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Back to Classroom-tested Lesson Plans and Handouts
British cruisers have been
in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the
great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons
sailing under it, not in the exercise of a belligerent right
founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal
prerogative over British subjects....Under pretended blockades,
without the presence of an adequate force and sometimes without
the practicability of applying one, our commerce has been plundered
in every sea, the great staples of our country have been cut
off from their legitimate markets, and a destructive blow aimed
at our agricultural and maritime interests....
In reviewing the conduct of
Great Britain toward the United States our attention is necessarily
drawn to the warfare just renewed by the savages on one of our
extensive frontiers--a warfare which is known to spare neither
age nor sex and to be distinguished by features peculiarly shocking
President Madison's war message,
First. Representatives and
direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which
may be included within this union, according to their respective
numbers of free persons....
Second. No new state shall
be admitted into the Union...without the concurrence of two thirds
of both houses.
Third. Congress shall not have
power to lay any embargo on the ships or vessels of the citizens
of the United States...for more than sixty days.
Fifth. Congress shall not make
or declare war...without concurrence of two thirds of both houses....
Seventh. The same person shall
not be elected president of the United States a second time;
nor shall the president be elected form the same state two terms
1. Why did
the United States declare war on Great Britain in 1812?
2. Why did New England
Federalists oppose the war? What revisions did they seek in
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On the Murder Trail: How staff are finding original ways to improve themselves and enhance the way students learn
When students at North Warwickshire and Hinckley College recently turned up for class, they got more than they bargained for – the sight of a severed head (happily, not a real one) in the bushes. As if that wasn't enough drama for one day, they watched in amazement as tutors ran around panicking that the crime-scene investigation team wasn't available. There was only one solution, they said: the students would have to do the investigation themselves. "It wasn't like the recent case of a pretend shooting in a school, where students thought it was real," assures lecturer Paul Barlow. "We set the scene as being fictional from the outset, with things such as film-style music in the background."
Next, the students received five-minute lessons in skills ranging from lateral thinking to how to negotiate a crime scene and, armed with the theory, were left to apply it to solve the crime. "We set up an office, complete with actors, which we pretended was the workplace of the victim. We had other actors pretending to be witnesses to the crime, and then the students were put in groups where they were given the opportunity to do everything from forensics like finger-printing and footprint-checking to interrogating," says Barlow.
The result was astonishing. Low-ability students with a history of being disaffected by education were engaged, and demonstrated numerous skills, from self-directed learning to delegating to team-working – "functioning skills" that the Government has emphasised young people need. No wonder Barlow has run the project, now called Murder Trail, again and other colleges and universities have done so too.
Welcome to continuing professional development (CPD). Whereas CPD used to mean going along to a course, conference or workshop, often rife with surreptitious watch-checking, today's further education (FE) staff are finding increasingly original ways to develop themselves and ultimately improve the way students learn.
"Murder Trail started out as a new teaching theory developed by myself and a colleague," says Barlow. "The theory was that by taking students out of the traditional classrooms, that had turned them off learning, and expecting something completely different of them – but in a very structured way – we could immerse them back into the learning environment. These were students who we were warned had short attention spans, and yet they literally didn't leave college for two days out of choice. Although not a traditional form of professional development, it would be hard to argue that the Murder Trail project is anything else."
CPD has long been a major focus for further education. So when, in 2007, regulations were brought in requiring teachers, tutors and trainers working in the post-compulsory sector to register as a member of the professional body, the Institute for Learning (IFL), and to do a minimum of 30 hours CPD a year as part of that membership, no one was particularly surprised to find the overwhelming majority of members were exceeding that requirement almost immediately. The difference now, says Sue Colquhoun, CPD strategic adviser at the IFL, is that further education staff are increasingly realising just how many activities count as CPD and how useful it is. They're also being encouraged to plan and design their own development more than ever.
CPD examples often have a "wow" factor, such as that of Andrew McIntyre, an art teacher at Telford College of Arts and Technology, who appeared on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square as part of Antony Gormley's project. "It was life-changing," he says.
"I have been able to share my experience with a wide audience. I was filmed as part of the live stream on the internet, and I will incorporate this footage into my teaching. It is now part of my CPD."
Other examples are relatively simple. "Reading the education pages in a newspaper or having a useful conversation with a colleague can be a way of developing yourself," says Colquhoun. "You can picture the scene. A tutor comes into the staffroom complaining 'Oh that class was a disaster', and another tutor sits up to say: 'Have you tried X? I've found it works wonders.' 'D'you know, I'd never thought of that,' and so on. What we do is get tutors to record this – not as a paper-churning exercise, but because it forces them to think about not the CPD itself but what exactly they have got out of it and how they will apply it."
For some teaching staff, mentoring and coaching is a key part of CPD. For others, it's a get-together with same-subject teaching staff from other colleges. "It's not that we don't count traditional courses, workshops and events, but the emphasis is now on what they get out of it – how it has impacted on their work and how it's changed the way they do things. It's no longer good enough to go along to a conference and, when someone asks you what you actually learned, you look blank," says Colquhoun.
This is having a direct effect on students, believes Trevor Tolhurst, a science technician at Thanet College. Tolhurst, who has worked in FE for 18 months, is studying for a Diploma in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector. He thinks about the learning gained from his course with three hats on – as student, professional teacher and scientist – and this gives him a valuable perspective on impact for learners and how it feels to be on the receiving end.
Colquhoun says she hears comments such as this all the time. "CPD not only enhances the learning in that teacher's classroom, but it affects the whole culture of learning in the institution. In turn, that has an effect on things such as staff retention and staff absence. This all means greater success for students and ultimately the whole college. We had one tutor who taught across different colleges, but hadn't been teaching for long. She found her CPD so useful that, in her next observation, she was given a grade 1. That's an amazing achievement in such a short space of time."
There are benefits to the sector too. It promotes the professional status of teachers and trainers, building recognition of their value to learners and to the well-being of the UK. Moreover, it offers an influential collective voice for teachers and trainers through their own independent professional body, giving their opinions a central place in policy and decision-making.
For Heather Armstrong, deputy head of the sixth form and teacher of beauty therapy at Croydon College, it has been the wealth of opportunities that turned her into a big CPD fan. Indeed, not only is she enrolled on a Masters degree in a leadership course at the Institute of Education, but she recently did five days of industrial updating in a salon. "It is really important to develop both sides of my professional identity," she says.
Meanwhile, Barbara Lee, who teaches English as a second language, says her CPD – which consisted of research into how students' individual needs are met – says it has helped not only her but other tutors to consider things like the physical layout of the classroom, how well spaced out the desks are and how much is known about them as people, all of which she's proven to make a difference to their learning outcomes.
Employers have a critical role in enabling teaching staff to carry out their CPD, but, all too frequently, there is a lack of support at college level.
"Sometimes a college doesn't see CPD as their responsibility or as an issue at all, because things seem to be ticking along quite nicely already. This can be a huge barrier to members developing and sharing their CPD, but the existence of our organisation should mean that this will change," says Colquhoun.
An IFL review of CPD in 2008/09 also found that while the under-30 and the 30-to-44 age groups declared high levels of CPD, this was not always the case for other age groups – another area that needs addressing.
Nevertheless, there is an overwhelming view in the sector that things are going in the right direction – something that is critical when you consider that one of the ways further education stands apart from other educational institutions is that it often attracts students who are difficult to teach.
"That may well be because they've had a bad experience of school," says Colquhoun. "What this means for teaching staff is that thinking about how to reach them in new and creative ways could not be more important. It's the very reason that the Murder Trail is so successful."
Case Study: 'It has a massive effect on our job satisfaction and students' learning'
Andrea Slade teaches at Epping Forest College and has a dual role at Newham College.
"I teach students with learning difficulties and/or disabilities. We prepare them for both life and work. It was with this in mind that a colleague told me about a sharing day, run by a local project called Inclusive Communication Essex (ICE).
It was about finding ever-more inclusive forms of communication. They work with agencies ranging from social services to the NHS across Essex. I went as part of my CPD [continuing professional development] and I was so impressed with what I learned that I immediately embedded it into my work. I'm now coordinating inclusive communication for my whole department for two hours a week.
Among the tools I use is an 'object-of-reference bag'. One student who has no form of communication has traditionally found it impossible to use symbols or communication boards. But this bag has three balls – green for 'yes'; red for 'no'; and yellow for 'I don't understand'. He is able to use them to respond to questions directly.
Another example is a laminated shopping list. This consists of a laminated board with strips of Velcro. I made pictures of food, also with Velcro on, and the idea is for students to look at the recipe I'd created in visual format and they work out what ingredients they need to cook it. They stick the relevant symbols on to their board and take it to the shops to buy the food and then make the dish. It's all about being visual.
Another task I wanted the students to do more often was to make drinks for the rest of the group. They couldn't seem to work with a list so, again, I made up another laminated Velcro resource. Down one side of the board is everyone's photo and along the top are symbols of drinks. The student is able to ask each person what they want and to put a token on the board, then make up the drinks.
Perhaps the most useful concept I learned during the day was the communication passport – something I came back to college saying I wanted everyone to have. It's an A4 ring-bound book that is all about the person and their views and preferences, with an emphasis on communication. It says everything from 'I have problems understanding X' to 'The best way to ask me questions is X'.
Next, I got involved with the Molenet project, which focuses on mobile learning. As part of my CPD, I learned about how to get students using mobile technology, such as Flip camcorders to create photo albums, and I've got students to use the technology to transfer their communication passports to become computerised and therefore more accessible wherever they are.
I've just been nominated for a Beacon award for my approach to inclusive communication. It just goes to show how amazing CPD can be. You never stop learning, and although people in further education have always known that, now it's at the forefront of our minds all the time. Because we have to record what we've learned, it's something that's embedded into our everyday work and that has a massive effect not only on our job satisfaction but on students' learning."
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Darvaza is a small village located in the middle of the Kara-Kum desert in Turkmenistan, an ex-soviet republic. Close by, a place has been in flames for over three decades. Known by it inhabitants as 'the door to hell', it's a true flames exhibition. It all started when a team of geologists were drilling the region in search of natural gas.
At one point during the drilling the ground collapsed leaving a large gaping hole exposed: a cavern filled with natural gas. It was such a large hole, it ended up swallowing every piece of equipment around, as well as everything in its way. Unable to go inside it, because of its amazing size and depth and the fact that it was completely filled with gas, the group had the disastrous idea to set it on fire. Their aim was to keep the toxic gases from leaving the gigantic hole... They could hardly imagine the fire would never be extinguished again.
Some say the fire should last for another 250 years, others believe it's "ad eternum", but the fact is: no one actually knows the answer. No one knows if it would be possible, or even worth it, to try to use this amazing energy source either, but the truth is this flaming crater really does looks like a scary doorway to hell.
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Armand "Curly" Wright was born Armand Vincent Mancuso on June 5, 1886 in Palermo, Italy. He was the eldest of four sons born to Vincent Joseph Mancuso and Rosa Rao Mancuso. Vincent Joseph Mancuso was a chief civil engineer to the city and county of New York. Armand's grandfather shared Garibaldi's exile in New York where they lived in a basement apartment making candles to finance the revolution. Rosa Rao Mancuso was widowed when she was still very young. She was left with three young boys to raise. The oldest, Armand was approximately 10 years old. Rosa was a very fine dress designer and went to work for Nat Goldstone, a then unknown costumer to the theatrical trade. He had a very small shop in a loft with only two or three machines. It was through her designs that the firm prospered so, that when she retired, the firm occupied a 16 story building. Rosa was devoted to her church, which from then on took the place of the beloved husband she had lost. From a very early age Armand was addicted to the theater and constantly pestered his mother to help him get his "working papers." Finally when he was about 12 years old, she gave in to him, even though she had to skirt the truth as to his age, since children under 14 were not allowed to work at that time. Armand went to work as a card boy at the Keith-Albee offices, who booked the Orpheum Circuit. He came in contact with every vaudeville act of any importance in the business. This led to further whetting of his appetite for the glamour this business offered, and in a few short years he struck out on his own with an act that he called "A Miniature Musical Comedy" consisting of songs, dancing, and comedy. Armand was also a very talented writer. He not only wrote his own acts, but wrote many acts for other performers which he "rented" out for a percentage. One of the first to request a specially written act was Walter Winchell who, while under contract to Gus Edwards the producer of "The Little Red Schoolhouse" (an act featuring young teenagers, including Eddie Cantor, Lila Lee, George Jessel, Georgie Price, and Walter Winchell). Winchell had fallen in love with a young aspiring actress, Dorthy Green, and he wanted Armand to write him a special act for the young pair. Armand, knowing that Winchell was under contract, requested that Winchell bring him a release from his contract with Gus Edwards before he would touch pen to paper. Winchell lost no time and ran to Guss Edwards, who was more than glad to give him his release, as Winchell was anything but an actor. So with his new act in hand, Winchell and his young love started out with the act that Armand wrote for him titled "Puppy Love." Over the years, Armand changed many of his acts. In some acts, he worked with a female partner and in others a male partner. Some of his songs were "Song & Patter", some were acrobat dancing, and some were very graceful ballroom routines which were considered very "high class" and elegant with him dressed in formal "tails" and his partner in fabulous ball gowns. He was constantly besieged to "introduce" the new songs when they first came out since there was no television or radio at that time. This was the only way a new song was popularized especially when it could be introduced by a well known personality. As Armand perfected his craft, he attained the acme of any vaudevillian ambition - he played the Palace! - not once but many times. This was always looked forward to, because it afforded him the opportunity of visiting his family in New York, which, because of the fact that he was always on the road, he seldom was able to see, since the family was very large and he was away so much, he was almost a stranger, especially to the younger members. He used to rent a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria, and was always happy to entertain any of the family who came to visit him. All through the years, as he became more and more prominent, he was finally accorded the title of "Headliner" (top-star in vaudeville) playing the best theater houses over the country, usually on the Orpheum Circuit. He also became the first American star to present an act in London at the Palladium, and in the "Fobes Bergere" in Paris, France. In one of the earlier circuits, Walter Winchell was booked on the same card as Armand. Winchell was no actor, but he did have a nose for news, especially for the spicier tid-bits concerning the other members of the cast. He got many a punch in the nose for divulging many a little spicy item as he was always poking his nose in other people's business. Often Armand would tell him to get out of show business and to confine his "talents" to the more appropriate "gossip magazines." This later became his forte, at which he made a huge reporting on all the inside stories of whatever went on whether in show business, government, or in high society. At this particular time, Christmas found the cast playing a "split week" in a little town in Nebraska. (Christmas week in show business is considered the worst time of the year both for the performers and for the theater owner, because the audiences stay at home, while the performers find themselves usually far away from home, possibly stranded in some little known town in the midst of strangers.) The manager of the theater where they were performing, took pity on the troupe, and on Christmas Eve, he gave them a party of doughnuts and coffee, and then thoughtfully gave each performer a "gag" gift particularly apt for that person. Because Armand had a tremendous head of tightly curled hair, (which might be likened to today's "afro") his gift was an almost circular comb which was popular at the time, to hold his hair back. Because this act on the part of the theater owner was so appreciated by all the cast, Armand and Winchell decided to send a report of it to "The Billboard" (a theatrical publication), and signed it "W & W" for Wright and Winchell. The little item was so cleverly written, that the Billboard wrote back asking for more of the same material from W & W. Since Walter Winchell was the only one with the initials W. W., the manager took it for granted that the request should go to Winchell. And that is how Winchell got his start as the roving reporter for all of "America and all the ships at sea - let's go to press" which became his very famous by-line. Armand reached the peak of his career around 1915. One success followed another until the latter part of the decade when vaudeville was beginning to wane, as the new entertaining medium the "movies" was beginning to take the people's favor. Christmas week of 1921 found Armand in Los Angeles, even then it was the Mecca for all the movie hopefuls who flocked to Los Angeles in the hopes of being "discovered." In Los Angeles, Armand went to visit Joseph Schenck, at that time he was the head of the Goldwyn Studios, and also the husband of Norma Talmadge. Armand, having seen the handwriting on the wall regarding vaudeville, was so impressed with the great potential in this new medium, that right then and there he asked for Joseph Schenck to give him a job. Joe looked at him and laughed, saying "Are you crazy? How can I pay you anything like the salary you are now getting?" (Armand was getting top salary for the times, about $1700 a week, free and clear - no income tax etc.) Joe continued "This is a new industry, and we are hampered by insufficient financing, having to employ people that don't know any more about this business than the man on the street - and we know very little more-- we are all learning together." Then Armand said, (pointing to a man crossing one of the stages) "How much do you pay that man?" "Oh he's just a plain laborer to whom we pay $2.50 or $3.00 a day." Joe said. Armand quickly replied "Give me a job like that - it may be just labor, but I guarantee that I won't stay long at that level." Joe asked "Do you really mean it? -- You really would work for $3.00 a day?" "Try me." Armand said. Right then and there they shook hands, and Joeseph Schenck called the foreman of the labor crew, saying "I'm sending you a new man tomorrow, he is to get $3.00 a day, and make sure he earns his money." Armand was then told to report at 7 a.m. (the middle of the night to show people!), and sure enough, the next morning found Armand right on the dot in his new "costume" - - a pair of overalls! He was given a broom, as his new "tools of the trade", and assigned to clean a certain stage. A few days later, Joseph Schenck, still dubious, thought he would "look in" on his new employee, and found Armand hard at work carrying two buckets of plaster to one of the stages where a new set was being erected. Joe asked "How goes the job - - getting used to working?" Armand looked at him, and laughingly showed him his hands, (which previously had always been well kept and beautifully manicured) which were now callused and blistered. "How do you get used to this?" Armand asked Joe. "Put down those buckets and come into my office for a drink and I'll tell you about your new job." Joe told him. After downing their drink, Joe, sitting at his desk, while Armand in his dirty overalls, sitting in a very "plush" chair, heard Joe say, "Tomorrow you'd better come into my office, but not before ten o'clock a.m., and I'll tell you about your new assignment, mean while you can get rid of the overalls." The next morning Armand showed up at Joseph Schenck's office to be assigned to the job of "Assistant Director." This went well also, and soon he was made director of the lesser known or "second features." He also made the very first "Our Gang" talkie (talkies were the new thing then). This was made in New York in 1928. As a publicity stunt, he ran a number of contests in New York for this picture, and that is where "Farina" was discovered. Actually "Farina" were two twin brothers, who were used alternately in the film as one person. This was very profitable for the company, as they could use each one of the brothers the allowed number of hours, yet come out as one person. Later Armand was to try his hand at producing and directing his own stories. It was at Universal Studios that he produced and directed the "Harold Teen" comedy series with Arthur Lake who later was to become famous as "Dagwood Bumstead" in the Blondie comedies. It was here that he also directed Slim Summerville in a number of films. From here he went on to the RKO Studios as a writer under contract. He wrote a number of stories that were subsequently made into films. He wrote the "pilot" for a comedy series to feature himself and Henry Armetta, a bumbling Italian type whom he had befriended in New York where Henry worked as a barber in the exclusive Lambs Club. When the story for this pilot was finished, Henry showed it to his agent who strongly insisted that Henry have nothing to do with it, saying "Armand is experienced in show business, and if you ever get on a stage with him, it will kill you professionally." So the series died before it was ever born. It was in 1927 that Armand's mother passed away in New York and since he was in the middle of a picture, it was impossible for him to get away, so he sent instructions that she was to be placed temporarily in a vault until he finished the picture, when he would be able to come to New York. (This is when he made the "Our Gang" talkie) Armand's mother's estate probate was quite lengthy and as he was only on a 30 day leave of absence from the studio, he had to wire and ask for another 30 day extension. The studio acceded to his request and granted him the extra 30 days. Then because he was obviously enjoying the renewal of relations with his relatives, he again asked the studio for another 30 day extension. This was denied and the studio informed him that if he did not return to the studio, his contract would be canceled. For some reason Armand continued on in New York and when he did return to Hollywood, his contract had indeed been canceled. This led to Armands decision to become an actor while continuing to do his writing on the side. One of his early pictures was "Lawyer Man" with William Powell of "Thin Man" fame. Another was "East of the River" with John Garfield and Marjorie Rambeau. Then followed a number of pictures, one of which was "Love & Hisses" with Walter Winchell who by now had become a very famous personage. It was while going for the interview for this picture that he met the girl whom he was to marry - - in 6 weeks! Her name was Marie Suzon Rodriguez. He swept her off her feet, even though he was much older than her, she didn't care. They married in 1936. They lived an average life after that with the exception that God had given them two beautiful children. The oldest, a daughter, Marie Suzon Wright (little Marie) and the younger a son, Armand Vincent Wright II, who they called "Vinnie" to differentiate from his father. Their life was very uneventful with the exception of the birth of the children and the trip we made to New York in the spring of 1946, this was the one shining memory which remained with them the rest of their lives. They traveled to New York so that they could meet the family and the family could get to know Armands new family. It was a very leisurely trip. They had planned to be in New York at Easter time to stay with Uncle Tom, as he always made a big celebration of Easter. They started their trip driving by the southern route, taking in all the historical and famous landmarks such as the "Fountain of Youth" in Florida, the first schoolhouse in America, in St Augustine, and the "French Market" in Louisiana. The family arrived in Daytona Beach on Palm Sunday where Joseph Vallone, (Armand's cousin) and his wife Julia greeted them with open arms. They insisted that they spend a little time with them, since Uncle Tom had so many of the family nearby, while they had no one in Florida. They both made the short stay very memorable, and regretfully Armand and Marie had to leave in time to be in New York by Easter. When they arrived at Uncle Tom's house, the whole family gave them a royal welcome. They remained with Uncle Tom until July 5, 1946. The trip was so enjoyable that it became the highlight of their lives, with memories of the welcome and the love that was showered on Armand, Marie and the children. Some of the pictures that Armand made since he and Marie Suzon were married: in 1938- "Panamints Bad Man" - (played the part of Nicola), 1940-"The House Across the Bay" with George Raft and Joan Bennett (played the part of a barber), 1941-"Raiders of the Desert" (played the part of a waiter), 1942-"To Be or Not To Be" with Carole Lombard and Jack Benny (played the part of the makeup man), and 1943-"She Has What it Takes" (played the part of Tony). He also did a picture with Groucho Marx and Carmen Miranda called "Copacabana." Armand had a number of wives before Marie Suzon Rodriguez. They were all beautiful and most of them were his dancing partners. He used to say that it was cheaper to marry them than to carry them. By "carrying" he meant supplying a personal maid, paying for separate hotel accommodations and the expense of separate baggage, etc. Ironically Armand's first wife was named Marie, and his last wife was also named Marie. And strangely enough, even their middle initials were the same. His first wife's name was Marie Sabott Wright and his last wife was Marie Suzon Wright. The names of his other wives, that the family can remember were, Ruby Earle, Patricia Fox, and Jane Parmater. Armand's last wife, Marie Suzon Wright said "For the first 25 years of our marriage, I was under the impression that I was his 6th wife - - it was after 25 years that I learned that I was not wife number 6, but wife number 7!"
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Why Are *We* The Good Guys?
By David Cromwell at Oct 26, 2012
Reclaiming Your Mind From The Delusions Of Propaganda
By David Cromwell
Published by Zero Books, 2012
What’s the book about?
We learn from a young age to conform to societal norms, to be a ‘responsible’ citizen and not to express views that are ‘extreme’. One of the unspoken assumptions of the Western world, at least among influential commentators, is that ‘we’ are great defenders of human rights, a free press and the benefits of market economics. Mistakes might be made along the way, perhaps even awful errors of judgement, such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq. But the prevailing view is that ‘we’ are essentially well-meaning, even benign. Certainly that’s what politicians, business leaders and the media would have us believe.
‘Why Are We The Good Guys?’ is a provocative exploration of this cardinal rule of Western life; an ideology that is rarely discussed, far less challenged. The book digs beneath standard mainstream accounts of crucial issues including foreign policy, poverty, climate change and the constant struggle between state-corporate power and genuine democracy. The analysis is leavened by accounts of some of the formative experiences that led me to question the basic myth of Western benevolence: from schoolroom experiments in democracy, exposure to radical ideas at home, and a mercy mission at sea; to an unexpected encounter with former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, the struggles to publish hard-hitting journalism, and the founding of Media Lens in 2001.
Tell us something about yourself
I work fulltime as an editor of Media Lens (www.medialens.org), a media analysis website which encourages the public to challenge media deceptions, distortions and omissions. In 1999, I had met the writer David Edwards when I was working on my first book, Private Planet. It was David’s idea that there should be something in the UK like the US-based Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting. He suggested ‘Media Lens’ with a strapline of ‘correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media’. In July 2001, we started issuing regular media alerts to a small band of family and friends. Media Lens received the 2007 Gandhi Foundation International Peace Award. Before I went fulltime on Media Lens in September 2010, I wasalso a researcher in ocean circulation and climate at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.
I was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1962 and I have a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Glasgow. I was then a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. From 1989-1993, I worked in the Netherlands as an exploration geophysicist for Shell International. I returned to the UK at the end of 1993 and now live in Southampton with my partner, two boys and two cats. In 2002, together with Southampton University colleague Mark Levene, I also co-founded the Crisis Forum (www.crisis-forum.org.uk) which brings together activists and academics to address the root causes of global crisis in the 21st century.
Why should I read your new book?
Every year sees the publication of yet more factual and polemical books written from a progressive, environmentalist or leftist perspective. Of course, arguably there should be even more. But very few such books seek to integrate the author’s personal development and evolution of ideas with the copious factual material presented. My own experience, especially with Media Lens, is that readers love to discover what motivates activists, writers and campaigners; or simply other people in any walk of life. Going beyond factual analysis to share one’s experience and development is a vital, but often overlooked, way to overcome many people’s feelings of ennui, frustration and sense of being disconnected from each other. We need to combine rationality and emotion, vision and spirituality, if we are to empower ourselves and challenge the powerful, selfish forces that are driving humanity towards the edge of the abyss.
Can you tell me more about the book, chapter by chapter?
If you insist:
1. The Golden Rule of State Violence
Classrooms, Communists and Cumbernauld: Formative experiences of growing up in a Scottish family with both Catholic and left-wing influences. Questioning the traditional narrative of what happened in Northern Ireland, and what is happening today in the Middle East. An account of a young mind slowly being opened to question, ‘Why are we the good guys?’
2. Shoring up the Edifice of Benign Power
How letter writing, green activism and encountering media unwillingness to challenge authority led to the setting up of Media Lens with David Edwards. The media’s ‘unreporting of Iraq’ – of UN sanctions that led to the deaths of 500,000 young children, and lack of scrutiny of WMD claims – is a prime, if appalling example, of complicity in Western crimes against humanity. Account of an unexpected encounter at Heathrow Airport with Robin Cook, then Foreign Secretary. The astounding failure of BBC News.
3. How To Cover Your Tracks After Promoting War
Although there were limited apologies proffered by US media for their failures to hold the US government to account over Iraq war propaganda, the British media carried on regardless. I highlight some of their grievous omissions and deceptions, and how a number of them responded to challenges about their failures: ITN, Independent, Independent on Sunday, Observer and, yes - once again - the BBC. The evidence suggests strongly that the function of the mainstream media, with the BBC as a prime culprit, is to lure media consumers into supporting the position of state-corporate power. Coverage of Iraq has been, and remains, a prominent and blatant example, but the pattern is long-standing and systemic.
4. Promoting Public Ignorance
An age-old conundrum for leaders everywhere is how to keep those who are governed away from the levers of power. A central strategy is the promotion of fear and ignorance in the state’s pursuit of geopolitical control and world resources. We are to believe that the global ‘war on terror’ has something to do with introducing ‘democracy’ to Afghanistan and Iraq. This fits a historical pattern that dates at least back to the founding of the United States of America. Public ignorance of the real intentions behind attacks on Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq, or simple dismissal of sceptical public opinion, has been a constant feature of Western statecraft. I present relevant and revealing exchanges with the media: the Independent, Guardian and the BBC.
5. Global Climate Crime
My early interest in climate change was sparked by keeping scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings as a youngster in the 1970s. By the 1980s, I was studying physics and astronomy, and was then exposed to the climate debate while living in the United States during the pivotal year of 1988. Ironically, perhaps, I then left academia to work for a fossil fuel giant: Shell. Meanwhile, the evidence for human-induced climate change continued to mount. I left Shell to return to the UK and work on a tiny part of the climate puzzle at the National Oceanography Centre. In the wake of repeated failures of UN climate summits, there are many vital issues to address; not least, the inability of the media to hold power to account.
6. Power’s Assault on Democracy
The rise of corporate power has been attained by pushing back the democratic aspirations of the people, with the active and vigorous collusion of elected governments. Corporations proclaim their good intentions and their supposed environmental credentials so successfully that even green and social-justice groups like Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the Green Alliance have been co-opted and emasculated. I tackle head-on the evasive argument that ‘Good people work for corporations too!’, showing how that does nothing to address, far less, cure the fundamentally psychopathic nature of the corporation. Massive ‘defence’ spending while the tragedy of child poverty continues is a genuine scandal. Finally, I look at public attitudes to power in society, including media power, and show how far apart are public opinion and government policies.
7. Endless Echoes
The threat of nuclear war remains very much with us today. But, to date, it is only the United States who has ever dropped the atomic bomb ‘in anger’. But what about the conventional argument that the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan did, nonetheless, bring about the end of the war? On the basis of recent work by scholars in the field, several of whom I contacted, I conclude that the argument is fundamentally flawed, and that it was boosted as part of a propaganda offensive. What really matters is the moral argument that there can be no justification for the use, or threatened use, of nuclear arms.
8. The Madness of the Global Economy
Watching the corporate media report the global financial crisis is instructive. From the perspective of power, it is important that a steadying hand is applied to the tiller of news and commentary on the crisis, as well as the global economy itself. I examine the root causes of ‘boom and bust’; critically appraise official fraud and propaganda; and I examine the reality of the neoliberal nightmare. I challenge theIndependent’s Hamish McRae and Martin Wolf of the Financial Times, with eye-opening results. With the help of experts I contacted, I expose the latest ‘success stories’ of capitalism: India and China.
9. Beyond Indifference
The previous chapters have highlighted the myth of Western benevolence, exposing many of the real motivations behind imperialistic state priorities and rapacious corporate behaviour; all the while with a complicit mass media in tow. In the light of such desperate reality, how can we overcome the ‘indifference threshold’ and remain optimistic and capable of constructive action? In this chapter I touch on some relevant philosophy and psychology, from both the West and the East, to try to light up a path that might lead us to a safer future: Colin Wilson, Sartre, Heidegger, Dostoyevsky, Marcus Aurelius, Shantideva and other Buddhist sages. I include a short account of being rescued from a research ship in the North Atlantic and how that led to a realisation of ‘authentic existence’.
10. Freedom At Last?
Early encouragement from my father sparked an enthusiasm for learning that took me to Glasgow University. But what shapes the priorities of academia today? Do we remain silent and obedient, or can we tackle problems that have the potential to challenge the status quo and lead humanity away from the abyss? I look at research that dispels the concept of human beings as ‘killer apes’. Although predatory urges are part of humanity’s makeup, so too are cooperation, empathy and love. A major finding in neuroscience in recent years is the extent to which our brains display advanced levels of neural plasticity. We are not forever hardwired for rigid modes of behaviour; we are not static slaves to our DNA. There is a remarkable degree to which we can change ingrained patterns of thought, intention and practice. A passionate and active commitment to the principle of nonviolence offers hope for the future. Perhaps we can yet attain true freedom.
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The author has coined the term “Anarcho-Theocracy” to describe his conception of the Biblical Form of Government. He is aware that the term, made up of two equally offensive concepts, is alarming. Nevertheless, it is an accurate term, as it combines the essential features of the system advocated by this thesis: the abolition of “the State” and the formation of a society that is self-consciously “under God.” Sometimes it is convenient to use the term of one’s opponents, as “capitalists” adopted a term coined by Karl Marx. In this case, we have coined our own term.
Anarchism – the abolition of “civil government” – is a scandal to most Christians. “Theocracy” is a term that frightens both atheists and Christians. It is the purpose of this Preface to get inside the author’s head in order to gain some understanding of the concept of “Anarcho-Theocracy,” and allay misunderstandings.
The author of this Thesis would be described as a “left-wing radical” because of the years he spent (nearly a decade) working with the homeless, illegal aliens, crusading against the death penalty and American military intervention abroad, in a House of Hospitality which is part of the Catholic Worker movement.
He would also be called a “right-wing extremist” because of his views about the inerrancy of the Bible and his conservative morality. The author is a Capitalist, a Calvinist, and a “Christian Reconstructionist.”
The author enjoys reading America’s Founding fathers, and wishes we could (as a start) return to the form of government that existed 200 years ago. America’s Founders would undoubtedly be crestfallen were they to travel through time into the 21st century to see how the political order they had sacrificed to create had endured. Were they to converse with the average worker, housewife, or college student about the Declaration of Independence, they would conclude that the vast majority of Americans had never read it, and could not talk intelligently about it. They would find that statisticians now keep track of the (rising) rates of sexually transmitted diseases among 13 and 14-year olds, who will be graduated from public schools as “functionally illiterate.” They would find that legal scholars frankly admit that the U.S. Constitution is a relic, and its Republican system of separation of powers long ago discarded in favor of an “Administrative State” which Madison, as he wrote in The Federalist, would have called “the very essence of tyranny.”
Few (if any) Signers of the Constitution disagreed with Benjamin Rush’s insistence that the Bible be used in common schools. Rush and the author of this Thesis would both be accused of “Bibliolatry” by liberals. This Thesis is grounded on the view that the Bible is the inerrant word of God, a textbook in history, geology, economics, and political science, as well as religion.
Further this Thesis presupposes the social and political philosophy of the “Christian Reconstructionists,” also called “Theonomy.” The author was personally tutored by R.J. Rushdoony, began writing for The Chalcedon Report before graduating from USC, and had a regular column in that periodical. He also has written for Gary North, and was personally tutored for ordination in the OPC by Greg L. Bahnsen. The author of this Thesis accepts the idea that the Bible is a “blueprint” for the Reconstruction of every area of human endeavor. The “anarchistic” paradigm advanced by this Thesis is roundly condemned by nearly all “Reconstructionists.” The influence of Reconstructionist scholars on this Thesis is nevertheless obvious.
