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Sunrise mansion is one of the most recognizable landmarks in Charleston. The Georgian structure overlooking the Kanawha River and downtown Charleston was built in 1905 by West Virginia’s ninth governor, William A. MacCorkle. Sunrise was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
After leaving office in 1897, MacCorkle turned his attention to his Charleston law practice and to building a family home suitable for a man of his standing and accomplishments. He began the construction of Sunrise in 1905. The three-story stone structure has 36 rooms and a gabled roof dotted with dormers and chimneys. The paneled great room is two stories in height and features an ornate fireplace built with stones MacCorkle collected from cities around the world, including London, Rome, and Versailles, as well as places in Egypt and China. After the mansion’s completion, MacCorkle entertained many distinguished visitors there, including Adlai Stevenson, William Jennings Bryan, and John Philip Sousa. MacCorkle died at Sunrise in 1930.
Sunrise and an adjoining mansion built by MacCorkle for his son, William Goshorn MacCorkle, were sold in 1936 by MacCorkle’s heirs and acquired in 1945 by the Salvation Army. The Salvation Army sold the houses and grounds to Sunrise Foundation in 1961. The foundation operated the property as a popular museum complex. In 2003, the museum moved to a new, larger exhibition space at the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences in downtown Charleston, and the Sunrise name was discontinued as a name for the museum. Sunrise mansion was sold back into private hands, and most of the grounds were given to the city of Charleston.
Sunrise mansion was named for MacCorkle’s childhood home in Rockbridge County, Virginia. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Read the National Register nomination.
Written by Eleanor Mahoney
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Letter: Missing: 1 historic marker“The cornfields and village of the Sioux Chief Medicine Bottle occupied the land between this point and the river from 1838-1852."
By: Bernice Wenzel, Rosemount,
To the editor,
“The cornfields and village of the Sioux Chief Medicine Bottle occupied the land between this point and the river from 1838-1852. This friendly Chief, uncle of the Medicine Bottle executed in 1865, with his band moved to the Redwood Agency after the Mendota Treaty of 1851 and died before the Sioux outbreak of 1862. This marker also stands on the abandoned roadbed of the St. Paul and Southern Railway.”
Does anyone know where this historical marker is? It was removed from the intersection of Highway 52 and 117th Street when the new bridge was built.
I have contacted Lunda Construction, the city of Rosemount, the city of Inver Grove Heights, the state of Minnesota and Dakota County. Everyone says, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”
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Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) (cont.)
In this Article
- What is XDR TB?
- How is XDR TB spread?
- Why is XDR TB so serious?
- Who is at risk for getting XDR TB?
- How can I prevent myself from getting TB?
- Can the TB vaccine (BCG) help prevent XDR TB?
- If I have regular (drug-susceptible) TB, how can I prevent getting drug-resistant TB?
- Can XDR TB be treated and cured?
- What are the symptoms of XDR TB?
- What should I do if I have been around someone who has XDR TB?
- How long does it take to find out if you have XDR TB?
- Is XDR TB a problem in the United States?
- How many cases of XDR TB have been reported in the United States?
- Is it safe to travel where cases of XDR TB have been reported?
- What can health care providers do to prevent XDR TB?
- Are immigrants putting the U.S. at increased risk for TB?
- Why haven't we heard about XDR TB before now?
- What is CDC doing to prevent XDR TB from becoming a bigger problem?
- Find a local Infectious Disease Specialist in your town
Who is at risk for getting XDR TB?
Drug-resistant TB (MDR or XDR) is more common in people who:
- Do not take their TB medicine regularly
- Do not take all of their TB medicines as told by their doctor or nurse
- Develop active TB disease again, after having taken TB medicine in the past
- Come from areas of the world where drug-resistant TB is common
- Have spent time with someone known to have drug-resistant TB disease
How can I prevent myself from getting TB?
Avoid close contact or prolonged time with known TB patients in crowded, enclosed environments like clinics, hospitals, prisons, or homeless shelters.
Can the TB vaccine (BCG) help prevent XDR TB?
There is a vaccine for TB disease called Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG). It is used in some countries to prevent severe forms of TB in children. However, BCG is not generally recommended in the United States because it has limited effectiveness for preventing TB in adults. The effect of BCG against XDR TB would likely be similar to the effect on drug-susceptible TB.
If I have regular (drug-susceptible) TB, how can I prevent getting drug-resistant TB?
The most important thing is for you to continue taking all your TB medicines exactly as prescribed. No doses should be missed and treatment should not be stopped early. You should tell your health care provider if you are having trouble taking the medications. If you plan to travel, make sure you have enough medicine to last while away.
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You have a unique medical history. Therefore, it is essential to talk with your doctor about your personal risk factors and/or experience with hepatitis. By talking openly and regularly with your doctor, you can take an active role in your care.
General Tips for Gathering Information
Here are some tips that will make it easier for you to talk to your doctor:
- Bring someone else with you. It helps to have another person hear what is said and think of questions to ask.
- Write out your questions ahead of time, so you don't forget them.
- Write down the answers you get, and make sure you understand what you are hearing. Ask for clarification, if necessary.
- Do not be afraid to ask your questions or ask where you can find more information about what you are discussing. You have a right to know .
Specific Questions to Ask Your Doctor
- What type of hepatitis do I have?
- Is it possible to have more than one type of hepatitis?
- How might I have contracted hepatitis?
- What medicines, dietary supplements, or herbal preparations should I avoid that may worsen hepatitis?
- Are there other substances I should avoid (such as alcohol)?
- What can I do to avoid passing hepatitis on to other people?
- What are some of the short-term and long-term complications of hepatitis?
- What symptoms should I watch out for and should I report?
- Based on my medical history, lifestyle, and family background, am I at risk for hepatitis?
- How do I best prevent hepatitis?
- Does my job put me at risk for hepatitis?
- What can I do to decrease my risk for hepatitis?
- Should I be vaccinated?
- Should I be screened for hepatitis?
- How often should I be screened if I do not have any symptoms?
- How do I best treat hepatitis?
What medicine options are available to help me?
- What are the benefits and side effects of these medicines?
- Will these medicines interact with other medicines, over-the-counter products, or dietary or herbal supplements I am already taking for other conditions?
- Are there any alternative or complementary therapies that will help me?
- Is it safe for me to have a baby?
- What kind of protection should my sexual partner and I use?
- Are there habits I should develop in order to avoid passing hepatitis to others?
- Why do I need to avoid alcohol? How do I find help to stop drinking?
- Should I exercise?
- When will I stop feeling so tired?
- Will my hepatitis go away?
- Will it become a chronic problem?
- Will I develop long-term liver problems?
- Will I develop liver cancer?
- Will I need a liver transplant?
- How will I know that my treatment program is effective?
- Am I now immune to hepatitis viruses?
- What types of hepatitis viruses am I now immune to?
- Reviewer: Daus Mahnke, MD
- Review Date: 03/2013 -
- Update Date: 00/31/2013 -
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BEIJING (Reuters) - With its parks, centuries-old palaces, history and culture, Beijing should be one of the more pleasant capitals of the world. Instead, it's considered among the worst to live in because of chronic air pollution.
Lung cancer rates are rising among the 20 million residents of China's capital, health officials say. For many multinational companies, Beijing is considered a hardship posting and, despite the extra allowances that classification brings, some executives are leaving.
On some days, Beijing is enveloped in a brownish-gray smog, so thick it gets indoors, stings the eyes and darkens the sky in the middle of the day.
Smoke from factories and heating plants, winds blowing in from the Gobi Desert and fumes from millions of vehicles can combine to blanket the city in this pungent shroud for days. English-speaking residents sometimes call the city "Greyjing" or "Beige-jing."
Some foreigners plan their daily events around the U.S. Embassy's Twitter feed on Beijing's air quality (https://twitter.com/beijingair), which has hourly posts.
"On a bad day, you're going to change your plans," said American Chauvon Venick, who moved to Beijing from Los Angeles with her lawyer husband and young daughter earlier this year.
"You wake up, look outside and it's a great day, you skip whatever you're going to do and go outside to enjoy it. If it's a really bad day, maybe we'll go and do something inside.
"I'm not going to have her out and about," Venick added, referring to her daughter.
While the embassy's air quality index has been consistently in the "unhealthy" range around 170 in the past week, the winter months can be especially bad as residents crank up the heating.
One day in early December, Beijing's smog was so severe it forced the main airport to shut for several hours, and the U.S. Embassy's index reached its ceiling with a reading of 500, meaning the air was hazardous to human health.
Last year, the state-run China Daily quoted a Beijing health official as saying the lung cancer rate in the city had increased by 60 percent during the past decade, even though the smoking rate during the period had not seen an apparent rise.
The Economist Intelligence Unit's "liveability" index this year ranked Beijing's pollution at 4.5, with 5 being the worst. Out of 70 cities surveyed, the only ones rated worse were Mumbai, New Delhi, Karachi, Dakar, Dhaka and Cairo.
LOT GOING FOR IT
Beijing has a lot going for it, aside from being capital of the world's second-largest economy and home to UNESCO World Heritage sites like the Summer Palace and world-famous cuisine.
But the pollution has reached such levels it can be hard convincing foreign executives to move to the city.
"We can't get people to move here. Pollution is a big worry, especially if you have children," said a Beijing-based executive for a large Western financial services firm, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Beijing is considered a hardship posting nobody wants."
Those taking advantage include companies that make air purifiers, which report booming business and count big foreign firms among their clients.
"Sales last year were three times the average of what we had seen in previous years," said Zheng Hui, a sales consultant for Swiss company IQ Air, which entered the Chinese market more than five years ago.
Chinese authorities made an all-out effort to improve air quality during the 2008 Summer Olympics, curtailing vehicle movements and relocating outdated, polluting factories.
The relief was temporary, as curbs on factories were relaxed and car sales continued to rocket.
It is still a sensitive issue, especially as Beijing tries to position itself as a global business hub.
Last month, a senior Chinese official demanded foreign embassies stop issuing air pollution readings, saying it was against the law and diplomatic conventions, in pointed criticism of the U.S. Embassy index.
The Beijing authorities say they are well aware of the air pollution problem.
"We are trying to improve air quality. It is not only to attract investment from abroad; we are also doing it for the health of all Beijingers," an official at Beijing's environmental protection bureau told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Elsewhere in China, there have been protests in recent weeks over threats to the environment.
On Saturday, officials canceled an industrial waste pipeline project after anti-pollution demonstrators occupied a government office in eastern China, destroying computers and overturning cars.
Earlier this month, thousands took to the streets in Sichuan province's Shifang town to protest against a $1.6 billion copper refinery they feared would poison their families. The city government swiftly called off the project.
NOT THE ONLY CHALLENGE
For expatriates in Beijing, especially from the West, air pollution is not the only challenge.
English is not widely spoken, public transport is often crowded, food safety is a worry and tight controls on the Internet mean websites like Facebook and Twitter are hard to access.
"For expat staff themselves looking to move here, the concerns they invariably express to me are: first and foremost safety of consumables and/or prevalence of fake and adulterated groceries, drinking water, pet food and so on, and then the high fees associated with international schools. Pollution is mentioned, but only in passing," said a consultant who advises foreign businesses operating in China.
"However, that said, a number of clients and friends of mine are now angling to leave China after having been here a few years, and a major factor in that desire is pollution," added the consultant, who asked not to be identified.
Last week, Charlie Custer, Beijing-based editor-in-chief of the respected ChinaGeeks blog, announced he and his wife were leaving for the United States, partly because of the pollution.
"I like breathing," he wrote. "There's really nothing forcing me to live in Beijing. It is, in many ways, a wonderful city, and it's probably the most fascinating, exciting place I have ever lived. However, it was also killing me.
"Obviously there are millions of families in Beijing, and they deal. Certainly, we could deal too. But the question I couldn't stop asking myself was, why should we?"
It is hard to gauge exactly how many foreigners are leaving due to pollution as there are no official numbers.
Yet the city - and China - generally remains an attractive place to live for many, especially as its economy booms despite turmoil in Europe and a slow recovery in the United States.
"Beijing is obviously more polluted and it's not ideal, but senior executives or directors move jobs because of their career," said Cater Yang, managing director for China at global placement agency Robert Walters. "The China experience will make their career shine more."
The people with some of the best knowledge about expatriate movements - moving companies - say Beijing keeps drawing in foreigners.
"China's certainly a popular destination," said Nick Dobson, Corporate Services Manager North China for Crown Relocations.
"We're busier," he added. "The rental market continues to rise, and the demand for quality expat housing is outrageous."
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Posted 1 year ago on April 24, 2012, 8:46 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
ACT UP (The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and Occupy Wall Street are joining forces to pump up the volume on a growing nationwide outcry for a "Financial Speculation Tax" (Fi.S.T.) on Wall Street.
To commemorate its 25th anniversary, the AIDS activist group ACT UP will return to its roots and stage a massive demonstration and march on Wall Street — on Wednesday, April 25 — starting at 11 am at City Hall and ending on Wall Street. Hundreds of protestors, including supporters from Housing Works, Health GAP, National Nurses United, OWS Healthcare for the 99% Working Group, Visual AIDS, MIX NYC, Le Petit Versailles, Queerocracy, Queering OWS and other groups will converge for a daylong siege in Lower Manhattan.
The groups are calling on local, state, and federal legislators to "give Wall Street the FiST," which is needed to fill AIDS funding gaps and — once and for all — provide universal healthcare in the US. It’s time for effective healthcare to be made available to everyone — to the 99%, not just the 1%.
The Fi.S.T. does not target individual investors, and would not affect regular bank transactions. Instead, it would place a small tax — a mere fraction of one percent — on speculative trading by Wall Street investment banks, hedge funds and other large financial institutions. HIV treatment saves lives — by preventing new infections and keeping those already infected from reaching end-stage AIDS. However, of all people worldwide in need of access to HIV treatment, only 44% have it. More than 8 million people do not. In the United States today, 3,840 people who qualify for federal assistance to pay for HIV treatment are on waiting lists — or in other words, are at risk of dying from AIDS.
"The AIDS crisis is not over," says veteran ACT UP New York member Ann Northrop. "But, we know it could be," she adds.
AIDS treatment — when combined with simple prevention interventions — is the key to breaking the back of the epidemic worldwide. In addition to saving lives, early HIV/AIDS treatment reduces the risk of transmission of HIV by 96%. And so, with sufficient funding for treatment and prevention, we can turn the tide on AIDS. Globally, HIV/AIDS has claimed over 30 million lives.
Both ACT UP and OWS suggest the revenue from a Financial Speculation Tax would be significant — potentially in the hundreds of billions of dollars. The revenue from this tax should be used to fund the end of the AIDS pandemic, i.e. to fill in US budget gaps in the fight against HIV/AIDS at home and abroad. It should be used to provide treatment, services and prevention to thousands of Americans and millions around the world. The groups also say the tax could help pay for universal healthcare in the US.
“We are organizing this historic united front to bring our message to governments and to Wall Street financiers who are sitting on the key to ending the AIDS epidemic,” according to Eric Sawyer, a founding member of ACT UP New York. "There is no excuse. We have the knowhow to end AIDS. It is lack of funding and political will that keeps us from reaching universal access to HIV treatment worldwide."The action will be in New York on April 25th — but the need is global. And, the time is now.
AIDS is now. END AIDS NOW!
ACT UP & Occupy!
Tax Wall Street!
The AIDS crisis is not over — but it could be! Tax Wall St. to End #AIDS
#ACTUP #OWS #OccupyAIDS #OccupyWallSt #TaxWallSt #EndAIDS #April25 #ActUp25 #A25
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Library Collections: Periodicals (A-Z)HCC Library subscribes to periodicals -- newspapers, magazines, and journals -- to support the programs of Honolulu Community College, as well as for current events and general interest.
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Current IssuesThe latest issues of newspapers, magazines, and journals are displayed near the windows on the first floor, and may be browsed and read during library hours. Newspapers are on rods and magazines are held in protective jackets.
Back IssuesPaper copies of previous issues of periodicals are shelved behind the Circulation Counter. Back issues may be requested at the Circulation Counter with a Magazine Request form and a UH ID card. Please note that magazines and newspapers do not circulate. Photocopier machines are available on the first floor of the library to make copies of articles. The library often has up to five years of back issues of a magazine. The HCC Periodicals List below provides the years of coverage for each of our magazine subscriptions. The library's magazines and journals may also be identified by searching the Hawaii Voyager online catalog. Search for "Journal Title".
MicroformsBack issues of some magazines and newspapers are available on microfilm. Again, the HCC Periodicals List will show which periodical backfiles are available in this format. The library has microfilm for both the Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin back to 1929. Selected issues of the New York Times are also available. Microform reader/printer machines are located on the first floor. Copies may be printed for 10 cents per page.
OnlineMany articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals are available online in full-text through the library's subscription databases.
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The Auto Express 101 by Austal Ships is the model being considered by Hawaii Superferry for a new interisland service.
Next exit, Kahului
The partners behind Hawaii
Superferry want to create an
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Imagine loading the kids in the car and driving to Maui. Or seeing a Kauai farmer hauling produce to market in Honolulu by truck and getting it there in two hours.
Those are very real possibilities according to developers working on a new interisland ferry system to be called the Hawaii Superferry, which they believe will create the "marine highway" that has been talked about for so many years.
Each ferry will carry as many as 900 passengers and 250 vehicles, including cars, trucks, semi-trailers and even buses.
Mike Fitzgerald, president of Enterprise Honolulu, the privately funded economic development promoter, said the drive-on, drive-off ferry will "positively change the equation of the competitiveness and the cost of doing business in Hawaii.
"It will substantially improve the movement of products and people between the islands," Fitzgerald said.
He and John Strom, technology and business development specialist at Enterprise Honolulu, spent about six months studying the concept for the developers.
Just one example of what it will do is carry produce for 2 cents a pound compared to 13 cents a pound for current barge cargo and the ferry will haul items that are too fragile or perishable to go by barge, Fitzgerald said.
Strom said there will be real advantages for both businesses and tourists and goods will move in a totally different way from the present. It will turn Hawaii into a single-market area, rather than separate islands, he said.
Of course there are questions, after so much talk in the past and some failed efforts, said Tim Dick, founder and president of HSF Ltd., a Hawaii company doing business as Hawaii Superferry.
Typical ones would be: Is the market big enough? How much support would there be for ferries? If it is such a good idea, why aren't there ferries running between the islands already?
Dick, a seasoned raiser of venture capital who has spent much of his life in technology- and Internet-related businesses, said he and his partners are convinced there is a market, that capital can be raised and the ferries can operate at a profit at fares and freight rates that will make them competitive with the airlines. Fares are not nailed down yet, but feasibility studies show the ferry could carry a family of five in a family sedan to Maui or Kauai for about the combined cost of air fares, a rental car and parking and fueling the car.
The Superferry partners said the right combination of design and management just hasn't come along before and they are convinced theirs will work where others haven't, and make a profit.
The vessel they want is a "wave-piercing catamaran" some 320 feet long and 90 feet wide with four engines that can keep the vessel cruising at 42 knots (47 miles an hour).
"Investors are pleased with the idea," he said. The group believes that Dick's entrepreneurial experience, coupled with the particular talents of his partners, will make the package work.
With Dick in the project are John Garibaldi, a financing expert who also has interisland transportation experience in the chief financial officer positions at Aloha Airlines and, later, Hawaiian Airlines; and Terry White, a marine transportation expert who has held positions in Hawaii with the Coast Guard and Hawaiian Tug & Barge.
Financing has to be obtained, for about $60 million per ship starting with one vessel and adding one or two more later, but feelers have been getting a positive response, Dick said. "That is a critical hurdle, capital," he said.
But while it has been exploring financing channels, Hawaii Superferry has been pushing ahead with its plans. "We are out to bid with three designer-constructor firms," to see which one comes up with the best design and price, Garibaldi said.
Similar vessels have been built in Australia and are in use around the world. Hawaii Superferry says they can handle the waves in Hawaii's critical channels and will give passengers a comfortable ride.
The beauty of a ship that will carry a lot of cars, trucks and freight as well as people is that it truly turns the ocean into a highway, Garibaldi said. In fact, Hawaii Superferry has licensed the emblem "Interisland H-4" in a blue and red shield as its logo, to stress the "highway" aspect.
The market has already been demonstrated by Seaflite which ran passenger-only jetfoils interisland in the 1970s, Dick said. "Seaflite actually got 6 percent of the market, despite having the wrong vessels in the wrong waters," Garibaldi said.
He was referring to the troubles the jetfoils had maintaining speed in the sometimes large waves in island channels and the frequency with which the vessels failed.
The answer is to go bigger and use the latest technology, the group said.
The partners have been working on the project for more than two years and have made a lot of progress, but Garibaldi said a decision was made early not to go public with the plans until the feasibility was clear.
For its part, the state Department of Transportation isn't planning to fund any suck project, according to DOT spokesman Scott Ishikawa.
"While the DOT supports a roll-on, roll-off interisland ferry, we would not be able to provide any subsidies or financial assistance to an individual private ferry company," he said.
"We are studying port-design changes to accommodate other shipping companies that are looking at roll-on, roll-off delivery of vehicles," he said. "When we get a firm financial commitment from a private ferry company is when we will start building infrastructure to accommodate ferry service."
One step that will help Hawaii Superferry is the action the Legislature took last year to remove a law that required lien-holders, such as finance companies, to give their permission every time a rental car was taken off an island. Now renters will be able to drive on to the ferry and go where they please.
Hawaii Superferry wants to sell itself as a "mini-cruise" and said there will be a full-service restaurant, a coffee house, fast-food operations and a full bar. For those who don't want to pay for those extras, there will be free self-serve coffee, tea and soft drinks.
Seating will range from restaurant-type groupings around table to reclining aircraft-style arm chairs.
The company said it will employ some 350 people and another 550 jobs will be created in businesses that provide services to the operators.
One of the great champions of an interisland ferry system, E. Alvey Wright, a retired admiral and a former state transportation director, welcomed the Superferry announcement but at age 94 is a little skeptical of the technology.
"The whole problem is speed and rough water. None of these catamarans and twin hulls will handle that," he said.
But he agreed with the Superferry people that size is important. "I reached the conclusion that you need one hull in the water but it has to be large," certainly larger than the Seaflite vessels, Wright said.
A ferry needs to be able to take vehicles as well as passengers, he said.
While he doesn't agree with the design, he is willing to help. "I'm not looking for returns or anything," he said. Wright said he has done financial studies and is convinced that travel costs using a drive-on, drive-off ferry would be at least 60-65 percent lower than air travel.
A "wave-piercing" large catamaran ferry called the Lynx plies Cook Strait in New Zealand, a notoriously rough and deep channel some 20 miles wide between the country's two main islands.
The Lynx does the trip in two hours and 15 minutes, including a winding scenic cruise through fjords.
An Internet check of fares shows that a family of five -- parents and three kids -- in a typical family car can make the run for a total of $NZ310 each way, equal to about $184 in U.S. currency.
Hawaii Superferry plans
What: Wave-piercing catamaran, 320 feet long, 90 feet wide.
When: To go into service late in 2006
Where: Pier 19 in Honolulu Harbor to Kahului, Maui; Nawiliwili, Kauai; and later, Kawaihae, Hawaii
Capacity: 900 people and about 250 cars, trucks and buses
Speed: 42 knots (47 miles an hour)
Timothy W. Dick
The founder and president, Dick raised venture capital and founded a hi-fi speaker company, Origin Audio in 1980. He worked with Beckman Instruments as a development engineer on new medical electronics products. He held key positions at consulting firms Booz-Allen & Hamilton and the Boston Consulting Group before founding a new Internet white and yellow pages business, WorldPages.com. He founded Grassroots, an Internet political and advocacy software business in San Francisco, raising $35 million in capital. He left as president and chief operating officer in 2000 and founded Hawaii Superferry in 2001.
John W. Garibaldi
Garibaldi worked in accounting and joined Aloha Airlines in 1985 as vice president and chief financial officer. He directed the financing of the airline and its parent Aloha AirGroup, including the leveraged buyout that took it private in 1986. Garibaldi was a trustee of the Queen Emma Foundation and in 1992 left Aloha to become vice president and CFO of the Queen's Health Systems. In May 1996 he joined Hawaiian Airlines as executive vice president and CFO. He helped turn the airline around financially and completed a $40 million equity offering in 1996. He joined Hawaii hurricane-risk insurer Zephyr Insurance Co. as president and CEO in July 2001.
Robert E. "Terry" White
White was a Coast Guard marine inspector and marine engineer from 1967-76, when he went into business as a marine surveyor with Behan & White in Honolulu. From 1981-88, White was director of engineering and planning at Hawaiian Tug & Barge Co., and from 1988-95 he was vice president of marine operations at American Hawaii Cruises. He is publisher of Hawaii Ocean Industry and Shipping News and a marine consultant with Maritime Specialists Inc. in Honolulu.
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Jesse Owens' favorite Olympic memory Jul 17 2012
Jesse Owens' medal-winning exploits against the Aryan backdrop of the 1936 Olympics are well known, but I had never heard the story of his friendship with his German rival in the long jump. Owens explained in a 1960 Reader's Digest piece:
Walking a few yards from the pit, I kicked disgustedly at the dirt. Suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned to look into the friendly blue eyes of the tall German broad jumper. He had easily qualified for the finals on his first attempt. He offered me a firm handshake.
"Jesse Owens, I'm Luz Long. I don't think we've met." He spoke English well, though with a German twist to it.
"Glad to meet you," I said. Then, trying to hide my nervousness, I added, "How are you?"
"I'm fine. The question is: How are you?"
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Something must be eating you," he said-proud the way foreigners are when they've mastered a bit of American slang. "You should be able to qualify with your eyes closed."
"Believe me, I know it," I told him -- and it felt good to say that to someone.
Here's a video of Owens competing in Berlin:
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Unlike chimpanzees, orang-utans and gorillas, apes do not recognise their own face in a mirror, a new study has found.
According to scientists, the lack of self-recognition in gibbons and other lesser apes indicates that the mental capacity emerged 14 to 18 million years ago when their
evolutionary lineage split from great apes, reports New Scientist.
"We can reason about the mind of an ancestor without even laying eyes on the fossil," says Thomas Suddendorf, a psychologist at the University of Queensland, Australia, who led the study.
Earlier studies had suggested that gibbons don't recognise their own mug, but those studies examined only a handful of animals of just one species of gibbon, Suddendorf said.
To put an end to the speculation, he and colleague Emma Collier-Baker studied 17 different captive gibbons belonging to three out of the four existing genera.
The research team tested self-recognition by first letting the gibbons lick tasty cake icing off their own limbs. They then painted a stripe of the same colour down the apes' faces.
With at least five hours in front of a large mirror in their enclosure, gibbons did examine the reflection and touch the glass, yet none used it to inspect whether the stripe might offer a further treat. Sometimes they even tried to reach around the mirror as if to touch a gibbon on the other side.
One ape discovered the mark while scratching, but paid no more attention to it after he returned to the mirror.
According to Suddendorf, apes didn't seem to have an idea that there is what looks like icing on their own face.
"This is a nice, very detailed study, but confirms what we thought already, which is that these animals don't have mirror self-recognition," says Frans de Waal, a primatologist at Yerkes Primates Center and Emory University in Atlanta, US.
The study has been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
© Copyright © 2013 HT Media Limited. All Rights Reserved.
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This declaration was made on May 17, 2010 and signed by the foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey, and Brazil.
Having met in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran, the undersigned have agreed on the following declaration:
1. We reaffirm our commitment to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and in accordance with the related articles of the NPT, recall the right of all State Parties, including the Islamic Republic of Iran, to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy (as well as nuclear fuel cycle including enrichment activities) for peaceful purposes without discrimination.
2. We express our strong conviction that we have the opportunity now to begin a forward-looking process that will create a positive, constructive, non-confrontational atmosphere leading to an era of interaction and co-operation.
3. We believe that the nuclear fuel exchange is instrumental in initiating co-operation in different areas, especially with regard to peaceful nuclear co-operation including nuclear power plant and research reactors construction.
4. Based on this point, the nuclear fuel exchange is a starting point to begin co-operation and a positive constructive move forward among nations. Such a move should lead to positive interaction and co-operation in the field of peaceful nuclear activities replacing and avoiding all kinds of confrontation through refraining from measures, actions and rhetorical statements that would jeopardise Iran's rights and obligations under the NPT.
5. Based on the above, in order to facilitate the nuclear co-operation mentioned above, the Islamic Republic of Iran agrees to deposit 1,200kg (2,600lb) LEU [low-enriched uranium] in Turkey. While in Turkey, this LEU will continue to be the property of Iran. Iran and the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] may station observers to monitor the safekeeping of the LEU in Turkey.
6. Iran will notify the IAEA in writing through official channels of its agreement with the above within seven days following the date of this declaration. Upon the positive response of the Vienna Group (US, Russia, France and the IAEA), further details of the exchange will be elaborated through a written agreement and proper arrangement between Iran and the Vienna Group that specifically committed themselves to deliver 120kg of fuel needed for the Tehran Research Reactor (TRR).
7. When the Vienna Group declares its commitment to this provision, then both parties would commit themselves to the implementation of the agreement mentioned in item 6.
Islamic Republic of Iran expressed its readiness to deposit its LEU (1,200kg) within one month. On the basis of the same agreement, the Vienna Group should deliver 120kg fuel required for TRR in no later than one year.
8. In case the provisions of this declaration are not respected, Turkey, upon the request of Iran, will return swiftly and unconditionally Iran's LEU to Iran.
9. We welcome the decision of the Islamic Republic of Iran to continue as in the past their talks with the 5+1 countries in Turkey on the common concerns based on collective commitments according to the common points of their proposals.
10. Turkey and Brazil appreciated Iran's commitment to the NPT and its constructive role in pursuing the realisation of nuclear rights of its member states. The Islamic Republic of Iran likewise appreciated the constructive efforts of the friendly countries Turkey and Brazil in creating the conducive environment for realisation of Iran's nuclear rights.
Manucher Mottaki, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Ahmet Davutoglu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey
Celso Amorim, Minister of External Relations of the Federative Republic of Brazil
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In response to regulatory raids last week on fruit suppliers across Europe, Chiquita has blamed some of its employees for sharing pricing and volume information with its competitors on the continent and in North America.
In a statement Chiquita said the transfer of the information and other conduct by the unnamed employees may have violated the EU's competition laws and the company's policies.
The company said it was cooperating with the European Commission's investigation into price fixing by the food giant. The investigation may expose Chiquita and its rivals to fines if the Commission discovers the information may have resulted in higher prices for consumers.
On 3 June European anti-trust official raided the offices of Chiquita, Fyffes , Dole, Del Monte and other rivals in Germany, Belgium, the UK andIreland.
The European Commission has granted Chiquita immunity from any fines related to the investigation since the company had first notified the bloc's administrative body about the problem. The companyoriginally made a statement on the matter in its quarterly report, released on 10 May.
The European Commission said on 3 June it is examining practices by the major producers and distributors of bananas and pineapples for possible violations of European competition law.
"As a result of the company's internal compliance programme, the company's management recently became aware that certain of its employees had shared pricing and volume information over many years with competitors in Europe, and may have engaged in other conduct, in violationof European competition laws and company policies," Chiquita said in a statement. "The company promptly stopped the conduct and, after consultation with the board of directors, notified the European Commission ofthese matters."
Employees in an unnamed Latin American country shared information with competitors regarding the volume of fruit shipped from that country
to North America, the company said. Chiquita does not believe the occurance had any anticompetitive effects. The company has stopped the information sharing and has notified regulatory authorities in theUS and Canada, a press release stated.
Under the EU's antitrust rules, the European Commission can impose fines on companies representing up to 10 per cent of their annual sales . In 2001 the European Commission fined seven foodcompanies a total of €855.2 million euros for fixing the price of vitamins.
In May Chiquita Brands International reported first quarter 2005 net income of $87 million, compared to net income of $20 million in the same period last year. The company said it had achieved its best quarterly results in more than adecade due to the expansion of its banana business and strong pricing in Europe and North America. The company's sales of bananas rose 24 per cent in the first quarter to $520 million worldwide.
Chiquita is one of the largest banana producers in the world and a major supplier of bananas and other fruit in Europe and North America.
World trade in bananas is dominated by Dole, Chiquita, Del Monte, Noboa and Fyffes.
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Actually, along with gravitational time dilation, there is also gravitational length contraction. According to the 'further from sun' observer, the closer observer's rulers are slightly short, rather than long.
Be that as it may, there is straightforward way the two can observers agree on their speed relative to the milky way center. Suppose each adopts as their distance standard (converting other ways of measuring distance to far away object to match this standard) c times light round trip time to object as they measure it. Then the closer to sun observer thinks the MW center is closer (less time for the round trip). They then figure a smaller circumference for the orbit. They divide the smaller circumference by the shorter time, and come up with the same speed as the 'further from sun' observer.
