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From The Republican of Springfield, Mass.:
Embellishing one's personal history is not a crime. While you might well wonder about someone who would concoct a story in which he is a decorated war hero when he is, in fact, nothing of the sort, you very likely wouldn't want the individual to run afoul of the law because of his prevarications.
You might find yourself wondering even more about a law that criminalizes such fabrications. Doesn't the First Amendment to our Constitution, the primary element in our nation's Bill of Rights, specifically prohibit the government from silencing citizens? Nonetheless, the Stolen Valor Act made it a crime to lie about having received military medals.
What then is one to think about three justices on the Supreme Court believing that such a law is perfectly OK?
Thankfully, the other six justices prevailed, finding in favor of speech, in favor of one of the most fundamental rights in our democracy.
In the case before the Supreme Court, a California man claimed to have been awarded the Medal of Honor. He hadn't, and was found guilty of violating the anti-lying law.
Most people would not condone such behavior. But few would find the tale-teller's behavior criminal.
It's particularly odd that the three justices who were OK with the liar-law are so-called conservatives, judges who profess to look to the original words of the Constitution to assess the founder's intent.
The First Amendment reads, in part: "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech."
Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito might wish to take another look at the document that they claim to so revere. The meaning should be crystal clear, to liberals and conservatives alike.
The government doesn't get to decide what the citizens can say. Even when what they are saying is a whole lot less than credible.
* Editorials reflect the opinion of the publisher.
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The Cosmic Frontier
The story of the rise of the extra-constitutional power structures that is threatening to disintegrate the 200 years old American "democratic experiment".
A convincing demonstration of the manner how the acquisition of near absolute military-industrial hegemony by the USA during the second half of the 20th century is intimately related to the accidental contact the American Army had with extraterrestrials, near Roswell AFB, New Mexico, in 1947.
In his sweeping research Mauro F. P. Porto draws from hundreds of pages of official documents and stunning images (wholly reproduced in the accompanying CD) to present a credible account of the origin of a truly "subterranean" defense establishment, developed throughout the last 50 years in the USA, destined to keep as far as possible under control the social, economic and, mainly, the military-political consequences of the indisputable proof, obtained by the US government, that extraterrestrial beings of humanoid appearance have been present for untold times on planet Earth.
Mauro F. P. Porto is a retired telecom engineer who pioneered the implantation of modern telecommunication networks in the Brazilian Amazon area during the 1960 decade.
His own personal experience and the many cases of anomalous objects that have been seen over-flying the Amazon area and the rest of Brazil, prompted him to embark in an all embracing research to find the reasons why these sightings remained unexplained in spite of the great mass of facts accumulated about them during the last 50 years and, more puzzling than that, how could they have been considered irrelevant by governmental panels that concluded that these phenomena didnít constitute "a threat to national security" -- despite strong opinions on the contrary stated by respected members of the panels themselves.
Only at the final years of the 1990 decade the last pieces of this complicated puzzle came sufficiently into place to allow the striking conclusions presented in "The Cosmic Frontier".
Mauro F. P. Porto is presently working on the short and long term political consequences of the cover-up situation to the USA and to the transnational globalization agenda of the UN and European Union politicians.
The Cosmic Frontier is available via the author's website at http://www.thecosmicfrontier.com or from Amazon.com
Mauro Porto is also the author of The "Cosmic Frontier" Essays which cover in graphic detail cattle and human mutilations. Those wishing to read the essays can do so at the following link but should be warned that the images are shocking and discretion should be used: http://usuarios.uninet.com.br/~mfpporto/COSMIC%20FRONTIER%20ESSAYS.htm
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It seems that the years 2006 and 2007 became a turning point for Lithuania’s music industry. First of all, July 2006 saw the establishment of Music Export Lithuania, an institution dedicated to promoting Lithuanian music abroad and facilitating its export. In a short while, Music Export Lithuania could boast several successful projects. Its website www.mxl.lt, which presents Lithuanian artists to potential international consumers in a highly attractive modern format, is online since January 2007. Just a couple of months after its launch, the first compilations from the five-piece CD and DVD sampler series Note Lithuania, presenting selected examples in styles ranging from pop/rock to electronica, were out. Not without the same institution’s considerable effort, the presentation of Lithuanian music industry at the world’s largest music trade fair MIDEM in Cannes (the third one for Lithuania) was much more coordinated and effective (besides, an agreement for a much more comprehensive presentation in 2009 was reached).
Lastly, on 24-25 May 2007 Vilnius hosted a very important event that might become a starting point in the newest history of Lithuanian music: the Baltic Music Industry Conference (BMIC), organized by Music Export Lithuania and the British Council. The conference brought together some of the best-known music industry experts from abroad and the representatives of the Baltic States’ music industries: managers, publishers, producers, event promoters and artists themselves. The very fact that Vilnius was chosen as this event’s location suggests that Lithuanian music scene has reached a certain stage in its development that demands a refl ection on current trends and future perspectives.
Yet are the industry’s players themselves, not the music market commentators or music export strategists, ready for taking such an objective and critical look at their own business sphere? Talking specifically about BMIC ’07, the Lithuanian participants’ reluctance to actively contribute to the conferences’ sessions makes it difficult to conclude that the majority of them saw the event as relevant to Lithuania’s current situation and potentially useful for Lithuanian music business. The lack of enthusiasm was partially explained by several remarks that Lithuanians made during certain sessions, which could be summarized as follows: Lithuanian music industry is still in a stage where solving short-term problems and taking care of basic needs is more important than setting strategic development goals. In other words, the rhetoric employed by Lithuania’s representatives was radically different than that of their foreign partners. A considerable part of them are still unwilling to reject the familiar mythology of inferiority (consisting of arguments like “the market is too small”, “nobody buys records”, “there are no facilities for live performances”, etc.), while the foreigners tend to speak about innovations, long-term strategies and rational but creative music management methods. In short, while the former identify the problems, the latter seek solutions to them.
However, observing Lithuania’s music life of today, which in fact doesn’t lack interesting and original phenomena, makes one feel that this defensive rhetoric doesn’t necessarily coincide with reality, and that Lithuanian artists, publishers and managers are simply accustomed to thinking and talking in such terms. It is possible that BMIC ’07 will serve as a catalyst for change in attitude, inducing Lithuanian music industry players to take an active position instead. Some of them already demonstrated such proactive orientation during the conference, but one cannot be a prophet in one’s own land even in the 21st century. Maybe the lessons taught by foreign colleagues will prove more convincing (if the traditional skeptical attitude toward “Western philosophizing” will be abandoned), especially since most of them were presented as concrete suggestions potentially helpful in making Lithuanian music industry strong, vibrant and lucrative.
Will the record companies face the dinosaurs’ fate?
There are three basic types of players in the world music industry: the major labels, the independent labels, and self-managed artists and bands (who are also self-published and self-distributed in some cases). What are the likely evolution scenarios for these three? At the conference, it was stated a number of times that the first type virtually has no future, even though its position is still fairly strong at the moment. The giant, infl exible, vertically structured global music corporations are a phenomenon of the late 20th century, unable to adjust properly to the changing trends in culture and business of the new millennium. If these big companies are to escape the fate of dinosaurs, they must evolve into a kind of “big independent labels”, rejecting many of their present functions (like physical manufacturing of records) in favour of concentrating on the creative and administrative functions, outsourcing the rest of the process. Only then will they become responsive to the dynamic processes in the market.
Who needs labels in the 21st century: Jaro Slavik (Warner Music
Austria), Toby Brundin (moderator, British Council), Grandmaster
Gareth (Misty's Big Adventure), Erik Nielsen (Marillion)
It must be noted that such major labels practically don’t exist in Lithuania. The international giants like EMI or Warner haven’t entered its market yet, even though they do operate in some other Eastern Europe countries already. Meanwhile, almost all of the local companies are to be classified as independent in terms of scale and principle of operations. Yet there is a paradox: the majority of Lithuanian record labels resemble the majors because of the vertical integration of their operations, since they are what can be called “all-in-one production houses”, taking care of the whole spectrum of related processes–from recording to distribution. For these companies, maximum integration of the music industry’s functions within the operations of one enterprise is a means to cut costs and solve the problem of missing infrastructure, typical of a small market. Yet such integration, while saving financial resources, requires much greater organizational resources and concentration on various routine administrative procedures, and may cause the creative and strategic aspects of the business to be neglected. It is likely that this trend is one of the major causes of the aforementioned phenomenon of concentration on the short-term perspective prevailing in the industry. If this is true, then the practice’s validity for today’s situation should be reevaluated.
Another problem hindering the progress of Lithuanian record companies is the lack of professional skills. Almost all of the companies were established by music enthusiasts, musicians, or simply venturous entrepreneurs, not professional music managers or publishing experts. Since complex study programmes in music management are still in their development stage in Lithuania, the music business is largely a field of continuous experiments and trial-and-error search for effective practices, rather than a systematic activity with established principles. Again, this situation hardly leaves any place for coordinated strategic development. Furthermore, it appears to signal that, since the managers and the publishers are not really trained professionals, the artists can do the same activities at least as well, if not better. Thus increasingly many groups chose to take care of their own management themselves, seeking to secure their creative and financial independence, while for some alternative bands it is the only way to get their music out on the market, since risk-averse labels are reluctant to sign them. There are even some bands that establish small self-run labels, like Skamp and their Tabami Records, but the general assumption is that such enterprises are mostly unprofitable. On the other hand, self-managed bands and artist-run labels should be really creative in searching new ways of fundraising and marketing to do without the support of established and more experienced record companies. For example, they might use fan base support for financing the recording of their albums, or explore the possibilities of digital distribution, as it is done in some other countries.
What keeps the live music scene alive?
One of the conference’s recurrent themes was the declining record sales and the upsurge in the popularity of live music. Even a brief look at the live music scene in Lithuania and its evolution in the recent years reveals that this process is taking place here as well. There is a significant increase in not only the number of live concerts, but also the number of live acts. The sphere of concert promoters is experiencing a similar quantitative and qualitative growth, with some promoters even becoming trendsetters. A good example is Tabami, a live event promotion agency established by members of Skamp, which has become a recognized and respected brand.
Fusedmarc (LT) gave absolutely stunning
live performance during the BMIC '07
Unfortunately, the number of adequate concert spaces is not growing so fast. There are quite many small venues (usually cafes and small clubs) that can only accommodate performances for small crowds, and there are several modern entertainment complexes that are suitable for grandiose live appearances by first-rate pop stars. The middle-sized stages appropriate for acts that like to have a close enough contact with their audience, yet have overgrown the pub concert format and have specific technical requirements, are few. On the other hand, one shouldn’t forget that the availability of infrastructure will not automatically make the live music scene interesting and unique.
In summertime, the public spaces of Lithuanian cities assume the role of stages for live performances by popular artists, becoming the location for various free events fi nanced by the politicians or business companies. At this point, it is difficult to predict such events’ effect on the quality and growth of the Lithuanian live music scene. So far it seems that the fans are still willing to pay for the favourite artists’ performances in clubs, even if they play free concerts as well. This may be explained by the fact that the atmosphere of ‘proper’ concerts is perceived as fairly different and worth the entrance fee. Besides, it is possible that free public performances may make a band more visible and induce more listeners to go to its paid shows, serving as a ‘free sample’.
In Europe, large open-air summer festivals like Poland’s Heineken Open’er or Hungary’s Sziget Festival are a hotbed for live music, featuring both the top international stars and the less known bands. This summer Lithuania had a chance to observe the first attempt at organizing a similar event in its territory. It would be unfair to say that the Be2gether Festival, which took place in Norviliškės on the last weekend of August, was unsuccessful. Yet some commentators stated that the first edition lacked consistency and truly new musical content. Still, one can hope that this start will act as a catalyst for a certain chain reaction, and in a couple of years Lithuania will indeed have an open-air live music festival that will be well-known at least in the region.
Digital distribution: an alternative for small market limitations?
An underlying assumption of the conference’s session on digital sales was that digital distribution via the Internet and portable multimedia devices is the future of the music business. The global digital sales may equal the now-declining physical record sales by the year 2010. Internet-based digital distribution minimizes the importance of geographical location and physical infrastructure. Even though digital sales cannot fully compensate for the diminishing physical sales yet, it is clear that the music distribution has changed irreversibly, and the new millennium brought new factors infl uencing the bands’ visibility: presence in online communities like MySpace, YouTube and Last.fm, as well as a deal with an independent digital distributor.
In Lithuania digital distribution of music is still largely underdeveloped. The culture of buying (not illegally downloading) music online has not developed yet, and the record companies themselves are not yet ready for such a radical transformation. Yet there are good examples that online distribution works, at least for certain music scenes. For instance, the digital versions of the releases of RyRalio Records, a dance music label established by the well-known Lithuanian DJ and promoters team of the same name, are successfully distributed through the majority of popular online DJ stores like Beatport.com for a while already. At the conference, the Lithuanian record companies willing to start digital operations were advised to concentrate their online sales on two or three carefully selected channels–for example, the iTunes store and one or two independent websites like Bleep.com. For very small labels the best practice would be to work with one of the content aggregators like CD Baby, which make it easier to get listed in the online store catalogues and do all the necessary accounting, as well as providing additional promotion tools.
According to the statistics, the penetration of mobile devices in Lithuania is higher than 100% and significantly exceeds the availability of Internet access. It is therefore logical that the majority of digital music sales are accounted for by the various musical content-related mobile services. Several aggregators and providers of such content are active in Lithuania. Modern mobile phones, having become portable multifunction and multimedia devices, make possible the distribution of not simply digital tracks, but bundled products that contain additional graphic and moving image files in different formats. Such products can compensate for the loss of a part of the complex experience of music that was typical of the physical distribution era (the design of the sleeve, the liner notes etc.). It seems that the Lithuanian mobile services market is moving in that direction, offering its customers still new services and their combination. The mobile Internet, becoming faster and more widespread, can be a significant positive factor in this process.
Digital distribution dictates a new logic of information distribution. Today’s internet is not a sphere of centralized information channels, but rather an unpredictable and constantly evolving universe of independent and personal information tools – weblogs, forums etc. While the distrust of corporate mass media grows, the person-to-person word of mouth and information exchange taking place in the mentioned open platforms become increasingly important. The bands willing to build their visibility and support base in a fast and cheap way can effectively use this situation to their advantage, instead of waiting for the ‘big’ media to notice them. Some music scenes in Lithuania, for instance, the electronic music scene, are already making a fairly effective use of the internet as a marketing tool, while others, it seems, did not fully realize its potential.
Making brands sound like music
Perfectly aware of the role that music plays in today’s urban life, many well-known brands seek to associate their goods and services with the modern youth culture, where music acts as a symbolic attractor and catalyst for identifi cation and adoption. Today’s consumers are quick to decode the hidden messages and mechanisms employed by the advertising, thus the association of brands and music has to be subtle and imaginative to avoid rejection. For example, using a recognized brand name in the name of a concert hall, an entertainment complex or a festival seems to work well (a prominent example in Lithuania is the multipurpose Siemens Arena).
The most popular practice in Lithuania is the distribution of music compilations in the form of prizes together with mass consumption products like light alcoholic and soft drinks. Bomba Records and Monaco Production has engaged in such projects a number of times. There are some more interesting forms of collaboration as well, like club music mixes released by restaurant and urban clothing chains (usually bearing the names of well-known DJs) and impressive dance music events series sponsored by alcoholic drink brands, featuring the top-notch international acts. Other forms of such symbiosis, for instance, licensing songs by popular Lithuanian artists for TV ads of well-known brands on a regular basis, are yet to emerge.
Remembering Maslow’s classical hierarchy of needs, it seems that Lithuanian music industry has already transcended the basic level, meaning that its ‘physiological’ survival needs are satisfied, and it is surely developing. Still, it is far from the top of the pyramid, because so many representatives of the music business are focused on very concrete and short-term ‘household problems’. BMIC ’07 can be viewed as successful if the Lithuanian music business elite will direct its look to the long-term development issues and innovative creative strategies after this contact with its foreign partners. It is also extremely important for the local music industry to consolidate and seek common goals in coordination, since that is the only way for it to see the broader context and achieve a more professional level.
© Jurij Dobriakov
Lithuanian Music Link No. 15
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Meet Cimarron, the new incarnation of a Florida State mascot that apparently existed once but which nobody remembers. FSU already has a mascot, of course, a Native American named Chief Osceola who attempts to set fire to football fields while riding his trusty mount Renegade. Turns out Osceola isn't appropriate for certain audiences—specifically, anything involving kids—so FSU commissioned Cimarron a few months ago to have an fitting mascot to represent the university at certain events. You can also follow Cimarron on Twitter.
Of course, the plushy real-life version doesn't much match the cartoon. For one, the live Cimarron has human hands. This is somewhat disturbing, and we're curious what kind of twisted experiment at the equine science labs in Tallahassee hatched such a creature. As for whether Chief Osceola feels his importance may be compromised by a new mascot on the scene, well, that costume looks awfully flammable. [FSU News]
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Too often we think first of Cain and Abel when we think of biblical brothers. There are other examples of discord between Esau and Jacob, but they were reconciled, and we don’t teach of that often enough.
Jacob feared their meeting, made preparations for a battle, then when he saw Esau coming, separated his children:
And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids. (Genesis 33:1 KJV)
He need not have been concerned.
And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept. (Genesis 33:4 KJV)
Could two brothers have been closer than Moses and Aaron?
And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him. (Exodus 4:27 KJV)
How about the love Andrew held for Simon Peter, enough to share what he had learned?
One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. (John 1:40-41 KJV)
How much more should we be loving our siblings, when we come to know we are the children of God?
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. (Romans 8:14-15 KJV)
Paul continues that theme in other epistles.
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. (Galatians 4:4-6 KJV)
Before he did so, Christ made it apparent when He taught us how to pray:
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. (Matthew 6:9 KJV)
So, how are we to treat our brothers? Rhetorical question. The Bible tell us we already know.
But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. (1 Thessalonians 4:9 KJV)
As the author begins the closing chapter in Hebrews, we are given our final instructions regarding brotherly love:
Let brotherly love continue. (Hebrews 13:1 KJV)
Let us do so, quickly.
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By W. James Antle III
If Internet columnists and "bloggers" choose the Republican candidate for vice-president, it will be Condoleezza Rice by a landslide in 2004. She's surpassed the star power of such Bush administration luminaries as Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Colin Powell, exceeded only by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the president himself.
Rice is the first black woman to serve as national security advisor and her performance has been stellar. Based on her background, this achievement is unsurprising. She grew up in Birmingham under the regime of segregation. One of her childhood friends was killed in the 1963 church bombing that was one of the events that turned the tide against Jim Crow and in favor of the civil rights movement. This did not stop her from entering the University of Denver at the age of 15. Initially intending to be a concert pianist, Rice was eventually drawn to foreign policy, with a concentration in Soviet affairs. She was offered a professorship at Stanford before she even completed her PhD. and by the time she was 35, the first President Bush was telling Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that Rice told him everything he knew about the USSR.
This combination of inspiring biography, personal achievement and conservative realism in her foreign policy views makes Rice an attractive candidate to Republicans who wish to forge a more inclusive party without abandoning principle. Yet on one question, conservatives are questioning whether a Bush-Rice ticket would abandon a crucial principle.
On that vexing topic of abortion, Rice has reportedly described herself as "mildly pro-choice" on one occasion and "reluctantly pro-choice" on another. It is worth noting that she has not used her pro-choice views to enhance her media celebrity status or invoke her "more tolerant than thou position" vis-à-vis pro-life Republicans, as Richard Riordan, Arlen Specter and Christine Todd Whitman are wont to do - although it is equally worth noting that Colin Powell's views on the subject started out as mild as Rice's and became more strident over time as their political mileage became more apparent. Moreover, the speculation over Rice being on a national ticket has generated some surprisingly fresh thoughts on the whole abortion debate - I especially recommend Patrick Ruffini's rant on the subject.
But we now have what might amount to a test case as to how the selection of a pro-choice running mate by a pro-life Republican incumbent would play among pro-life voters. Judging from the initial reaction Ohio Gov. Bob Taft has faced, it is the sort of thing that makes pro-life Republicans - who are the voters within the GOP with the most intense feelings about abortion and who actually base their votes on the issue - very angry indeed.
Gov. Taft picked Columbus Councilwoman Jennette Bradley as his running mate now that current Lt. Gov. Maureen O'Connor is running for the Ohio Supreme Court. Bradley, like Rice, is an African-American woman and a Republican. She is also pro-choice. This selection has already cost Taft the Ohio Right to Life Society's endorsement and has brought protests from conservative activists. There were strong, though ultimately unsuccessful, movements to revoke his invitation to two county GOP fundraising dinners in February. In Warren County, some in attendance at a Lincoln Day walked out when the governor rose to speak. The Columbus Dispatch reports that many social conservatives are threatening to boycott the election entirely, including the executive director of the state Christian Coalition. One GOP state legislator is even urging Republicans to vote for Taft's liberal Democratic opponent.
Of course, there are some important distinctions that need to be made. George W. Bush is more popular among GOP conservatives than anyone since Ronald Reagan. Taft's conservative credentials have been questioned before and he likely would have been opposed by many grassroots conservatives in 1998 if Ohio Republican Party chairman Bob Bennett hadn't persuaded then state Treasurer Ken Blackwell to drop his nascent gubernatorial bid and run for secretary of state instead. Second, Rice is a woman whose views on the issues she has a record on are certifiably conservative. Her views on abortion, to the extent that we know them, seem moderate and are not central to her political persona. Bradley on the other hand has sparred with GOP social conservatives for years. There's nothing "mild" about her pro-choice position and she had already angered many of the groups opposed to her when she promoted domestic partnership legislation on the Columbus city council.
But pro-lifers aren't simply being incorrigible by raising the question. The reality is that Democrats typically impose pro-choice litmus tests on their national tickets and judicial appointees. Republicans appoint people to the federal bench on the both sides of the abortion issue to a far greater degree than Democrats, even though they have not put a pro-choice candidate on their presidential ticket since Gerald Ford in 1976. If pro-lifers are serious about abortion, they need to encourage the Republicans to emulate the Democrats' single-mindedness about the issue.
It is true that many moderately pro-choice Republicans, such as Sen. George Allen from Virginia and Kay Bailey Hutchison from Texas, support every restriction on abortion that could conceivably be legislated in the near future. The best any pro-life officeholder is going to be able to do on abortion in the present political climate is to push parental consent laws, late-term abortion bans and other modest restrictions that many of these moderate pro-choicers themselves support. Defending the prospect of Colin Powell occupying either the top or bottom spot on a GOP national ticket, Bill Bennett argued several years ago that a pro-choice Republican (defined as one who favored upholding Roe v. Wade) who would work to change minds about abortion and support politically possible restrictions would do more good on the issue than a dogmatic pro-lifer who annually demands a human life amendment with no chance of passage.
If a President Rice succeeds President Bush, it is certainly possible that there will be no noticeable change in what abortion-related legislation is signed or vetoed. Consider that Tom Ridge - who was openly combative toward pro-lifers while in Congress - preserved all the restrictions on abortion imposed in Pennsylvania when Bob Casey was governor. There was also little difference on Virginia abortion policy between moderately pro-choice George Allen when he was governor and his pro-life successor Jim Gilmore (Democrat and self-described moderate pro-choicer Mark Warner has thus far been another story). Yet it may well make a difference on judicial appointments. Pro-lifers also know that even though moderate pro-choicers support popular abortion restrictions upon final passage, it is pro-life officeholders that typically initiate them and demonstrate leadership in winning their enactment.
The whole discussion may well be superfluous. Unlike Dan Quayle in the first Bush administration, Dick Cheney is not a liability to the GOP ticket. Even if increased confidence in President Bush's leadership has made Cheney's gravitas less necessary, he remains a needed anchor within the administration. Nor is there any real evidence that his health is either impacting his job or making him less likely to run in 2004. And while I am a Condi Rice fan, I am an even bigger Cheney fan. I don't just prefer Cheney to the other vice-presidential prospects - I prefer him over President Bush.
So what makes the idea of Condi Rice running for vice-president or president even worth talking about? The prospect forces both pro-life and pro-choice Republicans to confront abortion in an entirely new context. If discussing Rice helps bring new thought to the most inflammatory debate in American politics, it might achieve results more lasting than the typical political trial balloon.
W. James Antle III
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The terrorist attack on the London subway system provoked calls from politicians for deploy-ment of new technologies that could warn of the presence of bombs before they go off. But a detector that can discov--er the presence of multiple types of explosives quickly, accurately and from a far enough distance to protect peo-ple and property does not exist. The nearest thing is a snif--fer dog, but a canine has a short attention span and needs frequent breaks.
The chemists, materials scientists and electronic engineers who are paid to think about such issues are trying to come up with ideas beyond putting Ritalin in dog chow. Large swaths of the electromagnetic spectrum and the periodic table are fair game. Even the insect kingdom might be recruited to attack the problem. A report by the National Research Council (NRC) last year--Existing and Potential Standoff Explosives Detection Techniques--speculated on far-out ideas for finding concealed bombs that use conventional explosives. Bees could be trained, through altered feeding habits, to swarm a vehicle packed with dynamite. Failing that, robotic "insects" with onboard sensors might do the same.
This article was originally published with the title Better Than a Dog.
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I took a walk the other night and on the way home I found myself staring over a small bridge and into what was left of the water passing beneath. The creek dries in the winter, so there’s not much left to look at. Not sure why I stopped. Maybe I was hoping to see what was left of the ducks. They also go away in the winter. I knew that I wanted to think and stare. There was something I was supposed to be figuring out. The bridge was helping.
First I thought about why I was walking home alone. I thought about why I wasn’t coming from a friend’s house. Why wasn’t I heading to a friend’s house? Or even a bar? Why wasn’t I walking home from school? The library? Why wasn’t I doing anything tonight?
The bridge was no more than six feet high and I could see my reflection in the water. The reflected black sky and grey clouds made me feel like I was part of an elaborate puppet show. And, in a way, I was. The universe was the puppet master and I was The Great Puppet Show Below. A slave to my strings. We all are.
I thought about why certain people live the way they do. I decided that the answer was the same as to why I was walking by myself. Some people are the way they are because that’s just how these shows work. I could get into exactly how. Their social constructs, their childhoods, their schooling, their jobs, etc. None of it would make me feel better. It’s just how some shows work. Accepting the way things work now is important. Water under the bridge.
The ducks go away. And the creek dries in the winter.
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I just found this out. Did you know that all those old-style incandescent lightbulbs that you've dutifully replaced with compact flourescents bulbs, thereby saving sooooo much energy, good for you, pat yourself on the back. Ahem.
Well the new bulbs, those compact flourescents (CFL) have mercury in them. They have to, otherwise they wouldn't be so bright, manufacturers are researching how to make them without mercury. But still, yikes, mercury!
Soooo just like with batteries, we aren't supposed to throw them out in our trash.
Did you know that? I didn't!
All those blurbs about how we should switch from incandescent to CFL bulbs didn't include a little sentence that says "oh and by the way to keep mercury out of the landfill, make sure to recycle these newfangled bulbs." How hard would that have been ? Sheesh. Guess "they" thought that either by mentioning mercury or having to recycle something else would scare off too many people, thereby not saving all that energy.
What I wonder is it worth it? IS the energy saved by using CFL bulbs worth having the mercury now in the landfill, going up into the atmosphere when incinerated as in so many trash disposal places, or ending up in our water eventually? I'm still glad that I've switched over, I just wish I'd known! I've been using these bulbs for years and years , and I know that I have blithely thrown many away. Maybe not too many, but some.
Now that I know, I figure I better start spreading the word, thus this little mini-rant-e-lette.
If you want more info about this, where to take your used CFL and recycling in general, Earth911 is a great resource. Put in your zip code in the upper left corner box and the site customizes to your area. Also EnergyStar, the rating group of the EPA has some good info too.
Tell your friends and neighbors people!
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Today is a big day for college basketball lovers - and especially for Mizzou fans here in Columbia: it marks the beginning of the NCAA tournament. While the Tigers don't play until tomorrow evening, we know that lots of Missourians follow the entire tournament closely - and with the help of modern technology, you can watch a game pretty much anywhere. There are several apps that offer live updates and streaming game film. While our Columbia car accident attorneys love March Madness, we hope you won't make the mistake of checking your bracket while you're behind the wheel.
By now, most drivers are familiar with risks and consequences of distracted driving, and yet a good number of them continue to engage in distracting behaviors - especially cell phone use. According to the Governors' Highway Safety Association, it's legal for all licensed drivers in the state of Missouri to talk on cell phone while driving. As for text messaging, only drivers under the age of 21 are prohibited from sending and receiving texts at the wheel. In sum, Missouri has some of the most relaxed distraction-related laws in the country.
In 2010, there were approximately 3,100 people who lost their lives on U.S. roadways because of distraction-related car accidents - accidents that are completely preventable with a little bit of driver responsibility. Safety officials strongly recommend that drivers curb as many distractions as possible while operating a motor vehicle. "Inattention is a leading cause of traffic crashes," said Missouri State Highway Patrol Colonel Replogle.
During the first half of 2010, there were nearly 800 Missouri traffic accidents that were caused by distracted drivers: these accidents resulted in nearly 10 fatalities and roughly 240 injuries. To help reduce the risks of distraction-related car accidents, we offer you a few simple rules and safety tips to help increase roadway safety for all drivers.
• Put your phone on silent before you get into your car - that way, you won't even be tempted to answer it. You can also place portable electronic devices out of sight to reduce temptation while driving.
• Set up a voicemail message that alerts callers that you may not be answering the phone because you're driving at the moment.
• If you have to take a call, read a text, or send an email (or check the Mizzou score), pull over in a safe area before doing so.
• Use your resources: have passengers place or answer phone calls for you, if needed.
• Remember that distractions can also include eating, smoking, drinking, messing with the stereo and talking to other passengers when driving. Keep these activities to a bare minimum when operating a motor vehicle.
We hope to see more and more drivers implement these safety practices. There's no call or text that is worth risking your life, not to mention the lives of your passengers and other motorists. And while we understand that March Madness is a more than serious matter for many basketball fans, we implore you to refrain from checking scores (or worse, watching games) while you're behind the wheel.
If you or someone you love has been injured in a distraction-related car accident in Columbia, Jeff City, or any of the surrounding areas, contact the personal injury lawyers at Aaron Sachs & Associates for a free initial consultation to discuss your rights. Call 1-888-777-AUTO.
More Blog Entries:
The Cost of Distracted Driving in Columbia, Missouri and Nationwide; Columbia Missouri Car Accident Lawyer Blog, February 24, 2012
Distracted Jefferson City, Missouri Drivers Cause 25% of All Car Accidents; Columbia Missouri Car Accident Lawyer Blog, February 16, 2012
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From the low powered lights to the ventilation system...
"We use these things called energy recovery units that sit on the rooftops that help recycle the air rather than to reheat or re-cool," Jo Sinha of Peckham in Lansing says.
That plant is just about the most energy efficient building in Lansing aside from the GM Delta Township plant.
"Utility bills are a big part, and cost of being in business," Sinha tells us.
But not anymore. The Lansing Board of Water and Light has been working close with the plant to let the light in from the windows instead of the ceiling, and for good reason.
"Because in the long run they won't have to build more energy plants," Sinha explains.
Now BWL wants to make what's happening at Peckham more of a state wide thing-- saving energy and money at the same time.
"This is good for our customers and good for our economy in a time where our customers and our economy need it," Steve Kurmas of DTE Energy explains.
Here's how it works, most of the power companies in the area like DTE, Consumers, and BWL's residential customers will get a rebate for buying appliances that are environmentally friendly. The same goes for businesses.
Also-- they'll partnering with local business agencies to provide weatherization measures for low income customers.
"What will happen is, you'll see reduced use, which as a utility means we buy less power and usually when we buy the power it's more expensive than we can generate ourselves. So, customers receive money because of that," Russell explains.
Maybe not as big of a savings as Peckham.
"I think we're looking at close to a 20 to 30% savings," Sinha says.
But it will certainly be a lot cheaper than if the power companies had to build another energy plant.
