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SNCB Train Graveyard
This is the cemetery of the SNCB, the National Railway Company of Belgium. Originally a repair station, it officially became a cemetery in 2000.
The place is huge, hidden in a low ground, surrounded by low walls and heavy greens. Despite the somewhat difficult access, the arrival provides excellent surprises: under the strong smell of lubricant, we found about 50 old trains accumulating rust on the rails.
All of them are about 70-80 years old and mostly Cockerill Class 51.
- 1944 – 2000
SNCB Train Graveyard,
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1 Talk page for "Comprehensive Comprehensions"
This is a discussion page for the paper Comprehensive Comprehensions.
If you are kind enough to read this paper, you may like to jot down any thoughts it triggers off, and see what others have written. This talk-page lets you do just that.
You can identify your entries by preceding them with four tildes. Doing so adds your name, and the date. Thus:
- Simonpj 08:42, 19 April 2007 (UTC) Note from Simon
If you say who you are in this way, we'll be able to acknowledge your help in a revised version of the paper.
1.1 MichaelAdams 14:51, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
In theory these operators (order-by and group-by) should generalize to monads and once you do several other design options open up. These two operators could even be unified into a single operator.
Starting with sort-by, I think the monadic version is fairly obvious. Take something like the following code.
do a <- ma ... b <- mb c <- mc sort by (b, c) using foo d <- md ... return (a, b, c, d)
It would de-sugar to:
((do a <- ma ... b <- mb c <- mc return ((b, c), (a, b, c)) ) `foo` fst) >>= \result -> do let (a, _, _) = result (_, b, _) = result (_, _, c) = result d <- md ... return (a, b, c, d)
Where we have:
foo :: forall a. (a -> t) -> m a -> m a
1.1.1 Generalizing Order-by to Group-by
In fact after a few tweaks it turns out that order-by and group-by could operate under the exact same de-sugaring.
Suppose we let the type of foo be:
foo :: (Functor n) => forall a. (a -> t) -> m a -> m (n a)
Notice that I said "m (n a)" and not "m (m a)". The group-by de-sugaring that I'm going to show works for any Functor "n", and if we imagine "n" to be some type like the following then order-by is just a special case of group-by.
type Ident a = a
(It wouldn't actually be valid Haskell code to use a type synonym in that way though, but it conveys the idea.)
The de-sugaring to support this would take something like the following (inspired by arrow syntax).
do a <- ma b <- mb c <- mc foo args $-< (a, b) -- group by (a, b) using (foo args) g <- mg return (a, b, c, d, e, f, g)
It would produce:
(ma >>= \a -> mb >>= \b -> mc >>= \c -> return ((a, b), (a, b, c))) `foo` args >>= \result -> let a = fmap (\(_, (a, _, _)) -> a) result b = fmap (\(_, (_, b, _)) -> b) result c = fmap (\(_, (_, _, c)) -> c) result in md >>= \d -> return (a, b, c, d)
(Note that after the "foo", the types of "a", "b" and "c" have changed. Their types before "foo" get wrapped by "n" after "foo".)
1.1.2 Even more generalization
Once we have done this, another possibility opens up. Notice that the first of each pair in "result" was never used except from within "foo". It doesn't do any work in the result. Now suppose we change the type of foo to:
foo :: (Functor n) => forall a. m (t, a) -> m (n (u, a))
Now "foo" can not only read existing bindings from "t", but it can also create new bindings with "u". (This hard wires the extraction function to always be "fst", but it simplifies the presentation a bit. The other form with a general extraction could still be used.)
The previous syntax could then be extended to something like:
do a <- ma b <- mb c <- mc (d, e, f) <-$ foo args $-< (a, b) g <- mg return (a, b, c, d, e, f, g)
This would then de-sugar to:
(ma >>= \a -> mb >>= \b -> mc >>= \c -> return ((a, b), (a, b, c))) `foo` args >>= \result -> let d = fmap (\((d, _, _), (_, _, _)) -> d) result e = fmap (\((_, e, _), (_, _, _)) -> e) result f = fmap (\((_, _, f), (_, _, _)) -> f) result a = fmap (\((_, _, _), (a, _, _)) -> a) result b = fmap (\((_, _, _), (_, b, _)) -> b) result c = fmap (\((_, _, _), (_, _, c)) -> c) result in mg >>= \g -> return (a, b, c, d, e, f, g)
The above might have gone too far down the generalization road and put to many bells and whistles on the thing, so it may be worth trimming it down. I also haven't given any thought to what applications would need this. I just wanted to consider how far these operations
Just a few little things:
- Page 2, "sortBy is part of the Haskell Prelude" - it's actually in the List module. (I just spotted you've got the same thing in SYB with Class, 7.1)
- The Down trick is very neat, perhaps that should be a part of the standard libraries.
- Page 5, MSFT is in 'quotes', but should be in "quotes".
Your syntax requires four new keywords, at least one of which is already a standard function (group). Plus with the knowledge of the keywords the parse tree is entirely different. From your paper:
order by x >= y using takeWhile
At first reading I parsed >= as the root node, since in Haskell that would be the way it works. Your 'then' syntax in 6.1 seems preferable as it doesn't take any additional keywords.
--Neil Mitchell 16:04, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
The paper also mentions a function "the." I wasn't able to find this function through hoogle or ":t the" in ghci. Perhaps you could add a one line description the way "nub" is described.
- see section 3.4, its a custom function complete with implementation --Neil Mitchell 23:28, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks Neil, I missed it.
As a non-expert, the sense I get is that whenever I see "by" in a list comprehension, I should expect functions or expressions that operate on lists and not on individual elements of lists.
When I first started reading the paper, I was going to recommend another extension (for time series) to allow things like moving averages...imagine my surprise when I find exactly the example I was going to suggest :) Falcon 17:10, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Maybe I didn't get some part of the paper, but is it really necessary to have 'order by' or 'group by' as syntax extensions? Isn't it possible to allow developers to use any function as long it matches the types of 'order' or 'group'? Falcon 18:53, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
The type given for sortBy on page 2 should be sortBy :: (a -> a -> Ordering) -> [a] -> [a]. Botje 18:50, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
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Heavy workloads can contribute to unnecessary tests and procedures, poor transitions of care and increased complications and mortality, according to self-reported data from more than 500 hospitalists.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, collected survey responses from 506 hospitalists on topics such as how their excess workload affects patients' risk of adverse events or causes delays in discharging patients.
More than a quarter of hospitalists said their excess workloads prevented them from being able to answer patients' questions or adequately discuss treatment options, according to the survey results, published online in JAMA Internal Medicine
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Patient satisfaction scores and 30-day readmission rates take a hit when physician workload exceeds safe levels, according to some respondents.
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Introduction to Blogging Part Four;
Today’s article is about how I write my tutorials. I think of tutorials as recipes, if someones reads the article and wants to replicate the project, what do they need to know. Keeping in mind the ‘What, How and Why’ concept from Part Two, Here is the thought process I use.
This covers the what, with a picture of a finished piece, the why is covered by some suggestions as to the uses for the project, or the reason it was created.
You Will Need;
Here is where to write a list of all the items needed to reproduce the project. This covers the how.
Break the project into small steps and describe what is happening in each step. Add a photographs which show clear pictures of what you are describing.
This is a good place to add a few pictures of finished pieces at the end of the article. Different views of the project for example. This is to reward the viewer for sticking with you and reading to the end.
This is a place to include ideas for taking the project a few steps further, for the more advanced crafter. Leave people room to take the project where they want to go with it.
Add links to manufacturers websites of the products used in the tutorial. Since the web can give you a global audience, linking to the shop down the road from you is not helpful to someone on the other side of the world. Manufacturers sites generally list ‘Find a stockist near you’ section on their websites, from which your readers will be able to find stores near to them.
Manners count even on-line. I always sign off thanking poeple for reading.
Coming up in Part 5; Reviews
In this installment I will share my thought process for product/book reviews. Part 5; Adding Product Reviews
Written articles have been covered by this series;
Introduction to Blogging Series
- Part 1; Introduction to Blogging
- Part 2; What to Blog
- Part 3; Adding Pictures to your Blog
- Part 4; Writting Tutorials for your Blog
- Part 5; Adding Product Reviews
- Part 6; Links to Inspiration
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The eighth battle of the Isonzo was the second of three short-lived offensives launched on the Isonzo front in the autumn of 1916. The seventh battle, fought by the Italian Third Army had ended after four days without making any significant progress.
For the eighth battle the Italian Second and Third Armies were used. This gave the Italians 225 battalions, 26 dismounted cavalry squadrons, 1,305 guns and 883 mortars. They faced 107 Austrian battalions supported by 538 guns.
The Italian bombardment began on 9 October. On 10 October the Italian infantry attacked in heavy rain, and captured large parts of the Austrian front line, along with 5,034 POWs. Mt. Sober, east of Gorizia and Nova Vas on the Carso plateau were both captured.
The offensive had to be suspended on 11 October because of heavy fog. It was renewed for one day on 12 October, and the Italians were able to push the Austrians to the east of the River Vallano, but at the end of the day the offensive was cancelled. The Italians lost 24,000 men during the battle, most of them on 10 and 12 October, while capturing 8,200 POWs.
|Caporetto and the Isonzo Campaign, The Italian Front 1915-1918, John Macdonald with Zeljko Cimprié. An excellent study of the First World War on the Italian front, focusing on the twelve battles of the Isonzo, one of the most costly campaigns of the entire war. A good background to the campaign is followed by useful accounts of each of the battles, something quite difficult to find. [read full review]|
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Krista Henry, Staff Reporter
Etana goes for a grey skirt at the recent 'Smile Jamaica - Africa Unite' concert. - File
"What a natural beauty
No need no make-up to be a cutie
She's a queen, she's a queen
And when they ask what a good woman's made of
She's not afraid and ashamed of
Who she is
- She's Royal by Tarrus Riley
To embody the Rastafarian ideal of womanhood and beauty, Rastafarian female artistes traditionally dressed the part of a conservative female. Now a new breed of artistes is breaking outside of the fashion box and are embracing alternatives types of fashion.
Empresses such as deejay Queen Ifrica, singer Etana and beauty queen Zahra Redwood, among others, make different statements on the style of Rastafarian women.
Often thought as the epitome of the 'natural woman', most view Rastafarian fashion as anything moderate in red, green, gold and a far cry from the typical view of sexy. According to www.jamaicans.com, "(the) Rastafarian woman is a queen and must keep different standards than the women in 'Babylonial' society or Western culture. Some of the standards include no make-up, no dressing in short skirts and they cannot use chemicals in their hair".
Rasta fashion has expanded worldwide, with countless brands using the colours without truly understanding the meaning behind them. To some extent, Rasta fashion has become synonymous with Jamaican fashion. In 2004, international designer, John Galliano, added red, green and gold-striped items to his fall Dior collection. Prada's spring '05 show was a parade of Rasta-striped knits and crocheted hats. American pop star Gwen Stefani is noted for wearing the colours and the Rasta tam and incorporates them into her clothing line - L.A.M.B.
Most foreign designers use the Rasta colours to often dress women as sex kittens. Locally, it is the female Rastafarian entertainers who set the standard for Rasta fashion. More than two decades ago it was the trio of Rita Marley, Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt who first put the Rastafarian woman in the limelight globally. The ladies travelled the world as back-up singers for Bob Marley and later singers in their right as the I-Three. Often coordinated, they represented the Rasta and Jamaican colours and images. They were also often modestly dressed with head wraps and long skirts.
Years later, Rasta fashion is blooming more than ever. However, there are a few who cry that some Rastafarian entertainers dress a touch too sexy. Miss Jamaica Universe 2007 Zahra Redwood made history as being the first Rastafarian to take the crown. Since then, the young queen has been in the public eye and brought a little bit of her own style to the competition in Mexico. According to Redwood, when embarking to compete in the pageant she was not forced to wear anything that she would object to; rather the designers incorporated her cultural and Rastafarian beliefs into her outfits.
Redwood has since been known for sporting a lot of Jamaican/African colours and images, as well as African-type dresses and ornaments. She told The Sunday Gleaner that Barry Moncriefe and Mutamba are two of her favourite designers, especially Moncrieffe who she described as incorporating culture and glamour.
She said, "I dress according to my vibe, which always has an underlined modesty. There is always an appeal, not sexual, but tasteful." Zahra said that for Rastafarian women "modesty has always been the common trend, not targeting a sexual appeal deliberately". She says that there is no issue with wearing make-up, which she sees as coming from African and ancient Egypt. According to Zahra, it is often persons who are not Rastafarians who try to dictate what should and should not be worn.
Strict dress code
According to Etana, she doesn't see a strict dress code for Rastafarian women other than to dress in comfortable and healthy clothes. "Some people don't like to live up to strict codes; for health reasons it's best not to wear tight clothes. When it comes to like make-up a lot of people do for TV purposes, for example. When it comes to the roots of Rasta you can see why they don't use make-up, 'cause its suppose to be about the roots your taught not to wear it, but it is your decision," Etana told The Sunday Gleaner.
Etana can usually be seen sporting African symbols on simple T-shirts, wearing earthy colours and long flowing skirts. According to Etana her look is simply her. She doesn't go for a specific look but dresses based on her mood. She likes to wear tops from Zahra and Casha, as well as her own designs. She also admires the style of the I-Three who she believes always represent in their style.
Etana doesn't believe in wearing tight clothing. She explained: "It's my personal opinion, but I feel dat a princess, empress, a woman don't need to be naked to be sexy. We're all of a sex that is loving, that we bring life into this world. We don't need to do that naked."
Queen Ifrica has become one Rastafarian female to follow in terms of fashion, creating a whole new look from her red, green and gold dyed locks. Ifrica changes her look from occasion to occasion. In a previous interview with The STAR she says that 'sexiness' can be achieved by accepting oneself. This is instrumental in how she perceives herself and how she dresses. 'Sophisticated yet roots' is how Queen Ifrica described her style, which she believes is a depiction of 'roots with quality'.
Among her top choice for designers are Zaid, who does spray painting on cloth, Afar and House of Tafari. Some artistes promote women dressing skimpily in order to feel sexy, but Ifrica is not a supporter of this kind of dressing. She says this is "just being free spirited", but not something she will ever do. She believes that she is sexy, as sexiness is derived from "accepting yourself for who you are on the inside and outside".
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Delaware Wind Farm Power Project Gets Green Light
Legislation to allow an offshore wind farm breezed through the Delaware legislature Wednesday and was quickly signed into law.
The initial plan calls for about 60 large wind turbines about 11 miles east of Rehoboth Beach. Bluewater Wind could begin delivering energy to Delaware customers by 2012 under the current schedule.
It could become one of the first offshore wind farm in the United States. Another project proposed for Massachusetts' Nantucket Sound is slated for completion in 2011, but it still faces regulatory and legal hurdles.
The Delaware project is subject to regulatory oversight by the federal government and has won support from area environmentalists.
The bill approves a 25-year power-purchase agreement to allow Delmarva Power to buy up to 200 megawatts of electricity from the project operated by Bluewater Wind.
"We need to get away from the fossil fuels. We need to get away from dependence on foreign oil," Gov. Ruth Ann Minner said in signing the measure hours after it unanimously passed the House and Senate.
Delmarva Power and Bluewater spent months wrangling over a power purchase agreement that would allow the project go forward.
The deal allows Bluewater to sell leftover energy credits on the open market, making the project economically feasible for the wind farm developer while saving Delmarva Power customers an estimated $100 million.
It also requires that the costs associated with wind-based electricity be spread through a surcharge across Delmarva Power's entire Delaware customer base, not just among its standard residential customers.
"Everybody gave a little bit, and that's what tends to make things happen," said Senate Majority Leader Anthony DeLuca, D-Newark, who guided negotiations.
The Public Service Commission last year approved Bluewater's proposal for a wind farm, supplemented by a natural gas facility in southern Delaware to provide backup power when the wind doesn't blow.
Initially, Delmarva lobbied heavily to defeat the proposal, which it claimed would burden its customers with costly premiums for offshore wind when they could obtain more affordable land-based wind power from other states.
Under the agreement announced Monday, Delmarva Power will buy about half of the amount of wind power suggested under an earlier proposal, and at a lower price per megawatt hour. The price drop is due to a reduction in the costs that Delaware customers will pay for renewable energy credits.
"This is a far, far better deal than we started with," said Sen. Harris McDowell III, chairman of the Senate energy committee.
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Challenged in this Steven Levitt keynote is the idea that car seats for children over the age of two are necessary. The author of the critically acclaimed book ‘Freakonomics’ uses a wide range of research and data to demonstrate how car seats, contrary to popular belief of parents and the Federal government in the United States, can actually put children at a greater risk.
As Levitt explains, for a car seat to be manufactured and sold, it must pass a federal test, which ensures that certain criteria has been met. These seats however, have been optimized to pass a test that doesn’t account for multiple types of accidents and crashes that can occur. As he demonstrates, the standard car seat in America today is optimized for an accident during which a car crashes into the vehicle in front of it, but not an accident that involves being hit from behind.
While car seats are not something every individual purchases as some point in his or her life, Levitt’s speech hones in on the fact that industries and corporations aren’t always looking out for the best interests and well-being of their consumers.
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Facts of the Bible 1
This is a quiz of lesser-known things of the Bible. How many do you know?
#1 Which of the following names is not found in the Bible?
#2 After Israel captured Canaan, the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh settled in Gilead, and built an altar to the LORD. A misunderstanding over this almost sparked a civil war. What was the name of the altar?
#3 What did God tell the prophet Hosea to do?
Comfort the Israelites in bondage
Call down fire from Heaven
Marry a harlot
Tell the people of Ninevah to repent
#4 The books of the Bible are arranged in chronological order.
#5 Moses wrote none of the Psalms.
#6 Which of the following did Moses NOT do?
Turn the Nile into blood
Smite a rock to make water come from it
Split the Red Sea
Murder an Egyptian task-master
Moses did all of these.
#7 What was Abednego's Hebrew name?
#8 One of the Judges of Israel was left-handed, and killed Eglon the king of Moab with a knife he smuggled into the king's presence. What was the Judge's name?
#9 Why did King Saul lose his kingdom?
He sacrificed to God.
He went to a witch for counsel.
He didn't utterly destroy the Amalekites.
He tried to kill David.
He tried to kill Jonathan.
#10 Where were believers in Christ first called Christians?
#11 When the Apostle Paul was on his way to Rome for trial, the ship he was on was wrecked in a storm. What was the name of the island Paul escaped to?
#12 Which of the following is a name of God?
They all are
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We’ve been using the Explode the Code series of workbooks this year.
Eliza has completed book 1 and 2 and is halfway through book 3. I ordered them as a supplement to the language/phonics program we would be doing when we started last fall and they quickly became a primary tool for us.
I would not say ETC is a comprehensive program for phonics or spelling, but it does cover those disciplines in wonderful bite-sized ways. It also gives your child handwriting practice.
ETC assumes when you start book 1 that your child knows their consonant sounds, but does a brief review of them in the beginning of the book. It then moves to the vowel sound ‘a’ and, by the end of book 1, covers all the vowels, with the child spelling short one-syllable words from the get go and progressively incorporating the new vowel sounds.
Book 2 covers initial consonant blends and final consonant blends. Book 3 reiterates all the skills taught so far and moves on to one-syllable words ending with a long vowel (such as -y and silent -e words). It also teaches digraphs (-sh, -th, -wh, -ch, -ng, -ck) and trigraphs (-tch, -ee-ea, -ai-ay, and -oa-ow).
Also, there are Explode the Code primers which teach the consonant sounds in order to prepare for the basic Explode the Code. Furthermore they have ETC books 1 1/2 and 2 1/2, etc. These in between books provide extra practice for the student who needs it.
The ETC series has 8 books total that range from dipthongs, word families, three letter blends, soft c and g and suffixes/endings. I’m not sure if we’ll continue on with it or not, but for this Kindergarten year, ETC has been invaluable for phonics reinforcement and basic spelling.
The workbooks are not overwhelming. The pages are easy to complete and really boost the child’s confidence. Eliza has felt very competent to work in them independently and we have found 2 pages per day to be manageable and suit our needs.
If you have a preschool, kindergarten or 1st grade student (depending on their abilities) these first Explode the Code books may be useful for you to check out.
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I don't know about how Western people think about life, but I'm an Asian irl. Maybe I'm not idealistic enough to understand the idealistic Trek's Earth Society like the other's do. Because what I know is a workable society and a not workable one. And I believe that the Trek's idealistic Earth Society is not workable. Because it would cause stagnation to the Human society. Without competition, how would humanity improve?
I'm Asian also, but I believe that Trek's idealistic Earth Society is doable, it just will take alot of work, many decades or centuries of education, and probably alot of blood shed between people in power and those not in power.
I think it can happen, just not easily. Breaking away the current socio economic / education mindset will take a long time to do, but it'll have to start at some point.
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Getting a conservatory to enjoy the summer sun is easy. For a real conversation piece, you need a geodesic dome! The trouble is making the constructions, popularised by legendary American designer R Buckminster Fuller, usually involves a lot of calculations. That’s where DomeKit comes in.
Created by US researchers Effalo, DomeKit is a combination of web-based software tools and specially designed self-adjusting connectors that make putting up your very own dome a cinch.
The project is currently using the Kickstarter funding platform to raise the money it needs to launch the dome creation software which will let you choose the size of structure you want to create.
In the meantime, the makers are offering two kits – a 5ft kid sized dome with enough space for adults to take a seat and a massive 8.5ft dome – to people who back the cause.
The 3D-printed connectors that connect the wooden dowels together to create the domes are made by a network of enthusiasts. DomeKit gets most of its printing done by a guy in Brooklyn with five 3D printers squirrelled away in his garage.
Dome Kit isn’t selling covers for its structures yet but the team behind it say they’re working on open-source plans for them as the next step. Still, covered or not, a geodesic dome will definitely be more intriguing than your neighbour’s new barbecue.
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To mark The Big Draw 2010 - an annual celebration of art and drawing - the Fitzwilliam and Cambridge Central Library have worked with the Cambridge School of Art at Anglia Ruskin University to offer an exciting Drawing Adventure Trail through Cambridge's city centre. Designed especially for children, this trail leads families through the streets to discover and draw some of the wonderful beasts and amazing characters who are carved onto buildings and lurking behind college gates.
The half-term trail, called Lord Fitzwilliam and the Cambridge Quest, will be available to pick up free of charge from both the Fitzwilliam Museum and Cambridge Central Library from Saturday 23 October. Visitors to the Museum and the Library on this particular day can also enjoy special free drawing and craft activities to celebrate the launch of the trail, as well as an additional storytelling event at the Library.
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Gao Qiang, a migrant worker at a construction site in Beijing, realizes that a smartphone is an indispensable part of his daily life. Zhu Xingxin / China Daily
A migrant worker takes photos with his cellphone at the opening of an art show featuring his peers in Beijing. The use of smartphones is increasing among young migrant workers. Provided to China Daily
Smartphones give low earners options, reports Zhang Yuchen in Beijing.
Modern technology is not only changing the way people work, it is changing the way people, from the highest earners to the lowest, live.
Tang Jianhua, a mother of two, is working at a construction site in northwestern Beijing. She opted for construction work three months ago after she moved up from southern China because of higher pay.
One of the major financial outlays for Tang, 38, was to buy a smartphone for 900-yuan ($144). And after tragedy struck, it also helped rebuild her life. Following the death of her husband, she was able to keep in touch with family and friends and through modern technology, start the painful but necessary process of rejoining society.
She posted messages online via her smartphone and through this connection met someone and later remarried.
Tang's story may be a simple one, but it reflects the situation of low-grade workers, who have only recently embraced technology.
"Smartphones are like vitamins to these people," said Kuang Wenbo, a professor of communications and journalism at Renmin University in Beijing.
According to a survey of blue-collar workers conducted in May, 74 percent of the 22,380 respondents said they accessed the Web through their phones. The survey, conducted by Daguu, an online employment services company that focuses on market demand for low-end labor, indicated that phone use among migrant workers is 2 percent higher than the national average.
Migrant workers account for 60 to 70 percent of smartphone purchases, said a saleswoman named Li who works at the Zhongguancun IT compound, a technological hub in the Haidian district of Beijing.
The workers use their phones to look for jobs, make online purchases, search for information and, most prevalently, play online games and read literature. Their Internet service fees may be as much as 200 yuan per month.
"Because of their living and working habits, these workers have limited access to the outside world through newspapers or other forms of media," said Kuang, "Smartphones have become the most convenient way of keeping up with events and family."
By the second quarter of this year, 45 percent of the handhelds used by Chinese people were smartphones, 33.7 percent of which cost 700 yuan to 1,000 yuan, according to Sino Market Research, a research institution affiliated with the National Bureau of Statistics.
Experts explained that the wide variety of options available in brands and prices means that this easily neglected group, have a chance to change their lifestyles.
Zhao Yongchao has been working on external insulation work at a residential building in Haidian since July. With the next construction project settled, Zhao will soon leave for another region, a suburban county located in Northeast Beijing.
Most of the day is spent on tedious and laborious tasks, but the 28-year-old migrant worker's smartphone provides his colleagues with convenient shopping opportunities and entertainment.
A work colleague used Zhao's iPhone, a gift from his sister, to buy a 500-yuan outfit, consisting of shoes, pants and jacket: "I'm quite satisfied," said Wang Cong, looking down at his pants and brushing off the dust.
In addition to shopping, online money transfers have become a monthly favor Zhao performs for colleagues. They give him the cash and he does the rest.
"Every month they give me the money they want to pay into the bank. I log onto the online banking application on my smartphone and transfer the money to the bank," Zhao said, "I have downloaded applications from two banks. They work very well,"
Each transfer costs Zhao 1 yuan, but that "doesn't matter" compared with the friendships he has built with his co-workers.
When bad weather keeps the workers confined to their shabby hut at the site, Zhao's smartphone provides entertainment, "For us, films and entertainment programs are good time-killers," he said.
Of course, there are times when he misses his family desperately, but the video function on his phone makes short work of the distance between Zhao and his home village in Henan province.
He has video chats with his family two or three times every week. Standing in the street and connecting with the Wi-Fi in a neighboring shop, Zhao talks to his wife "face to face", learns about recent events in the village and discusses the academic performance of their 6-year-old twins, a boy and a girl.
"The other day when I stood near the site, I had a video chat with them via my phone for almost half an hour. My wife sat on a chair and the kids stood on either side. They kept asking questions, like 'Dad, when are you coming home?' or 'Dad, we want birthday gifts'," said Zhao. The link helps to assuage his loneliness.
Back in 2010, before Zhao used a smartphone, family chats such as this only happened every couple of weeks. Sometimes contact was lost for longer if Zhao couldn't find an empty seat at a Internet bar, or his neighbor's computer was being used by someone else.
By the end of June, mobile Internet traffic in China had increased tenfold from the end of 2010, according to Wu Heshuan a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering at a news conference for the release of a report on telecommunications in China.
Kuang said the migrant workers' lower educational background is no longer a communication barrier between them and the rest of society.
Although Zhao, whose formal education ended after middle school, has applied for jobs via his smartphone, he usually chats with strangers on a variety of Websites: "I never take it seriously, but it eases my loneliness," he said.
Around 230 million migrant workers across China benefit greatly from the improvements in life available through smarter handhelds, but experts said real change may be a long time coming.
A survey jointly conducted by Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Peking University in Beijing, shows that migrant workers didn't use high-end smartphones a few years ago. "You can't expect a small handset to change the world completely," said Shen Chonglin, a researcher at the Institute of Sociology at CASS, "and because making real, quantifiable change is not easy, the workers often engage in a mild form of escapism via the Internet".
"I feel I've caught up with the pace of development," said Ren Yanqiu, a 25-year-old migrant worker from Hunan province. "Since everyone has a smartphone now, I'd be embarrassed to take an ordinary one out of my pocket. Moreover, we migrant workers can afford smartphones now. Basically, all the young people around me have a high-quality smartphone." Ren bought a Samsung model for 2,000 yuan in Guangzhou in August.
However, mainstream society's view of migrant workers is unlikely to change anytime soon, according to Shen.
Tang Jianhua said discrimination against migrant workers is as strong as ever. "People still despise us, whether we are sitting in a restaurant or packed into a subway car like everyone else, I can feel it," she said.
A two-way understanding between society in general and the migrants is unlikely to be fully realized anytime soon, according to Kuang.
"I only posted a thread or two when I was in a bad mood, or I changed my 'profile'," said Ren Yanqiu, the middle-school dropout, who was born in 1987. He said that he makes sure his smartphone is close to hand whenever he's available to chat, but he rarely bothers about the social issues that generate heated discussion on micro blogs. In fact, very few of the migrant workers interviewed by China Daily displayed any interest in hot social topics because they don't feel fully integrated as members of society.
"They may be better referred to as 'floating workers', because their personal circumstances are quite unsettled," said Shen, the CASS researcher.
The younger generation, the most prominent consumers of developing mobile technology, are the group most likely to reap major benefits from societal changes over time.
"Even though they care little about significant political issues or events right now, they are deeply concerned about things that relate to themselves or members of their peer group," said Kuang. "Maybe their social interaction will become more prevalent as time passes and they begin to feel more integrated with mainstream society."
Contact the reporter at email@example.com
Mo Jingxi, He Na and Jiang Xueqing contributed to this story.
(China Daily 11/19/2012 page5)
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Residents and employees of the Mid-Ohio Valley, who live in the region of Washington Works, an E.I. DuPont plant in northwestern West Virginia, received “probable link” verification concerning potential exposure to a dangerous chemical emitted from the plant and both ulcerative colitis (inflammatory bowel disease) and thyroid disease.
This was the third in a series of “probable link” diseases and health effects reported in the area.
Earlier links to kidney and testicular cancer, pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) and preeclampsia, a particular type of PIH, were found in the Mid-Ohio group. A fourth series of studies indicated a link to medically-diagnosed high cholesterol among the residents.
C8, a man-made chemical emitted from the manufacturing facility is commonly known as PFOA, perfluorooctanoic acid. It has been used to produce everyday products such as stain-resistant carpets, non-stick cookware and water-repellent clothing.
The study of C8 has been ongoing for many years and a class action lawsuit ensued prior to that between some of the area’s residents, Washington Works employees and DuPont. In the study, if it was “more probable than not” that C8 was linked to a particular illness in the area’s population, that disease was categorized as having a “probable link” to C8 contamination. Several diseases were studied where there was not enough evidence to find a link.
As part of the class action settlement in Wood County, WV court, a three-member scientific panel, was established to study the health effects of C8 on human beings who may have consumed it in their drinking water. C8 was found to have been released from the factory over a period of years and to have contaminated certain areas of the region’s drinking supplies.
