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The worst of Hurricane Sandy is behind us, but the aftermath is still affecting many New Yorkers. With half a million residents still without power since the hurricane hit on Monday, many people are in Manhattan are travelling to areas of the city lucky enough to have electricity to seek power sources in order to charge their devices. For those unable to travel, like people in New Jersey and Staten Island, Verizon also rolled out mobile device charging stations.
Brightbox, an NYC-based startup that creates mobile charging stations, realized that people in the city without power needed a way to charge their phones. Though a brightbox charging station usually charges users a fee between $2 to $4 per use, the company brought three of its units outside the Ace Hotel on 29th street in Manhattan, free of charge. Needless to say, people checking out the unusual-looking devices began juicing up their phones and taking over the sidewalk in front of the hotel’s Stumptown coffee shop.
Adam Johnson, co-founder of brightbox, said he realized people needed his product when he walked into his office the day after the hurricane hit and saw people in the lobby charging their phones. That day, Johnson set up five of his mobile units in front of the Ace Hotel, enough space to charge 60 phones, and continued to return each day after. We checked out the brightbox setup today, the fourth day of the charging pop-up, and saw people who had come back multiple times that week. Johnson said the Ace Hotel station has charged more than a thousand phones in the past few days.
One man, Nestor Munoz and his aptly named dog Sandy, is one of those returning visitors. Munoz, who lives in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, an area hit hard by the storm, said he came to the area a few days ago to use the outlets on an outside wall at the restaurant next to the hotel. The restaurant blocked off the outlets, but, fortunately, Munoz noticed the brightbox stations. Munoz has been also been visiting hotel lobbies to charge, which he says many people are doing in this time of need.
Though brightbox was able to serve this area of the city, many other restaurants and bars with power and Wi-Fi are offering their business to the people who need it. We passed one restaurant that set up multiple power strips and surge units around the restaurant for people to charge their devices while grabbing a bite. One table of young professionals whose office lost power during the storm had been there for most of the day working on their laptops. The hostess told us that the restaurant is happy to help in any way, even if the customer just buys one drink and uses the Wi-Fi and power for the rest of the day.
As for brightbox, users can find the mobile charging stations in bars in the Tri-State area. Available in 50 locations now, the company is expanding and will be adding a hundred more by the end of the year to other hospitality businesses. To use the station, a user swipes his or her credit card, which acts as a key. The box opens, they connect their phone – brightbox has micro-USB, iPhone, and iPhone 5 chargers – and then the door closes, keeping the phone safe for as long as the user wants to keep it in there. To retrieve the phone, the user simply swipes the credit card, and the door opens.
Thankfully, much of Manhattan is said to regain power by late tonight, but brightbox said it’ll remain posted in front of Stumptown until power is restored. The stations are usually set up between 9:30 a.m. and 9 p.m. Curious about how brightbox works? Ryan Johnson, brightbox ambassador, explains in the video below.
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A new kind of town, Angola Indiana, founded in 1838 by settlers from western New York on an overtly anti-church basis, was for many years a kind of Spiritualist establishment.
A twentieth century social scientist with no bias in favor of organized religion later described it:
"The founders of [Aton]Angola fully intended to exclude churches for all time. Under their influences spiritualism and free-love became dominant; and the village acquired a reputation far and near for irreligion and immorality. It was spoken of as "a hot-bed of infidelity and vice. As late as 1865, it is probable that nine-tenths of the population were spiritualists and given to free-love. During this decade the most noted mediums of the land made Aton [Angola} their headquarters, among them Abbey Kelley Foster, Mrs Griffin and Mrs Seymour. The town newspaper of that time says: "They held many public services, conducted funerals, and did great miracles before the public." In 1855 the publication of an "infidel" paper known as "The Truth Seeker" was begun. It was financed by the founder and leading man of Aton [Angola]. (This would have been Thomas Gale) Its motto was "For Free Thought and Free Discussion and Democracy Against False Theology, Superstition, Bigotry, Ignorance, Aristocracies, Privilege Classes, Tyrannies, Oppression, and Everything that Degrades or Burdens Mankind Mentally or Physically." This paper is described as a "most vile andvicious sheet." It wielded strong influence for some years and then removed from town".
Presbyterian missionary Almon Martin said in 1852 that Angola should really be called "Satan's Seat" since it was notable for Sabbath breaking and intemperance and its most influential men were either skeptics or infidels. After Abigail Kelley Foster and her husband Stephen Symonds Foster (not to be confused with the songwriter) visited and further stiffened the people's resistance to church organizations, Martin concluded that "only a change of inhabitants in Angola" could open it to ministry. He moved on to Ontario in neighboring Lagrange county in 1854. Missionaries Jacob Patch, Henry Warren and Henry Little gave the same appraisal of the situation in Steuben county. Influential men of Angola were circulating the "infidel writings" of Andrew Jackson Davis; at their own expense they were systematically importing such eastern lecturers as Abigail Kelley Foster and Stephen Symonds Foster to attack the bible, the churches and the ministers. Following a tour of Steuben county in 1855 Jacob Patch and Henry Little reported that unless help was sent the county's four churches at Angola, Brockville (Fremont), Salem and York would fall victim to infidelity foe which Steuben county was becoming a stronghold.
Taken from; Hoosier Faiths: A History of Indiana's Churches and Religious Groups, by L.C. Rudolph
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The District's controversial traffic camera program collected nearly $2 million in December, up more than 2,000 percent from the same time in 2011, city records show.
According to a tentative report from the District's chief financial officer, D.C.'s 93 speed and stoplight cameras brought in $1.93 million in December.
That's up from the $85,000 the District collected in December 2011, and more than three-fourths of the $2.5 million the city has taken in so far in the fiscal year, which began in October.
|The District collected about $2.5 million from traffic cameras in the first three months of the 2013 fiscal year. In the same span in the 2012 fiscal year, it took in $111,000.|
Ward 1 Councilman Jim Graham said he was worried about the sizes of the fines that generate such figures, even as city lawmakers acted last month to reduce some of them.
"The level of the fines concerns me, but, generally speaking, I think people do slow down," Graham said. "The question is what is the right fine, and I think the fines right now tend to be high."
And Graham said that even though the council has slashed some penalties, he remains concerned about their effects on some residents.
"They'll go down, but I'm very concerned about the impact on poor people, who are capable of speeding every bit as much as I am," Graham said.
Although the current pace indicates the District could fall short of its record-shattering $85 million haul in the 2012 fiscal year, the city could increase its collections in future months as the camera program expands.
Last month, police officials told The Washington Examiner that they planned to add 134 new ticket-generating cameras in 2013, more than doubling the size of the existing network.
The District has stood by its program as an effective tool to combat traffic fatalities, with Mayor Vincent Gray repeatedly saying it is not about generating revenue.
The city in 2012 recorded 19 traffic-related deaths, a drop of more than 40 percent from the previous year.
"The system works," said mayoral spokesman Pedro Ribeiro. "The data proves it."
But a spokesman for AAA Mid-Atlantic questioned the extent of the technology's role in curbing fatalities and noted that traffic deaths have fallen nationwide.
"Automated enforcement can certainly play a role in reducing fatalities, but we continue to worry that in the District of Columbia, the emphasis seems to be on the city's coffers," said Lon Anderson.
And Anderson disputed that drivers are changing their behavior because of the threat of citations.
"If that was the case, we'd be seeing a steady trend downward in the fines that the cameras are producing," he said.
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“Me and My Shadow”: Doublings, Doppelgӓngers, and Uncanny Self-Reflections The doppelgӓnger, or ghostly double, has long had multiple functions in literature and art: it can be a harbinger of ill tidings, a darker reflection of one's true self, or even, with the development of photographic techniques and increasingly sophisticated media, a seductive means of breaking away from traditional space/time boundaries. Our critical conversation will interrogate the doppelgӓnger in all of these guises, beginning with Freud's concept of the uncanny and the story that influenced him so greatly, E.T.A. Hoffmann's hallucinatory “The Sandman,” and then moving into the explosion of the double as a figure in literature and art. We will read works by authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jorge Luis Borges, and China Mieville. We will also explore how themes of doubling have evolved and manifested in contemporary films such as David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers and Mamoru Oshii's groundbreaking anime, Ghost in the Shell, and how electronic environments like Facebook are changing our perceptions of identity and our potential for self-transformation. Some of the questions we will explore through our writing include: How do we understand and delimit our individual identities? What makes us unique? Is the double a threatening figure that destabilizes the borders of our selves, or is it a sign of our technological future? Why is this figure so prevalent across genres and cultures? Working with the course material, we will write three short papers and a longer (8-10 page) research paper. The paper-writing process will be revision-intensive, and you will be expected to utilize both self-assessments and peer reviews to further develop your writing and critical thinking skills.
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The Modern Language Association’s recent report from its Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion offers an opportunity to review some of our commonly accepted notions about the role of research in the definition of faculty productivity. The report is worth the considerable effort required to read through its 100 pages of survey data, evaluations, prescriptions and recommendations. Most of us will find its conclusion about tenure reassuring: The rate of tenure acquisition for tenure-track faculty is high and stable. We may be less sure about the significance of its findings about the growing number of non-tenure track faculty (part and full-time) in our institutions.
More interesting, however, is the extensive discussion of the nature of scholarly productivity. The MLA task force clearly struggled with this issue, and it is this struggle that makes the report so interesting. The report explicitly addresses what it calls the gold standard of the research monograph, which means a book length, usually single author publication that presents original research to an expert public, frequently through the medium of a university press. The report worries that this method places too restrictive a burden on young faculty, devalues the research-based article, and may result in overlong articles being presented as books. University tenure committees, the report indicates, may be off-loading the responsibility for evaluating research onto the editors and reviewers of university presses. At the same time, the report’s surveys do not yet support a conclusion that the current method of evaluating research has disadvantaged young scholars in the tenure process.
One of the great strengths of the MLA task force report is its effort to distinguish among different types of institutions, recognizing that the importance of research publication for tenure varies significantly by type of institution and that the patterns of evaluation that characterize the top research universities tend to propagate to other institutions with different missions. The report endorses the well-known case for redefining scholarship to include activities in addition to original research -- editorial work, translations, bibliographies, textbooks, essays, pedagogical writings and even exceptional classroom teaching. Although this is not a topic easily resolved, the common expectations that drive this research focused behavior warrant a closer look.
Departments in colleges and universities, where most of the critical decisions about tenure and promotion are made, reflect the goals and expectations of their scholarly guilds (in the case of the modern language departments, these scholarly guilds are represented by the MLA). These guilds, while they speak expansively about broadening the definition of research to include other forms of scholarship, tend to focus their attention on the rarest of academic talents. Original research appearing in scholarly monographs published by university presses is valued because it is difficult to produce and therefore rare.
College and university prestige (whether established by ranking organizations or popular culture) rest on the acquisition of the individuals capable of producing these rare and difficult works on a constant and consistent basis. The best universities in the world have the highest number of faculty capable of producing works of original research. This is not restricted to the guilds associated with the MLA, although the MLA report is a wonderful testimony to the process. Even as the report argues for the expansion of the definition of scholarship to include many other activities not precisely defined by original published research, it reinforces our understanding of the high prestige associated with the original research publication.
Many commentators worry about the increased competitiveness of colleges and universities, each institution seeking to purchase for higher and higher prices a greater share of the limited supply of high quality students and research capable faculty. Yet the marketplaces that support universities -- parents, students, faculty, legislators, donors, funding agencies, corporations -- all express a strong preference for the presence of these rare talents in academic settings. The issue for academics is not really whether faculty members should develop a broad portfolio of accomplishments in teaching, scholarship of all kinds, public service and civic engagement. Rather, the issue is whether universities can avoid concentrating on identifying and acquiring faculty whose skills will make their university or college campus most competitive. This perspective, ruthlessly businesslike though it is, provides a clear explanation of the behavior of colleges and universities and their academic guilds, and it highlights some characteristics of the academic environment that we might prefer were different.
Colleges and universities have few ways of defining and demonstrating their excellence other than presenting various measures of scarcity. The market assumes that if a campus attracts a large share of scarce, high SAT and high GPA students, its overall quality is better than another campus with lower SAT and lower GPA students. The market also assumes that a campus with a large share of the scarce faculty who consistently publish original research is a high quality campus. These indicators of scarcity are highly reliable measures, even if we can debate at great length whether what they measure is of greater intrinsic value than something else we do not measure as reliably.
Longtime observers of the academic scene know that original research talent is much more fragile than teaching or scholarship or civic engagement talent. Over a 25- to 30-year career, more faculty will sustain consistently good performance as teachers than will sustain consistently productive careers publishing original research. At the beginning, we do not know which of the recently tenured, research productive faculty will sustain that productivity for the next 25 or 30 years. The institution, understanding the importance of these research-productive faculty in validating their external competitive reputations, places extraordinary emphasis on improving the results of the tenure process by focusing intensively on the quantity and quality of published original research. The result is what the MLA observes: increased standards for published research productivity for tenure.
To some extent the excellent recommendations in the MLA Task Force report lose some of their persuasiveness absent a recognition of the powerful marketplace forces that drive all colleges and universities to emulate the competitive standards of the most prestigious research institutions. Whether we view the marketplace influence on college and university values as pernicious or not, we still must recognize that the primary participants in this marketplace are our faculty, students, alumni, trustees, donors, and other friends. Their preferences, expressed through their marketplace choices, reinforce the academy’s intense focus on original published research.
We would like to see the next MLA task force review the language of academic quality as represented in college promotion materials, in the endlessly popular commercial ranking systems, and in the references to quality visible in the popular culture of news magazines, movies, television, and Internet chatter. As is often the case, we are likely to find that the enemy of the good practices we recommend is us.
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A lot of folks would rather you say, "Neither."
The latest buzz in the plastic bag debate was Fred Meyer's announcement Sunday that, starting Aug. 1, it will eliminate the plastic option at checkout stands in its 10 Portland stores.
The grocer's move came days after Mayor Sam Adams shared a draft ordinance that would ban plastic bags starting January 2012 in large chain grocers and retailers that feature pharmacies in Portland. The ordinance, which the city council will vote on next month, ultimately aims to steer shoppers toward reusable bags such as cloth -- and not simply to divert them to paper. To do that, it would require that grocers charge 5 cents for paper or compostable bags and offer reusable bags for sale.
While other metro-area grocers have ditched plastic bags -- Whole Foods eliminated them companywide in April 2008 -- Fred Meyer represents the largest chain locally to make such a move. New Seasons Market, which has never offered plastic check-out bags, is looking to offer options beyond paper or reusable bags, such as rentable wagons, at its new Hawthorne store, which should open this fall.
Fact is, although paper bags may be easier to recycle, they're also tough on Mother Nature -- perhaps more so than plastic, say recycling experts.
They're expensive, too.
Melinda Merrill, a Fred Meyer spokeswoman, said that when the chain started testing a no-plastic option last year at its Hawthorne store, most customers switched to paper. That represented a "very, very large increase in costs for us," she said, as paper bags run as much as 4 to 8 cents more per bag than plastic.
Plastic bags are worse than paper when it comes to litter and risks to marine life, said David Allaway, a waste prevention specialist with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, pointing to an environmental impact study done by a group of cities in California that also wanted a plastic-bag ban. But the study found that single-use paper bags were more troublesome due to pollutants emitted and water and energy used during their production, he said."We're really pleased that the mayor's proposal and the state legislation being proposed are not a single topic -- plastic bags -- it addresses bag use," Allaway said. "That could achieve a much better environmental benefit."
Fred Meyer eliminated plastic bags at its Hawthorne store last year as the Southeast Portland location underwent an earth-friendly remodel that earned a silver LEED certification.
Merrill wouldn't say how many plastic bags leave Fred Meyer stores in a given year, but did say there's been about a 30 percent jump in the use of reusable bags. In 2009, customers of its 130 stores in Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Idaho brought a reusable bag to the check stand 21.1 million times, compared with 16.1 million in 2008.
Customers at the Hawthorne Fred Meyer were torn on the plastic bag decision. Some applauded the effort, Merrill said. Others missed plastic options that didn't rip in the rain, seemed more sanitary and were easier to hang from wheelchairs or walkers.
"We see this as an education need ... about the need to recycle plastic bags rather than use them as garbage liners or dog or cat poop bags, because then they just end up in the landfill," said Merrill, adding that Fred Meyer won't charge 5 cents for paper bags until the law requires it.
Even after Aug. 1, Fred Meyer will offer plastic-bag recycling bins in its Portland stores. That's been a concern of the American Chemistry Council, a trade group consisting of most plastic bag manufacturers, that has worried such bans would mean less recycling.
The city's plan, which the public can comment on through Friday, came as state legislators said they'd reached agreement with grocers on a statewide plastic bag ban that would take affect in January 2012 and apply to all retailers, including department stores.
For recycler Chris Thomas, the move away from plastic represents a little less work.
As the regional procurement manager for SP Recycling of Clackamas, he doesn't blame the bags, but the people who mistakenly drop them into their yellow streetside recycling bins.
When that happens, as much as 30 percent of the labor costs at SP, one of the largest recyclers of statewide municipal waste, is spent yanking plastic bags from the mix or from gummed-up machinery. About half the bags pulled out are the checkout stand variety, he said, the other half are bread or produce bags or the plastic wrapped around consumer goods.
"You can't ban everything that people put in those bins but shouldn't," he said.
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Considering the metro area is home to more than 300 recording studios and some of the most famous landmarks in country music, no survey of things to do in Nashville would be complete without a trip into the world of bluegrass, folk, and honky-tonk. Up-and-coming musicians and songwriters step into the spotlight at the clubs along Honky Tonk Row, and greats get their due at the nearby Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, which showcases such memorabilia as Elvis’s golden Cadillac, Willie Nelson’s bandanna, and artifacts from Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bob Dylan. The most hallowed site of all, though, may be the Grand Ole Opry House, which is home to the show in which legends and current chart toppers have performed since 1925.
It's a mistake to think that music is all Nashville has to offer, however; visual art abounds as well. At the city's epicenter lies the Frist Center for Visual Arts, which features modern and ancient art exhibitions that rotate through the art deco building every six to eight weeks. Head just southwest of downtown to find the 132-acre Centennial Park, which is adjacent to Vanderbilt University. The city’s premier outdoor space features a full-scale replica of the Parthenon alongside a 42-foot-tall statue of Athena. Inside the faux Parthenon, you’ll find a permanent collection of 19th- and 20th-century American art.
Of course, it's not hard to find natural beauty in the area, either. At Radnor Lake State Park, visitors can hike for miles through the Nashville Basin and explore hills, streams, and other natural habitats. One paved trail runs along the lake, a man-made reservoir that was created to provide water for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad's steam engines.
For a dose of history, roam northeast to The Hermitage, the former home of President Andrew Jackson. The mansion and grounds have been painstakingly preserved, and they maintain a majority of the Jackson family's original artwork, furniture, and personal items. On the southwest side of town, Belle Meade Plantation brings more of the 1800s to life. Tour guides lead groups through the gorgeous Greek-Revival mansion, ending up at the onsite winery for a free tasting.
The Lane Motor Museum explores history through a specific lens: the automobile. The museum arranges more than 150 cars and motorcycles by country and region, and its exhibits highlight how various political, economical, and geographical factors shaped automobiles throughout the 1900s.
Festivals often take over public spaces in the city, especially during the summer. That's when the Jefferson Street Jazz and Blues Festival attracts throngs of music fans to the Bicentennial Mall, the Music City Hot Chicken Festival hosts fried chicken cook offs in East Park, and the American Artisan Festival showcases contemporary American handcrafts and fine art at the aforementioned Centennial Park.
This vibrant town has plenty of annual and ongoing music events that have become Nashville attractions known around the world.
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CHICAGO — America’s most influential pediatrician’s group says same-sex couples should be allowed to marry to help ensure the health and well-being of their children.
The American Academy of Pediatrics’ new policy, published Thursday, cites research showing that the parents’ sexual orientation has no effect on a child’s development. Kids fare just as well in gay or straight families when they are nurturing and financially and emotionally stable, the academy says.
The academy believes that a two-parent marriage is best equipped to provide that kind of environment. Their policy says that if a child has two parents who choose to marry, “it is in the best interests of their children that legal and social institutions allow and support them to do so.”
The policy cites reports indicating that almost 2 million U.S. children are being raised by same-sex parents, many of them in states that don’t allow them to marry.
The academy announced its position Thursday. Officials with the group said they wanted to make the academy’s views known before two gay marriage cases are considered by the U.S. Supreme Court next week.
“We wanted that policy statement available for the justices to review,” said Dr. Thomas McInerney, the academy’s president and a pediatrician in Rochester, N.Y.
The pediatricians’ stance is not surprising. They previously joined other national groups including the American Medical Association in supporting one of the Supreme Court cases, which contends the Defence of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. The academy also previously supported adoption by same-sex parents.
Dr. Ben Siegel, a Boston pediatrician and chair of the committee that developed the new policy, said its focus is on “nurturing children. We want what’s best for children.”
The academy has a history of taking a stand on politically touchy issues. It has discouraged families with children from having guns in their homes and urged pediatricians to give teens advance prescriptions for emergency birth control.
Policy positions typically start in the academy’s committees and are based on a review of scientific literature. These recommendations then go to the academy’s board of directors, and if approved, sent on to a three-member executive committee for a final vote. The group’s 60,000 members do not vote on policy.
The marriage policy came from the academy’s committee on psychosocial aspects of child and family health, and an academy spokesperson said it was adopted with no objections.
The Associated Press
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At Boath House
Boath House gardens have now been lovingly restored to create an additional area for guests to enjoy including a bog garden and wild flower meadow. The 20 acres of lawns, woodland and streams are also home to swans, wild geese and ducks and various types of Scottish native birdlife. Bee hives and pet bantam hens can be seen in the walled garden.
Gardens Worth Visiting in the Area
Cawdor Castle & Gardens - Cawdor is fortunate to have three gardens. The Walled Garden is the oldest and dates from c.1600 and later became a kitchen garden. The Flower Garden was laid out some 100 years later and was originally designed for enjoyment in late summer and autumn. However this garden's season has been extended to give pleasure from early spring, with bulbs, bedding plants, herbaceous borders, ornamental trees and shrubs all providing delight. The Wild Garden is the youngest, being planted in the 1960's and lies between the Castle and the stream of the Cawdor Burn. www.cawdorcastle.com
Speyside Heather Garden - Halfway between Grantown-on-Spey and the Boat of Garten is the multi-award winning Speyside Heather Garden and Visitor Centre at Skye of Curr, Dulnain Bridge. See over 300 varieties of heather in the garden, visit the exhibition on the many uses of the plant. www.heathercentre.com
Revack Estate - Located on the B970 road between Grantown-on-Spey and Nethy Bridge, Revack Lodge was built as a shooting lodge some time around 1860. Today you can visit parts of the 15,000-acre estate where there are nature trails, adventure playground, plant centre and garden (orchids a speciality), restaurant and gift shop. Open all year from 10 am to 6 pm.
Abriachan Nurseries - Located 9 miles south of Inverness on the A82 Loch Ness road (between Lochend and Drumnadrochit) High quality range of rare and unusual plants. R.H.S. partners and members of Scotland's Garden Scheme. Open daily from February to November. www.lochnessgarden.com
Brodie Castle - This picturesque castle, 4.5 miles west of Forres and 24 miles east of Inverness, is a popular stopping place on the visitors' trail for its fine interior and grounds. There's a picnic area, adventure playground, woodland walks, gardens and a lake. If you have the chance to visit during the Spring, the famous collection of daffodils will be in full bloom. www.nts.org.uk
Logie Steading - 6 miles south of Forres. An art gallery, walled garden, garden shop, tea room, crafts, antiques & rare books for sale, etc. Open every day from the end of March to Christmas, 10.30am - 5pm. www.logie.co.uk
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North Carolina's university and community college systems would no longer be allowed to enroll illegal immigrants in legislation filed by some House Republicans, one from Eastern Carolina.
The bill filed Tuesday would overturn policies by the University of North Carolina system and state community college system. Students can attend these schools now only if they graduated from a U.S. high school and pay out-of-state tuition.
The bill would have exceptions for students who already are enrolled at a campus so they can complete a program or for students who are dually enrolled in a high school or secondary school.
The bill's primary sponsors are Reps. George Cleveland of Jacksonville and Chris Whitmire of Rosman.
Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
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Who’s your baby’s birthday party really celebrating? We asked our parent community, and the overwhelming majority felt that first birthday parties are for parents (and grandparents!). Of course you want your baby to enjoy the festivities, but themes, games, or exciting locations are lost on young toddlers. For best results, plan a simple party for yourself and a few friends, and make it as baby-friendly as possible.
KEEP IT SMALL.
When composing a guest list for a children’s party, the standard rule is “one child guest per year of age.” You probably won’t want to ban your friends and relatives’ older children from the festivities. But as cute as it sounds, inviting your baby’s whole peer group is sure to backfire—entertaining a room full of one-year-olds is an exercise in futility. It’s best to involve as few babies as possible. Keep the focus on the guest of honor!
KEEP IT SHORT.
Even two hours is a long time for a one-year-old! Just playing with loved ones and having cake will probably be exhausting. Consider opening presents after the party, or after your baby’s gone down for a nap. Make sure to include start and end times on the invitation, especially if you’re entertaining at home. That encourages guests to leave promptly, so you can return to your child’s regular schedule as soon as possible.
Your baby doesn’t understand the concept of a “special day.” Instead, the party day will be full of unfamiliar experiences and even strange faces. This can rattle even the most even-tempered toddler! Keeping your baby’s normal routine intact as much as possible will help stave off meltdown. Still, your baby may need regular breaks from all the action. Don’t take it personally. Your toddler’s only one year old!
Photo credit: rharrison on Flickr.
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|Why are siblings different from each other?
Written by Heather Leigh
(9/10/2009 8:34 p.m.)
in consequence of the missive, Why was Elinor different?, penned by Glenn
Sometimes JA's family portraits suggest that parental traits and temperaments are passed on/modeled to a child:
Marianne has her mother's emotionalism;
That list of examples suggests that first/older daughters model themselves on the father, and younger daughters on the mother. (It doesn't account for sons though.)
And that would imply that Elinor is like her father (or her father was like her).
Then it becomes interesting that in S&S and P&P, the mom and younger daughters are "childish" while the dad and older daughters are more self-controlled and rational... but in Emma and Persuasion, the fathers become increasingly weak role models and the older daughters weaker in character.
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Papier-Mache Sewing Boxes: What Is It? What Is It Worth?
Professional appraiser Helaine Fendelman identifies and evaluates your collectibles and antiques
During the 19th century, mastering the art of needlework and embroidery was an important part of a young woman's education. Specialized containers for sewing tools were common household items. Sewing boxes such as this one were made in the United States and England. An oval printed label on the bottom of the interior top drawer states that it was IMPORTED BY EDW CHRISTMANN DEALER IN FINE PERFUMERY & FANCY GOODS NO. 702 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. It is rare to have the original label in perfect condition that provides documentation for an already unusual piece.
Valued at: $2,500
*The estimates provided are preliminary only and subject to change based on firsthand inspection and further research. Appraisal prices refer to an item's fair market value, or what one might expect to pay for an object of similar age, size, color, and condition at auction.
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Boyne Valley tourism route launched
on 28/02/2013 15:02:15
World-renowned heritage sites including Newgrange as well as Trim Castle, Monasterboice, Slane Castle and Mellifont Abbey are among 22 historic attractions on the drive.
Tourism Minister Leo Varadakar said 220,000 euro was poured into the project to create a "single package" which can be promoted in Ireland and around the world.
"A significant number of tourists are interested in culture and heritage on their travels, and tours like this are particularly popular with British visitors," he said.
"This route will place the Boyne Valley firmly on their list of options."
The Boyne Valley Drive runs 225km through counties Meath and Louth and includes a number of "hidden gems" as well as well-known tourist draws.
Signage along the route has almost been completed while plans are under way for a review of the layout and design of the main sites of interest, according to Failte Ireland.
Kevin Moriarty, local Head of Operations for Failte Ireland, said: "This new route - with its strong brand and emphasis on our cultural heritage - gives tourism in the north east a compelling hook to lure the extra visitors and revenue that this region is well placed to deliver."
The state tourism agency said the Boyne drive was already receiving visits and interest from overseas tour operators.
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Since ancient times spider silk has fascinated man because of the elegant way it combines strength and elasticity. It can even enable the regeneration of peripheral nerves in rats and sheep when used to replace nerve deficits. As such spider silk presents a very attractive material for use in medical applications – Here Anna Rising tells us about her love affair with silk
All spiders produce at least one type of silk and some, like orb weaving spiders, can have up to seven different types of silk glands each producing a silk with a specific purpose and unique mechanical properties. The dragline silk, a strong and extendible fibre used for construction of the framework of the webs and as a lifeline, displays a toughness never attained in synthetic or other natural fibres. For example, spider silk shows the same tensile strength as Kevlar, seven times the extensibility and takes three times the energy to break. It also shows a low density and is biodegradable.
While the outstanding mechanical properties of spider silk are well characterised, the production remains problematic. Since spiders are territorial and produce low amounts of silk they cannot be employed as such for large scale silk production. It would need 1 million spiders to produce enough silk for a 1 x 3m2 piece of silk textile, and take 70 people four years to weave! Instead, bacteria (or other organisms) that have received a piece of DNA encoding the spider silk proteins may be used for industrial production of synthetic spider silk. However, spider silk proteins are extremely prone to aggregate and therefore they are problematic to produce in bacteria and difficult to keep soluble during purification, often requiring harsh solvents for solubilisation.
In 2003 I started working at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences as a PhD student in a project aiming to find a way to produce synthetic spider silk. To do so we wanted to use a spider that was relatively large and produced a strong dragline. Based on data in the literature we decided on Euprosthenops australis. To get hold of the spider I went to South Africa and managed to catch 100 spiders in the wilderness. The spiders are about 10 cm in diameter (including legs) but are still difficult to spot in the bush! Luckily, I received excellent help and field work assistance from The Spider Club of South Africa. The spiders we caught were used for extracting DNA encoding the silk genes.