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Red means Act! – Launch event at the European Commission
“I am proud to support the development of the European Red List of Species. Excellent work!” With these words EU Commissioner for the Environment Janez Potočnik addressed a red crowd gathered for the launch of the European Red List on 21 November at the Berlaymont building in Brussels. To show their commitment to biodiversity participants were asked to wear something red.
The situation which many European species face today calls for more action to protect and conserve our precious natural heritage – so fundamental for our own survival and well-being. The latest data of the European Red List leave no doubt: many species groups in Europe (mammals, amphibians, butterflies and more) are in need for more protection. See more on the latest assessments.
EU Commissioner Potočnik stressed the importance of the European Red List for policy-makers “Too often we take nature for granted and we forget how valuable it is. […] Thanks to the work of IUCN we have a database that provides sound scientific data that will allow us to assess the status and trends of species and habitants in the European Union. These data together with the information provided by Members States will allow us over time to measure progress and asses if our policies on nature and biodiversity are on the right track.”
“The latest findings on the state of biodiversity are truly alarming and clearly make the case for stepping up strategy and action in Europe and beyond. The IUCN Red List, whether at the national, regional or global level provide clear and quantified evidence of the state and demise of endangered species” underlined Gordon McInnes, Deputy Director, European Environment Agency (EEA) “I am pleased to work with IUCN on developing the knowledge base for biodiversity including indicators to track progress and show where assessment and action should be focused.”
“The data provided by the European Red List serve also to show where progress is made. “With the Red List we can also highlight the successes of well-designed conservation measures – many species protected under the EU Habitats Directive and included in the Natura 2000 protected area network have actually improved their chances of survival. Conservation works! We just need more of it! We call the European Union to continue acting for nature” said Dr Hans Friederich, IUCN Regional Director for Europe.
MEP Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, Rapporteur for Biodiversity at the European Parliament stressed the need to reconnect people to nature “Thinking of nature and biodiversity I always think of a small child and I see the fascination in the eyes of a child for nature, it is incredible, I am sure you have all witnessed it. It is some sort of natural fascination with nature that children do have. So seeing that and how responsible people (or they should be, influential people) behave with our natural environment, I always ask myself, where did it go wrong? […] Let’s use this Red List and let’s try to awake this natural fascination that small children have again in the people who are deciding on this very important issue.”
Charlie Dunmore, EU Correspondent at Reuters, presented the challenge of communicating biodiversity to the general public “The problem is partly one of language. Let’s be brutally honest, the word biodiversity is about as interesting as quantitative easing to many people […]. We have to try and keep our language as direct and as relevant to everyday people as we can when we try to communicate the issue. […] Rather than talking about the risk of an 80% drop in biodiversity, […] we should be talking more about the risk of being surrounded by dead seas, and oceans empty of fish and other life, or walking in silent forests devoid of birds or looking out of empty plains where there are no animals or plants to be seen.”
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Monday, December 31, 2007
Rose, Retrospective on Justice and the Poor in the 20th Century United States
Henry Rose, Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, has posted an article, Retrospective on Justice and the Poor in the United States in the Twentieth Century. It appeared in the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal. Here's the abstract: The purpose of this essay is to review the history of legal developments in the twentieth century that affected America's poor. The twentieth century was a period of both positive developments and unfulfilled promise in the legal rights of the poor. Although progress had been made, at the end of the century there remained obstacles to fulfilling America's commitment to equal justice under law. Section I details the important social programs enacted by Congress in the last century, and comments on their varying degrees of success. Section II delineates some of the important jurisprudential developments affecting the poor in the same period. Section III notes the increasing disparity between the rich and the poor in this country, highlighting the need for increased scrutiny on the programs and law detailed in the first two sections.
Mary L. Dudziak at 8:44 AM
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1967-11-05 - Leonid Brezhnev
p During these days the whole Soviet people is experiencing a feeling of great joy, an incomparable spiritual upsurge. November 7, 1967, the glorious date marking the 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, the half-century jubilee of the world’s first socialist state, of our Soviet state, is approaching.
p For us the half-century of the existence of the Land of Soviets constitutes 50 years of heroic struggle and intensive work, 50 years of victories in the field of battle and labour in the name of the freedom, happiness and prosperity of all the peoples of our socialist motherland, in the name of communism. That is why this jubilee is so dear to our hearts and that is why we are marking it with such celebration, with such jubilation in our hearts.
p But our jubilee is dear not only to Soviet people. It is the birthday of the world’s first state of workers and peasants, of the first state where an end has been put once and for all to exploitation of man by man, a state which has shown other countries and peoples the road to the socialist future. That is why together with us the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution is being marked by millions upon millions of our friends in other countries as their own great festival.
p Comrades, in this hall are gathered the finest people of the city of Leningrad and of Leningrad Region—Party activists, deputies to the city and regional Soviets, veterans of the October Revolution and the Civil War, distinguished 78 workers of Leningrad’s enterprises, and soldiers and sailors of our valiant Armed Forces. On behalf of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and the Council of Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics allow me to congratulate you and all the people of Leningrad on the approaching jubilee—the 50th anniversary of the Great October Revolution. (Prolonged applause.)
p During these days our people and all our friends abroad are summing up the results of the glorious historical advance of our revolution. As you all know, the commemoration sitting of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation devoted to this memorable date ended yesterday in Moscow. It was attended by leading personalities of the fraternal socialist countries and most of the Communist Parties of the world, and by delegates from countries that have recently won liberation from colonial tyranny. The speeches of our guests in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses resounded as an anthem of revolutionary internationalism. They spoke movingly of the feat accomplished by the Soviet people and their Communist Party, and of the homeland of Lenin, who raised the banner of socialism over the world. They noted that our Leninist Party and our Soviet people have always been true to the lofty principle of proletarian internationalism, that the Land of Soviets has been and remains a reliable bulwark of all the forces fighting for peace, freedom and progress. (Applause.)
p Indeed, the five decades of our great revolution occupy a prominent and inimitable place in the history of mankind. Indivisibly linked by revolutionary continuity, these glorious five decades have witnessed the titanic deeds of a people which has irrevocably shaken off the yoke of exploitation, poverty and ignorance and is confidently advancing towards the communist future.
p I’ll not hide the fact, dear Comrades Leningraders, that it is gratifying to be among you today, to be in the city which the Soviet people rightfully call the cradle of the October Revolution. Here everything is reminiscent of the unforgettable events of those historical days, of the work of our teacher and leader—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. (Stortny applause.)
p To this day the square in front of the Finland Railway 79 Station, where Vladimir Lenin called on the working people to start the socialist revolution, the Smolny Institute, which was the headquarters of the revolution, the Vyborg District and the Narva Gate, where workers’ Red Guard units, the assault forces of the revolution, were formed and the legendary cruiser Aurora, which gave the signal for the storming of the Winter Palace, continue to stir the minds of Soviet people and revolutionaries throughout the world and are illumined by the eternal flame of the Great October Revolution. (Prolonged applause.)
p October 1917 saw the realisation of what generations of revolutionaries had dreamed and for whose sake they had fought unremittingly in the course of many decades: the socialist revolution triumphed in our country.
p The chronicle of the great revolution will always preserve the memory of the peerless valour and staunchness of the proletarians of Petrograd and the sailors of the Baltic Fleet, the workers of Moscow, Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Minsk and Lugansk, and the working people of the Urals, Siberia and other regions where the first victories were won in the revolution’s triumphant march across our country.
p Educated and tempered by the Bolshevik Party, by the Party of Lenin, the revolutionary proletariat of Russia, the steel cohort of fighters of the revolution, in alliance with the millions of working peasants, completed the work of demolishing the hated system of exploitation and oppression. The Land of Soviets commenced building a new, socialist life.
p During the grim years of the Civil War and intervention, the workers of Petrograd along with the working people of the whole country courageously rose to defend the gains of the October Revolution and unflinchingly they repulsed the pressure of the internal counter-revolution and the foreign interventionists.
p Present here today are active participants in the heroic epic of those unforgettable years—participants in the October Revolution and the Civil War. During these commemorative days we wholeheartedly greet and congratulate the glorious guard of veterans of the revolution. (Prolonged applause.)
p Together with them we take immense pride in the fact that the cause for whose sake half a century ago they gave battle to the old world today triumphs in the glorious 80 achievements of the Soviet people, the builder of communism, and in the successes of the world socialist community. (Prolonged applause.)
p The decision adopted in 1924 by the Second Ail-Union Congress of Soviets to rename Petrograd Leningrad was the highest assessment of the heroic deeds of the proletarians of Petrograd, of their services to the revolution and the whole country. This historical document states: "Henceforth may this major centre of the proletarian revolution be forever associated with the name of the greatest leader of the proletariat, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov-Lenin." [80•1
p Leningrad has proved to be worthy of its name. (Stormy applause.) Both in peaceful socialist construction and during the stern trials of wartime, the people of Leningrad have always honourably discharged their revolutionary duty.
p The unparalleled staunchness, valour and courage displayed by Leningraders during the Great Patriotic War virtually stunned the peoples of the world. With the powerful support of the entire Soviet motherland, the city of Lenin held out in the life-and-death struggle with a brutal and strong enemy, surmounted the immense trials of the blockade, endured everything—and won. (Stormy, prolonged applause.)
p The star of Leningrad shines brightly in the galaxy of hero-cities of Moscow, Sevastopol, Volgograd, Odessa, and Kiev, and the hero-fortress of Brest. (Applause.)
p The banner of Leningrad has been decorated with the motherland’s highest awards. The people of Leningrad have deserved them by their heroism in battle and outstanding achievements in peaceful labour.
p Today, as in the years of the first five-year plans and the postwar rehabilitation, Leningrad is making a large contribution towards the great projects of our people. The creative innovatory thinking, skill and energy of the workers, engineers, designers and all working people of the city of Lenin are to be found in the giant power stations on the Volga, the Angara and the Yenisei, in the new projects in the North and in Siberia, at numerous factories and mills, in all the Union republics—wherever the creative 81 work of Soviet people is in full swing today. (Applause.) The scientists, writers, musicians, artists and stage and screen actors of Leningrad occupy a prominent place in the development of science and culture, in the creation of the cultural values of socialism.
p The factory workers, collective farmers and state-farm workers of our country are marking the half-century jubilee of the October Revolution with valorous deeds. Here, too, us always, the people of Leningrad are in the forefront. During these days sixty-one working collectives of the city of Leningrad and Leningrad Region have been awarded commemorative banners of the Party Central Committee, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the Ail-Union Central Council of Trade Unions in token of the motherland’s gratitude for their labour achievements. (Applause.) This honour has been conferred on the machine-tool builders of the noted Kirov Works (or the Krasny Putilovets as it used to be called), the metalworkers of Krasny Vyborzhets, shipbuilders, the makers of giant turbines and generators that have won world renown, the makers of the most precise and most up-to-date kinds of output—electronic machines and the most intricate optical instruments—the workers of the Krasny Treugolnik Rubber Works, the shoemakers of the Skorokhod Factory, and many other contingents of the Leningrad working class, and also the foremost state and collective farms in the region. (Applause.) Red banners of labour valour have been awarded to the winners of the jubilee competition in perpetuity. They are a great honour and, at the same time, impose a great responsibility. ( Applause.) We wish the decorated collectives to be always worthy of the high honour that has been conferred on them. (Stormy applause.)
p Dear comrades. Esteemed Leningraders. Further joyful news was flashed round the country yesterday: Leningrad, the cradle of the revolution, and Moscow, our country’s capital, were the first to be decorated with the newly instituted Order of the October Revolution for outstanding services in the revolution and in strengthening Soviet power, for courage and heroism in the battles with the enemies of the Soviet state, and for achievements in peaceful labour, in the building of communism. (Stormy, prolonged applause. All rise.) It may be said with certainty that all Soviet people 82 wholeheartedly welcome this decision, which justly marks the services rendered by Leningraders and Muscovites to the people and the revolution. (Prolonged applause.)
p Several generations of Leningraders have earned this new high decoration by their absolute devotion to the cause of socialism and communism, by their heroism in battle, and by their conspicuous achievements in labour.
p The award to Leningrad is a decoration for the glorious working class of the city of Lenin (applause), its numerous technical intelligentsia, its distinguished workers in science, culture and art, Party and local government functionaries, and men of the Soviet Army and Fleet, in short, for all who live and work in your splendid city. (Prolonged applause.) For us, your guests—Nikolai Victorovich Podgorny, Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin and me—it is a great pleasure to be among you, dear Comrades Leningraders, and warmly, from the bottom of our hearts, to congratulate you and all the people of the city of Lenin on the receipt of a further high decoration from the motherland. (Stormy, prolonged applause. All rise.)
p Comrades, the Central Committee of the Party and the Soviet Government are fully confident that Leningraders shall continue to be in the front ranks of the builders of communism, that they shall always be true to the fine revolutionary traditions of their fathers and that they shall be always worthy of their distinguished title of citizens of a Hero-City, of a city that bears the name of the great Lenin. (Prolonged applause.)
p Honour and glory to those who took part in the Great October Socialist Revolution! (Stormy, prolonged applause.)
p Honour and glory to the heroes who in battle upheld the gains of the October Revolution!
Honour and glory to the Soviet people, builders of communism, who raised high over the world the torch of freedom lit by the October Revolution! (Stormy, prolonged applause.)
Enviado por Enrique Ibañes
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Posted by Brian from Shawnee on August 03, 2005
In Reply to: "There's no flies on him" posted by Mark on August 03, 2005
: My mother in law has just come out with the phrase "there's no flies on him" Does any one know what this phrase means or where it came from ??
Somebody at Word-detective.com posted this back in 2000: 'In the 19th century, to say that "there are no flies on him" of somebody meant that the person was alert and active, probably by allusion to cattle that move around enough to deny flies a landing place.'
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Proposed Bill Would Require Waiting Period, Counseling to Ensure Children's Needs Met After DivorceProposed legislation would put an end to "quickie" divorces. House Bill 1423 would create a six-month waiting period for couples seeking divorces when children are involved.
Proposed legislation would put an end to "quickie" divorces. House Bill 1423 would create a six-month waiting period for couples seeking divorces when children are involved.
Within that time the adults, separately or together, would have to take five one-hour counseling sessions. The sessions are to focus on post-marital financial planning and the emotional and mental effects of divorce on children. 1,900 North Dakota couples get divorced each year with about half of them involving kids. Senator Tim Mathern says the focus of the bill is to address the children's needs after their parents split. Sen. Tim Mathern, (D) Fargo, "What this bill is trying to do is recognize that, not take any judgement about why that marital relationship ended, but to say let us make sure that issues that affect the children get some attention in the divorce process."
North Dakota has the ninth lowest divorce rate in the nation. 19 states have waiting periods for couples seeking divorce.
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Written by: Julia Hardy
Buddhism arose at a time of significant social and political change. In the regions where it grew and flourished, urban centers were growing rapidly and creating new social conditions. Buddhism — with its egalitarian ideals, its structures for organizing community, and its opportunities for social and religious mobility — was well-suited for the time. With increased trade came a growth in the number of merchants and traders who, even when wealthy and successful, had low social status. Buddhism was appealing because monks were treated equally regardless of their caste. Early texts say that fifty-five of the first sixty of the Buddha's followers were from wealthy and powerful merchant families. Not all monks were wealthy, however; people of any status were welcome.
Regardless of class or economic status, monks had to follow strict rules. A monk could be banished for engaging in sexual relations, stealing, killing someone, or claiming to have supernatural powers. Lesser offenses would lead to a period of probation, the forfeiture of certain privileges, and temporary loss of standing in the community. Monks took vows not to drink alcohol, not to eat after noon, not to indulge in public entertainments, not to use ointments, perfumes, or a comfortable seat or bed, and not to handle money. There were rules against flirting, touching, and masturbation; thirty specific rules about possessions — how one was allowed to acquire and use them; and ninety-two rules that covered miscellaneous offenses such as gossiping or hoarding food. Eventually, all of these rules were recorded in a massive collection of texts, the Vinaya.
When a monk broke a rule, he was required to confess to an assembly of monks, who would then determine and enforce punishment. The assembly would also rule as to whether the acts were intentional or unintentional; monks were normally not punished for unintentional misdeeds. There were additional complex rules of etiquette that served to facilitate harmony within the monastic groups. A well-defined social order eased potential conflicts among those who had grown up with strict caste differentiations and varying rules of social behavior within and between castes.
Women who became nuns were often women who had lost their defined roles in society in some way; they were widows, courtesans, or adult women who had not married. According to the early texts, the first five hundred women to join the sangha were women whose husbands had abandoned them to become monks. The rules for nuns were even more numerous and more stringent than those for the monks. Their status in relationship to the monks was limited in various ways, and they were not permitted to wander alone. Despite this inequity, Buddhist nuns were often less burdened by social restrictions than were women outside the monastic community, and the relative independence and rare opportunity to enjoy spiritual and intellectual pursuits were attractive to some women.
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Clinton lauds UAE renewable energy vision
Abu Dhabi, January 11, 2011
Visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton commended Abu Dhabi company Masdar’s clean energy ambition and said the UAE was well positioned to compete in the 21st century because of its commitment to clean, renewable energy.
She was delivering a speech at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology campus, the Middle East’s first graduate research institution dedicated to innovations in clean energy located at Masdar City – affirming the strong ties between the US and the UAE.
Clinton, who is on a six-day trip to the Middle East, also commended Masdar’s ambition and commitment to advancing and commercializing innovations in renewable energy and clean technology.
The US Secretary also met Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan at Al Mamoura in the UAE capital on Monday.
Earlier in the her address, Clinton praised the vision of the country's leadership, and said, 'The UAE is positioning itself to be a center for innovation and entrepreneurship for years to come.”
'We are fully committed to supporting your work and we will do everything we can through our academic institutions, like MIT, through our government, like the Department of Energy and the State Department, and through our private sector, to bring more jobs and to bring more innovative entrepreneurial spirit here to the UAE,' she noted.
“I want my country to know how advanced you are in pursuing clean renewable energy,” the US Secretary remarked.
“I want the world to know that the US is partnering with you because we are betting on Abu Dhabi and the UAE. We are betting that this incredible Masdar investment is going to pay off, and when it pays off, it will not only mean a better life for the people of this country and region, it will have ripple effects throughout the world,” she added.
Following a guided tour of the facilities at Masdar City, Clinton was officially welcomed by Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, CEO and managing director of Masdar.
Dr Al Jaber said he looked forward to further strengthening its relationship with the US by working together to address the challenges of delivering viable, scalable clean energy to the world.
“Clinton’s visit to Masdar is a testament to the strength of this relationship and our leadership’s commitment to the development of renewable energy and climate change mitigation,” he added.
At Masdar City, Clinton was able to see firsthand the innovations, progress and momentum building at Masdar, made possible by global collaboration.
'One such example was Clinton’s visit to Masdar’s advanced concentrated solar power (CSP) “Solar Beam Down” project, a joint venture between Masdar, Cosmo-Oil of Japan and the Tokyo Institute of Technology. The innovative “beam down” technology is an example of the global collaborative research conducted at Masdar,' said Al Jaber.
Visiting the Masdar Institute campus, a graduate level institution established in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Clinton was also shown the sustainable facilities that have been designed to improve both the living and working experience of the students and faculty through smart, energy efficient and high performance building design.
“I express my gratitude to the people of the UAE for being innovative, creative and at the same time very practical about how you intend to achieve your goals,” Clinton said in a speech at the campus.
“We are proud to be your partner and we are looking forward to achieving real progress for your citizens and the world at large,” she added.
Dr Al Jaber recognised the significance of Clinton’s visit, particularly as Abu Dhabi prepares to host the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) next week.
WFES is a global platform for open dialogue between political and industry leaders, international policy makers, investors and experts from across the renewable energy and clean technology sector.-TradeArabia News Service
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Green Chemistry Education Network
GCEdNet is a social network
The Green Chemistry Education Network (GC Ed Net) serves as a catalyst for integrating green chemistry in chemical education at all levels. As a network of educators we support opportunities to research, develop, implement and disseminate green educational materials. The GC Ed Net reaches out to all chemistry educators through collaboration and mentoring, facilitating professional growth, and fostering the synergistic integration of green chemistry in education.
Oregon green chemistry center wins $20M grant, by Christina Williams, Sustainable Business Oregon
A collaboration between two Oregon universities has paid off with a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop greener chemical processes. The Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry, a collaboration between Oregon State University and the University of Oregon, beat out teams from two other universities to win the grant. The center joins the National Science Foundation’s Centers of Chemical Innovation program, which aims to support a new, greener chemical industry in the U.S. through university research ...View Full Article
Published: Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Oregon could lead in green chemistry, Portland State study says, but 'fragmented' approach hinders progress
Oregon could take the lead in developing safer industrial chemicals, a new white paper from Portland State University concludes, but the state's "fragmented and uncoordinated" approach prevents focusing on the highest-risk chemicals and the most-threatened populations.
The paper, released today, highlights Oregon's green chemistry strengths.....View full article
Sustainable Business Oregon
Published: July 6, 2011
PSU: Oregon should focus on greener chemicals
Researchers at Portland State University published a paper Wednesday highlighting Oregon's opportunities in the move toward more sustainable chemistry practices and calling for better coordination between organizations to help position the state as a leader. The paper, "Leadership in Sustainable Chemicals Policy: Opportunities for Oregon," is aiming to attract the attention of private companies and public agencies and uncover areas ripe for collaboration.
The paper, "Leadership in Sustainable Chemicals Policy: Opportunities for Oregon," is aiming to attract the attention of private companies and public agencies and uncover areas ripe for collaboration....View full article
Report: LEADERSHIP IN SUSTAINABLE CHEMICALS POLICY: OPPORTUNITIES FOR OREGON Chemical_Leadership.pdf
We are in the process of clarifying some of the current and emerging needs of the green chemistry education community. Our goal is to collect information via this forum and then provide an executive summary for the community to use as we begin to identify collaborative projects and needed resources. Let's begin the discussion by answering the following questions.
1) How do you define yourself as a green chemistry educator?
2) What would you need to enable you to thrive in that role?
3) What challenges are limiting your ability or the community's ability to thrive?
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Ironically, as my story about surviving a power outage got posted just as the Pacific Northwest was getting hammered by a fierce windstorm that knocked out power and caused widespread damage. The tips I provided in my previous article assume a relatively minor power outage. A more drastic outage like the one I just went through call for more drastic measures.
Assuming you don’t flee for a location with power and heat, your only realistic option is to get a generator. A number of companies make them and they come in a variety of shapes and sizes. They run on gas, diesel, or natural gas. Depending on how much stuff you want to run during a power outage, you could be looking at anywhere from a few hundred dollars to several thousand dollars. The more watts the generator generates, the more expensive it is. You will need to add up the wattage rating of every lightbulb, appliance, and other device you will run in order to determine the right size of generator.
Your generator should be on a flat surface in a well-ventilated area outside your home and/or garage. You can either run an extension cord from your generator into your house to power the few things you want powered or you can hook the generator into your electrical system. This will require special wiring and you should consult a local electrician for assistance with this. If your generator requires natural gas, you will also need a hook up into your natural gas supply.
Even if you have a source of power during an outage, you may still have phone and Internet access problems. My phone service with Qwest was spotty due to the fact the pair gain to the central office was being kept alive by a generator truck parked in the neighborhood. DSL was unavailable as the remote terminal was not getting power. Several mobile phone towers were damaged during the storm, making both data and voice services weaker and less reliable. I didn’t try the cable modem service during the power outage, but it too could have very well been out.
Even if you have the means to continue working under less than ideal conditions, should you? No work is that important that you have to jeopardize your safety to get it done. Your safety is your top priority. Most people will forgive you if you miss a deadline or can’t make an appointment as a result of an act of nature.
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Some Beauty Tips For Dark Spots On Dark Skin
Dark spots on dark skin are visible. You can get rid of those spots by applying various creams and serums. You can choose many natural treatments that would help to get rid of dark spots on dark skin. You can choose other natural ways to reduce or lighten your condition.
Dark spots on dark skin can also be caused by excess sun exposure. Try to prevent the condition by opting for a good sunscreen or a sun block. Try to apply an organic sun screen of more than twenty spf for your condition.
Here Are Some Tips You May Consider For Dark Spots On Dark Skin:
You could choose to apply natural oatmeal for the condition. Take some oatmeal, in usual form and add some egg white in this, you need to mix it well. You can then put some honey in this. Try to apply this on your dark spots affected area on face. Or, you can also apply this as a mask on your face. This helps to lighten the marks in most effective way. This natural method has no side effect on the skin. The method is suitable to oily skin also.
You can apply natural onion juice on the dark spots on dark skin. This actually works for your skin. Try to opt for some onion juice and then add some lemon juice in this. If you have too sensitive skin, you can add some glycerin in this mix. Mix all the three things together; apply it as a facemask on the skin. The method can also help to lighten dark spots from your skin. You can add some normal almond oil in this method, as it’s effective for the condition.
Some More Ways You May Consider For Dark Spots On Dark Skin:
You can make a natural mask using natural vitamin E for your condition of dark spots. Try to take a vitamin E tablet and crush it. You can then add some natural sweet almond oil in it. You could add some pure rose water in this. Now, apply it to the face and leave it till its dry. You can simply wash this off using cold water. This can help to lighten your dark spots and marks on face. Vitamin E can be taken in natural supplement form to reduce or lighten your dark spots on skin.
Try having many liquids in the diet to reduce your dark spots on dark skin. You should have liquids in the form of fresh fruit juices. You should have some normal veggies and fruits in your diet. Vitamin deficiency can cause the condition of dark spots on skin. Try having natural vitamin supplements in the diet to reduce your spots.
Lack of iron could also cause condition of dark spots. Try having iron supplements or natural sources of iron to reduce the dark spots on dark skin. A proper diet can make a huge difference in your condition. These are tips you may consider to reduce dark spots on dark skin. Natural ways to reduce dark spots on dark skin can surely help to give good results.
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A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a tall, conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava, tephra, pumice, and volcanic ash. Unlike shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes are characterized by a steep profile and periodic explosive eruptions and quiet eruptions, although there are some with collapsed craters called calderas. The lava that flows from stratovolcanoes typically cools and hardens before spreading far due to high viscosity. The magma forming this lava is often felsic, having high-to-intermediate levels of silica (as in rhyolite, dacite, or andesite), with lesser amounts of less-viscous mafic magma. Extensive felsic lava flows are uncommon, but have travelled as far as 15 km (9.3 mi).
Stratovolcanoes are sometimes called "composite volcanoes" because of their composite layered structure built up from sequential outpourings of eruptive materials. They are among the most common types of volcanoes, in contrast to the less common shield volcanoes. Two famous stratovolcanoes are Krakatoa, best known for its catastrophic eruption in 1883 and Vesuvius, famous for its destruction of the towns Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD. Both eruptions claimed thousands of lives.
Stratovolcanoes are common at subduction zones, forming chains along plate tectonic boundaries where oceanic crust is drawn under continental crust (Continental Arc Volcanism, e.g. Cascade Range, central Andes) or another oceanic plate (Island arc Volcanism, e.g. Japan, Aleutian Islands). The magma that forms stratovolcanoes rises when water trapped both in hydrated minerals and in the porous basalt rock of the upper oceanic crust, is released into mantle rock of the asthenosphere above the sinking oceanic slab. The release of water from hydrated minerals is termed "dewatering," and occurs at specific pressures and temperatures for each mineral, as the plate descends to greater depths. The water freed from the rock lowers the melting point of the overlying mantle rock, which then undergoes partial melting and rises due to its lighter density relative to the surrounding mantle rock, and pools temporarily at the base of the lithosphere. The magma then rises through the crust, incorporating silica-rich crustal rock, leading to a final intermediate composition (see Classification of igneous rock). When the magma nears the top surface, it pools in a magma chamber under or within the volcano. There, the relatively low pressure allows water and other volatiles (mainly CO2, SO2, Cl2, and H2O) dissolved in the magma to escape from solution, as occurs when a bottle of carbonated water is opened, releasing CO2. Once a critical volume of magma and gas accumulates, the obstacle (rock blockage) of the volcanic cone is overcome, leading to a sudden explosive eruption.
In recorded history, explosive eruptions at subduction zone (convergent-boundary) volcanoes have posed the greatest hazard to civilizations. Subduction-zone stratovolcanoes, like Mount St. Helens and Mount Pinatubo, typically erupt with explosive force: the magma is too stiff to allow easy escape of volcanic gases. As a consequence the tremendous internal pressures of the trapped volcanic gases remain in the pasty magma. Following the breaching of the magma chamber, the magma degasses explosively. Such an explosive process can be likened to shaking a bottle of carbonated water vigorously, and then quickly removing the cap. The shaking action nucleates the dissolution of CO2 from the liquid as bubbles, increasing the internal volume. The gases and water gush out with speed and force.
Since the year AD. 1600, nearly 300,000 people have been killed by volcanic eruptions. Most deaths were caused by pyroclastic flows and mudflows, deadly hazards that often accompany explosive eruptions of subduction-zone stratovolcanoes. Pyroclastic flows are fast-moving, avalanche-like, ground-hugging incandescent mixtures of hot volcanic debris, ash, and gases that can travel at speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour (160 km/h). Approximately 30,000 people were killed by pyroclastic flows during the 1902 eruption of Mont Pelée on the island of Martinique in the Caribbean. In March–April 1982, three explosive eruptions of El Chichón Volcano in the State of Chiapas, southeastern Mexico, caused the worst volcanic disaster in that country's history. Villages within 8 km (5.0 mi) of the volcano were destroyed by pyroclastic flows, killing more than 2,000 people.
Two Decade Volcanoes that erupted in 1991 provide examples of stratovolcano hazards. On June 15, Mount Pinatubo spewed ash 40 kilometres (25 mi) into the air and produced huge pyroclastic flows and mudflows that devastated a large area around the volcano. Pinatubo, located 90 km (56 mi) from Manila, had been dormant for 600 years before the 1991 eruption, which ranks as one of the largest eruptions in the 20th Century. Also in 1991, Japan's Unzen Volcano, located on the island of Kyushu about 40 km (25 mi) east of Nagasaki, awakened from its 200-year slumber to produce a new lava dome at its summit. Beginning in June, repeated collapse of this erupting dome generated ash flows that swept down the mountain's slopes at speeds as high as 200 km/h (120 mph). Unzen is one of more than 75 active volcanoes in Japan; an eruption in 1792 killed more than 15,000 people — the worst volcanic disaster in the country's history.
The 79 CE Plinian eruption of Mount Vesuvius, a stratovolcano looming adjacent to Naples, completely covered the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum with pyroclastic surge deposits. The death toll ranged between 10,000 and 25,000. Mount Vesuvius is recognized as one of the most dangerous volcanoes, jointly because of its potential for powerful explosive eruptions and the high population density of the area (around 3 million people) around its perimeter.
Apart from possibly affecting climate, volcanic clouds from explosive eruptions also pose a hazard to aviation safety. For example, during the 1982 eruption of Galunggung in Java, British Airways Flight 9 flew into the ash cloud, suffering temporary engine failure and structural damage. During the past two decades, more than 60 airplanes, mostly commercial jetliners, have been damaged by in-flight encounters with volcanic ash. Some of these encounters have resulted in the power loss of all engines, necessitating emergency landings. Luckily, to date no crashes have happened because of jet aircraft flying into volcanic ash. Ash fall is a threat to health when inhaled, and is also a threat to property with high enough accumulation. Greater than 30 cm (12 in) of accumulation is sufficient to collapse most buildings.
Mudflows (also called debris flows or lahars, an Indonesian term for volcanic mudflows) are mixtures of volcanic debris and water. The water usually comes from two sources: rainfall or the melting of snow and ice by hot volcanic debris. Depending on the proportion of water to volcanic material, mudflows can range from soupy floods to thick flows that have the consistency of wet cement. As mudflows sweep down the steep sides of composite volcanoes, they have the strength and speed to flatten or bury everything in their paths. Hot ash and pyroclastic flows from the 1985 eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz Volcano in Colombia, South America, melted snow and ice atop the 5,390-m-high Andean peak; the ensuing mudflows buried the city of Armero, killing 23,000 people.