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Analyzing chronic pain
Kettering research continues to explore the use of technologies to unravel the causes of Fibromyalgia Syndrome. The newest technology involves decoding the function of the brain by analyzing electroencephalographic (EEG) readings.
Spinning off from his research involving treatments for Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS), a full body chronic pain condition that makes a person feel like they have the flu every day of their life, Dr. Jeff Hargrove, associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University and adjunct assistant professor of Internal Medicine at Michigan State University, is working with undergraduate student Janet Mueller, of Warwick, N.Y., on a clinical research study using EEG readings to analyze the brain response of FMS patients when subjected to stimuli known to cause central nervous system response in these patients.
Hargrove and Mueller are conducting the clinical trial at Genesys Regional Medical Center as an offshoot of Hargrove's clinical trial to study the effects of low-intensity electrical neurostimulation on FMS patients in collaboration with McLaren Regional Medical Center. That research began in 2002.
Using EEG reading is somewhat new to chronic pain study, according to Mueller. "EEG readings have been widely used to quantify brain activity before," she said. Hargrove added, "What this research will do is to see if we can measure differences in how the brains of healthy individuals respond to painful stimuli as compared to FMS patients." Doing so may shed clues as to the differences in how the brain processes pain, as well as possibly provide ways of diagnosing pain in FMS patients, he said.
Collaborating researchers in the EEG study include: Dr. John Herzog of Genesys RMC and Dr. Don Deering of NeuroHealth Management, LLC.
"Fibromyalgia is a disease believed to be caused by neurochemical imbalances arising from abnormal brain function," said Hargrove. "The illness is characterized by debilitating full body diffuse pain, cognitive dysfunction and sleep disorders." To treat this, Hargrove is investigating treatment techniques that involve sending a small electrical impulse into the brain to stimulate the brain to function normally. The impulse is so slight it cannot be felt during treatment," he said.
Hargrove's work also includes studying the effect of respiratory muscle fatigue and chronic hypocapnia (a reduction in blood CO2) in perpetuating a number of symptoms associated with the illness beyond pain.
As part of the EEG clinical trial at Genesys, FMS patients will be treated using the neurostimulation process to establish whether or not the EEG responses change in patients after treatment. "We'll be looking at electroencephalographic (EEG) patterns of FMS patients before and after neurostimulation treatment, under the conditions of resting EEG, EEG when the individual is subjected to tender point pressure using standard algometry measures, and when the individual is being asked to recall a particularly stressful time in life," said Hargrove. Analysis of the EEG will be carried out using Fourier analysis and wavelet analysis.
Patients included will be those referred into the study by their physician and who have stable primary FMS confirmed by American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 1990 criteria. Ten patients will receive active neurostimulation treatment, and ten more patients will receive sham neurostimulation (i.e. a placebo). Ten healthy normal controls will have their EEG measured, but will not be treated.
For all patients, tender point pressure will be applied with an algometer, and the level required to elicit a painful response prior to treatment will be recorded. The stressful event the patient is asked to recall will be recorded prior to treatment.
In the after-treatment analysis, the researcher will ask the patient to recall the same event, and the same level of algometer pressure will be applied to the same tender points as was used before treatment. In both cases, newEEG readings will be measured.
The before-treatment and after-treatment EEG readings will form the basis of comparison. The true treatment group will be compared to the placebo group, and all groups will be compared to the healthy normals as control measures.
Basic clinical measures of FMS status will be recorded before and after treatment (e.g. Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ) scores, pain patterns charts, tender point pain, appropriate visual analog scales) to determine change in overall condition.
Hargrove and Mueller hope the end result is an accurate method of identifying EEG patterns that may be specific to FMS patients, and to further understand the extent of the treatment value of the neurostimulation technique.
Written by Dawn Hibbard
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At first glance, the nearly hundred year old Grand Central Station doesn’t look particularly energy efficient—after all, the station does contain 60,000 lightbulbs. But New York City officials are doing their best to make sure the terminal sets an example for other public buildings in the city.
The Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) has replaced the 20,000 interior bulbs in the station with CFLs that look like the building’s original round bulbs. Additionally, the MTA is testing out CFLs for the building’s chandeliers— although finding bulbs that have the correct shape, color, and lighting appearance is a challenge. The bulb-replacement spree will save the MTA quite a bit of money—$100,000 a year, in fact.
And the bulbs aren’t the only part of Grand Central’s energy efficiency scheme. The building is equipped with a unique air-conditioning system that uses low-cost lithium bromide and steam running beneath the building. The air-conditioner is almost twice as efficient as conventional systems and is much cheaper.
The station also collects over five tons of paper each day as part of a newspaper recycling program.
While it is easy to point out other ways that Grand Central’s energy efficiency could be improved—with solar panels on the roof, for example—we have to remember that the MTA is severely limited by the station’s designation as a National Historic Landmark (meaning the organization needs to get approval for almost every change made to the building). So considering what it has to work with, I’d say that the MTA is performing admirably.
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When AXA helps 15 researchers to better popularize their research in order to play a role in the public debate.
Explaining in simple terms our work to a researcher at the begining of his career can be a difficult task. However, it is a crucial skill in order to be able to convince a research advisor, to dialogue with coworkers from other fields or sensibilizing research managers to our work ; it is even more necessary to be able, when we get results, to play a role of expert in the public debate or with the economical actors.
This is why, for the first time, the AXA Research Funds has organized a "Pop Day" to help its granted fellows to popularize their work.
After a day of breathing, elocution, writing, and layout or illustration techniques exercises to help them explaining simply and clearly their work and preventing them from loosing their consitency, five of them chosed to present the subject of their research before an audience built of board of directors from the AXA Group. Each researcher has illustrated its presentation with pictures, examples, charts and concrete anecdotes. Both the public and the jury enjoyed presentations on the following subjects. (Click on the names to see the presentations) :
Probabilities in Decision Trees: the impact of action on uncertainty, by Shweta AGARWAL (PhD at the London School
- 2. The Opium Market, Revenue Opportunities and Insurgency in Afghanistan’s Provinces, by Vincent BOVE (Post-Doc at the University
The Risks of Greed and Fear in Financial Decision Making, by
Helena PIKULINA (PhD at the Tilburg University)
- 4. Leading by example : an evolutionary perspective on group-decision making by Andrew KING (Post-Doc at Institute of
Zoology of London) ;
- 5. Robustness in managing risk uncertainty by Anders
SANDBERG (Post-Doc at the University of Oxford)
Through this event, AXA gives the proof of its will for contributing risk education from the source of the fundamental research.
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Every industry, every hobby, every action can have a green shade. Going green means either improving the planet or improving its people or both. Any product, process or service that saves natural resources or re-uses these resources is considered green. Any effort to help people live healthier lives is green. And any business based on these ideas is green.
Considering the green business as a relatively new concept in business world, people are sometimes suspicious about green business opportunities. Are people really buying green? Do they really appreciate the efforts of ecologically conscious small companies? With the fact that some 50 million American consumers are classified as LOHAS (with lifestyles of health and sustainability), the answer is positive. The Natural Marketing Institute is very satisfied with this statistics which shows «customer’s profound sense of environmental and social responsibility».
Many businesses choose to sell quality and price first and green second. That is also one step forward and closer to the green economy.
Here are some of the best opportunities for entrepreneurs who tend to become green:
1.) Organic products: There are organic cosmetics, toiletries, vodka, wine, pasta, tea, waffles, peanut butter…but there many other possibilities you can discover and transform into successful business. One very original example of green business is the company Eco Lips, which created organic lip balm. The good thing about green businesses is that competition is positive and healthy-we help each other-people who like using organic lip balm (for example) will probably be interested in using organic cotton cloths or eating organic food.
2.) Trash: According to EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), Americans generate hundreds of millions of tons of garbage per year, which is several pounds of trash per person per day. The leading throwing objects are plastic bottles-millions of plastic bottles per hour in the U.S.A. If you can figure out new uses for a specific garbage item, you’ve got yourself a recycle business.
3.) Government includes Federal, State, County and City levels and these are opportunities that they provide for green businesses. If you find out what your local government is doing green, you might be able to create and run craft and service which meet their needs. More about this you can read on http://www.sustainlane.us/ . On this official website you can learn about projects that cities, counties and states run to improve their carbon footprints, quality of life and resource efficiency. The knowledge of local urban ecology helps to define your goals and fields of interest when creating your green business strategy. The Environmental Protection Agency gives grants to small businesses involved in environmental industries and initiatives.
4.) We have already mentioned the green lifestyle and how positive it can be for business. Now you might want to consider the fact that if we focus on everyday «green way of living» than we can get an inspiration from any aspect of our lives. It is very interesting (and could be inspiring) to hear than nowadays exist «Green Single»-green organization for finding «perfect match who shares your way of thinking and living» related to eco-friendly conscience. On the other hand «Shore Bank Pacific» is the first commercial bank in the Unites States with a commitment to environmentally community development. And after you have heard about green cemeteries, surely coming up with your own idea for green business shouldn’t be a problem.
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I moved to Durango in 2010, with my wife of nearly 40 years, to be near our daughter and her growing family. I “retired” because of health issues that make it increasingly difficult for me to move without severe pain. We live on a tight fixed income and our employer-provided health insurance will end in a few months. Medicare is four years away for us.
What are Republicans offering as an alternative to President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act? To find out, I called Rep. Scott Tipton's office in Washington, D.C. I was told that Tipton approves of most provisions in the Affordable Care Act, but he just can't accept the mandate. Odd, because it was just a few years ago when conservative Republicans themselves suggested the mandate as a way of ensuring that there are no freeloaders in the system.
The alternative, Tipton's office suggested, is that each of us could buy bonds that would somehow pay for our medical needs. Obviously, the youngsters in the congressman's main office have no idea how much investment is required to return $10,000 to $20,000 annually. My medical expenses last year were just less than $20,000. Imagine the result if we had privatized our Social Security and Medicare just before the 2008 recession as George W. Bush urged.
The chatter about privatizing various government programs is alarming. Wall Street would make out like bandits (implication intentional) under all the Republican plans to take Social Security and Medicare private. In contrast, any citizen whose Social Security benefits were privatized in 2006 would have had little or nothing left by 2009.
The Affordable Care Act has already extended insurance coverage to more than 500,000 in five states that have implemented the measure before its official start in 2014. Meanwhile, the Republican plan, apparently, is as simple as the party's view of government in general: Take the money we all have hidden under our mattresses and buy bonds to cover our own health expenses. Problem solved.
I am backing the party that takes my health security and my Social Security seriously. It makes sense to place all American citizens in the same insurance pool, spreading the risk and cost of medical care while making health care available to tens of millions of people for the first time. Savings for businesses, for retirement plans and for drug costs would be immediate. Larry Bollinger is retired from broadcasting and loves his grandsons. Reach him at email@example.com.
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Kali's Kitchen, the onsite dining outlet in the recently opened new headquarters of natural/organic sports nutrition snacks maker Clif Bar & Co., offers an array of dishes using local and organic ingredients, as well as a juice bar and self-serve coffee bar. But what is most unusual about Kali's (named for Clif Bar founder Gary Erickson's grandmother, who loved to cook and bake) is the use of recycled materials and components in the construction and furnishings.
That includes some kitchen equipment reclaimed from a site that was being demolished. It includes hoods, a pizza oven, refrigeration units and drop-in items.
“It fit the sustainable attitude the company wanted to bring to the new facility,” says Nahum Goldberg, LEED Green Associate for foodservice consultant Cini-Little International, Inc., which worked with Clif Bar on the design of Kali's Kitchen.
Kali's Kitchen is run by two former staffers from the R&D department, Executive Chef Scott Erickson and Sous Chef Justin Leste. The culinarily oriented pair had put on events for the staff from the lab kitchen in Clif Bar's old building in Berkeley, where there was no onsite foodservice facilities.
Lunch choices now include soups, paninis, deli sandwiches and daily specials ranging from pizza to vegetarian.
Employees also make their own to-order coffee at no charge using roasted coffees from noted local purveyor Sightglass. The café has a counter with a series of individually sized coffee beakers topped by filter spouts. Employees can come in, choose the blend they want, measure it to their satisfaction and make the individual serving by pouring hot water over the grounds.
For Kali's Kitchen recipes, go to kaliskitchen.com. For a video tour, go to http://video.food-management.com/pages/contract-management.
Design Team: Kathy Shaloo Berg, ZGF Architects LLP (architect); Nahum Goldberg, Cini-Little International, Inc. (foodservice consultant)
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Counterpart Delivers Disaster Packages to Victims of Kyrgyz Civil Violence
On June 10, brutal violence broke out in the Kyrgyzstan city of Osh. The violence then spread to Jalal-Abad and adjacent territories in the southern part of the country. As of June 17, the official death toll is 189, but it is feared that it could exceed 300. Tens of thousands of refugees have fled across the border to safety in Uzbekistan, and thousands are in need of immediate medical attention.
Over the course of the last week, the situation has deteriorated into Kyrgyzstan’s worst case of civil violence in two decades. With security still not fully restored, many people remain cut off from aid and are in desperate need of medical supplies and food items.
Earlier this week, responding to the thousands in need, Counterpart International released pre-positioned, disaster packages funded by the U.S. Department of State. Working with the U.S. Embassy and the Kyrgyz Ministries of Health and Emergency Situations, Counterpart has begun distributing disaster relief packages valued at more than $200,000 in Osh and Jalal-Abad, the main areas of conflict.
The shipments, including medical supplies, surgical instruments, folding litters, towels, bedding, clothing, footwear and ready-to-eat meals, will be sent to area hospitals where the need is greatest. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State Office of the Coordinator of U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia under its Operation Provide Hope program, the disaster packages will be some of the first relief goods to reach the people affected by the violence.
Counterpart has been active in the Kyrgyz Republic since 1996. Today, after nearly 14 years of working in partnership with the Kyrgyz people to rebuild, develop and transform communities, more than 593 containers of humanitarian assistance—valued at approximately $85 million and containing food, shelter, medical supplies, clothing and other basic necessities—have been delivered. These distributions were made with the help of more than 863 governmental and non-governmental institutions in all seven Oblasts of Kyrgyz Republic.
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NICAR offers numerous datasets to help you investigate transportation safety on land, sea and air. Among them, records on fatal accidents, hazardous material transport, airplane incidents, and boating accidents.
The 1995-2011 U.S. Recreational Boat Accident Database consists of four relational tables -- PRIME, DEAD, INJURY and VESSEL -- containing data on recreational boating accidents that resulted in death or injury requiring more than first aid. Accidents involving vessel damage of more than $2,000 or disappearance of a person under ...
This dataset, part of the Marine Information Safety and Law Enforcement System (MISLE), and Vessel Documentation System (VDS) databases, documents registration and ownership information of commercial and recreational vessels. It includes two datasets: one that includes only currently registered commercial vessels and large recreational boats; the other that includes all ...
The Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) database consist of three relational tables, containing data on automobile accidents on public U.S. roads that resulted in the death of one or more people within 30 days of the accident. Truck and trailer accidents are also included.
For the current update, NICAR used ...
The Truck Accidents database consists of accidents that involve commercial vehicles that weigh more than 10,000 pounds, as reported by state transportation agencies. Each state submits a report to the U.S. DOT that consists of all accident reports the state has gathered from local and state law enforcement agencies. The ...
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Truck Census File contains records on each company that has commercial interstate vehicles weighing more than 10,000 pounds. This group includes buses, semis and shippers of hazardous materials. The data does not give specific details about individual trucks.
A word of caution:
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This purchase is for 2008 inspection records only. The Truck Inspections database contains data from state and federal truck inspections involving motor carriers as well as shippers and transporters of hazardous materials operating in the United States. Federal and state field enforcement staff perform interstate and intrastate inspections. Severe violations of ...
This dataset consists of information on aviation accidents and incidents reported to the Federal Aviation Administration. NICAR has records for accidents occurring between 1973 to present with weekly updates.
NICAR provides the data in two ways: As a one-time purchase or by one-year subscription, updated weekly.
The database goes beyond ...
The Aircraft Registration Database, which is maintained by the Federal Aviation Administration Civil Aviation Registry, contains information on more than 360,000 registered aircraft, including all aircraft owned by individuals, businesses and government in the United States. Resident aliens may also register planes in the U.S., as long as they are ...
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The FAA Airmen Directory is a listing of pilots and other airmen and their certified ratings. Non-pilot airmen include mechanics, repairmen, parachute riggers, ground instructors, dispatchers, flight navigators and flight engineers.
The data only lists ...
The Federal Aviation Administration Enforcement Information System (EIS) database contains current and historical data on FAA enforcement actions against airlines, pilots, mechanics and their designees. The data include enforcement actions from 1999 to August 2008.
All types of planes are included: passenger jets, cargo planes, helicopters, corporate/executive planes, military aircraft ...
Service Difficulty Reports (SDR) consist of maintenance incidents collected by the FAA for the purpose of tracking repair problems with private, commercial and military aircraft and aircraft componentry. They are largely self-reported by the aircraft owners. The data is reported by tail number and aircraft serial number, so it is ...
The HAZMAT database contains the incident reports of unintentional releases of hazardous materials for all modes of transportation (air, highway, railway, and water). The Hazardous Materials Incident Report Subsystem is maintained by the Department of Transportation.
In 2005, the form to report incidents (Report 58000.1) was changed, along with the ...
The Aviation Safety Reporting System database consists of anonymous reports about air safety. Anyone is eligible to file an ASRS report, including air traffic controllers, pilots, flight attendants and passengers. Pilots appear to be among the most frequent filers. All reports are submitted to NASA and entered into the database, ...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recalls and complaints database is broken down into a series of tables that can be cross- referenced. This data set includes records from 1977 through April 2007. Records for earlier years are incomplete.
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Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea may soon appear as 'superbug'
Faced with the continued spread of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea in Asia and Europe, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention repeated its warning Friday to U.S. doctors: Prepare for the arrival of the dangerous bacteria and avoid the kind of antibiotic prescription practices that breed so-called superbugs.
Gonorrhea is the second most commonly reported infectious disease in the United States, and has become resistant to all but one class of antibiotics, cephalosporins, which are becoming less effective at treating it. Some countries in Europe and Asia have already seen cephalosporin-resistant gonorrhea, and growing fears that it will make its way to U.S. shores prompted the CDC's warning to doctors in the latest issue of the public health agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Barbara Johnston, MD, Associate Medical Director at Mount Sinai Comprehensive Health Program in New York, said people need to be aware that some treatment is already failing, and one day, gonorrhea may be incurable.
“There’s the attitude that this disease is curable,” says Barbara Johnston, MD, Associate Medical Director at Mount Sinai Comprehensive Health Program in New York. “We tell our patients that we’ve already had to change our treatment twice, and there may come the day where we don’t have a treatment for it. I think it’s just a matter of time.”
Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea isn’t the only disease that is beating drugs that were once effective. Outbreaks of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in third world countries have put thousands of people at risk of this deadly disease. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis does not respond to the traditional tuberculosis treatment, and instead requires other drugs that are not always available in the countries where tuberculosis is most prevalent. In addition, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis can require up to two years to treat, and can be very expensive.
While antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis have not yet made their way to the United States, one antibiotic-resistant bacteria is starting to emerge here. Antibiotic-resistant urinary tract infections have started to make their appearance, and according to a report by Extending the Cure and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in November, could pose a serious threat.
"Without proper antibiotic treatment, UTIs can turn into bloodstream infections, which are much more serious and can be life-threatening," Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of Extending the Cure, said in a statement. "These findings are especially disturbing because there are few new antibiotics to replace the ones that are becoming less effective. New drug development needs to target the types of drug-resistant bacteria that cause these infections.”
The CDC outlined the need for new treatments in its warning Friday, saying that since federal approval of new drugs takes so long, researchers should look into the new treatments now, before antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea becomes a problem in the United States. "Antimicrobial drug development is needed now," the MMWR article stated, "particularly because the development process for new drugs can take more than a decade."
Still, Steve Solomon MD, director of the CDC's office of antimicrobial resistance, says that creating new antibiotics to combat diseases may not solve the underlying problem — the overuse of the drugs.
“The principal driver of antibiotic resistance is the use of antibiotics,” Solomon says. “The more antibiotics that are used, the more the bacteria become resistant to them. Unfortunately, a significant proportion of the antibiotics used in the United States don’t need to be used. Some studies suggest that a third to a half of all antibiotics given to people in the U.S. may be unnecessary or used inappropriately.” Continued...
Solomon says that doctors need to become more judicious in prescribing antibiotics in order to prevent antibiotic-resistant bacteria from spreading.
“As public health authorities learn more about how, when and where antibiotics are used, we can be much more effective, working with clinicians, to improve the way antibiotics are given to patients, making sure that antibiotics are given only when necessary and are always given appropriately,” he says. “Doctors, hospitals and other health professionals around the U.S. are embracing the idea of antibiotic stewardship, ensuring that these drugs are always used prudently so that their effectiveness is preserved.
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For a few years now, I’ve been playing on a recreational soccer team, the Thundercats! (yes, named after the 80′s iconic cartoon). We took the Winter season off, but the start of our Spring season is about to kickoff next week. For this occasion, I made soccer themed cookies- soccer balls and Thundercat logos!
I realized I have yet to show step-by-step instructions on how I make cookies. Well, that’s about to change… here’s how I made these soccer balls. (If you are a beginner working with royal icing, this soccer ball design may be a little challenging. However, this technique can be applied to any basic cookie design.)
Before I start explaining the decorating process, I should mention how to prepare the royal icing. I’ve said this in the past, consistency is KEY when decorating with royal icing. It’s super important to get the consistency right or else the decorating part will be frustrating and not fun at all. Here’s a refresher post on preparing your icing. Okay here we go…
1. Make a soccer ball template on quilting plastic (more info here) and use a pushpin to make tiny holes in the template where the lines intersect. Place the template on the cookie and use any pointy tool (pushpin, tooth pick, paperclip, etc.) to poke through the template holes onto the cookie. Also, make sure to mark the corners on the very edge of the cookie.
2. With piping icing, draw lines by just connecting the dots. I do about 3-4 cookies at a time before moving to the next step so the piping icing has time to set.
3. With flood icing, fill in the black shapes. Use a tooth pick to push the icing to the corners. If you see any bubbles that rise to the surface, just pop those with the tooth pick. Let it set for about twenty minutes before moving on to the next step.
4. After the black shapes had time to set, first flood only the white areas I show in step 4. If you did all the white areas at one time there is a chance the white areas will run together. (I was impatient and didn’t follow my own advice. You can see some of the white areas running together in the final cookie.) To prevent running, let these white areas set for twenty minutes before moving on.
5. After the white is set, flood the rest of the cookie with white. Ta-da, you’re done!
I hope this gives a better understanding on how to decorate a cookie. I used this same technique to do the Thundercats logo but I didn’t take pics of those steps. On future posts, I’ll make an effort to document the icing process a little better to give an inside look to how these cookies are made.
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This is one of the books where I just read the title and bought it. Recently, I talked with a friend about rewards and rules and we noticed that they often lead to out crawling from intrinsic motivations. He said “if I have to do something in 48 hours, I will take at least 48 hours - if I can choose my time freely, I probably will do it immediately.” You probably had similar experiences.
Some of these observations will be true. Alfie Kohen wrote lots of other books about schooling and the use of rewards, so this bit in the book is especially interesting.
His main objective is a critique of pop behaviorism, i.e. you have to give something to get something or equivalent with punishments. If I want the kids to learn about history, I have to get them grades. If I want my kids to eat healthier I have to reward them after eating. Or in business settings: If I want my employees to get three new accounts I have to pay them extra for each one. It’s so inherent in our thinking that it have to be challenged.
So what is Kohn saying about this? I read a great amount of studies and presented his findings. The first and most fundamental is that rewards often don’t work and sometimes they worsen the situation. There are some things to understand.
Firstly, rewards punish. A typical setting is some superior (teacher, boss, parent) who compliments you if you did something great. What is if your superior doesn’t compliment you? It’s basically punishment. Punishment and rewards each side of one coin. There are study that found that even compliments can be bad if they are linked to some objective. That’s important! Unexpected rewards sometimes are better than none but as long as you link it so a objective it basically become some form of punishment.
Secondly, rewards distorts your intentions. If you offer your kid a buck for each carrot she eats, she will eat more carrots because of the buck not because of the carrot. The eating of a carrot is the unpleasant thing to do to get the buck. You wanted to promote eating healthy food and instead promoted that healthy food is unpleasant.
Thirdly, rewards crowd out intrinsic motivation. There’s some kind of myth that you can add motivations, that is if you are intrinsic motivated and someone gives you money/praise/etc for doing this task that you will be even more motivated. Actually, motivation doesn’t work that way. If you are not motivated at all, then of course, extrinsic motivation motivates you to do the task. However, if you already are intrinsic motivated the extrinsic motivation can crowd your complete intrinsic motivation out and replace it with extrinsic motivation. This effect is rather famous in economics and studied in psychology.
You will probably think that extrinsic motivation isn’t good but we don’t have any alternatives. Kohn himself thinks that it’s hard because extrinsic motivators are so easy to create. Just throw some money in and you’re done. But there are alternatives which aren’t so easy to implement but have a less damaging effect.
The first one is collaboration. Work with your subordinate together to solve the problem or let him work with outer people. Alfie Kohn cites an interesting case where a mother went crazy because her child don’t wanted to go to sleep at 9pm. She tried nearly everything but she never tried to understand why her child don’t wanted to go to sleep. The same goes for pupils who come to repeatedly to late to school or unmotivated employees. Talk to them and help to solve them the problem. If you’re employee doesn’t like to work at your place then it’s probably the best for both of you that he looks for another job. It’s not the easy way but it does solve problems instead of treating symptoms.
Secondly, content is important. It’s rather easy in think about it in the schooling field. Don’t let kids learn things that are boring. For example, he talked about dates in history and I agree. The interesting thing about the Franz Ferdinand’s dead isn’t that he died on a Sunday or at June 28 but rather that this coincidence lead to the first World War. You can make probably most things interesting and you should!
The last one is choice. The more freedom you allow the more intrinsic motivated people will be. For example, he shows that for uninteresting work the best one can do is, to let people handle it the way they want. Even for interesting work this has a positive effect and the business literature begins to include it. We let people work from their home or they don’t have to be in office from 8 to 5 but rather just have to get some task done till some date. This exactly the choice which helps to increase people’s motivation.
This book got so many interesting studies in it that I recommend this book to nearly everyone but to everyone who is some form of authority: Parents, teacher, supervisors.
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In her 1958 essay “Downtown is for People,” republished online by Fortune late last year, Jane Jacobs noted the presence of a Park Avenue block that had been razed in anticipation of an office building for which the developer was struggling to raise capital. Jacobs (who had been invited to write the essay by none other than Holly Whyte) called the site “New York’s Mystery Plaza,” noting wistfully that “in the meantime, sidewalk planners can design some wonderful plazas.”
There’s a similarly ephemeral and provocative moment that one can experience in New York right now, a bit further downtown. For the time being, the block bounded by Astor Place, East 9th Street, and 3rd and 4th Avenues is sans structure: once the site of Cooper Union’s unassuming Engineering Building, is now home to a dirt pit and a couple of backhoes. The adjacent jumble of intersecting streets creates a number of thin triangular traffic islands that have long subbed in for a coordinated public space, with defiant success. In spite of the auto-centric planning so clearly on display, there are people here: coming and going, talking, performing.
This is a place where the buildings have never towered too tall, and the streets have never felt too narrow. And yet, the fact that there is additional open space feels even more pronounced here than it might in vertical Midtown, where the predominance of towers can camouflage absence.
The aforementioned dirt pit will be filled by a particularly egregious office block soon enough. Designed by Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, it will feature an immense facade of dark glass that will glower over Astor Place, gobbling up more of the sky than its predecessor. But for the time being, there is a palpable sense of possibility here. The vaguely European 6-train entrance and Tony Rosenthal’s accidentally iconic Alamo sculpture appear enhanced, now seeming like hints of a grand public square in the making, backed by so much blue sky.
The buildings surrounding the site are of varying heights and colors, and with their facades open and turned toward each other across the open block, they look as if they were always meant to be seen this way, like friends chatting around the table. Even the “Sculpture for Living” is less standoffish within the context of a larger urban tableau, reading more like a comedic foil to the dignified Wanamaker block, and less like a caged peacock.
Like Jacobs’ original, this mystery plaza provides ample fodder for “sidewalk planners.” Perhaps it is a side effect of the frenetic density of its surroundings, but the block almost demands that passers-by imagine an alternate use here. It feels as if the grid itself is saying “Do you see this? I clearly intended for this to be a square.”
The mystery plaza at Astor Place will be gone soon. Long before Maki’s “Death Star” is occupied, its frame will zip the space back up. But as the city moves forward with plans to pedestrianize some of the surrounding blocks to create a more deliberate public gathering place, let’s hope that the sudden, bewitching openness created by the construction process inspires people to imagine not just what the site could have been, but how the adjacent spaces could better serve the people who use them–and to speak up. As Jacobs argued in Fortune, “planners and architects have a vital contribution to make, but the citizen has a more vital one. It is his city, after all.”
We’ll be talking more about Astor Place and its environs in the coming weeks as part of our ongoing discussion about moving towards an Architecture of Place. There is a great need, today, for more inclusive, flexible public squares and plazas that can serve as social hubs for the surrounding communities–spaces that strengthen neighborhoods and provide a rich context for architects and designers who use a place-based approach in their work. Stay tuned…
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The world has yet to beat swords into plowshares. Not by a long shot. Indeed, the global arms market sharply increased in 2011 to more than $85 billion, as Persian Gulf states, fearful of a bellicose Iran, went on an American arms buying spree. www.postgazette.com/stories/news/world/us-arms-sales-make-up-most-of-global-market-650724/.
Yet, notwithstanding the boom in weapons purchases, the global solar market was bigger in 2011 than the global arms market. The solar market exceeded last year $91 billion, when 27,000 megawatts of solar were installed around the world. www.statista.com/statistics/217177/global-projected-growth-of-solar-power-by-2020.
The global wind market that was worth $68 billion in 2011, when 40,500 megawatts of wind power was installed, is also nearing the amount spent around the world on arms purchases. www.gwec.net/fileadmin/documents/NewsDocuments/Annual_report_2011_lowres.pdf.
Even if peace does not breakout around the world during 2012, more may be spent this year on building wind farms or solar projects than buying arms. That fact underlines why the US would make a huge economic mistake in turning away from the big, booming global wind and solar markets.
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Ruby Juarez grew up feeling self-conscious about what she calls her "superbig" nose. When talking to friends, she often covered part of her face out of embarrassment. Classmates took to calling her "Shrek nose." For her 17th birthday, Juarez's father finally agreed to pay for a rhinoplasty, which Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon Robert Kotler performed last June. Now fully healed, Juarez no longer gets teased. "I look normal now," she says. Her advice: "Get whatever your flaws are fixed, because it's really worth it."
To most parents, that must sound like a terrifying prospect. But more teenagers like Juarez are asking for--and getting--cosmetic procedures. Last year doctors performed 331,886 of them on Americans 18 and younger--a 48 percent jump over the previous year, reports the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). The increase comes partly from the popularity of TV shows like "Extreme Makeover" and "The Swan," which have captured the imaginations of younger and older viewers alike. "I'm doing the nose jobs on the kids, and the wrinkle removers on the moms," says Kotler, author of "Secrets of a Beverly Hills Cosmetic Surgeon."
Parents need to weigh several factors before allowing surgery for their children. First, make sure they really want it. "As a crude rule of thumb, for most things that are optional or elective, wait for your child to point it out to you," says Scott Spear, president of the ASPS. Many operations are performed on kids with physical flaws that are clearly stigmatizing, like misshapen breasts or ears that stick way out. In such cases, and even in a few less obvious ones, surgery may boost self-esteem. "It's made me a lot more confident," says Danielle Jacoby, 18, a USC student who got her nose reshaped at 15, well before her senior picture.
Next, make sure your child has realistic goals and sufficient maturity. Procedures like rhinoplasty and breast augmentation should be performed only on kids who are fully grown. Otoplasty (pinning back the ears), however, can be done starting at the age of 5 or 6. The ASPS advises against plastic surgery for teens who are being treated for depression or other mental illness, who are prone to mood swings or erratic behavior or who are abusing drugs or alcohol. Smokers also make poor candidates--smoking makes anesthesia more challenging to administer and delays healing. Also, liposuction for teens is typically frowned upon. "It is becoming some--what of a crutch," says Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Athleo Cambre.
Cost is also a major factor. Rhinoplasties, otoplasties and breast augmentations start at about $6,000, including the physician's fee, anesthesia and outpatient hospital fees. Insurance will cover a nose reshaping--the most common surgical procedure--only when it's used to correct a breathing problem, and a breast reduction only to correct medical problems like back and neck pain.
