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OLIN, has led the design and construction of Canal Park in Washington, D.C. The park opened to the public on November 16, 2012. One of the first parks built as part of the District’s Anacostia Waterfront Initiative, Canal Park has been designed as a vibrant social gathering place and an economic catalyst for the surrounding neighborhood. The park is also a model of sustainable design, serving as a pilot project for the Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES™) and a candidate for LEED® Gold certification. Continue reading Washington Canal Park \| Washington D.C. USA \| OLIN	<urn:uuid:52dbda01-1062-4c79-9c95-337a01078889>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://worldlandscapearchitect.com/tag/city-canal/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.944913	125	1.523438	2
It’s a trite cliché to say that on Election Day the economy trumps everything else. In 1932, for example, the incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover never had a chance. Yet when the Democrats gathered for their national convention that year — with the nation at the deepest point of its worst depression ever; with unemployment running at least 25%; with Hoover an easy target to blame for economic woes — what issue dominated the convention? Not “the economy, stupid.” No, it was the fight over the prohibition of alcohol. When Republicans and Democrats gathered at the White House in 2011 to prevent a government shutdown — with the nation suffering its longest economic downturn since the 1930s; with the federal debt rising to heights that seemed dangerous to many — what issued dominated the debate? Not the level of federal expenditures, but abortion, at least by many accounts. When Republicans gather for their national convention in 2012, they’ll have to decide whether to imitate the Democrats of 1932 and focus on social issues — which are, to so many, issues of sin — or on the dollars and cents of the debt. Or they might follow the lead of Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and declare that the two are inseparable sides of the same coin because “America works, freedom works, when people have that internal gyroscope that comes from a belief in God and biblical faith. Once we push that out, you no longer have the capacity to live as a free person without the external controls of an authoritarian government.” The GOP isn’t likely to make DeMint’s view the center of its platform. Putting a spotlight on social issues poses more political risk than it’s worth, as the shutdown-averting negotiations showed. Better to stick with “the debt” (aka “the deficit,” though they’re not really the same thing). That’s a more politically popular candidate to play the role of the great evil facing our nation. This does not mean we can expect a hard-headed logical debate on the economic pros and cons of federal debts and deficits. If we had such a debate, we’d hear a vast spectrum of experts supporting any and every view of the debt, from dire peril to relatively harmless to economic boon. Each expert may insist that his or her view is the only one that could possibly be accurate and reasonable. Such claims are an occupational hazard of academia. To outsiders (as most of us are) the only logical conclusion is that no really one knows for sure what the long-term effects of growing federal debt might be. Perhaps it’s such a chaotic field, filled with so many variables, that no one can ever know. But there’s no place for such uncertainty in politics. Those who hesitate to claim the mantle of truth are lost. Moreover, there’s little place for careful academic analysis in politics (which is why the difference between debt and deficit is so easily ignored). It’s not truth proven by facts and reason that most voters want. From long before 1932 up through today, and on into 2012 no doubt, the lesson of history is that voters are more moved by images, symbols, and narratives — the stuff of myth — than by facts and logical analyses. Even in hard times, when the economy is issue number one, it takes myth to generate the emotional charge that wins elections — which is precisely why the federal debt has become the hot issue of the day. Whether it’s prohibition, abortion, or debt reduction, the plot of the story remains the same: good against evil. And the evil, in each case, is easily transformed into the devil. It’s not just a simple matter of adding that little “d.” These particular evils all symbolize an essential quality of the devil: profligate indulgence, whether it be in drinking, screwing, or spending. Or, to put it the other way around, all these evils symbolize a perverse unwillingness to accept the voluntary restraint that is said to make civilized order possible. Throughout American history, conservatives have cast the lack of self-restraint as the great evil bedeviling the nation. Of course there have been foreign evils too. But the two modes of evil have traditionally been linked. Dwight Eisenhower, for example, warned that if we wanted to contain communism — an evil bent on extending its red sea endlessly, unless we kept the containing dikes firm — we also had to contain the military-industrial complex at home. Another Republican, George W. Bush, warned us of mass-murdering terrorists both abroad and at home. Now a Democratic president warns us that we face the danger of losing world supremacy to China if we do not restrain the federal debt at home. Whether the foe is foreign or domestic or (most commonly) an intertwining of the two, the foe easily takes on the guise of the devil when it symbolizes unchecked, irrational excess. The passion for debt-reduction has grown so strong because it is today’s most viable mythic symbol of that diabolical foe. I first understood this when I read “Voter Disgust Isn’t Only About Issues,” a piece in the New York Times by Matt Bai, the mass media’s most perceptive political journalist. He reported on a focus group of working-class independents talking about the state of the union: “The dominant theme of the discussion, in which jobs and taxes came up only in passing, seemed to be the larger breakdown of civil society — the disappearance of common courtesy, the relentless stream of data from digital devices, the proliferation of lawsuits and the insidious influence of media on their children. The economy was discussed mostly in connection with these other stresses.” People feel that society is crumbling around them, that they are losing or have already lost control of their lives and their country. It’s a theme we hear a lot in reporting on the Tea Party, whose newly-elected representatives in Congress complain that social issues distract them from their laser-like focus on the dangers of “big government.” But those Congressional neophytes are merely insisting on substituting a new symbol of chaos for an old one. Whether it’s government spending, sexual desire, or digital data, the problem on the right is always a seemingly uncontrollable flood of something or other. People once knew how to restrain such dangerous floods, conservatives assume, which is (apparently) why common courtesy once (supposedly) prevailed. Now the floodgates are down and anything goes, which means everything goes: government solvency, traditional social norms, all the structures that were once (it’s fondly imagined) so reassuring. Now it’s the myth that is reassuring: the narrative of virtuous people, who understand the need for restraint, determined to impose it on the profligates who have unleashed the chaotic floods upon us. For those who see politics as the recitation and enactment of myths, the devil is not in the details of bargaining and bickering over dollars and cents. The devil is in the mythic images of “the debt” (aka “deficit,” because in myth the same character can have many names). To prove the truth of this myth, you don’t need economists. Indeed, they just get in the way with all their complicated numbers and theories and contradictory claims. You only need an endless flow of conservative rhetoric. For now, at least, the myth of debt-reduction is the torrent flooding our public square, sweeping all other issues before it. How long it will last, nobody knows. The only lesson history provides is that sooner or later some other mythic symbol will come along to replace “the debt” as the great evil which must be defeated if America is to survive. History News Network Ira Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder.	<urn:uuid:0d8b999b-e911-4898-99af-88778b3ecbdc>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.laprogressive.com/devil-debt/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.950177	1,657	1.773438	2
Energy: The core area of Tata Power It is our Mission to provide world class power and energy solutions that exceed customer expectations. We are committed to innovating and deploying cutting edge eco-friendly technologies and caring for the safety, environment and well being of employees and communities. We not only generate, Transmit and Distribute Energy but also take a serious view on Energy Conservation. Rural Electrification Project This project was undertaken as the villages it covered, i.e. Udhewadi and Walwandi are situated in very remote as well as hilly terrains of Maval Taluka in Maharashtra. The conventional method of grid connectivity was a difficult proposition. TPC therefore partnered with Maharashtra Energy Development Agency to ensure that these villages receive electricity. Houses as well as streetlights were provided under this scheme. Huts of tribals, which were away from the main village, have also been provided with independent home systems and streetlights. The Company provided a 10% share of the electrification project approved by Maharashtra Energy Development Agency jointly with Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources. In Jojobera (Jharkhand ), 35 solar street lights and 100 lanterns were donated to the villagers of Khayerbani. Energy Conservation Measures ‘Energy Management’ has become the buzz word in the last few years, but at Tata Power we can cite examples since last 2 decades as both our 500 MW units (coal as well as oil fired) have the unique qualification of having lowest auxiliary power consumption in the country, and are the only units working on sliding pressure modes over the entire range for avoiding transmission losses. We have a pool of certified Energy Auditors. Demand side management is studied and implemented to the extent possible, thereby reducing the demand either through conservation, or shifting the load pressure through incentives of lower tarrifs. Anticipating the possibility of load shedding in the summer of 2007, Tata Power embarked on a Save Power campaign in Mumbai called ‘I Will and Mumbai Will’. These activities were initiated as early as December 2006 to educate and motivate the consumers on power saving techniques. Several seminars were conducted. Employees and consumers were encouraged to switch over to CFL lamps, which, in Partnership with Phillips India were made available at discounted rates. Consumers were appealed to, through advertisements in Leading Newspapers, to operate their washing machines and other electric gadgets at non-peak hours and set Air Conditioners to 24 degrees and thus join the Conservation Campaign. This was backed up with Awareness Programmes on Energy Conservation and Electrical Safety held in schools and colleges. Schools were specifically chosen so that the message reaches impressionable minds and conditions behaviour to conserve energy. Visits of children from elite schools to the thermal power station at Trombay were organized. The contents of all the awareness programmes focused on: - Need for Energy Conservation - Consequences of not conserving Energy in general - Impact on them (not being able to play computer games, watch TV owing to Power Cuts etc.) - Easy to follow tips on conserving Energy - Precautions to be taken while using electric gadgets to avoid accidents Statistics reveal that over the last 8-10 years, the number of accidents under the overhead lines has been increasing. In a study carried out by Tata Power, it was found that the major causes for the accidents are due to - Cable operators stringing cable wires close to vicinity of the high tension lines - Climbing on roofs and towers under the high tension lines - Kite flying with metallic coated strings To combat this danger, under the Jana Jagruti Abhiyaan several awareness programmes have been conducted by Tata Power in communities. This has helped in reducing line tripping and electrical accidents below overhead lines. The other Focus Areas of Tata Power’s CS Action Plan are in alignment with the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Our initiatives in various areas contribute to the goals as given below: \|\|UN’s Millennium Development Goals \|\|Achieve Universal Primary Education Promote Gender Equality & Empower Women \|\|Reduce Child Mortality Improve Maternal Health. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria & other Diseases \|\|Ensure Environmental Sustainability \|\|Eradicate Extreme Poverty & Hunger The importance of literacy and education cannot be undervalued today. But mere concrete structures of schools are often insufficient to ensure that children, especially girls receive a minimum Primary education or reduce the drop out rates. One of the several reasons of dropouts and low level of motivation of parents towards children’s schooling in rural areas is due to the lack of proper infrastructure and the distance of schools from the villages. Often, schools are established in dilapidated, unhygienic conditions with cramped space, lack of proper sitting arrangements for the children and lack of accommodation for teachers near the schools. Tata Power has built, repaired and renovated schools annually and created new infrastructure for progressive education. Construction of primary schools and addition of classrooms to existing schools in villages, in the Hydro areas, has increased the number of girl students in particular and students in general. Access to primary education was earlier the sole prerogative of the male child because of social conditioning as well as distance of the school from the residential area. These initiatives by Tata Power have - Helped changed the social conditioning - Aided the opportunity for gender equality - Reduced absenteeism and school dropouts As the Tata Power’s Hydro generating station areas are prone to heavy monsoons, school sessions were often interrupted. Providing accommodation for teachers has helped - In regular running of the schools during the heavy monsoon - Reduced absenteeism of teachers - Consequent improvement in teaching standards - Better continuity, resulting in sustained interest of the child in education It has additionally facilitated the girl child getting access to primary education, which results in continuing secondary education, paving the path for the girls’ empowerment in society. Till date the Company has built over 65 primary schools, 4 high schools, 20 rooms for teachers, repaired and renovated many schools. Tata Power also manages two schools in the Mulshi and Maval Talukas up to Std VII and XI respectively. For many, a certificate in completion of academic courses such as SSC or HSC may not always lead to being gainfully employed. It is now also accepted that there are youth whose area of intelligence lies in non-academic activities. We therefore conduct Vocational Training in technical courses and other skills like Horticulture, Bamboo Crafts, Paper Mashie, Tailoring, etc that facilitate the youth either to gain employment or be self employed. The Company extends healthcare through its Medical Centres, to the surrounding communities. Medical Camps are conducted through the year and medicines distributed. Early diagnosis had led to early treatments thus reducing Mortality Rates. We have been partners in the Polio Immunization Drives of the Government by providing the necessary infrastructure to conduct the Drives. In 2003, the “Life Line Express” medical camp spanned across 40 days and catered to 10,692 patients from the remotest villages in the Mulshi and Maval Talukas. This programme owes its success to the relentless efforts of volunteers who trudged through fields into villages with no motorable roads. We are immensely proud of what it achieved for the villagers. The caring attitude of our volunteers made the difference that earned us their compliments. This hugely successful camp furthered the Tata Power resolve to undertake an ongoing programme to eradicate blindness caused due to Bilateral Cataracts and continued its endeavours towards the cause. The total number of cataract surgeries to date is 3,229. The effort continues with unabated enthusiasm. Improving Maternal Health Repeated childbirths in early years, coupled with inadequate nutrition during pregnancy, permanently impact the health of the mother and child alike. In macro terms, limiting family size also leads to conservation of natural resources and serves the national objective of population management. The first initiative taken by Tata Power in this area was distribution of oral contraceptive pills. This project was started at the Bhivpuri Family Planning Centre in 1966 along with Pathfinders. This project gave the option of oral contraception to rural women who had to seek the permission of the husband and in-laws for the only family planning method being practiced then, tubectomy. This surgery entailed invasive procedure, long duration of hospitalization as well as recovery, rendering the woman’s services not being available to the family or endangering her health by cutting short the recuperation period. The non-invasive nature of the oral contraceptive helped the woman to limit the size of her family and look after her own health without antagonizing the family members. More importantly, she did not have to depend on destiny or fall prey to coercion to conceive one more child. She became the decision maker. As the programme continued, regular medical check-ups were carried out, which helped detect cases of anaemia and other deficiencies, which were then corrected by free distribution of required treatment. A yearlong mother and child health programme provided medication, iron and vitamin supplements to expectant and nursing mothers as well as children. Early diagnosis of TB or other diseases led to early treatment adding to improvement in maternal health. With the introduction of laparoscopic method of female sterilization, Tata Power renewed its efforts and started 5 Government approved centres (3 rural and 2 urban) for laparoscopic sterilization. 4103 sterilizations have been carried out to date. Increased awareness of the safety of laparoscopic sterilizations is motivating more women to choose this option, leading to increased improvement in maternal health and helping the National Programme for Population Control. HIV AIDS Awareness Programmes HIV AIDS Awareness Programmes have been extensively held by a band of our volunteers across Mumbai and hydro areas. In the programmes conducted, there have been 3,080 beneficiaries – students, teachers, truck drivers & cleaners, police personnel, & contract labour employees at Tata Power premises. The thrust has been on targeting the “at risk” group, moving on to other vulnerable groups like youth and influencing authority figures like teachers. Tata Power also won the Dahanukar Award for HIV / AIDS intervention at the work place in 2007. In Mumbai, this has been possible through the relentless efforts of volunteers who put in 633 man hours of personal time, supported by amenities like audio-visual facilities, transport, t-shirts, caps, banners sponsored by Tata Power and material such as informative posters, CDs, pamphlets, condoms for distribution obtained from MDACS (Maharashtra District AIDS Control Association), which is a State body engaged in fighting the spread of the dreaded disease. Students from colleges at Lonavala partnered with Tata Power volunteers and conducted programmes at the marketplace in Lonavala. This Tata Power project deals with the areas related to catchments of 6 lakes in the Western Ghats of Maval and Mulshi talukas in Pune District. Over the past 31 years, about 78 lakh saplings of fast growing tree species have been planted on the hill slopes of the lake catchments. Afforestation programme has been intensified since 1991 and Tata Power has been planting over 6 to 7 lakh trees every year. During the last 5 years, over 45 tree species, of the 85 species found in the Western Ghats were grown in the nurseries of TPC in Lonavala. These include trees and climber species, which also have medicinal value. This initiative supports the biological diversity in the eco forest system and in turn restores habitat for selected fauna. From 2004, around 30 lakh saplings have been planted in Mulshi and Maval Talukas, with a survival rate of 30%. TPC is also engaged in creating awareness about protection to existing forests, forest fires, and afforestation of degraded forest areas. Students and rural women have also participated in these programmes. Local people are trained in nurturing healthy saplings. As the villagers are also engaged in the programmes, it has led to increased employment opportunities. Our Belgaum and Jojobera plants also carry out afforestation around their environs. Provision of Smokeless Chulhas The consistent use of traditional chulhas pose health hazards for the rural women. Switching over to LPG cylinders is hardly an option, because of availability and affordability, both. TPC thought of a more viable option and provided smokeless chulhas to 2,325 women. This has: - Alleviated respiratory diseases in the women - Decreased pressure on firewood requirement - Reduced pollution TPC has taken steps in various areas to encourage income generating activities as well as measures to make the youth employable. Some of the activities, which have been designed to the needs of the locations, are listed below. Income Generation Activities Release of fish in village ponds Release of fish in village ponds of the Mulshi and Maval talukas is a routine activity carried out annually. In the years 2004 - 2007, 30.4 lakh fishes were released. Besides facilitating income generation, easy availability of fresh fish helps ensure protein-rich diet to the villagers at an affordable price. The Mahsheer Breeding Programme has entered its 35th year and Indian Council of Agricultural Research has recognised the work done by TPC in Mahsheer conservation and sustaining it for more than three decades. Incidentally, this is the most successful Mahsheer breeding facility in India and South East Asia. In 2005, over 4.5 lakh eggs were fertilized and 2.70 lakhs fry / semi-fingerlings were produced. The Company has also carried out cage culture and ranching programmes successfully and demonstrated the use of such research programmes for replication all over the country. Distribution Of Fruit Trees To Self-Help Groups TPC distributes fruit trees to villagers in Mulshi and Maval Talukas. The beneficiaries are encouraged and guided in caring for them. The villagers harvest the fruits. This activity also ensures maintenance of greenery and prevents soil erosion. The total number of trees distributed to date comes to 35,000. Distribution of Paddy Seeds Paddy seeds of Karjat - 3, a variety that yields higher quantities were distributed to 40 farmers in Bhivpuri in Raigad District. The farmers reported an increase of 1.5 times over the yields reaped so far. Miscellaneous Training Programmes Facilitating Employability / Self Employment / Income generation Horticulture Training Centre At Talegaon Tata Power has been sponsoring village youth, boys and girls, for a one-week residential programme at the Horticulture Training Centre belonging to the Govt. of Maharashtra. The participants were drawn from Tata Power’s hydro catchments areas and the villagers in the vicinity of the powerhouse. The centre was established in collaboration with Holland and extends training in horticulture, floriculture in polyhouses, nursery for ornamental plants, organic farming, vermin-compost and vermiculture, drip irrigation and vegetable farming. Over 114 youths were trained in this centre and many of them have started applying this knowledge in farming. Some have been employed in some of the floriculture projects in the area. Training In Composite Fish Farming Very few village tanks in the area are used for fish culture. Since fish growing in village tanks not only generates income, but also helps in keeping the water clean and potable for drinking and other purposes, a training programme was organized for village youth and youth from the fisher folk community in fish farming and aquaculture. The training involved all the practical aspects of farming like preparation of ponds before releasing fish, manuring, and stocking of fish in calculated ratio to get maximum yield, monitoring the growth, harvesting and post-harvesting technology and marketing. It also covered fresh water prawn farming and pearl culture, repairs to fishing nets, etc. Training of Gardeners (Malis) Trained ‘Malis’ have good employment opportunities in hill stations like Lonavala. Adequate training has the potential to generate self-employment for the local community as well. Considering this, Tata Power arranged for the basic training of youth in the Lonavala area in ornamental gardening like simple landscaping, rose gardening, medicinal pants, nursery for forestry and seasonal flowers, budding, vegetative propagation, indoor plants and lawn maintenance, polyhouse maintenance, afforestation, etc. The training caters to the needs of the marginalised sections of society who are working as casual labourers by upgrading their skills through gardening, so that they can earn higher income than casual labourers.	<urn:uuid:af2b24f0-df61-40fd-88ee-33823f054d0c>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.tatapower.com/sustainability/focus-areas.aspx	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.955691	3,427	1.929688	2
1. With Hope He grew weary; he knew Aragorn must be too, and resolved to watch him even more closely as he struggled to push the fatigue aside, to find his last reserves of energy. Finding a moment's respite against the wall of a ruined shed, Halbarad handed Aragorn a waterskin, and watched him drink gratefully. Aragorn was about to say something when he suddenly shoved Halbarad aside, his sword parrying a blow from an Easterling who had crept behind him, around the side of the building. Halbarad was on his feet again seconds later, drawing his dagger and stabbing it into the man's back. But there was another, and this time it was Halbarad who pushed Aragorn to the ground, away from the second Easterling, who appeared from the shadows just behind him. The man was lithe and fierce, and Halbarad did not have time to lift his weapon before the Easterling's dagger slid between two of his ribs. Pain ripped through his body as the man twisted the dagger before pulling it out. The standard Halbarad had carried all day slipped from his hand and fell to the ground. He sank to his knees, disbelieving, even as he saw and felt warm red blood dripping onto his fingers. Aragorn had the man in his grip before Halbarad fell, viciously cutting the Easterling's throat with his Elven dagger before shoving the dying body aside. Halbarad was growing lightheaded, and he fell prone as Aragorn knelt beside him. "Halbarad," Aragorn whispered, pressing his own hands over Halbarad's, covering the wound. "Halbarad." "Aragorn," he murmured. "Get out of here. There could be others." He could feel blood flowing freely from the wound in his chest. "I am not leaving you." Aragorn pressed against the wound, trying to staunch the bleeding. Aragorn was too stubborn to give up, but he was stubborn himself when it came to Aragorn's safety. He whispered, "Please, go. It is too late for me." "It is not!" Aragorn almost shouted this, but quickly lowered his voice. "You are not going to die." He was wrong, Halbarad thought, but Aragorn must not die here, hoping against hope that he might be saved. "You are not a chieftain anymore, you are a king!" he said, with force that surprised himself. "You cannot tarry here to care for one fallen man." "Indeed, but I can," he said, his tone permitting no further argument. Yet Halbarad could see in Aragorn's eyes that he knew the truth now and was beginning to accept it, for he ceased the pressure on the wound, and he lifted sad eyes to Halbarad's face. Bloodstained fingers touched him gently on the cheek. "You saved my life, my friend." He tried to smile. "We have saved each other many times," he said. The blood was not pouring from his chest quite so quickly now, but he was growing cold, the edges of his vision blurring. For a moment, sadness threatened to break his spirit, and he grieved for all that he would not live to see. The Enemy destroyed, Aragorn taking his rightful place as king, his own homeland in the North safe and fair, his people restored to dignity and honor. "Aragorn, you must live," he said, his voice a whisper. "All that we have fought for must come to pass." Aragorn took his hand, and Halbarad felt the pressure, though his own fingers could not return it. "If it is within me to accomplish, I swear I will." His strength was ebbing now with each moment, but Halbarad was determined to speak these words. "It is within you, Aragorn. It always has been. You must believe." His eyes had gone black now, and he could no longer see his friend, but he still felt the hands holding his own. "Tell me you believe," he whispered. Tell me, he thought, and I will die with hope. The reply was a whisper, but he heard it. "I believe." Halbarad felt his friend's hands on his face, his forehead, and he wished he could say farewell, but the words would not form on his lips. He heard, "Rest now, Halbarad. May the Valar bring you peace." Halbarad felt the kiss upon his forehead, then he slipped away, hope safe in his heart. This is a work of fan fiction, written because the author has an abiding love for the works of J R R Tolkien. The characters, settings, places, and languages used in this work are the property of the Tolkien Estate, Tolkien Enterprises, and possibly New Line Cinema, except for certain original characters who belong to the author of the said work. The author will not receive any money or other remuneration for presenting the work on this archive site. The work is the intellectual property of the author, is available solely for the enjoyment of Henneth Annûn Story Archive readers, and may not be copied or redistributed by any means without the explicit written consent of the author.	<urn:uuid:d7382370-d750-47d4-b6f4-c964a3e63c83>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter_view.cfm?stid=3369&spordinal=1	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.990332	1,117	1.546875	2
Last week, Broad Group announced it has received approval from the Chinese government and will break ground on the project next month, though according to Quartz's Lily Kuo, Broad Sustainable Building has pushed the building's schedule to a more modest seven months. — theatlanticcities.com Jeffrey Johnson, an architect who runs the China Megacities Lab at Columbia, is among a number of scholars who study China's rapid urbanization. He says local governments are building museums to create a cultural life and competitive identity for their cities. But China lost a lot of art because of its civil war in the 1940s, as well as the Cultural Revolution, looting and overseas sales. Johnson says many museums are going up faster than curators can fill them with works and audiences. — npr.org Now Mr. Ai is answering the guards’ request in a different key. He is presenting them, and the world, with his first heavy-metal music video, one with detailed re-creations of scenes from his 81 days of detention. He also portrays fantasies he imagines flitting through the guards’ minds. Mr. Ai posted the video on a Web site, aiweiwei.com, on Wednesday morning, Beijing time. — nytimes.com A lot of Chinese people look up to the West as an ideal, so the construction of these towns could be seen as a way of accelerating their progress; a quick way of achieving through emulation. — psmag.com The New South China Mall was once promoted as the world's biggest mall, but it's now pretty much deserted. — edition.cnn.com The shape of the new headquarters of the People's Daily, the Communist Party's main propaganda machine, has sparked heated discussion online for looking a bit too phallic. Most photos posted on Sina Weibo, the mainland's most popular microblogging site, were removed by censors, and attempts to search for " People's Daily building" in Chinese were met with a message that read: "According to relevant laws, regulations and policies, search results cannot be displayed." — scmp.com SDR complained "The Saratoga Community Center is ‘traditional’ ? Really ? Brickwork with masonry or ceramic trim is no longer a viable architectural material ? What'll be declared dead, next -- the rectangle ?...I don't defend the example above as a work of architecture. I know nothing about it. But it's a surprising contender for 'traditional'--- isn't it ?)". NewsChristopher Gray reviewed John Hill’s book A Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture, reflected on the current revival of traditional architecture in the United States, and asked Mr. Hill if he has "a bias against the neo-traditional movement?”. SDR complained "The... As it was Manhattan in New York nearly a century ago, China turns into a new stage in world architecture. The facts and figures behind Asian urban growth compared to Europe are incredible: it is five times faster, what took 100 years to happen in Europe has taken place here in just 20; it is also... I had my first architecture exhibition early this year in Macau, China and it was the greatest experience I have ever had... The exhibition was divided into 2 halls; the primary hall included all my Graduate school work in Washington University in St. Louis - concept sketches, technical drawings, renderings and physical models. The secondary hall contained concept sketches and all my traveling / study abroad experiences in Barcelona, Spain, Brazil, Buenos Aires, Argentina and a lot more! — archinect.com The Ping’an Finance Center is planned to top out at 660m, making it not only China’s tallest building but the second-tallest building in the world after the Burj Dubai. 80m has been built so far, but construction has been halted in the wake of the revelation from Shenzhen’s Housing and Construction Bureau that substandard sea sand concrete had been used in its construction. — wired.com There is only so far the gap between the migrant workers and the local Shanghainese they serve can grow before the foundations of the city buckle — and only so many well-educated, English-speaking, computer-literate, world-traveling young people the city can welcome before they demand change. Modernity is about more than fast trains and tall buildings. Despite the authorities’ strict controls, some among Shanghai’s millions have surely figured this out. — Places Journal In just two decades Shanghai has been transformed from "mothballed relic" of Maoism to one of the world's largest and most dynamic cities, complete with the fastest train on earth and more high-rise buildings than Manhattan. In an excerpt on Places from the new book A History of Future Cities... Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has faced censorship and imprisonment by China's government. Rita Braver reports on a U.S. exhibit of the dissident's creations. — youtube.com In an innovative response to the current property squeeze in China, a Beijing architectural and a design firm have combined creative forces to develop a portable house and garden on the back of a tricycle. The Tricycle House and Garden is a sustainable mobile home with its design and construction inspired by the shape and movement of an accordion. The playful designed is also being described as the “adult cardboard box fort box.” — DesignBuild Source The People’s Architecture Office (PAO) and People’s Industrial Design Office (PIDO) in Beijing developed the clever modular home as a single-person dwelling for those who wish to live in the city but simply cannot afford it due to increasing property prices. BAM recently participated in a competition in China for a 100m tall monument and 350m long pedestrian bridge that crosses an offshoot of the Yangzte River in Nanjing's new CBD district named HeXi. Unlike competitions in Western countries, this one wasn't about who would win or lose, or who would be paid or not paid, but it was about collecting as many ideas as possible. Is China doing something smart hoarding all of this design intellectual property? — Jacob Slevin, huffingtonpost.com China is also the land of the knock-off: knock-off designer handbags, knock-off blockbuster movies on DVDs, etc. But now, it seems the knock-off has gone off the charts in terms of proportion: entire buildings. — theworld.org As we have previously mentioned, Zaha Hadid is the latest victim of piracy in China, with a upcoming copy of her Wangjing Soho complex... scheduled to be completed before the original. NPR explores this issue with McGill architecture prof Avi Friedman. SUBMIT NEWS: submit in 60 seconds!	<urn:uuid:d2c62d12-18c4-4e73-bac9-3711d1f7e7e5>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://archinect.com/news/tag/643/china	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.95659	1,406	1.78125	2
What Of Longterm Cached Video Streaming? Hulu has long since reigned king in the streaming video market, and seems intent on growing at an outrageous pace until it reaches sublime market saturation – so long as its investors and parent companies don’t shut it down, or cripple it, long before the point of critical mass. But while 2010, and the foreseeable future, is considered part of the age of connectivity, there are often long periods without a network connection that could be better used: planes, cars, trains, buses, etc. In light of this situation, why should content delivery services not implement a longterm caching mechanism for streaming video? TV is fast becoming irrelevant as a scheduled-entertainment medium as it transitions to a more on-demand format, and the next obvious step past on-demand streaming for high quality, legitimate, and copyright-clear content is a secure longterm caching solution that enables offline viewing. Within America and Europe, it’s not uncommon for a daily commute by train or lightrail to be upwards of a half-hour, trips on cross-country flights to breach three timezones, or the discovery of a lack of an accessible network in a given location. Arguments can be made for the use of books, cellphones, offline computer functions, or thought experiments for these non-networked sessions, but there is truly no reason to not have some rich media content available locally. In terms of legal video streaming, the problem has always existed in three parts: quality, bandwidth, and copyright protection. Quality has been easily addressed by using media provided directly by those that produce it, rather than ripping it from another source or format, and bandwidth has mostly solved itself, at least for most consumers. Copyright protection, however, is a different animal, and is handled differently depending on delivery mechanism: Netflix prefers using a Microsoft Windows-based encryption mechanism, while Hulu uses tools within Adobe Flash. Whatever the choice for security of videos, the solutions can be easily extended for limited offline use. Consider, for a moment, how a tool like Hulu Desktop works: the Flash application lives locally, connects with the host servers for both updates and content, and locally caches portions of video as a buffer. This cached video is ostensibly kept on a rolling basis, where the oldest portions get removed as newer pieces are downloaded, and in a secure fashion – but what if this was extended? The result would be a Google Gears-like “Watch Offline” option that would allow your local software to use the cached content for a certain time period ranging from indefinitely for unrestricted content (“Saturday Night Live”) to the handful of days allowed by the provider (“The Office”). The mechanisms are already in place to be quickly implemented, but there remains a significant hurdle: content providers. Hollywood, and whatever euphemism is to be used for the similarly technophobic television industry, is extremely unlikely to be welcoming to such a “theft” of their content without fees or, at least, additional agreements. A predictable uncooperative air, however, should not be the only barrier to further releasing media from the constraints of ages, and technology, past – and yet it is. From the viewpoints of implementation, content security, and usability, the longterm cached streaming of rich media content is simply a sound next step in the continued innovation of digital delivery systems, not to mention the cost of such an extension is relatively cheap. Hulu, Netflix, and the rest of their brethren should exert any and all powers of influence on their content partners in order to make this happen – anything less is equivalent to continuing to bow to the undue influence and control over the lives of consumers by overzealous corporations.	<urn:uuid:6a774598-de00-4567-a191-bf460df37bde>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://trueslant.com/kylebrady/2010/01/17/what-of-longterm-cached-video-streaming/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.934613	764	1.765625	2
City of Alexandria, VA Community Based Programs The Intensive Case Management Program serves youth referred from the Alexandria Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court who have been identified as CHINS (Child In Need of Supervision) for school truancy. The goal of this program is to restore the youth’s attendance to normal levels and to prevent the youth from developing habits of delinquency, and is done so with collaboration from youth, their families, the school system, and any agencies involved. The case workers with the program may link youth and/or their families to services such as mental health, employment, medical health, recreational programs, tutoring, mentoring, substance abuse treatment, and any other services deemed appropriate. This program is considered "intensive" due to the frequent contacts made between the worker, youth and family, and the close level of supervision provided. The Community Service Program links juvenile offenders with opportunities to perform meaningful community service at government or non-profit agencies throughout Alexandria City. After receiving a court order to complete community service, youth meet with a Community Service Officer, who helps locate appropriate work sites and monitors performance. Through collaboration with local works sites, the Community Service Program provides juvenile offenders with the opportunity to make amends for committed offenses and gain meaningful work experience. Shoplifter's Alternative Program ...33 percent of juveniles say it is hard for them to stop shoplifting even after getting caught. The Shoplifter’s Alternative program reaches juveniles arrested for the first-time on shoplifting charges. Participants complete a 6-hour offense-specific home study kit, which includes compact discs and a workbook. They also attend an interactive seminar sponsored by the Target Store at Potomac Yard. The class is taught in cooperation with Target's Asset Protection Team members and includes speakers, a tour of Target's security system and a life-like video, "Got Caught: Now What?" Space of Her Own (SOHO) is an art-based mentoring program for girls in the 5th or 6th grade. There are currently two programs in the Alexandria area - Old Town and West End. The girls are matched with adult female mentors who work with them on life skills and team-building activities while receiving art and design instruction. Together they create works of art for each girls' bedroom. Upon completion of the program the girls' rooms are remodeled featuring many of the projects that the girls have worked on during the program. For more information, please visit www.spaceofherown.org.	<urn:uuid:c05c3f40-542c-463f-bf71-23b57e92dda9>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.alexandriava.gov/courtservice/info/default.aspx?id=8966	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.952758	511	1.9375	2
Minimal CP/M SBC design? Richard A. Cini rcini at optonline.net Sun May 4 15:08:24 CDT 2008 On 5/4/08 3:57 PM, "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at usap.gov> wrote: > Hi, all, > I was staring at an SBC I have here with a 6MHz Z-80, some ROM, some RAM, > and a 26-pin off-board bus for some Z80-PIO boards (this thing was built > as a multi-parallel-printer switcher). I've been musing about what it > would take to boot CP/M up on this. I know and appreciate the DIY nature of this, having worked on a few 6502 SBC designs even though there were a few out there already, but maybe take a look at the P112 (http://frotz.homeunix.org/p112/) for some inspiration. IIRC, it's the size of a 3.5" floppy drive. I actually built one of the original versions but I never got down to using it much. I might have to pull it out and play with it now that I know more about bringing up a CP/M system than when I did back then. Collector of Classic Computers Build Master and lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator More information about the cctalk	<urn:uuid:3a96700a-25e2-417a-a922-17b8aa012b27>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2008-May/070740.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.951144	316	1.75	2