When I got back to Sweden an arduous time followed for my colleagues and me. The DNA was mapped and analysed and different ways of producing the proteins were tested and evaluated. Finally we could determine the smallest entity of the spider silk protein that could be efficiently produced and still retains most of its native properties. This part of the protein corresponded to only 10% of the whole spider silk protein, but still somehow “knew” that it should assemble into a fibre. Making a smaller protein is advantageous since it is easier for the bacteria to produce and the protein is also easier to handle during purification compared to longer variants. In 2007 we published the first report on how to produce synthetic spider silk in E.coli that spontaneously assembles into metre long fibres. The fibres are equally well tolerated as clinically used suture materials when implanted subcutaneously in rats. Apart from fibres we are also able to produce transparent films and foams from the silk protein solution. Furthermore, human cells can be cultured on the material which enables applications in the fields of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
After receiving my PhD in 2007, my colleagues and I decided to start a company based on our research findings. Spiber Technologies was founded in 2008 and today it has seven employees. The company focuses on scaling up the production of the material, IPR protecting the technology, as well as the development of scaffolds and implants for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. In particular, the company is working on human stem cells. In 2012 Spiber Technologies was elected to the “33-list” of Sweden’s hottest young technological companies and was represented at the World Expo in Shanghai 2010.
Synthetic spider silk is superior to available materials today since it is defined with no animal or human derived components and so shows biocompatibility, there is no risk of spreading disease and better batch-to-batch variations. It is mechanically robust, with a tensile strength greater than mammalian tendons, is stable up to 260?C and so can be sterilised, is stable in most solvents, e.g. urea, degrades when implanted and is well tolerated by living tissue. In addition, it can be decorated with specific signals or protein fragments in order to produce an “intelligent” biomaterial. Its suitability as a matrix in cell culture has been shown with human primary fibroblasts attaching and growing well on all matrix types7, even in the absence of serum proteins or animal-derived additives, and with the highest cell counts obtained on the matrices combining film and fibre mesh. The cells showed an elongated shape that followed the structure of the matrices and exhibited prominent actin filaments. Moreover, the fibroblasts produced, secreted and deposited collagen type 1 onto the matrices.
Spider silk is an attractive material for medical applications, and recently we have learnt how to produce it in a scalable system. The synthetic silk can be used for cell culture applications and has proven to be biocompatible in animal trials, offering the potential to be used in implants and tissue engineering.
I would like to thank Professor Wilhelm Engström for introducing me to spider silk research, Professor Jan Johansson for valuable discussions and guidance, and Sara Amandusson for photographing the fibres (Figure 2).
1. Newman, J. and C. Newman, Oh what a tangled web: the medicinal uses of spider silk. International journal of dermatology, 1995. 34(4): p. 290-2.
2. Candelas, G.C. and J. Cintron, A spider fibroin and its synthesis. J. Exp. Zool., 1981. 216: p. 1-6.
3. Hinman, M.B., J.A. Jones, and R.V. Lewis, Synthetic spider silk: a modular fiber. Trends in biotechnology, 2000. 18(9): p. 374-9.
4. Rising, A., et al., Spider silk proteins: recent advances in recombinant production, structure-function relationships and biomedical applications. Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS, 2011. 68(2): p. 169-84.
5. Stark, M., et al., Macroscopic fibers self-assembled from recombinant miniature spider silk proteins. Biomacromolecules, 2007. 8(5): p. 1695-701.
6. Fredriksson, C., et al., Tissue Response to Subcutaneously Implanted Recombinant Spider Silk: An in Vivo Study. Materials, 2009. 2(4): p. 1908-1922.
7. Widhe, M., et al., Recombinant spider silk as matrices for cell culture. Biomaterials, 2010. 31(36): p. 9575-85.
Anna Rising, DVM PhD, Assistant Professor at Karolinska Institutet and Lecturer in Translational Veterinary Medicine at SLU.
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NanoString Technologies, Inc., a privately held life sciences company marketing a complete solution for detecting and counting large sets of target molecules in biological samples, today announced it has secured an exclusive worldwide license from Bioclassifier, LLC to develop in vitro diagnostic and research products for breast cancer intrinsic subtyping.
The company also stated its goal to become the platform of choice for diagnostic testing based on multiplexed gene expression signatures that can be offered in hospitals and pathology laboratories worldwide, following appropriate regulatory approvals.
More than a decade of research, clinical studies, and peer reviewed publications support the value of intrinsic subtyping based on gene expression analyses to assess prognosis and treatment options for breast cancer patients. The Bioclassifier team, a partnership of four breast cancer experts from four leading research institutions, has advanced this field by creating and validating the “PAM50” gene signature. The NanoString Breast Cancer Intrinsic Subtyping Assay will be based on the PAM50 gene signature and will be designed to measure the expression levels of these 50 genes in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) breast tumor tissue samples.
Research suggests that the subtype classification and prognostic score generated by the PAM50 gene signature provides information about the fundamental biology of breast cancer that cannot be gained through other currently available diagnostic tests. It may provide clinically useful information for a broader range of breast cancer subtypes, including classification of tumors from patients with estrogen receptor negative, or node positive forms. NanoString intends to collaborate with leading breast cancer researchers to clinically validate the gene signature on its nCounter® Analysis System, and plans to seek regulatory approvals from the FDA and other relevant agencies outside the U.S. for the NanoString Breast Cancer Intrinsic Subtyping Assay.
Charles Perou, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics, and Pathology at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a member of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, a co-founder of Bioclassifier, stated: “We had a goal to translate our decade of work on the intrinsic subtypes into a distributed test that could help breast cancer patients across the globe. We believe NanoString is the partner with the ideal technology to bring gene expression profiling into the clinical setting. The technology is robust and reproducible, works with the sample types routinely used in clinical practice, and is the simplest digital counting technology available.”
“Intrinsic subtyping has entered the lexicon of breast cancer researchers and oncologists alike,” said Bioclassifier co-founder Matthew Ellis, M.D., Ph.D. “Upon validation and regulatory approval, we believe this gene expression panel will become part of the standard of care for breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, and will be useful in the evaluation of all newly diagnosed breast cancer patients.” Dr. Ellis also directs the Breast Cancer Program at the Washington University School of Medicine at St. Louis.
Additional co-founders of Bioclassifier include Philip Bernard, M.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Utah/Huntsman Cancer Institute, and Torsten Nielsen, M.D., Ph.D., Pathologist, BC Cancer Agency.
“Leading oncology researchers are finding that the nCounter Analysis System is the ideal platform on which to validate their discoveries and translate them into clinically useful diagnostic assays,” said Brad Gray, President and CEO of NanoString Technologies. “We believe the NanoString Breast Cancer Intrinsic Subtyping Assay will be the first in a series of proprietary high-impact molecular diagnostic assays that we will commercialize as in vitro diagnostic products and that will be available in hospital and pathology laboratories worldwide.”
The company's executive management team will be attending this week's San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium to discuss its plans for the NanoString Breast Cancer Intrinsic Subtyping Assay with experts in the field and identify other potential partners for its future molecular diagnostics platform.
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Following centuries of tradition, indigenous people off the coast of Panama drink up to 40 cups of fresh cocoa per week and experience incredible health benefits. According to Harvard studies, they experience 1/9 the rate of heart disease and 1/16 the rate of other age-related illnesses as thei neighbors on the mainland.
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CocoaWell - Dark Chocolate Energy Powder - 8 oz. (227g)
Discover the energizing power of Chocamine and green tea with our exclusive Dark Chocolate Energy. They’re a delicious and convenient way to enjoy the energy enhancing benefits of dark chocolate as well as increase your daily antioxidant intake anytime you need a natural boost. Just 20 calories each, these soft chews are a low-sugar alternative to caffeinated beverages, energy drinks and chocolate bars. At 30 servings per bag, they’re ready to eat whenever you need an energy boost.
CocoaWell Dark Chocolate Energy Powder
Features an exclusive energy-increasing and focus-enhancing formula
Enhanced with green tea for natural energy and antioxidant support
Delicious and convenient
CocoaWell's Proprietary Energy Blend is powered by Chocamine,a patented cocoa extract that supports mood, focus and energy.Chocamine contains a high concentration of theobromine,the active compound in cocoa that helps support brain function.
Responsibility to Others Fair Trade Surprisingly, only 1% of all cocoa is considered fair trade. CocoaWell is dedicated to improving farmer livelihoods and conducting responsible business by sourcing the purest certified fair trade organic cocoa.
Responsibility to the Environment Certified Organic Sourcing Referred to as "food of the gods" and prized by the Mayans and Aztecs, cocoa has been traditionally consumed for its sacred health-giving properties. Our organic sourcing ensures that our cocoa extract is produced using raw, non-GMO beans harvested without the use of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and synthetic fertilizers.
CocoaWell's Story Following centuries of tradition, indigenous people off the coast of Panama drink up to 40 cups of fresh cocoa per week and experience incredible health benefits. According to Harvard studies, they experience 1/9 the rate of heart disease and 1/16 the rate of other age-related illnesses as thei neighbors on the mainland.
Inspired by their coveted health practices, they developed a proprietary, innovative method to deliver the health benefits of fresh, organic cocoa in a two-capsule serving, without the calories and sugar associated with dark chocolate. Introducing CocoaWell: Guided by the customs of a culture devoted to cocoa, dedicated to a higher quality of life.
Cocoawell's Line A recent study published in the Chemistry Central Journal has demonstrated that cocoa contains more antioxidants than other renowned superfruits like acai, blueberry, cranberry, and pomegranate. Research conducted by Norman Hollenberg at Harvard University has documented that the Kuna Indians, who live on the San Blas islands off the coast of Panama, have 1/9 the incidence of heart attack, stroke, diabetes and cancer. They consume more cocoa than any other people in the world — up to 6 cups/day or 40 cups/week. Experience the benefits of fresh, organic cocoa in a capsule, without the calories and sugar of dark chocolate. Introducing CocoaWell: Guided by the customs of the Kuna, devoted to a higher quality of life.
Open and enjoy!
Keep out of Reach of Children. Do not use if seal is broken or missing. Please note: Cocoa is hazardous to pets. Allergen Warning: contains soy
CocoaWell - Dark Chocolate Energy Powder - 8 oz.
Serving Size: .5 oz.
Servings Per Container: 16
Amount Per Serving
Proprietary Energy Blend Chocamine [Low-Fat Cocoa Extract (standardized to 12% theobromine), tapioca starch and natural spices (ginger, allspice, cinnamon and vanilla powder)], caffeine (30 mg) from InnovaTea, green tea extract (Camellia sinensis) leaf
*Daily Value Not Established. †Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your diet values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Following centuries of tradition, indigenous people off the coast of Panama drink up to 40 cups of fresh cocoa per week and experience incredible health benefits. According to Harvard studies, they experience 1/9 the rate of heart disease and 1/16 the rate of other age-related illnesses as thei neighbors on the mainland. 701 S. Howard Ave Suite 106-310 Tampa,
33606 Phone: 877-787-5454 Fax: 800-240-4055 http://www.cocoawell.com
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Family finds “guiding light” in decent housing
An airport expansion took the Sivanayagam family’s home. It forced them into a thatch-roof hut without proper sanitation facilities, water or electricity.
The Sivanayagams made the best of a difficult situation, clinging to the hope that their housing and lives would improve.
Meanwhile, Thiyaharajah Sivanayagam, born in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, fished his native shores, earning a living for his wife and four children, three girls and a boy, ranging in age from 8 to 18.
Extreme lack of space made life difficult at best. The children struggled to study amid inadequate conditions. Then the Sivanayagams learned about Habitat for Humanity.
Habitat visited their village, and Mr. Sivanayagam heard representatives speak of a program called Save and Build, in which groups of families collectively save the equivalent of pennies a day, then build one another’s houses until, at the end of a two-year period, all families have built, bought and moved into decent shelter.
Mr. Sivanayagam says it all seemed too good to be true, but after some initial skepticism, his family joined the second Save and Build group — and discovered exactly how real the dream could become. In six months time, they moved into their house and became Habitat for Humanity homeowners.
Today, having contributed hundreds of “sweat-equity” hours making cement blocks, the Sivanayagams are secure in their house, for which they pay a little more than US$5 per month.
Homeownership, Mr. Sivanayagam says, has significantly improved his family’s community status and lifestyle. More importantly, he says, is that they are homeowners with a sufficient and tidy house, creating wealth through ownership and strengthening their asset with each monthly payment they make.
Today, basic tasks such as studying and washing clothes — once difficult in their former living conditions — are tended to with less stress, more comfort and more confidence. Education is more accessible, says Mr. Sivanayagam, and the family is better sheltered from such forces as fire, flood and cyclone rains. Thanks to adequate sanitation facilities, the Sivanayagams can enjoy better health as well.
They call Habitat for Humanity “a guiding light,” and while the organization was there to help, it was the Savanayagams’ own fortitude — their faith and hope and resolve to create a better way — that moved them from substandard conditions into the security, reassurance and stability of Habitat housing…and homeownership.
Your Environment is Who You Are
Alverna Walker’s mother passed away when she was 7 years old, forcing her and her siblings to move in with 16 other family members in a small house.
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The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
- 17 mins
IN THE mid 1950s, I underwent compulsory military service in Britain. Managing to avoid being sent on a draft to fight the Mau-Mau in Kenya, I landed a clerical post in Canterbury, Kent, where I fortunately met a group of people running an amateur theatre group called ‘Playcraft’. This group regularly staged a series of very clever productions in the small living room of Alan and June Gray - with Alan and Anne Pope, Stan and Phyllis Mercer, and other friends who acted, helped with designs and sets, and invited the local audience to the twenty or so seats tightly crammed into the room. A drama student bitten by the ‘acting bug’ in London before my military service, I acted in several of Playcraft’s productions - including in R.C. Sheriff’s anti-war drama, Journey’s End, set in the trenches during World War I. Immediately following my release from the army, I was bitten by another - amateur filmmaking - ‘bug’, and acquired a Bolex spring-driven 8mm camera. Together with the patient ‘Playcraft’ members, I produced a series of mini ‘test’-dramas, and then my first full-length 8mm amateur film, ‘The Web’, a saga set in France during the final days of World War II, depicting the attempts of an isolated German soldier to escape the attentions of the French ‘Maquis’. Although sensitively acted by the members of Playcraft, the filmic and dramaturgical elements were clichéd and heavy-handed - except for a grainy shot taken behind a German soldier inside a pill-box, preparing to fire. This one scene, which looks exactly like footage from a German newsreel, was a precursor of what was to come.
The amateur film movement was very strong in Britain at this time, with many hundreds of individual filmmakers and ciné clubs competing for the annual “Ten Best” competition (the amateur “Oscars”), organized and sponsored by the Amateur Ciné World magazine, under the editorial guidance of Gordon Malthouse, and subsequently Tony Rose. This competition drew entries from all over the world, and was a wonderful inspiration, not least of all because the winning films were shown at the London National Film Theatre, and then toured the country under the auspices of the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers, which made archive and distribution copies of each of these films.
The failure of ‘The Web’ (which did, quite undeservedly, win Four Stars in the 1956 ‘Ten Best’ competition), and of a subsequent film, ‘The Field of Red’, set during the American Civil War - which was not only bad, but somehow (fortunately) disappeared - did not deter me. By 1959, I was working as an assistant film editor at ‘World Wide Pictures’, a documentary film company; and fortunate to have as colleagues many of the finest surviving filmmakers and editors from the days of the GPO and Crown Film Units - including the editor John Trumper, who had worked with John Grierson (and who later edited ‘Privilege’). Also with me at World Wide was Kevin Brownlow, a young filmmaker who was already making a great impact with his invaluable restoration work on Abel Gance’s masterpiece, ‘Napoleon’. Kevin was also steadily working on his own master-work, ‘It Happened Here’, a film depicting what would have happened if Germany had won World War II and occupied Britain. At the same time - with assistance from what had become the Playcraft Film Unit, Roger Higham from my army days in Canterbury, and a friend from London, Brian Robertson, who was to play the leading role - I was preparing ‘The Diary of an Unknown Soldier’.
In 1979, American writer and film teacher Joseph Gomez (then at Wayne State University in Michigan) wrote a book on my work, entitled Peter Watkins, published in Boston by Twayne Publishers. I will let Joe’s chapter on my earlier films continue the story [note that all quotations attributed to me come from that early period in my career] :
“The Diary of an Unknown Soldier (1959) is a remarkable amateur film by any standard, but from the perspective of hindsight, its importance to Watkins' development as a filmmaker cannot be overestimated. Unlike most American directors who were rarely involved in the amateur film scene, British directors often used their amateur films as stepping stones to professional careers. John Schlesinger, Ken Russell, and Peter Watkins were all hired by the BBC on the basis of their amateur films, and many of these films reveal much about their later styles as feature filmmakers. The use of crowds, for instance, in John Schlesinger's first amateur film, Black Legend (1948), is markedly similar to the construction of crowd scenes in Far From the Madding Crowd (1967); and Ken Russell's camera choreography and experiments with music to define mood and reinforce theme appear as early as Amelia and the Angel (1957). In The Diary of an Unknown Soldier, however, Watkins initiated a style of filmmaking which he has consistently developed and experimented with in all of his professional films. The Diary of an Unknown Soldier deals with some of the same themes found in Journey's End, but whereas Sherriff allowed the conventions of the stage to limit his action to a claustrophobic dugout in the British trenches before St. Quentin, Watkins refused to be constrained by comparable cinematic conventions. Even at this stage of his career, he was quick to understand the nature of his medium; in this film, he freed the camera from the limitations of a fixed vantage point and forced it to take part in the action so that he could create strikingly realistic, almost newsreel-like, effects and directly involve the viewing audience in the events it was witnessing. The Diary of an Unknown Soldier, however, is not limited strictly to techniques of realism. It contains a curious, almost uneasy, mixture of expressionist and documentary styles, and one suspects that the financial and physical limitations that Watkins faced because of equipment and location problems played a major part in the evolution of this syncretistic approach. Synchronous sound was not possible for financial reasons; little of the surrounding countryside near Canterbury resembled the trenches of World War I, and a cast of fifteen to twenty had to give the illusion of being five times that number.
A carefully written script for the film existed before any footage was shot; and, after the film was edited, Watkins added an optical soundtrack of realistic effects and a commentary - presumably from the diary of the nameless protagonist who is about to face the front for the first time. The opening line of the film, "last day of my life," establishes the narrator's bizarre perspective and even suggests the film's expressionist mood. The remainder of the commentary complements and clarifies the film's visuals, and the rapid pace at which Watkins himself speaks these lines creates a sense of relentless urgency that reflects the protagonist's constant condition of tension. Occasionally, the pace is a bit too frantic. As a result, some images (trees metamorphosing into bayonets) seem to be a cliché imitation of Sergei Eisenstein's techniques. Also, certain overly emotional sections from the commentary ("The most terrible thing about war is not just the fact that we have to kill men so much like ourselves, but that we have to hate them and keep on hating them ... It seems so bloody pointless. We go forward to those guns. God only knows what will happen to us. God only knows.") reduce rather than increase the impact of the film's message. In all of his future films, with the exception of Evening Land (1977), Watkins would employ some form of narration, but never again in this obvious, olidactic manner.
The strength of The Diary of an Unknown Soldier rests with its striking visual impact. Much of the film, photographed by Watkins himself, consists of close-ups and extreme close-ups of the protagonist or what the viewer sees from his perspective. These shots are noteworthy because of Watkins’ unique framing. He frequently frames the top of the shot below the hairline rather than cropping at the top of the head in what is often called a "Warner Brothers close-up." Indeed, Watkins intentionally creates disturbing shots in this film by ignoring a standard rule which indicates that a proper balance for large close-ups is achieved by framing the subject's eyes just above the imaginary horizontal center. Throughout his early career, Watkins experimented with this framing and by the time he made Punishment Park (1970), he had come to definite conclusions about the framing of close-up shots. "Normally the weight of most camera and most television shots is down-loaded. You always see air over the heads [in Hollywood films] ... I close the air off over the head to stop the strength of the scene going out. You can see more of the body. The whole thing is [more] solid, and you are forced to look at the person - into their eyes ."
Most of the other shots of the soldiers in the film are close-middle shots, and the frequency of this kind of shot was probably dictated in part by the limited number of cast members and by problems with location. The sequence depicting soldiers leaping into the mud of "no man's land" as they advance toward the German lines, for instance, was filmed in a cast member's backyard, after an eight-foot-square plot had been dug up and hosed down with water. Watkins, however, had more in mind than simply making do with what was available. By moving the camera in an adventurous manner, he made it a “participant” in the battle sequences. As Tony Rose, Britain's foremost amateur film authority, wisely observed, “... he went in close with his camera, filled the frame with writhing bodies and hurtling feet, allowed the lens to be jostled and jumped over and practically trodden into the mud. The result was magnificent and it looked like war as the soldier sees it." This aspect of the film impressed others as well, and Watkins won an “Oscar” in the Ten Best Amateur Films Competition of 1959.”
An original archival print of ‘The Diary of an Unknown Soldier’ is at the IAC in England, but is normally not available, as this is the only existing copy.
Institute of Amateur Cinematographers
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Tel : + 44 1372 739672
‘The Diary of an Unknown Soldier’ is found as an extra feature on the Doriane Films DVD release of ‘Punishment Park’(1970). This version is with the original English narration. Please contact:
Video copies of this amateur film are available for cinema showings in France from Shellac. (English narration, French sub-titles):
Project X Distribution and New Yorker Films have released a new DVD version of 'The Gladiators' and 'The Diary of an Unknown Soldier' can be found there as an 'extra'.
For all inquiries for 'The Diary of an Unknown Soldier' in Canada and the U.S.A., including theatrical showings, please contact:
Project X Distribution Limited,
223 Humberside Avenue,
Toronto, Ontario M6P 1K9,
Tel: (416) 604-2506
• A Digibeta copy of 'The Diary of an Unknown Soldier' is held by Peter Watkins, but is only available under special circumstances.
• For all inquiries outside N. America and for cinema showings of 'The Diary of an Unknown Soldier', please contact Peter Watkins at:
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Just about a year ago, the BC Liberal government released a report on the economic benefits of the HST. The report was authored by well known
stooge tax expert Jack Mintz.
The headline on the government press release was modest: HST REPORT: GIANT LEAP FORWARD FOR INVESTMENT, JOBS
And here’s Mintz’s lead: “Sales tax harmonization and corporate tax cuts will increase capital investment by $14.4 billion and result in a net increase of 141,000 jobs by the end of the coming decade according to a report released today by economist and tax expert Jack Mintz, announced Finance Minister Colin Hansen”.
The only problem: The Mintz report was a lie, an gigantic Orwellian piece of government propaganda. The numbers weren’t even remotely true.
Here’s what the new HST Panel report says about economic growth with the HST: BC’s economy will grow by an additional $2.4 billion by 2020 and create an extra 24,000 jobs. That’s seven times less than the Mintz estimates.
And the Panel adds “maybe”. Because they don’t really know. As the panel says in this section of the report: “economic forecasting – especially over 10 years – is an imprecise exercise.”
Yesterday, just like Gordon Campbell and Colin Hansen before him, Finance Minister Kevin Falcon refused to apologize for the lies in the Mintz Report. Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose.
Here’s what you need to know about the new “downgrade”.
The Panel says they commissioned its own study to come up with that estimate. But they didn’t release the study so citizens can’t check its methodology or economic assumptions.
Why is this important? Because the Campbell/Clark government and its allies has lied from the beginning when it comes to the HST.
So taking the Campbell/Clark government at face value now is the new definition of sucker.
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By TIM ALEXANDER
ANKENY, Iowa — With the federal appropriations system for lock and dam upgrade and expansion seemingly broken beyond repair, a United Soybean Board (USB)-funded study is recommending a different paradigm in approaching the issue of crumbling infrastructure on the nation’s inland waterways system.
“It’s a new approach,” said Mike Steenhoek, executive director of the Soy Transportation Coalition (STC). “It applies to the famous statement attributed to Albert Einstein: ‘The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.’”
Steenhoek was referring to the efforts stakeholders have expended in rallying political support for appropriations for previously-passed waterways infrastructure bills, only to see the funding assigned to cost overruns on other projects or otherwise diverted, withheld or withdrawn.
“We have had a lot of WRDA (Water Resources Development Act) bills passed, but the real heavy lift is not on the authorization side, it’s on the appropriations side. Getting money allocated for projects has been so elusive over the years,” he said.
“This time of (financial and political) austerity is apparently going to continue – though we hope not – and we’ve decided that we need to do something different.”
At stake is U.S. farmers’ ability to deliver soybeans to customers in a cost-effective manner that helps them maintain an international competitive advantage. The study, New Approaches for U.S. Lock and Dam Maintenance and Funding, conducted by the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University, suggests alternative funding and maintenance strategies have the potential to yield better results than the current appropriations process.
“The soybean industry is heavily vested in the lock and dam systems. We would be among the primary beneficiaries of having brand new locks,” Steenhoek explained. “But the reality is that we are having dramatic cost overruns, while failing to maintain the rest of the system.
“The net result is that the lock and dam inventory is becoming less reliable, and susceptible to unexpected closures. We are getting closer and closer to widespread catastrophic failure, and that makes it even easier for opponents of locks and dams to make the ‘it’s no longer worth it’ argument.”
The study determined Congress’ unpredictable and insufficient allocation funding system has caused significant cost escalations and project completion delays.
It determined a bonding style approach to lock and dam financing might prove more feasible than the current funding mechanism.
If implemented, the strategy could achieve greater funding for priority projects in the form of lump sums, diminishing the likelihood of cost overruns and delays that are pandemic among the lock and dam system, according to the study’s findings.
“We would like to be able to assure that funding is there to get damaged locks repaired and up and running in a (minimal) time frame. It’s a shift from a build-and-expand approach, to a preserve-and-maintain approach,” Steenhoek said.
According to the research, one new lock construction project averages $376.8 million in costs, nearly equal to the cost of nine major rehabilitation costs, at an average of $40.7 million each.
“If we allow the systems to further degrade, grain handlers along the river will not invest in barge loading facilities, river terminals or barge fleets,” he cautioned.
Another aspect of the study examined the need for increased emphasis on good stewardship practices regarding money allocated for locks and dams.
“We see all of these dramatic cost overruns and money disappearing into the abyss,” said Steenhoek, “so we are looking at how other countries allocate capital project funding for projects like the Panama Canal expansion and others. The key is that those projects are not subject to annual government allocation processes.”
He and other proponents of “the new approach” are hopeful the 113th Congress will take up the issue of a new WRDA soon.
Both Senate and House committees have expressed interest in passing a WRDA in the first 30 days of the new Congress, according to Steenhoek, who is hoping a new system of funding for locks and dams will be part of the package.
“This is going to be a relevant issue this year,” he predicted.
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|Fr. Frank prayed with
activists at an abortion mill in Orlando in October.
At least one baby was saved and Fr. Frank spoke with the
abortionist and another mill worker.
"Each year you give us this joyful season when we prepare to
celebrate the paschal mystery with mind and heart renewed."
(Preface of Lent 1).
The purpose of Lent is succinctly expressed by this preface.
Catechumens prepare for baptism into the paschal mystery.
The faithful are reminded of their baptism, and will renew their
baptismal vows at the Easter liturgy.
Baptism and Life
This baptismal focus is a life focus, and is illumined by Lenten
readings as well as by the encyclical, The Gospel of Life.
Baptism initiates us into the eternal life Christ gives us.
does not only mean it never ends. It also refers to the
that life, namely, it is a share in the life of the Eternal God.
The baptized, therefore, are sons and daughters of God and are
members of the Church, the People of Life (see Evangelium Vitae
#79). The baptized have taken hold of the eternal life promised
them (see Rom.6:4) and are already living it (Gal 2:19-20; John
The choices of the baptized are therefore to be shaped by their
new identity (see Rom 6:6; Eph. 4:17-24). We see how Christ
calls the Samaritan woman to repent as she accepts the waters of
new life (see John 4:15-24). Lenten repentance is necessary
so that Gods people may more deeply become who they are.
They are called to see their sins more clearly. Hence
baptism is known as "illumination". The passage about the
man born blind (John 9) is therefore a key Lenten passage
(4th Sunday of Lent-A and optional Mass for 4th week of
|The "pro-choice" and "right to die"
mentalities are two of those "empty promises"
which are firmly rejected by the baptized.
Anyone who makes the Lenten journey is called to be more
alert to the attacks on human life and dignity around
them. The people of life are called to reject sin and
all the devils works and empty promises (Renewal of
Baptismal Promises, Easter Liturgy). The "pro-choice"
and "right to die" mentalities are two of those "empty
promises" which are firmly rejected by the baptized. A
firm rejection of these positions is integral to
repentance. Lent is the perfect time for us to call our
congregations to a clearer understanding of why this is
true, and to lead them to a deeper affirmation of life,
both natural and eternal, in the celebration of the
Repentance, a key theme of Lent, is a changing of the
mind, and with it ones life, away from the path of sin
and toward a life of holiness. It is not possible to
repent of a sin which one does not recognize or admit is
a sin. During Lent, we ask to be delivered from such
blindness, and to be forgiven even our hidden sins. The
application to the abortion problem is clear when we
consider that the injustice of this act has been
proclaimed as a "right" and a legitimate "choice".
Because such respectable elements of society as the
Supreme Court, many medical associations, and even some
Christian denominations, continue to call abortion a
"right", many find it hard to recognize it as a wrong.
Part of the purification of Lent involves the metanoia,
the "change of mind", so necessary in this area.
The works of charity that constitute a fundamental form
penance can include reaching out to those in need of
concrete assistance in their pregnancy. Volunteering at
pregnancy resource centers is a perfect way to do this,
as is the effort to make such centers better known in
the community. A common fund could be established, for
example, to purchase an ad in the paper or the Yellow
Pages. Giving to such a fund is, in fact, helping the
poorest of the poor.
To stand up in any way for the unborn child can be a
penitential act, since it often brings unwarranted
criticism, even from fellow worshipers who should be
doing more themselves to end abortion.
This Lent, may the whole Church be strengthened in her
mission to build the Culture of Life!
The US Bishops Document Faithful Citizenship
In the year prior to each Presidential election year, the US
Bishops issue a document to review with Catholics their
responsibility to be citizens active in the political process.
In November of 2007 the bishops approved "Forming Consciences
for Faithful Citizenship:
A Call to Political Responsibility".
Priests for Life welcomes the bishops statement. The Faithful
Citizenship statements have always outlined the many important
issues that relate to the common good. Many of the previous
statements have been criticized for failing to adequately
distinguish the differences between the moral gravity of the
and the distinction between policy and principle. The most
recent statement, however, does more to highlight those
distinctions. We at Priests for Life echo the bishops call for a
of life, properly understood, which begins with the proclamation
that life is sacred and that the right to life can never be
denied to a person, whether born or unborn. This ethic continues
to call for the
efforts of public officials and citizens alike to preserve and
enhance the other fundamental rights of every person, such as
religious liberty, and to protect the many goods that are to
accompany life itself: education, health care, security, and
many more. The bishops statement calls us to avoid two extremes
in considering these issues. One is to ignore the distinctions
among the issues; the other is to ignore some of the issues when
making the distinctions.