Shop for a top plastic surgeon by looking for someone who's board certified (see sites like the ASPS's plasticsurgery.org or the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery's surgery.org), or ask your fam-ily doctor and friends for recommendations. Parents should also talk to their kids' pediatricians to find out about physical growth and any underlying health conditions. And, most of all, be cautious. "When in doubt, do without," says Kotler. Weigh each case. "For things that are clearly image-threatening or stigmatizing, fix them--cleft palate, buck teeth, severe acne, big stick-out ears. If your nose is really badly deformed, fine," says University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan. "Other than that, the more maturity, the better." His advice: "If you want to give your kid something when they graduate from high school, give them a book, not breasts."
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There is a need to dispel the misplaced notion that the quantum of US arms sales will drop because the world is in the grip of a recession and the money supply is low.
According to American sources, US weapons sales to foreign countries in 2008 are higher by 45 per cent as compared to the year 2007. As the year comes to a close, the US would have offered about US$34 billion in weapons to Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and other countries. This figure in 2007 was US$23.3 billion, also higher than the figure of US$21 billion for the year 2006. What is important to note is that the sales blitz had continued in the midst of the American sub-prime crisis which was visible from the middle of 2007.
The coalition supported regime in Iraq has emerged as the principle procurer of American weapons for whom more than US$12.5 billion in possible foreign military sales has already been processed. This does not include the demand for the F-16 combat fighter planes, which is still going through the indent, consideration, clearances, orders stages and so forth. But, a sale is a foregone conclusion. A factor much to the elation of Lockheed Martin, the Bethesda based weapons giant and the manufacturer of F-16s. The company in his annual report informed of a 13 per cent increase in profitability, from US$778 million last year to US$882 million in 2008.
With the deeply permeated American psychosis against Iran, which has permeated the Iraqi regime and its policy planners, Baghdad now clamours for Abrams tanks, attack helicopters, Hellfire missiles, heavy transport aircraft, and other weapon systems. The argument put forth is that only through the multi- billion dollar weapon acquisitions can his country reduce it's dependence on the United States military. In Machiavellian realism, however, we would call it close interdependence in the exercise of political power.
As recently as September 2008, when the American crisis was in full bloom, weapons giants like Boeing, Raytheon, and BAE Systems, sponsored an ultra sales inspired conference to hold a thematic discourse on "Defense Priorities in an Age of Persistent Conflict." A representative from the American Navy at the level of an undersecretary, a senior Pentagon Deputy Director, several weapons manufacturers, and defense representatives from France, the Netherlands, Canada, spoke on the occasion. That this group chose to extol on this ominous theme clearly indicates a concerted drive to promote weapon sales with ill conceived armed conflict scenarios. Amelioration of the conflicts on the other hand did not receive the same attention of the members of the American state. This is arms business at its best.
Who says that the American military is tightening its belt? The military budget will spiral: from an expenditure of US$316 billion in 2001, to more than US$515 billion for fiscal year 2009 commencing in October this year. This is over and above the annual funds needed for nuclear weapons and nearly US$150 billion for the "global war on terror," The huge tally adds up to much more than the total money spent by the rest of world on their military. Theis syndrome will receive great impetus and proliferate as Barack Obama is on record espousing the cause of modernizing the American military for the 21st century and expanding the size of the armed forces. Obviously, we see a phenomenal rise in military spending, imminent in the very near future.
The active role of the American military industrial complex is well documented over the years. The fear is that, in the current recessionary scene, the other weapon producing nations may similarly launch drives for energizing their own weapon sales. The French defence manufacturers were already doing their best in the aforesaid seminar and their regime is actively promoting the Rafael combat planes world wide. Among other wherewithal. Russia has in the last few years, enunciated a policy of promoting its global arms sales as one of the principle means of supporting the country's fledgling economy. It's promotions are bound to be invigorated to prop up several factories deeply hit by recession. There is a substance in the view that many unfinished contracts, for which the Russian arms industry was hitherto in the dock, would be speeded up. India is one such buyer, likely to transfer large funds in the next year or so, for speeded up deliveries.
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The goals of the Social Gospel movement, the ideas of men such as G. Stanley Hall and Theodore Roosevelt, Christians' attitudes toward World War I, the development of institutions such as the Federal Council of Churches, the Boy Scouts and the Young Men's Christian Association—these are the sorts of topics Clifford Putney covers.
The versions of the Bible we choose to carry, display and read are good indices of who we are. Peter Thuesen presents a history of the creation of a translation that became a kind of badge for many, the Revised Standard Version. He explores the controversy that attended its publication and the aftermath of that controversy.
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FACT CHECK: Obama and his gallery of rogues
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama seems to have forgotten about Al Gore and the ashtray smashed to smithereens. Obama told a news conference Wednesday he was going where no president had gone before in attacking burdensome federal regulations.
In reality, many presidents have been there and done that. Bill Clinton, for one, ordered a sweeping review of the thicket of rules and his vice president took a hammer to the ashtray on TV to underscore one dumb regulation.
Regulations, corporate jet owners, hedge fund managers and Moammar Gadhafi formed a sort of rogue's gallery in Obama's remarks as the president talked about debt negotiations with Republicans, the NATO campaign in Libya, the war in Afghanistan and more. But the tale behind each rogue is more complex than was told.
A look at some of his statements and how they compare with the facts:
OBAMA: "What I have done — and this is unprecedented, by the way, no administration's done this before — is I've said to each agency, don't just look at current regulations or don't just look at future regulations, regulations that we're proposing, let's go backwards and look at regulations that are already on the books, and if they don't make sense, let's get rid of them. And we are in the process of doing that, and we've already identified changes that could potentially save billions of dollars for companies over the next several years."
THE FACTS: Plenty of other presidents have gone on the hunt for needless federal regulations.
Clinton gave the job of "reinventing government" to his vice president, Gore, who wielded the hammer on David Letterman's "Late Show" in 1993 to demonstrate silly federal rules on ashtray safety. Clinton signed an executive order directing agencies to eliminate half of all internal regulations, and a companion order taking aim at regulations that affect people outside of government.
The Government Accountability Office reported in 2007: "Every president since President Carter has directed agencies to evaluate or reconsider existing regulations. For example, President Carter's Executive Order 12044 required agencies to periodically review existing rules; one charge of President Reagan's task force on regulatory relief was to recommend changes to existing regulations; President George H.W. Bush instructed agencies to identify existing regulations to eliminate unnecessary regulatory burden; and President Clinton, under section 5 of Executive Order 12866, required agencies to develop a program to 'periodically review' existing significant regulations. In 2001, 2002, and 2004, the administration of President George W. Bush asked the public to suggest reforms of existing regulations."
OBAMA: "I've said to some of the Republican leaders, 'You go talk to your constituents — the Republican constituents — and ask them, are they willing to compromise their kids' safety so that some corporate jet owner continues to get a tax break?' And I'm pretty sure what the answer would be."
THE FACTS: Obama mentioned the tax break on corporate jets six times, enough so a viewer might think eliminating it would be offer significant savings to the government.
The benefit, which relates to how corporations write off the value of private jets, is worth just about $3 billion over 10 years, according to Republican congressional aides. The White House doesn't dispute the figure. That pales next to the $400 billion or so in additional tax revenue Democrats have proposed in budget negotiations, and it's negligible compared with the $2 trillion-plus Republicans want to cut to match a two-year increase in the debt ceiling. There is also no direct relationship between preserving that tax break and cutting spending in any particular budget area, despite Obama's suggestion that federal programs for child safety would be at risk.
Instead, Obama seemed intent on highlighting an area of spending that the public might view as particularly egregious in a faltering economy, although he didn't suggest it would solve the entire problem. Other tax breaks he mentioned getting rid of Wednesday were for "millionaires and billionaires," oil companies and hedge fund managers.
OBAMA: "Moammar Gadhafi, who prior to Osama bin Laden was responsible for more American deaths than just about anybody on the planet, was threatening to massacre his people."
THE FACTS: Gadhafi's history of supporting terrorist acts lethal to Americans did not stop the Obama administration, like the Bush administration before it, from cultivating a relationship with him after he renounced terrorism. Gadhafi's government shared information on its nuclear program, tipped Washington about Islamic militants after the 2001 terrorist attacks and persuaded Western nations to lift sanctions.
Indeed, the Obama administration treated him with kid gloves in March 2010 after then-spokesman P.J. Crowley at the State Department joked about Gadhafi's call for a holy war against Switzerland. The spokesman apologized for making comments that were "perceived as a personal attack" against the Libyan leader and expressed regret that the remarks became "an obstacle to further progress in our bilateral relationship."
Obama only refocused on Gadhafi's past when a continued relationship became untenable after the crackdown on opponents of the Libyan government and the subsequent air campaign by U.S. and NATO forces.
Obama no doubt was referring to U.S. deaths from terrorist acts, not from foes in wartime, when he likened Gadhafi to bin Laden. The 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, an act tied to Libya, killed 270 people, 189 of them American. Two Americans died in a Berlin disco bombing that wounded hundreds in 1986, and seven Americans were among the 170 dead when UTA Flight 772 crashed in the Niger desert in 1989 after a suitcase bomb exploded. Those attacks also were traced to Libya.
Associated Press writers Nancy Benac, Erica Werner and Matthew Lee contributed to this report.
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Persons with Disabilities
Evacuation or Relocation of Persons with Disabilities
For persons with disabilities who seek assistance, be sure to ask what type of assistance they require. Follow the instructions carefully; individuals with disabilities, like all persons, have rights and know what is best for them.
Emergency response team members should notify the floor monitor that the individual is being evacuated or relocated to the faculty parking lot. Ask them to explain the special circumstances that necessitated the relocation (e.g., wheelchair with oxygen, individual too heavy to lift).
Team members must also notify the floor monitor of individuals who do not evacuate or who have special evacuation needs.
Leave Wheelchairs Behind
Do not evacuate a person in a wheelchair down stairs; only evacuate the person who sits in it. (An exception would be when oxygen or other life-safety supplies are connected to the wheelchair. In this situation, move the person while in the chair to a stairwell landing or an Area of Rescue Assistance. Then carry the individual to safety.
Once the person is removed from the wheelchair, know that this person may be unable to move from that position or location independently. The floor monitor must immediately notify on-scene fire or police personnel of this person’s location.
If time and safety permit, tag the wheelchair with the owner’s name. Attempt to reunite the owner with the wheelchair as quickly as possible.
Service animals must be evacuated with their owner.
Provide verbal instructions and information for persons with impaired vision.
Turn lights off and on in succession to attract the attention of persons with hearing limitations. (Note: After an earthquake, do not turn any switches on or off until you are certain no gas leaks exist.) Check workspaces, bathrooms, and areas of common use to make sure no one has been left behind.
Use the floor monitor’s preprinted “EVACUATE NOW!” placards to direct persons with hearing impairments out of the building.
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See also Emergency Resources.
Crime Reports: Oakland & SF Campuses
To view a year-by-year comparison of crime statistics for either campus (three years back up to the previous year), follow these instructions:
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- Click the text in RED in the upper right-hand corner
- Type "California College of the Arts" in the institution field (Note: Just the college name is sufficient)
- Hit enter or "Search"
- Select either San Francisco or Oakland campus
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The number of Florida scrub-jays—the only bird species that lives only in Florida—continued an apparent decline in 2009, according to The Nature Conservancy’s 2009 Jay Watch report.
The species is in trouble at small- to medium-sized scrub sites particularly, the report says.
The Jay Watch report’s findings highlight the role of habitat degradation—seen as the biggest threat to the scrub-jay—in the threatened species’ struggles and show the need for more controlled burns to help restore scrub-jay habitat to appropriate condition.
More than one-third of surveyed sites had vegetation too tall for scrub-jays, according to vegetation survey results. More than one-half of the sites had too little bare ground, which scrub-jays use to cache acorns to eat during winter.
While the report suggests the scrub-jay population overall is declining, it also draws attention to sites—including sites in Manatee and Polk counties—where Jay Watch data have guided controlled burns that helped expand the scrub-jay population.
“Scrub-jays are a threatened species and an indicator of the health of a rare habitat,” said Jay Watch program coordinator Cheryl Millett, a biologist with The Nature Conservancy.
“There is so much work that needs to be done to restore the habitat these amazing birds need to survive, and controlled burns are the main tool for doing that,” she said.
The scrub-jay was designated as a threatened species in 1987 due to loss and degradation of the Florida scrub habitat upon which it depends. This habitat, occurring in peninsular Florida, is fire-maintained oak scrub on well-drained sandy soils.
Jay Watch is a citizen-science initiative started in 2002 and is coordinated through The Nature Conservancy with direction from Archbold Biological Station in Highlands County.
The Jay Watch coordinator and staff at conservation lands train Jay Watch volunteers to monitor scrub-jay populations. Volunteers follow specific protocol, obtaining information that provides accurate status and trend information. The program added vegetation monitoring in 2004. Find out how you can volunteer for jay Watch.
The 2009 Jay Watch data show a decline in the number of scrub-jay groups at 60 percent of the sites surveyed in the early 1990s by the Archbold Biological Station and again last year by Jay Watch. There was an overall decrease from 529 to 384 groups, a 27 percent decline.
“While not a representative sample, this suggests continuing threats to scrub-jay populations,” according to the 2009 report, which will be distributed to Jay Watch volunteers and staff on Saturday at a recognition event at Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales.
The Nature Conservancy is a leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. The Conservancy and its more than 1 million members have protected nearly 120 million acres worldwide. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.
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The Irvine Unified School District in Southern California has confirmed plans to install solar panels in 21 of its 38 facilities. The installation is predicted to save the district some $17 million over the next 20 years.
In November 2009, Irvine finalized an agreement with SPG Solar, Inc., project developers and designers of solar power systems.
"Irvine was groundbreaking," says Thomas Rooney, CEO and president of SPG Solar. "It was the largest and most ambitious solar project for a K12 school in the country."
Irvine agreed to lease solar panels through SunEdison, a solar energy company that finances, operates and monitors solar plants, and purchase the electricity generated at each site at a fixed rate over a 20-year payout.
Irvine's commitment to sustainable energy goes beyond the installation of solar hardware, however. The district also plans to integrate solar energy discussions into the curriculum.
"As different forms of energy become viable, it's important for the kids to have some kind of knowledge on them as they enter into adulthood," says Mark Sontag, curriculum coordinator for math and science at Irvine Unified School District.
"Very rarely is a school district presented with an opportunity to save millions of dollars in energy costs, implement a new curriculum and substantially reduce its carbon footprint," says Superintendent Gwen Gross. "This plan will accomplish all three without our district incurring any upfront costs."
Although the time line for this project has not been carved in stone, Gross expects installation to begin at Rancho San Joaquin Middle School in late March 2010. All 21 sites are scheduled to be completed within three to four years.
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Tag: "could" at medical news
LRRK2 gene mutation causes Parkinson's disease in several families
... research point of view, this is the first time we could
identify what appears to be typical Parkinson's disease cases before people develop symptoms," Farrer says. "We know if someone inherits the mutation they are going to get Parkinson's disease." Farrer and his colleagues are beginning to explore the ...
How links with tobacco industry may have influenced the publication of research on second-hand smoke
...co smoke 40 of them (61%) reached conclusions that could
be judged to be industry-positive. Of these, 90% had at least one author with a history of an association with the tobacco industry. Professor Chapman concludes: "On the basis of evidence presented in this paper, there is a serious concern that the ...
Study documents initial differences in sexual transmission of HIV between males and females
...ment of a vaccine or other preventive methods that could
stop sexual transmission of HIV-1. The couples in the study come from the Rakai Cohort, a Uganda-based population in a long-term study of HIV infection. The researchers tested each couple's viral RNA to determine which variants, or kinds of HIV-1 ...
Major review of subway systems suggests potential for significant health and safety hazards
...shon, "the risk of infectious disease transmission could
be minimized through adequate maintenance of ventilation systems, frequent sanitation, and periodic disinfection of subway surfaces. At the individual rider level- prevention may be as simple as hand washing after riding the subways," she states. An...
Study examines harm reduction among injection drug users
... other diseases. Improperly discarded used needles could
pose a similar risk to the entire community. The study is among the first to examine safe syringe acquisition and disposal among new, young injection drug users. The results are published in the February 2005 edition of the Journal of Drug Issues. Th...
Don't let your spouse become your caregiver
...r spouses may be more inclined to act in ways that could
harm the impaired partner. The study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society , found that potentially harmful caregiver behavior was more likely in spouse caregiving situations. Clinical depression was also seen as a factor. "D...
Columbia study finds hemophilia therapy dramatically improves outcomes for bleeding stroke
...rmine if recombinant activated factor VII (rFVIIa) could
reduce hematoma growth after ICH. The primary outcome measure was the percent change in ICH volume at 24 hours. Clinical outcomes were assessed at 90 days. Key findings include: After dosing, the size of bleeding in the brain was assessed via CT...
CK2 protein sustains colon cancer cells by sabotaging ability to commit suicide
...that while CK2 usually is continually active, they could
block this activity using a CK2-inhibitor called DRB. Subsequently, the team showed that blocking CK2 with DRB made the cells very sensitive to TRAIL, causing them to commit suicide. This proved the important role CK2 played in preventing TRAIL-indu...
Protein that promotes survival of stem cells might be key to poor leukemia prognosis
...netically modified mice so that the gene for Mcl-1 could
be specifically deleted from the genome of HSCs and progenitor cells. Upon genetic deletion, these mice developed anemia and had severely reduced numbers of bone marrow (BM) cells, such as HSCs and progenitor cells. This was strong evidence that Mcl-...
Schepens scientists regenerate optic nerve for the first time
...n and met with dozens of service men and women who could
benefit directly from the good work of the people ...th the younger mice within only a few days. "We could
see that at least 40 percent of the optic nerve had been restored," says Chen, "but we believe that ...
OHSU scientists develop MRI approach to improve breast cancer detection
...is required, we believe shutter speed analyzed MRI could
become a powerful tool for the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer and almost any other form of cancer, as well as many other pathologies," explained Springer. "The shutter speed is a very general concept and applies to a great many different MR...
Researchers model brain's electrical storm during a seizure
...ock market, weather, or other complex systems that could
be affected by random events. They simulated the ... a computer simulation of a brain during a seizure could
potentially provide a fuller picture of how and why electrical signals misfire. "This model could
UCLA study shows that people drink less alcohol as they age
... particular medication," she said. One theory that could
explain the disparity in drinking patterns between... age, they are more likely to have conditions that could
be worsened by alcohol use (such as gastroesophageal reflux disease, depression or insomnia), and to...
Potential drug target for treating cocaine abuse found
...ease blocks the stimulating effects of cocaine and could
potentially be used to develop drug therapy for cocaine abuse, new research shows. In an article published in the February 23, 2005, issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, Jonathan Katz and his colleagues at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)...
New device will help stroke victims' recovery
...sing their expertise to help create a device which could
greatly increase the rate of recovery for stroke victims. The device, known as Alladin, will diagnose the precise state of a victim from the time of the attack throughout their recovery, enabling medical staff to determine the correct treatment at ea...
High-intensity ultrasound creates hollow nanospheres and nanocrystals
...and the first hollow nanocrystals. The nanospheres could
be used in microelectronics, drug delivery and as ...llow nanospheres crafted from molybdenum disulfide could
serve as a superior catalyst for removing sulfur-containing compounds from gasoline and other fossil...
Researcher explores ways to make hypnosis a more effective therapeutic technique
...rong hypnotic response. "If we had scales where we could
pre-select people who tend to be mindful, and cont...veryday life tend to not be especially mindful, we could
see whether, for example, there were differences in the way they responded to hypnotic suggestions,"...
Mayo Clinic researcher calls for improved newborn screening
...f the latest technology and double-tiered analysis could
improve genetic screening for newborns as much as ...edictive value. He argued that better performance could
be achieved by the addition of second-tier analyses. These are biochemical and/or molecular confirm...
Diagnosis of prions in patients should utilize novel strategy, team says
...ensitivity of the CDI suggests that CDI-like tests could
also prove useful for diagnosing other neurodegene...neurodegenerative diseases is unknown, but the CDI could
shed light on these diseases," says co-author Bruce Miller, MD, UCSF A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen ...
...is assuming that additional health-care facilities could
be made available to distribute drugs. They conclude that in order to achieve the greatest degree of treatment equality, all 54 health-care facilities should be used, and they should, on average, each serve the population within a radius of 50 km. ...
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Gardening Articles: Health :: Health
by Charlie Nardozzi
When does "organic" not mean "organic?" When the labels arent clear. The growth in the organic food industry continues to climb at about 20 percent per year. However, when shopping for organic food, the labels may not be telling you the whole story. Here are some examples of organic labels and what they really mean.
"100% Organic": No synthetic ingredients are allowed by law. Production must meet federal organic standards and be independently verified by inspectors.
"Organic": At least 95 percent of ingredients are organically produced. The remainder can be non-organic or synthetic ingredients. Yes, this means your organically labeled foods can have up to 5 percent non-organic ingredients in them. Organic labels on seafood are meaningless because the USDA has no standards for them.
"Made with Organic Ingredients": At least 70 percent of ingredients are organic.
"Free-range" or "free-roaming": Often seen on eggs, chicken, and other meats, this label suggests that an animal has spent a good portion of its life outdoors. But the standards are weak. For example, the rule for poultry products means that outdoor access is made available for an undetermined period each day. So, if a coop door was open for just 5 minutes a day, regardless of whether the chickens went outside, the animals meat and eggs could legally be labeled free-range.
"Natural" or "All Natural": This label does not mean organic. There is no standard definition for this term except when its applied to meat and poultry products, which the USDA defines as not containing any artificial flavoring, colors, chemical preservatives, or synthetic ingredients.
So when shopping for organic foods, know the rules of the labels before you buy. For more information, go to: Consumer Reports.
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The last two scheduled satellite launches of 2012 are complete.
A Soyuz launch vehicle has successfully orbited a capsule containing three astronauts headed for the International Space Station (ISS).
The Soyuz lifted off from Baikonur, Kazakhstan on 19 December, ferrying crew to the ISS. Liftoff and orbital insertion went according to plan, says Russian space agency Roscosmos, and the capsule is expected to dock on 21 December.
Later on 19 December an Ariane V lofted two communications satellites from Kourou, French Guiana. Skynet 5D, a communications satellite run by a private company on behalf of the UK military. Skynet 5D is the fourth satellite in the Skynet 5 constellation. A co-payload, Mexsat 3, was flown for the Mexican government. While contact with the satellites has not been confirmed as of press time, footage of the launch indicate a successful outcome.
Several rockets are scheduled to fly in January, launching several military, commercial and scientific satellites.
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arbcombo -- 2008-2010 Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Major Facilities Now Available Posted: 18 Oct 2011 17:14:25
The Air Resources Board (ARB) has posted summary spreadsheets of 2008-2010 facility greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and power entity transactions data reported pursuant to the California mandatory Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions reporting program. The data is available through the ARB website at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/reporting/ghg-rep/ghg-reports.htm. This posting represents the first summary spreadsheets posted for the 2009 and 2010 emissions and transactions data, while the 2008 data is an update to a past posting of emissions data. Under Californiaís mandatory GHG reporting regulation (MRR), California's largest industrial facilities have reported their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for years 2008, 2009 and 2010. Facility operators certified their 2008 emissions data reports were complete and accurate. 2009 emissions data reports were certified by operators and also verified by third-party verifiers accredited by the Air Resources Board. 2010 emissions reports have been certified and are in the process of being verified. Electricity retail providers and marketers also reported electricity transaction data for 2008, 2009 and 2010. 2009 transaction reports were verified by third party verifiers, 2010 reports are in the process of being verified. For each data year, there are two summary spreadsheets: a facility emissions spreadsheet and a power entity transactions spreadsheet. The 2009 facility and power entity data includes information on the verification opinion for each reporting entity. Preliminary 2010 emission data has also been posted. After the verification deadline of this reporting year (December 1), the 2010 data files will be updated to reflect the final verification opinion. Additionally, a summary of the verification program for 2009 data reported in 2010 is available, along with information regarding ARBís oversight and audit program, on the verification program webpage at http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/reporting/ghg-ver/ghg-ver.htm. If you have any questions, please send them to email@example.com. You are receiving this single arbcombo email because you are a subscriber to or have made a public comment to one or more of the following lists: cc, ghg-dis-verifiers, ghg-rep, ghgverifiers, ghg-ver.
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The Rog Blog is contributed by John Coonrod and various other experts from Rogers Corporation, providing technical advice and information about RF/microwave materials.
May 3, 2013
Achieving high reliability for a high-frequency circuit or system starts with the printed circuit board (PCB). The PCB material must deliver consistent performance over time and changing conditions, such as temperature. As explained in the previous Blog (part one of this two-part series), it is possible to spot PCB materials that are “built to last” by assessing a number of their key performance parameters, such as coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE). In fact, PCB materials such as Rogers RO4835™ laminates can be engineered for high reliability through a careful combination of material components resulting in specific performance characteristics.Read More
April 16, 2013
High reliability is a goal and desire for all designers and end-users of high-frequency printed-circuit boards (PCBs). Since all of the components mounted on the PCB depend on it, it is expected to deliver dependable and consistent performance over time. But depending on the operating conditions, it can sometimes be difficult to achieve. In an attempt to help, the next two Blogs will explore PCB material reliability: this blog, Part 1, will review some of the general obstacles for a PCB material to achieve good long-term reliability while the next blog, Part 2, will take a close look at how the characteristics of one particular PCB material add up to good long-term reliability.Read More
50th ROG blog posting
April 1, 2013
This ROG Blog series on printed-circuit-board (PCB) materials from Rogers Corp. (www.rogerscorp.com) has reached the half-century mark, already covering a wide range of topics on circuit materials with this, the 50th ROG Blog. It has even detailed the effects of different PCB material thicknesses on circuit performance, and described the influence of conductor roughness on circuit performance. While it would be difficult to pick out the top 10 Blogs from the first 49 Blogs appearing since August 2010, at least 10 of these ROG Blogs deserve mention for how they have attempted to help readers with their different uses of PCB materials.
March 18, 2013
Millimeter-wave frequencies (about 30 to 300 GHz) were once associated with at least two things: circuits for these frequencies are extremely difficult to fabricate, and they will probably be used for some military-electronics application. Because these frequencies are available for use without licenses, a growing number of circuit designers are considering different applications at these higher frequencies and, of course, choosing the right printed-circuit-board (PCB) material is an important part of any practical efforts to realize millimeter-wave circuits. Here are some things to be aware of and tips on how to design for millimeter-wave circuits.Read More
February 19, 2013
Transmission lines are akin to electronic roadways, routing signals along different paths of a printed-circuit board (PCB). At RF/microwave frequencies, circuit designers often create PCBs based on three popular planar transmission line approaches: microstrip, stripline, or coplanar waveguide (CPW). Each uses circuit-board materials in a different way, with different results in terms of insertion-loss performance. By getting a grasp on the insertion-loss mechanisms for these different transmission-line formats, circuit designers can better match the mechanical and electrical characteristics of their circuit substrates to their intended applications and transmission lines when choosing PCB materials.Read More
Bandpass Filters, Part 2
February 5, 2013
Part 1 of this two-part series on bandpass filters—highlighted the versatility of one circuit material from Rogers Corporation, RT/duroid® 6010.2LM laminate, for fabricating RF/microwave bandpass filters. But not all circuit materials are the same and there may be some advantages to designing bandpass filters on other materials, such as Rogers RO4000® family of printed-circuit-board (PCB) materials. This blog will examine different grades of these and other circuit materials and the impact they have on the design and fabrication of high-frequency bandpass filters, especially compared to filters formed on filled-PTFE-based circuit materials.Read More
Bandpass Filters, Part 1
January 16, 2013
Bandpass filters are essential to many RF/microwave circuits and systems. They eliminate unwanted signals and noise, and can work with both receivers and transmitters. This first of two blogs on RF/microwave bandpass filters will review some of their basic performance parameters and how they relate to PCB material characteristics, with a focus on one material in particular, RT/duroid® 6010.2LM circuit material from Rogers Corp. As a followup, the next blog will explore how bandpass filters perform on other circuit materials.
Impedance matching, Part 2
December 21, 2012
Successful high-frequency circuit design requires achieving an impedance match among a wide range of transmission-line features, circuit elements, and active and passive components. In the previous blog, some of the challenges in achieving good impedance match at RF/microwave frequencies were detailed, including the importance of a printed-circuit-board (PCB) material with stable and consistent effective dielectric constant. To further explore the impact of a circuit substrate on high-frequency impedance matching, two popular PCB materials from Rogers Corp. (www.rogerscorp.com
), RO3010™ and RO3035™ circuit materials will serve as examples to show how circuit-material parameters can be translated into solutions for high-frequency impedance-matching issues.
December 3, 2012
Impedance matching is an aspect of RF/microwave design that has challenged even the best circuit designers from time to time. High-frequency circuit designers generally aim for a characteristic impedance of 50 Ω, unless they are working on cable-television (CATV) circuits, which typically operate at 75 Ω. For the lowest phase distortion and flat amplitude response, most RF/microwave circuit designers start with ensuring that all of the possible impedance mismatch points, such as transmission-line junctions, connections to components, and terminations with connectors, are as close to 50 Ω as possible.Read More
November 8, 2012
Directional couplers are vital components for sampling signal power in an RF/microwave system without necessarily disturbing the signal path. Such couplers come in many forms, including in metal housings with coaxial connectors. A typical coaxial directional coupler has four connectors, for input, output, coupled, and isolated ports. The coupled port provides a small amount of power taken from the input port, defined by the coupling factor, such as a 20-dB coupler. This blog posts covers the advantages of using high quality PCB materials for directional couplers.Read More
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“A Group of Portraits”
Well. Direct author address. Here I am Cummings the author says, here I am having crossed the Slough of Despond. Good to know I didn't imagine the parallels when reading the intro and first chapter. Still, what does a direct address do? Make us part of the journey, as if we were co-prisoners or maybe gaolers? Here in the prison of now is were a person can make the kinds of decisions that lead to the celestial city – or in this case bring it to him? The reason I think that is that one of the men is called The Delectable Mountain (the Wanderer).
Also his thing about time really struck me. He says he his going to recount his time at La Ferte by giving us a series of portraits instead of a temporal account because time is one of the “treasures of freedom.” I take that to mean human time...our priorities, decisions about what to do, eat, think about. When that is taken away (what he delightfully calls “an amputation of the world” other organizing principles come to the fore.
Why it struck me with some force most certainly has to do with where I am. In a cabin, wood-heated, no wifi, I struggle to remember what day it is. The day's organization is first and foremost around keeping the wood stove going. Without the heat my fingers ache (old frostbite reminder), and I can't type, or read with any comfort. So, sleep for a bit, get up and put another split in the firebox. Write and read. Put another split in the box. Go get more wood from the pile. Go to the outhouse. Sleep a bit. Get up and put another split in the firebox. Write...
If I need to go down to the kitchen (outdoor kitchen down the hill), I make sure the box is well stoked, and close down the vents to keep it hot but not so hot as to burn up the wood too fast. When life is like that, actions and objects become iridescent. I mean that they present themselves to the imagination in ways so startling and obvious that it is as if you have moved to another world, one in which time has deflated like a helium balloon too long past the birthday feast. I think this is why I can write in places like this. My duty to job and urban living vanishes and the fierce cycle required of places like this opens the eyes to things. And after all, writing is about presenting things so that they capture attention – at least the kind of writing I do is.
The Clever Man's beating down of Judas! So what the Clever Man represents is the way of the redeemed?
I've always found it rather exciting to remember that there is a difference between what we experience and what we think it means.
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A new year is right around the corner, and many people are busy penning their resolutions for 2013.
Adults who are beginning to show signs of aging may want to tailor their vows for the coming year to help them age gracefully.
Here are some ideas to get you started.
Is it finally time to quit?
You're probably aware that smoking raises your chances of cancer and heart problems, but did you know that the habit could also have an adverse affect on the skin?
Cigarette smoke can make a big impact on the formation of wrinkles and has been known to produce signs of premature aging.
Deciding to quit - or at least reduce the number of cigarettes you smoke a day - could end up adding more years to your life while also giving you healthier, younger-looking skin.
As with any New Year's resolution, it's important to be realistic about your goals.
Saying that you won't smoke a single cigarette starting at midnight on January 1 is setting yourself up for disaster. It will likely be more effective if you set benchmarks for yourself.
For instance, promise yourself that you'll be smoking three fewer cigarettes a day by April.
A healthier diet for a healthier you?
The foods you put into your body can affect your skin and body shape.
This year, make a promise to include more fruits and vegetables in your diet, and you may find that by the time 2014 rolls around, you look younger, healthier and thinner.
Leafy greens such as spinach and kale as well as berries like raspberries and blueberries are known for their anti-aging properties, so add these foods to your shopping list every time you head to the grocery store.
Saving up for your big procedure
If you've had your eye on a plastic surgery procedure, but have put it off because you can't afford it, then this year perhaps your New Year's resolution should be to save up for the tummy tuck or breast augmentation you've always wanted.
