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The state of Vermont is nicknamed The Green Mountain State. The population of Vermont is about 617 thousand people. This state ranks 43rd in land area and 49th in population. The largest city in Vermont is Burlington and the capital city is Montpelier.
Tell other MiceChatters what you know about the state of Vermont. If you live there or have vacationed there, take a few minutes to share facts or memories about Vermont.
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“You may own a cool car — you may even own a truly great car — but it’s a cinch that no matter how fantastic it is, it can never be anything more than the second best car in the solar system,” explains Time magazine. “The greatest of all is the Mars Curiosity rover, one ton of SUV-size machine now 160 million miles from Earth and trundling across the Martian surface.”
Time explains that it was the rover’s landing on Mars last August “that first caught people’s eyes: an improbable operation that required a hovering mother ship to lower the rover to the surface on cables like a $2.5 billion marionette.”
“But it’s the two years of exploration Curiosity has ahead of it — with a suite of instruments 10 times as large as any ever carried to Mars before — that will make real news. NASA built the country one sweet ride, and yes, alas, it’s sweeter than yours.”
Selected among 40 candidates, Time is giving readers a chance to cast their vote for the venerable spacecraft.
Note: But get cracking as you need to vote before 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 12.
The people’s choice winner will be announced on Dec. 14.
Cast your vote by going to the Time poll at: http://ti.me/WEZT8y
By Leonard David
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By Nathan Maton
What can possibly get kids excited to learn a dead language? This was the challenge for Latin teacher Kevin Ballestrini.
Ideally, he could take the entire class to Rome and walk them through the ruins, where they could practice speaking the language while learning the history. He found a way to do it — at least in the virtual world.
Ballestrini has turned his introductory Latin class at Connecticut’s Norwich Free Academy into an alternate reality. The students’ job: to save the world by joining a shadowy organization on a quest to find the Lapis Saeculōrum that was part of an Ancient Roman society.
“Mr. Bal told us this isn’t school anymore,” says 10th-grader Caroline Scheck. “He told us, ‘You’re on a mission to save the world.’ Naturally, we all thought he was crazy. He even asked, ‘Who thinks I’m crazy?’ and a few of us raised our hands.”
But there’s a method to the madness. “It’s a mix of a role-playing game and an alternate reality game,” Ballestrini says. Students play the role of Romans in a reconstruction of ancient Pompeii (or ancient Rome) and have to learn to think, act, create and write like a Roman in order to win the game. And those are the same goals of any introductory Latin course.
Using an online portal, student teams direct their character in Latin to find mysterious inscriptions on stones and solve mysteries. Then they can see how other teams’ characters responded to the prompts. Much of the action takes place in the “TSTT-interface – a sophisticated simulation cleverly disguised as an Internet forum. Each night, the students receive, in a forum post that pretends to be a “TSTT immersion session,” a new piece of the narrative and a prompt to which their team’s Roman must respond.
“Each individual student is responsible for his or her contribution so the group product is never anything that affects their grades,” Ballestrini says. “I give experience points for completing tasks instead of grades, and then when it’s time to report grades, the student and I have a conversation about their progress and decide the right grade.”
In its second year, the game is now being run in 30 classrooms across the country and can be done with as little tech as pen and paper or as fully tech integrated as mobile phones and a full Web site. Ballistrini is excited to see the game expanding beyond just his classroom. He’s started a company with his research partner Roger Travis to capture this new style of learning through engaging games.
But most importantly, his students are loving it, too.
“Latin is my favorite class,” said Peter Liang, a 9th grader in Ballestrini’s class. “I look forward to it every day. The class is funny because some missions, you have to go back in time and create a battle scene. It’s so much better than learning from a book! We go on a Web site and get to use Latin every day. And not just for 60 minutes in class. We have to think of sentence structures and the online opportunity.”
Another student observes a huge difference in how the game format has helped her learn this obsolete language. “I took Spanish for four years and I don’t think I’ve learned as much as I have in that class as I have in just two months,” said Caroline Scheck. “I can write sentences because we’re using it like we’re writing a story. As a child, you’d learn Latin by people speaking to you in sentences. You know how sometimes in languages you just learn words and then later on you use sentences? This time, we’re just learning it as if someone was speaking to us.”
Apart from student engagement, Ballestrini believes this class structure accomplishes a few other important objectives: It matches the exact curriculum goals, teaches students to flex their online skills, and it alerts him to potential problems in students’ learning process. The students who are excelling mentor the struggling students, as together they figure out the correct Latin text that will control the character.
What’s more, Ballestrini feels he gets to know his students better.
“Each night, I get to see insights into their thinking in ways I’ve never been able to see before,” he says. “It allows me some great affordances where I can jump in at 7:30 at night and say, ‘You’re on track,’ or, ‘There’s a conceptual problem and let’s take a look at why.’ So rather than coming into class with their homework done entirely wrong, I’m catching the misconceptions well in advance, I’m doing work I feel is more productive and have a better understanding of what they’re understanding.”
Is his experiment a success? It may be too early to tell, but it will be interesting to see if the game successfully transfers to the other 30 courses.
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Silver coin of Pope Clement X
From : Rome
Date: AD 1675
The pope is the leader of the Catholic church, based in Rome in Italy. In medieval times the pope had enormous power across Europe. In the 17th and 18th centuries, popes often had coins made which showed important events that had happened during their time as pope. By doing this, each pope let people know what he had achieved.
This silver coin is called a piastra. It shows pilgrims arriving at St Peter's Cathedral in Rome for a Jubilee, a special festival held by the pope every twenty-five years. Pope Clement, who organized this one, is pictured on the other side of the coin.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation hopes to save lives by limiting the time truckers spend behind the wheel.
Veteran trucker Jerry Aimsworth drives cross country for a living, pulling long hours for the long haul. Starting January 4, Jerry's schedule will change as the U.S. Department of Transportation ushers in new hours of service rule, limiting truckers to 11 hours behind the wheel in a 14-hour day.
It's designed to cut the number of collisions due to driver fatigue, but most truckers say it's steering towards bigger problems.
Truckers like Neil Kerhli says the new rule leaves time for breaks far and few between. Intrastate drivers in Florida don't need to worry about the rule curbing their drive time.
U.S. DOT officials say the new guidelines are based on recognized sleep patterns and will save 75 lives a year. The new hours of service rule represents the first major rewrite of those regulations in more than 60 years.
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Our first thought, and yours: Was Brown’s former dean and erstwhile free-speech advocate Alexander Meiklejohn moonlighting as an obscure mononymous silent film star?
No he wasn’t, but apparently William Meiklejohn (1903-1981), also known as “The Starmaker,” was a renowned talent agent who represented Lucille Ball, Nat King Cole and Judy Garland. Today he is best remembered for discovering a young Ronald Reagan. As far as Wikipedia knows, he bore no relation to the Brown guy. His first name didn’t make it onto the star because he inexplicably had to share the honor with brother Campbell Meiklejohn, who managed the Grauman’s Egyptian Theater.
If you dare venture down the cavalcade of blood, grime and tears that is the Hollywood Walk of Fame, you can find the Meiklejohn star at 1777 Vine, between Hollywood and Yucca.
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Ever wondered what actually goes on inside a cancer research lab?
The Birmingham Cancer Research UK Centre is a partnership between Cancer Research UK, the University of Birmingham, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Birmingham Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust.
Yesterday, the centre’s staff – scientists, doctors, nurses and others – took to Twitter, to show what an average day of researching and treating cancer looks like.
It all looked like great fun, and if you want to scroll back through the day’s chatter you can search Twitter for “#bhamcancerday”.
But as well as this, Cancer Research UK funded PhD student Beckie Port – one of the brains behind the day – has put together this short slideshow of the day’s pictures, and collected them together on the Storify website. Do have a look:
The Centre’s also having an open day on Weds 10th April, where you’ll have a chance to chat to cancer research scientists and doctors, and understand more about how discoveries are being taken from the lab into treatments designed to benefit cancer patients.
If you’re in the area, you can register here.
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From U.S. Civil War to Afghanistan: A Short History of UAVs
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 16, 2002 During the American Civil War, both sides tried to use rudimentary unmanned aerial vehicles.
According to Dyke Weatherington, deputy of the Defense UAV Office, Union and Confederate forces launched balloons loaded with explosive devices. The idea, he said, was for the balloons to come down inside a supply or ammunition depot and explode. "It wasn't terribly effective," he said during a recent interview.
The Japanese tried a similar ploy late in World War II. They launched balloon bombs laden with incendiary and other explosives. The theory was high-altitude winds would carry the balloons over the United States, where the bombs would start forest fires and cause panic and mayhem. The Japanese weren't able to gauge their success and so called it a flop and quit after about a month.
The United States also tried a type of UAV during World War II called Operation Aphrodite. "There were some rudimentary attempts to use manned aircraft in an unmanned role. The limitation there was, we didn't have the technology to launch these systems on their own and control them" Weatherington said.
Allied forces used the modified manned aircraft basically as cruise missiles. The idea was a pilot would take off, get the plane to altitude, ensure it was stable and then pass control to another aircraft through a radio link before bailing out.
It was on one such top-secret Operation Aphrodite mission in 1944 that President John Kennedy's older brother, Navy Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., died when his bomber mysteriously exploded after takeoff.
During the Vietnam War, technology started to make UAVs more effective. Weatherington said they were used fairly extensively and were called drones.
Large numbers of modified Firebee drones overflew North Vietnam. The aircraft, about the size of today's Predator UAV, launched first for simple day reconnaissance missions at varying altitude levels. "They had conventional cameras in them," Weatherington said. "Later on, they were used for other missions such as night photo, comint and elint, leaflet dropping and surface-to-air missile (SAM) radar detection, location and identification."
One of these Firebees hangs in the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, amassing over 65 individual missions. As a whole, Firebees flew over 3,400 sorties during the Vietnam War.
Several of the UAVs we know today owe much to Israel, which develops UAVs aggressively. The U.S. Hunter and Pioneer UAVs are direct derivatives of Israeli systems, Weatherington said.
The Navy and Marine Corps operate the Pioneer UAV system has been in operation since 1985. Once during Desert Storm, Iraqi troops actually surrendered to a Pioneer.
At the time, the battleship USS Missouri used its Pioneer to spot for its 16-inch main guns and devastate the defenses of Faylaka Island, which is off the Kuwaiti coast near Kuwait City.
Shortly after, while still over the horizon and invisible to the defenders, the USS Wisconsin deliberately flew its Pioneer low over Faylaka Island. When the Iraqi defenders heard the sound of the UAV's two-cycle engine, they knew they were targeted for more naval shelling. The Iraqis signaled surrender by waving handkerchiefs, undershirts and bed sheets.
Following the Gulf War, military officials recognized the worth of the unmanned systems. The Predator started life as an Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration project. The program hurried the development of the Predator along, and it demonstrated its worth in the skies over the Balkans.
The Predator operates between 15,000 and 25,000 feet. It carries three sensor systems: a color video camera and synthetic-aperture radar.
The Air Force has also placed Hellfire missiles aboard the Predator. In the near future, the UAV might aim a laser at a target and attack it. The combat Predator can also mark targets with its laser for other aircraft or read targets marked by other sources.
Predator is not an all-weather system, however. As an result of lessons-learned in the Balkans, Predator employs a simple anti-icing system allows it to exit the icing condition but will not allow it to conduct continuous operations in the condition. The new Predator B has a number of characteristics that will better allow it to deal with a wider range of environmental events including icing conditions.
The Global Hawk is a jet-powered UAV taking to the skies over Afghanistan. Still under development, it is at the same stage the Predator was when it first flew over Bosnia. The Global Hawk operates around 60,000 feet, and its suite of sensors is akin to what the U-2 reconnaissance plane carries.
Global Hawk does not carry a very sophisticated signal intelligence system, Weatherington said. But, tests show the Global Hawk has great potential in this area and the Air Force continues to develop its full capability.
Persistence is a unique capability for UAVs, Weatherington said. The Predator can stay in the air for up to 40 hours. The Global Hawk -- at ranges measured in thousands of miles -- can loiter in an area for more than 24 hours.
So what's up for the future in UAVs? The Air Force and Navy are designing and testing combat UAVs. The Army is developing a tactical UAV called Shadow 200. This will give leaders "over-the-hill" surveillance capabilities. The Marine Corps has Dragon Eye, a small, hand launched UAV that can give small-unit leaders a picture of the battleground.
Some UAVs under development will be "as small as your hand," Weatherington said. "In the future it may be that a small UAV could fly into the window of a building, land at some innocuous location and observe activities."
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|The Quest to Predict the Next Space "Hurricane" Season||
Violent solar events, like flares and coronal mass ejections, are the hurricanes of space weather, capable of causing havoc with satellites, power grids, and radio communication, including the Global Positioning System. The sun is heading into a new season of turbulent solar activity. Just like its seasonal hurricane predictions, on April 25, 2007, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will issue an update on efforts to predict the sun’s next solar cycle. The solar cycle is about 11 years long and marked by increases in the number of Earth-impacting solar storms and sunspots, dark areas on the sun caused by the intense, unstable magnetic fields that power fierce solar weather. |
Radiation from severe space weather can be hazardous to astronauts as well as spacecraft, so NASA works closely with NOAA to develop better space weather predictions. NASA funded the expert panel developing the NOAA solar cycle prediction, and is sponsoring missions to improve the accuracy of space weather forecasts.
Image left: An artistic illustration of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Print-resolution copy Credit: NASA Courtesy: Ryan Zuber
"NASA wants better short-term forecasts, so astronauts have enough warning to take cover in radiation-shielded areas during solar storms, and better long-term forecasts, so our flight dynamics experts can predict the orbital lifetime of satellites," said Dr. Dean Pesnell of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Solar storms can heat the upper atmosphere, causing it to expand. The expansion makes the atmosphere denser at orbital altitudes, slowing down satellites and causing them to re-enter the atmosphere prematurely, if there is no fuel on board to give them a boost. Pesnell is serving on the NOAA solar cycle prediction panel.
Solar storms begin with tangled magnetic fields generated by the sun’s churning, electrically conducting gas (plasma). Like a rubber band that has been twisted too far, solar magnetic fields can suddenly snap to a new shape, releasing tremendous energy as a solar flare or a coronal mass ejection (CME).
Solar flares are explosions in the sun’s atmosphere, with the largest equal to billions of one-megaton nuclear bombs. Solar magnetic energy can also blast billions of tons of plasma into space at millions of miles (kilometers) per hour as a CME. This violent solar activity often occurs near sunspots, dark regions on the sun caused by concentrated magnetic fields. Sunspots and stormy solar weather follow the eleven-year cycle, from few sunspots and calm to many sunspots and active, and back again.
The latest NASA solar missions aim to track solar storms from their birth on the sun to their impact with Earth. Understanding how solar energy flows and interacts with Earth in more detail is key to improving space weather forecasts.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is scheduled for launch in August 2008. It will take a closer look at the origin of solar storms. It will peer deep inside the sun, to where the solar magnetic field is generated. SDO will also see how magnetic energy is released by the solar atmosphere. By observing how solar magnetic energy is generated, structured, and released, SDO will improve our understanding of how solar storms develop.
NASA's STEREO mission will track solar storms in three dimensions. Launched on October 25, 2006, the twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory spacecraft are orbiting the sun, one slightly ahead of Earth and one slightly behind, separating from each other by approximately 45 degrees per year. Just as the slight offset between your eyes provides you with depth perception, this separation of the spacecraft allows them to take 3-D images and particle measurements of the sun.
Image right: This is an artist's concept of the STEREO spacecraft. In reality, the spacecraft are much farther apart. Print-resolution copy Credit: NASA
STEREO's depth perception will improve forecasts of the arrival time and effects of Earthbound CMEs. The CME cloud is laced with magnetic fields, and CMEs directed our way smash into Earth's magnetic field. If the CME magnetic fields have the proper orientation, they dump energy and particles into Earth's magnetic field, causing magnetic storms that can overload power line equipment and radiation storms that disrupt satellites.
Satellite and utility operators can take precautions to minimize CME damage, but they need an accurate forecast of when the CME will arrive. To do this, forecasters need to know the location of the front of the CME cloud. STEREO will allow scientists to accurately locate the CME cloud front, improving estimates of the arrival time from within a day or so to just a few hours. STEREO will also help forecasters estimate how severe the resulting magnetic storm will be by revealing the 3D structure of the CME cloud. Forecasters can trace this back to the structures on the sun. Since they know the orientation of solar magnetic fields, they will be able to match them up with the CME cloud structure, and determine the orientation of the CME magnetic field. With the magnetic orientation, forecasters can tell if the CME cloud will cause a severe magnetic storm.
NASA's THEMIS mission will also help improve the understanding of severe space weather effects on Earth. The THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) mission will discover what causes intense displays of the aurora (northern and southern lights), called substorms. Just as severe thunderstorms are accompanied by hail and tornadoes, it is believed that some of the most intense space storms – the ones producing the most penetrating radiation – are accompanied by substorms. Meteorologists study tornadoes to understand severe thunderstorms, and space weather forecasters want to study substorms for insight into severe space storms.
Image left: This is an artist's concept of the THEMIS main orbits, represented by red ovals. Blue lines represent the Earth's magnetic field. The white flash represents energy released during substorms. The THEMIS spacecraft will line up at midnight over the United States every four days. The distances range from about half the distance to the moon to about a sixth of the distance to the moon. This position will help scientists pinpoint exactly when and where substorms occur. Print-resolution copy Credit: NASA
Like the wind that comes with turbulent weather on Earth, the sun continuously blows a diffuse wind of plasma into space that can cause severe space weather. The solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic field to generate substorms. A substorm acts like a slingshot: it is an abrupt release of stored solar wind energy in near-Earth space, signified by a sudden eruption of the aurora.
Substorms start from a small region in space but within minutes cover a vast area of the magnetosphere, the zone of space dominated by Earth's magnetic field. Their trigger has been a tantalizing, 30-year-old mystery - the Holy Grail of space physics. Different possible triggers have different locations, so the key to solving this mystery is finding the elusive substorm point of origin. Since the magnetosphere is huge, extending past the moon's orbit on Earth's night side, a single spacecraft is not enough to find the trigger.
Launched on February 17, 2007, THEMIS will resolve this mystery, utilizing coordinated measurements from a fleet of five satellites strategically placed in key positions in the magnetosphere. This is the largest number of scientific satellites NASA has ever launched into orbit aboard a single rocket.
Innovative missions like SDO, STEREO, and THEMIS promise to yield the breakthroughs in space weather prediction needed as our high-technology civilization becomes increasingly vulnerable to hurricanes in space.
+ Space Weather Workshop
+ NOAA Solar Cycle forecast
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Rosental in Carinthia
The Rosental is a valley in the south of Austria, or more precisely, in the province of Carinthia. The Rosental is approximately 40 kilometres long and the river Drau runs through it. The Slovenian name of the Rosental is "Roz", which is taken seriously, as there is a small, but noisy Slovenian minority that lives there. The two mountain ranges in which the Rosental runs in between are the Sattnitz in the north and the Karawanken in the south. Following the course of the Drau, you will ultimately leave the Rosental and go into the Jauntal valley.
The name of the valley means "valley of roses", but in fact, it is derived from the term "rasa" after a local landlord, the Sir of Ras. The name was first mentioned in a written document from 876 - precisely a century before Austria was founded. Back then, the knights of Ras, also called of Rasek built a castle, the Burg Altrosegg. This was done in today′s village of Rosegg (you guess where that name is derived from). Since 1227, the name "Rastal" is recorded to refer to the entire Rosental.
Tourism in the Rosental: What to Do & Where
Officially, the Rosental is one of Carinthia′s designated tourist destinations. However, it is not a very touristy area at all. Visitors might find good opportunities for hiking and families will discover a few nice day-trip destinations. But keep in mind that the Rosental is more of a "meet-real-Austrians" kind of thing that lacks the stunning scenery and kick-butt attractions of Carinthia′s lake area or the properly Alpine regions in the north of the province.
Today, the valley is fairly densely populated. The most important towns and villages are Ferlach, Feistritz, St. Jakob im Rosental, St. Margareten im Rosental and Gallizien. In the early 20th century, when the railway network in Alpine regions was quickly developed, a railway was built along the Rosental. This railway is still being operated, but in rather bad shape. There are several industrial companies in Feistritz that need access to the railway system for transportation; they ensure the survival of the railway, despite of its bad shape and need for renovation.
Note that the number of trains for transportation is very limited and that they are likely to be ended altogether soon. For international visitors with a keen interest in trains, the summer months might be more appealing. For special occasions and on certain dates, steam trains run on the railway, the so-called "Rosentaler Dampfbummelzüge". These trains are also activated on St. Nicolas′ Day (6th of December) and for Christmas.
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The settlement of Texas dates back almost 12,000 years ago, to the first evidence of Native American occupation. This two-part video traces the settlement of our Lone Star State up through 1836: from those early times, up to the arrival of the Spanish and French, and including the influx of the Americans.
In the first half of this program we traced the earliest settlement of our state by Native Americans. This second half picks up with the arrival of the Spanish and French to Texas. We'll examine early relations between these Europeans and the Indians of Texas.
We'll look at both the Presidio and Mission systems in Texas, giving the viewer a close-up look at Spanish Texas and what it would have been like to live as a soldier or missionary during those times.
We'll travel across Texas, visiting some of the earliest farming and ranching communities that date back to the 1700s. Next we'll move onto the arrival of the Americans and the period up through the Texas Revolution, a period of dramatic change in Texas.
From the missions of East Texas and San Antonio, to the early settlements near Zapata and Nacogdoches, we'll experience a wide array of differing cultures, lifestyles and geography, spanning three centuries, from 1528 to 1836. Hundreds of artifacts, paintings, drawings, maps, graphics and present-day footage of historical sites give a comprehensive and in-depth look at this time period.
Some of the state's foremost historians such as Frank de la Teja, Steve Hardin, Caroline Castillo Crimm and Robert Schaadt help provide analysis and insight into this exciting frontier chapter of Texas History. This two-part series is an indispensable guide to a period in Texas History that does not usually receive a lot of attention. Yet this is a critical time in our history, a time that in many ways created and shaped the Lone Star culture and way of life that we know and enjoy today.
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Mayor Annise Parker will take the initial ride and unveil plans for the city’s public bike share program, known as Houston B-cycle. B-cycle is perfect for on street bike trips that are too far to walk, but too short to drive. Houston B-cycle will initially launch downtown with 18 bikes and 3 stations at City Hall, Market Square Park, and the George R. Brown Convention Center.
By the end of the year, the City hopes to have 200 bikes and more than 20 stations in downtown and other areas throughout Houston. Parker will discuss funding, hours of operation, membership fees and inaugurate the program by being the first to ride on the bikes.
Houston is one of 15 U.S. cities including Chicago, Washington DC, Denver, CO and New York to provide bike sharing as an active transportation solution for their cities.
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Editor's note: Are you experiencing weather related to Debby? Share your images with CNN iReport. Always use caution near floodwaters.
(CNN) -- Tropical Storm Debby shriveled to a tropical depression after hitting Florida on Tuesday, but it still packed heavy rains that threatened to worsen flooding along the Gulf Coast and inland towns, forecasters reported.
Debby lumbered onto the marshy west coast near Steinhatchee, about 160 miles north of Tampa, on Tuesday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center announced. But it was projected to dump another 4 to 8 inches of precipitation across the area through Wednesday evening, on top of the 2 feet reported in some towns south of Tallahassee by Tuesday.
In addition, storm and tidal surges caused flooding as far south as the Tampa Bay area, and it's blamed for one death from a tornado spawned Sunday afternoon in the town of Venus, far inland.
As of 8 p.m. ET, Debby had top winds of 35 mph. It was centered about 50 miles west of Gainesville, moving east-northeast at 6 mph and wasn't expected to lose much strength as it crossed the Florida peninsula, forecasters said.
Tropical storm warnings up and down the coast were dropped as the depression moved inland, but the storm left high water behind in several towns as it passed.
In Sopchoppy, westward across Apalachee Bay from the landfall site, Crystal Pesek said she got a text message from her sister Tuesday morning, asking how the work on her kitchen cabinets was going.
"I told her it's on hold," said Pesek. That's because the home she and her husband have spent hours painstakingly renovating was underwater.
"It's on pilings," Larry Pesek said. "The water's never been that high before, that goes without saying. It's just heartbreaking because we've put so much time and effort into the house."
In Sopchoppy, authorities rescued 57 people from homes surrounded by rising water, said Keith Blackmar of the Wakulla County Sheriff's Office.
"It's astonishing. I've never seen anything like this," Blackmar said Tuesday. "Our soil is sandy, so it handles water well, but not this much rain."
"The water levels came up so fast some of the folks didn't have time to actually pack their things and move out, so they're having to do it after the fact," Wakulla County Undersheriff Maurice Langston told CNN.
Florida State University researcher Jeff Chanton said the area's low-lying terrain contributes to the misery.
"The coastal gradient -- the rise of the land -- is very, very low here," Chanton said. "If you were to go swimming here and walk out from shore, you could walk out half a mile." That means a relatively small storm surge can push water "tens or hundreds of feet onshore," he said.
"When you get a lot of rain, it tends to spread out," said Chanton, a geochemist. "So the rivers have large floodplains, and the water gets very wide when it gets wet like this."
Storm surges along Apalachee Bay were expected to run 2 to 4 feet, with 1- to 3-foot tidal flooding expected to the south, including Tampa Bay, the hurricane center said.
More than 26 inches of rain had been recorded in Sanborn, south of Tallahassee, by Tuesday morning. Nearby St. Marks saw nearly 22 inches. Other areas on the north side of Apalachee Bay clocked in with between 15 and 20 inches.
Flooding and at least one sinkhole cut off parts of Interstate 10, one of the state's major thoroughfares, state transportation officials reported.
The Suwannee River surged more than 25 feet in a day, rising from 55 feet deep at White Springs, west of Jacksonville, on Monday to nearly 81 feet on Tuesday afternoon. That's about 4 feet over flood stage.
"We have significant flooding problems," said Harvey Campbell, a spokesman for Columbia County's emergency operations center. "I have people who don't remember in their lifetime the kind of rain we had overnight."
In Pasco County, north of Tampa, authorities issued a mandatory evacuation order Tuesday for 2,000 homes along the Cotee River. Officials were traveling by boat and car to get the word out, and water was standing in some homes as of Tuesday, county spokesman Eric Keaton.
Another area river, the Anclote, was above flood stage on Tuesday, and water is not expected to recede for two days. A total of 106 homes in the county are reported damaged, Keaton said.
President Barack Obama called Florida Gov. Rick Scott Tuesday "to ensure the state had no unmet needs as the governor and his team continue to respond to extreme weather and flooding," the White House said.
Flooding was seen as far south as Fort Myers, where the Caloosahatchee River overflowed its banks into the downtown area. CNN iReporter Alex Butler, who is also a reporter at CNN affiliate WFTX, said normally there is a wall separating the land from the river, but the wall was underwater Tuesday.
Obama "expressed his condolences for the loss of life as well as the extensive damage to homes in Florida as a result of the storm, and reiterated that his administration -- through (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) -- would remain in close contact with the state as they continued to respond to this event and stood ready to provide additional assistance if necessary," the White House said.
At the state's request, a FEMA liaison officer was on site at the Florida state emergency operations center, according to the White House.
Scott declared a state of emergency Monday "so we can coordinate the use of all state resources to make sure we can respond promptly if anything happens."
Near Tampa, wildlife officials assessed weather conditions so they could assist a manatee calf whose mother was found dead. Residents tied the mother to a sea wall so the calf wouldn't leave its side. An adult male manatee was also staying with the mother and calf.
The calf's mother was moved, and officials discovered the calf was older than initially thought, so it was allowed to swim away into Tampa Bay, said Andy Garrette of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
CNN's George Howell, Sean Morris, Matt Smith, Ashley Hayes, Sarah Dillingham, Kim Segal, John Zarrella, Rich Phillips and Dave Alsup contributed to this report.
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Foods of Iraq: Enshrined With A Long History
Iraqi cuisine has a long history going back some 10,000 years - to the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians and ancient Persians. Tablets found in the ruins left by these ancient peoples show recipes prepared in the temples during religious festivals - in reality the first cookbooks in the world. Iraq, the Mesopotamia of the ancients, was home to many dazzling and sophisticated civilizations, highly advanced in their times, in all fields of knowledge, including the culinary arts.
However, it was in the medieval era when Baghdad was the capital of a large Muslim Empire that the Iraqi kitchen reached its zenith. However, after the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258 A.D., this world-class cuisine declined, but was somewhat revived in the last century by the commercial and cultural interaction with the countries of the Mediterranean area and the world beyond.
Today, the foods of Iraq reflect this rich inheritance as well as strong influences from the culinary traditions of Turkey and Iran and the Greater Syria area. Because of all these traditions and complex influences, Iraqi cuisine is enormously rich and varied.
Nawal Nasrallah, food historian and author of Delights from the Garden of Eden: A Cookbook and a History of the Iraqi Cuisine, has written a very interesting book about the Iraqi cuisine and its history. It contains more than four hundred recipes, each introduced by thoroughly researched historical and cultural narratives. It is the most comprehensive work in the English language which tells the fascinating story of the Iraqi kitchen. Leafing through its pages one can easily perceive the richness of the Iraqi culinary arts through the ages.
As in the other countries of the Middle East, chicken and, especially lamb are the favorite meats. Because of this large consumption of lamb and other meat, Iraqi cuisine is rich in protein and iron. With the exception of most appetizers and salads, regular daily dishes are usually based on red meat - in many cases, marinated with garlic, lemon and spices, then grilled over charcoal. However, even though the grilling of kabab (skewered chunks of lamb or chicken) is the most preferred, quzi (grilled whole lamb stuffed with rice, almonds, raisins and spices) and kubbah (minced meat ground with burghul or rice and spices) are close runners-up.
Unlike the other neighboring Arab countries, Iraqis add raisins and other fruits to their stuffing's for fowls. Stuffed vegetables such as Dolma, are much favored, as is rice. Hardly any meal is served without rice - usually Basmati variety, grown in the swamps of the south and west of Baghdad. Butter and yogurt are other essentials in Iraqi cooking. Often food is prepared with butter, while yogurt is often consumed with the main meal as a drink or sauce, or just as a side dish. Burghul (cooked, dried, then crushed wheat) is often found on the menus - having been a staple in the country since the days of the ancient Assyrians.
On the other hand, the most renowned dish in Iraq is masgouf (an Iraqi grilled fish speciality). It is simply an opened fish, spiced with salt, pepper and tamarind, then placed on wooden sticks and barbecued in front of a large flame . It is usually served with rice, cooked with tomato paste, or rice prepared with saffron, along with salad and pickles. However, in the last few decades masgouf has become extremely expensive, making it a dish only for special occasions.
For enhancing the food, baharat, a mixture of spices, usually including cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, cumin, coriander and paprika, which is used in Gulf and Iraqi cooking, is commonly employed. This combination of spices may vary from region to region, as well as the amount used, but not to a great degree. As a rule, the Iraqi cuisine is not overly spicy.
Most meals are accompanied by samoons - a type of Iraqi bread, which is also served for snacks with a variety of appetizers, cheeses, olives, and jams. Fruits and vegetables are usually on the daily menu, especially the renowned Iraqi dates for which the country is famous. They are sweet and very delicious and they are served, accompanied by coffee, at the end of almost every meal.
Due to the different climatic zones of Iraq, the country produces a great deal of fruits. In the north, with its cold winter weather, apples, pears, peaches, plums and all types of nuts thrive; in the hot and humid south, a rich variety of dates (some 120 kinds) flourish; while in the hot and dry center, some of the world's best and sweetest melons are grown.
Even though in the country's larger cities like Baghdad, most of the dishes served in restaurants are standard Middle Eastern and International foods, there is a distinctive style of cooking in Iraq. The country's food is milder, less spicy than some of the other neighboring countries, and more of its dishes have been influenced by its non-Arab neighbors.
These few dishes in a minuscule way tell the story of a cuisine as old as time. However, I have prepared them to my taste. Hence, they are spicier than the regular Iraqi dishes.
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Yogurt and Cucumber - Jajeek
Labana (Yogurt Cheese) Balls
Cold Yogurt and Cucumber Soup - Shawrabat Laban Barida
Eggplant and Laban (Yogurt)
Lentil Soup - Shawrabat 'Adas
Meat and Vegetable Casserole - Tepsi Baytinijan
Rice Kubbah - Kubbat Ruzz
Meat Patties - Kabab Iroog
Date Cookies - Klaychah
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Universal Time (UT)
and World Time Zones
Time in Different Locales
It's easy to know what time it is in your classroom right
now -- just look at the clock. But do you know what time it is in another
classroom across the world? How can you figure this out?
Local Time Using World Time Zones
One way is to use world time zones to count how many hours different a location
is from you. The twenty-four time zones correspond to meridians of longitude.
Specifically, the zones are spaced 15 degrees apart, and each time zone
differs from its adjacent time zone by one hour (earlier or later). That
way, the times in each zone align with the local solar times of sunrise
using the time zones can be confusing for several reasons. First, some
countries have several different time zones, and those local zones don't
always align perfectly with specific longitude lines. Also, remember that
with 24 time zones the local time at another location can be anywhere
from 0 to 24 hours different from you, and it can even be a different
Calculating Local Time Using Universal Time
What if you could somehow use just one single uniform time zone all around
the world, would that make it easier to know what the time is at another
location? That's exactly what Universal Time or "UT"
was designed to do--to provide a single time keeping method,
a single time zone, that everyone would understand, and which would avoid
the confusion of local time zones. UT is also called Greenwich Mean Time ("GMT").
is UT Based On?
