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It’s a new year, and the local chapter of the nation’s oldest civil-rights organization will undergo some new changes.
The Youngstown chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has been a presence in the Mahoning Valley since 1919.
The chapter has fought against discrimination in housing, the work force and in public venues.
I met recently with Herb Williams, the local chapter’s secretary, and Joseph Hightower, parliamentarian and executive board member.
First, the chapter will be looking for new quarters. It is now located on Market Street, on the second floor of the former Stackhouse Oldsmobile dealership.
Hightower explained that a major building tenant is leaving, and the chapter likely will have to move when its lease expires.
The emphasis this year is to focus specifically on future hopes and aspirations of area youths.
Hightower said the chapter wants to be a conduit for information on jobs in the community.
That is a particular concern for young people who sincerely are trying to find work in the Mahoning Valley.
The chapter also will have monthly meetings with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to ensure that any complaints about discrimination in hiring are properly processed.
Hightower said the chapter also wants to be “more involved in community issues.”
“There’s a lot of conflict in our community, and we want to be a part of solving that conflict,” he said.
Williams and Hightower explained the chapter once had 50 to 60 people involved in handling myriad duties, especially during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
Today, that number has dwindled to about 10.
In fact, Williams and Hightower, who are both retired, act as the chapter’s chief investigators when various complaints are made. They draw no salary and gladly volunteer their services.
The chapter began becoming more proactive in 2010.
Last year, the local chapter was the host group for a home-foreclosure seminar at Choffin Career and Technical Center in Youngstown.
The forum was conducted in partnership with Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, a national agency designed specifically to address the needs of individuals facing the loss of their property.
The NAACP chapter also collaborated with Youngstown State University and several civic organizations, including sororities, to prepare local residents for a regular census test.
The chapter wants to continue building on that foundation and increasing its membership.
In years past, the chapter worked with local churches to institute membership drives. That has fallen off in recent years, but Hightower said it will be a point of emphasis in 2011.
Williams said the chapter can always use volunteer help. If you are interested, contact him at 330-793-7602, or by e-mail at email@example.com,
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are one of the truly seasonal tree fruit commodities.
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Ohio Senate Approves Drilling in State Parks
State parks and other lands in Ohio will be opened to oil and gas drilling under a bill that has passed the state Senate on Wednesday.
The Senate voted 22-10 on the legislation that sets up a commission to oversee oil and gas leasing. It also requires state agencies to create property inventories that could yield potential drilling sites.
The House has passed the bill, but would have to agree to the Senate's changes before it could go to the governor's desk.
The bill's supporters say Ohio could get fees and royalties of up to 9 million. Some proceeds would go to habitat protection and wildlife preservation.
Hydraulic fracturing blasts chemical-laced water into the ground to access stores of gas in once out-of-reach shale formations. Opponents of the bill say the state parks have historically been off limits to drilling and allowing it will harm scenic views and groundwater.
The Ohio Chamber of Commerce says it has already formed the group that will promote the natural gas drilling.
The Ohio Shale Coalition says a group of Ohio universities will do an economic impact study, with preliminary results due out in September.
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- RELATED LINKS
- Interview: Brooksley Born
Read FRONTLINE's extended interview with her.
- Credit Crisis Cassandra
Manuel Roig-Franzia's Washington Post profile of Born (May 26, 2009)
- Prophet and Loss
Another profile, from Stanford University's alumni magazine (March/April 2009)
- Manuel Roig-Franzia
- Nancy Duff Campbell
- Michael Greenberger
- Joe Nocera
- Sheila Bair
- David Wessel
- Arthur Levitt
Manuel Roig-Franzia The Washington Post
It begins with a father who wants a boy. She was born in San Francisco. Her father was a welfare agency executive for a long time. And he thought it would be great to have a son. His best friend at the time was named Brooks, and he thought, "I'll name my son Brooks." But he ended up with a girl and he named her Brooksley at the last minute, feminizing it.
And why is this significant at all? I think that as you look at the trajectory of Brooksley Born, you see a situation in which this woman is forever coming up against the question of her identity as a woman in a man's world.
She goes to Stanford; she attends the law school there. And on one of her first days, one of her male classmates comes up to her and says: "You are taking the place of a man who will surely be going to Vietnam and risking his life for America. You are taking his place. If you weren't here, he might not be over there risking his life." So can you imagine what that must have been like for a woman who was pushing up against some barriers?
She goes on to then be the first female president of the Law Review at Stanford. They have a vote and she's the obvious choice because she's first in her class. You would think this would be a great moment of triumph for Brooksley Born. Instead, she gets a phone call from one of the deans. She goes down to his office and he says, "Brooksley, I just want to let you know that the faculty stands ready to step in if you're not able to pull this off."
Can you imagine? You're number one in your class. You're the first woman, ever, to be number one in your class. Interesting to note that there was another pretty smart, female law student that preceded her named Sandra Day O'Connor at Stanford University -- but Brooksley Born was the first to be number one. …
She'll [say] that her response was, "I don't plan to fail." It goes on like that, on and on and on at each step of Brooksley Born's life and career. …
What is her specialty in law? What does she end up doing?
She ends up at Arnold & Porter, a prestigious law firm, and she begins representing futures exchanges, including the London Futures Exchange, which is an important one.
She starts becoming an expert in an area of the law that very few people are experts in. And she gets involved in the '80s in this really important headline-grabbing case of the manipulation of the silver market by these wealthy brothers, the Hunt brothers.
Wealthy Texas brothers, right?
Yes. And she was representing the clients of a Swiss bank who were being accused of being complicit in all of this. But through that process she begins to understand how these markets work. And she gets to bore into a subject, and gets sort of an insider's look at it, because she's representing these people who had millions of dollars at stake that other lawyers who might just have a casual interaction with that world might never have gotten to glimpse.
It makes her skeptical of this really important notion. ... It's the question of sophisticated investors and can they be trusted to have their best interests at heart, no matter what, to prevent fraud, and [protect] unsophisticated investors? The idea was that sophisticated investors would police themselves because they would need clean markets in order for things to function.
But what she learned through the silver case was that sophisticated investors could be duped just as easily as you and me.
Because greed overtakes, trumps any rationality, yes?
And perhaps also because when you're a sophisticated investor, you are involved in complex transactions that are, in some ways, more easy to manipulate than less complicated transactions.
Nancy Duff Campbell Washington attorney
At that time, there weren't very many women who even went to law school. I think she's told the story that she took some kind of an aptitude test to try to see what she was good for, because that was sort of a traditional thing that happened then. And she liked to joke that the test itself, they had a certain test for women and a certain test for men, and they were even pink and blue in their colors. I don't know if that's apocryphal or not. But that's what she jokes about.
And the idea was, well, let's see if a woman should be a nurse or a teacher. It wasn't, let's see if she should be a nurse or a teacher or a lawyer. I think either she or maybe her mother said: "Well, don't limit yourself to the test for women. Take the test for the men, too." And she did, and apparently showed some aptitude for law, and decided then to go to law school.
There were very few women in law school at the time. Stanford had one of the larger classes, maybe 10 percent. So the first thing was just going to law school and being in a very limited group of women.
And then, this was during the Vietnam War. I know that she's described her experience -- which is similar to one that occurred when I went to law school a few years later -- that a lot of men in the class [were] saying, "What are you doing here? You're taking the place of somebody, a man who could be here and not have to go to the war," because at that time, there were graduate deferments.
And I know that Brooksley -- again, this is a mark of her excellence -- the way she approached this was: "Well, I'd better do really well, because I've got a coveted place. And I've got to show them I can do it." And she did. She graduated at the top of her class. …
What drove her?
I think that she had a lot of internal drive, if I can extrapolate. Of course I didn't know her then. I think that her parents were very encouraging, just as the story of her mother and the test illustrates. And I think she had a lot of self-confidence that has carried her well throughout her career, and that made her want to do well then and do well thereafter. …
She's interested, afterwards, in possibly clerking for the Supreme Court?
One of the marks of a path to success after law school is to clerk for a judge, usually a federal judge if you can and, of course, a Supreme Court justice if you can. But at that time, again, many judges just didn't pick women. They didn't think twice about saying, "Well, I don't take women as clerks." ...
So she comes to Washington. She likes it. What happens next?
Yeah, she came to Washington and clerked for a federal judge. And ... she kind of got the policy bug and saw that it was a very exciting place to be a lawyer in Washington. She'd seen very interesting cases in her court experience. And so she decided that she wanted to stay in Washington and to practice here.
I think she was committed from the beginning not only to be excellent, but to be excellent in a way that would make a difference for people.
Michael Greenberger Director, CTFC Division of Trading and Markets (1997-1999)
She had developed a very close relationship with Hillary Clinton when Hillary Clinton was a very prominent lawyer in Little Rock, Ark. ... When Clinton got elected, I remembered hearing the story that [Mrs. Clinton] and Clinton and a group were bandying about who would be the attorney general, and somebody said, "Well, Brooksley Born would be a good attorney general." ... And Brooksley went in for an interview with Clinton. The story comes back was that Clinton found her boring and that it never went anywhere. ...
I think to some extent you could view this [position as head of the CFTC] as a consolation prize. ... To the general world, people who knew Brooksley, the circles she traveled, the American Bar Association, the D.C. Bar, all the prestigious boards she served on, people were probably scratching their heads.
Joe Nocera The New York Times
When she first gets the job, she gets invited to lunch [with] [Fed Chairman] Alan Greenspan, and they talk about fraud. Do you remember the story?
It's actually becoming a somewhat famous story. This was only the third time they met. And she is still fairly new on the job. And she said he said something to the effect that, "Well, Brooksley, we are never going to agree on fraud." And she said, "Well, what do you mean?" And he said, "You probably think there should be rules against it." And she said, "Well, yes, I do."
He said, "I think the market will figure it out and take care of the fraudsters." That is kind of an exaggerated view of the way he thought about markets -- the markets were self-correcting; markets could root out problems; markets would sort of shame the bad guys and help the good guys because bad guys would be ostracized by other market participants.
Sheila Bair Chair, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (2006-present)
I had left the CFTC by the time she became chairman. But I was working at the New York Stock Exchange and just made her acquaintance. … We just connected. I think she wanted to hear some of my thoughts on some of these issues that we'd already been grappling with. …
So I was very impressed with her. I thought she was independent. She did believe in regulation and that value could come of regulation. And I think she wanted to do the right thing from a policy basis on these instruments and did see some of the growing risks.
So I think I was really not in a position to be very much help to her at that point, other than to talk and provide moral support perhaps. But I do think that she did accurately identify the burgeoning risks that were growing, and had become more profound since when I had been at the CFTC. But she was facing a very difficult industry resistance. …
Her view of the role that CFTC should play merged to some extent with your view?
Yeah, I think so. I think she was just trying to bring some semblance of oversight to some of these markets. I think, unfairly, people tried to paint her position as more extreme than that, like she was trying to force everything onto regulated futures exchanges. That's not what she was trying to do.
She was just trying to provide some common-sense overlay of supervision to these growing markets, these very internationally active markets, these very large markets.
But there was a very strong view in the industry among the major players in the swap market to not have any regulation. That had been religion with them for years -- keep the CFTC out of this as much as they can. And I think they had … successfully persuaded the Treasury and the Fed that the CFTC was overstepping itself, and this was just a power grab, a turf battle. …
How difficult was it at that point for a woman to rise up in the levels of government, especially when it came to Wall Street issues?
That's a good question. I don't know. Certainly this is a heavily male-dominated culture, and derivatives are a relatively recent innovation -- maybe a little bit more of a cowboy culture than other more established, regulated parts of the industry.
So that may have been an undercurrent, making that difficult situation even more difficult in terms of advocating and persuading others to her point of view.
David Wessel The Wall Street Journal; author, In Fed We Trust
[Treasury Secretaries Robert] Rubin, [Larry] Summers and Greenspan had a great deal of faith in their own intellects. And I think that they were not welcoming of somebody who looked at the world differently and was kind of abrasive.
There probably were some issues of gender there. You may remember that there was also tension with [former EPA head] Carol Browner, who was doing environmental stuff. So I think that no matter what the merits, there was bound to be some resistance. …
The system wasn't set up to allow somebody like Brooksley Born to have a real impact. And she didn't do it in a way that was likely to maximize her chances of getting Greenspan and Rubin and Summers to listen to her.
What does that mean?
A lot in public, and a frontal assault on their intelligence and on what they were doing. In a sense, Joe Stiglitz has had similar issues. I mean, here's a guy who's a genius, … who won a Nobel Prize for identifying a situation where markets don't work just right.
But he seems to be better at calling attention to these things than actually finding a way to get a government to actually do something about them.
The most successful people in these jobs have two characteristics: One, like Brooksley Born, they spot something that needs to be addressed, and two, they figure out some way to get it addressed. And the one is necessary, but it's not sufficient.
And so, if you really want to judge somebody as a regulator or as a politician, it's about seeing things and getting them done.
Why does Teddy Kennedy have such a great reputation in Washington? It's because, on the one hand, he gives a great speech; he's a lion of the left; he's a real progressive; he stands for things. And he manages to get bills through Congress.
Well, Brooksley Born was no Teddy Kennedy. That's just a fact. They don't often come in the same package. People who see things that other people don't see don't tend to be the people who are best at getting consensus.
Arthur Levitt Chair, Securities & Exchange Commission (1993-2001)
Didn't know Brooksley Born. I was told about Brooksley Born. I was told that she was irascible, difficult, stubborn, unreasonable. I've come to know her as one of the most capable, dedicated, intelligent and committed public servants that I have ever come to know. I wish I knew her better in Washington, and I wish my view of her was more rounded by personal exposure. ...
In my life I've had so many occasions of finding my impressions were incorrect and revising them, depending upon the circumstances, depending upon what stage of life I happen to be or what other factors were bearing on it. …
I've got to say to you that I have just huge affection and admiration and trust in Brooksley Born.
Based on seeing a good deal of her in recent months, in talking to her about what I regard to have been a bad judgment that I made during that period when she was urging the President's Working Group to allow her to regulate swaps. You tend to gain some perspective when you recognize that you might have made a mistake.
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Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you had complete control over your own reputation? Some people believe that you might. After all, you do get to control what you do and how you react to situations, but in reality you will never have complete control over how you are perceived.
Especially in the world of business, your reputation is one of the most important assets, and one that is the most difficult to control. No matter how much work you put into giving your business a good online reputation, a competitor can undo years of work with only a few well placed, defamatory articles.
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The vast majority of new customers will have used the internet to find out information about your business before they ever step through your doors.
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by Peter Cappelli, Harbir Singh, Jitendra V. Singh, and Michael Useen. The Harvard Business Review, March 2010.
Practices associated with effective leadership vary across cultures. This piece from the Harvard Business Review highlights the ways leaders of highly-regarded Indian companies focus their energies. The findings are based on interviews of 105 leaders from 98 of the largest Indian-based companies, such as Tata, Reliance, Aventis, and Infosys. Unlike Western CEOs who often claim that cleverness at the top is a key determinant of success, Indian leaders point to the motivation of their people.
The authors also find that Indian business leaders emphasise the social mission of their work. They report that Indian business leaders regard Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a key part of social mission and employee motivation. Their research indicates that CSR is more meaningful in the Indian context than in the West. Achieving CSR targets is monitored regularly by 40% of Indian companies while only 17% of US companies report regularly paying attention to this goal.
Investing in people and mission may have pragmatic roots. CSR might be a means to grease the wheels with government in India. Investing in human capital may be a way to combat high levels of employee turnover facing big Indian corporations. Over the past five years, Indian leaders began spending more time on internal issues. Consequently, Indian companies tend to invest heavily in employee training and responsibility. One successful Indian CEO when asked to define his legacy responded: “That I have destroyed the office of the CEO.” He aims to invert the organisation so that the top is accountable to the bottom.
Even if you are not planning or hoping for anything so radical, this article usefully probes fixed notions of effective leadership.
To order the article see: hbr.org/2010/03/leadership-lessonsfrom-india/ar/1
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Your new gold mine is literally all over the place, anywhere from obsolete computers to scrap gold jewelry and all the way to Spent Automotive Catalysts.
One can easily come by with what seems to be our everyday trash, think about your neighbor that is tossing his old computer, or maybe local tech lab or factory that throw their left over circuit boards and cables to the dumpster instead of giving it to you. Although some types of scrap electronics may come by free for the take, some other types of scrap electronics you will have to buy, those are the scrap gold/silver jewelry and Automotive Catalysts.
Sorted circuit boards, scrap jewelry and Automotive Catalysts can be usually bought online (eBay, craigslist etc..) or offline from local scrap dealers.
Knowing what you should pay for scrap electronics is by far the biggest obstacle at this profession, since there are basically thousands of different types of scrap electronics, we can't possibly know them all, but getting to know with the general features and main components that are in e-waste will help you set a basic pricing guide lines, in our other sections we will discuss about electronic waste types, components and how to process them.
Jewelry scrap is far easier to price since the manufacturing industry is subjected to harsh legislation made for consumer benefit.
Automotive Catalysts is as well easier to price with all sort of catalogs that may help you to know how much PGM's (i.e. Platinum Group Metals) are in each type and model.
According to the EPA, in 2007 the total amount of e-waste in the US alone were 2.04 millions metric tons and estimates are that this numbers are only going up each year with technology advancement that lowering prices constantly.
E-Waste in the US make up less then 2% of municipal solid waste stream (EPA)
It's been reported that 15-20% of gold consumption worldwide is from recycling and the rest still comes from mining and 75% of world silver production comes from mining.
The process of gold mining is the cause of terrible pollution (cyanide leaching), and even has the potential to cause devastating natural disasters if not done responsibly.
The Homebrew gold recovery and refining:
Gold and Silver recovery from scrap electronics and scrap gold jewelry in your back yard or garage is possible and is great hobby and extra chash source.
Before getting started, one most make sure to take the necessary and proper precautions to prevent any environmental damage or physical damage to himself, surrounding peoples and equipment. please reffer to our general safety article for more information and tips.
Gold, silver and platinum prices:
Gold and other precious metals prices are constantly on the rise by two main reasons: US dollar weakening and growing demand for gold, silver and platinum group metals.
The skyrocketing prices of gold and other precious metals present vast opportunities for the hobbyist and professional and make more money out of each deal of scrap gold jewelry or scrap electronics.
Current Gold, Silver and Platinum spot prices:
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Less is More: The Minimal Print
February 8–May 5, 2013
The intentionally inexpressive geometries of Minimalist works of art may at first appear as meaningless arrangements of colored squares, rectangles, and lines devoid of content – essentially an art of nothing. However, this influential post-war American movement fundamentally re-imagined the viewer-object relationship by placing greater emphasis on individual perception and experience.
Emerging in the early 1960s in reaction to its predecessor Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism is best described by artist Frank Stella’s famous statement, “What you see is what you see.” Whereas Abstract Expressionists created uninhibited works full of feeling and metaphor, Minimalists purged their art of emotion and allusion, distilling abstraction to its purest form: what is visible to the naked eye. Their works resist interpretation and use limited means to produce the most immediate experience for viewers.
Many Minimalist artists sought to relinquish evidence of the artist’s hand by using industrial means and materials, often working with manufacturers. Minimalists found that printmaking’s similarly technical, complex, and collaborative processes perfectly suited their inexpressive aesthetic. With the proliferation of professional printmaking studios in the late 1950s, Minimalists, like their Pop contemporaries, could exploit and enhance the unprecedented technical capabilities newly available to them. Consequently, Minimalists made rigorously simple, depersonalized images that present prints for what they are: impressions of ink on paper.
Minimalist artists were able to exploit new printing techniques to accentuate physical properties unique to prints. These artists embraced and emphasized the negative space of the paper, the qualities of printed ink, as well as the distinct edges and surfaces of both the paper and printed forms. The whole print—both paper and image—becomes a tangible object in the viewer’s space to be experienced without the burden of interpretation.
Less is More: The Minimal Print displays prints from SCMA’s permanent collection by artists such as Josef Albers, Sol LeWitt, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Ryman, Richard Tuttle, and others.
Image credit: Josef Albers. American born Germany, 1888–1976. Homage to the Square – MMA-2, 1970. Silkscreen printed in four colors on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper. Gift of Priscilla Paine Van der Poel, class of 1928. Photography by Petegorsky/Gipe.
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Myth: You have to drink eight cups of water per day
You hear it so often — that eight cups of water a day is necessary for everything from weight control to cleansing the body — that it seems it must be truth, but the reality is there is no good evidence to support this claim. In fact, this age-old myth is believed to have originally stemmed from a 1970s textbook that made the statement that the human body needs a bit more than two litres (8 cups) of fluid per day from all sources, including coffee, tea, milk, juice, pop and, yes, even alcohol. While we have sadly learned since then that alcohol is not good for hydration, we do know that virtually all fluids do hydrate us, including caffeinated drinks such as tea and coffee, so long as you are habituated to them. When it comes to weight, remember some drinks, such as pop and juice, contain quite a few calories, so sticking to water is usually best. Some individuals, including athletes, those at risk for kidney stones, and pregnant and breastfeeding women, might require extra fluids, but for everyone else, it's all about finding the right amount of fluids for you.
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Increase your pitching velocity this season!
Randy Mazey, who's pitching staff at TCU finished the 2008 season with a 3.63 ERA (fifth in Division I), identifies four areas that aid velocity - Linear movement, Finger placement, Large muscle strength and Rotation - and demonstrates simple, yet effective drills that will build each area in your pitcher. In a frame-by-frame video analysis of his athletes pitching, Coach Mazey presents you with examples of how leg strength, hip rotation and timing will aid your staff in developing greater velocity in their pitches.
Without the use of a state-of-the-art weight room, Mazey demonstrates simple exercises that can be done anywhere and require minimal equipment, yet deliver maximum velocity. Mazey shows you how to improve velocity by simulating the pitching motion in conditioning exercises, including a long toss drill that can build arm speed and affirm the proper release point of the pitch. He also discusses the importance of implementing rest into your pitching program.
In addition, a series of stretch band arm exercises are demonstrated that can improve arm and shoulder strength, keep pitchers healthy and mechanically sound and increase velocity over time.
By using these simple shoulder and core exercises you will see an increase in your pitching staffs' velocity, which should translate to more quality starts from your staff.
39 minutes. 2010.
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I would recommend any of Randy Mazey dvds. He has so much baseball knowledge. I really enjoyed this dvd, I think that it will help my pitchers gain velocity and I liked how he explained things. Sometimes some coaches over do with information, but I thought Coach Mazey did a good job with keeping the information relevant.
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Recent Grads Struggle With Student Debt, Slow Job Market
According to a recent report, young people are encountering difficulties as they enter a labor market that eventually plunged into a deep recession in 2009.
The Report, Chasing the American Dream: Recent College Graduates and the Great Recession, reflects the results of interviews with 444 graduates of four-year colleges and universities from the classes of 2006 through 2011.
The report documents that three in four were able to find at least one full-time job since graduation. However, only 51 percent of the graduates were working at the time of the survey, while 20 percent were attending graduate or professional school and 12 percent were either unemployed or employed part time and looking for full-time work.
“Students who graduated during the past several years are facing historic obstacles in achieving the foundations of the American dream and express low expectations for their future prosperity,” said Carl Van Horn, Professor and Director of the Heldrich Center and a co-author of the study. “The resilience of this year’s and recent college graduates are being tested as they struggle with student debt, a slow job market that offers few toe-holds in their chosen careers, and nagging fears about a lack of preparation for global labor market competition.”
Further, college graduates who were hired during the recession in 2009-2011 earned 10 percent less in their starting salaries in comparison to those who entered the workforce in 2006 and 2007 – $27,000 versus $30,000.
These employment struggles and modest earnings have also affected their ability to pay off the debts they incurred to finance their college education.
The survey also found that more than one in four are living with their parents or family members to save money and significant numbers of recent college graduates are delaying major purchases which include taking extra jobs to supplement their income, and even delaying marriage. Many recent graduates who move out from their parents homes continue to receive family support for housing, food, healthcare, college loan repayments, and car payments.
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TNK-BP prepares its regional and national social investment programs annually. This is done in partnership with government authorities, social agencies, educational and other organizations. Social investment programs are represented in signed agreements between TNK-BP andadministrations in the regions where the company operates. TNK-BP believes that consistent and long-term social investments are key to addressing national and regional social issues.
In 2005 TNK-BP spent $90 million on external social programs and in 2006, investment was increased to $160 million. By the end of November 2007, the company had allocated a further $100 million in such investment
Following are examples of TNK-BP’s 2006 strategic external programs in partnership with non-commercial organizations engaged in developing the social sphere:
· Acquisition and construction of housing for socially disadvantaged families (“Sodeistvie” Foundation; TNK-BP invested $30 million).
· Financing of a comprehensive nationwide program to prevent and treat hepatitis and HIV. The program includes purchases of medicines for children, financing in-patient treatment, and outreach activities ($6 million allocated to Children’s Hepatitis and AIDS Foundation).
· Support for under-financed medical institutions in the regions ($2.5 million allocated to Children’s AIDS Foundation).
· Financing restoration of historical buildings and preservation of cultural heritage in St. Petersburg ($9 million, St. Petersburg Development Fund).
· Supporting tuition of gifted children from low-income families and assistance to the Gorchakov School in St. Petersburg (Pavlovsk), $300,000.
In addition, the company has implemented various multi-purpose social programs and individual projects in key regions where it operates: the Khanty-Mansyisk and Yamalo-Nenets autonomous districts, the Tyumen, Orenburg, Saratov, Novosibirsk and Irkutsk regions, and the Krasnoyarsk Territory. These activities were mainly conducted within the framework of annually renewed agreements with regional administrations.
TNK-BP finances and supports medical, educational and cultural institutions, sports clubs, agricultural producers, as well as indigenous peoples. The company helped renovate and build hundreds of kilometers of roads, bridges and power lines, confirming its reputation as a reliable and long-term partner for local authorities.
In October 2006 AccountAbility, an internationally respected organization in corporate responsibility, rated TNK-BP’s social responsibility among the top ten Russian corporations
In 2007, TNK-BP allocated $10 million to the construction of Olympic sites in Sochi. TNK-BP is one of the founders of the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, which will be the leading business school in Russia under the auspices of the President of the Russian Federation.
In 2008 TNK-BP plans to publish its first social report, compiled on the basis of international standards of social reporting.
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Linear motors have been used in wafer handling and pick and place applications for years. Now applications in metalworking, packaging, and medical are on the rise due to the superior speed and accuracy linear motors provide.
But along with the benefits of high speed and acceleration come the associated responsibilities of safe design. Linear motors can develop incredible amounts of kinetic energy in a very short time. Consequently, engineers designing with them must use a combination of electrical safety functions and competent mechanical design at both ends of travel to ensure safe operation.
As with any machine, care must be exercised when the motor is operating. Along with the great speeds and accelerations come temperatures over 100C. So personnel must be warned not to touch the forcer coil when the motor is operating, or during a cool-down period immediately following motor operation.
Fast kinetic energy generation, heat, and powerful magnetic forces are the primary safety concerns for engineers designing with linear motors.
Extra consideration must be given to the powerful magnetic fields created by the magnet tracks. The open magnet track used with flat linear motors is generally more hazardous than U-channel designs, since the exposed magnet track can unexpectedly clamp to an iron-core forcer or any ferrous surface.
Although most of the magnetic attraction in U-channel designs is contained, and the brushless linear motor forcer coil is nonmagnetic, danger still exists. Do not insert any ferrous material into the U-channel or attempt to disassemble the U-channel magnet track.
For a complete guide to the Basics of Linear Motors, or Enter 507.
To speak with a company applications engineer, call (412) 963-7470, fax (412) 963-7459, or Enter 508.
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IntroductionCrimea (krĪmēˈə) [key], Rus. and Ukr. Krym, peninsula and autonomous republic (1991 est. pop. 2,363,000), c.10,000 sq mi (25,900 sq km), extreme SE Ukraine, linked with the mainland by the Perekop Isthmus. The peninsula is bounded on the S and W by the Black Sea. The eastern tip of the Crimea is the Kerch peninsula, separated from the Taman peninsula (a projection of the mainland) by the Kerch Strait, which connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Azov. Simferopol is the capital of the Crimean autonmous republic. Other major cities include Sevastopol (an municipality with the status of an oblast), Kerch, Feodosiya, Yalta, and Yevpatoriya.
Along the Crimea's northeast shore are a series of shallow, stagnant, but mineral-rich lagoons, known collectively as the Sivash or Putrid Sea, which are linked to the Sea of Azov by the Arabatskaya Strelka. The northern part of the Crimea is a semiarid steppe, drained by a few streams; this region supports fine wheat, corn, and barley crops. In the south rises the Crimean or Yaila Range (Yaltinskaya Yaila), with its extensive meadows and forests. The tallest peak rises to c.5,000 ft (1,520 m). In the Crimean Range is a major astronomical observatory. Protected by steep mountain slopes, the Black Sea littoral, once called the "Soviet Riviera," has a subtropical climate and numerous resorts, notably at Yalta and Sochi. During the years of Soviet rule, the resorts and dachas of the Crimean coast served as the prime perquisites of the politically loyal. In this region are vineyards and fruit orchards; fishing, mining, and the production of essential oils are also important. Heavy industry in the Crimea includes plants producing machinery, chemicals, and building materials.
Ethnic Russians constitute more than half of the Crimea's population; Ukrainians more than a quarter. Since 1989 there has been a movement back to the area of native Tatars who had been exiled to Central Asia in the Stalin era, and they now form more than a sixth of the population. There are also smaller minorities of ethnic Armenians, Greeks, Bulgarians, and Germans.
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The court makes decisions about residence (previously called custody) by considering what is in the child's best interests. A number of factors, referred to as the welfare checklist (in section 1 of the Children Act 1989) are looked at and weighed up to decide what is in the child's welfare. Parents coming out of heterosexual relationships and forming gay and lesbian relationships face particular anxieties about how their sexuality will affect a court's decision if there is a dispute about who will look after the children.
The court's attitude has changed a lot over the last few years and there is a much greater acceptance of lesbian and gay parenting.
The Human Rights Act 1998 and Scotland Act 1998 bring the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law and enshrine the "right to respect for [a person's] private and family life" which can strengthen the position of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals in relation to family law. In the 1999 case of Salgueiro Da Silva Mouta v. Portugal the European Court of Human Rights found that the Portuguese Court's decisions to deny a gay father access and custody for his daughter on the basis of his sexuality violated his rights under article 8 (right to respect for his family life) and article 14 (prohibition on discrimination) of the Convention.
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On November 19, 1994, at 1100 eastern standard time, a Cessna 182A, N3724D, nosed over after a forced landing at Johns Island, South Carolina. The commercial pilot was not injured, while the aircraft was substantially damaged. The aircraft was operated under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 91 by Jollymon Banners, Inc., of Folly Beach, South Carolina. Visual meteorological conditions existed at the time, and no flight plan was filed for the local, banner tow flight. The flight originated in Charleston, South Carolina at 1045. Use your browsers 'back' function to return to synopsisReturn to Query Page
The pilot was maneuvering the aircraft to pick up an advertising banner when rough engine operation was noted, with a loss of power. About 50 feet above ground level, he applied power, and the engine sputtered. An immediate decision to land the aircraft was made. He set up for a forced landing in a tomato field. During the landing roll, the nose wheel dug into the soft ground, and the aircraft nosed over.
Following removal of the wings, the aircraft was transported to a salvage and storage facility where an examination of the engine could be performed. The engine remained securely attached to the mount, and a decision was made to attempt an engine run after connecting a fuel source to the wing tank fuel lines. Fuel and battery power was applied to the aircraft, and the starter was energized. The starter would crank the engine, however the engine would not start. Valve action was correct, and there was compression observed on all cylinders. When the initial attempts to start the engine were unsuccessful, the fuel lines were examined. The fuel line from the gascolator to the carburetor was dry. The input line to the gascolator was removed at the gascolator fitting. When the line was removed, an unknown substance fell from the inside of the line, and fuel began to flow freely. The substance that was blocking the fuel line could not be found in the grass below the aircraft. The line to the gascolator was reinstalled, and the engine started. The engine was run satisfactorily for several minutes. Because of bending damage to the propeller blades, the engine was not run at full power.