The bishops furthermore point out that as we participate in
political parties, we are also called to change those parties
wherever and whenever their positions fail to correspond to the
of justice and the common good. In particular, we at Priests for
Life call upon the Democratic Party to abandon its pro-abortion
stance, recognizing that such a stance imperils and dilutes any
progress that can be made on other issues. We also want to
emphasize in a particular way the call that the bishops make for
Catholics to be involved in running for office and being active
in political parties. This is completely consistent with a life
of faith and worship. In fact, public service in political life
is a vocation.
The statement, furthermore, explains that
Catholics who vote for candidates because they want to keep
abortion legal, or who ignore the pro-abortion stance of a
candidate and support him or her just because of party loyalty,
are acting immorally. The document does leave room for voting for
a candidate who favors legal abortion if, for instance, the
opposing candidate is even more pro-abortion than the one for
whom the voter is voting. The statement encourages Catholics to
use voter education materials produced by their dioceses, and so
do we. Unfortunately, many dioceses do not produce any voter
guides or election-related materials.
Priests for Life urges such dioceses to do so. The
faithful, of course, are always free to produce and use other
election-related material. This is consistent with the
statements call to be active in the political process and in
political parties themselves. Our commitment at Priests for Life
is to make this document widely known, and to distribute it far
and wide at our own expense. Moreover, we call upon priests to
preach on its contents, on candidates to study its lessons, and
on voters to heed its guidance.
Quotes from the document:
"In our nation, "abortion and euthanasia
have become preeminent threats to human dignity because they
directly attack life itself, the most fundamental human good and
the condition for all others" (Living the Gospel of Life, no. 5)."
"Two temptations in public life can distort
the Churchs defense of human life and dignity: The first is a
moral equivalence that makes no ethical distinctions between
different kinds of issues involving human life and dignity. The
direct and intentional destruction of innocent human life from
the moment of conception until natural death is always wrong and
is not just one issue among many. It must always be opposed.
"The second is the misuse of these
necessary moral distinctions as a way of dismissing or ignoring
other serious threats to human life and dignity."
"Pope John Paul II explained the importance
of being true to fundamental Church teachings: Above all, the
common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights for
example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to
culture is false and illusory if the right to life, the most
basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other
personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination." (Christi?deles
Laici, no. 38)
"This culture of life begins with the
preeminent obligation to protect innocent life from direct
attack and extends to defending life whenever it is threatened
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The first picture taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft of an impact of a fragment of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 at Jupiter has been released by the space agency.
The black-and-white image of the collision of comet fragment W consists of four frames taken over a 7-second period. It shows the beginning, brightening and fading of a bright point about 44 degrees south latitude on the far side of Jupiter from the Earth. The four frames were obtained on July 22, 1994, at a distance of about 150 million miles from Jupiter.
The image may be accessed by the public electronically by Internet via the World Wide Web system, from JPL's Comet Shoemaker-Levy's home page at the address http://newproducts.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9.sl9.html; or by anonymous file transfer protocol (FTP) to the address jplinfo.jpl.nasa.gov in the "News" directory. The file name is GLSL9W.GIF. The file may also be accessed via JPL's dialup bulletin board system at (818) 354-1333.
Hardcopy prints of the image may be purchased referencing the file number P-44542 from the vendor Newell Color Lab, 221 N. Westmoreland Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90064, telephone (213) 380- 2980, fax (213) 739-6984.
Caption information follows:
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PASADENA, CALIF. 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011PHOTO CAPTION - August 19, 1994
These four images of Jupiter and the luminous night-side impact of fragment W of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 were taken by the Galileo spacecraft on July 22, 1994.
The spacecraft was 238 million kilometers (148 million miles) from Jupiter at the time, and 621 million kilometers from Earth. The spacecraft was about 40 degrees from Earth's line of sight to Jupiter, permitting this direct view. The images were taken at intervals of 2 1/3 seconds, using the green filter (visible light).
The first image, taken at an equivalent time to 8:06:10 Greenwich Mean Time (1:06 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time), shows no impact. In the next three images, a point of light appears, brightens so much as to saturate its picture element, and then fades again, seven seconds after the first picture. The location is approximately 44 degrees south as predicted; dark spots to the right are from previous impacts. Jupiter is approximately 60 picture elements in diameter.
Galileo tape-recorded most of its observations of the Shoemaker- Levy events during the second week of July 1994 and has since been playing the tape back selectively. Many more pictures and data from other instruments remain to be returned from the spacecraft's tape recorder. Playbacks will continue through January 1995.
It is not yet certain whether the data relate to meteor bolides (the comet fragment entering Jupiter's atmosphere) or to the subsequent explosion and fireball. Once all the Galileo, Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based data are integrated, an excellent start-to-finish characterization of these remarkable phenomena will be available.
The Galileo project, whose primary mission is the exploration of the Jupiter system in 1995 through 1997, is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Space Science.
Images, Images, Images
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2,346 crowdsourcing and crowdfunding sites
A recent report says law enforcement should be taking better advantage of the crowd. According to research from Accenture, 88 percent of citizens want to help prevent and fight crime, but 84 percent also feel only minimally informed of local police activities.
The report suggests that by better using digital tools including social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to tap into the altruistic instincts of the crowd, police can create new communication channels to engage citizens and gather leads to support their investigations.
Accenture whipped up this infographic to help make the point:
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America in Asia
On the rocks, again
Barack Obama courts a region at odds over the South China Sea
IF ONE word sums up the style of the ten-member Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), it is “consensus”. So when its meeting in Cambodia in July ended in open disagreement, many assumed it was an aberration. But even at the highlight of ASEAN’s calendar, the series of summits in Phnom Penh between November 18th and 20th, including the 18-member East Asia Summit, the group could not present a united front. A row erupted again over the same issue—how to manage China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea—and between the same ASEAN protagonists, the Philippines and Cambodia. ASEAN seems divided as never before, some think terminally.
The summit attracted leaders from China, India and Russia, as well as America’s re-elected president, Barack Obama. The row erupted when Cambodia, widely seen as China’s closest ASEAN ally, announced a consensus not to “internationalise” the festering dispute—ie, not to involve America. However, the Philippines, an American ally and claimant in the sea, rejected this, saying that it had “the inherent right to defend its national interests” by appealing to whichever international court or country it wants to. Vietnam was equally annoyed with Cambodia.
China claims sovereignty over almost all the sea, thought to hold vast reserves of oil and gas, as well as over the mostly tiny specks of land within it. Of ASEAN members, Vietnam claims all the Chinese-controlled Paracel islands to the north, as well as the contested Spratly chain to the south, where the claims of Brunei, Malaysia, and, especially, the Philippines, overlap with China’s. The bust-up in ASEAN pits its claimant countries against non-claimants close to China, such as Cambodia, Laos and possibly Myanmar. Singapore has been critical of Cambodia over the issue. Indonesia tries to act as the peacemaker.
This time, China probably had the worse of the argument. China insists that negotiations with rival claimants must be bilateral. The Philippines and Vietnam, however, want multilateral negotiations, involving ASEAN, to agree on a long-promised code of conduct in the sea to reduce the risk of conflict. At the summit this view prevailed, although the Chinese, as ever, refused to commit themselves to such negotiations. An added ingredient in all this is America’s continuing pivot to Asia. It now vies for influence with China in a region where maritime security is seen as essential to growth (see Banyan).
America says it is neutral as to the ownership of the disputed islands and shoals. But at the summit it did add its weight to calls by Vietnam and the Philippines for collective negotiations. Similarly, America says it is neutral in the sovereignty dispute between Japan and China over the Senkaku or Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea. But it has confirmed the islands are covered by its security treaty with Japan.
Indeed, it is anxiety over China’s new assertiveness as much as economic opportunity that is prompting America’s deepening engagement in the region. Mr Obama’s quick visit to Thailand, where he signed new military agreements, reflected this. So did his historic trip to Myanmar—the first by a serving American president—where he hoped to encourage reform and the continuing drift away from China.
That will be a theme for many years to come in South-East Asia. Much was made of how Mr Obama’s first post-election tour reflected America’s renewed commitment to Asia. But Wen Jiabao, China’s prime minister, turned up in Bangkok just a day after Mr Obama, and also received a warm reception. The region’s cannier countries will make the most of this competition while it lasts.
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'New' name for Huangyan Island sparks fury
Updated: 2012-05-08 03:02
By Zhang Yunbi and Zhou Yan (China Daily)
Beijing slams Manila as oil rig launch in South China Sea looms
Beijing on Monday slammed Manila's attempt to "rename" Huangyan Island as China is set to launch its first deepwater oil rig in the South China Sea.
Manila declared on Thursday that it would "rename" Huangyan Island as Panatag Shoal, and is considering removing signs on the island related to China.
Manila also planned to involve other countries and organizations in the dispute by raising the issue before international tribunals.
The Foreign Ministry warned on Monday that Manila's actions targeting Huangyan Island are "illegal and invalid", and will not change the fact that the island belongs to China.
"We strongly urge the Philippines to return to diplomacy," and any remark or move that complicates or intensifies the situation is nonsensical, Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a news conference in Beijing.
Beijing's stance in resolving the situation through diplomacy is "unchanged," Hong added.
Huangyan Island has been an integral part of China's territory for centuries.
The Philippines did not challenge China's sovereignty over the island until 1997.
Manila's latest actions over Huangyan Island have incited a nationalist fervor among the Philippine public, Yang Baoyun, a professor of Southeast Asian studies at Peking University warned.
A Philippine warship entered the island's territorial waters on April 10, and dispatched personnel to harass Chinese fishing boats and attempted to detain Chinese fishermen.
The move infringed sovereignty. Two Chinese patrol ships in the area came to the fishermen's rescue, and the warship left.
But the impasse continues as Philippine vessels were reported still to be in China's territorial waters on Monday.
In-depth oil drills
Meanwhile, China's first home-made deepwater rig will formally start operations on Wednesday in the South China Sea.
The move is widely expected to pave the way for mutually beneficial cooperation with neighboring countries.
China National Offshore Oil Corp, owner and operator of the platform, said on Monday that deep-sea equipment, capable of operating at depths of 3,000 meters, will drill the first well 320 kilometers southeast of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
It demonstrates China's technological capacity to explore and develop oil and gas resources in the South China Sea, said Zhou Shouwei, an academic at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Tian Ling, a member of the French National Council for Diversity, agreed that Hollande will seek to foster smooth trade and investment relations with China.
"He is unlikely to clash with China on ideological issues but rather he will be pragmatic as he is a smart politician. However, it will take time for Hollande and his team to get to know more about China and Chinese policymakers, so there is still a question mark around his policies," Tian said.
Hollande did not fully elaborate his policies during the campaign, Zhang Jinling, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said.
Former Chinese ambassador to France Cai Fangbo told Chinese media that the partnership between the two countries would continue moving forward, but the Taiwan and Tibet questions remained red lines for China.
Sarkozy was the first French president since Valery Giscard d'Estaing in 1981 not to be re-elected and the 11th eurozone leader to be ousted from office since the beginning of the sovereign debt crisis.
US President Barack Obama on Sunday congratulated Hollande.
European leaders also scrambled to congratulate Hollande. German Chancellor Angela Merkel extended an invitation to him in a phone call on Sunday night to visit Berlin.
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AFP and Tan Xuan in Brussels contributed to this story.
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When one thinks about visiting a National Park in the United States, Yellowstone National Park inevitably comes to mind. Yellowstone is America's premier National Park with so many natural wonders to offer its visitors, that a guest can spend days doing nothing but exploring. Created in 1872, Yellowstone is the oldest National Park in the United States drawing well over three million visitors annually. This magnificent park is located in the northwest corner of Wyoming.
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With so many interesting geological masterpieces to see and experience you will want to spend as many days at Yellowstone as possible; this is easy with so many amenities available to tourists of today today. Accommodations in Yellowstone National Park include tent camping, RV parking, rustic cabins and luxurious lodges. No matter what your taste is you should have no problem finding it at this park. You will easily find groceries available at the general store as well as Yellowstone gifts, but if you like things a little more on the relaxed side, try one of the many fantastic eating establishments offered at the park.
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After Mukhtar Mai was gang raped on the orders of a tribal court in Pakistan in 2002, local tradition dictated she was expected to commit suicide.
She defied her attackers and fought for justice. More than a decade on, she is still fighting for women's rights in Pakistan and inspiring many around the world.
Mai's "honor revenge" was carried out on the orders of a jirga -- a tribal assembly -- because her 12-year-old brother was wrongly accused, according to a subsequent investigation ordered by the Punjab governor, of improper relations with a woman from another tribe.
"They decided I should be punished against my brother's crime," Mai, now 39, told CNN through an interpreter. "They immediately acted upon that decision and dragged me out. That was the hardest moment of my life."
While the majority of rapes go unreported in Pakistan, according to Pakistani national newspaper The Express Tribune, Mai was determined not to stay silent.
"I was of the view that I must fight back to get my rights," said Mai. "First of all, there was the rape, and afterwards when I tried to call the police, I received death threats that I would be killed if I went to a police station.
"I sat inside the four walls of my home, but I was encouraged by well-wishers. My local community gave me the courage to fight back and go to the court."
"I decided that what happened to me should never happen to anyone else."
Initially, six men were sentenced to death for the rape or abetting the rape. However, in 2011, Pakistan's Supreme Court overturned all but one of the convictions and the men were freed.
Mai grew up in a small village in the Punjab region of Pakistan, where she never went to school and was forced into marriage at the age 13.
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Iran’s oil revenues have been cut in half this year compared with last year, a newspaper quoted Iran’s economic minister as saying, an admission of how deeply Western sanctions are cutting Tehran’s chief source of funds.
US and European Union sanctions are designed to slash oil revenues to starve Tehran of funds that might be channelled into expensive nuclear weapons programmes.
Iran denies it is seeking nuclear weapons, saying its atomic programme is solely for peaceful purposes.
“Because of the sanctions, revenues collected from the country’s oil have dropped by 50 percent,” Economic Minister Shamseddin Hosseini was quoted as saying by economic daily Donya-e-Eqtesad.
“By managing our resources and revenues, there will be no problem in paying salaries until the end of this year,” he added, referring to Iran’s calendar year which ends on March 20, 2013.
Hosseini had made the comments in an interview on state television on Saturday and they were published by the newspaper on Sunday.
Iranian legislators had previously hinted at the country’s budget woes as a result of sanctions and officials have said the government should depend less on oil revenues and more on taxation to fill its coffers.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to present the 2013-2014 budget to Parliament for approval.
Iranian MP Mohammad Reza Bahonar said in September Iran’s oil exports had dived to 800,000 barrels per day (bpd) in July as a result of sanctions, compared with between 2.3 and 2.4 million bpd last year.
In addition to oil embargoes, Iran also faces financial sanctions that make it difficult to repatriate earnings from oil it does manage to sell.
Starting Feb. 6, US law will prevent Iran from bringing home oil export earnings, a measure that will @lock up” a substantial amount of Tehran’s funds, US officials have said.
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There are hundreds of mouthwatering cars on display, and being raced up the hill. What does being the ‘featured marque’ mean?
Being the featured marque at Goodwood means that there’s a real focus on that particular manufacturer. It benefits from a very strong presence on the site and a sense of display at the front of the house. With Lotus, we’re going further than before. For the first time, we will gather all the cars produced by the featured marque that are still in existence. They will be paraded in front of the house, around the Lotus sculpture, and then they will each be raced up the hill in celebration. It’s the first time we’ve gone to these lengths, and Lotus will be very much centre stage.
Presumably you’ve been a car nut since you were a boy. Was Lotus a team you rooted for?
Absolutely. When Goodwood circuit closed in 1966 I was 11. I was down there every year before that for the Easter Monday meeting. The Formula One race was known as the Glover Trophy, and this was very much a Lotus race. Jim Clark was at the height of his powers then, and a bit of a hero of mine. To this day, he and Jackie Stewart hold the lap record. In 1965 they both set exactly the same fastest lap – a 1:20.4. Jackie was driving a BRM, Jimmy the Lotus 25.
What does Lotus mean to you?
My grandfather [Frederick Gordon-Lennox, the ninth Duke of Richmond, who established the Goodwood hill climb in 1936 and Goodwood circuit in 1948] loved intelligent, lightweight, innovative cars. That’s what he aspired to. He had started out as an apprentice at Bentley, but he was never really a Bentley man. He got into building small, lightweight cars and I think he had a real affinity with what Colin Chapman was doing. He loved cars which offered great handling and driving pleasure, and clever engineering. Everything Lotus stands for is what he was into.
Have you ever raced a Lotus?
I’ve driven the Indy 500-winning Lotus 38. I was the first person to drive it since Jimmy Clark. It was restored a couple of years ago, having not turned a wheel since 1965. I drove it up the hill on the Saturday, and Jackie Stewart took over the controls on Sunday. That was fantastic, a real treat.
Did you meet Colin Chapman?
I’m sure I must have done, although I can’t specifically remember. I remember my grandfather getting upset with him because he was always parking his private plane in the wrong place! Lotus were a big force then, the stars of the show – as they will be again at this year’s Festival. I have photographs of me standing in the pits as a young boy, and I’m sure I must have been introduced to Chapman then.
Who is your favorite Lotus driver?
Jim Clark was a big one, and of course Stirling Moss. He had his terrible accident in a Lotus here in the 1962 Glover Trophy, and that was the end of his career. Clark, of course, was very prominent at Goodwood and won the race in 1964 and 1965. All the drivers would come to a cocktail party at the house on the Saturday night, in the Long Hall.
Which is your favourite Lotus racing car?
The Type 49 in Gold Leaf colours and with high wings. Or the 72, Emerson Fittipaldi’s car. I was in my late teens when that one came out, and I was very impressionable.
What about road cars?
I always lusted after the Elan but never owned one. The Elite is beautiful too. My son just passed his test and he keeps going on about an Evora. I told him it’s probably not going to go down well with the insurance company!
What is the purpose of the annual sculpture?
To give the featured marque a real presence, and make a big statement about that year’s event. It creates a global and iconic image for the marque and for Goodwood. But it’s always a big secret until it’s unveiled. The Lotus one will be fantastic and huge.
Your friend Gerry Judah has designed this very bold centerpiece. How involved have you been in directing this, along with Lotus?
Very involved. Gerry and I have worked together on all of them, on the design and feel. It’s very important to get it right.
This is perhaps the biggest party for petrolheads in the world. What do the neighbours say?
On the whole, everyone is very supportive. We’ve been doing it for a while now and have got the traffic under control.
We’ve all had houseparties and everyone dreads cleaning up in the morning. How do you cope with that?
It’s a big clean up job, and an anticlimax we could all do without after the great crescendo of the Festival. Everyone puts so much effort in. I’m deeply impressed and appreciative to everyone who helps to build it into such a fantastic event, only to take it down again.
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Jiryu Mark has a nice new post,American Buddhist Apocrypha, over at the No Zen in the West blog where they’re getting really educated these days. A backwoods, unlearned guy like me had to look up “apocrypha” – “hidden,” “esoteric,” “spurious,” “of questionable authenticity.”
I think it’s a word that’ll come in handy in wild fox country, so thanks to Jiryu, one of the finest of the California Zen ilk.
“I think we owe it to ourselves,” says Jiryu, “and to each other to be as transparent as we can about what we’re inheriting and what we’re making up. To do so is to make this whole transition of Buddhism more conscious, more clear: ‘Here’s what we’re taking; here’s what we’re leaving.’”
Along with what we’re inheriting, leaving out, and making up, I’d add that there’s also what we’re re-spinning.
And that’s just what I wanted to blow some gas about here, having just finished Donald Lopez’s The Scientific Buddha: His Short and Happy Life.
Lopez’s book is a provocative combination of scholarship and passion – just what the doctor ordered - deconstructing what has become commonly understood about the old buddhadharma these weird days.
Lopez traces the origins of a new Buddha, the Scientific Buddha, from the racist and ignorant speculations of the earliest travelers from Europe to Asia who saw in all the various Buddha images as a wide variety of idols, not realizing for hundreds of years that they were different depictions of the same guy. It wasn’t until the early 19th century that somebody bothered to study the texts.
The Scientific Buddha that most people nowadays confuse with the old Buddha, according to Lopez, was born in the 19th century, in an effort to find a religion that was in harmony with “science. ” But as Lopez points out,
“If Buddhism was compatible with the science of the nineteenth century [mostly phrenology and astrology], how can it also be compatible with the science of the twenty-first? …How can the same timeless truths be constantly reflected in discoveries that have changed, and continue to change, so drastically over time? …It is clear that the Buddhism that is compatible with science must jettison much of what Buddhism has been, and is, in order to claim that compatibility.”
I suppose when impermanence and emptiness are the heart of the matter, one could argue that Buddhism could morph to just about anything (like this incredibly trite presentation of Zen by Jeff Bridges on the Daily Show – I love ‘em both but this is really a disservice).
Lopez’s penetrating scholarly gaze is directed at the common assumption in dharma circles that Darwinian evolution and Buddha’s karma have a lot in common, of particular interest for Wild Fox Zennists, I hope. For starters, according to Lopez, evolution and karma have purposes are exactly opposite – evolution being about survival of the fittest and karma being about extinction of all species.
“Thus, far from teaching a dharma compatible with Darwin’s theory of natural selection, it is perhaps more accurate to regard the Buddha as a counter-revolutionary, actively seeking the extinction of the human race, and indeed of all species, through the eradication of the selfish gene.”
And, “…My suggestion is that this incompatibility carries with it a particular power. My suggestion is that we allow the buddha to remain beyond the world, completely at odds with the world and with science.”
You don’t hear that much!
Lopez also provides an “Interlude: A Primer on Buddhist Meditation” that puts the central practice of the Scientific Buddha, so-called mindfulness, in its place, concluding that “…It is inaccurate to assume that Buddhist meditation is encompassed by something called mindfulness, which has come to represent Buddhist mediation in many conversations, including those in the domain of science, in recent years.”
Lopez goes on to argue that rather than stress reduction, the more common goal of Buddhist meditation is stress induction.
“This stress is the result of a profound dissatisfaction with the world. Rather than seeking a sense of peaceful satisfaction with the unfolding of experience, the goal of this practice is to produce a state of mind that is highly judgemental, indeed judging this world to be like a prison. This sense of dissatisfaction is regarded as an essential prerequisite for progress on the Buddhist path…. The Buddhist practitioner embarks on a path intended not to reduce stress or lower cholesterol, but to uproot more fundamental forms of suffering.”
And we’re not done with Lopez’s critique.
“[The Scientific Buddha] was born into a world of colonial subjugation of Asia by Europe. He fought valiantly to win Buddhism its place among the great religions of the world…. For this buddha was stripped of his many magical elements and his dharma was deracinated. The meditation he taught was only something called ‘mindfulness,’ and even then, a pale form of that practice. That is, he taught something that no other buddha in the past had taught: stress reduction.”
So where do we go from here?
Lopez suggests that “Rather than imagining things about the Buddha and his teachings for which there is no evidence, we might dwell on what is there, and the ways in which these things might somehow continue to bear meaning. The preservation of mythological and the miraculous is not merely a matter of aesthetics. At least two questions, pondered by Buddhists over the centuries, remain worthy of our contemplation: ‘What does it mean to seek the welfare of others?’ and ‘Is there a self?’
Lopez concludes by turning from the so-called original teachings (dating from the 9th century) to the Great Vehicle spin of the dharma, championed by the Diamond Sutra.
“To understand oneself, and the world, as merely a process, an extraordinary process of cause and effect, operating without an essence, yet seeing the salvation of others, who also do not exist, as the highest form of human endeavor. This is the challenge….”
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You can have 10 active interlibrary loan requests at one time except for the following:
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The loan period is usually 3 weeks, although this period may be shortened by the owning/lending library. The owning/lending library may restrict the material to in-library use only. Interlibrary loans cannot be renewed, nor can they be re-requested for a 3 month period.
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Please call 604-331-3603 and ask for the Interlibrary Loans Department.
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Ordering Microfilms/Fiche from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City
Family History Library microfilms/fiche must be ordered directly by patrons from the Online Film Ordering web page.
- Before placing your first order you will need to register with the Family History Library and set up an account.
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Requesting Libraries should refer to: the Library and Archives Canada ILL policy page for Vancouver Public Library's ILL policies and contact information.
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Villagers in Bedwyn put on gold medal winning performance
The bells rang out across Wiltshire this morning to mark the start of the official launch day for the London Olympic Games
And at Bedwyn parish church it was not just the church bells but just about anything that made a noise from jam jars with spoons and even a wind-chime which were used.
Retired pub landlady Valerie Dalgliesh had put out a request for villagers to join in the bell-ringing that took place at churches all over the country at 8.12am to issue a ringing welcome to the first Olympic Games to take place in Great Britain since 1948.
It was reported that the original idea was that bells across the land should ring out at 8.12pm - 20.12 by the 24-hour clock - but this would have interfered with the official opening ceremony so the idea was brought forward by 12 hours.
Whatever the reason, villagers in Great Bedwyn took up the plea from Mrs Dalgliesh and this morning arrived carrying anything that would make a ringing noise and they put on a gold medal-winning performance in the churchyard.
Mrs Dalgliesh said: “I never expected to see so many people.”
There were babes in arms, toddlers and at the other end of the family spectrum pensioners in their late eighties and nineties all with bells or implements that could make a ringing sound.
Great grandmother Irene Brady, 85, who has lived in Bedwyn for 15 years sat with her ninth great grandchild nine-week old Ned Glenister on her lap as she rang a pair of hand bells.
There were cow bells, handbells, children’s toy bells, comic Christmas antlers with bells on and even a miniature hand-held carillon.
And some who did not have bells waved their Union Jack flags when the church bells in St Mary’s began to chime out at exactly 8.12am, in common with church bells the length and breadth of the UK.
Hidden away in the church tower ringing chamber were Sue Mason - current landlady of the Cross Keys - Claire Matthews, Rob Braybrooke, Adrian Runskill, Margaret Burton and David Haynes.
Together the church bells and the hand-bells outside in the churchyard rang out for just over three minutes, making a deafening sound for those nearby.
Mrs Dalgliesh, who had put up posters around the village urging people to join in, said: “This has turned out to be a very special day and one that people who took part in, and those who just listened, will remember for the rest of their lives.”
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Hannon, Margaret A.
INCREASING IMPLEMENTATION OF EVIDENCE-BASED INTERVENTIONS AT LOW-WAGE WORKSITES
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Cancer and other chronic diseases are leading killers and disablers in the United States, and low-income Americans are at high risk for these diseases. Multiple evidence-based interventions (EBIs) exist to improve chronic disease risk behaviors, such as cancer screening, healthy eating, physical activity, and tobacco cessation, yet EBI reach to community settings is poor. Among community settings for reaching low-income adults, worksites stand out because most low-income adults are employed, but worksite implementation of health-promoting EBIs is low. Half of American workers work in small or low-wage worksites, where implementation of these EBIs and readiness to implement are especially low. Even though decision-makers at these worksites are often motivated to promote worker health, they usually have no dedicated wellness staff and face three major barriers in implementing EBIs: 1) lack of awareness of the potential benefits of EBIs, 2) lack of knowledge to choose EBIs, and 3) lack of financial and personnel resources to implement EBIs. Non- profit organizations and others who would assist these worksites face their own barriers. Organizational readiness to implement EBIs is not well understood, and few validated measures are available, especially for worksites. Without reliable and valid measures of worksite readiness, those who would assist them have difficulty: a) identifying worksites that are ready, and b) helping decision-makers get ready to increase their odds of implementation success. The proposed research will address both sets of barriers and contribute to dissemination and implementation research by testing the efficacy of a worksite EBI dissemination program, HealthLinks, developed in partnership with the American Cancer Society, a non-profit organization operating nationwide. HealthLinks is based on diffusion of innovations framework and diffusion of innovations theory and addresses small and low-wage worksites' barriers by providing free on-site information and recommendations for EBIs and by providing free on-site programs and temporary staffing to assist implementation. We will test HealthLinks via a 3-arm randomized controlled trial. Worksites will receive either 1) HealthLinks, or 2) an enhanced version of HealthLinks that addresses small worksites' lack of personnel by adding worker wellness committees, or will 3) serve in a delayed control group that receives HealthLinks at study end. We will measure worksites' EBI implementation at baseline, 12 months (at the end of the intervention period), and 24 months (to assess maintenance one year after the intervention ends). This design will test the effectiveness of both HealthLinks and of worker wellness committees. We will also measure the effect of both on workers' health behaviors at baseline, 12 months, and 24 months. Finally, we will develop, pilot-test, and validate a measure of worksite readiness to implement EBIs. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed project will answer key questions about implementing evidence-based health promotion interventions at small and low-wage worksites. Small, low-wage worksites will be randomized to receive HealthLinks (a free American Cancer Society program to disseminate evidence-based interventions), HealthLinks+ (which will include creating worksite wellness committees as part of the program), or to serve in a delayed control group. This approach will identify successful strategies for implementing evidence-based interventions at low-wage worksites to improve workers' cancer screening, healthy eating, physical activity, and tobacco cessation.
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Solid waste department seeks input on recycling The city of Vermillion is seeking public input on the Solid Waste Department's recycling program.
"Recycling is a major part of the mission of the city of Vermillion's Solid Waste Department," said Phyllis Packard, solid waste director, "and in order to provide the public with an environmentally positive and economically viable recycling program, the city's solid waste department is asking for assistance and comments."
Specifically, the department wants to hear suggestions on how to make the recycling trailer work better for local citizens.
Recently, and primarily due to snow and ice, the recycling trailer next to the city liquor store near Jones' Food Center was removed until better weather conditions allow easier access.
Due to the recent quantity of snow and ice, the trailer became difficult and dangerous to maneuver in and out for emptying.
Packard said she and others involved with managing Missouri Valley Recycling management is proud of Vermillion's recyclers.
Plastic, paper, and metal delivered to the facility drop-off program are cleaned and sorted and items which cannot be recycled are either not brought in or taken home.
The clean, sorted materials allow the personnel to work efficiently on customer service, baling and marketing," Packard said. "Maybe it is the bad weather � it is hard to separate materials when it is cold � but our experience with the trailer has been that some people are not taking the time to recycle in a responsible manner."