The author’s commitment to “theocratic” politics is illustrated in his conflict with the California State Bar. The author believes that an oath is a self-maledictory promise made to and in the presence of God. After the Constitution was ratified, no atheist was permitted to take office or serve on a jury because an atheist could not take an oath, seeing he rejected the existence of the God to Whom all oaths are made. Although diluted in subsequent years, it was not until 1961 that this theistic bias was ruled “unconstitutional” (Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488). Since that time, the oath has been demoted to “no more than an amenity,” and an instance of “ceremonial deism,” in stark contrast to earlier courts, such as an 1844 decision which declared that deism was a form of “infidelity.” Not wanting to take an oath which proclaimed him “unfaithful” to God, the author petitioned the State Bar after passing the California Bar Exam to permit a modification of the oath required for admittance to the Bar, adding the lines from the 1776 Delaware Constitution:
I, A.B., do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be given by divine inspiration.
That petition was rejected, showing that a Secular Humanist Theocracy has replaced the older Christian nation which the U.S. Supreme Court once declared America to be.
Theocracy is an inescapable concept. All law is a social expression of “ultimate concern,” the religious ideals of the culture. For Benjamin Rush and the Framers of the Constitution, America was a nation “under God.” Man is the new god, as incarnated in the State. This thesis argues for a more consistent Christian Theocracy, as against the now-crumbling (but increasingly-powerful) Humanist Theocracy.
And yet despite (or perhaps because of) his conservative leanings, the author proposes the complete abolition of the State.
The advocacy of “Anarcho-Theocracy” – an idea which is not only “politically incorrect” in the dominant left-leaning culture, but “heretical” among evangelical Christians – appears arrogant at best. Probably the reaction among conservatives must be very much like that of the Tories in 1776 who heard revolutionary patriots describe a nation without a king. “Anarcho-Theocracy” undoubtedly represents a change as momentous as that described by Benjamin Rush, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, upon hearing of Locke’s rejection of the doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings:
Never before had I heard the authority of kings called in question. I had been taught to consider them nearly as essential to political order as the sun is to the order of our solar system.
The “Lively Experiment” of America shows that new ideas are not necessarily bad ideas.
But “Anarcho-Theocracy” is not really a new idea. All of the premises that lead to our conclusion have been articulated many times throughout Church history. Many of those who have advocated these ideas have been forced underground, and have never been allowed to move from persecuted minority to mainstream. Those who have challenged the legitimacy of the State, or of Church-State unions, have been labeled “subversives,” “rebels,” and other terms which carry strong disapprobation, and have not been allowed freedom to propagate their ideas. Many of them have unfortunately been theological heretics. This thesis avoids those theological and Christological heresies
But in nearly all cases, whatever theological heresies they held, those who challenged the State did so from a foundation of virtue and Christlike ethics. They did not criticize the State because the State demanded and fostered godliness, but because the State fostered lawlessness and violence. The Anabaptists, as an example, were noted by their opponents as a people of exemplary personal conduct.
Water is purified as it travels underground, and when it comes to the surface as a spring, it brings refreshment.
This thesis is not rooted in hedonism or antinomianism. Our desire to abolish the State is motivated by the fact that (to adapt the words of Princeton professor A.A. Hodge in 1887) the State is
the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief, and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, individual, social and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen.
In particular, the State engages in more theft, murder, and kidnapping than any other group of people, including the criminals from which the State promises to protect us. The State is, without close competition, the greatest thief and mass murderer on the planet. The 20th century, marked by the final destruction of Christian localism and the rise of the secular State, has been the century of mass death on a scale unparalleled in human history.
Nothing in this thesis should be construed as a defense of lawlessness, chaos, or unchecked immorality.
The Westminster Shorter Catechism says man’s chief end is to Glorify God and enjoy Him forever. This thesis is written not just as an academic exercise, but as part of a larger task of setting down blueprints for a new system of social organization, which, when implemented, will bring greater glory to God and enjoyment of Him to all mankind.
When physician Benjamin Rush signed the Declaration of Independence, he had similar thoughts. Lawrence Cremin writes:
|For Rush, who was present in the Congress as a
representative of Pennsylvania, the events surrounding the creation of
the Republic marked nothing less than a turning
point in the course of human history. "I was animated
constantly," he reflected in later years, "by a belief that
I was acting for the benefit of the whole world, and of future ages, by
assisting in the formation of new means of political order and general
11. The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush, edited by George W. Corner (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1948), p.161.
More about the author will be discovered as he exposes his “presuppositions” following Tab 2.
To the surprise of no one, a search of 2,073,418,204 web pages through Google.com (11 January 2002) reveals that only the author of this Thesis is using the term “Anarcho-Theocracy.” Nearly 4,000 web pages mention “anarcho-capitalism,” and about one-tenth that number mention “anarcho-socialism.”
See Tab 32.
See Tab 5.
See Tab 3.
See Tab 4.
Reading the Founders has been made a joy by computer technology. The American Freedom Library CD-ROM contains a quarter of a million pages of historical documents, debates, and analysis, searchable in a second.
Quoted in A. Gulas, The American Administrative State: The New Leviathan, 28 Duquesne L Rev. 489, 490 (1990). (With Madison's warning ringing in his ears, Gulas nevertheless supports the "New Leviathan.") See also Peter B. McCutchen, Mistakes, Precedent, and the Rise of the Administrative State: Toward a Constitutional Theory of the Second Best, 80 Cornell L. Rev. 1 (1994). The great constitutional scholar E. S. Corwin was
told that Professor Powell of Harvard carefully warns his class in Constitutional Law each year against reading the Constitution, holding that to do so would be apt to “confuse their minds.” Certain it is that of the 6,000-odd words of the constitutional document, at least 39 out of every 40 are totally irrelevant to the vast majority, as well as to the most important, of the problems which the Court handles each term in the field of constitutional interpretation.
E. Corwin, Constitutional Revolution, Ltd., 13 (1941).
Benjamin Rush, A Defence of the Use of the Bible as a School Book, from an early collection of tracts published by the American Tract Society around 1830. American Tract Society - Box 462008 - Garland, TX 75046 – USA; online at http://www.biblebelievers.com/Bible_in_schools.html
See Tab 43.
See Tab 4.
Cole v. Richardson, 405 U.S. at 685, 92 S.Ct. at 1337; 31 L.Ed.2d 593 (1972).
County of Allegheny v ACLU, 492 U.S. 573, 602-603, 109 S.Ct. 3086, 106 L.Ed.2d 472, 500-501 (1989); Madalyn Murray O'Hair v. Blumenthal, 462 F.Supp 19 (W.D. Tex., 1978); Aranow v. U.S., 432 F.2d 242 (9th Cir. 1970).
Del. Const. art. 22 (adopted Sept. 20, 1776), 1 Del. Code Ann. 117 (Michie, 1975).
Holy Trinity Church v. United States, 143 U.S. 457, 12 S.Ct. 511, 36 L.Ed. 226 (1892). Theocracy is an inescapable concept. Every society has laws which are based on morality, which in turn are derived from religion. The two religious alternatives are Theonomy and Autonomy. The religion of autonomy is known today as “Secular Humanism.” See Tab 40. The “god” of this religion is man, usually as incarnated in “the State.”
Lawrence Cremin, American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876, NY: Harper & Row, 1980, p. 114-15.
Sidney E. Mead, The Lively Experiment: The Shaping Of Christianity In America, New York, Harper & Row, 1963.
For a survey of the earliest forms of civil and religious libertarianism, see John W. Kennedy, The Torch of the Testimony, Christian Books Publishing House, 1964.
Leonard Verduin, The Reformers and Their Stepchildren (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; 1964.
A.A. Hodge, Popular Lectures on Theological Themes, Phila: Presbyterian Board of Publications, 1887, p. 280, quoted in R.J. Rushdoony, The Messianic Character of American Education, Nutley, NJ: The Craig Press, 1963, p. 335. Hodge was referring to the government-run school. But all of government, as propagator of law, is an educator. See R. Lerner, “The Supreme Court as Republican Schoolmaster,” 1967 Sup. Ct. Rev. 127.
Tab 19
American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876, NY: Harper & Row, 1980, p. 114-15.
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Their leader in wind is Estonia, with 142MW of installed capacity. The country's government plans to add 200MW annually until 2013, then 400MW a year until 2020. But there has been a shortage in electricity transmission since the Soviet era, and this is jamming the pipeline.
Runner-up Lithuania, with 92MW installed, has abandoned plans for regional wind quotas. Meanwhile, uncertainties over market prices for wind power prices bode ill.
Even if new projects are proposed in third-place Latvia, with only 29MW, the grid can handle no more than 200MW more wind anyway (Windpower Monthly, March 2010).
Belgium's confidence in making its European 2020 target of 13% of all energy from renewables is shaky. It faces the difficult task of sharing the target between the regional governments of Wallonia, Flanders and Brussels and, for offshore renewables, the federal government.
Yet, renewable energy association Edora is hopeful. If aggressive steps are taken to speed expansion of the grid and facilitate project permitting, it foresees a scenario in which nearly 18% of energy is to be supplied by renewables in 2020. This assumes a high degree of energy efficiency.
A projected 3.5GW of onshore wind would produce 7.7TWh of electricity in 2020, while 2.8GW of offshore wind would generate 9.1TWh. Combined, that would represent 57% of total generation from renewables.
Greece says it will meet its European 2020 renewables target largely through electricity production rather than through cuts in transport or heating. Around 40% of electricity generation in 2020 will come from renewables. The target for wind is 8.5GW, around 60% of the overall target for renewables. The problem is how to convert these good intentions into reality.
Luxembourg says it will be unable to reach its 2020 European renewables goal through domestic action alone. The tiny, landlocked country must import 99% of total energy and more than two-thirds of electricity. With few renewables resources, it plans to rely on a mechanism under the European renewables directive for green energy from outside.
A 2007 study by Germany's Fraunhofer Institute and the Energy Economics Group of Vienna speculated that, at best, renewables would meet 8.2% of total energy supply and 9.8% of electricity in 2020. Wind would produce annual output of just 227GWh, compared to a projected 7.7TWh from onshore wind alone in neighbouring Belgium (Windpower Monthly, March 2009).
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Whilst the requirements for making a Will have become less stringent over time in almost all cases there are still certain requirements which must be met for a Will to be valid.
It must be:
- In writing signed by the testator or by some other person in his presence and by his direction;
- It must appear that the testator intended by his signature to give effect to the Will;
- The signature must be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time; and
- Each witness must either attest and sign the Will or acknowledge the signature in the presence of the testator but not necessarily in the presence of any other witness.
If any of these elements are not present or there is doubt then the Will may be challenged. However, there is a presumption of due execution which means that everything is to be presumed to have been done properly. Accordingly, the burden is strongly on those attempting to challenge the Will.
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Friday, May 3, 2013
Here are some family activities that you can do to foster environmentalism. Sponsored by Sony.
Very few events are celebrated around the globe, but Earth Day is. This year, it's come and gone. But we're here to ask: What can we do to show our love of the earth on that day and every day? On May 31, Sony will release After Earth, an action-packed movie that takes place 1,000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity to leave. It's the kind of scenario that makes you want to donate to Greenpeace, recycle everything and start biking everywhere—immediately. So, in honor of Earth Day, Patch has teamed up with Sony to present these ideas for making every day Earth Day. How can we make every day Earth Day? Begin with little things. Easy things. Obvious things. Things we take for granted each day and use and/or abuse because of our …
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Here's a list of some places to take items that should not be sent to landfills or placed at the curb.
Although Earth Day is officially April 22, it's not too early for residents of Regent Square and Forest Hills, Swissvale, Edgewood and Wilkinsburg boroughs to begin to look at ways to be more environmentally friendly. The following is a list of items, provided in part by the Allegheny County Health Department, that should not be in landfills and generally aren't collected through municipal recycling. Listed below those items are places at which those items can be disposed/recycled. Appliances Gulf Trading and Transport, Braddock Borough Local Goodwill Stores may also accept some small appliances. Automotive Oils Call the Department of Environmental Protection Recycling Hotline at 1-800-346-4242 for information about used oil recycling …
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Collection begins Friday, April 5, on a schedule that rotates bi-weekly in the borough.
It's big. It's blue. And it's a sign that Churchill's going green. The new recycling bins started arriving in Churchill Borough this week. Crews made the rounds, dropping off the bright blue bins to residences throughout the borough. The first collection date is Friday, April 5, depending where you live. The borough is using an alternating weekly schedule for collection. For more information, visit churchillrecycles.org. ________________________ "Like" Patch on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Sign up for our daily email newsletter.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Find out more about the borough's move to automated single-stream recycling that's coming in April.
Churchill Trash Committee and Friends of Recycling will present two seminars leading up to the start of recycling in Churchill Borough this April. The sessions will be held from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, March 9, and 3 to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 17, in the Yagle Room at the Churchill Borough Building, 2300 William Penn Highway. The presentation will inform residents of everything they need to know about the automated single-stream recycling. For more information, visit churchillrecycles.org. ______________________ "Like" Patch on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter . | Sign up for our daily email newsletter.
Friday, December 28, 2012
Households, businesses will no longer able to dispose of TV’s, computer equipment through Waste Management.
If the holidays brought you new electronics or you’ve been keeping an old console TV in the garage in hopes an electronics recycling event would appear, there’s good news on the calendar for you—and the environment. Pennsylvania’s new Covered Device Recycling Act takes effect in January and requires the recycling of all TVs and computer equipment being discarded by households, businesses and institutions. The law also provides free recycling for these devices being disposed of by households and businesses with fewer than 50 employees. Larger businesses are required to pay for electronics recycling. “For the last several weeks we have informed our customers that our collection crews will not pick up TV’s and computer equipment beginning …
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Single-stream recycling will make this new service easy, with no separating or sorting.
Churchill Borough residents will begin recycling on April 1, 2013. The recycling program through Republic Services will provide a large blue recycling tub to each residence about March 15, a few weeks before the recycling collection starts. Recyclables can be deposited in the tub with no separating or sorting needed. Guidelines for recycling are: Permissible Not permissible _______________________ Forest Hills-Regent Square Patch is on Facebook and on Twitter. Don't forget to sign up for our daily email newsletter by clicking here.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Collection boxes are located in the main office at the borough building on Ardmore Boulevard.
Wondering what to do with those empty printer cartridges? Cell phones? Rechargeable batteries? Old eyeglasses? Inside the main office door of the Forest Hills Borough Building on Ardmore Boulevard are boxes to collect those items for recycling. Nickel cadmium, nickel metal hydride, lithium ion, nickel zinc and small sealed lead rechargeable batteries can be dropped off for recycling, as well as used cell phones. Both ink jet and laser printer cartridges are accepted, too. Proceeds from recycling will be used for recreational equipment for the borough's parks. Forest Hills Lions Club also has a box to accept donations of used eyeglasses to help children and adults who cannot afford them. _______________________ Forest Hills-Regent Square …
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Todd Meyer and Wayne Treichel Jr. used salvaged materials from Construction Junction to renovate and create.
Two Swissvale men are winners in the Post-Gazette and Construction Junction's second annual Reuse Inspiration Contest. Todd Meyer, an architect, won for home renovation projects by redesigning a plain banquet room into a rustic, vintage eyecatcher for E² restaurant in Highland Park. Wayne Treichel Jr. won for original artwork. He designed a Tiffany-style lampshade from pieces of broken glass he found by the Monongahela River and used pieces found at Construction Junction for the base. Both had to use the recycled and surplus building materials sold at Construction Junction, a non-profit retailer in Point Breeze. To find out more, click here.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
This is a safe way to get rid of old computers and other devices.
Bring your unwanted computers, monitors, printers, fax machines, cell phones, digital cameras, chargers, adapters, microwaves, stereo systems, VCRs, televisions to the Forest Hills Westinghouse Lodge parking lot between Greensburg Pike and Barclay Ave at Perry Street this Saturday, hosted by Goodwill. Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania is the non-profit of choice for Safe, Easy and Free recycling of computers and electronics. All data hard-drives are data destroyed to Department of Defense standards. By donating your unwanted computers, you are helping Goodwill provide employment to those who refurbish and salvage them. Goodwill also offers expert services to help people overcome physical, mental, educational, social and economic …
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Local business rescues building goods from the scrap heap while helping build new lives.
- VOLUNTEERS IN THE NEWS
- Lisa Flowers
Thursday, December 1, 2011
The true treasure among the thousands of antique, vintage and modern building goods lining the aisles of Construction Junction in Point Breeze isn't made of wood or marble. It is not the retro-kitsch housewares, nor even the sparkling crystal chandeliers and massive architectural pieces that loom overhead. It is not in the dusty "pirate chest" nor the collectible door knobs or the sentimental favorite, a reclaimed Civic Arena box glass door still bearing a frosted Penguins logo. To sense the true treasure, you have to see what this nonprofit does for its people. This business takes what others just want to rid themselves of—and gives it new life and purpose. Sometimes those unwanted items—are people. For those efforts, Construction …
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Measuring the impact
It is part of your ULF contract to report on your project’s activities and progress. Having robust monitoring systems to capture and record information enables you to do this effectively.
Collecting and sharing evidence of the impact of your project can help to show the wider union the benefits of the learning agenda, help in negotiations with employers or providers, as well as inspiring other members and non-members to want to engage in learning.
You’ll be asking a range of people to collect information for you. If you can, involve those people in designing how best to capture the information that is needed.
Ensure everyone understands what they need to capture, how it will be used, when they need to capture it and to whom it should be sent. People like – and need – to understand how they fit in the scheme of things and to know they’re playing an important part.
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Trains will move tar sands oil, if the Keystone XL doesn't
Pipe is stacked at the southern site of the Keystone XL pipeline on March 22, 2012 in Cushing, Oklahoma. A study commissioned by the State Department concludes that building the Keystone XL pipeline won't contribute to global warming, because Canadian tar sands oil will get to market with or without the pipeline.
The State Department's latest environmental impact report says building the Keystone XL pipeline would have no additional impact on climate change, because that oil will simply flow by train instead. Michael Levi at the Council on Foreign Relations says oil companies would prefer to send oil from the Canadian tar sands to refineries by pipeline because it's cheaper. Pipelines cost about $5 per barrel of crude.
"But if it turns out they need to spend $20 a barrel to move it by rail, they're going to do that instead of leaving this $100 a barrel oil in the ground," he says.
Since railroads already carry tar sands oil, and plan to carry much more, it does not matter if the Keystone XL pipeline gets built, from a climate change perspective. That's what the new State Department report says: that the tar sands oil is going to get transported and burned, and its greenhouse gases will go into the air, no matter what. But Anthony Swift with the Natural Resources Defense Council says canceling the pipeline buys more time.
"One of the first steps to addressing climate change is to stop making things worse," he says. "Keystone XL clearly would make things worse. More tar sands would be produced more quickly."
Not giving the U.S. a chance to cut back on oil consumption. Jeffery Elliott follows rail transport at Oliver Wyman, and says no one can predict how much oil will move by rail in the next few years. Both industries -- oil and rail -- are changing drastically day by day because of all the new development of tar sands and shale oil.
"It's hard enough to see your hand in front of your face, much less the horizon," he says.
Elliott says tar sands oil is so thick that it can be easier to put it in a rail car than dilute it to flow through a pipeline. So rail business for oil is bound to keep growing no matter what happens with Keystone XL.
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View Full Version : Feedback when out of window(post before)
03-20-2002, 05:37 AM
(This one was post on Advanced Forum before, but they said it is to simple to be post there, therefore I post it again here. If you saw it on another forum, just ignore this one. Sorry for crossing-post)
If I draw two points, the first one is out of the window, the second one is inside the window. In FEEDBACK mode, what are the values in feedback buffer?
1. Slot one: wrong value of point1
Slot two: right value of point2
2. Slot one: right value of point2
Slot two: no value
What one is right? Or they are both wrong?
03-20-2002, 06:43 AM
If I understood the spec correctly (section 5.3), feedback happens after culling, polygon decomposition and clipping. More specifically, it says "While in feedback mode, each primitive that would be rasterized ...".
While I think the language is a bit muddy, I'd interpret it so, that case 2 of your example will happen.
When in doubt, it may be wise to just test the mechanism by implementing your example and checking the results.
Hope this helps http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/ubb/smile.gif
03-20-2002, 09:19 AM
I have not used feedback, but the documentation suggests that case 2 of your example would be correct. Something like point one would be clipped before it could reach the feedback buffer.
If it helps you can use a passthrough marker between the drawing of point one and two to test. In the results a value before the marker represents point one and a value after the marker represents point two.
[This message has been edited by Furrage (edited 03-20-2002).]
03-20-2002, 11:53 AM
Actually I have many points in my view and I need there screen coodinates. If all the points are in the view, then in a loop, we can get the information from feedback buffer easily through a right increment. However, if some points are out of the window, then the sequence of points in the buffer is totally messed up. Even if we use markers to seperate these points, it becomes a little bit tricky to track these markers. Does anyone have some idea to solve the problem elegantly?
03-21-2002, 04:15 AM
Based on the documentation in the redbook, markers are the way elements are tracked in feedback. Hopefully, someone else can give you a better way. Otherwise its back to maths and trig and data structures to represent your drawing elements, viewing volume, etc.
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The idea for a Bond theme began in late 1961, when Dr. No co-producer Albert Broccoli asked songwriter Monty Norman to compose music for the film:
In early 1962, Mr. Norman traveled to the movie set in Jamaica, where he wrote the film’s Caribbean-flavored songs before returning to London that spring.
But time was running out for the theme. According to Mr. Norman’s website, he reached into his bottom drawer for a song he had already written for an aborted musical called “A House For Mr. Biswas,” based on the novel by V.S. Naipaul. It worked: The “Dr. No” producers liked the catchy melody on his “Bad Sign, Good Sign.”
Next, Mr. Broccoli and co-producer Harry Saltzman turned to John Barry, a film composer who had seen some success with his John Barry Seven rock band. Mr. Barry added orchestration to Mr. Norman’s melody line—but he felt his score still needed a dominant “voice” to symbolize Bond’s masculinity.
“John called me over to his apartment in June 1962,” recalled Mr. Flick, who was the John Barry Seven’s lead guitarist. “He showed me Monty Norman’s music and asked how we could give it more power.” Mr. Flick pecked out Mr. Norman’s melody on his guitar, Morse-code style, and suggested dropping the key to E-minor from A-minor for a stronger statement. And the theme as we know it was born.
In the end, Mr. Norman retained the theme’s sole composer credit. When Mr. Barry hinted that he deserved partial credit in a British magazine in 1997 and London’s Sunday Times followed up with a nasty jab at Mr. Norman, the theme’s composer sued the paper, and the jury decided in his favor.
Best. Theme song. Evar.
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|900 million won?
Wow, I think I will be a professional baduk player.
(editor: 900 million won is about € 600,000.=)
Everyone in the family gathered to celebrate the new year.
My youngest nephew was curious about Baduk community. He
is about 8 kyu.
"Uncle, Could I earn a lot of money if I became a
professional baduk player?"
"Of course, a successful one could earn more money than
a professional baseball player"
"Ha! Then how much a player such as Lee ChangHo has earned?"
"I am not sure of the total amount, but his last year's
income was about 900 million won"
"Wow!, Professional baduk players are rich!. Shall I try
to become a professional baduk player?
I don't enjoy studying at school. Hehe?"
His giggles were in my ears in the car returning home.
Annual income of 900 million won is 75 million won a
month. Enormous amount. No wonder he was so impressed.
Even a minister of our government, or even our president
could not earn that much. When we divide Lee ChangHo's
annual income by 76 games he had played last year, it is
12 million per a game. When we roughly guess he played
120 moves average per a game, it is 100,000 won per a
move (editor: about € 50,=).
Dreamlike figure for a common citizen.
Broadening our view, the enormity of 900 million won
hits us more vividly. Korea has been in recession for
quite a while and ordinary people have been struggling
to make ends meet.
Companies are busy laying off less essential staff.
University graduates are walking about looking for
work.. 'Oryukdo - it is a thief who still is working at
his age of 56', or ' Saojeong - Retirement at the age of
45' are words which have already lost their sour humour.
Daily news papers are covered with sad stories of
children who are suffering poverty in the slums.
Being a professional player is not so bad against this
background. There are other successful professionals who
do not earn as high income as Lee ChangHo's but still
earn a lot.
For instance, Lee SeDol earned 500 million, and Cho
HunHyun earned 400 million won last year.
Yu ChangHyuk, Song TaeGon and Park YoungHoon also earned
more than a hundred million won. Especially considering
their age, Song and Park could not have grabbed that
much money if they were not baduk players. Lee, ChangHo
made record of earning more than 1 billion won a year
in 2001. Cho ChiHun's income in his haydays was even
But... but? Do you think all professional baduk players
are rich? Well? I am afraid it is not quite the case.
Last year, Kim SeungJoon ranked 10th with 40million
won among Korean professionals. The news article
that had this information was titled "If the 40
million won ranked 10th, what happens to lower income
professionals?" As a matter of fact, it concerns me too.
I am not concerned with Kim SeungJoon but with others
who are lower than 100th in income. Incidentally, there
are some 197 professionals in Korea currently.
It is waste of time to explain how difficult it is
to become a professional baduk player. It is only a
common sense among baduk lovers. The entry into the
professional rank is through the most narrow gate of
all. In other words, it is the most difficult skill to
master to be qualified with. It is not very wrong to
assume that a professional player is a genius. Usually,
one's excellence is the indication of his/her income
level. But it seems professional baduk players are not
rewarded as expected.
Let's look at overseas situation with baduk players.
Honinbo Jangshi (editor: Cho U) ranked top in 2003
in Japan with his annual income of 78 million Yen
(editor: about € 550,000.=). Yamashita, the Kisei
was the second with the only 24,000 yen less than
Jangshi's. In China, Chang Hao earned 1,110,000 Yuen
(editor: about € 110,000.=), and
Wang Lei marked 760,000 Yuen.
Considering the relative buying capacity of the
currencies, they are about the same with income level.
That leads us to realize that the lower ranking players
will find it not easy to manage their living. There are
450 professionals in Japan, 300 in China, and 25 in
Taiwan. So there are about 1000 professional players in
those 4 major baduk countries.
This time, let's compare "Lee ChangHo's 900 million won"
with stars of other fields. Jung SooGeun was recruited
by the Lotte baseball team for 4 billion won for 6
years, which is 670 million won per a year. Ma HaeYoung
got scouted by Kia for 2.8 billion won for 4 years.
We feel Baduk players can maintain their self-esteem
according to these comparative figures.
But as soon as we turn to overseas situation, we get
dizzy. Park ChanHo has contracted with Texas team for
71 million dollars for 5 years and Kim ByungYon has
exceeded Park with 10.1 million dollar for 2 years.
We should take a few things into consideration when
we compare baduk players with sports stars. Sportsmen
can play only during specific periods a year while
baduk players can play any time all year round. More
importantly, Length of their active periods are very
much different. One can start his/her Baduk professional
life as young as 12 years of age and continue on
until after 60. However, sportsmen only have short
professional period while they are youthful and
The most significant difference may be their performing
scale. Famous sportsmen are selectees from competitions
where so many people from all over the world fiercely
compete. But baduk players compete only among Koreans,
Japanese and Chinese in one corner of our globe.
Professional sports are the wonder babies raised by
western capitalism. Being nurtured in the arms of huge
commercialism, they are growing everyday. Baduk would
not be able to catch up with those professional sports
in terms of the scale of commercial activities or the
"Lee ChangHo's 900 million won" has dual faces. When
we look at today's grim social situation, it is huge.
After all there are many people who stay overnight on
the concrete floor of subway stations in this freezing
weather. It is only natural to become envious to see Lee
ChangHo earning 100,000 won putting one stone on the
baduk board as a "baduk god". It is not very odd to see
people feeling very small.
Capitalism categorizes people according to their income
levels. At the same time, there are so many different
views on the validity of income size pertinent to the
Regardless of size of the market or regions of baduk,
Lee ChangHo is the best who is holding 3 world titles.
There is huge gap between him and number ones of
other fields in respect to talent, the process of
accomplishment, chance expense, and even the influence.
1000 poor professional baduk players in the lower layers
of pyramid show us it is not so well rewarded field.
Ma Xiaochun's remark "my income is not enough to live in
Beijing" shocked baduk people last year.
I wish baduk could be globalized in the near future so
that the number one in this field could earn as much as
Tiger Woods. I also wish those 190 professional baduk
players in Korea and 1000 overseas professionals could
get rewarded appropriately for their talent and effort.
Oh! there is more urgent thing. I should pray for quick
economic recovery that can provide shelter for people in
the subway stations, and provide jobs to young people.
My nephew who shows little sign of excellence to become
a professional baduk player, What can bring him the
annual income of 900 million won in the future?
(Written by: Lee HongRyul, Baduk columnist for Chosun Daily)
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Minimally Invasive Sinus Surgery
What is Sinusitis?
Sinusitis is an inflammation of the sinus lining caused by bacterial, viral and / or microbial infections; as well as structural issues like blockages of the sinus opening (ostium). If the sinus opening (ostium) is closed, normal mucus drainage may not occur – this condition may lead to infection and inflammation of the sinuses.
What are the different types of Sinusitis?
There are two main categories of sinusitis: acute and chronic. Sinusitis is usually preceded by a cold, allergy attack or irritation from environmental pollutants. Often, the resulting symptoms, such as nasal pressure, nasal congestion, a "runny nose," and fever, run their course in a few days. However, if symptoms persist, a bacterial infection or acute sinusitis may develop. If sinusitis occurs frequently or lasts three months or longer, it may be chronic sinusitis.
What are the symptoms of sinusitis?
Common symptoms may include:
- Facial pain, pressure
- Nasal congestion or fullness
- Difficulty breathing through the nose
- Discharge of yellow or green mucus from the nose
- Teeth pain
- Loss of the sense of smell or taste
- Sore throat
- Bad breath
What are the treatment options?
The most frequently used treatments for sinusitis are medical therapies and / or conventional sinus surgery.
Medical Therapy – Sinusitis is typically treated first with medication. Treatment with antibiotics or topical nasal steroid sprays is often successful in reducing mucosal swelling, fighting infection, and relieving obstructions of the sinus opening. Inhaling steam or using nasal saline sprays or drops may also help relieve sinus discomfort. However, at least 20% of patients do not respond adequately to medications.6-9
Conventional Sinus Surgery – called Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS) is often the next step toward finding sinusitis relief. Specialized instruments are placed into the nose along with a small endoscope to help the surgeon see inside the nose and nasal cavities. The procedure works by removing bone and tissue to enlarge the sinus opening and may lead to post-operative pain and bleeding that re¬quires uncomfortable nasal packing to control.
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For many Americans, burgers and fireworks may be enough of a July 4th celebration. But to appreciate the curiosities and meaning of Independence Day, you might want to sit down with some friends and take another look at the Declaration of Independence that announced our separation from England.
Before you re-read the Declaration and delve into some of its subtleties, try your hand at this quiz. It begins and ends with near-giveaways, but some questions in the middle might puzzle you. Answers and elaboration follow.
1. Who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence?
a) John Adams
b) Benjamin Franklin
c) Thomas Jefferson
2. Identify the famous fictional television-show president whose namesake is one of the 56 delegates who signed the Declaration.
3. Which work of political theory figures so prominently in the text of the Declaration that some consider the Declaration’s author to be a plagiarist?
4. Why did more than a year pass between the outbreak of the War of Independence and the decision to declare independence?
5. How many complaints against the King of England does the Declaration list?
6. Which example of British oppression was deleted from the Declaration when Congress edited the initial draft?
7. What does “consanguinity” mean, and why is this an important term in the Declaration?
8. What is the source of a government’s power, according to the Declaration?
9. True or False: The words “We the People” open the Declaration.
10. Which birthday is the United States celebrating today?
1. C. Thomas Jefferson was on a committee of five charged with composing the document and took primary responsibility for writing its "original Rough draught.” The draft was slashed by about 25 percent when fellow committee members John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston and Roger Sherman — as well as the rest of the Congress — got their hands on it.
2. President Josiah Bartlet of NBC’s “The West Wing” (played by Martin Sheen) owes his name to that of a signatory from New Hampshire. (The original Josiah Bartlett had two “t”s in his last name, however.)
3. Along with Montesquieu’s “The Spirit of the Laws,” John Locke’s “Second Treatise on Civil Government” inspired the theory of natural law and right to revolution in the Declaration. Jefferson borrowed more than ideas from Locke. Consider this passage from the Declaration:
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
…and compare it to this passage from Locke’s "Second Treatise":
Secondly: I answer, such revolutions happen not upon every little mismanagement in public affairs. Great mistakes in the ruling part, many wrong and inconvenient laws, and all the slips of human frailty will be borne by the people without mutiny or murmur. But if a long train of abuses, prevarications, and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people, and they cannot but feel what they lie under, and see whither they are going, it is not to be wondered that they should then rouse themselves, and endeavor to put the rule into such hands which may secure to them the end for which government was at first erected...
4. The colonies were divided on whether it was the right time to declare independence. Virginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and South Carolina wanted to break away in 1775, but other colonies had hopes for reconciliation with England or worried that an all-out war would encourage the French and Spanish to pursue further inroads in the New World.
5. C: 27 complaints. They include refusing to agree to laws for the public good, dissolving the legislature, making judges dependent on his will, taxing the colonists without their consent and keeping standing armies in their territory.
6. Among the lines nixed from Jefferson’s wordy draft were these, blaming England for continuing the African slave trade against the colonists’ wishes:
[King George] has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain, determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce...
7. Consanguinity (lit. “of the same blood”) means kinship and is found in the Declaration’s penultimate paragraph:
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
This paragraph gets my vote for the most poignant of the document: it paints the relationship between England and the colonies in blatantly familial terms, observing that even blood ties are not enough to keep a family together if one sibling deals an injustice to another, or, alternately, if parents mistreat their children.
8. “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
9. False. “We the People” is found in the Preamble to the Constitution, written 13 years later. The Declaration opens with this famous line: “When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
10. The United States is 236 today. Happy Birthday America! Read and discuss the full text of our founding document here.
Follow Steven Mazie on Twitter: @stevenmazie
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Islamic Forced Conversions — Past and Present
The lost history of Christians forced to convert to Islam—or die—is reemerging, figuratively and literally. According to the BBC: “Pope Francis has proclaimed the first saints of his pontificate in a ceremony [last Sunday] at the Vatican—a list which includes 800 victims of an atrocity carried out by Ottoman soldiers in 1480.They were beheaded in the southern Italian town of Otranto after refusing to convert to Islam.”
The BBC adds in a sidebar: “The ‘Martyrs of Otranto’ were 813 Italians beheaded for defying demands by Turkish invaders to renounce Christianity. The Turks had been sent by Mohammed II, who had already captured the ‘second Rome’ of Constantinople.”
Historical texts throughout the centuries are filled with similar anecdotes, including the “60 Martyrs of Gaza,” Christian soldiers who were executed for refusing Islam during the 7th century Islamic invasion of Jerusalem. Seven centuries later, during the Islamic invasion of Georgia, Christians refusing to convert were forced into their church and set on fire. Witnesses for Christ lists 200 anecdotes of Christians killed—including some burned at the stake, thrown on iron spikes, dismembered, stoned, stabbed, shot at, drowned, pummeled to death, impaled and crucified—for refusing to embrace Islam.
