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A CALL TO ACTION
How can you get involved -- a quick guide.
By Ellen Nowak (chief of staff to Waukesha County Executive Dan Vrakas):
1. Call, talk to or send an email to your friends and family. Everybody has a circle of influence -- reach out to them. This could be as easy as listing the reasons why you support a candidate, passing along a story about the candidates, sending a link to their website. It doesn't have to be controntational or pushy..just tell them why you are voting for the candidate you are voting for and ask them to join you. If voter turnout is only going to be 20%, remind them they are voting for the other people who choose to sit home.
2. Call the campaign headquarters and tell them you want to help. Get a yard sign. Volunteer for a few hours on a weekend or weeknight and drop literature in a neighborhood. Campaigns make it easy. They give you the maps of the area and the literature you need to leave at the door or in the newspaper box. It is easy and it gets the word out. Two hours will go by really fast and you will have made a difference.
3. Make phone calls for the candidate. They make this incredibly easy now with the automation. Again, a few hours will go by really fast. And, this works.
4. Send another email to your friends and family reminding them to vote the day before election day and then on election day. Provide a link to the polling places in municipalities. The clerk's page on the municipality has this information.
5. Donate. It doesn't have to be a lot. Seriously, every dollar counts (just like every vote counts). Give directly to the campaign or give to a conduit, such as www.frontlinewisconsin.com. Just send in a check or attend a fundraiser. Bring a friend or two if you go to the fundraiser.
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Calcium Supplements May Increase Risk For Heart Attack
A primary concern for the elderly is good bone health due to the fact that as we age, mass and density of the skeletal tissue decreases due to loss of calcium and other minerals. This can lead to our some of our bones becoming thinner and more brittle, predisposing us to injury and disfigurement.
One popular way to combat bone loss over time has been the taking of calcium supplements. However, a new study has found that calcium supplements may increase an older person's risk for heart disease while also calling into question their efficacy in maintaining bone health.
The study, published in the British Medical Journal, looked at 12,000 people who were over the age of 40 years who were taking 500mg or more of calcium every day. It turns out that consumption of calcium supplements increased the risk for a heart attack by 30 percent.
The risks were the same regardless of the gender, age, or type of supplement given. No risks for heart disease were seen in people who had diets naturally high in calcium.
In fact, according to the National Osteoporosis Society, most people might not even need them because they should be obtaining adequate amounts of the mineral in their diets.
Considering the fact that millions of people worldwide take them, the findings are important in terms of how doctors recommend calcium for managing such diseases as osteoporosis, and may indicate a need to revise current guidelines.
The reason for the increased risk for heart disease was not completely understood, but it has been hypothesized that excess calcium in the bloodstream might contribute to the hardening of the arteries.
Calcium supplementation may therefore boil down to a balance between benefits and risk. Some experts warn that the results should be taken with some degree of caution, mainly because the link between calcium and heart disease was not the initial goal of the study. That said, experts also indicate that the conclusions should not be ignored, either. Furthermore, the data might not necessarily apply to younger individuals who are taking calcium supplements for specific conditions.
Nutrition experts encourage people to try to get their calcium from natural dietary sources rather than relying on supplements. If calcium supplements are being used, they should only be taken under the supervision of a physician, especially if an individual has a history of heart disease.
Calcium is in fact the most abundant mineral in the body and is important for muscle contractions, proper functioning of blood vessels, neurotransmission, and good bone health. Good sources of calcium include dairy products and leafy green vegetables.
If you have questions or concerns about calcium in your diet, speak with your doctor. For more information about calcium supplements, visit the website for the Office of Dietary Supplements, a service of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). To learn more about how to get more calcium in your diet, visit the website for Milk Matters.
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Photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM) image of the proteins paxillin and zyxin
Hari Shroff, Ph.D., shakes his head in disbelief. “It just blows my mind that this hasn’t already been done,” he exclaims, proceeding to outline his vision for a project so grand in scale that one can almost understand why no one has attempted it—Shroff wants to create a four-dimensional atlas of brain development during embryogenesis in simple organisms, tracking the origin and evolution of every neuron, the path of every axon, and the creation of every synapse. Such comprehensiveness has always been Shroff’s approach.
Research fellow Yicong Wu, Ph.D., adjusts a SPIM microscope
At the tender age of 14, Shroff entered the University of Washington to begin undergraduate studies in bioengineering. He enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley graduate program in biophysics at 19 and completed his Ph.D. in 2006 at the age of 25. He describes his accelerated educational experience as a fun time, where he deliberately chose to study a smorgasbord of subjects, embracing complex courses in physics, engineering, and molecular biology. He spent his postdoctoral years at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus addressing the factors that limit resolution in light microscopy. His research used photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM), an optical superresolution technique invented by Eric Betzig, Ph.D., and Harald Hess, Ph.D., that allows biologists to discern the precise location of individual proteins within a cell. Shroff was impressed with PALM, and worked to extend the technology, applying it to live cells and to the use of probes of different colors.
Selective plane illumination microscopy (SPIM) images of a developing C. elegans embryo
Now at the NIH’s IRP, Shroff has continued to develop PALM, adapting it for 3D imaging in thicker samples. His interests have also branched out to include microscopes with high temporal as well as high spatial resolution. An example of the latter is an adaptation of a type of microscopy called selective plane illumination microscopy, or SPIM, which Shroff and Yicong Wu, Ph.D., designed, built, and tested in their lab at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). SPIM uses planes of light to visualize specimens—an approach that is much less damaging to the specimens than conventional microscopy techniques.
Microscope view of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans
That’s important because it allows scientists, for the first time, to view fluorescently labeled proteins within living worms throughout a complete cycle of embryogenesis. “It’s humbling to think that with current knowledge and technology, we still know so little about neurodevelopment, about how the brain becomes wired,” says Shroff. “There are an estimated hundred billion neurons in the human brain—and a hundred trillion synapses— but we just don’t know how this incredibly precise connectivity is orchestrated. If we can use SPIM to create a four-dimensional atlas of neurodevelopment in simple organisms, this may give a better understanding of that process.”
Shroff, winner of the 2010 PECASE award
Shroff is collaborating with Drs. Daniel Colon-Ramos (Yale University) and Zhirong Bao (Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center) to develop a 4-D atlas of the worm model, C. elegans. Even though C. elegans is a relatively simple organism, it nevertheless has 302 neurons and 5,000 synapses, so creating a 4-D atlas of it is an ambitious undertaking. Using fluorescent marker molecules to highlight single cells, Shroff and his collaborators can now watch as individual neurons develop over an eight-hour period within a living worm embryo. He is already planning how to improve and scale initial findings so that the C. elegans atlas can be completed in a shorter time frame.
In recognition of his innovative work, Shroff won a 2010 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Not one to dwell on prizes, Shroff describes himself as a ‘tool-maker’ who finds his greatest satisfaction when others discover new applications for the technologies that he and his collaborators develop.
Hari Shroff, Ph.D., is the Chief of the Section on High Resolution Optical Imaging at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB).
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Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the debt rating for 15 of the largest international banks on Thursday afternoon. Many of the top U.S. banks were downgraded as well including Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley. Bank of America’s debt rating was cut by 1 notch, while the others suffered two notch downgrades.
These ratings cuts have been expected for the past few months after Moody’s put the banks on credit watch negative. Moody’s said the downgrades were due to the long-term prospects for growth and profitability is falling.
Morgan Stanley could suffer the most as downgrades on its senior debt could cost the company between $868 million and $7.2 billion in additional collateral and payments on its derivatives contracts.
Investors have largely ignored the credit downgrades with some believing it was already priced in. Plus many believe these credit agencies have been too late in showing warning signs about the global economy.
“The problem is the timing. They’re just too late, and by the time they get published the markets have already reacted, and the only people left to react are the big funds who are linked to these things,” Ralph Silva, director at Silva Research Network, told CNBC. “These industries were developed in the 1950s when portfolio decisions were made on a quarterly basis — now they’re made on a quarter-of-a-second basis.”
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Jim FetzerVeterans Today
The situation with Iran is completely absurd–unless there is a hidden motive. Iran poses nomilitary threat to the United States. Iran has not attacked any other country for more than 300 years. It has signed the . It allows inspectors. In 2007, 16 US intel agencies converged in the opinion that Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons–an opinion they reaffirmed in 2011. The Supreme Leader of Iran has declared, “Nuclear energy for all;nuclear weapons for none”, which is thepolicy of the nation. Whatever the motive fortargeting Iran, it is not the development of nukes.
If the issue were the possession of nuclear weapons, then we should be looking in another direction. Israel has 200-600 or more of these little beauties. Israel has not signed the
Moreover, one country appears to be using nuclear weapons in the Middle East, which is not Iran but the United States. Dr. Christopher Busby, an expert on connections between cancer and birth-defects in relation to the use of nuclear weapons, has concluded, based upon his study of anomalies in Fallujah, that
US USED SOME NEW TYPE OF NUCLEAR WEAPON IN FALLUJAH: IRAN IS NOT THE NUCLEAR THREAT
Since Israel has a vast stockpile and Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons, any concerns about them ought to be directed at Israel, not Iran. A more likely explanation, therefore, is that the peaceful development of nuclear energy is the real problem, where Iran has
The Stirling Engine
A friend of mine wrote me today telling me that, “about 50 years ago, I knew an Iranian student in college and he told me this big ‘secret’ his country was working on, he said it was a stirling engine, no intake and no exhaust, would run from any heat source, he said it would run if you just pissed on it—point is, Iran is so far ahead in development of this engine technology that no one can compete with them, so, I guess their economy has to be destroyed, otherwise they would be the leading energy provider for the world.”
The suggestion sounds a bit far-fetched until you appreciate that, as he explained, gasoline engines are 30% efficient, at best, meaning 70% of heat is lost. Stirling engines are 90% plus efficient from any fuel and can use solar, gasoline, diesel, coal, LP gas, steam or thermal water deposits and even cooling towers from nuclear plants. Iran’s focus on this technology caught the west flatfooted and not energy competitive, a very big no, no. . . . In brief, the stirling engine concept would free the world from ‘oil’ dependence and make Iran the major player in the world’s energy market–a big, big problem for the west.
Indeed, what he has told me is borne out even by entries in commonplace sources such as Wikipedia:
Main article: Regenerative heat exchanger
In a Stirling engine, the regenerator is an internal heat exchanger and temporary heat store placed between the hot and cold spaces such that the working fluid passes through it first in one direction then the other. Its function is to retain within the system that heat which would otherwise be exchanged with the environment at temperatures intermediate to the maximum and minimum cycle temperatures, thus enabling the thermal efficiency of the cycle to approach the limiting Carnot efficiency defined by those maxima and minima.
The primary effect of regeneration in a Stirling engine is to increase the thermal efficiency by ‘recycling’ internal heat which would otherwise pass through the engine irreversibly. As a secondary effect, increased thermal efficiency yields a higher power output from a given set of hot and cold end heat exchangers. It is these which usually limit the engine’s heat throughput. In practice this additional power may not be fully realized as the additional “dead space” (unswept volume) and pumping loss inherent in practical regenerators reduces the potential efficiency gains from regeneration.
The design challenge for a Stirling engine regenerator is to provide sufficient heat transfercapacity without introducing too much additional internal volume (‘dead space’) or flow resistance. These inherent design conflicts are one of many factors which limit the efficiency of practical Stirling engines. A typical design is a stack of fine metal wire meshes, with low porosity to reduce dead space, and with the wire axes perpendicular to the gas flow to reduce conduction in that direction and to maximize convective heat transfer.
The regenerator is the key component invented by Robert Stirling and its presence distinguishes a true Stirling engine from any other closed cycle hot air engine. Many small ‘toy’ Stirling engines, particularly low-temperature difference (LTD) types, do not have a distinct regenerator component and might be considered hot air engines, however a small amount of regeneration is provided by the surface of displacer itself and the nearby cylinder wall, or similarly the passage connecting the hot and cold cylinders of an alpha configuration engine.
Further substantiation–albeit indirect–comes from the extensive array of CCGT power plants, which appear to incorporate stirling engines in their towers. Notice the absence of the kinds of cooling units ordinarily associated with power plants, where these instead are designed to capture energy to an extent that they are neither needed nor desired:
By designating Iran as a “terrorist state”, the US is not legally bound to recognizes its patents and legal claims to its own inventions. If there is a bombing of Iran, you can bet it will be on these CCGT power plants rather than on any alleged “nuclear facilities”. This is another case of “big lies” coming from the American government to benefit the profit margins of US corporations.
An Abundance of Reasons
What this alternative provides is another explanation that goes beyond what we have been told by our own government–which, of course, is hardly surprising, since it lies about everything of importance, from the assassination to JFK to the atrocities of 9/11 to the fabricated events of Aurora and Sandy Hook. Were I to enumerate a list of reasons why the US continues to target Iran, even though it poses no military risk, especially from nuclear weapons, then the most important considerations would appear to be:
(1) that Iran abandoned the petro-dollar for trade in multiple currencies, which has been described as a“weapon of mass destruction of a very different kind“, of which the American public only dimly grasps:
It began in 2005, when Iran announced it would form its own International Oil Bourse (IOB), the first phase of which opened in 2008. The IOB is an international exchange that allows international oil, gas, and petroleum products to be traded using a basket of currencies other than the U.S. dollar. Then in November 2007 at a major OPEC meeting, Iran’s PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad called for a “credible and good currency to take over U.S. dollar’s role and to serve oil trades”. He also called the dollar “a worthless piece of paper.” The following month, Iran—consistently ranked as either the third or fourth biggest oil producer in the world—announced that it had requested all payments for its oil be made in currencies other than dollars.
The latest round of U.S. sanctions targets countries that do business with Iran’s Central Bank, which, combined with the U.S. and EU oil embargoes, should in theory shut down Iran’s ability to export oil and thus force it to abandon its nuclear program by crippling its economy. But instead, Iran is successfully negotiating oil sales via accepting gold, individual national currencies like China’s renmimbi, and direct bartering.
Other countries that have abandoned the petro-dollar have also not fared well in their relations with the United States, including Iraq in late 2000 and Libya introduced the gold dinar in 2011. It isn’t rocket science to infer that our invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the bombing of Libya have followed in their wake:
Since gold yuan coinage was announced by China, talks about the gold standard had been brought up in the Middle East. The main initiator of non-payment in dollars and euros is the Leader and Guide of the Revolution in Libya, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. He called on Arab and African world to adopt a single current – the gold dinar.
On this financial basis, Colonel Gaddafi offered to create a single African state with Arab and Black African population numbering 200 million people. The idea of creating a single gold currency and uniting the countries of Africa into one powerful federal system has been actively supported during the last year by a number of Arabic and almost all African states. Democracy-infested South Africa and the Arab League were opposed to the idea.
The US and the EU reacted very negatively to such a initiative. According to a French Zio “president” Sarkozy, “the Libyans have set on the financial security of mankind.” Repeated calls by the Leader of the Libyan Revolution yields some results: Gaddafi has made more and more steps aimed at creating a United Africa.
Two false arguments have been invented to cover up the true reason for the present Zio-Christian Crusade against Libya: officially – “to defend human rights” and unofficially – an attempt to steal oil from the Libyan people. Both of these arguments do not hold up to scrutiny. The truth is that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi decided to repeat the attempts by French General de Gaulle to abandon the use of U.S. junk paper money called “dollars” and return to gold, i.e. he attempts to attack the chief power of modern parasitic Zio Democracy – the banking system.
(2) that Iran threatens the US nuclear energy industry with its potential to produce nuclear fuel rods at a fraction of the cost and is expected to dominate the international market is one dimension of the energy threat, where the development of the stirling engine appears to represent another. If my friend is right in what he has told me, then the situation is as hypocritical as it could possibly be, because the threat is not remotely military but rather economic, where the benefits that may come to the world from emancipation from its dependents upon gas and oil poses the most serious kind of threat that the gas and oil industry has ever known. Just as Gaddafi was benefitting the people of Libya and promoting the best interests of the African continent, Iran has the potential to benefit the people of the world–but at immense cost to the profit margin of the gas and oil industry, which suggests the real reasons why the US is targeting Iran.
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All three are words attributed to the occasionally elusive creature called the Muse.
While us artist-types rely on the Muse to inspire our current artistic endeavors, we aren’t the only people with muses. Everyone has creativity, and needs creativity to solve problems.
Through the creative process, we move through the mundane to come up with unique and original ideas. We use this process every day, from when we determine an alternate route when our traditional route to work is blocked, to deciding what to have for dinner.
How creative we are is influenced by our intelligence, memory, personality, attitude, mental health, and physical health, among others. While some of these factors are beyond our control, many of them aren’t. By altering those over which we have control, we can sharpen and develop our creativity. We can grow our muses.
Exercise is one of the fastest ways to influence creativity, for several reasons. First, exercise decreases the effects of stress by releasing endorphins which positively affect our mental health. Positive mental health leads to a positive attitude. A positive attitude leads to increased mental flexibility, which makes it easier to be creative.
Exercise improves every aspect of cognition, including creativity. There is something about activating the right side of the brain that enhances creativity, and instead of trying to explain it, I’m giving you the link to a fascinating article about it here.
Work on Your Working Memory
Working memory is also called short-term memory. It is the part of our brain that stores information for short periods of time so that we can manipulate the information to understand and reason what we saw, learned, etc… Exercising your brain, whether through brain games, chess, word puzzles, etc… you can increase your working memory.
Become a Brainstorming Genius
In the article “How to Get Mindpopping Ideas,” Michael Michalko likens creativity to the universe, and creative ideas to the subatomic particles found throughout. He gives three ways to harvest all those millions of ideas and thoughts while brainstorming.
Observe and record each thought as a possibility. The key word here is observe. Don’t place judgment or value to anything your subconscious brain puts forth. When we judge the value of our thoughts, we snuff out creativity.
Become inclusive. When brainstorming, accept every thought as important and potentially valuable, no matter how crazy or random it seems. Creativity is the combining of elements in new and unusual ways.
Keep a written record. Writing down our thoughts and ideas moves them into long-term memory. Even if we aren’t consciously thinking of the idea, our subconscious is, and will create more and more ideas.
What are some ways you increase communication with your muse?
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Thrive Through Cancer is a non-profit organization that helps young adults with cancer and their caregivers find hope and thrive. Through support groups, social events and community forums, Thrive Through Cancer aims to engage young adult community members by providing support and resources during their fight against cancer.
On June 20, 2013 Thrive Through Cancer will host a social event for young adults, their families, friends and caregivers at the Swedish Cancer Institute: Chemo-Con!
Come meet Rose Egge, founder of Thrive Through Cancer, and join us for two educational and interactive workshops focused on issues commonly experienced by young adults affected by cancer.
- Join Registered Dietician Julie Herbst for a conversation about healthy eating, maximizing nutritional intake and managing symptoms with foods. Recipe and sampling provided.
- Jacci Thompson-Dodd, MA, MSSS will host a discussion about intimacy and cancer, and can help answer any questions you may have.
You will also have the opportunity to learn more about community partners, resources and services available in areas near you from the following organizations:
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Protected federal lands are fueling Colorado's economic vitality by luring both employers and employees eager to pursue a quality of life elevated by wild, open spaces.
A new study released Wednesday by Montana's Headwaters Economics — an independent research group that compiles federal and regional statistics into research aimed at improving community development and land management decisions — shows that Colorado's federally protected national parks, wilderness areas and monuments are driving economic growth. The study of Colorado and the West reports that Western non-metro counties with more than 30 percent of lands federally protected enjoyed a 345 percent increase in jobs since 1970 while non-metro counties with no protected lands saw only 83 percent job growth in the same period.
It's not just the host communities that are thriving.
"The lands immediately surrounding these federally protected areas are the fastest growing," said Ray Rasker , the executive director of Headwaters Economics who describes himself as an "economic geographer."
Dispelling the notion that land protection hinders economic development, Rasker's research points to Colorado's vast collection of federal land - 36 percent of the state - as a primary driver
In 2010, Colorado was a top-ranked state for entrepreneurs, with 450 new businesses every month for every 100,000 residents compared to a national rate of 340 new businesses a month.
David White , head of marketing for the Colorado Springs Regional Economic Development Corp. regularly trolls California for chieftains of fast-growing companies eager to escape a rough business climate. Focusing on six key industries, White has found a gold mine of California CEOs ready to move to Colorado for personal lifestyle reasons. His group's new ad campaign emphasizes Colorado Springs' outdoor fun. A list of Orange County businesses that recently relocated to the city is growing.
"Our quality of life and our open spaces and our trails are very appealing in trying to attract the companies we want to attract," White said.
High wage services industries have led Colorado's job growth, with Rasker's research showing new health care, finance, real estate and professional services jobs driving and diversifying the state's job landscape. Many of those workers were lured by the state's outdoor offerings, he said.
Colorado's wildlands not only attract new businesses but contribute to existing business growth. Ryan Martens , founder of Boulder's Rally Software, said Colorado is "the best combination of place, knowledgeable workers and lifestyle."
"I can't think of a better place to anchor a business," said Martens, who employs 200 highly skilled workers in Colorado. "It allows us a place to regenerate also. It's a place for us to actually clear our heads."
John Land Le Coq recently relocated his Fishpond and Lilypond fly-fishing gear and apparel companies from Kansas to Denver and is infusing his brands with not just Colorado's sustainable, open spaces but the workers drawn to those places.
"We could have gone to several different places, but Colorado was vital to us because of the employee base," Le Coq said. "The kind of people we want in our business are here for the same reason we are. It's the employee base we need."
Jason Blevins: 303-954-1374 or email@example.com
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Kitchen Stewardship is the idea that working in our kitchens, like everything we do, is an opportunity to love God and serve our families.
The foundation of Kitchen Stewardship is simple: God gave us everything we have and asks only that we take good care of it. God gave us our health, our earth, our time and our money. For those of us who spend a lot of time in the kitchen, we are met with challenges in all four areas a daily basis. It can be daunting to try to do our best to be good stewards of them all, especially as science finds out more about how we harm our bodies and environment with chemicals and the world tempts us to live beyond our means in many ways. Kitchen Stewardship is about finding the balance, doing the right thing to give glory and honor to God, becoming more prayerful in the kitchen, and rejoicing in the accomplishment of baby steps on the road to perfect stewardship.
Kitchen Stewardship is a lifestyle, a commitment to doing your absolute best in the kitchen to be a good steward. The Bible tells us that a good steward cares for his gifts from God. The servants in the parable of the talents are honored when they (1) take some risk with God’s gifts and (2) USE God’s gifts and avoid burying/ignoring them. Our gifts are many and varied:
We all have a certain genetic makeup that makes our bodies healthy, and we are endowed with the ability to choose and eat foods that can help or hinder that process.
We all have been given the great gift of our earth and all its resources. Genesis 1:28 says that we should “fill the earth and subdue it,” and those first humans were also given the responsibility to care for the earth. They pass that on to us.
We all have financial resources at our disposal, whether they be generous or simple. It is a vast challenge to decide how and where to put that money, especially when we try to balance our budget on top of our health and the environment.
We all have time. We may not feel like we have any (!), but that’s just because we already use an awful lot of it! We have 24 hours in each day and must make account for our use of each one. When we’re in the kitchen, let us use our time wisely so we can have more hours for prayer, for being with family, and for our other worthwhile pursuits. On the other hand, let us not sacrifice our other gifts simply for the sake of having more time to spare.
Kitchen Stewardship seeks to balance our care of these four gifts from God.
The lifestyle of Kitchen Stewardship requires the following:
- Prayer…walking the KS blogwalk will offer many ideas and opportunities for praying IN the kitchen
- Trust in God…He will give you the time and resources you need to take care of your family
- Flexibility…you may be asked to make changes that seem difficult at first. Change is often difficult…
- Organization…believe me, you don’t have to be very organized, but in order to avoid fast food fixes, you’ll need the ability to plan ahead
- Dedication…I’ll be working under the assumption that my readers are dedicated to the ideals of conserving our earth’s resources and keeping our families physically healthy. Any good work takes a commitment.
The lifestyle of Kitchen Stewardship allows for the following:
- Baby Steps!...KS is first and foremost a process, not an ideal you can obtain in a few days. We must allow ourselves time to grow!
- Celebrating small accomplishments (see above)
- Failure…it will happen. Don’t worry about it!
- Balance and acceptance of less than perfect…sometimes we can’t do it all. We shoot for the best we can in each category and allow some wiggle room for God to bless our emptiness.
Please join me on this wild ride, whether you are a fast food junkie or a health nut. I promise you’ll find something new to challenge you in the kitchen, here at Kitchen Stewardship!
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Last month, when President Bush signed the FISA compromise bill into law, the Nation joined a lawsuit with the American Civil Liberties Union over the spying program. The new laws secure for the federal government "sweeping and virtually unregulated authority to monitor the international communications," and so naturally the Nation, which frequently reports from conflict zones, was concerned that their communication might not be private.
This should be a concern for all U.S. news outlets that do international reporting, although sadly the lawsuit didn't get much coverage from any of them. But one would think this should change things:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Friday that it had improperly obtained the phone records of reporters for The New York Times and The Washington Post in the newspapers' Indonesia bureaus in 2004.
Robert S. Mueller III, director of the F.B.I., disclosed the episode in a phone call to Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times, and apologized for it. He also spoke with Leonard Downie Jr., the executive editor of The Washington Post, to apologize.
F.B.I. officials said the incident came to light as part of the continuing review by the Justice Department inspector general's office into the bureau's improper collection of telephone records through "emergency" records demands issued to phone providers.
The records were apparently sought as part of a terrorism investigation, but the F.B.I. did not explain what was being investigated or why the reporters' phone records were considered relevant.
This proves that the government monitoring the overseas communications of news organizations is not a theoretical concern -- though it would be no less important even then. They've done it at least once recently, we now know. But why? What reporters, and what phone records? Have they done it any other time? To whom? What safeguards are in place, if any, to keep this from happening again?
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Community-based strategies for breastfeeding promotion and support in developing countries
WHO and UNICEF developed the Global Strategy on Infant and Young Child Feeding in 2002 to revitalize world attention to the substantial impact of feeding practices on the growth and development, health, and survival of infants and young children. The present review examines the evidence for the contribution that community-based interventions can make to improve infant and young child feeding, and identifies factors that are important to ensure that interventions are successful and sustainable.
The findings show that families and communities are more than simple beneficiaries of interventions; they are also resources to shape the interventions and extend coverage close to where mothers, other caregivers and young children live. It is intended that the experiences presented here will help policy makers, programme planners, and health professionals in the essential and challenging task of translating knowledge into action at all levels: the health system, the community and civil society at large.
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Let’s face it. No one ever would have said “Keep Austin Weird” if Threadgill’s hadn’t made it weird in the first place.
When bootlegger and country music lover Kenneth Threadgill opened his Gulf filling station just north of the Austin city limits in 1933, he had more on his mind than just pumping gas. After all, just months before he had stood in line all night to be the first person to own a beer license in the county. And soon after, his joint would become a favorite for traveling musicians interested in grabbing a drink after their gigs.
The quintessential beer joint continued to flourish into the sixties, and changed with the social climate of the era by inviting the folkies, hippies and beatniks to his Wednesday night singing sessions with open arms. Threadgill’s love for people and music smoothed out the conflicts that usually occurred when longhairs crossed paths rednecks, and because of this, a new culture tolerance emanated from the tavern, which had a profound effect upon its patrons and the music that came from it.
Not to mention it was here that Janis Joplin developed her brassy style that would propel her to become the first female rock and roll superstar.
After nearly succumbing to the wrecking ball, the original Threadgill’s site was saved by legendary Austin City Councilman Lowell Lebermann Jr., and purchased by Eddie Wilson, owner of the Armadillo World Headquarters. Wilson’s idea, however, was to make Threadgill’s a Southern style restaurant, based on the success of the menu that he offered at his kitchen at the Armadillo. So, on New Year’s Eve 1980, the Armadillo closed, and on New Year’s Eve 1981, Threadgill’s opened as a restaurant. It was an instant success.
In 1996, Threadgill’s World Headquarters was opened in south Austin, right beside the residence of the Armadillo Headquarters. Wilson has made a distinction between the two locations: the original location on North Lamar has the theme of Austin between the 1930’s and the 1960’s. The south location celebrates the history of the Armadillo and its salad days of the 1970’s. The memorabilia of the Headquarters represents the hey-day of this era from the juke box which contains many of the artists who played the Armadillo, to the piano that hangs from the ceiling which has been played by artists as diverse as Jerry Lee Lewis to Captain Beefheart.
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A Hairy Situation
Can you tell the difference between the amount of body hair humans have, and the amount some animals have? According to evolution, humans evolved from creatures like apes, and human body hair was “left over” on our bodies through this process. Evolutionists believe that human body hair is of little use. Our supposed ancestors used their thick coat of hair for warmth and protection, but humans no longer have that thick coat of hair. The little bit of body hair that humans do have is viewed by many evolutionists as a vestige of evolution. Is it true that human body hair is a “leftover” of evolution?
No structure can be called vestigial unless it can be proven that it has absolutely no function.Human body hair, however, does have some important functions, and so it cannot be labeled as vestigial. Let’s look at some of the things body hair does for us. First, body hair playsa very important role in the protection of the skin. Body hair functions to warm the skin, and to protect the skinfrom germs. Hair also can act as a kind of radar, letting us know when something
is crawling on us. For instance, sometimes a tick will get on a person and go undetected for a while. Yet, if that tick moves a leg or arm hair too much, we can feel the movement and get rid of the tick.
The latest theory proposed by evolutionists says that humans have lost all of this hair “to beat the bugs.” Evolutionists say that humans somehow reduced the amount of hair on their bodies in an effort to get rid of the biting bugs and flies, because they would not have enough hair to “cling to.” Although getting rid of this hair might reduce the amount of attacking bugs, it also would make us more likely to scratch, cut, or damage our skin. In truth, we did not evolve from creatures like apes. And we did not lose most of our body hair in the process. Continual medical discoveries have solved most of the former mysteries of certain body parts, like body hair. It is not leftover or useless, but has many helpful functions. God designed humans with the right amount of body hair in the first place.
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Can you imagine what would have happened had this occurred twenty years ago? I can.
RUSSIA will show off its most modern bombers to its best military customer and China will have a chance to demonstrate that it is a force to be reckoned with when the giant neighbours hold their first joint military exercises this month.I can see now why some people are so worried about John Bolton. He might hurt the tender feelings of the communists and "ex-communists" that, no doubt, exist among this sort. Perhaps some "love-talk" will cause them to stand down.
The decision to hold the drills off the east China coast in the Yellow Sea came after a disagreement over Beijing’s initial desire for the games to take place further south, opposite the island of Taiwan — which it hopes one day to recover, by force if necessary.
Yesterday’s announcement that 100,000 troops would mass from August 18 to 25 marked the culmination of years of rapprochement between countries that were once bitter enemies, which went to war in a minor territorial dispute in the 1970s, but now see themselves as strategic partners. [SNIP]
Analysts say there is little doubt that China is keen to send a message to the US. Not only is it gradually expanding its influence in Asia, eroding decades of dominance by Washington, but it also has the cash to go on a spending spree to update its military.
And, just in case observers mistake the intention of these games, a Russian
official journalist spells things out:
Vadim Solovyov, the Chief Editor of the Independent Military Survey, said: “These exercises are a challenge to the US and its allies — a new military alliance is forming. Now there is a unipolar world. Russia and China can make a second pole.”
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Thursday, March 17, 2005
Happy 275th, Arlington Street Church!
The Boston Public Library is hosting an exhibit this month to honor the 275th birthday of the congregation of the Arlington Street Church:
275th Birthday of the Arlington Street Church — Through March 31 in the Boston Rm. (Ext. 2212). Founded in 1729 by non-subscribing Presbyterian Scots-Irish immigrants, the congregation became Unitarian in the early 19th century and moved from its original barn to the Federal Street Church where the famous minister William Ellery Channing preached, to the present building at the corner of Arlington and Boylston Streets. Over the years, the church has played an influential role in both denominational and Boston history. Documents, paintings, photographs and artifacts will be on display.
