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Families visit a memorial in front of St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church between masses Sunday morning in Newtown, CT, Saturday, two days after a gunman opened fire at an nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School. / Eileen Blass, USAT
For the past five years, I have thought about how we can respond, both as individuals and as a society, to a shooting rampage such as the latest tragedy in Newtown, Conn., in which 20 of the 26 people killed were children.
In 2005, I was serving as the department chair in English at Virginia Tech when Seung-Hui Cho stepped into my office, his depression so profound it seemed to drill a hole in the floor. Nearly two years later, he attacked the campus. Try as I might, I was unsuccessful in obtaining long-term help for him.
It is tempting to be cowed by a failure like this -- to assume that intervention in such cases is always futile. But that's not true. There are constructive measures we can take that can help us move forward, but only if we recognize that the focus needs to be a dual one -- that policy alone won't save us, and individual efforts result in failure if the political and institutional milieus are unprepared to respond.
We can take action on the political front immediately by banning high-capacity magazines, reinstating the assault weapons ban, and requiring background checks for all gun purchases. In most surveys, over 70% of people, including members of the NRA, are in favor of this. There won't be an immediate end to rampage shootings, but at the very least our emergency responders are likely to have more powerful weapons than the perpetrators, and more time to disarm them.
We should admit that these massacres are no longer aberrations; they are endemic in America. Thirteen years after Columbine, we still have no coordinated national response to rampage attacks. We have not been gathering information in a systematic, centralized way. Our investigative panels tend to be ad hoc and regional. Too often, even when we learn something, we have to re-learn it all over again when the next attack occurs.
To avoid this, we should appoint an oversight group to assess, monitor and respond to attacks in much the same ways as the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) responds to plane crashes. A presidentially appointed, non-partisan campus safety commission could consist of security experts, educators, mental health professionals and members of law enforcement. Its recommendations would be ongoing; its focus national rather than regional. Like the NTSB, which works to make our skies safer, this oversight body would strive to make our campuses safer. Like the NTSB, its goal would be to save lives.
Lastly, and most importantly perhaps, is the individual sphere. In our discussions in the aftermath of rampages, we strive to focus on individuals who have been the victims of the tragedy. It is a noble thing to do. But we forget to look inward to see what we as individuals can do.
We see the troubled young man among our students, among our friends, or in our families and feel powerless to intervene. We forget to ask our children and our students the most important questions: Are you unhappy? What scares you? Who do you want to be? These questions may sound hopelessly naïve. How do you ask a deeply disturbed young man whether or not he needs help, whether or not he's depressed?
Having asked these questions of Seung-Hui Cho in 2005, I know from first-hand experience that it is a hard thing to do. But if parents and teachers don't ask these probing questions of youth, troubled young people may not be able to find their own way out of the darkness. Individuals interacting more mindfully with each other is an essential aspect of any meaningful intervention.
Even though the ending of the story was more horrific than anyone except Cho could have imagined, if I hadn't asked him those questions and sought help for him, I would have been abrogating my role as a teacher.
We must empower ourselves to act before more of our children and teachers are forced to take cover while a young shooter hunts them down.
Otherwise, once again we'll hear ourselves describing the next tragedy as "unspeakable," "unimaginable," "unfathomable." We'll ask ourselves who could possibly have predicted that someone would acquire weapons of mass destruction and go on a shooting spree? We'll make sure the questions are rhetorical because otherwise we would have to admit something unspeakable: that attacks like these are not unprecedented and that we knew in our heart of hearts it would happen again.
Lucinda Roy is an Alumni Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech and author of No Right to Remain Silent: What We've Learned from the Tragedy at Virginia Tech.
In addition to its own editorials, USA TODAY publishes diverse opinions
from outside writers, including our Board of Contributors.
Copyright 2013 USATODAY.com
Read the original story: Column: Steps to move forward from shooting
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Leeds New Market
In 1875 Kirkgate Market was enlarged again, and Leeds New Market was built. Land was purchased to the south and east of the existing market, and the slum properties on the site were demolished. The plan included major street improvements involving the creation of New York Street and the redevelopment of George Street. A new covered pig market which could accommodate 1,500 pigs was built, and there was new space for a hay and straw market.
The design for the buildings was produced by Mr Morant the Borough Surveyor. The scheme was an ambitious one, costing £40,000 to build. At the ceremony for the laying of the foundation stone on 6th July 1875, the Town Council walked in procession through the town, watched by townsfolk on a specially erected viewing platform.
The new market had several rows of new shops, and a fish market. The wholesale and retail fish market was built at the eastern end of the market square, and was designed to be cool in summer, and to have good air circulation. A drawing dating from 1875 shows the Borough Surveyor's initial design for the new market, looking eastwards from behind the covered market. On the left is George Street and on the right New York Street. The fish market, at the top, and the square with its central fountain were built as shown. Five central rows of retail fruit and vegetable shops were built each with three separate blocks of six shops. Outside these, on either side was a block of shops extending almost to the fish market. The right hand or southern row held the Game and the Egg and Butter Market. An additional block of five shops was built on the north and south sides of the open square. There were five entrances to the market, each with iron gates. Beyond the fish market was an area where dogs and birds were sold. The final layout of the market can be seen in a plan drawn in 1888.
The Fish Market.
The wholesale and retail fish market was built at the eastern end of the market square, and was designed to be cool in summer, and to have good air circulation. The building was of brick, with stone dressings, and ornamental brick and ironwork. It was 221 feet long, 51 feet 6 inches wide and 37 feet high. The roof was made of tubular iron boarded with stained and varnished wood, and to keep the market cool in summer, there were air spaces between the boards and the slates. Thirty semi-circular openings in the walls let in light and air, and a ventilator in the roof carried away stale air.
Marks and Spencer
In 1884, Marks and Spencer opened a stall in the market. The photograph was taken after a wall collapsed during excavations to install toilets. Quite by chance Marks and Spencer's Original Penny Bazaar is included in the picture.
In 1888 an Assistant Commissioner from the Royal Commission on Market Rights and Tolls visited Leeds to report on the conditions in the market. His report concluded that the market was well run despite complaints about high rents for market stalls, and lack of accommodation for market gardeners bringing their produce to the market.
During the last part of the nineteenth century, there were further changes to the market, which continued to expand. The fish market built in 1875 could no longer accommodate both the wholesale and the retail fish markets, and in 1894 a new wholesale fish market was opened at the junction of George Street and East Lane.
In 1891 the open market square was roofed over to protect it from the weather, and in 1894-95 the alleys between the block shops of 1875 were roofed over.
A new public abattoir and wholesale meat market was built in 1899, at the junction of Harper Street with New York Street. It was a magnificent building, costing over £25,000. It replaced the inadequate and insanitary old slaughterhouses, and the Markets Committee spoke with pride of 'The improved sanitary conditions under which the business will be conducted, and the general convenience of the buildings and fittings, will they believe, give satisfaction to all concerned.'
Meanwhile the old cattle market situated on Camp Road was moved to a site on Gelderd Road, and was called the Victoria Cattle Market.
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Design for new market, 1875
General Produce Market, 1885
Plan showing layout of market and extension, 1888
Fish Market, interior, 1885
Collapse of wall in front of Marks and Spencer Penny Bazaar, 1901
Roofing over market square, 1897
New Fish Market, 1914
Fish Market, interior
Market interior, 1901
Abattoir and meat market, 1900
Victoria cattle market, 1920
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This Date In History: Lets see…a little thing like the Civil War started with the firing on Ft. Sumnter by South Carolina rebels on this date in 1861. Not sure why more people dont remember this. The Titanic left port on this date in 1912. (For More Titanic details and photos click here) I still don’t think Leonardo DiCaprio should have been allowed on board. FDR died during his 4th term as President on this date in 1945. Truman took over, Hitler committed suicide a few days later and the Germans surrendered in early May.
Not long after the war ended, the Constitution was amended so no one could serve as President could serve more than two consecutive terms. Methinks it was an attempt by Congress to curb the power of the Presidency, or even, the power of any given person. The people in the states when along with it so…Oh yes…on this date in 1922, Fatty Arbuckle got acquitted in a very sordid Hollywood legal case…the details would might even make Madonna blush. On This Date in 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. Twenty years later, on this date in 1981, the Americans launched the first space shuttle (Columbia) with Robert Crippen and John Young doing the honors.
One bit of warning reading this…try not to act too smart even though you know you are right…on this date in 1633, the inquisition of Galileo was begun. When it was all over with a few months later, he was convicted of…heresy!! He said the earth revolved around the sun. He agreed not to do it any more and spent the rest of his life in house arrest. The church finally admitted they made a small mistake and Galileo was correct…they made that admission 300 years later. Better late than never, I suppose.
George Rapp had this idea of building the perfect, harmonious society and he began by building Harmony, Indiana just northwest of Evansville. The Harmonists were pretty successful financially and spiritually, though Rapp’s teaching was a bit odd at times. When his predicted Second Coming didn’t materialize in 1829, he simply announced a
postponement. By that time he had sold Harmony and established a new town, Economy, in Pennsylvania. Harmony was sold in 1825 to industrialist Robert Owen who renamed it New Harmony and tried to make it the perfect communal environment. This attracted a partner, William Maclure who arrived on this date in 1826 with other reformers, scientists and educators on the ship the “Boatload of Knowledge.” These guys, including Stedman Whitwell, came with their own ideas of paradise. Owens had promised equality for all, as long as you were white, and strove for universal happiness. Whitwell was bent out of shape for towns being named for someone else…like Washington! He proposed that every town be given a name in which the letters represented it’s latitude and longitude. New York would be Otke Notive and Washington DC would be Felli Nyvul. I guess the folks in New Harmony didn’t buy what he was selling because they didn’t change the name to Ipba Venul. And he’s not the only one that failed. The town itself failed within two years as the communal living of New Harmony found problems. See, the industrious weren’t too happy with the lazy because only part of the people were doing all of the work. And the lazy weren’t happy because they were being forced to work. Not exactly “universal happiness.” If you ever wondered why it is that communist societies almost exclusively have been under some sort of authoritarian regime, this is a great example. It’s something Karl Marx didn’t tell you about and it’s why communism is fading from the world stage.
You can still visit New Harmony today and they have all sorts of restored buildings and such. The above picture is what Whitwell imagined as his perfect city. I’m not sure if the walls were intended to keep people intruders out or to keep the people in.
Here’s a link to a website telling you more about New Harmony, Indiana.
Weather Bottom Line: Happy Easter. Great weather for the day and I hope that those of you of the Christian Faith remember the reason for the day. And for everyone, I hope you enjoy the great weather and sunshine with highs in the mid 60′s.
Monday and Tuesday there is a high probability of rain. The question remains how rambunctious it will be. There is a bit more consensus coming about. First off, both the GFS and NAM advertise between 2.2 and 2.5 inches of rain for Monday and Tuesday. The NAM still is comfortable with just some thunderstorms and the GFS has backed off a bit. It’s got strong veering early on but its before the precip starts and then when it does rain, it calls for strong thunderstorms Monday afternoon and evening with a way diminished tornado threat from previous runs. Guess here remains for a few strong storms with gusty winds and perhaps some hail and then a goodly amount of rain. Wouldn’t be surprised to see the boys at the SPC revise the outlook. Hopefully, the GFS is wrong about next Saturday as it is a little aggressive for the afternoon of Thunder Over Louisville. It’s a long way out and things can change.
DAY 3 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK RESENT 1
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0925 AM CDT SAT APR 11 2009
VALID 131200Z – 141200Z
…THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS ACROSS MUCH OF THE ERN U.S.
FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO TO THE LOWER OH VALLEY…
ECMWF/GFS/NAM ARE IN GENERAL AGREEMENT THAT UPPER LOW WILL MOVE EAST
ACROSS MO INTO SRN IL BY THE END OF THE PERIOD. STRONGEST MID-HIGH
LEVEL FLOW WILL EXTEND ACROSS THE GULF STATES INTO THE CAROLINAS
WHICH WILL LIKELY CONTRIBUTE TO A PROGRESSIVE MCS THAT SHOULD SPREAD
FROM THE MS/AL BORDER AT SUNRISE TO THE ATLANTIC COAST DURING THE
OVERNIGHT HOURS. SEVERITY OF THIS MCS WILL BE MODULATED BY THE
INFLUX OF MARITIME TROPICAL AIR ACROSS THE SRN U.S. IT APPEARS THE
GREATEST INSTABILITY WILL HOLD WITHIN 100-150 MI OF THE
COAST…PRIMARILY DUE TO EXTENSIVE CLOUDS/PRECIPITATION AND WEDGE
FRONT THAT WILL BE LOCKED IN PLACE JUST SOUTH OF THE HIGHER TERRAIN
FARTHER NORTH…IN THE WAKE OF EARLY MORNING MCS IT APPEARS A NARROW
AXIS OF MOISTURE WILL SURGE NORTH AHEAD OF COLD FRONT/SFC LOW INTO
THE LOWER OH VALLEY REGION FROM SRN IL INTO SRN IND. MODELS INSIST
THAT BOUNDARY LAYER HEATING WILL BE MAXIMIZED FROM NERN LA/WRN MS
INTO SRN IL WHICH SHOULD RESULT IN MORE THAN ADEQUATE INSTABILITY
FOR CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT BY EARLY AFTERNOON…ESPECIALLY IF
MID-UPPER 50S DEW POINTS CAN UNDERCUT H5 TEMPERATURES NEAR -20C.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS…POSSIBLY SUPERCELLULAR IN NATURE…WILL
LIKELY EVOLVE IN THE HEAT OF THE DAY ALONG ADVANCING COLD FRONT FROM
WRN MS INTO SRN IL BEFORE SPREADING ACROSS THE NRN GULF STATES/TN
VALLEY/LOWER OH VALLEY REGION AND WEAKENING LATE IN THE EVENING.
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On June 14, the National Solar Observatory reported here. "A missing jet stream, fading spots, and slower activity near the poles say that our Sun is heading for a rest period even as it is acting up for the first time in years, according to scientists at the National Solar Observatory (NSO) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)." No less than three independent studies reached the same conclusion: the sun is evolving into a quiet period.
Quiet periods on the sun correlate with cool and very cold periods in earth's history. The most recent period of very low sunspot activity (low solar activity) is called the Maunder Minimum, a 70 year period of few or no sunspots from 1645 through 1715. This also happened to be about the mid-point of the Little Ice Age which ended in about 1850.
The connection between Earth's climate the solar activity as indicated by the solar wind is this: when the solar wind is weak, more galactic cosmic rays enter the inner solar system, crash into Earth's atmosphere, create ionized particles in the lower atmosphere which attract water molecules and eventually form clouds. Low altitude cloud cover cools the climate and has been shown to be correlated with the flux of cosmic rays. It is discussed in a fine article by Nir J. Shaviv here. Since a cool climate is the opposite of what Al Gore and the IPCC predicted, I wonder what they'll have to say if it comes to pass. Do you think they'd admit that the life giving sun warms and cools our climate?
Let us all celebrate this Fourth of July like never before because our liberty is precious, we love this country and we wish we had a President and certain Senators and Representatives who share that love.
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Posted by Sher
on October 30, 2000 at 17:23:35:
My husband and I have a farm and we get plenty of exercise out there. He also has a very active construction job, climbing scaffolds and lots of stair climbing every day. He eats low fat foods, fruits and vegetables, moreso than I. I don't understand why his cholesterol count is 250. I mean if he can't get his numbers down with this lifestyle, how will those numbers ever go down? My count is 217 and I don't get nearly the exercise he does.. it just all seems so contradictory.. Do the numbers vary radically from day to day depending on what you eat and do? Or do they hover around the same count for longer periods of time?
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As many of 25% of elderly people may have memory loss from this form of stroke, according to new research
Strokes without many noticeable symptoms that result in "small pockets of dead brain cells" are thought to affect around 25% of older adults, according to new research.
Better double-check that prescription. A recent mixup involving two similarly-named medications -- Durusal, a wart remover, and Durezol, an anti-inflammatory eyedrop -- resulted in a patient injury, the Food and Drug Administration said.
Surprising Health Benefits of Mistletoe [LA Times]
Hovering around the mistletoe this New Year's Eve? Here are some other things it's good for, besides landing you a kiss.
5 Foods That Ease Hangover [Huffington Post]
Speaking of New Year's ... the best way to avoid a hangover is, of course, to not overindulge in alcohol. But if you find yourself under the weather on January 1, these foods can help quell your symptoms.
Is Your Workout Making You Sick? [Greatist]
Although we love the benefits of a good sweat session, gyms can be a hotbed of germs. Try these tips to make your exercise routine as safe and healthy as possible.
Published December 2011, Prevention
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You made it. You traveled thousands upon thousands of miles, through space, to pull some insanely specific and risky maneuvers and land safely - flawlessly! - on the surface of Mars. You were dreamed up by human minds, put together by human hands, and you are now on the surface of another planet. You are on MARS. Tucked away safely in Gale Crater, ready to put your instruments to work and start sending us information about a place we've never been, about terrain we have yet to walk.
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It's sad. It's very sad. ... You know what, actually it's fucking shameful.
But we are not all lost. We have brilliant minds - like Bill Nye, like those at JPL, like those at NASA, like those in laboratories all over the world - working together for a greater good. Working on finding solutions to problems that 99% of us are too busy staring down at our cell phones to recognize even exist. They are out there, finding parallels between climates on Earth and on Mars, building rovers and satellites and even things you and I can access and utilize, like solar panels. They are constantly working to strengthen humanity. To see to it that we shift our priorities from self-destruction to self-preservation and expansion. Day after day, they work to try to extend our race's existence, while most of our population resists participating in the name of greed. However, to be fair it's not entirely restricted to scientists; we also have the small percentage of people who are actively attempting to minimize their own damage infliction on a personal level. This small population of people, these scientists and these environmentally-aware individuals, they may just be our only hope... unless we all learn from them, and look up.
And when we look up, we'll be looking towards you, Curiosity. We'll be looking up towards the sky, towards space, towards a machine the size of a small car that those brilliant minds sent hurtling into space at unimaginable speeds, that broke safely through the atmosphere of The Red Planet and was settled down into Gale Crater by skycrane. Lowered down by cables, safely, into the dust of Mars and ready to learn.
You have no interest in oil, no interest in mass destruction. You only wish to learn, to explore, and ultimately, to teach. You are a product of human ingenuity, of our desire to continue existing so we can continue learning. Our desire to make sense of our place and purpose in the Cosmos. You are hope.
We cheered you on at every step, at every mention of still being able to hear your "heartbeat," at every stage of your daredevil landing. We applauded enthusiastically at every success. We cried when we saw the picture you sent back, your shadow safely on the surface of Mars.
I never felt it more strongly than at that moment, when the cheers in the Planetarium overwhelmed the volume of the cheers in the live feed of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory... through our crippled atmosphere, through the rising heat and clouds of smog, there is hope. A symbol of our desire to explore, learn, survive. A massive achievement, pure inspiration. We should all look up. I look up to you, Curiosity. You are a success. You are hope.
Dare mighty things.
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Before using any of these remedies, please check with your vet to insure of the right dosage or of any complications they might cause due to an existing problem.
If you are like most of us, you prefer not to put chemicals into your pet's body, or your own, for that matter. I found some really great holistic treatments for a variety of common problems. Here they are:Apis:
Known as Apis Mellifica. Meaning - whole honeybee. The active ingredient in Apis mellifica is the venom of the honeybee. This is used to treat minor bee stings or bug bites. But, as with any acute situation, always, always, consult with your vet before administering any drug or remedy.Apple-Cider Vinegar: ***Note - check with your vet to make sure that your dog does not have any yeast or intestinal problems.***
This remedy has been used for centuries as a daily tonic to flush the system on humans. Look for brands that contain the "mother" a bacterial culture from the fermentation process, also known as the floaters you see in the bottle.
Besides being a good source of easily absorbable, potassium apple cider vinegar aids digestion, inhibits the growth of unfriendly bacteria and helps maintain the proper acid/alkaline balance of the digestive tract. Many holistic vets recommend a daily dosage of:
1 tsp (5 ml) for cats and small dogs (up to 14 lb)
2 tsp (10 ml) for medium dogs (15 to 34 lb)
1 tbsp (15 ml) for large dogs (35 to 84 lb)Arnica:
Has the ability to minimize bruising, bleeding, shock, pain, and recovery time following strains, injuries, surgery, exercise...Even if there is no obvious sign of injury like bruises or inflammation, Arnica helps the after shock, muscular soreness and pain of any trauma. This remedy works to move fluid such as blood and lymph away from injuries.Calendula:
Marigolds are not only pretty outside, but helpful in your medicine cabinet inside. Calendula cream, found in health-food stores, is a powerful healer. I compare it to Neosporin in healing properties. Only use it on closed wounds, though, because its quick healing power can trap bacteria inside the wound and cause a serious infection.Colostrum:
Known as "first milk," colostrum is rich in immunoglobulins and beneficial proteins such as growth factors. Some vets suggest using cow colostrum as a dietary supplement for dogs that need their immune system boosted. That is why I cringe every time I hear of someone that has bought a puppy that is only 6 wks. old. They need to be on the mother for at least 8 wks. to get the benefits of her milk.Lavender:
Essential oil of lavender speeds healing and reduces scarring. Two caveats with any essential oil. Only buy oils that are guaranteed as therapeutic grade, and always dilute essential oils in a carrier oil such as almond oil.Milk Thistle: ***Do not use in pregnant animals.***
This is a member of the sunflower family and is used to boost liver function.Pumpkin:
Pure pumpkin, not pumpkin mix, is full of fiber and is a great diarrhea remedy. Conversely, it works for constipation, too. You can buy canned pumpkin in the store. ***Do not buy pumpkin mix, as it is loaded with sugar and spices that are super bad for your dogs digestion.*** Also, if your baby is on a diet, you can give them pumpkin and it makes them have a feeling of fullness.Rescue Remedy:
This is a preparation of 5 individual flower essences. It is believed to operate on a vibrational level to balance emotions. It is synonymous with trauma, and so is ideal for any event that involves suddenness and shock, from calming down from an unexpected fright to recuperating from surgery. Slippery Elm:
This bark is believed to coat and lubricate the digestive tract, making it a gentle and safe herb for diarrhea and tummy upset. You can get it in capsules as well as tinctures. Consult your vet on dosing.
Labels: herbal remedy, holistic remedy
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The Maverickiness Paradox
Posted by The Situationist Staff on November 7, 2008
Laura Rico wrote a nice piece, “‘Mavericks’ Win on Character, Not Policy, Study Shows,” summarizing Situationist contributor Peter Ditto’s latest research on the public’s complicated view of politicians who cross party lines.
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Republican Sen. John McCain has staked his bid for the U.S. presidency on his reputation as a “political maverick,” a politician who is unafraid to cross party lines to “vote his conscience” on important policy issues. By doing so, he places the electorate in a complicated emotional tug-of-war, according to a new study by UC Irvine psychology professor Peter Ditto and graduate student Andrew Mastronarde.
Political mavericks inspire conflicting feelings among voters, a finding Ditto said could change the way politicians conduct campaigns and cultivate public images. The study appears online in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
“People have been hard-wired through evolution to care about trustworthiness,” Ditto said. “We are social animals who have always had to rely on cooperation with others to survive. When a person acts contrary to his own self-interest, such as challenging his own group when towing the party line would be to his advantage, it is a powerful signal of trustworthiness. We respond viscerally to that person as someone who has integrity and is honorable – traits we find very attractive in political leaders.”
At the same time, people also are hard-wired to like others who agree with them, and the defining feature of maverick politicians is the tendency to disagree with their own group on important issues. Thus, while maverick politicians often gain respect from those who hold opposing views, they can expect to experience significant backlash from members of their own political party.
“Basically, when people evaluate a maverick politician they are stuck in a kind of “affective cross fire” Ditto said. “This is particularly true when mavericks are members of our own political party. We like them because they show a key sign of trustworthiness but we dislike them because they disagree with us.”
The study showed that candidates could best use their maverick reputation as a political asset by shifting public focus away from specific policy issues to general issues of character.
“When people focus on issues of character, they like mavericks. But when they are focused more on issues, the influence is negative,” Ditto said. He cited the case of McCain campaign manager Rick Davis, who recently stated that the 2008 presidential election was “not about issues” but “about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates.”
From the other perspective, the campaign of Democratic contender Barack Obama should be trying to focus on issues as a way of neutralizing McCain’s maverick appeal – a strategy they have been sticking to rigidly with apparent success, Ditto says.
The research is a composite of three separate studies conducted by Ditto and [graduate student Andrew] Mastronarde to gauge public attitudes about political mavericks. In the first study, participants expressed more positive views of political mavericks described generally than when prompted to consider a maverick from their own political party. The second study found that political mavericks described in character terms were evaluated more favorably than party-line politicians, even when the maverick was of the participant’s own party. The final study found that when participants were provided with specific policy stances, opposing party mavericks were evaluated more positively and same party mavericks were evaluated more negatively, than were their party-line counterparts.
The studies examined a wide range of individuals including undergraduates from UCI, shoppers at a local outdoor mall, and several thousand adult U.S. citizens who visited the Web site www.yourmorals.org to complete various questionnaires concerning political decisions and attitudes.
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Community college grads out-earn bachelor’s degree holders
By Jon Marcus at The Hechinger Institute
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Berevan Omer graduated on a Friday in February with an associate’s degree from Nashville State Community College and started work the following Monday as a computer-networking engineer at a local television station, making about $50,000 a year.
That’s 15% higher than the average starting salary for graduates — not only from community colleges, but for bachelor’s degree holders from four-year universities.
“I have a buddy who got a four-year bachelor’s degree in accounting who’s making $10 an hour,” Omer says. “I’m making two and a-half times more than he is.”
Omer, who is 24, is one of many newly minted graduates of community colleges defying history and stereotypes by proving that a bachelor’s degree is not, as widely believed, the only ticket to a middle-class income.
Nearly 30% of Americans with associate’s degrees now make more than those with bachelor’s degrees, according to Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. In fact, other recent research in several states shows that, on average, community college graduates right out of school make more than graduates of four-year universities.
The average wage for graduates of community colleges in Tennessee, for instance, is $38,948 — more than $1,300 higher than the average salaries for graduates of the state’s four-year institutions.
In Virginia, recent graduates of occupational and technical degree programs at its community colleges make an average of $40,000. That’s almost $2,500 more than recent bachelor’s degree recipients.
“There is that perception that the bachelor’s degree is the default, and, quite frankly, before we started this work showing the value of a technical associate’s degree, I would have said that, too,” says Mark Schneider, vice president of the American Institutes for Research, which helped collect the earning numbers for some states.
And while by mid-career, many bachelor’s degree recipients have caught up in earnings to community college grads, “the other factor that has to be taken into account is that getting a four-year degree can be much more expensive than getting a two-year degree,” Schneider says.
A two-year community college degree, at present full rates, costs about $6,262, according to the College Board. A bachelor’s degree from a four-year, private residential university goes for $158,072.
The increase in wages for community college grads is being driven by a high demand for people with so-called “middle-skills” that often require no more than an associate’s degree, such as lab technicians, teachers in early childhood programs, computer engineers, draftsmen, radiation therapists, paralegals, and machinists.
With a two-year community college degree, air traffic controllers can make $113,547, radiation therapists $76,627, dental hygienists $70,408, nuclear medicine technologists $69,638, nuclear technicians $68,037, registered nurses $65,853, and fashion designers $63,170, CareerBuilder.com reported in January.
“You come out with skills that people want immediately and not just theory,” Omer says.
The Georgetown center estimates that 29 million jobs paying middle class wages today require only an associate’s, and not a bachelor’s, degree.
“I would not suggest anyone look down their nose at the associate’s degree,” says Jeff Strohl, director of research at the Georgetown center.
“People see those programs as tracking into something that’s dead end,” Strohl says. “It’s very clear that that perception does not hold up.”
The bad news is that not enough associate’s degree holders are being produced.
Only 10% of American workers have the sub-baccalaureate degrees needed for middle-skills jobs, compared with 24% of Canadians and 19% of Japanese, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reports.
Over the last 20 years, the number of graduates with associate’s degrees in the United States has increased by barely 3%. And while the Obama administration has pushed community colleges to increase their numbers, enrollment at these schools fell 3.1% this year, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reports. Graduation rates also remain abysmally low.
Meanwhile, many people with bachelor’s degrees are working in fields other than the ones in which they majored, according to a new report by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity.
“We have a lot of bartenders and taxi drivers with bachelor’s degrees,” says Christopher Denhart, one of the report’s coauthors.
Still, the salary advantage for associate’s degree holders narrows over time, as bachelor’s degree recipients eventually catch up, says Schneider.
Although these figures vary widely by profession, associate’s degree recipients, on average, end up making about $500,000 more over their careers than people with only high school diplomas, but $500,000 less than people with bachelor’s degrees, the Georgetown center calculates.
As for Omer, he’s already working toward a bachelor’s degree.
“Down the road a little further, I may want to become a director or a manager,” he says. “A bachelor’s degree will get me to that point.”
This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan education-news outlet based at Teachers College, Columbia University. It’s one of a series of reports about workforce development and higher education.
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My family doctor, Dr. Kramer, emigrated to the U.S. from Canada years ago. He has just installed an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and qualified easily for meaningful use stimulus funds because he takes Medicaid patients. To qualify for meaningful use -- which means using the technology in ways that can be measured significantly in quality and in quantity -- under Medicaid, all you have to do is order the EMR; it doesn't even have to be up and running.
Medicare is more rigid; outcomes must be reported. To report on outcomes, Dr. Kramer had to buy another module of the EMR, probably because the EMR he bought was developed before the meaningful use standard or the stimulus money. In his opinion, it will be difficult to report significant outcomes for Medicare and Medicaid patients, because they often don't stay in his practice long enough. They move, they change insurance, they drop off Medicaid into the ranks of the uninsured.
People in the U.S. no longer stay with a medical practice long enough for longitudinal study -- which is why all our EMRs have to talk to each other and we have to track patients as they move from provider to provider.
As part of a wide-ranging discussion on the state of health care in America, Dr. Kramer told me a little about his experience and that of his family in Canada. He says America does not look at Canadian health care from the right perspective. We think it's great that Canadians have universal health care, but we don't understand what that means.
When he practiced in Montreal, and today, primary care docs were capped at a certain number of billable dollars and patients a month. After he hit the cap, which he did very early in every month, he was only paid 25 per cent of what he billed. His colleagues would limit the number of patients they saw a day to about 20, so they hit the cap at the end of the month.
Dr. Kramer liked to see 30-40 patients a day, so he would hit the cap way before the end of the month, and he wanted to continue to see patients because he enjoyed them. But he finally figured out that it cost him 35 per cent of what he billed to run his practice, so it didn't pay for him to see more patients. He left Canada.
In Canada, the untold story is that although they are insured, 300,000 people are without a primary care doctor, because no matter how many doctors there are, it won't be enough if they have to limit the number of appointments they can grant a month. He told me that's why people in Canada, including his own mother, have to wait two months for an appointment with a family doctor unless it's a real emergency.