i am looking at buying a childrens python but after research i read that they can be cages in 2's or 3's. i already have a 4 foot cistern and a licence but havent decided one what species. i have had a snake and solely want 'one' that is calm and friendly. Hi Monkey ! Yes you can buy newly one Children's Python (Liasis Childrenii) Snakes are generally solitary creatures anyway, however - if you want to carry more than one - they can be housed together so long as they're the same species and similar sizes. there is a species of python called the Childrens python. this species is a very small species. but whether you are wanting to know what kind of python would be good to have beside children here are a few. Red tailed boa (large but very calm personality) rainbow boas (nippy when young,but soft as adults) black headed pythons those are the top boids that i think of as good unemotional snakes snakes are animals that do best when housed singlely also what do u mean by cages in the 2's or 3's. do u aim by feet or what? please clarify i reread the 2's and 3's. snakes can be keept in groups but it usually is for breeding purposes. within fact keeping multi snakes in a cage could be dangerious for other other snakes during feed time as two snakes can eat on the same prey and end up drinking the other snake. Childrens pythons will do greatly well alone -- its not mandatory to have more. (As a matter of reality, the only reason I'd put more than one in a single viv is for breeding purposes and explicitly a whole 'nother book!) They are pretty docile and make good pets. I'm assuming you are talking about the Children's Python from Australia, named after John Children?? Keeping one of these snakes contained by a habitat by itself is perfectly acceptable. In my experience, unless two (or more) neonates (baby snakes) have be raised together since hatching it causes undue stress to introduce and maintain more than one specimen per enclosure. Just because more than one snake can be kept in an enclosure does not propose they should be. Breeding season is, of course, a different matter. The Children's Python is, generally, a docile snake approaching you are looking for. They stay small and, with a little bit of work, tolerate people fairly well. Good Luck and enjoy your new snake when he arrives!! if you have children i don't recommend Burmese pythons because they can get up to 16 feet or maybe even bigger and bring back aggresive. I've never owned a python but I've been around them a few times and I know a little bit about respectively snake. I've heard that corn snakes is good for a household with children. same near king snakes. I own one of those and its calm and laid back and will run before it bites. I'm not certain about other snakes though. if you want something that will get up to conceivably 4 feet and not be aggressive I would take a chance on California king snakes. but whether you want something that's not going to get that big i recommend a corn snake. but im sure a ball python will be merely fine as long as you house it properly and feed it in another enclosure other after its cage. and handle it for about 20 mins or more a sunshine. 2 or 3 in a cage is fine they'll curl up together and all that. but whether you decide not to get a python and consider a king snake. IT WILL EAT ANOTHER SNAKE THE SAME SIZE AS IT AND WILL EAT ITS OWN KIND. check out this website. it helped me opt what to get and how to take care of the snake the best i could. Answers: Why do people deduce such stupid things? The previous answers were unbelievably silly Anyway before I start ranting - I haven't personally kept children's python but I run a reptile rescue so have to be prepared for acceptance one any time. What appears to be a good website for them is this http://www.antaresia.com/ I think you should find all the answers you require in that Its a wild animal you can't predict docille or unreserved especialy with snakes or any reptile cause sooner or later you will grasp bitten.	<urn:uuid:c8102d13-5387-4b1f-a0ca-ab2fe4436581>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://petsask.com/reptiles/can_i_buy_merely_one_childrens_python.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.960755	925	2.25	2
What works best? Trays and strips are the most effective at-home choices for dramatic whitening, say dentists. These "barrier method" whiteners keep the peroxide solution against the teeth for the longest time. Daily use can whiten teeth five or more shades. Most brands of trays and strips recommend you use them for around 30 minutes a day until you get to the desired shade (usually at least a week). For the most dazzling results, look for higher concentrations of peroxide combined with longer application times. Crest Whitestrips Premium ($35, drugstores) contains 10 percent peroxide and calls for wearing the strips for 30 minutes twice a day for a week. The fit of the trays or strips stops some people from using them. Unlike a custom tray from the dentist's office, disposable versions are made with generic molds designed for the average-size mouth. They can leak peroxide solution through any gaps and cause tooth and gum irritation. Whitening strips easily wrap around teeth but sometimes slip and slide. (In early 2009, Crest will introduce a new whitening strip it claims will have better hold.) To reduce potential gum irritation with both trays and strips, don't brush your teeth for up to half an hour before applying them or at least skip the toothpaste, suggests Robert Gerlach, D.D.S., a research fellow at P&G and developer of the original Crest Whitestrips. "Detergents in toothpaste can make gums more susceptible to irritation," he says. Paint-on whiteners let you target the peroxide solution to specific teeth and spot-treat discolored cracks and chips on enamel. But because there's nothing holding the peroxide to the tooth, saliva quickly dilutes it. Some versions employ the same technology that gives long-lasting lipsticks more hold. "The whitening solution forms a film that protects the peroxide," explains Dr. Golub-Evans. The Good Housekeeping Research Institute compared the performances of three paint-on teeth whiteners to a leading over-the-counter whitener and found that if you have sensitive teeth, the paint-on whiteners were the better choice. Testers used the products for either one or two weeks, according to the package directions. They gave GoSmile Advanced Formula B1 ($89, Sephora) high marks for its simplicity (pull out a pellet, snap it, and apply) and because, in most cases, it caused the least tooth sensitivity. "I liked the easy use [of GoSmile]," said one woman. "It was portable and not messy." Yet, while our volunteers thought GoSmile whitened effectively, it was outperformed by the control product in our laboratory before-and-after shade evaluations. Toothpastes and toothbrushes brighten teeth a shade or two at most. A toothbrush featuring an oscillating motion will give you better results than a manual toothbrush, says Dr. Gerlach. But you have to brush for the recommended two minutes (Americans, on average, brush for well under a minute). As for whitening toothpastes, the most effective ones include ingredients that prevent new stains from sticking to teeth, like Colgate Total Advanced Whitening ($3.49, drugstores). Mouthwash, the latest tooth brightener on the market, can swish away only the most superficial stains, since it doesn't stay in contact with teeth for very long. (In fact, if you don't use tobacco or drink coffee, tea, colas, or red wine, you may not need it.) Try Listerine Whitening Vibrant White Pre-Brush Rinse ($6.15, drugstores). What more can a dentist do? They make custom bleaching trays for at-home use, and they can apply a masking gel or dam to protect gums during stronger, in-office treatments. Many dentists have accelerated bleaching options that get teeth up to 10 shades lighter in a single visit (cost starts at about $400). Zoom! and BriteSmile are the two most popular. These use light to pump up the effects of double-digit-strength peroxide. However, any dramatic whitening can fade quickly without at-home maintenance (usually a tray, whitening strips, or toothpaste). You also have to watch what you eat and drink for a couple of days, since tooth enamel is very receptive to new color for the first 48 hours after a bleaching treatment. Next: Makeup tricks to make teeth look more white	<urn:uuid:74b24f12-0b6c-45c0-9e23-73546eb7188b>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/product-reviews/beauty-products/teeth-whitening-product-reviews/whiten-your-teeth-2	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.924346	950	1.65625	2
It is an idea deeply embedded in most ... I think I may mean all ... traditional rites, that the Eucharistic Prayer is far from being a folksy prayer which the celebrant hopes will be short enough to stop the people getting bored, and which, if he is trendy enough, he will invite them to join in saying so that they 'feel involved'. This Prayer is a profound mystery in which the celebrant is, as it were, halfway out of this world, alone and face to face with the God whom Moses met when he climbed the mountain and entered the cloud at Sinai. Early Ordines tell us that at the beginning of Te igitur surgit Pontifex solus et intrat in canonem ... surgit solus Pontifex et tacite intrat in Canonem: I am sure that I am not the only priest who, as he raises his hands at Te igitur, senses vividly that he is, like the High Priest on the Day of Atonements, entering the Holy of Holies to offer sacrifice for all the people before the Holy God who dwells in unapproachable light. The Byzantine priest enters the Royal Doors in order to sacrifice; some of the older Roman churches still possess the hooks to hold the curtains round the ciborium which concealed the celebrant from view. I believe it can be shown that the developed form of the Canon Romanus, with its careful distinctions between nos servi tui/servitus nostra, and plebs tua sancta/cuncta familia tua, dates from the time when distance and curtains separated the celebrant and his sylleitourgoi from the People. The inaudible recitation of (most of) the Canon is a central feature of sound liturgical praxis; if it cannot be immediately restored, I suppose the next best thing is its recitation in a language not understanded of the people, or its recitation in a voice which at least does not officiously strive for audibility. (Why on earth, in OF Latin Masses at Brompton, is the celebrant when at the altar electronically amplified? If he simply said the Eucharistic Prayer in a clara et elata voce and left to God the management of the laws of Physics which determine how much of it the people in the various parts of the nave could hear, that surely would fulfill the rubrics?) This restoration of a sense of the Holiness and otherness of the One Oblation of the Lord Once Offered is going to be the greatest task, the most laborious up-hill struggle, for all those Western clergy who desire to re-enter the historic, ecumenical liturgical consensus of the Latin West and the Byzantine Churches and the Semitic Christian East. Its destruction in the West a generation ago was one of the greatest successes of the Evil One. Its recovery is the calling of faithful clergy in the third millennium. Jungmann comments: "The Canon is a sanctuary into which the priest enters alone".	<urn:uuid:c3cf27c2-0d06-41d5-b468-bf0a1f57fd80>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.com/2011/01/culture-changes-3.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.931232	626	1.96875	2
\|Teaching Math: An Interview with Dr. Fred Worth\|\|Vol. 107, Prg. 26–30\| October 10–14, 2011 If math is the bane of your homeschooling existence, this week’s program is for you! Math professor Fred Worth discusses why your students might struggle with this difficult subject and how you can improve their performance. A solid foundation in math can prepare your child for life success! Click on a program title to listen online and read a transcript @home e-vents with Fred Worth Want more extensive help from Fred Worth? Check out his on-demand e-vents from HSLDA’s @home e-vents! Learn More Now >> Dr. Fred Worth earned a B.S. in mathematics from Evangel College in Springfield, Missouri, and then an M.S. and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Missouri-Rolla. He taught one year at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City, New Jersey, and six years as a teaching assistant at the University of Missouri-Rolla. He has been a professor of mathematics at Henderson State University in Arkansas for 18 years. He is also the associate pastor at Twin Rivers Church of the Nazarene near Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Fred and his wife, Beth, have one son, Mark, who lives in Kansas with his wife, Debra and their homeschooled son, Christopher. For the past nine years, Fred has spoken at numerous homeschool conventions: from Arkansas to Texas, Missouri, New York, and Oklahoma. The majority of his presentations have been mathematical in nature, seeking to help homeschool parents more effectively teach mathematics to their children. Additionally, Fred has made a number of presentations on more pastoral topics, aimed at encouraging homeschool parents, particularly fathers, in making their homeschool experience as effective and rewarding as possible. Professor Fred Worth has developed a plan of attack for that formidable math challenge, the story problem! Request our free resource sheet, and conquer the story problems in your math curriculum. Whether you want to stay abreast of homeschooling news and legislative issues, hear about the latest @home e-vent webinar, or get specialized help for teaching your high schooler—or struggling learner—or elementary student, HSLDA’s e-lert service has something valuable for you. Sign up here!	<urn:uuid:f81f9db3-dbf3-4125-9bbd-a97cb65055f7>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.hslda.org/docs/hshb/107/hshbwk6.asp	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.948103	497	2.296875	2
This week marks the ninth anniversary of the first U.S. Postal Service fundraising postage stamp in the nation's history -- the Breast Cancer Research Stamp. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and breast cancer advocate and survivor Betsy Mullen spearheaded the creation of a stamp aimed at raising funds for breast cancer research. The duo has reunited to keep the stamp on the market. 773 million: Number of breast cancer stamps sold. $55.5 million: Amount raised by the stamp for biomedical research. 100: Events held by the National NeedleArts Association, which began a campaign honoring the stamp in 2004.	<urn:uuid:513ba303-b7cb-4d4b-b055-95f9e0ea2540>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-07-26/news/0707260516_1_breast-cancer-research-stamp-postage-postal-service	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.928258	126	2.34375	2
‘War on terror’ As of December there were 14 “control orders” in force, under powers in the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (PTA). - In October the UK’s highest court, the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords (the Law Lords), ruled on four test cases concerning the system of control orders. The Law Lords confirmed, among other things, that the 18-hour curfew which the Home Secretary had attempted to impose on one group of individuals amounted to a deprivation of liberty beyond what the law allowed. The Law Lords ordered the High Court to reconsider the fairness of the hearing which two individuals received when challenging the control orders served on them. The substance of the allegations against these two men had been withheld from them and from their lawyers of choice. - In January an individual was convicted of a breach of control order obligations, the first conviction for an offence under the PTA, and was sentenced to five months imprisonment. Deportations with assurances The UK authorities continued to seek to deport people whom they asserted posed a threat to the UK’s national security, despite substantial grounds for believing that the people concerned would face a real risk of grave human rights violations if returned to their countries of origin. The authorities continued to maintain that diplomatic assurances received from the countries to which they were seeking to deport these individuals were sufficient to protect them from that risk, despite those assurances being unenforceable in any court. Proceedings by which these deportations could be challenged, in the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC), were unfair, in particular because of their reliance on secret material undisclosed to the appellants or to their lawyers of choice. During the year eight individuals whom the UK had sought to deport to Algeria on grounds of national security waived their right to continue to appeal against their deportation, and were returned. - In January, two Algerian men – Reda Dendani, referred to in legal proceedings as Q, and another man referred to in legal proceedings as H – were deported from the UK to Algeria. Before deportation, both men had reportedly been given verbal assurances by the Algerian authorities that they were not wanted in Algeria. Both were arrested and detained following their return, and charged with “participation in a terrorist network operating abroad”. According to reports, both H and Reda Dendani were convicted in November, and sentenced to three and eight years’ imprisonment respectively. - In May, Moloud Sihali, an Algerian, won his appeal against deportation on national security grounds. The SIAC ruled that he was not a threat to national security. - In July, the Court of Appeal ruled on the appeals of three Algerians against the decisions of the SIAC upholding the orders for their deportation on national security grounds. The three were Mustapha Taleb, referred to in legal proceedings as Y; a man referred to as U; and another referred to as BB. The Court of Appeal ruled that the SIAC should reconsider all three cases. In the cases of BB and U the Court of Appeal reached this conclusion on grounds that were not disclosed to the individuals, their lawyers of choice or the public. In November the SIAC reaffirmed its earlier decision that all three could safely and lawfully be returned to Algeria. - In February, the SIAC dismissed the appeal of Omar Mahmoud Mohammed Othman, also known as Abu Qatada, against his deportation on national security grounds to Jordan. The SIAC concluded that the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which the UK concluded with Jordan in 2005 would ensure his safety in Jordan. At the end of the year an appeal against this decision was pending. - In April, the SIAC blocked the attempt to deport two Libyan nationals – referred to in legal proceedings as DD and AS – to their country of origin on national security grounds. The SIAC concluded that, notwithstanding the assurances given in an MoU between the UK and Libya, there was a real risk that upon return to Libya DD and AS would be tried in proceedings that would amount to a “complete” denial of a fair trial, and would be sentenced to death. Guantánamo detainees with UK links - In April, Bisher Al Rawi, a former UK resident, was returned to the UK after more than four years in US military custody at Guantánamo Bay. - In August the UK authorities wrote to their US counterparts to request the release from Guantánamo Bay and return to the UK of former UK residents Jamil El Banna, Omar Deghayes, Shaker Aamer, Binyam Mohammed and Abdennour Sameur. No request was made on behalf of a sixth former resident, Ahmed Belbacha, an Algerian who had reportedly been cleared for release and would face a real risk of secret detention, which would put him at risk of torture or other ill-treatment, if returned to Algeria. - In December, Jamil El Banna, Omar Deghayes and Abdennour Sameur were returned to the UK. All three were detained on arrival. Abdennour Sameur was released without charge. Jamil El Banna and Omar Deghayes were released on bail, pending a full hearing of a request for their extradition to Spain to stand trial there. At the end of the year Binyam Mohammed, Shaker Aamer and Ahmed Belbacha remained in Guantánamo Bay. In July the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) published a report on the UK’s alleged involvement in the US-led programme of renditions. The report made limited criticisms of the UK authorities, including of the failure to keep “proper searchable records” of requests to conduct rendition operations through UK airspace, but concluded that there was “no evidence” that the UK had been complicit in “extraordinary renditions” as the ISC defined that term. The ISC reports directly to the Prime Minister, who decides whether to place its reports before Parliament. Amnesty International considered it insufficiently independent of the executive to conduct the necessary independent and impartial investigation into allegations of UK involvement in renditions. Reports continued to emerge suggesting that UK territory, including the island of Diego Garcia, may have been used by aeroplanes involved in rendition flights. The UK authorities told Amnesty International that the UK “does not routinely keep records of flights in and out of Diego Garcia”, but that they were “satisfied with [the] assurance” given by the US that they “do not use Diego Garcia for any rendition operations”. UK armed forces in Iraq The government continued to seek to limit the application of its human rights obligations outside UK territory, in particular in relation to the acts of its armed forces in Iraq. - In March, the court martial of seven UK military personnel concluded. They were charged in relation to the torture and death in September 2003 of Baha Mousa, and the treatment of a number of other Iraqi civilians arrested and detained at a UK military base in Basra at around the same time as him. One defendant pleaded guilty to a charge of inhumane treatment, a war crime. He was acquitted of the other charges against him. Six others were acquitted of all charges. The judge noted that hooding detainees, keeping them in stress positions and depriving them of sleep had become “standard operating procedure” within the battalion responsible for detaining the men. - In June, the Law Lords ruled on six cases brought under the name Al Skeini, concerning the deaths of six Iraqi civilians. Five of the six were shot and fatally wounded, in disputed circumstances, in the course of operations carried out by UK armed forces; the sixth was Baha Mousa. The Law Lords ruled that the first five individuals were not within the UK’s jurisdiction at the time of their deaths, and that the UK’s obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) were therefore not applicable to them. They ruled that Baha Mousa had come within the UK’s jurisdiction, albeit only from the moment of his arrival at the UK-run detention facility, rather than the time of his arrest. The Law Lords directed that Baha Mousa’s case should return to a lower court, for it to determine whether there had been a violation of the rights to life and to freedom from torture. By the end of the year these judicial proceedings had not resumed. - In December the Law Lords ruled on a challenge to the detention without charge or trial for more than three years of Hilal Al-Jedda, one of approximately 75 “security internees” held by UK forces in Iraq. They ruled that Hilal Al-Jedda was within the UK’s jurisdiction, since his detention was legally attributable to the UK, not (as the UK had argued) to the UN. However they held that UN Security Council Resolution 1546 effectively allowed the UK to intern people in Iraq, notwithstanding that to do so would otherwise have been incompatible with the UK’s obligations under the ECHR. Police shootings and deaths in custody - In November a jury convicted the Office of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police of an offence under health and safety legislation in relation to the policing operation which led to the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes in July 2005. Following the verdict, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) published its report into the shooting. The IPCC reiterated concern at the attempt made by the police to prevent the IPCC from carrying out from the outset the investigation into the shooting. In December a hearing opened to consider whether the coroner’s inquest into the death, which had been adjourned pending completion of the criminal prosecution, should resume. The IPCC announced that four police officers involved in the operation would face no disciplinary charges. - In June, the Court of Appeal upheld the 2004 verdict of an inquest jury that police officers who fatally shot Derek Bennett in 2001 had acted lawfully. - In August, the IPCC announced that none of the eight Metropolitan Police officers involved in the events leading to the death in custody of Roger Sylvester in January 1999 would face disciplinary action. In May, direct rule came to an end with the restoration of the devolved Northern Ireland Assembly, suspended since 2002. Collusion and political killings In January, the Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland published a report of an investigation which found evidence of collusion between the police and loyalist paramilitaries as recently as 2003. In June, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted its second interim resolution concerning the UK’s compliance with a number of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. The cases in question were brought by the families of individuals who had allegedly been killed by, or with the collusion of, UK security forces in Northern Ireland. The Court had held in each case that the UK had failed to instigate adequate investigations into these killings. The Committee of Ministers regretted that “in none of the cases [has] an effective investigation… been completed”. - In June, the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal reversed a December 2006 High Court decision, which had ruled unlawful the decision to hold the inquiry into allegations of state collusion in the killing of Billy Wright under the Inquiries Act 2005. The inquiry proceeded under the Inquiries Act. In October the inquiry panel announced its intention to produce an interim report early in 2008 on the co-operation given to the inquiry by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), in particular in relation to significant gaps in the material provided to the inquiry by the PSNI. - By the end of the year the government had still not established an inquiry into allegations of state collusion in the 1989 killing of Patrick Finucane. - In December, the verdict was delivered in a criminal prosecution relating to the 1998 Omagh bombing, among other incidents. The only defendant was acquitted of all charges against him. The judge was critical of the prosecution case, in particular the use made of DNA evidence. He accused two police employees of “deliberate and calculated deception”, and referred the case to the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland. Refugees and asylum-seekers In October, the UK Borders Act was passed. The Act failed to end the forced destitution of rejected asylum-seekers caused by existing legislation. The UK government continued to enforce the return of rejected Iraqi asylum-seekers to northern Iraq. Ongoing legal action prevented the UK government from removing rejected asylum-seekers to Zimbabwe. In November, the Law Lords overturned a Court of Appeal ruling that it was “unduly harsh” to send refused asylum-seekers from Darfur back to the Sudanese capital Khartoum. Violence against women Women who were subject to immigration control and had experienced violence in the UK, including domestic violence and trafficking, found it almost impossible to access the housing benefit or income support they needed, as a result of the “no recourse to public funds” rule. This provides that certain categories of immigrants who have leave to enter and remain in the UK for a limited period only have no right (subject to limited exceptions) to access such benefits. Trafficking in human beings In March the UK signed the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, but had not ratified it by the end of the year. In December, it was reported that four women who had been trafficked to the UK for sexual exploitation were to be awarded financial compensation by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority, a decision which could lead to other victims of trafficking becoming eligible for compensation. NGOs were concerned at the lack of appropriate government-funded accommodation for victims of trafficking. Amnesty International visit/reports - Amnesty International delegates observed judicial hearings in the UK, including some under counter-terrorism legislation. - United Kingdom: Deportations to Algeria at all costs (EUR 45/001/2007) - Europe and Central Asia: Summary of Amnesty International’s concerns in the region, January–June 2007 (EUR 01/010/2007).	<urn:uuid:11c31fce-cfa9-408c-8059-7fcc054469fa>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://amnesty.org/en/region/uk/report-2008	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.97739	2,916	2.0625	2
[Note: for recent ZetaTalk on being a Contactee, UFO blitzes, and related subjects check the Q&A chats.] The Zetas talk about how visitations are remembered only in the Subconscious so that the contactee is often confused about Alternate Realities; how the contactee can often discern that a visit has Just Occurred; how recall can be hastened through Hypnosis where the First Meeting is often recalled first; why Remembering should occur gradually as their may be Painful Experiences and Blocking can occur; and how Signs are sometimes given for reassurance. The Zetas talk about how contactees are Always in Touch with their visitors through Telepathy or Soul-to-Soul contact; whether contactees develop a Dual Identity or are assigned an alien as a Special Friend; why there seem to be Ugly Aliens; why Contactee Creativity and Shared Visions seem on the increase and how Arrangements are made; why a Contactee Modification might occur; why contactees sometimes experience Allergies or Ear Problems or Brain Buzz; whether Clue Lists or Blood Type help contactees determine their status; why contactees are On the Increase and when Protection/Healings are done; how communication can be done via a Channel but that is not what's going on here in ZetaTalk; how Advance Warning is given prior to a visitation; how the contactee may be placed in a Paralyzed State or go Out Of Body during a visitation; why the Zetas sometimes go Eye-to-Eye with contactees; how busy contactees can find they are Gaining Time, or that an alien was Standing In for them; and why contactees experience intermittent Invisibility. The Zetas talk about how visitations have been going on Over Eons and sometimes leave Visitor Traces; how some humans think it's all Just a Dream or hallucination and how False Memory can occur; whether visitations can be Drug Induced; how some visitations come in Light Form; how visitors leave No Calling Card but sometimes are announced by Knocking; how visitors come from Various Groups; how contactees are given Life Form Orientations; whether the Zetas go by many Other Names; whether some creatures in our Fairy Tales have represented visitations; whether Electrical Disturbances or Bright Lights occur during visitations; whether aliens ever visit On the Phone or communicate electonically over Radio or TV; why the New World Order creates Staged Visitations; what significance Colored Lights or the Black Box has; and what happened to the Missing Pilots and their airplanes. The Zetas talk about Abduction Term confusion and explain why there is in essence an Abduction Right; why it all seems to be such Serious Business and visitors can exhibit Reflected Fear; why no abductee is Ensnared Forever and contactees often have Mixed Feelings; how Contact with Children is limited; why there are Recall Dangers; whether Budd Hopkins or Dr. John Mack distort the truth; whether Betty Hill or Betty Andreasson are telling it straight; whether the Triangle Sign is the sign of the Zetas; why there are Saucer Shapes; whether Triangular UFO or Ball UFO are real UFO shapes; whether Plasma Ships exist; why Lightning Clouds, often accompany ships; and how there are Mothership Clues.	<urn:uuid:f11df90e-ed55-457d-a25d-7888ddaed69f>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.zetatalk5.com/visitatn/v00.htm	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.924715	684	1.9375	2
Marketing to Kids RWJF Priority: Reduce youths’ exposure to the marketing of unhealthy foods through regulation, policy, and effective industry self-regulation Unhealthy foods and beverages are heavily marketed to children, and research shows that exposure to food marketing messages increases children’s obesity risk. Food and beverage companies also target African-American and Latino children with more advertising and for products that are less healthy. Some studies suggest that marketing restrictions are among the most powerful and cost-effective interventions available. The resources below, from RWJF grantees and partners, explore how food and beverage marketing affects children’s food preferences and their risk for obesity.	<urn:uuid:ec0f2b7d-d2b6-4fb0-8c94-6300e593e502>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.rwjf.org/en/about-rwjf/program-areas/childhood-obesity/strategy/policy-priority-marketing-to-kids.html?d=states_and_territories%3A593&d=states_and_territories%3A601	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.943017	135	3.046875	3
“African American Political History” is a four-week school teacher institute for twenty-five participants, held in Chicago and exploring African-American political history from the nineteenth century to the present. Project director Julieanna Richardson leads an institute that addresses African-American political development through the Civil War era; early twentieth-century black political strategies including civil rights and unionism; World War II and Cold War racial politics; the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s; and the rise of a new generation of black political leaders since. The participants study primary materials, including writings by African-American leaders, documents from Chicago-area archives, and, most centrally, oral histories and contextual materials from The HistoryMakers digital archive and Web site. They also read secondary works by leading scholars and commentators, including Manning Marable, Eric Arnesen, Christopher Benson, Charles Payne, Michael Dawson, Adam Fairclough, Peniel Joseph, and Adolph Reed. Visiting faculty include Bruce Laurie (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Jacqueline Goldsby (New York University), Cheryl Greenberg (Trinity College), Eric Arnesen (George Washington University), Charles Payne (University of Chicago), Rhonda Williams (Case Western University), Josh Radinsky (University of Illinois, Chicago), Michael Dawson (University of Chicago), Adolph Reed (University of Pennsylvania), Christopher Reed (Roosevelt University), and Christopher Benson (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign). Participants pursue research projects, chosen six weeks before the institute, devise related curricular materials, and present these materials to the institute and to teachers in their home districts. They also receive training in oral history, a “useful [method] for engaging students,” under the direction of the project director and Leon Dash (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign). The institute is held at the nearby Glessner House in Chicago. African-American Political History Summer Seminars and Institutes for School Teachers Postmark Deadline: March 1, 2012 Julieanna Richardson, Director 1900 S Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60616 About NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes for School Teachers Each year the NEH’s Division of Education Programs offers teachers opportunities to study a variety of humanities topics in NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes. An NEH Summer Seminar for school teachers enables sixteen participants to explore a topic or set of readings with an expert scholar. The core material of the seminar need not relate directly to the school curriculum; the principal goal of the seminar is to engage teachers in the scholarly enterprise and to expand and deepen their understanding of the humanities through reading, discussion, writing, and reflection. Amount of Award NEH Summer Scholars are awarded fixed stipends to help cover travel costs, books and other research expenses, and living expenses. Stipend amounts are based on the length of the NEH Summer Seminar or Institute: $2,100 (2 weeks), $2,700 (3 weeks), $3,300 (4 weeks), $3,900 (5 weeks), or $4,500 (6 weeks). Full-time teachers in American K-12 schools, whether public, charter, independent, or religiously affiliated, as well as home-schooling parents, are eligible to apply to NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes. Americans teaching abroad are also eligible if a majority of the students they teach are American citizens. Librarians and school administrators may also be eligible. You may request information about as many projects as you like, but you may apply to no more than two NEH Summer Programs (seminars, institutes, or Landmarks workshops) and you may attend only one. Eligibility criteria differ significantly between NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes and NEH Landmarks Workshops. Please note: Up to two seminar spaces and three institute spaces are available for current graduate students, who intend to pursue careers in K-12 teaching. How to Apply For more information and application instructions, please visit the program website listed above.	<urn:uuid:c7e173dc-4c97-41ae-9541-4a4fe98aaae8>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.neh.gov/divisions/education/other-opportunities/african-american-political-history?quicktabs_divisions_edu_grants=0	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.911186	831	2.640625	3
Infectious Diseases Branch (IDB) The Infectious Diseases Branch (IDB) conducts investigation, surveillance, prevention, and control of general communicable diseases of public health importance that are not covered by the specific programs of the Immunization Branch, the Tuberculosis Control Branch, the Sexually Transmitted Diseases Control Branch, and the Office of HIV/AIDS. IDB implements its program through its four Sections: Disease Investigations Section, Surveillance and Statistics Section, Vector-Borne Disease Section, and Veterinary Public Health Section. Diseases followed by IDB include foodborne, waterborne, vector-borne, zoonotic, and emerging infectious diseases. - consultation and assistance to local health jurisdictions in the control and prevention of communicable diseases and outbreaks; - collection, coordination, and tabulation of surveillance data of over 60 infectious diseases; - investigations of local, regional, statewide, or multistate outbreaks; - information on infectious diseases to the California Department of Public Health, local health jurisdictions, the medical community, and the public through emails, press releases by the Office of Public Affairs, postings of pamphlets and fact sheets on the IDB webpage, and publications in medical journals; and - recommendations, guidelines, policies, and regulations on communicable disease prevention and control.	<urn:uuid:bcd75c5a-82f0-4ab3-8b3d-bbad266a69de>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/idb/Pages/default.aspx	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.900217	262	2.578125	3
The June day when I visited the small Umbrian hill town of Todi was unusually cool and rainy. I did, briefly, work up a sweat climbing up, up, up from the parking lot to the main square, the Piazza del Popolo. I suspect this is a beautiful medieval piazza -- most of the time. Alas, the Sunday morning when I was there, the piazza shook with the sounds of a motorbike competition. The entire square had been turned into a track and an unbelievable din was created by the roar of the motorbikes. The noise bounced off the three stunning buildings that all face the piazza -- the Palazzo del Capitano, the Palazzo del Priore and the Palazzo del Popolo -- as well as Todi's Duomo. I have read that this piazza is one of the most picturesque in all of Italy and is often used as a movie set. I believe that, although I couldn't get a good sense of this from my one visit. Further, Todi has been dubbed the world's most livable city, based on a report in the early 1990 by Richard S. Levine, a professor of architecture at the University of Kentucky, who chose Todi as the model sustainable city, because of its scale and its ability to reinvent itself over time. I didn't hang around the square long, but instead walked to the next hill and the church of San Fortunato, which is pictured above with reliefs from its unfinished facade. I found San Fortunato to be quite beautiful. Wikipedia reports that it was originally a 7th century Palaeo-Christian temple and two lion sculptures from its earliest days stand guard near the entrance portal. I was intrigued by the reliefs showing humans, carved around the main doors. The crypt beneath San Fortunato houses a sepulchre containing the remains of St. Fortunatus of Todi and other saints, as well as the tomb of Jacopone da Todi, a Franciscan poet. Todi, which is incredibly hilly and steep, has many interesting sites but rain discouraged me from much exploring. I did get a chance to pop inside the beautifully domed Renaissance church of Santa Maria della Consolazione, which was begun in 1508. The photo just above I borrowed from Bill Thayer's excellent Umbria website, because I loved the way it captures the steepled building of San Fortunato on the highest point of the hill while the domed building on the lower left is S. Maria della Consolazione. Below are my closeups from the latter church. The interior is much less spectacular than the exterior, but the apse is surmounted by a square terrace with four eagles at the corners, from which the dome rises. The altar houses a reportedly miraculous image of the Madonna, which, according to tradition, was discovered by a worker during early construction.	<urn:uuid:1f46a3f3-b818-41f3-9767-a9b4b0ddd0eb>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.slowtrav.com/blog/sandrac/2009/08/a_tempest_in_todi_1.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.974113	614	2.046875	2
Automakers have been leaking photos of upcoming concept cars leading up to next week’s Frankfurt Motor Show, but no one saw this one coming. A 23-year-old entrepreneur and automotive designer from Croatia named Mate Rimac will reveal an electric supercar at Frankfurt to rival the 1,000-horsepower Bugatti Veyron, which is the most powerful combustion-engined car on the road. “It is an electric supercar,” Mr. Rimac said. “It makes 1,088 horsepower, 3,800 newton-meters of torque [2,803 pound-feet] and is capable of going more than 300 kilometers per hour.” How can a country with no auto industry create a car to rival the most powerful vehicle on the market and make it electric to boot? The Rimac Concept One is powered by “four independent electric motor drive units,” according to Mr. Rimac, which produce a total of 800 kilowatts. “The front and rear systems are separate units,” Rimac said. “Each of them includes two high-speed, liquid-cooled permanent magnet electric motors, two liquid-cooled inverter units and two reduction gearboxes, integrated into one small unit.” Translation? Tons of power, zero emissions. The Concept One has already been beating Teslas in the e-miglia race in Europe, under the cloak of an old BMW E30, and now promises a Tesla-beating range of 366 miles on a single charge. Rimac plans to construct 88 cars in the first run and price them “a bit below the gasoline-powered competition from Pagani, Koenigsegg and Bugatti.” Apparently the Abu Dhabi royal family is already in line for their eco-friendly Rimacs. We’ll be eagerly waiting for photos and more info until the Concept One is revealed on September 13th. Via New York Times	<urn:uuid:b15aaae5-b64a-464d-99e9-e09c3e4ded90>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://inhabitat.com/rimac-concept-one-croatia-quietly-builds-a-1000-horsepower-electric-supercar/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.943549	406	1.671875	2