The congregation's anniversary page is worth visiting, too. An email about the BPL exhibit added a few helpful tidbits:
WHERE: The exhibit is in the Boston Room, just inside the Boylston Street entrance to the left. (Take a left into the circulation area, and left again into the exhibit area.) . . .
WHEN: It is open whenever the library is open, and should be up through the first week in April. We tentatively expect to remove it on April 8th and 9th. Parts of it will be on display at Arlington Street Church after that time.
Clearly I will be making a visit to the library.
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WASHINGTON — The United States warned today that it will "really get tough" with Poland if it repeats unwarranted actions against American diplomats.
The announcement by White House spokesman Larry Speakes followed the U.S. expulsion of a Polish diplomat in retaliation for Poland's arresting and expelling American military attache Col. Frederick Myer and his wife from Warsaw on charges of spying.
Poland dismissed the U.S. action as "unjustified retaliation" that further damages "bad Polish-American relations."
In addition to the expulsion of Col. Zygmunt Szymanski, the Polish military attache, and his wife, Speakes reiterated, "We are postponing talks on a science and technology agreement with the Polish government," and added, "We will consider repetition of the actions by the Polish government like those taken in the case of Col. Myer as a reason for even more serious action on our part."
Asked what he meant, Speakes said bluntly, "If they do it again, we'll really get tough."
In Warsaw, government spokesman Jerzy Urban said the United States did not offer any charges against the Polish attache. He termed the expulsion "simply an act of retaliation."
Urban told reporters the United States "provoked" the matter by sending Myer and his wife to photograph military installations in northeastern Poland Feb. 21.
"Bad Polish-American relations were further deteriorated due to the spying raid," Urban said, recalling that 13 U.S diplomats had been expelled from Poland on charges of spying since 1963.
The science talks, an outgrowth of the gradual lifting of U.S. sanctions against Poland following Warsaw's crackdown against the Solidarity union, were to have begun in Washington today.
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Part II in a 5-part series connecting daily work with spiritualityTuesday: "What You Are Going to Do, Do It Quickly"How quickly do you move through the day? Are you a quick-and-easy or a slow-and-steady? By breaking the day up into bite-sized parts, we can do some helpful eval:
- Early morning: is your routine so ingrained that you don't have to think about what you're doing?
- At work: think about how you move through the hall ways, through your agenda, and through your to-do list.
- Evening: do your rituals augment how you wind down and recharge?
Brian Tracy is a huge proponent of moving quickly throughout the day. When at work, work. When heading to a meeting, get there. I'm often amazed at how blah so many folks are at work, moving around as if they might like to be somewhere else.
Another way of thinking of speed at work is to figure out how much you make per hour. Even if you are a salaried employee, figure out your per/hour fee. As you move through the day, are you working at $25 or $50 or even $100 per hour quality work?
The Gospel reading today speaks of Christ's famous line, "What you are going to do, do it quickly." Action is decisive and success is built on the shoulders of many small and courageous decisions. As you work through the day, act quickly and with purpose. Today is Tuesday of Holy Week.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
— Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man
The question is why the United States was even thinking of selling arms to Bahrain. The answer can be found in the fact that the United States is the number one arms supplier in the world and to maintain its status it cannot be judgmental about the conduct of its customers. If standards of conduct were the operable criteria, the United States’ customer base would be reduced if not eliminated. As it is, sales of arms simply jeopardize the lives of some who live in the customers’ countries as well as those with which they may come into armed conflict, conflicts that might not take place were the adversaries not armed by the United States and other weapons supplying countries.
On March 19, 2011protestors took over Pearl Square in Manama, Bahrain. Two days before the take over and acting under orders from King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the army had used live ammunition to crack down on the Shiite dissidents who were demanding changes in how the country was governed. Unlike Egypt or Tunisia, where the revolts against the establishment were quick and successful, in Bahrain the monarchy brutally put down the revolt, assisted by its neighbor, Saudi Arabia. (As reported in the Los Angeles Times, on March 15 “hundreds of troops from Saudi Arabia and police officers from the nearby United Arab Emirates . . . entered Bahrain at the request of the ruling family. . . .”) Thanks to his own quick, if brutal response, and the assistance of Saudi Arabia, King Hamad continues to rule.
In Egypt and Libya and more recently Syria, the Obama administration said the conduct of their respective leaders had resulted in the loss of their right to rule. In Bahrain, home of the U.S. Fifth Fleet, the Obama administration urged the Kahlifa family and the demonstrators to negotiate their differences. The fact that Bahrain is the headquarters for the U.S. 5th Fleet was probably not the reason for the different approach.
Although King Hamad successfully put down the revolt he was sufficiently concerned about reports of brutality by government forces that four moths after the events took place he appointed a commission to investigate. The commission was headed by Professor Cherif Bassiounim a professor of international criminal law and a former member of U.N. human rights panels. The report was released on November 23, 2011. According to the Associated Press, in the press conference at which the results of the commission’s findings were announced, Mr. Bassiouni said when the revolt began, the government undertook midnight raids to create fear and engaged in purges from workplaces and universities. A number of Shiite mosques were destroyed. Those jailed were blindfolded, whipped, kicked, given electric shocks and threatened with rape to extract confessions. The Bahrain Center for Human Rights said more than 40 deaths of protestors occurred.
Although it is likely that someone in the United States government was aware of the appointment of the commission, it did not wait to find out what the commission would discover. Instead, on September 14 the Pentagon told Congress it intended to sell more than 44 armored Humvees and 300 TOW missiles to Bahrain. Some outside the administration who had followed events in Bahrain were alarmed.
Shortly after the notice was sent out Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) wrote the Secretary of State and observed what she might have observed without his prompting. He wrote that: “Proceeding with the announced arms sale to Bahrain without modification under the current circumstances weakens U.S. credibility at a critical time of political transition in the Middle East.” In what might be described as an “oops” moment, the administration said it was delaying the arms sale until the Bassiouni commission report was released and it had had a chance to review the report. Some might wonder why it took a letter from a Senator to get the State Department to delay its actions. The answer can be found in more than the zeal of the United States to stay in first place in the arms sale business. It can be found in a government audit that was released on November 19, 2011, The audit found “inadequate monitoring of American weapons sales to Persian Gulf countries with questionable human rights records or recent clashes with protesters.” According to the Washington Post, the GAO’s report expressed concern about “how the U.S. government ensures the proper use of military equipment” sold to, among other countries, Bahrain. It observed that “[s]uch vetting is especially critical given Bahrain’s use of its security forces to quell public demonstrations.”
Commenting on the GAO report, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, said: “We need to ensure that the equipment is not being diverted to third parties, and that those groups and units who are the intended recipients are not implicated in human rights violations.” Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen got it right. The disturbing thing is that the State Department didn’t.
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MyTeachingPartner™, or MTP, is a system of professional-development supports developed through the Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning. MTP improves teacher-student interactions, which in turn, increases student learning and development.
The suite of MTP professional-development supports contains three specific resources that may be used either individually or in tandem:
- A video library of annotated examples of best practice: The MTP video library—more than 400 one- to two-minute video clips of teachers’ effective interactions with students from pre-K to high school—gives teachers an opportunity to observe other teachers’ effective interactions as they implement a wide range of instructional activities in various contexts.
- A college course: This three-credit college course focuses on improving teachers’ knowledge of effective interactions, their skills in identifying effective interactions, and applying those skills to their own classrooms.
- Web-mediated individualized coaching: The coaching program is a partnership between the teacher and a trained consultant that provides relevant, interactive, and ongoing feedback and support from a consultant and online curricula throughout the school year. Every two weeks, using a simple video camera set up on a tripod in their classroom, teachers videotape their own instruction and send this footage to their coach. The MTP coaching program involves the following 5 steps in a 2 week cycle:
All three MTP resources rely on a standardized observational assessment of teacher-student interactions—the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, or CLASS—as the primary way to observe and define effective practice.
Research demonstrates that teachers participating in MTP engage in more effective interactions with students, especially in classrooms that serve higher proportions of students in poverty. Students in these classrooms also show enhanced academic and social skill development. Here are some additional research findings:
- Teachers participating in MTP coaching made significant gains in reading and responding to students’ cues, using a variety of formats to actively engage children in instruction, and intentionally stimulating language development.
- Teachers who had access only to the video library and made regular use of it were observed to be more sensitive and responsive to children’s needs, more proactive and effective at managing behavior, and more skilled at maximizing children’s learning time.
- Children in MTP-coached classrooms made greater gains in receptive vocabulary, task orientation, and prosocial assertiveness.
- Teachers who completed the college course demonstrated increased knowledge of effective interactions, improved skills in identifying these interactions, and greater use of effective interactions in the classroom.
- On average, student gains were equivalent to increasing the achievement status of every student in a class taught by a teacher who had been in MTP-Secondary from the 50th to the 59th percentile, and to preventing one student from otherwise failing the end of year state assessment.
- These impacts on student learning were due to changes in student-teacher interaction within the classrooms.
Allen, J. P., Pianta, R. C., Gregory, A., Mikami, A.Y., & Lun J. (2011). An interaction-based approach to enhancing secondary school instruction and student achievement. Science, 333, 1034-1037.
Downer, J. T., Kraft-Sayre, M., & Pianta, R. C. (2009). On-going, web-mediated professional development focused on teacher-child interactions: Feasibility of use with early childhood educators. Early Education & Development, 20(2), 321–345.
Hamre, B. K., Justice, L. M., Pianta, R.C., Kilday, C., Sweeney, B., Downer, J. T., & Leach, A. (2010). Implementation fidelity of MyTeachingPartner literacy and language activities: Association with preschoolers’ language and literacy growth. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 25, 329–347.
Hamre, B., Pianta, R., Burchinal, M., Field, S., LoCasale-Crouch, J., Downer, J., Howes, C., LaParo, K., & Scott-Little, C. (in press). A course on effective teacher-child interactions: Effects on teacher beliefs, knowledge, and observed practice. American Education Research Journal.
Kinzie, M. B., Whitaker, S. D., Neesen, K., Kelley, M., Matera, M. & Pianta, R. C. (2006). Innovative web-based professional development for teachers of at-risk preschool children. Educational Technology & Society, 9(4), 194-204.
Mashburn, A. J., Downer, J. T., Hamre, B. K., Justice, L.M., &Pianta, R. C. (2010). Consultation for Teachers and Children's Language and Literacy Development during Pre-Kindergarten. Applied Developmental Science, 14, 179-196.
Pianta, R. C., Mashburn, A. J., Downer, J. T., Hamre, B. K., & Justice, L. M. (2008). Effects of web-mediated professional development resources on teacher-child interactions in pre-kindergarten classrooms. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 23, 431–451.
Whitaker, S. D., Kinzie, M. B., Kraft-Sayre, M. E., Mashburn, A., & Pianta, R. C. (2007). Use and Evaluation of Web-based Professional Development Services Across Participant Levels of Support. Early Childhood Education Journal, 34(6), 1573-1707.
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Software developers are incessantly inundated with wave upon wave of offered solutions to their many pains (pains that are unfortunately and ultimately felt by their clients): third-generation languages, object-oriented programming, CASE tools, aspects, components, programming frameworks, extreme programming, and agile methods, to name just a few. Some of these solutions have indeed dramatically impacted how software is developed, while others have proved mere passing fads, never fulfilling the potential claimed for them. One of the more recent entries in this multitude is model-based software engineering (MBSE). From its emergence in the 1990s, this approach to software development along with its accompanying technologies have been promoted by advocates as game changers, promising quantum leaps in productivity and product quality. Following the initial excitement and hype generated around MBSE, its position in the limelight is now slowly fading, displaced by more recent cure-alls. While MBSE is being used in some enterprises, it is far from being the dominant software development paradigm that its proponents had hoped for. For many software professionals, its relevance and impact are unclear at best.
In this talk, Bran will first examine the essential precepts of MBSE and the value proposition claimed for it. Next, in order to understand the reality behind it – as opposed to the hype -- we will review the current industry experience with MBSE, based on thorough survey of published data. We conclude with a critical assessment of the real impact that MBSE has had to date, and what the future might hold for it.
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Although Rhode Island is the smallest state in the nation, it still boasts a healthy assortment of fun and scenic motorcycle routes. As is probably expected from a state that is only 37 miles wide and 48 miles long, most of its roads, though, are pretty short. One of the most popular places to visit in Rhode Island is Newport, which was once a popular summer beach escape for America’s wealthiest families. Today, this city’s streets are still lined with gorgeous, extravagant mansions, some of which are now open to the public.
Riders looking for a curvy road should head over to Breakneck Hill Road, which is a twisty, fun ride. Unfortunately, it is only 1.4 miles long – a mini twisty road for a mini state. Breakneck Hill Road connects Route 146 to Manchester Print Works Road in the town of Lincoln, which is just north of Providence.
Motorcyclists who are interested in seeing how the very rich lived during this area’s Gilded Age, 1865 to 1914, will want to point their bikes toward Newport’s Bellevue Avenue. The gigantic, opulent mansions lining this city’s street are definitely not mere McMansions like the nouveau riche today tend to buy. These are honest to goodness gorgeous huge structures that served as summer “cottages” for the mega-rich families of America. Today, many of these mansions are open to the public, including the 70-room, magnificent The Breakers, which was owned by the Vanderbilt family.
Motorcyclists coming to Newport from the north who would prefer to avoid the traffic jams on I-95 can take Route 102 south to Wickford. From Wickford, motorcyclists will take Route 1A south until they reach Plum Point, where they will turn left onto Route 138. Riders will next have to cross the Claiborne Pell Bridge, which is a very tall suspension bridge that leads straight into Newport. This bridge can either be a highlight or a lowlight of this route, depending on how a motorcyclist feels about riding high in the sky with panoramic views of water all around him. Overall, this route, which takes its riders through some pretty countryside, as well as some picturesque coastal towns and communities, is a pleasant way to get to Newport.
Even though Rhode Island is tiny, it still boasts a surprising 400 miles of scenic coastline on the Atlantic Ocean. US-1 and US-1A, which is also known as Coastal Rhode Island, parallel the Rhode Island coast, passing through charming coastal towns, piney woodlands and past gorgeous beaches and picturesque lighthouses. Riders can pick up US-1A in Saunderstown, which is not far from Newport, and then follow this road to US-1. Motorcyclists continue on this beautiful scenic coastal road until it ends in the Victorian seaside resort, Watch Hill.
Last, but definitely not least is a road for lovers of twisties. Route 44, which stretches for 68 miles between Hartford, Connecticut and Smithfield, Rhode Island, is a hilly, scenic ride that features fun twisties.
In addition to some nice roads, motorcyclists will also find several rallies, shows and rides in Rhode Island, including the Northeast Motorcycle Expo, which is held in Providence. This expo features vendors, celebrity appearances and tons of exhibits.
Disclaimer: All information is provided as a service to motorcycle riders, and the opinions expressed here are subjective. Although we have tried to research this information thoroughly, it is possible that changing circumstances can cause this information to become inaccurate. In addition, the conditions and roads described can change without notice for a number of reasons, including closings, weather conditions and maintenance. Motorcycle events such as rallies and rides may also be cancelled or dates changed without notice, as well. This site is not responsible for these types of circumstances, which are beyond our control, and riders relying on this information will be doing so at their own risk. This site is not liable for any actions a rider takes based on the information provided here. Please consult other sources before heading out on these roads and do not use the directions given here as a map, as again, circumstances may have affected their accuracy.
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Today, a thought about juxtaposition and
contradictions. The University of Houston's College
of Engineering presents this series about the
machines that make our civilization run, and the
people whose ingenuity created them.
Long ago, a scientist caught
me off guard by saying he believed the literal
truth of Genesis. But he also accepted evolution
and modern geology. It took me years to make sense
of that. Now I see that science tells me
what happened, while Genesis helps me to
make sense of it.
Our lives are loaded with side-by-side
contradictions. Do I warp a child's sense of
reality when I speak of Santa Claus? I doubt it.
The child soon enough looks back and sees Santa as
the way she learned the real power of
Orion is a cluster of stars in which I see the
giant hunter of myth. Now the Hubble telescope
looks into one star of Orion's sword and shows us a
swirling nebula. I know perfectly well that
Orion is more than a simple picture painted by
stars in one plane of the heavens. But a ghostly
hunter, chasing the Pleiades across eternal night,
gives it another layer of meaning nonetheless.
When contradictory facts move into close
juxtaposition, one of two things happens. If one
fact proves wrong, then that's that. But sometimes
the contradiction harbors two totally different
faces of the same deeper truth. The opposing forces
both gain in validity as they converge, and,
finally, the universe changes.
Take the nature of light: For two centuries
Huygens's wave theory and Newton's corpuscular
theory both answered questions about light.
The whole business got really frustrating
when Planck explained how the energy of light is
spread among its wavelengths. By then, the wave
theory was ascendant, and he upset the apple cart
by imagining a new corpuscle called a
It wasn't till the late 1920s that modern quantum
mechanics violated all intuition by telling us that
material particles reduce to mere
waves of probability. Only when we carried
the contradictory descriptions to their full
validity, and then juxtaposed them, could we make
sense of light.
Science is filled with stories like that. For
centuries, competing explanations of heat gained
validity. Heat was an invisible fluid that flowed
from hot bodies to cold ones -- or was it some sort
of stored motion in a material? Only after we had
an atomic theory could the principle of energy
conservation emerge. When it did, both explanations
lingered as shadows of a more complex truth.
Of course, science is simple stuff alongside the
contradictions of human relationships. Which of us
doesn't see kindness and meanness, generosity and
greed, all juxtaposed in the people we know? The
world changes in the rare moments when we make
sense of those opposites. So look for
contradiction. Out of it, despair can turn to hope.
A tiny glint of Orion's sword can open into a vast
array of stars and dust, thousands of light years
away from the hard earth upon which you and I spend
I'm John Lienhard, at the University of Houston,
where we're interested in the way inventive minds
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Over the years, startling evidence has been unearthed, challenging established notions of the origins of Earth and life on it, and suggesting the existence of a superior race of beings who once inhabited our world. The product of thirty years of intensive research, The 12th Planet is the first book in Zecharia Sitchin's prophetic Earth Chronicles series--a revolutionary body of work that offers indisputable documentary proof of humanity's extraterrestrial forefathers. Travelers from the stars, they arrived eons ago, and planted the genetic seed that would ultimately blossom into a remarkable species...called Man.
The 12th Planet brings to life the Sumerian civilization, presenting millennia-old evidence of the existence of Nibiru, the home planet of the Anunnaki, and of the landings of the Anunnaki on Earth every 3,600 years, and reveals a complete history of the solar system as told by these early visitors from another planet.
Zecharia Sitchin's Earth Chronicles series, with millions of copies sold worldwide, deal with the history and prehistory of Earth and humankind. Each book in the series is based upon information written on clay tablets by the ancient civilizations of the Near East. The series is offered here, for the first time, in highly readable, hardbound collector's editions with enhanced maps and diagrams.
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One of the few scholars able to read the clay tablets and interpret ancient Sumerian and Akkadian, Sitchin based The Earth Chronicles series on the texts and pictorial evidence recorded by the ancient civilizations of the Near East. His books have been widely translated, reprinted in paperback editions, converted to Braille for the blind, and featured on radio and television programs.
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" . . . [supplies] an array of evidence to support the assertion that the earth had been visited by ancient alien astronauts in its past. Sitchin based his conclusions on the written records of Sumer, the 'sudden civilization' that sprang up virtually overnight in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley of modern Iraq. . . . he found an astonishing array of facts that could be corroborated by modern research. What he found was literally mind boggling in 1976, and it remains so today."
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Nov. 8, 2007 There are unknown creatures lurking under the windswept islands of the Aleutians, according to a team of scientific divers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
This summer, while completing the second phase of a two-year broad scientific survey of the waters around the Aleutian Islands, scientists have discovered what may be three new marine organisms. This year's dives surveyed the western region of the Aleutians, from Attu to Amlia Island, while last year's assessment covered the eastern region.
During the dives, two potentially new species of sea anemones have been discovered. Stephen Jewett, a professor of marine biology and the dive leader on the expedition, says that these are "walking" or "swimming" anemones because they move across the seafloor as they feed. While most sea anemones are anchored to the seabed, a "swimming" anemone can detach and drift with ocean currents. The size of these anemones ranges from the size of a softball to the size of a basketball.
Another new species is a kelp or brown algae that scientists have named the "Golden V Kelp" or Aureophycus aleuticus. According to Mandy Lindeberg, an algae expert with NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service and a member of the expedition, the kelp may represent a new genus, or even family, of the seaweed. Up to ten feet long, the kelp was discovered near thermal vents in the region of the Islands of the Four Mountains.
"Since the underwater world of the Aleutian Islands has been studied so little, new species are being discovered, even today," said Jewett. He adds that even more new species may be revealed as samples collected during the dives continue to be analyzed.
The organisms were found while surveying more than 1000 miles of rarely-explored coastline, from Attu to the Tigalda Islands. Logging more than 300 hours underwater, the divers collected hundreds of water, biological and chemical samples during 440 dives. Armed with underwater cameras and video cameras, the divers took hundreds of photographs and dozens of short movies of the creatures that inhabit the coast of the Aleutians.
According to Jewett, the scientists are reasonably sure that the kelp is a new species, but more work is being done to confirm that the sea anemone species are completely new to science. Correspondence with anemone experts has so far shown the anemones to be new species, but the analysis is ongoing.
During both years, the chief scientist on the project was Douglas Dasher, a water quality expert from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. The scientific team operated from the R/V NORSEMAN, a 108-foot vessel originally designed for crab fishing in the Bering Sea.
The dives were part of a broad health assessment of the Aleutian Islands and were sponsored by the Alaska Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program, also referred to as AKMAP. The program is funded by the Environmental Protection Agency and managed through a joint agreement between the ADEC and UAF.
Samples from the dives are being used to catalog biodiversity in the region, assess water quality and potential contaminants. According to Jewett, this is the first time the remote nearshore region of the Aleutian Chain has undergone an in-depth marine assessment.
Not immune from human impacts
The rugged and remote islands of the Aleutians are not immune to the reach of human activity, say scientists leading the expedition.
"Pollutants traveling through air and water pathways from temperate latitudes have been showing up in the area," says Jewett. "Debris and spills from World War II in the Aleutians have left their mark behind in unexploded ordinance and local sources of pollutants."
Scientists on the project are using water and tissue samples collected during the dives to gauge the impacts of human activity in the area. Samples are being tested for nutrient and oxygen levels in the water, acidity, temperature and radioactive chemicals left over from the underwater nuclear tests conducted at Amchitka Island between 1965 and 1971.
"Climate change, with changes in water temperature, wind patterns and currents may impact the region's biological life," added Jewett. "It is important that we collect this information before any major changes occur."
Jewett, Dasher and the other scientists on the expedition hope that this assessment will help scientists gauge the overall health of the Aleutian Islands, both to provide a baseline for future comparison and to provide a general evaluation of the region's marine conditions.
A unique diving experience
Diving to a maximum depth of 60 feet along 1000 miles of mostly uninhabited coastline is an extraordinary experience, says Jewett.
"This is my fourth diving mission in the Aleutians," said Jewett. "In my view, it's the best cold-water diving experience in the Northern Hemisphere, because of the outstanding visibility, coupled with the diverse and colorful marine life."
Selected images from the dives can be seen at http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/emap
UAF divers on the expedition included Reid Brewer, marine advisory program agent in Unalaska; Max Hoberg, marine taxonomist; Heloise Chenelot, research technician; and Shawn Harper, a graduate student studying marine biology. ADEC scientists included Jim Gendron, Terri Lomax and Nic Dallman. Other members of the scientific team included Roger Clark, a marine taxonomist with NOAA, and Roger Deffendall, a volunteer diver from Unalaska.
The Aleutian Islands dives support the National Coastal Assessment Program, a nation-wide project to characterize the U.S. nearshore coastline. AKMAP methods provide a practical, cost-effective system to characterize Alaska's coastal and surface waters. The AKMAP team has already sampled the marine waters off of Alaska's southcentral and southeastern coasts. The western Aleutians section of the program is the fourth of five planned surveys to assess Alaska's entire coastline.
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BRUNSWICK, Maine — At the moment, Bowdoin College’s planned Longfellow Arts Building is little more than a storm of concrete forms, framing and sawdust.
When the cement cures and the paint dries, however, administrators from the illustrious school envision a fourth and final point on the campus’ artistic compass.
The college has begun renovation of the former Longfellow Elementary School, which closed in 2010 and snugs up to Bowdoin’s southern side, for conversion into a visual arts center. The new building will localize the college’s currently disparate arts programs into one home.
At present, the arts are scattered among six buildings — both on campus and dotting the neighborhoods afield of Maine Street, from Fort Andross to Brunswick Station.
Once the occupancy permits are issued — college officials hope that will be in time for the 2013-14 academic year — all the school’s digital photography, painting, printmaking, 3-D graphics, drafting and dance programs will live there. The facility also will house studio, gallery and performance space for faculty and students.
Longfellow Arts Building, named in honor of the poet who matriculated in 1825, is its working title.
That may change, according to music professor and Dean of Academic Affairs Cristle Collins Judd.
But probably not.
When first built in the 1920s, the building’s original structure was no more than three connected rooms. Additions through the years — particularly in the 1940s and 1980s — increased its footprint to two stories and 38,000 square feet. But its physical configuration of classrooms ringing a central gymnasium space fits well into Bowdoin’s plans, said project manager Don Borkowski.
“The building’s really a big, square doughnut,” Borkowski said, gesturing into the central pit that used to house the gym and eventually will be the center for dance and performance.
Concrete forms and workmen now crowd that space, setting the pieces that eventually will support 6,000 square feet of dance floor space.
“They poured something like 6,000 cubic yards of concrete [Friday],” Borkowski said Friday during a walkthrough of the cavernous space.
Pieces recycled, reused
Massachusetts firm Cambridge Seven Associates Inc. created the blueprints, which call for removing ceilings to expose trusses, beams and ductwork for a sense of open, airy space within the corridors. As many pieces will be recycled and reused as possible, such as half-round spoked windows on the second floor and sections of massive 12- by 18-inch timber support beams.
By removing overhead barriers and opening up performance space, the Longfellow Arts Building will be increased to 44,000 square feet of usable space, Borkowski said.
The entire project is funded by a $6 million bond, floated by the college in July 2012.
Bowdoin acquired the building in December 2011 in a three-way land swap brokered by Brunswick Development Corp. In the same deal, the town received the McLellan Building on Union Street, which eventually will house its municipal offices, as well as land for the new police station currently under construction at the corner of Stanwood and Pleasant streets.
Bowdoin got the old school building, as well as use of McLellan’s third floor until 2025.
Finally, Brunswick Development Corp. will get the current town office building on Federal Street once the town moves into McLellan and the new police station.
“It’s really a beautiful space, with big windows, tall ceiling height and such wonderful natural light, it’s perfect for our needs,” Collins Judd said.
She’s also excited about the geographic symbolism.
With Pickard Theater and Memorial Hall to the north, Studzinski Recital Hall to the east, the Museum of Art to the west and the refurbished building to be completed to the south, “It’s almost a perfect diamond, an intersection of the arts throughout the campus,” she said.
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CHICAGO (CBS) — There’s a troubling new trend in the suburbs. A new report says heroin deaths in Lake and Will Counties have doubled over the last several years.
The study looked at heroin use from 2007 through 2011 in outlying counties.
Heroin deaths more than doubled in Lake and Will counties — from 13 deaths to 28 in Lake, a 115 percent increase, and from 15 to 30 deaths in Will County, a 100 percent hike.
The study shows an increase in young Caucasian heroin users. Teens are more likely to use the drug after trying marijuana or prescription pain killers.
“They find that marijuana hasn’t killed them and it hasn’t maybe resulted in some horrible outcome, and so then they think well maybe they were lying about the other drugs,” Roosevelt’s Kathie Kane-Willis tells CBS 2.
The report finds that for the second year in a row, heroin is the second-most common reason to be admitted for public treatment, behind alcohol.
John Roberts is a 30-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department who moved his family to Homer Glen in Will County in 2004. That year, his youngest son, Billy, tried marijuana and alcohol for the first time.
“When Billy confided to me that he had tried heroin, you could have knocked me over with a proverbial feather,” Roberts said.
Billy Roberts died of a heroin overdose on Sept. 26, 2009.
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Highlights of steps the Federal Reserve has taken to try to aid the economy since the financial crisis erupted in 2008:
_ Nov. 3, 2010: The Fed announces it will buy $600 billion more in Treasury bonds gradually through the middle of 2011 to try to drive down interest rates on mortgages and other debt.
_Oct. 15, 2010: Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke signals the Fed will buy more government bonds to boost economy, drive down unemployment and protect against deflation.
_Sept. 21, 2010: Fed signals that it will buy take additional action to strengthen the economy.
_Aug. 10, 2010: Fed decides to use a relatively modest amount of money generated from its massive mortgage portfolio to buy government debt, a move aimed at lowering rates on mortgages and other loans even more. Because the amount of debt-buying is small, the impact was to nudge down rates.
_ Nov. 3-4-2009: Fed trims its purchases of mortgage debt to $175 billion, from $200 billion because of limited supply, a technical issue.
_Sept. 22-23-2009: Fed slows mortgage-buying program to wrap up purchases by March 31, 2010, versus end of this year.
_ March 17-18, 2009: Fed in a bold step announces it will start buying up to $300 billion in government bonds over the next six months. It also decides to boost purchases of Fannie and Freddie mortgage-backed securities and debt. Fed says it will buy a total of $1.25 trillion of mortgage securities that year, an increase of $750 billion. It also says it will buy a total of $200 billion in mortgage debt, an increase of $100 billion. The actions are aimed at driving down rates on mortgages and other debt to lift the economy out of recession.
_ Jan. 27-28-2009: Fed signals it is prepared to buy longer-term Treasuries and expand other programs.
_ Dec. 15-16, 2008: Fed creates a target range for interest rates and cuts its key federal funds rate to between zero and 0.25 percent, a record low. The Fed vows to use all tools at its disposable to rescue the economy from the worst financial crisis and recession since the 1930s.
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From power plants to paper mills, quarries to crematoriums – every year companies across North Carolina pump millions of pounds of chemicals and particulates into the atmosphere.
And no matter where you are in North Carolina, one thing remains constant – you’ve got to pay to pollute.
Most air polluters in the state pay for their emissions with permits, and sometimes fines, from the North Carolina Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Division of Air Quality.
But there are three places in the state where air quality isn’t regulated from agency headquarters in Raleigh, and one of those places is Buncombe County.
In Buncombe County, the Western North Carolina Regional Air Quality Agency monitors air quality and enforces state and federal air quality standards. The other two local regulating agencies in North Carolina are in Mecklenburg and Forsyth counties.
Ashley Featherstone, engineering supervisor for WNCRAQA, said the Buncombe County agency actually predates the state Division of Air Quality and federal Environmental Protection Agency.
The WNCRAQA was started as a smoke abatement agency in the 1940s to regulate smoke from coal-fired boilers in the area, Featherstone said. At that time, four counties were involved in the agency — Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson and Transylvania.
The Clean Air Act of 1970 allowed local governments to establish their own air quality programs, which Featherstone said resulted in the formation of the WNCRAQA.
The agency downsized to two counties — Buncombe and Haywood — in 1970 before Haywood ultimately left the agency in 1999.
Today, the agency is governed by a five-member board with three appointees from Buncombe County and two from the City of Asheville, although the agency operates independently of both governments. Buncombe County government administers the agency’s personnel policy.