UT is based on the local time in Greenwich, England. That means that
UT time keeping is the same time as it is in Greenwich England. Because
UT is based on this single time zone, it is a uniform standard time keeping
method. Therefore, if you are using UT to designate a specific time,
your own local time no longer matters.
is UT Used For?
Because UT is an international time keeping standard, it is used in important
applications such as official international matters, railroads, other
mass transit, in military time keeping, and also in scientific applications
such as satellites, weather, or astronomy.
UT was used long ago in sea navigation, in order for sailors to estimate
their approximate longitude coordinate.
This! Plan an International Call Using UT and Time Zones
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• gruntle •
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: 1. [Intransitive] To grumble, complain, grouse, mutter complaints. 2. [Transitive] To assuage, mollify, to put in a good mood (humorous usage according to Merriam-Webster and Encarta).
Notes: As you can see from the two contradictory meanings of today's Good Word, there is some disagreement as to how it is to be used. Most of us avoid it, assuming that disgruntle is an orphan negative (a negative without a corresponding positive antonym, like inept). A few writers, beginning with P. G. Wodehouse in Code of Woosters (1938), have created gruntle by removing the dis- from disgruntle and reversing the meaning, e.g. "I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled." Obviously, the aim here is humor.
In Play: In fact, the verb gruntle has been around since the turn of the 15th century with the first meaning above: "Several members of the choir are gruntling about the new organist's refusal to wear a robe over her flashy dresses." Because it is intransitive, we have to use a preposition like about with it: "There is no pleasing Andy Madder; he gruntles about everything."
Word History: Since the suffix -le was once a diminutive marker, the original meaning was "to grunt a little, make a small grunt", the sort of sound piglets would make. (In fact, gruntling has served as the term for a piglet in the past.) In this meaning, gruntle was first printed around 1400. Apparently, the prefix dis- was added toward the end of the 17th century to make the intransitive verb transitive. Now writers are taking it off again. The root, grunt, is thought to have an onomatopoetic or imitative origin.
Come visit our website at <http://www.alphadictionary.com> for more Good Words and other language resources!
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STAMFORD, Conn. -- The popularity of on-the-go foods could have more to do with convenience than portability -- indicating an maturation of the category to cover additional uses outside of the "immediate consumption" timeframe for which the products were created, according to a new consumer survey that revealed the majority of consumers said they eat "on-the-run meals" in the home.
No longer confined to dashboard dining, these items -- from numerous venues ranging from quick-service and casual dining restaurants to supermarket delis and fresh-meals merchandisers -- are becoming much more ingrained in the routine of daily life by their arrival on the dining room table.
In fact, 72% of those polled said they consumed portable foods at home, followed by the car (44%), at the office (39%), at a recreational activity (17%) and at school (14%), according to the online survey of 500 shoppers, conducted by research firm InsightExpress.
Regardless of use, the popularity of portable foods appears to be growing overall, based on survey results. Nine out of 10 consumers said they buy portable foods, and nearly three out of 10 said they are buying more convenience foods this year than last year. For survey purposes, the category was defined as foods that are ready-to-eat, easily prepared and portable.
Lunch is the most popular time for portable foods, with 55% of respondents indicating they eat to-go products as part of their mid-day meal, followed by breakfast (40%), mid-afternoon snacks (38%), and dinner (37%).
Despite their intended portability, convenience foods appeal to consumers for many other reasons, the survey found. Consumers select on-the-go foods based on reduced preparation time (70%), individual packaging (34%), and taste (28%). Nearly three out of four consumers (72%) said portable foods serve as a replacement for the meals or foods they used to eat.
While three out of five Americans said nutrition plays a significant role in deciding what foods to buy, only 21% said they choose convenience foods for a healthy alternative. Yet nearly three out of five (59%) said they would be more likely to buy convenience food products if they were more nutritious.
"With increasing daily time pressures and with more than half of consumers stating that on-the-go food is sometimes used as a meal replacement, this category continues to have enormous potential," said Lee Smith, president and chief operating officer of InsightExpress. "Successful manufacturers will understand how to balance convenience, nutrition and price to attract even more consumers."
Respondents were randomly recruited online to participate in the survey, which was created, distributed and tabulated during a 48-hour period in early April.
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Is it possible to sin while intending to do good?
There are selfless acts where we are harmed by our actions to help others.
The ultimate kind of harm for a Christian is of course eternal damnation.
If a selfless act by one person to help or save other people involves disobedience to one of god's commandments, will it surely result in the doer's damnation? If so, in the balance, has good been done in the world, or evil?
It has become clear to me that my question is quite possibly a duplicate of "Is it possible to sin while intending to do good?", perhaps dependent on interpretation of damnation and sin.
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To address alcohol use among college students, NMSU's Wellness, Alcohol and Violence Education (WAVE) program offers a comprehensive presentation which provides information and strategies proven to help reduce the risks associated with excessive alcohol use. It has been designed by students for students, making it informative, entertaining and engaging. WAVE's educational program helps dispel the myth that "everybody drinks" by promoting the actual facts and statistics for the NMSU campus.
WAVE provides information and printable brochures to provide resources about alcohol and responsible partying and what to do in case of an alcohol-induced emergency.
Tips for Safe Partying
- Plan ahead. Set a limit and stick to it.
- Always have a designated driver.
- Eat before and while you drink to help slow the absorption of alcohol.
- Do NOT play drinking games. You consume alcohol too fast to realize how intoxicated it is making you.
- Know how much you are drinking. 1 drink = 1 4-5 oz. glass of wine, 1 12 oz. beer, 1 shot of 80-proof liquor. Mixed drinks may be more than one serving!
- Use the buddy system. Stick together and make sure you look out for each other.
Keep an eye on your drink to protect yourself from date rape drugs - both men and women are at risk of being drugged.
- Don't drink from punch bowls or pitchers - they are easy to drug and it is difficult to keep track of how much you are drinking.
- Look around and notice that not everyone is getting trashed - only a few people are really drinking heavily, and they are often doing something embarrassing! It's okay not to drink!
Crimson Cab Service
ASNMSU offers the Crimson Cab, a service that offers a FREE taxi ride to a residential location in Las Cruces. With proof of valid NMSU ID-students can use this free service to ensure student safety. The service will not provide transportation to a commercial location. Crimson cab is available from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. seven days a week at (575) 524-TAXI.
Marijuana is the second most used drug. The syndrome characterized by a pattern of energy loss, diminished school performance, harmed relationships, and other behavorial disruptions, has been associated with prolonged marijuana use by young persons.
- Among the known effects of marijuana:
- Short-term memory impairment and slowness of learning
- Impaired lung function similar to that found in cigarette smokers
- Decreases sperm count/interference with ovulation and pre-natal development
- Impaired immune response
- Possible adverse effects on heart function
In a 2007 NMSU core survey, 63% of NMSU students never smoked marijuana in the last year.
Marijuana taken with Alcohol
- When marijuana is taken and used with alcohol the effects of both drugs are increased. Drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana can cause decreased motor control and mental confusion, which can greatly impair your ability to drive.
- Marijuana also decreases the gag reflex, making it difficult for a person to rid their body of alcohol when the body needs to.
New Mexico Poison Control Center
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How Employers and New College Hires Can Work Together In 2013
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Can U.S. employers and newly minted college graduates -- just six months from entering the tough U.S. job market -- get along without driving each other crazy?
Call them the odd couple of the U.S. employment market. Employers have been reluctant to hire your workers, and the unemployment rate for the 24-and-under demographic approaches 12%.
Young workers, especially college graduates looking for an immediate return on their cash-sucking tuition costs, aren't thrilled that companies aren't exactly welcoming them with open arms.
U.S. companies expect collegiate hires to have good grades and at least some relevant work experience (usually via an internship). But they want so-called "soft skills," too. On the top of their most-wanted list are good communication skills.According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, a Bethlehem, Pa.-based consumer advocacy group, a solid combination of good grades, work experience and a demonstrated aptitude for team skills and communicating is the fastest path to a great job. "Just over 78% of employers screen candidates by GPA," says Marilyn Mackes, executive director at the NACE. "Also important is related work experience. Less than 5% of employers say that work experience doesn't factor into their hiring decisions." Her advice for new college grads looking to break through in the job market is simple: Get good grades and beef up those soft skills by participating in more outside activities, such as doing volunteer work, playing on an intramural team or taking a leadership role in a campus organization. College graduates are also making it clear what they want from hiring companies - cash. That's a departure from years past, when previous graduating classes said they wanted a good health care plan before signing on to a firm. With the advancement of health care reform, though, college graduates, as well as any American between the ages of 18-26, can stay on their parent's health care longer, "making medical benefits somewhat less critical in their list of priorities," says the NACE's Mackes. That changes the equation. "Salary increases, the 401(k) match and various insurances provide a financial net while tuition reimbursement supports the graduate's ability to acquire new skills and gain or retain value in the job market," she says.
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One of the casualties, said Lujan, has been some of the free food and parties that are a staple of life in other state capitals. "There was a lot more of lobbyist entertainment-type things that happened [then] as compared to now."
Arizona was not the first state to enact clean elections reforms. Maine voters approved a clean elections measure by referendum in 1996 and it has remained popular ever since. As in Arizona, candidates can opt in or out of the system, choosing to accept public funding if they decline corporate and other donations. According to the Maine Clean Elections Commission, 80 percent of the members of the state legislature ran for office under the public financing option.
Maine freshman representative Alex Cornell du Houx told ABC News clean elections helped him think about voters, not fundraising. "It allows candidates and public officials to focus on better serving their community," said Cornell du Houx, "as they do not have so much time finding funds."
Connecticut is the latest state to adopt Maine and Arizona-style clean elections reforms. The state was moved to act by the prosecution and conviction of Gov. John Rowland, who went to federal prison in 2005 for having free work done on his home. The election reforms were passed the same year, and implemented in time for the 2008 election. According to Cheri Quickmire of the advocacy group Common Cause Connecticut, about 80 percent of state legislators now serving chose the public financing option.
"People who ran under both systems say it was a sea change in the legislature," she said.
None of the three states that have enacted clean elections reforms have seen a widespread corruption scandal among elected state officials in recent years.
But clean elections reforms have not been implemented without hiccups. New Jersey and Massachusetts, have implemented reforms only to roll them back. Voters in California rejected clean elections reforms, apparently recoiling at the idea of spending tax dollars on elections.
Critics have also attacked the clean elections law in court, and say the attempt at reform has merely created new ways to game the system.
A 2009 article in the Phoenix New Times weekly details how various politicians have abused the Arizona state system. Some would-be politicos have treated the public treasury as a private piggy bank, using public financing to pay for parties, frozen drink machines, and Segway ramps, while others have discovered that the public funding option can be used to double-team political foes at state expense.
In 2008, the Green Party was surprised to find an unfamiliar person running as a publicly funded Green candidate for a state seat. The candidate, apparently put forward by Republicans in order to undercut the incumbent Democratic candidate in a swing district, used public money to pay for conulsting and research from GOP firms, and drew enough votes to throw the election to the Republican.
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A Discussion on Bellini's St. Francis in the Desert
The Frick Collection's "St. Francis in the Desert" (c. 1475-78) by Giovanni Bellini ranks among the most important Italian Renaissance paintings in America. We invite the public to listen-in as a group of invited scholars discuss the painting from the perspective of the Franciscan order, which traces its origins to St. Francis of Assisi. Susannah Rutherglen, independent scholar and former Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Frick, offers an introduction to the painting and an overview of the March 2010 technical study of the work performed by conservators at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fr. Michael Cusato, adjunct professor at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, MD, and former director of the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University in New York, discusses late medieval Franciscanism in Italy in relation to Bellini's painting.
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- Last Updated: 1:44 AM, July 23, 2012
- Posted: 1:42 AM, July 23, 2012
Every major sporting event seems to carry and perpetuate its own particular bag of pure, untreated nonsense. The Olympics, to begin this week, barring international intrigue and calamity, are always good for plenty.
As if it were part of the pregame show, the American side got off to a good start when some grandstanding, ostensibly patriotic politicians chose to express their horror to learn that our team’s marching formalwear was not made in the USA but in China!
Boys, boys! That ship sailed — and far, far away — 35, 40 years ago. The far greater shock would have been had the ensembles been made here!
Other than their skin, there’s virtually nothing that U.S. Olympians practice in, warm up in, pose in or compete in that’s made in the U.S.
Are these politicians unaware of where Nike products are made? Nike’s a U.S. company, but in sales and profit only. Its products are made in the latest Third World country that can offer even cheaper labor than the previous third world country where they were made.
What’s still naively viewed as a warm fuzzy — the photo of Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley draped in their own American flag during the medal ceremony for the Dream Team’s 1992 gold in Barcelona — was predicated on money and subterfuge.
The U.S. team’s uniforms and warmups carried the Reebok logo. Barkley and Jordan were big Nike guys, so they used the American flag only as props to hide Reebok logos. As patriotic sentiments run, Jordan’s and Barkley’s were a con.
You think any of these politicians would have held press conferences marinated in indignation had China’s uniforms been made in the U.S.?
Does anyone object that BP — British Petroleum — perhaps still eager to make nice since that catastrophic oil spill two years ago off the Gulf — is this year “a proud sponsor of the U.S. Olympic Team”?
But it’s Olympics time. We’re just getting started. There’s plenty more BP and BS where that came from.
And no matter that an extra nickel will win for a U.S. network the rights to the next Olympics — and the right to do to the Olympics what’s in the network’s most moneyed interests — NBC will treat the IOC with a far greater regard than it holds for the truth.
United States of shock! Brits keep Open classy
Couldn’t put my Windex finger on it. Sure, the British Open is different. Its courses look different; it’s on TV much earlier. But there’s something else about watching it that makes for far different. Then reader Mike Mignone nailed it:
Unlike world-class pro golf played and watched in the States, the British Open isn’t loaded with a load of apparently loaded and/or attention starved, obnoxious fools surrounding the tee boxes and greens screaming, “Get in the hole!” and “You da man!”Follow @NYPostsports
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Power-less of attorney – banks need to get it right
We get plenty of calls about power of attorney, and they don’t make happy listening. Banks are letting their customers down at this potentially stressful time – so what’s going wrong and why?
More of us are living longer, but there’s no guarantee that we’ll be in fine fettle to the bitter end. For the one million of us who will develop dementia, and many more who may become too frail to manage our accounts, it makes sense to sort out our finances before it’s too late. This is why Lasting Power of Attorney (PoA) exists.
Establishing PoA should be simple. You complete a form, get it signed by your nominated attorneys, hand over £130 and register it with the Office of the Public Guardian when you need to. Then you inform the relevant financial providers.
So far, so good. But we’ve heard from many people who have experienced problems when trying to act on their responsibilities. It’s hard enough to keep our own accounts in order (at least it is for me), let alone another person’s. And while many people only act as an attorney for one or two people, the banks deal with hundreds of thousands of cases every year. So why do they keep getting it wrong?
How hard can it be?
We last covered power of attorney in 2010 and the post still attracts comments. Andy Hamilton told us he found one bank ‘obstructive and incompetent over a period of years’. He added:
‘I did eventually manage to get internet and telephone access to my mother’s account, but only by having several heated arguments over the phone and going into the local branch several times with proof of ID and the PoA form and refusing to leave until it was sorted out.’
Another contributor told us about problems with a well-known building society. Jo told us:
‘Maybe I should play the undignified game that we have been reduced to before, of taking my Mum into branch and reminding her of her date of birth and address and even how to write her name when they ask their security questions. Anyone would think it was their money.’
I suspect the problem is that the person picking up the phone or sitting behind the counter doesn’t always understand how PoA works. I might be more understanding if this was a rare occurrence, but it appears this isn’t the case. Surely it’s not beyond the banks means to have a crib sheet on their systems that tackles PoA requests?
Banks need to get it right
It’s time the banks and building societies got their act together on power of attorney. They could start by reading the advice guides published by the Office of the Public Guardian and the government.
Right now it’s consumers who are losing out, as they’re wasting time going back to companies who haven’t followed the rules. But with an aging population, you’d think the banks would realise that it’s in their best interests to ensure they understand the law on this – otherwise the number of complaints will only grow.
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Sudan: Clashes Displace Thousands in Darfur
Khartoum, February 7, 2011 – Renewed fighting between government forces and opposition groups in North Darfur state over the last two months has forced thousands of families to flee from their villages, the international medical humanitarian organization, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today.
MSF teams are providing medical assistance to the newly displaced people, who are living in precarious conditions in several camps in Shangil Tobaya, Dar Alsalam, and Tabit.
"People fled suddenly and arrived with nothing but their clothes,” said Cristina Falconi, MSF head of mission in Sudan. “Initially they set up makeshift shelters made out of their clothes and grass, to help protect them from the cold nights. MSF is providing plastic sheeting, blankets, mats, soap, and jerry cans that will help people cope with their most basic needs. Now that all the attention is focused on southern Sudan’s referendum, we shouldn't forget that there are pressing medical needs in Darfur."
Ten days ago, in the aftermath of fighting in the area of Tabit, MSF distributed essential household items to more than 500 people who have sought refuge in nearby Jerno. The fighting was the latest in a series of clashes that began in mid-December in Shangil Tobaya. During the hostilities, the MSF-supported Ministry of Health hospital was caught in the crossfire, forcing patients and staff to flee. Following this incident, some 7,000 newly displaced people gathered in two different camps near Shangil Tobaya town.
Following the fighting in Shangil Tobaya, MSF managed to provide a medical emergency response in the camps to help the newly displaced people cope with their immediate needs. A new clinic has been set up inside one of the camps and is currently providing 100 outpatient consultations per day. MSF has also distributed nutritious, vitamin-rich food to approximately 4,000 children under the age of five. Additional needs are being addressed by other organizations in the area.
In South Darfur state, fighting in early December 2010 also displaced thousands of additional families. An MSF team is currently finalizing an assessment to determine the most urgent needs of hundreds of displaced families in Shaeria. MSF is also setting up a nutrition program, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, to address serious levels of malnutrition for people affected by continuing violence and poor access to health care.
MSF continues to provide primary and secondary healthcare in Darfur—including paediatric and reproductive healthcare—and counselling services, in Kaguro, Dar Zaghawa, Tawila, and Shangil Tobaya.
MSF has been working in Sudan since 1979, providing free-of-charge medical assistance to people suffering from the effects of armed conflict, poor access to healthcare, floods, droughts, disease outbreaks, and nutritional emergencies.
Today, MSF continues to provide medical and humanitarian assistance through several projects in different regions in North and South Sudan, including: Warrap, Jonglei, Upper Nile, Unity, Northern and Western Bahr-el-Ghazal, Western and Central Equatoria, the transitional area of Abyei, Red Sea, Al-Gedaref, South and North Darfur.
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1. The project that I am working on right now uses JSPs for the user interface, and Struts to connect the JSPs to Java classes running on the server. The Java classes use JDBC to query an Informix database through Stored Procedure Language (SPLs), which is an extension of SQL.
I have noticed in the almost three years that I have been working on this project that the SPLs never use boolean type parameters. Instead, we pass CHAR(1) parameters that are usually "Y" or "N". In addition, the vast majority of the tables defined in the Informix database that should be boolean are declared CHAR(1).
Why? It turns out that the JDBC class responsible for converting parameters in Java to the string to send to Informix did not translate Java boolean objects correctly; it was converting them to a SQL BIT type, and Informix apparently does not know about that type. It appears that the software engineers (and I use that term loosely) who hacked our current mess together could not figure out how to pass boolean types to SPLs, so they used CHAR(1) for boolean parameters--and did likewise in defining the tables in the database. It was a one line change to tell the class that formats the strings to convert Java boolean values to something that SPLs could recognize as a boolean parameter. Now I can pass Java boolean values to SPLs as BOOLEAN parameters.
Our database administrator tells me that Informix is more efficient in both storage space and processing time using booleans rather that CHAR(1). Every place that we use a CHAR(1) instead of a boolean means that Informix has to do a separate check to make sure that the field is "Y" or "N" (or whatever variant this particular table uses). These suboptimal uses of CHAR(1) occur in many hundreds of tables, and many of these tables have hundreds of thousands of rows, with vast numbers of transactions on a daily basis. (A user of our system accesses dozens of tables each time he or she loads an offender's records.) Pretty obviously, this is an area where changing the existing tables and SPLs to use booleans instead of CHAR(1) is likely to be a big gain for throughput.
2. I have spent much of the last year and a half working on something called the PreSentence Investigation module (PSI). After an offender has been convicted, Corrections does something called a PreSentence Investigation, which produces a report showing an offender's employment history, family history, previous criminal history, substance abuse history, medical history. The PSI report is provided to the judge so that he determine the appropriate sentence for this offender.
You read these reports and it is often quite difficult not to get angry at the bad parenting that clearly set some of these offenders up to fail. That doesn't mean that they don't need to be locked up--but it makes you realize that a society that cares not at all about values is destined for failure.
Anyway, a recurring problem is that there are dates associated with various events. When did you start using meth? When did you start using alcohol? When did you start using heroin? And the answers on many of these questions are pretty appalling. But these are necessarily approximations. The investigators are asking people to give them a date for events that happened ten or twenty years earlier, and these must necessarily be estimates.
The problem, unfortunately, is that the people who threw together the database definition some years ago assumed that all the dates in our system would be precisely known. For obvious reasons, the courts need to know which dates are dates, and which are guesses. But there's no easy way to specify this in an SQL DATE field.
So I came up with a very clever scheme for solving this problem, without redesigning all the tables: add a column called precision next to each date column in every table where there might be uncertainty. This value would be an enumeration identifying the precision of the corresponding DATE field: 0=precise date; 1 means, to the month; 2=year; 3=decade. On the input screens, the investigator can enter a date, and then select how precise this date is. When it comes time to print the PSI report, we can print various strings, depending on precision:
I think this is a very elegant solution to the problem of already having vast quantities of data in the system which you can't discard.
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Zap2ItThe city of light shone especially brightly in the early 20th century as artists in nearly every discipline came together and revolutionized the art world. The new documentary "Paris the Luminous Years" explores major turning points and crucial...
Associated PressErnst Beyeler, whose early eye for undervalued Picassos and Impressionists helped him assemble one of Europe's most famous art collections, has died, his Beyeler Foundation said. He was 88. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Ernst Beyeler obituary: The...
Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena are no strangers to the art world. The Los Angeles-based architects' recent commissions include exhibitions in New York and Minneapolis for the photographer Sharon Lockhart, among other artists, and a new space for the...
Monster Mash: Paris officials investigate art heist; Black Dahlia play moves to N.Y.; British architects prizesCulture MonsterSuper structures: The Royal Institute of British Architects has given out 102 awards for architectural excellence to buildings ranging from a circular loo in London to the Neues Museum in Berlin. (Independent) Security lapse: A day after the big Paris.......
Associated PressPARIS -- A lone thief stole five paintings possibly worth hundreds of millions of euros, including major works by Picasso and Matisse, in a brazen overnight heist at a Paris modern art museum, police and prosecutors said Thursday. The paintings...
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Culture MonsterOne of the most vaunted private art collections in Los Angeles, highlighted by a prized Picasso nude and including works by Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, Georges Braque, Edgar Degas and Edouard Vuillard, is expected to fetch more than......
Associated PressArt dealer Jan Krugier, an Auschwitz survivor who collected the works of Picasso and other renowned artists to help himself move past the horrors of the Nazi era, has died in Switzerland. He was 80. Krugier died Saturday as a result of an infection,...
This is the fifth in an occasional series of conversations with Southern California activists and intellectuals. The series and videotaped interviews with the subjects are collected at www.latimes.com/news/ opinion/lavisions/. Rare is the civic...
We tend to view the arts as evolutionary, with events and works slowly altering the course of different disciplines. But once in a while, there is a convergence of movies or plays or musical compositions that are so significant that they create waves,...
Times Staff WriterWITNESS the migration of wildlife across the Serengeti plains on a safari to Tanzania with the Santa Ana Zoo. The 12-day June 12 trip also will visit Lake Manyara National Park and the Ngorongoro Crater. "You literally see thousands of zebra, antelope...
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Presidents who are able to effectively work with Congress are the ones who end up overseeing the nation’s best economies and those that don’t can end up serving just one term, Bob Deitrick co-author of the new book “Bulls, Bears, and the Ballot Box – How the Performance of Our Presidents Has Impacted Your Wallet,” tells Newsmax.TV.
Deitrick’s observation comes at a time when Congress and President Barack Obama are often at loggerheads over key economic issues such as the deficit, government spending, and taxes.
Deitrick, who is also co-owner of Polaris Financial Partners, said that the book looked at the makeup of Congress during each president’s term from Hoover through George W. Bush and found that the “presidents who were able to work effectively with their Congress were the ones that had the best economic results for the country.”
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“And, in fact, those three presidents who did not work effectively with their own Congress, including Hoover, George H. W. Bush and Jimmy Carter, all, coincidentally, were one-term presidents too.”
Deitrick found that in the last 80 years the United States economy has performed better under Democratic presidents than Republicans. He added that Democrats have “a very solid record when it comes to economic performance” but that Republicans are better salesmen.”
“The Republicans are great at salesmanship,” he said. “I mean, I will give it to them hands down. When it comes to winning the salesmanship merit badge, they won it every single year. On the other hand, the Democrats are very poor at conveying their own economic message and we state that in our book very candidly in one of the last chapters. But the reality is it’s not true.
“The Democrats have actually been better stewards of our economy on most data points if you look at the last 80 years. The reason why we looked at the last 80 years was because in that 80-year cycle, from ’29 through 2009, the Democrats have been in the White House 40 and the Republicans have been in the White House 40 years and we thought that was a perfect time to really take a look at how each party had performed for all of us.”
Deitrick, along with his co-author Lew Goldfarb, also examined the role of luck in economic success for any given president and concluded it was not a factor.
“We think you create your own luck through having good policies and through implementing good policies and through being a leader,” he said. “Ronald Reagan, you know, I don’t think he was lucky. It happened to be that the desktop computer came out in his tenure as well in the early to mid-‘80s and that changed the way that we conducted business or have conducted business for the prior 50 years. But, at the end of the day, presidents create their own luck through being strong leaders.”
While President Obama doesn’t play much of a role in the book he does make an appearance in the last chapter and Deitrick and Goldfarb have written Op-Eds on Obama.
“Of course, when we wrote the book last summer, we were two and a half years into the Obama tenure but, actually, I wrote an op-ed comparing Reagan’s first three and a half years to Barack Obama’s first three and a half years using the same 12 data points that we have used in our book and, surprisingly, Barack Obama actually beats Reagan in his first term, not his second term, but his first term on eight of those 12 data points,” he said.
“People forget that Ronald Reagan really struggled in his first term, He had a tough first term too. It wasn’t until he passed TEFRA (the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act) in the late summer of 1982 that things really began to turn around for him. Unemployment was actually above 10 percent for almost a year in his first term. It peaked at 10.8 percent for two months in the latter part of 1982. It was as high as 9.5 percent one year before the election in September of 1983 and it fell to 7.4 by November of ’84 and he won, obviously, by a landslide. But people forget that Ronald Reagan really struggled in his first term as Obama has.”
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Welcome to the website for the Computer, Electrical, and Information Technology (CEIT) Department of IPFW. The department offers the Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering Technology (EET), B.S. Computer Engineering Technology (CPET), and an Associate of Science (A.S.) degree in EET. The programs are accredited by the Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (TAC/ABET).
The department also offers a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology as well as a minor in Electronics and several different certificates in the electrical computer fields. For more information, contact Professor Gary Steffen, Department Chair.
Operation Technology, Inc. has donated ETAP software to IPFW to provide CEIT students the opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience with leading software used in the power industry.
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Medical Privacy Changes Proposed; U.S. President Bush's Plan Would Lessen Patients' Say on Records
March 26, 2002
The Bush administration last week proposed changing some federal rules designed to protect the confidentiality of Americans' medical records, including the ability of patients to decide in advance who should be able to use their personal health information.
The proposal would alter the requirement, put in place by the Clinton administration, that patients give their written permission before their medical records may be disclosed to doctors, hospitals, pharmacies and insurance companies. In the new requirements, those who use their records must at some point notify patients of their privacy rights.
In disclosing the modifications, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson said the proposed changes "will allow us to deliver strong protections for personal medical information while improving access to care."
Last April, Bush announced that he would move ahead with the medical confidentiality regulation adopted by President Clinton, but opponents lobbied hard to change them. HHS civil rights officials said that the "very targeted changes" were intended to protect patients' privacy while simultaneously eliminating facets of the original rules that they said would interfere with patients' access to care. That reasoning essentially embraces the arguments raised by the insurance industry, which has hailed the new changes.
The administration plans to offer a relatively quick, one-month period for outside comment on the proposal before HHS administrators begin to refine it and issue a final version. The changes do not require Congressional approval.
Janlori Goldman, director of Georgetown University's Health Privacy Project, said the elimination of advance permission "cuts the legs off the privacy regulation." Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) said that giving permission before personal medical information is disclosed "is central to protecting people's medical privacy." And Donald Palmisano, the American Medical Association's secretary-treasurer, said, "there is more opportunity for patient privacy to be violated now."
In one contentious change, the administration would make it easier for parents to see their children's medical records in any state that does not have a law that specifically guarantees minors their medical privacy rights. Privacy advocates are worried that the new rules will deter teenagers from seeking sensitive health services such as abortions or treatment for mental illness or STDs.
03.22.02; Amy Goldstein
This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update. Visit the CDC's website to find out more about their activities, publications and services.
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I have an op-ed that will appear in tomorrow's Seattle Times titled, How the local food movement is helping solve the problem of world hunger. It was intended to be provocative so I expect/hope it will provoke some passionate responses from a variety of people in the food conversation. The gist of my argument is that it's inaccurate to say the local food movement is harming the world's vulnerable and hungry. (This seems to be the critique du jour of the locavore trend.) In fact, I argue, it is helping and holds great potential to address the issue of world hunger.
It was hard to say all I wanted to say on the issue in 650 words or less so consider the following post as an extended-cut version of the op-ed, with more focus on the unfairness of the emerging critique of all things locavore. It is an edited (less sarcastic) version of what I posted earlier in the week.
The local & sustainable food movement has been THE food phenomenon of recent years so it's not surprising that it has provoked a sizable backlash in defense of industrial food. What is surprising is the recent consensus among some that the local food movement is bad for poor people.
Charles Kenny got the ball rolling in last month's Foreign Policy Magazine. He calls the local and organic food movements "misguided, parochial Luddism" and is aghast that federal funds go to support farmers' markets. He writes:
...these First-World food fetishes are positively terrible for the world's poorest people. If you want to do the right thing, give up on locavorism and organics über alles and become a globally conscious grocery buyer. This should be the age of the "cosmovore" -- cosmopolitan consumers of the world's food.
The best way to help poor people eat well is to make healthy food cost less. But the more agricultural land we divert into lower-efficiency organic production, the higher the price of all food will climb.
Judith Warner at Time followed suit last week with an article titled, The Locavore’s Illusions: As charming as it sounds, growing kale in your backyard won't solve the nation's food ills. She pushes back against the counter-cultural impulse in the movement that is suspicious of "the Man." She quotes a Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, who tries to pull back the reigns on those trouble-making community gardeners that just want everyone to give chard a chance:
Sometimes thinking small and local — without an eye to the systemic and political — paves the way toward rollbacks of progressive policies that really work. Sometimes “The Man” can do a great deal of good, for example,when funding programs that add incentive dollars to SNAP benefits at farmers markets.
Josh Ozersky at Time joined the fray a couple days ago with an article titled, "In Defense of Industrial Food." Josh writes:
There are now 300 million Americans or so, and less space. If the barons of agriculture hadn’t engineered the monstrous phalanxes of corn that everyone is so aghast at, food would be more expensive, and a lot of poor people would be dying from starvation instead of courting diabetes.
Instead of actually engaging legitimate questions about the sustainability and health of the current industrial system, the new tactic is akin to picketing the local food co-op with signs that read: "CSA Subscribers Are Hurting Poor People."
The big picture here is that it's time for Congress to write the next Farm Bill and many people are concerned with the way that local and sustainable food activists are going to shape the debate. Kenny acknowledges that the current Farm Bill only designates 0.00025 percent of its funds for farmers' markets, but he is obviously concerned that they will have a greater influence on the next version.
These latest criticisms are an evolution of the core argument in defense of industrial food over the last fifty years: There are billions of people in the world, and we can't feed them without intensive industrial agriculture. So the industrialists have for years promoted themselves as heroes of the poor, and given that logic, it's not surprising that those who oppose or question them are being characterized as enemies of the poor.
The truth of food, agriculture, and world poverty is more complicated than any of us probably want to admit. The champions of organic and sustainable agriculture are loathe to acknowledge that Norman Borlaug and his Green Revolution have actually been instrumental in saving lives and feeding millions of hungry and vulnerable people around the world. And the industrial food complex is hesitant to acknowledge that its subsidies and intensive farming methods have destroyed land and markets, and as a result have trapped millions of people in poverty and made them dependent on handouts. For example, it may look like we are the models of compassion for shipping food aid to places like Haiti, but our cheap, heavily subsidized grains undercut local farmers' efforts to grow crops and sell them.
To his credit Ozersky hints at this complicated picture:
I’m not saying that our industrial system is ideal, nor even sane, but to conflate industrial with bad is to suggest that we should all just go back to the land. Which, of course, can never happen.
OK, I'll agree to not conflate industrial with bad if you'll agree not to suggest those that aspire toward an alternative are enemies of the poor.
Photo: Volunteers make preparations for our monthly Millwood food distribution with Second Harvest of the Inland Northwest.
