stick. He had studied lean, and understood the potential that a commitment to lean manufacturing would have for improving the focus, responsiveness and efficiency of his machining business. The problem was that he couldn’t do it himself. He couldn’t even do it with a group of lean champions around him. For a culture of lean to take hold at KLH, more of the employees would have to look at the workflow as he had come to see it, and integrate an understanding of lean into the way they go about their work.
Now, lean manufacturing is succeeding at KLH. It started to succeed because of an all-inclusive commitment. Every one of the 33 employees—including operators, maintenance personnel and the administrative staff—underwent detailed instruction in lean. Over the course of the past 12 months, groups of employees have attended regular weekly training classes that ran from noon to well into the evening. An instructor from Moraine Park Technical College in West Bend, Wisconsin reported to KLH to teach.
Glen Thielke was the instructor. He says he has never seen a company make such a thorough commitment to training its workforce in lean.
In addition, what might seem particularly surprising about this is that KLH is not even the sort of business that is “supposed” to benefit from lean. KLH is a job shop. It got its start providing contract wire EDM services, and has expanded into other varieties of CNC machining since then.
Mr. Heins has heard the notion that lean manufacturing does not work in a job shop environment, but he bristles at the idea. It isn’t so, he says. A contract manufacturer needs to reduce waste every bit as much as a captive shop does—whether the work is predictable or not. Having a predictable product does make this easier to do, because an optimized work flow can be established for each recurring part number. A job shop, with no recurring part numbers, needs a different approach for discovering and overcoming sources of waste.
The solution that KLH found is this: Get everyone involved. Instruct everyone so that every set of eyes is trained to look for waste. The parts do not repeat, but the processes do. And who better to see how to improve these processes than the people who interact with them every single day?
Big changes have resulted from the attention that employees have given the company’s processes as a result of learning lean. However, here is a small change: Joe Mingari Sr., who oversees the company’s shipping area, also manages the company’s three delivery vehicles. Each different vehicle is cost-effective for a different type of trip. Mr. Mingari observed that employees were chronically losing time on tracking him down just to ask which vehicle they should take. The lean solution he implemented was a key rack with a simple, highly visible instruction card describing the right trip for each truck.
In a way, big changes are easy to make. The boss can walk out to the shop floor, see the need and push for the change to happen.
However, even after a series of big changes have been made in this way, the operation will continue to be dragged down by the cumulative weight of hundreds of tiny inefficiencies like the truck-related confusion above. Particularly in a job shop, where there is no set workflow path that repeats again and again, the boss by himself could never hope to see these small burdens. And particularly in a job shop, these potential improvements are the ones that go unrealized if the commitment to lean is allowed to fizzle.
KLH’s new approach is aimed at keeping the improvement moving. The state of Wisconsin gets some credit—Mr. Heins sought government support for the company’s efforts to train Wisconsin workers, and a state Workforce Advancement Training Grant ultimately covered about half of the training expense. Now, through a system that not only educates employees but also incentivizes them (more below), KLH is building a culture that includes a sustained commitment to paying attention to the little things.
Not Boards At All
Many of the big things did come first, however. KLH sales department manager Joe Mingari Jr. says that the earliest and most fundamental lean transformations in the shop included installing “shadowboards” at the machine tools and implementing a kanban system for consistently managing supply levels.
Both of these moves were “no-brainers,” he says. That is, their value became obvious as soon as shop personnel took a close look at the need.
The “shadowboards” at KLH are not boards at all, but clean, customized racks made of durable plastic. An early analysis of the company’s processes, in which an EDM operator was filmed setting up a typical job, made clear the shadowboards’ potential for improving lead times. The filmed operator lost time—often considerable time—through simply walking the shop floor to retrieve basic tools that were needed for the work. Shadowboards provide a way to make these tools easily accessible right at the machine.
KLH has implemented enough of these shadowboards that the company now has the practice down to a science. Better, it has the practice down to a process. Mr. Mingari says three to five people is the right size for a shadowboard team. This ensures a group that is large enough for a range of perspectives but small enough to be manageable. This group comes to an initial shadowboard design through discussion, generally occurring right at the machine, after which the group builds a wooden prototype with custom-shaped pockets for every item. Using this prototype in actual production for a few weeks reveals its imperfections. Perhaps a frequently used tool needs to be placed even more prominently on the board, or maybe a pocket that is not quite ergonomic enough leads to lost seconds of fumbling while the operator tries to retrieve an item. Once such flaws are discovered, the final design is captured in plastic, producing a customized rack that looks as polished and seamless as if it were mass-produced.
The other no-brainer was kanban. Mr. Mingari says he used to occasionally remark, “We are a wire EDM shop, so how can we run out of wire?”
But the shop did run out. A simple error such as an operator not removing an empty box from the shelf or not communicating an urgent need to Purchasing would result in an unnecessary delay of perhaps a day or two.
The kanban system overcomes these types of errors. All of the spools of EDM wire are now unboxed and visible. They are stored on an organized rack that includes cards for automatically reordering given wire types whenever they reach their predetermined minimum stock levels.
Abrasive wheels in the grinding area are organized this same way, as are supplies in the waterjet area—though employees here are evaluating a wireless kanban system using barcodes that might be adopted company-wide. For all of these types of supplies and others, employees no longer need to think about whether a given item needs to be restocked. Mr. Mingari says kanban, like the use of shadowboards, is a lean practice that makes as much sense for a job shop as it does for any captive and recurring manufacturing operation.
While steps such as these provided the footing for lean, the way forward from there has largely been determined by the individual employees who have taken the initiative to address inefficiencies they see.
KLH’s incentive system is simple. Employees offer suggestions for streamlining operations through a suggestion box. Every idea crosses the president’s desk. Ideas that are adopted are entered into a raffle. Three times per year, five employees at a time win cash debit cards.
But the card is not the only incentive. Employees are also motivated by the desire to see the company, and their own part in it, perform better. In fact, plenty of employees have implemented small improvements on their own without seeking recognition. Mr. Mingari several times has had to coax employees to fill out and submit a card reflecting improvements they have already put in place.
An employee can suggest a change in any area. However, the employee’s role in offering a suggestion has to go beyond just identifying a problem. It even has to go beyond proposing the solution. With each suggestion comes the expectation that the employee will also organize or lead the effort to implement that change, to the extent that this is practical.
Some changes involve enough different people in the company that they require an additional facilitator. Otherwise, in the case of small or mid-size changes, the employee might receive coaching in how to administer a project, but beyond that is left to take ownership of the improvement personally. Mr. Heins has already seen the limitations of a top-down approach to lean. To avoid fizzling, the improvements need to bubble up.
At first, a flood of ideas did come in response to the incentive system, Mr. Mingari says. The initial wave included both worthy suggestions and unworkable ones, and every idea was reviewed. The company’s leadership team spent considerable time to consider all the input and take steps to adopt approved suggestions.
But now that the company is a year into this commitment, he says, the rate of suggestions has settled to a consistent and manageable level. Most of the obvious ideas have been proposed, and many of the most obviously valuable ideas have either been implemented or added to the company’s timetable.
Yet in between the obviously worthy ideas and the clearly unworkable ones, there is a broad distance. That distance is filled by those ideas that seem promising to some degree, but may or may not succeed. This reality points to one final aspect of KLH’s approach to lean that is worth attention: The company handles failure in a way that is at least as important as the way it handles success.
Mobile deburring, for example, seemed like a great idea. It still seems like a great idea, but so far it hasn’t solved the problem that originally inspired it. When a kaizen team identified moving parts from waterjet to deburring as a source of lost time, the team proposed placing deburring equipment on a mobile cart, complete with self-contained dust collection. Employee Brian Preder championed the project and built a low-cost prototype cart using components already available at KLH.
In practice, the cart didn’t simplify waterjet operators’ efforts to the extent that was expected. The cart was cumbersome, and the operators tended to avoid it. For a time, the idea was a failure.
The failure didn’t last. Employees at the machining centers began frequently using this resource instead, saving time with it even though it wasn’t envisioned for this area.
The unexpected use was welcome. However, even this application was not necessary to “redeem” the deburring cart idea. Part of the culture of KLH is the commitment that there should be no stigma for failure. Such a commitment is vital to any system that relies on a continuous flow of new ideas. Failure is valuable, because seeing the way a promising idea fails is often the only way to obtain information that will contribute to success later.
Mobile deburring remains a worthy suggestion regardless of whether the current cart design is the right approach. Another approach will almost certainly be tried, Mr. Mingari says. The lean journey progresses this way—through both successes and failures. The point of lean is eliminating waste, and no time is wasted that is spent on trying a promising idea.
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The coupler brake mounts to the working end of a standard C-face motor eliminating the need for a special brake motor. This means the motor can be used for non-brake applications as well, thus reducing motor inventory. The coupler brakes can be used in virtually any application in which common electrically released motor brakes are used, including palletizers, conveyors, hoists, loaders, unloaders, and many others. The brakes feature Teflon liners on all piston-sealing areas for a smooth response and long service life. This also eliminates o-ring breakage. Bearings are oil lubricated. Solid cast iron or aluminum totally enclosed housings protect the brake from adverse environments including dust, dirt, and moisture. With the Oil Shear Technology the brakes do not need maintenance, adjustment and last up to 10 times longer than standard electric motor brakes, according to the manufacturer. The spring set coupler brakes come in many sizes and torques for motor frame sizes 56 to 320 and torque ranging from 6 Lb. Ft. to 450 Lb. Ft. They can be used horizontally or vertically, and require a very small amount of air up to 80 PSI. The brakes are available in other configurations such as brake motors, through shaft, and flange mounted. They can also be spring set, air release, or air set, spring release. Hydraulic actuation is available for applications where air is not an option.
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Largely expanded from her previous literary study, Chopin's Funeral (2003), Eisler's latest explores the ways in which the early French novelist Sand (1804–76) extracted her literary, intellectual and political sustenance from her numerous lovers.
As notorious for her free-loving personal life and cross-dressing fashion as for her atmospheric, revolutionary novels, Sand, née Aurore Dupin, learned early on that freedom for a woman was gained through linking oneself to a powerful man. Eisler goes well into this pleasant-going study on Sand's early sense of abandonment by her mother, Sophie Delaborde, a “pure-blooded daughter of the proletariat” and probable prostitute whose livelihood in Paris ensured that her daughter would be raised by her formidable grandmother at Aurore's dead father Maurice Dupin's Nohant estate. Sophie essentially sold her daughter to the rich Dupin relatives, and the tug of war between Aurore's grandmother and mother took its toll on the young girl. Liaisons with strong, intelligent men formed her early development, while marriage to minor Gascon Baron Casimir Dudevant brought her stimulation and travel, as well as two children. Separation and a dizzying succession of lovers—including affairs early on with the much younger Jules Sandeau, from whom Sand fashioned her nom de plume, and Le Figaro's powerful editor Henri Latouche—launched her on a literary career. Her first novel, Indiana (1832), about the failure of a miserable marriage set in a typically exotic outpost, swept Paris and set the tone for a succession of romances about proto-feminist relationships: Valentine, Lélia, Mauprat, etc. Curiously, Sand was also mightily attracted to weak-willed, brilliant younger men who needed maternal nursing, such as Alfred de Musset and Frédéric Chopin, and Eisler does a fine job of trying to integrate the many sides of this complex writer and political activist without capitulating to her charm and fame. Indeed, Eisler remains a rather severe moral critic of this fascinating, and rule-bending, personality.
Eisler skillfully incorporates much correspondence within a frame of lively writing.
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The Debate on US Debt Ceiling Limit and US Subsidies to Israeli Colonies
By: Jamal Kanj*
I just came back after spending my summer break in San Diego, California. Having lived in San Diego for the most part of my life, I have many acquaintances from all walks of life in the private business and from the public service sector. During my visit, the state of the US economy dominated most of our conversations.
Friends who worked in real estate development or related businesses talked of the lurking economic uncertainties; others from the public sector opted early retirement to maintain a better health insurance plan, or stayed on hoping for better days in the future.
In the US, the Consumer Confidence Report is an important gauge of the state of the national economy. The consumers I met during my three weeks stay in San Diego, while naturally hopeful, almost all betokened negatively of their level of confidence of the economy.
The recent US Congress political infighting to raise federal debt ceiling level did not help. The Republicans interpreted their sweep victory in last congressional election as a mandate to advance their agenda. Aware of the public sentiment regarding the runaway government spending, the far right wing of the Republicans, known as the Tea party, played parochial party politics by turning the debate to increase the US debt ceiling into a political mudsling.
The hidebound Tea party of political neophytes left a pockmark on the current US economic recovery, and raised serious questions on the financial viability of the US Bond market. The long term impact of this fiasco on the overall US economy is yet to be appreciated.
Historically raising US debt ceiling, allowing the US government to borrow money to pay for its obligations has been a standard procedure. In fact, since 1917 when the statuary limit was passed by US Congress, the US government raised the debt limit 78 times, 49 of which were under Republican administrations and 29 under a Democratic presidents.
Purportedly, Republicans are proponent of Federal expenditure control. But in actuality, the US debt ceiling was raised, routinely, more by Republican than Democratic presidents. In fact, under the latest Republican president, Bush, federal spending rose from $1.9 trillion a year to $3.2 trillion. While under current Democratic president, federal spending went from $3.2 trillion to $3.8 trillion.
In other words, spending under Bush increased twice as much as it did under Obama. Indeed, the increase in federal spending under Obama was mostly due to his $800 billion stimulus package intended to offset the enormous recession inherited from the Bush administration.
The increase in federal spending under Bush, compiled with his tax cut to the rich, depriving the US treasury with more than $400 billion in tax receipts, portended disaster to the US economy. After taken over a budget of surplus, Bush left the US treasury with a large deficit, and the US economy with a huge recession.
Yet, instead of capitalizing on the Republican’s economic failings, Obama succumbed to the nay Sayers of the Tea party, and agreed to cut on social domestic programs rather than a fairer tax system whereby the richest two per cent share the pain with the rest of the middleclass tax payers in reducing the national deficit.
Meanwhile, Democrats and Republicans can claim America and promote world justice if they are willing to consider other bold alternatives to reduce the US budget deficit. The US can contribute to peace in the Middle East and save more than $50 billion in ten years if it cuts its superfluous aid granted to the non taxpaying state of Israel. US tax payers are certainly more deserving of the money than the subsidized illegal Israeli colonies over Palestinian land.
*Jamal Kanj writes frequently on Arab World issues and the author of “Children of Catastrophe, Journey from a Palestinian Refugee Camp to America”, Garnet Publishing, UK. Jamal’s articles can be read at www.jamalkanj.com, his email address is email@example.com
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Lecturer to examine role of Islamic law in Middle East economy
November 7, 2007
Timur Kuran, professor of economics and political science and Gorter Family Chair in Islamic Studies at Duke University, will speak on “Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East: The Historical Role of Islamic Law” at 4 p.m. Nov. 27 in Benson University Center’s Pugh Auditorium on the Wake Forest campus.
The event, sponsored by the economics department, is free and open to the public.
Since the mid-1990s Kuran has sought to understand why the Middle East, which once had a high standard of living by global standards, subsequently fell behind in economic production, organizational capability, technological creativity, democratization and military strength. He believes the economic and educational institutions of Islam, though well-suited to the era in which they emerged, were poorly suited to a dynamic industrial economy. His recent papers have identified obstacles involving inheritance practices, contract law, procedures of the courts, the absence of corporations, the financial system and the delivery of social services.
For more information on the lecture, call (336) 758-5334.
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With this guide you can learn, improve or perfect their technique of striking a football. Simply you have a desire to learn, nothing more, is simple to learn with the daily record. Start hitting the ball in any way, without any technical up to hit the ball in a masterful, instep, with the interior, the exterior, or threaded end, with plenty of power, seeking placement … Sounds good, does not it? Well get ready to learn, contact the appropriate sports equipment (soccer shoes) and later. I recommend that once learned the methods that will be discussed below, perform consistently for weeks, since the technique is learned to work every day, not at the time.
- First, to start training I recommend suitable clothing and footwear and make such training outdoors on soccer fields in the park, lawn, ground, asphalt or sports centers in your city. Choose footwear optimal for the chosen surface for training (SPIKES in normal or grass land, multi-stud shoe on artificial turf, rubber soled shoes or futsal sports centers asphalt or rubber). After that, make a slight warming and after that, go ahead.
- Be the first contact with the ball, move with it, mash it, and when you want, tap it. The first hit is free, do so as you want. Do this first exercise as many times as you like, the important thing is that you feel comfortable and acclimate to the ball?
- After the first contact, the interesting thing begins. We explain how to make a simple and easy as hitting is hitting with the inside. Follow these steps: First, face the ball. After that, go to the ball with the intention of hitting him. When you go to hit the ball, do it with the inside of his boot. Do it first with little intensity to go making this shot, this intensity increases gradually if the results are optimal.
- Now I will explain how to make a hit instep. Follow the steps below. Face the ball and advance towards him with the intention of hitting him. When you hit the ball, place the right foot and strike down using the instep. Do this as many times as needed, gradually improve the scrimmage.
- The next hit will teach you the beating outside. Face the ball and go to him with the intention of hitting him. When you go to hit the ball, do it with the outside of his boot. Do it first with little intensity to go making this shot, this intensity increases gradually if the results are optimal. Do not worry if at first struck with this technique is quite loose, is normal. Over time and with practice, you will achieve optimal launch abroad.
- Once explained the three beatings simpler, we will explain how to make a hit ceiling, using any of the techniques already described. It’s simple to hit ceiling, when you go to hit, put your body forward, ie the head and trunk in front of the legs and face down. Try and repeat as many times as you want.
- After beating satin, will explain the inverse, beating high with any technique (interior, exterior, instep). It is the opposite of scrimmage satin. At the time you go to hit, put your body back, that is, his head and torso behind the legs and goal oriented upward and the foot under the ball. Try and repeat as many times as you want.
- With these steps, and with practice, you can make any of these shots without any problem. After that, and if you want to keep improving, keep going. Now I will explain how to hit you choose for each moment.
- For seeking placement of the ball, use the technique of hitting with the inside or outside (this technique requires greater precision). If you’re after a beating strong, powerful, violent aside placement, use the technique of hitting the ball.
- After this, I will explain how to hit another widely used in futsal. The toe hit. Not very aesthetic but can be quite effective. Beating is downright simple. At the time of hitting the ball, hit the tip or toe of his boot, that is, with your fingers. The benefits of this technique are that for goalkeepers is a nightmare because of its difficulty to guess where the shot will and the surprise is for those players.
- Following this simple manual on the soccer ball hit, I recommend that you train regularly and watch these beatings gradually have positive effects for you.
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Steven J. LauKaitis, MD, FACS Bryan S. Sires, MD, FACS
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A big reason our faces age and look older is the loss of fat underneath the skin. When we are young this fat plumps up the skin and serves as a stuffing, hiding the hard angles of the underlying muscles and bone. When this fat starts to thin we begin to look hollow. The underlying muscles and bone can be seen underneath the skin and the excess skin seems to hang off the face now that it has been deflated. We can treat some of this loss of fat with injectables. Fillers, such as Restylane®, Juvederm®, Radiesse®, can be injected to soften wrinkles and lines and push up these wrinkles from underneath so they are less deep and dramatic. Additionally, fillers can be used to add more volume in areas where it has gone missing, such as the cheeks and temple.
Fat transfer is unique in that we can restore volume in the face with your own fat and we are not limited to the amount that can be harvested and transferred. Fat can be taken from anywhere in the body and then re-implanted in hollow areas of the face.
Fat is deposited, using small cannulas, in several layers of the face to carefully add fat where it is deficient. Only a very small amount of fat is transferred with each pass in an effort to place hundreds of small deposits of fat in the area where it is needed. This helps prevent lumpiness to the transferred fat and hopefully improves survival of the transplanted cells. This can be concentrated in one specific area (the cheeks) or throughout the entire face. A fantastic benefit of this procedure is that it does not require an incision or have any “surgical” look in the final outcome. Cosmetic surgery is always focused on improvement and the illusion of youth, with fat transfer we are trying to correct the aging changes (the loss of fat) with a long lasting intervention directed at the specific problem.
This procedure is typically done in the operating room under IV sedation and can be combined with several other procedures (blepharoplasty, brow lift, cheek or face lift). Swelling and bruising after the procedure is common.
Another benefit of fat transfer is the fat contains a rich source of stem cells. These stem cells are the parent cells of all the other cells in our body and have the potential to grow other types of cells (skin cells, connective tissue cells, etc.). Fat is a wonderful source of stems cells and contains 1000 times more stems cells than our own bone marrow. These stem cells may be the reason we see such long lasting results from fat grafting/transfer. These transferred fat cells may be causing prolonged cell production in their new location.
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I’ve started reading Ori Brafman’s excellent The Spider and the Starfish and came across an article in the New York Times relating the use of services like Googlebait YouTube to post uncensored video from conflicts around the world, primarily from Afghanistan and Iraq.
There are a few key quotes that I think are telling, and sets up rather well the contrast that Ori illuminates in his book. On the side of the decentralized starfish:
Russell K. Terry, a Vietnam veteran who founded the Iraq War Veterans Organization, said he had mixed feelings about the videos.
“It’s unfortunate there’s no way to stop it,” Mr. Terry said, even though “this is what these guys are over there fighting for: freedom of speech.”
On the opposing side, illustrating what Brafman describes as the second principle of decentralization: “it’s easy to mistake starfish for spiders”:
Geoffrey D. W. Wawro, director of the Center for the Study of Military History at the University of North Texas and a former instructor at the United States Naval War College, said the erosion of the command structure of terrorist and insurgent groups had led them to increase their reliance on the Internet and videos to gain recruits.
Emphasis, again, mine.
That a military person would suggest that terrorist and insurgent groups actually ever had a centralized, or coercive, chain of command smacks at being ludicrous, given recent experience. You’ll note, for example, that even with terrorist “leader” Al Zarqawi snubbed out, the terrorist threat is as potent as ever. Taking him out wasn’t taking out the head of the spider, as Wawro would probably argue; rather, according to Brafman, we succeeded only in chopping off a leg of the starfish:
Cut off a spider’s leg, and you’ll have a seven-legged cripple. Cut off its head, and you’ll kill the spider. But cut off the starfish’s arm, and not only will it regenerate, but the severed arm will actually grow an entirely new body. Starfish can achieve this remarkable feat because, unlike spiders, they lack central control—their organs are replicated across each arm. Starfish are decentralized.
Just like in nature, there are also starfish on the battlefield. Starfish forces don’t have a leader, clear structure, or defined hierarchy. These seemingly chaotic qualities make Starfish unexpectedly resilient.
So, for one thing, censorship, on the part of YouTube and/or Google is a losing battle (no pun intended) and one that makes matter worse, since it keeps the US citizenry ill-informed and naive to what’s really going on overseas. It strikes me that not all “graphic violence”, is created equally, as Julie Supan, senior director of marketing for YouTube, seems to think:
In an e-mail message, Ms. Supan said that among the videos removed were those that “display graphic depictions of violence in addition to any war footage (U.S. or other) displayed with intent to shock or disgust, or graphic war footage with implied death (of U.S. troops or otherwise).”
Perhaps the argument is that graphic violence masquerading as entertainment should be censored — well, in private media collections, okay, sure; but, when the same kind of information is also more informative than what our media is allowed to show, does it take on a purpose that should invoke the protections of journalism?
Hard to say, but the lesson Ori offers to the military is one that YouTube and others should also heed:
Our military is discovering what happens when a spider takes on a starfish.
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Researchers in Switzerland are claiming to have developed a new source-location algorithm they say could replace the brute force method of identifying national security and other threats used by the National Security Agency (NSA) and others.
In a paper published Friday (Aug. 10) in the journal Physical Review Letters
, researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne said they have demonstrated that relatively small numbers of network nodes can be used to predict a source location. Their selective method varies from the computationally intensive method used by NSA and others to scour all network nodes for potential threats.
The researchers said the key to determining the relevant subset of network nodes to make more accurate source location is identifying the network structure, the density of its nodes and the number of “information cascades,” which occurs when users on a network observe the actions of others and tend to act accordingly.
The algorithm, called "Sparse Inference," also analyzes the web-like structure of real-world interactions using just a few samples out of the total number of nodes in a complex network. As a result, the researchers claimed that extremely complex connection scenarios can be quickly analyzed to track down their source location.
The researchers acknowledged that they benefited from hindsight in selecting their criteria. Their next goal is to evaluate the robustness of their framework by taking into account inaccuracies while attempting to codify reliable methods of selecting key network nodes.
"Nevertheless,” the researchers claimed, “our results indicate that source localization in large networks--a seemingly impossible task is indeed feasible, both in terms of localization accuracy and computational cost."Related stories:Motion algorithms lift MEMS-based remotes
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Note: This lesson was originally published on an older version of The Learning Network; the link to the related Times article will take you to a page on the old site.
Teaching ideas based on New York Times content.
Overview of Lesson Plan: In this lesson, students examine the Battle of Little Bighorn and its impact on United States and Native American culture through reading current and historic New York Times articles and by creating a research-based exhibit about this historic event.
Elyse Fischer, The New York Times Learning Network
Suggested Time Allowance: 45 minutes – 1 hour
1. Analyze how The New York Times covered the Battle of Little Bighorn when it happened in 1876; assess the role that this event played in American history.
2. Examine how The New York Times looked back at the anniversary of historic event on July 1, 2001 by reading and discussing “Shape-Shifting at Little Bighorn.”
3. Conduct research about the details of the battle, related events, Native American tribes and Lt. Col. George A. Custer.
4. Develop, as a class, an introductory exhibition for the soon to be built visitor’s center at the battleground.
Resources / Materials:
-copies of “The Little Horn Massacre,” a New York Times article from 1876 (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0625.html#article) (one per student)
-copies of “Shape-Shifting At Little Bighorn” (one per student)
-classroom research materials (textbooks, encyclopedias, biographical dictionaries, periodicals, computers with Internet access)
-poster board or display material for class use
Activities / Procedures:
1. WARM-UP/DO-NOW: Prior to class, place one copy of the 1876 New York Times article “The Little Horn Massacre” on each desk. Upon arriving in class, students respond to the following in their journals (written on the board prior to class): “On June 25, 1876, Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana. Fold a piece of paper in your journal in half. In the left column, list all that you know about this historic event.” After a few minutes, read “The Little Horn Massacre” as a class. Then, ask students to write in the right column on their journal page what role they think this event had on American history and relations between the Native Americans and the rest of the United States.