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Of local design and manufacture, the vehicle has yet to win an order since it’s unveiling in 2006 (photo : Deftech)
In addition lies the fact that Malaysia’s defence industry is largely competing against itself for a small domestic market, in July 1999 the Malaysian Defence Industry Council was created to serve as a forum for the defence industry, the Council being headed by the defence minister and comprised of government officials and the heads of local defence companies. Under it are six working groups dealing with the six specified defence industry fields deemed strategic by the Malaysian government; Aerospace, Maritime, Weaponry, Automotive, Information Communications Technology and Commonuser Equipment, each being headed by a representative from the companies in the defence industry. However, given that the companies involved are competitors in a smallMalaysian domestic defence market, it is not surprising that little has come out in the form of a common approach to the industry’s development or joint development/cooperation efforts between the companies. The recent cooperation between three companies Composite Technologies Research Malaysia (CTRM), System Consultancy Services and Ikramatic System, to form a consortium to develop the ALUDRA (Allianced Unmanned Developmental Research Aircraft) UAV was a result of a government directive to the companies to collaborate rather than compete against each other in developing a UAV for the Malaysian Armed Forces.
There has been little interest among Malaysian defence companies towards mergers or consolidation, the only exception being Deftech’s MYR6 million ($1.75 million) takeover of MMC Defence in January 2007 and renaming it Defence Services, MMC Defence was the local industrial partner for Poland’s Bumar in the supply of 48 PT-91M MBTs to Malaysia and provided in-country support for the tanks. The move allowed Deftech to ensure additional work for itsmain factory in Pekan, which was used to assemble 259 FNSS ACV-300 AFVs ordered by Malaysia. Deftech also provides various wheeled vehicles for the Malaysian army ranging from its Handalan II truck design to various other truck and wheeled vehicles from it’s foreign partners which include Daimler Chrysler for G military vehicles, Alvis for Supacat, Mowag for Duro vehicles and Iveco for heavy duty military trucks. In 2005 Deftech completed a 69 vehicle order for Handalan II trucks for the Royal Brunei Armed Forces. The company’s indigenously designed 4x4 AV4 light armoured vehicle illustrates the problem faced by Malaysian defence companies, having debuted the vehicle in 2006 with the expectation that the Malaysian Army would purchase the vehicle, the company has had to instead face the reality that there is little interest by the Malaysian government to purchase the AV4.
Manufactured by Deftech, the truck is in widespread use with the Malaysian Armed Forces and is also used by the Royal Brunei Armed Forces (photo : Deftech)
For research and development, the Malaysian Defence Ministry has the Science and Technology Research Institute for Defence (STRIDE) which along with conducting its own research and development programmes, collaborates and provides limited funding for local defence companies for R&D and also provides technical and scientific evaluations for the Malaysian Armed Forces. However, STRIDE has only a small funding allocation for R&D, for the 2006-2010 timeframe, it was only allocated MYR17.5 million ($5.1million) a figure that clearly precludes any significant R&D programmes.
Since his appointment in 2009, Defence Minister Dato’ Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has been pushing two initiatives in regard to the Malaysian defence industry. The first one calls for the establishment of an ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) Defence Industry Council to promote cooperation and trade between ASEAN member countries in their respective defence products. However there has been little response from other ASEAN countries as to whether they would be willing to create and support such an organisation. Coupled with the fact that many ASEAN countries see little need to purchase defence equipment from fellow ASEAN members, it appears highly unlikely that the idea of an ASEAN Defence Industry Council will be realised. The second initiative is the proposed establishment of a Defence Technology Park in Malaysia which is to serve a regional hub for the both defence research and production. The proposed Defence Technology Park covers 492.5 hectares of land located at Sungkai in the peninsular Malaysian state of Perak. A two year study plan for the proposal to be carried out by Masterplan Consulting was announced at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace (LIMA) 2009 show. At the same show, French Defence Minister Herv_ Morin stated that France was looking to assist Malaysia in developing its indigenous defence industry with the potential for outsourcing work to Malaysia in regard to French defence sales in the region though he also stated that this was all in the preliminary stage and would depend on which field of defence industry that the Malaysians were wanting to develop.
Another products of Deftech (photo : Deftech)
In terms of future major local defence industry manufacturing programs, only two programmes are expected to materialise soon, both of which are naval shipbuilding programs, the first onewill be the follow-on Batch 2 ships of the Kedah class Next Generation Patrol Vessels, ofwhich sixwould be built and which would be larger and armed with antisurface and anti-air missiles in contrast to the lightly armed first batch whose armament consists only of a 76mm main gun and two 30mm cannons. The programme was originally thought to be of secondary consideration in contrast to the proposed local construction of two BAE Systems Batch 2 Lekiu class frigates, however with the government indefinitely postponing the frigate programme, the Batch 2 NGPVs have come to the fore, particularly with Boustead Naval Shipyards, which built the Kedah class, nearing completion of the final ship of the six ship class. At LIMA 2009, Malaysian PrimeMinister Dato SeriNajib said that the Batch 2 NGPV was of priority as Boustead had some over 2000 local subcontractors dependent on its shipbuilding work. However, he did not indicate as to when the Malaysian government would actually allocate funding and begin the programme.
The other shipbuilding programme would be the Malaysian Multi-Purpose Support Ship (MPSS) program. With the RMN’s loss of its LST KD Sri Inderapura in October 2009 to a ship fire, it is expected that the programme, which was postponed in 2008 for financial reasons would be started again with a decision made this year. The requirements call for up to three ships, with the joint capacity of two ships able to completely transport an entire Malaysian Rapid Deployment Force Battalion. Individual ship requirements are for a capacity of 500 troops and 100 vehicles, an 18 knots speed with 8,000nm endurance using diesel engines, landing deck capacity for 2-3 helicopters and storage capacity for four helicopters and four LCM along with a possible installation of a missile system for point defence and the ability of the ship to act as a command platform and floating headquarters for joint and amphibious operations. The Malaysian industrial requirement would allow the lead ship to be built in the country of origin of the design but the remaining ships would have to be built in Malaysia. The purchase of a 66 percent stake in South Korean shipbuilder TKS Co Limited by Malaysian shipbuilding company NGV Tech, a deal which was signed at LIMA 2009, has led to speculation that the Korean Dokdo design would be chosen and that NGV Tech would be the Malaysian company for the programme though nothing concrete has emerged to indicate that this was the case.
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Determining your skin type isn’t something that comes easily. How do you know if your complexion is oily, dry/sensitive, normal, or a mix of everything? Chances are, you’re miscasting your own personal skin type. Read up on these skin classifications (and take this quiz) to figure out where your skin falls, once and for all.
Your face looks and feels oily, mainly on your chin, nose, and forehead. You notice a shiny complexion right when you wake up and in the afternoons (when oil production is at its peak, according to Women’s Health magazine). You also have larger pores, which makes you more prone to acne.
Real Simple states that moisturizing is key for oily skin types (contrary to popular belief) because it keeps your skin from overproducing oil. Elle UK recommends oil-free moisturizer: slather it on at night, then use one with SPF in the morning before applying makeup. They also recommend cleansing your face with a creamy cleanser (to eliminate excess oil buildup) and keeping your pores clear by using products with salicylic acid.
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The contract was given to Phoenix, Arizona-based computer service company Executive Technology Inc. on Thursday, and is the first step in the Air Force's plan to replace existing paper-based flight bags with so-called electronic flight bags (EFB), reports Bloomberg.
The announcement confirms a previous report that the Air Force was planning the buy for its transport and refueling wing, which called for "minimum of 63 and a maximum of 18,000 iPad 2" units or "equal devices."
Military spokeswoman Captain Kathleen Ferrero said that AMC will use the 32GB Wi-Fi version of Apple's tablet as EFBs aboard a variety of cargo aircraft. She went on to say that the command has already purchased 63 units that will be used for testing when they arrive sometime in the next 30 days.
Ferrero said the contract price per unit came with a substantial discount which dropped the tablet's $599 retail price down to around $520.
In all, 24 companies placed bids for the lucrative military contract, with the command's final decision being based in part on which firm could offer the lowest price. Ferrero declined to name the companies involved, or if Apple itself took part in the bidding process.
"It was open to everybody," Ferrero said. "We weren't going to any specific vendor."
Although the $9.36 million contract is earmarked for the purchase of iPad 2s over the span of one year, the order is "contingent upon funding requests and approval," meaning that the Air Force doesn't necessarily have to buy all 18,000 units.
Air Mobility Command's plan to ditch paper flight bags for digital alternatives echoes moves from the private sector as carriers like Delta and American Airlines are currently in the process of making the switch to EFBs.
While traditional flight bags contain heavy manuals, maps and charts, EFBs offer a tablet-based package that results in fuel cost savings and improved efficiency. The Federal Aviation Administration first approved Apple's iPad 2 for the task in July, 2011, and numerous commercial airlines have tested and implemented the solution in the intervening months.
Ferrero said that the military will use the tablet to allow its crews to meet Pentagon efficiency goals, and help navigators and pilots operate more effectively on the flight deck.
“Aircrews fly nonstop worldwide missions and require access to flight publications both on and off the aircraft, throughout all phases of flight,” Ferrero said. The iPad 2 fits that need in a small, easy to carry package.
The news comes on the heels of the Air Force's Special Operations Command's recent decision to cancel an order of 2,861 iPad 2s, reportedly nixed over security concerns regarding a Russian-made app included in the proposed EFB.
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Workplace Weight Loss Programs Work
CREDIT: Weight loss image via Shutterstock
Employers looking to improve the overall health of their workforce might want to consider inviting diet experts into the lunchroom, a new study suggests. The study of workplace weight-loss programs found that the office is a great environment for overweight workers looking to shed extra pounds.
The Tufts University study found that workers who completed a weight loss program and behavioral counseling program at their place of work lost an average of 18 pounds over a six-month period.
The participants in the study followed a reduced-calorie diet and met for weekly sessions with a health counselor during their lunch break. The sessions focused on strategies for menu planning, portion control and managing hunger, as well as dealing with stress-related and emotional eating.
Employees who completed the program not only lost weight but also made improvements in common markers for cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk, such as lower cholesterol and glucose levels and decreased blood pressure.
“Offices are really wonderful settings for weight-loss groups,” said Sai Krupa Das, a scientist in the Energy Metabolism Laboratory at Tufts University. “Co-workers have established relationships, creating an automatic support system and level of comfort. There is also the benefit of not having to set aside as much additional time for weight management. It can be built right into the work day.”
Susan B. Roberts, a co-author of the study and director of the Energy Metabolism Laboratory, said the program also involved distribution of weight-loss information to employees not participating in the study. Researchers handed out newsletters and held monthly seminars on topics such as cardiovascular health, nutrition and exercise.
Roberts said the researchers observed a “ripple effect” involving employees who were not part of the study but still lost weight during the program.
“Based on our results, it seemed the weight-loss intervention became embedded in the office culture and also helped the weight of people who were not enrolled in the program,” Roberts said.
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Unique telescope to open the X(-ray) Files
|Tweet|Unique telescope to open the X(-ray) Files
Artist's concept of AXAF in orbit., The nested mirrors are at center behind the dotted circles.
The finest set of mirrors ever built for X-ray astronomy
has arrived at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center for several weeks of
calibration before being assembled into a telescope for launch in late 1998.
The High-Resolution Mirror Assembly (HRMA), as it is known, will be the heart of the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) which is managed by Marshall Space Flight Center. HRMA was built by Eastman Kodak and Hughes Danbury Optical Systems. In 1997-98, they will be assembled by TRW Defense and Space Systems into the AXAF spacecraft. AXAF is designed to give astronomers as clear a view of the universe in X-rays as they now have in visible light through the Hubble Space Telescope.
Indeed, one of the Hubble's recent discoveries may move near the top of the list of things to do for AXAF. Hubble recently discovered that some quasars reside within quite ordinary galaxies. Quasars (quasi-stellar objects) are unusually energetic objects which emit up to 1,000 times as much energy as an entire galaxy, but from a volume about the size of our solar system.
More clues to what is happening inside quasars may lie in the X-rays emitted by the most violent forces in the universe.
Before AXAF can embark on that mission, though, its mirrors must be measured with great precision so astronomers will know the exact shape and quality of the mirrors. Then, once the telescope is in space, they will be able to tell when they discover unusual objects, and be able to measure exactly how unusual.
These measurements will be done in Marshall's X-ray Calibration Facility, the world's largest, over the next few weeks.
AXAF will use four sets of mirrors, each set nested inside the other, to focus X-rays by grazing incidence reflection, the same principle that makes sunlight glare off clear windshields. AXAF's smallest mirror - 63 cm (24.8 in.) in diameter - is larger than the biggest - 58 cm (22.8 in.) flown on the Einstein observatory (HEAO-2) in 1978-81.
Mapping the details of the mirror will start with an X-ray source pretty much like what a dentist uses to check your teeth. But that's next week's story.
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CAHSEE: Interactive map of High School Exit Exam scores
Explore a map of the CAHSEE test results in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. The California Department of Education released results of the 2011-12 exam on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012.
The map shows the percentage of high school 10th-graders who passed the California High School Exit Exam on their first try during the 2011-12 school year.Students first take the test as sophomores and have additional opportunities to take it again as juniors and seniors if the don’t pass both the mathematics and English language arts sections the first time. Passage of both sections is required to earn a high school diploma.
Learn more about the Exit Exam: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/hs/
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For all those people who fervently believe celebrities are in fact robots who don’t have any feelings, Jimmy Kimmel has a message for you. Pull up your pants, do some serious self reflection and STOP bullying people on Twitter. In fact, many celebrities do read your mean tweets and are hurt by them. If you insist on trolling because it’s in your genes or something, then at least use your real name.
Over the past little while, Kimmel has been rounding up celebrities like Justin Bieber, Kristen Stewart, Snooki, Katy Perry and Zooey Deschanel, to read some of the mean tweets they received from the Twitterverse. Apparently Stewart was better as a boy and Snooki has a vagina as big as an ocean (unnecessary rumor control: neither of these are true).
Ultimately, I think it’s a good idea that Twitter and YouTube are encouraging people to buck up and use their real names so they can clean up the discourse. Here’s the test: if you wouldn’t post a comment with your real name, then it’s best no to post it at all!
Watch it here:
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Salaried workers walk to offices near Coex
By Kang Shin-who
Now the curtain has closed on the G20 Seoul Summit, a historic event which boosted the nation’s pride and status. Months of preparations by civil servants and hundreds of volunteers to host the gathering of 20 heads of state paid off.
It’s obvious that many citizens feel proud of the successful hosting of the summit gathering.
“I am proud that Korea was the chair country of the G20 summit. We need to hold more international events for the development of the country,” said Yang Ho-seung, 50, owner of a sandwich bar, “Sand & Bagel” near City Hall.
Kim Hak-hyun, a 16-year-old student who was walking by a subway station nearby the Coex, also said, “World leaders came to Korea and it is a very meaningful event for our country.”
But not all citizens were happy about the event as some had to put up with inconveniences. Most mom and pop businesses around the main venue for the summit had to close their shops because of tight security.
At the same time, some office workers had to commute to work on public transportation, leaving their cars at home in order not to cause traffic congestion while delegations were on the move.
In a district in northern Seoul, residents were told by the ward office to refrain from throwing away smelly food waste during the summit, triggering complaints that the authorities were trying to control the daily lives of people.
Some citizens even complained about what they called excessive security measures.
“Of course the hosting of the summit will boost Korea’s status. However, I am uneasy about excessive check-ups by police,” said Ahn Kook-hee, 26, who works at the Coex Mall in southern Seoul.
Policemen were everywhere in the capital to make sure any abrupt rallies did not disrupt the summit. “We have to be more cautious about any possible protest, and the safety of the people,” said Mun Young-sub, a policeman from South Jeolla Province. He stood in a long line of police officers.
What about foreign tourists and expats here? Many of them seem to be perplexed about the whole country’s buzz over the event.
“It’s my fourth visit here. I found more Koreans speak English. But I have not heard that the G20 summit has produced tangible results. I think the meeting is pointless,” said Kamling Weatheraul from Australia, who was in Myeong-dong.
She said it was inconvenient with restrictions due to the event. Her husband Garry said the event only blocked them from visiting many places.
“I am quite surprised by a large number of police officers in southern Seoul. I think they are around to cope with protesters. But rallies are allowed in my country during international events,’’ said a 30-year-old American man, who has been in Seoul for four years, at Coex.
Matthew Quinn, an American student studying at Yonsei University who was taking pictures of security officials at Coex, said ”I am very excited about this event because I have never been in a city where a G20 Summit was held. I saw violent protests during large international gatherings in other countries on TV. But things have been quiet here. I think it will stay that way through the meeting.’’
There were some who were nonchalant about the event. ”Well, I am not really interested in the event. I am not optimistic that it will produce any concrete results,’’ said a 34-year-old food stylist, who was sitting on a bench near the summit venue.
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I feel like in a progressive State such as the glory land of California, that we would have a grasp on things such as trash control and water pollution. I have been SO amazed this year by the amount of days I felt like I was surfing in a third world country. Guess I never really noticed before because I had the chance to be picky and only paddle out on the sunny sunshine days when the water is crystally and birds are singing and unicorns fly by. Not really, but in all my life – I never paddled out when I knew the water was foamy with run off.
I am always shoving pieces of floating debris into my wetsuit, a few here and there – hard to let it just float by you. Today I collected over 15 pieces in one short session at Pipes! Crazy. Plastic is one of our Earth’s worst enemy. Most of the pieces were covered in tiny barnacles, so it most likely had been drifting around for a long while. It is one thing to have trash left on the beach or washed up in a storm… but out in the line up?
Plastic sucks. Bad for the environment. Bad for our bodies. Reduce your use wherever possible! Click on the photo to learn more about the Keep A Breast Non Toxic Revolution.
P.S. on a lighter note… ONE MORE WEEK!!! OH MY GOODNESS!!!
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February 26, 2013 -- UK animal research laboratories will get £1 million to develop networks of shared resources to reduce and refine their animal use, the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) announced today (26th February, 2013).
A new initiative of the NC3Rs, the ‘Infrastructure for Impact’ scheme supports the development of shared tissue banks, databases and equipment across multiple sites and institutes using animals – resources that would otherwise be managed and utilised independently.
Open for applications today, the scheme aims to reduce and refine animal use in science in the short- to medium-term by funding improvements to the infrastructure that underpins UK biosciences research.
The funding has been provided by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills as part of the £600 million extra science funding allocation from the 2012 Autumn Budget Statement.
Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts, said:
“This investment will further support the excellent work of the NC3Rs. It helps deliver the Government’s commitment to using scientific advances to replace, reduce and refine animal use wherever possible.”
Dr Vicky Robinson, Chief Executive, NC3Rs, said:
“Existing NC3Rs funding schemes primarily support hypothesis-driven research and technology development. We have identified a need to fund proposals which are not driven by a specific research question, but could nevertheless have a significant impact on reducing and refining animal research.”
“Our new scheme will provide the funds necessary for the collaborative development of networks to share resources between laboratories and institutions. For example, we will be supporting the sharing of data from animal experiments to avoid studies being repeated, the sharing of cells and tissues to maximise the use of animals that are killed for this purpose, and where appropriate the sharing of animals, particularly genetically altered mice to avoid the potential for overbreeding.”
Today’s announcement from the NC3Rs’ Annual Science Review meeting in London was accompanied by the publication of the Centre’s 2012 Annual Report. Playing a key role in supporting the Coalition Government’s pledge to work to reduce the use of animals in science, the NC3Rs reports on a number of key milestones achieved over the previous year.
Alongside making the single biggest investment in 3Rs research to date of £5.1 million, the NC3Rs published the first evaluation framework for measuring progress in the 3Rs. The report also highlights new initiatives launched in 2012 including a Fellowship scheme to support early-career scientists, and a new approach to replacing animal use with £750k funding for interdisciplinary projects between mathematicians and toxicologists.
For further information:
Dan Richards, Communications Manager, NC3Rs. email@example.com 020 7611 2253. 07920 265 897
About the NC3Rs
The NC3Rs is an independent scientific organisation which leads on the discovery, development and promotion of new ways to replace, reduce and refine the use of animals in research and testing (the 3Rs). It is supported primarily by Government, but also receives funding from the charitable and industrial sectors. The Centre has an annual budget of approximately £6.75 million and is the UK’s major funder of 3Rs research. Further information about NC3Rs activities and programmes can be found at http://www.nc3rs.org.uk
Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nc3rs
About the Infrastructure for Impact Scheme
The Infrastructure for Impact scheme is designed to support non-research proposals which could have a significant impact on replacing, reducing and refining the use of animals in science over three-to-five. This includes:
- resource sharing (such as animals, tissue banks and databases
- data sharing
- establishing network
- multi-user equipment.
The scheme is not intended to provide capital funds for improving buildings or other facilities.
Applications are invited from eligible UK institutions for proposals up to a maximum of £500k. Applications which are cross-departmental or cross-institutional are particularly encouraged. The deadline for applications is 4pm on 5 June 2013. http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/infrastructure
A copy of the NC3Rs 2012 Annual Report can be downloaded here: http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/2012annualreport
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The examples in this collection were contributed by participants at the 2007 Teacher Preparation Workshop at Carleton College in Northfield, MN. The activities are used by the contributors in their earth science courses for pre-service teachers to help these future teachers understand the science they will be asked to teach to their students.
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Destruction of the Rainforest and Atmospheric Oxygen part of Activities
Pre-service Midle School teachers devised an experiment to test an assertion that destruction of the Brazilian Rainforest would lead to a serious drop in atmospheric oxygen. The experiment proved to be a failure, but opened other avenues of science learning and had a positive impact on their confidence in teaching inquiry-based science.
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- In the early days, temples were used as banks and the first loans were taken out against rice
- Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history
- The Bank of America on Disneyland’s Main Street was in fact a functioning bank (for Cast Members) until the late ’70′s. It was also the only bank in America that was open on Sunday.
- The Bank of America was originally called The Bank of Italy
- In 2010, the Bank of America was the 3rd largest company in the world
- In 2007, the top five hold $6,775,079,249,000.00 in assets. That’s six trillion dollars!
- In Papua New Guinea, people can enter a bank just wearing a penis sheath (koteka)
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It is one of the world's most baffling puzzles, the bane of professional cryptologists and amateur sleuths who have spent 15 years trying to solve it.
But the race to find the secrets of Kryptos, a sculpture inside a courtyard at the CIA's heavily guarded headquarters in Langley, Virginia, may be reaching a climax.
And interest has soared since Dan Brown hid references to Kryptos on the cover design for his bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code, and suggested it might play a role in his next novel, The Solomon Key.
The Kryptos sculpture incorporates a coded message made up of thousands of letters punched through a nearly 4m high copper scroll.
Though it was installed where only CIA agents and cryptographers could see it, amateur code-breakers have worked away on transcripts posted on the CIA's website.
Three-quarters of the code has been broken, and the deciphered message so far appears to point to something momentous buried on CIA grounds.
But the clues are obscure and the fourth passage of the Kryptos code -- known as K4 to the addicted -- has remained impenetrable.
However, Elonka Dunin, who runs the most comprehensive website on Kryptos (www.elonka.com/kryptos) said recent activity has surged.
"My baseline was about 500-600 unique visitors a day. But I recently got 30,000 over a 24-hour period," said Dunin, an executive at a Missouri-based internet game company, Simutronics.
No one is more amazed at the sudden excitement than Kryptos's creator, Jim Sanborn, who was hired in 1989 by the CIA director at the time, William Webster. Sanborn worked with a CIA cryptographer, Ed Scheidt, to produce the coded sculpture, consisting of the S-shaped copper scroll, a petrified tree, a water-filled basin and stones marked with fragments of Morse code and a compass. Placing it in the thick of many of the best code-breakers in the world, they never thought it would take this long.
"These were events I thought would take months not years,"Sanborn, a Washington-based sculptor, commented.
The references to Kryptos on the jacket of The Da Vinci Code were only spotted recently. Now Sanborn is worried that the religious and spiritual overtones of Brown's books could settle on his sculpture.
"Somehow I've been drawn into that vortex," he said.
With that in mind, Sanborn is taking precautions.
"I have taken all Kryptos-related material from my house and studio," he said. "The crypto' world has its share of crazies."
It took eight years for the first three Kryptos passages to be cracked, by a CIA officer named David Stein, after a total of 400 hours with pen and paper.
He was hit, he later wrote "by that sweetly ecstatic, rare experience that I have heard described as a `moment of clarity.'"
This being the CIA, the solution was kept a secret, but it was solved separately by Jim Gillogly, a California computer scientist, who published the first three passages in 1999.
They both used the same method, relying on the fact that the English language uses letters with varying frequencies, allowing code-breakers to calculate which ciphers represent which letters.
The fourth passage has been masked to make that impossible. So far, Gillogly, one of America's best cryptologists, says he has spent "a couple of hundred hours spread over six years" on the 97 remaining letters, with no success.
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USED TO BE, before chain link, people had to craft their own fences. Some were made of upright wood palings - poles stood up like around a fort- or planks affixed to posts either upright (picket) or sideways. Sometimes people would weave small limber branches between posts, called "wattle" fencing.
But to enclose large areas, especially those needing to keep livestock in, people grew their own fences - called hedgerows. Good hedgerow plant choices for this in the South would be ligustrum, crape myrtles, cleyera, ash, willow, oak, parsley hawthorn, hollies, and althea (rose of Sharon).
The process is simple, and surprisingly fast to get established; hedgerows can last for decades, even centuries, with a little maintenance. It starts with planting a row of small seedling trees or rooted shrub cuttings, usually a foot or so apart, and letting them get two or three years old, so their trunks are about two or three inches in diameter. Once they are big enough, the plants are cut halfway through near the ground with a saw or an axe, and bent over nearly parallel to the ground, then tied down to one another or to upright posts set every two or three yards. This makes an almost impenetrable wall on its own. Weaving small branches or vines along the top gives it a finished look. To make it even thicker, and long lasting, new shoots usually grow straight up from the plants, both at their cut base and along the still-living bent trunks.
Plant very small trees or fast growing shrubs close together (plastic sleeves protect against rabbits, deer, and string trimmers).
When they get some size on them, cut the plants nearly in half, and lay them over in a line, tying them as you go; for stability, insert a few branches every few feet; weaving vines or small branches along the top gives it even more stability and looks good.
Eventually small shoots will grow upwards from bent stems, further knitting it all together.
To maintain a hedgerow, keeping it thick and neat, and to keep new growth coming along all the time, simply shear the new growth once a year. It can seem brutal when done with machinery, but it rarely harms the plants - no more than shearing harms regular hedge plants.
The English countryside is laced with hundreds of miles of hedgerows done exactly like outlined above.
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When the subject of the impending demographic shift in America is discussed there are typically two tracks that the discussion takes:
- The White incumbent power base, seeing its power threatened are implementing or opposing certain policies that tend to threaten their power (Illegal Immigration Regulation, Anti-Nationalized Health Care, Opposition to Redistrivitve Tax Policy)
- The Demographic Changes favor Progressive-Secular polices and there will be a long term victory via the forces of attrition
Too often we base our strategic efforts upon the world as it resides today - in the context of our largely intramural fight within America. The focus on America's changing demographics and notions of how this is going to favor one group or another politically - does not sufficiently factor in the painful truths that the changing global-economic forces that are now converging or the realities of how America's present debt load is going to increasingly limit her ability to fund the nationalized resource distribution trends that those who feel confident that "their side" will be victorious appear to prefer as a governance model.
The challenge that the Black Community faces is unique. The longitudinal struggle for basic justice which later turned into an integrationalist and then redistributionalist struggle in purely political terms - is going to find itself at an abrupt decision point.
It comes as no surprise that the "Black Struggle" has by and large been a struggle against "White Supremacy"/"White Power"/"White Structural Racism". My challenge is not that the TARGET was wrong - (We all know the color of the boot that has been upon our necks) - but that the time frame at which we acknowledged that our own organic development tasks required a more discrete system for propulsion and uplift than what a "Anti-Racism Struggle" could ever hope to deliver.
At present - for example - there are various people who discuss a 'Brown-Black Alliance" in which Hispanics and Blacks form coalitions as a means of going after "White Dominated Power Blocks". This has been largely focused in the political domain where each of us have a vote that can be aggregated. When it comes to business - far too often this has also focused mostly on government-related contracting. With the fact that government contracting is often such a small amount of a given local economy's GDP - such a focus functionally limits the coalition's ability to grow to the desired scale.
In addition - if we look at various hotspots around the nation where Blacks communities have had to accept influx of various other races - it has been the Black community that has been diluted and often forced to move. The term "Gentrification" has been popularly assigned to young White professionals moving into otherwise under-capitalized Black communities, making capital investments and then greatly increasing the property values and the tax base. Blacks who cash out on their homes or who get behind on their high taxes - leave the community. It is also true that as Hispanics (Miami and Greater Los Angeles) and Asians (Oakland and San Francisco) begin to tip the balance of population that the Black community's political and economic power become marginalized.
In summary - in the fight where the "White Power Block" is seen as the adversary and its take over the common goal - the interests of the Black Community is not assured in this victory.
The best advice that I can give is that the Black Community's message leaders begin to put forth a new base of recommendations by which our people seek future development.
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Institutional Knowledge: A Bank of Wealth by KC McFerson
My Community Planning Workshop (CPW) team is working with two small Oregon communities to improve water quality in their jurisdictions – the City of Oakridge, on the Willamette River, and Gold Hill, on the Rogue River. Navigating a new area of planning, policy, and regulation can be a challenging task, especially for communities that are not familiar with the process. Luckily, cities collaborating with the Community Service Center (CSC) and Community Planning Workshop (CPW) can utilize a powerful tool: institutional knowledge.
Institutional knowledge means that current projects benefit from lessons learned in previous projects that are similar. CPW has built substantial institutional knowledge around improving water quality in small communities through the last few years. Recently, CPW worked on similar projects with other Oregon cities, including Shady Cove, Coburg, and Turner. The lessons from these prior experiences developed an institutional knowledge that brings a variety of benefits.
1. Benefits to service learning. Institutional knowledge gives a team working on a current project access to lessons learned from prior processes and projects. Seeing what was and was not effective in Shady Cove, Coburg, and Turner has helped my team research efficiently and build a stronger relationship with our steering committees. Ultimately, this results in a better process and final product that enriches learning.
2. Benefits to client city. A better process and product means a better result for the client city and a strengthened community. As a city, particularly a small one, tries to comply with state and federal water quality regulations, it faces many questions. Should it move forward on its own? Should it partner with a state agency? Should it do nothing and be penalized? Should it hire a consultant? And if it does hire a consultant to help it through the process, why should it? What’s the hook? The hook is institutional knowledge.
3. Benefits to the environment. A better process and product not only means a better result for the client city, but also a better result for the subject of the project. In this case, it means improved water quality in the Willamette and Rogue River Basins. The faster and more effectively we complete water quality projects, the faster the Willamette and Rogue Rivers become clean and healthy.
Institutional knowledge is vital for small Oregon communities trying hard to improve life for their citizens while complying with state and federal regulations. It allows us as service learners to make a meaningful contribution. And it creates a better end product, which is delivered with greater efficiency than before. But perhaps the greatest wealth accrued from institutional knowledge, in this case, is improved water quality in Oregon’s river basins. Take that to the bank…the riverbank.
More about the Community Planning Workshop(CPW)
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Edinburgh today has a wide and varied gay scene involving not just bars and clubs but everything from shops, saunas and cafes to gay sports groups, real ale drinkers and a theatre company amongst many other activities. But it wasn't always so. Back in the days when it was illegal to be gay, gay men (lesbianism wasn't illegal) had to be very careful. But despite that there were bars in Edinburgh where men met such as the Steps bar half way down Waverley Steps in the 1950s or the Kennilworth in Rose Street 1950s -1980s. Although I wasn't around in those days, I believe that Edinburgh was a fairly tolerant place and it certainly was in my experience of growing up gay in the late 70s and 80s. In a book called “Between The Acts” a London soldier stationed in Edinburgh during WWII said “ Edinburgh was a tremendous city, it was so full of sailors and quite quite easy. The place was as if the world had gone mad because it was so easy. But that was Edinburgh”
Of course gay people got attacked both then and now – just like anywhere else.
Around 1979 the Laughing Duck in Howe St became one of the city's first dedicated gay bars. It had a disco downstairs with a clear floor and coloured lights underneath. It was always great fun. Across the road in Jamaica St was Key West which in 1983 had a metal floor and chains hanging from the bar. There was also Fire Island, Edinburgh gay club of the 80s on Princes St (Now the bay window in Waterstones) where acts such as Eartha Kitt and Divine performed. The club was famous throughout the UK. At the same time there was Millionaires or Millies in South Bridge (now Whistle Binkies). But by the late 80s/90s a lot of places were mixed gay/straight (like it is today) such as Hoochie Coochie club above Coasters (now Lava/Ignite) showing an increased level of tolerance.
