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A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the southern coast of Panama on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The center of the quake was roughly 215 miles south of David, Panama, and almost 330 miles southwest of the capital, Panama City, the USGS said.
It was an estimated six miles deep.
The USGS had initially given the quake a magnitude of 6.6.
There was no tsunami threat, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. There were also no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
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A half truth is a whole lie.
Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Respect for the truth is an acquired taste.
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth
Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Error is just as important a condition of life as truth.
Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error.
All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
To know the Truth, to love the Truth, and to live the Truth is the whole duty of man.
Truth is the daughter of God, and in all her attributes God-like and eternal. Truth never depreciates in value.
Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion.
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Bad luck - you were wrong this time!
Respiration is a chemical reaction that occurs in every cell in your body. It takes glucose and oxygen and turns it into energy, water and carbon dioxide.
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As rebel forces made their long-awaited assault Tripoli in late August, US international broadcasters also moved in to provide viewers, listeners and Internet visitors eyewitness reporting on the fall of Libya’s longtime ruler, Muammar Qaddafi.
From the first protests in mid-February, Alhurra TV’s correspondents have been covering the news from the front lines, reporting from Libyan rebel strongholds such as Benghazi, Brega and now Tripoli. Alhurra has also provided extensive coverage of the challenges facing Libyans not involved in the fighting, such as the lack of healthcare services and fuel, and the plight of mothers searching for their missing sons.
Alhurra’s correspondents in Benghazi have interviewed key members of the Transitional National Council, including TNC head Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, about the future of Libya. In addition to footage collected by the network’s correspondents, Alhurra are incorporating citizen journalism into their newscasts, such as videos recorded and submitted by Libyans via mobile phone.
Radio Free Europe and Voice of America have also contributed reporting and penetrating analyses of the situation in Libya. On August 25, RFE writer-at-large James Kirchick joined VOA Cairo correspondent Elizabeth Arrott and Moscow correspondent James Brooke, a veteran Middle East hand from his many years at the New York Times, and crossed into Libya to cover the rebel advance into Tripoli. Kirchick described his experiences during the journey in articles published by “Foreign Policy” and “The Weekly Standard.” They have produced multiple scripted TV and radio packages each day as well as soundslides, photo galleries and Q&As, which are available at www.voanews.com and www.rferl.org respectively.
For the August 26 episode of its weekly Arabic-language talk show “Eye on Democracy,” Alhurra interviewed both local and U.S.-based Libya experts about the from the U.S. and the North African country to examine the next steps for Libya. One of the experts, human rights activist Fathi Tarbel, whose arrest sparked the February 16th protests in Benghazi, told Alhurra that there are daunting challenges to build a Libyan state and called for the release of frozen assets to the new Libyan government.
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Also you might want to launch the remains into space on a random trajectory.
On Fri 08 Jul 2005 16:22, Liam McDermott wrote:
> ya, but it would be a balls.
>> if ya want to be really paranoid you could burn the drive afterwards.
> that should prevent any form of recovery, if its completely burnt
>> On 7/8/05, Joe Fitzsimons <joseph.fitzsimons at nuim.ie> wrote:
> > I wouldn't have thought so, since its mostly just a line down the centre
> > of the disk that gets damages. You would expect the other parts to retain
> > there magnetization, so, at least in principal, data could be recovered
> > off the remains of the disk.
> > Joe
> > On Friday 08 July 2005 15:51, Niall O Broin wrote:
> > > A member of this list gets his company's old drives cut in two with an
> > > angle grinder. I'd say that's a pretty reliable means of destroying
> > > data.
> > >
> > >
> > > Niall
> > --
> > Irish Linux Users' Group
> > http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug/
Dept. of Computer Sc.
Maintained by the ILUG website team. The aim of Linux.ie is to
support and help commercial and private users of Linux in Ireland. You can
display ILUG news in your own webpages, read backend
information to find out how. Networking services kindly provided by HEAnet, server kindly donated by
Dell. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds,
used with permission. No penguins were harmed in the production or maintenance
of this highly praised website. Looking for the
Indian Linux Users' Group? Try here. If you've read all this and aren't a lawyer: you should be!
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A majority of Canadians outside Quebec think the country would fare just as well or better without the francophone province, while almost three-quarters feel the province will never be satisfied with whatever concessions the federal government may make. These are the findings of a new poll which indicates Canadians have little sympathy for Quebec.
Léger Marketing conducted this survey for the QMI Agency between February 28 and March 5, polling 2,509 Canadians.
Though 80 per cent of Canadians feel that everything should be done to ensure everyone has a sense of belonging to Canada, 75 per cent say they have grown tired of the national unity debate.
But they also think the waters between Ottawa and Quebec City have calmed. Fully two-thirds of Canadians outside the province think relations have improved or stayed the same between the two governments. This is in sharp contrast to the 54 per cent of Quebecers who feel they have worsened.
A plurality of citizens in the rest of the country would rather not bother. Though 39 per cent see Quebec as an asset, 43 per cent think it is a burden for Canada. That proportion increases to 57 per cent in Alberta.
More than any other province or region, Quebec is identified as the part of the country that gets more than its fair share from confederation by Canadians living outside Quebec (36 per cent). Quebecers, on the other hand, identified the West as the most spoiled region (37 per cent).
However, Canadians do identify Quebec as being different from the rest of the country. A slim majority said so outside of the province, while 82 per cent of Quebecers agreed they are different. But 72 per cent of Canadians outside of Quebec said the province will always be dissatisfied, no matter what concessions the federal government may make.
This is perhaps the reason why 21 per cent of non-Quebece Canadians feel Canada would be better off without the province, while 40 per cent say the country would fare just as well. Fully 73 per cent think Quebec would be worse off on its own, compared to only 43 per cent of Quebecers who think the same thing.
Despite a majority feeling Canada would not suffer without Quebec, only 16 per cent of Canadians in the rest of the country want Quebec to become a separate country. Three-quarters of respondents want Quebec to remain Canadian, compared to 45 per cent of Quebecers who support independence.
But little more than one in 10 Canadians outside Quebec believe the province will achieve that independence, compared to one-third of Quebecers. But, if Quebec did vote in favour of sovereignty and demanded recognition by the United Nations as an independent country, 41 per cent of Canadians would want the federal government to block the request. Only 36 per cent would accept the demand. This is in sharp contrast to the 70 per cent of Quebecers (which includes both sovereigntists and federalists) who would want Canada to recognize this hypothetical referendum’s result. Only 16 per cent of Quebecers hope the federal government would try to prevent the province gaining independence.
The relationship that exists between Quebecers and Canadians in the rest of the country continues to be a complicated one. The likelihood national unity will become a hot topic in Canada in the near future appears remote, but the gap separating the two solitudes appears as wide as ever.
Éric Grenier taps The Pulse of federal and regional politics for Huffington Post Canada readers on most Tuesdays and Fridays. Grenier is the author of ThreeHundredEight.com, covering Canadian politics, polls, and electoral projections.
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Association ou organisation à but non lucratif
Dernière mise à jour: 17 févr. 2012 01:31:38
The Lefferts Gardens Charter School (LGCS) is environmental science school with a curriculum geared towards developing academically motivated and civic-minded students to succeed in competitive high school and college programs. The proximity of several community-based environmental institutions provides a unique opportunity for learning that extends beyond the classroom. Graduates of LGCS will leave with an understanding of the relationship among science, the environment, and the everyday world.
The interdisciplinary environmental science curriculum fosters students' capacities to think critically about their environment both locally and globally. The use of the scientific method of inquiry complements our research-based reading/language arts and math programs. LGCS draws heavily on local resources such as the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens and the Prospect Park Zoo to create on-site experiential learning opportunities. We believe children will best succeed in a school environment that brings together parents, teachers, and community resources. Significant staff planning and professional development is necessary to build connections among reading, writing, math, science, social studies and the arts to create a truly interdisciplinary curriculum that will benefit children across the learning spectrum. Intensive training on administration, analysis, and follow-up of classroom assessment will be a significant part of summer professional development and supported year-round with allocated staff time. The science curriculum and assessments will be aligned with theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) standards as well as New York State standards. We support the core philosophy of the AAAS: The first priority of science education is basic science literacy for all students, including those in groups that have traditionally been served poorly by science education, so that as adults they can participate fully in a world that is increasingly being shaped by science and technology.
Lefferts Gardens Charter School n'a pas d'annonce.
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An American Success Story:
The Pope House of Raleigh, NC --
By studying An American Success Story: The Pope House of Raleigh, NC students meet Dr. Manassa T. Pope, an African-American doctor and entrepreneur in the early 20th century, and learn about his efforts to gain civil rights well before the modern Civil Rights Movement. Those interested in learning more will find that the Internet offers a variety of interesting materials.
The Pope House and family
Visit the Pope
House Museum Foundation website for more information about the history
of the house and the Pope family, and the ongoing efforts to turn the
property into a museum.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress' American Memory website offers a wide variety of resources about African-American history.
National Park Service Travel Itinerary
The Discover Our Shared Heritage online travel itinerary, We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement provides information on many places (in states across the U.S.) listed in the National Register of Historic Places for their association with the modern Civil Rights Movement. The travel itinerary Raleigh: A Capital City provides information on various National Register sites throughout Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina, including the Dr. M.T. Pope House.
Racial Desegregation in Public Education in the U.S.
In 1998, Congress authorized the National Park Service to prepare a National Historic Landmarks Theme Study on the history of racial desegregation in public education. The purpose of the study is to identify historic places that best exemplify and illustrate the historical movement to provide for a racially nondiscriminatory education. This movement is defined and shaped by constitutional law that first authorized public school segregation and later authorized desegregation. Properties identified in this theme study are associated with events that both led to and followed these judicial decisions.
African-American material culture
The Online Academy at the Smithsonian's Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture contains artifacts and information on the role material culture plays in helping us to better understand the African-American historical and cultural experience.
Association of African American Museums
This organizational site provides a centralized list of various African-American museums throughout the country.
American Radio Works-–Remembering Jim Crow
Remembering Jim Crow is an online documentary glimpse at the system of Jim Crow explored through text, pictures, audio clips and slide shows. Sponsored by American Radio Works, the web site features personal accounts offering different perspectives on how the system of Jim Crow affected individuals throughout the country. The site also offers a sampling of Jim Crow laws, with a particular section addressing those specifically related to education.
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Data Translation announced the release of the DT9828 low-cost USB-powered module for temperature and voltage measurements. The DT9828 is first in a series of Peerless modules.
The DT9828 offers eight differential analog inputs for thermocouple and voltage measurements, and eight isolated digital I/O (4 in/4 out). It provides up to 600 S/s sampling, ideal for low-speed signals common to temperature applications, the company says. It features a 24-bit ADC with an input range of ±156 mV, plus ±500 V galvanic isolation.
QuickDAQ 2013 ready-to-measure application software is included with the unit, and allows users to acquire, analyze, and display data. Additionally, all Data Translation devices include driver and software support, and interface tools for LabVIEW and MATLAB programmers.
For more information, visit Data Translation.
Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.
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Excellent chart from Catherine Rampbell aggregated National Federation of Independent Business survey data going back to 1986 on what small business owners say is their number one problem:
Earlier today, Eli Lake wrote “Dear U.S. electorate, Your elites are not really as bad as your recent voting suggests. Give us a break. I mean some of this your fault too.” That’s clever, but I think it’s mistaken. The elite really is responsible, but non-elites are responding in a non-elite kind of way that doesn’t put its finger on the precise problem.
But the main problem here is that the elites who control monetary policy in the United States believe that they could combat this problem, but choose not to do so, preferring to merely say that if things get much worse then they’ll step up. Meanwhile, the elites whose job it is to confirm new nominees to the monetary elite are too lazy to do so and the elites in the political press are largely ignoring the issue. It’s a huge problem. People are upset because things are going poorly. Things are going poorly because businesses don’t have customers.
But the Fed can affect inflation and forward-looking inflation expectations and could, by doing so, increase spending among those who have money and increase the rate at which the indebted repair their balance sheets. These moves would, in turn, boost incomes which would reinforce those trends. And nobody’s noticing the fact that even the Fed’s biggest hawks don’t actually deny that monetary stimulus could put millions of people back to work.
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The company, established by Ján Sandrik in the small Slovak city of Dolní Hamry in 1895, focused on producing small series of silver art objects. The increasing financial problems, however, forced the firm to shift its orientation to the cheaper nickel silver and to launch the production of dishware and drinking glass series. This significant change occurred under the management of Jan Peterka in 1903 and it soon turned Sandrik to a successful competitor of the Austrian Bendorfer, especially on Czech and Polish markets. The artistically most successful period for Sandrik was the inter-war period when the company received a boost from its firearms production during the First World War. At that time, many designs of the leading representatives of Czech avant-garde were realized – for example architects Rudolf Stockar, Bohumír Južnič and Ladislav Sutnar.
Apart from nickel silver and its combinations with glass, the company also succeeded in producing chromium-plated steel after the example of Wiener Werkstätte and Artěl, turning them into a symbol of the modern era. This is also how they were presented at the 1923 international exhibition in the Italian Monza and in Brno in 1928. Between 1953 and 1956, the company was nationalized and its goldsmith’s and silversmith’s workshops were transferred under the national firm Kovotep. The main production program of the company between the 1960s and 1990s was based on chrome steel.
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Shizuo Kambayashi, Associated Press
TOKYO — A new book claims that the eldest son of North Korea's late leader Kim Jong Il believes the impoverished regime is in danger of collapse and that his young half-brother, chosen to lead after Kim's death, is merely a figurehead.
The book by Tokyo-based journalist Yoji Gomi went on sale Wednesday. He says it is based primarily on email exchanges he had with Kim Jong Nam over many years.
The book, titled "My Father, Kim Jong Il and Me," drew immediate attention as a rare view into the family that has led the secretive country for decades — though Kim Jong Nam is thought to be estranged from his family and the workings of government. Since Kim Jong Il's death Dec. 17, North Korea has been led by his youngest son, Kim Jong Un.
"Jong Un will just be a figurehead," the book quotes Kim Jong Nam as saying. It claims he said the collapse of North Korea's economy is likely unless it initiates reforms, which could also bring it down.
"Without reforms and libereralization, the collapse of the economy is within sight," he quoted Kim as saying. "But reforms and opening up could also invite dangers for the regime."
Gomi, a Tokyo Shimbun journalist who had assignments in Seoul and Beijing, claims he exchanged 150 emails and has spent a total of seven hours interviewing Kim Jong Nam, who was seen as a possible successor until he fell out of favor with Kim Jong Il in 2001.
Gomi says he met Kim Jong Nam in person in 2004, in Beijing, and twice last year. Gomi was not immediately available for comment on the book.
Not long after Kim Jong Il's funeral, Jong Nam suggested in an interview with a Japanese TV network that he opposes a hereditary transfer of power to his young half-brother, who is believed to be in his late 20s.
That was a rare public sign of discord in the tightly choreographed succession process, but analysts said Jong Nam spends so much time outside his native land that his opinion carries little weight.
Kim Jong Nam, who did not attend the funeral, made similar comments in his communications with Gomi, the book claims.
"As a matter of common sense, a transfer to the third generation is unacceptable," Kim Jong Nam was quoted as saying in an email dated this month. "The power elite that have ruled the country will continue to be in control."
He added: "I have my doubts about whether a person with only two years of grooming as a leader can govern."
Party and military officials have moved quickly to install Kim Jong Un as "supreme leader" of the people, party and military.
But the new ruler's youth and quick ascension to power have raised questions in foreign capitals about how ready he is to inherit rule over this nation of 24 million with a nuclear program as well as chronic trouble feeding all its people.
A senior North Korean party official, however, told the AP in a recent interview that Kim Jong Un was ready to lead and had spent years working closely with his late father and helped him make key policy decisions on economic and military affairs.
Kim Jong Nam is widely believed to have dropped out of the succession race after embarrassing the government in 2001, when he was caught trying to enter Japan on a fake passport. He said he wanted to visit Tokyo Disneyland.
Jong Nam, the oldest of three brothers thought to be in the running, is the closest thing the country has to an international playboy and is the only one who speaks to the foreign media. He travels freely and spends much of his time in China or the country's special autonomous region of Macau — the center of Asian gambling with its Las Vegas-style casinos.
Experts said he will most likely continue living abroad.
Kim Jong Il is known to have three sons — one from his second wife and two from his third.
Kim often derided the middle son, Jong Chol, as "girlish," a former Kim Jong Il chef, who goes by the pen name Kenji Fujimoto, said in a 2003 memoir.
AP writer Foster Klug contributed to this report from Seoul.
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WASHINGTON -- A new study of U.S. congregations found that some factors are more prevalent than others in spurring the growth of a congregation, among them the age of a congregation's members, family activities and a commitment to recruiting new members.
But the study's author noted that only a minority of congregations of all denominations are actually growing.
"There were about 30-35 percent that were experiencing the highest level of growth," said C. Kirk Hadaway, congregational research officer for the Episcopal Church and chair of the research task force for the Cooperative Congregational Studies Partnership, the study's sponsors.
"There's as many congregations that are plateaued and declining (as) are experiencing rapid growth," Hadaway said during a Jan. 31 webinar on the study, "Facts on Growth."
"A relatively small percentage of congregations are sort of driving the growth to the extent that is occurring in U.S. society. It's not really clear to what extent growth is occurring," he added.
Hadaway said that of the congregations surveyed, only 6.4 percent were either Catholic or Orthodox, but that the numbers were weighted to reflect their proportion in the U.S. population.
"Facts on Growth" is the fourth in a series of national congregational surveys that began in 2000. The sample for this latest study included 11,077 congregations.
Faiths represented included the Catholic Church, United Methodist Church, Southern Baptist Convention, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Church of the Nazarene, Baha'i faith, Episcopal Church, Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints, Muslim, Orthodox and Jewish congregations, and nondenominational and black churches.
One category where a majority of churches are growing are new congregations, those founded since 1993; 54 percent reported growth. They "work harder at trying to grow," Hadaway said. "Unfortunately, there are not that many newer congregations."
Also, half of the congregations surveyed reported growth when church membership was younger, where members ages 50 and up made up less than 20 percent of overall membership.
The younger the congregation, "the more likely you are to grow," Hadaway said.
Among congregations that participated in "innovative" worship styles, 56 percent reported growth. "An evangelical church is more likely to be on the higher end," Hadaway added.
Sixty-three percent of congregations that said recruiting new members was a priority reported growth.
"It doesn't necessarily mean organized evangelism," Hadaway said, "but it means reaching out and inviting them when they begin to attend."
When it comes to following up, the more tools a congregation uses to reach people, the more likely that congregation is to grow. Of those using just one or two tools, 31 percent grow; of those using five or six tools 57 percent grow. Tools include websites, social media, emails and mailings.
"Nearly all churches and congregations have websites," Hadaway said. "That isn't really related to growth at all, but contact is important."
Similarly, of congregations that said parenting activities and marriage enrichment were a specialty for their community, 64 percent reported growth. And among those churches saying that their leader spent "a great deal" of time involved in evangelization, 51 percent reported growth.
"Denomination matters," Hadaway said. "Facts on Growth" showed that 29 percent of Catholic and Orthodox congregations were growing compared to: 19 percent of mainline Protestant congregations; 43 percent of conservative Protestants; 35 percent of "other Christians," including Mormons and the historical peace churches; and 33 percent of non-Christian congregations, including Jews, Muslims and the Baha'i faith.
One surprise in the findings is that the greatest rate of growth -- geographically speaking -- occurred for downtown and center-city congregations, with 46 percent reporting growth. Next were congregations in the outer suburbs, with 40 percent.
"What's happening in cities is that the long-held pattern of decline has reversed itself," Hadaway said, a benefit to churches that stayed put over decades of depopulation. "The implosion of population in downtown areas has changed. Downtowns, they're not as threatening or scary for people to go to. There are more people living in these areas. It marks a change in the overall growth and decline by community. The character of the community in downtown areas has changed dramatically in the last 10 years."
Mark Gray of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University said CARA has done no research on the factors influencing parish growth.
"All that's out there is pretty much anecdote," Gray said, adding many variables would have to be taken into account to determine whether one factor or a combination of factors could be judged to be effective.
"There's no recipe for creating a vibrant, growing parish," Gray said. "I don't think there is any one recipe."
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Career Decision Help
Wondering which career you should choose?
Uncertain about how to get it started?
Need to change your career direction?
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On-line: MyPlan and/or OCIS (Ohio Career Information System)
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If you want to confirm your decision or feel "stuck" then....schedule for a one-on-one consult with a Career Development Specialist
MyPlan An interactive program that helps you discover which occupations would appeal to someone of your temperament, career interests, personal work values, as well as leisure pursuits. You can also find out about salaries, what preparation would be necessary, trends and environments in which the occupation can be found.
OCIS (Ohio Career Information System) provides information on occupations and how best to prepare for them, including information on educational programs at both Ohio and national schools.
Career Decision Boot Camp This popular, four-hour workshop is a smart first step for those in career transition. The workshop will help the undecided examine their desires, abilities, temperament, and personal assets. They will become familiar with resources to find out about employment trends and the requirements of various occupations.
Mini Career Decision Bootcamp for Students Workshops specially designed to give undecided students what they need to make good career and educational decisions.
One-on-one Career Consultation Call our front desk at 440-366-4076 to schedule an appointment.
If you are still undecided after you have completed MyPlan and/or Career Boot Camp, or you want to confirm your decision, you can meet personally with a Career Development Specialist.
The COACH Career Decision Method The "Coach Method" offers this checklist of things, (see below), you need to know to help you make your career decision, and the academic preparation that might well be necessary. Although you might not work through the list in this exact order, you should consider each area.
Take time to explore the web-links. Caution: It is not uncommon to get stuck along the way and need special help. In that case, if you click on the Coach icon, a Career Coach will respond to you.
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Do some investigation of possible careers that interest you! It is important to know what the short-term and long-term employment outlook is for the careers you are considering. You also need to know what the educational requirements are. These websites are great places to start:
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Occupational Outlook Handbook
The Career Interests Game
Round out your fact-finding by shadowing a person in the profession or interviewing someone who is involved in the career you are considering.
what you know about yourself and about the world of work - and how they can fit together.
These links can be very helpful in assessing the information you have gathered. After working through this process, if you still have some confusion, click on the Career Coach so you can be directed to the proper person for help.
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When you have made a career choice, check in with an LCCC Career Development Specialist, Academic Advisor or Counselor to design your plan of study. If possible, plan to get a Work-Based Learning (internship or co/op) experience in your major field before you graduate. It helps confirm your career decision, and gives you a great head-start in your career.
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Tulipmania and the Econo-Cultural Breakdown
[Book Review: Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age by Anne Goldgar • University of Chicago Press • 2007 • 425 pages]
Modern financial history is a long series of spectacular asset bubbles followed by equally dramatic crashes. Before, during, and after, the question always arises — whether it's stocks, bonds, real estate, or collateralized debt obligations — what is the cause of such, as it appears in hindsight, folly?
A testament to this eternal search for the answer is the frequent publishing of new editions of Charles MacKay's 1841 classic book on the subject, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, the latest of which was 2007 (paired with Gustave Le Bon's The Crowd) after a handsome hardback edition with a photo of white tulips adorning the cover was just published in December 2003 by Harriman House, an edition ranked in the top twenty in sales at online bookseller Amazon in the economic-history category.
Economists and investors continue to be fascinated with the episode that the tulips on the cover of MacKay's work represent. But historian Anne Goldgar contends that there were no crowds in Holland bidding up the price of tulip bulbs to absurd levels in the mid-1630s as Mackay contends. In her book, Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age, Goldgar argues that modern financial writers' reliance on Mackay's account of tulipmania is misplaced. Mackay's source was the propagandist Johann Beckmann, whose sources were suspect, according to Goldgar.
In very thorough fashion, Dr. Goldgar, whose specialty is 17th- and 18th-century European cultural and social history, traces Beckmann's various sources and the sources of those sources. Ultimately, Goldgar's exhaustive research convinces her that tulipmania was not all that big a deal as an economic event. After all, the Dutch economy wasn't destroyed after the bust, and despite what some have written, most of those who engaged in the tulip trade lived happily ever after (if they didn't die from the plague, that is). "Tulipmania has always been more a warning than a historical event," claims the author.
Goldgar contends that tulipmania was a social and cultural crisis, not a financial one. She isn't interested in finance and economics, but instead is "interested in print culture, the culture of collecting, and the interaction of society, art and science," according to the King's College London website. Thus Goldgar's Tulipmania is more about Dutch art and society than speculation and price movements.
The author spends a good part of the book developing the case that the collecting of tulips was only an extension of art collecting for but a few in the Dutch upper class. These connoisseurs of flowers, known as liefhebbers, knew each other and in some cases traded flowers with each other. Goldgar paints these liefhebbers not as speculators but as collectors who knew the value of and enjoyed their flowers for aesthetic reasons. Profit was not their motive, but "their concept of rarity, their thrill when they found 'something strange' was always paramount," gushes the author.
But of course it wasn't that simple. After all, Goldgar chronicles numerous lawsuits that were spawned by busted tulip deals. Some of the litigation lasted for years after the bulb price crash in February 1637. There was significant money at stake and there were those who expected tulip-bulb price increases to provide for their heirs. "As trade in tulips heated up, some buyers, at least, wanted whatever could command the highest price," Goldgar admits. "The fact that by this time some tulips could change hands many times before they flowered makes it clear that at this point tulips were valued by some only for their profitability."
Later in Tulipmania, the author further undermines her thesis writing that gambling was a central feature of Dutch culture, and that it "sometimes seemed that the Dutch would make a bet on anything." But then she flip-flops again and cites Brown University economist Peter Garber who contends that tulipmania was not a mania at all, but is explainable by the market fundamentals of supply and demand. "Tulipmania was only irrational after the fact; if the market had held, it would have been supremely sensible to invest one's money in tulip bulbs," writes Goldgar, presumably with a straight face. But even Garber can't explain the price history of the common Witte Croonen bulb, which rose in price twenty-six times in January 1637, only to fall to one-twentieth of its peak price a week later.
Price bubble or not, the author's research of "all the known sales and quarrels about sales," indicates that less than 400 individuals were involved in the tulip trade in the three major cities of Holland. Interestingly, Mennonites often did this collecting of, and ultimately speculation in, tulips. In 1618, just prior to the tulip craze, Mennonites made up 14 percent of the population of the Dutch city of Haarlem. But their influence was much greater than their numbers, Goldgar explains. Although their faith prohibited them from holding public office, these Mennonites were "frequently wealthy," despite living unassuming lives.
Because Mennonites rejected government, refused to take oaths and bear arms, their families tended to be "strongly interconnected." And much of the tulip trading took place in this network of Mennonite families. So not everyone from chimney sweeps to farmers to nobleman were trading tulips — as the pamphleteers at the time wrote. Early writers like Beckmann, "simply plucked these chimney-sweeps out of the air," Goldgar writes. Instead, "[i]f we cast our eye down the lists of tulip buyers and sellers, in fact, we become entangled in whole webs of family connections."
Although not all the Bloemists (tulip sellers) were Mennonites, none were farmers, nobleman, or chimney sweeps. Most came from a class below local government officials, who incidentally proposed a tax on tulip sales in the autumn of 1636, just months prior to the crash. Goldgar's examination of tax records reveals that bloemists were substantial citizens, with an average age of thirty-nine, and typically involved in international trade or manufacturing, or were professionals such as doctors or lawyers.
As trade in tulips developed, a market developed with rules that governed trades between buyers and sellers. Goldgar refers to this as "a kind of informal order and authority," without making reference to the idea of "spontaneous order": "good order results spontaneously when things are left alone," an idea first worked out by Chuang-Tze and further developed by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and F.A. Hayek.