Bags of kitchen garbage have been mixed in the newspaper, and the tin and aluminum are all dumped together, she said. The contamination and sorting add to the cost of recycling.
"When the materials must be sorted and cleaned at the recycling center it takes time away from customer service, baling and marketing," Packard said.
She said many residents have commented that they like the recycling trailer's convenience and the solid waste department plans to continue the program.
To provide comments and suggestions about the enhnacing the use of the trailer and to give input on other recycling-related issues, citizens may e-mail firstname.lastname@example.org or call (605) 677-7076.
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Murder or Self-Defense: Florida Case Raises Questions
One month ago, in a community outside Orlando, Florida, a 28 year old man named George Zimmerman (pictured left) shot and killed 17 year old Trayvon Martin (pictured right). Now, that shooting is making national headlines both because of concerns about the appropriateness of the shooting and because of concerns that race may have played a role in how the shooting went down. Charles Blow describes the circumstances of exactly what happened on February 27th in a column that a appeared last week:
Trayvon had left the house he and his father were visiting to walk to the local 7-Eleven. On his way back, he caught the attention of George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old neighborhood watch captain, who was in a sport-utility vehicle. Zimmerman called the police because the boy looked “real suspicious,” according to a 911 call released late Friday. The operator told Zimmerman that officers were being dispatched and not to pursue the boy.
Zimmerman apparently pursued him anyway, at some point getting out of his car and confronting the boy. Trayvon had a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea. Zimmerman had a 9 millimeter handgun.
The two allegedly engaged in a physical altercation. There was yelling, and then a gunshot.
When police arrived, Trayvon was face down in the grass with a fatal bullet wound to the chest. Zimmerman was standing with blood on his face and the back of his head and grass stains on his back, according to The Orlando Sentinel.
Trayvon’s lifeless body was taken away, tagged and held. Zimmerman was taken into custody, questioned and released. Zimmerman said he was the one yelling for help. He said that he acted in self-defense. The police say that they have found no evidence to dispute Zimmerman’s claim.
One other point: Trayvon is black. Zimmerman is not.
Trayvon was buried on March 3. Zimmerman is still free and has not been arrested or charged with a crime.
The police on the scene appear to have reached the conclusion that Zimmerman shot Martin in self-defense, but the 911 calls from that night raise some doubt about just how much danger Zimmerman was actually in, and the extent to which he may have pursued Martin despite being told by a 911 operator not to do so:
“Hey, we’ve had some break-ins in my neighborhood and there’s a real suspicious guy,” Zimmerman tells police before giving the address of where he is. “This guy looks like he’s up to no good or he’s on drugs or something.”
“These [expletive], they always get away,” Zimmerman says before getting out of his car to pursue Trayvon.
“Are you following him?” the police ask.
“Yes,” Zimmerman says. The officer on the phone tells him, “We don’t need you to do that.” But he did. In another 911 call, you can hear screaming for help and the fatal gunshot. Zimmerman brought a 9 mm handgun to the altercation. A scuffle ensued. Trayvon was fatally shot in the chest. His mother told the Associated Press yesterday, “(Zimmerman) was chasing him, he was following him, and my son was afraid. He didn’t know who this stranger was.”
The case brought into focus a law that was passed in Florida in 2005 that greatly expanded the law of self-defense, a revision that has since been adopted in a number of states:
A quick primer on the law of self-defense: We’ve always said if you’re inside your own home, the theory your home is your castle, you can use force, even deadly force, to defend yourself, as long as you reasonably believe that your life is in jeopardy in some fashion. Most of the time, it was different out on the street. Out on the street before you can use deadly force, most jurisdictions require that you first try to retreat. See if you can get away safely before you take out the gun and blow somebody away. But Florida’s law is different. Florida has a law, along with 17 states, that says you can stand your ground. Which means you don’t have that obligation to try to run first. So, in Florida, as long as you have a reasonable belief that your life and safety is in danger, you can use force to defend yourself, even deadly force. And now that’s the situation they’re suggesting.
The law has come under criticism from many on the left, largely no doubt because one of its major proponents has been the National Rifle Association, but it strikes me as a fairly reasonable expansion of the law of self defense. At it’s most basic it means that if you’re out at night and confronted with a potential assailant whom you reasonably believe is threatening your life, then you can use force to defend yourself. Personally, I have no problem with the law being expanded in that manner and I think it’s mistaken to cite the law in connection with this incident. People ought to have the right to defend themselves in dangerous situations, even to the point of using deadly force if they believe that it’s reasonably necessary. However, based on the 911 tapes, there’s a chance that the “Stand Your Ground” Law may not even apply here.
Consider what the tapes revealed on Friday, combined with what had already been made public, tell us about what happened that night. Martin was walking through a neighborhood when Zimmerman spotted him. Zimmerman calls 911 and reports suspicious activity, which is really all a neighborhood watch captain is supposed to do anyway, and is told that officers are on the way and that he shouldn’t pursue the person he saw. Zimmerman pursues him anyway, and the two end up in some kind of altercation. We don’t know what set it off, because there are no other witnesses, but at some point during this altercation Zimmermann shot Martin. Can we really say that Zimmerman ever had a reasonable fear that his life or safety was in danger, or that he didn’t bring the physical confrontation on himself by ignoring police advice and pursuing someone whose identity an intentions he was not even aware of? Surely, Zimmerman was not in any physical danger when he first saw Martin and called the police, that only happened afterwards when he chose on his own to pursue this person. And, surely, one could surmise that Martin may have thought that he was in some kind of danger from this unknown person that was following him. Rather than self-defense, this easily could be seen as a confrontation that Zimmerman invited and even initiated, which is what makes the police’s initial decision to decline to pursue charges in this case so disturbing.
At the very least it now appears that the national attention that the case has gotten will result in further investigation of any potential crimes. Last night, the Department of Justice announced that it was opening a civil rights investigation into the incident, and this morning it was announced that a Seminole (FL) Grand Jury will be investigating the matter under the supervision of the State’s Attorney. This is exactly what should happen, although I must say that I’m somewhat bothered by the idea of the Federal Government intervening in what is clearly a state matter before the state has even finished its investigation. Not to mention the fact that Zimmerman faces the possibility of being charged twice for the same crime, but that’s a separate issue for now. It’s far too early now to say whether or not George Zimmerman is guilty of any crime at all, none of us were there that night to witness what happened, but there are questions that need to be answered and it’s good that someone will be looking into them.
UPDATE (James Joyner): Doug beat me to the story, which is just as well as my own thoughts on this are preliminary. I’d just add a couple of things.
First, judging from the 911 call, I don’t think this is “murder,” as some are calling it. Rather, I think this is a case of a wannabe with some grant of power and a gun acting out his cop fantasy while simultaneously displaying all the physical courage of the classic 98-pound weakling.
Listen to the tape; you can hear the abject fear in Zimmerman’s voice over a slight black teenager who’s clearly demonstrating no aggression towards him.
Second, David Frum notes how little coverage this is getting on Fox News (and, presumably, by extension, conservative media in general):
CNN has led the coverage, no surprise given my home network’s fascination with crime stories.
Liberal MSNBC has followed.
And Fox? Hardly any coverage at all. If you get your information from Fox, as so many do, you’d probably have no idea at all of a crime story that has transfixed the other half of America.
I know, I know: Fox has a narrative. But even a narrative-network would, you might think, want to offer its viewers some glimpse of what’s going on in the next valley, if only informationally. “Here’s what to say when your crazy liberal sister-in-law starts ranting and raving about Trayvon Martin.”
For my own part, I first learned of the story yesterday via Twitter. But I generally manage to be oblivious to the various True Crime stories that transfix the mainstream press and cable news channels. Interestingly, the only TV news I watch these days–”Morning Joe” and ABC’s “This Week”–have ignored the story completely, at least in the segments I’ve seen.
This is a tragic story. One presumes Zimmerman is a racist, or at least cowers in fear at the very sight of black males, even small ones. And, while I don’t know what business Martin had in the gated community in question, there’s zero evidence of which I’m aware that he posed any sort of threat that justified Zimmerman’s shooting him. But the problem here isn’t so much that any yahoo can walk around Florida with a gun–or even that the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law seems to make justifiable homicide too wide a category–but rather the empowering of vigilante groups to go out and play cop.
Finally, several of the reports I’ve seen has Zimmerman saying “These @!$%#s. They always get away” to the 911 operator. The “@!$%#s” in this case stands for “assholes.” While I understand the constraints of family publications, the problem with “@!$%#s” in this context is that I naturally substituted a racial epithet. It does make a difference that he said “assholes” rather than “niggers” and the squeamishness in reporting here does the reader a disservice.
Update (Doug Mataconis): ABC News is up with an interview with the last person to speak to Trayvon Martin, while he was being pursued by Zimmerman, and it sheds much more light on what might have happened here:
“He said this man was watching him, so he put his hoodie on. He said he lost the man,” Martin’s friend said. “I asked Trayvon to run, and he said he was going to walk fast. I told him to run but he said he was not going to run.”
Eventually he would run, said the girl, thinking that he’d managed to escape. But suddenly the strange man was back, cornering Martin.
“Trayvon said, ‘What, are you following me for,’ and the man said, ‘What are you doing here.’ Next thing I hear is somebody pushing, and somebody pushed Trayvon because the head set just fell. I called him again and he didn’t answer the phone.”
The line went dead. Besides screams heard on 911 calls that night as Martin and Zimmerman scuffled, those were the last words he said.
Trayvon’s phone logs, also obtained exclusively by ABC News, show the conversation occurred five minutes before police first arrived on scene. The young woman’s parents asked that her name not be used, and that only an attorney could ask her questions.
One assumes she will be talking to the District Attorney soon. But, taking this conversation together with the 911 calls and other information, this is looking less and less like self-defense and more like something that should be charged as manslaughter, or even murder.
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You may know the Nissan Fairlady name-sharp enthusiasts will attach it to a JDM-spec Z car of some manner. But did you know that the Fairlady name dates back to the early '60s, on a line of increasingly fearsome roadsters?
This body-style 2000 was introduced in late 1962 as a '63 model, built to compete head to head with what was then the Second Coming in the sports car world, the MGB. By '68, the Datsun was a far more technically enthralling piece than the English example: your $3071 entry fee got you a sidedraft Mikuni carb-fed 135hp SOHC aluminum-head two liter Four (150hp if you got the optional Solex carburetors), a five-speed gearbox, and a 7000rpm redline in a 2150lb, 90-inch wheelbase package. That curb weight is feather-light, and that's after the safety and emissions gunk was added in. Roughly 6000 came off the line for the year, and about 15,000 were sold in the U20 years (ending in 1970 and replaced with the 240Z), so they were never thick on the ground.
Datsun's pre-Z, even pre-510 history in the US hinged on little MGB-stompers like this Fairlady. Bob Bondurant opened his high performance driving school with a pair of Datsun roadsters. Pete Brock of BRE Racing fame was prepping and winning in these roadsters before the 510 and Z car ever touched tire on American soil-and they're still a club-racing favorite today. At home in Japan, the Fairlady roadster was just one flavor of many spicy varieties available in the showroom. Here in the States, this was pretty much it.
When Jason Brainard of Portland, Oregon (the Henry Higgins in our tale) was conjuring the "fast, fun, reliable convertible with style" that he had always wanted, the original U20 disappeared. Reliability has never been an issue with Datsuns of any vintage, but the notion of finding parts for a 40 year-old engine-even one with the cult status that the roadster enjoys in this country-was. In place of the U20 came another two liter Nissan cammer, the legendary SR20DE, which in naturally-aspirated form as seen here performed yeoman service in a variety of '90s Nissans, including the Sentra SE-R, the under-appreciated NX2000, and the cusp-of-luxury Infiniti G20, among others.
Of course there are differences: the weight savings of the all-aluminum SR20 over the stock iron-block engine, two cams instead of one and electronic fuel injection versus a pair of Mikunis hanging off the side of the block. (We probably shouldn't say this out loud, but the SOHC U20 motor was good for an extra 20 lb-ft of torque to boot.) But now, thanks to less-tortured airflow into the throttle body and some of the SR20's emissions junk placed on the scrap heap, the SR20 puts out an honest 140hp to the rear wheels.
Getting there was not without issue, however: despite the similar configurations, the SR20 was not a drop in. Unlike for, say, the 510/Bluebird, there aren't over-the-counter kits to make this work. The result appears trim and uncluttered, but the short answer involves Jason's pal Michael Spreadbury, a plasma cutter, and triple the time and money anyone figured it would take.
It would have been rough enough to get the SR20 working and call it a day, but Jason also decided to keep all of the computer-diagnostic items intact with the electronics; since Nissan's CONSULT system is still in place, the car speaks quite clearly. Any potential issues can be sorted via the plug-n-play method. The Check Engine and Charge lights are mounted in stock dash locations, and a 55-amp alternator from a Subaru Justy was charged, if you'll excuse the pun, with keeping all of that new wiring working. "Have lots of friends who are dedicated to the same cause," Jason advises.
A '99 Civic fuel pump resides inside a custom-built Jack Scoville gas tank that's 16-plus gallons big (stock was just 11.4); for those who don't know, Jack Scoville was one of the first and best road-racing Datsun Roadster pilots, winning the '69 D-Production ARRC championship with his car appearing in Datsun ads touting the racing victories.
Competition front coils and modified front spring perches dump our Fairlady two big inches closer to the ground, while a rebuilt buggy-sprung rear suspension gets the ass down another inch; the result is a subtle, almost imperceptible rake that still sends the right subliminal messages. Add to that a fatter front sway bar and KYB gas shocks on all corners.
The brakes, hiding there behind the 16x7 Panasports and the 195/50 Yokohamas, are deserving of special mention: an 11-inch, 30mm wide Coleman Racing rotor (with a custom-fabbed hat) graces each front spindle, while a custom caliper mount lets the 300ZX Twin Turbo caliper, polished and custom-engraved with "Datsun" lettering on each side, do its work. The rear drum brakes are also polished aluminum, and all four corners wear Porterfield pads and shoes. A 7/8-inch 280Z master cylinder and stainless brake lines are also part of the package.
The body's crisp lines are untouched (no need to mess around when you've grown accustomed to her face), and are brought into sharp relief thanks to a coat of silver Honda S2000 pigment sprayed by Tim Bridges of Springfield, OR. Euro-spec trim bits include the side mirrors and the amber taillights. The Fairlady emblems were added on too, but despite what sounds like a fussy look, the tone-on-tone chrome-on-silver result is quite different, and tasteful. The rollbar-installed by Al Epperle of Salem, OR-was painted by Scott Daniels.
Inside, the standard-issue low-back buckets that prang you between the shoulder blades have been given the heave-ho, and were replaced with a set of red leather chairs from a '93 Miata. Beyond that, a smaller-diameter MOMO wheel and shift knob are in place, the center-mounted tach is an Auto Meter piece, and all of the plastic gauge lenses were replaced with glass. The only other change Jason wants to make revolves around the dashboard: rather than the '68-up padded dash, he wants to revert to a '66-style all-metal dash, with toggle switches instead of safety levers, and an instrument cluster full of Stewart-Warner gauges.
This particular Fairlady draws eerie parallels with its erstwhile theatrical namesake: owner Brainard, as Henry Higgins, takes something that was born a certain way, and was then primped up to go beyond the limits of whatever could have been dreamed of at the time. Though it is something entirely new and lovely, at its heart, it is still the same beast-one that, changes or not, it's hard not to fall in love with.
OWNER Jason Brainard
HOMETOWN Portland, OR
DAILY GRIND Engineering Technician for Intel
UNDER THE HOOD Nissan SR20DE motor; rewired harness with late-model Nissan fuse box; Subaru Justy 55-amp alternator; painted valve cover; battery recessed into the package tray; Fluidyne two-row all-aluminum radiator
STIFF STUFF Front: Competition coil springs and modified spring perches for a 2-inch drop; front sway bar; KYB gas shocks; Rear: Competition rear leaf springs for a one-inch drop; KYB shocks
STOPPERS Datsun 280Z master cylinder; stainless steel braided lines; Front: 11-inch Coleman Racing rotor with custom hat; 300ZX TT polished aluminum caliper; Porterfield pads; Rear: polished aluminum stock drums; Porterfield shoes
ROLLERS 16x7-inch Panasport wheels (+11mm offset); 195/50R16 Yokohama ADVAN A048 tires
OUTSIDE Honda S2000 paint; JDM Fairlady chrome scripts; European-spec taillights and side mirrors; four-point roll bar
INSIDE MOMO steering wheel and shift knob; red leather '93 Mazda Miata seats; red carpet and door panels; Auto Meter tach
ICE Nissan Consult diagnostic system
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Environmentalists Plan To Block Lacey Access Road [AUDIO]
Ocean County’s proposed 16 mile linear park along the former railroad right of way is delayed in Lacey Township.
A controversial access road project may end up cutting into the trail, something that isn’t sitting too well with environmentalists. They plan to fight it in court.
At the present time, the State Department of Environmental Protection is taking public comments on the issue. According to DEP Spokesman Larry Ragonese, the Township of Lacey is hoping to build the access road to help alleviate traffic on Route 9 in a very congested area. The environmentalists don’t believe it will solve anything besides taking valuable dollars from taxpayers and harming the environment.
If this access road is approved, the trail, which would be 50 feet wide all the way from Toms River to Barnegat, would be reduced to just 8 feet in Lacey. Chairman of the Sierra Club Greg Auriemma has been against the road for years because he says it would kill valuable plant life, destroy forest, harm animal habitats and cut the trail significantly.
Auriemma says “originally, the DEP blocked the permitting process. Now they’ve reached a settlement and are refusing to listen to us. We will not stop fighting this. We will go to court if we have to.”
When Townsquare Media spoke with Ragonese, he wasn’t aware of any possible pending litigation’s on behalf of the Sierra Club or the Environmental Federation. Auriemma says they can’t act on it till the permit is issued.
Ocean County has invested millions in the rail trail park for recreational purposes. They have since stopped construction on a 2.2 mile swath of land in Lacey because it’s owned by the township.
The DEP has every intention of issuing the permit after the 30 day public comment period is up.
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Thanks to a grant from the Hartford Consortium for Higher Education, the inaugural statewide conference on Mindful Education: Building Inner Resilience will take place at Central Connecticut State University in the Student Center's Alumni Hall on Oct. 19 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Presented in conjunction with Capital Community College, the day-long event will focus on how mindfulness can serve as a foundation for teaching and learning in both the K-12 and higher education systems. Dr. Daniel Barbezat, professor of Economics at Amherst College and executive director of the Center for the Contemplative Mind in Society, will be the keynote speaker. Barbezat is interested in how self-awareness and introspection can affect education and economic decision-making.
Also speaking will be Stephanie Jelley, chief executive officer of umojawa. The New Jersey-based company is dedicated to promoting the successes of not-for-profit and volunteer work and transforming community through civic engagement. Jelley has also developed programs to advance mindfulness and social-emotional learning in projects for at-risk teens.
As an added feature of the forum, a live simulcast of the Dalai Lama's talk at Western Connecticut State University will be provided. The Dalai Lama believes that public education must play a pivotal role in cultivating inner values, such as compassion, justice, and self-discipline
Conference workshops will highlight bringing mindfulness into Connecticut schools, as well as diverse topics such as using mindfulness in the treatment of posttraumatic stress and dissolving prejudice.
Early bird discount through Sept. 15. The program and registration form are available at: http://www.ccsu.edu/mindfuleducation.
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Because of the Interpol listing, Mr Gomez has been stopped from being a keynote speaker tomorrow at the founding congress of IndustriALL Global Union in Copenhagen, Denmark, where human rights across the globe is high on the agenda for debate.
Human rights heroes wanted to hear Gomez on Mexican miners' struggle
"There will be human rights heroes from every continent at the Congress, union activists who have been arrested, jailed, their lives, or their families lives threatened, all because they are ready to campaign for the rights of working people, all because they believe working people deserve to be respected," said Jyrki Raina, the in-coming General Secretary of IndustriALL today.
"We are disappointed that Napoleon Gomez has been stopped from joining the 1400 delegates in Denmark to tell us about the struggles of Mexican miners for human rights, respect and decent treatment," Mr Raina said.
Six-year campaign of political persecution includes Interpol arrest warrant
The Mexican government has carried out a six-year campaign of political persecution against Gomez and his union, which represents workers in the mining, steel, and manufacturing sectors. The labour authorities have twice refused to recognise Gomez's election, but last month, the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice ordered the Mexican government to issue the recognition document, known as "toma de nota" in Mexico.
Mexican state and federal prosecutors filed multiple false criminal charges against Gomez, alleging that a transfer of pension fund assets to the union in 2005 violated bank fraud and money laundering statutes. But five Mexican appellate courts have ruled that these charges were unconstitutional and had no legal foundation. Despite these decisions, federal prosecutors issued a new warrant for Gomez in July 2011, and have asked Interpol to arrest him.
Canada provides refuge; Gomez receives human rights award
Gomez, who lives in Canada and has been granted permanent residency by the Canadian government despite the charges against him in Mexico, recently filed an appeal with Interpol's internal review body, arguing that the Mexican government's recycling of criminal charges that its own courts have rejected violates international law principles of due process and Interpol's own guidelines.
Under the leadership of Napoleon Gomez, whom has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Metalworkers' Federation, the fight of Los Mineros and the persecution of democratic unions in Mexico has become a major issue for the global trade union movement.
Last year, the AFL-CIO awarded Gomez its Meany-Kirkland Human Rights Award in recognition of the struggle of Los Mineros to defend trade union democracy and improve the conditions of Mexican workers.
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Don’t be in a rush to cut courthouse treesWritten by Admin
To the Editor:
I am concerned that the decision to remove the trees at the courthouse was hasty and ill-judged. Once mature trees are removed, they will not be replaceable in our lifetime.
According to Cornell University, sugar maples, such as those at the courthouse, are long-lived, often 300 to 400 years. While topping these trees can cause damage and promote weak limb structure, selective thinning can restore strength and vigor to them.
My inspection of these trees does not reveal any widespread disease or decay problems except in one or two. Although not a certified arborist, I do have personal experience with sugar maples in that we bought a property 12 years ago with three maples of about the same age as those at the courthouse. They also had been topped years ago, which caused them to develop thin weak branches. Over the last 12 years I have selectively removed branches which are too close together, thin or weak. Now, 12 years later, the trees appear strong, healthy and well shaped. We have not had any problem with limb breakage.
While not impugning Mr. Leatherwood's credentials, I do wonder whether he has any particular expertise with sugar maples. Just as one would not want a dermatologist to treat a heart condition, I would like to know that the decision to remove these maple trees is guided by an expert on maples.
I would also suggest that the liability concerns sound overstated. The trees are not going to rain death down on a playing child on a calm summer day. Yes, in a severe ice storm branches may break. In a severe windstorm, a tree may fall. But people are not going to be strolling or picnicking under the trees in these circumstances. Additionally, the height and location of most of the trees do not seem to pose much if any structural risk to the courthouse. Further-more, the county does have liability insurance. Has any insurance official suggested that these trees pose any undue risk?
I would be the first to advocate removal of dangerous trees. The trees in my yard are taller than those of the courthouse and they are close to my house. But there is no reason to suspect that they pose any excessive risk, nor has my insurance agent suggested such.
Yes, danger can lurk anywhere: people have been killed by lightning out of a blue sky. The question is should we sacrifice beauty to an unreasonable fear? Removing these trees is not going to make our lives appreciably safer or more comfortable. Rather, removing them will take away an icon of our community and impoverish our landscape. There should be no stampede to sacrifice the history and beauty of these trees for what seems to be a theoretical concern.
William Dinwiddie, MD
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Section Five: Campus and Community Life
Campus Safety and Security and the Health Service respond to individual emergencies. DSS will send a sign language interpreter to emergencies which occur during regular business hours, should that service be necessary.
DSS students are given a separate copy of De Anza’s emergency evacuation procedures. Keep these available in a notebook or backpack while on campus. These colorful blue and red sheets are also posted in various locations in campus buildings.
Students will evacuate buildings, then the campus, if necessary, in an orderly way. In the event of an earthquake, or another disaster in which students are told to stay on campus, assembly areas are designated. You are strongly advised to share the following information with family, significant others and caregivers.
Familiarize yourself and significant others with De Anza's Emergency Preparedness website, especially the pages on evacuation procedures: http://www.deanza.edu/emergency/evac_proc.html#disabled
In an evacuation, VTA paratransit should use the Peppertree (east) entrance to pick up disabled students from PE 13 unless otherwise directed.
Familiarize yourself and significant others with De Anza's Emergency Preparedness website, especially the pages on evacuation procedures: http://www.deanza.edu/emergency/evac_proc.html#disabled.
Follow the directions of your instructor or other college staff. If you require help, request it immediately and explain the help you need.
If you are in another campus location, such as a lab, office campus center etc., you may ask for help from any staff member. You may also request that a staff member accompany you to the parking lot, bus stop or outreach location if it is safe to do so and you are able to leave campus.
Do not use elevators unless you have been advised by a staff member to do so. If a stairway evacuation is required, staff members have been instructed to consult with you regarding the preferred methods to help. Special evacuation chairs may be used for stairway evacuation and are located in multi-story buildings near stairwells.
In the event you need additional assistance after evacuating a building, or if it is not safe or feasible to leave campus, staff members will be available to advise and assist. Students will be assisted to a safe area to wait until it is possible to leave campus.
The preferred locations are:
In the event of a blackout, elevators may not operate. If there is an alert for a rolling blackout, do not use. If an elevator stops working during a power outage, or other emergency, staff members will check elevator occupancy and operation.
Classes may continue during daylight hours at the instructor’s discretion. All classes will resume once power is restored. Official cancellation of all classes is at the order of the administration only.
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Currently, the only definitive method for telling the difference between side effects of radiation therapy for brain tumors and tumor recurrence involves a biopsy of the brain tissue, said Dr. Ewell, an assistant professor in the department of radiation oncology at the University of Arizona in Tucson. MRS has the potential to eliminate the need for this invasive procedure. The authors retrospectively studied 33 brain tumor patients that had MRS spectra taken during the course of their treatment. Choline (Cho) is a metabolite that is elevate
The authors used the ratio of Cho/NAA to predict whether a lesion represented radiation necrosis or recurrent tumor: A high ratio would indicate tumor, whereas a low ratio would indicate radiation necrosis. This metabolite ratio was successful in determining the difference in roughly 80% of the cases.
They then developed a model that would indicate which of three different clinical decisions are indicated based on the ratio: If this ratio is ≤1.1, the patient would have routine follow-up.
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I have not one but two teenage daughters learning how to drive, so forgive me if I consider myself something of an expert in common young driver errors
. If it’s capable of turning my hair white, they’ve done it — more than once. It’s kind of amazing there isn’t more mayhem on the highways, considering how many learner’s permits we issue every year.
I’m not just piling on the kids, since we all do these things, even 30-year road warriors. So don’t consider these problems
exclusive to teenagers. Here are a few of the pointers I impart to my daughters, often at the top of my voice while gesticulating wildly. Actually, they’re coming along nicely — we’re past most of this:
That’s the number one problem
today, and it’s not just teenagers, and it’s not just texting and talking on smart phones. Actually, student drivers are less guilty of this than most of the rest of us, because they’re somewhat focused by the novelty of it all. For the rest of us, driving is boring and we get distracted. Driving fatalities are up for teens past the learning stage, and distracted driving is a big reason
. The infotainment systems on new cars are overly complicated and involving, even when they add voice commands. My kingdom for a volume control knob! And we also get distracted by conversations with passengers, by the object we just dropped in the gap between the two front seats, and by things we see around us. What I try to emphasize to my young drivers is the need to pay full attention, all the time. Highways are minefields of potential trouble, and only with vigilance will you avoid them.
Following too closely:
Teenagers are immortal and indestructible, everyone knows that, and haven’t learned the frailty of man and machine. They drive like their brakes will always work, and the car ahead will never stop short or decide at the last moment to make a turn. Yes, they have fast reflexes (faster than mine, anyway) but they aren’t an anti-virus against things that other drivers do. Drive defensively
at all times, I tell them.
Changing lanes without looking: This is a tough one to teach, because your students don’t necessarily understand the reason for it. There’s nothing ahead, so why worry about the traffic in your wake? I think at this point they check the mirrors and signal not because they think it makes sense, but because they know I’ll have a fit if they don’t. Getting kids to use mirrors, especially to check all three of them, takes a while.
Sweeping turns: The modus operandi here is to go into the turn without slowing down, then hit the brakes if any object, person or vehicle has the temerity to be in the way. Instead, can the default tactic be slowing down, then powering into the turn after a clear view yields no obstacles ahead?
I know it's obvious, but it accounts for 40 percent of all teen fatalities, DMV.org warns
. Young drivers, in my experience, don't always speed--sometimes they drive too slowly. The general issue is not driving appropriately for conditions, which is aggravated by a general failure to notice speed limit signs and other posted traffic information.
The wanderer: Those painted lines are just suggestions, right? Actually, no, it’s kind of important to stay in your lane, as demonstrated by a succession of clipped curbs, redesigned snowbanks and narrowly missed obstacles.
Also on the short list: Cutting across lanes of traffic to reach a turnoff, blowing through stop signs (or stopping on the crosswalk), failure to realize the lurking dangers in supermarket parking lots, neglecting to turn on the headlights, and blaring teen hits radio. Actually, the last one isn’t necessarily dangerous to them, just to me.
And for any wanna-be teen drivers who might be reading this, here are some cogent video tips on passing the all-important road test at the DMV:
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There is considerable evidence of a positive correlation of standard of living and democracy across countries. Given this, it would seem natural that growth in the standard of living would be positively correlated with democratic change. One could even conjecture that there is a causation from growth in GDP to democratic change. Theory, though, indicates that this causation could be positive or negative: sluggish growth may lead to popular uprising and democratization, or booms may raise political expectations.
Paul Burke and Andrew Leigh explore this question with data from a large set of countries. Causation is not that obvious to measure well, because of the obvious endogeneity problem: democratization may also cause growth. They use some well-reasoned instruments to cover this problem, but I want to retain here only results with temperature as an instrument, as it is the only one that does not turn out to be statistically weak. And the causation is negative: You cannot expect that healthy growth can also lead to democratization. While there are always exceptions, do not keep your hopes of democratization in China too high.
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MONROVIA, Calif., Jan. 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. Marine Corps is receiving AeroVironment's Wasp AE small unmanned aerial system, together with its miniature gimbaled payloads.