If history is shocking, the fact is, today, Christians—men, women, and children—are still being forced to convert to Islam. Pope Francis alluded to their sufferings during the same ceremony: “As we venerate the martyrs of Otranto, let us ask God to sustain those many Christians who, in these times and in many parts of the world, right now, still suffer violence, and give them the courage and fidelity to respond to evil with good.”
And the hits just keep on coming.
For five days, reporters at the Associated Press had been sitting on a big scoop about a foiled al-Qaeda plot at the request of CIA officials. Then, in a hastily scheduled Monday morning meeting, the journalists were asked by agency officials to hold off on publishing the story for just one more day.
The CIA officials, who had initially cited national security concerns in an attempt to delay publication, no longer had those worries… Instead, the Obama administration was planning to announce the successful counterterrorism operation that Tuesday.
AP balked and proceeded to publish that Monday afternoon. Its May 2012 report is now at the center of a controversial and broad seizure of phone records of AP reporters’ home, office and cellphone lines. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said the unauthorized disclosure about an intelligence operation to stop al-Qaeda from detonating explosives aboard a U.S. airliner was among the most serious leaks he could remember, and justified secretly obtaining records from a handful of reporters and editors over a span of two months.
Now, some members of Congress and media advocates are questioning why the administration viewed the leak that led to the May 7 AP story as so grave. MORE
Based in part on the life of Dr. Emanuel Tanya, a well-known, well-respected psychiatrist. Original article posted here.
A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism.
‘Very few people were true Nazis,’ he said, ‘but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come.
My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.’
We are told again and again by ‘experts’ and ‘talking heads’ that Islam is the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honour-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the ‘silent majority,’ is cowed and extraneous. Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China’s huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people. The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet. And who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were ‘peace loving’?
History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:
Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. MORE
Daily Mail UK
Where doctor ‘twisted heads off fetus’ necks with his bare hands’
is investigated in Texas
A second ‘house of horrors’ abortion clinic is being investigated in Texas, just days after Dr Kermit Gosnell was found guilty of murdering newborns at his Philadelphia termination center.
Dr. Douglas Karpen, seen here in court, is accused of killing babies aborted in their third trimester
Houston doctor Douglas Karpen is accused by four former employees of delivering live fetuses during third-trimester abortions and killing them by either snipping their spinal cord, stabbing a surgical instrument into their heads or ‘twisting their heads off their necks with his own bare hands’.
Other times the fetus was so big he would have to pull it out of the womb in pieces, Karpen‘s ex-assistant, Deborah Edge, said in an Operation Rescue video, which has prompted a criminal investigation into the doctor.
‘Sometimes he couldn’t get the fetus out… he would yank pieces – piece by piece – when they were oversize,’ Edge explained.
‘And I’m talking about the whole floor dirty. I’m talking about me drenched in blood.’
Two of Edge’s colleagues, Gigi Aguliar, and Krystal Rodriguez, also described the hellish scenes which took place at the Aaron Women’s Clinic in Houston in 2011, and possibly two other abortion clinics run by Karpen in Texas.
Another staffer, who remains anonymous, filed an affidavit with her account of events, which the Texas Department of State Health Services is using in its investigation.
‘We have several people looking into the allegations,’ Harris County District Attorney spokesman Sara Marie Kinney told Chron.com.
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said he had read the allegations ‘with disgust’ before calling for a full investigation into Karpen and his clinics.
Incompetent or intentional? “The number of terrorists lost or unaccounted for ‘may not be complete and may continue to evolve.’”
By Jake Tapper, CNN Chief Washington Correspondent
The U.S. Marshals Service lost two former participants in the federal Witness Security Program “identified as known or suspected terrorists,” states the public summary of an interim Justice Department Inspector General’s report obtained by CNN.
The Marshals Service has concluded that “one individual was and the other individual was believed to be residing outside of the United States,” according to the summary.
The report notes that while in the middle of an audit of the WITSEC program, also referred to as “WitSec,” the IG notified the Justice Department of national security vulnerabilities, and the IG’s office “developed the interim report to help ensure that the Department promptly and sufficiently addressed the deficiencies we found.”
After its audit, the IG’s office reported “the Department did not definitively know how many known or suspected terrorists were admitted into the WITSEC program,” among other “significant issues concerning national security.”
As of March 2013, the Justice Department was reviewing more than 18,000 Witness Protection Program case files to determine whether more known or suspected terrorists have been admitted to the program, the summary notes. As such, the number of terrorists lost or unaccounted for “may not be complete and may continue to evolve.”
The IG summary said that although the Marshals Service was giving known or suspected terrorists who participated in the WITSEC program and their dependents new names and identity documentation, the Justice Department “was not authorizing the disclosure to the Terrorist Screening Center,” which operates the terrorist watch list that helps provide information to the Transportation Security Administration’s No-Fly and Selectee lists. “Therefore it was possible for known or suspected terrorists to fly on commercial airplanes in or over the United States and evade one of the government’s primary means of identifying and tracking terrorists’ movements and actions.”
The IG’s office notified the Justice Department of these problems and in the middle of remedying them, marshals discovered they could not account for the two missing people.
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How to Become a Home Appliance Repairer
Home appliance repairers need to stay up-to-date with new appliance technology.
Most home appliance repair technicians are trained on the job. A growing number of employers, however, prefer to hire workers who have completed technical or vocational training.
Education and Training
Most home appliance repairers learn their skills on the job by working with experienced technicians. Some companies and appliance manufacturers provide further training through seminars, demonstrations, or coursework.
Introductory training in basic electricity or electronics may last several months to a few years, depending on the employer or specialty. Manufacturers also may require technicians to receive training to become authorized for warranty work.
Although on-the-job training is the most common method of training, employers generally prefer to hire workers who have attended high school or, increasingly, postsecondary vocational or technical programs in electronics or appliance repair. These programs can help reduce the amount of on-the-job training for entry-level workers.
Nearly all technicians must take continuing education courses to sharpen their skills and to be able to repair the newest appliance models.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requires all technicians who buy or work with refrigerants to be licensed in the proper handling of refrigerants. Although formal test preparation is not required, many trade schools, unions, and employer associations offer training programs designed for the EPA exam.
A driver’s license and a clean driving record also may be required because some home appliance repairers must drive to customers’ homes to service their appliances.
Home appliance repairers may show their competence by earning voluntary certification. For example, they may get the National Appliance Service Technician Certification (NASTeC) from the International Society of Certified Electronics Technicians by passing an exam that tests their skills in diagnosing, repairing, and maintaining home appliances.
The Professional Service Association (PSA) offers a similar certification program based on skill competencies that the industry developed and updates annually. By passing the PSA exam, home appliance repairers can use the title Master Certified Appliance Professional (MCAP).
These certifications can be helpful when looking for employment, and some employers actively seek out certified home appliance repairers.
Bookkeeping skills. Home appliance repairers must be able to keep accurate records of hours worked, parts used, and bills collected. This is especially true for self-employed technicians.
Communication skills. Home appliance repairers need to explain complicated mechanical processes to people who have little or no technical knowledge.
Customer-service skills. Most home appliance repairers work in customers’ homes, so it is important that they are friendly and polite.
Dexterity. Home appliance repairers need a steady hand and good hand-eye coordination for many of their tasks, such as repairing small devices, connecting or attaching components, and using handtools.
Technical skills. Home appliance repairers use sophisticated diagnostic equipment when working on complex appliances. They must be familiar with both appliances’ internal parts and the appropriate tools needed to install or fix them.
Troubleshooting skills. As appliances become more intricate, malfunctions become more difficult to identify. Home appliance repairers must be able to find and solve problems that may not be immediately apparent.
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As a Catholic schoolteacher I was introduced to the Jesse tree. It’s an Advent devotion that traces the genealogy of Jesus from Adam and Eve to the Gospels. It’s the perfect daily activity to help prepare children for the birth of Christ, and there’s often a lot to learn for adults, too.
We made a valiant effort last year to do the Jesse tree ornaments, but we couldn’t choose a good time that we were consistent with. We only got through about half the items on the list. This year, I’m committed to making it work. After work is too hectic with dinner preparation, and after dinner doesn’t always work because of trying to clear the table, baths, etc. We’re going to integrate it with nighttime prayers this year and prioritize by praying before reading books. I think we can be successful – even if we have to let the children stay up five minutes later, that five minutes won’t kill anybody.
Here are some links to printable Jesse tree ornaments. Mine are just printed on paper, cut out, and hung with yarn taped to the wall. Nothing but class at the Kimball house! ; )
- Background of the Jesse Tree
- 2009 Reflections for Jesse Tree – very manageable – a short Scripture verse and a two-sentence explanation of the day’s symbol. It starts on November 28th this year, so your family – and mine! – will have to do a few days double.
- Simple Family Jesse Tree Devotions – includes a short explanation, life question for kids, and one-sentence prayer.
We use a combination of the two devotionals so that we can include Scripture, explanation, and real-life connections. The ornaments (which vary slightly) can be printed here or here to fit with either version of the reflections.
Find all the Advent Daily Dose reflections here.
If you missed the last Monday Mission, click here.
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Optical Test Engineer Calmar Laser
Responsible for final test of ultrafast fiber laser products and plays an important role in product quality control.
Essential Duties & Job Responsibilities
The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:
Perform final test of fiber laser products, write test report and instruction manual.
Process test data and prepare various reports.
Closely communicate with manufacturing team in case of failure during test.
Work with other engineer to develop and document product test plans and procedures.
Participate in development of test automation.
Build necessary tools to test laser performance or improve work efficiency.
Ensure test equipment accuracy through regular calibration and checking.
Perform other work-related duties as assigned.
B.S. degree in EE, physics, optics or equivalent, with 2+ years? working experience in related field is preferred.
Knowledge of laser performance test methods and equipment.
Hands-on experience of free space optical alignment.
Knowledge of data acquisition, analysis and management tools, such as LabVIEW, Excel and MATLAB.
Excellent computer skills: word processing and spreadsheets.
Experience of Visual Basic, C#, SQL programming is a plus.
Strong skills to manage time and organize daily activities with minimal supervision.
Must be able to work as an effective team member and self-motivated.
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The Guardian Unlimited, January 14, 2008
Truthout, January 14, 2008
Organic Consumers Association, January 14, 2008
AlterNet, January 17, 2008
See article on original website
The fact that the US economy is nearing a recession means that efforts to introduce environmentally friendly policies may get some traction.
According to the business press, a near majority of economists are now predicting recessions. Economists don’t predict recessions. Almost all of them missed both the 2001 and the 1990-1991 recessions. Economists’ predictions of a recession are a lagging indicator showing that we are in fact in a recession. The economists’ predictions go along with a large collection of other data – rising unemployment rates, crashing house sales, and slumping retail sales – all of which indicate that the economy has likely entered a recession. The fact that even economists now recognize the economy’s dire straights just seals the case.
Recessions, especially in election years, bring calls for stimulus, and we are hearing those calls now. The crew that managed to somehow overlook an $8 trillion housing bubble is running around calling for a “timely, targeted, and temporary” stimulus package. The frequency with which this mantra is being repeated demonstrates that the collapse of the housing bubble has not yet increased the demand for original thinking in Washington policy circles.
But, those of us who keep a safe distance from these circles can still indulge. First, there should be no doubt that stimulus is needed, and almost certainly more than the $70-$100 billion figure being tossed around. A reasonable target would be 1.0 percent of GDP, which would be almost $150 billion in 2008. While any stimulus figure is somewhat arbitrary, the question are the relative risks of erring on the low or the high side. If we err on the low side, then we are not doing enough to support the economy and create jobs. If we err on the high side, ostensibly we would be creating too much demand and risking inflation.
House prices are currently falling at a rate that will destroy $2.2 trillion in value over the next year. This will not only wreck further havoc on the housing and mortgage market; it will also put a huge damper on consumer spending. Does anyone who knows the numbers believe that a stimulus equal to 1 percent of GDP will create excess demand in today’s economy?
The second question is where to direct the stimulus. Some items are no-brainers. This list includes extending unemployment benefits to cover longer stretches of unemployment, aid to state and local governments to cover budget shortfalls, and general tax rebates comparable to $300 per taxpayer check that was mailed out in the last recession.
However, we can also see the stimulus as a chance to get a foot in the door on advancing a green agenda designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. At the top of this list would be a generous tax credit for installing energy efficient improvements to homes or businesses. This one should also be a no-brainer since it could directly reemploy many of the workers laid off in the construction sector. While a similar program had limited impact in 2004-06, contractors will be far more energetic in pursuing this business now that the housing bubble has left them with few alternatives.
A second effective form of green stimulus would be to subsidize mass transit ridership. There are approximately 10 billion trips a year on buses, light rail, or commuter rail trains. If the federal government gave transit agencies $10 billion to reduce the average fare on these trips by $1, this would be a very quick way to get an additional $10 billion into the hands of mass transit users. This would be a very progressive tax cut, which would also have the lasting benefit of promoting public transportation.
If we really want to think outside of the box, we can use some of the stimulus to promote pay by the mile insurance policies. These insurance policies are green because they give drivers a strong disincentive to drive. If insurance were paid on a per mile basis, it would provide roughly the same disincentive to drive as a $2 per gallon gas tax.
Suppose that the federal government paid a $300 subsidy for every pay by the mile policy. This would give insurers a strong incentive to offer these policies and effectively put $300 in the pocket of every driver who switches to pay by the mile. While this policy would take somewhat longer to implement than the other two, the good news is that the recession is likely to be long enough that we could still benefit from the stimulus a year or two down the road.
There are many other ways to structure a stimulus so that it can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. If we just accept the idea that it is possible to walk and chew gum at the same time, we can structure a stimulus package that also produces real gains for the environment.
Dean Baker is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). He is the author of The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer (www.conservativenannystate.org). He also has a blog, "Beat the Press," where he discusses the media's coverage of economic issues. You can find it at the American Prospect's web site.
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10 Uncanny Sets of Birth Twins
Blame astrology, numerology or just coincidence—some people who share a birthdate have more in common than the day they were born. Witness the following 10 sets of birth twins.
1. Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809)
Two of the outstanding figures of the 19th century were both raised as Christians, though Darwin died an atheist and Lincoln was, by some accounts, a non-believer. Both had unimpressive school records, but taught themselves to rise to the peaks of their professions. Both embraced change and detested slavery. Darwin's most important work, On the Origin of Species, was published in 1859 "“ one year before Lincoln was elected president. With these events, both would challenge the status quo "“ changing the world, and winning enemies for their efforts. (Darwin would be denounced; Lincoln would be assassinated.)
2. Jimmy Hoffa and James Pike (February 14, 1913)
Hoffa was a powerful and contentious unionist, alleged to have ties with organized crime. Pike was the contentious Episcopal bishop of California, alleged to have extramarital affairs. Both were known as champions of the underprivileged. Hoffa bargained for low-paid workers and campaigned for prison reform; Pike supported the civil rights movement. Hoffa was finally convicted of fraud and jury tampering in 1967, serving four years in prison; Pike was tried for heresy for his radical ideas, which resulted in the formal censure of his views. But most spookily of all: They both disappeared mysteriously. (Pike's body was found a few days later; Hoffa was never seen again.) Neither of their demises were ever solved.
3. Marlon Brando and Doris Day (April 3, 1924)
The evil twin syndrome (though we're not sure which was the evil one). At their peak in the 1950s, they were polar opposites. Brando played rebellious, tough guys who mumbled everything. Day played wholesome, virginal sweeties who sang beautifully. But they had a few things in common. Both of their careers were the result of a misspent youth (Brando took up acting after being thrown out of a military academy; Day was singing in clubs at 16.) Both had reputations for being "difficult." Brando came to the movies as a famous actor, but proved he could sing (sort of) in Guys and Dolls. Day entered movies as a famous singer, but proved she could act in Storm Warning. Both became attached to important social causes (Brando to the plight of Native Americans; Day to animal rights).
4. President George W. Bush and Sylvester Stallone (July 6, 1946)
These two have more in common than you might realize. Their oratorical skills have been criticized, but at their peaks, both were immensely popular. Their secret: people love a war"¦ provided they win. They each have a past that they would rather forget. In the early 1970s, Bush had a drinking problem and multiple arrests; Stallone (as a struggling actor) was debasing himself in a skin flick. Bush has a history of failed business ventures; Stallone has had his own corporate disasters, like Planet Hollywood, his ill-fated co-venture with two of Bush's friends, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Stallone's two most famous roles also seem perfect for Bush. Like Rocky, Bush was an underdog, who triumphed (in the 2000 presidential election) without actually outscoring his opponent; and like Rambo, he has been keen to settle old military scores. Of course, neither Bush nor Stallone are as popular as they used to be, proving that celebrity is fickle business, however you achieve it.
5. Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon and Christo Javacheff (June 13, 1935)
Few birth twins have proven more compatible than these two artists, who have collaborated on many projects over the past 40 years, and have been happily married even longer. They are exponents of environmental installation art, famous for wrapping Berlin's Reichstag and the Paris's Pont Neuf Bridge in plastic, as well as such public artworks as Running Fence, a 24-mile-long curtain in California, and The Gates in New York City's Central Park.
6. Princess Diana and Carl Lewis (July 1, 1961)
They were among the biggest celebrities of the 1980s, winning overnight fame early in the decade "“ despite unlikely beginnings. As a child, years before becoming the world's most photographed person, Diana was notoriously shy; Lewis, years before winning nine Olympic gold medals, was a "runt." (Strangely, Diana showed more athletic prowess than Lewis at school, excelling in several sports.) Both became renowned for their charity work. After Princess Diana's death in 1997, "King Carl" wrote a tribute to her: "She will be missed by the many that she touched. And our birthday will never be as bright."
7. Albert Finney and Glenda Jackson (May 9, 1936)
Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts graduates? Check. Made their film debuts in early-1960s British "kitchen sink" dramas? Check. Became major stars in raunchy, Oscar-winning adaptations of classic British novels? Check. Turned down several film roles throughout their careers to focus on the theatre? Che-e-eck. Hey, these twins could almost be the same person! In fact, have you ever wondered why you've never seen them in the same film together?
8. Meryl Streep and Lindsay Wagner (June 22, 1949)
The super-woman of American stage and screen... and the star of The Bionic Woman on TV! How could that possibly be mere coincidence?
9. Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross (June 22, 1947)
Though these actors are best-known for playing a happily married couple in the classic 1980s sitcom Family Ties, they were actually (birth) twins. They're not the only twins who have worked together in television and the movies, of course. Oliver Stone directed Tommy Lee Jones twice, while Quincy Jones wrote music for The Italian Job (1969), starring his birth twin Michael Caine.
10. Andre Agassi and Uma Thurman (April 29, 1970)
One moment "“ like 1994 "“ you're riding high and everyone thinks you're sexy. A few years later, you're a has-been, ranked 141st in the world (or making appalling movies like Batman and Robin), but at least you're married to a former teen star like Brooke Shields (or Ethan Hawke). A few years later "“ like 2003 "“ you have broken up with your ex-teen-star spouse, but at least you're back in form. You're number one in the rankings (or high in the box office), decimating (or slicing to bits) your opponents in court (or in the Kill Bill movies). Oh, and everyone still thinks you're sexy.
Mark Juddery is a writer and historian based in Australia. See what else he's written at markjuddery.com.
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Sojourners' bumper sticker
When the really hard stuff happens, when we witness the true face of evil, Americans have a predictable habit. Even as cameras feed the latest bubble-shattering violence into our family rooms, we start looking for someone or something — anything — other than the actual perpetrators to stone. We panic for a scapegoat.
We hunt tirelessly for the person (a parent, an educator, a cop) who didn't catch the warning signs, who failed to read a memo — anyone on whose shoulders we can cast our collective fear — then rush as many measures into place as possible, no matter the cost in treasure or freedoms, to regain an illusion of safety and impenetrability.
One iteration of that really hard stuff happened at Sandy Hook. The backstory is eerily familiar. A young man, left to stew in our culture's juices, fleshes out the nightmare in his broken soul, and deals out tragedy in living color as if the holy innocents of Newtown were mere pixels on a screen, points in a twisted "shooter." Now, just four months later, it's a swept-away moment of terror and sadness that everyone just wants to forget because it's unthinkable to think on it any longer.
Virginia Tech, Aurora, and Newtown each stopped the nation in its tracks but we eventually moved on, and before anyone might guess, well over 3,000 more have died by gun violence in America since December.
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By Hajer Naili
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Karima Souid, a foreign-born deputy in Tunisia's constituent assembly, has broadened the language of lawmaking to include dialectical Arabic, the common tongue. The first of three profiles of women playing active roles in post-revolutionary Tunisia.
TUNIS, Tunisia (WOMENSENEWS)--Karima Souid had little interest in politics a year or so ago.
But today, the 40-year-old French Tunisian tourism professional is one of the 217 representatives in Tunisia's newly created constituent assembly, charged with writing a new Constitution within the year.
Souid is one of four female deputies elected to represent the center-left party Ettakatol party--the Forum for Labor and Liberties--which won 20 of the 217 seats.
In total, 59 women were elected among all parties in the assembly.
To ensure representation of women in the future assembly, Tunisia's interim government required that half of all names on a party's list be women and also that the lists alternated their candidates by gender.
Souid was born and raised in a suburb of Lyon, France, and was elected as a representative from abroad.
That means that Souid, along with 17 others deputies, represents voters of the Tunisian diaspora. Such deputies divide their time between the capital city of Tunis, where they spend three weeks a month, and the fourth week abroad with constituents.
Earlier last month she found herself plunged into the new assembly's language politics.
Since the revolution, the linguistic identity of Tunisia has become an essential part of political discourse, particularly for the moderate Islamist party Ennahda. Its leader, Rached Ghannouchi, has called using French a "pollution" of Tunisian Arabic.
The new Tunisia seeks to break from France, which supported former President Ben Ali's regime for decades, even after the outbreak of the popular revolution.
Formal Arabic is the official language of Tunisia according to Article 1 of the provisional constitution adopted in December, while French is the second most spoken language in the country. Tunisians typically communicate in both Arabic and French.
Souid of course is fluent in French. And like many Tunisians, she only speaks dialectal Arabic, the form spoken by her grandparents in Tunis.
A few weeks ago, when she found herself having trouble making an entailed, technical point in Arabic, she switched to French. Omar Chtiou, a member of the popular left-wing Congress for the Republic Party, strongly criticized her for using French within the assembly and reminded her of the need to respect the "Arabic and Muslim identity of Tunisians."
The rebuke set off a heated debate among several members of the assembly about the acceptability of languages other than formal Arabic.
"When it comes to technical questions, I feel indeed more comfortable speaking in French," said Souid, "That day, I used it and I was violently criticized by a deputy. But I hope it was more an overzealous attitude than a political calculation."
Souid used the incident to devise a way for deputies to work around the requirement of formal Arabic, which she says excludes thousands of Tunisians.
With another French-born representative, Sélim Ben Adelssalem, Souid proposed a procedural revision to provide parliamentary officers who can translate and interpret for representatives who haven't mastered formal Arabic.
On Jan. 20 their proposal was approved, ensuring that all Tunisians, no matter their linguistic background, will be able to follow the assembly's deliberations.
By Barbara Crossette
WeNews senior news analyst
By Hajer Naili
By Hajer Naili
By Nadya Khalife
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When trying to figure out when the first computer was invented, it can all depend on whom you ask. A historian might tell you that the first computer was the abacus, which was invented in Asia about 5000 years ago. However, the first modern computer was actually invented during World War II when a team of scientists and engineers at the University of Pennsylvania invented a general-purpose electronic digital calculator know as ENIAC (Electronic Numerator, Integrator, Analyzer, and Computer).
It consisted of 18,000 vacuum tubes and it was capable of adding 5,000 ten-digit decimal numbers per second. It also contained 7,200 crystal diodes, 1,500 relays, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors and around 5 million hand-soldered joints. It weighed approximately 30 short tons, took up about 1800 square feet (167 m²), and consumed 150 kW of power.
Several electronics experts of the day had predicted that tube failures within the ENIAC would occur so frequently that the machine would not be practical to use. In truth, they did have several tubes burn out each day, however, it still functioned about half the time. Most of the tube failures occurred during the warm-up and cool-down periods, when the tube heaters and cathodes were under thermal stress. For a truly “low-tech” solution, the engineers were able to reduce the downtime by simply leaving it turned on all the time, and reducing the tube failure to the more acceptable rate of one tube every two days.
It was the first large-scale, electronic, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed so it could solve a variety of computing problems. The ENIAC was originally designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the U.S. Army's Ballistics Research Laboratory. However, some of the first problems that were run on the ENIAC were related to the design of the hydrogen bomb. The ENIAC was definitely a revolutionary development, which at the time, was light years ahead of any other calculators.
However, ENIAC was not a computer in the strict meaning of the term. Its major problem was that it could not store a program. In other words, it could not store a list of list of commands that tell a computer what to do. After the invention of ENIAC in 1944, another contract was issued for the design of the EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Computer). This was a computer that could be used to store programs in it. It may seem simple now, but at the time, it was impossible to think that you could store commands in a machine.
The EDVAC was built for the U.S. Army's Ballistics Research Laboratory at the Aberdeen Proving Ground by the University of Pennsylvania. It had a memory capacity of 1,000 44-bit words, which was later set to 1,024 words, giving it a memory capacity of about 5.5 kilobytes. It had almost 6,000 vacuum tubes and 12,000 diodes, and consumed 56 kW of power. It covered 490 square feet and weighed around nine short tons. The full complement of operating personnel required to run it was thirty people for each eight-hour shift.
It was a huge improvement over the ENIAC in many ways. For instance, the EDVAC had a memory that held information and data allowing it to be stopped and started at various times. It also had a CPU (central processing unit), which is something used in modern computers today. The EDVAC was also capable of running error-free for at least eight hours at a time.
The ENIAC may have been the first functional large-scale, electronic, digital computer. However, some may say that it was the EDVAC that truly gave birth to the computer revolution with its improvements over the ENIAC that led to the modern computers used today. So even if you do not agree that the ENIAC was the first computer, it certainly led to the invention of one, and today's computers are its direct descendants.
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Christian Art To Be The Subject Of Pruit Symposium Oct. 26-28Oct. 19, 2000
Scholars from throughout the U.S. will examine the iconography, historical context and interpretive implications of Christian art during Baylor University's Pruit Memorial Symposium. "Interpreting Christian Art" will run from Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 26-28, in Roxy Grove Hall on campus.
According to Dr. Heidi J. Hornik, associate professor of art history and symposium co-director, this year's symposium will focus on topics that increasingly have been the subjects of discussion and contention among scholars, clergy and those in the art world.
"Through the participation of scholars, both theologians and art historians, we are trying to present different methods of understanding how Christian art was received at the time it was created and also what we gain from it today," she said.
Dr. Margaret R. Miles, the John Dillenberger Chair in Historical Theology at Graduate Theological Union, University of California at Berkeley, will deliver the symposium's keynote address, "Achieving the Christian Body: Visual Incentives to Imitation of Christ in the Christian West," at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26.
Miles taught for 18 years at Harvard Divinity School and served as president of the American Academy of Religion in 1998-1999. She is the author of "Image as Insight: Visual Understanding in Western Christianity and Social Reality"; "Plotinus on Body and Beauty: Society, Philosophy and Religion in Third Century Rome"; and "Desire and Delight: A New Reading of Augustine's Confessions."
Speaking on Friday, Oct. 27, will be Dr. Graydon Snyder of Chicago Theological Seminary; Dr. Robin M. Jensen, associate professor of history of Christianity and director of the Theology and the Arts program at Andover Newton Theological Seminary; Dr. Anthony Cutler, research professor of art history at Pennsylvania State University; Dr. Charles Barber, the Michael R. Grace Assistant Professor in Art History at the University of Notre Dame; and Dr. Paolo Berdini, assistant professor of art history at Stanford University.
On Oct. 28, the symposium will conclude with two addresses, "Luke and Pontormo: The 'Visitation' at SS. Annunziata, Florence" by Hornik and Dr. Mikeal C. Parsons, associate professor of religion at Baylor; and "What is Christian About Christian Art?" by Dr. John Wesley Cook, president of the Henry Luce Foundation.
"I recommend Dr. Cook's address especially for a lay audience," Hornik said. "His topic promises to be a wonderful summation and conclusion to the program, and I think it will be attractive to anyone having an interest in interpreting and understanding Christian art."
The Pruit Memorial Symposium is presented under the auspices of the Institute of Faith and Learning and was created with support from Mr. and Mrs. Lev. H. Prichard of Corpus Christi and his mother, the late Mrs. Helen Pruit Matthews. All symposium sessions are free and open to the public. For more information, call the Institute for Faith and Learning at (254) 710-4805 or visit www.baylor.edu/~IFL/events.htm .
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In 2000, a restoration project was initiated to convert a dredge spoil area into a tidal lagoon. The photo on the right taken in 2002 shows the rapid growth of the thousands of young red mangrove planted around the lagoon.
Tens of thousands of red mangrove propagules were collected, potted and later planted by volunteers for the new wetland.
A five-acre prescribed burn was conducted by Palm Beach County, Department of Environmental Resources Management in January 2008. This is the third prescribed burn conducted on the property. These burns regenerate overgrown oak scrub and reduce fuel levels in this urban setting.
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Reducing email risks of malpractice (part 2)
Two examples make the point. First, an associate at a large law firm receives an email from a college classmate asking about the best way to get his security deposit back from his landlord. The associate does some quick research and sends along the relevant statute with some suggested language for a demand for the return of the security deposit. His classmate forwards the email along to the landlord with a threatening email of his own.
As it turns out, the landlord is one of the law firm's largest clients. The implications are serious. It is an obvious ethical conflict of interest. But for the law firm, there is the much more significant client relations problem.
Second, an attorney receives an email from a neighbor advising that his daughter had been in an automobile accident and had received a traffic citation. His question is whether his daughter should contest the citation or simply pay the fine. The attorney replies to the email, asking if the daughter had any defense. When the neighbor responds with "no," the attorney suggests in a follow-up email that the daughter just pay the fine. Some time later, the neighbor reports that his daughter is now being sued by the other driver for the accident, and his insurance company has refused to defend the lawsuit because he did not report it immediately. He says his new attorney says that he should have been told that he needed to report the accident to his insurance company when he asked about it and points to the email string.
To read this article in its entirety please visit: http://tinyurl.com/878bcxj.
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BOSTON — The summer show at the Peabody Essex Museum is an exhibition of Ansel Adams photography. It’s the legendary photographer’s work as you’ve never seen it before.
We can be reasonably excused for thinking we’re all too familiar with the often over-exposed Ansel Adams. But in its new show Ansel Adams: At the Water’s Edge, Phillip Prodger, Curator of Photography at the Peabody Essex Museum shows us reasons to reconsider.
“There are pictures of water that are almost violent, the muscular energy of some of these pictures of cascades tumbling over waterfalls, swelling with water. Then there are other moments that are more meditative or contemplative, a little more withdrawn.”
In a riveting show, Prodger wades into Adams’ lifelong relationship with water—going all the way back to the beginning—when the seaside San Francisco native was lured by the landscape at age 13.
“His first memories were hearing the slapping of the waves on the sand and smelling the salt air. So something that was very deeply engrained in him. And as our exhibition shows, it is something that he carried with him throughout his career, ” Prodger said.
Adams had a lifelong romance with nature, including recurring dalliances throughout New England and especially Cape Cod. At the onset though, Adams’ work was radical. It was the 1920s and Adams had no allegiance to Victorian tradition.
“Those pictures tend to be very nostalgic, soft focus. Often the pictures are very colorful, deep sepia color often in the prints. Ansel did away with all that,” Prodger said. “He was part of a generation that felt things in a picture should be sharp focus, the things in the picture should be neutral black and white and really created a sort of unconventional, confrontational and direct style of photography that we now know and love so well.”
What’s more, he challenged himself—especially with water.
“With a waterfall or a raging rapid or crashing waves on a shore, you never know exactly what you’re going to get. Ansel didn’t know exactly what he was going to get. So I think it was more of the virtuosity of anticipating the scene before it happened, and of knowing where to be finding the right place and right time to fire the shot,” Prodger said.
The show frequently reminds us that photography we might easily take for granted today was staggeringly complicated for Adams. In 1953, he invented the developing process for these 10 by 12 foot murals.
“He had to stitch together three different sheets of paper because the commercial papers available then didn’t reach that scale. So it was really a technical feet. Shooting across the room, on three separate sheets of paper, developing them rolled up in troughs mounting them together perfectly so you couldn’t see the seams, they’re really something special,” Prodger said.
Always versatile, Adams worked with an array of formats and equipment. Consistent, though, was the emotion he brought to his work and hoped would be conveyed in return.
“When Ansel took a picture of, say, a waterfall, if he was happy or sad or full of energy or was dragging that day, he hoped that an element of his experience of that scene would enter into that picture. And then he further hoped that later on when we looked at it, we would get some of that feeling back out of it,” Prodger said.
And what we get from this show is a refreshing look at a legendary photography we only thought we fully knew.
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By Antonio M. Battro, OLPC’s Chief Education Officer
Jeffrey James wrote a critique of OLPC last year, proposing a balanced pattern of “sharing computers” among children (say 5 children per computer, in the US or the UK) instead of the olpc “one to one” model – one laptop per child (and per teacher). As an alternative to olpc, James proposes that “the number of students per laptop stands in roughly the same ratio as the difference in per capita incomes between the rich and the poor country” (p. 385). In his view, the OLPC idea to persuade the developing countries to exceed the standards of shared computers of developed countries seems “utterly perverse” (p. 386).
It seems that his reasoning will fail if we substitute mobile phones for laptops. We don’t frequently share mobile phones, and in many poor countries their number exceeds James’s predictions about ratios of income and information and communication technologies in the hands of people. It seems difficult to accept the universality of his model about “sharing”, because laptops, tablets and mobile phones are rapidly converging in new hybrids.
On the other side, his ideas for successful low-cost technology sharing are not clear. One of his options, for instance, is “to purchase Intel’s Classmate computer at a similarly low price and let [them] be shared by as many students as is thought desirable” (p.389). In Argentina, where the Classmate has been most widely adopted, the national government is deploying some 3 million Classmates to cover the whole population of students and teachers of the secondary public schools in the country, on a one to one basis – an idea first proposed by OLPC some 5 years ago. It would be interesting to know the current state of affairs of other options he references (Simputer, NComputing, sharing multiple mice). However the quoted references are from 2006 and 2008, and 3-5 years is a long time in the digital era.