Despite its small size and limited resources in comparison to statewide agencies, Kevin Lance, enforcement and monitoring supervisor, said he believes the WNCRAQA’s size is an advantage.
“I think it allows us to be better at enforcement and, you know, better at a lot of things,” he said.
The agency issues permits for 70 facilities in Buncombe County, and the fees for those permits are its primary source of funding, Featherstone said. It also receives an EPA STAR grant and some funding from North Carolina’s gas tax.
The WNCRAQA’s operating budget for the current fiscal year is $1,009,526, Featherstone said, adding that the budget includes $72,000 for the one-time purchase of new ozone detection equipment. She said the agency’s annual budget must be approved by its board and then by Buncombe County.
The WNCRAQA uses its funds to monitor air quality in the county, focusing primarily on ozone and particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns, also known as PM2.5. Although ozone hazards are more well-known, particulate matter can have serious health effects due to its ability to lodge deeply into the lungs, according to the EPA.
The agency monitors ozone levels from a monitoring station at Bent Creek Experimental Forest on Brevard Road and particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns from monitoring equipment on top of the Buncombe County Board of Education building.
Lance said WNCRAQA and the state poll these monitoring sites every hour. The air-quality information also is available at the government-backed AirCompare website.
The agency also conducts inspections on each of the facilities in Buncombe County that it permits. Title V facilities – the largest polluters – are inspected yearly to ensure compliance, Featherstone said. Title V references Title V of the federal Clean Air Act. The next largest polluters, designated as “synthetic minor,” also are inspected yearly. Small facilities are inspected every other year, Featherstone said.
Based on compliance with permits and air quality standards, Featherstone said the agency also has both civil and criminal enforcement authority.
Most of the violations the agency deals with are due to clerical errors like record-keeping and reporting, Featherstone said. Criminal enforcement is much more infrequent.
“It’s very hard to do a criminal case because you have to prove intent,” Featherstone said.
So far this year, the agency has issued six notices of violations, mostly for late reports or failure to conduct audits, which Featherstone said is pretty typical. “That’s the most common type of violation that we have,” she said.
Overall, Lance said he thinks a hardy sense of stewardship in the area is what has kept the agency successful for so many years.
“I think this is a good area to protect,” he said. “I think we have some good input in this area, and I think that’s why we stayed around.”
Agency hosting free gas can exchange
The Western North Carolina Regional Air Quality Agency will hold a free gas can exchange program in conjunction with the Buncombe County Solid Waste Department at the Buncombe County Landfill from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Aug. 3 and 10. The WNCRAQA will replace old gas cans with new, environmentally-friendly cans. The project is part of an effort to reduce emissions by American Suzuki Motor Corp. and the EPA. Visit WNCRAQA’s website for more information.
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NOTE: Click on the image to view it at its highest resolution.
The L impact as seen from San Piedro Martir Observatory (SPMO) in Baja, Mexico, using the Camila detector with a 2.12 micron filter. Each image in the time series has a total integration time of approximately 12 seconds. The maximum (22:33:12, in the center) is actually saturated and at maximum the spot is brighter ant all of Jupiter at that wavelength. The first image (22:15:41) is before any part of the L impact is visible. After the last image (22:44:11), the spot stayed at an almost constant brightness (for that rotation, at least). The spots in order are L, K, C and A. These images were taken at approximately 15:30 local time through holes in the clouds. The seeing was approximately 2.5 arcseconds.
Images, Images, Images
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Merrick, New York
|Merrick, New York|
|— CDP —|
|• Total||5.2 sq mi (13.5 km2)|
|• Land||4.2 sq mi (10.9 km2)|
|• Water||1.0 sq mi (2.6 km2)|
|Elevation||13 ft (4 m)|
|• Density||4,200/sq mi ( 1,600/km2)|
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Merrick is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, USA. As of the 2010 census, the CDP population was 22,097. The name "Merrick" is taken from Meroke, the name (meaning peaceful) of the Algonquian tribe formerly indigenous to the area. It is served by the Merrick station on the Long Island Rail Road.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 5.2 square miles (13 km2), of which 4.2 square miles (11 km2) is land and 1.0 square mile (2.6 km2), or 19.27%, is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 22,764 people, 7,524 households, and 6,478 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 5,423.3 per square mile (2,092.7/km²). There were 7,602 housing units at an average density of 1,811.1/sq mi (698.8/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 95.2% White, 1.0% African American, 0.10% Native American, 2.24% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.94% from other races, and 0.98% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.70% of the population.
There were 7,524 households out of which 42.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 76.0% were married couples living together, 7.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 13.9% were non-families. 11.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.02 and the average family size was 3.27.
In the CDP the population was spread out with 27.5% under the age of 18, 5.4% from 18 to 24, 27.7% from 25 to 44, 26.7% from 45 to 64, and 12.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 93.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.8 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $93,132, and the median income for a family was $99,589 (According to a 2007 estimate, these values had risen to $111,536 and $122,319 respectively). Males had a median income of $79,607 versus $41,618 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $26,334. About 2.0% of families and 2.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.6% of those under age 18 and 2.2% of those age 65 or over.
When Europeans arrived, the place was called "Meroke" all along the South Shore of what is now Nassau County. After Sachem Tackapousha signed a treaty with Merrick's first colonists in 1643, Puritans who fled England started settling there. During the colonial period, Merrick became a trading center because vessels could enter Jones Inlet and sail up deep channels to docks beside what is now Merrick Road. During the War of 1812 these channels, canals and coves made Merrick a haven for buccaneers who preyed on merchants. Pirates in whaleboats once robbed prominent landowner George Hewlett and two friends while they were duck hunting, ripping the silver buttons from their coats. At one point, residents armed with muskets captured one bandit leader and shipped him to New York in irons for trial.
Merrick as Mecca: During a surge of religious activity in the 1860s, Methodists from around the state congregated in Merrick annually. In the beginning, horses and buggies were pulled into two circles around an open field for 10 days of services. The camp normally attracted about 300 worshipers, but some meetings were attended by up to 10,000. Circular streets, such as Fletcher and Wesley Avenues, lined with small cottages that developed around the campground, remain today in the North Merrick neighborhood called the Campgrounds or Tiny Town by residents.
Turning Points: The construction of the South Shore Rail Road, predecessor of the Long Island Rail Road, through Merrick in the late 1880s began a period of development. The boom in population and growth after World War II gradually led to Merrick and North Merrick developing distinct identities and separate school districts.
The schools in Merrick and North Merrick make up the Merrick and North Merrick School Districts, as well as part of the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District (BMCHSD). Below are the schools, their grade levels, and the towns that attend them.
|School||Grades||Town(s) That Go To School|
|Roland A. Chatterton School||K-6||Merrick|
|Norman J. Levy Lakeside School||K-6||Merrick|
|Park Avenue School||K-6||North Merrick|
|Camp Avenue School||K-6||North Merrick|
|Harold D. Fayette School||K-6||North Merrick|
|Old Mill Road School||K-6||North Merrick|
|Merrick Avenue Middle School*||7–8||North Merrick, Merrick|
|Sanford H. Calhoun High School*||9–12||North Merrick, Merrick|
|John F. Kennedy High School*||9–12||South Merrick, Merrick, Bellmore|
- An asterisk means that the school is part of the Bellmore Merrick Central High School District. All other schools are in the district of town that attends them.
Notable people
- Craig Allen, Fox News weatherman
- Roone Arledge, former president of ABC Sports/News
- Justin Beck, guitarist in the band Glassjaw
- Melissa Howard Beck, cast member, The Real World New Orleans
- Ed Begley, actor
- Ed Begley, Jr., actor
- Janet Billig, Record Executive, Broadway Producer
- Brian Bloom, actor
- Scott Bloom, actor and film producer
- Vinnie Caruana, lead singer of I Am the Avalanche and The Movielife
- Leonard Chang, author
- Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben and Jerry's ice cream
- Doug Ellin, writer/creator of Entourage
- Albert B. Feldstein, founding editor, MAD Magazine
- Amy Fisher, "Long Island Lolita"
- Frank Frazetta, renowned fantasy artist
- Bill Freiberger, Emmy-nominated writer/producer of The Simpsons, The PJs
- Debbie Gibson, singer
- Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben and Jerry's ice cream
- Ryan Hunter, lead vocalist of the band "Envy on the Coast"
- Danny Kopec, international chess master
- Michael Kors, fashion designer
- Paul R. Krugman, 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics, New York Times columnist, professor at Princeton University
- Scott Lipsky, tennis player
- Michael Markowitz, writer/producer of Duckman
- Romeo Muller,screenplay writer of Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, Frosty the Snowman, Little Drummer Boy and others.
- Matthew Nuccio, toy inventor
- The Lohan residence including Lindsay, Ali, and Dina Lohan
- Constantinos Philippou, mixed martial artist
- Mario Puzo, author of the novel The Godfather (later adapted to film by Francis Ford Coppola)
- Robbie Rosen, singer, contestant on season 10 of American Idol
- Zack Ryder, professional wrestler.
- Sha Na Na (George and Rob Leonard), Woodstock festival, Grease album rock group
- Kevin Shinick, actor/writer/director, notably Robot Chicken
- James Siegel, author of Derailed, adapted to a film starring Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen
- Megan Vasquez, Yale Basketball Player and Puerto Rican Nation Team Player (2012 Olympics)
- Elliot S! Maggin, Writer
- 2002 – Blue Vinyl (dir. Daniel B. Gold and Judith Helfand)
- 2010 – Mildred Pierce (starring Kate Winslet, directed by Todd Haynes)
See also
- "Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Census Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Merrick CDP, New York". U.S. Census Bureau, American FactFinder 2. Retrieved October 4, 2011.
- "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- "United States – Fact Sheet – American FactFinder". Factfinder.census.gov. Retrieved October 4, 2011.
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It could be worst! The increase could be a reflection of the "$2 billion" CMS spends/invested in Michigan. So, how long will it take before you post a (de-facto retraction of this article) “nice story about CMS”, Mr. G?
Heard Mr. Gautz, on the radio Thursday morning, say CMS(The tax cut bill actually raises taxes on some large businesses, but the recall language does not have to be true, it just has to be clear, according to state law) would pay more tax under this plan.
Groups from the Small Business Association of Michigan to the Michigan Chamber of Commerce are solidly behind Snyder’s proposal to cut business taxes by some $1.7 billion, with the prospect of $700 million more in future years.
But on the other side are anti-tax opponents who don’t like how it’s financed, especially the $900 million in new taxes on pensions and other retirement income
It’s a massive shift in tax liability from businesses to individuals in the range of $2.5 billion. That’s why the conservative base of the Republican Party is split. And it’s why GOP lawmakers are (were) in a jam. . –Peter Luke
Snyder’s budget proposal would cut business taxes by $1.8 billion and means that hundreds of businesses in Jackson County might not have to fill out a tax form next year.
The elimination of the Michigan Business Tax would affect about 95,000 small businesses in the state. The owners would pay just their regular income tax. Only “C” corporations — businesses that issue public or private stock — would pay a 6 percent flat tax. There are about 50,000 such businesses in Michigan.-Chris Gautz
Snyder’s budget proposes a huge shift in tax burden from businesses to individuals. His tax plan cuts business taxes 86 percent while raising personal income taxes 32 percent by 2013.-Rich Haglund
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Posted on May 25th, 2012 in - Rob Zell, Constraints, Leadership, Learning, Resources | No Comments »
By Rob Zell
Before you can really solve a problem you have to get inside it, poke around in the guts of the matter, experience the pain it’s causing the organization, understand how people cope with the issue and how it ripples through other systems. You probably knew this but I was made keenly aware of it through one of my hobbies: running.
As a runner, I have always shopped for cushioned shoes with good stability control. This is what I described to a number of very competent shoe salesmen in very good running stores and they all fitted me in very comfortable shoes that fit the bill. Recently, I started having knee pain and self-diagnosed that I needed new shoes. I went to a well-known running shoe store near my home and described my needs as I understood them. The salesperson asked me to walk across the floor a few times and observed my stride and how my feet struck the floor and recommended a completely different kind of shoe. I was pretty surprised to hear the result, but I took a chance, purchased the shoes and have been running pain free ever since. Surprisingly, these shoes have less cushion and less stability than any other shoe I’ve ever worn.
In business, internal consultants such as myself are often approached to solve a problem that the organization has identified. The business leader will have data and history that highlights the problem and leads to a narrow set of conclusions. “Just fix this issue for me,” the leader will say. “We have a good solution, we just need a few tweaks.”
To be great at solving problems we need to go a bit deeper into the analysis and really explore the issue. In their book, Analyzing Performance Problems, Robert Mager and Peter Pipe shared a decision tree to use to diagnose issues. The beauty of the framework is that it helps identify where the real problem lies and if it’s even worth pursuing. If the issue is worth pursuing, then the analysis continues to examine the various factors that could be contributing to failure.
To get inside the issue you have to change your perspective. Don’t examine the issue as a trainer or project manager, examine it as a guest. If I, as a guest, wanted to make this purchase, how easy is it to get answers? To find the price? How do I know the value compared to other items? What is the sales experience like? How do I feel when I’m done? How does it feel to make the same purchase at a competitor?
You should also walk in the shoes of the salesman, the stock clerk, the delivery agent, the packer, the shipper, the manufacturer, the manager, the district manager etc. At each phase of the delivery, someone is impacted by the process. This is true for services, manufacturing, even leadership. The farther you go back up the chain, walking in someone else’s shoes, the more information you gather. Ask the people at each level or phase what their experience is like handling that item or performing that function.
I will concede that you may not have the time for that kind of in depth analysis on every project. I will challenge you to ask who makes the ultimate decision on the viability of the product or process. I am well known in my training classes for asking, “Who makes the ultimate decision on what gets executed in our stores?” I work in retail and often deal with operations leaders and support staff who are keenly aware of initiatives that are designed to improve operating margin. After fielding answers, I reply, “The front line employee. The minimum wage associate decides, in the moment, the action that will reap the greatest benefit and/or alleviate the most pressure.” I usually let that sink in a bit and then continue to explain that if your process is too difficult or causes them discomfort, they will ignore it. Not out of malicious intent; they will do so out of a sense of self-preservation.
If you aren’t taking the time to understand all of the ramifications of the problem, you may be creating solutions that actually cause “pain” in the individuals who have to execute your plan. You will have created a fix based on a faulty diagnosis or at least, a diagnosis that failed to take into account the depth of the issue.
Like running shoes that fix a problem you don’t really have, they will cause pain until you explore the issue from a different perspective. Once you uncover all the facts, you can create solutions that keep the organization running, healthy and happy.
Have you been handed issues to fix and had success at diving deeper to get to the true problem? Share your success stories so we can learn how to deal with leaders who didn’t have the right perspective on the issue.
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Comal County, Texas
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Comal is a county in Texas. It was formed in 1846 from the following county/ies: Bexar/Travis/Gonzales. Comal began keeping birth records in 1903, marriage records in 1846, and death records in 1903. It began keeping land records in 1847, probate records in 1846, and court records in 1846. For more information, contact the county at 100 Main Plaza, New Braunfels 78130. On the attached map, Comal is located at Q11.
For information about the state of Texas see Texas Family History Research.
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e Display a map or globe on which to locate Ethiopia. Display pictures of Ethiopia and Ethiopians. Note your congregation’s or denomination’s connection to Ethiopia. And, pray for people of Ethiopia today.
e Without Philip to explain what he was reading in the Isaiah scroll, the Ethiopian would never have understood it or learned about Jesus. Teachers ARE important. As the end of the school year ends, children are ready to recognize how important their teachers/coaches/mentors have been to them. After exploring the difference Philip made, invite children (and all worshipers) to identify the teachers who have made a difference to them. Offer prayers of thanksgiving for teachers, especially those who help us learn about God.
e When Philip met the Ethiopian, he faced a challenge. He had to introduce this stranger to Jesus. He started with what the man was reading in Isaiah, but went from there to tell the story of Jesus. Give children paper, pencils and crayons with which to write or draw what they would tell someone who asked them “Who was Jesus?” Take time to talk with them about their work as they leave the sanctuary.
e To honor Philip and the Ethiopian sing an African hymn. “Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us With With Your Love” is one good choice.
Acts 9:26-31 (Reading from the Roman Catholic Lectionary)
I was caught by this text on Textweek.com. It is the story of Barnabas introducing Saul to the Christians in Jerusalem who were very reluctant to welcome him. It is not included in the Revised Common Lectionary at all. Instead, on The Third Sunday of Easter (Year C), Saul’s conversion is included with the follow-up story about Ananias’ taking him in as optional reading. It is a real Easter story. An old enemy becomes a friend and is welcomed ushering in an era of peace in the church. The church in Jerusalem even arranges his escape when his preaching creates trouble for him. There is also a connection to today’s texts about abiding in Christ and love within the community. If you use it, I’d read the Damascus road story from a children’s Bible story book, then invite children to hear what happened next.
If most of your children are younger elementary schoolers, try “Saul Learns About Jesus” in The Family Story Bible, by Ralph Milton. If most of the children are older read the more detailed account in The Children’s Illustrated Bible omitting the last two paragraphs.
e This portion of Psalm 22 also appeared on the second Sunday of Lent. Both Sundays this year fall on a first of the month which is a Communion Sunday in many congregations. Go to The Second Sunday in Lent (Year B) for activities linking these verses to the Communion liturgy in which worshipers join all people of all times and all places in praising God.
e Add congregational “alleluias” to make this psalm an Easter responsive reading.
Psalm 22:25 - 31
When your people meet,
you will fill my heart with your praises, Lord,
and everyone will see me keep my promises to you.
The poor will eat and be full,
and all who worship you will be thankful and live in hope.
Everyone on this earth will remember you, Lord.
People all over the world will turn and worship you,
because you are in control,
the ruler of all nations.
All who are rich and have more than enough
will bow down to you, Lord.
Even those who are dying and almost in the grave
will come and bow down.
In the future, everyone will worship and
learn about you, our Lord.
People not yet born will be told,
“The Lord has saved us!”
Psalm from Contemporary English Version
1 John: 4:7-21
Last week’s epistle insisted that Love is not what we feel but what we do. This week John adds a few more ideas about Love. Pick one or two to explore to highlight for the children.
e God is love. Concrete thinking children (and lots of the rest of us) are more likely to hear this as “God is the most loving being in the world.” Children are willing to accept this as a simple fact and move on to implications.
e No one has ever seen God, but we have seen Jesus. So, if we want to know what love looks like, we look at what Jesus did and said. To get to specifics recall stories about Jesus and/or display pictures of those stories. After each one conclude, “That is love.”
e John uses a couple of arguments to get us to love others.
We love because God first loved us. Children hear this as “it is only fair if God loves us that we should love others.”
We love in order to become like Jesus and God.
No one can see God, but they can see us. Our job is to be so loving that people look at us and see what God’s love is like.
e Verses 20-21 are clear and important to children. “Those who say ‘I love God’ and hate their brothers or sisters are liars.” The first step to exploring this with them is to define and name their familial brothers and sisters AND add everyone in the church as brothers and sisters AND add everyone in their school and community as brothers and sisters AND add everyone in the world as brothers and sisters. Then, ask or ponder what it means to love each of those groups.
e “There is no fear in love….” (verse 18) is probably the hardest idea to explore with children. I’d save that one for the adults.
e There are lots of children’s books about love. A few that might fit today are:
Horton Hears A Who, by Dr. Seuss, describes the love an elephant lavishes on Whos who live on a speck of dust. The other animals at first ridicule him, then try to destroy the speck of dust, and finally cage him. In the end, the Whos on the speck of dust make enough noise that the other animals hear them and tumble to the truth that “a person’s a person no matter how small.” The book is too long to read in worship. I’d briefly tell the beginning of the story, then turn to the pages about Horton chasing the bird across the hills and working though all the clovers in a huge clover field to find the Whos. I'd conclude "That is love."
Miss Tizzy, by Libba Moore Gray, describes what an elderly eccentric lady did with the children of the neighborhood each day of the week. Each day ends with “And the children loved it.” When she gets very sick and must stay in bed, the children figure out how to do each of the things for her. The book then concludes, “and she loved it.” The book features a multi-racial cast of children around an African American Miss Tizzy. Read it in a little over five minutes. Read it to explore the ways Miss Tizzy loves the children and the children return the love.
And of course there is The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams. It is trite from overuse, but fits this text exactly. “'Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'"
e One of the ways we love each other is to pray for each other. To help children pray for people they are concerned about, invite them to make a big scribble that makes big spaces. In each space have them write the name of one person or group they for whom they wish to pray. Then, instruct them to go back and decorate each person’s space with details and key words for that person. This can be done with a pen or pencil, but colored pens add a strong dimension. Give children a sheet of paper on which to work during the worship service. Invite them to drop their prayer sheet in the offering basket as it is passed, tape to a rail at the front, pin it to a bulletin board set aside for that purpose, or take it home as a prayer reminder for the week.
For a fuller description of the practice of praying with colored pens, see Praying in Color: Drawing A New Path to God, by Sybil MacBeth.
e Urban children do not know much about pruning, unless their parents are gardeners. The easiest way to help them get this story is to present a dead branch and ask if leaves or fruit will ever grow on this branch. Pursue the discussion to the point that branches have to stay attached to the tree to stay alive. Note that the same thing is true of vines. The branches of vines curl up and die when cut from the vine. Then challenge listeners to figure out what Jesus was trying to tell us as you read the text.
e Children don’t often hear the word ABIDE in everyday conversation. If you will use it frequently in sermon and liturgy today, introduce it at the beginning of worship as the word of the day - a la Sesame Street. Display it on a large poster. Translate it as “stay close to me” and/or “hang tight with me.” Illustrate it with reference to reading everything you can and learning all the stats for a favorite athlete to learn to be like him or her or hanging out with an aunt or uncle you want to grow up to be just like. Briefly suggest that today we will be talking about ABIDING with God and Jesus. Identify specific ways we can hang out with God, Jesus and each other, e.g. worshiping, reading the Bible, taking care of people who need our help, etc. Encourage children to listen for ABIDE in the songs and prayers and readings today and to figure out what it means in each place it appears.
e A variation on the scribble prayer described above, is to invite children to scribble the top of a fine, large tree. Challenge them to write the names of people and groups in your church that they want to pray for today. Encourage them to decorate each name with colored pens as they talk to God about that person or group.
e If you show film clips in worship:
Find the scene in “The Empire Strikes Back”(1980) in which Yoda is training Luke Skywalker to be a Jedi. Yoda says, "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere. Yes, even between the land and the ship." Yoda speaks of the Force, but the parallels to abiding in Christ are clear.
When Rafiki, the baboon, finds Simba in hiding, he shows him a reflection of himself in the lagoon and insists that he sees Simba’s father there. Simba refuses to see his father, dismissing it as just a reflection of himself. Rafiki pushes on "Look harder, he lives in you." When Simba looks again he hears the voice of his father saying, “Simba, you have forgotten who you are. You are more than you have become. Remember who you are..."
e Songs about love that children know may be from the hymnal or may come from campfires. All worshipers may enjoy singing them today.
“Love, Love, Love, the gospel in one word is love….”
“We Love Because God First Loved Us”
“For the Beauty of the Earth”
Point out the love in verse 3 and challenge singers to listen for other references to love as they sing.
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Welcome to Calisthenics WA
Calisthenics is widely practiced in Australia and is recognised as a fun and healthy way to keep fit for children of all ages. It is a uniquely Australian sport which requires discipline of mind and body, team work, a competitive spirit and a sense of responsibility.
Calisthenics, whose roots lie in games originating in Ancient Greece, is the combination of Gymnastics, Ballet, Folk Dance, Jazz Ballet, Apparatus (Clubs and Rods), Figure Marching, Mime and Singing, Its assets are many, involving many thousands of young children across the country, improving their health and deportment and widening their musical knowledge. They are learning to appreciate the cultures of other ethnic groups and are adding to their skills by the use of apparatus, enjoying the mental and physical stimulation of a figure march and the discipline of working as part of a team.
Calisthenics Assocation of WA
"A Calisthenics Spectacular"
2013 SubJunior, Junior and Intermediate State TeamsPerforming in two concerts on Saturday 22 June Matinee 2:30pm Evening Concert with full presentation of teams 7:00pm Please come along with family and friends to support our stunning teams as they prepare to compete at the
ACF 25th National Calisthenic Championships Melbourne
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Eldercare: Dealing with Clinical Depression
It's estimated that 15 to 20 percent of elders suffer from some kind of depression — everything from the passing mood to the kind that requires medical attention, clinical depression.
Understanding clinical depression
Clinical depression is a deep sadness that persists over weeks and months, wreaking havoc with sleep and appetite, and the quality of your oldster's life and relationships. Clinical depression can cause your age-advantaged person's health to decline often leading to premature institutionalization as his ability for self-care becomes compromised. The blues and grief can develop into a full-blown clinical depression.
Finally, because depression can run in families, some people may have a biological predisposition that puts them at high risk for depressive illness.
Being aware of the signs
If your elder exhibits any of the following symptoms for more than two weeks, he or she needs to be seen by the doctor:
- Complains of feeling "empty," hopeless, sad, or scared.
- Shows lack of interest in everyday activities.
- No longer enjoys formerly pleasurable pastimes.
- Cries often (sometimes for no apparent reason).
- Complains of lack of concentration, faulty memory, and trouble with decisions.
- Expresses feelings of worthlessness or guilt.
- Has thoughts of suicide or has made an attempt.
- Complains of headaches, backaches, or stomachaches that don't respond to treatment (when physical problems hide depression, the condition is called a masked depression).
- Uses more alcohol, drugs, and tobacco.
- Pays less attention to grooming and hygiene.
- Sleeps too little or too much, has trouble falling asleep, and may wake up early, unable to fall asleep again.
- Appears tired and sluggish.
- Eats more or less than usual, resulting in significant weight gain or loss.
- Frequently becomes agitated, hostile, or disoriented.
- Adopts depressive positions and gestures (including sad facial expressions, being stooped over, and staring across room) that indicate sadness.
Searching for causes
A depressive illness can be triggered by an upsetting event or a series of upsetting events, such as moving to a new place, experiencing financial problems, or coping with a newly diagnosed disease.Unrelenting stress also breeds depression. Worry, loneliness, and living in a situation in which no amount of effort improves your circumstances are additional depression-makers. And the list goes on. All sorts of medical conditions and the drugs to treat them may cause depressive symptoms.
If your elder has had a heart attack and is depressed, see the doctor to determine whether counseling and antidepressant medication are needed. Twenty percent of heart attack patients end up severely depressed.
Seniors who display memory problems, confusion, disorientation, and difficulty concentrating are often mistakenly assumed to have dementia when the real problem is untreated depression. This situation is so common that it has its own name — pseudodementia. Left untreated, it can result in premature institutionalization for the senior and heartache for him and his family. Be aware that depression can also co-exist with other psychiatric illnesses, including anxiety disorders. Note that elders in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease often suffer from depression.
Healing through reminiscence
Reminiscence is the work and play of old age. It's not only an enjoyable pastime, it also serves the elder well by helping him forgive, forget, and re-cast past transgressions and disappointments by highlighting the positive events and reshaping the negative events of the past.
The older people get, the more time they tend to spend reflecting on the past. Done well, reflection decreases depression. Scientists studying reminiscence in the elderly have learned that recounting the past is therapeutic, especially when a listener points out how the elder was loved and admired and notes his accomplishments and other positive qualities. Reminiscence brings the past into the present and reminds the older person that he isn't just an old man but also a father, a businessman, a teacher, and a sportsman.
Although reminiscence is useful for most elders, be aware that for some the process only intensifies their despair and low self-esteem. In this case, don't encourage reminiscence. You may have more luck after your elder has received medical treatment for depression.
Healing through re-igniting interest in others
Most depressed people (at all ages) turn their attention inward, obsessing about their own shortcomings and problems, the ills of society, and their dismal future. Any time you can redirect your elder's attention outward, away from his own misery (even for a short time), you have made an inroad to elevating his depression. Gently convince, cajole, and persuade your elder to participate in a support group, become a volunteer, and stay involved in the lives of family and friends.
Talking sadness away
Depression almost always responds to treatment, yet 75 percent of elderly sufferers never get treatment. A medical evaluation is the first step to determine whether illness (including cancer, diabetes, Parkinson's disease) or side effects of drugs (including drugs used to treat high blood pressure and arthritis) are contributing to the problem. Once the doctor rules out those possibilities, he may suggest psychotherapy (talk therapy), which involves counseling with a social worker, psychologist, or psychiatrist individually or in a group. Talking with a trained therapist can give the elder a less pessimistic view of life, enhance his coping skills, and assist in finally setting to rest things that have troubled for him for decades
Left untreated, a severe depression can debilitate your elder, worsening his medical conditions and affecting his ability to care for himself. Fortunately, 80 percent of people treated for severe depression respond to medications. Most people do best on a combination of antidepressants and talk therapy.
Medication generally takes about two weeks to kick in, and it may be as many as four to six weeks before the elder feels better. In the meantime, talk therapy helps your elder to discover more effective ways to deal with life's problems, including depression.
Some age-advantaged people resist going to a doctor for depression because they believe depression comes from moral weakness or that it's punishment for the sins of their youth. Explain that it's an illness, not a reflection of a character flaw. Remember that depression left untreated can lead to ever more serious problems, including deteriorating health, abuse of alcohol and drugs, and suicide.
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Occupational Injuries/Industrial Rehabilitation
Whether you want to educate your employees to protect them from injury or analyze an employee's ability to return to work, there are numerous services available to you.
Functional Capacity Evaluation
The purpose of a Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE) is to determine the baseline physical capacities as they relate to a person's injury. Objective information, including lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, positional and dexterity testing, is established. A person's cardiovascular fitness, employability, and work level physical demand characteristics are determined. Professional recommendations, based on objective data and observation, are made to assist physicians, payers, and counselors in making the most appropriate and cost effective decisions regarding the employee. An FCE usually takes between three to five hours to administer.
Work Tolerance Screening
A Work Tolerance Screening is utilized to assess a worker's ability to return to a specific job. During the screening, the employee's physical capacities are tested, and the employee performs work-simulated tasks based on a job description to determine the appropriateness for returning to the usual and customary occupation. A work tolerance screening takes one or two days to conduct.
A Pre-Placement Screening is a concise yet comprehensive evaluation designed to identify potential employees that may be at risk for work related injuries. Screening components include flexibility, strength, lifting, and cardiovascular status. Employees are educated regarding proper body mechanics and ergonomic principles. Specific job requirement testing can be pre-determined. The evaluation can be done on a walk-in basis and usually takes between 15 and 30 minutes.
Job Site Analysis
Job Site Analysis may be used to assess a client's workspace (design, equipment, tools, etc.) and specific job requirements that may contribute to injury or cumulative trauma. Recommendations are provided to help prevent work related injuries where improper ergonomics, excessive stresses, and repetitive motions may be harmful.
The Work Hardening program combines simulated work activities and specific job related tasks with physical conditioning and worker education. Work tolerance goals are established that are consistent with the physical demands placed on the employee in the customary occupation. This program usually ranges from two to six hours every day, lasting two to four weeks in duration.
The Worker Conditioning program is designed to maximize physical strength, flexibility, function, and cardiovascular status prior to re-entering the work force. Worker confidence, injury prevention education, and self-discipline are targeted. Work simulation is not the primary focus. This program usually ranges from two to three hours per day, three to five times per week, lasting two to four weeks in duration.
In addition to providing excellent healthcare, our mission to our community is to provide necessary education enhance the health of our industrial community. We are pleased to provide worksite in-services and demonstrations designed to cover topics in back safety, body mechanics, ergonomics, and cumulative trauma disorders, or other topics within our field of expertise. Employees can expect to receive handouts, individualized instruction, and important feedback pertaining to their safety. Depending upon the need, presentations can be scheduled for 30 minutes, half-day or longer.