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<br /><br />Be careful here--history is circular and already we see the beginnings of a return to tradition and history as we become disillusioned by modernity. Hence all these young people wanting to study classics, a change which is especially noticeable in North America where the classics have been in dire straits--we are now seeing revival of classical methods of education. We are also seeing more people drawn to orthodox religion, which in itself is a fascinating shift. <br /><br /><br />As members of a society it's a different thing all together. Though I would definitely not say that our culture is in demise because we no longer live in a society that values tradition very highly. <br />
<br /><br />Are you equating tradition with oppression??? Wow... I don't think I have anything to say to that. <br /><br /><br />In fact I don't think I could stand living in such an oppressive society. Although it's sad to see some old traditions go, I would be terrible if some hadn't gone (traditionally a woman's place is in the kitchen...). <br />
<br /><br /><br />Again, atheistic philosophy is a relatively new thing. As we all know, the ancients were mainly polytheistic, and until the so-called "enlightenment", western philosophy was always more or less monotheistic--whether or not ethics was based on their theism is another question.<br /><br />Don't get too comfortable with modern philosophy... it is already on its way out ;)<br /><br />You must also remember that philosophers used to have to accept the supremacy of the church or face a painful death. Now I'm not saying they were all atheists, but they couldn't just go around saying god didn't exist in a big style. Anyway, as William already pointed out, even if they did believe in God, that doesn't mean that they tried to base their ethics on God. Take Kant for example... he believed in God, and yet his ethics model has nothing to do with God.
<br /><br />Demise? Are we demising? I hadn't noticed.<br /><br />I realize this is a very common view - I succumb to it myself on some<br />days - but I'm not sure it's justified. Moralists have been decrying<br />the moral state of contemporary society for as long as people have<br />recorded their complaints. This is doubtless justified. Humans<br />aren't perfect, and improvement is always possible, and very possibly<br />always advised. But the idea that each generation has been uniquely<br />depraved is also a common complaint, and this I feel is less justified<br />most of the time. I don't believe in Golden Ages. Not in a million<br />years would I choose to live in the time of Homer, or of Christ, or of<br />the Buddha, or indeed any other past age. (Of course, brief visits to<br />satisfy linguistic curiosity would be more than welcome. )<br /><br />But much of the history of western society is about crisis-driven<br />renewal. The fundamental idea of Christianity is quite explicitly a<br />radical break from the past: a new covenant for all, ending in the<br />total annihilation of this bad world and the construction of a new,<br />just, humane world. This idea has driven so much intellectual and<br />political history of the west: peasant movements in the middle ages,<br />the foundation of religious orders, the reformation and<br />counter-reformation which had such vast political impact. Many<br />political movements from the 1700s until now on are framed in<br />chiliastic terms.<br /><br />Even Marxism, though shorn of specific religious reference, is clearly<br />of Judeo-Christian parentage: an ever more evil world run by depraved<br />oppressors leading to a time of terrible persecution followed by a<br />historically inevitable vast and bloody battle between Good<br />(workers) and Evil (capitalists), in which Evil will necessarily be<br />vanquished and after which the Good live in a new, just world free of<br />suffering and oppression.<br /><br />Even certain branches of environmentalism frame their warnings in<br />apocalyptic terms, but have opened their definition of the Elect to<br />all life on earth, not merely humans, and more radical conceptions<br />omit humans from the elect entirely. But the catastrophism is<br />basically the same, including a tendency to contemplate the suffering<br />of the non-elect with unseemly relish.<br /><br />But there's nothing uniquely modern about people trying to break with<br />the past. Everyone who has lived with injustice probably wants to<br />break with the past.<br /><br />It's only modern, western society which tries its hardest to<br />cut itself off from its own history and tradition--to its own<br />demise.
<br /><br />Nor is there any reason to insist it is necessarily good.<br /><br />As you say, each generation is influenced deeply by the culture and<br />traditions into which it is born. I freely admit that I accept one<br />cultural idea from the Western tradition which owes its origin to<br />religious beliefs and that is this:<br /><br />Progress is possible. Humanity can, through its own toil and<br />good-faith effort, improve itself.<br /><br />Please note that I take this to mean that progress will always be<br />possible as long as there are humans around to worry about things. I<br />would not dare to suggest that we've got everything right in 2003, or<br />even that we'll have everything right in 3003. For 1000s of years<br />slavery was acceptable to most people. Until not too long ago<br />citizens of the United States voted for pro-slavery presidents. Most<br />would not, I suspect, do so in the 2004 election if such a candidate<br />becomes available.<br /><br />Some traditions are awful. I've been in parts of Texas where instead<br />of saying "thank you" to someone for passing the salt they say "mighty<br />white of you." I was stunned the first time I heard that, and<br />apparently my facial expression was quite the thing. I didn't have to<br />say anything. The face I made was enough to get the person I was<br />dining with to actually think about what he'd just said, for<br />the first time in his life.<br /><br />As part of humanity's long-term project of self-improvement, every<br />generation is going to challenge some traditions. Some will be<br />accepted. Some will be discarded, including some many people hold<br />dear. Traditions are part of our history, and should certainly be<br />included in deliberations about Life, the Universe and Everything - it<br />let's us see where people have gone before - but there's no reason to<br />give it any unique status in our deliberations.<br />Guess what? Tradition is not bad,
<br /><br />Are you actually suggesting that the number of people who believe something changes the truth?<br /><br />Between this contigent view of reality and the disbelief in objectivity I suddenly find I have to confront the idea the post-modernism has made its way to church. <br /><br />Please say it ain't so!Be careful here--history is circular and already we see the beginnings of a return to tradition and history as we become disillusioned by modernity. Hence all these young people wanting to study classics, a change which is especially noticeable in North America where the classics have been in dire straits--we are now seeing revival of classical methods of education. We are also seeing more people drawn to orthodox religion, which in itself is a fascinating shift.<br /><br /><snip><br /><br />Don't get too comfortable with modern philosophy... it is already on its way out
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The Critical Conditions Workbook is an essential tool for being an effective patient's advocate. Monitoring and overseeing hospital medical care can be overwhelming and confusing. The Workbook removes the guesswork from monitoring the patient's care in effort to prevent medical errors, medication mistakes, the spread of hospital-acquired infectious diseases and more.
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Building a low-cost studio
Matt Haughey, February 8th, 2005
Engadget has a great tutorial about how to build a low-cost music and vocal recording studio using a new Apple mini, a few audio components, and some instruments. They include some step-by-step help working with Garageband as well. If you’ve been recording music at home with poor results or wanted a way to create your own Creative Commons licensed music at home, this tutorial offers a lot of tips on how to get started.
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This study represents the first attempt at an empirical evaluation of the DNA pooling methodology by comparing it to individual genotyping and interval mapping to detect QTL in a dairy half-sib design. The findings indicated that the use of peak heights from the pool electropherograms without correction for stutter (shadow) product and preferential amplification performed as well as corrected estimates of frequencies. However, errors were found to decrease the power of the experiment at every stage of the pooling and analysis. The main sources of errors include technical errors from DNA quantification, pool construction, inconsistent differential amplification, and from the prevalence of sire alleles in the dams. Additionally, interval mapping using individual genotyping gains information from phenotypic differences between individuals in the same pool and from neighbouring markers, which is lost in a DNA pooling design. These errors cause some differences between the markers detected as significant by pooling and those found significant by interval mapping based on individual selective genotyping. Therefore, it is recommended that pooled genotyping only be used as part of an initial screen with significant results to be confirmed by individual genotyping. Strategies for improving the efficiency of the DNA pooling design are also presented.
Keywords: selective DNA pooling, dairy half-sib design, genome scan, individual selective genotyping
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At a camp in Haiti, families long for a new start – and land to call their own
For the 89 families crowded into tents on a strip of land in Gressier, an hour’s drive outside of Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince, uncertainty has become the daily constant in their lives.
Will they be forced off this rocky plot? Will they have to move again—for the fourth time since a massive earthquake destroyed their homes? Where else could they possibly go?
“The biggest problem is the land,” says Clairin Webert, a sea of white tents billowing behind him. “Some people wake up at night crying because they don’t know what they’re going to do, where they’ll go.”
As more than a million people remain homeless a year after the seven magnitude earthquake ravaged the capital and surrounding communities, access to land on which families can build new homes and start new lives—or even continue to camp in makeshift shelters—has become one of the most difficult challenges they face.
The Haitian government has been slow to develop a resettlement plan and to allocate land for survivors, many of whom were renters and now have nothing to return to. In early December, one of the results of that inaction was the knot of tents in Gressier, staked flank to flank, where about 375 people cling to the hope that help will come before they’re kicked out of here, too.
The man who owns the land allowed the families to set up camp for a few months, but now he wants it back and the case is before a judge in a local court.
Frederic Bonny, a resident of Merger camp, shows his despair. Photo: Chris Hufstader/Oxfam
“If there was a word stronger than discouraged, that would be the word to describe how I feel,” said Webert. He was sitting in the shade under a tarp covering the shell of a ruined building. In the distance, the water—Caribbean blue—sparkled through the trees. But there was little sparkle here as Webert and fellow camp resident Frederic Bonny talked about all this band of families from Mariani has been through.
They numbered just over 600 in the beginning when they sought shelter on the grounds of New Hope Ministry back in January. But when that landowner wanted the space back, they moved to a place called Morne Bateau, near a beach where the winds were dangerously strong. So in early September, the families moved again—to this slice of land in the neighborhood of Merger. With each move their ranks thinned: some families returned to their ruined homes; others went to live with relatives and friends.
But for people like Yolande Chery, options are few. At the moment, she has no way of making a living—and many mouths to feed, including the four-month-old baby she was nursing outside a tent. Chery lost the mattress repair business that supported her and her other children when the quake hit and she has been relying on the goodwill of her neighbors in nearby tents to share their food with her. Some days, she doesn’t eat at all.
And Chery’s worries are about to get worse: Her four other children she had sent to live with relatives after the quake were coming back to live with her. How will she support them?
“Give us land to live on when we set up our shelters,” said Chery. “And give us a grant so we can start a trade or business to survive.”
Latrines and water
As the families have moved from site to site, Oxfam has been helping to provide them with clean water and sanitation services, essential especially now that cholera, a deadly waterborne disease, has broken out across the country. At the Merger camp, Oxfam constructed a bank of emergency latrines at the back of the site that can be emptied weekly. Instead of dirt pits, they’re built around drums designed to prevent wastes from seeping into the seawater that runs close to the surface of the ground.
Cholera prevention activities are now in full swing at the camp, with oversight from Charles Nesly, an Oxfam public health promotion supervisor. A cleaning committee made up of camp residents ensures that a small blue tank outside the latrines stays full of water so people can wash their hands regularly. And each day, the latrines are sprayed with a water-chlorine solution to keep them clean.
At the other end of the camp, a yellow bladder, like a big pillow, provides water to the taps from which people come to fill their jugs and lug them back to their tents. The bladder gets filled each day by a water delivery truck.
If you’re counting latrines, shower stalls, and water, the families in this camp are rich, said Frederic Bonny, a camp leader and teacher who has managed to find a part-time teaching job. But so much else—food, good educational opportunities, land to settle on—they don’t have, he said.
“As far as finding land, it’s not a problem, but every land we find, the owners want money,” said Bonny. And if an owner learns a non-profit group is supporting families in pursuit of that land, they’ll jack up the price.
“If there was a government – a serious government – since the 12th of January to this day people wouldn’t be under tents,” added Webert. “The only way we are surviving is because of help from NGOs.”
> Read the report: From Relief to Recovery: Supporting good governance in post-earthquake Haiti
> In pictures: Haiti: One year after the earthquake
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(BPT) - Americans have come to expect specialized care from their physicians as growing numbers depend on the expertise of cardiologists, oncologists and endocrinologists. This evolution has also become just as important when it comes to pharmacists and the specific care they can give patients.
Pharmacists can specialize in chronic health conditions such as asthma, heart disease, diabetes and cancer. These specialist pharmacists will play an increasingly important role as health care and patient expectations continue to change. October marks American Pharmacists Month and is a reminder of the value specialist pharmacists can bring to patients.
“Specialist pharmacists are the real experts when it comes to the medications used to treat chronic diseases, yet people’s first inclination is to call their doctor when they have a question or concern about a drug,” says Paul Reyes, host of the Ask the Pharmacist radio series and a registered pharmacist for Express Scripts. “There is no clinician who is better trained in prescription medications or spends as much time addressing patients’ questions and concerns about their drug therapies than a specialist pharmacist.”
Because of their thorough knowledge of the medications used to treat specific conditions and their access to a patient’s pharmacy records, specialist pharmacists can identify when patients have been prescribed drugs that could cause potentially harmful interactions if used together or when patients are not taking their medications regularly.
“A specialist pharmacist at Express Scripts realized that three different doctors had prescribed different types of the same drug to a cancer patient,” says Reyes. “While the medication was necessary for this patient, in high doses it could be deadly. The pharmacist quickly alerted the patient and the doctors who had prescribed the drugs so that two of three prescriptions could be cancelled. This is a great example of how specialist pharmacists can make a real difference in patient care.”
Whenever you’re prescribed a medication for a chronic condition, Reyes suggests these tips for making the most of a specialist pharmacist’s expertise.
* Ask the specialist pharmacist: See if your health plan or pharmacy has a specialist pharmacist that you can speak to if you have any questions about your medication, such as when and how it should be taken, if there are any potential side effects and whether it interacts with any other medications you are using.
* Is there a generic for that?: Specialist pharmacists are also well versed in the specifics of your prescription drug plan and can advise you on how to save money on your medications. One sure way is to use a generic whenever possible. Generics can cost 30 to 80 percent less than brand medications and more than half of the drugs on the market today have a generic option available. So, the next time you receive a prescription from your doctor or are having a prescription filled, ask “Is there a generic for that?”
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So remember, use your pharmacist as a resource and make the most of your conversation. For more information, go to www.Express-Scripts.com.
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Manager: John Durst, BA, ext. 3075
Media Technology Resources provides support to enhance the teaching and learning process by offering a variety of educational media resources and professional assistance to university faculty, students and staff. Resources available for classroom and academic use include traditional audiovisual equipment, multimedia display devices, and training and support for multimedia classrooms. Video conferencing facilities, sound recording and editing are available. Assistance is provided to search the Laurier collection of over 2,600 educational DVDs and videos, as well as access to numerous off-campus sites. Facilities are available for creating 35mm photographic slides, laminating documents, image/text scanning, and scanning of 35mm slides and negatives. The Media Technology Resources website provides further details and a listing of films and videos.
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This section of the handbook contains information specific to Rules 1. The main content of the handbook is still relevant to both versions, however there are some differences between D6 and D7 for site builders and developers. Here you can find many tutorials and examples, and above you can find a manual on Rules.
Rules for Drupal 6 is still up to date and just as mature as it has always been, and this section is still open for editing, so when you have improvements in mind, please make them. However, since there are more users and developers on Drupal 7 (see Rules usage statistics, late Feb 2012), there are more people working on the documentation. You can find out more information about Rules 2 in fago's announcement, It's done: Rules 2 is out!
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THURSDAY, March 3 (HealthDay News) — More young people are waiting to have sex, and more women than men are engaging in same-sex encounters, according to a new report detailing Americans’ evolving sexual behaviors and preferences.
In statistics compiled from interviews with 13,500 men and women aged 15 to 44, the 2006-2008 National Survey of Family Growth also indicates that more than half of young people under age 24 who have had oral sex did so before having vaginal intercourse.
Other revelations from the survey, released March 3 by the National Center for Health Statistics of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, include three times as many women over 18 reporting being bisexual as men.
The CDC estimates that 19 million sexually transmitted infections occur each year, along with 50,000 new diagnoses of HIV infection. One function of the report is to provide public health researchers with information to develop prevention strategies targeting high-risk groups, lead author Anjani Chandra said.
“Traditionally, people tend to focus on vaginal intercourse, but they sort of forget about other types of sexual behavior,” said Chandra, a health scientist at the National Center for Health Statistics, which last released a similar report using data from 2002.
Some of the findings include:
* More young people reported never having any sexual contact with another person. In 2002, about 22 percent of youths aged 15 to 24 said they fit this description, while 27 percent of males and 29 percent of females did so in 2006-2008.
* White youths aged 15 to 24 were more likely (57 percent) than blacks or Hispanics of the same age (39 percent) to report engaging in oral sex before ever having intercourse.
* Twice as many women (12.5 percent) reported any same-sex contact as men (5.2 percent), a number that held steady since 2002.
* About 3.5 percent of women reported they were bisexual, compared to 1.1 percent of men. About 1.1 percent of women and 1.7 percent of men said they were homosexual.
* About 35 percent of females and 44 percent of males reported ever having anal sex with an opposite-sex partner.
“The adult view is, when it comes to teens and sex . . . that things are bad and getting worse,” Albert said. “I don’t want to be Pollyanna-ish and say that there’s nothing but good news here, but by and large the news is good.”
But Albert said he believes that the statistics indicating most youths are engaging in oral sex before intercourse may be nebulous.
“What is ‘before’ — an hour, or two days? My strong suspicion here is that sexual activity tends to co-occur . . . they’re probably going to have vaginal sex shortly thereafter,” he said. “For some young people, they’re running the bases backwards. They used to go from more casual to more intimate, but that’s not necessarily the case these days.”
Sexuality expert Dr. Jennifer Berman said it’s not surprising that young people engage in oral sex first because it’s now considered a way to gain status and prestige among their peers.
Also, “It often has to do with sexual education or the lack thereof,” said Berman, director of the Berman Women’s Wellness Center in Beverly Hills, Calif. “Young people don’t perceive oral sex as sex and think they’re still virgins if there’s no penetration.”
Chandra and Berman had very different takes on why twice as many women reported same-sex contact as men.
“Whether [the gender discrepancy] is real or they simply have a higher comfort level reporting that, I can’t say,” Chandra said. “Their comfort . . . may bolster their honesty and disclosure level.”
Berman said she feels the disclosure is genuine, but fueled by societal forces.
“In the [sexuality] field and in L.A., we think that same-sex experiences with women are a lot of times related to drugs and alcohol,” she said, “or designed and choreographed for men’s pleasure.”
Berman was critical of the scope and structure of the national report, saying it “left out very productive, active generations” by excluding participants 45 and older and omitting details about sexual habits such as the use of contraceptives, lubricants or sex toys.
“It’s an interesting sample,” she said. But, “it certainly doesn’t enable people in the field to form valid conclusions . . . or form systems or supports.”
For more on sexual attraction and orientation, visit the Nemours Foundation.
SOURCES: Anjani Chandra, Ph.D., health scientist, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics; Bill Albert, chief program officer, National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy; Jennifer Berman, M.D., director, Berman Women’s Wellness Center, Beverly Hills, Calif.; March 3, 2011, National Center for Health Statistics, report, Sexual Behavior, Sexual Attraction, and Sexual Identity in the United States: Data from the 2006-2008 National Survey of Family Growth
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How to reach Bangalore
Bangalore is accessible by air, rail and road from every important city and other states in India.
Bangalore International Airport (BIAL) is located in Devanahalli.The airport is host to 10 domestic airlines and 21 international airlines connecting the city to about 50 destinations across India and the rest of the world.
Bangalore is connected to all major Indian cities by rail. Several super fast trains connect to Bangalore.The City Railway Station is the main terminal in Bangalore.
Major National Highways connects to Bangalore from various cities. Other cities and towns of the state and neighboring states are also connected by road. The Main bus terminal in the city is opposite City Railway Station.
Once you are in Bangalore, it's easy to come down to Prabha Eye Clinic and Research Center. The Hospital is located at Jaynagar, which is one of the most planned townships inside the city. Prabha is well connected to all the parts of the city by bus, taxi or your private vehicle. Below map shows the direction of Prabha Eye Clinic from the main city railway station
Direction from Bangalore City Railway Station.
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Milestone-Nomination:Grumman Lunar Module
Proposal Link: http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Proposal:Grumman_Lunar_Module
Docket Number: 2010-08
Grumman Lunar Module, 1962-1972
The Grumman Lunar Module was the first vehicle to land man on an extraterrestrial body, the Moon. Because it was designed to fly solely in space, its design, construction and testing continuously pushed the technology envelope for lightweight metals and unique electrical and electronic systems resulting in one of the most important and successful engineering achievements of mankind.
The milestone plaque may be viewed at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Battle Management and Engagement Systems' Headquarters, Building 25, 600 Grumman Road West, Bethpage, NY 11714, where some of the Grumman Lunar Module engineering was executed. Building 25 is next to the original Grumman building 5 where the Grumman Lunar Module was built and tested.
A photograph of the dedication ceremony can be seen at: http://media.globenewswire.com/noc/mediagallery.html?pkgid=10032
1) Kelly, Thomas J. (2001). Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight Series). Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 1-56098-998-X.
2) Baker, David (1981). The History of Manned Space Flight. Crown Publishers. ISBN 0-517-54377-X
3) Brooks, Courtney J., Grimwood, James M. and Swenson, Loyd S. Jr (1979) Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft NASA SP-4205.
4) Sullivan, Scott P. (2004) Virtual LM: A Pictorial Essay of the Engineering and Construction of the Apollo Lunar Module. Apogee Books. ISBN 1-894959-14-0
5) Stoff, Joshua. (2004) Building Moonships: The Grumman Lunar Module. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-3586-9
6) Stengel, Robert F. (1970). Manual Attitude Control of the Lunar Module, J. Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 7, No. 8, pp. 941–948.
7) Pullo, Frank ; Salvarezza, Michael, ATTS - ATLAS template translation system, AUTOTESTCON '86; Proceedings of the International Automatic Testing Conference, San Antonio, TX; UNITED STATES; 8-11 Sept. 1986. pp. 211-216. 1986
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Most people can tell you where they were when the Grumman Lunar Module landed on the moon. In addition to throngs of people crowding highways and beaches near the launch site, millions watched the event on television around the world. This historic and revolutionary engineering project captured the imagination of people all over the world. After winning a contract in 1962, nearly 3,000 Grumman engineers and more than 7,000 people in all created more than a dozen hand-built lunar modules fulfilling President John F. Kennedy's vow to put a man on the lunar surface by the end of the decade. The Apollo 11 space flight landed the first humans on Earth's Moon on July 20, 1969. The mission, carried out by the United States, is considered a major accomplishment in human exploration and represented a victory by the U.S. in the Cold War Space Race with the Soviet Union. Apollo 13 was the third Apollo mission intended to land on the Moon. That mission, launched on April 11, 1970, was aborted as a fault in electrical equipment inside one of the Service Module's oxygen tanks produced an explosion which caused the loss of both tanks' oxygen, depriving the Service Module of electrical power. This forced the crew to shut down the Command Module to conserve its batteries and oxygen needed for the last hours of flight, and use the Grumman Lunar Module's resources during the return trip to Earth. Despite great hardship caused by limited power, loss of cabin heat, shortage of potable water, and the critical need to jury-rig the carbon dioxide removal system, the crew returned safely to Earth on April 17 as a result of the magnificent engineering expertise which built the Grumman Lunar Module.
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The Grumman Lunar Module was the first vehicle to land man on an extraterrestrial body, the Moon.
Because it was designed solely to fly in space, the Grumman Lunar Module was made of lightweight metals and unique electrical and electronic systems. The design, construction and testing of the Grumman Lunar Module continually pushed the technology envelope and resulted in one of the most important and successful engineering achievements of mankind.
Some of the electrical and electronic accomplishments related to the Grumman Lunar Module included a unique environmental control system that maintained the module interior temperature between 65 and 70F. The Grumman Lunar Module had a robust landing radar and computer system that measured the delay between the transmitted and reflected microwaves from the Lunar surface and calculated accurately the Grumman Lunar Module's proximity to the lunar surface. The Grumman Lunar Module's ascent stage's radar antenna also received transmissions from the Command Surface Module's transponder and calculated the Grumman Lunar Module's precise position and speed during docking. The guidance computer used on the Grumman Lunar Module was the first computer to use Integrated circuits in its design.
The Grumman Lunar Module had S-band 2-Gigahertz high-gain antennas that made possible the transmission of the live images from the moon's surface. These flush-mounted antennas transmitted and received all S-band signals during near-Earth operation and served as backup for the high-gain antenna in deep space. Four antennas were mounted on the command module. The Grumman Lunar Module program also developed critical software for mission analysis and simulation, guidance and trajectory control, an abort guidance control, and a backup communications system.
The Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems sector, then the defense and electronics business of Westinghouse, manufactured the camera used to broadcast the now famous images from the lunar surface to earth. Initially, the camera was attached to the modular equipment stowage assembly (MESA), which was lowered to a position off to the side of the module’s ladder. After Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were on the moon’s surface, the camera was placed on a tripod and moved to a location that would capture an overall view of activities. The engineer and the camera itself received television’s prestigious Emmy award.
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By Basil Fernando -
In the seventies Sri Lanka’s descent into savagery took a qualitative plunge and since then things have become even worse.
By way of explanation I should say that by ‘savage’ I do not mean the noble savage that Jean Jacques Rousseau spoke about, but rather a person living without a civic sense and responsibility. It also means savagery by the government, meaning the disrespect for the civic rights of the citizens and the abandonment of the government’s duty to promote and to protect civic rights.
Here, I am talking about a form of alienation that the citizens suffer when a government descends to the use of violence without limitation and without any sense of proportionality. In this instance, the government’s use of violence is not to protect the overall framework of the decent living of the population but rather to protect itself from the people.
When the government is no longer the expression of the general will, meaning the will of the people as a whole, who have entered into cooperation with it to create a way of life that is best for everyone, but becomes a destructive force acting to devastate the very fabric of society itself, a citizen cannot feel being a part of that society. There is a rift between the citizen and the government.
The decisive point at which this happened was in 1971 when the then ruling coalition government used violence without any restriction to crush a rather insignificant rebellion. The main opposition party expressly gave its fullest support to the government to use any sort of violence on the very people of the soil. According to statistics which emerged at the Criminal Justice Commission (CJC) the JVP was responsible for 41 civilian deaths and the killing of 63 and wounding of 305 members of the armed forces. In retaliation, the government allowed the security forces to kill as many as 5,000 to 10,000 persons and arbitrarily detain 15,000 to 25,000. The killings were done, for the overwhelming part, after the security forces secured arrest or persons surrendered to them.
Thus, a practice was established which legitimised killing without any legal process after arrest. This is one of the greatest acts of savagery.
The governments, meaning any of the government that has existed since then, have never made a public apology for these killings.
The lack of the public apology implies the legitimation of these killings and by such legitimation, permissiveness towards such killings by the security forces was established. Such permissiveness is nothing less than savagery.
With this arose the mentality of the security forces being regarded not as protectors of the people but as mercenaries that could be used against the people. This change had a tremendous impact on the psychology of the security forces as well as that of the people. Above all, it had a tremendous psychological impact on those who held power, the ruler. The ruler felt that it was permissible to kill its own citizens without any regard to any convention or law. That also led to the rulers to regard every person who held a different view as an enemy and a traitor. The word traitor began to be used loosely.
It was not only the weapons that were used against people but also the government’s propaganda machinery. When it comes to anyone that is labeled a critic, the state media was allowed to use whatever language and engage in whatever kind of propaganda it wished. The use of bullets and the use of the state media thus, were combined and no rules or conventions were observed.
I offered my own apology to my fellow citizens who were so barbarically killed by my poem ‘By the Wayside’.
By the wayside
(Translated from Sinhala)
with no name attached
is for you
who have no grave.
As the place of earth
which embraced you
could not be found,
this wreath was placed by the wayside.
for placing a memorial for you
by the roadside.
(Published in 1972)
By 1972 the government went further to attack the very thought process of the nation and incorporated its rights to violate the people into the constitution itself. Thus began a constitutional form of savagery. The constitution abused the phrase ‘peoples’ sovereignty’ to mean the very opposite of what it originally meant when Rousseau used it in his social contract. The people’s sovereignty meant a collective form of governance where the best interests of the people were served through conventions which assured the common good. But in contrast, in Sri Lanka, the word was used to break the conventions and to give arbitrary power to the government under the name of the supremacy of the parliament. The supremacy of the parliament was a displacement of the supremacy of the law. To use the word ‘peoples’ sovereignty’ to enable the capacity of the government to ignore the rule of law is not sovereignty but slavery. The people get together to form a government not in order to destroy their freedom but to protect their freedom. When the idea of the ‘peoples’ sovereignty’ was used in 1972 to take away the entrenched rights of the minorities and to take away the power of judicial review from the judiciary it was not the peoples’ freedoms that were protected by the ruler’s power to enslave the population.
This constitutional savagery took an even more absolute form in the 1978 Constitution. Here a single man called the Executive President emerged as the master. The power of the legislature was trampled under his foot including whatever remained as the independence of the judiciary. This also was named as the ‘peoples’ sovereignty’. A funny conception was developed to say that by voting, the people have alienated their power and given it to the Executive President and now the power of the Executive President is what was meant by the ‘peoples’ sovereignty’. That the people of Sri Lanka allowed this to happen will remain a slur on their political intelligence. Such use of words was nothing but pure bluff and this bluff is at the core of the supreme law of the country, its constitution. It is a constitution where the people are supposed to have voluntarily enslaved themselves.
Read the Sinhala translation here - Translated by Yahapalanaya Lanka
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The New Depression Reviewed In THE ECONOMIST
Submitted by Richard Duncan | on July 08, 2012
This week my book, The New Depression: The Breakdown Of The Paper Money Economy, was reviewed in the Buttonwood column of The Economist. Please find the review copied below.
Duncan dough notes
A thought-provoking analysis of the debt crisis
Jul 7th 2012 | from the print edition
FEW can claim to have predicted the scale of the financial meltdown of the past few years, but Richard Duncan, an economist with a career in finance, made a good attempt. His book “The Dollar Crisis”, published in 2002, argued that the post-Bretton Woods financial system had led to huge global imbalances and a credit bubble that would end in collapse.
Mr Duncan erred in thinking that the crisis would be prompted by a dollar implosion. But his analysis, again highlighted in his latest book, “The New Depression”*, still seems acute. Ending the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates, and the dollar’s link to gold, enabled countries to finance persistent current-account deficits. This in turn sparked huge and occasionally destabilising flows of cross-border capital and a massive burst of credit creation. Total credit in the American economy passed $1 trillion in 1964; by 2007, it had exceeded $50 trillion.
This debt explosion showed up not in consumer prices but in asset prices, notably in property. The cycle was self-reinforcing: banks lent money to people to buy property, causing prices to rise, making banks more willing to lend, and so on.
To explain the process, Mr Duncan outlines his “quantity theory of credit”—adapting Irving Fisher’s equation on the relationship between money supply and prices. Instead of MV=PT (the money supply times the velocity of circulation equals the price level times the number of transactions), he suggests CV=PT. The C stands for the total credit in the economy, while V is the turnover of credit. More credit, extended more often, means higher asset prices.
This bit of the book needs more detail, and some data on how his theory is supposed to have worked. The Fisher equation is a truism: the amount of money spent equals the value of goods bought. It is not intuitively obvious that the Duncan equation meets the same standard. Some debt is used to buy consumer goods, some to buy financial assets such as shares, some to buy real assets such as property. It is not clear how these should be aggregated, or indeed how to treat those assets and goods that are not bought with credit.
Still, Mr Duncan has surely grasped a wider truth. During the boom, policymakers ignored rising asset prices—and indeed welcomed them as evidence that all was well—and disregarded accompanying private-sector credit growth. But when asset prices collapsed, and the banks got into trouble, some of that private-sector debt ended up on the public balance-sheet, leading to the current phase of the crisis.
At this point, you might expect Mr Duncan to call for a return to the gold standard. Far from it. The debt deflation that would be necessary to return the credit supply to a level commensurate with the gold standard “would destroy the world as we know it”, he writes.
Nor does Mr Duncan have much truck with the demands of the tea-party types. He thinks the American government should run big fiscal deficits for the foreseeable future to counteract the lack of private-sector demand for credit. Japan has been able to finance a much higher government debt (in relation to its GDP) without difficulty. But he thinks this spending should be used to improve the economy’s long-run potential. He calls for a programme, costing perhaps $1 trillion over ten years, to invest in solar energy. This might cut the cost of energy by 90%, he claims, delivering a huge productivity gain.
Sadly for Mr Duncan, there is no real prospect of such a project receiving political approval in America. And the massive fiscal stimulus which he thinks “the most probable scenario” for 2013 is unlikely to occur even if there is a Democratic sweep in November’s elections.
That may leave the economy reliant on the Federal Reserve, and more quantitative easing (QE), a policy which Mr Duncan believes is having diminishing returns. A third round of QE will have a short-term wealth impact (via the stockmarket) but will quickly lead to higher inflation. Much more apocalyptic scenarios may unfold.
If some of Mr Duncan’s predictions look unlikely, the book is well worth reading for its analysis. Policymakers interfere heavily in the modern economy, not just via tax-and-spend policies but also through monetary policy, manipulating the level of interest rates to boost demand. This is not capitalism, he suggests, but “creditism”. It is this system which has broken down, and unless you understand it, you will not be able to fix it.
* “The New Depression: The Breakdown of the Paper Money Economy”, published by John Wiley.
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Using A Pocket Tuner
If you have an acoustic guitar than you probably have a tuner that uses an external microphone to pick up the string’s pitch. If you are using this type of tuner then make sure you are in a quiet place and that your tuner is close enough to the guitar sound hole to get a solid reading–if the tuner is tripping out then it may be too far away. There are a couple other types of acoustic tuners: some clamp to the headstock or pickguard and read the string by vibration. I like those tuners for their accuracy and versatility (way easier to tune in a loud room before a gig) but they are more expensive (around $40 vs $20 for the external mic’d ones.) Some tuners tune by using a flashing light (strobe tuners.) The professional level ones are great, but I personally find the pocket or “pick strobe tuners” difficult for a beginner to use—get one of the other above types if you can.