Here are 2 gay historical walks from the website LGBT history paths. I have put 2 of the walks here but for the rest please visit:
Edinburgh City Centre East - East End of Princes St, Calton Hill, The Triangle & Broughton St
Start at the East End of Princes St. on the pavement in front of Register House. Facing Register House, go to the left-hand corner of the building, where the narrow Register Street opens out into Princes St. On the Register Street side of the building, just past the corner, you'll see a small, boarded-up doorway set low in the stone base. This is all that remains of the large subterranean public toilets known to generations of Edinburgh men as the city's prime cottaging spot, aka “GHQ.”
Cross Princes St. to the Balmoral Hotel. Alongside it, on the Castle side, the Waverley Steps run down to the station. In the 1950s, when any sexual relationships between men were entirely illegal, smartly-dressed gay men met at the Steps Bar, halfway down, for discreet socializing under the lady publican's protective eye. In the 1960s the hotel itself housed another popular gathering place, Le Carousel, which was entered via North Bridge.
Cross North Bridge to walk east along Waterloo Place towards Calton Hill. After the row of buildings on the right there's a gate to the Old Calton Cemetery, where Percy Jocelyn (1764-1843), onetime Bishop of Clogher in the Church of Ireland, lies buried. The Bishop was caught in a clinch with a young soldier in the back room of a London pub. Defrocked and disgraced, the ex-Bishop fled, eventually turning up in Edinburgh, where he lived out his days under the pseudonym of Thomas Wilson, serving as a butler in the New Town.
Cross to Calton Hill, centuries-old cruising area, but also the scene of a 1988 murder, when teenagers set upon a man they assumed to be gay.
Turn left into the street named Calton Hill. This emerges at a set of shallow steps leading down to Leith Street. Look left to the Black Bull pub on the corner, a popular wartime rendezvous for military men. [ : To avoid these steps, follow the street as it descends steeply to the junction of Leith St. and Calton Rd.].
Cross to the wide pavement area in front of St. Mary's Cathedral. The top of Leith Walk, opening out before you, is home to pubs and clubs that, since the 1980s, have formed the heart of Edinburgh's Pink Triangle. On the right is the Playhouse Theatre,
where the first distribution of AIDS red ribbons in Scotland took place (at an Erasure concert) in 1992.
Cross York Place and head downhill into Broughton St., virtually the village street of LGBT Edinburgh. On the right, at 41, above the present-day Baroque Bar, was the all-male boarding house known as Mrs. Kenmure's Apartments which, from around 1930,
advertised Good Accommodation for Naval Men.
Turn right into Forth St. The basement at 11A Forth St., on the right, was once Lavender Menace, Edinburgh's first-ever gay &lesbian bookshop, opened in 1982, famous not only for its richly varied stock but for its ever-popular community notice board.
Other, more recent LGBT landmarks include the Remember When Project, celebrating the history of Edinburgh's LGBT communities and co-producer of these Walks (no.14) and the Equality Network (formerly at no.18).
Return to Broughton St., cross and walk downhill. The Santorini restaurant (32c) was formerly Over the Rainbow, welcoming all LGBT Friends of Dorothy with a giant pair of Ruby Slippers. Just before the corner, is Blue Moon (no.36), pioneer of the city's LGBT cafes, which had its first site inside the old Lesbian & Gay Centre at no.60 - still to come.
Cross Barony St. Pass 52 Broughton St., once home of the late Ian Dunn, pioneering and controversial gay activist, and first editorial office of Gay Scotland magazine, launched 1982.
Finish at 60 Broughton St.,now the site of the very LGBT-friendly Sala café-bar. The building was purchased in 1974 by the Scottish Minorities Group (Scotland's first lesbian and gay rights organisation). For over 30 years, it's been a “GHQ”of a different kind - workspace, social centre, and activist base-camp for LGBT life in Edinburgh.
Time - about 30mins
The old Fire Island on Princes Street with distinctive bay window Habana and CCs - 2 of today's gay bars
Edinburgh City Centre - Central, Princes St Gardens, Princes St, New Town
Start in the square next to the National Gallery, traditionally Edinburgh's “Speakers' Corner”, scene in the 1980s of demonstrations against the Thatcher government's notoriously homophobic Clause 28 (in Scottish law - 2A)
Cross the foot of the Mound at the lights, picturing the thousands of marchers flooding uphill on Scotland's first Pride March in 1995.
Pause at the entrance to Princes St. Gardens West, at steps descending to the men's public toilets. Now very mundane, this was once a magnificently-appointed Victorian public convenience, featuring a circle of wooden cubicles. In an era when gay men could only meet in secret, it was known as the Wheel of Fortune.
Go down the steps past the Floral Clock. Turn left and go down the steep path that runs down past the Gardeners' Lodge House on your right. At the bottom of the slope, take the path forking to the left. A little way further ahead, on the grass to your right, you'll see the small memorial stone with a plaque commemorating the Holocaust. Remember that gay men, lesbians and other sexual minorities suffered and died at the hands of the Nazis, alongside Jews and Romany Gypsies. Walk west through the Gardens to the Ross Bandstand, site of Lark in the Park, 1988 festival of LGBT fun and protest. [ : To avoid steps entering and leaving the Gardens, enter and exit the park from Kings Stables Road, just off Lothian Road].
Come out of the gardens and cross Princes St. to visit the following landmarks: On the opposite side of Princes St. on the western corner of Castle St. is the site of the International Club, a discreet gathering place for 1950s gays. Midway between Castle St. and South Charlotte St., above Waterstone's Bookshop, look up to the handsome first-floor bay window. This was once Fire Island - Edinburgh's first large-scale commercial disco, reached by an unmarked door at number 127. During its late 1970s-1980s heyday it hosted the legendary Eartha Kitt and other stars. This stretch of Princes St. was also the site of a celebrity visit from an earlier age: The playwright Oscar Wilde, later imprisoned for sodomy after a famous trial, came to Edinburgh on a lecture tour in 1884. He stayed at a hotel where Marks & Spencer's women's clothing shop stands now, and spoke on the very gay topic, “Beauty, Taste & Ugliness in Dress.”
Go into Castle St. and turn right, heading eastwards along Rose St. From the 1950s through the 80s, the Kenilworth (at 152-4) was Edinburgh's best-known pub for gay men and lesbians alike. Frenchie's (at 87) entered from the lane around the corner) still retains its own distinctive atmosphere and loyal male clientele. Further east (49) is the Saltire, formerly Paddy's. Veterans of the mid-twentieth century scene still speak fondly of its landlady, Mrs. Crossan, widow of a famous footballer. Note that all these pubs shut firmly at 10 pm, at which time their gay patrons reconvened at the now-vanished but once wildly popular Crawford's Tearooms in Frederick St. (According to some informants, the Castle St. branch was just as gay).
Walk up Hanover St and turn left into George St. to the venerable Assembly Rooms, scene of Lothian Gay & Lesbian Switchboard's fabulous ceilidhs and balls. Now a major Fringe venue, this once housed the Edinburgh Festival Club, where drama queens from all over the world converged at the bar during the annual cultural orgy every August.
Walk back to Hanover St, turn left, and follow it downhill as it becomes Dundas St. At 25A West & Wilde Bookshop, flagship of LGBT literature's movement “from back street to High Street”, was here from 1987 through the 1990s. Dundas St. at Great King Street.
Walk west along Great King Street to St. Vincent St. Enter St. Vincent's St. Turn right and go downhill to St. Vincent's Church. Keeping the church on your right, enter St. Stephen's St . Just past the corner of Silvermills was the site (now flats) of Tiffany's nightclub. Groundbreaking discos run by the Scottish Minorities Group were held here 1974-76. These attracted huge crowds, coming from all over Scotland and beyond. They stopped abruptly when the venue's owners, Mecca (of Miss World fame) discovered it was being used for gay and lesbian events (shock horror!) and pulled the plug.
Go back to St. Vincent St. and uphill into Howe St. mourning the disappearance of two important pubs of longstanding: the Laughing Duck in Howe St and Key West in Jamaica St.
Finish with a visit to 9 Howe St., the LGBT Centre for Health and Wellbeing, co-producer, with the Remember When Project, of these paths.
Time - about 50mins
GAY PRIDE 2012
Edinburgh has held pride marches since 1995 but there was also a Lark in the Park event in Princes St Gardens in 1988 to protest about section 28. In 1995 there was also a gay highland games in the meadows. For some years Edinburgh shared pride with Glasgow but now they are both separate and Edinburgh gets a gay party every year.
Pride 2012 was held on 30th June and followed the route from the city chambers down the High Street, Canongate, Abbeymount, Royal Terrace and finished outside the Omni Centre. It rained at the start of the march but by the end the sun was shining and hundreds of people enjoyed the day. There were stalls in the Omni centre and a stage outside where singers and drag acts entertained the crowds. The bars were incredibly busy and most were done up with banners and balloons. People had come from all over and partied hard and long into the night. A very pleasant day.
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The land burns in a monstrous bush fire. This is Black Saturday: Australia's worst natural disaster.
An Australian family cowers in terror as a devastating firestorm sweeps across their land, engulfing their home, killing their neighbours and destroying their town. For those who survived, the years that followed would test them in ways they couldn't have imagined. This observation of ordinary people responding to an extraordinary event offers a tender insight into mankind's amazing potential to manage adversity and rise up from despair.
"We cried a bit when the fire was here" the little girl told her dad, voice shaky. Bron, the young mother was covering herself and her two kids with a blanket, hiding in between the water tanks, while their house swept down by the fire. On this Black Saturday, 7 February 2009, Australia suffered its worst natural disaster in recorded history. A firestorm of cyclonic fury swept across Victoria and 173 lives were lost. Nowhere was the destruction more terrible than in the tiny hamlet of Strathewen. "We are all OK, and we are going to be OK." holding her kids tight in her arms, Bron said.
But a recovery from such a disaster is not easy. Survivors were linked by trauma, unimaginable grief and the weighty task of trying to understand what had happened to their worlds. Local resident and filmmaker Celeste Geer picked up a camera and started shooting her immediate environment. She interweaves her own family's story with those of her neighbours and friends as they struggle to rebuild their shattered lives in the two and a half years following the fires.
"The nature's renewal can be an inspiration, or it can be a slap on the face." For local residents, a returning to normal life is not returning to what they had. Each of the central characters has been challenged to find new ways of living in a radically altered physical and emotional landscape. The physical tasks of rebuilding houses, the local school and a market garden are set against a complex psychological backdrop: raw and fragile moments are captured as parents try to hold their family together in a tiny caravan during winter; while down the road love blossoms unexpectedly.
While struggling with personal demons, the community connected everyone. Weekly gathering on Soup Night provides a couple of hours when life almost seem normal and develops intimacy between the people. And women needle together at Chook Night, recreating chooks that are coloured in by children at the school. "The symbolism was that you could join broken threads of your life together and still make something beautiful."
"Recovery isn't a destination. There won't be a signpost to tell us we have arrived." But a future seems possible. Moving into their rebuild houses, commemorating on the Black Saturday as a community, we see people in Strathewen have come far.
THEN THE WIND CHANGED is a mélange of compelling home footage, delicate observation and thoughtful meditation. A story of heartbreak and love, redemption and resilience.
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Faith and Politics
October 2012 Newsletter
Faith and Politics
See and hear Xavier University's Dr. Gene Beaupre discuss the impact of faith on politics.
Faith and the American Dream
Listen and watch Dr. Greg Smith from Xavier University describe the impact that faith has on politics and the American dream.
Xavier University’s Center for the American Dream was created four years ago by Xavier alumnus Michael Ford. The goal of this program is to measure the state of the American Dream. The Center recently conducted a national survey asking for people’s views on the matter.
The only woman known to have lived and died a JesuitSecond daughter of Emperor Charles V, Juana was married in 1552 to Joao Manuel, the heir apparent to the Portuguese throne. They were married only two years when her husband died. Shortly thereafter her brother Philip (II), who had married Mary Tudor of England, appointed her Regent of Spain in his absence. And in that same year (1554), Juana approached superiors of the Society of Jesus about becoming a Jesuit. Careful debate and deliberation followed. As Lisa Fullam, a specialist on Juana, puts it: “Juana, widowed at nineteen, was an eminently marriageable young woman. To admit her to the Society would risk enraging her father the Emperor, himself no fan of the Jesuits. But at the same time, to refuse her request was to risk the displeasure of the Regent of Spain... a move that could have serious consequences for the work of the Society there” (“Juana, SJ,” Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits. [November 1999]). Read more.
The Examen, a prayer of awareness that Ignatius of Loyola taught in his Spiritual Exercises, helps one notice God’s presence in our daily lives. This modern adaptation invites reflection upon five points for spiritual thanksgiving, grace, and introspection.
Featured PrayerLet us be united;
Let us speak in harmony;
Let our minds apprehend alike.
Common be our prayer,
Common be the end of our assembly;
Common be our resolution;
Common be our deliberations.
Alike be our feelings;
Unified be our hearts;
Common be our intentions;
Perfect be our unity.
-From the Rig Veda
"Character is much easier kept than recovered."
(Picture by Tai Piazza)
More reflections can be found in the book, Creating Privileged Moments.
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Influential law professor dies at 84
Jeffrey O’Connell, an internationally respected legal mind and Law School professor for 32 years, died Jan. 6 at the age of 84. He had retired from teaching last spring.
A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law, O’Connell began his legal career as a trial lawyer in Boston for the firm Hale and Dorr before turning to teaching. He served on the faculty at the University of Illinois for 16 years and also taught at the University of Iowa before coming to the University’s Law School in 1980.
O’Connell is survived by his daughter Mara, his son Devin, his sister Jesslyn and his brother Thomas. A funeral mass was held Saturday at St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish, followed by a reception at Farmington Country Club.
O’Connell was a champion of no-fault automobile insurance, which allows an accident victim to collect compensation more quickly from his own insurance provider rather than go through litigation to collect from the other party’s insurer. He co-authored the book “Basic Protection for the Traffic Victim: A Blueprint for Reforming Automobile Insurance” with renowned legal tort scholar and Harvard Law Prof. Robert Keeton in 1965.
For the next several years he ventured across the country, testifying before committees and using techniques learned in his theater background to present his ideas. By the end of the 1970s, no-fault insurance had been enacted in more than a dozen states and slowly began to grow globally as well, taking root in Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Israel.
“Without Professor O’Connell’s efforts, it is unlikely that no-fault insurance would have been tried in so many states,” Law School Dean Paul Mahoney said in an email. “He did not merely write about his ideas, but worked tirelessly to see them implemented.”
Law School Prof. Kenneth Abraham recalls first meeting O’Connell at a medical malpractice conference in 1976. “I was a junior faculty member and he was already a famous scholar and law reformer,” Abraham said in an email. “I found him to be dynamic, articulate, and a forceful advocate for his point of view, but also a friendly and unpretentious person.”
Later in his career, O’Connell was an advocate for “early offers” in medical malpractice suits — wherein plaintiffs can receive a settlement quickly if they choose not to go through the courts or ask for pain and suffering compensation. Though the idea did not receive as much traction as no-fault automobile insurance, the New Hampshire legislature did pass such a law last June, overturning a gubernatorial veto.
Both his automobile insurance and medical malpractice proposals stemmed from a profound belief in making just compensation quickly and readily available to victims of accidents, said Widener University Law Prof. Chris Robinette, a student in O’Connell’s class in the fall of 1993. Robinette later worked with O’Connell as a research assistant and in 2008 co-authored a book on tort reform with him.
As a professor and colleague, O’Connell is remembered for his kindness and humor. “Jeffrey was magnetic,” Robinette said. “He commanded a room.”
Born with an insatiable curiosity, O’Connell often carried around a copy of the Times Literary Supplement folded in his pocket. “The world was simply too exciting, too interesting, for Jeff to waste even a minute when he could be exploring some new horizon,” Law Prof. A. E. Dick Howard said in an email.
The author of a dozen books — on topics ranging from automobile insurance reform to American college presidents — O’Connell was a celebrated presence in the legal world, twice the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and given the Robert B. McKay Award for Tort and Insurance Scholarship in 1992 by the American Bar Association.
“He was a kind, decent, informed, engaged member of our academic community,” Howard said. “Mr. Jefferson would have enjoyed having dinner with Jeff.”
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I don't think we are very far away from a time when all new personal computers ship with some form of cache system installed at the factory. Just a few days ago I saw a Youtube video of a motherboard still in the 3D modeling stages with a SandForce drive built onboard specifically for cache. Until those days arrive, products like the OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid will bring the future within our grasps today.
We've looked at several drive caching systems over the years, from high dollar enterprise systems to the most basic consumer versions that use USB flash drives. So far the OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid has been the absolute fastest we've tested and in many ways the easiest to configure for optimal performance.
By using their new VCA 2.0 system, OCZ managed to harness the performance of two SandForce SATA III SSDs in RAID and put that power in front of a large 1TB HDD. What you end up with is awesome SSD performance around 85% of the time and a full 1TB of capacity. The key is having your important data on the SSD portion of the RevoDrive Hybrid. With 128GB of space available to keep your hot data, the RevoDrive Hybrid simply holds more than competing products on the market.
The OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid isn't going to be for everyone, though. With a cost of right around 500 Dollars the first hurdle is a pretty steep one to climb over. With that price you have to wonder if a Vertex 3 240GB boot drive paired with a 2TB HDD for storage isn't a better option. If you take advantage of all of the mail-in rebates and instant rebates, this combination could be had for the same cost.
We applaud OCZ's continued efforts to push the envelope and release new innovative products to the market. That said, we feel that SSD cache technology should be a low cost alternative to SSDs and not just an alternative. OCZ chose performance with the RevoDrive Hybrid and that is reflected in the price. Those looking for a low cost solution can opt for OCZ's Synapse Cache SATA III product that also uses Dataplex to control the software.
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
There’s a lot of pressure on companies to give something back to the communities in which they operate. There’s even a term for it: corporate social responsibility, a phrase that emphasizes the somewhat obligatory nature of corporate giving.
Despite growing expectations, corporate executives are fairly divided over their role in the charitable sector. In a 2010 COMPAS Inc. poll that surveyed Canadian executives, 45% said that charitable giving should be left to individual shareholders. Only 35% believed that corporations should support charities, as long as their giving was consistent with corporate objectives and employees’ desires.
And while attitudes about corporate giving may be divided, when it comes to putting dollars on the table, we still have a long way to go. According to a 2008 Imagine Canada survey of corporate community investment, the median cash donation was $2,000 (1.25% of pre-tax profit), while 25% of businesses
barely contributed at all—less than 0.06% of their pre-tax profits.
If mounting pressure doesn’t make companies beef up their charitable giving, what will? I believe that companies will increase their philanthropic efforts when they start seeing giving as an opportunity rather than an obligation. The best corporate philanthropy not only makes a social impact but also adds to a company’s bottom line.
I know from experience that charitable giving can be one of the best ways to grow a business. Realistically, there’s no such thing as pure altruism, nor should there be; companies should expect a return on their charitable donations. In my world, “giving and getting” go together. For those who disagree, think about this: Charitable giving that reaps an economic return creates stronger companies that can make more meaningful contributions to their communities in the long run.
At the highest level, the benefits of philanthropic giving are obvious. Businesses have a vested interest in creating better communities. Strong communities are able to attract new businesses, corporate head offices, and a more educated workforce, which in turn create an even stronger business climate. Employees want to live in communities with a strong economic and social fabric—places where they feel connected to each other and where they enjoy a great quality of life.
Better than anyone else, nonprofit organizations know how to build these “sticky” communities. According to management guru Peter Drucker, the management of the social sector will largely determine the values, vision, cohesion, and performance of 21st-century society. That’s an enormous responsibility and one that we, in the business world, can help achieve.
As a co-founder of FirstEnergy Capital Corp., I’ve seen the enormous impact that one company can have on its community. It would be nearly impossible to measure the number of lives that have been touched and dramatically improved by FirstEnergy’s philanthropic work. Since 1993 FirstEnergy has generated over $8 million in donations to more than 500 charities and community organizations. I’ve often been moved to tears by the letters of appreciation we’ve received from those we have supported.
To be candid, FirstEnergy didn’t set out to be a leader in corporate philanthropy but rather a leader in investment banking. We used charitable giving as a marketing tool; every time we made a contribution to a charity, we were open about the fact that we expected something in return. What we gained in the form of public recognition, co-branding with larger companies, and recognition within the charity’s network helped us dramatically increase our profile, develop new partnerships, and grow our client base.
What I didn’t expect when I started out on this journey is how much my philanthropic work would impact me personally. As many of you know, financial success can be hollow. So after spending many years focused soley on making money, I now spend as much of my time and energy giving it away. Over the years I have financed numerous events that have raised tens of millions of dollars for worthy causes. I have also invited several friends and their children to come with me to Mexico to help build houses for the homeless.
Yet it seems impossible to give without receiving much more in return. One of my greatest rewards has come from connecting people to their own potential for doing good. As more people see how easy it is to make a difference in the lives of others, they’ll engage their family, friends, and colleagues in the experience, and the circle of influence and impact will grow.
Whether you’re a student, young entrepreneur, or seasoned corporate executive, everyone can benefit from learning more about the opportunities that philanthropic investment can bring. It can lead to a bigger business, a better community, and a much more meaningful life.
Brett Wilson is one of Canada’s best-known entreprenuers and philanthropists. Follow him on Twitter@wbrettwilson.
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Celebrity branding is a marketing strategy as old as Julius Caesar’s stamped coins. Masses recognizing superstars catapulted sales of their preferred brands. This interweaving between fashion houses and celebrities is something we grew up with but is it still working? No, not like it used to. Today sophisticated, role modeled celebrities are respected and sought after over the superficial, self-centered ones.
Our world believes in limited resources. Opulence and extravagance are no longer a sign of prestige but seen as insensitive and arrogant. Are we praising Victoria Beckham’s $800,000 Italian shopping spree? What counts today is the intrinsic value, social and environmental sustainability of our fashion choices. We are becoming responsible and selective. I call this fashion wisdom.
This decade is shifting our focus towards an ethical consumption. Gone is the ‘bling-bling’ era that held its crown for the past 18 years. It has been replaced with a discreet fashion. The logo mania of these past trends is now seen as an eye sore. Gucci, Louis Vuitton, YSL are a few who understand this and carefully designed subdued pieces in their past few collections. Superficial and ostentatious designs are out!
People now care about the small details. Where it is made, how it is made. Fashion wisdom is oozing into the mainstream and it is no longer exclusively about the celebrity. Consumers are taking a more active approach with their purchases. Some fashion houses still try their luck with these types of pretentious and insubstantial celebrities only to have media disasters. Let’s see what Kate Moss will come up with at Longchamp. Lindsay Lohan’s gag reflex fashion show debut for Emanuel Ungaro.
Sarah Jessica Parker receiving deep opposition as the Creative Director for Halston. It is no longer enough to be a superstar!
Today we are looking for celebrities that make a difference in our world. What began as a green approach has now infiltrated to branding. Fashion houses responded quickly by signing on celebrities that add more then just stardom such as with Michelle Obama who is often headliner news for her wardrobe.
This new form of thinking is exponentially growing throughout fashion industry creating an incredible opportunity to improve on the once archaic thinking and manufacturing. Constant evolution and adaptation is what keeps this fashion world exciting. Below is an example of the message of what “Luxury” can be perceived as without celebrity affiliation. This is an incredible video!
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May 23, 2005
Men being treated with alpha-blockers for an enlarged prostate may not have to endure sexual dysfunction, says Tulane University urologist Wayne Hellstrom. Research conducted by Hellstrom comparing the impact of two commonly prescribed medications on men's ability to ejaculate was presented today at the 100th annual meeting of the American Urological Association in San Antonio, Tex.
"Urologists have commonly believed that the sexual side effects that men experience with alpha-blockers were an indication that the therapy was working," said Hellstrom, professor of urology at the Tulane University School of Medicine and primary investigator of the study. "However, this study suggests that the sexual function component may be a side effect of some of the medications commonly used for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia."
It is very common for men to have an enlarged prostate at some time during their lives. Half of all American men aged 60 or older have an enlarged prostate. The condition, technically known as benign prostatic hyperplasia or BPH, leads to a swelling of the walnut-sized gland that can squeeze the urethra, interfering with the flow of urine.
This can cause difficulty in starting urination, a weak flow of urine and the need to urinate urgently or more frequently. Alpha-blockers, including the two medications studied by Hellstrom, are commonly prescribed to relieve the symptoms. Fifty-seven healthy men at an average age of 25 volunteered to receive five days of Flomax once-daily, Uroxatral once-daily or placebo in a randomized three-way, double-blind crossover study with a 10-day washout between treatments.
One out of three who took Flomax could not ejaculate at all, while those taking Uroxatral or a placebo were able to ejaculate. One in five of those taking Uroxatral experienced a decrease in semen quantity, compared to nine out of 10 taking Flomax. According to Hellstrom, the results should spur researchers to further investigate the way in which alpha-blockers affect a man's ability to ejaculate. Hellstrom advises patients to consult with their doctors to learn about the benefits and side effects of medication in order to determine which treatment is right for them.
This study was sponsored by Sanofi-Aventis, manufacturer of Uroxatral.
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118 504-865-5000 firstname.lastname@example.org
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From: raymond l montgomery <>
Subject: Re: MacDuff, Thane of Fife, Man or myth?
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 08:00:56 -0700
May i ask what is the line of decent to this macduff or line of fife?
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 21:07:03 EST writes:
>In lieu of recent discussions the following is for discussion purposes
>and the theory presented is conjectural. This is not documented fact.
>In my continuing search for the true origins of the MacDuff Earls of
>have come across something which leaves me very perplexed. The source
>this is one very highly respected and reputable source for Early
>Charters and History, Sir Archibald Campbell Lawrie. I will cite the
>pertinent passages and would appreciate feedback from anyone with
>of this family.
>Sir Archibald Campbell Lawrie _ Early Scottish Charters, Prior to A.D.
>James MacLehose and Sons, Glasgow, 1905;
>Notes to XIV (Notice of a grant made by Aethelred, son of Malcolm III
>Keldei of Loch Leven, AD 1093-1107 - please note that Lawrie states
>Aethelred was dead by the time this notice was written)
>Insuper Comes de Fyf. ........G.E.C. suggests that Ethelred was Earl
>Forthriff and Constantine was Earl of Fife. It was an early tradition
>Macduff was Thane of Fife in the reign of Macbeth, and that in the
>King Malcolm he became Earl. Mr. Skeene thinks Macduff is
>creation of Fordun, and Robertson ( Early Kings I., p.124): " Fife was
>the crown' in the days of Malcolm Canmore, who granted the Earldom to
>Ethelred. The Macduff, Earl of Fife, of the fabulists --
>a being unknown to Wynton - must be put down as a myth." These eminent
>writers are mistaken. Macduff may be a myth, but he is certainly not a
>creation of Fordun. Wyntoun, who calls him Thane of Fife, gives a long
>account of him which agrees with Fordun."
>NOTE: G.E.C. is _Complete Peerage_
>"Constantinius, Comes de Fife, was probably the son, or grandson, of
>of Fife, who lived in the reigns of Duncan I., Macbeth and Malcolm
>Constantine Macduff is one of the witnesses to the doubtful charter by
>to Durham (No. XV., ante, p. 12). Constantine Comes is a witness
>1128) to the great charter by David I. to Dunfermline Abbey (No.
>ante, p. 61) with Gillmichel Mac duf, whom I take to be his son and
>in the Earldom."
>This brings up questions as Constantinius Comes Fyf is also in the
>the suit between the clergy of St. Serf and Sir Robert Burgonensis
>1128) as one of the judges and he was the man who withheld the shire
>Kirkcaldy from the Abbey of Dunfermeline.
>Lawrie presents Constantine, Earl of Fife as the father of
>of Fife which is one generation further back than presented in Scots
>On page 238 while commenting on another charter which is believed to
>from Malcolm III to the Church at Dunfermline, A.D. 1070-1093 (this
>has been greatly debated as Balfour found it spurious but Dalrymple
>sound, Lawrie agrees with Balfour):
>" I will not say, as some do, that Macduff is a myth, but it may be
>that whether the Macduff of Macbeth's time survived until the marriage
>Malcolm and Margaret."
>Lawrie also supported the theory that Ethelred was without heirs and
>the Abbott of Dunkeld as a priest, not as a lay Abbott as Crinan had
>him. He did not believe that Ethelred sired the Fife line and
>Macduff was the progenitor of this lineage. Any additions or thoughts
>this would be greatly appreciated.
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What is Directed Reading/Thinking Activity (DRTA)?
Directed Reading/Thinking Activity is a teaching strategy that allows the guides the students through the process of making predictions based on the information that the text has provided them. The teacher asks questions about the text, the students answer them, and then develop predictions about the text. As the students move through the text, their predictions are changed and modified according to the new information that is provided from the text.
Why is DRTA Important?
Directed Reading/Thinking Activity is an important strategy because it actively teaches students the skill of comprehension. This strategy relies on the teacher actively modeling the art of comprehension for her students. Also, SBR allows the teacher to monitor the students’ comprehension levels through basic discussion.
What materials do I need?
A short text that none of the students are familiar with, typed up on an over head project
A class set of the same text
How do I pick the appropriate text?
When searching for an appropriate text, consider the following:
- Have any of my students read this text before?
If some of your students are familiar with the text, they will not be able to make appropriate predictions because they will have more information than the rest of the students.
2. Does the text provide ample predictive points where reading can be interrupted and discussion can be started?
This strategy requires the text to be “chunked” into several different sections. The beginning and end points of these “chunks” will vary, depending on the text. A perfect time to end a section (or “chunk” a section) is where the text allows for predictions to be made. Sometimes this will occur after a paragraph, other times after only a sentence. Also, look for texts that provide “chunking” opportunities of different lengths. Students may get impatient if they are only able to read a sentence at a time, or they may get bored or tired if they are required to read paragraphs at a time.
What are the benefits to DRTA?
DRTA is a motivating teaching strategy. Students enjoy making predictions and then finding out whether or not their predictions were correct. DRTA is also a very flexible strategy in that it can be used individually, with a small group, or with an entire class. It can also be used in any subject and can meet the needs of any leveled reader.
What are the drawbacks to DRTA?
DRTA may be time consuming, depending on the length of the text. This is because the text needs to be typed up and “chunked” ahead of time.
What is the process that I need to follow?
Before presenting the text to the class:
- Select an appropriate text (see above).
- Chunk that text at its predictive points, and type it onto an overhead (or into a word program if you have access to a projector and a screen).
- Prepare a list of comprehension questions that can be asked throughout the activity.
When presenting the text to the class:
- Introduce the title (and perhaps a supporting image from the text) and ask the students to make predictions about what they think the text is about. Ask students to support their claims.
- Begin to read each of the “chunked” sections, one at a time. (Note: When doing this activity for the first time, read the text aloud to the students. However, once they gain experience with this strategy, have them read the sections silently. Provide ample time for every reader to finish the text).
- At the end of every “chunked” section, ask both predictive questions (“Were your predictions correct?”, What has changed since your last prediction?”, “What do you think will happen next?”) and comprehension questions (“who is…?”, “why do you think the character did that?”, “what would you do if you were in that situation?”)
- Repeat instruction 2 and 3 until you reach the end of the text.
- Reflect on how the students’ predictions changed. Reviewing the students’ past predictions serves as a comprehension check. Encourage the students to look at how their predictions changed and ask them what made them change their predictions. Depending on the level of your students, you can ask them to consider the author’s role in their predictions and encourage them to look at the strategies that the author used to keep them guessing or to make them change their predictions.
Please watch the video below where I demonstrate and explain how this strategy works with a group of grade 3/4 students.
Lesson Plan from the Video
Text Used: Baba Yaga as retold by Joy Cowley
Open the following to see how the text was chunked: BabaYaga
Open the following to see the list of pre-prepared comprehension questions: BYQuestions
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See more from this Session: Management Impact On GHG Emissions and Soil C Sequestration: Part I
Tuesday, October 18, 2011: 3:30 PM
Henry Gonzalez Convention Center, Room 217B, Concourse Level
Nitrous oxide emission was monitored for three years in plots conventionally and organically managed. Both systems had a four-year rotation, strip tillage and fertilizer applied based on spring soil test results. The conventionally-managed system received nitrogen-containing fertilizer during the corn and wheat phase. Although not certified organic, the organically- managed treatments followed certification standards to the greatest extent possible. The organically-managed system had manure added only during the nitrogen phase. The corn phase of the rotation released the most nitrous oxide in the conventionally-managed system all three years and in two of three years in the organically-managed system. In both systems nitrous oxide emission was associated primarily with spring thaw and fertilizer application. The two systems did not differ in the amount of nitrous oxide emission or methane measured during the three-year study. However, because the organically-managed system was less productive, there was more greenhouse gas emission per unit of biomass produced in two of the three years.