From the point of view of psychology and education, some comments about “teaching” need careful revision. First, in his paper James never speaks of the need to give laptops to the teachers, despite the significant mass of teachers in the world. On the contrary, OLPC programs start in every country by giving a laptop per teacher and providing corresponding teacher training. We know that a) “digital skills” develop in stages from the very early ages, as a second language (Battro & Denham, 2007) and b) most teachers didn’t have the opportunity to early access to this new global environment in the poor and developing countries.
What seems strange today is that James takes the old model of a “computer laboratory” as a standard, while it has been replaced in many places by the “extended school” that includes connected laptops at home as well as in class. The classical view of a teacher “in front” of a class or a laboratory, even if each of them has a laptop, is not a model to follow. Teaching and learning are now expanding because of the vertical and horizontal interactions in real pedagogical situations in a digital environment: children to adults, adults to children, children to children. In most cases children work in groups, like musicians, in duos, quartets, quintets and sextets. The solo case is rare.
The mention en passant that Seymour Papert has promoted an educational philosophy of school-age children that “teach themselves” is appropriate. In fact, children teach! This impressive skill is included in many successful initiatives around the globe known as “learning by doing”, “hands-on”, ”la main à la pâte”, ”project Zero”, etc. (Strauss, 2005; Battro, 2009) But none of us has promoted a “teacherless world” as suggested on page 387. On the contrary, since the time of Piaget in the sixties, several of us, along with Papert, have been working together to better understand the role of both teaching and learning in different cultures. In this sense, the neurocognitive sciences have done in the last decade formidable work to understand the learning brain. We now expect a leap forward in the realm of the teaching brain as well (Battro, 2010; IMBES, International Mind, Brain and Education, www.imbes.org). Surprisingly, James does not mention the developing brain in his paper, but “neuroeducation” is now a fact and laptops are a mobile and portable laboratory for recording many brain activities (Battro, Fischer & Léna, 2008; Aoki, Funane and Koizumi, 2010). We are entering a new digital era, with many more intellectual and technical tools than those provided by the teaching and learning restricted to a classroom or computer lab.
Aoki, R., Funane, T. & Koizumi, H. (2010). Brain science of ethics: Present status and the future. Mind, Brain and Education, 4, 4, 188-195.
Battro, A. M. & Denham, P. J. (2007). Hacia una inteligencia digital. Buenos Aires: Academia Nacional de Ciencias.
Battro, A. M, Fischer, K. W. & Léna P. (2008). The educated brain. Essays in neuroeducation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Battro, A.M. (2009) Multiple intelligences and constructionism in the digital era. Multiple Intelligences Around the World. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/Wiley.
Battro, A.M. (2010). The teaching brain. Mind Brain and Education. Vol.4, 1, 28-33.
James, J. (2010). New Technology in Developing Countries: A Critique of the One-Laptop-Per-Child Program. Social Science Computer Review, 28, 3, 381-380.
Strauss, S. (2005). Teaching as a natural cognitive ability: Implications for classroom practice and teacher education. In D. Pilmer and S. White (eds). Develop
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IKEA Social Initiative donates 1 euro for every teddy bear and soft toy sold in IKEA stores for a number of weeks in connection to the holiday season. Proceeds from the annual 1€ is a Fortune campaign are earmarked for various projects run by UNICEF and Save the Children.
The projects focus on improving children’s education, and together with our customers IKEA can make a real difference. One euro alone is for example enough to provide five children with schoolbooks for one whole year.
Since its start in 2003, this campaign has enabled IKEA Social Initiative to donate 16.7 million euros to UNICEF and Save the Children, thereby improving the education for millions of children in 30 countries in Asia, Africa and Central and Eastern Europe. As many as 7.6 million children have got access to improved education just through the UNICEF projects supported by the campaign, and many more benefit when the Save the Children projects are added.
This year’s campaign will enable UNICEF and Save the Children to extend or start up new projects in nine countries, as well as finance many projects that are already ongoing.
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In the 1979 NBA draft -- the first in the Utah era of the franchise -- the Jazz's 10th-round pick was a better player than their first-rounder.
The Jazz used the 20th overall pick on forward Larry Knight of Loyola-Chicago. With the 185th pick, they selected 6-foot-5 forward Paul Dawkins of Northern Illinois.
Dawkins spent one season with the Jazz and, in the third game of the year in a lineup featuring future Hall of Famers Pete Maravich and Adrian Dantley, he scored a team-high 30 points in a 107-92 loss to Portland.
"He was unbelievable that night," ex-coach Tom Nissalke said.
How did Knight play against Portland?
Actually, he didn't.
Two weeks before Dawkins' 30-point performance against the Blazers, the Jazz cut their No. 1 pick.
"Knight had no offensive ability whatsoever," said Nissalke. "He couldn't throw the ball in the ocean. ... [But] Dawkins could shoot the ball. He was an in-between size and that hurt him a little. But he had some offensive ability. As soon as he got here, you could tell he had some skills."
Dawkins eventually played 57 games for the Jazz during their 24-win season in 1979-80. He averaged 5.5 points and 2.2 rebounds.
Dawkins' days in Utah were numbered, however, after the Jazz used two first-round picks in the 1980 draft on high-profile guards Darrell Griffith and John Duren.
Dawkins was cut just before the start of the season. He did not play in the NBA again, although he remains the No. 4 scorer in Northern Illinois history after averaging 26.7 points per game as a senior.
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Today I was reading a commentary written by Rabbi Label Lam on this weeks parsha, the weekly torah portion. It happens to be about the reunion of Jacob and Esau, but it pertains to the giving and receiving, an important Kabbalistic concept that typically comes to the forefront of our minds during the holiday season.
Just when so many people are caught up in the “getting” of gifts–in what they desire to receive–I found it interesting to read about the different perspectives these two biblical characters had on their so-called “possessions. In Genesis 33:9, 11, Esau proclaims, “I have plenty.” Jacob says, “I have all.” According to Rashi, one of the most famous commentators on the Torah, “Esau spoke boastfully, proclaiming :’I have plenty more than I could ever want.’ (Jacob said, ‘I have) everything that I require.’” Rabbi Lam points out that Easau “evaluates his personal wealth in terms of quantity (“plenty”), as opposed to Jacob, who does so in terms of quality (“all”). While the former is still hopelessly addicted to temporary material existence, the latter is living life on a higher frequency.”
I see this as the difference between someone who wants material “things” and often feels lack when those things are absent and a person who looks around at the world and sees the abundance of the universe and feels rich in every way. One person will always see something missing in his or her life, while the other person can always find something in his or her life about which to feel grateful and prosperous and abundant. It’s a different perspective, a different point of view, a different way of seeing the world. In fact, it’s a different consciousness.
During Christmas and Chanukah, a lot of stress is placed on presents. Most people enjoy giving presents as well as receiving them. The Kabbalists teach that we should really want is a new consciousness–a consciousness that desires to receive in order to give, or to share, with others unconditionally. The holiday season offers us a chance to practice this more so than at any other time of the year. We can ask ourselves as we make up our gift list, how can we share what we receive? How can we do so when we feel as if we don’t have enough ourselves? And how can we get out of feeling that sense of lack so we can give more freely and easily and unconditionally?
Additionally, how does what we have to give play into our concept of ourselves and what we feel we are worth? Many people’s self image is tied totally into their home, car, clothes, savings, and other material things. Do these things really say anything about who we are and what we are worth?
Read this story that Rabbi Lam told in his commentary on this week’s parsha, and you’ll realize that a person’s worth and value actually is tied to their unconditional giving.
A powerful king once approached the famous Baron Rothschild and candidly asked him what he was worth. The Baron is reputed to have answered that he was worth some 50 million francs. The king felt that the answer somehow understated his true holdings and did some investigation. When he discovered that Baron Rothschild really was worth 500 million francs, he felt betrayed, and confronted the Baron again. “Why have you misled me and violated our trusting relationship? I am aware that your assets exceed 500 million francs!”
The Baron humbly replied that true, his holdings were some 500 million francs – but the king had asked, “How much are you worth?” To that the Baron was compelled to tell the truth. “What I gave to charity approaches 50 million francs. What I have managed to give away is actually accounted to my “worth.” That is what I carry with me. It is locked in a vault of good deeds forever. As to what will happen to the remainder of my wealth, I am uncertain. I do not count it as my personal worth.’”
Rabbi Lam explains the moral of this story in this way: “The spiritually-oriented person is not compelled to impress or be impressed by that which lies outside of himself. His true ambition is aimed at goals that are within his reachable realm, and his physical possessions are merely a means to achieve those ends and not the ends themselves.”
I’d add this: We all have desires. We all want to learn how to manifest those desires. The key is to find desires that involve giving to others…helping others…becoming change agents… Try to manifest “things” that help you do this, and use them in that manner. Then ask yourself what you have and what you are worth. You’ll probably discover that you have all, your worth has grown considerably and you are quite worthy of receiving more.
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The Pyrenees are rich in timber and in pastures, and the many streams are utilized by hydroelectric power stations. Talc and zinc are mined there. The population, partly of Basque and Bearnese stock, engages mostly in stock raising and agriculture. On the French side are the best-known resorts, such as Pau and Tarbes, famed both for the beauty of their scenery and for their mineral waters. Lourdes, one of the world's chief places of pilgrimage, is also there. On the Atlantic shore, below the W Pyrenees, are the fashionable resorts of Biarritz and Saint-Jean-de-Luz (France) and San Sebastián (Spain).
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Grains, grains, grains. It seems there is a lot of confusion about whether to eat them or not, how to prepare them, how to soak and sprout and sourdough and grind…..I am just as confused about grains as everyone else. So here are the parts I am sure about:
- Our ancestors soaked or fermented their grains before making them into porridge, bread, cakes and casseroles.
- All grains contain phytic acid in the outer layer or bran
- Untreated phytic acid can combine with calcium, magnesium, copper, iron and zinc in the intestines and block the absorption of these minerals.
- A diet high in grains leads to bone loss, tooth decay and mineral deficiencies.
- Soaking allows enzymes and bacteria to break down and reduce phytic acid.
- Soaking allows enzymes to release vitamins that are bound in the grain, making them readily available to your body.
- Soaking partially breaks down gluten, making it easier to digest.
- Cracked, rolled and ground grains (flour) go rancid very quickly at room temperature. Long before you purchase them off the store shelves.
Parts I’m not so clear on:
How much of the phytic acid is reduced by soaking? Is it worth it?
What ratio of grains should a person eat? What is a safe amount?
What grains need to be soaked for what length of time?
Most recipes say to cook the grain in the water in which it was soaking…doesn’t that water have phytic acid in it now? Where did it go? Did small ninjas come carry it away in the night?
According to Ramiel Nagel in the book Cure Tooth Decay: “Sprouting grains is a wonderful step in the fermentation process. But it does not remove that much phytic acid. Typically sprouting will remove somewhere between 20-30% of phytic acid after two or three days for beans, seeds and grains under laboratory conditions at a constant 77 degrees Fahrenheit. Sprouting was more effective in rye, rice, millet and mung beans, removing about 50% of phytic acid, and not effective at all with oats. Soaking by itself for 16 hours at a constant 77 degrees typically removed 5-10% of the grain and bean phytic acid content. Soaking increased or did not reduce the phytic acid content of quinoa, sorghum, corn, oats, amaranth, wheat, mung beans, and some seeds.”
“These statistics do not illustrate the entire picture. Even though soaking quinoa actually increased phytic acid contents, soaking and then cooking quinoa reduces its phytic acid levels by more than 61%. The same holds true for beans. Soaking and then cooking removes about 50% of phytic acid. With lentils this same procedure removes 76% of phytic acid. Roasting wheat, barley or green gram (Mung beans) reduces phytic acid by about 40%. A very interesting report shows the value of grain and bean storage in relation to plant toxins. In humid and warm storage conditions beans lost 65% of their phytic acid content.” And for the record Ramiel Nagel recommends either severely limiting grains in the diet, and freshly grinding grain and discarding part of the bran and germ (the part that contains the phytic acid). According to his research if you are purchasing flour from the store you should buy unbleached, un-enriched organic white flour, and eat it very sparingly. I would highly recommend that you read his book. It’s 234 pages of mind blowing research. www.curetoothdecay.com
I also want to add some anecdotal evidence. If I eat a handful of raw nuts I get almost instantly bloated, with stomach pains and indigestion. If I soak the nuts and dehydrate them and then eat a handful of nuts, I digest them just fine and can eat a big serving of homemade trail mix with no problem.
If I eat unsoaked oatmeal, I get the same feeling. Just an overall feeling of not digesting properly. Bloated and heavy and weird…If I soak the oatmeal for 24 hours and then cook it, I digest it just fine.
So based on my own experience with grains alone, I think soaking is worth the trouble for me. I also think we would be much better off in a lot of areas if we listened to our ancestors (and our bodies). Traditional people soaked, fermented, or sprouted grains. Maybe they were doing that for a reason?
To further add to my confusion, I was recently introduced to http://www.phyticacid.org/ Dr. Amanda Rose has done some interesting research showing that your soaking medium should not contain calcium. She explains that the phytic acid is reduced even more with just a plain water soak, or with an acid medium that does not contain calcium (vinegar, lemon juice, sourdough starter etc). Every soaking recipe I have ever heard called for whey, buttermilk, or kefir. She says that soaking in warm water, or warm water with sourdough starter is more effective. I am planning on purchasing her e-course and research materials, and I will post all about it when I’m through I promise!
HOW TO SOAK GRAINS
1 cup grain
1 cup warm purified water (enough to cover)
2 Tbsp sourdough starter (learn how to make one here) OR lemon juice or vinegar.
Mix all ingredients in a bowl (I mix mine right in the sauce pan that I plan to cook them in) Cover with a lid or cloth and let sit out overnight (or longer). Oatmeal is very high in phytic acid and should be soaked for 24 hours. Anyone who has eaten soaked oatmeal knows that it really does improve the flavor so much, that it is worth it for that reason alone. Soaked grains also cook much faster, which is great for the morning rush.
HOW TO SOAK NUTS
4 cups nuts
filtered water to cover
1 Tbsp sea salt
Mix all ingredients in a bowl and cover with a cloth. Let it sit out at room temperature for 8 hours minimum. I let mine sit overnight. Drain in a colander. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Spread nuts out in a thin layer. Place in oven on lowest heat (no more than 150 degrees). My oven has a “warm” setting that is 170 degrees, I use this and place a wooden spoon in the oven door so that the door is open 1 inch. The thermometer now reads 144 degrees. Perfect! Dehydrate the nuts for 12-20 hours or until they are crispy and no longer moist at all. I stir them a few times so this goes faster. If you are lucky enough to have room in your kitchen for a dehydrator, use that!
Almonds, pecans, cashews, macadamia nuts and peanuts have high amounts of stable oleic acid and can be stored for four months at room temperature (if container is air tight). Walnuts contain unsaturated linolenic acid and should always be stored in the fridge.
So what do you think? Does that sound too difficult for daily cooking? I find that if I plan ahead and stick to my menu planning I have no problem soaking grains. When I don’t make a menu for the week, then I only remember it about 50% of the time. I do a large batch of nuts at once, and that lasts us for 3-4 months or so. Right now, I don’t have a grain grinder, so I am buying sprouted flour. I am really looking forward to grinding my own grains, if I can ever fit that appliance in my budget that would be great!
So hopefully you leave this post feeling a tad bit less confused about grains. I know it is a confusing subject, and I think the more you research health and nutrition the more confused you are going to get. One thing at a time right?
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Special ProgramsParenting Classes
Parenting classes are periodically held at the Central Park Library and are typically presented by outside agencies, such as the Santa Clara Unified School District. Please visit our Kids Calendar
for dates and registration information. These classes are for adults only; child care is not provided. Note: Attendance at these classes usually do not qualify for court-appointed parent education requirements
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Google Plus +1 buttons have been popping up all over the web for the last several weeks--you might have noticed them here on ReelSEO. But up until today, the purpose and function of these buttons has been rather nebulous. What happens when you click +1? How is the "vote" used? We knew that it impacted the search results of your friends in some way, but that was about the extent of it. Today Google announced that they're rolling out the ability to share directly with your Circles from the +1 button.
Share To Circles With New Google Plus +1 Button
The Google Plus +1 buttons can now be used to share directly on your Stream, with whichever of your Circles you choose. Until now, the button hasn't translated directly to a sharing action with your Plus connections. Despite that fact, the button has been implemented by more than a million publishers and has "crossed more than 2 billion views."
The new capabilities should lead to even more publishers adding the button, as well as an increase in reader use. Users just need to click the +1 button as normal, and a new "Share On Google Plus" option appears.
There's also a new concept called +Snippets. +Snippets are the thumbnails and text samples that Google Plus pulls automatically from the links and pages on which you click +1. Here's a screenshot (from the Google blog) of what +Snippets looks like:
To some degree, publishing sites can dictate the link, image, and descriptive text that appears in these +Snippets. The Google Webmaster blog has a more in-depth description on how publishers can take full advantage of the +1 button's new capabilities.
Video & The New Google Plus +1 Button
This is huge news for publishers of all kinds, because it makes something that was previously somewhere between mysterious and unnecessary to readers and makes it useful. But it's especially big for video creators. Why? Because all YouTube videos have the +1 sharing button below them.
Videos spread because of social sharing activity, and now the +1 button allows that activity. Video creators would be wise to implement the button on their blog or website, and even educate viewers to help encourage them to use it.
Here's a video Google created to help explain the new Google Plus +1 buttons:
The new +1 button functions will be rolling out this week, but if you can't wait and want to jump in early, you can join the Google Plus Platform group here.
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In 1968, in 1/500th of a second Eddie Adams photographed a Saigon police chief, General Nygoc Loan, shooting a Vietcong guerrilla point black. Some say that photograph ended the Vietnam war... See full summary »
In 1968, in 1/500th of a second Eddie Adams photographed a Saigon police chief, General Nygoc Loan, shooting a Vietcong guerrilla point black. Some say that photograph ended the Vietnam war. The photo brought Eddie fame and a Pulitzer, but Eddie was haunted by the man he had vilified. He would say, "Two lives were destroyed that day, the victim's and the general." Other's would say three lives were destroyed. Eddie Adams, like most artists, was tortured by his need for perfection. Nothing he did ever satisfied him. He carved out many careers shooting covers for Life, Time, and even Penthouse. Yet, somehow, he was always pulled back into documenting wars, 13 all together. Finally he hit the wall and couldn't take it anymore. He began shooting celebrities because "It doesn't take anything from you." Eddie was comfortable with kings and coal miners. During his time with Parade magazines he photographed Clint Eastwood, Louis Armstrong, Mother Teresa, and Pope John Paul. Written by
I saw this at the Fort Lauderdale film festival and it jumped into my soul. It's about as compelling a guy as you can find but the story telling is pitch perfect as well. It took fifteen minutes for me to decompress on my own outside the cinema. Very powerful stuff. I then had the joy of seeing it again at the Santa Fe film festival and second time it hit me as hard. It is for me one of the two best things I saw last year, the other being Man on Wire. When are fiction films going to live up to the standard of the best of their non fiction siblings. Bear in mind Man on Wire beat Slumdog Millionaire for the Best British Film Award at the British Academy Awards this year.
Please go see this film as you won't regret it.
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All children require a certain amount of "psychosocial support" as they grow and mature to help meet their emotional, social, mental, and spiritual needs. For children with cancer or blood disorders, the need for psychosocial support increases dramatically as their lives become consumed with illness. Providing this kind of support for the sick child is as essential as providing relief of physical symptoms.
Psychosocial support makes life a little easier for children and adolescents by helping them cope with the stress and anxiety that often accompanies treatment for their cancer or blood disorder. The Children's Blood & Cancer Center offers the following psychosocial support services for patients and families.
- Child Life Specialists help patients understand their medical procedures, cope with the stress of illness, and express their feelings in constructive ways. They also guide families through their child's cancer experience.
- The Childhood Cancer Fair/St. Baldrick's Family Event is the biggest annual educational event to connect cancer patients and families to community resources.
- The Hematology Family Wellness Fair is a fun event that helps blood disorder patients and their families build strong support systems through community resources.
- Hungry Bunch Teen Support Group monthly outings, weekend camp and special prom help teens build supportive friendships and a strong support system with other cancer and blood disorder patients.
- Survivor Challenge is a safe and structured physical activity training program to help patients feel better and make regular exercise an ongoing and important part of their lives.
- Through Family Nutrition Classes, patients and families learn about proper nutrition and its important role in treating cancer.
- Based on the idea that creative arts can heal, Art Therapy uses the creative process to help cancer patients cope with the stresses that come with battling life-threatening illnesses.
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Mintel Highlights the Beauty in Social Media Engagement
Posted: May 3, 2012
While Britain’s beauty and personal care industries increasingly look to take advantage of the opportunities offered by an increasingly online—and vocal—audience, understanding their behavior while there is crucial to future success. Indeed, with Brits increasingly incorporating the Internet into their everyday lives, recent research from Mintel reveals that almost four in 10 Brits (37%, equating to 15 million consumers) have interacted with beauty and personal care brands online.
The Internet has revolutionized the way that people communicate with one another and social networking sites have facilitated a far greater reach for word of mouth. Every day in the U.K., 59% of Brits log into their Facebook accounts and 13% sign into Twitter. Mintel's latest research reveals Brits increasingly use the Internet to research beauty products before purchase with social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter informing purchase decisions on beauty products for 34% of would-be buyers.
In a new report examining the role of the Internet and online media in the beauty and personal care sector, Mintel finds just over two thirds (67%) of Brits who engage with beauty brands have visited the website of a beauty or personal care brand. Almost 10 million people visit beauty and personal care brand websites with just under nine million resorting to Google when they want to find out more about these products and brands.
Alexandra Richmond, senior social media and lifestyles analyst at Mintel, says, “People use social media to share what they think with many people—not just their friends and family. In fact, sharing their thoughts on beauty products with friends, family or colleagues is a key reason that people talk about beauty and personal care brands both online and offline. This illustrates the strength of word of mouth, and the Internet plays a key role in enabling people to influence other people’s purchases whilst at the same time providing brands with valuable feedback.”
Irrespective of the amount of time that people spend online, Facebook is the preferred vehicle to express thoughts or opinions on beauty brands when online. Almost three quarters (74%) of people who have used the Internet to contact a brand or discuss one have used Facebook to do so. Facebook users are more likely to become a fan or “like” a brand on Facebook than they are to post a status update or engage directly on the brand’s Facebook wall. Almost two thirds (65%) of those who have contacted a brand via Facebook have become a fan or “liked” the brand compared to just one in four (24%) who have posted a status update on Facebook referencing a beauty or personal care brand.
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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Dozens of foreign insects and plant diseases slipped undetected into the United States in the years after 9/11, when authorities were so focused on preventing another attack that they overlooked a pest explosion that threatened the quality of the nation's food supply.
At the time, hundreds of agricultural scientists responsible for stopping invasive species at the border were reassigned to anti-terrorism duties in the newly formed Homeland Security Department — a move that scientists say cost billions of dollars in crop damage and eradication efforts from California vineyards to Florida citrus groves.
The consequences come home to consumers in the form of higher grocery prices, substandard produce and the risk of environmental damage from chemicals needed to combat the pests.
An Associated Press analysis of inspection records found that border-protection officials were so engrossed in stopping terrorists that they all but ignored the country's exposure to destructive new insects and infections — a quietly growing menace that has been attacking fruits and vegetables and even prized forests ever since.
"Whether they know it or not, every person in the country is affected by this, whether by the quality or cost of their food, the pesticide residue on food or not being able to enjoy the outdoors because beetles are killing off the trees," said Mark Hoddle, an entomologist specializing in invasive species at the University of California, Riverside.
Homeland Security officials acknowledge making mistakes and say they are now working to step up agricultural inspections at border checkpoints, airports and seaports.
While not as dire as terrorism, the threat is considerable and hard to contain.
Many invasive species are carried into the U.S. by people who are either unaware of the laws or are purposely trying to skirt quarantine regulations. The hardest to stop are fruits, vegetables and spices carried by international travelers or shipped by mail. If tainted with insects or infections, they could carry contagions capable of devastating crops.
Plants and cut flowers can harbor larvae, as can bags of bulk commodities such as rice. Beetles have been found hitchhiking on the bottom of tiles from Italy, and boring insects have burrowed into the wooden pallets commonly used in cargo shipments.
Invasive species have been sneaking into North America since Europeans arrived on the continent, and many got established long before 9/11. But the abrupt shift in focus that followed the attacks caused a steep decline in agricultural inspections that allowed more pests to invade American farms and forests.
Using the Freedom of Information Act, the AP obtained data on border inspections covering the period from 2001 to 2010. The analysis showed that the number of inspections, along with the number of foreign species that were stopped, fell dramatically in the years after the Homeland Security Department was formed.
Over much of the same period, the number of crop-threatening pests that got into the U.S spiked, from eight in 1999 to at least 30 last year.
The bugs targeted some of the nation's most productive agricultural regions, particularly California and Florida, with their warm year-round climates that make it easy for foreign species to survive the journey and reproduce in their new home.
A look at the damage:
— No fewer than 19 Mediterranean fruit fly infestations took hold in California, and the European grapevine moth triggered spraying and quarantines across wine country.
— The Asian citrus psyllid, which can carry a disease that has decimated Florida orange groves, crossed the border from Mexico, threatening California's $1.8 billion citrus industry.
— New Zealand's light brown apple moth also emerged in California, prompting the government in 2008 to bombard the Monterey Bay area with 1,600 pounds of pesticides. The spraying drew complaints that it caused respiratory problems and killed birds. Officials spent $110 million to eradicate the moth, but it didn't work.
— The sweet orange scab, a fungal disease that infects citrus, appeared in Florida, Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, which all imposed quarantines.
— Chili thrips, rice cutworms and the plant disease gladiolus rust also got into Florida, which saw a 27 percent increase in new pests and pathogens between 2003 and 2007.
— The erythrina gall wasp decimated Hawaii's wiliwili trees, which bear seeds used to make leis.
— Forests from Minnesota to the Northeast were also affected by beetles such as the emerald ash borer, many of which arrived in Chinese shipping pallets because regulations weren't enforced.
In all, the number of pest cases intercepted at U.S. ports of entry fell from more than 81,200 in 2002 to fewer than 58,500 in 2006, before creeping back up in 2007, when the farm industry and members of Congress began complaining.
Once the pests get established, costs can quickly spiral out of control. The most widely quoted economic analysis, conducted in 2004 by Cornell University, puts the total annual cost of all invasive species in the U.S. at $120 billion. Much of that burden is borne by consumers in the form of higher food costs and by taxpayers who pay for government eradication programs.
For instance, if the destructive infection known as citrus canker were to become established in California, which produces most of the nation's fresh oranges, consumers would pay up to $130 million more a year for the fruit, according to an ongoing study by scientists at the University of California at Davis.
"It's all about early detection, and it wasn't their priority at the time," said A.G. Kawamura, secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture from 2003 through 2010, who was sharply criticized for the spraying in Monterey Bay.
And it's not just humans who pay the cost. Wildlife and beneficial insects die when fields are sprayed.
The problems began when the Homeland Security Department absorbed inspectors who worked for the Department of Agriculture. The move put plant and insect scientists alongside gun-toting agents from Customs and Border Protection and resulted in a bitter culture clash.
Agriculture supervisors were replaced in the chain of command by officials unfamiliar with crop science. Hundreds of inspectors resigned, retired or transferred to other agencies. Some of the inspectors who remained on the job lost their offices and desks and were forced to work out of the trunks of their cars.
It took authorities years "to learn there's an important mission there," said Joe Cavey, head of pest identification for a USDA inspection service. "Yeah, maybe a radioactive bomb is more important, but you have to do both things."
At the time of the merger, at least 339 of 1,800 inspector positions were vacant. By 2008, vacancies had increased to 500, or more than a quarter of the original workforce.
The effect of the exodus was profound. One East Coast port director told a congressional investigator that she was left without a single agriculture inspector. An airport technician in Bangor, Maine, said there wasn't one within 50 miles for two years.
One agriculture inspector who defied authority was demoted, despite being credited with saving California's citrus industry from the potentially devastating effects of canker.
While working at an international mail center outside San Francisco, the inspector found a package destined for Ventura labeled "books and chocolates." Inside were 350 citrus cuttings from Japan that were infested with canker, which has killed more than 2 million trees across Florida but does not exist in California.
He showed it to a supervisor, who, according to the Congressional Record, replied: "Look, we are here to protect the country from acts of terrorism. What do you expect me to do?"
The inspector sidestepped the supervisor and called the USDA. The resulting investigation ended with arrests and the incineration of 4,000 potentially infected trees that had been growing at an unregistered nursery in a prime citrus region.
But within a month, the whistleblower was demoted to search through the dirty laundry of passengers returning from foreign trips.
Government officials now acknowledge the problems and say they began taking corrective steps after Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California threatened in 2008 to propose a bill that would move inspectors back to the USDA and increase their numbers.
"That was a huge moment for everybody," said Kevin Harriger, Custom and Border Protection's acting executive director of agriculture programs. "We took it on the chin and said, 'You're right. We heard you. We've been remiss in several key areas.'"
Critics in Congress say serious damage has already been done. Sen. Daniel Akaka, a Hawaii Democrat and member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, said the improvements aren't happening fast enough. He's asked the Government Accountability Office to reopen an investigation.
"When change like this happens, you hope people get it right the first time," said Rep. Dennis Cardoza, a California Democrat who also investigated the problems. "But if they don't, it's not them who pay the price. It's society that does."
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by Bill McBride on 7/29/2011 11:35:00 AM
Friday, July 29, 2011
According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), real GDP is still below the pre-recession peak. The estimate for real GDP in Q2 (2005 dollars) is $13,270.1 billion, still 0.4% below the $13,326 billion in Q4 2007.
The following graph is constructed as a percent of the previous peak. This shows when GDP has bottomed - and when GDP has returned to the level of the previous peak. If the indicator is at a new peak, the value is 100%.
At the worst point, real GDP was off 5.1% from the 2007 peak. Since the most common definition of a depression is a 10%+ decline in real GDP, the 2007 recession was not a depression. Note: There is no formal definition of a depression. Some people use other definitions such as the duration below the previous peak. By that definition, using both GDP and employment, this seems like the "Lesser depression", but not by the common definition.
Click on graph for larger image in graph gallery.
This graph is for real GDP through Q2 2011 and shows real GDP is still 0.4% below the previous pre-recession peak.
Note: There are really two measures of GDP: 1) real GDP, and 2) real Gross Domestic Income (GDI). The BEA will release GDI with the 2nd GDP estimate.
The following graph shows the rolling 4 quarter contribution to GDP from residential investment, equipment and software, and nonresidential structures. This is important to follow because residential investment tends to lead the economy, equipment and software is generally coincident, and nonresidential structure investment trails the economy.
For the following graph, red is residential, green is equipment and software, and blue is investment in non-residential structures. The usual pattern - both into and out of recessions is - red, green, blue.
Residential Investment (RI) made a positive contribution to GDP in Q2 2011, however the four quarter rolling average is still negative. The rolling four quarter average for RI will probably turn positive in Q3.
Equipment and software investment has made a significant positive contribution to GDP for eight straight quarters (it is coincident).
The contribution from nonresidential investment in structures was positive in Q2. Nonresidential investment in structures typically lags the recovery, however investment in energy and power is masking weakness in office, mall and hotel investment (the underlying details will be released next week).
The key leading sector - residential investment - has lagged this recovery because of the huge overhang of existing inventory. Usually RI is a strong contributor to GDP growth and employment in the early stages of a recovery, but not this time - and this is a key reason why the recovery has been sluggish so far.
Residential Investment (RI) increased slightly in Q2, and as a percent of GDP, RI is just above the record low set last quarter.
I'll break down Residential Investment (RI) into components after the GDP details are released this coming week. Note: Residential investment (RI) includes new single family structures, multifamily structures, home improvement, broker's commissions, and a few minor categories.
I expect RI to increase in 2011 and add to both GDP and employment growth - for the first time since 2005 (even with the weak first half, this appears correct).
The last graph shows non-residential investment in structures and equipment and software.
Equipment and software investment has been increasing sharply, however investment growth only increased in Q2 at a 5.7% annualized rate - the slowest rate since investment declined in Q2 2009.
Non-residential investment in structures increased in Q2, and is just above the record low. I'll add details for investment in offices, malls and hotels next week.
• Advance Estimate: Real Annualized GDP Grew at 1.3% in Q2
• Real GDP still below Pre-Recession Peak, Chicago PMI declines, Consumer Sentiment Weak
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The Latest Science
There are many different lines of climate science, but they all lead to the same conclusion. To quote the world’s most respected scientific organization, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences: “Climate change is occurring, is very likely caused primarily by the emission of greenhouse gases from human activities, and poses significant risks for a range of human and natural systems.”
Every major scientific organization with an opinion on climate change agees. Climate change, as our National Academy of Sciences has stated, is a “settled fact.”
To make the case even stronger, two recent studies, one by Anderegga, Prallb, Haroldc & Schneider, and one by Doran & Zimmerman, show that 96% to 98% of climate scientists are convinced our world is warming and carbon emissions are a primary reason.
So the most important question isn’t whether our planet is growing warmer, or whether we’re causing the change. It is, and we are. The most important question is, “What happens if we don’t take steps to address climate change in the near future?”
Here’s what our scientists predict. The planet will continue to warm. Forests in the western U.S. will continue to die off. Strong storms, the kind that scour rivers in Vermont and slam nesting pheasants in South Dakota, will become more frequent. States like Colorado, Idaho and Montana will see earlier snowmelt, with higher water temperatures and lower flows in the country’s best trout streams. Coastal marshes that support ducks & geese will be inundated by sea level rise. Drought will rip through states like Texas and Oklahoma, impacting deer and quail. Prairie potholes will dry up, slashing duck numbers. Bass lakes in southern states like Georgia and Alabama will alternate between flood & drought. Salmon & steelhead will disappear in California, Oregon and Washington.
In short, if we don’t get a handle on climate change, every intact ecosystem in our country will suffer the consequences, and many of our fish & game species will fade away as their habitat succumbs to extreme weather & drought.
We can’t let this happen. 2010 was the warmest year ever recorded. 2011 has brought even more extreme weather. Dr. James Hansen of NASA, one of the world’s top climate scientists, recently stated, “If we stay on with business as usual, the southern U.S. will become almost uninhabitable.” We need to address climate change right now.
For more information on the latest climate science, you can visit the following links:
U.S. National Academy of Sciences
The Met Office (UK)
US Fish & Wildlife Service
For an extremely comprehensive discussion of the recent scientific findings, with links to the source material, visit:
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People in Iran still have access to most of the channels, operated by Iranian state broadcaster Irib, but they're no longer broadcast in Europe and elsewhere.