I knew that was true of specialists, but I had never heard it about primary care scarcity before. Canadians also pay out of pocket for things like camp physicals; there's a chart of services and costs on the wall of the doctor's office that tells patients what the government doesn't pay for, and what the cost to them will be.
Dr. Kramer loves America because in his own practice he can now happily afford to see 30-40 patients a day. And unlike many family doctors, he continues to see Medicaid patients, even though they pay less, because they are interesting cases. That energizes him; he has problems he can solve.
But he watches the younger docs go on salary and limit themselves to 20 patients a day at places like the Mayo Clinic, and it worries him for the future of American health care. Dr. Kramer admits that it's a great improvement in the physician's quality of life, but he predicts a huge upcoming shortage of doctors as American docs go on a system more similar to that of Canada, and begin limiting the number of patients they see daily because they are no longer incentivized to see more.
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DTJ was founded in 2004 after three friends took a global journey to understand suffering, discovering that for each form of injustice they witnessed, children repeatedly suffered more acutely. As storytellers, it became clear that people do not need anyone to speak for them, everyone has a voice, many are just not being heard. DTJ decided to step into this space of using media and story to advocate for intervention on behalf of children and to journey with the story until change is realized. DTJ was officially incorporated as a non-profit 501(c)3 organization in 2006. Speaking up and ensuring justice continues to serve as the ethos of DTJ's creative, educational and advocacy work.
DTJ is a team of journalists and story-tellers who expose injustices facing children in-crisis and advocate for intervention partners until change is realized. DTJ filmmakers, writers, photographers, artists, and designers have travelled to over 50 nations, committed to exposing injustices children face. DTJ intervenes directly in select situations and provides direct care occasionally, but relies on partnerships with viable and effective NGOs and organizations found within communities to channel human and financial resources to impact people facing injustice.
DTJ media has been seen on CNN, BBC World News America and through on and offline channels worldwide.
Discover The Journey exists to:
SPEAK UP for children in-crisis by exposing injustices affecting children around the world through story, media and art, and to ENSURE JUSTICE for children in-crisis by advocating for intervention across cultures in Love.
DTJ will become the leading international media outlet for story, media and art concerning children living in crisis caused by injustice, poverty and war. DTJ will also have a respected and viable track record as well as a committed future in creative education and advocacy, ensuring justice for children world-wide.
- DTJ discovers an injustice facing a child or group of children through research or referral.
- According to our resources, a DTJ team of journalists and story-tellers begins working alongside nationals to unwrap the story and develop a strategy to expose the injustice.
- DTJ develops, creates and produces media and advocacy tools to most effectively communicate the injustice and present the story of the children.
- DTJ media is strategically distributed to advocate for intervention partners, developing and maturing those relationships.
- DTJ continues to journey with the specific story and children affected until change is realized, the definition of which will change on a case to case basis.
DTJ'S CHILD PROTECTION MANIFESTO
DTJ has developed the following policies and best practices that inform how and why we tell stories about children in-crisis. Our manifesto of story is rooted in thousands of hours spent listening to children in dozens of nations around the world emerging from a vast range of cultural, political, geographical, and social contexts. In additioning to adhering to UNICEF’s “Principles for Ethical Reporting on Children,” DTJ seeks to serve children children at-risk through our media, story telling and advocacy. No media we create should ever endanger, stigmatize, or ostracize a child, but rather em- power, dignify and give voice to a child. DTJ is committed to protecting and honoring each child we represent through the various forms of media.
TELLING THEIR STORIES | DTJ's Child Protection Manifesto edition 001 Click here to download [PDF]
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East Asian Regional Materials and Resources Center (EARMARC)
Director: E. Bruce Reynolds
East Asian Regional Materials and Resources Center
History Department, San José State University
San José, CA 95192-0117
Phone: (408) 924-5518 (History Dept.) or (408) 924-5523 (Director)
EARMARC provides audio-visual materials for high school and college students in Northern California. It currently holds hundreds of videos and many films which are related to China, Japan, and Korea. The collection also includes slide sets and audio materials. Almost all areas of East Asian society and culture are covered. Items are available on request to teachers in a university, college, or secondary school in Northern California as long as they are to be used for education purposes. As a special incentive to use the center's services, a free, comprehensive catalog of EARMARC resources is provided on request. Also, holdings can be searched through the Online Catalog of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library.
About 100 university faculty and other teachers use the center's resources throughout the year. Of those who use the center on a regular basis, most are outside of the SJSU campus and solicit services by phone or mail. EARMARC services over 500 transactions each academic year. EARMARC is federally funded through grants from the East Asia National Resource Centers at Stanford University and at the University of California at Berkeley. The Center also receives space (Dudley Morehead Hall 229) from the University for EARMARC and a small Asian Studies library.
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- The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation - http://blog.heritage.org -
More Pressure on the Higher Ed Bubble
Posted By Evan Walter On February 21, 2012 @ 4:30 pm In Education | 4 Comments
Despite the fact that the “cost of basic knowledge is cheaper than ever before ,” the cost of attending college continues to skyrocket. In large part, dramatic increases in college tuition are the result of ever-growing federal higher education subsidies, which have allowed universities to raise prices while incentivizing students to take on more loan debt. But the college price bubble could soon be on the verge of busting, thanks to budding innovations and entrepreneurs in the higher education market.
Udemy and Udacity are two new and innovative online learning platforms providing access to educational content to anyone, anywhere, at little or no cost to the user. Both Udemy and Udacity were founded on a single principle: that everyone in the world should be able to access knowledge.
Both companies operate using an online, open-source model: Anyone who has Internet access can take a class. It is an important step toward the democratization of access to course content and an important new market pressure being placed on a bloated higher education system.
Udemy, founded in 2010, provides open-source educational content to students and teachers. Deemed the “The Academy of You” by its founders, Udemy prides itself on its ease of access for students, offering all of its courses for little or no cost. As it nears its second anniversary in May 2012, Udemy is starting a spinoff called The Faculty Project. Udemy is not seeking accreditation of its courses and does not grant credit for coursework completed by students.
Udacity, founded this January by ex-Stanford professor and Google Vice President Sebastian Thrun and University of Virginia professor David Evans, is emerging as another potential disruption to the traditional higher education industry. Thrun’s initial idea for Udacity came when he decided to offer one of his Stanford robotics courses online, free and open to the public. More than 160,000 students from around the world enrolled in the online course. Thrun says that there were more students in his course from Lithuania than there are students at Stanford. Thrun cites Salman Khan, an ex-hedge fund manager-turned-educator, as his inspiration in this endeavor.
Khan is the innovator behind Khan Academy, a series of videos designed to teach and illustrate ideas and concepts to students. From the French invasion of Russia to black holes to a wide range of calculus classes, Khan Academy offers more than 2,800 engaging video lectures. Khan’s lecture series is unique compared to traditional classroom methods in that his lectures are available at any time online, which allows the student to learn at his or her own pace.
Khan’s model is revolutionizing the delivery of content and democratizing access to knowledge. But it’s a model that could also soon upend the traditional higher education establishment. Udemy and Udacity are seeking to take the Khan model and apply it to college-level coursework. Heritage’s Stuart Butler recently published an article in National Affairs detailing how the traditional model of higher education could soon become a thing of the past. He writes that “the larger threat to the traditional university system seems more likely to come from institutions that combine online education with new, innovative business models.”
Like the Khan Academy, Udemy and Udacity are on the forefront of a brand new system of learning that takes human ingenuity and desire for knowledge and combines it with 21st century technology. So instead of continuing to increase federal subsidies for college—which has only exacerbated college costs over the past few decades—policymakers should rely on the free market to ultimately innovate and drive down college costs.
Evan Walter is currently a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation. For more information on interning at Heritage, please visit: http://www.heritage.org/about/departments/ylp.cfm
Article printed from The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation: http://blog.heritage.org
URL to article: http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/21/more-pressure-on-the-higher-ed-bubble/
URLs in this post:
cost of basic knowledge is cheaper than ever before: http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/01/31/the-american-squalor/
The Faculty Project.: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/01/27/company-unveils-line-free-online-courses-elite-college-faculty
Thrun says that there were more students in his course from Lithuania than there are students at Stanford.: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/01/23/udacity-and-the-future-of-online-universities/
Khan’s lecture series is unique compared to traditional classroom methods in that his lectures are available at any time online, which allows the student to learn at his or her own pace.: http://www.excelined.org/ReformNews/2011/Web_Tutors_Become_Stars_Far_From_Classroom.aspx
published an article: http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-coming-higher-ed-revolution
http://www.heritage.org/about/departments/ylp.cfm: http://www.heritage.org/about/departments/ylp.cfm
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This paper reports on the use of cellulose paper simultaneously as electrolyte, separation of electrodes, and physical support of a rechargeable battery. The deposition on both faces of a paper sheet of metal or metal oxides thin layers with different electrochemical potentials, respectively as anode and cathode, such as Cu and Al, lead to an output voltage of 0.70 V and a current density that varies between 150 nA/cm2 and 0.5 mA/cm2, subject to the paper composition, thickness and the degree of OHx species adsorbed in the paper matrix. The electrical output of the paper battery is independent of the electrodes thickness but strongly depends on the atmospheric relative humidity (RH), with a current density enhancement by more than 3 orders of magnitude when RH changes from 60% to 85%. Besides flexibility, low cost, low material consumption, environmental friendly, the power output of paper batteries can be adapted to the desired voltage-current needed, by proper integration. A 3-V prototype was fabricated to control the ON/OFF state of a paper transistor.
Date of Publication: Aug. 2010
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SB 10 (BR 1924) - J. Bowen
AN ACT proposing to amend Section 28 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the General Assembly's authority to review administrative regulations.
Propose to amend the Constitution of Kentucky to give the General Assembly the authority to establish by general law a process to review, approve, or disapprove administrative regulations during or between sessions and specify that an administrative regulation disapproved shall be void and unenforceable and shall not be reissued in the same or similar language for a period of one year; submit to voters.
Mar 5-introduced in Senate; taken from Committee on Committees (S); 1st reading; returned to Committee on Committees (S)
Mar 7-to State & Local Government (S)
Mar 14-reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules; posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 15, 2012
Mar 15-3rd reading, passed 26-12
Mar 16-received in House
Mar 19-to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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Property managers work for real estate companies, handling the day to day operations of various properties. They might be responsible for managing clients in these apartment complexes or houses. They might also be responsible for managing the physical grounds in these places. Property managers are the boots on the ground for the people who own these places.
Skillset: Property managers must possess a broad and diverse skill set. First, they must be organized and possess attention to detail. These people must possess certain customer service skills, as well. A good property manager will also understand business and the goals of the company that owns the property.
Education: Property managers might study either manage or real estate in college. Some universities offer specialized real estate management degrees. This degree is not necessary, though. In general, an undergraduate degree in management will be enough to qualify a person to work in this job.
Career Path: The foundation of a career as a property manager starts with a strong understanding of the real estate industry. From there, a person must get a degree in management, providing them with the skills to properly manage the day to day details. A person wanting to break into this industry should try to intern with a large commercial real estate firm.
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News & Policies >
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
March 20, 2008
Statement on Federal Disaster Assistance for Georgia
The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Georgia and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms and tornadoes during the period of March 14-16, 2008.
The President's action makes Federal funding available to affected individuals in Fulton County.
Assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the disaster.
Federal funding is also available on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures statewide.
R. David Paulison, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Department of Homeland Security, named Elizabeth Turner as the Federal Coordinating Officer for Federal recovery operations in the affected area.
FEMA said that damage surveys are continuing in other areas, and more counties and additional forms of assistance may be designated after the assessments are fully completed in the affected areas.
FEMA said that residents and business owners who sustained losses in the designated county can begin applying for assistance tomorrow by registering online at http://www.fema.gov or by calling 1-800-621-FEMA(3362) or 1-800-462-7585 (TTY) for the hearing and speech impaired. The toll-free telephone numbers will operate from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (local time) seven days a week until further notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: FEMA (202) 646-4600.
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When the world teeters on the edge of another global war or catastrophic economic collapse, what then? With each crisis the world population is more and more ready to scream, “Who will save us from this mess?” When the time is right, the Antichrist will offer the solutions. “We need to come together more,” he will declare, “and I have just the plan to make it happen!” - Joseph Candel
In our Money and Markets of December 3, 2007, we specifically named Lehman Brothers as the next major firm to collapse on Wall Street. (See “Dangerously Close to a Money Panic.”)
In our Money and Markets of March 17, 2008, precisely 182 days before its failure, we again named Lehman, making it abundantly clear that it could be the trigger of a financial meltdown. (See “Closer to a Financial Meltdown.”)
And now, starting with last week’s edition, we are warning you of ANOTHER Lehman-type megashock.
A new telltale sign: Bank runs, the final nail in the coffin of any modern economy, are spreading among the PIIGS countries of Europe — and possibly beyond.
In Greece it’s already a tsunami — a desperate effort by millions of citizens to get their money out of danger before Greece is forced to leave the euro zone.
In Spain, it’s quickly turning into a flood, as individuals and businesses — with $1.25 trillion in total bank deposits — wonder if their country will be the next to leave the union.
In Portugal, Ireland, Italy or even France, banks are vulnerable to similar outflows. And once the stampede strikes more than two or three major countries, you could see bank runs all across Europe.
It should. Because last year we witnessed a very similar contagion when investors stampeded from the bonds of the weakest European countries.
Much like today, the first to be attacked was Greece, the weakest link in the chain. Then, Spain, Portugal, Italy and even France got hit hard.
Soon, nearly all of Europe was infected, prompting its central bankers to suddenly break their solemn vows of monetary piety and print more than $1 trillion worth of new euros.
Now, despite all those efforts, they’re facing a new contagion of a second kind — by bank depositors.
But bank runs are far more infectious — and dangerous — than investor stampedes.
They spill out onto the streets and onto the airwaves.
They invoke frightening flashbacks to the Great Depression.
And they immediately threaten the entire banking system.
According to the New York Times, “the havoc that a stampede might cause to the Continent’s financial system would greatly complicate efforts by European Union officials to fashion a longer-term plan to ease the debt crisis and revive Europe’s economy, because authorities would have to cope with the staggering added costs of shoring up banks.
“‘A bank run can happen very quickly,’ said Matt King, an expert on international fund flows in London for Citigroup. ‘You are fine the night before, but on the morning after it’s too late.’”
And just as I explained here last week, the Times points out that it “was a similar liquidity crisis on Wall Street in September 2008 — which started with nervous investors pulling money from troubled institutions, then quickly from healthier ones — that set off the financial crisis.”
I repeat: It was just last Monday that I showed you how Europe and the U.S. are now on a collision course with a second Lehman-type megashock.
And here we are today, only seven days later, with the snowball of events bringing us a few steps closer.
Read entire article at MoneyandMarket.com
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This Site features live data from 8 Domestic Solar PV power plants situated around the UK and aims to allow prospective buyers of PV systems to make an informed descision of whether or not to invest. It may also enable prospective Solar Electric buyers to get an indication of what they can expect to generate based on location, installer, manufacturer, roof pitch, direction faced, etc.
Check out news links at the bottom of this page..
Data last updated :- 06th Sept 2012. Next update due 09th Oct 2012
With the government now providing excellent rates for electricity generated though domestic solar installations. We took a leap and invested a considerable outlay in the purchase and installation of a 4 KW PV system for our home.
This website is intended to answer the question:-
Is Solar Generation a good / viable investment for a home owner living in the UK?
We bought a 4 KW solar installation from Ploughcroft Solar (www.Ploughcroft.co.uk) in the summer of 2010. It was installed on the roof of our house in the UK, Killamarsh, North East Derbyshire.
We have a large almost completely south facing flat roof on our house and so we were told this was almost perfect for this type of installation.
The system consists of 20 x Kiyoto 200w panels attached to a SunnyBoy 3800. The system on full load will generate 3.81 kwatts.
Are 41.3 pence per kwatt for a solar installation of >2 kw and <4kw. This is paid on the generation of the electricity i.e. you get this payment even if you use the electricity yourself.
This is an additional payment of 3 pence for what you export on to the grid. Currently your energy provider will assume you use one half of all the electricity you generate so it makes sense to use as much of your own electricity as possible
We could not find any grants available for this so we had to pay for the entire installation ourselves.
An additional benefit of the system is that you do not have to buy a lot of your electricity (because you are making it yourself) and therefore make savings.
Scaffolding goes up .5 days
Panels go up on roof and wiring from panels to inverter and inverter to fuse box. 1 day
Inverter installed. 2 hours
Inverter connected. 2 hours
Scaffolding comes down. .5 days
Total 2.5 days
I will update these charts so people can see how effective the system is at both creating electricity and generating income.
This graph shows my progress in terms of paying off our original investment.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Juha Vierinen's project GCS, GNU Chirp Sound
"The GNU Chirp Sounder is a software defined radio based receiver for monitoring ionospheric sounders (ionosondes) and over-the-horizon radars that use linear frequency sweep FM-CW transmissions. The software is based on gnuradio and relies on Ettus research USRP2 and USRP N210 based digital receivers. The receiver can be used to receive the whole HF band (typically at 25 MHz bandwidth) simultaneously, and to receive multiple sounders simultaneously. The current receiver can be used to perform single or dual polarization (channel) soundings. The dual channel recorded can be used to determine the polarization form vertical soundings, or for angle of arrival measurements. Multiple independent receivers could also be used for imaging purposes."
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Who knew that the National Rifle Association would end up as Andrew Cuomo's best friend?
Sensible gun owners have only the NRA to blame if it seems that politicians such as New York's governor are moving too far, too fast to restrict gun rights.
As Cuomo raced to be the first presidential hopeful on his block to have an assault weapons ban – and bragging rights for the smallest ammo clip – gun lovers shouldn't fume just at him.
If NRA leaders had been more reasonable, there could be middle-ground solutions. But their tone-deaf response to the Newtown tragedy created an atmosphere in which almost anything from gun-control advocates sounds sane by comparison. Even so, parts of the new law seem as much about politics as about public safety.
Cuomo's “one feature” assault weapons restriction goes beyond the old federal ban on guns with two or more military-style features. Granted, there's no legitimate civilian use for flash suppressors. But seriously, how many are used in mass shootings?
The bottom line remains. All semiautomatics – from my Ruger .22-caliber Mark II pistol to a semiautomatic hunting rifle to the Newtown shooter's AR-15-style .223 – operate essentially the same: One pull of the trigger fires one bullet. Beyond that, the FBI's 2011 Uniform Crime Reports show that rifles – all kinds, not just assault rifles – accounted for only 3.8 percent of gun deaths. In fact, twice as many people died from fistfights – 728 – as the 323 killed by rifles.
In short, it's not the guns themselves.
That's why researchers for the U.S. Department of Justice said that the effects of the 1994 federal assault weapons ban were “small at best” and that any effect was offset by more use of other guns with large-capacity magazines.
Banning the guns is for show. Banning 30-round magazines makes sense – though not to everyone. “Changing a magazine takes about 2 seconds, … so it doesn't really matter,” notes Harold “Budd” Schroeder, of Lancaster, chairman of the statewide Shooters Committee on Political Education. He's right about the timing. But maybe in those few seconds, someone can intervene.
Yet even on magazines, Cuomo's PR thirst is obvious in his seven-round limit, three less than in laws elsewhere.
My Ruger magazine holds 10 bullets. But I guess if I hear someone breaking in at night, I should load only seven. If I shoot the intruder eight times, I'll be breaking the law. It's the stuff of which “Saturday Night Live” skits are made.
Still, much proposed by Cuomo and President Obama makes good sense – such as universal background checks, mental health registries, and crackdowns on trafficking that floods cities with the handguns used in most murders. The hype on “assault weapons” in the media and video games also must be addressed.
Yet gun bans draw most of the attention. Legislative overreach becomes publicly acceptable when the other side is so unyielding. Now, I wonder if the NRA has set the stage for its worst fear.
I used to laugh when “gun nuts” said the ultimate aim of new laws was to eliminate most gun rights. I'm not laughing today.
Given the functional equivalency of banned “assault weapons” and other semiautomatics, if crazed mass shooters do turn to those other guns, what's next?
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This post is adapted from the 3/17/11 DTP Blog on Pregnancy Exercise Safety. For more evidence-based information on Pre/postnatal Health & Fitness, check out the DTP Blog. The Blog includes information starting prior to conception and continuing through postpartum and mom-baby fitness.
There are three sections to this post: 1) moms-to-be, 2) pregnancy fitness teachers and personal trainers and 3) some specific contraindicated and adapted exercises. All information presented is based on peer-review research and evidence collected over a 30 year period of working with this population. More information on safety can be found on this site on the page Benefits, Safety & Guidelines.
1) Safety & Exercise Guidelines for Moms-To-Be
First and foremost, be safe. Trust your body. Make sure your teacher or trainer is certified by an established organization that specializes in pre/postnatal exercise, has worked under master teachers during her preparation, and can answer or get answers to your questions.
These are the safety principles that we suggest to our participants:
- get proper screening from your health care provider
- protect yourself
- do not overreach your abilities
- you are responsible for your body (and its contents)
Squatting is an example of a standard pregnancy exercise used for childbirth preparation that must be adapted by each individual based on body proportions, flexibility, strength and comfort.
Don’t assume that because your teacher and some participants can do a certain movement or position that you should be able to do it just like they do. If your teacher is well trained, she will be able to help you select variations that are appropriate for your body.
When you are exercising, make sure you are getting the most from your activity. Keep these findings in mind when choosing your workout routine:
- Aerobics and strength training provide the greatest health benefits, reduce the risk for some interventions in labor, help shorten labor, and reduce recovery time
- Centering helps to prevent injury; relaxation and deep breathing reduce stress; and mild stretching can relieve some discomforts
- Avoid fatigue and over-training; do regular exercise 3 — 5 times a week
- Eat small meals many times a day (200–300 calories every 2–3 hours
- Drink at least 8 cups of water every day
- Avoid hot, humid places
- Wear good shoes during aerobic activities
- BE CAREFUL! LISTEN TO YOUR BODY!
If you experience any of the following symptoms, stop exercising and call your health care provider:
- Sudden pelvic or vaginal pain
- Excessive fatigue
- Dizziness or shortness of breath
- Leaking fluid or bleeding from the vagina
- Regular contractions, 4 or more per hour
- Increased heartbeat while resting
- Sudden abnormal decrease in fetal movement (note: it is completely normal for baby’s movements to decrease slightly during exercise)
2) Safety & Exercise Guidelines for Teachers & Trainers
A principle of practice that increases in importance for fitness professionals working with pregnant women is having the knowledge and skills to articulate the rationale and safety guidelines for every movement she asks clients to perform.
This goal requires adherence to safety as the number one priority. Here is how we delineate safety and the procedures we require of our instructors for achieving safety in practice:
First priority: safety [First, do no harm]
- sometimes medical conditions preclude exercise
- find an appropriate starting point for each individual
- individual tolerances affect modification
- general safety guidelines are physical
- pregnant women also need psychological safety
Mind-Body Safety Procedures
- Centering enhances movement efficiency and safety.
- Always begin with centering.
Strength Training Cautions
- avoid Valsalva maneuver
- avoid free weights after mid pregnancy (open chain; control issue)
- avoid supine after 1st trimester
- avoid semi-recumbent 3rd trimester
- keep in mind the common joint displacements, and nerve and blood vessel entrapment when designing specific exercises
Aerobics or Cardiovascular Conditioning Procedures
- Monitor for safety
- Instructional style needs to be appropriate.
- Walking steps with natural gestures can be done throughout pregnancy
- Vigorous steps with large gestures are more intense, appropriate as fitness increases
- The ability to create movement that will be safe and work for various levels of fitness and at different points in pregnancy is one of the most critical skills for pregnancy fitness instructors.
- Setting should provide physical and emotional safety
Equipment must be well-maintained
3) Contraindicated and adapted exercises
Exercises for which case studies and research have shown that there are serious medical issues include the “down dog” position, resting on the back after the 4th month, and abdominal crunches and oblique exercises. Here is more information and adaptation suggestions:
Contraindicated: “Down Dog” requires that the pelvic floor and vaginal area are quite stretched, bringing porous blood vessels at the surface of the vagina close to air. There are records of air entering the vaginal blood vessels in this position and moving to the heart as a fatal air embolism.
Adaptation: Use the child’s pose, with the seat down resting on the heels and the elbows on the ground, hands one on top of the other, and forehead resting on the hands. Keep the heart above the pelvis.
Contraindicated: Resting on the back during relaxation.
Adaptation: Rest in the side-lying position. About 75% prefer the left side, 25% prefer the right side.
Contraindicated: Abdominal crunches and oblique exercises can contribute to diastasis recti in some women. The transverse abdominal muscle is not always able to maintain vertical integrity at the linea alba, and thus there is tearing and/or plasticity of that central connective tissue.
Adaptation: Splinting with curl-downs, see positions below. By pressing the sides of the abdomen toward the center, women can continue to strengthen the transverse abdominals without the shearing forces that place lateral pressure on the linea alba.
Curl-downs are generally the safest and most effective abdominal strenthening exercise.
Splint by crossing arms and pulling toward center (L)
Or, splint by placing hands at sides and pressing toward center ®
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Promising new proposals for solving the fiscal shortfall
The report makes the point that American taxpayers “have lost trust in the Trust Fund” as an instrument of maintaining and preserving a nationwide super-highway system. Instead, the Trust Fund has turned into “a kind of all-purpose public works program that now funds sidewalks, bike paths, recreational trails, museums, and streetcars—with ever-larger chunks of the money earmarked for pet projects unlikely to pass any sensible benefit/cost test.”
The report recommends greatly narrowing the focus of the Trust Fund to something that people could see as directly benefitting them, such as relieving urban traffic congestion and improving long-distance freight delivery.
Specifically, the refocused Interstate-oriented program (which the authors have dubbed “Interstate 2.0″) would include adding selected routes to the Interstate map to reflect 21st-century America (vs. 1940s America, on which the system’s map was based), adding capacity to key long-haul routes, some of it in the form of dedicated truck lanes, redesigning and rebuilding the 200-odd interchange bottlenecks across the country, and adding networks of priced express lanes on major urban freeway systems. A tangible results-oriented program, the Reason analysts argue, could rebuild support for federal transportation investment.
The alternative of expanding the focus of the federal program to all modes (mass transit, streetcars, high-speed passenger rail, “livability,” etc) is untenable, the report contends. First, with essentially zero likelihood of a federal fuel tax increase in the foreseeable future (read, before the 2012 presidential election), there is hardly enough money in the Trust Fund to meet even basic highway investment needs. Secondly, all the money in the Trust Fund comes from highway users, from what are still naively, or misleadingly, called “highway user fees.” The report authors recommend restoring the users-pay/users-benefit principle by safeguarding the monies generated by highway users for investment in the highway system.
What about streetcars, bikeways, sidewalks and that rhetorical abstraction of “livable communities”? There is no good reason why these should not be funded out of general revenues, the report argues— assuming there is a reason to support them with federal funds at all. They typically are the kind of social infrastructure that is supported locally by general taxation. What is more, over the past two years Congress has shown ample willingness to put general fund money into transit, high speed rail and “livability” projects. Why not let Congress continue doing so and leave the Highway Trust Fund to its original purpose of funding and preserving highways, the report asks.
The authors estimate that by refocusing the Trust Fund in this manner, an additional $10 billion per year could be freed up for highway investments, to be supplemented by toll financing where appropriate.
The Reason proposal may be expected to meet with opposition and disapproval, even outrage, from advocacy-oriented public interest groups for whom “multi-modalism” has come to mean the right of equal access to the Highway Trust Fund. However, they need to be reminded that the federal gas tax was sold to the public as a means of funding the construction and preservation of the Interstate Highway system. Those who urge restoring the Trust Fund to its original purpose are not necessarily against streetcars, bicycles or “walkable communities.”
They may even see some merit in the “livability” program, amorphous and ambiguous as that concept is. But let those amenities be funded by state and local governments, they say, or by general revenues, as are a host of other social programs that are deemed worthy of federal support. We agree with the authors of the Reason Foundation report that making this change is probably the best hope we have for preserving, improving and expanding the nation’s vitally important highway infrastructure.
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Most nail art designs which we come across are for long nails or involve attaching artificial nails. For the ones who have got short nails and would like to wear different nail art designs, here is your page.
Archive for April, 2011
Pulli Kolam which means dotted kolams in tamil, is a type of kolam in which a set of dots are made in a particular fashion and the dots are joined together to result in beautiful patterns.
This tutorial will tell you how you could make a bunch of small red fabric roses. The fabric we would be using for this would be organdy cloth.
Decoupage is a cutting out art and craft technique in which cutouts of materials such as paper, leaves, felt or stones are glued onto a surface in a particular combination or fashion. We shall see a few decoupage techniques and the methodology.
Easter is one of the occasions which lets’ your creative juices flow. One can get colorful and make a variety of crafts for Easter.
Te most famous and joyful crafts is the making of Easter bunnies. Just with a few basing materials, colors, paints, glue and some color paper, you Easter bunnies can be done. Get a few Easter eggs and dye them in colors of choice. Give them some features, a hat probably?! And what not, you can always experiment!
In this tutorial, we shall see how artificial roses can be made out of a piece of organdy cloth.
I recently saw an ad on television which says friends are like jewelry; the more you have, the happier you feel. Bracelet is one such piece of jewelry which unlike many other types of its counterparts can be worn with any outfit. All you really have to do is to pick the right type and design of jewelry. And that’s what this article is about – looking at some of the types of bracelets around to help us pick the best.
For all you art fans out there below are a few art galleries online which serve as amazing visual treats!
Get ready for the virtual but certainly enriching tour of art…
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In fact, we, as Americans, were warmly welcomed in Palestinian homes, schools, shops, restaurants, everywhere. We talked with teachers, students, shopkeepers, taxicab drivers, waiters, and many other Palestinians. Yes, the policies of the Israeli government — house demolitions, road closures, checkpoints, restrictions on employment, housing, education, and movement for Palestinians — these policies are oppressive and may be hated, but I did not hear hatred against people.
Instead, I heard hope that if Americans knew what was really happening in Israel and in the West Bank and Gaza, then we, Americans, would help end the occupation and the institutionalized discrimination based on ethnicity and religion that Israel practices. We also heard from Jewish Israelis, including the courageous young people of Breaking the Silence and Rabbis for Human Rights, of their work to let Jewish people, Israelis and Americans, know what is being done so destructively in their names.
To know more, go to If Americans Knew (www.ifamericansknew.org). Read
— Janet Leslie, Chico
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My History Timeline for Mrs. Whitney's Class.
Created by garciiva000 on Nov 16, 2010
Last updated: 12/07/10 at 08:29 PM
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Poison gas was used as a weapon in ww1. Armies used this to kill the enemys in the trenches. When gas was thrown the ones being attacked had to put on gas masks, although they didnt work all the time. This left the soldier to suffer for days.
These confrences where held after the signing of the armistice. They where held because it was agreed by everyone that they should get together and make up a way of what would happen now that the war is over. The members of the allied powers however had the most power in these meetings. But in the end it ended up with five treaties.
This was signed at the paris peace conference. It was signed to finally end the Great War.
This is what the Germans and the Allies signed to say cease fire. And after that every one going against the allies stopped fighting the same year.