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J-Crew Nail Polish Ad Drama: Missing the Point
When I heard about the J-Crew ad featuring a photo of a mom and son smiling lovingly at each other, and he with-- gasp!-- pink toenail polish on, my thoughts didn't turn to gender issues, but to toxicity. My first thought was, what a sweet picture. My second was, doesn't she know about the trio of nasty chemicals in regular nail polish?
I find myself aghast at all the negative attention this simple photo has recieved in the mainstream media. Letting your child dress up, role play, and play creatively is a natural, healthy part of childhood. John Stewart's segment on "Toemaggedon" demonstrates the ludicrous nature of this non-story.
But this all misses the point. Thankfully, a Huffington Post blogger also asked the question, is it safe to paint kids' nails?
When you consider the chemicals in regular nail polish (toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate, and formaldehyde), the answer seems to be, no. These chemicals have been shown to have negative health consequences when ingested, and we all know what happens to the fingers of young children.
Let's look at each chemical, with information from the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics:
"Dibutyl phthalate (DBP) adds flexibility and a moisturizing sheen, and helps dissolve other cosmetic ingredients. DBP is a reproductive and developmental toxin that has been linked to feminizing effects in baby boys (click here for more information).
Toluene helps suspend the color and form a smooth finish across the nail. It also affects the central nervous system and can cause headaches, dizziness and fatigue. Toluene is a possible reproductive and developmental toxin.
Formaldehyde is found in some nail products such as nail hardener. Formaldehyde is a known human carcinogen. It is also an irritant to the eyes, nose and throat, and can lead to skin irritation and an allergic rash called dermatitis."
These are serious and significant health concerns, especially for nail salon workers, and others exposed with regularity. The amount of these chemicals on our children's fingers is admittedly small, but if we are taking the safest route with the least exposure, nail polishes should be avoided. Thankfully, several companies have removed these chemicals from their nail polishes, but not all. To check your favorite brand, visit the Skin Deep Database.
So while the talking heads on the news shows pontificate about gender issues (it's just a color, and it does come off!), they miss the larger point, which is why as a country are we allowing products to be made and sold that can make us (and our children) sick, both in the short and long term?
There are safer nail polishes out there: Piggy Paint is one example.
What do you think?
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Our subscription packages enable you to guarantee your seats to all of the best Kennedy Center performances.Browse Packages
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Benny Goodman's reign as "King of Swing," "Patriarch of the Clarinet," and "Swing's Senior Statesman" began when he helped many Americans see the silver lining around that cloud known as the Depression. The optimism and grace of swing music brought the nation through some of its darkest days.
Goodman was the ninth of 12 children born to Russian-Jewish immigrants. Although many boys at that time followed in their father's footsteps in terms of profession, Goodman followed his heart and pursued a career in music. His first clarinet was borrowed from Chicago's Kehelah Jacob Synagogue in order to play in the boys' band there. The synagogue provided instruments and lessons to young boys who wished to play in the band.
As jazz spread like wildfire through the Chicago music scene in the 1920s, the teenage Goodman became inspired by such jazz pioneers as King Oliver and Louis Armstrong. At the age of 14, Goodman was already making money playing the clarinet in Chicago's South Side speakeasies and dance halls.
Goodman later met drummer Ben Pollack and headed off to New York with his orchestra. Not long afterwards, Goodman formed his own band to work for singer Russ Columbo. The band included Gene Krupa on drums, Joe Sullivan on piano, and Babe Russin on tenor sax. Goodman and his band worked for Columbo for a summer, then they got a job on a national New York-based radio show, "Let's Dance" in a 10:30 PM to 1:30 AM time slot.
The band was able to make its first extended tour because of the popularity of the radio show. However, Goodman's segment was on too late for most New Yorkers so he was not well known in New York. Consequently, the turn-out for the band's opening night was very disappointing. On opening night at Elitch's Garden, in Denver, nightclubbers demanded a refund unless the band played waltzes. When the band got to California, though, crowds of people were lining up waiting to hear Goodman and his band. Being in a time zone three hours earlier than New York, the Californians had been listening to them on the radio show. At this point, everything began to change.
The band's luck changed in a major way when they performed at Hollywood's Palomar ballroom. The crowd even stopped dancing to stand around the bandstand when Goodman played "King Porter Stomp" and "When Buddha Smiles." By the time the band reached Chicago for what turned into an eight-month engagement at the Urban Room of the Congress Hotel, Goodman was being called "The King of Swing." The band also started a new radio series and began a series of Sunday afternoon concerts at the Congress Hotel while they were in Chicago. It was at the Congress that Goodman made an important breakthrough in race relations when he hired two black musicians, Teddy Wilson and Lionel Hampton. Goodman refused to appear without them, even in the deep south.
Goodman became the first jazzman to also achieve prominence in the genre of classical music, but it was swing music that brought the crowds out at dawn to line up at the entrances of dance halls such as the Manhattan Room of the Pennsylvania Hotel and even had people dancing in the aisles of New York's Paramount Theater. Goodman received numerous awards during his 60 year-long career including an honorary doctorate from Yale University and the Peabody Medal from the Peabody Conservatory. He died in 1986 at the age of 77.
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Book Review: Looking for Answers Through Dirty Glasses: Finding the Divine in a Challenging World by Matt Kuntz
CreateSpace (2011), $11.99
By Bob Carolla, NAMI Director of Media Relations
Matt Kuntz is NAMI Montana’s executive director. He’s a West Point graduate. He is a lawyer. He worked successfully to have the Montana National Guard adopt a suicide prevention program for troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. It became a national model—leading to an invitation to ride President Barack Obama’s inaugural train and a story in People magazine.
But you won’t find Matt dwelling on achievements. I’ve always found him to be a humble, low-key person, but never realized how much so until I read Looking for Answers through Dirty Glasses, which is based on his personal blog. It is a series of reflections about loss, uncertainty, desperation and pain, including bouts with depression that have both challenged and shaped his religious faith. It is a matter-of-fact, revealing work—revealing vulnerabilities that most people prefer to hide, if not forget.
At one point several years ago, Matt was poised to take his own life—“I stepped up on the wobbly white and blue chair”—when he-remembered that he still needed to pay his rent, if only out of courtesy to the landlord. He wrote a check, put it in an envelope, and took it outside to the mailbox for his apartment complex. Headed back, he realized that a neighbor was sitting on a porch, crying.
Matt sat with him and they talked for hours. His neighbor was about to lose his job, his marriage was in trouble and he was “terrified” about what it would mean for his children.
“I didn’t have any answers, but I let him talk until he felt better somewhere along the way, I began to feel better too,” Matt writes.
“Wrapped up in my own struggles, I’d forgotten how much peace could be found trying to help others—It was another door out of the darkness—a door I wouldn’t have found if something higher than me hadn’t planted the idea that I couldn’t say good-bye without paying the rent.”
In another chapter, Matt’s whitewater passion, including a failed business venture, leads a veteran struggling with posttraumatic stress disorder to embrace the river-boarding as a port. He ends up using it to develop a therapeutic program for veterans with PTSD. Matt reflects that the “fiasco” of his own business failure still allowed him to be “a domino in the chain” that brought peace to others.
Each chapter is short and thought-provoking. Matt quotes scripture easily, but doesn’t take himself too seriously. Reading the book is like having a serious, engaging conversation with a good friend; a conversation that will be relevant to whatever spiritual issue you may have on your mind.
If you would like to subscribe to the NAMI e-Advocate, register a free NAMI.org account.
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Arterial BP from a Central lineRegister Today!
This is a discussion on Arterial BP from a Central line in CCU Nursing / Coronary / Cardiac, part of Critical Care Nursing ... Why is it that arterial lines can be ran from a femoral central line? Isnt the femoral line venous...by BandaidBunny Mar 7, '12Why is it that arterial lines can be ran from a femoral central line?
Isnt the femoral line venous blood and a different pressure?
Also, can a CVP be running off a femoral central line??
(as you can tell im not an ICU nurse)
My memory of this is seeing arterial lines in the radial artery, and CVP from a Swan.
A relatively length google serach did not answer my questions, so any help is appreciated.
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- Mar 7, '12 by ukstudentThe femoral area has both an artery and a central vein. A practioner can place either a femoral central line (going into the vein) or femoral arterial line (going into the artery). Sometime both are placed next to each other.
CVP's can be obtained from central lines placed in the internal jugular or subclavian vein.
- Mar 7, '12 by BiffbradfordYup, as stated above, sometimes the patient comes from the cath lab with venous and arterial sheaths right next to each other. Art lines go in the radial artery. No, you can't do a CVP from the groin ... it's too far from the right atrium of the heart. If you Google some more, there are some posts here on AN about getting a CVP off a groin line, but they are looking at trends in the reading, rather than a true central venous pressure. I did a CVP off a PICC line last night. Not sure how accurate it was, but again, we were looking at trends.
- Mar 7, '12 by BelgianRNPICC line CVP should be relatively accurate since their tip is close to the right atrium only the length of the catheter is a bit longer.
I've attended a lecture on measuring the vena cava inferior pressure via a central femoral line as an alternative for and equivalent to intra abdominal pressure. We have yet to utilize it in practice though. And I think it's much more invasive and cumbersome as is measuring via the foley. Mostly because we have really nifty attachment tubing for our foleys so they can measure IAP.
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Gotlandica is the library's overall information resource of Gotland.
The Gotlandica collection contains mostly all printed literature (books, newspapers, magazines and ephemera) of Gotland, but also a selection of videos, music and maps.
In our Gotlandica collection we also have fiction about Gotland. Many people probably know Gotland detectives, but there are many other novels where the plot takes place on the island. There is also fiction for children in the Gotlandica collection.
Most of the material in our Gotlandica section is naturally written in
Swedish, but the collection is not exclusively Swedish. For our non-Swedish
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on the city of Visby and the surrounding island in various languages.
The librarian responsible for the Gotlandica collection is Maja Markhouss.
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"Rate hikes and late fee traps have to end. No more fine print, no more confusing terms and conditions", said President Obama last week when advocating another big-government solution -- this time to evils committed by credit-card companies.
Credit cards are a demagogue's dream come true. What better way to win public affection than to rail against banks for their harsh terms? In the politicians' morality play, creditors are the villains and debtors their helpless victims.
A little context first: No one has a natural right to a credit card. Someone has to be willing to undertake the risk in issuing it. Banks issue cards in their quest for profits. Nothing wrong with that.
Think about what a credit card is. It's convenient access to unsecured loans, permitting consumers to buy things large and small -- not to mention emergency services -- without cash. Pay the bill promptly, and you enjoy a fantastic service for virtually nothing. If circumstances prevent you from paying the bill in full, you can set your own payment schedule, realizing there is a minimum payment and that you will be charged interest on the unpaid balance. No surprise there.
To appreciate credit cards, it is worth recalling that before they came along, people got personal loans from banks, finance companies, pawnshops and loan sharks. Such loans were less convenient, and repayment was less flexible. Some people bought things on layaway, which meant they didn't take the goods home until they were paid for. Loan sharks sometimes broke people's legs.
Credit cards didn't create consumer debt -- they are merely a superior alternative to older methods.
As President Obama and other politicians demagogue this issue, keep two things in mind: Life would be more difficult without credit cards, and banks don't have to keep issuing them. Be careful what you ask for.
Politicians are too short-sighted and vote-hungry to say such things. They want a "credit card holders' bill of rights" that would prohibit certain billing practices, like raising interest rates on existing balances. The House could approve the "bill of rights" this week.
Understandably, these billing practices endear themselves to no one, but competition makes the worst of them far less common. And as for raising rates, revolving credit means that a balance is a fresh loan each month; as the terms state, the rate can change. If issuers can never raise rates on existing balances, even when economic conditions change, they will be likely to charge everyone a higher rate to make up for the risk.
Todd Zywicki, a professor at George Mason University Law School and an expert on consumer credit, points out that the credit-card industry is highly competitive. The web is full of sites that permit easy comparison shopping. Competition has driven banks to more precisely match consumer costs to individual risk. In earlier days, every cardholder paid higher interest rates than today and an annual fee (a way around usury laws). Now, annual fees are largely gone. Rates are lower. Late and over-the-limit fees are unpleasant, but they aren't charged until a cardholder's conduct triggers them. This is not to say credit-card companies never abuse customers, but as Zywicki notes, "[T]here are ample tools for courts and regulators to attack deceptive and fraudulent practices on a case-by-case basis."
Politicians assume we are ignorant about credit-card terms. However, Zywicki points to evidence that people who carry credit-card balances are aware of the interest rate they're paying, and "those who carry larger balances are even more likely to ... comparison shop."
The "bill of rights" seems designed to prevent people from getting themselves in over their heads. That motive is honorable, but government has never been very good at such protection. The law of unintended consequences cannot be repealed, and what government gives with one hand, it inadvertently takes away with the other. Increasing the banks' costs will make it harder for poorer people to get credit cards, and that will only push them into costlier forms of debt, like payday lenders.
I've never understood how the poor are helped by limiting their choices.
Fox News' Roger Ailes: Administration's Excuses Won't Work, Americans Died For Press Freedom | Katie Pavlich
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The Occupy movement is about to turn four months old, and already is planning a host of events for 2012. (See Occupy Together and InterOccupy for news on the larger movement, and Occupy Wall Street for NYC-related developments.) Occupy Together lists 1508 Occupy sites globally. Some of those are physical occupations with tents and the like, while many have been evicted and exist for the moment as meetups and planning groups that focus on events and periodic gatherings. Occupy Wall Street's Facebook page has over 360,000 followers and continues to grow daily. Just this week, Occupy Nigeria (new Facebook here ) has been in the news.
In the United States, the movement is entering its second phase in most places, beyond the intense initial fervor and international publicity about campsites, and under the challenges of winter weather in some parts of the country. There is hope among many activists for a robust springtime of events, which will roll into a heady summer and crescendo in 2012 with the fall elections.
As readers may know, I have been involved with Occupy Wall Street from early on, and with Occupy Faith NYC (Facebook here , website here ), an interdenominational/interfaith/interreligious group that supports Occupy. A meeting of some Occupy faith/religious/spiritual leaders from around the USA took place in NYC recently, and there may be another coming up in March on the West Coast. In short, though Occupy may have faded from front page news coverage, the movement continues, though it clearly faces challenges.
Here are the top five challenges I see for Occupy in 2012, in no particular order:
Make Occupy as interreligious and as intersecular as possible. We need to work to get all religious/spiritual/faith communities who would be sympathetic to Occupy and its nonviolent message and tactics, in a broad-based service of more equitable sharing of social resources, connected to the movement. It has to be made relatively easy for these communities to participate in Occupy and also to make the concept their own, to feel free to give it their own religious-, spiritual-, faith-inflected meaning. Occupy is a relatively open-source phenomenon. We also need to work to get all secular, agnostic, atheistic people who may be affiliated with their secular communities as their center of gravity, and who will naturally have many different understandings of what their secularity means -- all of these persons who would be sympathetic to Occupy and its nonviolent message and tactics, in a broad-based service of more equitable sharing of social resources, need to be welcomed. Just as much as religiously-identified people and communities need to be encouraged to make Occupy their own, so too those who come from secular organizations and communities or none at all.
(There will of course be people who identify as religious/spiritual/secular and more, or who find themselves somewhere between these categories. These are not rigid categories, but only provisional forms for thinking about how to welcome and grow the movement and the concept.)
Make Occupy as interracial and interethnic and inter-sex/gender as possible. It is often the case that startup political organizations in the USA are disproportionately influenced, especially early on, by those who are privileged enough to have inherited, and to feel, a stake and an agency in the political culture -- and in the USA, that would be those who are disproportionately visible as white, middle-class, male and heterosexual. Lots of Occupations have lots of guys who look like this (who, frankly, look like me), although different Occupations have had more or less success representing the diversities of the 99%. The more that Occupy looks like the 99%, and even makes a preferential option for those who are lowest in the 99%, the greater the chance it will tell the truth and the greater the likelihood of its larger credibility in our society. The dynamic of Occupy's success is bound up with the deeper story of privilege and gender, race, and class in this country.
Continue to focus on and deepen local events at local Occupations, serving people in our particular regions who have varying kinds of need (material, psychological, spiritual, which though distinct are not separate) and working for change that is both highly specific to localities and also connected to larger social-political forces. Occupy has to be able to show again and again that we cannot only manage public spectacles that draw attention to the issues -- an important approach in a highly mediatized culture -- but that (in the words of Rev. Michael Ellick) "we clean toilets, too." We help secure housing, we care enough about the people around us to give them the care they really need.
Evolve a governance structure at the local, national, and international levels to become more effective. Many local Occupations are struggling with forms of governance that will be both democratic and effective. This is an old challenge. But I believe Occupy will also need to organize itself into a larger interlocking structure nationally and internationally in order to maintain longer-term social effectiveness. Some plans are afoot for attempting to build such structures this year, but there will be a lot of resistance and in such a leaderless, decentralized movement, it will be very hard.
Stay nonviolent and teach about nonviolence. With a very, very few exceptions, millions of participants in Occupy have practiced nonviolence at public events globally. This needs to continue because it is, in almost every imaginable situation, and as many religious leaders have taught us, the living path to greater moral clarity, but also because it is essential to the credibility of the movement. I and other parents have felt safe bringing our children to Occupy events. Except in rare cases of high tension or in situations of planned direct nonviolent action, that needs to continue to be the case. A no-drugs (except coffee! and of course there will always be some nicotine...), no-alcohol, child-friendly, and nonviolent environment. The palpably festive or joyful atmosphere around many Occupy events, even while people are bearing sober messages, or risking arrest, is good for the movement. Further, with regard to teaching nonviolence, I would also like to see more teach-ins and educational events and programming around Occupy. Not enough people know enough about the issues beyond the headlines or know enough about why they might want to get involved.
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Israeli study shows that doctors with good personal preventive health habits seem to inspire their patients to follow their example.
Peel-and-place Bodywell Chip drastically reduces the body’s absorption of radio frequency waves coming from mobile devices.
The world’s only third-generation inoculation against this widespread virus comes from an Israeli pharmaceutical company.
Say goodbye to pills and hello to fortified confectionery. An Israeli company has developed candies with health benefits.
Sderot Medical Rehabilitation Center will provide missile-hit southern residents physical, occupational, communication, art, sensory and water therapies at no charge.
Not yet out of the lab, Hervana’s non-hormonal, long-acting and non-invasive birth control solution could be a game-changer for women in developing countries.
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The Bottom Line
- Honest, firsthand account
- Accessible - A short volume with clear writing
- Important - A story the world needs to remember
- Heavy content - Not beach reading
- A teenage boy ripped from his home by Nazis
- A faithful Jew whose God dies in a Nazi death camp
- A true story that we would rather not think about, but need to hear and remember
Guide Review - Night by Elie Wiesel
Night is not, however, primarily about making the reader sad or dwelling on the past. It is about remembering. Wiesel wrote his memoir so that we would remember what happened and remember what civilized humans are capable of.
Part of me wants this book to do more than remember. I am disturbed by the fact that Wiesel never returns to hope or faith. He raises big questions about humanity and suffering, but the book never points toward a meaningful answer. I want redemption, or at least some hint of light.
But Wiesel did not experience light, and Night will not let the reader pretend the Holocaust was anything other than what it was. Wiesel tells the complete truth about his experience, and the reader is left with hard questions.
Remembering, however, is not a fruitless task. We remember so that we can tackle the big questions honestly and so we can change. We remember because Rwanda and Darfur prove the lessons of the Holocaust still need to be learned. We may not want to remember, but we should. So, read.
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Dixon of Dock Green
||This article's lead section may not adequately summarize key points of its contents. (January 2010)|
|Dixon of Dock Green|
Jack Warner as Constable George Dixon
|Created by||Ted Willis|
|Country of origin||United Kingdom|
|No. of episodes||432|
|Running time||30 minutes & 50 minutes|
|Original run||9 July 1955 – 1 May 1976|
Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes were later remade as a BBC radio series in 2005 and 2006.
Beginning in 1955 and finally ending in 1976, Dixon of Dock Green was a popular series whose main character is still often used as a symbol of policing in Britain. Despite being a drama series Dixon of Dock Green was initially produced by the BBC's light entertainment department.
Plots in Dixon of Dock Green often focused on the role of the police in dealing with low-level, community-based crimes. Dixon was portrayed as having a paternal and steadying influence on his colleagues and episodes often highlighted the family-like nature of life in the station as well as Dixon's actual family life at home. Dixon's experience as a police constable was frequently in evidence, and he was often shown as being able to solve crimes and to keep the peace using his knowledge of human behaviour and of the Dock Green area.
Dixon of Dock Green is sometimes unfavourably compared with later police procedural series (such as Z-Cars in the 1960s and The Bill in the 1980s) which were seen as having a higher degree of realism due to their harder hitting and more dynamic nature. However the style of the programme did evolve over time and some of the 1970s episodes which have been preserved demonstrate little of the homely nature for which the show was often criticised. Plotlines in this period included the suspected suicide of a police officer, a gangland killing and the shooting of a suspect by police officers using firearms.
Outline of characters and plots
The main character, Police Constable George Dixon, played by Jack Warner, was an old-style British "bobby" (policeman). The character first appeared in a 1950 British film by Ealing Studios, The Blue Lamp, in which he was shot and killed by a criminal called Tom Riley (Dirk Bogarde). However, it was decided to resurrect him for a television series, written by Ted Willis and designed by Laurence Broadhouse.
If Dixon was known to the public, the actor Jack Warner was even better known. Born in London in 1895, Warner had been a comedian in radio and in his early film career. Starting in the early 1940s, he broadened his range to include dramatic roles, becoming a warmly human character actor in the process. But as well as playing in films with dramatic themes, such as The Blue Lamp, Warner continued to play in comedies such as the successful Huggett family programmes on BBC Radio and films made between 1948 and 1953.
In Dixon of Dock Green, Dixon is a "bobby" on the beat as well as a widower raising an only daughter, Mary (Billie Whitelaw in early episodes, later replaced by Jeanette Hutchinson) in a small mid-terraced house on a busy road. However, in The Blue Lamp, Dixon has a wife named Em (Gladys Henson) and it is mentioned that their only son, Bert, was killed in the Second World War – hence Dixon adopts a paternal aspect towards PC Andy Mitchell (Jimmy Hanley), a young policeman on his first day.
Subtitled in the early days "Some Stories of a London Policeman", each episode started with Dixon speaking to the camera. He began with a salute and the greeting "Good evening all", which was changed to "Evening all" in the early 1970s, which has lived on in Britain as a jocular greeting. In similar fashion, episodes finished with a few words to camera from Dixon in the form of philosophy on the evils of crime, before saluting and wishing the viewers "Goodnight, all". At the end of a series, Dixon would tell the audience that he was "going on holiday for a few weeks" so that they wouldn't worry about not seeing him around.
Initially, Dixon continued in the same role as in the film The Blue Lamp, a constable based at the fictitious Dock Green police station in the East End of London, which replaced Paddington Green police station from the film. The character of Andy Mitchell, the young constable in the film who embarks on a perilous quest to find and bring Tom Riley to justice, became a detective named Andy Crawford (Peter Byrne), in the CID at Dock Green, and he was married to Dixon's 23-year-old daughter, Mary, in the 19th episode, "Father-in-Law" (1 September 1956). Dixon sings a few songs at the wedding and wishes the viewers goodbye at the end of the episode (this was the end of series 2 and series 3 was four months away). The couple moved to a flat in Chelmsford.
By the final years of the series in the 1970s, Warner was getting elderly and looking increasingly implausible even in a desk job (as he had increasing difficulty moving about, helped slightly by a treatment involving bee stings). In the final series, when Warner was 80, George Dixon was shown as retired from the police and being re-employed as a civilian collator.
The opening and closing moments of each episode had PC Dixon deliver the famous lines "Evening, All" and "Goodnight, All", together with a suitably moral homily, from outside of Dock Green police station. However most of these sequences were not filmed on the steps of Ealing police station (then still operational) but rather on the front steps of the (1902) Ealing Grammar School for Boys on Ealing Green. The BBC would attach The Blue Lamp next to the double doors, and the front oak-floored vestibule of the old school would warmly glow behind.
The 1973 episode "Eye Witness" shows a shot of a derelict warehouse complex with a sign identifying it as part of the 'Metropolitan & New Crane Wharves'; these are located in Wapping Wall. This episode also shows a shot of the Bascule Bridge located across the entrance to Shadwell Basin in Wapping.
Notable Episodes
- "The Rotten Apple"
In the 1956 episode "The Rotten Apple" PC Tom Carr (Paul Eddington) was found to have been burgling houses while on his beat. In one of the few times that Dixon is seen to lose his temper, he furiously declares there to be nothing worse than "a bent copper", and forces Carr to take off the uniform jacket he is "not fit to wear"; only once Carr has done this does Dixon arrest him.
Missing episodes
Most of the original 432 episodes of Dixon of Dock Green are still missing. Only 51 still exist, due both to the show being broadcast live in the early days and the BBC's policy of wiping old videotapes for re-use before realising their possible historical significance – in summary:
- Series 2 (1956): the last five episodes
- Series 7 (1960): two episodes
- Series 9 (1962): three episodes
- Series 11 (1964): one episode
- Series 13 (1966): five episodes
- Series 14 (1967): seven episodes
- Series 15 (1968): three episodes
- Series 17 (1970/1): first episode
- Series 18 (1971/2): two episodes
- Series 20 (1974): five episodes
- Series 21 (1975): nine episodes
- Series 22 (1976): complete – eight episodes.
In addition, location film sequences exist for 14 otherwise missing episodes, as follows: series 7 (1), series 13 (4), series 14 (6), series 15 (3).
An out-take sequence also exists from a colour episode involving two criminals in which one of them, played by Victor Maddern, finds himself unable to deliver correctly the required line "It's down at Dock Green nick!" – referring to a stolen necklace. After two failed attempts, in which the line is spoken both as "It's down at Dock Green dick!" and "It's down at Dick Green dock!", Maddern asks the unseen director "Couldn't I just say 'It's down at the nick'?"
The public appeal campaign the BBC Archive Treasure Hunt continues to search for lost episodes.
The ordinary, everyday nature of the people and the setting was emphasised in early episodes by the British music-hall song "Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner" with its sentimental evocations, being used as the series theme song. It was composed by Hubert Gregg, but this was replaced with an instrumental theme composed by Jeff Darnell later released as a single under the name "An Ordinary Copper".
Release and reception
The BBC scheduled Dixon of Dock Green in the family time slot of 6:30 on Saturday night. At the time it started on air in 1955, the drama schedule of the BBC was mostly restricted to television plays so that Dixon had little trouble in building and maintaining a large and loyal audience. In 1961, the series was voted second most popular programme on British television with an estimated audience of 13.85 million. Even in 1965 after three years of the gritty and grimy procedural police-work of Z-Cars, the audience for Dixon stood at 11.5 million. However, as the 1960s wore on, ratings began to fall and this, with health questions around Jack Warner, led the BBC to end the series in 1976.
The series was the creation of writer Ted Willis, who not only wrote the series over its 20 years on British television but also had a controlling hand in production. Longtime producer of the series was Douglas Moodie whose other television credits include The Inch Man and The Airbase. Dixon was originally produced at the BBC's studios at Lime Grove. Altogether some 430 episodes were made, at first running 30 minutes and later 45 minutes.
DVD release
A collection of the first six available colour episodes was released by Acorn Media UK in July 2012. These episodes are
- 1. Wasteland (1970)
- 2. Jigsaw (1971)
- 3. Eye Witness (1973)
- 4. Harry's Back (1974)
- 5. Sounds (1974)
- 6. Firearms Were Issued (1974)
A second collection of six episodes will be released in July 2013. This collection will include the episodes
- 1.Target (1975)
- 2.Seven for a Secret - Never To Be Told (1975)
- 3. Baubles, Bangles & Beads (1975)
- 4. Looters Ltd (1975)
- 5. A Slight Case of Love (1975)
- 6. Conspiracy (1975)
Remake for BBC Radio
- 1. London Pride
- 2. Needle in a Haystack
- 3. Crawford's First Pinch
- 4. Dixie
- 5. Rock, Roll and Rattle
- 6. Roaring Boy
- 1. Little Boy Blue
- 2. The Gentle Scratcher
- 3. The Captain (based on the episode "The Rotten Apple")
- 4. Andy Steps Up
- 5. Give a Dog a Good Name
- 6. The Key of the Nick
Dixon's name
Dixon in other shows
In 1988, a screenplay called The Black and Blue Lamp was shown on BBC TV, in which Tom Riley and Police Constable Hughes from the 1950 film are projected forwards in to a violent parody of 1980's police procedurals called The Filth. Once there, Riley and Hughes discover just how much policing has changed between the two periods and that the Dixon of the 1980's, who has also just been killed, was as bad as any copper could be.
One of Dixon's closing monologues from Dixon of Dock Green was recycled for the final scene of Ashes to Ashes in 2010. Like The Black and Blue Lamp, characters in Ashes to Ashes and its predecessor, Life on Mars, were seemingly sent into different eras of policing. Moreover, Dixon's 'resurrection' for Dixon of Dock Green, after having been killed in The Blue Lamp, parallels the stories of the principal characters in Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, having been explained in the final episode.
- Dowling, Tim (19 July 2012). "Your next box set: Dixon of Dock Green". The Guardian.
- Although it is never mentioned on-screen in The Blue Lamp, Bert could possibly be the young sailor in uniform whose photograph can be seen on the Dixons' mantlepiece.
- "Dixon of Dock Green". Whirligig-tv.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
- Ealing and Brentford: Public services, A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7: Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden (1982), pp. 147-149. Date accessed: 10 May 2008.
- McEwan, Kate (1983). Ealing Walkabout: Journeys into the history of a London borough. Cheshire, UK.: Nick Wheatly Associates. p. 45. ISBN 0-9508895-0-4.
- "BBC Online - Cult - Treasure Hunt - The Missing Episodes - Dixon of Dock Green". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
- Baron, Alexander. "Digital Journal". David Rathband — The Spirit of the Blue Lamp. Digital Journal. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
- "Dixon Of Dock Green Collection Two". Retrieved 10 May 2013.
- Simon Brew (2010-05-21). "The significance of the final shot of Ashes to Ashes". Den of Geek. Dennis Publishing. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
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Press Room » Tree Nuts Highlighted in the New Food Guidance System
Davis, CA, April 2005— The International Tree Nut Council Nutrition Research & Education Foundation (INC NREF) applauds the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on its new Food Guidance System symbol—MyPyramid—which replaces the Food Guide Pyramid. The new symbol and interactive Web site, MyPyramid.gov, emphasize the importance of individualized dietary guidance.
Tree nuts, such as almonds, Brazils, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamias, pecans, pine nuts, pistachios and walnuts, play an important role in MyPyramid. They are included in the meat, poultry, fish, dry beans, eggs, and nuts group, and are recommended as a snack or as a substitution for other sources of protein. The latter is important as more Americans move toward more plant-based diets.
In MyPyramid, ½ ounce of nuts is equivalent to one ounce of meat and one teaspoon of oil. As with all foods, portion control is critical. “Nuts tend to be filling, which can actually help with weight control,” states Maureen Ternus, M.S., R.D., registered dietitian and Nutrition Coordinator for INC NREF. “Since tree nuts have such rich and complex flavors, a single serving is quite satisfying.” The new food guidance system suggests choosing nuts as a snack or enjoying them throughout the day in main dishes or sprinkled on yogurt, salads, soups or pasta.
Chock full of vitamins and minerals, tree nuts also contain a wide variety of phytochemicals, or plant compounds such as phytosterols (beta-sitosterol), carotenoids, flavonoids and proanthocyanidins, which may help protect against heart disease, cancer and other chronic diseases.
