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- Villanova University has 2 Pre-Law School Advisors. Dave Leibig, in the Career Center, 610-519-4060 and Karen Graziano, Office of Undergraduate Studies, 610-519-7427.
- The LSAT (Law School Admission Test) is required by most law schools. LSAT information, application materials and the LSDAS (Law School Data Assembly Service) is found in the Law Services Information Book (LSIB). Instructions in this handbook need to be followed thoroughly. Students need to register with LSDAS.
- Utilize the law literature in the Career Center library.
- Join the student run Pre-Law Society
- Sit in on a class at Villanova's Law School
The procedure for applying to professional schools (law, medicine, pharmacy, etc.), is relatively similar to those for applying to graduate school. Provided below is additional information specific to law and medical schools.
- Students interested in medical school should speak with Dr. Louise A. Russo, Assistant Biology Professor/Pre-Med Advisor (191C Mendel Hall, 610-519-4869)
- Begin the process as early as possible!!
- Most programs in medicine require the MCAT (Medical College Admission Test.)
- Consult the medical school information found in the Career Center library.
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|Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 10:24 am Post subject: Rice Student Wins Prize for Outstanding Nano Research
|Chemical Engineering Student at Rice University Wins $5,000 Prize for Outstanding Research on Nanoparticle-Based Microcapsules
The Nanotechnology Foundation of Texas (NFT) has awarded Rice University doctoral student Vinit Murthy its 2006 George Kozmetsky Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Nanotechnology. The award includes a $5,000 prize.
Murthy and Shravanthi Reddy of the University of Texas at Austin earned top honors in the Kozmetsky competition, which drew stiff competition from the state's leading research universities. Only 14 out of a possible 600 points separated the top four finalists, which represented diverse fields, including medicine, engineering and natural science.
Murthy, a fifth-year chemical engineering Ph.D. student in the research group of Michael Wong, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and assistant professor of chemistry, studies nanoparticle assembly. Along with Wong, he co-discovered a simple method to encapsulate any water-soluble compound easily and without damage.
The method is the most environmentally sensitive approach yet devised for making tiny hollow spheres called microcapsules. Microcapsule research is one of the most active fields in applied nanotechnology, with dozens of companies either developing or using the tiny containers - usually smaller than living cells - to deliver everything from drugs and imaging agents to perfumes and flavor enhancers.
"Nanoparticle-assembled capsules are particularly interesting because their properties can be tailored for specific applications," Murthy said. "Because our method works at room temperature and uses water as a solvent, it's cleaner, cheaper and easier than existing methods of producing microcapsules."
"Vinit has been very successful in creatively applying the physical and colloid chemistry of nanoparticles to the synthesis of functional materials," Wong said. "His Ph.D. research provides a great example of nanotechnology research performed at the basic science level that can readily transition into commercial products. This award is a wonderful and well-deserved honor."
The Kozmetsky Awards are the first awards of their kind to be offered in the U.S. to students working in fields related to nanotechnology. They are given annually to the top two graduate students in Texas. The award funds must be used for stipends, travel, lab supplies, books and other direct costs associated with the student's research.
Murthy credited Wong's guidance and leadership as a critical factor in his winning the award.
"I couldn't have achieved this without Dr. Wong's enthusiasm and his unwavering encouragement," Murthy said. "By his example, I have learned how important it is to develop interpersonal skills, teamwork and leadership qualities, not just for success in my career but in order to become a well-rounded person."
Source: Rice University.
This story was posted on 1 February 2006.
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I will make a wild guess, which could very well be incorrect, that most of the people supporting criminalization of shariah do not know what shariah really is, and are blindly believing what the smearcasters are pushing out. Isn’t it obvious that in the US, American law ought to be followed anyway and that is what the lawyers and the judiciary go by when deciding cases? So why is there a need to pass bills to criminalize shariah?
Independent of shariah, since I live in the US, whenever I enter into a contract it must be based on terms that satisfy the US law. When I drive on the road, when I deal with those around me, when I participate in politics, when I indulge in legal matters, it has to be according to the US law! But to top it off, shariah also explicitly requires me to obey the law of the land, which is the law of the US.
As I had clarified in a previous blog post on the killings by Major Malik Nidal Hasan, shariah tells me that his actions were in violation of God’s commands and he is akin to having killed “the entire humanity” (Quran 5:32). He will be held accountable by God in the Hereafter. His actions: criminal.
Shariah tells me that I must behave kindly with people of all faiths: Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhists, atheists and everyone else. I must not harm them, and must be their well-wisher. I must pay taxes even though I vehemently disagree with the way we use a major part of our tax money. Nonetheless, it is my implicit contract with the country in which I live and shariah requires that I do not violate it, and if I did, I will be held accountable in the Hereafter by God.
At Microsoft, where I work, I have had to manage up to ten full-time employees with team sizes, including contractors and vendors, of 40-50 people. Most folks on my team were non-Muslims (In fact, if I recall correctly, only two people who ever reported to me were Muslims). And shariah required that my dealings with them be based on equity, justice, kindness and numerous other values that are called out in the Quran and clarified by the Prophet Muhammad.
Shariah tells me that I need to be extremely kind to my parents, my wife, my children, my siblings and other relatives, irrespective of their religious affiliation. Their testimony to God on the Day of Judgment will bear the highest weight. And the Quran proclaims that if my parents reach old age, I must “not say ‘ugh’ or scold them” (17:23) rather pray for them. I need to provide for my wife and kids, and need to ensure that my children are brought up well, they get good education, and my family’s needs are met. That is required off me by God.
I do not drink alcohol since it is prohibited, and do not indulge in interest, also prohibited. I cannot deny rights of inheritance to any of my children as that is unfair and not allowed. My will should contain inheritance shares for my close relatives, none of whom I can deny their rights of inheritance for that is also prohibited. God does not allow someone to declare all property in favor of one person while the other suffers with nothing!
Now, if shariah is criminalized, what does that mean? Should I stop doing all of this since it would be a crime to do anything that shariah requires? Shall the kindness and the positive energy that I am required to bring on this earth vanish? I am by no means able to live according to the teachings of Islam which ask of me to give far more in terms of fulfilling others’ rights. But I felt it was necessary to share some of what shariah at least requires from me. What if I want to give a loan to someone without taking interest on it because it’s against God’s teaching in the Quran? Would that be a crime?
For skeptics, my this message is going to be read by Muslims as well, and my message is the same: All Muslims have this set of responsibilities as prescribed by God in the Quran. In fact, my original blog, omeriqbal.com, was primarily read by Muslims to whom I attempted to show how the Quran presented a message of peace. So I am preaching this strong message of merciful dealing with one’s neighbors to Muslims as well.
Of course, I did not cover rituals, such as prayers, fasting, etc., or articles of faith, such as angels, prophets etc., but those are common in every religion and not the target of the bills that intend to criminalize shariah.
So someone tell me that by criminalizing shariah, what is being achieved? I can’t operate outside the fold of US law anyway, so anything you read by one of the smearcasters is most likely not true!
Updated 9/9 @ 10.10PM: Updated the number of people who reported to me as Muslims from one to two as I was reminded by one of them, with due apologies to them!
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Consumer expert Clark Howard’s column appears here each Thursday in conjunction with Deal Spotter, a weekly print section in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Milk consumption is dropping as more Americans shy away from the white stuff — even at a time when sales of cheese and yogurt are up.
What do people have against traditional milk? Well, the alternative medical community has painted milk in a bad light, for starters.
But at my home, we now buy organic milk. It may cost more, but it’s cheaper in the long run because of its extended shelf life. Organic milk is subject to ultra-high temperature pasteurization, unlike regular milk.
Other people I know prefer almond milk because it’s lower in calories and doesn’t need refrigeration when it’s unopened.
On a larger scale, discount grocers are on the march around the country, but some get a warmer reception than others.
After opening a new Trader Joe’s in Naples, Fla., people are now circulating petitions to get Trader Joe’s to come to other cities in Florida. The company just has that kind of mojo.
At the same time, Aldi plans to open in a suburban Houston location, but according to The Houston Chronicle, the locals were trying to keep Aldi out, claiming the store will lower property values, increase traffic and put their safety at risk.
The funny thing is, both Trader Joe’s and Aldi have common ownership and a similar business model. There’s an emphasis on private labels and a limited selection. But Trader Joe’s is fresh and hip with a focus on organic and natural, while Aldi is just about inexpensive groceries.
In reality, if those people visited an Aldi, they’d see a clean, well-lit store and parking lots. Aldi appeals to both rich and the poor, typically leaving out the vast middle. That’s nothing to hate on Aldi about, though.
– Clark Howard — Save More, Spend Less, Avoid Rip-offs — for the Atlanta Bargain Hunter blog
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This neoclassical building, declared part of the world's heritage, was built at the end of the 18th century and ... More
Instituto Cultural Cabañas
This neoclassical building, declared part of the world's heritage, was built at the end of the 18th century and inaugurated in 1810. Until 1980 it was the Casa de la Misericordia (House of Mercy) for orphans. The main hall, now the Capilla Clementina, was decorated in 1938 by the celebrated muralist Jose Clemente Orozco. His stirring masterpiece, "El Hombre de Fuego" (Man of Fire) can be found in the vault. Today the Institute's 23 courtyards and 106 rooms house the permanent collection by Orozco and other artists, as well as temporary exhibitions. For a stunning view of the Institute, stand at the edge of the water mirror — in the Plaza Tapatía — and look towards the back of the building. The Ballet Folklórico de Jalisco performs here Wednesdays at 8:30pm. There is also a gift shop.
A must see for the Orozco murals (not completely to my liking in their rather conventionally and inaccurately leftist portrayal of Mexican history, but nevertheless spectacular -- I'm one of those who thinks one of the worst things that ever happened to Mexico was Maximilian's overthrow and assassination) and, above all, for the marvelous surrealist bronzes in the grand plaza in front and in the central courtyard. The building itself is a magnificant example of colonial architecture, though the exterior of the dome leaves a lot to be desire in its proportions and turret-like design. Have a very cold Negra Modelo for just $1.50 at the outdoor cantina across the plaza, and enjoy taking in the quintessentially Mexican atmosphere and sights. Then wander up the Plaza Tapatio mall toward the Centro. I have spent many months in Mexico over the years, and this is one of my most favorite places in the entire country.
I stumbled upon the Instituto, coincidently enough when one of the in-house tour guides was starting his daily tour. It was amazing to hear the history of this landmark. If you are an admirer of Jose Clemente-Orozco's work I suggest you immerse yourself in the pleasure of viewing this "interactive" murals. The tour guides are very knowledgeable of the building and of Orozco's work.
Inside its impressive and large green areas you can temporarily isolate yourself from the noises of the city. It has
sports fields, an area with exercise machines, picnic spots and a bike track. Small vehicles can be rented to ...
Plaza del Sol is undoubtedly one of the most favored plazas in Guadalajara. Unlike many shopping centers, Plaza del Sol
is an outdoors area where you will find plenty of different boutiques, banks, ice cream parlors, restaurants, snack shops ...
Guadalajara's most prestigious theatre, the building features a neo classical portico atop Corinthian columns and a marble relief of Apollo
and the Nine Muses. Inside, the walls are brimming with murals. A variety of dramatic arts are staged here ...
*Terms & Conditions: Savings calculation is based on Flight + Hotel vacation package bookings for a 3 month period for 2 adults with a 2+ night length of stay compared to price of the same components if booked separately during same period. Savings will vary based on origin/destination, length of trip, travel dates and selected travel supplier(s). Savings not available on all packages.
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Through this program, you have the option to pursue French, German, Latin, Spanish, Teaching English as a Second Language, or any combination of these or other languages offered by the department (Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, or Ancient Greek). For particular course offerings, see the Undergraduate Catalog or the Graduate Catalog. Simply find the prefix of the language that interests you (given below in parentheses). For an indication of how often specific courses are offered, consult the Dynamic Schedule of Courses, which includes the option of viewing past semesters.
For more information about the language areas, including any updates on courses, please visit the following links:
Group Visits to Campus
High school teachers are encouraged to consider bringing groups of language students to campus for a visit to our department. For ideas of possible activities, or for setting up a visit, please contact the department chair.
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Teachers or schools interested in presentations about foreign language study and career opportunities are encouraged to contact the Department: email@example.com or call 812-237-2366.