Volcanic bombs are extrusive igneous rocks that range from the size of a book to small automobile, that are explosively ejected from stratovolcanoes during their peak eruptive phases. These bombs can travel over fifteen miles (20 km) away from the volcano and present a risk to buildings and people while traveling at very high speeds (hundreds of miles per hour or km/h) through the air. The bombs do not themselves explode on impact, but rather carry enough force so as to have destructive effects as if they exploded.
Lava flows from stratovolcanoes are generally not a significant threat to people because the highly viscous lava moves slowly enough for people to move out of the path of flow. The lava flows are more of a property threat.
However, not all stratovolcanoes have viscous lava. Mount Nyiragongo is dangerous because its magma has an unusually low silica content, making it quite fluid (even when comparing to Hawaiian lava) and having lower viscosity. Compounded by the very steep slope of Nyiragongo gives the lava the ability to flow at up to about 100 km/h (62 mph).
As per the above examples, while the Unzen eruptions have caused deaths and considerable local damage in the historic past, the impact of the June 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo was global. Slightly cooler-than-usual temperatures were recorded worldwide and brilliant sunsets and sunrises were attributed to the particulates this eruption lofted high into the stratosphere. The aerosol that formed from the sulfur dioxide (SO2) and other gasses dispersed around the world. The SO2 mass in this cloud—about 22 million tons—combined with water (both of volcanic and stratospheric origin) formed droplets of sulfuric acid, blocking a portion of the sunlight from reaching the troposphere and ground. The cooling in some regions is thought to have been as much as 0.5 °C. An eruption the size of Mount Pinatubo tends to affect the weather for a few years; the material injected into the stratosphere gradually drops into the troposphere where it is washed away by rain and cloud precipitation.
A similar, but extraordinarily more powerful phenomenon occurred in the cataclysmic April 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia. The Mount Tambora eruption is recognized as the most powerful eruption in recorded history. Its volcanic cloud lowered global temperatures by as much as 3.5 °C. In the year following the eruption, most of the northern hemisphere experienced sharply cooler temperatures during the summer months. In parts of Europe and in North America, 1816 was known as "The Year Without a Summer," which caused a brief but bitter famine.
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The church is always the congregation of the saints of God in any particular age. In the Bible the church is never a building. The congregation, that is the saints, can meet in a house, a garage, an office building, or a backyard and the group will still be God’s church. It is always a group of believers or saints.
Throughout history, the people and purpose of the church changes as God progressively revealed his plans and purposes. Here are some examples of churches the Bible describes:
The Church in the wilderness
For example, the Bible says that Moses was in the ‘church in the wilderness’ (Acts 7:38). Yet, back in the wilderness, Jesus had not yet died on the cross, nor had he instituted any new covenant, nor had He revealed the revelation of the mystery to Paul!
Moses was part of the group of God’s ‘chosen people’, the nation Israel, which was brought out of Egypt as God’s firstborn (Deut 7:6, Exodus 4:22, Exodus 19:4). This congregation of saints operated mostly out of the Old Mosaic Covenant, and was preoccupied with following God’s law to inherit the covenant blessings.
The Church in the Temple
Under the New Testament, there were devout and faithful Jewish believers that preached the gospel of the kingdom and that Jesus was the Son of God. These members of God’s church were not under God’s Old Covenant, but where subject to God’s New Covenant.
They were participants in the pouring out of God’s Holy Spirit at Pentecost, and were supernaturally able to obey the law of God as it was written in their hearts. Led by Peter, this congregation of saints was preparing to go into the kingdom. As such the Bible says that,
“And all that believed were together, and had all things common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. They, CONTINUING DAILY WITH ONE ACCORD IN THE TEMPLE, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. “ – Acts 2:44-47
The Church, the Body of Christ
For us in this dispensation, when we trust in the gospel and are saved, we are placed into the body of Christ, which is the church (1 Cor 12:13, Col 1:24).
“Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.” – 1 Cor 12:27
Within this congregation of saints, Jesus Christ is the head and we are subject to him (Eph 5:23-32). We, who are saved, are each members of the congregation of the saints, the church, the Body of Christ.
You are the church
Members of the church, the Body of Christ, have a special standing distinct from the other churches. We do not go to a temple to worship God because we are the temple. Paul says,
“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” – 1 Cor 3:16
Paul exhorts the Ephesian elders to ‘feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood” (Acts 20:28).
The Bible says, that he purchased YOU with a price, and that YOU are the temple of the Holy Ghost (1 Cor 6:19.20). Therefore, the church of God today is found in YOU! Wherever you are, the church is. That is why we are to glorify God in our body because God dwells in us, and so within us there is a ‘church service’ happening 24 hours a day! (Col 1:25, 1 Cor 3:16, eph 3:17)
Now there are many members of the Body of Christ, the church today. So when many members of the church get together, that assembly or congregation of saints is also called a church.
When a group of saints gets together to praise God, study His word, and to build each other up, the Bible calls them a church. For example, Paul writes to the ‘church at Ephesus’, and the ‘church of Galatia’, and the ‘church at Corinth’.
However, each one of us becomes part of the church as we are placed into the Body of Christ.
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|Please note that this is the Narutopedia's article on the manga chapter. If you are looking for the article on the episode then you should head to Forbidden Words.
(NGワード, Enujī Wādo
) is chapter 527 of the Naruto
Darui, Samui, and Atsui battle the Gold and Silver Brothers. The Fourth Raikage and Tsunade talk about the history of Kinkaku and Ginkaku. Both Samui and Atsui are sealed away in the Benihisago. Darui's soul is cut and cursed by the Shichiseiken, and then recorded by the Benihisago. Meaning, if he says the word he has said the most during his life, he will be sealed away.
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Nobody is too young to tell dad they love him. Just like nobody is too young to prepare him the perfect steak smothered in homemade herb compound butter -- or to at least help out in the kitchen.
That was just one of the recipes kids from 6 to 15 years old learned to cook at this week’s Kids Camp Dinner For Dad at the H-E-B Central Market on Broadway. Pops is eating good this holiday, as the kids also learned to prepare a wedge salad with bacon and ranch dressing; sauteed green beans with almonds; herb potato cakes; and lemon bars for dessert.
It’s all very fancy, and much more involved than baking cookies or serving dad scrambled eggs in bed. But too difficult for kids?
Not this generation.
“It’s amazing how food-smart they are. When I was their age I didn’t have a clue about food in the kitchen,” admitted Steve Wegner, the cooking school chef at Wednesday’s class.
“Even the ones who aren’t planning to do this as a career, they know a lot about food, and it’s a challenge to teach them about cooking because they already know a lot of the basics and you need to find things to keep them engaged,” he said
So the kids in the Executive Chef class, ages 13 to 15, were learning more than just the basics on how to sauté green beans with butter and garlic. For instance, rules when cooking with a non-stick pan.
“Make sure that when you turn it on, you put your liquid or your fat or whatever you’re cooking in the pan right away,” explained Hannah Smith, the other cooking class instructor. “Otherwise it could ruin your pan over time.”
Once up to heat, the students kicked in their garlic.
Garlic is delicate, Smith explained, and nothing is worse than burnt garlic.
“So don’t let it cook for too long,” she said, making sure the students were giving their pan handle a nice shake to keep the garlic from sticking.
A rich aroma filled the air inside the kitchen as the students fired up their skillets to pan-fry their large porterhouse steaks, seasoned just right for a quick trip on medium-high heat.
The Central Market kitchen on the second floor is an impressive classroom. If the large mirror wasn’t enough to reflect the day’s lessons, the two flatscreen televisions broadcast the instructors’ every move. It’s a familiar way of learning for these young chefs.
“The kids today, with access to the Food Network Channel and Top Chef, believe me, they know quite a bit,” said Joanne Loftus, the administrative assistant for the cooking school.
Even the 6- through 9-year-olds, who cook on Mondays throughout the summer, prepare the exact same meals as the 10- through 12-year-olds, who occupy the kitchen on Tuesdays. How much of the cooking the students actually do varies from class to class, but the recipes always stay the same.
“If you dumb it down too much, they that’s what you’re doing and they don’t appreciate that,” Wegner said. “They at least want to be able to try it or have you help them do it, but they don’t want it all done for them. That’s no fun.”
So they grate the potatoes for the potato cakes while the instructors quickly chop the basil. The students add the ingredients together, form the patties and give them a quick run through the egg wash and panko. They then place the patties on a hot frying pan, carefully placing them down away from themselves to avoid hot oil from splattering on their hands and arms.
After two hours of learning and putting those newly acquired skills to the test, the students get to taste the fruits of their labor. Hopefully, the students will have impressed themselves enough that they will replicate the meal on Sunday.
Just for Dad.
And also because cooking is cool.
“And just like we tell the adults, whatever you learn in class the sooner you go home and do it the more retention you’re going to have,” Wegner said. “If you do it within a couple of days you’re going to remember a lot more.”
Visit the Central Market Cooking School website to register for a wide range of hand-on and educatoinal food classes for children and adults.
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Database giant Oracle has discontinued all development on Intel’s high-end Itanium processor, putting another nail in its coffin.
In a press release, Oracle said that “Intel management made it clear that their strategic focus is on their x86 microprocessor and that Itanium was nearing the end of its life.”
Intel CEO Paul Otellini denied the claim, saying, “Intel’s work on Intel Itanium processors and platforms continues unabated with multiple generations of chips currently in development and on schedule. We remain firmly committed to delivering a competitive, multi-generational roadmap for HP-UX and other operating system customers that run the Itanium architecture.”
Itanium was the first 64-bit chip from Intel and was de singed for servers, but it’s been a bit of a fiasco since it was introduced in 2001. Intel chose not to make it compatible with its x86 processor line so developers had to rewrite applications for it or run old apps in an emulator, which hurt performance. It suffered in performance tests against the high-end processors from Sun and other companies.
Oracle bought Sun last year and uses its hardware, which runs on Sun Sparc and Intel’s different (and much more popular) x86 processors.
Itanium never sold very well, and Intel competitor AMD came out with its own 64-bit chips that were more compatible with the x86 line, and Microsoft supported them. This forced Intel to follow and build its own line of 64-bit processors based on x86, which hare now the standard 64-bit processors used in PCs and servers.
Itanium kept limping along, but last year, Microsoft announced that it would no longer create versions of Windows Server or its other software for Itanium. Linux distributor Red Hat has also abandoned the platform.
HP still supports Itanium with its version of Unix, HP-UX, but the company did not mention Itanium at all in its recent strategy day announcements. Instead, HP is focusing on building a cloud computing platform and upping its services business to compete more effectively against IBM.
Source: BusinessInsiderChannels: intel, larry ellison, oracle
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As long ago as 1996, Jon Levenson wrote an important article, “The Universal Horizon of Biblical Particularism.” In that piece he reflected on the way in which the Hebrew Bible adjudicated the particularity of Israel and a reach beyond Israel to the nations.
In the decade since 9/11, it seems as though every trade publisher and university press has brought forth a guide to the Qur’an for the perplexed. Carl Ernst eschews the usual method for books of this sort.
It is difficult to know what to say in response to Mona Eltahawy’s explosive article on the experience of women in Middle Eastern countries. She writes about a level of institutionalized brutality that demands that readers pay attention.
At the same time, she doesn’t say anything new, nothing that wasn’t already made too vividly clear during the Arab Spring.
Mention of Saudi Arabia conjures images of a fundamentalist kingdom where the government prohibits women from driving and forbids non-Muslims from holding religious services. The roots of the country's puritanical code go back several centuries.
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OBJECTIVES: To examine selected medical services for children treated for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in a general population setting with universal health insurance. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of administrative prescription and health services databases spanning from 1990 to 1996. SETTING: British Columbia, Canada. PATIENTS: Children (<19 years of age) who had received the psychostimulant methylphenidate (MPH; Ritalin) on a chronic basis (chronic-MPH group), who had received MPH on any other basis (nonchronic-MPH group), and who were in a no-MPH comparison group. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The number of individuals who received any of the following services based on claims submitted by qualified practitioners: 1) emergency care, 2) critical care, 3) injury-related diagnostic and treatment services, 4) complementary and alternative medical (CAM) care, and 5) other diagnostic and treatment services (audiometry and allergy testing). RESULTS: Prevalence of services users was higher among MPH-treated than nontreated children for all types of services (except critical care services in the chronic-MPH group) after adjusting for effects of age, sex, socioeconomic status, and geographic setting, with odds ratios ranging from 1.49 to 3.17. There were no differences between the 2 MPH-treated groups. CONCLUSIONS: Children treated with MPH for ADHD or presumed ADHD are more frequent users of a wide range of medical services than are other children. Findings support and extend existing evidence of increased use of medical services by this population of children. Findings have implications for service planning, including injury prevention, with these children. High utilization of audiometric, allergy, and CAM services warrants further scrutiny.
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In the myths of Tahuata (the Marquesas), Atea ("Space") emerged one morning from Chaos (see: Tanaoa). Freeing himself, he made room for Atanua to arise. They married and had a son, Tu-Mea, the first man.
In Tuamotuan mythology, Atea was the sky god, who married Fa'ahotu, but after their firstborn, the magician Tahu, died of starvation on Fa'ahotu's flat bosom, and others followed, the two gods exchanged sexes. A legend is told of Atea and Tane, a younger god whom Atea tried to capture. After having sent a host of deities against Tane, the young god escaped to Earth and wandered, finally becoming so hungry that he killed and ate one of his ancestors. This was the beginning of what was to become cannibalism. Reaching manhood, Tane declared war on Atea, and slew him with the thunderbolts of his ancestor, Fatu-tiri.
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OWLS projects provide opportunities to integrate across the curriculum using a thematic approach. Here are a few limited examples of how your project could help to support instructional objectives and tie to subject areas.
Identifying plants and animals, studying living communities, ecological systems, and monitoring change.
Studying soil characteristics, hydrologic cycles, and properties of water.
Applying concepts related to weather, climate, and seasonal patterns.
Tallying species, mapping of site, graphing growth of vegetation, interpreting data.
Developing a written plan, making oral reports, writing newspaper and newsletter articles, communication with diverse groups.
Identifying historical uses of site, engaging in the political process, working cooperatively with others.
Developing site maps and illustrations.
Applying appropriate technology in land use projects.
When working on an OWLS, you will use your indoor classroom for the majority of curriculum connected activities. This process helps make the connection between what they are learning and doing to improve the outdoor wildlife habitat at their school as well as applying it to all curriculum studies.
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How to Start and Grow Plants from Seedlings
5 Ways to Prepare Your Garden for Spring
A Gardening is the number 1 hobby in America. But it doesn't have to cost you a fortune. I know friends who purchase ready-to-plant flowers and shrubs every spring. This costs them $200-300 per year. It is convenient to have an instant garden, but it can be done for less.
Growing your own plants from seeds can save you a tremendous amount of money. A packet of seeds that costs $1 can yield up to 50 plants. That's 2 cents per plant, as compared to $2-3 per plant for full grown.
I plant my seedlings indoors several months before planting season. If you live in a warmer climate, you can start the seeds directly outdoors when the danger of frost is over. If you need to start indoors, place the seedlings in a sunny area. I use inexpensive pots or seed starter trays. Another option is to use egg cartons. Place one half of an empty egg shell in the bottom of each egg holder for added fertilizer. I place the pots on an old cookie sheet to catch any water spills.
I try and make my gardening investment provide some sort of "return." Therefore, I plant more vegetables than flowers. It helps cut back on my grocery expenses.
Some plants are more costly to maintain than others. Many require lots of water, special fertilizer and costly pesticides. Roses are a good example of a high maintenance plant. Make sure that you know what your plants will require before deciding what to plant.
Xeriscaping is worth looking into. It is the science of low maintenance landscaping. This does not mean that your yard will be filled with cactus and rocks. There are many vegetables, flowers and shrubs that do well in dry areas.
Fertilizing and mulching a garden can run up quite a bill, so here are some cost saving tips:
For pests, try making your own pesticide with one of these recipes:
I purchase my seeds from seed catalogs. It has proven to be cheaper and the seeds are a better quality. If you would like to try ordering from some seed companies, try www.burpee.com. Websites are fun to check out because they can offer so much information on a few pages. Here's another one at http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/extension/xeriscape/xeriscape.html
Jonni McCoy is the author of "Miserly Moms-Living On One Income In A Two Income Economy" and "Frugal Families-Making The Most Of Your Hard Earned Money!" Visit the Miserly Moms Website at miserlymoms.com
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The future is here. To quote William Shatner in the original Star Trek Series “We are going where no man has gone before.”
Dave Evans, Cisco’s Chief Futurist, recently posted an infographic in his blog that detailed the fascinating growth of the “Internet of things” – ATMs, kiosks, vending machines, smart meters, digital signage, refrigerator… And then he posted the question: “With this increase, how will you prepare your network for the future? “
Well… Today, Cisco announced the latest addition to the core routing infrastructure portfolio: the Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR) 819 Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Gateway as an answer to this question. This is the first step towards getting your network ready to face the barrage of machines that need 3G wireless network connectivity to your enterprise/corporate network.
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132:4.1 Jesus did not devote all his leisure while in
to this work of preparing men and women to become future disciples in the oncoming kingdom. He spent much time gaining an intimate knowledge of all races and classes of men who lived in this, the largest and most cosmopolitan city of the world. In each of these numerous human contacts Jesus had a double purpose: He desired to learn their reactions to the life they were living in the flesh, and he was also minded to say or do something to make that life richer and more worth while. His religious teachings during these weeks were no different than those which characterized his later life as teacher of the twelve and preacher to the multitudes.
132:4.2 Always the burden of his message was: the fact of the heavenly Father's love and the truth of his mercy, coupled with the good news that man is a faith-son of this same God of love. Jesus' usual technique of social contact was to draw people out and into talking with him by asking them questions. The interview would usually begin by his asking them questions and end by their asking him questions. He was equally adept in teaching by either asking or answering questions. As a rule, to those he taught the most, he said the least. Those who derived most benefit from his personal ministry were overburdened, anxious, and dejected mortals who gained much relief because of the opportunity to unburden their souls to a sympathetic and understanding listener, and he was all that and more. And when these maladjusted human beings had told Jesus about their troubles, always was he able to offer practical and immediately helpful suggestions looking toward the correction of their real difficulties, albeit he did not neglect to speak words of present comfort and immediate consolation. And invariably would he tell these distressed mortals about the love of God and impart the information, by various and sundry methods, that they were the children of this loving Father in heaven.
132:4.3 In this manner, during the sojourn in Rome, Jesus personally came into affectionate and uplifting contact with upward of five hundred mortals of the realm. He thus gained a knowledge of the different races of mankind which he could never have acquired in
and hardly even in
He always regarded this six months as one of the richest and most informative of any like period of his earth life.
132:4.4 As might have been expected, such a versatile and aggressive man could not thus function for six months in the world's metropolis without being approached by numerous persons who desired to secure his services in connection with some business or, more often, for some project of teaching, social reform, or religious movement. More than a dozen such proffers were made, and he utilized each one as an opportunity for imparting some thought of spiritual ennoblement by well-chosen words or by some obliging service. Jesus was very fond of doing things-even little things-for all sorts of people.
- Back to Great Jesus Stories -
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How did Helen Keller go from being a blind, deaf and ill-tempered child to being one of the most important women of the 20th century? This is the question that "The Miracle Worker," opening next week at The Little Theatre of Walla Walla, explores.
Playwright William Gibson wrote "The Miracle Worker" in 1957 for television, largely basing the script off Keller's autobiography, "The Story of My Life." Gibson then adapted the story for Broadway, where it won several Tony Awards with the famous cast that went on to make the 1962 movie that helped proliferate Keller's story.
The story focuses on Helen's relationship with her teacher Annie Sullivan, a partially blind orphan born of Irish immigrants from South Boston. The play highlights the struggle to educate Helen and gives weight to Sullivan's role as a teacher.
Co-director Terry McConn pointed out that the title reveals the emphasis of the story.
"The play is called 'The Miracle Worker.' As William Gibson says, it's not called 'The Miracle Workee.' He was very infatuated with Annie, the author was. But of course, Helen and Annie work as a team," he said.
For "The Miracle Worker," Terry and his wife Sherry, who both graduated from Whitman College with drama degrees, have teamed up to direct their first play at The Little Theatre since the 1970s. Their work began with research to find the best way to present the story. What they found was that Gibson gives them all the direction they needed.
Terry said he saw no reason to stray from Gibson's directions, and thus this production will be "a very traditional rendition."
"There's nothing wrong with this play ... It's a beautiful story of someone escaping from darkness through courage and through teaching and through language. You can't improve on that," Terry said.
Fifty-seven people auditioned for the show, the most the Little Theater has ever had. Of those 57, 30 were girls vying for the part of Helen.
Terry and Sherry ultimately chose 11-year-old Cassidy Meliah to play Helen, because she was not only able to "create a beginning feeling of silence and darkness" but was also physically strong, a characteristic that is essential for the fight scenes that occur between Helen and Annie.
Meliah said that to get into Helen's mindset, she focuses on leaving reality behind.
Jessica Barkl will be playing Annie. She cherishes the role not only because she has an extensive background in theater, but because she has experience teaching adults with disabilities.
Barkl said her initial challenge was finding the right voice for Annie, who spoke with a unique mix of Britsh-flavored mid-Atlantic, Irish and South Boston accents. But her voice training and line-memorizing didn't prepare her for the physical challenges that arose once she and Meliah started rehearsing (and wrestling) together.
Barkl said, "I told her (Meliah) just to keep in her world and I would protect myself and her as best as I could. And so, that gets a little different. You're at home memorizing your lines and suddenly you're encountering an 11-year-old and they all go out the window. It's a very taxing role."
In portraying Helen and Annie's intimate yet contentious relationship, Meliah and Barkl had to get to know each other fast. Barkl recalled one rehearsal early on that involved a moment where Helen feels her way around Annie's face.
"She was like, 'I'm sorry my fingers kind of stink,' and I'm like, 'I don't care!'" Barkl said.
Aside from the feedback they get from each other, the cast and directors were also able to get some advice from Patty Duke, who played Helen in the original Broadway play and the film adaptation, for which she won an Academy award.
Terry and Sherry met Duke in Spokane in 2003, where they saw a play in which she performed. She was so gracious that they did not hesitate to let Duke know about their upcoming performance. Duke was unable to attend, but the directors were able to set up a speaker-phone conversation with the cast and crew.
"She told the actors good advice about doing roles that have been immortalized ... to make sure that you realize it's your role, it's your spirit on stage," Terry said.
Duke also autographed some items that will be raffled at the theater.
Gil Alden, who plays Helen's father, Captain Keller, also commented on the emotional power of the story.
"The timeless themes that are very attractive are the overcoming of adversity and human interaction," Alden said. "And this play shows that and that's what people are going to take away from this."
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Oral Surgeon (Maxillofacial Surgeon)
Oral surgeons (also called maxillofacial surgeons) are dentists who specialize in surgery of the mouth and jaw.
Oral surgeons treat and reconstruct areas of the face, head, or neck after an injury or surgery. They prepare the jaw for denture construction, treat temporomandibular (TM) joint problems, perform cosmetic surgery, and treat birth defects (such as cleft lip and palate) or growth disturbances of the jaw.
Oral and maxillofacial surgeons have graduated from an accredited dental school and completed a residency program approved by the American Dental Association Commission in Dental Accreditation. Oral and maxillofacial surgeons may be board-certified through the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
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Introduction to French, emphasizing conversational ability but including reading comprehension and written expression. Extensive use of spoken French in the classroom, small group practice sessions, and individual conferences with the instructor.
Students desiring further French study may register for additional credits of French 105. Two semesters of French 105 (8 credits) constitute the first-year University French sequence.
Students with prior French study should consult the instructor for placement.
Continued and progressive development of the skills acquired in Elementary French and special emphasis on conversational ability, vocabulary building, and the grammar necessary for correct oral and written expression. Extensive pronunciation practice to develop proper syllable division, stress, linking, and intonation.
Students desiring further study may register for additional credits of FREN 205. Two semesters of FREN 205 (8 credits) constitute the second-year University French sequence.
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Town & Gown
As colleges and institutions are confronted by rapid shifts in technology and increasingly blurred boundaries of knowledge, the challenges facing campuses grow more complex. Not only have the interests of universities and society become more intertwined, campuses have developed more complex relationships both with other institutions and the world of private development.
We believe that no university is an island.
no university is an island
Our experience in the world of urban development has shown us how cities and universities can be designed together for mutual advantage. The character that an institution develops is often influenced by its relationship with its surrounding community. In turn, how a campus’ edges are conceived is critical to establishing the institution’s relationship with the city. Our work in dense urban communities like New Brunswick and New York’s East Village has helped institutions like Rutgers University and Cooper Union address complex issues like air rights, transit connections, and student housing, ultimately leveraging the intensely symbiotic relationships between institutions and their surrounding communities.
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Somalia's port of Bosaso: the bottleneck of East Africa's misery
BOSASO, Somalia, Sept 12, 2007 (AFP) - As dusk settles on the Gulf of Aden, the ghostly figures of hundreds of migrants start populating the streets of Bosaso in search of a place to sleep before embarking on a hellish boat crossing to Yemen.
Innocuous looking shops in this Somali port are often just a front for a thriving smuggling business, as the Horn of Africa -- mired in poverty and conflict -- keeps regurgitating ever more asylum seekers.
The desolate seaside town of Bosaso is the economic capital of Puntland, an autonomous self-declared state which lies on the jutting tip of the Somali peninsula, facing Yemen.
The kinder weather prevailing in the Gulf of Aden in August and September heralds the influx of thousands ready to test their luck and undertake the perilous sea journey out of Africa.
But even if the waves and gales spare them, health conditions and torture on the dhows often decimate the smugglers' human cargo, which eventually washes up, dead or alive, on the shores of Yemen.
"It's easy to contact the smugglers," says Mohamed Ahmed Oumar, a 19-year-old Ethiopian who made large segments of the harrowing journey from Ethiopia's Amhara region on foot.
He reached Saudi Arabia in 2006 and spent 11 months there before being deported but even a second brush with death could not dissuade him from attempting the crossing again.
While many of the migrants trickling into Bosaso every day yearn for better-paid jobs, a large proportion are also fleeing conflict zones or persecution in their home countries.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, at least 26,000 people crossed the Gulf of Aden illegally in 2006. No fewer than 3,000 arrived in Bosaso from Ethiopia this summer.
While most of the migrants are from Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) for the first time in 2007 reported the presence of Kenyans, Ugandans and Tanzanians among the candidates for immigration.
Most of them are men in their twenties, trying to survive in Bosaso, an arid town where temperatures often soar above 40 degrees C (104 degrees F).
In the scalding afternoon sun, dozens of Eritreans and Ethiopians can be seen roaming the streets aimlessly, half hiding from Puntland policemen who are not really hunting them down.
Once they have reached an agreement with a dhow owner, the migrants are brought into a form of modern-day slavery.
"They are like captives, they are forced to live, eat, sleep in the place where the owner will take them," says Santiago Perez Crespo, DRC programme manager in Bosaso. "Their situation is absolutely outrageous, terrible".
"Living conditions in the locations arranged by smugglers are very precarious. Migrants live in overcrowded open compounds with no sanitation facilities, surrounded by garbage and highly exposed to both disease and abuse," DRC said in a recent report.
Once they reach the Puntland capital after an often perilous flight across war-ravaged desert regions of Eastern Africa, a long purgatory starts during which they have to earn their ticket to Yemen.
The migrants work on the harbour or some of the markets to muster up a measly 100 dollars (72 euros), the common price asked by smugglers to be accepted onboard their ship.
Their illegal status is ignored by the authorities as they have become an integral part of the town's economic fabric.
"It's very cheap labour force, very vulnerable... All these internally-displaced people and migrants are exploited by the population of Bosaso," says Crespo.
The Somalis among them -- mostly families fleeing the relentless cycle of violence in Mogadishu between the Ethiopian-backed government and an Islamist-led insurgency -- find relatively more comfort in Bosaso.
Many are put up by relatives in some of the 19 impoverished camps that shelter an estimated 34,000 people in the area.
"There is an emergency situation in terms of nutrition", especially for children under the age of five, in these camps, says Javier Fernandez Espada from Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders).
In Boqolka Bush camp, Obah Abdi, a pretty 23-year-old woman from Mogadishu is still recovering from the grueling seven-day journey from the capital.
"The town is full of fighting, and there's no work, that's why I ran away," she says. "I want to go anywhere, I don't want to be in Somalia any more".
Obah says that everything she owned was stolen in Mogadishu and knows she will have to work hard in Bosaso to pay the smugglers.
Fatuma Mohamud, 22, is in a similar situation.
"I was told that you can do everything in Bosaso and find a job. I was tired of seeing people injured and bleeding all the time," she says.
"I will never go back to Mogadishu. If I find enough money, I want to cross to Yemen."
Copyright (c) 2007 Agence France-Presse
Received by NewsEdge Insight: 09/12/2007 00:14:27
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Practical Paleo - A Customized Approach to Health and a Whole-Foods Lifestyle A Customized Approach to Health and a Whole-foods Lifestyle (Paperback)
|Author: Diane Sanfilippo|
|This book explains why avoiding both processed foods and foods commonly marketed as "healthy"--like grains, legumes, and pasteurized dairy--will improve how people look and feel and lead to lasting weight loss.|
From the Publisher:
Our great-grandmothers didn't need nutrition lessons?then again, they weren't forced to wade through aisle after aisle of packaged foods touting outlandish health claims and confusing marketing jargon. Over the last few decades, we've forgotten what "real food" is?and we're left desperately seeking foods that will truly nourish our bodies. We're disillusioned with the "conventional wisdom" for good reason?it's gotten us nowhere.||Achieving optimal health without calorie-counting, "diet foods," or feelings of deprivation has never been easier. Practical Paleo explains why avoiding both processed foods and foods commonly marketed as "healthy"?like grains, legumes, and pasteurized dairy?will improve how you look and feel and lead to lasting weight loss. Even better?you may reduce or completely eliminate symptoms associated with common health conditions!||Practical Paleo is jam-packed with over 100 easy recipes, all with special notes about common food allergens including nightshades and FODMAPs. Meal plans are also included, and are designed specifically to target:|
|Practical Paleo is THE resource you'll reach for again and again for information on healthy living, delicious recipes, and easy-to-understand information about how a Paleo lifestyle can help you, your family, and your friends?regardless of their current health status.
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Definition from Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary
(Also referred to as limited equity housing cooperatives, or LEHCs.) An arrangement designed to encourage low- and moderate-income families to buy their own place to live. The housing is offered for sale, usually by a nonprofit organization, at an extremely favorable price with a low down payment. Typically the housing has been built (or an apartment building has been converted) for multiple families, who then share common areas and some decision making. The catch is that, upon selling, the owner gets none of the profit if the market value of the unit has gone up. Any profit returns to the organization that built the home, which then resells the unit at an affordable price.
Definition provided by Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary.
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"The Government have clearly sent the message to Shell, ‘you can do whatever you want’. Fortunately due to protest, the refinery remains unconnected to the gas field. If, as Shell planned, gas had been flowing by now, we would potentially all be dealing with a gas leak and explosion.”
THE tax charged on profits made by companies in Irish territory should be increased dramatically and the Government should take control of production levels, an Oireachtas committee said yesterday.
The report from the Joint Committee on Communications, Natural Resources and Agriculture calls for the State to make several changes to the way it awards exploration licences aimed at giving the Government more control over the sector.
Companies currently pay corporation tax of 25pc on profits and then an additional Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) of up to 15pc depending on the size of profits earned here.
Under the committee's proposals, PRRT would be increased to as much as 55pc if the oil or gas find is big enough, creating a de facto tax rate of between 40pc and 80pc.
Any changes, however, would not be retrospective.
The committee made a number of other recommendations including:
? A review of the Petroleum and Other Minerals Act, 1960 to clarify the law on oil and gas licences.
? Fiscal and licencing terms should be kept under constant review in order to allow any changes when required.