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LUBBOCK, Texas -- Japan's decision to reopen its market to U S beef brought joy to the nation's cattlemen and some hand-wringing by its meat processors, upset that their plants would be open to Japanese inspection as part of the deal.
Japan agreed yesterday to lift the ban, pending inspections of U S plants. Japan's market was worth $1.4 billion annually when it banned imports after a Canadian-born animal in the United States was found to have mad cow disease in 2003. Two other U S cases, in Texas in 2005 and in Alabama this year, were found in native-born animals.
``It's USDA's job to regulate our processing industry, not Japan's," said Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association spokesman Matt Brockman. ``Inspections are fine. The Japanese picking and choosing is not."
Japan dropped its two-year ban on U S beef in December, but halted imports two months later after finding a shipment that contained backbone, which Asian countries consider at risk for mad cow disease.
Inspectors will arrive in the United States this weekend to begin examining plants authorized to ship beef to Japan. Inspections should be done by July 21.
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One of my favorite of all blogs is the UK IPKat, founded by Jeremy Phillips and Ilanah Simon in June 2003. It covers copyright, patent, trade mark and privacy/confidentiality issues “from a mainly UK and European perspective.” Every time I read it, which is every day, I am humiliated: the writing is always witty and highly informative, the blog’s use of visual images is amazingly creative and it is frequently populated with extremely helpful links. This is the crème de la crème.
Yesterday, I came across a report in it of an opinion by Justice Blackburne of England’s High Court in a copyright suit brought by Matthew Fisher, former Hammond organist of the British band Procol Harum, whose 1967 “A Whiter Shade of Pale” I remember well. There are two reasons I remember it; first, Fisher’s organ work; second, I could never figure out what the lyrics meant. I am not alone in this inability, but surprisingly efforts by some of us on this side of the Great Pond to understand them (efforts I confess I never undertook), have annoyed Mr. Fisher. In an March 25, 2000 interview with him on the occasion of Claes Johansen’s biography of the group, he made this statement:
"I don't know what they mean. It's never bothered me that I don't know what they mean. This is what I find rather hard, that, especially in America, people are terribly hung up about lyrics and they've got to know what they mean, and they say, "I know, I've figured out what these lyrics mean." I don't give a damn what they mean. You know, they sound great… that's all they have to do."
For those who want to read the lyrics and further annoy Mr. Fisher, here is a link to them. The song remains quite popular, and it has its own wikipedia entry, which quite wonderfully was updated the same day to take into account the opinion, one of the features that endears Wikipedia to me. (The entry also discusses alleged similarities to works of Bach).
Here is a link to a BBC story about the opinion. Within the story click on, underneath the picture of Fisher, the button that says “Watch the song performed.” That takes you to a filmed report that includes an interview with Fisher and clips of original performances of the song.
Mr. Fisher’s dispute with his bandmates Gary Brooker and Keith Reid turned on Fisher’s claim that he should be regarded as a co-author of the composition, and as such entitled to a percentage of the royalties. The law in the U.K. on joint authorship is quite different from that in the U.S. In the U.S., joint authors own an undivided interest in the whole according to the number of co-authors: two own 50%, three 33 1/3%, etc. This is without regard to the respective qualitative or quantitative contributions: with two co-authors each own a 50% interest even if one contributed only 10% to the work. Because of this, one would think that the threshold for being a joint author would be high, but it really isn’t, aside from having to contribute expression and having an intent to be a joint author.
In the U.K., however, not only is the contribution threshold higher, but the consequences are different too. As set out in the Spandau Ballet case, Hadley v. Kemp, E.M.L.R. 589, it is required that the contribution must have been original and “significant,” “the right kind of “skill and labour,” “significant and skillful.” (A recent 80 plus page UK opinion on claims by former members of Bob Marley and the Wailers provides a fascinating account of these issues for many of the group’s most famous songs, Barrett v. Universal-Island Records Ltd., EWHC 1009 (Ch.)(Lewison, J.)). Once one meets this threshold, as Fisher was held to have done, Justice Blackburne – a music expert in his own right before being called to the bar and bench– stating: “I find that the organ solo is a distinctive and significant contribution to the overall composition and, quite obviously, the product of skill and labour on the part of the person who created it,"), the proportional ownership is based on the extent of the contribution not the number of authors, Fisher being awarded 40%.
In the U.S., had he won, he would have received a mathematical percentage based on the number of composers (that might not have been the same as the number of band members; for instance, if Lennon and McCartney wrote a song, they would each be 50% owners, even though the Beatles as a group had four members; for the sound recording of the song, however, all four would have an 25% interest, reduced proportionally by the producer's share, e.g. George Martin or the label. Many bands today exist as a juridical entity, resulting in perhaps only two "authors" of the sound recording, the group as a single performer and the producer, again likely a juridical entity).
Another difference between the two countries’ laws (and those IPKittens can correct me if I am wrong), is that in the U.K., joint authors cannot license a work without the others’ permission, whereas in the U.S., joint authors can unilaterally license the work on a non-exclusive basis.
But the biggest difference is that in the U.S., Fisher's case would have been dismissed at the outset on statute of limitations grounds; the song was, after all, written and performed and credit taken in 1967. This point is illustrated in an opinion issued by the First Circuit just six days ago, Santa-Rosa v. Combo Records, 2006 WL 3691613 (1ST Cir. December 15, 2006):
"17 U.S.C. § 507(b) provides that “[n]o civil action shall be maintained under the provisions of this title unless it is commenced within three years after the claim accrued.” A claim accrues when “the plaintiff ‘knows or has reason to know of the act which is the basis for the claim.’ “ Rodríguez-García v. Municipality of Caguas, 354 F.3d 91, 96-97 (1st Cir.2004) (quoting Rodríguez Nárvaez v. Nazario, 895 F.2d 38, 41 n. 5 (1st Cir.1990)). Thus, a claim for declaratory judgment of ownership accrues when the plaintiff “knew of the alleged grounds for the [ownership] claim.” Margo v. Weiss, 213 F.3d 55, 60-61 (2d Cir .2000); see also Merchant v. Levy, 92 F.3d 51, 56 (2d Cir.1996)(“[N]o ··· uncertainty exists as to co-ownership rights based on co-authorship. A co-author knows that he or she jointly created a work from the moment of its creation.”). It goes without saying that Santa Rosa was present when his performances were recorded by Combo Records, and thus knew from the moment that each recording was created that he had a potential claim for ownership of it. Thus, there is little question that Santa Rosa's claims for co-ownership accrued as soon as he finished recording each album.
Santa Rosa points to the Ninth Circuit's holding in Zuill v. Shanahan that a claim for a declaratory judgment would not accrue until a “plain and express repudiation of co-ownership is communicated to the claimant.” 80 F.3d 1366, 1369 (9th Cir.1996). Even applying this test for accrual of a claim, we cannot think of a more plain and express repudiation of co-ownership than the fact that Combo openly, and quite notoriously, sold Santa Rosa's records without providing payment to him: according to documents provided by Santa Rosa, at least 1,140 of the recordings in dispute were sold during the six month period between January and June of 2000, almost four years before Santa Rosa filed suit in May 2004. Likewise, it is hard to believe that a singer of Santa Rosa's stature would have been unaware that Combo Records was selling his recordings and thus claiming ownership over them until three years before this action was commenced.
Because we conclude that Santa Rosa had reason to know of his claim of ownership over the recordings soon after they were created (which was well over three years before Santa Rosa filed suit against Combo), we agree with the district court that Santa Rosa's declaratory judgment action is time barred by 17 U.S.C. § 507(b)."
In Mr. Fisher's case there was an estoppel agreement, which Justice Blackburne rejected.
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Kids' Fall 2007
The chocolate, blonde-tipped muskoxen fur flies horizontal in the wind as if they had hung their shaggy jackets to dry in a subzero blizzard. They roam this half-mile-long, narrow island of turf, surrounded by the Beaufort Sea shallows, in the 19.5-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In my fingers I hold a tuft of their qivuit (pronounced kiv-ee-yut) undergarments, softer than the finest sweater, eight times warmer than sheep’s wool. No wonder muskoxen can survive the winters here.
From a stone’s toss away, I can smell their ripened old hay and wet sweaters body odor. The five adults look as happy and unperturbed as hairy cows, but circle protectively around a calf and a lush carpet of food. The ancient Iñupiat-Eskimo hunting camp on this islet has fertilized the soil into a rich garden of grass and sedges that could feed the small herd for months. The placid muskoxen stand no higher than my chest. They look to be half yaks, half water buffalo, with horns waving up either side of their heads like the hairdo of a 1960s receptionist. The Iñupiat know them as oomingmak, the bearded one, but to most people they are the strangest and least seen megafauna of our continent.
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By Petrarch | Apr 24, 2008 | 11
It seems pretty clear that McCain expects to reach the Oval Office without the Republican base.
By Petrarch | Apr 22, 2008 | 9
A capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself.
By Petrarch | Apr 18, 2008 | 6
Barack and Hillary shoot each other in the feet.
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It is far, far better to have a sane Democratic party.
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Thanks to the superdelegates, Barack Obama could win the popular electoral vote fair and square, and still lose at the convention.
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Yesterday would have been Reagan's 97th birthday; and so we ask, does anyone wear Reagan's mantle today?
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Anyone who thinks there is anything Americans cannot or will not do has lost faith in the American people, and is unfit to lead them.
By Petrarch | Jan 18, 2008 | 5
The Vice President will be leaving a slimy, black legacy.
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Video: Takashi Miike’s Mutations
Adapt, innovate: The most surprising element of Takashi Miike’s innovative oeuvre may just be the source material.
As revelatory as it is revolting, Ichi the Killer is hailed by some as one of the most original action films of our time, depicting moments of mayhem that other movies couldn’t imagine in their worst nightmares. But to call this film original misrepresents a key point—it is actually an adaptation of a Japanese manga by Hideo Yamamoto, one filled from cover to cover with creative acts of violence that are fairly commonplace in Japanese graphic art, but almost inconceivable as live action. That is until Takashi Miike rose to the challenge to bring these crazed visions to the screen, putting his own creativity to the test in pushing cinema to the limits of what it can show and what the audience can endure.
Adapting works from other media is a recurring springboard for Miike’s creative leaps, mutating them into his own unique works. Yakuza: Like a Dragon reworks a highly popular video game, transposing the game’s iconic characters to the screen, and choreographing its battles in game-like fashion. At the same time the movie works against the game’s linear storyline, adding digressions and subplots to weave a multi-player network of chance encounters and outcomes. Miike may take inspiration from the video game, but he’s after more than just a faithful translation to screen.
Video Essay: Takashi Miike’s Mutations
He takes the same approach in directing his first major stage production, Demon Pond. Working on an oversized stage that dwarfs his actors, suggesting a vast space of possibilities, Miike takes this 92-year-old play as a template to mix different elements: traditional Noh and Kabuki theater with improvisation and Western dramatic techniques. He also breaks from his violent habits: unlike his more popular yakuza gangster flicks, there’s just a single act of bloodshed, whose impact registers as profoundly as any violence inflicted in his films. Written by Izumi Kyoka, a 20th-century master of the grotesque and the fantastic, the play is a magical world where sea creatures can talk and conspire against humans and a petulant goddess is a slave to the mortals. Adapting this play may be Miike’s way of linking to Kyoka’s legacy of limitless imagination.
But Miike doesn’t always need existing source material to be creative, though it helps to have a strong script. One of Miike’s best screenwriters, Sakichi Sato, adapted Ichi the Killer and wrote Gozu, one of Miike’s most surreal and hilarious works—the following are spoilers but they only make up half of this menagerie of weirdness. It features a hapless gangster who kills his own boss only to meet him later reincarnated as a woman. He also gets kissed by a cow-headed man, is seduced by a kindly innkeeper who makes her own milk, and runs into Sato himself as a cross-dressing waiter (Sato was also the waiter named Charlie Brown in Kill Bill). It’s a mindbending psychosexual odyssey with the biggest revelation emerging from a pair of designer red panties—the birthplace of Miike’s ultimate mutation, his filmmaking once again renewing itself.
Kevin B. Lee is Editor in Chief of IndieWire’s PressPlay Video Blog, Founding Editor and Video Essayist for Fandor’s Keyframe, and a contributor to Roger Ebert.com. Follow him on Twitter.
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||Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, 1750-1805
||Journey in North America, Containing a Survey of the Countries Watered by the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, and Other Affluing Rivers [volume 1]
||Collot, Victor. A Journey in North America, Containing a Survey of the Countries Watered by the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, and Other Affluing Rivers; with Exact Observations on the Course and Soundings of These Rivers; and on the Towns, Villages, Hamlets and Farms of That Part of the New-World; Followed by Philosophical, Political, Military and Commercial Remarks and by a Projected Line of Frontiers and General Limits. Illustrated by 36 Maps, Plans, Views, and Divers Cuts. (Paris: Printed for Arthus Bertrand, 1826). Volume 1.
||325 / 27 (tables)
Georges-Henri-Victor Collot (1750-1805) was born in France,
joined the military, came to America to fight alongside
Washington’s revolutionary troops, and afterwards rose to the
rank of major general in the French army. In 1793 he was
appointed governor of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean—a French
colony without army, navy, revenue, or laws. When it was quickly
captured by the British, they turned Collot over to American
authorities in Philadelphia to answer legal charges brought by
an American merchant.
Collot Expedition of 1796
Pierre Adet, French minister to the United States at the
time, asked Collot to undertake the delicate task of
reconnoitering the interior parts of the country. The French
minister worried that the United States might enter the war on
the side of Britain, and if they did, France would need accurate
intelligence about the Mississippi and Missouri valleys. Collot
accepted this responsibility with pleasure, and engaged French
military cartographer Joseph Warin, two Canadians voyageurs, and
three American boatmen to navigate the waterways in a
The party left McKeesport, Penn., in March 1796 for the Ohio
River, surveying the village of Pittsburgh and its
fortifications along the way. Collot kept duplicate sets of
notes in case they should be stopped by British, American, or
Spanish officials. They then descended the Ohio, noting not only
the topography and frontier settlements but also the wildlife,
Indians, and environmental features. After reaching the
Mississippi, Collot turned upriver to St. Louis, and explored
short distances up the Illinois and Missouri rivers as well. The
party then descended the Mississippi, reaching New Orleans on
October 27, 1796, where the Spanish promptly arrested them
authorities. Collot was finally released on December 22, 1796,
by which time his companion Warin had died from injuries
suffered on the trip.
Collot returned to France and prepared his manuscript and
maps from notes kept on the journey. When in the year 1800
Napoleon acquired Louisiana from Spain, Collot, and Adet were
named two of the commissioners who would administer the new
French territory. Before they could cross the Atlantic to take
up their assignments, however, Napoleon had a change of heart
and sold Louisiana to the United States. Collot died in Paris in
July 1805 with his manuscripts, maps, and drawings unpublished.
They fell into the hands of an appreciative publisher, A.
Bertrand, who issued them in two luxurious volumes in 1826. Only
three hundred copies in French and one hundred copies in English were printed.
Collot’s maps and illustrations have long been sought by
collectors and often reproduced; a facsimile of both volumes was
issued in 1924. Only eighteen copies of the English edition are
recorded by libraries worldwide in OCLC.
Journey in North America, Containing a Survey of the
Countries Watered by the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, and Other
Affluing Rivers 1796 (Paris : A. Bertrand, 1826). The document
reproduced here is the text volume from the English-language
edition published in 1826; this copy belonged to Lyman Copeland
Draper and contains his signature and notes.
Other Internet and Reference Sources
The plates and maps are available at the Web site, “The First
American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820”
part of the American Memory collection hosted by the Library of
Another copy of Collot’s atlas is available at
on the Web site of map collector David Rumsey.
Two articles tell Collot’s story: Hamilton, Neil A. “A French
Spy in America.” American History 1999 34(3): 22-28; and
Lewis, Clifford M. “The Reconnaissance Expedition of Two French
Navigators” West Virginia History 1981 43(1): 21-38.
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Purification, Ethics and Karma in Early Buddhist Discourse -
Studies in the Madhyama-āgamahttp://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg. ... =126#c1640
[This link seems to keep changing - I've updated it 5 Feb 2010 - but you should be able to google for it if it changes...]
An e-learning online course by Bhikkhu Anālayo
Thursdays 18.15 to 19.45 CEST
14 April - 21 July 2011
Online registration starts on the 15 February 2011 on this webpage
The main purpose of the course is to introduce central themes of Buddhist thought from an historical-critical perspective through the medium of a comparative study of the early discourses. Extracts from the Madhyama-āgama preserved in Chinese will be made available in English translation to participants, so that these can be compared with their Pāli counterparts, which mostly, but not exclusively, are found in the Majjhima-nikāya. The course follows the order of the discourses in the Madhyama-āgama so as to give the participants an opportunity for a first-hand impression of this collection, so far not available in translation in any European language. The coverage of the first chapters of this collection during the course held in 2011 will alternate between brief surveys of some discourses and in-depth studies of other discourses (see below for the discourses selected for this term).
Participants are expected to have a basic acquaintance with central ideas of Buddhism. There are, however, no language requirements apart from a reasonable degree of fluency in English. Participation in the course would provide those who are relatively new to the early discourses with a first-hand understanding of early Buddhism through textual study of the primary sources. At the same time, the course should also be of interest to those who, being already well familiar with the Pāli canon, are interested in the differences and similarities between the Pāli discourses and parallel versions transmitted by other early Buddhist traditions. In the present case, the parallels taken into consideration are from the Madhyama-āgama translated into Chinese towards the end of the 4th century, a collection that with considerable probability stems from a Sarvāstivāda line of transmission.
The course is open for free participation after online registration for
a) "active participants"
b) "passive participants"
The e-learning platform of the University of Hamburg allows a limited number of "active participants", which can directly participate in the discussions during the online lecture. Though not meant for university students only, the option of becoming an "active participant" would be appropriate for students who wish to get credits, which requires regular and active participation as well as preparing a written outline of a paper and presenting this online during the course.
The number of "passive participants" is not limited, so that anyone interested can gain access to the lectures through previous registration. This option allows viewing the lecture either live or else at any time of convenience later on. During the week that follows each lecture, an internet forum will enable discussion and an exchange of opinions among participants. Some of the points that have arisen during these discussions will be taken up at the beginning of the subsequent lecture, so that in this way passive participants have an indirect way of also giving an input to the lecture.
Technical requirements for participation are an internet connection and Adobe Flash Player, which is available for free download on the internet and is already installed in most computers. For "active" participation, a webcam and a microphone are moreover required (i.e. the basic technical set-up for being able to skype etc.). The managing of the access to the course does not require any specialist knowledge and should thus not be a barrier for participation.
These discourses selected from the Madhyama-āgama for a more detailed study are in one way or another related to the topics of "purification", "ethics" and "karma", which are the central themes that will be explored during the course. These discourses are:
Discourse: Pāli Parallel: Topic:
MĀ 9 MN 24 Rathavinīta-sutta the seven purifications
MĀ 10 MN 2 Sabbāsava-sutta seven methods for removing the āsavas
MĀ 14 MN 61 Ambalaṭṭhikārāhulovāda-sutta basics of ethical conduct
MĀ 15 AN 10.208 Karajakāya-sutta karma
MĀ 16 AN 3.65, Kesamutti- / "Kālāma-sutta" principles underlying ethical conduct
MĀ 27 MN 97 Dhānanjāni-sutta karma and mettā
As a preparation for the course, in order to acquaint themselves with central tenets of early Buddhism and to acquire some familiarity with reading the discourses participants are kindly requested to study:
- Bhikkhu Bodhi 2005: In the Buddha's Words, Boston: Wisdom,
During the course, participants will need to consult regularly:
- Bhikkhu Bodhi (ed.) 2000: The Middle Length Discourses, Boston: Wisdom.
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July 31, 2010 -- In a semiconductor company, the ASIC engineers design the hardware, and the hardware specification is distributed to other teams for hardware validation, embedded software development, and data-sheet documentation. Unfortunately, no standardized tools to document and distribute the specification exist. ASIC engineers often use common tools, such as Microsoft's Word or Excel, or even a plain text editor; these "tools" have many shortcomings when used to create a hardware specification.
First, these tools cannot easily convey the structure of a hardware specification. The hardware design of a chip typically has a tree-like hierarchy — the chip has several logical blocks, each block contains many registers, and each register has multiple bitfields.
In a Word document, to show the hierarchical relationship between data, a significant amount of formatting using headings, tables, fonts, and highlights is needed. Formatting this type of content is tedious and repetitive. The main problem, however, is the difficulty in extracting data from the specification created from these common tools.
Karen H. Wang. (Wang is a senior embedded software engineer at SiBEAM, Inc.)
This brief introduction has been excerpted from the original copyrighted article.
View the entire article on the EE Times Embedded website.
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Jane Frances de Chantal
|Jane Frances de Chantal|
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Dijon, Burgundy, France
|Died||13 December 1641
|Honored in||Roman Catholic Church|
|Beatified||21 November 1751, Rome by Pope Benedict XIV|
|Canonized||16 July 1767, Rome by Pope Clement XIII|
|Major shrine||Annecy, Savoy|
21 August (General Roman Calendar 1769-1969)
12 December (General Roman Calendar 1970-2001)
|Patronage||forgotten people; in-law problems; loss of parents; parents separated from children; widows|
Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (Jeanne-Françoise Frémiot, Baronne de Chantal, 28 January 1572 – 13 December 1641) is a Roman Catholic Saint, who founded a religious order after the death of her husband.
Jeanne Frances Fremiot was born in Dijon, France on January 28, 1572, the daughter of the royalist President of the Parliament of Burgundy. She married the Baron de Chantal when she was 20 and then lived in the feudal castle of Bourbilly. Baron de Chantal was accidentally killed by a harquebus while out shooting in 1600. Left a widow at twenty-eight, with four children, the broken-hearted baroness took a vow of chastity. Chantal gained a reputation as an excellent manager of the estates of her husband, as well as of her difficult father in law, while also providing alms and nursing care to needy neighbors.
During Lent in 1604, the pious baronness met Saint Francis de Sales, the bishop of Geneva who was preaching at the Sainte Chapelle in Dijon. They became close friends, and de Sales became her spiritual director. With his support, and that of her father and brother (the Archbishop of Bourges), and after providing for her children, Chantal left for Annecy, to start the Congregation of the Visitation. The Congregation of the Visitation was canonically established at Annecy on Trinity Sunday, 6 June, 1610. The order accepted women who were rejected by other orders because of poor health or age. During its first eight years, the new order also was unusual in its public outreach, in contrast to most female religious who remained cloistered and adopted strict ascetic practices. When people criticized her, Chantal famously said, "What do you want me to do? I like sick people myself; I'm on their side."
Her reputation for sanctity and sound management resulted in many visits by (and donations from) aristocratic women. The order had 13 houses by the time de Sales died, and 86 before Chantal herself died at the Visitation Convent in Moulins, aged 69. St. Vincent de Paul served as her spiritual director after de Sales' death. Her favorite devotions involved the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Heart of Mary. Chantal was buried in the Annecy convent next to de Sales. The order had 164 houses by 1767, when she was canonized. Chantal outlived her son (who died fighting Huguenots and English on the Île de Ré during the century's religious wars) and two of her three daughters, but left extensive correspondence. Her granddaughter also became a famous writer, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné.
Saint Jane Frances's feast day is now generally celebrated on August 12 in the Roman Catholic Calendar of saints, although since 1969 Europeans often remember her on December 12, which is closer to the anniversary of her death (the traditional feast of St. Lucy). The move resulted from Pope John Paul II's declaring December 12 the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas. North American Catholics had generally moved this foundress' commemoration to August 18, but in 2009 changed it to August 12. Traditionalist Catholics who continue to observe pre-1970 calendars celebrate Saint Jane Frances on the 1769-1969 date, August 21.
Writings of Saint Jane Frances
Saint Jane Frances de Chantal wrote some exemplary letters of spiritual direction.
- Pernin, Raphael. "St. Jane Frances de Chantal." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 2 Feb. 2013
- Calendarium Romanum (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 1969), p. 110
- Decree 2492/01/L of 18 December 2001 of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
- Newsletter of the USCCB Committee on Divine Worship, May-June 2009, pg. 24
- Francis de Sales, Jane De Chantal, Letters of Spiritual Direction (Classics of Western Spirituality), translated by Péronne Marie Thibert, V.H.M. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1988.
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Jane Frances de Chantal|
- St. Jane Frances de Chantal at Saint of the Day
- The Life of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal
- St. Jane Frances de Chantal at Catholic Online
- Saint Jeanne de Chantal at Patron Saints Index
- Saint Jane Frances De Chantal School in North Hollywood, California
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Buddhist practitioner, writer, and teacher Bodhipaksa recently posted a great review of The Brightened Mind: A Simple Guide to Buddhist Meditation, by Ajahn Sumano Bhikku, on the Wildmind blog!
An excerpt from the review reads, “The second half of The Brightened Mind is solid gold. Sumano’s strength is in emphasizing the “naturalness” of meditation. The second meditation exercise begins with the suggestion, “Allow your eyelids to close gently and begin to think ‘soft.’ That means relaxing the mind and smiling within.” This is beautifully put, and a valuable reminder that meditation can be something we let happen rather than make happen.”
This review was originally posted on March 11, 2011.
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Born Of Hope
is a 71 minute fan-made prequel film available for online viewing. In the spirit of The Hunt For Gollum
), it fleshes out the Lord Of The Rings universe written about by J.R.R. Tolkien and depicted in the Peter Jackson films. The story here is that of the meeting of Aragorn's parents and his birth and early childhood, many decades before the events involving Frodo and the Fellowship.
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Your Loon License Plate
When you ask for a Maine Loon License Plate, you’re showing your support for Maine’s special places and its wildlife.
Created by the Maine State Legislature in 1993, the loon plate directly benefits the Division of Parks and Public Lands, under the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestestry, as well as the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.
For every $20 spent on a new loon plate:
- $8.40 goes to the Division of Parks and Public Lands (DPPL);
- $5.60 goes to Inland Fisheries & Wildlife (IF&W);
- and $6 goes to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
How are Those Funds Used?
The Division of Parks and Public Lands uses the loon plate funds to help maintain and improve Maine’s State Parks and Historic Sites.While some of the money is used for basic maintenance supplies and upkeep items, it is also spent on significant projects, such as those listed below, that enhance the enjoyment of Maine’s special places by the public.
Your loon plate funds have helped:
- Construct a new day-use shelter at Moose Point;
- Construct a new 28-foot-long bridge at Bible Point;
- Replace boat slips at Lily Bay;
- Make improvements in keeping with the Americans with Disabilities Act at the; Lightkeeper’s House at Quoddy Head State Park;
- Help harvest and saw about 20,000 board feet of lumber from the Camden Hills woodlot, later used to build picnic tables, signs, Adirondack shelters and a cold storage building, as well repair many other park structures throughout the park system;
- Repair trails, roads and parking lots at Moose Point, Camden Hills, Quoddy Head, Damariscotta Lake, Shackford Head and Birch Point Beach;
- Installation of a new lifeguard stand at Peaks-Kenny;
- Purchase a historically important parcel at Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site in Bristol, completing the site area;
- Plus much, much more!
Funds that go to IF&W help support important wildlife conservation and help in obtaining matching federal funds through the U.S. Endangered Species Act, the State Wildlife Grant Program and the Landowner Incentive Program.
Your Loon Plate is available in four types:
- Motor home
- Commercial loon plates.
When you're visiting a State Park, ask the staff what improvements the loon plate money has been able to make possible.
And ask for your Loon Plate the next time you register your vehicle at a town hall or motor vehicle office!
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It was the ancient Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus who famously said “you cannot step twice into the same river,” indicating that change itself is the central principle of the universe. For those of us whose universe is the enterprise, change is also the central principle of our organizations. The forces of change impacting the business are the underlying motivations for SOA, and business change is the theme of our Licensed ZapThink Architect course. Business agility, after all, means responding to change and leveraging change for competitive advantage. If it weren’t for the constant force of change, all the hard work that goes into building an agile architecture wouldn’t be worth the time and effort.
Even though the permanence of change drives how we run our organizations, it nevertheless goes against our human nature. People prefer stability. We innately feel that change is temporary, that the point to change is to reach the end of it, when we can finally settle down and enjoy the new state of affairs that results when the change is finally complete. Unfortunately, this new state of affairs is largely an illusion, especially when we’re talking about the large organizations we call enterprises. Simply put, there is no such thing as an end state, some kind of nirvana where whatever was changing has finished its transformation.
The Pervasiveness of the End State Illusion
We find the mistaken belief that there is a stable end state both in business and IT, and perhaps most surprisingly, in the practice of Enterprise Architecture (EA) In each of these realms, if you are faced with a challenge, you may analyze your “as-is” state and your “to-be” state, in order to come up with a plan to move from “as-is” to “to-be.” In fact, this end state illusion is core to the definition of EA, according to the EACOE:
Enterprise Architecture is explicitly describing an organization through a set of independent, non-redundant artifacts, defining how these artifacts interrelate with each other, and developing a set of prioritized, aligned initiatives and road maps to understand the organization, communicate this understanding to stakeholders, and move the organization forward to its desired state.
But if business change is constant, there is no desired state, and thus this definition is inherently flawed. What, then, is the proper goal for EA? Essentially, EA should move the organization to greater levels of business agility, where “being agile” is not an end state per se, but rather allows for the fact that change is constant, and it is the role of EA to help organizations better deal with that fact, and use it to their advantage.
The “Goal” of Continuous Business Transformation
So while the traditional definition of EA involves transformation to a desired state, continuous business transformation forms the core of the ZapThink 2020 vision. You can think of continuous business transformation as a goal, but the word “goal” connotes an end state, so the word is misleading. Instead, we are looking to move from the current state of inflexibility to an environment where the business is in a continual state of reinvention, responding to forces of change as efficiently as possible, and also introducing change in the form of innovation in order to achieve ongoing strategic advantage.
Continuous business transformation drives the entire ZapThink 2020 vision, including each of the five Supertrends. In fact, the entire point of ZapThink 2020 is to help organizations deal with change more intelligently. There’s no question that change is pervasive. What remains to be determined is how well organizations can ride the wave.
The ZapThink Take
By saying there’s no end state we don’t mean to imply that there is no best practice approach to continuous business transformation. On the contrary, many executives will continue to struggle with change, but there will be a few who reinvent EA as a best practice enabler of agility, and thus successfully transform their organizations.
But even the word “transformation” presents issues, as we’re talking about two levels of transformation. The transition from “as-is” to “to-be,” from the screwed up state we’re in now to the fixed, nirvana state of the future is the false transformation we are revealing as specious. Instead, ZapThink is helping organizations transform from a traditional goal-focused mode of thinking to a continuous business transformation mode of thinking—a higher level of transformation that leads to true business agility.
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ChromaDex has announced the initiation of a clinical study at The University of Mississippi to examine the effects of its pterostilbene ingredient in people with lipid disorders.
The clinical trial is being conducted at the UM Medical Center in Jackson. Participants will receive high and low doses of pterostilbene – a compound found in grapes and blueberries and chemically related to resveratrol - with and without grape extract, or a placebo.
“Pterostilbene has significant promise, and we hope it will offer a useful non-prescription option for metabolic disorders. In addition to cholesterol and blood pressure, we will be evaluating urine tests and monitoring for inflammatory markers,” said Daniel Riche, assistant professor of pharmacy practice and medicine, and the study’s principal investigator.
“The commencement of our pTeroPure pterostilbene clinical study with the University of Mississippi marks another significant milestone for ChromaDex,” said Frank Jaksch, CEO and co-founder of ChromaDex.
“Most people may not yet know of pterostilbene, but we believe this naturally occurring compound’s improved activity and potency may soon make it as well known as its highly-successful, well known relative, resveratrol,” added Jaksch.
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Monday, February 25, 2013
If you go
What: The TED Conference for technology, entertainment and design in a live television feed from Long Beach, Calif.
When: Tuesday through Friday
Session 1: Progress Enigma, noon to 1:45 p.m.
Session 2: Beautiful Imperfection, 3:15 to 5 p.m.
Session 3: The Spark, 6 to 7:45 p.m.
Where: Library Hall, Bud Werner Memorial Library
You can also watch and re-watch previous speeches by TED participants (TED Talks) at www.ted.com/talks
Go to the Bud Werner Memorial Library’s events page, www.steamboatlibrary.org/events to see the times of TED Conference telecasts Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Find information about the speakers at the conference web page.
Steamboat Springs The daily temperatures in Long Beach, Calif., are expected to reach well into the 70s this week, but the mild SoCal weather isn’t the biggest attraction. It’s the annual TED conference, bringing some of the most innovative thinkers and creators in the world together for an intriguing barrage of the shortest, most interesting speeches you ever sat still for.