This was and offensive of the allies. The landscape of the place was great for them and let them have 5 devisions attacking. This ended up hurting Germany a lot.
This started as being the Germans last offensive. But it ended with the victory of the allies. Not only did the Germans see that they had lost this battle but they had also seen that they lost much ground in their deffeat. Many of the commanders for the Germans where already giving up and saying that there was no hope, the war was lost for Germany.
The flu epidemic was said to have had killed many more people than the ones who were killed in WWI. It is said that the people who died in WWI where at a number of about 16 million. But within the flu epidemic the number of estimated deaths was about 50 million. It was a major disaster in world history.
This battle took place because of the Germans advancing so much in one day. They got to 13 miles in one day and where still trying to push further. When America saw this they sent one division of men too Chateau- Thierry to stop the German from advancing anymore. America succeded and this was marked as the second war won by America since entering WWI.
The sedition act said that americans were not to talk bad about the American Government or the army. Because it was disloyal they said. This act was pretty much based off of the Espionage act.
This was the first time the US marines would see battle in WWI. It was said to be the most important battle that was fought by America since the US civil war. This was a response to the offencive of Germany in 1918.
This was President Wilson's way of trying to pin point all the wrongs of the war. In the fourteen points he tries to make it so that war will not break out again and for there to be peace. In these fouteen points he points out many causes and wrongs of the war and tries to tell everyone that this is what should not be done anymore so that therefore there will be no more wars.
This was a note from Germany to Mexico. It was said that the Germans were trying to get mexico to declare war against America. And in return the Germans promissed if they won the war they would give Mexico land. Mexico could not join the war though because they were in a civil war of their own at the time.
In 1917 There were two Russian Revolutions. One was called the February Rev. in that one was when Tsar gave his throne and the Provisional Gov took his place. And the other was called the October Rev. in this one the Gov. was overthrown by the Bolsheviks.
Congress passed this act after the U.S. had entered WWI. It was to punish anyone who did not want to be in the war as a soldier. And about 20 years of being in prison for just interfering in recruiting troops
The selective service act was a draft of soldiers for WW1. It was needed because for when America entered the war it was not prepared and needed way more soldiers than what it had. In a way for the government to get people to sign up they but many posters and signs encoureging the men to register.
America entered the war even after all the effort to stay netural. One huge thing that made the americans enter WWI was the sinking of the lusitania. It was the Germans who were the ones who sunk the ship killing more than 120 Americans. Although many Americans wanted to stay neutral America was preparing for war.
The sussex pledge was germanys way to not have america join the war on the side of the enemy. Germany promissed in the pledge that they would not attack a ship at sea without warning. The pledge though did not really work. The Germans broke their promisse on February 1st. After that they started attacking ships with no warning again.
The lusitania was used to farrie people accross the atlantic. After WWI began the seas were a dangerous place to be on. Captains were always on the look out for u-boats. These where German submarines. When the lusitania was sunk it was a perfect target because it had slowed down due to the fog. This was what caused America to enter WWI.
Archduke and his wife were assassinated in bosnia by student there. That was the second attempt at his life that day. His assassination was a big impact to the begining of ww1.
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FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty:
It will be easier to elect a black man president than a woman.
Those are the words of former senator and 1972 Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern. He's actually a Hillary Clinton supporter, but he says he feels that where this country stands today in its thinking, it's going to be harder to elect a woman. He also says, "I wish that weren't true... I'd love to see Hillary as president."
McGovern says he sometimes hears from men who don't think a woman is ready to assume the responsibilities of the top office in the land. Some worry it's "too big a job" for a woman or that she wouldn't be able to "handle those terrorists." McGovern says he rarely hears the same concerns about a black man.
Some may question whether McGovern is just saying this stuff to lower the bar for his candidate, but a recent survey suggests he might be on to something. The CBS News poll shows 39% of those surveyed believe a woman candidate faces more obstacles in presidential politics today compared to 33% who feel that way about a black candidate. However, African-Americans disagree, saying by an overwhelming margin that black candidates have a harder time.
When asked if people they know have judged Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama more harshly because of race or gender, 42% say Clinton has had a tougher go of it and just 27 percent say Obama.
That's despite the fact that polling shows Americans see racism as a much more serious problem for the nation overall than sexism.
Here’s my question to you: George McGovern, who supports Hillary Clinton, says it'll be easier to elect a black man as president than a woman. Is he right?
Interested to know which ones made it on air?
Dee from Montclair, New Jersey writes:
I don't agree with that at all. I think because it's a Clinton it's so, but another woman may not be the case. Personally I think this is a small-minded, stupid comment. The American people vote for a person who we feel is qualified, not based on gender or race. People like McGovern have small minds!
Ron from Richmond, Virginia writes:
Neither one has happened yet, Jack. Only time will tell, but Obama seems to be losing ground as Hillary gathers more supporters. One thing is for sure: the time of old white men running this country is about to change! McCain? Not a snowball’s chance in.... San Antonio!
George McGovern is a classic bigot, who owes a lot of favors to Bill and Hillary from when the two campaigned for him years ago. McGovern is another Hillary Clinton surrogate injecting the race card and whispering buzzwords to white voters in this already vicious Clinton campaign! Please try and understand what these old coots are trying to do at this stage in this already "lost cause" to further hurt Obama's chance to win against McCain.
Amy from Woodstock, New York writes:
I am a woman and my answer is this: it is easier to elect a man who is sincere and transparent than it is to elect a woman who is dishonest and not transparent. Jack, this is not about gender and race. It is about who we can trust in this election. The Clintons have proven they can not be trusted. There are no joint tax returns for the past 6 years, there is no accountability, nor transparency. We have had enough of this political game.
Ralph from Long Island, New York writes:
He's as correct on this as he was in making Thomas Eagleton his first choice as VP. In retrospect, not too shocking, really.
Kathy from Georgia writes:
Jack, I am more concerned that it is easier to elect someone with an IQ lower than their shoe size than I am about an African- American or woman.
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This print shows French soldiers brutally mutilating a Spaniard by cutting him in half with a sword. Few images of war have shown the deliberate acts of cruelty that man is capable of inflicting on fellow individuals as strongly as this. Many of the titles that Goya chose for his prints were almost conversational, giving the sense that he was directly addressing his viewer. Here, he posed a question with apparent detachment, asking the viewer whether it was possible to do anything more cruel than what is being shown. This challenge to imagine further acts of depravity underlines the degenerative nature of war, and by comparison, the total collapse of the progressive Age of Enlightenment.
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Cory Booker, Newark's Mayor, Is Helping Sandy Victims – via Twitter
As the death toll for Hurricane Sandy rises to 59, according to the New York Times, the politician, 43, is taking action on the streets – often in response to the pleas he receives in 140 characters of less.
Now, as 2.38 million people in New Jersey are still left without electricity, reports the Star-Ledger, he's once again emerging as a hometown hero. It was just this April, after all, that he rescued his neighbor from her burning home.
Follow Booker's relief efforts here, and track those he's already helped, including an elderly woman who was inside her house when a tree fell on top of it.
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kiwistiller wrote:the amount of people prepared to go to the lengths of distilling their own is simply too small to have a big effect on the mainstream liquor industry.
Same thing as with home beer and wine brewing. Noticed the commercial beer and wine industries going broke since home brewing became legal? Nope, me either. The vast majority of people are simply not interested or able to do it, for one reason or another.
I seriously doubt that legalising home stilling would make even the slightest dent in the commercial sector. In fact, if home stilling went legal it might even give the commercial guys a boost because the general interest in spirits might increase from legalising home stilling.
Even if it did make a dent in their profit, so what? Is there some reason the more expensive commercial side must get favourable treatment over the cheaper home made? We don't require people to only eat in commercial restaurants, despite home food preparation being much less regulated (ie more unsafe) than in commercial kitchens. There are a million other examples of home made stuff being legal, including beer and wine, clothing, food, etc, even though there are vast commercial industries making the same product.
As to lost tax revenue. If we don't make a significant dent in the commercial sales, then there is no lost revenue. And indeed, we would be generating additional tax revenue through the legal sales of stilling equipment and supplies. (We already do, to some extent. So how about some return to the hobby on those tax dollars!
Social impact? IIRC, alcohol consumption has been generally rising the world over for decades (with nice profits for the commercial guys). Doubt the authorities can seriously argue that legalising a handful of home stillers is going to affect that. It could be argued that most people who will make their own booze, (spirits, wine and beer) are already doing it anyway, and that the numbers who will take up home stilling after legalisation is unlikely to be great, so legalising it is unlikely to suddenly up the general alcohol consumption rate in the community.
Safety is the only legit concern the authorities can have. If we can show that we can make spirits safely (at least as safely as the commercial guys, and I think we have already done that), then there is no substantive argument left against legalisation. (This is one reason why I push the safety angle so hard on the forums.)
New Zealand's experience of legalised home stilling is now well over a decade old. Commercial booze makers and sellers are still in business, the government is still receiving tax dollars (including from the legal NZ home stilling industry), and NZ society does not seem to have collapsed.
In essence, we only have one case of a country legalising home stilling (and a modern western style democracy at that), and the outcome has not been a bad one.
And have fun.
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The University of Cincinnati is a proposed station stop along what may one day become a four-mile streetcar system in town. As such, UC recently turned to an internationally recognized economics researcher to help analyze whether the costs and benefits of such a system had been rigorously and accurately projected.
That researcher is the university’s own George Vredeveld, director of the Economics Center for Education & Research at UC, who collaborated with Jeffrey Rexhausen, associate director of research at the center and G. Irem Yelkanci, research assistant. Other U.S. cities and even other countries frequently turn to Vredeveld and the center to help sort out labor, development, environmental, small business, transportation and other issues impacting regional economics.
“Grading” the recently completed HDR Streetcar Feasibility Study
UC and the Economics Center for Education & Research are releasing a report today. This Assessment of the Cincinnati Streetcar Study “grades” the in-depth streetcar report (the HDR Streetcar Feasibility Study) completed in 2007 on behalf of the City of Cincinnati by HDR, Inc., of Omaha. The report also includes a description of how streetcars have affected other cities.
“We applied the smell test to the HDR study,” said Vredeveld, meaning he compared the process and methodology of other studies to that of the HDR study. The UC center also compared the ridership estimates in the HDR study to actual ridership for the Memphis and Portland, Oregon, streetcar systems.
“And we found that HDR was in the ballpark,” Vredeveld stated, regarding both ridership and economic-development payoffs in the form of increased property values, business development, employment and tax revenues along and close to the streetcar line.
Looking at what critics have to say
The UC center also closely examined criticisms of mass transit, specifically from the Cato Institute as applied to Portland, Oregon. They found that most of the criticisms don’t apply to Cincinnati streetcar proposals. That’s because the focus of the Cato Institute critique of Portland were more broadly based objections to the political process and a regional transit system – not related to any dispute of ridership and development results related to streetcars.
Cincinnati is on the right track in considering a streetcar system, according to Vredeveld. The likely average net economic payoff of $315.8 million, as estimated by HDR over a 35-year period, is sound, as is HDR’s most conservative net economic payoff estimate of $186.8 million over 35 years. Even if this most conservative payoff comes to pass, “the proposed streetcar system is economically worthwhile,” said Vredeveld.
The current proposal for a Cincinnati streetcar system calls for a four-mile looped system that travels from Cincinnati's riverfront, near the stadiums and the Banks project, through downtown north into Over-the-Rhine, with stops at Music Hall and Findlay Market, and then on to UC. According to this latest report from the Economics Center for Education & Research at UC, the proposed route is a plus because systems that link major activity centers (employment, shopping and recreation) generally experience higher levels of ridership.
For a full copy of the UC Assessment of the Cincinnati Streetcar Study, go to http://www.uc.edu/community/documents/cincinnati_streetcar_white_paper.pdf
For a copy of HDR’s 2007 Streetcar Feasibility Study completed on behalf of the city, go to http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/city/downloads/city_pdf17754.pdf
To find out more about the Economics Center for Education & Research at UC, go to http://www.business.uc.edu/UserID=1193
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This past Thursday was the opening for the most current Design/Build Alum bronXcape 2008...Congrats....at the gallery they had these cool postcards of each project as a keepsake, which I love as a Margaretville '07 Alum. Here is a history of The Design Workshop 1998-2007 for your viewing pleasure:
The Design Workshop, 1998-2007
One of the nation's premier design/build programs, the Design Workshop offers students direct experience working with clients to determine their needs and devise and implement solutions, With faculty guidance, students complete the design and construction, from schematics to punch list, of a medium-scale project for nonprofit organization. Since its first major project in 1998, the Design Workshop has brought to life the progressive educational agenda for which Parsons is famous: extending education beyond the confines of the academy; developing projects that address social, economic, and environmental concerns; and bridging the gap between theory and practice.
The Event Cooridor, 1998
The redesign of the Architecture, Interior Design, and Lighting Department's 12,000-square-foot Greenwich Village studio loft was the Design Workshop's first realized project; Parsons was the workshop's first client.
The Glass Corner, 1999
The Glass Corner is the principal lecture and event space for the Architecture, Interior Design, and Lighting Department. Workshop students designed, fabricated, and installed all elements of the faculty, including the 14-foot-tall-glass corner that extends events beyond the room and into the public realm.
The Swing Room, 2000
The Swing Room is a prototypical multifunctional academic space designed to support a range of pedagogical activities at Parsons. Numerous spatial configurations are made possible by hinged and pivoting architectural elements, echoing the range of anticipated functions.
The New York Studio Program, 2001
The New York Studio Program is a nonprofit service that provides work space in lower Manhattan for art students from around the country. Workshop participants designed and carried out a comprehensive conversion of the 4,000-square-foot loft to accommodate 20 student artists with movable workstations that can be stored compactly at the side of the room.
Academic Lobbies, 2002
In a 12-story urban design school like Parsons, elevator lobbies are a combination of public plaza and front porch. Workshop students designed and fabricated two such hybrid spaces for design departments of The New School.
Field House, 2003
Take the Field is a public-private partnership dedicated to rebuilding athletic facilities for New York inner-city schools. Using weathering steel, porcelain panels, perforated metal screens, and wall of pivoting doors, students designed and constructed a field house for the Grand Street Campus High School in Brooklyn.
Prince George Hotel Gallery, 2004
Common Ground, a nonprofit organization that provides housing for previously homeless people, required a new public entry and exhibition space for its facility in the former Prince George Hotel. The workshop responded by adding new construction as well as stripping away layers of material to expose the raw building fabric.
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Artist-in-Residency program required a portable infrastructure to support events ranging from small gatherings to large groups of 100 persons. Workshop students designed and fabricated a kit of mobile architectural components to serve as "event structures."
In consultation with the residents of DeLisle, Mississippi, a community almost totally destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, workshop students designed and built InfoWash. The 3,000-square-foot facility comprises a laundromat-counseling center and is the workshop's project outside of New York State.
Margaretville Park Pavilion, 2007
Built in the ecologically sensitive floodplain of the Delaware River, the 6,000-square-foot steel-frame community pavilion is the workshop's largest and most ambitious project to date. The construction, from excavation to ribbon cutting, was completed by 11 students in three months.
...me in red shirt (far left) and colleagues with the huge model...
...and one of the few pics of me smiling upstate...lol
...pavilion "link" between the deck and tower...
...pavilion enclosed prep area...
...and the loggia...
...and at the ribbon cutting...
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LIVE from the NYPL: Adam Gopnik in Conversation with Paul Holdengräber
WHERE IS NEW YORK?
After five years in Paris, Adam Gopnik moved his family back to New York. His children could now go through "The Children's Gate," the actual entrance to Central Park at 76th Street that opens onto a playground. This entrance is for Gopnik a symbol of the "civilization of childhood" in New York, one which he wanted his children to enter and embrace. At first, the new New York seemed safer and shinier than ever. But not long after their return, the fabric of living became frayed by 9/11.
The subject of the last five years worth of his essays all turn on these shadows and lights: on raising two children in New York in a time of fear, and how fear is transmuted into hope, and hope even into joy, by their presence.
In his new book, Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York, Gopnik's extended urban family of teachers, coaches, therapists, adversaries, and friends put his new home under the spell of the sort of characters only the city's unique civilization could produce, but with the long shadow of mortality hanging over all. Yet " Shadows," he writes, "are all we have to show us the shapes that light can make."
In conversation with Paul Holdengräber, he will discuss and argue about the centrality of childhood to our ideas of meaning, the fact or myth of a "Post 9/11" New York, and the latest adventures of Charlie Ravioli, the imaginary New York friend who is always too busy to play with you.
About Adam Gopnik
Adam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. In 2000, he began writing the New York Journal, about the culture and daily life of New York City. He previously spent five years in Paris, writing his Paris Journal, a similar column about manners and mores in Paris. Gopnik's work has been awarded three National Magazine Awards and the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. Gopnik is the author of Paris to the Moon and The King in the Window. His new book, published by Knopf, is Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York.
About Paul Holdengräber
Paul Holdengräber is the Director of Public Programs - now known as "LIVE from the NYPL" - for The Research Libraries of The New York Public Library.
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Staff Photo by Matt Fields-Johnson Amanda Gillespie, right, in-home counselor for Youth Villages, counsels Jessica Young, second from left, for severe depression. Jessica also has the support of her sister Christy Young, and parents Chris and Kathy Young who sit by her in their home in Athens, Tenn.,
It was three years ago when Kathy and Chris Young's 13-year-old daughter, Jessica, started acting out. But her actions went further than those of the typical rebellious teenager.
Over the years Jessica, now 16, began cutting herself, running away from home at night and threatening suicide, said Mrs. Young, Jessica's stepmother for more than a decade.
Overwhelmed and frightened for Jessica's safety, the Athens, Tenn., parents considered placing their daughter in a residential treatment facility, where they hoped experts could help her.
But Mrs. Young said they couldn't stand the thought of Jessica going away.
"Emotionally, it just tears me apart. I can't imagine to think of something like that," she said.
Instead, in August, they started working with Memphis-based Youth Villages, a private, nonprofit organization focused on child welfare.
The group's in-home counseling program is rooted in the notion that family can provide the best support for a child. Options such as foster care, the juvenile justice system or residential treatment are considered only as a last resort, organizers say.
Mrs. Young said the regular in-home counseling on how to set and maintain boundaries for Jessica has made a difference in just a few months.
Jessica said the counseling has helped her better deal with her emotions.
"My fits (of anger) used to be five hours. Now it's five minutes," she said.
The idea of focusing on a child's whole environment, from parents to siblings to school life, is a departure from a philosophy that aimed to "fix" children in a setting away from home, organizers said.
The in-home strategy has improved outcomes for children with emotional or behavioral problems and added stability in their lives, said Kori Bell, Chattanooga regional supervisor for the program.
"Our whole goal is to work within the family to help the child and that family live together successfully," she said.
In December, Youth Villages, whose in-home counseling program started in 1994, released outcomes data drawn from serving 17,000 families in 10 states and Washington, D.C. Most families have been in Tennessee.
About 84 percent of the children who were in the program for at least two months were still at home two years later, the report said. About 82 percent had had no trouble with the law and 83 percent were in school or had graduated during that time, the report said.
The Tennessee Department of Children's Services also works to focus on family and a child's surroundings, said Rosalyn Leavell-Rice, Hamilton County independent living specialist with the state department.
"We've shifted everything. The new concept is strictly family-focused and permanency (in a child's life) is one of those goals," said Ms. Leavell-Rice, who works with children who have been in state custody and are trying to transition to the adult world.
Youth Villages began offering in-home counseling services in Georgia last year. In August, it merged with a Georgia nonprofit called Inner Harbour in an effort to expand its reach in the state.
FOCUS ON FAMILY
Youth Villages intensive in-home counseling program has worked with 17,000 children and families since 1994. A report released in December on its results found:
* 84 percent of children in the program for at least two months were still at home two years later.
* 82 percent had had no trouble with the law
* 83 percent were in school or had graduated
By comparison, a 2008 study of more than 2,700 youths in the Missouri child welfare system found that more than 50 percent returned who were discharged from residential treatment returned within a year.
Health care reporter Emily Bregel has worked at the Chattanooga Times Free Press since July 2006. She previously covered banking and wrote for the Life section. Emily, a native of Baltimore, Md., earned a bachelor’s degree in American Studies from Columbia University. She received a first-place award for feature writing from the East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists’ Golden Press Card Contest for a 2009 article about a boy with a congenital heart defect. She ...
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I’ve been writing biographies of people in early Mormon history recently. As I’ve written about the same time period and the same events from the points of view of many different people, I’ve become aware of just how important attitude is. The right attitude can change not just your life, but the lives of those around you. The wrong attitude can harm you, but it can have a devastating impact on the lives of others as well.
“Thoughts mold your features. Thoughts lift your soul heavenward or drag you toward hell… As nothing reveals character like the company we like and keep, so nothing foretells futurity like the thoughts over which we brood. … To have the approval of your conscience when you are alone with your thoughts is like being in the company of true and loving friends. To merit your own self-respect gives strength to character. Conscience is the link that binds your soul to the spirit of God.” –David O. McKay, “Developing Character”, Ensign, Oct. 2001June 30, 2008 by Julia G · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Finding a Happier You, So Now You're An Adult
Years ago, as I was preparing to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints, I was told a story that had a powerful influence upon not only my mission, but also the rest of my life.
Yesterday in Sacrament Meeting at church, the topic our assigned speakers spoke on was Love. More specifically they spoke on loving God, and loving our neighbors, which is the greatest of all the commandments!
Last week, in my Singles ward, our Sacrament talks were given by two of our Stake High Counselors. One of the talks was on the power of prayer. During his talk he quoted part of hymn #142
Right now my mother is reading Pollyanna to my youngest sister. They are both enjoying it immensely, just as I did when I first discovered this written story. There are many great lessons that can be gleaned from this children’s classic.
When I was a little girl I used to have the most terrifying nightmares, every night. It got to the point where I would do anything to be able to avoid sleep.
This Easter Season, I have spent much time contemplating the record in the New Testament about the interactions, and teachings of our Savior Jesus Christ. This morning I have spent time pondering the story of Mary and Martha, and how it applies to us Single Adults today.
A couple of weeks ago my younger sister (younger by six ½ years) got married in the Mt. Timpanogos Temple. Since that day, I cannot count the number of times that I have been asked, “So, how does it feel to have your younger sister married before you?”
Some people believe in destiny, others believe that everything is a matter of chance, I believe in foreordination. I believe that we were each called to do a specific work in our lives, our own personal missions to move forward the work of the Lord. (Of course, this foreordination is still subject to our agency, or the choices we make. If we fail to qualify, by our choices, for the missions we were called to do, then another will be chosen to do so in our place. For God’s work will not be frustrated. Although, I cannot help but think that no one could fulfill your mission like you could.)
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Domestic abuse and violence against women takes many forms. We tend to think of it as violent physical behaviour, which it often is. But just as damaging can be the emotional, psychological, sexual or financial violence and bullying that can take place in a relationship.
The difficulty is that the person who is violent is controlling, and so getting out of the relationship can be the hardest thing to do. It seems the more you stand up to them, the worse it becomes... and it's so easy to think that it's your fault, if you were nicer or more what they wanted, it would stop. This page offers advice on where to get help - you can also read our page on domestic violence and children.
Netmums is working with Women's Aid to support women who are suffering domestic abuse in the UK - Find out what help they can provide and read about their Survivor's Handbook.
For other organisations who might be able to help if you are a victim of physical or emotional abuse, access Women's Aid's list of local domestic violence services or take a look at our local listing of support groups.
This list, from Women's Aid, can help you to recognise the signs of domestic abuse - are you, or someone you know, in an abusive/violent relationship?
Just acknowledging that you have a problem is a very good start. The next step is to find someone to talk to. It doesn't mean you have to follow through or do anything more if you don't want to and no-one else need ever know. But do talk to one of the people we recommend below... they are familiar with your situation... you are not the only one who is experiencing physical or emotional violence and bullying at home - it is, sadly, all too common. One in 4 women will suffer some form of domestic violence during their lifetime.
Start talking. Even if you can see no way out these people might be able to.
If you're not sure about talking to people face to face, come on to our Coffee House - there are others experiencing domestic abuse, and just reading or sharing your thoughts might help you to grapple with some of those difficult questions.
Remember, domestic violence is a crime and is not acceptable under any circumstances.
THE ABUSE IS NOT YOUR FAULT.
There's no particular evidence to suggest women who are black or from minority ethnic groups are more at risk from domestic violence, but the types of torments they might suffer varies greatly. For example, the abuse could be exaggerated by extended family members, due to forced marriages or the need to comply with family 'honour' or 'traditions' - especially where the woman has expressed negative views against their plans for her.
If you are a black or ethnic minority woman suffering domestic violence, you might also feel isolated by the larger community or encounter problems sourcing help due to fears of being met with a racist response. Likewise, if your partner and abuser is black, you may wish to protect him or her (and the Black community) from police intervention due to your experiences of institutional racism.
If you have recently arrived in this country, or if your first language is not English, it may be much harder for you to understand the support available to you. A good starting point is to ring the Women's Aid Freephone 24 Hour National Domestic Violence Helpline on 0808 2000 247. The helpline is a member of Language Line which means you will have access to an interpreter who can listen to your query thoroughly and put you in touch with additional support resources locally. There are also refuge services that will put a roof over your head and listen to your problems, even if your immigration status means you're unable to live in the UK permanently and are therefore, unable to claim state benefits.
Southall Black Sisters: Resource centre for Asian, African and Afro-Caribbean women providing advice on domestic violence, racial harassment, welfare and immigration rights, and matrimonial rights. It provides face-to-face support and case work for women in the London Borough of Ealing, but also deals with enquiries on a national basis. Phone: 0208 571 9595. www.southallblacksisters.org.uk
Aanchal: 24 hour Helpline for Asian women experiencing domestic violence. Languages spoken include: Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujerati, Tamil and Urdu. Phone: 08454 512 547.
Chinese Information and Advice Centre: For Chinese people on a low income, or who have difficulty communicating in English to access mainstream support services. Domestic Violence Line: 0207 462 1281.
Women's Aid is a national organisation set up to help women across the country. The female staff on the helpline can give you support and information. They can talk things through with you and if you get to the stage of needing to move, they have refuges that you can stay in.
Refuge is also a network of refuges for women and children escaping domestic violence.
Together they run the National Domestic Violence Helpline that provides information, counselling and welfare rights advice: 0808 2000 247
(Calls from landlines are free, but may appear on your telephone bill).
Have you met your health visitor before? You perhaps won't have realised that Health Visitors see a lot of people who are struggling with violent relationships. She will be used to dealing with people in your situation, it's one of the 'things they do', and they know a lot about it and how to help. So either ring your doctor's surgery to make an appointment or find out what days your health visitor has a 'drop in' clinic for mums... if it is possible for you, they will come and see you at home or meet you somewhere. You can always talk to your doctor too.
And did you know... you can be housed with your children in a refuge the same day you ask. So if you go to your doctor or health visitor and you are wanting to get out, they will help - you can wait there and go straight to a safe place with your kids.
People sometimes cringe when you mention Social Services, but they are working really hard to win the war on Domestic Violence - you can arrange to meet someone in a 'neutral' place - they won't have to come round to your house, and you can just have a chat - they'll be able to give you lots of tips and support.
You can call the Victim Supportline if someone has been violent towards you in any way, on 0845 30 30 900 (Mondays to Fridays 9am-9pm, weekends 9am-7pm).
Shelterline is a national housing helpline. They can provide emergency access to refuge services and you can contact them free on 0808 800 4444 (8am - midnight).
Men's Advice Line is an organisation that supports men who are experiencing domestic violence. They can help with relationship violence, whether in a heterosexual relationship, a same-sex one, or even if the violence is from another person such as a child or a carer.
Call 0808 801 0327 (Mondays to Thursday 10am-4pm).
Jewish Women's Aid is a national organisation, mirroring the work of Women's Aid within the Jewish Community you can call them on 0800 591 203.
Finally, don't forget the Samaritans - they are ALL about talking and helping - you can contact them on: 08457 909090
Plan ahead - have a crisis plan like the one below:
In an emergency always dial 999.
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HDCD Spreads Further into the Audio Kingdom
At the Audio Engineering Society Convention in San Francisco this week (see report elsewhere), Pacific Microsonics announced that it is adding 192kHz A/D conversion and 96/48kHz output capability to the Model One HDCD processor. Currently the Model One performs A/D conversion at 176.4kHz with the ability to output an 88.2/44.1kHz signal. According to the company, the addition of these new sampling rates allows mastering engineers to use the Model One to create a high-resolution master tape without concern for the limitations of commercial release formats. Then, using HDCD technology embedded in the Model One, the mastering engineer can "fit" this high-fidelity signal into any release format---CD, DVD, or Surround---while maintaining many of the sonic benefits of the original high-resolution master.
Also at the convention, Burr-Brown Corporation announced an agreement with Pacific Microsonics to incorporate HDCD technology into the first single-chip HDCD audio digital-to-analog converter. The new chip, the PCM 1732, combines the HDCD decoding and HDCD filtering contained in Pacific Microsonics' PMD-100 chip along with Burr-Brown's 24-bit, 96/88.2kHz DAC technology. The PCM 1732 will be targeted for consumer audio applications such as A/V receivers, CD players, and DVD players. Samples will be available in the first quarter of 1999.
Burr-Brown is the fourth HDCD licensee to announce an audio chip with HDCD technology. Earlier in 1998, Analog Devices and Motorola announced DSP chips with HDCD for the A/V receiver market, and Sanyo announced a "CD player on a chip" with HDCD for high-volume CD players, mini-component systems, and portables. Pacific Microsonics plans to announce several more agreements with chip manufacturers before the end of 1998.
On the consumer electronics front, both Denon and Harman/Kardon recently introduced their first HDCD-equipped products. Bennet Goldberg of Pacific Microsonics stated, "the addition of Harman/Kardon and Denon to the family of leading manufacturers that have recently announced HDCD playback products is great news to consumers everywhere. Over the coming months we expect to announce the names of several other leading-brand HDCD products. The increased momentum of the HDCD brand with consumers, consumer-electronics manufacturers, record companies, and the global chip manufacturers has been phenomenal."
The company says that, in addition to Denon and Harman/Kardon, there are now over 100 models of HDCD players available from manufacturers including Adcom, Arcam, California Audio Labs, Linn, Luxman, Madrigal (Mark Levinson), and Rotel. Pacific Microsonics also reported that over 1500 CDs have now been mastered with the HDCD process, while unit sales of HDCD CDs have topped the 75 million mark worldwide. (Check out Joni Mitchell's Shadows and Light and the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds Sessions, says Stereophile editor John Atkinson, for state-of-the-art HDCD transfers of classic albums.)
"HDCD's presence has grown significantly over the last year in both the CD and DVD markets," said Mr. Goldberg. "In the last 12 months, the number of HDCD recordings has more than doubled, we have successfully implemented our HDCD chip-licensing program with many of the world's leading audio-chip manufacturers, and a growing number of the world's best-known consumer-electronics companies have introduced HDCD-equipped CD players and DVD players."
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The Second Coming of Psychedelics
Inside the mind-tripping, soul-changing, ground-shifting, 21st century therapy.