The LLL Department often participates in this program, which offers talented high school students an opportunity to earn college credit and experience campus life. Mini-Scholarships are available for all seminars. The ISU Summer Honors Homepage has information about student qualifications, costs and on-line application forms. Visit the homepage at http://www.indstate.edu/experience/index.html .
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“Researchers believe that indicates that DID sufferers do not merely have overactive imaginations, and that the origins of their ailment stem more likely from trauma.”
“These results do not support the idea of a sociogenic origin for DID.”
Scientists Are Beginning to Understand What Causes Multiple Personality Disorder
Despite the fact that dissociative identity disorder has been listed in psychiatry bible Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (currently DSM-IV) for years, the origins of the condition are not well-understood. By Makini Brice July 02, 2012
Dissociative identity disorder (DID) – or multiple personality disorder, as it is commonly known – affects one percent of the population, roughly the same amount as schizophrenia. Often sufferers from the condition have been misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder before receiving their DID diagnosis. DID is usually characterized as a person who has with two or more personalities with completely different viewpoints on their environments and themselves.
Some believe that those afflicted use DID as a means of coping with extreme trauma, while others think that those affected simply have overactive imaginations. Of those who believe in the overactive imagination theory, scientists do not believe that DID is a genuine mental disorder.
Researchers at King’s College London sought to find a clearer picture of the answer to that question. They studied 29 people, 11 had dissociative identity disorder, 10 were people who were highly prone to fantasy and 8 people were not very prone to fantasy, as a control. Of those without DID, they were made to simulate the symptoms of dissociative identity disorder. The researchers measured subjects’ brain activity, cardiovascular system, and their reactions.
They found that there were strong differences, both in regional blood flow and in reactions, between the DID sufferers and the control subjects. Researchers believe that indicates that DID sufferers do not merely have overactive imaginations, and that the origins of their ailment stem more likely from trauma….http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20120702/10574/dissociative-identity-disorder-multiple-personality-brain-mental-trauma.htm
Fact or Factitious? A Psychobiological Study of Authentic and Simulated Dissociative Identity States
A. A. T. Simone Reinders, Antoon T. M. Willemsen, Herry P. J. Vos, Johan A. den Boer, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis PLoS ONE 7(6): e39279. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039279
Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a disputed psychiatric disorder. Research findings and clinical observations suggest that DID involves an authentic mental disorder related to factors such as traumatization and disrupted attachment. A competing view indicates that DID is due to fantasy proneness, suggestibility, suggestion, and role-playing. Here we examine whether dissociative identity state-dependent psychobiological features in DID can be induced in high or low fantasy prone individuals by instructed and motivated role-playing, and suggestion.
DID patients, high fantasy prone and low fantasy prone controls were studied in two different types of identity states (neutral and trauma-related) in an autobiographical memory script-driven (neutral or trauma-related) imagery paradigm. The controls were instructed to enact the two DID identity states. Twenty-nine subjects participated in the study: 11 patients with DID, 10 high fantasy prone DID simulating controls, and 8 low fantasy prone DID simulating controls. Autonomic and subjective reactions were obtained. Differences in psychophysiological and neural activation patterns were found between the DID patients and both high and low fantasy prone controls. That is, the identity states in DID were not convincingly enacted by DID simulating controls. Thus, important differences regarding regional cerebral bloodflow and psychophysiological responses for different types of identity states in patients with DID were upheld after controlling for DID simulation.
The findings are at odds with the idea that differences among different types of dissociative identity states in DID can be explained by high fantasy proneness, motivated role-enactment, and suggestion. They indicate that DID does not have a sociocultural (e.g., iatrogenic) origin.
“For the first time, it is shown using brain imaging that neither high nor low fantasy prone healthy women, who enacted two different types of dissociative identity states, were able to substantially simulate these identity states in psychobiological terms. These results do not support the idea of a sociogenic origin for DID.” http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0039279
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FLO in Palestine: Waiting at the Border
The Producer Services and Relations (PSR) Unit at FLO International provides training in local languages, guidance on certification requirements, help in accessing new markets, and facilitates relationships between buyers and producers.
Chiraz Skhiri, the Fairtrade Regional Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, is travelling to Palestine this week to visit with local farmers and provide training to cooperatives and other producer organizations.
Her first entry chronicles the difficulties of crossing into Palestine:
I arrived at Allenby Bridge at 09.30 am where the long wait for no apparent reason begins. We are stuck in this no-man’s land between Jordan and Palestine waiting for a little hand to stick out the window and wave us in.
After 45 minutes and 5 buses in queue, we are in to the inspection office! I give my luggage to a Palestinian worker who gives my passport to the Israeli Officer. He applies a bar code sticker and a category number. I am in category 2. I don’t really understand what this means, but I do know that it is not category 6: full search.
At 10.30 am, I enter the first control station. Someone takes my passport and tells me “please sit down.” Ten minutes later a female officer comes, takes me aside, and asks me the regular questions, “Where you going in Israel? Where are you staying in Israel?”
Then comes the tricky question, “What is the purpose of your visit?” Here I have to explain what Fairtrade is without mentioning the words farmers, agriculture, olive oil or that I am going to Jenin.
After 10 minutes first round of questions I am asked to wait and then a smiling security officer appears, she recognized the picture on my passport. Relieved, I proceed to passport control.
Passport control… yeah the computers are out so we wait another hour. Computer back on for work… I thought I would just have passport stamped and then be released but not really, it was too good to be true.
After 3 hours, I can leave finally. I never really understand why I cannot just enter the country and do my work. And after all of that, they can see it but the only thing they tell me is that they like my name. I am improving though on the waiting time.
I am finally in the bus to Jenin.
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Walt Disney Parks and Resorts is using user-generated content at the centerpiece of its new "Let the Memories Begin" campaign.
By re-purposing user-submitted photos and videos from entertainment and resort venues, Disney is hoping to craft a campaign that helps recapture the good memories individuals have of going to Disney World or Disneyland.
Television ads will start airing this week. For future advertisements and promotions, Disney is asking users to submit their own memories online using YouTube, Facebook, MySpace and DisneyParks.com/Memories.
Check out this TV spot below to get a sense of what Disney is doing. As with all aspects of the campaign, the footage is from real families.
Beyond the advertising campaign, Disney will begin to incorporate family memories into its theme parks with its "Let the Memories Begin" nighttime experiences starting January 2011. At Disney World in Orlando, guest photos will be projected against the spires of Cinderella's Castle in the Magic Kingdom. At Disneyland, the backdrop will be the "It's a Small World" facade. Producers are estimating that as many as 500 photos will be used at each location each day.
From a marketing perspective, using user-generated content is absolutely brilliant. What better way to get people to visit the parks and resorts than to remind them of the magic of the experience? Not only does it make the end products more compelling and heartwarming, but it's a great way to get individuals to reflect upon their own Disney-flavored memories.
What do you think of the campaign, and Disney's decision to employ user-generated content to trigger memories of past park experiences?
Image courtesy of Don Sullivan
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Contrary to popular belief, the insurance coverage you will need
most is not life insurance, it is disability insurance. The
Health Insurance Association of America estimates that people
between the ages of 35 and 65 are six times more likely to become
disabled than to die. The average duration of a disability that
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Quicken InsureMarket-The one-stop shop for information
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St. Louis Kollel
St. Louis Kollel is an independent, not-for-profit community organization created for St. Louis-area Jews. The purpose is for rabbis who live in St. Louis to strengthen the quality of Jewish education throughout the region. They teach classes in a variety of settings, from synagogues to Starbucks. The center offers classes about the Torah and Judaism to the young and old, from every level of religious observance. People from all over the community take classes at St. Louis Kollel, from teens and seniors to businessmen and stay-at-home moms.
- Fax: 314-863-0820
- Hours: The rabbis are available during lunchtime, on evenings or on weekends for teaching and outreach programs.
- Handicap Accessible: Yes
- Founding Date: 1991
- Parking: Free lot
- Number of students: 100
- Religious affiliation: Jewish
- Number of faculty: 12 rabbis
- How engaged is the school with the community?: The facility offers classes in Jewish thought and classic texts. The faculty of rabbis provides educational opportunities for all Jews in St. Louis.
- Denomination: Jewish, Jewish - Conservative, Jewish - Orthodox, Jewish - Reform
- Services: Study groups
- Mission: The purpose of the St. Louis Kollel is to allow rabbis to advance the study of Torah and to teach Jewish education to men and women in the community.
- Annual dues: Most of Kollel's funding is through private donations
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Toloudis, Nicholas. (2001) "Common procedures, common problems: Moving toward uniform electoral procedures for EP elections". In: UNSPECIFIED, Madison, Wisconsin. (Unpublished)
[N]ational level political interests and ideas have impeded the reform process. I will test this argument by examining the manner in which political and ideological factors have played out at critical periods in the history of the directly elected EP and two member states to prevent the installation of uniform procedures. Results indicate that the issues under consideration during the debates on direct elections legislation have had lasting effects on subsequent efforts to impose uniform electoral procedures. Failure at the supranational level to find consensus on a reform proposal came even in the face of a concerted effort to account for domestic interests. The installation and amendment of EP electoral procedures provide an excellent perspective on how member states' perception of the EU has changed and are a unique and important case of electoral reform.
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Long Beach doesn’t allow sidewalk riding in a business district (expansively defined by CVC 240). Long Beach also has some thorough, quite sensible, directives for those riding on the sidewalk. Sec. 10.48.070:
A. No person shall ride a bicycle upon a sidewalk within any business district; upon the sidewalks of bridges; in pedestrian underpasses; on pedestrian overpasses; upon sidewalks adjacent to any school building, church, recreation center, playground, or senior citizens’ residential development; within the area south of Ocean Boulevard between the Long Beach Museum of Art on the west and Bluff Park on the east; on the northerly side of the Downtown Marina mole which directly abuts said marina, between Gangway A and Gangway P.
B. Any person riding a bicycle upon a sidewalk shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian, and when overtaking and passing a pedestrian, shall give an audible signal and shall pass to the left of the pedestrian only under conditions permitting such movement in safety.
C. The speed limit for bicycles on a sidewalk is fifteen miles per hour unless otherwise posted. The speed limit where pedestrians are present is five miles per hour. Signs specifying the speed limit shall be placed by the Traffic Engineer in locations which will provide notice to significant concentrations of sidewalk bicycle riders or where bicycle speed problems are found to exist on sidewalks.
D. For purposes of this Section, the following public ways shall be considered sidewalks:
1. Seaside Walk south of Ocean Boulevard between Fifty-fifth Place and Sixty-ninth Place, known as the Boardwalk;
2. Bay Shore Walk north of Ocean Boulevard between Fifty-fifth Place and Sixty-ninth Place.
So be mindful when you ride on the sidewalk in Long Beach. But with all that awesome bike infrastructure on the street, compared to our surrounding LA and OC county neighbors, who would want to ride on the sidewalk anyways? I guess that’s why they call them sidewalks and road bikes.
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Electronic Music Studios (EMS) VCS3
The VCS3 (nicknamed the Putney) is an analog monosynth housed in a distinctive angled wooden case, a truly classic synth. EMS (Electronic Music Studios) was created in England back in 1969. The VCS3 was one of their first synths and it is still a great, unique, funky little unit! Pictured above is the Mark I model. Pictured is another unit with the small wood-cased DK2 voltage-control keyboard required to play the VCS3.
It has three oscillators, and a unique matrix-based patch system. Instead of patch wires, the VCS3 uses a patchbay grid in which the synth components are laid out, and signal routing is accomplished by placing small pins into the appropriate slots. The VCS3 was, in actuality, a modular type synthesizer reduced down to an extremely portable size.
It generates familiar sci-fi sounds (Dr. Who) and other truly analog sounds. Unfortunately, the oscillators tend to drift out of tune. There's a Noise Generator, 2 Input Amplifiers, 1 Ring Modulator, 1 Voltage Controlled Low Pass Filter (VCF), 1 Trapezoid Envelope Generator, Joy-Stick Controller, Voltage Controlled Spring Reverb unit and 2 Stereo Output Amplifiers.
Additonally, the VCS3 was also sold in a plastic breif-case and called the Synthi A. The major Synthi 100 system was based on three VCS3's strung together. Some ultra-rare commercially unavailable synths EMS made include the VCS4 in 1969 which was basically 2 VCS3's plus a keyboard. And the Synthi Keyboard 1 of 1970 was just a VCS3 with a mini 29-note keyboard.