You can get yourself excited for your procedure by visiting with a board-certified plastic surgeon, who can also help you figure out exactly how much you need to save to cover the costs of your procedure.
All user-generated information on this site is the opinion of its author only and is not a substitute for medical advice or treatment for any medical conditions. Members and guests are responsible for their own posts and the potential consequences of those posts detailed in our Terms of Service.
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Called Casa Zafra, the two-storey house is inspired by crooked geometry and has a wire-mesh facade on the south-facing wall to protect the occupants from stray golf balls.
The occupant can change their view of the surrounding landscape using mobile screens.
Jagged holes on the exterior aim to allow the colours of the sunset to move through the house.
The interior has a continuous layout without any doors and the first floor houses a cactus garden.
More information from NO.MAD Arquitectos:
ZAFRA-UCEDA HOUSE IN ARANJUEZ
This house is set among a golf course on a dubious quality built environment. The volumetric trace of the building is imposed to this empty character of the surroundings and reacts only to the far away views of the distant landscape. In this way, avoiding this speculative place the house closes off to potential near by relationships maintaining some quite restricted conditions of visibility and accessibility. The limitations of ground floor occupancy directs to the location of the requested program in two levels allowing a geometric figure on the ground close to a square.
We act on this innocuous parallelepiped by exciting the blind perimeter with conditions related to the external distant landscape and the possibilities of using the plot. In that direction, we recognize those objects in the landscape worth of bringing interesting visual frames inside the house and define their relative position according to the inner programs in each level: the mountain views from the living room, the old city and the river from the upper sleeping room and exterior terrace or the grass plot from the kitchen.
These relationships affect the volume with mass subtractions that become a covered garage and the main access related to the back street and the living room and kitchen terraces related to the garden. In the upper level privacy is guaranteed by two enclosed terraces open only towards the sky and planted with cactus gardens from the owner collection while another terrace facing south translate the relations with different objects in the far distance through multiple screening movable openings.
The will to frame this objects in the distance by placing big glazed elements performs part of the new transformed geometry. Relating all the vertex of these accidents a three dimensional geometry appear guiding all the house internal properties as a net where to rest all the building precision.
On a tailor made program demanded by clients with an extreme contemporary way of living the main uses layout is done in continuity without any doors but keeping the character and functionality of each internal space. In this way, the separation is done by means of a snake like laminar element that following the global geometry defines the built perimeters of each program around a central double height area.
This crooked element houses inside the staircase and conveys all flows and installations while providing two magic properties for the house: an iridescent polycarbonate wall changing colours with the light running parallel to a reflecting mirroring wall that multiplies the interior spaces. The double height living room perimeter is perforated with panoramic holes of diverse dimensions, open or glazed, that oblige different visual and luminous relationships with the programs around.
This set of three dimensional visual relationships following the global geometry conform an inner landscape absorbing and translating the effect of the distant landscape. It is intended that all internal uses are in direct contact with any kind of exterior space with a maximal profit of the qualities of the near and far landscape. In that sense the built silent envelope is qualified and transformed by means of actions relating these surroundings with the interior programs.
And so, starry holes appear in the West apparently random but shaped with the global geometry and with their faceted appearance bring inside the guest areas the colour variations of the sunset while maintaining controlled views of the doubtful buildings around. To the south, a large expanded metal mesh façade protects the dining and sleeping room areas from direct summer sunlight and golf balls hazards while maintaining a variable relation to the landscape by means of movable frames that can be orientated by the user.
To the east a concrete radiography of the global geometry serves to keep anonymity with the neighbour and evacuate part of the roof water and to the north pieces of green marble, cut out with invisible lines, send a public message remaining us that the time for luxurious buildings has probably passed away.
NO.MAD Arquitectos S.L.P.
Eduardo Arroyo Architect
David Rodriguez: Architect
Lars-Sebastian Dillner: Architect
Alfonso Cuenca: Technical Architect
Joaquín Antuña: Architect
Alfonso Robles: Architect
INECO 98, S.L.: Engineers
Start of Design: March 2006
End of design: December 2006
Start of construction: March 2008
End of construction June 2009
Juan Carlos Zafra, Miguel Angel Uceda
Area: 320 metres squared (built)
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Posted by El_Cubano on Sat 4 Jun 2005 at 23:24
After a new user transitioning from FreeBSD to Debian asked how to customize the options used to build a Debian package, I responded with a short and sweet recipe. Someone kindly suggested that I turn it into a full HOWTO. I have done just that.
The resulting Debian Package Customization HOWTO is targeted at people who are interested in taking an existing Debian package and tweaking it or modifying it for their own needs.
Some of the material there has already been covered upon this site:
This article can be found online at the Debian Administration website at the following bookmarkable URL (along with associated comments):
This article is copyright 2005 El_Cubano - please ask for permission to republish or translate.
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Oct. 15, 2001 WASHINGTON — More non-human animals may be capable of abstract thought than previously known, with profound implications for the evolution of human intelligence and the stuff that separates homo sapiens from other animals. A trans-Atlantic team of psychologists has found evidence of abstract thought in baboons, significant because baboons are "old world monkeys," part of a different primate "super family" that -- some 30 million years ago -- split from the family that gave rise to apes and then humans. Chimpanzees, in the ape family, already have demonstrated abstract thought. Now, two trained baboons successfully determined that two differently detailed displays were fundamentally the same in their overall design. Figuring this out required analogical (this is to this as that is to that) reasoning, which many theorists view as the foundation of human reasoning and intelligence.
The study is reported in the October issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, published by the American Psychological Association (APA).
In a series of five experiments, Joël Fagot, Ph.D., of the Center for Research in Cognitive Neuroscience in Marseille, France; Edward A. Wasserman, Ph.D., of both the Center for Research in Cognitive Neuroscience and the University of Iowa; and Michael E. Young, Ph.D., of the University of Iowa trained two adult baboons, one male and one female, to use a personal computer and joystick to look at and select grids that had varying collections of little pictures.
In the foundation experiment, researchers familiarized the baboons with a screen display of 16 different little pictures (four rows of four across), such as the sun, an arrow, a light bulb, a train, and a house, OR with a display of the same little picture repeated 16 times (for example, all telephones). Researchers then presented the baboons with a series of choices of two new displays. In each choice, one display was a 4x4 grid with 16 different icons (for example, a clock, a brain, a hand, a triangle…); the other was the 4x4 grid with 16 identical icons (for example, all flowers). Researchers rewarded the baboons for selecting, from two choices, the array that showed the same relationships among pictures as the sample.
Researchers wanted to see whether the baboons could learn this principle. Could the baboons perceive "sameness" even when its cues were subtle and abstract?
The baboons did indeed learn to match the "different icons" test grids to sample grids at a rate greater than chance. They also learned to match "same icons" test grids to "same icons" sample grids at a rate greater than chance. It took thousands of trials for them to learn the "relation between relations" required by the task, but they did it. Say the authors, "Although discriminating the relation between relations may not be an intellectual forte of baboons, it is nevertheless within their ken."
In the primary and subsequent four experiments, Fagot et al. also tested two humans to assess baboon versus human performance. In experiments 2-5, the researchers shrunk the numbers of items in the grid to see whether a lessening in variability (the "different" grids became closer to the "same" grids, a lessening in entropy) affected the baboons' choices. Both baboons and humans learned the basic task (although the humans learned far faster), and transferred it to novel sample displays, but humans were far more accurate at matching grids when the number of icons was reduced.
The baboons and humans seemed to have different cutoff points for discerning same vs. different, with humans being more sensitive to entropy. The authors speculate that language may play a role, because our verbal expression for "same" makes the idea of "same" more restrictive -- in other words, things really have to be identical to qualify. To baboons, the authors suggest, the concept of "same" might be fuzzier and more inclusive.
The baboons' ability to abstract opens the door to other species' cognitive potential. Fagot et al. state that additional research of non-human animals is necessary before theorists attempt to limit the capability for abstraction only to certain species. They state, "Analogical thinking and its possible precursors may very well be found in non-human animals -- if only we assiduously look for them."
Article: "Discriminating the Relation Between Relations: The Role of Entropy in Abstract Conceptualization by Baboons (Papio papio) and Humans (Homo sapiens)," Joël Fagot, Center for Research in Cognitive Neurosciences of the National Center for Scientific Research in Marseille, France; Edward A. Wasserman, Center for Research in Cognitive Neurosciences (as above) and the University of Iowa, Iowa City; and Michael E. Young, University of Iowa, Iowa City; Journal of Experimental Psychology – Animal Behavior Processes, Vol 27. No.4.
Full text of the article is available from the APA Public Affairs Office and at http://www.apa.org/journals/xan/press_releases/october_2001/xan274316.html
The American Psychological Association (APA), in Washington, DC, is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States and is the world’s largest association of psychologists. APA’s membership includes more than 155,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. Through its divisions in 53 divisions of psychology and affiliations with 60 state, territorial and Canadian provincial associations, APA works to advance psychology as a science, as a profession and as a means of promoting human welfare.
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Name: Alex D.
Date: April 2005
Are alloys created by melting the metals into liquids,
blending them, and then allowing them to cool and harden?
Yes, alloys are created that way for the most part. Alloys are actually
defined by certain standards created by different agencies around the
world, with the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) being
the most common here in the U.S. What these societies do is standardize
the definition of alloys. That is to say, they write the recipe for alloy
manufacturers to use in order to make alloys. Take stainless steel for
instance. First of all there are different grades (or recipes) of
stainless steel, with 304 and 316 being the most common. If you order
316, the steel manufacturer will melt iron and add various amounts of
carbon, chromium, and other metals per the ASTM specification. Then,
depending on the properties you want, the manufacturer will allow the
steel to harden at a certain cooling rate and form it into the shape you
want delivered to your place of business. He may also do post processing
(after the shaping) treatments like stress relieving or stress hardening
to again give you different properties to your steel. The main thing
about alloys is you are chemically mixing the materials to form the
alloy. This usually involves high temperatures and metals in liquid
Hope this answers your question. Thanks for using NEWTON.
Chris Murphy, P.E.
Air Force Research Laboratory
That is not the only way alloys are formed, but it is the most common way.
However, not all metals are soluble in one another so melting and mixing
does not guarantee that an alloy will form.
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Update: June 2012
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tetanusArticle Free Pass
tetanus, also called lockjaw, acute infectious disease of humans and other animals, caused by toxins produced by the bacillus Clostridium tetani and characterized by rigidity and spasms of the voluntary muscles. The almost constant involvement of the jaw muscles accounts for the popular name of the disease.
Spores of Clostridium are distributed widely in nature, especially in soil, and may enter the body through any wound, even a superficial abrasion; puncture wounds and deep lacerations are particularly dangerous because they provide the oxygen-free environment needed for growth of the microorganism.
Both the occurrence and severity of tetanus are determined by the amount of toxin produced and the resistance of the host. The neurotoxic component, tetanospasmin, is one of the deadliest poisons known. It is believed to act on the synthesis and liberation of acetylcholine, a substance having a key role in the synaptic transmission of nerve impulses throughout the body. Once it has entered the body, the toxin rapidly spreads by way of the bloodstream or directly by a nerve to the central nervous system, where it attacks motor nerve cells and excites them to overactivity. Excessive impulses rush through the nerves to the muscles, which are thrown into severe convulsive spasm. The most common spasms occur in the muscle of the jaw, and the first sign of the illness often is stiffness of the jaw, or trismus. The muscles of the mouth are often affected, pulling the lips out and up over the teeth into a grimace, the mixture of smile and snarl that heralds the onset of the generalized convulsive stage of tetanus. Spasm of the muscles of the throat can make swallowing impossible, whereas the muscles of the larynx or of the chest wall can be thrown into such violent spasm that breathing is impossible and life is threatened. This is a common cause of death if the tetanus is untreated, but there are other effects on the heart, blood pressure, and vital brain centres that may cause death later in the disease.
The incubation period is quite variable in length—from two days to two weeks in most cases but sometimes up to three months. In general, the longer the incubation period, the milder will be the disease. Treatment of tetanus is primarily supportive. Tetanus antitoxin, which contains antibodies derived from the blood of persons who have been immunized against the disease, is given to help neutralize the toxin in the bloodstream, but it has little effect once the toxin has affected the nerve endings. Intravenous penicillin kills the organisms that remain within the wound site. Patients are usually intentionally paralyzed with drugs (such as curare) to prevent muscle spasms caused by the disease; artificial or mechanical respiration is necessary because the respiratory muscles are paralyzed. After a few weeks, when the disease is curtailed, the curare treatment is stopped and the patient begins to breathe on his own again.
Passive protection with tetanus antitoxin should be administered in all cases of injuries that may be contaminated by clostridial spores. Active immunization with tetanus toxoid (prepared by chemical modification of toxin) is a relatively slow process, requiring weeks or months to become effective, and must be renewed every few years (booster doses). A first dose should be given to every accident victim, followed by two more doses several months later. This applies also to persons who have recovered from tetanus, for an attack of the disease does not confer immunity.
What made you want to look up "tetanus"? Please share what surprised you most...
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As long as Software exists people will attempt to crack it -- not always for money but a challenge.
Is there a totally 100% escape proof prison anywhere in the world -- probably not -- doesn't matter what security is implemented humans are fallable (and bribable) so technology alone will NEVER solve this problem.
One possible proviso -- if a Quantum Computer ever becomes a reality then no encryption we currently know about will ever be possible since even a "brute force attack" with even large power 200 digit numbers as keys (more atoms than exist in the entire universe) can be cracked in seconds. -- For those that don't know a quantum computer can process an infinite number of calculations IN PARALLEL and complete these in a very short time.
Instead of a Binary state being 0 or 1 a quantum bit can be 0, 1, or BOTH at the same time .
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Angels—messengers from God—appear frequently in Scripture, but only Michael, Gabriel and Raphael are named.
Michael appears in Daniel's vision as "the great prince" who defends Israel against its enemies (12:1); in the Book of Revelation, Michael leads God's armies to final victory over the forces of evil (12:7). Devotion to Michael is the oldest angelic devotion, rising in the East in the fourth century. The Church in the West began to observe a feast honoring Michael and the angels in the fifth century.
Gabriel also makes an appearance in Daniel's visions, announcing Michael's role in God's plan. His best-known appearance is an encounter with a young Jewish girl named Mary, who consents to bear the Messiah (Luke 1:26-38).
Raphael's activity is confined to the Old Testament story of Tobit. There he guides Tobit's son, Tobiah, through a series of fantastic adventures which lead to a threefold happy ending: Tobiah's marriage to Sarah, the healing of Tobit's blindness and the restoration of the family fortune.
The memorials of Gabriel (March 24) and Raphael (October 24) were added to the Roman calendar in 1921. The 1970 revision of the calendar joined their feasts to Michael's.
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The Piney wrote:
To sum it up, you need to put the hard drive into another computer as a slave or hook it up externally with one of those USB enclosures if you don't have space for a second hard drive. (or use the UBCD4WIN!!) Then open up C:\hp\bin\ConfigCheck\cfgchk.bat with notepad and modify the section that checks to see if the hard drive is tattoo'd to have it not bother checking at all. (although the hard drive will be running as slave so replace the C:\ with whatever drive letter Windows assigns it) The line to remove is: "python c:\hp\bin\ConfigCheck\run.py". Remove this one line and the problem is completely gone.
You could also boot to say Parted Magic which is included in UBCD5.0B12 and navigate to the file shown "C:\hp\bin\ConfigCheck\cfgchk.bat" using PCMan or other file manager or using a terminal and edit the file as stated.
I don't use the Linux tools ofter so Icecube or one of the other Linux guys may chime in with some advice or corrections.. This should get you started in the right direction though..
Hope it helps.. I'll be away later today and will not be back till late so I'll check back when I get home and see how it works out, post back with results please so others know how it comes out as well..
I'm sorry, I really don't understand. This is honestly my first time of ever having to work w/ this stuff.
Is PCMan on a seperate disk? Or parted magic?
If not, how would I go about getting to these?
Thanks for your response though.
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When taking a picture, there are 100 things to consider: aperture, shutter speed, ISO, white balance, lens flare, and on and on, right down to that guy waaaaay in the back of the frame who is making an obscene gesture. Trouble is, if you think about all of these elements, chances are that before you press the shutter, the moment-if not the hour-will have passed.
With enough practice, getting the shot and the various factors right becomes instinctual and almost instantaneous. But until you reach that level, what do you really have to know to get the picture? That's the question the Pop Photo team and I tackled recently: In common situations, what's the single tip you must remember when the other 99 things have slipped your mind?
Here's some one-trick help:
Candid Portraits. If you're photographing a subject who is talking, shoot in burst mode; you're sure to get one with a closed (or at least attractive) mouth.
Headshots. Step back and use at least an 80mm (equivalent) lens. The long lens compresses perspective and keeps your subject's nose from appearing too big.
Lush Landscapes. Put a circular polarizing filter on your lens. It will make the greens greener and the sky bluer. And the rotating filter lets you dial in as much or as little as you need.
Parties. Keep your subjects away from walls. This way, there's no shadow behind them. Instead, direct them into the middle of the room where you can capture some of the ambience of the event. And the flash? Bounce it off the ceiling.
Beating RedEye. Don't count on your camera's preflash or redeye reduction. Instead, get the flash as far from the lens ("off-axis") as possible. Wireless flash is great for this.
Dancers. Partygoers waltzing? Set your flash to slow-sync (even point-and-shoots have this function). This gives you a slow shutter speed, so there's some blur for a sense of motion, but a burst of light that captures the subjects sharply and clearly. It's even better if you use trailing sync, which puts the blur behind the flashed image.
Sports. Don't focus where the action is; focus where it will be. Whether it's a racecar or a base runner, prefocus ahead of your subject and hold the focus there by pressing the shutter button halfway down.
Weddings. When the clothes are traditional (bride in white, groom in black), where do you turn for a good exposure reading? Meter off a gray card. No 18% gray handy? Get really close, take a reading off the bride's skin, then back up and shoot.
Big Family Dinners. Use the widest lens you have, get on a stepladder, and bounce the flash off the ceiling.
Food. Shoot down onto the plate. Chances are the chef put the dish together from that point of view for the best angle.
Sunsets. Forget the sunset itself! You've seen that shot before. Turn around-the rich sunset light on buildings, its reflections on clouds, and the shadows it creates are much more interesting.
Q: What's the thinking behind making f-stop values in reverse order to the lens opening sizes?
A: F-stops are the ratio of focal length divided by the diameter of the physical opening of the aperture. So a small opening and/or long focal length makes a bigger number; a big opening and/or short focal length makes a smaller number.
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For all of the analyses of academics, learning models, curriculum, 21st century thinking, assessment, project-based learning, self-directed learning, social media integration, iPads and related technology, and other emerging trends, how students learn is why we’re all here, yes?
And understanding how something happens requires observation as an early step. What’s developing, when and how?
Where are the misunderstandings? What is not clear? Where is the learning being successful that I’m missing? And how can I share not just the end product but the proces itself–the idea behind project-based learning–with a much larger audience?
10 iPad Apps To Record How Students Learn
1. Explain Everything has been on our desktops since the school issued them last summer. Not sure why we never talked about it before, it’s fabulous and easy! It can be used with any key learning area. It’s very powerful for those that may be struggling with literacy, as it has the ability to record audio and students thinking out loud. With Explain Everything you can annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations and it is designed to accommodate virtually any content area.
2. Funny Movie Maker has the sights, sounds, and action of a movie to bring a subject to life in you classroom. Ideas?
Use a picture from your camera roll and change it up to make the image come to life.
Try reading the Emancipation Proclamation using Abraham Lincoln’s picture.
Have students replace the face of Susan B. Anthony with their own and read a journal entry they’ve written from the perspective of a suffragette.
Students can email their videos to you or save them to their camera roll. Try it out with math or science, as a fun way to record steps for problem solving or documenting an experiment.
3. Haiku Deck - start with a few ideas, add amazing images and create dynamic presentations with your students. With just a few words per screen, this is a great way to introduce students to the presentation mode. Focusing on just a few words at a time can be a challenge for many students; this app will reinvent how students put thoughts together. They’re many different backgrounds, creative common pictures, and fonts. It also helps students with visual design. Each slide can have a completely different theme and with so many options it is hard to decide. Very open-ended and quite an incredible learning tool. Watch video here.
4. Aurasma - an augmented reality platform that lets the user discover, create and share virtual content integrated into the real world. This app allows you to connect digital content with real-world objects. This app holds a lot of learning potential, particularly if we teach kids how to create their own real-world AR object. Aurasma, is a very intuitive application that allows users to choose their target image and the digital content that will activate when the target is seen by the camera.
5. Skqueak - is a very easy and useful app to enhance your pictures by adding your voice, drawings, and zoom effects to them. This app allows you to draw on your images in a Skitch-like way to point out important elements of the picture. You can also simply zoom-in on an element of your picture while you talk about it. Skqueak could be used as a way for students to create short digital stories about places they’ve visited, things they’ve done in class, or about pictures that they’ve found online.
6. Goodreader is a powerful PDF reader, but that is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this app’s features. It allows you to view almost any file type, watch movies in a variety of formats, and unzip compressed folders. You can connect with numerous cloud accounts, copy, move, rename or transfer files, and send them elsewhere. There are an intuitive number of annotation tools for marking up PDFs, and tabbed file viewing. Often referred to as the “Swiss Army knife” of productivity apps on the iPad, it seems complicated at first but it’s not once you get into it. Let your students to teach you how. Also, a great resource for teachers – collect work from your students, mark or comment on it, send it back to them seamlessly!
7. Sketch Nation Studio is a game-maker that could incorporate simple content and be used as a fun way to share what you know with others in a game format. It absolutely motivates like no other app we’ve come across, especially for some of the most reluctant learners. The Simple Mode is obviously the easiest, letting you put together a game in just a matter of minutes. Become a game designer without writing a single line of code!
These last three are Internet only and not available as apps, that doesn’t make them not worth exploring!
8. Sketchnoting has huge potential for students to create presentations. If you’re someone who takes notes on a regular basis, you may be interested in a fun and even artistic movement called Sketchnoting. Sketchnoting is like note taking, but it includes visual notes as well as words. It’s a way of conceptualizing ideas, information, and other data on paper (or a digital tablet) beyond the traditional text of outlining.
This handbook is pricey but tells the story of sketchnotes–why and how you can use them to capture your thinking visually, remember key information more clearly, and share what you’ve captured with others.
9. Pinterest - The virtual online pinboard, or as an app, allows kids to organize and share ideas through images that they find on the web. This system of “curating” all things found on the Internet is easy to use, free, and as there site states, addicting. It’s a great way to present any content visually and the use of compartmentalizing is a great skill to reinforce.
10. Tagxedo turns words–famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters–into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. For presentations, key words can be highlighted one at a time. Great help for students doing a presentation and a cool teacher tool to visualize thinking as well. Watch the video. The image below was made with Tagxedo.
Image attribution flickr user barretwebcoordinator
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The “Projection Designer's Toolbox” is back! Sorry for the long sabbatical. As some readers may know, I have been lucky enough to have been inundated with many interesting projects over the last year or so. I can't complain, but it has prevented me from being able to contribute on a monthly basis.
This fall, I started teaching a Masters degree course called “Projections for Stage Design” at Long Island University in New York. I have been giving a lot of thought to that often discussed crossroads of technology and storytelling. It has been a struggle for me to find equilibrium between talking up new technology, while trying to find a real-world use for all these new gadgets and gizmos. More new stuff is coming out every day, but I keep using the same tools. Why?
People often ask me what the future holds regarding entertainment technology. My stock response is this: “If you don't know how to design for the theatre, 100% of the technology of tomorrow will be useless to you. If you do know how to design for the theatre, the percentage lowers to about 70%.”
There is an age-old adage that a great guitarist can pick up just about any brand of guitar, plug it into any brand of amp, and within a few minutes, make it sound great. This is because he has his own technique, his own style of playing. And most importantly, he has a clear and precise mental image of what he wants the end result to sound like. Some call this the mind-body connection.
Basketball great Magic Johnson called this the will to win — how, when the game was on the line, and the clock was running down, there was no time to think, but if you wanted to win that badly, your body would just take over and put the ball in the basket any which way. W. Timothy Gallwey's book The Inner Game of Tennis also talks about this. There is a trust game we play with our minds. Great athletes and musicians have learned that their bodies have executed the patterns needed to excel enough times that they can remove their minds from the equation. Trust your body to do what it needs without over-thinking it.
I think this adage can be applied to theatrical design, as well. If we bring our own emotions, experience, and knowledge to a project, and we understand how to serve the text and support the actors, we can use design to build an emotional connection with an audience. And it won't sell ads in this magazine for me to say this, but if you have a strong mental picture of what you want to achieve, you'll often find you can make just about any piece of gear “sound like you.”
The same principles can, and should, be applied to great design. Just because some piece of hardware can do the latest and greatest tricks, are tricks really what you want? In a way, being a slave to the latest technology is really letting the gear design for you. In the old days, you really had to think about the changes you wanted to make, because they cost a lot of money and took a day or two to execute, so it was important to have a mental picture of what the result would be in your head before you spent the money. Sure, there are some things that you have to see to “feel.” Radio City Music Hall is a perfect example of that. There is really no way to comprehend what things will look like when they are that huge. You can prepare all you want in advance, but you really need to see it live and in person to understand the relationship the visuals have with the audience. But having a good understanding of what relationship you want to create will certainly help you to be more efficient and much more effective.
So, I have decided to refocus my column and really get into the nitty gritty of what it takes to create a successful design — not the computers, projectors, media servers, lasers, or whatever, but the real fundamentals of projection design itself. What does it take to support a script, to serve the actors on stage, to be seen without being noticed, to play nicely with those who just don't understand projections?
I really hope this can turn into a positive educational discussion between you and me. So please, send in your questions. Send in your answers. Let's talk!
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Web 3.0: The Third Generation Web is Comingby Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board member Nova Spivack.
OverviewThe Web is entering a new phase of evolution. There has been much debate recently about what to call this new phase. Some would prefer to not name it all, while others suggest continuing to call it “Web 2.0”. However, this new phase of evolution has quite a different focus from what Web 2.0 has come to mean.
Web 3.0John Markoff of the New York Times recently suggested naming this third-generation of the Web, “Web 3.0”. This suggestion has led to quite a bit of debate within the industry. Those who are attached to the Web 2.0 moniker have reacted by claiming that such a term is not warranted while others have responded positively to the term, noting that there is indeed a characteristic difference between the coming new stage of the Web and what Web 2.0 has come to represent.
The term Web 2.0 was never clearly defined and even today if one asks ten people what it means one will likely get ten different definitions. However, most people in the Web industry would agree that Web 2.0 focuses on several major themes, including AJAX, social networking, folksonomies, lightweight collaboration, social bookmarking, and media sharing. While the innovations and practices of Web 2.0 will continue to develop, they are not the final step in the evolution of the Web.
In fact, there is a lot more in store for the Web. We are starting to witness the convergence of several growing technology trends that are outside the scope of what Web 2.0 has come to mean. These trends have been gestating for a decade and will soon reach a tipping point. At this juncture the third-generation of the Web will start.
More Intelligent WebThe threshold to the third-generation Web will be crossed in 2007. At this juncture the focus of innovation will start shift back from front-end improvements towards back-end infrastructure level upgrades to the Web. This cycle will continue for five to ten years, and will result in making the Web more connected, more open, and more intelligent. It will transform the Web from a network of separately siloed applications and content repositories to a more seamless and interoperable whole.
Because the focus of the third-generation Web is quite different from that of Web 2.0, this new generation of the Web probably does deserve its own name. In keeping with the naming convention established by labeling the second generation of the Web as Web 2.0, I agree with John Markoff that this third-generation of the Web could be called Web 3.0.
Web 2.0. According to the Wikipedia, “Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O’Reilly Media in 2004, refers to a supposed second generation of Internet-based services such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users.”
I would also add to this definition another trend that has been a major factor in Web 2.0 the emergence of the mobile Internet and mobile devices (including camera phones) as a major new platform driving the adoption and growth of the Web, particularly outside of the United States.
Web 3.0. Using the same pattern as the above Wikipedia definition, Web 3.0 could be defined as: “Web 3.0, a phrase coined by John Markoff of the New York Times in 2006, refers to a supposed third generation of Internet-based services that collectively comprise what might be called ‘the intelligent Web’ such as those using semantic web, microformats, natural language search, data-mining, machine learning, recommendation agents, and artificial intelligence technologies which emphasize machine-facilitated understanding of information in order to provide a more productive and intuitive user experience.”
Web 3.0 Expanded Definition. I propose expanding the above definition of Web 3.0 to be a bit more inclusive. There are actually several major technology trends that are about to reach a new level of maturity at the same time. The simultaneous maturity of these trends is mutually reinforcing, and collectively they will drive the third-generation Web. From this broader perspective, Web 3.0 might be defined as a third-generation of the Web enabled by the convergence of several key emerging technology trends:
- Broadband adoption
- Mobile Internet access
- Mobile devices
- Software-as-a-service business models
- Web services interoperability
- Distributed computing (P2P, grid computing, hosted “cloud computing” server farms such as Amazon S3)
- Open APIs and protocols
- Open data formats
- Open-source software platforms
- Open data (Creative Commons, Open Data License, etc.)
- Open identity (OpenID)
- Open reputation
- Portable identity and personal data (for example, the ability to port your user account and search history from one service to another)
- Semantic Web technologies (RDF, OWL, SWRL, SPARQL, Semantic application platforms, and statement-based datastores such as triplestores, tuplestores and associative databases)
- Distributed databases or what I call “The World Wide Database” (wide-area distributed database interoperability enabled by Semantic Web technologies)
- Intelligent applications (natural language processing, machine learning, machine reasoning, autonomous agents)
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The Clubs have been very successful and more than 120 children have participated each year.
The clubs are held at Woodgreen Leisure Centre, Fairway Centre and Britannia Road Childrens Centre.
Some of those who have grown too old for the clubs have continued as volunteer helpers, which is an indicator of the commitment felt by the young people.
There is a wide range of activities using games and sports equipment held at the clubs. Some one-of the activities are themed - cooking, crafts or specific fun topics that increase the children’s understanding about life in other countries and cultures, including ‘Mother’s Day’ and ‘Cowboys and Indians’. Bowling sessions are popular, and gardening is now being developed to encourage the children to think about healthy eating and the environment.
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The boundary between this world and the next is said to be thin right now. – Personally I think it’s on the thin side most days but it’s good to have a reason to honor the ancestors and welcome them back among us. Blithewold’s family is never far from here and our hearts – they live on through the property and our collective love of it. And I feel certain that they were overseeing our work yesterday as a few volunteers finished burying the undead (the tulips!) in the North Garden.
I thought it was only fitting for this Halloween post to visit the place where some of the ancestors have been laid to rest. Juniper Hill Cemetery is a 19th century garden cemetery, which is a type of burial ground designed as much for the solace of the living as it is to house the dead. Juniper Hill is a place of pure quiet and deep shade on a hill overlooking Bristol harbor and, these days, seems forgotten by all but a few dog walkers (and the Bristol Historical Society which offers grave and tree tours occasionally). I have to admit that I visit this place weekly, if not daily, but I think it has never been more sublimely beautiful than it is right now.
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In an apartment in India, two women commit suicide rather than allow their relationship with one another to be broken up by their families.
In a house in Zimbabwe, a woman is raped repeatedly with the consent of her family in their hopes that she will become pregnant, get married and cease having relationships with women.
In a psychiatric institution in the United States, a teenager is subjected to coercive "treatment" to "cure" her lesbianism.
In a courtroom in Germany, a woman loses custody of her child because the court finds that her lesbianism disqualifies her as a fit parent.
In a prison in Uruguay, a woman is isolated in a cell because her captors know that she is a lesbian.
For women-loving women, human rights violations almost seem par for the course, no matter where they live. While lesbian and bisexual women often understand the risks they are taking simply by being true to themselves, others remain ignorant about the persecutiongovernment-sanctioned or otherwisethese women may be forced to endure.
Decreasing that ignoranceand hopefully altering this harsh realitywas one of the primary reasons lesbian and bisexual women from across the globe including several from Oregon gathered with tens of thousands of women and men in China for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women and the accompanying Non-Governmental Organizations Forum on Women.
"I went because I felt it was critical there be a voice representing lesbian families," says 47-year-old Bonnie Tinker, executive director of the Portland-based Love Makes a Family Inc. The group promotes visibility of lesbian and gay families. "When I heard that [the anti-gay] Focus on the Family was planning to send six of their own representatives, I knew I had to be there, too."
Despite persistent rumors that Chinese officials might search luggage, confiscate materials, or ultimately deny entry into the country to women who were clearly affiliated with lesbian causes, Tinker brought with her a stack of Love Makes a Family newsletters, leaflets, buttons and business cards to distribute to activists during the conference.