The three leaders of the C8 Science Panel are well-known epidemiologists who had extensive experience in designing and performing health studies. The Panel was required (as part of the class action settlement) to report its findings back to the court.
Over an eight-year period, scientists collected and analyzed the data of more than 70,000 men, women, and children of the region who were seeking to know if the contamination of their water had impacted their health. Ultimately, the Panel would study 12 categories of disease and their possible connection to C8 contamination in the region. It would become one of the most comprehensive studies ever done in the United States on human health and the effects of C8.
To conduct the ulcerative colitis study, the Panel and their assistants interviewed 32,000 Mid-Ohio Valley residents and DuPont employees regarding their medical history. Medical records were then obtained to validate self-reported diagnoses.
There were about 160 cases of ulcerative colitis validated and the Science Panel found a strong pattern of more disease occurring with higher PFOA exposure. Ulcerative colitis is a relatively rare disease of the digestive tract, similar to Crohn’s disease, characterized by chronic inflammation of the lining of the digestive tract. It causes chronic pain and discomfort and generally is incurable.
The evidence was mixed in the study of thyroid disease, but the Panel concluded it was more probable than not that C8 was linked to thyroid disease. In the Panel’s study of residents, there were more than 2000 validated cases of thyroid disease. The Panel also analyzed data on thyroid hormones and considered other reports in the scientific literature. Thyroid disease is a common condition related to an imbalance in thyroid hormones. It can usually be well-controlled with thyroid hormone treatment.
A number of other diseases were studied in this series but no probable link was found. They included: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, and childhood and adult infections such as influenza, neurodevelopmental disorders in children, stroke, and several autoimmune diseases such as lupus, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s disease and Type 1 juvenile diabetes.
To learn more about legal representation available to persons who believe they may have been affected by C8 contamination, please contact the Ohio law firm of Slater & Zurz LLP for a free consultation and find out if you have a claim involving C8 and your health by calling 1-888-534-4850 or visit their webpage at www.slaterzurz.com and fill out a FREE CASE REVIEW FORM located on the top right hand side of the page.
Slater & Zurz LLP has partnered with Marietta, Ohio attorney Ethan Vessels to represent people victimized by C8 on an individual basis, NOT as part of a class action lawsuit.
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One of the best things about children is that they're so easy to scare. And Halloween is the one night a year when it's socially acceptable to scare children! So what are you waiting for? Check out these four easy-to-make Halloween tricks from Popular Science's October 1964 issue.
An oversize pair of flesh-color rubber gloves
Spread the cold cream over your hands, and then put on the gloves. Have a friend pour water into the space remaining in the gloves. Use wide waterproof surgical adhesive tape to seal the openings to your wrists. "When you touch anyone with the clammy hands, the sensation is gruesome," PopSci writer Ken Murray says.
Creepy face mask
Roller blades or skates
Coat the outside of the face mask of your choice with bright reflective paint. Then, dress in black clothing from the neck down. Wait until the kids are trick-or-treating, then head outside. "Gliding along on quiet roller skates heightens the effect." Holy crap, that is frightening.
Hand-held oscillator (according to 1964 PopSci, this should be "readily available from radio-supply houses.")
Cut up and decorate a cardboard box to look like a small haunted house. Cut another piece of cardboard to fit snugly in the box to create a false bottom. Underneath, hide a transistor radio, tuned to a clear channel with the volume turned up high. Find a group of easy-to-trick kids and tell them there's a ghost in the house. Have a friend hide in the next room and say spooky things (like "oooghhh" and "blarrghh") through the hand-held oscillator tuned to broadcast to the radio. When the kids insist there must be a walkie-talkie in the box, you can open it up and show them it's empty--except for the ghost, of course, which may have just escaped... Oogh!
Red or white reflective tape
So, jack-o'-lanterns are really cool, but cutting up pumpkins is messy and difficult. Here's a better way. Cut eye, nose, mouth, and stitches shapes from the reflective tape. Stick 'em on the pumpkin. And, done! "In dim light the pumpkin 'blazes' more brilliantly than with a candle."
Read the full story in our October 1964 issue.
Five amazing, clean technologies that will set us free, in this month's energy-focused issue. Also: how to build a better bomb detector, the robotic toys that are raising your children, a human catapult, the world's smallest arcade, and much more.
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Pierre Mauroy (born 5 July 1928 in Cartignies) is a French Socialist politician. He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1984 and also served as mayor of Lille from 1973 to 2001.
A teacher, he led the Socialist Young Movement and the Technique Teaching Union in the 1950s. He became a leading figure in the Socialist federation of Nord département, which was among the third biggest of the SFIO party and climbed quickly in the party. In 1966, he became number 2 of the party behind the secretary general Guy Mollet. Nevertheless, when Mollet resigned as leader in 1969, Alain Savary was chosen to succeed him.
After the electoral disasters of 1968 and 1969, he was persuaded of the necessity to renew the party. In 1971, during the Epinay Congress, he supported François Mitterrand's advent and became the number 2 in the Socialist Party (PS). Two years later, he was elected as a deputy and mayor of Lille.
Progressively, he criticized the ejection of former SFIO members from the important functions in aid of Mitterrand's friends. In this, he formed an alliance with Michel Rocard, the main opponent of Mitterrand, during the 1979 Metz Congress. However, Mitterrand chosen him as spokesperson during the 1981 presidential campaign, then after his election, as Prime minister.
His cabinet did important social reforms including reduction of the working time to 39 hours, retirement at 60 years and a rise in allowances. However, he advocated the abandon of the socialist economic policy which was ratified by President Mitterrand in March 1983. Failing to restrict the financing of private schools, he resigned in 1984.
In 1988, he became first secretary of the PS against Mitterrand's will who supported Laurent Fabius. Until the end of his term, in 1992, he tried to appease the relations between the clans which composed the PS, notably during the very strained 1990 Rennes Congress. He allied with the rocardien group and Lionel Jospin's supporters, who came from the mitterrandist group.
President of the Socialist International from 1992 to 1999, senator since 1992, he left the Lille belfry in 2001. Considered a moral authority of the French Left, he supported the candidacy of Ségolène Royal during the 2007 primary election.
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The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) today announced that it is implementing a recycling program in its community parks: Bremen Street, Piers Park, and Festa Field, all located in East Boston, and the South Boston Maritime Park located in Boston's Seaport District. The program is the result of Massport's efforts to broaden its green initiatives in its surrounding communities and a continuation of its Authority-wide recycling program.
Most of the parks will have receptacles for recycling newspapers and magazines, aluminum cans and plastic bottles. Glass is prohibited in all of the parks. Thirteen "recycling stations" at a total cost of $6,000 are being distributed throughout the four parks. The stations will be emptied daily by Massport.
"This recycling effort is a public program and it is something that park users said they want," said Catherine Wetherell, Massport's Deputy Director of Capital Programs & Environmental Affairs. "It is a great way to teach youngsters how to be more responsible in maintaining their playground and preserving the environment."
The recycling stations come in two design styles chosen to blend in with the parks' landscaping. One style features two, 30-gallon standalone barrels placed side by side. They are made of galvanized steel for durability and fire resistance. The barrels will be blue and placed near blue playground equipment and concession areas. The other recycling stations to be placed in all other park areas are "cluster style" which consist of two interlocking barrels. One barrel is for paper, and the other for plastic and aluminum recyclables. They are constructed of simulated wood slats made of 100% post-consumer recycled plastic. Each of the stations is made in the U.S. by Windsor Barrel Works.
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Reinvention, drive define Coca-Cola scholarship winners
Just before her first day at Miami Dade College, Angelica Matta was nearly paralyzed in a head-on car accident.
She spent two months in bed recovering from fractures in her pelvis and left ankle, a slipped disc in her cervical spine and a concussion.
Still, when the time came for her to once again volunteer at a camp for ventilation-assisted children at Miami Children’s Hospital, Matta showed up with a walker.
That determination earned Matta a coveted Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation award, one of two given to MDC students this year. The second award went to Claudia Bruce, an art major attending Wolfson Campus.
The Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation is one of the most recognized and respected corporate-sponsored scholarships in America. Matta and Bruce beat 800 national applicants for the foundation’s Two-Year Scholarship Program, which helps students who attend higher education institutions that grant two-year degrees.
Matta is currently attending MDC’s Kendall Campus through the Bridges to the Future program, aimed at students interested in research careers in the biomedical sciences. The biology major said she is grateful for the extra money to help save up for medical school.
“My dream is to become a pediatric cardiologist. I dream of saving children’s lives and to be able to give back hope and faith to the parents who have suffered because of their children’s condition,” wrote Matta in her award-winning scholarship application.
Claudia Bruce, an art major attending Wolfson Campus, also won a Coca-Cola scholarship. She came to Miami to reinvent herself. After 17 years of owning and operating a fabric and fashion design business in New York, she turned her attention to art conservation with a specific focus on textiles and fabrics.
“My real interest is in not wanting these things to disappear,” said Bruce. “It’s so important to know where we come from.”
The Foundation’s Coca-Cola Scholars Program was created in 1986 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Coca-Cola and to establish a legacy for the education of tomorrow’s leaders. Now in its ninth year of funding the Coca-Cola Two-Year Colleges Scholarship Program, the Foundation has provided $3.7 million in scholarships to students attending two-year degree-granting institutions. Over the past 20 years, the Foundation has awarded more than $35 million to the Coca-Cola Scholars Program.
— Sue Arrowsmith
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A History of Sitting Spiritually
As Martin Young puts down his tools and sands the curved back of his 500th swing seat he is still entitled to be slightly amazed at the direction his life has taken over the last seven years.
Back in the early 1960's, and much against his better judgement, Martin was persuaded by his father to do a carpentry apprenticeship before leaving school. He struggled through and finished with flying colours but then he never thought about it again, his tools went into the attic and he started a very successful sales career in the building trade.
Fast forward 40 years of long hours, long journeys, food snatched on the run, nights away from home every week and high octane pressure and Martin wasn't feeling as well as he should have been. One evening he took his own blood pressure on a home testing machine. The results were alarmingly high so he went straight to the doctor the next morning. He expected to be told he needed to exercise and lose a bit of weight but he soon discovered it was a great deal more serious than that. He had metabolic Syndrome X, a combination of obesity, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol; a recipe for heart problems. He was advised to stop work straight away and radically change his lifestyle or face the fact that he might not be here to enjoy his retirement.
Martin never returned to work, he had to change his lifestyle and quickly. As he took stock of his situation with time on his hands, weight to lose and exercise to think about, he turned his energies to his garden which he had wanted to landscape and plant out since moving to Lyme Regis in 1998. He discovered he had green fingers and his outside space began to take shape under the watchful eye and guidance of local Landscape Architect Ed Brooks, but as it neared completion, Martin was growing bored.
He and his wife Celia had visited other gardens through the National Garden Scheme so they rang up to see if they could join. Martin remembers the day the inspector came to visit clutching his Yellow Book and clip board full of the necessary criteria, 'It's perfect but our members like to sit down and contemplate the garden, the planting and the view, 'the inspector explained, 'but you have no seating so I'm afraid we can't include you this year unless you can sort this out in the next few weeks.'
Martin had always loved the type of evocative solid wooden swing seats he had seen in American films and he saw this as an excuse to buy one, but as he began to do his research through retailers and on line he quickly realised that he simply wasn't going to find what he wanted and he was astonished at the lack of choice, 'I must have sat on at least 20 and looked at the same amount again on line' he laughs, 'but they were all horrible; flimsy and badly made from foreign hardwoods, they didn't meet my expectations at all.' In frustration he turned to the USA and sent for some swing seat plans he found on the internet. They arrived and as he unfolded them Martin could see immediately that this was what he had been looking for but he also understood now that he was going to have to make it himself. He cleared a space in his garage, bought some local Devon Oak and began work.
It was physically very tough and he wasn't used to it. At first his hands were soft and he could only work for short periods but his old carpentry skills, buried for forty years, began to rise to the surface and, over the next few weeks, the first of Martin's swing seats started to take shape, and so did Martin. Two months later the inspector returned to see the swing seat in situ in the garden and pronounced that they would be delighted to add Bramble Hayes to their list of gardens to visit.
Martin had no idea, as those first visitors poured in to his garden and admired his swing seat just as much as his gigantic cardoons, that six of them would commission him to make a swing seat for them that summer; it seemed he wasn't the only one with dreams of beautifully made Oak swing seats. To his excitement he realised he had the beginnings of a new business, but he needed a name, something that captured what he was about and the journey he had taken. Martin explains, 'Working physically in the garden with my hands and particularly with wood had given me a new direction. Since my diagnosis I had become interested in meditation and feng shui and I wanted to call my business something memorable that captured the essence of the discoveries I had made.' So, 'Sitting Spiritually' was born and the hard work began.
From the very outset Martin was determined to use only local suppliers and materials to give back as much as he was taking and he has been registered Carbon Neutral since 2008. His woods are hand picked from FSC certified forests in the West Country, he would never consider using teak and the farthest the Oak comes from is Stourhead in Wiltshire. 'I know the landowners and the wood yards and I'm delighted to be able to work with these beautiful local materials. Oak in particular weathers extremely well, turning a silvery grey over time, and Oak, Chestnut and Western Red Cedar all contain tannin which is a natural preservative. These British woods are more unique and individual than the frequently used French Oak, but British Oak is part of our heritage and it is important to use our own resources and replant.'
As well as using local wood, a company in Axminster supply him with his stainless steel fittings, his chains come from Bridport and Martin has a whole team of skilled local craftsmen who help him deliver every aspect of the swing seats, benches and rope swings from carving, painting to making the cushions.
The car is long gone from Martin's garage which is now packed with his swing seat templates, his various woods, beautiful wooden pegs and every possible tool that he might need including the tool box he made as an apprentice 40 years ago. From those early days Martin's range has grown from one swing seat design to four, including his famous award winning Kyokusen (Japanese for 'curves in the air'). 'All of my swing seats are made by hand from start to finish' says Martin, 'and each one takes several days to make, but the Kyokusen is special. The uniqueness of the curved frame design is dictated by the curve in the British Oak log from which it is cut. It's a very beautiful swing seat.'
It's a long process but he has it down to a fine art now, using the lower part of the seat as a template, the back uprights are set and the cross rails jointed into them using traditional halving joints. Some of the tools he uses for this process are from his original set which he purchased as an apprentice. The curved top board is added then the back is bolted to the seat using stainless steel bolts which are plugged off in the matching timber enabling Martin to combine state of the art stainless steel fittings and still retain a traditional look and feel.
Old fashioned Oak Rope Swings were a natural addition to his range as well as accessories such as his ammonite table inlaid with an ammonite from the nearby Jurassic Coast, 'Every swing seat is one of a kind and I love working with customers to provide something extra special just for them, whether it's a carving of a beloved pet, wording, names or dates or inlaying ammonites into the seat arms. Brothers and sisters or grown up grand children often club together to buy a swing seat for a special grandpa or granny and I get to add their favourite saying or words. It's a great job to have.'
When he isn't in his workshop, Martin is in his garden or delivering and assembling his swing seats for customers. He is a people person and the thrill of the sale will always be in his blood but he will never forget his father's words to him when he was a young lad as he persuaded him to do the carpentry apprenticeship, 'It's like swimming Martin, you've always got it to fall back on and you never know when you might need it.'
How right he was.
Sitting Spiritually Ltd
Tel: 01297 443084
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In the Senate race in Indiana, for instance, Republican Richard Mourdock outspent Democratic opponent Joe Donnelley by about $7 million. But Mourdock lost.
Mourdock ran a strong race, but took a hit in the polls when, at a debate, he made a controversial remark about rape and abortion.
In Wisconsin, Thompson's campaign also hit a few bumps along the way. A low point may have been when Thompson's son told an audience, "We have the opportunity to send President Obama back to Chicago, or Kenya." He later apologized for the remarks.
While the race remained tight throughout election night, Baldwin defeated Thompson 51 percent to 46 percent. Baldwin will become the first female Senator to represent Wisconsin and the nation's first openly gay person to win a Senate seat.
"I didn't run to make history," Baldwin said in her acceptance speech. "I ran to make a difference."
It looks like the money she spent on the race may have made a difference, too.
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Biting the Habit: What's your eating style?
Snacker, picker, or guilty eater; the way you eat affects your weight
Eating styles contribute to weight problems more than most people realise, which is why standardised weight-loss plans often fail: they only target what people eat, ignoring how they eat – and we’re not talking about whether you slurp or sip your soup!
Eating styles have to do with when, where, and how you eat – and if you’re like most people, your eating style can really get in the way of your weight-loss goals. While you may not need to totally change your eating habits, adjusting them can help you reach your weight-loss or maintenance goals more effectively.
Read on and learn how to identify your eating style and change it for the better.
Did you know you can lose weight online, and access the CalorieKing.com.au Program (13 weeks of practical information on all aspects of weight control)? Learn more
Snacker and picker
Approximately 60% of overweight people fall into this category. Snackers and pickers rarely sit down to a proper meal, and if they do, they usually pick at it! They eat a little bit of this and a little bit of that constantly throughout the day. They frequently eat while engaged in other activities. You can sometimes spot a snacker or picker by the number of times they open the fridge during a day. Snackers and pickers also love finger foods: cocktail parties are heaven for a snacker or picker! Overweight snackers and pickers can often be heard saying, "I don't know why I have a weight problem, I hardly eat anything."
The major problem with this kind of eating is that because snackers consume hundreds of empty and excess calories a day, they drastically underestimate how much they actually eat. And due to the fact that snacks don't really pack in enough “oomph” to meet basic nutritional needs and satiety (fullness and satisfaction of appetite), snackers and pickers are always foraging for something more to eat.
The snacker’s fix-it plan
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« October 2005 Table of Contents
Editor's Note: Taking care of our own
October 01, 2005
times of crisis, the seafood industry takes care of its own. Within a few days
of Hurricane Katrina’s making landfall in the Gulf, organizations across the
country had established relief efforts to help fishermen and processors.
started coordinating industry-relief efforts in the form of product, freight,
cold storage, packaging and monetary donations. The Fishermen’s Relief Fund,
organized by the Fish for the Future Foundation, was established to provide aid
directly to fishing, processing and related industries in the affected areas.
These are just a couple of the relief efforts supporting fishermen and
processors in the Gulf (for more information on Katrina assistance, see the Top
Story sidebar on page 28).
Business, in partnership with the National Fisheries Institute, established the
Gulf Coast Message Board at www.seafoodbusiness.com/gulfcoast. Early posts on
the bulletin board were by people looking for commercial fishermen and
processors who were still missing. A few weeks later, posts turned to
information-swapping about Gulf Coast companies that were back in business.
Some offered processors technical assistance with onsite housing for workers
who had no homes to return to. Information is still being posted to the board
to support fishermen and processors in the region.
devastation and trauma created by weather-related events such as Katrina and
the Southeast Asia tsunami or man-made events like 9/11 are overwhelming. Those
not directly affected by catastrophe forget the pain and suffering the
survivors endure. But many Katrina survivors are still living day-to-day, their
homes and livelihoods destroyed. It will be a long time until the
infrastructure is reestablished to support fishermen and seafood processors.
The relief efforts in the coming months may not be
limited to helping the folks in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. As this
issue went to the printer, Hurricane Rita had whipped by Key West, Fla., and
upgraded to a Category-5 storm headed for Texas. If your company hasn’t already
donated money or goods to the relief effort, now is the time to help your
friends in the industry. There may come a time when that favor will be
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When I began in the library in 1991, I was lucky to have inherited an automated system. I never had to worry about those pesky cards in the back of the books. I did have a card catalog and for several years kept it up to date because I had no computers for the students. It was a great day when I could rid the library of that monster piece of furniture.
After attending Alan November's Building Learning Communities (BLC) conference last year I learned how to use Twitter to build a Professional Learning Network (PLN). This year I got to attend the American Library Association annual conference, but I could not go to BLC. That was okay because with Twitter I could follow the #BLC12 hashtag to find out what was new and cutting edge.
One of the tidbits that I read that peaked my interest was from Beth Swantz (@betswan) to Brian Mull of November Learning (@BrianMullNL). Beth stated that Brian proposed that we need to start rethinking school libraries and the way that they are used. Okay, I agree with that but what does it actually mean? So I asked Beth via Twitter what she thought Brian meant. Now she came back with her take on it, but I loved her list. This is what her spin of the new improved librarian needs to do: curate, guide, listen, dream, take risks and lead without fear. To me that is a very powerful list. I am going to try and list some examples of how I do all of those things in my school library.
As a librarian, curating has been what I have done since I began in the profession. I would carefully select all the print materials that I purchased and put on the shelves in the library. I always have wanted to meet the needs of my patrons both students and teachers. So I would make sure to have the fun reads as well as the books to support the curriculum. Now, I still purchase print materials for the school library, but my curating goes so much further than just purchasing new books. I have created a large reference section of electronic materials. I have purchased several iPod Touch devices and put apps and books on those devices for my students to utilize in school. I have begun to collect useful websites for student and teacher use that I curate on the library website, in Livebinders and Wikis and in tools such as Delicious. The cool part about this type of curation is that these links are available to a much larger community than my school. I can share with librarians everywhere, and I also can find digital materials curated by other librarians that me or my students can find useful. What a change from librarian to the students in just one building to being a librarian to all students everywhere. All these collective brains working together can turn out amazing resources.
Guiding students to the appropriate materials for a project has been a part of a librarian's role forever. Now, not only do we need to be guides to the print materials, but we also need to guide to electronic and digital materials that the library owns as well as digital material that is available for free on the Internet. We must act as guides to both the teachers and the students in the building. I imagine myself like Sacagawea who guided Lewis and Clark through their explorations. They wanted to see the West but did not have a clue how to get there. Librarians must find out where our patrons want to go and help them get there. It may be through a new technology tool, an electronic book or even an old-fashioned non-fiction book sitting on the shelf. We can help them figure out the means to their ends.
I try to be a good listener. How can I curate materials if I don't know what someone is seeking? How can I guide someone if I don't understand where they want to go? Listening is a key element to being a good librarian. I remember in library school learning how to conduct a reference interview. The librarian asks a number of questions to clarify what the patron needs and why they need it, then the librarian can guide the patron to the appropriate materials. This role is not new, but it is as important as it ever was.
I am always trying to find ways to improve the library and the services that it provides. A lot of my new ideas are dreams. There might not always be money for innovation or space for innovation or personnel to initiate the innovation, but it never hurts to dream. My mind is a constant whir, and I try to keep my fingers on the pulse of what others are doing to innovate in their libraries. This year I dream about students reading more for pleasure than they have ever read before. My circulation statistics have dropped over the last few years, but my collection has improved. Students may be reading on their own devices, but I am dreaming of a way that I can document their reading habits and help improve those habits along the way.
I am willing to fall on my face. I am willing to fail. I will take risks because I understand that failure is an option. I have run a very successful book group for my high school students since 2007. I decided this year that I should run one for my middle school students as well. I was going to select one book a month and interested students in grades 6-8 could join the hour long discussion. I had no clue if the students were interested, and I did not know if they could talk about one book for an hour. It was a huge success. You can read all about BRiMS here.
LEADING without FEAR:
I have really tried to embrace leadership over the last couple of years. I have suggested that our school start a Twitter feed and broadcast weekly on Ustream. I have conducted many inservices for our faculty on various technology tools that I think would work well in the classroom. I also serve on faculty committees that have to do with curriculum and instruction. This fall I will be traveling around the state of Louisiana to talk to other librarians about teacher and librarian collaboration.
That's it for me, but I would love to hear from others about how they have adapted the old ways with the new ways of being a school librarian. Add your ideas to the comments section below.
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The method one proposes for carrying out the struggle against the present order reflects the sort of existence one desires. The anarchist project has its origin in the desire of individuals to create their lives for themselves, on the basis of their own passions, inclinations and capacities. This aspiration becomes insurrectional when it confronts the institutions that presently define social relationships and determine the conditions of existence and the individual recognizes the necessity of destroying these institutions in order to realize this desire.
The dream of unfettered, self-determined life is the positive impulse that moves us to rebel. But it is not a blueprint for a new social order. It does not provide the answers in advance, but rather raises questions and draws us into the unknown. It presents us with the task of destroying our prison so that we can discover what lies beyond its walls.
Some anarchists find such a dream inadequate. They desire certainties, clear visions and answers. They come up with plans, schemes, programs and blueprints of the new society—usually based on models from some real or imagined past. But perhaps the proposal that I find the strangest is the one that calls us to start creating counter-institutions now to replace the institutions of domination.
The contention behind this proposal is that the institutions through which domination is maintained also serve essential functions for the maintenance of social life. Since the mechanisms of social life must not be interrupted, it is necessary to put new “non-hierarchical, non-authoritarian” institutions in place to take over these functions. Should we fail to do so, we would be leaving the field open for new form of domination to arise, one that may be even worse than the present form. This is what we are told.
And the questions are raised: “With what shall we replace the state?” “With what shall we replace capitalism?” It amazes me when anarchists ask such questions with a straight face. Does one replace the hated chains which held one captive? Does one rebuild the burnt-down prison from which one has escaped? But the proponents of counter-institutions have more foresight than this. They would have us forge the new chains and build the new prisons now in order to avoid the encounter with the unknown, with a wild world that may make our lives unpredictable. At least this new prison would be self-managed.
The actual counter-institutions that have been created are rarely anything more than alternative businesses, charities, NGO’s and the like. They offer no challenge to the present social order, but integrate quite well into its framework becoming dependent upon it. Certainly, anarchist bookshops, infoshops and publishers can be useful tools, but they are hardly models for a world in which every individual is free to determine her life as she sees fit with full access to all he needs to do so since they have little choice but to comply with the requirements of the economy. Undoubtedly, these counter-institutions would fall with the collapse of the social order upon which they depend.
From an anarchist perspective, perhaps the most absurd of the counter-institutional proposals is one that originates in libertarian municipalism, the proposal for the creation of institutions for directly democratic decision-making. (I will not go into the critique of democracy here, having done so several times in the past.) It seems to me that the institutionalization of decision-making is the basic description of socio-political authority. The power of decision is taken from the individual and placed into the hands of the institution representing society. This institution then decides for the individual, requiring that the individual abide by that decision. A structure of this sort is already an authority, a government. When it encounters self-willed individuals who refuse to abide by its decisions, would it refrain from creating further institutions to enforce its decisions—institutions which would constitute a state? In any case, there is nothing anarchist about this proposal; it is inherently authoritarian.
While in practice the conception of counter-institutions has only succeeded in producing mirror images of mainstream institutions, its theoretical foundation is a fallacy. The assumption that the institutions of domination serve any necessary social function that must be continued when they are destroyed is groundless as the inability of the proponents of counter-institutions to describe these functions shows. The fundamental function of every institution—what makes it an institution rather than a project, an activity, a free relationship—is the alienation of the creative energy of individuals and their capacity to grasp the conditions of their existence in order to take control of them and channel them into the reproduction of the social order and so of domination and exploitation. It has been said many times, but I will say it again: it is our activity that creates the conditions of our existence. Institutions simply take control of this activity to guarantee the continuation of that which is.
The idea that counter-institutions would function in a significantly different way is an illusion already exposed by the proponents of this method themselves when they tell us that the mechanisms of social life must not be interrupted. The very existence of a social life that can be considered as mechanistic originates in the alienation of our creative energy and our capacities. If each of us is to become the creator of his own existence in association with whom she chooses, then social life must cease to be a mechanism into which we are fitted like gears or cogs. It is necessary that we reappropriate our creative energy and the conditions of our existence so that we can carry out essential social functions in terms of our desires not in terms of social reproduction—society is only useful as a tool for the full realization of our lives. In itself, it has no value.
In this light, it should be clear that the revolution toward which we anarchists make our efforts would be far more than a mere interruption of the mechanisms of social life. It would aim to destroy these mechanisms in order to free social life from a mechanistic, instrumentalist framework, to transform it into a tool for individual realization. Such a project not only has no need for institutions; it is by its nature anti-institutional. It requires a fluidity that corresponds to our passions and desires, to our individuality. There could not be a blueprint for such a world; there couldn’t even be an outline. Any institution would be its enemy, the potential framework in which a new authority could arise.
So the argument for counter-institutions has gotten it backwards. Certainly, a disruption of the social order that opens every possibility is a gamble. No one would claim otherwise. Among the possibilities opened by an insurrectionary break is that of the return of domination. But providing such a potential power with the tools it would need to establish itself, institutional structures for defining and controlling social relationships, would only make their task easier. Institutions do not prevent domination; indomitable individuals do.
So the question is not that of what structures to create to replace those we destroy, but of how to go about destroying the present social order in such a way that we transform ourselves into indomitable individuals capable of creating and transforming fluid relationships reflective of our dreams and aspirations.
We all have a great capacity for self-organization. It is expressed every day as we go about our life, though in a form that is constrained to follow the limiting channels of the institutions that surround us. Proposals for counter-institutions and blueprints defining the new society in advance are simply more constraining channels, games of politicians looking for adherents to their cause. Such programs could only produce a society as alienated as the present one where the lives of individuals have already been defined for them before they even start living. Thus, in these kinds of proposals, the world that I see as the motivating force of anarchist struggle, the world in which every individual can create her life as he sees fit, has already been suppresses and the framework for new forms of domination set in place.
If, rather than starting from our fear of social rupture, our fear of upheaval, our fear of the unknown, we start from our dreams and aspirations and our capacity for self-organization, the need for programs, institutions and blueprints disappear. It becomes clear that what is necessary is revolt, insurrection, the destruction of the institutions that dominate our lives, or to put it more clearly, self-organized attacks against the institutions of domination. Rather than become politicians proposing programs and institutional frameworks into which to channel the struggle and seeking adherents to our programs, it makes much more sense for us to be comrades in struggle practicing and proposing methods of struggle free of formalization and institutionalization that encourage self-organization and self-activity in revolt. Only such self-organized revolt could ever create the indomitable individuals who would stop the rise of a new dominating power at its conception. Only in such a practice do we begin to see the glimmer of the new world we seek. Nothing is guaranteed by this, but if we hedge our bets in order to guarantee everything in advance, we have already lost.