But these rules did nothing to assuage what were incredibly risky transactions for both buyers and sellers. These bulbs were often in the ground when sold, and the flowers that would spring forth from a certain bulb in the summer one year could not be counted on to look the same the next year. But the Dutch were quite used to futures trading, as a grain market had developed in the previous century and a securities market was also operating.
Goldgar spends little time discussing what was a thriving Dutch economy in the early to mid-17th century. This modern economy created great wealth from the establishment of global trade, banking, technology, and agriculture. And deposits of coin and bullion at the Bank of Amsterdam were growing by leaps and bounds. It was this economy, awash in money, that created the environment for speculation and malinvestment.
The author continually attempts to minimize the financial significance of tulipmania, instead insisting that it "was the confusion of values, the breakdown of honor, and the destruction of trust…" But the same can be said about the effects on each particular culture during every speculative bubble and subsequent crash, no matter the trading vehicle.
Speculative bubbles are financial events that do great damage not only to pocketbooks and balance sheets but to people's perspectives and values. That's why historians and economists will continue to study the curious trading of tulip bulbs in Holland from 1635–1637. By chronicling the extensive and intertwined network of the real buyers and sellers in the tulip trade, Goldgar puts a human face on tulipmania like no other author has done.
On the book's dust jacket, it is claimed that Goldgar "lays waste to the legends" and that the price bubble and its subsequent burst were not "anywhere near as dramatic as we tend to think." But just as the author believes the legend of tulipmania is exaggerated, the claim that Goldgar's research takes the mania out of tulipmania is overstated.
Graber, Peter. "Tulipmania." Journal of Political Economy 97 (3) 1989: 556.
Rothbard, Murray. "Concepts of the Role of Intellectuals in Social Change Toward Laissez Faire" The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol IX No. 2 (Fall 1990)
Day, Christian C. "Paper Conspiracies and the End of All Good Order: Perceptions and Speculations in Early Capital Markets" Entrepreneurial Business Law Journal Vol. 1 No. 2 (2006): 286
Quinn, Stephan and Roberds, William. "An Economic Explanation of the Early Bank of Amsterdam, Debasement, Bills of Exchange, and the Emergence of the First Central Bank" Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Working Paper Series Working Paper 2006–13 (September 2006): 29–31.
French, Doug. "The Dutch Monetary Environment During Tulipmania" The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Vol. 9 No. 1 (Spring 2006) 12–13.
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Righting the Record on Ritalin
Why the slam on medications for ADHD is misleading
Child Mind Institute
Yesterday the New York Times fired a shot across the bow of every parent of a child who's taking stimulant medications for ADHD. A piece in the opinion pages claimed that there is no evidence that medication helps kids with ADHD after an initial couple of years, and, worse, that ADHD is the result of abusive or even garden-variety bad parenting.
The piece, by L. Alan Sroufe, a psychology professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota, was such a broad assault on what we know about ADHD, and how it is affected by medications like Ritalin and Adderall, that it deserves point-by-point response.
1. Dr. Sroufe claims that studies show that stimulant meds are not effective after the first two years. He refers specifically to a long-term study published in 2009 of 600 children who were treated with medication, or intensive psycho-social interventions, or both. After 14 months the children showed a positive response to medication, and those who had the combined treatment did a somewhat better still. But following up with the kids 8 years later, researches found the benefit had eroded. What he doesn't explain is that after the first 14 months the children were no longer being treated as part of the study. The authors of the study itself call it an "uncontrolled naturalistic follow-up study." In the latter 6 years the children got what the authors call "routine community care." No surprise that, as they note, "the differential effects of the ADHD treatments, evident when the interventions were delivered, attenuated when the intensity of treatment was relaxed."
The point here is that when we prescribe Ritalin or Adderall for ADHD we don't claim to be curing it. There is no cure for ADHD. We claim that it helps kids while they are taking it by reducing excessive inattention, impulsivity and hyperactivity so they are able to function better in every part of their lives—at school, with friends, and within their families. There is abundant evidence that it does that, and that kids with ADHD who are treated with medication do have fewer symptoms and function better. As my colleague Dr. Rachel Klein, who has led seminal research on ADHD, explains, "The medications work as long as you give them. That's true of all psychiatric treatments and most medical treatments. Arthritis, diabetes, congestive heart failure. We don't have cures for many chronic illnesses. So, yes, it's too bad, but it doesn't follow that we should not use the treatment."
By the end of adolescence many children no longer need medication, as they have outgrown their ADHD. Others (figures range from 35% to 40%) will continue to experience some symptoms—and may continue to use medication—all their lives.
2. Dr. Sroufe suggests that because we don't have randomized studies of the effectiveness of the drug for more than two years, we should conclude that those benefits don't continue. There is no reason to draw this conclusion, especially given overwhelming clinical evidence that it continues to work, in adulthood as well as childhood. There are no randomized long-terms studies that show continued effectiveness of insulin for diabetes either. These kind of studies are extremely difficult and extremely expensive and often unethical: You can't put a child on a placebo for his entire adolescence for the purpose of a study.
3. At the heart of Dr. Sroufe's attack on medication is his observation that many "behavior problems" appear to be generated by a child's environment, including disadvantaged, stressed, chaotic home situations. This is certainly true; the mistake here is to assume that all children who have problems with behavior—impulsivity, inattention, trouble self-regulating—have ADHD.
"Yes, there could be some children who show inattention and hyperactivity because their environment hasn't given them the opportunities for appropriate development," notes Dr. Klein. "There are different causes to different presentations. It doesn't mean that one invalidates the other. They can co-occur. And the challenge to the clinician is to distinguish them."
One of Dr. Sroufe's studies, done in the 1970s, was on treating what the authors called "problem children" with stimulant drugs. This vagueness may have been acceptable in the '70s, but it's not now. Many kids with behavior problems don't have ADHD—or don't only have ADHD. For many kids, stimulant medications are not the right (or the only) needed intervention. But that doesn't mean they don't work for kids who have been accurately diagnosed with ADHD.
4. Dr. Sroufe suggests that since we don't know how these medications work, we should be reluctant to use them. If this standard was applied to all medications, a great many wouldn't pass the test. We didn't understand the mechanism of action of aspirin until the 1970s—some 70 years after it became widely used. "There are lots of things we do that help people, but we're not sure how they work," says Dr. Klein. "But if they work, we use them. Understanding the mechanism is a goal for science, but it's not a requirement for therapeutic action."
5. Dr. Sroufe notes accurately that these medications have side effects, notably problems with sleep and appetite, which can lead to what he calls "stunted growth." What he doesn't note is that sleep and appetite problems tend to go away after the first month or two, and if they don't we try changing the dose or the kind of medication until we solve the problem. No one said these medications should be used without careful monitoring. The charge of "stunted growth" is an exaggeration; the reality is that kids do fall slightly behind their peers in growth in the first year they take medication, but they also, according to a 2010 study, catch up by the fourth year.
The reality is that the side effects of Ritalin or Adderall are much less problematic than those of many medications considered invaluable. "There are side effects to almost all drugs," Dr. Klein notes. "Aspirin can be lethal. You can have lethal bleeding from aspirin. Does it mean it should never be used? That would be absurd." The fact is that the rate of response (the percentage of cases in which it is effective) is one of the highest in medicine—higher, for instance, than most antibiotics.
6. Dr. Sroufe paints a scary picture of stimulant medications changing a child's brain, that they "develop a tolerance for the drug," and "become adapted to the drug" so that if they stop taking it their symptoms become worse. In fact, there is no evidence at all that kids develop habituation or tolerance to stimulant medications, that they need escalating amounts to get the same effect. And while it is true that there's something called "rebound" that can cause irritation and exacerbated symptoms when the drug wears off, this is a temporary effect, not unlike, as Dr. Sroufe himself points out, if you suddenly cut back on caffeine.
7. Perhaps the most distressing comment Dr. Sroufe makes in this piece is that ordinary parents who make ordinary mistakes during a child's early development could produce the kind of brain changes we see in children with ADHD. He includes among these potential sources not only "family stresses like domestic violence, lack of social support from friends or relatives, chaotic living situations, including frequent moves," but also, bizarrely, "especially, patterns of parental intrusiveness that involve stimulation for which the baby is not prepared. For example, a 6-month-old baby is playing, and the parent picks it up quickly from behind and plunges it in the bath. Or a 3-year-old is becoming frustrated in solving a problem, and a parent taunts or ridicules. Such practices excessively stimulate and also compromise the child's developing capacity for self-regulation."
It's certainly true that parental patterns influence the development of a child's ability to self-regulate, and that changing those patterns can help a child learn to rein in his own disruptive behavior—we see it work spectacularly in parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT). But PCIT doesn't cure the core symptoms of ADHD; in fact kids with severe ADHD usually have to be on medication to be able to focus enough on the training sessions to learn effectively from them.
The sad thing here is that I think the case Dr. Sroufe really wanted to make in this piece is that knee-jerk use medication isn't the right response to behavioral problems—or the only necessary response. Kids may get prescribed drugs because it's cheaper and easier than figuring out what's causing the behavior. Many kids who show some of the symptoms of ADHD may have other psychiatric problems that need attention—they may have anxiety disorders or be on the autism spectrum. Or they may need relief from a chaotic or abusive home situation, consistent support and discipline from their parents, positive role models, and many other things that are harder to muster than a prescription
We agree with Dr. Sroufe that that is unfortunate. It's too bad that to make that case, he attacked the well-established effectiveness of medications that really do work for kids who really do have ADHD.
To learn more, take a look at our guide to ADHD medications.
Published: January 30, 2012
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|We are calling on all schools, businesses and community organisations to get involved in Black & White Day. Last year Black & White Day raised over $20,000 which supported key research and management programs aimed at keeping the Tassie devil alive in the wild.|
|Wildlife parks in three states and researchers from Tasmania, Sydney and Cambridge universities and the Menzies Research Institute have shared more than $650,000 in grants to help save the Tasmanian devil.|
|Minister for Environment, Parks and Heritage, Brian Wightman, joined staff of the Devil Program and the Parks and Wildlife Service along with a small media group on Maria Island on Friday 19 April report on monitoring and confirm that a number of the female devils are carrying pouch young.
|A rare feast is in store for Tasmanian devils, which are being held in captivity as an insurance against the species' extinction. They have been given the proceeds of a foiled crime - $2,600 worth of stolen meat. |
|Scientists engaged in the fight to save the endangered Tasmanian devil have made some encouraging steps forward. New research is providing direction for the development of a vaccine for the contagious cancer which is driving Tasmanian devils to the brink of extinction.
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The Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) mechanism which is currently the subject of controversy due to the rise in the cost of living in 2008 principally due to higher energy costs lies at the heart of our political as well as of our economic existence.
The mechanism comes into play whenever inflation devalues wages. Because it works with a one-year delay, employees always lose out. If the increase is granted in the following year they will have achieved inflation proofing for the immediate future but as far as the year in which the discrepancy is detected is concerned, that passes unattended under the bridge.
Employers who are complaining bitterly about the significant rise due to employees in 2009 have always had a built in advantage in the mechanism. Whatever it is that raises the cost of living they and their bottom lines are immune from it in any given year.
This year the rise due is significant, a serious bump in the road and employers and industrialists are raising the spectre of mass unemployment if it is granted.
What do they expect employees to do? As things stand the energy crisis has taken a huge bite out of their earnings. Do employers expect their workforce to absorb it all as though economic trouble of whatever source is just their problem?
If that were to happen, it would set a precedent and a course for progressive impoverishment of every employee. There are no two ways about it: that and a future of industrial strife in which the relative strengths and weaknesses of employers and employees are tested at regular intervals. That may be a scenario we should all religiously avoid.
As things stand, we are unable to avoid a head-on collision. Rather than a standard industrial relations failure which will eventually be resolved in one way or another, we have before us a fight for the system, to end it or to preserve it. The fact that major layoffs may be the consequence of success for employees only adds to the complications.
The government comes into it because it determines the budget and effectively controls lawmaking. It could change or dismantle the COLA system. However it has other means at its disposal to compensate for employees’ losses and to prevent them.
Only too late the government has discovered the threats to us all from climate change and the need to find less crucifying sources of energy. Had this been our governments’ quest for the past few decades we would not be facing this employer/employee stand-off.
Keeping energy costs low is only part of the solution. Keeping costs low in general should be the aim of every government in order to avoid upward pressures on wages and keep us all competititve. How much do we all spend on transport that we can avoid? What if we had a state-of-the-art transport system to remove the burden of car ownership from all our bottom lines? How much more productive would we all be if the government took the trouble to streamline its interface with business and with the public?
In order to apply for children’s allowance every wage-earner in the family must file an updated history sheet from ETC with the Social Services Department. Why should that be necessary? Even if the computers of the two government entities are not linked why not have the form include a waiver for the SSD to access the ETC data and have done with it? Every employee wasting time to chase bureaucratic errands is losing rest or work time in both cases affecting his or her productivity. The instances of failure or defect in the system are myriad.
The point is that it is not employers and employees alone who have to face the crisis brought on by the sudden rise in oil prices followed by a drop in demand because of the financial crisis. This is far from being an industrial relations crisis or an economic crisis alone. It is a crisis which government faces because it was unable to anticipate it; because not enough has been done to set up mechanisms to reduce the coat of living at every turn.
In the event something will have to be done about it and everybody will have to give something up. Nobody will enjoy the process nor delight in the result.
It would be a great help if we could be imaginative: how about compensating for COLA losses through a major investment on alternative energy granting greater subsidies to those who invest in photovoltaics and better rates for all who produce their own electricity?
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A Policy Forum published in this week's open access journal PLoS Medicine argues that twenty-five years of health care reforms in Mexico have increased insurance coverage but have not resulted in greater efficiency and have not significantly reduced health inequities despite their costs in a country that has huge divisions between the rich and the poor.
Health care reform in Mexico attracted international attention with the introduction in 2003 of the Seguro Popular—known as the "People's Health Insurance," a voluntary program designed by the federal government and promoted as a program to provide free health care insurance to the poorest of the poor. It was praised by former US President Bill Clinton and became the subject of a special series in The Lancet in 2006. Despite this international acclaim it has been controversial in Mexico, says a new analysis by Nuria Homedes (University of Texas-Houston) and Antonio Ugalde, who put the Seguro Popular within context of a "convoluted" history of health reforms in Mexico. They argue that despite evidence of improved access to medical care, the Seguro Popular has centralized funding for health care away from the state level, has done little to improve efficiency of the health system, and is nowhere near its ambition of enrolling the entire population with health insurance by 2010.
According to Homedes and Ugalde, the last 25 years of Mexico's history of health reforms shows the federal government shifting back and forth between centralization and decentralization, in a manner that has impeded the development of health care capacity in the country. The first reform was introduced in the 1980s after a severe recession in Mexico. As a condition of receiving loans from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, Mexico had to reduce its public expenditure, including spending on healthcare services, and decentralize the Ministry of Health in a manner that according to the authors did not devolve decision-making authority adequately. Further reform overseen by the World Bank in 1994 advanced this decentralization program and attempted to increase the role of the private sector in health care, but this faced political opposition. The authors argue that this is the context in which Seguro Popular was introduced in 2003. Early evaluations show that the Seguro Popular has improved access to medical care, including the treatment of diseases such as diabetes, asthma and arthritis, but the authors argue that has resulted in increased administration costs and has done little to increase quality or efficiency of service. The authors suggest that universalizing coverage through the Mexican Institute of Social Security would have accomplished the same at a considerably lower cost.
In a Perspective article accompanying the Policy Forum, Jason Lakin of the Harvard School of Public Health says that Homedes and Ugalde have provided a "broader analysis and historical context, and they deserve immense credit for doing so." However, he says that they leave a number of questions unanswered and do not provide any clear alternative for dealing with low efficiency or quality in the health sector.
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Citation: Homedes N, Ugalde A (2009) Twenty-Five Years of Convoluted Health Reforms in Mexico. PLoSMed 6(8): e1000124. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000124
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ADL'S NEW PUBLIC SCHOOL HATE BILL
By Rev. Ted Pike
22 Feb 10
The Anti-Defamation League is determined to establish federally-enforced
promotion and protection of homosexuality in America’s primary
and secondary public schools. This year ADL repeatedly boasted it was
the driving force behind the pro-homosexual federal hate crimes bill.
Now ADL is making another attempt to sodomize America. Their latest
legislative poison is called The Student Nondiscrimination Act
Like the hate law, HR 4530 gives grade and high school homosexual
students special rights and protection over the majority. It claims
to protect students who feel harassed or intimidated because of their
homosexual orientation or desire to be perceived as the opposite gender.
If they feel pressured to the point that they don’t want to participate
in a school activity, the bill says these students deserve the same
federal advocacy given blacks under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
This bill also includes special protection to heterosexual students
who feel harassed or intimidated to not associate with homosexuals.
These students may also invite federal prosecution of their “homophobic” fellow
students, teachers or parents.
HR 4530 says if school officials do nothing when they know a student
is being harassed because of their homosexuality or heavily pressured
not to associate with a homosexual student, these authorities face
federal indictment. State and local governments which do not energetically
educate and punish those who intimidate pro-gay students will lose
There is no special protection for heterosexual students
under assault for their sexuality. Like ADL’s hate law,
ENDA and cyber-bullying bill, this legislation blatantly violates the
14 th amendment’s ban on special rights and protections to some
Who Defines Harassment?
While researching my video, Hate Laws: Making Criminals of Christians (Watch
it here!), I had lengthy talks with Canadian police.
I asked the head of the Vancouver, BC hate crimes unit what police
did when they wanted to indict a right-wing “hater” who
hadn’t violated the law.
“We just get him on a harassment charge,” she told me.
She made it clear that the term “harassment” is so vague
and subjective it can easily and legally be used to prosecute
virtually any speech critical of others. With malicious intent, The
Student Nondiscrimination Act does not adequately define “harassment” or “intimidation.” If
this bill passes, these ambiguous terms will be enshrined in federal
law providing an excellent pretext for persecution of Christian students
Under this act, homosexual teens can decide when they’ve been
sufficiently “harassed” or “intimidated.” A
grade school boy or girl who thinks they are victimized can persuade
their local liberal, feminist or gay district attorney and summon the
force of federal intervention. If such “victimized” children
want to launch civil lawsuits against students, parents or church leaders,
this bill makes it clear nothing should prevent them. As in workplaces
if ENDA is passed, school authorities will be afraid to provoke homosexual
students in any way. Although penalties are not stipulated, HR 4530
is intended to expand the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 and
subsequent civil rights acts which contain harsh penalties for discrimination,
There is no evidence that widespread harassment of homosexuals and
transgenders in primary and secondary education is an “especially
severe problem,” as the bill alleges—not with tolerance
education and gay/straight activist groups abounding on campuses! As
with their hate bill, ADL is exaggerating an “epidemic of hate” in
public schools, dramatizing rare abuses to justify massive federal
HR 4530 amounts to federal endorsement of adolescent homosexuality
as a legitimate, normal alternative. It puts homosexuality on a par
with race, religion and gender, characteristics which the government
already protects. If passed, it will flood government-sponsored educational
programs into public schools to promote homosexual self-esteem. Its
encouragement of homosexuality on the grade school level will destroy
young consciences even before they have formed.
You Can Stop this Outrage!
Last year, ADL presented its David Ray Ritcheson Hate Crimes Prevention
Act (See, ADL's
New 'Trojan Horse' Hate Bill) and adjunct legislation to
the cyberbullying bill, the Adolescent Web Awareness
Requires Education Act (AWARE) (See, Hate
Bills: Protest Calls Flood House Judiciary!). Through these
bills, the League tried to set up the federal government in pro-homosexual
education and anti-bias hate crimes enforcement at every level of
public schooling, from kindergarten to grad school. These attempts
failed, but ADL’s determination is unwavering. In yet another
attempt, before mid-term elections next fall, ADL hopes to quietly
move HR 4530 through Congress unnoticed.
There is a good chance they can. Despite 41 Republicans in the Senate,
five or six liberal Republicans could vote for it, just as they helped
pass the hate bill last July. The Student Nondiscrimination Act,
introduced by homosexual Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), and with 61 cosponsors,
is now in the House Education and Labor Committee. This is the same
committee which powerfully endorsed ENDA this fall. That’s because
18 of 19 Republican House members, not hearing much protest from the
American people, didn’t even bother to show up.
We can’t let that happen again. This bill, slanted toward ostensible
protection of America’s youth, is designed to pass without much
controversy. Yet it is just as dangerous as ENDA and the cyber-bullying
bill—setting up the federal government as a special protector
and encourager of homosexuality to our nation’s youngest and
most vulnerable citizens.
Call your House and Senate members at 1-877-851-6437
or toll, 1-202-225-3121.
Also call crucially important members, especially Republicans, of the
House, Education and Labor Committee (names available HERE
Tell them: “Please do not vote for the Student
Nondiscrimination Act, HR 4530. This bill denies equal justice. It
gives homosexual students special rights over other students, in violation
of the 14 th Amendment to the Constitution. There is little evidence
that persecution of homosexual students is a severe national problem
meriting federal jurisdiction.”
Here is your vital last statement: “If
the senator or congressperson votes for this dangerous legislation,
I and my friends will vote out Democrats in the midterm election!”
TALK SHOW HOSTS: Interview Rev. Ted Pike on this subject.
Call (503) 631-3808.
The freedom-saving outreach of Rev. Ted Pike and the National Prayer
Network is solely supported by sale of books, videos and your financial
support. All gifts are tax-deductible.
National Prayer Network, P.O. Box 828, Clackamas,
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What we know as the Clarion County Fair wasn’t always what it started out as. In an effort to improve relations between the area’s merchants and farmers, community members organized a “gala one-day event”.
About 5,000 people turned out for the first picnic in 1938, which featured such events as a balloon-blowing contest, a potato race, a greased pig contest and a tug-of-war. The event was so successful that the organizers decided to keep it going.
The Farmers and Merchants Picnic was first inspired by the Harvest Home days when the park was known only as “Alcola.” The park was then owned by the Frank R. Johnson family, and in the 1930s, the Johnson interests sold the grounds to the Walter W. Craig Post of the American Legion in New Bethlehem.
During the Legion’s operation, the grandstand was erected, and the auditorium and pavilion were converted into the skating rink and dance floor. The pool was later added, and many of the original buildings are still in use. The old dance hall and club, which at one time housed the park’s merry-go-round, is now used as an arts and crafts display center.
The large grandstand is still an important part of the Fair, and structures housing the refreshment stands are still in use. In fact, the original cattle sheds are filled to capacity each year during Fair Week.
Throughout the years, the Farmers and Merchants Picnic included not only events at the American Legion Park, but in downtown New Bethlehem as well. Four days were spent at the park and three days in town. Teen dances were held at the New Bethlehem Fire Hall, bargain days at Newbie stores offered customers great deals, and a “giant” firemen’s parade was held along Broad Street.
By 1953 the Fair had expanded to three days from two and lasted Wednesday until Friday. Wednesday was dedicated to registration of animals and agricultural events, and Thursday featured many of the picnic’s main events.
It wasn’t until 1967 that the Fair was expanded to its current seven-day length, and in 1969, it was renamed the “Clarion County Fair.” About the same time, the park again changed names – this time to the Redbank Valley Municipal Park. A strong sense of community spirit and involvement have always been sources of pride for the Clarion County Fair. And through the years, the involvement of its many sponsors, committees, volunteers, and fairgoers, the sense of community is as strong as it was seven decades ago.
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Russia is making a determined pitch to become a major tourist destination by 2016.
Despite being home to some great attractions – from Red Square and the Kremlin in Moscow to the famed Hermitage museum in Saint Petersburg – Russia has struggled to attract visitors.
It suffers from having some of the most expensive hotels in the world, an inadequate tourism infrastructure, and a reputation for surly service and bureaucracy.
“We are going to do everything possible to make foreign visitors feel comfortable in Russia,” the Deputy Minister for Tourism and Sport, Nadezhda Nazina, told Agence France Presse.
She said the Russian government would soon be considering a 352 billion ruble (£7.2 billion/$11.5 billion) plan to improve infrastructure and launch a major advertising campaign.
Russia attracted only 2.3 million foreign visitors last year, according to the federal tourism agency, placing it far below the top destinations for international tourists. The top two, France and the United States, attracted 74 million and 55 million visitors respectively in 2009, according to the World Tourism Organisation.
The Russians are looking to attract up to 40 million tourists annually within five years, but Maya Lomidze, the Executive Director of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia, said she didn’t think this was feasible.
“Too many conditions would have to be met for this plan to be realised. The main necessity is that we have hotels at affordable prices. Russia is a very expensive country,” she said.
by Andy Moreton
Moscow is notoriously expensive, but Luxique will get you the best rates possible at the Baltschug Kempinski or the Golden Apple Boutique.
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Q. 1 Who is the visionary behind establishment of Indian Institute of Technology
Ans. Pt.Jawahar Lal Nehru.
Q. 2 What is IIT-JEE?
Ans. IIT-JEE stands for Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination.
Q.3 How many colleges offered admission through IIT-JEE?
Ans. There are 15 IITs in India, in which students can get admission through JEE.
IIT Kharagpur, IIT-Bombay, IIT-Madras, IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Delhi, IIT-Guwahati, IIT-Roorkee,
IIT-Roper, IIT-Bhubaneshwar, IIT-Hyderabad, IIT-Gandhinagar,IIT-Patna, IIT-Rajasthan,
Q.4 Which IIT is going to conduct IIT-JEE 2011?
Q.5 Which is the oldest IIT and when it was established?
Ans. IIT-KHRAGPUR -1951
Q.6 What is the Exam date of IIT-JEE 2011
Ans. 10 April 2011.
Q.7 What is the Eligibility criteria for IIT-JEE?
Ans. Student must secure at least 60% marks belonging to GE, OBC and DS categories
or 55% marks belonging to SC, ST and PD categories, aggregate in the qualifying
examination or in their Class XII examination (PCM).
Q.8 What is the reservation criteria for IIT-JEE?
Ans. The reseration criteria for IIT-JEE as per the Govt. rules of India. 15% -SC,
7.5% ST, 27% for OBC. 3% for PD with in each category & 2 Seats in each IITs
are available for preferential allotment to children of Defence services.
Q.9 What is the syllabus & Pattern of examination of IIT-JEE ?
Ans. IITs have defined their own syllabus for IIT-JEE which is available on its
website, however it is quite similar to Class XI & XII board CBSE/NCERT. The
question paper of IIT-JEE is objective type There will be two question papers, each
of three hours duration. Both the question papers will consist of three separate
sections on Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics.
Q.10 How many students were appeared & selected in IIT-JEE 2010 &
Ans. 4, 68,240 students were appeared & 13602 got selected in IIT-JEE 2011.
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Economics of Coal Power and Wind are shifting in favor of Wind
While the cost of wind power has been dropping, a fascinating article in The Washington Post describes how coal mining is becoming more difficult and expensive. The coal industry cites environmental regulations as the main source of upward pressure on costs but WaPo writer Steven Mufson makes a convincing case that factors within the coal fields themselves are the main culprit.
Mufson is careful to note that the trend varies from one coal field to another, but it is occurring in the key coal-producing region of Appalachia among others. Against the backdrop of falling wind prices, the rising cost of coal provides businesses with yet another incentive to explore ways of tapping the wind to power their operations.
As described by Mufson, the problem is mainly geological. In some regions the "easy" coal is being tapped out, and the remaining reserves are thinner and more difficult to mine efficiently.
In contrast to coal's troubles, the average cost of wind power has been on a long term, downward spiral. It has dropped 90 percent since 1980 according to the American Wind Energy Association.
Wind turbines via Shutterstock.