A few tips on tuning to remember:
#1. Remember your musical alphabet—both the natural and sharped notes. This can be found in the Basic Musicianship section of the site in more detail, but here it is again:
A A# B C C# D D# E F F# G G# A
#2: A tuner will pick up the closet pitch in any register, not necessarily the register your string is in. This means that if you are tuning your low E string and the tuner says “D4” instead of “E6” then your E string is probably a whole step below pitch, and your tuner is picking up the D note in the register below your E string. This is a very common scenario because the open strings of a guitar are E A D G B and E, and a tuner will always find the closet possible pitch to a strings vibration, in any octave.
The inverse of this is also common. Let’s say you are tuning your G string and instead of the tuner displaying “G3” it shows “A5.” In this case your G string is most likely a whole step too high. Why too high? Well, it’s more likely that your string got bumped upwards a little bit over the odds of it it being yanked all the way down to the G below. Starting to make sense yet? When in doubt of which way bring a strings pitch test the tension by tugging it a little and compare it to the other strings; you don’t want to end up going up too high and breaking the string. It’s pretty easy once you get used to it.
#3: Always tune upwards into pitch, not downwards. When a string is tuned downwards to pitch slack builds up between the tuner and the nut. This slack causes the string to slip down and out of tune when the guitar is played. A string that is tuned upwards will be held into pitch by its playing tension.
#4: Keep the signal pure for your tuner to hear. If you are using an acoustic tuner with an external mic than make sure it is close to the sound hole of your guitar and that background noise is at a minimum. If you have an electric guitar tuner (with a 1/4” jack) then make sure your volume is turned all the way up for a loud, clear signal.
#5: Isolate the string you are tuning. Get in the habit of covering every string with your right hand except the one you are tuning. This isn’t an easy habit to learn, but work towards it. Why? When you play any string on a guitar the whole guitar vibrates, thus ringing every string a little bit. A tuner picks up all sorts of overtones created by these unnecessary strings and it can get a false reading (one of the reasons the needle jumps from time to time.) Keep the signal as pure as possible!
#6: Is your tuner freaking out? If you’ve followed the steps above and it is still giving you trouble then you might be on a pitch that is exactly between neighboring notes. This is common with chromatic tuners or tuners with such a setting enabled. Read your display carefully; you may be directly between a C# and a D (if your display reads in sharps) or a Db and a C (if it displays in flats.) Be patient and you will do just fine.
All content © Coire Walker 2009 - 2013
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
The group assembled in the above photo along with Lucille Kallen, Sam Denoff, Bill Persky, Danny Simon, Joseph Stein, Sylvester L. Weaver Jr. Tony Webster, Woody Allen and Carl Reiner represent the most influential collection of comedy writers to ever work in television. At a time when all of the entertainment industry is focused on writers, we lost a master of the craft. Mel Tolkin died at the age of 94. Mr. Tolkin was the head of Sid Caesar’s famous television writing team for Your Show of Shows from 1950 to 1954 and later went on to write for Danny Kaye, Danny Thomas, Bob Hope and also wrote for the TV sitcom All in the Family.
Mel Tolkin was interviewed for the Archive of American Television for four hours. This what he had to say about comedy,
"First I'd say that humor cannot be taught. Humor is an attitude towards life. It's a rather cynical approach. It's a negative approach. It's saying people misbehave. People put on shows. People wear masks. People are proud of what they shouldn't be. People compete unfairly. If you think life is wonderful, you don't belong in comedy. Of course, there's a lot that can be taught and at UCLA I taught very detailed things. Some of the things I mention here: how people recognize themselves on the screen and so on. What people are funny? And I quote the opening line of Anna Karenina by Tolstoy when she says, happy people are alike in their happiness. Only unhappy people are different from each other, and that's all there is. Because she proceeded to have one of the unhappiest marriages of all time, Karenina. But she left him. So that's an important lesson. Happy people are dull conversationalists -- no fun to be with and probably vote Republican."
To quote Mel Tolkin when his writer's pace slackened, . “Gentlemen, we’ve got to get something done!” Jews all over America will be watching Saturday night!”
Good Night Mr. Tolkin
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Part street art and part upcycling project, designer Garth Britzman of Lincoln, Nebraska has created a stunning parking canopy using discarded plastic bottles filled with colored water. I think parking just entered the realm of magical realism.
I found Britzman's work on Colossal and was struck by the beauty he was able to achieve using cast-off plastic bottles and colored water. As one who's been mulling over quite a few upcycling projects lately, this is a nice reminder for me to keep imagining the future potential of an item. If discarded plastic bottles are able to reemerge as a cascade of leaves or a spattering of stars, there really is hope for almost anything to be salvaged and turned into something beautiful.
The only downside of this is, you just know the people who park next to him now feel totally inferior about their dinky $12 sunshades.
Read more about this project over at Colossal.
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“The government is lying that companies like Wal-Mart will generate millions of jobs in India. What about the 50 million small traders and shopkeepers who will be ruined?” said Murli Manohar Joshi, a senior lawmaker with the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, echoing arguments that have been made in American cities against the mega-retailer.
“Most of Wal-Mart’s goods are made by Chinese companies,” Joshi said. “This decision will mean that Chinese goods will enter India through the back door. It will not benefit Indians.”
The government backed down from allowing foreign supermarkets last year in the face of similar opposition, but it says it will not do so again. On Tuesday, a key member of Singh’s coalition withdrew from the government over the decision — the most politically risky decision Singh has made since India signed a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement with the United States in 2008.
Singh has been widely castigated for failing to push through reforms that the private sector desperately needs and for presiding over a sharp economic slowdown in the years since he came to power promising inclusive growth for the “common man.”
He first began liberalizing India’s economy in 1991, when he was finance minister. Moves to allow investment in sectors such as banking, insurance and telecommunications all generated a similar backlash — even though, analysts say, they helped generate unprecedented economic growth.
“Ultimately, the fundamentals lie in creating competitiveness in our economy. We must have the will to do that,” said R. V. Kanoria, president of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. “Progress has to happen. You have to give choice for the consumer.”
India’s retail market is expected to be worth more than $1.3 trillion by 2020, up from $500 billion now, as a growing middle class continues to spend, a recent report by the chamber says. Supermarkets and department stores now serve only 5 percent of the market.
Even so, the government has acted cautiously, stipulating that the decision on whether to let in foreign retailers ultimately rests with individual states and applies only to cities of more than a million people. Just nine of the country’s 28 states have indicated they would allow the retailers in. But those jurisdictions include New Delhi and Maharashtra, home to India’s commercial capital, Mumbai.
“What is everybody protesting about? If you have a problem with it, don’t implement it,” said Rajiv Shukla, minister for parliamentary affairs. “At least allow those states that agree with this policy to go ahead with it.”
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Kuala Lumpur, part Chinatown and part Bollywood, is one of the fastest-growing metropolitan regions in Malaysia and a popular hub for culture and art. When you visit this federal capital, you will want to have a little background in Malaysian art to see why Kuala Lumpur could be a great choice for your next trip (go to site).
What You Can Expect From Art in Kuala Lumpur
The culture in Kuala Lumpur is changing rapidly, and contemporary art is a focus. Malaysians have an ongoing quest for shared identity, which impacts their art. Though Malaysia’s historical past is rich in art, dance, theatre and music, art is no longer restive and stuck in the old ways, and socio-political issues are often reflected in contemporary artwork. The following museums and galleries are good places to find and enjoy Malaysian art.
Galleries, Museums and Other Places to Visit
- National Art Gallery. Located in the neighbourhood of Lake Titiwangsa near the National Theatre and the National Library, the gallery hosts a variety of exhibits and educational programs. It has a permanent collection of more than 2,500 pieces of artwork, and the very unusual modern structure built with a combination of glass, metal and slate.
- PETRONAS Art Gallery. This is probably Kuala Lumpur’s most sophisticated art gallery. It showcases and promotes Malaysian art as well as foreign artists.
- PETRONAS Philharmonic Hall. This is Malaysia’s premier performing arts centre and devoted specifically to classical music.
- Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre. In Sentul West, the KLPAC is one of the most established centres in the country for traditional and contemporary performing arts; particularly theatre, music and film.
- Central Market. Visit here to watch local artists at work. The Central Market is located close to Chinatown within the Golden Triangle of Kuala Lumpur.
- Islamic Arts Museum. Showcases more than 7,000 Islamic artefacts, including a library of Islamic art books concentrating on work from the Middle East and Asia.
- Wei-Ling Gallery. Here you’ll find contemporary and pop pieces by both up-and-coming and established artists. Entry is free.
- Artseni Gallery. This small gallery has a vision to promote art among the masses and to bring Malaysian art to an international audience. They sell artwork and establish relationships among artists, art lovers and the general public.
- Annexe Gallery. This not-for-profit centre promotes contemporary arts, with a variety of events, such as exhibitions, film screenings, workshops, talks and more.
- Valentine Willie Fine Art. Within the Bangsar neighbourhood, this gallery houses a permanent collection of art of a distinctive contemporary nature. The paintings originate within Malaysia and southeastern Asia.
- MAP. This arts district has a public piazza surrounded by several immense exhibition venues, rows of artsy shops and MAP, an arts organization that has a gallery and an auditorium.
A Few Artists to Know in Kuala Lumpur
- Ivan Lam. This printmaker’s earlier work was pop-art influenced, and his recent silk-screen paintings have brought him much success.
- Ahmad Zakii Anwar. His works are some of the most sought after and admired among collectors and art enthusiasts. His art is engaging and realistic.
- Jalaini Abu Hassan. This artist, known as Jai, is one of the most traditional contemporary artists. His work depicts the typical Malaysian life.
- Anurendra Jegadeva. His work usually depicts themes of religion and society. His signature style is never conventional.
- Yee I-Lann. Her work incorporates digital art and film to explore themes of history, landscape and cultural identity.
- Snozze and Escape. If you’re into street art, these are two of the more famous street artists in the city.
Of course, now that you know about all this great art, you’ll want to visit Kuala Lumpur, right? Make sure you plan properly and get ready to enjoy some great culture.
About the Author: Ahayla Janjua is an art and travel blogger. She recommends you view the website she uses when making your travel plans.
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WebMD Medical News
Daniel J. DeNoon
Louise Chang, MD
May 28, 2008 -- Results only now reported from a 12-week clinical trial that
ended nine years ago suggest that a new drug, Resolor, helps people with
Meanwhile, promising findings suggest that a new form of naltrexone, a drug
used to block the narcotic effects of opioids in addicts, may relieve the terrible
constipation that afflicts patients who need opioids to control their pain.
The Resolor results appeared only after Johnson & Johnson, which
developed the drug, licensed it to the Belgian firm Movetis NV.
Late or not, the results may be good news to the estimated 15% of Americans
who suffer the straining, bloating, and abdominal discomfort of chronic
Resolor "significantly increased the number of spontaneous, complete
bowel movements, reduced the severity of symptoms, and improved the disease-related quality of
life in patients with severe chronic constipation," report Mayo Clinic
researcher Michael Camilleri, MD, and his Movetis colleagues.
Nearly half of the patients receiving Resolor, but only a fourth of the
patients receiving an inactive placebo, averaged at least one complete bowel
movement per week.
None of the patients showed signs of heart problems. That's good news, but
there's reason to need more safety data, says Arthur J. Moss, MD, of the
University of Rochester in New York. Moss' editorial accompanies the Camilleri
report in the May 29 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
Resolor is in the same drug family as Propulsid and Zelnorm, both of which
were taken off the market because they caused dangerous heart problems in some
patients. Zelnorm returned to the market with a dire warning on its label, but
was then voluntarily removed from the market by the manufacturer.
"It is not clear why clinical trials with [Resolor] were temporarily
suspended around 2001 or why it took so long to bring this study to
publication," Moss notes. "We simply do not know whether the drug will
[cause serious heart problems] in a small fraction of vulnerable subjects with
a non-life-threatening gastrointestinal disorder."
Moss says more complete data will be needed before the drug should be
brought to market as a treatment for chronic constipation.
Opioid drugs are a huge boon in
offering pain relief to patients with severe pain. But they cause their own
form of suffering -- constipation that often cannot be relieved by laxatives.
This problem often means patients have to cut back on opioid use, sometimes
with a terrible increase in pain.
The drug naltrexone blocks opioid
drugs from attaching to receptors, thus blocking their painkilling effects.
Relistor is a form of naltrexone that has limited ability to enter the brain.
The idea is to block the unwanted side effects of opioids, such as
constipation, without blocking their painkilling effects.
In a clinical trial supported by Progenics, which is developing Relistor in
collaboration with Wyeth, 133 patients with advanced illness and terminal
disease who had been on opioids for two or more weeks received under-the-skin
injections of Relistor or an inactive placebo.
Nearly half the Relistor-treated patients had a bowel movement within four
hours of the first dose, compared with 15% of the placebo group. Time to bowel
movement was significantly shorter for Relistor patients than placebo
Importantly, none of the patients showed signs of opioid withdrawal or had
changes in their pain scores.
Relistor "may represent an important therapeutic option for patients
with advanced illness who are suffering from opioid-induced constipation,"
conclude Jay Thomas, MD, PhD, of San Diego Hospice and the Institute for
Palliative Medicine, San Diego, and colleagues.
In an editorial accompanying the Thomas report in the May 29 issue of The
New England Journal of Medicine, Harvard researchers Charles Berde, MD,
PhD, and Samuel Nurko, MD, MPH, commend the Thomas team on its work.
However, Berde and Nurko wonder why only half of patients responded. Their
hypothesis is that the constipating effects of opioids stem not only from
opioid action in the gut, but also in the brain, which Relistor cannot
"Future studies in a larger number of patients may help to delineate
predictors of the success or failure of [Relistor] in specific subgroups of
patients, and may guide decisions about increasing or decreasing the dose for
various patients," they suggest.
Relistor was approved by the FDA in April 2008 for the treatment of
opioid-induced constipation in patients with late-stage, advanced illness who
are receiving opioids on a continuous basis to help alleviate their pain.
SOURCES:Camilleri, M. The New England Journal of Medicine, May 29, 2008; vol
358: pp 2344-2354.Moss, A.J. The New England Journal of Medicine, May 29, 2008; vol
358: pp 2402-2403.Thomas, J. The New England Journal of Medicine, May 29, 2008; vol
358: pp 2332-2343.Berde, C. and Nurko, S. The New England Journal of Medicine, May 29,
2008; vol 358: pp 2400-2402.
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The bright star U Camelopardalis, or U Cam for short, is surrounded by a tenuous shell of gas in an image from the Hubble Space Telescope.
The flash of an earthly fireworks display can be over in an instant — sometimes literally — but the show is longer lasting in outer space. The dying red-giant star known as U Camelopardalis, 1,500 light-years away in a region of sky near the north celestial pole, is in the midst of a fireworks blast that lasts for centuries.
By human standards, U Cam's blast may seem like an eternity. The star's shining shell of glowing gas, documented in this picture from the Hubble Space Telescope, has been traveling outward for something like 700 years, as Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait points out. When the outward explosion began, Europe was suffering through famines and plagues, and the mainstream view was that our planet was the center of the universe.
But in the astronomical scheme of things, centuries are mere blinks of the eye — and it won't be long before U Cam gives up the ghost.
U Cam is a carbon-rich star that's running low on its fusion fuel and becoming unstable. Every few thousand years, it coughs away stellar material as a thin, faintly glowing shell. The star itself is actually much smaller than it looks. The brightness dial has been turned way up to emphasize the delicate structure of the shell, and that means U Cam's glare is turned up as well.
Plait notes that our own sun is destined to run low on fuel billions of years from now, turn into a red giant and start blasting away shells of material — just as U Cam is doing now. "What we're seeing here is a glimpse of our own future," he writes. That's certainly a sobering thought, but 7 billion years or so should give us plenty of time to look around for other places where we can hang out.
NASA / JPL-Caltech
The Flame Nebula flares in this color-coded view from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. The famous Horsehead Nebula can be seenas a small bump poking out from the edge of the cloud, below the bright star of the flame.
Who knows? One of those places might be in the neighborhood of the Flame Nebula. The star-forming nebula is situated about as far away from us as U Cam — but in the direction of the constellation Orion, near the celestial equator. NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer captured this view of the vast cloud and dust, lit up by a bright star that's 20 times as massive as our sun.
This view also shows two other familiar nebulae. The knot of light just beneath the brightest part of the image is a nebula known as NGC 2023. The Horsehead Nebula is poking out from the greenish-colored cloud, just to the right of NGC 2023 and down a bit. In visible light, the Horsehead is a dark cloud silhouetted by glowing gas, but in infrared light, we see the glow of the cloud instead.
This image is color-coded to reflect different infrared wavelengths. Hot stars are seen in shades of blue and bluish green, while relatively cool objects, such as the dust of the nebulae, show up in shades of green and red. The color combination makes for a fireworks display well-suited for the week of the Fourth of July.
Where in the Cosmos
The picture of the Flame Nebula served as this week's puzzle picture for the "Where in the Cosmos" contest on the Cosmic Log Facebook page. It only took a few minutes for Matt Gunn to identify the picture as the Flame Nebula, and Michael Vacirca and David Frambo were right behind him. All three are eligible to receive 3-D glasses, wrapped up in a 3-D picture of yours truly.
To put those red-blue glasses to use, check out Cosmic Log's 3-D archive, as well as the 3-D images available through the Planetary Society blog. And to get in position for next week's "Where in the Cosmos" contest, be sure to hit the "like" button for the Cosmic Log Facebook page.
Weekly Space Hangout
Cosmic sights were among the topics addressed during this week's Space Hangout, orchestrated by Universe Today's Fraser Cain, but we also addressed developments closer to home, such as the discovery of a new boson at the Large Hadron Collider and the untimely death of former astronaut Alan Poindexter. Check out the YouTube video for the whole Hangout.
Alan Boyle is msnbc.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter and adding the Cosmic Log page to your Google+ presence. You can also check out "The Case for Pluto," my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.
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The jobs report for August was predictably dismal but seems to have shocked official Washington in ways that suggest we really are ruled by morons. 14 million unemployed and another 8.8 million desperately underemployed gives us a U3 of, drum roll please!, precisely the same as it has been stalled at for months at 9.1 per cent. The long-term unemployed—those out of work from more than 27 weeks—made up a whopping 6 million, or nearly 43% of the jobless. Let’s be honest and call these folks “the never to be employed again.” The sub-category rates with 8.9 per cent for adult men, 8.0 per cent for adult women, 8.0 per cent for “whites” and 16.7 per cent (!) for “blacks” (18.0 per cent for black males). U6, which is the best representation for how “slack” the labor market is (because it records the under-employed and discouraged job-seekers) is an abysmal 16.2%. The employment population ratio, still the best measure in my view of actual unemployment, rose on a rounding era to 58.2 per cent. The second quarter, in other words, saw almost no significant increase in jobs (an average of 50 k per month). World markets tumbled this Labor Day on the news that there ain’t a whole lot of laboring going on.
I say the report was predictable because everywhere else where “austerity” has been practiced, it has led to economic slowdown and increased unemployment. I put “austerity” in quotes because, of course, it is not austerity for all. By all sorts of measures—open and secret—governments have been supporting powerful interests, such as the financial sector and military, while slashing spending to provide social support and public goods to average citizens. The Federal Reserve, after all, handed out 16 trillion (with a “T”) dollars worth of low-interest or no interest loans to a small coterie of well-connected banks. Bank of America alone—the most obvious of the shambling, walking-dead, “zombie banks”—was given 1.3 trillion dollars. Any guesses how many schools could have been rebuilt or high-speed rail lines constructed with 1.3 trillion? I myself don’t know, but I’m guessing a lot. Still, this pseudo-austerity is very real austerity to regular people and the example of the other “austerian” measures, most especially in Europe, is not good. In fact, if the United States caused the last Great Recession with its housing bubble, it will almost certainly be the case that the next (which is fast approaching) will be caused by the European Central Bank’s insane policy of raising rates and insisting on slashing budgets in the face of non-existent inflation. Europe is now precisely on the brink of economic disaster that these policies were somehow, magically, supposed to avoid.
But then again, these predictable results of neo-Hooverism were not overlooked, but fervently hoped for by the policy’s architects. The table below makes it quite clear that economic stagnation and a continuing jobs crisis is a deliberate political outcome foisted on the administration by the saboteurs in Congress (h/t Jed Lewison at Dailykos)
The GOP has openly proclaimed its main goal to be running this president out of office, not improving the economy and said administration inexplicably connives at its own destruction by embracing the “deficit-cutting mantra.” The economists out there might object that the budget cuts have really not bitten yet and the crashing employment market is more likely driven by the tailing off of the weak stimulus passed in 2009. Well, yeah. The budget cuts were designed to make it politically impossible for any meaningful economic stimulus to be passed in the year and a half before the election. The Republicans want high unemployment, especially unemployment which savages the Democratic base voters (African-American male unemployment is now at a shameful 18 per cent, teen unemployment approaching 25 per cent and we’re talking U3), which works much better than all their crypto-Jim Crow disenfranchisement laws to suppress the vote. The geniuses in the White House who think the “optics” of them agreeing to Hooverite Republican policies are good, that they seem like the “only adults in the room” are epically wrong. Independents have turned on this president en masse in the wake of his “principled compromises” while his own committed voters, self-designated Democrats, are now turning on him as well (he’s lost 12 points in approval ratings by independents since May and 10 points among Democrats). The nation’s overall disgust at the neo-Hooverite policies embraced by this administration is clear. Only about a third of the country approves of the President’s handling of economic issues. That is a stinging rebuke. Even Democratic lawmakers in tight election fights are distancing themselves from Obama. Basically, everybody thinks his neo-liberalism sucks (well, not everyone but who are those one-third who approve his handling of the economy? Cloistered liberals of the professional classes?).
But neo-Hooverite deficit-cutting is tanking the economy in a much more direct way (and no, I don’t mean some farcical ratings downgrade by a corrupt organization too incompetent to add figures properly). The collapse of weak consumer confidence over the last two months has been appalling as the number sank from a downwardly revised 59.2 in July to 44.5 in August. These are terrible numbers, not since the depths of the Great Recession’s freefall, in April 2009, has the number been so low. In an economy where nearly three-fourths of economic activity is driven by consumer demand, these numbers presage not simply recession but depression. The government’s own figures predict unemployment at over 9.0 per cent through 2012. Meanwhile, Mr. Obama gives nice speeches saying he likes Labor but has done nothing, not a damned thing, to stand up to the greatest assault on working people in generations.
His vapidity is particularly on parade with craptastic phrases like:
“You ask somebody here if times are tough, they’ll say, ‘Yeah, it’s tough, but we’re tougher,’” he said. “Yes, times are tough. But we’ve been through tough times before. I don’t know about you, but I’m not scared of tough times. I’m not scared of tough times because I know we’re going to be all marching together and walking together and working together and rebuilding together and I know we don’t quit. I know we don’t give up our dreams and settle for something less.”
Really, he’s not scared of “tough times,” eh? Well, his audience might be tough but any guy who says Detroit has been “to heck and back” needs to graduate to Middle School. No, Mr. President, Detroit, where the unemployment rate has increased from 17.4 per cent in 2008 to nearly 25 per cent today, has not been to some spinster church lady’s “heck,” it’s been through fucking hell. Weenie. And Michigan, home of one of the proudest union traditions in the country has lost 627,000 union jobs in the last ten years. Just so everybody focuses on the cost, the real cost, of unemployment, low-wages and the destruction of the American working class, there’s a not so heart-warming story from a down the road. An unemployed 24-year old father of one, Kyle Willis, died from a tooth infection because he couldn’t afford the antibiotic. The jobless, in Mr. Obama’s America, die from toothaches. Predictably this story is being spun by the media on the need to take care of oral health, but the real import here is that almost nowhere else in the developed world would this needless tragedy occur. But here in America, it certainly does happen—by design. This is what neo-Hooverite “austerity” policies give you. Needless suffering and tragedy. You can say it, Mr. President. C’mon. It is hell, not “heck,” and it is a hell of your own making.
UPDATE: Somehow I managed to miss this very good column by Harold Meyerson. In it he reports on the key to understanding all this neo-Hooverism. He cites a study by Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney of the Hamilton Project at the thrice-damned Brookings Institute, of all places, that shows the median earnings of men aged 25 to 64, i.e., prime working age, fell 28 per cent from 1969 to 2009. Not coincidentally this was the historical epoch of “de-industrialization” and “globalization.” The median earnings of those who finish high school but not college fell a whooping 47 per cent while those with college degrees fell a less precipitous 12 per cent. Not since the early decades of the industrial revolution has there been such a sustained collapse of male wages. Meyerson deliberately refuses to get the point of this and blames de-industrialization for this impoverishment and calls for neo-industrialization. But a neo-industrial state will be built as a “right-to-work” state with low-wages and no skills. Why? Because this isn’t about industrial policy, it is about expropriation. Workers have so little share of the nation’s wealth because the nation’s wealthy like it that way.
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Diane Mermigas writes a good summary of the fuses lit under big, old media and how they’re burning down this year.
In truth, it all comes down to the caliber and vision of company management and leadership — something media and entertainment industries have in perilously short supply. In a quest to conquer the digital fast track, an aging ruling class is anointing their next-in-line top executives and their next-of-kin, few of which have the “right stuff” to reinvent these industries during the next several decades. While many will move their companies into the thick of a digital transition, few are skilled enough to ingeniously mine it.
That will require a new generation of graduates from the Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Steven Spielberg school of mavericks and free-thinkers. It also will require a new standard for innovation and imagination, concepts that these weary industries have difficulty budgeting for much less mandating.
Can the incumbents do it? I’m not sure.
She goes on to give them their assignment. It’s very simple: Empower the consumer.
Companies will need to be thoughtful about reshaping industry economics and logistics according to the new rules of play.
The bottom line: they likely will make more money than they do today beckoning to the whims of emancipated consumers….
If the likes of Google (through search and other online analytics) and Apple (through portable devices) taught us anything in 2005 it is that empowering consumers is very good business….
…it looks like the “killer application” of new media is what the consumer wants, when they want it, where they want it.
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Patients with diabetes are less likely to have a heart attack or die if they stay on anti-clotting medication for a full year after a stenting procedure.
A stent is a very small metal mesh cylinder that's inserted into a cardiac artery after it's become choked off by atherosclerosis. The stent acts like a scaffold to prop open the artery, allowing a healthy volume of blood flow. To prevent tissue from growing over the stent and re-blocking the blood vessel, stents are often coated with slow-release drugs that keep the growth from occurring; these are called drug-eluting (drug washing-out) stents. Stents that are not coated with drugs are called bare metal stents.
Patients who've had a stent inserted must take an anti-clotting agent such as aspirin and clopidogrel (Plavix). In general, the medication is prescribed for six or more months after the stenting, to prevent the blood from reacting to the stent by thickening and clogging up the newly expanded artery (thrombosis). The hope is that a smooth, thin layer of endothelial cells (the inner lining of the blood vessel) grows over the stent during this period and incorporates it into the artery, reducing the tendency for clotting.
Now research has shown that a full year of treatment with the anti-clotting agent clopidogrel, twice as long as the standard six-month treatment, offers significant benefit to people with diabetes. In the study, 671 diabetic patients who had a stenting procedure were followed. A year after the procedure, patients were less likely to have suffered a heart attack or died if they had continued to take clopidogrel for the full year. Even with bare metal stents, long-term clopidogrel significantly reduced the risk of death or heart attack.
The researchers speculated that year-long clopidogrel therapy is helpful because it prevents blood clots from forming on inflamed plaques throughout the diseased coronary arteries, not just on the stent itself. Continuing the therapy longer than a year did not further reduce risk.
Source: Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention
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Originally Posted by BillyVille
This is going to be for my Communty Tank. What do you think?
75 gallon tank and stand
Custom blue rock background with caves and tunnels
Reverse underground filter system
Live and fake flowers
I know Im leaving something out but ohh well here is the fish list:
1 Boesemani Rainbow
1 Red Rainbow
1 Praecox Rainbow
2 Skunk Cory Cats
1 Candy Strip Pleco
6 Clown Loaches
3 Pink Glow Fish
3 Orange Glow Fish
4 Angel Fish
3 Ghost Shrimp
1 Red Crystal Shrimp
2 Dwarf Frogs
Is that toooo many fish or do I have room for more?!?
I wouldn't keep 2 clown loaches in 75 gallons long term, they get way too big. The rainbows are likely to chew up on the glow fish and the Swordtail
, and the angelfish are going to need much more territory and space than 75 gallons long term, and can get quite aggressive as they mature. You don't want to mix ghost shrimp with the red crystal shrimp, they'll eat each other, and the dwarf frogs are likely to also eat the red crystal shrimp.
The rainbows get quite large, 5 - 6 inches for what you've listed, and those species can be quite nippy and territorial. My suggestion would be to work with the rainbows and find others more compatible with them, such as gouramis, some of the barbs... or work with the other smaller fishes and find others that would work with them.
I have to strongly discourage the glo fish. The color in these fish is injected with dye, and its a very inhumane procedure. The dye wears off over time, leaving you with a very plain bland looking fish with lots of health problems. When they inject these fish, the death rate is very high. The only way to work towards prevention is to discourage people from spending money on them and supporting the cause.
Lupin I think had some links to some very informative articles about the glofish and the way they are injected... if not I can search it out for you here and post it.
As for the number of fish you wish to keep in that tank, it will depend greatly on how big they get to be and how aggressive they each are. If you need help with more suggestions, let us know!
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BENDIGO’s residential developments and growth corridors need to adapt to Bendigo’s growing population, according to a leading lecturer on the future of Australian cities.
Cities Fellow at the Grattan Institute Peter Mares said there was clear research that showed Bendigo’s growth would change the way people lived.
Speaking at a lecture at the La Trobe Visual Arts Centre last night, Mr Mares looked at the trends of expanding urban boundaries in Melbourne and the lessons that had for Bendigo.
He said there was a gap in the type of homes there were in Bendigo and the type people would look to use in the future.
Mr Mares pointed to figures that showed Bendigo was above the Victorian average in total proportion of detached houses.
“There’s a lower proportion of medium-density and high-density housing than the state average,” he said.
“There could be a lack of choice to move into the inner-city in higher density living... people might be living in houses that cost them more than they might like to spend.”
La Trobe University Bendigo planning lecturer Andrew Butt said Mr Mares’ lecture was timely advice on how to deal with rapid population growth in the city’s suburbs.
He said the majority of research on dealing with urban growth focused on metropolitan areas and ignored regional centres.
“Three million Australians live in small- and medium-sized rural towns and cities and some population issues are just as acute, if not more acute, in regional areas as they are in the capital cities.
“So it is an appropriate time to examine what lessons can be learnt from metropolitan growth suburbs.”
Bendigo councillors last week approved early plans for a 1400-lot subdivision at Maiden Gully.
The development on land outside Bendigo’s urban growth boundary will go on public display in coming weeks.
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Out of decades of making photographs, and thousands of images made, I can number less than a dozen efforts on my part at making this kind of photography. (I exempt from this photographs of my land art sculptures, because these are photos of sculptures, not staged set-pieces. Documents and new pieces of art in their own right: the sculptures were not made just to be photographed.) I prefer to work with discovery and exploration. I work almost entirely with found settings, found scenes, and if I direct a model to move within a setting, it is mostly to accentuate a posture or position the model has already found for themselves. It is more collaborative, I feel, than purely directorial.
Directorial photography is nonetheless a style of photography I greatly enjoy, in the hands of its masterful artisans, but one I have never felt moved to undertake seriously in my own work. I prefer to work spontaneously, in the moment, on location, and almost never stage models or events to accomplish a pre-visualized image. Certainly I validate that staged photography is a valid approach, just as is the photography of being-in-the-moment, which I practice much more often. (I also exempt still-life photography from this discussion, as creating an interesting arrangement of found objects to light and photograph, or draw and paint, is not the same thing as arranging a narrative tableau involving live models on a set or location.)
Some of the photographers who practice directed photography are Duane Michals (certainly one of my favorite photographers), Arthur Tress (whose photographs brought on this essay), Cindy Sherman, Bernard Faucon, Leslie Krims, Ralph Eugene Meatyard (another personal favorite, for different reasons than Michals), Richard Kirstel, Lucas Samaras, Clarence John Laughlin, Eikoh Hosoe, and others. I view George Platt Lynes and his circle in this light, too, although some do not.
Let's look at what directed photography actually is, as a practice and a means. Here's an excerpt from A.D. Coleman's Introduction to Arthur Tress' book The Theater of the Mind (1976):
All photographs are fictions, to a far greater extent than we are yet able or willing to acknowledge. Yet most of them still pretend to a high degree of verisimilitude and transparency, to the impersonal neutrality of windows on the world.
It is in the directorial mode of photography more than any other that the fictional nature of the photographic image is not only recognized and explored but openly declared as an active premise, a hermeneutical stance. This mode might most simply be defined as the deliberate staging of events for the express purpose of making photographs thereof—as distinguished from addressing oneself through the camera to an ongoing, uncontrolled external "reality."
Though you wouldn't know it from studying any of the available histories of the medium, the directorial mode of photography has a long, diverse, and honorable tradition. Yet for reasons which appear to have more to do with photo-historical politics than with scholarship and logic, certain uses (and users) of the directorial mode have been accepted as legitimate while others have been rejected out of hand. The basis for these usually arbitrary judgments generally boils down to the conservative taste patterns of the medium's heretofore dominant historians.
Thus it has been considered aesthetically permissible for the late Paul Strand to "cast" his book on an Italian village, Un Paese, by having the townspeople lined up and selecting from them those he considered most picturesque—but unacceptable for Edward Curtis to persuade American Indians to reenact rituals and events out of their past; valid for Edward Weston to arrange vegetables and nudes in static, pre-conceived configurations in his studio—but not for William Mortensen to use his studio as the setting for those mini-dramas which were the basis of his stylized, Symbolist allegories.