2. As a class, read and discuss “Shape-Shifting At Little Bighorn,” focusing on the following questions:
a. What happened on June 25, 1876 in Montana? Why is this event in the news today?
b. How did Lt. General George Armstrong Custer ride to “immortality”?
c. Today, what commemorates the site of the famous battle?
d. How has the monument changed since the author of the article first visited it 38 years ago?
e. Why are American Indians and other tourists been making pilgrimages to the battlefield this year?
f. According to the article, how many of Custer’s men died on June 25, 1876?
g. When did most Americans hear of Custer’s defeat?
h. What was the reaction of the United States government to the defeat of Custer at Little Bighorn?
i. What were Americans celebrating as they heard the news of Custer’s defeat?
j. What does Indian historian Vine DeLoria Jr. call Custer, and why?
k. What does he mean by the “Eichmann of the Plains”? Who was Adolf Eichmann?
l. How has the Battle of Little Bighorn continued to strain relations between Indian tribes (the Lakota and the Crow)?
m. How does Robert M. Utley, a Custer historian, characterize the tourism of Little Bighorn National Monument?
n. Why does he believe the federal government was “on the wrong track” when it built the visitor’s center on the battlefield?
o. Where might the new visitor’s center be built?
p. What does the most recent census say about the American Indian population in the Plains states?
q. Why is the Battle of Little Bighorn still so controversial?
3. Divide the class into four groups, and explain that they will each be developing one piece of a whole-class exhibit about the impact that the Battle of Little Bighorn had on American history. Assign each group one of the following topics, to subdivide within their group (you may want to copy these descriptions to distribute to each group):
Timeline/History – Using all available resources, research the historical events preceding and immediately after the Battle of Little Bighorn. Research should be focused on but not limited to the following: the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty; the 1874 discovery of gold in the Black Hills; 1871 legislation to end treaty negotiations and the subsequent legislative and presidential edicts that influenced American Indian civil standing and land; and the symbolism of the Little Bighorn in the 20th century American Indian Movement. As a group, create an illustrated timeline incorporating these events. As always, be aware of the sources from which you are gathering your information to ensure that the information is accurate.
Battle – Using all available resources, research the Battle of Little Bighorn. Research should be focused on but not limited to the following: the roles of General Custer, the Crow and Arikara scouts, Major Marcus Reno, Captain Frederick Benteen, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull and Two Moons; the strategies of both sides of the bloody conflict, the number of casualties on both sides, and the battle’s aftermath. As a group, create a model or scale drawing of the battle incorporating these events. As always, be aware of the sources from which you are gathering your information to ensure that the information is accurate.
Tribes – Using all available resources, research the tribes that were involved (on both sides) in the Battle of Little Bighorn. While most accounts of the battle limit the participants to Lakota or Sioux (Santee, Teton and Yankton), Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Crow (the Crow fought with Custer), other sources also identify Assinboine and Gros Ventre (fighting with the Sioux) and the Arikara (fighting with Custer and the Crow). Research should focus on but not be limited to the following: tribal leaders; tribal infrastructure; traditional homeland; treaties negotiated; relationship with United States government; inter-tribal rivalries; and tribal culture. As a group, create a poster about each topic, incorporating all of your information. As always, be aware of the sources from which you are gathering your information to ensure that the information is accurate
Custer – Using all available resources, research George Armstrong Custer. Research should focus on but not be limited to the following: Custer’s military background; Custer’s strategy for the Battle of Little Bighorn; Custer’s relationship with the Indians; and Custer’s life outside the military. As a group, create an illustrated biography of General Custer on one or several posters. As always, be aware of the sources from which you are gathering your information to ensure that the information is accurate.
4. HOMEWORK/WRAP-UP: Students complete their individual research and projects. They then display their work in the classroom, school library or other area in the school as an introductory exhibition for the soon to be built visitor’s center at the battleground. Invite other classes to visit the exhibit.
Further Questions for Discussion:
–Why do you think that the Battle of Little Bighorn still stirs emotional responses 125 years later?
–Can you find any parallels to the concept of “Manifest Destiny” in modern American history? If so, what are they?
–Do you believe that life-costing victories in war should be celebrated? Why or why not?
–Why do you think the federal government changed the name of the monument from the Custer Battlefield to the Little Bighorn Battlefield?
–How have American attitudes toward General Custer changed in the 125 years since his “Last Stand”? Can you think of other figures in American history that have traveled along similar paths? If so, who?
Evaluation / Assessment:
Students will be evaluated based on initial journal response, participation in class discussion, participation in individual and group research, and their group’s addition to the Battle of Little Bighorn exhibition.
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1. The featured article read in class credits Vine DeLoria Jr. with calling Custer “the Eichmann of the Plains.” Respond to the analogy; research Adolph Eichmann and George Armstrong Custer, and in a letter to Mr. DeLoria, agree or disagree with his characterization, supporting your opinion.
2. Create a 3-dimensional model of the Battle of Little Bighorn. Research the uniforms that the 7th Cavalry wore, the clothing of the Native Americans, the weapons both sides used and the topography of the battlefield for your model. Be prepared to use your model to re-enact part of the battle.
3. Develop an illustrated timeline showing the relationship between Native Americans and United States government. Include seminal treaties and legislation.
4. Write a documentary script about the Lakota (Sioux) or Crow nations today. Include information about the tribal government, the civil status of members of the nation both on and off the reservation, the relationship between the nation and the United States federal government, the primary industries or other economic factors, the census figures about where tribal members are living, and information about daily life (food, school, recreation). If possible, film your documentary.
5. Read first-person accounts of the Battle of Little Bighorn or any other battle between United States and Native American soldiers. (A good source for first-person accounts is “Native American Testimony,” ed. Peter Nabokov, Penguin, 1991.) Imagine you were a soldier in one of these battles. Using the first-person accounts that you have read as models, write your own account of how you felt and what you were thinking before, during and after the battle.
Fine Arts – Create a collage or mural with no words that expresses your understanding of Native American history. Be prepared to explain your choices of images.
Global Studies – Compare and the contrast the historical treatment, legislation, current civil status and lifestyles of the aboriginal inhabitants of the United States, South Africa, Peru, Chile, New Zealand and Australia.
Media Studies – Watch a Western and a cartoon or television show that were made previous to 1973 and that involved Native American characters. How were Native Americans characterized? How do you think these stereotypes were formed? How have they been perpetuated? How do mass media characterizations of Native Americans compare with those of other racial or ethnic minorities? Write an essay about the characterization of Native Americans in the mass media and how it has or has not influenced your perception of this culture and individuals.
Technology – How do you think the invention of the portable television camera influenced the way Americans view warfare? (One example to consider is the reaction to the televised news segments broadcast daily during the Vietnam War.) Imagine that television cameras were available during the struggles for autonomy between the United States government and tribal governments. How do you think American attitudes would have changed? Write a news story (to be presented on the evening news) from the Great Plains in 1874.
Other Information on the Web:
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (http://www.nps.gov/libi/) is the national park’s Web site
Documents on American Indian Wars (http://www.hillsdale.edu/academics/history/Documents/War/19Ind.htm) includes first-hand letters from the Seminole Wars and from conflicts in the Northwest and West, including the Battle of Little Bighorn.
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1876 (http://www.ibiscom.com/custer.htm) from EyeWitness explores the historic battle.
General George Armstrong Custer (http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Classroom/1101/index.html) provides information and links on General Custer, battlefield photos and more.
Looking to learn more about westward expansion? Take The Learning Network’s “Go West!” Web Exploration (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/explorer/westward/_tourlaunch1.htm).
Academic Content Standards:
United States History Standard 9 – Understands the United States territorial expansion between 1801 and 1861, and how it affected relations with external powers and Native Americans. Benchmarks: Understands the short-term political and long-term cultural impacts of the Louisiana Purchase; Understands how early state and federal policy influenced various Native American tribes; Understands the social and political impact of the idea of Manifest Destiny; Understands the significance of the Lewis and Clark expedition
(CTSS – ‘social’, ’6-8’, ‘us5’)
United States History Standard 19 – Understands federal Indian policy and United States foreign policy after the Civil War. Benchmarks: Understands interaction between Native Americans and white society; Understands factors that influenced U.S. expansionism in the late 19th century
(CTSS – ‘social’, ’6-8’, ‘us7’)
Language Arts Standard 4- Gathers and uses information for research purposes. Benchmarks: Uses a variety of resource materials to gather information for research topics; Determines the appropriateness of an information source for a research topic
(CTSS – ‘english’, ’6-8’, ’4’)
Language Arts Standard 7- Demonstrates competence in the general skills and strategies for reading a variety of informational texts. Benchmarks: Identifies techniques used to convey viewpoint; Draws conclusions and makes inferences based on explicit and implicit information in texts; Differentiates between fact and opinion in informational texts
(CTSS – ‘english’, ’6-8’, ’7’)
United States History Standard 9 – Understands the United States territorial expansion between 1801 and 1861, and how it affected relations with external powers and Native Americans. Benchmarks: Understands the impact of the Louisiana Purchase; Understands the major provisions of the Monroe Doctrine; Understands shifts in federal and state policy toward Native Americans in the first half of the 19th century; Understands the religious, political, and social ideas that contributed to the 19th century belief in Manifest Destiny
(CTSS – ‘social’, ’9-12’, ‘us5’)
United States History Standard 19 – Understands federal Indian policy and United States foreign policy after the Civil War. Benchmarks: Understands elements that contributed to late 19th century expansionist foreign policy; Understands influences on and perspectives of Native American life in the late 19th century
(CTSS – ‘social’, ’9-12’, ‘us7’)
Language Arts Standard 4- Gathers and uses information for research purposes. Benchmarks: Uses a variety of news sources to gather information for research topics; Determines the validity and reliability of primary and secondary source information and uses information accordingly in reporting on a research topic
(CTSS – ‘english’, ’9-12’, ’4’)
Language Arts Standard 7- Demonstrates competence in the general skills and strategies for reading a variety of informational texts. Benchmarks: Determines the effectiveness of techniques used to convey viewpoint; Supports inferences about information in texts by referring to text features
(CTSS – ‘english’, ’9-12’, ’7’)
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SGI hermit crabs over to Sunnyvale
Thanks for the memories, Mountain View
After once dominating the Silicon Valley suburb of Mountain View, SGI has packed up and moved to Sunnyvale - the latest shift in the company's resurrection agenda.
Not too long ago, SGI owned numerous, massive complexes on either side of the central Mountain View artery Shoreline Boulevard. Those buildings have since been turned over to various organizations such as the Computer History Museum, Google and a host of start-ups. The purple coloring favored by SGI still coats a number of the structures.
Last month, SGI closed the last of its Mountain View offices - a space it shared with start-ups - and moved to 1140 E. Arques Avenue in Sunnyvale. We're told the new single story building is a nice space with a gym and plenty of room to move.
SGI shifted to Sunnyvale as yet another cost saving measure taken since it emerged from bankruptcy. The hardware maker is in the midst of shifting its business to focus on the broader corporate data center market rather than just high-end graphics customers.
Mountain View has claimed many stars over the years, starting with the original Shockley Labs - considered by many to be the birthplace of Silicon Valley. The likes of Netscape, Verisign, Fairchild Semiconductor, Veritas and PayPal have called or still do call Mountain View home.
SGI was by far the most aggressive Mountain View resident, crawling into so many flashy buildings. Many of the old SGI structures are marked by space age facades and that damn purple.
Now, however, Google is the unquestioned king of The View. So, City Hall won't be suffering to much from SGI's departure. ®
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WebMD Medical News
Louise Chang, MD
July 20, 2012 (New York City) -- Are toes really the new nose?
Media reports of an uptick in toe and footplastic surgery suggest that there is nothing that we won't do to put our best feet forward (and of course, sport sexy, strappy, and often pricey shoes). This includes getting our toes shortened, liposuctioned, or removed altogether.
Liposuction may help slim toes so they fit in pointy stiletto toe boxes, and some women opt to shorten a toe or remove one altogether so that they are less snug in the toe box.
Others still are signing up for laser treatments to zap away foot fungus and/or permanently remove hair on their toes and feet. There is also a surge in what are being called "Loub jobs," a plastic surgery procedure that allows women to wear their pricey Christian Louboutin shoes without pain.
"Foot beautification is definitely a trend," says Wendy Lewis. She is a New York City-based beauty consultant and author of several books, including Plastic Makes Perfect. "Many of these foot concerns are directly related to the shoes we wear."
Not everyone is on board. The American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society is against cosmetic foot surgery of any kind. According to the group, foot complications, including permanent nerve damage, infection, bleeding, scarring, and chronic pain when walking, may occur. According to this group, "Cosmetic foot surgery should not be considered in any circumstances."
Cheryl Burgess, MD, is an assistant clinical professor of dermatology at Georgetown University and George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Her foray into the world of foot plastic surgery involved treating people with HIV. These individuals tend to lose fat in their faces and other parts of their body due to the cocktail of medications they must take.
Word got out, and soon Burgess was injecting fat or other fillers such as Sculptra into the feet of women who wanted to wear Christian Louboutin shoes.This treatment has been dubbed a "Loub job."
According to Burgess, another popular foot fix is Botox injections to treat hammer toes. With hammertoes, there is a bend in the middle joint. She also uses Botox to curb excessive and often smelly sweating of the feet. It is already approved to treat excessive underarm sweating.
Many doctors are also offering lasers to eradicate toe nail fungus (onychomycosis) in one session. "This could be a game changer, but you have to keep in mind that the damaged part of the nail needs time to grow out," she says. "This doesn't happen overnight and can take 9-12 months."
Lewis and Burgess spoke to WebMD at a media briefing held at the Aesthetic Plastic Surgery / Anti-Aging Medicine: The Next Generation Symposium in New York City.
"You should treat your feet like you do your face," says New York City-based podiatrist Suzanne Levine, DPM. "You would never think of not washing your face or brushing your teeth before bed, but does anyone really pumice their feet?"
The things that people do to care for their feet may actually do more harm than good. "Many people think they are taking care of their feet by going for a pedicure and submerging their feet in water that no one should ever submerge their feet in," she says.
The result? Fungal infections.
These findings were presented at a medical conference. They 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:Wendy Lewis, New York City-based beauty consultant; author, Plastic Makes Perfect: The Complete Cosmetic Beauty Guide, Orion Publishing, 2008.Cheryl Burgess, MD, assistant clinical professor of dermatology, Georgetown University and George Washington University, Washington, D.C.Suzanne Levine, DPM, New York City-based podiatrist.News release, The American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society.The Aesthetic Plastic Surgery / Anti-Aging Medicine: The Next Generation Symposium, New York City, July 20-22, 2012.
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Posted 7 months ago
This small metal sign was made using aircraft repair metal and rivets. You can see the rivets from both sides of the piece.
Marked to the "51st FMS"-- which I would assume is the 51st Fighter Maintenance Squadron.
There are no hooks or attachments to hang, so I am not certain as to how it was originally displayed.
During the Korean War, the 51st flew the F-80 "Shooting Star" as well as the F-86 "Sabre".
The 51st had a very impressive Korean War record. It's pilots flew over 45,000 sorties and destroyed 312 MIG-15s. In addition, the famous jet ace Joseph McConnell (16 aerial kills) as well as 13 other aces served in the 51st.
Reproduction of these images in any form is not authorized.
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Prostate health is an issue widely discussed in news as it is a key concern of men in their 60s and Dr. Allen’s device is able to reduce worries as improves prostate condition naturally without resorting to harmful BPH drugs or prostate removal procedures, states Fine Treatment.
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‘Words on Wellness: Prostate can be a trouble spot for men’ article of 26 September 2012 by Dr. Lacagnina, VP of health and wellness for Lee Memorial Health System, lists prostate problems as top health threat for men; however, it is important to remember that prostate enlargement is a common aging condition and needs to be treated naturally in the first instance, especially since the side-effects-free Thermobalancing therapy can tackle BPH successfully, Fine Treatment reveals.
‘Senior Living: Prostate health important for senior men’, by D. Besana, 09/19/2102, talks about a significant role the small prostate gland plays in a man’s life: “Prostate health is a man’s issue. We usually do not focus on a specific gender in these columns, but this is an important issue for men that should not be ignored.”
There’s a whole range of suggestions on how to enhance prostate health naturally. For instance, M. Cook’s article in care-2 on “10 Health Benefits of Pumpkin Seeds”, of 4 October 2012, tells about the benefits of pumpkin’s seeds for prostate health. High in Omega 3s, pumpkin seed oil has been shown in studies to reduce the incidence of benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH)—a condition in which the prostate gland becomes enlarged. Thus, the author says freshly roasted pumpkin seeds don’t just taste great but are good for health too.
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How not to unwind after work
ON THE weekend of June 7th and 8th, up to 175,000 people round the world will face one of the most arduous tests of their lives. They will sit one of the three exams required to earn the coveted status of chartered financial analyst (CFA).
One of those candidates will become the millionth person to take the test. That is phenomenal growth for a qualification that, as recently as 1995, was taken by fewer than 20,000 people a year. This expansion partly reflects the lure of earning big money in finance (at least until the credit crisis). But it also shows the growing appeal of the CFA brand outside its American birthplace; more than two-fifths of this year's candidates come from Asia, where job ads in the South China Morning Post now often say “CFA-required”.
Although no profession formally requires employees to become a CFA, it is increasingly seen as essential for those trying to get ahead in financial services. Despite already working in institutional sales at Man Group, a hedge-fund firm, Lucy Johnstone, a classics graduate from Edinburgh University, is putting herself through the agony of the level III exam. It “really helps when you're talking to other finance professionals,” she says.
Unlike the well-known MBA degree, which usually requires a residential course, CFA students mostly study at home. Neo Wee Koon, a Singapore-based engineer who wants to move into fund management, says he was attracted by both the flexibility and affordability of the course; he receives a grant from his local CFA Institute to help him study.
But this structure also means candidates need a lot of self-discipline. Aelita Arampova, a recent CFA charterholder who is now chief executive of a hedge-fund group, says she studied from 8pm till midnight from three to four days a week with a further five to six hours at weekends. She decided to duck out of the programme for a year in 2006, when she faced the equally demanding task of organising her wedding.
After all that effort, there is no guarantee of success. Nitin Mehta of the CFA Institute in London says that only a fifth of the candidates who start complete all three stages; a quarter do not even turn up to the exam. Mind you, faced with questions such as “What are the desirable statistical properties of an estimator?”, they can hardly be blamed for that.
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A character study of 22 present and past cartoon characters
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Animation was the format of choice for children's television in the 1960s, a decade in which children's programming became almost entirely animated. Growing up in that period, I tended to take for granted the distortions and strange bodies of these entities.These Icons are usually grotesquely distorted from the human form from which they derive.
I decided to take a select few of these popular characters and render their skeletal systems as I imagine they might resemble if one truly had eye sockets half the size of its head, or fingerless-hands, or feet comprising 60% of its body mass.
These characters have become conventions that are set, defined, and well-known personas in our culture. Being that they are so commonplace and accepted as existing I thought I would dissect them like science does to all living objects - trying to come to an understanding as to their origins and true physiological make up. Possibly to better understand them and see them in a new light for what they are in the most basic of terms.
The photographed pieces are the original, translucent hinged overlay format. the rest are photoshopped facsimiles of the originals.
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Ouch: wages are getting tighter, and college grads are feeling the pinch. Workers with college degrees are facing the largest wage slump in thirty years. Some blame President Bush for mismanaging the economy, some blame the glut of college-educated workers entering the career force, and some don't know where to place blame. But one thing is for sure: although a bachelor's degree greatly increases earning potential, it certainly doesn't guarantee a lavish salary.
That was troubling for someone facing the rising costs of rent, food, gasoline, and raising a newborn daughter. But Lewis, 36, found it especially troubling because he had done what has traditionally helped Americans share in a growing economy: He had earned a four-year college degree.
Wage stagnation, long the bane of blue-collar workers, is now hitting people with bachelor's degrees for the first time in 30 years. Earnings for workers with four-year degrees fell 5.2 percent between 2000 and 2004 when adjusted for inflation, according to White House economists.
When wages for people with bachelor's degrees declined in the 1970s, the cause was a flood of baby boomers entering the job market. This time, economists say, much of the blame goes to trends familiar to workers with less education.
Off-shoring, which has shifted manufacturing and call-center jobs to Mexico and India, is increasingly affecting the white-collar sectors of engineering and software design. Companies have continued their long effort to replace salaried positions with low-paid, nonsalaried jobs, including part-time and freelance positions without benefits.
What do you think? Is there one place to focus the blame? Should college graduates be guaranteed a high-paying job? Are you at all worried about the job market waiting for you after graduation?
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A Sustainable Future Through the Farm Bill
March 04, 2012
USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan explains the complexities of the nation’s primary agricultural and food policy at GW forum.
By Jennifer Eder
As the U.S. Senate debates the nuts and bolts of the nation’s 2012 farm bill, the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration held a policy forum Thursday to discuss the crucial elements of the bill and its far-reaching impact on U.S. food production and environmental sustainability.
Keynote speaker Kathleen Merrigan, deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said the bill must ensure the nation continues to have a safety net for farmers and rural communities as well as invest in school garden-based learning and support novice farmers.
The farm bill, which is passed by Congress every five years, funds nutrition assistance and conservation programs and provides government subsidies to farmers to supplement their income and help manage the supply and influence the cost of agriculture commodities. Although much of the buzz around the farm bill centers on the subsidies to farmers and commodity programs, the largest part of the overall funding – 72 percent – goes to nutrition assistance programs.
“I don’t think a lot of people realize that,” said Dr. Merrigan, who was appointed deputy secretary in 2009 and a year later was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine. “All members of Congress have an interest in the farm bill because of its diversity.”
The policy forum, which was held in the Jack Morton Auditorium and sponsored by the Trachtenberg School, the GW Office of Sustainability and the Trachtenberg Student Organization, included a panel of four sustainable agriculture experts moderated by Dan Glickman, Law School graduate and former USDA secretary in the Clinton administration.
“Today’s forum is a testament to the interest and involvement our students have in sustainability and food policy,” said Diane Robinson Knapp during her introductory remarks for Dr. Merrigan. Ms. Knapp is chair of GW’s Urban Food Task Force, which examines food policy, healthy eating and sustainable food practices on campus.
The task force’s initiatives have included making healthier and more sustainably produced food available on campus, supporting a student organization (the Food Justice Alliance) that operates an urban vegetable garden and partnering with Founding Farmers restaurant to provide locally sourced honey from bee hives on the roof of Lisner Hall.
Dan Simons, B.B.A. ’92, an alumnus of the GW School of Business and now concept developer and managing partner for Farmers Restaurant Group, which owns Founding Farmers, hosted a reception following the forum.
In 1920, 27 percent of all Americans farmed. By 1950, that number fell to 12 percent. Today, only 1 percent of Americans farm, and 30 percent of today’s farmers are 65 years old or older. USDA sees this as a major concern, and the agency is calling for 100,000 new farmers.
“There’s an outmigration of rural America, and we think that’s nation threatening,” said Dr. Merrigan. “We need to have young people decide to farm and ranch. But if you don’t have access to health care, a main street with shops and a good school to send your kids to, you’re not going to want to stay on the farm.”
The second largest part of the farm bill budget goes to income support for farmers and direct subsidies for certain commodities like corn, wheat, soybeans, rice and cotton. While Ken Cook, one of the panelists and president and co-founder of the Environmental Working Group, said providing a safety net for farmers is necessary especially when faced with extreme weather, the U.S. should rethink which crops receive government subsidies.
“We’ve lost sight of what you would invest in if you were really concerned with sustainability and improved health,” said Mr. Cook.
Most of the subsidies don’t even end up going toward food, said Susan Prolman, executive director of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and one of the policy forum’s panelists. Instead, they go to fund corn and soybeans that are used to make ethanol, biodiesel and animal feed.
The push to rethink which crops government subsidies support comes at a time when the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly called the Food Stamp Program, is at an all-time high. As the number of unemployed Americans increased by 94 percent between 2007 and 2011, SNAP enrollment increased by 70 percent.
Ensuring that this program does not succumb to budget cuts is the Environmental Working Group’s top priority.
“The thought that this program would be demonized on the political trail and threatened with cuts when we have a record number of people receiving the benefits and half of the beneficiaries are kids – to me is unacceptable,” said Mr. Cook.
Jim Weill, president of the Food Research Action Council and a panelist, wants to see funding for the SNAP program increase. Current allotments only get families through the third week of each month, he said.
“Sustainability is ultimately about children, and to be in a country this wealthy and have kids in one in four households that don’t have enough to eat at some point in the year is a problem we have to address,” said Mr. Weill.
Food insecurity also contributes to the nation’s obesity problem, he said, because people on limited budgets tend to buy cheaper and more energy-dense food rather than healthier, nutrient-dense choices.
With the nation in the midst of a budget crisis, environmentalists fear that conservation programs will take a major hit in the next farm bill. Margaret Korme, policy program director for the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute and a policy forum panelist, said it is vital that the farm bill include requirements for conservation.
“We have to make sure that we don’t give subsidies without making sure the land is protected for future generations,” she said.
Ms. Prolman said there are few incentives in the current farm bill that encourage farmers to use sustainable practices. That’s why the next farm bill should include an emphasis on rebuilding local and regional food systems, she said.
“Let’s spend taxpayers’ dollars in a way that provides incentives for good behaviors that we want to reward and encourage and not spend it for behaviors and practices that hurt American society as a whole,” said Ms. Prolman.
Dr. Merrigan, an organic food expert and advocate for the local food movement, encouraged GW students to use USDA’s new Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food compass, an online tool to connect farmers to consumers, local food businesses and community leaders and provide guidance on developing local and regional food enterprises.
“All of you should engage in this legislative process,” said Dr. Merrigan. “The more people that engage and bring their voice, the better.”
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The Upside of Being Clueless By Drew Brannon, PhD, the Lowdergroup
Having decided on my college plans to play basketball, I decided to run track during my final semester of high school. Why not? I had friends on the team and had known the coach for a few years. During the first few meets I ran the 400m and 800m and enjoyed it. Several weeks into the season, we traveled to a large meet and I was selected as the first leg for the 4x1600 relay team. At the time, I did not know that mile relays existed.
Race time drew near, and I lined up with a host of guys who looked like they knew exactly what they were doing. I, on the other hand, would have been best labeled as "clueless." Nevertheless, the gun went off and I took off. I went out hard and felt great the whole time. Iíd never run a mile in a meet before and proceeded to run this opening leg in 4:31.
I never ran a faster mile the rest of the year, and Iím certain my mindset had a lot to do with it. After posting a fast time in my first attempt, I started placing expectations on my performances. With these expectations came pre-race nerves and pressured thoughts. This tendency is common for athletes.
Success is never good enough. Success at one level seems to demand success at the next levelÖ or else. Instead of building confidence and enjoyment, we build pressure and stress. We initially get involved in something because itís fun, and soon enough, weíre taking it way too seriously. Itís impossible to stay clueless toward our pursuits forever, so what can we do? Here are two tips to consider when trying to avoid the negative effects of expectations.
Howís it working for me?
Itís important to assess the thoughts we have about our training, performances, etc. An excellent question to use in this assessment is, ďHowís it working for me?Ē For example, if Iím approaching my next event with the thought, ďIíve worked way too hard not to break three hours,Ē Iíve already set a pressure filled expectation. When race day comes, you can be sure that youíll be playing this thought back in your head. This negative thinking pattern is likely to cause sleepless nights before the race, and then accentuate the pain during the race. Clearly, the answer to our initial question of how itís working for me is, "Not too well!"