The order for the UAS was given late last year by the U.S. Navy Air Systems Command's Program Office for Navy and Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
The award, worth $12 million to AeroVironment, was first given to PAR Government Systems Corp., which then tapped AeroVironment for the systems and services, including training and logistics.
"We introduced the Wasp AE in May of 2012 with the expectation that multiple customers would find its capabilities very compelling," said Roy Minson, AeroVironment senior vice president and general manager of its Unmanned Aircraft Systems business segment.
"These contracts supporting the United States Marine Corps expand the adoption of Wasp AE beyond the Air Force and support our view that this highly capable successor to the proven Wasp III system will help our customers operate more safely and effectively."
AeroVironment didn't disclose the number of systems it was providing but said deliveries would be completed by the end of January.
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ALGIERS, Algeria, May 24 (UPI) --Algeria's government is under pressure to ease its foreign energy investment laws after BP warned it may delay important projects in the North African state.
ARLINGTON, Va., May 24 (UPI) --BAE Systems has received a two-year contract extension from the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command to support its Future Warfare Center.
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During the four-day siege of the In Amenas gas field, which culminated in an opaque takeover by the Algerian military that reportedly killed dozens, several pundits and journalists asked why the U.S. military did not send drones or special operations forces to free the hostages or kill the Islamist militants holding them. One CNN anchor asked Mike Rogers, who chairs the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, "I'm curious as to your perceptions whether the U.S. is taking too much of a back seat." The following day, another CNN anchor seemed puzzled as to why Algeria would only permit the United States to fly unarmed drones over its territory, to which Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr noted: "The U.S. view is that the Algerians would have to grant permission for U.S. troops, U.S. military force, to go in there."
CNN should not have been surprised. Neither the Bush nor Obama administrations received blanket permission to transit Algerian airspace with surveillance planes or drones; instead, they received authorization only on a case-by-case basis and with advance notice. According to journalist Craig Whitlock, the U.S. military relies on a fleet of civilian-looking unarmed aircraft to spy on suspected Islamist groups in North Africa, because they are less conspicuous -- and therefore less politically sensitive for host nations -- than drones. Moreover, even if the United States received flyover rights for armed drones, it has been unable to secure a base in southern Europe or northern Africa from which it would be permitted to conduct drone strikes; and presently, U.S. armed drones cannot be launched and recovered from naval platforms.
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Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter
A Kuiper Belt Object discovered three years ago finally has a real name. It’s also officially been classified as a dwarf planet, and plutoid as well, by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Formerly known as 2005 FY9, and also as 136472, (in addition to being unofficially called Easterbunny) the third largest known trans-Neptunian object is now Makemake. Pronouced like “maki-maki,” the object was named after the creator god from Easter Island mythology. Astronomer Mike Brown, one of the discoverers of Makemake, wrote in his blog that the IAU finally accepted his six-month old proposal to give the object a proper name. “Three years is a long time to have only a license plate number instead of a name,” wrote Brown, who appears to be pleased that the IAU accepted the name that he and his team suggested.
Makemake is now the fourth designated dwarf planet in the solar system, and the third plutoid, reclassified as such just a month after the category of plutoid was created.
Makemake is currently visually the second brightest Kuiper belt object after Pluto, and with an apparent magnitude of about 16.7, it’s bright enough to be visible using high-end amateur telescopes. It can be seen in the constellation Coma Berenices.
The Spitzer Space Telescope has studied Makemake with its infrared capabilities, which showed the presence of methane, possibly in Makemake’s atmosphere. Its size is not precisely known, but from the Spitzer data, combined with the similarities of spectrum with Pluto, astronomers estimate a size about about 1,500 km diameter. No satellites have been detected orbiting Makemake.
This object was discovered by Mike Brown, Chad Trujillo and David Rainowitz on March 31, 2005, just before Easter that year. They nicknamed it Easterbunny (which is easier to say than 2005 FY9 or 136472) and after tossing a few different names around, they finally came up with Makemake because of its Easter Island, (also known as Rapa Nui) connection.
Makemake is the creator of humanity and the god of fertility in the mythology of the South Pacific island of Rapa Nui. He was the chief god of the Tangata manu bird-man cult and was worshipped in the form of sea birds, which were his incarnation. His material symbol, a man with a bird’s head, can be found carved in petroglyphs on the island.
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As politicians line up to support stricter gun control measures in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre, conservative groups have joined forces to draw a line in the sand.
The result: Gun Appreciation Day.
Set for Jan. 19 – not coincidentally two days before President Barack Obama’s second inauguration – the observance is meant to be a national show of force in favor of gun owners’ rights. Support for the movement has come in from such sponsors as the Second Amendment Foundation, Special Operations Speaks, the Women Warriors PAC and others.
The groups are asking people around the country, and right here in the Tampa Bay area, to “go to your local gun store, gun range or gun show with your Constitution, American flags and your ‘Hands off my Guns’ sign to send a loud and clear message to Congress and President Obama.”
Here’s what we want to know from you Tampa Bay: Do you plan to take part in Gun Appreciation Day? Should Congress and the President keep their hands off your guns? Or do you think the time has come for stricter gun control laws? If so, what measures would you support? Share your thoughts in the comments section.
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Design of a Low Noise Studio Condenser Microphone
Today, the development of studio condenser microphones mainly aims at expanding its dynamic range, besides smoothing the frequency response and improving the directional characteristics. It will be demonstrated that the inherent noise of microphones can be decreased by means of reducing the acoustical resistance of the transducer. Furthermore, it will be shown that handling sound pressure levels can be drastically improved by transducers incorporating a symmetrical push-pull design.
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This paper costs $20 for non-members, $5 for AES members and is free for E-Library subscribers.
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Resource Recovery Partner
Close the Loop is dedicated to enhancing the environmental outcomes or reducing the environmental impacts of its customers in ways that are commercially sustainable on a long term basis. Our objective is to reduce our impact on the environment, including factors contributing to climate change, through a commitment to continual improvement and to comply with environmental legislation and regulations. The company's actions are driven by its commitment to zero waste and its application of an internationally accredited Environmental Management System.
Close the Loop® is independently audited on an annual basis to verify that zero waste is sent to landfill.
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Sonoma WaterWise Demonstration Garden
Sonoma County Master Gardeners have partnered with the City of Sonoma, the Sonoma County Water Agency, and the Sonoma Community Center, to create a a waterwise demonstration/teaching garden of approximately 4,000 square feet in the area of existing lawn in front of the Community Center’s building in the City of Sonoma. The garden will demonstrate the principles of water conservation, low-water gardening, drip irrigation, rainwater/gray water re-use and storm runoff abatement. The Sonoma Community Center is a two-story brick building listed on the Historic Register located at East Napa and Second streets in Sonoma.
As a responsible community citizen, the Sonoma Community Center had been searching for ways to reduce water usage and costs. In conversations with the City and the Water Agency over the past number of months, it seemed that a low water garden could also contain a teaching element. Master Gardener Cathy Williamson had been in conversation with the City about a demo garden project, and the connection was made to combine forces on the SCC site.
SCMGs Harriet Derwingson and Steven Hightower joined the project team, and SCMG and garden designer Jan Bryant was recruited to do the actual garden design. This project team has come up with a concept, garden design and project plan that will lead to a fantastic demonstration garden asset to the City of Sonoma by year-end.
The garden is divided into several sections, and incorporates different areas of hardscape, which, along with existing “art pads” will accommodate the art shows and other public events that occur frequently at the Community Center.
- California native plants
- Mediterranean low-water garden
- Cal-Med plantings
- Lawn Substitutes
- Children’s herbal & touch garden
- Cacti, succulents and dry streambed garden
- Rain Gardening
Several different aspects of low water, drought tolerant, sustainable gardening are demonstrated within the garden:
Design Elements Illustrated
- All-drip irrigation system, highlighting different elements of drip
- Smart controller (donated by Hydropoint Systems of Petaluma) using daily ET and weather information for maximizing watering efficiency
- Waterwise and drought tolerant plant section
- Hydrozoning to group garden sections by water needs
- Drip irrigation and watering cycle calculations
- Lawn substitutes and alternatives
- Rainwater collection and rain gardens
- Storm water runoff reduction
- Permeable hardscape materials
Progress and Plans
- The design and plant inventory have been completed.
- Initial removal of high-water shrubs was recently accomplished.
- Initial commitments for donations of compost, mulch, irrigation parts, smart controller and a portion of the plant inventory are in hand
- Much of existing (dying) lawn will be sheet mulched in a community demonstration project in early September.
- Drip irrigation installation is expected in early September, followed by
- Hardscape installation in late September, followed by interpretive signage
- Garden planting will be a community volunteer effort over several workdays in October.
- Garden completion is scheduled for the end of October, with Grand Opening to coincide with the Community Center’s annual meeting and celebration November 17th.
Garden Events, Usage, Ongoing Maintenance
The Master Gardeners will complete a garden upkeep and maintenance manual for ongoing SCC use.
SCC will be responsible to arrange for community volunteers, and workdays to perform garden maintenance, which will be supervised by Master Gardeners.
Master Gardeners will hold periodic seminars and workshops in the garden on the topics of water conservation, low water garden creation, lawn conversion, sustainable gardening and other appropriate topics.
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Mathematics and Computer Science students at Southwestern apply their knowledge and skills in a variety of ways both in and out of the classroom.
With small classes, students are able to have close contact with professors, who often engage with them outside of class in club activities, competitions, and research projects.
From developing an immersive 3D virtual reality game to teach students languages, to creating mathematical models to better understand and improve the campus handicap accessibility routes, to evolving molecules through computer simulations to have specific chemical properties, our students learn to apply theory to real world issues. Along the way, they develop concise and logical patterns of thinking, hone problem-solving skills and learn critical thought processes that carry them throughout life.
Meeting includes scientific presentations and a science-themed art exhibit
Mathematics major Yvette Niyomugaba presented a poster on her research at the Joint Mathematics Meetings and won an Outstanding Presentation Award.
Dr. Suzanne Buchele traveled with a team from Southwestern to deliver reusable computers and components to Honduras.
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Imagine perpetual power to your cellphone, MP3 player, digital camera, pocket camcorder or other low-power portable. No more battery recharging, never again having to plug your iPhone, iPod, Flip or whatever into an AC jack. A new technology being developed by RCA, initially as an emergency power supply, may promise just that — by sucking power from Wi-Fi signals and constantly recharging the device's battery.
You read that right. RCA has discovered a way to absorb power from increasingly ubiquitous Wi-Fi signals. This may prove to be the answer to all portable power issues, forever.
The first products will be AirPower chargers, which are planned to be available by the holidays. These little pods (about the size of a flip phone) soak up residual power from any available Wi-Fi signal automatically to recharge its internal battery. Once fully charged (around five to six hours of Wi-Fi exposure), you can then recharge any low-power device via a USB connection in the same amount of time AC connections currently take. You can also use your device while AirPower charges it.
You never plug in the AirPower. Just leave it around wherever there's Wi-Fi and it takes in power without you doing anything. If you carry it around, it'll automatically suck up power as you pass through or linger in a hotspot.
How is this even possible? An RCA exec explained to me that it has something to do with regurgitating and converting the 2.4GHz Wi-Fi signal. We'll do our best to get a more comprehensive explanation in the coming days.
Pricing has yet to be determined, but the technology isn't limited to a separate charger. RCA says the AirPower can be embedded into devices to constantly recharge their internal battery. The company didn't say if they were going to pursue embedded AirPower licensing — but they just gotta, right?
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story and photos by Kayte Deioma
At the edge of the affluent community of San Marino, bordering on Pasadena sits the grand estate of Henry E. Huntington, a railroad and utilities magnate who bought the property in 1903 and used it as a base for developing the San Gabriel Valley. Huntington and his second wife, Arabella, filled the mansion they built on the grounds in 1911 with a world-class collection of British and French art.
There wasn’t enough room in the house to bring Huntington’s extensive book collection from New York, so he built a separate library building to house the thousands of first editions, historic documents and volumes on the American West. It took multiple railroad cars to bring the collected works to California when the building was finished in 1921. Meanwhile, out on the ranch, a landscape gardener by the name of William Hertrich was busy turning farmland into a showcase of diverse botanical specimens from the local deserts and around the world. Following Huntington’s instructions, the non-profit trust that he formed opened the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens to the public in 1928, a year after his death.
Many who visit the Huntington spend all of their time in the Gardens, which is easy to do on a lovely Southern California day. However, if you’re visiting during the winter rains or want to escape the summer heat, there is plenty to do indoors to keep the whole family occupied.
The Huntington Library
The Huntington Library is not your ordinary lending library. The collection contains over 5 million books, manuscripts, photographs and other works related to American and British history, literature and art. Most of these are hidden away in the Munger Research Center, available only to visitingscholars and researchers by special arrangement. For the rest of us, the Library Galleries display some of the most famous pieces along with rotating exhibits.
One of the best known volumes on display is an original illuminated Gutenberg Bible from around 1455. This is one of the earliest works printed with movable type. Johann Gutenberg is thought to have printed about 180 copies of the Latin bible in his workshop in Mainz, Germany, 45 on vellum and 135 on paper. The Huntington has one of only 12 surviving copies printed on vellum. Only one of the two volume set is on display.
Another highlight of the exhibit is the 15th century Ellsmere manuscript of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, which Huntington purchased from the 4th Earl of Ellsmere. A double-elephant folio edition of Audubon’s Bird’s of America and early editions of Shakespeare’s works are other rare finds. In the 19th Century British and American Literature section, there are personal letters from Charlotte Bronte, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Harriet Beecher Stowe. American history documents include papers related to Abraham Lincoln and the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. The History of the American West is laid out in personal letters, articles, books and photos.
The Art Collections
In the West Wing of the Library, one of the most renowned pieces in the Huntington’s collection, Rogier van der Weyden’s 15th century Madonna and Child, is displayed among Renaissance paintings and French decorative arts and furnishings.
The Huntington Gallery is historically housed in the Huntington’s 1911 Georgian mansion. However, the mansion is undergoing renovations until summer of 2008, so the French and British art normally on view in the rooms of the main house are temporarily on display in the Erburu Gallery. This includes an impressive group of elegant full-length Grand Manner portraits by Gainsborough, Romney, Reynolds and Lawrence. Two favorites, Gainsborough’s Blue Boy and Lawrence’s Pinkie, which traditionally hung side by side in the mansion, occupy different rooms in the Erburu Galley.
The Lois and Robert F. Erburu Gallery is a wing that was added to the Virginia Steel Scott Gallery in 2005, so you don’t have to go outside to continue to the Scott Gallery. Here you will find paintings by American artists such as Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, and Edward Hopper and sculptures by Frederick Remington.
There are several rooms in the Scott Gallery dedicated to the Arts and Crafts Movement in architecture and furnishings. Highlights include three Frank Lloyd Wright chairs and a room devoted to the furniture, textiles and other designs of William Morris and his followers. The largest gallery showcases the work of local architects Henry and Charles Greene who built the Gamble House and many other notable Pasadena properties. There are two fully furnished dining areas with tables, chairs, sideboards, cupboards and leaded glass lamps.
The Boone Gallery, located in the remodeled multi-car garage, hosts temporary exhibits.
The Botanical Gardens
You can don your rain gear and explore the 120 acres divided into 12 themed gardens or you can escape into the Rose Hills Foundation Conservatory for Botanical Science which opened in 2005. Designed to appeal to middle school students, the glass-enclosed science lab allows kids and adults to zoom in on plants and bugs with magnifying video cameras that show the image on large LCD screens. You can test the sugar content of different plant nectars, see how helicopter and parachute seeds are carried by the wind, discover up close why burrs get caught in your socks, measure the nutrient levels in plant water and generally touch and smell different kinds of plants. If you’ve been through the Art Galleries, you can look for the plants that were in some of the paintings. The popular carnivorous bug-eating plant lab occupies one whole end of the Conservatory. Behind the glass-domed building is the Teaching Greenhouse with more hands-on discovery activities for kids and families.
The Rose Garden Tea Room and Café
English Tea is served Tuesday through Sunday in the Rose Garden Tea Room. Your English tea consists of a pot of tea, a basket of mini scones and a buffet of bite-size tea sandwiches and mini pastries. The Rose Garden Café on the back of the Tea Room serves deli sandwiches, grill items, snacks and beverages. During the summer you need an advance reservation for the Tea Room, but on a weekday in winter, you can probably walk in or get a reservation on site. No reservations are needed at the Café.
The Huntington has a first class gift shop and book store where you could probably spend another hour browsing through the books on art and history related to the Huntington collections and other typical museum gift shop items. The store stays open an additional half hour after the Library, Galleries and Gardens close, so you have a chance to stop on your way out.
The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
1151 Oxford Road (main entrance at Orlando Road at Allen Avenue)
San Marino, CA 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2100
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Jan 25, 2001
The final curtain falls on LEP
After a concerted push by physicists to extend the running of CERN's LEP 27 km electron-positron collider into 2001, the decision has been taken to close the machine for good.
The original masterplan foresaw closure in September after 11 years of running, but unprecedented collision energies above 200 GeV enabled several of the experiments to glimpse signs of the long-awaited Higgs particle, which endows all other particles with mass. LEP was thus given a six-week "stay of Higgs execution" (seeNovember 2000 News).
Extra evidence seen during the extension shows the tentative LEP Higgs signal to have a a mass of around 115 GeV. These candidate events are dominated by the production in LEP's electron-positron collisions of a Higgs particle and a Z boson, although evidence for other Higgs production mechanisms is also seen. However, the combined effect falls slightly short of what is required to claim an outright Higgs discovery.
Physicists continued to push for additional LEP running, but on 17 November the committee of CERN's governing body, Council, gave its verdict. Council expressed its "recognition and gratitude for the outstanding work done by the LEP accelerator and experimental teams. It has taken note of the request by many members of the CERN scientific community to continue LEP running into 2001 and also noted the divided views expressed in the scientific committees consulted on this subject. On the basis of these considerations and in the absence of a consensus to change the existing programme, Council supports the director-general in pursuing the existing CERN programme."
The "existing programme" meant the plan to close LEP in 2000 and focus resources on the LHC proton collider, to be installed in the LEP tunnel and scheduled to start running in 2005.
While the Higgs evidence was compelling, the mechanisms involved were also at the extreme end of LEP's energy reach, so the physicists could only touch the Higgs candidates with their fingertips. There were doubts that additional running would substantially consolidate the signal. This, coupled with the need to keep LHC construction on schedule, led to the final controversial decision.
It is rare that major particle accelerator machines close at CERN. The usual pattern is that new machines stand on the shoulders of their predecessors. The electrons and positrons for LEP came via a chain of more mature machines, including the 28 GeV PS synchrotron, which, when it first came into operation in 1959, was briefly the world's highest-energy accelerator, and the 450 GeV SPS synchrotron, commissioned in 1976.
One CERN machine that closed was the laboratory's first accelerator, the 600 MeV synchrocyclotron (SC), commissioned in 1957 and turned off in 1990. The SC was a stand-alone accelerator and did not serve as an injector for any later machine, but it did spawn the ISOLDE on-line isotope separator, subsequently transferred to the PS Booster.
Another past CERN machine was the Intersecting Storage Rings - the world's first proton collider. It was commissioned in 1971 but was switched off early in 1984 to release resources for LEP construction.
The LEAR low-energy antiproton ring, commissioned in 1983, was terminated in 1996 to free resources for the LHC.
The 1983 groundbreaking ceremony for LEP was a major milestone in CERN's history. LEP was the initial reason for the 27 km tunnel excavated under the Swiss-French frontier, but it was understood almost from the outset of LEP preparations in the mid-1970s that the tunnel would be a valuable piece of physics research real estate that would one day house a more powerful machine - LHC.
In a final proud gesture before the curtain came down on its part in the play, LEP, operating at high energies unforeseen until late in its career, revealed its intriguing hints of the long-awaited Higgs particle. This physics now has to await confirmation and consolidation at Fermilab's Tevatron proton-antiproton collider and/or LHC.
The step from LEP to LHC is a natural progression. LEP's disappearance is not an abrupt closure of a thriving machine - it gave all that was expected of it, and more.
LHC will take its particles from the Booster-PS-SPS chain of synchrotrons. As well as this physical supporting infrastructure, LHC will stand on metaphorical shoulders - the extinct ISR - for it was here that CERN first acquired collider expertise; the additional skills acquired at the SPS, which operated as the world's first proton-antiproton collider (1981-1990); and, of course, LEP.
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House approves bill to regulate eminent domain
AUSTIN — The Texas House unanimously approved a bill Wednesday that would regulate the already-limited ability of governments to seize property using the power of eminent domain.
The proposed law specifies private property could only be seized by governments under "eminent domain" if needed for public use, such as highways or schools. It also dictates what evidence must be considered by special commissioners in making decisions on reimbursements and the rights of property owners to repurchase taken property.
The government would be required to make a "bona fide" offer to buy the property from landowners and pay for relocation expenses. It also puts into state law a prohibition on property seizure for private use, which already was prohibited by a constitutional amendment passed in 2009.
Lawmakers have been tinkering with the state's eminent domain law for years, after a U.S. Supreme Court decision sparked concern about governments abusing their constitutional power to seize private land.
Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, has designated the eminent domain bill a legislative emergency.
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Friday, October 28, 2011
You’ve lived with your body for a while, and you know what it can do. If that ever deviates, even for just a few minutes, be warned. Arnold Bobkin’s story speaks to this loud and clear. Earlier this year, he was in the shower when the trouble started. He suddenly became paralyzed on one side, and was afraid he would fall over if he took a step. Trying to make nothing of it, he muddled through, dried off and proceeded to style his hair by plugging the blow dryer into his ear. He topped off his morning grooming routine by brushing his teeth with his finger. At this point, he wife insisted it was time to go to the emergency department.
Good thing he did. Arnold was having a TIA, short for transient ischemic attack. TIA’s are like mini-strokes, and put people at serious risk of having a full-blown stroke, often within hours or days. If Arnold had ignored his symptoms, and not received care at Sunnybrook’s High-Risk TIA Unit with its dream team of experts, he likely wouldn’t be golfing three times a week like he does now. Doctors found a major blockage in the carotid artery in his neck, which is a serious red flag. Surgery is usually the fix, but the trick is getting it done quickly if you are having symptoms.
Outside Sunnybrook, it’s been found that not all symptomatic patients receive this procedure within the recommended time frame of two weeks, something Sunnybrook experts are working with the Ontario Stroke Network to change. As the saying goes, time is brain.
Remember that if you are having symptoms of a TIA, including sudden trouble speaking, seeing or moving, call 911 right away. There are protocols in place to direct patients with TIA or stroke symptoms to a designated Regional Stroke Centre like Sunnybrook. Or, like Arnold, listen when a loved one tells you it’s time to go to the hospital.
“It’s a very strange phenomenon that happens to your body that you don’t know what is going on,” he recounted. “For whatever reasons, I didn’t know what I was going through until my wife told me. If the worst had happened, I would have had a major stroke within the hours afterwards.”
Thankfully, that wasn’t the case, but the shot of Arnold’s arteries in my video clearly illustrates how dire his situation was. It all goes to show that what you can’t see can hurt you. So if your body is trying to tell you something, make sure to listen.
Watch this week's video on YouTube
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BEIRUT — The Syrian military has used cluster bombs against civilians in recent months, a human-rights group charged Sunday.
Many of the cluster strikes were near the city of Maarat Numan in Idlib province, where Free Syrian Army rebels last week launched an offensive to free the city of government checkpoints, Human Rights Watch said in its report. The city is along the main highway that connects the major cities of Aleppo and Damascus, the capital.
Towns in several other provinces, including on the outskirts of Damascus, also were hit with the cluster bombs, Human Rights Watch said. It did not say how many people were killed in these attacks.
Cluster munitions explode in the air, sending dozens or more smaller bombs over a large area. The smaller bombs often don't explode on initial impact, leaving the munitions to act like land mines and explode when handled, the group said.
More than 100 countries have signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which bans the use of cluster munitions and requires clearance of contaminated areas and assistance to victims. Syria did not sign it.
"Syria's disregard for its civilian population is all too evident in its air campaign, which now apparently includes dropping these deadly cluster bombs into populated areas," said Steve Goose, arms director at Human Rights Watch. "Syria should immediately stop all use of these indiscriminate weapons that continue to kill and maim for years."
The international group based its findings on 18 videos posted by activists online showing the aftermath of the cluster-bomb strikes and unexploded munitions, as well as on follow-up interviews with Syrians. Residents from the towns of Taftanaz and Tamanea said helicopters dropped cluster munitions on or near their towns.
Syria and Turkey, meanwhile, declared their skies off-limits to each other amid mounting cross-border tensions in Syria's 19-month-old conflict, now a civil war. Turkey is an outspoken backer of the rebels trying to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad.
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Receding Hairline For Women
Receding Hairline For Women: Causes And Cures
It can be a devastating experience when you look into the mirror and realize that you are losing your hair and will may even go bald in a few years. Most of the time, people think that receding hairlines are a problem associated only with men. But the fact is that a large proportion of women also lose their hair. But there is a slight difference between the receding hairline of women and that of men. Hair loss in men is signified by receding hairline particularly on the crown of the head, while in women it is signified by thinning of hair generally all over the scalp, rather than a patch.
In women, hair loss starts around the age of 30 and becomes more visible around. Some of the main causes of a receding hairline for women include the following:
- Most women use chemicals like dyes, bleaches and tints on their hair for a stylish look. But these chemicals harm the hair growth system. Procedures such as perming and straightening also cause stress on the scalp, weakening the hair follicles.
- If a woman crash diets and loses a lot of weight in a short span of time, then she is very likely to suffer from hair loss.
- Prolonged illness or infections also trigger hair shedding.
- Some women suffer from hair loss 3-6 months after delivering a child.
- Improper and rough brushing and combing of one's hair can add to hair loss problems in women. Vigorously rubbing the hair with a towel just after washing them is also harmful.
Receding hairline for women can cause a great deal of anxiety and self-consciousness among women possibly resulting in lack of self- confidence. In addition to proper care, there is a wide range of products available on Sephren, which have the ability to trigger hair growth and strengthen hair at its roots.
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Apollo 15 was the ninth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, the fourth to land on the Moon and the eighth successful manned mission.
Image credit: CDC PHIL /James Gathany - Legionella sp. colonies, which had been cultivated on an agar cultured plate, and illuminated using ultraviolet light.
Illustrations by the giants of science.
1, 2 & 3: Isaac Newton
4 & 5: Galileo Galilei
6 & 7: Charles Messier
8: Caroline Herschel
9: Johannes Kepler
10: Nicolaus Copernicus.
Hubble’s 20th anniversary image shows a mountain of dust and gas rising in the Carina Nebula. The top of a three-light-year tall pillar of cool hydrogen is being worn away by the radiation of nearby stars, while stars within the pillar unleash jets of gas that stream from the peaks.
On the Lunar Surface
Apollo 11 astronauts trained on Earth to take individual photographs in succession in order to create a series of frames that could be assembled into panoramic images. This frame from Aldrin’s panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site is the only good picture of mission commander Neil Armstrong on the lunar surface.
Image Credit: NASA
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“To See Earth As It Truly Is”
The thin blue line of Earth’s atmosphere photographed from the International Space Station14:05 GMT August 19, 2012.
1. The Orion Nebula is arguably the finest of all nebulae within the Milky Way visible from the Northern Hemisphere. With a gaseous repository of 10,000 suns, and illuminated by a cluster of hot young stars, the clouds of Messier 42 — as it is also known — glow with fantastic colors and shapes, giving us a bird’s eye view of one of the greatest star forming nurseries in our part of the Milky Way. Messier 42 is a complex of glowing gas, mostly hydrogen but also helium, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in decreasing amounts, located 1,500 light-years away. At its very heart, we find the Trapezium, a group of four very hot stars that illuminate the nebula. They are the brightest of an extended cluster of several thousand young stars many of which lie unseen within the opaque gas and dust. Amazingly, whilst the Orion Nebula is easy to identify with the unaided eye, there is apparently no written record of its existence before the 17th century. This image is based on data acquired with the 1.5 m Danish telescope at the ESO La Silla Observatory in Chile, through three filters (B: 60 s, V: 30 s, R: 21 s). East is at the upper right corner and North is at the lower right. Credit: ESO/IDA/Danish 1.5 m/R.Gendler, J.-E. Ovaldsen, and A. Hornstrup.
2. This photo was taken on the plain of Castelluccio by Maurizio Pignotti. Shooting data: 12 shots with Canon 5d old - sigma 12/24 - ISO 800 to 470 Second Heaven - 30 seconds static subject - Star Tracker DIY - tripod - remote control. Double exposure. Credit: Maurizio Pignotti.
3. A prominence is a large, bright feature extending outward from the Sun’s surface, often in a loop shape. Prominences are anchored to the Sun’s surface in the photosphere, and extend outwards into the Sun’s corona. While the corona consists of extremely hot ionized gases, known as plasma, which do not emit much visible light, prominences contain much cooler plasma, similar in composition to that of the chromosphere. A prominence forms over timescales of about a day, and stable prominences may persist in the corona for several months. Credit: Alan Friedman
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Ithaca, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Some Ithaca businesses are betting that by pooling their energy resources, they'll save money.
The Ithaca Downtown District Energy project has entered the second of four phases.
The goal is to design combined heat and power systems that will be shared by downtown businesses creating what project organizers are calling an "energy district."
Herbert Dwyer, CEO of ASI Energy and project manager, said business owners and city leaders are excited as the project moves into its second phase.
"They're excited to lower the cost of energy, and to be apart of something new," said Dwyer, "And something that can actually change the face of downtown."
In phase two, engineers and designers will decide what kind of systems should be used to provide heat and power to the new district.
The project is expected to reduce energy consumption by almost 50 percent and help meet Ithaca's goal of reducing its greenhouse gases by 20 percent.
The entire project is being overseen by, Energize Ithaca, a non-profit research group founded in 2011 to reduce energy costs and lower greenhouse gas emissions in the City of Ithaca.
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How To Eat Chia Seeds
Some people say chia seeds taste rather nut-like, while other people believe they have a similar look, feel and taste to poppy seeds.
To me, chia seeds are almost tasteless which means that you can add them to practically anything that you eat or drink.
How To Eat Chia Seeds – Any Meal
Chia seeds are so adaptable that they can be had at any time of day with anything you wish to have it with.
How to eat chia seeds if you are having breakfast, add them to your protein shake, sprinkle the seeds on your oatmeal, cereal, pancakes, or yogurt. Blend them up and add them to your toast, or on sliced fruit.
Even take a handful of seeds and eat them as a snack. How to eat chia seeds is really only limited to your imagination.