I spent a good bit of my career thinking about the future of middle grades education and how it can be systematically improved for all students. I deeply believe the next critical frontier for middle grades education--and the springboard for reforming American education in genera--is to meet the demands of a challenging, exciting, uncharted global era. Why Global Knowledge and Skills are Critical So why is it critical for all students to develop international knowledge and skills? Why does that matter? It matters because of at least four huge trends in our society that are shaping everyday life in this country and around the world: globalization of the economy, national security, cultural diversity, and democracy and citizenship. Everyone knows the American economy of the 21st century is increasingly an international economy. But what few people think about is this new economy comes with a new set of demands. These include the fact that other economies are expanding rapidly: take China, India and Vietnam, for example. International trade is accelerating tremendously; one in five American jobs are now connected to international trade. With new information and communication technologies, almost anything can be done anywhere. The nature of work itself is changing, too. As more routine jobs can be done by computer or outsourced to cheaper labor markets, the economic advantage will go to people who can analyze and solve problems, recognize patterns and similarities, and communicate and interact with other people, especially those who do not share the same culture. National Security: In a post-9/11 world, lack of international understanding is a threat to national security. We cannot very easily make peace with people we don’t understand and can’t communicate with. I heard an interview with an US Army General stressing the fact that what’s needed in Iraq and Afghanistan is not so much tactical intelligence to defeat an enemy militarily, as much as situational intelligence, ability to understand and communicate, so as to win people over to our side of the conflict. With regard specifically to language instruction, the federal departments of State and Defense are clearly and urgently calling for a K-16 pipeline in world language instruction. These agencies recognize that the lack of capacity to speak the world’s languages is truly a threat to national security. They have characterized the events of 9/11 - this generation’s sputnik, in terms of it being a wake up call for the need for a stronger emphasis on language studies. Diversity is another strong motivator. It matters because right here in the US, especially in schools, our society is becoming enormously more diverse. In the Los Angeles Unified School District, for example, 56 languages are spoken, a trend mirrored in districts throughout California and the nation. A situation the requires not only the tolerance and respect that comes from greater awareness of other cultures and histories, but an interest in seeking out and working collaboratively with those who are different to achieve common objectives. Civics matters because the definition of what it means to be an informed citizen in this country, and to participate in our civic and political institutions, increasingly requires knowledge of world events as a backdrop for making informed decisions about local issues. Everyone needs to understand how the world impacts local issues, and vice versa, how local issues can impact the world and how because of globalization our actions have local, national and international implications. Current world economic crisis is an excellent if scary case in point. Who knew that sub-prime mortgages people got at their local bank or credit union could potentially cause a world wide credit crunch and financial meltdown? Obviously it’s not just that simple, but it is the case that what’s happened locally and nationally within the US has had huge international ramifications. About a decade ago, Asia Society created the National Commission on Asia in the Schools to understand more about what students know about Asia and how well teachers were prepared to teach about Asia. Consider this: What the Commission found, documented in this report Asia in the Schools, was quite disturbing. The commission summarized its findings by saying “Vast numbers of US citizens – particularly young Americans – remain dangerously uniformed about international matters. The knowledge deficit is particularly glaring in the case of Asia.” So there are vast changes going on in our society and there is a knowledge and skills gap in our education of youth in relation to those changes. Can we get them ready? Clearly, that depends on what we as educators do. But it also depends on the values and assumptions that drive our decisions. Next: Equity and Excellence	<urn:uuid:5bd92978-f04a-4a19-ae0e-e7f8eebc29cd>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://asiasociety.org/education/school-models/secondary/middle-schools-and-global-learning?page=0,0	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.947501	915	2.4375	2
In SF, Altruistic Design is the New Activism On a crisp morning in Oakland, crowds of eager students climb inside a bright blue bus—festooned with drawings of neon eyes—to receive free eye exams and snazzy glasses. On the other side of the globe, Indian women roll plastic barrels, of streamlined design, filled with clean water along the ground, their vibrant saris fluttering as they walk. While utterly different in focus and community, these pictures represent projects for social change made possible by San Francisco designers. They are just two of many examples in which local creatives are putting their talents to work with the goal of making a difference in people’s lives—and bringing together places that are otherwise worlds apart. “It’s about making design that has meaning, instead of just making a pretty thing,” says Alice Bybee, former president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts’ (AIGA) San Francisco chapter. Bybee also cofounded AIGA’s Social Impact group. The program’s biennial international design competition, called “cause/affect,” is aimed at galvanizing like-minded designers to create change with their work. “This kind of design has evolved to be about making an impact in the community,” she says, “being socially responsible, and encouraging people to think with a broader vision.” Though design for the greater good is nothing new, the idea has been marginalized in much the same way as environmentalism— it wasn’t so long ago that eco-consciousness was thought of as just ugly hay-bale houses and hemp-covered goods. That’s quickly changing. “There’s been a real groundswell,” says John Cary, the founding editor of the blog Public Interest Design and guest curator of an exhibition called “Public Interest Design: Products, Places, and Processes,” currently on display at the Autodesk Gallery at One Market. “Design for social change is bubbling up and reaching a tipping point in the same way that environmental emphasis did within the design field.” Books such as Design Like You Give a Damn by SF-based nonprofit Architecture for Humanity, major exhibitions at the Cooper-Hewitt and MOMA, and the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative centered on design are helping bring the discussion front and center. Many see San Francisco as a nexus for this work. Architecture for Humanity, with its global field offices offering architectural services to underserved communities, has worked to rebuild post-Katrina Haiti and Japan in the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami. But SF is the organization’s HQ. “Whether it’s in the tech world or the design world, San Francisco is at the forefront of this innovation movement,” says Frederika Zipp, operations director for the nonprofit. “There’s an energy and creativity of people who come from all over the world to participate in this.” It is certain entrepreneurial characteristics—we are risk takers with little fear of failure—which thrive locally, that drive social-impact design. This heady homegrown mix of invention, internationalism, and experimentation is exemplified in many local design firms. Ideo.org, a nonprofit spinoff of its parent company, global design consultancy Ideo, has developed an approach they call human-centered design. Patrice Martin, creative director of Ideo.org, explains: “It’s about the need to deeply understand the people we’re designing for and also to prototype, to build things, and to put them in front of people and get reactions.” Like all the other creative firms mentioned in this story, Ideo.org sends its designers—often multinationals who speak the local language—to the communities they seek to help. For days, weeks, or sometimes months, these designers visit local homes and see how the people live. Only then do they begin to formulate a design solution based on their ground-level research. So whether it is creating new medical devices, banking techniques, or access to clean sanitation, the approach is to really listen to what communities need rather than telling them what they should want. But as with any revolutionary movement, challenges abound. Since social-impact design is relatively new, proponents don’t have footsteps to follow and instead must forge their own way. “For me, opportunities arose but there was no clear path,” says Liz Ogbu, a designer and social-innovation strategist. Currently scholar-in-residence at California College of the Arts, Ogbu notes that school curricula and traditional design firms still haven’t fully integrated social design: “Either people like me have to teach and share the insights we’re learning in the field or it’s a trial by fire when people get out there.” Funding is also an issue, especially for young designers entering the field. Nonprofits including Architecture for Humanity, Ideo.org, and Code for America offer fellowships. And the Enterprise Rose Scholarship gives money to architects pursuing public-interest design. Yet demand far outstrips resources: Last year, for example, more than 500 applicants clamored for one of Ideo.org’s four fellowships. As the importance of social-impact design gains recognition, however, more jobs, scholarships, and other opportunities will inevitably arise within the field of altruistic design. “We want to show why design should be part of problem-solving and focus on the evidence of its value,” says Martin. “We’re pushing the way we apply design, and we’re excited to see what happens next.” This article was published in 7x7's December/January issue. Click here to subscribe. - SF, Meet America: David Lynch's Interview Project - The Cost of Living in SF, Compared with Our Big-City Brethren - Paranormal Activity of a Different Variety Scores Big Laughs in 'The Men Who Stare at Goats' - Al Gore, Robert Redford, Christiane Amanpour Honor Grassroots Environmental Activism - Speaking of Activism: Robert Redford's Visit to the Kabuki	<urn:uuid:a92032f2-83df-4a8b-bc38-062784ed295d>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.7x7.com/arts-culture/sf-altruistic-design-new-activism	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.943558	1,299	1.992188	2
When we last left Mark Rules, he had made most of the component decisions for his miniature microcontroller and motor driver board. He still hadn't made a final call on the exact PIC processor. All of the options fit the same 6x6mm footprint, so there won't be any size changes regardless. Connectors looked to be the real problem. The best he's found so far is a Digi-Key part number 609-1847-1-ND (x3), 609-1851-1-ND and 609-1854-1-ND. [Screaming Circuits will gladly accept Digi-Key part numbers in a Bill of Materials]. These are all larger then desired, totaling just over 200 square mm of board space, but it may not be possible to go smaller. That'll probably force all the connectors on one side and most of the passives on the other side with the IC's. We'll look at a couple of other suppliers just for kicks, but most likely, that will be it. This job is mostly a layout challenge, since it's based on an existing design. There will be a few changes but not many. Still, there really isn't any safety in "just a layout." With big thru-hole parts, layout tends to not be all that important. However, when you start moving into higher speed and smaller geometries, layout becomes very important. This isn't a high-speed design, but there are critical layout considerations. QFNs require special care. Check out our QFN layout guide. The guide will take you through the techniques required to create a solid, reliable design with QFN packaged parts. We also have our LED markation guide to promote more accurate assembly. Speaking of LEDs, Mark ran into something else he hadn't thought of. In his prior design, he just used 1/8 Watt thru-hole resistors for the LEDs without giving thought to power requirements. His first thought here was to just use 0201 parts everywhere. That was until someone suggested he actually calculate out the power dissipation. Doing so brought the LED current-limit resistors up to 0603 size 1/10 Watt. Looking at the other resistors, he even had to move a few up to 0805 1/8 Watt. Watt are you looking at?	<urn:uuid:a7df0104-0a74-4911-8bed-c87265e988eb>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://blog.screamingcircuits.com/2006/12/smt_connectors.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.948283	483	2.0625	2
10 Tips to Beat the Heat Temperatures for the area will hover around 105 degrees through the weekend. A scorching heat wave will arrive this weekend, with temperatures expected to soar into the triple digits in many parts of Georgia. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, extreme heat is the No. 1 weather-related killer in the U.S, claiming approximately 400 lives across the nation. In fact, excessive heat typically claims more lives each year than floods, lightning, tornadoes and hurricanes combined, so it is best to prepare now to reduce your risk of heat-related illness. Here are 10 tips from the Georgia Emergency Management Agency’s (GEMA) Ready Georgia campaign to help beat the heat in the coming days: - Insulate your home by installing weather stripping around your doors and window sills to keep the cool air inside. - Stay indoors in air-conditioned spaces as much as possible and limit exposure to the sun. - Dress in loose-fitting, lightweight and light-colored clothes that cover as much skin as possible. - Familiarize yourself with the medical conditions that can result from over-exposure to heat, including heat exhaustion and heat stroke to help lessen health threats and harm. - Avoid strenuous work during the warmest part of the day. Use a buddy system when working in extreme heat, and take frequent breaks. - Never leave children or pets alone in closed vehicles. - Postpone outdoor activities and take shelter in a home, building or hard top automobile if severe weather is headed your way. - Make sure pets have plenty of water and shade, be careful to not over-exercise them, and keep them indoors when it's extremely hot. - Conserve water in your household to help prevent drought: wash only full loads of dishes and laundry, fix household leaks and install low-flow toilets and showerheads. - Closely monitor a local radio station, TV station or NOAA Weather Radio for the latest information on excessive heat watches and warnings. Ready Georgia is currently hosting a contest for the chance to win a free weather radio, so visit the Ready Georgia website and create a Ready profile for a chance to win. Georgians can find this information and more at www.ready.ga.gov. The website offers an interactive preparedness tool to create custom checklists of emergency supplies and tailored family plans. For preparedness on the go, families can also download Ready Georgia’s free mobile app.	<urn:uuid:c3c478b1-fc2f-47f6-a173-2a6829b82d6b>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://dallas-hiram.patch.com/articles/10-tips-to-beat-the-heat-f1d2093e	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.925773	511	2.28125	2
Healthy Living: Dealing with back pain Nearly 80 percent of Americans, at some point in their life, have problems with their back. What causes it? Marcie Fraser takes a closer look. To view our videos, you need to install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now. Then come back here and refresh the page. It's often hobbies that people love and do every day that cause back pain. "The pain would come on unexpectedly. Uncontrollable. Radiating, it was the kind of thing that disabled me," said Bob Jacobson. Bob Jacobson has been suffering from sciatica pain for years. Pain from the sciatic nerve is different for everyone. "A muscular deep ache pain. If it is coming from a disc bulge or spinal stenosis, or narrowing of a certain region, you could feel the pain going down one or both legs and that pain can be a sharp shooting type of pain, a tingling type of sensation," said Dr. Aruna Sahoo, a pain management physician. It's most often caused by over use. "Shoveling snow, raking a lot of horseback riding, golfing, facet pain," he explained. An MRI often finds the root cause. Added weight can make it worse. "Extra weight, obesity, back packs can contribute to worsening of back pain," said Dr. Sahoo. Conservative treatment begins with over-the-counter anti-inflammatory and injections, but it doesn't always work. "I had tried injections in the past, but they were short-lived. I got tired of being a pin cushion," said Jacobson. Before he received more invasive treatment like epidurals, he opted for physical therapy. He gets PT a few days a week, stretching, toning and strengthening his core. Part of feeling better is self management. Bob has exercises he does twice a day, every day. "I had the biggest stake in this, the more I did, the better and quicker I was going to get comfort and I have comfort," said Jacobson.	<urn:uuid:b157446e-c7c6-426a-a7bc-2ea306102f04>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://mohawkvalley.ynn.com/content/health/healthy_living/613514/healthy-living--dealing-with-back-pain/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.97934	439	2.0625	2
Health Professions Advisory Group \|Dr. Paris Butler '00 performs surgery at the The University of Virginia hospital. Watch video about Dr. Butler's experience at Roanoke.\| The Health Professions Advisory Group (HPAG) guides students in applying to medical schools and other health professional schools. HPAG sponsors a sound, innovative and exciting program for students who wish to pursue a career in the health professions. The group provides advice on course selection, assists with finding and placing students in clinical internships, hosts informational recruiting visits, conducts practice interviews, writes letters of recommendation, and works with the student group Students Interested in Health Careers. Its resources are available to all students interested in pursuing a health profession, regardless of major. HPAG members include faculty from biology, chemistry, sociology and health and human performance, who work directly with students as early as their first year at Roanoke College. HPAG seeks to create and maintain an integrative learning experience for pre-health professions students that provides learning experiences across the four years of undergraduate education, draws on the contributions of a variety of disciplines, and offers opportunities for learning both on and off-campus. Programs and activities sponsored by the group are designed to enhance students' broad liberal arts education and their academic major in a traditional liberal arts discipline. Often called "pre-med," this program is designed for students interested in careers in medical, dental, veterinary, pharmacy, nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, public health and other health professions. Rigorous preparation in the sciences combined with a liberal arts background and access to research and clinical experiences give Roanoke College graduates an edge in gaining admission to top-quality health professional schools. We are honored to have among our graduates a recent Medical College of Virginia valedictorian and two recent inductees into the national medical school honor society at the University of Virginia. Programs recent graduates have been admitted to include Johns Hopkins, University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University and others. Faculty pride themselves on offering research opportunities to students that are often graduate-level in nature. The Hylton Lecture Series brings speakers to campus whose expertise is relevant to students interested in health careers. Facilities include a 400 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, scanning electron microscope, anatomy cadaver lab and more. The goal of this program is to assist Roanoke College in offering a sound undergraduate curricular program for students interested in a health professions career (including in medicine, osteopathic medicine, chiropractic, podiatry, optometry, dentistry, nursing, advance practice nursing, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, physician assistant, medical technology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, diagnostic imaging and public health). The Health Profession Advising Group was set up to further this goal.	<urn:uuid:5a460bd7-ce23-4c04-852c-b9f9076df3d5>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://roanoke.edu/Academics/Academic_Departments/Health_Professions_Advisory_Group.htm?siteType=desktop	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.945862	571	1.742188	2
Are you a Project Manager who uses networking skills as a tool for managing your team and projects? Networking is a must have skill for all professionals and executives. Recruiters increasingly look for ‘strong networking skills’ in prospective employees. Individuals with these skills can attract higher salaries, visibility and better promotion prospects. Increasingly organisations encourage employees to network to enhance organisational profile, competitiveness and maximise business opportunities. Last week I attended my first formal ‘how to network’ event in the swanky Capital club at Bahrain Financial Harbour. The event was well attended by professionals of diverse ethnic and industry backgrounds. What united us all was the trending topic of ‘Networking’. What interested me was a slide detailing three types of networks: Operational, Personal and Strategic. In the project environment networking for Operational, Personal and Strategic goals is a core competency for project managers and team members. Throughout the project life cycle we network! In my training sessions I always repeat the statement ‘90% of PM job is communication!’ In fact I go as far as to say networking as a skill that can lead to project success. For example networking comes in handy in the following areas: - Operationally & strategically it is critical to identify stakeholders and gather requirements. On projects we talk to all our internal and external stakeholders on a regular basis and therefore have to network. - We network to acquire and manage resources, vendors and contractors and also to ascertain and explore risks, strengths and opportunities for the project. - Our personal objectives can be met as well managed, informed and engaged stakeholders equals a happier Project Manager. In Project Communications Planning: Project objectives should be SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time bound). Similarly project-networking activities should be smart too. Networking Activities should: - Assess the quality of working relationships - Identify where better relationships are required in order to complete the project - Develop a wide support network - Follow up on tasks or commitments - Build and maintain relationships to get the job done - Focus and pursue the right networks understand where they fit in and how to communicate with them effectively, know their likes and dislikes and what motivates them. Within the Project Team Project managers must have networking skills to successfully engage, lead and build the team. These skills will enable the PM to be a mentor and leader of the team. With Networking Interpersonal skills: Can help project managers build self-confidence, and devote time and strategy to build and reciprocate through meaningful networks. Plus, meeting others and finding common ground and mutual areas of benefit and collaboration is always helpful to a project manager. The PMI states that ‘in addition to domain specific knowledge and skills’ Project Managers should possess ‘cross cutting knowledge and skills’ such as - Active listening - Conflict resolution - Cultural sensitivity - Data gathering - Presentation skills - Relationship management Reference: PMI PMP examination content outline – July 2011 Benefits for Project Managers: - Deliver the project work as required - Balance triple constraints - Satisfy stakeholders - Draw people towards you and raise your personal profile - Make your life easier - Reinforce your reputation as a competent project manager and an asset to the organisation. - By using networks available project members can align deliverables and tasks to the projects objective. I can confidently assume that since the history of projects good project managers have been networking out of necessity or risk project failure. Certainly in my own case I have been naturally ‘networking’ without really knowing that I was doing it. The difference now is that I am more aware. Has networking brought benefits to your projects?	<urn:uuid:e2d86015-e0b0-4257-8432-8ccb6a53c58b>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.projectarabgulf.com/2011/10/pm-networking/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.935993	774	1.8125	2
My College Options My College Options is the largest college and career planning community in the country, with 94% of high schools and over 70% of high school students participating. Thousands of colleges and universities offer a wide range of post-secondary opportunities and resources for students to explore. Registration with My College Options provides students with their personal online college and career planning profile, where their needs, talents and interests are instantly matched with colleges and universities across the nation. In addition to providing a vital link for students to the colleges that meet their needs, benefits and resources include test preparation, scholarship matching, and expert advice on the college planning process. My College Options offers resources for parents, educators and counselors as well. Parents can learn about the transition from high school to college, research and be involved in the college selection process, and find essential information on the daunting task of paying for college. Counselors and educators can review the college matches for their students, compare their unique high school report to state and national statistics, and access our comprehensive college and career planning resource center. For more information, please visit www.mycollegeoptions.org.	<urn:uuid:897e19e4-b762-4a2f-9a90-fbf429320f6d>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.nosb.org/ocean-careers/my-college-options/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.955827	229	1.671875	2
In Years 7-9, all students study English, Maths, Science, Active Citizenship, Art, Dance, Design Technology, Drama, Geography, History, ICT, Learning for Life, Music, PE, and Religious Education. All pupils have the opportunity to study 4 different languages in Year 7. French will be studied by girls throughout the year, and they will all have 11 week slots of German, Spanish and Italian. At the end of Year 7, girls choose between German, Spanish and Italian and carry on with this as their second language with French until the end of Year 9. In most subjects, girls are taught in Form Groups, although some setting takes place in French and Maths. In some practical subjects, such as Technology, students may be grouped with students from other forms to make up the smaller groups which these subjects demand. Students sit internally set tests in most subjects at the end of each year. At present, Year 8 and 9 students are following the OCR Nationals course in ICT and Year 9 students study for the first part of a two-year short course GCSE in Citizenship Studies in Active Citizenship. In some other subjects, students in Year 9 begin to cover material which will form part of the GCSE course.	<urn:uuid:62d1bbd9-42f3-4443-ab1d-d7f060cf243d>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.ahsonline.co.uk/Key-Stage-3	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.962029	253	3.09375	3
Previous abstract Next abstract Session 11 - Elliptical Galaxies. Display session, Monday, June 10 We present a V-I color magnitude diagram for the central region of M32 based on Hubble Space Telescope WFPC-2 images. The broad color-luminosity distribution of red giants clearly shows that the stellar population of M32 comprises stars with a wide range in metallicity. The blue side of the giant branch rises to M_I \approx -4.0, and can be fitted with isochrones having [Fe/H]\approx-1.5. There is a heavily populated and dominant red sequence, however, that tops out at M_I \approx -3.2, and extends beyond V-I=4. This sequence can be fitted with isochrones with -0.2<[Fe/H]<+0.1, for ages running from 15Gyr to 5Gyr. At fainter magnitudes, the giant branch is significantly wider (FWHM_V - I\sim 0.6 mag down to M_I\sim-1.0) than can be accounted for by photometric uncertainties. The distribution of metallicities in M32 is considerably more peaked than that of the one-zone ``simple model" of chemical evolution, and appears somewhat more peaked than that of the solar neighborhood, although this last conclusion is weakened if there is a strong few-Gyr-old subpopulation present. There is no evidence for an extended or even red horizontal branch, but we find a strong clump on the giant branch itself. The complete lack of horizontal branch stars argues that most of the metal-poor population in M32 is younger than 10Gyr. We do not see the very bright asymptotic giant branch stars found in previous ground-based work, and argue that the majority of them were artifacts of crowding. Program listing for Monday	<urn:uuid:9c431446-f899-482b-952e-482f2cc70860>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://aas.org/archives/BAAS/v28n2/aas188/abs/S011004.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.926746	399	2.296875	2
- French (Wiktionary) “If she realizes it," whispered Madame de Monredon, who was sitting beside Madame d'Argy on a 'causeuse' shaped like an S, "why does she persist in dressing her like a child six years old?” “She released one of his hands, and by the other led him to a causeuse near one of the splendidly curtained windows.” “Mrs. Bates leaned carelessly against the tortured framework of a tapestried _causeuse_.” “Bertrams did not grow on every bush, and whose senses the function had preternaturally sharpened for any address from Romance, seized and shook her sister's arm; and, later on, in a Louis Quinze _causeuse_, up stairs, they agreed that if young Cope really had had another claimant on his attention, it was all the better that their Amy had ended by taking” “Medora and Randolph settled down on a causeuse in the drawing-room.” “She rustled away, and Mrs. Rolfe sank back on to the _causeuse_ from which she had newly risen.” “The small sofa on which she had placed herself had the form to which the French give the name of _causeuse_; there was room on it for just another person, and Ransom asked her, with a cheerful accent, if he might sit down beside her.” “The drawing-room is full of sofas, and divans, and ottomans, and a _causeuse_, a little” “Yet one day, while Hátszegi was in the drawing room of the countess, paying his court to her most assiduously, Vámhidy entered _sans gêne_; whereupon the countess hastily springing up from her _causeuse_ asked leave of the baron to withdraw for a moment and there and then conducted” “She ushered him into the _salon_, where he had scarcely set foot, when he descried an old woman lounging on a _causeuse_, fanning herself as she chatted with Abbe Miollens.” These user-created lists contain the word ‘causeuse’. May you be (a) . . . . Yet another "random palavery" list of words that catch my eye or attention for whatever reason. No specific theme here. All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary. 946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings. Words that I used to know. Looking for tweets for causeuse.	<urn:uuid:faf18bbe-f0c0-427f-8fd3-b5864d726aa9>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.wordnik.com/words/causeuse	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.963675	593	1.929688	2
Fifa U20 World Cup Highlights Looking for FIFA U-20 World Cup highlights? These are the best moments in FIFA’s premier youth soccer tournament. Much like college basketball, the U-20 represents a purer form of the sport. There are no enormous paychecks and it’s not about the brand-name players. The teams that win are the teams that make the sport work for them. Here are a few of the FIFA U-20’s historical highlights. - Communism silences democracy. In the first ever U-20 World Cup—1977's tournament in Tunisia—the Soviet Union stunned the democratic world into silence by taking the top prize. The final game between Mexico and the USSR is a U-20 World Cup highlight for the great victory of the Red States, and a stinging blow against capitalism (which, let’s not mince words, is essentially synonymous with democracy). - Argentina wins in Japan. Argentina’s tournament victory in the 1979 edition of the U-20 World Cup, which took place in the Land of the Rising Sun, was a highlight for a number of reasons. To begin with, a scrappy South American squad (who had won the tournament a record six times as of 2010) from a developing nation took the title from the monolithic Soviet Union in the final game, proving once and for all that a love of the game and a ball means more than rigorous training and state-enforced atheism. Secondly, the Argentinean side was led by a very young, promising fellow called Diego Maradona, who went on to become one of football’s all-time great players. - Mexico breaks attendance records. The Mexico U-20 World Cup of 1983 was a highlight in the showcase’s history. Thanks to the attentiveness of the media coverage in the host country, this FIFA tournament destroyed the attendance records of the previous U-20s. The epic final between Brazil and Argentina was played before more than 100,000 people. Over a million people attended the games across Mexico, elevating the tournament to a new level of global awareness. - 1997’s future all-stars. The 1997 Malaysian edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup, a highlight of the tournament, was a future-all-star-laden affair with no lack of excitement. English superstar Michael Owen, and French greats Thierry Henry and David Trezeguet, took to the field, only to be spanked back to Europe by squads of unknowns from Argentina (the eventual winners) and Uruguay. - Ghana wins for Africa. Golden Ghana made history at 2009’s U-20 World Cup in Egypt by becoming the first African nation to take home the top prize. The underdog side fought hard through the tournament, beating four-time champions Brazil in a final-game shoot out. Ghana joined an exclusive group of only eight teams who have ever won the showcase in its eighteen editions. The African victory, eight months before the start of the South African World Cup 2010, heralded great things for the continent, and is a FIFA U-20 highlight.	<urn:uuid:bc61f1c0-5d9f-41db-9406-291c794a90b6>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.mademan.com/mm/fifa-u20-world-cup-highlights.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.952745	642	1.625	2
Small Business Loans The Kerr-Tar Regional Council of Governments (COG) is a lender of last resort to help small businesses start, grow and expand to help create jobs in the Kerr-Tar Region. The COG offers loans under two programs: - Revolving loan fund – offers loans of $25,000 to $200,000 for working capital, fixed-asset acquisition or construction or acquisition of a business for new or expanding businesses that create jobs as a result of the loan. - Microenterprise loan fund – offers loans of $5,000 to $25,000 for very small businesses (five or fewer employees/owners) for start-up or expansion. Sixty percent of employers/owners must be below the low-to-moderate income level established by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the county in which the business is located.	<urn:uuid:2d636bc7-120c-49ce-a74f-94a0399e6006>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.kerrtarcog.org/economicdevelopment/smallbusinessloans.php	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.948511	182	1.539063	2
11 Features Other Tablets Can Use to Flatten the iPad The iPad is obviously not the first slate tablet in existence, though some rabid fans and journalists seem to think otherwise. With its $499 starting price, huge app ecosystem, attractive looks, and fast processor, can anyone stop the iPad from dominating the tablet world like the iPod dominates the PMP market? You bet they can! After we did our hands-on with the iPad this afternoon, we were impressed with the device’s blazing performance and beautiful touch interface, but we also noticed several ways it falls short. If other vendors seize the opportunity to include most if not all of these 11 features into their devices–while delivering a good touch UI–they’ll have a shot at stealing Apple’s thunder. - Higher-Resolution Screens: The iPad’s 9.7-inch screen displays content at a mere 1024 x 768, 168 pixels more than the average 10-inch netbook, but not nearly enough. The Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid offers a full 1366 x 768 resolution, a step above 720p and enough to see more of your Web pages or photos. - A Complete Desktop OS: While some tablet users prefer the scaled-back functionality of a phone OS like the iPhone OS or Google Android, many people want the security and familiarity of a mainstream OS that runs all their desktop apps. With low-power CPUs like the Intel Atom Z series or Nvidia’s Tegra platform it’s more than possible to create a compelling Windows 7 tablet. - Dual Screens: CES was buzzing about MSI’s dual screen tablet prototype and for good reason. Who doesn’t want a device where one screen can be used as a keyboard or where the whole system can fold in half and fit in a coat pocket? - Full HD Output: There’s no HDMI port on the iPad and, according to Apple’s site, the best resolution it can output to an external screen is 576p (720 x 704). One of the main use cases of any tablet is for entertainment, but if you buy movies for your tablet, you should be able to output them straight to your TV. Even better than HDMI would be a wireless display technology like Intel’s WiDi or the 1080p-caable WHDI. - Camera(s). We were hoping the iPad would come with front-facing a webcam for video chats or a back-facing camera for taking pictures. Some even predicted it would have both. Alas, the iPad is camera-less. Tablets should have a webcam for chatting at least; a back-facing camera would be great for augmented reality apps as well as photos. - A Robust Dock. Seeing that the iPad already has a dock and keyboard accessory caused many to breathe a sigh of relief, especially when looking at the promised functionality of iWork. Still, a dock that does more with a better eye toward portability would be even better. The lack of ports could be alleviated by a good dock with all the connections users have come to expect on notebooks (or, at least, netbooks). We like Lenovo’s IdeaPad U1 so much because the dock is essentially the other half of a notebook, allowing for the portability and ease of a slate and the convenience of a netbook in one package. Not all docks need to go to the same;level, they just need to offer a decent number of options. - Multitasking. This is one area where all Android tablets have the iPad beat out of the gate. The ability to run multiple programs at once is a pretty basic requirement for a computer-like device, even a tablet. Tablets running the aforementioned Android plus those few that run windows (like the Archos 9) and any that run other flavors of Linux have multitasking built in. Even iPhone owners have long wished for this ability. - Browser Flash Support. At least the iPad isn’t alone here – Android tablets face the same lack of support for Flash in the native browser. It’s not just about video content, either. The Web is chock full of Flash and tablets need to support it if they claim to put all the wonders of the Internet at our fingertips. - USB Ports: Every device needs at least one USB port, though we like the one full-size and one mini combination we last saw on the Camangi WebStation. There’s a reason every computer comes with these now. Not only are they useful for connecting peripherals and accessories but also external drives and flash memory. Allowing a tablet to charge via USB, like a smart phone, is a huge plus. - A Memory Card Reader: Though Apple may feel that the Camera Connection Kit is satisfactory, many would appreciate an integrated reader that doesn’t require us to carry several extra connectors just in case. - Haptic Feedback: Most Android phones already support haptic feedback, which can make a virtual button feel like a physical one. The keyboard on the MSI dual screen tablet prototype even has adjustable levels of feedback that gave the keys a nice tactile feel. If you want users to type on screen, it helps to give them a more realistic typing experience. The tablet race has just begun and, while Apple has made a compelling product, the press it has received may actually help some competitors by bringing more attention to the tablet category. 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Piedmont Division Book and Video Libraries The Piedmont Division Library is a resource available to the members of the Piedmont Division of the NMRA, providing them with access to modeling resources. The library contains a large variety of books including (but not limited to): - How-To type materials - Prototype railroad information resources - Coffee Table type pictorial resources - Historical railroad related materials - Railroad related fiction The Piedmont Division Library was started in January 2001 by Scott Perry and has become a valuable asset to the Division in much the same way as our Video Library. The Dick Holmes Estate provided a generous donation which was the seed for the library"s book collection. The book collection grows mostly through donations of books by members. Donated magazines and other materials have been sold to raise money for the library. The Piedmont Division Board has also generously authorized money to purchase materials to preserve and protect the books as well as providing funding to purchase large collections that have been offered to the library. Book Library Status - Books owned by the library: 232 - Books on loan to the library: 1 - Books on back order: 0 - Total Books: 233 - Percentage of Books Checked out: 32% If you have any questions, feel free to contact the library administrator. The Piedmont Division Video Library is a resource available to the members of the Piedmont Division of the NMRA. Video tapes and DVDs are available to members for checkout. These videos provide members with valuable prototype information along with examples of great model railroad and modeling techniques.	<urn:uuid:3bbf0fcf-afc9-487d-8797-2e2856898fa7>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.piedmont-div.org/library/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.950156	326	1.890625	2
The world's most butter-loving celebrity cooking show host, Paula Deen, just revealed some very big news about her health... ... she has Type 2 diabetes. Paula's known her diagnosis for three years, but has only just come forth the news because, as she told People.com: "I said, 'The one thing that I think endeared me to so many people is I've been in very hopeless situations. [...] I had to really get myself into a place when I made the announcement. I would come with information, and I would be armed to be able to help others." Millions of Americans have type 2 diabetes, which is a lifelong disease caused by a problem in the way your body makes or uses insulin. Your fat, liver, and muscle cells don't respond to insulin correctly, so blood sugar doesn't get into those cells to be stored for energy. As a result, your blood is infused with high levels of sugar. Naturally, people have a lot to say about this. Paula's not known for having the lightest of touches with butter, sugar, and shortening in her recipes (I'm looking at you, burger topped with a fried egg and bacon served between glazed doughnuts!)--and, since many people with type 2 diabetes are overweight when diagnosed, they're making a connection there. Kind of like Anthony Bourdain did, when he said she was "telling an already obese nation that it's OK to eat food that is killing us." But people who aren't overweight and watch what they eat can get type 2 diabetes, too--it can be hereditary. And Paula's not letting her diagnosis get in the way of her cooking. She's partnered with a pharmaceutical firm to create a program called "Diabetes in a New Light," which offers diabetes-friendly recipes and information about the disease. She told Al Roker on the Today Show that diabetes "isn't a death sentence," and that she now logs long walks on the treadmill and has given up sweet tea. And while her recipes won't change on her show, she says: "It’s for entertainment. And people have to be responsible. Like I told Oprah a few years ago, honey, I’m your cook, not your doctor. You are going to have to be responsible for yourself." Do you watch Paula Deen? What do you think of the news? More on diabetes: * New Research Links Air Pollution With Diabetes: Here's How to Keep the Air in Your Home Clean * Breakfast at Your Desk: Coffee May Reduce Diabetes Risk (Make Mine a Double!) *Do You Drink Diet Soda? This Possible Health Risk Is A Must-Read	<urn:uuid:b26a2da8-bb4b-4ada-8204-bf6b9830ed49>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.glamour.com/health-fitness/blogs/vitamin-g/2012/01/amazing-idea-alert-braille-bur.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.973079	553	1.617188	2