"I had heard those rumors and it did make me a little nervous, but I'm happy to report that I was never searched," says Tinker, a lesbian mother and grand mother who attended both the non-governmental organizations forum, held Aug. 30 - September 8 in Huairou, and the official U.N. conference, held September 4 - 15 several miles away in Beijing.
The forum attempts to influence the conference and its Platform for Action. While the platform is nonbinding on the 189 nations that are party to it, the United Nations hopes that the document will become the blueprint for women's advancement in the coming decade.
An estimated 4,000 observers from the NGO forumincluding Tinker participated in the conference in an effort to shape the final platform. She and lesbian activists from several countries were part of a Lesbian Caucus, including representatives from 30 accredited organizations, that weighed in with a list of demands. The cardinal tenet of the caucus' list was that all women regardless of sexual orientationhave an inalienable claim to human rights guarantees and protections.
Lesbian and bisexual women were speaking out in a variety of ways. For instance, for the first time at an NGO forum an official Lesbian Tent was included among several diversity tents. The tent served as a center for lesbian networking, information and activities.
"It was incredible to see lesbians from around the world who gathered at the tent," says Godfrey. "How many times do we get an opportunity like that?"
Lesbians also held a march through the forum site that included 500 participants from 30 countries. According to wire reports, marchers chanted "Lesbian rights are human rights" and "Liberté, égalité, homosexualité." They also read their list of conference demands.
Rachel Rosenbloom of the San Francisco-based International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission took her group's concerns directly to José Ayala Lasso, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, when she presented him with IGLHRC's newly published report, entitled "Unspoken Rules: Sexual Orientation and Women's Human Rights."
The document, which highlights human rights violations against lesbians in 31 countries (including the scenarios detailed at the beginning of this article), was released during the conference as part of IGLHRC's campaign to increase the visibility of lesbian concerns.
"This is the beginning of dialogue with the high commissioner," said Rosenbloom, who pinned a "Lesbian Rights Are Human Rights!" button on Ayala Lasso's lapel during an NGO workshop. (According to IGLHRC, 11 lesbian and gay organizations were accredited to the official conference, and representatives from more than 30 accredited organizations were active in the Lesbian Caucus, which met daily.)
In another high-profile moment, Palesa Beverley Ditsie, a South African lesbian, addressed the U.N. conference, telling delegates: "Every day in countries around the world, lesbians suffer violence, harassment and discrimination because of their sexual orientation. Their basic human rightssuch as the right to life, to bodily integrity, to freedom of association and expressionare vio lated."
She continued: "Women who love women are fired from their jobs, forced into marriages, beaten and murdered in their homes and on the streets, and have their children taken away by hostile courts."
During a Lesbian Caucus press briefing, Rebeca Sevilla of Peru told reporters: "[I]n my region, Nicaragua, Chile, [and] Ecuador have laws that criminalize homosexuality. There is still a high incidence of physical and psychological violence in public as well as in private life. We know women-loving women [are] everywhereany social, economic or political condition. And now we are speaking out internationally about lesbian life, our lesbian love."
The speaking out about "lesbian life, our lesbian love" made some parties uncomfortable, to say the least. IGLHRC brochures that were printed in Chinese were confiscated by Chinese security officials, and there were reports that guards were using telephoto lenses to film women in the Lesbian Tent.
"I had met some women who had their rooms searched," says Godfrey. "These women were associated with lesbian concerns."
Many also felt the Chinese government had purposely created a logistical nightmare for forum and conference participants.
The forum, which was initially set to be held alongside the U.N. conference in Beijing, was later moved many miles away to Huairou, making communication between the camps extremely difficult. The switch has widely been viewed as the government's attempt to shelter the greater population from the forum's goings-on. (The Chinese government regards homosexuality as nonexistent in that country and prohibits the official media from mentioning it.)
According to The Washington Post, one Chinese work unit had even been instructed to wear bug spray "because the flies might transmit AIDS carried by lesbian attendees."
Continual rainfall created muddy conditions, which made mobility more difficult. "The tents [at the forum] were placed far away. You had to walk a lot," says Godfrey. "It was hard enough if you were able-bodied, and it was virtually impossible for women with disabilities."
Villar says she was on her way to a meeting when she came upon a demon stration which included women in wheelchairs. The group was protesting the fact that disabled people could not attend some NGO workshops because the gatherings were held above ground level and many buildings did not have elevators. (Villar says even those workshops held at ground level posed hardship in some cases because some floors were muddy due to the rain.)
"A blind woman from Ghana was talking for the group. She spoke with full lung and from her heart about being disabled and what it meant," Villar says. "To hear her, you knew how powerful these women were in spite of the situation."
Although a last-minute decision by conference delegates dropped all mention of sexual orientation in the final Platform for Action, some lesbian rights backers are hailing the conference as a success.
"At the last World Conference on Women 10 years ago, only one countryThe Netherlandsspoke out in favor of lesbians, and at this conference more than 30 countries have done so," says IGLHRC's Rosen-bloom. "The debate that occurred gives some indication of the battles that lesbians must keep fighting all over the world to gain recognition of their rights, but this conference lays a firm groundwork for future action at the local, national and international levels."
One of the paragraphs in question states in its final form that many women face particular barriers because of such factors as "their race, age, language, ethnicity, culture, religion, disability or other status or because they are indigenous people." While sexual orientation was removed from this list, several countries went on record as saying they interpreted "other status" to include sexual orientation.
Those countries voicing support for lesbians' human rights include: Australia, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Israel, New Zealand, Spain (on behalf of the 25 European Union countries), Slovenia, South Africa, Switzerland and the United States.
Cook Islands, Jamaica, Latvia and Norway expressed support for sexual orientation protections through their interpretive statements. Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Venezuela said they did not support discrimination.
The countries that actively opposed language protecting lesbians against discrimination included: Algeria, Bangladesh, Benin, Egypt, Ghana, Guatemala, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Senegal, Syria, Sudan and Uganda.
Also among the contentious issues aired in Beijing was the question of whether the family unit should be referred to in the singular, which would refer to married heterosexuals and their children, or the plural, which would imply approval for many types of familiesincluding those headed up by lesbians and gay men.
Delegates ultimately adopted the plural form, a move Tinker applauds and says "clearly leaves room for inclusion of lesbian-headed families in all of the provisions of the document."
"The [Platform for Action] is a lot of compromise, so it's not surprising sexual orientation was not included," adds Godfrey. "What I think is perhaps most important is that women walked away from the forum and the conference feeling empowered. They'll take that strength home with them."
Condensed version of an article reprinted with permission from "Just Out" Oregon's lesbian and gay newsmagazine.
A related article, Community Grieves from "Just Out"
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Ugandans are celebrating the birth of a new circle of four Mennonite churches in southwestern Uganda. The churches, inaugurated in December 2006, are the result of development efforts begun in June 2004, by the Kenya Mennonite Church (KMC).
Anabaptist churches, heirs to what is often called 'the radical Reformation', are working in support and solidarity with communities still recovering from hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the southern United States.
A company based in the north of England is continuing to help save the lives of poor people in some 50 countries across the globe ‚Ä' by partnering with Christian Aid, the UK development agency, and by encouraging offices and public buildings to buy and use water coolers which donate a percentage of costs to water projects in the developing world.
Bread for the World, a national Christian anti-hunger network, plans to distribute thousands of educational kits to churches around the USA urging churchgoers to lobby members of Congress to change federal agricultural and nutrition programmes in favour of the world's ‚Ä' and the country's ‚Ä' poor.
Governments, aid agencies and humanitarian actors must spend twice as much on disaster preparedness activities that could save millions of lives, according to Robert Tickner, CEO of Australian Red Cross.
Kenyan Anglican Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi has urged his government to reconsider a decision earlier this week to close its borders to refugees from neighbouring strife-torn Somalia - writes Fredrick Nzwili for Ecumenical News International.
Peacemakers are helping communities resolve differences and recover from violence in Sudan's Darfur region despite a devastating four-year-old war that has killed hundreds of thousands of civilians and is continuing to escalate - writes Tim Shenk of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), the North American peace church development organisation.
After the intervention of the Ethiopian troops, the situation in Somalia continues to be very tense, with the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) refusing a government offer for amnesty, say church agencies working in the region.
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The Bright Sun And Your Eyes
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The sun contains 99%+ solar system’s mass, it is 4 1/2 billion years old, and reaches surface temperatures of nearly 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit-a pretty impressive resume, not to mention it essentially sustains life here on earth.
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Damage to your eyes caused by the sun’s UV rays is very detrimental and it can cause tissue growth on whites of the eyes that could diminish vision and also cause age related macular degeneration.
UV rays are a huge cause of cataracts. The World Health Organization figures there are about 16 million people over the world who are blind because of cataracts, and about 20% of these cases could be due to UV radiation exposure.
The best way to protect your eyes from the sun is to stay out of it! But since that isn’t likely to happen, with a little protection and common sense, you can enjoy the beautiful outdoors to your heart’s content.
1) Look for a label that tells you how much UV protection the sunglasses offer. Ideally, your shades should block 99% to 100% of UV radiation.
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3) Dark colored sunglasses don’t necessarily protect you better. It’s a special coating on the lens that makes them safe, not their darkness.
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Protect your eyes by wearing sunglasses. Besides making you look pretty slick, a good pair of shades can provide protection from the sun’s harmful effects!
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Making the skeletons dance
posted May 19th, 2011
Two days ago walking through the hall outside the main Bird Division Offices, I bumped into Nate Smith, a University of Chicago graduate student of Dr. Pete Makovicky, Dr. Julia Clarke (University of Texas), Dr. Dan Ksepka (North Carolina State University), and graduate student Dan Field (Yale University). They were on their way down to our skeleton range essentially to raid it. It is not the first time; it will not be the last, and it is always exciting. Fossil deposits in Wyoming, dating back some 50 million years to the Eocene, where Vice President for Collections and Research Dr. Lance Grande looks for fossil fish each summer are yielding exquisitely preserved fossils of early birds. The preservation can include feathers and even stomach contents. Lance is in the process of writing a new book describing the animal and plant fossils from this area.
For birds, the challenge is to figure out how these early birds are related to modern birds and that is where Julia’s team needs to access our collection of modern bird skeletons. There are few better or more comprehensive collections of bird skeletons in the world, so the paleontologists essentially have one-stop shopping to pull out boxes containing specimens of bird groups such as frigatebirds, rails, sunbitterns, swifts, rollers and mousebirds, because these are the groups of modern birds that appear to share characteristics with the fossils. It is not simple work; it is necessary to do a detailed study of the characters on the fossils compared to modern skeletons, because appearances can be deceiving and just because something looks like a modern bird based on long legs or bill shape, other characteristics of shape or structure may indicate a relationship with another modern group and over fifty million years, a lot of evolutionary change can happen.
This morning, I stopped by the office next to Pete Makovicky’s where for the time being, Juila and Nate and the Dans have pushed aside Pete’s dinosaur fossils (aka really early birds) so they can work with the Wyoming fossils and all the comparative modern material they have brought up from the Bird Division. The photo I took is of Julia and Dan Field discussing the structures displayed in the fossil bird on the table. Is it a rail? Maybe, but until they do a more thorough analysis of all the characters, they consider it an open question. Next to the flat slab containing the fossil are boxes of skeletons from our collection and individually numbered bones of different species are out next to the fossil for comparison.
It is worth thinking about what it took to make this research possible. Funds had to be available to get collectors to the field. The fossil had to be found and recognized as something interesting. Then it had to be removed, brought back to the museum and vary carefully prepared by experts. To assemble this magnificent collection of modern skeletal material, fieldwork around the world was necessary (e.g., South America, Africa, Madagascar) where specimens were collected. These specimens had to be prepared and tagged in the field. Then, they were brought back to Chicago to be processed, meaning they had to be given to the dermestid beetle colony to have all the flesh eaten off. Then they were boxed and the individual bones numbered (so that when a bone is taken out of a box it can be returned to the right box). Some of these specimens are the result of fieldwork done 100 years ago, some are from field work done in the last 20 years. All these steps in both the Geology Department and the Bird Division require a great deal of time, effort, and experience by dedicated staff, but the payoff comes when world class scholars like these can sit together and unravel some of the most interesting issues of how animals have evolved.
Another tie to the Bird Division comes from the paleontologists’ ability to reference Dr. Shannon Hackett (Associate Curator of Birds) and colleagues’ 2008 paper: A phylogenomic study of birds reveals their evolutionary history (Science 320: 1763-1768). Shannon and her colleagues had a National Science Foundation grant to create the largest molecular data set ever gathered on the relationships of all the major lineages of birds. The genetic results, and a comparable morphological study by the late Brad Livezey (Carnegie Museum of Natural History) and colleagues, and fossils like the ones Julia’s group are analyzing provide reciprocal illumination about the timing and evolution of birds in ways that were previously unimaginable. All this work relies on collections.
So keep a look out for Lance’s new book on these wonderful fossils and expect the results of the work that is being done by Julia, the Dans and Nate to shed new light on how we think about the evolutionary history of birds. That is what these great collections allow museum researchers to do.
Feathers are preserved in addition to bones in this fossil, but what is it? On the side are bones from modern birds that are being used by Julia et al. to figure this out.
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Research Points to New Test for Detecting Early Bladder Cancer
Spectroscopic technique identifies cancerous tissue (Oct. 13)
Research conducted at the University of Dundee in Scotland has raised hopes of developing a quicker and more reliable method of detecting urinary bladder cancer at an earlier stage, according to an October 3 announcement.
A team at the university's School of Medicine has found that a technique known as Raman spectroscopy (RS) shows promise in diagnosing bladder cancer. At present, the most reliable way to test for this type of cancer is to perform a biopsy on tissue removed from the patient's bladder. Possible side effects of this procedure include bleeding, discomfort, and infection, and patients must wait 2 weeks for the biopsy results.
RS is a spectroscopic technique used to study human tissue. A laser in RS equipment can detect changes in the structure of tissue by measuring interactions — an application with significant potential for diagnosing cancer at an early stage.
The study, which was published in Analytical & Biological Chemistry, included 14 patients who presented with symptoms of bladder cancer. The diagnosis made using RS was consistent with biopsy results in 13 cases.
The researchers’ next step is to make a telescopic probe that can tell whether the patient has cancer as soon as the probe touches tissue inside the bladder.
For more information, visit the University of Dundee Web site.
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About 20 years ago, a theory emerged that the soils of the earth were in need of remineralising. It suggests that glaciers spread highly mineralised soil over the earth, increasing fertility when the glaciers retreated. Since then, most of this has been used up, and needs replacing.
Spreading rock dust (from quarries) has been tried for years by the SEER centre in Scotland, near Blairgowrie - good results are claimed, such as larger, healthier veg from previously infertile soil.
'We have been dismissed as cranks and loonies over the years' says SEER founder, Cameron Thompson, 'but we must be doing something right'...
Glasgow Uni has just begun a three year examination of his methods and results.
what do obodies think of this theory?
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Published on Monday, 13 February 2012 18:46
San Jose, California-based solar cell manufacturer Solar Junction closed its Series D financial round with $19.2 million from investors to scale up the manufacturing of their record-breaking solar cells for the concentrating photovoltaic market.
The company closed its largest round to date with investments from venture capital and growth equity firm New Enterprise Associates; venture capital firm Advanced Technology Ventures; investment firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson; and IQE, a supplier of advanced semiconductor wafers.
IQE is also entering into a strategic partnership with Solar Junction which will enable Solar Junction to meet demand and fulfill current and future orders with a number of CPV companies.
Under the terms of the partnership, IQE is investing an additional $5 million in Solar Junction and will receive an exclusive multiyear wafer supply contract with the solar cell manufacturer.
Solar Junction specializes in multi-junction solar-cells. As of April of last year, they achieved a record 43.5 percent conversion efficiency for their product, as verified by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. – Katrice R. Jalbuena
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Senior Regional Field Organizer
Department: Blog AuthorField
Karl Bach is a Senior Regional Field Organizer, and over the last 5 years he has been a part of grassroots lobbying efforts and ballot campaigns in 18 states. In 2010, Bach helped to secure Senate votes to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in North Dakota, South Dakota, Massachusetts, Florida and Nebraska. Bach’s team in Nebraska identified and mobilized hundreds of Nebraskan veterans (gay and straight), and thousands of Nebraskans across the state. Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson issued his pro-equality statement the day before a critical vote in the Senate Armed Services Committee. In fact, Senator Nelson’s staff commented that it was HRC’s field effort that helped make it possible for the Senator to vote yes. That same year, Bach was named “Organizer of the Year” by Grassroots Solutions, a national grassroots training organization, for his work on DADT, in Delaware working with the Coons for Senate campaign, and other state legislative campaigns.
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Last week, I wrote a HEM News & Commentary post: Aaron Swartz – Prodigy and Freedom Fighter Dies. I've met so many kids in the homeschooling community who could be Aaron. I know they're in the schools too, but the particular gifts these kids have are easier to spot when homeschooling. Kids leave or never enter the schools because the way things stand in the classrooms often holds their dreams back. Sometimes it's by bullying and sometimes it's just because they can't find the teacher, mentor or friend who can understand or share their gnarly thoughts. It's generally easier when they homeschool.
With his parents' guidance in the Chicago area, Aaron flew (literally) with the endless opportunities opened to him. What promise he had while reviewing his incredible life trail pursuing internet freedoms, open access information and challenging the status quo.
As a teenager, Swartz helped develop RSS, revolutionizing how people use the Internet, going on to co-own Reddit, now one of the world’s most popular sites. He was also a key architect of Creative Commons and an organizer of the grassroots movement to defeat the controversial House Internet censorship bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and the Senate bill, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA).
A brilliant mind endowed with a visionary heart. After the seemingly hopeless internet censorship bills [SOPA/PIPA] battle against powerful
leaders lobbyists, Aaron helped create Demand Progress, which promotes grassroots lobbying. I like the idea of keeping the internet free and Aaron's work to support that access is much appreciated by me. Mixed in with that, I liked his ornery sense of humor.
Shortly before Aaron started homeschooling, our family started our homeschooling adventure in the mid-90's. We found all sorts of inventive ways to use the brand new internet connections without killing our budget from long distance phone charges. Homeschoolers were connecting on the World Wide Web. The biggest forum groups on AOL and Compuserve tended to be homeschooling networks, because homeschooling minds can be that curious – always seeking. There were free and fantastic resources available across the web. Our family participated in a Kids as Global Scientists program, along with Journey North. We searched for fun resources and we found them.
That shouldn't change and if the young adults and others (like me) would want to honor Aaron's memory and his determination, we should make sure it doesn't change.
Furthermore, Aaron's partner, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, discussed the senseless prosecution and persecution of Aaron and others in this country:
Why does someone like Steve Heymann have the power to do this, unbridled power? Why would you charge somebody with up to 35 years in prison if you actually think that all they deserve is six months, as the plea deal suggested that? And this happens to people every day in our system, and most of them have many fewer resources than Aaron and much less support, and don’t have the option necessarily even of considering hiring a lawyer and going to trial over the course of two years, and are forced to take the plea deals when they’re not guilty or when the plea deals are completely unjust. And I think that we need—we need broad criminal justice reform in this country. We incarcerate more people per capita than any other country in the world, and we don’t see lower crime rates because of it. There’s—there’s justice, and then there’s justice. And right now, we’re not—our system does not promote justice. Our system is punitive. Our system is Kafkaesque. Our system is unfair. And Aaron and millions of other people suffer because of it.
Excellent points that were made in deep grief with a fight back solution. Here's part of the answer from Demand Progress:
1) Representative Zoe Lofgren has introduced what's been named "Aaron's Law." It would fix a key part of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which is one of the statutes under which Aaron was indicted. We need to pass Aaron's Law AND further amend the CFAA.
2) Additionally, we asked Congressman Darrell Issa — who controls the powerful Oversight Committee — to open an investigation into prosecutorial misconduct in Aaron's case. Amazingly, he's already responded and is dispatching a staffer to investigate the U.S. Attorney who was pressing charges against Aaron.
Issa also said this below from The Hill:
“We're looking at the real question of open government,” Issa said. “Has the government or even MIT been holding back materials that the public has a right to know?”
Issa said he wanted to make sure “that what is paid for is as widely available as possible to the American people.”
Many materials on JSTOR are funded by public universities or government research grants. Subscriptions to JSTOR cost thousands of dollars.
The Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman interview above is from Democracy Now. A couple of my kids convinced me to watch Amy Goodman (sometimes). She doesn't drive me any crazier than most other news anchors and there is some useful information here and there. Democracy Now would not be my normal route for current news. We run a mix of NPR and Fox news summaries when we can stand it, with a whole lot of C-Span mixed in. (Hasn't been often lately.) We've learned quite a bit from our kids over the years.
I've seen a great deal of information from Democracy Now, such as below, about Aaron Swartz. There's little information anywhere else, except the 'net, of course.
In a statement Saturday, the family and partner of Swartz lashed out at what they said were decisions by prosecutors that contributed to his death.
"Aaron's death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach," the statement said.
"The U.S. Attorney's office pursued an exceptionally harsh array of charges, carrying potentially over 30 years in prison, to punish an alleged crime that had no victims," it added.
Precocious Aaron Swartz loved the lack of controls on the internet – the anarchy. Homeschoolers can and do appreciate that too. He, and others figured out how to fight Congress, when needed, and more importantly, the people behind the scenes, that seem to be running Congress. Homeschoolers value that fighter spirit. Thousands and thousands of Illinois homeschoolers showed up in our state Capitol a couple of years ago and we didn't come on a bus. Illinois legislators will think twice about taking away our freedoms, just as the legislators in the US Capitol will do the same thanks to people like Aaron. Because most in our media, along with the country's powermongers have not been able to figure us out. We're too different from each other, while sharing a passionate cause. They don't quite know how to beat us, but they will continue to try. I hope Aaron's legacy stays strong and committed. His promise shouldn't be lost.
Rest in God's Peace, Aaron Swartz
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The Cassini spacecraft successfully performed a critical six- minute trajectory correction maneuver May 27 to put it on course with its first encounter, Saturn's outermost moon Phoebe, set for June 11. The spacecraft is operating normally and is in excellent health.
"The maneuver is very critical for getting us into Saturn orbit because it is the first checkout of the bipropellant pressurization system after nearly five years of dormancy," said Todd Barber, propulsion engineer for Cassini at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "It sets the stage for Saturn orbit insertion on June 30."
During the course of its trip, Cassini has traveled 3.4 billion kilometers (2.1 billion miles). "We couldn't have asked for a smoother ride," said Robert T. Mitchell, program manager for the Cassini-Huygens mission at JPL. "All the instruments are performing well, and for almost seven years we have traveled without any major hitches. The excitement is building as we are getting ready to put Cassini in orbit around the ringed planet." The orbiter has relied on three radioisotope thermoelectric generators to power all the electrical components, including the 12 science instruments. The European-built Huygens probe on board Cassini carries six instruments.
"If the road to Saturn were a highway, the Cassini orbiter would have passed the sign along the road that says 'Saturnian County line,'" said Jeremy Jones, chief navigator for the Cassini-Huygens mission at JPL. "The next exits are Phoebe, 9 million kilometers (5.4 million miles) ahead, Saturn 19 million kilometers (12 million miles) ahead."
Phoebe is an oddly shaped moon with a dark surface. It orbits in the opposite direction from the motion of most other bodies in the solar system. The backwards-revolution leads scientists to believe that it is an object captured from the distant Kuiper Belt, making it an interesting target. "The Phoebe flyby may offer the first glimpse of what the frigid bodies at the edge of the solar system look like," said Dr. Bonnie Buratti, scientist on the Cassini-Huygens mission at JPL. "These bodies, which include Pluto and its satellite Charon, are believed to be remnant objects left over from the formation of the planets 4.5 billion years ago."
After the Phoebe flyby, Cassini will be on course for Saturn. On June 30 (July 1 Universal Time), Cassini will become the first orbiter around Saturn. "The two Voyager and Pioneer spacecraft flew by the planet and saw it from a distance two or three days at a time. With Cassini, we will be in the city limits for four years," said Dr. Dennis Matson, project scientist for Cassini at JPL. "The difference is like driving by the Grand Canyon versus stopping, getting off and enjoying the sights for a while."
On arrival, Cassini will begin a 96-minute burn designed to put the spacecraft into Saturn's orbit. As part of getting the spacecraft into orbit, Cassini will twice cross between known gaps in the rings. As a precautionary measure, the spacecraft will use its antenna as a shield to protect it from tiny particle hits.
A prime target for Cassini and the piggyback Huygens probe built by the European Space Agency is the smoggy moon Titan. "In the 350 years since the discovery of Titan we have come to see it as a world with surprising similarities to our own, yet located almost 1.5 billion kilometers (900 million miles) from the Sun," said Dr. Jonathan Lunine, Huygens interdisciplinary scientist and professor of planetary science and physics at the University of Arizona, Tucson. "With a thick, nitrogen-rich atmosphere and possible hydrocarbon seas, Titan may harbor organic compounds important in the chain of chemistry that led to life on Earth."
Six months after reaching Saturn, Cassini will release the wok-shaped Huygens probe towards Titan on Dec. 24, 2004 (Dec. 25 Universal Time). The event will be by far the most distant descent of a robotic probe on another object in the solar system. On Jan. 14, 2005 (Jan. 15 Universal Time), Huygens will enter Titan's atmosphere, deploy its parachute, and begin its scientific observations of Titan.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. JPL designed, developed and assembled the Cassini orbiter.
For the latest images and more information about the Cassini- Huygens mission, visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.
Carolina Martinez (818) 354-9382
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Donald Savage (202) 358-1727
NASA Headquarters, Washington
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The Boy Scouts of America issued an open letter on their website saying they "failed to defend scouts from those that would do them harm" from child predators. Now survivors are speaking out on how to move forward from an abusive situation.
The Irving-based Boy Scouts of America is reviewing hundreds of files alleging sexual abuse by Scout leaders.
The documents date back decades, but they’re getting another look after a new report shows the Boy Scouts made mistakes handling offenders and did not do everything it could to protect kids from abuse.
For years, the Boy Scouts kept confidential files on accused sexual predators and leaders ousted following allegations of abuse. A recent court case now forces BSA to make more than 1,200 records public.
The records have been dubbed “I.V. files,” for Ineligible Volunteers. They document hundreds of Scout leaders, dating back to the 1960’s, accused of some type of sexual misconduct. It’s meant to ban and track offenders who are deemed unfit for Scouting.
The files were used as evidence in an Oregon civil lawsuit and reviewed by a Virginia psychologist, Dr. Janet Warren.
Warren found in a small number of cases, the alleged pedophile was allowed back into Scouting. According to Warren, many files show the accused moved to new area and tried to re-enter the Scouts, but were denied because of the files.
The doctor concluded: mistakes were made by BSA, the rate of sexual abuse in Scouting is low, and while the files are confidential, she feels the majority of offenders have been arrested for sex crimes, which is public record.
BSA spokesperson Deron Smith released this statement:
“Dr. Janet Warren’s report shows that, as part of our broader Youth Protection program, the BSA’s system of ineligible volunteer files functions to help protect Scouts. However, we also know that in some instances we failed to defend Scouts from those who would do them harm. There have been instances where people misused their positions in Scouting to abuse children, and in certain cases, our response to these incidents and our efforts to protect youth were plainly insufficient, inappropriate, or wrong. For any episode of abuse, and where those involved in Scouting failed to protect, or worse, inflicted harm on children, we extend our deepest apologies and sympathies to victims and their families. One instance of abuse is one too many.
While it is difficult to understand or explain individuals’ actions from many decades ago, today the BSA’s approach to Youth Protection is very different. We have continuously enhanced our multitiered policies and procedures to ensure we are in line with and, where possible, ahead of society’s knowledge of abuse and best practices for prevention. The BSA requires background checks, comprehensive training programs, and mandatory reporting of even suspected abuse. Numerous independent experts have recognized that the BSA’s education and training programs for protecting Scouts from abuse are among the best in the youth-serving community.”
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Explaining Divergent Levels of Longevity in High-Income Countries
number of countries, and for a substantial number of countries, data are available for almost no risk factors for the 50-year period examined for this study. Much is known about current international differences in smoking patterns and levels of obesity, but far less about international differences in stress, physical exercise, or social networks.1 Very little is known, moreover, about changes over time and across countries in lifetime exposures and behaviors for most risk factors.
The fluid nature of the relationship between mortality and some of the major risk factors also complicated the panel’s work. For example, the epidemiological literature still reflects considerable differences of opinion with respect to the magnitude of the relationship between obesity and mortality. As the obesity epidemic has spread, the number of people at risk of obesity-related health problems has risen. At the same time, however, management of some of the more serious obesity-related health problems, such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes, has improved. Thus, the net effect of rising obesity on mortality is difficult to estimate.
Acknowledging these limitations, the panel’s strategy was to try to establish the strength of the evidence for a number of the most commonly proffered explanations for differences in life expectancy between the United States and other high-income countries—for example, that these differences are the result of a particularly inefficient U.S. health care system or that they are a function of poor health behaviors in the United States, particularly with respect to smoking, overeating, and failing to exercise sufficiently. The panel also considered differences among countries in levels of social integration and in socioeconomic inequality. Ultimately, all of these potential risk factors will need to be examined in an integrated framework across the entire life course, taking account of the effects of differences in socioeconomic status, behavioral risk factors, and social policy, as well as effects across particular cohorts and periods.
Smoking appears to be responsible for a good deal of the divergence in female life expectancy. Other factors, such as obesity, diet, exercise, and economic inequality, also have likely played a role in explaining the current gap between the United States and other countries, but evidence of their importance to the divergence is not as firm. The case against smoking, by contrast, is quite strong. Fifty years ago, smoking was much more widespread in the United States than in Europe or Japan: a greater proportion of Americans smoked and smoked more intensively than was the case in other
Fortunately, thanks to survey programs such as the Health and Retirement Study in the United States, the English Longitudinal Survey of Ageing in the United Kingdom, and the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe, large-scale internationally comparable surveys containing important measures of current differences in many variables of relevance now exist. Nevertheless, the empirical basis for certain conclusions is significantly stronger in some cases than in others.
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Fernie Girl Guides receive Canada Cord
Three Fernie Girl Guides, Kyra Von Matt, Megan Hammer, and Hannah Thompson, have been awarded the Canada Cord.
The Canada Cord is the highest achievement a girl can earn as a Pathfinder, the second highest level in the Girl Guides program. The award is a reflection of the time the girls have spent in the last three years as Pathfinders, learning the importance of leadership, volunteering, and citizenship in the community of Fernie.
Leah Thompson, with the First Fernie Pathfinder Unit, commented, “I’m very proud of them. Not too many girls in each town get the award and so it’s a nice achievement for them.”
Thompson explained each of the girls participated in a number of activities throughout the Elk Valley as Pathfinders, including Demo Derby clean up, singing at the senior’s home, volunteering with the Salvation Army and the Sparwood Food Bank, making Red Cross hygiene kits, creating and selling bracelets for Free the Children, and knitting baby hats for the Fernie Hospital.
Kyra, Megan, and Hannah will now move on to become Rangers, the last step they can take as Girl Guides.
“As Rangers they’ll be taking a leadership role for younger guiding branches,” said Thompson. “There’s a lot of opportunities all around the world, they can do Girl Guide international training. At the end of grade 12 there are so many scholarships available when they’ve made these achievements and on their resume it looks amazing.”
Each girl will also receive two school credits for earning the Canada Cord award.
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Pets are wonderful. They’ll provide a lifetime of loyalty and companionship and never ask for anything in return--except food, love, walks, vet check-ups, training, grooming, and . . . . Well, okay, pets can be a lot of work. And when pet owners are unwilling to properly care for and clean up after their pets, they can become a real nuisance to a condominium or homeowners’ association. Does the board have the authority to ban animals from the association altogether? Even if it does have the power to do so, is it a smart move?
There are a wide range of variables to consider when dealing with pet issues in your association. Before the board even considers new rules, be sure to look closely at your current declaration and rules. Do they prohibit pets altogether, impose restrictions on the number, size or type of pets permitted, or do they fail to address pets at all? If the board would like to change the pet restrictions or rules, what process must be followed? Can the board adopt a new rule without a vote of the owners, or must the owners approve an amendment to the declaration?
Once these questions have been answered, the board should be sure that it has fully thought through the impact of a rules change. Too often, associations adopt an arbitrary rule only to find that it has unintended consequences. For instance, a common approach is to ban dogs over a certain weight limit. But is a 35 pound dog really more troublesome than a 30 pound dog? And how does one enforce this restriction? Does the board really want to go around requiring dogs to be weighed? Will the board be willing to have a perfectly well-behaved dog removed because, (like many of us), it has gained weight as it aged?