Soaking the Seed
How to eat chia seeds, one of the most common ways is to add 1-2 tablespoons of seeds to 8-12 ounces of water or fruit juice. The seeds will then absorb a large amount of liquid, between 9-12 times their volume, in about 10 minutes.
In other words, the gel creates a physical barrier between the carbohydrates and the digestive enzymes that break them down. Which means you consume less calories and you feel fuller longer.
Chia seed gel is not only simple to make but can be stored in your refrigerator for about two weeks.
Other Ways to Eat Chia Seeds
You can substitute portions of flour with chia seeds in your baked goods. The ground chia seeds can be used to replace up to one-fifth of regular flour for your baked goods.
Mix ground chia seeds in the cake mixture or any batter prepared for other baked products. Chia seeds work well as egg replacement in baked goods where the egg would be used as a binder.
Even chia seed gel can be added to any recipe and used to replace the oils/fats in your baking. Just divide the amount of butter or oil in half, and then use the same amount of chia gel to fill in.
How To Eat Chia Seeds – Extremely Durable
Chia seeds can easily be stored dry for 4-5 years without deterioration in flavor, odor or nutritional value.
The antioxidant properties of chia seeds allow them to remain stable and unharmed for a relatively long period of time.
Unlike flax seeds, which deteriorate rather quickly, just store chia at room temperature and you have a long lasting seed.
As you can see, how to eat chia seeds is really a rather simple task. You can be like me and just use them on practically anything and everything.
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A lucid and accessible description of the biases that affect our decision making.
Classical economics is the story of how humans are rational beings who calmly weigh up the pros and cons of each economic situation before making a logical decision. Many aspects of the way our society works are built on this story of how humans think and behave. Unfortunately classical economics, although interesting, turns out to have some serious problems.
A new generation of social scientists - behavioural economists - are examining the actual ways in which people behave when making economic decisions and it turns out that the truth would have Adam Smith turning in his grave.
One of those leading the charge to educate us about the findings of behavioural economics is Professor Dan Ariely. And crucially he's able to do so without sending us off to sleep.
Predictably Irrational, he uses his light and breezy style to describe studies demonstrating the situations in which we display irrational economic behaviour. What emerges is a picture of humanity that is sometimes irrational, but often predictable. In many ways we are actually distressingly predictable, such as our blind worship of all things 'free' or how we try to avoid difficult comparisons.In his new book,
Ariely addresses these complicated problems with admirable clarity, which you can sample at his blog. The experiments he describes are all easy to understand and he points to their implications for society and its policy-makers. Sometimes it's tempting to think he's glossing over the hard stuff, but actually he's just succeeding where many academics fail: by speaking plainly.
Ariely's mission is to help us understand how our decisions are affected by society, by our emotions and by relativity. And hopefully through this understanding, allow us to escape the habits of economic behaviour we didn't even know we possessed. So what might seem like a pessimistic book about human irrationality, turns out to be an optimistic book about how we can escape some of the tricks our mind plays on us.
If you've been enjoying the articles here on the psychology of money, then you'll enjoy this book - and see where I got the ideas for some of the posts! Highly recommended.
» Buy Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely from Amazon.com.
» You can hear Ariely talk about his research in this London School of Economics podcast.
» Read more on the psychology of money.
Making Habits, Breaking Habits
In his new book, Jeremy Dean--psychologist and author of PsyBlog--looks at how habits work, why they are so hard to change, and how to break bad old cycles and develop new healthy, creative, happy habits.
→ "Making Habits, Breaking Habits", is available now on Amazon.Reviews
The Bookseller, “Editor’s Pick,” 10/12/12 “Sensible and very readable…By far the most useful of this month’s New You offerings.”
Kirkus Reviews, 1/1/13 “Making changes does take longer than we may expect—no 30-day, 30-pounds-lighter quick fix—but by following the guidelines laid out by Dean, readers have a decent chance at establishing fulfilling, new patterns.”
Publishers Weekly, 12/10/12 “An accessible and informative guide for readers to take control of their lives.”
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Graduate Tax Program at DU
The Graduate Tax Program is one of the oldest and largest master's program in taxation in the U.S. and one of the few where accountants and attorneys study side-by-side in the same classes. The Program offers you:
- Nothing but tax. All classes are in taxation and are taught using the Internal Revenue Code, Treasury Regulations, and other materials.
- Just one year of full-time study for the Master of Taxation or LL.M. in Taxation degree. Part-time study and evening classes are also offered for working professionals.
- Excellent nationwide job placement due to on-campus recruiting and extensive nationwide networking.
- Financial assistance available (scholarships and loans).
- An enviable location in Denver, Colorado, one of the nation's most dynamic cities and just minutes from the recreational opportunities of the Rocky Mountains.
- Can't move to Denver? Earn your Master of Taxation or LL.M. in Taxation online. High quality recordings of the actual classes make it seem like you are there in person.
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The iPad can be used as an effective instrument for all sorts of web design and development. You need to know the right kind of apps and how their interconnected ecosystem can provide you with a perfect development platform. Today we are going to share some of the best iPad Apps that will help anyone looking to manage, control or code their website using their iPad. We will also provide direct download links to those apps and explain each of their roles in accomplishing the task. Let’s get started.
The first step for any successful web design is to create a mockup or a wireframe of your final website. Wireframes enable designers and developers to work on a planned schedule as they know the exact schematic layout of the entire project. iMockups is the best iPad app when it comes to rough layout outlines on your mobile device. The app is pre-loaded with tons of tools, designs, shapes etc. that lets you edit a very understandable sketch your website. Apart from adding traditional texts and boxes to create the base grid you can also fine tune your look by adding specific mockups of a video player, slider, scrollbars, buttons etc. iMockups also allow multiple project support making it a must have app for your development arsenal.
Price - $6.99
FTP Client Pro
Price - $1.99
Koder Code Editor
Once you are ready to hard code your webpages from scratch, Koder is definitely the best solution on your iPad. There are lots of code editors out there but the reason I chose coder in this list is because of the natural looking syntax highlights and the ability to change the background color to either black or white. Koder is also powered by a smart syntax suggestion tool making it easier and faster for you to code in any language. I think this app supports almost all sorts of programming languages that exist on earth. Please check their official app store link (Given below) in order to find out a full list of features supported by this application.
Price - $5.99
Palettes Pro serves as a reference for web designers. You can use this app to choose a set of web colors and create your own customized palettes. Once you are happy with your selection, simply use the HEX code of the given color on your actual CSS file. Palettes Pro comes with an intuitive interface and sometimes web designers can run the app on their iPad while working on the actual coding on another machine. I mean, I have seen it a couple of times and used the same procedure myself.
Price - $3.99
In 2013 there is an explosion of Vector based web designs since they are easy to manipulate on a responsive framework. Freeform for iPad allows you to create vector illustrations and save them either on your tablet or export it for later use. The vector arts can easily be opened with Corel Draw or Illustrator. If you are into graphic designing then you should not have any problem using Freeform since you will be familiar with all the tools at your disposal. FreeForm is also packed with the famous anchor point and path modifier features making it an essential vector drawing app.
Price - $9.99
DropBox is one application that makes its way into every possible list. For designers and developers it is very important to keep a backup of all your files on the cloud. Unfortunately the default iCloud does not support the simplicity with which you can store everything related to your website inside DropBox. You should create a dedicated folder for every new project dump all your resources inside. DropBox also enables you to access these files from anywhere since it’s a cloud based service.
Price – Free
Sometimes it’s better to create a mind map of your entire project even before starting your rough mockup diagrams. MindNode is an excellent app that perfectly suits this purpose. It’s extremely easy to create and edit new branches till you have a large tree like structure of all your elements required to complete the project. The drag and drop editor really helps in creating the exact branching you are looking for. MindNode also supports iCloud syncing which ensures that your plans and ideas are never lost and is always available on one Apple device or another.
Price - $9.99
CSS 3 supports the use of external fonts loaded anywhere on the internet using @fontface markup. The iFontMaker app caters to the need of creating customized fonts for a unique look of your website. You can draw each and every letter then export the entire set as a TTF file. The fonts can then be uploaded and used anywhere on your website. If you are running out of options from the millions of font selections then its time you create your own stuff using this application.
Price - $6.99
If you are working a blog then it’s best to avoid the hassle of starting from scratch and use the default WordPress plugin to create new posts and pages for your site. However, it should be noted that you need to setup the basic theme and other related options before using the WordPress iPad app. The iPad app works best for editing or adding a new post, inserting images, checking statistics using Jetpack etc.
Price – Free
Adobe Photoshop Express
Photoshop Express is the ultimate tool for any web designer looking to work on a tablet. This app comes packed with almost each and every feature of the desktop/Mac edition. Photoshop express can be used by designers to create different elements of a website like the background, banners, header images etc. The files can be synced using Adobe’s own cloud based solution but I suggest you export them into DropBox in order to organize everything under one roof.
Price – Free (Various In-App upgrades required to use all features)
1Password for iPad
This is the last app in for our list and I think that 1Password is really essential in terms of security. Just imagine someone deleting all your hard work and coding once you are about to complete your web project. In order to prevent such a massacre it’s important that you provide the required security by applying a suitable password to various areas where you want to restrict a foreign user. 1 Password offers loads of customization and control and literally allows you to turn your iPad into a well-controlled jail. However, the app comes at a steep price.
Price - $17.99
If you think we missed out any other app and it should have been included then please comment your thoughts below.
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Europe's most precise electron microscope is now in use in its own building at Linköping University in Sweden.
After readjustments at the bequest of the LiU researchers, the Titan3 80-300 transmission electron microscope (TEM) now provides a resolution of less than 0.7 Å (about half the distance between two atoms in a silicon crystal).
The Titan 80-300 provides a resolution of less than 0.7 Å.
"Thanks to the well-designed building's perfectly calculated environment the microscope performs even better than we had previously specified", says Rod Shipley, Sales Director at FEI Company, a spin-off from the Dutch electronics group Philips.
Since they first arrived on the market in 2005, 150 of the Titan microscopes have been delivered; each one unique and custom made to satisfy the customer's special needs. In LiU's case, it is about scrutinising metals and new semiconductor materials all the way to the atomic level.
The central part of the microscope is a 3.7-meter high column. A high-energy electron beam is emitted from a "cannon" at the top. Further down, a series of electromagnetic lenses focus the beam on a small point where the electrons, accelerated to a speed close to light, meet the sample. Several "correctors" are situated in the column; a type of spectacle on the lenses that adjust the electrons' paths so that the image is reproduced without artefacts.
Dubbed "Arwen" after an elf from one of J.R.R. Tolkien's tales, the electron microscope is funded by a grant of SEK 46 million from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation for LiU's materials scientists with Professor Lars Hultman at the forefront.
The circular "Angstrom building" with its sloping walls and roof, clad with titanium plates, was designed by Tham & Widegård Architects. The extremely sensitive instrument is very demanding in terms of stability, temperature, noise, air quality and electromagnetic fields. Design and construction has been a major challenge for all involved. The microscope is mounted on a plate anchored in the bedrock and isolated from the rest of the building so that external vibrations from the surrounding environment are eliminated.
The research acitivities at Professor Hultman's laboratories focus on the materials science and nanotechnology of thin films by vapor phase deposition, in particular ion-surface interactions, microstructure evolution, and properties of advanced functional materials.
"Our goal is to create future materials, but we will also study existing materials to see how we can make those even better: stronger and with less friction. With this new microscope we will be able to watch details all the way down to the bindings between atoms", says Hultman.
Professor Hultman is an ERC (European Research Council) Advanced Research Grant awardee. He is the director of major Swedish research centers of excellence featuring strong industry collaboration. He is the inventor of patents on nanostructured thin films and coating materials and has promoted spin-off companies.
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International financial consulting firm deVere Group says it has seen a 22% increase in inquiries from its American clients who are considering renouncing their citizenship as a result of an aggressive new U.S. tax initiative that is coming online on Jan. 1.
“The vast majority have told us that they are dissatisfied with the forthcoming Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act legislation and the adverse implications it could potentially have on them, their families and careers,” says Nigel Green, deVere’s CEO. “We’re aware of hundreds of American clients who have been either dropped completely by, or who are experiencing problems with, their foreign financial institutions.”
Global Battle for Tax Revenue
Under the new legislation (commonly known as FATCA), the U.S. will start requiring all of its citizens to report their worldwide assets and earnings to the IRS -- regardless of where they live, how long they have lived there, or whether any money is owed. Similarly, foreign financial institutions will also be required to disclose such information of any American clients that they may have.
The act, which was part of a 2010 economic stimulus package, seeks to retrieve billions of dollars in tax revenues that the U.S. government claims it loses annually to wealthy tax scofflaws who hide assets abroad.
However, critics think the U.S. is going to draconian lengths to hunt them down. Many foreign institutions are finding the compliance costs of serving U.S. clients are too high, critics say; some European institutions have already stopped serving American investors.
The rules will require all financial institutions abroad to report to the IRS any American clients with investment accounts that exceed certain thresholds -- in some cases as low as $50,000. If they fail to do so, these institutions -- banks, brokerage houses, hedge funds and other entities -- will face a 30% tax on all of their income derived from U.S.-based investments, from stakes in real estate and mutual funds to treasury bills.
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“It’s their responsibility to withhold that money and send it to the U.S.,” Denise Hintzke, global leader for compliance with the new tax law at Deloitte, has said.
If the experience of clients with deVere Group is at all representative of American expatriate’s experiences in the post-FATCA world, it appears there could end up being widespread collateral damage among law-abiding citizens.
One advocacy group, American Citizens Abroad, claims that the new tax law will have “a devastating impact” on American citizens everywhere. It has launched a campaign to have the legislation repealed.
“Internationally, there’s a general sense that FATCA has gone too far,” Green says. “The fact that a growing number of the 6 million U.S. citizens who happen to live overseas are being refused bank accounts outside America, or that they are being turned away from jobs [because] that will mean opening up firms’ accounts to U.S. bureaucrats, or because the legislation could very well discourage foreign companies from doing business with American ones, is evidence that FATCA could have serious, unintended negative consequences for American citizens and, indeed the country itself.”
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In what has become something of an American tradition, President Barack Obama asked us to rediscover a “spirit of service” in his Inaugural Address. “At this moment,” Obama intoned, “it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit us all.” We must even be prepared to “brave…icy currents” and “endure what storms may come.”
Where might such a noble spirit come from? Obama does not say, and for good reason. Any serious reflection on what might sustain such courage and solidarity would compel Obama to rethink the role of religion in American politics.
President Obama has a complicated relationship to orthodox Christianity. On the one hand, his political career has been inspired by the civil rights movement. But, on the other hand, Obama has been a harsh critic of the very religious passions and dogmas that inspired the civil rights campaign, not to mention abolitionism and campaigns for democracy abroad. As the president has put it, “I am very suspicious of religious certainty expressing itself in politics.” Religion, in Obama’s account, should come “with a big dose of doubt.” Christians in particular should question the sanctity of human life, the reality of salvation and damnation, and the knowledge of God’s favor and providence.
Obama recognizes that Christianity has sometimes changed the world for the better. He just doesn’t imagine that its progressive powers have anything to do with dogma or certainty. Reflecting on his admiration for the black church, Obama praised “the power of that culture to give people strength in very difficult circumstances” (my emphasis). For Obama, the transformative power of religion lies in a certain sort of culture or community or tradition. Social progress does not depend on dogmatic conviction.
It has long been the great hope of liberals that somehow a deracinated and disenchanted Christianity could still give life to the sort of sacrificial spirit that Obama wants to summon. Liberals, however, have not always been so sanguine about the death of religious zealotry. John Dewey, in particular, appreciated the power of traditional faith to inspire sacrifice. Dewey insisted that liberal progress had to be driven by something like religious ardor. In A Common Faith, Dewey speculated, “Were men and women to be actuated…with the faith and ardor that have at times marked historic religions the consequences would be incalculable.” Dewey further identified the absence of such crusading faith as the “crisis of liberalism.”
The civil rights movement vindicated Dewey’s anxiety about liberalism. As the historian David L. Chappell demonstrated in his brilliant book, A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow, the civil rights movement was inspired by a deep prophetic faith rather than liberalism in the tradition of Locke, Mill, and Dewey. Christianity succeeded where liberalism failed, according to Chappell, because the latter lacked a “basis for solidarity and self-sacrifice.” From this important insight, Chappell concluded that the “irrational traditions of prophetic, revivalistic religion served the liberal goals of freedom and equality” rather than liberalism itself.
It is sometimes forgotten that civil rights activists tended to be precisely the sort of “fundamentalists” that Obama regards as dangerous. When Bayard Rustin was asked by an interviewer whether King possessed a “fundamentalist’s sense of an active, personal God,” he responded, “Oh, yes, profoundly.” According to Chappell, it was this sense among the civil rights activists that an immanent God was on their side that held them together in the face of the dogs and fire hoses.
More contemporary evidence suggests that a sacrificial spirit still depends on religious conviction and observance. Economist Arthur C. Brooks has found a large and growing charity divide between religious and secular Americans. In Who Really Cares, Brooks concluded, “I have never found a measurable way in which secularists are more charitable than religious people.” This finding has still not been seriously disputed. The charity divide has also been growing, apparently because believers reduce their giving less during economic recessions. Even Ronald Sider’s The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience could not help but praise deeply religious evangelicals for their remarkable charity. Their distinctiveness led Sider to conclude, “One way to end the scandal of contemporary Christian behavior is to work and pray fervently for the growth of orthodox Christian belief in our churches.”
Despite such evidence, Obama is partly right. Religious certainty has also been responsible for social injustice (though no more than secular certainty). Yet this critique only obscures a more complex reality: injustice has not been driven by religious dogmatism and certainly, in general, it has been the result of particular religious dogmas. So if Obama is opposed to the substantive ends of some religious citizens, he should criticize them directly without damning all political reformers who are driven by deep faith.
President Obama apparently hopes a “spirit of sacrifice” will transform America without a growth in something like religious ardor. Or perhaps Obama actually possesses a more complicated view of the relationship between liberal progress and religious dogmatism. Like Dewey before him, maybe Obama really does not have much faith in the power of reason or liberalism to command civic sacrifices. It is striking, for example, just how little Obama is asking of us. The massive new spending in his budget will be paid for largely by future generations of Americans. We will leave it to them to “endure what storms may come.”
[See David Kyuman Kim's introduction to "These things are old," a conversation about Obama, civic virtues and the common good at The Immanent Frame.]
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Mathematical Techniques (edition 2002)
Mathematical Techniques: An Introduction for the Engineering, Physical, and Mathematical Sciences by D. W. Jordan
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0199249725, Paperback)Many students beginning their engineering, science and mathematics courses need a book on mathematical methods. This textbook offers an accessible and comprehensive grounding in many of the mathematical techniques required in the early stages of an engineering or science degree, and also for the routine methods needed by first and second year mathematics students. "Mathematical Techniques" starts by revising work from pre-university level before developing the more advanced material which students will encounter during their undergraduate studies. The contents of the book has been fully revised for this, the third edition. The first chapter on standard techniques, has been rewritten and expanded to serve the increasingly diverse needs of students. The Fourier transform now has its own chapter; a simplified approach is adopted, and diffraction theory, together with supporting material on wave motion, is included. Many changes enhancing clarity have been made in other chapters. The chapter on projects using Mathematica has been extended to cover these changes: the associated programs are freely available on Keele University, Mathematics Department web site. Chapters and sections are designed to be largely self-contained, allowing students to concentrate on the specific methods they need to master and use. The book contains nearly 500 worked examples, more than 2000 problems (with selected answers), and over 120 computing projects. The text is accessible, widely illustrated, and stands as an ideal introduction on mathematical methods at university level.
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Published on Sunday, 10 February 2013 13:42 Written by Rachel Hirshfeld
According to the Flemish VTM network and the Facebook page of a group called FTP, the parade represents Flemish nationalists deporting French speakers from Flanders.
One of the organizers, Jacques Jacquemin, reportedly stated that, “this is our deportation wagon and we are going to deport anything French”-- apparently intended as a satirical attack on the leaders of the Flemish nationalist N-VA Party."
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre wrote a letter to Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo urging him "to investigate the circumstances and stop this abomination," suggesting that "the very idea be presented to Belgian youth - both French and Flemish speaking - as a case study of genocide banalization."
"Such an abomination would be a subliminal step towards recurrence," wrote Dr. Shimon Samuels, the Centre's Director for International Relations.
Samuels recalled that "on 8 May 2012, when Belgium held the Presidency of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research, Di Rupo led 1,000 young people on a memorial train journey from the Schaerbeek station - from which the Jews were deported - to their final destination at Auschwitz-Birkenau."
"If these reports are correct, your ‘train of 1,000' - a magnificent educational initiative - on Sunday will be blown asunder by an act of Holocaust revisionist terrorism”, asserted Samuels.
From August 1942 to July 1944, some 25,000 Jews were deported from Belgium, most of whom were transported to Auschwitz, although some were sent to the Lodz ghetto, the Theresienstadt ghetto-camp, the Bergen-Belsen camp, and elsewhere.
Credit: Arutz Sheva
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In RetroPost, we feature a post from at least one year ago (ancient in pop culture time). The posts are featured because they have some relevance to current happenings, because they are timeless in nature and speak to a relevant issue, or because we plan on providing a follow-up in an upcoming post.
This Week: The summer movie season is at full swing, and as innocent and innocuous as the various summer blockbusters may seem, they will teach us if we let them. Do we want to let them? Well, it depends.
It’s easy to get caught up in the stimulation of the movies and forget that each film is saying something about the world we live in. It is a popular expression of our culture’s ideologies. As John M. Frame wisely writes, “It is simply false to claim that art has nothing to do with ‘messages.’ Indeed, we are living in a time in which the messages of art are becoming more and more explicit.” Dr. Russ Moore, Vice President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, writes the following about the culture in general:
Christians should ask why culture resonates with the Superman mythology of a hero from beyond the stars who rescues humanity from itself. We should ask why country music singer Toby Keith sings about the unity-in-diversity he longs for in his song “I Love This Bar.” We should ask why, as the City Journal’s Harry Stein points out, trashy talk shows such as “The Jerry Spring Show” always end with a “moral lesson for the day,” despite the fact that the rest of the broadcast has dismissed the very idea of moral absolutes. Why do gangster-rap hip-hop artists sing so much about their rage against an absent father?
All around us our culture is answering the basic questions of life, and they are offering to us a worldview. Movies are not exempt from this truth. For every film that we see there is a message being proclaimed. Some are very easy to discern while others are much more subtle, but nothing is neutral or “simply entertainment” in motion pictures. So how do Motion Pictures share their messages? I have listed here five particular ways that we would do well to note.
First, films convey a message through imagery. This is the point that Gene Edward Veith examines in his article “Message Movies.” Paraphrasing Thom Parham, Veith writes, “Films work metaphorically. Language can communicate with clear propositions, but film communicates instead with symbols.” Movies are a medium of visual stimulation, which explains why some poor stories can still do well in the box office. The imagery on the screen, the way that the plot plays out has as much to do with the message as anything else. Even something as basic as scenery can play a part in the delivering of a message. Let’s look at an example: the Academy Award winning Brokeback Mountain. Writing about the film’s projection of hatred for the Biblical family Dr. Mark Coppenger says:
Brokeback Mountain was billed a gay love story, but the movie was actually a hate story, dripping with contempt for conventional, moral life. Normally, these two utterly implausible homosexual cowboys were forced to suffer the squalor of bland or kitschy quarters, disappointing wives, creepy in-laws, wearisome children, thuggish bosses and dreary work back in town, but their spirits soared as they ascended the high country with rushing brooks, big skies, snow capped peaks, lush mountain meadows and crisp, clean air. Alas, after soulful hugs, etc., these Marlboro Men were forced to once again assume their places in the sad world of heterosexual marriage, gainful employment, and civic responsibility, a world disparaged by director Ang Lee.
According to Coppenger the director of this controversial film uses beautiful scenes to express his own idea of the beauty and freedom of homosexuality. It is not the heterosexual scenes that are depicted with “rushing brooks, big skies, snow capped peaks,” etc. it is the homosexual scenes. Not all films convey their messages this way, but it is important to note that nothing is neutral, aesthetics included.
Secondly, films spread their messages by means of story. This of course is the most basic means of the message. It takes no effort to see how the storyline of a movie like Brokeback Mountain contains a pro-homosexual message. But all movies, whether blatant or subtler, contain a message. So even the Dreamworks’ film Over the Hedge is a “genial poke at the conspicuous consumption habits of food and lawn-care obsessed suburbanites from the perspective of wide-eyed animals just trying to survive,”writes Veith. The story is, of course, what all the imagery points to, what the dialogue explains, and what most clearly demonstrates the worldview of the film as a whole. Some will be harder to discern, such as Tim Burton’s Big Fish, and others are obvious, like the environmentalist film Hoot. As Brian Godawa, a Hollywood screenwriter, testifies, “The story is where it all begins and ends. The lighting, cinematography, directing, acting, visual style…all are profoundly a part of the process, but they all serve the story- because the story is king.” In many cases it might be appropriate to say, not that the story carries the message, but that the story is the message.
Thirdly, films spread their message through dialogue. This is another obvious one, but deserves to be mentioned. The subtlety of dialogue is such that one might never pick up on some of the messages conveyed in films. Few movie goers thought of Pantheism when they heard Mufassa tell the young Simba, “When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connected; the great circle of life.” But likewise when Christians hear phrases like this one from “Kingdom of Heaven” they should shutter: There will be a day when you will wish that you did a little evil to serve a greater good.
Fourthly, films convey messages through their identification of heroes. This is an important point to mention as more and more stars of films are actually anti-heroes or vigilantes. This is most obvious from the recent 2006 film V for Vendetta. Speaking of the graphic novel turned movie Gene Veith writes:
In Alan Moore’s Graphic Novel, V for Vendetta, the Guy Fawkes- masked protagonist is introduced in a section titled, “The Villain.” In the big-screen adaptation of Mr. Moore’s work, no such moral ambiguity exists. Originally conceived as an extreme, anarchistic response to an extreme, fascist government in the near future, V for Vendetta has been translated, with a terrorist hero at its center, into a vicious, thinly veiled attack on American conservatives and Christians.
Other films, however, have taken this same approach of glorifying evil in a less palpable manner. Take for example a number of comedies whose “heroes” have been pragmatists who engage in all sorts of crimes to “win the day.” Examples of these are Fun with Dick and Jane, where Dick and Jane Harper take to larceny and deception to win back the pensions of those put out of employment by a company’s crash. Or Runaway Jury, based on the John Grisham novel, in which the heroes blackmail a filthy jury consultant into early retirement. We must never suppose that the end justifies the means, as many of these characters put it themselves. A true hero sees no value in doing the wrong thing for the right reasons.
Finally, a movie may express a message through its overall composition. The entire layout of the movie, put together with its cinematography, music, acting, dialogue, etc., display an entire worldview. I mentioned how Disney’s The Lion King is a movie that revolves around the philosophy of Pantheism, but a close analysis of Star Wars reveals similar conclusions (though this film is more New Age). Take screenwriter Charlie Kauffman for example. Mr. Kauffman’s films are often expressions of his own nihilistic, or hopeless, faithless, and truthless, philosophy. His most popular film, Being John Malkovich is a visual scene of the cold hopeless doctrines of this philosophy, the dialogue reveals this hopelessness, and the storyline itself is, to quote the film, a “metaphysical can of worms.”
These are just a few ways that movies express their messages. The list could, of course, be expanded, but this is sufficient for us to be discerning as we go to the movies. The important thing to grasp here is that movies have messages. None are neutral or “just movies,” and as Christians seeking to take every thought captive we must thoughtfully engage every element of a film! So watch movies with an active mind, friends!
Russ Moore, “Pop Christianity & Pop Culture on Mars Hill,” The Tie. Spring 2006. 74:1. 5.
Mark T. Coppenger, “Love and Hate at the Movies.” The Tie. Spring 2006. 74:1. 12.
Veith, “Creature Comfrots.” World Magazine. June 3, 2006. 21:22. 12.
“Big Fish” is actually based on the novel by the same name by Daniel Wallace. It is hard to grasp, but when you do it is worth re-watching.
Brian Godawa, Hollywood Worldviews. (Downers Grove: IVP, 2002). 10.
Veith, “V for Vile.” World Magazine. April 1, 2006. 21:13. 10.
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As the new year got under way, copper, iron ore and aluminummainstays of the minerals and metals segment of the North American economyall seemed to be going their separate ways.
Copper was buoyed by reports that China had ended 2011 with record monthly imports of the red metal. The story was somewhat similar for iron ore, which opened 2012 strong on news that China, the worlds biggest iron ore purchaser, had imported 686 million tonnes in 2011, up 11 percent from 618 million tonnes the previous year. Iron ore has enjoyed an unprecedented price rise during the past eight years, climbing to as high as $220 per tonne in 2011, more than six times the $33 per tonne that iron ore fetched on world markets as recently as 2003.
Aluminum producers, meanwhile, have been evaluating significant capacity cuts in an attempt to stem the steady slide in prices after reaching record levels in May 2011. In January, Pittsburgh-based Alcoa Inc., one of the larger world producers, announced a fourth-quarter net lossits first quarterly loss since 2009as aluminum prices dropped 11 percent in the quarter. Alcoa subsequently announced plans to decommission nearly 300,000 tonnes of annual smelting capacity in Tennessee and Texas and idle an additional 224,000 tonnes of smelter capacity in Europe.
Another major producer, Montreal-based Rio Tinto Alcan, announced plans in late 2011 to balance inventory and demand by shutting down or divesting significant amounts of smelting capacity in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
And because of the need to divert electric power to residential users, Chinese provincial governments are moving to eliminate subsidies to aluminum producers. Alcoa recently estimated that as much as 1 million tonnes of Chinese aluminum smelting capacity could be curtailed in 2012.
But Fitch Ratings Ltd., which provides credit ratings for the base metals industry, estimated that even with the curtailments, approximately 3.4 million tonnes of new production will be added this year, with almost 90 percent of the total coming from China. New projects may add 2.8 million tonnes more to global production in 2013.
Still, Wall Street was bullish on aluminum after Alcoa bit the bullet and announced plans to decommission and curtail smelter production in North America and abroad. Since most analysts believe that non-productive capacity is behind the plummeting prices in aluminum since last spring, action by the worlds second-largest producer to shut down capacity that cant be made profitable at depressed price levels was viewed as a positive.