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Sara Rockwell PhD, FASTRO
Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and of Pharmacology; Associate Dean for Scientific Affairs
Departments & OrganizationsBiomedical Ethics
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
Radiobiology & Radiotherapy Research
Therapeutic Radiology: Radiobiology
Radiobiology and Radiotherapy
BiographySara Rockwell received her B.S. in Physics in from Penn State in 1965 and her Ph.D. in Biophysics from Stanford in 1971. She received postdoctoral training as a Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University and as an Attache de Recherche at the Institut Gustave Roussy in Villejuif, France. In 1974 she joined the faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine and is now Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and Pharmacology. Professor Rockwell teaches radiation biology, pharmacology, cancer biology, ethics, and career development skills in several Yale courses and lecture series. Her laboratory research focuses on studying the unphysiological microenvironments of cells within solid tumors, with the goal of improving the treatment of cancer. She was among the first researchers to study the effects of hypoxia on the response of malignant cells in culture and solid tumors in vivo to radiation, anticancer drugs, and combined modality therapy and among the first to consider the implications of the hypoxia found in microscopic tumors for the development and evolution of solid malignancies. The results of this research have been published in over 200 scientific publications and presented in over 250 papers at national and international scientific meetings. Professor Rockwell has received numerous awards for her educational and research activities, including election to membership in the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering and selection as a Fellow of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).
Professor Rockwell has served on advisory panels for the NIH, DOD, NASA, OSTP and other governmental agencies, the American Cancer Society, other voluntary health organizations, and several universities. She served a two-year term as chair of the NCI Initial Review Group for Clinical Research Studies. She is an active member of several professional societies and has served on the editorial boards of five scientific journals. She currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Radiation Research, the official journal of the Radiation Research Society and the preeminent multidisciplinary journal in the radiation sciences.
Dr. Rockwell also serves as the Associate Dean for Scientific Affairs for the Yale School of Medicine. She directs the Evaluation Program for the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (Yale’s CTSA), serves on the executive committee of the YCCI, and represents the YCCI on several committees of the national CTSA network. She is also the Medical School’s representative to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Research and Development. In addition, she serves as Yale University’s designated Faculty Representative to the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) and recently completed a term as the chair of the FDP faculty committee and vice chair of the FDP.
- B.S., Penn State University , 1961-1965
- Ph.D., Stanford University , 1971
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A History of the Barn Inn at Lake Rabun
In 1920 Samuel Candler Dobbs purchased approximately 114 acres along Lake Rabun. Mr. Dobbs built a magnificent riverstone lakeside home, a guest cottage and at the top of the hill, a riverstone and timber horse stable with concrete floors and numerous windows. Mr. Dobbs held the property until his death.
In September 1952, the Dobbs' estate was sold to Mrs. Frances Malone.
Mrs. Malone sold the property in 1954 to Dr's. S.R. and Mahdah Love. After Dr. S.R. Love's death, Mahdah Love used the barn for lodging spiritual retreats that she held from 1957 to 1984. She sold the barn and adjacent property to Weyman and Theda Evans in March 1984.
The Evans were the first owners to renovate the barn and stalls into a livable inn. From 1984 until 1989 the Evans ran "The Old Barn Inn - Adult Lodging", as a bed and breakfast.
In April 1989, the Evans sold the Barn Inn to a group of individuals (Mr. & Mrs. Petersen, Mr. & Mrs. Vantosh and Mr. & Mrs. Bruno) who ran the Barn as the "Barn Inn - A Lodge on Lake Rabun". The group was the first to use the rooster logo.
The property was sold to Danny and Susan Lee in June 1995. They ran "The Barn Inn - Bed and Breakfast" until 1998. They continued using the rooster logo.
In June of 1998, the Lee's sold the Barn Inn to Randall Corbin and Dr. Charles Bryson. They renovated the rooms and designed the commercial kitchen. Heart pine floors were laid in the kitchen, dining room and hall. The barn was used as a private residence until 2005.
Mr. Corbin sold the inn in December 2005 to the current owners and innkeepers Jan S. Timms and Nancy A. Gribble, who continued the renovation and opened The Barn Inn at Lake Rabun, in April 2006.
As you will see the rock and timber inn is truly a unique structure. The atmosphere of the inn is spacious, well appointed, quiet and very much livable for guests and innkeepers. In keeping with past logos, The Barn Inn has its own rooster logo.
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|History of animation|
|Types of animation|
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|Animations that we made|
This is a flipbook that we created. One of the earliest animations is a flipbook! We recorded the flipbook with a Flip video camera.
We programmed this bouncy ball on Scratch. Scratch is available from MIT to learn basic programming skills. It's a lot of fun to learn. We've made many other thing on Scratch, but we chose this one because we wanted to show the same type of bouncing ball in different ways.
This is a bouncing ball that we made in the program Flash. It shows a ball bouncing off the wall. Animation on the computer is faster then making flipbooks, but every animation is fun to create and watch because its fun to create your own creations and you can express yourself in many different ways!
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DIY: Build a Bluebird Box
With a few tools and materials, you can make a home for bluebirds in your backyard.
Warren H. Lauder, who spent 38 years analyzing bluebird boxes, created the design for this bluebird box.
Tape measure or ruler
Chisel or knife
You can use any type of wood, but it should be 3/4-inch thick and unpainted/unfinished. White pine is a good choice because it is easy to obtain. Do not use particleboard or plywood.
One 11-inch piece of 1x12-inch wood (for the roof)
One 23-inch piece of 1x8-inch wood, trimmed to 61/2 inches (for the sides)
One 32-inch piece of 1x6-inch wood, trimmed to 5 inches (for the front and back) Carpenter’s glue
16 seven-penny (7d) galvanized box nails or 2-inch deck screws
1 brass 11/4-inch wood screw or 2-inch deck screw
Small tube of caulking compound
1 asphalt roof shingle
8 3/4-inch roofing nails
Instructions for assembling the box
Cut the top piece of the nest box, 11 1/4" x 11".
Cut the two side pieces. They should be 6 1/2" across; the rear edge should be 12 1/4" top to bottom, and the front edge, 10 3/4". Drill 5/8" vent holes 1" down from the top and 2" in from each side. Toward the top of the front edge, and 3/8" in, drill a 1/8" hole for a nail or a screw.
Cut the front of the box, 5" wide and 10 3/4" long, with an entrance hole (a 1 1/2" hole for eastern bluebirds or western bluebirds, and 1 9/16" hole where ranges for the two overlap with mountain bluebirds) whose center is 2" from the top and 2 1/2" from each side. Using the chisel, cut deep crisscross scratches on the inside of the front panel. These will allow young birds to climb to the entrance hole and emerge.
Cut the bottom, 5" square, with a 3/8" vent hole at its center. Cut each corner at a 45 degree angle, 3/4" in (to form an octagon).
Cut the back, 5" across and 15" long.
Glue and nail the side pieces to the back. The sides should be nailed flush, and the top of each side should align with the top of the back. The roofline should slope toward the front of the birdhouse.
Glue and nail on the bottom of the birdhouse, recessing it 1/2" from the bottom of the side pieces.
Attach the front of the birdhouse with two nails, through the 1/8" holes drilled earlier, near the top of the side pieces. (This will allow the front to swing open for cleaning.) Put the brass screw into the bottom to secure the front. Leave a gap of 1/2" at the top of the front for ventilation.
Glue and nail the roof on, leaving a 2 3/8" overhang to the sides and a 3 3/4" overhang on the front. Seal the crack at the top rear of the birdhouse with caulking compound to keep the rain out.
Cover the roof with the asphalt shingle, using 3/4" roofing nails; the shingle should extend 1/4 " over each side.
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Storycrafting on Raiders of the Lost Ark
by Jason on 03/12/2009
I just stumbled across a jewel of a web page that looks at the story crafting process that went into the blockbuster film Raiders of the Lost Ark, and gives ten great take-away lessons for your own storycrafting.
While this article looks at screenplay development, rather than novel crafting, the lessons are inherently the same: figure out who your protagonist is, figure out how to build tension, and the like. I particularly liked the insight that in many instances the plot of Indy was created backwards, from desired outcomes to the necessary setup that makes them believable.
Anyway, give it a read. It's good stuff.Company Blog
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Necessity is the mother of invention. The demand for reliable and flexible prescription dispensing services has brought about many improvements in the area of pharmacy automation, as the pressure on community pharmacy to stay competitive remains intense. In response, manufacturers have introduced a series of affordable, scaleddown automated technologies.
Robotic prescription dispensing systems are breathing new life into an industry where time is a luxury and space is at a premium. Kelly and Nancy Selby were overwhelmed by the workload at their community pharmacy in Denton, Tex. "We kept hiring more and more people, but the workflow became more confusing, and we started misplacing scripts,"they said. "We wanted a more professional work environment and a better place for our customers to come for their prescriptions."
Their SP 200 from ScriptPro now fills nearly 50% of their prescriptions, and stress levels in their pharmacy have dropped. "We actually have fewer employees now, but we handle more prescriptions."
Automation Is Key to Saving Time
The Selbys proactively market their compounding services to physicians. "This is time-consuming,"they said, "but key to developing our business. With ScriptPro handling the bulk of our workload, we have time for marketing and the compounding it brings in."
Automated dispensing robots take up roughly the same area as a shelving unit and work well in environments where space is used to capacity. Lack of space was the problem faced by Peter Koo's New York City pharmacy, Starside Drugs, where traffic was high and room for expansion was limited. "My goal in looking for automation was to manage the growing script volume without adding employees," said Koo.
Stress levels and patient care also were key considerations. "A hectic environment is hard on the staff and not conducive to customer service,"he said. "With the robot filling prescriptions, my staff spends less time counting, more time on customer and patient service."
Community pharmacy is not the only area to have benefited from the introduction of automation. At the University of Texas Cancer Outpatient Clinic, the prescription volume was growing by 10% each year, while counter space for the expansion of services remained unchanged.
Manager Lucy Moyer wanted to give her pharmacists more time to spend on the preparation of investigational, injectable, narcotic, and chemotherapy drug prescriptions. "We needed a faster, more efficient method to fill our ‘easier'or less challenging prescriptions," she said.
In fields such as cancer care, the need for counseling is especially important. Patients will tap into the pharmacist's knowledge as an additional resource for information. In addition, patients often need a greater level of compassion and understanding. All this requires time. "We wanted to provide excellent customer service by reducing wait time but still dedicate one pharmacist to patient counseling and serving our patients'needs at the pharmacy window,"explained Moyer.
She felt the benefits of the SP 200 robot immediately: "Our pharmacists have more time to spend on complicated prescriptions, on reviewing patient profiles, and on patient counseling," she said.
Automation Enhances Safety
Automation is about more than saving time and optimizing space. The safety enhancement features add to its attraction. When coupled with signature capture technology, automation enables pharmacists to keep a closer track of orders, avoiding duplication and increasing distribution safety standards.
In Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Wash, an outpatient pharmacy owned by King County and managed by the University of Washington, medication safety played a crucial role in the decision to introduce automation. Supervisor Cyndy Clegg explained: "Our mission population, which includes the homeless, non-English speaking poor, substance abusers, and mentally ill patients, can present unique challenges."
The risk of dispensing a prescription more than once was high in this pressured environment. "We spent tremendous amounts of time looking through prescription signature logs to make sure a prescription had not already been dispensed to a patient,"she said. "With SP Central's electronic signature capture, we can see immediately who picked up an order."
Safety issues, coupled with a lack of space, made Clegg's decision to automate with ScriptPro an easy one. "The prescription growth rate in the ambulatory pharmacy is 5% to 10% per year, and our physical space is limited. The ScriptPro system provides maximum productivity in a restricted space."
Safety also played a key role in Koo's decision to introduce automation at his New York City pharmacy. The safety features of the SP 200 and SP Central Workflow have given him greater peace of mind. "We leave at the end of the day with confidence that we have dispensed accurately,"he said. "With a staff that's not so tired, we have less chance for human error, too."
The Selbys agreed: "Our accuracy has increased dramatically because of the built-in SP 200 safety checks."
Robotic prescription dispensing systems can be pushed harder than people. "We can process 150 prescriptions in an hour,"said Moyer. Clegg often runs her SP 200 24 hours a day, freeing her staff from the mundane tasks of counting and filling.
In other industries, automation has resulted in job losses, as machines perform with more efficiency and at less expense than their human counterparts. Yet, in a profession gripped by a shortage of qualified personnel, automation looks as if it could be a saving grace.
In pharmacy, automation has not involved replacing people. Instead it has enabled the profession to breathe and regroup.
The issue seems to always relate to time. In the Selbys'case, they have the time to market their business, differentiating themselves from their competition. As for Koo, he has been freeing up his staff to spend more time on patient care, and the staff at Harborview can dispense without having to spend time looking back through signature logs.
Moyer sums it up perfectly. "Now we are able to use our people for professional tasks and use our robots for technical tasks."
Ms. Jerram is a freelance writer based in London, England.
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This was rendered unnecessary, however, by the gentleman himself. He called from the comfortable sitting-room to Verty, and the visitor entered.
CONTAINS AN EXTRAORDINARY DISCLOSURE.
Roundjacket was clad in a handsome dressing-gown, and was heading, or essaying to read—for he had the rheumatism in his right shoulder—a roll of manuscript. Beside him lay a ruler, which he grasped, and made a movement of hospitable reception with, as Verty came in.
“Welcome, welcome, my young friend,” said Roundjacket; “you see me laid up, sir”
“You’re not much sick, I hope, sir?” said Verty, taking the arm-chair, which his host indicated.
“I am, sir—you are mistaken.”
“I am very sorry.”
“I thank you for your sympathy,” said Roundjacket, running his fingers through his straight hair; “I think, sir I mentioned, the other day, that I expected to be laid up.”
“On the occasion, sir—”
“Oh, the paper!” said Verty, smiling; “you don’t mean—”
“I mean everything,” said Roundjacket; “I predicted, on that occasion, that I expected to be laid up, and I am, sir.”
This was adroit in Roundjacket. It was one of those skillful equivocations, by means of which a man saves his character for consistency and judgment, without forfeiting his character for truth.
“Well, it was very bad,” said Verty.
“Bad is not the word—abominable is the word—disgraceful is the word!” cried Roundjacket, flourishing his ruler, and suddenly dropping it as a twinge shot through his shoulder.
“Yes,” assented Verty; “but talking about it will make you worse, sir. Mr. Rushton asked me to come and see how you were this morning.”
“Rushton is thanked,” said Mr. Roundjacket,—“Rushton, my young friend, has his good points—so have I, sir. I nursed him through a seven month’s fever—a perfect bear, sir; but he always is that. Tell him that my arm—that I am nearly well, sir, and that nothing but my incapacity to write, from—from—the state of my—feelings,” proceeded Roundjacket, “should keep me at home. Observe, my young sir, that this is no apology. Rushton and myself understand each other. If I wish to go, I go—or stay away, I stay away. But I like the old trap, sir, from habit, and rather like the bear himself, upon the whole.”
With this Mr. Roundjacket attempted to flourish his ruler, from habit, and groaned.
“What’s the matter, sir?” said Verty.
“I felt badly at the moment,” said Roundjacket; “the fact is, I always do feel badly when I’m confined thus. I have been trying to wile away the time with the manuscript of my poem, sir—but it won’t do. An author, sir—mark me—never takes any pleasure in reading his own writings.”
“Ah?” said Verty.
“No, sir; the only proper course for authors is to marry.”
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By Ryvka Barnard
This article was originally posted on Jadaliyya, and is re-posted on arenaofspeculation.org with permission from the author.
Over one weekend, two seemingly incongruous sets of images dominated the news from Palestine: one set displayed local tourism operators and Palestinian Authority (PA) officials in Bethlehem celebrating the designation of the Nativity Church as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The other set of images, coming from Ramallah, showed PA police and thugs beating protestors, who had taken to the streets in anger over a scheduled (but later cancelled) Ramallah meeting between Israel’s Vice Premier Shaul Mofaz and PA President Mahmoud Abbas. The two sets of images together depict the sad and poignant reality of the occupation and the PA statehood bid. That reality is of an unelected and unrepresentative leadership, which is more committed to staging spectacles for the Israelis and Americans than resisting the occupation.
A few weeks ago, the Palestinian representative to United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) submitted a file for the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem to be added to the list of “World Heritage Sites in Danger,” and to the consternation of Israel and the United States, it was accepted. In October 2011, Palestine’s admission to UNESCO as a full member took place in the context of the controversial statehood bid, prompting the United States to withdraw funding from the organization. The Church of the Nativity’s addition to the list is the first result of the Palestinian admission to UNESCO. It was hailed by the PA and many supporters of Palestinian rights as a great victory, and even, according to Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, “a triumph of justice.” Israeli and American officials frowned and expressed disapproval, adding fuel to the notion that this move was somehow deeply controversial and even an act of resistance. If only that had been the case.
Last fall, critics of the statehood bid warned that it was a PA move to retain power, to further disenfranchise Palestinians not under PA jurisdiction, and to create an international spectacle of the PA as a resistance force. Some astutely observed that the statehood bid could be redeemable if it resulted in using increased status in international forums to challenge Israel’s violations of international law. Unfortunately, the choice of the Church of the Nativity as the first site to recognize is nothing but a restatement of the status quo of occupation, and will likely be meaningless, if not destructive, to Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
The Church of the Nativity sits squarely in Area A, one of the small parts of the West Bank that is under full PA control (that is, control under occupation). It is visited by millions of foreign tourists every year, the great majority of whom are bussed in from their hotels in Jerusalem, past the apartheid wall, past the refugee camps, past the recently destroyed homes and businesses. The tourists are shuttled to an alternate reality in Manger Square, where they can see the ancient birthplace of Jesus without having to acknowledge that it is situated in a city, a city with people in it, people who are struggling under an ever-tightening occupation. Most tour operators carefully avoid any talk of politics or anything contemporary, not wanting to scare away these apparently delicate tourists.
Palestinian tourism operators all agree that at the end of the day, under the current conditions, the Church of the Nativity is a loss for Palestinian tourism. The tourism industry has a major leakage problem. This is not in reference to the leaky roof of the Church (a problem UNESCO will perhaps solve), but rather the fact that the tourism industry does not generate real income, and certainly not from visitors to the church. The money lost is money gained by the Israeli tourism industry. It is Israeli tour operators that meet groups in the airport while Palestinian tour operators wait for them behind the apartheid wall, hoping, usually to no avail, that they might spend more than an hour in the West Bank, and at least a few shekels, before leaving Bethlehem in a cloud of dust from their charter buses.
Of course, Palestinian tour operators that get any business related to the Church of the Nativity are the luckiest of the lot, particularly in comparison with tourism operations in the more rural parts of the West Bank, outside of the PA controlled enclaves. Area C, which is more than sixty percent of the West Bank, is under full Israeli control, meaning that Palestinians have extremely limited access and no decision making over zoning in those areas. They cannot build or even renovate without an almost impossible to obtain permit from the Israelis, whether it is for a person to dig a well on her own personal property, or to renovate a historic site which could be used for tourism development. Because of the PA’s limited control in Area C, some sites, such as the historic ruins in Sebastiya, have sought international sponsorship in renovations, to at least make their projects a bit more visible lest they be quietly swallowed by Israeli expansion.
One fantastic tourism venture underway in the Bethlehem municipal area is in the village of Battir, which straddles the green line in the Jerusalem hills. Battir and its neighboring village of al Walaja are home to a vast spread of two-thousand-year-old Roman agricultural terraces, which include an intricate system of stone-lined channels that bring water from the village springs to cultivated plateaus. The beautiful landscape, which is not only the heritage but also the livelihood of these villages, is scheduled to be cut off from the villagers by the impending construction of the apartheid wall. The landscape would then be included into a “Green Park” fashioned by the Jewish National Fund, which has already begun to boast of how the landscape tells the story of agriculture and settlement in “the Land of Israel.” Both villages have been mobilizing tirelessly to halt the construction of the wall. In fact, Battir has already prepared a file on these landscapes in accordance with UNESCO standards, and won a UNESCO award for their conservation activities and promotion of preserving the ancient agricultural practices.
Battir, most of which is Area C, would have been an obvious choice for a site in imminent danger, and had the PA chosen to submit its file, as many believed that they would, it would have presented a case much more compelling. The imminent danger in Battir, and in other Area C projects which could have been prioritized, stems from the direct threat of the wall’s construction and its annexation of land. Prioritizing such sites would be a direct challenge to Israel’s expansionist policies. Such a move would have forced attention to the occupation’s ongoing destruction and its appropriation of Palestinian heritage and livelihood into Israel’s “green” spaces and municipal boundaries. It would have challenged Israel’s redrawing of borders, a process that attenuates Palestinian land on a minute-by-minute basis in Area C.
Under these conditions, one would have hoped and expected that sites in Area C would garner priority in the UNESCO recognition process. But predictably the PA chose the uncontroversial Church of the Nativity; predictably, Israel and the United States expressed disapproval; predictably, the PA scripted its deeply uncourageous choice as some sort of bold and defiant move.
I am not suggesting that the occupation could be ended with a simple formula of choosing one site over another for the top of a UNESCO list of heritage sites in danger. Nobody has any illusions about the limited role of the UNESCO membership in the broader scope of Palestinian politics. But this is precisely the point: that PA decisions and statements about culture and heritage cannot be understood without the political context in which they are made. This political context is a regime that will not directly challenge Israel, and believes that it should keep law, order, and security to continuously indicate that it is ready and capable for statehood. But “security” under occupation is in reality maintaining Israel’s security by force and eliminating any threat to the status quo through political repression. PA repression is not an occasional occurrence; it is a regular feature of the current regime’s efforts to maintain and build power in the small enclaves of the West Bank that Israel and the US have designated as expendable to Israel’s expansion. It can be seen through the control of the population using the US-trained PA security forces (Dayton’s men); through the neo-liberal policies of Salaam Fayyad, which attempt to disable collective resistance by drowning West Bank Palestinians with individualized debt. And it can be seen in every aspect of state planning and development: tourism and the heritage industry is no exception.
In the following days, while celebrations took place in the Manger Square bubble, PA thugs beat and arrested Palestinians in a show of force that demonstrated to Israel their willingness to act as bodyguards for the apartheid minister Mofaz. These scenes are tied together by the PA’s statehood bid. It is unclear what will be more deafening: the noise of the wall’s construction as it seals in al Walaja and Battir, or the racket of Abbas, Fayyad, and their cronies as they celebrate their triumph of justice at the UNESCO restored church. Maybe they will invite Mofaz as a guest of honor.
Ryvka Barnard is a PhD student in Middle Eastern Studies at New York University. Her research is focused on tourism in Palestine.
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Thank you very much, Mr. President, and thank you, Executive Director Veneman.
I am pleased to have this opportunity to be here today. Might I begin on a personal note – like many Americans, I first heard of the United Nations as a child, when I was about the same age as my 6-year-old daughter Maris. My first images of the UN were not the blue helmets of its peacekeepers but the orange and black of the UNICEF boxes I carried door to door each Halloween. So UNICEF has always symbolized for me our shared responsibilities to one another as human beings and our collective obligation to forge a more secure, just, and prosperous world for future generations. As some of you may also know, I continue to have a very personal connection to UNICEF, having served for seven years, until last year, on the Board of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.
So, I am pleased that my country, the United States, cherishes our strong relationship with UNICEF, and we are very proud of what you have achieved for children around the world. UNICEF is a crucial partner, and we very much look forward to strengthening this relationship in the years to come. To that end, the United States is proud to be UNICEF’s largest single donor. We are committed to continuing to work with the U.S. Congress to maintain that steadfast financial commitment to UNICEF, and with the American public in support of private contributions.
And the reasons why are clear and compelling. The Executive Director’s Annual Report provides a snapshot of UNICEF’s life-changing programs to improve children’s health and well-being in more than 150 countries, with support from its many government, agency, foundation, and corporate partners. Let me highlight some particularly striking efforts.
One truly extraordinary success story relates to measles, where a partnership among UNICEF, the WHO, the UN Foundation, and the American Red Cross has slashed global deaths from this disease by a stunning 74 percent in just seven years. UNICEF and others have also leveraged more than $2 billion in additional funds to combat malaria. These resources will bring us closer to the goal of global coverage with insecticide-treated bed-nets in developing countries. Concerned member states and partners must now ensure the thorough, professional, and worldwide implementation of the Roll Back Malaria strategy.
UNICEF is also the global leader in vaccine supply. It has protected more than half of the world’s children from deadly diseases. And last week, President Obama announced a new global effort, along with the Organization of the Islamic Conference, to eradicate polio. We still face outbreaks of wild polio virus, and we will continue to partner with UNICEF and others to combat this disease.
UNICEF is also one of our key partners in moving to fulfill the Millennium Development Goals. President Obama has said that the Millennium Development Goals are now America’s goals. We are grateful for UNICEF’s role in programs worldwide, executed through its Medium Term Strategic Plan, that help produce measurable progress toward reaching these lifesaving goals, which are the crucial barometer of our collective efforts.
Similarly, we welcome UNICEF’s increased focus on maternal and newborn health. Healthy mothers are a lifeline for their children and a precious resource for their communities. The best research has shown us some of the essential elements needed to reduce maternal mortality: skilled birth attendants, affordable emergency obstetric care when needed, family planning assistance where desired. The Global Health Initiative that President Obama announced on May 5 will provide new support for efforts to save the lives of infants and their mothers.
We also very much appreciate UNICEF’s work toward the Millennium Development Goals related to primary education and gender equality. UNICEF’s efforts to expand education for girls will help ensure that our daughters enjoy the same opportunities as our sons. We strongly support UNICEF’s emphasis on getting children into school and keeping them there, regardless of religion, ethnicity, race, class, or caste. UNICEF also plays an invaluable role in promoting access to education even in the midst of crisis and conflict, thus reducing the harm that violence inflicts on children and their schooling.
But there is much more to do. Millions of children still suffer from violence, exploitation, and abuse, including child labor, forced military recruitment, and sex-trafficking. UNICEF is doing essential work with governments to strengthen the laws and institutions that protect vulnerable children. And, we applaud UNICEF’s support for establishing specialized children’s courts and police units by helping train judiciary and police services, and we commend the accomplishments of UNICEF’s Child Protection Section. The United States, for its part, is currently reviewing the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and we remain committed to working with the international community to promote many of the principles embodied in it.
Finally, Mr. President, we welcome the efforts by the Executive Director and member states to make UNICEF more transparent and accountable. We believe that a better-run and more cost-effective United Nations is in our shared interest. The adoption of the UNICEF accountability system will be a convincing step toward that goal, and we thank the partners and members states that are helping to make it possible.
As the global economic slowdown threatens public and private contributions alike, we must redouble our efforts to ensure that UNICEF’s vital work continues. Failing to do so would jeopardize the lives and wellbeing of millions of children, those already at greatest risk. So the United States remains deeply committed to UNICEF—and profoundly grateful for its efforts to improve the lives of children everywhere. Working together, with good will, intensity, and great energy, we can build upon the extraordinary progress we have already made for the world’s children. We look forward to continuing our important work together. We can do more. We will do more. And the United States is ready to do its part.
This site is managed by U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York City and the Bureau of Public Affairs in Washington, DC. External links to other Internet sites should not be construed as an endorsement of the views or privacy policies contained therein.
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But groups opposed to the state's policies think the time has come to rethink how affirmative action will be applied in the future, if at all.
"Using race in admissions decisions, to achieve diversity, amounts to stereotyping people by their race," said Joshua Thompson of the conservative Pacific Legal Foundation, which filed a legal brief in support of Fisher. "Racial diversity in a student body does not guarantee a diversity of experience and perspectives. It is unrealistic and wrong to try to pigeonhole people by their race."
A larger social debate is whether race-conscious policies serve their ultimate purpose -- to help minority students achieve success, especially in high-profile professional positions.
"What we're seeing now is affirmative action is backfiring quite badly," said Gail Heriot, a law professor at the University of San Diego and a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She and two fellow commission members filed a brief, citing recent studies that race preferences are doing more harm than good, and suggesting there are fewer African-American professionals than would have been with race-neutral methods.
"The problem is what is called mismatch," said Heriot. "As a result of affirmative action, black students in particular, Hispanic students as well, are likely to go to a school where their entering credentials put them towards the bottom of the entering class," at top schools like Harvard or Texas. Their lower grades as a result, said Heriot, mean those students are much more likely to give up on the ambition to major in science, or go into medicine or the law.
"It's heartbreaking," she said. "If only the students would go to the school where their entering credentials are pretty much in the middle or towards the top of that particular college."
Many social scientists and civil groups, including the NAACP, reject that analysis.
"I think those studies and arguments don't really jive with the real world," said Adegbile. "The admissions officers are best situated to make the determination and some of the tradeoffs, to have a mix of students that can accomplish all of the things that college and universities are engines to do."
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Set in 1898, this movie is based on the true story of two lions in Africa that killed 130 people over a nine month period, while a bridge engineer and an experienced old hunter tried to ... See full summary »
An eccentric and dogmatic inventor sells his house and takes his family to Central America to build an ice factory in the middle of the jungle. Conflicts with his family, a local preacher ... See full summary »
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition ... See full summary »
Bill and Jo Harding, advanced storm chasers on the brink of divorce, must join together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes.
Set in 1898, this movie is based on the true story of two lions in Africa that killed 130 people over a nine month period, while a bridge engineer and an experienced old hunter tried to kill them. Written by
Adil Siddiqi <firstname.lastname@example.org>
After the lions were killed, their skins were used as rugs by Col. Patterson. They were later sold to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, who had them stuffed and placed on display. Because they were originally used as rugs with resulting deterioration of the hides, the lions are much smaller than they originally were. See more »
When Robert Beaumont asks Col. Patterson to build the bridge, the world map behind him shows countries like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and various African countries which were obviously not separate countries in 1896. See more »
This is the most famous and true African adventure.
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The beginning of the end credits is shown with a photograph of the real bridge as background. See more »
A success in originality, story telling, and terror.
The Ghost and the Darkness is an excellent film. It has the ingredients of a landmark movie. The story is based on fact. There was a bridge being built in Tsavo in 1898. There were two man-eating lions there who killed 130 people for no reason. And I believe there was something more behind the intentions of these lions. Evil can and does exist anywhere. Undoubtedly in humans, and, probably more than we'll ever know, in animals. The Ghost and the Darkness is a reminder how vulnerable we are to nature's fury, and that we should never under-estimate the potential of any animal.
In closing, I'll say that this movie is perfectly directed, superbly scored, and beautifully filmed, and to the adventurous and open-minded viewer, a movie with lasting satisfying and chilling effects.
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Agriculture land prices in the U.S. have increased steadily over the last decade, leading experts and landowners to question whether the high values are sustainable. The short answer from the Rabobank International Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory (FAR) group is that the land value rates are not a speculative bubble, but a decrease in land values over several years is a definite possibility.
The FAR group’s research concludes the steady increase of agricultural land values over the past five years is not linked to speculation or other factors that traditionally result lead to a bubble. However, the research does point to factors that could combine to drive a decrease in land values over the next decade. If land values do adjust down over the next three to seven years, the reduction in value will be moderate and not a crash.