Read more at ENN Affiliate, TriplePundit.
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Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing (the Forbidden City) and Shenyang (Mukden Palace)
The Forbidden City (Chinese: 紫禁城; pinyin: Zǐjinchéng; literally "Purple Forbidden City") was the Chinese imperial palace during the mid-Ming and the Qing Dynasties.
Mukden Palace (Simplified Chinese: 沈阳故宫; Traditional Chinese: 瀋陽故宮; pinyin: Shěnyáng Gùgōng) is the former imperial palace of the early Qing Dynasty (1616 - 1910) of China.
Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing (the Forbidden City) and Shenyang (Mukden Palace) Location
The Forbidden City is located in the middle of Beijing, China. It is now known as the Palace Museum. Its extensive grounds cover 720,000 square meters. The Forbidden City has 800 buildings with more than 8,000 rooms. The Imperial Palace Grounds are located directly to the north of Tiananmen Square and are accessible from the square via Tiananmen Gate. It is surrounded by a large area called the Imperial City.
Mukden Palace is the former imperial palace of the early Qing Dynasty (1616 - 1910) of China. It is located in the center of the city of Mukden, Manchuria (Shenyang, China).
Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing (the Forbidden City) and Shenyang (Mukden Palace) Attractions
The Forbidden City
Rectangular in shape, the Forbidden City is the world's largest palace complex and covers 720,000 square meters (178 acres, or 0.28 square miles). It is surrounded by a six meter deep moat and a ten meter high wall. The Forbidden City includes five halls, seventeen palaces, and numerous other buildings.
The Forbidden City is divided into two parts. The Outer Court, which includes the southern and central sections, centres on three halls which were used for ceremonial purposes, such as coronations, investitures, and imperial weddings. The three halls include the magnificent Hall of Supreme Harmony (太和殿), itself fronted by the Gate of Supreme Harmony (太和門). Apart from ceremony, the Outer Court also houses the Imperial Library, archives, and lantern storage. The Inner Court includes the northern, eastern, and western parts of the Forbidden City, and centres on another three halls which were used for the day-to-day affairs of state. The most important among these is the Palace of Heavenly Purity (乾清宫). The Inner Court was where the Emperor worked and lived with his family, eunuchs and maid-servants.
Buildings in the Forbidden City are arranged along three north-south axes. The central axis houses the most important buildings. It runs from Meridian Gate in the south, to the Gate of Divine Might in the north. The "Three Front Halls", the centre of ceremonies, and the "Three Back Palaces", the centre of day-to-day affairs of state, are arranged along the central axis. Along the eastern axis are a number of semi-independent courtyards. The northern part of the eastern axis served as the Qianlong Emperor's residence in his retirement. Along the western axis are several gardens and a number of religious buildings. Large parts of the western section are not open to the public. Some buildings are in bad repair; a few were destroyed by fire in 1923 and never rebuilt. In his memoir, Puyi thought that the fire was started by eunuchs wanting to conceal evidence of smuggling treasures out of the palace.
The wall around the Forbidden City has a gate on each side. At the southern end is the Meridian Gate To the north is the Gate of Divine Might, which faces Jingshan Park. The distance between these two gates is 960 meters, while the distance between the gates in the east and west walls is 750 meters. The walls are thick and squat and were specifically designed to withstand attacks by cannons.
There are unique and delicately structured towers on each of the four corners of the surrounding wall. These towers afford views over both the palace and the city outside.
Outside the main gate to the Forbidden City, the Meridian Gate faces a square where imperial corporal punishments were sometimes carried out. To the south of that square stands Tiananmen Gate.
At the northern end of the Forbidden City is the imperial garden. It is home to some relatively old trees, most between 100 and 300 years of age.
The royal color was yellow, and that color dominates the rooftops. On each corner of the roofs, there are small statuettes, the number of which designated the power of the person living within the building. The number 9 was reserved for the emperor. Only one building has 10 statuettes at each corner.
Gate of Supreme Harmony
Gate of Divine Might
Hall of Supreme Harmony
Palace of Heavenly Purity
The Forbidden City is surrounded by royal gardens. To the west lies Zhongnanhai, the complex of buildings centred on two lakes which serves as the central headquarters for the Communist Party of China. To the north-west lies Beihai Park, which also centres on a lake and is a popular park. To the north lies Jingshan Park, also known as Jing Shan or Coal Hill, where the last Ming emperor hanged himself as the rebel army overran his palace.
Today, Tiananmen Gate in front of the Forbidden City is decorated with a portrait of Mao Zedong in the center and two placards to the left and right. The left placard reads "中华人民共和国万岁"(Traditional Chinese: 中華人民共和國萬歲; pinyin: zhōnghuá rénmín gònghéguó wànsuì; "Long Live the People's Republic of China"), while the right placard reads "世界人民大团结万岁"(Traditional Chinese: 世界人民大團結萬歲; pinyin: shìjiè rénmín dà tuánjié wànsuì; "Long live the Great Unity of the World's Peoples"). The phrasing has great symbolic meaning, as the phrase "long live" was traditionally reserved for the Emperors of China, but is now available to the common people. This is also true of the Forbidden City palace itself.
The Mukden Palace
Early construction of the Mukden Palace began in 1625 during the reign of the founder of the Manchu Dynasty, Nurhaci. By 1631, additional structures were added under Emperor Hong Taiji.
Mukden Palace was built to resemble the Forbidden City in Beijing. However, the palace also exhibits hints of Manchurian and Tibetan styles.
After the Qing Dynasty replaced the Ming Dynasty in 1644 in Beijing, the Mukden palace lost its status as the official residence of the Emperor. Instead, the Mukden Palace became a regional palace.
In 1780, Emperor Qianlong further expanded the palace. Successive Qing dynasty emperors usually stayed at Mukden Palace for some time each year.
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January 11th, 2012 by Administrator
Dreaming of growing green things in spring’s warming soil? It’s time to plan ahead for summer gardening!
Greenvale Park Community Garden is now making applications available for the 2012 gardening season. A limited number of 10 x 10’ and 10 x 20’ plots will be available. Gardeners can plant what they choose and will be responsible for weeding, watering, harvesting and otherwise maintaining their plots throughout the growing season. All gardeners at the community garden will use organic gardening methods, and experienced gardeners will be available to help newer gardeners learn the necessary skills. In addition to gardening in their own plots, gardeners will participate on work teams to share tasks like maintaining the compost, mowing and trimming grassy areas, and tending the Sharing Plot. All the produce from the Sharing Plot is donated to the Northfield Food Shelf.
Applications will be accepted beginning February 6. Application forms (in English and Spanish) can be picked up now at Greenvale Park School, Northfield CAC, and Northfield Schools Community Services Division. They can also be downloaded in pdf form from the website of the Center for Sustainable Living, www.centerforsustainableliving.org (see the l or from the Northfield Public Schools website, www.nfld.k12.mn.us
Once applications are approved, gardeners will pay a gardening fee of $25 for the year ($15 for half-plots) to help cover costs of water and other garden expenses. Financial assistance will be available for those who are unable to pay the full amount. If you have further questions about the garden please call Northfield Community Gardeners at 612-804-5628. Northfield Community Gardeners would also like to hear from and offer assistance to people who are interested in starting community gardens in other locations in Northfield.
Greenvale Park Community Garden is a joint project of the Northfield Community Gardeners and the Northfield Public Schools Community Services Division, and Greenvale Park Elementary School.
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January 1964 - Resigns from NASA's astronaut program.
1964 - Enters the Ohio Democratic primary to challenge the incumbent Democratic senator, Stephen M. Young but withdraws after being injured in a fall.
1965 - Retires from active service in the U.S. Marine Corps to enter the business world.
1965-1970 - He is vice president and then president of Royal Crown Cola.
1970 - Glenn enters the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate but loses.
November 1974-1999 - Elected to the U.S. Senate and serves four consecutive terms (D-Ohio).
1978 - Chief author of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Act of 1978, prohibiting the sale of nuclear equipment to nations that currently have none.
1983-1984 - Runs unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination for the 1984 election. He drops out of the race after failing to win any early primaries or caucuses.
1987-1995 - Glenn is chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, and sits on the Foreign Relations, Armed Services Committees and the Special Committee on Aging.
February 20, 1997 - Glenn announces on the 35th anniversary of his orbit around the earth that he will not run for re-election in the U.S. Senate.
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How and where do I register a death?
Any death occurring in Scotland should be registered within 8 days of its occurrence by the Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages. Registration can be made at any Registration Office in Scotland.
For further information you can contact your local Registrar.
You can use our 'Tell Us Once' service to let us notify all agencies about a death after your registration.
Who can register a death in Scotland?
The death can be registered by:
- Any relative of the deceased, or
- Any person present when the person died, or
- The deceased's executor or other legal representative, or
- The occupier of the property where the person died, or if there is no such person,
- Anyone else who knows the information to be registered.
What documents should I take to the Registrar?
If available you should take with you:
- The medical certificate of cause of death (form 11);
- The deceased's birth, marriage, civil partnership certificates if available;
- The deceased's NHS medical card;
Do not worry if any of these documents are not available as the registrar can still proceed to register the death.
When the registration is complete the registrar will give you, free of charge:
- A certificate of registration of death for production to the person in charge of the burial ground or crematorium;
- A Social Security registration of notification of death certificate for use in obtaining or adjusting Social Security benefits.
- An abbreviated extract (i.e. excluding cause of death and parentage details) of the death entry.
- You can obtain a full extract of the death entry for a fee of £10.00
Other Useful Information
The Scottish Government booklet “What to do after a death in Scotland” gives practical advice for bereaved people and is widely available in registration offices. You can also get a copy by telephoning 0131 244 2193.
What if the death occurs abroad?
You should register the death according to local regulations in the country concerned and obtain a certificate of death. You may also be able to register the death with the British Consul in that country for a fee. However, there is no obligation to do so. A record of the death will be sent to Scotland and you will thereafter be able to get a copy from New Register House.
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A Fuel Management Unit (FMU), also known as a rising rate fuel pressure regulator, is an alternative to an ECU upgrade. This is *not* the same thing as an adjustable fuel pressure regulator (AFPR). The AFPR will not change "on the fly", it's "set it and forget it". The FMU is used in boosted applications. The problem is simple: the ECU from the factory will not send enough fuel for a proper air/fuel mixture under boosted applications. The common solution is to upgrade the ECU to one that has been pre-programmed for your injectors, or one that allows you to adjust the programming for your injectors. The FMU, though, can "trick" the system and correct the fuel delivery. It has a vacuum line that measures boost, and as boost increases, it increases the fuel pressure, forcing the injectors to over-flow by a corresponding amount.
The FMU is not considered a reliable solution for high power applications, but for a low boost (under 7psi) situation, you can get by with this method. It is generally cheaper to get an FMU than an ECU upgrade.
As always, be conscious of the somewhat agressive stock timing on the 240SX. An FMU will not adjust timing, and under boost you can end up with the dreaded detonation. The MSD Boost Timing Master is a popular solution to this problem. However, it should be noted that the price of an FMU and an MSD BTM will be close to that of a CalumSult ECU setup, which pretty much resolves all ECU concerns. The only catch is CalumSult does not work yet on OBD II cars (96-98 240sx). This is a work in a progress and by the time you read this it may be resolved.
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Episode 3: Don't Tread on Me
On his first diplomatic mission to Europe as the newly appointed minister plenipotentiary to France, John Adams joined Benjamin Franklin who was already stationed near Paris. Adams and Franklin had similar goals--financial and military support from the French government for the newly-formed United States-- but very different styles. Franklin delighted in the social sphere of diplomatic life and on 25 April 1778, Adams writes to Abigail, describing the affable and affectionate interactions between Franklin and the attractive ladies of Paris.
Letter excerpt from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 25 April 1778
My venerable Colleague enjoys a Priviledge here, that is much to be envyd. Being seventy Years of Age, the Ladies not only allow him to embrace them as often as he pleases, but they are perpetually embracing him. -- I told him Yesterday, I would write this to America.
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- Special Sections
- Restaurant Guide
Ridership on Greenway Public Transportation decreased since fiscal year 2008-09, but the organization is set to spend more than $5 million on facility improvements.
The new facilities, which include maintenance and office buildings, will save the organization $700,000 in the long run, said Ed Clifford, Greenway executive director.
Federal funding pays for about 50 percent of leasing costs for the organization’s current facilities. In contrast, federal funding will pay for about 90 percent of building costs for the new facilities. Clifford said the facilities will pay for themselves in about 17 years, and “anything after that is savings.” T
he facilities are deigned to meet Greenway’s needs for about 40 years, Clifford said. Greenway had about 290,000 riders for FY2009-10, which is less than the number of riders for FY 2008-09, Clifford said.
About 54 percent of the 2009-10 boardings were on Greenway buses, and the remaining riders were from the organization’s Dial-A-Ride service. About 10 passengers an hour ride Greenway buses, and about two passengers an hour use the Dial-A-Ride service. Clifford attributed the decrease in ridership to high unemployment levels and fluctuating gas prices.
“Groups that would normally ride the bus don’t have jobs to go to,” Clifford said.
As gas prices decrease, Greenway ridership also decreases. When gas prices soared to $4 a gallon, people turned to the transit system instead of paying high gas prices, Clifford said. But as prices decreased, more people returned to driving their vehicles.
“It really takes a sharp increase (in gas prices) to turn people out of their cars,” Clifford said. Each bus ride costs Greenway about $4.50, and each Dial-A-Ride pickup costs about $22.50.
“That’s not uncommon to have that type of disparity,” Clifford said, adding the Dial-A-Ride service often makes out of area trips, including doctor’s visits, for the elderly population.
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Louis CK nailing it every time.
I enjoy functional programming and cookies.
The Basics of Boson
Waiting hours for a cellphone to charge may become a thing of the past, thanks to an 18-year-old high-school student’s invention. She won a $50,000 prize Friday at an international science fair for creating an energy storage device that can be fully juiced in 20 to 30 seconds.
Everybody, remember this face.
Remember this name.
If this becomes a commonly used & highly lauded discovery, at some point a White guy is going to take credit, even if he has to word it like “Improved upon a previous…”
No no no
Fuck that guy.
Remember this brown girl.
Richard P. Feynman would have turned 95 today. We’ll miss him always.
Lecture 1: Law of Gravitation — An Example of Physical Law http://bit.ly/10nWIDw
Lecture 2: The Relation of Mathematics and Physics http://bit.ly/11YPw2X
Lecture 3: The Great Conservation Principles http://bit.ly/11YPs3j
Lecture 4: Symmetry in Physical Law http://bit.ly/17aAa1n
Lecture 5: The Distinction of Past and Future http://bit.ly/1351R52
Lecture 6: Probability and Uncertainty — The Quantum Mechanical View of Nature http://bit.ly/10ArKh1
“ I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely sure of anything, and then many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we’re here, and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little, but if I can’t figure it out, then I go on to something else. But I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn’t frighten me. ”
~ Richard Feynman; (Born 95 years ago today, May 11, 1918)
It’s okay … not to know the answer? I like that too.
Find a complete stranger.
Reveal to each other intimate details about your lives for half an hour.
Then, stare deeply into each other’s eyes without talking for four minutes.
New York psychologist, Professor Arthur Aron, has been studying why people fall in love.
He asked his subjects to carry out the above 3 steps and found that many of his couples felt deeply attracted after the 34 minute experiment. Two of his subjects later got married.
Well. That’s odd to think about.
Some answers I liked:
For this one, I always point to how ancient civilizations only had integer number systems, where there was nothing between 2 and 3. Then I ask them why on earth would we need more numbers than counting numbers, and they give me an answer. The point of it…
Liquid Rainbow Machine by Edwin Deen
If your walls are white, and you want to add more color to your life – take a look at this rainbow sprinkler by Edwin Deen. Netherlands-based artist transformed an ordinary garden sprinkler into an amazing rainbow machine!
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BUCK POND CAMPGROUND, NY
112 site(s) found
DescriptionBuck Pond compares to a mountain retreat; it offers secluded sites, numerous water access, a guarded bathing beach, and a walking path that stretches for miles along an abandoned railroad bed. The campground offers a variety of recreational opportunities, including canoeing and boating, fishing, hiking, and bicycling.
Buck Pond Campground is located on the western shore of 130-acre Buck Pond. The Lake Kushaqua and the Kushaqua Narrows form most of the western and northern boundaries of the campground. Construction of the campground began in July 1965, and the campground opened in 1968. The main campground road is constructed on the original roadbed of the Chateaugay Branch of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.
Rowboat, canoe and kayak rentals are available at Buck Pond. The major species of fish found in Buck Pond are northern pike, yellow perch, and brown bullhead. Nearby Lake Kushaqua offers these species, plus black bass and rainbow trout. Brook trout fishing can be found in the North Branch of the Saranac River, below Mud Pond. The walking path along the old D&H railroad bed, about 1.25 miles to Kushaqua/Mud Pond Road and the outlet of the lake, is very popular. St. Regis Mountain in Paul Smiths and Debar Mountain at Meacham Lake both offer excellent views of the surrounding mountains and lakes.
Campsites, restrooms with showers, a trailer dump station, a recycling center, a boat launch at Lake Kushaqua, a car top boat launch, boat and canoe rentals, and a sand beach with a bathhouse are just a few of the amenities that make this campground unique.
The Six Nations Indian Museum is located just outside the campground. The Adirondack Park Visitors Interpretive Center at Paul Smiths is 12 miles west. Lake Placid and the Olympic venues are located 25 miles to the south.
Services & Amenities:
Alerts and Important InformationCAMPGROUND SPECIFIC INFORMATION
WHEN YOU ARRIVE-You must sign for your own site. Have your equipment with you and be ready to camp when you register. Names of all campers on a site must be listed on the permit at time of registration
CHECK-IN TIME-From 12:00 noon until 9:00 p.m. Campers must register for their campsite by 9:00 p.m. on the first night of their reservation or the campsite will be subject to re-rental and all fees will be forfeited
CHECK-OUT TIME-11:00 a.m. on your departure date
OCCUPANCY-Limited to 6 individuals per campsite and 2 tents or 1 unit of hard wheeled camping equipment and 1 tent. Only 2 vehicles permitted on any campsite. Extra vehicles will be required to park in a designated area (additional fees will apply)
AGE REGULATIONS-Campsites must be registered and occupied by a responsible person 18 years of age or older
LENGTH OF STAY-Your camping permit can be issued for a maximum of 14 nights. From July 1 through Labor Day only 14 cumulative nights will be permitted at any campground.
QUIET HOURS-From 10 p.m. until 7 a.m., and are strictly enforced. Violators of this policy may be evicted
GENERATORS-The use of generators may be limited to no more than 5 hours per day and fall between the hours of 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. daily. If the use of a generator is deemed unreasonably loud by the facility staff then individual use of a generator may be prohibited/limited
FIRES-Must be built in fireplaces provided. Only dead and down wood may be used for fuel. No chainsaws are allowed in campgrounds, and cutting down trees, alive or dead is prohibited.
FIREARMS-Are not allowed in campgrounds except during the Fall and Spring hunting seasons. Firearms must not be discharged within campground boundaries at any time
ACCESSIBLE SITES-At least one member of the camping party staying on the site must be mobility impaired (i.e. in a wheelchair or uses a walker) or the camping party may be turned away at the campground
SWIMMING-Is allowed at campgrounds with supervised bathing areas during designated hours when a lifeguard is on duty. Please note that there may be times when lifeguards are unavailable, and for the safety of our customers these beaches will not be open and swimming will be prohibited. Not all campground locations offer swimming, to inquire please contact the campground directly
PETS-Are allowed with proof of a currently valid rabies vaccination in the form of a current year's tag or a certificate issued by the veterinarian. Campers can walk dogs on a leash no longer than six feet as long as the animal is under control. Dogs cannot be left unattended and are not allowed in facility structures, on the beach or in day use areas
Getting There:GPS Info. (Latitude, Longitude):
From Adirondack Northway (I-87), Northbound: Take Exit 30, then take Route 73 north to Lake Placid. Take Route 86 through Lake Placid and Saranac Lake to Gabriels. In Gabriels, take Franklin County Road 60 6 miles to Buck Pond. From Adirondack Northway (1-87), Southbound: Take Exit 38, then take Route 374 west to the Route 3 junction. Take Route 3 and turn right on Franklin County Road 60. Follow the road 5.5 miles to Buck Pond. From Tupper Lake: Take Route 30 North to Paul Smiths. Turn right on Route 86 and drive about 4 miles. In Gabriels, turn left onto County Route 60.
Mailing Address:BUCK POND CAMPGROUND
1339 County Route 60
ONCHIOTA NY 12989
Phone Number:Project Office:(518)891-3449
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Prior to and including the 1956 National Electrical Code (NEC) there was a limit of nine conductors in a raceway, except when used for control, stage lighting, elevators, and similar uses.
In the 1959 NEC, a proposal submitted by a Technical Sub Committee on Raceway Fill and Heating of Conductors, and based on a UL Fact Finding Report, was accepted, and the limit of nine conductors in a raceway was removed. The 70PR-1958 document (forerunner to today's Technical Committee Report) included this statement by the Technical Sub Committee: "That the reduction factors-for more than nine wires in a steel raceway-give recognition to diversity and be 70% for 10 to 24 wires, 60% for 25 to 42 wires, and 50% for 43 and more wires."
A Table following this recommendation appeared in the 1959 NEC in Note 8 to the ampacity tables, but with no mention of diversity.
In Note 8 in the 1984 NEC, "Reduction of load current" was changed to "reduction of conductor ampacity."
This Table limiting the load current, or the ampacity, on more than three conductors in a raceway or cable, and with no mention of diversity, served the electrical construction community well, with no problems, for 27 years (nine three-year code cycles).
Then, nearly 30 years later in the 1987 NEC, an asterisk was added with a note that for 10 wires and more, the factors include the effects of a load diversity of 50 percent. The supporting comment for this change in the NFPA's 1986 TCR was: "The *note is added to call attention to the reader that the derating factors for 10 and more conductors are based on a diversity effect of 50 percent."
In the next edition, the 1990 NEC, the Table was divided into two columns, A and B. Column A was for 50 percent diversity, and Column B was for no diversity. Column A was the same as the Table introduced in the 1959 NEC that was used with no problems for 27 years without regard for diversity.
The NEC itself does not contain a definition of "diversity," but the proposal on page 249 in the 1989 TCR defines diversity as "50% of the conductors (when 10 or more are considered) are energized and 50% are NOT energized."
What application requires that half the conductors in a raceway are not energized?
That does not make any sense.
As far back as the 1923 NEC and up to the 1959 edition, as many as nine conductors in a raceway were allowed for power and lighting. The number of conductors greater than nine in a raceway were for elevator controls, sign flashers, motor controls, and the like, where the loads were either light, intermittent, or short-time. This balance of loaded and lightly loaded conductors might make sense today, but the idea of half the conductors not being energized at all is bewildering. Why would anyone install de-energized conductors in a raceway?
Other interpretations of "diversity" have included "all conductors loaded to 50%", but calculations have shown that this arrangement would produce more heat than where half the conductors were energized and half were not.
In response to a large number of proposals to change Note 8, the 1993 NEC dropped the undefined term "diversity" (except that it was retained in the FPN), retained Column A, with factors down to 35 percent for 41 conductors and above, and relegated Column B (no diversity) to Appendix B as Table B-310-11. Appendix B is headed: "This appendix is not part of the requirements of this Code, but is included for information purposes only." Appendix Table B-310-11 can be used only under engineering supervision [See 310-15(a)(1)].
In the 1993 NEC, the heading of Note 8(a) and the Table heading were revised to read "current-carrying conductors." This change was made to Appendix B, Table B-310-11. So that means the unenergized conductors are not counted. Most confusing.
So how do we apply the derating factors to a conductor that is not energized and therefore carries no current? How does one derate the ampacity of a conductor below zero amperes, which it carries when de-energized?
Due to the extensive editorial work done for the 1999 NEC, Note 8 to the Ampacity Tables became Section 310-15(b)(2)(a).
So now we have this ampacity restriction, which makes it impractical to run more than nine current-carrying conductors in a raceway. With the permission for more than nine conductors-if they are control wires, elevator controls, sign flashers, etc.-that would put us back to the pre-1959 Code, and wasn't that much simpler?
It is unfortunate that in the blind zeal to be technically correct we lost a procedure which had worked with no trouble for almost 30 years. What happened to "If it ain't broke, don't fix it?"
SCHWAN is an electrical code consultant in Hayward, Calif. He can be reached at BevSchwan@aol.com.
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Sentencing has been postponed for two men convicted for repeatedly shining a high-powered laser at a police helicopter.
Joshua O'Hare-Knight, 21, and James Spiers, 19, were found guilty by a jury in November of causing unnecessary danger to an aircraft.
The offence, under the Civil Aviation Act, carries a maximum sentence of 12 months in prison.
The men were due to be sentenced in Auckland District Court today but because submissions, including probation reports, had not been filed in time it was delayed until March.
Judge Nevin Dawson said it was a situation he did not want to see again.
During their jury trial, the court was told the pair took turns pointing the laser at the police Eagle helicopter about 11pm on May 7, 2011, while they were at an 18th birthday party in Auckland's Mt Albert.
Crown prosecutor Asishna Prasad said at the time their actions had put the three-man crew in danger.
"The crew of a helicopter can't afford to be distracted when they are airborne because their ability to carry out their duties is compromised. They would have been unable to identify hazards in that airborn environment," she said.
One crew member, Sergeant Al Grant, told the court the laser had impaired his vision.
"For a few seconds it filled the cockpit of the aircraft with a strong green light."
The crew pinpointed the house where the laser came from and police on the ground arrested the pair.
- APNZBy Matthew Theunissen Email Matthew, Kristin Edge
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Jobs in March increased by 216,000 and the unemployment rate fell to 8.8 percent from 8.9 percent in March, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. March is the third straight month the number of jobs has risen and the boost in jobs shows the jobs recovery “unmistakably gaining traction,” according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
In a bitter battle late last year, Republicans in Congress filibustered an extension of the emergency unemployment insurance (UI) program for more than 1.4 million long-term jobless workers—and they didn’t approve the bill until they won an extension of Bush tax cuts for the rich.
The new year started with better but not great news on the jobs front. The latest figures from the U.S. Department of Labor released this morning show that unemployment dropped from 9.8 percent in November to 9.4 percent in December.
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An essential guide to general practice and being a general practitioner, A Textbook of General Practice is written specifically with the medical student and foundation doctor in mind. Reflecting current practice, the book does not seek to reiterate the content of a general medical textbook, but...
Published December 29th 2011 by CRC Press
The aim of the 100 Cases series is to provide a novel learning and revision tool that works by guiding the student through clinical cases, imitating those that students and Foundation Year Doctors are likely to meet in a general practice setting. The cases are written to interest students in...
Published May 28th 2009 by CRC Press
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HALF MOON BAY, Calif.
A landscaper at a Napa vineyard who borrowed some grape-growing land to raise pumpkins is this year's winner of the Half Moon Bay giant pumpkin contest, an event that draws farmers from up and down the West Coast.
Leonardo Urena's prize-winning pumpkin tipped the scales at 1,704 pounds Monday, 170 pounds heavier than last year's winner and a California record, but still 106 pounds of the Wisconsin-grown world record holder.
Urena says that producing a pumpkin of that size took incubating the seeds in a greenhouse, the right combination of nutrients and the support of his family and the ranchers who let him use their land.
For his orange thumb, Urena will get $10,224 - $6 per pound - plus another $1,000 for producing the biggest California pumpkin. He will also get to lead off Half Moon Bay's pumpkin parade next weekend with his "Cinderella."