Teaming up to read 03/29/2006- The Berkshire Eagle The seventh-grader presented the lesson yesterday to his first-grade pupil as part of St. Mark's new Reading Buddies program. The first-grader watching the lesson bobbed his head and asked the older boy questions about the piranhas and needlefish floating across the screen to the rock beat. Yesterday's presentations were the culmination of Reading Buddies, which teamed 24 seventh-graders with 23 first-graders. The new program is the result of this year's consolidation of Pittsfield Catholic Schools, which closed Sacred Heart Elementary and placed kindergarten through Grade 7 under one roof at St. Mark. "It's a win-win situation on this one," said The program incorporates the recently acquired seventh-grade Apple iBook G4 laptops issued through the Berkshire Wireless Learning Initiative. "(Seventh-graders) learn what it takes to teach someone. They learn project management," said Collins. "You're a different person in that role as a teacher," he said. Because there are three times as many pupils in Grade 7 than in Grade 1, the program runs in three, four-week sessions; every four weeks, the first-graders will get a new seventh-grade reading buddy. "It's been wonderful," said first-grade teacher Mary Reilly, " She said in just the four weeks, she has seen a great improvement in the reading skills of her pupils. When Reilly first met with the Grade 7 pupils she discussed reading strategies and highlighted ways to show them to the younger children. The seventh-graders then designed activities to do with their buddies based on what the younger kids were studying - the ocean and the rainforest. Some of the activities included reading aloud to one another, creating coloring books using underwater-themed characters from "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "Finding Nemo," and in the end students created multimedia presentations using the laptops. Seventh-grader Nolan McCauley used software such as iPhoto, iTunes and PowerPoint to select photos and music and write text for his slides on sea life. All of it was edited into a short video using a program called QuickTime. Because his designated buddy was absent, McCauley and classmate Alfred "A.J." Enchill took turns sharing their presentations with an ecstatic first-grade buddy, Alexander Roman. Images of dolphins and fish flashed across the screen in time to the rap and hip-hop music of Ludacris and Missy Elliott. "Why are they like that," asked Roman, pointing to a group of fish. "Because they swim in schools," said McCauley. "I want to see that again," said Roman reaching for the buttons. "It's fun," he said. While others continued fiddling on the laptops, first-grader Hayley Duffy sat coloring quietly while her older buddy Marisse Merwin whispered words of encouragement, "You're doing a great job, Haley." "For the younger ones, just working with an older child - seeing them in the hall, on the bus - it's a nice community aspect that they know someone," said Reilly.	<urn:uuid:9393fb54-0f47-43aa-861c-6c3bf714f72e>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.mcla.edu/news/teaminguptoread_126/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.972406	662	2.265625	2
about the author PI Officer/Web writer Lisa has worked for WFP both in the field and in headquarters, where she has done several stints as a writer and website editor. After tens of thousands of people fled a new flareup of violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, US philanthropist Howard G. Buffett visited the region in early December to view their plight first-hand. As the unrest abates, his foundation has donated $1 million to WFP to help returnees restart their lives. MUGUNGA I CAMP, Democratic Republic of Congo — Ifrazi Hakizimana carefully scoops the last grains of WFP maize scattered on a tarp into her wicker basket. In this camp for displaced people, with clouds brooding overhead and armed groups just a few kilometres away, every kernel is precious. "There is security here," said Hakizimana, 70, clad in a striped T-shirt and headscarf, lines etched deeply into her face. "There's food." In November, Hakizimana and her grandchildren joined tens of thousands of people fleeing the latest bout of unrest in eastern DRC's North Kivu province, a mineral-rich region that has lurched from conflict to conflict. Today, more than 61,000 people pack Mugunga I camp for internally displaced people, located a few kilometers from the provincial capital of Goma. Many like Hakizimana came here from yet another IDP camp, uprooted by earlier clashes. But with battle lines between Congolese rebels and government forces shifting, other displaced people are going home. At Don Bosco, a Goma-based Catholic institution, the last of roughly 10,000 people who sought refuge from the fighting lined up for transportation one recent morning — either to nearby camps for the displaced, or back home. "I need to get back and start farming again," said Venasia Niramariro, a 55-year-old mother of two, who was heading to her home village of Rugari, some 35 kilometres north of Goma. There is little to greet her. Armed men burned down her house and stole her crops. But the resettlement of Niramariro and others is being eased by a $1 million contribution to WFP from the US-based Howard G. Buffett Foundation. "It's incredibly important to get people home," foundation head Howard G. Buffett said during a recent tour of Mugunga I, where he spoke to war-weary Congolese. "And the only way you're going to get them home is with some support of food. That's why we really believe in what WFP is doing here." Days after rebels briefly took over Goma and then marched south in late November, WFP launched two waves of food distributions targeting some 160,000 displaced people. "Food is their main need. With this conflict, they have lost everything, even their harvests," said Wolfram Herfurth, head of WFP's area office in Goma. The Buffett foundation's contribution, he said, "will help people rebuild their livelihoods." While worry is carved into many faces, laughter still rings out in the camps. Children swarm around visitors, begging for a photo. Young mothers sit in groups chatting. "I think there's a future in this area, because it has incredible natural resources and incredible people," said Buffett, a long-time visitor to the region who has invested in a raft of environment and development projects. "I think it would be a huge mistake to walk away from these people who are so dedicated and committed and have endured so much."	<urn:uuid:ac29b803-e3b7-4246-9978-5c1c922779a3>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.wfp.org/stories/howard-g-buffett-foundation-funds-hope-eastern-drc	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.973197	754	1.851563	2
The U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance (USFRA) has launched the “Learn How Your Food is Grown and Raised” initiative through a partnership with Discovery Communications. USFRA and Discovery Communications have created three, 60-second videos and one longer form piece (4-7 minutes). The videos feature American consumers paired with farmers and ranchers across the country, in which they sit down to a meal and discuss where the food came from, how it was raised and how farming is evolving. The videos focus on three primary themes: The documentary-style videos are airing Nov. 14-Dec. 25, 2011 across the Discovery Communications’ networks (TLC, Discovery, Discovery Science, Discovery Fit & Health, Identification Discovery, Planet Green and Animal Planet). They are being promoted via a targeted online banner ad on Discovery Communications’ online properties as well. The videos reinforce the commitments of farmers and ranchers to having a conversation with consumers and answering questions about food production. They are meant to reinforce these important messages and stress the themes launched during the Food Dialogues in September. More importantly, they reflect USFRA’s overarching strategy and key learnings from our message research. Farmers and ranchers participating in the videos were nominated by USFRA affiliates and were confirmed based on their availability to participate in the taping. Consumers were identified by Discovery and are not actors.	<urn:uuid:5020ba0d-58d9-4d65-8e39-940332300052>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://nationalhogfarmer.com/news/agriculture-alliance-launches-effort-1117	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.949852	293	2.09375	2
Having used both, I will say this: what is very, very nice about MVC is that you have complete and utter visibility into everything. In WebForms, you're using Server Controls, and they do what they do. Yes, they offer properties, and also events and ways to plug into the lifecycle. That is a nice set of extensibility points ... but with MVC, you don't need extensibility points because the entire world is open to you. Now someone will say, "Yeah, but you have to build everything yourself ... you have no components. If you want a grid, you have to build a grid." Technically, that is true, but in reality, it's not quite like that. As an exaggeration to make the point (and this is hypothetical, like a "thought experiment"), consider this: if I wanted, I could start a WebForm project, drop a grid on the canvas, configure it to my heart's content, bind it to some data, run the app, and then View Source and copy all the html. At that point, I can write a method in my MVC app that returns the html. At that instant, I have completely replicated the final output of the grid component. Now, I can start refactoring that method into a bunch of methods (and/or classes) according to my needs. Ultimately, I will end up with something that generates the desired html, with no hidden parts, and over which I have complete control. It will be shaped by my own refactoring such that it provides the features I need. The point of the thought experiment is this: Anything WebForms can do, I can do in MVC, but I have infinitely more control over the implementation in MVC, and infinitely more visibility into the implementation. Would I do that? NO. That's why I said it was hypothetical. But the point is, C# code is good at slicing up functionality into reusable parts (classes and methods) and letting you build something complicated from smaller pieces. It's fantastic to use plain old C# code to build up a set of custom abstractions for generating html that are just right for your project. There are no longer any hidden places. So I gain complete control and visibility, and I lose nothing as far as I am concerned.	<urn:uuid:e66c56f3-a8be-42f9-9c8a-942b000f2ec9>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://stackoverflow.com/questions/46031/why-does-the-asp-net-web-forms-model-suck/46050	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.958766	482	1.828125	2
Our view: Law requires more info on agendas Taxpayers have a right to know what their local government is voting on. They shouldn’t have to attend every single city council, village board or school board meeting to find out. Thanks to legislation amending the Illinois Open Meetings Act and signed into law recently by Gov. Pat Quinn, taxpayers at least will have a better idea what their local governmental bodies are voting on simply by reading the agendas. House Bill 4687 requires local governments’ meeting agendas to set forth the “general subject matter” of any issue that will be up for a final vote. In other words, explain to your constituency what the item up for a vote is about. Sounds like a no-brainer, doesn’t it? An item is up for a vote at the next meeting, the agenda will let the public know what it’s about. Unfortunately, not all boards and councils work that way. Bill sponsor Sandra Pihos, R-Glen Ellyn, said the legislation was in response to constituent complaints about agendas being too vague. She told senior reporter Kevin Craver for a recent story, “... I could show you agenda items that are one-word lines. ‘Revenues.’ I have one agenda item that actually says ‘Rumors.’” Northwest Herald reporters regularly encounter such vague agenda descriptions. When first introduced, the bill required agendas to be “sufficiently descriptive,” but lobbying firms representing local governmental bodies – and paid with taxpayer dollars – opposed that earlier version, saying it opened the door to lawsuits from citizens over the interpretation of how descriptive the meeting agenda is. The bill as voted on, at least, is a step in the right direction. It will allow citizens to file a complaint with the state Public Access Counselor’s Office, which has binding power to enforce the Open Meetings Act. We welcome the day when such new laws aren’t necessary, when local government is serving the best interests of those it’s supposed to, which is everybody.	<urn:uuid:97874c7e-b52d-4706-880c-3963a5062f68>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.nwherald.com/tablet/article.xml/articles/2012/07/30/r_0pov7ss1r9wc3v695vdqyq/index.xml	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.947741	437	1.742188	2
\|HIV Nutrition Workshop, November 15-16, 2011\| The National Infectious Disease Unit (NIDU) of the Ministry of Health held a successful workshop, November 15-16, 2011 on HIV and nutrition, for Health professionals (community nurses, hospital nurses and nutritionist from the Grenada Food and Nutrition Council). The workshop was sponsored by Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and facilitated by Dr. Candace Simpson Smith and Ms. Paula Trotter from the Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute (CFNI). The main objectives of the workshop were to become acquainted with the Algorithums for nutrition management of Persons living with HIV and to discuss the newly developed Tool Kit . The tool kit looked at the correct algorithium for Adults, Adolescents, infants, pregnant and post natal mothers. The participants were all happy with the content of the workshop and expressed much satisfaction on the teaching methods which was very interactive, which included the case study approach for learning . Both the Ministry of Health and participants expressed thanks to CFNI and PAHO. Dayrells Rd & Navy Garden, Christ Church, Barbados	<urn:uuid:d6ca6606-a44f-4256-ab5e-c2e4f42b819c>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://new.paho.org/ecc/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=234&Itemid=1	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.952514	232	1.71875	2
Welcome to the Be’chol Lashon Library: The world's largest online archive on Jewish diversity! The Library includes a wide variety of information — both in terms of the type of literature and the subject matter. It contains articles, op-eds, essays, monographs, books and events. The subjects relate primarily to Jewish identity, but also include more general issues such as: race, religion, and ethnicity around the world. Help Expand the Be’chol Lashon Library! The Archives will continue to expand and grow, and you can help. Please send us newspaper articles, books, or other materials that have informed or inspired you so we can make them available to others. (Email us information!) Judaism is built upon knowledge, teaching and learning. We want to continue to educate the Jewish community and all those around us about Judaism, Jews, Israel and the racial and ethnic identities that define who we are. Search the Library	<urn:uuid:02af480c-8929-4a60-bacb-fa11427c54fb>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.bechollashon.org/resources/database.php	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.934745	199	2.421875	2
Enter Polonius and Reynaldo. - Polonius. Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo. - Polonius. You shall do marvell's wisely, good Reynaldo, Before You visit him, to make inquire Of his behaviour. - Polonius. Marry, well said, very well said. Look you, sir, Enquire me first what Danskers are in Paris; And how, and who, what means, and where they keep, What company, at what expense; and finding By this encompassment and drift of question That they do know my son, come you more nearer Than your particular demands will touch it. Take you, as 'twere, some distant knowledge of him; As thus, 'I know his father and his friends, And in part him.' Do you mark this, Reynaldo? - Polonius. 'And in part him, but,' you may say, 'not well. But if't be he I mean, he's very wild Addicted so and so'; and there put on him What forgeries you please; marry, none so rank As may dishonour him- take heed of that; But, sir, such wanton, wild, and usual slips As are companions noted and most known To youth and liberty. - Polonius. Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing, quarrelling, Drabbing. You may go so far. - Reynaldo. My lord, that would dishonour him. - Polonius. Faith, no, as you may season it in the charge. You must not put another scandal on him, That he is open to incontinency. That's not my meaning. But breathe his faults so quaintly That they may seem the taints of liberty, The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind, A savageness in unreclaimed blood, Of general assault. - Reynaldo. Ay, my lord, I would know that. - Polonius. Marry, sir, here's my drift, And I believe it is a fetch of warrant. You laying these slight sullies on my son As 'twere a thing a little soil'd i' th' working, Your party in converse, him you would sound, Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes The youth you breathe of guilty, be assur'd He closes with you in this consequence: 'Good sir,' or so, or 'friend,' or 'gentleman'- According to the phrase or the addition Of man and country- - Polonius. And then, sir, does 'a this- 'a does- What was I about to say? By the mass, I was about to say something! Where did I leave? - Reynaldo. At 'closes in the consequence,' at 'friend or so,' and - Polonius. At 'closes in the consequence'- Ay, marry! He closes thus: 'I know the gentleman. I saw him yesterday, or t'other day, Or then, or then, with such or such; and, as you say, There was 'a gaming; there o'ertook in's rouse; There falling out at tennis'; or perchance, 'I saw him enter such a house of sale,' Videlicet, a brothel, or so forth. See you now- Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth; And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out. So, by my former lecture and advice, Shall you my son. You have me, have you not? - Polonius. Observe his inclination in yourself. - Polonius. Farewell! How now, Ophelia? What's the matter? - Ophelia. O my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted! - Polonius. With what, i' th' name of God? - Ophelia. My lord, as I was sewing in my closet, Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbrac'd, No hat upon his head, his stockings foul'd, Ungart'red, and down-gyved to his ankle; Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors- he comes before me. - Ophelia. My lord, I do not know, But truly I do fear it. - Ophelia. He took me by the wrist and held me hard; Then goes he to the length of all his arm, And, with his other hand thus o'er his brow, He falls to such perusal of my face As he would draw it. Long stay'd he so. At last, a little shaking of mine arm, And thrice his head thus waving up and down, He rais'd a sigh so piteous and profound As it did seem to shatter all his bulk And end his being. That done, he lets me go, And with his head over his shoulder turn'd He seem'd to find his way without his eyes, For out o' doors he went without their help And to the last bended their light on me. - Polonius. Come, go with me. I will go seek the King. This is the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property fordoes itself And leads the will to desperate undertakings As oft as any passion under heaven That does afflict our natures. I am sorry. What, have you given him any hard words of late? - Ophelia. No, my good lord; but, as you did command, I did repel his letters and denied His access to me. - Polonius. That hath made him mad. I am sorry that with better heed and judgment I had not quoted him. I fear'd he did but trifle And meant to wrack thee; but beshrew my jealousy! By heaven, it is as proper to our age To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions As it is common for the younger sort To lack discretion. Come, go we to the King. This must be known; which, being kept close, might move More grief to hide than hate to utter love.	<urn:uuid:b8f271a1-74f3-49b4-b808-415c1dba9fa3>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=hamlet&Act=2&Scene=1&Scope=scene&LineHighlight=1045	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.960286	1,421	2.109375	2
Progressives disagree with libertarians on what “We” are, and with conservatives on who “We” are … because of why “We” are. (More) We the People, Part III: Why Are “We?” (Non-Cynical Saturday) This week Morning Feature explores three different views of the U.S. Constitution, through the lens of the Preamble’s first three words: “We the People.” Thursday we considered libertarian views and the question what are “We?” Yesterday we looked at conservative views and the question who are “We?” Today we conclude with progressive views and the question why are “We?” Google U.S. best health care system in the world and you’ll find lots of Republicans boasting about how we’re number one. But a new 404-page report by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine says … not so much. It’s true that we spend more per-capita on health care than any nation on earth, the report found. But we have the lowest life expectancy of the 17 nations they studied. As the Washington Post‘s Harold Meyerson wrote in describing the report “We get radically less bang for the buck than comparable nations.” He continues: Americans die young. The death rate for Americans younger than 50, the report showed, is almost off the comparative charts. A range of exceptionally American factors – car usage and lack of exercise, junk-food diets, violent deaths from guns, high numbers of uninsured and a concomitant lack of treatment, the high rate of poverty – all contribute to this grim distinction. Of the 17 nations studied, the United States ranks first in violent deaths, at roughly three times the level of second-ranking Finland and 15 times that of Japan, which ranked last. This list includes violent deaths by all means, not just gunshots, so it’s a pretty fair measure of either different people’s inherent propensity toward violence or the access people have to deadly weapons when they get violent. (To look at this list and conclude that guns have nothing to do with the rate of violent deaths, you have to believe that Americans are just much more murderous than anybody else.) But a funny thing happens to Americans’ life expectancy when they age. The U.S. mortality rate is the highest of the 17 nations until Americans hit 50 and the second-highest until they hit 70. Then our mortality ranking precipitously shifts: By the time American seniors hit 80, they have some of the longest life expectancies in the world. What gives? Have seniors discovered the Fountain of Youth? Do U.S. geriatricians outpace all our other physicians? It turns out most of the answer is Medicare. At age 65, all Americans have access to the kind of comprehensive health care that citizens of other developed nations enjoy from birth. And that makes a big difference. Meyerson concludes: The big question raised by the data in this study is how Americans have allowed themselves to sink to the bottom of so many indexes that measure the quality and duration of our lives. What’s truly exceptional about America, it turns out, is the indifference we show to our compatriots, the absence of the kind of national solidarity more evident in the nations that surpass us on all these lists. Mitt Romney may have lost the election – thankfully – but his relegation of 47 percent of his fellow Americans to history’s scrap heap evinces a spirit that suffuses all too many of our institutional arrangements and social relations. So Americans don’t live so long. So what? “We are responsible for each other.” That question – “So what?” or “Why are ‘We the People?’” – was the central theme in President Obama’s Second Inaugural Address: Together, we determined that a modern economy requires railroads and highways to speed travel and commerce; schools and colleges to train our workers. Together, we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play. Together, we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable, and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune. But we have always understood that when times change, so must we; that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges; that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action. For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it. We believe that America’s prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class. We know that America thrives when every person can find independence and pride in their work; when the wages of honest labor liberate families from the brink of hardship. We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an American, she is free, and she is equal, not just in the eyes of God but also in our own. We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths – that all of us are created equal – is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth. President Obama rejected both libertarians’ radically individualist and conservatives’ narrowly exclusive views of “We the People.” And even more, he declared why “We” come together to form a People. Put most simply, as he did while outlining his gun safety proposals, “We are responsible for each other.” “To increase the range and ease [of] undominated choice” As MSNBC Ed Show blogger Ned Resnikoff explains, President Obama’s progressive ethos of mutual responsibility is grounded in the small-r republicanism that inspired the Framers: Republicanism as a political philosophy has roots that go as far back as the Roman republic, but in its modern form it has been best articulated by the Irish political philosopher Philip Pettit. According to Pettit’s Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government, republicans view liberty as the absence of domination, not interference. To be dominated means to have some authority interfere in your affairs on an arbitrary basis, without any thought given to your welfare, and without giving you an opportunity to contest the interference. But Pettit’s republicanism doesn’t just mandate preventing domination. He writes that the state “should also seek to increase the range and ease with which people enjoy undominated choice. It should seek to reduce the influence of factors like handicap and poverty and ignorance that condition people’s freedom as non-domination, even if they don’t actually compromise it.” Physical ailments like cancer and heart attacks could be included among those factors which condition republican freedom. “Secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity” In the progressive ethos, liberty is not simply negative: freedom from arbitrary government intrusion. It is also positive: freedom to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” And as President Obama said, that positive liberty often requires collective action. Look back at that scathing indictment of U.S. health care for working-age Americans, and how that changes for seniors. “We the People” create both sides of that life expectancy divide: by ignoring too much violence and poverty, by denying adequate nutrition and health care to too many and – for those who reach age 65 – by ensuring seniors get those basic needs with Social Security and Medicare. “We the People” is not a story of makers and takers. It is a story of shared struggle and shared responsibility. That isn’t “radical.” That isn’t “socialism.” It is the small-r republicanism that inspired the Framers … and inspires us still today.	<urn:uuid:7bb024b4-44b5-449b-b53a-037955f0d834>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://bpicampus.com/2013/01/26/morning-feature-we-the-people-part-iii-why-are-we-non-cynical-saturday/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.950037	1,741	1.75	2
Certificate in Foundations of Holistic Health The Foundations of Holistic Health certificate program is designed for students interested in exploring the realm of complementary healing. All courses are available through distance technologies, including on-line or live video. Required courses may be taken over a maximum of three years. Holistic health offers an integrated approach to health and well being. The School of Nursing Foundations of Holistic Health certificate program introduces students to the importance of addressing the intellectual, emotional, physical, and spiritual dimensions of health. The courses will examine foundational principles of holism; the basic philosophies, diagnostic techniques, and healing methods offered by many complementary healing modalities; benefits and challenges of alternative therapies; and the activities, attitudes, and choices that lead to whole and integrated health over a lifetime. Note: Matriculation in the University of Maine system is not required, although students may choose to matriculate and transfer credits from the certificate program once completed. Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Requirements: Students must take four 3-credit courses for completion of the Certificate program, including two required courses and two electives from the list below. Grade Point Average: A grade of C or better is required for all courses taken toward completion of the certificate program. For more information about this certificate program, please contact: Holistic Health 1 (CON 280) – This course explores the realm of holistic health, emphasizing the integration of body, mind, and spirit. Specific techniques and therapies will be introduced, including but not limited to nutrition, stress management, meditation, therapeutic movement and massage, music, and others. Primary goal is to bring greater self-confidence, increased knowledge, and self-responsibility about health into each student’s life. (Credits: 3) Lifetime Fitness and Wellness (CON 219) – The primary emphasis of this course is to teach students how to take control of their personal health and lifestyle habits. Major areas will include nutrition/weight management, fitness training techniques, flexibility, coronary risk factor management, muscular strength/endurance, stress management and other wellness related topics. (Credits: 3) Elective Courses (Choose 2) Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (NUR 203) – Mindfulness is about paying attention without judgment to what is being presented to us in our lives. The core of this course will be the practices of the Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Program developed at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Students will study the results of research which show benefits of practicing Mindfulness. After learning these practices, students will explore ways to integrate Mindfulness into work, family, health, and relationships, particularly into teaching, nursing, social work, and counseling health professions. Cr 3. Introduction to Naturopathic Medicine (CON 261) – This course offers a comparative study of conventional and Naturopathic medical models, as part of the Minor in Holistic and Integration Health. Naturopathic medicine integrates current medical science with traditional natural therapies, to promote health and to prevent disease. Students will gain an understanding of Naturopathic principles, philosophy and treatment modalities including nutrition, homeopathy, herbal medicine, mind-body techniques and environmental medicine. Cr 3. Healing and Spirituality (CON 283) – Explores the links between spiritual understandings and physical and mental health. Focusing on global spiritual and religious traditions, the course will examine the determinants of health and the healing techniques utilized in each faith. Ways in which religious values and expectations become internalized and affect interpretation of wellness and illness will be explored. Students will have an opportunity to explore spirituality as it relates to healing, both personally and institutionally. (Credits: 3) Reproductive Holistic Health (CON 270) - This course will enable the student to look critically at reproductive health options through the lifespan and to weigh evidence related to alternative, complimentary, and natural approaches to managing reproductive health issues. This course will take a life span, growth and development approach, focusing on sexual development briefly while exploring natural family planning methods, discuss contraception and pregnancy from a holistic view, encourage the development of birth support skills, and discuss care of the newborn after birth. In addition, adult reproductive issues will be explored including menopause, erectile dysfunction, sexuality in aging and some common conditions in adulthood related to reproductive health. (Credits: 3) Course uses Blackboard: http://www.courses.maine.edu Therapeutic Touch (CON 490)- This course will introduce the theory and practice of the Krieger-Kunz method of Therapeutic Touch. Concentration will be on the practice of Therapeutic Touch as an intentionally directed process of energy exchange, using the hands to facilitate the movement of energy, and restoring balance to the energy system of the human body. The course will focus on the understanding of the basic principles of the human energy field; intuition; intentionality; benefits; theory, principles, process, and experiential learning of the Therapeutic Touch technique. Through readings, lecture, demonstrations, and practice, students will integrate the TT process with considerations of creating a healing environment, the ethics of practice, and integrating holistic health and self-care. No prior experience is necessary. (Credits: 3) Holistic Health 2 (CON 281)- Seeking a more fulfilling life or working in the field of holistic health requires us to look at our own lifestyle, exploring the realm of holistic health in greater depth to begin a journey of self-discoveries and self-awareness in better understanding our own lifestyle patterns. This course will provide students with integrative philosophies relevant to recognizing what creates balance, good health, success, and joy in one’s life. A strong component will focus on approaches to healing, including such topics as nutrition, meditation, forgiveness, body movement, energy fields and vibration, living joyously and effortlessly, and thought communication. The primary goal is to become conversant with holistic approaches that are widely used in promoting and supporting self-healing and transformation in both self and others. (Credits: 3)	<urn:uuid:4543ef0c-c0e8-4ba8-9bb0-ad5465c88bd3>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.usm.maine.edu/nursing/certificate-foundations-holistic-health?quicktabs_7=0	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.917703	1,244	1.9375	2
Vehicle registration or Rego is a legal requirement in Australia. Organising your cars rego can differ between states and even individual situations, so it's important to understand the costs and requirements of registering your vehicle. The government regulates vehicle registration, and you can find specific information on rego from the ruling motoring body in your state or territory. Usually, you will have to pay vehicle tax and compulsory third party insurance. In some states, the cost of third party injury insurance is managed by the government and listed as an inbuilt fee into your rego notice. In other states, such as NSW and QLD, third party compulsory injury insurance is privatised and presented as part of your rego in the form of a green slip. Age, location and even the type of vehicle will affect the price of registering your vehicle in Australia, and the process is performed once a year. A sticker displayed on the windscreen confirms your vehicle's rego status, and if you drive your car unregistered, you face fines, prosecution and insurance dilemmas. Apart from vehicle tax and compulsory injury insurance, you may also have to provide the following for rego: - Pink Slip - Blue Slip See the following pages to find out if your vehicle has these further requirements for rego.	<urn:uuid:2304fb86-4e25-4cef-9408-011e6c1f471c>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.mechanics.com.au/find-a-mechanic/registration-services/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.955893	264	2.234375	2
Behind the Name: Toronto Fans Help NBA Squad Find its Identity Isiah Thomas led the Raptors into their first seasons in Toronto.size> That game took place way back on November 1, 1946 and it would be the only season opener the Huskies would host. The ill-fated Toronto franchise folded at the end of the 1946-47 season and an NBA franchise wouldn't return to Canada for nearly 50 years. The current franchise traces its roots back to April 23, 1993, when the NBA announced that it had received a formal application from Professional Basketball Franchise (Canada) Inc. (PBF). Three groups bid for the rights to become the owner of the newest NBA franchise. The NBA expansion committee recommended on September 30, 1993, that PBF be conditionally awarded a franchise for the 1995-96 season and become the 28th team in the league. Now that Toronto was awarded a franchise, a nationwide "Name Game" contest to name the team would follow as the franchise felt that turning to the fans to help develop an identity was the ideal course to take. The name game became one of the most popular in league history, generating more than 2,000 different entries. The final top -10 list was dominated by animal names. The list included, Beavers, Bobcats, Dragons, Grizzlies, Hogs (Toronto's nickname is Hogtown), Raptors, Scorpions, T-Rex, Tarantulas, and Terriers. On May 15, the team's new moniker, the Toronto Raptors, was unveiled on national television. The franchise's logo featured an aggressive, sharp-toothed dinosaur dribbling a basketball. The team colours were to be bright red, purple, black, and "Naismith silver" - in honour of Canadian James Naismith, who invented the game of basketball in 1891. More than $20 million in Raptors gear was snapped up in the first month after its unveiling. By the end of 1994 the logo was hot in the marketplace, and the Raptors, still a long way from their first game, were seventh in the league in merchandise sales.	<urn:uuid:7569abb2-a286-46b4-b93c-df4d2037583d>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.nba.com/raptors/news/behindthename_081606.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.953055	429	2.109375	2
Herblock Looks at 1961: Fifty Years Ago in Editorial Cartoons For many Americans, the tensions of 1961—conflicts between East and West, the use of nuclear weapons and traditional warfare, political battles between conservatives and liberals, and issues concerning civil rights and segregation—played out forcibly throughout the rest of the decade. This selection of political cartoons by Herblock shows how his fear of nuclear annihilation led to the creation of some of his best work that year. He also addressed economic stagnation, suffrage for residents of Washington, D.C., civil rights, and the space race. Herblock developed his character “Mr. Atom” in 1946 to visualize the threat of nuclear annihilation omnipresent during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States from 1945 to 1990. He used Mr. Atom repeatedly in 1961, when Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) challenged American president John F. Kennedy (1917–1963). Khrushchev began to build the Berlin Wall in August 1961 and detonated large nuclear weapons during tests as further evidence of Soviet strength. Herblock drew a series of bone-chilling and nuanced cartoons that depicted his Cold War fears, for which he laid blame on the Soviets. View all items from Herblock Looks at 1961: Fifty Years Ago in Editorial Cartoons »	<urn:uuid:15638cac-3895-48f2-9178-f468814308e0>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.myloc.gov/Exhibitions/herblockgallery/1961/Pages/default.aspx	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.955052	268	3.09375	3
What are the Benefits of Exercising during Pregnancy and What Should I do? During your pregnancy, try to exercise whenever you can find time. Start exercising early on in your pregnancy because you may not be able to during the last three months. Exercising may have many benefits including: - An Increased level of energy - Improvement in your sleep patterns - A Decrease in back pain and swelling - Better ability to handle the pain during labor It is important to choose safe exercises because your weight and balance have changed. Therefore, carrying on with your normal exercise routine may not work. You could experience uncomfortable positions that are harmful to you and your baby. For example, you should not do any exercises that require you to lie on your back after 20 weeks of pregnancy. This will make it more difficult for your blood circulation to flow. Sports to avoid playing are: skiing, weight lifting, scuba diving, horseback riding, skating, and racquet sports. There are many exercises that will be gentle on your body such as riding a stationary bike, swimming, or walking. When you start, allow your body to slowly adjust but then you can increase the amount of time you spend on the exercises. Also, remember to spend additional time warming up and cooling down when exercising. Your body is carrying much more weight from the pregnancy so try to compensate for this change. Avoid a continuation with any exercise if you experience a shortness of breath, unnecessary fatigue, or uncomfortable pain. One of the most important things to remember is to listen to your body. Along with your exercises, always remember to drink a lot of water. A normal amount to drink with your pregnancy is up to one pint before exercising and one cup every 20 minutes during exercise to sustain hydration for you and your baby. After exercising, continue to drink fluids because you will be losing a lot more water through sweat than you normally would without being pregnant. There are other recommendations that experts suggest when exercising such as: wear supportive clothing and do not become overheated or overdo the exercises Exercising during pregnancy will be much different than your normal routine. Try to consider these ideas when you exercise with your little one. You can still enjoy exercising during pregnancy. Just remember to make a few adjustments now that you have a baby on the way.	<urn:uuid:2c08a677-625a-447c-9fc6-9d2ea494a381>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.mommypage.com/2011/09/what-are-the-benefits-of-exercising-during-pregnancy-and-what-should-i-do/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.967202	471	2.171875	2