Many of these EMS synth's have been used by Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, Pink Floyd, Stereolab, Yes, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Jean-Michel Jarre, Astral Projection, Klaus Schulze, Depeche Mode, Vince Clarke, Add N to (X), The Who, Todd Rundgren, Recoil, Freddy Fresh, John Paul Jones and many more.
- Polyphony - Monophonic
- Oscillators - 3 VCO's - Subtractive / FM analog synthesis
- Filter - Low Pass VCF
- VCA - Trapezoid waveshape Envelope generator
- LFO - Yes
- Keyboard - No keyboard, needs an external CV/gate keyboard controller such as the EMS DK2.
- Memory - None
- Control - CV/GATE
- Date Produced - 1969 - 94
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Obesity rates continue to rise across the United States. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) currently estimates that more than 35% of American adults are obese, and about 17% of children and adolescents are obese.
Numerous health risks are linked to obesity. They comprise some of the most common preventable causes of death, including coronary heart disease, type II diabetes mellitus, and strokes. In 2008, medical costs associated with obesity were estimated at $147 billion. Efforts to decrease obesity among adults and children are crucial from a public health standpoint.
Current Physical Activity Guidelines recommend 150 minutes (or about 30 minutes, five times a week) of moderate to vigorous physical activity per week. Specifically for weight loss purposes, many experts recommend longer durations of exercise - up to 60 minutes per day.
Are these longer periods of exercise necessary for optimal weight loss? Does the extra time increase fat loss? Or is there a compensation effect whereby the body adjusts to the additional exercise?
In a paper published recently in the American Journal of Physiology, studied this question using samples of overweight, sedentary men. The authors compared a group which performed 30 minutes of daily aerobic exercise for 13 weeks to one which performed 60 minutes per day.
The authors compared the groups based on body fat loss, as well negative accumulated energy balance, which they calculated from the changes in body composition.
Participants who performed 30 minutes of aerobic exercise per day experienced the same amount of body fat loss compared to those who performed 60 minutes per day. Surprisingly, the overweight men who exercised 30 minutes per day had a much greater than predicted negative energy balance. There was no additional benefit obtained by doing 60 minutes of exercise per day.
The authors concluded that while one group of overweight men performed twice the amount of daily aerobic exercise, the decrease in body weight and body fat was no greater than the group that performed half as much.
This study provides good news to overweight individuals who want to start an exercise regimen to lose weight and body fat. Since many of these people do not regularly exercise, starting with 30 minutes per day might be more appealing. They might be more likely to stick to the shorter programs.
When it comes to obesity and weight loss, any exercise seems better than none at all. While we need much more research to find ideal nutritional changes and specific exercise recommendations, Americans of all ages can at least start with moderate amounts of exercise each day.
What do you think about this study and its findings? Will it make you more likely to try to perform physical activity each day?
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Pub. date: 2010 | Online Pub. Date: February 22, 2010 | DOI: 10.4135/9781412957403 | Print ISBN: 9781412956642 | Online ISBN: 9781412957403| Publisher:SAGE Publications, Inc.About this encyclopedia
César Chávez, the late labor leader and social activist, reminded educators of the implications of misguided teaching, resulting in the destruction of society, cultures, and surroundings. The severity of conditions within the U.S. public educational system should alert everyone to the need for change. Unfortunately, the severity of such conditions is not a new phenomenon. The United States has a profound history of creating and maintaining political and social structures that keep cultural minorities marginalized. Poststructuralists, such as Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, identify schools as the cornerstone for upholding hegemonic values and traditions within society. To deconstruct hegemonic values in schools, educators should reconsider their civic responsibility to further examine the impact of discounting the voices and lived experiences of traditionally underserved children and families in schools. And those efforts on the part of many educators have led to salient curricular reforms. Consider the meaning derived from the term ...
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About the World Land Trust
What is the World Land Trust?
The World Land Trust (WLT) is an international conservation charity, which protects the world’s most biologically important and threatened habitats acre by acre.
Since its foundation in 1989 (as the World Wide Land Conservation Trust), the WLT has funded partner organisations around the world to create reserves, and give permanent protection to habitat and their wildlife.
The World Land Trust, based in Halesworth, Suffolk, is run by a small number of staff and interns, many of whom work part-time. Find out more about the people who work for and support the WLT:
How the WLT works
The WLT has a policy of working with local partner organisations, and the Trust does not normally play a direct role in the ownership or the management of the land it conserves.
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The Trust has 27 programme partners and funds projects around the world in Africa, Asia and Central and South America. Find out more about the projects the WLT supports:
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Top 10 richest people ever led by 14th century African king
Bill Gates is up there. So are William the Conquerer, a czar, assorted nobility and a smattering of Rockefellers, Carnegies and Vanderbilts.
But even at the peak of their considerable wealth, none surpassed the riches of the most moneyed man ever: Mansa Musa I, a West African king who died in 1337.
That’s according to a list of the 25 most well-off men – yep, it’s an all-boys club – to have ever walked the planet, according to Celebritynetworth.com.
The site took the high-point estimate of each man’s net worth and adjusted the fortunes for inflation. In total, the group held more than $4.3 trillion.
Fourteen of the 25 were Americans – with Microsoft founder Bill Gates as the richest living member. Carlos Slim Helu, currently the richest person worldwide, came in 22nd.
Billionaire investor and Berkshire Hathaway chief Warren Buffett rounded out the list with $64 billion, closely following Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton’s $65 billion.
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April 8, 2009
You don’t have to look far to find cause for worry today. As jobs disappear, as our retirement plans shrivel, anxiety is knitting brows everywhere. Including, at times, my own.
Part of our worry comes from the fact that most Americans aren’t used to it! We’ve had relatively little to worry about in life. Sure, these are hard times, but this is not the Great Depression. And while the nightly news gives us cause to bemoan the loss of moral absolutes in society, Christians have always found themselves—and will always find themselves—living in the midst of a depraved culture.
But no matter how dark a place or an age in time, God has never allowed the light of the Church to be extinguished. Plagues, persecutions, poverty—Christians have lived victoriously in the midst of it all.
How? They had something we’ve lost: a Christian ethic of hope.
Sadly, people have either trivialized or politicized the word hope. The American Heritage Dictionary defines hope as “the feeling that . . . events will turn out for the best.”
But a Christian hope isn’t a feeling. And it’s not wishful thinking. Hope comes from the CERTAINTY of God’s promises. These are promises like Romans 8:28— “God works in all things for the good of those who love him.” Promises like Acts 16:31—“Believe on the Lord Jesus and you will be saved.” Promises abound for us about future realities. God has promised believers that Christ will come again, will redeem our bodies, will make us holy, will let us share in His glory, and will give us eternal life. This isn’t simple optimism. And it isn’t hope pinned to a fallible human leader. This is a firm hope in the Creator.
When we don’t have a secure hope, we worry excessively about the future. But when our hope is secure, we are free to live in the fruits of hope.
John Piper has identified four fruits of Christian hope. First, Christian hope bears the fruit of true joy. Unlike happiness, joy is not dependent upon circumstances. Second, Christian hope produces sacrificial love. When we aren’t obsessing over self-preservation, we are free to give ourselves to others. Next, Christian hope yields boldness. The hopeful Christian is realistic about the reality of the world’s problems, but it is also certain of God’s ultimate victory.
That’s why Christian hope has produced bold men and women who’ve given their lives to missionary service, or heroes like William Wilberforce who’ve been willing to sacrifice career, property or popularity for Christ.
Finally, Christian hope bears the fruit of endurance. When setbacks come—and they do—Christians who have their eyes fixed firmly on God’s promises can continue in the good fight. They can press on because they know that their actions aren’t in vain. Christ will have the ultimate victory.
Sure, these are tough times. But when we grab hold of the hope we have in Christ, we WILL be able to live with the joy, the sacrificial love, the boldness, and the endurance we will need to face the challenges before us.
Chuck Colson’s daily BreakPoint commentary airs each weekday on more than one thousand outlets with an estimated listening audience of one million people. BreakPoint provides a Christian perspective on today’s news and trends via radio, interactive media, and print.
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Some of the snapshots from Chile’s ongoing student movement depict a lighthearted mobilization. Led by the charismatic Camila Vallejo, the students have used Twitter and Facebook to stage kiss-a-thons and superhero-themed costume protests. But other images have been more violent. Protesters have taken to the streets and set fire to government buildings and private businesses. In return, they have been bombarded with water cannons and tear gas. Chilean president Sebastián Piñera has even threatened to invoke national security laws to declare the protests illegal. This heavy-handed response has triggered red flags in a country leery of a return to authoritarianism.
These inconsistent faces of the Chilean movement speak to its complex, multifaceted nature and to the source of its strength. Now in its sixth consecutive month, this student-led movement has forged a delicate balance that has allowed the movement to survive while others have faded. Its successes and looming difficulties could serve as an illuminating example for other global movements.
These protests focus on the quality of education in Chile, which has surprised some observers, since at first glance Chile’s education system seems impressive. In 2009, Chile outscored all Latin American countries in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) rankings by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Since 1990, university attendance has tripled, and Chilean students often attain higher test scores than their Latin American neighbors.
But in reality, education in Chile is flawed and disturbingly unequal. While Chilean universities legally may not be run for profit, private university authorities successfully utilize loopholes to accrue windfall profits. Many private universities take advantage of lax standards monitoring to cut costs and set salaries too low to attract effective teachers. Public schools, meanwhile, have been largely abandoned; public administrators typically receive only 20 percent of their operational budgets from the government and have long been calling for increased support.
The balance between public and private has been upended, with privatization winning out. In Chile, roughly three-quarters of universities are privately owned, and only 16 percent of higher education spending comes from public sources, compared with the OECD average of nearly 70 percent. This phenomenon extends beyond universities; 55 percent of Chilean high school students are obliged to attend private schools because of a lack of state provision.
As a result, Chile has developed one of the world’s most unequal education systems. Of the 65 OECD countries, Chile ranks 64th in segregation across social classes in its schools. Due to the increasingly disproportionate distribution of educational resources, many low-income students are left behind. The Chilean system has been described, realistically if sensationally, as “educational apartheid” – the rich attend the finest private institutions while a majority of students are relegated to under-funded, stagnant schools.
Furthermore, the cost burden of this inequality falls on the shoulders of average Chileans. In the Western Hemisphere, only the United States has higher education costs than Chile. The average household contribution to education spending is around 40 percent, the highest in the OECD. At the university level, this burden is more extreme: the average student’s family must contribute 85 percent of university expenses, again the OECD’s highest.
Effectively, only the wealthy in Chile can shoulder the financial burden necessary to make it through school. In stark contrast to the rising number of students in higher education, Chile’s shocking 52 percent college dropout rate is at least partially motivated by crushing debt burdens. In fact, this rising class inequality is not unique to education. Chile, long described as the Latin American success story, has a Gini coefficient — a standard measure for income inequality — of over 0.5, the highest among developed countries and nearly twice the OECD average.
In response to this inequality, protests have emerged in Chile as a challenge to the free-market education model. Students claim that the private sector has turned education into a commodity governed by market forces; they insist it is a universal right that must be provided on an equal basis. As Vallejo declared in August, the movement seeks “a more inclusive, truly diverse, democratic, and just system that has a vision of the development of the country at its heart.” To remedy the unequal system, they seek greater government provision of education and across-the-board spending increases in public schools and universities.
These protests have enjoyed the most sustained mobilization since the demise of the Pinochet dictatorship. The movement has organized a constant stream of activities, with some marches drawing over 100,000 participants. As the news outlets have shown, the protests have seen inevitable violent clashes. But thanks to Vallejo’s eloquent insistence on non-violence, the movement has largely avoided violent escalation.
Virtually all measures of public opinion have demonstrated that three-quarters of Chilean citizens support the students and their demands. Chileans of all ages have taken to the streets to stage cacerolazos – informal demonstrations with protestors banging pots and pans – not seen since the advent of Chilean democracy. Support for the movement has been coupled with an increasing rejection of President Piñera. Roughly a year ago, when he led the rescue mission of the trapped coal miners, his approval rating stood at 65 percent. Now, that figure has dropped to around 25 percent, and only 10 percent think his administration has handled education policy effectively.