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I've been thinking for a lot of time analyzing my already years ongoing passion for Free Software, trying to answer the question "What really made me be a keen user and follower of the ideology of the free software movement"?
I came to the conclusion it is the sharing part of free software that really made me a free software enthusiast. Let me explain ….
In our modern world sharing of personal goods (physical goods, love for fellows, money, resources etc.) has become critically low.The reason is probably the severely individualistic Western World modern culture model which seems to give good economic results.
Though western society might be successful in economic sense in man plan it is a big failure.
The high standard in social culture, the heavy social programming, high level of individualism and the collapsing spirituality in majority of people is probably the major key factors which influenced the modern society to turn into such a non-sharing culture that is almost ruling the whole world nations today.
If we go back a bit in time, one can easily see the idea and general philosophy of sharing is very ancient in nature. It was sharing that for years helped whole societies and culture grow and mature. Sharing is a fundamental part of Christian faith and many other religions as well and has been a people gathering point for centuries.
However as modern man is more and more turning to the false fables of the materialistic origin of man (Darwininsm), sharing is started seeing as unnecessary . Perhaps the decreased desire in people to share is also the reason why in large number people started being self-interest oriented as most of us are nowadays.
As we share less and less of our physical and spiritual goods, our souls start being more and more empty day after day. Many people, especially in the western best developed societies; the masses attitude towards sharing is most evidently hostile.
Another factor which probably decreased our natural human desire to share is technocracy and changing of communication from physical as it used to be until few dacades to digital today.
The huge shift of communication from physical to digital, changes the whole essence of basic life, hence I believe at least the distorted sharing should be encouraged on the Internet (file movies and programs sharing) should be considered normal and not illegal..
I believe Using Free Software instead of non-free (proprietary) one is another thing through which we can stimulate sharing. If we as society appreciate our freedom at all and care for our children future, it is my firm conviction, we should do best to keep sharing as much as we can in both physical and digital sense.
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Warning: New computer worm
Posted May 19, 2000; 10:17 a.m.
A new destructive worm, "NEWLOVE," has been reported which, like the variants of the "ILOVEYOU" virus, attacks those who use Microsoft Outlook for e-mail.
While there have been no sightings reported on the Princeton University campus, those who use Outlook are urged to take precautions and contact the known senders of any suspicious e-mail before attempting to open the messages. CIT has installed a filter intended to capture messages with the worm.
For more information, see www.princeton.edu/newlove .
Contact: Justin Harmon (609) 258-3601
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When watching sports, Im always most impressed by the decathletes. Those who are able to compete skillfully in such a range of athletic events are awe-inspiring. Not only can they perform a variety of skills well, but they also are able to switch easily from one to another. The readings this month challenge us to be spiritual decathletes.
Throughout the first three weeks we are called to reflect on our journey of faith, to enter imaginatively into the accounts of Christ ascending into the heavenly realms as well as the Holy Spirit descending like flames of fire. The final week we are called to reflect on one of the hardest doctrinal problems of Christian theology - the Trinity - before grappling with the essence of Jesus teaching in the Sermon on the Mount.
Throughout these weeks we are called to use our souls, emotions, and minds with equal skill, switching from one to another in successive weeks as we encounter the challenge of the texts before us. Unlike real decathletes, however, we have help. This month we celebrate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the one who journeys alongside each of us who follow Christ to inspire, comfort, and - when words fail us - to pray for us "with sighs too deep for words" (Romans 8:26). The challenge may be great, but so is the help.
Paula Gooder is a lecturer at the Queens Foundation, Birmingham, England, and a freelance biblical lecturer and writer.
An Ever-Present Companion
Acts 17:22-31; Psalm 66:8-20; 1 Peter 3:13-22; John 14:15-21
Our readings this week represent various moments in the journey of faith, from the Athenians who worship an unknown God, to the recipients of 1 Peter who are encouraged to steel themselves to do good whatever the consequences, to the psalmist whose faith has been tested. Of course, the different moments represented dont follow a straight line from unbelief to suffering, but they do mark different points on the way. There will be times in our faith journeys where we must decide to do the good demanded by the kingdom of God whatever the consequences. There will be other times when we have suffered and emerged able to praise God.
There is something that joins these moments, however, and this is identified in our gospel reading: the presence of the Comforter (whose Greek name literally means "one who is called alongside"). The psalmist traces Gods action in his life. How much more should we, recipients of the Pentecost gift, be conscious of the Holy Spirit, that ever-present companion on the road, accompanying us and pointing us to God?
Who Are We Waiting For?
Acts 1:1-11; Psalm 93; Ephesians 1:15-23; Luke 24:44-53
The feast of the ascension is an important Christian festival that can sometimes be overlooked because it falls on a Thursday. It may also be ignored because it requires such a leap of imagination for many 21st-century Christians that they choose not to think about it. The problem lies in the view of the world portrayed by the account. Jesus ascends upward from earth, which, according to the Judeo-Christian mindset of the time, would have meant immediate entry into heaven. For us, however, it means space travel. We have lost the framework that makes sense of this story, and yet what it communicates is as important as ever.
The ascension bears witness to our belief in a Jesus who has risen from the dead, never to die again. The resurrection issues in a new world order; it symbolizes that the end times have begun and that our world will never be the same. The ascension reminds us that we are the ones responsible on earth for this new world order. Just as Elisha received the mantle of Elijah when he was snatched up to heaven, so we must catch the mantle of Christ. Christ, risen and ascended, will return when the end times reach their climax. But, for now, the responsibility lies with the body of Christ on earth.
Proclaim With Abandon
Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 104:24-34, 35; 1 Corinthians 12:3-13; John 7:37-39
We have seen in numerous passages since Easter the expectations God has for the people of God. The resurrection was not so much about Jesus, but about us. Jesus was raised from the dead; as a result the lives of all who encounter him will never be the same. This becomes explicit at Pentecost. The well-known account in Acts 2 describes the disciples together in one place receiving the Holy Spirit and being transformed by the experience. The disciples were no longer the confused, uncertain group that we know from the gospels. Instead they became bold, dynamic proclaimers of the good news of Christ.
Of course, as we have seen before, transformations like these are never popular. Here, some in the crowd tried to attribute what happened to alcohol. A more extreme reaction can be found in our alternate reading from Numbers, where the spirit of the Lord fell on 70 of the elders. Two of these men prophesied - not around the tabernacle like the rest - but in the camp. Others became anxious and tried to get Moses to stop them. Moses, of course, refused (Numbers 11:24-30).
Being filled with the Holy Spirit requires us to proclaim the good news of Gods reign wherever we go. It is highly likely that when we do, people will ridicule and try to stop us. The earliest Christians made bold by the Holy Spirit were unperturbed - and we should be too.
Three in One
Genesis 1:1-2:4; Psalm 8; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13; Matthew 28:16-20
If you put an expert in Christian doctrine and a biblical scholar in the same room, what do you get? A huge argument, most likely. The problem is that people interested in doctrine try to find biblical passages that support their dearly held beliefs, whereas biblical scholars insist that we should read the Bible first and, out of the reading, discover what those beliefs should be. One starts at the end and works backward, the other starts at the beginning and works forward. Who is right? Both of them are. A day such as this, Trinity Sunday, challenges everyone to join this discussion.
On Trinity Sunday we celebrate our unique belief in a God who is three in one. Throughout Christian history theological debate has raged about how this is possible, but the Bibles writers were blissfully unaware of this debate. What we find, therefore, are snippets of verses that refer to the three persons of the Trinity (Matthew 28:19 and 2 Corinthians 13:13) or oblique references to there being someone else present when God speaks ("let us " in Genesis 1:26), but nothing more than that. In other words, we have the ingredients for the trinitarian cake but not the cake itself.
Indeed, we might find it reassuring to know that the profound beliefs of the earliest Christians were not dependent upon having a carefully articulated doctrine of the Trinity. All that mattered was an encounter with the grace of Christ and the love of God and communion with the Holy Spirit.
God Is in the Details
Deuteronomy 11:18-21, 26-28; Psalm 31:1-5, 19-24; Romans 1:16-17; 3:22-28, (29-31); Matthew 7:21-29
The strange thing about Easter coming early this year is that we havent had much time to settle into Matthew, the gospel for the year. Too many festivals have intervened. But from now until Advent, well explore a passage from Matthew every week (with the exception of a few saints days along the way). This allows us to settle into the rhythm of this important gospel and meet afresh the Jesus we find in its pages. What better place to begin this than the closing words of that uniquely Matthean section, the Sermon on the Mount.
This passage establishes beyond a shadow of a doubt who will and who will not enter the kingdom of heaven: "Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them " (Matthew 7:24). Jesus is clear that doing things we might find impressive - prophesying, casting out demons, accomplishing deeds of power - will not be enough. Instead, entry to the kingdom is gained by doing the will of God in the form of small, unspectacular things Jesus described in detail throughout the Sermon - not being angry with those around you (5:22), mending broken relationships (5:23-24), being true to your word (5:33-35), and so on. These actions, Jesus tells us, build a firm foundation that will remain steadfast throughout the storms of life. Entry to the kingdom, Jesus says, depends not on spectacular deeds but in faithfully living out our everyday lives.!doctype>
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After surgery, you’ll be moved to a recovery area where you can be closely watched. From there, you may go to a special care unit or a regular room. The hospital stay after minimally invasive heart surgery varies, but is often 5–7 days.
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Located in the heart of Dublin, the existing Georgian Manor was combined with a converted coach house and an additional 160 square meters of living space to create a modern home with a historic flare. The local planning commission required LOHA and executive architect ODOS Architects to restore the existing historic façade of the home and keep it in view from the primary manor. Therefore, the façade is highlighted in the forecourt for guests to enjoy just as the original owners would have back in the nineteenth century. Within the forecourt the restored Georgian façade now sits adjacent to the contemporary addition skinned in a glass curtain wall. The juxtaposition of architectural styles becomes apparent as a glass volume literally punches through the window of the historic façade creating an interior hallway connection between the two living volumes.
The home naturally is an environmentally sound design, because it reuses portions of an existing home instead of creating a larger carbon footprint through new construction. Other sustainable components help to make this a great eco-friendly modern design. Materials including concrete with recycled glass content, high performance insulated glass, and high gloss plaster are among sustainable additions to the design. Also, solar thermal panels provide domestic water heating, and radiant floor heating is provided through an underground heat pump system. The underground heat pump system even recycles gray water into the system. All of these systems are measures adopted as part of the Dublin Green Building Pilot Program.
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Applications of Mount St. Helens Science:
At the request of the University Austral de Chile, two station scientists traveled to Valdivia, Chile, to present their research on the ecological responses to Mount St. Helens' 1980 eruption to 45 participants. The university sought the expertise of the scientists, who have been studying volcanic disturbance at Mount St. Helens for the past 30 years, to help with initial assessments of the ecological impacts at Chaiten volcano, which erupted in Chile in 2008. Sixty people were involved in the ecological assessment. Several months later, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Geological Survey's Alaska Science Center hosted a presentation in which one of the station scientists discussed aspects of Mount St. Helens' 1980 eruption that were relevant to the August 2008 eruption of Alaska's Kasatochi volcano. Twenty people attended the session.
ArcFuels and Risk Analysis Workshops:
At these workshops, station scientists taught land managers how to use ArcFuels, a new tool for modeling fuel-reduction treatments, and discussed how formal risk analyses can benefit planning. About 15 managers from the Deschutes and Ochoco National Forests attended a workshop in Bend, Oregon, and 35 from the Northern Region attended a workshop in Missoula, Montana.
Climate Change Risk Workshop:
More than 80 resource managers, academics, and scientists from across the Pacific Northwest attended a workshop on the management of climate change risk in forests. The event explored silvicultural and genetic approaches to developing forests adapted to climate changes.
Constructing Low-Impact Roads:
A station hydrologist led this 1-day course on constructing roads to minimize their impact on the environment. The course was held in the town of Dalat in Lam Dong Province of Vietnam. About 20 people attended, representing various Vietnamese government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and universities.
Dead Yellow-Cedar Utilization Demonstration:
Station scientists held a 2-day workshop in Thorne Bay, Alaska, that discussed utilization options for dead yellow-cedar. As part of the workshop, the group of 30 participants traveled to a demonstration site to examine dead trees, evaluate their wood quality, and estimate recoverable wood volume.
Fire Tool Virtual Training Session:
A station scientist held a virtual training session on the use of a key tool for predicting postfire successional trajectories in interior Alaska's black spruce stands. The session was offered to about 40 fire ecologists and managers in Fairbanks and Anchorage using video conferencing technology and was held in conjunction with the Alaska Interagency Fire Effects Task Group's fall and spring reviews.
Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Client Meeting:
FIA shared the status of its activities for the last year as well as the results of its research efforts with 60 of its Washington, Oregon, and California clients. The program also invited its clients to present results from their research based on FIA's inventory data.
International Workshop on Ungulate, Forest, and Landscape Management:
Thirteen people from the United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, and Estonia attended a week-long workshop that focused on the joint management of ungulates, forests, and landscapes. During the event, attendees worked on research synthesis papers and a prospectus for future research collaboration.
LIDAR for Forest Planning:
Station scientists conducted a 1-day workshop on the use of LIDAR data from the Sherman Pass Scenic Byway pilot LIDAR project. The 25 participants who attended learned about the available data and how to use it in planning forestry activities.
Mapping Vegetation Structure in the Pinaleño Mountains Using LIDAR:
A station scientist collaborated with the Forest Service's Remote Sensing Applications Center to conduct a 3-day workshop on the use of LIDAR data collected in Arizona's Pinaleño Mountains for planning forestry activities. The workshop was attended by 40 participants, including specialists from the National Forest System, state agencies, and universities.
Mount St. Helens Interpretation Training:
The station's lead scientist at the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument presented key science from his studies at the volcano to 30 interpreters and visitor center staff members at a day-long training workshop.
Participatory Action Research Workshop:
During this 2-day workshop, 12 participants learned about participatoryaction research (PAR)—a collaborative nonsurvey approach to gathering information and creating conversation with people in a place-based community. Attendees also worked to identify and develop resources to support PAR practitioners.
Silvicultural Research at Capitol Forest:
A station scientist led a day-long field tour for 14 employees of the Bureau of Land Management at Capitol Forest outside of Olympia, Washington. Participants visited study sites and discussed recent findings.
Sixth International Integrated Pest Management Symposium:
During a 3-day symposium, 12 attendees learned about the challenges of developing and implementing an integrated pest management program for bark beetles in the Western United States. The event featured six invited speakers from the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Soil Recovery Workshop and Tour:
Seventy participants—including federal and industry resource managers, university faculty, and nongovernmental organization members—participated in a B&B Fire workshop and field tour in the spring. The event explored soil responses to and recovery after wildfire and postfire forest management.
Variable-Density Thinning Study:
Thirty-two members of land management and natural resource organizations toured installations of the Olympic Habitat Development Study. During the day-long tour, participants viewed sites and discussed variable-density thinning and the creation of artificial log structures.
Variable-Retention Silviculture Tour:
A station scientist led 27 district foresters, regional managers, and regional timber sale administrators from the Washington State Department of Natural Resources in a field tour of Capitol Forest outside of Olympia. The tour was designed to improve reforestation planning and further understanding of the growth and yield trends of different treatments and society's perceptions of these treatments.
Western Pine Beetle Workshop:
About 12 people attended a workshop on the Upper Imnaha Western Pine Beetle Management Project. The 1-day event took stock of what has been learned about pine beetle management and how it might be applied by participants.
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►Detroit police announced on Monday that they would no longer dispatch officers to investigate burglar alarms unless an actual break-in is verified by an alarm company or a person at the building. Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee Jr. said 98 percent of alarms responded to are false. “As more and more police departments face limited resources and budget cuts, Godbee said the logical area of reduction appeared to be unproductive calls for service. He said false alarms are an immense drain on the department's staffing and finances,” the Detroit Free Press reports. Since 1991, more than 30 police departments in the U.S. and Canada have adopted the policy to eliminate waste and improve police service.
►On Monday, Los Angeles police said Compton rapper The Game was under investigation for a flood of phone calls that came into the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department after the rapper posted the department's phone number on his twitter account. Authorities say that within seconds, every phone line was jammed, and emergency calls were delayed for three hours because of the volume of prank calls. But a legal expert from UCLA says there may not be much the county can do about it. “In the case of a celebrity tweeting the phone number of a law enforcement help line…prosecutors would have to prove the tweeter intended to jam the lines, either with a confession after the fact or with some sort of documented planning beforehand,” UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh told the L.A. Times. The Game would have had free speech protection if he identified the number as the sheriff’s office and encouraged his followers to call with criticisms, he said.
►Linton Johnson, San Francisco subway (BART) spokesperson, said it was his idea for the city to block cell phone service in the subways last Thursday after intelligence suggested that the hacker group Anonymous would try and disrupt train service. Service to phones was blocked to try and limit the ability of protestors to organize in the subways, but the decision was widely criticized. “His idea, which was approved by the agency’s lawyers and the police department, sparked a national debate over whether there was a First Amendment right to mobile phones, and whether the Bay Area Rapid Transit had gone too far in mirroring tactics taken by regimes in the Middle East to stifle dissent,” Wired reports. Johnson said the idea came to him that morning, and after vetting by the police department and lawyers, authorities unplugged underground antennas.
►In other news, the News and Record reports another alleged death by Taser, pushing the number of death that occur after a Taser incident in the United States to more than 350. A 2009 study by Amnesty International found that 90 percent of people who died after being hit by Tasers were not armed. ⇒ The U.S. has released secret documents on the Bay of Pigs Invasion for public viewing.⇒ The Navy gets its first shipboard cyberinspection and passes with a higher score than expected. ⇒ And a C-130 and a UAV collide in Afghanistan.
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WASHINGTON – The Obama administration’s role in the accreditation of a U.S.-based gay rights group by the United Nations is “distressing,” says a Southern Baptist public policy leader.
After strong lobbying from the Obama administration, the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission was given consultative status by the U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on Monday. ECOSOC voted 23-13, with 13 abstentions, to allow the gay rights group to attend U.N. meetings and submit statements to U.N. agencies and governments.
“It is extremely distressing that the Obama administration would exert extraordinary pressure on the United Nations to gain membership for a group that is so obviously opposed to the foundational American principle of freedom of speech,” said Barrett Duke, vice president for public policy and research at The Ethics Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, on Friday.
Duke told The Christian Post that the IGLHRC’s admittance into the United Nations serves as a reminder of why it is important for evangelical groups to also engage with the global body. The ERLC, noted Duke, also has consultative status with the United Nations with the purpose of making the evangelical perspective known to the United Nations as it develops policies.
IGLHRC had applied for consultative status with the ECOSOC since 2007. The group credits the U.S. government for their admittance, noting how it stood “strongly behind” its application for its approval. Fourteen members of the U.S. House of Representatives and four senators sent letters to all U.N. member states to support IGLHRC’s application, including Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), who is chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
IGLHRC is now the tenth LGBT human rights group to gain consultative status at the United Nations.
President Obama, in a statement, congratulated IGLHRC for taking its “rightful seat” at the United Nations. With its inclusion, the United Nation is “closer to the ideals on which it was founded,” Obama said, and to the “values of inclusion and equality to which the United States is deeply committed.”
Jessica Stern, program director of IGLHRC, told The Associated Press on Monday that the recognition by the United Nations will help the group’s work. She noted that more than 70 countries have sodomy laws and homophobia is widespread in the world.
The United Nation’s approval of IGLHRC’s application marks the latest gay rights victory orchestrated by the Obama administration.
In April, President Obama ordered the extension of hospital visitation and health care decision rights to same-sex couples - a policy change that was even largely supported by the evangelical community. Evangelical groups and figures such as Focus on the Family and Pastor Joel C. Hunter of Northland, A Church Distributed in Orlando publicly expressed their support for the Presidential Memorandum regarding hospital visitation for same-sex partners.
Less accepted by the evangelical community is the Obama administration's current push to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which bars gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military.
As for those within the gay community, many have complained that Obama is moving too slow on repealing DADT, but military leaders recommend taking time to carefully analyze what impact the change in policy will have on the armed forces.
Repealing DADT is among the top legislative priority of gay rights groups.
As a presidential candidate and since coming to office, Obama has promised to advance gay rights in America. The LGBT is among President Obama’s strongest supporters.
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In 1936, civil war broke out in Spain, a violent prelude to World War II. Germany and the Soviet Union clashed there by proxy, with Hitler supporting Franco’s Nationalists and Stalin aligning with the Republicans. The Third Reich sent the Condor Legion, a unit composed primarily of Luftwaffe forces, and the conflict became a proving ground for concepts like blitzkrieg, for officers like Adolf Galland and Werner Mölders, and for aircraft like the Bf 109, He 111, and Ju 97. Chillingly, the war also saw the development of terror bombing.
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Despite soaring revenues and profits, AT&T and Verizon continue to seek concessions from employee unions, a demand which has led to stalled contract talks and threats of strike action by Communications Workers of America and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
A 17,000-worker walkout in California and Nevada looms as contract negotiations between AT&T West and Communications Workers of America stretch into a stagnant second month.
To illustrate, pretend your girlfriend stars in a well-reviewed movie as a superhero. You are proud of her for landing this role and playing the part of a strong woman leader. Then, you read a review about the movie where the critic salaciously refers to your girlfriend as a “fighting fuck toy,” after describing certain of her body parts in glowing detail. Or, pretend your mother has run for office and become Senator. After she’s served for a while, you begin to notice that most news outlets report that Mrs. Anderson (not Senator) “complained,” while her male counterparts merely “stated” their opposition. You will recall that during their campaigns, Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin were often painted as “bitch” or “ditz,” and there was much discussion about their wardrobes.
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Taking Stock: The Animal Health Corridor Moves Forward
Kansas City – If you feed your dog Science Diet, or protect him with the flea and tick control Advantix, you're using products made in the Animal Health Corridor.
The Corridor is an official area, recognized by an act of Congress, between Kansas City, Manhattan, and Columbia. Over 200 animal health and related companies are located in the region, and they're responsible for almost a third of the sales in the 19 billion dollar industry.
This may seem an unlikely place to begin. But keep listening. The American Royal turns 110 this year. It began as a Hereford Show under a tent in the Kansas City Stockyards. Today, the livestock show attracts thousands of owners, breeders, and agricultural businesses. The Royal, now a business itself, says a quarter million people come to its events each fall.
And this is one of them. Chelsa Crouch leans a cowboy boot up against the fence and cheers for her husband Casey a professional cowboy on their horse, The Earl of Playboy. Even if the American Royal is more professional today, it still represents our agricultural roots,says Harry Cleberg, a retired farmer and farm industry executive. And the Animal Health Corridor? He says it's a direct descendant of the Royal.
Cleberg: "Purebred breeders would bring animals in. They'd select animals to improve the genetics of the particular breeds. It was basically animal genetics of 110 years ago, quite different than embryo transplants of today."
If the American Royal represents animal science of the past, today's groundbreaking on a windy plot of land adjacent to the strip malls and subdivisions of western Olathe represents its future.
Wearing purple hardhats for the K-State Wildcats, the president of K-State, elected officials, and business leaders, grab shiny new shovels and turn over some soil. They're initiating work on the National Animal Health and Food Safety Institute, the first brick and mortar of the Olathe Innovation Campus, an extension of K-State. It's a flagship of the Animal Health Corridor.
The Campus is funded in part by a 1/8 cent sales tax Johnson County voters approved last year,and in part by the Kansas Bioscience Authority. That's a 581 million dollar public-private initiative the Kansas legislature enacted in 2004. The city of Olathe donated 90 acres of land. Dan Richardson, CEO of the Olathe Campus, says bringing the top-notch, K-State scientists closer to the commercial center of animal health will attract more researchers, companies, and ultimately more jobs. In fact, officials project an additional 3000 jobs over the next 10-15 years.
Richardson: "It is truly an economic boon. People are going to want to know what is going on here and be part of it."
That's where Bayer Animal Health comes in. Bayer was one of the charter members of the Corridor. As we amble down the quiet company halls lined with photos of employees and their pets, spokesman Bob Walker says the Animal Health Corridor is an opportunity to expand, and attract talent
Walker: "To form strategic partnerships for product manufacturing, and to solidify our relationships with vet schools, K-State and University of Missouri. The Corridor has allowed us to do that."
The launch of the Corridor has not been without bumps. Just last month, Pfizer announced it would move it's subsidiary Fort Dodge Animal Health from Overland Park to it's headquarters in Madison, New Jersey, possibly taking 200 jobs with it.
Officials with the Kansas Bioscience Authority took some flack for committing 50 million dollars to 8 venture capital firms without the promise those firms would invest in Kansas.
And the jewel of the Animal Health Corridor, the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, a 600 million dollar high-security laboratory awarded to K-State, has been put on hold while Congress investigates it's safety.
DeHaven:"I call it 'press release economics.'"
When Tad DeHaven was with the Indiana Governor's office he saw a number of these ambitious public-private partnerships fail. Now, as an economic analyst for the conservative Cato Institute, he warns the projects often put taxpayers at risk.
DeHaven:"The business community gets free money. If it pans out they make money. If not, the burden falls to taxpayers. For elected officials, it's a wonderful opportunity to have ribbon cuttings. That way they can say to their voters they are doing something. That's why I call it 'press release economics.'"
Regardless of it's critics, the creative breadth of the Animal Health Corridor has inspired hope, not only as economic development, but also because much of the research could apply to humans as well as animals. The Corridor also represents a collective effort to celebrate the region's agrarian past, as well as create economic security that will carry it well into the future.
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When Beethoven played the solo part in the première of his Third Piano Concerto, in 1803, he introduced a bewitching effect that lingered in the memory of his pupil Carl Czerny. The Largo movement begins with a luminous theme in the key of E. Beethoven applied the sustaining pedal throughout, so that the music became a haze of resonating tones—a “holy, distant, and celestial Harmony,” Czerny said. According to the musicologist Leon Plantinga, Beethoven composed the Third Concerto just after he wrote his “Heiligenstadt Testament,” in which he confessed that he would rather retire from society than publicly admit his deafness. There were many moments during Radu Lupu’s recent traversal of the five Beethoven piano concertos, with the Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, when that withdrawn, wounded figure came to life. In the Largo, you could almost see Beethoven walking away from his stormy C-minor world—or, if you prefer, walking from his world toward ours.
Lupu, a gentle genius of the piano, was born in Romania in 1945. With his scraggly beard, shy manner, and piercing eyes, he looks less like a jet-set virtuoso than an unsung radical poet, the kind you would expect to find huddled over gnomic manuscripts in the corner of an obscure café. In his youth, he played as loud and fast as anyone; he won the Van Cliburn Competition in 1966 with a thunderous performance of the Prokofiev Second Piano Concerto, evidence of which exists on a VAI recording. In the following years, Lupu disavowed showpieces and devoted himself to the high Austro-German repertory, from Mozart to Brahms. In 1970, he made a recording of Brahms’s Intermezzos Opus 117 that is in my personal pantheon of the most beautiful piano records ever made. At a Carnegie recital in 1996, Lupu offered as his last encore the slow movement of Schubert’s “Little” A-Major Sonata, and it wasn’t so much a performance as a glimpse of a perfect world. No pianist gets a lovelier tone out of the instrument. How he does it is a bit of a mystery: the piano is, after all, an impersonal machine of levers and hammers. But an A above middle C sounds different under Lupu’s finger. It glows from within.
It was strange, at first, to see this most confiding of pianists holding forth in front of the august Cleveland Orchestra. Yet the intimacy remained. I’ve rarely witnessed an orchestra and a soloist listening to each other so intently: this was a conversational give-and-take, not a tug-of-war between pre-set tempos. Franz Welser-Möst, the Cleveland’s conductor, often kept the dynamics muted to chamber-music levels, so that Lupu never had to fight to be heard. In a classic Cleveland sound-mirage, string pizzicatos and soft woodwind tones seemed to emanate from the piano.
The Beethoven concertos are complex, multitiered constructions, in which the piano and the orchestra often head toward the same destination along separate paths: sonata and symphony are superimposed. Although Lupu was sometimes in danger of floating away into his own private pianosphere, he periodically called upon his old competition-winner style to produce a burly, quasi-orchestral sound. The transition from the slow movement of the “Emperor” Concerto to the finale was as electric as I’ve ever heard it: a meditative murmur of pedalled tones—“holy, distant, and celestial” again—gave way to a blunt oration of accented chords. The two sides of Beethoven’s personality achieved perfect balance: as if with a gunshot, the poet became a hero.
If Lupu resembles a venerable underground artist, Piotr Anderszewski, a Polish-Hungarian pianist who has risen to prominence in the past few years, looks like a hip young thing in an Antonioni movie. At his recent recital at Zankel Hall, Anderszewski walked onstage wearing Beatles bangs, a loose black jacket, and leather pants. He is thirty-five, and he’s a serious, searching musician. If Lupu saunters through the music as if on a forest walk, Anderszewski whips around every corner like a spy. Balancing out his edgy flair is a gift for pure cantabile playing, nearly at the Lupu level.
The first musical impression is of a forceful, steely personality. In the opening movement of Bach’s “French Overture,” the sound bordered on the harsh. Possibly, Anderszewski miscalculated the acoustics of Zankel, which can give a tinny ring to fortissimos. There was more than a bit of Glenn Gould in the accenting of inner voices, in the highlighting of each line of counterpoint. This was proper in Bach, but peculiar in the first movement of the Chopin Third Sonata, which is something other than a fugue. Too many young pianists these days feel compelled to defamiliarize, interrogate, and otherwise discombobulate music of the Romantic repertory, as if the ghost of Stravinsky were admonishing them not to get too sentimental. I had heard the German pianist Lars Vogt operate in icy fashion on the Grieg Concerto the previous month. Anderszewski seemed on the verge of doing the same to Chopin. But, fortunately, he had more up his sleeve.
The great Largo of the Third Sonata encapsulated the narrative power of Anderszewski’s playing. At first, an odd stress on accompanying chords in the left hand threatened to enervate the right-hand theme. Then, in the trio, anxiety gave way to grace, as if the pianist had finally found his way inside the music. The tone turned liquid, an arpeggio became an aria, and time stopped. Anderszewski succeeded in sustaining momentum at a daringly slow tempo—the kind of effect that Sviatoslav Richter made his specialty. When the first theme returned, the urge to deconstruct had been exorcised, and the lyric spell was unbroken to the end.
Anderszewski is one of several younger pianists that Carnegie Hall is showcasing in Zankel this season. Till Fellner, who made a lucid and songful recording of Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” for the ECM label, played a recital in December, and, if he seemed temperamentally ill-suited to the grandiose Liszt B-Minor Sonata, he was thoroughly at home in Bach’s Fifth French Suite. Jonathan Biss appears at Zankel on March 8th. He is a formidable musician who exerts a subtle intellectual pressure on seemingly straight-ahead readings of the classical and Romantic repertory. Paul Lewis, Alessio Bax, and the composer-pianists Fazil Say and Lera Auerbach are others who might thrive in Zankel’s music-of-the-future atmosphere.
Even with Zankel in the mix, it’s no easier to get to Carnegie Hall. Hundreds of gifted pianists emerge from conservatories each year, and the major concert venues cannot accommodate them all. The more resourceful players are discovering that entrepreneurship is no artistic sin. Daniel Beliavsky, a doctoral student at N.Y.U., has begun making recordings for the Internet-based label Sonatabop. He favors sumptuous textures and swaying tempos, harking back to the Russian tradition: his heavy rubato in the Schubert Impromptus probably made his teachers blanch. Indeed, on bonus tracks to his CDs, Beliavsky carries on amusing dialogues with an austere pedagogue named Ulysses Kidgi, who preaches “anonymous perfection.” Kidgi is a figment of Beliavsky’s imagination, but his pedantry is all too true to life. Beliavsky is also a composer, and the première performance of his piece “The Animals Race!” will take place on March 9th, at Merkin Hall.