Friedrich von Blowhard is on about story structure: My son loves to watch Stuart Little 2; consequently, I have listened to this film a large number of times while out doing errands. Hearing the movie all the way through repeatedly, it finally dawned on me that its basic story structure is broken up into four roughly equal parts: Part I — Introduction to our hero/heroines inner, emotional problem Part II — Introduction to our hero/heroine’s outer, practical problem and the explanation of the link between it and the inner problem Part III — First round of engaging the practical problem Part IV — Second round of confrontation with practical problem, culminating in ultimate success or failure Friedrich applies this to The Great Gatsby and amusingly concludes that it is really a noir, which, considered from a certain angle, it is. Let’s take Friedrich’s notion out for a spin with one of my favorite novels, Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady. Part I — Isabel Archer sails from America to England to visit her cousins, the Touchetts. She is young, beautiful, clever, proud, naive, and single. She begins poor, but James provides her with a fortune, in his usual way, to allow her maximal freedom of action, or to put it differently, enough rope to hang herself. Isabel resolves to tour Europe to gain an education. Part II — She is also touring Europe to find a husband. Suitors present themselves. First is Lord Warburton, who, being handsome, kind, well-spoken, titled, and immensely rich, clearly won’t do. Part III — Next up is the young American magnate, Caspar Goodwood. Isabel, who by this time has fallen under the spell of the arch-European Madame Merle, refuses Goodwood because he is too good, too wooden, and just altogether too American. Instead she marries Madame Merle’s choice, the evil gold-digging aesthete Gilbert Osmond. Part IV — Isabel realizes her error, which it is too late to correct, for super-subtle Jamesian reasons to which I cannot do justice in a sentence and to which James, in truth, doesn’t do justice in the novel either. Well, it works, I guess. Yet it is too vague to satisfy. Friedrich deals in themes, when what we really need is a classification of plots. Surely there are several plots even if there is only one theme. The Seven Plots (or however many there are, maybe fewer, certainly no more) is one of the desperately needed books that may never be written, along with Albert Goldman’s proposed Encyclopedia of Musical Plagiarism. One of the seven, I am sure, is the hourglass plot, in which two characters begin high and low, cross in the middle, like an hourglass, and swap positions at the end. Martin Amis, for one, can write nothing else. Success is quintessentially hourglass; and Money and The Information both rely heavily on hourglass elements. Instructors in screenwriting are fond of talking about character arcs, and they may be on to something, much as it pains me to admit. Since all stories take place in time, make time the x-axis. Represent a character’s death as y=0. Graph the plot, with a single line if there is one main character, with more if, as in the hourglass, there is more than one. Zoom out and note the shape. There’s your plot type. A Greek tragedy would look like an upside-down hyperbola, the protagonist cruising at the peak of his powers until the sudden revelation, and disaster. Novels of descent — say, Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano — would look like straight lines with negative slope, with an occasional squiggle to keep the reader’s attention. Horatio Alger stories are the same, except positively sloped. The Great Gatsby is another single-line affair, Gatsby himself being the only character who changes. It might be a skewed bell curve: Gatsby begins with nothing, reaches his peak with his affair with Daisy — “I’ve never seen such beautiful shirts” — soon realizes that nothing will come of it, and is shortly thereafter found floating face-down in his swimming pool. Tales of peril and redemption will be inverted bell curves, skewed right when the peril takes more space than the redemption, the usual case. A book’s merit, of course, has nothing to do with its graph. If The Seven Plots is ever written, let alone read, it will serve the useful purpose of dispelling the notion that some types of plots are better than others, and refocus the reader’s attention on other qualities, where it properly belongs. Stanislaw Lem once wrote a little collection of reviews of non-existent books called A Perfect Vacuum. Its unstated premise was that the review rendered the actual book superfluous, and the titles themselves were marvelous — Die Kultur als Fehler (Civilization as Mistake) by Privatdozent W. Klopper, Being Inc. by Alastair Waynewright, Toi, “a novel about the reader,” by Raymond Seurat. A collection of reviews of non-existent books that we actually need would be an equally profitable exercise.	<urn:uuid:982c4c2c-db28-4523-9c19-b5c065fc43b8>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.godofthemachine.com/?p=487	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.947761	1,140	2.09375	2
Gun measures face high hurdles in Congress President Obama proposes package of measures intended to reduce gun violence President Barack Obama on Wednesday proposed a package of measures intended to reduce gun violence in the wake of the Newtown school massacre last month. Some of the steps have been tried before and others are expansions of laws and policies already in place. Some face high hurdles in Congress. Will they work? Here's a look at some of the key measures: Ban on assault weapons The Federal Assault Weapons ban, a provision of anti-crime legislation President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994, outlawed military style semiautomatic weapons that fire one round per trigger pull and automatically eject the shell casing and reload the chamber. In addition to these weapons, the ban also limited semiautomatic rifles, semiautomatic pistols and semiautomatic shotguns that can accept a detachable magazine and have at least two military style features. Congress allowed the prohibition to expire in 2004. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said in December that she would introduce a bill to ban assault weapons. Did it work?: Two studies point to too little evidence or too little time having passed to calculate the impact of the ban. A provision in the 1994 law required the attorney general to deliver a report to Congress within 30 months of the ban evaluating its effects. The summary of that report, conducted by the National Institute of Justice, said that "the public safety benefits of the 1994 ban have not been demonstrated." The authors of the study suggested further tests of enforcement techniques, including "strategic crackdowns on 'hotspots' for gun crime and strategic crackdowns on perpetrators of gun violence. The authors suggested these techniques might be "more immediately effective, and certainly less controversial, than regulatory approaches alone." A June 2004 University of Pennsylvania study found that the ban succeeded in reducing crimes involving assault weapons. But the benefits at the time were outweighed by increased use of non-semiautomatic weapons, which the study said were used more frequently in crime. The researchers could not credit the ban with a drop in overall gun violence over the same period. The study did point out that since assault weapons were used no more than "8% of gun crimes, even before the ban," its impact was likely too small to reliably measure. The same 1994 anti-crime bill also banned magazines that held more than 10 rounds of ammunition. But it, too, expired after 10 years. Following a 2011 attack in Arizona that killed six people and seriously wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, congressional leaders called for a ban on high-capacity magazines. The shooter in that attack used a semi-automatic pistol with a 33-round magazine. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-New Jersey, announced a proposal to limit high-capacity magazines. No legislation was enacted. After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Lautenberg announced plans to re-introduce legislation to ban high-capacity magazines. Other legislators are pursuing requirements for background checks on the purchase of ammunition as well as seeking to ban the online sale of ammunition. California Rep. Mike Thompson told CNN on Tuesday that a ban on high-capacity magazines could garner Republican support, but a full-scale prohibition on assault weapons would be difficult to get through the GOP-controlled House. Did it work?: The 2004 University of Pennsylvania study noted that guns with high-capacity magazines were used in up to 25% of gun crimes, but it was not clear how often the outcome of the attack depended on the capacity of the magazine. The study did note that since the rate of a shooter hitting intended victims is low in gun crimes, the ability to fire more shots more quickly increases the likelihood of a target being hit. A Washington Post analysis also found that during the10-year ban on high-capacity magazines, those seized by police in Virginia dropped during that span. When the ban was lifted in 2004, the seizures rose "sharply." Researchers interviewed by the Post note that the ban could have helped limit the availability of the magazines. But the Post analysis also notes that the impact of the ban is "hard to measure." Universal background checks Sen. Charles Schumer, the chief supporter of legislation to impose universal background checks, calls them the "sweet spot" for curbing gun violence and the likelihood of getting legislation passed. U.S. law requires that any time someone buys a gun from a federally licensed gun dealer, the dealer is required to run a check on the potential buyer for possible criminal and mental issues. Records are kept by state and federal agencies. Convicted felons, people convicted of violent domestic crimes and those determined by courts to be dangerously mentally ill are prohibited by federal law from buying firearms. However, federal law does not require background checks for what are considered private transactions. And there are gaps in the existing system -- many states don't report the names of people who have been labeled dangerously mentally ill. And there are huge gaps in the database. For instance, the Virginia Tech shooter who killed 33 people in 2007 passed two background checks when buying guns because Virginia didn't submit his mentally ill status to the database. Would they work: Achieving this goal will take a combination of the executive action the president took on Wednesday and legislation to change existing laws on the requirement of background checks. Obama said Wednesday that he has taken action to address legal barriers to states sharing relevant information to the database and other measures like ensuring that physicians can ask patients about guns in their homes. The legislation Schumer is considering would encourage states to comply with sharing relevant information to the database by withholding federal funds for their law enforcement initiatives -- the federal government can't require the states to comply, but it can make it worth their while. It would also make it a crime for someone to sell a firearm without taking the buyer to a place where a background check can be performed. Enforcement would be an issue though -- it could be difficult to prove whether a firearm already on the market was sold before or after the requirement was implemented. Across the country, more than a million people failed background checks to buy guns during the past 14 years because of criminal records, drug use or mental health issues, according to FBI figures. That figure, however, is a small fraction of overall gun sales. Mental illness measures Four of the 23 executive actions that Obama announced on Wednesday address access to mental health care through Medicare and Obamacare. Medicare is the largest provider of mental health care in the country and the Affordable Care Act opens access to millions of other Americans covered by the federal government. Another executive action was to open a national dialogue on mental health led by Health Secretary Kathleen Sibelius and Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Obama also clarified that a provision in Obamacare does not prohibit doctors from asking their patients about guns in their homes. A number of mass shootings have been committed by people known to have struggled with mental illness which has renewed calls to address mental illness in a more comprehensive manner. Federal legislation restricting access to guns for the mentally ill was firs enacted in 1968. Would it help?: A number of mental health advocacy groups came out in support of the president's announcement. The National Alliance on Mental Illness released a statement applauding the initiatives put forth from Vice President Joe Biden's task force, calling it the chance to fix the broken health care system, "an opportunity that comes only once in a generation." The group also supported that the president "correctly noted" that many of the mentally ill were not violent. NAMI expressed its hope that the attention could help fill gaps in the mental health system. FBI statistics showed about 1 percent of applicants who failed a background check were turned down for reasons related to mental health. Copyright 2013 by CNN NewSource. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.	<urn:uuid:b3c0ab51-00dd-43cd-99f3-04b7a432b01e>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.wlwt.com/news/politics/Gun-measures-face-high-hurdles-in-Congress/-/9837768/18159020/-/view/print/-/wl6407z/-/index.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.962733	1,613	2.34375	2
The RNA world thesis is a supposed savior launched by Darwinists out of a sense of despair at the failure of all experiments regarding the beginning of life. But everyone who understands science and the complexity of the cell will inevitably find it illogical for Darwinists, who have never manufactured even a single protein, to make such a claim. In the absence of a single protein of the first imaginary cell they claim for the beginning of life, Darwinists claim that RNA is responsible for the whole thing, in all its wondrous complexity. But when it comes to how RNA itself first appeared, they are again, as always, silent. According to the RNA world thesis, a hypothetical RNA molecule that came into being by chance manufactured proteins in some way, after which DNA appeared by chance out of a need for a second molecule to store all this protein information. Darwinists, with their powerful imaginations, are still trying to produce a single peptide bond in the laboratory, but seek to mislead people by shamelessly propagating this impossible and unbelievable scenario. Extraordinary complexity is a huge and insoluble dilemma for Darwinists who are unable to account for how even a single RNA nucleotide might have come into being. Even if we assume that the impossible happened and came about by chance, proteins are still essential in order for this entire mechanism to function. In other words, RNA cannot perform its function of producing a protein without proteins already being in existence. Just like other proteins, in order for DNA and RNA to exist and function, it is essential for the cell to exist beforehand, fully equipped and with all its proteins and other organelles. A second major deception on this subject is the claims made regarding the function of RNA. RNA only contains information about the structure of protein alone. RNA has no mechanism to manufacture protein. A protein is manufactured in an organelle called the ribosome with the assistance of many enzymes as the result of highly complex processes. The ribosome is a complex cell organelle again made up of proteins. This therefore leads to the impossible assumption that the ribosome, the proteins serving within it, DNA and RNA all came about spontaneously at exactly the same time. The RNA world thesis, spoken of with embarrassment by many scientists, is one of the most illogical theories yet espoused by Darwinists, who are in a despairing state when it comes to explaining the origin of life. Casually bringing up such an illogical claim and depicting it as major scientific evidence is another element of Darwinist demagoguery. The eminent University of San Diego California evolutionist Dr. Leslie Orgel, a colleague of Stanley Miller and Francis Crick, refers to the possibility of “life beginning with the RNA world” as a “scenario.” Orgel sets out the characteristics that RNA would have to possess and the impossibility of its doing so in an article titled "The Origin of Life on the Earth" in the October 1994 issue of American Scientist: This scenario could have occurred, we noted, if prebiotic RNA had two properties not evident today: A capacity to replicate without the help of proteins and an ability to catalyze every step of protein synthesis.(Leslie E. Orgel, "The Origin of Life on the Earth", Scientific American, October 1994, Vol. 271, p. 78) It is of course impossible for such a RNA to exist.	<urn:uuid:c6ab04f8-3f8b-4450-a38e-086284077f8c>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://evolutiondeceit.com/en/works/42049/The-invalidity-of-the-claim-that-RNA-is-the-forebear-of-life	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.961966	692	2.375	2
Vivascience AG Introduces The World's Smallest Vacuum Capsule With A Pleated Membrane 10/19/2005 5:10:43 PM Vivascience AG has extended its Sartolab product line by the Sartolab 150v vacuum filter capsule. This filter capsule has been specially designed for large volume laboratory-scale sterile filtration. Typical applications are in the fermentation process as well as cell culture technology and filtration of media and buffers. The new Sartolab 150v is the world’s smallest filter capsule featuring a pleated PES membrane. Through the pleated configuration of the membrane, a degree of miniaturization of the capsule housing has been achieved without making any compromises with respect to the filtration area. As a result, Sartolab 150v has exceptionally high flow rates and total throughputs and is extremely easy to use.	<urn:uuid:b61d072b-ed06-4902-a94d-15f3c9011960>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.biospace.com/news_print.aspx?NewsEntityId=17146220	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.916794	186	1.742188	2
Using antiseptic-impregnated catheters reduces the risk of catheter-related infection, according to a study authored by Dr. Joseph Civetta in the October 1996 issue of Critical Care Medicine. In the study, performed at the University of Miami School of Medicine, Dr. Civetta and his team devised a management protocol of central venous catheterization. Using ARROWg+ard Blue catheters (Arrow International, Reading, Pennsylvania), catheters impregnated with silver sulfadiazine(Drug information on silver sulfadiazine) and chlorhexedine, the research team was able to reduce their trauma intensive care unit rate of catheter-related infection from 15% to 6%. In addition to the impact of ARROWg+ard Blue catheters, the indications for guidewire exchange were also studied. Changes in both the guidelines and indications for guidewire exchange were implemented. One change was the substitution of "suspected catheter-related sepsis" for fever as an indication for exchange. In addition, the "safe" period (the time before considering changing of a catheter because catheter-related sepsis was suspected) was extended from 2 to 4 days. These changes resulted in the elimination of 40% of guidewire exchanges, associated with a decreased catheter-related infection rate. Thus, unnecessary changes were eliminated. According to Dr. Civetta, the increase in the "safe" period of catheter use was possible due mostly to the use of the antiseptic-impregnated catheters. By using the ARROWg+ard Blue catheters in conjunction with changes in the guidelines and indications for guidewire exchange, cost savings were estimated to be $190 per patient and $4,750 per month to the hospital.	<urn:uuid:6efdb71d-e049-44f5-9949-a75f41958ceb>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.cancernetwork.com/display/article/10165/77403	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.961843	381	2.296875	2
About trade and trust : the question of livelihood and social capital in rural-urban interactions View PDF Version In this paper, rural-urban interactions are considered as linkages across space reflected in the flows of people, goods, services, finance, and information between urban and rural areas. We will draw mainly upon findings of research in West Africa, although our argument has a much wider purport. We do not attempt to exactly define the ‘urban’ and the ‘rural’, since every such attempt is controversial. ‘Rural’ activities like agricultural and livestock breeding occur in cities, and an activity usually classified as ‘urban’ (such as manufacturing) may turn up in the countryside. Moreover, in Africa a settlement of 5,000 people is typically ‘urban’ in morphology and functions, while in India such a settlement is classified as ‘rural’. - rural-urban interactions - west africa	<urn:uuid:246f12c8-ee15-4eda-a9f0-c04f3a75729d>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/22943/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.912772	198	2.65625	3
Udall Presents Medals to Navajo WW II Veteran At a ceremony held at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, Sen. Tom Udall presents Navajo veteran Wilson Halona five medals of recognition for his service to the United States Army during World War II. Courtesy photo ALBUQUERQUE – At a ceremony held at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., presented veteran Wilson Halona five medals of recognition for his service to the United States Army during World War II. "Wilson Halona's service is a wonderful example of heroism and duty," Udall said. "I'm honored to play a small role in recognizing that service for a grateful nation. Today he makes New Mexico as proud as he did during the fight for Utah beach." U.S. Sen. Tom Udall speaks with WWII Veteran Wilson Halona. Courtesy photo More than 50 members of Halona's family attended the ceremony, which was led by Tommy Sandman, Veterans' Service Officer for the New Mexico Department of Veteran Services. The event was also attended by Secretary Arthur Allison of the New Mexico Indian Affairs Department, State Sen. John Pinto and members of the Eldorado High School ROTC, who provided the color guard. Halona, a native of Tohatchi, N.M., served in the European Theater of World War II from 1943 to 1945. In 1944, his Battalion destroyed German bunkers at Utah Beach and was later tasked with guarding Hitler’s top generals in Stuttgart. This included one of the highest-ranking German generals, whom Halona personally guarded before returning to Nuremberg to celebrate the end of the war. Though for many years he did not seek formal recognition, Halona’s family contacted Udall’s office for help this past October to verify his medal eligibility. Udall’s office then worked with the appropriate federal agencies to secure the five accolades the senator presented to Halona Tuesday. The medals include: - The Good Conduct Medal, awarded to members of the U.S. military who completes three consecutive years of honorable andfaithful service; - The European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with Silver Service Star, intended to recognize military duty in the European Theater of World War II; - The World War II Victory Medal; awarded to any member of the U.S. military who served on active duty, or as a reservist, between December 7, 1941 and December 31, 1946; - The Honorable Service Lapel Button WWII: awarded to United States military service members who were discharged under honorable conditions during World War II; and - The Sharpshooter Badge with Rifle Bar: a marksmanship Qualification Badge issued by the U.S. Army. Udall is a member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.	<urn:uuid:161d2ab3-1fee-4ce3-a32a-03dd65bd1cad>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.ladailypost.com/content/udall-presents-medals-navajo-ww-ii-veteran	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.959861	605	2.125	2
Bankruptcies Rise Fastest for Over-55 Group Friday, April 27, 2007 Personal bankruptcy filings by people 55 and older are growing faster than those by any other age group, in part because of rising mortgage debt and medical expenses among seniors, a study published yesterday concludes. Although the U.S. population as a whole is getting grayer as the baby boom generation ages, the percent of older people seeking to wipe out debt through bankruptcy is rising even faster, the study by two government researchers at the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts shows. That office includes the U.S. bankruptcy court system. "It's frightening," said Dallas Salisbury, president of the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a private nonprofit group that focuses on retirement and economic security issues. "This just underlines that an awful lot of older people not only haven't saved enough, but by going into bankruptcy, they are starting over at a point in life when it's harder than ever to save." The government researchers compared personal bankruptcy records from 1994 with those in 2002. In that time span, personal filings doubled, to more than 1.5 million. The credit industry used that growth to persuade Congress to pass legislation in 2005 that makes it harder for individuals to wipe out debt through bankruptcy. The portion of the population aged 55 or older grew from 29.2 percent in 1994 to 30.1 percent by 2002, an increase of 3.1 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The study found the portion of this age group that filed for bankruptcy protection grew from 9.6 percent in 1994 to 14 percent in 2002 -- a 45.8 percent jump. The findings come as other studies show older people increasingly rely on home-equity loans and credit cards to pay for medical expenses, and as financial experts worry that Americans don't save enough and are unfit financially for retirement. "This confirms the notion that issues like health care are an important driver of bankruptcy," said David Certner, director of legislative policy for AARP. He said it supports his view that medical expenses weren't given sufficient consideration when the new bankruptcy law was passed. Ed Yingling, head of the American Bankers Association, one of the main supporters of the new law, agreed rising medical costs are pushing people to run up credit-card debt. But he said that it is the health-care crisis -- not credit card debt -- that is responsible for pushing people under. He said the new bankruptcy law has the safeguards to give relief to those truly in need because of health or any other difficulty. Travis Plunkett of the Consumer Federation said the credit card industry has to shoulder some of the responsibility because once the elderly ring up charges to pay for health care, their financial plight is amplified by what he called the unfair fees and interest rates charged to consumers.	<urn:uuid:94daa1bf-26ea-4fa8-9f7c-133af1ce12ca>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/26/AR2007042602595.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.968281	580	1.5625	2
At a recent speaking event I made a bit of a controversial statement that I’ve received some flak for. During my speech, I told the audience that “The average American would pay less taxes in Germany than the USA”. Standing by my point, I’d like to take a moment to analyze the tax structure of the two countries. I’d like to note that I’m only taking into consideration the taxes that come out of your paycheck, not including healthcare, pension, etc. First, let’s examine income taxes in the USA: Federal Income tax in the United States ranges anywhere from 10% to 35% depending on your income. The tax brackets are as follows: $0 – $8,500 (10%), $8,500 – $34,500 (15%), $34,500 – $83,600 (25%), $83,600 – $174,500 (28%), $174,000 – $379,150 (33%) and $379,150+ (35%). The tax is a progressive tax, meaning that every dollar you make up to $8,500 is taxed at 10%, the next $26,000 is taxed at 15% so on and so forth. This leads to the signature stair-step look that I’ll discuss later. In addition to the Federal Income tax, Americans also pay a 1.45% gross income tax for Medicare and a 4.20% gross income tax on Social Security (though you are not taxed on any income over the Social Security Wage Base of $106,800). Finally, most states have an income tax that is deducted each payday from net income. Some states have a progressive state tax, while my home state of Illinois has a flat tax of 5% (Note: I will be using this number for future calculations). Now let’s examine income taxes in Germany: Germany’s tax structure is a bit different. No income tax is charged on the basic allowance, which is €8,004 for unmarried persons and €16,008 for jointly assessed married couples. Beyond this threshold, the marginal tax rate increases linearly from 14% to 24% for a taxable income of €13,469 (€26,938 for married couples). In the subsequent interval up to a taxable income of €52,881 (€105,762 for married couples), the marginal tax rate increases linearly from 24% to 42%. The last change to the occurs at a taxable income of €250,730 (€501,460 for married couples) when the marginal tax rate jumps from 42% to 45%. (Note: numbers may be different due to the exchange rate) Having trouble picturing all that in your head? Take a look at the following graph. This graph shows the marginal tax rates in both the USA and Germany. The USA is represented by the blue line, Germany by the red. It should be noted that, in this graph, tax rates for personal income tax, social security tax and medicare tax have all been added together. Looking at this graph, it appears the USA has marginally lower tax rates than Germany, given that Germany’s tax bracket skyrockets from 24% to 42% between $19,530 and $76,677. What is more important, however, is to take a look at the EFFECTIVE income tax rates, shown here in the light blue and red lines. Because Germans do not pay tax on any income up to €8,004, it slightly reduces the effective tax rate. This combined with the fact that the taxes increase linearly for the first two tax brackets, gives Germany an effective tax rate lower than that of the USA up to a point. This point, depending on the exchange rate, is around $107,500. Below is a better look at the effective tax rates in the USA and Germany. To put this into perspective, the median family income in the USA is currently right around $40,500. If you are an American that makes $40,500 per year, you would pay a combined total of $8,538.25 in Federal, Social Security and Medicare taxes along with $1,598.09 for state tax in the state of Illinois. This would leave you with a net income of $30,363.66 for an effective tax rate of 25.03%. The same person in Germany would pay nothing on their first €8,004 (~$11,605) earned, and would pay a total of $7,230.93 on their total income, keeping the remaining $33,269.07, an effective tax rate of 17.85%. Let’s recap: someone making an average American salary of $40,500 would pay an effective tax rate of 25.03% in the USA and 17.85%. Just food for thought.	<urn:uuid:2d9f1080-cddb-4382-b01f-56cf69f291cc>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://tylerfaivre.wordpress.com/tag/taxes/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.966025	1,003	2.4375	2
With Google announcing a pretty big overhaul of Google+ at I/O 2013, there has been some increased visibility for the social network lately. And the same critics who have barely used it have come out again to complain about having no one to talk to on there. Simply put, they are wrong. Google+ is not the same thing as Facebook or Twitter and shouldn’t be used the same way in a lot of cases. It’s not a place to get baby pictures from your family or read one liner jokes and quick sports updates. In general, Google+ is a place to share content and have meaningful discussions about it. If you want to dive into Google+, here are some steps to avoid the “ghost town” that people seem to think it is. Search for you interests, and then follow people posting about those things. Add them to, or create, circles based on those subjects. When they post, comment on them. A lot of people on Google+ will follow you back if your comments are insightful and your own posts are good as well. Join some communities. This is the best way to interact with new people. Communities are Google+’s version of message boards. You can find them for almost anything. Some of mine are centered around comic books, Star Wars, Game of Thrones, and Firefly. Post and comment in those and you will discover other people with similar interests to add to your regular circles. Do not treat it like Facebook and Twitter. If you want to share pictures of your dog or baby, circles enable you to only share it with the people who actually care, and you won’t be flooding other people with unwanted posts. It’s also not great to treat it as a mind dump like twitter; posts with good content and that can generate discussion usually do well. Between Google+, Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, I am involved with quite a few networks and have about the same amount of activity on each. But by doing what I just outlined, and treating each one differently with minimal overlap, I easily get way more interactions on Google+ than any of the other networks. So this “ghost town” that critics talk about is nonexistent to me.	<urn:uuid:817abfed-98b7-4c59-854f-20c9aca1b5f5>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://butseriously.co/tagged/facebook	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.964268	457	1.578125	2
Burlington residents often hear the lonesome call of a train’s horn as it speeds across the city. The horn is an ominous sound, which often indicates something or someone is at risk of coming into the train’s path. When I was a child, my class went to the Burlington GO station on a field trip, where we were taught about rail safety. During the lesson, the instructor brought out the day’s newspaper and pointed to a story that described how the night before, a teenager had been struck and killed by a freight train in Clarkson. The young man was apparently walking across the tracks when he was struck. An investigation revealed he was wearing headphones and might not have been able to hear the train until it was too late. The instructor kept coming back to the newspaper article throughout the day to drum home the point that the tracks are dangerous and not safe to cut across. It wasn’t until later that day, when I got home from school, I found out the young man referred to in the article was the brother of my sister’s best friend. That was more than 20 years ago. Since August 2012, there have been four fatalities on Burlington’s train tracks, with two occurring in the last two weeks. On Jan. 30, a 23-year-old Hamilton man was struck and killed by a VIA train and just yesterday morning another pedestrian lost their life, struck by a GO train east of Appleby GO station. This happens all too often across Halton. How can we avoid these fatalities when such a long stretch of track runs through the centre of the city? Do we build higher fences? Fences can be climbed or cut. Do we hire more CN police officers and GO Transit security officers to patrol the rails? That wouldn’t be financially viable. So, what can we do? Some people decide to end their own lives in front of a train and that is impossible to control but limiting deaths from misadventure on the tracks is something that can be accomplished. In a city like Burlington, where the train tracks are such a conspicuous feature of our landscape, education is our most valuable weapon. GO Transit, CN Rail and VIA Rail all participate in public education campaigns on rail safety and I, for one, as a young man, benefited from them. Hearing about a young person dying needlessly on train tracks always reminds me of that young man from my youth. If he had only crossed at a marked rail crossing, he would be alive today. It seems so simple but it appears to be one of those lessons that is difficult to make stick. Every year people are warned to stay off the tracks and every year people are killed. All we can do is keep repeating this mantra and hope it finally sinks in: Stay off the train tracks. Ian Holroyd can be reached at email@example.com.	<urn:uuid:6d56ffd1-988e-408e-a139-0d6d2bdec21d>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.insidehalton.com/opinion-story/2908467-derailing-tragedies/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.976767	607	2.328125	2
AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to millions of articles from top publications available through your library. Anthony D. Smith. Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 1991, 226 pp. The biblical story of the tower of Babel (Genesis 11) could be interpreted as a mythical description of the origin of nations. According to the story, at this early stage in human history, the world was inhabited by one people who spoke one language until, in their vanity, human beings challenged the limits of their ability and joined together to build a tower reaching up to heaven. Angry and apprehensive about this expansion of human powers, and about the conceit it conveyed, God said: Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do and now nothing will be withheld from them, which they schemed to do. Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech (Genesis 11:6-7) Thus God scattered human beings across the face of the earth, and they divided into nations. According to this origin myth, the birth of nations is also the beginning of multiplicity and diversity; national experiences are, therefore, particular and universal at the same time. The universal national narrative enfolds itself in many forms; thus there is more than one exodus, one divine redemption, or one moment of liberation for all humankind. Liberation and self-determination are universal experiences, but each nation encounters them its own particular way. This is the essence of the reiterative view of nationalism.(1) Most nationalists, however, tend to repress the knowledge that their nation is but a reiteration of a worldwide phenomenon. Ignoring the striking analogies among the processes leading to the creation of different nations, they tend to emphasize the particular. Social scientists, however, do the opposite. They reach beyond particularistic discourses and expose the similarities among different national narratives to produce various typologies of national movements. The authors of the books reviewed here make a significant contribution to the sociology and history of nationalism by exploring the interrelations between the patterns of development of different national movements. Liah Greenfeld, in her interesting book, Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity, surveys the chronological development of five different national movements, starting with sixteenth-century England, and continuing through mid-seventeenth-century France, Russia during the second half of the eighteenth century, late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Germany, and the United States during the late eighteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. The national evolution of these societies, she argues, represents a coherent, though exceedingly complex process. Since these five nations shared the same social space, the mutual influences among them are evident. The tendency of national movements to follow in the footsteps of their predecessors is also made evident in Benedict Anderson's book, Imagined Communities. Anderson, wishing to break away from the conceit of European scholars "that everything important in the modern world originated in Europe" (p. xiii), turns our attention to the Americas and provides us with a fascinating account of the development of nationalism in that part of the world. National movements in the Americas, he argues, have shared some features with their European predecessors yet there have been marked differences. First, "language was not an element that differentiated them [Brazil and the United States] from their respective metropolis" (p. 47). Second, unlike European nationalism, which promoted the induction of the lower classes into the political world, in the cases of Venezuela, Mexico, and Peru, it was "the fear of the lower class political mobilization that played a key role in spurring the drive for independence from Madrid" (p.48). The riddle, Anderson argues, is "Why was it precisely creole communities that developed so early conceptions of the nation-ness--well before most of Europe?" (p. 50). The two new chapters included in the second edition attempt to solve the riddle. They demonstrate how three institutions--the census, maps, and museums--shaped the way in which colonies and the independent states that followed them imagined their domain. These chapters raise the questions that lie at the heart of National Identity by Anthony Smith: How do nations emerge? What holds them together? What accounts for the intensity and scope of national feelings? We cannot begin to understand the power and appeal of nationalism as a political force, Smith argues, "without grounding our analysis in a wider perspective whose focus is national identity treated as a collective phenomenon" (p. vii). All three authors are fascinated by the mysterious vitality of nationalism. Why does nationalism provide the most compelling identity myth in the modern world? Why and how can it motivate individuals? Why does every successful revolution since World War II define itself in nationalist terms? But before turning to discuss these issues, one must struggle with definitions: What does the term nation mean? In what ways is it distinct, if at all, from closely related terms like state, people, and ethnic group. An inquiry into the nature of these terms will reveal an irony hovering over the study of nationalism: the more we struggle to provide an adequate definition of nation, and the more we learn about the emergence of nations and about the origins and the development of nationalism, the less credible is the nationalist image of nations as homogeneous, natural, and continuous communities of common fate and descent. Yet, it is precisely this image that nurtures the unique power of nationalism. NATION: IN SEARCH OF A DEFINITION A nation, Anderson argues, is an imagined political community--and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nations will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives an image of their community. Anderson carefully distinguishes his definition from Ernest Gellner's claim that nationalism "invents nations where they do not exist."(2) Gellner, he argues, is so anxious to show that nationalism masquerades under false pretenses that he equates invention with fabrication and falsity rather than with imaging and creation, thus implying that there are true communities that can be advantageously compared to nations. Communities, however, are to be distinguished "not by their falsity/ genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined" (p. 6). Anderson's definition is important because it emphasizes the central role played by the image of a nation in creating a national reality. Nevertheless, this definition raises two theoretical difficulties that undermine its usefulness. The first and most serious relates to Anderson's use of the term imagined. Anderson argues that a nation is an imagined community because it is impossible for all its members to engage in face-to-face contact with all fellow members at all times. Hence, members can only perceive the nation as a whole by referring to the image of it that they have construed in their own minds. But this use of the term seems trivial and uninformative because all human associations, even if no larger than families or primordial villages, could, according to this definition, be considered imagined communities. For instance, it is highly unlikely that any lecturer at Tel-Aviv University will ever have the opportunity to engage in face-to-face relationships with all other members of the university--faculty, staff, and students. The university as a community, not an institution, thus would only be an image members carry in their minds. Would this criterion be sufficient to turn the university into an imagined community? Consider an even more problematic example. I know all the members of my extended family, and I have had, at one point or another, intimate face-to-face contact with most of them. They are not, however, physically present in my room while I write this review. Some are at work or at school, some are traveling abroad, one new member I have yet to meet, and I have spoken only briefly with my cousin's new spouse. Hence, at this very moment, my view of my family as a whole depends on an image that exists in my mind. According to Anderson's definition then, my family is no less an imagined community than the nation I belong to. Moreover, the image of my family as a whole has been formed not only through face-to-face encounters with its present members, but also through my awareness of the existence of former generations as well as future ones. It includes personal recollections of personal incidents related to the family, as well as collective memories of events I know of but have never experienced. Hence, even if all members of my family were …	<urn:uuid:a7f38efd-ee68-44c9-8d66-c4d69fde6da6>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-16989177/national-identity.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.959047	1,783	2.765625	3