- 2013 January-February
Ric Godfrey had the shakes. At night, his body temperature would drop and he’d start to tremble. During the day, he was jumpy. He was always looking around, always on edge. His vibe scared the people around him. He couldn’t hang on to a job.
He started drinking and drugging, anything to numb out.
Years passed before a Department of Veterans Affairs counselor told him he had severe posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. The former Marine had spent the early 1990s interrogating prisoners in Kuwait. Years later, he was still playing out the Persian Gulf War.
Counseling helped a little, but the symptoms continued. He went to rehab for his substance abuse, then tried Alcoholics Anonymous. “That went on for 10 years,” he said. “I don’t know how many times I hit rock bottom.”
Then one of his Seattle neighbors—a woman who also suffered from PTSD—told him about a group of veterans who were going down to Peru to try a psychedelic drug called ayahuasca, a jungle vine that is brewed into a tea. Indigenous Peruvians called it “sacred medicine.” A wealthy veteran had started a healing center in South America and would pay all his expenses.
The next thing Ric knew, he was crawling into a tent on a platform out in the middle of the Amazon jungle. The sun went down. The shaman gave him the tea, a blessing, and a pail in which to vomit.
“Your body will not keep it in you,” Ric recalled. “At first, it’s the worst thing you’ve ever done in your life. Then all of a sudden you blink your eyes and you are not there anymore. You get out of your body and look back and see what is wrong with you. I saw the shell of the person I didn’t want to be and stepped out of it. It was the most amazing thing. I’ve taken lots of drugs before, but I never remembered. I think this is the key. You actually gain knowledge from this. I don’t even consider it a drug. It’s an eye-opener. It makes you think about stuff. Your deepest, darkest secrets, stuff you have been holding on to since you were eight years old—it washes out of you, and you feel like a totally different person. People look at you differently. Your whole world changes before your eyes.”
Three years later, Ric Godfrey says he hasn’t had a single symptom of the shakes or night terror since he came back from the jungle. He’s relaxed and holding down a great job.
“I’ve always been afraid that someone was out to get me, but I don’t have that fear anymore,” he says. “I still like to sit with my back to the wall. I still have certain military idiosyncrasies, but I’m not afraid anymore.”
Psychedelic drugs are back. Not that they ever really went away. You could always find them on the street, in the psychedelic underground, and along the more enlightened edges of the drug culture. What’s new is that these powerful mind-altering substances are coming out of the drug counterculture and back into the mainstream laboratories of some of the world’s leading universities and medical centers. Research projects and pilot studies at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Purdue University, and the University of California, Los Angeles, are probing their mind-altering mysteries and healing powers. Psychedelic drugs like psilocybin and Ecstasy are still illegal for street use and cannot be legally prescribed by doctors, but university administrators, government regulatory agencies, and private donors are once again giving the stamp of approval—and the money needed—for research into beneficial uses for this “sacred medicine.”
“This field of research is finally coming of age,” said David Nichols, a veteran researcher and recently retired professor from the Purdue University College of Pharmacy and the Indiana University School of Medicine. “As Crosby, Stills, and Nash said, it’s been a long time coming.”
TO THE FRINGE AND BACK
Mainstream America’s panic over psychedelics began after experiments at Harvard in the 1960s by the notorious psychologists Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert spun out of control. What began as the Harvard Psilocybin Project had morphed into a crusade to turn America on to the wonders of LSD. The researchers were eventually removed from the school’s faculty, and Leary served prison time for marijuana possession. “Timothy Leary played a very significant role in the backlash,” said Roland Griffiths, a professor in the departments of psychiatry and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins, who has emerged as one of the leaders in the new wave of research into the therapeutic use of psychedelic drugs. “Leary was an iconic figure at the time, but he modeled the wrong outcome by departing from scientific method. He had a lot of interesting things to say about it but didn’t pursue a systematic and cautious experimental approach.”
The excesses weren’t limited to Harvard. “Out on the West Coast we had the acid tests [of Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters] and all that—parties where psychedelic beverages were distributed,” said Charles Grob, a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at UCLA who has studied ayahuasca rites in Peru and led research with psilocybin and cancer patients. “The culture was not prepared to handle these compounds.”
The 1970 Controlled Substances Act reclassified common hallucinogens as “Schedule I” drugs, meaning they were considered easy to abuse and had no legitimate medical use. New limitations were placed on human research, and federal funding disappeared.
But the times they are a-changin’. There’s a new openness to the medicinal use of marijuana. In the November elections, the states of Washington and Colorado legalized the recreational use of pot. Baby boomers who came of age in the psychedelic ’60s and ’70s are now running government agencies and university administrations.
Leading the campaign in the new wave of government-sanctioned research is the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, an independent nonprofit that has raised millions of dollars to fund an ongoing study into the use of MDMA, also known as Ecstasy, to treat returning war veterans and rape survivors suffering from PTSD.
In the first phase of that study, MAPS researcher Michael Mithoefer, a psychiatrist from South Carolina, treated 21 patients. Some participants were given MDMA with psychotherapy, while some got a placebo along with their therapy. Researchers hoped to show that MDMA’s ability to enhance trust, empathy, and openness would make it easier for patients to recount a traumatic event. It did. Over 80 percent of those who received MDMA had no PTSD symptoms two months later, compared with around 25 percent of those who got the placebo. Patients with MDMA-assisted therapy did better than those treated with traditional prescription drugs, such as Zoloft or Paxil.
In November 2012, Mithoefer and his colleagues released more results in a paper published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. It showed that the benefits of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy were sustained over an average of three and a half years from the time the drug had been last ingested, an exceptionally lengthy period for a follow-up study. Furthermore, there were no reports of lasting harmful effects from exposure to the drug.
Rick Doblin, the executive director of MAPS, envisions his organization as a self-supporting nonprofit that will train therapists, run its own clinics, and distribute Ecstasy to doctors and psychologists.
MAPS now controls 960 grams of Ecstasy that was legally manufactured in 1985 by Nichols, the Purdue University chemist. That’s enough for between 4,000 and 5,000 doses, and it has not lost its potency. “It’s still the world’s purest MDMA,” Doblin said.
HEAVEN OR HELL
The use of psychedelic drugs for therapeutic purposes is not without controversy, however.
In the 1950s, writer Aldous Huxley warned that psychedelics can take users to “heaven or hell”—for some, a path to enlightenment; for others, the spark for psychosis.
Huston Smith, a scholar of world religions who was another early explorer, noted the drugs can mimic “authentic religious experience” but questioned whether altered states of consciousness actually change the way people live their lives.
Smith also issued early warnings that today’s “ayahuasca tourists” might consider. While “sacred medicine” may be helpful for someone who was raised in a Native American religious culture, it may prove disastrous for an outsider unprepared for a mind-blowing trip. “History shows that minority faiths are viable, but only when they are cradled in communities that are solid and structured enough to constitute what are in effect churches,” Huston writes in an essay titled “Psychedelic Theophanies and the Religious Life.” More recently, the dangers of using psychedelics without medical supervision were illustrated when a man died after ingesting ayahuasca at the same Peruvian retreat center where Ric Godfrey had his life-changing experience.
Doblin and other advocates of psychedelic-assisted therapy acknowledge that these powerful substances—while not as addictive as drugs like alcohol, heroin, or cocaine—can be abused by recreational users. They propose a system in which they can be prescribed by doctors and administered by trained therapists.
Nevertheless, researchers and advocates contend that psychedelic drugs, used under close supervision, hold great promise for a deeper understanding of the connection between the brain and human consciousness.
“Where does our capacity for consciousness come from?” asked David Presti, who teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley. “It’s still a huge mystery. It’s the biggest mystery of all in science, and psychedelics are the most powerful probe to study that connection.”
PROFOUND CAPACITY FOR HEALING
In an interview in his office in the Life Sciences Building on the Berkeley campus, Presti held up a large piece of dried ayahuasca vine. He said brain scientists are confirming what shamanic cultures around the world have known for millennia. “These substances have a profound capacity when used under appropriate conditions to be catalysts for real transformation in people, for real healing.”
A Johns Hopkins study of psilocybin and mystical experience is a good example. Follow-up surveys of 36 “hallucinogen-naive adults” who took psilocybin under Griffiths’s supervision found that two-thirds of them rated the sessions as being “among the five most spiritually significant experiences of their lives.”
Griffiths’s work on the behavioral and subjective effects of mood-altering drugs has been largely supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health. Along with Grob, he has studied the effects of psilocybin to treat anxiety in cancer patients—their research found that low doses of psilocybin improved the patients’ mood and reduced their need for narcotic pain relievers. Another Johns Hopkins researcher, Matthew Johnson, has begun a new pilot study to see if the active ingredient in psilocybin mushrooms, commonly called “magic mushrooms,” can help people overcome their addiction to tobacco.
Griffiths’s personal interest in meditation inspired his study of psilocybin-occasioned mystical experience in healthy volunteers. One research subject, Brian, who asked that his last name not be used, recalled, “I was unified with everything. I still had enough awareness to get up and walk to the bathroom, but everything was so incredibly beautiful that I laughed and cried at the same time. I was one with it. It was just incredible—one of the top five experiences I have ever had in my life.”
The experience was so spiritually profound that Brian recommitted himself to his study of meditation and Buddhism and in late 2012 was scheduled to be ordained as a monk in the Soto Zen tradition.
For Presti, outcomes like Brian’s are not surprising.
“One of the ways psychedelics work is by reducing our psychological defenses. They allow the person to become aware of uncomfortable feelings and thoughts so they can come to the surface and be therapeutically processed,” he said. “Nobody knows exactly how these things work, but there may be some kind of hard rewiring that goes on in the brain. They may increase neuroplasticity—make the neurons more susceptible to forming new connections.”
He believes the substances should also be studied as a possible treatment for depression.
“But there is a lot of resistance to this from the pharmaceutical industry. The last thing it wants to see is a substance people only use once or twice. They want us to use something every day for the rest of our life. That’s how they make money.”
Other researchers are troubled that the new wave of psychedelic research is blurring the lines between spiritual experience and the hard science of medicine.
“We are not purveyors of spirituality. Having an epiphany is not a part of medicine,” said John Mendelson, a senior scientist at the California Pacific Medical Research Center in San Francisco. “Most of medicine is not predicated on making you better than you are. It’s getting you back to where you were. There are lots of people and things out there can make us feel better, but our job is to diagnose and treat and fix diseases.”
EXPLORING A SCIENTIFIC FRONTIER
But that view is no longer going unchallenged.
A new generation of dedicated psychedelic drug researchers has emerged on university campuses across the nation. Many of them gathered last September at a “Psychedemia” conference at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. They see their mission as “integrating psychedelics into academia.”
“Psychedelic studies are entering the mainstream,” said Neşe Devenot, a young graduate student at Penn and a lead organizer of the multidisciplinary conference. “You can talk about this now at the dinner table without coming across as some kind of fanatic.”
During a lunch break at the weekend conference, one of the wise elders in the field of psychedelic drug research, Johns Hopkins psychologist William A. Richards, sat in the cafeteria in the basement of Houston Hall, surveying the buzz of intergenerational excitement. Richards has been exploring these realms since the early 1960s with such luminaries as Stanislav Grof, Abraham Maslow, Walter Pahnke, and, yes, Timothy Leary.
Richards knows there could be another backlash against psychedelic drug research, not just by those who are still fighting the “war on drugs” but also by academics who resist the idea that scholars should seriously study something as slippery as spirituality.
“But if mysticism is to emerge from silent monastic cells into the bright light of scientific discourse, I see no alternative,” Richards says. “We have arrived at that frontier where the growing edge of true science meets the mystery of the unknown. Here faith takes over, either belief in something or belief in nothing. These experiences are not in any drug. They are in us.”
SIDEBAR: Healing a Broken Life
Judith Goedeke helped others through her work as an acupuncturist. She’d always taken care of her own body. Then she was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2003.
“How has this happened to me?” she remembers asking herself. “I was just obsessing over that question. I did not do the things that assault the kidney in my adult life.” Then she thought of another possibility.
“In my younger years I went a very long time in fear. My house was not a safe place, and I know from my work with Chinese medicine that fear does assault the kidney.”
Judith had her left kidney removed. “By its removal I am removing decades of trauma,” she told herself. “I would see it then as a really deep healing, and I could live with that.”
Over the next five years she had three CT scans a year. There was no indication of further disease, and she was released from the care of her oncologist.
A couple of years later, Judith heard about a study at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, under researcher Roland Griffiths. Patients with life-threatening illnesses were being treated with psilocybin, a synthesized version of the drug found in “magic mushrooms,” to help them deal with the psychological trauma of a cancer diagnosis.
“At first, I couldn’t see myself doing this,” she recalls. “I am a cancer survivor. I have tremendous respect for my body and am very careful.”
Judith decided to enter the study after she got to know two staff members with the project who would guide her through the process. “They are very solid and generous, deeply spiritual good people. I had a tremendous amount of trust in everyone I encountered who was part of the program.”
She was led through two psychedelic sessions, one with a low dose and one with a high dose.
She saw what seemed like the ornate work of a great medieval cathedral, patterns that would rapidly change color and texture. There were other hallucinations of strange, garish creatures—like something out of a carnival. They annoyed her, and scared her a bit.
“I said silently, ‘OK. Here’s the deal. If I give myself over to you, will I get myself back in at least the same shape?’ And what I heard was a voice that said, ‘Do you think I would disrespect my own handiwork?’”
Three years later, Goedeke feels that the session has helped her to finally heal her decades-old trauma.
“It was out of my brokenness that the disease got hold of me,” she said. “So it helped me heal my life in a way that years of therapy and years of acupuncture and decades of journaling had not done. I felt like I could forgive all the folks who had unintentionally harmed me, and forgive myself of unintentionally harming myself. That has had tremendous ramifications in my family and stays with me on a daily basis. I’ve learned that we are not here to judge one another. Forgiveness is not earned. It is simply the way forward.”
Writer Don Lattin's most recent book is a memoir titled Distilled Spirits: Getting High, Then Sober, with a Famous Writer, a Forgotten Philosopher, and a Hopeless Drunk. Original art for this article by Archan Nair.
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Murray, UT (5/15/2009) - Researchers at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray believe that they have made a breakthrough connection between atrial fibrillation, a fairly common heart rhythm disorder, and Alzheimer’s disease, the leading form of dementia among Americans.
In a study presented Friday, May 15, at “Heart Rhythm 2009,” the annual scientific sessions of the Heart Rhythm Society in Boston, researchers unveiled findings from the study of more than 37,000 patients that showed a strong relationship between atrial fibrillation and the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
The study, which drew upon information from the Intermountain Heart Collaborative Study, a vast database from hundreds of thousands of patients treated at Intermountain Healthcare hospitals, found:
- Patients with atrial fibrillation were 44 percent more likely to develop dementia than patients without the heart disorder.
- Younger patients with atrial fibrillation were at higher risk of developing all types of dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s. Atrial fibrillation patients under age 70 were 130 percent more likely to develop Alzheimer’s.
- Patients who have both atrial fibrillation and dementia were 61 percent more likely to die during the study period than dementia patients without the rhythm problem.
- Younger atrial fibrillation patients with dementia may be at higher risk of death than older atrial fibrillation patients with dementia.
Intermountain Medical Center cardiologist T. Jared Bunch, M.D., the study’s lead researcher, presented the findings at the scientific session.
“Previous studies have shown that patients with atrial fibrillation are at higher risk for some types of dementia, including vascular dementia. But to our knowledge, this is the first large-population study to clearly show that having atrial fibrillation puts patients at greater risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease,” said Dr. Bunch.
Alzheimer’s is a devastating brain disease affecting approximately 5.3 million Americans. It is the most common form of dementia (a general term for life-altering loss of memory and other cognitive abilities), and accounts for 60-80 percent of all dementia cases. Today, it is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.
Currently, the known risk factors for Alzheimer’s are age, family history and genetics, though injury may also be linked with the disease. Heart health has long been suspected to play a role, but has not been linked. The Intermountain Medical Center study bolsters that connection.
“The study shows a connection between atrial fibrillation and all types of dementia,” said Bunch. “The Alzheimer’s findings — particularly the risk of death for younger patients — break new ground.”
Atrial fibrillation is the most common heart rhythm problem, affecting about 2.2 million Americans. It occurs when the heart beats chaotically, leading blood to pool and possibly clot. If the clot leaves the heart, a stroke can result.
The Intermountain Medical Center study looked at five years of data for 37,025 patients. Of that group, 10,161 developed AF and 1,535 developed dementia during the study period.
The study authors say more research is needed to explore further the relationship between atrial fibrillation and the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
“Now that we’ve established this link, our focus will be to see if early treatment of atrial fibrillation can prevent dementia or the development of Alzheimer’s disease,” says cardiologist John Day, M.D., director of heart rhythm services at Intermountain Medical Center and a co-author of the study.
Intermountain Medical Center is the premier cardiac center in the Intermountain West and serves as the flagship medical facility for Intermountain Healthcare, a nationally-recognized nonprofit system of hospitals, surgery centers, doctors, and clinics that serve the medical needs of patients in the Intermountain West.
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The seventh annual Retirement Survey from Wells Fargo, released last week from the company’s headquarters on top of its huge mountain of government money, is thought-provoking. But not in a good way. It is thought-provoking because it reveals so much recklessness, fecklessness, and denial. And those qualities make us stop and wonder, in morbid fascination.
The thought provocation begins with the headline on bank’s press release, which claims that “80 Is The New 65 For Many Middle Class Americans When It Comes To Retirement.” This seems like a pretty chipper observation. Typically, when we say 70 is the new 50, we mean that older people have a vitality that their parents didn’t have, usually because that older generation had the lifeblood sucked out of them by long hours at physically draining work, in and out of the home.
To say that “80 is the new 65” at work has a very different meaning. It means that geriatric employees will have to chose between starving and dragging their sorry, arthritic, broke asses out of bed to go to a job, where they will grind away until their bodies have been spent. Like their parents’ bodies were spent.
It might be the truth, and it might not be anyone’s fault, but it doesn’t warrant an upbeat “X is the new Y” treatment.
That said, the finding that spawned that headline is more disturbing than the headline itself: “A quarter (25%) of middle class Americans say they will ‘need to work until at least age 80’ to live comfortably in retirement.”
So we ask: what kind of work do you think you’ll be able to do when you’re 79, Mr. and Ms. America? We don’t need to tick off the infirmities that pile up with the years, but let’s just note that you don’t want to be swinging a pickaxe in a mine, or trying to keep up with the bar rush waiting tables at 3 AM, or driving a truck through a Wyoming blizzard, or soldering wires for tiny consumer electronic devices.
We can’t find work for robust 35-year-olds who have their hearing and don’t need bifocals to see what they’re eating. And you think you’ll be able to bring home a check when you’re entering you’re ninth decade?
But that’s not the most dissonant part of the study and the release that announced it. There is, for example, this: “Three in ten people (29%) in their 60s have saved less than $25,000 for retirement, possibly indicating they will rely heavily on Social Security.”
The pittance that has been set aside to last 18.6 years (that’s your life expectancy now, the CDC says, if you make it to 65) is a stunning fact. Also stunning is Wells Fargo’s coy observation that this “possibly” indicates a forthcoming heavy reliance on Social Security.
Possibly? You think? OK, some of these folks have defined-benefit pensions. And some will have financially secure offspring who will swoop in and support them. Some might win Powerball. And some might die before they hit 69. Pretty much everyone else will “rely heavily” on those regular checks from the government. Meaning that’s all they’ll have, along with food stamps and Medicare.
And it won’t be nearly enough. That fact is confirmed later in the release: “A 2010 study from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College estimated that the present value of lifetime uninsured health care costs for a typical married couple age 65 will be $197,000.”
Bottom line: many, many Americans have not saved enough and are not saving enough. Even though these people recognize that they would, in theory, need to work until they’re 80, many of them won’t have the stamina to do so and even if they did, it’s not clear that they’ll be able to compete successfully against young people, who also need to work to live. Put that together, and it says that we’ll see more old and destitute people.
And guess what: it’s happening already. New poverty figures from the U.S. Census Bureau show a large increase in the number of poor Americans, specifically older adults. Using a new formula that factors in health care costs, the agency found that the number of Americans aged 65 and over in poverty nearly doubled to 15.9 percent, or one in six individuals. That’s not a lot more than the 18-64 group, which had 15.2 percent in poverty, but one day that cohort will go back to work. And old people…not so much.
Photo of “three hobos sitting under a covered structure in Chicago, Illinois, 1929″ from the Chicago Daily News via Wikimedia Commons. Text on image reads: “Hoboe’s ‘Jungle’ Under Loop Street.”
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Grantham U Moves Course Management to Angel
- By Dian Schaffhauser
Grantham University, a completely online university, is implementing the Angel Learning Management Suite (LMS). Angel is a Web-based learning platform that allows faculty and students to interact and collaborate within their course work and academic programs.
"The addition of Angel will significantly improve interaction between our students and faculty," said Mark Eaton, director of academic technology at Grantham. "It also provides emerging Web 2.0 capabilities like wikis, blogs, podcasts and social networking that will greatly enhance our students' learning experience."
One reason the university is implementing the suite is to gain a better perspective of academic performance through course-related metrics. The school will be able to measure and track student performance for course completion as well as the achievement of programmatic and institutional goals and course learning outcomes.
"With Angel, Grantham will be positioned to proactively facilitate student success and drive toward better outcomes in its academic programs," said Eaton. "Our student experience will improve dramatically through the addition of innovative tools that connect and engage. Just like Grantham's previous LMS, Angel is a Web-based application, so students and faculty can continue to access their learning environment from anywhere in the world."
Dian Schaffhauser is a writer who covers technology and business for a number of publications. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Pyle, Ernie (Ernest Taylor Pyle), 1900–1945, American journalist, b. Dana, Ind. After working (1923–32) as a reporter, an editor, and an aviation writer, he became managing editor of the Washington Daily News. In 1935 he began writing a column syndicated by the Scripps-Howard chain to about 200 newspapers. Pyle captured America's affection by writing about the lives and hopes of typical citizens. During World War II he served as a war correspondent in Europe, N Africa, and the Pacific. He became the most popular of all correspondents, writing about the experiences of enlisted men rather than about battles or the exploits of officers. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished correspondence in 1944, and the next year he was killed by Japanese machine gun fire on Ie Shima. His columns were reprinted in Ernie Pyle in England (1941), Here Is Your War (1943), Brave Men (1944), Last Chapter (published posthumously, 1946), and Home Country (prewar writing published posthumously, 1947).
See biographies by L. G. Miller (1950) and J. E. Tobin (1997); D. Nichols, ed., Ernie's War (1987).
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Have you ever had an iPod nano catch fire on you? Even if you haven't, if you still have a first-generation iPod nano, the risk is there. Six years after the introduction of the original nano, Apple has rolled out a replacement program in order to address potential battery overheating issues.
Apple began notifying users late Friday about the replacement program. According to the company: "This issue has been traced to a single battery supplier that produced batteries with a manufacturing defect. While the possibility of an incident is rare, the likelihood increases as the battery ages." The company recommends that users stop using their first-gen iPod nanos sold between September 2005 and December 2006 and apply for a free replacement through its website.
Those with long memories may recall that there was a series of laptop battery recalls that took place throughout the fall of 2006, with big names like Apple, Dell, Toshiba, and Sony replacing the lithium-ion batteries in many of their portable products. In August of 2006, Apple issued a statement saying that "microscopic metal particles" in its battery cells manufactured by Sony could lead to a short circuit, leading to potential overheating issues and even fires.
It certainly sounds as if the first-generation iPod nano batteries are suffering the same fate, as they were manufactured and sold during the same time period as the laptop battery fiasco. Complaints about the original nano began cropping up in Japan and South Korea not long after (starting in about 2008), with Apple eventually agreeing to replace any overheating devices in those countries. Now, it looks as if Apple's replacement program is just being extended to cover the rest of the world, so if you still have one of these in rotation (as I do, strangely enough), you may want to get it replaced so you don't wake up one night to iPod nano flambé.
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Edyson CVT - continuously variable transmission
Variable ratio gearbox using only toothed gears sprockets pinions
(this is not an epicicloidal transmission !)
Patent pending, owner Pavilcu Edyson.
Edyson CVT is a stepless speed variator using only toothed gears /sprockets, which can be used on any traditional engine (gasoline, diesel, CNG), electric motors, steam or wind turbines, bicycles (human power), as well as a large number of industrial or agriculutre applications, replacing the current transmission also toothed belt or chain drive, however, every time and need some adjustment of the ratio in a mechanical transmission.
The CVT device can work completely in an oil bath, so there are no mechanical parts that have slippage, overheating or wear and withstands at high speed and power applied.
Thanks to the fact that, and exclusively composed of gears can transmit the usual power than conventional automatic gearboxes or traditional current with the advantage of having small dimensions, less components, lower weight, and also a lower cost.
This CVT gearbox system can replace the V-belt systems, transmissions with varying diameter in a continuous manner, and many others based on friction force then acting as the primary means for transferring the movement, with limited overall power and energy losses inevitable. The current exchange rate can withstand much higher power with minimal power consumption.
Other possible applications are bicycles, motorcycles, cars, automobils, boats, gearboxes, electric motors, steam and wind turbine, as well as a large number of industrial or agriculture applications whenever is necessary some adjustment of the gear ratio.
The current prototype demonstrate the high reliability and easy to manufacture. To increase the variation range of this systems can be connected in cascade.
Market opportunity for the Infinitely Variable Transmission system:
The prototype of the CVT variator Edyson designed for an electrical motorcycle with the above mentioned sizes can transfer:
- Power: around 60 HP
The CVT system can be designed for any vehicle and adapt for any power transmission by changing some dimmensions.
If you still think about this CVT to be an epicicloidal transmission, then you should read all one more time, becouse this is not an epicicloidal transmision !
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From Bulgaria! Bulgarian Archaeologists Uncover Major Roman Thermae
A Bulgarian team of archaeologists have discovered well-preserved remains of a Roman bath in the ancient Bulgarian town of Sozopol.
The news was revealed by National Museum of History director Bozhidar Dimitrov.
“The team, led by Sozopol Archaeology Museum director Dimitar Nedev has made the discovery as part of its digs in the area in front of Sozopol’s fortress walls,” said the historian.
It’s 18 meters long which isn’t huge, but still a good sized bath.
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The graveyard of American businesses is receiving another occupant. Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania-based apparel manufacturer FesslerUSA, over 100 years old, is closing its doors. The company, founded in 1900, began by producing cotton underwear, and most recently has marketed private-label fashion knitwear. Its all-American approach to business reflected the values and ingenuity that made American capitalism thrive.
Third-generation owner Walter Meck and other family members bought the company back from the Fessler family after Meck's father had sold it in 1960. After the advent of “free trade” and NAFTA had claimed its three biggest customers, the company shifted from high-volume mass-market apparel to higher-end products made with more expensive fabrics produced quickly in small quantities. The company adopted a policy of offering organic cotton, and fabrics made from bamboo.
FesslerUSA thrived. So much so that five years ago the company doubled its capacity and moved into a new factory. But it finally fell victim to the Great Recession with its tighter credit standards, Asian competition, and weak consumer spending.
The Detroit News, itself a part of a dying industry (the printed newspaper), quoted Meck as observing, "We knew that it was change or die. We had to reinvent ourselves."
So reinvent they did. Meck laid off half his workforce and maintained a leaner, more profitable company until 2010, when sales again plummeted. New markets and new product proposals were promising, but not in time to avoid the bank calling the company’s loan.
Meck noted that his company could have survived had he been able to find a lender, but that tightened credit is a common problem for small manufacturers. Chad Moutray, chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers, told The Detroit News, "Many of [the member companies] have complained to me that the standards for borrowing have become a lot more strict since the recession. It's much tougher to get a loan today than it was in the past."
In particular, new lending standards, a casualty of the country’s bailout policy, are what have made it much more difficult for struggling companies to get a loan. That, along with a national program of increased taxation and regulations on producers, has resulted in jobs and production going overseas. Meck also blamed part of his company’s problem on lack of investor interest — not surprising to analysts, given that the economy is scaring investors into hanging onto their money.
Fessler was one of the few remaining vertically integrated companies, meaning that all aspects of production remained under one roof. The company wove its own fabric, and did its own cutting and sewing.
Los Angeles-based American Apparel is an example of a highly successful clothing manufacturer using the vertical integration model, having carved itself a good chunk of a niche market. It has bucked the system. According to The Detroit News report,
Though domestic production has ticked up recently, more than 97 percent of the 19 billion pieces of apparel sold in the United States last year were made somewhere else, primarily in China and other Asian nations, according to Labor Department data compiled by the American Apparel & Footwear Association. Employment has declined 75 percent since the late 1990s, from 621,000 jobs in 1998 to 151,800 today.
At Fessler, that job loss has a face. The News continued,
Cutting room manager Gloria Bambrick, has worked in the garment industry for 32 years. Her previous two employers also shut their doors. With Fessler set to join them, she's not sure what she will do.
"’It's going to be tough for me to get a job because of my age," said Bambrick, who became the sole breadwinner for her stepdaughter and elderly mother after the recent death of her husband. "I am very strapped. I will need a good job."’
Bambrick mourns the disappearance of so many textile jobs: "I am an American girl and I wish more people would think like me and would have left the industry here and not sent it overseas."
Americans still do have choices, although they are shrinking. Though die-hard label-readers are finding fewer and fewer items made anywhere but China, analysts note that perseverance can pay off. In addition to American Apparel, "Made in the USA" labels can still be found at Munro Shoes, Finley Shirts, Unis, and Patricia Wolf, among others.
For Fessler, however, the run is over. Production will shut down in November after nearly 113 years, leaving 130 employees out of work. Meck commented,
I don't want people to be sorry. I want people to be proud we lasted this long. I want people to be proud we tried. We did good work. There is nothing to be upset about. In today's economy and today's world, it didn't work.
Now more than ever, critics say, Americans should step up the efforts to Buy American, to prevent more Fessler stories.
Photo of FesslerUSA CEO Walter Meck standing in front of idle sewing equipment at the Orwigsburg, Pa., plant: AP Images
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View Full Version : Ways of creating a fabric type look
01-23-2004, 10:21 PM
Hi all, I'm currently texturing my game model, and it needs to looks like camoflage (spelling?) and I want it to have a fabric type off look.
I want it to be kind of like coarse lines running through it, like on jeans or other types of pants.
Anyone know how to do this or have any good tutorials???
if your working low res filter>texture>texturizer "may" do it for you, but it repeats :rolleyes:
a better solution was paint alchemy which is included in totalxaos
theres a downloadable demo there. I say "was" because it looks like that it hasnt been updated in years...it may still work though...try it, theres a mac and pc demo.
01-17-2006, 06:00 AM
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But a sensor built into the luminaire that automatically responds to its environment – whether it's occupancy, available daylight, time of day or other variables – and delivers just the right amount of light when and where it is needed -- is the perfect solution for reducing energy consumption and costs. Rather than applying controls as an afterthought the built-in approach maximizes energy efficiency.