I'm sure some photojournalists would argue with Coleman about the fictional nature of photography: their purpose is to report, to present what happened, as nearly as possible, and to capture the moment. But there is still artfulness involved—and artfulness is artifice—after all, the photographer still chooses where and when to make the photo. There is no absolute objective eye watching all; it remains an artful choice, as to what to cover, and what not to. Editing is part of photojournalism, just as it past of reporting. Leaving out the details that are irrelevant to the story, or otherwise unimportant, is accepted without much thought as being just part of the process. So I think Coleman makes some valid points here, that are hard to just dismiss.
Also, as the post-modernist self-aware ironic consciousness has filtered more and more into the arts since Coleman wrote these comments, authorial mastery and transparency has become more suspect in general. There is almost always a question, now, as to whether the photograph can be trusted to be real, or not. Far too many photographic critics nowadays question everything, even family vacation snapshots, to decode them for hidden meanings, often as a criticism of the social status quo. (A priori political or ideological motivations, in other words, that color the critical results.)
Artifice is the root of artificial, and artifice is the craft of making art. Artists are artisans.
One of Coleman's best points is about the problematic distinctions that some historians have made between styles of photography, promoting one style as more valid than another. (It's hard not to see this as a swipe at Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, still the most influential and respected historians of the early American photographic movements and persons.) The point that styles of photography that are presumed to be purely representational nonetheless contain artifice is precisely the point that Edward Weston and Ansel Adams made numerous times, with their various comments that the finished print is not intended to reproduce nature, but rather the photographer's emotional response to what he or she sees. This point was repeated numerous times in their writings, as one of the reasons that photography must be considered to be an art, not just a technical craft. This is also why many people still feel black and white photography to be more inherently artistic than color photography: because it is more artificial. More fictional.
Coleman fails, though, in apparently criticizing Weston in opposition to other photographers, because Coleman misinterprets Weston's creative process. Weston didn't really stage events. While he did arrange vegetables on a table, when he was out photographing with models, he wrote in the Daybooks that his procedure was to let the models move as they wished, and asked them to freeze when he saw a composition or posture he liked. This points out the difference between discovery and pre-arranged tableau. Coleman is misunderstanding what Weston meant when he used terms such as pre-visualization: Weston was not planning the photograph before he ever took it, he was seeing in his mind's eye what the finished print would look like, as he snapped the camera's shutter.
Arthur Tress' series photography work involves the thought-out, frequently pre-arranged tableau; even locations were scouted in preparation, for some of his series. The photo-historic objection against Mortensen had more to do with his painterly use of the photographic medium (as did F. Holland Day and Edward Steichen) to illustrate subjects the same way they were treated in salon painting: this style of soft-focus illustrative photography was exactly what Group f-64, including Weston and Adams, were rebelling against.
The objections against directorial photography, historic and modern, often carry a moral flavor, rather than a purely aesthetic one. A lot of the criticism does come from disciples of the Group f-64 "photography is fine art" school; but it also comes from photojournalists, some of whom are purists about not manipulating the image, even to the point of including technical flaws such as blur and bad exposure.
Of course none of this escapes Coleman's first point about the very artificiality of the medium itself: it's all fiction, even if it strives not to be. Is there any such thing, really, as non-fiction, in any of the arts? If you take this viewpoint to its limits, non-fiction can't exist because all arts, including reportage, are engaged in by humans, who filter information through their own perceptions. There can be no objectivity, ever, in this viewpoint.
This has been taken up in the post-modern critical climate to negate any possibility of critical objectivity: everything is relative, everything is subject to personal taste, everything is subjective, and everything is affected by the local cultural context in which it was produced. This is valid in terms of reclaiming local origins for all art-making and cultural creativity—local as opposed to imperial, and thus a way of re-empowering the formerly or still oppressed—but there is a tendency in this critical trope to discard any notion of the human urge towards universality: to also find those ways in which we are alike, rather than different. Commonalities abound, even between peoples who have language or culture in common: we all live, we all die, we all have emotions to one degree or another, and many of those emotions are sparked by the same stimuli in life—love, sex, envy, hurt, wounds, joy, ecstasy, spiritual experience, what have you. We share some things simply because we are the same species.
The unfortunate result of the post-modern subjective relativistic stance is that we are not supposed to agree that we might agree on some things. We are not supposed to be able to see ourselves in the Other, because we are all too different, too alien to one another. This is obviously absurd. There are those of us who revel in our mutual diversity without ever losing sight of our shared commonalities. Two mothers who have both lost sons, on opposite sides of a war, can come together in their mutual loss and begin the peace process.
Coleman's second paragraph above is the best working definition of directorial photography that I have found. It is fitting that it's to be found in a book of Arthur Tress' photographs. Tress is a master of this style.
My favorite book of Tress' is The Dream Collector, in which the photographer helps the children whose portraits he is taking reenact their dreams and nightmares, using settings, props, and acting to replicate their dreams, visions, and fantasies. The resulting photographs are both humorous and disturbing, beautiful and terrifying, sublime and outrageous. The dream-logic that arises from the archetypes of the deepest parts of the mind has, since the Surrealists and before, been fodder for shock, surprise, awe, and funny juxtapositions in art, for a long time.
Some of the dreams that Tress helps the children reenact are disturbing for adults to see, and Tress has taken heat for this. Adults all too often sentimentalize children, having forgotten or repressed their own childhoods, and want kids to be passively innocent dolls, with no dark sides, no terrors, and no nightmares. We censor scary stories that kids love: but kids know better than adults that it's all pretend, delicious instead of abusive. Tress retains a certain amount of his own childlike wonder in all his photography, which is perhaps why these photos work so well. Clearly they are collaborative. The directorial element in The Dream Collector is perhaps more that of a produce than a director: someone who facilitates the work, rather than dictating it. Tress is, after all, recreating the dreams that the children told him about, who then reenact their dreams for the photograph.
Tress' Theater of the Mind contains a classic photograph that I have never been able to forget. It's one of those iconic images that goes so deep, it seems amazing that no-one thought of it before. This photograph is titled "Bride and Groom." The setting is a bombed-out church nave. A man stands in the wreckage, posed. On his right side, he wears a formal black groom's suit, including tophat and tails, and his hand is raised as though swearing an oath. But on his left side, he is wearing a bride's white dress, and holding out the skirt with his left hand. In one person is united the male and female, bride and groom.
This is nothing if not the sacred wedding, the marriage of opposites in one person, that C.G. Jung wrote about in his late books such as Psychology and Alchemy. The union of opposites. The merging of genders. I do not know if Tress had all of this in mind beforehand, but it is all there in the photo.
The setting appears to the ruins of civilization. There is something symbolic about that: after the fall of everything, then the man the woman shall be one. This is echoed in the Gospel of Thomas, a Gnostic gospel found among the papyruses discovered last century at Nag Hammadi:
Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom of heaven].
All this from one staged photograph.
That shows the power of how a photo can become something iconic, memorable, and archetypal. It is more than just an illustration of an idea. It cuts through the rational linear mind directly to the understanding, in the same way that a painting can bypass the intellect and go directly to the heart's meaning.
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No description Bath owes its existence as a spa resort to the Romans who transformed the town into England's first spa resort. It regained its popularity as a spa town in the 18th century, thanks to 'Beau' Nash who was instrumental in organizing endless balls, games and entertainment to attract the rich and people of prominent status to the town.
The greatest part of discovering Bath is that the center of the city is traffic free. There is a lot to see in this town, most of which can be reached on foot, including the spectacular Royal Crescent.
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Earlier this year, the Canadian National Railway agreed to provide rail transportation services for a new multimillion-dollar rail spur and oil terminal to be constructed on the Birdtail Sioux First Nation.
It’s a project that could give the small Dakota nation a great step forward in terms of job creation and economic development if the plan proceeds as Chief Ken Chalmers hopes.
As the Sun has reported, the plan is to build the spur along parcelled sections of reserve land that will be leased out to various corporate partners — many of which are already showing great interest in the development.
The first major project along the spur will be a joint venture with Calgary-based Strive Energy Services Ltd. to build an oil terminal, operated under a limited partnership with the First Nations.
But before the reserve can move forward with this enterprise, the land along the railway spur will have to be designated for commercial development, and only the federal government can make that change. It’s a cumbersome process that can take as little as 30 days, or several months — perhaps longer. In the meantime, the wheels of process and business grind to a halt while the First Nation wades through red tape.
While Chalmers says he’s committed to moving his way through the process, it’s an all too familiar story for Canadian First Nations — to do business, you first have to win approval from the feds. It’s an archaic and insulting process to First Nations that treats them like incapable wards of the state.
And it’s part of the reason that economic development is so difficult to create on reserves.
While Canadian aboriginals are able to own land off reserve, they are unable to own land on reserve. There are exceptions of course — there exist certificates of possession that must be approved by the aboriginal affairs minister, and resident families can also occupy pieces of land for years under customary usage, though they have no legal title to the land.
This has created a barrier for First Nations that are left without access to normal financial systems available to any other Canadian, such as mortgage financing and business loans. And that business detriment also dissuades outside corporations from setting up business within the reserve system as well.
But Prime Minister Stephen Harper intends to change all that.
Recently, Harper announced that he and Northern Affairs Minister John Duncan intend to bring forward a First Nations property rights bill, along with legislation to reform the education system on reserves.
As the Globe and Mail has reported, the government says employers in resource industries are complaining of worsening job shortages, and First nations workers could help fill that gap. But to qualify, they need a high school education, at least, and the social stability that land ownership can help provide.
At the same time, native governments would be given a new revenue stream as they can tax native property owners to pay for roads, water systems and other infrastructure.
Under a plan first championed by the former chief of T’kemlups First Nation in Kamloops, B.C., Clarence Jules, the Crown would transfer title of reserve lands to First Nations that “opt in” to the plan if a majority of band members support the idea. It would allow the band to then divvy up reserve lands and allocate plots to individual members.
Jules said this would allow investors to make commitments on reserve “with the same confidence they do anywhere else.” It would also allow First Nations to, as Postmedia wrote, “move at the speed of business” instead of being subject to a cumbersome government approval process.
The majority of chiefs in the Assembly of First Nations have come out solidly against private property ownership, as property ownership is an alien idea to traditional aboriginal notions of their relationship with the land. They say it also opens the door to non-aboriginal ownership of reserve land, which could further reduce their territory.
But in our opinion, if the federal government and First Nations work together to build the legislation, and guard against issues of territorial loss — for example — the elimination of government interference in reserve business matters would be a boon for aboriginal bands that sign on.
It’s also the first tangible plan to break the ongoing cycle of blame and anger under the auspices of the Indian Act that have shackled First Nations with poverty and despair for more than a century.
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition August 9, 2012
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Threatening messages were posted on the White House Facebook Page on 9/11's anniversary. At least three posts referencing the events of September 11, 2001, appeared briefly before they were taken down, according to NBC News:
We'll come back U.S.A. One day only 11/9/2011. We'll come to u white house sooooooooooon. We'll come back 11/9/2011 to kill u all.
Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said the agency has referred the messages to its Internet threat desk, which has a specific process in place to handle the wide spectrum of social media posts brought to the attention of officials, according to CBS News.
The posts come amid heightened alerts surrounding a possible 9/11 terror threat, which has been described as "specific" and "credible" but not confirmed. New York City and Washington DC have tightened security after intelligence collected from overseas indicated a possible threat involving car bombs, as well threats to bridges and tunnels. The information indicated that three men would travel from Pakistan to the US to carry out an attack but so far precautionary interviews with travelers have drawn a blank.
The scrutiny of airline passenger records has turned up well over 100 names of interest, all of whom have been interviewed but were not found to be part of any terror plot. Some were, however, added to terror databases simply because of their travel patterns. Additionally, the FBI has found no sign of unusual purchases of chemicals needed to make car bombs around the New York and Washington areas.
A joint FBI-Department of Homeland Security bulletin from Thursday said al-Qaida may be considering attacks that use improvised explosives packed in vehicles. The goal would be to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden and other key terror figures.
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The European Commission has opened a formal investigation to assess whether Samsung Electronics has used certain of its standard essential patent rights to distort competition in European mobile device markets, in breach of EU antitrust rules.
The opening of proceedings means that the EC will examine the case as a matter of priority. It does not prejudge the outcome of the investigation.
In 2011, Samsung sought injunctive relief in various European courts against competing mobile device makers based on alleged infringements of certain of its patent rights which it has declared essential to implement European mobile telephony standards. The EC will investigate, in particular, whether in doing so Samsung has failed to honour its irrevocable commitment given in 1998 to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to license any standard essential patents relating to European mobile telephony standards "on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms."
In line with the Commission's Guidelines on standardisation agreements, standard setting organisations, including ETSI, require the owners of patents that are essential for the implementation of a standard to commit to license these patents on FRAND terms. Such commitments were given to ETSI by many patent holders, including Samsung, when the third generation ("3G") mobile and wireless telecommunications system standards were adopted in Europe.
Samsung also took another hit in its battle against Apple on Tuesday, when Germany blocked sales of some of its tablets. An appeals court ruled in favor of Apple saying Samsung could not sell its Galaxy Tab 10.1 nor the Galaxy Tab 8.9 in the country because they too closely resembled the iPad 2, in violation of unfair competition laws. However,
the court said Samsung's successor tablet, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 N, was not affected by the ruling.
The probe and victory in the German court for Apple come after the California company has met with several setbacks recently in its fight with Samsung.
Most recently, a Dutch court ruled Jan. 24 that Samsung's Galaxy Tab tablet was not a copy of Apple's iPad, and that it could continue to be sold in the Netherlands. That came on the heels of a December decision in Australia, where the High Court dismissed Apple's appeal and said Samsung was free to sell its Galaxy tablet computers in Australia.
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The White House, Senate Democrats, and congressional Republicans are currently locked in intense negotiations, trying to find agreement on a plan to fund the government and avoid a shutdown. Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said this week that the Pentagon would still be able “to continue to protect our vital interests around the world, to continue to safeguard the nation’s security, to wage the wars we’re fighting and the operations that we are conducting right now.” However, while U.S. troops will remain engaged in those overseas operations, they won’t get paid for it, the AP reports:
U.S. military troops at war in Iraq and Afghanistan would receive one-week’s pay instead of two in their next paycheck if the government shuts down this weekend due to the federal budget impasse, according to a senior defense official.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss personnel issues, said the military can’t be paid during a funding lapse until a new appropriations bill or continuing resolution is passed by Congress.
If the funding bill expires on April 8, it will be in the middle of the military’s two-week pay period, so Pentagon would send out paychecks for just the first week of the pay period, said the official.
As the Cable’s Josh Rogin reports, after that initial one-week’s worth paycheck, “all uniformed military personnel would continue to work but would stop receiving paychecks.”
If the federal government shuts down, “you could have forces deployed in the field, with their families back home, and no one’s getting paid. And that could be an issue,” the defense official said.
Last week, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) introduced a bill that would allow troops to continue to receive pay if the government shuts down. “When we heard that the military was concerned about whether or not they would get paid on time, then we rushed through and we got this bill done,” Gohmert said.
Matt Yglesias writes, “Under federal law, many classes of federal employees keep needing to work if the government shuts down. FBI agents serving under cover won’t suddenly drop out, and federal prisons will keep operating. But the people who do these jobs won’t get paid.”
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We cannot talk about the history of Okinawan Goju Ryu without talking about two men, two instructors, who devoted their lives to allow us the access to practice Goju Ryu today. The two Sensei in reference are Kanryo Higaonna Sensei and Chojun Miyagi Sensei.
KANRYO HIGAONNA SENSEI
Kanryo Higaonna was born on March 10, 1853 in the district of Nishimura in the city of Naha, Okinawa. He was the son of Kanryo and Makomado. His father, Kanryo, was a merchant dedicated to trade with food and clothes through the Ryukyu Islands. Since his second and third brothers died at an early age, and his first brother was weak and sick, Kanryo Higonna Sensei started to work with his father at the age of ten. At the age of 14 he was honored with the traditional ceremony of "katagashira" to celebrate his manhood.
Unfortunately not too long after; in 1867, his father died suddenly as the result of a fight. This shocked the young Higaonna so much that the only thought that he was able to keep was his desire for revenge for the death of his father. It is at this point of his life when he decided to travel to China to learn the deadly Martial Arts to avenge his father's death. However, in those days, traveling to China was restricted only to merchants, students or government officials, and permission to travel was only granted by the King of Okinawa, and the only port of departure was the port of Naha.
Kanryo Higaonna, with the help of the official Udon Yoshimura, was able to get the permit to travel to Fuchow, China, as a student; departing from the port of Naha in the year 1868, at the age of 15. The desire for revenge was traveling with him, too.
At his arrival to the city of Fuchow, Kanryo Higaonna was accepted in the Ryukyu Kan or lodge where all the students from Okinawa were living. Once in Fuchow, Kanryo Higaonna was introduced to the well renowned martial arts instructor Ryu Ryu Ko. Ryu Ryu Ko Sensei was tall and strong, and even at his old age his speed and power was admirable. Ryu Ryu Ko Sensei's family was part of the Novel Court of China before they lost their status as a result of the politic turmoil in the country. Ryu Ryu Ko Sensei worked in bamboo, his shop on the first floor of the building and his house on the second floor. He taught martial arts at his house only to a small group of selected students.
In the beginning, Kanryo Higaonna only performed duties in the yard of Ryu Ryu Ko Sensei and sometimes in his shop before he decided to start to teach him the martial arts. At first Kanryo Higaonna was instructed only in Sanchin kata. His motivation and dedication soon started to show up in the progress of his skills, and he became "uchi deshi" (live-in student). He moved out from the Ryukyu Kan and started to live and work at Ryu Ryu Ko Sensei's bamboo shop. He was introduced to the different traditional equipment such as chiishi, ishi sashi, nigiri game, tan and muning (variation of makiwara). The training was very severe.
The fame of Ryu Ryu Ko Sensei was wide. He learned the martial arts in the southern Shaolin temple in the mountains of the Fujian Province. His teacher was a Court Official from the Dynasty. Ryu Ryu Ko Sensei also instructed Kanryo Higaonna in the use of weapons such the Daito (long sword), Shuto (small sword), Sai and Bo. He also taught him herbal medicine. In a few years, Kanryo Higaonna became Ryu Ryu Ko Sensei's top student. Kanryo Higaonna practiced 14 years in China until Ryu Ryu Ko Sensei told him that it was time for him to go back home, and in 1881 Kanryo Higaonna returned to Okinawa.
He returned to difficult political times in Okinawa, and he established himself in the district of Nishimura in the city of Naha. He started as his father did in the past as a merchant traveling with his boat in between the islands of the Ryukyu chain.
He then started to teach a select group of students at his house. His instruction was very severe. In a short time he obtained in Okinawa the same good reputation that he developed in Fuchow. It wasn't too long before the King of Okinawa invited Kanryo Higaonna to teach him the martial arts.
In 1905 he was invited to teach his Naha-Te or Te from Naha (name called then) in the Naha Commercial School. The principal wanted to teach the students the spiritual and moral aspects of the martial arts. This was an important step in the Naha-Te, not only for the recognition of the benefits of the practice but also because until then, Te was taught as a martial art, with the skill to kill.
After his research, Kanryo Higaonna, decided to make an important change in the Sanchin kata. Until then, Sanchin kata was practiced with open hands, so he started to teach it with closed hands and slower breathing with the purpose of promoting the health benefits, rather than promoting lethal techniques at the school. Kanryo Higaonna introduced the closed fist to emphasize the physical strength more than the ability to kill. Tradition also played an important roll for this change because he noticed that a lot of young Okinawans, without acknowledgement of martial arts, naturally stood with closed fists when they were going to fight. He continued to teach the original way that he learned in China to his few students at his dojo.
After 1905, karate became a little bit more accessible to the general population because until then Te was practiced just by a selected group of people. Kanryo Higaonna Sensei passed away in October, 1915 at the age of 62.
CHOJUN MIYAGI SENSEI
Chojun Miyagi was born on April 25, 1888 in the city of Naha, Okinawa. He began his practice at the age of 12 with Aragaki Ryuko Sensei. Aragaki Ryuko's approach was only to teach the fighting itself and not too much emphasis was placed on the martial art.
After seeing the dedication of Chojun Miyagi, Aragaki Ryuko decided to introduce him to Kanryo Higaonna. In 1902, at the age of 14, Chojun Miyagi Sensei started to practice with Kanryo Higaonna Sensei. At the age of 20, Chojun Miyagi became Kanryo Higaonna's top student and around that time is also when he got married.
At the age of 22, he traveled to the main island of Kyushu for his military service. After 2 years of service he returned to Okinawa. For the next 3 years Kanryo Higaonna taught him privately until Kanryo Higaonna died in 1915.
With his death, Chojun Miyagi decided to follow the steps of his Sensei and travel to Fuchow, China, where he learned the martial arts. In his first trip in 1915, he went to Fuchow and trained for two months with a student of Ryu Ryu Ko Sensei. The old man was very impressed with the skill of Chojun Miyagi. Chojun Miyagi went to visit the grave of Ryu Ryu Ko Sensei as well as to the temple were he trained. It was easy to see the footmarks on the patio from the training.
Between 1920 and 1930 Chojun Miyagi traveled to China for the second time. This was not a productive trip because the relations between China and Japan were not good in those days.
In his third trip to China, in 1936, he was able to contact the Shanghai Martial Arts Federation. This was instrumental in helping him do his research in the martial arts.
In the early 20's Chojun Miyagi developed the characteristic Goju Ryu warming up exercises or Yunbi Undo with the help of a friend of his, who was a doctor. This series of exercises were based not only on martial arts fundaments but also on medical research. It is also around this time that Chojun Miyagi also developed the kata Tensho, and began to teach in high school in Okinawa.
In 1925, Chojun Miyagi, Hanashiro Chomo, Mabuni Kenwa and Motobu Choki formed the Karate Kenkyu Kai or Karate Research Club at Naha, with the idea of preserving and practicing karate with members of other lines of Te. Unfortunately the club disbanded in 1929.
In 1930 Chojun Miyagi sent his top student, Jihan Shinzato, to perform a demonstration of Te at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo. Upon his return to Okinawa, Shinzato asked his Sensei about the name of the style of karate that they practiced because a Kobudo Sensei present at the demonstration inquired the same of Shinzato. Shinzato Sensei could not answer because until then they only referred to karate as Te (hand), To (China) or Bu (martial art). Chojun Miyagi decided for the first time to call his style Goju Ryu. The meaning was extracted from the Bubishi or book of the poems where there are references to different subjects including the martial arts. The name Goju Ryu identifies the style as the style of the hardness and softness. In this way Goju Ryu became the first style of karate named.
It was in 1933 when Goju Ryu was officially recorded and recognized in the Butoku Kai (the institution that groups all the martial arts in Japan) in Kyoto. The official name was recorded as Goju Ryu Karate-Do, where the meaning of the character (kanji) Karate was To (China) in recognition of origin of this martial art, and not the meaning "empty" as is in the present.
In 1934, Chojun Miyagi was appointed as the representative of the Butoku Kai in Okinawa. Also in this year, Chojun Miyagi was invited to travel to Hawaii to teach karate to the Okinawans living on the island. He remained in Hawaii for 6 months.
In 1937 Chojun Miyagi was honored. He received the title Kyoshigo from the Butoku Kai. This was the first time in history that somebody in karate received this honor.
During World War II, Chojun Miyagi lost his top student Jihan Shinzato as well as two of his daughters. Chojun Miyagi Sensei passed away on October 8, 1953 at the age of 65.
JOHN ROSEBERRY SHIHAN
John Roseberry Shihan founder and chief instructor of the Shorei Shobu Kan organization with headquarters in Lincoln, Nebraska has been training in Judo and Karate since 1955. He studied in Okinawa, Judo primarily under Matsumoto Sensei and Karate under one of the senior students of Goju Ryu's founder Chojun Miyagi Sensei, Seikichi Toguchi Sensei. During the many years that Roseberry Shihan lived in Okinawa serving the U.S. Marine Corps, he also trained Judo at the Naha Police Academy under another of the senior students of Chojun Miyagi Sensei, Ei'ichi Miyazato Sensei. He has trained at the Kodokan in Japan, as well as in China and Korea. Roseberry Shihan teaches Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate, Kodokan Judo and Aikido. He presently holds a 10th degree black belt in Karate, 7th degree black belt in Judo and 3rd degree black belt in Aikido. Roseberry Shihan served as an alternate to the 1964 U.S. Olympic Judo Team, was All-Marine Corps Champion seven times, All-Service Champion three times and was the only American to capture the All-Okinawan Judo Championship.
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Bizarre bills fill nation's statehouses
If Washington’s lawmakers want outside-the-box ideas for today’s complex problems, they might want to start looking at the states.
The laboratories of Democracy are hard at work finding solutions — sometimes to problems you might not have even known you had, such as human-animal hybrids.Continue Reading
Think such a law is unnecessary? Mississippi Rep. William Tracy Arnold, a Republican elected to the 3rd District by the people of Alcorn and Prentiss counties, disagrees.
“The truth of the matter is they’re experimenting with some animal genes and infusion in some other countries and we just want to protect those embryos from that type of infusion and protect them,” Arnold told WAPT, the ABC affiliate in Jackson. “After all, they’re living beings, I believe.”
The ban on human-animal hybrids is included in a larger abortion bill.
In Arizona, a lawmaker wants to make sure animals can help humans. The legislation would allow miniature horses to be used as service animals the same way dogs are. It would make it legal for a miniature horse to walk with its owner into restaurants and other businesses.
In Montana, a bill would also make it easier to use animals — but only when they’ve been struck by a car.
Republican Rep. Steve Lavin’s legislation would allow the state police to license residents to salvage roadkill meat. With a permit, Montanans could pick the meat of game animals — including deer and elk. Lavin expects the permits to be used most frequently when an animal and vehicle collide, but the animal doesn’t die. The permit would allow residents to kill the animal.
“There’s a lot of good meat being wasted out there,” Lavin told the Daily Inter Lake.
Other lawmakers are moving to restrict lawmaking itself. In Missouri, GOP Rep. Mike Leara wants to make introducing gun control legislation a felony. The bill wouldn’t go into effect until August, so Democrats who have already introduced legislation this session would be protected.
Virginia is trying to fix an old mistake and prepare for a future disaster. Sen. Adam Ebbin, a Democrat, is trying to finally repeal Virginia’s law against cohabitation, which makes 140,000 Virginians criminals. (Don’t laugh at Virginia. Four other states have similar laws.)
Del. Bob Marshall — deemed “Sideshow Bob” by his colleagues — got a step closer to his goal of Virginia minting its own currency as preparation for the failure of the U.S. dollar. A proposal to study the idea passed the House of Delegates in January. (The Washington Post hosted a poll asking who should be on Virginia’s coins. Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl, a native, won.) But the bill died in the state Senate.
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While old-fashioned, I still find what I call "grammar banging" (intensive grammar review sheets) useful at the end or beginning of the year. The end of year calls for exam preparation and the beginning calls for some review to raise awareness of what has already been learnt and where problems still lie. The sheets provided in these "grammar banging" reviews are very effective because each question focuses on one important, specific area. I have included the answers and a short note of the grammar focus after the exercise.
Aim: Grammar review of the most important upper-intermediate level English tenses, structure and functions
Activity: Grammar banging multiple choice review lesson with each question focusing on a specific point
- This is straight-forward stuff. Make the copies and give them to the students.
- Have each student do the sheet by him/herself.
- Ask students to compare answers and discuss differences, each student trying to explain his/her choice.
- Correct sheet as a class. Review each grammar point quickly - you should get a lot of "Oh, yeah....".
- Give the students an unmarked copy of the same exercise to repeat at home to solidify the review exercise.
"Grammar Banging" - Review your English - 2 - Upper-Intermediate Choose the correct word to fill in the gap
- I really didn't want to come last night. _______.
A) So do I B) Neither do I C) Neither I did D) Neither did I
- Do you think ___________ ?
A) does he know what he wants B) he knows what he wants C) he knows what does he want D) what he wants he knows
I think San Francisco is ____ exciting ____ New York.
A) as ... as B) so ... than C) as ... than D) so ... as
- Why are you hands so dirty? - I _______________ in the garden.
A) was working B) have worked C) worked D) have been working
- Did you remember __________ the door?
A) lock B) to lock C) locking D) having locked
- Which model __________ 250 k.p.h.?
A) does go B) goes C) have gone D) going
That is the man __________ grandfather founded Kentucky Root Beer.
A) who B) that C) which D) whose
- I could hardly ________ the ship in the distance.
A) look out B) make out C) make up D) see out
- Look at those clouds! It ___________!
A) 's going to rain B) 'll rain C) 's raining D) 's rained
- _________________, we won't have much to talk about.
A) If he not comes B) Unless he comes C) If he didn't come D) If he came
- He has ___________ in continuing the project.
A) no interesting B) no interest C) not interest D) no interested
- Where do you think Anne was yesterday evening? - She ______________ at home.
A) must have been B) had to be C) couldn't have been D) hadn't to be
- Jack told her that he ____________ come the next day.
A) is going to B) will come C) wants D) was going to
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Willis Graham Haymaker (1895-1980) was first crusade director of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and as such he helped set up the basic guideliens by which the BGEA staff considered and accepted inivtations from communities to hold crusades, organized local committees to supervise the work, arranged for publicity, training, follow-up and all all the other thousand and one details involed in oranzing an evangelistic campaign. Haymaker brought considerable expertise to this tak, since he had been organziing campaigns for evangelists like Bob Jones Senior, Jimmy Johnson and Gypsy Smith since 1918.
Very early, Haymaker produced the following Suggested Plan of Organization... to give to community leaders who desired to hold a Billy Graham Crusade. The pamplet, which was probably produced in the early 1950s, represents almost the earliest stage in BGEA crusade development. Many changes from the way crusades are currently run are obvious. The policy of the local committee paying for the BGEA staff's salary and expenses, for example, was discontinued and the BGEA paid all those costs directly. The names and structures of the different committee altered over time. Other programs were added over the years, such as one to provide workshops for local pastors and interested laypeople in ways of presenting the Gospel (Schools of Evangelism). And of course the televsing of all of Billy Graham's crusades also affected organization methods.Still, many of the basic elements of crusade organization orignally laid out Haymaker in this plan are still followed by BGEA staff and the local committees.
The printed brochure was very widely distributed to interested parties throughout the 1950s. It
consists of four panels , printed on both sides, for a total of eight pages. The copy used here is from
BGC Archives' Collection 1, the papers of Willis Graham Haymaker, box 6 folder 15. Any one interested in seeing an
example of how this plan was applied can look at the records of the 1952 Greater Albuquerque Evangelistic Crusade.
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The most impressive way to extend an official invitation to Dr. Billy Graham for a united evangelistic
crusade is to make it as all-inclusive as possible. In addition to the Ministerial Association, other
Protestant religious and denominational bodies should be asked to join in the invitation. Many cities
ask the Governor of the State; the U. S. Senators and Representatives; University and College
Presidents; the Mayor; the newspaper, radio and television executives; leaders of industry and civic
organizations to also join in the invitation. Such an invitation gives religious and civic leaders an
opportunity to be vitally concerned and become a part of the crusade right from the start. Also, the
wide impact of such an invitation is quite evident.
II. THE MAIN COMMITTEES
Once the invitation has been extended and accepted and the date and place of meeting have been
agreed on, the next step is to set up the four main committees needed to get the organization
The members of this committee are selected by the chairman who is a member of the Executive
Committee, and should be composed of an outstanding pastor from the various Protestant
denominations. This committee will serve as a liaison group between the Executive Committee and
the participating pastors. It will be the duty of this committee to sponsor ministers meetings, such
as breakfasts or luncheons, to provide various pastors to take part in the services during the crusade,
and to generally be in charge of any phase of the crusade operation that directly affects the
4. The Crusade Committee
This committee is usually composed of 100 representative Protestant church and civic leaders whose names lend confidence to the united crusade and show the wide community backing the crusade will have. This is not a working committee and may meet only once or twice during the crusade.
As soon as the Executive Committee has been officially formed, the crusade should be legally incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation and chartered under the laws of the state where it will be operating. In order to do this, four things are necessary:
Once the crusade is incorporated, it functions as such from then on so that all contracts and agreements are made in the name of the corporation.
Following the incorporation, a well known and respected firm of Certified Public Accountants should be chosen by the Executive Committee to set up the crusade account records and to make the final audit of all receipts and disbursements at the conclusion of the crusade.
In addition to the four main committees outlined above there are 10 other working committees as
1. A Prayer Committee.
a. Women's Division-Cottage Prayer Meetings.
b. Men's Division-Industrial Prayer Meetings.
c. Young People's Division-Prayer Meetings in Schools, Colleges, and Universities.
2. A Counseling Committee.
a. Counselor Training.
b. Pre-Crusade Visitation.
c. "Operation Andrew" Program.
d. Post-Crusade Visitation.
e. Follow Up.
3. A Finance Committee.
4. A Music Committee.
5. An Ushers Committee.
6. A Coliseum or Stadium Arrangements Committee.
7. A Publicity Committee.
8. A Delegations Committee
9. A Youth Activities Committee
10. A Transportation Committee.
a. Team Transportation.
b. Local or Area Transportation.
c. Inter-City Transportation.
The chairman of each of the above-named committees is selected by the Executive Committee.
The personnel of the following committees will be supplied by each of the participating pastors:
1. Prayer Committee
(a) Women's Division
(b) Men's Division
(c) Young People's Division
2. Counseling Committee
(a) Follow-Up Committee
(b) Visitation Committee
3. Music Committee
4. Ushers Committee
5. Youth Activities Committee
The personnel of all other crusade working committees will be selected in each case by the chairman
of that particular committee.