The movement’s focus is education, but it has tapped into broader discontent throughout Chile to develop domestic allies. These include environmentalists, copper miners, gay rights campaigners, farmers, and transportation workers. Most importantly, the student movement has forged a loose alliance with the Workers’ United Center of Chile (CUT), the largest labor union in the country.
Similarly, the movement has reached through solidarity networks around the globe. In Latin America, student protests against rising education costs have taken place in Venezuela, Brazil, and most recently in Colombia and Argentina, where protesters have been spotted carrying Chilean flags. Worldwide, student protests have been seen in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Spain, and other developed countries. The European Parliament even sent President Piñera a letter declaring its support for the students’ demands. Dubbed the “Chilean Winter” in reference to the Arab Spring, the movement has found an ideological home among the indignados, the diverse global protests against the economic-political establishment that seek to recast national issues in the light of development and equality.
But even as the Chilean Winter has expanded within and beyond its borders, it has never lost its specificity. As important as the intra-Chilean expressions of solidarity have been for maintaining public legitimacy, strong leadership and tightly defined goals have kept the movement in line. Why is this delineation important? Consider Occupy Wall Street (OWS), which has come under fire for its complex, multiple-issue nature and lack of concrete demands. Regardless of the validity of such criticisms and of the differences between OWS and Chile, the takeaway is clear: A well-defined, singular issue allows a movement to campaign in targeted, coherent ways. The Chilean winter draws strength from domestic allies, but it has not allowed other issues to dilute its focus.
The movement has been similarly careful to keep its rhetoric on the international stage constrained to Chile, and with good reason. Unlike in developed Europe, where the financial crisis has been devastating, Chile has been fortunate of late. Over the last decade, Chile has seen steady annual GDP growth of around 4 percent; this year, growth is forecast at over 6 percent, and unemployment is falling. Chile finds itself well-positioned to invest in education.
After years of strict financial orthodoxy in exchange for economic growth, Chileans want some of this growth to be channeled into development policies similar to those of many of their neighbors. Chile’s student-led movement is unique in both its bases of public support and the plausibility of its demands. Recognizing the fragility of such support, it has done well to keep its focus limited to the national arena.
Indeed, the movement’s greatest strength has been this delicate balance between pragmatic specificity and ideological breadth. The Chilean Winter is both focused on the singular issue of education and substantially connected with broader issues of social equality. It has been capable of utilizing international discontent without losing its status as a national movement. It is young and relevant, but far-reaching in its popularity. And its forceful demonstrations have been moderated by an insistence on non-violence. Whereas other movements have suffered from imbalances in organization and focus, the Chilean Winter has been able to survive well into the Southern Hemisphere’s summer season.
Despite its progress, Chile is not yet a success story. In the upcoming months, the movement will face considerable challenges. The end of the Southern Hemisphere’s school year is likely to force the leadership’s hand; students will face losing two semesters’ worth of credits, making the decision to continue protesting more difficult. Student leaders will likely be forced to choose between extending the protests – risking a decline in popularity – and accepting a deal less than what they envisioned.
Recently, observers have described both sides’ positions as “hardening.” This would be troubling for the movement’s survival. Granted, none of Piñera’s offers – which have included reducing the interest rate for student loans and increasing the number of scholarships for poor students – have been more than band-aids for a bullet wound. But recent polls have shown a decrease in public approval for the increasingly intransigent movement. Especially in light of these trends, an open line of negotiation must be maintained with the government in order for discontent to be funneled toward policy change.
The student movement must understand what it has achieved: education reform will unquestionably be a central issue in the next Chilean elections. Its leaders can afford to take a longer, more flexible view of reform. A compromise in 2011 would constitute neither a failure nor a betrayal of its principles, but rather a temporary measure enabling the movement to look forward without leaving its students in limbo.
Such a compromise between the protesters’ demands and the government’s meager reform packages is certainly possible. Piñera’s most common defense is that his government cannot afford to provide education on a broader basis. Yet by cracking down on widespread tax evasion and cutting public funding to low-standards, for-profit private schools, the government would see increased revenue to finance its efforts. Furthermore, even a small adjustment of Chile’s extremely regressive tax structure would greatly increase available government revenue.
Another interesting idea, mentioned in the Economist, would be to eliminate fixed-schedule loan repayment plans in favor of plans that condition repayment on a given income threshold. This would allow students in Chile to pursue university education without the immediate and unfeasible burden of debt repayment. Along with reductions in the household contribution to pre-university education costs, this scheme could provide the conditions for upward mobility without incurring the too-common criticism of poorer citizens’ “free-riding.”
Most fundamentally, the Chilean government must reform its conception of education as a private commodity. Public provision of high-quality education can be a long-term investment that recognizes the multiple benefits of education on a national, and not just a personal, level. For an ascendant Chile, copper is not the sole comparative advantage; a well-educated citizenry must be recognized as equally valuable for the nation.
Ultimately, the successes of the Chilean Winter demonstrate the value of a well-balanced, well-defined, and carefully led movement, as well as the ways in which such movements can mobilize a diverse populace. The broad feelings of discontent captured by the indignados do not guarantee success for these movements; they face diverse political conditions, and they will fail at turns. But with effective leadership, coherent goals, broad public support, and realistic demands, popular movements can set the stage for significant political achievement and policy change.
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Good afternoon. Thank you Doctor Chapman.
Most Americans believe in God.
And so they naturally understand and accept the limitations and imperfections that are a part of being human.
Perhaps because of our frailties, most of us yearn for heroes, we are attracted to and inspired by leaders who perform extraordinary deeds or at least inspire others in worthy causes. I believe this is why many Americans share a natural curiosity—a fascination—about the President of the United States, the leader of the most powerful nation in the world. There may be some here who know the President as well or better than I do, but for those who do not, let me just say that there are very few individuals as strong in their faith as George W. Bush.
He is by nature, an optimist, who sees the best in people and who believes in the goodness of men and women to step forward and help their neighbor.
He does the very best that he can in using the majestic power of the Presidency to inspire, to lead…to do. But he also knows that the power of the Presidency is not perfect…that there are limits in his authority to lift up his neighbor, to fight injustice, to secure the dreams of the children of this world. In two years President Bush will probably retire to his ranch in Texas secure in the knowledge that he did his best during extraordinarily difficult times. And I know that his strong faith in God will sustain him during the next chapter of life, like it has over the past six years.
Those of us in this Administration have confronted many decisions that have tested our faith. It is easy to sit in the sterile environment of a classroom, with the benefit of hindsight, and second guess a decision made in the belief it was necessary to protect America. It is harder to actually make that decision as an initial matter, in real time, with American lives at stake. In such moments you have to believe in what you are doing, you must have courage, you must have faith.
It is indeed a pleasure for me to be here with you, among men and women of faith, who are guided by Scripture, as it says: "Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven."
Your good works are indeed a tremendous benefit to our society and our Nation, and for that I want to thank you. And you have worked tirelessly to secure religious liberty in the United States and throughout the world.
I am pleased to visit with you today; to tell you a little about some of what we've been doing at the Department. Because sometimes, in the noise and clamor of Washington and the media, some of our most important work can go unnoticed; and it shouldn't.
In the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, our number one priority has been to do all we can to prevent another attack on America. It is an important job, and it is one I take very seriously. But it is not our only job. I am charged by the President with protecting and preserving not only the safety and security of all Americans, but also their rights, liberties and freedoms.
September 11th gave all of us – especially those of us in public service – a common purpose. Since the first plane crashed into the North Tower, we have struggled with an enemy of violent extremists; an enemy that is unafraid to use terror to try to intimidate and threaten the United States. I do not believe they intended merely to kill Americans that day. I believe they also intended to kill our spirit; to change the story of America from one of hope to one of fear…from one of openness to one of suspicion…from one of faith to one of despair.
Like all Americans, I cherish our civil liberties. They are at the very heart of what it means to live in freedom. I am committed to preserving them in everything we do at the Department of Justice.
One of our most cherished freedoms – one we’ve sacrificed greatly to defend – is our religious liberty.
Nothing defines us more as a Nation – and differentiates us more from the extremists who are our enemies – than our respect for religious freedom. Our great country was founded on these principles, and many of us today believe it continues to thrive because of, not despite, them.
So I would like to talk with you today about what the Department of Justice has done to protect religious freedom and religious liberty, and what we will be doing in the future. And I'm going to ask for your help as well, because while I am proud of all we have accomplished, I know that there is more to be done.
Today we are releasing our Report on Laws Protecting Religious Freedom, for Fiscal Years 2001 to 2006. This document describes the importance of religious freedom historically in our country and the role assigned to the Department of Justice to protect it.
When we talk about religious freedom, we often refer to it as the First Freedom. It is a fundamental part of our Nation's history, and one of our core principles. In the First Amendment to the Constitution, at the top of the Bill of Rights, the Founders declared that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Before free speech, before freedom of the press, before all of these other crucial rights, we put freedom of religion.
This area of law has not always been given sufficient attention by the federal government, but from its earliest days this administration has worked to increase enforcement of religious freedom laws, including those against religious discrimination. I am very proud of the report we're releasing today, because it describes a legacy of protection unequaled since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Religious liberty is not confined to the members of one church, or the followers of one set of beliefs. It is a universal right that applies to people of all faiths.
The Justice Department takes seriously the protection of this right for all people. So when a city-run senior center in Balch Springs, Texas, told Barney Clark and other members that they could no longer pray before meals, sing Gospel songs, or hold Bible studies, we opened an investigation. Even though each of those activities was voluntary and initiated by the seniors, and no employee of the center was involved, the city mistakenly believed that the separation of church and state required it to ban the activities.
In our view, the center's prohibition on religious speech, while permitting members to engage in other kinds of speech, was a clear violation of the Constitution. And after we began our investigation, the Balch Springs City Council unanimously agreed.
I'm proud of that case, and I am equally proud that we stood in defense of Nashala Hearn, a Muslim girl in the sixth grade in Muskogee, Oklahoma, whose school told her that she could not wear a headscarf required by her faith. Though other students were permitted to wear head coverings for non-religious purposes, Nashala was suspended twice for wearing her headscarf. That's a difficult position for a young student to be in, facing down her school principal and administration. I don't know how I would have reacted when I was in sixth grade. But Nashala stood up for herself, and she had the Department of Justice to back her up.
Much of the work we have done in this area involves not just religious practice, but religious expression in the schools. In one case, we filed a friend of the court brief in a case involving the Frenchtown, New Jersey, school district. The town's elementary school held a talent show, dubbed “Frenchtown Idol,” consisting of songs, skits, and other performances by students. Each student was free to choose his or her own act, subject to a few basic guidelines barring profanity, weapons, alcohol, or drugs. However, when one girl chose to sing a Christian song, “Awesome God,” she was told that it was inappropriate because of its religious content.
Last December, the U.S. District Court agreed with our position that this was not a simple case of a school exercising control over its curriculum—it was an unlawful restriction on individual student speech in an activity designed for student expression. The court found that Frenchtown Idol was not part of the school curriculum, but was, instead, a voluntary after-school event in which students were invited – not required – to participate.
The school had attempted to censor the girl's song choice because they felt it was a “proselytizing song” that “commanded the listener to adhere to the singer’s beliefs.” The court pointed out that many songs encourage someone to believe something, noting that school officials had admitted that students could sing songs that espouse a belief that it is important to take care of the earth, to help poor people, and to lean on friends when they experience hardships. In light of the fact that secular “proselytizing” through songs would be permitted, the court ruled that the school could not discriminate against religious songs that did the same thing.
In each of these cases, and in dozens of others like them, we argued that students, seniors...all citizens…should not be forced to check their religion at the door. It is irrelevant what that religion is; what matters is the right to practice it.
The Department of Justice has actively pursued cases involving religion not just in access to education and public facilities, but in equal access to housing, lending, and employment as well. Over the past six years, we have had many successes. We've launched scores of investigations involving religious discrimination in education and housing, a sharp and marked increase in the Justice Department's enforcement of these important federal protections. We have fought to maintain and make clear the crucial distinction between improper government speech endorsing religion and constitutionally protected private speech endorsing religion.
Why should it be permissible for an employee standing around the water cooler to declare that 'Tiger Woods is God,' but a firing offense for him to say 'Jesus is Lord'? These are the kinds of contradictions we are trying to address.
In doing so, we have enforced the laws on the books, and we have supported new laws to strengthen religious freedoms.