Added intelligence within the sensor systems also greatly enhances the control ability of the facility operator. Remote control systems allow the setting of target light levels without a facility manager needing to get up on a lift and adjust dipswitches on sensors controlling 100+ fixtures. By supplementing the working space with only the amount of light needed to maintain a uniformly lit environment, tremendous energy savings can be realized when compared to existing installations which do not respond to changes in ambient light.
Image 3: Sensor driven lighting adjustments maintain constant illumination (70 foot candles on desks) while reducing output based on available daylight.
Now system-on-chip light sensor solutions provide a complete light sensing subsystem, including conversion of analog readings to a digital I2C output signal. This includes correction for any errors caused by the fixture's own imperceptible flicker, on an integrated circuit as small as 2mm square, and costs about the same, or even less, than a simple photosensitive component alone. Additionally, sophisticated filters automatically reject the 50-60Hz ripple typically produced by a building's fluorescent lighting systems, enabling the sensed light levels to more accurately measure the daylight that is entering the building.
Being fully aware of the lit environment also allows optimization that extends beyond energy savings. In integrated building management and control systems, the combination of proximity/motion and light sensing provides an abundance of data concerning the interior environment. Additionally, daylight sensing/harvesting combined with precise control mechanisms enable the lighting system to deliver not just the needed amount of light, but also offers the ability to tune the type of light to suit the activity and users in a particular space.
Intelligent lighting and existing light sources
Fluorescent luminaires are already in widespread use so it makes sense to integrate a system that can improve efficiency of these fixtures up to 50 percent through smarter lighting controls that match lighting to the demands of the business and environment. What is critical is a sensor system that connects to today's existing building management structure.
Although modern fluorescent lamps are highly efficient, adding the components to support dimming can be costly, and the nature of the ballast systems does not lend them to the faster on/off cycle times that would be considered ideal for motion sensor or proximity control scenarios. However, through the use of intelligent sensors, the technology senses a rise in ambient illumination and dims the luminaire in response; as the daylight increases, fluorescent light will decrease.
Environmentally aware, decision-directed, multi-sensor networks and optimized light will enhance not only the productivity of the built space, but also worker and group productivity, as well as increasing the health and well-being of individuals.
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For Immediate Release, April 26, 2012
Contact: Amy Harwood, (520) 260-7172
Royal Society Study: Population, Consumption Are 'Profound' Challenges to People, Planet
TUCSON, Ariz.— A scientific study released today by the London-based Royal Society finds that the world’s human population growth and consumption of natural resources by rich countries present “profound” challenges to economies and our environment. The report, People and the Planet, includes several recommendations for ensuring the health of all life on the planet, including supporting voluntary family planning.
“The recommendations included in this study should be heeded by environmental activists around the world,” said Amy Harwood, coordinator for the Center for Biological Diversity’s human population campaign. “Unsustainable growth of the world’s human population is having profound environmental effects, including pushing more and more plants and animals toward extinction. Population growth and consumption simply have to be part of the discussion when we’re talking about environmental issues.”
In recent years, awareness and concern about the effects of a growing population has been increasing. As environmental advocates succeed at promoting new initiatives to reduce consumption, the resulting changes are jeopardized by more and more people doing the consuming. In People and the Planet, researchers recognize this complex connection: “Population is not only about the growing numbers of people: changes in age structure, migration, urbanization and population decline present both opportunities and challenges to human health, wellbeing and the environment.”
The world’s human population has doubled since 1970, reaching 7 billion in 2011. It could exceed 9 billion by 2050.
The Center is the only environmental group with a full-time campaign highlighting the connection between unsustainable human population growth and the ongoing extinction crisis for plants and animals around the world. Since 2010, it has handed out more than a half-million free Endangered Species Condoms as a part of the 7 Billion and Counting campaign to raise awareness about population and wildlife extinctions.
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The Politecnico di Milano, one of Italy’s most prestigious universities, made waves in mid-May when it announced that it will teach and assess most of its degree and all of its postgraduate courses in English from 2014. While the move proved controversial in Italy, it is far from unusual.
Universities worldwide have been switching wholly or partly to teaching in English for a number of reasons such as improved graduate employment and mobility prospects, and the need for graduates who can speak English for international trade. There is also the growing impact of university league tables. Even if academics question their objectivity, they have become increasingly important in how universities market themselves. And the use of English, particularly for research, is seen as helping to raise visibility in international rankings.
But there are also challenges, including a shortage of lecturers who are proficient in English, local resistance, as well as the costs involved for new text books, lectures and course materials.
University World News recently provided a convenient round-up of those following the English-medium trend:
Chinese universities have been adding bilingual lectures to curricula to comply with a 2007 government requirement for more lectures in English and Chinese to improve the overall quality of Chinese students, according to the Ministry of Education.
Ningbo University in the key east China trading port of Ningbo, Zhejiang province, started trialling bilingual teaching then, and has a small number of English lectures, including some taught partly in English.
Around half of these are finance-related, including international clearance, international finance and accounting.
“English-teaching makes our students more competitive if they want to seek jobs in foreign companies or banks. It will also benefit our students planning to study abroad,” said Zhang Ying, a curriculum specialist at Ningbo.
Other lectures, such as liberal arts and scientific engineering, use just Chinese. “For one thing, the English level of Chinese students is not good enough. For another, we lack English-speaking teachers.”
Limited budgets are another constraint. Ningbo usually seeks teachers among overseas returnees, or sends its own teachers abroad for short-term language training. “It costs a lot more if we hire returnees, let alone foreign teachers.”
However, Zhang added that a “foreign language cannot be quickly improved in just six months. That’s why we are still trialling the English-teaching programme.”
In recent news, three postgraduate courses at Vietnam National University-Hanoi – masters and doctoral degrees in organic chemistry, and doctorates in Vietnamese studies – are the latest to switch to being taught in English from the semester that began in September 2012.
They join 14 other courses, seven undergraduate and seven postgraduate, delivered in English since 2007 at the country’s largest multi-disciplinary university, under its Nhiem vu chien luoc (Strategic Tasks) programme to lay the foundations for internationalisation.
In the Middle East, English is the official language of long-established American universities in Lebanon, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, and is rapidly becoming the language of choice at new universities in the region.
In Lebanon, for instance, students over the past decade have increasingly opted for English over French at university despite being schooled in French. Again, job opportunities are typically cited as the major reason.
This has not generally caused problems, but there has been some resistance in the more conservative Gulf countries – and there have recently been moves towards a greater role for Arabic in higher education.
In Qatar, English has been gradually imposed on schools as well as at the state-owned Qatar University, where most subjects are now taught in English. Also, Qatar Foundation’s Education City has six branch-campuses of leading American universities.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, one academic based in Qatar told University World News: “Some Qataris are not happy about English being the dominant language, as they feel it is at the expense of Arabic and a further blow to their culture.
“This is a pressing issue at Qatar University as English is the course language at the Education City universities.”
ICEF Monitor has just learned that following a decree by Qatar’s Supreme Education Council, Qatar University, the country’s largest third level educational institution, all lessons in business, economics, media and international affairs will be solely in Arabic starting next semester. However, courses in engineering and science will remain in English.
As Qatar looks to promote itself as a knowledge hub, it will need to find the balance between accessibility and preservation of language and culture.
In Latin American universities too, teaching in English is increasingly common. It is driven largely by job opportunities opening up at overseas companies investing in Latin America, and as more students look to work overseas.
Ecuador is typical, and Universidad San Francisco de Quito in the capital city Quito leads the way.
Students must reach an advanced level of English before they can graduate. A growing number of courses, including psychology, sociology and education, are now taught mostly in English, with each specifying a number of credits that students must take in the language.
“The use of English here has been growing over the past five years,” said Rhys Davies, English coordinator at Universidad San Francisco de Quito. “We are always looking for teachers to teach in English, and lots are now from the US and the UK.
“Students know how important it could be for their professions and embrace any opportunity to improve language skills.” Another factor is the growing number of students becoming postgraduates in the US, Davies added.
One particularly illuminating example is in Africa. Former Belgian colony Rwanda once taught mainly in French or the indigenous Kinyarwanda dialect, but switched to English as the primary language of educational instruction in 2008.
It changed partly in order to integrate better with nations that cooperate as the East African Community – Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi – the majority of them English-speaking in official circles.
The switch has also helped to distance Rwanda from France, which the Rwandan government has accused of arming the 1994 Hutu genocide against the minority Tutsi population.
The Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in the capital city was one of the first to convert fully. Focusing first on English-taught technical classes, it is now expanding English usage across the arts and humanities.
However, four years on, students and instructors still struggle with English, said Professor John Severin Mshana, KIST’s vice-rector for academics. “It’s a problem for students to understand what lecturers are saying,” he said.
This stemmed from not having enough primary and secondary school teachers with English fluency, he added. So KIST offers remedial English classes to students.
Despite the challenge, Mshana said he has never heard anyone question the transition. Quite the opposite, because “to be bilingual is a benefit.”
There are more than 4,500 university courses now being taught in English in continental Europe.
But lately, professors in The Netherlands have complained of Dutch becoming a second-class language and students have not been generally happy about the spread of English.
Competition for foreign students has seen English gain ground since 2009 depending on subject and degree level. Dutch prevails for bachelor degrees, and English at masters level. International programmes are largely in English.
At the University of Amsterdam for example, two bachelor of arts programmes – economics; and business, liberal arts and sciences – are in English, as are 87 masters and research masters programmes.
Since 1996, almost all courses at Maastricht University have switched to, or started up in, English. Some staff and students worried about their English proficiency, so the university has student admission requirements based on TOEFL and IELTS English language exams.
“For teaching and support staff, courses are offered to improve their level of English,” a spokesperson said.
Using English has attracted students from Anglophone countries. The Netherlands is seen as an option by students from the UK, where tuition fees have tripled of late. Within a broader strategy, teaching in English has seen a doubling over 10 years in the proportion of foreign students registered at Maastricht.
The Dutch approach to English usage in universities is echoed in other European countries, including Germany and Scandinavian nations.
“Universities are in a more competitive world, if you want to stay with the other global universities – you have no other choice,” says the Politecnico di Milano’s Professor Giovanni Azzoni.
He says that his university’s experiment will “open up a window of change for other universities,” predicting that in five to ten years other Italian universities with global ambitions will also switch to English.
“We are very proud of our city and culture, but we acknowledge that the Italian language is an entry barrier for overseas students,” he says, particularly when recruiting from places such as China and India.
“It’s extremely important, at present you have two choices. You can either stay isolated in your own country – which is not realistic in a global world.
“The other is to open up and be able to work in an international context. Either our university will understand that or else our country will be isolated.”
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Watering tea plants, about 1850
On view March 14, 2009 to September 15, 2013
Located in the: Asian Export Art: Works on Paper Gallery
Through delicate works on paper and other select objects, explore four essential motifs Westerners often associate with China -- fish, silk, tea, bamboo. Each was cultivated for artistic expression as well as profit. All helped shape the emerging concept of the Middle Kingdom in 18th-century Europe.
Support provided by the East India Marine Associates of the Peabody Essex Museum.
Portrait of a woman in the Chinese Imperial Court, about 1730
Peabody Essex Museum
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May 21, 2007
If one were asked to use just one word to describe Bernd Sturmfels' lecture at the MAA Carriage House on May 17, "colorful" might come to mind. Sturmfels, a mathematician at the University of California, Berkeley, delighted a full house with his illuminating discussion of Gröbner bases, using color-coded examples filled with complex brown polynomials and much simpler blue polynomials.
Born in Germany, Sturmfels received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1987 and has held positions at Cornell University, New York University, as well as at Berkeley. He has received numerous honors, including the MAA's Lester R. Ford Award for expository writing (1999) and designation as a George Pólya Lecturer.
Sturmfels described a Gröbner basis as a set of multivariate polynomials that has desirable algorithmic properties. He emphasized that "Gröbner bases give a method of transforming a feasible solution using local moves into a global optimum." He noted that Gröbner bases are fundamental in algebra and that they have many applications, including optimization, coding, robotics, and statistics.
A part of his discussion centered on the idea of what to do with the change in your pocket. "You should take the change in your pocket and optimize that portfolio!" he declared. Using Gröbner bases, Sturmfels showed the crowd a "simple" way to figure out the smallest number of coins that it takes to make $1.17. He noted that a Gröbner basis could be used to optimize any type of currency, including galleons, sickles, and knuts, the money used in the fictional Harry Potter books.
Sturmfels' entertaining presentation drew laughter from the crowd a number of times. He described, for example, how the procedure came to be known as a Gröbner basis. He explained that a Gröbner basis can be computed by a method that was introduced in Bruno Buchberger's 1965 dissertation. "And, like any good student, Buchberger named the method after his advisor, Wolfgang Gröbner," Sturmfels noted. On the other hand, he explained, the algorithm used for computing Gröbner bases now carries Buchberger's name.
The evening came to a close with some questions from the audience and a hearty round of applause for Sturmfels and his remarkably lucid presentation of Gröbner bases and their many applications. And the audience left with a better appreciation of pocket change.—R. Miller
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Welcome to our world of fun trivia quizzes and quiz games:
The Sheet Music Chart
"Before November 1952 Britain did not have a record sales chart. The hit parade was based on a sheet music sales chart broadcast by Radio Luxembourg."
15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit
In January 1950 the "Harry Lime Theme" topped the sheet music chart for four weeks. Who both wrote and recorded this?
March 1950 saw a Teresa Brewer recording topping the sheet music sales charts. It was her first hit. What was the title?
Music! Music! Music!
Put Another Nickel In
January 1951 saw "I Taut I Taw A Puddy Cat" top the sheet music charts. Whose voice would be most associated with this line?
A Les Paul and Mary Ford record sold the most sheet music in April 1951. What was the title?
Mockin' Bird Valley
Mockin' Bird Hill
In August 1951 "Too Young" was a success from the point of view of both record and sheet music sales. Nat King Cole recorded a version, but who was the popular singer and broadcaster who recorded the British version?
In October 1952 which Al Martino song topped the sheet music charts, and in November 1952 was the first number one on the UK singles chart?
The Street Where You Live
My Resistance is Low
Yellow Rose of Texas
Here In My Heart
From November 1952 the sheet music chart and record sales chart ran side by side. They did not however always agree. Which Jo Stafford song topped the sheet music chart in December 1952 but did not appear on the record chart until January 1953?
This Ole House
Come Alonga Love
You Belong To Me
Red Sails In The Sunset
In June 1953 Eddie Fisher topped the record sales charts with "I'm Walking Behind You", but this never topped the sheet music charts. Which Frankie Laine song kept it off the top of the sheet music chart?
By January 1956 the sheet music charts and the record sales charts were showing increased divergence. While the record charts were topped with "Rock Around The Clock" and "Sixteen Tons" which popular television theme, sung by Bill Hayes, was topping the sheet music chart?
The Man From Laramie
Champion The Wonder Horse
Ballad of Davy Crockett
The Lone Ranger
In March 1959 the record charts and sheet music charts were both topped by the same piano piece. It was Russ Conway's first hit. What was the title?
Black and White Rag
Hurdy Gurdy Man
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In order to expand its reach, our shool is now offering a variety of services, such as corporate classes, classes in fitness centers, and classes in local schools.
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One of the things that never consider doing when maintaining their bike is maintenance. Bicycle riders do not realise that keeping your bike well maintained will actual serve a couple of purposes.
The first purpose of maintenance is that it may actually increase the performance of your bike. The improvement may be minimal however every bit helps when you are trying to get that little bit extra improvement in your performance.
The second purpose is to maintain the longevity of your bike. Ensuring you maintain your bike means that you will be saving long term.
The first step in bike maintenance is to clean your bike. When riding your bike along the roads, you will pick up a lot of dirt and grime that will get caught up in all parts of your bike. This can cause long term damage. A key area to focus is the drive train as this gathers a lot of dirt and junk and therefore needs to be kept clean.
Online shopping is growing more and more and one of the biggest growth areas is online fashion shopping. There are many advantages to shopping online which is why it is growing so rapidly.
One reason is the convenience of it. Shopping online allows you to shop online whenever you want as online stores never usually close. This allows you to shop at your own convenience and allows to shop without the pressure of someone looking over your shoulder.
Online shopping also is usually cheaper than buying from a store. Online stores usually don’t have the same overheads as a bricks and mortar store and therefore can offer goods at a cheaper price. Online stores usually have promotional methods as well which is not possible in bricks and mortar stores. One example is Boohoo.com who often give consumers a BooHoo coupon to get a discount off their purchase.
Finally, online shopping means you can usually get a wider range of products since the stores are not restricted by expensive limited shelf space as a retail store is.
The Apple iPhone 5 has been around for a while now and with the fast pace that the smartphone market is moving and the pressure from Samsung, Apple need to keep releasing awesome hardware to maintain their market position.
The Apple iPhone 5S and Apple iPhone 6 is reportedly in the works and it is expected that the iPhone 5S will be announced soon.
There are a number of rumours surrounding the new Apple iPhone 5S, and here are some of what we’ve been hearing.
Firstly, it is expected that the new iPhone will have more options of colours. Right now you can only select from black or white, however it is expected that this will be expanded to at least 5 or 6 options.
Next is that their will be a 13 megapixel camera on the back bringing it up to speed with other phones in the market.
When watching formula one, you may hear a lot of commentators mentioning DRS and wondered what it meant. DRS is the abbreviation for Drag Reduction System which is the ability for a formula one car to adjust the rear wing on the vehicle in a way that reduces aerodynamic drag.
DRS was introduced in the 2011 season and has gone through a number of rule changes since then. The DRS system was introduced as it’s use could be enforced. The system arose because Red Bull Racing made a complaint about the F-ducts system used by Ferrari which was said to increase a cars speed by up to 6kmph.
DRS has it’s restrictions and cannot be used all over the track. There are dedicated DRS zones (usually two) on a track where a driver is able to activate it. The driver is only allowed to activate it if they are within 1 second of the car in front of it.
The Iconic has achieved such a growth over the past few years that it’s the admiration of the online shopping community. The company has grown exponentially and now is considered one of the biggest online fashion stores in Australia.
This success has not gone unnoticed with the company announcing that it has secured new funding in the form of a 25 million dollar cash injection from investment firm Summit Partners. Summit Partners is a large US equity investor who targets businesses that they feel have huge growth potential.
The managing director of Summit Partners, Scott Collins, has explained that the company looks for companies that have a long term value and show dynamic growth. Criteria which The Iconic strongly exhibit.
In regards to the funds, The Iconic intend to consolidate and expand further into the Australian market and ensure that they have full penetration.
The iPhone 5 has been one of the most popular iPhones released to date and this has meant that millions of the devices have been sold. Interestingly, it has been revealed that Apple has had to return over eight million devices back to Foxconn, the manufacturer, due to it not meeting quality requirements.
According to Chinese Business News, such a huge amount of returns would mean that this would have cost Foxconn up to $250 US dollars.
Some of the issues that have plagued the device since launch include phones that come straight out of the box with scratches on the body, discoloration of the device’s housing and software bugs.
It has been since reported that Foxconn has achieved a quality rate of 80%, not up to the 90% required by Apple.
When quizzed on the issue, Foxconn denies that there is any truth to the story and have advised quality rates are at a normal level.
With the rapid decline in sales of personal computers and rise in tablet PC’s and smartphone devices, where Lenovo has very little market share, Lenovo is looking for new products to kick start revenue growth and slow down the decline in sales.
One area which the company is rumored to be investigating is the purchase of IBM’s low end x86 commodity server business and according to reports, discussions are very advanced and it is expected that a decision either way should be made in the near future.
Lenovo is slowly making it’s way into the managed services area. Computer hardware is extremely low margin and to achieve profitability, you must sell through high volume. The profit margins on managed services is significantly higher and hence a more attractive proposition.
Lenovo had originally bought IBM’s PC business in 2005 and with this, purchased the popular ThinkPad brand. They have recently started offering servers and purchasing the IBM commodity server business will integrate nicely with this strategy.
Online shopping is starting to really take off in Australia after lagging behind the rest of the developed world in popularity. In the past it seemed like many people resisted purchasing online due to the high costs of delivery and the problem with trying to purchase fashion online. Online shopping was largely restricted to items where you would know exactly what you were getting and didn’t need to try it on such as computers and electronics.
Nowadays however, online shopping for fashion has become more popular due to the fact that stores are offering customers an excellent shopping experience. One of these stores is The Men’s Shop who have implemented techniques such as free delivery and returns as well as The Mens Shop coupon to get you started on your purchase.
The store is owned by the Gazal Group and is targeting men who they believe aren’t keen on shopping. They are targeting men who would rather shop online in the comfort of their own home.
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On this same topic (water), I saw the following question posed today to Tom Lehmann at PMQ about distilled water, and Tom's response:
What effect does using distilled water in dough formula have, all other ingredients and factors being the same? I understand the PH is 7, good for dough production, but is the lack of minerals in distilled water a factor? I am going to produce dough from a mobile concession trailer so am looking for a consistent water.
As opposed to tap water, it will produce a softer, slightly sticky dough. This is easily corrected by using less water in the dough. Once this is done, there will be no further changed in the dough or finished product as a result of using distilled water. It should work fine for you.
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will ask Congress to improve childhood nutrition by ridding school vending machines of sugary snacks and drinks and giving school lunch and breakfast to more kids.
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the administration will seek changes when Congress overhauls the Childhood Nutrition Act.
"Our children deserve better nutrition, and our country's better and brighter future depends on it," Vilsack said. "And with the reauthorization of the Childhood Nutrition Act scheduled this year, there won't be a better time than now to act boldly."
Vilsack's comments were in a speech he was to deliver Monday, outlining the administration's goals for school nutrition. His appearance was canceled because of snow.
The Associated Press obtained excerpts of the speech, which outlines changes the administration plans to seek in the Childhood Nutrition Act. A Vilsack spokesman said the speech would be rescheduled.
Child nutrition and obesity have emerged as key issues for the Obama administration. First Lady Michelle Obama plans to launch a campaign against childhood obesity on Tuesday.
Vilsack outlined changes that include a push to jettison cookies, cakes, pastries and salty food from school vending machines and cafeteria lines. Vilsack says schools need to help kids eat more whole grains, fruits and vegetables.
"Food served in vending machines and the a la carte line shouldn't undermine our efforts to enhance the health of the school environment," he said. "We must have the capacity to set standards for all the foods served and sold in schools."
The administration also wants to enroll more kids in school lunch programs and boost the number of schools offering breakfast. Vilsack said the administration would also push for bigger reimbursements for schools serving breakfast.
In addition, the administration is seeking to link local farmers with school cafeterias and improve parent and student education about nutrition.
Lawmakers from both parties have expressed interest child nutrition. Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss, senior Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee, met last week with Mrs. Obama to discuss the issue. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., chairwoman of the committee, is expected to bring up reauthorization for the Childhood Nutrition Act in the coming weeks.
Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Genetic Justice provides an accessible, yet exhaustive, review of this vital public policy issue. Many of us fail to appreciate that every time we discard a coffee cup, use a napkin, eat with a fork and spoon or otherwise interact with our environment, we leave a piece of ourselves behind. And that piece of ourselves—that DNA—can be used not just to discern our identity, but to provide clues on whether we’re likely to develop a particular disease, what we look like and where we come from. The physical trail of DNA can also be used to track our movements, and legal theories that permit the authorities to freely collect this “abandoned” DNA could theoretically make the warrant requirement and other checks on law enforcement abuse obsolete.
The issues raised by Genetic Justice may be complicated, but they are crucially important to our modern civil liberties. And, as the technology for analyzing DNA becomes smaller, faster and cheaper, these considerations just become more pressing. Genetic Justice provides a needed glimpse into that brave new world.
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In part one of this two-part tip on wireless authentication, we discussed some of the risks associated with pre-shared keys and alternatives to that authentication method such as 802.1X port access
Enterprise-grade RADIUS servers can be prohibitively expensive for the midmarket. But smaller organizations looking for commercial software can still purchase RADIUS for less than $1,000 -- for example, the wizard-driven Elektron RADIUS server for Windows XP and Mac OS ($750).
Alternatively, consider turning a Microsoft Windows Server into a RADIUS server for your WLAN. For example, a PC running Windows Server 2003 can be configured to run Microsoft's Internet Authentication Server (IAS). Instructions for setting up IAS and using it to support 802.1X can be found on Microsoft's TechNet site here. For Windows Server 2008, Microsoft replaced IAS with its new Network Policy Server (NPS). These Microsoft solutions can be attractive to Windows administrators who are already comfortable and experienced with running Microsoft servers.
Administrators who prefer working with UNIX have several open source alternatives. The most well-known is FreeRADIUS, a popular server for use on many 32- and 64-bit platforms, including Cygwin, FreeBSD, RedHat, SUSE, Ubuntu, and Mac OS X. Instructions on how to build FreeRADIUS from open source are available online here; binaries are also available for some platforms. Once your FreeRADIUS server has been installed, tips on using it for wireless authentication can be found in this FreeRADIUS WPA Wiki.
But installing a RADIUS server is just the first step. You will need to configure that server with a certificate, a list of RADIUS clients (APs), and user access policies. You may store user accounts on the RADIUS server, but most businesses prefer to interface their servers with existing user databases like Active Directory. Doing so lets you reuse Windows domain account logins and passwords for wireless access, reducing total cost of operation. However, initial user database integration can be tricky and time-consuming.
Finally, it's crucial to consider server availability. Deploying 802.1X with a one central RADIUS server creates a single point of failure. Businesses that find that unacceptable must deploy at least two servers and decide how to implement failover. For example, if APs are configured to send wireless access requests to a single server IP, the backup server will need the ability to assume the primary server's address. Remote office WLANs may also require their own RADIUS server to survive WAN link outages.
Let Someone Else Do RADIUS for You
If establishing production-grade RADIUS infrastructure sounds like too much work, another option is to outsource wireless authentication.
There are many "Managed Authentication" services aimed at large businesses with relatively sophisticated needs. For example, Managed Remote Access VPN services can often be paired with services that help businesses issue user certificates, smart cards, or hardware tokens. However, such services are not typically designed to enable WLAN authentication -- they are more about providing support for identity lifecycle management.
Midmarket companies that simply want 802.1X PEAP / MS-CHAPv2 authentication can turn to a commercial service like BoxedWireless authentication and Witopia SecureMyWiFi, or even the free WiFiRadis service. Such "Managed 802.1X" services provide a Web interface to enroll RADIUS clients (APs) and create user accounts (IDs and passwords). APs are then configured to relay WLAN access requests across the Internet to the provider's RADIUS server(s). The provider assumes responsibility for RADIUS installation, maintenance, and availability. In return, you pay a recurring fee --SecureMyWiFi starts at $99 per year, depending on number of APs, while BoxedWireless starts at $186 per year, depending on number of users.
You will be limited in the type of user credentials and how they are issued, and you will of course need to trust the service provider. Robust, secure Internet connectivity for all APs will clearly be essential, to ensure they can always reach the provider's RADIUS server. As your WLAN size and experience with 802.1X grows, you may end up bringing RADIUS back in-house. But outsourcing RADIUS authentication can be a quick and easy way to get started with 802.1X on a modest scale.
One final option to consider is using AP or controller-based RADIUS authentication servers. For example, the Motorola Symbol AP-5131 and Aerohive 300 series HiveAP have on-board RADIUS servers that can be used to configure user accounts directly into the AP itself. This makes it possible to use 802.1X port access control without requiring the AP to consult a central RADIUS server.
This approach has clear limitations. For example, if you fail to configure the same user accounts and passwords into every AP, users may successfully log on in one location but fail in another and passwords updates become challenging. However, this may be a worthwhile trade-off between 802.1X benefits and complexity in small office and remote WLANs -- especially those covered by a single AP or controller.
Lisa Phifer is vice president of Core Competence Inc. She has been involved in the design, implementation and evaluation of networking, security and management products for more than 25 years, and has advised companies large and small regarding security needs, product assessment, and the use of emerging technologies and best practices.
This was first published in March 2009
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Monday, November 26, 2012
The FBI warns that internet fraud is especially prevalent during the holiday shopping season.
- POLICE & FIRE
Monday, November 26, 2012
The following information is provided by the FBI: At this time of year, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center reminds consumers to be wary of Internet fraud during the holiday shopping season. Here are a few of the scams to look out for: The FBI's No. 1 tip to avoid being a victim of cyber scams: If it looks too good to be true, it probably is. Click here to read more from the FBI about the newest E-Scams & warnings. Click here to see which retailers are offering Cyber Monday specials. Please help us get to 1,000 Facebook “likes” by clicking here and “liking” us.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Are you gearing up to let your fingers do the walking on Cyber Monday?
Pine-Richland residents who didn’t want to brave the crowds on Black Friday or Small Business Saturday still have one more big chance to save courtesy of Cyber Monday. Similar to the two other major shopping events, Cyber Monday differs in that consumers don’t have to leave the comfort of their own homes (or offices) to take advantage of some pretty big pre-holiday deals. All the bargains laid out for Cyber Monday are for online shoppers only. So how can you find the best deals online this Cyber Monday? Here are just a few stores that are planning Cyber Monday deals, some of which are in effect all week: What’s your favorite store to surf on Cyber Monday? Share your suggestions in the comments section. If you own or know of a local …
Have you trimmed your spending because of the economy or has good fortune enabled you to spend more?
Many of you might already be done with your holiday shopping. Still others might be waiting for even better deals that sometimes pop up prior to Christmas. But how does your spending compare to prior holiday seasons? Those who have lost jobs due to the economy, who feel their jobs might be threatened or who have suffered other setbacks might be a little tighter with the purse strings than someone who just got that promotion. With Black Friday and Small Business Saturday over, and Cyber Monday waiting for a business surge tomorrow, you should have a pretty good handle on your 2012 holiday budget. So how much do you plan to spend this holiday season? Let us know by voting in our poll. And tell us in the comments section why you are spending …
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Looks like you were spending money online Monday.
Our Patch Poll asked whether you would be doing holiday shopping online during what's known as Cyber Monday. Our results show 66 percent of voters were planning to do some computer browsing—and buying—on websites. That falls in line with what the experts are saying about the success of Cyber Monday. Early indications are that Cyber Monday sales were up about 15 percent over the same day last year. Couple that with Black Friday sales, said to be up 20 percent over 2010, and we might soon hear the experts saying the economy was goosed last weekend, in a good way.
Monday, November 28, 2011
For consumers, today is the internet equivalent of Black Friday. Our Patch Poll wants to know: Will you be shopping online today?
We have to wonder who comes up with these numbers, but the dollar-counting experts say that shoppers spent $52 billion in retail stores on Black Friday. (Can you imagine the chaos if that were all at the Dollar Store?) After all that, we wonder who has any money left over for more shopping. The same experts are predicting that Americans will spend another cool $1 billion today shopping online. We actually enjoy shopping for jammies while wearing our jammies, and it looks like we won't be alone. We are wondering whether you will be sitting down in front of your computer for some gift buying today. Vote in our Patch Poll, please. We'll bring you the results tomorrow.
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A few years ago I wrote a piece about the dying oceans. There wasn't anything to do with it so I think I tossed it to my faithful friend Robert Baker and he put it on my website at ClimateTruth.org. Mr. Baker does good work. Any inadequacies on the site are my fault. Anyway, it might be on there somewhere but no big loss if I never find it. It's not like there isn't going to be more chances to come up with more news about all the ways we are killing off the life beneath the sea.