The chairmen of all the 10 working committees become ex-officio members of the Executive Committee and can be called in at any time for progress reports.
V. TRAINING AND INSTRUCTING OF THE CRUSADE COMMITTEES
The instructing and training of the various working committees will be tinder the direction of various
members of the Billy Graham Team, working in cooperation with the Executive Committee.
VI. CRUSADE HEADQUARTERS
A centrally located crusade office should be secured and put in operation from six months to a year
prior to the start of the crusade so that the vast amount of work ill preparation for the crusade can
be effectively consummated and ready when the crusade begins. The office will need to be maintained
during and following the crusade until every phase of the work has been completed in a satisfactory
VI. CRUSADE FINANCIAL POLICY
The financial policy of all Billy Graham Crusades is set forth in detail as follows:
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association was organized in the fall of 1950 and is the sponsoring organization for the various Christian activities of Billy Graham and the Team. The Association was incorporated as a nonprofit organization under the laws of the State of Minnesota. (Offices are maintained in the City of Minneapolis.)
The affairs of the Association are administered by a Board of Directors; the finances are audited
regularly by a national firm of Certified Public Accountants, and the books are available for
examination at any time. Gifts to the Association are deductible for income tax purposes.
The Association serves as the organization to which all funds are directed for the support of the "Hour of Decision" on radio and television, and serves as the organization for paying all of the bills thus incurred.
At the present time, the actual cost of operating the office in Minneapolis, with the staff and
clerical workers, etc., amounts to approximately 10 per cent . . . leaving 90 per cent of the gifts
received as going for the direct purpose of broadcast time on radio and television.
Four points have formed the basis upon which the financial operation of the various city-wide
evangelistic crusades are built:
1. The expense budget is set by the local Executive Committee in cooperation with the Crusade Director. All funds received in connection with the local crusade budget are counted, deposited and disbursed by the local Committee.
2. The raising of the crusade budget of expense is under the direction of the local Finance Committee:
(a) PRIOR TO THE CRUSADE the Finance Committee raises from one-third to one-half of the estimated budget by soliciting larger gifts from individuals, business groups and other organizations. NOTE: Churches will be given an opportunity to share in the pre-crusade financing. Such voluntary contributions from any church will be welcomed by the Crusade Finance Committee. These contributions can be made in the form of special Crusade Envelope Offerings or from the Church treasury.
(b)DURING THE CRUSADE the balance of the crusade budget of expense is raised through contributions and by taking public offerings at the place of meeting.
3. When the expense budget has been raised and sufficient funds are in hand to meet any unforeseen contingencies, offerings may be discontinued, or additional offerings may be taken for various missionary enterprises and evangelistic programs as agreed upon jointly by the Executive Committee and Dr. Graham.
4. When the crusade is ended and the records are complete, an audit is made by a Certified Public Accountant. This audit becomes a part of the permanent record of the Crusade and is available for public examination at any time.
The following items of Financial Policy have also been insisted upon by the Billy Graham Team in
every city-wide crusade:
The salaries of the various team members, based on the length of time and the services they devote to any given crusade, are included in the expense budget and are paid by the local committee.
Dr. Graham, himself, does not receive any honorarium for his services from the local committee during a crusade. Nor is there any so-called "love-offering" taken for him. He is on a regular salary basis, paid by the Evangelistic Association in Minneapolis.
However, Dr. Graham's actual expenses incurred in connection with the crusade are included in the expense budget and paid by the local committee. These expenses include travel to and from the city, hotel, meals, and other incidental items that of necessity must be incurred by him.
All other members of the Billy Graham Team receive a daily expense allowance to cover food, hotel accommodations, and the other incidental expenses incurred by them for their work in connection with the crusade. The amount of this allowance is set by the local committee in connection with the Crusade Director.
Travel expenses of the team members from their homes to and from the crusade city are also paid
by the local committee, this amount being included in the crusade expense budget.
The broadcast of the "Hour of Decision" costs more than $30,000.00 per week. These programs, heard by millions around the world, are not underwritten or guaranteed. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is entirely dependent upon the gifts of God's people to keep these programs on the air. To augment the gifts received by mail (which are not sufficient to carry on programs), the Association asks that each committee consider the practice of giving a Sunday afternoon offerings each week to the support of the "Hour of Decision" which will originate from the crusade city each Sunday afternoon while Dr. Graham is in the city and 11 be heard by millions across the Nation and in many foreign lands.
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Numeric literals in other than base 10 - was Annoying octal notation
mensanator at aol.com
Fri Aug 28 01:19:26 CEST 2009
On Aug 27, 2:26 pm, Piet van Oostrum <p... at cs.uu.nl> wrote:
> >>>>> Mensanator <mensana... at aol.com> (M) wrote:
> >M> On Aug 26, 4:59 pm, Piet van Oostrum <p... at cs.uu.nl> wrote:
> >>> >>>>> Mensanator <mensana... at aol.com> (M) wrote:
> >>> >M> That's my point. Since the common usage of "binary" is for
> >>> >M> Standard Positional Number System of Radix 2, it follows
> >>> >M> that "unary" is the common usage for Standard Positional
> >>> >M> Number System of Radix 1. That's VERY confusing since such
> >>> >M> a system is undefined. Remember, common usage does not
> >>> >M> necessarily properly define things. Saying simply "unary"
> >>> >M> sounds like you're extending common usage beyond its proper
> >>> >M> boundaries.
> >>> But the customary meaning of `unary' is the tally system, as a radix
> >>> system wouldn't make sense. I don't know when this term came into use
> >>> but I have known it for a long time.
> >M> Ok, I'll accept that and in the same breath say such common usage
> >M> is stupid. I, for one, have never heard such usage and would never
> >M> use "unary" in the same breath as "decimal, octal, binary" even if
> >M> I had.
> As I see it, unary just means that there is one symbol. Binary just
> means that there are two symbols, etc.
Right, and neither word, by itself, gives the full meaning.
> With unary, the only sensible numerical interpretation is to count the
> number of occurrences of that symbol, or if you also want to have the
> number 0, the number of occurrences - 1.
Trouble is, nothing's stopping you from making a non-sensible
> With binary and higher you can come up with more numerical
> interpretations but the most efficient one is the radix interpretation
> (for different values of `efficient'). I doubt that there are many other
> interpretations that you can call sensible.
But not impossible. You could have a base-3 tally system for ticking
off how many cars on a three lane road pass a given point. And you can
have mixed radix systems (pounds, shillings, pence or degrees, minutes
> Therefore we immediately
> think of a radix system when we talk about binary, octal, decimal etc.
> But the word `binary' itself doesn't imply that.
Just as unary doesn't imply that it's an extension of binary made by
simply changing the base because there's more to it than that.
Yet, I constantly run into people who get confused by this. As a
result, I will never use the word "unary" even if it is considered
acceptable. If I'm trying to imply some sort of base-1 system,
I'll explain what I'm talking about and not assume the listener
will fully understand what is meant by "unary".
> Piet van Oostrum <p... at cs.uu.nl>
> URL:http://pietvanoostrum.com[PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4]
> Private email: p... at vanoostrum.org
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Op-Ed: The Two State Solution: Israel and ?....
Steve Apfel, South AfricaThe writer is director of the School of Management Accounting, in Johannesburg and is the author of, 'Hadrian's Echo: The whys and wherefores of Israel's critics.' SBPRA 2012, and a contributor to a new book: "War by other means: Israel and its detractors." Israel Affairs, 2012
World leaders continually slam Israel over its settlement policies, claiming they threaten the ‘two-state solution.’ As day follows night it’s taken for granted that one of those two states will be "Palestine".
‘Ignore history at your peril,’ is an old but prescient warning. A case in point could well be the two-state solution. Go to history, ye foolish; consider her ways and be wise.
The ways of history point where?
Take the class of 1947 - 48. They’re the years of the Partition Plan and aftermath. Granted, it’s common knowledge that the UN plan was aborted when neighbouring Arab states tried to abort the Jewish state by invading it.
But do we know what would have happened had Israel lost and the Arabs won that war? What flag would now flutter at the United Nations?
Those who put up their hands for the flag of Palestine are wrong. That’s not the lesson from the class of 47-48.
The true lesson is that territory captured by the victorious Arab armies would not have been handed over to Palestinian Arabs. Rather, the Arab scramble for Palestine would have divided it among the invaders: Transjordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon. Google all you like, but not a single Arab regime looked upon the Palestinians as a distinctive people worthy of self-governance. And neither did the Arab-siding British, before turning off the lights on their Mandate.
“It does not appear that Arab Palestine will be an entity,” wrote one official, “but rather that the Arab countries will each claim a portion in return for their assistance [in the war against Israel]...”
In Ephraim Karsh’s book, ‘Palestine Betrayed’ we also come upon the British High Commissioner, Sir Alan Cunningham, telling Britain’s colonial secretary that, “The most likely arrangement seems to be Eastern Galilee to Syria, Samaria and Hebron to Abdallah (of Transjordan), and the south to Egypt.”
The Arabs would have agreed. Philip Hitti described their view to an Anglo-American commission in 1946. "There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not.”
So the 47- 48 class is mandatory for Western leaders who continually harp on the two-state idea. Only look at what happened when Gaza and the West Bank fell into the hands of Egypt and Jordan. Were those spoils of war given over to the Palestinians for a state? They most decidedly were not. The British, whatever their failings, were adept at reading history’s wayward pulse.
What lessons might the class of ‘64 hold for two-state punters? Remember, at this time Israel is not the occupier of the West Bank and Gaza; Jordan and Egypt still are. And the Palestinians feel more than comfortable with the arrangement. It’s there in the National Covenant of the Palestine Liberation Organization, May 28, 1964:
“This Organization does not exercise any regional sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, in the Gaza Strip or the Himmah area.”
So Palestinian Arabs accepted that Judea, Samaria, the eastern part of Jerusalem, and Gaza belonged to Arab states; not only accepted but liked it that way.
Then there’s the class of ’67. What may be taken from that vintage year? The Six-Day war had ended in a stunning victory for Israel, and the UN Security Council passed Resolution 242. Land for peace would be the cornerstone of Arab-Israeli dialogue from there on. What land was that? Our ears prick. Was the UN preparing the ground for a Palestinian state?
Absolutely not – or it would have been a perfect case of putting the cart before the horse. Not even the UN could plan for a Palestinian state before there were a Palestinian people to govern it. They, if you attend the class of 68, were still a year away from being born.
So it was that the UN took it for granted that territories evacuated by Israel would be returned to their pre-1967 Arab occupiers: Egypt and Jordan. UN resolution 242 spoke of the need "for achieving a just settlement of the refugee problem" – not the Palestinian problem, mind. Who were the problem refugees? The Palestinian Arabs certainly, but also the larger group of 850 000 Jews expelled from Arab states during and after the 1948 war.
The entire international community saw it the UN’s way. Western democracies rejected the idea of Palestinian nationhood; so did the great Arab-supporting Soviets, and even the Arab world recoiled at the idea of nationhood.
Professor Karsh relates how the Hashemite rulers of Jordan viewed an independent Palestinian state as a mortal threat to their own kingdom, while the Saudis saw it as a potential source of extremism and instability. Pan-Arab nationalists were as adamantly opposed, having their own designs on the region. In 1974, Syrian President Hafez al Assad openly referred to Palestine as "not only a part of the Arab homeland but a basic part of southern Syria."
What of the Palestinians themselves, who now threaten a unilateral bid for statehood? If no one in history wanted them to have a state, surely they wanted one? Not a bit of it.
For a really fine lesson attend the history class of Zahir Muhsein, one-time head of the PLO Military Department and member of the PLO Executive. “In reality, today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.”
We’ve no reason to gape – unless we’d bunked the class of 48-50, attended by diligent Ephraim Karsh.
“The collapse and dispersion of Palestinian society following the 1948 defeat shattered an always fragile communal fabric, and …prevented the crystallization of a national identity. Host Arab regimes actively colluded in discouraging it. Upon occupying the West Bank …King Abdallah moved quickly to erase all traces of Palestinian identity...”
As for the Arab inhabitants of Gaza, no one gave them a second thought. We don’t rightly know if Gazans wanted to be citizens of Egypt, but for the occupying power that option would have been the furthest thing on its mind.
Western leaders who flog the two-state solution may have skipped, or forgotten, a history class or three, but it’s highly doubtful the Arabs did.
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The Golden State’s climate changes from Mediterranean to Sub-arctic depending on elevation, region, and time of year. Majority of the state has the former. Mediterranean climate is characterized by dry summers and cool, wet winters. Sub-arctic climate, on the other hand, is characterized by long, commonly extremely cold winters and short, mild summers. This climate is common to large land masses because of the distance from the ocean and its natural regulating effects. The fluctuating climate is the impetus for California steel building owners to install insulation systems.
It is easy to see how California general steel construction and steel buildings have sprouted here and there over the years. You probably know why – California steel buildings are the cost-effective and quick remedy for every need, whether for space, storage, shelter, among other things. Moreover, California steel buildings are the way to go if you are looking for a way to deal with the ever changing Golden State climate. This is basically because steel, the basic building block, is durable enough to handle the harsh effects of the elements, more than any other material available in the market. California steel buildings can withstand the freezing winters and the scorching summer sun without compromising their structural integrity. Insulation systems double the effectiveness of California steel buildings in adapting to every possible environmental condition.
Installing an effective insulation system means further savings. Basically, an insulation system facilitates the efficient use of energy – hence, you save up on energy costs. You probably think this is fairly vague to capture. So what really makes insulation systems an essential part of California general steel buildings? Simply said, if you have a well-installed insulation system, you ensure temperature regulation within your building. Insulation works to reduce the need for additional equipment for cooling and heating. This is why California steel buildings with insulation need only a minimal number of air conditioners and heaters. If you install an insulation system now, you automatically ensure that your general steel construction building will get warmer during freezing or rainy winter days and cooler as the sun shines high during summer days. In addition to function, this general steel building component also enhances the look and feel of your structure.
California steel buildings are a good investment in themselves. Installing an insulation system only reinforces this fact. Since you have saved about 50% on building capital when you chose to build a steel building, you might as well spend that extra money on insulation. A small additional investment won’t hurt if you’re sure to get the long-term benefits of this steel building component.
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- Roger Dobson
Hygiene inspections of food premises must be unannounced, and light touch enforcement needs to be closely monitored, concludes an independent report into one of Britain’s biggest food poisoning outbreaks.
The report into the country’s second largest food poisoning outbreak caused by Escherichia coli O157, in September 2005, highlights a series of system failures, missed clues, and ineffective enforcement action. In the outbreak in the South Wales valleys a 5 year old boy died and 31 people were hospitalised.
Hugh Pennington, emeritus professor of bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen, who chaired the inquiry and who also led the review into the E coli O157 outbreak in Scotland in 1996, said, “I had hoped that the lessons from the shocking events in 1996 would stay in people’s minds.
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- What are the applicable threat-risks that you are looking to protect your business from, including fire, flood, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, electrical power outages or acts of man? For example, if your primary threat is loss of access to an intact and functioning facility, fire or tornado, a distance measured in several km for your off site data storage facility may be applicable. However, if you have regional or metropolitan concerns including power blackouts, major floods or earthquakes, then further distances would be applicable.
- Is your primary facility near a high risk area? Examples include under a landing or take off path of a major airport, next to an oil or gas refinery, adjacent to a prominent landmark or other potential threat. In general, what is the applicable threat to your business where your systems and data are housed?
- How far away do you need to have your data based upon applicable industry or regulatory requirements and best practices? For example, do you have informal guidelines that dictate that your data must be at least 20km away? Consider what loss of accessibility to an intact facility or place of business due to flood, road closures, labor disruption or other issues would have on your facility.
- How well do you need to be isolated from electrical power or other utility outages? If you are susceptible to electrical power outages, then you will want your off site data storage facility to be far enough away to isolate yourself from a major electrical power grid failure. It should go without saying that your primary site should have redundant power feeds from different sources to isolate your data from localized outages.
- What are the recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) for your applications and at what distance can you meet those objectives? Are you planning to have a cold-site, data storage facility, or an active hot site that replicates your primary site too?
This is far from an exhaustive list; however, it should give you a few things to think about and consider. The more important and critical your data, the more attention to detail you will need to keep in mind and perhaps you may even need a primary, secondary and tertiary site for off site data storage and operations.
- For more information on data storage, read a chapter excerpt from Administering data centers: Severs, storage and voice over IP.
- Check out our other data storage tips, articles and expert advice.
This was first published in August 2006
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Reiki healing is a simple hands on healing technique, which was re-discovered by Dr Usui in Japan in the late 19th Century. It is a form of energy medicine. Dr Usui describes Reiki healing as the Universal life force energy which calms the mind and raises the vibration of the life force within a person thus supporting their healing process. It originates in the Buddhist tradition of Tibet; a simplified version of Reiki Healing has been brought to the West for use by people of all faiths and none. Reiki promotes deep relaxation and stress release. It releases emotional blockages and activates the body’s natural healing ability. It supports both orthodox and complimentary healing methods. All illness is a result of a lack of harmony within some part of person’s energy field, physical, mental, emotional or spiritual. Negative thoughts and judgements, unresolved emotions like grief, anger, sadness or guilt block the flow of energy within the person. These blockages in energy eventually appear as dis-ease, either physical or mental within the person. Reiki Healing is energy of a high vibration, which melts blockages in the person energy facilitating a return of harmony within the person.
Reiki Healing helps us to connect with the deepest part of ourselves, our spiritual essence. To receive a Reiki Healing session, the person lies on a couch, fully clothed. It lasts approx 1 hour.
“The work of the eyes is done now go and do the Heart work ”
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Pinterest is a hybrid image bookmarking and social network service that allows users to take images from the web and organize them into online collages called “pinboards.” Topic pinboards range from architecture to fashion and food, but you can create any pinboard with any topic.
Why it Works and Succeeds
Pinterest’s success is a concoction of different things. It’s certainly gratifying and addictive to use, but the usability and elegant presentation stems from solving some user experience (UX) issues that plagued other image bookmarking sites. If you dare, geek away and read more about that here.
Despite it still remaining “invite-only,” it has exploded beyond the “beta” curtain and continues to pervade and illuminate everything in social media. Here’s a data-infused source full of charts and graphs tracing its growth.
Nonprofits and the Current Issues
Pinterest is great for visual storytelling and content curation, but so far, at least for the nonprofit sector, its actual long-term benefit becomes a little hazy and unclear.
Tom Watson from Forbes takes a skeptical view. I tend to resonate with the theme: Do not expect positively heavy results.
Hype collides with both Experimentation and Skepticism
Big brands use it to inspire and influence and drive customers closer to a purchase. Social enterprises can emulate the same strategies employed.
But spying on #nptech or #pinterest or nonprofit blogs lately, I’ve noticed nonprofits struggle with tying a strategic use of Pinterest to a real organizational outcome which goes beyond a fiscal transaction. The diversity of a nonprofit’s objectives, audiences, and call-to-actions are too many and incredibly diverse.
Staff begin their experimentation runs. They play, pin, and repin and realize they’re still confused on nailing down its relevance and long-term benefits — tying ideas and inspiration into the execution of the organization’s call-to-action. Whatever it may be.
These lead us to classic social media ailments for organizations:
- Tying any social media channel clearly into objectives.
- Inspiring real action beyond the “liking” and “repinning”
- Allocating resources: time, staff, energy.
- Measuring and proving part of an objective’s momentum was due to Pinterest.
But! Here are some examples of how other nonprofits are leveraging and experimenting with it.
The nonprofit consensus so far with Pinterest is this: Experiment but tread carefully.
Pinterest can still be useful on a smaller scale, however:
Building brand image. Posting images of project work and volunteer activities. Content curation of issues and causes your organization is privy to.
Moodboards. As you pin and repin smartly and selectively, it begins to create a bit of a moodboard. This is a similar visual tool that web design firms use to brainstorm a vision. More on that here. It’s a good marketing “back office” tool to have to remember in setting communication and marketing tones with your audiences.
Keep up with trends. Not much to be said here. People love pinning infographics and stuff. They’re all over Pinterest, so have it.
A tip though in creating your pinboards: Avoid broad. As Pinterest evolves, I wager you’ll see plenty of noise, saturation, and clutter for very broad topics. I find that the more you try to link Pinterest to an actual organizational objective, then you can make your pinboard more relevant and stand out.
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Anti-Brahminism, also spelled as Anti-Brahmanism, is discrimination, hostility or prejudice directed against the Brahmin caste, as opposed to Anti-Hinduism which rejects Hinduism as a whole. Anti-Hindus have however taken the stance against Brahmins because they were the traditional priestly class and by antagonizing them, they may convert all Hindus.
Examples of Anti-Brahmanism
In Islamist Dynasties
In the book, Diwan-i-Salman
by Khawajah Masud bin Sa'd bin Salman wrote of the Battle of Jalandhar (Punjab):
- "The narrative of any battles eclipses the stories of Rustam and Isfandiyar...By morning meal, not one soldier, not one Brahmin remained unkilled or uncaptured. Their heads were levelled with the ground with falming fire..Thou has secured the victory to the country and to religion, for amongst the Hindus this achievement will be remembered till the day of resurrection.
In Mughal times Sheikh Ahmad (Mujaddid) of Sirhind wrote a letter to Mirza Darab:
- "Hindu Brahmans and Greek philosophers have spent a lot of time on religion. Since their efforts were not according to the Shariyat of the prophet, they were all fools. They will remain devoid of salvation."
The Brahmins were also the target in South India from the Delhi Sultanate and that is why at the time of the Vijayanagar Empire, King King Prolaya Vema of the Reddy Dynasty gave protection to them.
Firoz Shah Bahmani (in about 1398-99), according to the Tawarikh Firishtah, kidnapped 2,000 Brahmin women, who were later freed by Raja Dev Rai of Vijayanagar.
Some Buddhists groups blame the downfall of Buddhismin India on the Brahmans while trying to deny or trying to hide from history the contributions made by the Brahmins to Buddhism
. To name a few, the Bodhisattva Nagarjuna
, Bodhisattva Aryasangha
, and Bodhisattva Kshitagarbha
. It is said that before The Buddha Himself, there were also other Buddhas and in those time periods Lord Buddha was Brahmin Suruci, Brahmin Atideva, Brahmin Ajita and there are more past Brahmin lives of The Buddha. Brahmins have significantly helped in spread the Buddha Dharma. In Tibet it was Bodhisattva Padmasambhava
, in central Asia it was Kumarajiva
, in mainland China it was Bodhisattva Bodhidharma
and in Japan it was Bodhisena
The jealous chauvinists are ignorant of the fact that the Buddha had Brahmin heritage. Lord Buddha is said to be a descendant of Sage Angirasa in many Buddhist texts. There too were Kshatiryas of other clans to whom members descend from Angirasa, to fulfill a childless king's wish.
In Indian states
The anti-brahmin hate group Sambhaji Brigade attacked Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute of Maharashtra in January 2004, claiming that the Institute had defamed Shivaji. Later the Sambhaji Brigade issued statements reflecting anti-Brahmin sentiments. The Maratha Seva Sangh is an extremely anti-Brahmin organization.
Several of the Sikh Bhagats
, including Bhagat Jayadeva
, Bhagat Ramananda
, Bhagat Trilochan
and Bhagat Surdas
were all Brahmins. Further many of the other Sikh Bhagats had a Brahmin as their guru - Bhagat Dhanna
had Ramananda. Kabir's daughter Kamali was married to a Brahmin. But in modern times, there have been cases of strong anti-Brahmin sentiments in the Sikh society, esp. among the supporters of the Khalistani movement.
In Tamil Nadu
is home to one of the oldest Anti-Brahminism movements in India. Anti-Brahminism as opposed to popular belief was not started as Anit-Brahmin caste system. The religious and social system of orthodox Hinduism was called as Brahminism.
In other words, Hinduism and Brahminism was once replaceable. Brahmins happened to be the strong and core layer to hold the Hinduism structure.
The self-respect movement
founded by E.V.Ramasamy espoused anti-brahminism and atheism
, and although Ramasamy had Brahmin colleagues, the movement had currents of anti-Brahminism
) were frequently held responsible by followers of Periyar for direct or indirect oppression of lower-caste
people; this contributed to several clashes and a gradual migration of the upper castes. Later, in regards to a DK member's attempt to assassinate Rajagopalachari, Ramasamy "expressed his abhorrence of violence as a means of settling political differences". Periyar's anti-brahmanism was evident from his comments to his followers that if they encountered a Brahman and a snake on the road the should kill the Brahmans first.
The legacy of the Anti-Brahmanism in the self-respect movement was taken over by the later Dravidian parties. Eventually, the virulent anti-Brahmanism subsided somewhat with the replacement of the DMK party by the AIADMK. Now the AIADMK is led by the Brahmin Jayalalitha or "Amma" (mother, as her followers call her).
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This is what a recovery looks like.
Slowly but surely the economy is picking up steam. Today’s job numbers are another data point that Barack Obama and Democrats have put the country on a path to recovery from the economic carnage of the Bush Administration.
News that unemployment is at 7.7 percent shows that the voters were right to back President Obama on the economy.
Over the past year there has been a full point drop in unemployment.
If the brain dead Republican Congress can get it together and raise revenues while responsibly cutting spending and investing in infrastructure projects that create jobs we could see a full-fledged Great Recovery II.
If Congress gets this right and follows the President’s lead we could see the kind of economic expansion that happened in the 1990s after Bill Clinton and Congressional Democrats alone passed a tax increase that put us on a path where the Government had surpluses as far as the eye could see.
That all came to a grinding halt when George W. Bush passed a massive and expensive tax cut and continued the Republican tradition of creating huge deficits that drag the U.S. economy down.
Bush heaped additional pressure on the economy by waging two wars on a credit card and not asking Americans to sacrifice and contribute to the cost of our national security in Afghanistan or the cost of Bush’s folly in Iraq.
When the consequences of the Bush Administration’s lack of regulation on the financial industry contributed greatly to a global financial meltdown America had reached the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
It took Republicans less than eight years to completely undermine the U.S. economy, which had previously enjoyed a Great Expansion.
As Obama implements a plan that is proven to deliver for our economy the brain dead Republicans in Congress continue to try to wreck the economy by threatening to manufacture another debt crisis and by refusing to vote to continue lower tax rates for the middle class.
The only economic plan Republicans have is tax cuts for the wealthy. It is the same trickle down lie they have been selling for decades.
But as data points like today’s jobs numbers come in it becomes clearer and clearer to the public that when it comes to economic policy the United States has only one party with a plan. The good news is it is a proven plan that is, again, delivering results.
About Bill Buck
Bill Buck is a Democratic strategist, President of the Buck Communications Group, a media relations and new media strategies consulting business based in Washington, DC, and Managing Director of the online ad firm Influence DSP. He has over twenty years of international and national communications experience. The views and opinions expressed in this post are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of CBS Local.
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The Muscular Dystrophy Association has awarded $1,549,725 to ReveraGen BioPharma, a Rockville, Md., biotechnology company, for development of a dissociative glucocorticoid to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).
The goal is to develop a drug that provides the benefits of currently available glucocorticoids but that doesn't cause the deleterious side effects associated with these medications. (Glucocorticoids are a type of corticosteroid.)
The award was made through MDA Venture Philanthropy (MVP), the drug development arm of MDA's translational research program, in partnership with the U.S. National Institutes of Health Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases (TRND) program.
Current synthetic glucocorticoids on the market include drugs such as prednisone, prednisolone and deflazacort. These medications, which are derived from the hormone cortisol, have been shown to prolong walking ability and respiratory function, and reduce the need for spinal surgery in DMD. They have therefore been recommended for daily use in this disease by the American Academy of Neurology in 2005 and by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in 2009.
Glucocorticoids have powerful anti-inflammatory effects, which are thought to be one of the ways in which they sustain muscle health in DMD. They also support cell membrane integrity, another possible therapeutic effect in this disease.
However, at the recommended daily dosages for DMD, long-term use of drugs like prednisone or deflazacort often leads to significant deleterious side effects. These include (but aren't limited to) weight gain, growth arrest, bone fragility, cataracts, high blood pressure and mood changes.
ReveraGen BioPharma (formerly known as Validus BioPharma) has developed an experimental compound called VBP15, which may offer people with DMD the beneficial effects of prednisone and related drugs without the side effects.
The unwanted side effects, ReveraGen scientists have found, are largely due to the genomic mechanism of action in glucocorticoids. VBP15 does not appear to have this genomic mechanism of action, the scientists say, but it appears to retain the beneficial effects of glucocorticoids' nongenomic mechanisms, which are those that combat inflammation and stabilize cell membranes.
ReveraGen says mice with a DMD-like muscle disease benefited from treatment with this drug, showing improved muscle function, increased activity and reduced muscle inflammation.
If VBP15 or a similar compound proves safe and effective in more animal studies, ReveraGen will apply for permission from regulatory agencies to test the drug in humans.
MDA is also funding the development of other anti-inflammatory compounds that may do some of what glucocorticoids do for DMD patients, without the side effects.
The ReveraGen compound, and possibly other experimental anti-inflammatory drugs now in the pipeline, could have implications for other diseases in MDA's program, such as dermatomyositis (DM), polymyositis (PM), myasthenia gravis (MG) and Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS). In these disorders, glucocorticoids are frequently used to suppress a misdirected attack by the immune system on muscle and other tissues.
For more on steroid use in DMD and other neuromuscular diseases, see the following stories from Quest, May-June 2007:
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My wife of 33 years reminds me almost daily of all the things I do not do. Not the housework, shopping, temple visits or social life; I'm talking about her advice about my health.
I do not drink enough water. I do not take enough antioxidants. I find excuses not to go to yoga classes. I do not eat enough organic stuff.
Never mind that I went through rigorous medical training for 13 years and have been practicing medicine for another 27 years and have received national awards for preaching prevention. She has all the answers for all my problems: tiredness, aches and pains, allergies and losing hair. I can imagine the pressures other people must be under from friends, families, claims and commercials to lead a "natural, safe and organic life."
Complementary and alternative medicine has a definite and important role in the prevention and treatment of many diseases when utilized appropriately and is being gradually integrated into mainstream medicine. It is especially attractive for patients suffering from chronic diseases, because of the frustration from inadequate relief of symptoms in spite of multiple prescription medications.
Over-the-counter natural products are one common form of complementary and alternative medicine. Patients tend to take them without informing their physicians, fearing they will offend their respected doctor, think it is irrelevant or the physician does not ask.
It is a common misconception that all the natural products sold in the stores or on the Internet are safe and healthy. Compounds like nicotine, opium, lead, mercury and arsenic are natural but definitely not safe. Many of the natural products sold for health benefits are not strictly controlled by government agencies like the Food and Drug Administration.
Different brands of the same compound manufactured by different companies are not calibrated to the same dose or strength. They usually do not undergo rigorous clinical trials to assess their efficacy nor safety.
There may not be adequate quality control to safeguard against contaminants. Many of the times their advertisements are not screened for accountability or accuracy and their claims may not be substantiated. The companies that manufacture health or natural supplements can be driven by the same greed as the pharmaceuticals manufacturing the prescription medications.
Some of these natural compounds have similar chemicals as their prescription counterparts, for example the natural Red Yeast Rice and the prescription statin drug for control of elevated cholesterol. Patients most of the time do not inform their physicians about the use of these competing, complimentary, maybe even contradicting chemicals. So the patients are not monitored for the total dosage or side effects.
Weight control products are among the commonly marketed natural compounds. Unless a person has one of the rare specific medical conditions contributing to obesity, overweight is simply the result of excess calorie intake in relation to energy expenditure. The body stores excess calories as fat whether consumed in the form of carbohydrate, fat or protein. Healthy lifestyle changes like controlled eating and regular exercise should be the main strategy for weight control.
Also there is no end to the marketing of antiaging products. Aging is a normal and natural process of human development. One has to count his or her blessings for the good fortune of aging. The only definitive antiaging intervention is death. The goal should be pro-positive aging with healthy lifestyle changes, concentrating on the prevention of all the known risk factors that promote the ill effects of aging.
You can get your own body to produce natural chemicals, some useful and some harmful. A regular exercise program produces good chemicals that are conducive to good health. Physical and mental stress produce chemicals that are destructive and detrimental. Being overweight produces harmful chemicals causing inflammation, for example, heart attack and some cancers — for example, breast cancer. Fat around the belly is like a chemical factory and is particularly harmful.
Too much of a good thing is not necessarily good. Mega quantities of even natural vitamins and supplements may not be doing any good other than producing expensive urine and some may even harm the organs that are trying to get rid of them, like liver and kidneys.
Consult with your physicians before taking any of the natural products or remedies, including herbal supplements, to evaluate their necessity, efficacy and safety including the interactions.
The secret to success is finding the right balance, naturally.
Dr. Rao Musunuru, a cardiologist practicing at Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point in Hudson, is a member of Advisory Council for National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
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Journal Scan: Help for differentiating between acquired and congenital portosystemic shunts
What they did
Given the differences in the diagnostic approach and prognosis for patients with congenital portosystemic shunts (CPSSs) or acquired portosystemic shunts (APSSs), researchers sought to determine whether clinical or clinicopathologic data could be used to differentiate between the two to help guide diagnostic testing. The goal of the study was to determine whether this data could assist veterinarians at first-opinion practices with no access to advanced diagnostics in differentiating between young dogs with CPSSs and young dogs with APPSs. The researchers retrospectively evaluated data from 93 dogs with either CPSSs or APSSs. Normal dogs were not included in this retrospective study.