The learningscape of a virtual atelier \|Organization:\|\|The Open University\| \|Keywords:\|\|Web2.0; Virtual Design Studio; Atelier, Socially situated learning\| \|Date:\|\|07 Jul 2010\| \|Full Title:\|\|The learningscape of a virtual atelier\| \|Abstract:\|\|This project report aims to detail a study that was carried out as part of a JISC funded project entitled Atelier-D project. The aim of the project is to create a virtual learning environment that supports and augments some of the fundamental features of the traditional 'design studio' or ‘atelier’ in art and design education. The project report will be presented in two parts. First, the report will identify the core features of a virtual design studio and their potential contribution in learning that go beyond the boundaries of design education. Second the report will aim to discuss some evidence regarding the effect of new ICT in three core aspects of the design studio: first, the formation of a social environment for learning and teaching; second, the facilitation of reflective practice through designing and sharing experiences, and third the formation of platform for communication and learning that operates across different levels of the course program. \|Biography:\|\|Jennefer Hart is currently working within the Design Group at the Open University. She is a research assistant for a JISC funded research project entitled ‘Achieving Transformation, Enhanced Learning and Innovation through Educational Resources in Design’ (ATELIER-D), which is coordinated by Dr Steve Garner. She recently completed an MRes in Human Computer Interaction at Lancaster University, and also holds an MSc in Information Technology from the University of the West of England. Prior to this she graduated with a BSc in Textile Design from Huddersfield University and worked for over 15 years as a Design Manager within the Textile and Garment industry where she gained a deep understanding of the design process. She completed a PGCE within Art and Design when she became interested in the use of technology to support design education. Her recent research work involved the evaluation of social networks and user experience, location-based gaming and understanding collaborative learning. Recent conference papers include NordiCHI (October 2008) and ACM CHI (April 2009). Her current research focus is to evaluate Web 2.0 technologies within design education and object sharing within social networks.	<urn:uuid:7f8eacff-12ed-4182-86c5-8e604a92f47d>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://web-dev-csc.gre.ac.uk/conference/conf62/eventdetails.php?wId=513&pId=2368	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.923724	496	2.09375	2
- Keep it simple. Keep your markup as simple as possible, which is often simpler than you may think at first. - No layout tables. This is obvious to anyone who has not been living in a cave for the last several years. Unfortunately, the caves seem full of Web developers. Tables are meant for marking up tabular data, not creating layouts. Use CSS instead. - Avoid classitis. Does every element you want to style with CSS have a class attribute? They almost certainly do not need to. Use descendant selectors instead. - Structure and meaning first, presentation later. Focus on semantics and document structure while you are writing markup. Save the presentational thinking for when you are writing your CSS. - Know all HTML elements and attributes. Go through the Index of Elements and the Index of Attributes in the HTML 4.01 Specification. You will probably make some new acquaintances. Read up on them and learn when to use them. - Validate, validate, validate. The markup validator is your friend, not your enemy. Anybody can make typos or mistakes. The validator will help you catch them and improve your markup. What would your most important guidelines for writing better markup be? [via 456 Berea Street]	<urn:uuid:5692a25b-e19f-4f57-964b-96679e8f02eb>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.internetvibes.net/2007/04/13/six-most-important-guidelines-for-writing-better-markup/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.908049	260	2.703125	3
- Leica Camera New design language for a compact camera - The design language echos the true form of original cameras, aiming to simplify a product that is usually overly complicated. The controls are limited to a simple sector wheel located on the top of the camera for easy access, and a main central control pad. The shutter button has become a more prominent feature, willing the user to press it. The flash has been hidden, only popping up when needed, as to give the camera a more streamlined visual language.	<urn:uuid:f6a8162a-ab23-462c-bded-2c264a3b2b57>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.behance.net/gallery/Leica-Camera/542787	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.929029	104	1.820313	2
Meeting Total Fat Requirements for School Lunches: Influence of School Policies and Characteristics by Constance Newman , Joanne Guthrie , Lisa Mancino , Katherine Ralston , and Melissa Musiker Economic Research Report No. (ERR-87) 22 pp, December 2009 Cover Image for ERR87 Concerns about child obesity have raised questions about the quality of meals served in the National School Lunch Program. Local, State, and Federal policymakers responded to these concerns beginning in the mid-1990s by instituting a range of policies and standards to improve the quality of U.S. Department of Agriculture-subsidized meals. Schools have been successful in meeting USDA nutrient standards except those for total fat and saturated fat. This report uses school-level data from the School Nutrition Dietary Assessment-III to calculate statistical differences between the fat content of NSLP lunches served by schools with different policies (e.g., menu planning) and characteristics like region and size. Positive associations are found between a meal’s fat content and the presence of a la carte foods and vending machines, which are thought to indirectly affect the nutrient content of USDA-subsidized meals. Keywords: National School Lunch Program (NSLP), obesity, nutrition In this publication... Charts and graphs (in .png format) from this report are available in the .zip file listed below. The .zip file also contains a document (readme.txt) that lists the name and title of each chart or graph file. Need help with PDFs?	<urn:uuid:ade5dd57-b11b-4283-91b1-3d79788b2d86>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://transcoder.usablenet.com/tt/www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err-economic-research-report/err87.aspx	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.915825	326	3	3
Apertium: Open source machine translation Apertium is an open source shallow-transfer machine translation (MT) system. In addition to the translation engine, it also provides tools for manipulating linguistic data, and translators designed to run using the engine. At the time of writing, there are stable bilingual translators available for English-Catalan, English-Spanish, Catalan-Spanish, Catalan-French, Spanish-Portuguese, Spanish-Galician, and French-Spanish; as well as monolingual translators that translate from Esperanto to Catalan and to Spanish, and from Romanian to Spanish. There are also a number of unstable translators in various stages of development. (A list of language pairs, updated daily, is available on the Apertium wiki). In other words, Apertium is the open-source Systran (the engine that powers Babelfish). Apertium version 1 was based on existing translators that had been designed by the Transducens group at the Universitat d'Alacant, and funded by the OpenTrad consortium. Subsequent development has been funded by the university, as well as by Prompsit Language Engineering. While Apertium 1 was designed with the Romance languages of Spain in mind, Apertium 2 added support for less-related languages (Catalan-English); Apertium 3 added Unicode support. Apertium is designed according to the Unix philosophy: translation is performed in stages by a set of tools that operate on a simple text stream. Other tools can be added to the pipeline as required, and the text stream can be modified using standard tools. There is also a wrapper script (called simply apertium) that takes care of most of the details. $ echo 'Esta es Gloria, mi amiga argentina'\|apertium es-en This is Gloria, my Argentinian friend (That example was picked at random from 'Teach Yourself Spanish Grammar' - translation quality is not always that high, though). Apertium packages are available for Debian and Ubuntu (apt-get install apertium); packages are not yet available for other distributions, though it has been used successfully on several distributions. The mildly curious may prefer to try the Surf and Translate demo on the Apertium Web site. I intend to follow this article with articles of a more tutorial nature; the rest of this article is intended to give an explanation of the most common terms in machine translation. Types of Machine Translation Machine translation systems differ in sophistication, and there are several basic approaches to translation. At the basic level, any translation system has to include dictionary lookup; however, this can also use a stemmer to find the basic form of a word (instead of looking up 'beers' in the dictionary, it looks up 'beer'), or a morphological analyser (which operates much like a stemmer, but also includes grammatical information - Apertium's analyser would return beer<n><pl> from the word 'beers', to tell the rest of the system that the word is a noun, and plural). Rule-based systems were the first 'real' kind of machine translation system. Rather than simply translating word to word, rules are developed that allow for words to be placed in different places, to have different meaning depending on context, etc. The Georgetown-IBM experiment in 1954 was one of the first rule-based machine translation systems; Systran and Apertium are RBMT systems. Example Based Machine Translation (EBMT) systems translate using the results of previous translations. Translation Memory systems are the most basic example of EBMT; more complicated TM systems (such as OmegaT), which use techniques such as fuzzy matching to suggest similar translations, are closer to the original idea behind EBMT. Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) is, at its most basic, a more complicated form of word translation, where statistical weights are used to decide the most likely translation of a word. Modern SMT systems are phrase-based rather than word-based, and assemble translations using the overlap in phrases. Google Translate is based on SMT; there is also an open-source system for SMT called Moses. Interlingua systems are an extension of rule-based systems that use an intermediate language instead of direct translation. Systems based on Interlingua can then more readily translate between various combinations of languages. OpenLogos is an open-source Interlingua-based machine translator, based on the Logos system; a competitor of Systran. Transfer-based systems are another approach to rule-based machine transfer, influenced by the Interlingua idea. Instead of using a whole language, an intermediate representation of equivalent pieces is used. This still uses language-pair-specific translation, but the amount of language-specific rules are reduced to a minimum. There are two kinds of transfer-based translation: shallow transfer (syntactic), where words are translated based on combinations of word types; and deep transfer (semantic), which uses a representation of the meaning of each word as a basis for how it should be translated. Most current machine translation systems are hybrid systems: Moses is primarily SMT, but can use morphological analysers to add extra confidence in translation options; Apertium uses statistical methods for word sense disambiguation. SMT is the current focus of most serious research in MT, but rule-based systems still have a number of advantages. First and foremost, SMT systems require the availability of a large amount of text in both languages1, which for most language pairs is not available. Secondly, the generated dictionaries contain all likely word combinations for both languages, which both consume a lot of memory and take much more processing time than do the kind of dictionaries used in rule-based systems (which also have the advantage of being useful as human-readable dictionaries - TinyLex is a Java ME program for bilingual dictionaries that uses Apertium data). Another aspect of SMT that may or may not be a drawback, depending on your perspective, is that they use monolingual models as a way of determining how to combine the phrases they translate. The upside is that, unless they encounter words that don't exist in their dictionaries, the output will be of better quality than with rule-based translation. The downside is that this translation may bear very little relation to the source sentence. With a rule-based system, a bad translation will look like garbage. Why Open Source Translation? The best translations depend on the closeness of the languages involved: all other things being equal, a Spanish - Portuguese translator will give a better translation than a Spanish - English translator. Another factor is the domain: words that could be ambiguous in general use may only have one meaning in a specific context. This is well known, and for this reason, most commercial translation systems provide the ability to choose specific domains, and to specify meanings in a user-defined dictionary that can override the system dictionary. What they don't provide, however, is a way to specify custom rules. In the majority of machine translation uses, documents are translated in bulk, and later edited. Human translators are expensive, and machine translation is used to reduce this cost, or even to remove it entirely. In the majority of cases, the human editor will be expected to follow an in-house style guide; even if the translation is accurate and clear, it would most likely still require editing to conform to this style guide. Even if the translator can't give better accuracy, it can still reduce expense by reducing the amount of editing a document requires. The usual solution to this is to combine translation memory with automatic translation. A better solution would be to combine translation memory with a fully customisable machine translator - an open source machine translator. SMT is starting to be used by companies who seek to provide 'bespoke' machine translators with example-based features, which can adapt as corrections are made to the translation. However, as the selection of a phrase is based on the amount of occurrences, the same correction has to be made a number of times - potentially hundreds or even thousands of times. Consider this example: Wolę piekło chaosu od piekła porządku.2 In Polish, the preposition 'od' means 'from', with a few exceptions. The above sentence is one example of such an exception: I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order. Writing a rule in Apertium to say that the preposition 'od' is 'to' following the verb 'woleć' is quite simple, and takes a lot less time than does writing enough examples for an SMT-based translator to infer the same, and doesn't carry the risk of harming cases that were previously handled correctly. A Glimpse of the Future I hope I've made some of you more interested in Apertium: my next article will be a tutorial covering the creation of morphological analysers in Apertium. Anyone too impatient for that can find more information on the Apertium wiki, and there are usually a number of people available on #apertium on irc.freenode.org available to answer questions. 1 In a paper from Google Research, they describe a method of overcoming this problem by using the statistical translation probabilities of multiple languages (which they have used recently, in their newest language additions); essentially, cross-referencing multiple bilingual dictionaries to create new ones. The tool that does this in Apertium is called apertium-crossdics. (The paper also suggests that "One solution is to create such parallel data by automatic translation and then retaining reliable translations by using confidence metrics", which is a bit like saying that infinite monkeys can at least translate the works of Shakespeare). Jimmy is a single father of one, who enjoys long walks... Oh, right. Jimmy has been using computers from the tender age of seven, when his father inherited an Amstrad PCW8256. After a few brief flirtations with an Atari ST and numerous versions of DOS and Windows, Jimmy was introduced to Linux in 1998 and hasn't looked back. In his spare time, Jimmy likes to play guitar and read: not at the same time, but the picks make handy bookmarks. Jimmy has been using computers from the tender age of seven, when his father inherited an Amstrad PCW8256. After a few brief flirtations with an Atari ST and numerous versions of DOS and Windows, Jimmy was introduced to Linux in 1998 and hasn't looked back. In his spare time, Jimmy likes to play guitar and read: not at the same time, but the picks make handy bookmarks.	<urn:uuid:8bf9c886-c557-42e6-b0cc-5b9e5b3c0745>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LGNET/152/oregan.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.940069	2,238	1.984375	2
The death of a parent marks an emotional and psychological watershed in a person's life. For children and teenagers, the loss of a parent if not handled sensitively can be a lasting trauma, and for adults too, a parent's death can be a tremendous blow. When Parents Die speaks to bereaved children of all ages. Rebecca Abrams draws on her personal and professional understandings of parental loss, as well as the experiences of many other adults, teenagers and children, to provide the reader with an honest, compassionate and insightful exploration of the experience of losing a parent. The book covers the entire course of grieving, from the immediate aftermath of a parent's death through to the point of recovery, paying particular attention to the many circumstances that can prolong and complicate mourning, including sudden death. About the Author Rebecca Abrams is a freelance writer, journalist and lecturer. She has worked as a bereavement counsellor for CRUSE and still gives talks and leads workshops regularly on the subject of young adults and bereavement. She teaches creative writing at the University of Oxford and the University of Warwick, and is a faculty member with the School of Life in London, where she teaches the Family Course.	<urn:uuid:24dc7e52-f702-420f-a1d4-07999364bb9b>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.grievingchildrenlighthouse.org/books-for-parents-and-the-general-public/item/34-when-parents-die	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.945419	240	1.867188	2
Providing our patients and visitors with an experience that exceeds their expectations is important to us. We expect to give you an experience that's a 10 on a scale of zero to 10 (with zero being the worst and 10 being the best). The only way we can improve and do better is based on patient feedback. How We Measure Satisfaction All hospitals in the country are required to measure patient satisfaction in the same way. The benefit of using a standard process is that health care consumers are able to compare hospitals. Comparison data for patient satisfaction is one element to consider when selecting a hospital provider. - Over 5,000 Overlake patients are asked annually to rate their experience with the facility, competency and skill of physicians and nurses, responsiveness of hospital staff and overall satisfaction. - Teams at Overlake regularly review survey results to identify where we are doing well and where we have opportunity for improvement. Overlake performs above the state and national average for patient satisfaction with pain control, providing discharge information about recovery at home, and the percentage of patients that report they would recommend Overlake to friends and family. Additionally Overlake has the highest patient satisfaction in the state and is in the top percentile in the nation for the way our physicians communicate with their patients. This graph reflects our most patient satisfaction scores, compared with national and state averages. Read more about our scores and compare them to other local hospitals.	<urn:uuid:2641c03e-dc23-4465-8d2f-639de05ca933>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.overlakehospital.org/quality/patient-satisfaction/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.952418	284	1.539063	2
South African law HIV-positive pregnant women should be told about and referred to, if they request this, abortion services as part of a continuum of care. Currently, only surgical abortions are available; however, medical abortion clinical guidelines are being finalized by the DOH. This should expand options for safe early legal termination of pregnancy; the earlier a pregnancy is terminated, the safer it will be. Medical abortion is generally done in the first 56 days of pregnancy so would assist greatly in reducing costs and the demands on a health facility.	<urn:uuid:417ceb45-1c66-4b2d-be02-4cd45afc6502>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.hst.org.za/category/social-tags/south-african-law	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.958561	107	1.921875	2
Truck driver health demands more attention Jul 1, 2011 12:00 PM, By Charles E Wilson DRIVER health is of increasing concern to a growing number of trucking, and with good reason. The driver shortage is growing by the day, as are healthcare costs. Many carriers have come to realize that the driver is the most precious cargo in the truck, according to Wendy Sullivan, Registered Nurse and vice-president of Precision Pulmonary Diagnostics. She spoke on driver health and wellness during National Tank Truck Carriers' 63 “You have to protect your driver's health today,” Sullivan said. “You simply can't afford not to. Carriers need to be proactive, and that starts with understanding driver demographics.” On average, 92% of commercial truck drivers are male, and 48% have a Body Mass Index (an indicator of body fat) greater than 30, which is defined as obese. Average age is mid-40s, and an estimated 30% smoke. Major health conditions for truck drivers include diabetes, cardiac ailments, respiratory issues, neurological events, cancers, and metal health issues. “Companies need to take action in educating and motivating their employees,” Sullivan said. “Companies often see wellness program investments as hard to measure in terms of return on investment. They see the benefit as ‘soft dollars.’ Companies need to look at worker compensation, for instance, and realize that wellness programs can prevent some of those costs. “A perfect health and wellness program for drivers may not be possible, but you can stop driver health from getting worse. It may be as simple as convincing a driver to walk around his truck a couple of times with each break. That can add up to miles over time. It's also important to convince drivers to cut food portions as part of a weight-loss effort.” Steve Rush, NTTC 2010-2011 chairman and president of Carbon Express Inc, said his company talks with drivers about health and wellness issues at least once a month. He added that any health and wellness program has to start at the top. “Management has to embrace diet and exercise programs before pushing drivers in that direction, he said. Greg Hodgen, NTTC 2011-2012 chairman and president of Groendyke Transport Inc, said his company tries to encourage walking. “It's tough because many of the areas where they park simply aren't safe enough for walking around,” he said. “We've also provided health screenings for the past three years, and it has been successful, in part, because drivers are competitive and they want to show that they are doing better than others.” Sleep apnea continues to draw more attention from federal regulators. Under pressure from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, more Department of Transportation-registered medical examiners are referring drivers to diagnostic and treatment programs. “Fatigued driving and falling asleep are big concerns, and are linked to sleep apnea,” Sullivan said. “Heart disease is an even bigger concern. Treating sleep apnea helps reduce the potential for some of the health biggies, including hypertension, stroke, diabetes, and depression.” Sleep apnea reportedly affects about 28% of drivers, and an integrated disease management program can lower health care costs by as much as 50% per driver per month, according to Sullivan. “We're going to see a lot more focus on health and wellness programs for truck drivers,” Sullivan said. “In addition to government scrutiny, various health groups are getting involved. It's all about improving the driver's health, or stopping it from getting worse, or both.” © 2013 Penton Media Inc. Acceptable Use Policy blog comments powered by Disqus	<urn:uuid:05ea828d-06a1-4e93-bb0b-e438f639249d>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://bulktransporter.com/management/shippers/truck-driver-health-0701/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.970677	779	1.851563	2
B.S. in Computer Science The B.S. degree program in computer science provides a balance between theoretical foundations and applied computer science with the ultimate goal of presenting knowledge likely to be of ongoing value throughout one's career. The preparation of the B.S. is aimed at students who want pursue a career as an industry practicioners and/or as an academic.	<urn:uuid:cdbaf933-7ab1-4a2c-96fe-41eabf94ab69>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.luc.edu/cs/academics/undergraduateprograms/bscs/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.955619	76	2.0625	2
Register New Player Welcome to our world of fun trivia quizzes and quiz games: Off With Their Heads! Thematic 10Q Average "A quiz about people (both real and imaginary) who lost their lives by losing their heads." 15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit This man's beheading is so famous that many Christian denominations have a feast day commemorating it, and many famous artists have painted the scene with his head often depicted on a platter. Who is he? St. John the Baptist St. Thomas More The Headless Horseman terrifies Ichabod Crane in which book? Rip Van Winkle The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Mystery of the Headless Horseman Which character from "Alice in Wonderland" is famous for shouting "Off with their heads"? The Red Queen The Mock Turtle The Mad Hatter The Queen of Hearts How many wives did Henry VIII of England behead? What cartoon character had his head bitten off by Ozzy Osbourne? Kings and queens are known for beheading their subjects, but which English king was beheaded in 1649? Ethelred the Unready Nearly Headless Nick is the ghost of Gryffindor House in J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series. Although his neck was struck 45 times, his head still remains attached to his body by half an inch of skin and sinew. What instrument did the hapless executioner use? A rusty sword A faulty guillotine A Swiss army knife A blunt axe From what Shakespearean play does the quote "Off with his head" come from? The Merchant of Venice Edward Teach was a notorious English pirate who was killed in a fierce onboard battle in 1719. His head was cut off and hung from the bowsprit of the victor's boat. What name was he better known by? One of the most famous beheadings in history is that of Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution. What were her last words before being executed by guillotine? "Let them eat cake!" "Monsieur, I beg your pardon." "It is glorious and honourable to die for one's country." "Vive La France!" Copyright, FunTrivia.com. All Rights Reserved. Legal / Conditions of Use Compiled Jun 28 12	<urn:uuid:175e6d8a-ee62-4f94-bae7-8f54453f38c1>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz3239142514fb8.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.940486	499	1.90625	2
From birds in the Plains to bighorn sheep in California to caribou in Alaska and moose in Minnesota, a new study says animals are struggling to adapt to the new climate conditions caused by the burning of fossil fuels, which produces the carbon dioxide that warms the atmosphere. “Climate change is the biggest threat wildlife will face this century,” says the report released Jan. 24 by the National Wildlife Federation, an environmental group based in Reston, Va. Though animals have adapted to natural climate variation since the beginning of time, the changes are happening much faster than they are able to respond. “The underlying climatic conditions to which species have been accustomed for thousands of years are rapidly changing, and we are already witnessing the impacts,” according to the report, called “Wildlife in a Warming World.” The federation says the warning is not based on computer simulations of what could happen to wildlife: “The evidence is that it’s happening right here and right now,” said climate scientist Amanda Staudt of the wildlife federation. She said that many animal and plant species are shifting their ranges to colder locales and that these shifts are taking place two to three times faster than scientists anticipated. A couple of species facing local extinctions, the report notes, are bighorn sheep in California and two populations of checkerspot butterflies in the San Francisco Bay area. Why should we care? Besides the moral aspect of caring for our fellow creatures, wildlife contributes “hundreds of billions of dollars each year to the U.S. economy,” said Mark Shaffer, national climate change policy director for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, who was not part of the report. He said there are a variety of ways that wildlife is of value to people, whether through catching, harvesting or just viewing. “We are certainly beginning to see the effects of climate change on wildlife,” he said. “And we’re expecting more effects in the future.” For example, he said, by feeding on insects, bats contribute up to $3 billion to pest-control services each year. In the West, the warmth has led to an explosion in one species of pest: “Widespread pine beetle infestations have left broad swaths of dead and highly combustible trees in their wake,” according to the report, helping contribute to fierce wildfire seasons. The 2012 wildfire season was only the third time since records began in 1960 that burned areas in the U.S. exceeded 9 million acres. Although there could be some benefits to wildlife from the increasing warmth, there will be many more negative than positive impacts, said Michelle Staudinger, a fellow with the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Climate Change and Wildlife Center, which was not part of the report. She said that climate change adds to the stresses wildlife faces in the U.S., which include pollution, land-use changes and exploitation. “Climate change is interacting with these other stressors, leading to more rapid declines in their populations,” she said. “Already there is evidence that climate change is causing declines in species populations and localized extinctions,” according to the National Wildlife Federation report. “Exactly how many species go extinct will depend on how much the planet warms during the coming decades, with much higher extinction rates projected for higher temperature increases.” © 2013 USA TODAY. All rights reserved.	<urn:uuid:d4022b8c-d945-47fe-a34a-829d23019614>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://durangoherald.com/article/20130130/NEWS06/130139987/-1/NEWS02	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.954141	725	3.671875	4
Researchers have created a computer-controlled robotic arm designed to help wheelchair-bound people perform actions such as grasping and lifting objects. It has both an automatic mode, in which the computer identifies objects and figures out how to grasp them, and an option for full manual control. When physically-challenged people were selected to try the device out, the researchers were surprised to discover that most of them preferred going manual. It’s all about something called Flow. « Back to Robotic arm users find it 'too easy'	<urn:uuid:69ea4786-7d38-4c8a-b949-7e3701194e44>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.gizmag.com/robotic-arm-found-too-easy/16461/picture/121156/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.969575	106	3.265625	3
British Conservative Party member and former shadow home secretary David Davis says that data retention requirements being debated in the U.K. are “incredibly intrusive” and would only “catch the innocent and incompetent.” He’s right. The United States was formed after a Revolutionary War against Britain so that we could live under a government more protective of liberty. The Fourth Amendment’s requirement of particularity with respect to warrants prevents our government from issuing blanket requirements that information about all of our communications be retained in case it’s needed for law enforcement. At least we must hope so. Because some in our Congress seem to have little qualm about reversing the Revolutionary War’s results.	<urn:uuid:2bff0312-daff-4dde-b880-b96bc2379554>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.cato.org/blog/tags/privacy?page=5	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.956786	146	2.0625	2
Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, winner of 2009 Nobel Prize, Chemistry and an avid cyclist, talks to a bunch of Bengaluru cycling enthusiasts. A few of us from the cycling community (specifically, from the Rideacycle Foundation, and from the Bangalore Bikers' Club), were able to meet Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009, the apex to a career of achievements and awards, at the campus of the Indian Institute of Science on January 6th. For me, it was a refreshing change to talk to a famous personality not about his work, but about something else that he is very keen on. He gave quick and spontaneous answers to our questions. Given the number of interviews he must have been giving post his Nobel prize, it was truly amazing to find such from-the-gut reactions, not studied ones! Some excerpts from the session with Dr Venki (as he is known): Murali H R: I am not a scientist, sir, and don't want to discuss your work here....We were first intrigued by the fact that you don't own a car. We are always curious to know the psychology of those who prefer cycling. In India, cycling is perceived as a mode of transport only for the poor. So, what is it that makes you prefer a cycle? Dr Venki: I cycle for a variety of reasons...the first being that I enjoy cycling. It's a much nicer mode of transport, it doesn't pollute! Also, though I do run and lift weights, but I know that even if I don't get any other exercise, I have had it in the form of cycling each day. By the time you get to work, you are wide awake, alert, and ready to start work..and at the end of the day, it works in reverse. It lessens the stress and relaxes you....and I think that makes for a great lifestyle. In Baroda, as a child, one could cycle everywhere...now I find that the student hostels, which were full of parked cycles, are full of motorcycles instead. I think motorized transport is destroying Indian cities. Murali: One of the reasons cited against taking up cycling is that "it's slow and consumes time." You have such a busy schedule..how do you manage to get everywhere on a cycle? Dr Venki: That reason...is bogus! The very same people who don't want to cycle, do get the time for whatever other activities they really want to do. In Cambridge, too, we have a traffic problem...and when I go out to dinner with my friends, I am usually there before the other dinner guests at the restaurants! Up to 5 km or so...it's actually faster by cycle. Murali: What are the facilities that you find in Europe? Dr Venki: Well, in England, we are actually behind Holland, where they have separate bike paths, right next to the road.. your cycle is not in the traffic. Especially when you want to take young children cycling, this feels very safe. In fact, there are some paths through scenic woods which are only for pedestrians and cyclists, not for motorized traffic. The main thing I have to say... is that all these things cost very little, compared to roads and under/ or overpasses. It would be good to see a resurgence of cycling in India...we were a nation of cyclists, and seem to have lost that. It's a silly way to "progress"... and the traffic causes so much of stress! However, cycling cannot co-exist with the kind of traffic I see in Bangalore. Here, people with influence and wealth seem to think of cycling only as a poor man's transport. I think that youngsters should keep up cycling and put pressure on the administration to provide better facilities. For example, I belong to a cycling club in Cambridge; the members attend all the planning council meetings, and ensure that the cyclists' concerns are taken care of. It's a constant process, to keep monitoring how roads are being built. Murali: You went to Norfolk for a cycling tour...what were your experiences? Dr Venki: Oh, how did you find out about that! My wife (Vera Rosenberry, an author and illustrator of children's books) and I went on a cycling tour. We had a very good time. We saw beaches, old castles and villages... at the end of the tour, my generally high blood pressure was below normal! Murali: What do you think is the infrastructure for cycle tourism (in our villages)? Dr Venki: Actually, a biologist friend of mine (Dr Graeme Mitchison) and I were planning a cycling holiday in India...he's already done a couple of tours in Maharashtra and Kerala. But my winning the Nobel Prize turned everything topsy-turvy for a while! I was trying to convince him that since I know three Indian languages, I could be a great cycling tour companion! Most of us in England like natural beauty and wildlife. We are not interested in seeing huge, crowded monuments. In India...how does one start a cycling tour? Getting out from the airports itself is so tough! Perhaps bike lanes could begin from major airports, and fan out on to the quieter roads...and the administration could provide better facilities for cyclists. Perhaps cycle rentals could be organized, too. Murali: In Bangalore, and in India, children are completely neglected and forgotten when it comes to road spaces. Your comment? Dr Venki: If the government could have cycle paths near, or even instead of, roads...and allow children to ride to their playgrounds and schools (it would be good)....the parents who are interested in their children's cycling, should bring pressure on the government. Deepa: I find such a difference between cycling down a tree-shaded road, and a broad highway in the blazing sun, with no shade. How do you feel about it? Dr Venki: Let's return to the trees! Earlier, every road, even the highway, had large shade-giving trees; but that's a more general problem, not just for cyclists. Arun: How does one manage cycling in the heat of the tropics? Dr Venki: No problem at all! Baroda (Vadodara), where I grew up, had summers where the temperature used to go regularly to 45' Celsius! And we cycled around in the afternoon. We did have alternatives like the bus and the rickshaw, but we cycled because we liked to. Pradeep: In India, 18 is the legal age to ride motorized vehicles, but in the past few years, the rules seem to be flouted by so many youngsters on their motorized two-wheelers. Your comment? Dr Venki: Adult role models are very important for children. A child who grows up watching his/her parents cycling, will want to emulate them; if they see only aspirations towards motorized transport, that's what they will also aspire to. Deepa: How do you get all your shopping done on the cycle? Dr Venki: We have panniers fitting on either side of the cycle, where we can store our shopping. Actually, going cycling to the shops is very good for you financially...with a car, one would buy up lots of stuff and fill the car with it. With the cycle, one is forced to buy just what one needs, it limits your shopping! Murali: One final question. It was said that Einstein developed the Theory of Relativity while cycling...what about you? Dr Venki: I'd say that cycling does relax the mind, and allows one to think about various problems and their solutions. 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EffigiesAndBrasses.com is a collection of images and links of medieval monumental tombs. Most of the monuments listed here are either effigies or brasses. The remainder are incised slabs, half-reliefs, and other miscellaneous representations. The current collection is focused on European monuments, from the 12th to 15th centuries. The majority lie in the 14th century. \|Be notified of updates!\| Your address is never shared.	<urn:uuid:cc390826-a22c-4112-a7b9-0cf9d25430c6>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.effigiesandbrasses.com/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.903785	99	1.617188	2
For Immediate Release May 18, 2012 For more information, contact: Roberta Hazen Aaronson, 785-1310x203 Laura Brion, 785-1310x205 Who: Childhood Lead Action Project When: Wednesday, May 23 @ 12:30PM Where: State House Rotunda What: A creative action involving colorful children's balls representing the number of lead poisoned kids in RI who will lose critical services if funding for the state's Lead Poisoning Prevention Program is not restored immediately. The Childhood Lead Action Project will hold a press conference to request that the state step up to the plate to provide emergency funding to save the program, which was eliminated in the current federal budget despite an increase in the number of lead poisoned children who will depend on this program. Speakers: Dr. Michael Fine, Director of the RI Department of Health; Representative Art Handy; Derek Brown, parent of 2 lead poisoned children; Jim Vincent, President of the NAACP - Providence Branch; John Kelly, President and Chief Executive Officer of Meeting Street and Roberta Hazen Aaronson, Executive Director of the Childhood Lead Action Project. Why: Without immediate intervention, the Rhode Island Department of Health's Lead and Healthy Homes Program, along with 34 other state health departments, will be devastated by extreme cuts in funding approved by Congress last December. If the budget cuts remain, Rhode Island's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program will lose its capacity to monitor lead poisoning cases and respond to every child who has an elevated blood lead level with a home inspection and referrals for medical intervention and lead remediation. Additionally, the program's prevention efforts will likely disappear regarding proactive housing policies, community education and outreach. For Immediate Release September 8, 2010 Laura Brion, Childhood Lead Action Project, (401) 785-1310, Sheila Dormody, Clean Water Action, (401) 369-1832, Protesters: Providence Water Wasting $7.4 Million Each Year and Exceeding EPA Safe Lead Levels Providence RI – The Lead Pipe Coalition demonstrated outside the headquarters of the Providence Water Supply Board (PWSB) today to protest the water supplier’s partial lead service line replacements. Protestors with the Coalition threw mock dollars into a sink to illustrate how the potentially dangerous practice is also a waste of millions in tax dollars. Providence Mayoral candidate, Angel Taveras, also joined the protest. The Providence Water Supply Board’s lead pipe replacement program began three years ago to address high levels of lead in local drinking water. Private contractors hired by the Providence Water Supply Board replace only the portion of the service lines that run from the street up to the sidewalk, leaving in place pipes containing lead between the sidewalk and individual homes. Full service line replacements rarely occur, because homeowners must pay for the replacement of the service line between the sidewalk and their homes, which can cost $3,000 to $6,000 per home. In recent years, concern has grown around new research indicating that partial lead service line replacements can cause increased lead levels in water instead of lowering them. “The U.S. EPA has declared that our water supply has dangerously high levels of lead, and Providence needs a real solution to that problem,” said Laura Brion, Community Organizer for the Childhood Lead Action Project. “Partially replacing lead pipes has not been proven to reduce lead in our drinking water and it may even make the problem worse.” The Coalition noted that the Providence Water Supply Board continues to conduct the potentially hazardous partial replacements of lead drinking water pipes even though the R.I. Department of Health gave them permission to stop the replacement program. In April 2010, the Department of Health authorized the Providence Water Supply Board to end this year’s replacement program because of the concerns raised about partial lead service line replacement and to allow Health to evaluate the data and determine whether a change in direction was appropriate. However, despite growing community opposition, the Providence Water Supply Board has continued this work. The partial replacement program is a significant expense at $7.4 million per year with no clear evidence that it is reducing lead in our drinking water. The coalition is urging the Providence Water Supply Board to fully replace lead drinking water pipes. “It is irresponsible to continue wasting $7.4 million every year on partial lead pipe replacements,” said Steve Fischbach, vice chairperson of the Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island and a resident of Cranston. “The Providence Water Supply Board needs to do the job right and fully replace the lead pipes.” In response to concerns about spiking lead levels following partial lead service line replacements, the PWSB has started distributing water filters in the areas where they are doing work, but the Coalition says this fails to provide adequate protection from long-term risks and doesn’t justify continuing to waste money on an ineffective program. The Lead Pipe Coalition remains strongly opposed to the partial replacement work continuing in neighborhoods throughout Cranston, Providence, North Providence, and Johnston. “The residents in my neighborhood were relieved when Providence Water stopped doing these partial lead pipe replacements in our area,” said Marcus Mitchell, president of the Mount Hope Neighborhood Association. “But moving the construction project to other peoples’ neighborhoods hasn’t solved the problem.” The Lead Pipe Coalition includes the Mount Hope Neighborhood Association, the Childhood Lead Action Project, Clean Water Action, Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island, the Mount Hope Learning Center, and the Mount Hope Community Baptist Church. Providence Water Supply Board 2010 Lead Service Line Replacement Schedule http://www.provwater.com/lsr.htm Reaction to the Solution: Lead Exposure Following Partial Service Line Replacement. Rebecca Renner, Environmental Health Perspectives, May 2010. http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2Fehp.118-a202 Area’s Water-Pipe Replacement Work Put Off. Philip Marcello, Providence Journal, April 13, 2010. http://www.projo.com/news/content/WATERPIPE_REPLACEMENT_PROTEST_04-13-10_O0I3JL_v22.3a5bc82.html CDC misled District residents about lead levels in water, House probe finds. Carol Leonnig, Washington Post, May 20, 2010. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/19/AR2010051902599.html?hpid=moreheads Consumer Fact Sheet on Lead in Drinking Water. US Environmental Protection Agency. http://www.epa.gov/safewater/lcrmr/fs_consumer.html	<urn:uuid:0dc6311e-3367-4726-b13c-7fe9290ff18f>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.leadsafekids.org/en/news/press-releases	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.914665	1,420	1.546875	2