? Companies exploring the same areas around Ireland should be mandated to unify operations to ensure better data on the area.
? The State should control production volumes as part of its resource management to ensure that as much as possible is produced from a field.
? Gas flaring should be banned.
"Ireland's offshore oil and gas exploration industry has operated with limited success over the last 40 years. In recent years the exploration developments off the west coast of Ireland have brought the workings of the industry to the forefront of the public mind.
"Recent news reports seem to indicate further possibilities for a viable oil discovery off the south coast.
"It is therefore an opportune time for our committee to publish this report on an issue critical to Ireland's future prosperity and sustainability," he said.
"The committee's key concern is to strike the appropriate balance between maximising state revenue with incentivising offshore oil and gas exploration," he added following the publication of the Report on Oil and Gas Exploration yesterday.
The Irish Offshore Operators' Association, a trade group for the industry, was broadly positive on the report but admitted "concern" over the proposed tax increases.
- Peter Flanagan
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"If you have ever had the good fortune of being thrown a poetic lifeline, this book will thrill you with its depth and wisdom. If you've always wanted to understand the power of poetry, here is your chance." —Elizabeth Lesser
Saved by a Poem: An Inspirational Event with Kim Rosen
Kim Rosen’s gift of speaking poems has touched thousands with poetry’s power to awaken, inspire, and heal. The poems she delivers, interspersed with inspirational insight and group participation, dissolve the walls of culture, religion and generation to speak directly to the heart.
Kim weaves poems from ancient and modern poets such as Pablo Neruda, Mary Oliver, Rumi, Marie Howe, and Rainer Maria Rilke with music, inspirational teachings, and audience participation to offer a direct experience of how one can indeed be saved by a poem.
This is an invitation to rediscover what mystics, poets and shamans have known for centuries: in the rhythms and silence of the language of the poetry, the mind bursts open and all levels of being come into harmony—opening consciousness, promoting physical and emotional healing, and aligning you with what matters most.
Especially in these times of global and personal uncertainty, a poem can be a companion through difficulty, a wakeup call, and a source of passion, peace, and inspiration. In fact, poetry’s popularity seems to be soaring in direct relationship to the growing instability of the world around us. As financial and natural resources dwindle, many are turning to the resources of the heart. A poem can be a nondenominational prayer, a companion through difficulty, and a doorway to an inner source of joy, peace and true wisdom.
This is an event to awaken the heart, open the mind and set the body dancing!
See Calendar for upcoming Lectures.
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Marin County paramedics will provide the first test of a life-saving device promoted by a Menlo Park startup.
Lifesquare is a program in which medical information is stored in secure servers accessed by paramedics who scan an encoded sticker placed on a residential doorway or elsewhere, perhaps a wallet or bike helmet or car windshield.
The idea is that paramedics, arriving at an emergency medical call, will scan the sticker with a secure, encoded device for instant access to a patient's essential health information, including allergies and medications, medical contacts and physician information.
The program, similar in concept to a "vial of life" project several years ago in which information was stored in vials placed in refrigerators, was launched by three Stanford University students who took a leave of absence, received investor funding and got a nod from the Marin County Fire Department to try it out in the county. The free service was initiated this week in Marin at Lifesquare.com.
"It's like an electronic version of the vial of life," noted county fire emergency medical Battalion Chief Mike Giannini.
"It provides very accurate information during an emergency," Giannini said. "If someone has to call 911, that patient is going to have a certain amount of stress. We know that during stressful times, our ability to communicate effectively is diminished," he continued. "Being able to recall
Giannini noted that once medical information is in hand, it can be relayed to hospital staff in an instant. "Lifesquare allows us to operate more efficiently and more effectively," he said. "It's an example of how technology can really make a positive difference in our everyday lives."
Lifesquare co-founder Raymond Choi said that the firm's website enables participants to encode medical details. "We then send you a packet of (encoded) stickers" that can be posted in various home or auto locations for scanning by paramedics, he said.
First-responders are able to instantly access a patient's medical history and provide aid accordingly.
"Lifesquare is an easier, faster way for paramedics to get information about a patient," Choi said, adding the cooperation of local fire officials, along with Marin's affluent, aging population, among other factors, made the region an ideal locale to test the service.
Contact Nels Johnson via email at firstname.lastname@example.org
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After the theme, home, was posted on Friday, it seemed to me that I could go in a variety of ways about it. I do have my own photos of birds’ nests. I also had photos of a variety of other animals, including a chipmunk at the entrance to his burrow, and an old oak tree that was home to a wide variety of animals and later fell on the neighbor’s home. I decided not to put up a picture of my own home because I live in an apartment building which, although I love it, is a severe modernist building that doesn’t say “home” to most people. I’ve posted photos of it on the internet before because I think it’s a great building and inevitably I have people tell me how horrible it is.
So what would say “home” to people. Then I remembered a building about a mile or so away from where I live. It is a tall narrow nineteenth century town house. Much of the city of Baltimore is made up of townhouses from all eras of the city. Usually, they are built in groups and they share wall with their neighbors. The one that I thought of, however, was stuck between two hulking modern buildings. I wonder how this happened. Did the individual who lived there refuse to sell their home? So on Saturday, I went out to take a bunch of pictures of it.
For images of other people’s interpretation of the theme, go to the comments section of the Weekly Photo Challenge.
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Iligan is a city in the northeastern coast of Mindanao, surrounded by the towns of Baloi and Linamon of Lanao del Norte on the south, the town of Lugait of Misamis Oriental on the north, and the land of Lanao del Sur and Bukidnon on the east and Iligan Bay on the west.
Chroniclers say that centuries ago, long before Legaspi's expedition reached the Philippines in 1565, the Tala-andigs and the Banhawons, two of the known peace-loving Higa-onon tribes of Mindanao, had to build an ilihan or iliyan, meaning a "fortress of defense" on the coastal plain to secure them from the frequent attacks of pirates and savage tribes. Hence, the place to be called as Iligan. Some say its name was derived from the seasonal surge and outflow of its two major rivers. Local folks call this alluvial phenomenon "ilig". This is the reason why Iliganons consider the monsoon season a blessing because the soil along the riverbanks are fertilized. Its Cebuano-speaking inhabitants likes to believe that Iligan means "where good fortune gravitates".
Obviously, Mother Nature has blessed this city of more than 300,000 inhabitants. Not only is it situated on a limestone-rich area, it is also way out of the typhoon belt, earthquakes and other natural disasters. Iligan is also ringed with more than twenty waterfalls (earning the monicker "City of Majestic Waterfalls") and more than a dozen springs distributed evenly within a 30-kilometer radius of the city.
Its rivers and tributaries practically caused Iligan to move forward economically and make it the industrial center of Mindanao today.
Besides its rich natural resources, it is also the home of nationally acclaimed artists, poets, cultural workers and writers.
Iligan is predominantly Christian (93.61%). Iliganons are the mixture of the Muslim and Cebuano population with a minority of Tagalog and some other cultural minorities and immigrants from other places.
Iligan City is served by Maria Cristina Airport located in the nearby municipality of Baloi. Philippine Airlines served the city for many years before stopping services in 1998 due to the Asian financial crisis. After a decade of not serving the city, PAL subsidiary PAL Express is expected to return to the city with four weekly flights to Manila and three weekly flights to Cebu. Both services are tentatively scheduled to start service.
The nearest airport to Iligan City is the Cagayan de Oro's Lumbia Airport with multiple daily flights from Manila, Cebu, Davao and IloIlo. Cebu Pacific is the top carrier with 6 Daily flights from Manila, Philippine Airlines has 4 daily flights from Manila, Airphil Express has 3 Daily flights and Zest Airways offers one daily flight from Manila. Both Cebu Pacific and Airphil Express also flies to Cebu City. Flight time from Manila to Cagayan de Oro Airport is approximately one hour and 20 minutes. The opening of Laguindingan International Airport in 2012, which is expected to replace Lumbia Airport in Cagayan de Oro City, is also expected to replace the city's airport. The new airport is a flagship project of the Cagayan de Oro-Iligan corridor.
From Manila, you can take a boat going to Cagayan de Oro seaport, and then take a taxi or bus to Iligan City. From Manila, you can also take a boat going to Ozamiz City. This boat will drop you in Iligan seaport itself. From Cebu, there is a daily boat schedule going to Cagayan de Oro seaport.
The best way to travel to Iligan is by bus. At Bulua Bus Terminal you can find buses going to Iligan. Travel time from Cagayan de Oro to Iligan (by taxi or bus) is approximately one-and-a-half hour, and the ticket is only 100 peso (around 2 dollars). The buses are modern and very fast with aircondition and movie playing on the videoscreen. From Cagayan de Oro Airport, you can also take a taxi cab (direct to Iligan, price about 20 dollars), or take a taxi cab to drop you to Bulua Bus Terminal (6 dollars).
Jeepneys or jips are the most common public transport in the city with a minimal fare of P7.50. Taxis are readily available anytime of the day. It can be radio dispatched, and will pick you up if you give the dispatcher a call. Habal-habal or motorcycles are most common especially in going to the city outskirts or hinterland areas. There is also the famous "Tartanillas" (calesas) that is also a public mode of transportation which serves through Barangay Pala-o and Barangay Tambacan.
A number of these attractions are quite unique and could only be found in this city. There are numerous waterfalls, springs, and beach resorts.
This is not the final list on what's worth seeing, but it's a good place to start whether you're a first-time visitor or an Iligan expert.
Downtown Iligan - A lot has changed since the tri-people (cultural mix of Maranaos of Lanao del Sur, Higaonons of Bukidnon, the predominantly Christian settlers and migrants from other parts of the country) helped create the foundation of this city. Today's downtown practically has most of the ammenities that make an urban center - hotels, restaurants, shopping centers and cultural attractions.
Macaraeg-Macapagal Ancestral House - The house boasts as the only house in Mindanao where two Philippine Presidents resided. One being the father, and the other, the daughter, Pres. Diosdado Macapagal and HE Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo respectively. In 1994, upon the instigation of the late former President Diosdado Macapagal, the lot where the house stands and a two-hectare cocoland nearby were donated to the City Government of Iligan for the purpose of developing the place into a tourist destination with a memorabilia of the Macaraeg-Macapagal Family.
Iligan City Hall - The seat of the city government, is on top of Buhanginan Hill, some 47 meters above sea level. It was built way back in 1957.
Anahaw Open Amphitheater - On Buhanginan Hill's southeastern side is Anahaw Ampitheater, probably the biggest open amphitheater in Mindanao, which is a venue for theater, sports tournaments, celebrations, and other activities. The amphitheater and the city hall is only less than 3 kilometers away from the city proper.
Bayug Island - Bayug (an island sitio of Barangay Hinaplanon, 3.7 km northeast of poblacion) is traditionally considered as the first settlement in Iligan even in pre-Islamic times but this was destroyed due to a calamity happened on December 16, 2011 when a destructive flood destroyed the beautiful place.
Other Places worth visiting: - Laya Ancestral House, Linya Galleria, MVC Park and Lagoon, Rizal Park, Freedom Park.
You may request for a tour guide at the City Tourism Office, Bahay Salakot, Buhanginan Hills, Pala-o, Iligan City Tel. #221-3426 or you may wish to go around on your own. Here are some tips for the unguided tourist for a whole day tour.
8:00 ETD Buhanginan Hill From Poblacion (City Proper) take a jeepney (Iligan-Palao-City Hall-City Hospital) and inform the driver to take you to City hall. Jeepney Fare is P7.50
8:15 ETD Buhanginan Hill The road going to the top of the Buhanginan Hill is a quick and convenient challenge and favorite destination for early-morning joggers. At the top is a playground where children can romp around. It houses the City Hall which is 49 years old, the new City Council Building, the Anahaw Amphitheatre. You'll get a good view of the city from the hill too. Some 200 meters from the City Hall is the Bahay Salakot which houses the City Tourism Office and the Iligan Investment Promotion Center.
9:30 ETD for Maria Christina Falls Take a Jeepney from Buhanginan Hill to City proper. Tell the driver to drop you at Masonic Temple and pay a fare of P7.50. From there take a jeepney (Iligan-Buruun route) to Maria Cristina Falls. Fare is P13.00. Inform driver to drop you at the crossing going to Maria Cristina Falls.
10:15 ETA at Gate of NPC Agus VI and Agus VII Hydro-electric Power Plant Complex From the crossing of the National Highway and road leading to Maria Cristina Falls is the NPC gate which is some 150 meters from the highway You shall be asked to register at the gate, fill out some forms and leave an ID. In exchange you shall be given an ID PASS which you shall be asked to wear at all times while inside the complex. From the gate to Agus VI HEP Plant where you shall be viewing the falls, is an 800 meter walk. Maria Cristina Falls is open to the Public everyday, however should you wish to view its full grandeur, it is recommended to view it on Saturdays and Sundays at 11:00 a.m.
11:45 ETD from Maria Christina Falls to Timoga Cold Springs From the gate of the complex walk towards the highway and cross it.
1:00 Macaraeg-Macapagal Ancestral House
1:30 ETD for Mimbalut Falls Tell driver to drop you at Buru-un talipapa (stalls selling fish). Fare is P6.50. At the talipapa are the habal-habal (motorcycles used as public transport) inform barker that you're going to Tinago Falls.
2:00 ETD for Tinago Falls Literally hidden in a deep ravine, the falls cascading beautifully into a basin-like pool, clean, and deep and icy cold. It has an elevation of approximately 420 feet. It is 13.8 kilometers away from the city proper. Rate is P20.00 per head, Minimum passenger is 2 passengers. If you are alone and you do not wish to wait for additional passenger then fare is P40.00. You may make arrangements with driver to pick you up at the Iligan Tinago Mountain Resort and special rates can be arranged. Entrance fee at the Iligan tinago Mountain Resort is P10.00.
Timoga Spring Pools - Known for its pristine, cool and crystal clear waters freely flowing downstream towards several swimming pools. Shed, snack bars, cottages and lechon (roasted pig) stalls are available.
Mimbalut Falls - It is a site to behold and provides an enjoyable swimming spot. Picnic tables are available if you simply want to wade and enjoy a quiet scenery and listen to the melodious chirping of birds.
In Brgy. Hindang lies Hindang Falls and caves, a 40 ft. high two tiered waterfalls with lagoon ideal for swimming. It is nestled with towering peaks sheltering it from the sun and prying people. Other attractions of the barangay are the 6-8 cave clusters. Most caves have narrow entrances with long and deep chambers.
Mt. Agad-Agad - Approximately 1,600 ft above sea level, very accessible and is good for mountain hikings and campings. A small waterfall is also featured on the way to the top of the mountain. Because it's so easy to climb, you may go up Mount Agad-agad in the morning and come down in the afternoon. But the trek will be much more worth the sweat if you spend the night there. At the peak, the panoramic overlooking view of Iligan City and Mt. Malindang in Misamis Occidental right across Iligan Bay is a spectacle. But wait till evening when the city lights look like the reflection of the stars.
Golf and Country Club of Iligan - A 9-hole golf course laid out on gently rolling low green hills which is a favorite among local golfers and others who come to Iligan. It is located in Barangay Tipanoy which is about 6.0 kilometers away from the city proper.
Adlaw sa Iligan - On June 16, 1950, President Elpidio Quirino signed into law the charter of the new city of Iligan. In 1984, June 16 of every year was declared as "Adlaw sa Iligan" to commemorate and celebrate the founding of Iligan as a chartered city. It is usually during the weeklong celebration of the Iligan City Charter Day that the city government forges unity and partnership with the private sector and the barangay leaders in fellowship gatherings. Activities that traditionally enliven the occasion are agro-industrial fair, cultural and artistic performances and the Tambayayong Festival, a float competition of various government agencies.
Diyandi Festival sa Iligan - Folk-lore depicts Iligan's patron saint, St. Michael the Archangel as the protector of peace. Thus, his feast every 29th of September, is a grand celebration in the city. In fact, it has transformed into a month-long festival, the "DIYANDI FESTIVAL SA ILIGAN". Every September 27th, Kasadya streetdancing and merrymaking is participated in by different schools, civic organizations, and ethnic groups. It is a showcase of Iliganon tradition depicting historical, cultural, and religious aspects, group competition of tribal dances, and presentation of a religious stage play.
Alimyon Flower Festival - Every Oct.30-Nov.2 flowers are brought directly from cut-flower growers in the farms and are priced cheaper than those displayed at shops and markets. The flowers in Iligan are also sold at Zamboanga City, Butuan, Cagayan de Oro, Ozamiz, and Pagadian.
NPC Natures Park, Maze Parks & Resort, Taytay Swimming Pool
The city uses the Philippine peso. US dollar is also accepted, but it's good to have it changed to peso. Foreign currencies can be easily exchanged to Philippine peso at any banks, and authorized money changers.
For foreigners, it would be wise to always have Philippine bills and coins (for convenience).
Silvestro's Bistro and Confiserie, ☎ 0063 63 223 7522. Soup, salad, sandwich, mains, as well as a selection of typical Western, Asian and European fusion food are served. The atmosphere is relaxed and caters mostly to tourists and expatriates, politicians, local business elites, and upper to middle class guests as well. Reservations are not essential, but if you are going with a large group it is best to phone and place your orders ahead of time as food is only prepared once ordered. Dietary restrictions can be catered for if informed in advance. The coffee shop also provides a large choice of local and imported coffee from different faces of the earth. Serves light snacks and cakes together with a choice coffee servings like cappuccino, cafe latte and more made of authentic 100% Arabica Coffee.edit
Home-stay Accommodation. Travellers who express preference to stay in houses of locals than in hotels or commercial inns can choose from among the 8 private homes in Iligan. Reservations can be made thru the City Tourism Office, Bahay Salakot, Buhanginan Hills, Pala-o, this city or call 221-3426 for details.
StayLite Suites, Champaca St, San Miguel Village, Pala-o (at the back of Philippine Independent Church), ☎ +63 (63) 222-1828, . Clean and affordable pension house offering 59 air-conditioned rooms, each with its own queen-sized bed and private bathroom. Features and amenities: 24-hour reception, 24-hour uniformed security and CCTV, 24-hour room service, daily housekeeping, energy-saving card key switches, flatscreen cable TV, free in-room internet access via Wi-Fi, free luggage storage, free parking, intercom(8.228562,124.2484)edit
This is a usable article. It has information for getting in as well as some complete entries for restaurants and hotels. An adventurous person could use this article, but please plunge forward and help it grow!
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For example I saw former PM Howard announce AUS$800 million aid for Solomon Islands but a later SMH report stated $600 million never left Australia. Google "phantom aid" and "boomerang aid".
Solomon Islands people virtually have no money. An experienced SI economist has
said the SI economy now needs to be monetized. Stimulated is a more modern
Eight hundred Aus million would have likely provided the stimulus but instead Aus sent the RAMSI force to collect guns and force the peace.
Now RAMSI is about to leave but the poverty continues and is acute, chronic - long term, especially amongst out of town/rural people.
Australia should look carefully and applying real aid through management with knowledge and skill instead of through an AusAid councillor with no decision authority.
Only this year have SI people been allowed temporary farm work in Australia yet the SW Pacific Islands are a tourism drawcard especially for cruise ships to the region that absolutely includes Australia.
Peace in the region is vital, so too is humanitarian aid to offset the now chronic poverty that is even linked to a 69 percent increase in anaemia linked maternal mortality. Protein deficiency malnutrition is involved due to island fish depletion /devastation.
There is a food sustainability crisis in the Pacific but the impact on humans is virtually ignored.
Why not delay the Australian $40 billion NBN and borrow $400 million from there instead of taking it from AusAid?
Peace and prosperity and health in our region is essential, instead of worsening poverty and disease.
Go check out SI. Travel around. Virtually no Australian aid development can be seen.
SI provides example of Aus Aid outcome.
Sure RAMSI has forced the peace but what now with a nation of really good people plunged into real poverty, traditional island seafood no longer available?
Why should phony refugees be given assistance and not our malnourished and sickened neighbours?
I am sometimes now based in SI and have
background there since 1973.
Times have changed, fundamentally changed because subsistence living in Solomon Islands is no longer possible. You see the fish are no longer abundant and available to be caught by hand or from a hand paddled canoe. Yes canoes with an outboard can travel and eventually find and catch a few fish but who pays for the petrol?
Previously fish used to be abundant and fresh and free but not anymore. Baitfish were always available but not anymore. Fish used to be like money, including shell money but not anymore.
Shell for shell money is now even imported by Malaita Island shell money makers, from the Western Province and it has to be paid for.
Five weeks ago I was asked for $80 SI to buy batteries to find and catch reef fish sleeping at night. The reefs are being devastated due to need for food to feed families.
Australians should learn about complete protein, the protein with amino acid and whatever else not found in rice or potato.
SI people now need properly paid employment to buy alternative food that costs the same or more than in Australia. They need money for developed world petrol to get to shops or to transport stores back to a local shop.
But Australia has had them locked out of worker programs while people from rich nations can come and work virtually as they want. NZ people do not even need a Visa.
And I know Australian farmers who desperately need viable labour in their remote rural and outback regions where Aus people do not wish to work. e.g. True Aus Aid could be involve more than just paying out money.
SI economics, oh yes. Chinese shops have even closed and gone recently in Munda due to lack of enough trade to pay rent.
Thriving plantations yes they were given back to locals because the price fell out of copra, so no wonder locals could not afford to keep them cleared.
And the coup that developed from ECONOMIC tension that media calls ethnic tension,led to plantation cattle being eaten, so no more animals to help clear plantation undergrowth.
Coconut trees are now very old, less productive, less viable. Example, a man collected and husked and dried 41 bags of copra in one month and took it to Noro by canoe and was paid $700 SBD, and out of that he paid $350 SBD for petrol to get to Noro. At the time $1 Aus was about $4 SBD. Really, do the numbers.
Aus Aid and Australian government and media has no right to gag or suppress information of substance about the real devastated state of marine environment and impact and consequences.
In my opinion according to experience and empirical evidence, new information about the collapsed and collapsing state of Pacific Ocean food supply and sustainability is not even officially reaching the Peace Corp, or Australians.
Australian people are not seeing the need for real aid for our neighbours because people are not being informed about cause of the need. e.g. UN World Environment Day 2004 – Seas and Oceans wanted dead or alive, did not even get a run in Australia media or government news during 2004. Check library records.
Most people affected? Many people affected?
How many sick and dead humans are required before due action is taken? And that is saying nothing about starvation of marine animals on Australia's western Pacific Ocean shores.
There is need for a BIG re think, especially by Aus government and AUS AID.
Ughele, Western Province.
The above opinion is John Fairfax’s on the article written by Rebecca Barber (top). Fairfax, an Australian now married to a Solomon Islands woman and is living in the Western Province.
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Do you find it odd that in the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB, there are no openly gay athletes? Well, we shouldn’t find that odd because in every professional sports league, each player is pushed to sacrifice personal goals in order to succeed in the game. And “personal goals” would include personal happiness and the right to come out with who they are. But should it matter if a player is gay or not?
‘No openly gay players allowed’
In today’s world, the fans, media, and even the league players themselves have set a boundary for athletes: No openly gay players allowed. Is it right that in order to be successful in sports, one has to hide his or her true identity from the world? That in order to function well in a team, one has to strive to ignore his or her own personality and give in to the boundary set by others? Can’t we just accept a person for who he or she really is?
Does being gay affect the way a person plays sports? Does it reduce his skills in the court? Does a person’s sexuality define who he or she is as a player and as a human being?
Yes, having a gay player in a team can definitely bring in extra and unwanted attention from the media and the general public, or even from his teammates. But if one player comes out, will this event suddenly destroy the credibility, fun, and business in that sport? To think that there are a bunch of evil happenings leading to the real collapse of reputations — sexual harrassment cases, profanities, DUIs, and all those stuff.
If only people would stop criticizing a player’s skills and achievements just because he is gay. If only fans would focus on his numbers on the game instead of the person he is currently dating. We all know that at the end of the day, he is just like you and me — a person who will strive his hardest to win Sunday’s game because he’d get the boot if he underperformed. And that does not have anything to do with his sexuality. See what I mean?
For many years already, the world has been functioning with lots of gay people out in the open. Millions of people go to work everyday with gay colleagues. And for them, it doesn’t matter if they are gay. Just that they are doing their job well. Let’s all grow up and be mature about it.
Do you think openly gay players in major sports leagues will be a distraction or not? Feel free to share your feedback with us!
Image: National Post
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McCarthy wins MLK Jr. Community Service Award
The Marin County Human Rights Commission has presented the 1997 Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Award to College of Marin's Disabled Students Program Coordinator Marie McCarthy, citing her "dedication, energy, vision and 'fight for the underdog' attitude.
"She has been responsible for the creation of innovative, unique and unparalleled support programs throughout the college and community serving over 2,000 disabled students each year," added the Commission in its awards ceremony program on Jan. 14.
"Marie has created an exemplary model for education/community partnerships, developing a network of support that enables all segments of the Marin disabled community an opportunity for a better life. Through her efforts, thousands of disabled Marin residents have become productive, contributing members of the community. In addition to her work at College of Marin, Marie is a volunteer with the Salvation Army Advisory Board, Centerforce, Exodux, INSPIRIT, Marin Center for Independent Living, Marin Athletic Foundation, Amnesty International, Jericho and the Child Welfare League."
Marie composed the following poem to read at the ceremony:
The Song of Unsung Heroes
I sing a song of unsung heroes
Of the battles they must wage every day
Of their courage and patience and great inner strength
It's the stuff that can show us the way.
Imagine, if you will, his wheelchair on a hill
As he starts his initial ascent
But the grade is too steep, and so backwards he'll creep
He'll be absent from this important event.
And speaking of access, she's invited to dine
At a restaurant they say she'll adore
But when she arrives, the entrance has steps
So she enters through a rusty back door.
And then there's the challenge of the young dyslexic
Who can barely read or write
He struggles for days on a one-hour project
Though he knows he's exceptionally bright.
And think of what a person who has suffered a stroke
Might face every morning and night
If you have limited use of your arms and your legs
The art of dressing can be quite a plight.
And then there are folks who are no longer speaking
Or have lost all their hearing or sight
Can you imagine the frustration and the new acclimation
And the fortitude to fight the good fight?
Can you somehow conceive of the persistence it takes
If you're paralyzed from your neck to your feet
You are dependent on others for all of your needs
These folks are awesome... with radiance replete.
And speaking of radiance, observe the natural delight
On developmentally challenged young faces
They work hard to be normal (whatever that means)
And stand tall when they're put through the paces.
But let's not forget the oft-unmentionable ill
That is summarily swept under the rug
Mental illness is tough, and unbearably rough
While doctors search for the miracle drug.
Have you ever spent time with a very special friend
Who knows that she is terminally ill?
She gives you a smile and you look in her eyes
And see a power much stronger than any pill.
For what she has learned, as we all shall some day
That we're here to learn lessons from life
And the path that we choose and the way we traverse it
Makes the difference between happiness or strife.
And here's where the caregivers come into play
For the support and the love that they give
For they are the ones who can make such a difference
So that another, so special, may live.
I sing a song of incredible people
Who have taken their charge from above
So these words do not come from patronizing pity
But from honor, respect, and from love.
And I'm sure you know some extraordinary heroes
Be they older or perhaps very young
So let's all come together with a universal voice
For with this song, they're no longer unsung.
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Crushed cars fall off of barge into Tacoma bay
Scrapped vehicles came from the Vancouver area
Monday, February 25, 2013
SEATTLE — The Washington Ecology Department and others are working on plans to retrieve several crushed cars that fell into water 242 feet deep in Tacoma's Commencement Bay after a barge developed a leak and tipped them over the side.
The department and the Coast Guard didn't know the exact number of cars that landed in the water Sunday, Ecology spokeswoman Linda Kent and Coast Guard spokesman Nathan Littlejohn said.
Officials were initially concerned with stopping the barge from sinking and with a sheen of oil on the surface.
The Amix Marine Service barge, about 200 feet long, carries a load of flattened cars stacked more than 10 layers high, with other metal debris on top. The destination is the Schnitzer Steel metal recycling yard on the Hylebos Waterway, said company spokeswoman Louise Bray.
The barge was moored Sunday when a leak caused it to list and the cars started falling into the water. Schnitzer and Amix hired Global Salvage and Diving to make emergency repairs. They fixed a crack in the hull that was about 15 inches long and a quarter-inch wide, Kent said. After they pumped out water, the barge was stable again.
Emergency responders put a boom around the barge to contain the sheen. It apparently was residual oil. Liquids are removed from the cars before they are crushed.
A Coast Guard inspector gave approval to tow the barge to Schnitzer at midday Monday but gusty winds delayed the half-mile move.
Investigation under way
The barge with scrapped cars from the Vancouver area was making a routine trip to the Tacoma recycling yard, said Amix Marine Services President Clark Longmuir.
"These things can happen," Longmuir said. "It was dealt with as quickly as possible."
The state and Coast Guard are investigating how the barge developed a leak. The barge will be inspected again before it returns to Vancouver, where Amix plans a thorough evaluation.
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You will want a translation, of course. Recipes are hard enough to follow at times without the added distress of being expected to dig up a coffin from some place. No, this isn't a spooky Halloween concoction months ahead of its time, but a rather simple-to-prepare dessert once you get past the funky Old English alphabet and lingo:
Recorded in the earliest English manuscript of cooking instruction, The Forme of Cury 1390 AD, Daryols (from the French) are custard tarts that have enjoyed many permutations through the ages, and are chiefly known today as Richmond Maids of Honor. Richmond, the London borough where King Henry VIII held court in Hampton Palace, claims direct titular connection to the diminutive treats, although the many theories seem to be based on legend or romantic fancies rather than hard facts. Regardless of their correct origin, Maids of Honor hold a special place on British tea tables and are one of the most foolproof cheesecake recipes available. Many medieval dishes revel in a certain elaborate simplicity, more elementary and primitive than exacting, despite ingredients that were exotic, priceless, and often exclusively for the consumption of royalty. With our modern conveniences of prepared pastry and jam, these hand-held gems can be ready for your tea (or coffee) in hardly more than half an hour, which will give you that much more time to linger in a little royal luxury all your own.
Take cream or almond milk, add egg with sugar, saffron and salt. Mix it
up. Pour it in a two-inch deep pastry case. Bake it well and serve it.
A "coffyn" made of phyllo.
Richmond Maids of Honor (Daryols) - My own streamlined recipe adapted from the 18th Century edition of The Forme of Cury by Samuel Pegge, above. The original 1390 AD manuscript can be found here, (in the Medieval Collection of The John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester: The Forme of Cury, images 84v, 85f).
40 miniature pastry cups (I used phyllo.)
8 ounces cream cheese
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup ground almonds (If you use pre-sweetened marzipan or almond paste, omit the sugar.)
1 tablespoon almond extract (You can also use vanilla.)
1/2 cup jam of your choice (I used Francis Miot's Plaisir du Vert Galant, a lovely medieval-inspired indulgence from Alex, a friend who returned from Paris bearing beautiful gifts. Virtually impossible to find in the U.S., this is the sort of rarefied culinary treasure that you will not want to squander on a slice of aerated, flaccid white bread; better you should savor it by little licks directly off an ice-cold spoon.)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Arrange pastry cups on a cookie sheet and place in oven for 4-5 minutes to crisp. Remove from oven and reserve.
In a small bowl, beat cream cheese with an electric mixer until smooth and light. Sequentially beat in sugar, ground almonds, egg and almond extract until well blended.
Fill each pastry cup with a level teaspoon of batter. Bake for 15-17 minutes until the filling is shiny, cracked and set. Remove from oven and let cool. Top with scant and slapdash 1/2 teaspoons of jam; no need to be precise and fancy. Makes 40 two-bite tarts. --
This recipe is for Mansi of Fun and Food, hosting Sugar High Friday - Fruit & Nut for Jennifer of The Domestic Goddess, creator of Sugar High Friday, the long-running and popular monthly event.