One of the first books I bought about Global Warming was called The Weathermakers by Tim Flannery. He was the first one to teach me about the dying krill. Remove the krill from the sea and everything else will cease to be.
And now two friends sent me the latest information about the dying phytoplankton, first Mauro and then Steve. Thanks guys.
While we continue our daily lives, out in the ocean a quiet holocaust is slowly unfolding. And yes it is our fault. And no we aren't planning to arrest these deaths. We could. But we choose not to.
It seems Global Warming is being blamed for 40% of the decline in the phytoplankton in the ocean in the last 60 years. Phytoplankton is the basis for life and anyone who has studied the oceans should not be surprised. You maintain an ecosystem at a steady temperature for many hundreds of thousands of years and then suddenly make it hotter. Things are going to die. Quickly.
"Microscopic life crucial to the marine food chain is dying out. The consequences could be catastrophic."
Plant plankton found in the world's oceans are crucial to much of life on Earth. They are the foundation of the bountiful marine food web, produce half the world's oxygen and suck up harmful carbon dioxide."
"Phytoplankton is the fuel on which marine ecosystems run. A decline in phytoplankton affects everything up the food chain, including humans."
If the findings are confirmed by further studies it will represent the single biggest change to the global biosphere in modern times, even bigger than the destruction of the tropical rainforests and coral reefs."
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Groups disagree about best way to legalize marijuana in Washington
- I attended the marijuana roundtable held at the Tonasket Community Cultural Center last Friday night, but came away wondering if supporting Initiative 502 in marijuana reform was really the way to go or not for our state.
- Why, because there seemed to be two schools of thought. While they had people arguing for the initiative, they also had one panelist who was arguing against – not because he didn’t think legalizing and regulating marijuana was something the state should do. He felt legalization was right, but that I-502 supporters were going about it wrong way and the state even more vulnerable to greater federal interference (we’ll look at both sides more in depth in an article about the roundtable next week).
- Marijuana should be legalized if only because keeping it criminalized has just led to more crime, very similar, but in many cases much more ruthless than, the gangsters who ran booze in Chicago during alcohol prohibition. Don’t take my word for it, a surprising number of people in law enforcement agree – take out the huge money aspect of marijuana, regulate it like cigarettes or beer, and it because no worse than alcohol and in many cases less so. As one panelist asked, Have you ever heard of someone punching out someone when they were smoking marijuana? How about if they’ve been drinking whiskey? Answering his own question, the former long-time law enforcement officer said he had seen it all too often for booze, but never for pot.
- Marijuana has been portrayed as some sort of highly addictive killer substance ever since the days of the anti-pot movie “Reefer Madness” from the 1930s. I guess it may have been taken seriously in it’s time, but most people watching it nowadays realize that it was just blatant (and comical) propaganda. The true crime related to marijuana is the millions of dollars the country spends on trying to stop people from smoking it and the prisons full of non-violent people who cost this nation more millions to house. The true crime is the fact the prohibition aspect makes it a big money industry in Mexico elsewhere leading to violence as gangs fight and kill for control of the market.
- If the prohibition was ended, and it will have to take place on a federal level, then the big-dollar criminal aspect goes away. At the roundtable while most were arguing for passage of I-502, the lone anti-I-502 panelist said the initiative doesn’t go far enough and that it will take several states passing legalization laws before the law will change at a federal level in a domino affect. Each side agreed there was big money in marijuana only as long as it remained a crime to use it – both for the drug cartels and for the private prison industry that is springing up around the country.
- Voters should study the initiative and decide for themselves about how they feel about marijuana and whether it I-502 is a good first step or whether they should wait for an all-or-nothing effort it to come along.
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(Post by ERIK KERSTENBECK)
Stephen Covey, a former Brigham Young University business professor who blended personal self-help and management theory in a massive best-seller, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” died Monday, July 16th at a hospital in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He was 79.
The cause was complications from injuries sustained in a bicycle accident, said Debra Lund, a spokeswoman for the Utah-based FranklinCovey leadership training and consulting company he co-founded. In April, Covey lost control of his bike while riding down a hill in Provo, Utah. He was hospitalized for two months with a head injury, cracked ribs and a partly collapsed lung but “never fully recovered,” Lund said Monday.
Covey became a household name when “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” was published in 1989. On best-seller lists for four years, it has sold in excess of 20 million copies in 40 languages and spawned a multimillion-dollar business empire that markets audiotapes, training seminars and organizing aids aimed at improving personal productivity and professional success. I have had the privilege of attending one of his seminars – a truly inspirational awakening. His message is a philosophy for living – he will be missed and his message lives on in the hearts and minds of all who have taken to time to listen and learn!
Whenever we lose something or somebody we love, it is important for us to take time out for ourselves and truly feel the weight of what we are experiencing. Although it may seem that doing so will push us into a deeper state of sadness, truly giving ourselves permission to be with whatever arises actually creates space for us to begin the healing process. This is because the act of grieving is a natural process, allowing us to sort through the range of emotions that are present in our everyday existence. Even though it may sometimes seem easier to involve ourselves in activities that take our minds off of our sadness, this will only make the route to healing more difficult. Unless we listen to where we are in the moment, the emotions we experience will only grow in intensity, and our feelings will manifest themselves in more powerful and less comfortable ways. Once we consciously acknowledge that these emotions are present, however, we are more able to soothe the sorrow of the moment. When we allow ourselves to accept and deal with our loss fully, we will then be able to continue our life’s journey with a much more positive and accepting outlook. This will make it easier for us to see that our grief is ephemeral and, just like our moments of happiness, it will also come to pass.
Somehow this lone bench, overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Coronado seemed appropriate.
Erik Kerstenbeck, San Diego, California
Erik is an Electrical Engineer by trade but has been self studying photography for 30+ years startingwith an old Brownie Box camera given to him by his Dad. Erik thrives in all aspects of light, composition, and technical aspects of equipment and post processing techniques. His newest interest is High Dynamic Range photography, and infrared imaging. The world is full of beauty, and Erik and his partner Kathleen bring it to you with their vision. Contact Erik email@example.com or follow him on Website,Blog, Twitter or Facebook.Tweet
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
Keesha's House, written by Helen Frost. Farrar, Douglas & McIntyre, 2003. $9.50 ages 14 and up
"I sleep in my sleeping bag in a room
with a lock in the basement of the place
on Jackson Street. And I feel safe.
If Keesha wants to talk to me, she knocks
first, and if I want to let her in, I do.
If I don't, I don't. It's my choice."
Keesha is just one of the seven troubled teens who find safety and solace in Keesha's house. Actually the house belongs to Joe, an older man whose own troubled past was assuaged by a loving relative. With her death Joe inherited the house and has given it over to Keesha, who provides a place for those who need it. She is a teen herself, but holding her life together after leaving a home filled with drinking, death, physical abuse and hopelessness. She is mature, forthright and 'never going to live like that'. Keesha provides friendship, support and does not judge. Visitors can stay for a night or a extended time, whatever they need. Other teens find their way to her house, in an attempt to deal with the problems plaguing them.
Jen is pregnant, afraid to tell her parents and wondering if her boyfriend will support her and their baby. Jason, the father, is an up and coming sports star with his sights set on college, not teen parenthood. Harris discloses that he is gay, and has been kicked out of the house by his father. Dontay's parents are in jail and he has been moved from one foster home to another. Katie fears the sexual advances of her stepfather, and Carmen is struggling with alcoholism.
Are you thinking teen soap opera? too many issues?
That is not the case. Helen Frost, in her first novel, explores in poetic forms (sestina, sonnet) the anguished lives of these teens; yet, she gives them clear,
and poignant life through her so skillfully chosen words. They are young people worthy of our admiration and hope for their futures. We also hear from the adults in their lives...teachers, parents, grandparents, foster parents, and Joe. The voices are so authentic.
I love that there are more writers using the 'novel in verse' as a way to tell their tales. They make exceptional stories more accessible to those readers reluctant to read longer novels, and they show us that the power for telling them comes from the heart, no matter the form. Every new book I read from Helen Frost leads me to find another. We are blessed to have such amazing people telling powerful stories for a young adult audience, and for everyone else who wants to read a heartfelt, hopeful book.
"There's light ahead of me as I walk on
into my senior year. I wasn't sure
about going back, but Katie said, If you're
about to quit, The Jerks will think they won.
She calls them that -The Jerks- like Dontay calls me son
when he gives me fake advice: Stay pure,
son, in thought word and deed. We'll find a cure
for you someday. I laugh. It's all in fun.
If people we're supposed to count on can't
(or don't) support us, it's up to us to find
the friends who can and do."
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Battle of the Golden Spurs
|Battle of the Golden Spurs|
|Part of Franco-Flemish War (1297-1305)|
Illustration of the Battle of Courtrai from the 14th century
|County of Flanders||Kingdom of France|
|Commanders and leaders|
| William of Jülich
Pieter de Coninck
Guy of Namur
Jan van Renesse.
| Robert II of Artois †
Jacques de Châtillon †
John I of Dammartin †
Raoul II. de Clermont †
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The Battle of the Golden Spurs (Dutch: Guldensporenslag, French: Bataille des éperons d'or), known also as the Battle of Courtrai was fought on July 11, 1302, near Kortrijk (Courtrai) in Flanders. The date of the battle is the official holiday of the Flemish community in Belgium.
The reason for the battle was a French attempt to subdue the County of Flanders, which was formally part of the French kingdom and added to the crown lands in 1297 but resisted centralist French policies. In 1300, the French king Philip IV appointed Jacques de Châtillon as governor of Flanders and took the Count of Flanders, Guy of Dampierre, hostage. This caused considerable unrest among the influential Flemish urban guilds. As far back as 1297, Guy had broken feudal ties with Philip in favor of forming an alliance with Edward II of England, whom Guy had engaged his daughter Philippina to in 1294.
In 1302, the French governor of Flanders took his army and the king's lead advisor and negotiator to Bruges to negotiate a peace with the rebellious towns of the region. Rebel leaders quickly relocated outside town, at which point the French army harassed the townspeople (especially the families of the rebels). On the morning of May 18, 1302, the rebellious citizens of Bruges went back to the city and murdered every Frenchman they could find, an act known as the Brugse Metten. According to legend, they identified the French by asking them to pronounce a Flemish phrase, schilt ende vriend (shield and friend) and everyone who had a problem pronouncing this shibboleth was killed.
The French king could not let this go unpunished, so he sent a powerful force led by Count Robert II of Artois. The Flemish response consisted of two groups, one of 3,000 men from the city militia of Bruges, was led by William of Jülich, grandson of Count Guy and Pieter de Coninck, one of the leaders of the uprising in Bruges. The other group of about 2,500 men from the suburbs of Bruges and the coastal areas, was headed by Guy of Namur, son of Count Guy, with the two sons of Guy of Dampierre; the two groups met near Kortrijk. From the East came another 2,500 men, led by Jan Borluut from Ghent and yet another 1,000 men from Ypres, led by Jan van Renesse from Zeeland.
The Flemish were primarily town militia who were well equipped, with such weapons as the mace goedendag and a long spear known as the geldon. They were also well organized; the urban militias of the time prided themselves on their regular training and preparation, which allowed them to use the geldon. They numbered about 9,000, including 400 nobles. The biggest difference from the French and other feudal armies was that the Flemish force consisted almost solely of infantry with only the leaders mounted, more to express their leadership than for combat.
The French were by contrast a classic feudal army made up of a core of 2,500 noble cavalry, including knights and squires. They were supported by 1,000 crossbowmen, 1,000 spearmen and up to 3,500 other light infantry, totaling around 8,000. Contemporary military theory valued each knight as equal to roughly ten infantry.
The assorted Flemish forces met at Courtrai on June 26th, and laid siege to the castle, which housed a French garrison. While the siege was being laid, the Flemish leaders began preparing a nearby field for battle, as Philip was unlikely to let the massacre at Bruges go unpunished. The size of the eventual French response was impressive, with 3,000 knights and 4,000-5,000 infantry being an accepted estimate. After the Flemish unsuccessfully tried to take Courtrai on July 9 and 10, the two forces clashed on July 11 in an open field near the city.
The layout of the field near Courtrai was crossed by numerous ditches and streams dug by the Flemish as Philip massed his army. Some drained from the river Lys, while others were concealed with dirt and branches, which would make it difficult for the French cavalry to charge the Flemish lines. The French sent servants to place wood in the streams but did not wait for this to be done before attacking. The large French infantry force led the initial attack, which went well but French commander Count Robert II of Artois recalled them so that the noble cavalry could claim the victory. The cavalry were hindered by the streams and ditches (which they had however seen the infantry deal with in the beginning of the battle), and the disciplined Flemish infantry held firm. Unable to break the Flemish line of pikemen, the disorganized, fallen, and mud-drowned French cavalry were an easy target for the heavily-armed Flemish. A desperate charge from the French garrison in the besieged castle was thwarted by a Flemish contingent specifically placed there for that task. When they realized the battle was lost, the surviving French fled, only to be pursued over 10 km (6 mi) by the Flemish.
Prior to the battle, the Flemish militia had either been ordered to take no prisoners or did not care for the military custom of asking for a ransom for captured knights or nobles; modern theory is that there was a clear order that forbade them to take prisoners as long as the battle was as yet undecided (this was to avoid the possibility of their ranks being broken when the Flemish infantry brought their hostages behind the Flemish lines).Robert II of Artois was surrounded and killed on the field. (According to some tales he begged for his life but the Flemish refused, claiming that "they didn't understand French".)
The large numbers of golden spurs that were collected from the French knights gave the battle its name; at least a thousand noble cavaliers were killed, some contemporary accounts placing the total casualties at over ten thousand dead and wounded. The French spurs were hung in the Church of Our Lady in Kortrijk to commemorate the victory and were taken back by the French eighty years later after the Battle of Westrozebeke.
Some of the notable casualties:
- Robert II, Count of Artois, the French commander
- Raoul of Clermont-Nesle, Lord of Nesle, Constable of France
- Guy I of Clermont, Lord of Breteuil, Marshal of France
- Simon de Melun, Lord of La Loupe and Marcheville, Marshal of France
- John I of Ponthieu, Count of Aumale
- John II of Trie, Count of Dammartin
- John II of Brienne, Count of Eu
- John d'Avesnes, Count of Ostrevent, son of John II, Count of Holland
- Godfrey of Brabant, Lord of Aarschot
- Jacques de Châtillon, Lord of Leuze
- Pierre de Flotte, Chief Advisor to Philip IV the Fair.
The battle was the first major example (though with more minor precedents such as the Battle of Ane in 1227) of a string of late medieval battles in which heavily-armoured aristocratic men-at-arms, previously dominant in western European warfare, were defeated by armies consisting largely of infantry drawn from the lower orders (other important instances include Bannockburn, Crecy, Sempach, Aljubarrota, Agincourt, Grandson and the battles of the Hussite Wars).
The battle was romanticised in 1838 by Flemish writer Hendrik Conscience in his book The Lion of Flanders (Dutch: "De leeuw van Vlaanderen"). Another unusual feature of this battle is that it is often cited as one of the few successful uprisings of peasants and townsmen, given that at the time most peasant uprisings in Europe were quelled.
|“||The uprising originated from the people, without being provoked by a lord (the Flemish count and his most important lords were in French captivity). Only when the uprising became widespread, the count's relatives who still were free rushed in to aid. In the first place this was a struggle of people against a lord (the French king), not the struggle between two lords.||”|
Barbara Tuchman describes this as a peasant uprising in A Distant Mirror. Though the winning army was well armed, the initial uprising was nonetheless a folk uprising. Eventually, however, the Flemish nobles did take their part in the battle—each of the Flemish leaders was of the nobility or descended from nobility and some 400 of noble blood did fight on the Flemish side.
The outcome of the battle—the fact that a large cavalry force, thought invincible, had been annihilated by a relatively modest but well-armed and tactically intelligent infantry—was a shock to the military leaders of Europe. It contributed to the end of the perceived supremacy of cavalry and triggered a deep re-thinking of military strategies and tactics.
- Verbruggen, J. F. The Battle of the Golden Spurs: Courtrai, 11 July 1302. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2002. Print.
- Devries, Kelly. Infantry Warfare in the Early 14th Century. N.p.: Boydell, 1996. Print.
- Although the website the 11th of July says that the /sχ/ sound in schild that makes it difficult for French-speakers to pronounce had not yet developed in the 14th century, the phrase "scilt en vrient" is referenced in primary sources such as the Chronique of Gilles Li Muisis as distinguishing French from Flemish. It is also suggested that Scilt ende Vrient (Schild en Vriend): (shield and friend) is a wrong interpretation/translation of "'s gilden vrient" meaning "friend of the guilds".
- Rogers, Clifford J. (1999). "The Age of the Hundred Years War". In Keen, Maurice (ed.). Medieval Warfare: A History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 136–160. ISBN 0-19-820639-9.
- TeBrake, William H. (1993). A Plague of Insurrection: Popular Politics and Peasant Revolt in Flanders, 1323–1328. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-3241-0.
- "Battle 1302, exposition of member of Liebaert Association at Kortenberg April 2007.". Language Log.
- http://www.historum.com/medieval-byzantine-history/23700-battle-golden-spurs.html The Battle of the Golden Spurs. Retrieved July 15, 2011.
- "Kortrijk: Battle of the Golden Spurs.". Belgium Travel Network. Archived from the original on March 03 2006. Retrieved March 4, 2006.
- "The Battle of Courtrai or the Battle of the Golden Spurs — July 11th 1302". De Liebaart. Archived from the original on February 08 2006. Retrieved March 4, 2006.
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Setting goals can be a fun process. Many programs have you do things like turn on music that inspires you and imagine your life ten years out if you could have everything go your way. It’s a fun exercise and can get you excited and maybe even motivated. But it’s just that – the fun part.
See, anyone can set a goal. It’s easy. Grab a piece of paper, write down result and add a date to it and you have a goal. Sure, some of us put some time and effort into thinking about that goal. We ask ourselves questions like “how much would it cost to move to a tropical location?” or “how many days per week would I have to hit the gym to make my weight loss goal?” That part is important because it begins the commitment process – consider it the emotional down payment on your goal.
But the real key to reaching a goal is action. You can spend days, weeks and even months planning, which is also important, but planning isn’t enough. You will never reach your goal without taking action. All the wishing, dreaming, planning and asking the universe may put a smile on your face, but that’s all it will do for you if you don’t take action.
Taking action is the most critical state because not only does it produce results, but it tests your commitment to your goal. And this is where most people fail – they hit that first bump in the road and then use it as an excuse to turn back. The unfortunate thing is that the person walks away from the situation figuring that he or she is failure and just not up for this goal setting thing. While that might be true for some people, the real issue is that the process that they are following is flawed. To further illustrate this, let’s look at the top four reasons people don’t reach their goals:
1. They truly aren’t committed to the goal:
This goes back to the point where people give up when they reach their first set back. To use a simple example, let’s say your goal is walk to your local convenience store to pick up an item. It’s a walk that under normal conditions takes you about ten minutes. If the item is something that’s not terribly important to you, perhaps someone in your household asked you to get a bag of chips for them, you’ll go if it’s a nice day outside. However if it were to be raining, snowing, very hot or very cold, you’d be less inclined to take the walk. Now if the store were giving out bars of gold, it would probably take a tornado to prevent you from getting there, even that might not stop you.
The point here is that goals are just like this. If you’re passionate about it, you’ll find a way around the setback. If you’re not truly committed to it, then you’ll walk away from it as soon as you can find an excuse. In my Setting Achievable Goals class, I spend a lot of time focusing on whether the goals we set as part of the class are goals truly worth achieving (the audio CD for the course also discusses this as it walks you through the process).
2. They lacked clarity with their goal:
Sometimes when we set our goals, we aren’t exactly clear on the desired result. For example, someone looking for work might set their goal as “getting a job.” The problem here is that this they could get a job, but it could be one they don’t like, are overqualified for or underpaid at.
Another example is to “get in shape.” This person will undoubtedly start some kind of exercise program or diet but without a clear result, will have a hard time figuring if he or she is making progress. This will often lead to this person giving up because he or she doesn’t have a target result and doesn’t see any progress because he/she doesn’t have any clarity as to what constitutes progress.
3. They misjudged the amount of effort, resources and/or sacrifice needed.
Goals always look great on paper. Even when you create the action plan down to every last detail – including scheduling each task on the plan – it can look like a sure bet. But one thing you need to bet on is the unexpected. There’s a good chance that unexpected setbacks will happen or that you made an incorrect assumption or missed a minor detail.
When it comes to promoting my business, I have a lot of tasks that involve connecting with people online. There have been times when I’ve set 30 minutes aside to do a 15 minute task, but ended up spending 45 minutes on the task because my computer was acting up, or the web site I needed to access had issues or I got interrupted or distracted.
In other cases, an hour or two a day to work on your goal might seem easy enough to do. But when put in practice, it means that you’ll have less time for leisure, your family or even sleep. And after a few days, you find that the sacrifice is more than you bargained for.
4. They got off track and couldn’t catch up:
I get a magazine each month that has something motivational to read each day. It typically takes me about 15 minutes to read the passage and reflect on it, but there are nights I just don’t get to it. So then I try to make it up the next day and read two of them, but then I get too busy and skip it again and now I’m behind by three days. Eventually I just get to the point where I skip the readings I missed and just start with whatever day I get back on track.
The problem with goals is that they are often set in a manner that doesn’t allow a lot of leeway for unplanned breaks. There are two options here, other than giving up: either push the date out for your goal (assuming the dates aren’t firm) or scale back your goal so that you can still accomplish the more critical parts in your timeframe. In my course, I actually have people work potential setbacks into their action plans as well do a few other things to help minimize the impact of setbacks.
People miss their goals for a number of reasons but those reasons typically fall into these four areas. If you find that any (or all) of these affect you on a regular basis, try some of the tips above. Sometimes a simple change in the way you go about setting and achieving goals will yield big results.
Setting and achieving goals can be a fun process, but more often than not the process that most people use is flawed. I spent over a decade using goal setting systems that never yielded the results I wanted. Yes it was fun to dream and imagine myself being successful, but I finally had an epiphany when in the middle of trying to reach a goal, I realize that I no longer cared about it. It prompted me to create my own system which has worked well for me. I mainly do my goal setting sessions for private functions, but if you’d like to check it out, I have an audio program that walks you through the process.Share
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This is a Weekender commentary – which is a revised version of an earlier rant. The regular Saturday SAR follows directly below.
Harder than it has to be.
Years ago, Sam and Suzi American were doing well and decided to set aside a little money for when times were not so flush. Each year they invested in bonds issued by the US Treasury. Nothing safer – they are backed by the “full faith and credit” of the United States, just like every other US Treasury bill, note or bond.
This year Sam and Sue had some extra expenses but were a little short – about $41 billion, so they redeemed some of their US bonds, leaving them with only $2.5 trillion in US bonds. A bit more than the Chinese, who only hold $900 billion or so.
Sam and Sue expect – just like the Chinese and everyone else who holds US bonds - to cash out their bonds from time to time – as much as $100 billion a year by 2020, most likely - and anticipate running out of their current nest egg around 2040 after which they'll have to cut their spending by 22%. They will not, however, be bankrupt – no matter what some of the town gossips say.
If Sam and Sue want to make sure they don't run short of funds 30 years from now, sometime between now and then – if they were the Social Security system (and they are) – they could increase the amount of earned income subject to FICA taxes from $106,000 to $300,000 and make the system sound for a long time, 50 to 70 years.
That would make the system a bit fairer, too. Because today everyone who makes less than $106,000 pays 12.4% of their income in FICA (half from their employer, true, but the employer sees it as a labor cost), while a lawyer making $500,000 pays but 2.5% of her income in FICA and those millionaire kids on Wall Street pay only 1.2%.
Taxing all earned income equally at 12.5% the system would take in an additional $370 billion a year and be sound for as far is possible to estimate – even if the payments to the poorest 40% of retirees were doubled, and those folks depend on Social Security for 84% of their income.
Three Card Monte
There's a con game being run in Washington these days with the goal of reducing Social Security and eventually privatizing it. No one will say that, but that's what's afoot. The first step is to keep trumpeting untruths about the fiscal collapse of the system (for which, see above) and the need to reduce benefits now and increase the retirement age now because there will be a shortfall (called bankruptcy, but it's just a shortfall as outlined above) about 2040.
Having faked the Democrats into playing the game, the Republicans are content to sit back and promise to increase the tax rate if the Democrats will gut the system. Then they'll go back on their word (as they have repeatedly for the last 3 years) and filibuster if the bill has any tax increase in it. The aim is to privatize the system and enrich Wall Street even further.
Pretending the United States is too poor to be able to take care of its elders is a sham. No matter what the fiscal hawks and deficit doomsayers claim or do today, it will be the voters of mid-century America who will decide whether more than half of their parents will be forced to live in cardboard boxes and eat cat food, or will be saved from such a miserable fate by taxing the rich at reasonable rates... as they were under Eisenhower.
The Real 'Problem'
Where is the US Treasury going to get the $40 billion for this year and the $100 billion for 2020 and so on? Simple: the same place it always gets its funds, either through taxing or borrowing or just rolling over the debt like always - just like it gets the money to pay for farm supports, Wall Street bailouts, war in Afghanistan and the utilities for the embassy in Great Britain.
That's a problem for the US government, but even at $100 billion a year it is trivial compared to the overall US budget of $3.8 trillion this year.
Meanwhile, the Atlantic should stop calling redeeming US bonds as seeking “infusions” as though it were begging rather than a routine financial transaction between lender and debtor.
The Wall Street Journal should not view buying US Treasuries as being “raided” by the government. It is an investment. At worst it is the US government borrowing – not raiding. Yes, if (and possibly when) the US begins defaulting on its obligations, then Social Security will be in trouble and retirees disappointed. The Chinese will be upset, too. But that's unlikely to happen as long as the grass shall grow and the rivers flow.
We now return you to our regular programming…
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blue sky Bakery and Cafe is tucked away on a residential street in Albany Park, and if it weren’t for the chalk sign the cafe puts out every morning, you’d walk right by it. blue sky is a quiet and small cafe, serving fair trade coffee and their own freshly baked goods, and by all appearances, there is nothing to distinguish this coffee shop from the other hundreds or so in Chicago. Don’t be fooled by its humble appearance; blue sky Cafe and Bakery is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization that employs troubled and homeless youth in order to give them job training- so if you’ve been a lazy citizen lately, you can give back to the community just by having a cup of coffee. Simple and instant karma!
blue sky Inn began in 2000, with Lisa Thompson selling her baked goods at farmers markets by operating out of a shared kitchen. blue sky quickly gained a reputation for its freshly baked goods, and last year in May Thompson opened the cafe. Thompson’s original idea was to open an inn (hence the name), a 5 – 8 bedroom bed-and-breakfast that would employ youth as the cooks, gardeners, cleaners, but the investment wasn’t there. Thompson estimates she needs $500,000 to open the bed and breakfast, but because her organization is so small she cannot apply for state or federal grants. Despite a steady increase in business, the cafe is still a long way away from breaking even and still relies heavily on philanthropy.
I sat down with Lisa Thompson the other day, and asked her why she was shunning the capitalistic model. She laughed and said “opening the cafe was never the dream, creating a job environment and opportunities for youth was what I always wanted to do.” The cafe provides “more visibility to the program” than the farmers markets, and rehabilitating the youth in a cafe is perfect since it provides job opportunities in an employment niche “that isn’t concerned with criminal backgrounds” adds Thompson.
I think there are a lot of people trying but I think that the best thing they need are job opportunities. Job workshops and job training is great but I don’t think there is any substitute for actual work experience. It has real consequences, that have customers, demands, schedules, that have fluctuations in day to day scheduling, high pressure situations with deadlines. There is no substitute for that. There are thousands and thousands of young adults in chicago who are willing to work and who need opportunity and they just aren’t available.-Lisa Thompson
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In my last post, I professed my fondness for regression analysis. This time, I’m going compare two automatic tools that will help you to create a good regression model.
Imagine a scenario where you have many predictor variables and a response variable. Because there are so many predictor variables, you’d like some help in creating a good regression model. You could try a lot of combinations on your own. But, you’re in luck! Minitab Statistical Software has not one, but two automatic tools that will help you pick a regression model.
These tools are Stepwise Regression and Best Subsets Regression. They both identify useful predictors during the exploratory stages of model building for ordinary least squares regression. These are both great procedures, but they work a bit differently. I’ll compare and contrast them, and then I’ll use both on one dataset.
Stepwise regression selects a model by automatically adding or removing individual predictors, a step at a time, based on their statistical significance. The end result of this process is a single regression model, which makes it nice and simple. You can control the details of the process, including the significance level and whether the process can only add terms, remove terms, or both.
Best Subsets Regression
Best Subsets compares all possible models using a specified set of predictors, and displays the best-fitting models that contain one predictor, two predictors, and so on. The end result is a number of models and their summary statistics. It is up to you to compare and choose one. Sometimes the results do not point to one best model and your judgment is required.
Both procedures build models from a set of predictors that you specify. Stepwise does not assess all models but constructs a model by adding or removing one predictor at a time. Best Subsets does assess all possible models and it presents you with the best candidates. Stepwise yields a single model, which can be simpler. Best subsets provides more information by including more models, but it can be more complex to choose one. Because Best Subsets assesses all possible models, large models may take a long time to process.
Example Using Both Methods
All right, let’s take a single dataset, use both procedures, and see what happens. The dataset that I’ll use is distributed with Minitab. You can find it here: File > Open Worksheet > Look in Minitab Sample Data folder > EXH_REGR.MTW.
As part of a test of solar thermal energy, we want to examine whether total heat flux can be predicted by various variables, including the position of the focal points in the east, south, and north directions.
For both procedures, I’ll include the same response variable and predictors.
Predictors: Insolation, East, South, North, Time
Stepwise Regression Example
I’ll start with Stepwise, which you can find here: Stat > Regression > Stepwise. It’s a simple matter to enter the response and predictors in the dialog box. We’ll stick with the defaults and get the following output.
The four steps run horizontally across the output. For each step, the procedure added these predictors: North, South, East, and Insolation. At this point, no more variables could enter or leave, so the procedure stopped. I’ve highlighted the final model, which has an R2 of 89.09%. Nice and simple!
Best Subsets Regression Example
Now, let’s use the same variables with Best Subsets regression: Stat > Regression > Best Subsets. We’ll stick with the defaults and get the following output.
Each line of the output represents a different model. Vars indicates the number of predictors in the model. Predictors that are present in the model are indicated by an X. Minitab displays the two best models for each number of predictors. A good model should have a high R2 and adjusted R2, small S, and a Mallows' Cp close to the number of predictors in the model and the constant. Using the adjusted R2 is generally recommended over R2 for comparing models with different numbers of terms.
For a more detailed explanation of the model fit statistics and how to interpret them, look at the Glossary and StatGuide in Minitab’s Help menu.
I’ve highlighted the model that Stepwise picked. Based on the criteria above, it looks to be a good model. However, Best Subsets gives us more contextual information that can be helpful. We might have specific priorities that affect our choice for the best model.