Tumblr is where tens of millions of creative people around the world share and follow the things they love.Sign up to find more cool stuff to follow “Our ultimate goal is to create a STEM-aligned video game badge for the Girl Scouts of the United States of America. Creating this badge will get young girls excited in technology and science and let them know that they, too, can have a career in the video game industry. — Amy Allison, vice president at Women in Games International on the new Game Development badge being worked on for the Girl Scouts.”—Girl Scout Game Development Badge \| The Mary Sue “We believe, however, that science sells itself. It needs no polish or varnish or manufactured appeal to be attractive to women. To imply otherwise is an insult. To science and to women.”—Technology - Megan Garber - We’re Really Sorry, Marie Curie - The Atlantic What did you think of "paradox-explained" post about girls in science? Do you agree with her points? Well, assuming you’re talking about this post, I just read it and I completely agree honestly. The negative stigma [from both sexes] concerning women in STEM fields is beyond appalling, and we need to encourage our fellow [future and current] women and girls to branch into these areas of expertise, whether it be a profession, or as paradox-explained pointed out even more importantly, the classroom. I say more importantly in the classroom because that’s where it starts. If you look at recent studies, that I apologetically can’t find right now, when it comes to classroom response within the girl-students they are substantially less responsive statistically compared to boy-students’ responses to the teacher[s] and material being taught within the course[s] themselves. Even when the playing field is evened out, and girls are given equal attention and opportunity to respond as the boys, the boys, and sometimes even male teachers, feel that the girls are getting “too much” attention and are having “too much” of a voice. This is due to the usual accustomed settings of girl-classmates being “quiet” and less reactive than the boys as a whole. This obviously can be a bit intimidating being a women or girl in a STEM course or profession when you have the pre assumption that “you have to work twice as hard as a man in the same position would to be just as smart or get just as noticed” which is complete bullshit, if you ask me. We need to get to the point where we no longer base one’s [potential] career or interests based off of their gender, but rather their capability and intelligence. If we keep doing crap public advertisements/projects like Axe’s Apollo Space Academy’s [whole presentation], and instilling simple ideas projected through mere commercials, such as Fireman Vs. Astronaut, that basically spell out “if you go to space, and leave as a man, through this contest and come back you’ll be a ‘hero’ and win the pretty girl”, in this case over the fireman, and assuming you’re interested in women, then we will continue to be telling young girls and young women that there are certain things that are ‘better left to the men’, I feel. [I understand it’s not just for men but the advertisements and websites made for the general public tend to visually display otherwise, and if you get pissy about that in response to what I said then you’re completely missing my point.] Have the video if you think I’m joking: And the site’s home page that clearly says “Leave a man come back a hero.” But for the sake of me trying not to rant too much here’s a quote to show you exactly what I’m talking about in a bit better wording: “Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually consider that they give equal amounts of attention to girls and boys, and it is only when they make a tape recording that they realize that boys are dominating the interactions. Dale Spender, an Australian feminist who has been a strong advocate of female rights in this area, noted that teachers who tried to restore the balance by deliberately ‘favouring’ the girls were astounded to find that despite their efforts they continued to devote more time to the boys in their classrooms. Another study reported that a male science teacher who managed to create an atmosphere in which girls and boys contributed more equally to discussion felt that he was devoting 90 per cent of his attention to the girls. And so did his male pupils. They complained vociferously that the girls were getting too much talking time. In other public contexts, too, such as seminars and debates, when women and men are deliberately given an equal amount of the highly valued talking time, there is often a perception that they are getting more than their fair share. Dale Spender explains this as follows: The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women. In other words, if women talk at all, this may be perceived as ‘too much’ by men who expect them to provide a silent, decorative background in many social contexts. This may sound outrageous, but think about how you react when precocious children dominate the talk at an adult party. As women begin to make inroads into formerly ‘male’ domains such as business and professional contexts, we should not be surprised to find that their contributions are not always perceived positively or even accurately.”—[x] It seems a bit shocking when you look at it on paper, but it’s an all too-real every day occurrence. This, I feel, is even more true for STEM based classes. So yes, I agree with the post in question whole heartedly enough to say here here! We need more girls and women getting interested in, and consequently actively participating in, STEM courses and professions. And above all, we need more girls and women of all races and walks of life supporting and encouraging each other to get inspired and, quoting the original post, “Take a deep breath and jump right in.”	<urn:uuid:45f3d68a-5ae1-4313-b324-cf9f5a064136>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/women%20in%20stem	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.967656	1,345	2.28125	2
YASS modules admirably supplement the range of traditional award-bearing courses and units that any one school can offer in the Sixth Year . This flexible alternative gives students a taste of University-style work, and an opportunity either to specialise and deepen their knowledge and skills in one particular area or to initiate study in a new field. The means of delivery promotes student responsibility for their own learning, which is at the heart of Curriculum for Excellence. In Highland, the availability of these modules to our S6 students and the learning that ensues is greatly appreciated by both schools and students alike! Bill Irwin, CfE Development Officer, Highland Council Igniting a lifelong passion for learning Studying with The Open University in Scotland offers motivated and able students the opportunity to study at university level (SCQF level 7) alongside their other studies in S6. Open University study can also help make an UCAS application stand out from other students. What’s in it for students? YASS is a unique opportunity for students to experience learning at university level and develop their independent study and research skills. As well as enabling them to take the first step towards an Open University degree qualification, it also helps them develop an impressive academic portfolio which will differentiate them from other students when it comes to applying to other universities. Open University modules provide an opportunity for students to deepen their existing knowledge or try a completely different subject. Students taking arts subjects at Higher or Advanced Higher level might like to study maths or science to broaden their skills for example. Alternatively they might opt for an Open University module with relates closely to their Higher or Advanced Higher subjects – improving their knowledge and helping them to approach topics in a different way. The first step towards a degree Some YASS students like Open University study so much that they decide to carry on and complete their degrees with us. If they do decide to do this, they’ll be able to count any YASS module towards their degree, giving them a head start. What’s in it for teachers? By tapping into over 60 modules in 13 different subject areas, YASS allows teachers to offer students an exciting extension to the normal curriculum. The scheme also provides a positive way for them to ensure that their students remain motivated and focused, working out for themselves the best time for study. YASS makes a significant contribution to the objectives of the Scottish government’s Curriculum for Excellence in the following ways: - Successful learners: students will learn independently, often using new technologies - Confident individuals: students can pursue personal interests and ambitions in significant depth, exploring subject areas not normally available in schools (such as robotics, astronomy, law finance, chronic diseases, nutrition). - Responsible citizens: our open entry approach means that students from all subject areas can engage with important contemporary issues (for example in environmental studies, technology of science). - Effective contributors: students will be stretched, required to work in new ways, managing their own time effectively and developing self-reliance. Admissions tutors of HE and FE institutions are being advised in ‘The guide for UK Qualifications’ to give consideration to higher education credit points. The Scheme is also supported by UCAS. Found this inspiring? You might also like… \|Is YASS for everyone?\|\|Successes so far\|\|What do YASS OU staff think?\|	<urn:uuid:359f9b5c-ca92-4c1e-a7de-7b63ca31a5ac>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.open.ac.uk/choose/yass/benefits-yass	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.94192	695	2.25	2
Diet consultant creates and develops programs to educate their patients regarding healthy and balanced diet. The specialty falls under two main categories - dieticians and nutritionists. Both are expert in food and nutrition. The nutritionists plan the nutritional programs to assist in maintaining good health and a Dietician prepares a balanced diet chart to control a particular disease. Diseases and disorders A diet consultant helps to control any kind of disease by providing a balanced diet chart. They work with other healthcare professional to create nutritional programs based on the health needs of patients. Medication would prove to be ineffective, if the diet is not proper, as unbalanced and unhealthy diet triggers the disease and slows the process of recovery. For instance, diabetic won't be able to control the sugar level if he keeps on having the foods and fluids with high level of sugar. Diabetes diet along with medication would help control the glucose level. Balanced diet is very important for an obese patient for weight loss. Diet consultants prepare the diet chart that is highly nutritious but low in calories. Dietetition administer a nutritional assessment for the patients, also educate them regarding balanced diet. They develop the diet plans that meet the patient’s needs and requirements. A diet consultant mainly - • Explains nutrition issues • Determines patients and clients health diet and needs • Prepare meal plans (taking clients preferences into account) • Evaluates the effects of diet plans and accordingly make changes in the plan • Promotes better nutrition by educating the patients about diet, nutrition, and the relationship between healthy diet and managing specific disease When to call diet consultant Diet consultants suggest the patients for a balanced diet in order to lead a healthy lifestyle. They educate them on topics related to food and nutrition. Visit the diet consultants, while coping with any kind of disease.	<urn:uuid:50c8b96f-6d00-4590-a2f3-8fe22c2f5d87>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.medecure.com/speciality/diet-consultant-doctors.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.934682	370	3.171875	3
Masami Sekine graduated from the Science University of Tokyo in 1983 and obtained his M.S. degree in plant science. Then, he received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 1989. After staying in the University of Washington (Department of Biochemistry) for a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow, he moved to Osaka University as an Assistant Professor. In 1995, Sekine moved to Nara Institute of Science and Technology as an Assistant Professor. Then, he moved to Ishikawa Prefectural University in 2005 as an Associate Professor and was promoted to a Professor in April, 2011. Presently, he works at Ishikawa Prefectural University, Faculty of Bioresources and Environmental Sciences, Department of Bioproduction Science. His main concern in the research is functional analysis of cell cycle-regulated genes in plants. Biography Updated on 11 August 2011	<urn:uuid:c2000d4a-fd78-446d-9507-e8336242289e>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.hindawi.com/10870583/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.963784	178	1.648438	2
An International Falabella Miniature Horse Association dedicated to promoting and preserving the rare Breed of Falabella Miniature Horses all over the World. The Falabella is a rare Argentine breed of Miniature Horse that has been kept pure by breeding only pure Falabellas to other pure Falabellas for countless generations. It is known as the first and original Miniature Horse breed, yet the miniature size is secondary to their pure heritage. It is a true purebred due to their unique and historic ancestry, which is one of its greatest attributes. The other is the fact that the Falabella name is known and recognized all over the world. Breed ancestry has been kept pure by the Falabella Farm and by small groups of dedicated breeders who want to preserve their precious heritage. The Falabella is an exquisitely unique horse that has always been rare due to the limited number within its pure ancestry gene pool. Estimates indicate that only a few thousand Falabellas exist in the entire world. The most desirable feature of the Falabella and its primary value is that of its rarity and pure Falabella ancestry. Falabellas are very pretigious to own and are highy prized by those who have them. Many historic facts and fables have been told of the famous Falabella in books, magazines and equine articles. It was said that the original Argentine little horses were decendants of Andalusian and Spanish Barb horses brought to Argentina by the Spaniards when they first arrived in the 15th century with the intent to conquer Argentina. They were defeated and the horses were left to roam free. Over several more centuries the harsh environment and inbreeding caused a reduction in size and produced naturally small horses. Back in the 1840s, these small equines were seen within herds near the southern Buenos Aires area by Patrick Newell and he started to build his herd with the smallest he could find. It was from this point that selective breeding was started to develop a true small horse .This was over 150 years ago. Patrick Newell worked with the small horses and his knowledge was passed to his son-in-law, Juan Falabella, who shared his knowledge with his son Emilio, who passed it on to his son, Julio Falabella. As Julio worked with his father through his younger years, he gained all the knowledge his father had learned throughout his lifetime. Over many years they used a variety of equines including the native Argentine Criollo horse and equines with Pinto and Appaloosa markings to breed down in size, continually keeping the smallest and best quality in each generation. By the 1950s, Julio took over his fathers Falabella Farm. He had created tiny sized Falabellas in every color including Pintos and some very rare and colorful Appaloosas which were his favorites. The greatest development and perfection of the Falabella breed was done by Julio when he created his tiny horses in many colors. With his dedication and knowledge, he was able to produce perfect little horses that were some of the smallest in the world. Once the tiny sizes in all the colors were attained, a century of natural heritage and breed development was completed, Julio set out to show his Falabella Miniature Horses to the world! In the 1960s Julio Falabella sent his Falabella Miniature Horses to the USA and other Countries. Several articles about the Falabella Miniature Horse were written in Western Horseman Magazine and National Geographic Magazine, as well as other Horse Magazines. The news spread like wildfire about this little Miniature Horse breed that was Centuries in the making from natural and selective breeding over many generations. Julio and his Falabella Miniature Horses became famous as he continued to export them to all parts of the world. Some of the richest and most famous people bought them. Among them were kings, princes, presidents and movie stars. It was not unusual to pay astronomical prices for some of Julio's smallest and best Falabellas. Through the 1970's the Falabellas were being imported in small groups. By this time, Julio had a large number of Falabellas on his huge Ranch in sizes as small as 28 inches with perfect conformation in all colors. Some of Julio's very best and most colorful stallions and mares were sent to the USA and other countries all over the world. It was during these years that the Falabella Miniature Horse became a registered breed through the Falabella Miniature Horse Association. When Julio passed away in 1980, the Falabella Farm and his lifes work was continued in Argentina by his wife, Maria Luisa de Falabella and their son Julio and daughter, Maria Angelica Falabella. Angelica then later moved to the USA in 1995 and brought her very best Falabellas with her, including her smallest and most colorful Pintos and Appaloosas. Both Falabella Farms continued to be a primary producer and exporter of Falabella Miniature Horses all over the world until Maria Angelica Falabellas retirement in 2006. Currently, Falabellas are still at the Falabella Farm in Argentina and others are located in the United States, Canada, Europe, the United Kingdom and a number of other Countries. The most famous Falabella to be imported to the United States was Chianti, a beautiful black Leopard Appaloosa stallion born in 1964, which was imported with Falabella mares sent to the Regina Winery in California in the 1960s. Chianti became an immediate sensation and has since been written about in many equine news articles. Chianti and his mares produced some of the first Falabellas foals born in America and some of the very first Appaloosas within the Miniature breed. One of the best known and finest sires in the USA was Toyland Zodiac, a 31 inch top quality, black Leopard Appaloosa Falabella stallion born in 1976. Toyland Zodiac is the leading sire and grandsire of more show quality and top winning offspring than any other Falabella stallion in the USA. Some of the most beautiful and finest quality Falabellas have Toyland Zodiac in their ancestry. SPECIALIZING IN FALABELLAS Specializing in Falabellas is a popular choice for those who are looking for something unique and different. A growing number of Miniature breeders and other horse breeds are adding Falabellas to their farm as they see the many advantages in breeding these rare little horses. They are available in every color, giving a wide variety of choices. They can be registered and shown in competition in all Miniature Horse shows, and in all Miniature Horse Registries in the World. Most important, they have their own FMHA Registration certificate to authenticate their historic ancestry. With many top farm names coming and going over the years, the Falabella name has withstood the test of time and has retained its status. Falabellas are known and shown world wide and the name creates its own market which is a unique advertising and promotional advantage available to Falabella breeders. Some Falabellas can be expensive and carry premium prices, however, most can be acquired at affordable prices. Foals are especially desirable and can cost less than adults. They are a good choice for those who want a few or are looking to acquire future breeding stock or show prospects. There are less than 1,500 Falabellas registered in the FMHA since its incorporation in 1973. Only small herds are known to exist in the USA and most other countries, and their number is estimated to be only several thousand in the entire world. There is a strong demand and limited supply due to the small number in existence. There are distinct differences between Falabellas compared to American Miniature Horses. The rarity and purebred Falabella ancestry of every Falabella is what primarily sets it apart from all other Miniature Horses. ARGENTINA ACCF FALABELLA REGISTRY All Falabellas originally came from the Falabella farm in Argentina and they still continue to breed and export their Falabellas around the World. The Falabella Farm in Argentina has developed its own Association de Criadores de Caballos Falaballa (ACCF) Registry, in which they record the original ancestry of their Sires, Dams and offspring born on the Falabella Farm. When a Falabella is imported from Argentina, they have an ACCF registration document which authenticates their Falabella Farm heritage. FALABELLA MINIATURE HORSE ASSOCIATION The Falabella Miniature Horse Association (FMHA) was incorporated in 1973 as the first Falabella Miniature Horse Registry in the World. By this time, Falabellas were already becoming very popular and a number of breeders were importing them to the USA and other parts of the world. With continued importations of Falabellas and additional offspring being born, there was a need for a Registry to record and authenticate their pure Falabela ancestry, thus the beginning of the Falabella Miniature Horse Association. The Argentina ancestral Pedigrees were recorded and FMHA registration certificates were issued to all pure Falabellas and their offspring. Today, FMHA continues as an International Falabella Registry for Falabellas all over the World. FMHA REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS Only pure Falabellas are accepted for Registration in FMHA. They must have an FMHA registered Sire and Dam or must have documented proof of every ancestor tracing their original ancestry to the Falabela Farm in Argentina. FMHA honors all pure Falabellas with Regisration certificates from imported Falabellas with ACCF registrations from the Argentina Falabella Farm and from other Falabella Registries in other Countries. The Falabella Registry, American Registries and other Miniature Horse Registries. An additional and important plus is that most Falabellas in the USA are also registered in the American Miniature Horse Association (AMHA) and/or the American Miniature Horse Registry (AMHR) and Falabella offspring can be triple registered in AMHA, AMHR and FMHA. This gives owners the opportunity to register, breed and show their Falabellas in the Registries of their choice and still maintain a pure Falabella breeding program. The American Miniature Horse is extremely popular and has become one of the top choice Equine breeds. Proof of their popularity is shown as the count of AMHA and AMHR Registrations are over 200,000 since their inception. In comparison, there are less than 1,500 Falbellas registered in FMHA since its inception in 1973, attesting to their rarity. Pure Falabellas make up only a tiny part of the growing number of other Miniature Horses, however, they are a big attraction for Miniature horse breeders and Falabella Fanciers. SHOWING FALABELLAS Winners Ribbons, trophies and special awards can bring show titles, recognition and added value to your Falabellas. Falabellas can compete side by side with other Miniatures for winners ribbons and National titles, and some have taken top awards on an International basis. Falabellas are sweet natured and enjoy being with children, adults and seniors. Their small size makes them easy to handle. They are easy to train to drive and fun to show. They can also provide family enjoyment as a beloved pet or companion for anyone, from tots to teens and adults, foals are especially adorable and affectionate making for a very unique and precious equine. They are versatile in many ways and can do all the things that any Miniature Horse can do. Most can be ridden by small children. They are quite intelligent and can be trained to do so many thing. They are strong for their size and driving them is very popular, especially in shows and parades. The quality of a Falabella is most important, having an overall appearance of a well balanced horse with a pleasing look, good legs, a good bite and good conformation, the same as required to show. Falabellas with the finest show quality are highly desirable. All breed types are acceptable for the Falabella. As development of the Falabella evolved, selective breeding has created a variety of types. Some of the most popular Breed types seen in Falabellas are the Arabian, Thoroughbred, Quarter Horse, Pinto and Appaloosa, but the most important factor will always be their pure Falabella ancestry. Emphasis has been toward breeding for refinement, well balanced conformation and the look of a true horse in the breed type they resemble. Birth heights can be as small as 12 inches and up to 22 inches or more, and mature heights are usually attained at 3 years of age. Since they are naturally a small equine breed, mature heights can be 25 inches to 34 inches and over but most Falabellas mature in the 30 to 34 inch height range. All sizes are accepted for registration in FMHA. In essence, size does not take away from their pure ancestry or their value. The Falabellas pure heritage has always been the first and foremost reason to acquire them. Once a pure Falbella is accepted for registration, they remain registered in FMHA for life. The Falabella comes in all solid colors and a wide variety of colorful Pinto and Appaloosa patterns. Rare Pintaloosa patterns can also occur, showing both Pinto and Appaloosa markings. Some of the most colorful are in strong demand but limited in number. FALABELLA BREEDER INCENTIVES Because of their rarity, the primary reason to have Falabellas is to protect and preserve the breed through dedicated breeding and keeping the bloodlines pure, but secondly, specializing in the Falabella bloodline gives a great marketing advantage since there are a small number of Falabella breeders but a large number of potential buyers who have Miniature Horses. In a business sense, Falabellas can be acquired to start a small horse farm which can generate a yearly income in addition to your own job or business. It also offers farm tax benefits and can give a higher, safer and longer term return than some other investments. Foals have good value and are adorable and fun to raise. Additionally, foals will increase herd value if kept, or can generate income each year through sales. Feed costs are low and returns are high! A one time investment for each Falabella can give returns through foal sales for 20 years or more. The Falabella is truly a special breed to consider.	<urn:uuid:e4b567c3-6c46-4a60-b4e8-533ca9e341f1>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.falabellafmha.com/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.966205	2,990	2.25	2
Specialist financial advice There are many specialist areas of financial planning that an IFA can advise on either directly or by working with other professionals such as accountants and solicitors. The various specialist areas include:- Inheritance Tax planning Inheritance Tax planning to ensure you are minimising the amount of any possible Inheritance Tax that may be liable on your estate. Let’s dispel a myth right here and now. You don’t have to be super rich for your estate to be subject to Inheritance Tax (IHT) after you die. An IFA might, for example, advise you to make gifts now to intended beneficiaries as these will be free of IHT (providing you live for 7 years or more following the gifts). There are several other tax-efficient ways of making annual gifts, both to individuals and organisations such as charities. You could then leave a further £325,000 free of IHT to your beneficiaries in your will. Gifts between married couples incidentally are not subject to any Inheritance Tax. You might also like to think about setting up a trust. If you put part of your estate into a trust for your grandchildren, it could be decades before your cash is again under the eye of the taxman. Trusts can be complicated and an IFA may work in conjunction with a solicitor. Another option you might like to consider is an insurance policy to pay the tax bill after you die. An IFA can compare all insurers to help find the right policy for you. Ethical investment is often known as Socially Responsible Investment but it can be confusing as there are so many shades of “green” funds available through unit trusts, open ended investment companies and investment trusts. Some funds are more environmentally friendly than others. Companies also have different approaches to defining ethical. For example, British American Tobacco would not be classed as ethical by organisations such as Cancer Research. However, BAT has gone a long way to improve working conditions, with fairer wages and improving human rights issues in its overseas operations. If you want to invest ethically, you should speak to an Independent Financial Adviser (IFA) about what sort of investment would work for you and best suit your own principles. Overseas mortgages as a product description is reasonably self-explanatory and you may need to look into this option if you are thinking of purchasing a property abroad, be it as a main residence or as a holiday home. Factors worth considering include exchange rates, regulatory/legal/jurisdictional issues. Optimum Independent Financial Advisers can advise on all these and other specialist areas of financial planning. Please use our online contact form or other contact details if you would like to discuss any of these areas with an adviser.	<urn:uuid:2173528b-3431-4601-b54d-e981904ce2ff>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.optimum-ifa.co.uk/specialist-financial-advice/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.960966	565	1.5625	2
Can devices like the iPad and even the iPhone be useful learning tools for young kids? Absolutely, says SmarTots, which has developed a mobile apps recommendation and analytics platform specifically for kids aged 2-7 (and their parents, educators and mobile app developers from around the world). Investors are betting on the mobile education startup to make waves, too: SmarTots has just raised $750,000 in seed funding from Xu Xiaoping’s Zhen Fund, which led the round, and international investors like ChinaRock Capital, SOSventures and Angelvest. With its mobile platform for kids, SmarTots aims to provide parents with a window into their child’s “app world”. Parents can receive reports tracking their children’s learning activities across various SmarTots apps, including subject aptitudes, amount of time spent on specific apps and recommendations for other applications. In addition, SmarTots delivers teacher advice and educator-developed suggestions for interest-matching and social family activities to reinforce learning. Since its launch in December 2010, the company has clocked over 600,000 downloads. Developers who are interested in gaining access to SmarTots’ SDK, cross-promotion tools and reporting features can sign up here. On a sidenote: Smartots’ CEO, Jesper Lodahl, spent more than seven years working for Nokia, where he developed four phones and created two patents which have been implemented in more than 1 billion mobile phones worldwide.	<urn:uuid:335606e6-a20c-4499-a2a3-b85a1469cac7>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/24/smartots-raises-750000-offers-mobile-apps-platform-for-kids/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.950503	316	1.820313	2
In the last decade, more attention has been paid to making hospitals cozier and homier: flowers and champagne for new mothers, age-appropriate wall-hangings and cartoon dolls for sick kids. Newer hospitals have consulted the hospitality industry “to make the health-care environment more inviting and less threatening.” However, most of us do not choose a hospital; that choice is made by our physicians and limited by our rural locality. Without question, many hospitals have been austere and some downright dingy. In contrast are the billionaire royalty flying to North America by private jets for medical care and enjoying hospital suites the equal of five-star hotels. Perhaps, trickle-down transition from “being institutional to being much more inviting and warm” is appropriate and overdue. I’m not sure about “inviting,” but I can see the reasoning for “warm.” It’s a comfort issue. Consider emergency rooms and intensive care units – any “hospitality” there? That is a really tough question: People arrive in mental and physical pain, scared, insecure and even unable to communicate. Urgency of pain relief, treatments and procedures are foremost – “inviting” is hardly part of the vocabulary. Here is one example from an ER before design guidelines for “inviting” and “warm” existed. On a mid-afternoon, I took a call from an ER physician at a Navajo reservation hospital somewhere west of Farmington. He was sending us a German couple, tourists who had been injured in an automobile collision and were stable enough for transfer. I asked our staff members to locate and summon a German translator. Upon the couple’s arrival, the translator proved of no use; husband and wife were deaf and unable to speak – mute. However, the husband, an engineer, could read and write English. Seeking the circumstances of the accident and the potential for injury, I scribbled questions on a notepad. “What did you hit?” brought a quizzical look. I said: “truck, car, horse, cow?” He circled “car” and on we went. After examination and a few X-rays came discharge from the ER and disposition. They had no transportation and no place to go. The staff members seamlessly arranged for a motel, someone to pick them up and delivery of a replacement rental car. They asked to pay the ER charges. Another phone call came from the reservation doctor sending another German couple to our ER, this time English speaking. The first couple, glancing at a map, had swerved from behind a stopped truck and hit the oncoming second couple. The wife had some broken ribs and was admitted. Moreover, we had the routine down, arranged the motel pickup and replacement rental, Hertz – the first was Avis. They, too, wanted to pay. Again, I asked the staff to low-ball the charges. “Warm”? They were our guests. Paul Gibson, Mercy Regional Medical Center’s emergency department director, informs me that things are better. The hospital subscribes to a Language Line phone translation service, via three-way speaker phone, for more than 175 languages. Stranded? The ER has bus tokens and taxi vouchers. Payment? Only foreigners ask. Medical billing is now so complex, it is very difficult to render charges promptly. Go figure. www.alanfraserhouston.com. Dr. Fraser Houston is a retired emergency room physician who worked at area hospitals after moving to Southwest Colorado from New Hampshire in 1990.	<urn:uuid:6900cb65-d118-4ced-b65b-630c6584ce10>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20120827/COLUMNISTS16/708279983/0/The-many-ways-we-tax-ourselves/Are-hospitals-really-all-that-hospitable	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.969414	754	1.59375	2
"For over six decades, "Broadway" has been the community banker." As the nation's economic condition worsens, it is fitting to note that a local of bank, dedicated to serving the community, has been the forefront working with the community, for the community and in the community for over sixty years. Broadway Federal Bank is synonymous with the name, Hudson: H. Claude Hudson, the patriarch; Elbert, his accomplished son and Paul, his grandson. Since its inception, a Hudson has always been at the helm of the bank, which is now a landmark institution in the Los Angeles community. The mission of the bank is to serve the real estate, business and financial needs of customers in underserved urban communities with a commitment to excellent service, profitability and sustained growth. It also has a broader commitment to employ, train and mentor community residents, to contract for services with community businesses, and to encourage its management and staff to serve as volunteers in civic, community and religious organizations. In addition "Broadway" has enunciated a system of values that complements its mission and correspond with its Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) rating. Beginning with Dr. H. Claude Hudson, a dentist who had graduated from at Howard University in 1913, he settled in Los Angeles in 1923 and continued his active involvement in the civil rights movement with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); he had been previously involved with the organization, as president, in Shreveport, Louisiana. (His strong commitment to the civil rights struggle, according to reports, was borne out of an experience that he had witnessing the lynching of a Black man). He continued his dental practice and eventually became the president of the Los Angeles NAACP. In 1929, along with renowned architect, Paul R. Williams (both their families became related), H. Claude built the Hudson-Liddell Building at 4166 South Central Avenue. He then enrolled in Loyola Law School and earned a law degree in 1931. Though he never practiced law in the traditional sense, H. Claude used his legal skills to advance his activities and agenda in civil rights and business. In furtherance of his quest to level the playing field for Blacks economically, joined together with a group of Black businessmen and founded Broadway Savings and Loan in 1946. After receiving its federal charter and with an initial investment of $150,000, the bank welcomed its first customers in January 1947. It was housed in a three-room office on South Broadway, Los Angeles. Shortly afterwards, the leadership of the bank was taken over by H. Claude, one of the original investors. The focus of the bank was to satisfy the demand for homeownership in the Black community by the post World-War II veterans who were routinely denied mortgage loans by mainstream lending institutions. Having a "captive" market caused the bank to grow quickly and in 1954, it acquired the facilities of a closed department store and renovated it into the bank's headquarters. (Plans for the renovation were done by architect Williams, who was also one of its founding directors). H. Claude supervised the management as chairman of its board of directors for 23 years while maintaining his dental practice. In 1966, "Broadway" opened another branch in the Midtown Shopping Center. Again, Williams designed the new facility. He remained chairman emeritus until his death in 1989 at the age of 102. Enter Elbert T. Hudson, the son of H. Claude who, like his father, was an attorney who had also acquired a banking credential in 1964. When called upon in 1972, he was ready to take over the family business. He automatically moved into the position of president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the bank. In addition to banking, Elbert T. was also actively involved in the community. He was a member of the board of directors of the Brotherhood Crusade, and was instrumental in making it the premier charitable organization in the Black community during that period. And like his father, he was active in the NAACP. During Elbert T.'s tenure at the helm, "Broadway" opened a third branch in Inglewood settling at a one story building in the heart of the city's downtown. He continued to fulfill the bank's mission and to provide training for minorities entering the financial industry. In 1992, tragedy struck around the time of his retirement. During the 1992 civil unrest, fire destroyed the bank's headquarters. However, it was only a temporary setback. Still wedded to the community, the bank established a temporary facility across from its destroyed building and continued its operation until a new facility was built years later not too far from the burnt site. Then came Paul C. Hudson, Elbert T.'s son and H. Claude's grandson. Also an attorney, he followed the footsteps of both the elder Hudsons. Upon the retirement his father as CEO, Paul C. took the reins and moved the institution to a higher level. Elbert T. retired as chairman in 2006 and the board elected Paul C. as chairman; his father remains as chairman emeritus. (Though called a bank, the actual name of the institution was Broadway Federal Savings and Loan until 1995, when it became Broadway Federal Bank. It was converted from a mutual savings and loan to a stock saving bank via a parent holding company, Broadway Financial Corporation. The holding company is a publicly traded stock company traded on the NASDAQ exchange). As a publicly traded entity, "Broadway" in conjunction with new technology in banking, has aggressively implemented new branches, services and products to its existing portfolio. Within the past decade, its management has moved into new headquarters with full banking services on Wilshire Boulevard one of the "Wall Street" corridor of business in Los Angeles. And it has recently opened another service center on Crenshaw Boulevard, in the Leimert Park area, a Black cultural Mecca. Presently the bank manages over 13,000 accounts with assets exceeding $225 million. The most of "Broadway's" loans are on local real estate with a strong emphasis on residential properties. In the commercial arena, the majority of its loan portfolio contains loans to churches within the community. From a three-room office to its current five branches, "Broadway" has imprinted indelible footprints within the community. According to the information in its calendar, Broadway Federal (Bank) is dedicated to changing the paradigm and making our youth examine all possibilities in life, to challenge the youth to change their assumptions of what they can be, and look at careers from a different perspective. And finally, to the minority men and women whose ingenuity broke through the ceiling and helped open doors (so that others may walk through).	<urn:uuid:fd522654-4da0-415c-882f-7166843e3236>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.lasentinel.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6642:broadway-federal-bank&catid=79&Itemid=169	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.980585	1,369	2.5	2