The news that Chinese copper imports had climbed to record levels in the final two months of last year took the wind out of the sails of money managers, who had been betting for most of the final quarter of 2011 that copper prices would fall. Royal Bank of Scotland Plc, for example, believes copper prices will fall about 15 percent in 2012 to $8,375 per tonne on fears that the European debt crisis will spark a recession on the continent. The bank also expects demand for copper in China to wane as that countrys economy contracts in 2012, although its December import numbers belied that prediction.
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., Phoenix, the worlds largest publicly traded copper company, recently reached terms with union officials in Indonesia, where it has endured a lengthy labor stoppage and civil unrest. The strike in Indonesia contributed to a drop in Freeports fourth-quarter copper production, which had been expected to total as much as 915 million pounds but which now looks to reach barely 800 million pounds.
Freeport is one of the major producers in Arizona, where some 60 percent of all U.S. copper is produced. The company owns six of the nine major mines in the state, including the Safford Mine, the first new large-scale copper mining project in Arizona in 30 years when it went into full production in 2008. The Arizona Mining Association said recently that the copper mining industry has a $12.1-billion economic impact in the state, including $3.6 billion in wages and personal income, $7.9 billion in business sales and $600 million in state and local government taxes and revenue. The industry employed 10,400 people in the state in 2010, the latest year for which figures are available.
Iron ore in North America has enjoyed a strong recovery since production plummeted during the Great Recession of 2008-09. With a capacity of about 52 million tons in Minnesota and Michigans Upper Peninsula, the U.S. industry has benefited from strong order books at domestic steelmakers. Minnesota and Michigan pellet plants ran at near-full capacity in 2011, fueled by North American automotive production that reached nearly 13 million vehicles for the year, up about 1 million from the previous year.
There has even been talk of iron ore going from the Great Lakes to world markets, said Peter Kakela, a professor of natural resources development at Michigan State University in East Lansing and one of the nations pre-eminent authorities on iron ore pricing and production. He thinks the industry will expand in North America in the years ahead due to strong global demand.
That has already begun to occur. In 2011, Iron Ore Co. of Canada Ltd., the largest manufacturer of iron ore pellets in Canada, announced plans to increase production of concentrates at its Labrador facility to more than 23 million tonnes per year, up from 18 million tonnes five years earlier, and said it was studying a further expansion to 26 million tonnes.
AK Steel Corp., West Chester, Ohio, announced during the fourth quarter that it would partner with Nashwauk, Minn.-based ore processor Magnetation Inc. to build a new taconite pellet plant on the states iron rich Mesabi Range. Its another example of integrated steelmakers trying to get their own resources under control, Kakela said. ArcelorMittal (SA) wants to be 75 percent self-sufficient in iron ore. They are buying iron ore properties worldwide.
Gogebic Taconite LLC, a development-stage iron ore mining company in Wisconsin, is seeking federal and state permits to mine, concentrate and pelletize taconite on the states long-abandoned Gogebic Iron Range. The company estimates that taconite production in the states rural northern counties could have an economic benefit of $600 million per year.
Alternative iron products also are undergoing a boom in North America. Production at Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Steel Dynamics Inc.s Mesabi Nugget project in Minnesota doubled in 2011 and is expected to double again in 2012. The almost-pure iron nuggets will be used to supplement pig iron and prime scrap.
In Louisiana, Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N,C., broke ground in March on a new direct-reduced iron manufacturing plant in St. James Parish that will have an annual capacity of 2.5 million tons of DRI per year when it comes online.
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Obamacare a tempting target for cuts
Republicans never got their chance to chop down President Barack Obama’s health care law, but that doesn’t mean it’s safe from the clippers as Congress looks for solutions for tough fiscal times.
The Affordable Care Act brings in a lot of new taxes and savings, but it also dishes out as much as $1.7 trillion in new spending over the next decade — money that looks awfully tempting to lawmakers scrounging around for ways to fund other projects or pay down the deficit.Continue Reading
And even Democrats may be forced to take a look as battles over the debt limit, deficit reduction and entitlement reform heat up. Obama and Senate Democrats have already reluctantly tapped into the law for revenue for things they want to get done.
Twice, as part of bipartisan deals, they agreed to increase the amount Americans must pay if they get too generous a subsidy in the insurance exchanges. The first time was to pay for the 2010 doc fix to avoid deep physician fee cuts under Medicare, and the second time was to offset the cost of repealing new 1099 tax reporting requirements that both parties considered burdensome on businesses.
Last February, Obama signed legislation slashing $5 billion from the Prevention and Public Health Fund to help pay for a continuation of payroll tax breaks and other initiatives. The health care law gave the fund $15 billion in its first 10 years.
And just a few weeks ago, lawmakers agreed to cut funding for nonprofit health insurance cooperatives to help pay for another one-year doc fix. That was in the last-minute fiscal cliff deal.
Although the White House takes issue with the Congressional Budget Office’s $1.7 trillion estimate for 2012to 2022, there are still plenty of funds and juicy options on the shelf if lawmakers get hungry enough — that is, if Democrats would agree to them. Here are some potential targets:
Reclaim excess subsidies
One option is to require insurance subsidy recipients to pay back 100 percent of overpayments, which would raise $44 billion over 10 years, according to CBO.
The law provides lower-income Americans tax credits to help them buy insurance, but if their earnings change midyear, putting them in a different income bracket, they can end up pocketing more than they’re eligible for. So-called clawbacks would require them to return those subsidies down to the last dime.
House Republicans voted for that option last spring, but Democrats said the proposal would go too far, because poor Americans might end up owing the government thousands of dollars at the end of the year. Liberal health care advocates are already unhappy Congress increased the clawbacks — so increasing the amount low-income people would have to repay could be a hard sell.
“The fact that it was made even more rigorous, it has the potential of being an enormous problem,” said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, which strongly supports the health law. “This clawback affects people even if they were trying to do all the right things.”
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This is basic Luther but wonderful nonetheless.
True, then, are these two sayings: "Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works"; "Bad works do not make a bad man, but a bad man does bad works." Thus it is always necessary that the substance or person should be good before any good works can be done, and that good works should follow and proceed from a good person. As Christ says, "A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit" (Matt. vii. 18). Now it is clear that the fruit does not bear the tree, nor does the tree grow on the fruit; but, on the contrary, the trees bear the fruit, and the fruit grows on the trees.
As then trees must exist before their fruit, and as the fruit does not make the tree either good or bad, but on the contrary, a tree of either kind produces fruit of the same kind, so must first the person of the man be good or bad before he can do either a good or a bad work; and his works do not make him bad or good, but he himself makes his works either bad or good.
We may see the same thing in all handicrafts. A bad or good house does not make a bad or good builder, but a good or bad builder makes a good or bad house. And in general no work makes the workman such as it is itself; but the workman makes the work such as he is himself.
Such is the case, too, with the works of men. Such as the man himself is, whether in faith or in unbelief, such is his work: good if it be done in faith; bad if in unbelief. But the converse is not true that, such as the work is, such the man becomes in faith or in unbelief. For as works do not make a believing man, so neither do they make a justified man; but faith, as it makes a man a believer and justified, so also it makes his works good.
Since then works justify no man, but a man must be justified before he can do any good work, it is most evident that it is faith alone which, by the mere mercy of God through Christ, and by means of His word, can worthily and sufficiently justify and save the person; and that a Christian man needs no work, no law, for his salvation; for by faith he is free from all law, and in perfect freedom does gratuitously all that he does, seeking nothing either of profit or of salvation--since by the grace of God he is already saved and rich in all things through his faith--but solely that which is well-pleasing to God.
Taken from "The Freedom of a Christian"
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Fecal contamination highest on island’s west side
November 4, 2008 · Updated 3:55 PM
Failing septic systems are most likely the cause of elevated fecal contamination along Bainbridge Island’s west side, according to a report issued by the Kitsap County Health District.
The results were published late last month following the conclusion of a health district survey conducted in conjunction with the city.
The survey included approximately eight miles of shoreline along Eagle Harbor, Point White, Crystal Springs and Fletcher Bay areas. Surveyors gather samples from streams, drains or stormwater discharge areas that connect with the Bainbridge shoreline.
A total of 584 samples were collected. Of those samples, more than 12 percent had rates of fecal coliform or E. coli bacteria contamination that exceeded health-code regulations. The presence of fecal coliform or E. coli bacteria on surface water is an indication that human or animal waste is not being disposed of or treated properly.
Over 41 percent of contaminated samples were found between the intersection of Crystal Springs Road and Baker Hill Road up to the mouth of Fletcher Bay on the island’s west side. That four-mile length of shoreline, along with most of the island, is currently closed to shellfish harvesting.
According to the health district, there has only been one confirmed failing septic site in the area, which leads authorities to believe many more could be failing without homeowner knowledge.
A bright spot in the survey is the state of discharge in Eagle Harbor. Only 8 percent of drains in the area needed further investigation, a marked decrease from a 1996 survey which found a discharge contamination rate of 27 percent.
Contaminated samples found in Fletcher Bay and the Pleasant Beach/Point White area are low as well. Identified contamination zones in these areas are already being remedied by homeowners who are fixing failed septic systems, according to the health district.
Following the survey’s conclusions, the next phase of the project will thoroughly investigate 20 discharge hot spots that registered more than one contaminated water sample. Health officials will use dyes to trace back contamination to their sources farther inland.
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|Plot Summary of The Fugitive King|
St. Martin's Sep 2002, 22.95, 240 pp.
Over forty years ago in the North Carolina Mountain town of Boone, Roy Freedman was courting his landlord's daughter Eva Porter. When he proposed to her, she refused saying her parents would disown her if she married a Mulingeon. Roy was arrested after the family found a lot of blood in the area where Eva was last seen.
Roy confessed to the murder and was sentenced to life in prison. He was in a minimum-security prison, had a lot of privileges and even worked in the governor's mansion. Roy risked everything he had by walking out of the mansion and holding Professor Simon Shaw at gunpoint. He tells the professor he was forced to confess and wants Simon to find out what really happened to his beloved Eva. Despite his doubts, Simon is drawn into the man's story and after Roy surrenders to the law, the professor decides to find out what really happened forty years ago.
THE FUGITIVE KING is a delightful amateur sleuth novel though why Roy chose the professor rather than a pro remains questionable. Still the engaging tale stars a lovable protagonist who is very much in touch with his feelings. His sensitivity is the reason he decides to help out a man who held him at gunpoint. The support cast consists of a bunch of amiable eccentrics, the kind of people who live in a rough and ready mountain town.
Harriet Klausner, Resident Scholar
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FBI tells what went on inside bunker with Jimmy Lee Dykes
- From: AP
- February 07, 2013
- 11 comments
AS FBI negotiators tried for nearly a week to coax a US man into freeing a 5-year-old boy held hostage, the captor was making his own plans.
He rigged the bunker with explosives and tried to reinforce it against any raid, and when agents stormed the shelter on Monday, Jimmy Lee Dykes engaged in a firefight that left him dead, the FBI and officials said.
Relatives said the boy, who turns six on Wednesday, was back at home and appeared to be doing well. He was seized off a crowded school bus on January 29 after authorities say the gunman shot the driver dead and took the boy at random. Officials said there was no indication that Dykes had harmed the boy.
While the FBI has said little about how it monitored Dykes' behaviour and mood in the days leading up to the rescue, the latest revelations suggest authorities were dealing with an abductor prepared for more violence even as he allowed police to send food, medicine and toys into the bunker for the boy.
For days, officers communicated with Dykes through a plastic pipe that rose up from the bunker, which was similar to a tornado shelter and apparently had running water, heat and cable television.
An FBI statement late on Tuesday said Dykes, 65, had planted an explosive device in a ventilation pipe he'd told negotiators to use to communicate with him on his property in the rural Alabama community of Midland City. The suspect also placed another explosive device inside the bunker, the FBI added.
Dykes appears to have "reinforced the bunker against any attempted entry by law enforcement,'' FBI special agent Jason Pack said in the statement providing significant new details about how it all ended. When agents stormed the bunker, Dykes "engaged in a firefight,'' Mr Pack said.
Officers killed Dykes, said an official in Midland City, speaking on condition of anonymity because the official wasn't authorised to discuss a pending law enforcement investigation.
The two devices were "disrupted,'' Mr Pack said, but did not say whether they were detonated or disarmed.
On Monday, authorities said, Dykes had a gun and appeared increasingly agitated, and negotiations were deteriorating. The Midland City official said law enforcement agents had been observing Dykes with some sort of camera, which is how they saw that he had a gun.
Dale County Coroner Woodrow Hilboldt said on Tuesday that he had not been able to confirm exactly how Dykes died because the man's body had remained in the bunker. An autopsy was to be conducted once the body was removed.
The boy, who has Asperger's syndrome and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, was said to be acting like a normal kid after his rescue.
"We know he's OK physically, but we don't know how he is mentally,'' Betty Jean Ransbottom, the boy's grandmother, said.
Neighbours had described Dykes as an unstable menace who beat a dog to death and threatened to shoot trespassers while patrolling his property armed.
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Daniel Piotrowski and Leigh van den Broeke FORMER prime minister Kevin Rudd has thrown his support behind same sex marriage in a blog post on his website.
Steve Lewis, National political correspondent JULIA Gillard said partner Tim Mathieson travelled to the US in an unofficial capacity despite being spotted at a car race with an "Office of the Prime Minister" tag.
Gemma Jones, Political Reporter CHILDREN are among hundreds of asylum seekers sleeping in tents at an overcrowded Christmas Island facility amid record boat arrivals.
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One of the great things about print publications is that there's never enough space.
On the internet, space isn't a problem. Write more and scroll more. But in print, writers and editors are forced to squeeze everything into the space available; they can't simply add pages at the back of the newspaper if they run out of room.
This lack of space stimulates discipline. Every article is edited to make it fit, and in that editing process all unnecessary words and details are removed. The idea is to say what you want to say as clearly and succinctly as possible. Then move on. That's what makes newspapers and magazines (and printed newsletters) a quick, easy read.
When the editing process breaks down, as in the example Seth Godin cities in his post, Precision in language, we notice.
The trouble with the web is that the discipline of tight editing is a less obvious requirement. That's a shame because it makes communication more difficult. Too many unnecessary words get in the way.
So when you're writing anything -- either in print or on the web -- think: how can I say this as briefly and precisely as possible?
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From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Have you ever wondered what FUCK those strange words meant when you played games online and looked at the chat rooms? Have you ever wanted to know the history behind these fucked up and ridiculous "words"? Here is the ultimate guide to these retarded ass "nerd words".
This word means 'newbie', or the unexperienced. This word was created when two gay nerds were about to butt-fuck each other. One nerd happened to be a level 300 dungeon-master while the other was a loser just starting on counterstrike. While having buttsex with each other and surfing on the web simultaneously, the level 300 dungeon-master called his partner a n00b because he was too preoccupied to type out newbie or amateur. Because of this, the use of this word causes your testosterone levels to drop by 5% and your asshole to grow 5 millimeters in diameter for each time you say it.
roflcopterused by bi nerds who like men and women and inanimate objects, to say i am a bi twilight hermaphrodite meth addict and i an damn proud..
This word is a mutilation of the word 'Ownage', which is pretty damn stupid itself but at least makes the least bit of sense. Pwnage was started by the makers of Supermario who had fucked up the typing and never caught the error. Instead of typing "owned", they typed "pwned", which unwittingly caused millions of nerds and losers to begin saying this in chat rooms and forums. Those who use this word experience a 10% loss of intelligence per usage. The idiots who use it aren't that smart anyway, so it's not much of a loss.
Quite possibly the most ridiculous word in history and the most embarrassing word to use ever, this word was invented by a team consisting of Stephen Hawkings, Ayn Rand, Bill Gates, every MENSA member (even the dead ones), the top 5 chess players in the world, and the top 5 players of the following games: Halo 2, Diablo 2, Counterstrike, Runescape, Phantasy Star Online, and Dungeons & Dragons. It took 6 months to develop this horrible word, after which the room that the development took place in had to be cleaned of wires, saliva, retainers, suspenders, and semen resulting from the giant gay orgy that occurred after development of the word was done. None of the females were present at this orgy. This word is a perverted version of 'great' or 'mega' and is used as an adjective to describe an event. The use of this word causes your appearance to worsen by 25% per usage, your acne to worsen by 50% per usage, your self-esteem to lessen by 30% per usage, your popularity to lessen by 90% per usage, and the amount of However, Americans have just discovered that 'Uber' is a German word, similar to 'super'.
l33t as: Elite=Lite=leet=l33t=l337 or just as normal nerds say 1337 means when a counterstrike nerd gets a head shot with his virtual pixel weapon he has to shout to the microphone: z0mg!!! imah sou 1337!!! It absolutely just means that your a fucking idiot. This word has started when the makers of Star-Wars said: You don't know the power of the dark side. Then the nerd said: But i know the power of da 1337. Every time nerd says 1337 his virtual penis grows 0.0024cm. After hes penis has grown to 1cm He will start the whole shit virtual penis all from the start to the 1cm end.
Due to the hazardous effects of using these words, Congress has decided to make the use of these shitty words illegal. If a person is caught using this language, he/she is susceptible to four years' assraping by Rosie O'Donnell. Extremely violent offenders may receive the death penalty, which would be carried out by strangulation with a controller cord or assassination by Halo 2 rocket launcher. Those not given the death penalty (almost none) will be placed in a recovery program that consists of no internet access, no video games, and nothing to do but play sports, which will kill the rest of them off. We don't need them anyway.
Like in the Wait-alot-game, RuneScape, a lot of n00bs will go 'fkn to say fucking, and sht to say shit, etc. Anything that gets them out of the censor. But as you will know, that can STILL get you muted/banned in other games, so a message to all the nerds who are 7 years old trying to be 14, just shut ur face, no one wants to hear it. Thanks. :D
if you use one of these words you are just a fucking nerd and everybody would hate you get under a train or killed by a lion who cares?Or you could just be gay,its all the same shit.
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The recently published June 2011 report by the Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI) concluded that the number of U.S. jobs created or preserved as a result of increased oil sands development in Canada could be expected to grow from 80,000 in 2010 to 600,000 by 2035
. In addition, CERI determined that as oil sands production increases in Canada, so will the demand for imported U.S. goods and services, adding an estimated $200 billion - $800 billion to the U.S. gross domestic product
between 2010 and 2035. A link to the study can be found on the Resources page
The map below outlines the jobs that would be added in each state if oil sands continue to be developed and projects such as the Keystone XL pipeline are completed.
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This week on Night Lights it’s “Red Trane”, in celebration of tenor saxophonist John Coltrane’s 80th birthday. Coltrane and pianist Red Garland, who both worked in Eddie Cleanhead Vinson’s late-1940s group, began playing together again in 1955 as part of Miles Davis’ quintet. Davis sought Garland out for his relaxed, block-chord style and his ability to impart an Ahmad Jamal-like sound; Coltrane, nearly 30 years old, was at a troubled juncture in his personal and professional life, still dogged by a drug addiction that would force Davis to eventually fire him.
In 1957 Coltrane turned his life around, kicking drugs and joining the Thelonious Monk quartet. He also began to record prolifically as a leader for Prestige, the same label for which Red Garland recorded. The two men made many records together throughout 1957 and 1958, resulting in a popular and accessible collaborative jazz legacy that’s just one of several achievements from this early and significant turning point in John Coltrane’s career. We’ll hear recordings from the albums Soultrane, Traneing In, High Pressure, and All Mornin’ Long.
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Posted November 11, 2010 Atlanta, GA
Assistant Professor Dr. Ioannis Brilakis was recently awarded a $306,043 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study infrastructure modeling. The three-year project titled “Reciprocal Reconstruction and Recognition for Modeling of Constructed Facilities” (NSF Grant #1031329) is an interdisciplinary project done in collaboration with Professor Patricio Vela from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
The motivation behind this research project stems from the need for viable methods to map and label existing infrastructure. The National Academy of Engineering recently listed Restoring and Improving Urban Infrastructure as one of the Grand Challenges of Engineering in the 21st century. Two of the greatest issues that cause this grand challenge are the need for more automation in construction, through advances in computer science and robotics, and the lack of viable methods to map and label existing infrastructure. Over two thirds of the effort needed to model even simple infrastructure is spent on manually converting surface data to a 3D model. The result is that as-built models are not produced for the vast majority of new construction and retrofit projects, which leads to rework and design changes that cost up to 10 percent of the installed costs. Any efforts towards automating the modeling process will increase the percentage of infrastructure projects being modeled and, considering that construction is a $900 billion industry, each 1 percent of increase can lead up to $900 million in savings.
Dr. Brilakis joined the School of Building Construction in Spring 2009 and holds a joint appointment with the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering; he is the Director of the Construction Information Technology Laboratory (CITL) at Georgia Tech. In 2010, he received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award for his project “CAREER: Visual Pattern Recognition Models for Remote Sensing of Civil Infrastructure,” a five-year project to enable automated, model based recognition of construction objects. His research interests include: computing and information technologies for the architecture, engineering, construction, and facilities management industries (AEC/FM); sensing and data collection for civil infrastructure development; and visual pattern recognition technologies for construction site multimedia data analysis.
A brief description of the research project is below:
The research objective of this project is to evaluate whether a novel framework proposed by the PIs can progressively reconstruct a reinforced concrete frame structure into an object-oriented geometric model, for the purpose of automating the Building Information Model (BIM) making process of constructed facilities in a cost-effective manner. According to the proposed framework, the modeler videotapes the structure from all accessible angles to minimize occlusions. During this stage, the structural members (concrete columns and beams in this study) in the resulting stream of images are detected and their occupying region is marked in all images. These regions are used to establish correspondence at the object level across images, and solve the rough registration problem efficiently. Line-based structure from motion is then applied to the result to produce a rendered 3D view of the structure with the recognized regions marked. This loops back to the detection of structural members, which can now be also performed on the spatial data covered by the visually marked regions. The result is more robust element detection (by combining visual and spatial detection results), and consequently improved element matching and reconstruction. The resulting object-oriented model is expected to be an accurate 3D representation of the structure with the load bearing linear members detected. This model is provided to the modeler, who can then use it to complete the model making process
The School of Building Construction at Georgia Tech is a leading force of innovation in integrated project delivery, integrated facility management and real estate development. It is the fastest growing among schools in the College of Architecture, almost doubling in size in the last decade. The undergraduate degree program offered by the School of Building Construction is accredited by the American Council for Construction Education.
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All students must complete four credits of math (i.e., MAT112 or higher) as a part of the liberal arts core requirements. This requirement must be satisfied within your first two years at USF. If you transferred into USF from another institution, you must complete these courses by the end of your first three semesters at USF.
USF believes that your success starts with selecting the best math course that matches your unique background. As the result of our commitment to your success, we have designed the following math prerequisites. Students may enroll in the introductory level Math courses (i.e., MAT 113, MAT112, MAT233, and MAT151) if they satisfy any of the following:
- Earned a math ACT sub-score of at least 19 or a score of at least 480 on the mathematics section of the SAT;
- Successfully completed MAT111 Elementary Algebra at USF or an equivalent course at another institution;
- Obtained a passing grade on a placement exam designed by the USF mathematics department. This exam is designed to gauge your current proficiency so you and your advisor are able to make informed decisions when you register for classes. The test-out option is available during your first year at USF and may be attempted at most twice during that year. You can learn more about this by reading the information below.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PLACEMENT EXAM
Have questions? We've got answers. Click on the question below to learn more about math placement.
- What content is covered in the exam?
- The screening exam is a 30-question multiple choice exam written by the USF math faculty. It consists of exercises in the following categories: definitions and properties, numerical expression problems, algebraic equivalences, simplifying algebraic expressions, solving linear equations, equations of lines, radicals, and modeling & evaluating problems with percentages.
- How long is the exam?
- You will have 90 minutes to complete the exam. There are only 30 questions on the test, but we have given students extra time to permit students to work at a comfortable pace without any apprehension about time limits.
- What score do I need?
- A score of 70 percent (21 out of 30) or higher constitutes a passing grade. You will receive your score the day of the exam. If you pass the exam, the Registrar will update your student record, which your advisor can access. You may then follow-up with your advisor to register for the respective math course based upon your score.
- If I am not satisfied with my score, can I retake the test?
- Students are permitted to retake the exam after 30 days. Students may only take the exam twice.
- Am I required to complete the exam?
- No, you are not required to take this test. You only need to take this exam if you would like to enroll in a Math course above MAT111 Elementary Algebra and you did not earn a math ACT sub-score of at least 19 or a score of at least 480 on the mathematics section of the SAT.
- What should I bring with me? Am I able to use a calculator during the exam?
- You will be provided with an approved calculator, pencils, and scrap paper. Bring only a photo id with you the day of the exam.
- How should I prepare for the exam?
- Students are encouraged to complete the Sample Exam Questions and use the Sample Exam Key to identify their strengths and weaknesses in the areas assessed in the exam. The University encourages students to review the questions that you answered incorrectly and study these concepts in more detail in preparation for the exam. The Math Center also provides tutoring during the Fall and Spring semester to help students prepare for the exam. View their hours of operation.
- I received extra time for exams in high schools. Can I receive this accommodation for this exam?
- The Academic Success Center is eager to visit with you to learn more about your needs. Simply contact the director, Billie Streufert, at
to arrange a confidential conversation. Students who qualify for accommodation are granted an additional 45 minutes (135 total) to complete the exam. The Academic Success Center will proctor your exam in a private office that reduces distractions. We will schedule your exam with you when you qualify for this accommodation.
- I enrolled at USF prior to Fall 2013. Do I need to satisfy these prerequisites?
- Students entering USF (either as freshmen or as transfer students) in the Fall of 2013 or later must satisfy the Math pre-requisite. These pre-requisites do not apply to students enrolled at USF prior to Fall 2013, even if they have not yet taken their math Liberal Arts Core course(s).
SCHEDULING AN EXAM
The Academic Success Center administers placement exams individually and during New Student Registration Days. The dates and times for summer 2013 are provided below.
Information for fall 2013 will be posted in August.
Placement exams are administered during NSR:
If you would like to complete the placement exam when you are on campus for New Student Registration (NSR), simply attend the event and notify your advisor during your individual registration appointment. We will then arrange for you to take the exam at 2:30 before you leave.
To accommodate the students who are unable to attend New Student Registration (NSR) or would like to retake the exam, the Academic Success Center administers the exam individually. Simply contact Keri LeBrun at (605) 331-6740 or
for scheduling information.
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New Manager Development Courseware
Newly appointed managers are challenged to meet the expectations of a diverse audience of direct reports, peers, reporting seniors, vendors, and customers. New managers must quickly acquire the knowledge and learn the skills that will allow others to measure their success.
The courses and courseware in this category will help new managers quickly and easily acquire the knowledge and skills they need to establish a solid foundation of Leadership and Management skills upon which their success will depend to include comprehensive training solutions on business ethics.
Building organizational trust through leadership is critical to organizational success. This 1-day course will help leaders and managers learn what makes up a trusting work culture and how to establish and maintain that culture. Learn More
In today's complex business environment, more creative solutions are required to address the myriad of issues that arise. This 1-day course teaches leaders, managers and supervisors to think both creatively and analytically in order to solve problems effectively and efficiently. Learn More
Increase employee performance and capability through the effective use of delegation. This 1/2-day course teaches managers to implement a successful delegation process such that opportunities are matched to the right people and barriers are overcome. Learn More
This 1-day workshop will help leaders and managers improve their decision-making abilities, through understanding of their own decision making style, and how to adopt a framework for making decisions that avoids common pitfalls. Learn More
This 1/2-day course teaches leaders and managers the ways in which to create employee ownership and accountability and to empower them to use their own initiative and judgment to improve work performance. Learn More
New managers are challenged to quickly master the skills necessary to achieve management success, i.e. developing trust, delegating, planning and motivating. This 1-day course will teach new managers the necessary skills to successfully transition into their new management position. Learn More
This 1/2-day course will provide supervisors and managers with a thorough understanding of how to use feedback to improve productivity, reduce conflicts, and increased ability to identify employee needs and communicate solutions.. Learn More
Change management is a necessary skill for every leader. This 1/2-day course helps managers and supervisors to understand change in the workplace and the stresses it produces and how to establish a proactive approach to achieve the goals. Learn More
Effective time management is an essential skill in today's workplace. This 1-day course teaches students how to proactively plan and schedule their tasks while overcoming procrastination and setting firm boundaries. Learn More
Understanding the emotional impact of change and how that impacts organizational performance is key to change management. This 1-day course provides a thorough introduction to managing change and overcoming resistance to change. Learn More
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As Magnum now have representational rights over Tim Hetherington’s archive of images, the work he was making in Libya has surfaced. A selection of 31 images from the 53 rolls of film Hetherington shot on his Mamiya 7II. Below is the text Magnum have provided to explain the work and a few of my favourite images, the only question left is when do we see the other 499 images he shot before his death?
In April of 2011, Tim Hetherington travelled to Libya to photograph the ongoing uprising against the government. His goal was not to photograph the “news” of the day, but rather to focus on the idea of what he described as the “Theater of War” and young men acting out what they must imagine as the Hollywood version of how a rebel soldier looks and acts. He did not use a digital camera like other news photographers on the ground. Instead, he made these pictures with a medium format film camera giving the images much greater detail and clarity. When he was killed on April 20th by a mortar in the city of Misurata, he had photographed some 53 rolls of film. These are the images from those rolls, the last pictures Tim Hetherington would make.
You can see the other images on Magnum’s Website here.
Further reading on Magnum’s acquisition of Hetherington’s archive here.
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Richard Cypher in a 6 inch 1:12th scale. Seeker of Truth based on the novel and tv series.
The story takes place in the world author Terry Goodkind created in his The Sword of Truth fantasy novel series. The three main provinces are Westland, the Midlands and D'Hara. Westland is separated from the Midlands by a magical boundary, which was created to prevent any magic from entering Westland. On the other side of the Midlands is D'Hara, which is ruled by Darken Rahl. An ancient order of women known as Confessors oversee the welfare of the people of the Midlands.
The first season is loosely based on the first book of The Sword of Truth series Wizard's First Rule. Some of the stories feature events and characters not encountered in the books, while others loosely adapt events from the book. The story begins after the invasion of Darken Rahl's army into the Midlands. Kahlan Amnell, a Confessor, ventures into Westland in search of a wizard and the Seeker, who has been prophesied to defeat Rahl. Kahlan finds the wizard, Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander , and the Seeker, Richard Cypher, who is forced to accept his destiny. Together, they set off on a journey to seek out and defeat Darken Rahl. They soon discover that in the process of defeating Darken Rahl, they unintentionally helped the Keeper of the underworld create tears in the veil which separates the underworld from the world of the living. Richard's quest in the second season is to find the 'Stone of Tears' to seal the rifts between the worlds and defeat the Keeper.