For example, I don't have to tell you that free exercise of religion is more than just the right to a personal faith. It is also the right to assemble as a church—to gather together to worship as a community of the faithful.
But it is not uncommon for houses of worship to face discrimination from local zoning authorities, who would impose restrictions on the use of their land.
Local laws sometimes exclude religious assemblies while permitting other, secular gatherings in the same spot. They may restrict the ability of churches to build religious schools or expand houses of worship on their property, or force those churches to go through a more burdensome approval process than other non-religious groups.
In response, Congress unanimously enacted the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, and authorized the Department of Justice to bring suits to enforce it. Since 2001 we have reviewed more than a hundred matters under this act and, in the process, we have made great progress in educating towns and cities about these kinds of subtle, but pervasive, forms of religious discrimination.
In one case, we launched an investigation involving the Beaver Assembly of God in Brighton Township, Pennsylvania. When the Assembly of God wanted to expand its church building, which it had outgrown, its zoning application was rejected because it had only three-and-a-quarter acres of land and the Brighton zoning code required houses of worship to have a minimum lot size of five acres. The same zoning code, however, included no such minimum acreage requirement for non-religious uses such as fraternal organizations, assembly halls, and even adult movie theaters and cabarets.
Following a lawsuit by the church and the launch of our investigation, the township amended its zoning ordinance to eliminate the five acre requirement. That's an important signal to other communities to take a close look at their rules and make sure they are complying with the law. And by publicizing these cases, and letting people know we take religious freedom seriously, we can magnify the effect of one investigation a hundredfold.
We also are charged under the Civil Rights Act to protect against discrimination in public and private employment. Included in this, of course, is the requirement that employers make an effort to accommodate the religious practices of their employees. And it also embraces the premise that people deserve to be hired or not hired based on their qualifications, not on their faith.
When the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority refused to accept applications for bus driver positions unless the applicant indicated that he or she was available to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, we filed suit, arguing that the policy discriminated against Sabbath-observant Christians and Jews. The MTA agreed to change its application policy and to allow drivers to swap assignments with other drivers.
We weren't asking for anything extraordinary, just the kind of reasonable accommodation of religious belief and practice that the law requires.
Not every religious freedom case is about willful intolerance. Sometimes it's a well-meaning city employee or school system that wants to do the right thing, but is afraid. Sometimes it's a person of faith who is so scared of offending anyone that he will err on the side of caution and ban anything that might be considered religious. And in those cases the Department of Justice seeks to gently correct the situation; to steer everybody back to a proper balance of the civil liberties of all citizens.
But sometimes it's about a flat-out bully. A person so filled with hate and intolerance that he will kill to impose his views on others. We see that in the terrorists who would turn the clock back 1400 years in the name of God. And I am afraid that sometimes we see it among our fellow Americans.
We have seen too many churches burned, too many rocks thrown through stained-glass windows, too many swastikas painted on sanctuary walls, too many lives taken. There are fewer of these attacks today, but still too many.
And when faced with that kind of assault, the Department of Justice has responded, and will always respond, with force and conviction.
As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen and preserve religious liberty in this country, I am unveiling today a new initiative: the First Freedom Project. Under this program, the Department will build on our extensive record of achievement in this area and commit to even greater enforcement of religious rights for all Americans. • We are creating a Department-wide Religious Freedom Task Force, chaired by the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, to review policies and cases to ensure that religious freedom is being protected.
• We are initiating a program of public education, to make certain that people know their rights, and to build relationships with religious, civil rights, and community leaders to ensure that religious liberty concerns are brought to our attention.
• We will hold a series of regional training seminars for these and other leaders interested in religious liberty. The first will be in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 29, followed by events in Tampa in April, Seattle in May, and others to be announced later.
• We have launched a new website, firstfreedom.gov, with information on the laws we enforce and how to file a complaint.
• And we will be distributing informational literature to religious organizations, civil rights groups, and community leaders on how to file a complaint.
President Bush declared his commitment to this issue last year by saying: "We reject religious discrimination in every form, and we continue our efforts to oppose prejudice and to counter any infringements on religious freedom."
As an important part of our efforts, in 2002 the Department of Justice created the position of Special Counsel for Religious Discrimination. This person, Eric Treene, who is with me here today, is charged with enforcing our civil rights laws as they relate to religious liberties. Get to know Eric; he will be your contact on this important new initiative and on all of our efforts in this area.
And make no mistake, I am here to ask the Southern Baptist Convention, and all of you in this room, for your help. The Department of Justice has many tools to protect religious freedoms in this country, and we are using them. But even with all of our passion and our dedication to this cause, we cannot do it alone.
I want you to go back to your communities and help us spread the word about the Department's religious liberty efforts. Visit the website, read the report, learn about what we've been doing, and tell your neighbors. Education and awareness are among our most powerful weapons in combating discrimination. I truly believe that the cases we investigate are often a matter of a misunderstanding of the law, not an intentional violation of it.
If you hear of a situation that you think might be a violation of federal civil rights laws, I want you to contact us so that we can look into it.
I want your input and your ideas about the issues our Religious Liberties Task Force should address. The goal of this task force is a serious one, and I want it to act as a substantive review of where we stand and where we may need to focus more attention.
And, finally, I want to encourage you to attend one of our regional training seminars, and I want you to encourage others to attend as well. These will be valuable educational opportunities for us and for all of our partners.
You know, and I know, that this great Nation of ours is the most diverse and tolerant in the history of the world. We have an unrestrained confidence in the promise of man, strengthened by our trust in a higher power.
Our Founders were men of faith. They understood that, even before their time, this land was settled by pilgrims seeking religious freedom. They understood the importance of a government that respected and protected the "First Freedom." As James Madison wrote in his Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments: "The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate."
I am proud to be a part of an administration, and a Department of Justice, that understands and takes seriously this heritage. And I am so very glad to be here among men and women who understand and share our commitment.
I do not often talk publicly about my faith…but it is important to me…it is part of who I am as a person. Many here have reached an age when you think about your own mortality more and more. I for one believe I will be held to account for my life. Was I the best husband I could be? The best father? The best neighbor? The best public servant? Did I make a positive difference in the lives of others…did I truly live a life worth living? Ultimately God will be the judge and history will tell the story. Whatever the final outcome, I will do my best to work with you and other people of faith to protect our religious freedoms.
And if you leave here today with nothing else, I want you to take with you the story of young Nashala Hearn, who knew that she shouldn't have to choose between her education and her faith. If you know of any Nashalas out there, who find themselves facing down religious intolerance, and who think they're all alone in their fight…you tell them to come talk to me.
Thank you again for your good work. May God bless you all, may He continue to guide and watch over you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America.
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Friday, February 17, 2012
The gods are being kind to me this morning, providing a story that combines two of my favourite themes, scientific research and Stonehenge. I see now that they are almost made for one another.
Go on, have a read. Or don’t, if you have already heard from your quota of silly people today.
The essence seems to be that they humped tons of crap hundreds of miles to improve the acoustics. No, really.
It seems to be a recurring theme in scientific research – “Why did they build Stonehenge?”
I doubt whether it had anything to do with traffic calming, I suspect that it is nothing more than a poorly conceived practical joke. I have written enough about this nonsense already.
The scientific community, however, are never short of an idea or two to demonstrate their insanity. This is a description of the experiment they conducted:
The La Mesa, California-based researcher said he had demonstrated the auditory henge effect using blindfolded subjects.
He took these people into a field where two pipers were playing and afterwards asked them to draw diagrams of the soundscape they had experienced.
It would be a useful experiment to investigate exactly what one has to do to get volunteers to participate in such bizarre activity. I would counsel against trying to find out. If you put on a white coat, ask a young lady to slip on a blindfold while you conduct an experiment, it is my experience that you finish up with a £75 fine from Bow Street magistrates.
At the age of 11, I first encountered a chemistry and biology teacher (whose name I cannot publish here, as no-one would believe that a young lady with that name would consider teaching as a profession). She was the first in a long series of people I will refer to, out of kindness, as eccentrics, who believed that the sort of activity described above would help the advancement of human knowledge. I have eschewed participation in these rituals ever since, and am sure that is one of the reasons I have survived to this great age.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Slimy Dave, first lord of the Treasury and minister for epidermal secretions, is all over the media campaigning for the maintenance of the British union. Never have I felt so drawn to the nationalist cause. My advice to any area seeking to secede from his evil empire is to split, and run as fast as buggery in order to get away.
I intend to undertake a feasibility study to see whether North East Hampshire could be self-sufficient. I don’t see why not, what with the receipts from Bird World and the royalties from that dozy tart Austen’s soap operas.
You would have to be as thick as a Gove to want to hang around and put your affairs in the hands of Dave and his noxious cohorts.
Even at this distance I can hear the sound of Falkland Islanders scribbling their Argentinian passport applications. The inhabitants of the Isle of Wight are planning an event wherein they will all run to the south end of the island to see whether they can create a larger gap between them and the mainland.
It all seems like so much effort. Can’t we just get rid of the government, send them to Syria for example, and then we can all live nicely in harmony and peace.
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Some of you have been anxious (you haven’t had any communications for ages. Ed.) for updates about my friends down the road in Sandringham. It has been close to two years since I last reported. I felt that it was appropriate to give them a little privacy, after all it is not as if they deliberately choose to live their lives in the public eye, is it? (Yes, it is. Ed.)
However, there are rumblings, and we may well find ourselves in some sort of constitutional crisis come summer, and it could all have been avoided with a little foresight and planning.
Liz called on the electric telephone last week. I have seldom heard her so animated. “I blame that buffoon Johnson,” she began, without so much as a “have you come far?” I should state at this point that she tends to blame Boris for all sorts of things. Ever since he was on “Who do you think you are?” and found out that he was descended from one of the Georges, Liz has developed the idea that he has ideas above his station, and might make a claim on the throne once dear old Ken wins the mayoral election. I have repeatedly told her that Boris is anatomically incapable of having an idea, and that she only needs to look out of the bog window at Buckingham Palace to see how the city has gone to pot since he was elected. She will have none of it. I have never known anyone hold a grudge so vehemently. She refuses to watch “The Simpsons” because of “that American tart”. If she were head of state in anything but name, we would have seen Normandy invaded as revenge on King William, overlooking the fact that he is family.
Anyway, back at the telephone. “How could the floppy-haired tit have organised a sports day in the very summer when everyone should be concentrating on the Jubilee?” For those of you less than quick on the uptake she is alluding to the Olympic Games.
“Don’t fret, ducky” I reply, “it’s all taking place in the East End, and anyone daft enough to spend £75 to watch some dull wassock throwing a spear is hardly likely to have the mental capacity to appreciate the monumental nature of your achievement.” I do make myself laugh sometimes. Anyway, the silly old goat was slightly appeased. “I hope you are right” she exclaimed, “but this is important for us, and a vital part of our pension plans.” (I remained, you will be proud to note, silent) “I’ve already got Sophie Wessex crocheting some commemorative table cloths, and we are hoping to shift a thousand or two and 30 guineas each”.
“That’s all very well,” I proffered, “but what about the rest of the gang who don’t quite have the co-ordination or dexterity of dear Soph? I think that your best bet is to have some events that will provide an alternative to the Olympics – you might attract the sort of people who abominate standing for national anthems every time someone wins something”. See what I mean about making myself laugh?
I waited a while and called Camilla. She had been sent to her room, having blown up and banged a couple of hundred more paper bags than were called for following Philip’s heart scare. “You should hear the old bugger swear.” she chortled. “There are at least 23 distinctive stains on the dining table cloth from where he has spat out his soup. I am on commission from Sketchleys in King’s Lynn.” This is what passes for fun when they are all assembled together. The sodding Jubilee is going to be as dull as a Gove unless I interfere and give them some idea about what constitutes entertainment in the 21st century.
“I think you should organise some events with an Olympic theme.” I venture “Nothing as low-brow as that ‘It’s a Knockout’ fiasco, but something where the family can connect to the man in the street. Make it a joyful time.”
“Brill!” she shrieks, “I’ll send you a list of ideas.”
Two hours later I get the following list via email:
- A ‘using both legs of the trouser’ competition featuring Wills and the Duke of Kent.
- Converting ‘Trooping the Colour’ into a cavalry charge, with a prize to the first horseman through the gates at the Palace.
- A pin-the-tail-on-Pippa’s-arse competition.