Another trap boards fall into is banning dogs and/or cats altogether. I won’t say that this is always a bad move, because if the owners want their community to be pet-free, then they have the right to enact rules or restrictions as specified in their governing documents to accomplish that goal. The unintended consequence of this action, however, is that the owners may severely limit the pool of potential buyers for their homes. According to a Gallup poll, 44% of Americans own a dog, and 29% own a cat. Only 40% of Americans do not own any type of pet. By banning pets, the Association eliminates a large group of potential home buyers in an already difficult market. The Association must also understand that under state and federal law, service animals cannot be prohibited for disabled owners.
While no set of rules will fit every association, a board considering new or additional pet restrictions should consider these points:
- Unless there is a designated, enclosed area for pets to run free, the rules should require all pets to be on a leash and attended by their owner when outside a unit.
- Think carefully before imposing a size limit on dogs. A large dog can be quiet and well-behaved just as a small dog can be loud and disruptive.
- Be specific about what types of pets are permitted and/or prohibited. Most of us think of dogs and cats as typical household pets but, for some people, pot-bellied pigs, snakes, rats and other creatures are “pets.”
- The rules should make it clear that every owner is responsible for his or her pet, including the prompt clean-up of its mess. Owners should be required to pay the cost of any clean-up the association is required to undertake because of an ill-behaved pet, including attorneys’ fees and enforcement assessments (to the extent permitted by local law and the governing documents).
- Consider “grandfathering” current pet-owners if the rule change would cause them to be in violation.
With these guidelines, and input from the owners, the board should be able to craft appropriate rules and restrictions tailored to the needs of their community.
Photo credit: Flickr user digital_image_fan
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Educated in his native Vermont and at Johns Hopkins University, John Dewey enjoyed a lengthy career as an educator, psychologist, and philosopher. He initiated the progressive laboratory school at the University of Chicago, where his reforms in methods of education could be put into practice. As a professor of philosophy, Dewey taught at Michigan, Chicago, and Columbia University. He was instrumental in founding the American Association of University Professors as a professional organization for post-secondary educators.
Drawn from an idealist background by the pragmatist influence of Peirce and James, Dewey became an outstanding exponent of philosophical naturalism. Human thought is understood as practical problem-solving, which proceeds by testing rival hypotheses against experience in order to achieve the "warranted assertability" that grounds coherent action. The tentative character of scientific inquiry makes Dewey's epistemology thoroughly fallibilistic: he granted that the results of this process are always open to criticism and revision, so that nothing is ever finally and absolutely true.
This approach provides a significant opportunity for progress in morality and education, however. In "Logical Conditions of a Scientific Treatment of Morality" (1903), for example, Dewey tried to show how moral precepts develop and function as confirmable hypotheses. Democracy and Education (1916) describes in detail how an ability to respond creatively to continual changes in the natural order vitally provides for individual and community life. Dewey's social theories shaped during his long association with George Herbert Mead.
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Three horse carcasses tainted with a veterinary drug harmful to humans have "probably" entered the food chain, France's agriculture minister confirmed Saturday.
The three carcasses are among six flagged up by UK authorities earlier this month as having tested positive for the drug phenylbutazone, also known as bute, after they were shipped to France.
The faint traces of bute found in these carcasses "do not pose a risk to health," Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll said.
The news is the latest to cast a shadow on the European meat industry, which has been rocked in recent weeks by the discovery of horse meat in products labeled beef across a raft of countries.
The horse carcasses tainted with bute were legally slaughtered in Britain but should not have entered the food chain, the UK Food Standards Agency said.
The testing process has now been changed to ensure that horse meat can only be shipped out of abbatoirs after it's given the all-clear for bute, the Food Standards Agency said.
UK chief medical officer Sally Davies sought earlier this month to reassure people worried about the health impact of eating food contaminated with the drug, used as a painkiller in horses.
"It's understandable that people will be concerned, but it is important to emphasize that, even if bute is found to be present at low levels, there is a very low risk indeed that it would cause any harm to health," she said.
A survey of UK consumers last week indicated that about one in four adults will buy less processed meat as a result of the scandal, and that one in five have started buying less meat generally.
More than two-thirds of those polled by Consumer Intelligence said their trust in food labeling had been eroded. The online survey of more than 2,200 adults was conducted February 14 to 15.
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We shouldn't confuse roles of science and faith
By DONALD EASTMAN
Published August 4, 2005
In 391 A.D., the library of Alexandria was sacked by Christian mobs, its priceless contents destroyed and its burnt-out shell converted into a church. The losses to knowledge and understanding were unprecedented. Gone, for a thousand years, were the facts and theories of the best minds of the ancient world, including the teachings of Ptolemy, who theorized that the earth was a sphere and who used the information of explorers to create maps more accurate than any to be drawn for a millennium.
The triumph of faith over reason symbolized by the burning of the library of Alexandria signaled the beginning of a thousand years of the intellectual stagnation known as the Dark Ages. It wasn't until the mid-15th century that world maps once again began to be drawn based on information rather than ecclesiastical argument.
For a thousand years, Christian clerics in Europe produced maps which purported to show where Paradise was, where the Anti-Christ lived, how the earth was rectangular, flat and surrounded by monsters. Most of this rank nonsense was based on the physical interpretation of the Holy Scripture, which was quoted at length to support cartographic fantasy.
One might think that the notion that we should rely on imaginative interpretations of the Holy Scripture to draw our maps is a sad relic of the superstitious past - but we would be wrong to think so, for this is precisely what is still happening in the almost medieval debate between evolutionary theory and "creationism," or "intelligent design." We are, it seems, not quite out of the Dark Ages.
The fallacy of such a debate is that theology and the Bible are not properly or usefully used to tell us how things are: Their role is to tell us why things are. Faith is not an alternative to reason: It is a different way of knowing a different thing.
The Christian world view exquisitely developed in the New Testament captured the heart and imagination of Western culture for 2,000 years because of the power of its answers to ultimate philosophical questions: How does the good person live his or her life? What are our obligations to others? What are the duties of a just life?
Neither the New nor the Old Testament, however, was written to be translated into either maps or scientific arguments, and it is a misuse of the Scripture to suggest they were. The theory of evolution, like our contemporary maps of the world (and the universe), is the best compilation of what we know (so far) through observation and analysis of fact.
Faith, and scripture, have no rightful argument with these observations and facts. The so-called argument from design may be valid, but it is an argument based on faith, not on facts or observation. The argument from design is a matter of belief without facts, which is what faith is: As such, it is perfectly reasonable, but it is not factual, scientific or intellectual knowledge.
Our schools at every level - elementary, middle and high school, as well as our colleges - need to resist those who would confuse science and faith, facts and belief. Both are ways of knowing, but they know different things. If we let faith supersede science as we try to know the physical world, we permit a new kind of Dark Ages for ourselves and our children.
- Donald Eastman is president of Eckerd College, a national, private liberal arts college related by covenant to the Presbyterian Church (USA) in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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An Overview of Fast Track Courts
Recently, Delhi witnessed large scale protests by various groups demanding stricter punishment and speedier trial in cases of sexual assault against women. In light of the protests, the central government has constituted a Commission (headed by Justice Verma) to suggest possible amendments in the criminal law to ensure speedier disposal of cases relating to sexual assault. Though the Supreme Court, in 1986, had recognised speedy trial to be a fundamental right, India continues to have a high number of pending cases.
In 2012, the net pendency in High Courts and subordinate courts decreased by over 6 lakh cases. However, there is still a substantial backlog of cases across various courts in the country. As per the latest information given by the Ministry of Law and Justice, there are 43.2 lakh cases pending in the High Courts and 2.69 crore cases pending in the district courts.
After the recent gang-rape of a 23 year old girl, the Delhi High Court directed the state government to establish five Fast Track Courts (FTCs) for the expeditious adjudication of cases relating to sexual assault. According to a news report, other states such as Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu have also begun the process of establishing FTCs for rape cases. In this blog, we look at the status of pending cases in various courts in the country, the number of vacancies of judges and the status of FTCs in the country.
Vacancies in the High Courts and the Subordinate Courts
One of the reasons for the long delay in the disposal of cases is the high number of vacancies in position for judges in the High Courts and the District Courts of the country. As of December 1, 2012, the working strength of the High Court judges was 613 as against the sanctioned strength of 895 judges. This reflects a 32% vacancy of judges across various High Courts in the country. The highest number of vacancies is in the Allahabad High Court with a working strength of 86 judges against the sanctioned strength of 160 judges (i.e. vacancy of 74 judges). The situation is not much better at the subordinate level. As on September 30, 2011, the sanctioned strength of judges at the subordinate level was 18,123 judges as against a working strength of 14,287 judges (i.e. 21% vacancy). The highest vacancy is in Gujarat with 794 vacancies of judges, followed by Bihar with 690 vacancies.
Fast Track Courts
The 11th Finance Commission had recommended a scheme for the establishment of 1734 FTCs for the expeditious disposal of cases pending in the lower courts. In this regard, the Commission had allocated Rs 500 crore. FTCs were to be established by the state governments in consultation with the respective High Courts. An average of five FTCs were to be established in each district of the country. The judges for these FTCs were appointed on an adhoc basis. The judges were selected by the High Courts of the respective states. There are primarily three sources of recruitment. First, by promoting members from amongst the eligible judicial officers; second, by appointing retired High Court judges and third, from amongst members of the Bar of the respective state.
FTCs were initially established for a period of five years (2000-2005). However, in 2005, the Supreme Court directed the central government to continue with the FTC scheme, which was extended until 2010-2011. The government discontinued the FTC scheme in March 2011. Though the central government stopped giving financial assistance to the states for establishing FTCs, the state governments could establish FTCs from their own funds. The decision of the central government not to finance the FTCs beyond 2011 was challenged in the Supreme Court. In 2012, the Court upheld the decision of the central government. It held that the state governments have the liberty to decide whether they want to continue with the scheme or not. However, if they decide to continue then the FTCs have to be made a permanent feature.
As of September 3, 2012, some states such as Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Kerala decided to continue with the FTC scheme. However, some states such as Haryana and Chhattisgarh decided to discontinue it. Other states such as Delhi and Karnataka have decided to continue the FTC scheme only till 2013.
Table 1: Number of Fast Track Courts and the pending cases in FTCs (As on March 31, 2011)
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Sources: Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.498, March 3, 2012; PRS
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Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 4: Marcuse And One-Dimensional Man
I didn’t want these lectures to turn into some kind of funky… kind of Tony Robbins course in self development. Like “now I know who I really am” kind of crap. Because when we are through, we won’t know! I don’t know. If I had known who I was, I probably wouldn’t have shown up. Now, I mean, you know this is not… I mean, it’s an important part. It’s not a cynical thing to say. But it’s an important part of finding out about the self in this part of history, that we don’t have all the answers, that we have not even formulated all the questions correctly. In fact, Tony Robbins and people like him are part of the problem themselves. They are banalisation. I love it when I hear someone say: “I’ve listened to Tony’s tapes, and now… I used to be fat and unhappy, and now… I am skinny and happy” It just makes me want to cut someone up with a chainsaw. I mean, that’s ridiculous. I mean, you know, that’s not why humans think. They because they have to think. It’s a felt necessity. It’s the weight of the world, the complexity of it. And you can avoid it, I admit, with drugs. But at some point in your life, you are going to come across the need to think.
Marcuse comes from a period; and its back in style, back in fashion I have to admit that the 60s are back in style. They will probably be out of style by the time these tapes are out. But people are back, listening to Jimi Hendrix, wearing bell-bottoms and tie-dyes. I suppose you have noticed that. Of course this would have nothing to do with banalisation. Well, of course it would. But anything that is a threat to the system can be banalised. I’ll give you two examples in the sphere of politics. The way they turned Jesse Jackson from a serious social actor, into sort of a banal caricature of himself in the media. They have banalised a real threat to the system, which was the Rainbow Coalition. A real threat – populist threat to the system – banalised into a joke. It’s even sicker to realise this: that if, ah, something tragic happened to Jesse Jackson, there would be a picture of him up next to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King in all of our schools, ten years from now. No-one doubts it, see. But now, while he is alive, he has to be banalised. This is… it’s obviously a form of control. This is social control I am talking about. It’s not a conspiracy, I mean; it’s just something that happens in the process of a society working out its own internal logics, in systems of incredible complexity.
Banalisation is a way to reduce complexity. It’s also a systematic way to be an idiot. And I have to say this, many of our complaints about the educational system fall under the critique of Marcuse as well. Where we produce student after student in this condition I have described. Which is not really despair, because it’s beneath that level. In other words they would have to be more excited to be in despair. They’d have to be like more thrilled to be forlorn. Like they’d have to be in love with something before they could have their heart broken, to make a more simple example out of it. No, it’s beneath that level. It’s frighteningly beneath it. It cannot be defended. Herbert Marcuse, while he lived, made these arguments, and as I say, looking back on them from this point in history from this point in time it’s hard not to feel a little nostalgic for them. But I have a feeling they’ll come back, along with tie-dyes, Jimi Hendrix, and who knows. They may even have someone like me tour, and denounce the system as the warm up act for a rock and roll band. I mean, who the hell knows.
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Paramedic training in domestic violence inadequate
PARAMEDICS need more training to support victims of domestic violence, a landmark pilot study has found.
The research, published in the Emergency Medicine Australasia journal, revealed 90 per cent of paramedics had attended a case of domestic violence in the past year, while four in five said they felt less than confident about managing the situation.
Monash University researcher Dr Brett Williams said the study, which surveyed 50 paramedics in the ACT, was the first to examine Australian paramedics' knowledge of domestic violence.
While 74 per cent had received some instruction on how to deal with domestic violence, less than half said they received continuing training.
One in five Australian women suffers domestic violence at least once in their adult life, and it is the greatest cause of preventable death and ill-health for women aged between 15 and 44, according to VicHealth.
Dr Williams said paramedics in Victoria were compelled to report child abuse to police, but not cases of domestic violence.
''If the partner is in the lounge room when the paramedics arrive, the victim may not want to disclose anything.''
He said in that case paramedics should be compelled to report domestic violence to police.
''It is a contentious issue,'' he said. ''If reporting the abuse leads to better diagnoses, care and ongoing management, that has to be a positive thing for the paramedic and the client.''
The executive officer of the Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria, Virginia Geddes, said victims should be encouraged and supported to report domestic violence but she did not favour mandatory reporting by paramedics.
''It is disempowering,'' Ms Geddes said.
''You are actually taking the agency away from the person who is the victim of violence.''
Domestic Violence Victoria policy officer Alison Macdonald warned that mandatory reporting might also dissuade victims from calling for help.
One graduate paramedic said his university course had included classes on how to identify signs of child and domestic abuse, but there was no substitute for on-the-job training.
''Paramedics can pick up the feel of the room,'' the 24-year-old said.
He said students were taught how to detect injuries that were inconsistent with a patient's age.
''Broken femurs in a three-month-old and things like that - we are taught a lot about how to identify injuries that are a bit shady,'' he said.
''Adults can hurt themselves any old way so it's a bit more difficult, but you can definitely tell. Usually there will be a lot of emotions involved, not just pain. You can see a lot of sadness and fear in the person as well.''
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It was swinging '64.
Vietnam was boiling over again, there were riots in Harlem, Stanley Kubrick made "Dr. Strangelove" and Bob Dylan was singing "It Ain't Me, Babe." Maurice Tuchman--a 27-year-old research fellow at New York's Guggenheim Museum--was considering an offer to become the first full-time curator of modern art at the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Awesome LACMA board members Norton Simon and Taft Schreiber had interviewed him and he was impressed by their "sharp, shrewd ambition." Big job for a guy just out of the art history program at Columbia University, but for somebody bred in the Bronx the decision to leave New York was a tough one. He needed advice.
The critic Clement Greenberg, the reigning aesthetic guru of the time, was his logical counselor.
"He told me to turn it down," Tuchman recalls. Greenberg, it seems, was not so much against the West Coast as he was against intellectuals working for institutions. He told Tuchman that the system would eventually grind him down, compromise his independence and turn him into a gray bureaucrat.
Fat chance. Tuchman took the job anyway. Excitement crackled through La Cienega's gallery row and word was getting around that L.A. had spawned a school of major significance in the artists of the Ferus Gallery.
That was 25 years ago. Recently, Tuchman's supporters celebrated his first quarter-century at the museum, a remarkable feat of longevity. There was no sign of the graying of the senior curator of modern and contemporary art. At 52, he is still a dashing fellow and health buff who works out thrice weekly on Nautilus equipment. Weekly, not weakly. It is almost as if he has remained mindful of Greenberg's prediction and determined to prove it wrong. He has been nothing if not colorful with his dandy's designer duds, Buffalo Bill mustache, long auburn hair and habit of appearing in chic precincts with interchangeable leggy blondes half a head taller than he. Back in the beginning when the standard curatorial image was that of a scholarly mouse, Tuchman's style was anoffense to convention.
"He may look like a \o7 Wunderkind \f7 to the museum but he'll never last. He loves Hollywood glamour. He should be a movie producer," judged an influential critic of the day.
Today, museum professionals are all but required to be handsome and stylish--celebrities in their own right. When New York's Museum of Modern Art named Kirk Varnedoe its new curator of painting, his first public act was to pose for a fashion ad in the New York Times Magazine. By that standard, Tuchman was simply ahead of the game.
There remains, however, a large and aggravated contingent of artniks who wish Tuchman had stood in the Big A. The bill of particulars against him heads off with the eternal lament that he has not done enough for local artists--an accusation leveled at every curator in every major museum in the civilized world. Every serious observer hereabouts has two lists in his mental Maurice file. One sets out "Those Artists I Cannot Understand Why Maurice Has Not Shown," while the other chronicles "All Those Turkeys Maurice Has Put in the Museum."
A more refined complaint has it that he lacks the insight to spot unknown talent, and a less refined one just involves general suspicion of his motives and values. It says he is a social butterfly and an influence-broker. As a noted European artist remarked when Tuchman's name popped up in conversation, "Oh yes, he's the one who opens every conversation by asking 'Where is the party?' "
Asked about all this, Tuchman shrugs like a centaur shaking off familiar flies. He was born Nov. 30, 1936 in Jacksonville, Fla. "That makes me a Sagittarius," he says as if recalling the old "What's your sign?" pickup ploy.
Funny. The sign is known for its love of the good life, a thick skin and a straightforwardness that can appear downright insensitive. Astrology buffs say the archer symbolizes the human being's struggle to overcome its animal nature. One is reminded that it was playboy Maurice who organized "The Spiritual in Art," a landmark exhibition investigating the role of occult metaphysics in modern art. This is not an uncomplicated guy.
"Only time can tell whether or not I made the right choices," Tuchman said. "Being a curator is a long-haul job. You help collectors for years in the hope they'll finally leave their works to the museum. You don't know the outcome of your efforts for decades. You just keep at it every day like brushing your teeth. We've never had an endowment for acquiring art for the collection. I've had to raise every penny and solicit every donation. Have we done anything? Look at the permanent collection. It's respectable now. Sure, there are horrible lacunae like there is no Brancusi but if somebody comes from out of town they see it's something. It's solid.
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Lyme Disease Effects
What exactly is lyme disease, and what kind of effect
does it have on the body?
What are the potential long term side effects, and is there
any potential long term damage?
Lyme Disease is a bacterial disease caused by Borellia burgdorferi. It is
carried in the salivary glands of a very small tick called the deer tick.
The tick bites you to suck blood but when it sticks its proboscis ("stinger")
in you, it spits a little bit and the bacteria are injected. It starts with
generalized muscle aches and pains and mimics many other diseases. Its
cardinal sign is a "bulls-eye" rash that spreads outward from the bite.
Longterm effects include arthritis and musculoskeletal problems.
Lyme Disease is a bacterial infection caused by a corkscrew shaped
bacterium called a spirochete (pronounced spy-row-kete). Here are a few
good websites with just about anything you'd ever want to know about Lyme
Disease. Long term effects would depend on the severity of the disease and
at what point it is treated.
New Haven, Connecticut
Click here to return to the Molecular Biology Archives
Update: June 2012
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"So much of the emphasis saying 'Let's get away from this overly future orientation and focus on now,' it tends to come from white dudes wearing skinny jeans who live in the suburbs and not poor suffering people," says Erik Thoennes, chair of biblical and theological studies at Biola University and a pastor at Grace Evangelical Free Church near Los Angeles. "Just listen to some Negro spirituals and you will get a massive dose of future orientation, because they did not have the option of thinking that we have heaven on earth or that heaven is just an ethical heart within you."
God's Space--and Ours
At odds with all this is the secular scientific view expressed by Stephen Hawking last year. Dismissing the idea of heaven to the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper, he said, "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
The view prompted Wright to engage Hawking in the Washington Post, where Wright suggested that the secular dismissal is itself tied to a misconception of the afterlife. "Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful," he wrote. "No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race. But in the Bible, 'heaven' isn't 'the place where people go when they die.' In the Bible heaven is God's space, while earth (or if you like, 'the cosmos' or 'creation') is our space. And the Bible makes it clear that the two overlap and interlock."
The case of Trayvon Martin offers a real-time illustration of the theological complexities of thinking about heaven. His parents believe him to be both at rest and at work, hoodied as a vivid symbol of the struggle to right the wrongs that led to his death. If the Wright camp is correct about the nature of things, there will someday be a second step: a bodily resurrection for Martin and all other believers on an earth ideally made better by the work of reform inspired by his death. Such, in this view, is the work of religion: bringing reality closer to conformity with theocentric aspirations in a world in which loving one another as we would be loved is a sacred act and a way of expanding the dominion of God--or heaven--in the world.
On Easter, in Christian churches large and small, many will hear the words of the 15th chapter of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. It is about resurrection--first Jesus', then the great resurrection that is said to await all believers. The closing image of this mighty passage, though, is about not eternal bliss and peace but work, deeds, action: "Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord," wrote Paul, "because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain." In a vision of ultimate reward, a reminder of what is essential: the work that is always at hand.
Seven More Heavens
How other religions imagine the place where God resides
Buddhism - The Western Paradise
Buddhists of the Pure Land schools can achieve rebirth in wonderlands that are way stations toward Nirvana the ultimate cessation of ego and desire. For example, the Buddha Amitabha has vowed that all who meditate and call on his name can enter his Pure Land, the Western Paradise, to be brought along to full enlightenment.
Tibetan Buddhism - Mount Kailasa
No human being has ascended Mount Kailasa in the Himalayas, but pilgrims of many faiths circumambulate it. Tibetan Buddhists associate it with Demchog, the central deity of an archetypal mandala. Kailasa is also the residence of the great Hindu god Shiva, whose meditative power emanates from the mountain to charge the universe.
Hinduism - Vaikuntha
The great Hindu god Vishnu reposes far above the highest heavens in Vaikuntha, a gathering place for those who have achieved moksha, or spiritual liberation, through him. It is also called Vishnupada (Vishnu's footstep), and because the god walks the earth, there are terrestrial Vishnupada, gateways to the sacred and eternal.
Islam - Al-Jannah
Islam believes the dead must await the Day of Resurrection to receive judgment. But Islam also provides many details about the rewards and pleasures awaiting the souls who are ushered into heaven, starting from its name, which means garden in Arabic, to rivers of wine and honey and, of course, the privilege of seeing God's face.
Judaism - Atziluth
While the Torah says little about heaven, the mystical writings on Kabbalah particularly the works of the disciples of 16th century rabbi Isaac Luria divided the cosmos into several spheres and layers, throughout which move the sparks of souls. The highest of these realms is Atziluth, from which the pure deity emanates.
Taoism - Da Luo Tian
In ancient China, heaven tian was not merely sky but a god. Then Confucianism leached the anthropomorphic from the idea. Taoism, however, layered it up like a cosmogonic pagoda. The Jade Emperor governs the universe from Da Luo Tian the highest of 26 heavens using an intricate celestial bureaucracy that parallels the earthly administration of imperial China.
Zoroastrianism - Garo Demana
The religion of Zarathustra inspired many an Abrahamic tenet, including the dichotomy of heaven and hell. After death, souls must try to cross a bridge. The blessed will ease over into Garo Demana the House of Song. The damned head for Drujo Demana the House of the Lie.
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New computer-based control systems allow easy monitoring and remote control while new wire management systems make installation a snap.
As we all know, electronic and electromechanical technologies are coming together in an ever-increasing variety of electrical products. This melding can be seen in solid-state trip devices, programmable logic controllers, power distribution monitoring systems, and many other products. (See the March 1995 issue, "Electric West 95 Show Highlights Melding of Technologies," page 24.) A further aspect of this trend is the control of extensive distribution systems by the ubiquitous PC. Now, no matter where you are, you can use your PC (and a modem connection to a host computer) to obtain real-time data and perform necessary distribution system operations. You can even search an event log for information that will help you determine the probable cause of outages, equipment malfunctions, breaker trips, etc.
One manufacturer (ASCO) introduced its new Data Acquisition and Control System at the Electric 95 Show in Atlanta. The system allows operating personnel to control paralleling and distribution switchgear from a PC via a centralized computer-based interface. Using Windows[TM] software and point-and-click screens, you can operate multiple engine-generator sets, control circuit breakers, and monitor the performance of a large emergency, standby, or co-generation power system. Switchgear elevations with single line diagrams superimposed are shown onscreen. Status annunciation, remote selector switch position, analog metering, and set-point control and alarming can be viewed on separate windows. The system also can be used for event and alarm logging, historical trend analysis, and report generation.
Another manufacturer (Russelectric) introduced a microprocessor-based transfer control for its complete line of transfer and bypass/isolation switches. The integral controller senses voltage from both the normal and emergency sources and indicates the position of the switch. You interface with the panel-mounted controller via a tactile keyboard. Shown on the controller's 20-character, 4-line LCD display are various menus and sub menus as well as prompts that allow you to set adjustable parameters, set up optional accessories, control the switch, and verify operational status. An industry standard, open architecture protocol is used for high speed communications with a master programmable logic controller (PLC) or PC.
Wire managements systems
While cable tray is the predominant wire management system in Europe and Canada, accounting for up to 80% of all installations in commercial and industrial projects, conduit remains king in the U.S., with an 80% share of the market.
Represented at the Electric 95 Show was almost every cable tray manufacturer in the industry today. There were three manufacturers showing center spine trays (Mono-Systems, B-Line, and Atlas) and others featuring "traditional" tray configurations in fiberglass, steel, and aluminum constructions.
One manufacturer (Thomas & Betts) exhibited its newly acquired cable tray line and introduced an AutoCad software program for cable tray system design.
A noticed trend is the introduction of more and more unique wire management systems that increase flexibility and save installation time. One manufacturer (GS Metals) introduced a steel wire tray that can be field-modified for any physical obstructions encountered such as columns, pilasters, pipes, etc. By cutting the tray's bottom or side wires with an offset head bolt cutter and hand bending the tray, you can make vertical or horizontal bends and/or offsets as required. Bolt-rod supported hangers clip onto the tray's side wires. Wire or cable is laid in, not pulled in, by lifting the tray off individual hangers one at a time. The product is available in four finishes: electro galvanized after fabrication; hot-dipped galvanized after fabrication, 316L stainless steel; and equipment gray powder coat.
Another trend is the ever-increasing number of manufacturers entering the surface raceway market. One manufacturer (Dekko Engineering) primarily involved in the office furniture industry introduced at the show a new pre-wired, thin profile, combination high and low tension surface raceway line. Power wiring consists of two No. 12 AWG phase wires, two No. 12 AWG neutral wires, and one No. 12 AWG ground wire. Data, telephone, and/or coaxial cables are installed in an integral channel with a snap-in cap.
Carbon Monoxide Detectors
At least four manufacturers of carbon monoxide detectors exhibited their products at the show. In discussions with these manufacturers, we learned that they are hoping for the grass-roots movement requiring these devices in all new residences (now at the state level only) will spread nationally. Despite negative publicity last year about reports of detector false alarms in the Chicago area, this is a potentially lucrative market for the electrical industry.
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A fresh view of 1950s dance
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University of Iowa Department of Dance faculty member Rebekah Kowal is the winner of the 2012 Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) Outstanding Publication award for her book How to Do Things With Dance: Performing Change in Postwar America, published by the Wesleyan University Press in 2010.
Taking a fresh view of modern dance in the 1950s, she portrays dance as an agent of social change in the Cold War era, including choreography by Martha Graham, José Limón, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, and Anna Halprin.
As the book’s jacket introduction summarizes, “In postwar America, any assertion of difference from the mainstream anticommunist culture carried professional and personal risks. For this reason, modern dance artists left much of what they thought unsaid. Instead they expressed themselves in movement. How to Do Things With Dance positions modern dance as a vital critical discourse, and suggests that dances of the late 1940s and the 1950s can be seen as compelling agents of social change.”
In addition to the CORD recognition, the book has been enthusiastically received by critics and the dance history field, where it is now being used as a text in classes across the country. Claire Croft wrote in the Theatre Journal, "Kowal's claim that dance did not simply represent change taking place elsewhere but actually enacted change is a compelling argument that choreographers and dance scholars will want to invoke when challenging the marginalization of dance.”
Describe the research process that led to writing this book.
The research was a long project. It started out as my thesis research at NYU in American studies. For me, the ’50s have been a largely unexamined era in American modern dance, so it seemed like a no-brainer to focus in on the ’50s. But as I got deeper and deeper into the project and started talking with various players, it started to become apparent to me that the reason why nobody had really tackled that era was because it was so complicated.
It wasn’t as clear as modern dance in the ’60s, portraying dancers as avant-garde leaders of social change. Most of the people I was looking at did not see themselves as having any kind of political significance. In general the decade was very conservative and artists were somewhat restrained in their expression of any kind of political leanings, in part because they were responding to what happened in the 1930s and the very strong political statements that were made. They really didn’t want to go there in their work. They were interested in investigating other kinds of ideas.
And there were strong aesthetic shifts that happened in the ’50s as well, very much focused on the body in and of itself—thinking about the body less as representation and the dance really being grounded in the action.
I started to see the complications of dealing with era, and how I really needed to understand it in relation to the 1930s—socially, politically, and artistically—and also a kind of segue into the 1960s. So my argument developed over about 10 years time, to try to give as much due as I could to the particular feeling of the era, and also try to take what the artists said about their work seriously.
Most of the arguments about the 1950s have focused on a shift into abstraction and nonrepresentational art, and what I tried to say was that that was part of it, but not all of it, and that we might be able to come up with a bigger umbrella concept to understand it.
So your research led you to look far beyond dance itself?
Even though I knew I was making an argument that was going to be a little controversial, because it was new, I also really wanted to ground it in the primary sources, not only in dance but also through these socio-political layers. So I spent a lot of time in the archives, looking at women’s magazines, and newspaper, and different coverage of the war and the post-war period. I needed to look into the dimensions of race, gender, and sexuality that were organic to the process.
In the course of your argument you describe the movements, gestures, and relationship in dances in exquisite detail. Is the ’50s the first decade for which there is a much richer documentation of dance on film?
One reason for that was that dancers were going on television. Some of the footage I was finding was from those shows. That also creates a different audience for dance—a more incidental audience than the person who is going to pay to go to the theater. So you can see the interaction of the showing of a dance and a newscast, and how that can get layered into someone’s consciousness in a more immediately juxtaposed way than someone walking into the theater and having this “black box” experience that seems somewhat apart from everyday life.
Even though choreographers weren’t making overt statements about their political positions, I found it interesting that they tried to put ordinary life on stage so we could look at it again. Or to put a dance on TV and bring it into people’s homes and then, as a result, ask the audience to reckon with this in the scope of their everyday lives.
One fascinating aspect of the book: it reveals how the Cold War/McCarthy Era attitude affected dance, and which companies received funding for international tours.
Yes, for this dimension of my research, I drew from a previously published book by Naima Prevots, on the history of U.S. dance company touring under President Eisenhower's Emergency Fund, which sponsored foreign tours of American companies through the State Department beginning in the mid-1950s. I also examined declassified transcripts of Dance Panel discussions about who to send abroad and why, available through the Freedom of Information Act.
Whereas Prevots' research brings these discussions and information about the tours to the light of day, I tried to make a more culturally resonant argument about the correlations between the Dance Panel's selections and rejections for funding, and what I call an ideology of "universalism," which I found drove both U.S. postwar foreign relations and aesthetic prescriptions within the mainstream modern dance field.
Applied to both cases, I tried to show a paradox between a universalist stance—that in theory valued the elements of human life presumably common to all peoples, and held human equality in the highest esteem—and its Western white racist underbelly, which acknowledged cultures and specific forms of concert dance expression in as much as they upheld dominant assumptions about the world and/or ways of living.
With respect to artists denied funding by the Dance Panel because they were not seen to uphold a Dance Panel-endorsed view of "America," or whose work did not show American society in an entirely positive light, such judgments had significant impacts on careers and company longevity. From our perspective today, it is clear that racism, sexism, and homophobia formed the basis of many decisions.
You said that you knew the book might be controversial. Has it been?