The findings are based on the FAR team’s global agribusiness marketplace report, “Blowing the Farmland Bubble.” As the leading provider of financial services for the global food and agriculture industry, Rabobank created and maintains the FAR unit to conduct ongoing research and analysis on issues of importance to agriculture around the world. Rabo AgriFinance, part of Rabobank, provides this exclusive information to its client producers and agribusinesses in the U.S.
According to the report, the drivers behind the increase in the value of crop land since 2005 have been a combination of increased commodity prices, low interest rates and a limited supply of land available for sale. Over the past five years, productive agricultural land value in the U.S. has grown at an average rate of between 20 and 70 percent, with the most significant growth in areas producing intensive field crops or livestock.
Co-author Sterling Liddell, vice president at FAR, says a crash is unlikely because current trends in the U.S. are driven by fundamental economics and moving more heavily toward the long-term investor. “Drivers of bubbles tend to be buying and selling by speculators. The increasing presence of farmers on the buyer side of agricultural land combined with a tight supply of land available for sale provides significant evidence there is not currently a speculator-fueled bubble.”
Liddell notes that another year of strong margins combined with the anticipation of continued tight supplies should drive land prices higher for at least one or two more years. “On a longer term basis of three to seven years, the probability of land values adjusting negatively outweighs the possibility of a continued upward trend.”
Many factors may affect the price of land over the next decade. The largest risks include the trend toward absentee farmers as land owned by aging farmers changes hands to non-farming heirs; interest rates; global commodity supply and demand; water availability and, new environmental restrictions; reduced farm margins; biofuels policy and inflation.
Source: Rabobank International
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Ashley Farnell, The Culinary Magician
Last winter I had the pleasure of visiting the Dutch influenced Caribbean island of Aruba.
It is situated about 15 miles off the northern coast of Venezuela, but belongs to the group of islands known as “The Netherlands Antilles” which includes Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao, also known as the ABC islands.
It is a very warm climate with a temperature range from 82 - 92F all year round. The climate is very dry and with the constant trade winds that bring a nice breeze it could not be more perfect. It also lies outside the Hurricane belt and gets less than 24 inches of rain per year, so you’re pretty much guaranteed a beautiful day.
The Divi TreeIts roots are a mix of Spanish, British and more recently Dutch, to whom it still belongs (although independent it is ruled by the Dutch government). The two official languages are the Dutch language and Papiamento. Papiamento is a language that has evolved through the centuries and absorbed many words from other languages like Dutch, English, diverse African dialects, and most importantly, from Portuguese and Spanish. However, like many islands in the region, Spanish is also often spoken.
The famous emblem of Aruba is the Divi Tree, which adorns many pictures and postcards. Because of the constant trade winds blowing, the branches and leaves normally sit to one side , making for a unique tree.
Dutch influenced architecture, with an island touch in the brightly colored buildings.The Dutch influence can be seen in the buildings of the Capital city Oranjestad (orange town). They are very similar to the buildings you see in Amsterdam, tall and narrow, but here they are very brightly painted.
Aruba synagogueThere is one Synagogue in Aruba called the Beth Israel Synagogue. Jews, mostly merchants, arrived in Aruba at the beginning of the 20th century, when the oil refinery drew people from the Caribbean and Europe. The Jewish population today is small, but this synagogue endures with a membership of about 35 families. Most congregants at Friday night services are visitors, tourists on vacation. The synagogue is Conservative in style with full participation of both men and women. The small gift shop has one of a kind Aruban Judaica.
Dutch influenced architecture, with an island touch in the brightly colored buildings.The grocery stores stock many products from the United States so getting kosher food is not a problem, but there is no meat or breads visible, although there was supposedly a kosher store (Kineret Aruba Glatt Kosher Deli at the Playa Linda Beach Resort, amidst the high-rise resort hotels) but rumor has it that it as closed.
While kosher can be sparse there, we can bring a little of Aruba home. Many delicacies can be found on the island, here are a few I can find here.
Tert di Pruim (Prune Tart)
1 cup (1/2 lb) butter or margarine for parve
3/4 cup cold milk or soy milk for parve
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoon baking powder
2 cups white cornmeal flour
1 pound pitted prune
2 cups water
2 cups (1 lb) brown sugar
3 tablespoons white cornmeal flour
1/4 teaspoon of mace
1/4 teaspoon cloves powder
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon powder
Preparation of the dough:
Mix together the cornmeal flour, salt and baking powder in a bowl. Add the margarine, pour the cold milk little by little, and start kneading with your fingers. Keep on kneading until it smooths out.
Cut the dough into 2/3 for the crust and 1/3 for the top. Take the 2/3 portion and in an 8" pie form, press the dough firmly against the bottom and the sides. Keep the rest of the dough (1/3 portion) in the fridge.
After cutting the pitted prunes into small pieces, add prunes and water to a pan and slowly bring to a simmer (the prunes with start to absorb the liquid). Mix the brown sugar and the flour, and with a wooden spoon add it a little at a time into the prunes and liquid and mix in. Keep on mixing with the spoon so it does not stick to the pan, and until it solidifies. Lower the fire, add and add the spices (cloves powder, mace and cinnamon powder) to the mixture. Remove from heat and let the filling cool completely.
Add the prune filling into the pie form and spread it evenly to the top. Take the kept dough from the fridge and create long strips to cover the prune mixture with it.
Set the pie in the oven and bake at 400° for 45 or 50 minutes.
Chill. Slice and serve.
Bollo Borracho (Tipsy Rum Cake)
2 cups (1 lb) margarine
2 cups (1 lb) flour
2 cups (1 lb) sugar
1-tablespoon baking powder
1-teaspoon almond essence (artificial almond extract)
1/4 cup white rum
Whipped cream - dairy or Parve
3-cups milk or soya milk
3 packs of vanilla pudding
Prepare the pudding using the 3 cups of milk and set aside.
Mix the margarine and sugar well, add eggs and stir. Mix well. Little by little add the flour to the mix while stirring. Add the baking powder and almond essence to the mix and blend well.
Butter and line bottom of two 9" round pans.
Pour batter into pans and bake at 375 degrees F for about an 1 hour.
When the cake is ready remove it from the oven and let it cool down.
Cut the 2 cakes in half slices so that you have four round slices. Put one slice on a round form and sprinkle rum on the cake until moist then some of the set aside pudding as filling and sprinkle with the sprinkles candy on top. Cover it with another slice and repeat with the rum, filling and sprinkles. Repeat until the last layer.
Cover the cake with whip cream and decorate it with sprinkles and maraschino cherries.
WARNING: Do not, decorate with candles. Highly flammable.
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Boston's Old South Church plans to sell extremely rare copy of the Bay Psalm book, the first book printed in North America.
The Old South Church in Boston made the difficult decision to sell the first book published in North America that is still in existence.
The hymnal is so old it actually pre-dates the United States by more than a century.
Members of the old South Church in Boston said it was a difficult decision, but the right decision to sell a piece of their history so they can continue their work at their church.
The Bay Psalm book was the first book published in North America in 1640. It is worth an estimated $20 million.
The church will also sell pieces of silver that date back to the same time.
"It was a hymn book. It was an everyday book. The Congregationalists would come in and sing their praises to God. It's the psalms of David translated into English in rhyming verse," said Sr. Minister Nancy Taylor of Old South Church.
"It hasn't been used since the 1700's so it's a museum piece rather than a piece of hymnity today. And the silver we haven't used since 1939," said Taylor.
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This is one of the six Lieder and three partsongs that Schubert composed on 25 August 1815. Despite the fact that it was born part of a crowded litter, it is a jewel of repose and spacious inner celebration — it sounds as if the composer had all the time in the world. It also seems the result of cool contemplation in the mountains, rather than fevered creativity (Vienna can also be extremely hot in August) in the tiny house in the Säulengasse. Schubert uses a typical horn motif rather than the flute scales which might have been suggested by the text, but his Attic restraint in the matter of elaboration lends a statuesque and religious (in a pagan sense) quality to the music. Lilla seems as much priestess as shepherdess. The spatial sense of echo reminds one of the Mayrhofer Abschied
(D475, Volume 3) where a pilgrims' chorus resounds through the mountains. It shows that Schubert had long been fascinated by the sound of music echoing through large spaces (Benjamin Britten's church operas show a similar fascination and signalled a change in his entire creative style because of it) and suggests that a work like Der Hirt auf dem Felsen
(which was to be Schubert's definitive statement on the subject of echo) had been in his thoughts for a number of years.
from notes by Graham Johnson © 1990
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The subject article by Jessica Smith was very interesting; however, it contained a misleading statement. The statement, "This means that the Colorado Basin currently has just over half of the amount of snow it should have and just over 10 percent less than it had at the same time last year." There is no such thing as the amount of snow an area should have. An average snow amount is not what is to be expected nor what there should be in any year. It is simply an average based on historic records.
Doug Trieste, Breckenridge
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Issue Area 1: The West Virginia Geologic and Economic Survey Provides a Necessary Service for the State's Economic Development.
One of the oldest agencies in the state, the West Virginia Geologic and Economic Survey continues a necessary service in furnishing geological information upon request. The Legislative Auditor contacted 20 consumers from a list of 114 customers, and asked six questions about the information and products obtained from the Survey. One hundred percent of those contacted stated that the Survey information is timely, useful and accurate. The majority believe the prices are reasonable. The Survey was found to be a unique source of certain types of information and the staff was praised. A major concern by customers and the Legislative Auditor is the need of modernization of certain information processing sections and improved organization of information.
Records indicate that requests for geological and analytic services and publications have dropped by 819 over the past five years with a corresponding decline in sales revenue of $64,978. However, the agency does not maintain a centralized customer list. Therefore the agency may not have an accurate accounting of the requests or funds received. The lack of a centralized database does not facilitate an adequate accounting of the funds received by the agency, and it creates a risk of fraudulent activity of funds received.
Issue Area 2: A Large Amount of Out-of-State Travel Interferes with the State Geologist's Administrative Responsibilities and Travel that was for Personal Interests Should Not Have Been Paid for by the State.
Travel by the State Geologist was reviewed by the Legislative Auditor to determine compliance with travel rules. During the review of submitted travel expense forms for FY 2000 and FY 2001, it was found that the State Geologist traveled out-of-state 110 days in FY 2000, 73 of which were on weekdays representing 29% of the annual work days in the year. For FY 2001 out-of-state travel totaled 46 days. Some of this travel was to fulfill voluntary obligations as an executive officer in national geologic associations. The Legislative Auditor understands the importance of having a State Geologist who holds leadership positions in such organizations; however, such commitments resulting in being out-of-state a significant amount of time are a hindrance to effectively carrying out the agency's administrative responsibilities. During the two years reviewed, the State Geologist attended about 1/3 of the meetings of state boards, commissions and councils of which he is a member.
All of the State Geologist's travel is approved by a subordinate within the agency of which he is the Director. This is not appropriate protocol. The Bureau of Commerce, which is the oversight agency for the Geological Survey, should approve the State Geologist's travel in order to determine both the appropriateness and the amount of travel to be undertaken.
In addition, some travel should not have been paid for by the State. Several out-of-state trips were for personal endeavors of the State Geologist and had no connection to his responsibilities as the Director of the Survey. The Legislative Auditor recommends that the State Geologist pay back travel costs to the State in the amount of $2,518.44.
Issue 3: The West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey is in Violation of West Virginia Travel Rules.
In FY 2000, the agency submitted 12 travel expense account settlement forms for travel completed 1-8 years ago by the State Geologist. These vouchers totaled $7,506.94 and were paid to the State Geologist. Funds were available through a re-appropriated revolving fund, and the documentation accompanying the forms was original, but the submission of travel forms after 15 days of the completion of travel is in violation of West Virginia Purchasing Division Travel Management Unit travel rules. Because the State Geologist travels extensively, it is important that state travel rules and proper procedures are followed.
Issue 4: The State Geologist Received Incorrect and Duplicate Payments for Attending Coalbed Methane Review Board Meeting.
The State Geologist is a statutory member of the Coalbed Methane Review Board. Documentation shows that the State Geologist received duplicate payments for attending the same meeting. In addition, part of the amounts received included per diem payments. It is a violation of the Ethics Act for a state employee who is being paid through his or her salary to also receive per diem payments for attending a state agency meeting. It may have been an oversight on the part of the GES or the State Geologist in not returning the duplicate payment. It is also understandable that the Office of Oil and Gas, the GES and the State Geologist were not aware of the Ethics Commission's opinion a year and a half earlier. There is no record that either the total duplicate payment or the per diem payments were returned by the State Geologist. Records show that the State Geologist was issued checks totalling $330. Of this amount, he was only entitled to travel expenses of $45. Therefore, the Legislative Auditor recommends that the State Geologist pay to the Office of Oil and Gas the amount of $285.
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Whales were the economic drivers of the 1850s. So important was this resource that the founder of the U.S. Oceanographic Office, Matthew Fontaine Maury, created a map showing the worldwide distribution of sperm and right whales in 1851.
“Whale oil then was like petroleum is today,” says Christopher Baruth. “This is a graphic device that showed where the whales were located by type and season.”
Baruth is curator of the American Geographical Society (AGS) Library, where a copy of the whale map is one of thousands of rare cartographical materials and geographical photographs.
Quietly housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) since 1978, the AGS Library contains more than a million items, half of which are maps and charts, some dating to 15th century, and some that aren’t available anywhere else, even at the Library of Congress.
The value of the items in the AGS collections is compounded by their connection to the society. AGS is the oldest national geographical society in the United States, founded in 1851 in New York City.
Explorer-members, such as Charles Lindbergh, Robert Peary and Theodore Roosevelt, are among those who donated items associated with their exploits to the society over the years. Materials in the collection have been consulted not only by scholars, but also by the U.S. government during and at the end of both world wars. Today, it attracts scholars from as far away as Uzbekistan.
“It’s a national treasure,” says Robert McColl, professor emeritus of geography and East Asian studies at the University of Kansas, who in 2000 donated to AGSL his own geographical library, one of the best personal collections of Chinese materials in the world.
Stories of intrigue
McColl is one of the many travelers and scholars who, in addition to the famous, have helped build the collection.
“I went to China early enough that I found some items that are terribly unique, that might have disappeared otherwise,” says McColl. Through his contacts in China, he found many works and maps that might have been produced in limited quantities or pulled off the market.” He also found rare books, sometimes bound in silk, in flea markets. “People were selling them for food,” he says.
It’s like that with the contents of the AGSL, says Baruth. Each piece testifies to the adventurers, rare circumstances and history behind them – with as much intrigue as any work of fiction found in the other stacks of the UWM Libraries.
Notable contents include a wide range of materials, from black-and-white renderings done by hand to digital spatial data, from turn-of-the-century photographs of arctic exploration to charts used by Charles Lindbergh to fly from New York to Paris in 1927.
Chicago Festival of Maps
When asked to choose a “Top 10” from the collection, Baruth shakes his head slowly and replies, “That’s like asking you to rank your children.”
But three of the library’s possessions are on view (http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/AGSL/festivalmaps.html) at the Field Museum in Chicago, where the World Festival of Maps is hosting what many consider to be one of the greatest map exhibits of the century, “Maps: Finding Our Place in the World.” In addition to the whale map described above, two more AGS holdings stand alongside cartographic gems from around the world at the exhibit, which runs through Jan. 27, 2008.
One is a unique manuscript map from about 1910 of the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay. It was drawn from memory on the back of a missionary lithograph by an Inuit named Wetalltok, and given to Robert J. Flaherty, who created the film “Nanook of the North.” It is the most accurate map of the islands then extant.
The other item on loan is the Mappamundi, the oldest original map in the AGSL holdings, produced in 1452 by the Venetian cartographer Giovanni Leardo. The circular map, considered the finest example of a medieval wall map in the Western Hemisphere, shows the known world consisting of only Europe, Asia and Africa, a configuration Baruth calls a T-O map. (“Imagine a capital ‘ T’ inside a circle separating the three continents.”)
As in many medieval maps, Jerusalem is situated in the center of the Mappamundi, and the names of regions were copied from those of a second-century geographer named Claudius Ptolemy. As the Age of Discovery advanced, Ptolemy’s original work was filled in and expanded by explorers, spawning new editions called “novae tabulae.”
AGSL has many such editions of these “Ptolemys,” including a rare original from 1478 that was printed on vellum (animal skin).
In the mid-1970s the AGS could no longer afford to archive its holdings and chose UWM to house the collection after a national search. It took nearly five years to orchestrate the move and surmount the legal challenges.
And Baruth concedes that riches may still lie hidden in the holdings.
In the library’s more recent history, Baruth unearthed two prizes from the wall-length bookshelf in his own office: a first-edition copy of “Moby-Dick” by Herman Melville and a travel book given to the AGS by a young Teddy Roosevelt. Neither was found in the catalog at the time.
UWM Professor Bruce Fetter began specializing in both cartography and demography soon after UWM acquired the collection to better make use of the resource. He has been teaching a class on how to use the collection for 26 years.
“This material is essential because it affects how we see the world,” says Fetter. “It is a wonderful way of getting a picture of the past.”
AGSL at a glance:
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When she agrees to teach a highly anticipated writing class at her local community college, her students are shocked to discover her true gender, and one student soon challenges her to write something outside the formulaic safety net she has created for herself. Determined to teach her students that a combination of hard work and a good plan will allow them to write their own novels, she agrees that she will do just that and will share the process with them as part of her class.
Things are not going nearly as well for Kerrigan at home as she hopes they will go in the classroom. Her youngest child and only son, 21-year old Zack, has dropped out of college and moved back home in an attempt to beat his addiction to alcohol and drugs. Kerrigan and her husband feel helpless as each of their attempts to help Zack change his life end up as just another frustrated failure. Desperate for something that will help her cope with her son’s problems, Kerrigan decides that she will write a novella for her class that might also help her get through to her son.
She decides to make the novella an allegory set in an otherworldly little town called
Kerrigan hopes that her son will identify with William, a young man who could not say no to temptation, and that he will get a message from the book that she cannot make him understand any other way. The chapters of The Novelist alternate between Kerrigan’s home life and the fictional world of Paradise, with much of what William is going through in Paradise a reflection on what Zack and his family are going through in the real world. The question is whether Zack will follow William’s example and find a solution for his despair and poor choices.
Angela Hunt has written an interesting novel but one whose message is delivered in a heavy-handed manner that lessens its impact. Her allegory is so straightforward that it demands little of the reader because of its predictability, a failing that steals much of the book’s emotion and potential suspense as it builds to a conclusion. The Novelist, as it is set up, can have only one ending, an ending that became obvious early in the book, and Hunt offers very few surprises along the way. There was much potential in Hunt’s premise, but I do not believe that she delivered the book she wanted to deliver.
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Burten, Bell, Carr Development, Inc. and Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity are taking their partnership a little further. This time for a street clean-up on July 7, to accompany the home remodels Habitat is doing on Colfax Road. The clean-up is a great opportunity for residents to clean their yards of unwanted items and pitch in, while 100 volunteers from Safeguard Properties make minor repairs on steps and porches as well as landscaping improvements. Check out the article here, with an interview by Ms. Joy Johnson.
Archive for ‘community’
Cleveland Central Promise Neighborhood, Cleveland Public Library and Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland invite you to:
Little Free Library Installation
with Girl Scouts Junior Troop 77146 and the Friendly Inn Settlement House
Tuesday, May 14th
Friendly Inn Settlement House
2386 Unwin Rd. Cleveland, OH 44104
There will be a brief program followed by a reception.
Please RSVP with Dave Kelly at 241-9300 or email@example.com by Monday, May 13th at noon.
For more information:
More libraries coming soon to Central!
Volunteer with us Saturday, May 18 to deliver backyard gardens to 50 families in Cleveland’s Central & Kinsman neighborhoods.
- Deliver raised garden beds, vegetable seedlings, recipe and care books, and watering cans to participating families.
- Help the families set up the gardens and plant the vegetable seedlings.
- Train each household on how to maintain their new gardens.
Volunteering will take place Saturday, May 18 from 10am to 2pm, and we will meet at Bridgeport Place, 7201 Kinsman Rd.
Please bring work gloves.
Refreshments will be provided.
For more information or to RSVP, please contact Zenobia Lane at 216-341-1455, or firstname.lastname@example.org
Whether it comes from a carton, a glass jar, or a plastic jug, cow’s milk is generally what most people are used to drinking. Did you know there are different kinds of milk? So, with so many different kinds of milk in grocery stores how do we know which ones to choose?
- Soy Milk – Made from an extract of soy beans and is typically mixed with water and a natural sweetener.
- Rice Milk – Made from a mixture of partially milled rice and water.
- Organic Milk – Comes from cows that have been fed organic feed, roam freely, or graze on pesticide free grass.
- Raw Milk – Comes from cows but is not pasteurized.
Cow’s milk is generally pasteurized but some people believe that you should try raw cow’s milk to ensure you are getting as many nutrients as possible. Pasteurization is the process that kills all of the harmful bacteria in raw milk by heating it to a specific temperature for a specific amount of time. Pasteurization was developed by Louis Pasteur in 1864, as a means of killing organisms responsible for diseases like typhoid fever, tuberculosis, and diphtheria.
Cow’s milk that has been pasteurized offers 9 essential nutrients such as:
- Vitamin D
- Vitamin B12
- Vitamin A
- Riboflavin (B2)
What if you’re a vegan or your poor tummy can’t digest cow’s milk? There are a a lot of different choices. We suggest trying rice milk or soy milk.
Soy milk is dairy-free and made from an extract of soy beans. It is typically mixed with water and a natural sweetener so it tastes and looks similar cow’s milk. Soy milk often has calcium and vitamin D added to it to increase its nutritional value.
Rice milk is also dairy-freeand is made from a mixture of partially milled rice and water. It often has vitamin A, vitamin D, B vitamins, calcium and iron added to enhance its nutritional benefits.
No matter what you choose,it is important to keep a balanced diet. To get the full benefits of cow’s milk and these nine essential nutrients, the USDA recommends adults and children to consume two to three servings of milk (or cheese or yogurt) each day. A serving size is 1 cup of milk or yogurt, 1.5 ounces of natural cheese or 2 ounces of processed cheese.
Dont forget to visit!
The East 73rd Street Community Club
Hands On of Northeast Ohio and Oriana House, Inc.
SPRING CLEAN 2013
DATE: SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2013
TIME: 11:00AM – 4:30PM
- Come and join us to clean up our yards and communities from Cedar to Central Avenues and East 70th to East 74th
- Clean out your basement and garage of those bulk item – we will have 2 city dumpsters available on East 73rd and between the corners of Central and East 73rd and East 74th
- We will clean tree lawns, empty lots, and abandoned homes
- We will clean senior/disabled citizen individuals property, (please contact Brenda Metzger at 216-432-1001, leave message)
QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS
Tanya Holmes 216-224-9397
Brenda Metzger 216-432-1001 email@example.com
Preparing healthy meals is difficult, but we are offering a course to make it easier. Learn how to make delicious, simple, healthy dishes in no time! Classes will include planning meals, basic cooking and cutting skills taught by Vel Scott. You will discover vegan and vegetarian cooking can be delicious and filling, taught by Divinity Catering. Graduates will receive basic cooking tools and nutrition tool kits, take a shopping trip, and tour an Urban farm.
Come be part of a supportive community cooking team!
For more information and to enroll, contact Kim 216-961-4646 x 104
Classes are FREE, but Adult only! Space is limited.
Classes are held at CornUcopia Place on Saturdays June 8, 2013-August 3, 2013
This project is in collaboration with Environmental Health Watch, HEAL Buckeye Initiative and Burten, Bell, Carr Development, Inc. funded by the Baldwin Foundation and Saint Luke’s Foundation
There are so many food options available, with marketing tactics that mislead the consumer to thinking they have made a healthy choice. Even the choices for whole produce can be confusing. Who even knew there were some many choices for a standard apple? Restore the Village is here to help clarify these questions.
Join Ericka L. Abrams, Founder & CEO of Restore the Village, sponsored by Union Miles Development Corp. at the Earle B. Turner Recreation Center to learn about the importance of eating organic, local & non-GMO foods.Saturday, April 27, 2013 from 1:00 – 2:00 pmLight refreshments will be provided.www.restorethevillage.org
What do you really know about high-fructose corn syrup and sugar? The media often portrays sugar and high-fructose corn syrup as the main culprit in obesity. But what’s the difference between high-fructose corn syrup and sugar?
High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a common sweetener. Research shows that high-fructose corn syrup is chemically similar to table sugar. Fructose, part of HFCS, is a naturally occurring simple sugar that’s produced by nature. It is more soluble in water than glucose. Glucose is another simple sugar that is also made in nature. When you put fructose and glucose together it becomes a basic form of table sugar.
Corn syrup is made from corn starch and has a high content of glucose. It is combined with fructose to make high fructose corn syrup. There is controversy over how the body reacts to high-fructose corn syrup instead of table sugar because it is made chemically.
According to the American Heart Association (AHA), there are two types of sugars in American diets: naturally occurring sugars and added sugars. Women should consume no more than 100 calories per day (about 6 teaspoons of sugar). Men should consume about 150 calories per day (about 9 teaspoons).
Tips from the American Heart Association for Reducing Sugar in Your Diet
* Don’t add sugar to cereal, grits, or oatmeal. Try fresh fruit or dried fruit instead.
* Instead of adding sugar in recipes use various spices or extracts to increase flavor.
* Try non-nutritive sweeteners such as aspartame, sucralose or saccharin. The FDA has determined that non-nutritive sweeteners are safe.
* Cut back on the amount of sugar added to things you eat or drink regularly like coffee or tea.
* Buy sugar-free or low-calorie beverages.
* Buy fresh fruit!
The next time you are in Bridgeport Cafe, think twice about adding lots of sugar to your breakfast and consider adding fresh fruit instead!
Come out for an evening of inter-generational theater to view
“Scenes ‘N Cedar-Central.”
The play was written and directed by local playwright Cornell Hubert Calhoun, III.
Adaeya Bates, Lauren Nicole Sturdivant,
Amarah Simons, Tariq Ferguson,
& Lewis Finney
Friday, April 12, 2013
Central Recreation Center
2526 Central Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44103
A TV20 Production
Cornell Hubert Calhoun, III, who’s plays take local stories onto the stage has had a play produced at the Dobama Theater.
For more information, please call Central Recreation Center at (216) 664-4241.
Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity is partnering with BBC to rehab six homes on Colfax Road. Habitat can rehab 4 homes for the cost of building only one. The six homes on Colfax will be donated by the Cleveland Land Bank. Check out the feature on Channel 5 news. For more information on how you can become a partner family call BBC at 216-341-1455 or Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity at 216-429-1299
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By ALAN CLENDENNING, Associated Press
They kidnap Westerners in the deserts of Africa, turn Western-born Muslims into radicals, send bombs to the United States from Yemen and mount bloody attacks in Iraq and Pakistan.
These homegrown terror groups worldwide are informally dubbed al-Qaida franchises — affiliates that do most of their own fundraising, recruiting and killing. The question now is this: What impact will the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden have on the ability and willingness of the franchises to mount attacks?
Emails found on flash drives from bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan two weeks ago show that he was communicating more than Western intelligence had thought. But al-Qaida’s ideology plays a much bigger role in fostering terror than bin Laden’s personal involvement, said Gen. David Richards, Britain’s top military chief.
“Yemen, Somalia and other places in the Middle East are today more important in a counter-terror context than what was going on...in Osama’s compound,” Richards told British lawmakers.
Several al-Qaida franchises have vowed retaliation for bin Laden’s death, but it’s unclear how much of a threat they pose. The biggest terrorist plots to date have been pulled off or directed by al-Qaida itself, including the Sept. 11 attacks and the 2005 London suicide bombings.
However, al-Qaida franchises were responsible for the 2008 attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai that killed 166, and the 2002 attacks on a Bali island night club that killed 202 people, many foreign tourists.
The head of Britain’s domestic spy agency MI5, Jonathan Evans, has said it’s only a matter of time before “we see terrorism on our streets” from the al-Qaida movement in Somalia, known as al-Shabab. He also said it is likely that al-Qaida supporters in the Arabian Peninsula will step up attacks on Western targets.
The fight to bring down al-Qaida franchises will depend on painstaking coordination among intelligence agencies worldwide. Rohan Gunaratna, who heads the Center for Political Violence and Terrorism Research in Singapore, predicted that al-Qaida and the franchises are “likely to pose an enduring threat in the foreseeable future.”
Al-Qaida now has about 10 major franchises, although the Afghanistan-Pakistan group has splintered into smaller and more dangerous ones. Al-Qaida provides ideological inspiration and sometimes direct training and funding. The franchises have goals within their own regions but also international aspirations, which include U.S. and European targets.
Among the first franchises to spring up was al-Qaida in Iraq in about 2003, formed to attack U.S. forces. However, this franchise took some of the luster off al-Qaida’s message because of its massacre of thousands of Shiite Muslims.
Al-Qaida in Iraq is now thought to be much smaller than in its heyday, although there is no reliable estimate on the number of members. Yet in a show of strength, a front group called the Islamic State of Iraq boasted recently that extremists had slipped guns and messages to inmates for weeks before an unsuccessful prison break that left 17 dead.
Three days before the attempted jail breakout, the group staged a suicide bombing at an Iraqi police station in which 20 officers died. On the same day that it claimed responsibility for the bombing, it called for revenge for bin Laden’s death.
“The martyrdom of the sheik will increase the determination and steadfastness among his brotherly mujahideen,” read the statement, signed by Abu Bakr al-Husseini al-Baghdadi, a pseudonym for the militant whom the U.S. identified Wednesday as taking the helm of the Islamic State of Iraq.
The al-Qaida faction in Yemen is viewed as perhaps the most threatening to the United States and some European countries because of its history of attempted attacks. It is believed to be responsible for the failed 2009 bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner by a suicide bomber with explosives sewn into his underwear, along with last year’s unsuccessful plot to send mail bombs on U.S.-bound cargo planes.
The Yemen faction has taken advantage of protests calling for the ouster of longtime president Ali Abdullah Saleh to build up strength in the country’s weakly-governed provinces. On Tuesday, two armed men thought to belong to al-Qaida opened fire on security posts outside the town of Mukalla, killing three people.
The al-Qaida offshoot in Yemen has been boosted by inspiration from American-born operative Anwar al-Awlaki, who has radicalized a younger generation of extremists. A British woman who stabbed a lawmaker last year had watched about 100 hours of al-Awlaki videos, British officials said. Al-Awlaki is also believed to have inspired and even plotted or helped coordinate attacks on the U.S., including the failed 2009 airline bombing and last year’s mail bombing.