Training mindset vs. performance mindset
The mental skills critical to improving in training are vastly different from those required to perform well. Applying pressure in training can often be a helpful practice, but self-inflicting pressure in competition usually impedes performance. For example, deciding that you will run an extra mile repeat if you donít finish the current one in a certain time is an excellent way to push yourself in training.
Conversely, convincing yourself that you HAVE TO run tune up races in certain times in order to hit your goal race time is likely to prompt negative thoughts in your mind if things donít go exactly according to plan. Such pressured thinking is likely to trigger stress/anxiety, which usually prompts labored breathing and tight muscles. Needless to say, itís difficult to perform at an optimal level under these conditions.
When itís time to perform, you canít be overly technical or perfectionistic. Instead, you need to free yourself up by focusing on the correct things, which will help you relax and have a more positive impact on your performance.
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Prime minister John A. Macdonald.
14 March 2011
Surviving Scandals Nothing New to Tory Leaders
Ottawa Ontario - What makes a Canadian political scandal? Before Adscam, Shawinigate, and the
Munsinger Affair, you have to go back, way back, almost to the days of Confederation itself. The granddaddy of domestic imbroglios is the Pacific Scandal, a
tale of big bad businessmen, suspect campaign contributions, and accusations of foreign interference in Canadian affairs. The scandal drove prime minister John
A. Macdonald to despair and his government from office, all over the building of the transcontinental railroad.
The second Canadian federal election took place in 1872. Facing possible defeat, Sir John A. Macdonald and his Quebec lieutenant Georges-Etienne Cartier feared
their railroad project would flounder under the Liberals, and with it their vision for a Canada that spanned a continent. They cast about for a Canadian-led
team to manage the railroad project, but no single company was capable of assuming so huge an undertaking.
Enter Sir Hugh Allan, who represented the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Allan lobbied to preside over the railroad consortium, and in the heat of
negotiations with Cartier, offered "financial assistance" to help fund the Tory election campaign. But like many political donations of the day, or,
we have learned, days since, the cash came with strings attached that the unsavoury Allan schemed to pull in his favour over the course of contract
After the sum of $25,000 was deposited into a bank account for Macdonald's use in the 1872 election campaign, the prime minister desperately sought more to
secure victory. He pressed Allan's solicitor, John Abbott (a future prime minister himself): "I must have another $10,000. Will be the last time of
calling. Do not fail me. Answer today."
The Conservatives won the vote, but just barely. The 99 Tories would need to rely on a few of the six independents to maintain power in the 200-seat
legislature. And despite Allan's timely infusion of funds, Macdonald's ally Cartier was defeated.
Not long after the election results were confirmed, rumours began to swirl that huge cash contributions from the railway companies had found their way into
Conservative party coffers. On 2 Apr 1873, Lucius Seth Huntington, the Liberal member from Shefford, Quebec, rose in Parliament to demand an inquiry into the
granting of the charter to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and financial contributions to the Conservative party from Sir Hugh Allan sourced in Canada,
and the United States. The Conservative forces defeated the Liberal motion, but proposed in its place a five-member committee of Parliament to look into the
The press leaped on the story, dubbing it the "Pacific Scandal." On 18 Jul 1873, the Toronto Globe and the Montreal Herald reported the contents of
Macdonald's desperate telegram to Abbott. The publication caused a huge outcry, and political peril for the embattled prime minister.
Macdonald was dumbfounded: How did these telegrams find their way into the hands of the press? "It is one of those overwhelming misfortunes that
they say every man must meet once in his life. At first it fairly staggered me," he said.
In fact, the telegrams had been stolen from Abbott's office, a la Wiki-leaks, and sold to Montreal Liberals.
A depressed and despairing Macdonald turned to a familiar but unfortunate source of comfort: The bottle. When he disappeared for a few days to collect
himself, rumours again swirled, this time that he had committed suicide. Macdonald reassured his friends in telegram messages that the rumours were greatly
exaggerated. "It is an infamous falsehood," he wrote. "I never was better in my life."
Throughout the scandal, Macdonald steadfastly maintained his innocence. The Canadian Pacific Railway had been promised nothing in the way of government
contracts, he was certain. Macdonald believed he could avoid scandal because the money was used for political ends and not for personal gain. He told his
friends not to worry too much about Allan getting rich because, "Where he is going his gold coins would melt."
To Macdonald's horror, it turned out that American financiers had indeed been the supporters of Allan's scheme. The opposition did not accept the government's
attempt to diminish the scandal and refused to attend the Parliamentary committee.
Fearing the loss of a confidence vote, Macdonald secured a temporary prorogation of the House of Commons from governor-general Lord Dufferin. Months later,
just as Parliament was about to reconvene, Lord Dufferin wrote to Macdonald, in tone and language the prime minister had not expected: "In acting as
you have, I am all convinced that you have only followed a traditional practice... but as minister of justice and the official guardian and protector of the
laws, your responsibilities are exceptional and your personal connection with what has passed cannot but fatally affect your position as minister."
The next day, Macdonald met his Cabinet to discuss the controversy and consider the question of resignation. Although some of his members were wavering,
Macdonald remained confident and thought he could defend the government in Parliament. At 2:30 a.m., at the conclusion of a five-hour speech in the House of
Commons, Macdonald made an impassioned plea for his government based on its past accomplishments:
"I have fought the Battle of Confederation, the battle of Union, the battle of the Dominion of Canada. I throw myself upon the House. I throw myself upon
this country, I throw myself upon posterity, and I believe that, notwithstanding the many failings of my life, I shall have the voice of this country in this
House rallying around me... I know... that there does not exist in this country a man who has given more of his time, more of his heart, more of his wealth, or
more of his intellect and power, such as they may be, for the good of this Dominion of Canada."
It was a rousing speech, but the defections were enough to undo Macdonald's working majority. After meeting with the governor-general, Macdonald resigned on
5 Nov 1873.
Alexander Mackenzie, the leader of the opposition Liberals, formed a government and seized the opportunity to capitalize on the Tory demise by going to the
people on 22 Jan 1874 in the first Canadian election to use a secret ballot. With the Pacific Scandal fresh in voters' minds, 129 Liberals were elected,
compared with 65 Conservatives and 12 independents.
In the aftermath, Macdonald resigned as party leader, saying, "My fighting days are over... I will never be a member of any administration again."
His offer was refused by the Tory caucus.
But Macdonald knew that politics comes with its ups and downs. "When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say, we are going to have a
summer shower." Despite the setback, Macdonald returned as prime minister in 1878, an office he held until his death in 1891. Apparently there can be life
after scandal, even one as great as this.
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Risk and Reasoning
(written in 2004, reviewed 2008)
A patient calls and says her stomach hurts. Is this because she has eaten something bad? Or because she has a new stomach ulcer? Or a new viral illness?
Or, could it be the medication that was just started? In this circumstance, we generally presume, as a physician friend of mine says, that "medications are guilty until proven innocent". This is an extension of the general principle we were all taught in medical school: Primum non Nocere, "First Do No Harm". Doctor, you may not be able to help this patient, but make sure that while you're trying, whatever you do, don't make things worse.
Another extension of this concept would be to have a different standard for judging whether a medication is helping someone, versus whether it could harm them. We use this sort of reasoning all the time: if a medication has clear risks, there better be some pretty darn good evidence that it is helpful before we recommend it. For example, clozapine (Clozaril) is a remarkable medication for schizophrenia and severe bipolar disorder -- but it took some overwhelming evidence of effectiveness before the FDA finally approved it for use in the U.S., because it can cause a dramatic decrease in white blood cells in about 1 in 100 patients (in the first 6 months of treatment, that is; it's safer after that).
Similarly, if a medication has good evidence for a lack of risk, we are more willing to try it even before the evidence is solid for effectiveness. For example, verapamil has been used for years for blood pressure treatment, and its risks are well known. Because there have been few known problems with pregnancies with this medication (at least to other mood stabilizer options), it was recently proposed as worth considering for women with bipolar disorder who become pregnant, even though the data on its effectiveness are limited.Wisner
This different standard for judging risk evidence, versus effectiveness evidence, seems to be the basis for the FDA warning about antidepressants and suicidality/homicidality. They take care to indicate that they have issued a call for increased vigilance about a possible causal relationship, not a conclusion about causality. Yet they are clearly saying there is somehow enough evidence out there to issue this warning, though the evidence is not good enough yet to reach a more certain conclusion. What would constitute such evidence?
The Perfect Study
If we wanted to design the perfect study to show than antidepressants do cause suicidality (which is a lot easier than showing that they don't), let's think about what that would require. First, it should be done with a group of people who need to take an antidepressant. We couldn't just study people with no such need, if we honestly think there could be some risk in taking this medication, right? And obviously we do think there may be such risk, or we wouldn't be doing the study.
Secondly, this group of people should not be depressed. Depression can cause people to be suicidal all by itself. We want to see if the medication can cause someone to become suicidal. So we'd better not have some other "built in" reason why suicidality could show up in our test group. Therefore, we'll have to study some group of people who have anxiety, or obsessive compulsive disorder, or pain, or some other reason to consider giving them an antidepressant.
Third, we would have to divide this group -- randomly, not by gender or age or something -- in half, giving one group an antidepressant medication, and the other group a placebo. As you have probably already concluded, "wait a minute, this has surely already been done". Correct, there are many such studies out there. But...
Fourth, the groups would be monitored for increased suicidality. How would we know if "suicidality" was going up? We would need some sort of monitoring tool, a questionnaire or something, that could recognize such an increase. And that, you see, is the bad news: there is no standardized way of monitoring for suicidality, so in all those previous such studies, we do not have systematic data about suicide. (The FDA struggled with this same issue in the data they received from the studies of people with depression).
And so, while we await a study that looks specifically for suicidality in randomized patients who are given an antidepressant for something other than depression, and are monitored closely for the new appearance of suicidal thinking.... we are stuck with case reports.
Testimonials and Case Reports
Usually we dismiss testimonials. They are not accepted as evidence. This is because a person may be completely convinced that some miracle drug or herb cured him, but we cannot even begin to sort out all the other potential explanations: at the same time as starting the pill, he stopped smoking; or he started a relationship with a great woman; or he quit the job he hated; and so forth. And we don't know about all these things, because the person himself doesn't know to include them as relevant in his explanation of his improvement. After all, he is convinced the pill was the cure, so he tells us up and down about the pill, and omits all the information we'd need to evaluate whether it was the pill or something else.
Worse yet, people really want to get well. So if some source (an advertisement, or someone selling a drug) quite convincingly suggests to a man that the pill or herb will get him well, and he really believes that, his own hope may influence the outcome. Somehow belief and hope can cause people to get well. This is known, of course, as the "placebo effect".
Any testimonial is limited, as evidence, by these two problems: "invisible" alternative explanations for a result; and possible placebo effects. Let's look at these two limitations in regard to the question of whether antidepressants cause suicide. First, the common presumed "invisible" explanation is that the depression got worse. After all, the antidepressants don't always work, and if the depression was getting worse, that could easily have been the reason for a person to commit suicide.
Secondly, there is a possible "placebo effect" after a suicide. (I do not believe this is the best explanation for the suicides that have occurred on antidepressants; but family members of someone who committed suicide should brace themselves, this doesn't sound good). Consider a family whose daughter has committed suicide. Perhaps it is just too overwhelming for them to think that she really felt that badly, and somehow they missed it. Better to think that "the medication did it". Notice that they could really believe this, and that there is a "placebo" effect going on, only in this case it is an idea instead of a sugar pill. They want to believe the pill caused the suicide, because it can help them not hurt so much.
However, these two limitations may not completely doom testimonials as evidence in the particular case of antidepressants and suicide. There are some obvious logical criteria under which patient/family stories would be less subject to these limitations. First, there should be some aspect of the story that rules out or decreases the plausibility of "worsening depression" as the basis for the suicidal thinking or action. Secondly, there should be no evidence to suggest that some benefit to the patient or family led to their adopting the explanation that "the pill did it". That second one's tough: just sounding objective does not rule out the possibility of gross bias on the patient or family's part; however, obvious pain in the story-telling raises the possibility of the "placebo effect".
Can we find patient reports without background depression, and with sufficient objectivity? The FDA transcript include four examples meeting these criteria, in my opinion (granted, this judgement itself is subjective). In this case report table, their names appear in red.
From my own patients I hear much more detail, of course. After hearing accounts like those in the FDA transcripts for 2-3 years, at least one a month I would estimate, one came to me "in print" from a high-functioning, emailing client, Ms. B. Sensitized by previous, similar stories, I asked her if I might keep this one and publish it; i.e. this was not the only such story I've heard, nor necessarily the most striking, but rather the one that came most easily into my hands in original form.
I think Ms. B's story strongly meets the above criteria for a credible account implicating antidepressants. However, I also grant that skeptics would likely not find it as convincing as I do (perhaps rightly so; I could easily be biased from having met the patient herself).
In summary, on this issue of "testimonials": as just noted, both the patients' reports themselves and the process of selecting cases suggestive of causality are subjective. In that respect, they will never be adequate to establish firmly that antidepressants cause suicidality or homicidality. However, in my opinion, the more one listens, the more one becomes convinced of this relationship. On the other hand, because we do not yet have more objective data, maintaining some doubt about this relationship is also indicated. (Thanks to Dr. Rick Bingham for helping me maintain that perspective).
Can patients be good scientists?
We have looked at two reasons to dismiss testimonials: the "invisibility" of alternative explanations, and the possibility of a placebo-like value of placing blame on a medication. Now for some serious "opinion" on my part.
There may be a third reason we dismiss testimonials: they come from patients. Doctors can offer testimonials too, but their descriptions are more acceptable (we have been properly trained; we are more objective, less emotional; we aren't as susceptible to placebo effects because we know better, etc.) Accordingly, doctors' testimonials are given a different name: "case reports".
Fortunately medicine is slowly figuring out that patients can be scientists too, and can be enlisted as allies in the search for data. In fact, I think that's exactly what happened at the FDA on this issue of antidepressants and suicide: in 1991, the few case reports were presented only by doctors, but in 2004, by patients -- and especially, by a patients' advocacy organization, the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation. I'll quote them again, though you may have seen this on a previous page:
Over the four years since CABF first launched its Web site, www.bpkids.org, numerous parents have reported on our Message Boards the results of their children using of antidepressants. Some report that their children first became suicidal immediately or shortly after being prescribed an antidepressant, and that these alarming symptoms stopped only when the medication was stopped. Others report that their child’s prior existing depression with suicidal ideation quickly escalated into rapid cycling/mixed states (the state with highest risk of suicide for any patient with bipolar disorder) soon after their child began treatment with an antidepressant, and that these increased symptoms subsided when the antidepressant was stopped. Conversely, other parents report that their children had suicidal thoughts or actions before taking any antidepressant, or which developed during treatment for bipolar disorder, and that the suicidal ideation and behavior improved when an antidepressant was added to the child’s treatment plan.
Because they are reporting multiple patients who received the same treatment, this testimony represents the conclusion from a large case series (granted that we have no access to the data from which the conclusion is derived; it might be wise to try to remedy that someday).
"Case series", or "testimonials"? The sound of those terms illustrates my point here. I think we are finally realizing that we should pay more attention to patients' accounts, and that strict reliance on "data" -- by which we mean our own productions, as opposed to anything patients might generate -- has been limiting our vision. Witness, for example, the benefit of the collaborations between Dr. Hirschfeld and colleagues and the Depressive and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) on estimating how long it takes for someone with bipolar disorder to be diagnosed as such.Hirschfeld When we do not have randomized trial data to rely on, "testimonials" are worth listening to -- not to establish efficacy, but to identify risk.
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A full load of laundry will depend on the capacity or size of your washing machine. Smaller capacity top loaders may accommodate only 6 lbs of dirty clothing to be full. Medium capacity top loading washing machines can usually tolerate 7-8 lbs. The biggest large capacity top loaders will do well with as much as 12-15 lbs. Front loading washing machines can hold as much as 18 lbs of clothing. So how many items are in a lb. of clothing? To find out how much your loads weigh, you can weigh yourself holding a load of dirty clothing, and subtract it from your weight without the dirty load. While weight varies with type of material, these are some general guidelines.
- Twin Sized Quilt-3-5 lbs.
- Complete Child Outfit-1-3 lbs.
- Complete Adult Outfit-3-5 lbs.
In addition to the weight restrictions on our machines, there are also size restrictions. The best load of laundry is one that mixes items of varying sizes. This allows clothing to move much more fluidly in the washing machine and keeps the clothing fully washed, fully rinsed, and undamaged. Although a full or queen sized quilt may weigh only 7 lbs., it could still be too big for your top loading washing machine. Front loaders are much more able to tolerate large items and still get them clean and keep them protected. Check your manufacturer's instructions to see specific information for your machine.
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The Department of Justice has charged six Estonians and one Russian in a massive cybercrime ring that hijacked four million computers in a boring but lucrative "click-jacking" scheme.
"Click jacking" is when a crook secretly directs your web browser to a page they control, for malicious purposes. In this case, the Eastern Europeans infected 4 million computers with malware that allowed them to change users' destination on the web to advertisers they had contracted with. Victims included computers at NASA and in over 100 countries, according to the LA Times. They earned as much as $14 million.
There's a helpful guide to checking if your computer has been "click-jacked." But why not live on the edge and just leave the malware on there? It's like you're working on a crime scene ever day!
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The Price of Education
Image of the entrance to Leeds University. Photo by Martin Toole (cc).
This is an interesting one. A market research company has asked current students whether they would have gone to university if they’d had to pay £9000 fees. Around half of students surveyed say that they would not have done.
We can’t know what these students would actually have done if they’d been faced with the choice between £9000 fees and no degree. I don’t know what I’d have done. But I do know this: as a disabled student, unable to work during my undergraduate years because of impairment, I would have thought extremely carefully before going to university at those fee levels. And I’m a very privileged disabled student. I know various disabled people for whom cost is a serious barrier to education. There will be many more unable to go into higher education when fees are at the new levels.
There are two articles on disability in the online version of the Times Higher Ed this week. I identify strongly with the barriers described by the disabled student. I want a supervisor like the one who writes about her disabled PhD candidate (excellent though my own supervisor is!) It’s so easy for universities to say they have a good record on inclusion for disabled students without having to do much to prove it. My own uni says this, yet I’m fighting with bureaucracy there for basic rights and provision for basic needs. The barriers to higher education for disabled students are enormous, and widely overlooked. £9000 fees are only going to make this situation so much worse. The same will be true for students from other social groups that face barriers to education. This isn’t just a loss for these students. These students will be a loss to academia.
What, and who, will be the real price of the fee rises?
(Daily Blogging Experiment: Day 1)
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It is no secret that the schools in San Ramon are a magnet for home buyers looking for top-notch schools in a pristine, well-managed community. But it looks like the San Ramon schools are attracting more than just eager kids looking for a great education, as there has been a rash of coyote sightings recently at several San Ramon Schools:
Coyote sightings around San Ramon schools have been reported recently, the latest one Thursday morning when one of the animals was seen sleeping under a school’s marquee.
“It’s odd,” said San Ramon Valley school district spokesman Terry Koehne. “We’ve never had this many.”
Thursday’s sighting was one of a handful in the past few weeks at Pine Valley Middle School, said Koehne. It is believed to be the same animal, which a custodian unsuccessfully tried to shoo away before it left on its own. He said the county has set traps in hopes of catching the animal. Alerts have been sent to parents, though the district does not believe there is any danger.
There also have been other coyote sightings in the city. A parent reported seeing one Wednesday on a hillside behind Bollinger Canyon Elementary School. Two were seen on Nov. 19 in a California High parking lot.
In the Dougherty Valley, coyotes also were reportedly seen Dec. 1 at Live Oak Elementary and Dec. 4 at Quail Run Elementary.
If you encounter one, it is best to raise your arms to appear larger than you are, and shout loudly. Courtesy of the Valley Times.
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
1301.0 - Year Book Australia, 2006
Previous ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 20/01/2006
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BUSINESS USE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT)
BUSINESS USE OF THE INTERNET
Data were collected on the main type of connection used to access the Internet as at the end of June 2004. A higher proportion of businesses using the Internet were mainly using non-broadband connections (58%) than broadband connections (41%). Broadband is defined by the ABS as an 'always on' Internet connection with an access speed equal to or greater than 256 kilobits per second. Dial-up (analog) was the most common main type of Internet connection for businesses with Internet use (50%), while Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) was the least common (8%).
Broadband connections were the most prevalent main Internet connection type for businesses which employed 100 or more people (78%) and 20-99 people (54%). In contrast, dial-up (analog) was the most common main Internet connection type for businesses which employed 0-4 people and 5-19 people at 54% and 49% respectively.
For businesses using broadband, the most common main type of broadband connection used at the end of June 2004 was Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) at 67%. Cable was the next most common broadband connection type (28%). Cable includes fibre optic, coaxial and hybrid fibre coaxial cable.
For businesses with non-broadband Internet connection types, the most commonly reported reason for not using a broadband connection was a lack of perceived benefit (32%). This was followed by ongoing connection and usage costs being too high (26%), start up connection costs being too high (24%) and unavailability of broadband in the business location (23%).
BUSINESS USE OF WEB SITES
As at the end of June 2004, approximately 25% of Australian businesses reported having a web presence, either with their own web site or a presence on another entity's web site. As web features became more sophisticated, differences in these features across employment sizes of businesses were more significant. While approximately 7% of all businesses with a web presence reported the capability for secure access or transactions, this proportion was 17% for businesses employing 100 or more people. Similarly, while integration with back-end systems was reported as a web feature by 13% of all businesses with a web presence, the proportion of businesses with 100 or more people employed which reported this feature was 21% compared with 9% of businesses with 0-4 people employed.
INTERNET COMMERCE IN AUSTRALIA
The ABS defines Internet commerce as placing or receiving orders for goods and services via the Internet or web, including email, with or without associated online payments.
The proportion of businesses that reported placing orders for goods and services via the Internet or web during 2003-04 was 42%. For this same period, 16% of businesses indicated they had received orders via the Internet or web.
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David Orentlicher Visiting professor, University of Iowa College of Law :
One Too Many Times Cautious?
President Obama's characteristic caution has served him well on many matters of foreign policy. During the 2008 campaign, when Russia invaded Georgia, he wisely waited long enough for the facts to come out while John McCain jumped the gun and reacted on the basis of incomplete information. Similarly, the president's patience during the uprising in Egypt allowed for the removal of Hosni Mubarak without allowing the process to be complicated by claims of U.S. meddling.
With Libya, on the other hand, our inaction may mean the failure of an important opportunity for democratic transition. The president correctly recognizes that our ability to influence events in other countries is limited. But intervention in Libya would occur at the invitation of the Arab League and the Libyan insurgents, and we would do well to join with them in fighting on behalf of the rights of Libyan citizens.
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There is a wealth of useful information to be found on the Prisonplanet.com Forum
Presscore NASA had released reports that the sun had released a massive solar flare or CME just a few days before the 8.9 magnitude earthquake struck Japan. NASA reported that “on March 10, 2011 around 0630 UT, a CME did strike a glancing blow to Earth’s magnetic field. This was a result of an M3 flare that occurred late on March 7, 2011.” http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/News031011-xclass.html
NASA’s timing of the solar flare colliding with Earth’s atmosphere suggests that the solar flare caused the Japan earthquake. Even PRESS Core reported that the solar flare may have triggered the Japan earthquake but an investigation of solar flares and their impact on Earth reveals that a solar flare couldn’t have and didn’t cause the Japan earthquake. The solar flare events and NASA warnings were used as a diversion.
According to the USG website http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0001xgp.php the Japan 8.9 magnitude earthquake struck on 2011 March 11 05:46:23 UT. The CME had already struck Earth almost 1 complete day earlier. That would give evidence that the CME impact did not cause the earthquake. How? As we all know, the Earth is constantly rotating. A CME could not have caused the earthquake because of that fact. Earth did not stop rotating, allowing the force of the CME to trigger an earthquake in one spot on Earth at 38.322°N, 142.369°E. A CME can cause widespread power outages, changes in weather patterns or simply create an aurora, but not an earthquake. If a solar flare from the sun didn’t cause the earthquake, what did?
At almost the exact same time as the earthquake occurred the US northern states were reportedly witnessing an Auroral Borealis. Was the US northern states witnessing an aurora caused by a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun? Science says no!
Natural occurring Auroras are only seen in the north pole region of Earth or the region of the South Pole. Why? Earth’ doesn’t rotate at a right angle to the sun, it is inclined at an angle of about 23.5°. Only the North and South Pole regions are in the position to receive the full force of a sun’s CME or solar flare. The US was facing away from the sun and the path of the incoming CME when the aurora appeared. The only region in North America that could have seen a CME created Aurora would be Canada’s northern territories or the U.S. Alaska.
An aurora is a natural light display in the sky, in the polar regions, caused by the collision of charged particles directed by the Earth’s magnetic field. An aurora is usually observed at night and typically occurs in the ionosphere. An aurora is also referred to as a polar aurora or, collectively, as polar lights because these natural occurring phenomenas are only visible between 60 and 72 degrees north and south latitudes, which place them in a ring just within the Arctic and Antarctic polar circles.
This scientific fact gives evidence that the United States didn’t see a CME created aurora, they were witnessing an artificially created aurora on March 10, 2011, one created by the star wars weapon of mass destruction called HAARP.
As reported in previous articles HAARP can and does create artificial auroras. When HAARP is activated either a weather change effect occurs or a tectonic plate effect – like an earthquake, tsunami (resulting effect of a sea based earthquake) or volcanic eruption.
When HAARP is activated it beams gigawatts of electricity into the ionosphere and that electrically charged bombardment creates an artificial auroral effect. This is one of the tell-tale signs of when the WMD called HAARP is activated. Anytime an aurora is seen in any region that is not part of the north or south pole regions, between 60 and 72 degrees north and south latitudes, HAARP is activated and an earthquake, tsunami or volcanic eruption is emanate.
HAARP manipulates the ionosphere – an electromagnetic-wave conductor, 100 kms above the earth, consisting of a layer of electrically charged particles acting as a shield from solar winds. HAARP was developed by the United States to modify the weather over its enemies or allies. It was also developed to cause mass destruction against a foreign state by triggering earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, monsoons and hurricanes.
The US Air Force commissioned paper called Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025 reveals the US plan to use emerging technology to control the weather and use it as a weapon. “In 2025, US aerospace forces can “own the weather” by capitalizing on emerging technologies and focusing development of those technologies to war-fighting applications. Such a capability offers the war fighter tools to shape the battlespace in ways never before possible.” … “In the United States, weather-modification will likely become a part of national security policy with both domestic and international applications. Our government will pursue such a policy, depending on its interests, at various levels.”
Unbeknown to the American people, on the exact same day as the Japan earthquake The US and South Korea abruptly terminated a joint naval exercise called Key Resolve 2011. Key Resolve was a command-post exercise — a computer-based simulation war game. The nuclear-powered USS Ronald Reagan and its strike group were participating in Key Resolve/Foal Eagle exercises off the coast of Japan when the earthquake and resulting tsunami hit Japan. A similar exercise was taking place the same day as the Haiti earthquake. A Haiti disaster relief scenario had been envisaged at the headquarters of US Southern Command SOUTHCOM in Miami one day prior to the earthquake.