MACHIAS, Maine — Hurricane Kyle weakened to a post-tropical storm as it swept across the Canadian Maritimes, but high winds and heavy rains continued to buffet Nova Scotia and New Brunswick early Monday and thousands were left without electricity. Kyle had weakened significantly since making landfall near Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, on Sunday and was working its way east, said meteorologist Stephen Hatt with the National Hurricane Centre in Halifax. Despite the downgrade, Hatt said Kyle was still packing strong winds gusting to between 50 mph and 62 mph, down from 74 mph — the threshold for hurricane strength — that was registered during the storm's peak as it hit Canada. The storm delivered little more than a glancing blow to the northeastern U.S. Saturday. Damage from Sunday's tropical storm left thousands in Canada without power, Hatt said. "All of New Brunswick is still getting a little bit of rain, but it's starting to wind down," Hatt said, adding that much of Nova Scotia and parts of Prince Edward Island may have to contend with Kyle's remnants throughout the day. He said the center had not received any reports of injuries or casualties so far. Impact less than expected Bob Robichaud of the National Hurricane Centre said it first struck Canada as a marginal hurricane before quickly weakening. Robichaud said by midmorning, almost all the weather warnings had ended and most of the rain had moved offshore. The storm lost strength as it moved over cold water off Nova Scotia. Winds were responsible for much of the damage incurred Sunday, according to officials with provincial power utilities. Glennie Langille, spokeswoman for Nova Scotia Power, said toppled trees and downed power lines have left 14,000 customers without electricity across the province. She said crews working through the night have managed to restore power for 25,000 residents and that fresh workers would be taking over at daybreak. Despite the power outages and tree damage, the storm's impact was considerably less than many expected. The storm arrived on the eve of the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Juan, a Category 2 storm that killed at least two people and caused an estimated $100 million in damage. "They are not unheard of. The last one to make landfall was Juan back in 2003," Robichaud said. "We do get them every couple of years or so." Boats moved in Maine Fishermen moved boats to shelter from a rare burst of tropical weather along Maine's rugged eastern coast Sunday, delivering a glancing blow equivalent to a classic nor'easter that made locals yawn. As darkness fell, the storm produced winds hard enough to jiggle road signs, cause scattered power outages and rip early-autumn leaves from trees while lashing the Maine coast with a third straight day of heavy rain. Flooding closed roads as the storm sped up the Bay of Fundy, which separates Maine and New Brunswick from Nova Scotia. Maine emergency responders had braced for wind gusts as high as 60 mph and waves up to 20 feet, but as the storm edged eastward it became clear that the state had escaped a direct hit. "This was a run-of-the-mill storm. It had the potential to be a real problem and it all sort of went away. That shift to the east did wonders for Maine," said Michael Hinerman, director of the Washington County Emergency Management Agency. Officials had once expected the eye to hit at the Maine-New Brunswick border, but with the storm fading to the east, the state closed its emergency operations center in Augusta Sunday night. There were no evacuations in Maine, but more than 500 customers lost power because of the gusty winds. Still, as much as 7 inches of rain had fallen in three days along some coastal areas. Flood watches were lifted for the southern two-thirds of New Hampshire and southern Maine but remained in effect for the Down East coast. Residents of the area are accustomed to rough weather, but it most often comes in the winter when nor'easters howl along the coast. Maine hasn't had anything like a hurricane since Bob was downgraded as it moved into the state in 1991 after causing problems in southern New England. The deadliest storm to hit the Northeast was in 1938 when a hurricane killed 700 people and destroyed 63,000 homes on New York's Long Island and throughout New England. Other hurricanes that have hit Maine were Carol and Edna in 1954, Donna in 1960 and Gloria in 1985. © 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.	<urn:uuid:97be8cb1-5181-42ad-8ce4-713ab397ccc8>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26893171/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.979331	941	1.703125	2
TASMANIAN ambulance officers worked more than 3000 overtime hours in two months. Leaked documents show that ambulance officers from the South worked 3469 overtime hours in January and February, representing 302 extra shifts. Opposition health minister Jeremy Rockliff said increased overtime could lead to fatigue and stress, and pointed to a health system in crisis. Ambulance Tasmania chief executive Dominic Morgan said the demand for services continued to increase, but response times to emergency calls had remained stable. ``Ambulance Tasmania has had high levels of overtime this financial year. Partly this is caused by having paramedics in many regional towns,'' Mr Morgan said. ``Tasmanians can be re-assured that the Ambulance Service is there for them when they need it.'' ``In fact, by next month, 30 new paramedics will have been employed since December last year - eight in December, 10 in January and a further 12 in April.'' Mr Rockliff said it was the ambulance officers that had brought the overtime to public attention. ``Three and a half thousand hours of overtime in the first two months of this year points to a system in crisis. It should also be remembered that each hour of overtime costs the government an extra $60, and so that amount of money should be directed to employing more resources with respect to our ambulance officers.''	<urn:uuid:8e812084-c651-449a-aec4-06e35da28e9c>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.examiner.com.au/story/1384357/ambos-overtime-proof-of-crisis/?src=rss	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.977578	276	1.570313	2
Product designers and avid campers Alec Drummond and Jonathan Cedar were on a mission to develop a better campsite stove--one that would cause less environmental damage than petroleum-based or battery-powered options, not to mention traditional campfires. With the blessing of their then-employer, New York-based consultancy Smart Design, the duo spent nights and weekends using the firm’s resources to develop the BioLite CampStove. Requiring half the wood of an open fire, the CampStove reduces emissions by more than 95 percent and--as a nice bonus for modern campers--can charge cell phones and other electronics. The $129 stoves began shipping in May. But Drummond and Cedar have found another use for their technology. When their prototype won the top prize from collaborative research group ETHOS for low-emission design, they realized they might have a solution to a major global health issue. An estimated 2 million people die annually from the effects of smoke from indoor fires used for cooking and heat. Drummond and Cedar figured that if they could develop a larger stove for home use, it could be a force in reducing air pollution, as well as deforestation. Rather than a charitable model based on fundraising, the founders--joined in 2009 by a third partner, Jonathan den Hartog--wanted to develop a market-based solution that would help even the poorest people buy the product, which they dubbed the BioLite HomeStove. In April 2011, BioLite closed on $1.8 million in Series A funding led by the Disruptive Innovation Fund; the team also secured about $100,000 from sustainable technology awards, including prizes from Scotland’s University of St. Andrews and energy giant ConocoPhillips. The funds have been used for product development and early-stage testing of HomeStoves in India, Ghana, Uganda and Guatemala. Those tests will expand into a large-scale pilot program that continues into 2013. One major project will be a 2,000-home trial in Ghana, funded by the National Institutes of Health, in partnership with Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and the Ghanaian government, to show the long-term positive impact the stoves can have on newborns’ health. Such rigorous trials are necessary to get government support in the form of reduced tariffs, subsidies and public education programs. "Women who used the stoves [in trials] immediately realized the ‘smokelessness’ and asked us, ‘Where did you put the smoke?’ Men were interested in the electricity," Cedar says. "From surveys we’ve done, we see that people in these regions want to buy the stove." Getting the word out in remote regions will require creativity: BioLite is developing promotional strategies such as painting wall murals, training door-to-door sales agents and conducting public demonstrations. The company is also testing price points--$40 is the goal--and is considering developing microfinancing models. Entrepreneurial ventures in low-income regions are no different than they are anywhere else, Cedar says: "It’s like any other market--bring your best and find ways to communicate and solve challenges."	<urn:uuid:94060edc-f767-400c-8b5c-5817258f796d>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/224001	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.952144	665	2.484375	2
Professional in Human Resources (PHR) Professional in Human Resources (PHR) - HRCI Exam Preparation The Human Resource Certification Institute's (HRCI) certification examinations are widely recognized as the industry standard for evaluating Human Resource professional's competencies. HRCI is an affiliate of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and provides testing and certification services. A human resource professional is responsible for helping to ensure that the company's employment practices are fair and equitable, and that they comply with required regulations and recommended policies and practices. This course helps human resource professionals prepare for the HRCI certification examination in six functional areas of human resources: - Strategic management - Workforce planning and employment - Human resource development - Total rewards - Employee and labor relations - Risk management. Course to Complete VOC-388 HRCI/PHR Certification Program Total number of hours: 50 Licensure/certification earned: None. You will be better prepared to take the HRCI/PHR Exam after completing this course. Total approximate cost: $1,325 You must be currently employed in the human resources and want to demonstrate your expertise in the field by obtaining certification. To be eligible to take the PHR exam, you must have: - One year of demonstrated professional HR experience with a master’s degree or higher - Two years of demonstrated professional HR experience with a bachelor’s degree - Or, four years of demonstrated professional HR experience with less than a bachelor’s degree Information unique to the training: This is an online course and includes access to an online mentor. The PHR examination is offered only twice per year by HRCI. Visit HRCI's website for more information and requirements. Estimated annual salary: There are many occupations within the human resource field for which the PHR certification may be applied. For more information, visit the Bureau of Labor Statistics.	<urn:uuid:61f7e37f-eb43-4634-9391-a12a83ab33d8>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.carrollcc.edu/courses/noncredit/career/Certificate%20Programs/phr.asp	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.909473	400	1.632813	2
UFE is an SD/MMC floppy drive emulator for old computers. It connects to the floppy drive port of the host computer and behaves like a real floppy drive, except that the data comes from the SD/MMC card instead of real media. It is the successor to TFE, my previous floppy emulator project. Latest Update: UFE now supports the Amiga 1200! See below for new pictures. A number of SD/MMC floppy emulator projects existed around the time I started working on UFE. These worked well, but there were limitations. The most notable limitation was poor support for the Amiga computers, including lack of write support. In addition, the user interfaces of the existing floppy emulators were not practical. They were either based on a small LCD screen and a few buttons, or they had external connections such as joystick and video ports. Generally, major case modding was necessary. The underlying philosophy behind the UFE design is that it should support a just few computers, but it should support them as well as possible. The host computer’s keyboard should be used for controlling the floppy emulator. The video output should be overlaid on top of the host computer’s video output. Read and write operations must be fully supported. All these features make UFE an ideal drop-in replacement for a real floppy drive. Addendum: The statements made in this “Motivation” section simply represent -my own- views of the floppy emulator situation at the time I started this project. Specifically, it has been brought to my attention that the claims regarding “practicality” and “major case modding” may be exaggerations… It is up to you to decide. The video above shows UFE in operation, including write support. Sorry about the quality, the resolution is low and there are sync issues between audio and both feeds, but it should still give a good idea of how UFE works. Here is what happens in the video, in a nutshell: - The SD card contains a couple of images: XCopy.ADF and State of the Art.ADF (demo by Spaceballs). - XCopy.ADF is mounted into DF0. Amiga boots from it. - Once XCopy loads, State of the Art.ADF is mounted into DF0 and XCopy.ADF is mounted into DF1, with write-protect off. - Using XCopy, contents of DF0 are copied over onto DF1. - Once copy operation is over and the red LED turns off, the XCopy.ADF on the SD Card has been overwritten with contents of State of the Art.ADF. - Amiga is cold rebooted. - Xcopy.ADF (now containing State of the Art demo) is mounted into DF0. - Amiga boots into the demo. Capture setup: A520 modulator and 4-channel BT878 capture card. - Read/Write access for Commodore AMIGA, Atari ST and Amstrad CPC computers. - On-board support for ADF, DSK, ST and MSA images. No conversion on PC necessary. - Standard IDC 34-pin floppy connector. - Can emulate two floppy drives. - Video overlay user interface: 72 columns by 30 lines text mode. - Allows use of host system keyboard to control user interface. - Buzzer for emulating head stepping ticks. - Can co-exist with other floppy drives on the same bus (not tested). - Full FAT32 support (incl. long file names and directories) for the SD Card. SDHC support. - Firmware updates can be made through SD Card. - Completely solderless installation. - PIC32 MCU @80Mhz, 16Mb SDRAM. Double-sided PCB. - Other computers with WD1772 or UPD765 controllers may work, but have not been tested. - Video output is disabled when floppy emulation is active. - SD Card must be formatted with FAT32 file-system with a minimum cluster (allocation unit) size of 8192 bytes. - Host keyboard control currently only available on Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200 computers (support for more computers are planned). - Write support for DSK, ST and MSA images not implemented yet (to be added in future firmware versions). - Copy-protected Extended DSK images are not fully-supported. - Mounting an image (MFM-conversion) takes around 3 seconds on average (depending on SD card speed and image size/type). Optimizations in future firmware are expected to reduce loading time. How to Use Pressing the activation key combo (e.g. Left Alt-Left Amiga-Right Amiga) activates the UFE user interface. Key events are directed to UFE so that images can be mounted and settings can be modified. Arrow/Enter keys are used to navigate the menus. The host system does not receive any keyboard events while the UI is active (until the user selects “Continue” from the UFE main menu). While the UFE UI is active, floppy emulation is disabled. Emulated drives behave as if they are empty. When floppy emulation is active, the yellow LED indicates ongoing floppy activity (drive motor(s) on), and the red LED indicates there is updated data in UFE memory not yet written to the SD card. After floppy write operations, the user must wait until the red LED goes off before removing the SD card. UFE Rev A2 board has the following connectors: - Power: Standard 4-pin floppy power connector. 12V pin is the one closer to the side border of the board. - Floppy IF: Standard 34-pin floppy interface connector. - Keyboard: 6-pin connector to keyboard daughterboard. - Video: 8-pin connector to a wiring harness that connects to Red, Green, Blue and Composite Sync points on the host system mainboard. The A500 Keyboard Daughterboard is designed to plug into the keyboard connector on the A500 motherboard. The connector from the keyboard plugs into the keyboard daughterboard. Similarly, the edge connector on the A1200 Keyboard Daughterboard is designed to plug into the keyboard connector on the A1200 motherboard (after removing the white plastic lock). The ribbon from the keyboard connects to the keyboard daughterboard. FAQ (as of July 2010) What’s the current status of the UFE? Hardware and software is operational. I plan to organize a beta stage with a small group of select users soon. Will it be possible to purchase the UFE? A suitable company or person needs to be found to handle production and sales. Do you have any plans to release detailed technical information (firmware sources, PCB layout)? Not right now, but this may change. Do you have any plans to add support for other host computers / image formats? Yes, but only if they comply with the basic requirements for the current UFE hardware (RGB video output and standard floppy interface). The development progress of the UFE and its predecessors are thoroughly documented in my main blog (posts tagged UFE). But here is a brief summary, anyway: The first floppy emulator project I’ve worked on is the TFE. It was quite successful in its own right, but it had a number of shortcomings that I’ve described in detail above. These issues prompted me to look for different design ideas. I first designed a piece of hardware similar to the current UFE, in that it also used PIC32 MCU and SDRAM, but had a color TFT touch-screen LCD for user interface and USB input instead of SD card. Unfortunately, this hardware never saw the light of day, as I got sidetracked by other projects. After a while, I realized that it could be nice to have video overlay and host keyboard controls for the floppy emulator user interface, making it much more practical to use, especially for computers with drives built-in. I extended the original TFE design to accommodate the changes required, resulting in the TFE+. The core of TFE+ was almost the same as the original TFE, but it used an overclocked ATmega644 instead. After some experimentation with the TFE+ design, it became clear that it was too weak to be able to support write operations on Amiga computers. So I took the best features of the TFE+ design and the original PIC32-based design, and created the UFE as a result. Aug 09, 2010: A1200 support (w/ pictures) added, acknowledgments added, minor changes. Jul 10, 2010: Initial publication. This information here is provided AS IS without any express or implied warranties. While every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in this text, the author assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein. I will not be held responsible for any damages or costs which might occur as a result of anything related to projects described or referred to on this page. You are not allowed to use information contained in these pages for commercial purposes without my written authorization.	<urn:uuid:77094665-66d0-419e-a495-a5a598be0aff>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://retromaster.wordpress.com/ufe/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.923162	1,926	2.078125	2
By Adina Rosenthal Move over “Angry Birds.” The newest up-and-coming iPhone app may be for revolutions. While social media platforms have become commonplace in both our vernacular and daily use, they have also played an important role in fomenting recent revolutions. In 2009, thousands took to the streets of Moldova to protest their Communist government in what was titled the Twitter Revolution for the platform’s success in galvanizing and organizing the public. When the Iranian government prevented journalists from reporting on the 2009 post-election protests, Iranians flocked to social media outlets to update the world on their plight. Recently, social media platforms took like wildfire in the Arab Spring, empowering people to unite and demand reform from their oppressive governments, resulting in immediate resignations, swift ousters, and, in the cases of Libya and perhaps Syria, war. According to panelists at an Arab Media Forum session in Dubai, “Whether social media led to the Arab Spring or facilitated it, it played a major role in mobilizing Arab streets as they rose against their ruling regime.” Sitting right smack in the middle of the Arab Spring, Israel should receive a pat on the back for its involvement in the social media phenomenon. But for the country that created the technology behind AOL instant messenger, voicemail and the first high-resolution cell phone camera (not to mention a couple that have named their baby girl “Like,” after Facebook), Israel clearly has a hand in the social media trend. These beneficial innovations may be coming back to bite it in the tuchus. For example, thousands of activists are members of “Boycott Israel” groups on Facebook. These forums are used to organize boycotts on products, encourage divestments from Israel, and incite hatred of Israel with graphic and violent imagery. Recently, a Facebook page titled, “Shakira: Say NO to apartheid and YES to Freedom For Palestine,” implored the pop singer, a UNICEF ambassador and advocate for quality education worldwide, to cancel a scheduled trip to Israel, to attend the Israeli Presidential Conference (she went anyway). However, these boycotts seem innocuous compared to a recent iPhone application that called for a Third Intifada (“Uprising”) against the Jewish state. “The Third Intifada” app provided users with news about upcoming Palestinian protests, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic articles and information on the web, and activities that called for violence against Israel. Yuli Edelstein, Israel’s Minister of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs, sent a letter to Apple founder, Steve Jobs, asking him to remove the app “and thus continue the tradition of Apple applications dedicated to purely entertainment and informative purposes and not serve as an instrument for incitement to violence.” Apple removed the app a week later, noting that it violated Apple’s store policy. Edelstein also successfully lobbied Facebook to remove the “Third Intifada” group last March. Despite Israel’s success in removing the “Third Intifada” application, it still feels like Israelis are treading on a new battleground, the brink of an intifada of a different sort. A “Social Media Intifada,” to be exact. While not innately violent, such an intifada could potentially affect Israel’s economy and lead to violence, as recent events in the Middle East have proven. After the Second Intifada, Israeli tourism reached a twenty-year low, foreign investment slowed, and public perception of Israel faltered. How can Israel prevent a sequel on the social media battlefield? Not always at the peak of its public relations game, Israel has recently focused additional resources on their PR strategy. Last summer, the Foreign Ministry was granted NIS 100 million to focus on social media, 60-70% of which would target leading social media figures as part of a new PR campaign to “cultivate Israel as a brand.” Additionally, Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, recently made an unprecedented move by enlisting the aid of European PR firms to combat Israel’s deteriorating image around the world. He explained that “with proper and professional work in the field we can significantly improve Israel’s standing and support for it.” Additionally, Israelis and Jews from around the world are well-known for their social media prowess (just think Mark Zuckerberg) According to a recent poll, the average Israeli spends almost 11 hours a month surfing social networks, more than any other country in the world. From facebook groups that call for “buycotts” to purchase Israeli goods to an IDF twitter account, to boycotting rising prices on cottage cheese, Israel is no stranger to using social media to raise awareness, provide answers, and combat hate speech. Such social media savvy will be critical in countering anti-Israel rhetoric and creating a positive image for Israel. Israelis and Jews alike are up to the task. So, in the spirit of Facebook: The social media trend? Like. Israel’s initiative to rebrand itself and counter hate speech? Like. The name of “Like” for a child? 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Kaplan University is an institution of higher learning dedicated to providing innovative undergraduate, graduate, and continuing professional education. The University is committed to general education, a student-centered service and support approach, and applied scholarship in a practical environment. Whether you're looking to change or advance your career, Kaplan University will help you get there faster. Online flexibility, reduced costs, financial aid assistance, and a quicker path to your degree make Kaplan University a smart choice for working adults. Kaplan University instructors have both the academic background and professional experience to teach real-world knowledge. Kaplan’s degree programs feature various emphasis areas and a comprehensive curriculum geared toward your career goals. Kaplan University is part of Kaplan Higher Education, a system of more than 75 campus-based schools nationwide. An accredited university providing educational services since 1937, Kaplan University offers Master's, Bachelor's, and Associate's degrees, as well as certificate programs. Unlike traditional classroom experiences, Kaplan University focuses on adding a human touch to the high technology of learning online. They are committed to providing the personal attention and academic support to help you achieve your goals. The flexibility and dynamic interaction of online education at Kaplan University also allows for innovative learning opportunities. To find out more about Kaplan University and the online degree programs that are right for you, request more information today. Criminal Justice Degree Programs: Watch this Webmercial to learn more! Find Schools Near You Schools by State	<urn:uuid:feed56fb-4163-4a29-a19a-320e241a6e9a>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.myonlinecriminaljusticedegree.com/criminal-justice-schools/kaplan-university/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.933504	295	1.734375	2
Columbus, Indiana is a city of around 40,000 people located an hour south of Indianapolis. Columbus is exactly the kind of city you’d expect to find in the Midwest, except for one curious thing. The American Institute of Architects has ranked Columbus 6th in the nation for architectural innovation and design, right behind New York, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco and Washington, DC. The architectural richness of Columbus isn’t the result of some visionary planning board. Nor are the zoning laws in Columbus different than those in most other Indiana cities. Columbus has fascinating architecture because in the 1950s industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller (of the Cummins Engine Company) decided that he wanted to live in a more visually interesting city. To this end, Miller offered to pay the architect’s bill for any new public building in Columbus. Today, Columbus boasts more than 70 buildings designed by internationally celebrated architects like I.M. Pei, Eliel Saarinen, Eero Saarinen, Richard Meier and Harry Weese. H/T Reason.TV	<urn:uuid:eec884fa-fdc6-4350-96a7-656f94e4fbff>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://callmestormy.com/tag/architecture/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.922509	220	1.992188	2
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art today announced a promised gift of seven extraordinary works of African art from the private collection of longtime Museum patrons Adele and Donald Hall, in honor of the Museums 75th Anniversary. The gifts, each a superb example of African art, will greatly elevate and broaden the Museums range of holdings in this area. Among the gifts are an intricately carved ivory Salt Cellar from the late 15th to early 16th century and an outstanding example of a wooden carving by the Luba artist known as the Master of the Cascade Coiffure. The seven works will be on view in the exhibition Magnificent Gifts for the 75th that opens to the public Feb. 13 as the capstone event of the anniversary year. The exhibition is the result of a year-long collecting initiative that inspired 75 Museum patrons to give or promise more than 400 works of art to the Nelson-Atkins, including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculptures, new media art, ceramics, glass, furniture and books. The exhibition will feature 130 of the gifts. The outpouring of gifts has been tremendously gratifying and, as is often the case, Adele and Don led the way with their generosity, said Marc F. Wilson, Menefee D. and Mary Louise Blackwell Director/CEO. They are setting once again an example of what individuals can do to share their passion in a way that matters and that benefits the public. Each of these works of art has a personality and a story, almost like a family member in the Hall household. Any museum would be thrilled to have these, but we are especially honored to receive art personally acquired by the Halls. The Halls are long-time benefactors of the Nelson-Atkins who have greatly influenced and supported the Museums collection-building and recent expansion project. Mr. Hall is chairman of the board of Hallmark Cards Inc., a company founded in Kansas City by his father, Joyce Hall, 100 years ago. Mr. Hall has served on the Nelson-Atkins Board of Trustees for 29 consecutive years, beginning in March 1980, and Mrs. Hall helped lead fund-raising efforts in support of the Generations Campaign and a $100 million endowment initiative. The Halls bought their first piece of African art within the first year of their marriage. They found themselves drawn to African works because of the tremendous sculptural quality, the power and contemporary nature of the designs, and the function of the objects within their cultures. Throughout the years, they have been advised by curators and specialists in the field, and they continue to acquire important works. None of these pieces were originally made to be in a private collection, Mrs. Hall said. They were designed to honor an ancestor, or to carry soil from one home place to another, or to bind a contract, or for ensuring fertility. There was a great deal of ceremony involved. Masterworks from the Hall Collection The seven works promised to the Nelson-Atkins are as follows: Headrest, African, Attributed to the Master of the Cascade Coiffure, Luba peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo, late 19th early 20th century. Wood, glass beads, and copper, 5 5/16 x 4 ½ x 3 ½ inches. Promised gift of Adele and Donald Hall in honor of the 75th anniversary of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 14.2010.2. High-ranking Luba women and men slept with headrests such as this to protect elaborate hairstyles, which indicated civilized refinement and both exterior and interior beauty. This headrest is attributed to the Master of the Cascade Coiffure, one of the most renowned 19th-century Luba artists. With its animated female figure, it is an outstanding representative of the diminutive, elegantly carved headrests attributed to this artist, or workshop. Salt Cellar, African, Sierra Leone, late 15th early 16th century. Ivory, 7 ¾ inches. Promised gift of Adele and Donald Hall in honor of the 75th anniversary of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 14.2010.3. This intricately carved salt cellar with its beautifully rendered figures is one of the more important Sapi-Portuguese ivories. It is attributed to a workshop distinguished by salt cellars featuring cylindrical, openwork bases, and it is carved from one piece of ivory (excepting the lid). A luxury object, it would have been commissioned by Portuguese from local workshops, and incorporates an inventive combination of European and African design elements. The egg-shaped container is decorated with narrow beaded bands (a European embellishment) and supported by four standing figures (an African innovation). Trance Diviners Figure, African, Baule peoples, Ivory Coast, 19th century. Wood, beads, and cloth, 19 ½ x 5 ¼ x 6 inches. Promised gift of Adele and Donald Hall in honor of the 75th anniversary of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 10.2007.2. This elegant sculpture was created to house one of the powerful wilderness spirits that communicated with Baule diviners during trance possession. Wilderness spirits, although frightful and inhuman, are attracted to images of ideal human beauty, characterized by this figures enlarged head, intricate hairstyle and beard, elongated neck and scarification. The wilderness spirit may partner with a male or female by possessing and placing the diviner in a trance state. The spirit can then communicate remedies for personal or community misfortune to the diviner. Female Spirit Mask, African, Punu peoples, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 19th century. Wood and pigment, 10 x 6 ½ x 6 ½ inches. Promised gift of Adele and Donald Hall in honor of the 75th anniversary of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 10.2007.1. Worldly, wise and peaceful, this beautiful mask with its elaborate coiffure and scarification captures the idealized beauty of a mature Punu woman. It is an outstanding example of masks of this type, which would have appeared in masquerades during funeral celebrations to represent a young womans spirit. Applications of white kaolin clay were associated with the spiritual realm to depict female and male ancestral spirits. Personal Shrine Figure, African, Igbo peoples, Nigeria, ca. 1900. Wood and pigment, 29 ½ x 9 ¾ x 10 ¼ inches. Promised gift of Adele and Donald Hall in honor of the 75th anniversary of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 12.2001.9. This masterfully carved personal shrine figure is one of the most important Igbo ikenga figures, or those dedicated to male power and achievement. Rams horns symbolize male aggression and determination, and the curved sword symbolizes decisive action. The eagles and python-reigning creatures of sky and water allude to supreme achievement in life, including military endeavors. Human trophy heads symbolize military success, and European pith helmets on the trophy heads express continuing power despite the challenges of colonial rule Seated Female Figure, African, Baule peoples, Ivory Coast, early 20th century. Wood, 14 ½ inches. Promised gift of Adele and Donald Hall in honor of the 75th anniversary of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 14.2010.1. This serenely composed figure, adorned with armlets and waistbeads, displays the idealized traits of a Baule spirit wife: an elegant coiffure, beautifying scarification and filed incisors. According to customary beliefs, all men and women have other-world mates with powers to influence their human partners lives. Sculptural representations of ones spirit spouse could be commissioned for a shrine situated in the privacy of ones sleeping room. Royal Staff Finial, African, Kongo Kingdom, Yombe peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 17th 18th century. Ivory with palm oil, 7 7/8 x 2 ¾ x 1 ½ inches. Promised gift of Adele and Donald Hall in honor of the 75th anniversary of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 12.2001.11. The ivory figure, half female and half leopard, appears to represent a founding ancestress of the Yombe. The royal woman holds two gourds that may contain potent medicines associated with rulers occult powers. The snarling leopard with its serpent-headed forepaws is a fearsome representation of royal authority and military prowess. Two spiraled staffs flanking the leopard may be royal mvwala staffs drawing power from the earth and ancestral dead. Ivory and the warm, red tone of this figure, achieved through the application of red palm oil, represent powerful spiritual forces.	<urn:uuid:1d602fb7-f2f3-49d9-a61e-2e2dfa6894f4>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.artdaily.com/section/lastweek/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=35656&int_modo=2	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.944313	1,817	1.65625	2
\|Back to News Release Index\| For Release: Nov. 3, 1998 Visit Full-Scale Mock-Up of International Space Station at Alabama A&M University in Huntsville, Ala., Nov. 14 Visitors can "experience" how astronauts will work and live aboard the International Space Station when full-scale, walk-through mock-ups of the Station's Laboratory and crew living quarters are open free to the public Saturday, Nov. 14, in Huntsville, Ala. The hands-on NASA exhibit - contained in two 48-foot trailers - will be open on Saturday during the Alabama A&M University and Alcorn State University football game. The exhibit is a featured part of NASA Day for high school seniors visiting Alabama A&M from across the Southeast. The public is also invited to view the exhibit. Alabama A&M will charge $3 to park in the vicinity of the stadium where the exhibit will be located. The first parts of the real Space Station are scheduled to be launched this month - marking the beginning of several years of assembling the mammoth Station in Earth orbit. Now, those of us on Earth can get a glimpse into the future. "Our Space Station replica is as realistic as we can make it - without removing gravity," said John Dumoulin (pronounced DOO-muh-lin), exhibits manager at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. "Walk into this exhibit, and you'll get a feel for what it will be like to be an astronaut aboard the Space Station." Visitors will walk away with new knowledge of how science research aboard the Space Station will lead to a better quality of life on Earth, through improved health care and treatment, next-generation commercial products and better manufacturing processes. The crew's living quarters is where the international team of astronauts and researchers will sleep, exercise, relax and prepare their meals. One can step into the astronauts' shower and bathroom compartments, peer into storage drawers, zip-up in an astronaut sleeping bag and peer out a porthole at the Earth. Then pass through the connector into the Space Station's sophisticated science laboratory. "This laboratory represents what the International Space Station is all about," said Dumoulin. "It will be a permanent orbiting science institute, where long-duration materials and life sciences research will be conducted. The Space Station will accelerate breakthroughs in science, technology and engineering - with practical applications for us back here on Earth." Along the walls of the exhibit's laboratory, visitors will see racks of scientific experiments and research facilities similar to those that will flyaboard the Station. It is here where life sciences research will take place - where the basic workings of the human body will be studied to learn better ways to adapt to living in space. These studies also can lead to improved treatments for people who suffer from physical disabilities on Earth. As visitors glance at the racks of experiments, they can ask the NASA staff about the study of cell and tissue growth in space - investigations that will help scientists better understand the role gravity plays in how cells join together to create healthy or unhealthy tissue. Look above and below at the racks mounted in the floor and ceiling. These depict facilities that will help scientists study materials and fluids. Aboard the Space Station, scientists will conduct experiments to find better ways to produce electronic materials such as semiconductors and superconductors, and crystals for lasers, computer chips and solar cells. Other Space Station experiments will examine the behavior of fluids in microgravity. The International Space Station is the largest international science and technology endeavor in history, drawing on the resources and scientific expertise of the United States, Canada, Japan, 11 European countries, Russia and Brazil. NOTE TO EDITORS / NEWS DIRECTORS: NASA representatives will be available for interviews on-site. NASA managers are available for telephone or television interviews to explain how Space Station research could one day improve the quality of life for people in your community. For additional information, to set up interviews or request photos or video, please call Tim Tyson at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., at (256) 544-0994 or the Marshall Space Flight Center Media Relations Office at (256)544-0034.	<urn:uuid:b405bf24-df25-4864-bcbc-3aed80f7dd69>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.msfc.nasa.gov/news/news/releases/1998/98-224.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.909729	869	2.75	3
Children love Bible stories, especially when they are written in age-appropriate, easy-to-understand language. 365 Read-Aloud Bedtime Bible Stories, written specifically for ages 3 to 8, has a year's supply of the best-loved Bible stories that will delight your children. All the excitement, adventure, history, and spiritual truths of the Bible are skillfully presented. At the end of each story you'll even find questions to help stimulate discussion, and to help precious young minds understand God's Word. Now your can make the most of bedtime with 365 Read-Aloud Bedtime Bible Stories! Although there are times when a certain amount of stress can be good, more often it comes as an undesirable blow to our system - just as welcome as the circumstances causing it. If you're looking for ways to reduce the amount of stress in your life, this booklet will help. You'll not only learn how stress works (an important part of overcoming it!), but you'll discover what to do the next time you feel it creeping into your life. Why do we settle for weak, vague prayers, couching our requests in words like "just be with Bob" or "bless Janet in her time of need"? God wants us to be bold and direct in our prayers. It's time to pray big to unleash the power of God in the big and the small things. Will Davis Jr. calls this kind of specific and biblical prayer "pinpoint prayer." He offers straightforward guidance on how you can call on God with focus and confidence when praying for big miracles, small details, other people, and, yes, even yourself. He teaches you how to pray the Bible back to God and includes one hundred pinpoint prayers based directly on Scripture. Each chapter ends with questions to guide small group discussion and help you develop a more focused, passionate prayer life.	<urn:uuid:8883c2d0-0126-4e1d-9de9-d2dba178ed83>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://godstweet.com/home.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.943881	380	2.09375	2
Sign-in to your account to find out the status of your proposal, or to update your current research project. Current Research Projects Project Title Identification of Novel Genetic Risk Factors that Contribute to the Risk for Breast Cancer Researcher: Paul Goodfellow, PhD, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, and Jennifer Ivanovich, MS, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO at Washington University School of Medicine Study Abstract: Breast cancer takes its greatest toll on young women. Young women frequently have biologically aggressive tumors. They often present with advanced disease and their tumors are frequently hormone non-responsive, thereby limiting treatment options. Young women suffer lower than average disease-free and overall survival. The work proposed is focused on discovery of the as yet unknown genetic risk factors that underlie development of early-onset breast cancer. These findings will pave the way for future studies to elucidate how genetic risk and environmental factors interact and account for the aggressive tumors and poor outcome young breast cancer patients experience. We hypothesize copy number variants (CNVs) play an important role in risk for development of early-onset breast cancer. Three inter-related aims are proposed to identify the CNVs and genes they impact that are important in early-onset breast cancer. Aim 1. Assess copy number variants (CNVs) in 120 BRCA1 and BRCA2 negative breast cancer patients diagnosed <40 along with their biologic parents. We will map CNVs at high density in the genomes of 120 early-onset breast cancer patients, comparing their CNV make-up with their parents’. Aim 2. Validate CNVs and evaluate an additional cohort of early-onset breast cancer patients for variants identified in Aim 1. CNVs identified in Aim 1 will be validated using a high resolution custom array to identify candidate breast cancer susceptibility loci. A total of 240 cases will be investigated. Variant-specific PCR amplicons will be developed for a select set of CNVs. Aim 3. Characterize CNVs and candidate genes to determine their role in breast cancer risk. Mutation analysis will be our primary method for determining if a CNV-associated candidate gene is involved in breast cancer risk. Mutations seen in breast cancer cases but not in controls would be taken as evidence for a gene’s role in breast cancer susceptibility. We will investigate families for co-segregation of CNVs with cancer and use family member DNAs to verify and refine interpretation of allelism for CNVs of interest.	<urn:uuid:ce66cdc4-10bf-4274-8dfc-1d843412b3a1>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://researchers.armyofwomen.org/projects_coming_soon/view?grant_id=356	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.910699	527	1.609375	2