In Somalia, the al-Shabab Qaida offshoot taxes ships coming into port, extorts portions of crops from farmers and has links to pirates. It is putting out increasingly sophisticated propaganda, with flashy videos in English featuring a rapping American named Omar Hammami, one of around 20 American members of Somali descent. Hammami, known as Abu Mansur al-Amriki, or “the American,” said at a news conference last week that militants would seek revenge for the death of Osama bin Laden.
Also of threat to Europe is another al-Qaida faction that is raising tens of millions of dollars via kidnappings and ransom in Algeria, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Libya. This group, known as al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, targets France and seeks to overthrow the Algerian government, seen as a key defense against terror attacks in Europe just across the Mediterranean Sea.
Mathieu Guidere, a professor at University of Toulouse who trained French military officers to monitor al-Qaida communiques, puts the group’s income since 2008 at a staggering $72 million. Ransom is set according to each captive’s nationality, with Americans and Canadians fetching $2.5 million to $5 million each and starting prices for French captives at about $2 million.
Bin Laden’s death could help recruit poor youth, said an Arab leader from Mali’s Timbuktu region, where al-Qaida of the Maghreb recruits actively and openly. But it could also prompt recruiters to be more careful so they don’t attract attention, said the leader, who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid possible retributions.
Intelligence officials say al-Qaida Maghreb ransom money has funded regional terror attacks, including the December 2007 double truck bombings of the U.N. headquarters in Algiers that killed 17 employees. That came eight months after a bomb targeting the prime minister’s office killed 33 people.
A witches’ brew of militant groups operate in Pakistan’s tribal regions, all with varying degrees of loyalty to and interaction with al-Qaida.
Leading among them are Lashkar-e-Taiba, blamed for the Mumbai attacks, and the brutal Lashkar-e-Janghvi, believed to supply the reservoir of suicide bombers used in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It was Lashkar-e-Janghvi’s Qari Hussein whom U.S. intelligence believes trained the Jordanian suicide bomber who blew up the six CIA officials at Camp Chapman in December 2009. Al-Qaida gives ideological training and funding to Lashkar-e-Janghvi militants, according to Western intelligence officials.
Pakistan is also key ground for terror candidates from Europe, the United States, Canada, Turkey and central Asia, who are often organized by groups with al-Qaida links. They return home and operate as small and fractured cells, recruiting jihadists, raising funds and plotting small-scale attacks.
German authorities believe the biggest threats come from individual agents who are difficult to monitor because they radicalize on their own, through Islamic Websites and social networks on the Internet. They cite the example of 21-year-old Arid Uka, who stormed a U.S. military bus at Frankfurt airport last month before bin Laden’s death, fatally shooting two U.S. airmen.
In Southeast Asia, hundreds of the most dangerous radicals were killed or captured in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines before bin Laden’s death. But the Indonesia-based Jemaah Islamiyah, Southeast Asia’s main extremist group, its offshoots and the smaller Abu Sayyaf in the southern Philippines have tenaciously survived largely on their own and persist as major threats.
Police and foreign governments have said that Jemaah Islamiyah used al-Qaida money to fund the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people. But it’s unclear how much influence al-Qaida still wields on Indonesian militant groups, which are constantly splintering and morphing.
Most experts say the financial links have been severed and that July 2009 suicide bombing of two glitzy hotels in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, was financed locally.
Indonesia’s best-known radical cleric, Abu Bakar Bashir, co-founded Jemaah Islamiyah with the goal of establishing an Islamic state in Southeast Asia. He predicted bin Laden’s death will prompt a major disaster to Americans that will “definitely happen, but when and how big, only God knows that.”
Matthew Levitt, a counterterrorism and intelligence expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Studies, said al-Qaida franchise leaders must be spooked by the possibility that U.S. intelligence obtained during the raid on bin Laden’s compound could prompt strikes against them. But the fundraising mechanisms are still goings strong, and any big news, bad or good, could help raise funds. They could also use bin Laden’s death as a marketing strategy, he said.
“You could imagine someone going around with a bin Laden clip on their cell phone, that would be a great photograph to use for a fundraising pitch,” he said. “The bottom line is, bin Laden as an advertising icon is as potentially effective in death as he was in life, maybe even more so.”
Contributing to this story: Paisley Dodds in London; Melissa Eddy in Berlin; Katharine Houreld in Nairobi, Kenya; Martin Vogl in Bamako, Mali; Barbara Surk in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Rebecca Santana in Baghdad; Jim Gomez in Manila, Philippines; Kathy Gannon in Islamabad; Robin McDowell in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Search engine optimisation (SEO) is the process of improving the ranking of your website within the natural or organic search engine results (highlighted in red above on Google) for particular keywords or phrases.
Link building is an important part of SEO. It involves building links from other websites which point to your website. Search engines see links to your site as 'votes' for its quality, so the more you have, the better your search rankings should be.
Link building is limited only by your time and creativity, so you should be looking for long term strategies that will evolve into a continuing pattern of naturally-built links, rather than quick wins without longevity. Here are ten ideas:
- Add your website to online directories You can build links by submitting your site to website directories. Spread your directory submissions over a few months rather than using an automatic service - a sudden appearance of lots of new links may trigger a negative reaction from the search engines. You can find directories by using Google searches like this one.
- Create enticing content This is only limited only by your creativity and time. You need to ask yourself: 'what would make people tell others about this information I have created?' It could be a whitepaper, fresh content that isn’t just recycled news, a unique information resource or an infographic. People will link back to the great content you create.
- Create an offer for your product/service For example, can you offer a discounted product or service to a select group of people? You could offer them 15 per cent discount for writing an article about your product on their website. By doing this you create a hook. They want your product - and you have generated more publicity and links back to your website.
- Advertise more jobs How many job sites are there? How many free job sites? How many job sites specifically for your sector? Why not keep your company's job offerings open all the time? This will give you constant link growth - not only with links from job sites, but also from local websites if you ask them to publish articles regarding the job.
- Use video Would you like to rank for your industry with a video? Could you create a viral campaign that professionally screams and shouts about your services? Many would sites would in-turn link back to you.
- Run a questionnaire We all love being asked our opinion, especially if we believe we will benefit. What frustrates your customers, what makes them excited? Collate these ideas and create a survey using a free survey website. Next, ask people to leave their contact details and interview them on your website with the results of your findings. Then ask them to tell others about this survey on your website. Bingo - more links!
- Guest blogging How many blogs and news websites are there within your industry? You can get some idea by using Google's 'related' option. For instance, enter 'related:www.newscientist.com' to find sites similar to New Scientist. Contact sites you think are relevant and offer useful, unique content. Don’t sell your service - instead, sell your industry or sector and give the reader real value. Websites will reciprocate with a link back to your site.
- Offer testimonials Where did you get your business cards designed? Who designed your website? Who created your branding? Why not give them a testimonial without being asked for it, or offer to compile a case study from your viewpoint? Many companies struggle to do this themselves, so what better way to encourage them to place this on their website with a link to you?
- Join relevant organisations Does your company belong to any organisations? How much are yearly memberships with small organisations and would you consider joining them with the sole objective of gaining a link from their website?
- Help out charities If you do any work for free with local charities, why not request a link back from their website? Most will be happy to oblige.
I hope this post has helped you understand how to build links to your website. Be sure to give these ideas a try - once you start, you'll spot more and more opportunities.
Phil Yarrow is one of the Directors at PYC
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(Warning: the following contains possibly disturbing, yet important information from Peta.com.)
According to Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), “cows produce milk for the same reason that humans do: to nourish their young. ”
PETA further explains, “After their calves are taken from them, mother cows are hooked up, several times a day, to milking machines. Using genetic manipulation, powerful hormones, and intensive milking, factory farmers force cows to produce about 10 times as much milk as they would naturally.”
Do you really want those hormones in your system?
“Give us a freaking break! Remember what milk is for. It’s designed to fatten up baby cows,” said authors Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin in their New York Times Bestseller, “Skinny Bitch.”
So, instead of debating the benefits of fat free, skim, one percent, two percent or whole milk, let’s explore the world of non-dairy milk, including rice, soy, almond, hemp and coconut milk.
- Rice milk is very lightlysweetened
- Contains more carbohydrates
- Lacks protein and vitamins or minerals, unless fortified
- Very little natural fat
- The most watery of the non-dairy milk
- Very light flavor
- Most popular and controversial
- Creamier than rice milk
- Contains as much protein as regular milk, and is often fortified with vitamins
- Most soy beans produced in the United States are genetically modified.
- Best to go with organic soymilk
Look for more info about non-dairy milk on the next installment of “Got Milk?” I want to know what you think. Do you prefer soy or rice milk? And what about the health ramifications of soy? Is it just chatter, or is there some truth to the debate?
Until then, pour whichever non-dairy milk you prefer on your Koala Crisps and enjoy.
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Richard H. Long's uniform in last week's first photo was indeed a Knights Templar uniform. Richard H. Long of San Carlos was in the Times in 1964 because he was being in-stalled as eminent commander of Palo Alto Commandery No 47 Knights Templar at the fifty fifth annual installation ceremonies.
Edward R. Becks, director EOC, February 8, 1971. EOC stands for Economic Opportunity Commission, and the director of the EOC was in the Times, according to the archives because of this story:
"Behind the dust-covered dows of the converted store at 878 Jefferson Avenue is the headquarters of one of the least known certainly one of the least understood functions of county government the Eco- nomic Opportunity Commission. So little known is the EOC in fact that it has not yet occurred to any county grand jury to in- clude it on the list of sions that are routinely gated each year The unprepossessing quarters belie the humanitarian objective being pursued not a fare program but a self-help program for the poor."
The San Mateo County Historical Association still has many photos that need captions, after it recently purchased more than 30,000 San Mateo Times newspaper photos that span most of the 20th century and provide a glimpse into San Mateo County life and its generations.
Own a little piece of history by looking at these photos and help the association find out about the story behind each one, so the group can archive them.
Peninsula Patch sites will publish various photos as we get them - usually on Thursday or Saturday mornings - so you can help us identify them.
The first photo this week reads: Trevor Montgomery. The photo is not dated, but the man in the picture is wearing a “no on 188 pin.” Do you know what year this photo was taken in? Who is Trevor Montgomery?
The back of the other photo reads: Joseph P. Azevedo, August 18, 1990 Who is Joseph P. Azevedo, and why was this picture taken of him in 1990?
Please note in the comments if you have information about the photos attached.
Then call or e-mail archivist, Carol Peterson, if you want more information. Carol can be reached by phone, (650) 299-0104, or e-mail, firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Earmarks are not necessarily a bad thing’ Earmarks are not necessarily a bad thing was basically what was said in a recent reply back to me from Congressman, Ed Whitfield. I think we all can agree that chocolate isn’t necessarily a bad thing either unless you eat a pound per day.
In My Opinion, our country and our state has to go on a diet. Our legislative leaders need to understand that our current system is broken and the only way to fix it is stop the current practice of hiding “Pork” in the Bills being rushed through Congress. Until a new system is adopted, we have to ‘Stop Earmarks’.
I have provided below, a copy of the letter dated March 9, 2009. I think it best that you read the letter and draw your own conclusions.
Dear Mr. Phillips:
Thank you for contacting me regarding Congressional "earmarks" and economic development strategies, including tax incentives, to encourage growth in our Kentucky communities. Both of these topics have received a lot of attention lately, and rightly so.
I have heard from several Kentuckians who are critical of federal funding for local projects, commonly referred to in the media as "earmarks." Although they are widely criticized, I don't think earmarks necessarily are a bad thing. In fact, for those of us representing rural areas, this often is the only real opportunity to get funding for important projects back home. These have included money for floodwall repairs, dam safety work, facilities at Ft. Campbell, and health screening of workers at the Department of Energy's uranium enrichment plant.
Regrettably, there does seem to be serious abuse of the opportunity with the resulting negative impact on the federal deficit. Like you, when I hear reports of earmarks for things like studies of hog odor or buildings named for Members of Congress, I am outraged. Not only is the abuse of earmarks a problem, but the fact that a very few Members of Congress control virtually all of the funding is egregious. To that end, I believe that the best way to confront this issue is to create an equitable system that make the process more fair, transparent, and accountable to the American people.
I understand and respect that some will view this differently. As Congress prepares to begin the Fiscal Year 2010 appropriations process, it is my hope that more transparency will be brought to the Congressional earmark process and to our government as a whole. Please know that I will be working toward that goal, while also working to reduce the abuse of frivolous earmarks that are a waste of taxpayers' dollars.
With regard to economic development in our Kentucky communities, I am doing everything I can as your federal representative to explore ways the federal government can help with job creation. Of course, local economic development agencies as well as the State also have a key role to play in job creation. As you mentioned in your letter, one of the biggest attractions for business to locate in a particular area is the tax benefit the company can receive, and those tax benefits are mostly provided by local and State governments. If you have not already done so, I encourage-you to contact Governor Beshear or your State Representative and Senator in Frankfort to discuss your support for economic development initiatives. Please rest assured, I will continue to work with local and state officials to help attract new businesses to our District.
Representing the First Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives is truly an honor. I recognize that my voice is only here in Washington to represent my constituents. For this reason, your thoughts and opinions are of critical importance. I sincerely appreciate your comments and look forward to hearing from you in the future.
Ed Whitfield Member of Congress
I am grateful for Congressman Whitfield’s reply and we all must support him in his efforts to represent the First Congressional District here in Kentucky.
This also means communicating with him. He needs to hear from all of us and here is how you do it….
E-mail him at www.whitfield.house.gov/contact or call his office 800-328-5629 or you can write him at his Washington Office at 2411 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515.
May God bless…
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A micrograph, or photomicrograph, is a photograph or digital image taken through a microscope or similar device to show a magnified image of an item. This is opposed to a macrographic image, which is at a scale that is visible to the naked eye.
Micrographs are widely used in all fields of microscopy.
A light micrograph or photomicrograph is a micrograph prepared using an optical microscope, a process referred to as photomicroscopy. At a basic level, photomicroscopy may be performed simply by hooking up a regular camera to a microscope, thereby enabling the user to take photographs at reasonably high magnification.
Roman Vishniac was a pioneer in the field of photomicroscopy, specializing in the photography of living creatures in full motion. He also made major developments in light-interruption photography and color photomicroscopy.
Electron micrograph
An electron micrograph is a micrograph prepared using an electron microscope. However, the term electron micrograph is not used in electron microscopy. Common designation is a micrograph.
Digital micrograph
Digital micrograph is a digital picture obtained either directly with a microscope or by scanning of a photomicrograph. The terms usage is somewhat confusing, since today photo usually means digital photography anyway.
Magnification and micron bars
Micrographs usually have micron bars, or magnification ratios, or both.
Magnification is a ratio between size of object on a picture and its real size. Unfortunately, magnification is somewhat a misleading parameter. It depends on a final size of a printed picture, and therefore varies with variation in picture size. Editors of journals and magazines routinely resize a figure to fit the page, making any magnification number provided in the figure legend incorrect. A scale bar, or micron bar, is a bar of known length displayed on a picture. The bar can be used for measurements on a picture. When a picture is resized a bar is also resized. If a picture has a bar, the magnification can be easily calculated. Ideally, all pictures destined for publication/presentation should be supplied with a scale bar; the magnification ratio is optional. All but one (limestone) of the micrographs presented on this page do not have a micron bar; supplied magnification ratios are likely incorrect, as they were not calculated for pictures at the present size.
See also
- Make a Micrograph – This presentation by the research department of Children's Hospital Boston shows how researchers create a three-color micrograph.
- Shots with a Microscope – a basic, comprehensive guide to photomicrography
- Scientific photomicrographs – free scientific quality photomicrographs by Doc. RNDr. Josef Reischig, CSc.
- Micrographs of 18 natural fibres by the International Year of Natural Fibres 2009
- QuickPHOTO Photomicrography Software - trial version available for downloading
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Last week I wrote about a robot that does its best to avoid people when they’re angry. The video below shows another that’s pretty good at doing the opposite. Created by researchers at Brown University, it wheels along behind a person at a set distance, as if attached to an invisible rope.
The robot uses a camera to identify and follow the person in front of it. Usually this kind of system needs to be recalibrated for changes in lighting and camera movement.
The Brown team developed image-recognition software and combined it with a special depth-imaging camera. The camera uses infrared, allowing the robot to identify and focus on the silhouette of a user. “This allows us to reasonably segment people from background scenery with less dependence on lighting condition,” says Chad Jenkins, an assistant professor of computer science at Brown University who presented the work at this year’s Human-Robot Interaction conference in California. Even if multiple people pass in front of the robot, it still stays focused on its designated user. A controller can issue a set number of verbal or gestural commands, which the robot can recognize.
“It’s impressive work,” says Charlie Kemp, a professor at Georgia Tech University who works on robotic assistants and wasn’t involved with the research. “In general it’s very easy for robots to get confused, especially while they’re trying to keep up with a person.”
Challenges that remain include getting the robot to understand gestures from a person standing in profile, and refining the system to work in bright sunlight.
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The National Association of Realtors' January 2012 existing home sales statistics show an annualized 4.3% monthly increase in total existing homes sales from December. Annualized gives what the yearly level and rate would be if the current month's rate was applied to an entire year. The change in existing home sales from this time last year was 0.7%.
If January's pace lasted a year, there would be 4.57 million existing homes sold over a year's time. December's annualized level was revised downward to 4.38 million total homes. Total homes includes single family houses, condos, co-ops and townhomes.
Unsold inventory dropped from 6.4 months of supply to 6.1 months. This was a -0.4% change to a level of 2.31 million existing single family homes for sale on the market.
Total unsold listed inventory has trended down from a record 4.04 million in July 2007, and is 20.6 percent below a year ago.
The thing is, we know there are a backlog of foreclosures due to robo-signing and fraud stopping the process. While inventories maybe back to pre-recession levels, this level maybe temporary.
Additionally we have seen seasonal adjustments be a little skewed in housing data due to unusually warm weather in January.
The NAR makes a political statement, right in the middle of their report:
A government proposal to turn bank-owned properties into rentals on a large scale does not appear to be needed at this time.
Really? The 2011 Q4 homeowner vacancy rate was 2.4% and aren't foreclosures to increase by 25% in 2012? Below are details on all vacant housing units, including rentals, 2nd homes, vacation homes. In 2004, the homeowner vacancy rate was about 1.7%.
Approximately 86.1 percent of the housing units in the United States in the fourth quarter 2011 were occupied and 13.9 percent were vacant. Owner-occupied housing units made up 56.9 percent of total housing units, while renter-occupied units made up 29.3 percent of the inventory in the fourth quarter 2011. Vacant year-round units comprised 10.5 percent of total housing units, while 3.4 percent were for seasonal use.
Approximately 3.1 percent of the total units were for rent, 1.3 percent were for sale only, and 0.7 percent were rented or sold but not yet occupied. Vacant units that were held off market comprised 5.4 percent of the total housing stock. Of these units, 1.7 percent were for occasional use, 1.0 percent were temporarily occupied by persons with usual residence elsewhere (URE), and 2.7 percent were vacant for a variety of other reasons.
Look at the distressed home sales rate for January. Does that look healthy to you?
Distressed homes – foreclosures and short sales which sell at deep discounts – accounted for 35 percent of January sales (22 percent were foreclosures and 13 percent were short sales), up from 32 percent in December; they were 37 percent in January 2011.
All cash sales are 31% of total sales. So called investors snapped up 23% of the homes, up from 21% in December and at a rate the same as a year ago. In other words, 23% of these sales are not going to regular families, individuals but to bulk residential real estate speculators, home flippers and other commercial enterprise related activities.
First-time buyers rose to 33 percent of transactions in January from 31 percent in December; they were 29 percent in January 2011.
Contract failures are still at 33%. This is when the deal falls through.
Contract cancellations are unchanged from December but were only 9 percent in January 2011; they are caused largely by declined mortgage applications and failures in loan underwriting from appraisals coming in below the negotiated price.
Home prices actually dropped. The median price for all types of housing is now $154,700, a 2.0% drop from January 2011. Single family homes dropped 2.6% in price from a year ago, now at a median of $154,400. Condos are now $156,600, up 2.0%.
We take NAR statistics with a grain of salt due to the gun ho commentary contained within their statistical releases. Another site which pours over the housing statistics nitty gritty is Calculated Risk.
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Article published Nov 18, 2012
When it comes to employees, ICE means business
It was interesting to see the coupling of two news items regarding immigration and business this week.
The first was that a nursing home in Milford, Countryside Health Care, has joined the town of Milford in “teaming up” with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency for a program called IMAGE, or the ICE Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers.
Most employers already know about E-Verify, a Web-based program that gives employers a direct link to the Social Security Administration that allows them to enter prospective employee's social security numbers to check if they are valid.
IMAGE is E-Verify on steroids. To quote ICE: “ICE provides employers with education and training on proper hiring procedures, including use of employment screening tools such as E-Verify. IMAGE certified employers also undergo an audit of their I-9 forms to ensure current employees are eligible to work in the United States.” (I-9 forms are filled out by employees to show that they are authorized to work).
IMAGE has not exactly taken off with employers since it was implemented in 2006. The list of “members and partners” of the program are at ice.gov/image.
While the list contains several hundred companies and municipalities, it is unbelievably short considering the total number of employers in this country. The town of Milford, and now Countryside Health Care, are among the only entities in New England to have signed up. And the program has been in existence for six years!
Most employers, when they choose to hire an employee, want to believe that that employee is allowed to work in this country. They ask the employee to show some form of identification and a valid social security number, because that is what is required by law. Given that the federal government cannot actively watch all employers as they hire employees, chances are the employee will be able to work whether or not he or she has legal papers.
But not with IMAGE. Every employee gets vetted carefully, no exceptions.
Randy Feldman, an immigration lawyer in Worcester, said in some industries half of a company's workforce would be knocked out if the company joined a program like IMAGE.
“It just hamstrings them,” Mr. Feldman said of employers. “If we had a fair immigration system, it would be a fair requirement. But we don't have a fair immigration system.”
The second news item that caught my eye was the ICE announcement of $349,619.54 in fines against Massachusetts companies for various employment operations. Two local companies were on the list. Danco Retail Food Outlet Inc. of Worcester was fined $935; and Fruitlands Restaurant Inc., aka Sorrento's Pizza, of Harvard was fined $2,805. Both companies denied the ICE claims in interviews with the Telegram & Gazette.
They got off easy. Other companies were fined tens of thousands of dollars.
Bruce Foucart, ICE special agent in the Boston office, said he could not comment specifically on the reasons why the two companies were fined. But typically, companies have filled out their I-9 forms falsely or incorrectly.
“The fines are handed down based on level of egregiousness of the violation. You have your low-end violation, and then there is your blatant, obvious alarming violation,” he said. “Filling out these forms incorrectly and having suspect documents will always lead to a fine. We also look into the cooperation of the company, and their willingness to join and comply with the IMAGE Program and E-Verify; it gives us a sense on how these companies are maintaining correct information. … ICE takes these violations seriously and will serve the necessary fines that are required.”
In 2009, under the Obama administration, ICE pivoted away from military-style raids of suspected employers of undocumented workers, and began focusing on auditing the records of employers.
According to ICE's press release, the agency issued $9,753 in fines to Massachusetts companies for worksite violations in 2009; $67,440 in 2010; $175,420 last year; and now almost $350,000.
The trend is clear. The federal government is working to hold employers accountable for the employees they hire, albeit a tiny percentage of them.
When the government asks companies to volunteer to have all their employee's I-9 forms audited, they find few takers.
Intern Sean Mensah contributed to the reporting of this column.
Contact Aaron Nicodemus by email at firstname.lastname@example.org or at (508) 793-9245.
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This week EADS Innovation Works announced an international HPC coding contest for students.
Called “Join the Spirit,” this competition challenges students on solving real-life problems coming from aeronautics and systems applications. The participants can submit their codes which they will test live on a dedicated website: http://jointhespirit.eads.com. The fastest code that solves the problem will be awarded a $10,000 prize, along with receiving recognition from professional scientists and researchers at EADS.
The contest runs until December 31, 2012. Students may work the problem-solving on their own, or in teams of up to three persons. Read the Full Story.
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Modern Distributed Filesystems For Linux: An Introduction
What Are Distributed Filesystems?
The ability to share disks, directories, and files over a network is one of the most significant advances in modern computing, reducing local disk space requirements and making it easy for users to collaborate without ending up with hundreds of versions of the same files. Personal computers running Microsoft Windows and Apple's MacOS and Mac OS X inherently support sharing disks and directories with other systems of the same types. Linux and Unix systems traditionally use the NFS network filesystem in order to do the same sort of thing.
NFS is the best-known network file-sharing mechanism for Unix, Linux, and related operating systems because it is included in most Unix-like operating system distributions and is trivial to configure. NFS is supported in the Linux kernel and NFS-related utilities are provided with every Linux distribution. However, a number of more modern mechanisms for sharing files and directories over networks are available for today's Linux systems. Each of these can provide significant administrative and usability advantages for sites running Linux.
Distributed filesystems such as OpenAFS (http://www.openafs.org) are Open Source releases of distributed filesystems that have been in commercial use for over a decade (AFS). Support for network-oriented filesystems such as InterMezzo (http://www.inter-mezzo.org) and Coda (http://coda.cs.cmu.edu) is already integrated into later 2.4 Linux kernels. New, web-based file-sharing mechanisms such as WebDAV (http://www.webdav.org) are easily integrated into existing Web-oriented environments, and can be mounted as though they were filesystems. The expanding dependence on networking as a basic tenet of computing today will only help popularize these newer, more powerful file-sharing mechanisms.
This article provides an overview of the benefits of distributed filesystems, discusses the most significant administrative issues in deploying and using distributed filesystems, and introduces the most interesting new distributed filesystems available for Linux today. Subsequent articles in this series will provide hands-on guidance for installing, configuring, and experimenting with some of the more interesting and useful of these networked filesharing mechanisms.
Solid state disks (SSDs) made a splash in consumer technology, and now the technology has its eyes on the enterprise storage market. Download this eBook to see what SSDs can do for your infrastructure and review the pros and cons of this potentially game-changing storage technology.
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|Less a mystery than a character study, The Child Who examines the consequences of a child murdering a child. Leo Curtice, a provincial, is assigned the task of defending young Daniel Blake, a twelve-year-old from a troubled background who is accused of murdering Felicity Forbes, a girl near his own age. There is no doubt he did the deed, nor is there any question that he is mentally competent.
Leo gives little thought to the public's response. He is stunned that the small community in which he lives physically attacks Leo's wife Megan, and his daughter Ellie, as well as he himself. Leo becomes consumed with the case which only increases the tension in his own family. His wife and daughter are aghast that he would put the welfare of a boy already known as a troublemaker before the needs of his own family.
This terse exploration of a moral dilemma will be sure to generate much discussion among readers. There are no easy answers here. Lelic presents a situation that can be, unfortunately, easily imagined in today's society. The child is clearly a murderer, and old enough to tell right from wrong. Admittedly because of his own family situation he has issues with which most twelve-year-olds are not confronted. Yet he has committed a heinous act. According to the laws of society he must be punished; but by imprisoning him society will subject him to a situation than will only exacerbate his problems.
The other main theme of the book is the effect that Leo's handling of the case has on his own family situation. How this man's relationships with his wife and daughter are tested by his absorption in a difficult case can be examined from several different perspectives. Again opinions on the behaviors of Leo, his wife and child will sure to be varied and each have some degree of merit.
The Child Who will no doubt be a popular book club choice. Though the facts of the case are straightforward enough, the responses of various characters are convoluted. All of the characters have some legitimacy to their stances. There are no easy answers.
Those that are easily upset by child abuse will find this book difficult to read. While the author treats the subject sensitively and with the respect that it deserves, the bald fact of one child killing another is not an easy one to stomach.
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Teaching Tools | News
Observation 360 Adds Teacher Effectiveness System Integration
School Improvement Network has added new features to and redesigned Observation 360, a teacher professional development tool that integrates with PD 360, to personalize plans for teachers and provide training resources.
Observation 360 provides suggested on-demand video training based on results from teacher evaluations. Using Observation 360, an administrator selects the template to be used for the observation, which includes a set of questions. During class, the administrator would observe and input comments for each question.
The observation is then submitted and linked to PD 360, which includes more than 1,500 videos on 97 topics focused on best practices and offer classroom examples. It also provides premium courses, which include interaction with experts during Webinars and question activities.
After the teacher watches the mandated videos, the administrator can do a second walkthrough and submit additional comments. Administrators can also use Observation 360 on iPhone, iPod touch, Android devices, and traditional desktop and laptop computers. They can complete different parts of the process on different devices.
New features of Observation 360 include:
- Integration with School Improvement Network's Teacher Effectiveness System, which includes PD 360, Common Core 360, and My Portfolio;
- Compatibility with all teaching frameworks;
- Workflow process templates, for management from teacher evaluation to recommended professional development completion, with role access login;
- Designation of type of observation, with options including “self,” “informal,” “formal,” and “peer”;
- Prescription of professional development content types, including from PD 360, external links, or file attachments;
- Weighted rubrics; and
- Automatically generated reports at the completion of observations.
The new Observation 360 also integrates with the company's recently unveiled six-step Teacher Effectiveness System, which consists of: goals and objectives; process and workflow management; systemic professional development; observations and evaluations; personalized professional learning; and progress and evidence.
Observation 360 with new features will be available before the fall.
For more information, visit schoolimprovement.com.
Tim Sohn is a 10-year veteran of the news business, having served in capacities from reporter to editor-in-chief of a variety of publications including Web sites, daily and weekly newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and wire services. He can be reached at email@example.com and followed on Twitter @editortim.
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Here’s some news for cicada fanatics: the movie Cicada Princess has officially wrapped post production and was and successfully submitted it for consideration to the Sundance Film Festival. Read more about it. Congratulations to film maker Mauricio Baiocchi.
The Cicada Princess is a stop-motion animated movie featuring anthropomorphic cicadas. It was funded via Kickstarter contributions. Visit the Cicada Princess website. Here at Cicada Mania, we’re interested in both real and fictional cicadas.
Yesterday I visited my family’s house in Metuchen, New Jersey. I looked in the backyard and found loads of cicada holes — a hole every 6″ to 12″. I was also clear that animals, like squirrels and raccoons, had been digging at many of the holes. Today I got a spade and gently dug around one of the holes. About 3″ down I found a Magicicada cassini nymph, about 1 inch in length, legs wiggling slowly, red eyes.