On the day prior to the earthquake, “on Monday [January 11, 2010], Jean Demay, DISA’s technical manager for the agency’s Transnational Information Sharing Cooperation project, happened to be at the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command in Miami preparing for a test of the system in a scenario that involved providing relief to Haiti in the wake of a hurricane.”
On Thursday March 10, 2011 South Korean and US forces were in the midst of the Key Resolve / Foal Eagle exercises. Key Resolve is the new name for the military exercise previously known as RSOI, which stands for Reception, Staging, Onward Movement, Integration.
Both the US/Haiti military exercise and the US/South Korean military exercise were held just prior to a major earthquake. Both exercises involved computer simulations. Both the Haiti and South Korean exercises involved the use of very powerful radar systems – both included the use of Sea-Based X-Band Radar platforms.
The officially stated purpose of these Sea-Based X-Band Radar system is for defenses purposes. “The FBX-T radar is designed to provide early detection and tracking of ballistic missile threats while providing a key element to the layered defense strategy.”
Being sea-based allows the platform(s) to be moved to areas where they are needed for enhanced missile defense. As of 2007 the prime contractor for this program, Raytheon IDS had delivered the first two of five planned AN/TPY-2 radars to the Missile Defense Agency. The first radar was delivered in November 2004 and was deployed in Japan. The second U.S. military mobile “X-Band Radar” was deployed in June 2006 to the. ASDF Shariki Sub-base in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. How does the sea-based X-Band Radar system play a role in the Haiti 7.0 magnitude earthquake and Japan’s 8.9 magnitude earthquake? The sea-based X-Band Radar systems are a fleet of floating HAARP systems.
The Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX) is a floating, self-propelled, mobile radar station specifically designed to operate in high winds and heavy seas. It is part of the U.S. Defense Department Ballistic Missile Defense System.
The SBX is a unique combination of an advanced X-band radar mounted on a mobile, ocean-going, semi-submersible platform that provides the BMDS (Ballistic Missile Defense System) with an extremely powerful and capable radar that can be positioned to cover any region of the globe.
The Sea-Based X-Band Radar is mounted on a fifth generation Norwegian-designed, Russian-built CS-50 semi-submersible twin-hulled, self-propelled oil-drilling platform. It is based at Adak Island in Alaska but can be moved on its own power to any place in the Pacific Ocean.
The SBX-006 platform has six, 3.6 megawatt diesel generators. When all six generators are turned on the SBX has a 21.6 megawatts capability. By comparison, the HAARP ground based installation (near Gakona, Alaska – 62°23?33.73”N 145° 9?2.61”W) is a 3.6 megawatt facility.
The X-band radar itself, which sits under a dome on top of the floating platform, is the largest, most sophisticated phased array, electro-mechanically steered X-band radar in the world. It consists of thousands of antennae driven by transmit/receive (T/R) modules. T/R modules are multi-functional circuits that can transmit, receive, and amplify signals.
A phased array antenna is composed of lots of radiating elements each with a phase shifter. Beams are formed by shifting the phase of the signal emitted from each radiating element, to provide constructive/destructive interference so as to steer the beams in the desired direction. The signal is amplified by constructive interference in the main direction. The beam sharpness is improved by the destructive interference.
The US land based HAARP facility (Gakuna, Alaska) also consists of a collection of antennae, arranged in a computer-controlled grid, known as a “phased array.” Both the land-based HAARP and sea-based HAARP have the ability to focus radio signals in a precise direction, without the necessity of turning the antennae. Modern radar systems no longer use the revolving dish that we have come to recognize. The new radar antennae, which rely on phased arrays, look more like the flat screen of a drive-in movie, speckled with small umbrella-like antennae in neat rows. The phased array in both the land-based and sea-based HAARPs uses extremely high frequencies to focus a powerful electromagnetic beam to specific locations in the Earth’s ionosphere. Both heat the ionosphere. Ionosphere heating was among techniques investigated by both the US and the former Soviet Union to either enhance friendly or disrupt enemy communications by modifying the natural ionosphere.
World-renowned scientist Dr. Rosalie Bertell confirmd that “US military scientists are working on weather systems as a potential weapon.” In The Times of London report on November 23, 2000, “The methods include the enhancing of storms and the diverting of vapor rivers in the Earth’s atmosphere to produce targeted droughts or floods.”
“By controlling food, you can control people. Weather modification can affect food production and eventually the available supply. Starving resisters out is much more effective than having to track them down and shoot it out with them.” ~ Philip Hoag who published a book on the subjects of weather modification and tesla-scalar electromagnetic weapons.
Dr. Nick Begich, describes HAARP as “a super-powerful radio wave beaming technology that lifts areas of the ionosphere (upper layer of the atmosphere) by focusing a beam and heating those areas. Electromagnetic waves then bounce back onto earth and penetrate everything – living and dead.”
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Exercise Key Resolve 2011 wraps up in South Korea
“9 Mar 2011 … YONGSAN GARRISON, South Korea – Exercise Key Resolve came to an end March 10 following two weeks of training around the Korean Peninsula.”
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When Paw Pha, an immigrant from Myanmar, came to Cornell in 2006, his English and his computer skills were limited. But one day, Pha, a library collections assistant at the University, stumbled upon a newspaper ad for Cornell’s Community Learning and Service Partnership program.
“We focus on areas of high school completion, English as a second language and computer skills,” said Virginia Steele, assistant director of CLASP, which, since 1990, has paired hundreds of support staff with students to choose a “personal learning objective” and work to achieve that goal. “There are a big variety of personal goals that employees have, ranging from learning basic English to help with college level courses.”
“I wanted to learn English and then learn computer skills, as we use computers a lot at work,” Pha said.
Paired up with Robert Hutko, a program aide for CLASP, for two hours a week, Pha said he began learning “English, and after a while … moved to computers.”
“When I started working here, I didn’t know anything about computers,” he said. “It is a nice experience. [Hutko] is really good and explains me stuff when I don’t understand something.”
When he started the program, his “main inspiration,” Pha said, was to pass his GED tests. Pha also said that he wanted to learn English so when they come to the library to get books, he can better understand students’ requests.
Now a member of the program for six years, Pha said CLASP has helped him achieve half of his goal. Although he said he is still learning to operate computers, he believes his English has improved.
“When I started, I knew only a little bit of English. Now, I can say that I am a little better,” he said.
Interest in the program has not waned, Steele said, because employees want to improve their skills and form “one-to-one learning partnerships” with students.
“From the point of view of employees, they cook for students and help maintain other facilities, but they also often don’t have the chance to have a good conversation or get to know the pressures that students are under,” Steele said.
Additionally, Steele said that for service employees, CLASP “is one of the few opportunities that they have to continue their education on a personal one-to-one basis.”
Approximately half the employees in CLASP are foreigners, according to Steele. This provides students an opportunity to learn from the employees who serve them, she said.
“They see custodians in their dormitories taking care of them, they see them cooking food, cleaning the sidewalks for them, but actually forming a friendship with custodial workers provides them with a new perspective of Cornell,” Steele said.
Hutko said that the program also has a broader effect on the Cornell community.
“When someone in our community is empowered to learn and know something that they didn’t know before, it creates a positive feeling for them, as well as [an] ability for positive action,” he said. “This ripples out. They might share it with co-workers, their children and their spouses.”
Reflecting on his experiences and progress after joining CLASP, Pha said, “I am glad that Cornell has this opportunity for the employees. It is really helpful. When you come here, you can learn anything.”
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The GOLD’s vision is to establish a culture in America that makes donating a kidney an automatic response.
With over 100,000 Living Donor transplants, the procedure of living donation has proven to be a safe and appropriate medical science.
It is very important to note that unlike many possible cures for major illnesses, organ donation is the only missing link to immediately curing thousands of ESRD patients. We already have the technology, know-how, transplant facilities, medications and trained doctors. WHEN A DONOR IS AVAILABLE, THE CURE IS REAL. WE NEED MORE DONORS!
The GOLD will assemble a mix of promotion, communications and advertising experts into a Media Advisory Council. This Council will be charged with developing a targeted communications strategy for implementation.
The GOLD will then produce and air messages in relevant media to reinforce the option of living donation as a positive, pro-active decision when faced with a loved one in need.
These marketing efforts will include:
The GOLD is a fresh and unique approach with a simple, focused message… “If you have a good friend or family member in need of a kidney transplant, consider being a donor.”
The GOLD and its message for living donation will have no other agendas or distractions; promoting living donation is the only intention.
The Gift of Living Donation, Inc. is a not-for-profit 501c.3 corporation, incorporated in the State of New Jersey.
Related Objectives would include:
1). The GOLD will work with national and state governments to improve the living donation process. For example: Enable the transferability of a kidney donor’s benefits from the donor to a family member in the event that they subsequently need a kidney. Another example: Secure lifetime health insurance coverage for uninsured donors.
2). The GOLD will pursue efforts to have Medicare take a pro-active role in this promotion. Converting Dialysis Patients to Kidney Recipients will save Medicare Millions of Dollars! It is estimated that Medicare will spend $22 Billion annually on dialysis costs by 2010. This is approximately 8% of the total Medicare Budget. (Another $7.2 Billion was spent by non-Medicare payers in 2006 on “ESRD” costs.)
3). The GOLD will support other efforts to increase organ donation. By its promotional efforts:
a.) The GOLD will also be indirectly promoting efforts of the fifty-eight Organ Procurement Organizations (“OPO’s”) and Donate Life to encourage registration of organ donation upon death;
b.) Similarly, The GOLD’s efforts will be promoting the National Kidney Registry’s donor-recipient pairs, and altruistic living donors with recipients.
c.) The GOLD’s efforts will also heighten awareness for the benefit of other possible future related organ donor programs such as Presumed Consent and Incentive Compensation, if/when they materialize.
4). The GOLD will serve the needs of potential Living Donors by expanding their informational resources through linking with other websites and services related to living donation.
5.) Through its media focus, The GOLD could become “media central” for organ transplant related media efforts and collaborate to capitalize on volume based media initiatives.
6). With its infrastructure firmly established, The GOLD will evolve its outreach promotional effort to include partial liver transplants, blood donation and bone marrow donation.
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The Launch Pad is Ready... For Testing
When it is time to start charging a fee to play a massively multiplayer online game, the industry talks about the launch. The intent is defined thusly (from Dictionary.com):
launch1 (lônch, länch)
v. launched, launch·ing, launch·es
So, how well do we match up to that standard? We dont even come close. It is a scene that is becoming all too familiar in this industry; launch before the game is stable and hope like Hades you can patch the worst problems quickly enough not to lose your core market. If Detroit launched new car models the way we launch new online games, youd take delivery at the sales lot only to find that the engine wouldnt start, two wheels were missing, the driver had only twelve inches of head space and unshielded EM radiation from the dashboard instruments sterilized everyone within thirty feet in ten seconds flat. The only thing that gets propelled with force is the box the game came in.
- To throw or propel with force; hurl: launch a spear.
- To set or thrust (a self-propelled craft or projectile) in motion: launch a rocket; launch a torpedo.
- Nautical. To put (a boat) into the water in readiness for use.
The implications for the genre are enormous. At one extreme, were at the least getting a bad reputation. At the other, this practice could conceivably kill the genre or limit it to the hard core niche were serving now. What makes this particularly poignant now is one recently and badly launched MMOG and another much-anticipated MMOG scheduled to launch later this month.
Case in point: the recently launched World War II Online. In this case, the game launched in the same way the first few space program rocket boosters launched in the late 1950s, rising a few feet before giving up in despair and coming back down to a spectacular crash and burn. WW2Os launch may go down as the textbook case launch failure, much the way Robot Monster became the textbook bad film. Here are some of the choicer tidbits:
- After buying the WW2O retail package, players found themselves in the position of having to download a mandatory 67.3 megabyte patch. That is not a misprint; players were basically forced to download the game they had just purchased. If you happen to be stuck with 56k or lower dial-up Internet access, that means several hours of download time. I dont know about you, but that would cause me to become mildly annoyed, in much the same way Jehovah became mildly annoyed with Sodom and Gomorrah;
- The patch and registration servers for the game didnt exactly work right. According to Cornered Rat/Playnet, the developer/publisher, the servers were swamped from unanticipated high sales on the first day. Those sales numbers? Supposedly 15,000. How many registrants could the servers accommodate? Less than 800, partially because
- The servers were crashing regularly or otherwise were unavailable. This was originally blamed on new hardware installed shortly before the game launched. As of the time of this writing, the problem doesnt seem to have been solved completely, according to complaints on various message boards;
- Even after the patch, the game client doesnt seem to work for a surprising number of players. If you read the various reviews and message forums associated with WW2O, it is apparent that at least half the purchasers couldnt get the game to run on their machines;
- When the above problems were fixed well enough to allow access to the game, even players with maxed-out game machines were getting frame rates below 5 fps. Some were getting frame rates below one. Some of this was solvable for some players by switching to or from the Z buffer, but others seem to still be experiencing problems;
- Billed as a land-sea-air simulator of World War II, the game launched minus a bunch of features promised by the developers. OK, this is not unusual; feature whacking to get a game out the door is fairly normal and doesnt necessarily have to be a bad thing. However, the features whacked here include the "sea" part, meaning naval operations. For that matter, machineguns didnt make the release, which seems wacky, to say the least. This would be like releasing Cowboys and Indians Online minus the horses.
All in all, it was a horridly bollixed product launch. It is not as if developers and publishers can claim they were caught unaware, not with so many examples from which to chose and learn. For that matter, some of the WW2O developers have developed and launched combat simulator MMOGs before, most notably Warbirds. It isnt like they have the excuse of being newbies to the field, like Funcom.
And Funcom is the developer of the previously mentioned and much-anticipated game that is set to launch later this month, Anarchy Online. Even before launch, AO is starting to exhibit some stress fractures. The standard complaints about client lag in art-intensive areas and trouble zoning from one area to another abound. There are also more serious complaints. For example, the front end client for the game went gold a few weeks ago, to get the retail package on the shelf in time for the launch. Last week, it was discovered that using the AO client with Windows 2000 could corrupt the Win2k registry so badly that one couldnt even boot the machine. Some AO Win2k users had to boot from the Windows CD and recover the pre-AO installation version of the registry to get their computers working; even then, some had to reinstall sound card and other drivers.
With problems of that nature so close to the premier date, you have to wonder how well AOs launch is going to flow. First impressions reviews can be critical to the long-term success of an MMOG. Players can be pretty tolerant, but even they have their limits. And one has to wonder how many players get frustrated early and leave, never to return. Consider: in the days of hourly fees to play an online game, the player retention rate was much higher than the approximate 45% we see today with monthly fees. Of course, games used to launch with a lot fewer problems
Now, can you imagine trying to launch a mass-market MMOG with those kind of problems? I sure cant. What causes this kind of thing? What are the root problems here? No one expects an online game (or any other online product, for that matter) to launch problem-free, but what we see today borders on the absurd. Why have MMOGs been so prone to the Crappy Launch Syndrome since Ultima Online launched in 1997?
Ive talked about some of the problems before, such as a general lack of experience in the industry in dealing with the requirements of client/server code development, and underestimating cost and time of development until the need to get a game out the door for a return on investment is paramount. That is quite a bit of why were having the current problems and well talk more about it again, Im sure. Something we havent discussed much is the need for more and better testing.
At the risk of sounding obvious, testing an MMOG is hard. Unlike the mere thousands of man-hours which go into testing home PC games, which generally consists of testing hundreds of machine/peripheral configurations and performing bug hunts, even a simple MMOG requires literally millions of man-hours to test. You not only have to perform the testing youd do for any other front end client, there is the additional complication of all that backend network and game systems code to deal with.
This is can be far more complicated than it sounds. For example, consider a massively multiplayer fantasy RPG. There are a bunch o game systems that have work to together perfectly to perform even simple acts reliably. If a player wanders up to an NPC monster and attacks, the game systems have to perform a number of checks on both combatants weapons, armor, weight, physical speed, range of attack, inventory encumbrance, magically-induced modifiers on weapons and persons, et al, then come up with a number, resolve the attack results and return those results to the player.
OK, this is what computers are for, right? Pretty much a simple matter of multiplying, dividing, adding and subtracting as needed, making an invisible random dice roll and applying the results, right? Right
as far as that goes. But now consider this: when you have hundreds of modifiable weapons and armor pieces combined with thousands of individual player characters and NPCs, the attributes and skills for which make up tens of thousands of combinations that can change on the fly, the number of possible game systems combinations that a QA department must test can reach into the millions pretty quickly.
And if youve ever worked QA on a MMORPG, you know the following dirty little secret: some game systems bugs are so deeply buried, they may occur only once every few million or tens of million commands processed by the server. Or only when exactly 1,531 simultaneous players are logged in when an orc spawns in exactly the right place, or only if six +8 Blood-drinker axes initiate combat on the same NPC at the same time tick. Or only when a monster has been surrounded with flour bags to immobilize it and 50,000 gold pieces are then dropped on it. You get the idea.
The upshot is, there is just no way to test all the possible conditions inhouse. Thats why we open our games to external testing and try to encourage a thundering horde to participate. Not only do you get load testing to see where the cracks in your software and hardware are, you get to pick off some of the more hidden, elusive bugs, too.
But not in six months, when over half that period includes less than 2,000 testers, which seems to be the norm right now. With 30,000 to 50,000 testers pounding on the game for six months, youll catch the most readily apparent bugs and anomalies and still have time to fix them and test them (as well as the new bugs you created with the fixes) in time for launch.
Bear in mind that some of these bugs require such complex conditions for activation, they just wont pop up until sometime after launch. These are the bugs that give QA directors gray hair; they are reported once every month or two, but just cant seem to be duplicated. This can go on for months or years, with players swearing publicly theyve seen the bug and castigating the publisher for not being able to fix it. Finally, a programmer will make an intuitive leap and the problem will be found and fixed, while the players sarcastically note it should have been fixed long before. If there are even a couple dozen of these elusive bugs at any one time, which is likely, then your QA department is running in crunch mode pretty much from Launch Day until the heat death of the Universe.
If MMOG game code remained frozen from launch, eventually all but the most elusive game system bugs would be found and fixed and the QA department could eventually go on an extended vacation and act like drunken sailors. As we all know, however, MMOG code does not remain frozen; we tinker with it constantly. The game is never quite balanced correctly for our tastes, new skills, objects, quests and other content are added over time. Not only will standard, run-of-the-mill bugs be added by all this, it is virtually certain that it will add one or more hidden, elusive bugs.
Most maddening of all, when we find and fix bugs, there is a tendency for new bugs to be created by the fix, which must then also be found and squashed. It is a never-ending process. In a perfect world, even one small code change would result in the game being tested from scratch, top to bottom. Obviously, that just isnt possible or realistic.
So what can we do different? First, developers and publishers need to understand that longer test periods with high volumes of simultaneous players are required exercises, not luxuries. You cant go along for five months with a couple thousand testers, then assume that hitting the last month before launch with 20,000 to 50,000 load testers is going to cut it. You need to stage a rising number of simultaneous users gracefully, giving you time to detect and correct problems before rising to the next level of intensity.
Next, such games need to have a minimum of three months testing at max tester loads before launching. Most of the really weird bugs arent going to show up until you max out player counts on the game servers for an extended period.
Executives that can demand a game ship before it is ready need to back off a bit. These games always take longer to develop than expected; cutting the testing process short is not exactly a good way to compensate. Part of the problem here is that Marketing and Sales have probably locked in ship dates with retailers to guarantee that shelf space will be available and advertising will hit at the proper time, which is, after all, their jobs. A change in the process is necessary here; publishers probably shouldnt be scheduling a launch date and unleashing Marketing and Sales until the first true maxed-out server tests.
There also needs to be a comprehensive code change control process in place. Cowboy programming making and implementing code changes on the fly, bypassing the testing process - has caused more problems in MMOGs than any other factor I can think of. What looks like a simple fix usually has other ramifications; changes need to be controlled and tested well before being released to production servers.
For the client side, which probably has to go to the duplicator about a month before the launch date: Pound on it early, freeze the code as early as possible and for gods sake, make as few changes as possible after you send the gold master to the duplicator, or youll end up with 67 meg download like WW2O.
None of the above will deliver a perfect, bug-free game; that just isnt possible. It would deliver games with far fewer launch bugs than we see today.
Thats a start, I think.
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“Could you look up Mary Hogan?” asked my dad’s cousin Aggie. “I think she may have been,” and this added sotto voce, as if, even after so many years, there might yet be something to hide, “a Home Girl.”1
A Home Girl?
At the time, I knew next to nothing about the Home Child movement, the child emigration scheme which saw over 100,000 children sent from Britain to Canada between 1869 and 1930. And yet, I must have already encountered the term somewhere, because the “Home Girl” designation immediately made some sort of sense to me. I imagined an orphan: an orphan from England? (though Hogan is an Irish surname, obviously, and from the description provided by my father and his cousin Aggie, Mary Hogan certainly sounded Irish).2
Well, I had heard of the “Barnado Boys,” of course. Indeed, I had no doubt first encountered the term as a young girl, when I avidly devoured Lucy Maud Montgomery’s series about Canada’s most beloved (though fictional!) orphan girl ever. As a childhood devotee of “Anne with an e,” I had read of Marilla Cuthbert drawing a line in the sand at the thought of a Barnardo Boy, or, in a phrase which captures the casual racism of the time, a “London street Arab.”3
My father and his cousin recalled Mary Hogan from their childhood as a somewhat elderly and somewhat eccentric fixture on the Burke family farm: not quite a blood relation, perhaps, but no mere “hired girl,” either, and “almost family” through affinity and through sheer length of tenure: apparently she had been with the Laheys and the Burkes since forever.
Well, since at least as far back as 1891, at any rate…
…So I looked up Mary Hogan, as per Cousin Aggie’s request. And here is what I found:
In the 1891 census of March township (Carleton Co., Ontario), Mary Hogan, age 15, is found in the household of my 2x-great-grandparents John Lahey and Margaret Jane Killeen. Her occupation: domestic servant. Her birthplace: Ontario. Hmm…Ontario is not England, but perhaps the census enumerator was mistaken in his birthplace designation?
In 1901, Mary Hogan is found in the household of William Lahey (son of the above-mentioned John Lahey and Margaret Jane Killeen, and brother of my great-grandfather John James Lahey) and his wife Sarah Kelly. Here again she is listed as a Domestic, born 10 July 1875; and here again her birthplace is given as Ontario [O r, for Ontario rural]. Well, that Ontario birthplace listing doesn’t exactly strengthen the Home Girl thesis, to be sure.
But wait! (and here is where I first began to notice Home Children in the census returns) … While the 1901 census records an Ontario birthplace for Mary Hogan, it records a birthplace of England for two other young people in the household of William Lahey and Sarah Kelly: John Maguire, age 16, born England, “adopted;” and Mary Kavanagh, age 10, born England, “adopted” (click the following to see larger image):
There can be little doubt that both John Maguire and Mary Kavanagh were Home Children.
John Maguire may have come to Canada in October 1898 (Liverpool to Quebec; destination: Ottawa, Ontario), at the age of about 14, under the auspices of the Southwark Catholic Emigration Committee, London. Mary Kavanagh (Cavanagh? Cavanaugh?) has proved more elusive: I have not yet found a Home Child emigration record that might refer to her. But there was a Maggie Kavanagh, age about 10 in 1899, who travelled to Canada (Liverpool to Quebec) under the auspices of the Liverpool Catholic Children’s Protective and Rescue Home in May 1899.
Moreover, in the 1901 census of March township, I found another Home Child in another Lahey household: Margaret Devin [Devine], age 14, born Ireland, “adopted,” in the household of Thomas Burke and Mary Ann Lahey (daughter of the above-mentioned John Lahey and Margaret Jane Killeen, and sister to my great-grandfather John James Lahey). Margaret Devine came to Canada in June 1897, travelling from Liverpool to Quebec under the auspices of the Liverpool Catholic Protection Society. I have since learned a little bit more about Margaret Devine through correspondence with one of her descendants,4 of which more in a later entry.
By 1911, Margaret Devine was no longer in the household of Thomas Burke and Mary Ann Lahey: she had married in 1908, and had married another Home Child! whom she had apparently met on the Burke-Lahey family farm, where he had also been placed. Mary Hogan, on the other hand, can be found with Thomas Burke and Mary Ann Lahey from at least as far back as 1911, and with this Burke-Lahey family she would remain for decades. And when, on 11 June 1958, Mary Hogan “died suddenly at her abode at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dominic Stanton,” she was at the home of Michael Dominic Stanton and his wife Mildred Estella Burke, daughter of Thomas Burke and Mary Ann Lahey, and granddaughter of John Lahey and Margaret Jane Killeen.
So Mary Hogan lived with three generations of Laheys, in other words: first with John Lahey and Margaret Jane Killeen (generation 1); then with their son William Lahey and his wife Sarah Kelly (generation 2); then with their daughter Mary Ann Lahey and her husband Thomas Burke (also generation 2); and finally with their granddaughter Mildred Estella Burke (daughter of Thomas Burke and Mary Ann Lahey) and her husband Michael Dominic Stanton (generation 3).
No question she lived as a “Domestic” in the household(s) of another family from at least the age of 15. But was Mary Hogan a “Home Girl”?
(To be continued…)
- Oral interview with Mary Frances Agnes O’Neill, January 2007. ↩
- As I was later to learn, there was nothing unusual about “English” Home Children of Irish origin. In fact, Ottawa (more specifically, St. George’s Home on Wellington Street in Ottawa, now Holy Rosary Rectory) was one of the main receiving centres for Catholic children sent to Canada from Great Britain under the auspices of various English Catholic “protection societies,” which apparently set themselves up as Roman Catholic alternatives to the Protestant-centred Barnardo scheme. Many, probably most, of these Catholic children were of Irish background. For more on the Catholic Home Child movement, see Frederick J. McEvoy, “‘These Treasured Children of God’: Catholic Child Immigration to Canada” (CCHA, Historical Studies, 65, 1999, 50-70). ↩
- “‘At first Matthew suggested getting a Barnardo boy. But I said “no” flat to that. ‘They may be all right — I’m not saying they’re not, but no London street Arabs for me,’ I said. ‘Give me a native born at least. There’ll be a risk, no matter who we get. But I’ll feel easier in my mind and sleep sounder at nights if we get a born Canadian.’” Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, cap. 1 ↩
- This descendant had acquired some of her information by contacting Nugent Care in the UK. ↩
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QUEENSTOWN HERITAGE & ARTS FESTIVAL 2012:
CENTENARY OF THE NORTH LYELL MINE DISASTER
The biennial Queenstown Heritage & Arts Festival is a hand-crafted program of contemporary arts and cultural activities that are bold, fresh, surprising and fun – events that are fundamentally tied to a sense of place, a rare phenomenon which can’t be seen anywhere else in Tasmania.