The $7,500 tickets for the TED Conference are sold out. Lucky for you, the entire program, Feb. 26 through March 1, will be shown on a live television feed in Library Hall at Bud Werner Memorial Library, where the temperature is likely to reach the high 60s.
TED is a nonprofit organization committed to bringing together creative people from the broad fields of technology, entertainment and design, and spreading their innovative ideas.
“This is your one opportunity to come in and se the whole conference,” Bud Werner Memorial Library adult programs coordinator Jenny Lay said. “The TED Conference creates this combination of people who (represent) both the micro and the macro – people looking at big world issues and people who do something really, really specific.”
The great news for Yampa Valley residents is that they may come and go from Library Hall, sampling the diverse program as their schedules permit.
The first session Tuesday features robot expert Rodney Brooks of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose quest is to build robots that can figure things out for themselves. He will be joined by former two-term Michigan Gov. Jennifer Grandholm, who has called for empowering states to create jobs through a clean energy race to the top.
Other speakers in the first session include economist Robert J. Gordon, innovation researcher Erik Brynjolfsson, robotics entrepreneur Keller Rinaudo, and author Nolifer Merchant, who looks deeply at the strategies and cultures of effective businesses. And some guy named Bono, who is both a musician and an activist.
The conference comprises between two and four daily sessions with as many as nine speakers in each 105-minute session. Each of the speakers is challenged to give the best speech of their life in 18 minutes or less.
Throughout the conference, it is the juxtaposition of experts from widely different worlds that is intended to stir the pot.
And the TED Conference is far from stuffy. The speakers include a yo-yo champion, three young bluegrass musicians and a beat boxer.
Steamboat Springs offers incredible cultural and intellectual opportunities for its residents and visitors, but it’s a great big world out there, and the adult programming at Bud Werner Memorial Library is doing as much as any local institution to share it with us.
To reach Tom Ross, call 970-871-4205 or email tross@SteamboatToday.com
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Opportunities for MEMS-Based Timing Devices
Timing Devices, which are used to synchronize components, are an integral part of diverse devices that contain an IC or generate a radio signal, such as computer systems, consumer electronics (for example, mobile phones or other portable electronic devices), communications equipment, and other electronics devices or systems, including measurement equipment.
Typically, quartz crystals and quartz crystal oscillators (consisting of a quartz crystal resonator and an oscillation circuit) are to generate an output waveform at a specified frequency for timing. The crystal oscillator creates an electrical signal with a precise frequency. The frequency can be used to keep track of time, provide a clock signal for digital electronic circuits, or to stabilize frequencies for radio transmitters and receivers.
A quartz clock utilizes the piezoelectric property of the quartz crystal. When a quartz crystal vibrates, a difference in electric potential is produced between two of its faces. The crystal has a natural frequency of vibration that depends on its size and shape. If it is placed in an oscillating electric circuit having nearly the same frequency as the crystal, it is caused to vibrate at its natural frequency, and the frequency of the entire circuit becomes the same as the natural frequency of the crystal.
Quartz resonantors/oscillators have such advantages as high frequency stability, stability over temperature, the frequency dependence on temperature is low, and excellent processing ability. The use of photolithographic techniques are, moreover, enabling fabrication of smaller quartz crystals.
However, quartz crystal resonators/oscillators can have shortcomings, especially as electronics devices continue to become increasingly smaller. Quartz crystal resonators cannot be suitably or readily integrated onto silicon CMOS wafers, their cost can increase when their package volume decreases, and they are susceptible to performance degradation when subjected to severe levels of shock and vibration. Using mechanical processes to treat, cut, and shape the quartz crystal can be increasingly challenging with respect to, for example, producing high frequency crystal in smaller packages. Moreover, while photolithographic processes can enable production of smaller quartz crystals, MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) techniques can enable even smaller resonators to be created.
Moreover, MEMS resonators/oscillators (which essentially use a silicon mechanical vibrating beam for the resonator) can have other advantages over their quartz crystal counterparts, such as better shock and vibration characteristics, ability to be programmed to any frequency within a continuous frequency range (rather than requiring a separate quartz device for each frequency); the possibility of integrating the MEMS oscillator in a package or on a single chip with the silicon timing device could provide cost or form factor benefits; MEMS technology could be employed to fabricate multiple resonators on a single die to make system-on-a-chip timing chips; and the MEMS technology may facilitate building a range of different resonator shapes to achieve various properties, frequencies, or Q factors.
While MEMS resonators have had some performance challenges of their own in the past (such as limited temperature stability, thermal hysteresis, long-term stability, as well as the potential of contamination unless they are well-encapsulated), performance improvements have enabled MEMS-based timing devices to begin to make inroads against quartz crystal timing devices in, primarily, crystal oscillators with a MHz frequency output where the specifications for temperature stability can be easier to meet.
Moreover, there are opportunities for MEMS resonators/oscillators to begin to make inroads against quartz crystals in both lower performance applications for MEMS oscillators with a 32 kHz frequency output (such as, for example, standby clocking in cell phones) or higher performance applications (e.g., temperature compensated MHz frequency output oscillators for such applications as cell phones or GPS receivers).
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LIFE With Michael Caine: Rare Photos, 1966
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In October 1966, in a lengthy profile of a young English actor on the rise, LIFE magazine took a stab at describing what would in time be recognized not only as one of the most extraordinary instruments in all of movies, but a pop-culture touchstone ripe for endless, loving parodies: Michael Caine’s voice.
“When Michael Caine talks about himself,” the magazine told its readers, “his voice is soft and couched in an accent that Englishmen call ‘London,’ a nondescript Cockney derivative with the harsh edges honed off and the aspirates intact.” That’s pretty good, especially the part about the aspirates, and with a little bit of effort most of us can easily conjure the sound of that “nondescript Cockney” in our heads — or, in all likelihood, the sound of people gleefully impersonating the octogenarian movie star.
But when LIFE published its 1966 feature on Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in the Rotherhithe district of London on March 14, 1933), the actor was far from the two-time Oscar-winning screen legend he was eventually to become. He had starred in two movies that had put him on the map, as it were, and got him noticed outside of England — as a spy in The Ipcress File (1965) and as a Cockney Casanova in the classic British film, Alfie (1966) — but the titles that would put him on the path to legend status were still years away. Those movies, like The Italian Job, Get Carter, Sleuth, Educating Rita, Hannah and Her Sisters, Cider House Rules, Little Voice, The Quiet American and on and on, have shown Caine to be as versatile an actor as one is ever likely to see.
And then there are the duds. Anyone who has acted in more than 100 movies is, of course, going to have some bombs on his hands. But in Sir Michael’s case, calling more than a few of his titles godawful is putting it mildly. The Island. Jaws: The Revenge. Blame It on Rio, for chrissake. These are movies that most actors would probably disown if they could. But to Caine’s credit, he has always been completely upfront about why he makes so many movies, even if some of them are abominations. He does it, he says, because of the money — which is often very, very good — and because it’s his job. As the son of a father who worked in a fish market and mother who worked as a house cleaner, Caine never believed there was any shame in being poor — but he sure as hell would rather be rich. And if occasionally working in a movie he knew was going to be rubbish helped pay the bills, well, that’s what people worked for. His job just happened to allow him the luxury of traveling the world and hanging out with incredibly attractive women.
As the years passed, the excellence of Caine’s best performances has cast such a forgiving light on his more terrible movies that it’s been easy to forgive him his cinematic trespasses, while his disarming honesty about his willingness to work in mediocre projects for a fat paycheck has come across as refreshingly honest and self-deprecating.
Here, as Michael Caine turns 80, LIFE.com celebrates the man’s career with a series of previously unpublished photos from 1966, made by LIFE’s Bill Ray. Of Caine himself — who at the time was divorced from his first wife, Patricia Haines (1932 – 1977) but had not yet married the woman to whom he’s still married today, the former model Shakira Baksh — Ray recalls that “there is a very fine line between being lazy and being laid back, and Caine knew exactly were that line was. He worked all the time but never broke a sweat. He always knew his lines, but was in no hurry to blurt them out. If things broke down on the set, he was happy in his trailer listening to The Four Tops or grabbing a nap. He was simply made for the movie business.”
As for the women — the many women — who happened to be in the vicinity of Caine during the assignment, Ray remembers that Caine “seemed to be a magnet, without ever lifting a finger. And that was another part of the laid-back thing. He seemed to have perfected a way to make things look easy, and so things became easy. Most guys would be happy to kill themselves, walk the burning desert, crawl on broken glass to bed a beautiful girl. But not Caine. He wouldn’t walk across the street. But if a drop-dead gorgeous girl did the walking, and if it wasn’t dinner time, he was more than happy to oblige. You could really hate a guy like that — except that he was so charming, so smooth, that you were very happy to be around him, hoping some of it would rub off on you — which, of course, it didn’t!
“That sort of magic,” Ray continues, “would have been much easier to take if Caine had been half as good looking as, say, another young Cockney, like Terence Stamp. He wasn’t. But charming, fun, and easy to be around and work with, he definitely was.”
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Broccoli contains chemicals that activate cancer-fighting genes and inhibit others that fuel tumors.
"What broccoli seems to be doing is switching on genes which prevent cancer developing and switching off other ones that help it spread."
-Richard Mithen, a biologist at Britain's Institute of Food Research
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Heart Transplant Survivors Celebrate, Honor Donors
There's probably no better day than Valentine's Day to honor those who have shared their hearts in a most profound way.
Last year, Minnesota transplant centers performed a record number of heart transplants. Between Mayo Clinic, the U of M Medical Center, Fairview and Abbott Northwestern, 80 heart transplants were performed here in 2012.
Thursday, an event was held to celebrate that feat, but also to serve as a reminder that 154 other Minnesotans are waiting for a lifesaving heart transplant.
Among those attending, Kaiya Traynor, a rambunctious 20-month-old from the Twin Cities, was born with a heart defect that basically left her with half of a heart. She went through four open heart surgeries, but they didn't work so she was put on the wait list for a new heart. She got one about a year ago.
The selfless decision to be an organ donor also saved 51-year-old Michelle Hartse's life. She waited 8 weeks in the ICU before receiving her heart on June 4.
For information on how to become a donor, click here.
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“Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.” — Scott Caan
Your Outcome: Get a handle on the minimum you need to do. Get the minimum out of the way and the rest of the day or week is yours. By having clarity on what you MUST do, you can avoid getting overwhelmed by all the tasks and activities competing for your time and energy. With clarity comes conviction and you set the stage for fierce results. Or simply clear your plate, then do enjoy the rest of the day, Cool Hand Luke style.
Prioritizing effectively is one of the most important keys to your success. When you feel like you’re working on the right thing at the right time, it’s easier to focus and stay engaged. Prioritizing is a continuous activity. It’s about taking things on while letting other things go. It’s about making trade-offs. It’s also about finding synergies. To prioritize effectively you need to be able to see the forest from the trees, and you need to be able to identify the minimum for success. That’s where MUST, SHOULD, and COULD comes into play.
MUST, SHOULD, COULD
Rather than prioritize with priority 1, priority 2, and priority 3 (or p1, p2, p3), I’ve found it way more helpful to think in terms of MUST, SHOULD, and COULD. If you need to use a prioritization system that is number centric, then you can still think of it in terms of MUST, SHOULD, and COULD. If you get really good at focusing on your MUSTs, you’ll see immediate improvement. Where people fall down is they mix too many SHOULDs and COULDs in their work each day and they don’t actually ever get anything done. If MUSTS really are a problem for you, The Rule of 3 should help you cap and avoid overwhelming yourself. Getting three MUSTS done each day quickly builds momentum. It’s a sense of accomplishment. You may find as you get more effective, you start to bite off more.
Getting a Quick Handle on Your Day
Ask yourself …
- What MUST I do today?
- What SHOULD I do?
- What COULD I do?
Whittle it down to three MUSTs for the day. If you have more than three, then limit to three max. You can always up level them or bubble them up into a higher-level outcome. Capping it at three will help you focus and remember them easily.
Getting a Quick Handle on Your Week
Ask yourself, …
- What MUST I do this week?
- What SHOULD I do this week?
- What COULD I do this week?”
Carve out your MUSTs by weighting your window of opportunity, pain points, and best value.
Identify Your Minimum MUSTs for the Day
If you stay mindful of your minimum MUSTs for the day, then you’re in the driver’s seat. At an instant, you know how significantly any quick trade offs are,such as doing this over that, hitting or missing a window of opportunity, and trading pain for pleasure. You have your three MUST results on the mind, which gives you a laser sharp path. If your boss comes by and has something more for you to do, you can either push back or negotiate your success, “I can do that, if you want to prioritize it over XYZ …”
What if You Have fewer than Three MUSTs?
Good for you! Don’t upgrade SHOULDs to MUSTs, acknowledge that you got your MUSTs done, and move on to your SHOULDs or COULDs. Remember the whole point of MUSTs is not just to help remind you of what’s most important for you, it’s about survival
One thing to note is that if the word MUST for you creates a sense of heaviness or you find you no longer look forward to getting your results, then change your language. Rather than your MUST dos, think of your CHOOSE TOs. This puts you back in power and this simple reframing can help you get your energy back.
Why Priorities Matter
A laundry list of To Dos where everything is equally important is a recipe for failure. Time spent identifying your three MUSTs for the day is more than worth it because it gives you flexibility. Without knowing your three MUSTs, everything is mushy and you have nothing to steer by. At the end of the day, you will likely wonder how you worked on what you thought were so many important things yet without anything important getting done.
MUST becomes increasingly clear under high pressure. People who do their minimum MUSTs each day tend to do well. When push comes to shove, these people pick one MUST each day for themselves, their job, and their family to keep things in check, when when chaos, pressure, and overload abound.
There are many reasons for using MUSTs, but here are a few to consider:
- MUST means something. Contrast this with asking “What is Priority 1 this week?” Your mind has to translate what Priority 1 really means. With MUST, SHOULD, COULD your mind can categorize the tasks much easier instead of translating into some other systems.
- Nailing your MUSTs builds a rhythm of results. Without your three MUSTs to prioritize with, everything looks important. This is the source of overwhelm, shutdown, burnout, and lack of focus. When you start with a firm foundation of MUSTs, then you can drive your day. You can prioritize incoming requests against your three. As you finish something, you can take more on. This is how you find your rhythm for results.
- MUSTs help you put your most important issues out on the table. It’s the heart of focus and prioritization and outcomes. If you don’t know you’re on your best path, you can’t commit all the way. When you know you’re working on the most important things right now in the moment for your most important outcomes, then you can fully engage and you’re no longer worried about all the other noise.
- MUSTs help you quickly identify your minimum for the day. The MUST is for brutal clarity around the minimum — I’ve never found a more cutting word to get somebody to absolutely focus on just that (and even with *MUST* folks still bite off too much or don’t prioritize their best.) The commitment of MUST forces you to choose definitely doable in the available time and not overstep. Taking on too much is where folks fall down.
- MUSTs help you create a glide path for the rest of your day. Take care of your basic needs and MUSTs first in the day so it’s a glide path for the rest. A simple way to think about your day is MUSTs, then SHOULDs, then COULDs.
- MUSTs enable incredible flexibility. If you know your three MUSTs for the day, you then can prioritize against them. If something more important comes in, you can bump something out as a deliberate trade, yet still remain agile.
Balance Against What You Want
As you deal with your MUSTs, one thing to keep in mind is that you should balance them against what you ultimately want. You can use three simple questions to help you checkpoint:
- What do you want?
- What do you want to accomplish?
- Who do you want to be and what experiences do you want to create?
- Identify your MUSTs for the day.
- Identify your MUSTs for the week.
My Related Posts
- 30 Days of Getting Results
- Day 1 – Take a Tour of Getting Results the Agile Way
- Day 2 – Monday Vision – Use Three Stories to Drive Your Week
- Day 3 – Daily Outcomes – Use Three Stories to Drive Your Day
- Day 4 – Let Things Slough Off
- Day 5 – Hot Spots – Map Out What’s Important
- Day 6 – Friday Reflection – Identify Three Things Going Well and Three Things to Improve
- Day 7 – Setup Boundaries and Buffers
- Day 8 – Dump Your Brain to Free Your Mind
Photo by David de Mallorca.
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In addition to Tisch and the other Tufts libraries, a number of departments and research centers at Tufts have established their own collections; many of these are listed below. Tisch Library is not responsible for these collections, so if you have questions about borrowing from, or would like to suggest additions to, these collections, please contact them directly.
Located in Paige Hall, Room 103, the Education Department's Curriculum Resource Center (CRC) provides materials to support Education students. Education students can use computers and other video-making equipment, take advantage of technology training opportunities, and use the CRC's collection of journals, books.
The Child Development department maintains the Evelyn G. Pitcher Curriculum Laboratory, which contains a library, studio workshop, technology center, classroom, A/V and multimedia center dedicated to the study of children. The Lab is open to members of the Tufts community.
The GIS Center, located in Tisch Library, houses a small collection of geographic information systems (GIS) data on CD-ROMS, DVDs, as well as some books about using GIS. The GIS Center is a non-circulating library. Books and tutorials may be used by the public, but GIS software and data are restricted to members of the Tufts community. Additional resources may be located by searching the Tufts Library Catalog.
The LGBT Center @ Tufts holds an extensive collection of queer related books, magazines, and videos, as well as subscriptions to a variety of gay-related magazines, including The Advocate, Curve, Out, and others. Bay Windows, New England's weekly gay paper, is also delivered to the center. The LGBT Center has recently relocated its library listing to a new website called Librarything. It has the listing of all our holdings and is searchable by keyword, title, and/or author.
The Stevens Library (Room 157) of the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development houses the department’s theses, dissertations, and faculty publications. See also the Evelyn G. Pitcher Curriculum Laboratory.
The Tufts Digital Library is a place to explore and discover Tufts' research and teaching online. Collections include faculty and student scholarship, photograph and image collections, oral histories, student and university publications, and more.
The Women's Center maintains a library of books, films, magazines, and other resources that are available for use in-house. Books may be checked out to members of the Tufts community. A catalog of the Women's Center's books is available at LibraryThing.
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12 years as a Middle School Math Teacher Districts Lead Math Teacher Tutor
Start with what kids know and built up to the objective. Help students to understand why things are they and why the algorithms work rather than just memorizing and confusing rules.
Dean’s List for four years TEAMS-BC Scholarship (Teacher Education Addressing Mathematics and Science in Boston and Cambridge) National Science Foundation Teaching Scholar Teacher Appreciation Award from Revere ROCA
Arlington Catholic High School 1990-1994 Wheelock College Class of 1998 (Math Major with a concentration in Education.) Wheelock College Class of 1998 (Masters of Education)
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Introductory PostgreSQL Administration Tasks, Page 2
The Purpose of template1While poking around the pgsql data directory, you will notice a directory (or database) named template1. Template1 is used when users or developers do a CREATE DATABASE sql command, or when you do a createdb from the command line. Put simply, when either of the above commands are executed, a directory will be created named after the database being built; the contents of template1 will be copied to the new directory.
To see this process in action, change to the template1 directory and create a file from the command line (say, using cat). While still at the command line and still su'ed to the postgres superuser, type the following:
You should see the contents of test.txt spill out across your terminal.
$pwd/var/lib/pgsql/data/base/template1 (note: your data directory may be different)$cat > test.txtsample text<ctrl-d>$createdb test1CREATE DATABASE$cd ../test1$cat test.txt
From an administration viewpoint, you may be asking, What good is this? Well, to be honest, it probably isn't a major deal to you; but to the developers on the system, it's a nice place to deposit functions so that any new database they create has these same functions moved over for them.
Another good use for the template would be in the ASP space. Let's say, for example, you have a sales contact management system you are selling to remote users as a service. How do you separate client data from one client to another? One way would be to create fields in each record that hold the ID of the client in question. Although this approach may work, it's better to separate clients physically from one another. To do this, you would import the base contact management schema into template1. When you sign on a new customer, all you have to do is fire off a createdb command, and in a few seconds you have a brand new database for the new client.
Monitor Server Resource UsageThere will come a time during your administrative duties when you will have to assess the impact of adding more users, data, or applications to the database server. When the word performance comes up, you have to be aware of the context in which it is being used. Performance can be measured objectively or subjectively. A performance rating falls within one of two broad categories: user response time and processing time.
Processing time measures how long a series of instructions takes to execute from start to completion. Batch processing is typically measured using this term. It's a basic concept and won't be discussed much further than this.
User response time is a measure of time taken to perform an action initiated by the user at the keyboard. Response times in this category are very subjective--what might be slow to one user may be fine with another. This measure is a critical one, but fortunately it's easy to detect: Your users come to you crying that Step A takes 100 years to complete. When you start hearing comments like this, it's time to take a peek at the server to see if there is anything you can do to help your poor users out.
Unfortunately, no tool is packaged with the pgsql source distribution to help you nail performance problems. This isn't a major deal, in that the host operating system will most likely have at least basic tools to help you out. Under Unix-based systems, you will most likely have a tool like top or ps, which will start to give you clues. Items to look for are memory use (both physical and virtual), disk usage, and number of users hitting the machine at any given time.
The two most important factors when looking at pgsql performance are disk and RAM. Pgsql will serve data as fast as it can read it from the disk, but only if sufficient RAM is available. So the first thing you should consider is the speed of your disk and the location of the actual data. If pgsql is installed on the slowest disk you have on the system, then you should not be surprised if performance suffers. Is your primary swap file on the same partition as the data? This will cause drive head contentions as the system decides to either write to the database or to the swap file. I'm sure you realize which of the two would lose in that kind of contest. Are you sharing the data partition with any other disk-intensive tasks, such as Samba-based file sharing? What about print queues? All of these services take away from the primary task of answering requests for data.
The second item to look at is the amount of RAM you have installed on the machine. Each connection to pgsql requires a new postmaster task to drive the connection between the user and the backend data. These tasks require memory, and the amount of memory required will depend on the type of work you are performing during the connection. As a query is processed, pgsql will start to eat RAM. This isn't a memory leak: pgsql has to keep track of what it has done concerning the query you sent. As RAM slowly disappears, pgsql will start to eat swap space. This isn't a limitation of pgsql--it's a basic tenet of computer life.
Pgsql runs on a variety of systems that can generally be classified as either Windows NT or a Unix-like OS. Under Unix-based systems, there are a number of tools that come with the base system to allow the admin to take a peek at what is happening under the hood. Notable commands are: top and ps.
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Court cuts to hit small counties hardestST. PAUL — Further state budget cuts will mean longer waits for cases to go through Minnesota’s court system, judicial leaders say, and small counties will be hardest hit.
By: Don Davis, Worthington Daily Globe
ST. PAUL — Further state budget cuts will mean longer waits for cases to go through Minnesota’s court system, judicial leaders say, and small counties will be hardest hit.
For years, courts in the least populated counties have received more state funding per capita than larger counties. But on Thursday State Court Administrator Sue Dosal told the Senate Judiciary Budget Division that is ending.
She said the courts no longer can afford to give extra money to small counties.
That could mean some counties’ court offices would be open only when a judge is there. In many parts of the state, there often is no judge in a county.
The change, made because the number of court employees is shrinking, will be phased in over three years, Dosal said.
“Fewer people means less services,” she said. “Delays and backlogs already are building across the state.”
Gov. Tim Pawlenty recommends that the courts be cut $13.7 million as he tries to plug a $1.2 billion state budget deficit.
Legislative leaders expect to begin looking at what to cut in many budget areas as early as next week, but committee Chairman Leo Foley, DFL-Coon Rapids, said he did not want to move backward to a time when case backlogs were bigger than in recent years.
Dosal said a cut the size Pawlenty wants would result in elimination of 77 positions, on top of 250 that have been cut recently. She said that would leave the court staff 13 percent smaller than needed.
All of that means Minnesotans with cases in courts throughout Minnesota will experience much longer waits. For instance, Judge David Knutson of Dakota County said that in some areas judges now are scheduling simple divorces for September.
Court Administrator Tim Ostby, who serves two west-central Minnesota districts, said his area will be hit the hardest. Those two areas already have cut 60 percent of their management jobs, he said, and more court counters will close more often.
The 8th Judicial District — which includes Willmar, Granite Falls and Morris — will have cut 20 percent of its staff even before the Legislature and Pawlenty make their newest cuts, Ostby said.
“Further cuts will result in layoffs,” Ostby said.
Rural judges already use television connections to remotely hold some hearings, so judges do not have to travel.
Sen. Don Betzold, DFL-Fridley, asked if the Appeals Court needs to continue traveling around the state to hear cases.
Chief Judge Edward Toussaint said state law requires an appeals case to be heard in the area where it was in District Court so people involved can attend.
Toussaint said that before the Legislature increased the number of Appeals Court judges from 16 to 19 in 2007, the court had 741 cases on its waiting list. That number dwindled to 198 this month, but it is on its way back to the 2007 level, he warned.
About seven Appeals Court clerk positions have been cut. Each handled 35 cases a year, cases that will be delayed if they cannot be replaced, the chief judge said.
Davis reports for Forum Communications Co., which owns the Daily Globe.
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|0608 EL: Importance of biosecurity plans on dairies|
|El Lechero Dairy Basics - Management|
|Written by Dr. Mireille Chahine and Jason Ahola|
|Friday, 31 October 2008 17:00|
The recent hardships faced by European producers due to the spread of foot and mouth disease in 2001 and 2007 are prime examples of the importance of biosecurity for dairy farms.
The U.S. has not had foot and mouth disease since 1929 and an outbreak would devastate the livestock industry. There are other infectious diseases prevalent in the U.S. that are causing financial losses to dairies. This includes Johne’s Disease, a disease that progresses slowly and causes cows to lose body condition due to long-lasting diarrhea and weight loss. Research has shown that a cow with Johne’s Disease can cost a dairy over $200/year in reduced production and premature culling.
The prevention of diseases on a dairy is also usually less expensive than treatment. Initiating biosecurity plans on dairies has the potential to avoid the introduction of infectious diseases in a dairy herd. A biosecurity plan also reduces the spreading of clinical and subclinical diseases already present in the herd. A typical biosecurity plan should address the following issues:
• Vaccinate against disease, if a vaccine is available. Work closely with your veterinarian to establish an appropriate vaccination protocol and adhere to it. Almost half the producers do not adequately follow the vaccination routine that they have established.
• Provide adequate amount of colostrum to newborn calves. Avoid mixing colostrum from different cows to reduce the contamination risk of calves.
• Do not feed unpasteurized milk from sick cows to calves.
• Clean equipment used for non-feed purposes (loaders, shovels, etc.) prior to using for feeding. If possible, avoid using feed equipment for manure handling.
• Avoid manure contamination when pushing up feed.
• Monitor feeds for sign of mold contamination.
• Avoid stepping in the feed bunk and contaminating feed. This is very important in reducing the spreading of infectious diseases and microorganisms that incubate in the manure and that could be transmitted to healthy animals through the mouth.
• Monitor who comes onto the dairy. Utilizing a log form could be helpful in tracking down visitors. Clean and sanitize boots, equipment, clothes and hands of people moving between different facilities.
• Monitor what comes onto the dairy.
• Restrict animal access to surface water such as creeks, irrigation ditches and standing water. Surface water could be a harbor to different infectious diseases.
• Necropsy animals away from other animals, food commodities and employees. Perform the necropsy on a concrete pad that could be easily disinfected. If you do not have access to a concrete pad, use a dirt area that is exposed to sunlight for a long period of time each day to help kill the pathogens. If possible, put a fence to keep out wildlife that could serve as a carrier for the disease.
lways wear adequate clothing (coverall, gloves, boots, etc.) and use good hygiene practices when performing a necropsy. Some diseases can spread from animals to humans. Remember to clean your hands, clothing and tools before getting in contact with other animals or humans (including your family).
• Provide an easy access for rendering trucks so they don’t have to drive through pens or feed areas. Remember that some rendering companies use the same trucks to pick up animals from different dairies.
• Maintain a closed herd if possible.
• Deal with source herds and sellers that could provide pertinent history information of their herd as well as for individual cows that are purchased. It is important to know the risk for a disease before bringing in these animals so you can plan accordingly.
• Develop adequate treatment and observation protocols that allow early detection of infectious diseases before they spread and cause further damage.
• Minimize contacts with other species of animals. Pets, rodents, birds and wildlife can also be carriers of diseases.
• Keep adult manure away from calves and heifers.
• The addition of animals from external sources usually increases the risk for infectious diseases transmission. This is why it is important to establish a quarantine program when buying animals from other owners. A quarantine program would be effective in controlling infectious diseases that are characterized by a short incubation period. It will help identify animals that carry an infectious disease but that are not showing any symptoms of the disease at the time of the purchase. Quarantine is complicated for lactating cows because most dairies use the same milking parlor to milk the herd and quarantined cows, which could make the quarantine program less effective.
uarantine usually lasts 21 to 30 days and would not be effective against long incubation diseases like Johne’s or diseases that can remain at a subclinical level for a very long period of time. This is why other methods of biosecurity should also be implemented. It is also important to ensure that workers minimize movement between quarantined and resident animals to avoid contamination.
• Test lactating cows for Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus agalactiae, and Mycoplasma spp prior to purchasing them. Bulk tank cultures would provide valuable information on whether Streptococcus agalactiae and Mycoplasma spp are present in the herd because cows infected with them shed enough microorganisms that the bulk tank culture would come up positive. The case of Staphylococcus aureus is different because it could be shed in low numbers and intermittently.
hree serial individual milk samples need to be tested in order for the buyer to be 95% sure that the purchased cow is negative. The herd should be investigated before dry cows are purchased.
• Test purchased animals for bovine virus diarrhea (BVD) and bovine leukosis virus (BLV). These diseases can be spread by animals that look completely healthy but can be carriers of the virus.
• Inspect purchased cattle for signs of papillomatous digital dermatitis (hairy heel warts). Several dairies have reported an increase in the incident of hairy heel warts when new animals were purchased. EL
Dr. Mireille Chahine
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Koch gives Smithsonian $35M for new dinosaur hall
Friday, May 4, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) — An energy businessman is donating a record $35 million to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History to build a new dinosaur hall on the National Mall, the museum complex announced Thursday.
The donation by David H. Koch, the executive vice president of Koch Industries Inc. of Wichita, Kan., is the single largest gift in the museum’s 102-year history. The Smithsonian Board of Regents voted Monday to name the new dinosaur hall in Koch’s honor.
Koch, an engineer trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a billionaire who lives in New York City. He was the Libertarian Party’s vice presidential candidate in 1980 and has been a major donor to conservative political causes targeting President Barack Obama’s policies, as well as to educational, medical and cultural groups.
Since the age of 14, though, when his father took Koch and his brother Charles to New York’s American Museum of Natural History, he fell in love with dinosaurs and has visited museums around the world, he told the Associated Press. It’s become a hobby, he said, taking him to visit fields in central Africa where paleontologists were unearthing fossils.
“I just was dazzled by the dinosaurs,” he said. After serving on the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum board for five years, “it was just obvious to me that the dinosaur halls were incredibly obsolete, and at least one of the exhibits is over 100 years old.”
In 2009, Koch gave the Smithsonian $15 million to build a new exhibit hall exploring human evolution over 6 million years. The museum’s Hall of Human Origins also was named in his honor, tying in with another area that interests Koch.
In 2006, he gave $20 million to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City to create the David H. Koch Dinosaur Wing. And in 2008, he gave a record $100 million to New York’s Lincoln Center to renovate the former New York State Theater.
The Smithsonian’s dinosaur hall has remained unchanged for more than 30 years and has grown outdated with advances in paleontology. The current exhibit gallery began as the “Hall of Extinct Monsters” when the museum opened in 1910. Still, the museum has amassed one of the most comprehensive collections of fossils and a well-regarded staff of paleobiologists conducting research.
Museum officials said the renovation will be the largest and most complex overhaul in its history and will showcase its collection of 46 million fossils and current research. Dinosaurs have long been one of the most popular exhibits, said Cristian Samper, the museum’s director.
It will take about seven years to overhaul the dinosaur exhibit, museum spokesman Randall Kremer said. The existing dinosaur hall will remain open to visitors until spring 2014. Then more than 10,000 bones and fragile specimens will have to be removed from the current exhibition before construction begins. The project is expected to cost $45 million.
The renovation follows major updates to all of the public spaces in the museum, which attracts about 7 million visitors annually. The museum’s halls devoted to mammals and oceans also have been overhauled in the past decade.
During construction, select dinosaur specimens will remain on view in other public areas of the museum.
Some groups have criticized the Koch brothers for funding efforts fighting legislation related to climate change. The University of Massachusetts at Amherst has listed Koch Industries among the nation’s top 10 air polluters.