Been There, Done That ~
Almond Cherry Tarts
Other People's Eats ~
Richmond Maids of Honour
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Pet Scams are a variation of advance fee fraud or check scams. The scammer will purport to have pets, often puppies, for sale or to give away to a good home. Those who love animals will quickly give their hearts away to what may appear to be an animal in need of help or who is cute and adorable. Invariably there are "fees" required, which must be paid by Western Union or Moneygram, often to an entirely different name. Once the initial payment is made, the scammer will continually come up with more demands for money, claiming problems in shipping, unexpected customs charges, special handling fees, etc. They will continue to extract money as long as they can, creating new excuses after each payment is made.
Sometimes when the scammer senses that he can no longer extract any money through his various ploys, he will offer some kind of "refund." This will be in the form of a fake cashier's check or personal check, or counterfeit postal money order, invariably made out for more than the promised refund. The scammer will then insist that the victim cashes the check immediately and sends the excess amount back by Western Union or Moneygram. When the check ultimately bounces, the victim will be held liable for the full amount and any costs.
Many scammers are advertisting puppies for sale on auction sites or in local newspapers. They have even created fake sites for selling their "puppies". Very often the puppies they are selling are Yorkies or bulldogs. There are, of course, no puppies. The pictures are stolen from somewhere else online. If you reply to the ad you'll experience a variation of the scam described above. Please look for red flags when responding to any advertisements for puppies. If you aren't sure if you're dealing with a scammer or not, please post the emails here for advice.
Please see this thread for an introduction to advance fee fraud, and this thread for an introduction to check scams.
More information about pet scams
American Kennel Club advice
News items about pet scams
SanDiego news report
An example of a puppy scam
Subject: PUPPY AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION
my name is Paul Weber i am 18 years old,i am staying with my
grandmother of 75years in london who has numerous puppies around her,The purpose
of writing this to you is that i will like you to adopt one of my
grandma's puppies because i will be resuming a college in germany next month
and i would not be able to take good care of them due to my
resumption,Besides my grandmother is also old and i dont want those puppies to
give her lots of stress anylonger.
If you are really interested all what will cost you is just only
$350-$450 for the shipping depending on where you are located.
Hope to hear from you soon so that i will provide you all the pictures
and details of the puppy
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Starting this past spring, the Elm Garden has been transformed by Samuel Royer, lead horticulturalist in the Department of Engineering, and his crew. Due to spacing issues – and to best accommodate the growing needs the Gardens’ plant life – 12 trees had to be removed. Through the coordination of Matthew Menard, physician liaison and Community Relations coordinator, PAH was able to donate the 12 trees to the community. All the trees were found new homes with more room to flourish.
Six thundercloud flowering plum trees (prunus cerasifera for your serious flora fans) and six pink flowering weeping cherry trees (prunus subhirtella pendula), now all approximately three-four years old, were originally planted in about 15 inches of soil in a lined planting bed the Elm Garden. This was fine when the trees were just saplings. However, as the trees grew, it became clear that there was simply not enough room for the roots to expand, the primary reason the trees had to be relocated.
All 12 trees have since found homes with various groups throughout the community including: the Washington Square West neighborhood, The Philadelphia Horticultural Society, Northeast Tree Tenders, and the Smith Memorial Playground and Playhouse. Relocating trees is tricky business as they are much more fragile than people realize. Each tree had to be replanted virtually immediately after being uprooted. All were safely relocated to their new adoptive homes.
Shown here are three trees donated from PAH in their new adoptive home at the Smith Memorial Playground and Playhouse in East Fairmount Park.
Everyone in the PAH community would like to give a special shout out to Sam Royer and his crew who transformed the Elm and Hart Gardens this spring and summer. “Sam and his team have done such a terrific job transforming these spaces in a small amount of time. We recognize and appreciate their efforts,” said Karla McCaney, vice president, Facilities Management.
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As many of you may know, Wisconsin was granted its waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law a couple of weeks ago. As part of earning that waiver, the Wisconsin state Department of Instruction had to promise to be eternally more vigilant about student achievement.
There are two very visible differences between the pre-waiver and the post-waiver world in Wisconsin. One is that the state’s test is changing. Wisconsin has signed on to the nearly-national Common Core State Standards, and is part of a consortium of states developing a test aimed toward those standards. This will change in the 2013-14 school year.
The other visible change happens now, and it is, as I suggested above, changing the cut scores.
If you don’t know what that means, the inestimable Alan Borsuk laid it out here; the equally inestimable Erin Richards digests and interprets the DPI memo (pdf) that explains just what a difference the new cut scores mean:
Only 35.8% of Wisconsin’s WKCE test-takers in third through eighth and 10th grade in fall 2011 scored proficient or better in reading, and just 48.1% scored proficient or better in math. Compare that with March, when the state released 2011 WKCE results that showed 78% and 82% of students scored proficient or better in math and reading.
As I said: Devastating. My dad would have killed me if I’d been anything south of proficient. Starting today, a whole giant slice of Wisconsin’s students suddenly are.
The reason is simple: NAEP standards (NAEP is the National Assessment of Educational Progress, colloquially called the nation’s report card) are higher. No, scratch that; NAEP standards are different.
Wisconsin’s old system used four levels of achievement, from low to high: Minimal, Basic, Proficient, and Advanced. NAEP also uses four levels of achievement, from low to high: Below Basic, Basic, Proficient, and Advanced.
Hey! you may be thinking, Those match up nicely! Three of the achievement levels are the same!
Except they’re not. Whereas Wisconsin’s old definitions are here–get them fast before they’re retconned out of existence! Proficient in Wisconsin sensibly used to mean that a student “[d]emonstrates competency in the academic knowledge and skills tested on WKCE for that grade level.” That seems like a C (on that scale of A-F) to me, and that’s always the way Wisconsin has thought of it–students scoring as proficient are those who have not necessarily excelled, but who have learned what they needed to learn.
However, NAEP doesn’t treat “proficient” in the same way. I’ll let Diane Ravitch, who used to sit on the NAEP board and knows what she’s talking about, explain NAEP’s definitions:
Advanced is truly superb performance, which is like getting an A+. [...] Proficient is akin to a solid A. [...] Basic is akin to a B or C level performance. Good but not good enough. [...] And below basic is where we really need to worry.
So NAEP’s proficient is like Wisconsin’s old Advanced, where a student “[d]emonstrates in-depth understanding of academic knowledge and skills tested on WKCE for that grade level.” An A+, if you will.
In other words, the NAEP scores simply don’t align with Wisconsin’s old scores: NAEP’s basic is actually Wisconsin’s proficient.
Now, okay, there is, I dunno, debate about whether Wisconsin’s old standards were too low. The afore-mentioned Alan Borsuk beat this drum pretty regularly when his beat was regular — here’s one example. However, others have plotted Wisconsin against NAEP and found our standards fairly middle-of-the-road — here’s one example, if on the slightly low side of the middle. I am not here to have that debate today.
However, I think it’s ridiculous and simply beyond any kind of belief that a state that consistently ranks in the top or above average for, for example, ACT scores and graduation rates and — we learned this week — college completion has only a third of its students reading at a “proficient” level. To point to our successful, and even our doin’ pretty good, students and say they are not proficient when they by any reasonable definition are is just downright cruel.
And doing so doesn’t add “accountability” so much as it adds stigma.
Part of what’s happening here is that this country is on an insane spiral to define proficiency up. The late and lamented (so very lamented) Gerald Bracey wrote about exactly this:
I have repeatedly observed that the NAEP results do not mesh with those from international comparisons. In the 1995 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, or TIMSS, assessment, American 4th graders finished third among 26 participating nations in science, but the NAEP science results from the same year stated that only 31 percent of them were proficient or better. [...]
Because we have scores for American students on NAEP and TIMSS and scores for students in other countries on TIMSS, it is possible to estimate the performance of other nations if their students took NAEP assessments.
How many of the 45 countries in TIMSS have a majority of their students proficient in reading? Zero, said Phillips. Sweden, the highest scoring nation, would show about one-third of its students proficient while the United States had 31 percent. In science, only two nations would have a majority of their students labeled proficient or better while six countries would cross that threshold in mathematics.
Bracey quotes a study done in 1991 when NAEP first started applying labels: ”[T]hese standards and the results obtained from them should under no circumstances be used as a baseline or benchmark … the procedures used in the exercise should under no circumstances be used as a model.” And yet here we are, applying them to Wisconsin’s students in a giant disservice to their actual achievement.
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All certified companies must comply with a comprehensive set of environmental criteria:
Important aspects of water conservation, energy management and climate change, ecosystem management and waste management are controlled during the annual audits.
- Certified companies must not be engaged in habitat destruction and should work on continuous improvement of their energy use.
- Operators are encouraged to perform beyond minimum requirements by e.g. engaging in conservation programmes in their vicinity or elsewhere.
- All operations have to be certified according to an acknowledged organic or ecological minimum standard, e.g.
Global Organic Textiles Standard (GOTS),
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The Colorado National Monument is one of four National Parks in the state to have an increase in visitors from 2010 to 2011. The Monument attracted 435,460 recreational visitors who spent $23,251,000 in local communities, according to a new report by the National Park Service.
The report indicates 63 percent of visitor spending went towards lodging, food and beverage service, 17 percent was spent on recreation and entertainment, and 11 percent was spent on other retail.
Kamless Patell, manager of Fruita's Comfort Inn near the base of the Monument, said more than fifty percent of the guests who stay at his hotel during the summer are visiting the Monument.
"We have a lot of hikers, bikers, motorcycle people," Patell said. "We have tourist buses that come from New York who just pass through but make a stop to see the Monument."
Lisa Eckert, Colorado National Monument superintendent, said the park may see even more visitors if the park switches to National Park status.
"I believe especially for the international market, perhaps people hone in on the special units that have National Park in their title or last name."
Nationwide, visitor spending in communities surrounding National Parks had a $30 billion impact and supported 252,000 jobs nationwide.
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• Far fewer homes were foreclosed in Monroe County during 2011, but the rate still was high compared to historic trends.
The rate at which people are losing their homes to foreclosure in Monroe County might be losing steam.
Property foreclosures in the area fell in 2011 from the record high recorded in 2010, although the number remains far higher than in pre-recession periods.
Total sheriff's deeds, indicating properties sold through foreclosure auction, declined to 766 in 2011, down about 25 percent from the peak of 1,027 in 2010, according to the Monroe County Register of Deeds office.
About one of every 439 housing units in the county was in foreclosure, according to RealtyTrac, an Irvine, Calif.-based compiler of real estate statistics.
Thomas G. Myers, vice president and chief lending officer at Monroe Bank & Trust, said there is anecdotal evidence that the rash of foreclosures in the county is easing.
"Our number of foreclosures, particularly with houses, is down," he said, suggesting it might be related to the area's lower unemployment rate. "At least it seems to have stabilized and we're just seeing people perform better on paying their loans," he said. "It's changed dramatically in the last six months."
Although the number of foreclosures was down last year, the number was higher than in 2009 but lower than in 2008 when recession began gripping the area.
Mr. Myers noted that the number of properties the bank owns was down by about 20 percent from the prior year. Banks usually become owners of property when borrowers default on their mortgages and the home is repossessed.
Often financial institutions sell the repossessed homes at auction or at a price sharply lower than its initial sale value.
In turn, those sales affect the value of other homes and the total value of property on which property taxes are based.
Samuel Guich, assessor for the City of Monroe, said there remains a market impact from foreclosure sales. He said about 201 parcels in the city now are in some stage of the foreclosure process, up from 153 at this time a year ago. His projection is that the taxable value for the city will decline between 2 percent and 3.5 percent across all classes of property this year.
Although acknowledging the loss in home value could translate into a lower property tax bill for homeowners, he added, "That's like saying amputation is a quick way to weight loss."
Mr. Myers said the bank has seen indications that home values are stabilizing – not rising, but stabilizing.
Jack Marcero of American Real Estate Appraisal in Monroe reported that the price of both lender and non-lender home sales in Monroe County rose slightly from December to January, based on a six-month rolling average. The average price of all sales in January rose to $111,638, up from $108,056 in December, but down from $120,652 in January, 2011.
RealtyTrac reported that foreclosure filings nationwide were down 34 percent from 2010 levels, with both foreclosure activity and the foreclosure rate at their lowest annual levels since 2007.
"Foreclosures were in full delay mode in 2011, resulting in a dramatic drop in foreclosure activity for the year," said Brandon Moore, chief executive officer of RealtyTrac. Part of the reason was regulatory criticism of the speed at which larger financial institutions were processing foreclosures.
CoreLogic, a Santa Ana, Calif. data and analytics firm, said Wednesday its figures showed that completed foreclosures nationwide in 2011 totaled 830,000, down 24 percent from 1.1 million in 2010.
Nevada, Arizona and California posted the top three foreclosure rates for the year. Michigan ranked sixth with about 2.2 percent of its total housing units in foreclosure and Detroit ranked 18th highest among all metro areas in the nation, according to RealtyTrac.
CoreLogic reported that 6.5 percent of all borrowers in Michigan were 90 or more days past due on their mortgage payments. Nationally, the figure was 7.3 percent.
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The Morning Download cues up the most important news in business technology every weekday morning. Send us your tips, compliments and complaints.
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Good morning. The Human Resources department has become a case study in what happens when Big Data, the cloud and other emerging technologies are put it place. The result is a new way of doing business.
WSJ’s Joseph Walker reports today on how some companies are using Big Data to make decisions on how to hire and how much to pay. For example, Xerox says it cut the attrition rate at its call centers by roughly one half after it started using Big Data to vet job applications. The company used to hire people based on their experience. But the data suggested that personality is more important. While “creative” types are likely to stick around for at least six months, so that the company can recoup its investment in their training, “inquisitive” types are less likely to do so.
Analytic tools are also upending the way companies pay and keep their workers. As Rachel Emma Silverman points out, “a company wondering how to keep workers from jumping ship might gather data on retention rates, job satisfaction, work-life balance and career progress for hundreds or thousands of workers.”
CIO Journal’s Clint Boulton takes a look at how HR is rushing to adopt a new generation of cloud-based apps for human capital management. CIOs and other IT executives find that the cloud-based applications are faster, cheaper, and help promote productivity when it comes to HR tasks such as recruiting and hiring, on-boarding and training, managing employee performance goals, and succession planningMagellan Health Services said Taleo’s user-friendly Web interface helped it boost completion of employee reviews from 65% to 97% last year. No surprise that spending in the cloud-based HCM software market is rising at a compound rate of 8%, and big software companies like Oracle IBM and SAP are buying start-ups in the sector.
What CIOs need to know about venture capitalists. CIO Journal’s Rachael King reports from the Innovative CIO conference at Stanford University, where CIOs are connecting with the VC-backed start-up ecosystem. But as promising as that may be, CIOs who are used to working with larger vendors need to understand a few things about how VC and their portfolio companies work. King has drawn up five lessons from the gathering, launched by Brian Lillie, CIO of Equinix, and David Smoley, CIO of Flextronics. “If you’re going to play ball with start-ups, you have to vet the technology, and the management team and business model,” she says. ”Veterans of this approach say you also have to be prepared that a relationship with a start-up may not work out – the best strategy, they say, is to fail fast so you can move onto another one.
PwC study says companies are cutting spending on IT security. A study released on Thursday found fewer companies are utilizing IT security measures, such as tools for detecting malicious code and policies to protect corporate data. PricewaterhouseCoopers surveyed 9,300 CIOs, CEOS and IT managers on their preparedness. One key finding, CIO Journal reports, is that 71% of respondents say they are using adware and spyware detection tools in 2012, compared with 83% a year earlier. The shift occurred as budgets for IT security have stagnated, with only 45% of respondents saying they expect increases over the next year, down from 51% in 2011. “Instead of risk driving security budgets, it’s what can the company afford,” Mark Lobel, the author of the study, said.
Wi-fi problems plague iOS 6 upgrade. While most people are seemingly enjoying the transition to iOS 6, others are experiencing a Wi-Fi meltdown Wired’s Roberto Baldwin reports. Apple’s tech support site is inundated with customers who have updated their iPhone 4, 4S and third-generation iPad to iOS 6 and can no longer access Wi-Fi. According to the comments, after the over-the-air update, the Wi-Fi indicator is greyed out and their phones are unable to access a local network.
“Virtual teardown’ of iPhone 5 points to novel Apple choices. Apple paid $199 for components in its 1-gagabyte model, according to IHS iSuppli. The teardown reveals Apple reserved the largest monetary chunk–$44– for the device’s display which integrates new touch sensing technology into the display glass, writes the WSJ’s Don Clark. Adding LTE wireless technology to the iPhone 5 brought the cost of wireless components up to $34. IHS iSuppli priced the iPhone’s new A6 microprocessor chip at $17.50.
IPhone 5 racks up glowing reviews. The Apple iPhone 5 news cycle peaked again yesterday with every major outlet reviewing both the new smartphone as well as Apple’s iOS update. WSJ’s Digits blog offers a handy iPhone 5 review roundup with CNet, TechCrunch, the NYT’s David Pogue and AllThingsD’s Walt Mossberg all heaping on the praise. ”Phrases like ‘flat-out lovely‘ and ‘absolute home run’ are fit to run as testimonials in an Apple commercial,” Digits observes. Apple’s iO6 upgrade gets praise from AllThingsD’s Katherine Boehret for better photo features and Facebook integration, among other items. But blogger Anil Dash calls the OS’s most notable feature, the swapping out of the popular Google Maps app for an Apple homegrown version, “crappy.”
Google gains momentum in display-ad sales. Google is expected to surpass Facebook in selling online “display” advertisements in the U.S. this year, the WSJ’s Amir Efrati reports. The result would mark a milestone for the Web-search giant, with Google for the first time holding the “triple crown” of online advertising by taking the top spot in Web-search ads, mobile ads and display ads, which include graphical, interactive and video ads.
Salesforce.com rolls out new cloud offerings. Salesforce.com unveiled several new products at its San Francisco conference yesterday targeting marketing and human departments as well as an online file sharing system to rival Dropbox and Box, the WSJ’s Ben Worthenreports. The announcements came as Salesforce.com faces increased competition in the cloud-based software for businesses industry from SAP and Oracle. Worthen reports that the market for such products is expected to grow from $40 billion in 2012 to about $100 billion in 2016.
Cybercriminals crib tricks from Stuxnet: Beyond crippling Iran’s nuclear efforts and wrecking computing havoc throughout the Middle East, Stuxnet and Flame, two sophisticated malware programs with believed ties to Israel and the United States, threaten to inspire criminals for years to come. Security researchers tell Technology Review’s Tom Simonite, that hackers have studied how Stuxnet used stolen digital security certificates to facilitate network access. “Nowadays you can see use of fake certificates in very common malware,” says a co-founder of an Israeli computer security firm.
A billionaire blooms in Boston. The Bloomberg Billionaires index spotlights new billionaire Philip Ragon, creator of InterSystems, the health care industry’s biggest provider of database management services. His company is poised to exploit the industry’s push to electronic files as it battles newcomer Oracle, which entered the market through acquisitions of health-care technology firms Phase Forward and ClearTrial.
T-Mobile CEO is not going to phone it in. Deutsche Telecom named John Legere CEO of T-Mobile USA, a carrier that has been shedding customers since the FTC nixed merger efforts with AT&T . Legere, a former CEO at Global Crossing, succeeds Philipp Humm, who left T-Mobile in June for European rival Vodafone . Legere tells AllThingsD’s Ina Fried that he wants to build a company that is thought of as the “un-carrier.” This may sound like marketing-speak but GigaOm’s Kevin Fitchard agrees T-Mobile can’t play the “same game as its bigger rivals.” T-Mobile has already challenged today’s pricing-models, he writes, moving customers away from device subsidies and offering data plans at steep discounts.
HTC unveils Windows 8 phones. Two weeks after Samsung and Nokia showed off handsets running Windows 8, Taiwan device maker HTC revealed two smartphones—the Windows Phone 8X and Windows Phone 8S– expected to launch in November, reports AllThingsD’s Lauren Goode. HTC said the phones will be available on Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T.
Investors flock to flash storage firm. Virident Systems took in $26 million from a new funding round as investors moved to capitalize on flash storage’s increasing role in the data center, reports Maureen O’Gara of Virtualization Journal. The company also announced a new CEO, Mike Gusfafson, formerly of Bluearc and Hitachi Data Systems.
Dell announces Windows 8 machines. Dell unveiled three computers running Microsoft ’s new Windows 8 software, including a Latitude 10 tablet built for corporate users, reports Bloomberg’s Aaron Ricadela. Dell says the tablet, as well as a Windows 8 desktop and Ultrabook, would be available later this year.
Pentagon may use sensors to track melting icebergs. With the Arctic’s melting ice carrying significant geopolitical consequences, Pentagon agency Darpa wants to build “an all-seeing network of sensors” to track ice movement and growing submarine and surface craft traffic. Creating such a sensor network poses many challenges, writes Wired’s Robert Beckhusen, among them the North Pole’s disruptive effect on satellite signals.
Zynga chalks up another executive loss. Zynga just lost its chief social security officer who had been with the company since 2009. The game maker has seen a ‘slew of high-profile departures’ in recent weeks, writes TechCrunch’s Colleen Taylor, including its CTO, COO, chief creative officer and chief marketing and revenue officer. Next up: the coffee machine.
Oracle is expected to post solid earnings after markets close today. Ahead of the Tape’s Spencer Jakab says the company’s “technological bête noire” has been companies harnessing cloud computing for database applications – Oracle’s most lucrative business line by far is servicing existing traditional database customers. “Some reassurance Thursday afternoon from Mr. Ellison and his executives that Oracle can cede ground to database upstarts and still deliver years of hefty profits would be welcome.”
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Central banks jump on easing bandwagon. Massive injections of stimulus into financial markets by the world’s largest central banks are creating a domino effect around the globe, the WSJ says. But unlike past easing episodes that created fears of a “currency war,” markets expect “a muted response this time.” Officials in South Korea, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines are so far playing it cool despite the uptick in their currencies following the Fed’s announcement, “though they all asserted a readiness to smooth out market movement if capital inflows become excessive.”
Housing offers more hope for recovery. Home sales and construction jumped to their highest levels in more than two years, offering the strongest signal to date that the U.S. housing sector has turned the corner after a six-year rout, the Journal’s Nick Timiraos reports. Stronger sales and construction should help the economy in two ways. Rising prices could help reassure would-be buyers that it is no longer foolish to buy a home. Higher levels of new-home construction, meanwhile, will create jobs. Home values were up in 91 of 177 markets from a year ago in August.
New signs of slowdown in China and Japan. A Chinese manufacturing survey pointed to an 11th month of contraction and Japan’s exports fell in August, Bloomberg reports. The preliminary HSBC PMI reading was 47.8 compared with a final level of 47.6 last month – both below the all-important 50 level, which indicates expansion. Japan’s overseas shipments, meanwhile, slid 5.8% on weakness in demand from Europe and China.
Capital flight speeds up in Europe. A total of 326 billion euros was pulled from banks in Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Greece in the 12 months ended July 31, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The plight of Irish and Greek lenders, which were bleeding cash in 2010, spread to Spain and Portugal last year. The flight of deposits from the four countries coincides with an increase of about 300 billion euros at lenders in core euro-zone nations like Germany and France. And that”’s “leading to a fragmentation of credit and a two-tiered banking system blocking economic recovery and blunting European Central Bank policy in the third year of a sovereign-debt crisis.”
Tom Loftus contributed to this report.
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Iran, Saudi Arabia helped carry out 9/11 attacks: Book
London, Aug 21: Iran and Saudi Arabia helped Al Qaeda carry out the 9/11 attacks, a book claims.
"The Eleventh Day", authored by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, produces a compelling argument that both countries were complicit in the attacks, Daily Mail reported Saturday.
The book questions if George W Bush deliberately withheld evidence linking foreign countries with the attack on the Twin Towers.
The official US probe into the attacks found no evidence that Iran was involved, but Summers and Swan beg to differ.
They point to a court document called the Havlish memorandum, which was produced during a civil action brought against Iran by Fiona Havlish, the widow of an insurance consultant who worked in the World Trade Center and was killed when the planes struck.
In seeking compensation from the state, it drew on the testimony of several experts, including a French investigative magistrate, former CIA agents, an Israeli intelligence analyst and former 9/11 Commission staff members, the Mail said.
It also includes evidence from three Iranian defectors. The memorandum states that Hizbollah, the paramilitary group supported by Iran, knew 9/11 was going to take place.
It asserts that one of its key members, Iman Mughniyah, met with then Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and his No.2, Ayman Al Zawahiri in 1993 and also travelled with members of the 9/11 hijackers on flights to and from Iran in 2000.
It's claimed he also went to Beirut with hijacker Ahmed Al Ghamdi and "visited Saudi Arabia to coordinate activities there" and that two of the terrorists, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, were put up in the Iranian embassy during a visit to Malaysia.
The document also states that Al Qaeda operatives have received airline hijacking training in Iran, the newspaper said. Evidence linking Saudi Arabia to 9/11 is even stronger, according to the authors.
They point out that 95 percent of Saudi professionals polled about 9/11 stated that they agreed with Osama's cause.
Osama, who was born into a wealthy Saudi family, was publicly denounced by the government and had his citizenship removed, but Summers and Swan quote a former French intelligence officer, Alain Chouet, who says that this was "a subterfuge aimed at the gullible, designed to cover a continuing clandestine relationship".
They go on to claim, sourcing a US official, that two Saudi princes paid Osama "protection money" - in return for Al Qaeda not carrying out operations in Saudi Arabia, the authorities would turn a blind eye to his operations elsewhere.
FBI counter-terrorism chief John O'Neill, speaking before 9/11, summed it up. He's quoted in the book as saying that "all the answers, all the clues that would enable us to dismantle Osama bin Laden's organisation" were in Saudi Arabia.
There's also the fact, they say, that 13 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia and that US investigators working on the 9/11 inquiry complained of Saudi officials continually blocking requests for information.
The authors also place a huge question mark over George W Bush's actions after 9/11. They say that 28 pages of the report of Congress's Joint Inquiry into 9/11 were withheld from the public "on the personal orders of George W Bush".
An explanation for this, they say, came from the inquiry's staff director, Eleanor Hill.
"It had to do with sources of foreign support for the hijackers," the Mail quoted her as saying. This information, they point out, is still being withheld. IANS
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Sunday, June 14, 2009
War of 1812 Veteran Grave Marked
Darrell Eugene Payne, Gayle French Lessen, Thelma Gardner Eisberg, Mary Payne Barringer, Lindsay Erlenbush Maus, Pamela Erlenbush, Phillip Franks French, Brynne Barringer Monier. All are descendants of John Winans Clark whose stone [with wife Ann "Nancy"] is on the left. [Photo by Jane DeWitt]
On June 13, 2009, the Sangamon River Chapter of the United States Daughters of 1812 joined descendants of John Winans Clark and guests at Laenna Cemetery outside of Chestnut in Logan County for a Dedication Ceremony to mark the grave of Clark as a Veteran of the War of 1812.
John Winans Clark served in Captain Jeremiah Martin's Co. in the Kentucky Mounted Volunteers during the Clark migration from New Jersey to Illinois.
Clark is one of at least 28 veterans of the War of 1812 buried in Logan County. He is thought to be the only one buried at Laenna.
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"Urban areas could become safer and better laid out if more women helped in the way they were designed, it is claimed," writes Hough. "Leading female figures in the industry warned that high streets, schools and open spaces were potentially suffering from differing perspectives because of the limited 'gene pool' of senior male architects."
While his tone might be slightly patronizing (what exactly would a "prettier" city look like?), the arguments raised by Hough are worth discussing.
A recent survey conducted by The Architects' Journal found that "two in three women architects have suffered 'insidious' discrimination or bullying by men during their careers," and are at the losing end of “significant pay discrepancies."
"Last year's emerging woman architect of the year award winner Hannah Lawson, 37, from Hackney, east London, said the lack of female architects was potentially harming the way British cities were designed."
“'It is clear to me that the dropout rate of women in architecture is detrimental not only to the profession but to our towns and cities,' said the mother-of-two, a director of leading firm John McAslan and Partners. '[Cities] will only be richer with the contribution of a more pluralist and diverse mix of designers.'”
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Here’s a business conundrum for you: energy efficiency saves serious money, cuts carbon pollution, requires low tech solutions, and is a known quotient, having been around since the 1970s. So why are so many companies still not taking the necessary steps to identify and eliminate these inefficiencies?
“What we learned in Econ 101 doesn’t hold true when it comes to energy efficiency – the notion of perfect markets, where information flows freely and people are maximizing their value,” notes Environmental Defense Fund’s Gwen Ruta. “Instead, it’s as if companies across the globe are walking around with a hole in their pocket with coins dribbling out nonstop.”
How is it that smart companies who are vigilant about monitoring the bottom line, stock price, customer satisfaction and much more let this wasteful “dribbling” occur? This question launched a robust discussion at a Fortune Brainstorm Green session last week titled “A Trillion Dollar Opportunity: The Hunt for Energy Efficiency.” Gwen Ruta was joined on the panel by Gretchen Hancock, Project Manager for Corporate Environmental Programs at GE; Bill Weihl, Google’s Green Energy Czar and Beth Trask, Deputy Director of EDF’s Innovation Exchange. GE and Google have made huge strides around energy efficiencies in past years, with still more work to do on the horizon and still some barriers of their own to break down.
So what are the main barriers to energy efficiency and how can companies try to overcome them?
Barrier #1: Information overload and lack of focus. There’s a ton of information out there about energy efficiency – and what companies should do to reap the savings – but it’s diffuse and challenging to wade through. Companies need help focusing in on the right tools and content and prioritizing where and how to begin. GE conducts through regular energy “treasure hunts” inside a given company where selected employees come together for a jam-packed three-day working session to identify energy efficiency savings at a chosen manufacturing site. The results are impressive – each treasure hunt typically identifies opportunities to reduce energy spent by 20% – and proves that when people have the information, data and focused time to spend on this challenge, huge savings can be found.
Barrier #2: Structural limitations. This is a big one. Companies of all sizes suffer from a siloed approach to business, where business units and operational departments are managed by separate budgets, performance timelines, product cycles and more. Finding energy efficiency savings requires employees throughout the company to share information and make trade offs in order to achieve strong results. For example, there may be an increase in cost to the R&D budget around energy efficiency efforts, but balanced by a result in savings that will show up in the facilities management budget. Most likely, these two divisions communicate rarely and have little in common – including different bosses who may not communicate well among themselves, either. Why would one take on a cost for the other to reap the savings? Google takes a “total cost approach” that is geared to precisely avoid this problem. And GE’s treasure hunts bring cross-functional teams together over the three-day activity which by definition helps break down silos. According to Gretchen Hancock, the more people from different departments are involved, the better the results of these treasure hunts are.
Barrier #3: The solutions are small and diffuse, not few and mighty. There is no single “gee whiz” step that companies can take to ensure they are reaping all the benefits of energy efficiency for their organizations. It takes time for companies to unearth where and how they can save both cash and carbon through energy efficiency. Some employees may be attracted by bigger, more appealing sustainability projects or cost savings efforts that are being considered or launched by their company. To avoid this problem, the hunt for energy efficiency savings should be institutionalized throughout companies as a continuous process, not one-off events. Energy efficiency savings should be one of the metrics that business units are evaluated on, and therefore, regularly measured and reported on.
Barrier #4: Cultural resistance within companies. As Gretchen Hancock noted, some companies hear the phrase energy efficiency and think, “Didn’t we tackle this problem in the 1970s?” In companies where innovation and excellence is the expectation and the norm, executives may believe that the “low hanging fruit” of energy efficiency is either too low-tech to consider or has been dealt with decades ago. But the fact is that energy efficiencies exist where even super bright executives might not expect to find them. Aging equipment can cause inefficiencies, new technology enables new savings and employees need to be trained and retrained on efficiency issues and practices.
Barrier #5: Those super-short ROI expectations. We all know how Wall Street expects speedy ROI for corporations across the board. As a result, public companies have a strong disincentive to invest in processes, products or technologies where recouping the costs may take anywhere from 1 to 5 years. This short-term thinking leads to short-term strategies, and serious money being left on the table
There are other ways companies can encourage energy efficiency savings. One way is to engage the supply chain and provide incentives to find the energy cuts in various ways. Another potentially powerful strategy is to use social influence and competition to ensure results – having different office locations “race” to find the biggest savings, engage local schools to help with the hunt for energy efficiency in their communities, among other things. Once we see how quickly those coins can add up, we’re all likely to join in the race.