The Half Moon Bay contest is in its 38th year.
The Associated Press
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Tablet gaming making strides, study says
The sudden popularity surrounding tablet computers is not lost on the gaming community. According to a study from market research firm GfK MRI, more gamers are replacing their traditional consoles and handhelds with up-and-coming tablets.
The research firm interviewed more than 3,000 tablet and e-reader owners for its study. According to the report, released in October 2011, 59 percent of respondents say they spend less time playing video games on consoles and handheld devices than they did before owning a tablet.
Mobile technology has been a point of contention for many in the gaming industry. For example, in September 2011, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata asserted that his company has no intention of creating games for mobile platforms, despite the potential profitability.
Others, evidently, are not as hesitant to embrace mobile gaming. The tablet's large screen is proving to be an attractive factor for today's gamers, and the touchscreen capabilities add a new element to gaming not available on traditional consoles.
Mobile gaming will likely continue its upward climb as tablet technology continues to advance. The advent of multi-core processors and more vivid graphics -- coupled with a slew of free gaming apps -- in tablets will entice more users to abandon their old devices, leading to significant growth in the industry.
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A nice wad of cash too – like all rubberbanded and stuff ;) It’s all about feeling safe these days, and this helps me to do just that. And we all have our own “right” amounts. Some feel good w/ $100 tucked away, while others have $1,000 locked down somewhere. Sure you won’t be earning interest on it, but it’s really about feeling comfortable here.
For me, $500 does the trick. All in ones, twenties, tens, and fives too – nice and easy to spend if needed. I used to have them in $100 bills, but you can’t really do much with that. I guess the point of it all is to be prepared just in case one of those “what if” scenarios actually occurs, ya know? Just like the Boy Scouts say!
I took some time and conjured up a few of those situations, in order of importance:
- The house is burning down – Naturally, we get the H outta there asap. But say we have 30 seconds to grab a few things? Well, you better believe i’ll swing that safe open and grab the stash along w/ our passports, birth/marriage certificates, and anything else in there that would fit in our pockets.
- We run out of money in all bank accounts – Scary! I would never wish this on anyone, but it’s still a possibility. It would be nice knowing there’s $500 as a super duper emergency fund.
- All electricity goes out nationwide – no atms, no internets, no way of getting your cash. Of course, i suppose even having the cash in hand would be pointless since the places you’d be giving it too would be down too…..but it would still make me feel better :)
- You don’t have change for the pizza man/plumber – this may sound silly, but i’ve had to borrow from this a number of times! That’s another reason why breaking down the denominations like that are good – no one can use a $100 bill!
- An emergency splurge is due – This could happen if you convince me that $500 in a safe is pointless. In this case, i can go on a spending binge! haha.. i keed, i keeed.
- Any other crazy situation you can’t predict – I’d write what they were, but naturally i can’t predict them ;)
So yeah, some of these are pretty farfetched (and i PRAY they never happen), but better to be safe than sorry i say. And if a few dollars stashed away helps you sleep better at night? Then more power to you brothers and sisters!
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- The English-language customs form for North Korea requires declaration of ”killing device” and “publishings of all kinds.”
- None of the buildings visited by the delegation was heated, despite the cold. Sophie writes: “They’re proudly showing you their latest technology or best library, and you can see your breath. A clue to how much is really in their control.”
- The delegation had two official minders always present with them (“2, so one can mind the other”) and no interaction with North Koreans not vetted by officials.
- Eric Schmidt’s “reaction to staying in a bugged luxury socialist guesthouse was to simply leave his door open.”
- The group saw a room with roughly 90 North Koreans at computers in the Kim Il Sung University e-Library. But, Sophie writes, “One problem: No one was actually doing anything. A few scrolled or clicked, but the rest just stared.”
- The group could make international calls on rented cell phones but had no data service.
Eric Schmidt (who confirmed to Quartz that his daughter penned the account) separately posted comments about the trip. Among them are some details about the technology available to North Koreans. Schmidt writes:
There is a 3G network that is a joint venture with an Egyptian company called Orascom. It is a 2100 Megahertz SMS-based technology network, that does not, for example, allow users to have a data connection and use smart phones. It would be very easy for them to turn the internet on for this 3G network. Estimates are that are about a million and a half phones in the DPRK with some growth planned in the near future.
Schmidt is co-writing a book due out on April 23 that discusses what it means for billions of people around the world to have “almost unlimited access to all of the world’s information.” His post says that the US delegation he was part of made ”very, very clear” to North Korean officials that they will continue to lag economically unless they open up internet access. Schmidt writes: “Once the internet starts in any country, citizens in that country can certainly build on top of it, but the government has to do one thing: open up the internet first.”
Quartz earlier posted photos of Schmidt looking at things during the trip.
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Biological analogies are often credited for inspiring innovative design concepts, but not often reported is how the source of biological inspiration was found. Such analogies could be identified by consulting biologists and databases that catalogue biological knowledge to support design. Instead, my laboratory has developed tools and methods that search through information in natural-language format, e.g., books, papers, etc., to find and apply biological analogies relevant to any given problem. I will describe the benefits and challenges specific to this approach.
An expanded definition of lead users is used to gain insights on developing products that support environmentally conscious behaviors. While products have become more resource efficient, product use has also increased, offsetting gains enabled by technical efficiency. By studying lead users in resource conservation, including the Mennonites, we were able to identify principles that may enable more people to engage in pro-environmental behaviors. We are examining how these principles may be incorporated into products that encourage green behavior.
Li Shu is an Associate Professor with the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at University of Toronto. She received her S.M. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has held research fellowships at the Technical University of Denmark, AlliedSignal Aerospace Canada Inc., Eastman Kodak, Naval Ocean Systems Center, and Naval Training Systems Center. She received the CIRP (International Academy for Production Engineering Research) F.W. Taylor Medal and numerous best paper awards for her work on biologically inspired design, and held leadership positions in both the Design Society and the ASME Design Theory and Methodology community. Dr. Shu¹s research interests are in creativity in conceptual design, systematic identification and application of biological analogies in biomimetic design, and identifying and overcoming obstacles to personal environmentally significant behavior.
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Brazilians Celebrate Its Patron Saint, Nossa Senhora Aparecida
by Nancy Rosenbaum, producer
Approximately 100 miles north of São Paulo in Brazil lies the town of Aparecida, home to the Basílica do Santuário Nacional de Nossa Senhora Aparecida, the second largest basilica in the world. Only Saint Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City is larger.
And today on October 12th, a national holiday in Brazil, thousands of devotees are traveling to the Brazilian town to pay homage to Our Lady of Aparecida (“Our Lady Who Appeared”), the country’s patron saint.
The Marian shrine is Brazil’s version of Lourdes. In her physical form, Our Lady of Aparecida is a dark-skinned, clay statue of the Virgin Mary measuring less than three feet tall. Some refer to her as the “black Virgin” because of her dark coloration.
According to one account, three fishermen hauled in the statue from the bottom of the Paraiba River in 1717. They weren’t catching any fish that day and so prayed to Virgin Mary. Soon after the statue drifted into their nets, bounties of fish followed in her wake, nearly capsizing the men’s boat. Ever since, the statue has been associated with miracles.
It’s notable that Brazil, whose population includes more than 75 million people of African descent, has a black Madonna as its patron saint. One of the many miracles associated with Nossa Senhora Aparecida, as Brazilians call her, is the liberation of a fugitive slave. Some Afro-Brazilians syncretize the saint with three female Yoruba orishas: Oshun, Yemaya, and Oya — all of whom are associated with water.
And in a modern era of technological miracles, Nossa Senhora Aparecida now has her very own Twitter feed, which you can follow (in Portuguese).
Buddhist Slime Mold
Rob McGinley Myers, Associate Producer
It’s been a pretty cold, wet, desolate spring so far in Minnesota. I went for a walk the other night and it seemed more like autumn than spring, with the wind on my face and the scent of dead leaves in the air. But as I passed under a tree I suddenly noticed buds breaking out all over the branches. It felt like a tiny miracle.
I had just recently listened to our upcoming show with Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, and seeing those buds made me think of what he says about being mindful.
“When you breathe in, your mind comes back to your body, and then you become fully aware that you’re alive, that you are a miracle and everything you touch could be a miracle — the orange in your hand, the blue sky, the face of a child.”
I was looking for a video to illustrate my own sense of wonder about the world coming back to life, and discovered this, which I find equally creepy and beautiful. It’s not exactly an image of spring, but it reminds me that all living things are breathing. We just have to pay attention to realize it.
(video by sesotek/Vimeo)
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Withdrawal Attitudes and Experiences: A Qualitative Perspective Among Young Urban Adults
CONTEXT: Withdrawal is a widely used pregnancy prevention practice, but is popularly regarded as ineffective. An in-depth study of withdrawal behaviors would improve understanding of its role in reproductive health care.
METHODS: Ninety-five ethnically diverse males and females aged 18–25, recruited through family planning clinics and community outreach in a large U.S. city, participated in semistructured, open-ended interviews in 2006 and 2007. Interviews examined up to six heterosexual relationships and focused on contraceptive attitudes, norms and experiences. Transcripts were reviewed and coded, and key themes related to withdrawal were identified.
RESULTS: Withdrawal was a popular contraceptive technique, but opinions on its effectiveness were mixed. Some participants (especially women) expressed anxiety concerning pregnancy risk due to perceived ineffectiveness of withdrawal, and women were concerned about their partner's capacity to consistently withdraw prior to ejaculation. Others described confidence and skill in using withdrawal, and considered it effective. Reasons for use of withdrawal included convenience and dissatisfaction with hormonal contraceptives and condoms. Withdrawal was described as an expected alternative to condoms in both casual and long-term relationships, and as a secondary, or backup, method with use of hormonal contraceptives or condoms. Participants had rarely discussed withdrawal with health care providers; knowledge about the method had generally come from less reliable sources, including peers.
CONCLUSIONS: Health care provider discussions with patients about withdrawal could give greater insight into risk behaviors. More informed prevention counseling messages would be helped by better effectiveness estimates and understanding of factors most likely to result in withdrawal failure.
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Basically what I want is three columns. A number in the left column, some right-aligned text on the right, and the stuff in the middle is a hyperlink. This is designed for touch screen (iPhone), so it is really important that the clickable area for the hyperlink reach all the way across, at least to the text on the right. Right now it all looks right, but the clickable area is just over the text in the middle column.
I can sort-of accomplish what I want with padding, but then when I do have longer text in the middle it starts wrapping and leaving a big blank space between the middle and right columns.
Obviously I'm a beginner with CSS. I'm amazed at how difficult this apparently is. I must be missing something.
I'm starting to get the urge to brute force it with a table but I hear those are slow, bad, and unnecessary.
Thanks! I'm further along now, but now I can't figure out why my text isn't wrapping around my float (instead my float block moves down to make room for the text). I've wrapped the <a> tag around the middle and right columns (I realized that's really what I need), and the right column is float: right. When there is alot of text in the middle column, I was hoping it would wrap, but instead the right column moves down to make room for it and it looks bad. Any pointers on how to get the right column to stay put?
If you put your right column in front of your middle column in the code it should stay stuck to the top: <a href="#"><span class="col3">lmnop</span><span class="col2">abcdefg abcdefg abcdefg abcdefg</span></a>
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Why do we not say Avinu Malkienu on Shabbos and why is the Teffilah of Neilah the exception to this very rule?
The Magen Avraham gives two reasons:
The Shulchan Aruch rules that we do say Avinu Malkeinu on Yom Kippur that falls out on Shabbos. The Rama says that our custom is that we do not.
The Magen Avraham says that by Neilah there are two reasons why we say Avinu Malkeinu even when Yom Kippur falls out on Shabbos:
We don't say it at most tfillot because we avoid making requests on shabbat.
As for the second part: Maybe because Ne'ila as a tfilla is an expression of our extreme desire for kapara that the avinu malkein then is like saying a mishabeirach for a really sick person on shabbat -- ie we do it anyway with 'shabbat hi milizok' OR Maybe since we always get to that part after shkiya we are more meikil
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|The recommendations here are under development and may change before implementation.|
The intent of the OBSERVE operation, as implemented by Couchbase client libraries, is to give developers the ability to observe the status of a key with respect to a specific change. For example, a developer may want to somehow mutate a document behind the key identified by the string "foo". Given that a Couchbase cluster is distributed and concurrent and acknowledges the request before the given document, there are situations where the application developer may want to observe whether the specific mutation they made is either:
- safely replicated to one or more nodes within the cluster
- persisted to the master, or persisted to one or more nodes within the cluster
- has been taken into consideration in any indexes
The Java client library, and it's dependencies, will require changes to return the CAS value through the OperationStatus object.
The basic idea is that given the OperationStatus object (or optionally, multiple OperationStatus objects), an Observer can report on whether or not the operation has been replicated, persisted, or processed for indexing.
|These recommendations are preliminary, and have not been reviewed.|
Given that the item being mutated may be changed at any time by another actor in a deployment, the key idea here is for the client to use the CAS value returned from the mutation operation. Since the client library knows at all times (though, asynchronously) which node is responsible for the vbucket for a given key, and knows which nodes are slaves for that key, the client library can use stats key as a method of determining what has happened with a key on this given node.
If, for example, application code wanted to check for "foo" with CAS value 12345, it would use STATS KEY against whichever nodes it needs to in order to report the status. This would be done in a loop, with some reasonable backoff (possibly guided by recommended polling times from server stats) until a reasonable or user specified timeout. In this loop, the client would first check to ensure that "foo" 12345 is still the current value on the master for this vbucket. If it is not the current value, it simply returns an error. Assuming it is still the current value, if the application code is simply checking for persistence or index processing, this can be evaluated from the STATS KEY response. If the application code is checking for replication or whether or not the modification has been persisted on multiple nodes, it can then proceed to check any slaves, as identified by the cluster configuration, for status of persistence or replication of "foo" with CAS 12345. At this stage, if it's successful, it returns that response to the application code. If it is not successful, then it waits an interval and loops again. Thus the possible set of return values would be either OBS_SUCCESS, OBS_MODIFIED, or OBS_TIMEDOUT.
Note that the status OBS_MODIFIED does not indicate monotonic forward mutation. For example, in one scenario a failover may have occurred and the item key "foo" being observed may have been reverted to a previous state. This state may even be some value prior to the initial fetch before the application code mutated the value of the document.
OBSERVE is a binary protocol only operation. It could be implemented in ASCII, but that would currently be complicated by the fact that mutation operations do not return the new CAS value in ASCII protocol. Since Couchbase Server uses binary protocol exclusively, we do not implement that currently.
q: Is it better to return the values OBS_SUCCESS, OBS_MODIFIED, and OBS_TIMEDOUT instead of true/false and treating the timeout as an exceptional condition? Since OBS_MODIFIED and OBS_TIMEDOUT may effectively require the same error handling, it may be easier to switch on these or return some extended boolean with status.
q: Is a C implementation of OBSERVE needed?
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To be shamelessly honest, I got stuck on my way to computer literacy. Now you might understand why I chose the name, “Rookies at Work”! Let me share some obstacles I’m facing, as well as my first tiny success.
Which computer language do you pick as a rookie?
There are zillions of languages for various purposes. In the real world, you might pick Latin or Greek if you want to read and study ancient literature in its original version. To make strides in the corporate world, it’s helpful to learn English or Chinese. The cool thing about the real world is you know in advance the benefits of a particular language. It’s different in the world of bits and bytes. Which computer language(s) do you choose as a newbie? Which is good for what? As a rookie, you’re lost in space and, so far, I can’t find satisfying answers.
How will you apply your computer language skills?
Do you want to design websites? Write games or apps? Learning to write code for the sake of being able to write code doesn’t work for me, as I realized after making some missteps. I love doing real things and I’m no good at learning for the sake of learning. I believe computer literacy is a key competency in the Digital Age, but how does that translate into specific skills?
What, for instance, would you think of a person who says, “Oh, I am a very literate person able to speak languages”? You’d probably scratch your head. What a difference compared to a person saying, “I write short stories in French and also learned some regional dialects, because I want my characters to be as realistic as possible.” Or, “I work as a doctor in Africa and I’ve learned a couple of languages spoken by local tribes I encounter.”
How do you want to improve over time?
As of now, I can’t estimate which learning goals are realistic and which are not. How difficult is it to write simple mobile apps? (“Define simple,” you may ask.) How tough is it to create a web-based forum? It’s hard to judge as a rookie.
Draw a roadmap for your journey.
Let me sum up the most common difficulties facing a complete newbie to computer literacy, and how I intend to overcome them:
1. Select a specific task to accomplish.
A coding language is a tool to accomplish a clearly defined task. I’ll turn off my computer, take a deep breath and brainstorm about what I want to create.
2. Try to figure out how difficult the task is.
Once I define my task, I’ll connect with experienced coders to examine what they think about my endeavor. How would they proceed? How long should it take to get things done?
3. Understand which set of languages you need.
I’ve come to realize you may need multiple languages to accomplish a specific task. I’m not sure which tasks I need to learn, but I am sure my geeky friends will help me decide.
Climb every mountain.
Now, here’s the tiny success story I mentioned earlier: I’m getting used to some very basic computer language concepts. Let me give you an example: In my first coding classes, I couldn’t understand the language used to describe coding language. What are strings? How about variables? What does it mean to “declare variables”?
But after a couple of weeks, my comfort level is rising. My conclusion? Coding isn’t rocket science. It’s just different from other areas in life you may be familiar with. It’s reassuring to know computer literacy is a mountain I can conquer. It still looks like Mount Everest , but who knows? Maybe one day, I’ll stand atop it waving a victory flag. Care to join me?
Suggestions, ideas and feedback are always welcome! Shoot me a line at Twitter @RafaelKnuth. I look forward to hearing from you.
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A team of scientists that included physicists and language researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science recently investigated this process by applying scientific methods to some of our culture's most successful models for effective transfer of ideas – classic writings that, by common agreement, get their messages across well. They created mathematical tools that allowed them to trace the development of ideas throughout a book. The international team included Prof. Elisha Moses of the Weizmann Institute's Physics of Complex Systems Department and Prof. Jean-Pierre Eckmann, a frequent visitor from the University of Geneva, as well as postdoctoral fellow Enrique Alvarez Lacalle and research student Beate Dorow from the University of Stuttgart. The paper describing their research was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Because strings of words are one-dimensional, they literally lack depth. Our minds and memories aid us in recreating complex ideas from this string. The narration "encodes" a hierarchical structure. (An obvious hierarchical structure in a text is chapter-paragraph-sentence.) The implication is that our minds decipher the encoded structure, allowing us to comprehend the abstract concept.
To test for an underlying structure in strings of words that are known for their ability to convey ideas, the scientists applied their mathematical tools to a number of books, including writings of Albert Einstein, Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer, Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and other classics of different styles and periods. They defined "windows of attention" of around 200 words (about a paragraph) and within these windows, they identified pairs of words that frequently occurred near each other (after eliminating "meaningless" words such as pronouns). From the resulting word lists and the frequencies with which the single words appeared in the text, the scientists' mathematical analysis was used to construct a sort of network of "concept vectors" – linked words that convey the principal ideas of the text.
Mathematically, these concept vectors can go in many directions, and reading the text can be thought of as a tour along paths in the resulting network. The multidimensional concept vectors seem to span a "web of ideas." The scientists' work suggests this network is based on a tree-like hierarchy that may be a basic underpinning of language. The reader or listener can reconstruct the hierarchical structure of a text, and thus the multidimensional space of ideas, in his or her mind to grasp "the author's meaning."
Moses: "Philosophers from Wittgenstein to Chomsky have taught us that language plays a central evolutionary role in shaping the human brain, and that revealing the structure of language is an essential step to comprehending brain structure. Our contribution to research in this basic field is in the creation of mathematical tools that can be used to make the connection between concepts or ideas and the words used to express them, making it possible to trace in a speech or text the path of an idea in an abstract mathematical space. We can understand theoretically how the structure of the wording serves to transmit concepts and reconstruct them in the mind of the reader. A deep question that remains open is if and how the correlations we uncovered serve the aesthetics of the text."
Prof. Elisha Moses' research is supported by the Clore Center for Biological Physics; the Center for Experimental Physics; and the Rosa and Emilio Segre Research Award.
The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, is one of the world's top-ranking multidisciplinary research institutions. Noted for its wide-ranging exploration of the natural and exact sciences, the Institute is home to 2,500 scientists, students, technicians and supporting staff. Institute research efforts include the search for new ways of fighting disease and hunger, examining leading questions in mathematics and computer science, probing the physics of matter and the universe, creating novel materials and developing new strategies for protecting the environment.
Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 21 Feb 2009
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Areas of research
Research activity carried out by members of the Cancer Research Network can be largely grouped according to The Common Scientific Outline, or CSO, an international classification system organised around seven broad areas of scientific interest in cancer research:
- Early detection, diagnosis and prognosis
- Cancer control, survivorship and outcomes research
- Scientific model systems
Improving our understanding of the fundamental aspects of cell biology is very relevant to cancer research as it provides information about the normal cellular state, relative to the changes that occur during transformation into a cancerous state. The scope of research in this area is great – ranging from the study of normal functioning genes involved in development and aging (including their identification and expression), to the role of hormones, growth factors, normal cell-cell interactions and the extracellular matrix. The information gained from such research may shed light on cancer initiation, (including alterations in chromosomes, oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes), and cancer progression and metastasis.
Etiology is the study of causation, and research in this area is related to the causal agents, processes and cells involved in early events in carcinogenesis. Areas of focus in cancer etiology involve the effects of cancer causing agents, such as chemicals, radiation and viruses, human behaviours and lifestyles that affect cancer risk, and biological factors that may increase or reduce risk of cancer, such as inflammation, DNA repair mechanisms and immunological responses. Research in this area often also take into account the interactions between genetic variation and external or internal causal factors. Linking disciplines such as physics and chemistry, microbiology, molecular biology, pathology and epidemiology can do a lot to advance research in this field.
For some cancers, the most logical approach is to find means of prevention. Research in the area of cancer prevention focuses on reducing exposure to environmental factors that affect risk and understanding and promoting change in personal behaviours, such as sun exposure and diet, which may increase or decrease a person’s chances of getting cancer. Critical prevention areas such as tobacco control and public policy, research into chemoprevention, and the discovery, development and testing of complementary or alternative prevention approaches are also important avenues of investigation.
Recent advances in anatomic and molecular imaging, molecular biology, and other new technologies are constantly improving our ability to characterise malignancy. An emphasis on improving imaging technologies and biopsy procedures will not only enhance detection and characterisation of tumours, but may also create opportunities for improved treatment and development of new therapeutics.
New molecular-based techniques are enabling us to identify features of individual cells by analysing unique and identifiable cell signatures - special characteristics, such as which genes are active, and which products are manufactured by the cell. During the transformation of a normal cell to a cancerous cell this signature changes. Therefore, a focus on genetic marker discovery and evaluation, marker testing in a clinical setting and epidemiological studies pertaining to risk assessment, may improve early detection, diagnosis and prognosis of cancer.
Research in this area focuses on localised and systemic therapies, ranging from discovery and development through to clinical applications, with the goal of providing cancer patients with innovative treatment options (including applications of conventional therapies such as chemotherapy, radiation and surgery).
Within this field, healthcare delivery, education and communication, ethics, and palliative care represent areas of strength in cancer research at The University of Sydney. Due to advances in early detection and treatment, patient care and survivorship issues (such as quality of life and pain management), in particular, have come to the fore.
Research involving the creation and use of scientific model systems is diverse, comprising various molecular, genetic, biochemical and animal model approaches to the analysis of cancer. Model systems, including the generation of genetically accurate models of specific human cancer types, are very valuable tools for cancer researchers, so developing and characterising these and other systems is very important to facilitate advancements in cancer research.
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Tinnitus (TIN-IT-US) is the sensation of hearing a ringing or buzzing in the ears when there is no external source of the sound. There is no cure, but various treatments are available to mask or minimize the noise. Certain types of psychologically based tinnitus can be treated through biofeedback techniques that allow you to ignore the sound. Devices which emit white noise can mask the sound. A visit to a hearing specialist will enable you to undergo a series of tests which will determine the exact frequency that you seem to hear. The newest technology employs a device which transmits a second tone through the skull which cancels out the tinnitus sound. This is still in the testing phase, but seems to hold promise. See a hearing specialist for the latest methods of treating this annoying condition.
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When teacher, author and actress E.P. McKnight performed her
one-woman show, "I Question America," in Temecula last year she
caused quite a buzz in the community and earned a new and loyal fan
base. It was a contributing factor in the
playwright's decision to debut her new show here in the
"With Grace I Stand," premiering tonight at the Temecula Valley
Museum as a celebration of Black History Month, focuses on the
lives of seven prominent black women making contributions to their
"The play is about seven African American women that lived
during the 1800s and 1900s who were first in their endeavors,"
McKnight said. "The endeavors were in aviation, politics,
journalism and other various areas."
McKnight has been acting in one form or another since the age of
19 and has appeared on stage and on screen in such notable shows as
"E.R.," "Once and Again," and "Another World."
After a recommendation from a stage director, McKnight followed
her passion for black history and education and penned her first
one-woman show ---- focusing on the life of one black woman, Fannie
The success of "I Question America" prompted McKnight to expand
the genre and tell the tale of seven contributors to history. From
this idea came "With Grace I Stand."
Two of the women featured in McKnight's production are Shirley
Chisholm, a New York Congresswoman and the first major-party black
presidential candidate and "Queen Bessie" Coleman, the first black
Although the play is a celebration of the impact African
Americans have made on society, McKnight believes that the show
appeals to everyone.
"Everybody should come ---- every ethnicity and every age as
long as they can sit still in a chair," she said.
Since its inception in 1976, Black History Month has highlighted
the contributions made by African Americans however McKnight feels
that only 1/12th of the year isn't nearly enough time to appreciate
everything black Americans have accomplished.
"Personally I think Black History Year would be more appropriate
but it's better to have something than nothing," she said. "It's
just so limited. It's not enough focus on the unsung heroes and
she-roes who are part of African American History."
"With Grace I Stand," is not only a lesson in black history but
can also been viewed as a feminist journey ---- having all seven
stories be about black women.
"Some of these women were very pro women's suffrage so the
element is there but the majority is about black history," McKnight
One of McKnight's major goals in writing the show was simply to
educate her audience on who these women were as well as what they
accomplished with the hopes that others may be inspired to achieve
their dreams as well.
"I want people to be aware that these people did exist and
thrived in American History and a lot of us are currently standing
on their shoulders," she said. "I want to motivate, inspire and
educate the audience and make them strive in their lives and
realize that we are all on this journey and need each other."
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Possibly one of the most interesting pianist:
-the first Black concert pianist to achieve international superstardom.
-Born in Nuremburg, Germany, he was the son of an African American career soldier, sergeant Herman Watts, and a Hungarian mother.
-he loved to play, but hated to practice. When his habit persisted, his mother began relaying stories of her countryman, pianist and composer Franz Liszt, emphasizing the fact that he practiced faithfully. Liszt soon became Watts's hero, and he even adopted Liszt's bravura playing style.
-Watts entered his first competition at age nine, competing with 40 other gifted youngsters for an opportunity to appear in one of the Philadelphia Orchestra's Children's Concerts. Watts won the competition and launched his career. He performed a Franz Joseph Haydn piano concerto.
-At 16 years old Watts played Liszt's E-flat Concerto at Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Leonard Bernstein. A Young People's Concert, the program was taped and shown on CBS television on January 15, 1963. Bernstein introduced the young pianist to the national audience. Less than three weeks later Bernstein asked Watts to substitute for an ailing Glenn Gould, who was the scheduled soloist for the New York Philharmonic's regular subscription concert on January 1, 1963.