Satellite provider Eutelsat agreed with media services company Arqiva to block the Irib channels as of Monday morning because of "reinforced EU council sanctions" Eutelsat spokeswoman Vanessa O'Connor said. Irib's access to Eutelsat was via a contract with Arqiva.
Eutelsat would not comment on eventual financial consequences of the cutoff. Iran's Press TV said Irib could take legal action against Eutelsat over the cutoff.
Irib's chief was among those targeted in a round of EU sanctions against Iran adopted in March, based on what European officials said were human rights violations in its programming, according to Eutelsat.
The EU has been toughening its sanctions against Iran, primarily to pressure the government to be more upfront about its nuclear program.
Press TV says it's among the channels cut by the Eutelsat decision. Others include Farsi-language channels for Iranian expatriates and Arabic-language offerings, including the news channel Al-Alam.
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Earlier in June, President Bill Clinton’s former campaign adviser and election maestro James Carville proclaimed that “the Tea Party is over.”
This quote couldn’t be further from the truth, of course. Since June, the Tea Party has notched a number of high-profile election victories — most notable of which was Ted Cruz’s Senate primary win in Texas — and has helped shaped the conversation in conservative politics. Massive fiscal restraint and lowered taxes will be the hallmark of the Republican Party not only in this election cycle, but for years to come.
Newly-minted GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan preaches it, and has been one of the top architects of a reigned in U.S. bu8dget. At the Republican National Convention next week top Tea Partiers Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Nikki Haley, and Cruz will all give speeches.
Each will preaches policies central to the Tea Party platform: less government spending, U.S. military withdraw from foreign soil, no government intervention in the economy, less still government intervention in social issues.
But the biggest name who has advocated these policies will be absent for the RNC.
Why isn’t Ron Paul speaking?
I need to clarify here: Ron Paul is by no means a Tea Party politician. He is, instead, a libertarian, who’s principles are guided by mostly free market values. The Tea Party, though believing in the free market and less government intervention in the economy, have been less principled in the politicking. Their aims have sometimes been mixed, and there isn’t always a clear agenda. Some Tea Partiers have sought to push social issues like traditional marriage or have seemed to only act in obstructionist ways while in office. Libertarians, though, are another breed, driven singularly by capitalistic principles.
Michele Bachman = Tea Party. Rand Paul = libertarian.
The distinction here is important, but also underscores how new sects which have bubbled up in the Republican Party. The GOP, once considered the party which marshals its followers behind a single banner, now has to contend with a schism in its ranks. But the GOP can’t turn its back on its own followers. Whether conservatives like it or not, the Republican Party is now filled with different view points on how to approach the policy decisions of our time. Mitt Romney is by no means a Southern conservative Republican, and Sarah Palin is no economic free market champion.
Enter Ron Paul, the figurehead of the libertarian movement. He has been alienated by GOP, despite leading a popular and successful 2012 presidential run, one in which he was especially able to mobilize young voters and lead a viral internet campaign — something Romney is comparison has failed to do. By some counts, Ron Paul will have as many as 500 delegates at the RNC next week, a massive haul for a politician some people call a fringe candidate. Sidelining Ron Paul means the GOP is sidelining one of it’s biggest assets in election 2012. They’ll lose out on the energy that the Ron Paul campaign brings, and risk alienating a voting bloc for years to come, one which may now instead turn to other parties. Libertarianism won’t go away, either, and will only continue to be a driving force in American politics. One poll actually finds that there are actually more libertarians than conservatives in the U.S.
“The GOP is absolutely shooting themselves in the foot with the way they are handling the Paul grassroots organization and the libertarians trying to work within the party,” PolicyMic libertarian expert Robert Taylor said. “Romney may well get the nomination, but not after some battling. More so, alienating potentially 15% to 20% of possible Republican votes is suicide in the general election.”
And suicide is exactly what the GOP now seems to be doing.
If the GOP hopes to win this election, they must be more inclusionary of other groups.
The rigidity of the Republican Party is absurd. Let Ron Paul talk.
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Proverbs 82 On the top of the heights beside the way, where the paths meet, stands Wisdom ; 3 At the gates at the entrance of the town, at the coming in at the doors, she cries out: 4 To you, O men, I call, and my voice is directed to the sons of men. 5 O you simple and thoughtless ones, understand prudence; you fools, be of an understanding heart. 6 Hear, for I will speak excellent and princely things; and the opening of my lips shall be for right things. 7 For my mouth shall utter truth, and wrongdoing is detestable and loathsome to my lips. 8 All the words of my mouth are righteous (upright and in right standing with God); there is nothing contrary to truth or crooked in them. 9 They are all plain to him who understands , and right to those who find knowledge . 10 Receive my instruction in preference to silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold, 11 For skillful and godly Wisdom is better than rubies or pearls, and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. 12 I, Wisdom , make prudence my dwelling, and I find out knowledge and discretion. 13 The reverent fear and worshipful awe of the Lord the hatred of evil; pride, arrogance, the evil way, and perverted and twisted speech I hate. 14 I have counsel and sound knowledge, I have understanding, I have might and power. 15 By me kings reign and rulers decree justice. 16 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges and governors of the earth. 17 I love those who love me, and those who seek me early and diligently shall find me. 18 Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness (uprightness in every area and relation, and right standing with God). 19 My fruit is better than gold, yes, than refined gold, and my increase than choice silver. 20 I walk in the way of righteousness (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation), in the midst of the paths of justice, 21 That I may cause those who love me to inherit riches and that I may fill their treasuries. 22 The Lord formed and brought me forth at the beginning of His way, before His acts of old. 23 I was inaugurated and ordained from everlasting, from the beginning, before ever the earth existed. 24 When there were no deeps, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains laden with water. 25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth, 26 While as yet He had not made the land or the fields or the first of the dust of the earth. 27 When He prepared the heavens, I was there; when He drew a circle upon the face of the deep and stretched out the firmament over it, 28 When He made firm the skies above, when He established the fountains of the deep, 29 When He gave to the sea its limit and His decree that the waters should not transgress His command, when He appointed the foundations of the earth-- 30 Then I was See Wisdom here present and involved at creation as an attribute of God.beside Him as a master and director of the work; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing before Him always, 31 Rejoicing in His inhabited earth and delighting in the sons of men. 32 Now therefore listen to me, O you sons; for blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are those who keep my ways. 33 Hear instruction and be wise, and do not refuse or neglect it. 34 Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. 35 For whoever finds me finds life and draws forth and obtains favor from the Lord. 36 But he who misses me or sins against me wrongs and injures himself; all who hate me love and court death.
Top 10 sermons on Proverbs 8
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A classic error for anyone studying history is to judge the acts of a previous age by the knowledge made available through the perspective of time. That is true even if the event being studied is only 10 years old, as is the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
It is all too easy today to forget what Iraq was like under the rule of Saddam Hussein. Iraq had invaded two nations, including a brazen incursion into Kuwait that had required the U.S. to intervene. During that first Gulf War, Saddam had fired SCUD missiles into the heart of Israel in an effort to goad a wider regional conflict that would have forced the rest of the Arab world onto his side. Since that time, he had led the United States and U.N. weapons inspectors on an endless cat-and-mouse game, making it look as if he was hiding what much of the world believed was a program to produce weapons of mass destruction.
Saddam was not a quiet dictator. He was constantly agitating. He continually violated no-fly restrictions put in place after the first Gulf War and tried to play assurances he would finally abide by those rules against the easing of U.N. sanctions. He had attacked ethnic Kurds with chemical weapons and boasted of his support for anti-American factions. When U.S. intelligence agents felt sure he possessed weapons of mass destruction, they were supported by intelligence experts in Europe and Russia. Indeed, it was later learned that even Saddam's closest government and military leaders believed he possessed such weapons — part of an elaborate hoax he perpetrated in an apparent attempt to strike fear in the region. Intelligence agents were intercepting conversations between those leaders.
Reasons to criticize the war in Iraq are plentiful. The United States miscalculated the aftermath of its successful invasion, underestimated the amount of troops needed to keep the peace, proved itself embarrassingly misinformed about cultural, ethnic and sectarian divisions among the Iraqi people and was naive about the forces that would seek to fill power vacuums and attempt to overwhelm democratic efforts. But the invasion itself was entirely understandable, and the world should not understate the importance of removing Saddam Hussein.
Nor should the world believe the mistakes were confined to one administration. President Barack Obama's decision to withdraw U.S. forces in December of 2011 was premature and left the nation in an unstable condition. His decision was said to hinge on Iraq's refusal to grant immunity to U.S. soldiers. Some experts, notably Max Boot, a senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations, believe the administration overplayed this disagreement by demanding that Iraq's parliament approve the immunity, just so the president could pursue the popular course of withdrawal.
True, the American people were tired of the conflict and wanted their soldiers home. Since then, however, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has pursued his political enemies and inflamed sectarian violence.
Iraq's tenuous peace was underscored by insurgent violence this week, with a wave of deadly bombings across the country meant to coincide with the exact anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion.
The lessons of Iraq are many. They require a bit of careful analysis to truly understand, however. They lie less in the decision to invade than in the need for cultural understanding, a sober analysis of the true costs of victory, including required troop levels, and a realistic assessment of the forces and factions that will stand in the way. There are lessons, as well, about the need for candid debate among policy makers and other experts. Even the media could be faulted for not playing a more critical role.
Given the prevailing mood of the nation today, few people would want to repeat the invasion. But 2013 is not 2003, nor is it the future. The true history of the invasion of Iraq remains to be written. It will require the perspective of much more time.
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Your baby is more than 11 inches long and weighs just over a pound. He may be able to feel your movements now, so put on some fun tunes and dance around the house. No matter what race your baby is, his skin is red and wrinkled at this stage and will likely look pink or reddish at birth. Blood vessels that show through your baby’s transparent skin cause this coloration. His true skin tone will develop over the course of his first year.Blood vessels in your baby’s lungs are developing to prepare him for breathing, but complete lung development will take many more months. The lungs are the last organ to fully develop in babies. That’s why premature babies (those born before 37 weeks) often have such a hard time breathing. Babies born this week have a chance of surviving with the help of intensive medical care, but their risk of serious complications is very high.
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Q: I have recently been told that it is permitted for a Muslim to deal in interest in America or UK i.e. a Muslim can open interest bearing savings bank account in America or UK. The interest received from the bank should then be given to poor and needy Muslims in Pakistan or India. I am told that this ruling is based on the facts that non-Muslims should not benefit from the "interest" not taken by us. I am also given to understand that perhaps you have approved this ruling.
I must say that in America or UK I maintain Current accounts only and thus the question of interest does not arise. The same thing I have tried to do, wherever possible. My idea is based on the fact that a Muslim should have no dealings in the interest, be it as a receiver, writer, or giver.
Please comment on this aspect of "interest" and if your ruling is different for different regions, please advise your ruling for the major regions of the world, such as America, UK, Asia, Saudi Arabia.
(Muhammad Saleem Desai, AI Khobar, Saudi Arabia)
A: The correct position is that dealing in interest is haram, both in a Muslim or a non-Muslim country. Some jurists have opined that interest bearing loans can be given to a non-Muslim citizen of a non-muslim country, and the interest charged from him is halal for a muslim. But this view has not been endorsed by the majority of the jurists. So, the correct view is that charging interest is not permitted in any case, no matter whether the debtor is a citizen of a Muslim country or not.
As for opening a saving account in a non-muslim country with intention to distribute its interest among the poor, I have never recommended or approved of it. I always advise the Muslims to keep their money in the current account. However, if somebody has opened a savings account, either due to his ignorance about the Shariah injunctions or because of his negligence, then, in that case only, he should give the amount of interest to the poor persons in order to dispose of this unclean money, and not to earn the thawab of sadaqah. But it does not mean that he should deliberately open an interest bearing account for the disbursement of its interest among the poor.
In fact, opening an interest bearing account amounts to entering into a transaction of interest which in itself is a clear sin. The one who has already committed this sin is advised to atone for it by giving the interest money to the poor, but one cannot be advised to commit a sin in order to atone for it by helping the poor. Taking bribe, for example, is a sin. If a person has earned some amount through bribes and he is unable to return it back to the original owners, he is advised to give that amount to the poor in order to atone for his sin to the best possible extent. But one cannot be advised to accept bribe with the intent of giving the money to the needy persons. The same principle is fully applicable to the interest transactions also.
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Over 125 of the 320 pages in this book are either blank, or taken up with black-and-white illustrations, of subjects as various as Madonna and her former husband Guy Ritchie, slates arranged by Richard Long, Buddhist truth-seekers going for a walk in a wood, and a little boy having his Bar Mitzvah in a New York restaurant. It is in the remaining 200 or so pages that the author must persuade his readers that there is no reason why atheists should not practise a religion, or, if they are not disposed to follow one of the existing cults, why they should not make one up for themselves. It is an attractive point of view. ‘La guerre’, as Clemenceau noted, ‘c’est une chose trop grave pour la confier à des militaires’. Religion, likewise, is perhaps too serious a matter to be left to the rabbis or the General Synod.
Clearly, de Botton is not addressing himself to fundamentalists of any persuasion. He tells us that his own parents were atheist fundamentalists, and that in his early twenties he underwent a ‘crisis of faithlessness’ brought on by such experiences as listening to Bach cantatas, viewing Zen architecture and Bellini madonnas. Though he does not specifically say so, such a crisis is a classically Victorian experience. John Stuart Mill, brought up as a serious rationalist by his Benthamite father, had just such a crisis, and feeling of liberation, when reading Wordsworth.
Having explored the ways in which atheists might tap into religious art, literature and rituals, he does in fact acknowledge that what he is suggesting is very similar to the optimistic outlook of Auguste Comte’s Positivism (Comte died in 1857), and in his chapter on Education, de Botton acknowledges that much of what he was saying has been anticipated by Matthew Arnold.
It is in the Education chapter that would-be religious atheists might find his attractive book least convincing. He is too kind to confront one of the central difficulties of his proposal: namely the vast disparities between levels of human intelligence. With the traditional religions, stupid people and intelligent people can take part in the same rituals, whether of High Mass or Yom Kippur, without it being apparent that they presumably understand these things on very different levels. Describing an African American preacher, he says, presumably ironically:
There is little chance of resisting a theological argument which flows like this one, from the stage of the New Vision Baptist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee. ‘None of us today is in jail’. ‘Amen. All right now, Amen, Preacher’, say members of the Congregation. So, brothers, sisters, we should never be in prison in our minds.
(Amen, Preacher.) This is compared with the preaching skills of John Donne, and accompanied by a cheerful black-and-white photograph of black ladies lifting up their hands in prayer.
Very many readers, including this one, will be thankful for de Botton’s hope that the human race could become a little nicer. It’s just that some readers will think he is being a bit optimistic. He suggests the establishment, for example, of ‘Agape’ restaurants, in which relative strangers meet at a common table and are encouraged to make conversation. ‘Sitting down at a table with a group of strangers has the incomparable benefit of making it a little more difficult to hate them with impunity.’ When did he last dine at the High Table of an Oxford college? ‘Thanks to the Agape restaurant, our fear of strangers would recede. The poor would eat with the rich, the black with the white, the orthodox with the secular.’ Well, maybe!
Alas, de Botton has little chance of success — either in starting a chain of Agape restaurants, or in persuading bigots on either side of this argument. Meanwhile, very many people who already attend church, synagogue or temple will do so, as has presumably always been the case, in many varied states of mind, which have included that of total unbelief.
It is a sad story, because, between the end of the Victorian age and the 1960s, it really looked as if there was a chance for Christianity, at least, to absorb, and accept, the fact that many people who had discarded the old ways of believing, yet saw the point of a liturgical year, punctuated by ritual observances; they also saw the point of old ceremonies accompanying birth, marriage and death. De Botton, in his attractive comments about Yom Kippur, regrets the fact that secularists do not have a time of year when they can all acknowledge the faults of the past year and try to patch up quarrels — but surely they do: it is the post-Dickensian observance of Christmas. Many who realise the extreme historical unlikelihood of Jesus having been to Bethlehem, let alone having been born there to the accompaniment of angel choirs, see the point of Scrooge’s conversion.
It must always have been the case, in all religions, that there was an enormous difference of belief among the adherents. In pre-Christian times, as you went through the Roman year as chronicled in Ovid’s Fasti, there would have been Epicurean atheists and Platonist worshippers of the Good and those who did not think about such matters, all offering incense at the same altars. The same was probably true of churches and synagogues and temples throughout the world.
Over a century ago, within the Church of England, figures such as Dean Stanley were propounding a position very similar to the one recommended in this book. The Catholic Modernists went further in their rejection of the old mythology. But Pope Pius X ruthlessly stamped them out and the sad fact is that, in all attempts since to explore this kind of territory, churches have reacted in a paranoid and intolerant manner. Think of the fuss made in the 1960s when the poor old Bishop of Woolwich wrote Honest to God.
Don Cupitt, the former Dean of Emmanuel College, Cambridge ‘came out’ as an actual atheist decades ago, and there was the Death of God school of theology in America, but they did not do much to win a following in those churches which preferred to hunker down behind orthodox stockades. Quite why this is so is for sociologists and psychiatrists to explore. The ‘modern’ phenomenon is not, actually, the apparently radical idea expressed by de Botton. Historically speaking, the modern idea is that religious rites should only be permitted to those prepared to jump through certain intellectual hoops as an entrance requirement.
As soon as the churches began to introduce that Visa control, they guaranteed that they would lose millions of adherents. As de Botton shows in chapter after chapter, it is natural for human beings to follow ritual observances. The intolerance and stupidity of the churches were as much to blame for such people being cut adrift as were the dogmatic atheists, with their fifth-form debating club ‘arguments’ about whether God ‘exists’.
This article first appeared in the print edition of The Spectator magazine, dated January 21, 2012Tags: Book review, God, Non-fiction, Religion
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Probate Law and Process
Probate is the term, typically given to the legal process that is followed after someone’s death.
To collect the Deceased person’s assets a legal document known as a Grant of Probate must be obtained by the Executors of a will. If no will exists, the Administrators of the estate (normally the closest blood relative) will apply to the Probate Registry for a legal document known as a Grant of Letters of Administration. .
The Probate Registry is the Court responsible for the administration and issuing of grants of probate.
Is probate always required ?
Whether probate is required ultimately depends upon the size of the Deceased's assets. If the Deceased held assets in his/her sole name exceeding £15,000 then probate will be required, as theGrant Probate gives the bank the authority to release the funds, probate will always be required when a Deceased held a property. Probate is however not always required, this may arise when the deceased held assets in a Joint name ( such as property ) or when the Deceased only had a small amount of cash. Typically, a bank or building society will release such assets on the production of either the original will, death certificate and a small estates form signing.
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Irresistible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers (Hardcover)
From the author of A Venetian Affair and Lucia comes a charming odyssey in the path of the mysterious Zen brothers, who explored parts of the New World a century before Columbus, and became both a source of scandal and a cause célèbre among geographers in the following centuries.
This delightful journey begins with Andrea di Robilant’s serendipitous discovery of a travel narrative published in Venice in 1558 by the Renaissance statesman Nicolò Zen: the text and its fascinating nautical map re-created the travels of two of the author’s ancestors, brothers who explored the North Atlantic in the 1380s and 1390s. Di Robilant set out to discover why later, in the nineteenth century, the Zens’ account came under attack as one of the greatest frauds in geographical history. Was their map—and even their journey—partially or perhaps entirely faked?
In Irresistible North the author follows the Zens’ route from the Faeroes to Shetland to Iceland and Greenland, greeted by characters who help unravel the enigmas in the Zens’ account. The medieval world comes to life as di Robilant guides us through a landscape enlivened by the ghosts of power-hungry earls and bishops of the old Norwegian realm and magical tales of hot springs and smoking mountains. In this rich telling—an original work of history and a travel book in one—the magnetism of the north draws us in as powerfully as it drew the Zen brothers more than six centuries ago.
About the Author
Andrea di Robilant was born in Italy and educated at Columbia University, where he specialized in international affairs. He is the author of two previous books, A Venetian Affair and Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon. He currently lives in Rome with his wife and two sons.
Praise for Irresistible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers…
“Captivating. . . . Di Robilant cleverly weaves an original work of history and a travel book into one fascinating tale of mystery, adventure and intrigue.”
“Di Robilant is a fine, solid researcher and a thoughtful, conscientious interpreter.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Di Robilant has a flair for the evocative detail. . . . His willingness to travel to places far off the beaten path enlivens his account, giving it forward momentum.”
—Los Angeles Times
“While historians and cartographers will continue their challenges, readers will be intrigued and perhaps convinced by this very readable account.”
—The Washington Times
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Wide Sargasso Sea Summary and Analysis
by Jean Rhys
Part 2, Section 5
Rochester dreams that he has been buried alive. When he awakens he realizes what has happened - that he was drugged and has slept with Antoinette - and gets sick to his stomach. He looks at his sleeping wife and covers her with a sheet as if she is dead. Then he runs outside and eventually finds himself near the ruined house. He falls asleep for a while, and upon waking up returns to Granbois, where he encounters Amelie and spontaneously decides to have sex with her. In the morning, he regrets it, however, finding her skin darker and her lips thicker than he had thought. Still, he gives her a large sum of money. Amelie takes it and tells him of her plans to leave the island. Rochester hears Antoinette leave the house; she seems to know that her husband has slept with one of the servants.
Antoinette does not return for several days. During this time, Rochester writes to his friend Mr. Fraser asking about Christophine, who, he learned from Daniel Cosway, was once arrested for practicing the dark arts. Fraser writes back and tells Rochester that Christophine is still living in Jamaica, not far from Granbois. The letter instructs Rochester to be on the lookout for anything suspicious. "So much for you, Pheena," Rochester thinks to himself.
Antoinette finally returns and takes to her bed. Christophine comes to the house, and Antoinette frequently and frantically rings a handbell asking for her or Baptiste. Rochester is shocked when she finally emerges from her room: she is completely disheveled in addition to being drunk. She confronts him for ruining the one place in the world that she loved, and tells him that she hates him for it. When he reaches for her wrist, she tries to bite him and then smashes several bottles of liquor against the wall.
Christophine comforts Antoinette, then confronts Rochester about what he has done to his wife. She says she knows that he has mistreated Antoinette physically and emotionally. Rochester in turn blames Christophine and obeah for Antoinette's hysterical condition. Christophine denies any wrongdoing, saying that she has just tried to care for Antoinette and make her sleep comfortably. Christophine tells Rochester that she knows he only married Antoinette for her money, and further accuses him of trying to "break her up" psychologically, using and then withholding sex and affection to bring her under his control. Rochester admits to himself that Christophine's assessment of the situation is correct, but does not otherwise demonstrate any remorse for his actions.
Christophine begs Rochester to try to love Antoinette again, insisting that everything Daniel Cosway has said is a lie. She tried to explain the conditions that Antoinette and her mother lived in and the circumstances that lead to the latter's mental breakdown, to no avail. Rochester simply will not listen to anything she has to say. When Christophine realizes this, she begs Rochester to return half of Antoinette's dowry and go back to England without his wife. Christophine promises to take Antoinette to Martinique and care for her there, and Rochester actually considers the offer for a moment. Then, however, Christophine suggests that Antoinette will remarry and find love and happiness with someone else. Rochester flies into a rage at this idea and orders Christophine to leave the house; if she refuses he says he will call the police.
With no other choice, Christophine prepares to go, but first asks what will become of Antoinette. Rochester declares that he will take her back to Jamaica to consult the doctors in Spanish Town as well as Richard Mason. Christophine suspects that he will conspire to have Antoinette locked away just like her mother.
Just as soon as Christophine leaves, Rochester begins composing letters. First he writes to his father explaining that "unforeseen circumstances" have arisen; he says he assumes that his father must know what has happened. Then he pens a note to a firm of lawyers in Spanish Town requesting a furnished house and a staff of servants whom he will compensate amply for their discretion. With these tasks accomplished, he sits down to a glass of rum and begins sketching. The finished picture shows a large English-style house surrounded by trees, with a woman standing in one of the third floor rooms.
A few days later all the preparations have been made and Rochester and Antoinette are about to depart from Granbois. As they get ready to leave Rochester reflects on the situation. He alternates between feeling immense anger at having been duped into marrying "a mad girl" and thinking that perhaps he has made a terrible mistake in believing Daniel. He experiences a momentary crisis of conscience in which he questions the fate he has in store for his wife. On the verge of apologizing, he looks into her eyes and sees how much she has grown to hate him. Instantly his heart hardens again and he becomes resolute in his decision.
Baptiste saddles the horses and says a heartfelt farewell to Antoinette. Rochester becomes annoyed when a Nameless Boy begins to cry hysterically. Antoinette explains that they boy had hoped to be taken along with the couple; indeed, when they arrived she made just such a promise to him. Rochester once more becomes furious with her. As they ride away from her beloved home, he muses that she will never see the place again. The Nameless Boy follows them for a while, still sobbing.
As Christophine feared would be the case, the obeah love potion does not work on Rochester. "Even if I can make him come to your bed, I cannot make him love you," the old woman warned Antoinette, adding "Afterward he hate you." This proves to be exactly what happens. When Rochester awakens next to Antoinette and realizes what has taken place, he feels nothing but disgust and contempt for his wife. Symbolically he covers her with a sheet as is she were "a dead girl"; she is now dead to him and his actions throughout the rest of the novella serve to render her nothing more than a zombie.
Rochester retaliates for what he perceives as his wife's betrayal by sleeping with the mixed-race servant Amelie, but once more he feels nothing but remorse in the morning. He sends the girl away immediately because he can no longer stand the sight of her dark skin and thick lips; he has come to hate all things associated with the Caribbean. Again Rhys illustrates the corrupting power of money, as Rochester of uses his wealth to reinstate a system of slavery on the island. He gives Amelie a large sum of money as though she were a prostitute, and although she accepts it she tells him that after the night they spent together she now can find it in her heart to feel sorry for Antoinette. Amelie has experienced Rochester's cruelty for herself.
Rochester's brutality appears to be physical as well as psychological in nature. In this section Christophine accuses him of abusing Antoinette, saying that she noticed sings that he has been "very rough" with his wife. Antoinette, upon returning to the house, responds to her husband's infidelity with violence of her own. She smashes bottles of rum against the walls and bites Rochester on the arm when he tried to stop her. She becomes the image of her mother in this section, telling Rochester that she hates him and wants to kill him. In some ways, it appears, Daniel's assessment was correct: Antoinette has gone "the same way" as Annette.
In a startling demonstration of independence Christophine makes a series of heavy accusations against Rochester. His internal monologue reveals that he does not dispute anything she says, although he does not admit anything out loud. His thoughts become increasingly difficult to follow as the tension escalates. He seems to be tormented by fragments of many different conversations he has had since arriving in the West Indies, including things that he has said to Antoinette, things that she has said to him, things that Daniel told him, and - most strangely - things that Antoinette told Christophine when he was not there. It is not clear how he would know these pieces of information, but the fact that Rhys gives him at least partial access to Antoinette's thoughts suggests that he consciously understands that he is destroying her.
Rochester's cruelty, then, is not inadvertent although he does manage to convince himself that it is justified. Still, during his final moments at Granbois his cognitive dissonance overcomes him and, for an instant, he wonders if "everything [he] had imagined to be truth was false." Such a possibility seems to send him over the edge and the last few pages of his narration begin to sound like the rant of a madman. There is no such thing, Rhys suggests, as 'truth' or 'madness'; both of these are constructions put in place and exalted by those in power as a way to oppress the weak. This idea is a fundamental tenant of post-structuralism.
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Solyndra and the scandal of Tomorrowland
posted at 3:30 pm on October 2, 2011 by Karl
Megan McArdle, explaining why the federal loan guarantee to the now-bankrupt solar company Solyndra is more venture socialism than venture capitalism, concluded:
[T]his isn’t much like a VC. Or anything else that makes financial sense in the private sector. It’s like… the government giving money to companies that sound whizzy.
Instapundit Glenn Reynolds added: “A more cynical explanation is that the ‘sound whizzy’ is just meant to be a distraction from what’s really no more than a payoff to political supporters.” When the history of the Solydra debacle is fully written, Prof. Reynolds may well be correct about the political payoff angle. However, our sprawling federal government offer myriad opportunities for political payoffs, so it’s worth examining why the Obama administration would throw hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ dollars at things that “sound whizzy.” To invoke a Beltway cliche, a scandal may be what is legal more than what is illegal. The Solyndra case sheds light on the larger Scandal of Tomorrowland.
Before Solyndra went bust, solar industry leaders would frankly admit to friendly media that “the growth of their US operations is vitally dependent upon a fragile matrix of government support — state renewable portfolio standards and federal tax credits, grants and construction loan guarantees.” (There are echoes of Obamacare here, with government mandates and government subsidies propping up a Potemkin marketplace.) There are at least three major reasons solar fails as a feasible alternate energy source — diffuseness, cost and unreliability — and little progress has been made in addressing them. For example, regarding diffuseness, environmentalists have already opposed efforts to build large solar plants in the Mojave desert. On the issue of cost:
Energy Secretary Steven Chu says that the billions of dollars in federal stimulus money directed toward solar-power will cut solar power costs in half by 2015. It’s a grand sounding prediction, but his own Energy Information Agency projects that electricity from solar cells will cost nearly five times as much as electricity from natural-gas-fired power plants. And that’s without any adjustment for the unreliable nature of solar power or for the additional transmission costs.
On the issue of reliability, if you pore over the International Energy Agency’s “roadmap” for photovoltaic solar energy (.pdf), looking behind the grandiose predictions, you will find much more diktat than detail, with storage and transmission issues punted to “emerging” technologies. People used to the lights going on when they flip the switch and not freezing to death during long winter nights will come away unimpressed.
In short, the solar outlook is not sunny, which is why lefties like Ezra Klein and Dave Johnsen are reduced to defending the energy welfare state with assertions like: “If our success rate is too high, it means government is making bad investments,” and “the purpose of our government’s involvement in this is to help trigger an ecosystem around which a green-energy industry can grow.” Pouring money we don’t have down a rat hole only triggers an ecosystem for rats, which would tend to bolster the Instapundit’s point. And yet, I still think there is more to it than that.
Part of it is the left’s belief in the coming global warming apocalypse. It is a crisis the left does not want to go to waste, given the massive statism that would be involved in forcing the world off fossil fuels by federal fiat. The most feasible alt-energy remains nuclear, but American greens are bitterly divided on nuclear power, leaving them with solar and wind (which should embarrass on both counts those claiming to be the Party of Science). The hardest of hardcore greens will admit they want humanity to make do with less; the rest dress up this political poison in fuzzy notions of “sustainability.” Pretending that solar and wind are the near-future allows progressives to avoid the appearance of luddism and pose as leaning forward, rather than the movement of 20th century nostalgia they really are. It is not unlike the way Walt Disney’s original vision of Tomorrowland in his theme parks has morphed into a quaint retro-futurism that never was and never will be. That is the larger scandal behind giving money to companies that sound whizzy.
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El Greco The Agony In the Garden, a mannerist style of art by EL Greco, proclaims a sense of spiritual power of religious faith which accomplishes El Grecos aim to move his audience. El Greco was born on the island of Crete and lived from 1541 to 1614. He represented the most characteristic figure of Spanish Mannerism. El Greco was influenced by and became acquainted with the art of Titian and Jacopo Bassano in Venice where he studied in 1566. In addition to visiting Italy, El Greco made his way to Rome, Parma and probably Florence. On his travels he became more familiar with the work of Parmigianino and the work of Correggio. In El Grecos use of form can be seen Florentine Mannerism. Veneti ...
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- El Greco - 527 words
El Greco El Greco was born 1541 and died 1614 in Toledo at age 73. He was named at birth Domeniko's TheotoKopoulos. He was Born in Candia, the capital of the island of Crete, off the coast of Greece. Nothing is certain is known of the first twenty five years of El Greco's life, except that he lived on Crete and became a painter. It is thought from later events in his life that El Greco recieved a sound education in letters. He came from a family of middle or upper classes, which could afford to send their children to school. He studied under a master named Titian and Tentonetto. He was not self taught. June 6, 1566 is the first record of El Greco's existence as a painter. On this day Maistro ...
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- El Grecos Burial Of Count - 642 words
El Greco`s "Burial Of Count" This painting is the Burial of Count Orgaz by El Greco (the Geek) his real name Domenikos Theotocopoulos. It hangs on the wall in the vestibule of the church of Santo Tome in Toledo, Spain and was painted in 1586. It is oil on canvas and was made to fit the very wall it hangs today. The painting does have a Round top making it a very odd fit for anywhere but the church for it to hang. The artist used many dark shades Blue and blacks with yellow and red in the items of importance and detail. White was very common. There was only one other color sort of hid in the robe of St Augastine,Green. He put alot of details in the things that he wanted the audience to pay at ...
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- El Grecos Toledo - 1,056 words
El Greco's Toledo High atop a hill of granite, surrounded by the gorge and river Tagus sits the ancient and formidable gothic Cathedral and Moorish palace, Alcazar, of Toledo, Spain. Toledo's skyline has changed little since El Greco immortalized Spain's religious centre in 1597-9(Cardillac 28). El Greco's natural talents, his "schooling," and the flare of his adopted Spain, combined to produce an artistic genius. El Greco's ability to convey manneristic images that were so original in conception and color that the detail gives a miraculous conception of cohesion to the whole work(Wethey 61). When studying this canvas, however, one must examine the passionate, moonlit sky; the artistic licen ...
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- Francisco Goya - 514 words
Francisco Goya His name, Francisco Goya, born in 1746, one of Spains most innovative painters and etchers; also one of the triumvirate - including El Greco and Diego Velzquez - of great Spanish masters. Much in the art of Goya is derived from that of Velzquez, just as much in the art of the 19th-century French master douard Manet and the 20th-century genius Pablo Picasso is taken from Goya. Trained in a mediocre rococo artistic milieu , Goya transformed this often frivolous style and created works, such as the famous The third of May, 1808, that have as great an impact today as when they were created Goya was born in the small Aragonese town of Fuendetodos (near Zaragoza) on March 30, 1746. ...
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- Les Demoiselles De Avignon - 1,412 words
Les Demoiselles De Avignon Les Demoiselles d?Avignon by Josh McDonnell As strolled through New York City?s Museum of Modern Art , one particular painting grabbed me , shook me , then through me to the ground to contemplate its awesome power. Like a whirlwind of art , Les Demoiselles d?Avignon , by Pablo Picasso , sent my emotions spinning. I felt extremely uncomfortable glancing at it , let alone staring at it closely for twenty minutes. The raw sexuality and tension that Les Demoiselles d?Avignon radiated was absolutely overwhelming yet very confusing. Other art lovers in the room also expressed discomfort as they glanced at the enormous 96x92 inch painting. Most people would only allow qui ...