- A fancy dress competition where we all dress up as Boris and gatecrash the Olympic Stadium.
- Getting Philip to go down there and reclaim the Olympics on behalf of Greece.
There was more of this guff, but I couldn’t bring myself to read it, let alone inflict it on you. At least there was no mention of a fart lighting contest. We all remember what happened when they invited Ann to the last one.
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
A few considered reflections on the plight of Fred Goodwin.
Fred has been forced by the queen to change his name. This has caused large numbers of people to get agitated and take to the media with their protestations. Apparently it sends the wrong message to the business community. From my perspective, and do tell me if I am incorrect, it simply means that he can save some money on ink when he signs his name.
I mean, it is not as though the swivel-eyed, fornicating, despicable, loathsome, vile and disgusting pile of gibbon ordure had been public flogged, is it? It is not as though there had been some fitting punishment handed out to him, like having to work until he had earned enough money to pay back all the cash that he lost, and then going on national television and admitting to being a leading contender for arsehole of the last decade, is it?
The honours system is only there to nourish the already overblown egos of self-important narcissists anyway. All of these silly buggers with letters before, after and in the sodding middles of their names. I can’t wait for the revolution.
Goodwin? Take him round to the dwellings of all of those who lost their jobs, houses and pensions as a result of his incompetence, and see whether they will accept his explanations and apologies.
Wrong message to the business community? "Fuck you all" is my message to the business community.
Thank you for listening.
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Through the Division of Forestry’s “Trees to Textbooks” program, a percentage of the revenues generated from state forest management activities go to the county, township, and school district in which the activity took place.
Since 1983, Ohio school districts and their corresponding counties and townships have received more than $24,400,000 from Ohio state forest timber sales.
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After the Division of Forestry determines and deducts all timber management costs, 65% of the net revenue from timber sales are redirected to the local community, including local school districts. The forest management revenue allocation formula is as follows:
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Today, Ohio is more than 30 percent forested, compared to just 12 percent in the early 1900s. In the past 80 years, the ODNR Division of Forestry has planted more than a half billion trees throughout Ohio.
* Wildfire suppression payments to fire departments within the Fire Protection Area are made with these funds.
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Windham, N.H. high schooler hospitalized with suspected bacterial meningitis
A high school student from Windham, N.H. has been hospitalized since late last week with a suspected case of bacterial meningitis, a potentially fatal disease that is spread through saliva, according to New Hampshire health officials.
The student, whose identity is being kept confidential, saw a physician last week for the symptoms. The doctor then turn reported it to state health officials Friday, as New Hampshire law mandates physicians do in suspected cases of bacterial meningitis, said Elizabeth Talbot, deputy state epidemiologist.
“This strain that has been identified, this type of bacteria, is one that is very serious,” she said.
State officials have reached out to several people who could have potentially contracted the disease, although Talbot said she did not know specifically how many people. The individuals who are at risk were advised to undertake preventative antibiotic treatment, she said.
“We’re not focused on people who had casual contact, like passing in the hall or just sitting in the same classroom,” Talbot said. “Any situation where people are sharing saliva, like in kissing or sharing drinks and cigarettes - those types of activities are what we’re attentive to.”
She said the high school’s building itself will not need any special sanitization other than the routine weekend cleaning usually done there.
“The disease doesn’t transmit through objects over a long period of time,” Talbot said. “They would need to be immediately sharing saliva.”
The high school’s principal has sent notification to parents in the district alerting them of the disease’s presence in the school.
Bacterial meningitis spreads easily through college dormitories and army barracks, Talbot said, and complications from the disease can cause brain damage, hearing loss, or learning disabilities, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About 4,100 cases of bacterial meningitis, including 500 deaths, occurred countrywide each year between 2003 and 2007, the most recent dates that data is available, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
New Hampshire sees about a dozen meningitis cases each year, but there have been no deaths reported in recent years there from the illness, Talbot said.
Doctors think the student’s illness was caused by the pathogen Neisseria meningitidis , Talbot said.
She said bacterial meningitis is less common than viral meningitis, which is spread through food, water and mosquitoes, but noted that it was impossible to know how many people are diagnosed with the viral strains, since state law only mandates physicians report the bacterial types.
Meningitis can cause victims to experience severe headaches, a high fever, and mental disorientation and confusion, Talbot said. Anyone with those symptoms is encouraged to see a doctor, and officials also recommend that at-risk groups -- such as students about to attend college -- receive a meningitis vaccination.Jaclyn Reiss can be reached at email@example.com.
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Canon Vixia HF M40 camcorder offers superior image quality
At a Glance
Sometimes less is more. Take, for example, the Canon Vixia HF M40 camcorder. The camera tweaks some features found in Canon's 2010 M-series camcorders, but the most significant change is a slightly larger image sensor with substantially fewer pixels. That loss of pixels provides the camera's biggest gain.
The camera's 1/3-inch CMOS sensor uses 1920-by-1080 pixels to capture video. That's only two megapixels, only two-thirds of the three megapixels found on Canon's similarly priced 2010 camcorders and an even smaller fraction of some other camcorders. The low pixel count would hinder a still camera's performance, but it's precisely the number needed for a full HD image. By reducing the total number of pixels, each pixel can be bigger and therefore can get hit by more photons. In theory, using bigger pixels should give the camera better low-light performance and greater dynamic range. In practice, it does.
Superior video quality
Even in dim light, the HF M40 captures a high-quality video image; it doesn't sacrifice color accuracy or overcrank gain and consequent noise. Under normal lighting conditions, HD video shows excellent color and sharpness, very good exposure control, and smooth motion. The camera's impressive dynamic range preserves detail in both shadows and highlights rather than quickly clipping to black or white.
The camcorder captures video at 60 interlaced fields per second (60i). The camera lacks a true progressive mode, instead recording 24p and 30p images onto a 60i stream. Canon's higher-priced camcorders provide true progressive recording; we'd like to see that capability added to camcorders at the HF M40's price, but the current approach only minimally degrades images. Overall, the HF M40 produces the best video image we've seen from a camcorder of its price.
The camera records video as AVCHD files at data rates up to 24Mbps, the format's maximum. Since most current video editing applications such as iMovie '11 ( ), Final Cut Pro X ( ), and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 support AVCHD, editing material encoded in the format no longer requires undue effort.
Good image control
Camera control options range from fully automatic to mostly manual. In Auto mode, the camera controls everything other than lens zoom. Eleven scene modes (e.g., portrait, sports, beach) give you some control over the image, with the camera setting functions such as gain and white balance. 24p Cinema Mode emulates the frame rate and warm tonal settings of theatrical films. A manual mode provides lots of image control, but requires digging into the camera's menu system.
A respectable complement of features such as backlight correction, focus and exposure tracking, and image stabilization simplify capturing video under a wide variety of conditions. The camera provides a lot of tools; mastering the HF M40 requires investing a little time reading the user manual and working with the camera.
16GB of internal flash memory holds from 85 minutes to six hours of video, depending on compression settings. Two card slots permit additional recording onto SDXC memory cards. The supplied 890mAh lithium-ion battery runs in record mode for about two hours, sufficient for typical users. Canon sells a 1780mAh battery for $120. A 3.5mm jack supports external microphones.
The HF M40 is not all Pixar movies and popcorn. The 10x zoom lens performs adequately and has a 35mm-equivalent focal range from 43.6mm to 436mm. We would prefer a wider short end, say 30mm or so. The headphone jack works in manual and automatic modes, but not in Cinema Mode. The camera lacks a viewfinder. The built-in microphone captures clear sound, but the wind filter falls short. Still photos show good color and sharpness, and look respectable enough for sharing on Facebook or as small prints. But the two-megapixel resolution lags far below what you get in even a modestly priced still camera.
You access the camera's features through a 3.0-inch LCD touch screen. The screen and menu system functions sufficiently well, but is neither as responsive nor as intuitive as an iPhone. These are all quibbles, not deal breakers, but they point to the biggest challenge facing the HF M40 and every mid-level camcorder.
Macworld's buying advice
Dedicated HD camcorders like the HF M40 are getting squeezed between the increasingly acceptable video capabilities of smartphones and the fussy-but-pretty video performance of DSLRs. But today there's still a good-sized niche for moderately priced HD camcorders; the good ones combine ease of use, flexibility, and fine video image quality. The Canon Vixia HF M40, with its video-specific CMOS image sensor, is a very good one. In fact, the Canon Vixia HF M40 is currently the best mid-priced HD camcorder we've tested.
[Jim Feeley is a video producer and writer based in Northern California.]
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Contact lens has made people take the news, that they have myopia or hypermetropia, better. It has revolutionised the cosmetic industry. But optometry experts in the U.S. feel there are times when wearing contact lens can do more harm than good. They advice people who have caught a virus to avoid wearing contact lenses.
William "Joe" Benjamin, professor of optometry at the University of Alabama at Birmingham says that eyes functions differently when people are sick. "Tear production is altered, and eyes tend to get very dry.
People may develop pink eye, conjunctivitis or other eye infections. The cornea can swell. Contacts can aggravate these symptoms." Benjamin said in a statement.
Therefore it seems a better option to wear glasses when one is feeling sick and give time for the eyes to recuperate. Benjamin advices people, for whom it is absolutely necessary to wear contacts, to clean it well or switch to daily wear lenses to avoid infection.
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The cookbook currently shows how to change a form with event subscribers depending on the data in that form. Say creating a record rather than updating something could require a different form for example.
Here we’re gonna take a look at what happens when your form should be customized based on something that is not readily available in the form’s data. Such as the user data.
In many cases though I’d tell you it’s better to not have to do that. There’s a lot of UI ways to make things so you never need the form to hold user specific data. Like letting a user browse to the thing she’s trying to update rather than have a huge select box inside of the form. But if you need something like that, here’s a clean way to do it!
What’s wrong with the cookbook?
The cookbook article on dynamically generating forms currently shows an example like this:
It doesn’t really matter for now what the subscriber actually does. The important thing is that we create a subscriber class and add it to the form. Then, when some specific form event is triggered, the subscriber will be allowed to perform some actions on the form.
The issue is that we created the subscriber inside of the form class. So doing like this, it’s impossible to get access to the user, or to your database, or to whatever else you could think of. Everything else works wonders here, just how to access some other services???
This is gonna sound boring
Because like all the time in Symfony2, the answer is gonna be:
Dependency Injection, you guessed it!
Form types can (and will) be defined as services. And our subscriber can, and will also be defined as a service!
Our form type only changes in that we add a constructor that takes our event subscriber as a parameter. Let’s say we want a form to send a message and the user should only be able to send messages to her friends and not any user on the website:
Now let’s take a look at our subscriber:
So before the data is set in the form we:
- Create our form options for a ‘document’ type field (or ‘entity’ when using an SQL database)
- Set the query builder option (this is the interesting part)
- Add a ‘document’ field with these options to our form under the name ‘friend’
The query builder part is the interesting one because it takes the user id as a parameter. This wouldn’t be available in the form otherwise.
Also take a look at the constructor. It takes the security context as a parameter (as this will allow us to retrieve the current user), which is not available in the form, so we couldn’t directly create this object from within the form like is done in the first example of this article. We need to define services for these two now. And quite simply, in your config.yml, all you need is to add:
The form takes the subscriber as a parameter, and the subscriber will be instantiated with the form factory and the security context.
Tying it all together in the controller
There you go. Your forms can now be customized on any service / data even outside of the form itself.
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SACRAMENTO -- As the temperature continues to rise, so does the risk of vehicular hyperthermia (heat stroke), especially for a child left inside a hot vehicle.
To prevent a child's death, "Kaitlyn's Law" was enacted in California in 2002 following the heat-related death of 6-month-old Kaitlyn Marie Russell, who was left unattended in a parked vehicle on a hot summer day.
"On a typical sunny day, the temperature inside a vehicle can reach a potentially deadly level within minutes," California Highway Patrol (CHP) Commissioner Joe Farrow said. "There is no excuse for leaving a child alone in a vehicle, not even for a few minutes."
California law prohibits anyone from leaving a child 6 years old or younger unattended in a motor vehicle without the supervision of someone who is 12 years or older when there are conditions that present a significant risk to the child's health or safety or when the vehicle's engine is running and/or the vehicle's key is in the ignition.