-Unlike many other proteges, Watts lived up to his early promise and was a greater sensation as time moved on. In 1964 the National Academy of Recording Artists and Sciences presented Watts with a Grammy Award and in February 1973 he was selected as Musical America's Musician of the Month. Other honors and awards include honorary doctorates from Albright College and Yale University, the Order of the Zaire from that African country, and a University of the Arts Medal from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
-Currently Watts remains one of the world's "greatest in demand" pianists, both as recitalist and concert soloist. He continues to perform on the world's most important concert stages and with the world's most celebrated orchestras and conductors.
source: http://www.aaregistry.com/african_ameri ... ical_piano
*note the publishing date--1993.
I am listeninging to his recording of Rach's Piano Concerto No.2 op.39. It is well played. How come this is the first time I heard of him?
back to finishing my Shakespeare essay. This site is too powerful for me. Must get away!
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Lights, camera, emissions . . . . .
It had come to Eli's attention that some folk were finding fault with the IPCC Emission Scenarios. While everyone was arguing about the alphabet soup used in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, in September 2007, the IPCC convened a meeting of experts to draw up new scenarios for the fifth assessment report. The approach will be quite different. First there will be near (2035) and further (2100) and way out there (2300) term scenarios.
Major motivations for the near-term scenarios are understanding the effect of emissions on air quality, providing information on trends and extreme events, and providing high-resolution output for the Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability community. Near-term adaptation and mitigation analyses can be matched to conventional planning time scales, can explore opportunities and constraints given institutional and technological inertia, and can play an important role in integrating climate change considerations into other areas of management and policy. Key issues on this time scale include identifying immediate risks; developing corresponding adaptive capacity; reducing vulnerability; making efficient investments to cope with climate change; and implementing investments in low emission technologies, energy conservation, and sink preservation and/or enhancement.Models (both physical and economic and ecological) can be run at higher resolution for the near term and provide the finer grained information that policy makers need. On the other hand
The longer term policy focus shifts towards evaluating climate targets to avoid risks from climate change impacts, improving the understanding of risks of major geophysical and biogeochemical change and feedback effects, and adopting strategies for adaptation, mitigation, and development that are robust over the long term to remaining uncertainties.Unlike the previous scenarios, the new ones will be based on four representative concentration pathways (RCPs). One will be as disaster, where the radiative forcing reaches >8.5 W/m2 by 2100 (1370 ppm CO2 equivalent) and continues increase. There will be two intermediate “stabilization pathways” with radiative forcing stabilized at 6 W/m^2 (850 ppm CO2) or 4.5 W/m^2 (650 ppm CO2) after 2100; and the Goldilocks pathway with radiative forcing peaked at 3 W/m2 (490 ppm CO2) before 2100 and declining. The scenarios will include the effects of all known forcings
The RCPs will be used to run GCMs to calculate the effects of the forcings as well as social and economic models. All of the models will be run in parallel to speed up development of the scenarios. Let the carping begin.
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Fraserburgh and district Councillor Brian Topping has told the Fraserburgh Herald of his delight that local people have taken their opportunity to make their voice heard on the Boothby Road crossing issue.
Earlier this year, households of South Park, St Andrews and Fraserburgh Academy pupils were consulted over safety concerns at Boothby Road, where children were allegedly finding it difficult to cross the road to travel to school.
In total, only 37.89% of households had returned the survey, however, with Councillor Topping revealing that the criteria gathered had not warranted a crossing measure, despite results showing that the majority of households were in favour of one being in place.
Councillor Topping said: “Previous surveys on traffic densities have not given a true picture of the problem, as most parents were so anxious about the danger to their children in crossing the By-pass that they stopped them walking, and drove them to school in their cars. As Chairman of the Fraserburgh Safety Committee, I welcome the results of the survey, which shows there is a definite need for a crossing. A crossing will also help reduce the parking/ drop-off problems at South Park and St Andrews Schools.”
Councillor Buchan added: “I thank the roads department for reacting to the public concern shown, and I will endeavour to keep on working on the provision of a safe crossing for our young people. Walking to school is healthy, and it saves parents time and money, as well as helping the environment by reducing car mileage and reducing our carbon footprint.”
Councillor Ian Tait, who has also campaigned for a crossing measure at Boothby Road on behalf of constituents, had earlier met with parents and roads officials last year.
“As a result of meeting the parents, I decided to press for two things. Firstly, I decided that a formal light controlled crossing was needed and also to ask for a school crossing patroller. I favour the same kind of crossing as the one installed at College Bounds for children going to the North School.
“In light of these returns, it is clear that the parents would favour a formal crossing with an equal preference for either a zebra or puffin crossing. This backs up my view that a light-controlled crossing is badly needed here. This road is already heavily used and the amount of traffic using it will increase by a huge amount once the Asda supermarket opens.
“In view of this, I will continue to press for a light-controlled crossing to be installed. If we are successful, I am hoping that the crossing will be installed for the 2013/14 school term in August, 2013,” he added, going on to say that roads officials would now continue their discussions with the education service about the possibility of a school crossing patroller, possibly on an initial trial basis, after the Easter school holidays which would, in turn, allow the service to assess the number of children and parents likely to use a crossing during term time.
“These things take time, but progress is being made and we should know how things are going to go early next year. I would ask the parents to bear with us and I am hopeful that both the crossing and the patroller will be provided,” Councillor Tait said.
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CHILD WELL-BEING IN RICH COUNTRIES
A recent United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report of child well-being in 21 countries placed the UK last (the US was 20th). Nick Spenser reviews the key elements of this report, highlighting the six dimensions that UNICEF considered—material well-being, health and safety, educational well-being, family and peer relationships, behaviours and risks, and subjective well-being. Each dimension was assessed using different indicators, very few of which relate to “traditional healthcare.” At the end of the article, Dr Spencer highlights both what individual paediatricians as well as the College should do in attempt to promote and enhance child well-being in the UK.
See pages 915
PRELIMINARY STUDIES: ARE THEY WORTH PUBLISHING?
Two preliminary studies are published this month in ADC. Robertson and colleagues describe the “Families for Health” community-based programme for children who are obese. They describe how the programme was developed, and present preliminary data of changes in baseline BMI in 27 children and their parents who participated in the 12-week programme. The results are encouraging. The second study describes an education programme, KICk-OFF, that focuses on children with type 1 diabetes. Various aspects of the programme, including the quality of the curriculum and its acceptability were assessed, and preliminary data, including HbA1c, BMI and episodes of hypoglycaemia, are presented for the 48 children who participated in the 5-day programme. So, are these reports worth publishing? Obviously, we thought so. Both not only describe the programme, but more importantly contain preliminary data about processes of care and health outcomes. We tend to avoid reports that simply describe programme development and acceptability that contain no actual patient outcomes.
THE METABOLIC SYNDROME REVISITED
In a report from Finland, Pirkola et al have used the population-based Northern Finland Birth Cohort of 1986 to examine how different definitions of the metabolic syndrome impact reported prevalence. Using both the International Diabetes Foundation and Adult Treatment Panel III definitions, they found that the prevalence varied between 1.4% and 3.5% in 2862 adolescent males and 0.6% and 3.2% in 2803 adolescent females. I have never been sure what to make of the metabolic syndrome. It seems to be a collection of risk factors that relate to the development of cardiovascular disease, but I am uncertain if using the label improves patient outcomes. A recent editorial in Lancet questions whether the term has any clinical usefulness.1
See pages 945
HARMONISING IMMUNISATION SCHEDULES
In a multi-national randomised clinical trial, conducted in one centre in the UK and nine in Poland, Pace and colleagues describe the results of a Hib-MenC-TT glycoconjugate vaccine as a booster dose in children aged 12–15 months. In 476 toddlers, this vaccine was compared to a MenC-CRM197 vaccine. The authors conclude that the Hib-MenC-TT can be used to boost the waning antibody titres against Hib and MenC following primary immunisation. This study highlights the growing need to better harmonise immunisation schedules around the world, although these schedules are growing increasingly complex. Unfortunately, schedules are often embedded in the timing of the delivery of primary care services and reflect national priorities (eg, in the UK preventing meningococcal disease and in the US preventing varicella), both of which vary substantially from country to country. However, the repeated need for clinical trials to test whether a modified schedule produces immunogenicity seems to be a waste of resources. I recall fondly the days when I could actually remember the immunisation schedule and would gladly answer a question about which shot to give when. Now I would never dare to answer such a question.
See pages 963
THIS MONTH IN FETAL & NEONATAL EDITION
Can ultrasound (US) help when performing a lumbar puncture (LP) in a neonate? In a preliminary report, Arthurs and colleagues performed 116 US measurements in 105 neonates at L3/L4 and have developed a nomogram for predicting mid-canal spinal depth. I look forward to the study that assesses whether US improves the “success” rate of LP in neonates. See page F451
Preterm neonates with suspected sepsis often receive vancomycin. Intermittent infusion is standard of care. These French investigators have experimented with continuous infusion and found that vancomycin concentrations within the therapeutic range can be easily maintained. To determine superiority, a randomised clinical trial will be necessary comparing intermittent with continuous infusion of vancomycin. See page F418
Concerns that early fetal and neonatal factors may impact on disease later in life must be extended to the potential long-term adverse consequences of interventions that are known to be beneficial in the newborn period. There is no doubt that maternal glucocorticoid treatment reduces neonatal mortality for premature infants. In a long-term follow-up study from The Netherlands, Finken et al report on various outcomes, including body composition and insulin resistance, at 19 years of age in 412 premature infants whose mothers received glucocorticoids. See page F442
The treatment of infants with patent ductus arteriosus in highly variable. In a study from Ireland and Australia, El-Khuffash et al explore the utility of cardiac troponin and N-terminal-pro-B type natriuretic peptide to predict outcome in infants with intraventricular haemorrhage and PDA. See page F407
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USS Roanoke (1855)
USS Roanoke as a steam frigate
|Career (United States)|
|Builder:||Norfolk Navy Yard|
|Laid down:||May 1854|
|Launched:||13 December 1855|
|Commissioned:||4 May 1857|
|Recommissioned:||29 June 1863 as a monitor|
|Decommissioned:||12 June 1875|
|Refit:||25 March 1862|
|Struck:||5 August 1882|
|Fate:||Sold for scrap, 27 September 1883|
|General characteristics (as built)|
|Class & type:||Merrimack-class screw frigate|
|Displacement:||4,472 long tons (4,544 t)|
|Tons burthen:||3,400 bm|
|Length:||263 ft 8 in (80.4 m) (p/p)|
|Beam:||51 ft (15.5448 m)|
|Draft:||23 ft 9 in (7.2 m)|
|Installed power:||996 ihp (743 kW)
4 Martin boilers
1 Trunk steam engine
|Sail plan:||Ship rig|
|Speed:||8.8 knots (16.3 km/h; 10.1 mph)|
|Armament:||1 × 10 in (254 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren gun
28 × 9 in (229 mm) Dahlgren guns
14 × 8 in (203 mm) Dahlgren guns
|General characteristics (after reconstruction)|
|Displacement:||6,300 long tons (6,400 t)|
|Beam:||53 ft 3 in (16.2 m)|
|Speed:||8.5 knots (15.7 km/h; 9.8 mph)|
|Armament:||2 × 15 in (381 mm) Dahlgren guns
2 × 150-pounder Parrott rifle
2 × 11 in (279 mm) Dahlgren guns
USS Roanoke was a wooden-hulled Merrimack-class screw frigate built for the United States Navy in the mid-1850s. She served as flagship of the Home Squadron in the late 1850s and captured several Confederate ships after the start of the American Civil War in 1861. The ship was converted into an ironclad monitor during 1862–63; the first ship with more than two gun turrets in history. Her conversion was not very successful as she rolled excessively and the weight of her armor and turrets strained her hull. Her deep draft meant that she could not operate off shallow Confederate ports and she was relegated to harbor defense at Hampton Roads, Virginia for the duration of the war. Roanoke was placed reserve after the war and sold for scrap in 1883.
Roanoke was 263 feet 8 inches (80.4 m) long between perpendiculars and had a beam of 51 feet 4 inches (15.6 m). The ship had a draft of 23 feet 9 inches (7.2 m) and a depth of hold of 26 ft 2 in (8.0 m). She displaced 4,472 long tons (4,544 t) and had a burthen of 3,400 tons. Roanoke's hull was strongly reinforced by wrought iron straps. Her crew numbered 674 officers and enlisted men.
The ship had one horizontal two-cylinder trunk steam engine driving a single propeller using steam provided by four Martin boilers. The engine produced a total of 996 indicated horsepower (743 kW) and the ship had a maximum speed of 8.8 knots (16.3 km/h; 10.1 mph) under steam alone. The propeller could be hoisted and the single funnel lowered to increase speed under sail alone. Roanoke was ship rigged and had a sail area of 28,008 square feet (2,602 m2). In 1861, the ship's armament consisted of one 10-inch (254 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren pivot gun, twenty-eight 9-inch (229 mm) Dahlgren guns and fourteen 8-inch (203 mm) Dahlgren guns. The 10-inch Dahlgren weighed 12,500 pounds (5,700 kg) and could fire a 103-pound (46.7 kg) shell up to a range of 3,000 yards (2,700 m) at +19° elevation. The nine-inch gun weighed 9,200 pounds (4,200 kg) and could fire a 72.5-pound (32.9 kg) shell to a range of 3,357 yards (3,070 m) at an elevation of +15°. The eight-inch Dahlgren had a range of 2,300 yards (2,100 m) at an elevation of +10° with a 51.5-pound (23.4 kg) shell. It weighed 6,500 pounds (2,900 kg).
Steam frigate service
Roanoke, named after the Roanoke River, was laid down at the Norfolk Navy Yard in May 1854 and launched on 13 December 1855. The ship sank when launched and had to be refloated before she could be completed. She was commissioned on 4 May 1857 with Captain John B. Montgomery in command.
Assigned to the Home Squadron as flagship, Roanoke transported the American filibuster and former President of Nicaragua, William Walker, and his men back to the United States from Aspinwall, Colombia, (now called Colón, Panamá). Roanoke arrived on 4 August and the ship was decommissioned at the Boston Navy Yard on 24 September 1857. Recommissioned on almost a year later on 18 August 1858, Roanoke resumed her duties as flagship of the Home Squadron. For over a year, she was stationed at Aspinwall awaiting the arrival of a special Japanese embassy to the United States to ratify the 1858 Treaty of Amity and Commerce. They reached Aspinwall on 25 April 1860 and Roanoke reached Hampton Roads on 12 May 1860 with the delegation and was again decommissioned.
After the start of the Civil War, Roanoke recommissioned on 20 June 1861 and was assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. She destroyed the schooner Mary off Lockwood Folly Inlet, North Carolina, on 13 July 1861. The ship subsequently helped to capture the schooners Albion and Alert and the ship Thomas Watson off Charleston, South Carolina, on 15 October 1861.
Roanoke's deep draft prevented her from engaging the Confederate casemate ironclad CSS Virginia (her former sister USS Merrimack) during the Battle of Hampton Roads on 8–9 March 1862. The ship ferried north survivors from the sailing frigates USS Congress and USS Cumberland which Virginia had sunk. She arrived at New York City on 25 March, and decommissioned the same day to begin reconstruction as a monitor.
On 19 March 1862, 10 days after the Battle of Hampton Roads where the Monitor fought the Confederate ironclad Virginia to a standstill, John Lenthall, Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair, and the Chief of Steam Engineering, Benjamin F. Isherwood, wrote a letter to Gideon Welles, the Secretary of the Navy recommending that Roanoke be converted into a seagoing ironclad as that would be cheaper and faster than new construction. They suggested that the ship be cut down to the top of her gun deck, armoring her sides and deck and mounting four revolving Ericsson gun turrets, each mounting two 12-inch (305 mm) or 15-inch (381 mm) guns. This scheme would give her an ample 6 feet (1.8 m) of freeboard. Aside from reinforcing her hull to carry the weight of the turrets, the only other changes that they recommended were the elimination of the hoisting screw, replacement by a propeller smaller in diameter, and the addition of a ram. The wrought iron side armor would be a maximum of 6 inches (152 mm) in thickness with a taper down to 4.5 inches (114 mm) at its bottom edge, about 4 feet (1.2 m) below the waterline. The deck armor was to be 2.5-inch (64 mm) thick and an additional steam engine would be necessary to rotate the turrets and run the ventilation fans. They estimated that this conversion would take three and a half months and cost $495,000.
Welles accepted their recommendation and Roanoke began her reconstruction at the Brooklyn Navy Yard when she arrived in New York City on 25 March. The navy yard removed her masts, rigging and everything above the upper deck except her funnel while the Novelty Iron Works received a contract in early April to shape and mount all of her metal work. To save weight the number of turrets was reduced to three and her deck armor to 1.5 inches (38 mm). Each turret was virtually identical to those of the Passaic-class monitors and consisted of eleven layers of 1-inch (25 mm) plates. The forward two turrets were surmounted by a stationary pilothouse with armor nine inches thick. Novelty was given a choice in protecting Roanoke's sides, it could either with six layers of 1-inch (25 mm) plates or a single plate 4.5 inches (114 mm) thick that reduced to 3.5 inches (89 mm) inches below the waterline. It chose the latter and delays in their delivery were largely responsible for drawing out the reconstruction time to around a year. The plates were manufactured by the "Franklin Forge" of Tugnot, Dally & Co.
An auxiliary boiler was added to provide steam for the engines that powered the turrets, fans and steering and little to nothing was done to reinforce the hull to withstand the weight of her armor and turrets. The deck beneath each 125-long-ton (127 t) turret was reinforced by a series of stanchions that transferred their weight to the ship's bottom, which was not reinforced to handle their weight. The stress caused Roanoke to leak around 1.5 feet (0.5 m) per day by the end of the war. In her new configuration, her crew numbered 347 officers and men.
Roanoke was armed with two muzzle-loading smoothbore 15-inch Dahlgren guns, two 11 in (279 mm) Dahlgren guns and a pair of eight-inch, 150-pounder Parrott rifles. The forward turret mounted one 15-inch Dahlgren and a 150-pounder Parrot rifle, the middle turret was fitted with 15- and 11-inch Dahlgrens and the aft turret with one 11-inch Dahlgren and a 150-pounder rifle. Shortages of the 15-inch Dahlgren forced the substitution of two 11-inch Dahlgrens. Each of the former guns weighed approximately 43,000 pounds (20,000 kg). They could fire a 350-pound (158.8 kg) shell up to a range of 2,100 yards (1,900 m) at an elevation of +7°. The 11-inch Dahlgren weighed 16,000 pounds (7,300 kg) and could fire a 136-pound (61.7 kg) shell up to a range of 1,710 yards (1,560 m) at +5° elevation. The 150-pounder Parrot rifle weighed 16,300 pounds (7,400 kg) and fired eight-inch shells that weighed 132 to 175 pounds (60 to 79 kg).
Roanoke was also fitted with an ax-shaped ram. It was formed from two 4.5-inch plates that projected past her bow and presumably was the height of a single plate, 24 inches (0.6 m).
The ship was accepted by the Navy on 16 April 1863 although she was not recommissioned until 29 June, the first warship with more than two turrets in history. Ignoring pressure by local politicians to keep Roanoke in New York, the Navy ordered her to Hampton Roads, Virginia, to join the blockading squadron there. On the voyage south, the ship reached a maximum speed of 8.5 knots (15.7 km/h; 9.8 mph) and averaged 7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph). Captain Benjamin F. Sands reported that the ship's roll was so great that it would "preclude the possibility of fighting her guns at sea, and I was obliged to secure them with pieces of timber to prevent them fetching away". Roanoke was assigned as harbor defense ship at Hampton Roads where she remained through the end of the war. On 14 July, Sands test-fired his guns for the first time and both of the 15-inch Dahlgrens and one 150-pounder Parrott rifle dismounted themselves by their violent recoil. Her rear turret required nearly 5 minutes to make a full rotation. Captain Guert Gansevoort replaced Sands in command of the ship later in 1863. He was succeeded by Captain Augustus Kilty.
Roanoke arrived back in New York on 27 April 1865. She was decommissioned and placed in reserve on 20 June at New York Navy Yard. The ship's only postwar service was as flagship of the Port Admiral at New York. She was recommissioned on 13 January 1874 until reduced to reserve again on 12 June 1875. On 5 August 1882, Roanoke was struck from the Navy List and later sold for scrap on 27 September 1883.
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Long time St. John residents may remember how Mongoose Junction got its name. There was once an area where dumpsters were located that first got the name “Mongoose Junction” because of the many mongooses that were attracted to it.
St. John has been plagued by mongooses ever since planters brought them from India to control the rats that were eating their sugar cane. It was a futile move that only caused more problems, being that rats hunt during the night and live in trees and mongoose hunt during the day and live on the ground. A problem for both tree nesting birds and ground fowl like chickens. The problem was so bad that in 1936, there was only one sign posted in all of St. John. It was nailed to the palm tree nearest the town dock in Cruz Bay, signed by the Government Secretary and embossed with the government seal, announcing a bounty, dead or alive, for mongooses: fifteen cents for a male and twenty five cents for a female.
It came to my attention yesterday that I haven’t seen a mongoose for several years now. They used to be a common sight on St. John, hanging around dumpsters, darting across the North Shore Road or squashed on the road. Not anymore. What happened?
It seems that a government mongoose trapping program has been effective in controlling the beasts, officially classified as an invasive species. They’re either rare or gone from our island. The same can be said for Tortola, but not Jost Van Dyke, where a chicken hardly has a chance.
Noticed the increase in the iguana population on land and the prevalence of turtles in the offshore seagrass beds? Partly due, I’m sure, to the fact that their eggs are no longer at great risk from the sly mongoose.
St. John Live Music Schedule Friday June 22
Aqua Bistro – Stephan Sloan – 5:30 – 8:30 – 776-5336
Castaways – Mikey P 8:00 – Dance Party 11:00 – 777-3316
Cinnamon Bay – Eddie Bruce Drum Circle – 6:30 – 8:00
Cruz Bay Prime – James Cobb – 7:00 – 10:00 – 693 -8000
Driftwood Dave’s – John W Lee – 7:00 – 10:00 – 777-4015
Island Blues – Slammin – 776 6800
Morgan’s Mango - Lauren – 6:00 – 9:30 – 693-8141
Ocean Grill - T-Bird – 6:30 – 9:00 – 693-3304
Rhumblines – Erin Hart – 7:00 – 10:00
Spyglass - James Milne – 5:00 – 8:00 – 776-1100
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Once upon a time sugar was sugar, and sugar was most definitely not good for you. So the Corn Refiners Association move to rebrand high fructose corn syrup as corn sugar is a daring move – but should do little to sweeten its reputation.
Earlier this month, the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) petitioned the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow food and beverage manufacturers to label high fructose corn syrup ‘corn sugar’. The CRA says the move is about clarity for consumers, but who are they kidding? There's clearly more to it than that.
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) has suffered from a serious image problem for years, having been variously accused of causing obesity and type-2 diabetes, not to mention being an evil, secret weapon of mass destruction. The evidence behind such claims is, at best, inconclusive (and at worst paranoid fear-mongering) but at this stage it hardly matters. The sweetener has fallen out of favor with consumers and sales have slumped.
Whatever the premise, the Corn Refiners are right about the effect that a name change could have – it would make the nature of HFCS absolutely clear. Yes, it is a sugar and no, it is not significantly higher in fructose than other sugars.
But I wonder about the sense of this for the corn refining industry. Don’t they know that dietary guidelines have consistently urged us to avoid added sugars? And now that consumers recognize the term, the industry risks being accused of trying to hide HFCS under another name.
Perhaps they’re hoping that no one is paying attention: Recent research suggests that Americans have dismally poor adherence to dietary guidelines anyway.
Nevertheless, surely we can get the hang of the simple idea that too much sugar is bad for us, instead of believing that switching from one sugar to another will miraculously lead to good health – whether it comes from cane, beets, corn, or even agave.
Meanwhile food and beverage manufacturers have latched on to widespread consumer confusion, feeding our collective sweet tooth with sucrose rather than HFCS and marketing it as different – and better.
Too much sugar
In a way, HFCS has been a victim of its own success. It is a versatile ingredient and has many useful functions. It can extend the shelf life of bread, for instance, and because it is a syrup it often works better than sucrose in liquid formulations. But we simply eat too many added sugars in general – and HFCS, no matter what you call it, is in so many American foods.
It is expected to take the FDA up to two years to decide whether to allow manufacturers to list HFCS as corn sugar on ingredient labels.
If the agency says yes, it may help consumer awareness of the ubiquity of sugars in the American diet.
But I predict it would do little to sugar-coat the reputation of HFCS.
Caroline Scott-Thomas is a journalist specializing in the food industry. Prior to completing a Masters degree in journalism at Edinburgh's Napier University, she had spent five years working as a chef.
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This is taken from a post on Bugle from contributor Bruce McCrea. I found it interesting thinking about all of the Scouting treasures, countless items treasured by young men over the last 100 years, that must be hiding away in attics and trunks. Sometimes, it’s not the shiniest object under the tree that have the greatest value. It may be Grandpa’s old bugle or his merit badge sash heavy with sentimental value that a young man would love for Christmas.
This week on [eBay], a 1927 King [instrument] catalog sold for $102.50. One page of the catalog shows the #1074 King bugle and the #1074B licensed Official Boy Scout bugle. They are identical except for the Boy Scout inscription. Each bugle was available in 5 different finishes. The cover, the bugle page, and the page describing the finishes [are attached below.] The 1927 prices and the 2012 inflation-adjusted equivalents are below.
- Finish 1 – $6 = $79.39
- Finish 2 – $15 = $198.47
- Finish 3 – $20 = $264.62
- Finish 4 – $30 = $396.93
- Artist Special – $45 = $595.40
Do you think anyone actually bought bugles with the expensive finishes?
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U.S. Attorney Edward Tarver issued a two-page statement saying prosecutors determined at best they would be able to bring only misdemeanor charges alleging violations of industrial cleanliness standards of the federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration. There was not enough evidence that the company intentionally disregarded or was indifferent to safety requirements to even prosecute a misdemeanor case, Tarver said.
Investigators years ago determined the deadly blast Feb. 7, 2008, was caused by accumulation of sugar dust that exploded like gunpowder and said the company had been warned about dust problems before.
In addition to the 14 people killed, 36 workers suffered injuries—several of them surviving severe burns.
"I was hoping somebody would get prosecuted and go to jail over this," said Jamie Butler, who suffered burns to his face, arms and legs in the explosion. He was working at the refinery alongside his brother, Calvin Butler Jr., who died. "We just thought we were going to work on a regular day. It hurts, man."
In 2010, Texas-based Imperial Sugar settled with OSHA by agreeing to pay more than $6 million in civil fines for safety violations at the Georgia refinery as
Mark Tate, a Savannah attorney who represented 18 victims and families who sued after the explosion, said he wasn't surprised federal prosecutors decided against criminal charges.
"I don't think there's much of a taste for it," Tate said. "It's five years old. The company's been sold and the management's gone. But the widows and parents of the deceased are disappointed."
The Justice Department has opted to prosecute corporate executives in other recent tragedies. Its prosecutors brought criminal charges against employees of BP PLC in the 2010 Gulf Coast oil rig explosion that killed 11 workers. Earlier this month federal prosecutors indicted former executives of a Georgia peanut company in a 2009 salmonella outbreak that killed nine and sickened hundreds.
Tate said federal law has stricter standards to protect consumers and offshore workers than it does to prevent industrial dust explosions. And he said proving Imperial Sugar executives knew about the dust dangers and ignored them would be extremely difficult in a criminal case.