Here’s the hole:
Here is the nymph:
It’s clear that the cicadas are ready to emerge, and are just waiting for the temperatures to get a little warmer (to warm their bodies to around 64 degrees F). Today reached 72 degrees F. It will reach 77 F on Friday, and some will likely emerge. Saturday temperatures will be back down to 39 F. These cicadas will likely be confused for a little while.
More holes, many of which were widened by predators looking for a cicada snack!
Gene Kritsky is one of the leading periodical cicada researchers. He’s asked that we help with his research regarding temperature and cicada emergence. He needs to know the date that cicadas first emerge, and then the date when they appear in large numbers in a given locality. To contact Gene with your findings, email him at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Here are the details:
I wanted to alert you to a paper that I published with Roy after Brood XIV. I had placed sensors at cicada depths in Roy’s backyard, and also hung others in the area trees. We recorded the temperatures at 10 minute intervals at all the locations. I was trying to find a weather model to predict soil temperatures without using probes. This would be cheaper for people wanting to monitor an impending emergence. This research is based on what potato farmers do to track the growth of their crop.
We found that the average of the running three day and two day mean temperatures was a good predictor of soil temps.
The formula along with the extended forecast can be used to forecast soil temperatures. Once we get the 64º F soil temps and a nice rain we got emergences. I am hoping to test this model again this year, which in part is why I emailing you. What I need to know is the date that cicadas first emerge, and then the date when they appear in large numbers in a given locality. I will then use weather data to check the soil model. Can you ask readers to send me that info? Many thanks.
I noticed that the radiolab Cicada Tracker folks are showing that soil temperatures throughout the emergence area hit 64 degrees this week, but few if any cicadas emerged from the ground. Why not? My guess is that the soil was not warm enough for a long enough time to warm the bodies of the cicadas to 64.5 degrees F. They might have warmed up for a few minutes, started heading toward the surface, but then cooled off again and stopped their ascent.
It’s a good thing that cicadas did not emerge this week. They would have arrived to trees with few leaves (which offer a little camouflage), cool weather and lots of rain.
I hope that the radiolab Cicada Tracker folks are continually sampling temperature information, so we can get a clear picture of not only the temperature that causes them to emerge, but how long it takes to transfer the warmth of the soil to the bodies of the cicadas.
If you’re interested in the topic, a great paper to read is Thermal Synchronization of Emergence in Periodical “17-year” Cicadas (Homoptera, Cicadidae, Magicicada) by James Edward Heath, American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 80, No. 2. (Oct., 1968), pp. 440-448.
Here is a quote:
Soil temperature at 20-cm [7.87 in] depth in seven locations averaged 17.89 C [64.202 F] at the time of emergence, regardless of date. Cicadas emerging from burrows had average body temperatures of 18.04 C [64.472 F]. Synchrony in emergence may be due to animals reaching a critical threshold temperature.
There is also a minimum temperature cicadas need to be able to fly and sing, and a temperature at which they get too hot and seek shade. Read more about that.
The first one belongs to the genus Angamiana, and I think it is an Angamiana floridula.
The second cicada belongs to the genus Tosena.
I asked David Emery for IDs for these cicadas. The top one is “a very dead A.floridula” and the Tosena is “likely to be T.fasciata (melanoptera does not have orange anywhere), even though the dorsal markings are pretty bleached”.
We are excited to announce the availability of a document by Allen F. Sanborn and Polly K. Phillips titled Biogeography of the Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of North America, North of Mexico. This document features distribution maps for North American cicada species! This document is an excellent companion to The Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) of North America North of Mexico by Allen F. Sanborn and Maxine S. Heath (link to that book).
Abstract: We describe and illustrate the biogeography of the cicadas inhabiting continental North America, north of Mexico. Species distributions were determined through our collecting efforts as well as label data from more than 110 institutional collections. The status of subspecies is discussed with respect to their distributions. As we have shown over limited geographic areas, the distribution of individual species is related to the habitat in which they are found. We discuss the biogeography of the genera with respect to their phylogenetic relationships. California is the state with the greatest alpha diversity (89 species, 46.6% of taxa) and unique species (35 species, 18.3% of taxa). Texas, Arizona, Colorado and Utah are the states with the next greatest alpha diversity with Texas, Arizona and Utah being next for unique species diversity. Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island are the states with the least amount of cicada diversity. Diversity is greatest in states and areas where there is a diversity of plant communities and habitats within these communities. Mountainous terrain also coincides with increases in diversity. Several regions of the focus area require additional collection efforts to fill in the distributions of several species.
Keywords: cicada; distribution; Diceroprocta; Tibicen; Okanagana; Okanagodes; Cacama; Magicicada; Platypedia; Cicadetta
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What to Expect
Below you will find a small list of things you should expect during your visit to the ISU Veterinary Medical Center. This information is good to look at before your visit to the medical center so you have an idea of what to expect while you are with us.
- When you arrive, Please do not unload your animal. Please check in with the receptionist and they will have the student assigned to your animal assist you in unloading and examining your animal.
- A medical record will be generated for each patient during the first visit. This record will follow the patient in every visit to the VMC until it's death. It serves as the official record of all procedures and drugs administered to the patient as well as recording all communication between the VMC, the client, and the referring veterinarian (if applicable).
- The attending clinician - either a specialist, resident, intern or experienced clinician dedicated to the specialty area - will visit with the student. Members of the specialized health care team will then meet with you to discuss their findings and recommend diagnostic and treatment plans to best care for your animal.
- Hospitalization may be required for scheduling of diagnostic, medical or surgical procedures.
- A cost estimate will be provided after consultation with the attending clinician(s). These estimates are not binding quotes and may change as diagnoses are completed and treatment options finalized. The estimate may be revised if results of diagnostic testing alter the plan for treatment. Any changes in the estimate will be discussed with you prior to performing any additional procedures, unless an emergency situation arises.
- A deposit of 50% of the cost estimate is required at the time of admission of your animal to the medical center. The balance of charges is required at the time of discharge of your animal from the medical center. Payment can be in the form of cash, personal check, or credit card.
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Found A Wild Baby Bunny? Information About Wild Rabbit Care
The GHRS is an organization that rescues domestic rabbits not the wild cottontails that you often see in your back yard. We get many calls at the Rabbit Center from people who have found wild rabbits or rabbit nests. We cannot help in these situations and ask that if you have found a wild rabbit in need of help, that you turn to one of the resources listed below.
It is important to emphasize that a wild rabbit, especially babies, may or may not need your help. Most often people will come across a nest they suspect has been abandoned. This scenario accounts for the majority of the calls and questions we get about wild rabbits. In reality, what looks like an abandoned nest could very well be a perfectly healthy one cared for by an attentive mother.
There are tips and tricks to recognizing an abandoned nest though and certain circumstances that do call for rescue. Please follow the link below to read more about wild rabbit rescue. It should give you the information you need to identify a rabbit in need of saving and some tips on how to help.
If you have determined that the babies are truly orphaned, please contact one of the wildlife rehabbers on our list.
• Lynn Rees -Buford/Flowery Branch 770-965-2562, 404-391-1777
• Critters of the Woods – Lawrenceville, GA 770-403-8886
• Cobb Emergency Vet – Marietta, GA 770-424-9157
• For Pets Sake – Decatur, GA 404-248-8977
• Jacklyn’s Happy Habitat – Dawsonville, GA 770-888-3987
• Windward Animal Hospital – Alpharetta, GA 770-569-7298
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||Frequently Asked Questions: Content Questions
The best way to introduce Merit to your students is to show them how their personal learning center page looks and go through a few learning activities with them.
The following PDF is helpful too. http://www.meritonlinelearning.com/OLMS/manuals/Student_User_Guide.pdf
For optimal use, students should:
There are pre- and post-tests built into most Merit programs. In addition, work is tracked while students work on the learning activities.
No, Merit writing programs' built-in tips and hints guide students through the writing process and teach them how to correct their work.
In addition, teachers can log in to their online portfolio and make formative assessments quickly.
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Toronto Ban on AA Atheists Sparks Global Flap
Last week, a simmering feud exploded in Toronto, after the city’s AA establishment angrily voted to expel two atheist groups from the fold. Now the controversy is spreading around the world.
Was Alcoholics Anonymous meant to be a mosaic or a melting pot? Does its culture embrace everyone who a desire to stop drinking, or is the intention to blend everyone into a single vision of AA homogeneity? These were the questions raised by a recent furor in Toronto, after two AA meetings were banished from the city’s official directory for catering to atheist and agnostic members with an adapted version of the 12 Steps. Not surprisingly, the controversy quickly spread around the world.
"Just tell me what to do ’cause I hurt so bad," was David R.’s attitude when he first joined AA. “I really wanted to stop drinking and I was truly ready to ‘go to any length’—and I did.” The trouble was that God “as we understood Him” meant, in David’s case, no God at all. “Because I am a people-pleaser, I faked it with the theistic elements, half-knowing I was faking," he says. "I was afraid that I would drink if I didn't. I am grateful to be sober. I couldn't have done it without AA: the meetings, the support of some understanding people and activities not related to drinking.”
You sense a “but” coming next. Says David: “There are many concepts that didn't seem right, helpful or logical to me, right from the beginning. They didn't fit my experience of how I got sober and was staying sober.” Having worked through, and taken others through, the 12 Steps, he heard about an agnostic group—one of Toronto’s first “Freethinker” meetings, called Beyond Belief—and checked it out.
“Because I had been so compliant in traditional AA meetings,” he says, “I found it difficult to hear people complain about ‘the God thing’ and how they had felt excluded at other meetings. I was uncomfortable when people questioned AA dogma, or were firmly atheist. I went through a period of not feeling at home in either Beyond Belief or traditional meetings; I called myself ‘agnostic’ in the strict sense of ‘not knowing and not possible to know.’”
Where does that leave Hindus, Taoists, Native Americans, Buddhists, Humanists and the many other non-monotheistic creeds in our culture?
Gradually, he had an attitude adjustment. “The main thing I got from Beyond Belief at first was the concept that AA didn't know everything, that there were people with very long-term sobriety who questioned core dogma and didn't get drunk or struck by lightning. Eventually that realization became very liberating.”
As a Secular Humanist, David is now an active member of Beyond Belief and recently served as group secretary, responsible for the AA literature supply, making weekly announcements and handling the group’s monthly commitment to take the AA message into a detox at a local hospital. His initial hope that the agnostic position can strengthen the will to sobriety, rather than threaten it, has grown into a conviction. “The purpose of rational thought and skepticism is not to comfort, but to uncover the truth," he says. "My sobriety feels safer the more based on truth and rational thinking it becomes.”
David was part of a growth surge for Beyond Belief, which started with a dozen members who agreed on a format of ideas posted by some of the other North American and European agnostic groups that have been welcoming AA members since 1975. Every meeting started with this preamble:
"This group of AA attempts to maintain a tradition of free expression, and conduct a meeting where alcoholics may feel free to express any doubts or disbeliefs they may have, and to share their own personal form of spiritual experience, their search for it, or their rejection of it. We do not endorse or oppose any form of religion or atheism. Our only wish is to assure suffering alcoholics that they can find sobriety in AA without having to accept anyone else's beliefs or having to deny their own."
Beyond Belief attracted up to 50 attendees at its Thursday meetings, and added a Saturday evening Step-study. A new group, We Agnostics, also started on Tuesday nights. Each group had its share of 25-to-35-year sober members, living proof that AA works without God. David and his comrades also witnessed half a dozen one-year celebrations from members who had found that the new groups succeeded for them, when others had failed. Agnostic AA was working in Toronto.
Only for literalists, it wasn’t AA at all. Tradition Three—“The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking”—wasn’t their focus. It was “God as we understand Him.” They took this to mean that a primary requirement for being classified as an AA group was a belief in some sort of God. No God? No AA.
So where does that leave Hindus, Taoists, Native Americans, Buddhists, Humanists and the many other non-monotheistic creeds in our culture? Atheists aren’t the only “No God, please” people who struggle with alcoholism.
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Tlaquepaque was appointed by his ancestors centuries ago. Emerged from the mountainous land, rich in clay, the same land that gave birth to master potters, which in turn gives Tlaquepaque their identity and heritage.
Today, it has become a boomtown, with the same craftsmanship that had makes heart siglos.Las Tlaquepaque streets are full of charming, traditional houses made of adobe, stone quarry buildings, museums, art galleries, culture , food, fun and entertainment.
On 25 March 1530 (an historic day) that took place in the land of the kingdom of Tonala and all surrounding villages, where the Spanish conquistadors were raised in triumph, of victory.
During the colonial period, Tlaquepaque was known as San Pedro and was part of the Viceroyalty of Nueva Galicia. Relying on the efforts of native workers with talent, the Spanish crown encouraged by the development of handicraft and introduced new techniques in Europe and worldwide, making this a town of producing floor, tiles and bricks, most important of the century mundoDurante XVIII, Spanish and Creole rich neoclassical mansions built their summer here, local artisans were gaining recognition throughout the viceroyalty for their ability to create great pieces of pottery.
No need to delve too deeply to discover that beneath the surface of modern living Tlaquepaque tradition that have survived for centuries, we can observe this tradition, just walking the streets. Especially the pedestrian street (Independence) All the galleries, hotels, restaurants, Ext … are remnants of old farms and mansions.
Historic House we will see during the tour is invaluable architectural structure. You find the house in Calle Independencia 208. This colonial house was witness to important events that changed the course of history that your guide will recount.
The traditional bridge is the gateway to the most artistic of the city, built in 1978.
Another great piece of art we have here in San Pedro and we are proud to present the bronze statue of the apostle of the Church, John Paul II also known as Pope travelers. This statue is located and is proudly standing next to the beautiful Church of San Pedro. The statue shows the Pope with a serene and friendly, like he always said. In her hands are symbols that identify it. He will live in the hearts of the citizens of Tlaquepaque forever.
If you like scary stories and places I recommend visiting the shelter here in Tlaquepaque to tell their stories and legends that tell the village elders. Some people say that the voices of the past can be heard inside, while others say that souls have returned, and others talk about ghostly apparitions.
They may be right, a visit to The Refuge is sure to revive anyone. Today, El Refugio cultural center shows the country’s most beautiful expression of art and culture, was built in 1885, the building originally served as a convent for the Sister Josephine and a spiritual retreat center.
El Refugio de Tlaquepaque later became a hospital and was rebuilt in 1983 and acquired by the council. The larges and most beautiful expressions of our culture will be shown by your GDL Tour guides.
Tlaquepaque is the most important crafts center in Mexico. Most ancient cultures believe that man was created from dust. Here, the same applies to crafts. Mother Nature has provided us with four essential elements: earth, water, air and fire. The hands of talented artisans in Tlaquepaque shape these natural gifts ritual amazing works of functional and ornamental value.
It is absolutely necessary to see these talented craftsmen at work, this guided tour is designed for your enjoyment for 5 hours, visit the artisans working where visitors can buy directly from their memories and works of art.
Each piece serves as a voice for the value, feelings and dreams of the craftsman who has lent his talents to create this beautiful treasure.
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I Dreamed About Mama Last Night (1951)
Hank Williams Sr
Songwriter: Fred Rose
On a warm night in June, 1949, with his first number one record spilling out of radios across the country, a frail young man walked onto the stage of Nashville's Ryman Auditorium for his Grand Ole Opry debut.
By 1953 Hank Williams was gone. But he had given country music much of its standard repertoire, a new definition of stardom and a legend so enduring that he is still the model for countless singers and songwriters.
Hank Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) was an American singer and songwriter and musician who has become an icon of country music and one of the most influential songwriters of the 20th century. A leading pioneer of the honky tonk style, he had numerous hit records, and his charismatic performances and succinct compositions increased his fame. His songbook is one of the backbones of country music.
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This year our troop has decided to expand our winter camping skills by making a piece of gear that will assist in a better cold weather camping experience. We are building Pulk Sleds.
A Pulk sled is a sled that is used to haul gear, tools, wood, whatever in the snow. There are many designs out there and many price ranges. We thought we could make them a lot cheaper and get more out of it in the long run. So the search began for a sled that would work. We did not want to break the bank on the sleds. I saw a few YouTube videos of people making Pulk sleds out of ordinary kids plastic sleds. We figured.. this would work for us.
But I wanted one for me that would last longer and be sturdy enough to take my load. I purchased the Jet Sled Jr. from Shappell. It is a sled designed for ice fishing and conversion to a Pulk sled. The cost was $29.99, so that’s not to bad. But for the sleds for the Troop a bit to much for our budget. Back to the kids sleds. I found a good sturdy sled at Big 5 Sports for $15. Then we took the design that would stay within our budget and meet the needs of the Pulk sled.
So here is the list of materials needed to build the sled.
1 Sled. We bought the Flexible Flyer Winter Lightning sled – $15.00
100 Feet of synthetic rope (100 feet will make about 4 sleds)- $8.00 ($2 per sled)
6 snap links -$5.88 for all 6
1 10 ft. length of 1/2 inch PVC – $1.68
Total cost of the materials – $25.00
Start by cutting the PVC pipe in half. Run a length of rope through the PVC and tie off each end with a loop. Run a snap link through each loop.
Drill holes at lengths where you want to have tie downs. Run the rope over and under, tieing a knot so the loops maintain their shape.
Tie loops at the front.. connect the PVC arms and you are finished.
A $25 Pulk sled.
The Scouts of the Troop will be making 2 per Patrol, and if they want to go out and make their own, like I am.. they are welcome to. This is a great project that is extremely simple but will add to our winter camping experience.
I will do a video on the making of my Pulk sled, and will more than likely shoot some video of the Scouts making their sleds. And of course you will see them in action in January.
Here are the pictures of the “Prototype” sled that I made to show the Scouts what we are talking about.
So there it is… A pulk sled! A fun project.. can’t wait to get it in the snow.
Have a Great Scouting Day!
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The Daruino is an open hardware project aiming to build an Arduino pin-compatible board with a Arm-based CPU. The smallest board is based on the LPC1102 from NXP. This will bring around 50MIPS to a $5 package.
The standard board, EV01 is based around a Arm Cortex M0 with 128KB FLASH and 16KB RAM. Running at 50MHz, the PCB is the same size as the Atmel CPU used on the Arduino Uno boards. Remove the Atmel CPU, replace it with an EV01 board, and you’ve got something looking and working as an Arduino, but in a completely new performance range.
The idea here is not to interfere with the concept behind Arduino, instead to provide another option in the same spirit. Work is being made to support sketches on a code-compatibility level. Most shields will also work.
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WASTED DAYS AND WASTED NIGHTS
Binge drinking is a national epidemic. But is lowering the consumption age a solution – or just another slogan?
Thursday, November 6, 2008
“YOU, YOU, YOU!” growls a group of students huddled in the kitchen of an on-campus apartment at CSU Monterey Bay. As the night wears on, more friends cluster inside the cramped crib, carrying 12-packs of Natural Ice and Keystone Light.
It’s a typical college habitat: the cult TV show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia plays without sound on a large flat-screen as Shwayze’s dirty, hip-hop anthem “Buzzin” booms from a stereo.
X-Box games, video game controllers and empty beer bottles are strewn across the living room table and a green-felt, beer-stained poker table sits in the middle of the dining room.
A large Corona beer flag, a Bob Marley tie-dyed tapestry and labels from 40-ounce bottles of Old English and King Cobra malt liquor line the walls.
“FRESHMAN YEAR, I SAW THIS GUY GET ALCOHOL POISONING. IT WAS SURREAL– HE WAS FOAMING AT THE MOUTH.’’
A few gather like a primeval tribe to smoke weed in one of the back bedrooms.
A couple of couches, a few beer banners and—most importantly, a makeshift ping-pong table—make up the décor of the garage-turned-party room, where a crowd gathers around a beer-pong match already in progress.
The other featured drinking contest, the “You!” game, is Nick Kova’s innovation. As the towheaded senior explains, slightly slurring his words: A partygoer is singled out and pressured into guzzling down an entire alcoholic beverage in one breath while everyone around shouts “You, you, you!” over and over.
Though most of the students are of legal drinking age, Kova guesses at least four people attending the party are under 21—but still knocking it back.
They are not alone.
Kova, who turned 21 last February, says his current drinking habits are no different than when he was underage.
“I’ve been in more fear of getting in trouble now than when I was under 21, as odd as that sounds,” he says before announcing that he’s going to down some “schizels” (slang for “shots”).
But it’s not all fun and games.
At the same party, one student recalls the downside of college drinking.
“Freshman year, I saw this guy get alcohol poisoning,” says a 20-year-old junior with blonde, shoulder-length hair, who asks not to be identified.
“It was surreal—he was foaming at the mouth,” she continues, cracking open a Natural Ice. “Stuff like that happened every weekend during the beginning of my freshman year. Every weekend you’d hear the ambulance.”
Everyone knows that college kids are going to drink, whether or not they’re of age. No one, seemingly, knows what to do about it. But the crisis has reached such proportions—excessive alcohol consumption contributed to more than 4,600 deaths of people under 21 in the United States annually from 1999-2005, according to a Centers for Disease Control study—that novel proposals are being offered.
In July, the Amethyst Initiative, drafted by John McCardell, president emeritus of Middlebury College in Vermont (and affiliated with the Monterey Institute of International Studies) offered a plan to begin a national debate on lowering the legal drinking age to 18. The creators of the initiative and the 130 university president signatories believe a lower drinking age would result in less clandestine underage binge drinking. (The initiative is named for the stone amethyst because the word is derived from the Ancient Greek for “not’’ and “intoxicated,’’ says the group’s website, www.amethystinitiative.org.)
But many believe this complex problem will not be fixed by a simple solution, however appealing it may sound.
CSUMB President Dianne Harrison opposes the Amethyst Initiative but believes it makes a “compelling argument”: It addresses the problem of those who are under 21 “who are forced to go underground and end up drinking more.
“Our laws aren’t very consistent,’’ she says. “You can serve in the military but you can’t have a beer.”
But while she hopes for the best, the realist in Harrison is always prepared for the worst. Anytime a student is involved in an accident (auto or otherwise) the first question she says she asks is: “Was it alcohol-related?”
She has seen the consequences of student alcohol abuse firsthand. Last year, a CSUMB student who had been drinking heavily fell and was critically injured.
“These things worry me to death as the university president and as a parent,” she says. “For these reasons, I’m not sure if the initiative will gain much support.”
Due to the complexity of the issue, Harrison often seeks outside advice.
“What kind of alcohol education do we need to provide for freshmen?” she constantly asks the administration. This year CSUMB welcomed its largest incoming freshman class—around 850—since it was founded in 1994.
“OUR LAWS AREN’T VERY CONSISTENT. YOU CAN SERVE IN THE MILITARY BUT YOU CAN’T HAVE A BEER.”
Since most freshmen are 18, that makes the problem of dealing with underage drinking that much more daunting, but Harrison claims CSUMB has one of the most comprehensive alcohol-education programs in the country. In October, the school’s Personal Growth and Counseling Center organized a National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week, promoting “personal responsibility and respect for the law when it comes to the consumption of alcohol.”
She notes that “substance-free’’ housing is a popular choice for many students. However, as is the case at most colleges and universities with similar programs, substance-free housing is not always substance-free.
Dorm 206 is CSUMB’s substance-free dorm. In the evening, the lobby is crammed with students doing homework, chatting about classes, playing foosball and watching It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia—this time with the sound on.
First-semester residential advisers Steven Matthews and Katherine Pendleton both lived in the substance-free dorm before becoming RAs. Pendleton lived in a regular dorm last year and is relieved to be back in the substance-free dorm as an RA.
“It was rough last year,” she says. “People would get so drunk they’d be passed out in the hallways.”
Dorm 206 seems like a parallel universe to the Animal House antics Pendleton witnessed last year. Many of the doors to students’ rooms are wide open. Bulletin boards hang on each floor with alcohol- and substance-abuse information. One of the boards reads: “Alcohol Mythology,” listing such myths as: “I can sober up quickly if I have to...” and “People who drink too much only hurt themselves...”
The halls of the first, second and third floors are just a little louder than a library. On the third floor, three girls gather in the hallway with their laptops.
“As a non-drinker, I believe the age should be lowered to 18,” says resident Jessica Tatum. “[The underage population] wouldn’t feel the thrill anymore.”
Sarah Waterman says, “ smells better and it’s less distracting.”
“[Dorm] 202 smells like a bar,” Stephanie Spross adds. “People say they have to Febreeze their clothes to get out the smoke and pot smell.”
RAs are warned to be on the lookout for heavy drinking and alcohol poisonings around the start of the school year and, especially, the holidays. “There are usually a lot around this time of the year,” Matthews says.
Even though the residence hall is substance-free, Pendleton says a handful of parties do involve alcohol. Last week, she reported two students for drinking. “They’ll probably be moved to another dorm,” she says.
Junior Chanel Hason lived in 206 during her sophomore year due to a “res-life screw-up” (the dorm is usually reserved only for freshmen.)
“It was different,” Hason says. “It wasn’t as rowdy and everything was nicer. They use the rooms on the first floor for tours.”
But she adds, despite the “substance-free” label, “some people would smoke pot in their dorm rooms—you could smell it in the halls. And other people would have small parties with alcohol.”
The 20-year-old even had an occasional “margarita party” in her dorm room.
“It’s pretty hard to get three floors of people who are completely clean. Most people like it [Dorm 206] because it’s quiet.”
Dorm 208, next to 206, consists mostly of freshmen. It’s a notoriously heavy drinking residence hall.
“I’m aware of two students living [in 208] who were binge drinking last weekend,” says one resident, who sports short, spiked hair and a black T-shirt. “It was their first time drinking and they didn’t know their limits. One got alcohol poisoning and was taken to the hospital, and the other was just smashed, running through the halls.”
A CSUMB police log from that weekend confirms his story: “Incident-medical aid\medical aid\208 Residence Hall, Officer was detailed to a call of a student with alcohol poisoning. The student was transported to the hospital for further treatment.”
An 18-year-old freshman, barefoot and dressed in board-shorts, living in Dorm 211, next to 208, says he drinks “four or five times a week; sometimes six.
“ABSTINENCE IS PROHIBITION, AND PROHIBITION DOESN’T WORK. [BUT] COLLEGE CAMPUSES NEED TO BE SAFE ENVIRONMENTS.’’
“I have a high tolerance for alcohol so I can usually drink a lot and not really get that intoxicated,” he adds.
The CDC defines “binge” drinking as five or more alcoholic drinks in about two hours (four drinks for women).
The Amethyst Initiative isn’t McCardell’s first attempt at addressing the national underage college-drinking problem. In 2007, he started Choose Responsibly, a nonprofit organization founded to stimulate discussion about the presence of alcohol in American culture.
McCardell and Choose Responsibly drafted the Amethyst Initiative in July 2008. Supporters include the presidents of Dartmouth College, Duke University and Santa Clara University.
“Twenty-one is just not working out,” McCardell says. “There needs to be debate.”
He adds that the goal of the initiative is not to lower the drinking age but rather to begin debate.
“Our current laws aren’t working,’’ he says. “The initiative doesn’t hold a position on whether the age should, in fact, change. As a college president, the only approach is abstinence, which is unrealistic. Abstinence is prohibition, and prohibition doesn’t work. [But] college campuses need to be safe environments and teach responsibility.”
The minimum legal drinking age of 21 was put into place to decrease drunk driving. But while statistics show the roads have been safer since the age increase, they also show that binge drinking and alcoholism among the underage population have increased.
“The public is ready for debate—this debate is about policy versus reality,” McCardell says.
The drinking scene at CSUMB is a microcosm of a national alcohol epidemic. Alcohol education, alcohol-free events and laws have had little effect.
The statistics are grim. According to the CDC report, at least 157 people aged 18 to 23 drank themselves to death between 1999 and 2005. During the same period, 83 of the deceased were under the legal drinking age. And the proportion of current drinkers who binge is highest in the 18- to 20-year-old group.
According to CSUMB’s campus crime statistics, there have been more than 700 reported “liquor law violations” on campus during the past three years. This is more than the next five classes of violations put together—no other category of on-campus offenses comes close. Most violations are by students who are under legal drinking age.
Over the past month the University Police Department’s daily log reads more like a pub crawl than a crime blotter: “Officers responded to an intoxicated subject. The subject was transported to CHOMP by ambulance for evaluation and treatment”; “Officer cited a subject in the residential halls for being a minor in possession of alcohol”; “Officer contacted two underage female students with alcohol in the south stairway. Both were cited and released.”
UPD Chief Fred Hardee is dressed in a freshly pressed uniform; his hair is neatly parted and looks unmovable. Honors, awards and family photos decorate his office.
Hardee believes the minimum legal drinking age should remain at 21.
“[The initiative] goes against everything that’s been established,’’ he says. “Numbers prove that when the legal drinking age went to 21, fatalities were reduced. We would be taking several steps backwards if [it] became 18 again.”
In 1984, lawmakers set the national minimum drinking age to 21. In order to get all 50 states to comply, the law required that a portion of federal highway funds be withheld from states that initially didn’t comply.
According to Mothers Against Drunk-Driving, 25,000 lives have been saved as a result of the higher legal drinking age. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates the legislation has reduced traffic fatalities involving drivers 18-to-20 years old by 13 percent.
But the consumption habits of underage binge drinking continue to be alarming. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention reports that about 90 percent of the alcohol consumed by those under 21 in the United States is by binge drinkers.
Excessive drinking among underage students isn’t confined to school campuses. At a “CEOs and office hoes” party on a Saturday night, the streets of a Marina neighborhood leading up to a small house are lined with cars. People walking to or from the party occasionally dip into a bush to vomit or urinate.
Most of the 150 or so partygoers are dressed in the themed attire. The guys wear mismatched suits and ties and the girls wear mega-short, Britney Spears skirts with tight, button-popping shirts, leaving little to the imagination.
CSUMB Junior Chris Olson, one of the hosts, says he lived in the dorms but was kicked out after getting caught drinking in his room with an underage student.
Olson stands in his driveway drinking from a red plastic cup marking the hands of those who pay the $3 entrance fee.
He wears a cardboard sign strung around his neck that says: “CEO in search of work. Will work for beer, buds and boobs.”
The house overflows with drunken college students. In the two-car garage, a couple of kegs, a regulation stripper pole and wall-to-wall people sweating profusely ensure a constant 100-degree, humid climate.
“There are a lot of seniors [at the party] and a lot of freshman girls,” senior James Marquez says distractedly as a blonde removes her shirt to reveal a black lace bra.
Whether students party on or off-campus, booze is readily available in large amounts despite the law. Eighty percent of college students drink alcohol, 40 percent binge drink and 20 percent binge drink three or more times over two-week periods, according to a 2007 U.S. Surgeon General’s report. Sure, there are certain measures that could make a difference, including focusing community attention on underage binge drinking, holding simulated DUI classes with real instructors; and conducting panels of student peers who have experienced the repercussions of binge drinking. But in the end, there are no foolproof solutions to this complex problem.