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picture taken from www.tsv1860basketmen.de
Special education teacher Heinz-Werner Schmunz first heard of Special Olympics when he accompanied some of his students to Special Olympics Germany´s National Winter Games 2001, and it did not take long for Special Olympics to win his heart. Back home in Hagen, North Rine-Westphalia, the former Basketball professional player (1971 – 1981 for SSV Hagen) launched a basketball program at his school. Teams from Gustav-Heinemann-Schule have so far competed on several regional tournaments and National Games and represented SO Germany at SO World Summer Games 2007 in Shanghai.
Recruiting Unified Partners from Basketball club BBV Hagen and athletes from Gustav-Heinemann-Schule, Heinz-Werner started a Unified Basketball Team in 2008. Since 2009 this team, TSV Hagen Unified, participates in the city´s regular Basketball league operation, competing with teams of players without intellectual disabilities on a weekly basis. Heinz-Werner and his team proved to all of us: Inclusion is working!
About Daniel Stanev: I have been working for Special Olympics Germany since April 2011. My personal highlight since working for SO Germany was being part of the German delegation during Special Olympics World Summer Games Athens 2011.
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New Paddy Wagon
Chief Robert Douglas calls it his paddy wagon... a van equipped to take up to 10 people to jail at a time.
Douglas says it's better in crowd situations because more people can fit in it compared to a regular police cruiser... which can hold three people max.
The chief says if there is another riot, his officers are better prepared.
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- With New Year Comes New Minimum Wage for Florida Workers
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In this module we demonstrate techniques for getting sound in real-time. Getting real-time performance is mostly an issue of the right signal data structure. However, there is no one-size-fits-all data structure. For choosing the right one, you need to understand how various data structures work, what are their strengths and what are their weaknesses.
- play :: T Double -> IO ExitCode
- oscillator :: IO ExitCode
- write :: FilePath -> T Double -> IO ExitCode
- brass :: IO ExitCode
- filterSawSig :: (Write sig Double, Transform sig (Result Double) Double, Transform sig Double (Result Double), Transform sig Double (Parameter Double)) => sig Double
- filterSaw :: IO ExitCode
- playState :: T Double -> IO ExitCode
- filterSawState :: IO ExitCode
- filterPingStateProc :: T Double -> T Double
- filterPingState :: IO ExitCode
- filterPingShare :: IO ExitCode
- filterPingCausal :: IO ExitCode
First, we define a play routine for lazy storable vectors. Storable lazy vectors are lazy lists of low-level arrays. They are both efficient in time and memory consumption, but the blocks disallow feedback by small delays. Elements of a storable vector must be of type class Storable. This means that elements must have fixed size and advanced data types like functions cannot be used.
Here is a simple oscillator generated as lazy storable vector. An oscillator is a signal generator, that is it produces a signal without consuming other signals that correspond in time. Signal generators have the maximal block size as parameter. This is the lower limit of possible feedback delays.
A routine just for the case that we want to post-process a signal somewhere else.
The simple brass sound demonstrates how to generate piecewise defined curves. Some infix operators are used in order to make the pieces fit in height. There are also operators for intended jumps.
We rewrite the filter example
in terms of type classes for more signal types.
The constraints become quite large
because we must assert, that a particular sample type
can be used in the addressed signal type.
Here we instantiate
filterSawSig for storable vectors and play it.
This means that all operations convert a storable vector into another storable vector.
While every single operation probably is as efficient as possible,
the composition of all those processes could be more efficient.
So keep on reading.
The next signal type we want to consider is the stateful signal generator.
It is not a common data structure, where the sample values are materialized.
Instead it is a description of how to generate sample values iteratively.
This is almost identical to the
Data.Stream module from the
With respect to laziness and restrictions of the sample type (namely none),
this signal representation is equivalent to lists.
You can convert one into the other in a lossless way.
That is, function as sample type is possible.
Combination of such signal generators is easily possible
and does not require temporary storage,
because this signal representation needs no sample value storage at all.
However at the end of such processes, the signal must be materialized.
Here we write the result into a lazy storable vector and play that.
What the compiler actually does is to create a single loop,
that generates the storable vector to be played in one go.
We demonstrate the stateful signal generator using the known
Actually we can reuse the code from above,
because the signal generator is also an instance of the generic signal class.
Merging subsequent signal processes based on signal generators into an efficient large signal processor is easy. Not storing intermediate results is however a problem in another situation: Sometimes you want to share one signal between several processes.
In the following example we generate an exponential curve
which shall be used both as envelope
and as resonance frequency control of a resonant lowpass.
Actually, recomputing an exponential curve is not an issue,
since it only needs one multiplication per sample.
But it is simple enough to demonstrate the problem and its solutions.
let env = exponential2 50000 1 fools the reader of the program,
env that is shared, is only the signal generator,
that is, the description of how to compute the exponential curve successively.
That is wherever a signal process reads
env, it is computed again.
You can achieve sharing by a very simple way.
You can write the result of the signal generator in a list (
and use this list as source for a new generator (
fromList provides a signal generator that generates new sample values
by delivering the next sample from the list.
In a real world implementation you would move
Sig.fromList . Sig.toList to
since the caller cannot know, that this function uses the signal twice,
and the implementor of
filterPingStateProc cannot know,
how expensive the computation of
You can use any other signal type for sharing, e.g. storable vectors, but whatever type you choose, you also get its disadvantages. Namely, storable vectors only work for storable samples and lists are generally slow, and they also cannot be optimized away, since this only works, when no sharing is required.
Whenever a signal is shared as input between several signal processes, the actual materialized data is that between the slowest and the fastest reading process. This is due to lazy evaluation and garbage collection. If the different readers read with different speed, then you will certainly need a temporary sample storage.
It is however not uncommon that all readers read with the same speed. In this case we would in principle only need to share the input signal per sample. This way we would not need a data structure for storing a sub-sequence of samples temporarily. But how to do that practically?
The solution is not to think in terms of signals and signal processors,
Sig.T a and
Sig.T a -> Sig.T b -> Sig.T c, respectively,
but in terms of signal processors, that are guaranteed to run in sync.
That is we must assert that signal processors
process the samples in chronological order and emit one sample per input sample.
We call such processes "causal" processes.
Causal.T (a,b) c represents the function
Sig.T (a,b) -> Sig.T c
but it also carries the guarantee,
that for each input of type
one sample of type
c is emitted or the output terminates.
Internally it is the Kleisli arrow of the
StateT Maybe monad.
Another important application of the Causal arrow is feedback. Using causal processes guarantees, that a process cannot read ahead, such that it runs into future data, which does still not exist due to recursion.
Programming with arrows needs a bit experience or Haskell extensions.
Haskell extensions are either an
Arrow syntax preprocessor
or the preprocessor that is built into GHC.
However, for computing with physical dimensions
you can no longer use the original
and thus you cannot use the arrow syntax.
So here is an example of how to program
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There is an increasing amount of talk that Ireland’s new government is prepared to do a deal with its EU partners, exchanging some of the country’s sovereignty in relation to corporate tax in return for a marginally lower interest rate on a portion of Ireland’s debt. This post discusses not only the hypocrisy and economic illiteracy on the part of Ireland’s EU partners as they push for such a move but also the costs to the Irish economy if it happened. Even leaving aside corporate tax revenues, the lost jobs, income and tax receipts make this a terrible deal for Ireland Inc.
Last week, Ireland had its most momentous election since 1932, when the Fianna Fail party that would dominate politics for 80 years was born. Aside from the politics, there are clear messages in the election. This post reviews, primarily for a non-Irish audience, two messages relating to Ireland’s debt burden – that voters do not want sovereign default but do not regard bank debt in that category – as well as the real underlying issues behind the voters’ choices.
Since 2000, China and India have replaced the OECD as the engine of global economic growth. This post, however, discusses an even more exciting picture that may be going on under the radar. Growth in sub-Saharan Africa has more than doubled to 6%, while population growth is slowing. With the region now home to one third of the world’s fastest growing economies, it might be time for the narrative of Africa’s growth to change.
This post looks at the case for allowing the international bondholders of Irish banks to get away scot-free from their responsibilities as lenders and finds it wanting. It outlines the two great excuses that have emerged since the “Great Financial Crisis”, one by borrowers and the other by lenders. Neither rings true in the case of Ireland, a microcosm of the global finance environment over the past ten years. Irish banks stand in the middle of a sandwich between Irish households and international bondholders. Each must pay their price, including bondholders.
This post reviews the latest IMF data on global economic growth to 2015 and puts it in the context of what has happened since 1980. In real terms, the global economy will reach $100 trillion by 2015, more than three times its 1980 level. What might surprise Westerners, however, is that the pace of economic growth will actually be faster in the period 2008-2015 than the 1980s, 1990s or pre-Recession 2000s. This is because while growth is slowing in the West, which now contributes to the list of world’s slowest growing economies like never before, it’s accelerating across Asia and Africa.
Two very important reports were released last week, highlighting Ireland’s strong international competitiveness. The first was the World Bank Doing Business rankings for 2011, where Ireland ranked 9th in the world. The second was the IBM Global Investment Trends report, which highlighted Ireland as the top location for FDI jobs on the planet in 2009. This pipeline remains strong, and the post highlights 12 announcements over the past month that are creating 1,200 jobs around Ireland.
Last month, the OECD published its latest Economic Outlook, which downgraded expectations for rich-country growth this year. This post digs a little deeper into the OECD database and compares how the private and public sectors have changed over the past three years. It finds that the private sector is paying more to get less in most countries – except the US, Japan and Ireland. It also finds an effective stimulus in the OECD of about 6% of GDP in 2010, compared to 2007. This is largest and – as spending-led – perhaps least sustainable in Ireland and in Denmark.
“Light touch” regulation is now seen as one of the primary contributors to the recent global recession. This post makes the case for true “light touch” regulation – as opposed to simply bad legislation – and warns that this distinction should not be forgotten, as governments attempt to learn from the recession. Not only is light touch not part of the problem, it’s a key part of the solution, if EU estimates of a stimulus of €150bn from reducing red-tape by 25% are anything to go by.
This post uses the latest IMF World Economic Outlook to examine which countries have been affected most by the recession. Looking at 2010-2013 growth rates, it breaks the recession’s impact down into two periods, the initial economic crisis and the subsequent rebound over the past 12 months. It finds that the recent recovery is very broadly based.
With the 2010 World Cup down to the last sixteen, what would a World Cup of economics look like? How would the sixteen countries that are left fare, if they were competing on economic factors, not football ones? This post presents the Last 16 with a twist – each match is decided by a country’s economic defence, midfield and attack.
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Assessment & Program DesignAs much as we are highly confident in our ability to assist your organization to evolve, it would be folly of us to assume that our good ideas – packaged up the way we think they should be – would always work for everyone.
That isn't to say that there aren't themes in the challenges common to evolving organizations. There are.
Organizations are inherently 'social'. They are constructed of people and that means there are personalities involved in those challenges. And where there are personalities, nothing is always the same.
And, this is the primary theme that drives the challenges most of our clients bring to us.
Getting to the truth, early.When we start working with you, the first step we will take is to get the truth. We'll methodically assess the current reality of your organization – be it with your existing or evolving leaders, teams or organizational structure.
At this point, you may be thinking that this sounds exactly like what every other company does ... and to some extent it is.
However, where we differ is how we go about the assessment.
The lens we use to evaluate your current situation and the gaps that are contributing to your challenges is the Synergetics Assessment Model – a four-point, six-vector fully scalable inside-out model for critical thinking, planning and problem-solving based in the science of synergetics.
This model provides the foundation and structure for pinpointing exactly where your organization can benefit from a development plan.
12 degrees of freedom – creating the stability necessary to evolve.
Here's more geometry for you. To fix something in 'space', to make it immovable and completely stable, it must be anchored in 12 directions. This creates a stability in the system that allows it to withstand external pressures that would otherwise make it waver or go off course.
So, how do you go about stabilizing social dynamic models in business -- ie. execution of strategic plans, development programs, or team processes?
Include all perspectives.
Too often, assessment processes only look from the 'top down' or from the 'outside in' or from 'them vs us'. This approach can unintentionally exclude very useful information.
Here's the reason: all systems inherently have an inside and an outside, an internal and external component. In business, its 'you and me', or 'business and client', or 'management and staff', or 'this department vs that department.' For the system to function successfully, it is imperative that both sides or perspectives are considered.
Our Synergetics Planning Model, uses six elegantly simple, yet comprensive questioning process to flush out the critical factors – both the internal and external – relevant to your challenge.
Putting it into action.After we complete the assessment process, the next step is to build a plan that will work to achieve your goals. Again, this may sound simplistic, but we do do things differently.
At each step of the way, we work with our Stable Systems Synergetics Model which ensures that we don't miss anything. Because if we do, the program won't work as well as it could. The planning system would be incomplete and unstable.
With a focus on the point where a system or plan typically weakens.It's our experience that most people and organizations are reasonably good at 3 out of the 4 points on our model: Visioning, Designing their business and creating the requisite tools.
It's also our experience that the place most individuals, teams, and organizations fall apart is in continuous improvement. This goes back to the idea that change and growth are a process. If you truly want your people or organization to evolve, you have to view it as a process.
And, inherent in the concept of process is this: You have to be continuously, proactively committed to gathering feedback, assessing it and fine-tuning your plan based on the learnings.
Because we know that this is where things weaken, the plan we bring to you will always have a focus on this point.
We want you to succeed. We really do. Life is way better when people are doing good work and are happy about it.
Just imagine. We can.
Why The Social Synergetics Model Works So Well
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Featured Clinical Trial
Targeted Antibody Therapy for Metastatic Adrenocortical Carcinoma
Name of the Trial
Phase II Randomized Study of Mitotane with Versus without Anti-IGF-1R Recombinant Monoclonal Antibody IMC-A12 in Patients with Recurrent, Metastatic, or Primary Unresectable Adrenocortical Carcinoma (UCCRC-16402A). See the protocol summary.
Dr. Gary Hammer, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Why This Trial Is Important
Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare type of cancer that forms in the outer layer, or cortex, of the adrenal gland. The only potential cure for this disease is surgical removal (resection) of the affected gland. However, many patients are not diagnosed until the disease has become widespread (metastasized). Moreover, the recurrence rate among patients treated with surgery is high. Patients with advanced or recurrent ACC are often treated with the drug mitotane (Lysodren), which is the only drug currently approved by the FDA to treat the disease. Unfortunately, many patients do not respond to the drug or become resistant to treatment with it. Therefore, doctors are eager to find more effective treatments.
The insulin-like growth factor (IGF) signaling pathway is thought to be important in the development and growth of ACC. The IGF pathway is activated by interactions between the circulating growth factors IGF-1 and IGF-2 and their membrane-bound receptor, IGF-1R. A number of agents are being developed that target this pathway by blocking the ability of IGF-1 and IGF-2 to bind to and activate IGF-1R. One such agent is a monoclonal antibody called IMC-A12 (cixutumumab). Doctors want to know if combining IMC-A12 with mitotane will help stop the growth of recurrent, metastatic, or unresectable ACC. In preclinical studies, this combination was more effective than mitotane alone at inhibiting growth of ACC tumors in animal models. In a phase I clinical trial, patients with metastatic ACC that was unresponsive to other therapies were treated with a different monoclonal antibody that targets IGF-1R; although none of the patients had an objective response, the majority experienced stable disease and minor tumor shrinkage.
In this clinical trial, 20 patients with recurrent, metastatic, or otherwise unresectable ACC who have not been previously treated with systemic therapies will be treated with IMC-A12 and mitotane to determine the safety of the combined therapy. If the combination is safe, an additional 102 patients will be randomly assigned to receive the combined treatment or mitotane alone. Doctors want to see if the combination therapy will improve progression-free survival compared with mitotane alone. They will also try to determine whether either treatment improves quality of life or response rates.
“Research by many investigators including those at the University of Michigan has focused on trying to understand the role of IGF in adrenal cancer, particularly the role of IGF-2, the levels of which can be elevated 90- to 100-fold in some cases,” said Dr. Hammer. “What this research suggests is that, if elevated levels of IGF-2 are part of the etiology of the disease, then that may be a very targetable defect.
“The antibody being tested in this trial has a mechanism of action that involves not just blocking the ability of IGF-2 to bind to IGF-1R, but also causing internalization and degradation of the receptor. So the receptor is simply not there for the growth factor to attach to and stimulate growth of the cancer cell,” he added.
For More Information
See the lists of entry criteria and trial contact information or call the NCI Cancer Information Service at 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237). The call is toll free and confidential.
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A summary of the Iranian nuclear crisis.
As the US begins to draw down its hard Middle East presence and pivots to Asia, Iran’s alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons continues to be perceived as one of the most salient global issues. This complex saga can only be understood within a historical context, coupled with an awareness of the US response to an increasingly independent Iran.
In 1953, the US-instigated coup of the democratically elected Iranian nationalist Mohammad Mossadeq sowed resentment that, scholars claim, facilitated the later 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Following the coup and throughout the height of the Cold War, the US re-installed and sustained the rule of king and dictator Rezah Shah Pahlavi, effectively quashing the populist democratic experiment headed by Mossadeq. Increasingly oppressive at home, Rezah Shah continued to impose Western policy abroad as a close US ally and proxy. US support for this domestically detested regime, synergized with lingering mistrust from the Mossadeq coup to arguably catalyze the later explosion of revolutionary and anti-Western fervor that was the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
The Revolution spurred hostile relations with the West as Iran shifted from being a key proponent, to being a key opponent of the US. A hostile Tehran has since sought to balance US-Israeli hegemony. In response, US posture towards Iran has evolved into today’s robust containment and sanctions doctrine.
Against this strained history stands the current Iranian nuclear saga. Vestiges of the Shah’s American-condoned nuclear development transferred to the post-revolution program, as did Iran’s 1968 signature to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The treaty allows Iran to continue International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspector-verified peaceful uranium enrichment.
Until the 1990s, Iranian nuclear development milled along as actors outside the US core contributed to incremental improvements in enrichment capability. Iran, with improvements across its nuclear program, continued development, often under the nose of the IAEA.
Later, dovetailing with its novel dual-containment doctrine, the Clinton administration established a new tone of suspicion toward the continuing Iranian nuclear program.
Just prior to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Iran suspended enrichment and made an apparently unanswered overture to the US regarding its nuclear program. However, Iran’s acquiescence was short-lived and it later restarted enrichment.
Additional nuclear developments, such as the construction of an enrichment facility near Qom, prompted diplomacy and the first sanctions in the current chapter of the nuclear saga. Nevertheless, Iran continued to obstruct IAEA efforts and 2009 to late 2011 saw progress, despite increasing international concern.
In November 2011, an alarming IAEA report evoked new panic in the international community. While Tehran insisted its nuclear program was peaceful, immense pressure by a US-EU-led coalition imposed the toughest sanctions yet, including those on Iran’s Central Bank and the oil market.
Now, the Obama administration, hesitant to become mired in another costly war, anticipates that sanctions will induce Iranian amenability to a diplomatic resolution. Meanwhile, Israel pushes for a more aggressive stance against Iran, despite increasing US reservation and calls for restraint.
The Israeli rhetoric likely stems from Israel’s particular geographic vulnerability to an Iranian nuclear strike, coupled with a perceived Iranian desire to ‘wipe [Israel] off the map.’ In addition, Israel shares US/regional fears both of losing strategic flexibility currently enjoyed vis-à-vis a non-nuclear Iran, and a possible regional nuclear arms race, should Iran come to possess a weapon.
Only the usual recalcitrants, China and Russia, with others, have shared a more muted response, in line with their perceived national interests.
An increasingly isolated Iran, under immense pressure, has been pushing back, particularly in its threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, among other instances of posturing. Meanwhile, enrichment continues despite the increasing sanctions.
The latest developments come as the US and Iran gear up for Six-Party Talks in April and Iran begins to make concessions to IAEA inspectors.
Although a February 24 report reads increasingly alarmist, and estimates put Iran two to five years from nuclear capability, Iran’s intentions remain disputed. Even Israeli intelligence concurs that Iran has not a made a final determination of the program’s nature. Still, assessments of the program run from it being a peaceful linchpin of national pride to a dangerous weapons program meant to deter aggression, to, at the very worst, an idealistic genocidal instrument that could kill millions of Israelis and heavily endanger US interests in the region. As Iran races towards a capability that could upset US Middle East hegemony, eyes turn to the coming talks in April that could avert a potentially dangerous regional conflict.
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Annual Commencement of the Lower Providence Public Schools at the Lower Providence Baptist Church, May 24th, 1906, at 2:00 P. M.
Names in this online transcription include Anders, Buckwalter, Curdy, Fegley, Fox, Frantz, Getty, Hallman, Johnson, Landis, Reiff, Taggart, Weber, Wismer, Yost.
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Recovery should be your number one concern after oral surgery. Always follow post operative instruction provided by your surgeon or dentist, to prevent any risk of infection or trauma to the surgical site. Follow these general guidelines after oral surgery for rapid recovery and optimum healing.
Bleeding After a Tooth ExtractionBleeding after a tooth extraction is normal and slight bleeding may be noticed for up to 24 hours after surgery. Use the gauze that was provided to you, and bite down with firm pressure for one hour. You should remove the gauze gently. It may be necessary to take a sip of water to moisten the gauze if it feels stuck to the tissue. Doing this will prevent the bleeding from reoccurring. If you continue to have bleeding in the surgical area, contact your dentist or surgeon. They may instruct you to bite on a moist black tea bag. The tannic acid in the tea has been shown to reduce bleeding and assist with clotting.
Swelling is a normal response after various types of surgery. Keep your head elevated with pillows as mentioned above. You may use an ice pack on the outside of your face for the first 24 hours after oral surgery. Swelling is usually completely gone within 7 to 10 days after oral surgery. Stiffness in the muscles of the face is also normal and may be noticed for up to 10 days after oral surgery. You may see slight bruising, typically if the surgery involved your lower wisdom teeth
. If you have any concerns about swelling, or swelling has not reduced after 7 to 10 days, contact your doctor.
Pain After Oral Surgery and MedicationsPain after oral surgery varies depending on the extent of the procedure. Your dentist or surgeon will prescribe any necessary pain management medication. Follow the instructions for your medication carefully and always consult with your dentist or surgeon before taking any over-the-counter medications with your prescriptions. If you have been prescribed an antibiotic, always take all of the medication prescribed to you to prevent infection.
Rest and RecoveryRest for at least two days after oral surgery. Physical activity is no recommended for 2 to 3 days after your surgery. Typically, you should be able to resume normal daily activities within 48 hours after surgery.
Oral Hygiene After Oral Surgery
Vigorous rinsing and spitting should be avoided for 24 hours. Brush
gently and floss
if able to open wide enough. Lightly rinse your mouth with water, avoiding mouthwash. Let the water fall out of your mouth on its own. After 24 hours, consider rinsing with a saline or salt water solution. This will naturally help keep the surgical site clean, aiding in the healing process. Prepare your saline solution by placing one tablespoon of salt in one cup of warm water. Do not swallow the saline solution. Repeat this as necessary throughout the day. If you have had an extraction, do not attempt to remove anything from the tooth socket (hole). Rinsing lightly will dislodge any food particles from the site.
Tobacco UseDo not smoke for at least 24 hours after oral surgery. Smoking delays healing, and may cause a very painful infection called a dry socket. This condition is a painful infection that will need to be treated by your dentist. Avoid the use of smokeless or chewing tobacco until complete healing has occurred. If you have had an extraction, the pieces from the tobacco may enter the extraction site, causing pain and discomfort in the socket.
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Denver, CO (PRWEB) September 25, 2012
Lightning Labels, a custom label and sticker printing leader, is focused on promoting and supporting the U.S. economy by using materials and supplies manufactured in the United States. Drawing from recent research and analyses of economic trends and consumer preferences, Lightning Labels affirms its ongoing commitment to U.S. production.
"With the unemployment rate hovering above 8 percent, and the housing market still recovering from the cataclysmic collapse five years ago, many consumers are looking for the light at the end of the tunnel," says Business Development Manager AnneMarie Campbell. Lightning Labels notes that businesses and consumers alike need to look no farther than their neighbors; a united America, focused on domestic job growth and internal innovation, is the key to a full-fledged recovery. This pride in American manufacturing and development has grown since the recession, with consumers cognizant of where the products they purchase are manufactured and businesses proudly displaying "Made in the USA" labels.
A J.D. Power and Associates study from January 2012 showed that the number of Americans who avoided imported automobiles increased to 14 percent in 2012, accounting for the highest level since the study began in 2003. Conversely, the study also showed that the percentage of buyers who avoided domestic models fell to 6 percent, also a historic low level. This provides substantial insight into how sales of U.S.-made cars benefit the country's economy, considering half of the 2.2 percent economic growth during the first quarter of 2012 was from motor-vehicle output.
Americans’ preference for U.S.-made goods isn’t just limited to vehicles, though. A Harrison Group and American Express study showed that 65 percent of high-end shoppers prefer to buy American products.
According to ABC News, if each American spent an extra $3.33 a week on products that were "Made in the USA" nearly 10,000 new jobs would be created.
Labeling a product's origin has become increasingly important, as Americans have shown an increasing commitment to buying domestic in hopes of stimulating the economy. A Consumer News Facebook survey showed that 41 percent of respondents who tried to buy a product "Made in the USA" said they could not identify which products were made in the United States. The results suggest many companies may need to improve their packaging and labeling strategies to better incorporate the manufacturing location of their products.
The Tariff Act of 1930 required that nearly every product imported indicate where it is made. This was done in order to help consumers better recognize items that were made in the United States and those that were made elsewhere, particularly in Asia. In order to get the "Made in the USA" label, all significant parts and processing of a product must be made in the United States.
Companies still on the fence about the value of the "Made in the USA" label may want to consider some of the top reasons identified by Lightning Labels why Americans opt to purchase goods manufactured in the states versus overseas.
1) Foreign labor standards are not as stringent as those in the United States and, thus, allow for poor treatment of workers in many countries where jobs are being outsourced. Buying American not only ensures support to American manufacturers and jobs, but also demonstrates to consumers that a company is providing for safe working conditions and adhering to child labor laws. Minimum wage is not carried out in many places where products are being made, so buying American means supporting an honest day's work.
2) The U.S. manufacturing process is better for the environment when compared to many other countries, an issue that resonates with thousands of American consumers. Many of the brands sold in the United States and manufactured elsewhere are done so at the expense of Mother Nature.
3) Buying American now means supporting future generations to come. Outsourcing of jobs has led to the high unemployment rate and this could spell doom for the country’s future. At a time when Americans need to rally together to work through the country’s financial troubles, Lightning Labels recommends companies take the appropriate steps so they can proudly label their products as "Made in the USA." For those who are ready to order labels, Lightning Labels is offering *15% off new orders placed by September 30, 2012, with promo code CELEBRATE.
*15% off CELEBRATE offer valid on new label orders. Does not apply to reorders. Maximum discount is $1000. Free ground shipping applies to orders in the United States and Canada. Applies to regularly priced orders only. Enter code at checkout. This offer cannot be combined with any other offers or promotions.
About Lightning Labels:
Lightning Labels uses state-of-the-art digital printing technology to provide affordable, full-color custom labels and custom stickers of all shapes and sizes. From small orders for individuals, to the bulk needs of big businesses, Lightning Labels is equipped to handle and fulfill sticker and label projects of all types. Best of all, like the name implies, Lightning Labels provides a quick turnaround to every customers' labeling needs. Uses for Lightning Labels custom product labels and custom stickers include food packaging and organic food labels, wine and beverage labels, bath and body labels, and nutraceutical products, such as vitamins, essentials oils, and herbal remedies, as well as event stickers, adhesive window stickers and more. Lightning Labels strongly supports the development of environmentally friendly printing materials and carries EarthFirst PLA, a new kind of green label material made from corn instead of petroleum. While operating as a high-tech printer, Lighting Labels prides itself on its personalized customer service. For more information and to place orders online, visit LightningLabels.com. For the latest in packaging news and labeling promotional offers, find Lightning Labels on Facebook, Twitter (@LightningLabels), and Google+.
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Have you ever been talking to a friend on the phone and lamented the fact they were so far away? That's exactly the problem this bizarre shoulder-mounted MH-2, or 'miniature humanoid', seeks to solve. By turning them into a Jiminy Cricket sitting on your shoulder, minus the good advice.
Powered by a hefty-looking backpack full of servos—which animate the robot—the real-life avatar has a surprising range of motions in its head, body, and arms that let it strike a variety of poses mimicking the person you're talking to. Who, we might add, needs to be using or wearing some kind of motion capture setup so that their actions are translated to the robot.
It all sounds a bit cumbersome and awkward for both parties, which is probably going to ensure this thing never goes past the research stage. So if you were really hoping to one day use this contraption to share your travels around the world with a friend, just buy them a plane ticket and have them come along instead. http://gizmodo.com/5913886/crazy-should ... ny-cricket
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The Interwar Period
From the mid-19th century, Vilna ran a Jewish hospital, the largest of three in the city. At the end of the 19th century, "Mishmeret Cholim" was erected alongside the hospital – an organization that provided medical help to its members, and in particular to the needy and infirm. These two institutions continued to operate under Polish rule, and "Mishmeret Cholim" even established a dental clinic for the underprivileged. In 1925, the municipality began to support the institution, which until then had been funded by taxes paid for kosher slaughtering (the "korovke").
The OZE (OSE) Organization for the Health Protection of Jews, known in Poland as the TOZ (Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia Ludności Żydowskiej), increased its activities in Vilna during the period of Polish rule. It set about improving hygiene in the schools, and aided in the care of infants and children. It ran a clinic for schoolchildren, as well as an x-ray laboratory and a dental clinic; sent children to convalescence summer camps; organized playing fields in the city; and even established a sanatorium for lung disease patients, an advice centre for the infirm, a wellness clinic for pregnant women, a nursery, and a nursing school. Four thousand copies of the organization's magazine "Falks Gazunt" (The Health of the Nation) were distributed across Poland, and even beyond its borders. Some one thousand children attended the organization's summer camps every year. OZE was supported by membership fees, the national OZE organization, and the Va'ad Kehillah.
The Hospital for Pregnant Women and Infants was run by the Va'ad Kehillah. At first, the hospital received support from the Joint, but when this came to an end, it was forced to ask for payments from patients and new mothers. Most of the needy patients received its services for free, paid for by the municipality.
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