Federal investigations launched after the explosion determined that Imperial Sugar had been warned about dangerous dust inside the Georgia plant as recently as 2002, and that prior warnings had been issued since as early as the 1960s. The refinery is the second-largest in the U.S. and has been operating for nearly a century.
Tarver said in his statement that OSHA's housekeeping standards would only allow for misdemeanor charges against the company—not its officers or employees—and the maximum penalty would be a $500,000 fine. He said prosecutors could find no other criminal law under which to prosecute the deaths of the sugar workers.
When it rebuilt the Georgia refinery in 2009, Imperial Sugar said it added numerous safety features. Its settlement with OSHA also required the company to maintain an improved housekeeping program, employ a full-time safety manager for the Georgia plant and undergo audits by outside safety experts for the next three years.
Based in Sugar Land, Texas, Imperial Sugar was bought by Louis Dreyfus Commodities Sugar Holdings LLC in a merger last June. A phone message and email seeking comment from the company were not immediately returned Tuesday.
John Sheptor, who was Imperial Sugar's CEO during the explosion and its aftermath, did not immediately return a phone message. Sheptor now works as a corporate leadership consultant and is based in Maryland.
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Russia plans to change the T-50 aircraft carrier-based aircraft entered service in 2020
The article said that Russia plans to change the T-50 aircraft carriers
according to RIA Novosti September 28, 2010 reported that the Russian Naval Air Force and Navy overall responsibility for air defense forces on Tuesday to accept Valery Uvarov RIA Novosti interview, said the Russian fifth generation fighter aircraft until the year 2020 will appear in the Russian naval aviation. Earlier, Russian Defense Ministry said on behalf of a number of military fighter aircraft Sukhoi T50 adapted to the new naval fighter in service after 2016.
Valery Uvarov said, “is still hard to say when the fifth-generation fighter will begin in the Navy, first serving in the Air Force the fighter will then will be to ‘the Navy of the’ conversion. Never to have developed a new type of aircraft, costly, unreasonable and inadequate. modification work may be completed by 2020. “
Valery Uvarov stressed that any Navy fighter to begin a new service to go through compete with each other, competing organizations, including the MiG, Sukhoi Design Bureau Yakeliefu and so on. Valery Uvarov said carrier-based aircraft carrier should be ready before the service began, so the pilot will be able to train on land first, followed by training in the specialty training field, and finally training on the aircraft carrier deck.
Valery Uvarov also stressed that the Russian Navy is still waiting to receive the type of MiG-29K naval fighters, the fighters are now being exported to India. “To further develop the MiG-29K function, the Navy is about to purchase two of the aircraft type. There will be two flying squadrons, or 24 MiG-29K Su-33 squadrons and one flying squadron.”
reorganization of its structure the Russian Navy, Naval Air Force and Navy air defense forces will be merged into a military branch, Valery Uvarov will be retiring. (China Shipbuilding Technology and Economy Institute Lei Song)
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George Washington Brackenridge was born in Warwick County,
Indiana, in January of 1832. He attended the University of Indiana, and Harvard
University. When his parents came to Texas in 1853,
they settled at Texana (now
a ghost town) in coastal Jackson County.
From 1857 to 1860 Brackenridge
served as a Jackson County surveyor and when the Civil War erupted, he started
trading cotton at Matamoros while his three
brothers served on active duty with the Confederate Army.
Early in the
war Brackenridge claimed Union sympathies and was banished from Texas.
He became United States Treasury agent in July of 1863, and worked in New Orleans
after that city was occupied by Federal forces.
At war’s end, Brackenridge
moved to San Antonio where he opened
the San Antonio National Bank. He became president of the San Antonio Water Works,
director of the San Antonio Express (the Express Publishing Company), served as
a regent of the University of Texas from 1886-1911 and even found time to serve
as president of the San Antonio school board.
Brackenridge, who never
married, gave the bulk of his money (while living) to colleges and universities
in Austin, San
Antonio, Seguin and Galveston.
He once proposed that the main campus of UT be moved to 500 acres on the Colorado
River, which he had previously donated to the university.
was the park where his statue now sits. Incarnate Word College bought the Brackenridge
home which it continues to maintain. He died in San
Antonio in the last days of 1920 and was buried in the Brackenridge family
cemetery near Edna.
San Antonio sculptor Pompeo
Coppini had only finished the plaster mold of the work at the time of his
death in 1958. Adopted daughter Waldine Tauch negotiated with the city to bring
the project to completion. The plaster was shipped to Italy for casting and when
it arrived completed back in San Antonio,
the city government wouldn’t pay the $30,000 bill, but forwarded it to Tauch.
Tauch and the previous mayor hadn’t signed the documents, which left the statue
in limbo. Citizens of San Antonio
stepped forward and paid the money, allowing the statue to be set in place in
from A Comprehensive Guide to Outdoor Sculpture in Texas by Carol Morris
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The Hittities: Quiet Pioneers of Mesopotamia
While its origins remain mysterious even today, the Hittite Empire was one of the most significant of the Mesopotamian kingdoms, powerful enough to bring down the commanding Babylonians and their strict ways of life. The Hittites burst on to the Mesopotamian scene sometime around the late 18th century B.C. At its height, the Hittite Empire covered Anatolia, northern Syria, and the northern regions of Mesopotamia. Its capital was located at Hattusas, in northern Anatolia.
The Hittite people were seemingly enigmas. Their geographic origins are still not completely understood, and their language was obscure and indecipherable for a very long time. Today, though, we know that the language of the Hittites peoples was one from the Indo-European language family, specifically from the Anatolian branch. This language family also includes the Indian languages, Latin, German, Greek, and English. Very little evidence of the language remains, other than in the form of laws and administrative announcements.
When the Hittites invaded Mesopotamia, they adapted many of the ways of life of the Babylonians and even the Sumerians, which had been in place for centuries. Specifically, they adopted the religion of the region, worshipping and embracing the gods of Babylonia and Sumeria as their own. One governmental modification they made was to modify the stringent laws that had been put into place by former kings like Hammurabi. The strictness of the legal system was eased, and far fewer deaths resulted from crimes. The king also became sole owner of all the land in his territory, which was vastly different from empires like the Sumerians, whose king allowed the ownership of private property. Under the Hittites, in order for a person to control (not own) land of any kind, he had to serve in the army of the king.
While much of the history of the Hittites is quite mysterious, we know now that their empire is one of the most important from Mesopotamia. The Hittites were very skillful in the construction of chariots, and were vanguards of the Iron Age. They were among the earliest peoples to produce iron tools and artifacts (as early as the 14th century B.C.), and consequently were able to establish a successful economy of trade and commerce.
The size of the Hittite territory allowed them to trade with peoples throughout the Mediterranean and into Egypt. With this ability to trade also came the exchange and teaching of Mesopotamian ideas, history, politics, and economic and social concepts. Thus, the Hittites were hugely responsible for passing on the thoughts and ideas of all the Mesopotamian people that had come before them, like the Babylonians, the Sumerians, and the Amorites, and enlightening the rest of the world - and history – about them.
The Hittite Empire flourished from around 1600 - 1200 B.C., until the Assyrians came through and took control of Mesopotamia. However, the cities of the HIttites managed to retain some independent control of Mesopotamia, and prosper economically, at least until the Assyrians finally overcame them all by 717 B.C. Though thay are not among the most notorious of the Mesopotamians, the Hittites were certainly among the most influential, revolutionizing ironworking, and educating other civilizations about the Mesopotamian ways of life.
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What is it with English people and dinosaurs? Back in March, a group of drunken college students from Dorchester were caught trying to make off with a 20-foot-long Triceratops. Now, according to Cranswick Today, thieves have made off with dozens of valuable artifacts from Dinostar, "Yorkshire's only dinosaur visitor attraction." The haul includes genuine teeth and rib bones, artificial skulls and claws, a bunch of fossilized beetles and, yes, a few coprolites (fossilized dinosaur poop to you and me). More news on paleontological shenanigans in the UK as the situation develops!
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Connecting the Fan Filter Housing to House Exhaust
We recommend the use of an air gap or “THIMBLE CONNECTION” to provide safe exhausting of the FS4010 Fan Filter Housing.
The house exhaust system is subject to velocity and flow fluctuations due to the fact that it is exhausting many areas that have constantly changing demands. The “Air Gap” thimble connection provides a simple way to isolate pulsations occurring in the house exhaust system. The use of an “Air Gap” thimble connection stabilizes the air flow in the Vented Balance Safety Enclosure™ by preventing the fluctuations that exist in the house exhaust system from affecting or disturbing the airflow in the Vented Balance Safety Enclosure™. In addition, the “Air Gap” thimble connection prevents the two fans, the fan filter unit with the Vented Balance Safety Enclosure™ and the house exhaust fan, from fighting each other if they were hard connected. Always use an “Air Gap” thimble connection on the discharge for the Flow Sciences fan filter unit when sending filtered air to house exhaust to insure proper performance of the Vented Balance Safety Enclosure™.
Since the FS4010 has a built-in fan downstream from the filter, the connection should be made with a thimble (FS2083) which has been designed to fit over the square discharge of the fan filter housing. The thimble is 5 7/8” in diameter. Once the thimble is in place, it is connected to house exhaust with 6” diameter flex duct.
If the FS4010 is exhausting 100 CFM, we would set the General House Exhaust to 115 CFM. The purpose of this is to prevent fluctuations in the general exhaust from adversely affecting the performance of the enclosure.
For additional information or questions please call us at 1-800-849-3429.
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Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission
By Hampton Sides. (New York: Doubleday, 2001. Pg 352. Photos.) ISBN: 0-3854-9564-1
Reviewed by Rochelle Caviness - May 24, 2001
On April 9th, 1942, Major General Edward King surrendered Bataan to the Japanese. For the soldiers fighting in Bataan, both American and Filipinos, the surrender was both welcomed and despised. For far too long they had been fighting without proper food or military supplies. Many soldiers had been reduced to eating monkeys and other wildlife just to survive, many more were ill. The surrender was an inglorious, but seemingly a necessary end to what had long been an inglorious campaign. No matter how exhausted or hungry they were, King and his men would have fought to the last man, had they but known what was to come...
The soldiers that surrendered to the Japanese began their decent into hell via a modest 75-mile 'hike' into captivity, that was later to be known as the Bataan Death March. It was to result in the deaths of around 6,000 of the vanquished soldiers. Many died from sheer exhaustion or disease. Many more were simply slaughtered.
"Had the deaths been apportioned evenly over the entire seventy-five-mile route, one would have encountered a corpse every twenty yards." (Pg. 150.)
The death march was but an inkling of the horrors they were to endure, horrors which Hampton Sides unflinchingly illustrates within the pages of Ghost Soldiers. In captivity the soldiers endured grueling work as slave laborers. Starvation was a real threat, as was disease and pestilence. Thousands died from curable maladies due to their weakened condition and the lack of medicines. Worse was the unrelenting brutality and a strict discipline of the camps. At every turn the POWs faced the threat of instant execution, or torture, for the smallest of infractions. By the time that MacArthur began his campaign to retake the Philippines, the survivors of the Bataan Death March had been reduced to a pitiful remnant.
Late in 1944, retreating Japanese massacred the POWs of the Puerto Princesa Prison Camp in Palawan. A handful of men managed to survive the massacre and make it back into friendly territory, bringing with them their unimaginable tale of mass murder. The allies feared that more POWs would be slaughtered as they advanced into territory previously held by the Japanese. To forestall this slaughter, a daring plot was hatched to rescue the 513 POWs housed in the Cabanatuan Prison Camp. It is the story of this rescue, which is the main focus of this riveting narrative.
In Ghost Soldiers, Sides juxtaposes the history of the POW's captivity with the ongoing efforts to rescue them. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci and Captain Robert Prince, 121 Army Rangers slipped behind enemy lines to liberate the prisoners at the Cabanatuan camp before the Japanese could eradicate its inmates. Aided by two guerrilla groups led by Captain Juan Pajuta and Captain Eduardo Joson, and with the unselfish aid of countless civilians, the rescue was a phenomenal success.
Throughout Ghost Soldiers, Sides has taken pains to give intimate portraits of the men involved, from both sides. This helps the reader to better understand why events transpired as they did, and it elevates the men from being viewed as statics. These biographical sketches also help explain how these men managed to survive in the hellish environment in which they found themselves. In addition, it helps explain why the Rangers, and the Guerrillas, who sought to rescue them, would be willing to risk their lives in what could have very easily turned into a suicide mission.
In Ghost Soldiers, Hampton Sides has chronicled the history of the Bataan campaign leading up to the King's surrender to the Japanese and the surrender itself. It also covers its aftermath, including the daring rescue of a handful of POWs who survived the Bataan Death March, and their years of captivity in inhuman conditions. This book is extremely well written and well researched. Much of the material contained in the book was derived from eyewitness accounts and numerous interviews that Sides had with some of the former POWs and their rescuers. Sides has penned a riveting work that is unbelievably disturbing, yet so compelling that it is impossible to set the book aside. Be forewarned, Sides pulls no punches. His descriptions are graphic, and many of the events that he chronicles are appalling. Nonetheless it is important that these events are retold so that the bravery and spirit of the men that endured them are not forgotten.
Given Up For Dead, by Flint Whitlock.
The history of the 'American GI's in the Nazi Concentration Camp at Berga'.
Battleship Oklahoma BB-37, by Jeff Phister, with Thomas Hone and Paul Goodyear.
An engaging history of the USS Oklahoma, with a special emphasis on the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, where she was sunk by Japanese bombers.
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Howard Jacobson’s novel The Finkler Question is another Booker long-list selection, and I’ll be surprised if it doesn’t make the short-list, although my guess is that it won’t actually win the prize.
Howard Jacobson writes with sophistication and verve. I often found myself pausing over a sentence to take in the meaning, double, or triple sometimes, for Jacobson’s use of language is always inventive and occasionally startling.
The story centres on Julian Treslove, a former radio producer whose career has failed to rise as it should have, mainly because of his lack of focus on the task in hand and a degree of self-doubt which robs him of the certainty he needs to succeed.
Treslove has two close friends, Sam Finkler, a television producer and Jewish philosopher and the former teacher of Sam and Julian, Libor Sevcik, an elderly widower, also Jewish, who in some ways acts as a mentor to the two men.
One day, while walking near Broadcasting House Treslove is mugged and all his valuables are stolen. Treslove is mortified to realise that his assailant is a woman. And to complicate matters, although the words she uttered at the time of the robbery are indistinct, on further reflection, Treslove comes to believe that they were the words, “You Jew!”.
The thought of being the victim of an anti-Semitic attack, when he is in fact a Gentile begins to worry Treslove. Because of his two friends Sam and Libor, Treslove is already familiar with all things Jewish, and he begins to think about anti-Semitism, reading of attacks on Jews in Canada, France, Germany and Argentina. Slowly, his mugging begins to take the form in his mind of an “atrocity”, and as the novel unwinds, poor Treslove begins to question whether he is not in fact Jewish after all, something discerned by the mugger due to innate characteristics which he had not previously recognised -
Wouldn’t it have made sense, if my father didn’t want me to know we were Jews, or for anyone else to know we were Jews for that matter, to have changed our name to the last Jewish one he could find? . . . No one knew my family. We kept ourselves to ourselves. I have no uncles. My father had no brothers or sisters, my mother neither.
It is not my purpose to spoil this novel for other readers and so let me just say that the rest of the novel follows Treslove on a complex journey through a new lifestyle and a new set of relationships. Jacobson uses the naive and deluded Treslove to explore facets of modern-day Judaism, in large part by handing over the narrative reins to Treslove’s friends Finkler and Libor. Libor, now in his 90′s looks back over his colourful life and offers a reflective view of what its been like to be Jewish over most of the last century. Sam Finkler is a colourful character, who joins a new organisation of “Ashamed Jews” who lament the deeds of the state of Israel and stand on public platforms denouncing Israelis and supporting Palestinians. In their conversations with Treslove we gain a picture of a Jewishness which is flexible, even vague, but is always a vital part of identity.
The book is very funny, particularly as Treslove forms a relationship with Hephzibah, an earth-mother type who takes him under his wing and into her bed. A colourful character in her own right, she involves Treslove in setting up a museum of Jewish culture, a project which has been close to her heart for many years.
Despite its obvious qualities, I wouldn’t say that I found this book particularly easy to read. It took me a surprisingly long time to get through it and I think this is because although I recognised its qualities, it didn’t really engage me as much as I thought it would. Its clever and funny, but there is perhaps a little too much of the introspective Treslove and the workings of his mind. I’m not sure that thought processes always make for good reading, particularly when the thoughts are those of an indecisive and confused man who fails to make much of his life. The concepts are funny, and the other characters are interesting, but with the focus on the sometimes idiotic Treslove, I sometimes lost a sense of forward movement while wallowing in Treslove’s muddied thoughts.
However, I wouldn’t quibble about the Booker nomination – I don’t think this year’s selection are anything like as good as last year’s and The Finkler Question is at least original and well-written.
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WEC has struggled to provide adequate numbers of doctors and nurses to be a help in recent years. Health in Congo is an area of real human need. Many die for lack of medicines and proper care. Missionaries can help in the area of direct care but the prime focus would be on training.
Today CECCA has a number of Congolese doctors and many nurses. It is desireable to increase these numbers so as to effectively operate a viable health care ministry. We also want to disciple these health care workers for their own spiritual benefit and for their ministry to the sick and others in their community.
WEC and CECCA are members of an inter-mission, inter-church medical work originally established at Nyankunde near the eastern border of Congo. The Evangelical Medical Centre (CME, initials in French) was the result of the work of Dr Becker (AIM) who initially developed the hospital side and Dr Helen Roseveare (WEC) who initiated the nurses' training school.
As members we have contributed personnel to this higher-level medical work. In November 2002 the centre was overrun by a tribal militia. 2000 people in the hospital, village and neighbouring mission were reported masscred and the hospital and houses were looted. Many of the staff have returned to their home areas. Others continued the work on CME at the AIM hospital at Oicha. Two WEC doctors (Philip and Nancy Wood) are serving at Bunia where CME is now concentrated. More missionary help would be greatly appreciated.
- Personnel needs: Doctors, Nurses.
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NINDS invites grant applications for research on interventions for child abuse and neglect. This announcement is made together with 8 other NIH components, the Administration for Children and Families, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Child maltreatment has been recognized as a serious public health problem for some time. It may result in serious problems across development. Victims of child abuse and neglect are as likely to develop physical illness as mental illness. The purpose of this announcement is to encourage research on understanding effective strategies to prevent child abuse and neglect, and finding ways to lessen the biological and behavioral effects of child abuse and neglect on its victims.
Potential applicants should contact Dr. Debra Babcock, Program Director, Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience Cluster, NINDS; telephone: 301-496-9964; email: firstname.lastname@example.org. For a more detailed description of this program announcement, visit http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-437.html.
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The News Desk is a collection of news, notes and breaking items affecting the Fredericksburg community.
Dry conditions taking toll on crops
BY KATIE THISDELL
Talk to many Northern Neck grain farmers this summer and they’ll gladly tell you their woes.
Excessive heat and not enough water are wreaking havoc with crops—and livelihoods.
“The corn is finished. Rain is not going to help it now,” said Danny Allensworth, who grew up in Westmoreland County and now grows grains on 1,000 acres there. “It’s about as bad a situation as you can get.”
Allensworth estimates he’ll get just a quarter of his typical yield, and maybe even less.
Many large-scale farmers east and south of Fredericksburg are saying the same things as those in the Midwest about corn, soybeans and other commodities, as the ground dries up and rainfall doesn’t arrive.
Consumers could see prices at the grocery store go up later this year, as the cost of corn impacts many other things on store shelves.
“The rains we’ve had this summer have been abnormal,” said Mike Broaddus, Caroline County cooperative extension agent. “They’ve been very violent and very small. It’s been spotty at best.”
A widespread drought now covers about 60 percent of the United States. Virginia is faring better, but Westmoreland and some other area counties are still nearly 7 inches of rainfall behind the annual average.
“We’d get a tenth of an inch here, two-tenths there. It’s not enough,” said Allensworth, 40.
Fredericksburg’s University of Mary Washington weather station has recorded 17.9 inches of precipitation so far this year. However, some areas have received more rainfall and some less.
The National Weather Service describes the area as having abnormally dry conditions.
“We’ve had some dry spells,” Broaddus said. “We’ve had some small droughts, [but] nothing this severe for this long.”
CORN FIELDS SUFFER
Depending on the variety, corn is planted in April and harvested in September.
Corn needs a lot of water when it’s pollinating, around the first of July. That’s when pollen falls off the tassels of the plants onto the silks, which are connected to where the kernels form. Without water, the kernels aren’t able to grow.
This year is reminiscent of 2010, said Allensworth, who now lives in King and Queen County with his wife, Melissa. That year, he got just 6 bushels of corn per acre, a fraction of his typical yield.
Across Westmoreland, farmers brought in 501,000 bushels of corn from 12,500 acres, said Stephanie Romelczyk, the county’s agriculture extension agent. But last year’s yield, 1.9 million bushels off 13,100 acres, was nearly quadruple that amount.
“That’s substantial. That’s just for corn. It’s just a big difference,” Romelczyk said. “It’ll be an interesting year to see how everything plays out.”
In 2011, Virginia farmers harvested 40 million bushels of corn, less than 1 percent of the country’s total production, according to the Virginia Grain Producers Association.
Crop insurance helps to cover losses, but it can still be rough.
All of Allensworth’s corn goes to Perdue Farms in Tappahannock for chicken feed, along with the majority of Westmoreland’s yield, he said.
He averages 135 bushels per acre. Each acre of corn costs about $450 to grow. Perdue currently pays about $7 per bushel. If you do the math, you can see that drought makes profits disappear.
Vegetable farms aren’t affected as much by the hot and dry conditions, because most have irrigation systems.
SHOPPERS SEE COSTS RISE
Cattle farmer Shirley Powell, 69, who runs Monrovia Farm near Colonial Beach, is also worried this year.
“As a farmer, I’ll be lucky enough to have enough food to feed my cattle,” said Powell, picking kernels off a cob that’s worthless because it’s too small to go through the machines.
Usually, he sells about two-thirds of the corn he grows on 200 acres, and keeps one-third to feed his 100 head of cows.
He anticipates having to reduce his herd size because feed could just be too expensive, along with all the other costs of running a farm.
“The overall consumer, before it’s over, they’re going to know it,” Powell said of the dry weather.
There’s still hope for his 350 acres of soybeans, but Mother Nature must cooperate.
“We need rain now,” he said.
Katie Thisdell: 540/735-1975
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Agreement with California Attorney General May Set Floor for Privacy Protections for Users of Mobile Applications
Amid growing concern about their personal information being pulled by mobile applications (“apps”) and taking a lead from the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), whose recent report raised concerns about the lack of privacy information available to mobile app users before download, California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced a privacy agreement with the six largest mobile app providers – Amazon, Apple, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Research in Motion – that will impact how millions download apps to their smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices.
Two important features of the agreement are that consumers:
The six companies will also be tasked with educating the app developers about their privacy obligations and will be providing users tools to report non-compliant apps.
Privacy policies are important consumer protections that allow for transparency into how companies collect and use personal information. Currently, most apps do not have privacy policies.
An important part of the agreement is the recognition that the Act applies to independent app developers as well as operators of commercial website and online services that sell and distribute them.
The Attorney General predicts that this agreement will have international impact as app developers will choose to comply with California law and the agreement because California is an important state (lots of app users here), and it will be administratively easier for the app developers to have one design that works everywhere.
At this point, it is uncertain whether the agreement will have the global impact the Attorney General predicts. That said, we have seen other California privacy laws assume a national impact.
For example, the California Security Breach Notification law was one of the first in the country and, as such, many companies doing business in California had to comply with it not only in California, but, for public relations reasons, everywhere – how could a large national company provide security breach notification letters in California to California residents, but not in Arizona?
In this example, the company would essentially being telling people in Arizona that their protection is less important than persons in California. Therefore, many companies simply decided to provide security breach notification letters everywhere it did business even before many states passed similar security breach notification laws. It is possible the same impact could happen with this new Act.
For more information or any questions, please contact Tim Moroney 415-743-3713 or email@example.com.
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We have tentatively planned for a panel at our October 20 workshop to discuss funding and other resources at the federal, state, local, and tribal level that promote or could promote broadband accessibility and affordability for people with disabilities.
Please give us your feedback on workshop planning issues (e.g., how to structure this panel, suggested questions and speakers, and helpful background reading material) and policy issues.
- What federal resources are available or could be available to fund broadband access and equipment for people with disabilities?
- What are the potential sources for federal research funding that could promote broadband accessibility and affordability?
- What resources are available to help better coordinate federal data collection relating to broadband usage by people with disabilities?
- What lessons can we learn from programs that currently serve to promote broadband accessibility and affordability for people with disabilities?
- What state, local and tribal resources are available to fund broadband access for people with disabilities?
- What state equipment distribution programs provide equipment that can be used by people with disabilities to access broadband? Are there model programs that could be replicated elsewhere?
- Are there potential state, local, and tribal resources that promote research or provide other support to promote broadband accessibility?
- What other information, including information responsive to the more specific questions in the Public Notice do you think would help us better understand the federal, state, local, and tribal resources available to make broadband accessible and affordable to people with disabilities?
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Comprehensive databases for nanomaterials, events, products,
companies, research labs, degree programs and publications
National Chiao Tung University - Center for Nano Science and Technology
The three objectives for the center are 1) to promote and coordinate large-scale interdisciplinary research programs in nano-science and technology. 2) to plan and to co-ordinate cross-disciplinary undergraduate and postgraduate training in nano-science and technology. 3) to serve as a bridge between the university's nano-research and the industrial application in nanotechnology.
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CO2 lags temperature - what does it mean?
What the science says...
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CO2 didn't initiate warming from past ice ages but it did amplify the warming. In fact, about 90% of the global warming followed the CO2 increase.
Earth’s climate has varied widely over its history, from ice ages characterised by large ice sheets covering many land areas, to warm periods with no ice at the poles. Several factors have affected past climate change, including solar variability, volcanic activity and changes in the composition of the atmosphere. Data from Antarctic ice cores reveals an interesting story for the past 400,000 years. During this period, CO2 and temperatures are closely correlated, which means they rise and fall together. However, based on Antarctic ice core data, changes in CO2 follow changes in temperatures by about 600 to 1000 years, as illustrated in Figure 1 below. This has led some to conclude that CO2 simply cannot be responsible for current global warming.
Figure 1: Vostok ice core records for carbon dioxide concentration and temperature change.
This statement does not tell the whole story. The initial changes in temperature during this period are explained by changes in the Earth’s orbit around the sun, which affects the amount of seasonal sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface. In the case of warming, the lag between temperature and CO2 is explained as follows: as ocean temperatures rise, oceans release CO2 into the atmosphere. In turn, this release amplifies the warming trend, leading to yet more CO2 being released. In other words, increasing CO2 levels become both the cause and effect of further warming. This positive feedback is necessary to trigger the shifts between glacials and interglacials as the effect of orbital changes is too weak to cause such variation. Additional positive feedbacks which play an important role in this process include other greenhouse gases, and changes in ice sheet cover and vegetation patterns.
A 2012 study by Shakun et al. looked at temperature changes 20,000 years ago (the last glacial-interglacial transition) from around the world and added more detail to our understanding of the CO2-temperature change relationship. They found that:
- The Earth's orbital cycles trigger the initial warming (starting approximately 19,000 years ago), which is first reflected in the the Arctic.
- This Arctic warming caused large amounts of ice to melt, causing large amounts of fresh water to flood into the oceans.
- This influx of fresh water then disrupted the Atlantic Ocean circulation, in turn causing a seesawing of heat between the hemispheres. The Southern Hemisphere and its oceans warmed first, starting about 18,000 years ago.