What they found
Neurologic signs consistent with hepatic encephalopathy were noted more often in dogs with CPSSs compared with dogs with APSSs, while ascites and poor body condition (< 4/9) were strong predictors of a diagnosis of APSSs, regardless of age. The researchers also noted that APSSs were not relegated to older dogs; a 5-month-old dog was found to have an APSS. Elevated alanine transaminase (ALT) activities and low hematocrit and mean corpuscular volume concentrations were also more commonly found in dogs with APSSs than in dogs with CPSSs.
While clinical signs and clinicopathologic abnormalities alone are not sufficient to distinguish between these two groups, specific findings (e.g. ascites, elevated ALT activity) may raise suspicion for one or the other and help veterinarians at first-opinion practices target diagnostics and educate pet owners.
Adam FH, German AJ, McConnell JF, et al. Clinical and clinicopathologic abnormalities in young dogs with acquired and congenital portosystemic shunts: 93 cases (2003-2008). J Am Vet Med Assoc 2012;241(6):760-765.
Link to abstract: http://avmajournals.avma.org/doi/abs/10.2460/javma.241.6.760
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The Hazards made by a Printer and its CartridgesAugust 18, 2010 No Comments
So now that the world is starting to show that we need to care a little more for it, experts have addressed the machines that can be turned into eco-friendly objects by adding or replacing the parts that have caused hazards to nature.
A good example for this case is the printer which is filled with the ink or toner cartridge that uses different chemicals and resources when made. Let’s look into details the harmful effects of a printer and how you can turn it into a green printing partner.
A printer when printing uses either ink or toner that can have dangerous substances in it. It also consumes varying amounts of electricity which depends on what you are producing. Now, since you want to be an Earth loving person, try replacing your usual printer with those new ones that are said to be “green printers”. The major printer brands have already released their own models so you would not have a hard time in searching for one.
However, if you still want to stick to your printing machine, you can opt for the compatible laser toner or inkjet cartridge sold in trusted third party stores. These items are guaranteed to be safe on your printer, on your pocket, and on the environment too. That’s three savings with just one incredible product. You can even find several benefits that compatible printer cartridges can give you like high quality printing which can be compared to OEMs, low cost printing, and higher page yields.
To stop the hazards made by your printer and its cartridges, you can go for that “green printer” which may cost a lot for now, but the benefits will surely come in the long run. On the other hand, you can switch to compatible cartridges which are a great alternative for you and for our planet as well.
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FCC Proposes Lowering Exorbitant Phone Rates for Calls from Prisoners
The Federal Communications Commission has proposed rules changes that would bring down the rates for interstate phone calls placed from prisons, which now cost families up to 15 times more than regular rates.
The FCC has been examining the problem of exorbitant rates charged to the families of people in prison since friends and family of incarcerated people, who generally pay significantly higher toll rates than those offered for the typical interstate, long distance call, filed a petition nearly ten years ago. Tens of thousands of consumers have been "pleading for relief on interstate long distance rates from correctional facilities," according to an FCC statement on December 28, 2012.
"This is not just an issue of markets and rates; it is a broader issue of social justice," said Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel. "When a single phone call may cost as much as a month of unlimited phone service, the financial burden of staying in touch may be too much for inmates’ families to bear."
“The telephone is a crucial instrument for the incarcerated, and those who care about them, because voice calling is often the only communications option available,” FCC Commissioner Mignon L. Clyburn said in a statement. “Most inmates along with their families and friends are low-income, so in-person visits due to distance and expense are infrequent.”
"Maintaining contact with family and friends during incarceration not only helps the inmate, but it is beneficial to our society as a whole," Commissioner Clyburn explained, by reducing the likelihood that those released will reoffend.
Two companies – Global Tel*Link Corp. and Securus Technologies, Inc., make up 80% of the prison phone market. Rates are set by contracts between these companies and state and local governments, who often receive "commissions" or kickbacks for each prison site. As a result, family members in some states can pay as much as $15 for a 15-minute phone call.
The FCC is currently seeking public opinion over a 60-day period concerning its proposal.
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Georgia's best defense against Russia: democracy
Moscow wants to make an example of its tiny neighbor in turmoil. If the Georgian president follows through on democratic reforms, he can prove Moscow wrong.
A year ago this Friday, Russian tanks penetrated deep into the former Soviet republic of Georgia, whose military was helpless to repel them. Only international pressure pushed them back.Skip to next paragraph
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Even now, the government of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has not lived up to the terms of a cease-fire agreement. And the two countries are trading accusations of aggression along the border in the days running up to the first anniversary.
Mikheil Saakashvili, the US-educated president of this tiny country to Russia's south, naturally rues his country's lack of membership in NATO. And his military certainly needs defensive weapons from the Obama administration in the face of Moscow's bullying ways.
But it is the chronic political turmoil in Georgia that helps encourage Russia to meddle in his country. Moscow wants to make an example of Georgia as a failed state aligned with the West in order to keep other former Soviet states in line.
Strengthening Georgia's democracy is one defense that Mr. Saakashvili can do something about.
The 2003 peaceful "Rose Revolution" that catapulted Saakashvili to power is still a wild thicket, bristling with thorns. Georgia is ranked as only "partly free" and slipping backward by the US-based democracy watchdog Freedom House.
National elections last year were flawed. In 2007, antigovernment protesters were violently dispersed. Georgia has made progress fighting corruption, but its courts are still far from independent.
Key supporters of Saakashvili have peeled off to join the opposition, which began daily street protests in April. Critics liken the president to a dictator and blame him for recklessness in last summer's conflict. They demand he step down and want early elections.
Yet the opposition is itself in disarray, with no leader or program. Its protests have fizzled and now demonstrators are taking a summer break from the street.
On July 20, Saakashvili announced reforms of the media, elections, and the judiciary – just before a visit by US Vice President Joseph Biden. The Georgian leader pledged a more effective system of checks and balances between the executive branch and the legislature – constitutional changes that will have to be worked out with the opposition.
But a huge chasm separates the Georgian president and his critics. Neither side seems to understand that democracy means give-and-take. Neither seems able to accept the possibility of losing, then coming back to win another day.
The onus is on both sides to break this stalemate, but as head of state, Saakashvili has a special responsibility. During his visit, Mr. Biden hinted as much when he referred to Saakashvili's promised reforms – "and we expect him to keep that commitment."
Indeed, the Georgian president must now follow through. Continued internal turmoil bolsters Russia. And as Biden admitted in a speech before the Georgian parliament, "there is no military option" to gain back the two separatist provinces now under Russian influence and that were the focus of last summer's five-day war.
"Only a peaceful and prosperous Georgia" can win over the people of these provinces, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and gain their trust, he said. And only a significantly improved democracy can stabilize Georgia itself, bring back foreign investors, and lay the foundation for economic growth.
As tough as the last year has been for Saakashvili, the work of democracy-building will be tougher. Pruning, weeding, fertilizing, and watering of democratic reform is patient work that must be done if Georgia's "Rose Revolution" is to blossom.
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Fearless owner/editor of elocal, Mykeljon Winckel, has published a second Treatygate article from me, plus two pages of reader feedback from the first story.
Read the words of the story below, or double-click the pics, or check out elocal online.
TREATYGATE Part 2
Grievers Need Achievers As Leaders
Maori Need Honest Ngatas,
Not One-Eyed Duries
by John Ansell
The Treatygate snowball that your brave magazine elocal set in motion last month is already rattling the Griever and Appeaser elites as it builds into an unstoppable avalanche.
A week or so ago I was in the Maori Affairs Select Committee room at Parliament being interviewed by Maori TV.
Gazing down augustly from on high were four huge, hand-tinted portraits of Achiever Maori leaders Sir Apirana Ngata, Sir Maui Pomare, Sir James Carroll, and Sir Peter Buck.
In 1922, Sir Apirana had been honest enough to say this about land confiscations:
“Some have said that these confiscations were wrong, and that they contravened the Articles of the Treaty of Waitangi.
The Government placed in the hands of the Queen of England the sovereignty and the authority to make laws.
Some sections of the Maori people violated that authority. War arose from this, and blood was spilled.
The law came into operation, and land was taken in payment.
(This itself is a Maori custom – revenge, plunder to avenge a wrong.)
It was their own chiefs who ceded that right to the Queen.
The confiscations cannot therefore be objected to in the light of the Treaty.”
Sir Apirana could have added that not only did the rebels breach the Treaty, but they did so knowing what they stood to lose.
Governor Grey to the chiefs of the Waikato:
“Those who wage war against Her Majesty or remain in arms must take the consequences of their acts and must understand they will forfeit the right to possession of their lands guaranteed to them by the Treaty of Waitangi.
These lands will be occupied by a population capable of protecting for the future the quiet and unoffending from the violence with which they have been threatened.”
Same story on the East Coast:
“At Turanganui Mr McLean sent messages by Hauhau chiefs to the rebel sections of Rongowhakaata and Aitanga-a-Mahaki, warning them that unless they came in and made submission to the government they would be attacked and deprived of their lands and homes.
This offer met with no response.”
Faced with insurrection, the government then did exactly what it said it would do.
And for doing it, you and I have just paid over $22 million for wronging Rongowhakaata.
What exactly had Te Kooti’s
Pai Marire (meaning ‘good and
peaceful’) Hauhaus done that was
so wrong? Just hacked, skewered,
clubbed, shot and burnt 70 innocent
men, women and children, most
spectacularly the Lavin children,
who they threw in the air and
impaled on bayonets.
We, in the simpering form of Appeaser-General Chris Finlayson, have also issued a grovelling apology for sullying the good name of the tribe’s poster boy, Te Kooti.
What exactly had Te Kooti’s Pai Marire (meaning ‘good and peaceful’) Hauhaus done that was so wrong?
Just hacked, skewered, clubbed, shot and burnt 70 innocent men, women and children, from babies to the elderly – most spectacularly the Lavin children, who they threw in the air and impaled on bayonets.
Sorry about that, chief.
Sadly, the achiever values of the Ngatas, Pomares, Carrolls and Bucks have given way to the griever values of the Harawiras, Turias, Mutus and Itis.
In 1999, Durie was remarkably candid about dodgy iwi claimants:
“Some Treaty of Waitangi claimants have asked researchers to change findings that would be unhelpful to their cases, says the chairman of the Waitangi Tribunal.
Justice Durie said also that some tribes had even tried to make the payments of researchers conditional on findings being altered.”
But it’s not just the tribes who’ve tried to doctor the evidence.
The Tribunal’s claim negotiator, the Crown Forest Rental Trust, has done the same.
And at least once, it didn’t just try, it succeeded.
The researcher who succumbed, then spilt the beans, was MIT Ph.D Dr John Robinson.
As a socialist, Dr Robinson may have been seen as a safe choice to ‘prove’ the Tribunal’s agenda that Maori nineteenth century population loss was caused by land loss.
Unfortunately, Dr Robinson preferred to study the evidence, and found the precise opposite.
His analysis showed that the overwhelming reason for Maori numbers dwindling in the second half of the century was the slaughter of tens of thousands of breeding-age males in the intertribal genocides of the first.
That plus the customary Maori practice of female infanticide.
Dr Robinson regrets that he agreed to conceal his findings in order to be paid. But once safely retired he made good, telling all in The Corruption of New Zealand Democracy – A Treaty Overview.
Another insider to voice dismay at this uniquely Kiwi kangaroo court was that arbiter of journalistic ethics Brian Priestly, who in 1998 said:
“Years ago I attended several sessions [of the Waitangi Tribunal] while advising the Ngai Tahu on public relations for their claims.
It would be hard to imagine any public body less well organised to get at the truth.There was no cross examination. Witnesses were treating with sympathetic deference.The people putting the Crown’s side of things seemed equally anxious not to offend.
In three months I don’t think I was asked a single intelligent, awkward question. I should have been.I resigned because I am basically a puzzler after the truth and not a one-eyed supporter of causes.”
And so to today, and Sir Eddie Durie’s latest confession, when tackled about his conflict of interest in claiming water rights for his tribe from the Tribunal he used to chair:
“I believe we as Maori do not have the same luxury to observe the same ethics.”
Since when was ethics a luxury – especially for a judge?
When reminded on TVNZ’s Q&A
programme that by law nobody owns
water, Durie shot back “That’s Pakeha
law. That’s a different law.”
Sir Eddie’s claim that water was more crucial to the Maori than to the British is insulting.
(How quickly the Griever focus has switched from the traditional obsession with land.)
How does he think those landlubbers and their farm animals hydrated their squishy bodies?
With what substance did farmers irrigate their pastures?
What was that big wet wobbly thing that British warships and traders bobbed about on?
When reminded on TVNZ’s Q&A programme that by law nobody owns water, Durie shot back, “That’s Pakeha law. That’s a different law.”
Yet he would know better than anyone that the Treaty says nothing about Pakeha law or “the Maori legal scheme” that he claimed existed, and everything about all New Zealanders having equal rights under one law.
With this outburst, Sir Eddie has become a one-man advertisement for a Colourblind State.
He and today’s other Griever Maori leaders dishonour the memory of Ngata, Pomare, Carroll and Buck.
The Treaty of Waitangi – An Explanation, Sir A. Ngata, Maori Purposes Fund Board, 1922.
Papers Relative to the Native Insurrection, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1863 Session I, E-05.
The New Zealand Wars, Vol. II, J. Cowan, p.125.
Cowan, p.333.
NZ Herald, November 17, 1999, p. A14.
The Corruption of New Zealand Democracy – A Treaty Overview, J. Robinson, Tross Publishing, 2011, pp.11-20.
Ngai Tahu claim: too little critical analysis, Evening Post, April 3, 1998.
Dominion Post, August 11, 2012, p.C3.
TVNZ Q&A, August 19, 2012, transcript of Sir Eddie Durie – Haami Piripi interview.
Q&A as above.
PHOTO CAPTION: John Ansell calls himself a ‘conviction copywriter’, who hates selfish politicians, and is known for distilling political concepts into the plainest of English.
He created the ‘Iwi/Kiwi’ billboard series for National in 2005, two award-winning radio campaigns for Labour in 1987 and 1993, and in 2011 fell out with ACT over his proposed press ad headline ‘Fed up with the Maorification of Everything?’
He sees the racially-rigged National-Maori Constitutional Review as a major threat to our country and has founded Colourblind New Zealand to see if a referendum reinforced by a hard-hitting public education campaign can succeed where politicians have failed to halt the appeasement of Griever Maori.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Last month’s Treatygate story in elocal launched John Ansell’s Colourblind State campaign to end racial favouritism. View Part 1 online at www.elocal.co.nz and comment on Part 2 on our blog.
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Basic massage techniques you can do with your horse at home.
February 2008 HI Exclusive
After a long day in the office or a hard workout, a massage is the perfect answer to relieve those aching muscles. Horses also get tense from daily riding or even due to poor conformation. With the proper training and safety precautions, you can administer a relaxing, beneficial massage to your horse.
Barb Wells, a certified shiatsu equine massage therapist, gives you an introduction to some basic massage techniques and demonstrates their application in HorseChannel.com’s video “Equine Massage,” with help from horses at the J.F. Shea Therapeutic Riding Center in San Juan Capistrano, Calif.
Along with showing you how to give your horse a basic massage, Wells sat down with us to explain the concept of equine massage, its effect on your horse, health considerations, and both positive and negative responses from your horse to be aware of before trying this at home.
HI: What is equine massage?
Wells: Massage is the manipulation, methodical pressure, friction and kneading of the muscles. It’s a non-invasive technique designed to enhance equine performance and reduce the risk of injury. It moves lactic acid and other toxins out of the muscle tissue while bringing oxygen and nutrients in by boosting blood circulation. It promotes healthier muscle tissue that can better withstand the strain of competition and daily use. The bones, tendons and ligaments benefit as well. Massage also positively affects the emotional well-being of your horse.
HI: How do I know if my horse needs massage?
Wells: If your horse has exhibited any of the following signs: kicking, bucking, resisting leads, attitude problems, head tossing, difficult lateral bending or a lack of enthusiasm for performing. All of these issues might benefit from a massage.
HI: Why does my horse develop emotional or physical problems like those listed?
Wells: Although there are multiple reasons why your horse can develop behavior, strain and exertion problems, many can be traced back to stress on different areas of the horse’s body.
Many riding disciplines and every-day things can create tension in the horse’s muscle tissues, including weakness in an area from excessive use, poor or unsuitable conformation, or injury, which causes adjacent areas of the muscle to compensate. Other reasons why your horse may develop emotional and physical problems include: putting up the horse before he is properly cooled after exercise; placing too many demands on the horse’s body when he hasn’t been sufficiently warmed up prior to exercise; and mental and emotional stress.
These types of strain can also develop into injuries.
HI: What are some areas that typically have problems?
Wells: As I addressed in the video, the neck, shoulder, back and hindquarters typically demonstrate problems.
HI: How does massage help?
Wells: It stimulates the nervous system and muscle tone, increases blood flow and flexibility, eliminates metabolic wastes, encourages balance, relaxes muscles, promotes ease and well-being, and helps further bonding with your horse.
HI: What signs should people look for while massaging their horse to know it is helping?
Wells: To know that massage is helping, look for: softening of the eyes; licking; yawning; sighing; neck shaking; feel for softening of the tissue in the area you’re massaging; and listen for stomach activity (digestive noise) and passing gas (or having a bowel movement). You will find throughout the massage that your horse will drop his head as his long back muscle relaxes — this is normal.
Please also be aware of the signs that signal the horse is experiencing pain in the area you’re massaging. Watch for ears pinned back, squeals/grunts, lots of tail swishing, and strong negative reaction in the form of behavior or physical movement when you touch certain muscle groups.
HI: When shouldn’t you massage your horse?
Wells: Massage is a preventative therapy and not a substitute for veterinary care. If you horse has a heart condition, an existing joint problem, injury, special medical concern or fever, consult your veterinarian before you massage your horse.
If your vet is currently treating your horse for a condition, you don’t want to upset the vet’s course of action.
If your horse has a skin condition or growth — do not massage as the condition might spread.
And if there are signs of pain, swelling or bleeding — do not massage. Call your vet.
HI: Does the massage atmosphere play a role in how my horse will react?
Wells: You should plan the massage for a time that is quiet — while this may not always be possible, be observant and you and your equine friend will have a more productive experience.
Make sure you remove any small animals or unattended children who could get hurt if your horse reacts suddenly.
You can perform the massage in the stall, but a barn aisle is less confining. If someone will hold your horse for you, that’s preferable. If you’re alone, hold the lead line as needed.
Don’t massage just before feeding time. After feeding and long before the next feeding is the preferable time to massage.
We’d like to thank Barb Wells for sharing her time and massage techniques. If you’re ready to try equine massage with your horse, watch Wells at work in our exclusive HorseChannel.com video to learn some basic massage stroking techniques. Consult your vet before massaging your horse.
For more information about the J.F. Shea Therapeutic Riding Center, visit www.sheacenter.org
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MISSION, KS--(Marketwire - Jul 19, 2012) - (Family Features) Money management is one skill that can be difficult for young adults to master as they head off on their own. But no matter what stage of life -- whether they're entering college or the work force -- every young adult should learn how to handle their money.
Establish a Budget
Sit down together with your student and map out all monthly expenses. Include room and board or rent, books, supplies, food, personal care and medications, transportation, gas, entertainment (including dining out, movies and walking around money, etc.), and payment for phone, mobile devices, cable and Internet access. Then, figure out income. This can include money from a job, financial aid, student loans and any support from you.
Income and expenses need to balance. There are plenty of online tools you can use to figure out a budget. Some, such as www.Mint.com or some bank websites, can help students manage their budgets, making it easy for them to take care of it themselves. There are also budgeting tips and worksheets at websites such as www.SmartAboutMoney.org.
How to Stick to the Budget
Prioritize needs vs. wants. It may seem like a latte every morning is a necessity to jump-start the day, but those kinds of little expenses can add up quickly. A recent study by Westwood College found that 40 percent of the average student's budget is being spent on "discretionary" spending; included in that is entertainment (6.5 percent), apparel and services (6.7 percent), travel and vacation (4.7 percent). Have your student do the math on how much some of their "necessities" will cost them, and then talk about how to weigh purchase decisions.
Find ways to spend less. A little planning can help young adults spend less and get more value for their dollar.
- Cellphone - Avoid overage charges with an unlimited plan. For example, with Cricket Wireless, you can pay an affordable monthly fee for all-inclusive talk, text, data and music rate plans for some of the most popular smartphones available. Cricket also includes a service called Muve Music that gives students unlimited song downloads as part of their plan. Learn more at www.MyCricket.com.
- Food - Coupons and digital deals can cut the costs of dining out. Look into the college meal plan - and use it. Save on snacks by stocking up at the grocery store instead of buying from a vending machine or convenience store.
- Clothing - Thrift stores, consignment shops and yard sales are affordable ways to find something fun to wear.
- Entertainment - Encourage them to take advantage of free activities on campus with their student ID. When going out with friends, advise your student to decide how much he or she can spend, then only take that much money with them.
Be smart about credit cards. Many students sign up for a credit card right away, and before they know it, they are thousands of dollars in debt. Make sure they understand the impact of interest rates. Also, discuss setting limitations on using a credit card to avoid non-academic debt, such as using it only for emergencies, travel or school expenses, or only charging what they can pay back on time the next month (including interest).
Equipping your student with some basic financial skills will help them make wise money choices now and for the rest of their lives.
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The Perl community gets a lot of things right right now. Consider the CPAN: we expect a few standards of compatibility and kwalitee, but as long as you adhere to rough consensus, your work is useful and usable to a million other Perl programmers.
We have a good understanding of how to package your work and how to mark dependencies and how to document it, and that rough consensus allows sites such as search.cpan.org to provide infrastructure that allows me to read cross-linked documentation of the 84,944 modules on the CPAN (as of this afternoon).
Even the standard documentation mechanism for Perl modules (POD, adhering to
a loosely-agreed organizational scheme) contributes to the utility and
usability of the Perl ecosystem. You expect
Your::Distro::Name to display something useful for the distro, even if
it's a table of contents to other documentation. Larger projects or frameworks
have introductions and tutorials and guided recipes (you know, like a "book"
for "cooking", except without infringing on a trademark). If you know what
you're doing and need a mere syntax refresher—or if your problem is small
enough that a handful of lines of code can solve it—the SYNOPSIS section
of the documentation is often enough.
Other times it isn't. Explain Plack in
a paragraph, or DBIx::Class, or Perl::Critic, or Bread::Board (or explain
Bread::Board at all; sometimes I think Stevan and Yuval
are the only people who understand it).
Many of the wonderful new tools I want to use in Perl right now have a steep learning curve. I understand that some of them (Devel::Declare) have essential complexity that users must master before using the tool effectively. Not everything does—look at Test::Tutorial, which takes a subject which seemed complex and confusing in 2000 and 2001 and is commonplace and expected in 2010. Writing effective tests well is still an art of experience and good taste, but half an hour with that documentation has been enough to explain the basics to thousands and thousands of people.
I recognize that a SYNOPSIS won't suffice for demonstrating even a simple Catalyst application, with user authentication and logging and route dispatching and a model which is more complex than a Blog with Posts and Comments, but perhaps there's something in between a "Hello, world!" tutorial and the gory documentation of individual components and their methods. (Catalyst does this better than almost every other CPAN project.) Maybe larger projects should consider guided walkthroughs of real and modest-sized applications, especially if they include discussions about design goals and tradeoffs.
We're good at documenting reusable pieces of larger systems—CPAN encourages us to build applications that way. Can we improve further?
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Last mission to repair the Hubble telescope Hubble space telescope discoveries have enriched our understanding of the cosmos. In this special report, you will see facts about the Hubble space telescope, discoveries it has made and what the last mission's goals are.
For their own good
Fifty years ago, they were screwed-up kids sent to the Florida School for Boys to be straightened out. But now they are screwed-up men, scarred by the whippings they endured. Read the story and see a video and portrait gallery.
He can get you into college, but that's no promise
By JOHN C. COTEY
Published January 15, 2008
Oldsmar Christian basketball coach Ryan Pannone puts players in positions to help them earn scholarships instead of win games.
[Atoyia Deans | Times]
[Zach Boyden-Holmes | Times]
Oldsmar Christian's Chris Perez takes a shot over an IMG Academy player this month during the Ram Classic at Ridgewood High.
[Atoyia Deans | Times]
Jordan Fair does a "pound-toss" drill during practice.
Despite Ryan Pannone's relative youth and inexperience - he's 22, still lives at home and is taking college classes - David Thorpe thinks he might have a future.
In the NBA.
That might come as a surprise to anyone who has ever seen Pannone play basketball.
It won't to anyone whom Pannone has ever trained, however, which Thorpe thinks is an unappreciated strength.
Thorpe, who trains college and NBA players and works as a basketball analyst for ESPN, thinks Pannone has an eye for detail and a skill for refining a player's game beyond his years.
Now, if he would just take that skill somewhere else, local high school coaches would be a much happier lot.
If Thorpe is right, Pannone can train basketball players with the best of them.
But the question, then, becomes this: Should he be using a high school basketball team as his internship?
Coaches such as Largo's Phil Price don't think so. Neither do Lakewood's Dan Wright and a good many others.
Pannone's experiment at Oldsmar Christian, where he played after transferring from Dunedin and now coaches, is not one many are embracing.
In effect, he is trying to build a basketball academy, modeled after IMG in Bradenton and Montverde, which is ranked No. 4 in the country.
He is promoting individual players at the expense of team play.
He puts players at positions that will help them get scholarships, he says, rather than win games, and he makes no apologies for it.
He doesn't guarantee anything but has no question he will work harder to get his players into college, thus giving them a better chance at a scholarship, thus making his case for his program.
He has even pulled his team out of the FHSAA state series, making them ineligible for the playoffs and getting out from under the watchful eye of the state organization.
As a result, he can load his schedule with other basketball academies, suffering beatings but hopeful they will be in front of college coaches.
To this end, he says winning and losing mean nothing.
"State titles collect dust in the trophy case," he says.
But Wright disagrees, saying that 15 players can share in the achievement and accomplishment of a state championship, learning lessons that go beyond the court and last a lifetime.
Pannone has seemingly stripped his team of such sentimentality. In its place, papers to be signed.
"You are not any more likely to get a scholarship at Oldsmar Christian than you are playing anywhere else," Price said. "No matter what he says."
The concern, Wright says, is that a promise Pannone says he doesn't make any, but others don't agree will lead 14- and 15-year-old kids into making mistakes they can't reverse.
Other coaches merely fear losing their best players to the promise of greener pastures.
Pannone has been called a cheater, a recruiter and a shameless self-promoter. He denies them all.
But he carries around baggage in the form of a reviled program, many of the problems that weren't his doing (though he was at the school at the time).
In 2004, Oldsmar Christian had to forfeit 18 games because it was discovered that the school's athletic director, Pam Brown, had scrubbed a transfer's grades to make him eligible.
A few weeks later, two more ineligible players were discovered, and more victories, including one in a district tournament, were forfeited.
The FHSAA said at the time it was stunned by the incompetence.
The FHSAA says it has received no complaints about Oldsmar Christian recruiting this year, but over the years the overzealous program has welcomed a few new players every year and left itself open for criticism.
"These coaches don't even know me," Pannone said. "My goal is simple, and that's to help as many kids as I can get basketball scholarships so they can play in college. That's my focus. And we don't promise anything."
To his credit, Pannone is a relentless promoter, a guy who even his most ardent opponents have to concede relentlessly sends videos to hundreds of colleges a week, who wastes no effort hyping his players.
And he has helped kids he didn't even coach, on other teams.
But the focus of Oldsmar Christian is the individual.
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Coping With Traveler's Diarrhea
The most frequent complaint among world travelers is diarrhea. Although it's not usually serious, it can wreak havoc with your travel plans. Its effects can last for days or weeks, and you can become dehydrated and lethargic.
Bacteria are usually the cause of diarrhea, although viruses and parasites, such as those that cause amoebic dysentery, sometimes can be the culprit. Traveler's diarrhea is contracted by consuming contaminated water or food.
The most common bacterial causes are:
Water and Beverages:
Since contaminated water is one source of bacteria that cause traveler's diarrhea and other illnesses, purify your water by:
Other water tips:
Contaminated food is the other major source of the bacteria that cause traveler's diarrhea. You should be sure to follow these guidelines even if you are staying at an expensive resort or hotel.
Some common-sense tips:
Remember, in hot climates, debilitating and potentially life-threatening dehydration can occur quickly when diarrhea strikes. Severe diarrhea should be treated with special oral rehydration fluid. Bottled sports drinks are not sufficient for severe diarrhea.
Bring along packets of oral rehydration solution, which can be mixed into purified water. If you don't have any solution, you can make an acceptable alternative by mixing one-half teaspoon of salt, one-half teaspoon of baking soda and four tablespoons of sugar with one liter of clean water.
If you have mild diarrhea, oral rehydration solution is not essential. You can alternate sips of sweet and salty beverages (such as broth and fruit juice), as long as you drink enough to stay well-hydrated. Drink enough so that you produce light-colored urine every three to seven hours.
You may want to ask your doctor for a prescription for the antibiotic ciprofloxacin (or a related drug), and bring it along. When diarrhea strikes, take the antibiotic as your doctor prescribed, starting it as soon as possible, and drink plenty of fluids. In some parts of Asia, certain types of bacteria (such as Campylobacter) may be resistant to ciprofloxacin. Be sure to tell your doctor all countries that you plan to visit on your trip, as this may affect the doctor's antibiotic selection.
Over-the-counter medications such as loperamide (sold under the brand name Imodium, with less costly generic alternatives available) can be helpful for certain situations, such as long bus or car trips.
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Creighton University has a long history of providing highly respected health science degree programs across a variety of fields. Offered through Creighton’s esteemed Center for Health Policy and Ethics (CHPE), the online Master of Public Health is an interdisciplinary degree that focuses on the foundations of contemporary public health with courses in community-based participatory research, public health ethics and public health systems management.
This MPH is a fully online program (no residency requirement), and is built on a dynamic core curriculum and offers two concentrations to choose from through which students can customize their degree to match their individual interests and career goals including:
Health Policy and Ethics: From access to health care to health-related law and health care reform, this concentration explores public health at a legislative, institutional and ethical level. Graduates will understand how health and well-being can be influenced by government and private action and how ethical systems can be created through policies and laws that impact health care and public health.
The online Master of Public Health (MPH) from Creighton University will help you identify and meet the evolving health and wellness needs of diverse populations in your community and beyond. With emphasis on vulnerable, underserved and marginalized populations, the online MPH examines social inequities that impact health and well being. This gives students the tools they need to become positive agents for change as they pursue professional goals in service to those who may be at risk.
Graduates of Creighton’s Master of Public Health program will be able to:
Identify the totality of health problems and needs of defined populations
Demonstrate competency to carry out broad public health functions in local, state, national and international settings
Plan, implement and evaluate programs to address identified public health needs in cooperation with community members
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(WASHINGTON)- The American Society of Hematology (ASH) will recognize Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and David and Lynn Frohnmayer, founders of the Fanconi Anemia Research Fund, with awards for their outstanding support and advocacy for biomedical research and the practice of hematology at the 54th ASH Annual Meeting in Atlanta.
Sen. Klobuchar will receive the 2012 ASH Public Service Award to honor her unparalleled leadership as an elected public official on issues of importance to hematology research and practice. Sen. Klobuchar, who was recently elected to serve a second term in the U.S. Senate, was the first person in Congress to bring to light emerging critical shortages of drugs used to treat cancer and other serious ailments and introduced the Preserving Access to Life-Saving Medications Act (S. 296) in February 2011. Her bill, which became the foundation for all further legislative efforts and for legislation ultimately passed and signed into law as part of the reauthorization of the Food and Drug Administration's user fee programs, addressed shortages of certain hematology-related chemotherapy and other lifesaving drugs by requiring prescription drug manufacturers to give early notification to the Food and Drug Administration of any incident that would likely result in a drug shortage. Sen. Klobuchar’s efforts were instrumental in moving this legislative priority forward.
Mr. and Mrs. Frohnmayer will receive the 2012 ASH Outstanding Service Award to recognize their efforts to raise public awareness and increase research funding for hematologic diseases. The Frohnmayers founded the Fanconi Anemia Research Fund in 1989 to pursue better treatments and a cure for the then virtually unknown disease that affected three of their five children. Since the Fund’s founding more than 20 years ago, the Frohnmayers have relentlessly maintained the highest standards of scientific rigor and credibility. They assembled a strong Scientific Advisory Board and have encouraged the best and brightest scientists to pursue the study of Fanconi anemia following National Institutes of Health peer review standards. The Fund’s annual symposia and frequent small, focused meetings are often cited by attendees as exemplary. Importantly, the Fund is the single source of peer-reviewed clinical information on Fanconi anemia and has become a vital psychosocial network for the few thousand families around the world affected by the disease.
“ASH is honored to recognize Sen. Klobuchar and the Frohnmayers for their steadfast commitment to advocating for and supporting issues critical to the field of hematology,” said ASH President Armand Keating, MD of Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network in Toronto. “Their efforts to improve the lives of patients with blood diseases are truly inspirational.”
The 2012 Outstanding Service Award and Public Service Award will be announced on Sunday, December 9, at 1:30 p.m. EST prior to the Plenary Scientific Session in Hall B5 (Level 1, Building B) at the Georgia World Congress Center.
Reporter inquiries may be directed to Andrea Slesinski, ASH Communications Manager, at 202-552-4927 or email@example.com.
The American Society of Hematology (ASH) (www.hematology.org) is the world’s largest professional society of hematologists dedicated to furthering the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disorders affecting the blood. For more than 50 years, the Society has led the development of hematology as a discipline by promoting research, patient care, education, training, and advocacy in hematology. The official journal of ASH is Blood (www.bloodjournal.org), the most cited peer-reviewed publication in the field, which is available weekly in print and online.
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4.3 Character code functions
This unit will help you to understand the forms of data that are handled by software and look at the various processes that can be applied to the data. These ideas are demonstrated through the use of a supermarket till and illustrate how simple data sets can be manipulated.