Not as much as I expected. Because I knew it might be controversial, I was really careful to cross my t’s and dot my i’s. The scholarly journals were all positive, and the book is now being taught in a number of courses throughout the country, and has been released in a paperback second printing.
I also recently received a National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend, which provided support for eight weeks of concentrated research on my next project. It makes me happy that people are paying attention to dance research.
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Deb Babcock's gardening column appears Mondays in Steamboat Today.
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Many of the local garden centers are promoting bulbs this month to plant for color next spring. As you consider whether to pick up some bulbs for the garden, consider purchasing a few to bring fragrance and color inside your home during the drab winter.
Bulbs that are easy to force into an early bloom indoors include crocus, hyacinth, narcissus, iris, scilla and tulip, as well as the striking amaryllis, which can be found in stores this time of year.
Most bulbs need a period of cold and dark before they will consider blooming for you. My friend, Laura, simply places bulbs under the snow or in a dark place outdoors for several weeks before bringing them indoors to pot up.
Another way to force bulbs to flower is to plant them in a container filled with potting soil, and place in a cool, dark place — about 40 degrees Fahrenheit — for 12 to 14 weeks. Use a spare refrigerator, bury in a mulch pile under snow, or place in a cool garage or shed. But don’t store bulbs in the same drawer as your vegetables or fruit, which give off ethylene gas that harms bulbs. Also, some bulbs are poisonous, so a refrigerator accessed by young children probably is not a good spot to chill bulbs. Be sure to avoid placing the pots on an outdoor surface that experiences melting and freezing. I did once and found my pots quick-frozen to the patio.
When you pot the bulbs, allow for about two inches of soil below the bulb. The number of bulbs you can place in a pot will vary according to the size of the pot and the bulbs. Feel free to crowd a lot of bulbs almost touching, tips facing up, for a full, colorful display.
The top of the bulb should be even with the rim of your pot, the bulb noses just peeking out of the soil. Water thoroughly by placing the pot in a shallow pan of water and allowing it to soak until the surface of the soil is moist. You shouldn’t need frequent watering, but don’t allow the soil to dry out completely.
After the chilling period, check for root development. If you see roots in the drainage hole or in the root ball under the bulb, move the pots to a cool — 50 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit — well-lighted place, but not in direct sunlight, to begin development of shoots. As the shoots come up, you can move the pots to a warmer, brighter location. Be sure to keep the soil moist throughout the blooming period.
On average, your bulbs will flower within three to four weeks after coming out of cold storage. To extend flowering, plant several pots of bulbs and pull out of cold storage one or two pots at a time every week or so.
Deb Babcock is a Master Gardener through the Colorado State University Cooperative Extension office in Routt County. Questions? Call 879-0825.
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There are many different kinds of pianos today and each one of them is designed to suit for different events, occasions, and of course players. Moreover, pianos come in different styles, designs, and sizes. They are considered as one of the most expensive yet sophisticated musical instruments yet. Owning one at home can be pleasant as you can always play your favorite musical piece in it to soothe your musical appetite. You can move them with Woodlands Moving Company
The grand pianos are huge and they require a lot of living space. They make wonderful home décor and they make great music. The petite grand pianos stands about 5 feet in height while baby grand pianos stands at about 5 feet to 5 ½ feet. The medium grand pianos stand much taller at about 6 feet in height while the ballroom grand has a height of more than 6 feet. The biggest and grandest of them all is the concert grand which can stand of up to 9 feet in height. They are so easy to move withany Austin Moving Companies
The vertical pianos unlike other types are usually positioned at an upright manner with their strings spanning parallel of the piano’s back. Vertical pianos are space savers hence they are one of the most popular today. Aside from saving enough space, these pianos are generally affordable. The smallest version of vertical pianos are spinets which just stands at about 3 feet tall. The console pianos are the next size to spinets which stands at about 3 ½ feet while the studio vertical stands at 4 feet tall. The tallest of vertical pianos are the professional verticals which can stand up to 5 feet tall.
The most affordable and portable of all pianos are the electric pianos. Though they may not be pitch perfect as compared to their other counterparts, these pianos are certainly convenient to use and carry around. The great thing about them is that they can be programmed to sound differently. Most people who would like to learn how to play pianos starts out playing electric pianos because they are less expensive to start with.
Whether you own an electric, grand, or vertical piano at home, you should know that they can be extremely fragile when it comes to moving. To ensure that your musical instrument is safe during the move, ask for the services of piano movers Austin. They are professionals when it comes to piano moving. With piano movers Austin, you can be sure that your well loved instrument is unscathed and undamaged during the move.
Since time inception Gold has remained to be the ornament of true values. A mention of it and eyes glow before it is even revealed. It is always told that anyone can become instant rich on possession of massive gold. This property of gold being an element of financial freedom is what has made tricksters to crop up as long as gold demand keeps on mounting. The online ventures have made it even worse; you never know the best deal to partner with whether you want to sell or buy gold. The good news however is that not everyone on the internet arena is on the verge of getting effortless money and this is what Alabama Gold Refinery is offering; a clear cut way for a genuine dealership.
How to know a great deal
You don’t have to fret if you are new in the gold market. However, caution should be taken in every step of action you are deeming to take. When locating online deals, check to it that the site offers valuable information on gold concerns. The hallmark for genuine Birmingham gold buyers will be more outspoken by how presentable their site is. They should have a workable payment system, a contact system for inquiries, A FAQ hyperlink for guidance and safety measures such as how packages are tracked.
Apart from the internet, information on a particular gold dealer can be collected from friends and family who have been there. The Better Business Bureau (BBB) can also form a basis for your judgment. It is a US agency that reviews and rates businesses in terms of fraud prevalence, it also provides resolutions between consumers and dealers where disputes arise.
Why choose Alabama Gold Refinery
The Alabama gold refinery is one of Birmingham gold vendors that have been in business for a while. The company lists its services upfront and deals with buying and selling of bullion, gold coins, silver, and diamond. Some of the other significant attribute to why you will choose the company are listed below;
- An up close update of gold prices on the go. Every passing minute a graph is provided for gold, silver and platinum letting the buyer/seller stay scheduled on the price he/she gets at the particular time of transaction.
- General information on insurance coverage for all items sent, the type of gold accepted and information on successful buying/selling of gold is also provided.
- Any new cutting-edge technology for quality detection is adopted to ensure optimum pricing is achieved for the type of gold received or vended.
- Customer satisfaction and anything that leaves the buyer amused on the services is the prime goal.
If you are looking to sell or buy gold jewelry yet have little time to check on legitimacy then this is the right dealer for you because integrity is guaranteed. It is a well established store, honest and keeps its end of the bargain. As a last word; when deciding on the right Birmingham gold dealers keep in mind there are thousands of them that recently mushroomed of which there integrity is yet to be established, so it’s better to be in partner with trusted ones and it has to be Alabama Gold Refinery.
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With the holiday season fast approaching, it is often a time when we invite friends and family. Folding chairs can be a really good way of seating everyone and still have room to move.
Eating when we are four, five or six is fairly straightforward, but what about when all you friends and family show up? Fitting everyone in can be difficult. Folding chairs make this easy. They are a cost-effective solution to seating a big group and they can be stored away in a relatively small space when they are not needed.
Because tidying your folding chairs away is just a matter of seconds, it means that once the meal is over, they can be put away and leave enough space for some fun and games with your guests. This is definitely not the case with most chairs and is a real advantage, meaning you don’t have to try to push the furniture around to fit everyone in.
Bathroom lighting is mostly overlooked and never given the full attention. As in most cases, bathrooms are often designated a solitary light in the ceiling. This shouldn’t be the case. Though your bathroom may only be in full use at nighttime before you sleep or in the mornings before you head out for work, the time you spent in there is very valuable and of high importance.
Bathing and grooming often only take a few minutes but they are pretty essential to make you look fresh and feeling good about yourself. With solitary light in the ceiling, lighting is poor in big bathrooms and can throw dark shadows in the corners. In smaller ones, on the other hand, the ceiling light can get so intense and can cause harsh glare into the eyes.
It is important to provide proper bathroom lighting for you to enjoy the comfort and luxury that this room brings. It doesn’t take a lot to install proper lights into this area. All you have to do is figure out the important activities you carry out in here and assign a few sets of lights into them.
The shower, sink and toilet area should have light fixtures that is afforded by recessed lights. The bathroom mirror where most make-up applications or shaving is done should have wall sconces on either side of it. This will provide full illumination to the face and will guarantee no dark circles under the eyes as when you use overhead lights on this space.
If you have a bathtub or a luxurious Jacuzzi in your bathroom, you should invest in fabulous lights like mini-chandeliers or pendant lights to bring a touch of glamour into the area. It becomes highly luxurious to view beautiful lights up in the ceiling while you are enjoying a soak in the tub. Just don’t forget to include a set of dimmers attached to them so you can set the lights to a dim to avoid unnecessary glare.
Dogs also need to have their own place to where they can spend a night of good sleep. Since not all dog owners allow their pet to stay inside the house, the poor animal will have no choice but to stay outside.
Outside, dogs are exposed to wind, rain and heat of the sun which is sometime not good for the health of the animals. Often exposure to these elements might lead to sickness of the pets.
Every time you set the animal outside, make sure that they have the safe and dry place to stay. You have to give them a thing that can protect the dogs from the harmful effects of environmental elements. And the best thing that you can give is a cedar dog house.
Dog houses are available in different sizes so whatever the size of your tyke, there is a possible house for it. This thing comes in many designs and styles options will look good to your garden or backyard. You can purchase this item in wood or plastic construction.
If you are to purchase this thing for your beloved canine, make sure that you choose the durable one for your assurance of giving your furry friend a comfortable place to stay. Wood would be the best choice since wood is somewhat a durable kind of materials that is weather-resistant.
Regarding with the wood, cedar wood is the most popular material used to construct houses for dogs. It is a soft kind of wood that enables a person to nail the parts easily. Though soft, cedar wood is extremely durable, rotting and insect resistant. Moreover, woods are the best natural insulator so even during extreme weather or temperature, your pet will stay comfortable inside its house.
dog houses are your dogs’ safeguard whenever they stay outside. The help you can acquire to keep your precious pet healthy all the time.
The pool table felt is the fabric that you see covering the surface of the pool table. The term “felt” is quite a misnomer as this is in fact a piece of cloth. Other terms people use to refer to this item include pool table cloth, billiard felt, pool felt and green cover. However you call it, these names only refer to one product.
This pool supply material may look unassuming but it has a significant role in the billiards game. The quality of the fabric placed on the pool table surface can affect the outcome of the game. This is because there are so many types of pool table felt. There are ones that are fit for professional use especially on tournament games. Other types are dependent on the frequency of use of the table and the conditions to which it is presented.
Tournament-types of felt are often made from premium worsted billiard cloth. The wool in worsted cloth undergoes extra processing to make every weave of the same size. This results in very smooth flow of the billiard balls on the table. And, it also enhances the movement and accuracy of the ball. Some of the known brands of worsted pool felt are Simonis, Velocity and ProForm.
In places like bars and pool halls where the table is frequently used, it is important to choose pool felt that are extremely durable. To get ones that are hard-wearing, consider the tightness of the fabric weave. You can go for 21-24 ounce pool felt. The minimum for better quality fabric is 19 ounce. This ounce weight per yard of the fabric is an indicator of how tight or loose the weaves are. Bear in mind that with a 24 ounce pool felt, there is more fabric used in the weave as compared to the 19 ounce one.
When buying this table felt, it mainly depends upon your needs. You can go for tournament type ones but expect to pay more for them. The color may be another factor so you may choose to veer away from standard green ones and opt for blue, red and other bold colors.
As a billiard player, you certainly will want to provide protection to your main weapon – the pool cue. The pool cue is what you use to strike the balls present in the billiard table. If you don’t have your very own unit, you can be in for a sorry state. Not all pool cues that can be borrowed from pool halls and bars are of excellent state. With lots of people using them, there’s bound to be some cracks, breaks and every bit of damage unto them.
It is important to have your own pool cues. And to provide great care and protection to these valuable pool supplies, it is important to make an investment on pool cue cases. These items come in different styles, sizes and materials to make sure that the main tools that you need to enjoy your billiard hobby or sport will be in excellent condition at all times.
Pool cue cases could either be soft or hard. Soft cases are great for keeping your pool cues free from dirt and moisture. However, they don’t provide much protection when it comes to warping and breakage. To ensure that your pool cues will not snap when you leave them on the pool halls, you may have to go for hard cases. The hard cases will see to it that not only dirt and moisture can be kept off your pool cues but they will guarantee the cues will not break during transport and even when you leave them lying around.
Cue cases also vary in size. Usually you can carry a two-piece cue stick and an extra butt in soft cases. Hard cases, on the other hand, can carry one butt and one shaft but there are also ones that can carry a few more. If you need to carry all your cue sticks, you may have to check out the dealer cases. Dealer cases can carry from 12 to up to 20 cue sticks.
These cue cases come in wide variety of materials. They can be made from nylon or vinyl. There are also ones made from leather and aluminum.
Vacations are supposed to be about having fun and getting some R and R. However, you have to keep your body prepared for all the activities you are most likely going to do. Travelling, binging on delicious food, late night partying and drinking can all cause a stir in your diet and immune system. So, plan ahead and keep your body fit during and even before and after you head up to your summer getaway.
Before your vacation, give your immune system a boost. Travelling means you’ll encounter lots of people in the airport or train terminals so you have to strengthen up your body’s defenses against coughs and colds. If you plan about sampling great cuisines to where you are headed to, prep up your GI tract by popping up some probiotics. Gastritis and diarrhea are common during traveling because eating outside subjects you to food that may not be well-prepared. And, if you plan to go on late night parties then try to get lots of sleep several days before you go. Don’t forget to bring with you some medications like antacids, antihistamines, pain relievers and anti-diarrheal medications.
During your vacation don’t just lounge out in the sun. Instead, go swimming. Take up activities that involve you moving actively like hiking, biking or walking in the beach or the mall. Rather than being glued to your seat and sipping your drinks, get up and dance on the floor. To avoid weight gain, designate one meal each day as a splurge. Eat fruits and drinks lots of water.
After your vacation, try easing your way into your exercise and diet routines. Don’t let yourself get caught up by post-vacation syndrome. Keep yourself moving and busy so you can get back to your usual self and routine right away.
Not all of us are blessed with perfect genes. Our parents and forefathers can essentially pass on to us some stinking body-related problems that can lead to sure embarrassment. Body conditions such as bad breath, stinky feet and uncontrollable restroom stops are all huge problems some of us have to deal with.
People suffer from bad breath despite taking every precaution to avoid having one. They brush their teeth several times a day, floss them and give them some mouthwash rinse. Yet, the odor can creep up within an hour. If you have this stinking problem, you might want to visit your dentist. Perhaps, there’s a cavity lurking somewhere in between our teeth or the alcohol in your mouthwash has dried up your oral tissues. When brushing, always include your tongue. Eliminating certain types of food (like sugary ones and garlic) and improving your digestive system can also help to eliminate bad breath.
Taking off your shoes cause everybody to go scampering out, such is the case if you have athlete’s foot. Stinky feet are gross and people who are blessed with thousands of sweat glands in their feet are not that thankful. Perspiration doesn’t smell however if your foot is left unattended for long it can be a perfect breeding ground for bacteria. To combat athlete’s foot, use medicated powder and keep your feet dry at all times. Always wear clean and absorbent socks and keep your closed shoes aerated and let them dry before using them again. Using antiperspirant on your feet is also a great remedy.
Finally, you have to deal with the uncontrollable bowel movement. You left the house to jog or perhaps go walking in the mall and then suddenly you have the urge to make a restroom stop. Medical experts say this is probably due to exercise or increased in bodily movement. The bowel becomes more active, hence, the situation. Fortunately, this condition can be easily solved. Finding the right pattern is the key. The colon is active in the early morning so postpone your walk before you’d had your toilet visit. Keep track how long after you’ve eaten the meal has gone through your system and create a schedule based on that. You may also use an anti-diarrheal tablet to combat the situation.
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Dr. Huyaa: Expanding Reproductive Health Choices for Women and Girls
In the wee hours of the morning under a heavy spate of April rains, Esta Danieli Oda gave birth to a beautiful baby girl at Magugu Health Center, near where she lives in north-central Tanzania. Cuddling with their newborn-who joined four older sisters-Esta and her husband decided they were finished with childbearing.
In most other health facilities across Tanzania, Esta would have had to travel long distances to the nearest district hospital to obtain permanent female contraception.
But because of EngenderHealth's support in bringing higher-level services to lower-level facilities in Tanzania, Magugu Health Center has a dedicated minilaparotomy ("mini-lap") surgeon-which means that Esta can have the procedure done that day, before leaving the clinic with her new baby.
Meet Dr. Kornel Tsaxara Huyaa, a surgeon trained by EngenderHealth through the ACQUIRE Tanzania Project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. Dr. Huyaa joined Magugu Health Center less than one year ago. Yet already, his name comes up frequently, as a source of pride, in conversations around the clinic.
After all, Dr. Huyaa's technical training allows him to offer mini-lap surgery, a 10- to 12-minute outpatient procedure that involves making small 2cm incisions around the abdomen for tubal ligation.
EngenderHealth provides mini-lap training for surgeons to help make the service available for more women in hard-to-reach areas.
"EngenderHealth has played a big role in my medical experience," said Dr. Huyaa, 42, an amiable man who grows serious when speaking about his training. "Initially I wasn't trained for any kind of family planning, but after getting mini-lap training with support from EngenderHealth, I found myself being able to help clients here who need family planning methods, even long-term options. It is a great feeling."
While short-term methods of family planning-pills, condoms, and injectables-are commonly found at dispensaries and health centers, women who wish to postpone childbearing for several years or limit childbearing permanently are often referred to a higher-level facility, most of which are much farther away.
Dr. Huyaa has also received EngenderHealth-supported training on providing integrated, comprehensive reproductive health care, which enables him and his colleagues to provide a variety of additional services at the clinic, including the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, HIV care and treatment, and voluntary HIV testing and counseling.
"A mother who has HIV should not be sent somewhere else for other reproductive health services," he said, emphasizing the importance of his training in integrated services. "She should get everything at one table."
Dr. Huyaa also assists across the clinic, providing supervision and guidance on medical conditions that come up, which may require a higher level of technical knowledge. Asked if he has stories about memorable clients, he nods: "There are many."
He remembers one pregnant woman who rushed into the clinic, bleeding profusely and choked up with anxiety. She was in need of an emergency medical abortion.
Dr. Huyaa counseled and reassured the woman, telling her, "We're here to save you, you are in safe hands." Within 45 minutes, the woman safely expelled and the bleeding stopped.
One week later, the woman returned to the clinic to thank Dr. Huyaa. "If it wasn't for you, I would have died," she told him.
"That made me so happy," Dr. Huyaa said with a smile.
Dr. Huyaa, outside the operating ward at Magugu Health Center, Tanzania
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11/30/04: The bulk of this 'article' was removed because it's supposed information did not match what is currently known to science about the planet Mars or the existance of alien life. In short, quoting something a psychic imagined in a vision is not the same as finding evidence of martian life. Aliens and their cities and belief systems should only be discussed in spectulative terms until such a time as they can be physically proven to exist. A more appropriate approach for this article would be to discuss the various forms of intelligent Martians that have appeared in science fiction books and movies.
Is this picture from a War of the Worlds cartoon, or is it just another one like the sketch of tripods from the Tripod article? Scorpionman 15:22, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
- I think it's from the Classics Illustrated comic book. CFLeon 22:23, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Oh yeah...I have that. Someone on The War of the Worlds talk page mentioned an old English film which he couldn't find any information on. I'm wondering if this was a live-action film or an animated one? Scorpionman 03:04, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
The real Martians
there no such things of " The real Martians" and does not exist and just a cartoon just like Marvin the Martian from Looney Tunes blieve me or not? KanuT 16:10, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
- There may be real martians, microbacteria living underground, perhaps, and there will probably be colonisation of Mars in the future by humans. So to place in the article that real martians are only found in cartoons is uncited, unlikely (on an all-time lasting scale), and in general... unsuitable for Wikipedia. ~ 15:28, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Oppurtunity to create New Article on terminology of life on other planets (NOT LITTLE GREEN MEN!)
Organisms on Mars are referred to as Martian. What are organisms (e.g bacteria) on the other planets referred to as?
I have often been curious about this, Wikipedia only cites Jovian as life on Jupiter. Where can the OFFICIAL information be found? I may have heard the terms Venetian (Venus), Plutonian (Pluto) and Neptunian (Neptune) used in various books. However on Wikipedia none are mentioned and the latter is referred to only as a fictional race in Futurama! I am just curious for myself, although other people might be as well. So this could be a good opportunity for a Wikipedia user who is knowledgable in Astronomy and Grammer, to perhaps create an article/list or contribute this information to other articles. Please could you let me know if anyone decides to do this as I would be most interested, thankyou. Ryan4314 05:40, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
- Well, we have Venusian for life on Venus, and as for life on Pluto, Uranus, Saturn, etc, there are very few recorded instances of reported "aliens" coming from there. I know only of the Space Brothers being reported from the latter two, and an "etherial green energy" (as it's reported on one website) from Saturn and pre white humanoids (like white Grays) from Uranus. As for fiction, Uranian (there's another term) and other Sol system aliens are very rare apart from Martians. As for an article on the terminology of these species, I don't see the need, but instead we could place the adjectivial form of the planets on their pages, e.g:
- As for the article of Neptunians, if you can cite your sources, then there should be no reason against expanding the article to include species in other notable works of fiction. ~ 14:48, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
- Yes I agree, I think this information only warrents enough to be added to the planets respective article. Thankyou for adding Venusian (I was unaware of that as you can see above) and Uranian. Is there anyway you can prove it is Uranian though? Some boffins at NASA must've made up an official terminology, is there anyway to find out?
- P.S I assume Terran is used for us? Ryan4314 19:14, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
- I doubt that "Uranian" is used for Uranus (that's just the term I use for it), but yes, I do believe that "Terran" is used for Earth (although most commonly by proponents of the UFO mythos and sci-fi producers. In cases like this, French is probably an easier language to use as a Martian would be "Une extraterrestrie de Mars" (or something similar), a Uranian would be "d'Uranus", etc. And as for the Nasan boffs (if only Nasa was a planet...), you could always search on their website. ~ 14:53, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
- Yes I may have to consider trying to getting the information from NASA directly. However I will delay it for a bit, to give time for others to contribute to the discussion. You may also be interested in the Talk:Mars discussion, as I've proposed your idea for the opening line. Ryan4314 18:56, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
- NASA's not needed, the names of inhabitants (or rocks or whatever) are the adjective forms of the names. The link above gives the list. The only two problems are that 'Earthing' (or 'Earther') got into the popular media and is now common, and the term 'Venusian' is preferred by many to the more accurate 'Venerian' (Isaac Asimov, in an article, indicates this is due to the connection with 'veneral disease'.) CFLeon 22:29, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
There should at least be something about the supposed canals on Mars that led many people to believe that there was some kind of Martian civilization there. 220.127.116.11 21:25, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
Image copyright problem with Image:Mars attacks ver1.jpg
The image Image:Mars attacks ver1.jpg is used in this article under a claim of fair use, but it does not have an adequate explanation for why it meets the requirements for such images when used here. In particular, for each page the image is used on, it must have an explanation linking to that page which explains why it needs to be used on that page. Please check
- That there is a non-free use rationale on the image's description page for the use in this article.
- That this article is linked to from the image description page.
Opose. The core of the information in both articles are different; this one is focused on fiction, while Life on Mars is a scientific astrobiology article. -BatteryIncluded (talk) 17:38, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Support There is no proof or disproof for either one, so no reason to treat them differently.
Oppose: "Martian" refers to (hypothetical or imaginary) intelligent life on Mars, while "Life on Mars" is (at this point, anyway) restricted to hypothetical unicellular organisms. There's no overlap at the present time. RandomCritic (talk) 12:21, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
i am so sorry ... i am unable to understand russian .... and i DO really really want to know about a russian boy named Boriska Kipriyanovich
he claims that he is the one of martian that is born on the earth by reincarnation .
here is the link from youtube ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7Xcn436tyI
i know that it sounds crazy and this question should not be asked here ....
but i got no way to know about it more .... at least ... there was a link and an article mentioning about him in the version of chinese wikipedia .
for making sure of my consideration , i try to clarify the information .... that is why i leave this message here ...
- This news article is from the english Pravda is a start: Boriska, boy from Mars, says that all humans live eternally.--Auric (talk) 14:19, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
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North Korea’s successful test firing of a long-range missile on Tuesday is a major step in Pyongyang’s ability to hit U.S. cities with nuclear-tipped missiles fired from hard-to-find mobile launchers, U.S. officials and private specialists said.
In the “first ever integrated ballistic missile defense system test,” the United States’ military successfully tested three missile-defense systems over the Pacific Ocean, Lockheed Martin announced in a press release.
China’s military carried out a fourth flight test of an intercontinental ballistic missile last week, firing off a new road-mobile ICBM on Thursday, according to U.S. officials.
Iranian officials were on hand to observe the failure of a North Korean long-range missile test, which ended in national shame as the missile disintegrated over the ocean.
North Korea’s botched missile launch late Thursday has caused the communist regime great embarrassment at home and brought tension with the West to newfound heights, according to several defense experts who have been tracking the regime’s attempts to covertly build and launch a ballistic missile.
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Monday, July 16, 2012
Malaria parasite killed by gene-modified germs in study
By Kristen Hallam
July 16, 2012
Benign bacteria residing in mosquitoes’ guts can be recruited to destroy the parasite that causes malaria, offering a potential way to prevent infections, according to U.S. researchers.
Genetically modifying the germ enabled it to produce proteins toxic to the parasite without harming the insects, scientists from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore and Duquesne University in Pittsburgh wrote today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal. The proportion of mosquitoes carrying the parasite fell by as much as 84 percent, the researchers said.
Malaria kills a child in Africa every minute, and about half the world’s population is at risk of infection, according to the Geneva-based World Health Organization. New ways of stopping the disease are needed as genetic mutations in parasites make them resistant to medicines, and as mosquitoes become less vulnerable to insecticides, the researchers said.
”These findings provide the foundation for the use of genetically modified symbiotic bacteria as a powerful tool to combat malaria,” the study’s authors wrote.
Mosquitoes transmit the Plasmodium parasite that causes malaria, whose symptoms include fever, headache, chills and vomiting. The parasite undergoes the most vulnerable part of its life cycle in the mosquito’s gut. The gut is also home to a bacterium, known as Pantoea agglomerans, which provides nutrients and helps its host cope with environmental changes.
The researchers administered genetically engineered bacteria to mosquitoes using cotton pads soaked with the germs suspended in a sugar solution. Thirty-two hours later, the insects were fed a meal of Plasmodium-infected blood. The modified bacteria were 98 percent effective in reducing the parasite’s development, and the repression of the parasites lasted for at least four days, according to the study.
More research is needed before trying the approach outside the lab, the study’s authors said.
Novartis AG of Basel, Switzerland, is among the companies working on new malaria treatments, though they’re not expected to be available for years. GlaxoSmithKline Plc is developing a product that would be the first malaria vaccine if approved. The shot, known as RTS,S, safely reduced illness in African infants by more than half in a study, the London-based company said in October.
Scientists also have been working on ways to genetically modify mosquitoes so that they die before they can transmit diseases such as malaria and dengue, also known as ”break-bone fever” because it’s so painful.
”Genetic modification of bacteria is a simpler approach,” said Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, the lead author of the study and a professor at Johns Hopkins. ”The ultimate goal is to completely prevent the mosquito from spreading the malaria parasite to people.”
The research published today was funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and the Bloomberg Family Foundation.
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is named for Michael Bloomberg, New York City’s mayor and the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg LP. The Bloomberg Family Foundation is the mayor’s charitable organization.
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Gamme has no more than 226 km to go
Published on 19.12.2011 - Antarctica 2011- 2012
Norwegian Alexander Gamme is continuing his march towards the Pole. He is confident for the next few days to come: the South Pole is not anymore too far away...
The day 50 of his expedition (17 December) Gamme has performed another 30 km in 9 hours and a half skiing.
This Norwegian traveller is amazed to see how his body is functionning so well although it is put every day -and almost every second of the day- to the strain of the skiing and the fatigue of the skiing nine to ten hours every day.
He says that he has the impression that from now on, his body can respond to any kind of stress or demand coming from an outside environment without showing any kind of injuries. He says also that his high motivation throughout all these previous days of expedition is one of the main secret of the achievement of his voyage. He is almost certain to be able to make it until the Pole.
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You are absolutely correct and the reasons you have given add up to there being no performance standard to compare or for any container to have to meet. Hence your AAD may just be decoration as 750ft is just some number!!.
Of course we could say that the time for a pilot chute to clear the container can be measured. The extraction force required to lift the free bag out can be measured. If they can be measured a standard can be agreed. With these known factors a properly packed reserve can be expected to fully deploy in X seconds. from that you can work out what height you would need to be at if traveling at a given speed for the reserve to save you. PHeeew. Problem is no one is asking the questions (except me) and when an incident occurs it is to easy to just say the AAD didn't save them, even if it worked exactly as it was intended to.
Anyway if someone sells you something intended to do a job why shouldn't they be able to tell you the limits of its operating capability. eg minimum safe height to initiate reserve deployment. They do give the Maximum speed and weight on the reserve canopy after all..
Just to be clear this problem can apply to any small free-fly friendly container especially with four or more flaps covering the top of the reserve pilot chute.
Start Asking your container manufacturer ????
(This post was edited by p.w.stockwell on Dec 6, 2012, 7:11 AM)
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Of the few guides/manuals/histories acting as deconstruction of a genre that I've read over the last few years (and both the online and real-world bookshelves are beginning to swell with them), I've sussed out two very clear approaches which work with varying degrees of success: on one side, you have the type that exists absolutely inside the fiction and doesn't acknowledge the reader or that it's fiction at all (Max Brooks' World War Z being the prime recent example here); Matt D. Wilson's The Supervillain Handbook: The Ultimate How-to Guide to Destruction and Mayhem, is a hybrid of that other sort, where the writer not only acknowledges the reader (the "author" of the book, King Oblivion, PH.D frequently calls out the would-be villains reading his guide), but actually draws attention to the popular fiction that inspired it.
Wilson, a regular contributor to Cracked.com, borrows from that site's style of list-style posts, breaking down the chapters in The Supervillain Handbook into numbered how-to's about picking one's costume, choosing a nemesis, finding the right henchmen, and even the different motivations for becoming someone who screams at someone else from the lip of an active volcano while wearing a cape. Wilson's King Oblivion is a member of the International Society of Supervillains (also a thing online), and he speaks to the reader in a mixture of Silver Age bluster and collected self-help speak (one helpful tip in finding a suitable nemesis: "Match your aptitude"). The character's voice is funny, albeit in short bursts (handily, the chapters are short enough where you can choose to hang with King Oblivion at your own easy pace).
As for insights into comic book-style villainy and as far as a trenchant deconstruction of that style character, The Supervillain Handbook does alright, referencing characters created by Wilson as well as a few from the Big Two to make the overall point that you have to be crazy to take that particular gig. Even King Oblivion is not immune to the occasional outburst at the reader, warning them of the consequences of say, copyright infringement of his protected material.
One of the real pleasures of the book are the little sidebars detailing existing lame comic villains, their origins, and how they utterly fail to make it big. An interesting note about these: Wilson must be a big Spider-Man fan, as he draws more than a few of his examples from that particular character's colorful rogues gallery. Wilson also uses sidebars featuring real historical figures who may or may not have been supervillains, but these are a little less successful, relying on such gems as "The Hanna-Barbera guys hypnotized children with repeated frames of animation." The problem is that these just don't draw on anything interesting or strange about these real figures and simply invents something out of whole cloth to hang the villain label on.
Illustrations are provided by Adam Wallenta, and they're workable if unexceptional--I kept thinking of the sort of build-a-character templates for MMOs when looking at his art. Really, this is kind of appropriate for a book that's about building yourself up as a supervillain, and thinking on it more, the style serves the book well.
The Supervillain Handbook is available now both in print and digitally through Skyhorse Publishing.