“Alcohol abuse is insidious, and there is no magic age,’’ Harrison says. “[The Amethyst Initiative] is too simplistic for such a complicated problem. There is no silver bullet.”
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Developing Empathy Unlocks Spiritual Development
What exactly is empathy? In my research and journey, I’ve come to realize that there are different kinds of Empathy or what people experience as empathy, and I’ve come to see it as a type of Sensory, that humans have which allows us to gain or acquire knowledge or data from sources beyond the limits of the 5 senses.
One type of empathy is Physical or Psychic Empathy, which relates to perceiving the Organic processes within a person, such as their bio-chemical emotion state, thoughts or Intentions they have set within themselves. The other type which I am interested in is Spiritual or Energetic Empathy, which relates to the feeling, vibration one receives about a person, place, thing or frequency of energy that can be experienced or attuned to.
I would define Empathic Sensory as the ability to tune your consciousness into the same frequency as another person, place or thing, so that you consciously experience that vibration within you, as a part of you. Emotions are the easiest vibrations to detect, but you can also detect innate vibrations and imprints from objects or an environment as if it were a part of you, in its many layers, as if you were touching it, smelling it, tasting it, becoming it, like it was within you, all at the same time.
You walk into a house and you perceive a feeling, as if to say the place feels very stale or thick, whereas you go to another house and it may look exactly the same as the first one, but it feels more inviting or welcoming, or relaxing. What you are experiencing is the energy of the environment, absorbed by the furniture the walls, the physical matter of the place, through the air all around.
What most people don’t realize is that you can actually project your energy outwards with a positive vibrational pattern or frequency into the environment while you’re in that empathic state. You begin tuning into and experiencing the environment internally like it’s a part of you, and the energy inside the place will then become a warm, cozy, inviting energy that others around you will experience themselves.
It’s something I’ve done myself many times so I know it works and I’ve seen how those around me who aren’t aware of what I’m doing with my mind, react to the positive waves I broadcast, thus showing me that these things are more than possible, they are a reality.
I remember one time I was coming home from work on the subway in the city where I live, and the train I was in was stopped at a station, with one of the riders arguing with the driver while we were in route, and the driver was trying to kick the rider off the train. The hostile energy between them was starting to build up, and so instead of doing nothing, I empathically sensed them, and simultaneously went within myself and invoked a peaceful, loving, joyous feeling.
Then I projected it towards the rider and the driver but the energy wave bounced back, as if it wasn’t intense enough to break apart their darker energies, so with time ticking away, I invoked a deeper sense of passion, or a desire to be free of tension, a love for Life and Harmony, and blasted that vibration at them again, and within 2 seconds they just stopped shouting, looked at each other and the rider walked away. It was a like the Holographic Reality we exist within just Reset itself, preventing the energetic buildup from manifesting into physical violence.
Realize that Spiritual Empathy is the core skill or ability that resides within all Souls, all Consciousness. It is the way Conscious Thinks and Perceives Reality, the Eyes and Ears of your Souls, your Energy Body. Energy connects us to things around us by vibrating at same pattern within us, like putting something into your mouth so you can tell what it is. You feel as if you’ve become the very things you perceive.
Empathy in a spiritual sense allows you to tune into whatever you are empathically sensing, and vibrating at that same frequency as if it was part of you. When you do this it becomes a part of you, and you now ‘know’ that frequency intimately.
The deeper you can go in your ‘assimilation’ of that frequency, the more data and knowledge you will have access to, and the more effectively you will be able to interact with the frequency you are tuning into, which will have an effect on any person, place, thing, in resonance with that frequency.
The key is to realize that everything in reality is energy and has a vibration, pattern, or rhythm, which you can tune into or sync yourself with, much like a radio does when you turn the tuner dial, and you change its vibration and sync from one state to another vibration, moving from 91.1 to 95.5 on your dial.
Some people say you can achieve these things through visualization techniques or holographic techniques which incorporate all 5 senses into your mental hologram or landscape. These techniques are good, but they are all Organic based, meaning they all relate to how your Brain processes reality. You see in color because your eyes see in color. If you were an animal, you may see in black and white only, or in some other spectrum of light human eyes can’t perceive, and you would think in that way.
Empathic Sensory is about learning to experience the vibrations of energy directly, than relying on 3rd dimensional perspectives. Energy is the basis of everything, so experiencing the empathic vibration of a feather in your hand is a purer form of experience than what your eyes, ears or fingers can tell you. You Feel it, You Become It, You Know it internally, not just what’s on the surface.
If you use your Empathic Sensory and your 5 senses all together, you will be using All your Senses to their fullest than relying primarily on your sight or hearing as most people do. What would your life be like if you were able tune into and detect a level of interaction between all things in existence that was beyond your organic 5 senses, something that has been going on all this time, but everyone misses? Would you be the same? How would it change your everyday actions?
If you knew that you could use your mind to help alleviate the pain and suffering someone you loved was going through, would you help? If you knew you could tune into the vibration of the physical body of someone you loved, who was suffering from an illness, and ‘will’ that person well, would you help?
If someone came to you and told you that they could teach you to do these things, and you would be able to use your newfound gifts to benefit others, and add to the flowering of a beautiful and prosperous future for all, would you be willing to put forth the time and energy and learn to master the skills and abilities laying dormant and latent within you?
Your True Self, It is Pure, it is Energy, it is Spirit, it is God. It is your Spiritual Consciousness that IS YOU, not your Organic Consciousness You are Within, that you need to learn to awaken and remain awake, so as to realize that sense of completion and fulfillment you’ve always been searching for, a path that has followed you around because the doorway is within you.
You only need to walk through it and cross over to the other side and take your seat on the throne of our Inner Consciousness, for you are the Governing Force that guides and directs and gives life to the body, not the body, nor its linguistic thoughts or emotional bio-chemical processes, you are Pure Energy, Empathy, Vibration, Consciousness.
If you stick with using only your eyes or ears, a brain which can only understand what it’s programmed to interpret, you are unable to tap into these frequencies of knowledge and data, or gain spiritual experiences in your life, because your brain or Organic Consciousness wasn’t built for those things.
Our Minds and Energy/Spiritual Consciousness was and is designed to do these things. Sometimes people do have experiences where they suddenly know something, but have no clue from where they learned it.
When you become skilled at using your Empathic Sensory, like you are at using your other senses, you will be able to tap into energy frequencies of pure data, and other dimensions that are beyond this dimensional speed, vibration or bandwidth, we perceive as our present reality.
As you learn to distinguish between different vibrations, what they are and relate to the more paranormal, extra dimensional, metaphysical experiences, you will be able to expand your range of application to be able to use your sensory not just for scanning or assimilating objects or environments you are physically near or within, but be able to project your Consciousness to anywhere you want and even tangibly interact with people or objects around you in that dimensional space.
The Database of Consciousness, otherwise known as the Akashic Records, is Real and opens you up to a Super-Internet database worth of Energetic Frequencies and Vibrations, you can Empathically Vibration with, become and know its Secrets.
Once you’re energetically in sync with it, by simply wanting to know something, having an Intention, the frequencies will filter out and what will be left will be the knowledge you wanted to know, the experience you wanted to have. As long as you are Mindful to remain ‘online, connected or logged into’ the Database of Consciousness, or empathically attuned to it, you can explore that dimensional space as long as you are.
While there you can do things like Invoke a person who lived in the past, their Essence, Vibration and learn things that they did or knowledge they had, and assimilate it into your Consciousness, and use it. You can even watch events that happened in the past, from a variety of different perspectives, so as to get a holistic understanding; the list goes on and on.
This is all possible because of the Energy within you, and its ability to interface with your Psychic or Holographic Mind’s Eye, so you can see a visual or 5 sensory representation of the environment, person, objects or frequencies you are tuning into.
This is the Core Ability that all Mystical abilities are based upon. All Spiritual Masters understood how to utilize their Minds and True Self, the Part of you that is Energy and not Organic that is Spirit and not Flesh. This is what they were doing.
Feel it and know it. Flow within it, Expand within it, and become it by resonating with it. You will then be able move through Space and Time, through different dimensions within the Multiverse. The Universe becomes your playground.
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France in Africa
A selection of resources built around the theme of the French presence in Africa
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The centenary of the French presence in Algeria 1930 was commemorated in France through a variety of events and the production of posters glorifying France civilising mission in Algeria, notably the modernisation of the agricultural sector. On the other hand, the French Communist Party (PCF) and its affiliated union (CGTU) following the III International’ s anti-colonialism, insisted on colonial and capitalist exploitation of Algeria. The two posters included here allow to visualise such contrasting arguments
This resource includes a reproduction of a 1923 monument commemmorating the Tirailleurs Sénégalais who fought for France during the First World War. The original of this monument was erected in Reims and destroyed by the Germans in 1940. An exact copy used to be displayed in Bamako (Mali) but is not currently on public display. This small-scale reproduction may be viewed at the Musée des Forces Armées in Dakar (Senegal) This resource also includes the reproduction of a certificate awarded to a Tirailleurs Sénégalais batallion, in recognition of its bravery in battle during the First World War. The website: www.tirailleursenegalais.com, is very interesting in the way that it rehabilitates the tirailleurs into a national narrative ('batisseurs du monde libre') but of course completely glosses over the fact that many tirailleurs also fought for France in its two wars of decolonisation in Indochina and Algeria.
Once France’s sub-Saharan African colonies became independent in 1960, African troops who had served France loyally both in the world wars and in its wars of decolonization did not fit easily into the official, nationalist narrative of postcolonial African leaders of an African nation united in the struggle against French colonialism. As a result their role and experiences were largely ‘forgotten’ for some forty years after independence. A powerful symbol of this official forgetting is that, as recently as 1999, in France’s oldest African colony Senegal, a French colonial monument originally cast in 1923 to commemorate the role played by African soldiers fighting for France in World War I, was removed to a small cemetery on the outskirts of Dakar because its presence in the centre of the city was considered too redolent of the country’s colonial past. Yet five years later the monument made a great comeback to the city centre after the announcement by the President Wade, in the presence of a plethora of African heads of state of former French colonies, of the creation of a national day to commemorate the tirailleurs. At the same time he also announced that the Senegalese government would henceforth pay an allowance to all Senegalese war veterans still alive on 2 March 2000, in addition to the increase in African war veterans’ pensions recently announced by France. Following this the monument was restored to the centre of the city to become the focal point of a vast commemoration project in which the Place de la Gare was renamed the Place du Tirailleur and designated as a memorial to African soldiers who perished in both world wars.
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Daily Topic for March 15, 2011
All nations. This includes the small shamanistic groups that we are praying for this month. It’s sometimes hard for us to understand what Christ meant. We understand the word “ethne,” which is translated as “nation” refers to an ethnic group. Ethnic groups are separated by language or cultural affinity. For this reason, we are praying for each of the small “ethne” of Russia, because most of them have their own language.
Pray for GRI’s efforts to get gospel messages to the small “ethne” of Siberia.
The U.S. Postal Service has a slogan that “neither, rain, nor sleet, nor snow” will prevent them from delivering the mail. The same can be said of Global Recordings International (GRI) as they deliver gospel recordings to dozens of different ethnic and linguistic groups from the frozen northwest of Siberia to the Arctic Circle. Recordings of the gospel message have been made in Yakut, Buryat, Tuvan, Nanai, Altai, Khakass, and Evenki. There are 32 heart languages spoken by the peoples of Siberia.
There have been many evangelistic endeavors and many churches planted, even in remote Siberian villages. One recordist was surprised to find a handful of Nanai believers in a small village on the Armure River in the far east. He tells of one young woman, Elena, who 11 years earlier had tuberculosis and was in a hospital 300km. away from her village. There she heard about Jesus and gave Him her life. God completely healed her, and she returned to her village and told people about Christ. Others believed because of her story, and they formed a church. Today there are believers from every generation in that village. The recordist recorded 20 testimonies from that village to share with nearby villages that have no church. The literate as well as the non-literate can learn from such oral teaching methods.Learn more at joshuaproject.net
Pray for GRI recordings to be completed in all 32 Siberian languages. Pray for teams to successfully distribute recordings to every village.
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Are You a Bruce Wayne?
With the next Batman movie coming out on Friday, I thought we might explore what kind of entrepreneur Bruce Wayne is. Of course, I understand that he is a fictional character, but there is much an entrepreneur can learn from how Bruce Wayne built his empire.
First, Bruce understood that value of publicity and marketing. He always chose to be in the spotlight. He donated wealth to help build his market. He understood how to get and keep the media’s attention on his businesses and his causes. He reminds me of Sir Richard Branson in this way. He didn’t create the industries he was in but he was the leading innovator in several key markets that matched well with his view of the world.
Bruce Wayne’s family wealth came from serving the public good. His father Thomas helped build power plants, medical instruments and hospitals, and accumulated significant power and influence in the process. He was the 20th century version of the one percent. He understood the synergies between wealth and good causes and was not afraid to make waves. Today, we see many entrepreneurs that have created similar wealth and have chosen to invest it in bigger and bigger causes. You might think of Bill and Melinda Gates being an example of this. After being vilified for much of his earlier career, Bill is likely to be the most influential activist entrepreneur in the history of the world. The same forces that help create Microsoft are now gathered to immunize a large part of world’s population at a cost that few could have imagines less than five years ago.
Bruce Wayne understood how technology could be a game changer for an entrepreneur. He understood his only limits were his own on what he could imagine and develop. We all know he was a great car innovator adding such breakthrough features as rocket power overdrive, fighter pilot seat belts and who can ever forget how his car could fly, drive, and go into water with equal vigor. He created inventions great and small to support his central mission in life, restoring Gotham City to its former splendor. He reminds me of Steve Jobs in his ability create new products and services at a dizzying rate. As other businesses were striving for evolution Jobs was leapfrogging the competition by bringing a wonderful mix of new products to the market.
Finally, Bruce Wayne understood the value of surrounding himself with great people. He was the master of determining who to trust and then having them develop many projects concurrently so that he was able to build out at a dizzying pace. He reminds me of Warren Buffet in this way. Buffet’s ultimate success has come from finely honed instincts on reading people and business quickly and seizing opportunities when they can be seized at the right moment. In Warren’s case his managers would make up a corporate A Team. He may be an extremely capable strategist, but successful implementation is where real long term growth comes from.
Now why does this matter to you, my fellow entrepreneur? Here’s why. Over the past several years, we have been vilified as evil, corrupt, and even being the devil incarnate. The one percent of society who helps creates for the rest. Recently our President talked about how entrepreneurs could not be successful without the infrastructure the government provides. I believe he’s half right on this. We need many of the services the government provides for us. I think Bruce would remind the President to just send him the bill. Bruce and all entrepreneurs know that we always get the bill and we always pay our share and a little more. Think of Jon Huntsman and his incredible cancer center on this count. We all know that with great power comes greater responsibilities. We haven’t shirked our responsibilities for over two hundred years, and I don’t see this changing now. Now get out of the way, and let us take on the next big crisis, and see how well we do.
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Where an individual no longer has capacity to make their own decisions this can cause problems for their family and friends, not least due to the fact that they will not be able to have a Will drawn up on their behalf nor will they be able to have a Power of Attorney drawn up to enable someone else to manage their own affairs.
However, if you are faced with such a situation, there are remedies open to you through an application being made to the Court of Protection:
If an individual is shown to have lost capacity and they do not have a valid Power of Attorney in place to manage, an application can be made by a family member or a friend to the Court of Protection for a Deputyship Order to be made.
Due to the implications of such an order being made, the Court of Protection will only exercise its power if it can be clearly shown that the individual has lost capacity and it is necessary for such an order to be made to ensure the needs of the individual are met. When making decisions on behalf of an individual, a deputy will have to:
If the Court agrees to such an order being made this will provide authority for the deputy to make decisions about the individual's personal welfare or property and finances. However, the following should be noted:
If an individual is shown to have lost capacity and they do not have a valid Will, an application can be made on their behalf to the Court of Protection for a Statutory Will to be put in place for them.
If such an application is made and the Court is minded to order a Statutory Will for the individual, the terms of this will be based on the following considerations:
It should also be noted that, should a Statutory Will be created by the Court it is only going to broadly deal with an individual's assets.
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is it true that Amazon's EC2 clouds had some failure that lead to a permanent data loss?
Yes, earlier this year there was a failure that resulted in permanent loss of data on a very small percentage of EBS snapshots.
As for 'clouds being the next big thing' there's a direct correlation between amount of media hype, and the amount of under-qualified hosting companies moving in to this market to grab share. Cloud hosting is now only second to SEO in terms of being a web service attracting BS product and marketing, so the chances are high that you'll see further failures of cloud resilience in the future.
Every computer, or system of computers, will at some point be subject to some degree of failure. Why would EC2 be any different? The difference between the failure on EC2 and other systems however is that with EC2 it tends to be less frequent and more easily/quickly recoverable.
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Dr. Terry Grove got his first Eagle Scout Award medal in 1956.
It wouldn’t be his last.
Ever since, he’s been fascinated by the ever-changing design of Eagle Scout medals, patches, hat pins, and other artifacts.
And now, the Central Florida Scouter has amassed the largest collection of Eagle Scout Award medals in the world.
To honor Grove’s efforts to preserve these important pieces of Scouting history, the Boy Scouts of America has presented Grove with its Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, given to fewer than 2,000 Scouters since its inception in 1969.
In 1991, Grove published his first book, The Comprehensive Guide to the Eagle Scout Award. The title is self-explanatory.
In the years since, Grove has taken his collection to the National Scouting museum in Irving, Tex., the past two national jamborees, and multiple National Order of the Arrow Conferences.
So with all the medals in his collection, which is his favorite? His own, of course.
His award means “people can say not only is he about Eagles, but he is one,” Grove says.
And even though the design of the award has changed ever since his was pinned on more than a half-century ago, Eagle Scouts are still Eagle Scouts.
“It doesn’t matter when we got the award,” he says. “What it means is that we have prepared ourselves to live in the world that we live in.”
Congrats, Terry! For more, watch this excellent video below:
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President Dilma Rousseff travels Sunday to the northeastern city of Fortaleza to inaugurate the first Brazilian stadium readied for the 2014 World Cup, an arena built in part by using prison labour.
With its 67,000-seat capacity, the renovated arena, ringed by metallic structures that look like sails floating in the wind, is one of six which will host next June’s Confederations Cup and the World Cup a year later.
Other Brazilian host cities for the Confederations Cup are Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Salvador, Recife and Rio.
Six other Brazilian cities: Cuiaba, Curitiba, Manaus, Natal, Porto Alegre and Sao Paulo will host World Cup games as well.
Sunday, Rousseff will grace the inauguration of the Castelao (big castle) arena with her presence. A concert will follow. Read more
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Fashion and style are the same. (Sorry, style and fashion camps, but it’s true.) Our tendency as humans to overthink and complicate matters has failed us yet again. Why polarize, why place a wall between two clones acting a little differently extrinsically but intrinsically are the same?
Both fashion and style can be used interchangeably, without fail: my fashion is unique; my style is unique. The room was fashioned in the deco style; the room was styled in the deco fashion. There’s hairstyle or fashion of hair. There’s lifestyle or fashion of life, et cetera (etc.) infinity.
Sartorially speaking, there are countless types (looks) of style or fashion: to name a few, western, boho, trad, hipster, grunge, homeless, pop, hip hop, rock, punk, funk, avant garde, bespoke, couture, sexy, rural, suburban, urban, sophisticated, elegant, luxe, redux, contemporary, any culture, decade or time, hybrids galore. To that end, “the classics” aren’t collectively “style,” they’re a type of style or fashion, a subset of the fashion-style superset; nor are personal styling or fashioning quirks “style” and everything else “fashion.” Never mind the irrelevant nuances of each camp. Never mind esoteric idiosyncrasy. Mind exoteric sensibility. At the end of the day, style and fashion are all about clothes and accessories, hair and makeup—nothing more, nothing less. In fact, it would make more sense to name your style or fashion after yourself, id est (i.e.), examined in the form of the question, “What’s your style?” I would answer, “It’s Andy’s fashion; it’s completely my own.”
STYLE IS CHOICE EXPRESSED, a decision made for all to see, or if a fart, maybe not for everyone but in secret, but still a decision to squelch the butt belch until you’re alone because that’s your style. Understand the gravitas of this notion? Not the surreptitious fart, the progenitorial implication of style’s sheer omnipotence. Let me say it again, it’s scary important: Style is everything involving choice, every decision made expressed. Coco Chanel was onto something when she said, “Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street; fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.” She almost pinpointed the connection between fashion and choice, period.
STYLE IS EVERYTHING, EVEN YOUR EXISTENCE, i.e., we, all of us, are our mother’s choice not to abort us. We are our parents’ style expressed, their identities combined, the fashion of Mom and Dad. Aww …
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Understanding climate impacts on food, forestry and ecosystem services in an integrated way.
We develop current climate models to represent key aspects of the land surface including crops, irrigation and forests. In this way we aim to make impacts assessments more consistent with the associated regional and global projections of climate change. Our work has strong links to other sectors in Climate Impacts, such as water resources, so that indirect impacts of climate change can be included in our assessments. We work at both regional and global scales looking at long-term climate mitigation questions as well as short-term adaptation options.
This project has involved close collaboration with the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research to produce regional model projections of climate change for Brazil. In addition, the regional model has been developed to include dynamic vegetation. This enables an assessment of how climate change may affect the vegetation - including the Amazon rainforest -and how direct deforestation of the Amazon could interact with the climate and vegetation across Brazil.
An assessment of the potential impacts of climate change on agricultural productivity for the Foresight Global Food and Farming Futures project, which highlighted food security and its relationship with climate in the short and the long-term as a critical area for research.
The development of a crop model within the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), is in collaboration with the Walker Institute at the University of Reading. This is being developed to address questions relating to long-term projections of global food production, capacity for agricultural adaptation options, and short-term projections of crop productivity.
Crop irrigation is often viewed as a viable adaptation to climate change to ensure food security. However, irrigation can also be a large consumer of available water resources. By introducing an irrigation scheme into the regional model, the possible feedback of irrigation upon the regional climate can be explored, but also the impacts on crop productivity, water availability and river discharge.
Together with scientists from the Hydrological Institute in St. Petersburg (Russia) we are working on an assessment of climate change impacts on permafrost regions, looking at the potential of permafrost degradation under global warming. Thawing permafrost has the potential to further enhance climate change because of the large amounts of carbon stored in frozen soils, but it also affects the local hydrology and ground stability. By using an improved description of frozen soil processes in the JULES land surface model, we are trying to address some of the uncertainties related to modelling the response of the permafrost to climate change.
As part of the European research project Carbo-North we are using the coupled climate-carbon cycle version of HadCM3 to examine ecosystem feedbacks on the climate in northern Eurasia. This includes investigating the possibility of ongoing local change under a scenario of stabilised greenhouse gas concentrations.
Combining fire risk indices with projections of climate change improves understanding of how fire risk may change in the future. An integrated fire risk model has been developed for HadCM3 and work has also begun to consider how we could integrate the fire model into our new Earth System Model HadGEM2.
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April 1, 2013 in Uncategorized
Brussels has been forced to eat a generous slice of humble pie: A massive sell-off of the euro is underway in the wake of a persistent financial crisis, as holdings in the European currency by emerging economies were slashed by almost 8 percent last year.
Emerging economies – including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa ( BRICS ) – are dumping the euro, having sold €45 billion of the currency in 2012, according to data gathered by the International Monetary Fund.
The euro represents just 24 percent of their reserves, the lowest level since 2002 – the year when euro coins and banknotes first entered circulation – and down from a peak of 31 percent in 2009. At the same time, the euro’s share of total global reserves has also fallen. This change of fortune for the euro is blamed on several factors, including sovereign debt crises and rapid growth by BRICS nations. Read the rest of this entry →
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Commons reading explores gender and sexuality
ILLUSTRATION BY EDEL RODRIGUEZ
A tradition among first-year students to read and discuss a common text has inspired an effort to foster dialogue about gender and sexuality across the Vanderbilt community.
Themes explored in the 2012 Commons Reading, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, is being expanded through an initiative called “Human Identities: Global, Local, Personal,” bringing speakers, art exhibits, films and related programming to Vanderbilt this academic year.
Written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning husband–wife team of Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the book uses individual stories and social and political context to shed light on injustices in parts of Asia and Africa—such as sex trafficking, maternal mortality, sexual violence and girls’ education—and argues that oppression of women worldwide is “the paramount moral challenge” of our time.
Several academic departments, a number of centers, and some two dozen student groups are participating in the programming. WuDunn gave the Lawson Lecture on Sept. 24, 2012, and Kristof will appear as part of the Chancellor’s Lecture Series on Jan. 31. Organizers hope the larger discussion will leave a lasting impression on students, helping to direct course work and shape service learning throughout their Vanderbilt careers.
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Last night we launched an update that makes Cells much more powerful with Receptors, Hashtag support, and a Public Cell Directory. We also added a time length setting to polls, and made our web chat more “live” - no more page refreshing when you send a message.
Receptors are filters that connect your cell to internet streams. You can add receptors to your cell so that messages are automatically populated from your blog updates, twitter feed, or any RSS stream. These can be filtered by keyword or hashtag, so you can target posts for Celly if you like. Cells can have multiple receptors, and receptors can be setup to be curated, so you approve only the most choice messages. We hope that people use receptors to create curated Personal Learning Networks.
Soon we will introduce cell-to-cell receptors as well as connectivity to other services.
Our new Public Cell Directory showcases web public cells, so you can find some cells to join that fit your interests. We will be working on this directory, providing new ways to search and view cells by location, topic, and leaderboard rankings.
On our website, we have auto-linked hashtags to a search of your inbox. So if you have a message that says “come to the park #911” and you click #911, we will show you all of your messages that have #911 in them. This is just the start of our enhanced support for hashtags.
Our polls now support setting a time limit, or you can run an indefinite length poll. When starting a poll via SMS (text POLL to 23559) you will be prompted for a time length (0 for indefinite). When using the website, there is a little checkbox and box for the minutes under the poll entry box. Polls still close when everyone has voted, or if you text CLOSEPOLL or close it on the web.
When sending messages on the web, there is no more page refreshing, your message is quickly whisked to our servers and your page magically updates. This convenience doesn’t extend to our embedded reply boxes yet, but we are working on it. We are also adding other little touches to the site so that things are more live and there is less page refreshing.
We have this makes Celly even more fun to use. We are having a great back to school and are really enjoying talking with a lot of teachers, students, and other wonderful people using Celly. Don’t hesitate to reach out to us to let us know what you think or how we can help you. Contact us at email@example.com Thanks for helping make Celly great!
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Yesterday morning I was literally stopped in my tracks by a poster I saw on a platform at Waterloo station. I was not the only one transfixed and was, in fact, obscuring the view of another commuter who was taking a photo of the image. The work displayed is part of the ‘Art Below‘ project which provides artists with access to advertising space on the London Underground, where nearly 2 million people travel every day.
‘Pieter’ by Yury Ustsinau is part of a large collection of stark, amazingly distinguished surrealist works in black and white with a unique glossy feel which he has developed since graduating from Vitebsk Technological University, Belarus.
Much of his work can be found in private collections and various pieces have been represented in galleries and art exhibitions.
To enjoy some more of his artwork, please click here.
Author: Russell Hardingham, Design Director
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St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans, Louisiana (1789). Photo ca. 1901.
In contrast to most American burial grounds, where nature provides the keynote, it is architecture that dominates New Orleans's cemeteries. In this regard they are similar to urban cemeteries in France or Italy. Few trees or shrubs appear along the grid of narrow paths and streets. Instead, small stone houses (most of them actually made of plaster-covered brick), in various revival styles, crowd together in a sort of facsimile of the nearby city of the living.
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The tale is a boilerplate classic: the return of the philosopher-king, from the abstractions of reflection and purity of philosophy, to the darkness of the political cave and the dirtiness of pragmatic compromise. But, despite my distaste for Ignatieff's stance on war, I found myself intrigued by his work and want to read his biography of Isaiah Berlin.
It also got me thinking about the possibility that we might be able to distill a uniquely Canadian contribution to political philosophy, or at least a uniquely Canadian sensibility, which Gopnik also finds in Charles Taylor. Gopnik (himself a Canadian ex-pat) sees this as a certain communitarianism:
[T]he belief that the right of the community can trump the rights of the individual--and that this is not incompatible with liberalism but exactly what humanizes it--really is a distinctly Canadian intuition. It is arged in different ways, and with different emphasis, by the influential McGill philosopher Charles Taylor--who, as an N.D.P. candidate in the 1965 elections, was defeated by the newcomer Trudeau in his first run for Parliament [never knew that!]--and by the essayist John Ralston Saul and the Queens University philosopher Will Kymlicka.
Food for thought. It's got me dreaming up an "interim" course on Canadian political philosophy, perhaps in Ottawa or Montreal (in January?!), focused on Trudeau, Taylor, and Ignatieff. But that's just in the dream stage right now.
But the article also showcases Gopnik's prose, and seemed to bring out a hint of nostalgia as he recounted their travel to Stratford, a nostalgia that is, I confess, contagious:
We drove through the beautiful and prosperous South Ontario farm country, with Suzssanna [Ignatieff's wife] riding shotgun, and the Canadian lawyer and literary agent Michael Levine behind the wheel. Though it was a lovely summer evening, some small residual breath of the fugue state that makes small boys lose their gloves for good--the sense of scale, of endlessness that is part of Canada--seemed to infuse the scene. Canada is a big country.
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The Indianapolis 500: 5 Steps To Return the Race to Glory
For decades, there was no debate that the Indianapolis 500 was indeed the world’s greatest race. The race drew the largest crowd, paid out the most money and often lured the world’s best drivers to handle the world’s fastest cars. Today, lots of people will argue about the prominence of the 500. Even worse, many others don’t care at all. It is truly heartbreaking to witness the decline of the event dubbed the "Greatest Spectacle in Racing." As this iconic race marks its 100th anniversary, there are steps that can be taken to restore this once unparalleled auto race to its former glory.
Raise the Speed Limit
Arie Luyendyk holds Indianapolis 500 speed record 237 mph
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The late Indianapolis Motor Speedway announcer Tom Carnegie, who died earlier this year, made the words, “A new track record!,” world famous. Because speed and danger have always been the chief attractions at the huge, narrow and scary track, The Indianapolis 500 should immediately lift the speed limit.