What other powerful ideas can companies consider as they embark on the hunt for energy efficiency?
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With shortages, volatile prices and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problem-or thinks it does. Farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe discard up to half of their food-enough to feed all the world's hungry at least three times over. Forests are destroyed and nearly one tenth of the West's greenhouse gas emissions are released growing food that will never be eaten. While affluent nations throw away food through neglect, in the developing world crops rot because farmers lack the means to process, store and transport them to market. But there could be surprisingly painless remedies for what has become one of the world's most pressing environmental and social problems. Waste traces the problem around the globe from the top to the bottom of the food production chain. Stuart's journey takes him from the streets of New York to China, Pakistan and Japan and back to his home in England. Introducing us to foraging pigs, potato farmers and food industry CEOs, Stuart encounters grotesque examples of profligacy, but also inspiring innovations and ways of making the most of what we have. The journey is a personal one, as Stuart is a dedicated freegan, who has chosen to live off of discarded or self-produced food in order to highlight the global food waste scandal. Combining front-line investigation with startling new data, Waste shows how the way we live now has created a global food crisis-and what we can do to fix it.
About the Author :
Tristram Stuart has contributed to Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal as an author.
Tristram Stuart graduated from Cambridge University in 1999 having won numerous academic prizes. Since then he has been a freelance writer for a number of Indian newspapers. He is the author of The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times. Stuart lives in the UK.
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OCI Solar Power’s Holmdel Road project began construction in October 2012. The solar power development located on 34 acres in the community of Holmdel Township, New Jersey, will be constructed with leading solar PV technology, including the incorporation of both single- and dual-axis trackers. The plant is expected to produce 3 MW AC of power and is scheduled to begin commercial operations in late December 2012.
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The Texas Ethics Commission today stuck a toe in the brave new world of Internet advertising by adopting a directive on political advertising on social networking sites.
The commission had been asked whether political committees were still required to put a full disclosure on Web ads that may limit the amount of characters can be used in the ad. After all, Political Advertisement paid for by Texans for Joe Smith, could eat up half the characters available for an ad.
So under the new directive, a committee can continue to use the standard disclosure or use a Pol.Ad link that takes the reader to the disclosure statement on a “landing pad” Web page.
Commissioner Tom Ramsay, a former state representative, expressed concern that people might not click on the link or get confused.
But Commissioner Jim Clancy said it is no different than the situation in which a driver has to pull over to the side of the road to read the advertising disclosure on a roadside yard sign.
The commission also adopted a new rule to require corporations to file campaign financial disclosure forms if they advertise in political races under the new freedoms they obtained in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
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The Fifth Mark of Mission – “to strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth” – is sometimes seen as the neglected Mark across the Communion. Lent next year offers another opportunity to redress this, with the help of a course coming out of the work of the Bible in the Life of the Church project.
The five-week course will enable individuals and groups to engage with a Bible-wide range of scriptural passages that speak of our responsibilities in relation to the environment. It will also offer reflections on how Anglicans in different parts of the Communion engage with the Bible with discussion questions that challenge our thinking and behaviour.
The course will be available both on the web, and available as booklet. It will be available before Advent 2011 but, you will be able to sample the course on line during September, and order booklets for use in 2012.
The Anglican Communion Standing Committee highly recommended this course at their meeting earlier this year. Look out for it!
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Here is the question that haunts many users struggling with the infamous iPhone, to unlock (jailbreak) or not?
What are actually the advantages and disadvantages of this choice?
I do not want to dwell here in explaining what is ascertained in the operation of jailbreak, but I want to list only briefly, from my point of view, the advantages and disadvantages of such a choice.
- Add Cydia (an alternative to the App store)
- Access via SSH to the device (use the iPhone as a hard disk drive into which you can load the files via ssh fact)
- SBSettings (Cydia) that would set quick set menus for frequently used functions (on / off services such as wifi, bluetooth, 3G, etc ...)
- Ability to synchronize applications (IPA) downloaded from the internet via iTunes (the operation is legal, so is everyone the choice to operate more or less legally with your device)
- Clear the blockage bluetooth for data transfer via the upcoming release of iBlueNove (ex iBluetooth) of MeDevil
- Put a firewall (blacklist) for the management of calls / sms / mms incoming
- Add useful features to native applications such as SMS Helper (displays a count of characters entered in the process of writing a SMS)
- Change the 'APN of your phone provider to not run into unwanted charges on its rechargeable
- For 3Gs with new iBoot, inability to restart the iPhone without having to jailbreak again using blackra1n
- Reduction of battery performance (but not too wisely if you use additional services such as SSH, etc ...)
- I can not think of much more ...
You aggiungereste something else to the list?
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Dire Straits were a British rock band, formed in 1977 by Mark Knopfler (lead vocals and lead guitar), his younger brother David Knopfler (rhythm guitar and backing vocals), John Illsley (bass guitar and backing vocals), and Pick Withers (drums and percussion). Dire Straits' sound drew from a variety of musical influences, including jazz, folk, blues, and came closest to beat music within the context of rock and roll. Despite the prominence of punk rock during the band's early years, the band's stripped-down sound contrasted with punk, demonstrating a more "rootsy" influence that emerged out of pub rock. Many of Dire Straits' compositions were melancholic. Dire Straits' biggest selling album, Brothers in Arms, has sold over 30 million copies.Continue reading at Wikipedia...
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[Eric Robson (interviewing Sir Thomas Allen: …Some snooty folk might think this music is beneath them?...]
“… they want their heads examined…it’s really full of wonderful material…Brahms and Schubert and Mahler set folk songs…and these Border ballads and collier songs and everything else here … are as good as anything that exists anywhere in the world of music…”
Sir Thomas Allen
“I grew up with these songs … they’re a rich part of our heritage. They tell of all sorts of things: of tragedy (explosions in the mines), of hardship and poverty and yet there is such humour… we used to sing songs like
Cushie Butterfield and
The Lambton Worm as we slapped paper on the walls… I’ve grown up with it all, it’s all deep within me… [The songs are about] such wonderful colourful characters like the earthy and rather coarse
Cullercoats Fish Lass” Sheila Armstrong
This programme was, for me, the highlight of the 1993 Christmas TV schedules here in the UK. It was soon released in VHS format and I must have almost worn out the tape. Recently a DVD version was reissued and forms the basis of this review.
First of all, for non-UK readers, I should explain that Northumbria is mainly used as a romantic tourist name for the North East of England - the region bordering Scotland, covering Northumberland and Tyne and Wear
. I will confess to a strong personal interest in this programme for I, too, am a North-countryman albeit born in Cumberland over the Pennines to the West of Northumbria. I remember very well singing many of these songs in my childhood; songs like: The Keel Row, The Ash Grove
and Lavender Blue.
I suspect, too, that with the large-scale diasporas from the British Isles over the last two centuries many of these songs are now known world-wide.
The programme begins with David Hallam’s Newcastle Overture
underscoring film of the Northumbrian countryside: pictures of the area’s coastline, its hills and crags, its castles and the City of Newcastle itself. There are frequent aerial views taken at speed and sometimes employing dizzyingly steep angles that can be quite disconcerting. The Overture’s music is often stirring and dramatic and it includes snatches of the folk songs we are to hear later plus the unmistakable influence of Vaughan Williams. The pictures end with views of Durham Cathedral where this concert was staged to mark the 900th
anniversary, in 1993, of the laying of Cathedral’s foundation stone. That’s where this performance was recorded.
Sheila Armstrong, a miner’s daughter, was born in Ashington, Northumberland. A renowned international opera singer, with a career spanning some thirty years, she chose this concert as her last major performance before she retired. Sir Thomas Allen, another local man, was born in Seaham Harbour down from Sunderland in neighbouring County Durham.
The songs are strongly rhythmic and melodic. They span a wide variety of experiences and emotions, hardship and sorrow, love and loss; and include some larger than life characters like Cushie Butterfield (…She’s a big lass and a bonny lass, And she likes her beer…), Cat Gut Jim (…the fiddler, a man of great renown…) and Wor Geordie who lost his Penka. Some verses are sung behind harsh monochrome photos of austere streets, bleak industrial landscapes, pictures of hardy, resilient folk, small vulnerable-looking fishing vessels and desolate shorelines. I will mention just a few. ‘The Trimdon Grange Explosion’ is a heartfelt song, full of pathos about the tragic consequences of an explosion at the mine. The music of “…God protect each lonely widow, and raise each drooping head, Be a father to the orphans, never let them cry for bread ...” is deeply affecting; it must be a strong man who can resist tears standing in his eyes. ‘The Cliffs of Old Tynemouth’ (T’was there with my Alan I walked hand in hand …sweet were the echoes of the dark cliffs above, But oh! sweeter his voice as he murmured his love…) is another lovely song; unforgettable and tenderly romantic. Here mention must be made of conductor David Haslam’s skilful, colourful arrangements; sensitive to the character of these folk songs, each a pearl.
The concert and the rehearsals leading up to it are featured. Sheila Armstrong points out that the songs are demanding of her range requiring her to reach high and low extremes. Both she and Sir Thomas realize that the difficult acoustics of the Cathedral tend to obscure their diction. However, the booklet that accompanies this DVD has the texts of all the songs.
The overall impression is of a celebration of great joy and happiness - and don’t the soloists enjoy themselves. They let themselves go and really animate such songs as the recognized anthem of the area The Blaydon Races
. It ends the concert.
A rare treat, a joy to treasure for all the reasons above. Not only my Recording of the Month
but also one of my Recordings of the Year
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This account is based on the recollections of a meal taken during the summer of 2006.
We were standing outside Kake Da Hotel at Connaught Place in New Delhi. Moaned over by food critics, the legendary eatery – its name implying ‘Uncle’s Restaurant’ in Punjabi - is supposed to be a carnivore's delight. Amateur gourmands drive great distances to feast on its celebrated Butter Chicken.
But Kake Da Hotel was a mere shack beside a smoggy highway. Worse, it was summer and the restaurant was full so we had to wait and perspire outside with many others.
A bearded man at the entrance, likely to be the Kake's version of a maitre d'hotel, was assigning numbers to the waiting diners. He would call out the number each time a table was cleared. While expecting to be summoned inside any minute, we dwelled on the mythical history of this gastronomical landmark. It was said to have been founded by a Sikh gentleman who had migrated to Delhi after the Indian partition in 1947.
With no disrespect to the refugee's entrepreneurial skills, we refused to be impressed. The eatery, with its cement floor, shabby door, and plastic chairs, was not a pretty place for a languid dinner. Just then the maitre d'hotel furiously gesticulated at us to walk in.
That Sinking Feeling
It was an unsettling sight. Our table top displayed remnants of a freshly dug graveyard. Chicken thighs, sucked out of all the flesh, were lying like ignored skeletons on jungle roads. The body language of the waiters warned the diners to eat, slurp, and be swiftly done. We shifted uncertainly on our chairs when an old steward flung a menu on the table. We guiltily pointed at the bones. He swapped a dirty cloth over the table and lo, the bones were down under!
Shocked but not awed, we tried to focus our attention on the laminated menu card, yellowed with old curry stains. There was no need to mull, however. Both of us simultaneously said Butter Chicken. It was the signature dish after all! We ordered it with Palak Paneer and Naan-bread. The steward demanded just how many naans we have in mind. After an exchange of glances we promised to let him know; once done with the first one. He shrugged his shoulders and disappeared.
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The information from AATSR is generated at several levels, ranging from counts of brightness temperature at the top of the atmosphere to global scale monthly averages of surface parameters, notably surface temperature, measured at thermal infrared wavelengths and surface reflectance, measured at selected visible and near infrared wavelengths. There is also a great deal of information about clouds, particularly their temperature and some of their optical characteristics. The main qualities of AATSR data which underpin its scientific importance are its excellent calibration, its dual view of the Earth's surface that can provide additional information about the atmosphere, its stability and its exceptionally precise image quality.
AATSR's capabilities mean that it has clear science drivers in several areas, primarily relating to the detection of climate change. The main scientific priorities to be addressed by AATSR can be grouped into five categories:
Climate change research will inevitably show considerable overlap with the other categories. Also, of these five categories, investigation of the atmosphere with AATSR observations is the science area that is developing most rapidly at present and the cryosphere is probably the least exploited area in the current AATSR exploitation programme.
For AATSR, climate change is undoubtedly the highest scientific priority, despite the fact that it encompasses all the others listed above.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Ness: “Vote to Repeal Health Law is Wrong Step for Women and Families”
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Washington, D.C. — June 21, 2012 — “Today’s vote by the U.S. House of Representatives to repeal the Affordable Care Act is the wrong step at the wrong time and would take away life-saving benefits that women and families urgently need. Instead of refighting the political wars of the past, lawmakers should focus on the very real needs of the people they represent. The recent Supreme Court decision makes it clear: the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land and it should be fully implemented.
The health reform law is the greatest advance for women’s health in a generation. By voting to repeal it, members of the House would take away real benefits and protections for women and families. People would no longer have access to recommended preventive services like mammograms and immunizations without cost-sharing; insurers could continue to charge women many times more than men simply because of our gender; older women would have to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars more for prescription drugs; lifetime and annual caps on benefits would be imposed; and people could be refused coverage because of a pre-existing medical condition like breast cancer, diabetes, or even domestic violence. Repeal would also halt our progress toward a more patient-centered health care delivery system that improves quality and lowers costs for every American.
If the bill approved by the House today were to become law, it should be stamped: ‘This bill is dangerous to your health.’ Instead of wasting time trying to score political points, Members of Congress should be working to make sure the benefits and protections provided under the Act are fully realized.
Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, millions of women are already benefiting from preventive services without copays or cost sharing, the elimination of lifetime limits on coverage, the ability to keep children on their parents’ insurance plans until age 26, savings on prescription drugs, and much more. And many more tangible benefits that make a huge difference for women and families are just ahead. Americans need their representatives in Washington to focus on helping to realize the full promise of reform.”
The National Partnership is a non-profit, non-partisan advocacy group dedicated to promoting access to quality health care, fairness in the workplace, and policies that help women and men meet the dual demands of work and family.
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The innuPREP Blood DNA Midi Kit has been specially designed as an effective tool for isolating genomic DNA from 0.5 ml to 2 ml samples of whole blood. The kit combines three steps: erythrocytes are first selectively digested, after which nucleated blood cells are pelleted and then lysed. After a precipitation step to selectively remove proteins, the DNA is bound to the surface of a Spin Filter membrane and then eluted. The extraction process involves the use of standard bench-top centrifuges and operates on a minicolumn scale. Combining a highly stringent Lysis Buffer with a novel Binding Buffer makes it possible to achieve unique yields of highly pure DNA.
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We offer hearing testing to both children and adults, performed by audiologists using state-of-the-art audiological equipment. At your appointment, the audiologist will take a case history and perform a range of tests designed to determine the presence or absence of hearing loss. The results are charted on an audiogram. If a hearing loss is present, the audiogram will reveal the degree and type of hearing loss.
Hearing Aid Evaluation
During this appointment, the audiologist will lead you step-by-step through the process of learning more about hearing aids and how they may improve or augment your hearing. The most important person in the evaluation is you ! Counselling about the benefits and limitations of any amplification system will be addressed so that you can make an informed choice as to what option is best for you. During the hearing aid evaluation, we’ll ask about what kind of listening situations you need help in, about your lifestyle, activity level, and your overall individual communication goals. Various types of hearing aid technologies that match your unique needs and budget will be discussed along with hearing aid styles, models, cosmetic preferences and technological characteristics. CHS works with all the major hearing aid manufacturers and provides an open product palette to our audiologists in order to give them the freedom to prescribe whichever hearing aid will best meet your needs.
Fitting and Dispensing
Our audiologists and hearing instrument dispensers will take all the time you need to make sure you understand how to best use your hearing aid, clean and maintain it, and gain a realistic understanding of potential benefits and limitations. With reasonable dispensing fees, a 60-day trial period on all hearing aids, and a home visitation program for seniors over 55 years of age, our clinics are ready to assist you in being a successful hearing aid user.
Real-Ear Measurement is made using a small tube that is attached to a microphone. This tube is inserted into the ear along with the hearing aid, allowing the true output of the aid (as modified by the ear canal with the hearing aid in place) to be measured, thus assuring adequate amplification when setting or programming the aid.
Hearing Aid Warranty and Repair Service
Should your hearing aid require servicing and/or repair, our clinics are equipped to resolve a variety of maintenance issues. In the event we are unable to repair your hearing aid on-site, we work with all hearing aid manufacturers and will work to resolve your service issue efficiently and affordably.
Custom-Made Noise Protection
Our world is a noisy place. Whether you are concerned about recreational, work or environmental noise, custom made noise plugs can provide protection from noise-induced hearing loss.
You can live safely and with confidence in your home. CHS carries the most complete range of communication devices that assist and augment communication, safety and independence, including visual smoke detectors, baby monitors, and alarm clocks; amplified phones; TTYs (text telephones), and more. Our helpful consultants can give you the information and advice you need to decide which products work best for you.
Ringing or other noises in the ear or head is known as tinnitus. You can meet with one of our audiologists for a consultation about what could be causing the tinnitus, ways to address it, such as Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT), and medical referrals and/or other specialized testing.
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Ace Hardware delivered more than 72,000 energy-efficient light bulbs to military families at the Fort Hood (Texas) Army Base, the largest active-duty military installation in the United States.
The free supply of light bulbs was intended to help residents of the Fort Hood Army Base turn their home maintenance to-do list into a to-done list as they prepare for new energy-efficient lighting standards scheduled to take effect in early 2012.
According to the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, 100-watt general service incandescent light bulbs can no longer be manufactured for the United States, beginning in 2012. This change will be the first of several phase-outs over the next two years, with 75-watt incandescent bulbs no longer made in 2013, followed by the 60- and 40-watt incandescent bulbs phasing out in 2014. As a result, consumers will need to transition to energy-efficient light bulbs for their lighting needs, such as CFLs (compact florescent bulbs), LEDs (light-emitting diode) and energy-efficient halogen options.
According to Ace, CFL and LED bulbs offer about 70% more energy efficiency and last up to 10 times longer than older incandescent bulbs.
As incandescent bulbs begin to be phased out, Ace is lighting the way for consumers, starting with military families at the Fort Hood Army Base. While on base, Ace set-up an education event led by Manfredini to help families understand the new lighting standards and energy-efficient light bulb options currently available at their neighborhood Ace Hardware stores. Ace also donated an assortment of free GE energy-efficient light bulbs in varying wattages to each family and helped one lucky family update their entire homes' lighting accordingly through an on-site raffle at the event.
"We relished this opportunity to promote energy conservation to our residents," said Mack Quinney, Fort Hood Family Housing Project Director.
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Steve Nash is the All-Star guard for the Phoenix Suns has forged a partnership with Nike to create the Nike Trash Talk, a basketball shoe made from manufacturing waste. The “waste” comes Nike’s own production facilities—scraps that would otherwise have been discarded. The Trash Talk is modeled after Steve Nash’s current shoe, the Nike Zoom… [Continue Reading]
Made from recycled newsprint, these remarkable and disposable slippers cost less than 50 cents each. The color is natural and no bleaching agents/chemicals have been used — even the cord and the support tube are made from twisted unbleached paper.
Nike has released a new line of footwear called “Considered”, which they claim is produced using sustainable manufacturing practices, quite different from the way most athletic shoes are currently made, and quite efficient if their claims are true. Some examples: 80% less solvents and glues used; simpler designs involving fewer production steps including less stitching;… [Continue Reading]
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Very Thin Lasers Could Speed Computers
Slimmer vertical lasers could link microchips with light
Image: Dr. Hongjun Yang
Holy Mirrors! Photonic crystal reflectors are made from a patterned piece of silicon, to keep the profile of a new kind of laser slim.
1 August 2012—A new type of ultrasmall laser could bring optical communications onto computer chips, breaking a bottleneck that limits computing speed.
The laser is small enough to allow an array of hundreds of them to be placed on a chip, the researchers who devised it say in a July online paper for Nature Photonics. “Once you make it so flat, thin, on-chip integration becomes very simple,” says Zhenqiang Ma, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Data transfer between processors is limited by the capacity of copper wires to carry signals, but this can be overcome by using beams of light, just as optical fiber is being used to replace copper cables in the telephone system.
Previous designs for this type of laser led to devices that were between 15 and 30 micrometers tall, toweringly high on a chip on which other features are measured in tens of nanometers. The new laser, designed by Ma and Weidong Zhou, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, stands just 2 μm high.
The device is a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL), which emits light through its top surface. Chip designers will most likely prefer VCSELs to more traditional, edge-emitting lasers, in which the beam comes out of one end. VCSELs are easier to manufacture, easier to align with elements like optical fibers, and easy to build into arrays of multiple lasers. Every laser needs a mirror at each end to bounce photons back and forth through the laser cavity, thus building up the light beam. Most VCSELs use distributed Bragg reflectors—alternating layers of material with different refractive indexes—to act as mirrors, but it’s these layers that make the laser so tall.
Instead of Bragg reflectors, Zhou and Ma used much thinner structures, photonic crystal mirrors made of a particular pattern of silicon and air-filled gaps. They built the active part of the laser out of indium gallium arsenide phosphide, a compound semiconductor.
Assembling the device required transfer printing, a technique developed by John Rogers, a materials scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In that process, Ma and his colleagues pressed a sticky polymer gel onto each piece they wanted to transfer, such as the mirror. Lifting the gel rapidly pulled the piece underneath up with it, in much the same way ripping off a Band-Aid pulls the hair on your arm. They then placed the piece where they wanted it and pulled the gel away slowly, leaving the piece behind.
In this case, the researchers built the first mirror directly on the chip and the laser cavity and second mirror each on separate wafers. Then they used transfer printing to place the laser cavity on top of the first mirror and put the second mirror on top of the cavity. Thin layers of silicon oxide between the layers held the whole thing together. The researchers say the technique is compatible with processes for making silicon logic chips, which can’t tolerate the high temperatures needed for other laser-manufacturing approaches. “It’s the only way to make a laser in a low-temperature process,” Ma says.
The laser they built shines with a wavelength of 1550 nanometers, which is common in communications systems. Zhou says they could produce other wavelengths by altering the design of the photonic crystals or by using different semiconductor materials, allowing the arrays to send multiple streams of data over different wavelengths simultaneously and thus increasing bandwidth.
“This is an interesting piece of research and is novel in that they propose to use vertically emitting devices,” says Jeffrey Kash, a senior researcher in the Center for Integrated Science & Engineering at Columbia University. “As a first step, it is a very nice result.”
Kash adds, though, that a number of key improvements are needed to make the lasers practical. For one, the lasers will need to run on electricity; right now, they depend on another laser beam as a power source. The researchers also need to efficiently increase their power to at least 1 milliwatt. [[different antecedents]]
Zhou believes the research team will have an electrically pumped version of the laser within a year or two and that they will also be able to improve its other characteristics. “In theory, we believe our laser should have much better performance than conventional VCSELs, but, yes, we do have some ways to go,” he says.
Zhou and Ma say their laser could be made commercially viable within about five years. They’ve formed a company, Semerane, to commercialize the technology.
About the Author
Neil Savage, based in Lowell, Mass., writes about strange semiconductors and amazing optoelectronics. In the April 2012 issue of IEEE Spectrum, he reported on molybdenum disulfide, a potential rival to graphene in nanoelectronics.
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Bison Quest Wildlife Immersion Week
Building Wildlife and Bison Water Sources
There are a number of studies and habitat improvement projects going on here at Wild Echo Bison Reserve. While we love having our "vacation guests", the real improvements on Wild Echo Bison Reserve happen during our Wildlife Immersion Weeks. Join us for our small groups of 4 to 8 people to learn about wildlife related projects. Some of these include building exclosures around important wildlife habitat, habitat manipulation, breeding bird censuses, mammal and bird behavioral studies (bison, yellow bellied marmot/golden eagle interactions, cavity nesting bird feeding studies) and bird and mammal population studies on, and near, the Reserve. So, for those of you who want more than a "typical vacation", and want to actually partake in collecting data for wildlife studies, for those who want to make the "wild" world a little better while learning about it, for those who want to be part of something bigger, then our Bison Quest Wildlife Immersion Week is for you. Join us for a week of the ultimate wildlife experience.
Studying Pocket Gopher Activity and Grass Production
And after our 3 days of liveing the bison and wildlife here, we'll take you on a complimentary guided trip to the magical and fascinating place called Yellowstone National Park (see description of trip on Yellowstone National Park page under Bison and Wildlife Adventure Vacation).
Bison Behavioral Studies
So if this sounds like your kind of vacation, then plan on joining us for one of our scheduled weeks in June, August or September. If one of our scheduled dates doesn't work for you, check with us - sometimes we add new weeks as the summer progresses.
Cavity Nesting Bird Study
Encouraging Forest Regeneration (left)
Monitoring Bluebird and Swallow Nest Success (right)
Scheduled 2012 Bison Quest Wildlife Immersion Weeks
IMMERSION ITINERARY (PDF)
22 through 27 July
12 through 17 August
16 through 21 September
Our Immersion week can be guaranteed entirely private if there are four or more in your group and is ideal for families with children, or a group of friends. You can schedule your own week for any dates that we have open. Rates and itineraries are the same as quoted for the scheduled immersion weeks.
Sunday: Pick folks up from the Bozeman airport or hotel by 2 pm and head up to Wild Echo Bison Reserve. To begin your journey into the world of the bison, we will stop for a picnic lunch at Madison Buffalo Jump State Park before heading on to Wild Echo Bison Reserve.
Monday through Wednesday: We will spend our days participating in wildlife and bison projects. These studies are varied and dependent on the time of year, but we do keep them fun and none of them will be physically exhausting. We will work on at least one different project daily, so you will be exposed to a variety of studies and types of jobs that a wildlife reserve requires to keep it up.
Thursday and Friday: After our 3 days of living with the bison and wildlife, we will take you on our Yellowstone National Park Overnight Tour.
Rates for Bison Quest Wildlife Immersion Weeks
$1975/person for Sunday through Friday, total of 6 days and 5 nights
The above rate includes all transportation, food and lodging on the Reserve, all Reserve activities, and use of our equipment (including binoculars, telescopes, backpacks, etc). It also includes a guided trip to Yellowstone National Park including transportation, entrance fees and equipment. Lodging and meals in the Park are not included, although we will make all necessary reservations for you.
Frequently Asked Questions About the Wildlife Immersion Week
How many participants are in residence for the Immersion Week? Our groups will be a minimum of four. We allow no more than eight guests per week.
I'm only one person - can I still sign up for the Immersion week? By all means, join us. The Wildlife Immersion Week has been set up quite differently from our private vacations. We still have small groups, but you will have the opportunity to get to know new like-minded people from anywhere in the world.
Where do we stay? There are 2 cabins (sleep up to 5 people each) and two tipis (sleep 2 each). You will share one of the accommodations with one to three other guests (same sex). Usually we have one cabin for women and one for men. A tipi is available if a couple would like to have a separate accommodation. See accommodations page. We will book lodgings in YNP and will add the cost to your vacation (usually around $70/person depending on what accommodations are available when we book).
Where do we get our food? Food is provided while on the Reserve (see Natural and Organic Montana meals and snacks). All guests will be expected to assist with cooking and kitchen clean up. Meals in Yellowstone Park are not included.
How many days, and hours, do we work? First of all - it's hardly work! While we have plenty of physical work available (cutting rails, piling slash, etc for those of you who want to try your hand at some of the hardcore jobs), most of our work involves hiking to check on, assemble or clean out bird houses (for Kestrels, Saw-whet owls, woodpeckers, Bluebirds, etc.), studying bison behavior, and participating in on-going wildlife studies here at the Reserve. Plan on working about 6 hour days, Monday through Wednesday, although it may vary depending on weather and other conditions.
What if I don't know anything about wildlife or plants? That's what we're here for! We'll will teach you how to identify various plants, birds and mammals, as well as how to use the equipment that biologists typically use to census the wildlife that we work with. All we ask is that you come with a love of wild things, and a desire to learn more about them. We'll teach you the techniques.
What can we do after work? Each evening we will offer at least one Bison Quest activity mentioned in the Bison and Wildlife Adventure Vacation for those who wish to participate. Activities may include horseback riding, telescope stargazing, 4x4 evening wildlife safaris, bison interaction experience, sweat lodge, wood fired hot tubbing, etc. (Except for the trip to YNP, all activities offered will be on the Reserve.)
When and where do you pick us up at the beginning of our week? All interns will be picked up from either the Bozeman airport or hotel by 2pm on Sunday afternoon. If your flight is coming in later than that, then we suggest that you fly in on Saturday and stay at a Bozeman hotel where we can pick you up on Sunday. All guests should make reservations with a hotel in Bozeman for their return on Friday evening. We will drop you off there around 6pm upon our return from the Park.
Where do we stay in Yellowstone National Park? During the scheduled weeks, we are able to make reservations far in advance so you will usually be staying at cabins inside the Park. If they are not available for some reason, then we will stay in accommodations near the Park boundary. All accommodations are planned for double occupancy and will be added to the price of your vacation. Single accommodations may be available upon request.
We think that our "Wildlife Immersion weeks" are lots of fun, but it does involve gaining wildlife work experience. If you want to be waited on, sit around and sunbathe, or have a resort experience, then our Wildlife Immersion Weeks aren't for you and you might find the Bison Quest Private Adventure Package more to your liking. Our Wildlife Immersion weeks are for the adventurous, the curious, the thinkers ... for those who want to make a difference in the wild world around us.
All guests must be:
- 16 yrs or older and accompanied by a parent if under 18 yrs.
- In good physical shape, able and willing to try something new.
All guests are expected to behave in a professional and cooperative manner.
We reserve the right to return guests to Bozeman at anytime if their behavior compromises the safety or general performance of the team.
Bison Quest Adventure Vacations
Wild Echo Bison ReserveP.O. Box 890
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Coffee breaks can make you stressed
Taking a coffee break at work can boost your stress not relieve it, say U.K. researchers. But men and women react to caffeine in different ways.
Research by Professor Peter Rogers and Dr Lindsay St Claire from the University of Bristol shows that men who work alone become more stressed after a coffee break because they think the coffee should make them perform faster.
And men who work in teams tend to feel less stressed after a coffee. But this makes their performance less effective, the researchers found.
Women didn't have the same response to caffeine. Caffeine tended to reduce their stress levels.
The researchers divided 96 people into three groups of 32, half who drank 200 milligrams of caffeine, the equivalent to about one and a half cups of brewed coffee, the other half had a placebo with no caffeine.
The researchers told one group their drink contained caffeine and it would help their performance while doing certain tasks; another group their drink did not contain caffeine; and the third group they were drinking caffeine and that it would cause stress-like side effects.
The researchers then measured stress by looking at the participants' heart rates and how confident or stressed they felt while they a did series of tests.
In a public speaking exercise women appeared less stressed than men after having a caffeinated drink. Men told that caffeine would enhance their performance had higher heart rates and felt more stressed, the researchers found.
"Our research findings suggest that the commonplace tea or coffee break might backfire in business situations, particularly where men are concerned. Far from reducing stress, it might actually make things worse," said St Claire.
The research also found that the way caffeine affected performance varied according to the type of task completed and whether people worked alone or in a team.
Australian researcher Dr Gavan McNally from the School of Psychology at Sydney's University of New South Wales said the research was "neat" as it showed that the effects of the coffee depended on the context in which it was drunk.
McNally said that people don't always recognise that the effects of many drugs, including caffeine, depended on the expectations they have of the drug.
"We might like to think that coffee is going help us concentrate more, going to increase our arousal [a component of stress], and make us perform better. That might be true for some tasks that are particularly boring, like driving.
"For other tasks that are already very stimulating, like public speaking, the extra arousal you get from caffeine might just send you over the edge."