The 2012 festival will commemorate a momentous event in Australia's history. At approximately 10:35am on 12 October 1912, a fire sprang to life in a pumphouse on the 700 ft level within the North Lyell Mine. The flames quickly enveloped the building and produced thick billows of smoke that trapped many workers deep underground. Four days of exhaustive and heroic rescue attempts couldn’t avert the eventual catastrophe, as 42 local men lost their lives within the mine.
One hundred years later the Queenstown Heritage & Arts Festival is paying tribute to the disaster by encompassing the anniversary within the festival program, presenting a range of activities that confidently combine the arts with the rich cultural heritage of Queenstown in a way that respects the past and recognises the present and future of our community.
The festival's aim is to create significant social and economic benefits for the west coast of Tasmania, and generate awareness of the value of the arts and culture in growing healthy regional communities.
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Today, Juniors and Seniors had a “special speaker” that spoke to us about “Making It Count.” She spoke about looking, applying, and financing college. Her presentation was very clear cut, informative, and riddled with advertisements from the program’s “endorsers.” These “endorsers” include: US Navy, The University of Phoenix Online, an American oil company, and many others. The main sponsor of “Making It Count” is Monster Worldwide, parent company of the famous job search engine Monster.
The sales pitch/presentation focused on Monster’s MonsterCampus.com and FastWeb websites and programs. It wouldn’t have bothered me if the packet of information they gave us didn’t include a large, full-page advertisement from each of the “endorsers” and she ended the program with “And I’d like to thank all of our endorsers…”, followed by each of the endorsers and a slogan.
Giving Monster the benefit of the doubt, I visited their MonsterCampus.com. I shouldn’t have. At the top of the page, a link: “Information for Advertisers.” [Wayback Archival].
Put your brand directly into the hands of over 1 million high school and college-bound teens.
You’ll reach a large, targeted, captive teen audience with our guaranteed hand-to-student delivery.
Build your customer database by leveraging highly targeted, qualified leads captured in real-time during the FastWeb registration process.
That’s a sample of the information found for advertisers. By the looks of the Wayback Machine, MonsterCampus.com just a way for Monster to make money, and for advertisers to “reach their target audience.” Just search the Wayback Machine for “www.monstercompus.com” and look at the version for May 27th, 2003. You’ll see what I’m talking about.
If I didn’t know better, many of these member schools have a financial incentive to allow the “Making It Count” program to be presented. It’s no different than drink and snack machines.
Those machines, operated mainly by PepsiCo [our's is anyway], gives the school a 25-cent kickback. “Oh, twenty-five cents is nothing to be blabbering about commercialism,” you say. Oh? Consider this, it’s estimated that 30% of our students [that's 240, thanks] purchase either a beverage or a snack daily. That’s $60 a day, $300 a week, $15000 per year. That’s not bad for just allowing PepsiCo to put drink machines [plastered with their name and logo] in our school.
I remember my elementary school years, back 10 years ago, I was intrigued by the sheer majesties of the “Surge” advertisement posted in the “snack building”–a portable shop used to house our drink and snack machines. The bottle was contoured, the drink was energizing and sweet, and the name was just awesome. The advertisement drew me to it. Although, as high schoolers, we’re not as apt to choose a beverage by the look and name, but we’re still vulnerable to such commercialism.
I don’t see the point of commercialism in school. It leads to unnecessary spending of our parents’ money. No matter how necessary it may seem.
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Will consumers buy the "new" salmon? A big debate is ensuing over a big fish about to enter the U.S. market.
There’s big news from the fish market! Coming soon, a genetically-altered salmon that can grown twice as fast – and twice as large – as a normal salmon!
OK, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear that idea? Could this be a response to the growing demand for healthy fish products both in the U.S and Europe – and indeed, across the developed world? Could it even be an answer to the growing food supply problems around the world? Could such a genetically-altered salmon be a “frankenfish” – one that consumers will not want to buy – let alone eat? Could it even disrupt the normal patterns of the salmon population if it were to get out of the aquaculture farming system and into the wild?
Currently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering authorizing Massachusetts-based Aquabounty Technologies application to sell consumers the first genetically-engineered animal for human consumption. This proposal has engendered a great deal of controversy – and media coverage.
So, for all of you students out there who are trolling the Internet and looking for a quick summary of the information that’s out there on the subject (especially if it’s very, very late and your paper is due very, very early tomorrow morning), here is a summary of the media coverage out there on the subject. By watching these clips, you can get yourself up to speed quickly on the subject of this genetically-engineered fish controversy:
So, what do you think? Here are some questions to consider?
- Do you think the company (Aquabounty Technologies) will succeed with this product in the marketplace?
- Are they being innovative – or just scary?
- Should genetically-engineered food be allowed on the market?
- How should it be labelled?
- What obligation do stores and restaurants have to inform you that your fish (or any other entree) is genetically-altered?
- How do you think consumers will react to the new salmon?
- Is this a “slippery slope” for future developments?
- Is there a role for lawmakers on this?
Here’s to a great debate – send me your thoughts and comments at my blog site Wyld About Business (http://wyld-business.blogspot.com/).
David C. Wyld (firstname.lastname@example.org) is the Robert Maurin Professor of Management at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. He is a management consultant, researcher/writer, and executive educator. His blog, Wyld About Business, can be viewed at http://wyld-business.blogspot.com/. He also serves as the Director of the Reverse Auction Research Center (http://reverseauctionresearch.blogspot.com/), a hub of research and news in the expanding world of competitive bidding. Dr. Wyld also maintains compilations of works he has helped his students to turn into editorially-reviewed publications at the following sites:
· Management Concepts (http://toptenmanagement.blogspot.com/)
· Book Reviews (http://wyld-about-books.blogspot.com/) and
· Travel and International Foods (http://wyld-about-food.blogspot.com/).
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Huntington's disease is a genetic neurological disease that results in a progressive loss of control over body movements, thinking abilities, emotions, and behavior. These changes are marked by difficulty communicating, memory problems, slowed thinking, mood swings, apathy, and lack of self-awareness. They take place as a result of degeneration of specific parts of the brain.
It is important for you to understand what is happening with your loved one so that you can respond sensitively to their needs.
Keep in mind that each person affected by Huntington's disease is unique and has individual needs. The changes you notice in your loved one's behavior have nothing to do with character or personality, but are the result of the disease.
Most people with Huntington's disease understand the majority of what is being said to them, even during the end stages of the disease. However, there are a number of cognitive problems that may impair functioning. There may be difficulties with:
- Short-term memory
- Problem-solving ability
- Learning new things
- Reasoning and judgment
- Organizing ideas
- Poor orientation to space and time
There are some strategies that may help you meet these new challenges:
- Make sure the environment is quiet and free from distractions when trying to explain something.
- Make your expectations very clear.
- Make complex information simple. Avoid giving too much at one time. Try to limit instructions to a maximum of three steps.
- After writing down the steps, encourage your loved one to practice them repeatedly.
- Allow plenty of time for learning, and ask the person to keep repeating the steps.
You may also find you have to be more precise about scheduling activities. Here are some time-saving ideas:
- Schedule daily routines for all tasks.
- Use large, visible calendars, and clocks. These may include to-do lists, signs around the house, an alarm clock, or a wrist watch with an alarm.
- Keep an appointment book for all dates.
- Have the person keep a log of things he has done. (This can help with memory.)
Emotional and Behavioral Changes
There will be changes in the emotional and behavioral state of the patient. You may see:
- Depressionor Anxiety
- Displays of anger
- Rigid or repetitious behavior
- Lack of self-awareness
- Delusional thoughts
- Suicide and suicidal ideation.
Managing Angry Outbursts
People with Huntington's disease lose their ability to control emotions. They may respond to denials with temper tantrums. Irritability and angry outbursts can be very challenging to family members. Try to respond with understanding and compassion, keeping in mind that these emotional problems are symptoms of Huntington's disease. The following tips can help:
- Avoid confrontations and threats by creating a calm and structured environment.
- Do not keep reminding the person of inappropriate behaviors. Instead, focus on behaviors that would be more beneficial.
- Find out what triggers the anger. Common triggers include inability to communicate, pain, hunger, and others' unrealistic expectations.
- Try to get the person to focus on something other than the source of his anger.
Take the time to remove potential weapons from the house. This will create a safe environment for everyone. If you find the anger becomes frequent and severe, an evaluation from a neurologist or psychiatrist may be helpful.
Coping With Apathy
The person affected by Huntington's disease may seem unmotivated, lazy, indifferent, or depressed. He may sit around a lot, watch TV all day, and show little enthusiasm for initiating activities. Although apathy is a part of depression, it does not mean the person has depression. Apathy happens over time and can be particularly frustrating for loved ones if the person was once very active. Family members and caregivers should:
- Avoid seeing the behavior as intentional and judging the loved one for it.
- Suggest an activity and try to get the person involved.
- Provide polite and respectful direction and support.
- Help the person develop a schedule of activities.
- Take the person outside for activities.
- Make sure the person gets regular social contact, exercise, and sunlight.
If you suspect the apathy is part of a more serious condition like depression, contact your doctor for treatment options (which may include medication and/or therapy).
Breaking Rigid and Repetitive Behavior
A person with Huntington's disease may get fixated on a thought, idea, or routine, and have great difficulty moving onto something else. He may become resistant, distressed, and angry if pushed to do something else. The following tips may help break rigid behavior:
- Use humor to shift the person's attention to something else.
- Calmly discuss the person's fears.
- Keep a list of the person's favorite activities and foods, and use them to shift attention when they appear to be stuck on one thing.
- Use a schedule of timed activities.
Coping With Unawareness
Lack of self-awareness is common among people with Huntington's disease. This means that they may not be aware of how they are behaving, what they are doing, or their condition. It may appear that the person is in denial and does not accept the illness. Family members and caregivers should:
- Avoid being judgmental and seeing the behavior as intentional.
- Reword things so they do not sound confrontational.
- Find creative ways to get the person to cooperate, such as using rewards.
- State expectations clearly and in writing.
Caring for a loved one who has Huntington's disease can be very stressful for the whole family. Most of the strategies here (like maintaining a schedule or calendar) will work for many of the complications you will encounter.
Keep in mind that there are a number of resources available that can help you and your loved one cope better with these changes. Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, family therapists, and other counselors may be able to help. Check to see if your community, hospital, or other healthcare facility has support groups for caregivers or families.
- Reviewer: Brian Randall, MD
- Review Date: 12/2012 -
- Update Date: 12/10/2012 -
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Book Description: Schaum's Outline--Problem Solved For half a century, more than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them study faster, learn better, and get top grades. Now Schaum's celebrates its 50th birthday with a brand-new look, a new format with hundreds of practice problems, and completely updated information to conform to the latest developments in every field of study. More than 100,000 sold! This book has been updated to reflect the latest course scope and sequence. Review problems have been added after key chapters as well as more supplementary practice problems. An informal level discussion of limits, continuity, and derivatives has also been added, as well as additional information on the algebra of the dot product, exponential form of complex numbers, and conic sections in polar coordinates-plus business applications such as average rate of change, price/demand and science applications, including projectiles. An enhanced ebook is now available with 30 videos of professors showing you exactly how to solve precalculus problems! Select the Kindle Edition with Audio/Video from the available formats.
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“Culture eats technology for lunch” is a clever line that’s been circulating for a couple of years in the social business circuit. I’m not really sure who said it first (feel free to claim it), but all your favorite people have quoted it. It's meant to suggest that social business isn’t a technology problem, but a cultural one. But that is a distraction. Becoming a social business is about neither.
“Social business” a vague term that generally describes or refers to businesses that have social processes or, again quite vaguely, a social “mindset” or gestalt or je ne sais quoi. But we may not need to be so vague.
A social business is one where there is a deep sense of identity and purpose, one where its employees are a team of people who work together to understand the environment and fulfill the mission. A social business respects and engages its market and customers. A social business is aware of its impact on society and works to increase the prosperity of its employees, customers and investors.
Following the Internal Compass
In the 1970s, Abraham Maslow — he of the hierarchy of needs — described a state of self-actualization for individuals. Among other things, “self-actualizers” have “an efficient perception of and comfortable relations with reality. They are problem, rather than ego-centered, and autonomous — independent of culture and environment.” In other words, they do their own thing, and they know what thing that is. They change and adapt, but according to their own internal compass, more than outside factors. They are evolved. This sounds as though it would also describe the businesses that we hope the social movement is building.
The social business ideal (or idyll) sounds a lot like Maslow’s self-actualized individual. That ineffable something we are looking for in a business, one that is sharp, on its game, consistent, right-thinking, innovative and prosperous — a social business is an evolved business — a self-actualized business. We have a few examples of these. HubSpot is one. Is anyone else tired of hearing Apple mentioned (or can we stop now because they messed up maps)? Zappos, dare I say IBM? Genentech.
A self-actualized organization acts with intention (rather than flailing, or going through rote motions), observes with equanimity (its people remain calm in the face of both good and bad news) and learns at the speed at which it works.
This is very difficult to achieve in a strictly command and control hierarchical, non-networked structure. Information can’t flow fast enough, action cannot be taken fast enough in that kind of organization. So as command and control becomes networked, we have the opportunity to evolve in ways that were extremely difficult before.
Networked businesses have strong, narrative leadership, together with a highly connected network of responsible/respected individuals. It is this conscious approach and fluid, networked action that produces our current ideal of a social business.
While we’ve made good progress on understanding how to connect and network people in business (which is about both culture and technology), we haven’t done quite as much on the intentional, self-actualized organizational aspect.
A Sense of Self and Purpose
I just had dinner with a former co-worker who is now at Google, and he described for me a few of their processes around learning, testing, interviewing, etc. It was clear that my very smart friend gets intellectually chewed up and spit out every day — in a state of joy and curiosity. He is stretching himself in concert with the colleagues he openly admires, and it is clear it's an awesome experience.
It is also clear that Google invests systematically and heavily in learning about itself in every way — technologically, individually, organizationally and with customers. I’m thinking that they probably describe very well a company that has both its identity and its connectivity nailed.
I also had the opportunity to chat with another organization with an equally strong sense of identity but a vastly harder one. The Department of Defence. The DoD has several identities; depending on who you ask and in what context, it is the executor of the President’s will, the defender of the homeland and interests, or the creator of peace. All good and valid — and all subject to intense and interesting debate. The debate is a good thing and keeps the identity relevant over the centuries, so let's let it lie.
But is the DoD as connected as, say, Google? Does it learn as intensely and systematically? It's one thing to put revenue at risk, quite another lives. The DoD is not free to experiment and “canary” (as my old friend put it) each and every idea. That said, it has a more urgent need to maximize learning from each and every opportunity, and it's clear that they too take that very, very seriously. By networking itself more fully, it is likely to hasten that process.
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Europe is currently in the grip of what has become one of the deadliest E. coli outbreaks in history. As one might imagine, that has inspired some soul-searching here in the United States. Food-safety experts have spent years trying to persuade the USDA to step up E. coli testing, and now the department is trying to take steps to require the meat industry to expand its testing for other strains of the bacteria. And the meat industry, unsurprisingly, is not happy about that.
As Food Safety News reports, the USDA’s attempts to force the meat industry to test for other strains of E. coli are being held up by the White House Office of Budget and Management. This is in part because of the efforts of the American Meat Institute, which represents 95 percent of red-meat processors. The AMI, like any other industry group, has powerful lobbyists, and those lobbyists have an undue amount of influence in the way governmental decisions are made, or not made.
The AMI has quite an illustrious history of resisting government regulation. When, in the aftermath of the 1994 Jack in the Box E. coli scare that killed four children and sickened hundreds, the USDA declared E. coli 1057:H7 an adulterant (a legal term meaning that a food product does not meet state or federal standards), the AMI insisted there was no emergency and sued the government for its meddlesome behavior.
Five years later, the AMI sued again when the USDA attempted to shut down a beef plant due to salmonella contamination, and the courts ruled in the group’s favor. In March, AMI executives met with OMB officials to try to persuade them that additional E. coli testing would be an “unnecessary burden.”
There is no mention of the current E. coli scare on the AMI’s website, but there is a press release trumpeting new CDC data identifying 442 cases of E. coli in 2010, which achieves the public health goal of one case per 100,000 people. There’s also a press release for the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council’s first-ever hot-dog photo contest. The reward is “the ultimate summer barbecue”; if the AMI gets its way, bloody diarrhea and renal failure may be on the menu.
Source: Basically, the American Meat Institute Wants Us to Eat Shit and Die – The Village Voice Blogs
Date: 08 June 2011
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NEW FOR THURSDAY: Winterfest Of Lights Enjoys ‘Second Best Year Ever’; More New Year’s Eve Fireworks PossibleOCEAN CITY – A near record-setting year of attendance at Ocean C...READ MORE
Area Officials Stress Planning As Hurricane Season Begins
OCEAN CITY -- Wednesday marked the beginning of this year’s hurricane season, and Ocean City officials are warning area residents to start preparing now.
“The public is part of the emergency management service,” said Joe Theobald, Ocean City Emergency Services Director, at a press conference held Wednesday. “We’re trying to stress preparation.”
According to information distributed by Delmarva Power officials, who coupled with Ocean City and other emergency service providers in the area to raise public awareness, this year will likely be an above-average hurricane season. Up to 18 named storms are being predicted, with six to 10 expected to be hurricanes with another three to six possibly becoming major hurricanes.
Theobald was confident that no matter how bad the weather, however, emergency services would do their job.
“Whatever happens, we can get through,” he said.
But officials cautioned residents not to rely solely on emergency services. Matt Likovich, spokesman for Delmarva Power, advises everyone in the area to put together an emergency kit with items like food, water, a flashlight, a radio and a first aid kit.
“Don’t wait until the storm starts howling … It doesn’t take long to put something like this together,” said Likovich of a standard kit, which he recommended placing in a cooler. “You never know. You’ve got to be prepared.”
Delmarva Power provides a “Weathering the Storm” brochure on its website, delmarva.com, with additional information about preparedness kits.
As far as keeping the power going during storm season, Likovich asserted that Delmarva Power trains and prepares rigorously every year in anticipation of hurricanes.
“When storms threaten our service territory, we increase our staffing levels, adjust resources as needed and work with local governments through our Emergency Services Partnership Program to activate emergency procedures,” he said.
Likovich revealed that his company invests about $120 million every year to upgrade electronic equipment, $23 million to install new equipment and $9 million just in tree trimming.
“Such regular vegetation management helps avoid outages that can be caused by limbs and trees that fall during storms,” he explained.
Likovich also clarified the priority system of reactivation if a storm does happen to knock out power. Public safety concerns are always dealt with first, said Likovich, whether that means getting power back to a hospital or turning off a downed power line. After that, major transmission lines, substations and main distribution lines are targeted next, followed by neighborhood lines and individual lines to homes and businesses.
“That’s our battle plan when it comes to restoration,” said Likovich.
While he admitted that this might be a disappointing set up for those living in rural areas, since they would get power back last, he said that Delmarva Power would work as quickly as they could but couldn’t “be everywhere at once” and public safety had to come before convenience.
“Sometimes it’s several hours and sometimes it’s several days,” he admitted, advising those without power to remain calm and to remember that it will come back on as soon as possible.
“As people are busy making summer plans to enjoy the warm weather and beaches, preparing for a hurricane often ranks low on the list of priorities,” said Joe Thomas, the Emergency Operations Director for Sussex County. “That is why it is important to prepare now instead of waiting for a storm to affect the area.”
Thomas pointed out that just because there was a state line “it doesn’t mean that’s where the storm stops.” He urged residents all along Delmarva to start preparing kits and thinking about a good plan for if severe weather threatens the area. Thomas asserted that Sussex County was ready to work with neighboring communities and other emergency service providers if a hurricane strikes.
Troy McCabe, Emergency Services Director for the Lower Shore Chapter of the American Red Cross, promised that his agency would also be prepared. “There’s a team and there’s a plan,” he said.
McCabe explained that the main focus of the Red Cross in a disaster situation would be to get emergency shelters up and running. “We are ready to play our role when necessary,” he said.
Theobald also warned that people living in coastal areas had to be extra careful with hurricane season every year.
“The U.S. Census Bureau reports that 53 percent of this country’s population lives in coastal areas like Ocean City…so being properly prepared to deal with severe weather is very important when it comes to public safety,” said Theobald. “Ocean City has an emergency plan in place to protect the public and we urge our citizens to be ready when bad weather strikes.”
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Gel, Air, Pegasus, Motion control, off road
Specialist Running shoes & advice
All the major running shoes were designed by men and indeed the majority of these were athletes, who could not find a good running shoe or shoe for their sport and so started designing their own. The designers of running shoes, have had to take into account the shape of both mens and women's feet and many give varying widths in their different ranges. New balance have been including wide ranges within their designs since 1906, it has to be said that these were not running shoes but walking shoes, however they now offer a wide fit in their running shoes, as do other manufacturers.
Nike Running Shoes Nike was founded as Blue Ribbon Sports by Phil Knight in the early 1960's, buying the Swoosh Nike logo in 1971 for $35 from Carolyn Davidson. In 1973, Steve Prefontaine became the first major track athlete to wear Nike running shoes and in 1980 Steve Ovett was the first athlete to win an Olympic medal in Nike Running Shoes.
New Balance Asics Running Shoes Brooks Mizuno Running Shoes Saucony
Asics Running Shoes In 1949 Mr. Kihachiro Onitsuka began manufacturing basketball shoes in his living room in Kobe, Japan, before manufacturing his first marathon running shoes in 1953. Asics are now one of the largest suppliers of men's running shoes and women's running shoes.
Adidas Running Shoes Adidas was founded in 1924 in Germany by two brothers Adi and Rudolf Dassler. Adi Dassler's running shoes were worn at the Olympic Games for the first time in 1928. Dick Fosbury was one of the first major athletes to wear Adidas running shoes and running kit. In 1948 Rudolf Dassler leaves to start his own company which is now known as Puma. Once Rudolf left his brother came up with the famous three stripes logo and changed the name to Adidas.
New Balance Running Shoes Although manufacturing since 1906, the first New Balance running shoe was not introduced until 1961. It was the first to have a ripple sole and became the running shoe of choice, for coaches and athletes alike. Tom Fleming won the New York City Marathon in a pair of New Balance 320 running shoes in 1975.
Is your Running shoe right for you?
A life time of dedication, in the pursuit of the ultimate athletic performance enhancing running shoe, has been one of the major contributors, to the "breaking" of world records today. Your running shoes have never been so important.
The correct choice of running shoes is very important. One of the advantages of running compared to other sports is that you don't need to buy additional specialist equipment. All you need is a couple of pairs of good quality running shoes that best suit you, and if you are a woman, you may need a sports bra.
Whenever possible, go to a specialist running shop. You'll get a better selection, and good advice. Some have a running machine and will let you try the running shoes, before you buy.
What type of Running Shoe to buy?
There is no such thing as a "best model". Every runner is different in the way they run, and different running shoes are suitable for different running styles. And it is quite possible that a £40 pair of shoes would suit you better than a £100 pair.
I recommend that all beginners should buy their running shoes from a specialist running shoe shop, many of which are to be found in most towns. Some of these have internet sites, which is ideal for those living in out lying areas. Natterjack, Start Fitness and Up and Running have specialist running shoes, and running accessories online.
Every Runner is different
Pronate Foot Normal Foot Flat Foot
When you run, your foot should land on the outer edge and role inwards. Many people "over pronate", that is, they roll their foot inwards too much.
Some running shoes are designed to prevent this, these are shoes that promote "stability" or "motion control".
There are different degrees of over pronation, and different shoes act in various ways to prevent this. Other runners land their feet flat but there are running shoes designed and available for this also.
There is no substitute for trying several different models from different manufacturers to see which running shoe works best for you.
Follow this advice to make sure you buy suitable shoes
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|◊||Try the shoes. Don't just put them on, but run up and down the street in them. If the shop will not let you run up and down the street, leave the shop.|
Kevin Royle, the owner of the Up and Running Southampton shop, has been running for 20 years and completed 3 London Marathons as well as 6 others. He enjoys all types of running including road, trail, adventure racing and the occasional triathlon. He is a level 3 UK Athletics coach and coaches at his local running club in Eastleigh.
"Opening my shop in February 2005 was the best move I have ever made," says Kevin. "Not only can I talk about running all day long but I get to meet some really interesting people and get a living out of it."
Why not drop in, have a chat and see what Kevin, can do for you.
How long will your Running shoes last?
You should always buy two pairs of running shoes and alternate between them. Only run in the shoes, do not play any other sport, or wear them for walking around.
Running Shoes can last anything between 300 and 800 miles. Assuming you run 25 miles each week, they should last you about 4 or 5 months. Most runners do not change them often enough! Read about using running logs to track the condition of your shoes...
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Building muscle and losing fat not only involve commitment to strength and cardiovascular training, they also require dedication to a healthy eating program. Gaining muscle mass and losing fat simultaneously is difficult, because it requires your body to build up and break itself down at the same time. But by paying careful attention to your nutrition, you can put your body in the right state to reach this goal. The nine tips below will help you.
1. Get the Most Nutrition From Your Calories. It's possible to control your weight while snacking on cupcakes and brownies, but this is not sound nutrition. Junk food does not provide the nutrients you need to support your goals. Instead, focus on consuming nutrient-dense foods—foods that contain large amounts of vitamins and minerals relative to their calories and that give your body the carbohydrates, proteins and healthy fat it requires. Examples of such foods are fruits and vegetables, lean meats and plant proteins, non-fat/low-fat dairy and whole grains.
2. Write it Down. Keep an running record of the foods (and amounts) you consume. You don't have to do it daily, but writing everything down a few days a week can give you great insight. Are you surprised at how much or how little you are consuming? Your eating log should help you control some of the foods that may be contributing to excess calorie intake.
3. Timing is Everything. Continue to fuel your body around your training schedule. (Learn more about nutrient timing.) Before training, consume a carbohydrate-rich meal or snack that also includes a small amount of protein. Begin your recovery meal or snack within 15 to 60 minutes after your training session. This meal/snack should contain protein and carbohydrate. Try a smoothie made with yogurt and frozen berries or graham crackers with peanut butter and a glass of low-fat chocolate milk.
4. Reduce Calories on Rest Days. If weight loss is your goal, reduce calorie consumption on days when you are not as active. This tactic will allow you to eat more on training days, which will maximize performance and prevent fatigue.
5. Don't Get Hungry. Eat smaller amounts of food and distribute meals evenly throughout the day. This may prevent the kind of overeating that occurs when we get too hungry. Listen for your hunger cues and have healthy snacks available. Try a small piece of fruit and a low-fat string cheese or raw vegetables and hummus.
6. Slow Down. Learn to eat slowly and savor your food. It isn't going anywhere! It takes time for the stomach to signal to the brain that it's full, so when you eat quickly, you can easily overdose on calories. Take breaks from eating to sip water or engage in lively conversation.
7. Don't Deny Yourself the Foods You Love. A balanced diet that allows some flexibility can still result in good weight control without driving you crazy. Practice the 90/10 rule every day—90 percent of your eating should follow sound nutrition principles—including fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, lean sources of protein and healthy fats. The remaining 10 percent can be reserved for treats.
8. Educate Yourself. Take time to learn about nutrition in general as well as your unique food requirements. If you do this, you will be taking a major step toward weight control and a healthier lifestyle.