The cars are artificially limited to a top speed of about 230 mph. IndyCars are capable of the fastest speeds in all of motor sports and can go much faster. So let's see just how fast these cars can go. IndyCars can safely reach speeds approaching 250 miles per hour or more at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Why not go back to setting speed records?
The current speed record is 237 mph, which was set 15 years ago by two-time winner Arie Luyendyk. Speed is one of the main ingredients that made the Indianapolis 500 the world's most important race. Make speed an important component once again.
Pay the Winner $10 Million or More
2010 Indianapolis 500 Winner Dario Franchitti
Nick Laham/Getty Images
One of the first steps the Indianapolis 500 should take in restoring the glory of this great race is to increase the purse both overall and the winner’s share. If in fact this is the hardest race to win, the payout to the winner should underscore that fact.
The winner of the Indianapolis 500 should receive no less than $10 million. Ten million dollars would go a long way toward making clear that this race is indeed the most important race not only in America, but the world. The footprint of the Indianapolis 500 was outsized from the very first race in 1911, the legend grew each year, which is why the Indianapolis 500 became universally famous.
Raise Profile of All IndyCar Drivers and Events
Alex Tagliani 2011 Indy 500 pole winner
Jamie Squire/Getty Images
Another major step that must be taken in helping regain the public profile of the Indianapolis 500 is to re-introduce the core drivers of this race and of the IndyCar series to the motor sports public. No disrespect intended, but Danica Patrick should not be the first driver the casual fan knows who is an Indy 500 driver.
Spend whatever it takes to promote all of the drivers with the strongest possible marketing and public relations campaign and make sure to keep them in the racing series. Former Indy 500 champions Dan Wheldon and Buddy Rice are no longer series regulars, because of a lack of sponsor dollars. Keeping accomplished drivers in the IndyCar series and at the Indianapolis 500 should be a priority.
Also, IndyCar should not be a stepping stone for drivers to go to other racing series. It sounds simple, but getting back to the basics is what the Indianapolis 500 and IndyCar must do. The event, and its sanctioning body have become defensive and tentative about selling its drivers. No way should the Indianapolis 500, its drivers and its exotic cars take a back seat to NASCAR and the technologically inferior machines those drivers race. This will help eventually create an unavoidable buzz about the Greatest Spectacle in Racing.
Negotiate Deals with Other Racing Sanctioning Bodies
Grand Prix of Monaco
Mark Thompson/Getty Images
Negotiate a deal with Formula One to insure that F1's prestigious Grand Prix of Monaco never conflicts with the running of the Indianapolis 500.
For many years, the two events were usually spaced about two weeks apart. This allowed Hall of Fame, Formula One drivers like Jim Clark, Jackie Stewart and Graham Hill to make a run at winning the Indianapolis 500. Clark and Hill won the Indianapolis 500 in back-to-back years in the 1960s.
Also try to get NASCAR to move its 600-mile race in Charlotte to Monday of the Memorial Day weekend, which might encourage a few of NASCAR’s best to try to win Indy. All-time NASCAR great Cale Yarbrough and his brother LeeRoy raced at Indianapolis for several years in the late 60s.
Expand the Race Field
Robert Laberge/Getty Images
I know that “33” is a cherished number at Indy, but expanding the field to 40 or 45 cars will allow more drivers from other racing circuits, like NASCAR and Formula One to compete in the Indianapolis 500.
There was a time when he Indianapolis 500 had those other drivers. It should have them again. Further, 33, was not always a magic number, there have been several years in the past where there have been many more than 33. In fact, the first race 100 years ago had 40 drivers. Forty-two cars started the race in 1933. Those races went on as scheduled and worked out just fine.
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Originally Posted by Ken
Interesting chart, but the top end range of the sails, particularly for the intermediate and amateur sailors is very high and frankly, WAY OVER reasonable limits for an 80kg sailor. A 5.8 sail with a top end of 35 knots for an amateur? 41 knots for a 5.0? I don't think so!
The Neil Pryde amateur sailors must all be PWA members racing the slalom circuit. They are over selling the range of their sails. I suppose the top end numbers could be true if you consider a few select speed sailing sites around the world with very flat water and very small boards, but even an 80kg amateur speed sailor would have a handful with a 5.0 in 41 knots of wind, and an intermediate with a 5.0 in 47 knots. Give me a break!
I agree with your comments, this is exactly why I said "orientation", namely, according to my experience the low-ends of these ranges are more or less ok and make a good reference, it is the upper-ends that are "overstretched", of course unless you are Antoine blasting down the "Canal" at Ste-Maries-de-la-Mer!
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[Guest post by DRJ]
The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka KS is well-known for its objection to homosexuality. Church members picket military funerals based on the belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation’s tolerance of homosexuality.
One grieving father whose son’s funeral was the subject of a protest sued the Church for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The Church claimed it was exercising its right to free speech. Today the jury returned an $11M verdict against the Church:
“Albert Snyder of York, Pa., sued the Westboro Baptist Church for unspecified damages after members demonstrated at the March 2006 funeral of his son, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, who was killed in Iraq.
The jury first awarded $2.9 million in compensatory damages. It returned later in the afternoon with its decision to award $6 million in punitive damages for invasion of privacy and $2 million for causing emotional distress.”
The Judge noted that the size of the award for the compensatory damages alone “far exceeds the net worth of the defendants” according to financial statements filed with the court.
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New Jersey Home Care News
Teeth are meant to last a lifetime, but tooth decay and gum disease can often get in the way. When teeth aren’t cleaned properly or often enough, plaque can form. Plaque can cause tooth decay, damaging the enamel that covers your teeth. Plaque that stays on teeth can form tartar, a hard layer that you can’t clean away by brushing.
Plaque and tartar can create a gum infection called gingivitis. People with gingivitis have red, swollen gums that bleed easily. If gingivitis isn’t treated, it can lead to a more serious gum infection called periodontitis. Over time, periodontitis can loosen teeth, and a dentist may have to remove them. Dental problems can also result from taking certain medications, having diabetes, having dry mouth, eating poorly or not seeing a dentist regularly.
Here are steps to help keep teeth and gums healthy at any age:
- Brush your teeth twice a day. Use a soft-bristle brush and fluoride toothpaste.
- Floss between your teeth once a day.
- See the dentist at least twice a year for a checkup and cleaning.
- Eat a balanced diet and avoid sugary drinks.
- Stay away from cigarettes and chewing tobacco.
TIP: If holding a toothbrush is a problem, try putting a wide rubber band around your hand and the brush to hold them together. You can lengthen the handle of the toothbrush by attaching a long piece of plastic or wood to it, or you can make the handle bigger by taping it to a small ball or a sponge. Try using an electric toothbrush.
If seniors have missing or loose teeth, a dentist can fit dentures or put in dental implants. Mouth sores; lumps or rough spots; pain or numbness; or difficulty moving your jaw or tongue could be warning signs of oral cancer, which is why regular visits to the dentist are critical.
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South Africa: The Dream of a Rainbow Nation - Under apartheid, interracial marriages were forbidden and contact between whites and blacks was prosecuted by the state. Thousands of people were found guilty of violating the Immorality Act, which could result in a long prison sentence. The provision of the act prohibiting interracial marriages wasn't repealed until 1985. Its effects are still felt today: interracial relationships are still the exception to the rule. Nelson Mandela's call for a Rainbow Nation has not been realized for many people here. Pippa Tshabalala and her husband Sekwa have been together since their school days. Although they have good jobs, they still have to fight prejudice across society. Brazil and the Environment - Biomass in Capela - In the northeastern part of Brazil, Capela is a center of the energy-intensive brick making industry. Until recently factories fueled their kilns by cutting down trees from the Caatinga -- a virgin forest that covers much of the region. But some have recently made the switch to biomass. New fuels range from wood chips that are byproducts of the furniture industry to bamboo and eucalyptus trees that are sourced from sustainable plantations. The factories also re-use the heat generated by their kilns to dry their bricks -- and use ash as compost. That makes production significantly more climate-friendly than conventional methods. Some are also investing in social projects, including literacy programs and environmental education for children. Social Entrepreneur: Christophe Chevalier - Romans-sur-Isere is a town in the French Alps that has been a traditional center for shoemaking. But most of the big shoemakers have left; well-known brands have moved their production to China or Turkey. But entrepreneur Christophe Chevalier is fighting the trend.
Visit the Website: http://www.dw-world.de/english/global3000
Episode #513 / Length: 26 minutes
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Tiny Bombs and Missiles
Unless you're super strong or don't mind back pain, you can't carry a Hellfire missile. The weapon of choice for drone attacks weighs over 100 pounds, and that's why it takes a 27-foot-long Predator to pack one. But that's all about to change. Raytheon's experimental
Small Tactical Munition weighs nearly a tenth of a Hellfire. In May, rival Textron debuted a weapon that loiters in mid-air, BattleHawk, that weighs a mere 5 pounds.
Normally, a smaller bomb or missile just means a smaller smoking crater. But as the weapons get smaller, the number of robots that can carry them increases. The U.S. military has under 200 armed Predators and Reapers. It has thousands of smaller, unarmed spy drones like Pumas and Ravens. Those smaller drones get used by smaller units down on the military's food chain, like battalions and companies; if they get armed, then drone strikes can become as routine as artillery barrages. That's heavy.
— Spencer Ackerman
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• Take turns writing rhyming words in the sand. Or practice writing and solving math equations.
• Bring along some of your summer reading and work on literacy skills while you are lying on the beach.
• Check out this Take-Along Guide to help your kids learn more about their discoveries.
• Help younger children learn their numbers and colors with a good game of Uno® or Crazy Eights every night after dinner.
• Use collected shells to practice sequencing, pattern recognition and even categorization/sorting. Have your child create a bar graph based on her findings.
• If your child has a camera, assign him or her the job of official trip reporter. Have them create a journal that includes pictures and make sure they label or describe each event/item/person. This helps them practice their writing and reading. For a different version, give them some newsprint and have them create their own “newspaper” using the traditional layout.
• Kids Camp!: Activities for the Backyard or Wilderness (A Kid's Guide series) by Laurie Carlson and Judith Dammel
• Trekking on a Trail (Activities for Kids) by Linda White and Fran Lee
• Camp Out!: The Ultimate Kids' Guide by Lynn Brunelle
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February 8, 2001
Natasha Richardson portrays journalist ruth Gruber in CBS's 'Haven.'
When Natasha Richardson starred in Paul Schrader's 1988 biopic, "Patty Hearst," she drew inspiration from a Holocaust-themed tome plucked off a shelf in her father's Los Angeles home. The book was "If This Is a Man," Primo Levi's account of his time in Auschwitz, and in its pages the young Brit gleaned crucial insights into the psyche of her brutalized character.
"There are enormous differences between life in a concentration camp and living in a closet," the tall, willowy actress said during a Journal interview at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Pasadena, a Vogue cigarette dangling from her slender fingers. "But I found certain similarities I could use -- the trauma of just trying to stay alive, moment to moment, one day at a time. In all my work since, I've been very affected by the writings of the Holocaust."
Memoirs like Levi's have helped her tap into the despair of protagonists braving "extreme adversity, oppression and fear" -- a woman incarcerated in the sexist dystopia of "The Handmaid's Tale," for example, or the doomed chanteuse Sally Bowles of "Cabaret." They have fueled the urgency she conveys as a Holocaust rescuer in the upcoming CBS miniseries, "Haven," based on a true story from World War II. Richardson plays Ruth Gruber, a Jewish American journalist who fought U.S anti-Semitism to escort nearly 1,000 Holocaust survivors from war-torn Europe to America. She accepted the role with eyes open. She knew there would be the inevitable comparisons with her husband, actor Liam Neeson, who earned an Oscar nomination for his performance as Holocaust rescuer Oskar Schindler in "Schindler's List."
"And then I thought there might be quite a few people wondering, 'Why on earth did they want this English [gentile] to play Ruth Gruber,'" Richardson said between sips of Diet Coke with lemon. "But after reading the script, I felt compelled to do the movie. I'm fairly well-read on the subject of World War II, yet I had absolutely no idea that the U.S. government went out of its way to keep Jewish refugees out of this country during the Holocaust. I was deeply shocked by that."
As she prepared to play Gruber, Richardson recalled her trip to Auschwitz while visiting Neeson on the set of "Schindler's List." "I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I was furious to learn that the camp's commandant had been merely hanged to death," she said. "I thought, 'The inmates had to endure agony for months and years, and he died so easily?' I would have liked to have done to him what he did to all those people."
Though Richardson was born in 1963, World War II was a presence in her early life. She grew up hearing her family's war stories and watching the World War II-themed films ("The Dam Busters," "The Captive Heart") starring her grandfather, the esteemed actor Sir Michael Redgrave. During the blitz, her mother, actress Vanessa Redgrave, and her uncle, Corin, then children, were whisked out of London to an elderly aunt's home in the country. "I learned about the rationing and being separated from parents, and my mother's recollection, as a very little girl, of seeing an entire town obliterated by bombs," Richardson said. When Natasha was a teenager, Vanessa starved herself and bloodied her scalp to portray an Auschwitz inmate in the Arthur Miller TV movie, "Playing for Time." But the teen was even more disturbed by the media controversy that ensued when some Jewish groups insisted the virulently anti-Zionist Redgrave had no right to play a Holocaust victim. "It was, and is, deeply hurtful to me that anyone could construe my mother is anti-Semitic," said Richardson, who grew up in Vanessa's radical circles. "I learned more personally about the Holocaust and what happened to the Jewish people from her than from anyone else."
She also learned a thing or two about acting, a career to which she aspired from an early age. She was 4 when she played a bridesmaid in "The Charge of the Light Brigade," starring Vanessa and helmed by her father, the director Tony Richardson. Eighteen years later, Michael Redgrave, then suffering from advanced Parkinson's disease, was taken in a wheelchair to view her performance as Ophelia in "Hamlet." "She is a true actress," he proclaimed of his granddaughter. He died a week later.
Richardson's Tony-winning work in Sam Mendes' brilliant 1998 revival of "Cabaret" taught her what was at stake for the "Haven" refugees. "We had a kind of Holocaust ending," she said. "The emcee, who has a yellow star and is also homosexual, took off his clothes, then the whole stage went white, there was the noise of electrocution and you just knew that all these people were dead. Some nights I would get so upset about what happened to the characters that I couldn't stop crying for half an hour after the performance."
While Richardson kept a copy of "If This Is A Man" in her "Cabaret" dressing room, she surrounded herself with Gruber's books for inspiration on "Haven." She also met for tea with the 89-year-old journalist to quiz her about how she dealt with the sexism and anti-Semitism of U.S. officials circa 1944. By the time she arrived on the "Haven" set in Toronto last year, she could recite the contents of a suitcase of Gruber's that appears in the film but is never opened on camera.
The performer was unprepared, however, for the emotional toll of the shoot. First she learned that her husband had been injured in a motorcycle accident and was in intensive care in New York. Then she was required to shoot the sequence in which Ruth's beloved father falls ill and dies, which transported her back to the horror of her own father's 1991 AIDS-related death. She recalled the weeks she cared for him, changing his soiled sheets and administering sponge baths. After his death, she immersed herself in AIDS volunteer work, inspired by the Talmudic phrase: "He who saves one life saves the entire world."
"My father was my best friend and my rock," she told The Journal, "so his death was just a huge loss, a sense of being cut adrift, and that is how Ruth feels when her father dies in the film. For me, that sequence was all very close to home. I knew it was going to hurt, but the very fact that it did made the scenes better." Like the refugees in "Haven," Richardson also found safe haven in America, where she emigrated to escape the baggage of being compared to her famous relatives. She hopes her two small sons will avoid the family business. "Having lived for many years in the shadow of my mother, a great actress, I know what it's like to have to have to carry that on your back," she said. "I know how hard it is to emerge from those long shadows."
"Haven" airs Feb. 11 and 14 at 9 p.m. on CBS.
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Media Contact: Jodie B. Owen
RALEIGH, N.C. (May 17, 2012) — The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will open approximately 64 miles of trout streams and two lakes classified as delayed-harvest trout waters under hatchery-supported regulations on Saturday, June 2.
From 6 a.m. until 11:59 a.m., waters are open only to anglers 15 years old and younger. At noon, waters open to all anglers. Delayed-harvest waters will stay open under hatchery-supported regulations through Sept. 30. During this time, anglers can keep up to seven trout per day — with no bait restrictions or minimum size limits.
The Commission stocks delayed-harvest trout waters from fall through spring with high densities of trout to increase anglers’ chances of catching trout. Once summer arrives, waters become too warm for trout to survive so the Commission opens delayed-harvest streams and lakes to harvest. Delayed-harvest trout waters are posted with diamond-shaped, black-and-white signs.
The youth-only fishing time frame, a regulation that went into effect in 2008, is designed to promote trout fishing among young anglers and to provide special opportunities for young anglers to catch — and keep — fish.
“The Commission is always looking for ways to encourage kids to get outdoors and on the water to learn new skills, and to develop an appreciation for fishing and our state’s aquatic resources,” said Kyle Briggs, a fisheries program manager for the Commission. “In addition to the youth-only fishing opportunity in delayed-harvest waters, the Commission is also supporting 40 youth-only fishing events throughout the state in late-May and early June as part of National Fishing and Boating Week 2012.”
Anglers age 16 and older need an inland fishing license and a special trout fishing privilege, which is included in the comprehensive and sportsman licenses, to fish in all public mountain trout waters, including delayed-harvest waters. Purchase licenses by:
- Going online, www.ncwildlife.org/license,
- Calling 1-888-2HUNTFISH (1-888-248-6834), or
For more information on trout fishing, including a list of delayed-harvest trout waters, regulation information and trout maps, visit www.ncwildlife.org/fishing.
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MS Attacks Open Source
Microsoft is launching a two-pronged offensive against what it sees as its chief competition on the Internet: open source code.
In a preliminary license for its wireless Internet tools, the software giant appears to be floating a trial balloon by explicitly banning the use of open source code. Microsofts language, which could become part of its commercial licensing terms, specifically bans use of the Linux open source operating system (OS), which Microsoft seems to find especially objectionable.
But in a bid to attract more software developers to its Internet initiatives, Microsoft last week announced a "shared source" program, in which it will make available two key tools for Internet applications. The announcement appears to be an effort to broaden its appeal and escape the stamp of offering only closed Windows systems.
Microsofts ability to move on these two fronts simultaneously may be clouded by the June 28 appeals court decision that upheld the finding that Microsoft abused its monopoly power.
"Microsoft has identified Linux as its potential competitor and is attempting to limit its use," said Albert Foer, an attorney and president of the American Antitrust Institute, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit group that acts as watchdog for competitive factors in the American economy. "Microsoft seems to be going ahead as if antitrust doesnt exist and wont affect them."
Language included in a license that labels open source code as "potentially viral" marked a stepped-up attack by the software giant.
The license for Microsofts Mobile Internet Toolkit, which is in its second beta release to developers, says that it may not be used with any software under the Free Software Foundations General Public License (GPL) and six other forms of "potentially viral software." That language refers to open source codes freely available and shared code licensing agreements. The wording of the license cites the Linux OS and the Perl scripting language as examples.
For a company with monopoly power, "these provisions could be construed as attempting to leverage their current position in the operating system market into new markets," a potential violation of antitrust, said Tim Cahn, an attorney at Legal Strategies Group in Emeryville, Calif. While software companies can put whatever restrictions they choose into a software license, "this isnt just another software company. This is Microsoft," Cahn said.
Microsoft did not have any representatives available to comment on the license issue.
"Microsoft cant beat us technically, so theyve decided to strangle us in legal paperwork," said Lorne Cooper, president of NuSphere, distributor of the MySQL open source database system, a potential competitor. Microsoft announced its restrictions as NuSphere and Great Bridge, a distributor of another open source database system, have begun to enjoy limited success as Internet systems.
At the same time, Microsoft is adopting a more open stance on its upcoming Internet software.
Microsoft is offering all comers a chance in the first half of next year to download and use for experimental purposes its upcoming language, C Sharp (C#), and its multilanguage Common Language Infrastructure, a sort of workbench for building Web services.
Until now, Microsoft has released only binaries, the ones and zeroes that disguise the original code. But in the "shared source" program, developers will receive the actual source code, written in letters and numerals, of the two future Microsoft products.
"There will be an incredible amount of interest in this among the academic and research communities," said David Stutz, general program manager for Shared Source CLI at Microsoft. "There are a lot of positive lessons to be learned from the open source example," he added.
By launching its Shared Source initiative for C# and CLI, while restricting competing open source code tools and code, "Microsoft is trying to confuse the issue," said Miguel de Icaza, chief technology officer at Linux user interface firm Ximian.
De Icaza noted that, in the beta license, Microsoft restricts seven specific open source licenses, but made an exception of the FreeBSD, an open source Unix OS that came out of the University of California at Berkeley.
"Its an attack on Linux, which has market share as an operating system. FreeBSD has no market share, so they say, Oh, thats the good one, " de Icaza said.
FreeBSD is offered with a less restrictive license than the GPL under which Linux is issued. With a GPL, additions to the source code that are published or distributed must be made available for free to any interested third party. With FreeBSD, companies may convert the source code into a commercial product without airing the changes or additions they have made.
Microsofts Tony Goodhew, project manager for Share Source CLI, said Microsoft is moving in the same direction as open source code advocates, but wishes to continue to protect its intellectual property from commercial exploitation by others. He said the companys Shared Source initiative goes so far as to allow developers to examine the example of C# and CLI code, and then build similar structures on the platforms of their choice.
Tim OReilly, president of OReilly & Associates, a Sebastopol, Calif., computer book publisher, said Shared Source represents Microsofts response to the popularity of Java and open source code in colleges and universities. "Theyre very desirous of having the academic community adopt C Sharp. Java has made a lot of headway there," OReilly said.
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Too Much Hygiene May Affect Immune System, Study Suggests
Antimicrobial used in many products such as soaps, toothpaste tied to raised allergy risks in kids
Children and teens who are overexposed to antibacterial soaps that contain the chemical triclosan may be at increased risk for hay fever and other allergies, a finding that suggests that being too clean can actually make people sick, researchers say.
The study also found that exposure to higher levels of the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) may weaken an adult’s immune system.
Triclosan is an antimicrobial agent widely used in products such as antibacterial soaps, toothpaste, medical devices and diaper bags. BPA, which is used to make many types of plastics and other consumer products, is believed to affect human hormones.
In this study, researchers at the University of Michigan School of Public Health analyzed data from the 2003-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
They compared levels of triclosan and BPA in the urine with cytomegalovirus (CMV) antibody levels and diagnosis of allergies or hay fever in adults and children over age 6.
“We found that people over age 18 with higher levels of BPA exposure had higher CMV antibody levels, which suggests their cell-mediated immune system may not be functioning properly,” study first author Erin Rees Clayton said in a university news release.
The investigators also found that children and teens with higher levels of triclosan were more likely to have been diagnosed with hay fever and other allergies.
The study findings are published in the Nov.
30,2010 online edition of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
“The triclosan findings in the younger age groups may support the ‘hygiene hypothesis,’ which maintains living in very clean and hygienic environments may impact our exposure to microorganisms that are beneficial for development of the immune system,” principal investigator Allison Aiello, an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, said in the news release.
Aiello noted that triclosan may change the microorganisms to which people are normally exposed in such a way that children’s immune system development is affected.
“It is possible that a person can be too clean for their own good,” Aiello suggested.
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The Rough Guide to Jimi Hendrix 1
The Rough Guide to Jimi Hendrix is a thorough reference book about the life and music of the greatest rock guitarist of all time. It covers all the key events throughout his metamorphosis; from a misfit youngster growing up in poverty to his rise to international stardom, and from his days as a starving backup musician in the early 1960s to his triumphant appearances at the Monterey Pop and Woodstock rock festivals, not to mention his mysterious and sordid death in 1970. Special chapters are devoted to vivid description and critical evaluation of all his important studio and live albums and best thirty songs, as well as all major live and documentary Hendrix videos; his myriad musical influences from blues, soul, rock, and jazz; Hendrix-related sites and shrines; and his spectacular arsenal of guitar techniques and effects. Also including special features on overlooked aspects of his art ranging from his love of Bob Dylan''s music to his relationship with the Black Power movement, The Rough Guide to Jimi Hendrix documents all dimensions of this one-of-a-kind musical genius.
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- CO2 Emissions
- Air Quality
- Noise Reduction
- CO2 Emissions
- Fuels & Oils
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- Industry and Economy
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- Intellectual Property
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Automobile production expanded by 5.3% in 2007
Brussels, 20/02/2008 - The contribution of the European motor vehicle industry to economic growth in the EU27 has been positive and sustained through 2007. Automotive production expanded dynamically (+5.3%) and reached 19.7 million vehicles (passenger cars, trucks and buses) according to the ACEA winter Economic Report. Over 80% of the 16 million cars registered in Europe in 2007 were produced by the ACEA members. Diesel powered cars accounted for 53.3% of total new car registrations in the EU. Demand is likely to remain stable in the current year.
The European automotive industry is key to the strength and competitiveness of Europe. The car industry provides jobs to more than 2.3 million people and indirectly to another 10 million in the EU27. Europe is the world's largest vehicle producer. Of the 50 million cars produced globally, one third is manufactured in the EU.
In 2007, the automobile production in Europe increased by 5.3% in 2007. Passenger cars accounted for 87% of the production, an increase of 5.5% compared to 2006. A particularly solid growth was noted in the truck sector (+15%) thanks to a booming demand on the European markets. The production of light commercial vehicles also went up (+2%) whereas the production of buses declined by 24%. New EU member states posted a 25.2% growth in automotive production and accounted for 15% of total EU motor vehicle production and 17% of passenger car production by the end of 2007.
Demand for new vehicles in Europe remained on an upward trend (+1.8%) in 2007 mainly thanks to mounting new passenger car registrations in the new member states and a continuous boom on the European commercial vehicle market. Nearly 16 million new cars were registered, 92% of which in Western Europe. Buyers’ confidence and the demand for new cars in Western Europe (+0.2%) were restrained by soaring oil prices, changes in taxes, the global credit crunch and declining purchasing power. In the new EU member states, where car density is still much lower, a steady growth was recorded throughout the year (+13.9%). Thriving European and foreign demand for new commercial vehicles resulted in a 6.8% growth in truck registrations. The European market ended the year with 7.1% more vans, 5.1% trucks over 3.5 tonnes and 4.4% more buses & coaches registered.
Of the 16 million passenger cars registered in Western Europe, 53.3% were diesel powered, 6% more than in 2006. By contrast, new registrations of petrol-powered vehicles fell by 4% to 6.9 million units. The continuous rise in demand for diesel cars is explained to a large extent by improved diesel engine technology, significant increases in fuel prices and greater consumer demand for fuel efficiency. Most of the people still buy ‘small’ and ‘lower-medium’ cars (respectively, 37.1% and 32.4% of total new registrations). The 4x4 segment saw a steady increase in demand (+22% in 2007 compared to 2006), accounting for 9.9% of new registrations in 2007 against 3.5% in 1998. Registrations of the cars emitting less than 120g of CO2 per kilometer have also risen and accounted for over 10% of the total EU new car registrations between January and October 2007.
Automotive industry demand forecasts point to stagnating car registrations in 2008. New member states are likely to improve their 2007 result at a somewhat slower pace (+9%) while Western European market will possibly slightly deteriorate (-0.6%). Of the main markets, only France and Germany are expected to register more cars than last year. This will, however, not offset a decline in most of the remaining EU15 countries. 2008 started with a mild decrease (-0.3%) due to a deceleration in the EU15 (-1.6%) whereas the new member states remained dynamic (+20.1%).
In 2006, there were 251 million vehicles on the European roads according to the latest ANFAC (Spanish Automobile Association) report. The few new EU members missing in the report account for around 10 million additional cars. Passenger cars represent 88% (230 million) of all the vehicles on the European roads. The European car fleet is highly concentrated in five main markets (Germany, Italy, France, UK and Spain) and is characterised by a high diesel penetration (30%). In terms of car density, the ratio of cars to population was 0.5 in Western Europe with every second citizen owing a car. In Eastern Europe this figure is one out of five. On the mature and saturated West European market, car demand stems mainly from replacement whereas in the new EU Members there is still large room for new customers.
The European economy remained quite dynamic in 2007 despite torments on the international financial markets. The so far healthy GDP growth rates in the EU27 and euro area (2.7% and 2.9%, respectively) are nevertheless likely to be affected in the short term by a shrinking credit availability, soaring food and oil prices and a volatile economic performance of the USA. Taking into account a negative impact of the summer 2007 credit crunch, the growth forecasts for 2008 and 2009 have been set by the European Commission at around 2.2% in the euro zone and to 2.4% in the EU27. The US (+2.2%) and Japanese (+2.1%) economies grew slower than the EU in 2007. Their economies are likely to be even less dynamic in 2008 (US 1.7%, Japan 1.9%) but are expected to recover in 2009 (US 2.6%, Japan 2.3%).
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Google & Siemens Show What's Possible in Green Energy
The IntegralBlade design has no glue joints in the turbine blade. The commercial version of this rotor will have a diameter of around 154m and a total sweep area of 18,600 square meters. (Source: Siemens)
Due to the lackluster way green energy is stored, I think the real innovation is how energy is stored in the system. The difficult part is storing the energy after creation. Demand and generation will never match up perfectly with green power. Renewable energy certificates, Green Tags, are the only way to trade in green energy. The non-tangible ticket is traded on the market. It might be required to buy them in some industries.
But I question the connection to actual energy produced. Where is it stored on the grid? Regulation areas? Ones that act just like a buffer to the grid. They do not have infinite storage. So, I am going to assume that the energy is lost somewhere in the power chain. This will require more research on my part.
Cabe, data centers use a lot of technology to lower their energy costs. Combined Heat and Power (CHP) where the heat from electricity genration is used for cooling can have a great impact. Generally some 40% of eclectricity costs in a data center go to heat rejection. There is a lot that data center operators can do to lower their elecrticity cost. All those savings go right to the bottom line.
This is one of my pet issues and I'm so happy to see the big guys finally getting it and throwing serious support behind alternative energy. Also Apple is investing in wind turbine technology, too. Hope it's just the beginning!
A quick look into the merger of two powerhouse 3D printing OEMs and the new leader in rapid prototyping solutions, Stratasys. The industrial revolution is now led by 3D printing and engineers are given the opportunity to fully maximize their design capabilities, reduce their time-to-market and functionally test prototypes cheaper, faster and easier. Bruce Bradshaw, Director of Marketing in North America, will explore the large product offering and variety of materials that will help CAD designers articulate their product design with actual, physical prototypes. This broadcast will dive deep into technical information including application specific stories from real world customers and their experiences with 3D printing. 3D Printing is
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