Soheil Nasseri, a native of Santa Monica, California, has garnered a few enthusiastic reviews, as well as a story chronicling his adventures in downtown night life. (A classical guy who hangs out with hip-hop promoters—freaky!) But he can’t attract attention at the big agencies that dominate the touring circuit. In the fall, he rented Alice Tully Hall to play five Beethoven sonatas; passing moments of insecurity were offset by warm, elegant, unaffected musicianship. To fill his days, Nasseri has been immersing himself in an ambitious music-education project, playing Beethoven sonatas in schools all over the city. He may lack the big recital dates, but he has what other pianists only dream of: fresh-faced, fascinated audiences almost every day of the week. ♦
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A one-ton rover as big as a Mini is due to land on Mars on Monday in one of the most daring space missions ever attempted.
The rover, Curiosity, is designed to search for clues about possible past life in a crater that might once have been filled with water.
The £1.59 billion six-wheeled machine is twice as long and five times as heavy as the twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity which landed on Mars in 2004.
Two British scientists are members of the team which will direct the rover and analyse the data it collects. Before they can do their work Curiosity must land safely on the Red Planet - a challenge that has tested the best brains at the American space agency Nasa.
Because Curiosity is so big and heavy, getting it onto the Martian surface has required a great deal of "thinking out of the box".
The solution is so bold it has been described as "crazy". After entering the Martian atmosphere at 13,200mph, the capsule containing Curiosity will be slowed by friction and then a supersonic parachute.
An "upper stage" resembling a flying bedstead will then be deployed, firing retro rockets to brake its descent. As it hovers over the landing site, the upper stage will transform itself into a "sky crane" and lower Curiosity to the surface on the end of a tether. It will then break away, and deliberately crash.
Statistically the odds do not look good. Two-thirds of all Mars missions have failed, including Britain's ill-fated Beagle 2, which was lost on Christmas Day 2003.
Dr John Bridges, from the University of Leicester Space Research Centre, one of the British scientists working on the Mars Science Laboratory mission, said: "I'm cautiously optimistic. Space exploration is not for the faint hearted. The previous rover landing used inflatable bouncing bags. Curiosity's just too heavy for that, so they developed the sky crane technique."
Curiosity's target is Gale Crater, near the Martian equator, where there are geological signs of past water. The plan is to land close to Mount Sharp, a 5.5-kilometre peak in the centre of the crater with clay deposits around its base. If all goes well the radio signal confirming that Curiosity has landed will arrive on Earth after a 14-minute journey through space at 06.31, UK time.
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On Harry Potter's eleventh birthday, Vernon Dursley attempted to evade Harry's Hogwarts acceptance letter by fleeing to Hut-on-the-Rock. Regardless, Rubeus Hagrid, gamekeeper of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, flew to the secluded hut. He subsequently broke down the door, threatened the Dursleys and handed Harry his very first birthday cake.
Hagrid, upon breaking into the hut, was astonished to learn that Harry had been told nothing truthful about who he really was, and what had actually happened to his parents. The gamekeeper expressed his fury to the Dursleys and told Harry that he was a wizard. He later explained who Lord Voldemort was and how he killed James and Lily Potter. He then proceeded to give Dudley Dursley a pig tail after Vernon insulted Albus Dumbledore.
Once Hagrid and Harry had left the hut they proceeded to go to Diagon Alley where Harry would get his school supplies and Hagrid would present Harry with a beautiful snowy owl, which Harry would name Hedwig.
Numerous parodies have been made of the "You're a wizard Harry" scene.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (Shortly cutscened)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
- Pottermore Insider
Notes and references
- ↑ It was not seen nor mentioned, but as he turned eleven when he got the letter in book and film, it can for safe be said that it was his birthday in the video game
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Quotation by Samuel Butler
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
Samuel Butler (1835–1902), British author. Samuel Butler's Notebooks, p. 275 (1951).
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Last, but not least, looking beyond the White House, The Hill’s Ben Geman had an update on the race between three Republicans, who are all climate-change skeptics, to be the next chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. Wisconsin’s James Sensenbrenner, Texas’s Lamar Smith, and California’s Dana Rohrbacher are all vying for the position. Geman included statements from Sensenbrenner and Smith, both of whom mentioned a desire to evaluate NASA and US space policy—a subject that hardly came up during the presidential campaign.
For the moment, there are more questions than answers about what lies ahead for energy, the environment, and other scientifically relevant issues. The post-election coverage has made it clear precisely what these questions are, however, and reporters should have a good sense of where they’ll need to follow up during the next four years.
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The History of Abortion Illegality in America, Simplified.
“In the early 1800s, when a woman stopped menstruating she was not considered to be pregnant until she could feel the fetus moving inside of her. Before this movement, she was thought of as having blocked menses. Even if she felt something was growing inside her, it was not considered to necessarily be a potential child. [I]t was considered normal and right for a woman to do whatever she could to expel the burden blocking her menses, if she so chose. This view was so common that even religious newspapers carried advertisements of people who would help restore your menses” (Crabb 2011, 24-25).
So, basically, there were doctors trained at these upper-class, prestigious and few medical schools in the 1800s. Then women started getting together and starting health collectives, training midwives and other sorts of health “healers.” The fancy, upper-class doctors didn’t want to be associated with those people, nor did they want them taking their business and profession, so they all got together and demanded medical licensing.
These laws didn’t really do anything at first, but they made people really mad so the home-health movement grew bigger. Cindy Crabb writes, “this movement was inseparable from feminist and class struggles” (2011, 25). This movement stood against the increased medicalization of bodies and demanded that women in particular should be taught and learn about their bodies as well as retain responsibility over them. Supporters advocated for women to have control over how many children they birthed, as well as created groups of women who taught each other reproductive medical procedures. DIY contraception and abortion kits were made at home and even mass-produced and sold in the mail by companies.
The abortion rate rose, and for the first time, it was publicly evident that white, married, Protestant and middle-class women were having abortions (and still are). Now, the regular doctors, already mad that these women were having abortions in violation of the Hippocratic Oath (Hippocrates held a minority anti-abortion view) and were taking medicine into their own hands, were also lots of white guys! So, these white doctors living in America in the age of increasing immigration were concerned that “their women” were aborting fetuses at too high of a rate and threatened racial hegemony. They were also concerned by women moving into their field (the professional field), when they should have just been home making cookies.
So, as Cindy Crabb (2011) writes, “Basically, the regular doctors were racist, sexist, money hungry, status and power seeking fucks, and they were friends with the rich guys who tended to get into political office and the rich guys who owned newspapers” (26). Together, they launched a campaign to sway public opinion on abortion (gotta get those ladies under control ya’ll) and after a while, they got the first anti-abortion laws passed under the guise of protecting women from bad doctors. Women were no longer allowed to induce a miscarriage, despite the fact that only a few years before, everybody (even the religious folks) were encouraging women to buy new ways to evacuate their menses!
This wasn’t enough for the regular doctors, who continued their campaign with a whirlwind of misinformation and sensationalized stories of “horror abortions.” Then, still not powerful enough, these regular doctors formed The American Medical Association! Yeah, that’s right. The AMA. They succeeded too. After a long, hard, road, they successfully became the only ones dictating the control of bodies and denied individual people the right to do it themselves. Increasing medicalization of bodies (not just reproductive care!), denial of women’s spaces for home healthcare and the elite secrecy of medical knowledge has led us to an age where we don’t know anything about our bodies, despite the fact that we live in breathe in them every day.
The more you know.
Crabb, Cindy. 2011. The Encyclopedia of Doris. Minneapolis: Bolger Printing
Other sources/similar reads:
Abortion in America- Momr
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses - Ehrenreich and English
Experiencing Abortion- Kushner
Abortion Wars- Solinger
Contraception and Abortion in 19th Century America- Brodie
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On August 8, 2005, about 1430 Alaska daylight time, a nose wheel-equipped Cessna 182 airplane, N6480A, sustained substantial damage during an aborted landing attempt at an off airport site, located about 10 miles southeast of Nabesna, Alaska. The airplane was being operated as a visual flight rules (VFR) cross-country personal flight under Title 14, CFR Part 91, when the accident occurred. Of the three people aboard, the private pilot and one passenger were not injured, and the remaining passenger sustained minor injuries. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed. The flight originated at the Birchwood Airport, Chugiak, Alaska, about 1220. No flight plan was filed, nor was one required. Use your browsers 'back' function to return to synopsisReturn to Query Page
During a telephone conversation with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator-in-charge (IIC) on August 9, the pilot reported that he was landing at a gravel-covered off airport site that was surrounded by brush. He said that he inadvertently allowed the airplane to touchdown to the right of the site, and he applied full engine power to abort the landing. The pilot said that as the airplane began to climb, it abruptly pitched down, and the nose wheel struck the ground. The nose wheel subsequently collapsed, and the airplane nosed over on the gravel-covered site. The pilot noted that a postaccident inspection revealed a tree branch lodged in the accident airplane's right elevator assembly. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the wings, fuselage, and horizontal stabilizer. The pilot said that there were no preaccident mechanical anomalies with the airplane.
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greening the heart
Lismore's idyllic climate and rich volcanic soil produce some of the finest fresh produce you'll ever taste. For foodies of the region...its no surprise that the Northern Rivers is known as one of the most exciting food bowls in Australia...but, its not every day that you'll get to see and experience fresh, organic, local produce, flowers, herbs and natives growing in the streets of a CBD...
Greening the Heart is a project that brings community gardens into the streets of Lismore's CBD. Community gardens are places where people come together to grow plants, ideas, and relationships on common ground. Greening the Heart brings to light the abundant possibilities of small-scale organic food production, flowers and herbs, as well as the beauty of our unique, native flora.
It's a collaborative project with local nurseries and businesses donating seedlings and materials. Local schools, clubs and organisations then come together to plant gardens in recycled containers with veggies, flowers, herbs and natives and all adopted and cared for by CBD businesses.
LightnUp would like to sincerely thank the sponsors, decorators, growers and the businesses that participated in 2012. We do hope you will join us again this year.
- Gingerbread House
- Lismore Community Garden
- Lismore Preschool
- Lismore South Public School
- Our House
Make sure you plan a visit and take time out to smell the roses!
Greening the Heart
15 - 28 June 2013
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Vice Chancellor for Athletics, Recreation, Special Programs and Projects Charlie Titus and Associate Professor of Africana Studies Jemadari Kamara traveled to Senegal in West Africa last month to run basketball clinics as part of the Youth Education and Sports (YES) with Africa initiative.
The project was initiated by Titus, a member of the National Black Coaches and Administrators, and Kamara more than 10 years ago.
Traveling to the cities of Dakar, Mbour, Diourbel, and Saint Louis, Titus led a coaches training session in the morning and youth clinics in the early evening, focusing on the fundamentals of dribbling, shooting and passing. Stan Nance, associate director of athletics at Emerson College, also made the trip.
****View photos from the Senegal trip on the UMass Boston Flickr site.
Overall, 80 coaches received training and more than 200 youth received instruction through these clinics, which were held from June 14- June 24.
While in Senegal, Titus and his group worked side by side with the staff from YES Senegal, including Patrick Desousa and Fidel Coley. Ousseynou Diop, technical director of the Senegalese Basketball Federation, and Professor Ado Sano of the University of Cheikh Anta Diop also participated.
YES with Africa is a multiethnic, coeducational, sports and leadership development program administered in conjunction with the Department of Africana Studies and is currently based in the West African countries of Senegal and Benin.
Modeled on Niamey Hoops, a basketball camp begun in 1997 in the Nigerian town of Niamey, the program gives youngsters age 7 to 19 the opportunity to acquire basketball skills while learning about computers and other technology, health issues, and their own cultural heritage.
For more information on YES with Africa, visit http://www.umb.edu/athletics/special_programs/YES_with_africa/.
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Replacing SAS 70 with SSAE 16 — A Brief Overview
Who Does What User organization – The entity that has engaged a service organization to perform various services for them. For example a company’s employee benefit plan record keeping. Service organization – The entity that provides services to a user organization. Staying with the benefit plan example, a bank trustee, insurance company or benefits administrator, among others. User organization auditor – The auditor (i.e., CPA firm) that conducts the financial statement audit on the user organization. Service organization auditor – The auditor (i.e., CPA firm) that conducts the controls audit at the service organization. The AICPA’s new service organization reporting standard, Statement. Read More.
Private Companies May Soon Get Their Own GAAP
For years, government, public and private parties have discussed creating a separate private company accounting standards. Now standard-setters may actually do something about it. The Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) — parent organization to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) — will soon decide whether to adopt recommendations made earlier this year by a blue-ribbon panel on standard setting for private companies. The panel recommended that the FAF establish a separate, private company standards board to develop appropriate changes to U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) that would “better respond to the needs of the private company sector.” The new board. Read More.
FASB Announces Public Roundtable Meetings on Insurance Contracts and Leases
On December 9, 16, and 20, 2010, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ( FASB ) and the International Accounting Standards Board ( IASB ) will be holding a number of joint public roundtable meetings to discuss: FASB’s Discussion Paper, Preliminary Views on Insurance Contracts ; and IASB’s Exposure Draft, Insurance Contracts . On December 17, 20, 2010, January 5, and 6, 2011, FASB and IASB will hold joint public roundtable meetings to discuss the Exposure Draft on Leases , which is of particular importance to those companies that depend on leases (e.g., banks, restaurant chains, retail stores, leasing entities, recon developers and other similar organizations).
Blue-Ribbon Panel Envisions GAAP with Exceptions and Separate Board for Private Companies
The blue-ribbon panel formed in 2009 by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) , the Financial Accounting Foundation ( FAF ), and the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy ( NASBA ) to address how the U.S. accounting standards can best meet the needs of users of private company financial statements met for the fourth time earlier last month . The members of the panel are comprised of a cross-section of financial reporting constituencies, including lenders, investors and owners as well as preparers, auditors, and regulators. A consensus emerged that there is a need for a new standard-setting model that follows Generally. Read More.
SSAE 16 to Replace SAS 70
As you may know, the AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board has issued the Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 16, Reporting on Controls at a Service Organization . This new standard, which was designed to enhance transparency and consistency, will replace the previous Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70, Service Organizations (SAS 70) for all service auditors’ reports for periods ending on or after June 15, 2011, with earlier implementation permitted and encouraged. To help you prepare for compliance with the new standard, the Risk Management Group at Cherry, Bekaert & Holland has prepared a regulatory bulletin (click here to download the pdf) that summarizes some of the notable similarities and differences between SAS 70 and SSAE 16. The bulletin also includes a breakdown of the key changes that Management will need to consider.
CB&H Seminar: Tomorrow’s Accounting Issues Today (9/29/10 – Raleigh, NC)
Join Cherry, Bekaert & Holland and Cardinal Capital Management as we discuss the issues you’ll be addressing in December and how to plan for them presently. We will cover an update on international standards, the new compilation and review standard, proposed changes to accounting for leases and other proposed changes to professional standards. In this seminar, we will provide a year by year overview of federal and state tax law changes and specific year-end tax strategies designed to minimize current year taxes. We will also give economic and investment outlooks, to include the current economic environment, possible scenarios, a historical. Read More.
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In the hospital where I spent my critical care rotation, the patients in the intensive care unit (“the unit,” for short) weren’t as sick as those in some other hospitals. They were all more or less aware and oriented to their surroundings. You could have a conversation with them.
On one not particularly busy day, a team of doctors was standing in a patient’s room, chatting. The full-length windows (a common feature of ICU architecture) showed a sunny day. We were talking both to and about the patient, shifting easily between including him in the conversation and cutting him out of it. A nurse popped into the room occasionally, to take care of something or to confer with one of the interns. The other students and I hung out in the back of the room, talking about what residency programs we matched with and about our upcoming vacations. It was strangely peaceful.
Once again, a nurse again came into the room; she whispered to an intern. The intern’s face assumed an expression of practiced frustration, and he left the room with a sigh. Purely out of curiosity, we three students followed him into an adjoining patient room. There the electronic monitor showed a grossly irregular heartbeat, and the elderly man in the bed said he felt uncomfortable and couldn’t breathe. We couldn’t breathe for a second, either — we knew that the heart irregularity we were looking at was deadly, more often than not.
Then everything started to happen at once. Someone called out, “Let’s bag him!” and a mask was placed over the man’s nose and mouth to help him breathe. He was still conscious and could state his name clearly through the mask, even though the beat on the monitor was still irregular. “He won’t be conscious for long with that rhythm,” someone said.
Someone else called a code, or a signal over the loudspeaker connoting a medical emergency. More generally, a “code” is the high drama of resuscitation made mundane by repetition. It’s a combination of shared concentration, workplace banter and choreography that no one ever should have to witness as a bystander. This was the last code I saw as a medical student, which means it was the last code I could spend flattened against a wall, hoping no one would run into me, and occasionally running tubes to the laboratory or trying to page someone on the phone. I couldn’t see the patient from the corner where I was standing, but the elderly man was now lying quietly on the bed as the team maneuvered around him. I hoped for his sake that he was already unconscious.
To the uninitiated, a code is chaos. I’m definitely not fully initiated yet, but I know enough to say that the chaos is only apparent. People participating in a well-run code, like any other piece of complicated teamwork, have their well-defined roles.
But even in this lifesaving drama, people can demonstrate their flaws. One doctor — whose specialty I won’t reveal — wasn’t able to do what he was supposed to do. And when the senior resident, who was running the code ( i.e., giving orders and directing the choreography), told him to take a minute and do what he should have done, he responded with an expletive.
To everyone’s great credit, no one paid any attention. There were smirks and raised eyebrows, but people kept on doing what they were supposed to do. This was the first remarkable phenomenon of the code: Conflicts that ordinarily might have disrupted the choreography only served to emphasize how smooth it was.
One other thing happened, which is horrible to relate. Despite everyone’s best efforts, the patient died. Half an hour after the 20 or more people in the not-so-large room had begun their unsuccessful struggle, only a few people remained with the deceased, and it was time for our team to resume rounds. We went back out into the hall and talked about the other patients. Then, finally, we retreated to the on-call room.
But even then, when we were safely out of view of everyone else on the unit, it was not a time to cry or to mourn. We kept talking. The attending physician who was rounding with us said that we should not beat ourselves up about the patient’s dying, that everything had been done the right way. He made a few observations about the code, we shared our impressions, and that was that.
In the cold summary of hospital jargon, the patient had “coded.” A hospital doesn’t allow much deliberation during the aftermath. Perhaps the only lesson to be learned is that best expressed by Robert Frost in his poem “Out, Out,” about a horrible accident:
Except there is a saving grace. The affairs we turn to in the hospital are the saving of other lives. For good or ill, this is the only ritual observed in every hospital on the death of a patient: going back to work.
Zackary Sholem Berger is a frequent contributor to the Forward. He will start his primary care residency at New York University in July.
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The Picture Show
'Miss Subways': A Trip Back In Time To New York's Melting Pot
Originally published on Thu May 2, 2013 7:13 pm
For more than 35 years, riders on the New York City subways and buses during their daily commute were graced with posters of beaming young women. While the women featured in each poster — all New Yorkers — were billed as "average girls," they were also beauty queens in the nation's first integrated beauty contest: Miss Subways, selected each month starting in 1941 by the public and professionally photographed by the country's leading modeling agency.
Photographer Fiona Gardner, captivated by old Miss Subways posters she'd seen, worked with journalist Amy Zimmer to track down 40 of the more than 200 former pageant winners. They've juxtaposed images of those women today with their Miss Subways photographs in their book, Meet Miss Subways. Several former winners featured in the book also shared their stories with the audio documentary project Radio Diaries.
"When you looked at Miss Subways, you were looking at a star, no question about it," Peggy Byrne, a 1952 Miss Subways, told Radio Diaries' Samara Freemark. And when riders gazed at the Miss Subways posters, they were often seeing something more, something unusual: a group of young women far more diverse than other beauty queens at that point in American history.
"Somewhere along the line it occurred to me I had never seen a clearly ethnic name on that poster," says former Miss Subways Enid Berkowitz Schwarzbaum. "My name was distinctively Jewish, and that might have been part of the reason I might have said let's give it a shot. Let's see what happens."
Enid, of course, did go on to take the Miss Subways title in July 1946, when her poster proclaimed that the Hunter College student was "plugging for [a] B.A., but would settle for an M.R.S." — code for a college-educated woman in the market for a husband.
Two years later, Thelma Porter became the first black Miss Subways, more than three decades before Vanessa Williams became the first black Miss America in 1983. Latino and Asian Miss Subways all joined their white Miss Subways counterparts before the pageant ended in 1976.
The Radio Diaries story, airing on All Things Considered, was produced by Samara Freemark, with help from Joe Richman and Ben Shapiro, and edited by Deborah George.
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:
And I'm Melissa Block. Most beauty pageants promote a fantasy of the ideal woman, but for 35 years, one contest in New York City celebrated the everyday working girl. Starting in 1941 and lasting until 1976, the young woman chosen to be that month's Miss Subways gazed down on transit riders. Her photo on posters was accompanied by a short bio detailing her hopes, dreams and aspirations.
SIEGEL: The public chose the winners and Miss Subways was a barometer of changing times. It was one of the first - perhaps the first - integrated beauty contest in America. There was a black Miss Subways in 1948, more than 30 years before an African-American was crowned Miss America. By the 1950s, Miss Subways winners were black, white, Latino, Asian and Jewish - the faces of New York's female commuters. Here's their story as produced by Samara Freemark of Radio Diaries.
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UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Every month, some lucky little New York miss is chosen from the thousands of girls who ride the subways. She's got to be brilliant, beautiful, talented, just average girl.
PEGGY BYRNE: We did not get on the train in New York in those years and not look up at Miss Subways. When you looked up at Miss Subways, you were looking at a star, no question about it. My name is Peggy Byrne. I was a secretary and I was Miss Subways, March and April 1952.
SANORA SELSEY: My name is Sanora Selsey. I was a teacher and Miss Subways 1964.
ENID SCHWARZBAUM: My name is Enid Schwarzbaum. I was a daily commuter going to college and I was Miss Subways in July of 1946.
MARCIA HOCKER: My name is Marcia Hocker and I was Miss Subways in 1974. I worked in the garment district, but I wanted to go into acting and so I sent in a headshot and that's how it got started.
BYRNE: Here's how it worked. The New York subway advertising agency would get something like a thousand photos in a couple months and they would select, out of that 25, to be photographed by John Robert Powers, the number one modeling agency in the country.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: And the public was to send in postcards voting for the one that they wanted to see as the next Miss Subways. The mail would come in and they would take a ruler and they'd count, an inch equals so many postcards.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN 2: We bought a stack of postcards. My mother had a stack at the reception desk at (unintelligible). My dad had it at the 109 precinct. My brother had it at his desk at the bank. People signed them and we dropped them in the mailbox, kind of like launching a campaign.
SCHWARZBAUM: Somewhere along the line, it occurred to me that I had never seen a clearly ethnic name on that poster. My name was distinctively Jewish and that might have been part of the reason I said I'm going give this a shot. Let's see what happens. In July of 1946, Enid Berkowitz splashed across the subways.
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UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Greetings from the New York subway. We're going to hand you over to just an ordinary traveler, at least ordinary except during the month of August. She's a very charming young lady with shoulder-length, black, wavy hair and dark eyes, age 19. Queen of the rapid transit system for month, Miss Subways, alias Miss Joan Adamson(ph).
Well, how does it feel to be the pinup girl of the subways, Joan. I may call you Joan, may I not?
JOAN ADAMSON: Yes, do, Jack. Well, it's a great thrill naturally. I never thought I'd get it, though.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Oh, I never had a moment's doubt.
SCHWARZBAUM: The poster says Meet Miss Subways, art student at Hunter College, plugging for BA, but would settle for M-R-S. Right.
BYRNE: Brooklyn-born Peggy Byrne plans to wed her childhood sweetheart, is studying to be an insurance broker. The last thing I ever wanted to be would be an insurance broker, but I thought that sounded great. And I got a lot of insurance information.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN 4: Well, I got on the subway and the cards were probably up in nearly every car and I thought, oh, dear, the photo was really pale. I mean, I had no - I'm a brown-skinned woman, not dark brown, but brown and I almost looked white. I said, could you darken it up some? And he did. Then that looked better.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN 5: People, you know, stare at the poster and they'd look down at me and then they would stare at the poster and look down at me and stare at the poster and finally they'd say, hi.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN 6: Here you are, this long tall, skinny girl with no butt, no boobs and you're up there? My friends hated me and I loved it.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN 7: There would always be commentary. Did you see Miss Subways? No, she's not too good-looking, you know. We liked January, February better than her. 'Cause we weren't necessarily beautiful women, you know. You wouldn't look at them all and say, well, that's a beauty. Of course, I was the exception. I was a star. Well, it was only two months, but it was great being a star.
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UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Tell us, Joan, this Miss Subways business, is there any future in it?
ADAMSON: Well, I did hear of one girl who had 156 proposals of marriage and a present from a banker of a lemon meringue pie. I guess a very few have got acting or modeling jobs, but I'm really more interested in what I'm doing.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: And what is that?
ADAMSON: Well, I'm majoring in Spanish at college and I'd like to go into the export business.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: That's a very business-like attitude for a beauty queen. Well, good luck in your subway riding and good-bye, Joan Adamson.
ADAMSON: Why, thank you.
SIEGEL: Peggy Byrne went on to a career in advertising. Enid Berkowitz worked as an artist. Sanora Selsey was a teacher. And Marcia Hocker married a diplomat and now hosts a jazz radio show. Thelma Parros, the first black Miss Subways, died earlier this year in Denver.
BLOCK: A book about the contest, "Meet Miss Subways," comes out this month and you can see photos of Miss Subways then and read about what they're doing now at our website, NPR.org. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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One of the basic principles of attachment parenting is "safe sleep," meaning that a loving parent attends to his or her child's emotional and physical needs at night as well as during the day. Many attachment-minded families find that sleeping together with their baby is the best way to accomplish this. However, the vast majority of American parents choose to put their children in cribs in separate rooms at night. A surprising number of dog owners, on the other hand, allow their dogs to sleep with them and report that they, and their dogs, enjoy it. It's a dog's life – just not for babies.
I believe the very first time I considered co-sleeping of any kind, I was thinking of dogs. I was eight years old, and our family dog was obviously ill, whining in pain. My parents chained him up outside so that he couldn't run away. Before bed, I went out to visit him and was frightened to see and hear him suffering, but I wanted to be with him. My parents made me go to bed, and the dog was dead by morning. I still hate knowing that he was in pain and all alone during that awful night.
When I was ten, we brought home a new puppy. Mom locked her downstairs in the mudroom and put down newspaper in case she peed. We went to our beds (separate ones) that night to the sound of ceaseless crying and yelping. Mom explained that the puppy was used to sleeping with her litter mates and that she was lonely. This was the first of many times that I begged to be allowed to have our dog sleep with me in my room. I was told the puppy would get used to her new surroundings eventually, and that we had to leave her on her own. This was a normal part of growing up for every dog.
As an adult, I learned that dog trainers seem to agree that sleeping together (at least in the same room) is important for bonding with one's animal, and the practice is far from rare. As Cesar Milan, the "Dog Whisperer," notes, "It is perfectly natural for a dog to sleep with other pack members, and it is also a powerful way to bond with your dog." A 2007 survey by the American Pet Products Association of over 2500 American pet owners found that a whopping 43% of dogs sleep in bed with their owners. When I adopted my current dog, she wanted to sleep with me and I obliged. This was the first time in my life that I slept with another living creature. I loved it.
After I read about safe infant-parent bed-sharing, it seemed natural to me to sleep with our baby, too. What else would we do? Let our dog cuddle with us in bed while our infant cried in the other room? If sleeping together is so beneficial for bonding with a pet, why wouldn't it be great for bonding with baby, too? However, a 2006 study in Kentucky found that only 15% of infants and toddlers aged two weeks to two years sleep with their parents. Is it possible that Americans are better in tune emotionally with their pets than their babies?
I wanted to do anything and everything that could be helpful to the breastfeeding relationship, including bed-sharing. What we discovered, however, is that co-sleeping is just as important for Ian's relationship with Jacob as it is for mine. I am fortunate to spend hours and hours nursing and wearing our baby during the day since I am the one who gets to stay home from work. Someone once asked Ian if he is jealous of our breastfeeding relationship, and he responded with an emphatic "No! I get to co-sleep!" Every night, all three of us cuddle together. Especially when he was younger and easier to move aroud in his sleep, I'd nurse Jacob down and then slide him over to Ian who would tuck his arm around him without even waking up. This way Ian got his fair share of skin-to-skin time and felt well-connected to our baby.
Nowadays our dog frequently snoozes by herself on the couch (maybe because the baby wakes up so much at night!) and then joins us for snuggling in the morning. But if there's a thunder storm, she always ends up in our bed, and from time to time, she chooses to be with us from the start of the night. I have no doubt that Jacob's nighttime preferences will change, too, as he grows and develops. One thing is for certain though: our bed will always be open to whoever needs it.
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NORTH RIDGEVILLE — Residents will now be able to legally hunt the city’s burgeoning deer population with longbows or crossbows.
City Council approved a bow hunting ordinance Monday night by a 6-1 vote.
Nancy Buescher, R-1st Ward, cast the lone “no” vote, citing her concerns over the potential for accidents involving hunters or unintended injuries that could arise from hunters’ arrows or bolts being fired near the boundaries of approved properties that could travel into adjoining property and produce injuries to someone.
“I can’t reconcile my concerns within a bedroom community such as ours, and so I will be voting no,” Buescher said.
In approving the deer hunting law, Bob Olesen, R-at large, chief sponsor of the legislation, reiterated the necessity for bow hunters to pick up city-required forms from the Police Department.
Hunters must also receive written permission from property owners, as well as be licensed hunters by the state.
Hunting deer by longbow or crossbow can only be done on land that is at least 5 acres in size, and only from tree stands or other above-ground hunting platforms.
Owners of land adjacent to property where hunting is allowed are to be notified by the city, but that notification will be done by City Hall and/or police.
Hunting will not be allowed on land that is deemed too close to homes, schools, businesses, parks or daycare centers.
“The facts are indisputable when it comes to what the deer population is doing to our community,” said Dennis Boose, D-2nd Ward. “In the long run, this measure should reduce accidents and property damage.”
Before voting on the measure, Council heard from residents who supported the bow hunting law, citing damage to vehicles from collisions with deer, and damage to yards, most notably by hungry deer eating shrubbery, plants and flowers.
Resident Jonathan Schumacher said the hunting law should not only reduce accidents, but generate revenue from hunting license, and people who process deer meat.
Bill Netzell, a hunter who lives in the Waterbury development off Chestnut Ridge Road, talked of “spending the day in a tree stand and not getting anything. Then I come home and find 13 to 15 deer in the yard and I can’t take a shot at them.”
After the meeting, Buescher explained her “no” vote by saying she worried “about kids who go out to play” on adjoining properties to land where hunting is OK’d.
“The (hunting) season lasts four months,” she said.
Archery season in Ohio opened Sept. 24 and runs to Feb. 5.
Buescher said she preferred culling of the city’s ample deer population by sharpshooters before permitting bow hunting. “But the city can’t afford sharpshooters, so we have to look at other options.”
Buescher also expressed concerns over deer running to properties away from hunting areas where they could collapse and die after being wounded by bow hunters.
“Then that property owner is responsible for disposing of them,” Buescher said.
Owners of land where hunting is permitted will have to register with the city each year.