9. Consider Meeting With a Registered Dietitian. A registered dietitian can calculate your personal energy requirements and check your current diet to make sure that it includes the right amounts of nutrients.
Although proper nutrition for building muscle and losing fat is not easy, the more time you spend educating yourself and practicing healthy habits, the more success you will have. The goal of training hard and paying attention to nutrition is not just to achieve a number on a scale, but to make a long-term investment in your health.
Katie Knappenberger, RD, ATC, is an assistant professor and athletic trainer at Daytona State College (Daytona Beach, Fla.). She earned her master’s degree in nutrition, with a concentration in sports dietetics, from the University of Utah and her bachelor’s degree in athletic training from the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. She is a member of the Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietitians Association and the Sports Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Follow her on Twitter (@KatieRdATC) for sports nutrition tips and cutting-edge research updates.
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(A) Except as provided in paragraph (B) of this rule, "regulated articles" are prohibited entry into Ohio from any "regulated area" unless each lot or shipment is accompanied by a certificate signed by an authorized agricultural inspection official of the state of origin, affirming that the regulated articles accompanied thereby have originated in and are shipped from a non-infested site or location within his state or county, or that the regulated articles have been treated under official supervision prior to shipment in a manner and by a method which will insure freedom from the living pest. A certificate of movement for mechanized used farm equipment shall only be issued after all soil has been removed through the use of steam under pressure.
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A team of researchers at Rice University in Houston, Texas have developed a type of paint that can store and deliver electrical power much like a conventional battery. The scientists were able to break down the individual components in a battery and reorganize them into a paint that can be sprayed onto nearly any surface, layer by layer.
The technology works much like a regular battery, except that each layer is effectively flattened. A spray-on battery consists of two current collectors, a cathode, an anode and a polymer separator in the center.
The team demonstrated the paint batteries by applying them to all sorts of surfaces, including glass and stainless steel as well as curved surfaces such as a coffee mug. In another test, they sprayed six bathroom tiles with the paint, connected them all together and used the juice to power a set of LEDs for six hours at a constant 2.4 volts.
We are told that a dry and oxygen-free environment is needed to create the battery and the liquid electrolytes can be difficult to handle. Research is continuing with the hope of finding the correct combination of materials that will allow them to eliminate the oxygen-free requirement, resulting in a more efficient production process and extended commercial viability.
Project leader Pulickel Ajayan points out that this rechargeable battery technology will allow gadget makers to further slim down designs as they won’t be required to make room for traditional lithium-ion or alkaline style batteries.
A full breakdown of the team’s study can be found in Thursday’s edition of Nature Scientific Reports.
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About This Blog
In my first post on Economic Lunacy, I showed how the government grows progressively larger and larger, consuming ever more of our economy and eating away ever more of our paychecks. For the last century, government spending and taxes have skyrocketed, with no end in sight. It's no coincidence that so many families now require two breadwinners to survive. Not so very long ago, one breadwinner was enough. As I showed previously, in spite of skyrocketing taxes for the last century, those taxes could not keep up with government spending. As we all know, if the government doesn't have enough money, it keeps right on spending anyway, either by borrowing the money or printing more money. Starving the beast has not worked, because the beast has it's own printing press. Therefore, we must slay the beast.
Liberal media sources keep promoting the lie that taxes are lower than they have been since 1950. Here is one such lie from MSN Money. My blogger pal The Reverend buys into this lie, I'm sad to report. These liberal groups promote their lie by only counting SOME of the taxes we all pay as taxes. It's hard to believe anyone would be so dishonest, but that's what they do. At the previous link, MSN Money doesn't count the Social Security payroll tax as a tax. The SS tax is 12.4%. That's an awful lot to omit. MSN Money's logo should be a picture of Pinocchio.
Here's the truth:
In 1950, taxes consumed 22.70% of GDP.
In 1960, taxes consumed 29.08% of GDP.
In 1970, taxes consumed 30.92% of GDP.
In 1980, taxes consumed 31.78% of GDP.
In 1990, taxes consumed 33.23% of GDP.
In 2000, taxes consumed 37.25% of GDP.
In 2007, taxes consumed 37.20% of GDP. (the third highest percent in American history).
In 2010, taxes consumed 30.44% of GDP (it dropped because of the recession).
Anyone who tries to tell you taxes are lower than anytime since 1950 is the very worst kind of liar. The sole reason taxes dropped over the last couple years is because we've been in the worst recession since the Great Depression (according to Obama), and unemployment is 9.8%. It has little to do with marginal tax rates. Yet left-wing groups shamelessly perpetuate the lie. They are using this economic downturn to distort the facts and lie to the American people. Despicable behavior.
While I'm on the subject - In 1910, 100 years ago, taxes consumed only 7.66% of GDP. As I pointed out in my previous post, if we were paying for all the spending government is doing in 2010, our taxes would be over 45% of GDP. No wonder both mom and dad have to work to get by. The government is taking half their wages away by one means or another (liberals somehow call this "compassion").
But enough of that. I have new ground to cover today. What's even more important than where the government has taken us in the past is where the government is taking us in the future. Of the over 45% of GDP that federal, state, and local governments are consuming in 2010, 25.44% of that comes from federal spending. That number is going to skyrocket very soon. This link from the Heritage Foundation shows that federal spending alone will consume about 44% of GDP by 2055, mainly due to unfunded entitlement liabilities coming due. Imagine that scenario. The federal government would be consuming 44% of our GDP, and state/local government would be consuming another 20-25%. The government in total would be consuming 65-70% of the economy. How much do you think will be left to pay WAGES FOR WORKERS ???? Not much. And I'm not even counting ObamaCare or the rest of the new entitlements your government overlords are dreaming up on an almost daily basis. Your children's futures are being sold down the river. This country will be almost unrecognizable in another couple decades. It has to stop, and it has to stop NOW.
This is what we will soon reap from the big government seeds we have sown. This is the economic lunacy being promoted by the big government advocates today. Do you care ? They don't. Are you paying attention ? They aren't looking past the next election cycle to see how they can con you into voting for them. Are we so greedy that we only care about our own immediate needs, with no thought whatsover given for the next generation, or the one after that ? Could there be a more greedy abdication of fiscal responsibility than the one we are pawning off on the future ? They called my parents' generation the Greatest Generation for the sacrifices they made for this country. I think we may have to call my generation the Gimme Generation, because we are the most self-centered, spoiled, and selfish bunch of babies to ever come down the pike. We think everything is our "right," as if we are entitled to everything our little selfish hearts could ever desire, and we think someone else should pay for it all. What a bunch of losers.
I'll leave you with this bit of rhetorical nonsense from the mother of all nanny staters himself, President Obama. The lies in this statement are matched only by the blooming sense of universal entitlement that will soon destroy this country and is already ripping Europe apart. Here's our Panderer-In-Chief:
" But to be fair, a good deal of the other party’s opposition to our agenda has also been rooted in their sincere and fundamental belief about the role of government. It’s a belief that government has little or no role to play in helping this nation meet our collective challenges. It’s an agenda that basically offers two answers to every problem we face: more tax breaks for the wealthy and fewer rules for corporations.
The last administration called this recycled idea “the Ownership Society.” But what it essentially means is that everyone is on their own. No matter how hard you work, if your paycheck isn’t enough to pay for college or health care or childcare, well, you’re on your own. If misfortune causes you to lose your job or your home, you’re on your own. And if you’re a Wall Street bank or an insurance company or an oil company, you pretty much get to play by your own rules, regardless of the consequences for everybody else."
Got that ? If your paycheck isn't big enough, Obama will force someone else to make it bigger. If your health care is too expensive, Obama will force someone else to provide it for you. If you lose your job, Obama will force someone else to provide you an income. If you lose your house, Obama will force someone else to give you another one. And if you're a business, guess what ? You're going to pay for it all.
What could possibly go wrong ? You won't mind paying 70% in taxes in return for Obama's dreams from his father, will you ? Oh, and I almost forgot. When the businesses all go bankrupt due to these policies, the government will have you bail them out too, just like last time. The government will tell you the free market doesn't work, just like last time. Then the government will move to "fix" things that the government caused in the first place, just like last time, and the next thing you know, taxes will be 80%. But don't worry, the Nanny State has your back, so it's all good. Yes We Can...but not for long.
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
When lack of weather is unusual
We are now in the midst of a fairly unusual weather situation...an extended midwinter drought extending well over a month (see figure..red is this year, blue is climo average). And it is not over yet. But lets be clear...such droughts have occurred before and some worst then this year's. If you are really careful about picking period--mid January to mid-February--this is the driest year on record...but that really is artificial. If you started two week earlier, the heavy precipitation in early January would be included and we would be far from a record (an example of how one can.
The persistent upper level flow with a ridge offshore and a trough over the western U.S. (see figure) is predicted to persist, both by the National Weather Service GFS forecast, a collection (ensemble) of such forecasts, and the forecasts of other forecasting centers. We should have a dry week with partial sun in the lowlands, with little snow accumulation over the mountains. The latest snowpack observations indicates that some locations in the north Cascades and the Okanogan have dropped to roughly two-thirds of normal (figure).
Today, the situation will be very different in the northern and southern portion of the state. The southern half is in clouds associated with a weak ban associated with the low to the south (image). Light rain has made its way up as far north as the Portland metro area, while Seattle and north are sunny. This band should slowly move north as it dissipates . Light showers could move into southern WA...but I don't expect it to move further northward (see forecast for 4 PM this afternoon).
And there is some good news for weather watchers. A key weather observing station that had been offline...Stampede Pass at 4000 ft in the mountains--is back online. It provides the most high quality observations in the mountains..so many of us missed it.
Finally, let me note my talk on the 25th at Town Hall....it will be a comprehensive review of what we have learned about forecasting NW weather...a link about the talk is found to the right.
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About the Sleep Disorders Center
An estimated 70 million Americans have a sleep problem, and for 60 percent of those, it's a chronic disorder. Many of these disorders can be effectively managed if accurately diagnosed. Although many sleep disorders go undiagnosed, the experienced specialists of the Jefferson Sleep Disorders Center will work hard to diagnose your disorder and provide advanced treatment, whether you have sleep apnea, narcolepsy, restless legs syndrome, insomnia or the like. Established in 1978, the Jefferson Sleep Disorders Center was the first such program in the Philadelphia area and is accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
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Pappus of AlexandriaArticle Free Pass
Pappus of Alexandria , (flourished ad 320), the most important mathematical author writing in Greek during the later Roman Empire, known for his Synagoge (“Collection”), a voluminous account of the most important work done in ancient Greek mathematics. Other than that he was born at Alexandria in Egypt and that his career coincided with the first three decades of the 4th century ad, little is known about his life. Judging by the style of his writings, he was primarily a teacher of mathematics. Pappus seldom claimed to present original discoveries, but he had an eye for interesting material in his predecessors’ writings, many of which have not survived outside of his work. As a source of information concerning the history of Greek mathematics, he has few rivals.
Pappus wrote several works, including commentaries on Ptolemy’s Almagest and on the treatment of irrational magnitudes in Euclid’s Elements. His principal work, however, was the Synagoge (c. 340), a composition in at least eight books (corresponding to the individual rolls of papyrus on which it was originally written). The only Greek copy of the Synagoge to pass through the Middle Ages lost several pages at both the beginning and the end; thus, only Books 3 through 7 and portions of Books 2 and 8 have survived. A complete version of Book 8 does survive, however, in an Arabic translation. Book 1 is entirely lost, along with information on its contents. The Synagoge seems to have been assembled in a haphazard way from independent shorter writings of Pappus. Nevertheless, such a range of topics is covered that the Synagoge has with some justice been described as a mathematical encyclopedia.
The Synagoge deals with an astonishing range of mathematical topics; its richest parts, however, concern geometry and draw on works from the 3rd century bc, the so-called Golden Age of Greek mathematics. Book 2 addresses a problem in recreational mathematics: given that each letter of the Greek alphabet also serves as a numeral (e.g., α = 1, β = 2, ι = 10), how can one calculate and name the number formed by multiplying together all the letters in a line of poetry. Book 3 contains a series of solutions to the famous problem of constructing a cube having twice the volume of a given cube, a task that cannot be performed using only the ruler-and-compass methods of Euclid’s Elements. Book 4 concerns the properties of several varieties of spirals and other curved lines and demonstrates how they can be used to solve another classical problem, the division of an angle into an arbitrary number of equal parts. Book 5, in the course of a treatment of polygons and polyhedra, describes Archimedes’ discovery of the semiregular polyhedra (solid geometric shapes whose faces are not all identical regular polygons). Book 6 is a student’s guide to several texts, mostly from the time of Euclid, on mathematical astronomy. Book 8 is about applications of geometry in mechanics; the topics include geometric constructions made under restrictive conditions, for example, using a “rusty” compass stuck at a fixed opening.
The longest part of the Synagoge, Book 7, is Pappus’s commentary on a group of geometry books by Euclid, Apollonius of Perga, Eratosthenes of Cyrene, and Aristaeus, collectively referred to as the “Treasury of Analysis.” “Analysis” was a method used in Greek geometry for establishing the possibility of constructing a particular geometric object from a set of given objects. The analytic proof involved demonstrating a relationship between the sought object and the given ones such that one was assured of the existence of a sequence of basic constructions leading from the known to the unknown, rather as in algebra. The books of the “Treasury,” according to Pappus, provided the equipment for performing analysis. With three exceptions the books are lost, and hence the information that Pappus gives concerning them is invaluable.
Pappus’s Synagoge first became widely known among European mathematicians after 1588, when a posthumous Latin translation by Federico Commandino was printed in Italy. For more than a century afterward, Pappus’s accounts of geometric principles and methods stimulated new mathematical research, and his influence is conspicuous in the work of René Descartes (1596–1650), Pierre de Fermat (1601–1665), and Isaac Newton (1642 [Old Style]–1727), among many others. As late as the 19th century, his commentary on Euclid’s lost Porisms in Book 7 was a subject of living interest for Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788–1867) and Michel Chasles (1793–1880) in their development of projective geometry.
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ITN has early video of the earthquake devastation of Port au Prince, Haiti.
For a quick overview of the Haitian economy, see this site. It was a sad story even before the earthquake.
Obviously, the country will need a lot of aid to come back from this disaster.
I have an idea. Remember that public TARP money that we loaned to the major Wall Street finance firms? They didn’t actually use it to make small business loans as we had intended.
Consultant Stephen Hall told NPR that
‘even though firms didn’t use TARP funds to make bonuses, Wall Street banks benefited from borrowing funds from the government for almost nothing and then got a favorable return on their investment. And Hall says it wasn’t necessarily innovation or smart individuals that enabled banks to be profitable in 2009. In some cases, he says, it was “simple arbitrage” by investing in Treasury bills after obtaining funds at low interest rates.’
So the supposed geniuses at Goldman, Sachs, who helped get us into our current economic mess in the first place, just picked our pockets for no interest and bought treasury bills? That’s why they deserve bonuses?
And what bonuses. “It’s reported that Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase combined have set aside $47 billion for bonuses,” NPR says.
$47 billion in bonuses.
Haiti’s annual gross domestic product in nominal terms is about $7 bn. a year.
So here is a modest proposal. Since public monies clearly were the basis for a lot of the “profits” the banks and finance houses made in 2009, why don’t the executives show at least a little common decency and donate some significant percentage of it (half?) to worthy causes in the US and abroad. Why not 10 percent to Haiti reconstruction and development? That would be $4.7 bn., and it would go a very long way in Haiti.
The US government only puts in about $200 million a year into aid to Haiti. Although Americans tell pollsters that they think we give away too much in foreign aid, it is only about $22 billion, much less as a percentage of our national income than most advanced countries. A third of it goes to Israel and Egypt.
Instead of Congress having to borrow money to increase the aid budget to help Haiti, or raise taxes, why don’t the nice folks on Wall Street do the right thing? Just give 10 percent of their bonuses to Haiti. It might help change the public perception of them.
In the meantime, all of us who are able to can do our part. Here is the Haiti donation site for UNICEF America’s Haiti relief efforts.
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - Tahoe Truckee Unified School District students in eighth, ninth, and 10th grades will have an opportunity to learn about careers in science, technology, engineering and math on Thursday, Oct. 25 from 6-8 p.m. at the STEM Career Faire at Tahoe Truckee High School, 11725 Donner Pass Road, Truckee. Professionals in STEM fields such as biophotonics, mechatronics, energy engineering, materials engineering, research science, science education and more will provide information about their careers and give students advice in an informal atmosphere.
The event will be set up similarly to a trade show, with volunteer expert stations students may visit in small groups or one-on-one, so students may choose to learn about a variety of careers in STEM fields. The purpose of the career fair is to get students excited about real opportunities in STEM fields, to help them identify which high school classes they should choose to be prepared for college and advanced career training in these fields, and to give them perspective about why their high school STEM classes are an important foundation.
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The STEM career fair is sponsored by the school district, Excellence in Education, Soroptimist International of Truckee Donner, Truckee Rotary, Tahoe Forest Hospital, Truckee Optimist, Sierra Watershed Education Partners and Norwegian Wood Construction along with numerous volunteers in STEM professions. For students coming from North Tahoe School and North Tahoe High School, bus service will be provided from North Tahoe High School and Safeway in Kings Beach. Transportation will also be provided in Truckee. Parents are welcome to attend.
- Provided by Switchback PR + Marketing on behalf of the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District.
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ALUMNI is a web interface to MySQL, adaptable to other DBs. Designed for high schools, school districts, colleges, reunion websites. Person can have multiple schools attached to acct. Features incl email, forums. Accepting requests for new features.
This project is deal with developing a web application for schools. This application tries to keeping touch with graduates and academic stuff; and with each other graduates.
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People who have graduated from a school, college or university.
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A university or college's graduates which, as a list, is useful for educational fundraising.
Students who have completed a course and graduated from a university.
(feminine) - a sorority member who is no longer a member of a collegiate chapter; plural is alumnae.
If you graduated from UVic with a degree, certificate or diploma, or if you attended Victoria College or Provincial Normal School, you are an alumnus (man) or alumna (woman) and automatically a lifetime member of the UVic Alumni Association. There is no annual fee. Welcome to an accomplished group that currently numbers some 68,000 strong.
A graduated member of a fraternity (singluar is alum).
a directory listing service academy graduates in business
a great resource for any MBA student
A fraternity or sorority member who has graduated.
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The group of graduates who have attended the University and the staff who have worked for the University.
Meaning Graduates or former students of a school, college or university.
Graduates of a school, as in, "This school has some distinguished alumni." Technically for males only; females are alumnae. The singular is alumnus (male) or alumna (female), although none of these terms are in common use.
A student who has graduated from a given college.
people who have graduated from the institution.
A term referring to students who have graduated.
These are former university students. Portsmouth has an Alumni Association, which allows its former students to keep in touch with the University and each other after graduation.
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Initiated members who have graduated or who are no longer in college. Some organizations confer this status after an initiate has been a member for four or more years. Alumna/alumnae refers to women and alumnus/alumni refers to men.
A graduate member of a fraternity or sorority.
These are the people who have already graduated from college.
an association for graduates, staff and lecturers from Charles Sturt University.
Graduates of a university, school, training center or training program.
Former students of a school, college or university. Portsmouth has an Alumni Association, which allows former students to keep in touch with the University or with each other after graduation.
A graduate of a particular school, university or college.
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Smart Fridge Opens Only If You Smile
A smile a day, keeps worries away. And, here is another reason to show off your bright tines. Japanese scientists at the University of Tokyo have developed a new refrigerator, which is equipped with a camera that can detect not only faces, but also smiles. Thus, it will not open until you show it your most beautiful smile. The system, which is called the “The Happiness Counter”, aims to naturally encourage smiling in our everyday lives. The team also believes this type of smile-activated technology has potential to boast productivity and morale in the workplace.
Though, the Happiness Counter fridge is just a concept. If developed further, this device will definitely bring a smile to your face.
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The internal environment of these types of buildings is very aggressive because of high humidity, chemical particles suspended in the air, internal noise and the temperature inside.
Arval has been working for years on developing systems, which are able to find the right balance between all these performances.
The percentage of humidity in the building can reach 95%. Therefore, it is necessary to attend to the vapour permeability and vapour absorption of the insulator. You must use insulation with no vapour absorption otherwise it will be degraded by changes in outside temperatures.
- Thermal features:
Since the inside temperature is above 28ºC in some parts of the building, you need to calculate the thermal insulation required in order to avoid condensation in wintertime. High humidity in these buildings makes the issue even more important.
When the machinery is working, noise inside is louder than 90 dB. We need to correct the reverberation time in order to enhance noise comfort within the building. Noise absorption can be achieved, but when we combine this requirement with high humidity and chemical components suspended in the air, we need to select a system dedicated to this, such as Hairaquatic and Wallaquatic.
- Chemical corrosion:
We can offer you coatings designed to protect metallic sheets from chemical corrosion, even when the steel sheet is perforated.
Combustible raw materials, chemical products, combustible end products and a combination of all these, represent a potential fire risk. These particular conditions have been thoroughly examined by Arval and we can confirm that our products are in compliance with the most stringent requirements in terms of fire safety conditions. During the first stages of your project, Arval can help you choose the right systems for every part of your building, and when the worksite has commenced, we can provide the materials you need to construct our systems.
Our Hairaquatic system is the solution you need for these buildings because the thickness of the thermal insulator provides the ability to achieve the appropriate thermal insulation. This thermal insulation does not absorb water.
The evolution of regulations in terms of waste management and treatment has led to the building of facilities such as compost plants, waste sorting plants, waste incinerators and sewage treatment plants.
These new facilities are getting bigger and bigger and, when built near towns, undergo more and more controls.
The public authorities may encourage measures to optimize environmental integration via vegetated roofing so that these buildings fold perfectly into the landscape.
- Sound proofing and absorption:
People living in the vicinity do not want to have to put up with sound annoyance or the inconvenience of unpleasant smells. Building closed facilities, in this case, means getting rid of these inconveniences, namely via sound proofing. In recycling plants, noise can be so loud that it proves to be necessary to address the sound absorption issue.
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As for compost plants, buildings with thermal insulation are required so that temperature controls can be carried out to manage the industrial process.
It is vital to employ optimal materials with high fire reaction performances in order to avoid the rapid spread of the fire. All products manufactured by Arval have good performances but we can also improve on them, if need be.
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What does a "body of work" mean to the laurel council?
In order to judge the merit of a candidate, the Lochac laurel council tends to look at everything that the candidate has created. This is often referred to as a "body of work". At its most simplest, a body of work is everything that the candidate has done to advance the practice of their art or science in the kingdom. It doesn't stop there. The council looks further to see how the candidate shares their knowledge. This is mostly referred to as teaching. Teaching in this context is expanded in meaning to include how the candidate inspires others to emulate their zeal for their art. It can include how a candidate encourages and teaches people on a one to one level, articles they have written, groups or guilds they have contributed to, etc. For example, if you practice wood carving and are a master in your art, even the best in the Kingdom, this is not enough to be recognised as a laurel. But if you practice wood carving, are a master in your art and are active in encouraging and teaching others so that people can see how wood carving is improving in authenticity throughout the Kingdom, then the laurel council would indeed be very interested in you.
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By Peter Muller
That could be a headline you'll see in papers from sea to shining
sea - if a bill introduced by New York Representative Nita Lowey
passes the House of Representatives and the Senate and is signed
into law by our beloved President William Jefferson Clinton. Representative
Lowey introduced H.R. 1581 in the House on April 27, 1999. The
bill is currently in committee and we'll be watching and reporting
on its progress.
So far, 62 additional representatives have signed on as co-sponsors.
The Bill starts out:
SECTION 1. DECLARATION OF POLICY.
It is the policy of the United States to end the needless maiming
and suffering inflicted upon animals through the use of steel-jawed
leghold traps by prohibiting the import or export of, and the shipment
in interstate commerce of, such traps and of articles of fur from
animals that were trapped in such traps.
The penalty provided for in this bill is a fine and a prison
term of not more than two years for each violation.
C.A.S.H, as well as many other organizations, has been struggling
to encourage various legislative bodies to pass local or state
laws outlawing or restricting trapping. In some states that have
ballot initiatives, they have succeeded in banning trapping.
If H.R. 1581 passes, then trapping will be prohibited nationwide
overnight. This may well the most important animal protective legislation
Let's all urge our federal representatives to support this
Incidentally, Representative Lowey is considered by many observers
of the New York political scene to have the "inside track" as
the Democratic Party nominee for senator if Hillary Clinton decides
not to run for that position. Best news we've had in a long time.
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Led Australian guide dogs
KEITH HOLDSWORTH, MBE
''MR GUIDE DOGS''
16-5-1925 — 29-9-2012
KEITH Holdsworth MBE, MA has left an immeasurable legacy. Often called ''Mr Guide Dogs'', his leadership role at the Royal Guide Dog Associations of Australia (now known as Guide Dogs Australia) and work in shaping and advancing the profession of guide dog and orientation and mobility instruction has helped thousands of people with vision impairment - enabling them to become independent and involved in their community.
He has died at the age of 87 after a battle with prostate cancer.
During World War II, Holdsworth, who was born in and grew up in Britain, served as a navigator, reaching the rank of second lieutenant in the Royal Navy, operating in the Arctic, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indian and Pacific oceans.
After his navy service, he was looking for a new career when he happened across an advertisement for instructors at the Guide Dogs for the Blind in Britain. He applied, was appointed and began training as a guide dog instructor, working under the stewardship of Captain Nicolai Liakoff, a pioneer in the field. This was the start of a lifelong association as a key advocate and supporter of people who are blind or vision impaired.
In 1952 Holdsworth moved to Australia after being appointed director of the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association of Western Australia. His first challenge was to obtain funding to establish the association in the region.
Working closely with Eric Hatchley, the head guide dog trainer who joined him in 1955, Holdsworth developed the West Australian guide dog training centre into a national organisation in 1957. Growing demand for services soon made it necessary to relocate to Melbourne. The organisation established its national head office in Kew in 1962 and was renamed the Royal Guide Dogs Associations of Australia (RGDAA), with Holdsworth appointed as its national director.
Holdsworth's work over the next 28 years to develop training and orientation and mobility practices produced results around the world, improving the lives of generations of people.
In 1966 his contribution to the community was recognised with the awarding of a Churchill fellowship. This enabled him to study at guide dog centres and related organisations in Israel, Europe, England and the US, where he met people and organisations involved in many aspects of dealing with people who are blind or vision impaired.
The lessons he learnt from this study tour proved profound and led to considerable improvements in the RGDAA's services. The organisation could now draw on international connections and adopt the best of the best practices, so becoming a leader in the field and a place of global influence.
What Holdsworth did was to connect people and organisations, representing the Guide Dogs Associations on national and international committees, building, shaping and articulating guide dog training, and mobility and community integration of people who are blind or vision-impaired. It was why in 1972 Holdsworth was made a member of the Order of the British Empire.