For example, if we placed a higher priority on simplifying and reducing data collection costs, we’d be interested to see that some models with fewer predictors are almost as good. For example, the R2 for the three-variable model with East, South, and North is only 1.7% less than the highlighted model. Further, the best two-variable model is also not far behind.
If we placed a higher priority on prediction accuracy, we’d be interested in the 5 variable model because the model fit statistics are mostly better. In fact, the adjusted R2 for the 5 variable model is slightly better than the model that Stepwise picked.
The extra information that Best Subsets provides allows us to use our subject area knowledge to help pick a more optimal model. However, it also takes a bit more knowledge and effort.
Check Your Models with General Regression
One thing that Stepwise and Best Subsets can’t do is check the residual plots. Use General Regression (Stat > Regression > General Regression) to assess your model and obtain additional statistics, which can help you choose the model.
For example, if we were interested in the five-variable model for its better fit and perhaps better predictions, we’d see in the General Regression output that the predicted R2 falls slightly with the five-variable model. This tends to happen when the model is overly complicated and it starts to model the noise in the data. When that happens, the model fits the original data but is less capable of providing valid predictions for new observations. This condition is known as "overfitting the model" and illustrates how subset models may actually predict future responses with smaller variance than the full model.
Automatic variable selection procedures can be a valuable tool in data analysis, particularly in the early stages of building a model. The choice between Stepwise and Best Subsets is largely between the convenience of a single model versus the additional information that Best Subsets provides. Of course, you can always just run both, like I did.
The procedures often work very well but you should be aware of the potential pitfalls:
- Automatic procedures can look at many variables and select ones which, by pure chance, happen to fit well. Look at the results critically and use your subject area knowledge to see if the results make sense.
- Automatic procedures cannot take into account special knowledge the analyst may have about the data. Therefore, the model selected may not be the best from a practical point of view.
- Stepwise may not select the model with the highest R2 value.
Have fun modeling your world!
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The Castrato and his Wife - Helen Berry
Oxford University Press, New York 2011
One of the principal difficulties of writing an academic text about a figure like Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci (1735 - 1790), a noted Italian castrato singer in his day who made his biggest impression in England, Scotland and Ireland, but not as well-known, well-documented or important to the opera scene as Farinelli or Senesino, is in obtaining sufficient documents and accounts of his life. Much of the account of the early life of Tenducci here is therefore presumed from parallel accounts of the experiences of others of a similar social background, since the assumption is that it was rare for anyone to deviate from the social conventions of the day. All the in-all-likelihoods and may-have-beens are inevitable therefore and in all probability true, but in the case of Tenducci, they at least lead to the author researching and exploring exactly what those mid-eighteenth century attitudes were, which is actually where the most interesting part of the book lies, particularly in how those attitudes conflict with the extraordinary circumstances of this particular castrato and the case of his ‘manhood’.
It is this one vital factor of Tenducci’s life that is rather more documented and speculated upon, subjected as it was to a number of legal disputes and trials, since this particular castrato, although a eunuch, was married and even reported to be a father. The Castrato and his Wife consequently examines Tenducci’s position as a public figure, as an Italian and a Catholic, and his reputation as a singer of not inconsiderable talent – J.C Bach, Thomas Arne and Mozart all composed works for him to sing, and he was particularly noted for his performances of Artaxerxes and Gluck’s Orpheo – as well as being a composer himself, and it gives a good if somewhat cursory account of the post-Handel opera scene in London, Dublin and Edinburgh, but principally, it considers the impact and the enigma of Tenducci being a castrato in a society that was fascinated by but didn’t quite know how to treat this indeterminate gender. The nature of the medical procedure that creates a castrato is shrouded in some secrecy – since despite the Catholic church being responsible for the fashion of castrati singers, it was considered a barbaric and immoral practice. It certainly wasn’t acceptable – on pain of death in Italy – for a castrato to marry, and it certainly stirred up some passions when in 1765, Tenducci eloped with Dorothea Maunsell, the 15 year-old daughter of an eminent Irish family – for which the singer was captured, imprisoned and the legality of his marriage eventually tried in court.
Considering the attitudes of Georgian society, and the attraction that the enigmatic figures of castrati exercised over both men and women, almost the entire hook of The Castrato and his Wife consequently hinges upon the question of whether a castrato would have been able to consummate a marriage. Considering that the process of castration was shrouded in mystery and secrecy, subject to much gossip and speculation in his time, the accounts of Tenducci’s divorce trial uncovered by the author therefore provide an interesting insight into the practice and into contemporary attitudes towards it. The Castrato and his Wife can be a little dry and academic, the writing is not particularly engaging and seems somewhat padded out, providing a lot of unnecessary detail and digressions that don’t seem relevant or interesting, and it is also somewhat repetitive, but the question that is – if you’ll pardon the expression – dangled before us, does keep the reader involved.
Ultimately The Castrato and his Wife is less of a biography of Tenducci and more of an investigation into questions of gender, sexuality and celebrity, and there at least it does manage throw some interesting new light on a curious and scarcely documented aspect of the times, as well as consider its contemporary relevance.
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Goffstown CERT training begins Feb. 21
GOFFSTOWN - The Goffstown Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program is offering an emergency preparedness training course through the Goffstown Adult Education Program.
The free training for interested people age 18 and older is a 20-hour course over a five-week period, from Feb. 12 to March 21.
The course is given in 10 two-hour lessons twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 6 to 8 p.m., at the Goffstown High School.
Completion of the course does not obligate anyone to join CERT, although trainees are welcome to apply.
The Community Emergency Response Team Program is one of the volunteer programs administered by Volunteer NH and its mission is to educate people about disaster preparedness and train them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, and disaster medical operations.
Using their training, CERT members can assist others in their neighborhood or workplace following an event and can take a more active role in preparing their community. The program is administered nationally by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Goffstown CERT has more than 75 volunteers performing community service each year on behalf of the CERT organization. Anyone interested in taking the basic training course can register by e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.org or by visiting the website at www.goffstowncert.org.
For more information about volunteering for Goffstown CERT, call 497-4858, visit the website or e-mail email@example.com. Goffstown CERT can also be found on Facebook.
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Sleeping In on the Weekends Could Actually Ruin Your Work Week
For some people, the weekend is spent trying to catch up on all the sleep they deprived themselves of throughout the course of the last week. Yet, while sleeping in can be somewhat of a godsend, new research finds that it might actually make you more tired throughout the week.
The reason for this? Researchers say that when people attempt to catch up on sleep over the weekend, all they are really doing is disrupting their body’s internal clock, making it more difficult for them to climb out of bed when Monday morning finally rolls around.
“A great myth of sleep deprivation is that if we miss sleep over the course of the work week, we need to catch up on an hour-by-hour basis on the weekend,” said lead author Dr. Gregory Carter, a sleep medicine specialist at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Study experts explain that sleeping in on weekends tampers with the daily cycles of the brain’s circadian clock, which can result in it being more difficult to get to sleep on Sunday night and excruciating to hear that alarm go off on Monday morning.
Carter advises that going to bed earlier is actually a better way to battle sleep deprivation than trying to do it by sleeping in, maintaining that any amount of sleep deprivation can be relieved by getting a solid eight hours of rest.
He says that keeping the internal clock in check is important. “To maintain our internal clock, we need to go to bed eight hours before our usual time for getting out of bed in the morning,” said Carter.
Carter adds that staying up late on Friday and Saturday nights and sleeping in on Saturday and Sunday mornings, mixed liberally with things like alcohol and late night web surfing, has a way of making for one heck of a miserable Monday.
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Sand Creek Animal Hospital's Pet Weight Management Program
We are excited to offer this new program at Sand Creek Animal Hospital!
The goal of this program is to help patients who are struggling with weight issues obtain a healthier lifestyle, by educating and guiding the pet owner on how to properly manage feeding proportion, treats and exercise. This is done through one on one client education and by providing informational tools. Under the guidance of our Weight Management Consultant, Ryan, the pet owner is able to manage the pets' weight on their own.
(The weight management program is for current patients at SCAH who have been selected based on need for weight management and at the discretion of one of our veterinarians. For more information about the program, please call our office at 518-446-9171).
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In meta-ethics, moral skepticism is a theory which maintains either that ethical claims are generally false, or else that we cannot sufficiently justify any ethical claims, and must therefore maintain doubt about whether they are true or false.
For example, the claim that it "it is wrong to kill" is false according to the first version of moral skepticism. The moral skeptic says that this is because ethical claims implicitly pre-suppose the existence of objective values, and that these do not exist. The second position would go no further than saying that we are not epistemically justified in asserting that it is wrong to kill.
The stronger position is exemplified in J. L. Mackie's book Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. Mackie does not deny that there is moral goodness in the world. His point is that "goodness" of any sort is always relative to certain desire(s) or interest(s) that are relevant to the context. For example, a sharp, durable knife is usually considered a "good" one, but it counts as good only because knife users have an interest in cutting things, such as food. Sharpness and durability are properties of knives that make them more efficient for such a purpose. Mackie believes that moral discussion typically assumes that there is an objective kind of moral goodness, which transcends any actual desires and interests. This assumption is an error.
Mackie's main argument against the existence of objective values is the argument from queerness - objective values would be very peculiar things indeed, fundamentally different from everything else in the world - indeed, they would have to be something like the Platonic forms (which Mackie considers a "wild product of philosophical fancy"). Furthermore, how we are supposed to discover these objective values is mysterious.
The moral skeptic's conclusion is that supposedly objective values (in the sense explained above) are merely useful fictions that function for such purposes as social preservation. Furthermore, it is possible to invent moral values that are more likely to further our actual desires and interests as human beings living in particular historical circumstances.
Mackie's position is also known as the "error theory" of morality. Strictly speaking, a more agnostic position that we simply cannot justify ethical claims is also an error theory, as acknowledged by Richard Joyce, who defends such a theory in The Evolution of Morality. In this case, the alleged error is the common belief that moral claims are justifiable.
Contemporary defenders of moral skepticism include Joyce, Michael Ruse, Joshua Greene, and the psychologist James Flynn. Strictly speaking, Gilbert Harman's work does not advocate moral skepticism, but it has been influential on some contemporary moral skeptics.
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- Special Sections
- Public Notices
Martin Luther was born in an earthen floored cottage to poor German peasants on a chilly November eve. As a child, Martin developed a love for music and often went about doing his chores while singing at the top of his voice. He attracted the attention of the neighborhood boys and after teaching them to sing in parts: soprano, tenor, alto, and bass, Martin would lead them to neighboring towns where they would sing at cottage doors in return for bread or a good hot sausage cake.
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Elena Roussanova Lucas, Associate Professor
"When I was about four or five years old, growing up in the Soviet Union, I remember my parents listening to Enrico Caruso and Mario Lanza in one room, and at the same time my older brother listening to Blood, Sweat, and Tears, Chicago, and the Beatles in another room. I really had this kind of double music world from the very beginning, but it was so natural to me. And I think this was a really great thing—it opened my ears to every type of music."
"I try to do the same thing for my students in my counterpoint, traditional harmony, and composition classes. I give examples of compositions from different styles, genres, and centuries. We can listen to the music of Tchaikovsky and Puccini, followed by examples of Stevie Wonder and Queen. It makes a really big difference to hear great music from different eras—it's like an awakening. I hope to make them start thinking, 'Oh, this is really interesting. I want to learn more about it.'"
"Often students get inspired by what they hear, and afterwards want to go create something. I'm always happy when students say to me that they want to incorporate a particular counterpoint into a composition they're working on. I think this is the rewarding part; you see interest, you see development, you see curiosity, you see everything that is so necessary for a musician. To put that excitement into a student—it makes my day!"
"When I teach, I try to remember when I was a student. I remember that it was difficult for me. I then try to explain from this point of view, to make each part understandable. When teaching the principles of music theory, if the students miss one link, then it's very difficult for them to continue on to the next step. I think sometimes the subjects that we're talking about are not immediately understood during class, but they click later."
- B.M., Ippolitov-Ivanov College of Music
- M.M., Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow
- Elected member of United Russian Composers Union, 2000
- Chosen as featured composer for concert program featuring up-and-coming composers, Tchaikovsky State Symphony Orchestra of Moscow
- Published by Warner Bros/Alfred Music Publishers and Denis Wick Publications
- Compositions received Editors’ Choice Award, J.W. Pepper & Son, and included on many state lists
- Works performed by the Bolshoi Ballet Brass Quintet; the Boston University Brass Ensemble; Dallas Brass National Tours; the Dartmouth College Wind Symphony; the Kremlin Music Festival; the Las Vegas Music Festival; the Russian National Brass Quintet; and the Tchaikovsky State Symphony
- Faculty member, Boston University College of Fine Arts
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Damn Puntos, Cinquecentos, Unos and all those other funny little Fiats. I'm at the wheel of Ferrari's updated front-engined flagship, the 575M Maranello, trying to make some tracks on the serpentine roads that wind and unwind through the hills not far from the Ferrari factory-in Maranello, Italy, of course. These wretched Boxus economus clog these narrow roads like so many ants in an ant farm. "Hey! Don't you know I've got 515 bhp under my right foot, and you-even though you live here and I don't-are keeping me from enjoying it!"
Finally a break: Snap the new F1 transmission down into second gear, and floor it-smoothly, as the road is still gray from the morning dew-and knock off three of the wheezing Fiats in a whack. Now, through a corner, then another, then another...only to run up on two Fiat Unos and a bus, going about 30 mph....
The original 550 Maranello, which replaced the mid-engined Testarossa and its derivatives in 1996, certainly wasn't hurting for more performance, or much of anything. Yet Ferrari felt it could up the Maranello's game: "575" stands for a displacement increase, from 5.5 to 5.75 liters. The "M" stands for modificata, loosely translated to mean "modified," a term Ferrari often gives to cars that have received a mid-life spa treatment. Ferrari's goal in morphing 550 to 575M was to make it faster and sportier without totally killing its rep as a quiet, smooth, long-distance runner.
The 575M's 65-degree V12 retains the dohc architecture and all-alloy construction of the 550 powerplant. Bore and stroke have been increased slightly, so the crankshaft and cylinder liners are new; the latter are also now steel instead of aluminum. The compression ratio has increased from 10.8:1 to 11.0:1, and the new Mahle forged pistons are said to improve combustion efficiency. Intake and exhaust cam timing has been modified, and the entire air intake and fuel-injection air-metering tract has been smoothed and enlarged.
A new Bosch Motronic engine management system incorporates drive-by-wire, allowing the 575M to meet both European Stage 3 and U.S. OBD-II regulations; it even earns an LEV rating. The new computer packs better knock-sensing capability, supporting the increase in compression. The exhaust system has been revised, incorporating an adjustable backpressure management feature, which allows it to operate at peak efficiency, no matter the rpm or load.
Whatever the hardware, the numbers are impressive: 515 DIN horsepower (which translates to about 508 SAE net ponies) at 7250 rpm, an increase of 30 DIN horses as compared to the 550. Torque goes up as well; there's more of it, and it's available over a wider rev range. The peak is now 434 lb-ft at 5250 rpm. Redline remains at 7750 rpm-expected of tiny Honda fours, but impressive for a large bore, nearly 6-liter V12.
Among the new technology Ferrari's management and product development team felt appropriate for the Maranello is the adaptation of its electrohydraulic F1 transmission management system-the paddle shifters that have proven popular on the mid-engined 360 Modena models. The 575M represents the first time Ferrari has employed this hardware in either a front-engined car or one with 12 cylinders.
It's much the same Magnetti-Marelli package used on the 360s, the new Maserati Coupe and Spyder, and the Aston Martin Vanquish. This is one factor that necessitated the use of a drive-by-wire throttle. As in the other cars, F1 features six forward ratios, plus Winter, Sport, and fully automatic modes. For those who relish that traditional, machined aluminum shifter and shift gate, a gen-ooo-ine six-speed manual transmission can still be ordered. Ferrari estimates that about 80% of the 575Ms to be sold here will be F1-equipped. The actual transaxle is the same in either application and has been beefed up so it can stand the pain served up by the more powerful V12.
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C. William Doody
C. William Doody (born February 26 1931) is a member of the Canadian Senate representing Newfoundland and Labrador. Doody was active in provincial politics and was first elected to the Newfoundland House of Assembly in 1971 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador. He became minister of mines, agriculture and resources when Frank Moores formed his government in 1972. In 1975, Doody became the province's finance minister and when Brian Peckford became Premier of the province, Doody was made minister of mines and energy.
In October, 1979, Doody left provincial politics and was appointed to the Senate by then Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Joe Clark in 1979. He served as Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate from September 17, 1984 until 1991.
When, in December 2004, the Progressive Conservatives merged with the Canadian Alliance to form the Conservative Party of Canada, Doody decided not to join the new formation. Instead, he continues to sit in the Senate as a member of a three person Progressive Conservative caucus consisting of himself, Norman Atkins and Lowell Murray. He is scheduled to retire from the Senate in 2006.
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Russia and WTO: This Is Going to Hurt
The last time Russia was knocking on the door of the World Trade Organization was at the very beginning of the decade. Most people then had only a hazy idea about what the WTO was, so there was no public alarm. Major corporations, however, were strongly opposed, which might be why the accession process has taken so long.
Last week we heard that Moscow and Washington had reached a deal, and that the path to the WTO was open. But attitudes toward membership have changed. Looking to attract capital and gain global access, corporations are now sanguine about the WTO. It's the general population that is nervous - and not without reason.
Of course Russia's entry into the Organisation is not yet decided. First, US Congress with a recently elected Democratic majority can create a few problems. Second, the process can be slown down by Moldova and Georgia, two former Soviet republics which have political and commercial disputes with Moscow. Trying to put pressure on their governments who do not exactly follow every order issued in the Kremlin, Russian government decided to practice a policy of commercial boycott, blocking their traditional exports to Russian markets. That was a severe blow to these economies which can hardly sell anything anywhere except their wines and mineral water, which were part of Russian consumption for already two centuries. Now both republics can retaliate. As WTO members, they are quite able to make noises and to try to block Russia's entry demanding fair treatment of their products as a condition of Moscow's WTO membership.
This will not become a major problem however. The Kremlin is quite determined to seek "international mediation". In practice that will mean asking United Stats and European Union to put pressure on Georgia and Moldova and force them to shut up with their complaints. If Western powers really need Russia as a new WTO member, this will really be the case.
The mood of government officials in the Kremlin is really triumphant. They seem to be close to their goal, becoming "a country as any other". So far Russia was the only major economy outside the WTO. This must be corrected! Russian companies reached the stage when they can go global. WTO membership is good for their expansion. That's why corporate opposition to WTO is over.
Not so simple with the general public.
Liberal economists are once again acting as psychotherapists and trying to calm us. Russia is already acting as if it were already a WTO member, they say, so it can't get any worse. There will also be a transition period, lasting until about 2012, so there will be time to adapt.
At the beginning of the decade, protectionist measures generated rapid growth in automobile, food processing and home-appliance production by Western companies in Russia. All famous automobile brands are now producing in Russia: Volkswagem and BMW, Ford and GM, Toyota and Hyundai, they are all here. However everyone knows: without protectionist tariffs, Moscow's Fords and Hyundais wouldn't come from St. Petersburg and Taganrog in the Rostov region, but rather from Turkey or China.
Import substitution was sparked by the ruble's crash in 1998. When imports collapsed, foreign companies that wanted to keep their share of the market had no choice but to move production into the country. With Russian wages being at the lowest point that was not such a unattractive perspective. The years since have also witnessed growth in middle-class incomes and consumption.Workers wages started to grow as well, thus fueling continuing consumer boom and helping to sustain demand, keeping these new enterprises growing. But to maintain increased production within WTO after the transition period, competition would also have to rise. This means reducing wages.
This is only part of the problem, however. Russian economic growth, consumer boom and wage increases are all based on high oil prices. Will these prices las forever? This is not self-evident. World oil prices historically follow a 10-year to 12-year cycle. This means that the inevitable fall in the flow of petrodollars will most possibly arrive at the same time that WTO requirements are coming into full effect. There will be no soft landing.
Ford labor union leader Alexei Etmanov told me that wages account for about 2.5 percent of production costs for the company, which is low even by Latin American standards. But people will work for even less in Africa or parts of Asia.
Ford is known as a success story of Russian labor movement. After a few strikes and labor disputes workers managed to improve their conditions. What if the workers at Ford manage to drive the wage portion of costs up to the astronomical level of 3 percent? You would think that management would remember Henry Ford's dictum that its workers should be its main customers.
But the WTO's principle aim is to break these connections. The growing demand from the middle class will be met through the exploitation of what amounts to slave labor in poor countries. The gains for our workers will be stripped away under the threat of closing down production. Today, if Ford, Hyundai or BMW want to sell in Russia, they have to produce in Russia. But once the WTO rules come into effect, this will change.
Earlier Russian liberals like Sergei Witte and Pyotr Stolypin followed protectionist policies because they understood that their abandonment meant death for Russian industry. Protecting domestic markets was also an integral part of industrial growth in Japan and, later, South Korea. Historically, in the United States industrialisation was based on protectionist policies as well.
Industrial development in these countries has generally been accompanied by a rise, not a fall, in living standards, and higher wages usually accrue from a stronger labor movement. The main principle of the WTO, conversely, is to reduce wages and social "benefits" in the name of competitiveness. WTO is not just an institution, following a certain economic policy, it is a key element in a Class War.
What's good for elites is often not good for society as a whole. Natural resource monopolies lead in Russia to the development of the bourgeoisie, whose ties with officialdom form the foundation of an oligarchic system of government. But this ruling class has little interest in national culture or even industry. The national culture will be replaced by expensive restorations to the Bolshoi Theater, and the industry will be given to foreigners. If conditions change and those foreigners then close their factories and transfer production to China, then fine. Let them go
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If your child's school thinks that your child has a special educational need, they may tell you that they are being placed at School Action. This simply means that they will be given extra help within school to meet their needs.
The school will collect information about your child from the teaching staff. They will use this information to plan a programme of teaching and learning to meet your child's individual needs, sometimes this is called an IEP or Individual Education Plan.
The person responsible for doing this is usually the school's Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO), who will work closely with the class teacher.
Your views as a parent are important. Where possible, the school will try to actively involve you in discussions about meeting your child's needs and monitoring any progress they make.
School should keep you fully informed about the help your child is receiving and how you can support the work of the teaching staff.
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Lease Agreement Form, similar to those used by landlords, property managers, and property management companies. A Lease Agreement generally includes information about the Landlord and Tenant, the Premises to lease, and the Term for the Lease Agreement. The Lease Agreement should also include information about the Rent payment and Security Deposit.
Lease Agreement Form
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Newcastle upon Tyne,
No one has favorited this theater yet
Located in Newcastle city centre. The Music Hall was opened in 1838, with the actual hall being upstairs on the first floor. In 1861, Charles Dickens gave a reading of his works in the hall, which at the time was known as the Lecture Room.
In 1879 it became the New Tyne Concert Hall. In 1884, it became the Gaiety Music Hall, which was closed in 1890 when the nearby Empire Theatre opened. It became a Temperence Hall, known as the Central Hall.
In January 1908, films were screened here. It was converted into a full time cinema, the Gaiety Picture Hall, which opened on 29th March 1911. Seating was provided in stalls and circle levels.
In 1930, it was the last cinema in Newcastle to have sound equipment installed. By this time it was part of the independent E.J. Hinge circuit. The Gaiety Cinema was closed on 26th February 1949, when the city council declared the building unsafe. In 1951, it was briefly used by students as a cabaret venue during Rag Week.
The upper part of the building containing the cinema then lay empty and unused, while the ground floor was in use as a fruit warehouse for many years. The building was demolished in 1964, only the facade was retained, and this now forms part of the large Elbow Square Shopping Centre.
Just login to your account and subscribe to this theater
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In researching genealogy, you may find ancestors who were considered idiotic or blind. In many cases these symptoms were the result of some childhood illness such as Measles. German measles is a mild viral illness caused by the rubella virus.
Rubella, also called German Measles or three-day Measles, and highly contagious disease caused by the rubella virus. It begins with a rash on the face and spread all over the body. Most children are immunized beginning at 12 months of age.
Measles/Rubella can be very serious if a pregnant woman becomes infected with rubella in the first 3 months of pregnancy can cause serious injury to the fetus, resulting in heart damage, blindness, deafness, mental retardation, miscarriage, or stillbirth.
Years ago, before effective prevention, Measles, Mumps, and Rubella were common, serious childhood diseases. A virus that wasn't identified until 1962 caused rubella, the disease itself was first described late in the 18th century. The first physicians to describe it were German, hence the name German Measles.
The name rubella was given in an outbreak at a British boys' school in India in 1841. The last major epidemic of rubella in the U.S. was in the spring of 1964. An effective vaccine was marketed beginning in the early 1970s!
This vaccine, which, is given at 12 to 15 months, along with vaccines for Measles and Mumps. A booster is given before starting school. This vaccine is known as MMR.
My own story began in 1964 with pregnancy of Connie Hope Olivier and that is where she got her middle name Hope. I was not immune but remembered having some kind of Measles when I was a child and was very sick with a high fever but was perhaps another kind of Measles or childhood illness.
There is an injection (immunoglobulinn) for someone who is not immune who has come into contact with the Rubella/German Measles disease, as a way of protecting susceptible pregnant women who have come into contact with rubella. My being one of those mothers who had already been diagnosed with the Measles took the shot but with no hope of it helping.
Connie and I spent many hours in Clinics for research in hoping to find that vaccine they started marketing in 1970. Our efforts were rewarded for adults and children all over the world today. Connie had cataracts removed when she weighed 13 pounds and wore thick lens in her glasses all her life improving to 20/200 (legally blind). She was later fitted with hearing aids with 50 % hearing loss.
Today she is married and works at a place designed for the blind.
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LAS VEGAS (UPI) -- The U.S. attorney general said his department wants to make sure the part of Arizona's immigration law judged constitutional does not lead to racial profiling.
told the National Council of La Raza, the nation's largest Hispanic
civil rights organization, Saturday he considered the U.S. Supreme
Court's landmark June 25 decision rejecting much of Arizona's
immigration law "an important step forward" because it helped "to ensure
that our nation speaks with one voice on the critical, and complex,
issue of immigration."
But he said he remained "seriously concerned" by "the potential
impact" of the court's decision to let a key provision of Arizona's
Senate Bill 1070 stand -- the part that instructs police to check the
immigration status of those detained for "reasonable suspicion" that
they are the United States unlawfully.
"Let me assure you -- the Justice Department will monitor the impact
of this and other measures to make certain that they do not conflict
with federal civil rights or immigration laws," Holder told a luncheon
audience of nearly 2,000 people on the opening day of the group's
four-day conference in Las Vegas.
"We'll work to ensure, as the court affirmed, that such laws cannot
be seen as a license to engage in racial profiling," he said to
"And we'll continue to enforce federal prohibitions against racial and ethnic discrimination, in order -- as President [Barack] Obama has promised -- to 'uphold our tradition as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.'"
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‘Plant A Row’ concept catches with youth
By Matthew Burgoyne
As the “Plant A Row For The Hungry” of Morgan County enters its second year, it has bigger hopes and even more help for the upcoming year. The Lake Country Garden Masters Club will oversee all aspects of the garden with the intent to educate volunteers and the citizens of Morgan County about planting. The garden is adjacent to Morgan County High School, which is great for students who are volunteering on the project.
The 165-square-foot garden space was generously donated by Catherine Lindsey, the late Dr. Paul Lindsey and the rest of the Lindsey family. This year, the garden will be receiving much more help from the community. Numerous organizations and groups at the high school will be involved. The Horticulture Department, the Agriculture Department, and the FFA, all under the supervision of Tim Savelle, will be planting and tending the garden until the end of the school year. The Boys and Girls Club, under the supervision of Tery Hicks, will come every Tuesday during the summer to pick and maintain the area.
Every other Thursday, the Boy Scouts with the help of parents and leader Craig Henry will work in the garden.
Three homes school groups, Centennial Baptist, Shiloh Baptist, and 4-H Extension Agency home school group, will work on the opposite Thursdays. This way, the garden will be picked twice a week. The garden will also be receiving international help. Teko Basandize, an exchange student from Georgia, once a part of the USSR, will help with the FFA program at the high school. She hopes to bring what she learns about planting back to her home country. Laura Rolader, Janet Woodard, and Bobby Smith of the Morgan County Extension Agency will also include “Plant A Row” as part of their 4-H Leadership Camp this summer. Last year, the “Plant A Row” program served 785 families. “Plant A Row” is the only organization in the area that hands out fresh produce free of charge. Starting on June 9, fresh produce grown in the “Plant A Row” garden will be handed out every Friday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Caring Place to the financially disadvantaged, medically disabled, and the elderly. “’Plant A Row’ is a project of giving. The experience gained by young people in this year’s project will set an example for the rest of their lives, raising the Morgan County Plant A Row Project to a new level,” said Jewel Hatcher, organizer of the project.
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Wells Fargo Home Mortgage in Des Moines fired an employee this July for a crime he committed 49 years ago, contending the firing was necessary under federal law.
A new law prohibits insured depositories like Wells Fargo from exposing customers’ financial information to employees who have committed a crime involving dishonesty.
Wells Fargo learned one of its customer service representatives, now 68, used a fake dime to do his laundry at a Carlisle, Iowa laundromat in 1963. He was charged with operating a coin-changing machine by false means. He was convicted and sentenced to 15 days in jail, but was fined $50 and released early so he could leave for college.
“It is uncomfortable, but it is a law that we have to follow,” said a Wells Fargo spokesman. “We have the responsibility to avoid hiring or continuing to employ someone who we know has a criminal record.”
The man’s lawyer is trying to get a waiver for the man from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. His client “did something stupid,” the lawyer said. “He put a wood dime in a laundry machine,” he said. “The spirit of the law was to prevent widespread mortgage fraud but does not apply to my client, who is a customer service representative.”
The lawyer doesn’t blame Wells Fargo. “The FDIC’s regulation is overly broad,” he said.
Source: “Wells Fargo Fires Employee For Stealing a Dime in 1963,”ABC News, August 30, 2012 h/t Jonathan Turley
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AASL announces 2010 best websites for teaching and learning
For Immediate Release
Fri, 07/16/2010 - 14:32
Contact: Melissa Jacobsen
CHICAGO – At the American Library Association’s (ALA) 2010 Annual Conference the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) announced the 2010 Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning. In its second year, the list of websites honors the top 25 Internet sites for enhancing learning and curriculum development for school librarians and their teacher collaborators. It is considered the “best of the best” by AASL.
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Connecting ideas, sparking creativity
Innovation is at the heart of 3M, a global company whose products can be found in virtually every corner of the consumer, tech and industrial sectors. Creativity takes place 24 hours a day in research and development labs scattered around the world, each working on different products or their variations. 3M believed that if they could improve the flow of communication between all their technical employees, they could save time helping each other, share ideas and bring them closer together.
The 3M Socialcast community dubbed “Spark,” helps employees keep in touch with colleagues, no matter where they are based. Communication flows more easily, while Socialcast security and privacy features ensure the safety of 3M’s intellectual property. Through Socialcast, 3M has created the experience of working in “one big lab” where employees can collaborate as easily as turning to a trusted colleague down the hall to ask a question.