McNally said many researchers had shown that men and women respond differently, biologically and psychologically, to stress. Men and women also had different ways of coping with stress.
Despite the potentially stressful effect of caffeine, McNally thought it was unlikely that the research would change office workers' coffee drinking habits.
"I think the average office worker is still going to take their coffee," he said.
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If you've experimented with Windows XP's Tweak UI, you know that it is packed with features and settings that you can use to customize the way that Windows XP works. However, there are so many features in Tweak UI that chances are good you've only investigated a few of them. As such, you may not be getting the full benefit of all that Tweak UI has to offer.
One of the Tweak UI features that few people actively investigate is a tool called X-Mouse, which is designed to facilitate moving between several open windows. Once enabled, X-Mouse allows you to switch between open windows simply by hovering the mouse pointer over the title bar of an inactive window—with no clicking involved.
Downloading Windows XP's Tweak UI
If you haven't yet downloaded Windows XP's Tweak UI, you can do so from the Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP Web page. If you've previously downloaded and installed Tweak UI, make sure that you have the latest version. You'll find the version number at the bottom of the About page. The current version is listed as:
For Windows XP (SP1 and higher) and Windows Server 2003
If you have an older version, simply download the newer one and install it over the top of the existing installation.
Activating the X-Mouse feature
After you have Tweak UI up and running, you can enable and configure the X-Mouse feature by opening the Mouse branch on the tree list and accessing the X-Mouse page. Then, to enable the X-Mouse feature, just select the Activation Follows Mouse (X-Mouse) check box, as shown in Figure A.
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Understanding the X-Mouse settings
After you enable the X-Mouse feature, you'll want to make sure that the Autoraise When Activating check box is selected as well. This is a crucial setting in that it allows the X-Mouse feature to not only activate a window, but to bring the window to the foreground as well. This is often referred to as bringing the window into focus.
Next, you'll notice that the Activation Delay (ms) control is set to 30. This setting means that as soon as you move the mouse pointer over a window, it's activated almost immediately. While that is the goal of the X-Mouse feature, an Activation Delay setting of such a small milliseconds value can have several unexpected side effects.
For instance, suppose that you have the Control Panel's System dialog box open over the top of a maximized window. Now, as you're about to change a configuration setting, you accidentally bump the mouse and the pointer moves off the System dialog box and onto the maximized window. As soon as it does, X-Mouse grabs the maximized window to bring it into focus and the System dialog box drops helplessly into the background right before your eyes. What makes this worse is that Control Panel apps don't place icons on the taskbar. This means that returning to the task at hand can be a bit frustrating as you must either minimize all open windows or use the [Alt][Tab] key to locate the hidden System dialog box.
Now that you have an idea of the side effects of a 30 millisecond setting in the Activation Delay control, you're probably wondering what would be a good setting. The answer depends on how long you want to wait before the window you need pops up.
I suggest that you start off with a value of 1000 milliseconds, which will configure the Activation Delay for 1 second. That way, if you accidentally move the mouse pointer off of the window you're working with, you'll have a chance to move it back before the focus changes. Once you get used to the X-Mouse feature, you can then return to Tweak UI and experiment with lower Activation Delay values.
To complete the configuration operation and to activate the X-Mouse feature, just click OK. You can then begin experimenting. As you do, keep in mind that, as with any new tool, it will take some time to get used to.
The cascade effect
When you're using the X-Mouse feature, you'll find it advantageous to use cascading windows on your desktop, which you can do by right-clicking on the taskbar and selecting the Cascade Windows command. When you do, any windows you have open will cascade, or layer, across your desktop. This type of window configuration will allow you to take better advantage of the X-Mouse feature as a method of switching between windows.
When you cascade your open windows, you'll plainly see the title bars for each open window, thus making it easier to switch between windows simply by hovering the mouse pointer over the window you want to work with.
Of course, once you select a window, you can maximize it while you're using the application. Then, when you're ready to switch windows, just click the restore down button to reveal the cascading windows again.
If you're using multiple monitor configurations in Windows XP, you'll definitely want to use the X-Mouse feature because, not only are you switching between windows, you're also switching between monitors. And, of course, this involves a lot of clicking.
When you use the X-Mouse feature in a multiple monitor configuration, you can easily switch between the various applications you have open on each monitor simply by moving the mouse pointer back and forth between the monitors.
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Benjamin Heber Johnson. Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. 272 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-09425-1.
Reviewed by William D. Carrigan (Department of History, Rowan University)
Published on H-Law (August, 2004)
Extralegal Violence and the Making of "Mexican Americans"
In 1915, persons of Mexican origin living in Texas orchestrated an uprising remembered today as the Plan de San Diego. Comparable in scale to Nat Turner's slave rebellion nearly a century earlier, the revolt was responsible for the killings of dozens of white farmers and ranchers in south Texas and stimulated a bloody reaction that claimed the lives of untold Mexicans. According to the Plan, the ultimate goal of the insurrectionists was to return the American Southwest to Mexico by force. The failed revolt was the last armed conflict in the struggle over the U.S.-Mexican border, a struggle that dated back to 1846 and the U.S.-Mexican War.
Benjamin Heber Johnson, an assistant professor of history at Southern Methodist University, has written the first book-length treatment of the Plan de San Diego in over a decade. Revolution in Texas began as Johnson's Yale Ph.D. dissertation, but it has been deeply revised.
Johnson's book is first and foremost a brilliant narrative of the Plan de San Diego. But it is much more than that. He hooks readers with the story of the uprising but weaves in historical context and analysis in a way that should satisfy scholars while not alienating general readers. His argument about what the Plan de San Diego meant--both to Mexicans living in South Texas and to the course of American history in general--is fascinating, compelling, and sure to provoke debate and discussion for years to come.
Revolution in Texas will be of interest to legal historians primarily for Johnson's attention to the wave of lynching and vigilantism that swept through South Texas after 1915. Johnson convincingly demonstrates that this extralegal violence hastened the declining status of Tejanos (Texas Mexicans) in south Texas. The number of Mexicans killed in what Walter Prescott Webb called an "orgy of bloodshed" is hard to comprehend. Johnson himself estimates the number in the "low thousands" (p. 120). Thousands more left Texas for Mexico, some never to return. The explicit goal of some of the vigilantes, and the sure result of their campaign of terrorism, was the transferal of lands from Mexican to Anglo hands. Moreover, Anglos in the wake of the Plan de San Diego imposed voting restrictions and systematic segregation in south Texas for the first time. Texas Mexicans, Johnson leaves no doubt, paid a steep price for their failed revolt. This story--how extralegal violence and other forms of intimidation helped strip Mexicans of their lands--has never been told so well or so convincingly.
Mob violence against Mexicans gets too little attention from historians, and scholars of the American South and African American history would be well-served by reading Johnson's book. The bloody lynchings and racial terrorism described in the book will help one see extralegal violence in the American South from a different perspective. In this regard, I wish that Revolution in Texas had made more comparisons to lynching and vigilantism in other parts of the United States. For example, I would have liked to read more about how the vigilantism of South Texas differed from contemporary violence against blacks. The role of the legally sanctioned Texas Rangers in so much of the extralegal violence after the Plan de San Diego has no real parallel in Georgia or Mississippi. The Texas Rangers did more than wink at, or tolerate, lynchings orchestrated by private citizens. They took an active, persistent leadership role, and at times hanged and shot Mexicans against the wishes of the local Anglo citizenry. Studying mob violence against Mexicans is sure to complicate our understanding of extralegal violence and continue the debate initiated by Christopher Waldrep over how one defines lynching.
There are other fascinating issues in this book beyond the vigilantism that followed the Plan de San Diego. The most original and controversial component of Johnson's argument is his claim that the Plan de San Diego "turned Mexicans into Americans." This argument will be of interest to those legal scholars interested in issues of immigration and citizenship. Johnson posits that Tejanos emerged in the 1920s identifying themselves as United States citizens and distancing themselves from the nation, if not the culture of, Mexico. Johnson says that this change can be traced to an influential group of progressive Tejanos who reevaluated their commitment to Mexico and the United States after the Plan de San Diego. The bloody suppression of the uprising by Texas Rangers and vigilantes combined with the failures of the Mexican government led these leaders to conclude, ironically, that resistance to white racism and prejudice would best be accomplished by pursuing citizenship and equal rights in the United States. These leaders eventually formed the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), a group Johnson compares to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). After restricting its membership to U.S. citizens, LULAC urged Mexicans to embrace their American roots and identity while simultaneously demanding that the United States live up to the racial and ethnic egalitarianism implicit in the Declaration of Independence.
I expect that readers will question the central irony of Johnson's book. Why didn't the brutal killing spree of 1915 and after lead Mexicans to more closely identify with Mexico rather than the United States? On this point, Johnson is good at showing how the experience of the early twentieth century left Tejanos frustrated and disappointed with both Mexico and the United States. Johnson believes it is important that Mexicans distinguished between the soldiers of the United States army, with whom they sometimes sought protection, and the Texas Rangers, who they saw as murderers and derisively called "rinches." Distinctions between American ideals and practices, combined with a lack of faith in the Mexican government, helped tilt many Tejanos toward LULAC.
Critics will question Johnson's argument that the decision of LULAC leaders and others to embrace U.S. citizenship was inspired by the belief that the United States could be pressured to live up to its egalitarian ideals. Neil Foley has argued just the opposite, that many Tejano leaders embraced the racism in American society. They sought to focus upon their United States citizenship and their "whiteness" in order to distance themselves from African Americans and thereby protect themselves from the worst ravages of Jim Crow. In a nation composed of "whites" and "blacks," Foley argues that these Tejanos were more committed to being seen as "white" than to a wide-ranging attack on racism in American society. The historical record offers some support to both Foley and Johnson, and the historical profession should expect a rich debate on this topic in the future.
Revolution in Texas will be compared to the first book-length study of the Plan de San Diego, James Sandos's Rebellion in the Borderlands. Sandos's research was broad, but his monograph focused on the anarchist influence of Ricardo and Enrique Flores Magon on the uprising. Johnson believes these two admittedly important figures had less influence on the course of events than does Sandos. Johnson finds the "fuse" of the Plan de San Diego not in Mexico or California but in south Texas. He notes that the revolt of 1915 was far from the first major act of resistance by Tejanos. Indeed, Johnson says that "there was something about south Texas that seemed to foster mass insurgencies" (p. 26). Johnson identified three key factors: the fact that Mexicans were the majority population; the existence of a large number of Tejano landowners, and the ease of escape provided by the nearby Mexican border.
Legal historians intrigued by the profession's growing interest in transnational history will be drawn to Johnson's work because it both embraces and challenges some of the core concepts of transnational scholarship. He understands and studies people who move over and across national borders, but he does not dismiss the importance of the nation. Indeed, his argument is that Mexicans living on the border were essentially a people without a nation and that the failure of the Plan de San Diego made it clear to them that they had to become a part of one nation or the other. Their interest in US citizenship arose out of their realization that a national identity was critical.
Johnson's research is exhaustive. He has surveyed all of the key depositories in South Texas and has traveled to Mexico as well. His work benefits from a wide array of both Spanish-language and English-language sources. Archival materials, institutional records, newspapers, diplomatic correspondence, government investigations, and oral interviews are all brought to bear with great effectiveness.
I will conclude by returning to Johnson's style. Johnson has written his book as a narrative. Indeed, the graceful writing and brevity of the text (211 pages not including notes) is one of its most important features. It is that rare academic book that both simultaneously contributes original knowledge to the field and is accessible to the general public. To emphasize this point, Yale University Press's promotional literature includes advance praise from both esteemed academics such as David Montejano and public intellectuals such as Larry McMurtry.
In my mind, this is a near perfect monograph: well-written, insightful, and full of controversial arguments that, while well-supported with evidence, open up points of discussion and avenues for future research. It should be required reading for graduate students in American history. I can and will assign this book to my undergraduates in the future.
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William D. Carrigan. Review of Johnson, Benjamin Heber, Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans.
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As a waterfront city, Kelowna, Canada is heavily reliant on its shoreline. Okanagan Lake provides many things for the city, though the limited points of access pose a complex question when it comes to the provision of space. Competing for use of the shore are the tourism industry, public parks, boat launches, marinas, a logging mill, and the natural riparian environment.
In 2009, the City’s urban planners devised a Downtown Waterfront Plan, which was reaffirmed in the 2011 Downtown Plan. Both plans identified the redevelopment of certain waterfront areas to better serve the various needs of the community, while respecting the ecosystem. Some of the plans have come to fruition, such as the first phase of Stuart Park.
Stuart Park filled a gap in the waterfront, and now connects Kerry and City Parks to the south with Waterfront Park to the north, creating a broad promenade popular with tourists and residents alike. This park also provides new public spaces and amenities, such as an outdoor skating rink, but the most significant change in my mind was the rehabilitation of a wetland environment at the shoreline. It is not uncommon to see ducks and even herons relaxing there.
Further redevelopment is still in the planning stage, though development company Westcorp Properties Inc. has been given the go-ahead to design, construct, and operate a reimagined Kerry Park. Their design concept includes an expansion of the marina and creation of a public pier, as well as the relocation of existing boat slips away from the focal point of the park, the iconic Sails sculpture. Both the City and the developers hope for a 2013 completion date.
In the meantime, Kelowna’s waterfront parks continue to be an important part of the city’s economy, infrastructure, and identity.
Do you think most waterfront cities take pride in their shoreline? What makes or breaks a great urban waterfront?
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Peter Handrinos is a frequent
contributor to Scout.com and author of the upcoming ‘The Best New York
Sports Arguments: The 100 Most Controversial, Debatable Questions for
The cold, hard fact says that
Roberto Clemente died on the evening of December
31st, 1972. Reality says his presence lives
Pittsburgh baseball fans remember the
12-time All Star. In playing from 1955 to 1972, Clemente set the all-time
standard for right field defense while hitting well enough to win four batting
titles and amass 1,305 career RBI’s and exactly 3,000 hits. That memory is,
literally, a part of the franchise’s foundation - today’s fans arrive to the
Pirates’ home games by crossing Roberto Clemente Bridge and passing his larger-than-life
Latin American ball players, also,
carry on Clemente’s influence. The majority of Latinos cite him as a key
inspiration in their careers, many of them making a comparison to Jackie Robinson’s role as both a brilliant player and outspoken advocate for equal
opportunity. It’s one reason why foreign-born players like Roberto Alomar and
Carlos Delgado have honored the Hall of Famer by donning uniform number 21
through the years.
The man’s living legacy has also
been carried on through his humanitarian work. Clemente actually died in an
effort to supply earthquake victims in
Nicaragua, and his sense of civic duty is
today embodied in the annual given to the Major Leagues’ most outstanding
humanitarians. To this day, supporters continue to fund and operate several of
charitable efforts in his native Puerto
most notable being a ‘Sports City’ for disadvantaged kids.
Unmatched performance, social
impact, and civic giving have all kept Roberto Clemente’s influences alive, and
so have his children.
Roberto Clemente, Jr. has been an
heir to all facets of his late father’s life. After injuries cut off his own
playing career in the Minor Leagues, he became a well-known Spanish-language
broadcaster and commentator, most prominently among Latinos for his work on
York’s WFAN radio. The younger
Clemente, now 41, has also carried on the family’s charitable giving through
programs dedicated to inner-city Pittsburgh teens and underprivileged Puerto
Recently, he discussed Roberto
Sr.’s living legacy:
Do you remember a time when
baseball wasn’t in your life?
No. We had a ‘baseball family’ in
the fullest sense. We have family movies of me, in diapers, swinging at a little
plastic ball with a little plastic bat. From my earliest memories, all I can
remember was my parents, who were both wonderful, and a house full of baseball
people, from players to coaches and managers and fans. I watched the game,
thought about the game, and played the game constantly.
The one time that baseball wasn’t
in my life was when I got hurt down in the Minors. I didn’t want to go to the
ball park for a while, just because I missed it so much and, physically, I
couldn’t be a teammate. Apart from that, I’ve always been around the
While you were growing up, were
you worried about following in your father’s footsteps as a professional player?
I mean, it’s a hard enough game without the inevitable
Well, as I said, baseball was such
a part of my life, I didn’t really think about going any other way. My mother
didn’t raise me to think of myself as a celebrity, or anyone special, just
because my father could play baseball.
Maybe, looking back, I should have
realized that there would be a lot of expectations. I really didn’t realize
that, understandably, people would see ‘Roberto Clemente, Jr.’ in the lineup and
wait for incredible things. The media reaction, especially, was a surprise, to
be honest, and it made it a little hard to have fun, at least at first.
As a player and, later, a
broadcaster, what was the interpersonal reaction? When people hear the name
‘Roberto Clemente’, how did they relate to you?
There are a lot of very, very
powerful emotions. We have a special connection to Puerto
the city of Pittsburgh, obviously, but there are always
powerful emotions for all people, across the board. Very often, people hug me
and start crying, telling me how what a great ball player and a great man my
father was. How much he meant to them. That he was a hero, in their minds. It’s
happened I don’t know how many times, but it still gets me choked up, to be
It’s been a long time since his
last game, but for so many, it doesn’t seem long ago at
It’s never stopped. Today, more
than 30 years after his death, they’re still naming ball parks and leagues after
him. Just recently, in Germany, they opened a new Roberto
Clemente Stadium. In Liberia, Africa, there’s a Clemente image on the
currency. It goes so far beyond baseball.
Some times, I have to say to
myself, ‘How do they know the name?’. I’ve run into many players or fans who
weren’t even alive when Dad played his last game in ’72, but they ‘know’ him
because of the stories and the memories. Their older brothers and fathers had a
poster or a baseball card, a book, and they passed it on.
How would you describe, in
particular, your father’s legacy among Latino ball players and
I’m very, very proud of his memory
among Latinos. I can’t tell you how many ‘aunts’ and ‘uncles’ and ‘grandmas’ we
have, in friends that became like family.
Many times, they talk about the
way my father perfected his game, and they talk about the way he carried himself
as a man, on and off the field. They talk about him as an ambassador for, not
only Latinos, for all minorities, especially foreign-born minorities.
I suppose one of the most lasting,
important memories was in your late father’s philanthropy. I had the honor of
talking to a past Clemente Award winner, Jamie Moyer, just recently. Can you
talk about that?
Charity and giving to others was
such a big part of my father’s life and, to this day, his memory.
The Awards are simply a way of
recognizing ball players’ impact as human beings, and I’ve been told that, for
the winners, they’ve meant more than any other individual award, for that
reason. I remember the great Rod Carew saying, ‘I don’t care about the batting
titles. This [Clemente Award] means more to me than anything’. That gives me
Very often, Roberto Clemente is
compared to Jackie Robinson in all the things you mentioned - the Hall of Fame
career on the field, the pioneering role and charitable impact off the field.
How would you describe their connection?
Well, obviously, anyone who knows
the first thing about baseball knows what Jackie meant to the game. He had
incredible courage and ability. You can never take away the fact that he was the
first minority player, and opened the door to all those who came afterwards,
including Roberto Clemente, Sr.
I would say the biggest difference
was - when dad came up in ’55, he had to deal with a new language and culture,
as well as racism. I’m proud of how often he spoke out for justice and
opportunity, even when he was risking his own career as a player. That meant a
lot to, particularly, Latino players who were dealing with language and cultural
differences. I’m proud that he went and reached out to the poorest communities
in many countries, including, in the last years of his life,
Are you happy with Latino players’
role in the game today?
Well, it’s wonderful that so many
great ball players come from around the country and the world. Everywhere you
look, Latinos, as well as whites and African-Americans and Asians, are among the
league leaders. Latinos have the freedom to come up, to express themselves, and,
obviously, make good money playing a game they love.
At the same time, things still
aren’t perfect. I still think that there’s room for more understanding with the
language, for instance. I’d like to see a time when more American reporters
learn how to speak Spanish, and more Spanish-speaking players learn good
English. That’s key. That can lead to even more marketing opportunities and
diversity. That can lead to more leadership opportunities among managers and the
Do you feel that there’s still a
resistance to the players in terms of being showboats or me-first guys, for
I’d love to say that all the
negative stereotypes are gone, but that’s not always the reality. There’s still
an image, among some, that, ‘Oh, Latinos may have great talent, but they don’t
work to get better’. I think of that broadcaster in, I think, the Bay Area, who
talked about ‘brain-dead hitters’ from the Caribbean. You hear about this-or-that guy
being lazy or hot-tempered or moody or whatever.
That’s wrong, but it’s out there.
We should be open-minded. Some Latino players are bad guys and some are good
guys. They should be judged on their own character, just like everybody else.
Do you see a distinct ‘Latino’ way
to play the game?
No. When some people say, ‘You
can’t walk off the island’ or whatever, I think that’s kind of off-base.
Baseball’s baseball. Everybody wants to win and everybody has to play by the
If anything’s different among the
Latinos, it might be in personal style. Some players tend to wear their hearts
on their sleeve, or they’re more flamboyant. There’s something to that. I don’t
see how that’s a negative, however. There’s nothing wrong with that. You can be
passionate and still play great baseball.
Do you feel that Spanish-speaking
players tend to hang out and support each other, despite whatever other
differences they might have in their personal background or
Well, that’s a funny thing.
Latinos can come from many different countries. Growing up in
be very different than growing up in Mexico or
I do think that Latino players
tend to stick together, though, because they have a common challenge in the
language and adjustment to a new country. Plenty of times, I’ve seen them
sharing a meal and conversations after the game, just talking about what it’s
like to play in the big leagues and ‘en los Estados Unidos’. That’s beautiful.
Baseball should bring us all together.
But you know controversy has been
kicked up by, for example, ‘The All-Latino Team’ selections. They didn’t include
guys like Ted Williams and Reggie Jackson, both of whom had a partial Latino
heritage. How did you feel about that?
It’s got to be up to the player.
I’ll give you an example - ARod. He played for the
USA [during the World Baseball
Classic], not the Dominican
Republic, where he grew up for some years.
People talked about that.
Me, I can’t knock a guy. Only he
knows about his own upbringing, his family and friends, and culture. Only he can
say what’s right for him. It’s not for me, or anyone else to define
Or Ted Williams and Reggie
Or Ted Williams and Reggie
Jackson, sure. That’s up to them. Everyone should take pride in their identity,
whatever it is.
York, I’m sure you’ve heard of the
‘Los Mets’ reputation-
Sure. From [Mets general manager]
Right. It’s been controversial in
some quarters, only for the thought that too much of a focus on foreign-born
players can lead to cliquish-ness. Do you think that was a realistic danger for
the Mets or any other ball club?
Oh, I believe Omar’s one of the
smartest operators in baseball. I love the guy. I think he knows what he’s
doing. Most of his new players happened to be Latinos, but I know that he was
never thinking, ‘I’ve got to assemble a Latino team’. I can say this about my
friend - he cares about winning. That’s the priority. He’s looking to fit the
players together on a winning team, first and foremost. Nationality or whatever
comes after the fact.
You mentioned cliques, too, and
you know what? People tend to hang out with people that know their own language
and music and background. All people. That can be true for salsa like it can be
for rock ‘n roll. I think the real issue for a Major League clubhouse is, again,
about winning. At the end of the day, are the players focused on winning as a
team on the field? I can only talk about the clubhouses I know, and I have
confidence that all the Mets are playing for a championship
In a Dominican-American restaurant
like Nueva Caridad in New
York, do you find more fans rooting
for the Yankees and Mets, or for individual Dominican-American players
regardless of team affiliation?
Well, I’m not sure how to answer
your question. Have you ever been to Nuevo Caridad?
Just once. And not for a couple
I’d urge you to visit and find out
for yourself. In what I’ve seen, there’s a love for the game of baseball, number
one. After that, different people love different teams and different players.
Some people are Yankees, some are Mets. Some are going to root for Derek Jeter
over A-Rod, even though A-Rod is Dominican-American. And vice versa. And all
Focusing on this or that
generalization, I’m not sure it’s a good idea. I’d put it down to a love of
baseball, as I said. That, and the food, too (chuckles). They’ve got some great
home-cooked meals over there, I’ll tell you.
After a lifetime in baseball, are
you more of a fan, less of a fan, or about the same?
I’m more of a fan. As I mentioned,
not everything’s perfect, and I don’t like things like the steroids controversy,
but baseball’s in great shape. Events like the World Baseball Classic are
bringing the game forward, including more and more talented players and
interested fans. It’s a very positive time.
The complete Table of Contents for
the ‘Baseball Men’ interview series can be found here.
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The chart above seems to suggest pollsters could have saved a lot of money and effort in the recent presidential race if they had simply looked up the fertility rates in the various states.
The states with generally larger families voted Republican, while those with smaller families voted Democratic.
As time goes by, however, the situation might well change.
Lauren Sandler EXPLAINS:
Almost invisibly over the past decade, family size in America has emerged as our deepest political dividing line.
Stunningly, the postponement of marriage and parenting — the factors that shrink the birth rate — is the very best predictor ...
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Rule of Noose
On the silent video of Saddam Hussein's final moments broadcast worldwide, you can see one of the masked hangmen in a leather jacket, gesturing an explanation to the bound dictator of why he might cover his neck with a scarf even if he declines the hood. Saddam accedes to the executioner's counsel--for comfort in his last seconds? Vanity about his own corpse?--bows his head slightly, and the black scarf is affixed before the noose is placed over it.
If Iraqi executioners have a particular expertise with the gallows, it is because Saddam gave his country so much practice. Hanging, shooting, gassing, beating, Saddam and his agents were masters of them all. Saddam, depraved and sadistic, was the polar opposite of the banal bureaucratic evil Hannah Arendt famously saw in Adolph Eichmann.
Yet that is precisely why Saddam's show trial and rushed hanging, far from elevating the rule of law, were so in tune with everything else askew in American-occupied Iraq.
Iraq's politicians and their impatient US handlers wanted the theater of a Saddam trial but the assurance of Saddam's certain, fast exit from the stage. Like the death penalty in the US--where feckless governors get to look tough by signing death warrants--it was all about politics. Saddam's execution was a chance for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to appear decisive--after a year in which he has conceded much of his country's governance to death squads and militias. Saddam's hanging permitted President Bush to praise "how far the Iraqi people have come"--while Iraq's ongoing catastrophe, with Saddam three years gone from the scene, has Bush's own generals and party leaders in revolt.
Indeed, the televised spectacle of Saddam's hanging obscured just how much his trial represented an opportunity missed--an opportunity missed for Saddam's victims, for Iraq and for the claims of history.
The idea that despots can be held legally accountable for war crimes, genocide and violations of human rights is one of the great political innovations of the last sixty years. Nuremberg was the wellspring; In South Africa it was a Truth and Reconciliation Commission; in the Balkans and Rwanda, the UN tribunal. For Chile, it took Spain's victim-rights laws to first pry open the books on Augusto Pinochet, commencing an accounting which continued until Pinochet's death by natural causes this month. The International Criminal Court, without US signature, is already at work in Darfur.
Trials, tribunals, truth commissions. Whatever the form, there is plenty of evidence that establishing the facts of atrocity, accurately laying out lines of accountability, aids in democratic transition, helps dampen cycles of generalized revenge and even brings some relief to traumatized survivors. One signal study in Chile, for instance, showed measurable mental-health benefits for Pinochet victims who testified before a truth commission compared with those who did not.
But Saddam's trial and execution were built for speed--not truth, reconciliation or accountibility. The Iraqi occupation court's decision to prosecute him and execute him for the killings of 148 Shias from the town of Dujail in the 1980s--not his manifold atrocities in the Iran-Iraq war, not for the gassing of the Kurds--may have appeared a sensible legal expedient. In fact, it had a distinct political effect: to prevent Saddam's trial from becoming a trial as well of decades of US policy. Banished from the Iraqi courtroom was any obstreperous reminder by the defendant of the Reagan Administration's realpolitik reinforcement of Saddam during the Iran-Iraq war, the most brutal era of his regime. Gone was any inadvertent mention of how Margaret Thatcher's Britain supplied Saddam with the poison gas he used against the Kurds, or any hint of the Presidents from Gerald Ford forward who sold out Kurdish aspirations. No Iraqi courtroom will be troubled by reminders of the cost to ordinary Iraqis of all those years of US-driven sanctions.
If Washington and Bagdhad were seriously interested in de-Saddamizing Iraq, after the Dujail trial they would have insisted that the dictator be confronted in courtrooms with his wider atrocities--the subject of years of labor by human-rights forensic investigators. That would have been the Nuremberg way. That would have given Saddam's living victims a voice, and honored the stories of the dead. It would have shown Iraqis--and the world--that justice is about more than the shortest distance from a presidential palace to the end of a rope.
(It would also have revealed the robust debate about capital punishment among Iraq's present-day leaders, especially among Europe-identified Kurds. President Jalal Talabani, deputy prime minister Barham Saleh and a host of lesser officials see Iraq's gallows as relics of the Baathist era. One of L. Paul Bremer's smarter moves in the earliest days of US occupation was to suspend capital punishment, trying to lay down a clear marker signifiying the end of the Saddam way of governing by noose and cattle prod.)
But that's not reality. The reality was a trial and hanging which delivered neither legal justice nor narrative justice: neither the example of a fair and transparent proceeding nor the satisfaction of a historical accounting. The reality was an execution driven by two leaders, Maliki and Bush, each desperate to persuade themselves that they still hold sway over imploding Iraq.
Six American soldiers and sixty-eight Iraqi civilians died in roadside bombings on Saturday. It was, in other words, a routine morning in American-occupied Bagdhad. The fact that Saddam Hussein dropped from the gallows at dawn changed nothing.
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Greece celebrated a Seniorforce Day on October 24th in Athens. During the event, teenagers, university students and older people cooperated in the framework of interactive creative workshops and discussions with the aim to stress the importance of youth volunteer work for dialogue and intergenerational solidarity.
During the first workshop one teenager and one university student interviewed an elder person that wanted to share one story from his/her life in front of a camera. The small groups will edit together the videos afterwards choosing the music or any other additional material that should be included in the video. The final versions of the videos will be presented at the closing ceremony of the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations 2012 in Greece.
In the second workshop participants created different art crafts made of recycled materials. Pillows from old t-shirts, lamps made of buttons and chairs made of palettes were the impressive results of the 2 hours workshop.
The workshops were followed by a panel discussion on the topic of intergenerational dialogue. The conclusion of the Seniorforce Day in Greece discussion was that this cooperation and this dialogue should continue after the end while all the participants were broadly enthusiastic about the opportunity to share ideas with those who were not their age peers and felt that the event was refreshing and inspiring.
The event was organised by the ESF Actions Coordination and Monitoring Authority, in cooperation with the University of Athens Department of Communication and Mass Media, the NGO 50+, the Youth NGO AEGEE-Athina (European Students Forum) and with the support of the Representation of the European Commission in Greece and the European Parliament Information Office.
In Romania, a Seniorforce Day event was held in Bucharest on October 25th under the title “Workshops to encourage volunteering among senior citizens".
During the first part of the event, which took place in the Bucharest City Hall of the 6th District, representatives from local authorities, NGO’s and senior volunteers presented case studies emphasizing several initiatives that involve old citizens but also young people. In the second part the audience participated in separate creative workshops and discussions in order to share experiences and best practice tools.
The Seniorforce Day event was organized by the Romanian Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Protection and the City Hall of Bucharest 6th District, with the support of the European Commission and of the Bucharest 6th district Mayor’s Office, together with an important contribution of the National Council of Elderly People, Caritas Romania Confederation, Pro Vobis Association -4TH Chance Organisation, Romanian Association for Pensioners’ Rights, General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection from the 6th District of Bucharest.
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LOS ANGELES: With some genetic sleuthing, scientists have fingered a likely culprit in the spread of leprosy in the southern United States: the nine-banded armadillo.
DNA tests show a match in the leprosy strain between some patients and these prehistoric-looking critters — a connection scientists had suspected but until now couldn't pin down.
"Now we have the link," said James Krahenbuhl, who heads a government leprosy program that led the new study.
Only about 150 leprosy cases occur each year in the U.S., mostly among travelers to places like India, Brazil and Angola where it's more common. The risk of getting leprosy from an armadillo is low because most people who get exposed don't get sick with the ancient scourge, known medically as Hansen's disease and curable if promptly treated.