Under his stewardship, the RGDAA introduced and developed a range of orientation and mobility services for people who are blind or vision impaired, as well as programs that improved the professional standing of instructors in Australia. By the 1980s, the RGDAA was providing leading-edge orientation and mobility training that included guide dogs, canes and electronic aids.
In Melbourne, Holdsworth completed his secondary education, which had been interrupted by the war, and went on to gain a bachelor of arts degree at Monash University (1971) and a master's degree in orientation and mobility at Western Michigan University (1978).
Holdsworth was also involved in causes outside guide dogs. He was one of the 30 charter members of the Kew Rotary Club, where he served as president in 1970-71 and in 1985 received the Rotary Paul Harris Fellow award.
He loved the outdoors. He was a member of Outward Bound during the organisation's foundation years and a council member and tutor of the British Mountaineering Association (1947-52). Before his move to Australia, his zeal for climbing led him to tackle a range of mountains across Europe. That experience led to him being appointed a district commissioner in both the West Australian and Victorian scout associations.
Holdsworth's contribution to the field of helping people who are blind or vision-impaired has been an inspiration to many. He had a wonderful way with people and with dogs, and a most focused belief in the work of the guide dogs movement.
John Gosling, OAM, is guide dog services adviser for Guide Dogs Victoria.
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A Screenplay by Norm Pringle (WGA, BMI, CCMA, CMA)
Click here to hear Virgil Stickney and the Wee Three sing
"Stand on a Mountain" (main title music)
THE SCREENPLAY IN BRIEF
The story is based on a true still unexplained cataclysm in the beautiful Canadian Rockies. In 1903 Turtle Mountain just north of the US border in the province of Alberta, crashed down and buried the booming mining town of Frank. This mysterious disaster was labeled the worlds biggest rock slide. Turtle Mountain's cast of characters has a diversity of human beings that include The Blackfoot Indians, The Royal Northwest Mounted Police the integration of the French Canadians with the British miners. One of the non fictional characters is H.L. Frank, a colorful American millionaire after whom the town was named.
Although it is primarily and enigmatically story of a cabalistic unruly mountain possessed with the wrath of an Indian spirit, there is also a controversial love story of a French Canadian lass and a Blackfoot Indian. The story brings out a subtle message concerning the environment about mining under a mountain. An added character that plays a dramatic role is the Spokane Flyer, an actual nostalgic train of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Mountain was written as a theatrical movie, ideal for the movie houses
of today with their stadium seating large screens and digital sound.
Because of it's divergence of characters it could easily be extended
into a TV mini series.. The mind boggling climax would sustain an
audience throughout the series.
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With the collapse of the RAH-66 Comanche program, and rededication of its funding into the Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH) and Light Utility Helicopter (LUH), and other programs, the AH-64 Apache will remain the USA’s primary attack helicopter for several more decades. Apaches also serve with a number of American allies, some of whom have already expressed interest in upgrading or expanding their fleets.
The AH-64E Guardian Block III (AB3) is the helicopter’s next big step forward. It incorporates 26 key new-technology insertions that cover flight performance, maintenance costs, sensors & electronics, and even the ability to control UAVs as part of manned-unmanned teaming (MUT). In July 2006, Boeing and U.S. Army officials signed the initial development contract for Block III upgrades to the current and future Apache fleet, via a virtual signing ceremony. By November 2011, the 1st production helicopter had been delivered. So… how many helicopters will be modified under the AH-64 Block III program, what do these modifications include, how is the program structured, and what has been happening since that 2006 award? The short answer is: a lot, including export interest and sales.
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Sleep deprivation may affect up to 4 in 10 police officers, leading to higher rates of safety violations, anger toward suspects, falling asleep while driving and other problems, a new study suggests.
In a study published in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston surveyed nearly 5,000 police officers in North America. They found that 40 percent of the cops studied had a sleep disorder, many undiagnosed and untreated. The disorders, added the researchers, had implications for the officers' health and performance, and subsequently for public safety.
"Excessive sleepiness" is "common in police officers," study authors noted. "This is despite police officers apparently recognizing the dangers associated with drowsy driving; in a survey of North American police officers, almost 90 percent regarded drowsy driving to be as dangerous as drunk driving."
Demanding schedules may be to blame.
"Many police officers are at an even greater risk of poor outcomes because they are often required to work overnight, on rotating shifts, or both," they wrote.
Police officers are far from alone in sleep troubles. At least 40 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep disorders each year; an additional 20 million experience occasional sleeping problems. Undiagnosed and untreated sleep disorders interfere with personal health and lead to sleep deprivation, which leads to an increase in the risk of accidents and injuries.
After two years of monthly follow-ups, the study found that the officers also had a higher rate of reporting serious administrative errors, making safety violations attributed to fatigue, exhibiting anger toward suspects, falling asleep while driving or during meetings, and absenteeism.
Just under half admitted to nodding off or falling asleep while driving. A quarter reported doing so at least one or two times per month.
"We know that sleep deprivation results in impaired performance both cognitively, physically and emotionally, which can impact decision-making and response time, which are crucial to high stress professions such as law enforcement," said Dr. Nanci Yang, an associate clinical professor at Stanford University who was not directly involved with the study. "It is paramount to public safety that it be addressed."
Researchers reported that participants with sleep disorders also had higher rates of mental and health conditions such as diabetes, depression and cardiovascular disease.
Obstructive sleep apnea -- when breathing is paused during sleep because of airway obstruction -- was the most common condition, seen in more than 30 percent of the study's participants. This was followed by moderate to severe insomnia and excessive sleepiness.
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James Hoban: Architect of the White House and Presidential Letters and Signatures
Discover the man behind the White House and read the letters of the men who lived there through two exhibits:
James Hoban: Architect of the White House, an exhibit from the White House Historical Association and Presidential Letters and Signatures from the collection of Sheldon C. and Rosalind Kurland.
James Hoban, an eighteenth century Irish architect, was commissioned by President George Washington to design and build the White House. This nine-panel exhibition from the White House Historical Association looks at the many facets of Hoban's life and work.
Presidential Letters and Signatures features personal letters, documents or signatures of almost all of the presidents of the United States. Included in the exhibit are letters from George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy. This is a rare opportunity to see these unique and historical documents!
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Page 348 - The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses and mules. A contest between animals of so different an organisation furnishes a very striking spectacle.
Page 350 - ... of the abdominal nerves. It is natural that the effect felt by the horses should be more powerful than that produced upon man by the touch of the same fish at only one of his extremities. The horses are probably not killed, but only stunned. They are drowned from the impossibility of rising amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses and the eels.
Page 466 - They attach great importance to certain configurations of the body; and a mother would be accused of culpable indifference toward her children, if she did not employ artificial means to shape the calf of the leg after the fashion of the country. As none of our Indians of Apure understood the Caribbee language, we could obtain no information from the cacique of Panama respecting the encampments that are made at this season in several islands of the Orinoco for collecting turtles
Page 355 - I do not remember having ever received from the discharge of a large Leyden jar, a more dreadful shock than that which I experienced by imprudently placing both my feet on a gymnotus just taken out of the water. I was affected the rest of the day with a violent pain in the knees, and in almost every joint.
Page 213 - We drank considerable quantities of it in the evening before we went to bed, and very early in the morning, without feeling the least injurious effect. The viscosity of this milk alone renders it a little disagreeable. The negroes and the free people who work in the plantations drink it, dipping into it their bread of maize or cassava. The...
Page 421 - I confess that these scenes, which were often repeated, had ever for me a peculiar attraction. The pleasure they excite, is not owing solely to the interest which the naturalist takes in the objects of his study; it is connected with a feeling common to all men, who have been brought up in the habits of civilization. You find yourself in a new world, in the midst of untamed and savage nature.
Page 144 - ... they furrow during heavy showers the sides of the hills, bear down the loosened soil, and form those sudden inundations, that devastate the country. Hence it results, that the destruction of forests, the want of permanent springs, and the existence of torrents, are three phenomena closely connected together.
Page 560 - ... out through the crevices ? Does not the impulse of the air against the elastic spangles of mica, that intercept the crevices, contribute to modify the sounds ? May we not admit, that the ancient inhabitants of Egypt, in passing incessantly up and down the Nile, had made the same observation on some rock of the Thebaid; and that the music of the rocks there led to the jugglery of the priests in the statue of Memnon < Perhaps, when " the rosy-fingered Aurora rendered her son, the glorious Memnon,...
Page 348 - We found it difficult to form an idea of this extraordinary manner of fishing; but we soon saw our guides return from the savannah, which they had been scouring for wild horses and mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat.
Page 559 - It is witchcraft,' said our young Indian pilot. We never ourselves heard these mysterious sounds either at Carichana Vieja or in the upper Orinoco ; but from information given us by witnesses worthy of belief, the existence of a phenomenon that seems to depend on a certain state of the atmosphere cannot be denied. The shelves of rock are full of very narrow and deep crevices. They are heated during the day to about 50°. I often found their temperature at the surface during the night at 39°, the...
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Hey there once again people. I'm back with another lesson on an animal that has everything to do with Christmas. Since we will officially be in December tomorrow, I thought a tutorial on "how to draw Rudolph easy", step by step. This red nosed reindeer has been a magical figure for children since forever. He is joined with Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen. All nine reindeer help pull Santa's sleigh when December 24 rolls around. I will return with one or two more tuts for you all. So keep those pencils at hand people!
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|Maui County and the state of Hawaii|
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Pāʻia (pah-ee-ah) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Maui County, Hawaiʻi, on the northern coast of the island of Maui. The population was 2,668 at the 2010 census. Pāʻia is home to several restaurants, art galleries, surf shops and other tourist-oriented businesses.
Paia is located close to many internationally known windsurfing spots including Ho'okipa and Spreckelsville. It is therefore sometimes called "The World Capital of Windsurfing".
Pāʻia is located at (20.910694, -156.376340).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 7.5 square miles (19.3 km2), of which 6.1 square miles (15.9 km2) is land and 1.3 square miles (3.4 km2), or 17.84%, is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,499 people, 783 households, and 551 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 410.8 people per square mile (158.7/km²). There were 890 housing units at an average density of 146.3 per square mile (56.5/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 33.45% White, 0.32% African American, 0.60% Native American, 27.13% Asian, 8.80% Pacific Islander, 1.24% from other races, and 28.45% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 10.92% of the population.
There were 783 households out of which 35.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.2% were married couples living together, 13.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.6% were non-families. 18.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 5.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.10 and the average family size was 3.58.
In the CDP the population was spread out with 26.6% under the age of 18, 10.8% from 18 to 24, 32.2% from 25 to 44, 22.0% from 45 to 64, and 8.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 104.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 104.3 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $51,696, and the median income for a family was $57,981. Males had a median income of $31,302 versus $27,500 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $18,644. About 6.0% of families and 8.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.4% of those under age 18 and 2.0% of those age 65 or over.
- "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Paia CDP, Hawaii". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
- "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
- "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Paia CDP, Hawaii". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
- "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
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House Republicans released their version of the Violence Against Women Act on Friday and are poised to fast-track it to a floor vote next Tuesday during a Rules Committee hearing.
The House GOP’s legislation doesn’t go as far as the reauthorization that passed the Senate on an overwhelming bipartisan vote earlier this month. It reflects some movement in that direction but falls short of a breakthrough on the central disputes that scuttled reauthorization of VAWA last year, namely, coverage for gay, Native American and illegal immigrant women. Democrats quickly rejected the bill and advocates against domestic violence expressed concerns with it.
“The House is expected to take up a strong Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization next week so we can protect all women from acts of violence and help law enforcement prosecute offenders to the fullest extent of the law,” said Megan Whittemore, a spokeswoman for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), who helped craft the bill.
Unlike the Senate-passed version, the House GOP’s proposed legislation does not explicitly guarantee equal coverage for gay and lesbian victims of domestic violence, and it would create a hurdle for tribal courts to prosecute non-Native Americans charged with assaulting women on tribal lands. It also includes stricter criteria for abused illegal immigrants to gain legal status.
According to the text of the proposed House bill, VAWA would be expanded to provide assistance to “adult and youth victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.” Although Whittemore said the goal is to include “all women” who suffer from domestic abuse, the nation’s top gay rights organization said LGBT families would not be fully protected.
“The bill does not protect LGBT victims from discrimination by a service provider nor does it specifically include services to LGBT victims as an underserved population,” said David Stacy, deputy legislative director for Human Rights Campaign, after reviewing the language. “The Senate bill provisions are urgently needed so that actual resources are available to address domestic violence and sexual assault among LGBT families.”
A House Republican leadership aide flatly rejected that characterization. “We are not allowing anyone to be discriminated against,” the aide said. The difference is how we go about it. Our bill is broad. They’re enumerating actual categories of people that are covered. And that requires constant updating. We’re giving the states the resources they need, and we’re also making sure no one is discriminated against.”
Pat Reuss, adviser to the National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women, said “we suspect it will leave out a whole lot of victims.” Jess McIntosh, a spokeswoman for EMILY’s List, said it was “lighter on protecting women than the bipartisan Senate version.”
Under the proposed legislation, tribal courts would have to first receive certification from the U.S. attorney general that it would protect the defendant’s constitutional rights in any domestic violence proceedings, according to a GOP summary.
The proposed bill also holds that undocumented immigrants who are victims of domestic violence can only be eligible for legal status if federal or local officials certify that it would help investigate or prosecute criminal activity.
Last year’s reauthorization bill that passed the GOP-controlled House on a party line vote provided no mechanism for coverage of Native American women. It provided narrower protections than the new proposal for illegal immigrant women. While interest groups are still reviewing the new proposal for its impact on LGBT victims, the House GOP went out of his way to emphasize that the bill provides protection for “all women.”
The bill will be sponsored by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), the most senior Republican woman in the House. The text and summary are available below.
Earlier this month, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to reauthorize VAWA, which expired in 2011 but has continued to receive funding through the appropriations process. Originally passed in 1994, it has not been updated since 2005.
“Majority Leader Cantor is committed to ending violence against all women and reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act,” said Whittemore, his spokeswoman. “He has worked hard to build consensus with members on both sides of the aisle and worked alongside advocate groups to put together the strongest possible bill.”
Kim Gandy, president of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, said the GOP legislation falls short.
“We were extremely hopeful that House leadership would introduce a bill that would safely and effectively meet the needs of all victims,” Gandy said. “Unfortunately, the House substitute introduced today fails to do so.”
This article has been updated since publication.
Sahil Kapur is a congressional reporter for TPM. He previously covered politics and public policy for numerous publications including The Guardian and The Huffington Post. He can be reached at sahil [at] talkingpointsmemo.com.
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Do not confuse this with the campy American Civil War series North and South. This is the award winning BBC production of British author Elizabeth Gaskell’s 1855 novel North and South. Set in England in the mid 1800’s, it is the tale of Margaret Hale (Daniela Denby-Ashe), a young woman moved by her vicar father from the bucolic south of England to the industrial north. At first shocked and repulsed by the chaotic, dirty factory town of Milton and by John Thornton (Richard Armitage), the hard and driven mill owner, she slowly becomes friends with a factory worker and her union organizer father. As John and Margaret view things from opposite sides and with many misunderstandings, a deep and moving love story develops. Beautifully filmed and superbly acted, with an exceptional musical score by Martin Phipps, this film created a sensation in Britain when it aired in 2004…and, it has the most romantic last 10 minutes on film. P.S. The Elkton Reference Staff is in love with Richard Armitage as the brooding John Thornton….move over Mr. Darcy!
Recommended by Mary Ellen Raun
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Voter Fraud, NAFTA 20 Years Later And Maria Berriozabal
A look at how widespread election fraud really is - who is trying to stop voter fraud and how they’re doing it. The complex collaborations between manufacturers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Texas Public Radio’s David Martin Davies speaks with San Antonio trailblazer Maria Berriozabal about her new memoir, leadership and overcoming discrimination.
The United States has a long and checkered history when it comes to the ballot box. In the last several years, the issue of voter fraud has become a rallying cry in local, state, and national elections. But as Nick Blumberg reports in the first of two parts, questions remain on how widespread election fraud really is.
A Pennsylvania judge this month blocked that state’s voter ID law, and recently the national Republican Party fired an Arizona company that organized get-out-the-vote drives in swing states over suspicious registration forms. In the second of two parts, Nick Blumberg reports on who’s trying to stop voter fraud and how they’re doing it.
These days about six million American jobs actually depend in some way on trade with Mexico according to the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute. In part six of the Fronteras Desk series: NAFTA 20 Years Later, Jude Joffe-Block reports on the complex collaborations between manufacturers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Berriozabal on Leadership and Overcoming Discrimination
Maria Berriozabal is a transitional individual for San Antonio. She was the first Latina elected to city council, serving from 1981 to 91, and she was nearly elected mayor of San Antonio in 1991. No longer in public office, Berriozabal can also be called a controversial figure. She's a news maker and role model for future generations of Latinas looking to shape public policy and take a stand in the public square for social justice.
In her memoir, “Maria, Daughter of Immigrants,” Berriozabal explains how a studious and quiet girl from San Antonio’s West Side grew up to take on the city’s power brokers. She speaks to Texas Public Radio's David Martin Davies.
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Although much of Henry Wellcome’s collection was devoted to instruments and materials of healing, some of the objects found in it have a more sinister purpose. Elizabeth Baddeley looks at a tradition of punishment rooted in the fear of female autonomy.
When visitors peer into our cabinet of masks in Medicine Man they are, almost without fail, drawn first to the bright, colourful disease masks from Sri Lanka; to the exaggerated features of the ritual mask from Bhutan; to the almost eerily realistic grinning false face Iroquois mask from North America. It seems almost as an afterthought that they turn to our object here: the matt grey, iron mask of the scold’s bridle. It seems clunky and dull next to the lively features of the more geographically exotic specimens it is displayed alongside. Surprisingly, the history, use and legacy of this and similar objects are a much underexplored subject.
This object is between 200 and 450 years old and is from Belgium, but could be from any part of Northern Europe from the late medieval or early modern period. It is made from heavy iron, and has the caricatured ears of an ass, exaggerated facial features and twisted, cruel-looking horns. It is a scold’s bridle.
The offence of scolding means little to nothing to us today, but in the 16th and 17th centuries, it was an acute insult. It was a uniquely female misdemeanour, and as such it is often compared to that other contemporary, and uniquely female, crime of being a whore. Both were often punished with a round on the ‘cucking stool’ – a mechanism where the accused was dunked into a river or pond while secured to a seat – and both are often viewed as female crime in a male-dominated legal system. A scold was, after all, ‘a troublesome and angry woman, who by her brawling and wrangling amongst her Neighbours, doth break the publick Peace, and beget, cherish and increase publick Discord’ according to William Sheppard in 1675.
The gendered nature of this crime has led to historians discussing whether it was a male way of limiting women’s powers of expression and activity. Indeed, the prevalence of accusations against scolds seems to have peaked between the mid-16th and 17th centuries, and in Britain has been linked to the wider social upheaval surrounding the English Civil War. Punishment with a bridle like this one, or ‘branks’ as they were also known, is less well recorded, but we know that it was done, as with the cucking stool, to ridicule and expose the women in front of her neighbours. It could also be painful. The woman would be made to wear the device for a stated time, and it would be heavy, the iron would be very cold (especially in winter), and the strut of metal that went into her mouth to hold down her tongue from further nagging (which has unfortunately broken off this example) would become increasingly uncomfortable. Indeed, on some bridles this was not just a piece of metal but a spike, designed to cause pain.
The idea of punishing a woman for stepping out of her place is not uniquely British: as mentioned above, scold’s bridles have been found across Europe. This crime of being a scold is represented in the mocking ‘world turned upside down’ rituals of French charivari and Italian carnivals. Men dressed as women, children played bishops and bishops dressed as paupers during the festival; this reversal and ridiculing of traditional norms was used to reinforce the correctness and normality of those norms in everyday life. This was true especially in relation to gender roles: alongside the punishing of scolds was the ridiculing of what cultural historian Natalie Davies calls the ‘woman on top’: domineering wives, especially young brides of elderly husbands or women who abused their husbands. Also linked is the enduring idea that witches were female, often wise old spinsters or midwives. Statistically, we know that a huge number of men were also accused and punished for witchcraft, but the concept of witches and the description of them in contemporary sources is usually purely female and contributes to the general fear of women stepping out of their place. The contemporary fear of powerful women has in the past been linked to a high number of young, unmarried but wage-earning women living away from home as servants and the measure of power and freedom this gave them.
One idea that connects the scold’s bridle, accusations of witchcraft and the ‘woman on top’ is the belief that women were particularly prone to bouts of irrational behaviour, prone to communicating with the devil as they did not have the rational power to stay away, and inclined to scold and nag about unimportant matters. According to early modern medical ideas of the four humours, a theory about the body existent since ancient Greece and changed little by the 16th century, women were cold and damp with little blood. Indeed, this small amount of blood would linger around their uterus, instead of spreading throughout the body and into the brain. The Greeks even wrote of how the uterus would ‘wander around’ the body if it had too little blood. As such, women were often seen as being ‘led’ by their uterus, a dangerous organ, making them prone to irrational behaviour. Nor was this idea soon forgotten, for the very Victorian illness of hysteria takes its name from the Greek ‘hystera’, meaning uterus. This may seem odd to a modern audience, more used to hearing of men being led by their nether regions than women.
Elizabeth Baddeley is a Visitor Services Assistant at Wellcome Collection.
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Recently, I was walking with a friend along a busy street in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, when she stopped suddenly outside a medical office and pointed to the bottom of a hedge. “Do you see that?” my friend asked, as a bus drove by.
In truth, I saw only the hedge, along with a dandelion rosette and a few short weeds growing amid some crushed tissues and candy wrappers. My friend has been foraging for decades and is sort of a mentor — years ago she taught me how to differentiate Queen Anne’s lace, or wild carrots, from poison hemlock — so I just assumed this was some choice edible that I had somehow overlooked in my foraging education.
She muttered something in Latin about a sprout near my foot. It was about midcalf high, with palmate leaves (like the fingers on a hand). She snapped off a leaflet and crushed it between her fingers. “Oh, yes,” she said, shoving it under my nose.
One whiff of the distinctive sweet, heavy odor, and suddenly I was transported to the last outdoor concert I’d attended — some long-weekend affair in New Jersey where I was surrounded by marijuana smoke and slow talkers.
How I could have missed this fine young cannabis plant is beyond me. It was so pretty, with those deeply grooved, perfectly pointed serrated leaves, that an artist could have used it as a model for a hemp flag.
Native to Central Asia, Cannabis sativa is an annual with a central stalk and multiple, serrated leaflets (five here, with smaller stipules hanging like an old-fashioned mustache). It can tolerate everything: poor soil, drought, high or low acidity or alkalinity, fungus, and the advances of more aggressive weeds. It has flourished so well in the United States that it is listed as a noxious weed in Illinois, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Cultivated for more than 4,500 years in Asia, and then spreading through Europe and Africa, cannabis has historically been used for fiber (rope, clothing, etc.), oil, and as a medicinal and recreational drug. It was prescribed by doctors for years as a painkiller, and even Queen Victoria took it as an analgesic. As a narcotic, it has many names, including marijuana, pot, weed, grass, hash, ganja, hemp, dope, spliff, reefer, blunt, chronic and, my favorite, Mary Jane. It is illegal in much of the world — to consume and to grow.
My friend and I tossed around the idea that this healthy Cannabis sativa could be cultivated medical marijuana — it was, after all, growing outside a doctor’s office. But green-thumbed doctors harvesting an illegal substance right in front of their building? Not likely. A quick scan of the other side of the hedge revealed only numerous non-weed weeds proliferating under the hot sun.
“Someone probably just tossed a bud into the hedges and the seed took,” my friend said.
Since marijuana is mostly seeds, buds and flowers, we probably should not have been surprised that this plant appeared streetside in Ditmas Park. And knowing how tenacious Cannabis sativa is, we’re likely to encounter more of it in the future.
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Half of US households own at least one Apple product, according to CNBC’s All-America Economic survey.
More than half of US households (51 percent) own at least one Apple product, according to CNBC’s All-America Economic survey. That means there is at least one iPhone, iPad, iPod or Mac computer in 55 million homes, PC Magazine reported.
More from GlobalPost: Apple offers iPad refunds in Australia over 4G compatibility issue
The survey found that Apple buyers tend to be male, college-educated and younger, CNBC said.
Wealthier consumers are more likely to own Apple products, PC Magazine reported. Just 28 percent of people making $30,000 a year own at least one device, but 77 percent of people making $75,000 or more own Apple gadgets.
Consumers in the West, where Silicon Valley is located, are more likely to own Apple products – 57 percent versus 47 to 51 percent in the rest of the country, CNBC said. Western households also have more Apple products kicking around, owning an average of two devices compared with just 1.2 devices in the South.
According to CNN:
Few brands have such a deep reach among American consumers. Certainly, product categories such as refrigerators or even smartphones have achieved even deeper penetration, but looking at single companies, it's a short list with probable names such as GE (light bulbs) or 3M (Scotch tape).
Overall, according to CNBC, the average household has 1.6 Apple devices, and almost 25 percent of households are planning to buy at least one more in the next year.
"It's a fantastic business model — ‘the more of our products you own, the more likely you are to buy more,’ ” Jay Campbell, a vice president of Hart Research Associates, which conducts the CNBC survey along with Bill McInturff, told CNBC. “Planned obsolescence has always been a part of the technology industries sales model, but Apple has taken it to a whole new level.”
More from GlobalPost: Burma: Ready for business?
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Yoga bestows a lot of benefits on its practitioners. People get what they invest in. While Yoga is, largely a spiritual discipline, there are loads of non-spiritual benefits that accrue to the practice, as well. Fortunately or unfortunately, these days it’s the non-spiritual benefits of Yoga; people are more after, than the spiritual ones.
Let’s face it, what comes to your mind at the mention of the word Yoga.
People, most folks associate it with physical culture. Even though it is not, even though it involves more than just a set of physical postures, most people think of Yoga as just that, a series of inverted, convoluted, contorted, convoluted and twisted postures you wrap yourself into and unwrap from. Not that this isn’t a part of Yoga, it very much is. But, this goes to prove how much people are after only the physical, material, and the non-spiritual benefits.
When we speak of non-spiritual benefits of Yoga we are mainly referring to the physical, mental and emotional advantages that accrue to the practice. These, by themselves, are very tempting, and enticing enough to start Yoga practice. You health improves, your state of mind improves, your sleep gets deeper, and you feel more and more fulfilled in your relationships. And all through the practice of a set of Yoga poses (asanas) and breathing exercises (Pranayama).
But the spiritual benefits far outweigh and surpass the most and best of the other 3 – physical, mental and emotional. Unfortunately, man lives in the body and resides in the region of the mind and heart. So physical sensations, thoughts and feelings are all we are able to comprehend, to grasp. The spiritual is a far cry from all these. They pertain to the domain of the spirit, also called the Self. The spiritual benefits of Yoga, to be specific are to be derived from such practices as Kundalini Yoga, Laya Yoga, prolonged Pranayama + Meditation and true Bhakti Yoga, the Yoga of devotion to the Self. The True Self.
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Gov. Jennifer Granholm is speaking at the Michigan Wind Energy Conference in Detroit.