- Information is more accessible, helping solve problems in real time
- 2,000 Socialcast community members after the first year—and growing
- Strong mobile offering allows lab workers to securely take their work with them
- Easy to use as part of the daily flow of work, with little training
- Socialcast analytics help managers to identify ‘influencers’ and experts
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Question: Can music change politics?
Moby: I think it can because it has. Maybe not on a specific cause and effect way, you know, if some musician writes a song about some policy initiative they want to see moved forward through Congress, I don’t know if necessarily, you know, Rama Emanuel is going to hear this song and be inspired to move policy through Congress, but I think that music and politics have been intertwined for such a long time, sometimes in very explicit ways, I mean, you have like Vaclav Havel who was very involved in the Czech music scene and was really inspired by the railroad underground and a lot of rock music in the states in the 1960’s. And music, strange enough, music has always been more political than politics has been musical. You know, because politicians are nerds.
You know, at the end of the day, they are nerds who will do anything they can to get elected, whereas I think musicians, oddly enough, have a slightly broader view. It doesn’t mean they are brighter, it doesn’t mean they are better informed, it just means that I think that a musician can approach his or her world with a little more objectivity and they are a little more personal for them. So that’s why I think politics has influenced music in a way much more than music has influenced politics.
Recorded on: 6/16/08
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As 2012 is coming to a close, it’s a good time to take a look back at some of the biggest and most interesting data breaches over the past year, to see how these attacks occurred, and how each organization was affected by the hack. The breaches from 2012 run the gamut, ranging from retail to government and from insurance companies to internet moguls. During 2012, we probably saw some of the most sophisticated and complex malware ever with Flame (and Gauss); clearly attackers are getting their acts together. Yet, many if not all of my list of top data breaches would probably have been avoided through simple data security measures.
1. Global Payments
In March 2012, electronic transaction processing provider, Global Payments, disclosed a data breach of 1.5 million credit cards. The story broke in a most unusual manner, starting with disclosures by Visa and MasterCard discussing an unnamed processor who had lost over 10 million cards’ Track 1 and Track 2 data. A few days later, the Global Payments notification came out announcing their breach, but the details were quite different, claiming the 1.5 million number and insisting that only Track 2 data (which includes card number and expiration date) was stolen. We also heard from other sources, some claiming that the real level of theft was closer to 24 million credit cards, and occurred over the period of a year. At the time of the breach, Global Payments with compliant with the Payment Card Industry’s Data Security Standard, but as I’ve commented many times before, being ”in compliance” says nothing about being secure.
The hack was likely caused by attackers taking control of an IT administrator’s account, correctly answering knowledge based authentication questions to enter the companies systems. Reportedly, the attackers were members of a Central American gang stealing card numbers for profit. As the result of this breach, Global Payments suffered significant damages. The firm immediately lost PCI-DSS certification, and has paid approximately $100,000,000 in breach-related costs. Add the loss of business that always comes when you destroy your customer’s confidence in your ability to protect their data – and the Global Payments Corporation will certainly never be the same as it once was.
2. New York State Electric and Gas Company
In January 2012, New York State Electric and Gas Company reported a data breach in which approximately 2 million customer records were exposed – which was their entire customer database! The hack was caused by an insider (reported to be a third party software consultant) who gained unauthorized access to NYSEG databases. That probably means nobody ever intended to give this person a login to the database, but somehow they got one anyway. It’s unclear if someone gave them access by mistake, or if the individual exploited vulnerabilities in the database to obtain their access. At the time of the breach, there was no database monitoring in place, so there is no way to know which data was stolen or modified. In general, organizations with a locked-in market for their product, such as this utility company, do not tend to lose any business as the result of a breach. However, they did spend millions, when something like this should have been avoided through simple database assessment and monitoring controls.
3. South Carolina Department of Revenue
This November 2012 breach was initiated via a successful spear phishing campaign in which phishing emails were sent to several employees on the same day. At least one employee was fooled and clicked on the email, causing malware to be installed on their system. That malware was then used to harvest the employee’s credentials and send them back to the attackers. From there, the attackers used the credentials they had stolen to connect to the SC Dept. of Revenue network through the organization’s Citrix system. From there, they appeared as a normal user in the environment and were able to directly access the databases storing taxpayer information. They took everything, stealing entire database backups from critical servers. As a result, nearly 10 million records, including 5.7 million social security numbers and 3.3 million bank account numbers were compromised. Unfortunately, there is little that South Carolina residents can do. They must continue to submit their personal information along with their taxes, whether the state protects their data or not. South Carolina Governor Haley blamed the incident on the IRS, saying that they were compliant with IRS standards that don’t require encryption of Social Security Numbers. The truth is, implementing encryption may have made no difference in this attack. What South Carolina really needed was database security, where they would have seen the unusual backup activity and been able to take steps to stop it before the data got into the attacker’s hands.
In January the online retailer, owned by Amazon, disclosed the largest breach of 2012 (by volume of records stolen) with 24 million customer records compromised. Customer records included names, shipping and billing addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and passwords (cryptographically scrambled – but still quite crackable), last 4 digits of credit card numbers, and other information. The specific attack vector was never disclosed, but the database was perpetrated by an outside attacker who gained access through a Zappos server in Kentucky, where the retailer’s warehouse is located. More than likely, Zappos was running a web application that was vulnerable to SQL Injection. Opportunistic thieves have been able to largely automate the search for this type of weakness across the internet. Zappos was compliant with PCI-DSS when the incident occurred, but that didn’t stop the attackers, or the lawyers from filing suits against them from every direction.
5. LinkedIn & Yahoo!
While probably entirely unrelated, the breaches we saw this summer at LinkedIn and Yahoo! were awfully similar. The disclosures came within a few weeks of one another, and in both cases, it was account data that was stolen. We found out about the breach at LinkedIn when someone posted 6.5M unsalted password hashes to an online password cracking forum, asking for help to crack the passwords. It didn’t take long before researchers found their own (unique) LinkedIn passwords in the file, and let LinkedIn know they had a problem. While only password hashes were posted publically, it’s very likely the attacker got much more data than that. It was interesting to me at the time that the bigger story wasn’t that LinkedIn had been hacked (I guess we should all just expect our data to be stolen?), it was that they weren’t salting passwords. As if salting a password before hashing it is some magical recipe for security. The truth is, most implementations make it so easy to find the salt, the salting makes no difference to security in the end. It’s all about protecting the data in the first place! In Yahoo!’s breach, an attacker claimed to have used simple UNION-based SQL Injection to steal 450,000 user records. Apparently, it was an older system from Yahoo, but in this case, they didn’t even bother to hash the passwords. Everything was in clear text for the world to see. LinkedIn and Yahoo! are two seriously sophisticated and successful technology companies that knew better . . . but didn’t take the threat seriously enough.
6. Nationwide Insurance
Nationwide is one of the ten largest US insurance companies and recently disclosed a breach of 1.1 million records. Compromised data included names, social security numbers, driver license numbers, birth dates, marital status, gender and employer name/address. As this breach recently occurred in December 2012, no details have been disclosed yet on how the attackers accessed the database. Ponemon Research estimates the cost of a data breach to be around $300 per record when hacking is involved. When I get out my handy calculator, it says Nationwide should expect this breach to cost them approximately $330 million. According to Nationwide’s website, their operating income for the first 9 months of 2012 was $723 million. The cost of a data breach can really make an impact on your bottom line, and it always many orders of magnitude higher than the cost of proactive data security.
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Proposal for Package Mounting
It may help to refer to Commentary/Packages/GhcPackagesProposal for an introduction to some of the issues mentioned here.
A message by Frederik Eaton to the Haskell mailing list describing the present proposal is archived: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2005-June/004009.html. (Also, see note at the end of this document regarding an earlier proposal by Simon Marlow)
This document will go over Frederik's proposal again in brief. The proposal doesn't involve any changes to syntax, only an extra command line option to ghc, etc., and a small change to Cabal syntax.
In this proposal, during compilation of a module, every package would have a "mount point" with respect to which its particular module namespace would be resolved. Each package should have a default "mount point", but this default would be overridable with an option to ghc, etc.
For example, the X11 library currently has module namespace:
Graphics.X11.Types Graphics.X11.Xlib Graphics.X11.Xlib.Atom Graphics.X11.Xlib.Event Graphics.X11.Xlib.Display ...
In this proposal, it might instead have default mount point Graphics.X11 and (internal) module namespace:
Types Xlib Xlib.Atom Xlib.Event Xlib.Display ...
To most users of the X11 package, there would be no change - because of the mounting, modules in that package would still appear with the same names in places where the X11 package is imported: Graphics.X11.Types, etc. However, if someone wanted to specify a different the mount point, he could use a special compiler option, for instance -package-base:
ghc -package X11 -package-base Graphics.Unix.X11 ...
(so the imported namespace would appear as Graphics.Unix.X11.Types, Graphics.Unix.X11.Xlib, etc.) Note that the intention is for each -package-base option to refer to the package specified in the preceding -package option, so to give package PACKAGE a mount point of BASE we use the syntax
ghc ... -package PACKAGE -package-base BASE ...
Ideally one would also be able to link to two different versions of the same package, at different mount points:
ghc -package X11-1.2 -package-base NewX11 -package X11-1.0 -package-base OldX11 ...
(yielding NewX11.Types, NewX11.Xlib, ...; OldX11.Types, OldX11.Xlib, ...)
However, usually the default mount point would be sufficient, so most users wouldn't have to learn about -package-base.
Additionally, Cabal syntax should be extended to support mounting. I would suggest that the optional mount point should appear after a package in the Build-Depends clause of a Cabal file:
And in the package Cabal file, a new clause to specify the default mount point:
This proposal has several advantages over the Commentary/Packages/PackageImportsProposal proposal.
- No package names in code. In this proposal, package names would be decoupled from code. This is very important. It should be possible to rename a package (or create a new version of a package with a new name), and use it in a project, without editing every single module of the project and/or package. Even if the edits could be done automatically, they would still cause revision control headaches. Any proposal which puts package names in Haskell source code should be considered unacceptable.
- No syntax changes. The Commentary/Packages/PackageImportsProposal proposal requires new syntax, but this proposal does not. Of course, in this proposal it would be slightly more difficult for the programmer to find out which package a module is coming from. He would have to look at the command line that compiles the code he's reading. However, I think that that is appropriate. Provenance should not be specified in code, since it changes all the time. (And there could be a simple debugging option to GHC which outputs a description of the namespace used when compiling each file)
- Simpler module names. This proposal would allow library authors to use simpler module names in their packages, which would in turn make library code more readable, and more portable between projects. For instance, imagine that I wanted to import some of the code from the X11 library into my own project. Currently, I would have to delete every occurrence of Graphics.X11 in those modules. Merging future changes after such an extensive modification would become difficult. This is a real problem, which I have encountered while using John Meacham's curses library. There are several different versions of that library being used by different people in different projects, and it is difficult to consolidate them because they all have different module names. The reason they have different module names is that package mounting hasn't been implemented yet. The Commentary/Packages/PackageImportsProposal proposal would not fix the problem.
- Development decoupled from naming. (there is a bit of overlap with previous points here) In the present proposal, programmers would be able to start writing a library before deciding on a name for the library. For instance, every module in the Parsec library contains the prefix Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec. This means that either the author of the library had to choose the name Parsec at the very beginning, or he had to make several changes to the text of each module after deciding on the name. Under the present proposal, he would simply call his modules Char, Combinator, Error, etc.; the Text.ParserCombinators prefix would be specified in the build system, for instance in the Cabal file.
Frederik's mailing list message discusses some other minor advantages, but the above points are the important ones. In summary, it is argued that the above proposal should be preferred to Commentary/Packages/PackageImportsProposal because it is both easier to implement (using command line options rather than syntax), and more advantageous for the programmer.
Note on Package Grafting
A proposal by Simon Marlow for "package grafting" predates this one: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2003-August/001310.html. However, the "package grafting" proposal is different in that it suggests selecting a "mount point" at library installation time, where in the present proposal, the "mount point" is selected each time a module using the library in question is compiled. The difference is important, as one doesn't really want to have to install a new copy of a library just to use it with a different name. Also, Simon Marlow's proposal puts package versions in the module namespace and therefore source code, where we argue for decoupling source code from anything to do with provenance - be it package names or version numbers.
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With hundreds of nanotechnology-enabled products already on the market and many more in the commercial pipeline, a new report by a former senior Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official urges policymakers to give greater attention to the challenges of crafting an oversight system that can effectively address health and safety issues particular to nanoscale materials and devices.
"It is time for government, industry, the scientific community, non-governmental organizations and other interested parties to begin a more systematic discussion about the core elements of an oversight framework for nanoscale materials" writes Mark Greenwood in Thinking Big About Things Small: Creating an Effective Oversight System for Nanotechnology. Greenwood worked for EPA for over 16 years and was director of EPA's Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics from 1990 to 1994.
The report was released at an event sponsored by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The Project is a partnership between the Wilson Center and The Pew Charitable Trusts.
"Public discussions of nanotechnology oversight over the last few years have been dominated by two topics: research priorities and the potential jurisdiction of various health and environmental statutes over nanoscale materials," said Greenwood. "Not enough attention is being given to the policies that should be used to define acceptable and unacceptable risk and to determine appropriate management practices."
Greenwood distills three sets of issues that he proposes as the defining elements of an effective oversight system: risk criteria, information reporting requirements and risk management tools. The report identifies, in each of these three areas, some of the key policy questions that will be particularly important to consider, regardless of the form of oversight. Greenwood also emphasizes that the policies established in these three areas will "shape the overall social and economic trajectory of nanotechnology and determine what kinds of nanoscale products and companies can prosper in the future."
"Ultimately," suggests David Rejeski, director of the Wilson Center's Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, "existing regulatory approaches likely will prove to be suboptimal. Novel problems require novel solutions, and the oversight of nanotechnology will require 'out of the box' thinking. As an alternative, this report suggests that a number of statute-independent questions need to be answered by government, industry, non-governmental organizations and other stakeholders."
"There is much at stake," said Rejeski. "How the oversight system evolves at this early stage will have significant impacts on industry structure, the competitive strategies of firms, and approaches to intellectual property. It can ultimately define who can 'play' or not, especially if the costs of testing and data submissions are high. These impacts have not received the attention they deserve but need to be addressed as soon as possible."
Greenwood also emphasizes the importance of openness in the risk-management decision-making process. "While recognizing the need to protect intellectual property and to be sensitive to other business concerns, efforts to devise an effective nanotechnology oversight system should explore ways to assemble information so that the public feels it is adequately informed," said Greenwood. "Stakeholders must engage in pragmatic discussions about the ground rules for transparency. The need for this discussion is no more distant than nanotechnology itself. And this means that this discussion should start now."
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A Less Invasive Option for Patients at Higher Risk
Gastric sleeve resection is a type of weight loss surgery that is performed to permanently reduce the size of the stomach. The goal of gastric sleeve resection is to promote weight loss by reducing food intake and lessening the sensation of hunger.
The procedure is typically performed on patients whose body mass index (BMI) is too high, putting them at risk during more invasive weight loss surgeries. During this procedure, the surgeon removes as much as 60 percent of the stomach so that it takes the shape of a tube or sleeve. Gastric sleeve resection is often followed by a gastric bypass after the patient has lost a significant amount of weight.
Newly published scientific data suggests is patients who have a BMI < 50, gastric sleeve resection is just as effective as gastric bypass for the surgical treatment of weight loss.
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Dr. Jane Goodall: Healing and possibility of peace
Dr. Jane Goodall is a world-renowned scientist who has studied primates in the wild for more than forty years. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, which is dedicated to creating a network of individuals committed to improving life on earth. She will receive the Gandhi/King Award for Non-Violence at the United Nations in October. Dr. Goodall joined the CNN.com chat room from Seattle, Washington.
CNN: How can people best deal with the recent terrorist attacks?
GOODALL: I think we must cling to the hope that we can see in the great heroism, the bravery of the firemen and policemen, and the outpouring of caring and concern that has come pouring in from around the world. I believe that the tragedy that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of people has also served as a call to action, because many people whom I have met are re-examining their own value systems, and the churches, temples, mosques and cathedrals are packed to overflowing for the first time in years.
CHAT PARTICIPANT: How do we deal with the fear and hate many of us feel, when that is not our normal state of mind.
GOODALL: I think that this is the hardest challenge that we face now because fear leading to hate is causing misery and even death to countless more innocent Muslims, Arabs and even people looking like Arabs. I've heard heart-rending stories of refugees from Pakistan, from Afghanistan, and other countries, who've worked so hard to set up small shops, and now at best, their shops are being boycotted, at worst, their shops destroyed, and themselves harmed and killed.
I think each one of us needs to reach out in our own community and make contact with any Muslims that we know, and everybody who even looks Arabic, and let them know that we don't hold them responsible, and ask if they need help. Because if this backlash of understandable fear, leading to hate, escalates much further, then Islamic leaders who have condemned the terrorism will surely seek some way to avenge these additional innocent victims, and every time this happens, the terrorists gain another victory.
CHAT PARTICIPANT: How do you think we should control our thirst for knowledge about the events without becoming obsessed over it?
GOODALL: I believe that accurate knowledge is very, very important, but find that out in free time. Don't let it take over every hour of the day. Perhaps most important, talk about it. Discuss it, especially in schools and colleges. I think it's very important to find practicing Muslims and people of Arabic descent to come and talk about the Muslim religion, and also about conditions in Afghanistan. Try to learn more about the relationship of the terrorists to the Middle East, and to understand the kind of poverty that is the breeding ground for recruitment by those recruiting the terrorists. And understand that the Islamic faith is peaceful, a gentle faith.
CHAT PARTICIPANT: In your message at http://www.janegoodall.org, you state that: "You can never underestimate the power of prayer." How important is prayer, from a social psychology and social anthropology perspective, in helping to deal with mass grief as is being displayed after the World Trade Center attacks?
GOODALL: We deal with mass grief each in our own way, and for many, many people, prayer -- a connecting with a great spiritual power, but also in this case, a connecting between grieving people -- is a way of unburdening one's soul The sharing and the asking for strength is healing.
CHAT PARTICIPANT: Many people in the peace movement are silent because of fear from the more militant attitudes expressed by many Americans. How can those people overcome the fear of promoting a peaceful solution?
GOODALL: I think everybody should take every opportunity to seek for, pray for, and work towards peace. I think it's becoming clearer that the administration is trying to find a way of bringing the people behind the terrorist attack to justice. It's very, very clear that all involving Afghanistan would just add to the death of innocent people, and be very, very unjust.
CNN: As a student of human behavior, what do you believe causes terrorism?
GOODALL: I think that terrorism is fueled by hate. The tragedy is that there are countless young children who are being taught to hate, just as we try to teach our children to love. Terrorism is usually fueled also by poverty, and the fanatical faith of the terrorists who truly believe that the more people they kill who do not subscribe to their faith, the greater their reward in heaven. It's absolutely impossible for most of us to even begin to imagine what this would be like, and it's very, very important to realize that these fanatical fundamentalist Muslims do not represent the Islamic faith.
CHAT PARTICIPANT: Do you think negotiations are better than the threat of war?
GOODALL: I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.
CHAT PARTICIPANT: Will the public show continued support if the government doesn't use military force?
GOODALL: I think that the public is now getting over the initial shock, leading to a desire to hit back. I think that the public is beginning to think of their own sons being sent to war, and what this would mean. I believe there is a growing and desperate hope in more and more people for a solution that avoids war. We all should talk about this at every opportunity.
CHAT PARTICIPANT: Because I am for peace, I have been accused of not caring about the deaths of those at the World Trade Center. What answer would you give to those who believe this about being for peace?
GOODALL: Well, if somebody says this to me, I would simply ask them, do they really believe that those people who tragically died would believe that inflicting this kind of death on another innocent person would be what they wanted? I think we have to try and divide up this grieving into individual pieces, because each grieving person who lost someone in the tragedy, their grief is no greater than if that person had been killed in some other kind of accident.
CHAT PARTICIPANT: Can you comment, please, on the Taliban's treatment of women?
GOODALL: For many, many years, I have been utterly appalled by the treatment of women in Afghanistan under the Taliban rule. It must be made very, very clear to everyone that the Taliban are not, repeat NOT, representative of the Islamic faith, and the Taliban and the Afghans are not to be equated. The Taliban are religious fanatics who are twisting Muslim beliefs out of recognition.
CHAT PARTICIPANT: How do we prepare ourselves emotionally for the possibility that terrorists might use biological or chemical weapons?
GOODALL: I just think we have to find a way of keeping these fears out of our daily lives. Every single day, we could be in a motorcar accident, so, we have to carry on with our lives, and not imagine terror around every corner. I do realize that for some people this is very different. But those of us who spent time, for example, in England, have been exposed so many times to bomb threats, some of which are actual bombs, that we have learned how to live without being fearful all the time, because we had to.
CNN: Do you have any final thoughts to share with us?
GOODALL: I think my final thought is that there are probably many of you out there who, before the terrorist attack, were working towards healing the environment, working for various causes relating to animal welfare, hoping desperately that there would be no drilling for oil in Alaska, hoping that the low-frequency sonar testing by the U.S. Navy could be halted. These issues are just as important now as they were before. Maybe they are even more important. If we allow the destruction of the environment, we can see the terrorists have utterly won, and are destroying the future of our children and grandchildren. We must not let that happen.
CNN: Thank you for joining us today.
GOODALL: Goodbye to everyone out there, and you can find many answers on our Web site, www.janegoodall.org
Dr. Jane Goodall joined the CNN.com chat room via telephone and CNN provided a typist. The above is an edited transcript of the interview on Thursday, September 27, 2001 at 11 a.m. EDT.
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Hawaii is like no other place on earth. Home to one of the world's most active volcanoes and the world's tallest sea mountain. Birthplace of modern surfing, the hula and Hawaii Regional Cuisine. Former seat of a royal kingdom and home to the only royal palace on US soil. Hawaii is one of the youngest geological formations in the world and the youngest state of the union. But perhaps Hawaii's most unique feature is its aloha spirit: the warmth of Hawaii's people that wonderfully complements the Islands' perfect temperatures.
There are six major islands to visit in Hawaii: Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lanai, Maui, and Hawaii Island. You'll find each island has its own distinct personality and offers its own adventures, activities and sights. Mark Twain called Hawaii, "That peaceful land, that beautiful land... the climate, one long delicious summer day, and the good that die experience no change, for they but fall asleep in one heaven and wake up in another." We invite you to explore the Islands of Aloha to find your own heavenly Hawaii experiences.
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April 1957 | Volume 8, Issue 3
Oliver Jensen’s editorial, “H and Non-H,” in the December issue of A MERICAN H ERITAGE requires, first of all, some factual correction and, secondly, consideration of his basic criticism of outdoor museums of history.
By oblique implication the author criticizes The Farmers’ Museum at Cooperstown for “pseudo cuteness and creeping costumization.” His observations derive from an article in the New York Times on September 30, 1956, which quoted John F. W. Rathbone, Secretary of the English National Trust, as having said, “For example, at Cooperstown, New York, I visited a beautifully preserved doctor’s house of the Eighteenth Century. But inside the house, I found a caretaker dressed in Eighteenth-Century costume pretending to dispense Eighteenth-Century medicine.” The facts of the case are these: we have at The Farmers’ Museum Village Crossroads a Nineteenth-Century doctor’s office; we have a guide in the building who wears his ordinary Twentieth-Century clothes and does not pretend to dispense medicine or anything else except information. Mr. Rathbone called us to say that the Times man had misquoted him in distilling an hour’s interview into a few short paragraphs.
In a staff of more than a hundred employees during the summer months only two wear anything that approaches a costume at The Farmers’ Museum. Women who demonstrate the household chores in our early Nineteenth-Century farmhouse requested a few years ago that they be permitted to wear simple dresses of the period. This we agreed to but we stopped the matter right there. My feeling about this whole question was summed up at our course on Historic-House Keeping last fall. I said at that time, “Should we or should we not put our people in costumes? I don’t think it really matters so long as men and women who are your guides are basically sympathetic with the place itself. I would rather have them clothed in the spirit of the house than in a tricorn hat or a hoop skirt.”
Our reason for not putting guides in costume is a very simple one: we have been lucky in finding older guides to interpret our village area who are native to our soil, whose ancestors lived the very life they are explaining. They are happier and more natural in their everyday clothing.
This happens to be our solution, but I think the point Mr. Jensen makes is not well taken. There may be just as much reason for putting those who are interpreting a historic area in correct historical costume as there is in having the historically correct color paint on the walls or the right kind of bed clothes on the bed.
The outdoor museums in this country are, it seems to me, attempting to take men, women and children out of the middle of the Twentieth Century for a few hours and place them in the very midst of an earlier period, to put them on the stage of history. Involved here are, first of all, the problems of scholarship which feed accurate historical details to the curatorial departments which, in turn, re-create the scene to the minutest detail. Then the scene must often be interpreted—interpreted not only accurately but interestingly.
At The Farmers’ Museum we stand in awe of no man in the matter of the scholarship behind our interpretation or the accuracy of our re-creation of the New York frontier. But we maintain the privilege of utilizing the findings of research to make the American past come alive for men and women, the majority of whom are not trained historians but everyday citizens seeking to understand something of the life of those who were in this place before them. The problem isn’t T or Non-T (Tricorn or Non-Tri corn). It is rather a question of whether the principles of scholarship and the principles of good teaching are combined to create a highly vital technique for popular education in history. I believe this is being done on a successful scale beyond anything we could have dreamed of twenty-five years ago.
Louis C. Jones Director, New York State Historical Association Cooperstown, New York
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Built in 1250 AD St. Mary the Virgin Church of Charlton on Otmoor is considered to be one of the best thousand Churches in UK (see Simon Jenkins, “England Thousand Best Churches”, new edition, Penguin Publishers 2000). A unique rood exists where a large wooden cross, solidly covered in greenery, stands on the 16th-century rood screen, said by Nikolau Pevsner to be the finest in Oxforshire. The cross is redecorated twice a year one on 1st May and the other is on 19th September. Every year on 1st May the children from the local primary school, carrying small crosses decorated with flowers, bring a long, flower-decorated, rope-like garland. The cross is dressed or redecorated with locally obtained box foliage. The rope-like garland is hung across the rood screen during the "May Garland Service".
An engraving from 1823 shows the dressed rood cross as a more open, foliage-covered framework, similar to certain types of corn dolly with a smaller attendant figure of similar appearance. Folklorists have commented on the garlands' resemblance to human figures and noted that they replaced statues of St. Mary and St. John which had stood on the rood screen until they were destroyed during the Reformation. Until the 1850s, the larger garland was carried in a May Day procession, accompanied by morris dancers, to the former Benedictine priory at Studley (as the statue of St Mary had been until the Reformation). Meanwhile the women of the village used to carry the smaller garland through Charlton, though it seems that this ceased some time between 1823 and 1840, when an illustration in J. H. Parker's Glossary of Architecture shows only one garland, centrally positioned on the rood screen (Source: Wikipedia, see on ‘Rood’)
St. Mary the Virgin's Church at Charlton is one of the 8 Parish churches in the Ray Valley Benefice.
The Ministry Team consists of 4 priests, 1 Licensed Lay Minister, an Ordinand and an Administrator.
They are: The Revd Charles Masheder, Rector, based in Ambrosden, 01869 247813
Revd David Wippell, based in Islip, 01865 849497;
Revd Andrew Rycraft, based in Charlton, 01865 331124
Revd Andrew Baldock, 01865 842954
Mrs Lisa Holmes, 01869 240435
Mrs. Glenys Edwards, Licensed Lay Minister, based in Oddington, 01865 331233;
Mrs. Lynne Lewis, Benefice Administrator, 01869 247813.
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Reconstruction of the Baths of Diocletian, Rome, 1540s
Artist: Andrea Palladio
Copyright: RIBA Library Drawings and Archives Collections
Palladio 500 exhibition
The exhibition celebrating the quincentenary of Andrea Palladio's birth has closed in Madrid after a two-year international tour. This major exhibition looked at the life and works of one of the most important architects of the renaissance period.
Find out more about Palladio in the RIBA's online Palladio Exhibitions.
New opening hours
From 5 January 2010 and for the foreseeable future, the Library will be closed to visitors on Mondays and Thursdays. On Tuesdays the Library will now close at 5pm. We will continue to answer enquiries received by telephone or email on these days. The Library will remain open on Saturday mornings until 1.30pm.
The Public Information Line (UK calls only) and Members Information Line (RIBA members only) will continue to operate Monday - Friday, 9.30am - 5pm.
The RIBA Architecture Study Rooms at the Victoria and Albert Museum will no longer open on Saturdays.
The RIBA will keep this position under review and trusts that this reduction in opening hours will not significantly inconvenience members and other users of this important and valuable collection.
Palladio and his Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey
This exhibition is centred on 31 original Palladio drawings and seven books from the RIBA's collections, alongside bas-reliefs and architectural models. It traces Palladio's architectural development alongside the enormous impact his work had on the architecture of the United States, resulting in new and original interpretations from grand formal buildings to smaller utilitarian structures.
It will tour venues across the US, beginning at the Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum in New York.
New Library Education Curator
Dr Elizabeth Grant has started work as the new Library Education Curator, facilitating collections-based education programme at the Library. To discuss education opportunities for students at the Library contact:
Dr Elizabeth Grant
Library Education Curator
Tel. +44 (0)207 307 3732
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Things may be tough in 2012, but it won't be the end of the world. I can't stress this highly enough.
Every year has its doomsday predictions. Only last year, Christian radio host and eschatological alarmist Harold Camping picked 21 May as the date of the Rapture. "Beyond the shadow of a doubt," he said. When the end of the world failed to conform to his itinerary, Camping rejigged his calculations and shifted his prediction to 21 October. When that day also came and went, even Camping had to accept that the continued existence of the world was down to something other than his failure to carry the 1.
For 2012, at least, the doomsayers appear to have settled on a single date: 21 December. The reasons cited for fixing this as the End of Days are varied. It marks, some say, the end of the Mayan "long count" calendar, and therefore Armageddon. It is also claimed that it's the date when an astronomically unprecedented "galactic alignment" will take place, causing celestial havoc.
Other folk predict a catastrophic reversal of the planet's magnetic field. One school of thought holds that a mysterious planet called Nibiru will collide with the Earth round or about the 21st. Even Nostradamus has weighed in. People who want the world to end tend to see these distinct scenarios as corroborating, rather than contradicting, each other. With all this apocalyptic weight behind it, 21 December has become a popular revised date for those whose previous predictions failed to come to pass. In millenarian circles at least, it's going to be a big day.
Few things bring me more joy than the non-arrival of an adverse outcome for which I have failed to prepare. By virtue of doing nothing, I seem wise. I rode out the Y2K scare without an AA battery or box of matches in the house. I did nothing to protect my family from bird flu. I routinely go on long car journeys without bottled water, blankets or a knife with which to cut off my own arm. Doomsday predictions are, of course, easy to defy, and hard to prepare for in any case. But they do provide an annual reminder of the general resilience of the universe. So that's what I'm looking forward to in 2012: the world not coming to an end. Again.
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