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CONSERVATION SECURITY PROGRAM SIGN UP
The USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) initiated a watershed approach in 2004 for implementation of the Conservation Security Program (CSP) that was part of the 2002 Farm Bill. Under this approach, a total of 18 watersheds were selected nationwide for the first CSP sign-up in 2004. Now an additional 202 watersheds in the U.S. have been selected for the second CSP sign-up in 2005.
The watershed approach was chosen by NRCS to implement the Conservation Security Program in a “staged” fashion, with new watersheds being added each year. This will help focus the limited annual funding allocations for CSP to the highest targeted areas for conservation enhancement, as well as allowing limited NRCS staff adequate time to properly administer the CSP Program and to provide necessary technical assistance to participating producers. Once the CSP Program is fully implemented, NRCS hopes to offer the CSP Program in about one-eighth of the nation’s 2,119 watersheds each year. So, in theory, all eligible producers should get a chance to enroll in the CSP program over an eight-year period.
The Conservation Security Program was a new conservation provision that was included in the 2002 Farm Bill, and is intended to encourage conservation practices on working cropland. Under CSP, producers are eligible to receive annual payments for implementation of various conservation practices to address natural resource concerns in their farm operation. Eligible CSP land includes private agricultural lands and some tribal lands. USDA has targeted $13.4 billion in funding over the next seven years. Congress has set spending for the CSP Program at $202 million for fiscal year 2005, which is 500% higher than the $41 million CSP funding cap in 2004. However, the 2005 funding allocation for CSP is still $80 million below the target funding level set in the 2002 Farm Bill. Sign-up for 2005 CSP program in the eligible watersheds is expected to last about 45-60 days, and will likely begin in February or March this year.
PLANNING FOR CSP SIGN UP
It appears that many Minnesota crop producers may already be eligible for Tier I or Tier II of the Conservation Security Program with current farming practices, if they are using reduced or minimal tillage practices that leave a significant amount of crop residue on the soil surface. If you are in one of the eligible watersheds, you should be watching for CSP sign-up information and details in the coming weeks.
If you are in other areas that are not in the eligible watersheds, you will likely have opportunities to sign-up for the CSP Program in future years, so it is a good idea to become familiar with CSP criteria and requirements. Remember, under current guidelines, you will likely only get a chance to enroll in the CSP Program once every eight years. For more information of the CSP Program, contact your local NRCS Office, or go to the NRCS CSP Web site at : http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/csp/.
Editors note: Kent Thiesse is a former University of Minnesota Extension educator and now is Vice President of MinnStar Bank, Lake Crystal, MN. You can contact him at 507-726-2137 or via e-mail at email@example.com.
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Hotspot Hits: British Buses from Oxford to London
April 20, 2007
The Oxford Tube bus line runs every day at every hour, and now offers passengers Wi-Fi Internet access.
Passengers traveling via the Oxford Tube from Stagecoach Group, which runs between Oxford and London, can now get their e-mail and Web surfing on. Ruggedized Wi-Fi equipment (the Moovbox M Series) from Moovera Networks has been installed on the 25 buses in the fleet, using 3G -- HSDPA (High Speed Download Packet Access) tech -- from Vodafone UK as backhaul.
The service was tested on the buses for three months, during which time they claim 7,000 registered passengers used it 32,000 times -- it's free. Average time online was 41 minutes.
Oxford Tube buses run between the cities 24/7/365. They claim that passengers have switched from taking the train to the bus in order to get the Wi-Fi Internet access. The Moovbox equipment also provides an Internet link for the CCTV monitoring camera on the bus, and has global positioning system (GPS) tracking so Stagecoach can keep tabs on its vehicles.
Moovera purchased the MSystem product line from Telabria in December 2006 when the latter went tits-up (as the Brits say) and was forced to also sell its SoBroadband services to OrbitalNet Ltd. Moovera's founder and CEO is Jim Baker, who was also the founder of Telabria.
Of course, passengers on a London bus won't be the only folks who can get Wi-Fi access soon, though it won't be free: The Inquirer says that The Cloud is finally ready to install mesh equipment to unwire the entire city. Standard cost will be about £12 ($24, give or take) per month for unlimited access. To start, they'll only cover from the City to Soho.
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For Immediate Release
August 24, 2010
Combs Honors Local Governments for Financial Transparency
During Lubbock Event
(AUSTIN) — During a visit to Lubbock today, Texas Comptroller Susan Combs recognized several local governments for meeting high standards in fiscal transparency. Lubbock County, the cities of Abernathy, Idalou and Lorenzo, and the Frenship, Lubbock-Cooper, New Deal and Shallowater Independent School Districts received gold status in the Texas Comptroller Leadership Circle, a program that recognizes cities, counties, school districts and other local governments that have taken their first steps toward openness, shown progress or even exceeded transparency standards in providing online access to their expenses and revenue. Lamb County and Sundown ISD achieved the bronze status.
More than 200 local governments across Texas have earned a spot in the Texas Comptroller Leadership Circle by posting budgets, financial reports and/or check registers online. Texas Comptroller Susan Combs launched the program in December 2009.
“We appreciate the work of local officials who shine a light on spending and ensure greater accountability to the taxpayers,” Combs said. “When we talk about transparency in terms of government spending, we’re opening financial records for public examination so taxpayers can see exactly where their money is going, promoting greater accountability and raising expectations for customer service and government transparency at all levels.”
Through the Leadership Circle program, the Comptroller’s office awards certificates based on a self-scoring checklist that evaluates how local governments provide online access to their expenses and revenue. Local governments receiving a gold, silver or bronze Texas Comptroller Leadership Circle award have opened their books to the public and provide clear, consistent pictures of spending with detailed information on how tax dollars are allocated and spent. These top-ranking entities provide information online in an easily accessible, user-friendly format and set up features that allow taxpayers to easily drill down for more detailed information.
For tips and a step-by-step guide to achieve local government transparency, as well as a complete list of local governments in the Texas Comptroller Leadership Circle sorted by city, county and school district, visit www.TexasTransparency.org/local/. New entities are typically added on a weekly basis.
As part of an ongoing effort to set new standards for transparency and accountability in state government, Combs has taken proactive steps since January 2007 to provide an open window on state spending. Transparency efforts in Texas have yielded cost savings of $51 million since 2007. To view the state’s transparency efforts and tools, go to www.TexasTransparency.org.
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Americans pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Drug expenditures in the United States have doubled since 1993 and are expected to double again by 2004, according to a study by the Health Insurance Association of America. Elderly people now spend more on medicine than on doctor bills. Many health plans have cut back on other benefits because of their rising drug bills. About one-third of seniors have no insurance and are therefore paying the highest, nondiscounted retail prices.
The vision of broadly shared wealth is a long-standing American theme, dating back to the yeomen farmers of colonial times. America, uniquely, was a land of freeholders. Its egalitarian distribution of property undergirded its nascent political democracy. Thomas Jefferson explicitly put public policy on the side of broadly distributed property wealth when he decided that the public lands in the territories should be conveyed not to absentee real estate companies but to settlers who would work the land. The freeholding tradition was continued into the nineteenth century with the Homestead Act, the establishment of land-grant colleges, and the freedmen's demand for 40 acres and a mule.
Over the next few weeks, America will be consumed by debate about how life in this beacon of freedom may have to change to confront the terrorist threat. Liberals will have to think creatively about how to protect civil liberties in an era when it has become apparent that there are cells of people within the U.S. who are willing to engage in indiscriminate mass murder to further their insane politics.
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Remember the days when organizations kept their corporate campuses locked down like fortresses? Key card access at every turn? Non-disclosure agreements as thick as phone books? Apparently many corporate organizations are trading those ways in for a more “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” approach called open innovation.
Simply put, open innovation is the idea of accepting external thoughts and ideas into the research and development process and allowing ideas to go where they may (I’m oversimplifying, but you get the idea). Traditionally guarded companies such as Philips are trading in their locked-down campuses for a more welcoming and idea-inspiring environment, simply because the wealth of information these days is too great to keep under lock and key. This not only involves changing how companies ideate, it changes their culture as well.
And then there’s today consumer, who is bombarded with an endless deluge of information and subsequently demanding. He isn’t happy receiving his $15 complimentary Starbucks giftcard for participating in a focus group; he wants to be part of the innovation process. He wants to be able to see what’s behind the curtains and how an organization functions. He thrives on hearing the lessons a company has learned and the missteps it may have taken. He’s dying to know the latest and greatest research and development initiatives that have taken a product from concept to market.
This type of external impact on corporate thinking and culture has people like Henry Chesbrough very happy. I liken him to the Godfather of open innovation. The University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business professor appears soft-spoken on camera, but is passionate about open innovation and the benefits it can bring to organizations that adopt this approach to thinking.
While there’s no question that corporations such as Philips, IBM, and even Intel that are “open” to this type of innovation (pardon the pun) and the benefits it can achieve, there is certainly a growing conversation about whether the phrase “open innovation” is the latest victim of public relations abuse (think: all of the companies that went “green” as soon as green was good). As more and more companies see the rewards of opening their walls to different kinds of thinking, it will be interesting to see which companies truly follow the intricate process of open innovation vs. those who use it strictly for lip service.
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USGS Multimedia Gallery
Littoral Explosions at Puhi-o-Kalaikini Ocean Entry
A short period of successive littoral explosions at the Puhi-o-Kalaikini ocean entry, where lava exiting the tube enters the water. The explosions were throwing ejecta up to about 20 meters. The video was taken with a high zoom factor from the top of the sea cliff, well away from the entry point and...
East Lae'apuki Lava Delta Collapse (November 28, 2005)
At 11:10 in the morning on November 28, 2005, the lava delta at the East Lae'apuki ocean entry, on Hawai'i's southeastern coast, began to collapse into the ocean. This was not a catastrophic failure with the entire 34-acre delta going at once, but instead occurred in a piece-meal fashion over a peri...
Bubble Bursts at East Lae'apuki Ocean Entry (May 29, 2006)
The interaction of sea water and lava creates a volatile situation. When this happens inside the confined space of a lava tube, or a narrow, water-filled crack, the results can be impressive. In this video, which was made from time-lapse images cropped to focus on the activity, bursting lava bubbles...
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Now that the price of crude oil has surged past $120 per barrel, let's revisit the December prediction of petroleum economist Philip Verleger, who said this was bound to happen and blamed the Bush administration's policy on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
As reported here, Verleger said that he believed last fall's run-up in oil prices could be traced back to the way the administration was stashing away oil in the SPR—taking off the market a crucial amount of the favored light, sweet crude oil, the easiest oil to refine. Furthermore, he said there was a risk that things could get worse because in the first months of 2008, the Bush administration had plans to increase the percentage of light, sweet crude it stockpiled while reducing the share that is heavy, sour crude—more plentiful, cheaper, and harder to refine.
The Department of Energy has been steadfast in its insistence that it does not remove enough oil from the worldwide marketplace to make a difference in global crude prices, but Verleger argues that the analysis does not take into account the extra premium the market puts on light, sweet crude in the spring and summer months due to tough summer environmental regulations. What DOE sees as a relatively small amount may be enough to make the market go haywire, with the price rise magnified by options trading in the commodity market, Verleger argued in his detailed paper (.pdf) on the issue last December.
"Extrapolation of this fall's evidence could take prices as high as an unbelievable $120 if adult supervision is not brought to bear on DOE," he wrote. "The situation could be made even worse by the arrival of the gasoline season.... It will be a disaster for motorists. I suspect it will also be a disaster for the U.S. economy."
Although they didn't base their request on the light, sweet crude issue, last week 16 Republican senators, led by Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, urged the administration to immediately halt deposits of domestic crude oil into the SPR until the economy stabilizes. Several Democratic senators have been calling for a halt and, indeed, a release of oil from the SPR, for some time.
In response, President Bush used the threat of terrorism to fend off pleas to change course.
"One of the things al Qaeda would like to do is blow up oil facilities," Bush said. "Understand, we're in a global market. An attack on our oil facility in a major oil-exporting country would affect the economies of their enemy—that would be us and other people who can't stand what al Qaeda stands for.... And, therefore, the [strategic reserve] is necessary, if that's the case, to be able to deal with that kind of contingency."
Of course, no one is saying that the strategic reserve isn't necessary. Verleger, for instance, says the administration should consider selling off sweet crude and buying cheaper sour crude to fill the reserve. And Hutchison and the Republicans point out that the SPR now has 25 percent more oil than when Bush took office. Indeed, at more than 700 million barrels, the strategic reserve is at its highest level ever and holds oil equivalent to 58 days of import protection.
For now, that oil is staying in salt caverns on the Gulf Coast while motorists are left to ponder how much more economic damage al Qaeda could mete out than the soulless global petroleum market has already inflicted. The DOE has solicited contracts to add up to 13 million more barrels of oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
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Adopted as a child, Dargan says, "I was raised on Australia's East Coast, in Queensland. I grew up there, not knowing about my past. The government wouldn't allow adopted children to get information about their parents. I didn't know I was part Aborigine."
But when that law changed, Dargan headed for North Australia, the ancestral homeland of the Larrakia Nation. He was able to reunite with his birth relatives, and they gave him more than the gift of a second family: His newfound grandmother and great-uncle introduced him to the didgeridoo, the "cultural instrument" of his people.
"I fell in love with it," says Dargan, who had trained on the trumpet since the age of 8. "I've been playing it now for 12 years."
This weekend, Dargan, for the first time, combines his didgeridoo music with modern dance, in a collaborative concert at Stevie Eller Dance Theatre with Tucson's O-T-O Dance. Native Australians never developed a skin drum, he says, thus the didgeridoo is the percussive instrument for Aboriginal traditional dance. Paired with the more deliberate movements of modern dance, Dargan says, "It's going to be great!"
The Aussie came to the United States to compose music for a play in Boulder, Colo., and when he ducked over to a Native American flute festival in New Mexico last summer, he met up with O-T-O's Annie Bunker and Chuck Koesters. The three tossed around ideas for a didgeridoo dance, but it was not until four weeks later, when Bunker had a portentous dream, that the deal was sealed.
"In the dream, I was walking out the back door" (of the Sonoran Desert home she shares with her husband, Koesters), Bunker relates. "A rattlesnake was curled there. It started morphing into another shape. I called Chuck."
In the dream, Koesters--as well as a dream Dargan--began running toward her. By the time all three converged, the snake had transformed itself into a lizard. "We looked at it, each other and the sky."
When Bunkers woke up, Dargan happened to call by phone, and he told her that it was the lizard of Aboriginal dreamtime.
"We had met in dreamtime," Bunkers says, "and we decided to do the piece."
Dargan will play his didgeridoo live during the six-part dance, tentatively titled "From Water to Air." His videos of the Australian landscape will serve as a moving backdrop for the 15 dancers on stage and in the air.
Bunker's choreography has both floor work and trapeze, including fragments from a trapeze work-in-progress that O-T-O's six apprentices performed at a January show. The inspirational lizard appears in one section, called appropriately enough, "Lizard of the Dreaming," but much of the dance's imagery comes from the landscape. It moves from still water to earth rocks to fast water to lighting, cloud and sky, Bunker says.
The 30-minute premiere will be the finale of a concert filled with live music, including Native American flute and Japanese drums. Evren Ozan, a young American Indian flutist whom Bunker and Koesters also met at the festival, will play again for "Traveler," a lyrical collaborative work the company debuted in November. Also choreographed by Bunker, that 12-minute dance, a celebration of human-horse love, combines dance on the floor and a backdrop of Koester videos.
Karen Falkenstrom and Rome Hamner, the local Japanese drumming duo otherwise known as Odaiko Sonora, play the Taiko drums for another Bunker premiere, "Crossing Over."
"I do an aerial solo with the flying box," Bunker reports. "I'm a person going through death. The other four characters are the specters of death." O-T-Oers Amy Barr, Batyah Morales Freedman, Lindsay Spilker and Nicole Stansbury join Bunker for the six-minute dance of opposites, an exploration of "white/black, slow/fast, yin-yang, tension/release."
Stansbury also showcases two pieces of her own choreography, a duet that debuted in the January O-T-O show, and "Grey Matter," a quintet about relationships danced to the soundscore from the movie The Royal Tannenbaums.
In "Semaphore," local poets Charles Alexander and Falkenstrom will continue the humorous verbal jousting they started at the January concert, and Bunker will once again slither on the floor between the dueling poets, bag on her head. In keeping with the spirit of the season--and the Irish Riverdancers high-stepping at Centennial Hall at the other end of campus--guest choreographer Thom Lewis of FUNHOUSE movement theater stages his comic dance, "Closet Irish."
"I saw it in a FUNHOUSE show several years ago and I really liked it," Bunker says. "I hadn't thought about it being near St. Patrick's Day."
O-T-O's Katie Rutterer, Lindsay Compitello, Freedman and Stansbury put on the green and leap lightly on a set suited up as an Irish bar.
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Donna Hoffman, co-director of the Sloan Center for Internet Retailing at theUniversity of California, Riverside, said media exposure about working conditions likely prompted the investment. The company faces intense competition for online sales and doesn't want a negative image, she said. Also, Amazon will continue to lose part of its competitive edge on prices as it is forced to collect online sales taxes in more states, she said.
"It behooves them to not be responsible for negative publicity if they can control it," Hoffman said. "Paying $52 million to install air conditioning around the country is a smart move. They don't need consumers asking themselves 'Is Amazon a sweatshop?' "
However, an analyst who follows the company for a business and technology research firm in Cambridge, Mass., said it probably wasn't negative media coverage but a desire to protect products and maximize profits that prompted Amazon's decision.
"Amazon ships a lot of electronics and food now. It's not good to have that stuff in extreme temperatures," said Sucharita Mulpuru, an analyst with Forrester Research. "I would like to think there was an element of humanity to the decision but there's nothing in Amazon's history or in Jeff Bezos' public persona that would lead me to think that was the driver of the decision. … Rarely has Amazon made any business decisions that didn't affect the bottom line."
Ambulances in parking lot
Amazon has quickly become one of the Lehigh Valley's top 25 employers, with 1,381 local workers as of September. Hundreds more are employed at the Breinigsville warehouse through the temporary staffing firm Integrity Staffing Solutions. Amazon has declined to tell The Morning Call how many temporary workers are employed in the warehouse, where staffing increases during the holiday shopping season.
Signs of problems at the warehouse surfaced in May 2011 when Cetronia Ambulance Corps made several trips to the facility to treat workers suffering from the heat. Amazon subsequently paid to have ambulances stationed in its parking lot on hot days in case workers suffered heat stress.
In June of that year, OSHA started receiving complaints about working conditions in the warehouse. One employee complained that 15 workers collapsed on the job when the warehouse heat index exceeded 100 degrees, according to OSHA records. An emergency room doctor who treated warehouse workers suffering from the heat called federal regulators to report an "unsafe environment," OSHA records state. OSHA opened an inspection of the warehouse that month.
In July, a contractor working for Amazon applied for permits to install temporary air conditioning units at the facility. Cooling equipment supplier Johnson Controls proposed installing three "440-ton portable air-cooled screw chillers." The units are designed for "quick delivery and minimal installation time when you need temporary cooling," according to records submitted to Upper Macungie Township's building department.
Johnson Controls told the township the goal of installing the cooling system was to reduce the temperature in the warehouse to approximately 85 degrees. The temporary air conditioning system was turned on that summer.
In August, OSHA completed its inspection. The agency issued no fines and made recommendations to reduce heat-related risks to employees, including reducing heat and humidity in the warehouse. The agency says those working in temperatures above 100 degrees are at risk of heat stress but it did not specify an acceptable temperature for the facility.
The Morning Call published its investigation of working conditions, which included interviews with 20 warehouse workers, in September. Other media outlets picked up the story and the news quickly spread around the world.
Thousands of comments were posted in online debates after the story was highlighted by The New York Times, Washington Post, Yahoo, Huffington Post and others.
Amazon responded to media scrutiny by saying it "spent more than $2.4 million urgently installing industrial air conditioning units in four of our fulfillment centers, including our Breinigsville facility. These industrial air conditioning units were online and operational by late July and early August. This was not mandated by any governmental agency, and in fact air conditioning remains an unusual practice in warehouses. We'll continue to operate these air conditioning units or equivalent ones in future summers."
Consumer backlash over working conditions at the warehouse proved limited and didn't slow Amazon's breakneck growth. The company had 2011 sales of $48 billion, up 40 percent from the previous year.
Still, Amazon continued to address heat at its warehouses. In March, a contractor applied for permits to install 40 roof-top air conditioners at Amazon's Breinigsville shipping hub.
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While posting about my hexapod robot Pegleg, there came a point where illustrating the motion was very hard without showing an animation. Possibly you’ve run into this yourself while trying to illustrate a project. You could take a video which works well in some situations, but at times it would be better to show the difference between two (or more) photos or drawings. For this, an animated .gif file works very well, and they’re very simple to create. Here’s a tutorial I created using GIMP to create these files; I’ll explain more after the video.
One reason I created this tutorial is that most of the tutorials on Youtube were pretty long, and I thought I could create one with just the basics of what you need in under a minute. This tutorial assumes that you have GIMP, if not, download it here and install it. Once you do that you can draw a simple illustration like the one shown in the tutorial, or, if you have photos or CAD files that illustrate something, you can copy and past them into your .gif. I used this technique to create this illustration:
As you can see, the alignment isn’t perfect. To prevent this, make sure you save all your drawings in the same scale and size with the same reference to the edges. If you set your new GIMP drawing and their layers up as the same size (i.e. 640 x 480 pixels) as the drawings to be pasted, this should help as well. Also, if you are editing the same frame you can copy and past the original and it will show up in the same position unless you move it. This is helpful in some situations, and is what I used to create the guy waving in yellow at the bottom.
When you have your animation done, you can post to your site or use it as part of a video in Windows Movie Maker and probably dozens of other similar programs. One thing to be careful of when posting your illustrations on WordPress, or any other site I assume, is to set your .gif to full size. Don’t stretch it either. The .gif may show up as an animation in your editor, but will be static once posted.
As shown in the tutorial, you can set the delay between frames when you save the GIF. If you open this up with GIMP again you’ll see the frames as something like “frame 1 (100ms)”. If you want to individually set the times you can do this by simply renaming the (___ms) part to the time you want on each frame. One thing to note is that if you set the delay really low (like 30 milliseconds) some browsers have a minimum delay for each frame. I’ve noticed that if you open a fast changing GIF it will display differently in Firefox and the Windows image preview. Internet Explorer seems to display correctly as well, so it may be an issue with older browsers. I’ve used this technique with Windows Movie Maker to create some short stop-motion films, so be sure to check it out.
One handy thing to remember is that if you need to reverse the order of your slides, select “layer” then “stack” and “reverse order”. This should reverse your animation if needs be.
Besides illustrating your projects, I could see this technique being used for time-lapse photography, stop-motion animation, or any number of other things. Besides animations, GIMP can be used to change colors on your illustrations or zoom on photos or CAD files if you need to. If you’ve been using paint to try to do stuff like this, you need to download it right now. GIMP is a powerful photo editing tool, and the price (free!) is definitely right. Give it a try; I doubt you’ll regret it!
Check out this other tutorial about dimensioning your drawings in GIMP.
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Meditation is used to foster the connection between an individual and the world outside of his of her mind, whether you're reflecting on a hilltop in Tibet or trying to stay cool in traffic.
Its anecdotal benefits are well known, from helping with depression to preparing a monk to walk across a bed of hot coals. Now, thanks to new research on the subject, scientists can firmly attest to meditation's therapeutic potential.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison claim that mindful meditation techniques can help ease the symptoms of many conditions caused by chronic inflammation. Inflammation is responsible for numerous ills, including rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, and psoriasis.
The key, researchers say, is that psychological stress plays a major role in exacerbating disease symptoms, and meditation can help alleviate symptoms through stress reduction.
“The mindfulness-based approach to stress reduction may offer a lower-cost alternative or complement to standard treatment, and it can be practiced easily by patients in their own homes, whenever they need,” Melissa Rosenkranz, lead study author and assistant scientist at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, said.
Finding the Best Way to Reduce Stress
The researchers compared two methods of reducing stress. The first was based on mindfulness meditation. The second focused on other aspects of treatment shown to reduce stress and inflammatory symptoms: nutrition, exercise, and music therapy.
The two programs were designed to match each other but for the meditation aspect. Participants were given the same amount of training, the instructors had the same levels of expertise, and the same amount of home practice was required for all participants.
Research subjects were tested for stress and inflammation before and after beginning the two programs. Both methods reduced patient stress, but the mindfulness approach was more effective at reducing stress-induced inflammation.
Overall, the findings suggest two things:
- behavioral interventions designed to reduce emotional reactivity are beneficial for people suffering from chronic inflammatory conditions
- mindfulness techniques may be more effective at relieving inflammatory symptoms than other activities that promote well-being
“This is not a cure-all, but our study does show that there are specific ways that mindfulness can be beneficial, and that there are specific people who may be more likely to benefit from this approach than other interventions,” Rosenkranz said.
This doesn’t mean you should throw your medication in the trash. It does, however, mean that meditation could help ease your symptoms, alongside your current therapy. It’s been proven to help!
What Is Mindfulness and How Can I Achieve It?
You could retreat to Tibet, don a robe, and meditate calmly until you reach enlightenment, but there’s certainly a middle ground.
The act of meditation is all about focus. There are many ways to create intense focus, including:
- counting your breaths
- repeating a word or phrase (known as a mantra)
- focusing on an object
- focusing the mind through a guided imagery sequence
- focusing on specific parts of the body in order to induce relaxation
If you’re interested in learning more, there’s the book Mindfulness in Plain English by the Ven. Henepola Gunaratana, a Buddhist monk from Sri Lanka. True to its title, the book explains the practice of mindfulness in a simple form that’s practical to follow. It’s also available for free.
Meditation for Mental Health
Meditation is often used as a complimentary therapy to treat depression, but recent research has shown that meditating could have twice the benefits for people with depression.
Last month, researchers in Denmark found that levels of a certain protein released during inflammation were higher in people with depression, prompting researchers to speculate that inflammation could be a contributing factor for depression. An earlier study found a different byproduct of inflammation to be linked to depression.
In essence, meditation can help control your depression symptoms, but is it because it reduces the inflammation or because it controls your stress? While both areas require further research, the latest findings continue to offer clues about how the body and mind can work in tandem to keep you healthy.
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On March 12, Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Ted Deutch introduced the “Democracy Is for People” amendment, which would end the unlimited and undisclosed corporate financing of American elections fostered by the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
Eleven states and more than 400 cities and towns have called on Congress to put forward a constitutional amendment to reverse the disastrous Citizens ruling. Join the movement and ask your representative to co-sponsor and support the “Democracy Is For People” amendment.
The Nation’s editorial in the wake of the Citizens United decision in the winter of 2010 proved sadly prescient: “This decision tips the balance against active citizenship and the rule of law by making it possible for the nation’s most powerful economic interests to manipulate not just individual politicians and electoral contests but political discourse itself.”
In this segment of Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman surveys the popular movements working to overturn Citizens United.
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For more trusted health
news and information,
visit CBS Minnesota's
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – For some families, getting a flu shot has become a part of their pre-winter routine. flu cases have actually been way down the past couple of winters.
But Kris Ehresmann, the Director of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Division at the Minnesota Department of Health, says that will likely change this season.
“Even if this year is just a normal straightforward flu season, it will seem a lot worse because we’ve been fortunate to have some very mild season,” Ehresmann said.
She says Minnesota’s flu season usually starts around Thanksgiving, or late November. This year was different.
“The fact that we had that first flu case in October was early for typical seasons,” she said.
The good news is Minnesota appears to be in a bit of a lull right now, while states to the east and south are seeing a jump in cases.
That’s why health leaders say now is the time to get vaccinated. Before this year’s flu strain hits home.
“I think the most important message right now is that, while we have this lull in influenza activity, it’s a really excellent time to be vaccinated,” Ehresmann said.
To find the nearest flu shot clinic, visit the Minnesota Department of Health’s website.
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The History of the LotteryIt is possible that the history of the lottery goes back as far as times of Moses. There is some contention among Biblical scholars about this. Certainly, it would not be all that seemly if a great religious character should profit from gambling. But in the Book of Numbers of the Old Testament it is written that Moses was awarded land near the River Jordan after playing a local lottery. No wonder so many people today still pray before picking their numbers.
Lotteries are not mentioned in historical writings much until 200 BC in China, when the Hun Dynasty used lotteries to raise funds for taxes. In 200 BC Emperor Cheung Leung invented The Chinese Lottery. Today this game has survived as what we know as Keno. Revenue from the Chinese Lottery was used to build the Great Wall of China. It is also thought that playing the lottery in Europe may date back as far as the times of Julius Caesar, in the first century before Christ.
It is likely that forms of lotteries and raffles existed in the intervening ages, but very little was written about the subject. The first recorded lottery in Europe was actually a raffle held by the Flemish painter Jan Van Eyck in 1446. He gave away his paintings as prizes. In 1465, lotteries were regularly held in Belgium to raise money to build houses for the poor, chapels and canal systems.
This way of raising funds did not have a name until 1515, when an election gone wrong in Genoa, Italy used numbers instead of names on its ballots. This left the choosing of the official up to fate. The word lottery in Italian actually means a predestination or unchangeable fate.
Fifteen years later, the Italian city of Florence held a “Number Lottery” and gave away cash prizes. The idea soon caught on in France, too. In 1539 King Francis I of France ran a lottery to get his kingdom's treasury out of debt.
In 1567, Queen Elizabeth I established the first English lottery, when she offered 400,000 tickets for sale. Prizes included china, tapestries and cash. The first London lottery is credited to King James I in England in 1612. The money from this game of chance was used to fund the building of the Jamestown colony in Virginia, which was the first English colony in America.
Lotteries were also used to fund culture. In 1753, a lottery was held to help build the British museum. In the same year, Casanova urged Louis XV to found the Loterie Royale, which later became the famed Loterie National. This lottery was a keno style game that gave players the option of betting on one to five numbers between 1 and 90.
The Lottery Comes to America
After American colonial times in the 1700's, the lottery was a favorite past time, especially of America’s founding fathers. Benjamin Franklin financed cannons for the Revolutionary war using lottery money. George Washington operated a Virginia lottery to finance construction of roads to the west. A debt-ridden Thomas Jefferson once held a lottery to dispose of his property and find some badly needed cash.
Of course, all of these lotteries are now defunct. Amazingly, the Netherlands Lottery, which was founded in 1726, is still in operation today. It is officially the oldest lottery in the world.
Lotteries really took off in the United States after the adoption of the constitution and used to fund over 300 schools and 200 churches. The lottery helped found universities such as Columbia, Harvard, Princeton and Yale. The game was used to fund civic improvements, including orphanages, libraries, hospitals, jails and courthouses. This trend began to lose momentum in 1820, when corruption began to plague privately owned lotteries, which often advertised big jackpots and then awarded no prizes at all.
After 1820, a civic battle began in North America to ban public lotteries. Church-led organizations often led the fight for social reforms.The lottery was on a list of hot button issues, along with the prohibition of alcohol, the abolition of slavery and workers rights. Through the rest of the 19th century and into the early 20th century, anti-lottery reformers sought to ban the lottery. This became an issue through most states and provinces in the United States and Canada.
In 1819, the Province of Quebec made lotteries illegal. This was followed by the state of New York in 1820. By 1856, all lotteries were banned in Canada. This was followed by a ban of lottery materials by mail in 1890 in the United States. In 1905, The U.S. Supreme court prohibited all gambling, ending the successful century old reign of the Louisiana Lottery.
Twentieth Century Lotteries
The new century brought a revival of the lottery, beginning with the Queensland State Lottery of Australia in 1917. The establishment of the Irish Sweepstakes in 1930 followed this.
It wasn’t until 1964 that the United States would see a lottery again. Gambling was legalized in 1969 in Canada, giving provinces the permission to operate lotteries and casinos that gave the proceeds to charitable or religious causes. Manitoba and Quebec pioneered the first modern Canadian lotteries. This was quickly followed by a legal state lottery south of the border in New Jersey where tickets costs 50 cents for a weekly drawing. In it’s first year, New Jersey sold $73 million in tickets.