While the law prohibits it, some parents or caregivers can overlook a sleeping baby in a vehicle, which can have tragic consequences, according to the CHP. For this reason, the CHP encourages parents or caregivers to develop a plan or a habit, which serves as a reminder of where a child is at all times.
"A few simple precautions can go a long way toward keeping a child safe," Farrow said. "No matter what the weather is like, or length of time you need to be away from the vehicle, leaving a child
The CHP encouraged the public to take an active role in safeguarding children who may be left unattended in a vehicle by dialing 9-1-1 immediately and following the instructions that emergency personnel provide.
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Saturday is National Coffee Day. But you knew that? Anyway, Dunkin' Donuts is trying to get you into the mood with their annual list of jobs that drink the most coffee.
--Three in five people . . . 63% . . . need at least two cups to make it through the workday. And one in four people need at least three cups. 47% of women say they need coffee to make it through the workday, and 40% of men do.
--Here are the 10 jobs that drink the most coffee:
#1.) Food preparation and food service workers.
#2.) Scientists: They drank the MOST coffee last year.
#3.) Sales representatives.
#4.) Marketing and public relations professionals.
#6.) Editors and writers.
#7.) Business executives.
#9.) Engineering technicians and support people.
#10.) IT managers and network administrators.
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Chimps carry human staph strain, says journal essay
Chimpanzees in African sanctuaries harbour human strains of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, according to a new paper in The American Journal of Primatology.
Chimpanzees carry their own strains of staph, but scientists worry that some human strains are particularly pathogenic and could be harmful if spread to wild chimpanzees.
Nose and mouth swabs from 62 chimpanzees were taken in two sanctuaries in Uganda and Zambia. Scientists isolated staph from 36 animals; many of the strains showed drug resistance and had sequences usually found only in humans.
Ten chimpanzees tested positive for staph carrying a gene for the toxin Panton-Valentine leukocidin, which is associated with severe infections of the skin, soft tissues and lungs in humans. The chimpanzees themselves did not become ill, the scientists said; they were merely carriers.
Staph spreads through close contact. Sanctuary workers often hold baby chimpanzees to warm and socialize them, so this is a likely route of transmission.
The sanctuaries that took part in the study do not release chimpanzees, but other African sanctuaries do; releases are considered necessary in the face of overcrowding. Chimpanzees are quarantined and tested for some diseases before release, but they are not commonly tested for staph.
Fabian Leendertz, a wildlife veterinarian at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin and an author of the paper, worries that if wild chimpanzees get human staph, it could weaken an already vulnerable population.
“As long as this transmission happens in a captive setting, you can treat the animals,” he said. “But it gets tricky when we want to reintroduce those great apes into the wild.”
Study find learning can continue during sleep
People can learn new associations between scents and sounds in their sleep, according to a new study in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
Researchers had sleepers wear masks into which pleasant and unpleasant odors were pumped: shampoo and perfume, or carrion and rotting fish. The smells were accompanied with different tones.
When the sleeping subjects were exposed to a bad smell, they breathed shallowly. When they were exposed to a good smell, they inhaled deeply. They eventually responded this way to smell-associated tones regardless of whether the smell was present.
The subjects continued to alter their breathing in response to the tones once they woke up, even though they said they had no memory of smelling or hearing anything while they had been asleep.
It has been shown that during sleep people can consolidate information they learned in the daytime. But efforts to teach new things to sleeping people have been unsuccessful.
“The common knowledge is that you cannot learn new information while you’re asleep, even though your brain is able to do so many other things while you are asleep,” said the study’s lead author, Anat Arzi, a graduate student at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
The researchers are now searching for practical uses for their findings, like conditioning people to change bad habits.
White dwarf star can team up with red giant for supernova
When a white dwarf star gets too big after absorbing material from another nearby star, it explodes, sending a burst of light out into the universe in what is called a Type 1a supernova.
What scientists have not fully understood is the identity of the white dwarf’s partner. Some have suggested that mergers between white dwarfs can lead to these explosions. But according to a new paper in the journal Science, the aged, puffy stars called red giants can also feed white dwarfs and cause supernovas.
Astrophysicists first caught sight of an unusual-looking supernova in January 2011. It was around 675 million light-years away in the constellation Lynx.
Until its telltale flashy burst, a future supernova is indistinguishable from other stars.
“It’s really not possible to look at them before they explode,” said the paper’s lead author, Benjamin Dilday, an astrophysicist at Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network in Goleta, Calif.
From the behaviour of gas in the area after the explosion, Dilday and colleagues were able to deduce that their supernova had originally been a white dwarf orbiting a red giant.
Gas from the red giant had blown onto the white dwarf, repeatedly igniting its surface and causing explosions called novas. Eventually the star ignited at its center, leading to the supernova.
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We know price discrimination happens on the internet. In the past, a study showed that Macs were targeted for higher prices than PCs. This paper below highlights that location and search terms are also used and the researchers build a watchdog system to detect such practices:
Price discrimination, setting the price of a given product for each customer individually according to his valuation for it, can benefit from extensive information collected online on the customers and thus contribute to the profitability of e-commerce services. Another way to discriminate among customers with different willingness to pay is to steer them towards different sets of products when they search within a product category (i.e., search
discrimination). Our main contribution in this paper is to empirically demonstrate the existence of signs of both price and search discrimination on the Internet, and to uncover the information vectors used to facilitate them. Supported by our findings, we outline the design of a large-scale, distributed watchdog system that allows users to detect discriminatory practices.
“The paper only has preliminary results (hotnets targets fairly early ideas), but so far has only detected discrimination based on location and search terms.”
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Can you imagine torturing any animal in the pursuit of scientific knowledge? We can’t. And we were even more horrified to learn that labs in universities and other research facilities are filled with beagles because they’re the most forgiving, people-pleasing dogs around. Talk about exploiting the good nature of an innocent creature!
We at Hearts find animal testing of any type a deplorable practice, which is why all of our products are cruelty-free. We never use materials or processes that would harm innocent animals. It’s one of our core principles!
When the owner of Hearts heard of the Beagle Freedom Project, his first response was, “We have to help them!” One way we can do that it to talk about their story far and wide. Their mission: to (legally) free beagles from labs and find loving forever homes for them. What an amazing cause!
They need your help for their work and are appealing to mindful consumers like you to take in one of these lovable animals or support their work financially. We hope you can get involved.
Quick Guide to Why Animal Testing is Ineffective and Unnecessary
- Ineffective for human purposes: The US Food and Drug Administration tells us that 92 out of 100 drugs that pass tests using animals fail when used in humans.
- Non animal-based research methods are available: Smart scientists have developed modern, effective methods for doing tests, such as microdosing in humans, human-patient stimulators, and sophisticated computer models, all of which are cheaper, faster, and more accurate than testing on animals.
- Wastes time: Testing on animals takes too much time, further delaying cures and treatments for people who are waiting for healing. Testing using some of the modern methods mentioned above would save a lot of time.
Green Actions to Ensure You Don’t Support Animal Testing
- Support Beagle Freedom Project: You can foster a beagle, adopt a beagle, donate to the cause, or sponsor a beagle through Beagle Freedom Project.
- Get active against animal cruelty: Peta is an organization that tirelessly works to fight against animal cruelty, including animal testing. They have a Cruelty-Free Shopping Guide and many other resources to make it easier to reduce your impact on animals.
- Choose cruelty-free products: Look for ethical fashion, cosmetics, cleaning products, and pharmaceuticals that are cruelty-free to do your part to prevent cruel animal testing practices.
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The DSM5 has been released and is now beginning to impact the world of autism. Most discussion of the DSM5's New Autism Spectrum Disorder has ignored the effect of the language of mandatory criterion A which will act to exclude from autism diagnosis those with severe intellectual disability. Most of the discussion has focused on the potential exclusionary impact on those who would meet DSM-IV Asperger's criteria. That being said the DSM5 autism team leaders have assured the high functioning end of the DSM-IV autism spectrum that those currently diagnosed with Asperger's or high functioning autism will not lose their diagnosis. They will in effect be "grandfathered" in to the new autism spectrum. The answer to this commentary's title question is therefore NO, Ne'eman and Robison, two very high functioning "Aspergians" will not lose their autism diagnoses.
Although they will be grandfathered into the new DSM5 autism era will Ari Ne'eman and John Elder Robison and other very, very high functioning "Aspergians" and "Autistics" remain as credible (in the eyes of mainstream media and Autism Speaks) spokespersons for persons at all points on the DSM5 autism spectrum? Will persons who routinely appear in high profile media interviews before the Washington press gallery, New York magazines, CNN, CBC, BBC, run successful businesses, establish corporate entities, sit on the boards of directors, participate in IACC meetings and in some cases raise families be able to speak on behalf of those who meet mandatory Criterion D of the DSM5 New Autism Spectrum Disorder which states that the social communication and restrictive repetitive symptoms together limit and impair daily functioning? Can the corporate directors of the ASAN corporate entity, including those with professional and academic backgrounds and some with families, claim to be limited and impaired in their daily functioning in any meaningful way?
The real answer is that it doesn't matter if they would meet DSM5 autism criterion D. Convenience is the reason that researchers have so often excluded those with severe autism and cognitive challenges from their studies. Researchers, like the media, need very high functioning participants and interview subjects to do their autism focused work and earn their pay cheques. Robison and Ne'eman's careers as autism spokespersons/"self" advocates are safe. Persons at the more severe end of the autism spectrum will remain invisible, hidden from sight, and excluded from research, while high functioning "self" advocates speak on their behalf.
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"Sustainability is just like morals: one should live by them and not just talk about them. Our roots in modern design make the first step easy: we make products that avoid the superfluous and last for a very long time."
Rolf Fehlbaum (Chairman of Vitra)
Today, companies are increasingly being judged on what they are doing to take on ecological, social and economic responsibility. Vitra does not see this responsibility as a duty that has to be forced upon the company, but rather as an aspect of design that has always been a part of the company’s industrial culture. At Vitra, it goes without saying that furniture is valuable when its production, utilisation and recycling does not harm people or the environment.
Following in the tradition of Charles & Ray Eames, who have influenced Vitra’s approach to sustainability in many ways, product longevity is central to the company’s contribution to sustainable development; short-lived styling is avoided at all costs. This can be seen most clearly in the classical pieces of furniture that have been used for decades, had several owners and have then even ended up as a part of a collection.
For Vitra, the manufacture of sustainable products means intense pre-production development, where the highest-grade materials are selected and tests are carried out that simulate 15 years of use. Individual components should be easy to replace and ultimately recycled.
In order to enforce and monitor sustainable development in all business activities of the company, a work group was formed in 1986 by the name of "Vitra and the Environment". Because of this, Vitra can proudly claim that it has been dedicated to sustainability for nearly a quarter of a century. Both internal and external audits serve as additional verification that all measures continue to be further developed.
In addition to this, Vitra adheres to stringent procurement directives for ensuring standards within the areas of work conditions, safety and health protection, etc.
For detailed figures and more information on both our sustainability measures and goals for sustainable development, please refer to our sustainability report:
PDF Sustainability Report (6,2 MB)
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X, x, a character probably derived from the Greek *c (this form of that letter being found in some few Greek inscriptions). Though not introduced instead of the characters for the two separate sounds till after the adoption of the alphabet, the letter x is certainly older than the Latin inscriptions known to us; for we find in the Columna rostr., EXEMET MAXIMOS, EXFOCIONT; in the fifth Epitaph of the Scipios, SAXSVM; and in the S. C. de Bacch., EXDEICENDVM, EXDEICATIS. EXTRAD, etc.The sound of X was like that of the Greek c, i. e. ks, although etymologically it represented not only cs (as in lux, from luc-s, and dixi, from dic-si), but also gs (as in lex, from leg-s; rexi, from reg-si); hs (as in traxi, from trah-si; vexi, from vehsi); and chs (as in the word onyx, from onych-s, borrowed from the Greek). The hardening of a softer final (g, h, ch) before s into the c-sound, which occurs in the last-mentioned cases, is found also in several roots ending in v and u: nix for niv-s, vixi for viv-si, connixi for conniv-si, fluxi for fluv-si, from fluo (root FLUV; cf. fluvius), struxi for stru-si. Less frequently x has arisen from the combinations ps and ts: proximus for prop-simus (from prope), nixus for nit-sus (from nitor), the latter being used along with the collateral form nisus, as also connivi with connixi, and mistus (from misceo) with mixtus. An exchange of the sounds ss, or s and x, took place in axis for assis, laxus for lassus; cf. also Ulixes, from the Sicilian *ou)li/chs, Etruscan Uluxe for *)odusseu/s; so, too. Sextius, Exquiliae = Sestius, Esquiliae; cf. also Ajax = *ai)/as. In the later language of the vulgar, the guttural sound in x disappeared, and s or ss was often written for it; as vis for vix. vixit for visit. unsit for unxit, conflississet for conflixisset, in late Inscrr. (v. Corss. Ausspr. I. p. 297 sq.); hence regularly in Italian, and frequently in the other Romance tongues, the Lat. x is represented by s or ss. Respecting the nature of x in composition, v. ex.By a mere graphic variation, one of the constituent sounds of x is often expressed in inscriptions (but not the earliest, v. Corss. Ausspr. I. p. 296) by an additional c or s; as SACXO or SAXSO for saxo; VCXOR or VXSOR for uxor; CONIVNCX or CONIVNXS for conjux; even both sounds are sometimes thus expressed, VICXSIT for vixit.As an abbreviation X stands for decem, ten; it was stamped upon the silver denarius, so called because it was valued at ten asses.