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there’s many things about rome that makes me shake my head. the utterly horrible public transport for one. or how touristy it gets once you step within the roman walls. or how cafes here generally don’t have a sitting culture — people imbibe their espresso shots standing up and then dash off. i still don’t understand the last point to be honest.. and it really gets on my nerves especially when all i want to do is to sit at a nice coffee place and read a book to while time away. *sadz*
anyways, that being said, there’s still many nooks and crannies of rome that fascinates me and makes me really cherish my time here. last weekend, the place i explored was the aventino hill, close by to circo massimo. i was drawn to it by an off-the-beaten path article mentioning a really special view of the vatican dome from atop aventino hill – you apparently have to peer through a keyhole, and will see the vatican dome perfectly centered and framed by a beautiful row of garden shrub arches, which is in turn framed by the circular apeture of the keyhole. this curious place is at the gate leading to the gardens of the Knights of Malta (I Cavalieri di Malta).
it’s a real pity that the gardens aren’t open to public, because i can imagine just how more breathtaking the view would be if one were actually inside the garden. and it reaffirms that fact that the garden planners had a terrific eye for beauty and an innate understanding of perspective. and if you’re wondering whether i managed to snap a shot through the keyhole, well.. the answer is a sad no. i reached the hilltop around 3pm and it was still way too bright for me to capture the dome. (you can google the knights of malta for the keyhole shot) photography aficionados, you need to come to this place possibly when the light contrast between the dark garden shrubs and the surrounding sky is much less.
i settled for a much easier shot.
i mean, i wasn’t going to return empty handed was i? this shot was taken at the nearby giardno degli aranci (orange garden) and it actually reminded me of an interesting psychology/perspective theory. cornell peeps, remember maas’ 101 where he mentioned about the how the moon seems to look larger at certain incidences? well, for me, this was the exact case for the Vatican Dome. in the shot above, framed by dark trees in the garden, and devoid of any other surrounding buildings to give you any visual cues of the actual distance, the Vatican Dome seems to loom at you and seem much closer.
yet when i went up close to snap a paranomic shot, i was utterly disappointed and deleted my shot after a few failed tries. the problem? the Vatican Dome “shrinks” to its original size when placed against buildings close by to it (which is what you see at the edge of the garden). and it is actually really darn far away. cool stuff eh? makes me appreciate a little better, why Rome officials have refused to allow buildings to be built taller than the Vatican Dome – any building within view would dispel the illusion immediately.
anyways, do come up to the aventino hill if you have time to spare in rome. it’s a pretty nice walk round a quiet, non-touristy residential district, with a nice rose garden along the way up (see first picture), as well as a pretty stoic church (Santa Sabina) near the keyhole. the church has an impressive interior consisting of 24 majestic marble columns that were originally from a nearby temple of Juno Regina. (yeah that was the era where stuff from the past were often re-used. at least in this case it forms the centerpiece in a church — some sculptures were found to be used as filler material for renaissance palazzos. -_-)
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Millions of Americans will hit the nation's highways for Thanksgiving holiday this week, which statistics indicate is one of the year's deadliest times for traffic accidents.
On average, the numbers suggest, 50 more people may die in traffic crashes this week than during other weeks this year, according to a new University of Alabama analysis.
The analysis of federal data from 2005 to 2010 found the average number of traffic fatalities for Thanksgiving week those years was 798. For all others, it was 748. ...
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By Jason McLure
(Reuters) - Researchers have named a newly discovered, prehistoric lizard "Obamadon gracilis" in honor of the 44th president's toothy grin.
The small, insect-eating lizard was first discovered in eastern Montana in 1974, but a recent re-examination showed the fossil had been wrongly classified as a Leptochamops denticulatus and was in fact a new species, researchers told Reuters on Tuesday.
Obamadon gracilis was one of nine newly discovered species reported on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In naming the new species, scientists from Yale and Harvard universities combined the Latin "Obamadon" for "Obama's teeth" and "gracilis," which means slender.
"The lizard has these very tall, straight teeth and Obama has these tall, straight incisors and a great smile," said Nick Longrich, a paleontologist at the school in New Haven, Connecticut.
It was believed to have lived during the Cretaceous period, which began 145.5 million years ago. Along with many dinosaurs from that era, the lizard died out about 65 million years ago when a giant asteroid struck earth, scientists say.
Longrich said he waited until after the recent U.S. election to name the lizard.
"It would look like we were kicking him when he's down if he lost and we named this extinct lizard after him," he said in an interview.
"Romneydon" was never under consideration and "Clintondon" didn't sound good, said Longrich, who supported Hillary Clinton's failed run against Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary.
Obama is not the first politician whose name has been used to help classify organisms. Megalonyxx jeffersonii, an extinct species of plant-eating ground sloth, was named in honor of President Thomas Jefferson, an amateur paleontologist who studied the mammal.
Earlier this year, researchers announced they had named five newly identified species of freshwater perch after Obama, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter and Theodore Roosevelt.
In 2005, entomologists named three species of North American slime-mold beetles agathidium bushi, agathidium cheneyi and agathidium rumsfeldi in honor of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld - the U.S. president, vice president and secretary of defense at the time.
Other celebrity names also have been used to name new species. A small Caribbean crustacean has been named after reggae icon Bob Marley, an Australian horsefly has been named in honor of hip-hop star Beyonce, and an endangered species of marsh rabbit has been named after Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner.
(Reporting by Jason McLure in Littleton, N.H.; Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Eric Walsh)
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Staff Picks: Movies
Staff-recommended viewing from the KPL catalog.
Inside the Louvre
On a recent rainy day, I found myself wandering down to the lower level of Central Library to browse the AV collection. I stumbled upon Louvre City which was a great find. This film looks at the work of the operations employees at the Louvre - moving paintings, cataloging and labeling statues, researching works, and developing exhibits. I think the neatest part of the movie was watching the museum staff move massive oil paintings. We see staff unrolling and stretching an enormous oil painting, and later using dozens of men to lift and move the painting into place so that it can be hung. They didn't show how it was hung, but surely that was another huge and labor intensive feat. I have wondered how the mammoth paintings in art museums are moved before, and now I see that it takes a great amount of manual labor!
The back of the case from the DVD states, "Louvre City is a celebration of the ordinary processes of work in an extraordinary setting." The collection at the Louvre is phenomenal by any standard, being one of the foremost art museums in the world. It is easy to forget or lack understanding of the background work that goes in to making this museum what it is. The movie is titled Louvre City because of the great number of people who work there - over 2,000 according to the museum's website. There are so many people it is almost a city in itself, and they are all devoted to sustaining and sharing the museum's collection.
Sometimes I talk to patrons about the library and they are surprised by the number of background things that have to happen for our operations to run smoothly. Staff at public service desks are our front line but they are supported by the work of many other people who are not seen by the public on a day to day basis. This movie shared with me the same type of insight about this museum; I never realized the amount of work and logistics that went into making a museum what it is. I appreciate museums all the more now for putting in all this time and energy to preserve artifacts for future generations to enjoy and learn from. If you are someone with an interest in museums and/or art I think you would probably really enjoy this interesting movie!
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El Salvador – New Vocabulary
When we went to El Salvador I expected the kids vocabulary and Spanish language skills to improve by leaps and bounds, (they did!) – but I didn’t realize I would learn new words… and I especially didn’t think Carlos, a born and bred Salvadoran and native Spanish-speaker would learn anything new.
The thing is, new words enter the lexicon all the time, and we were away for over a decade. In 1999 there weren’t “Ciber/Cyber Cafes” [pronounced see-ber] – where people can pay to use the internet – or at least they weren’t as popular as they are now.
So for today’s Spanish Friday, I’m going to share the new vocabulary I picked up in El Salvador.
Pasarela – Pedestrian walkway over a busy road. (I heart this word. It’s so pretty.) Pasarelas are also known as spots where young people make-out – Something I witnessed several times. I insisted that Carlos and I try to fit into the culture, although maybe we don’t qualify as young people anymore.
Ambiente – Environment, atmosphere, ambiance. There were always questions directed at me about whether I liked “el ambiente” of wherever we happened to be. (The answer was always “¡Sí!”)
Recarga – Literally it means “recharge” – but “recargas” are when you buy more minutes for your cellphone. While we were there we had the cheapest model of cellphone, (I think it cost like $10) – It had very few features (one of which, inexplicably, was a built in flashlight), and one (very annoying) ringtone which sounded even when you were turning it off. I wish I had thought to take video or photos of it, but I forgot. We actually came to love that stupid, little phone. I wish I could hear its stupid ring again.
Anyway, the “recargas” can be gotten almost anywhere. There are signs at various businesses and kiosks. They also have special days where they double or triple your minutes. If it was a triple day and you bought $3 worth of minutes, they’d give you $9. (El Salvador is very big on these bonus deal things – more on that another day.)
For some reason, Carlos couldn’t get used to the word “recarga” and every time he went to get a recarga for the phone, he’d go up to the counter and mistakenly say, “Necesito una carga” – to which the confused clerk would say, “Necesita cargar que? No entiendo.”
Getting recargas for the phone seemed like a burden at first, but now I kind of miss running over to Metrocentro to take care of it. It was a good excuse to go out and walk around. I also miss the way we Spanglish-cized the word while we were there. I’d say, “Did you recarga your phone?” or “You just recarga-ed yesterday. Are you out of minutes already?”
Místico – The real translation of this word is “mystical” or “mystic” but people seem to use it to mean “weirdo” – I’m still a little confused about this one. (Guanacos, help me out!)
Bruma – Mist/fog. This is the word people used to refer to grey clouds that come over the mountains which they say is due to humidity.
(Not sure if this qualifies as “bruma”)
Ubicada – Located. This is another word that was used a lot. “Está bien ubicada” (It’s well located), or “Ya ubicaste?” (Did you figure out where we are?)
Está yuca – This phrase means “It’s difficult” and it’s one of my new favorites. “Está bien yuca la situación” means the situation is really difficult/complicated. (Again, this one got used multiple times per day, whether referring to family problems, politics, the economy or traffic.)
Pulido – Literally means “polished”, but used to mean “cool” (not “cool” temperature wise, but awesome-ness wise.)
Tocadores/Sanitarios – Both words can be used instead of “baños” to mean “bathrooms.” “Sanitarios” is a word I’m cool with – it sounds like “sanitary” … that’s always a good thing and one of my priorities when looking for a bathroom. “Tocadores” disturbs me. It sounds like the verb “tocar” (to touch) … and that is why I still make sure my kids are accompanied to the restroom.
By the way, while we’re on the subject of bathrooms – know that the toilets in Metrocentro’s public bathrooms lack seats. If you really need to go and can’t master the squat stance (I haven’t), then head over to the department store called “Siman” … They have seats. Whew!
Another tip – some bathrooms in El Salvador don’t have toilet paper in the stall. The toilet paper is located on the wall near the sinks. You must estimate how much you need and take it with you. I think this is to avoid people being wasteful and using too much, but I’m not sure. This setup requires one to know their body well and plan ahead. You can not go into the stall with the intention of only doing a #1, but decide to do a #2, lest you find yourself in the “can you spare a square” situation of Elaine on Seinfeld.
Original – This seemed to mean unique, cool and name brand. We hung out with Carlos’s best friend a lot, and he has a 15 year old son. I found myself hanging out with the teenager a lot because we had more in common, (which isn’t saying much for my maturity.) … Anyway, he was always very excited when something was not a knock-off, declaring, “Es original!”
Ah, ya – Not actually a word, but it means something like, “Oh, I see. Right. Gotcha. I understand.” … I personally always used “Oh, sí” – but the teenager I hung out with always said something that sounded like “Aya” when he finally understood what I was talking about.
Mecha – pistol/gun … The teenager and I talked a lot about gangs. He was so impressed with how much I already knew. He was so confused as to how a girl from the United States could know so much about El Salvador. It kind of blew his mind because he was totally obsessed with everything American – clothes, food, music, movies. He couldn’t understand why I would be equally obsessed with everything Salvadoran.
Anyway, one thing he told me about gangs in El Salvador that I didn’t already know, is that there’s one gang that gets tattoos of Mickey Mouse. He said this with a completely serious expression on his face, and he looked kind of shocked when I busted out laughing. “Why are you laughing?” he asked. “Mickey Mouse is for children,” I said, “That doesn’t seem very scary.” He seemed to take this into consideration but wasn’t totally convinced that my reaction was normal.
Then again, his reaction to finding out Pizza Hut in the United States does not in fact serve horchata was kind of funny, too.
Did you participate in Spanish Friday? Leave your link in comments!
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03-19-2012, 10:01 PM #1
Rougher strings vs softer strings
This post could really belong to the Strings forums or here, but I chose to post here because it has to do with stringing a little bit.
First, I'll define what I mean by rougher vs softer, because I may not be using the eight words. Rougher strings would be strings that are a bit "sticky", which would mean that if you move a string on your string bed, the string would stay about where you left it due to friction. An example of such strings would be BG80, ZM62 and most APACS strings. Softer strings would be the total opposite, where if you move a string, it comes back right where it was, less friction. Examples: BG65, HQ 696, NBG95, etc.
Most of my stringing experience has been with BG65. It sells like hot cake here and everyone wants it because of its performance/durability. Due to this, most people are used to the way BG65 reacts to impacts and just goes back to where it was, thus the string bed remains mostly straight and intact. This lead to what I would call a common misconception where people think that since the strings move after hitting the shuttle hard enough, the string job was badly done. I also have to admit that I have thought the same thing for a long time, then I blamed it on strings being of low quality, but when I saw that even (authentic) BG80 reacted the same when I started stringing, I realized it was normal.
First, I'd like to know if it's normal ? Do you happen to have to place your (BG80, APACS, etc.) strings back in place after most rallies ?
Is there any way (stringing wise) to prevent this ? I would assume that strings move much less when stringing at 30lbs, but people here use much lower tensions (20-24 usually).
03-19-2012, 10:20 PM #2
Just a minor correction: I believe you mean rougher strings vs smoother strings.
I'm no stringer, but I'm a user of strings. . Mainly using VS850 which has a rougher texture, at 24lbs. When newly strung it would move around a bit after a hard shot or slice, requiring constant adjustment from me in between rallies. Fortunately this movement eventually stops after 4-6 hrs of play when the mains and crosses set in a bit.
Last edited by visor; 03-19-2012 at 10:22 PM.
03-19-2012, 10:24 PM #3
i have to move a main back into place for my bg80s once in a while so its not always about string type, mostly its just the strings need to settle and not a fault with the string job or tension.
03-19-2012, 10:34 PM #4
Most Professional Badminton athletes readjust their string after a rally, just to check whether any adjustment has to be made or not. It is normal.
The more time you spent with the racket & string & the lesser time you have to adjust the string, since it will settle quite well through time.. However some adjustment has to be made, if needed..
03-19-2012, 11:13 PM #5
I was going through kwun's videos about stringing and one or more of them regarding cross weaving included a possible solution or reduction to your problem. Check his started threads, he has multiple videos about cross weaving.
03-19-2012, 11:17 PM #6
Thanks for the answers so far!
As for the misconception, I actually need to come up with arguments other than BG80 is like that. I would first say that the better "gripping" on the strings makes slicing and net play easier/better. Anything else ?
03-19-2012, 11:20 PM #7
03-20-2012, 02:20 AM #8
My Nanogy 98 strings move. They are at 28lbs.
It's normal for the strings to move. The only time for the strings not to move would be if the racquet is swung and misses the shuttle.
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The gastrointestinal tract will never win any beauty contests.
And, despite actress Jamie Lee Curtis' earnest commercial attempts to preach the virtues of yogurt as a remedy for digestive dysfunction, the gastrointestinal tract rarely receives a purposeful introduction into everyday conversation.
When the gastrointestinal tract does become a topic for discussion, it tends to be spoken of in conspiratorial whispers. Or, worse yet, it serves as a punch line and punching bag for comedians plumbing the depths for cheap laughter.
"We're more aware of muscles, nerves and the 'sexier' organs," said David Pascoe, Humana-Germany-Sherman distinguished professor of exercise physiology and director of the Thermal Lab in the College of Education's Department of Kinesiology. "The gut is just there. We forget that it is maybe the glue. None of the other organs can exist without it."
From its beginning to its end, from the mouth to the exit portal we don't dare discuss in polite company, the human gastrointestinal tract stretches anywhere from 20 to 30 feet and includes the esophagus, stomach and small and large intestines. You might wonder why Pascoe and some of his colleagues would be interested in talking about the body's equivalent of plumbing fixtures, but his research interest was piqued by the fact that it's the body's only internal and external organ and serves as a delivery mechanism for hydration, nutrition and medication.
"When the gut isn't happy, we're not happy," he said. "It's the largest immune organ in the body."
Pascoe and other researchers in the Department of Kinesiology and Auburn's College of Veterinary Medicine are now investigating the ways in which this vital system can be kept healthy and happy. Auburn University approved the establishment of the Gastrointestinal Research Center within the Department of Kinesiology, which opened in January. The center will focus on improving understanding of the structures, mechanisms, functions and dysfunctions of the gastrointestinal tract in animals and humans. Impairments of the system can have repercussions in such areas as digestion and nutrition, growth and development, temperature regulation and hydration.
"We started working together about a year ago," said Department of Kinesiology head Mary Rudisill, a Wayne T. Smith distinguished professor of motor behavior. "We realized how much exercise and dehydration and a variety of other factors within our world can impact gastrointestinal health."
The center will bring together faculty members with impressive backgrounds. In addition to Rudisill and Pascoe, a nationally-known researcher in the field of temperature regulation, the center will also draw on the expertise of College of Veterinary Medicine faculty and staff members Timothy Moore, Vitaly Vodyanoy and Iryna Sorokulova. Moore, whose background is in microbiology and the administration of military biological labs, serves as the director of program development for research in Veterinary Medicine. Vodyanoy specializes in high-resolution imagery, probiotics, biophysics, histology and cell membrane function. Sorokulova is an internationally-recognized expert on probiotics.
Vodyanoy has worked to develop an advanced microscopy technique that features increased resolution and a dual mode fluorescence imaging capability. The microscope offers extraordinarily high resolving power at a lower cost, which enables early stage disease detection and real-time imaging of living cellular structures with no sample preparation, in fine detail traditionally offered by electro-microscopes. The high resolution attributes allow for the detection of viruses, which can be approximately 20 nanometers in diameter versus bacteria that can be more than 200 nanometers in diameter.
"The Vitaly microscopic imagery provides our researchers the ability to visualize structural changes related to gut function and relate them to both biochemical markers," Pascoe explained. "Unlike other microscopes with this magnification ability, the Vitaly scope does not require slide preparations that can distort or create artifact to the specimen, and it allows us to investigate live cells from gut samples."
Stress has been shown to have a central and peripheral nervous system effect, promoting not only psychological illness, but also influencing diseases within the intestines. This is where Sorokulova's work comes into play.
"It was shown that the main target of stress is the gastrointestinal tract and gut microflora," she explained. "Beneficial probiotic bacteria have been shown to enhance gastrointestinal barrier function and dampen inflammation in several immune mediated diseases, thereby conferring a health benefit on the host. Our approach involves the use of the beneficial Bacillus strain to prevent and treat the undesirable effects of stress."
Some areas of research interest could include hydration as it relates to athletic performance and medical care, Celiac disease, probiotics and product efficacy. Pascoe and Rudisill said some of the center's research will investigate the possible relationship between gastrointestinal dysfunction and sleep disorders, autism spectrum disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
"We're looking for ways to prevent, treat and recover from issues related to gastrointestinal health," Rudisill said. "We see potential in many areas. This research team has some expertise that no one else in the country can offer. We have the expertise, the know-how and the university support to find the answers to questions that we have about gastrointestinal health."
Pascoe has a gut feeling that the more the center researchers learn, the more they may be able to change the way people think and talk about all matters related to gastrointestinal health.
"It's not the most attractive organ," he said, "but maybe it's time we invite it to the prom."
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BEACH CEMETERY, ANZAC
AIF – 285
UK – 50
NZ – 21
Ceylon – 3
Unit not known – 21
Spec Mem - 11
Beach Cemetery was used from the day of the Landing at Anzac, almost until the Evacuation. There are now nearly 400, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, over 20 are unidentified and the names of ten soldiers from Australia, one from New Zealand, for whose burial in the cemetery there is evidence, are recorded on special tablets. The Cemetery covers an area of 2,049 square metres.
Beach Cemetery is situated on what was known as Hell Spit, at the southern point of Anzac Cove. The graves lie between the Kelia-Suvla road and the beach, and the Cross is on the east side of the road.
GRAVES OF INTEREST
|Pte J.S.Kirkpatrick 3rd Field Ambulance AMC (I-F-1)|
- Killed 19th May 1915
- ‘Simpson and his Donkey’
|Lieut-Colonel G.Braund 2nd Bn AIF (I-A-40)|
- Killed 4th May 1915- Age 48
- Vegetarian & theosophist
- A "man of strong ideas, a total abstainer, and a man of vigorous action" (Bean)
- Killed by an Australian sentry – Braund was partly deaf.
|Capt E. (‘Bob’) Bage 3rd Field Coy AE (I-D-7)|
- Killed 7th May 1915
- Member of 1911-13 Antarctic Expedition- "Robert Bage Memorial Scholarship" at University of Melbourne
|Lieutenant William Dawkins 2nd Field Coy RE (I-H-3)|
- Killed 12th May 1915
- ‘Dawkins Point’ named after him.
|Commander E.H.Cater HMS Lord Nelson|
- Killed 7th August 1915
- "The Bloke with the glass eye" (AIF slang)
- Had a ‘King size monocle’- In charge of the landings at ANZAC
- Killed on the beach while helping men under shrapnel fire
|Pte Albert Mummery 23rd Bn AIF (II-G-2)|
- Age 17.
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Italian byname structures (was: RE: [ANSTHRLD] House Porto - Household name and badge)
kobrien at bmc.com
Fri May 30 00:37:15 PDT 2003
>If Francesca's rank and prestige were greater than her husband's, he would
>take her name, and her influence.
Really? I hadn't run into the use of married names in Italian yet. I have
seen 16th C records where a wife is referred to by her surname, rather than
her husband's, though the children got his surname. Where'd you run across
this info? I'd be interested in seeing what other info that source has.
>Their children would want to do the same
>thing, an their grandchildren, etc. -- so, you could have, Alberto della
>Bella, which often went to a plural, if he had siblings, which would either
>be Belle, if he kept it feminine, which I would think unlikely, or Belli --
>which would also change the plural of the link between the names, either 'i
>Belli' or "dei Belli". That's how you get names like "Lorenzi" or "Medici".
My understanding is that surnames like <Lorenzi> and <Alberti> come from
the genitive case and so indicate possessive. <Lorenzo> is a nominative
case name. In a byname, it could be <di Lorenzo> '[child] of Lorenzo' or
<Lorenzi>. The <Lorenzi> form is the genitive case of <Lorenzo> and
indicates possesive. An example of this type of name would be a name like
<Marco Lorenzi>, which would literally translate as 'Lorenzo's Marco'. In
the 16th C, the genitive surname forms such as <Lorenzi> are normally
inherited surnames rather than literal patronymics.
<Medici> is different. It's a shortened form of <dei Medici>. I don't
have my Italian books in front of me, so I don't know if the genitive form
<Medici> is due to a plural usage or some another grammar requirement.
>If Francesca had gone to Venice, the pattern might have become "Firenzi"
>for her kids.
Maybe, maybe not. There's some research in this going on regarding Italian
bynames at the moment. I've got <Fiorentino> 'the Florentine' in one of my
in-progress articles. That form could easily have become an inherited
surname. Regarding <Firenzi>, this is also a genitive form indicating
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Moments of grace found in aftermath of shooting at Colorado theater
Published: July 30, 2012
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In the speech he gave at the University of Colorado Hospital July 22, President Barack Obama quoted a Scripture passage that calls attention to how people find comfort amid suffering. "He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more. Neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away," he said, quoting from Revelations. The president did not focus on the gunman who killed 12 people and wounded 58 during a midnight showing of the latest Batman movie, "The Dark Knight Rises" July 20. Instead, he emphasized the goodness demonstrated in the tragedy's aftermath. He said he assured the shooting victims that he had just visited at the hospital that "although the perpetrator of this evil act has received a lot of attention over the last couple of days that attention will fade away. What will be remembered are the good people who were impacted by this tragedy," he added. According to news reports, three men killed in the shooting died while shielding their girlfriends from bullets. Another died shielding a friend and one young woman stayed with her friend instead of fleeing while keeping her finger on the bullet wound in her friend's neck to stop the bleeding. When the shooting stopped, she helped carry her friend across two parking lots to an ambulance. The president recounted the story of Stephanie Davies, who saved her friend, Allie Young, from bleeding to death. "I don't know how many people at any age would have the presence of mind that Stephanie did, or the courage that Allie showed," he said, noting that they "represent what's best in us, and they assure us that out of this darkness a brighter day is going to come."
Copyright (c) Catholic News Service /U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The CNS news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed, including but not limited to such means as framing or any other digital copying or distribution method, in whole or in part without the prior written authority of Catholic News Service .
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In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
-- John McCrae, 1915
There are few things as moving to me as viewing a national cemetery. Seeing those rows upon rows of white crosses, seemingly standing at attention, timeless and stark reminders of the price of freedom and the supreme sacrifice made by America's best to preserve it. The crosses represent folks who all gave their innocence in service to their country, all giving something to their fellow citizens, and some giving all.
My dad and many of my uncles fought in World War II and Korea. My father, an infantryman whose name I proudly carry, landed at Omaha Beach, marched in the Liberation of Paris and was among the holdouts at Bastogne. My uncle Abe was also at the Bulge. My uncle Gene served in the Pacific, fighting the last holdouts on the Japanese home islands and witnessing firsthand the aftermath of the atomic bomb.
My situation isn't much different than most folks my age. Such was the sacrifice of what Tom Brokaw termed, "The Greatest Generation," that we all had firsthand contact of some sort with such heroes.
I've always been awed and humbled by such folks. But really I've been awed by all members of that generation -- a generation that when duty called they pitched in at home and abroad to preserve the institutions and the way of life that had been passed to them to uphold. Members of that generation are leaving us by the thousands each day.
Memorial Day was officially proclaimed May 5, 1868, by Gen. John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, reports www.usmemorialday.org. It was first observed on May 30, 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. The National Holiday Act of 1971 set the official observance day as the last Monday in May.
Many folks, and I am among them, lament that Memorial Day isn't what it used to be. Many folks think the day is aimed at honoring all dead rather than just veterans. And, rather than being a time of remembrance and reflection, Memorial Day has turned out to serve as more a mark of the official start of summer vacation than anything else.
I agree this nation could do more to honor our fallen and those in service, and to honor these folks more while they live, with better benefits and services.
But I do think there seems to be a renewed spirit of respect among Americans for our veterans, and folks in uniform and their families. When you gather with your loved ones on Monday, take a few moments to invoke the memory of the millions of largely faceless folks who made it possible. Better yet, carry that spirit throughout the year by personally thanking the folks in uniform when you encounter them.
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Unfortunately all genealogists have limited time and limited money. Saving time while researching allows time for other activities, most importantly doing more research! What follows are some time-saving techniques I have used in the past. However, don't limit yourself to these ideas you can probably think of many others on your own. However, remember that timesaving techniques are only "time-savers" if they don't result in wasted time later. Make sure that you aren't cutting corners in the wrong place.
Before you visit a library, visit it online.
This can help you save time in three ways:
Searching the catalog from home before your trip may save significant amounts of on-site research time, allowing you to spend more time with the materials you came to see.
- First, check the basic information about the facility, including its location and hours. You don't want to plan a trip for the wrong time.
- Second, if the Web site contains an overview of the collection, it may help you determine if the library is one you actually wish to visit.
- Finally, you may be able to access the library's card catalog through their Web site.
Print one bibliographic page for each book or source you plan to use.
Documenting your research is extremely important. However, it frequently slows down on-site research. To allow you to spend more time with the materials when you go to a library or archive, create one sheet for each book or record you plan to search. If you've used the online card catalog, copy and paste the bibliographic information into a word processor, using one sheet for each book. Make research notes on the sheet for use at the library or archives. Then when at the facility, you can make additional notes regarding the success (or failure) of your search. If you make copies from the source, attach them to the sheet for ease in tracking sources and entering data when you return home.
Enter all information from each source or record at the same time.
Data entry is not fun, but it makes information analysis and pattern recognition much easier. When entering information from records, don't sift through all your records looking for information on one person. Instead, enter all information from each source at the same time. Data entry with most software programs (including Family Tree Maker) is easier if you enter information about one document completely before starting on another one, and you may be able to copy and paste repetitive information during the data entry process. If you aren't constantly flipping through documents while entering data, you also reduce your chances of making errors.
File as you go to avoid hunting in the future.
The short amount of time it takes to file a record copy or other document will be time well spent when you are looking for that document a few months or years down the road. Spending an entire afternoon searching through your stacks for something is not time well spent. You might also want to include the name of your file folder in your notes or sources when performing data entry. This will make locating information even easier.
Write it down, neatly.
Time spent writing something on paper and filing it is time well spent. Do not trust your memory, or you will find yourself back at the library again. Do not write sloppily or you will misinterpret what you have written. Do not use scraps of paper that are easily lost. Do not use a crayon or lipstick that will be impossible to read next year.
Focus on one line or family at a time.
Dont mindlessly surf the net (or the library) for information on "as many of your families as possible." Focusing on one line or family makes better use of your research time and keeps you focused and sharp. If I plan to go to the Family History Library in Salt Lake and work "a little bit" on all the lines of my children, I might end up a tad bit confused. Just tracking back to their 3rd great-grandparents, my children have Ostfriesen, German, Irish, Swedish, Swiss, Belgian, and French Canadian ancestry. And thats just those who were not born in the United States. Researching families from all these ethnic groups at once is likely to leave me confused and wasting time. There are too many languages and cultures for me to effectively digest simultaneously. I'd probably do best to focus on one or two groups at a time.
Discover what indexes and records you can use online.
More and more information is becoming available online (either free or fee-based), which can save a trip to the library. In some cases, the actual records you wish to use may not be online, but even if indexes to those records are online, you can save time by doing a little digging at home first and then making more effective use of your on-site time.
Consider posting some of your data to a Web site.
Letting others know about your research interests is an excellent way to cut down on your research time, or to avoid spending time researching records that others have already researched. Users of Family Tree Maker and Genealogy.com can easily post information on their own Web pages at those Web sites. You can also post questions or brief information about your ancestors to the appropriate bulletin board at GenForum.
Determine if others have researched your family.
There are many ways to do this. You can search online collections of genealogical data such the World Family Tree. Or, look for published information on your family by searching card catalogs such as the one for the Family History Library or the Library of Congress. When using pre-published information, whether in print or electronic form, remember that you should only use the information contained in these sources as clues, not as fact. Remember that the quality of the data is the responsibility of the author or submitter, and it is always possible for mistakes to occur.
Learn about the records you will research.
Do not research in ignorance. Learning will invariably save you time and money. There are numerous printed guides to genealogical research available for purchase or through your local library. Additionally, there are online sites such as the Family History Library Web Site and Genealogy.com that contain information about research and records in a wide variety of areas. You might also consider attending one of the many genealogical workshops and institutes offered around the country.
Maps can help you understand locations and may also provide suggestions for other areas to research. When travelling anywhere to research, include maps as a part of your research preparation. Maps will facilitate research in many records and having them will save the time of locating an atlas and making relevant copies at the library. If you take a "stack" of genealogical information to the library to research and do not include relevant maps, you're selling your research short. Maps can also help you learn how county and other boundaries have changed. There's nothing worse for wasting time than looking in the wrong county for your family records.
Make goals and work towards them.
Never go to a research facility without a list of specific tasks. These items should be as specific as possible. Going to the courthouse with the intent of "learning whatever I can about great-grandma" will not make effective use of your time. If the exact dates of her vital events are unknown, estimate them from other records or information. These dates and approximate locations will help focus your search. Stating your genealogical goal and then listing the records and sources that could help you reach that goal will help to organize your research and make better use of your research time.
Get your soundex codes in one place.
Keep a chart or table that lists the soundex code for every surname you are researching. While coding surnames may not take that much time, you will save time (and frustration) if you have a handy list of your "personal" soundex codes with you.
Photocopy title pages to ensure accuracy.
If possible, make a copy of the title page of any book that you use. This reduces the amount of time you spend writing and reduces the chance of a mistake. If you search a book and are unable to locate any information, make a copy of the title page and in pencil write the surnames you searched for. This will make updating your research log and data entry much easier when you get home.
When copying from a file that contains many documents
Assign a "code" to each document. If a court case contains a "Master's Report" and a "Response of Defendant" write (in pencil) MR1, MR2, MR3 on the copies you make from the "Master's Report" and RD1, RD2, RD3, etc. on the copies made from the "Response of Defendant." These notations are just examples; you can make up your own system. The notation is best written on the back and serves mainly to assist in separating copies should they become mixed up (some people recommend against stapling). Even if stapled, this method will prevent confusion should the staple ever be removed. Remember that one page of each set should contain a complete citation as to the reference (book or packet number, page (if appropriate), case file number (or box number, etc.), location of the records, etc.).
These are just a few of my favorites, and you'll notice that they don't have a lot to do with working faster, but with working smarter and more carefully. Avoiding retracing your steps can be one of the biggest time-savers of all. When using additional "timesaving" techniques make certain you don't end up wasting time or money later as a result of your approach. Shortcuts are not always "short" and you may "cut" yourself in the process. Timesaving procedures that require you to organize information may even cause you to see new leads and approaches. And what better way to spend the time you've saved than following up on new leads!
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