Armadillos are one of the very few mammals that harbor the bacteria that cause the sometimes disfiguring disease, which first shows up as an unusual lumpy skin lesion.
Researchers at the National Hansen's Disease Programs in Baton Rouge, La., led an international team of scientists who published their findings in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine. They think it requires frequent handling of armadillos or eating their meat for leprosy to spread.
DNA samples were taken from 33 wild armadillos in Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, where they're sometimes referred to as "hillbilly speed bumps" because they're often run over by cars.
Scientists also took skin biopsies from 50 leprosy patients being treated at a Baton Rouge clinic. Three-quarters had never had foreign exposure, but lived in Southern states where they could have been exposed to armadillos.
An analysis found that samples from the patients and armadillos were genetically similar to each other and were different from leprosy strains found elsewhere in the world. The unique strain was found in 28 armadillos and 25 patients.
Of the 15 patients for whom researchers had information, seven said they had no contact with armadillos; eight said they did, including one who routinely hunted and ate them.
While the work did not document direct transmission from animal to human, "the evidence is pretty convincing that it happens," said Dr. Brian Currie, an infectious disease expert at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, who had no role in the study.
Leprosy remains a problem in tropical hot spots of the world with some 250,000 new infections reported each year. Like tuberculosis, it can stay dormant for years before attacking the skin and nerves.
While leprosy is infectious, it's hard to catch. Those most at risk are family members who are in constant contact with an untreated person. Leprosy can't be spread through casual contact such as handshaking, or sexual intercourse.
The disease has long been misunderstood and those who contracted it were often shunned. Fear of its spread led some countries to quarantine people. False stories about fingers and toes falling off added to the stigma.
The disease is curable with prompt treatment of antibiotics before complications set in. The drugs typically kill the bacteria within days and make it non-contagious. It usually takes a year or two to fully clear the germ from the body.
If left untreated, leprosy can cause nerve damage so severe that people lose feeling in their fingers and toes, leading to deformity and disability.
While the germ attacks the skin, hands and feet of humans, it tends to infect the liver, spleen and lymph node of armadillos.
"Leave the animals alone," advised lead researcher Richard Truman of the National Hansen's Disease Programs.
"I would not cuddle armadillos," said Dr. Warwick Britton of the University of Sydney in Australia, who had no connection with the study.
For Ymelda Beauchamp, how she got infected decades ago remains a mystery.
When she was 15, she noticed lumps on her skin and felt numbness in her hands and feet. Her left hand began clawing inward.
After high school graduation, she decided to seek treatment at a former sugar plantation in Carville, La., that was turned into a clinic for leprosy patients. There were times when the pain was so excruciating she said she did not want to wake up.
Today, the 59-year-old Beauchamp is disease-free and works as an advocate with the American Leprosy Missions, a Christian group that helped fund the study along with other leprosy support groups and the National Institutes of Health.
She still does not have feeling in her hands and feet, and has to be careful not to burn or cut herself when cooking.
"It's not difficult, but it isn't easy either," she said. "You get quite used to it."
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With its dramatic coastline and remarkably unspoiled natural landscape, Ireland is unmatched when it comes to scenic driving routes. Roads wind over rugged cliffs and through lush valleys, with abundant opportunities for interesting detours. Below you will find details of some of Ireland’s most breath-taking drives.
A magnificent scenic drive takes you from Dunmore East along the edge of Waterford Harbour to the small villages of Passage East and Cheekpoint, about 10km upriver. The route takes in many historical sites, including the the Norman village of Killea (Cill Aodh) and the ancient megalithic tomb of Harristown, which dates from about 1600 BC. GoIreland.com provides a wide range of quality hotels in Waterford if you wish to avail of accommodation.
Yeats Country and Lough Erne
This drive is steeped in the poetry of WB Yeats and in the scenery painted so often by his brother Jack. Fishing in the two big Loughs Erne has been lauded by anglers, and visitors extol the cruising in the Ulster Lakeland. Views range from vast horizons at Lough Navar Forest’s mighty clifs to the tranquil peace of the Lake Isle of Innisfree. Check out GoIreland’s list of Sligo hotels and book from a range of budget and luxury accommodation.
The Achill Drive
The Achill Drive – (121km/76mls – Detour 22km/14mls)
Westport – Newport – Mulraney – Achill Sound – Dooega – Keel – Dooagh Keem Bay – Dugort
Leave Westport on the N59 road for Newport. On the right, 1km outside town , is a monument commemorating the Irish Land League’s most important meeting, in June 1879, which was addressed by the League’s two leaders, Charles Stewart Parnell and Michael Davitt.
As you enter Newport, just before you cross the river, you will find details of a fine walking trail leading from Newport to Bangor. On the right, is a seven-arch viaduct erected in 1892 to connect the Westport to Achill Railway line.
After Newport, take the Achill Road. You will come quickly to a sign on the right, leading to the Nephin Drive. A series of lakes and mountains provide a very scenic drive, and on this road, too, is a Salmon Research Fishing Agency Centre where a summer visitor centre, tells the story of salmon.
Return to the main road, and as you approach Achill, you will see a sign to the left for Burrishoole Abbey (1 km), the ruin of a 15th century Dominican Friary, which is of historic interest.Westport hotels can be booked instantly should you wish to reserve accommodation in the area.
Dingle Slea Head
The Dingle Peninsula which stretches out into the Atlantic Ocean, is the most northerly of the mountainous promontories which form the indented coast of South-West Ireland. It stands apart for its dramatic mountains and coastal scenery and features a remarkable number of ancient sites. From Slea Head one can see the Blasket Islands, which are the last outposts of Europe and are known as the “next parish to America”. Many of the local community speak Gaelic as their first language. Book from a wide range of Dingle hotel accommodation should you wish to stay in the area.
The Rosses and Gweedore
Donegal contains the largest native Irish speaking population in the country. The scenic drive of the Rosses and Gweedore encompasses a large part of the Donegal Gaeltacht and Falcarragh.
Dungloe, the principal town in the Rosses, is an important game angling centre and colourful resort situated on an island-studded bay. Browse GoIreland’s list of Donegal hotels should you wish to avail of quality accommodation.
Conor Pass is best tackled on a clear day, past the 953m summit of Mount Brandon. Once over the pass, Brandon Bay opens in a fantastic geological model of lakes, river, and rock-strewn contours.
Ladies View is located between Kenmare and Killarney along the Ring of Kerry Route (N71). About 12 miles from Killarney, it offers stunning views of Killarney’s lakes, making it a major stopping point on any Ring of Kerry tour. The name dates back to 1861, when Queen Victoria’s ladies in waiting were so inspired by the breathtaking vista that they named it Ladies View. Killarney hotel accommodation can be booked instantly with GoIreland.com.
Ireland’s most northerly point lies on this ragged triangular headland. Lough Foyle and Lough Swilly virtually isolate Inishowen from the rest of the county. The interior is a mix of low white farms and cottages huddling roped against the wind, and grand brown mountains rising toward Slieve Snaght. The scenic 160km route around the edge of Inishowen takes in Malin Head, castles, churches, High Crosses and pre-Christian antiquities.
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Implementation of an On-Board Kilovoltage Cone-Beam CT Imaging System fo Clinical Applications
Reviewer: S. Jack Wei, MD
Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Last Modified: October 21, 2003
Presenter: Daniel Letourneau
Presenter's Affiliation: William Beaumont Hospital
Type of Session: Scientific
Cone-beam CT (CBCT) imaging is an emerging technology which uses a flat panel detector in conjuction with a kilovoltage or megavoltage linear accelerator to produce CT images. The ability to produce CT images from these accelators, such as simulators and treatment machines, has the potential to greatly enhance physicians' ability to visualize target and normal structures during simulation and provide a much higher level of on-treatment imaging than is currently available. The current study analyzes patient and phantom images to determine irradiation parameters that provide optimal image quality without excessive patient dose from radiation source.
Materials and Methods
- A kilovoltage system consisting of a 120 kVp x-ray source and an opposing 41x41cm flat panel imager were utilized to generate the cone-beam images.
- CBCT images were obtained on a stereotactic radiosurgery patient using the above system.
- Convential CT images using a commercially available CT machine were concurrently obtained on a phantom.
- The irradiation parameters, including imaging dose, beam filtration, number of projections, and use of a scatter rejection grid were varied.
- Comparisons of these various images were made with regard to zero-frequency signal-to-noise ratio (SNR0), and contrast detail was measured by determining an observers' ability to visualize holes of varying diameters in acrylic disks of varying diameters within the phantom.
- These images were compared to helical CT scans of the phantom in 3 mm slices.
- CBCT images delivering a skin dose of 1 cGy to the patient were obtained that provided high quality images.
- The SNR0 was 4 times higher for the helical CT taking 3 mm slices compared to the CBCT taking 1 mm slices; however the SNR0 of the CBCT improved 50% by increasing the dose delivered by a factor of 2.
- Increasing the number of projections of the CBCT increased the air-to-bone contrast (420 projections resulted in contrast approaching that of helical CT)
- The use of a 10:1 scatter rejection grid reduced the cupping artifact.
- Using a 2.5 cGy entrance dose on a head scan, the CBCT could visualize a 2 mm hole in a 0.4 mm disk, whereas the helical CT could only visualize a 4 mm disk.
- Likewise, using a 2.5 cGy entrance dose on a body scan, the CBCT visualized a 5 mm hole in a 0.8 mm disk, while this could not be seen on a helical CT.
- CBCT is feasible for image-guided radiosurgery using bony structures.
- Adjustments in the irradiation parameters can produce high quality images even in thicker body regions with acceptable patient doses.
- Clinical CBCT imaging studies are needed.
The emerging technology of CBCT has a very high potential of impacting patient care. The addition of CT quality imaging to kilovoltage machines and megavoltage treatment machines would allow physicians to image patient anatomy in greater detail than ever before. This current study demonstrates that proper variation in irradiation parameters can produce images that are nearly equivalent to, and in some cases superior to helical CT images while delivering acceptable doses of radiation to the patient. The doses delivered to the patient in this study are comparable to the doses received by the patient from weekly port films. There are currently several clinical studies of CBCT that are ongoing which may demostrate the clinical utility of this technology.
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Collegiate Alcohol Drink Sizes
Researchers at Duke University asked college undergraduates about their alcohol consumption. The students were then asked to pour water into cups in quantities they thought equaled one beer, one shot of whiskey, and the amount of alcohol beverage served in a mixed drink.
The more drinks the students reported consuming during the previous two weeks, the more accurate they were in gauging the proper amount of alcohol to be poured.
- Morin, R. Unconventional wisdom. Washington Post, B5, 11-23-03.
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The November art auctions began with spirited bidding Tuesday night at Christie's in a sale of contemporary art that established records for the works of 26 artists and unexpectedly high prices for those of many others.
The most expensive painting at the sale was Francis Bacon's ''Study for a Pope,'' a blur of purple against a black ground from 1955, which was sold for $5.7 million, five times Christie's presale estimate, to Jean Aberbach, a Madison Avenue dealer.
''Bacon is an artist I have collected for years,'' Mr. Aberbach said. ''At the time of the Guggenheim Museum's Bacon show in 1963, my brother and I had the largest number of his works in the exhibition - at least eight or nine.''
Christopher Burge, Christie's president and chief auctioneer in the United States, said he was elated with the results of the sale, in which 93 of the 101 artworks offered were sold for a total of $62.4 million, which was $7.6 million above Christie's most optimistic expectations.
''It was an exciting sale - snap, crackle and pop all the way,'' he said. ''The buying was well balanced - a lot of Americans and Europeans and some Japanese.'' Artist Is Concerned
But George Segal was troubled as well as surprised when told that two of his sculptures eclipsed the previous record of $242,000 for a Segal work. His ''Woman Standing in a Bathtub'' from 1963 brought $330,000 and ''Subway'' from 1968 was sold for $528,000.
''I'm astounded,'' he said by telephone from his New Jersey home. ''Everybody with good stuff for whatever private reasons wants to sell. There is no tax incentive for bettering the community cultural good by giving art to museums. This way it becomes a competition for private acquisition.''
Roy Lichtenstein's ''Torpedo . . . Los!,'' a comic-strip image of sea warfare from 1963, brought the second highest price of the night - $5.5 million, a record price for a work by the artist. The buyer was Thomas Ammann, a Zurich dealer who also bought Mark Rothko's ''White Over Red'' from 1956 for $2.75 million.
''The good pieces brought very strong prices,'' Mr. Ammann said. ''But people start to be a little bit more selective. They are not just snapping up everything anymore.''
Jeffrey Deitch, a New York art dealer, bought several paintings. ''The work I was most delighted to buy was the Dubuffet,'' Mr. Deitch said.
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With a little help from my more categorically inclined friends, I talked through some of the ideas in the recent paper by Chris Heunen and Bart Jacobs.
One way of describing a monad is as a monoidal structure in the category of endofunctors . The unit of the monoid is of course the return; the binary operation is the join.
Now you can wonder whether there is a similar description of arrows. Quite interestingly, arrows can be described as monoids in the category . Here the category has to be cartesian closed and the functors have to be suitably strong, costrong, and internally strong. The arrow operation on objects extends naturally to a functor, very similar to the definition of hom-functors.
So what should the monoidal structure consist of? In the case of monads, we had a fairly canonical choice: the identity endofunctor and composition of endofunctors. As we now have bifunctors, we need to do a bit more work. Fortunately, the arrow operations give us some kind of clue. It turns out that the unit of the monoid consists of the arr operation taking exponential objects to arrows. To use arrow composition we need to construct a large coproduct and take a suitable coequalizer – which Neil pointed out was a coend.
The discussion then diverged into possible generalisations of arrows and enriched categories.
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Today would have been Greta Garbo's 100th birthday if she was still alive. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden as Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, the youngest of three children. Her father's death when she was 14 and a none too good relationship with her mother required her to find work at an early age. She was first a lather girl in a barbershop, then a department store clerk. It was her job at the department store that led to her career in movies. While there she appeared as a model in their newspaper ads and in a commercial short for the store. This led to appearances in a comedy short and the movie A Happy Knight.
By this time Garbo considered herself an actress. She studied at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm from 1922 to 1924. While there she met director Mauritz Stiller. Stiller gave her the stage name "Greta Garbo" and gave Garbo her first big break--a role in the film Gosta Berlings Saga. In 1925 Stiller signed a contract with MGM. Among his conditions was that Garbo also be signed to a contract. Unfortunately, Stiller's career in Hollywood was brief. He was eventuallyfired by MGM. This was quite a different matter for Garbo. She became one of Hollywood's biggest leading ladies.
Garbo's first American film was The Torrent in 1926. She went onto make some of the most successful films of the silent era, including Flesh and the Devil and The Temptress. Garbo was one of the actors to make the transition to film, despite the fact that she had a husky voice with a thick Swedish accent. If anything, she became an even bigger star with the advent of sound than she had been during the silent era. She starred in such movies asGrand Hotel, Quenn Christina, Anna Karenina, and Ninotchka.
Despite Garbo's success as an actress, she remained a very private person. She very rarely gave interviews and almost never attended premieres. She never signed autographs or answered fan mail. When shooting was taking place with Garbo, the sets were always closed to visitors. Her line from Grand Hotel, "I want to be let alone," abbreviated to "I want to be alone," became her catchphrase for more reasons than the fact that it was a good line.
Garbo's success was not simply starring in movies that did well at the box office, but in Oscar nominations as well. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actres for Anna Christie (1930), Romance (1930 movie) (1930)), Camille (movie) (1937) and Ninotchka (1939). Despite this success, it seems that Garbo's life as an actress was not a particularly happy one. Her well publicised romance with John Gilbert ultimately failed, as did his career. From 1932 to 1934 she had a contract dispute with MGM which kept her out of movies for two years. As time passed Garbo apparently became choosier about her roles, appearing in movies less and less frequently. She turned down the starring role in Dark Victory to do Anna Karenina instead.
In 1941, two years after she'd appeared in Ninotchka, Garbo appeared in her last film, Two Faced Woman. At that point Garbo more or less retired from film, taking no parts in any movies offered her. In 1949 she did a screen test, but nothing came of it. Thre were rumours that she would appear in an adaptation of Remembrance of Things Past, but nothing came of that either.
Garbo lived the rest of her life as a private citizen. At times she would socialise with other celebrities, although as time passed she ceased to do this as often. She lived her last several years as a recluse. She died in April 1990 at the age of 84.
Garbo starred in some of the most successful movies of all time. To this day such films as Grand Hotel, Queen Christina, and Camille are still shown on television and in art houses. And while Hollywood treated her as one of its most glamourous stars, she was a serious actress. When she played the role of Queen Christina of Sweden, she insisted on looking as much like the queen as possible, even though it meant that she would look less glamourous doing so. Unfortunately, it seems to me that Garbo's career was largely eclipsed by her mystique. As an actress who fiercely guarded her privacy during her career and entered private life at a relatively young age afterwards, Garbo became an icon known for her life of seclusion. Even into her eighties she was still a target for the papparazzi of New York City. While today Garbo may be best known for her life as a recluse, it seems to me that she should also be remembered for her film career as one of the best actresses of her era, having made a number of classic films.
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I don't mean missing Fajr prayer, or back-biting. These are clearly bad.
No, I mean the things that you habitually do, that you maybe know might, perhaps, just maaaaybe wrong. but your mind somehow makes okay.
The litmus test: the month of Ramadan.
If you feel truly uneasy doing this deed in Ramadan, it's most likely a sin.
If you have the self-control to give it up completely, Masha'Allah, it's 99.9999% likely a sin, or at the very least, a waste of your precious time.
So, really, let's reflect on that for a moment. If the above is true, then we should ideally never resume committing those doubtful acts after Ramadan, right? I mean, what's a sin in Ramadan, is still a sin on Eid day, and onwards still.
If gold, and diamonds, and oyster pearls are precious by their rarity alone, then it is clear that every moment we exist, every breath we inhale, then exhale after that, is pure gold dust, if only because they are all rarer than the rarest gemstones; never to be seen again, until the day that our deeds are played back to us on the ultimate cinematic, widescreen, surround sound, ultra high def experience of Yaum al-Qiyamah(The Day of Judgement).
So what makes those acts that seem wasteful in Ramadan, suddenly become a good use of our time after the month has swiftly past through our fingers?
What validation do we put forth for our thinly veiled hypocrisy?
Weakness? Perhaps. We are made weak. But still. We have a month to train hard. To build up our spiritual muscles. Yes, you can get that emaan six-pack you always wanted - and in just THIRTY DAYS, insha'Allah!
So, take another look at that mental list you wrote; the one titled, "What I plan to give up during Ramadan", and ask yourself: "If I can last 30 days without it. and with it, my Ramadan is tainted then is it really that important to me? And do I really want it back in my life ever again?".
The Messenger of Allah Muhammad(peace be upon him)said: "Righteousness is good character, and sin is that which wavers in your heart and which you do not want people to know about." [Muslim]
The Messenger of Allah, sallallahu 'alayhi wasallam, said to his Companion: "You have come to ask about righteousness ?" "Yes," I answered. He said: "Consult your heart. Righteousness is that about which the soul feels tranquil and the heart feels tranquil, and sin is what creates restlessness in the soul and moves to and fro in the breast, even though people give you their opinion (in your favour) and continue to do so." [A good hadith transmitted from the Musnads of the two Imams, Ahmad bin Hanbal and Al-Darimi]
May Allah guide us to the true answer to those questions, and make it easy for us all to do the right thing.! Ameen
Lets make a firm and sincere decision to give up each and every one of those sinful or non-beneficial habits. During this month of Ramadan there are tons of moments when duas are accepted so lets not miss out on this opportunity! Lets ask Allah to assist us in leading a true,pure and noble life according to Allah's commandments and the Sunnah practice of our beloved Prophet Muhammad [peace be upon him] which will truly help us not only in this world but also in the life after death! Ameen
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Len Burman, Contributor
I’m a professor at Syracuse U. and focus on tax and budget policy.
The news that Mitt Romney earns most of his income in the form of capital gains is really no surprise. That is one of the attractions of being in a business like Bain Capital. If your corporate restructuring works out well, you can earn millions or tens of millions of dollars and pay a flat 15 percent tax rate on it. (You also avoid the 2.9 percent Medicare tax that would apply if the income were treated as regular compensation.) By all accounts, the Bain deals worked out very well indeed, which is why Governor Romney has been able to spend so much time running for office rather than working for a living.
The teachable moment has stimulated a lively debate about whether this is fair and whether lower capital gains tax rates are good or bad for the economy. To many conservatives, it’s a matter of faith that the tax rate on capital gains should be lower than ordinary rates, or even zero. They believe that lower tax rates encourage risk-taking and entrepreneurship, offset the double taxation of corporate profits (since they’re taxed at both the corporate and individual level), offset the double taxation of savings, and provide a rough adjustment for the fact that part of capital gains are simply inflation. Moreover, they argue that taxing capital gains at higher rates would be counter-productive because people would just stop selling assets with gains and Treasury revenues would fall.
Most of these rationales for low taxes on people like Mitt Romney are wrong or overstated, and they miss a key point: taxing capital gains at much lower rates than other income creates a ginormous loophole that leads to a tremendous amount of inefficient tax shelter activity. Virtually every individual income tax shelter is devoted to converting fully taxed income into capital gains. If you can transform $10 million of wages into gains, you can save over $2 million. With that kind of payoff, there is a whole industry devoted to inventing schemes to generate current deductions to shelter the wages and ultimately recoup it years later as lightly taxed gains. These shelter schemes entail inefficiency for at least two reasons. First, the investments that work in tax shelter plans are often very inefficient—the kinds of projects that would never attract capital in a rational world. Second, the people who put these schemes together are very intelligent and absent the capital gains windfall might actually do socially productive work like, say, producing American products that people around the world would like to buy.
And, of course, the low tax rates on capital gains make Mr. Romney’s line of work much more attractive than work that pays actual wages. (Yes, I know that some of Romney’s income at Bain would have been taxed at ordinary rates, but the lion’s share of compensation on private equity deals is taxed as capital gains, which is a very sweet deal.) It’s not clear why the tax code should subsidize hedge fund managers and private equity over other lines of work.
And then there’s the fact that gains are mostly earned by people like Mr. Romney—really rich. In 2010, the average person with income under $200,000 had a capital loss, not a gain. Only the top 10 percent had gains on average, and people earning over $1 million had $258 billion of the $261 billion of net gains reported on tax returns. That is 97% of the gains went to people earning over $1 million. In 2008, Janet Novack reports, the richest 400 taxpayers–income over $110 million–earned 13.1% of capital gains.
In normal years, capital gains are distributed a bit more widely, but the fact is that most people earning under $200,000 don’t have much wealth outside their house and retirement accounts and thus get little or no benefit from the generous tax break on capital gains. The vast majority of gains go to people with very high incomes.
If you’re interested in more about the capital gains debate, you might check my book, The Labyrinth of Capital Gains Tax Policy: A Guide for the Perplexed, out of the library. It was published in 1999 so doesn’t reflect the latest tax rates, but the analysis is right.
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Occupational Therapy Offers Hope to Growing Population of Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder
For most, special education services and accommodations stop after graduation
ST. LOUIS, MO—When occupational therapist Debora Davidson, PhD, OTR/L, first met 19-year-old Alex Gibson, he had hit a low point in his life. After an unsuccessful attempt at community college, Gibson, who has Asperger’s syndrome, was feeling as if his life had no meaning.
“I fell flat on my face,” Alex said. ”I failed terribly and I was reluctant to bring it forward to my family because I was embarrassed.”
Alex said that when he graduated from high school, he was told about access programs to help him succeed in college, but said that he never took advantage of them. That, combined with taking an English-heavy course load—he’s a math guy—caused him to leave college.
“He said to me, ‘Nothing I do is worthwhile,’” noted Davidson, owner of Bright Futures: Personalized Transition Consulting, adding that Alex’s reaction to leaving college is common among students with and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). “There is a very sizable subset of young adults who do not make it in college. After they drop out, they stay home and watch too much daytime TV, they eat too much, they sleep too much and their lives become small and boring. Parents have to cut back hours at work to keep their young adult children motivated, and supervised; this makes the young adults feel insecure about what they can do, and upsets family systems.”
Davidson sprang to action and the two talked about creating more structure in Alex’s day–sleeping at night, staying up all day, and eating well. She even found him a part time job. The next steps were to get him into a vocationally oriented program. Together, the pair toured technical colleges and auto shops, and they talked with auto technicians about what they had to do to get those positions. “It was good for him to learn and interact with the shop guys,” Davidson said.
“My occupational therapist knew all the things that needed to be done. She knew the right questions to ask and who to get the information from,” Alex said. “I could not have gotten back on track without her.”
Just last week, the pair went to Ranken Technical College and registered Alex for classes. On his entrance exam, Alex had a perfect score on the reading portion, and he scored in the top tier of the math test which allows him to take a “hybrid” math course and skip some of the refresher classes.
“We stayed focused on my future and I’m feeling much more confident this time,” Alex said, adding that he has changed his gals and wants to complete college and instead work at a mid to large size business in the IT department, helping employees troubleshoot and set up server farms.
Alex’s struggle with transition is becoming more frequent as children with an ASD become young adults, graduate from high school, and continue to college or the workplace. According to the most recent research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network, about 1 in 88 children has been identified with an ASD.
“Parents are unsure of what is going to happen to their child with special needs after graduation from high school when the special education services and individualized education plans end. Davidson says. “For some, graduation from high school is like stepping off a cliff in terms of guidance and services Even if the student has had great transition planning in high school, someone needs to be there to help them take the next step.”
After 33 years working with school-age children and teaching in university programs, Davidson decided to start Bright Futures, an independent practice designed to bridge the gap in services to adults. Her clients range in age from 19 to 63 years. “While there are some excellent programs, these agencies cannot always meet the individual needs of clients who do not fit their models of service. Additionally, many programs have lengthy waiting lists, resulting in frustration and lost time. I just knew there had to be a better way to help these individuals lead fulfilling lives, so I wanted to try something new” Davidson said. “For many of these people, life has been disappointing so far and I want to help them get more out of life.”
The focus of occupational therapy is to help all people to identify and engage in activities that are personally valued, and that are key to being active and contributing members of their families and communities. In occupational therapy, the client is asked to help design the outcome goals, and the interventions to be used. Therapy often involves everyday activities that help the client to gain or regain skills and healthy habits of living.
More information on occupational therapy’s role in addressing autism spectrum disorders, fact sheets on ASDs, and tips for family members and other caregivers are available at www.aota.org/autism.
To interview Debora Davidson or Alex Gibson, contact AOTA Media Relations Manager Katie Riley at 301-652-6611, ext. 2963, or firstname.lastname@example.org. For more information about Bright Futures, visit www.b-futures.com.
Founded in 1917, the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) represents the professional interests and concerns of more than 140,000 occupational therapists, assistants, and students nationwide. The Association educates the public and advances the profession of occupational therapy by providing resources, setting standards including accreditations, and serving as an advocate to improve health care. Based in Bethesda, Md., AOTA’s major programs and activities are directed toward promoting the professional development of its members and assuring consumer access to quality services so patients can maximize their individual potential. For more information, go to www.aota.org.
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What is General Liability Insurance?
It addresses accidents stemming from on-site mishaps, as well as any injuries or damages incurred as a result of using goods or services sold on-premises. In addition to the financial limits of the policy, it can be designed to cover supplemental payments for attorney fees, court costs and other expenses associated with a claim or the defense of a liability suit.
Your insurance agent can create a customized policy for you to include different types and amounts of coverage. The following coverage is often included in a general liability line:
Protection of your business’ property from:
Claims due to:
- Bodily injury
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You can learn more about general liability for businesses by speaking to one of our knowledgeable agents today…
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According to Chloe Albanesius of PCMag and Cameron Scott of IDG News, the move comes after a December 2011 audit by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner’s Office (DPC), which called upon Facebook to be more open about what happens to the information that users share on the social media website. However, Scott noted that privacy advocates are calling it “an inadequate attempt to quell privacy concerns” prior to the company’s forthcoming initial public offering (IPO).
“We’re adding more examples and detailed explanations to help you understand our policies,” Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan wrote in a statement Friday. “For example, we include additional tips, marked with a light bulb so you can find them easily. We’ve added new links to our Help Center. We created a new section explaining how we use ‘cookies’ and similar technologies and updated the corresponding explanations about cookies in our Help Center. We also provide more information about how we use data to operate Facebook, to advertise, and to promote safety and security for Facebook users.”
There may be more to these changes than meets the eye, however.
On Saturday, Reuters reported that the policy changes “could broaden the reach of its advertising business through other websites… The operator of the world’s biggest online social network has at no point said it planned to sell advertising on other Internet sites, but the policy changes would further expand its ability to do so.”
Likewise, the Associated Press (AP) said said that the updates, which come about a week prior to their IPO — which could be valued for nearly $100 million — could be a signal that the social media giant “may start showing people ads on sites other than Facebook, targeting the pitches to interests and hobbies that users express on Facebook.”
“Facebook also changed the language about how long it will retain user data. Such information from advertisers will now be kept for 180 days, and Facebook will retain all types of data for ‘as long as necessary,’” Reuters said. “Exceptions to the 180-day policy may include, for example, a Facebook page created by an advertiser that showcases certain user information, Egan said. The company will offer a detailed chart of all the types of data it retains about its users at some point ‘down the road,’ she added.
Facebook attracted the DPC’s attention last year following a controversy in June regarding facial-recognition technology used by the social network for easy tagging of photographs, Albanesius said. The technology, which can recognize similar faces when pictures are being uploaded en masse, was introduced with little warning last year, raising security concerns among privacy advocates, she added.
The newest changes are drawing similar concerns, especially in light of the forthcoming IPO.
“Facebook can’t possibly protect the privacy of its users and grow as publicly traded company. It’s going to be increasingly difficult for them to grow their business significantly without collecting and monetizing more of its data,” Center for Digital Democracy Executive Director Jeffrey Chester told Scott.
“Their financial success really requires them to collect more usable personal information and make that information available and accessible to advertisers. We expect that more private information about users is going to be disclosed,” added Abine attorney and privacy expert Sarah Downey.
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Japan has accused a Chinese warship of pointing missile radars at its military targets. This takes the already tense feud between the two Asian powers to another level.
Japan's Defense Minister, Itsunori Onodera, lodged a formal complaint today (February 5). He said the Chinese fleet carrying out naval drills in the East China Sea made aggressive moves near the disputed Senkaku, or Diaoyu Islands.
The incident occurred on January 30. The Chinese regime has been conducting training drills it asserts are part of normal training. But, Japan says a Chinese navy frigate directed its fire-control radar at a Japanese destroyer.
Onodera also spoke of a similar, previously undisclosed incident. On January 19th, a Chinese frigate also targeted a Japanese military helicopter. In both incidents, the Chinese aggressor eventually turned off the radar without firing.
Tensions between the two nations have been building since the Japanese government purchased the islands from their private Japanese owner. Last month, the Chinese military received an official directive to being preparing for war.
Although no military clash has happened, both sides have scrambled fighter jets and fears are growing that an armed conflict could accidentally, or intentionally, get sparked.
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|Faith Strengthened||Chapter 3||Part 2|
Matthew 1 concludes with these words concerning Joseph, the husband of Mary; "And [he] knew her not until she had brought forth her first-born son, and he called his name Jesus." The wording of this passage shows, in the first place, that after she had brought forth "Her first-born son" Joseph did "know her;" and secondly, the appellation of Jesus the "first-born son," proves that the same mother bore more children than one, otherwise the term first-born could not be applicable. This harmonizes well with Matthew 13:55, where Jesus, "the carpenter’s son," is mentioned together with his brothers "James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas." This passage is an incontrovertible contradiction of the opinion of those who consider Mary to have been a virgin before and after she had given birth to Jesus.
It is also a striking fact that the name Emmanuel was not given to Jesus by the virgin. Nor do we find that the Emmanuel mentioned in Isaiah was ever to be considered the Messiah.
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