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- Pablo Picasso And His Artistic Life - 1,403 words
... 1973. Bibliography Pablo picasso And his Artistic Life A report by terra hardman Introduction Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor, generally considered the greatest artist of the 20th century. He was unique as an inventor of forms, as an innovator of styles and techniques, as a master of various media, and as one of the most prolific artists in history. He created more than 20,000 works. Picasso's genius manifested itself early: at the age of 10 he made his first paintings, and at 15 he performed brilliantly on the entrance examinations to Barcelona's School of Fine Arts. Family life Born in Mlaga on October 25, 1881, Picasso was the son of Jos Ruiz Blasco, an art teacher, a ...
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- Picasso - 230 words
Picasso Picasso was an artist born on Oct.25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain. At age 15 he was admitted to the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. Impatient under formal training the young Picasso went to Paris in 1900. There, tough constantly near starvation, he became infatuated with the street life of Montmartre, and made many studies of the city's poor. Between 1900 and 1906 he worked through nearly every major style of contemporary painting, from impressionism to Art Nouveau. Suddenly, the 20-year-old painter moved toward a symbolism of pathos and misery inspired by the Spanish painter El Greco. This was his Blue Period, so called because most of these paintings were dominated by various shades of ...
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Short Essays Accepted 1. I first became interested in The College of William and Mary after visiting the college campus during my sixth grade field trip to Williamsburg, Virginia. The campus and its beauty immediately captivated me, and as I grew older I started researching to learn more about the academic aspects of the college itself. From my research, I found that The College of William and Mary is a great match for me for one main reason. Ever since I was little, I have been interested in becoming a teacher. However, during my sophomore year of high school, my eyes were opened to the world of business. The College of William and Mary has many options for both of my interests. I know that ...
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- The Baroque Has Been Called A Theatrical Style, One That Deals In Spectacle, Grandeur, And Dramatic Contrast Test These Conce - 521 words
The baroque has been called a theatrical style, one that deals in spectacle, grandeur, and dramatic contrast. Test these concepts in an essay that discusses the baroque as an expression of the Catholic Reformation, Protestant devotionalism, the Scientific Revolution, and the Age of Absolutism. Define your general statements with specific examples. The following essay will discuss the baroque period and how the Catholic Reformation, Protestant devotionalism, and the Scientific Revolution influenced it. The Baroque period generally refers to the years 1600 to1750. Classicism of the Renaissance has been replenished during the Baroque period. During the Baroque artistic period, the exploration o ...
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Writing today on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s blog, Peter Schmidt reports that tomorrow the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will release a report urging law schools to release data on the nature and success of their affirmative action policies. It will also urge the section of the American Bar Association that sets accreditation standards to reconsider its new “diversity” requirement, which has been criticized as an interference with academic freedom. (See here, here, here, here, and here, among others)
Among its other recommendations, the report will call for the National Academy of Sciences or some other entity to finance research on the impact of law schools’ affirmative-action policies, and it will urge state bar associations to cooperate with such research.
Perhaps this report will lead the State Bar of California to reconsider its heavy-handed decision to block access to the data it has collected on bar passage rates, a decision discussed here.
UPDATE [28 August]
An expanded version of Schmidt’s report appears in the Chronicle of Higher Education today.
The additional information that I found most interesting was reference to a letter written to the State Bar of California by Eileen Kaufman and Tayyab Mahmud, co-presidents of the Society of American Law Teachers. They urged the bar association not to release any data on bar passage rates to Prof. Sander and the two scholars working with him on this research project, Prof. Vikran Amar of the University of California at Davis, William Henderson of Indiana University, Doug Williams of Sewanee. Among other complaints about possible “misuse” of the data, Kaufman and Mahoud
argued that releasing such data could have a “potential negative impact upon minority bar applicants and attorneys,” by fueling “misperceptions that they simply are not as smart or qualified as their white counterparts.”
I wonder if the Society of Law Teachers similarly objects to the Law School Admission Council publishing data revealing LSAT scores by race, gender,and ethnicity, data which is widely avaliable. Here, for example, is a summary of data from one of its longitudinal bar passage studies:
The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) National Longitudinal Bar Passage Study was undertaken primarily in response to rumors and anecdotal reports suggesting that bar passage rates were so low among examinees of color that potential applicants were questioning the wisdom of investing the time and resources necessary to obtain a legal education. There were no reliable sources of national empirical data to support or refute those claims. When the LSAC committed to conducting this study, it was done with the conviction that the information was vital to legal education regardless of the outcome. If the dismal failure rates being reported in whispers were accurate, legal education would need to rethink both its admission and educational policy and practice. If they were false, they needed to be replaced with accurate information.
The eventual passage rates for racial and ethnic groups were: American Indian, 82.2 percent (88 of 107); Asian American, 91.9 percent (883 of 961); black, 77.6 percent (1062 of 1368); Mexican American, 88.4 percent (352 of 398); Puerto Rican, 79.7 percent (102 of 128); Hispanic, 89.0 percent (463 of 520), white, 96.7 percent (18,664 of 19,285); and other, 91.5 percent (292 of 319).
It would appear that the Society of Law Teachers does not agree with the Law School Admission Council’s “conviction that the information was vital to legal education regardless of the outcome.”
Has the Society of Law Teachers informed the LSAC of its objection to the release of data on bar passage rates? Has it informed the College Board that no data revealing SAT scores by race should be published? Has it informed law schools that graduation rates by race should be kept secret?
If not, why not?
UPDATE II [28 August]
For those of you without access to the Chronicle of Higher Education, Peter Schmidt has a working link to his article on his blog, here. He also has a link to the full report of the Civil Rights Commission, which is not yet available on the Commission’s web site.
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Born in 1927, Marvin Minsky is one of the pioneers of the field of Artificial Intelligence, founding the MIT AI lab in 1970. He has also made many contributions to the fields of mathematics, cognitive psychology, robotics, optics and computational linguistics. Since the 1950s, he has attempted to define and explain human cognition, the ideas of which can be found in his two books, "The Emotion Machine" and "The Society of Mind". His many inventions include the first confocal scanning microscope, the first neural network simulator (SNARC) and the first LOGO 'turtle'.
You know, I think that one could attribute this particular... the space thing to email because all of the calculations and discussions of this thing went back and forth, because if I’d passed a terminal and I had some idea I could send an email to Lowell Wood… I forget the other couple of guys who were involved. So you know, if you just got an idea you could type it over to those people and… so it might be that the medium was more of the message than the... than anything else. I’ve never been to Livermore, but it’s just around the corner when you have this keyboard.
Maybe that’s the answer; you have a friend and you know they’re interested in something and in the old days you would have to write a letter and put a stamp on it or something and it’s just too much trouble so you’d do something else. But... but now if you want to communicate with someone you just take out your iPhone and do it. So I’ve had some friends that I’ve never met.
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Regardless of trends in crime statistics, many Canadians remain concerned about the level of criminal activity in many communities and believe it should be reduced.
Solutions to reduce crime, prevent victimization and enhance community safety require a comprehensive approach, including remedial measures to deal in particular with repeat and violent offenders, and additional approaches and resources to encourage prevention and deal with the root causes of crime. There are already many proven crime reduction programs across the country that could benefit all communities.
Even though comprehensive approaches to crime prevention are ultimately more effective than a narrow “tough on crime” agenda, the comprehensive approach requires a much more effective communications strategy to achieve a more positive image in the media and among many voters.
The Liberal Party of Canada, as government should commit to working with other levels of government and non-governmental organizations on a comprehensive crime prevention strategy for Canada, which include establishing targets for crime reduction, review of existing legislation, effective legislative measures to deal with repeat and violent offenders, and expansion of programs and resources that have been proven to reduce crime and make Canadian communities safer.
The Liberal Party of Canada should commit to developing a comprehensive strategy for the prevention of crime.
The Liberal Party of Canada should promote an approach to reducing crime based on prevention and rehabilitation.
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The National Policy and Electoral Platform (NPEP) Committee had initiated a review of the current policy process prior to the Spring 2011 federal elections. Part of this review was a pilot exercise for a new resolution format.
The Liberal Party of Canada (Manitoba) Association has piloted a new resolution format based on feedback from previous policy conventions. Your comments on this new format will be greatly appreciated and should be sent to firstname.lastname@example.org with the subject line “new resolution format”.
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An important part of any investment strategy is to develop a methodology for ultimately selling your investments. Unfortunately, many investors sell based on emotional factors, making one of several mistakes:
Holding on to an investment with a loss. Psychologically, it’s difficult for investors to sell an investment with a loss, preferring to wait until the investment at least gets back to a break-even level. However, that may never happen or may take a long time to do so. Take a hard look at the investment and consider selling if you can reinvest in an investment with better prospects.
Hanging on to capture more gain. When an investment has increased dramatically, you may be reluctant to sell it, even if you feel its price has gone too high too fast. There’s always the risk that you’ll sell and the price will keep going up. But sometimes it’s best to protect your gains and sell while you’re ahead. At least consider selling a portion of the holding and reinvesting the proceeds elsewhere.
Not setting price targets. One way to take the emotion out of selling is to set high and low price targets for reevaluating an investment. You don’t have to sell when the investment reaches those targets, but at least review it. Sticking with rigid rules for selling when an investment declines by a certain percentage can help prevent substantial losses. Stop orders can help with exchange traded investments like stocks and ETFs.
Trying to time the market. It’s difficult to predict when the market will rise and fall. Even if the stock market is following a general trend, there will be up and down trading days. Trying to buy and sell stocks based on those daily fluctuations is difficult.
Worrying too much about taxes. Taxes can consume a significant portion of your investment gains. Even if you have long-term capital gains, 15% of your gain will go to capital gains taxes. However, avoiding taxes may not be a good reason to hold on to an investment. There are typically strategies that can be used to offset the tax burden, but there’s not much you can do about a loss in investment value. In this market environment you may have several holdings that show a paper loss. It can make sense to realize some of those losses to offset current or future gains as part of your periodic portfolio rebalancing. In general, if it’s time to sell an investment, you should probably do so.
Not paying attention to your investments. Your portfolio needs to be evaluated on a periodic basis or you could miss signals that it may be time to sell. You should reevaluate an investment when the company changes management, when the company is acquired by or merges with another company, when a strong competitor enters the market, or when several top executives sell large blocks of stock. This applies to mutual funds as well. Manager changes, a dramatic increase or decrease in assets under management, or a deviation from its stated style should all be red flags that cause you to evaluate whether it may be time to sell the fund.
If you are uncomfortable reviewing your investments it may make sense for you to engage the services of a financial professional to take an independent third-party look at your portfolio.
Please feel free to contact me with your investment and financial planning questions.
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(CNN) -- Saudi Arabia has asked florists and gift shops to remove all red items until after Valentine's Day, calling the celebration of such a holiday a sin, local media reported Monday.
With a ban on red gift items over Valentine's Day in Saudi Arabia, a black market in red roses has flowered.
"As Muslims we shouldn't celebrate a non-Muslim celebration, especially this one that encourages immoral relations between unmarried men and women, " Sheikh Khaled Al-Dossari, a scholar in Islamic studies, told the Saudi Gazette, an English-language newspaper.
Every year, officials with the conservative Muslim kingdom's Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice clamp down on shops a few days before February 14, instructing them to remove red roses, red wrapping paper, gift boxes and teddy bears. On the eve of the holiday, they raid stores and seize symbols of love.
The virtue and vice squad is a police force of several thousand charged with, among other things, enforcing dress codes and segregating the sexes. Saudi Arabia, which follows a strict interpretation of Islam called Wahhabism, punishes unrelated women and men who mingle in public.
Ahmed Al-Omran, a university student in Riyadh, told CNN that the government decision will give the international media another reason to make fun of the Saudis "but I think that we got used to that by now."
"I think what they are doing is ridiculous," said Al-Omran, who maintains the blog 'Saudi Jeans.' "What the conservatives in this country need to learn is something called 'tolerance.' If they don't see the permissibility of celebrating such an occasion, then fine -- they should not celebrate it. But they have to know they have no right to impose their point of view on others."
Because of the ban on red roses, a black market has flowered ahead of Valentine's Day. Roses that normally go for five Saudi riyal ($1.30) fetch up to 30 riyal ($8) on February 14, the Saudi Gazette said.
"Sometimes we deliver the bouquets in the middle of the night or early morning, to avoid suspicion," one florist told the paper.
Saudi Arabia has often come under criticism for its treatment of women, most recently in a United Nations report that blasted the kingdom for widespread discrimination. Under Saudi law, women are subject to numerous restrictions, including a prohibition against driving and a requirement that they get a man's permission to travel or have surgery.
A businesswoman told the Times of London this month that she was detained and strip-searched by the religious police for holding a meeting in a coffee shop with male colleagues.
Two years ago, a teenager was raped by seven men who found her alone with a man unrelated to her. The government sentenced the 19-year-old woman to 200 lashes and six months in prison for being in the company of a man who wasn't a family member or her husband. She was later pardoned. The seven rapists were sentenced to two to nine years in prison. E-mail to a friend
CNN's Saeed Ahmed contributed to this report
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Emergency crews in Berks County are making sure they're ready when catastrophe strikes, and Wednesday responders were put to the test at Reading Hospital.
It was a large scale operation.
"We had police, fire and EMS here," James Bitler, Reading Hospital emergency management coordinator.
And staff wasted no time springing into action.
"We had a gas failure at our co-gen plant," explained Bitler. "The gas compressor exploded, we had multiple injuries, fatalities, we had damage to our structure, we had to move patients."
Bodies dotted the lawn, and an outside treatment zone was set up to tend to the wounded.
But it was all pretend. The event was just a drill.
"The biggest thing here is for everybody to get the chance to practice all their roles and what they do, and to get to know the people and the actors in the game here so to speak," said Tom Bausher, West Side Regional Emergency Management Agency.
They do this several times a year, so when real disaster hits, rescuers will know how to work together smoothly.
"It tests our capabilities for communications for response capabilities," said Bitler. "You get to interact with people that you usually don't interact with."
The drill also forced crews to work outside of their comfort zones.
"We know how to function in the emergency department, we have to practice working outside of the emergency department," said Dr. Duane Siberski, Regional EMS Director.
And no one expected it to go perfectly.
"This is a good thing to do," said Bausher. "It's a learning experience. If we don't practice it, we don't get to learn from it."
"Our feedback when we debrief later on will show us where we need to improve," explained Siberski. "What we found as a learning experience here will help us correct those mistakes so they don't occur in a real situation."
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Earlier this week President Obama unveiled his proposed 2013 federal budget. The mammoth document details how much money he proposes the government take in from taxes, possible changes to the tax code, and information on how that money should be spent. Considering the proposal includes various changes to what is taxed and at what rate, estate planning attorneys always pay attention to the details of the proposal. The budget applies to the federal fiscal year 2013, which actually begins on October 1, 2013.
However, each New York estate planning lawyer at our firm appreciates that this bill is simply a blueprint--a starting off point to begin discussions about the budget, not a detailed map of what will likely occur. That is especially true this year, because election years are always known for their lack of compromise and avoiding of controversial tasks. It is important to read this proposal from that perspective. That doesn't mean that the budget proposal has no value when it comes to estate planning. The ideas set forth in the proposal are indicative of at least some ideas that will likely be brought forward for consideration that may become law. For one thing, contrary to the claims made by many reformers on both sides of the political aisle, the budget does little to simplify the tax code. Instead it suggests a range of increased layers of tax complexity.
The budget would change basic income tax rates, particularly for those in higher income brackets. For example, the budget calls for an increased minimum income tax rate of 30% for those making over a million dollars. In addition, the proposal assumes that the current income tax breaks for those making over $250,000, which were first passed by President Bush, will be allowed to sunset. Without Congressional action, these income tax rates will return to higher levels at the end of this year. In addition, the estate tax would rise in the current proposal to 45% from 35%, with the exemption rate dropping to roughly $1 million from $5 million.
Business taxes would also see some changes in this proposal. Bloomberg News explained that while the President has talked of simplifying the corporate tax code, the proposal does not suggest any ways to do that. Instead of lowering the 35% tax rate, the budget would simply add more credits and deductions. The incentives would be geared toward manufacturing and "high-tech" manufacturing companies, while domestic oil and gas production interests would lose billions of dollars in current tax "preferences."
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|What Is Disc Golf?|
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Disc golf (aka Frisbee Golf) is a recreational and professional sport where the player throws discs/Frisbees to traverse a specialized course in the fewest number of throws. The rules are similar to ball and miniature golf where there is a tee to start from and a goal to reach. There may be obstacles in the way, water hazards and out of bounds areas to add challenge. Goals are typically in the form of chain baskets or light poles, depending on the course.
There are many different kinds of discs spanning various flight paths, speeds and weight for the intermediate and advanced player, but the beginner disc golfer only needs a common household Frisbee to play. The low entree cost to this sport (cost of a Frisbee or disc) and the (mostly) free courses to play on, like Irvine's disc golf courses, make disc golf a wonderful family sport that all age ranges can enjoy together.
Disc golf is also played at the professional level, providing ever-increasing challenges for those who seek it.
For more information about disc golf in general, click this Disc Golf link for the Wikipedia entry.
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Daoist Ritual, State Religion, and Popular Practices
Zhenwu Worship from Song to Ming (960-1644)
By Shin-Yi Chao
Published May 25th 2011 by Routledge – 164 pages
Series: Routledge Studies in Taoism
Zhenwu, or the Perfected Warrior, is one of the few Chinese Deities that can rightfully claim a countrywide devotion. Religious specialists, lay devotees, the state machine, and the cultural industry all participated, both collaboratively and competitively, in the evolution of this devotional movement. This book centres on the development and transformation of the godhead of Zhenwu, as well as the devotional movement focused on him. Organised chronologically on the development of the Zhenwu worship in Daoist rituals, state religion, and popular practices, it looks at the changes in the way Zhenwu was perceived, and the historical context in which those changes took place.
The author investigates the complicated means by which various social and political groups contested with each other in appropriating cultural-religious symbols. The question at the core of the book is how, in a given historical context, human agents and social institutions shape the religious world to which they profess devotion. The work offers a holistic approach to religion in a period of Chinese history when central, local, official, clerical and popular power are constantly negotiating and reshaping established values.
Introduction 1. A God in Formation 2. A God in Full: The Song Dynasty 3. A God in Transition 4. A God and his Mountain 5. The Whole and the Parts
Shin-yi Chao is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Rutgers University, US. Her research focuses on Daoism and Chinese popular religion in pre-modern and modern times.
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This blog discusses cures for type-1 diabetes that are either in human trials or just about to start. As time permits, it also covers research that I think are important to parents of type-1diabetics (usually because it is making a big splash in the news), and also research topics that I consider interesting. Treatments for diabetes are not generally discussed here, unless they can turn into a cure.
The Definition of a Cure Used on This Blog
My definition of a cure is this:
- Blood sugar control without testing and with doctor's visits 4 times a year, or less. Any cure must result in an average lifespan close to normal.
- Does not require a lifetime of immunsuppressive drugs, so it is not trading one treatment for another. (but a couple of operations, or a short course of drugs is OK).
Because a cure for type-1 diabetes is likely to involve a combination of several different drugs or treatments, I try to follow research into anything which may be an important part of the cure.
Why I Started this Blog (and it's related web site).
I started this blog for a couple of different reasons:
The biggest reason, was that I got angry at reading (over and over again) that researcher X had cured type-1 diabetes in mice and therefore humans would be cured in 5 years. Understanding why this was not true -- even as it was repeated over and over again by different researchers -- and being able to articulate it to others was an early goal of mine.
A second reason, was that I was a member of an email based support group for the parents of children with type-1 diabetes. I learned a lot from this group, and benefited greatly from their collective insight. I wanted to give something back; to be helpful to the group in some way. I noticed that the same research subjects came up once or twice a year. So I felt that it would be helpful to spend extra time creating really good, well researched postings, that not only contain useful information and opinions but also the sources of that information and the rational for those opinions. My hope was those postings could be reused whenever the topics came up. That idea grew into my status web page, and later into this blog.
A third reason was Dr. Faustman's research. I realized early on, that in order to fully understand it, you had to understand it's history. Not just what is she doing and saying now, but what was she doing and saying 6 years ago; 3 years ago, and so on. That the changes over time contained critical information on how her research was progressing. And I realized that this was true of other lines of research as well.
Finally, I realized that for all research: details mattered. If you wrote one sentence about some research, it would likely be wrong; simply because one sentence could not possibly contain all the nuances and details required for the whole truth, nor could it acknowledge all the uncertainties that are always present in research. You had to write paragraphs to include all the details required for a fully truthful description of a line of research. And often, include footnotes with even more explanations and digressions.
Why I Continue This Blog
The reasons I continue to work on this blog and web site are a little different than why I started:
I do it, because I enjoy it.
Keeping track of research aimed at curing type-1 diabetes is my way of staying optimistic.
Why You Might Disagree with Me / How I View Research
Obviously, people disagree with my evaluations of research for all sorts of reasons, some good and some bad. But I've found that most of the larger disagreements boil down to this: I evaluate research based on what it has done, in people, in the past. Many people evaluate research based on how good the story the researcher can tell about the future. This often boils down to objective data (from the past) vs. emotional hope (for the future), and I come down on the side of data.
Another big difference between how I evaluate research and how some other people do, is that I evaluate the research and not the researchers. Others often give long descriptions of how committed a researcher is. How personal is their quest to find a cure. How they worked long hours and gave things up in order to cure this disease. What a good, smart, enlightened person they are. How they are nice to puppies and children. You won't find me filling space with that kind of fluff. I don't care if a researcher lives under a bridge, eats goats, and is a troll. If they've got data showing safety and efficiency of a cure, that is what I care about.
Some General Rules That I Keep In Mind as I Write this Blog
Here are a few general rules that govern how I evaluate research:
- Data is more important that talking, and much more important that excuses. (To put it bluntly: if you want a drug approved by the FDA, you must have data. It does not matter what excuses you provide to the FDA.)
- Results in people are much more important than results in animals.
- One clinical trial is good, more are better.
- Opinions are not important; but what is important is the reasoning behind them, the data and information they are built on, etc. In short: why a person has opinions is more important than the opinions themselves. And that includes my opinions. Especially my opinions.
- Details matter.
- Specific numbers, the exact data, is important.
- Actions speak louder than words.
Don't get emotional about research; it clouds your judgment.I also like the following quote from Confucius:
Listen often, speak only when sure, and mind always the tone.And here are a few more:
An infinity of excuses can always be found for non-action. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Am I a Shill for "Big Pharma"?
No. and yes. :-)
Usually when someone accuses me of being a shill for "big pharma" it is just that they don't like something I've posted, but can't find anything factually wrong with it or any problems with the underlying data. So they admit they have no substantive evidence, by making this vague accusation. If they saw a mistake in my facts or logic they surely would have pointed it out, but they don't, so they fall back to this form of name calling.
On the other hand, it is certainly true that I would never give my daughter an unapproved medicine. And approval requires scientific study. The FDA and the EMEA both require it.
If someone stumbles out of an exotic jungle and proudly announces that they are a Rhodes scholar and graduated from Harvard and love children and puppies and have been studying ancient rain forest wisdom for decades and now have this cure, which is 100% natural, and therefore safe. Well, I will ignore them until they start a clinical trial. So in a sense, I am a shill for scientific research: evidence based (or data based) decision making. Would you put something in your child if some Rhodes scholar assured you it was natural and safe? Not me; I need to see those studies.
I'm not a shill (for big pharma or anyone else) in the sense that I don't work for a company that does medical research (into type-1 or anything else). I don't get money from any such company. I don't get free products, free use of products, free travel, or free anything else, from anyone.
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Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology
Leyla Gulcur’s research interests have focused on the way structural and psychological variables affect the well-being of individuals who are disenfranchised by economic and social inequalities, as well as by human rights violations. Her work history primarily reflects the larger philosophical question of how individuals can reach their full potential and how cultures and communities can act to impede or facilitate this potential.
In examining these themes in multiple cultural and interdisciplinary contexts, Dr. Gulcur has undertaken research in the following areas:
Dr. Gulcur has been an adjunct faculty member at New York University since 1998, where she has taught graduate level classes in cross-cultural psychology, community psychology and traumatic stress reactions. She has degrees in psychology from Duke University (B.S.) and New York University (Ph.D.). Her background includes in-depth training in survey research design and multivariate statistical analysis, as well as organizational change management. Cross-cultural research and advocacy is a particular area of focus.
Dr. Gulcur has also worked as a trainer and consultant for organizations working to strengthen sexual and reproductive health and human rights worldwide. Using her knowledge of the body of best practices in the area of leadership and organizational change management, she has developed educational materials and conducted trainings for a variety of organizations working on sexuality, health and human rights in Asia and the Middle East. Topics of interest include the role of religion on women’s sexual lives and relationships; attitudes related to virginity and pre-marital sex; forced marriages and honor crimes, and international sex workers’ rights. She is the co-founder of the Turkish NGO Women for Women's Human Rights.
More recently, Dr. Gulcur has headed research departments at organizations in New York City and has conducted evaluation research on programs serving individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders as well as histories of homelessness. She has also focused on providing the technical assistance necessary to help non-profits develop, refine and test best practice models through incorporating an “outcomes framework” into their research and program evaluation agendas. Currently, she has a private practice and continues to conduct trainings and workshops nationally and internationally.
Gulcur, L., Tseng, T., Fields, D., & Cohen, A. (2011). The differential impact of housing and service use on quality of life and community integration of homeless individuals with and without mental illness (submitted for publication).
Tseng, T., & Gulcur, L. (2011). A place of one’s own: The impact of housing choice, residential quality and neighborhood integration on the quality of life of individuals with histories of homelessness (submitted for publication).
Gulcur, L., & Ilkkaracan, P. (2008). The "Natasha" experience: Migrant sex workers from the former Soviet Union in Turkey. In P. Ilkkaracan (Ed.) Deconstructing Sexuality in the Middle East : Challenges and Discourses. London: Ashgate.
Gulcur, L., Tsemberis, S., Stefancic, A., & Greenwood, R. (2007). Community integration of adults with psychiatric disabilities and histories of homelessness. Community Mental Health Journal, Vol. 43: 3 , 211-228.
Padgett, D.K, Gulcur, L. & Tsemberis, S. (2006). Housing First services for people who are homeless with co-occurring serious mental illness and substance abuse. Research on Social Work Practice, 16, 74-83.
Tsemberis, S., Gulcur, L., & Nakae, M. (2004). Housing First, consumer choice, and harm reduction for individuals who are homeless with dual diagnosis: A 24-month follow-up. American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 94:4, 651-656.
Gulcur, L., Stefancic, A., Shinn, M., Tsemberis, S., & Fischer, S. (2003). Housing, hospitalization and cost outcomes for homeless individuals with psychiatric disabilities participating in continuum of care and housing first programmes. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, Vol. 13, 171-186.
Gulcur, L. (2000). Evaluating the role of gender inequalities and rights violations in women's mental health. Health and Human Rights, Vol.5, No. 1, 46-66.
Gulcur, L. (1996). Violence against women in the family: The Ankara study. In P. Ilkkaracan, L. Gulcur, C. Arin (Eds.), The Myth of the Warm Home (Sicak Yuva Masali). Istanbul: Metis Publications.
Gulcur, L., & Galinsky, E. (1993). The role of gender and child care experiences in work-family conflict and stress. Community Psychologist, 27:2, 41-44.
Dr. Leyla Gulcur
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Boys and the friendship crisis
Helping teenage boys hang on to their friends — and why it's so important that they do
Fathers play a critical role in modeling healthy friendships for their sons. (Bernd Opitz, Taxi / June 18, 2012)
"The quantitative data from studying hundreds of boys show that high-quality relationships with their moms predict high-quality relationships with their friends," says Way, a professor at New York University and the author of "Deep Secrets: Boys' Friendships and the Crisis of Connection" (Harvard University Press). "But the opposite is true with dads. The more time they're spending with dad, the less they report having high-quality friendships."
The finding gave Way and her fellow researchers pause, but it actually speaks to the heart of her thesis, which is, in essence: Boys want close friendships. Boys are equipped to foster close friendships. Boys, in fact, rock at close friendships.
Until they approach adulthood.
Way interviewed hundreds of boys — black, white, Latino, Asian-American — throughout adolescence, and found that they're quite clear about the esteem with which they regard their friendships.
"I heard these 13-, 14-, 15-year-old boys saying, 'I need my friends. I want close friends. I would go wacko without my close friends,'" she says. "Around 15, 16, 17, you start to hear a very different boy talking. Freshmen year a boy would tell me, 'Victor is my best friend. I love him.'"
But by senior year, the same boy is loath to admit to such feelings, Way says.
Our boys face nothing less than a crisis in their relational abilities, say experts in the area of adolescent psychology. And the stakes are high. Way's research links healthy, intimate friendships among boys with lower rates of bullying, better physical health, longer life spans, less drug and alcohol abuse, and better academic performance. The time at which most boys start to drift away from their close friends — typically age 15 or 16 — corresponds precisely with the time at which suicide rates for boys jump to five times the rate of girls, Way says.
"The question isn't how do we teach our boys to have relationships," Way says. "It's how do we teach them to hang on to them. How do we help them maintain the friendships they already have into adulthood?"
Tuning into their feelings
We start by giving them the green light to express what they're already feeling.
"Boys have the full emotional repertoire," says child psychologist Michael Thompson, co-author of "Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys" (Ballantine Books). "They don't always have the permission to use it."
Dads, he says, can change that.
"If fathers, especially, emphasize too much competitiveness and toughness," Thompson says, "and that old American bugaboo, which is self-reliance, then a boy is confused. 'Well, should I be self-reliant? Which means not feeling so dependent on my friends as I do in my heart?'"
Which speaks to Way's link between fathers and quality friendships.
"Because men grew up in the same culture our boys are growing up in, how men relate to their sons often reinforces hypermasculinity," Way says. "Closeness with their sons often entails going to sports events and talking about sports, which is fantastic. But it doesn't necessarily entail emotional connectedness, talking about their emotional lives, which is why it's affecting their friendships.
"That's what we do to our boys," she says. "We force them to be not quite human, quite frankly, by suppressing their emotions."
Taking on the challenge
Fathers — along with mothers, teachers, all of us, frankly — have a responsibility to foster and encourage connectedness and emotional honesty in our boys.
"It's possible to have good friendships without talking about them as much as girls do," Thompson says with a laugh. "But you can't have friendship without vulnerability. You have to be able to let your guard down with somebody, and you have to be able to trust that somebody is going to look after you."
Thompson makes a plea to dads: Model friendship for your sons.
"Take your sons and your sons' friends with you on camping trips with your own friends," he says. "Talk with them about why you like your buddies with a little more depth than, 'He's so funny.' 'He and I both like the Giants.' Say a little bit more about them."
Chances are, the chats will be well-received.
"Boys are crying out for male attention in our culture," says Lisa Bloom, author of "Swagger: 10 Urgent Rules for Raising Boys in an Era of Failing Schools, Mass Joblessness and Thug Culture" (Think Publications/Vantage Point). "All kids today have significantly fewer adults in their lives than they did a generation ago: They have more single parents, larger class sizes, they're less likely to go to a religious institution, guidance counselors are being cut, school nurses are being cut.
"Fathers and other men who want to play a role in kids' lives have a wonderful opportunity to do so."
And the benefits are large and lifelong. Better friends, after all, make better brothers, fathers, partners.
"Any relationship that is mutual and reciprocal and loving," Thompson says, "gives you practice for other relationships that are mutual, reciprocal and loving."
Books for boys
An excellent way for young men to exercise their emotional muscles — and perfect for long summer days: diving into a great book. At the end of "Swagger," author Lisa Bloom offers a "Books Boys Love" appendix. The following are among her recommendations for ages 15-18:
"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger: "Tell your boy this book is still on banned book lists."
"The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien: "Any teenager into fantasy should read this series of books."
"Paper Towns" by John Green: "Not your girlfriend's love story."
"The Dresden Files," a series of books by Jim Butcher: "Who wouldn't love a story about a private eye who has to tangle with the supernatural on a daily basis?"
"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas: "As one online reviewer wrote, 'Best. Book. Ever.' "
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Webinar May 17: Sustainability for the Global Biofuels Industry - Minimizing Risks and Maximizing Opportunities
May 2, 2011
The U.S. Department of Energy's Biomass Program is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, May 17, 2011, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EDT, entitled "Sustainability for the Global Biofuels Industry: Minimizing Risks and Maximizing Opportunities." This Web conference is the next installment in the Biomass Program's webinar series, which will cover many of the Program's activities and feature discussions on "Hot Topics" relevant to the development of renewable fuels, power, and products from biomass resources.
This webinar will feature an overview of sustainability issues related to the development of a global biofuels market. A panel of speakers from Conservation International will be discussing results of the DOE-supported Sustainable Biofuel Crops Project, including identified risks and opportunities for global biofuels production, results of field studies to develop responsible biofuel crop management strategies, and implications for land-use planning, policy and developing markets.
DOE's Biomass Program welcomes interested stakeholders from industry, academia, research institutions, government, non-profits, other organizations, and the general public.
DOE Biomass Program
- Alison Goss Eng, Sustainability Lead
- Ranyee Chiang, AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow
- Christine Dragisic, Director, Agriculture, Biofuel, & Forestry
- Lucio Bede, Atlantic Forest Program Manager, Conservation International Brazil
- Jenny Hewson, Technical Advisor for Land Use Monitoring and REDD Analyses
- Tim Killeen, Senior Research Scientist
- Manuel Oliva, Director, U.S. Climate Policy
- Conrad Savy, Senior Science Advisor, Business & Government Engagement
Registration: This webinar is free to all participants, but space is limited, so be sure to register in advance to secure your spot. You will receive the URL, password, and phone number via email prior to the webinar. You will need this information in order to connect.
The three-year Sustainable Biofuel Crops Project was launched by Conservation International in early 2008 with a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. The overall goal of the project was to support the development of a sustainable global biofuels industry by ensuring that biofuel crop production does not threaten biodiversity. The project included three major work programs that: analyzed the potential overlap of biofuel crops with areas of high importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services provision; worked with partners in Indonesia and Brazil to implement field studies to develop techniques for siting and managing biofuel crops responsibly; and informed the development of policy and standards for sustainable biofuel crop production. The Sustainable Biofuel Crops Project was implemented by teams working in the United States, Brazil, Indonesia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Suriname.