- The warming Southern Ocean then released CO2 into the atmosphere starting around 17,500 years ago, which in turn caused the entire planet to warm via the increased greenhouse effect.
Overall, about 90% of the global warming occurred after the CO2 increase (Figure 2).
Figure 2: Average global temperature (blue), Antarctic temperature (red), and atmospheric CO2 concentration (yellow dots). Source.
Last updated on 9 April 2012 by dana1981. View Archives
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Beginning of Life / Adoption
Adoption: A Pro-Life Response to Families in Need
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I'm Your Child
The following was written by Justin, a ten-year-old born in 1986 in Korea, who was adopted by Roger and Lynne Tews of Cedarburg, Wisconsin, when he was seven-months-old.To My Birth...October 1st, 2004
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Beginnings was contacted by a WELS couple who adopted a baby born to a woman who had come to one of the Christian Life Resources Pregnancy Counseling Centers. Please note that Christian...October 1st, 2004
What to Do With Baby?
Competent and sympathetic counselors understand that guiding an expectant mother to a God-pleasing decision is a complex job. Ther is always more to deal with in the heart of the soon-to-be...October 1st, 2004
When They Say... You Say: Every Child a Wanted Child [and Other Social Arguments]
This is part 3 of a five-part series, "When They Say... You Say"Argument 3: "Every child a wanted child," and other social argumentsIn the 1960s, we were told that there were too many...October 1st, 2004
Abortion Vs. Adoption
Competent and certainly sympathetic counselors understand that guiding an expectant lead a pregnant sister to love and provide for her baby and to give birth to it. But a good counselor...October 1st, 2004
Five Basic Categories of Arguments of Pro-Abortion Arguments
Argument 1: "It's not a human being/person -- it's just a blob of tissue." A fetus is just a part of the woman's body It's not a baby An egg and a sperm are also human life -- the fetus...October 1st, 2004
Children of God, You Are Worth Something! [A Sermon Concept]
"How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!" (1 John 3:1a)."I'm such a loser! I'm a fat, stupid, ugly, klutzy,...October 1st, 2004
Is Adoption Still the Forgotten Option?
Last month, Dateline NBC told the story of a young couple's decision to have a baby who had been diagnosed with Down syndrome. The story, which took place in 1998, is worth recalling...October 1st, 2004
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Scientifically referred to as Pimpinella anisum, anise oil is a native of South-West Asia and the Mediterranean region. Anise can be used in several forms; the most commonly employed form being oil. Anise oil is a yellow colored, pale, viscous oil. It is an aromatherapy essential oil and hence has been used in aromatherapy since primitive times.
Let us take a look at some of the properties of anise oil that make it such an important essential oil in aromatherapy.
- Anise essential oil is an effective carminative. It ameliorates the state of the gastrointestinal tract by preventing the formation of gas in the stomach, thereby combating flatulence. Also, it enhances appetite and promotes digestion.
- Anise essential oil is also known to be very effective against cramps, especially those in the respiratory tract and stomach.
- Anise essential oil is also a good expectorant and helps relieve cold and cough.
- Anise essential oil is also an effective antiseptic. It may be used to quickly heal cuts and wounds and also prevent septic infection.
- The odor of anise essential oil resembles that of licorice. As such, it can also be used as a mouthwash to relieve bad breath.
- Anise essential oil can also be used as a powerful insect repellant due to its pungent and strong smell.
- Anise oil is a potent emmenagogue. It stimulates the female reproductive system and regulates the menstrual cycle, thereby helping relieve pre-menstrual symptoms. Anise essential oil also stimulates the onset of menstruation.
- Anise essential oil has anti-spasmodic properties and can be used to cure spasms.
- Anise essential oil is an effective laxative. It relaxes the body and also serves to relieve pain in the muscles. It is also effective in curing insomnia.
- Anise essential oil can be used to get rid of lice and ticks from the scalp due to its insect repellant properties.
- Anise oil can be used to clean and purify the intestinal tract by enhancing bowel movements, thereby preventing constipation.
- Anise oil can also be used in culinary preparations.
- Anise oil can either be used directly on the skin or consumed in preparations like tea. It can also be inhaled as an infusion. However, while applying the oil directly on your body, you must remember to dilute it with a carrier oil like jojoba or olive oil. It may cause adverse effects, if used without dilution. Also, you should consult an aromatherapy specialist before you use it to treat different ailments.
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Georgia Law Enforcement Often Refuses to Report Forfeiture Funds, a Violation of GA Law
Civil forfeiture threatens the property rights of all Americans. These laws allow the police to seize your home, car, cash or other property upon the mere suspicion that it has been used or involved in criminal activity. Georgia has some of the worst civil forfeiture laws in the country. But, in an attempt to at least ensure civil forfeiture is subject to public scrutiny, state law requires local law enforcement agencies to annually itemize and report all property obtained through forfeiture, and what they did with it, to their local governing authorities. Amazingly, many, perhaps most, local law enforcement agencies simply fail to issue these forfeiture reports. For these agencies, their forfeiture proceeds are "off budget" slush funds shielded from public view. The Atlanta Police Department, Fulton County Police Department, and Fulton County Sheriff all regularly fail to produce mandated forfeiture reports. This concerns Georgia citizens, including Ryan Van Meter, Anna Cuthrell, Joseph Kidd, Josiah Neff and Tsvetelin Tsonevski, all taxpaying residents of Atlanta and Fulton County. They have filed a lawsuit to force the head officers of these three local law enforcement agencies to disclose all of the property they have seized under applicable Georgian forfeiture statues along with how they have utilized that property, preventing that property from becoming a slush fund. The issue of the case is not complicated: Law enforcement should follow the law.
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A new patent application for Google Glass would enable the future specs to identify and remotely control objects such as garage doors and refrigerators. On one hand, this is a natural evolution of technology, but if you step back, this patent is really describing a work-around form of telekinesis.
First highlighted in a report on Engadget, the patent (boring deets here) would allow Glass to recognize a controllable object via visual identification, RFID, Bluetooth, or even QR codes. Once identified, Glass would place an overlay in the user's vision that would present them with options such as "open garage door." These smart objects connected via wifi or otherwise enabled could then be controlled by Glass.
From what we've seen of Glass, users will interact with the device mostly by vocal commands. According to the patent application, users could also control objects with either vertical or horizontal head nods that could be interpreted as "yes" or "no" or with a "gesture of the wearer's finger toward the virtual control interface [that] may be interpreted as a 'Yes.'" Additionally, the patent also mentions that the wearer may "actuate a button or interact with a touchpad on the wearable computing device."
While nothing within this patent application might appear to be a giant technological leap forward from our contemporary vantage point, taken as a whole, this really could be described as some Jean Grey sort of ability (with a bit of Geordie La Forge thrown in for good measure). We can simply look at an object and bring it under our will with little more than a nod of the head or swipe of the finger.
That's some super hero stuff right there.
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What is normal? Many Portland Business Journal readers believe the Dow will return to normal by the end of the year and that normal is between 9,000 and 11,000.
Florida is not normal. Financial meltdown and a high foreclosure rate have turned a comfortably Republican state into an electoral tossup.
Overseas, more than two out of three respondents to a New Zealand business poll believe that the current financial situation is a historical event on a scale similar to the Crash of '29.
Under the category of Extreme Discontent, a new survey shows that 62% of small business owners would cross party lines to vote for the presidential candidate who would do the most to help their business. Nearly half feel that their business is in jeopardy.
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The Stewardship of Influence...America needs Christians to Vote.
“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned?” It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.” Matthew 5:13, 14
Over the years, preachers have used various metaphors to explain the properties of salt and light. The preserving, penetrating, and protecting property of salt and light is important. Too often however, preachers become weighed down with adjectives describing the nature of the two elements. Little time is spent explaining that Jesus was talking about influence.
Every Christian has influence. Many Christians use their influence wisely while some fail to realize the extent of their influence. Christians should be good stewards or “managers” of everything God entrusts to them. Influence is no different. Christians should use their influence in every walk of life.
The Declaration of Independence uses the words “their Creator” as a reference to the God of the Bible. However, the moral compass that once pointed America toward that Creator has shifted drastically. For instance, the A.C.L.U. strongly insists on a total separation of church and state and refuses to accommodate our nation’s rich Christian heritage. If Christians measure cultural success by widespread morality, their influence may be waning.
Some say the nation has never been more divided over moral and social issues. Poll numbers show that Americans are divided almost evenly between the presidential candidates. Is that a result of political party lines or because their ideological differences are radically different? Whoever becomes America’s next president may lead the nation toward a dismal future. How can that happen in a nation whose motto is “In God We Trust?”
Now is the time for Christians to be good stewards of their influence. Influencing American politics is an issue of good stewardship because Scripture tells believers to “render to Caesar those things that are Caesar’s”. The voting booth is also a place of power. In America, every vote is weighted equally. That equality gives individuals power to change the outcome. By voting in an election, believers exert the power of their influence. Therefore, by voting in this election, Christians are good stewards and powerful citizens.
There are those who strictly oppose Christian principles in American politics. Some political leaders have formed a litmus test against those ideals. They fear that Christian politicians will impact America’s legal system with their beliefs. Christian leaders see it differently. They want their beliefs to influence the political system. They believe that America has little hope without the infusion of Christian stewardship into the social and political process.
Can Christians make a difference in this election? Amazingly, the number of Christians registered to vote is staggering. If a large majority of Christians would vote on November 4th their influence would be decisive. If Christians decided the outcome of this election, the effects of their stewardship would be measured for years to come. Believers beware: pollsters, pundits, and partisans are counting on the fact that a large majority of evangelical Christians will not vote in this election. Be forewarned; much is at stake for every American!
Scripture tells us to redeem the time. Pastors everywhere should remind their congregations about the importance of this election. Pastors should explain that praying and voting is one way the Church can influence the course of America. During this election season, every Christian should be reminded about two truths: 1. If believers choose not to be good stewards and their influence is nullified, there is no other provision for godliness in our culture and 2. There will be a day when believers stand before the Lord and account for their stewardship, good or otherwise.
Choose to be good stewards and honor the Lord. Go vote and “let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in Heaven”.
Louisiana Baptist Convention
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Madagascar has given me innumerable beautiful memories. The warm Malagsy people, their joy in life, the melodies of their songs, the sound of the rivers ,the beauty of the primary forests, the taste of the fruits, and their initiatives to overcome the destruction of nature. These will inspire me for the rest of my life.
So if you are not afraid to return as a different person; apply! And in order to enjoy this experience to the fullest:
- Learn Malagasy, although it may resemble nothing you ever heard it will also allow you to experience things you would never imagine.
- Do not be afraid to leave your family, a whole new one is awaiting you. The Malagasy people are the warmest caring people I have ever met!
- Bring a blanket; do not let the whole tropical climate thing fool you!
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Last month, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected challenges to U.S. EPA's Tailoring Rule which establishes the permitting threshold for greenhouse gas (GHG) pollutants. On July 3rd, EPA issued a rulemaking that will maintain the current GHG thresholds for the immediate future. The question is how long before environmental groups push EPA to lower the thresholds?
Pursuant to the Clean Air Act, any facility that emits more the 100/250 tons per year of a pollutant regulated under the Act must go through EPA's New Source Review (NSR) program. As part of NSR, new sources or existing sources that are modified must demonstrate they have installed Best Available Control Technology (BACT) to reduce emissions of each regulated air permit.
Once EPA promulgated the Tailpipe Rule to control GHG emissions from vehicles, GHG's became a "regulated pollutant" for purpose of NSR. Once GHGs became a "regulated pollutant" any source that emits GHGs above applicable thresholds would trigger NSR.
Because GHGs are emitted in much greater quantities than typical Clean Air Act pollutants, EPA was concerned that application of the 100/250 ton per year threshold to GHGs would trigger thousands of permits. EPA and the States did not have the capacity to process that number of permits.
To address the situation, EPA promulgated the Tailoring Rule to temporarily raise the permitting thresholds. Under the first stage of the Tailoring Rule, new facilities that emit 100,000 tons per year of carbon dioxide-equivalent and existing facilities that increase their emissions by 75,000 tons per year of carbon dioxide-equivalent will trigger NSR.
EPA Must Eventually Lower GHG Thresholds
In the July 3rd action, EPA said that the States and EPA did not have the capacity to process additional NSR permit that would be required if it lowered the threshold. Therefore, it kept the trigger thresholds at 100,000 and 75,000 tons per year. EPA pointed to the economy's impacted on federal and state budgets as one reason that permitting authorities lacked additional capacity to process a greater number of permits.
EPA has announced that it will study the burdens associated with lowering GHG thresholds by April 30, 2015. EPA has said, following completion of the study, that it will review the permitting thresholds and determine if they should be lowered by April 30, 2016.
The EPA must eventually lower the thresholds. The 100/250 ton per year trigger threshold for NSR is in the Clean Air Act. EPA amend the trigger threshold through rulemaking (i.e. the Tailoring Rule). To support the Tailoring Rule, EPA relied on legal precedent that EPA says provides it authority to adjust the statutory thresholds through rulemaking temporarily.
How Long Before EPA is Pressured to Lower the Thresholds?
In their comments to EPA's proposed rule, environmental groups urged EPA to lower the permitting thresholds. In an article appearing in BNA, David Doniger, policy director for the Natural Resource Defense Council's (NRDC) Climate Center, indicated the organization would support EPA position...for now.
“Certainly, this holding things level knocks the legs out from under the feverish claims that EPA was on the march to get to hotdog stands,” Doniger said. “This signals that there's great reluctance on EPA's part to get beyond the largest sources.”
While the NRDC and other groups are willing to hold off for now, its clear that their expectation is EPA will lower the thresholds in 2016. It will be very difficult for EPA to maintain that there is no ability to process additional permits by that date.
EPA Applies Plantwide Applicability Limits (PALs) to GHGs
A PAL is a site-specific plantwide emission level for a pollutant that allows the source to make changes at the facility without triggering the requirements of the PSD program, provided emissions do not exceed the PAL level. Instead of a facility having to analyze each emission unit as a potential modification that may exceed NSR thresholds, the PAL says as long as overall plant emissions form all sources do not exceed the PAL, the facility will not trigger NSR.
In the July 3rd rulemaking, EPA is revising the PAL regulations to allow for GHG PALs to be established on a CO2e basis. This should provide more flexibility and reduce the number of permits that would otherwise be triggered through plant modifications.
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In my search for LA's abandoned Nike missile sites, I'd failed at reaching the relics at Briar Summit Open Space, but I knew that San Vicente Mountain Park - along the stretch of Mulholland Dirt Road somewhere between Bel Air and Encino - would have what I was looking for.
Last weekend, the gate was open, so I could've driven the 0.8 miles up the dirt road to the site, but I decided to hike it.
It's a scenic walk that's a natural extension of the Mulholland Scenic Parkway and Corridor, overlooking the Encino Reservoir to the north...
The observation tower is visible right from the entrance to the park, which is the old entrance to the site - replete with a restored security booth and gate.
There are tons of side trails that lead into the canyons and open spaces that surround the old missile site...
and most of the relics are actually done, leaving a vast expanse of wilderness before you.
The trails stretch for miles along the ridges, some that appear unhiked for ages.
You can imagine why San Vicente Mountain was chosen as a key vantage point from which to identify and strike the enemy. You can see the full sky, and everything below.
But there's no longer a sense of military presence in LA, unlike nearby major city San Diego. But if you drive just a few hours north or inland, you hit Edwards Air Force Base, Twentynine Palms, China Lake...hidden way in the desert, performing secret operations...
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FORT WORTH, Texas - Is it mere coincidence that so many of the largest contributors to candidate George W. Bush's presidential campaign are among the biggest beneficiaries of President George W. Bush's proposed $1.6 trillion tax cut?
Of course it isn't. It's a phenomenon too predictable for coincidence, too subtle for bribery, too natural a consequence to be a surprise.
Political influence? Yes, and altogether legal.
Buying influence in Congress will persist as long as the public tolerates a system without restraints in which money - big money - is the sine qua non of electoral success. Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney rigidly oppose any effective reform.
Mr. Bush believes in the efficacy of trickle-down economics. He has spent his life associating mostly with people who profit from it.
Mr. Bush preached the gospel of big tax cuts in all the presidential debates. He persisted even as opinion polls showed that the public preferred paying down the national debt to getting a tax cut.
The tax code is the historic shopping mall of the rich. Tax breaks are their patronage. That's why members of the tax-writing committees of the House and Senate never have trouble attracting generous campaign contributions.
Mr. Bush's big tax bill should be defeated - or at least restructured and reduced. Giving half its benefits to the wealthiest 8 percent of Americans is embarrassingly inequitable.
If it isn't scaled back dramatically, it probably won't leave enough for our long-awaited debt reduction, or enough to build classrooms, hire teachers and provide Medicare patients with affordable prescription drugs.
Presidential press secretary Ari Fleischer last week gave words to the inane theory that we mustn't leave any unpledged money in the Treasury. If we do, "Congress will only spend it." Oh, sure. Squander it on trivialities like schools and roads and health.
Now Mr. Bush's top-heavy tax cut bill is being slyly peddled as a cure for recession.
If recession should come, as prominently advertised, it won't be because the wealthiest 5 percent have too little money to invest. It will be because the middle- and lower-income 75 percent have too little liquidity to buy the goods being turned out for their consumption. When they can't do that, business can't keep expanding.
Lower interest rates are much more effective tools to ward off an economic downturn. They save money for consumers on credit charges, leaving more for solid purchases. They lower the cost of borrowing for business expansion. Significantly, they cost the Treasury nothing. They save tax dollars, in fact, by reducing the carrying costs on the public debt.
Bill Clinton strove for eight years to stop the Treasury hemorrhage caused by huge annual deficits that took off with Ronald Reagan's 1981 tax cuts and that tripled the debt in 10 years, finally running it up to $3.5 trillion. Mr. Clinton's efforts finally succeeded, with help from Congress, producing an actual surplus of $57 billion for fiscal 2000. This year's surplus is estimated to be about $71 billion.
Getting here has taken some statesmanlike action on the parts of former President Clinton and Congress. Their celebrated budget summit forswore big tax cuts and put us on the glide path.
Mr. Clinton guarded that hard-won surplus jealously, vetoing tax cuts that threatened it - including the Republican leadership bill to abolish the estate tax outright. That bill would have given about $235 billion, at Treasury expense, to the wealthiest 2 percent of heirs in the nation over the next decade.
The most disingenuous argument being offered to support Mr. Bush's kind of tax cut is his glib assertion, made several times on the campaign stump: "That isn't the government's money; that's your money."
This particular rhetorical flourish is enough to make thoughtful people cringe. Of course it's our money, in exactly the same sense that the U.S. government is our government.
Surely Mr. Bush doesn't suppose that we're too inattentive to realize also that the national debt is our debt.
One of the best reasons of all to pay down the debt and protect the budget from massive tax cuts is the dead weight that such huge debt loads onto the backs of taxpayers in interest charges.
Last year, we paid $223 billion in taxes for interest on our $3.3 trillion national debt. That's almost $1,000 in annual interest for every man, woman and child.
What a drag! Think what good things that this $223 billion annually could buy if we'd free ourselves of debt.
Jim Wright is a former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. His e-mail address is j.wright@)tcu.edu. This article first appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
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San Bernardino County Supervisors James Ramos and Robert Lovingood met with court officials Thursday, Jan. 31, to discuss possible ways to assist residents who will have to travel farther to get to the closest courthouse.
Earlier this month, the state announced that the Big Bear Lake, Barstow and Needles courts will close in May because of budget cuts.
Courts in Chino, Redlands and Twin Peaks already have closed, leaving only courts in San Bernardino, Fontana, Rancho Cucamonga, Victorville and Joshua Tree available to San Bernardino County residents.
For many in remote areas of the 20,000-square-mile county, that means they will have to travel long distances to already-crowded courts if they want to dispute a traffic ticket or small-claims case or respond to a jury service summons.
Ramos and Lovingood, who represent districts where the closures will take place, agreed that as a short-term solution, residents should be provided with adequate and affordable transportation, Ramos said.
“It is imperative for all citizens to have easy accessibility to our judicial system and that is a primary responsibility of government to provide,” he said.
Ramos said he and Lovingood hope to discuss options that the county’s various public transit systems can provide.
The county also hopes to lobby the state to get funding proportionate to the county’s caseload and population, an issue that Ramos raised during a discussion of the county’s state lobbying platform at a supervisors meeting Tuesday, Jan. 29.
Josh Candelaria, the county’s director of governmental and legislative affairs, said Tuesday that the county’s share of funding is less than it should be based on those factors.
The state Administrative Office of Courts, which oversees California’s judicial system, is expected to issue a report in April looking at funding and resources provided to courts.
Ramos said the full county board will hold a study session on ways to deal with the court closures Feb. 19.
Follow Imran Ghori on Twitter: @ImranGhori1
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7 Steps to Turn Your Small Group Meeting Into a Night of Worship
Most people think that praise or worship is mainly singing. While singing can certainly praise God and be an act of worship it’s not the only way a small group can be worshipful. Consider this thought:
What if your small group took one whole meeting and just prayed? What would that be like?
Admittedly, it would probably feel awkward to start with. But once everyone got past that, and with the help of some gentle expectation setting and instruction, your small group could have a life-transforming time together: a meeting to remember.
Here are a few ways you can make this happen.
1. Start by telling people what you have in mind. “Tonight, we’re going to focus on God in a different way than we normally do. We’re going to turn our whole attention to Him in prayer. It’s going to feel a bit different at first, but just hang in there and follow my direction and you’ll see how God moves you through prayer.”
2. Put on a favorite song of praise of your group. Find the tempo of your group, find a song that matches that tempo, and tell everyone to close their eyes and just listen to the song. (If you don’t normally play music in your group, ask people in advance of the meeting for suggestions on which songs usually make them remember who God is.)
3. After the song, ask people what they thought of while the music was playing.
4. Then have someone read a Psalm. Find one that resonates with your group and have the person read it slowly. For some groups that might be the 23rd Psalm. For others it might be Psalm 91 or Psalm 121.
5. Then tell everyone to find a place where they can be comfortable. Tell everyone to start out by thanking God for as many things as they can think of. Some people use the ACTS approach to prayer - Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication. Others start out by praising God by acknowledging who He is, then praying for His will or direction or guidance in some area, and then thanking Him for answering prayer. Whichever way you choose, encourage people to continue with one aspect of prayer until they can’t think of anything else to say, then think about their favorite worship song, then come up with more words. Tell them that they will be surprised at how fast the time goes if they spend their time talking to God as though He was sitting right next to them. Encourage them to keep praying when they run out of things to say by just being still and knowing that He is God, and then praying some more.
6. When the group has spent time in prayer – for some groups that will be an hour, for others maybe a half hour, and for still others two hours – gather everyone together again and take communion as a group. Have the Lord’s Table set in advance so that there is no preparation time needed after prayer. Have someone lead the time of communion – you can just follow the easy instructions in our article on taking communion as a group.
7. Then close the group in prayer and send everyone out without anything more said. At your next meeting give people the opportunity to share about their experience at your group’s Night of Worship.
God wants us to spend time with him. It is His desire that we desire to be with Him. When we set our hearts to that He is honored and we experience His presence more fully. After you do this once, your small group may well decide that this will be a regularly scheduled part of the group, once a month or once a quarter. And the members of your group may begin to spend more alone time with the Lord on their own.
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LatinaLista — A new report by the Hispanic Institute has uncovered an alarming practice by credit card and debit companies and banks that result in basically stealing money from the poor to reward the wealthy.
Trickle-Up Wealth Transfer: Cross-subsidization in the payment card market is a long and complicated name for a report that uncovers the extent of how low-income people are being taken advantage of at the cash register — especially people of color.
We all know that merchants (grocery stores, gas stations, department stores, etc.) charge customers the same price. For example, people, from the same community, going to the local Wal-Mart all pay the same price for a loaf of bread.
If Wal-Mart charged college graduates a higher price than people who only have a high school education, all hell would break loose at such a discriminatory practice.
Yet, discrimination is happening in the checkout lanes and, until this report, no one had any idea that credit card companies were making these merchants force low-income Americans to pay more than their fair share for goods and services.
According to the report, every time someone uses a credit or debit card to pay for their purchases there is a “swipe fee” or by it’s official name, an interchange fee, that retailers have to pay the banks for processing the transactions.
These fees can eat into retailers’ profits, sometimes even exceeding their profits. So how do retailers offset the loss? They include the prices they have to pay for the fees into the prices they charge everybody for their goods and services.
People who pay with cash and debit cards are basically subsidizing the people paying with credit cards. In other words, giving them money.
If those credit cards “earn rewards” then it’s worse news for those paying cash and with debit since reward cards normally have higher fees.
What the report uncovered was:
•The current structure of the credit card system requires lower income and disproportionate numbers of minority consumers to transfer billions of dollars to higher income and disproportionate numbers of non-minority consumers.
•Total money transferred in the United States due to swipe fees and rewards is about $1.4b to $1.9b on gas and groceries alone.
•The bottom 50 percent of income earners pay at least $669 million more than they should and the top 10 percent of earners receive at least a $354 million subsidy.
•Card rewards accrue disproportionately to wealthier households even after adjusting for spending.
•Consumers with high school diplomas paid more to subsidize people with advanced degrees.
•Minority households paid more to subsidize non-minority households.
The report’s author, economist Efraim Berkovich of the University of Pennsylvania, offers some remedies for this inequality among consumers. The bulk of the suggestions have to do with either lowering interchange fees or letting merchants decide which cards and/or rewards programs they accept.
At any rate, making people who pay with cash or debit — because they can’t qualify for a credit card or paying with cash/debit is being a more responsible consumer to them — have to compensate those who use credit cards is unfair.
If credit card companies want to reward their customers, they shouldn’t be stealing from those whom they don’t even do business with.
“This study demonstrates that credit card companies have secretly rigged the system so that everyday Americans lose out to those who enjoy top incomes; it also suggests that ‘unbanked’ Americans, including disproportionate numbers of Hispanics, who don’t have cards are hurt the most by swipe fees,” said Gus West, Chairman of The Hispanic Institute.
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Two young girls were inspired in reading class to collect food to give to those in need.
Hannah Neighbors and Ryleigh Skaggs are best friends who knew they had to make a difference.
"Well it first started in reading class when we were reading a story about a boy that collected cans for his school," remembered Ryleigh.
Hannah also recalled that moment, "After we got done with that story Ryleigh and I looked at each other really fast and we like nodded our heads and we were like "We are doing this.""
And they did, first collecting uneaten food from the cafeteria of Cumberland Trace Elementary like apples and oranges, and then expanding their collecting to challenging their schoolmates to a canned food drive.
The winning class earned a smoothie party, and the girls collected more than 800 cans of food in exactly one month.
These young ladies chose to donate the food to the Salvation Army in Bowling Green, which feeds over 4,000 people each month.
"They were running low on a lot of things and when we went there the first time to take some food that we collected they were really thankful for it and it felt really good," said Hannah.
Principal Mary Evans said these Cumberland Trace students did a great job in their endeavor, "They are very outstanding young ladies who took great initiative to start a project that will help lots of people so they are very deserving of being called Hometown Heroes."
For collecting food for the Salvation Army, we honor Hannah Neighbors and Ryleigh Skaggs as Hometown Heroes.
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Hemp Rope Classics
You’ve said it while climbing a classic route—after an exposed traverse, an unprotectable chimney, or a spooky runout: Wow! Imagine climbing that without cams or nuts, sticky rubber, or any beta. Without even a nylon rope, harness, or belay device—instead, you’d have to wrap a rough, natural-fiber cord around your body to hold a fall.