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As we approach next week’s Latin American SmartCamp Regional Finals and get to know our six finalists, our understanding of these young startups might be improved if we have a broader understanding of the economic environments from which they emerged. Here we will specifically take a look at Mexico, one of the most important economies in Latin America and the home country of finalist Nuve. The essay below was written by Francisco Javier Altamirano Collado, IBM Academic Initiative & Global Entrepreneur Programs Manager.
Some say that Latin America’s combined potential will pass China’s economy in a few years, with Mexico playing a key role in that game. Mexico has embraced several international free trade and investment agreements that make the country one of the most open economies in the world. A recent article in the Economist estimates that on present trends, by 2018 the United States will import more from Mexico than from any other country.
Mexico City is the largest metropolitan area in the Western Hemisphere and with a GDP of $390 billion, it is the eighth richest city in the world. It is a bustling and modern metropolis, home to more than 21 million people and the center of the country’s intellectual and industrial pulse. The Mexican economy, overall, is valued at $1.47 trillion USD, positioning it among the top fifteen largest in the world. Goldman Sachs estimates that by 2050 it will be the sixth largest.
The young emerging middle class population is spurring demand for high-end consumer goods that creates a huge market for related service providers. Small and medium enterprises are capitalizing on these opportunities. The favorable commercial environment, the economic stability (coupled with the now depressed economies of various developed countries) and the significant progress in fiscal and regulatory laws are making Mexico a growing destination for trade and investment.
Entrepreneurship is clearly an essential contributor to this evolution, but it is not just about the emergence of new businesses. The most economic growth actually comes from high impact startups turning into big companies, and there is still a long way to go for Mexico.
In Mexico, companies under 250 employees comprise 99% of the registered companies in the country. These small and medium enterprises contribute to half of the country’s GDP while big companies provide the other half. It is amazing that only 1% of the companies contribute so much, but this is common in many nations. If only a few big companies produce half of the wealth in most countries, how can other SMEs become big companies and be more productive? Some studies indicate that for every 100 organizations that become big companies (over 250 employees), the national GDP is increased 1.28%.
To support this progress, a network of investing firms and experienced coaches is needed. In Mexico, as in all Latin America, the venture capital industry is still nascent. Fundraising is a challenging process that needs to be perfected and there are just not enough funds (investments in the range of $100,000 to $3 million are often termed the “missing middle”).
In addition, there is a need of fund managers with business track records who can lead execution and contribute strategic advice. It’s difficult to find high level executives willing to embrace the challenge and risk their current C-level wages in multinational corporations. The bets will be too high until a viable exit market is established to facilitate the return on investments.
Nevertheless, the amount and quality of entrepreneurial activity has substantially increased in recent years. The Mexican government is making a big push to encourage venture capital and investment in SMEs by sponsoring funds and venture capital projects. New rules now allow pension funds in Mexico to invest in private equity and venture capital funds, which is bringing new money to the market. Foreign funds are also arriving to Mexico and in general, financing is becoming more easily available.
Innovation is definitely critical for economic growth. Mexican universities are graduating 130,000 engineers every year and many of these institutions are now connecting the resulting investigation projects with incubation and acceleration guidance.
All the elements are available, the opportunities and success stories are more frequent. It seems now it is just a matter of Mexicans believing in their own potential. The new generations are finding novel idols in the recent successes of the National Football team, various athletes in the 2012 Olympics and many other popular heroes that exemplify that talent is present and success is within reach. Could “Made in China” give way to “Hecho en México”?
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Dividing Business Income
Many business ventures involve two or more individuals working together. These ventures may focus on marketing products to local consumers, the processing of farm products or other type of venture. Although these are often not complex arrangements, creating a method of equitably dividing income among the parties is important.
Below are methods to help you divide business income between the parties in an equitable manner. The two most common income sharing models are:
- Contributions model - Income is divided in the same proportion as the relative value of each party’s contribution of resources to the business venture.
- 50/50 model - A return is paid to each party for his/her contribution of resources to the venture. Any remaining profit or loss is shared equally among the parties.
We will discuss these models as if only two parties are involved. However, they can be used with three or more parties.
A sharing arrangement should be reviewed periodically.If the ownership pattern or the labor and management contributions change, the arrangement should be updated to reflect these changes. A common mistake and source of conflict in these arrangements is the failure to keep them current and accurate. These approaches may be interpreted from a legal perspective as a partnership because there is a sharing of profits and losses.
The first step in developing the contributions model is to calculate the annual value or cost of each party’s contribution of resources to the venture. These resources can be divided into five types:
- real estate (land and buildings)
- personal property (machinery, equipment, livestock, etc)
- working capital
One way of thinking about the annual value or cost of a resource is the income given up or foregone by using the resource in the business venture rather than in an alternative use. For example, the annual value of ten acres of farmland that will be used by the business venture is the amount of rent that could have been received if rented to a neighbor. If the current rental rate is $135 per acre, then the value of the contribution is $1,350. This is the annual cost of contributing the land to the business venture. The value computed with this method is commonly referred to as opportunity cost. The same method can be used for determining an annual value or cost of buildings and facilities, although rental rates are less well established.
The annual value (cost) of machinery and equipment can be estimated by using a rental rate or by calculating the cost of ownership. The cost of ownership includes repairs, taxes, insurance, depreciation and a return on the money invested in the assets.
Working capital contributed by the parties to cover the cash flow needs of the business can be valued by using the rate of return that would have been received from an alternative investment. For example, the annual value (cost) of the contribution of $20,000 used as working capital versus using it in an alternative investment with a rate of return of 6 percent is $1,200. Direct expenses such as fuel, utilities, supplies, advertising and hired labor can be paid from a business account containing the working capital.
Labor can be valued by using a typical wage rate for performing comparable work. A reasonable estimate for management is more difficult to estimate, but a rule of thumb frequently used is to take ten percent of all other costs.
Net income (net of direct expenses) is then shared in the same proportion as each party’s respective contribution of resources.
In the example below, the annual value (cost) of the first party’s contribution is $69,000, or 60 percent of the total. The second party contributes $46,000, or 40 percent of the total.
As shown below, the gross return from the year’s activities is $166,000 with $46,000 of direct expenses. Of the $120,000 of net returns, the first party receives a net return of $72,000 and the second party receives $48,000.
In the 50/50 model, the contributions of real estate, machinery and equipment, working capital, labor and management are paid a return similar to a rental payment or a wage. The amounts can be computed in the same way as they are with the Contributions Model. The remaining return (profit) is shared equally among the parties.
In the following example, net business income of $120,000 is computed by subtracting the direct business expenses from the gross income. Next a return equal to a rental fee or cost of ownership is paid to each party for the use of land, machinery, labor and management. The remaining $5,000 of profit is divided equally between the two parties.
Each party's total return consists of the rental or wage return from his/her respective resources plus 50% of the profits. As shown below, the first party receives $71,500 and the second party $48,500.
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Pagan voices is a spotlight on recent quotations from figures within the Pagan community. These voices may appear in the burgeoning Pagan media, or from a mainstream outlet, but all showcase our wisdom, thought processes, and evolution in the public eye. Is there a Pagan voice you’d like to see highlighted? Drop me a line with a link to the story, post, or audio.
“The big question that all of this sidesteps around, of course, is that if justice does come from the gods, and is supported by the gods, then why is it so often lacking in the world, especially in those cases wehre injustice causes a ton of suffering for some people, but a huge amount of luxury, richness, and prosperity for those who inflict such suffering and cause such injustice?
For my own part, I can’t imagine that this situation pleases the gods, particularly those most concerned with justice. But, if that is the case, then “they’ll get it in the end” is not much of a consolation to those who are suffering meanwhile. It brings up and highlights once again the ultimate answer to the other version of questions of theodicy, as outlined by Rabbi Harold Kushner: namely, that the gods must therefore not be omnipotent, even though they may support love, justice, and virtue.” – P. Sufenas Virius Lupus exploring the topic of theodicy at Aedicula Antinoi: A Small Shrine of Antinous.
“First off, I would say that a lot of people don’t understand what miasma precluded in antiquity. It was primarily concerned with access to holy places such as groves, mountains, wayside shrines and temples. The temples in particular were regarded as the abodes of the gods and repositories of their awesome power and consequently for a person to set foot in them required that person to undergo a greater than normal degree of purification, especially since religious functionaries were exposed to this power on a deeper level and a more regular basis than some pilgrim visiting the site on a festival day. (Think about the extra precautions taken by dentists and x-ray technicians who are daily exposed to radiation. It’s such small doses that it won’t harm you if you’re just getting your teeth fixed but being constantly surrounded by it they have to act accordingly.) In fact most festivals were conducted outside the temple and most people were never permitted past a certain point within it and certainly not where the cult image was housed. (For more on temples and how they worked in both Greek and Egyptian tradition, consult this article of mine.) Most of the purity codes and sacred regulations that have come down to us are concerned with access to temples and the proper performance of priestly offices – not the affairs of the average citizen and how they conducted their personal worship in front of their domestic shrine. No matter how deep in a state of miasma one was they could still pray to their gods and perform rudimentary ritual actions. Indeed purification would not have been possible without carrying out these ceremonies so it is absurd to suggest that one should cease all religious activity while in this state. Indeed we have accounts of the gods and spirits making numerous battlefield epiphanies and coming to the aid of women in distressed labor and all manner of things like that, so just because a playwright used a goddess abandoning her chosen hero as he expired as a plot device does not mean that we should surmise that the gods will have nothing to do with us while we are polluted. It can certainly be more difficult to feel their presence or receive communications from them at such times, but I suspect that this has more to do with impurity clouding our perception than it does divinities actively disengaging from us.” - Sannion, a Dionysian, on the topic of miasma at PaganSquare.
“I am all of the things I have ever been. I continue to be them, in one way or another. Nothing is ever fully released from the heart. It’s all there, tattoo-like. Those old parts of you call out and say, We’re still here: your memories; your long, lost hopes; your visions of truth; your doubts — all of it. All here, still intact, inked into the inner flesh.
My Christianity gave me my first introduction to reverence, mystery, humility and community. It encouraged me to recognize that there was nothing in the world that was not touched by the divine. It inspired me to care deeper, to give generously, and to seek out new, creative ways to serve others.
I bring all of those attributes with me to my work with the Solitary Druid Fellowship. Were it not for the Church, and for those many people who were inspired by Jesus to serve others in love, I wouldn’t be writing liturgies for Pagans.” – Teo Bishop, writing on a recent visit to an Episcopal church, at Bishop In The Grove.
“As a city-dweller, I know how easy it would be to give in to pessimism, seeing the landscape where I live as too far gone, too scarred by human exploitation. The problem is just too big for a handful of conservationists to tackle on their own, no matter how dedicated they are. Seattle will never again be a pristine wilderness — the invasives, human and nonhuman alike, are here to stay. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t new ways of thinking about how we live with our local landscape. Unlike other invasive species, we have the opportunity to change the stories we tell about our place in the world and, by changing our stories, changing the ways we live with and relate to the many other beings that share the world with us. Instead of seeing ourselves at war with invasives, and with ourselves, we can embrace the story of harvest.
The beauty of the harvest is that it promises sustenance and interdependence as the fruits of our labor. The effort we put into the harvest — the blood, sweat and tears — helps to foster connections instead of severing them, sustains and supports life instead of destroying it. We’re used to thinking of harvest as something easy: as easy as going to the grocery store and choosing between oranges and apples, or at most doing some gentle weeding and watering in our backyard gardens. The truth is, harvest is hard, sweaty work that demands a great deal of discipline, teamwork, commitment and courage. Rather than lionizing the sacrifices of the few, reclaiming metaphors of harvest gives us the opportunity to celebrate the efforts of ordinary people doing ordinary things that add up to real, meaningful change. It gives people a chance to be heroic in their everyday lives, as well as reacquaint themselves with the pleasure of hard work and its rewards.” – Alison Leigh Lilly, on the topics of warfare and harvest, at her Meadowsweet and Myrrh blog.
“Given that some of Wicca’s ritual structure (and terminology) owe a great deal to Freemasonry it’s not surprising that initiation plays an important part in many Wiccan traditions. Initiation is in the very DNA of Modern Witchcraft, but it’s also possible that Wicca has grown in ways that have taken it further and further from its origins. It’s hard to picture Gerald Gardner imagining just how many Wiccan traditions have evolved (and prospered) since the 1950′s. Wicca launched a full-scale Pagan Revival that shows no signs of stopping, we’ve come an incredibly long way in just 70 years.
We’ve reached another fork in the road and with it new questions. Is Wicca a spirituality ready to take its seat at the table with the other great religions of the world? Or is it a secret society with a complex set of rituals? If it’s a faith then it’s subject to all the watering downs and bastardizations that have befallen (and often benefitted) all of the world’s other religious paths. I understand The Wicca who walk the path of the initiate and bemoan the changes that have taken place in the last couple of decades, but I also see the hearts who have benefitted from that change. Who am I to tell them they don’t have a seat at the table?” – Jason Mankey, at his Patheos blog, on the nature of Wicca.
“For too many people in our society, “Pagan” still means “Other.” That must change. That’s why I’ve always blogged under my own name and posted announcements with my contact info (and I’ve never had a problem come from it). More recently I’ve come to understand that’s not enough. At this point in my life I have a fair amount of privilege and that privilege carries responsibilities.
I have an obligation to put a name and a face on “Pagan” for friends and family who’ve never (knowingly) met one. I have an obligation to articulate what I believe, what I do and why. I have an obligation to be out, not just for myself (though that’s important by itself) but for Kyrja Withers and for everyone else who fears they will be targeted as the Other if their religion becomes known.
Some day, no one will care what god or goddess you do or don’t pray to, only that you conduct yourself with integrity and compassion. Until then, we need Pagan Coming Out Day.” - John Beckett, a Druid and UU, on the importance of Pagan Coming Out Day.
“I’m asking you for a 24-hour moratorium on violating the civil rights of the homeless. Try it for just one day. One day in which you don’t wake anyone up at night for sleeping, one day in which you don’t arrest anyone for existing in public, one day in which you don’t needlessly harass and intimidate kids on the park blocks. Just one day.
In that one day, two beautiful things will happen. You will experience the reality of actually “protecting and serving” without oppressing, abusing, or disenfranchising anyone, and I will experience the reality of sleeping in, soaking in some sun, playing my ukulele, taking a walk by the river, drinking an ample amount of quality beer, and watching old reruns of Star Trek: The Next Generation without having to worry that I’m about to get a text or a phone call from someone that’s on the wrong side of your “enforcement”.” – Alley Valkyrie, a Pagan and homelessness activist, in a plea to local law enforcement.
That’s all I have for now, have a great day!
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CHICAGO - Almost 39 weeks ago, Kristine Casey set out on an unusual journey to help her daughter and answer a spiritual calling.
Her goal was achieved when she gave birth to her own grandson at age 61.
Casey, possibly the oldest woman to give birth in Illinois, was a surrogate for her daughter, Sara Connell, who had been trying for years to have a baby. Connell and her husband, Bill, are the biological parents of the child Casey carried, which grew from an embryo created from the Chicago couple's egg and sperm.
When the baby let out a cry, "I lost it," said Sara Connell, the first family member to hold him.
The doctor who delivered Finnean said there wasn't a dry eye in the crowded operating room.
"The surgery itself was uncomplicated, and the emotional context of this delivery was so profound," said Dr. Susan Gerber, obstetrician and maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Childbirth remains a rare event for post-menopausal women, but the number of such births has risen in recent years because of wider use of in vitro fertilization and other technologies. According to state health department records, the oldest woman to give birth in Illinois was 58 when she had her baby in 2006. But data on births after 2008 are not yet available.
Older women face greater risks during pregnancy and delivery, and experts say many women would not be good candidates.
"It's going to be more risky for somebody who's got underlying conditions," said Dr. Alan Peaceman, chief of maternal-fetal medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, one of Casey's doctors. "Because of that, we recommend that patients have a cardiac evaluation."
The Connells decided in 2004 to try to have a baby, but Sara, now 35, soon discovered she wasn't ovulating. After undergoing infertility treatment at the Reproductive Medicine Institute in Evanston, she got pregnant but delivered stillborn twins, and later she had a miscarriage.
Casey's previous three pregnancies - her last was 30 years ago - went smoothly, resulting in three daughters. After Casey retired in 2007, she filled her time walking, meditating, taking classes and socializing with friends. But she felt she had a deeper calling.
"At the beginning of 2009," she said, "I decided for once in my life to take some time to think about my life and find something that seemed right for me - where there was no pressure to do a specific thing."
During a visit to Chicago - she lives in Virginia - Casey participated in a workshop led by Connell, a life coach, writer and lecturer on women's empowerment. In one class exercise, she used pictures cut from a magazine to create a collage depicting a life's goal. One picture grabbed her attention: an ostrich with an expression of wonder and joy.
Casey wanted to experience the exuberance captured in the picture.
Around the same time, a walking partner mentioned a story she had read about a post-menopausal woman who gave birth.
"I thought, 'Wow, three of the happiest days of my life were giving birth to my daughters,' and I thought I could choose to do this for someone I love," Casey said.
Casey later wrote a letter to the Connells offering to be Sara's surrogate.
"I found something that would make me feel like that ostrich," she wrote. "What do you think of this?"
She suggested that they forget about it if they found the idea repulsive.
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Prevalence and correlates of vitamin D status in African American men
1 Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA 19111, USA
2 Department of Kinesiology, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407, USA
3 School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
4 Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
5 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
BMC Public Health 2009, 9:191 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-191Published: 18 June 2009
Few studies have examined vitamin D insufficiency in African American men although they are at very high risk. We examined the prevalence and correlates of vitamin D insufficiency among African American men in Philadelphia.
Participants in this cross-sectional analysis were 194 African American men in the Philadelphia region who were enrolled in a risk assessment program for prostate cancer from 10/96–10/07. All participants completed diet and health history questionnaires and provided plasma samples, which were assessed for 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) concentrations. We used linear regression models to examine associations with 25(OH)D concentrations and logistic regression to estimate odds ratios (OR) for having 25(OH)D ≥ 15 ng/mL.
Mean 25(OH)D was 13.7 ng/mL, and 61% of men were classified as having vitamin D insufficiency (25(OH)D <15 ng/mL). Even among men with vitamin D intake ≥ 400 IU/day, 55% had 25(OH)D concentrations <15 ng/mL. In multivariate models, 25(OH)D concentrations were significantly associated with supplemental vitamin D intake (OR 4.3, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.5, 12.4) for >400 vs. 0 IU/day), milk consumption (OR 5.9, 95% CI 2.2, 16.0 for ≥ 3.5 vs. <1 time per week), and blood collection in the summer. Additionally, 25(OH)D concentrations increased with more recreational physical activity (OR 1.3, 95% CI 1.1, 1.6 per hour). A significant inverse association of body mass index with 25(OH)D concentrations in bivariate analyses was attenuated with adjustment for season of blood collection.
The problem of low vitamin D status in African American men may be more severe than previously reported. Future efforts to increase vitamin D recommendations and intake, such as through supplementation, are warranted to improve vitamin D status in this particularly vulnerable population.
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|Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary|
46:6-11 Come and see the effects of desolating judgments, and stand in awe of God. This shows the perfect security of the church, and is an assurance of lasting peace. Let us pray for the speedy approach of these glorious days, and in silent submission let us worship and trust in our almighty Sovereign. Let all believers triumph in this, that the Lord of hosts, the God of Jacob, has been, is, and will be with us; and will be our Refuge. Mark this, take the comfort, and say, If God be for us, who can be against us? With this, through life and in death, let us answer every fear.
Verse 8. - Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth. The deliverance of Israel from its peril is effected by "desolations" or "devastations," which God accomplishes among the nations. The announcement is very vague and general, so that it would apply to almost any occasion when the people of God were delivered from a pressing peril.
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
Come, behold the works of the Lord,.... Of nature and grace, especially those of Providence; both in a way of judgment, as in this verse; and of mercy, as in Psalm 46:9. These words are an address of the psalmist to his friends, as Apollinarius supplies it; or of the church to the fearful among them, who were dismayed at the commotions and disturbances that were in the world, Psalm 46:2; and who are encouraged to trust in the Lord, from the consideration of his works, particularly his providential dispensations;
what desolations he hath made in the earth; in the land of Judea, at the time of the destruction of the city and temple of Jerusalem, foretold by Moses, Deuteronomy 32:22; by Daniel, Daniel 9:26; and by our Lord Jesus Christ, Matthew 23:38; and which desolations being the fulfilling of prophecy, may serve to strengthen the faith of God's people, that whatsoever he has said shall come to pass; and that seeing he made such desolations among the Jews, for their rejection of the Messiah, what may not be expected will be made in the antichristian states, for their opposition to him? and, besides, are a confirmation of the truth of his being come; since after his coming these desolations, according to Daniel, were to be made; nor was the sceptre to depart from Judah till he came, nor the second temple to be destroyed before he was in it. Moreover, these desolations may refer to those that have been made in the Roman empire, upon the blowing of the trumpets; the first "four" of which brought in the Goths, Huns, and Vandals, into the western part of it, which made sad ravages and devastations in it; see Revelation 8:7; and the "fifth" and "sixth" brought in the Saracens and Turks into the eastern part of it, which seized and demolished it, and made dreadful havoc among men; see Revelation 9:1. Likewise the desolations that will be made in the antichristian states may be here intended; when the seven vials of God's wrath will be poured out upon them, Revelation 16:1 when the kings of the earth will hate the whore, and make her desolate, Revelation 17:16; and all her plagues shall come upon her in one day, Revelation 18:8. And a view of these desolations, even in prophecy, may serve to cheer the hearts of God's people under the present reign of antichrist, and under all the rage, fury, and oppression of antichristian powers, since they will all in a little time become desolate. This will be the Lord's doing, and it will be wondrous in our eyes.
The Treasury of David
8 Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
11 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
"Come, behold the works of the Lord." The joyful citizens of Jerusalem are invited to go forth and view the remains of their enemies, that they may mark the prowess of Jehovah and the spoil which his right hand hath won for his people. It were well if we also carefully noted the providential dealings of our covenant God, and were quick to perceive his hand in the battles of his church. Whenever we read history it should be with this verse sounding in our ears. We should read the newspaper in the same spirit, to see how the Head of the Church rules the nations for his people's good, as Joseph governed Egypt for the sake of Israel. "What desolations he hath made in the earth." The destroyers he destroys, the desolators he desolates. How forcible is the verse at this date! The ruined cities of Assyria, Babylon, Petra, Bashan, Canaan, are our instructors, and in tables of stone record the doings of the Lord. In every place where his cause and crown have been disregarded ruin has surely followed; sin has been a blight on nations, and left their palaces to lie in heaps. In the days of the writer of this Psalm, there had probably occurred some memorable interposition of God against his Israel's foes; and as he saw their overthrow, he called on his fellow citizens to come forth and attentively consider the terrible things in righteousness which had been wrought on their behalf. Dismantled castles and ruined abbeys in our own land stand as memorials of the Lord's victories over oppression and superstition. May there soon be more of such desolations.
"Ye gloomy piles, ye tombs of living men,
Ye sepulchres of womanhood, or worse;
Ye refuges of lies, soon may ye fall,
And 'mid your ruins may the owl, and bat,
And dragon find congenial resting place."
"He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth." His voice quiets the tumult of war, and calls for the silence of peace. However remote and barbarous the tribe, he awes the people into rest. He crushes the great powers till they cannot provoke strife again; he give his people profound repose. "He breaketh the bow," the sender of swift-winged death he renders useless. "And cutteth the spear in sunder" - the lance of the might man he shivers. "He burneth the chariot in the fire" - the proud war-chariot with its death-dealing scythes he commits to the flames. All sorts of weapons he piles heaps on heaps, and utterly destroys them. So was it in Judea in the days of yore, so shall it be in all lands in eras yet to come. Blessed deed of the Prince of Peace! when shall it be literally performed? Already the spiritual foes of his people are despoiled of their power to destroy; but when shall the universal victory of peace be celebrated, and instruments of wholesale murder be consigned to ignominious destruction? How glorious will the ultimate victory of Jesus be in the day of his appearing, when every enemy shall lick the dust!
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
8. what desolations—literally, "who hath put desolations," destroying our enemies.
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Q: in petco how much do turtles cost?
August 15, 2008 | By jessica r. | 4 answers | Expired: 1725 days ago
the turtles should be small like baby turtles
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Aug 19, 2008
As far as I know, all aquatic turtles under four inches are not permitted to be sold, because of the salmonella risk. The cost of the turtle is not really the expesive part. The most common aquatic turtle is the Red-Eared Slider, and that is most likely what you will find at an ordinary petstore (such as Petco), not including specialty stores. They will grow to be 10 to 12 inches with proper care, and they will reach that size within 3 years. Turltes need a full spectrum light, which usually costs around $40 minimum. They also will need a large aquarium (i would say 50 gallons minimum) which can cost several hundred dollars. They will also need a heater for the water, around $20 and a dock, around $35. It does get expensive fast.
Being a Red-Eared Slider owner myself, I know that this is not impossible. Just consider all of this before you buy a turtle.
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Aug 18, 2008
It wouldn't hurt to do some research on breeder in the area, or go to a herp fair to find a new pet. It is always best to know exactly where your exotics come from - and that way if you have a problem you can reach the expert who bred them to answer any questions you might have. It would be good, when buying an exotic pet anywhere, to get contact information from the breeder to ensure they do not collect from the wild. Ask for references, and if there is a health guarantee. A petco turtle could have been taken from the wild, and if it gets sick you have to figure out which vet is appropriate for the little guy.
Look for rescues too, they do exist, and sometimes to find a good home, they will let a pet go for a reduced rate.
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Aug 16, 2008
Ir depends on what turtles are legal in your area, and what type of turtle you're interested in. Are you talking about turtles ("aquatic"), or tortoises ("land-dwelling")? The tortoises can run anywhere from $80+ and the turtles I've seen a range from $60 to over $100, again, depending on the breed.
I suggest to call the local petcos in your area and ask what they have and how much they cost; different stores may have different breeds available so it is best to call all of the stores in your area.
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That is because, however "steady" a 2.7pc increase in living costs might seem to the economists, it still represents a rise in your food bill that is eating up a larger part of your income every week.
So, what's up and what is down in the family shopping basket? According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which takes a dry approach to these things, the main price increases in December came from fruit, oils and fats, and vegetables.
Within these categories some foods rose far more than others, with imported lamb, salmon fillets, milk, yogurt and bananas all pushing up the price of the family shop. Cucumber has gone up in price, too.
The Government's figures look academically interesting, but what do they mean in practice? Food price comparison site Mysupermarket.com has produced a handy new tool that tells you what the product you were buying has sold for on average over the past year.
This can be terribly useful, since it is all very well for us to scratch our heads and say "the shopping used to be cheaper", and quite another to work out where the increases are.
What this shows is that many everyday items are far more expensive than they were. Far from being a luxury, the white sliced loaf is now 79p at Tesco, up by 7pc on its average price over the past 12 months. The company's standard English unsalted butter (part of the ONS fats and oils category) costs 10pc more than its average price over the past year at £1.49. Six Tesco free-range eggs, which have been an average of £1.50 for the past year, are now 6pc more at £1.59.
It's a similar story at Sainsbury's. For those who aren't troubled by the "free range" label, Sainsbury's cheapest Basics eggs (which carry a Freedom Food label) are at their highest price this year – 9pc more than the average 92p at £1 for six. Six pints of semi-skimmed milk are now 6pc more expensive at £1.89.
In terms of pennies, none of these increases is massive, but put together they all add up. And experts say that food price inflation is about to get worse. Despite the rise in the price of the Tesco loaf, the real cost of the poor wheat harvest has yet to filter through. For foodies, this week saw another looming pain on the horizon – the poor grape harvest will apparently lead to a 25pc increase in the price of balsamic vinegar.
Given that this is one item that really is better aged, perhaps that might be one to add to the shopping list right away. Sainsbury's standard version is already 10pc more expensive than it has been all year – but by next month £3 for 500ml might look like a bargain.
This week’s bargains
– Comfort Pure fabric conditioner, 1.5 litres, down by £1.30 to £2.99
– Robinsons Squash fruit and barley, peach – down from £1.59 to 79p
– 125g of blueberries, down from £1.24 to 86p
– 1kg of apples, down from £1.59 to £1
– 400g of mature cheddar, down from £2.29 to £1.14 (weekend offer)
– 1kg of clementines, down from £1.65 to 82p
– Alfredo lasagne, two for £3 or £1.59 each
– Extra Special baby carrots, 2 x 150g packs for £2
– Extra Special asparagus tips, 3 x 125g packs for £3
– Extra Special baby courgettes, £2
– Chosen By You chicken enchiladas (480g), down from £3 to £2
– Chosen By You beef lasagne (800g), was £3.20, now £2
– Two packs of Tesco Loves Toddler sensitive wipes for £1
– Pampers nappies, were £9.98, now £6.65
– Fresh haggis – £1.29 for 454g
– 12 venison meatballs £1.99 for 300g
– Highland Black eight-year-old Scotch whisky, 70cl, £12.49
– Rabbie Burns blonde beer, 500ml, £1.39
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Stage I. Disease is limited to a single node region (I) or has involved one neighboring area or a single nearby organ.
Stage II. Disease is limited to two or more lymph nodes on the same side of (above or below) the diaphragm or extends locally from the lymph node into a nearby organ.
Stage III. Disease is in lymph nodes on both sides of the diaphragm or has spread to nearby organs, the spleen, or both.
Stage IV. Disease has become widespread involving organs outside the lymph system, such as liver, lung, or bone marrow.
Early Stages (I or II). For disease in stages I or II, the following treatments may be used:
Later Stages. For stage III disease, chemotherapy, often with radiation, is a standard treatment. For stage IV disease, chemotherapy alone is generally recommended. The latest chemotherapy regimens are achieving survival rates that reach 90%.
Relapse. Relapse after treatment occurs in 20 - 35% of patients. Treatments for relapse include chemotherapy, radiation, and bone marrow or blood stem cell transplantation. Many patients respond favorably to such treatments, although another relapse is still possible.
Preventing Infection. Both the disease and some of the treatments suppress the immune system, increasing the risk for infections. Widespread, life-threatening infection is a particular danger if the spleen has been removed and both radiation and chemotherapy are administered. At least a week before any treatment, patients are often vaccinated against three bacteria: pneumococcus, meningococci, and Haemophilus influenza.
Preserving Fertility. People who may wish to have children in the future should discuss the possibility for receiving treatments that may lessen the risk for infertility. Men with Hodgkin's disease may want to consider sperm freezing and assisted reproductive techniques. Women should ask their doctors about the possibility for preserving fertility by taking hormonal drugs called GnRH analogs before and during chemotherapy.
Periodic examination for recurrent Hodgkin's disease is necessary for years after treatment, since relapse is not uncommon, even after treatment for early stages, and can occur a decade or more after treatment. Imaging tests of the abdomen are useful for detecting relapsed disease. Relapse is more likely to occur in early-stage disease, probably because limited radiation normally used in such cases did not destroy all malignancies. Patients who had large tumors in the chest are also at higher risk for recurrence. Patients also need to be monitored for long-term effects of the treatments themselves. Conditions to watch for include inflammation in the lungs and thyroid disease from radiation in the chest and heart disease and cancers from combined treatments, chemotherapy and blood stem cell transplantation.
Because Hodgkin's disease often occurs in young adults, treatment for pregnant women is of particular concern. Therapy must be effective enough to protect the mother without hurting the fetus. Chemotherapy is rarely used early in the term, because it poses a risk for birth defects. Treatment choice must be individualized, taking into consideration the mother's wishes, the severity and pace of the disease, and the length of the remaining pregnancy. The treatment plan may need to be changed as the pregnancy progresses. If the disease develops in the second half of the pregnancy, it may be possible to postpone chemotherapy or radiation therapy until after an early induced delivery.
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Brenner H, Gondos A, Pulte D. Ongoing improvement in long-term survival of patients with Hodgkin disease at all ages and recent catch-up of older patients. Blood. 2008;111 (6): 2977-83.
Fermé C, Eghbali H, Meerwaldt JH, et al. Chemotherapy plus involved-field radiation in early-stage Hodgkin's disease. N Engl J Med. 2007 Nov 8;357(19):1916-27.
Horning SJ. Hodgkin’s lymphoma. In: Abeloff MD, Armitage JO, Niederhuber JE, Kastan MB, McKena WG, eds. Clinical Oncology. 4th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2008:chap 111.