Biomass is a clean, renewable energy source that can help to significantly diversify transportation fuels in the United States. The U.S. Department of Energy's Biomass Program is helping transform the nation's renewable and abundant non-food biomass resources into cost-competitive, high-performance biofuels, bioproducts, and biopower. To learn more, visit the Biomass Program website.
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In a recent debate, Daniel Dennett, a professor at Tufts University, argued that religions are like genes, the most successful ones survive not necessarily because their ideas are true, but because they have succeeded as the "fittest" religious arguments through the years. Since not all religions can be true, he suggested that other reasons must be at play in perpetuating them — such as the idea that mankind may be genetically predisposed to being religious.
What do you think of this notion? Could there be a genetic link to religion?
In addressing this question from a Bahá'í perspective, two important principles come to mind. The first is our abiding belief in progressive revelation, the concept that throughout history, God has sent and will continue to send, holy individuals endowed with perfect, divine knowledge, with teachings to renew and advance civilization and man's understanding of the nature of the Creator. In this regard, the supposition that "not all religions can be true" comes into question.
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Can Location-Based Nets Woo Women with Privacy?
Google has launched Latitude for the iPhone as a native iOS service, hoping to build on its already-substantial user base of nine million accessing the location-based network via Android. Even without the benefit of iPhone iOS compatibility, the total number of Latitude users has jumped 200% from one million in February 2009 to three million in May 2010, then another 200% to nine million today. That makes it bigger than Foursquare, with five million registered users, but smaller than Facebook Places, with about 30 million.
These may seem like big numbers -- "million" has such a delightful sound -- but the truth is they're actually pretty lackluster, considered as a proportion of the total Internet population. After almost two years on the market (including overseas) Latitude's nine million users represent less than a tenth of 1% of Google's roughly one billion users worldwide; Foursquare's five million users represent just 2.3% of the total U.S. Internet population of 220 million; and Facebook Places' 30 million represent just 5% of its total user base of 600 million worldwide.
In November a new study from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life project found that only 4% of American Internet users use location-based services, with just 1% using these services on any given day. And contained within this data was an even more telling finding: men outnumbered women 2-to-1 on location-based networks -- 6% of online men versus 3% of online women.
Indeed, this gender imbalance reflects one of the main obstacles to further growth for location-based networks. There's been a lot of discussion of safety and privacy concerns which discourage women from using location-based social networks more intensively. The location-based nets are clearly aware of these concerns, and are working to address them. For example, Google Latitude is equipped with a number of privacy measures: Users can choose to only share their location when they are active on the service, and they can also adjust the settings to share only city-level (as opposed to street-level) locations.
But there is a big psychological hurdle to overcome -- especially in view of well-publicized privacy breaches and missteps from Facebook and Google. Sure, the privacy measures and security features look good on paper, but will women trust place-based social networks to implement them fully and consistently?
There have been plenty of incidents which don't inspire confidence. Purposefully or not, Facebook allowed game partner Zynga to share user information with third-party advertisers, and Google inadvertently collected complete email addresses, URLs and passwords with its Streetview surveys. In September a Google engineer was fired for spying on chats by teenage users. And both Facebook and Google have an unfortunate habit of introducing new features without considering their possible privacy implications.
None of these transgressions may seem terribly dire -- until you consider them in the context of your own physical safety, which usually casts things in a very different light. Will women, in particular, be willing to overlook these companies' cavalier handling of privacy issues in the past, when so much is at stake?
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Event: "The Way We See It"
Posted on: Monday, April 25, 2011
Jan nou wè l/The Way We See It is a powerful collection of 47 original photographs taken by more than 30 Haitian women who have been victims of gender-based violence. The photographs capture their post-earthquake reality: tarpaulin shelters, makeshift bathrooms and kitchens. In short, a world with few doors to lock in which no one has private space. These women spent the last year using donated digital cameras to document their experience. This event will be the first—and possibly only—public viewing of this collection of images.
The project began in April 2010 when US-based technology and human rights NGO Digital Democracy (Dd) traveled to Haiti with digital cameras to lead photo-training sessions. Up to that point, without cameras or knowledge of how to use them, these grassroots groups had paid others to document their experiences and raise awareness for their cause. At first only thirteen women, representing six grassroots groups, participated in the sessions. Yet with just two days of training and only four shared digital cameras between them, the women set out to tell their story. The results were strong, passionate, and extremely insightful.
The photographs, as well as a catalogue of the work—translated in both Creole and English—will be available for purchase at the event and afterward online. All proceeds will support continuation of the work of the grassroots women’s groups and Dd in Haiti.
To RSVP and purchase tickets, please click here.
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Boeing is cranking out planes faster, and it's paying off.
The big U.S. aerospace company is on track to meet delivery targets for the year, and on Wednesday raised its profit guidance and reported a better-than-expected profit for the third quarter.
Boeing has been speeding up production, aiming to get some of its newest planes out the door faster. Its new 787 is getting the most scrutiny because it was three years late when it began hauling passengers last year.
Much of a new plane is paid for at delivery, so faster deliveries mean better cash flow. Boeing's revenue from commercial planes jumped 28 percent to $12.19 billion in the most recent quarter.
Boeing said on Wednesday that it will hit its delivery targets -- 585 to 600 commercial planes this year, up from 477 last year. That includes 70 to 85 of a mix of 787s and 747-8s, with about half being 787s. This week Boeing said it has boosted production of its profitable, long-haul 777 to 8.3 per month.
Delivering 787s has proven to be tougher than Boeing expected. Dozens stacked up near its factory in Everett, Wash., needing fixes and modifications to get them ready for customers. The biggest parts of the 787 are made from composite fiber instead of aluminum, like other Boeing planes, so there has been a learning curve on the factory floor.
"You'll start to see the cash engine picking up steam, and you've seen that this quarter, and we do expect that to continue going forward as we continue to grow and focus on productivity," Chief Financial Officer Greg Smith said on a conference call.
Boeing said half of its fourth-quarter 787 deliveries will come from the rework operation, with the other half coming from the assembly lines.
The company will still have to work to meet its goal of making 10 787s per month by the end of next year.
Net income fell 6 percent to $1.03 billion, from $1.1 billion a year ago. The profit of $1.35 per share would have been higher by 18 cents per share if not for increased pension expenses. That was well above the $1.12 per share expected by analysts surveyed by FactSet. During the same period last year, it earned $1.46 per share.
Revenue rose 13 percent to $20 billion, matching analyst expectations.
Chicago-based Boeing Co. now expects to earn $4.80 to $4.95 per share this year, up from previous guidance of $4.40 to $4.60 per share. Analysts had been expecting $4.72 per share.
Boeing's commercial airplanes unit posted a 6 percent increase in operating earnings to $1.15 billion for the quarter.
Earnings in Boeing's defense, space, and security unit rose slightly to $827 million. Revenue fell 4 percent to $7.84 billion. Defense contractors in general have been struggling with tighter military spending. And the so-called fiscal cliff at the beginning of 2013 threatens steep cuts to U.S. military spending.
Citi analyst Jason Gursky said Boeing has somewhat less risk from defense cuts because 40 percent of its defense backlog is from outside the U.S.
"Domestic stuff is becoming less and less important for them," he said.
Boeing shares opened with a gain of about $2 but were down 6 cents to $72.76 in afternoon trading.
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Minority teachers are role models for minority students
Johnson tries to increase the number of minority teachers at his school in order to provide role models for his black students. He believes that white teachers and black students do not always understand one another.
Citing this Excerpt
Oral History Interview with Charles Johnson, December 29, 1990. Interview M-0025. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Full Text of the Excerpt
- GOLDIE F. WELLS:
So one of your priorities in selecting at this point since you only have
four, five Black faculty members you really want to increase your
- CHARLES JOHNSON:
I want to increase my minority because I think that it is very important
that we have more role models within this school and I've
found that, there are excellent teachers. However I've found
that some of them have difficulties understanding the Black students.
And the Black students have a tendency not to understand the attitude of
White teachers. But I'm not saying that they are not good
teachers--they are very good teachers but I think that we need--it needs
to be balanced a little more.
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Bethlehem is a town with a name tied intricately into Christmas.
Half a world away from the Bethlehem that springs to most people's minds, however, lies a lesser-known town of the same name. But Bethlehem, Pa., has its own claims to fame when it comes to the holiday season.
In ''Christmas City,'' as it has branded itself, you'll find authentic Christmas trees - each complete its own set of lights - bound high up on each light post as you drive through the town. You'll join a throng of tourists wandering through a historic downtown filled with shop after shop selling crafts for any season, but especially appropriate during the gift-giving time of Christmas.
Tourists walk under a Christmas tree located in front of the former Bethlehem Steel plant in Bethlehem, Pa. The plant, which closed steel-making operations in 1995, has in recent years had its grounds transformed into an arts-and-entertainment district.
P-J photos by Dave Emke
And throughout the city you'll see large multipointed stars - similar to the Star of Bethlehem, but upon closer inspection, slightly different. They are Moravian stars, representative of a society deeply intertwined with the city's history and culture.
Rising above it all on the city's southside are the towering, rusted stacks of the Bethlehem Steel Corp., a symbol of an institution that helped build the very infrastructure of America itself.
Bethlehem is a fascinating place, intermingling 18th-century history with 21st-century hustle and bustle. To visit it at Christmastime is a sight to behold, but its past and present are rich enough to be enjoyed year-round.
Founded in 1741 by Moravian settlers from what is now the Czech Republic, Bethlehem was given its distinctive name when the Moravians' patron, Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf, paid a visit to the settlement on Christmas Eve.
Today, when visiting Bethlehem in December, one must visit the Christmas-themed marketplaces the city features during the season. The largest is Christkindlmarkt, which was held for the 19th time this year. For the first time, however, it took place this year at a locale called SteelStacks - so named as it is in the shadows of the former Bethlehem Steel. The juxtaposition of the hulking and aging stacks, hundreds of feet tall, with the Christmas-filled plaza below was difficult to miss.
Inside, more than 140 booths from area merchants stand among food vendors and a stage where local musicians perform throughout the entirety of the five-weekend run of the market. During our visit, we were serenaded by Christmas carols courtesy of the clarinet choir from the Moravian, Lehigh and Community Music School. The live music added a certain quality to the experience that pre-recorded and mass-produced Christmas tunes piped through a sound system could not have possibly matched.
The cornerstone of the market is the Kathe Wohlfahrt store, which features a vast array of Christmas goodies for gifts, for the tree, and for all other seasonal needs. The most impressive part of the setup was a wall of nutcracker ornaments featuring as many different nutcrackers as one could possibly imagine. It was a collector's dream.
Other booths throughout the market sold wares including garden gnomes, blown glass, jewelry and, of course, Moravian stars. A few also sold goodies including gourmet foods and wine. There truly was something for everyone's Christmas list.
After visiting the Christkindlmarkt, we went downtown to a second marketplace that has sprung up in Bethlehem just this year, called Weihnachtsmarkt or ''Christmas City Village.'' Set up outdoors in downtown's Sun Inn Courtyard, Christmas City Village is a smaller and more intimate take on the same idea.
In about 30 wooden huts, vendors offered a variety of crafts and gifts. Traditional German fare and hot mulled wine were available and - as at Christkindlmarkt - live music helped liven the atmosphere. Here, we heard rock 'n' roll Christmas tunes from a teen rock band called Revelations.
The location of the Christmas City Village lent itself well to tourists passing through, as it is a quick step off the busy Main Street from the number of businesses open for holiday hours there. Many hundreds of out-of-towners packed the sidewalks on the Saturday night we visited, walking from store to store to see all the items Bethlehem has to offer.
More than just commercial, though, Bethlehem is in touch with its history. Amid the shoppers, guides dressed in 18th-century apparel lead visitors on lantern-lit tours of streets, showing them where famous men from history such as Ben Franklin, George Washington and John Adams visited and made their mark.
Seeing a colonial man bumping elbows with a family carrying several bags full of Christmas gifts on a busy sidewalk is just one of many pieces of visual evidence that Bethlehem is forever mixing its past with its present.
That mixing of past and present is also distinctly evident at Bethlehem Steel, which closed steel-making operations in 1995 but remains a point of interest both on the Bethlehem skyline and the skylines of many cities across the United States.
While a portion of the plant remains standing on the south shore of the Lehigh River, a modern arts-and-entertainment district - SteelStacks - has been built around the carcass of the facility. The ArtsQuest Performing Arts Center stands at the west end, while the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem has made its home on the east end.
The ArtsQuest Center serves as the home for shows, movies, musical performances and other events for the community. It is also the starting point for historical tours of the Bethlehem Steel facility. The tour we took was led by Bruce Ward, a 27-year employee of Bethlehem Steel whose father, mother, uncle, grandfather and grandmother all also worked at the plant in various positions. Ward, a volunteer for Historic Bethlehem who has been chronicling the history of Bethlehem Steel in film since the early 1990s, gave an in-depth two-hour tour of the campus.
Ward took us chronologically through the history of Bethlehem Steel, informing us of the major advances for which the plant was responsible, the sheer mass and volume of the steel that was produced on the grounds, and of the more than 700 men who lost their lives over the years at the facility.
The massive plant, which features the world's longest free-standing structure in the form of a quarter-mile-long machine shop, had more than 300 miles of railroad tracks and more than 1,000 overhead cranes. At its peak, during World War II, the seven-mile-long plant employed more than 30,000 people. The buildings we looked into made the steel beams that went into the Golden Gate Bridge, the Hoover Dam, the Empire State Building and many more iconic structures across the United States. The plant was also the major supplier of weaponry and armor to the U.S. military during World War I and II.
Our knowledgeable guide told us about everything from how the blast furnaces worked to what the curtains looked like in the corporate office. While we unfortunately were unable to enter any of the buildings, Ward's colorful illustrations provided the backdrop.
During our tour of Bethlehem Steel, Ward made mention of the Moravian settlers whose land was purchased to make room for the plant - and how the city was altered because of it.
In order to get a full understanding of how the Moravians had lived in Bethlehem in the 1700s, we received a talk about the settlement from Natalie Bock, historian from the city's historic Hotel Bethlehem. She met us early the next morning and gave us a walking tour of downtown as it was more than 250 years ago.
Moravian society was a socialistic society in which members gave all their money to the church and lived together through a system in which each person worked toward the betterment of the group, not the individual. Goods and services were provided to each other on a barter system, and by all accounts Moravians were a very happy people, Bock told us.
The Moravians in Bethlehem were, unofficially, the first people in the United States to have a hospital and to have a method for running water. They also were pacifists, Bock told us, who refused to take part in the Revolutionary War.
Another interesting aspect about the Moravians was the complete separation that existed between unmarried men and women in the community. Boys and girls lived in separate houses - much like dormitories - were schooled separately and even took walking paths that did not intersect. Marriages were arranged but, as deduced from biographies that each Moravian was required to write, results seem to have positive.
Not only were boys and girls separated, but virtually all people in the community were separated into living arrangements based upon age, gender and marital status. The Moravians who remain today still live in the same homes with names such as ''Widows' Home'' and ''Sisters' Home.''
We visited all the historic buildings of the Moravian settlement, as well as the Moravian cemetery, in which all the gravestones lay flat - because Moravians believe that, in death as in life, all people are equal. One stone of particular interest, however, was that of a converted American Indian whose biography was used as James Fenimore Cooper's inspiration for Uncas in ''The Last of the Mohicans.''
Bock also gave us the scoop on the origins of the Moravian star, which originated in a Moravian Boys' School as the answer to a geometry lesson. Because of its beauty, it soon was adopted throughout the church as a symbol of the Christmas season.
The Moravians were a welcoming people, and Bock said that the Moravian star is a welcoming symbol when hung on a porch or doorway. It is only fitting, then, that it is so prevalent throughout a city as welcoming as Bethlehem.
IF YOU GO
HISTORIC BETHLEHEM: 459 Old York Road, Bethlehem. www.historicbethlehem.org or 610-882-0450. In association with the Smithsonian Institution. Information about historic sites and museums.
CHRISTKINDLMARKT BETHLEHEM: PNC Plaza at SteelStacks, 645 E. First St., Bethlehem. www.artsquest.org/christkindlmarkt or 610-332-1300. $8 admission for single day, $15 for season pass. 2011 season ends today; 2012 dates and hours to be announced.
CHRISTMAS CITY VILLAGE: Sun Inn Courtyard, downtown Bethlehem. www.downtownbethlehemassociation.com/calendar/christmas-city-village. Free admission. Dec. 22-23, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Dec. 24, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
ARTSQUEST CENTER AT STEELSTACKS: 101 Founders Way, Bethlehem. www.artsquest.org or 610-332-1300. Seasonal hours: Monday and Tuesday, noon to 9 p.m.; Wednesday and Thursday, noon to 10 p.m.; Friday, noon to midnight; Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to midnight; Sunday, noon to 10 p.m. (Christmas Eve, noon to 5 p.m.; Christmas, 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.) Free parking. See website for full schedule of upcoming shows, festivals, tours, movies and more.
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Dr. Earl Tilford is a military historian and fellow for the Middle East & terrorism with The Center for Vision & Values
at Grove City College. He currently lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama where he is writing a history of the University of Alabama in the 1960s. A retired Air Force intelligence officer, Dr. Tilford earned his PhD in American and European military history at George Washington University. From 1993 to 2001, he served as Director of Research at the U.S. Army’s Strategic Studies Institute. In 2001, he left Government service for a professorship at Grove City College, where he taught courses in military history, national security, and international and domestic terrorism and counter-terrorism.
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To realize full benefit from a radar, the analyzed echoes must be strong and sharp. Two options are available: Either the transmitted burst must be an intense, short pulse (often not a propitious arrangement) or the onus can be put on the receiver to process the echo into something more than it appears to be. One method for ``upgrading'' the received signal beyond a feeble echo from a not-too-powerful transmitted beam is acoustooptical processing, in which the reflected radar beam is converted to an acoustic wave that is used to modulate a light source. Then with the appropriate operation on the modulated light, the radar echo input is correlated against an optical filter. Of the two acoustooptic correlator classes described here, one works well below 150 MHz and the other is appropriate for frequencies above 150 MHz.
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Kathleen Flake is associate professor at Vanderbilt Divinity School and author of The Politics of Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle.
The four books of Mormonism
The LDS canon's four books carry equal weight of authority. All are read as historical witnesses to God's promise of salvation.
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Community leaders lend helping hand to paralyzed teen
MIAMI (WSVN) -- Community leaders showed up Friday at the home of a paraplegic South Florida teen who was a victim of gun violence to lend him a helping hand.
"It's just like a flock of angels has come down and settled in my house," said Sammie Willis, the father of 15-year-old Aaron Willis.
Life is a little different than it used to be for Aaron, who was shot in the back Dec. 19 while he was riding his bike on Northwest 28th Street and First Avenue in Miami's Wynwood district. The bullet severed the teen's spine and left him paralyzed from the waist down. The incident sent Aaron to Jackson Memorial Hospital for five weeks.
Three months later, Aaron is looking on the bright side of things. "All I can think about it is, I can sit down now," he said "I've got people to push me around."
The community is pitching in to make Aaron as comfortable as possible in his home. "We kindly donated a brand-new kitchen, and put in a couple of fans, a little air conditioner in Aaron's room, and we're going to be adding a couple of other things," said Karen Fryd, director of the South Florida Youth Foundation.
Gifts like a scooter and a handicapped-accessible ramp in his home are just some of the improvements that will make life a little easier for Aaron. Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho donated a computer to the Booker T. Washington High School freshman. "Partners have provided wireless internet access to him so he can continue his studies," Carvalho said.
According to the teen's father, these donations are an enormous help for the challenges up ahead for Aaron and the Willis family. "My son has a head and he has a heart, and that's going to take him to almost the same places as his legs would have taken him," Sammie Willis said.
The bullet that hit 15-year-old Aaron Willis Dec. 19 while he was riding his bike in Miami's Wynwood district severed his spine. The incident sent the Booker T. Washington freshman to Jackson Memorial Hospital for five weeks.
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The National Osteoporosis Society has a network of Support Groups and volunteers around the UK. The Support Groups are run by people who are affected by osteoporosis, for the benefit of people with the disease.
Most Support Groups meet on a regular basis to offer support and information to people living with osteoporosis. Our groups are able to provide information about local services and practical matters that affect people with osteoporosis. Many members enjoy the social contact, meeting other people affected by osteoporosis and sharing their experiences with others who understand how they feel.
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(Translated from report prepared by Middle Eastern Economic Affairs Bureau)
1. Project approvals in Area C – Since the beginning of 2011, 328 projects in Area C have been approved. To date, 53 approved projects haven't yet begun due to lack of funding.
2. More permits for Palestinians working in Israel – On September 27, 2012, the number of permits for Palestinians to work in Israel was increased by 5,000. To date, there are 46,450 permits approved, of which 34,118 are being used. Since February 2011, Israel increased the number of work permits by 49% (15,250 permits). In 2012 alone, Israel has added 10,000 permits. In addition, 24,660 Palestinians are employed by Israelis in Judea and Samaria (West Bank). The average salary of a Palestinian worker in Israel or employed by an Israeli in Judea and Samaria is twice the average salary paid by a Palestinian employer.
3. Permits for overnight stay in Israel – Recently, the number of permits was increased by 40% (2,000 permits).To date, there are 7,000 overnight permits in circulation, 4,213 of which are in use.
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5. Approvals of internationally funded and monitored projects in the Gaza Strip – Since 2011, 235 projects have been approved. In September 2012 alone, 16 new projects were approved.
6. Expansion of trade between Gaza and the West Bank – Before the new school year began, three truckloads of furniture for schools in the West Bank were transferred from the Gaza Strip.
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Today, just one day after celebrating the birth of our blessed Savior, we honor St. Stephen––the first martyr to the faith.
He is venerated or honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox Churches.
If you look into the circumstances surrounding his horrible death, we see why "the mob" was enraged at him: he spoke THE TRUTH to them.
And what is THE TRUTH? It is not a thing or a place.
It is a person––JESUS CHRIST.
St. Stephen spoke the truth to the crowds. He even saw our blessed Lord seated at the right hand of the Father as he was being killed for the faith.
And so as each of us continues their journey of faith on this earth, let us recognize that many here on earth do not wish to hear the truth; they will want to "stop up their ears" to the truth; will become enraged at the truth; will be angry and may even do us physical harm for telling them THE TRUTH––JESUS CHRIST.
But as we know, these things will not stop us from proclaiming: JESUS IS LORD AND SAVIOR OF ALL!
HE is our "rock and salvation."
Peace Brothers and Sisters.
Acts 6:8-10; 7:54-59
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UPS Road CodeSM is a UPS-sponsored teen safe driving program being offered in conjunction with Boys & Girls Clubs of America, thanks to a three-year $2 million grant from The UPS Foundation. In 2011, the Road Code™ program taught nearly 2,000 young people in four countries (the U.S., Canada, Germany, and England). In 2012, we plan to bring the program to our Asia pacific region, beginning with the city of Shanghai in China.
UPS Disaster Preparedness Fact Sheet
To have a global impact, reach disproportionately underserved populations, minimize human suffering and speed economic recovery when disasters, we support humanitarian relief in partnership with leading international organizations including CARE, UNICEF, the American Red Cross and the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP). However, UPS does not wait for disaster to support its humanitarian relief partners. The Foundation also works with relief agencies behind the scenes, providing capacity-building advice, skilled volunteers, and in-kind movements of goods and materials, both before and after disasters.
UPS Healthcare Industry Focus
UPS has deep expertise in the healthcare industry and provides a broad range of services and solutions to manage the entire healthcare supply chain. From small- to mid-sized businesses to large, global pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, UPS helps healthcare companies speed products to market; facilitate new product introductions; meet time-critical customer needs; ensure regulatory compliance; reduce inventory management costs; streamline ordering and billing processes; and maximize supply chain visibility.
UPS Temperature-Sensitive Solutions for Healthcare
With more temperature-sensitive healthcare products entering the market and major growth forecasted, pharmaceutical and biotech companies are turning to UPS for temperature-sensitive storage, distribution and transportation services.
Business Monitor Latin America
This UPS Business Monitor Latin America (BMLA), now in its fifth edition, provides an outlook on the existing, attitudes and trends among more than 800 business leaders of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) across seven countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The results of this study are based on the solid experience of the interviewees in the world of industry and trade.
Cost Savings Through Capacity Building
Through a range of innovative global programs, The UPS Foundation, the philanthropic arm of UPS, has developed a multi-sector commitment to urgent humanitarian relief, allowing the company to leverage its immense logistics and supply chain knowledge to help organizations better respond to disaster.
UPS's Values, Mission, and Strategy
UPS's values, mission, and strategy statements provide guidance regarding our daily decisions. They make clear our priorities and encourage us to seize new opportunities. By following these principles, our actions are aligned to meet the needs of our company, people, customers, shareowners, and communities.
UPS My Choice Overview
UPS My Choicesm is a revolutionary new home delivery service that will enable busy consumers to conveniently control and manage their incoming package deliveries to fit their busy lifestyles. The new service will alleviate many consumer concerns related to shipping, including missing packages, worrying about packages left outside, trekking to a depot to retrieve missed packages, waiting all day for a package or counting on others to sign for a package.
UPS My Choice and a Residential Redux
The launch of UPS My Choice,sm a transformational new service that lets consumers take control of their package deliveries, represents a bit of a return to the past for UPS - sharpening a focus on residential deliveries.
What Makes UPS My Choice Work?
In the beginning, in 2004, most reporters who paid any attention at all to UPS's effort to better manage the flow of packages around the United States knew it mainly as technology that helped drivers avoid making left-hand turns.
Business Monitor Canada
Canada's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are more global in their outlook compared to one year ago, believing Canada must diversify its export base and do away with trade barriers in order to ensure the country's economy can compete with emerging markets.
The most recent results of UPS Canada's quarterly barometer of SMEs shows a high level of optimism about Canada's international competitiveness and the fate of its manufacturing sector.
Saving Fuel: The Benefits of No Idling
With more than 100,000 vehicles delivering over 15 million packages and documents worldwide each day, UPS knows first-hand the importance of no-idling measures.
UPS 2011 Diversity Grants
UPS announced grants totaling $7 million to more than 80 non-profit organizations whose mission is to support diverse populations. These grants will fund programs that develop leadership skills, promote education and encourage inclusion of all individuals.
UPS Healthcare Facilities Backgrounder
Through its extensive network of global healthcare facilities, UPS offers healthcare companies access to solutions that help them meet the special storage and handling needs of pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device products, ensure regulatory compliance and speed products to market.
UPS Hybrid Electric Vehicle Fleet
UPS's focus on sustainability is evident in the company's alternative fuel vehicle fleet. UPS developed and continues to expand its fleet using a "rolling laboratory" approach - using its alternative fuel fleet as a way to learn about how new technologies and advancements can be adapted for use in a large delivery network.
UPS Brand Platform Campaign Fact Sheet
UPS’s new brand platform campaign makes its debut on Sept. 13, 2010, with a wide range of multi-channel promotions including TV, print, Out Of Home, digital, online, direct mail and e-mail. This marks the first time in UPS history that the company will have a unified global communications platform.
Business Monitor Asia
The UPS Asia Business Monitor has been tracking Asian small and medium enterprises (SME) sentiments since 2005. With the global economy in recovery, Asian SMEs reflect greater optimism when compared to last year. However, wounds from the financial crisis have not fully healed and funding continues to be a major concern. For many SMEs, their top fears are rising costs, competition, interest rate hikes and cash flow.
Business Monitor United States
Although concerned about the economy, small- and medium-sized business exporters are confident about their companies' futures, especially when it comes to international sales, according to this year's Business Monitor United States survey commissioned by UPS.
UPS Decision Green Technology Forum presentation
On Tuesday, March 23, the Decision Green Tech Forum: Greening Your Supply Chain event was held in New York City. The event was designed to showcase how UPS is leveraging technology to bring customer solutions to the market and enhance its sustainability efforts. Dave Barnes, senior vice president and CIO, moderated the program.
Safe Driving Tips for the Holidays
The 35 days between Thanksgiving and New Years is the busiest long-distance-travel period of the year. More drivers travel 50 miles or more away from their hometown than any other time.
Recycling After the Holidays
After the holidays, houses are littered with piles of crumpled wrapping paper and bows, dozens of holiday cards, pine needles on the carpet, and boxes of pesky foam packaging "peanuts." The UPS Store® offers the following recycling tips to simplify post-holiday cleanup so you can start the new year with a clean house (and a clean conscience):
Real-time visibility to orders and inventory around the globe
Customizable order system, configured to meet specific business needs
Greater flexibility in proactively placing and monitoring critical service orders
Decreases order entry detail with “cloning” capability
Double byte/Unicode supports Japanese and Chinese characters
Selects ideal routing from warehouse to end-user to meet deadline.
2008 UPS Foundation Annual Report (PDF)
Every day the work of The UPS Foundation is dedicated to moving communities to a new horizon. Its programs are designed to help make communities around the world more resilient to the many challenges they face and provide a means for UPS people to channel their compassion and philanthropy.
House the world’s largest DB2 relational data base.
Meet zone 2 seismic requirements (Richter Scale)
Windward Data Center can withstand 200 mph winds
250+ miles of wire in each center connect all systems
650,000 gallons of chilled water storage in each center to run computers if power fails
UPS received Uptime Institute’s 2008 Green Enterprise Technology Award for reducing energy use at the Windward Data Center. UPS reduced power usage by 1,440,000 kwh per year and carbon emissions by more than 1,000 tons.
UPS Customer Technology
UPS helps businesses grow, manage costs, and improve their customer service by integrating technology with business processes to demystify global trade and optimize supply chains.
UPS First In Industry to Purchase Hydraulic Hybrid Vehicles
UPS is the first company in the package delivery industry to purchase hydraulic hybrid vehicles (HHVs). UPS added seven HHVs to its “green fleet,” which now totals 2,129 low carbon vehicles, including HHVs, electric, hybrid electric, compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied natural gas, and propane-powered trucks. The first two HHV will be deployed in Minneapolis during the first quarter of 2009, and the additional five HHVs will be deployed later in 2009 and early 2010.
UPS Uses Technology and Operational Efficiencies to Reduce Fuel Consumption and Emissions
As the world's largest package delivery company, fuel consumption is a necessary business expense that accounts for an average of 5.6 percent of UPS's operating revenue. From both a business and environmental perspective, UPS is committed to developing and testing innovative solutions and investing in technologies that minimize fuel consumption and reduce our impact on the environment.
Final Stage Assembly, Configuration and Programming
Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI)
Critical Order Fulfillment
Post Sales Logistics Backgrounder
At UPS, Reverse Logistics through advanced returns and repair management, efficiently place inventory back into global supply chains. A team of experienced, certified technicians and engineers coordinate processes, from transportation to tracking and closure of repair orders.
UPS Value-Added Freight Services
UPS air, ocean, ground and rail/intermodal freight services all can be tailored to individual customer needs and can be combined with additional UPS services such as UPS Customs Brokerage, UPS Supplier Management and direct-to-store/customer solutions. These value-added freight offerings give customers a range of competitive advantages including speed to market, regulatory compliance assistance and maximizing visibility across the supply chain.
Manages over 1 billion kilos of air freight annually
World’s ninth largest airline and among the top five international air freight forwarders
Global reach with over 900 facilities in over 120 countries and territories
Dedicated North American and European networks
Automated online scheduling of day-specific air freight deliveries
Online tracking of freight movements in real time
One of the world's largest customs brokers, with offices in over 60 countries
Time critical, charter and last mile delivery services also available 24/7/365
UPS Technology for Freight Customers
UPS customers enjoy a common technology experience whether they are shipping and tracking a small package or heavy freight. UPS technologies are designed to enable better decision making and flexibility in the supply chain so that it is easier for customers to manage and expand their shipping operations around the world. Web-based shipment processing, billing and trade management tools help companies anticipate problems, improve customer service and react quickly to unanticipated events.
As a company’s global supply chain becomes more sophisticated their need for freight technology increases. UPS’s technology solutions focus on three primary areas: shipping, billing and visibility.
Fuel Management and Conservation at the UPS Airlines
Automobile drivers may be feeling the pinch at the gas pump, but try fueling the world's ninth largest airline. As UPS operates 282 aircraft, the company looks to the sky to continue its sustainability efforts and increase the efficiency of its operations.
Sustainable Transport: UPS Fuel Cell Testing Initiative
UPS is committed to a sustainable future, and the company's alternative fuel vehicles play a large role in that commitment. UPS developed and continues to enhance its fleet using a 'rolling laboratory' philosophy - using its alternative fuel fleet as a way to learn about how new technologies and advancements can be adapted for use in a large delivery fleet.
UPS Experts Offer Tips for Better Gas Mileage
Just a few years ago, who would have imagined paying near or above $3-a-gallon for gasoline in America? Or Web sites dedicated to finding the lowest local cost for gasoline? Or contest prizes offering a tank or two of free gas?
UPS Practices Environmental Innovation At Headquarters And Beyond
UPS's environmental commitment and innovation is evident at its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, which was created in natural surroundings that play a prominent role in the design. Rather than building a tall skyscraper when the company relocated from Greenwich, Connecticut, UPS designed a building that works with its natural surroundings to provide an enjoyable work environment for its employees.
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I read the above line this week in The Poet’s Companion (one of my resolution books) and definitely agree with the authors’ assessment of one of poetry’s functions. Certainly, the act of writing in many forms can be a machine for memory: diary writing, recipe writing, memoir writing. Even fictional stories often serve the purpose of capturing true memories of historical periods, people, cultures, or emotions.
This week, I’m remembering a spectrum of things. Some hidden deep behind expired canned goods, some there just under the daily ‘to do’ list. Skiing as a child; last winter in Denver; a regret from this December; and family recipes. Most urgently, I’ve been remembering my grandmother who passed away this week. When I received news that she was gone, my first instinct was to open a new document and start writing down everything I could remember about her in numbered list format. As soon as a person is gone, we can panic that our memories will follow. In an age of ubiquitous photography and personal blogs (including minute by minute accounts of our days), perhaps the fear of forgotten memories fades. However, my grandma didn’t keep a blog and I have significantly less photos of her life (almost 90 years long) than I do of my daughter’s life (only 2 years short). So, I started to panic when the list seemed an inadequate representation of any grandmother, much less my grandmother.
A couple days later, I looked at the list with calmer eyes and could see it, not for its length or completeness, but as small things that happily remind me of my grandparent. More timid memories will present themselves on their own terms I’m sure. And of course outside of poetry, my family’s collective memory will contribute much to the continued process of getting to know someone even after her death. At the most local level of my grief and celebration, however, poeming will play an important role. While currently I have a list – rough and chilly, I know some of it will transform into poems, or that pieces will fit into the puzzle of other poems — poems not about my grandmother, but some how related.