The saying goes that there are no old, bold climbers, but there are still old, bold climbs that demand respect. Prior to World War II, most American climbers’ focus was on alpine climbs like Stettner’s Ledges on Longs Peak, Colorado—a 5.8 multi-pitch with serious weather and other hazards, put up more than 80 years ago. But to prepare for mountain routes like these, climbers went cragging, developing the techniques of rock climbing—and leaving classic climbs you can still do. Want to follow in some legendary footsteps? History class begins now.
1924: Ellingwood Chimney (5.8, 2 pitches), The Bishop, South Platte, Colorado
FA: Albert Ellingwood, Agnes Vaille, Stephen Hart
Albert Ellingwood was one of Colorado’s earliest and boldest climbing pioneers, putting up notable routes like Ellingwood Ledges (5.7) on 14,197- foot Crestone Needle and the difficult San Juan Mountains choss spire Lizard Head, nowadays rated 5.8 R. If you get a little sketched stemming up the historic Ellingwood Chimney, just remember that after Ellingwood led it for the first time, placing no gear, he downclimbed it after lowering his partners.
The Bishop is located in Colorado’s South Platte area, 3.8 miles south on Jefferson County Road 96 from its intersection with Jeffco Road 97. Ellingwood Chimney is the obvious feature in the corner on the west face of the Bishop, left of an enormous roof. Chimney up and attempt to gracefully pull over the chockstone on pitch one, or just belly-flop onto it. The second pitch has a cavernous chimney and then a wide crack to anchors on the righthand summit.
- Descent: Rap with two ropes, or one rope to a rap station in the Bishop Chimney (just to the left of Ellingwood Chimney).
- Rack: Cams to 4 inches; a 5- to 6-inch piece is good to protect the second pitch.
- Guidebook:South Platte Climbing: The Northern Volume, by Jason Haas, Ben Schneider and Craig Weinhold (fixedpin.com)
1929: Whitney-Gilman Ridge (5.7, 2 pitches), Cannon Cliff, New Hampshire
FA: Hassler Whitney, Bradley Gilman
When people say “Whitney-Gilman,” they also usually say “exposure,” and you’ll know what they mean midway through this East Coast mega-classic. Cousins Whitney and Gilman first climbed this obvious spine jutting from New Hampshire’s Cannon Cliff not only without cams, but without pitons—they just stopped to belay a dozen times, whenever they found a decent ledge. Remember that when you step out onto the right side of the ridge on pitch three and feel all that air under your feet. Whitney, a distinguished mathematician, might also hold the claim to being America’s first boulderer—he explored the blocs of Sleeping Giant, Connecticut, while a student at Yale in the mid-1920s.
Robert Underhill and Kenneth Henderson (who paired up to pioneer several Tetons classics) repeated the Whitney-Gilman. Underhill called it “a long series of passages of great technical difficulty, high exposure, and dubious outlet.” The men hammered in the section of iron pipe that still marks the most exposed section on the nowfamous Pipe Pitch.
The Northeast’s most famous climb begins about 50 feet north of where the arête meets the talus. Follow cracks and fixed pins up five pitches, staying close to the ridge; if you find yourself on loose rock, you’re probably too far left. The crux is on the third pitch, where you’ll step around the corner to the right and look down on the tremendous exposure and spot the infamous pipe. Plenty of variations are possible, but staying to the true 1929 line will keep the climbing 5.7 or easier. Get here first on a weekend or come on a weekday—there’s a fair amount of loose rock on this alpine route.
- Descent: Follow the trail off the top into the woods, and it will eventually head left and down to a bike path.
- Rack: Standard rack
- Guidebook: Rock Climbing New England, by Stewart Green (falcon.com)
1933: Lunch Ledge (5.6, 6 pitches), Washington Column, Yosemite National Park, California
FA: Hervey Voge, Richard Leonard, Jules Eichorn, Bestor Robinson
Imagine a Yosemite Valley untouched by climbers. On Labor Day weekend in 1933, 24 years before Royal Robbins climbed Half Dome, and 78 years before Tommy Caldwell updated his Facebook feed while attempting the Dawn Wall, four members of the Bay Area– based Cragmont Climbing Club put up Yosemite’s first technical climbing route, using 10-inch hardware nails as pitons. Through the 1950s, Lunch Ledge was one of the most popular climbs in the Valley, but by 1971, Steve Roper wrote in his guidebook that it had waned in popularity after the discovery of “more enjoyable routes.” Still, it’s a worthwhile pilgrimage for those who want to touch a piece of history.
To retrace the first route in the Valley, head east on the trail from the back parking lot of the Ahwahnee Hotel, then head north where the bike path and horse trail nearly meet. Follow the drainage until you can begin making your way up slabs a few hundred feet left of the separation between Royal Arches and Washington Column, diagonaling up class 3 terrain to reach a ledge about 200 feet off the ground. Follow easy ground up the heavily treed face, working generally up and right to arrive eventually at a large tree at the edge of an 800-foot drop. Cracks and chimneys lead to the traditional sixth pitch, a crack once called the “Reigelhuth Chimney,” with a bolt protecting the 5.6 crux move near the bottom.
One year after the ascent of Lunch Ledge, Eichorn, Leonard, and Robinson returned to the Valley and completed a much more audacious climb: the first ascent of Higher Cathedral Spire, a popular 5.9.
- Descent: Rappel off trees or continue up the Direct Route (5.7) on Washington Column.
- Rack: Cams to 2 inches
1936: Angel’s Fright (5.6, 5 pitches), Tahquitz Rock, California
FA: Jim Smith, Bill Rice
The history of Tahquitz Rock is like a “who’s who” of early American climbing: TM Herbert, Bob Kamps, Jerry Gallwas, and Royal Robbins all did routes here. Oh, and that rating system that goes as high as 5.15b? That was invented here. After the Sierra Club decided to start a Rock Climbing Section in 1932, a few members quickly began exploring. The first fifth-class route at Tahquitz went up in 1936, and one month later, Smith and Rice put up Angel’s Fright, nowadays rated anywhere from 5.4 to 5.6, depending on who you ask.
The route starts almost directly above Lunch Rock with 40 feet of old-school squeeze chimney, leading to steep jugs heading up the face. Cruise up the right-trending corner to Lunch Ledge (the top of the traditional third pitch—not to be confused with Lunch Rock); it’s easy to find another ledge if there are other parties there. From Lunch Ledge, take an almost-horizontal crack to the left until it peters out, then friction up the slab with a lonely bolt for protection.
- Descent: Come down the Friction Route, a class 4 downclimb beginning at the huge boulder at the edge of the South Face cliff. Climb down the northeast side of the boulder to a ramp, and then head right down the ramp until you can begin making your way down and left.
- Rack: Cams to 3 inches; some long slings to prevent rope drag
- Guidebook: Rock Climbing Tahquitz and Suicide Rocks, by Randy Vogel and Bob Gaines (falcon.com)
1937: Wiessner Route (5.7, 3 pitches), Devils Tower, Wyoming
FA: Fritz Wiessner, Lawrence Coveny, William P. House
If the wooden-stake ladder William Rogers and Willard Ripley used to climb Devils Tower in 1893 is considered cheating, then Wiessner, Coveny, and House’s five-hour ascent of this route to the summit is the first ascent of the tower by “fair means.” Wiessner and House had already established their pre-eminience in North American climbing—the year before they did the coveted first ascent of 13,177-foot Mt. Waddington in British Columbia’s Coast Mountains. As you grunt and sweat up the pitch-two offwidth on Devils Tower with a couple of big cams on your harness, remember that Wiessner only pounded in one piton on the entire route, and afterward wished he hadn’t placed it. As he said in 1937: “I wouldn’t recommend that anyone except an experienced mountain climber attempt the trip we made. It is an extremely difficult climb for 200 feet, and to one who does not know mountain climbing, it would be practically impossible to reach the top. A serious accident would be very likely to result.”
Wiessner’s namesake route begins at a bolted anchor down and right of the Leaning Column on the southwest shoulder of Devils Tower. Pitch two is the offwidth that keeps traffic away from this route; take a 6-inch piece to reasonably protect it, or a 7-inch piece to be comfortable, and a double-length sling to tie off a chockstone. Wiessner’s sole piton placement on the route came above the difficult offwidth. Cruise up pitch three and take in the view of the high-desert Belle Fourche Valley below, then third- and fourth-class to the summit.
- Descent: Use the Meadows Rappels: four double-rope raps to the ground.
- Rack: Cams to 6 inches, two ropes for rappel. Anchors are bolted.
- Guidebook:Devils Tower Climbing, By Rachael Lynn and Zach Orenczak (extremeangles.com)
1942: Brinton’s Crack (5.6, 1 pitch), Devil’s Lake, Wisconsin
FA: Bob Brinton
Bob Brinton’s name doesn’t appear nearly as prolifically in climbing history books as Fritz Wiessner’s, but this single pitch at Devil’s Lake forever marks the day Brinton bested the wellknown pioneer. By 1942, the legendary Wiessner had put up bold new routes in the Gunks, Cannon Cliff, Devils Tower, and other areas, and climbed to within 700 feet of K2’s summit. But he backed off an attempt on this 5.6 line in Wisconsin. Plenty of leaders do the same thing, at the same spot Wiessner did: a spooky and committing traverse across bad hand holds. After Wiessner bailed that day in 1942, Brinton climbed to his high point, devised a traverse, and stamped his name on this classic-of-all-classics at Devil’s Lake.
There’s no shame in first toproping this heady and sandbagged 5.6 on Brinton’s Buttress—that’s the style at the Midwest’s most famous climbing area. Start in the wide crack near the corner of Brinton’s Buttress, and when the crack runs out, take a deep breath, lean in, and trust your feet at the “stepacross” move. Jam up an exposed crack to the top.
- Descent: Walk off.
- Rack: Lots of 2- and 3-inch pieces
- Guidebook: Climber’s Guide to Devil’s Lake, by Sven Olof Swartling and Pete Mayer (uwpress.wisc.edu)
1944: Yellow Ridge (5.7, 2-3 pitches), Shawangunks, New York
FA: Fritz Wiessner, Ed Gross, Ann Gross
Fritz Wiessner “discovered” the Gunks for climbers in 1935, spotting the rock all the way from the Hudson River while climbing at Breakneck Ridge. Wiessner first explored the cliffs at Millbrook (the first-ever Gunks route was the seldom-climbed 5.5 Old Route at Millbrook), and then put up classics everywhere else. His name is all over the Gunks history books, on routes like High Exposure, Frog’s Head, and Horseman. He waited until 1944 to put up Yellow Ridge, arguably the best 5.7 at the Gunks: a long exposed traverse, classic “Gunks 5.6” roofs, and an offwidth start that will take you back to the early days of climbing.
Yellow Ridge lies just a few minutes from the road at the Near Trapps. The route works its way up a tricky face down and right of an offwidth about 20 feet up the wall. Get into the business on the left side of the offwidth, and then set up a belay to minimize rope drag. Climb the corner above for 20 feet and traverse out 50 feet left to a belay, then head left to the nose for your dose of exposed and steep climbing to the top.
- Descent: Walk off via the cliff-top trail to climbers’ right.
- Rack: Standard rack. A 3- or 4-inch piece works to back up the piton on the offwidth.
- Guidebook: The Gunks Guide, by Todd Swain (falcon.com)
1944: Conn’s East (5.6, 3 pitches), Seneca Rocks, West Virginia
FA: John Stearns, George Kolbucher, Bob Hecker, Jim Crooks
The U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division is famous for its February 1945 nighttime operation to take Riva Ridge in the Apennines, Italy, to the surprise of the Germans, who thought Mt. Belvedere unclimbable even during daylight. Much of the 10th Mountain Division’s stateside training took place at Seneca Rocks and other nearby crags, where they hammered in more than 75,000 pitons—many of which have never been removed, giving one section of rock at Seneca the nickname “The Face of a Thousand Pitons.” This route, boldly traversing a huge chunk of the east face of Seneca’s South Peak, is a mark of their legacy—it was climbed for the first time just a few months before the assault on Riva Ridge.
Conn’s East—named for American climbing pioneers Herb and Jan Conn— begins about 50 feet left of the twin Castor and Pollux cracks on Upper Broadway Ledge on the East Face of South Peak. Climb the right-leaning ledge system past a tree, and continue up and right to anchor bolts. Pitch two is where you get your old-school money’s worth, hanging out over big exposure as you move across a bulge, and telling yourself that it’s “only 5.6” until a couple of big jugs appear. Finish out the third pitch to join Gunsight to South Peak and then scramble to the summit along the ridge.
- Descent: Scramble down north along the summit ridge to a notch at the top of Alcoa Presents, and do three single-rope raps to Upper Broadway.
- Rack: Standard rack
- Guidebook: Seneca: The Climbers Guide—Second Edition, by Tony Barnes (earthboundsports.com)
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THE FIRST HORSE I SEE
New York : Puffin, 2000
IL 5-8, RL 4.2
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews
is a young girl passionate about horses, before her mother died of an unknown
cause her mom made her father promise to buy her a horse. A year later
Willo finally gets to go look for the perfect horse. She now lives with
her grandfather who tells her not to pick the first horse she sees. When
she arrives at the first farm to look at horses she meets Tess a registered
8 year old ex- racehorse she immediately falls in love with the horse and
decides she wants her, going against her grandfathers wishes. Her grandfather
suggests she picks another horse because Tess is an abused animal and is
too skinny. The only way for Willo to get the horse is for her father to
approve. Will Willo’s father approve and will Willo get Tess? (Allison
Wood, Mansfield High School Student)
Grief -- Fiction.
Horses -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Alcoholics -- Fiction.
Permission is granted for the
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Capps Announces $3.6 Million Grant for Goleta-Based Clean Technology Company: Award to Transphorm Will Help Spur Energy Efficiency Market, Create Jobs
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Lois Capps (CA-23) announced that Goleta-based Transphorm, a clean technology company using an advanced semiconductor device material to reduce power waste and improve the energy efficiency of a wide range of electrical devices, will receive a $3.64 million federal award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) program. The funding will help Transphorm develop high-efficiency power transforming devices for integration into solar energy panels and motion control applications.
Cutting edge clean energy research projects, like those being worked on at Transphorm, can fundamentally change the way our country uses and produces energy, drive economic growth through innovation, and wean us off our dangerous addiction to fossil fuels,” said Congresswoman Capps. “Once again, the Central Coast has proven that it’s a leader in developing these clean energy technologies. When I voted to enact ARPA-E to fund exciting, innovative energy projects, this is exactly the kind of transformational technology that I envisioned the program would be supporting.”
Capps toured Transphorm’s Goleta facility in August and met with employees to discuss the company’s research in advanced energy technologies. This marks the second time ARPA-E has awarded federal funds to Transphorm. In 2010, the company received a $2.95 million federal award for a similar project. Also in August, Vice President Joe Biden commended Transphorm for garnering more than $25 million in outside private capital investment.
“From our headquarters in Goleta, we are solving energy waste problems for an ever-increasing base of customers,” said Umesh Mishra, CEO of Transphorm.
“Through public-private partnerships with innovative programs like ARPA-E, Transphorm is bringing its world-leading energy saving technology to a global market, while growing local advanced technology and manufacturing jobs,” said Primit Parikh, President of Transphorm.
Transphorm’s technology, which was among 60 research projects selected nationwide, is based on innovative high performance architecture, called a four quadrant switch, enabling a single semiconductor device to switch voltage and current in both directions. It will be made with Gallium Nitride (GaN). The four quadrant design will result in reduced losses and higher efficiency. This “plug-n-use” technology will enable reliable power transfer from solar panels to the grid and revolutionize photovoltaic deployment in commercial establishments and solar farms.
In announcing the selections, Arun Majumdar, Director of the Department of Energy’s ARPA-E said, “These innovative projects are at the forefront of a new technological frontier that plays a critical role in our future energy security and economic growth. It is now more important than ever to invest in game-changing ideas that will build the technological infrastructure for a new, clean energy economy.”
The projects selected are located in 25 states, with 50% of projects led by universities, 23% by small businesses, 12% by large businesses, 13% by national labs, and 2% by non-profits. Prior to today, ARPA-E has awarded $365.7 million in funds to approximately 120 groundbreaking energy projects within seven program areas. This most recent round of selections brings the total to 180 projects, 12 program areas and $521.7 million in awards at ARPA-E to date.
ARPA-E is an agency within the Department of Energy that pursues high-risk, high-reward energy technology development. Congresswoman Capps has long supported ARPA-E and advocated for funding the agency after its creation in 2007. In 2010, she was successful in advocating for $400 million in funding for APRA-E in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
ARPA-E is modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) at the Department of Defense. DARPA’s focus on funding unique, promising research has led to breakthroughs like stealth technology, GPS, and the internet.
More information on the ARPA-E program can be found here.
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Emails that allegedly come from the UK tax organization HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) are promising recipients a tax refund if they open an attachment and provide sensitive information. In reality, it’s nothing but a clever phishing scam.
Baring the subject “Tax refund notification,” the email, provided by Sophos’ Naked Security blog
reads: Dear Taxpayer,
After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of 223.56 GBP.
Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 6-9 days in order to process it.
To access your tax refund, please follow the steps below:
- download the Tax Refund Form attached to this email
- open it in a browser
- follow the instructions on your screen
A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons. For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.
The attached form requires things such as full name, date of birth, address, phone number, sort code, card number, card expiry date and security code, which is more than enough to gain control of someone’s bank account.
To make everything more realistic, the crooks even put a note on the bottom of the phishing page, advising users to close the browser after the “refund process” is completed.
The attachment found in the malicious email was detected by Sophos security products as Mal/Phish-A
which means that an updated protection software can prevent unfortunate incidents.
If you encounter such emails, I recommend that you ignore the requests they make. If you believe you are truly eligible for a tax refund, contact HMRC directly, using the information provided on their official website.
Never use email addresses or phone numbers contained in suspicious messages since in most scenarios they’re cleverly set up to make everything look legitimate.
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Thanksgiving alternative to green bean casserole
The simple taste of peas and pearl onions offers some relief from all of the all sweet mash on the Thanksgiving dinner plate.
You may have heard that this year marks the 55th anniversary of the green bean casserole, invented by the Campbell Soup Company to promote its cream of mushroom soup. It has been called a “Thanksgiving icon.”Skip to next paragraph
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Not in our house. I only encountered green bean casserole if we ate Thanksgiving dinner at the homes of friends or family. My mother disdained the idea of pouring canned soup over vegetables. Americans have made green bean casserole an “icon” because all the salt, sugar, and fat make those otherwise hearty greens taste really, really good. If Hershey’s had dreamed up cocoa covered green beans they may have been the ones celebrating the anniversary.
Remember: Even though green bean casserole has clocked 55 years, the Pilgrims knew nothing of it. We strove for historical purity in our house.
The green we had on our Thanksgiving plates were peas and pearl onions. If you think about it, the simple taste of peas offers some relief from all of the all sweet mash (potatoes, sweet potatoes, stuffing, cranberry jello) swimming around in gravy. If everything on your dinner plate is sweet, consider the pumpkin and pecan pies that follow already upstaged. Pace yourself, people.
Some stores actually carry a frozen variety of peas and pearl onions, which will beat the green bean casserole in convenience and time (Campbell’s objective, after all). Frozen peas are perfectly fine. Many frozen vegetables are frozen at the peak of their ripeness in their natural growing cycle, retaining the flavor that limp “fresh” produce often lacks this time of year.
I decided to add a little extra flavor to this Thanksgiving side dish by sautéing the pearl onions in some thick bacon. (Vegetarians can simply sauté the onions in 1 tablespoon of olive oil.) This is so quick and easy and you won’t have to compete for space in the oven with a casserole.
And now that you’ve eaten your peas, you have earned your dessert.
Peas and pearl onions
8 ounces of pearl onions
1 lb. bag of frozen peas, thawed
1/2 cup (about 3 slices) thick bacon, diced
Salt and pepper, to taste
Blanch onions in a saucepan of salted boiling water for 5 minutes. Drain, cool, peel, and trim ends. In a large skillet sautée bacon and pearl onions over medium heat until fat is rendered and the onions have browned on the ends, about 10 minutes. Add frozen peas and heat through. Season with salt and pepper and serve.
Serves 4 to 6.
Kendra Nordin blogs at Kitchen Report.
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Psychometric tests are used by employers to determine if your values, personality, or aptitudes match the demands of the job. Personality tests determine your 'fit' with the organisational values and work ethic. Aptitude tests include numerical, verbal and abstract reasoning which assess your ability to:
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| Artists’ Books Exhibitions
University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Tom Trusky Exhibition Cases
Special Collections Room, Bower Ashton Library
Artists’ Books As Document
Curated by Natalie McGrorty, UWE Bristol
8th March 2011 - 25th April 2011
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from a simple personal journal though all the complicated transactions of civilization, to the spiritual vision. Books are vessels of human experience
as it is worked through and passed on to others. They embody our activities and intentions, our schemes and our insights; our various journeys,
both individual and collective.
(The Book As Vessel A Catalogue of the 1991 Oregon Book Biennial. p.3)
From a young age we are intimately acquainted with books and they have long provided a holding space in which to record human experience, enabling stories and ideas to be collected and preserved. The book form itself offers a degree of privacy for its contents, revealing or concealing its innermost secrets in a controllable and intimate way, making it ideal for use as a diary or lending itself to work of a personal nature.
Today we have at our disposal the means to document and share our lives in a growing number of ways, both physically, and virtually through the Internet. Yet, in a culture engulfed by the outpouring of information, artists’ books offer a creative alternative for working with and recording personal experience and ideas in a more considered and creative way. In contrast to other more ephemeral types of document, artists’ books provide something desirably tangible and long lasting, and are often engaging in form as well as content. The tactile nature of these books not only invites interaction and engagement but demands such interaction if the work is to be animated and its content revealed. Held in close proximity to the body, the viewer partakes in the intimate performance of the book’s contents, gaining insight into another’s world with the turning of each page. Additionally, the sequencing provided by the pagination of the book form can enhance and reflect the aspect of time which underpins so much of self-documentation, allowing a story to unfold in a sequence proposed by the artist and at a pace determined by the viewer.
In terms of production, photography, photocopying and digital scanning increasingly facilitate documentational work, providing a fast and efficient way of documenting artifacts and events pertaining to daily life. The facility to make copies of personal documentation allows items to be used that might otherwise be considered too precious to part with, or too awkward to include in book form. More traditional methods of reproduction are still very much in use however, such as drawing, screen-printing, Letterpress and Lithography.
Researching acts of self-documentation, with regard to my own practice, led me to curate this exhibition and I am delighted to present such a diverse collection of work.
View the gallery
The artists exhibiting are:
Ahlrich van Ohlen, Bea Nettles, Caryl Burtner, Donald Baechler, Francis Elliott, Frans Baake, Genie Shenk, Harland Miller, Imi Maufe, Kenneth Goldsmith, Kristen Merola, Laurie Clark, Lucy May Schofield, Michael Landy, Sally Alatalo, Sarah Bodman, Scott McCarney, Skúta, Sophie Calle, Susan Johnson, Susan Kae Grant, Tom Sowden and Victoria Lucas.
More about Natalie
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A New Addition to the Marine Corps
The M1014, Joint Service Combat Shotgun was adopted in November, 2001 by the United States Marine Corps to replace three different service shotguns currently in use by the Corps.
According to a Benelli press release, “five samples of the Benelli M4 Super 90 were delivered to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland on Aug. 4, 1998.” FromAugust 1998 until the adoption in late 2001, the shotguns were supposedly put through extensive testing with Marine Corps units. Several attempts to contact Benelli have failed, so I have no solid testing data.
A Marines’ Opinion
As far as the Marine Corps arsenal of weapons is concerned, I feel that shotguns in general will not turn the tide of combat. However, there are several distinct advantages to having this particular weapon that other shotguns, the Remington 870 and Mossberg 500, do not have.
The first obvious advantage theM1014 has is the telescoping buttstock.
This adaptation allows for more extensive use of the shotgun in close quarter fighting where different types of ammunition can be used without xtensive over-penetration.
Being able to maneuver from room to room, over obstacles, and through small openings while keeping your weapon in your hand is always a plus. But don’t
expect the table of organization or equipment to change anytime soon. This weapon will probably still be used mainly for special operations and security forces.
Another edge this shotgun has is an accessory rail on top of the receiver which is capable of accepting the numerous night vision scopes, lasers, and flashlights that the Marine Corps uses. This is a plus over the legacy shotguns in inventory and appears to be the standard for the future weapons as well, such as the M16A4.
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I expect almost every new weapon to come with some sort of adaptation, such as a rail system. It only makes sense to require a manufacturer of a new weapon system to meet standards that take advantage of the existing Marine Corps inventory.
Occasionally, the Marine Corps has weapon system that is not compatible with night vision goggles, scopes, or lights. Instead, they have other manufacturers create straps or other devices to morph one technology with another. The Corps appears to be getting smarter with its infantry gear
purchases and a bit more savvy with its requirement statements.
The final benefit
Certain operations may need non-standard ammunition. Pictured above is a 12 gauge Ferret round. The Ferret round produces CS gas after penetrating a barricade, such as a wall or windo
the M1014 has is the semi auto action. Using a simplification, it takes the physical “pump” out of the shotgun. Benelli uses a regulated gas system to cycle the weapon. This allows the shooter to maintain sight on the target while another round is pumped into the chamber. Without the opportunity
to fire this weapon, I will take the opinion that this system seems to be to the shooters advantage. I am sure stress tests were conducted with
thousands of rounds to ensure the failure rate on the cycle of operation was miniscule.
Without solid testing data from either Benelli or the Marine Corps, I can only speculate that this weapon will endure at least as well as the Remington
870 and Mossberg 500. Speaking from a hunting point-of-view, several of my friends state that Benelli has stood the test of time for them, however, the
stress of annual pheasant, quail, rabbit, and deer hunting is definitely less then what a Marine will put the weapon through over time. I will work on gathering more information about this weapon.
Additional opinions from Marines who have used this weapon would be appreciated.-
The M1014 Combat shotgun is a lightweight, gas operated, tubular magazine fed, 12 gauge, semi-automatic shotgun capable of firing 2.75 or 3.00 magnum shells with a telescoping tubular buttstock.
Types of Ammunition
Special Ops Rounds
Avon Round–Lock Buster
Ferret Round- CS Round
M1014 weapon Conditions
Condition 4 – Magazine tube empty, breech bolt forward on an empty chamber, weapon on safe.
Condition 3 – Ammunition inserted into magazine tube, breech bolt forward on an empty chamber, weapon on safe.
Condition 2 – Does not apply to the M1014 Combat shotgun.
Condition 1 – Ammunition inserted into the magazine tube, breech bolt forward with a round in the chamber, weapon on safe.
The characteristics of the M1014 Combat Shotgun
Manufacturer: Benelli U.S.A. Corporation.
12 gauge, accepts 23/4″ and 3″ standard and magnum loads.
39.8″ w/stock extended, 34.9″ collapsed.
8.44 lbs. empty.
Ambidextrous manual cross bolt.
Capacity: Six 3″
shells seven 23/4″, plus one chambered round can be unloaded without cycling through the action.
Pull: 5.5 to 7.28 lbs.
Modular telescopic with removable pistol grip.
Adjustable aperture rear and fixed post front, radius 23.7″
Effective Range: 40 yards with 00 buckshot and in excess of 100 yards with
the rifled slug.
Benelli M4, “with closed butt stock”, Benelli M4, “with extended butt stock”
Reproduced with permission from Max Popenker.
“Guns Magazine,” The M1014 COMBAT SHOTGUN, Robert Bruce, Nov, 2001
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