Juweid ME, Stroobants S, Hoekstra OS, et al. Use of positron emission tomography for response assessment of lymphoma: consensus of the Imaging Subcommittee of International Harmonization Project in Lymphoma. J Clin Oncol. 2007 Feb 10;25(5):571-8. Epub 2007 Jan 22.
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Heritage Tourism on Native Terms
Micah Loma’omvaya is expertly dodging ruts on a narrow footpath-turned-wagon-trail-turned-barely-passable-road when he spots a rogue compact car with California plates parked off to the side. Soon its day-pack-wearing occupants stroll into view. ”They shouldn’t be here without a guide,” says Loma’omvaya, a Hopi anthropologist who also happens to be a guide. “This is a federal Indian reservation. We fought for it and we have a right to control tours in it.” http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2012/10/25/arizonas-hopi-protect-the-wests-last-secret-land/1659207/
When It Comes to Archaeological Preservation, Sometimes Backfilling Is the Only Way to Be Sure
Gavin Gardner, an integrated resources specialist for Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument who has been working on a project to rebury the site, spoke about the project to protect Gran Quivira at a Friends of Tijeras Pueblo meeting on Oct. 9. And the job of filling in the rooms with dirt was no easy task, he said. The project had about 40 high school students from Estancia and Mountainair dumping tons of dirt into the rooms to protect the ruins from the elements. The summer project took about 10 weeks, and what was reburied was a site known as Mound 7 Pueblo, a sprawling structure that includes over 220 rooms and dates back to the 1300s. http://www.mvtelegraph.com/2012/10/18/reburying-history-to-preserve-it/
Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month
A big Thank You to those folks who have already provided us with their Listing of Events Form for the 2013 Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month. If you or your organization has an event(s) that you are planning during the month of March 2013, please fill out one of these forms so it can be included in the Listing of Events Brochure. Electronic forms can be found on the SHPO website (http://azstateparks.com/SHPO/index.html). The form is due by November 16, 2012.
2013 Arizona Archaeology Expo – March 16, 2013 – Historic Horseshoe Ranch
The 2013 Arizona Archaeology Expo will be held on March 16, 2013 at the historic Horseshoe Ranch on the Agua Fria National Monument. The theme for this year’s expo is “Life on the Edge: Feast or Famine in Arizona’s Past” Our next planning meeting for the Expo is on Wednesday, November 14, 2013 at 10:00 am and we encourage folks to attend. We will hold the meeting at the Ranch (Exit I-17 at Bloody Basin Road).
Planning for Arizona Archaeology Month
For the entire month of March 2013, the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO)/Arizona State Parks (ASP) is coordinating activities throughout the state for the 30th annual celebration of Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month (AAHAM). These events will focus on current efforts to preserve our past by protecting our fragile and non-renewable cultural resources. http://www.sedona.biz/arizona/arizona-state-parks/2013-arizona-archaeology-and-heritage-awareness-month-celebration/
Reward Offered for Information on the Vandalism of a California Rock Art Site
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Bishop Field Office is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest/conviction of the responsible individuals who damaged petroglyph panels at a major rock art site on the Volcanic Tableland north of Bishop. The perpetrators removed or damaged rock art at five locations within the site. “The individuals who did this have destroyed an irreplaceable part of our national cultural heritage,” said Bernadette Lovato, BLM Bishop Field Office Manager. “We have increased surveillance of our sites and are working with other agencies to bring the responsible parties to justice and to recover the petroglyphs.” http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsroom/2012/november/reward_archeo_destruction.html
Investigating the Role of Climate Change on the Mayan Civilization
For a clue to the possible impact of climate change on modern society, a study suggests a look back at the end of classic Maya civilization, which disintegrated into famine, war and collapse as a long-term wet weather pattern shifted to drought. An international team of researchers compiled a detailed climate record that tracks 2,000 years of wet and dry weather in present-day Belize, where Maya cities developed from the year 300 to 1000. Using data locked in stalagmites – mineral deposits left by dripping water in caves – and the rich archeological evidence created by the Maya, the team reported its findings in the journal Science on Thursday. http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/281607/scitech/science/maya-civilization-s-collapse-linked-to-climate-change-archaeology-team-says
Lecture Opportunity – Queen Creek
Preservation Archaeologist Dr. Jeffery Clark will speak about the archaeology of southeastern Arizona’s San Pedro River valley at the monthly meeting of the San Tan Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, November 14, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. at the San Tan Historical Society Museum in Queen Creek, Arizona. The museum is located at the northern edge of Queen Creek on the southeast corner of the intersection of Ellsworth Road and Queen Creek Road. The museum is a circa 1925 brick schoolhouse. Parking is available in the rear, off of Queen Creek Road or in the front via Old Ellsworth Road.
Lecture Opportunity – Tucson
The Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society is please to present Joshua D. Reuther and Ben Potter on Monday, November 19 at 7:30 PM at the DuVal Auditorium (1501 N. Campbell Ave. inside University Medical Center) to discuss Upward Sun River Site: Climate Change, Geoarchaeology and Human Land Use in Ice Age Alaska. Reuther and Potter will discuss results of recent excavations and archaeological and geological research conducted at the Upward Sun River to explore the nature of human land use patterns in the Tanana Basin during the terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene 20,000 – 6,000 calendar years ago. Contact Jon Boyd @ 520 444-6385 with questions about this, or any other AAHS program.
Archaeologist Locates Cave Made Famous in Children’s Literature
The yellowing government survey map of San Nicolas Island dated from 1879, but it was quite clear: There was a big black dot on the southwest coast and, next to it, the words “Indian Cave.” For more than 20 years, Navy archaeologist Steve Schwartz searched for that cave. It was believed to be home to the island’s most famous inhabitant, a Native American woman who survived on the island for 18 years, abandoned and alone, and became the inspiration for “Island of the Blue Dolphins,” one of the 20th century’s most popular novels for young readers. http://www.stripes.com/news/us/navy-archaeologist-thinks-he-s-found-island-of-the-blue-dolphins-cave-1.195421?localLinksEnabled=false
Officials with an Ohio historical organization expect to file charges soon against three to five people who they say vandalized and desecrated a 1,000-year-old site listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The suspects allegedly acknowledged in an online video that they buried small shiny objects called orgonites at the 63-acre Native American Serpent Mound. Three of the objects, made of resin and embedded with quartz crystals and aluminum foil, have been found so far. But authorities and officials with the nonprofit Ohio Historical Society say there may be hundreds more, The Columbus Dispatch reported. http://www2.nbc4i.com/news/2012/nov/06/2/authorities-vandals-buried-objects-ohio-mound-ar-1230771/
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Definitions for danegelt
an annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm
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(Delighted to welcome back alumna Bonita Meyersfeld, who contributes this guest post regarding a subject on which she's also published an op-ed in South Africa's Mail and Guarding newspaper)
In the middle of last month France introduced legislation banning the wearing in public of face-concealing veils, such as the niqab or burka. Women violating this ban can be stopped by police and given a nominal, but symbolically powerful, fine. People forcing women to wear a veil are subject to a higher fine. (Prior posts on this issue, by IntLawGrrls Naomi Norberg, Siobhán Mullaly, and Beth Van Schaack, are here, here, here, and here.)
This was a sad day, not only for freedom of religion but for equality. Why is this so?
This law is rooted in the longstanding French policy of cultural integration and the pursuit of a uniform French identity.
In truth, the ambition of cultural integration has been more a project of cultural imposition, where the dominant French identity (white, European and Christian) has become the gold standard for all communities living in France. The Paris riots that have beset Parisian communities of African dissent, at the very least, are a tell-tale sign that this cultural integration project is not going terribly well. The reason for this is that the cultural integration project is not about cultural integration as much as it is about the thinly veiled (pun intended) imposition of French (read: European) culture, over foreign (read: African and Arabic) cultures.
This new legislation is also embedded in French insistence that it is a secular society.
This claim is disquieting, insincere and a deep insult to immigrant communities in France. Does France not celebrate Christmas, declaring this a public holiday? And Easter? Does France not put the famous churches, the Sacré-Coeur and Notre Dame (right), at the forefront of its list of treasures, as emblematic of its national identity?
So in short, this law, like the project in which it is imbedded, is not about secularity or the separation of church and state but about cultural uniformity, the rejection of difference and, if we’re honest, a deep discomfort with Islam. (credit for photo at right; credit for above left photo of niqab-wearing woman in Yemen; credit for image bottom left)
Many – including many French authorities – would recoil in horror and reject this argument.
No No, they insist, we ban all overt external signs of religion. In truth, this criterion affects only Muslims and Sikhs, and to a limited degree, Jews. Members of the Christian faith have no religious doctrinal requirement that they wear specific icons or clothing. A small, discrete cross is perfectly acceptable under the new law. In other words, the new law interestingly affects predominantly and disproportionately one religious group only: Muslims.
And what about the Jewish community? The French Jewish community is reportedly one of the least visible Jewish communities in Western Europe. They have learnt to fall below the radar and, where necessary, ‘cover’ their identity.
Which brings us back to the veil.
The French also claim that the law is a feminist initiative, enabling the liberation of women in Muslim communities. Let me be clear: every community, including Muslim communities, have practices that discriminate against women and it is not only appropriate, but a legal requirement under international law that states legislate to ensure that women and men enjoy equality. One of the key features of the women’s rights movement is to ensure that women’s health, well-being, potential and ambitions are not thwarted by the practices of the state, our cultures, our communities or our families – that true equality and meaningful equivalency must become a reality for all women.
But banning the veil does not achieve this.
The consequence of the ban is simple. According to this law, Muslim women in France who wear the veil, either because they choose to do so or because they are forced to do so, may not appear in public without incurring a fine. (But see here.) The law as written is extremely dangerous for women and a blow for immigrant women’s rights, including the right to a dignified existence, the right to health and safety, the right to work and the right to engage in society. It is true that women who wear the burka or niqab are often forced to do so and this is a serious violation of an individual’s autonomy and liberty.
There is also a burning question about how much choice is truly exercised by women who wear face-covering veils. There is a deep feminist concern about the imperative that women, their bodies, and their identities should be covered where their male counterparts are free to expose their faces. Banning the presence of face-covering veils in public, however, is not fit for the purpose of liberating oppressed women and will only exacerbate women’s subjugation in the home. If this subjugation is accompanied by domestic violence, as is the plight for so many women in the world, this ban now further impedes women from accessing help when they need it.
Women’s rights to choose, to be equal, and to flourish in their communities, are not only philosophical ambitions; they exist, quite practically, to ensure that women are informed of their human rights and are able to obtain assistance from the state in cases of discrimination and family or intimate violence.
For some women, the growing European opposition to the veil has generated a form of feminist liberation.
Many Muslim women in France (and other European countries) are wearing the veil as a political statement, as a statement of express choice that they wish to have the right to choose to comply with their religious strictures to wear the veil – or not. And this is at the heart of the French contradiction.
Just as there are some communities that discriminate against women and deny women true choice (and this is by no means limited to Islamic communities), the French state has similarly denied women the choice of wearing face covering veils. And if the French ambition is to mitigate violence within extremist Muslim communities, which is extremely important and necessary, I do not see how impeding a small sect of potentially vulnerable women from entering publicly into society will achieve this.
As we see individual women in France being fined and charged for defying the ban, perhaps we should consider the following:
► If the French endeavour is in the attainment of homogeneity that mitigates communal conflict, then perhaps France should focus on laws and policies that empower rather than impede women’s rights.
► If not, then the ban should be revealed for what it is: a thinly veiled attempt to inform Muslim communities globally that they are not welcome within French borders.
In the meantime, I fear that the pursuit of equality between women and men in France has been impeded.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity have never rung so hollow.
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Architect Jose Maria Chofre just installed a vertical garden on the exterior of a new children's library in San Vicente de Raspeig, Spain.
The garden is six stories tall and uses cubic containers filled with substrate felt confined between two metal grids, one outdoor and one indoor. Containers are accessible from several corridors located in the rear, where they can be replaced. A metal structure built upon the deposit of concrete is used for irrigation.
Different types of small flowers and herbs fill in the top layers of the garden, while ivy and ferns grow at the bottom. A suspended scaffold in front allows for pruning and replacing specific species.
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In this follow-up to Nesbit’s classic Five Children and It, Cyril, Robert, Anthea, Jane, and the Lamb have more magical adventures in store when a mysterious egg hatches in the nursery fireplace. Out comes a flame-colored bird, the Phoenix, who, though a bit conceited, proves very helpful indeed. The bird kindly explains that the second-hand Persian carpet recently acquired for the nursery is actually a flying one. On it, they may travel to any place and time that they wish. But once again, the children find that magic does not always go as planned. They find hidden treasure in France, and with it restore the fortunes of a little boy. Meanwhile, their own house is invaded by a thousand Persian cats, a cow, and a burglar, who eventually marries the cook on an island in the South Seas. Full of wit and wonders, The Phoenix and the Carpet is a magical ride for children of all ages.
Public Domain (P)2000 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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There's been a lot of talk about what we can't afford as a nation and who is getting what "gift" or which free ride. When President Obama recently met with CEOs and chatted with Jamie Dimon, we should hope he issued a stern warning that legal tax avoidance games played by banks and multinational corporations are on the chopping block. After all, free enterprise isn't free.
In the coming weeks there will be pivotal conversations about how and where to tax corporations and how to reform our corporate tax system. Don't believe the hype that these issues are too complicated. They're not. If you paid more than 1.9 percent in income tax, you paid a higher rate than Apple. Period.
Both political parties need to combat the damaging effects of the offshoring of jobs and revenues. Our current system drains our Treasury and threatens basic services and national security.
Citizens get it. According to a new poll by Hart Research, "84 percent of voters approve of increasing taxes on the profits American corporations make overseas, to ensure that they pay the same taxes on those as they do on domestic profits."
These issues were put on the national stage because of a presidential candidate who uses offshore accounts, and by the reporting of tax shell games by Apple, Google, Starbucks, Microsoft and General Electric. Now, in the U.K., Amazon, Starbucks and Google are being questioned by the government for shady tax practices.
The Obama administration and Congress need to correct a flawed system that has fostered legal tax avoidance and raised the ire of progressives and conservatives alike.
Who can defend companies making record profits skipping out on their tax bills? Who can honestly keep holding up the disingenuous argument that multinational corporations in the U.S. pay the highest rate in the world when the fact is, it just ain't so? Consider: According to the Congressional Budget Office, the average tax rate corporations pay on domestic profits in the U.S. is about 12 percent.
Moving forward, we'll hear lofty-sounding ideas about broadening the base, lowering the rates, closing loopholes, and more technical ideas about moving to a territorial system of taxation.
Let's start with the former: The loopholes that need to be closed are those that enable corporations to pay extraordinarily low tax rates or no tax at all by shifting profits, patents and headquarters offshore. These cost us $100 billion per year.
With respect to the latter, lawmakers are in danger of making a bad situation worse. A territorial system would be tantamount to a permanent tax holiday for corporations. Under this system, companies would not have to pay U.S. federal income taxes on foreign earnings when they bring the profits back to the United States. These "foreign" earnings include the money that companies such as Google pay themselves for their own products or patents conveniently parked offshore.
Powerful special interests and CEOs have already lined up money, lobbyists and their media machine to lull lawmakers and citizens into believing they're the grownups at the table and know what's best. They don't. Instead, they benefit from a system rigged for their interests. And now they want more, at your expense.
Decisions made about taxation will have long-term and profound effects. It's not fair to continue to ask taxpayers to sacrifice, while failing to collect existing tax revenue from corporations making record profits.
Free enterprise isn't free. The nation's budget situation may be reason enough to close these loopholes, but the ramifications go much further. American corporations that benefit from the work force, infrastructure, courts, markets and national security of the United States shouldn't be allowed to avoid their responsibilities.
Former U.S.-based corporations that have benefited from U.S. government research and development dollars and do the majority of their business in the U.S. should not be allowed to simply call a post office box in the Cayman Islands or an empty law office in Switzerland their "headquarters."
Congress needs to close offshore tax-dodging loopholes and make large corporations pay taxes in the same country that provides them with the benefits and legal protections that make it profitable to operate in the United States in the first place.
Nicole Tichon is executive director of Tax Justice Network USA and director of the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency coalition.
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April '03 to June '04 marks the period when the U.S.-led coalition governed Iraq and began to engage the critical decisions on how to rebuild the country and bring democracy before turning sovereignty over to the Iraqi people. This timeline is drawn from FRONTLINE's research and reporting for "The Lost Year in Iraq."
U.S. Events, Decisions, Power Struggles
On the Ground in Iraq
The End of Saddam
Iraqis topple an iconic statue of Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad with help from U.S. soldiers. In hindsight, the event foreshadows what is to come: One of the Americans covers the statue's face with a U.S. flag, which is quickly replaced by an Iraqi one.
It had taken just three weeks after the U.S. invasion for Baghdad to fall.
"Freedom is Untidy"
As soon as Baghdad falls, Iraqis begin looting on a grand scale and attacking government ministries. During this first postwar week, the looting verges on chaos. But less than two U.S. brigades are in isolated positions in the city of over 5 million. U.S. troops don't stop the looters.
As the world watches the scenes of looting across Iraq, Rumsfeld tries to downplay concerns, saying: "Freedom is untidy."
A Surprise Announcement
Gen. Tommy Franks makes his first triumphant visit to Baghdad and tells his troops -- more than 110,000 -- to prepare for takeover by a new Iraqi government within 60 days and a U.S. troop withdrawal by September.
A division -- about 30,000 troops -- would be left to occupy Iraq.
The First Postwar Civil Administrator
Retired Lt. Gen. Jay Garner arrives in Baghdad to head the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA). One of his first meetings is with Kurdish leaders to begin discussions about a transition to an inclusive interim Iraqi government. Washington officials, worried that Garner is "off the reservation" decide to make a change. Within hours of his arrival in Baghdad, Garner is informed that presidential envoy L. Paul Bremer III will soon replace him.
Bush announces an end to major military combat. Onboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, the president stands in front of a banner reading "Mission Accomplished."
Looting escalates across Iraq
Garner Replaced by Bremer
President Bush announces L. Paul "Jerry" Bremer III, a diplomat and protégé of Henry Kissinger, will head a new temporary administrative entity for Iraq, the Coalition Provisional Authority. Bremer was not viewed as an "Arabist," nor did he have much prior experience in nation-building -- two factors that seemed to be pluses for the administration. In a memo briefing top staff in the White House and in Iraq, Bremer writes: "It is desirable that my arrival in Iraq be marked by clear, public and decisive steps."
Bremer Arrives, Suggests Shooting Looters
In a private meeting during his first day in Baghdad, Bremer suggests the possibility of shooting looters to quell lawlessness. This leaks to reporters, outraging Iraqis and the U.S. military.
CPA Replaces ORHA; "De-Baathification" Announced
The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) absorbs duties previously held by ORHA and issues CPA Order No. 1, which calls for the "de-Baathification" of Iraq -- dismantling Saddam's Baath Party and removing all Baath Party members from positions of authority. Bremer brushes off a strong warning from the CIA station chief in Baghdad that the action will drive up to 50,000 people underground.
The CPA Disbands the Iraqi Army
The CPA issues CPA Order No. 2, disbanding the Iraqi army in favor of building a completely new force. The action takes many coalition troops by surprise. They have to scratch plans they had for reconstruction that involved getting help from an Iraqi military.
After spending just over a month struggling to get a handle on Iraq's situation and to define his position in relation to Bremer, Garner heads back to Washington. Later that month, he reports to Rumsfeld that the mission's success is seriously in jeopardy.
Sanchez Appointed Head of Ground Forces
Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez is appointed to lead Coalition Joint Task Force 7 (CJTF-7), a newly created agency to oversee ground forces in Iraq.
Gen. Tommy Franks Retires
In a further sign of turmoil and dissent within the U.S. military, Gen. Tommy Franks, head of the force that invaded Iraq, retires. Frustrated by ongoing clashes with Rumsfeld over the secretary's vision of creating a "faster" and "lighter" army, Franks turns down an offer to become Army chief of staff in June and announces his retirement. Gen. John Abizaid replaces Franks.
The Iraqi Governing Council
This 25-seat organization, created temporarily by the CPA to fill Iraq's power vacuum, meets for the first time. Its membership, handpicked by CPA, reflects all Iraqi ethnic groups and includes several women. White House favorite Ahmad Chalabi gets a seat and is given control over de-Baathification efforts. The council's limited powers and U.S. control over its membership foster distrust among many Iraqis.
Uday and Qusay Hussein Killed
Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay are killed in a U.S.-led raid after an Iraqi informant leads soldiers to the brothers' hideout in Mosul. The news is welcomed as a sign of progress toward stabilizing Iraq.
Memo to Saddam's Secret Police Sheds Light on Iraqi Resistance
The chief of the CIA's Baghdad station shows Bremer a document recovered from a trashed office of Saddam's secret police. The memo instructs them to organize sabotage, looting, sniper attacks and ambushes across Iraq to thwart coalition efforts. It helps make sense of the growing insurgency.
Jordanian Embassy Attacked
A large car bomb explodes outside the embassy in Baghdad, killing 17 people and injuring dozens. It's the first terrorist-style car bombing in Iraq.
Riots in Basra
After continuing gasoline shortages and blackouts, riots erupt across this southern Iraqi city that had been relatively quiet
Bremer Refused Authorization to Arrest Moqtada al-Sadr
In July, the influential Shiite cleric begins preaching against the U.S. occupation. On Aug. 18, Bremer receives word that Rumsfeld has given orders not to arrest al-Sadr until further notice, for fear it would incite greater violence. The next day, concerned that al-Sadr's supporters, known as the Mehdi army, will further derail reconstruction efforts, Bremer requests Washington's support to bring al-Sadr under control. Rumsfeld refuses. The Mehdi army continues gaining strength as a key force in the insurgency.
Truck Bomb Destroys U.N. Headquarters
A truck bomb explodes outside the hotel housing U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, killing the U.N. special envoy to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, and at least 21 others. The increasing scale of the insurgents' attacks puts Iraqis on edge.
Washington's worries grow over the summer about how long U.S. troops would remain in Iraq; Rumsfeld tells Bremer the Pentagon is growing impatient. But Bremer has no idea to whom he should hand over sovereignty. On Aug. 20, he urges the Governing Council to act more quickly so as to give Iraqis evidence of progress in rebuilding the country. But he has no confidence in them.
Attack on Mosque in Najaf
A car bomb explodes outside a mosque in the Shiite holy city of Najaf as crowds leave midday prayers. The blast kills more than 100 people, including Shiite spiritual leader Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim.
By the end of this summer, any debate about whether there is an insurgency is settled.
U.S. Events, Decisions, Power Struggles
On the Ground in Iraq
Rumsfeld Visits Iraq
He's there to assess possible approaches for reducing U.S. troop numbers and makes clear that the Pentagon is anxious for more intelligence to help quell the violence. He also continues to press for a transfer of sovereignty to Iraqis.
Coalition Forces Round Up Suspected Insurgents
Massive sweeps start to arrest suspected insurgents. Available prisons, including Abu Ghraib, are quickly filled.
Bremer Publishes Seven-Step Plan
Without the White House or Pentagon's knowledge, Bremer publishes an op-ed in The Washington Post -- "Iraq's Path to Sovereignty" -- in which he describes a multi-step, multi-year process toward the ultimate goal of creating a constitution and holding elections.
Later that month, Bremer visits Washington and continues to lobby for his slow and steady approach to moving Iraq toward sovereignty. But with an eye on the 2004 election, the administration remains committed to handing Iraq over to Iraqis as soon as possible.
October - December
During the fall of 2003, some U.S. troops guarding prisoners at Abu Ghraib begin photographing prisoner torture and abuse.
Rice Given Control Over the CPA
Bremer's multi-year plan for turning over sovereignty is a big political problem for the president. The White House decides to rein him in. National Security Council Adviser Condoleezza Rice sends Robert Blackwill to advise Bremer and assert White House influence over the CPA.
Moqtada al-Sadr Gains Strength
His followers continue to grow as the cleric spreads his message of resistance and violence against U.S. occupation.
Mehdi Army Attacks U.S. Patrol
Two U.S. soldiers are killed when a band of Mehdi army militiamen attacks U.S. a patrol in Sadr City. It is the first in a string of escalating attacks by Moqtada al-Sadr's followers. The following day, thousands of Shiites in Sadr City take to the streets to protest the U.S.-led occupation.
Attack on al-Rashid Hotel
A rocket attack on the heavily fortified al-Rashid Hotel kills 16 people, including a colonel working for the CPA. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is among those who escape unharmed.
Attack on Red Cross Headquarters
Within a 45-minute window, suicide bombers set off four car bombs across Baghdad -- including three at local police stations and one at the headquarters of the Red Cross -- killing 35 and demonstrating the insurgents' growing coordination and sophistication.
U.S. Helicopter Shot Down
Insurgents shoot down a Chinook helicopter over Fallujah, killing 15 U.S. soldiers. It is the single deadliest strike on coalition troops since the war began.
Deadline for Sovereignty Transfer Announced
The CPA announces an agreement with the Iraqi Governing Council to hand over sovereignty to an Iraqi government by June 30, 2004. The agreement is built around a seven-step process, beginning with the drafting of an interim constitution by March 1, 2004. The following day Bremer meets with staff and reshapes the CPA's mission to meet the shortened timeline.
Insurgents Attack Bremer's Convoy
Bremer survives an assassination attempt on his convoy. The CPA does not publicly confirm the incident until two weeks later.
Saddam Hussein Captured
Saddam Hussein is found hiding outside his hometown of Tikrit, in a dirt hole. The capture is highly publicized, but does not deter the growing violence across Iraq.
Intercepted Letter From Zarqawi
The letter is from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, and details his plans for the insurgency. His goals include fomenting violence between Shiite and Sunni Muslims, targeting the emerging Iraqi police and military, and killing Kurds -- any measure to derail progress toward a democratic Iraq.
Attack at the Green Zone Gates
The day after U.S. casualties reach 500, a suicide truck bomb explodes at the gates of CPA headquarters, killing at least 20 people and injuring 100.
New Iraqi Protest
In the largest protest since the CPA took control of Iraq, 100,000 Shiites march in support of Governing Council member Ayatollah al-Sistani's call for direct elections instead of the CPA-facilitated plan for appointed interim leaders.
Major Attacks Across Erbil
Part of a continuing wave of large-scale attacks on soldiers and civilians, suicide bombings in the Kurdish city of Erbil kill roughly 100 Iraqis.
Police Station Bombed
Fifty people are killed by a car bomb at a police recruiting station in Iskandariya, a city 25 miles south of Baghdad.
Army Recruitment Center Attacked
At least 40 people die in a car bombing outside an Iraqi army recruitment center in Baghdad.
U.S. Events, Decisions, Power Struggles
On the Ground in Iraq
Karbala Mosque Attack
On a holy day for Shi'a Muslims, suicide attacks in Karbala kill over 85 people. It's a sign of the growing ethnic and religious strife.
Interim Constitution Passed
Overcoming Shiite objections that the new plan gives Kurds too much power, Iraq's Governing Council signs an interim constitution to govern Iraq after the transfer of sovereignty in June, and until the adoption of a permanent constitution.
Tensions With al-Sadr Escalate
The CPA labels the daily newspaper Al-Hawza a mouthpiece of Moqtada al-Sadr and orders it closed for 60 days on charges of inciting violence. Bremer also orders the arrest of a top al-Sadr lieutenant, Mustafa Yaqoubi; the April 3 arrest stokes rebellion, and Mehdi militiamen overrun CPA offices in Kut and Nasiriya.
Four U.S. Contractors Killed In Fallujah
Four American contractors are killed; their bodies are burned, dragged through the streets, and strung up on a bridge.
In one day, Shiite insurgents launch attacks in the cities of Kufa, Karbala, Najaf, al-Kut and Sadr City.
Coalition Launches Fallujah Offensive
While battling al-Sadr's forces in the south, the U.S.-led coalition resolves to regain control of the "Sunni Triangle" area. Roughly 2,000 Marines advance on Fallujah, while 12 Marines are killed in a firefight in Ramadi to the west. The Fallujah advance is almost immediately in trouble: Iraqi troops assigned to back up U.S. forces abandon their posts. Sunni Governing Council members become enraged at civilian casualties. With the stability of the Governing Council at stake, Bremer approaches Gen. Abizaid and Lt. Gen. Sanchez, and on April 9, they agree to call off the attack on Fallujah.
Bremer Reverses Position on De-Baathification
In a speech titled "Turning the Page," Bremer concedes that enforcement of the de-Baathification order has not been fair -- particularly with regard to the academic community -- and suggests a more flexible policy going forward. Bremer's decision upsets Ahmad Chalabi, leader of the de-Baathification efforts and a longtime critic of the Baath Party.
Abu Ghraib Scandal Erupts
60 Minutes II broadcasts photographs of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. Three days later, The New Yorker publishes photos documenting the abuse. The ensuing scandal presents another obstacle for the CPA and the U.S. military in Iraq.
Allawi Named Interim Prime Minister
With U.S. approval, Ayad Allawi is nominated to be prime minister of the interim government.
Creation of "Fallujah Brigade" Offends Iraqis
Without informing Bremer or Gen. Sanchez, U.S. Marines agree to let a former commander in Saddam's Republican Guard recruit Iraqis to form the "Fallujah Brigade" in an attempt to restore some order to the city. The former Republican Guard member is replaced within days, but the move upsets many Iraqis who see it as a regression toward the old regime.
American Contractor Beheaded
American contractor Nick Berg is beheaded by militants who say his death is retaliation for the treatment of Iraqi prisoners.
Governing Council President Assassinated
Governing Council President Izzadin Salim and six others die in a suicide car bomb attack just outside the Green Zone.
Bremer Requests More Troops
In a hand-delivered private message, Bremer requests two additional divisions of troops (roughly 40,000 soldiers) from Rumsfeld to help counter the steady stream of violent attacks. He receives no response.
U.S. Reaches Truce With al-Sadr
Moqtada al-Sadr reaches an agreement with U.S. forces. Both sides pledge to withdraw their fighters from Najaf, ending two months of intense combat. However the cease-fire does not hold.
On the same day, the Governing Council unanimously approves U.S. pick Ayad Allawi as interim prime minister.
Governing Council Chooses al-Yawer as Interim President
The Governing Council chooses Ghazi al-Yawer, a Sunni, to serve as Iraq's interim president, a largely symbolic role. It then dissolves to make way for a 33-person cabinet that will take its place when the sovereignty is transferred to Iraqis later in the month.
CPA Transfers Sovereignty; Bremer Leaves Iraq
Two days before the publicized deadline -- a move suggested by President Bush to thwart possible violence -- the CPA transfers authority to Iraq's interim government. Bremer leaves Baghdad immediately on a secret plane in order to avoid possible attacks.
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Since the most commonly abused inhalants are typical household items, such as paint thinners, glues, and cleaning products, it's extremely difficult to spot someone with a problem. Although there are certain warning signs to watch for, such as loss of appetite, weight loss, coughing, sneezing, and facial rashes, there's seldom any truly incriminating evidence. There's no special equipment, like pipes, rolling papers, or needles, necessary for inhalant use. Most users breathe the fumes from an easily disposable bag or chemical-soaked cloth. What's more, even if you do manage to discover someone you know is using inhalants, it's virtually impossible to forcibly stop them. Treatment facilities for inhalant users are rare and difficult to find, and users generally suffer a high rate of relapse. Addicts usually require between 30 and 40 days of detoxification, during which they're likely to experience a variety of unpleasant withdrawal symptoms, including hallucinations, nausea, excessive sweating, hand tremors, muscle cramps, headaches, chills, and delirium tremens. Follow-up treatment is extremely important, and generally involves one-on-one counseling or group therapy. Most experts agree that education and continuous support are necessary to discourage continued use. For more information about kicking the inhalant habit, consult a local healthcare provider.
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The Foundation Review’s webinar Powerpoint presentation, “College Access Network: Collective Impact Revisited,” held on Feb. 28, 2013, is now available. Access the presentation here: Collective Impact Revisited (PDF).
Established in 1992 with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy promotes effective philanthropy, community improvement, and excellence in nonprofit leadership through teaching, research, and service. The Johnson Center is recognized for its applied research and professional development benefiting practitioners and nonprofits through its Community Research Institute, Frey Foundation Chair for Family Foundations and Philanthropy, The Foundation Review, The Grantmaking School, Johnson Center Philanthropy Archives and Library, and Nonprofit Services
Grand Valley State University is a four-year public university. It attracts more than 24,500 students with high quality programs and state-of-the-art facilities. Grand Valley is a comprehensive university serving students from all 83 Michigan counties and dozens of other states and foreign countries. Grand Valley offers 81 undergraduate and 29 graduate degree programs from campuses in Allendale, Grand Rapids and Holland, and from regional centers in Muskegon and Traverse City. The university is dedicated to individual student achievement, going beyond the traditional classroom experience, with research opportunities and business partnerships. Grand Valley employs more than 1,900 people and is committed to providing a fair and equitable environment for the continued success of all.