Wine cooler showing an Officer of the Royal Horse Artillery N081 APSLEY HOUSE, London. Wine cooler from the Duke of Wellington's Prussian Service, made in Berlin 1817-19. This was a gift to the Duke from the King of Prussia, and here depicts troops commanded by the Duke in France in 1815, in this case a British Officer of the Royal Horse Artillery. WM949_1948.
APSLEY HOUSE, London. Wine cooler from the Duke of Wellington's Prussian Service, made in Berlin 1817-19. This was a gift to the Duke from the King of Prussia, and here depicts troops commanded by the Duke in France in 1815, in this case a British Officer of the Royal Horse Artillery. WM949_1948.
World Health Organization: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
The discovery of a cow carrying BSE in the United States has reenergized the public's interest in such topics. This site, an offshoot of the WHO site devoted to diseases, offers a good overview of the disease and its similar nature to that of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease -- the form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy that can affect humans. Also of note at this site is a exceptionally comprehensive resources section that offers links to publications, articles, and websites devoted to relate
Military equipment often requires significant amounts of electrical power, and it is important for power supplies to be portable and to have large capacities. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency realizes this need for efficient power sources, so it is investigating alternatives to conventional batteries. High energy fuels are the primary focus of the Palm Power project. This Web site discusses the details and goals of the project in introductory sections. More specific information can
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
A participant in the U.S. space program since the 1950s, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado conducts research in atmospheric and planetary sciences, develops space instrumentation, and creates computer information systems. Through the extensive Tour, visitors can learn about LASP's assistance in unmanned robot spacecraft missions and its involvement in the International Solar Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) program. Students can read about experiment
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The IEEE 1394 interface, commonly known as FireWire, is a popular multimedia connection between computers and peripherals that can achieve high transfer rates. 1394b is the latest version, which increases the bandwidth and expands the utility of previous versions. The 1394 Trade Association hosts this page with several resources about the emerging technology. A white paper describes its applications and how it has evolved. Specifications for the upgraded "b" version are listed in an overview pre
Pharmacist.com is an information resource project developed jointly by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy and the American Pharmacists Association. The website is designed to support pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and pharmacy students by providing useful information and professional development resources. Professionals seeking employment will certainly appreciate the extensive job board with hundreds of listings from around the country. The site also contains a sizeable collecti
Orchids of Wisconsin: An Interactive Flora
Orchid enthusiasts may appreciate this Web site developed by Jeff Hapeman, graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Information including "photos, typical taxonomic descriptive information, a description of similar species to aid in identification, habitat information, blooming dates, a section on pollination biology (if information is available), herbarium records, and a range map" are included for each species of orchid (native and naturalized) found in Wisconsin. Species can b
This Web site contains a pictorial guide to insect mouthparts, a complicated topic served well by this simple yet effective tutorial. Created by University of Ottawa entomology professor Dr. Houseman -- using material adapted from Digital Zoology (on CD from McGraw-Hill) -- this site provides labeled diagrams and high quality photos of chewing, siphoning, piercing, sponging, and combination mouthparts. Users may view images by category or click through the entire set in sequence. The photographs
The National Academy of Forensic Engineers (1) provides a short definition of forensic engineering as: "the application of the art and science of engineering in matters which are in, or may possibly relate to the jurisprudence system, inclusive of alternative dispute resolution." Specialty areas in forensic engineering include fire investigation, industrial accidents, product liability, traffic accidents, civil engineering and transportation disasters, and environmental systems failures. For exa
Climate of 2002 Preliminary Annual Review
The National Climatic Data Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has made available the Climate of 2002 Preliminary Annual Review Web site. Visitors will find numerous charts; graphs; tables; and descriptions of global temperatures, temperature trends, regional temperatures, and global precipitation. A US climate summary, as well as information on significant events, the Atlantic hurricane season, and the western US wildfire season, is also available. The site has
NSTA Webwatchers' Science Guides
The Webwatchers' Science Guides website -- provided by the National Science Teachers Association -- is a portal to educational resources on the Internet. Along with carefully selected links, this website offers a few downloadable lesson plans, as well as audio reviews from fellow teachers and vignettes demonstrating how to use the Guides in the classroom. Navigation can be somewhat tricky -- the site follows an elaborate organizational scheme that requires its own 4-page explanation. For a quick
World Weather Information Service
The World Meteorological Organization Web site offers the World Weather Information Service page. Here, visitors will find official weather forecasts and climatological information for selected cities worldwide. Users choose a particular continent and country, and are then presented with a list of various cities they can get information on. This includes the date and time of the current forecast, minimum and maximum temperatures for that day, a general cloud description, and a monthly review of
Using technology to support Limited-English-Proficient (LEP) students' learning experiences
This article examines the challenges and rewards related to using technology as a tool to increase learning for limited English-proficient (LEP) students. The article is based on the belief that students' content, linguistic, and technology skills should be developed in tandem. Strategies and standards for technology use are featured along with suggestions for enhancing LEP students comfort level in content classes. Access and equity and the redefinition of teacher roles are also discussed. Impr
Ready to Teach (RTT) interactives library
This web site offers access to four interactive software tools designed to help teachers and students of algebra visualize and experiment online with key concepts related to linear and piecewise functions. Copyright 2005 Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
How high? : measurement (grades 6-8)
With this virtual manipulative, the student investigates conservation of volume with a virtual simulation of pouring a liquid from one container to a container of the same shape, but of a different size. There are four cylinder shapes to choose from: rectangular prism, cylinder, cone, and pyramid. The left container is partially filled with liquid and the base dimensions of the two cylinders are given. The student uses a slider to estimate how high the liquid will rise when poured into the secon
Cynthia Lanius' Fractal Unit
Cynthia Lanius, a former mathematics teacher who currently serves as Technology Integration Specialist for Sinton Independent School District in Sinton, Texas, has posted numerous lessons online. This website features a Fractals Unit for elementary and middle school students (although adults are also welcome to enjoy the lesson). The lesson includes a discussion on why one might study fractals and then provides step-by-step explanations on how to make fractals using Java, along with some challen
6.7 Modelling with objects
Enterprise systems are software applications that automate and integrate all many of the key business processes of an organisation. With some understanding of software development, you will learn about current development practices for this type of system and develop relevant skills to apply them to real-world problems. You will develop core skills in object-oriented analysis and design, allowing you to develop software that is fit for purpose, reusable and amenable to change.
3.1 Introduction to improving own learning and performance This key skill is about helping you understand how you learn; think about how you can improve your own learning and performance, and consider how you might generalise the principles and processes for future learning. You saw in our discussion of ‘A framework for learning’, improving your learning and performance could be considered to be a ‘meta-skill’, that is the skill of learning how to learn. This section, then, is a little different from the other skills sections
This key skill is about helping you understand how you learn; think about how you can improve your own learning and performance, and consider how you might generalise the principles and processes for future learning.
You saw in our discussion of ‘A framework for learning’, improving your learning and performance could be considered to be a ‘meta-skill’, that is the skill of learning how to learn. This section, then, is a little different from the other skills sections
5.2 Other transmission media
BBC News 24, Sky News, CNN – we live in an era where news has become almost instantaneous. This unit will look at how news is gathered and the technology used for its dissemination. You will also be encouraged to examine how information might be manipulated by questioning its reliability.
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The dingo is an Australian wild dog
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NORMAN — There was a time when Democrats took Cleveland County for granted in just about any local or statewide election. That majority here was a safe one. As the song says, the times, they are a changing.
Registered Democrats still outnumber Republicans statewide, but in Cleveland County, they’ve been outnumbered for several years. Election board stats show 71,160 Republicans and 57,153 Democrats.
Statewide, there are about 2.1 million registered voters with 962,072 Democrats and 897,663 Republicans. Those registering have been more likely to register as Republicans in Oklahoma.
The big growth, however, is in registered Independents. At one time, there were only a few thousand Independents in Cleveland County. Today, there are 21,405. Statewide, there are 256,450 Independents.
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Special Needs Animals
Pets Need Your Help!
More animals than ever before are coming to the Humane Society in dire need of expensive veterinary care. Due to the current economic conditions, many people are forced to surrender their pets because they can no longer afford to feed and care for them. Our medical expenses have gone up significantly during the past year or so and the number of animals needing life-saving care is constantly increasing.
The Emily Kantor Fund
This fund was established in memory of Emily Kantor who was only 13 years old when she died in 1995. Because of her love for animals, her family established this memorial fund in her name at the Missoula Humane Society. The fund is specifically used for animals arriving at the shelter in need of live-saving medical attention. This fund has provided hundreds of animals with a second chance at a better life.
Read the stories below for more information on animals currently in need of medical care. Just click the "Donate Now" button next to the picture of the animal you would like to help. Be sure to tell us the name of the animal when you fill out the donation form.
Petunia is an eight year old Chihuahua/Terrier mix who enjoys the company of other dogs. Petunia is diabetic and her condition had not been managed so both of her corneas had ruptured by the time she was left in front of the Humane Society. She needed emergency surgery (performed by the kind staff at Animal Blessing Pet Hospital) to remove both of her eyes. She is adjusting to the change well and still loves to wiggle up to greet new people. Petunia requires twice daily insulin shots and is currently in foster care.
Sam is a big handsome guy. Looking at Sam, you realize that he is like any other cat who loves attention and affection. Sam is a special needs cat as he is diabetic. He takes insulin shots twice daily but his cool and easygoing demeanor make them super easy to give. His diabetes is also managed through a special veterinary diet. Diabetes is an easily manageble special need in a cat and Sam's relaxed personality will make him a wonderful companion for any family!
Gibson is a happy-go-lucky guy. He loves everyone he meets and greets all with a friendly 'Meow' and a gentle head butt. Gibson is diabetic and receives insulin injections two times per day. He is a very easy going guy which means giving the injections is easy as pie. He also enjoys fine gourmet meals consisting of a veterinarian presribed diet.
Tinker is a lovebug, at least when it comes to her people and her dogs. She is okay with cats that know how important personal space can be to a gal like Tinker. She is the quintessential princess! Tinker does have some special needs, she is diabetic. She is looking for a home who is able to give her insulin twice a day.
Jasmine is a mellow cocker spaniel. She is great with other dogs and cats and adores affection from humans. Jasmine as a thyroid condition called hypo-thyroidism for which she gets a pill twice per day. She also has a skin condition called Cheyletiella mange. This is a skin mite which is treated with a special weekly bath. Jasmine loves to be pampered like a special girl so giving her these baths until her skin is improved is no problem for her.
ADOPTED: These special needs animals have found their forever homes!
Waya is a gorgeous Siberian Husky who loves the company of adults, other dogs, and cats. She relies on humans to assist her with her special needs. You see, Waya is blind in both of her eyes and just needs to be guided around. Once she knows her way around, she enjoys the independence husky's are known for.
UPDATE: Waya found a loving home with her buddy Kokanee! They were so excited to go to a Siberian Husky loving couple!
Stella is a queen who loves to be pampered. She loves affection and laying on a warm lap. Here at the shelter it has been discovered that Stella has a chronic upper respiratory infection. She constantly has a bit of a cold which anti-biotics do not seem to clear up. In a HOPE foster home, however, her symptoms go away in no time! Her condition is exacerbated by stress so we know that finding a furrever home is what Stella really needs to feel better.
UPDATE: Adopted by her loving foster Mom. She is sooooo happy!
This handsome fella is on a prescription diet for urinary tract infections. His urinary-tract health food costs about $25 for a 5lb bag. This special food helps to prevent UTI's for Sampson. He is one of the most affectionate kitties around, and loves a good brushing!
This beautiful lady is the bell of the cat wing at the Humane Society of Western Montana. Onyx has alot of personality and loves to greet you with a friendly head-butt. Just like any princess she has a few manageable needs. Onyx is on a prescription diet to improve her kidney function. Her special renal care food costs about $25 for a 5lb bag.This special girl also recieves fluids with a taste of wet food every other day, This is also to improve her kidney function. With the help of her special food and fluids Onyx still has many years and lots of love to give.
Dawn is a very unique five year old chihuahua mix that was brought to us after being found living in a grain bin. She arrived dehydrated, unsocialized and also has a cleft palate that may someday require dental work. After spending many hours of quiet time with our volunteers she has come out of her shell and is learning to snuggle and is now ready to find a family and share her love.
Charli is one of the 'California Littles' transferred to us from an overcrowded shelter in northern California. She arrived with a terrible eye infection and is being treated with antibiotics, but due to all of the stress of travel and being in a new place, she now has an upper respiratory infection that we are also treating. Charli's medications are not the most expensive, but because every dollar counts, helping with her medical bills will allow us to help even more animals. We estimate her care at about $115 including medication, vet visits and special staff tlc.
This friendly tiger cat was returned to the shelter when he was diagnosed with diabetes. It is easy to give him his twice daily insulin shots but his former family was not home enough to maintain his schedule. He eats a special diet and takes insulin but he doesn't let it slow him down! Donate to the cost of Cosmo's care by clicking on the button below.
Pez is the perfect combination of cute and sassy. She will tell you what is on her mind and loves laying on your lap for head rubs. Her number one special need is lots of love! She also needs special perscription diet food to help improve kidney functon. She also recieves fluids in a wet food snack twice a week. Such a sweet older lady deserves a special snack more than twice a week. Pez eats a small plate of wet food two time per day with a special lixotinic syrup mixed in. The lixotinic syrup is an iron suppliment to improve her overall health. With all of these things Pez has many years to give to a special family, now all she needs is to find them!
This playful 3 year old lab mix loves everyone! She tore her ACL while playing. Now she needs surgery so that she can romp again! The Humane Society is working on raising the funds for her surgery. Please help Toes by clicking on the button below!
When this sweet 12 year old arrived at the shelter she could still catch a ball in mid-air! Unfortunately, she has gone blind and is still learning how to navigate the world with her new limitation. Coco Bear still loves her tennis ball, squeaky toys and daily walks. She needs a patient and kind person to guide her as she condinues to adapt to being blind. Are you that person?
Four year old Puffin was transferred from another facility so she could find a loving home. She needs double knee surgery and has been on a strict diet to control her weight. She has already lost over 20 pounds and is ready to have her surgery. Puffin has been taking 100mg of Rimadyl twice daily, glucosamine suppliments twice daily, and painkillers two to three times a day. Rimadyl alone is $0.85 per pill and the Humane Society needs your help to help Puffin. Click on the button below to donate.
At only four months of age Abby was surrendered to a veterinarian when her former family couldn't afford her care. This active Border Collie had a rear leg that just didn't work correctly. She had surgery to repair the leg the third week of February. After six weeks of very restricted activity in a foster home she will be on her way to a full recovery! Abby's medical needs have been extensive. She will also need therapy at Montana Water Dogs. Your donations allow the Humane Society of Western Montana to ensure that no animal in our care goes without the treatments they need no matter what.
Princess is a frisky kitty that has a viral eye infection. She requires the supplement, Lysine (approximately $7 for a 7 month supply) and eye drops daily. She would do best in a home with no other cats where she can receive lots of attention and an endless supply of catnip and toys to play with.
Koen is recovering from a viral infection. This little guy is currently taking the medication, Metronidazole along with FortiFlora, a nutritional supplement (approximate cost is $20 for a 1 month supply) and eats a high protien cat food. Koen's young life has been quite difficult for him. Due to his infection, he has been isolated from other kittens and knows only humans to be his playmates. Koen is looking for a loving person that he can trust and someone who will spend lots of playtime with him.
Outgoing and chatty Pumpkin is a lot of fun! This 11 year old Poodle has diabetes. He receives insulin shots two times a day and will remind you if you forget! Sweet-natured Pumpkin takes the repeated poking like a champ. He also eats a special diet to help maintain his blood sugar. Pumpkin spends a lot of his time hanging out with the staff and volunteers but what he really wants is his own family!
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By Megan M. Krischke, contributor
August 26, 2011 - “Communicating clearly with patients is a cornerstone to providing safe, quality and effective care,” remarked Fé Ermitaño, RN, BSN, project manager for the patient experience at Virginia Mason Medical Center (VMMC) in Seattle. “We aim to provide patient-centered care, so I tell the nurses that we are to engage our patients in a partnership and a dialogue and that we should be a conduit through which patients can bring their concerns.”
Fé Ermitaño, RN, BSN, project manager for the patient experience at Virginia Mason Medical Center encourages nurses to have honest and transparent communication with patients.
Clear communication with patients is of utmost importance to Erica Dickson, RN, BSN, CCRP, oncology research manager for Poudre Valley Health Systems (PVHS) in Fort Collins, Colo.. Dickson leads a team of nurses and other professionals who offer oncology patients opportunities to participate in clinical trials and then works with these patients to coordinate their care.
“My job is to make sure patients have the time and the information to make their decision. ‘No’ is as good an answer as ‘yes’,” explained Dickson. “Often patients tend to take anything the doctor says as prescriptive. So if a doctor informs a patient that there is a clinical trial that could be a good option for them, what the patient may be hearing is the physician saying that they should participate in the trial. The nurse’s job is to start a new conversation; to say this is a choice and it is totally voluntary.”
She notes that nurses should be aware of potential barriers to communication such as illiteracy or the patient experiencing stress from learning of a new diagnosis.
“We need to be aware that reading isn’t always a helpful way for a patient to receive information,” Dickson said.
Ermitaño adds that the pressure of having more to do than time to do it and issues related to cultural diversity can also complicate a nurse’s ability to communicate clearly.
“When working with a patient of another culture, or even if a nurse just senses his or her communication is not being well received, I encourage nurses to try to mirror the emotions and behavior of the patient. If a patient isn’t making eye contact, there may be a cultural reason for that,” she remarked. “Nurses who work with a diverse population could consider seeking out diversity training.”
She also warns against using medical jargon when speaking to, or even around, patients.
“When they don’t understand the lingo, not only is our ability to communicate limited, patients can also feel alienated. Early in my career a physician was discussing with me the patient’s condition and within ear shot of that patient used the acronym SOB to refer to shortness of breath. The patient, however, thought the physician was insulting him,” related Ermitaño. “This very sweet patient was hurt that the physician saw him in such a poor light.”
“I consider it a sign that we are communicating well when the patient is able to state back to us the fundamental information about the study in which we are inviting them to participate,” stated Dickson. “I also see a patient’s willingness to ask questions as a sign that they are comfortable relating to the nurse and that they are engaged in the conversation.”
Ermitaño also sees active listening and asking patients to say in their own words what you have just explained as key communication techniques, as well as paying attention to physical clues such as eye contact and nodding. She adds that it can help to declare your intention; to tell a patient why you are asking them a particular question because it builds trust and gives them a better understanding of what kind of information you seeking.
“If I’m not making progress with the patient I try to go back and say, ‘I don’t think we are communicating clearly. Is there something I’m not doing or explaining well?’ and have the patient direct me on what kinds of communication are helpful for him or her,” she explained. “At VMMC, patients wear yellow slippers, so we talk about putting yourself in their yellow slippers. When a nurse puts his or herself into the patients’ yellow slippers it is easier to overcome any communication barriers.”
“Patients need to feel from us that they are really our focus when we are with them. Nurses need to multitask, but they shouldn’t do it while they are with patients,” stated Dickson. “Also, whenever we can, we should offer patients choices. I don’t think patients have as many choices as we might assume. Just approaching and asking if it is a good time for a blood draw is a positive way to interact with a patient.”
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Dear Friends and Colleagues:
The University of Virginia welcomes you to our community of concerned physicians, scholars, students and citizens engaged in a constant effort to eliminate health disparities. The 2007 Symposium on Race and Society At The Crossroads: Racial Implications of America's Health Care Crisis seeks to engage all persons and organizations eager to make an impact on America 's health care crisis.
From Sunday September 30 to Tuesday October 2, you will be treated to an in-depth investigation into the complex forces that generate health disparities in America . Primary themes include Social Justice, Social Determinants of Health, Marginalized Populations, Research and Intervention. Our core conference on Monday and Tuesday will focus on three major diseases: Cancer, Diabetes and HIV. Physicians, scholars, and community members from across the nation will look at each disease from multiple perspectives, discussing its unique racial bearing.
Unlike traditional medical conferences, our goal is not to present new clinical innovations in the treatment of disease. We mean to begin a thoughtful evidence-based discussion into how the benefits of the American health care system are shared unequally and how we, as member of the debate, can take action for greater health equity.
This event is part of a new tradition at the University started in 2006 by the Office for Diversity and Equity with In Katrina's Wake: Racial Implications of the New Orleans Disaster. The series demonstrates that, as one of America 's leading institutions of higher education, the University of Virginia recognizes its responsibility to facilitate discussion and analyses of important social issues. The University of Virginia Health System is proud to be carrying the discussion into the health care arena.
Registration for this event is FREE. Please complete the registration process right away. We have a limited number of spaces available and you want to be certain that one of them will be held for you. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us by phone or e-mail.
We look forward to welcoming you on September 30.
The 2007 Symposium Organizing Committee
This event is made possible through the generous support of the following organizations:
Corporate Partner: Pfizer Public Health and Policy Group
Community Partner: The Quality Community Council
University of Virginia Department of Family Medicine
University of Virginia Medical Center
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Master of Public Health Program
University of Virginia School of Nursing
(Listed in order of sponsorship contribution)
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Judge Derek Mosley graduated from Marquette University Law School in 1995. After graduation he served as an Assistant District Attorney for Milwaukee County from 1995-2002. As an Assistant District Attorney, he represented the State of Wisconsin in over 1,000 criminal prosecutions. Mr. Mosley founded the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office Community Prosecution Unit. This unit places assistant district attorneys in various neighborhoods throughout the City of Milwaukee to reduce urban blight and to improve the quality of life. As the head of this unit, Mr. Mosley helped to establish after-school programs, he established a Second Chance Felony Employment Initiative for offenders, he closed 100 drug houses and nuisance properties, and started a police and citizen crime fighting initiative, which targeted street drug dealing. This initiative called “Operation Streetsweeper” was awarded the Law Enforcement Honor Award by the United States Department of Justice.
In 2002, Mr. Mosley was appointed Municipal Court Judge in Milwaukee. At the time of his appointment, he was the youngest African-American to be appointed judge in the State of Wisconsin, and remains one of the youngest judges in the country. Judge Mosley has established a Youth Development Boot Camp for juvenile offenders, and has helped establish a community court in Milwaukee. In August of 2004, Judge Mosley was appointed Presiding Judge of the Milwaukee Municipal Court. He was the youngest Presiding Judge in Milwaukee history.
Judge Mosley is a Past President of the Wisconsin Municipal Judges Association, as well as Vice President of the Board of Directors of the YMCA Urban Campus (Northside, Parklawn, & Downtown YMCA’s). He sits on the Board of Directors of Transcenter for Youth, and the Lad Lake Adolescent Residential Treatment Center. He has been a lecturer at Marquette University Law School, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the State Bar of Wisconsin. He also serves on the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s Judicial Education Committee. Judge Mosley has been featured in both Milwaukee Magazine‘s “Top Lawyer Edition,” as well as their “35 Emerging Leaders” Edition. He was awarded the Milwaukee Times’ Black Excellence Award, the “Wisconsin Cares About Kids Award,” The Wisconsin Law Journal’s “Leader in the Law” Award, the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc’s “Trailblazer Service Award” and was “Mentor of the Year in 2008. Judge Mosley has also been featured in the Business Journal‘s “Forty under Forty.” Edition.
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Frequently asked questions about gluten sensitivity including how it differs from celiac disease, symptoms, prevalence and treatment.
What is gluten sensitivity?
As the word “sensitive” suggests, gluten sensitivity is a reaction to ingesting gluten, which is found in wheat, barley and rye. Symptoms can arise throughout the body and range from fatigue and “foggy mind” to diarrhea, depression and joint pain.
How does gluten sensitivity differ from celiac disease?
Although symptoms (particularly gastrointestinal) are often similar to those of celiac disease, the overall clinical picture is less severe. Recent research at the Center for Celiac Research shows that gluten sensitivity is a different clinical entity that does not result in the intestinal inflammation that leads to a flattening of the villi of the small intestine that characterizes celiac disease. The development of tissue transglutaminase (tTG) autoantibodies, used to diagnose celiac disease, is not present in gluten sensitivity.
A different immune mechanism, the innate immune response, comes into play in reactions of gluten sensitivity, as opposed to the long-term adaptive immune response that arises in celiac disease. Researchers believe that gluten sensitive reactions do not engender the same long-term damage to the intestine that untreated celiac disease can cause.
What are the symptoms of gluten sensitivity?
Just as in celiac disease, gluten sensitivity can affect all body systems and generate a wide variety of symptoms. Gastrointestinal symptoms can include diarrhea, bloating, cramping, abdominal pain and constipation. Behavioral symptoms can include “foggy mind,” depression and ADHD-like behavior. Other symptoms include anemia, joint pain, osteoporosis, and leg numbness.
How many people does gluten sensitivity affect? Research from the Center for Celiac Research indicates that it affects approximately 18 million people, or six percent of the population.
How can I tell if I have gluten sensitivity and what should I do?
This is something to discuss with your family physician or health care provider. If celiac disease and other conditions have been ruled out, i.e., irritable bowel syndrome and other forms of intestinal inflammation, talk to your doctor and dietitian about a gluten-free diet. Please do not undertake the gluten-free diet as treatment without the supervision of health care professionals as nutritional considerations as well as health considerations must be taken into account with this treatment.
Do I still need to be tested for celiac disease if I think I’m gluten sensitive?
Yes. You need to be tested for celiac disease to rule out the possibility of long-term complications. Accordingly, do not go on a gluten-free diet until the possibility of celiac disease has been eliminated through testing. If you go on a gluten-free diet and are then tested for celiac disease, the tests could be falsely negative due to the lack of autoantibodies in your blood serum.
Is there a test for gluten sensitivity?
Although researchers at the Center for Celiac Research are working to develop tests for gluten sensitivity, currently there are no definitive blood tests for the condition.
Is there a cure for gluten sensitivity?
Just as in celiac disease, there is no cure for gluten sensitivity. The only treatment currently available is the gluten-free diet.
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On July 13, the EU and Turkey signed what's been hailed as a historic deal to start work on the Nabucco pipeline, which is designed to give Europe an alternative to the unreliable supply of natural gas from Russia's
On paper, it's simple. By 2014, the Nabucco pipeline should be complete, and Azerbaijan will be the first, or at least among the first, to begin shipping gas to Europe at a modest rate of 8 billion cubic meters (bcm) per year. The pipeline -- which will run 3,300 kilometers from eastern Turkey, through the Balkans, and finally to Austria -- should be fully operational by 2020, at which time it is expected to be pumping 31 bcm of gas to Europe each year, or approximately 10 percent of Europe's annual gas consumption.
That would relieve Europe of the risk of relying on Russia for gas, although the EU says that's not the point. But privately, EU officials say the continent has to find an alternative source, given Russia's recurring price disputes with transit country Ukraine that last winter left Europe struggling with a gas shortage.
Yet there are questions as to whether Azerbaijan can meet its annual commitment of gas. Baku says it has enough to get the pipeline going, but estimates of its reserves are just that: estimates.
Energy Is Power
Stephen Blank, who is a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Army War College, says the issue is not whether Azerbaijan has an adequate supply of gas to get Nabucco started, but whether the country can afford to finish the project and will be able to resist pressure from Russia.
While Blank acknowledges that one issue is the question whether the Nabucco project has the financial muscle to "give their suppliers credible guarantees that a pipeline can be built from their country, through the Caspian Sea or [somewhere] else [in] Europe, and will it stand up to Russia?
"It looks like it will stand up to Russia, but the financing has to be there," he continues. "These are arranged marriages, and like arranged marriages, they're supposed to last a long time, so they take a long time to negotiate."
Blank says these political and economic risks merge into one overall risk: That Russia may persuade Azerbaijan to withhold its gas from Nabucco, and as a result, perhaps no one in the region will step up to supply financing for the pipeline.
If that happens, he says, Russia will have won a significant battle in what he calls an economic war that Russia has been waging on Europe. "If Nabucco can't be built, [Russia's] South Stream [pipeline project] or the Russian pipeline through Ukraine and Belarus become the only option to the south. And Russia gets the ability to play the great power game and leverage its power in Europe as a gas power," Blank notes.
He says Moscow has "nothing else they can use [but] a lot of economic and political intrigue. It's nasty, it's brutal, but it's mainly economic. It's not guns and troops moving over borders. But it's hard power."
Azerbaijan isn't the only source of gas for Nabucco. EU officials are reluctant to discuss alternatives to Azerbaijan, but they have to be considered, says Kenneth Green, who studies energy issues at the American Enterprise Institute, a private Washington policy center.
But Green stresses that not all alternatives can be considered equally, either because of how much -- or little -- gas they can generate, and for political reasons as well.
He points to Iran and Iraq as good examples. Both are said to have generous gas reserves, but for the immediate future, he says, Iraq is a far more reliable source of gas than Iran, at least from a political standpoint.
"We have an interest in helping Iraq get back on its feet and realize revenues for rebuilding through [the] sale of natural gas and because they are, at least titularly now, they're a democratic regime that's going to be friendly to the West. One has a greater expectation that they won't play games politically with the supply," Green says.
"But when you have Iran, which is under sanctions already because of its nuclear program, is making threats to U.S. allies and to European allies -- I mean, going from Gazprom to depending on Iran is like going from the frying pan into the fire."
Green says it's also possible that, given its recent electoral trouble, Iran, too, may have a change of government and become a reliable source of gas, even if its foreign policy were to remain contrary to Western interests. That's because now, Iran lets ideology rule its economy.
Iran can maintain its current ideology -- including a harsh foreign policy toward Israel, plus support for militant groups such as Hamas and Hizballah -- if it separates politics from economics. In other words, it could do business with the EU, with which it has strong disagreements, as long as it makes a profit doing so.
Iran aside, Green says other Caspian states -- Kazakhstan and, in particular, Turkmenistan -- might be even better alternatives to Azerbaijan than Iran. But these countries also are former Soviet republics, and Russia may be able to persuade them to run their gas through Russian pipelines, not through Nabucco.
Like Blank, Green says there are so many options, so many countries, and so many other variables involved that it would be foolhardy to try to anticipate what will happen with Nabucco -- even whether it will eventually be built.
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Love in a Time of HIV
19 December 2008
“It is possible to love someone with HIV. It is not different from loving anybody else,” says Christina Rodriguez in one of the five episodes of a new documentary series on the sexual and reproductive lives of young people living with HIV titled "Love in a Time of HIV".
Sixteen year old Christina was diagnosed HIV positive when she was three, at the same time that her parents found out about their positive status. Now, she talks openly about how she copes with her treatment and how she and her mother are dealing with being HIV positive. “Maybe it will make dating harder but I don’t have to tell them anything until I think we are serious.”
Cristina tells her story in one of five episodes which explore how young people living with HIV are navigating the transition to adulthood, their sexual and reproductive lives, careers and families and their expectations and hopes for the future. Each episode profiles several young people living with HIV in a different city: New York, Mumbai, London, St. Petersburg and Cape Town.
Through intimate stories Love in a Time of HIV aims to help counter the growing complacency surrounding AIDS by exposing how young people are affected by the epidemic as well as educating viewers on the urgent needs of young people both HIV positive and negative to access sexual and reproductive health information and services.
“I was just given a little piece of paper with a plus on it. What was it? What does it mean? I didn’t understand what the plus meant at the time. But later, at the [rehab] clinic, they simply refused my admission by saying that I was HIV positive” stated Masha who used to inject drugs and is living with HIV.
Masha and her friend are both married to HIV negative young men. As their story unfolds, the viewer is presented with the difficult dilemma that these discordant couples face. The men, both 25, are so keen to be fathers they are both having unprotected sex with their HIV positive wives to try to conceive a child disregarding their risk of getting infected.
Today’s young people grew up alongside the emergence of the AIDS pandemic, and their actions are key to determining the future of AIDS. Young people are also disproportionately affected by AIDS – over 40 percent of new HIV infections globally occur in young people under the age of 25. There are currently 10 million young people living with HIV, many of whom do not have access to the treatment, care and support needed to live healthy lives.
Despite the glaring statistics that today’s youth around the world are often most at risk of HIV infection, and the host of issues young people face daily – from skyrocketing unemployment rates to sexual violence and rapidly unfolding conflict situations – very little is known about the views and behaviors of young people, especially when it comes to their sexual and reproductive health. Young people are often not consulted in national-level health policy and programmes, and there is a growing gap between what academics and policy-makers consider to be the “reality” of young people’s lives, and the actual experiences of young people growing up in a quickly globalized economy.
Young people’s perspectives and insights into the issues they and their countries face on a daily basis are crucial to develop an effective AIDS response. Their views and opinions should be mainstreamed within the AIDS response to ensure young people are adequately being addressed by programs and policies.
The Love in a Time of HIV series is currently on air on BBC World, running since November 2008. It is also being discussed and disseminated online. Find out more on BBC World web site and the series can be viewed from the aids2031 web site.
aids2031 is a two-year project developed in 2007 by a consortium of partners—including economists, epidemiologists, biomedical, social and political scientists—to look at what has been learned about the global AIDS response, and to deliver recommendations on how to shift it towards one that is long term and sustainable. This project is not about what should be done in 2031, but what can be done differently, now, to change the face of the pandemic by 2031, 50 years after AIDS was first reported.
In late 2009, aids2031 will issue its recommendations in its final report, An Agenda for the Future. To provide input into this report, aids2031 has convened nine global working groups, each charged with questioning conventional wisdom, stimulating new research and sparking public debate around the current and future AIDS response. To that end, the various working groups have engaged nearly 500 leaders, activists and experts within, and outside of, the AIDS community in discussions with think tanks, public dialogues and a young leaders summit.
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