She'll speak Wednesday morning at a conference sponsored by the
Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association. The two-day conference
started Tuesday at the downtown Cobo Center.
Granholm's office says the meeting is addressing the many opportunities and issues facing wind energy development in the state. Topics include transmission for wind farms, offshore projects and business partnerships.
Granholm has made wind power and other forms of renewable energy
central to her proposal to revitalize Michigan's battered industrial economy.
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Original publication date: December 1983
New Edition: August 2009
A boy and his unicorn travel across the East Coast of the United States in the Changed landscape where magic has replaced technology in Steven R. Boyett’s debut novel, Ariel. The first person narrative is told from the point of view of Pete Garey, a young man in his early twenties who has come to live in a world upended where cars, computers, airplanes and nearly all machines have ceased to work. What he finds instead on the very first page, is an injured unicorn. From that first meeting in Florida, the two become inseparable and because he’s a virgin and pure, he can hug and touch her.
Boyett quickly avoids some of the fluffy cutesy cliché associated with unicorns when Ariel begins to speak and mouth-off back to Pete. The bond between the two is more than that of a mage and a familiar, it is an intimate bond that might even border on that of star-crossed lovers. This description sounds trite, I admit and even writing it does as well. However, Boyett’s skill in evoking the feelings between Ariel and Pete is wonderfully rendered.
In the Changed world of the novel, no creature is more magical than a unicorn and nothing holds as much magical power as the horn of a unicorn. It is for this reason that Pete and Ariel must constantly be on guard and aware of their surroundings even more so in this dangerous new world. When they come across Atlanta, this danger confronts them head on as an imposing man on a Griffin who, on behalf of a powerful Necromancer in New York, demands Ariel’s horn. Fortunately, Pete had recently befriended a warrior named Malachai Lee who helps to fend off the Griffin and its rider. Malachai is a sword master of the newly changed world and takes Pete under his wing. With the real threat of what amounts to a bounty on Ariel, Malachai sets out for New York to confront the Necromancer, demanding Pete and Ariel not follow him.
Of course Pete ignores the advice and wants to fight this powerful enemy himself. Along the way, Ariel and Pete gather more people to their group one is a young boy named George who’s father pushes him to join Pet and Ariel so he can slay a dragon, which are said to have been seen in the Adirondacks. The group is also joined by Saughnessy, a young woman who forces herself into the group much to the chagrin, initially, of Pete and even more so Ariel. A confrontation with the Necromancer at the Empire State Building is inevitable.
Little, rather no explanation is given to the reason behind the Change. It just happened and though it may have been interesting to find out the why, Ariel is a stronger novel because no explanation is given. Perhaps because I recently finished it, I couldn’t help but draw mental comparisons between Ariel and Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece The Road. Stylistically both novels couldn’t be more different, but the sense of ruin and the dangers of a decay of civilization they both illicit in the feel of the world as seen through their characters is similar
Other elements of the novel get the ‘lack of explanation’ that the Change gets, but where Boyett balances this is in the dialogue between the characters. We, as readers, are able to find out their reactions to the Change. Some things in life cannot be explained and we can only react, and for that that line of thinking in Ariel, the story is stronger, more plausible and allows one to believe in unicorns.
In the two decades since the book was first published the world has changed and Boyett has written a sequel. Publisher Ace has repackaged Ariel with an iconic cover from Steve Stone that does well to convey many of the themes and overall feels of the novel, in spite of the lack of a unicorn on the cover.
Despite a couple of important plot elements dating the novel, the story itself holds up 25 years later and worked on a very powerful and emotional level for me. Included is an afterword reflecting on the book and some insight to the novel. One thing that is remarkable about the novel is that Boyett published it when he was only 19 years old. It was a book I had a difficult time putting down once I opened it. Ariel is a realistic, moving, powerful and at times heart-breaking novel that while told in a fantastic setting is very much about coming to terms with real life and changes small, natural, and grand.
Highly, highly recommended.
© 2009 Rob H. Bedford
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|The Psychologist News - Early signs of autism|
Early signs of autism
The prospect of using brain activity recordings in infants as a way to predict their risk of autism may have come a step closer. A new longitudinal study, led by Mayada Elsabbagh at Birkbeck College, University of London, involved 54 babies aged 6 - 10 months with a family history of autism, and 50 age-matched controls, looking at dynamic faces that either turned their gaze towards the babies or away from them. A crucial finding was that recordings of the babies' surface brain activity during this task (and others) revealed group differences (Current Biology: tinyurl.com/87zgpmc).
These early brain differences also had links with longer-term outcomes. The babies' families were contacted again at age 36 months, by which time 17 of the at-risk group had received a diagnosis of an autistic spectrum disorder (ASD). Looking back at the brain recordings taken at age 6 - 10 months, the researchers compared the subgroup who'd developed ASD against the at-risk babies who didn't develop ASD and the controls. Now brain activity differences were found specifically in the ASD group versus the at-risk group with no ASD and the controls. This time the differences were observed during the gaze-shift task only, not the other conditions, such as looking at a static face vs. no face.
An important detail is that differences between the ASD group and the other babies were not observed in their eye-scanning behaviour, including how much time they spent looking at the eye region of the face stimuli. This suggests the observed differences in brain activity were not simply a neural correlate of abnormal eye-movement patterns. However, the researchers do believe that the brain-activity differences they observed in the ASD infants are somehow related to social perception, leading to 'decreased attention to, or reduced interest in, the social world'. In turn, this is thought to have downstream effects on the emergence of typical developmental milestones. 'Taken together, our findings potentially allow for the early identification of those infant siblings who are at highest risk for developing later impairments, paving the way for the more selective targeting of early intervention efforts and procedures,' the researchers said.
-- Christian Jarrett
Edited: 22/02/2012 at 03:00 PM by jonsut
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snydeq writes "Charles Nutter, Rich Hickey, and Gavin King each discovered that 'simplicity' doesn't mean the same thing as they developed Ruby, Clojure, and Ceylon, respectively. 'Languages that are created with similar goals in mind may yield highly disparate final results, depending on how their communities understand those goals,' writes Andrew Oliver. 'At first, it surprised me that each language's creator directly or indirectly identified simplicity as his goal, as well as how differently the three creators and their languages' communities define what simplicity is. For Ruby, it is about a language that feels natural and gets out of your way to do what you want. For Clojure, it is about keeping the language itself simple. For Ceylon, it is a compromise between enabling the language to help, in King's words, "communicating algorithms to humans" and providing proper tooling support: the same general goal, three very different results.'"
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|Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday he wanted the annual volume of Iran-China trade to grow to 100 billion dollars, state media reported.|
In a meeting with a senior Chinese Communist Party official, He Guoqiang, Ahmadinejad said that after 40 years of diplomatic ties, the immediate aim should be increasing the annual trade volume from 30 billion dollars annually at present.
Hes visit was to mark four decades of diplomatic relations.
The two states signed six cooperation accords worth 4 billion dollars in fields such as water, mining, energy and industry.
Bilateral trade is expected by both sides to reach 40 billion dollars by the end of 2011. Iran is Chinas third-largest crude oil supplier, providing almost 12 per cent of Chinas total annual oil consumption.
International sanctions against Iran and the withdrawal of western companies enabled China to become the leading trade partner of Iran, replacing Germany which had ranked at the top for almost three decades.
China has also been an important strategic partner of Iran.
Although approving UN Security Council sanctions against Irans nuclear projects, Beijing has cultivated close political and economic relations with Iran despite protests by Western nations.
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About the Conference "The Good in Nature and Humanity: Connecting Science, Religion, and the Natural World."
An extraordinary gathering of scientists, religious and spiritual leaders, conservationists, and resource practitioners will occur at Yale University, May 11-14, 2000, to explore, "The Good in Nature and Humanity: Connecting Science, Religion, and the Natural World." This meeting is the collaborative effort of the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, the Yale University Divinity School, the Wilderness Society, and the National Religious Partnership for the Environment.
The conference will examine the divide between faith and reason that has been characteristic of Western and other civilizations for millenia, and, thus, is most appropriately addressed as we move toward the challenge of achieving a sustainable future for the twenty-first century. We believe the separation between science and spirituality can be reconciled by the convergent interests of both in seeking to understand the natural world and its link to a more satisfying and fulfilling humanity. By exploring the connections between spiritual and scientific understandings of nature, the conference will seek to better equip society to confront and resolve two of the most significant crises of our time--global environmental destruction and a diminished faith and morality.
The conference will engage these issues through a combination of intellectual inquiry, practical examination, and personal reflection. This inquiry occurs one-half century since the death of Aldo Leopold, a founder of the Wilderness Society, a graduate of Yale University and the Yale Forestry School, and the author of the seminal ethical and scientific exploration, A Sand County Almanac. This meeting will examine critical aspects of the human relation to nature. It will reach beyond intellectual inquiry, however, by seeking to link these understandings with the practical imperative of ethical land and resource use. A practical focus of the meeting will be to generate a dialogue among various resource practitioners whose everyday decisions can reflect an integration of practical, scientific, and ethical perspectives. Scientists and spiritual leaders working with farmers, loggers, developers, planners, and others will endeavor to identify and environmental ethic that pragmatically assists in rendering a healthy balance between the use, management, and protection of the land and its resources. We also will strive to relate these ethical understandings to our individual and collective quest for positive growth and social harmony.
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[b-hebrew] Special Glyphs in LC
Brak at neo.rr.com
Sun Jan 10 18:59:47 EST 2010
These marks happen all over the place in the LC. They occur when the
last word of a line quite doesn't make it to the edge of the column. I
assume their purpose is insure that one doesn't think that its a
paragraph break. But there are different glyphs used, and I am wondering
what the meaning of these glyphs are.
I re-posted and rephrased my question as you have suggested.
Christopher Kimball wrote:
> Dear Mr. Steven,
> I see what you're talking about around Gen 3:3. My GUESS is that
> they refer to Masoretic notes. I have "The Masorah of the Biblia
> Hebraica Stuttgartensia:Introduction and Annotated Glossary" Kelly,
> Mynatt and Crawford on hand, but don't immediately see this type of note.
> Someone else on the b-hebrew list must know. I suggest that you
> emphasize that these are in the photocopies and that they occur near
> Gen 3:3.
> I'm interested in learning the answer.
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Grayscale is a photo that is made up of varying tones of black and white. Grayscale is basically black and white photos. These images are also monochromatic, which means there is only one (mono) colour (chrome) in the image. Most people have some sort of computer imaging software and will tweak their photos by fixing the contrast, colour levels, hue, tint, saturation, and will also tweak the dark and light shadows. In contrast, you can also put colour into original old black and white photos with these software products. Click to enlarge all photos.
- Delta, British Columbia, Canada
- I took very early retirement from teaching in '06 and did some traveling in Europe and the UK before settling down to do some private tutoring. As a voracious reader, I have many books waiting in line for me to read. Tell me I shouldn't read something, and I will. I'm a happy, optimistic person and I love to travel and through that believe that life can be a continuous learning experience. I'm looking forward to traveling more some day. I enjoy walking, cycling, water aerobics & and sports like tennis, volleyball, and fastpitch/baseball. I'm just getting into photography as a hobby and I'm enjoying learning all the bits and bobs of my digital camera. My family is everything to me and I'm delighted to be the mother of two girls and the Gramma of a boy and a girl. I may be a Gramma, but I'm at heart just a girl who wants to have fun.
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Unmanned spy planes to police Britain
Kim Sengupta – The Independent August 6, 2008
The Government is drawing up plans to use unmanned "drone" aircraft currently deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan to counter terrorism and aid police operations in Britain.
The MoD is carrying out research and development to enable the spy planes, which are equipped with highly sophisticated monitoring equipment that allows them to secretly track and photograph suspects without their knowledge, to be deployed within three years.
The plans have been backed by the House of Commons Defence Committee but have attracted criticism from civil liberties campaigners concerned about the implications of covert surveillance of civilians.
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can obtain clear images while flying at up to 50,000ft. If ministers give the scheme the go-ahead the UK will be among the first countries to use UAVs to monitor its own citizens.
The Israeli military operates them over Palestinian cities such as Gaza and Ramallah, while the US Customs and Border Protection agency flies them over the Mexican border to detect illegal migrants along specified routes.
Gareth Crossman, director of policy at the civil rights watchdog Liberty, said: "The question is not so much about the technology but what one does with it. We have quite definite laws about where CCTV can be used but of course with UAVs you have much greater ability to gather material in private spaces and this would lead to concern."
He added: "If they are used to simply hover to gain random information then that would obviously be a matter of worry and a civil liberty issue."
UAVs are currently restricted to military installations in Salisbury Plain because of regulations banning them from using the same airspace as civil aircraft. However, a commercial consortium led by BAE Systems will provide the safety measures necessary for the planes to fly over the UK within three years.
The MPs' report says the MoD is "closely involved with the development of procedures and regulations which allow UAVs to operate in national and Nato airspace. But the committee indicates that the ministry should do more."
The BAE Systems consortium is partly funded by a number of government agencies, but not the MoD, which has an observer status on the project, called the Astraea programme. The next stage of the project is due to cost £44m, with private companies providing half of that.
The committee says: "In the response to our report we expect the MoD to set out why it supports the Astraea programme only in an 'observer role' and its future plans with regard to this programme."
The MPs say full consideration should be given to evidence given to the committee by a weapons company that meeting the air safety requirements would open the way for UAVs to be used in disaster relief, crowd control, anti-terror surveillance, maritime searches and support for the Coastguard, police, fire and intelligence services.
The UAVs will give law enforcement agencies huge scope for surveillance. Robert Emerson, a security analyst who specialises in deciphering aerial images, said: "Satellite images can be affected by clouds and lack of light, with UAVs you can avoid that by choosing the height at which you fly. There is now also Google Earth, but these are often old images out of date. There is tremendous potential in material gathered by UAVs."
He added: "There will obviously be implications for privacy, human rights, etc. That is something the Government will have to address and I imagine that there will be protests from some quarters. But you certainly cannot blame police and intelligence services for wanting to use them."
There are also concerns over safety, however. In April 2006 a UAV used by US Customs and Border Protection crashed in Arizona when its engine was accidentally turned off by the team piloting it. At the end of the first investigation into an un-manned aircraft accident, America's National Transportation Safety Board issued 22 recommendations and its chairman talked of a "wide range of safety issues involving the civilian use of unmanned aircraft".
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| WORLD STANDARDIZED RULES: 8-BALL
"Effective January 1, 2006"
Except when clearly contradicted by these additional rules, the General Rules of Pocket Billiards apply.
4.1 OBJECT OF THE GAME
Eight-Ball is a call shot game played with a cue ball and 15 object balls, numbered 1 through 15. One player must pocket balls of the group numbered 1 through 7 (solid colors), while the other player has 9 through 15 (stripes). The player pocketing either group first, and then legally pocketing the 8-ball wins the game.
4.2 CALL SHOT
In Call Shot, obvious balls and pockets do not have to be indicated. It is the opponent’s right to ask which ball and pocket if he is unsure of the shot. Bank shots and combination shots are not considered obvious, and care should be taken in calling both the object ball and the intended pocket. When calling the shot, it is never necessary to indicate details such as the number of cushions, banks, kisses, caroms, etc. Any balls pocketed on a foul remain pocketed, regardless of whether they belong to the shooter or the opponent. The opening break is not a “called shot.” Any player performing a break shot in 8-Ball may continue to shoot so long as any object ball is legally pocketed on the break.
4.3 RACKING THE BALLS
The balls are racked in a triangle at the foot of the table with the 8-ball in the center of the triangle, the first ball of the rack on the foot spot, a stripe ball in one corner of the rack and a solid ball in the other corner.
4.4 ORDER OF BREAK
Winner of the lag has the option to break. The winner of each game breaks in the next. The following are common options that may be designated by tournament officials in advance:
(a) Players alternate break.
(b) Loser breaks.
(c) Player trailing in game count breaks the next game.
4.5 LEGAL BREAK SHOT
(Defined) To execute a legal break, the breaker (with the cue ball behind the head string) must either (1) pocket a ball, or (2) drive at least four numbered balls to the rail. When the breaker fails to make a legal break, it is a foul, and the incoming player has the option of (1) accepting the table in position and shooting, or (2) having the balls re-racked and having the option of shooting the opening break or allowing the offending player to re-break.
4.6 SCRATCH ON A LEGAL BREAK
If a player scratches on a legal break shot, (1) all balls pocketed remain pocketed (exception, the 8-ball: see rule 4.8), (2) it is a foul, (3) the table is open. Please Note: The incoming player has cue ball in hand behind the head string and may not shoot an object ball that is behind the head string, unless he first shoots the cue ball past the head string and causes the cue ball to come back behind the head string and hit the object ball.
4.7 OBJECT BALLS JUMPED OFF TABLE ON THE BREAK
If a player jumps an object ball off the table on the break shot, it is a foul and the incoming player has the option of (1) accepting the table in position and shooting, or (2) taking cue ball in hand behind the head string and shooting.
4.8 8-BALL POCKETED ON THE BREAK
If the 8-ball is pocketed on the break, breaker may ask for a re-rack or have the 8-ball spotted and continue shooting. If the breaker scratches while pocketing the 8-ball on the break, the incoming player has the option of a re-rack or having the 8-ball spotted and begin shooting with ball in hand behind the head string.
4.9 OPEN TABLE
(Defined) The table is "open" when the choice of groups (stripes or solids) has not yet been determined. When the table is open, it is legal to hit a solid first to make a stripe or vice-versa. Note: The table is always open immediately after the break shot. When the table is open, it is legal to hit any solid or stripe first in the process of pocketing the called stripe or solid. However, when the table is open and the 8-ball is the first ball contacted, it is a foul and no stripe or solid may be scored in favor of the shooter. The shooter loses his turn; the incoming player is awarded cue ball in hand; any balls pocketed remain pocketed; and the incoming player addresses the balls with the table still open. On an open table, all illegally pocketed balls remain pocketed.
4.10 CHOICE OF GROUP
The choice of stripes or solids is not determined on the break even if balls are made from only one or both groups, because the table is always open immediately after the break shot. The choice of group is determined only when a player legally pockets a called object ball after the break shot.
If the groups have been determined and the player mistakenly shoots at and pockets a ball of the group, the opponent must call a foul on him before he takes his next shot. If he fails to do so, the player automatically takes over the group of balls (solids or stripes) at which he has been shooting during this inning.
4.11 LEGAL SHOT
(Defined) On all shots (except on the break and when the table is open), the shooter must hit one of his group of balls first and (1) pocket a numbered ball, or (2) cause the cue ball or any numbered ball to contact a rail. Please Note: It is permissible for the shooter to bank the cue ball off a rail before contacting the object ball; however, after contact with the object ball, an object ball must be pocketed, or the cue ball or any numbered ball must contact a rail. Failure to meet these requirements is a foul.
4.12 “SAFETY” SHOT
For tactical reasons, a player may choose to pocket an obvious object ball and also discontinue a turn at the table by declaring “safety” in advance. A safety shot is defined as a legal shot. If the shooting player intends to play safe by pocketing an obvious object ball, then prior to the shot, the shooter must declare a “safety” to the opponent. It is the shooter’s responsibility to make the opponent aware of the intended safety shot. If this is not done, and one of the shooter’s object balls is pocketed, the shooter will be required to shoot again. Any ball pocketed on a safety shot remains pocketed.
A player is entitled to continue shooting until failing to legally pocket a ball of his group. After a player has legally pocketed all of his group of balls, he shoots to pocket the 8-ball.
4.14 FOUL PENALTY
Opposing player gets cue ball in hand. This means that the player can place the cue ball anywhere on the table (does not have to be behind the headstring except on opening break). This rule prevents a player from making intentional fouls which would put an opponent at a disadvantage. With “cue ball in hand,” the player may use a hand or any part of a cue (including the tip) to position the cue ball. When placing the cue ball in position, any forward stroke motion contacting the cue ball will be a foul, if not a legal shot. (Also see Rule 3.39.)
4.15 COMBINATION SHOTS
Combination shots are allowed; however, the 8-ball can’t be used as a first ball in the combination unless it is the shooter’s only remaining legal object ball on the table. Otherwise, should such contact occur on the 8-ball, it is a foul.
4.16 ILLEGALLY POCKETED BALLS
An object ball is considered to be illegally pocketed when (1) that object ball is pocketed on the same shot a foul is committed, or (2) the called ball did not go in the designated pocket, or (3) a safety is called prior to the shot. Illegally pocketed balls remain pocketed and are scored in favor of the shooter controlling that specific group of balls, solids or stripes.
4.17 OBJECT BALLS JUMPED OFF THE TABLE
If any object ball is jumped off the table, it is a foul and loss of turn, unless it is the 8-ball, which is a loss of game. Any jumped object balls are not re-spotted.
4.18 JUMP AND MASSÉ SHOT FOUL
While “cue ball fouls only” is the rule of play when a match is not presided over by a referee, a player should be aware that it will be considered a cue ball foul if during an attempt to jump, curve or massé the cue ball over or around an impeding numbered ball that is not a legal object ball, the impeding ball moves (regardless of whether it was moved by a hand, cue stick follow-through or bridge).
4.19 PLAYING THE 8-BALL
When the 8-ball is the legal object ball, a scratch or foul is not loss of game if the 8-ball is not pocketed or jumped from the table. Incoming player has cue ball in hand. Note: A combination shot can never be used to legally pocket the 8-ball, except when the 8-ball is the first ball contacted in the shot sequence.
4.20 LOSS OF GAME
A player loses the game by committing any of the following infractions:
1. Fouls when pocketing the 8-ball (exception: see 8-Ball Pocketed On The
2. Pockets the 8-ball on the same stroke as the last of his group of balls.
3. Jumps the 8-ball off the table at any time.
4. Pockets the 8-ball in a pocket other than the one designated.
5. Pockets the 8-ball when it is not the legal object ball.
Note: All infractions must be called before another shot is taken, or else it will be deemed that no infraction occurred.
If, after 3 consecutive turns at the table by each player (6 turns total), the referee judges that attempting to pocket or move an object ball will result in loss of game, the balls will be re-racked with the original breaker of the stalemated game breaking again. The stalemate rule may be applied regard-less of the number of balls on the table. Please Note: Three consecutive fouls by one player in 8-ball is not a loss of game.
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We’re very excited to have our co-Founder, Dr. Preetha Ram, speaking at this event in San Jose, CA on April 14th. What is TED? It stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and is a forum for thinkers, movers, and creators from across the world who want to change the world.
About Dr. Preetha Ram. Preetha is visionary, educator, innovator and entrepreneur. She has a passion for education and this passion has led her to develop OpenStudy, with her cofounders, Chris Sprague and Ashwin Ram and with a dedicated and imaginative team.
OpenStudy is a powerful platform for open social learning, where anyone from anywhere in the world can find help anytime of the day or night. Our global peer learning community offers support, socialization and learning help. It grows because learners who come to learn, love it and stay to help. The theme of the Tedx talk is “Pay it forward” and on OpenStudy, our community does this every day, every minute. From our math whiz in Kenya to our English guru in Texas to our Computer Science maven in Australia – each time an OpenStudier is helped, they create a viral effect, as they themselves will help someone else. Our hashtag is #Take10Teach10. (Preetha’s blog)
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Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration wagged its finger at more than a dozen pharmaceutical companies over their use of paid search advertising.
In one day, the agency sent an unheard-of 14 warning letters to pharmaceutical companies regarding their use of search ads on behalf of more than 40 drugs. The list of brands mentioned included such top sellers as Lexapro (an antidepressant) and Plavix (a blood thinner). GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi-Aventis, Merck, and Eli Lilly were among those to receive letters.
Industry observer Mark Senak said it looked like the FDA was trying to clean up pharmaceutical search engine marketing by playing "whack the mole" rather than issuing some regulatory guidance. But an FDA spokesperson said the agency found "a plethora of violations across all classes of drugs," and noted the FDA's policy is to enforce the same standards in all media.
The FDA letters accused drug companies of three main violations: First, the inclusion of information about what condition the drug was for, but not about its risks; second, not including the full pharmaceutical name (e.g., just "Celebrex" instead of "Celebrex (celecoxib)"; and third, not including details about its limits -- for example, only effective for certain age groups, or only effective in conjunction with another drug.
So-called "reminder ads"— those that mention the drug without any other information ("Find out what Nexium can do for you!") — are acceptable in search ads. But even reminder ads are prohibited for drugs that carry so-called black-box warnings, for serious or life-threatening side effects.
Meanwhile keyword searches for any of the offending drugs deliver the drug's Web site at the top of organic results, along with just about the same amount and type of information the FDA objected to last week.
Several of the companies declined to comment; their responses to the FDA are due today. The FDA did not respond to a request for comment. The offending ads for the cited drugs have disappeared for now. Google spokesperson Eric Obenzinger noted companies can change their campaigns on the fly.
Google itself isn't getting involved. "The FDA letters are directed at pharmaceutical search advertisers," he says. "Obviously, these warning letters will change the format of the sponsored links that people see next to organic search results."
About 100 million people a year go to the Internet to do drug research, said Monique Levy, head of research at Manhattan Research, a New York-based pharmaceutical and healthcare research and services company. A search engine, and Google in particular, is where they're likely to start, but it's rarely where they stop. The drug companies' assumption that people will click through to the fine print is well founded, Levy says.
"That's why they thought they were OK," she says. "Maybe some pharma companies were pushing the envelope, but I can't think of another context where an ad is a keyword and a link with two lines of text. The FDA should start thinking about a more efficient way of addressing this problem."
If pharma companies abandon sponsored links completely, they'll cede the channel to generic competitors, online pharmacies of marginal legality, or lawyers handling class-action lawsuits against their products. But until drug marketers can twist those two-lines-and-a-link into something that can attract consumers while deflecting the wrath of the FDA, they may be more trouble than they're worth.
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A Splendid and Proud Past
No matter how big or small, each building has a story to tell. Be it a bungalow or palace, the walls are a witness to history. And when it comes to hotels, you could fill several books about what transpired before. The Beacon Hotel is no exception to the rule.
The year 1937 was a time of change in America. Charlie Chaplin released his first talking picture, DuPont invented nylon and Pan American Airways completed the first commercial flight across the Pacific. The Art Deco era was in full swing throughout the country, and Miami Beach was simply in love with the style. On Ocean Drive, a new hotel was lovingly built that would serve as a vacation haven for 75 years (and counting!).
Growth and Glamour
In the mid-40s, Isadore and Mildred Shichtman took over ownership of the Beacon and set out to add a 22-room wing and courtyard to the existing structure. Families and couples would travel by train, plane and auto from all around the nation to spend leisurely weeks enjoying the balmy climate and beautiful scenery. After a day of sightseeing and shopping travelers got together to spend time in the lobby or coffee shop, while relaxing massages were given on the rooftop solarium.
From 2004 to 2009, the Beacon underwent extensive renovation to refurbish such cherished features as the marble floors, porthole-style windows and glass block walls. Today you'll find the Beacon Hotel a shining symbol of another era, complete with the same warm and generous service that has been our privilege to provide from the very beginning.
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