In 1973, The Olympic Lottery Corporation of Canada used the lottery to begin funding the 1976 Olympics that were to be held in Montreal. That year, the popularity of today’s lotteries was sealed as the sales for all lotteries in North America surpassed $500 million. 1973 was also a landmark year for the lottery, as technology brought the game into the modern age. The first secure instant ticket was developed by a company called Scientific Games.
Soon after this success, other laws followed that made playing the lottery more accessible to North Americans. This included the incorporation of countless private, state wide, federal and (in Canada) province run lotteries. This included amendments to allow state lotteries to once again advertise through the mail as well as on billboards, radio and television. By 1999, more than 100 foreign lotteries were in operation. To this day, the biggest lottery win in history has been $363 million, shared by two winners of a Big Game drawing.
Family.org presents another perspective on the history of the lottery here.
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Brazil, Chile, Morocco and Niger: International Internships For Young Canadian Journalists
The objective of this internship was to provide recent graduates with the opportunity to acquire valuable work experience in the fields of communication and journalism. The oversees portion of the project also permitted the interns to become integrated in a completely different social context and to gain a better understanding of the challenges faced by developing societies. Furthermore, the internship offered tangible support to Alternatives’ local partner organizations in Morocco, Chile, Niger and Brazil.
Before their departure the interns were required to undergo a training process to become familiar with the various social, political and economic circumstances in the countries in which they worked. They also participated in some of Alternatives media projects and organized several financial campaigns to raise money for the project. Finally, the interns put to use their theoretical learning in a working environment by participating in communications-based internships in Montreal.
On the Ground:
The interns played a significant role in the development of Alternatives’ local partner organizations abroad by taking part in research initiatives, in producing clips for local radio stations, and in helping the organizations improve their promotional tools and means of communication.
Finally, the trainees also partook in development initiatives dedicated to addressing social issues, and ameliorating the stark political and economic disparities present in the communities in which they worked.
Upon Their Return:
The trainees were required to partake in a 6 week period of reintegration following the internship. During this process the interns completed reports on the projects they had undertaken overseas, and produced radio programs and portfolios based on the knowledge and work experience they had gained abroad. These articles were then published in the monthly Alternatives newspaper. In addition, a debriefing session was organized to provide tools for the interns future job searches.
Number of Interns:
Two Internships lasting 3 months each (December to February 2000-2001 and February to May 2001)
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But it didn’t last. In January, 2012, she and I visited her grandfather’s place – there was no way she was sleeping on her own there – and when she came back she wanted to co-sleep again. I’m told this is a pretty common occurrence. Illness and travel often cause the child to want to go back to the familiar.
Suddenly, very shortly after her birthday in early January, Mallory announced that she would be sleeping on her own. Irene and I went along with it. The rules were similar to her 2011 effort:
- Hall light on.
- Night light on.
- Mommy or daddy read her books before bed and remain until she is asleep.
But we added in a digital clock so she could tell the time. And the following rules:
- Daddy is not to be woken before 7am.
- If mommy is up before 7am you can get up and go to her.
- If you wake up on your own before seven you can do what you want. Wake up with daddy before 7 and please see rule 1.
So over the last few weeks she’s been collecting a variety of crafts projects and drawing materials in her bedroom. And most days she comes to wake me at 7am. She often reports she got up earlier but played by herself or drew a picture or did something else.
Sometimes I hear her get up, go to the bathroom and return to her bed, all without coming to see me. Once, after I had dimmed the hall light, she got up to crank it to full and went back to bed.
She seems much more sure of herself this time. There’s been one night where she woke up scared and ended up joining me. We haven’t travelled yet, so there’s still that test to take. But I’m crossing my fingers.
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Student Internships in Curation and Public Interpretation
The Shelton McMurphey Johnson House offers an ongoing internship program for students of historic preservation, history, museum studies, and related material culture and historical interpretation fields. We are happy to work with you to arrange for college credit through your educational institution; we are currently set up to offer internship credits to University of Oregon Historic Preservation students. Our goal is to provide each intern with a project which will, on completion, strengthen their professional portfolio as they pursue employment and further education.
Applicants should have some background in primary source and material culture research and good computer, technology, and writing skills. Applicants must be physically able to climb steep, Victorian-era stairs and lift boxes weighing up to about 25 lbs. The successful applicants’ most important characteristic will be their enthusiasm about making history accessible to the public.
We currently have multiple internship opportunities available:
Exhibit interns are responsible for “guest curating” an exhibit or display at the House. Past subjects have included architectural history and women in Eugene’s civic life. Subjects are typically chosen by the House’s active Collections, Curation, and Exhibits (CC&E) committee. We are currently seeking an intern for Summer 2013 who will work on an exhibit on jazz and Eugene’s 1920s music scene. This exhibit will highlight several recent accessions from the family of George McMurphey, who was born at the House and who led bands in Eugene during the 1920s.
Exhibit interns are expected to attend CC&E meetings and meet regularly with the Director (usually once a week) during the internship period. They are also expected to coordinate object loans, do basic research, draft exhibit texts, and lead the exhibit-mounting crew during exhibit setup, with support from CC&E and House staff.
Oral History Interns
We would like to complete oral history interviews with several of the senior volunteers who work at the House and on architectural history projects in our region.
An oral history intern would be expected to meet with the Director to develop oral history interview questions, conduct interviews with appropriate subjects, and transcribe those interviews. They would be expected to meet with the Director at least once per week to discuss their progress.
Curation interns work with CC&E to catalog materials held by the House, arrange for appropriate storage and display of those items, and enter them into PastPerfect, our museum database. Curation interns are expected to work at the House at least one and preferably two days per week.
To apply, submit a vita and letter of interest, formatted as PDFs, using the form below. Positions may be filled on a rolling basis, so include your areas of interest and dates of availability in your letter.
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Most Active Stories
Wed July 25, 2012
Arts Council Executive Director sees cultural landscape as key economic driver
When many people think of the arts, they think of creative geniuses, bohemian characters – perhaps even flightiness or fluff.
Few would characterize the arts as a key growth factor for a municipality. But national, state, and local statistics point to the fact that a thriving arts community often means a bustling local economy.
WHQR’s Rachel Lewis Hilburn sat down with Rhonda Bellamy, Executive Director of the Arts Council of Wilmington and New Hanover County, to find out what’s on the horizon for Wilmington’s cultural community -- and how Bellamy plans to turn the arts into an economic driver.
“It already is an economic driver. And what I’m trying to do is to position the Arts Council to be the one voice that continually drives home the message that arts equals dollars.”
Bellamy cites a recent economic study conducted by Americans for the Arts. It shows that arts organizations in New Hanover County support nearly 800 jobs, spend about 21 million dollars, and contribute more than two million in state and local taxes.
“This is not chump change. This is serious business. And we have to find a way to coalesce all of that so that that worth is translated into economic opportunities for the community.”
In addition to dollars flowing directly through arts-related businesses, there’s also an indirect fiscal impact. Bellamy says companies are drawn to communities that can offer a robust cultural scene.
“We already have the natural beauty of the beach and the river. We need to capitalize on the natural talent.”
Several attempts to create an arts council – or a council-like organization – have had varying degrees of success. At least two of those now-defunct groups – Creative Wilmington and the Greater Wilmington Arts and Cultural Alliance – or GWACA – passed along what was left in their coffers to the new Arts Council. So what will the Arts Council do with that money – and what will it do for local artists?
“Arts Councils vary from place to place – depending on the needs of the artist and arts community… but here in Wilmington, we need an umbrella organization to coalesce all of the 150 arts organizations and 3,000 creative industry workers that we have in this area.”
Without an arts council, says Bellamy, the area loses out on state and national dollars that go to other communities.
“Because we are not at the table. We don’t have one entity that’s at the table advocating for the entire arts community.” Getting the Council up and running effectively is Bellamy’s first order of business.
“And to do that, there are a number of benchmarks I’ll be meeting: the development of a board, keeping the office staffed, fundraising, creating the marketing plan… these are some very tangible things that are going to happen over the next six to twelve months.”
And that agenda is eminently achievable, says Bellamy.
“What do you think is going to be the biggest challenge facing you in terms of getting all of this underway? Not moving fast enough. Not moving fast enough. The process has to play out. And I’m not a frivolous person. Everything is measured. But let’s move it on. Let’s do it. You know.”
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Go to: http://joshuaschool.org.
Local students with autism now have another education option.
The Joshua School opened its Boulder campus last week at a church in a Gunbarrel neighborhood. So far, 10 students are enrolled at the school, which serves students on the autism spectrum or with other developmental disabilities who are 6 to 18 years old.
The school, which has been operating a 40-student facility in Englewood for seven years, is renting space for its Boulder campus at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, 7077 Harvest Road in Gunbarrel. Over the last several weeks, teachers and other staff put together furniture and set up classrooms.
"It was a lot of work, but it all came together," said education director Katie Jensen.
School administrators said they expanded to Boulder because so many of their students come from the region around Boulder, including Longmont and Broomfield. The school is still enrolling and hopes to grow to 16 students.
The Joshua School is one of two schools in the state that specializes in autism and is approved by the Colorado Department of Education to receive public funding.
At its Englewood campus, about 80 percent of students are placed there by school districts and the $57,000 annual tuition bill is covered by the state. The other 20 percent are placed by parents, who cover the tuition. At the Boulder campus, about 40 percent are placed by school districts.
The school enrolls students with a range of needs, from those with significant disabilities to those who are higher-functioning. Many of those enrolled weren't making progress at public schools and need intense therapies. The school addresses academics, behavior and self-care, with a goal of removing barriers to learning.
Jensen said the school has a student-centered philosophy that values students' dignity. If the easiest way to stop a challenging behavior is too hard on a student, she said, a teacher will try something else.
"It's having human respect for the kids we work with," she said.
The school has three to four students in a classroom taught by a special education teacher, a behavioral therapist and a teacher's aide -- allowing the school to focus intensely on each child. Social skills, daily living and academics all are included in the curriculum. The school also provides therapeutic services.
Classrooms have iPads and smart boards. The space includes a small playground, a large gym and a teacher's lounge.
Each student has his or her own workspace, plus a thick binder devoted to the student's academic and behavioral goals. They also have personalized schedules, from the very simple using visual clues to more complex written schedules, and personalized reward systems.
One student, for example, earns pennies for having "safe hands" -- not hitting himself in the head -- and a booklet to remind him of coping mechanisms, including telling jokes instead of running around when he feels silly and putting his head down on his desk when he feels overwhelmed.
On a recent day, one boy looked at pictures of objects and then said the word, working on his verbal skills with a teacher. Others worked independently, one completing patterns and one playing a computer game. In another classroom, the youngest students worked on discriminating between different letters and colors.
"My main priority is that they're happy and want to be here," said lead teacher Alex Stansbury, who moved from Texas to take a job at the school. "Without that, nothing else can happen."
In the middle school classroom, two eighth-grade boys urged their teacher to let them experiment with black powder, suggesting making small "snap" fireworks as a future science lesson.
Both boys, Aidan Watson and Josh Johnson, said they like the new location because it's closer to where they live -- eliminating what was a 45 minute to hour-and-a-half commute -- and it's a more modern building.
"This is a lot better," Josh said.
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Tom Anderson is best known as president and co-founder of MySpace, a site intended to help fans connect with their favorite bands and share music.
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Born in Santa Monica, California, on November 8, 1970, Tom Anderson earned two degrees from the University of California, neither computer-related. In 2003, he teamed up with Chris DeWolfe to set up MySpace, a site intended to help fans connect with their favorite bands and share music. By 2006, MySpace reportedly had more than 106 million accounts and 230,000 new registrations per day.
Born on November 8, 1970, in Santa Monica, California. Anderson received a bachelor's degree in rhetoric and English from the University of California, Berkeley in 1998, and a master's degree in film from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2000.
In 2003, Anderson, Chris DeWolfe and a few computer programmers set up the first pages of MySpace, which was designed to connect musicians and bands with their fans, enabling them to share their music online.
MySpace quickly became the rage among teens and 20-somethings and has since become the most popular social networking website on the internet. Anderson now serves as President of the company; DeWolfe is its CEO. All newly created MySpace accounts include Anderson as a default "friend," and he has subsequently become the public face of MySpace. As the most widely recognized personality on MySpace, Anderson has been the subject of parody among its users and the media at large.
In July 2005, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation purchased MySpace.com for $580 million. By 2006, MySpace reportedly had more than 106 million accounts and 230,000 new registrations per day.
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Ohio insurance exchange left to feds
Kasich cites high costs, inflexibility in move on health care
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Gov. John Kasich cites high costs and inflexibility in Ohio's move on a health-care exchange.
It’s official: Ohio will punt.
As expected, state officials yesterday notified President Barack Obama’s administration that the federal government can set up an online marketplace where uninsured Ohioans can shop for health-care coverage.
Gov. John Kasich’s administration cited high costs, little flexibility in operating the health exchange, and not enough federal guidance as reasons for its decision not to set it up itself.
Under the federal health-care law, health exchanges must be established in every state, but states were given the option of setting up their own system or letting the federal government do it for them.
“Ohio would have no flexibility to shape an exchange to our needs, and its costs will be so high that it just doesn’t make sense for the state to operate a health exchange under ‘Obamacare.’ We’re going to leave it to the federal government,” said Rob Nichols, Kasich’s press secretary.
“Instead, Ohio will focus on continuing to make our health-insurance market as stable and competitive as possible and make our Medicaid program as well-run as possible.”
State officials said they intend to keep authority to regulate insurers doing business through the state’s exchange and to set eligibility for the tax-funded Medicaid program. Kasich is considering expanding Medicaid, which provides health coverage to more than 2 million poor and disabled Ohioans, to help more low-income residents obtain insurance.
States had until yesterday to notify the administration of their intent; however, the deadline for filing a blueprint of their plans was recently pushed back until Dec. 14.
Enrollment through the state exchanges is to begin Oct. 1 and is considered to be a key in helping the uninsured meet the requirement, beginning in 2014, that most Americans have health-care coverage or face a penalty. Thirteen states have begun setting up their own exchanges.
Republican governors have railed against Obama’s health-care law — which they call Obamacare — with many dragging their feet on establishing exchanges, but the president’s re-election this month rebuffed GOP plans to repeal the law.
In Ohio, two House Democrats, who say they have crafted a compromise on a state-run exchange with insurers, physicians, hospitals and other stakeholders, urged Kasich to reconsider his decision.
“Ohioans will be worse off if you allow the federal government to set up a health-insurance exchange,” Reps. John Carney, D-Columbus, and Nickie Antonio, D-Lakewood, wrote in a letter to Kasich yesterday.
“A federally run exchange is an open invitation for federal bureaucrats to run a program that would be better administered by our citizens, who are undoubtedly more familiar with Ohio’s health-care marketplace.”
Still, a federal plan might end up benefiting consumers because there has not been much opportunity “for consumer input at the state level and the administration’s resistance to consumer protections,” Col Owens and Cathy Levine, co-chairs of Ohio Consumers for Health Coverage, said in a statement released by the organization.
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Mark Kurlansky replies to readers’ questions about fishing and the state of the oceans.
What percentage of the food we derive from the ocean faces extinction, or will experience moderate contamination from pollutants, over the next twenty years?
Most of the fish we eat are in serious difficulty somewhere though not necessarily everywhere. Fortunately they would reach commercial extinction before biological extinction. This is to say, there is a point at which the species is no longer numerous enough to be a profitable commercial target. However, once they are down to such small numbers their survival as a species is in serious difficulty because, as Darwin pointed out, a large number of individuals is essential for the survival of a species. However, there is such a thing as fishing management and if we get good at it – -we are not there yet — none of this has to happen. As for pollution it has not been studied enough but the ocean, like the land and the air, does contain pollutants and theoretically this will affect everything living in it. To what extent and how this impacts on our health is not certain
I used to eat a fair bit of fish, but lately I’ve nearly stopped. It seems impossible to find anything that’s really O.K. to eat, and with all the pollution and radiation in the ocean, it just doesn’t seem safe. Do you think there are any fish that are totally O.K. to eat? I’m going with pasture-raised chicken for protein these days.
Why do you think the pasture where your chickens are raised is free of pollution? A lot of people have become concerned about the irradiated water from the Japanese nuclear plant that was dumped into the Pacific Ocean and have said that they wouldn’t eat fish. But the plant sent radiation into the air for a longer time than it dumped into the water and this radiation is carried in the wind and lands on pastures, gardens, and orchards. So do I think that any fish are totally O.K. to eat? I would say not totally but probably as O.K. as anything else. Since many contaminants such as heavy metals intensify up the food chain — i.e. a tuna that eats cod that have eaten herring that have mercury will have a lot more mercury than the herring — it is a healthy idea to eat the herring. Eat low on the food chain.
The transition from normal oceans to empty ones cannot be linear and unstoppable. At least I hope not. Where do you think we are in the transition, and what can we do on an everyday basis to slow, and finally, reverse it?
I agree, it is not unstoppable. There are many things we can do from writing letters to elected representatives, to being responsible consumers. There is a great deal on this in my book. To decide which fish to buy you have to know where it was caught and with which gear. Ask your fish market lots of questions, most of which they will not be able to answer. But as the fish business learns that consumers want this information they will start providing it. There is a lot more in my book about identifying sustainable fisheries. Also about building movements. Also if you used less hydrocarbon-based energy that would help the seas. If for one week you eat only delivery food and save every plastic bottle and carton in the recycle bin, you will see what an obscene amount of plastic garbage we are creating. A lot of it ends up in the sea. It is the way we live that is destroying our world.
My local farmer’s market has a stand that sells cod, skate, monkfish, ahi tuna, sea bass etc. (many fish that are on the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s list of fish-to-avoid.) Are these fish still bad/endangered if caught by a small-scale fisherman in local waters? Also, it seems to me that all the fish they sell are either endangered (the ones listed above) or mercury-laden (bluefish, striped bass). I really like fish! — which fish local to N.Y.C. can I eat (besides shellfish and squid, which I do often buy) without feeling guilty or unhealthy?
I spend a fair amount of space in my book explaining these lists. They are to be used advisedly. I have discussed with the Monterey aquarium their tendency to paint in very large strokes. By condemning entire species they are inadvertently also calling for the boycott of some very sustainable little fisheries. All such lists tend to do this. Monterrey says they are trying to keep it simple and that they invite people to do closer research on their Web site and in other places. Cape Cod cod and Georges Bank haddock, for example are environmentally friendly choices from sustainable fisheries when they are caught by hook and line — simple lines, not long lines — one group of fishermen that do this label their fish “Chatham Cod.” Such fishermen bring slightly higher prices by handling their fish carefully and bringing it to market quickly. High quality guilt-free fish. Its hard to do but you need much more information than fish-to-avoid lists. For mercury the rule is the higher on the food chain the more mercury so if you eat fish everyday some of those fish should be small ones like sardines.
What is the one most important action most of us can take to support healthy oceans?
The most important thing you can do is get informed. It is an extremely complicated issue or really series of issues and a lot of well-mening people are looking for bold strokes without really understanding the problem. Fishing is only one part of it and fishermen scientists, and regulators have been working on that for years and still don’t have it right. There are fish you should not eat but then if you are not careful you end up boycotting good sustainable fisheries and then these fishermen have no incentive to do it well. So before you do anything, try to understand what’s going on.
Could you address the role of fish farms in both feeding people and maintaining oceanic health? Both inland and oceanside? There is a lot of information out there and I figured you must have something to say about it!
Fish farms are not a solution to anything other than possibly for a producer who wants to sell large quantities of inferior quality low-priced fish while the ocean supplies are dwindling. Most of them are environmentally damaging because their practices degrade the water and the genetic quality of the species. They are mutants who can actually destroy a species by mixing with it. Most of them are fed meal or pellets from ground up fish caught by the most abusive factory trawlers so that you have probably killed more wild fish when you eat a farmed fish than when you eat a wild one. Further, fish farming does not address one of the central issues, how to make commercial fishing work. And from a gastronomic point of view it is usually substantially inferior in taste and texture. But I am pretty much an ocean person. Don’t know much about fresh water fish or their farming.
I just wonder if you’re aware of Greenpeace’s campaign, reaching out to and then ranking the 20 biggest retail grocers on their seafood procurement policies? They are seeing some success, and some retailers have worked with them to improve their policies. The idea is that they bypass the individual customer and make sustainably harvested fish more available where most people shop.
I am not familiar with that campaign but I confess to not being a big fan of Greenpeace which seems to prefer press grabbing aggressive behavior to good conflict-resolution techniques. Why do people think they need these big national and international environmental organizations? Retailers care about keeping their customers happy. Organize a local group and talk to the stores about what you would like to see and they will probably be responsive because they want your bussiness
Is our fish eating world heading toward corporate spreadsheets, in the selling of protein (fish) by container(WalMart-ish dealings)? Can, man/woman, go out in a boat, catch on line, a fish, bring it to shore, offer it, and make a living?
Whether fishing is to be a small family business or a large corporate one is one of the great current debates. Many fishermen fear that all the fishing regulations will drive them out of business and large fishing companies will take over, that the process that occurred in agriculture in the 1930s and 40s when the family farm was replaced by agro-industry , will now happen at sea. This is why many oppose allowing fishing licenses to be transferable from one person to another because corporations might buy them up. There are groups that buy up licenses to keep them out of corporate hands.
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a procedure in which detailed pictures of areas inside the body are created by a magnet linked to a computer. The procedure is sometimes called nuclear magnetic resonance imagine (NMRI).
Catholic Health provides MRI services at the following locations:
A prescription from your physician is required. If you do not have a physician, click here to find a physician near you or call our HealthConnection service for a referral. Our representatives may be reached at (716) 706-2112 from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday - Friday.
The MRI staff will ask if you have had brain, ear, eye or other surgeries, or the following:
Please check with your physician if you are uncertain about any of these items.
If you are pregnant, please notify your physician and the MRI staff.
Ask Us Anything
It is recommended that you wear comfortable, athletic-type clothing (like a sweat suit) without metal snaps or zippers. Gowns and scrubs will be available.
Because of the magnetic field, you will be asked to leave the following items in a safe place outside the scan room:
You may also be asked to remove makeup, dentures and hearing aids.
In the magnet room, a technologist will assist you onto the padded table. The table will move slowly into the magnet opening. You will hear sounds similar to a drumbeat as pictures of your body are formed. Your doctor may order contrast (dye) to be administered for your test to enhance areas of interest.
At all times during the exam a technologist will be able to see and hear you.
The exam takes about 30 to 75 minutes depending on the type of information your doctor needs. It is important to lie completely still while the images are being acquired. Motion will affect the sharpness of the images.
You may leave immediately following the procedure.
The radiologist will study the MRI images and report the results to your physician. Your doctor will schedule a time with you to discuss the results of your MRI exam.
We will bill your insurance company directly. Please bring your insurance card and referral or authorization form (if necessary) on the day of your exam.
Some insurance carriers require pre-certification for MRI exams. Please check with your insurance provider to see what their requirements are.
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I saw Jane Goodall speak recently. She has been one of my heroes since I was a little girl. And there she was, wise and candid. She wears her humanity on her sleeve, and the her low ponytail, now grey, is iconic.
She spoke of Motherhood, of her own Mother. She shared that she had been blessed with the kind of Mother who, when she found young Jane had sneaked a few earthworms into her bed when she came in for a nap, did not recoil and shame her. She simply said “Jane, if we leave them here they won’t survive.” She spoke to her with compassion, using reason and empathy, and then helped her to place the wiggly worms where they belonged, in the garden.
I was blessed with the same kind of Mother, who nurtured my heart and let me be me. It’s because of her I knew what love was when I encountered it out in the world. It’s because of her I knew how to love-back.
weirdycutyfreaky: Where the wild Roses grow, 2012.
Nobody’s going to rescue you. Nobody’s going to take you away from it all. And even you do find a knight who would know that it’s fleeting, artificial; a bandaid.
You have to take that first step yourself, and then the second one, and then every fucking step that comes after that. Every. Single. Day.
And it’ll get easier along the way because you’ll stop looking for someone else to pick you up and do the work. But it will always be work, picking yourself up. The reality is you’ll never learn how if you keep reaching out instead of reaching in.
There is no truer truth; You’re going to have to save yourself. And when you do you’ll learn how powerful you really are.
I tucked my phone into my sports bra while I acrobatted my way up to the top of the hoop. “Sit pretty for a while and get used to the height,” my coach said. I had to have evidence.
It’s a long way down.
“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. “
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Art by: laura kashmir
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (x)
My first serious boyfriend was older than I was. When I told him I loved him he scoffed and said “You’re not in love with me Heart, you’re in love with the idea of me.” I was hurt he would say that, that he would dismiss my feelings. But in hindsight he was right. I was in love with what I wanted him to be, what I thought he represented, what I thought I was in his eyes, with the way he looked at me. I was young and I didn’t even love myself yet. Turns out when I broke up with him he decided that his love for me was real. Funny, that. Things ended terribly. He was manic depressive and un-medicated and I was immature enough to hold myself responsible for his feelings.
He called me yesterday. Out of no where, just to see how I was doing. I hadn’t heard from him in a few years. He wanted to stroll down memory lane, but I didn’t have the time or the interest. It was all so long ago. There are some lessons you have to learn on your own. -Heart <3
Stage 5 - Acceptance
I stopped asking myself why. I know the reason. Because they wanted this. And that was more important. It’s as simple and as complicated as that.
It’s very hard losing two people you care about at once.
You know that phase where every song on the radio, every place you drive by, and a million things around your house reminds you of them? Multiplied by two it’s unreal.
Then, just when I thought the worst had come to the surface, there’s a sucker punch, insult to injury. More complication. More hurt. I was in disbelief. I started again at the bottom. Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. I’m hovering so close to acceptance. I want it so bad. Just to end the madness.
Eventually the other feelings (anger, betrayal, confusion…) they finally give way to just one; sadness.
They say that acceptance doesn’t mean you’re over the situation, only that you have accepted this new reality and can move forward. I’m not there yet but i want to be. So this post is like an IOU.
I have to examine how I got myself into a position where the rug could be pulled out from under me like this. I have always been that girl with the open heart, the girl who trusts too easily, the girl who assumes people are good and the Golden Rule is fact. The girl who sometimes holds wounds and curses and vows to never let it happen again. I fall fast and hard. I follow my heart. It leads to great adventures and great disasters.
Is this the lesson? To be less trusting? To be more careful? Or is it something else? I’m trying to go over it all with new eyes, see the red flags I missed, see the signs that I didn’t heed. I hate the way it all looks through that lens. It makes me feel foolish. Like a tool.
I have had some strong support. I am blessed for that. I want to make room for those stories. I still haven’t figured out where to go from here, what this all means. I’m working on it, though. That’s the best I can do for now.
There’s this line in the movie ‘The Departed’ about how children of alcoholics lie to keep the peace. We’re always afraid to rock the boat. We’re used to walking on egg shells.
I remember whenever my Father was away for a few days it felt like the whole house could breathe. We laughed more. I wasn’t dragging my feet on the way home from school, trying to stay away as long as I could.
My husband has said, in his sarcastic way, “Unlike most alcoholic fathers yours did you the favor of sticking around.” Instead of having issues with abandonment, questions about who this man was, I know all too well. I got to watch how his addiction hurt us, and hurt himself. I also had the chance to really understand that it’s not so cut and dry. He’s one of the greatest men on the planet. He really is. He’s a loyal friend, a hard worker, champion of the underdog, clever and resourceful. He’s talented, though don’t ever tell him I said so. It was always so painful to see who he was out in the world, to know that he was truly good and kind, and then to see who he became when he was drinking, and how he hurt those of us who were closest to him.
If he had left I’d have trust issues. I’d be afraid of being ditched. Instead I have the opposite. I put up with too much. I endure for too long. I try to keep the boat sailing smoothly against all fucking odds. I somehow live under this twisted notion that if I just say the right thing, make the right choices, love hard enough, if I’m good, then I can fix things. I have hope even when hope is ridiculous. I see the good in people even when the bad is very scary. My need for control comes from watching him have none.
I’m not mad at him for giving me these traits. They make me good at my job. They make me a good friend. They have made me strong and determined long past the point where most would give up. I have reaped rewards for what can only be described as my stubborn endurance.
My husband has been going through a difficult personal time. He is working on his own issues, he has been depressed, he hasn’t been himself. People are entitled to this, processes like this are how we grow and develop and move on, but it has been very difficult to be here, sailing the ship through turbulent waters, trying to keep the peace.
I am lucky to have a partner who is committed to working on his short-comings, someone who wants better for himself and his family. I’ve watched my Father make the same mistakes my whole life, happy enough to never learn the lesson. He’s getting worse instead of getting better. My husband isn’t the type to just settle, and neither am I. I am grateful for this. We strive to achieve all of the things we know in our hearts we deserve. Getting there is tough sometimes though.
I’m tired of picking up the phone and getting bad news. I’m exhausted by the pain some of my friends and family have been in lately. Hardships, and heartbreak and a diagnosis with no silver lining. Tough lessons, and tough times and choices you have no choice but to live with. It hurts and I’m feeling down, but I know how to navigate these shit storms. I’ve lived through so many.
So thanks, Dad. For teaching me how to love people while they wrestle their demons. For making me an artist when it comes to keeping the peace. For forcing me to learn that no matter how choppy the waters are I won’t go under. For teaching me how to endure.
I sent Cub a smutty photo of me to break up his long shitty day.
He responded with a stammering message about how he can’t even believe I pay him attention because I’m so fucking hot, and goes on to say that I’m out of his league.
Now boys: NEVER SAY ANYTHING LIKE THIS TO A GIRL!!!!!!!
This advice was from shitmydadsays but it’s fucking profound: Let women figure out why they won’t screw you, don’t do it for them.
So I sent him back a message that said “Omg you’re right. Wtf am I doing?”
I think I should just leave it at that for a while, let it really sting.
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The effects of psychological mindedness upon the relationship between personality and attachment style: A structural equation model
The purpose of this study was to examine the interrelations between psychological mindedness, personality style and interpersonal attachment style. This research investigated the extent to which individuals differ in the degree of congruence with which they describe their personality style and their interpersonal attachment style. Prior research has indicated that personality and attachment styles are moderately, positively correlated. On account of its status as a motivational construct with internal and external dimensions, psychological mindedness is hypothesized to exert some influence, either moderational or mediational, upon the relationship between these styles. In terms of moderation, the psychologically-minded person may be more likely to appreciate the repetitions and structural continuities that mark both his/her empirical personality and his/her interpersonal behavior. In mediational terms, it might be that the possession of psychological mindedness causes personal and interpersonal styles to cohere. ^ The data set consisted of responses from 187 undergraduate subject-pool participants at an urban university. Of these, 135 were women and 52 were men. Psychological mindedness was measured with the Psychological Mindedness Scale and the PY Scale of the California Personality Inventory. The NEO Five-Factor Inventory was used to measure personality. Attachment to parents and peers was measured with the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment, while attachment to romantic partners was measured with the Adult Attachment Questionnaire. ^ This study provided evidence for the moderating effect of psychological mindedness. The evidence of this study suggests that one's level of psychological mindedness is predictive of the ability to describe one's personality and “inter-personality” or attachment style in highly correlated terms. In contrast, psychological mindedness did not emerge as a mediator of personality and attachment style. Neither univariate nor multivariate strategies revealed mediating effects. Clinical and research implications of the findings are discussed, as are the limitations of the study. Suggestions for future research are discussed as well. ^
Psychology, Clinical|Psychology, Personality
"The effects of psychological mindedness upon the relationship between personality and attachment style: A structural equation model"
(January 1, 2003).
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