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Today, with few variations, state laws surrounding child abuse and neglect look remarkably similar. All share similar definitions regarding abuse and neglect; all require professionals to report suspicions under threat of prosecution; all provide confidentiality to anyone involved in an investigation—from the person making the allegation to the children and family members involved. These similarities are not accidental, but were accomplished with relative ease a quarter-century ago. They are the intended consequences of a federal law first passed in 1974 known as the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA).
Although much public attention has focused on the cost of public assistance (the former AFDC program), child welfare is the more expensive governmental activity and the more complicated. In 1995, the federal government spent about $11,698 per child in foster care, whereas it spent only $1,012 for each person receiving welfare benefits. When factoring in state costs, the average cost increases even further to $21,092 per child in foster care versus $2,499 for each person receiving a welfare check.
The United States has had federally mandated child-protection laws for over a quarter of a century. Since these mandates have been in effect, child maltreatment rates have increased tremendously and childprotection agencies’ ability to handle the increase has declined:
- When CAPTA was enacted in 1973, child-protection agencies handled about 60,000 reports of abuse and neglect; today they handle 3 million.
- Substantiation rates have plummeted from a high of 61 percent in 1976 to a current low of 31 percent.
- Early estimates on confirmed abuse and neglect, while far from exact, ranged from 6,500 in 1967 to 360,000 in 1974.
- In 1997, child-protection agencies confirmed that 963,870 children were abused or neglected by their parents.
- Around the same time, more than 130,500 children entered foster care bringing the total number of children being taken care of by the state to 520,000.
- Less than 20 percent of all substantiated cases of child maltreatment go to criminal or civil court.
- Most children can remain home safely, even after a substantiated incident. Fewer than 20 percent of the three million children investigated are in sufficient danger that they have to be removed from their family.
Although spoken of in terms of social services, the child-protection function of child welfare is essentially a police action. The state conducts an investigation of a family based on an allegation and can use police power to enter a home and take a child or children into protective custody. The key difference is that for child-protection agencies (CPS), unlike the police, the focus is not on the perpetrator, i.e., the parent, but on the victim, i.e., the child. Hence it is the child who is removed, not the parent, when the situation is dangerous. This concentration on the child instead of on the one who causes harm is part of the problem. It is the result of treating child maltreatment, with rare exceptions, outside of the bounds of criminal prosecution, for behavior that if perpetrated against anyone other than a relative would result in assault charges.
The pervading problem in child welfare is one of perverse incentives that undermine personal responsibility. The child-protection system is built upon the notion that child maltreatment is remediable with the right therapeutic treatment. Child abuse is not regarded primarily as a violation of justice, but as either a symptom of illness or the result of economic deprivation. Parents are not at fault. Because abuse is not seen as a moral problem, it must be susceptible to professional help. It is therefore not surprising to find reluctance to ever pronounce any given parent irredeemable.
Child-protective services are the most-intrusive arm of social services, because child-protection workers have the power to determine whether or not a child should be removed from his family, sometimes permanently. Services always come with the understood threat of taking children away, whether that threat is real or only perceived.
Most families will never come into contact with the child-welfare system, because most families do not abuse or neglect their children. Most who do come in contact with this system live in poverty and are headed by a single mother. Families in crisis will always defy easy solutions. No policy proscription can prevent some parents from assaulting their children. Yet, some solutions can be teased out that would lower the numbers of children harmed by the very people who are meant to protect them—and do so without excessive public interference into the private lives of families.
The primary recommendations for reform are as follows:
- Narrow the scope of child abuse and neglect definitions. Scholars and child-welfare experts from across the political spectrum agree that narrowing the scope of child abuse and neglect would allow CPS to focus on the most drastic cases. Much that is now defined as child abuse and neglect does not merit governmental interference.
- Place the investigatory powers with the police. Police are trained in matters of investigation. It is the nature of child protection to be accusatory. Cloaking the investigation under social services and anonymity does nothing to hide that essential fact. The behavior that we are discussing is criminal in nature; therefore police should gather the evidence. Once the scope of what constitutes child abuse is appropriately narrow, local police would be the best government agency to conduct investigations. If the investigation suggests a crime was committed, the case would then proceed to court for adjudication.
- Re-criminalize child abuse and neglect. Having already narrowed the scope of child abuse and neglect to serious cases, what remain are cases of assault and serious neglect. That means that the standard would be the same if someone harmed a stranger’s child or her own. Now child abusers are only guaranteed punishment if they harm someone not related to themselves. Most importantly, criminal cases require public records and due process.
- Repeal mandatory reporting laws that are in effect in all the states. Mandatory reporting laws, designed to encourage those who work with children to report incidents of maltreatment, have had two negative effects. First, they encourage unnecessary reporting because professionals must report all of their suspicions under threat of prosecution. While such prosecutions are rare, one shouldn’t have to report suspicions. Reporting should be restricted to more concrete evidence of a crime. Second, mandatory reporting discourages fellow citizens from taking positive neighborhood action with families in trouble. Citizens tend to consider that their responsibilities have been met when they call an anonymous hotline, because that is what the law tells them to do. Knocking on the door and offering help to a family, which is troubled, but not engaged in criminal behavior, may be the more appropriate alternative.
- Make child and family services voluntary. Having separated criminal behavior from deficient parenting, we could enable caseworkers to do what they were trained to do and what they do best, i.e., social work. Without the threat of child removal hanging over their heads, parents might more willingly accept services—such as help with parenting skills. Knowing that an agency only provides services, parents might be more receptive to receiving such help. Moreover, these services should be privatized, as private agencies with performance-based contracts tend to work more effectively than state bureaucracies.
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Give the city's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events this much: It listened to what Chicagoans said they wanted in a Cultural Plan and wrote it down.
And then wrote some more.
Released Monday, the Cultural Plan's 48 pages — plus a 20-page executive summary and 24-page supplemental materials — overflow with ideas I heard earlier in the year, when Chicagoans flocked to town halls to make their voices heard. Some of the suggestions leaped onto the page almost verbatim from impromptu working groups that formed at DuSable Museum of African American History on the South Side, Senn High School on the North Side and elsewhere.
I still can hear folks suggesting that tax increment financing funds be applied not only to fancy theaters in the Loop but to neighborhood spots where Chicago artists could work and live. That overlooked or underused buildings be rezoned so artists could bring them back to life. That cultural kiosks rise up across the city, telegraphing what's happening where.
Those inspired ideas, and many lesser ones, have been packed into the Cultural Plan, which was produced with the assistance of Lord Cultural Resources (at a budget of $250,000, funded with $100,000 each from the Chicago Community Trust and Allstate, plus support from the Illinois Arts Council and the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events).
Above all, the citizens at the town halls and follow-up neighborhood conversations clamored for an increased emphasis on arts education. This prompted city officials Monday to trumpet a Chicago Public Schools Arts Education Plan, to be unveiled in full in December.
Cultural planning doesn't get much more democratic than that.
But the blizzard of 36 recommendations in the completed Cultural Plan, with multiple initiatives listed under each one, makes the document more of a Christmas wish list than a comprehensible course of action. Real, tangible ideas share acreage with grandiose hopes; ideas that could be launched tomorrow compete for attention with visions that are not likely to be realized, for decades, if ever.
Nothing wrong with dreaming big, of course, but in these hard times — with the city and the state deeply in the red — only ideas grounded in reality seem likely to generate results. Daniel Burnham famously said "make no little plans," but he might have reconsidered after trying to digest the new cultural opus.
The document itself acknowledges its ephemeral nature: "The Plan reflects many of the creative and resourceful ideas that participants discussed in the public process," it notes early on. "Potential initiatives are the civic brain-storming and crowd-sourcing of solutions, but they are suggestions for how to accomplish the recommendations, not a final to-do list of cultural planning in Chicago." (The boldface is in the report.)
So what we have here is a litany of suggestions, some achievable, others improbable, many described in bureaucratese that will make your eyes cross. Here's a case where less would have been so much more. A few sharply focused ideas stated in crisp, plain English would serve to rally support a lot more quickly than some of the overreaching concepts larded into this plan.
One hastens to note, however, that potentially important — and doable — recommendations are hiding in plain sight amid the verbiage. In addition to the ones I've already mentioned, here are a few others:
"Identify specific sites such as bridges, side walls of public buildings, and transit structures to be programmed with changing exhibitions or that can accommodate permanent installations." Indeed, why not turn eyesores into ever-shifting works of art?
"Neighborhood cultural grants to help implement programs and projects." Absolutely — get the money to where people live.
"Comprehensive citywide space inventory for cultural uses." Perhaps an online directory would chart every square inch of cultural real estate, used and unused.
"Dedicated festival site(s) to be used for large-scale festivals and events. …" A not-so-subtle slam at the dismal Petrillo Music Shell in Grant Park.
"Youth arts exhibit space: providing dedicated space with curated exhibitions featuring youth-only art." Anything that welcomes youngsters into culture can benefit them and the arts, as well.
But several of the other initiatives, while well-intentioned and often noble, diminish the credibility of the plan:
"Housing allocation that preserves diversity of income levels in cultural districts." Allocating housing has never been a strong point in Cook County.
"Dedicated revenue for arts and culture by exploring the augmentation of an existing tax or fee." Additional taxes and fees don't seem like big crowd-pleasers right now.
"Low-cost health insurance programs for self-employed artists and creative industry professionals." An indisputably desirable goal, but considering the political warfare now under way over President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, a local version catering to one segment of the population seems doubtful.
"'Chief creative officer' in every school to serve as liaison in facilitating citywide collaborations." Need we say more?
And then there's the language of much of the Cultural Plan, its jargon no doubt a thrill to bureaucrats but a struggle for the rest of us. Some choice examples among the initiatives:
"Arts education plan cross-sectoral implementation task force." Say, what?
"Develop a cultural tourism calendar that schedules peak and shoulder seasons with anchor and supporting cultural events." Whatever.
"'SparkPlug' incentive program for new idea generation within the public sector on behalf of the cultural sector." Right.
"Globally renowned art and creative industry accelerator center in collaboration with universities, the private sector, and the City focused on program development, products and patents, technology applications and implementation models."
Stirring, isn't it?
Granted, the new Cultural Plan does no harm. Its unrealistic ideas will be easily ignored and its better ones, perhaps, picked up for development. The plan asserts that 59 percent of its initiatives have a "launch timeline" of present-18 months; 33 percent at 18 months to five years; 7 percent at five to 10 years; and 2 percent at 10 to 20 years (don't hold your breath). As for costs, the plan posits that 34 percent of the initiatives have an annual operating cost estimate of up to $50,000; 28 percent at $51,000 to $250,000; 21 percent at $251,000 to $1 million; and 17 percent more than $1 million.
So it's entirely possible that some cultural good will come of this.
But after seeing so many Chicagoans turning out to participate, after watching the staffs of DCASE and Lord Cultural Resources pour so much energy into this process, I'd hoped for a Cultural Plan that was a lot more muscular, lean, realistic and focused. It might be in there somewhere. If we're lucky, the city's cultural planners can pull it out.
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In neo-Pagan witchcraft the God and Goddess are the divine forces and the very essence of the craft, they are the Great Father and Great Mother whose limitless energy brings forth all life. They embody the living biosphere of the planet and the forces of the elements; they are the creators and destroyers. She, The Goddess, is the Queen of Heaven, she is the moon, the source of magical power; she is emotion, intuition and the pyschic faculty. He, The God, is the sun, the source of masculine energy; he is the raw force, wisdom and law.
Medusa Bronze Necklace
This sculpted bronze pendant depicts the head of Medusa. In Greek lore, Medusa was a creature called a Gorgoon, whose hideous visage included the snakes that coiled around her head as hair for which she is most well known. All who looked upon her directly were said to turn be turned to stone until the clever warrior Perseus slew her. It was said he then removed her head and used it as a weapon until giving it to the goddess Athena, to place upon her shield.
In Ancient Greece, the symbol of the Medusa head was frequently depicted to help keep away evil and bad luck. It was found on everything from stone carvings, the paint upon shields, vases, and even coins.
Wear this amulet to chase evil out of your life or simply capture a bit of the way of the Ancients. Measuring approximately 2 1/2 inches in length, this pendant has been sculpted entirely of bronze and comes upon a 24 inch long black cord.
Item #: UT280, Price: $35.95
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(8/31/12) The UW-Extension alfalfa research plot field day will be held on Thursday, September 13th from 1 – 3 p.m. at David Peasley's farm, two miles north of Black River Falls.
The Midwest Forage Association and UW-Extension have collaborated with farmers to implement 10 study plots across the state to better understand the costs and benefits of the RoundUp ReadyÒ alfalfa establishment system. RoundUp ReadyÒ alfalfa offers many benefits to farmers -weed control application timings are more flexible, potential yield loss from herbicide injuring is eliminated, and glyphosate is currently inexpensive. However it can be difficult to determine if the benefits outweigh the added technology fee costs.
Dr. Mark Renz, UW weed scientist will be present to discuss research results and Dr. Eileen Cullen will discuss the impacts of potato leaf hoppers on alfalfa yield.
Directions to the Peasley Farm, N7271 Hwy 12: Head ~2 miles north of Black River Falls on Hwy 12 toward Merrillan. Look for UW-Extension signs by farm driveway. For more information contact the Jackson County Extension office (715) 284-4257.
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As of Tuesday, Washington gives same-sex spouses the same rights as heterosexual couples. A full legalization of gay marriage could follow, some say.
Washington began recognizing gay marriages performed in other states Tuesday – a move that is being called a potential first step toward allowing same-sex couples to wed in the nation’s capital.
Moreover, Washington would be a unique prize in the battle over gay marriage. Not only does it bring the issue to where the nation’s lawmakers live – making it part of the city's culture – but it also marks gay marriage’s first foray into a predominately black community.
Washington’s city council passed the law to give married same-sex couples the same rights as heterosexual couples by a 12-to-1 margin in May – a vote that supporters hail as significant.
“Nationally, anti-gay rights activists have had a great deal of success in encouraging black voters to oppose gay rights, partially because [gay rights] are seen – incorrectly – as a ‘white issue,’” writes Adam Serwer on the website of American Prospect, a liberal magazine.
“But in Washington, D.C., the diverse composition of the marriage-equality movement means that marriage-equality activists don't have to ‘reach out’ to the black community, because they're already part of it," he adds.
But black leaders have said that the 12-to-1 vote is not reflective of the community at large. In a city where 56 percent of residents are African-American, there is little chance a gay-marriage law would be approved if put to voters, says Derek McCoy, a pastor at Hope Christian Church in suburban Washington.
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So That's What's Been Ruining The T V Shows
Thu May 03 15:28:00 BST 2012 by stib
No, TV shows are still shot at the normal rate. They've been shooting TV the same rate since they started broadcasting it: 60 fields / second if you live in one of the obscure parts of the globe that uses NTSC or 50 fields / second for the rest of the world. The reason I say fields rather than frames is that each "frame" of a TV signal is actually split into two fields, separated in time, but comprising of only half the picture. The fields are interlaced, i.e. you see the even lines of pixels and then 1/60th (or 50th) of a second later you see the odd ones (in the analogue days of course you just saw lines, there were no pixels).
This was a clever workaround to deal with bandwidth limitations in the early days of TV broadcasting, but now is just something that annoys editors.
The reason why films look more filmic is because they aren't interlaced, so they show a whole frame, but at half the rate.
The reason why TV shows are too visually intense is simple, and it also explains why popular music isn't any good any more and the politicians just keep getting stupider: you're getting old.
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Parental Decision Making:
A lumbar puncture is the only way to diagnose meningitis and a delay in treatment could cause significant harm to the child. Complications from the procedure are very rare, and the benefit in this case is likely to be substantial. There is not time to obtain an ethics consult or court order. The physician should attempt to address the parents' misconceptions about lumbar punctures and to reassure them about the safety of the procedure and perhaps offer to use appropriate pain control methods. A second opinion from another physician may prove helpful.
Case 2 Discussion
Should these efforts not result in parental permission, the physician is justified in proceeding with the procedure and treatment of the child. While parental authority to make medical decisions for their children is broad, it does not include choices that may seriously harm their children. As long as the physician has used reasonable clinical judgment in determining the need for the lumbar puncture, legal liability should be minimal.
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Americans are living longer than ever before, which means baby boomers are doing double duty caring for both parents and children. NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman reports.
Each morning, 48-year-old Troy Prater starts his day by getting breakfast for his teenage triplets. On weekdays he checks homework and then hurries them off to school. Then it’s back home to take care of his mom, Ella, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. Life, Prater says, “is organized chaos.”
Prater is among the millions of Americans who have stepped up to do the right thing and take care of family members who can’t take care of themselves. Unfortunately, most caregivers are spread so thin that they don’t have time to take care of their own needs, NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman reports.
“Caregivers don’t go to the dentist; they don’t get mammograms or annual checkups,” says Melissa Gartenberg Livney, a clinical
psychologist with the PENN Memory Center at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. “So they get sick.”
Even worse, Livney says, “there’s some evidence that this kind of stress can contribute to the onset of dementia" which is why she and others are trying to encourage caregivers to get help, to find ways to take breaks, and to make and keep their own doctors’ appointments.
A single father and sole caregiver to his mother suffering from Alzheimer's, Troy Prater is one of a growing number of caregivers providing care to two generations.
How many people have stepped up to take care of a family member?
One survey found that nearly one third of American households had someone serving as an unpaid family caregiver. That adds up to almost 40 million households with a caregiver present, according to the 2009 survey conducted by the National Alliance for Caregiving in conjunction with the AARP.
Many of those caregivers are dealing with Alzheimer’s, which Livney says can be incredibly stressful.
"Alzheimer's disease is 10 or 15 years of slow and steady loss of the person you once knew," she says. "Caregivers often suffer in silence and feel guilty when they don't feel up to the work."
Currently, there are 5 million Americans who have been diagnosed with the disease, says Beth Kallmyer, vice president of constituent services at the Alzheimer’s Association. “And we estimate that there are 15 million people caring for them.”
Unfortunately, the number of Alzheimer's patients is growing. The Alzheimer’s Association estimates that there will be 16 million Americans with the disease by mid-century if nothing changes. And that means there will be even more of us taking care of spouses and parents suffering from dementia.
Prater, who juggles caregiving along with his normal responsibilities as a dad, acknowledges the dual roles can be very taxing.
“I’m running on adrenaline,” he says. “I’ve lost quite a few pounds.”
What's the answer to getting caregivers to care for themselves?
People like Prater need to ask for help, Kallmyer says. But most seem to feel that caregiving is something they need to do on their own. And that's a setup for disaster, she says.
“When you’re taking care of someone over a period of time, you can’t just soldier on,” Kallmyer says. “At some point your health will be impacted and that will keep you from being the best caregiver you can be. We often ask people, ‘If you get sick and land in the hospital then what is going to happen?’”
Kallmyer suspects that the urge to go it alone is part of the American character. She’d like to see that change.
So would Livney.
"[Caregivers] need to allow themselves to not be perfect," she says.
They also need to learn to look after their own needs.
“People need to give themselves permission to take care of themselves,” says Livney. “That’s what we focus on. We don’t spend much time talking about the disease and functional aspects of caring for someone with dementia. We try to help people understand how to take care of themselves."
The Alzheimer's Association's Maria Carillo describes the difficulties the disease poses not only to those who suffer from it, but to caregivers.
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Geologist discovers martian mineral
(NC&T/QU) Geologist Ron Peterson's findings will be reported in the October issue of the journal, American Mineralogist. Dr. Peterson, who was invited to Houston last fall to present his original findings at the Johnson Space Center, continues to work with NASA scientists on Mars research.
The new mineral, meridianiite, is unusual because it is a planetary mineral and also thought to exist on the moons of Jupiter.
Also on the research team are Bruce Madu from the B.C. Ministry of Energy, Mines, and Petroleum Resources, Queen's Chemistry Professor Herb Shurvell, and high school student Will Nelson, from Ascroft, B.C.
The Queen's discovery was inspired by information sent back from Mars by the Mars Exploration Rover (MER), Opportunity, indicating that magnesium sulfate is present on that planet's surface. The rover also sent back photographs of voids in rocks that are thought to have originally contained crystals.
This supports the team's theory that regions of Mars were once covered with water, which later froze and then evaporated, leaving a residue of crystal molds in the sediment.
|Geology professor Ron Peterson discovered natural crystals in a frozen BC pond similar to ones that he grew in his garage -- and are also believed to exist on Mars. (Photo: Ron Peterson)|
Dr. Peterson wondered whether the same mineral might be found on Earth. In the fall of 2006 he located some ponds near Ashcroft in the Okanagan Valley of B.C., from which magnesium sulfate had once been mined. He then enlisted the help of a local high-school chemistry student to send him mineral samples from the ponds, by mail, throughout the fall.
In February 2007 Dr. Peterson visited the frozen ponds himself, and brought back crystals in a cooler packed with dry ice. These natural crystals were put through a series of tests, and in June meridianiite was approved as a new valid mineral species by the Commission on New Mineral names and Mineral Nomenclature of the International Mineralogical Association.
"The name was chosen to reflect the locality on Mars where a rover had observed crystal molds in sedimentary rock that are thought to be caused by minerals that have since dehydrated or dissolved," says Dr. Peterson. "Observations obtained by using the rover wheels to dig trenches into the Martian soil show that magnesium sulfate minerals have been deposited below the surface."
Between 20 and 30 new minerals are identified each year, the researcher notes, but "these often involve rare elements." Meridianiite, on the other hand, is formed from the common materials magnesium, sulfate and water.
A geologist who normally studies mine waste, Dr. Peterson admits he has been a "space geek" since childhood, and says that working on this project has been exciting. "It began with a moment of insight – based on my previous geological experience – and now I have the chance to collaborate with experts from around the world who are studying the geology of the Martian surface."
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By Stefan Rahmstorf, Michael Mann, Ray Bradley, William Connolley, David Archer, and Caspar Ammann
Global cooling appears to be the “flavour of the month”. First, a rather misguided media discussion erupted on whether global warming had stopped, based on the observed temperatures of the past 8 years or so (see our post). Now, an entirely new discussion is capturing the imagination, based on a group of scientists from Germany predicting a pause in global warming last week in the journal Nature (Keenlyside et al. 2008).
Specifically, they make two forecasts for global temperature, as discussed in the last paragraphs of their paper and shown in their Figure 4 (see below). The first forecast concerns the time interval 2000-2010, while the second concerns the interval 2005-2015 (*). For these two 10-year averages, the authors make the following prediction:
“… the initialised prediction indicates a slight cooling relative to 1994-2004 conditions”
Their graph shows this: temperatures in the two forecast intervals (green points shown at 2005 and 2010) are almost the same and are both lower than observed in 1994-2004 (the end of the red line in their graph).
New York Times, BBC News, Reuters, Bloomberg and so on), because of its seeming contradiction with global warming. The authors emphasise this aspect in their own media release, which was titled: Will Global Warming Take a Short Break?
That this cooling would just be a temporary blip and would change nothing about global warming goes without saying and has been amply discussed elsewhere (e.g. here). But another question has been rarely discussed: will this forecast turn out to be correct?
We think not – and we are prepared to bet serious money on this. We have double-checked with the authors: they say they really mean this as a serious forecast, not just as a methodological experiment. If the authors of the paper really believe that their forecast has a greater than 50% chance of being correct, then they should accept our offer of a bet; it should be easy money for them. If they do not accept our bet, then we must question how much faith they really have in their own forecast.
The bet we propose is very simple and concerns the specific global prediction in their Nature article. If the average temperature 2000-2010 (their first forecast) really turns out to be lower or equal to the average temperature 1994-2004 (*), we will pay them € 2500. If it turns out to be warmer, they pay us € 2500. This bet will be decided by the end of 2010. We offer the same for their second forecast: If 2005-2015 (*) turns out to be colder or equal compared to 1994-2004 (*), we will pay them € 2500 – if it turns out to be warmer, they pay us the same. The basis for the temperature comparison will be the HadCRUT3 global mean surface temperature data set used by the authors in their paper.
To be fair, the bet needs an escape clause in case a big volcano erupts or a big meteorite hits the Earth and causes cooling below the 1994-2004 level. In this eventuality, the forecast of Keenlyside et al. could not be verified any more, and the bet is off.
The bet would also need a neutral arbiter – we propose, for example, the director of the Hadley Centre, home of the data used by Keenlyside et al., or a committee of neutral colleagues. This neutral arbiter would also decide whether a volcano or meteorite impact event is large enough as to make the bet obsolete.
We will discuss the scientific reasons for our assessment here another time – first we want to hear from Keenlyside et al. whether they accept our bet. Our friendly challenge is out – we hope they will accept it in good sportsmanship.
(*) We adopt here the definition of the 10-year intervals as in their paper, which is from 1 November of the first year to 31 October of the last year. I.e.: 2000-2010 means 1 November 2000 until 31 October 2010.
Update: We have now published part 2 of this bet with our scientific arguments.
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The tangled mess of Darfur and Sudan continues with factions battling one another and themselves. UN – African Union, efforts to bring together various factions continue running into one obstacle after another as thousands die. The joint AU-UN team is trying to get people talking rather than fighting. The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudan Liberation Army(SLA) are not only opposing one another but within their own ranks several factions have broken away to create independent power groups. JEM Chief Ahmed Tugod Lissan said if they want us to come to peace negotiations, they have to remove the other rebel factions. He also accused the UN and AU of siding with the Sudan government. Meanwhile, the SLA head Abdallah Yehya said he needed time to get things straightened out among the various factions within his own group before there could be meaningful dialogue.
Some factions also object to having Libya be the site of meetings since they don’t trust its leader, Gadaffi. “Libya is not a neutral place,” said SLA commander Jar-el-Neby. But, another rebel leader, SLA chairperson and founder Abdel Wahad Mohamed el-Nur, who is supported by many people in Darfur, said he would not attend any meetings until UN forces are deployed in Darfur. It is quite clear confusion is the only constant in the morass of Sudan and Darfur. As these factions and interest groups argue and refuse to talk, thousands of people continue dying in Darfur. In a sense, the dying are the ones who should be at the negotiating table, but they will not be heard anymore than peace is present in the quagmire of Darfur.
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Obama and Democrats Forsake Lessons of the Past
Obama and Democrats Forsake Lessons of the Past
By Lurita Doan
One of the worrisome aspects of President Obama’s peculiar brand of leadership is to watch how radically he and most Democrats in Congress have broken with the wisdom of liberal, Democrat leaders of the past. Media wags, largely ignorant or mostly indifferent to history, will tell you that the growing alarm over Obama’s leadership is all about style over substance. Don’t believe it. Obama and most of the Democrat congressional leaders seem interested in pandering to special interest groups, with little care for the overall economic health of the nation. They have betrayed their history and are mere shadows of their Democrat predecessors. Americans know it too.
The Democrat leadership has strayed far from their once-rational roots. For example, when enacting the landmark social welfare programs in 1935, (Social Security Act) and again in 1965 enacting Title 18 (Medicare), Democrats were almost unanimously concerned about the potential costs for future generations.
A reading of the floor speeches at the time shows that while Democrats wanted to expand programs for the needy. None were willing to do that, if it would erode the economic vitality of the entire nation. These earlier Democrats were moored by their concern for the financial health of the nation, the well-being of small businesses and concern about the potential for undue burdens to the American taxpayer that might arise as a result of far reaching entitlement legislation.
In August 1935, President Roosevelt said: “We can never insure 100 percent of the population against 100 percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family.”
Roosevelt’s endorsement of the payroll tax to create an earned right that would “act as a protection to future administrations against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy” is a far cry from the current Democrat drumbeat that entitlements must cover all Americans (and illegals) regardless of the cost to the country.
In 1965, Democrats were clearly worried about the impact of the Medicare legislation. Medicare was viewed as an experiment that might not be sustainable, and therefore needed to be carefully reviewed. Democrat congressman, Wilbur Mills, then Chairman of Ways and Means argued: “when tax rates are as high as they are now, we must take into account the fact that any changes we make will inevitably have far reaching economic effects…It would be folly… To nationalize health care as some have proposed, and thus federalize medical personnel, institutions and procedures—eventually if not at the start—also would amount to a stunning new financial burden for every American taxpayer.”
It is also important to note that in 1965, Democrat supporters for expanded entitlement benefits realized they might be wrong. Reading though the debate in Congressional Register of 1965, one sees humility and open-mindedness. But, as Pelosi shows, the current Democrat leadership are rigid ideologues. To placate the ravening appetites of their left-wing extremists, special interest groups, they are willing to ruin the nation.
President Obama’s vision of America calls for an ever-expanding welfare state with ever-increasing government handouts and bailouts, even as the financial health of the nation teeters on the brink of insolvency. Then, to rub salt in the wounds of the fiscally conservative, Obama lectures on the need to address our “unsustainable” government spending, even as he continues to press for more spending aimed at supporting loyalists’ union causes, his own special interests, and dubious spending schemes.
Democrats from the 60s seemed determined to balance their desire for expansive entitlements with a respect the needs of those taxpayers--the businesses and workers-- whose taxes pay for it all. Above all, there was a cautious consciousness that huge, federally run government programs are rarely cost-effective and rarely operated efficiently.
In June 1966, discussing the implementation of the Medicare legislation, President Lyndon Johnson said “Washington is no place to patrol matters in 50 States. The farther you get away from the community, the less efficient you are and the more expensive you are.”
On the other hand, President Obama’s recent road tour (with stops at Facebook, Oprah’s couch and NYC) to promote the need for additional taxes to pay for spending schemes and to increase the debt ceiling without implementing dramatic spending cuts, reeked of demagoguery and implying that the federal government in Washington, is better suited to care for citizens than the citizens themselves. Or at least, that seemed to be his explanation, for the buzz-words adopted by the Left of “shared sacrifice” and “fair share” are deceptive. Just send your money to Washington and all will be taken care of and only the “rich” will pay; the middle class, citizen will be unaffected.
Is there any wonder why Americans are increasingly worried? Modern Democrats have lost their way and have become selfish, irresponsible and blind. They make intellectually dishonest pleas to protect unsustainable social welfare programs without the slightest interest in finding an honest way to pay for them.
Reading the speeches of Obama and other senior Democrat leaders gives one the distinct impression that they are far more interested in rewarding their core constituents than in protecting the nation’s financial health. Democrats would bankrupt the nation rather than make prudent and long-overdue changes to over-generous entitlement programs.
And that is why Americans are so worried.
To read another article by Lurita Doan, click here.
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I inserted some comments to your statements. Hope another viewpoint helps.
>I would like some feedback on what your expectations are for your
>students when it comes to classroom management. Below are my
>expectations, maybe i am too hard.
>1. Follow are rules lined out in school discipline management book.
>2. Students are responsible for their own daily supplies - pen, pencil,
>sketchbook, I dont even loan them out.
I collect the pencils kids leave behind and put them in a cup on my desk for
them to claim, but allow students who lost theirs to our pencil devouring
sharpener or in the hall to borrow from that cup. My personal pencils have
a clip and my name on them and I don't loan them out.
>3. I have high expectations hoping to get above average instead of low
>expectations and barely getting that.
I tell the kids that some people are really good at drawing, some at
painting, some at design. If they don't think they are good at art, then I
tell them they just haven't found their strength yet, but don't worry, they
will. Maybe they will be good at interpreting the art of others, perhaps
they will discover a sensitivity to color. Relating the art experience to
real life uses for a talent gives them a direct application for a "talent",
allowing them to think artistically and produce in a variety of ways
>4. I answer all questions through questions when I can, to force
>students to find it themselves from previous knowledge, they hate that,
>just give them the answer.
I do it too, following a warm smile and the suggestion that they really
already know the answer, they just have to find it. I also encourage them
to talk it over amongst themselves to solve a problem. They teach each
other and reinforce their own knowledge.
>5. I dont provide answers to questions such as "What color should I
>use?" I feel if I do, I have done the thinking and they are only going
>through the motions.
See above in first response.
>6. Students should stay on task at all times, concentrating on work, a
>large amount of unnecessary visiting hinders thinking about what they
>are doing. Now discussing work that is going on is different. I
>constantly monitor students progress, keeping them on task.
I approach this in a very similar way. I just try to take a positive and
affirming approach consistently to help them develop some confidence in
their problem solving skills. Adolescents and teens are so tender and tear
themselves down enough that they not only don't need help with that, you
almost have to counter balance that in tangible and specific ways to nurture
them into growth.
>I could go on, anyone care to add to this or take away from my approach.
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