To share just a little, here are a few things I remember about my grandma:
- She made amazing Monster Cookies — AH-mazing. The texture and balance of sweetness was perfection. Seriously, it was really difficult to share a batch of these.
- She enjoyed, and took very seriously, card-playing. Some of her fingers wouldn’t straighten all the way, so this made declaring her bids for tricks interesting.
- She always wanted to know if I’d been playing the piano, even when I was thirty and had not taken a lesson since I was twelve.
- She signed her letters “MN Grandma.” Even on the phone, she’d say, “Jessie? Hi, it’s Minnesota Grandma.”
What memories could a poem bring to life for you this week? Shy about poeming? — try starting with a bulleted list!
Updates on 2013 Writing Resolutions
- WRITE – Complete happy draft of full length poetry collection (Current Status: WIP A Confusing Season. This week, began note section on individual Growly pages to start tracking recurrent themes; revised and added a few new poem drafts)
- SUBMIT – Submit original poetry at least 12 times this year. (Current Status: Second submission sent to Third Coast Poetry Contest).
- EXPLORE & REFLECT – Read and complete exercises from 1) The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry and 2) The Portable MFA in Creative Writing (Current Status: Beginning Chapter 7 in The Poet’s Companion, feeling excited to see how the context and suggestions provided in this book affect my poetry).
Favorite WIP line to date: “He’s gone, popping away/under the pressure of a tiny man.”
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Whether motivated by concerns about the environment or the desire to save money, many people are driving less or giving up cars altogether.
It might seem that real estate professionals — who rely on their cars to get themselves and their clients to view homes in person — have little leeway to make drastic changes in their mode of transportation.
Shawn Monshaugen, a 33-year-old real estate agent in Austin, Texas, is out to dispel that notion.
Nagged by a desire to reduce his environmental impact, Monshaugen had been thinking about giving up his Jeep Grand Cherokee for about four months, when an unexpected convergence of events helped him pull the trigger.
Last October, a friend sent him a Facebook invitation to a traveling bike-centric event, Tour de Fat, hosted by Fort Collins, Colo.-based New Belgium Brewing Co. The climax of Tour de Fat events involves pledges by participants to go car-less for one year.
Monshaugen sent his story in to the event coordinators. The next day, Oct. 20, he was on the Tour de Fat stage pledging in front of 1,000 people in Austin to live a car-free life for one year.
Four months later, Monshaugen relates the series of events with a sense of shock in his voice.
"It literally happened in 24 hours," he said.
Real estate agent Shawn Monshaugen has given up his car for a year.
Now, Monshaugen has a fold-up bicycle with small wheels and a collapsible frame, and an electric bike that maxes out at 20 miles per hour. He’s branded himself as "Austin’s first zero-emissions Realtor," offering clients a bike-level view of real estate.
Monshaugen, who goes by "ShawnMon" and blogs about the bike life as "Austin Greengo" (a play on "Gringo"), has fully branded his car-free agency while bringing buyers and sellers along for the car-free ride.
Upon closing a deal, he throws a "pedal party" for interested clients, where he coordinates and pays for the four-hour rental of six electric bikes from a local electric bike dealer he’s partnered with.
Buyers and their friends and families can use the electric bikes — which have a top speed of 20 miles per hour, and go 10 to 20 miles on a charge — to tour their new neighborhoods as part of a welcoming party.
Or they can choose to go house-hunting in a neighborhood on the bikes. If buyers aren’t into biking, Monshaugen will hop into his clients’ car, reimbursing them at the rate of 40 cents per mile.
Sellers can use the bikes at a going-away celebration — a farewell tour of the ‘hood — or can give the pedal party to their buyers and receive two free electric bike rentals.
Monshaugen entered real estate with Keller Williams Realty in 2008 at its largest Austin office where he was named "Rookie of the Year" as the top-selling new agent in the office.
He left Keller Williams in the middle of last year, joining the virtual real estate brokerage Elite Texas Properties and scaling back his business.
"I’ve gone totally mobile now," Monshaugen said.
Since giving up his car last October, Monshaugen has closed one transaction, which involved a 45-mile round-trip on his electric bike, a train and a bus. He rode his bike to downtown Austin from his South Austin home, took a metro rail car to a northwest Austin suburb, and rode to the title company to close the deal.
"You can’t just a grab your tie and jacket and head to the office," Monshaugen said. He works in libraries, coffee shops and the small-business center in downtown Austin — and on his bikes.
The idea to get rid of his car crept up on him. "I’d be sitting at a red light and would see that there’s just one person in most cars," Monshaugen said. That bugged him.
The Tour de Fat event provided the impetus for him to do something about it.
In the five years that New Belgium Brewing Co. has been putting on the event, about 60 people have made one-year, no-car pledges, said Tour de Fat organizer Matt Kowal. Monshaugen was the first real estate agent chosen.
New Belgium Brewing provides $2,250 toward a new bicycle to selected participants who agree to give up their car for a year. Kowal said Monshaugen stood out from other applicants because he might create a ripple of publicity that would inspire others to bike more.
Monshaugen still hasn’t decided if he’ll focus his business on Central Austin, which is a fairly bikeable region, but he’s sure he’ll finish the year car-free. Honoring his pledge, he’s sold his Jeep and donated the proceeds to a local charity.
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The research arm of the Department of Justice prepared a study on the likely efficacy of various gun control measures. Their thoughts on baning large capacity magazines (or, as the Times headlined, imposing size limits on bullet cartridges or limiting high capacity ammunition) are interesting:
In order to have an impact, large capacity magazine regulation needs to sharply curtail their availability to include restrictions on importation, manufacture, sale, and possession. An exemption for previously owned magazines would nearly eliminate any impact. The program would need to be coupled with an extensive buyback of existing large capacity magazines. With an exemption the impact of the restrictions would only be felt when the magazines degrade or when they no longer are compatible with guns in circulation. This would take decades to realize.
So unless a final bill excludes a grandfathering exemption and includes a buyback, it will be a Look Good, Feel Good measure unlikely to make any difference. With an effective ban, they conclude their might be an effect on (very rare) mass shootings.
FWIW, my Official Editorial Position has been that banning large capacity magazines is likely to be a political winner whether it makes sense or not. Criminals or aspiring mass shooters (who often display careful planning) will get large capacity magazines if they want them. Or, they may not bother - the Va Tech shooter used ten and fifteen round magazines in two handguns.
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If you are what you eat, you might be having an identity crisis.
A new study on food fraud was released Wednesday morning by U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention, a scientific nonprofit organization that helps set standards for the "quality, safety and benefit" of foods and medicines. The group runs a searchable online database of food fraud reports at foodfraud.org and nearly 800 new records were added as part of the study -- a 60 percent increase from last year.
Food fraud, as defined by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is the adulteration, dilution or mislabeling of goods. USP further defines food fraud in the study as "the fraudulent addition of nonauthentic substances or removal or replacement of authentic substances without the purchaser's knowledge for economic gain to the seller."
The new records show that the most commonly fraudulent products are olive oil, milk, saffron, honey and coffee.
Tea, fish, clouding agents (used in fruit juices, like lemon, to make products look freshly squeezed), maple syrup and spices (turmeric, black pepper and chili pepper) were also top imposters.
Most of the reported food fraud was committed by producers adding fillers (i.e. plant leaves to tea leaves), mixing in less expensive spices with high value spices or watering down liquids. Olive oils were often replaced and/or diluted with cheaper vegetable oils. Clouding agents were found in 877 food products from 315 different companies. Another popular target: Pomegranate juice, often made with grape skins and grape and pear juices.
Tips to combat food fraud
If there's a "whole" alternative, use it. Buy lemons instead of lemon juice; pomegranates instead of pomegranate juice; loose leaf tea; saffron threads; etc. Also, purchase the whole spice (peppercorns, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon sticks) and grind/grate it yourself.
Buy from reputable sources and brands you trust, including your local farmers market, co-op and natural food store. Know the who, when and where of the product.
Don't buy into the newest health trend. Food fraud appears more commonly in high-value ingredients that are linked to health benefits and consumers pay a premium for.
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SALISBURY BEACH, Mass. — On April 13, 1894, the schooner Jennie M. Carter smashed on the sands of Salisbury Beach, its crew gone while its cat remained curled up on the captain’s chair.
Sunk as the result of one of the worst storms of the 19th century, the broken bones of the 130-foot, three-masted vessel are now more visible, further exposed through the sand after the sea ravaged Salisbury’s shoreline during the weekend blizzard.
“You can usually see it when there’s a low, low tide, but after this storm it would be more visible,” said Cassie Adams, the hostess at Salisbury Beach’s Seaglass Restaurant. “The beach lost a lot of sand in this storm.”
Playing on Salisbury Beach as a child, Adams hadn’t been aware that the wooden stubble peeking up in the sand during very low tides was a 139-year-old sunken ship. “I never knew it was a shipwreck until someone told me about it,” Adams said. “Our patrons at the restaurant comment on it when it’s visible.”
Other local history buffs knew of the famed shipwreck and its lore, according to Salisbury Historical Society secretary Beverly Gulazian. When the Jennie Carter went down due to foul weather, she was carrying granite, Gulazian said, and after the ship was lost, its cargo was salvaged.
“The granite was off-loaded,” Gulazian said. “And it was used in a number of places around the area.”
The tale of the Jennie Carter and Salisbury’s other shipwrecks are also well chronicled by Salisbury historian Carolyn Sargent in her book, “Salisbury History.”
Built in Newton, Md., in 1874, the ill-fated, three-masted schooner was a 296-ton vessel with a 33-foot beam, drawing 9.8 feet of water, according to Sargent. But in April 1894, loaded with a cargo of stone, the Jennie Carter, her crew and Captain Wesley T. Ober ran into trouble 40 miles southwest of Highland Light on Cape Cod in the midst of “one of the worst storms in 30 years,” Sargent wrote.
Details for this story were provided by the Newburyport (Mass.) Daily News.
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Sutures and the problem of ‘stitch tunnels’
A particular problem with sutures used to close a circumcision wound is the formation of unsightly stitch tunnels. These are like tiny piercings that never go away. They can form around any suture material, but are more likely if absorbable material has been used externally. What happens is that the natural healing process forms a tunnel around the stitch. Thus the sutures should be removed as soon as the wound is strong enough to be self-supporting.
Sutures should be removed typically on the 7th or 8th day after circumcision; this is a simple process that can be carried out by a teenage or adult patient or the parent of a younger boy. A return to clinic or hospital should not normally be necessary unless the patient or parent is averse to carrying out this minor procedure. Self-removal has the advantage of being less ticklish; this is true of the removal of sutures from any scar - not just a circumcision scar.
Materials from which suture thread is made
Non-absorbable sutures can be made from synthetic material (such as nylon or polypropylene, both of which are inert), silk (an animal protein) or cotton (a plant material). Non-dissolving sutures are usually coloured blue or black to make them more visible against the blood red of a wound. They normally have a smooth surface that allows them to be withdrawn easily.
Self-dissolving sutures can be made of:
- Catgut (obsolete technology): A natural fibre made from the submucosa of the bovine intestine. It excites considerable inflammatory reaction and tends to potenciate infections. It loses strength rapidly and is of little use in modern surgery. Plain catgut dissolves more quickly than the type treated with chromium salts. Mentioned here for historic interest only.
- Vicryl /Dexon (Polyglactin): Dissolves more slowly than catgut but causes less of a reaction on implantation. Normally used only below the surface of the skin, it can also be used in areas where suture removal might jeopardize the repair such as with small children who might not cooperate with suture removal.
- Vicryl Rapide: A similar substance to Vicryl, but absorbed in a shorter period (5 days).
- Monocryl: The least reactive substance of this group and therefore the one that should leave least scarring. Unfortunately this is not a very soft material; it may be slightly irritating while the stitches are in place.
Either type of suture - absorbable or non-absorbable - can be either monofilament or braided:
Monofilament sutures cause less reaction than do braided sutures but require more ties to ensure an adequate maintenance of the knot compared to braided suture.
Braided sutures usually incite a greater inflammatory response but require fewer ties to maintain the knot’s integrity. Examples include silk, cotton and Mersilene.
The physical strength of any given suture material is designated by a standardised numbering system that takes into account both breaking strain and diameter. The degree of wound support achieved depends on this mechanical strength, on the number of stitches inserted and upon the adequacy of the anchoring of each one.
Because each suture becomes, from the point of view of the immune system, a “foreign body” and is also an additional wound, it is wise to use only what is necessary and no more. Excessive suturing is to be discouraged.
Patterns of suturing - the "T-shape" anchor:
In situations where a strong pull is likely to be applied to a stitch, it is important to anchor the stitch well so that it does not tear the tissue into which it has been inserted. This is normally achieved using a T-shaped stitch as illustrated in the following photographs. If an erection causes severe pulling, the "T" stretches into a "Y" shape. This compresses the tissue into which the energy is dissipated, doing so far more effectively than would be the case if the tension was applied directly to a single point of attachment. This makes a tear much less likely. The technique is particularly applicable to tight circumcisions, removal of shaft skin having left the erectile tissue with less opportunity for expansion than was the case previously. The pre-pubescent patient in the left-hand image below received 4 such sutures. The adult on the right received 16, on account of the greater tension that any erection of his would place on the healing scar.
SUTURING TECHNIQUE FOR TIGHT CIRCUMCISIONS. © 2007 Professor Gamal Mousa
Pre-pubescent boy being circumcised Low and Tight (glans:shaft ratio 67:33 or 2:1). Only 4 anchor sutures were deemed necessary to constrain any erections occuring during healing.
© 2009 CIRCLIST Archives
Circlist Member circumcised High and Tight as an adult. Close inspection of the scar line reveals the former position of 16 anchor sutures used to constrain erections during healing.
CIRCLIST Member experiences of suturing:
When I had my circumcision, my doctor recommended to bathe my penis in warm camomile tea for 15-20 minutes several times a day until all stitches have dissolved and fallen off. I did so (using a toothbrush glass, by the way), and there are no stitch marks or even tunnels left. - Martin
Mine was done with soluble sutures, with no adverse effects. But the fact remains that non-dissolving ones are less likely to leave a mark, and less likely to get infected. I recently had a minor operation on my arm which was sutured with non-soluble ones and they were quite hassle-free and left no mark at all. (Actually my wife took them out - it doesn’t need a doctor to do it!)
In cosmetically sensitive areas such as faces non-dissolving sutures are always used. Why does the medical profession think that the penis is not cosmetically important? - Anonymous
Most of us circumcised as adults report having had dissolving (absorbable) stitches, which are obviously more convenient than ones which have to be removed. If my experience is any guide, removable ones may be less inclined to leave stitch marks. They are much finer and they can be removed as soon as they are no longer required (a week or thereabouts) whereas dissolving stitches may persist for considerably longer. My ‘second circumcision’ (properly called a revision) was performed by a plastic surgeon. It was a botch job, unsatisfactory enough to necessitate yet another revision; the result of mistakes on the part of several people. First, my GP for referring me to a plastic surgeon to do something right out his specialist field of competence. Second, me for not knowing better; I simple-mindedly thought that if anyone could do a neat cosmetic job, it would be a plastic surgeon. Third, and most culpable, the surgeon himself, for agreeing to perform a procedure he knew nothing about. But, getting back to the subject of stitches, he used silk stitches and - I have to admit - did a great job with them, leaving no stitch marks at all. - Anonymous
The stitch marks will never go away completely. The big problem with disolving stitches are skin tunnels, which are like piercings. They never go away either. My first circ left both tunnels and stitch marks. On my second circ and third partial circ, I had the stitches removed after a week and no mark or tunnel was left. The dotor told me just to let them dissolve, but I insisted that he remove them. The results were great. - Sam
The doctor did not cut my frenulum, so no sutures were required in that area.. There were 13 soluble sutures around my shaft, the last of which I removed on the10th day after the operation (May 19th 1978 to be precise!). Instinctively I knew they would cause scarring if left in too long, and I did get one small tunnel which has gone now.
If I have a regret it is that my scar is a thin white line, just a boundary between the two skin colours. I always wanted a nice brown ring, which I realize now is usually caused by the Gomco or TaraKLamps. I was circumcised freehand. - Anonymous
I had skin tunnels which lasted several years after I was circumcised (at age 20) even though I had non-dissolving stitches for the sutures. I finally treated it myself - I boiled a blade to sterilise it, swabbed my scar area with savlon, and for each tunnel, I inserted a needle down through the tunnel, and ran the blade down along shaft of the needle, quite safely removing the skin on top. It all healed nicely with the tunnels disappearing completely, though the stitch marks are quite visible. This alone, seems like a good argument to support routine infant circumcision. Have you ever seen a guy who was circumcised at birth that has skin tunnels? - Paul
Regarding self dissolving stitches; my surgeon who did my original circ put dissolving stitches in and told me to soak bandages off in a warm bath with some Savlon** in it. He said to take a daily bath and soak for a good 15 minutes, this caused the self dissolving stitches to keep soft and come out fairly quickly and leave no holes as some of you seem to have had. Perhaps you might like to try this and see if it helps.
**Savlon is a British personal disinfectant so you can use any brand common in your own country. Its use is basically to prevent the circumcision site getting infected. - Brian (UK)
Dermabond... is sterile and doesn’t contain the basic chemicals found in some common fast-drying glues, which, if applied to an open wound, could irritate or lead to infection. It takes about 50 seconds to set - just enough time for a doctor to manipulate the skin edges so they fit together well. The surgical glue goes on bluish purple and is applied in at least three thin layers. After about two and a half minutes, it is said to be as strong as week-old sutures. It sloughs off in five to 10 days, meaning patients don’t have to return to the doctor to have stitches removed. The glue is applied from a small plastic tube that looks similar to the ones used for fast-drying household products such as Krazy Glue.
Although Dermabond isn’t sold directly to consumers, a Johnson & Johnson unit licensed to market it is believed to be considering an advertising campaign urging people to ask doctors for adhesive instead of stitches. But he warned: the glue isn’t always an option. It can’t be used on elbows and knees - where children often get cuts and scrapes - because the excessive motion would probably cause it to peel too soon. For similar reasons, it isn’t a good choice for hands and feet and it can’t be used in the mouth, groin or other moist areas.
International Journal of Urology.
Video: “Circumcision (Dissection Method)” by Professor Dr. Gamal Mousa.
Personal testimony of members of the CIRCLIST discussion group.
and the Law
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The JACOBS surname is in my paternal line. The origins of the surname are believed to be German.
Stories and history:
Ahnentafel # 43 : Susan Jacobs (1825-1864). Susan was born August 18, 1825 in Warrington Township, York County, Pennsylvania. She married March 23, 1843 in Wayne County, Ohio to David Sherrick (1823-1914). David was born October 18, 1823 in York County, Pennsylvania. They raised 9 children in Wayne and Ashland Counties, Ohio. David died September 30, 1914 in Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio. Susan died February 24, 1864 in Mifflin Township, Ashland County, Ohio.
Ahnentafel # 86 : David Jacobs (1796-1857). David was born October 3, 1796 in York County, Pennsylvania. He married circa 1817 in York County, Pennsylvania to Barbara Byers (1798-1874). Barbara was born January 5, 1798 in Warrington Township, York County, Pennsylvania. They raised 10 children in York County, Pennsylvania and Wayne County, Ohio. Barbara died December 4, 1874 in Congress Township, Wayne County, Ohio. David died June 20, 1857 in Wayne County, Ohio.
Ahnentafel # 172 : Michael Jacobs (1772-1846). Michael was born November 20, 1772. He married Margaret ________ (1769-1864). Margaret was born October 23, 1769. They raised 8 children in York County, Pennsylvania. Margaret died February 23, 1864. Michael died January 23, 1846 in Warrington Township, York County, Pennsylvania.
Ahnentafel # 344 : Johan Michel Jacobs (c1742-bef1790). Johan was born circa 1742 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He married July 18, 1771 in Dover Township, York County, Pennsylvania to Maria Catherine Cherdron (bef1730-af1790). Maria was baptized February 16, 1730 in Otterberg, Bayern. She was previously married to Johann Peter Gutling. Maria died after 1790 in Dover Township, York County, Pennsylvania. Johan died before 1790 in Dover, York County, Pennsylvania.
Surname Saturday – create a post in which you discuss a surname and mention its origins, its geographical location(s) and how it fits into your genealogy research. Surname Saturday is an ongoing series at GeneaBloggers.
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I’ve blogged about the OpenText.org Syntactically Annotated Greek New Testament in the past (see the Syntax Archives).
The folks who do the work on the OpenText.org project have been doing a lot of work since I last blogged about the project, and the result is that we have a vastly updated data set. The primary new goodie is the consolidation of the Clause and Word Group information.
When I previously discussed the OpenText.org material, I blogged about a Clause visualisation and about a Word Group visualisation. Well, there is no longer a distinction; the two have become one. The syntax graphs now mix the hierarchy so you can follow both levels in a single graph. For example, below is the graph for John 1.1:
The verse consists of three Primary clauses. The first primary clause consists of an Adjunct (?? ???? or “in the beginning”), a Predicator (?? or “was”) and a Subject (? ?????, “the Word”). Further, we know that the adjunct consists of a word group that consists of a specifier (which is an article or (as in this case) a preposition) and the head term that is modified by the preposition, hence “in the beginning”. We also see that the subject is a word group that consists of a specifier (here an article) and the head term it modifies, thus “the word”.
These integrated levels are all customisable. So if I only want to view the clause and clause component stuff, I can:
The dotted lines indicate where structure (in this case, word group materal) has been collapsed. Or if I only want to view the Word Group stuff, I can:
So, this is pretty cool now with the levels integrated; you can get a better idea of what is going on in the text at both the word group and the clause levels. You can also isolate levels to view trends at a particular level.
Integrating these two levels offers some interesting customisability that allows you to tailor the graphs to the desired view and to examine the sorts of things you want to examine. You’d be amazed at what you stumble upon in scrolling through the text and visually recognising similar graph structures in close proximity.
More on that last bit in a later post.
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LEEDS, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - Aug. 20, 2012) - Asda Money looks at latest Office of National Statistics (ONS) figures on how many Brits will be alive to celebrate their 100th birthday in the decades to come.
Thanks to advances in medicine and the fact that most of us are leading healthier lifestyles, modern Brits can expect to live to ages that would simply have staggered our recent ancestors.
The latest ONS figures show that as many as one in three Brits born in 2012 can expect to live to celebrate their 100th birthday. As many as 95,000 people that are celebrating their 65th birthday this year will still be alive at 100.*
Growing life expectancy is likely to have a significant effect on everything from employment law, family life, over-50s insurance, pensions and more.
There are currently 14,500 people alive in the UK today that are over 100. This figure is set to rise to 110,000 people by 2035 and could rise to a staggering 276,000 by 2060. By comparison, in 1961, there were just 500 women aged over 100 and 92 men that were over 100 years old.
The fact that many of us can expect to reach our 100th birthdays is something that should be celebrated. Most of us lead healthier lives today than we did just 30 or 40 years ago. On top of this, advances in healthcare mean that we are now able to treat more and more health conditions.
The impact on society of an older population will be profound and it is likely that what we perceive as being old today will over the course of a generation be viewed as relatively young.
This is already changing in many ways; for example, today's over-50s are far more active and lead far more adventurous lives than their parents did at this age. All you have to do is look at the likes of celebrities like Madonna, Keith Richards and Dame Helen Mirren to see that being over-50 doesn't mean over the hill anymore.
Notes to Editors
* 26 March 2012 Office for National Statistics - http://thesteamie.scotsman.com/viewpost.aspx?id=561
About Asda Over50s Life Cover
- Whole of life insurance that pays out a Guaranteed cash lump sum on death
- Available to 50 to 80 year olds living in the UK
- Guaranteed acceptance, no medical
- Premiums start from just £5 a month, that's about 17p a day
- Pays out in full on death after just 1 year
- Payments that never go up
Asda Money is a trading name of Asda Financial Services Limited. Asda Financial Services Limited uses a selection of companies to provide its products and services. Please refer to www.ASDA.com/money for details of our product partners and the relevant terms and conditions for each of our products and services.
Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Limited: County Gates, Bournemouth BH1 2NF.
Asda Money is a trading name of ASDA Financial Services Limited. ASDA Financial Services Limited and ASDA Stores Limited act as an introducer appointed representatives to Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Limited (LVFS) for Asda Over 50s Life Cover. Asda is a trademark of Asda Stores Limited. LV= is a registered trade mark of LVFS and is a trading style of the Liverpool Victoria group of companies. LVFS is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority, register number 110035. LVFS is a member of the ABI, AFM and ILAG. Registered address: County Gates, Bournemouth BH1 2NF. Tel: 01202 292333.
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Or, see all quotes tagged with 'christ'
In the end, the central purpose of all scripture is to fill our souls with faith in God the Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ—faith that They exist; faith in the Father’s plan for our immortality and eternal life; faith in the Atonement and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, which animates this plan of happiness; faith to make the gospel of Jesus Christ our way of life; and faith to come to know ‘the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom [He has] sent’ (John 17:3).
Since the Savior has suffered anything and everything that we could ever feel or experience, He can help the weak to become stronger. He has personally experienced all of it. He understands our pain and will walk with us even in our darkest hours.....
The overwhelming message of the Atonement is the perfect love the Savior has for each and all of us. It is a love which is full of mercy, patience, grace, equity, long-suffering, and, above all, forgiving.
I feel that [the Savior] will give that punishment which is the very least that our transgression will justify. I believe that he will bring into his justice all of the infinite love and blessing and mercy and kindness and understanding which he has. …
And on the other hand, I believe that when it comes to making the rewards for our good conduct, he will give us the maximum that it is possible to give, having in mind the offense which we have committed.
My reason for wanting to learn all I can about the Atonement is partly selfish: Our salvation depends on believing in and accepting the Atonement. Such acceptance requires a continual effort to understand it more fully. The Atonement advances our mortal course of learning by making it possible for our natures to become perfect. All of us have sinned and need to repent to fully pay our part of the debt. When we sincerely repent, the Savior’s magnificent Atonement pays the rest of that debt.....
Any increase in our understanding of His atoning sacrifice draws us closer to Him.
.....in all that Jesus came to say and do, including and especially in His atoning suffering and sacrifice, He was showing us who and what God our Eternal Father is like, how completely devoted He is to His children in every age and nation. In word and in deed Jesus was trying to reveal and make personal to us the true nature of His Father, our Father in Heaven.
Just as a man does not really desire food until he is hungry, so he does not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ. No one adequately and properly knows why he needs Christ until he understands and accepts the doctrine of the fall, and its effect upon all mankind. And no other book in the world explains this vital doctrine nearly as well as the Book of Mormon.
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February 28, 2001 2:10 PM PST
'Ultradense' server era dawning
- Related Stories
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New Compaq "skinny" servers take aim at Sun, IBMJune 5, 2000
Intel, IBM and Compaq Computer are furiously working on "ultradense" servers, ones that will allow companies to cram vastly more computing horsepower into each rack of servers without taxing power supplies and air conditioning systems.
IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, Dell Computer, Sun Microsystems and others already sell servers just 1.75 inches thick, similar to the thickness of a standard pizza box. The measurement is known as 1U. Right now, a rack can hold 42 1U servers, each in its own enclosure, sitting horizontally. In the future, a rack of the same height will be able to hold hundreds of ultradense servers--basically exposed motherboards stacked vertically in groups inside enclosures that are each several Us high.
By using this configuration, IBM will be able to achieve the power of two to eight servers per U, said Tom Bradicich, a director in IBM's Intel server group.
Initially, these superskinny servers will be full-featured designs like today's models. But later, the devices will be blown apart into separate components, IBM and Intel say. The philosophy will resemble stereo components, in which different boxes handle different tasks--only instead of different modules for CD players and tuners, there will be different boxes for CPUs, storage and network communications.
Intel also is working on ultradense server designs, which Mike Fister, general manager of Intel's enterprise platforms group, will describe Thursday in a keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose, Calif.
"It's a definite phenomenon in the data centers," Fister said in an interview, referring to the superclean and climate-controlled rooms where dozens or even thousands of servers are bolted to racks. "They want to put more stuff in the same square footage."
For years, server designers focused on boosting the power of single servers by increasing the number of CPUs, squeezing every last iota of performance out of software and pushing to restrict crashes to less than five minutes a year. But with the arrival of the Internet, companies have decided to fill racks with dozens of less powerful machines to accommodate immense amounts of Web traffic.
Mary McDowell, head of Compaq's Intel server division, calls the new designs "hyperdense" and expects them to arrive in 2002. IBM's Bradicich expects the first designs to start arriving in September, though not that soon from his company.
In his keynote, Fister is expected to discuss "bladed" designs--servers with several thin electronics boards--based on extensions to designs that Intel obtained through its acquisition of Ziatech, a representative said.
Hot stuff, those servers
Superthin designs are difficult chiefly because of one problem: heat. Air must flow over CPUs to keep them cool, but faster CPUs also run hotter, and thinner designs leave less room for cooling fins that radiate heat away.
"It's extremely difficult to fit the heat sink, much less the processor itself, in there," Bradicich said. Though the servers use comparatively basic, low-end parts, "how to cool them is beginning to be a high-end problem," he said.
Indeed, Network Engines, a pioneer of skinny servers, hired an aerospace engineer from Raytheon to design "heat pipes" that use evaporating alcohol to cool the dual CPUs of its new Sierra server introduced Wednesday.
To achieve even higher density, the solution is to place several servers into a single enclosure. "We don't see a lot of paper-thin servers. But we do see a lot of density per U. The ones who will win in this game will be the ones who will be able to pack creatively," Bradicich said.
IBM isn't evaluating Transmeta's chip, Bradicich said. Though Transmeta chips are cooler than Intel's, a server designer also weighs performance.
"It's a trade-off. It's a question of whether you use 100 turtles or 10 rabbits to get the job done," he said.
Initial designs will focus on computing nodes with single-processor servers, Bradicich said, but later models will include dual-processor machines. In addition, he said, servers within a single enclosure likely will be joined together in bunches that offer collective features not available to standalone systems.
Some of the future of the new designs has been pioneered by the telecommunications industry, Bradicich noted. In particular, the CompactPCI design that telecom companies favor has potential. "We are making some headway enhancing the performance as well as the reliability," he said.
Grouping several servers into one enclosure is an important first step to increasing server density, but more drastic measures will be required later, Bradicich said. This will be the era of the stereo component philosophy.
New communications technologies such as IBM's Remote Input/Output, InfiniBand and even Ethernet can be used to separate CPUs from storage and networking components, Bradicich said.
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Local News- Iron County Reporter
- The Daily News
- WIKB - The Bull
... A place where one lives; a valued place considered to be a refuge or place of origin; The place, as a country or town, where one was born or resided for a long period...” These are just a few of Webster’s definitions of the word “home"
Bates Township is “home” for many of our residents who have descended from the township’s earliest Settlers. Our “roots” run deep. For some this is the community that you have chosen for a variety of reasons to call “home.”
Our township is rich in history and our citizens are strong in spirit! However it is that you have made your way here at this moment in time…we would like to say - Welcome Home!
News & Announcements
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These little Ring-Tailed Lemur twins are the newest residents at Hamilton Zoo in New Zealand. The babies were born on October 10 to parents Rachel and Bruce. It is not the first time the couple have welcomed twins after becoming parents to Julian and Josie on August 20, 2010.
Hamilton Zoo Director Stephen Standley said the two new additions are creating quite a stir within the lemur group. “The twins are quite active and vocal, and the other ring-tailed lemurs are very interested in these new arrivals. Rachel is extremely attentive to the twins and make sure she keeps a close eye on what the pair gets up to,” he said.
Lemurs are primates found only on the island of Madagascar in Africa, and some of the small, nearby islands. Lemurs use their hands and feet to move through the trees, but can't grip with their tails as other primates may. Ring-tails also spend time on the ground, which is unusual among lemur species, foraging for fruit, which makes up the bulk of their diet. They supplement that with flowers, leaves, tree bark, and sap. Ring-tailed lemurs are endangered, mostly because the forests they call home are quickly vanishing.
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Semih & Selim
Ages 25 and 30
Brothers Semih and Selim, from Tekirdağ, Turkey, receive weekly Naglazyme® treatments for MPS VI.
They are among hundreds of newly identified patients in the European Union, North Africa, the Middle East and Latin America who are benefitting from progressive new orphan disease drug policies and reimbursement programs instituted by their native countries to better meet patients' unmet medical needs.
* Individual patient response to Naglazyme® treatment will vary.
Full Indication and Important Safety Information
Naglazyme is indicated for patients with mucopolysaccharidosis VI (MPS VI). Naglazyme has been shown to improve walking and stair-climbing capacity.
Important Safety Information
The most common adverse events in patients treated with Naglazyme were headache, fever, joint pain, vomiting, upper respiratory infections, abdominal pain, diarrhea, ear pain, cough, and ear infections. Severe reactions included swollen blood vessels, low blood pressure, difficulty breathing, respiratory distress, stopping breathing, and hives.
The most common symptoms of infusion reactions included fever, chills/shakes, headache, rash, and mild to moderate hives. Nausea, vomiting, elevated blood pressure, chest pain, abdominal pain, malaise, and joint pain were also reported.
No patients discontinued Naglazyme treatment because of reactions. Nearly all patients developed antibodies as a result of the treatment, but the level of immune response did not correlate with the severity of the adverse reaction.
Because antihistamine use may increase the risk of stopping breathing, airways should be checked to ensure they are not blocked or obstructed. Treatment may be delayed if you have a fever or respiratory illness.
To report SUSPECTED ADVERSE REACTIONS, contact BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. at 1-866-906-6100, or FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
Naglazyme is available by prescription only. To learn more, please visit www.naglazyme.com for full prescribing information. If you have any questions about this information, please talk with your doctor.
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UAW Opposes Threat to Green Jobs
from Wildlife Promise
By Larry J. Schweiger
The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) sent a letter to Capitol Hill yesterday opposing any “disapproval resolutions” or riders that are seeking to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s finding that greenhouse gas emissions threaten human health and the environment.
The UAW understands that “cleaner cars and strong climate policy can drive economic recovery and create 150,000 American jobs.” Coming from Pittsburgh, a former rust best city that has reinvented itself as a clean economy city, I can understand and appreciate the importance of the stand that UAW has taken on behalf of all the working men and women they represent to oppose this threat to green jobs.
From the UAW letter:
“In our judgment, Congress should move forward to enact comprehensive climate change legislation that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Although we recognize the difficulties involved in this effort, we believe that legislation can be crafted that will reduce global warming pollution while at the same time creating jobs and providing a boost to our economy. In particular, we believe such legislation can help to provide significant investment in domestic production of advanced technology vehicles and their key components, as well as other energy saving technologies. But such progress will be undermined if a disapproval resolution or rider were to overturn EPA’s endangerment finding.”
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s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz
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