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Planning for Pets
This issue of The Wealth Advisor examines the issues surrounding caring for pets after the disability or death of the pet's owner. Given the feelings of many individuals towards their pets, and the costs of care and longevity of some types of pets, planning in this area can be of critical importance. This is particularly true given our mobile society and that the laws of a different county or state may impact you and your pets or the pets of parents and other loved ones.
What Will Happen to the Pets When the Owner Becomes Disabled or Passes Away?
Most pet owners do not want their pets killed if something should happen to them. However, without proper planning, the death of the pet is almost certain in some areas. For example, in some Nevada counties, if the owner does not provide for a pet by way of a trust, when the owner dies Animal Control must take the pet to the local kill shelter if there is not a family member present who is willing to care for the pet. Some kill shelters euthanize animals 72 hours after they arrive at the facility, making it virtually impossible for anyone to adopt the pet. Thus, it is critically important that pet owners know how their state and county laws may impact their pets.
Planning Tip: Pet owners should discuss with their advisor team how state and county laws affect pets after the owner dies or cannot care for the pet.
Planning Tip: A good resource for pet owners is Providing for Your Pet's Future Without You by the Humane Society of the United States (order a free kit by calling 202-452-1100 or e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.org). It includes a door/window sign for emergency workers, an emergency contacts sticker for inside of the door, emergency pet care instruction forms for neighbors/friends/family, wallet alert cards, and a detailed instruction sheet for caregivers.Providing for Pets Upon the Owner's Death
The law treats pets as property, and thus an individual cannot leave money outright to a pet, as property cannot own other property. An individual may leave an outright gift of money to a caretaker with the request that the caretaker care for the individual's pet for the rest of the pet's life. However, because the caretaker received the gift outright, and not in trust, no one is responsible for ascertaining whether the pet is receiving the care requested by the pet owner.
Once the caretaker receives the gift and the pet's owner is gone or incompetent, there is nothing to stop the caretaker from having the pet euthanized, throwing it out on the street, taking it to a local kill shelter, or using the assets in ways unrelated to the care of the pet. In addition, once in the caregiver's hands, the assets are exposed to the caregiver's creditors and they may be transferred to a former spouse on the caregiver's divorce.
Statutory Pet Trusts As of late 2007, thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia have enacted statutes pertaining to pet trusts, and others have legislation pending. These statutes allow virtually any third party designated by the terms of the trust to use the trust funds for the benefit of pets.
Some state statutes specifically limit the terms of a pet trust. For example, some states limit the amount of money an individual can leave in trust for his or her pet to the amount required to care for the animal over the term of the trust. The trust must distribute any excess funds to the beneficiary(ies) who would have taken them had the pet trust terminated.
The pet's current standard of care determines the endowment amount required to provide care for the pet. Factors include: the cost of daily care (food, treats, and daycare), veterinary care (yearly teeth cleaning, shots, nail trimming, and emergency care), grooming, boarding, travel expenses, and pet insurance. Additional factors may apply in particular cases. For example, horses are expensive to maintain and require exercise, training, and a large tract of land; some birds and reptiles have very long life expectancies; and care of some pets will require construction of a special habitat on the caregiver's property.
Traditional Trusts Even if your state does not have a specific pet trust statute, a pet owner can name a human caregiver as the beneficiary of a trust, require that the distributions to the beneficiary are dependent on the beneficiary caring appropriately for the pet, and require the trustee to ensure that the beneficiary is properly caring for the pet using trust assets. This type of trust may be used without regard to whether the state has a specific pet trust statute.
Planning Tip: Both statutory pet trusts and traditional trusts allow the pet owner to provide detailed requirements as to how the caregiver must care for the pets upon the pet owner's disability or death.
Planning Tip: Will planning is inadequate for pets because Wills do not address disability and because of the time lapse between the pet owner's death and the Will being admitted to probate.Funding Pet Care
Many pet owners do not have sufficient funds to properly care for their pets after their disability or death. Life insurance is one way to increase funds available to care for pets after the pet owner's death.
Planning Tip: Pet owners should consider life insurance that names a pet trust or traditional trust as beneficiary to fund a pet's care. If the pet owner is concerned that funding of a pet or traditional trust will reduce the inheritance of children or other beneficiaries, he or she should consider life insurance that names both (1) the pet or traditional trust and (2) other beneficiaries (or a trust for their benefit). These assets can be invested like any other assets during the owner's lifetime, and those who currently manage the assets can continue to do so for the pet's lifetime.Trust Terms
Here are several issues for pet owners' consideration:
- Creating a pet panel to offer guidance to the trustee and caregiver/beneficiary, and to remove and replace the trustee and caregiver/beneficiary if necessary. Consider including a veterinarian to make the final decision regarding euthanization for medical reasons, to ensure that the pet is not euthanized prematurely by the caregiver/beneficiary.
- Paying the caregiver/beneficiary a monthly fee for caring for the pet or allowing the caregiver/beneficiary to live in the pet owner's home, rent free.
- Awarding a bonus to the caregiver/beneficiary at the end of the pet's life as a "thank you" for taking care of the pet.
- Determining how the trustee is to distribute the remaining trust funds after the last pet dies.
An alternative to naming individual caregivers is for the pet owner to name a local charitable organization that will ensure care in exchange for a contribution upon the owner's disability or death.
To prevent the caregiver/beneficiary from replacing a pet that dies in order to continue receiving trust benefits, the pet owner should specify how the trustee can identify the pet. Micro-chipping the pet or having DNA samples preserved are two methods commonly used for verification.
Some pet owners want their healthy pets euthanized when they pass away because "no one can care for my pets as well as I do." However, many courts have invalidated euthanasia provisions on the basis that destruction of estate property is against public policy. Instead, pet owners should consider no-kill organizations that have the pet's best interest in mind and will find the next best home for the pets.
Conclusion Many individuals are unaware of the issues surrounding the care of their pets after their disability or death. By discussing these issues with their advisor team, pet owners can ensure that all of their loved ones are cared for, even when the owner is unable to care for them directly.
To comply with the U.S. Treasury regulations, we must inform you that (i) any U.S. federal tax advice contained in this newsletter was not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, by any person for the purpose of avoiding U.S. federal tax penalties that may be imposed on such person and (ii) each taxpayer should seek advice from their tax advisor based on the taxpayer's particular circumstances.
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Posted on May 10, 2012 by Marina
May is CONTACT Festival month in Toronto.
The largest photography festival in the world that is held in Toronto. The festival increases exposure and recognition for local, Canadian and international artists with 1000 exhibits at almost 200 venues. Steam Whistle Brewery is one of these venues and in May we are hosting Building Storeys - a photo exhibit of transportation in Toronto. The exhibit is co-curated by Christopher Hume of the Toronto Star and Gary Miedema, Chief Historian at Heritage Toronto.
Building Storeys is a visual documentation and anecdotal exhibit of Toronto’s cherished – and in some cases, somewhat unknown – heritage buildings and sites. The project brings together both the heritage and arts communities in collaboration to create awareness of the depth of our city’s heritage.
Gary Miedema, Chief Historian and Associate Director at Heritage Toronto, further discusses the inspiration for the exhibit.
What is your role with Heritage Toronto?
I’m the organization’s Chief Historian and Associate Director. I help guide Heritage Toronto’s programming, and work closely with partnering organizations across the city to raise awareness of this city’s fascinating history. This exhibition is a great example. The photographers, the Building Storeys Collective, have been a truly great group to work with. Brook Restoration and the Howard and Carole Tanenbaum Family Foundation were key sponsoring partners, Christopher Hume of the Toronto Star has been a brilliant co-curator, and Steam Whistle made the on-site work a pleasure.
How did Heritage Toronto get involved with the CONTACT festival?
This is the third edition of our Building Storeys exhibition, and the first one that is a part of CONTACT. The move into CONTACT was recommended by Howard Tanenbaum in 2011 when we were planning this year’s show. Given the way the exhibition had matured, that move just made sense, and we are thrilled to be a part of one of the world’s great photography festivals, here in our own city.
What inspired Building Storeys?
In short, a driving passion to tell the stories of this city’s past through exceptional contemporary photography. Too often, people either unwittingly overlook the richness of this city’s historic buildings and infrastructure, or worse, consider them not worth looking at. The photographers in this show have done what they do best – capture beauty and intrigue in unexpected places, and stop us in our tracks to appreciate it. And suddenly we see our own city a fresh new light.
How does this show compare to the previous years?
The quality of the photographs remains exceptional. We are very happy to be at Steam Whistle for the first time – a perfect match for this year’s theme of transportation infrastructure, and that match brings something very rich to this show. It’s also important to note that this year we added new curators – Christopher Hume and myself. With Christopher Hume’s input, we significantly enhanced the written story panels that enrich the photographs.
What is your favourite piece at the exhibit?
Each photo was chosen because it was particularly striking, and because it added something to the story of a theme or site. I was immediately struck by Rick Harris’ photo of the subway wheel – it reveals that screeching and grinding piece of brute machinery to be an object of engineered perfection, and it intrigues me with its perception of both blurred motion and exacting sharpness. It tells a piece of this year’s story – of the unseen work done by generations in the city’s subway and streetcar yards.
You can check the exhibit out for yourself until May 31st 2012 at Steam Whistle Brewery (255 Bremner Blvd, Toronto). See you soon!
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Inflation, Investing and Everything
The Bush administration is more pro-ethanol than ever. In his latest state of the union address, President Bush called on Congress to "fund additional research in cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn, but from wood chips and stalks, or switch grass. Our goal is to make this new kind of ethanol practical and competitive within six years."
But can ethanol really offer the energy gains promised by the President? In July 2005 scientists David Pimentel and Tad W. Patzek published a controversial paper challenging the energy economics of ethanol and biodiesel. According to their research, the process of converting plants such as corn, soybeans, and sunflowers into fuel consumes much more energy than the resulting ethanol or biodiesel generates. Specifically, they said that corn requires 29% more fossil energy than the ethanol produced, for switch grass it's 45% more, and wood biomass requires 57% more fossil energy than the fuel produced.
Understandably, this research has been controversial, especially with ethanol supporters. The most recent return volley by researchers from UC Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group claims to find net energy benefits that Pimentel and Patzek overlooked. There's no easy answer to the ethanol economics debate, but it does pay to ask questions about it. When considering local sources of ethanol or biodiesel, crunch the numbers. The energy and environmental impacts of ethanol, and how they compare to those of gasoline, can vary substantially by region, feedstock (or petroleum source), and manufacturing process.
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Areas within Rural Townships lying outside the commercial centre, and in other significant rural development areas served by medium capacity public transport, such as light rail systems.
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Peripheral parts of Rural Townships or other rural development areas, or in locations away from existing settlements but with adequate infrastructure and no major landscape or environmental constraints.
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Within the defined envelope of recognised traditional villages.
The Table only gives an indication of the maximum plot ratio which may be allowed for a particular area. However, where there are significant constraints on development capacity (such as transport or infrastructure limitations, or environmental, topographical or geotechnical conditions), or special design considerations, a lower plot ratio may be specified when considered appropriate and possible.
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Much attention has been paid to the vitamin-D boosting benefits of sunlight. But darkness, it seems, can also keep you healthy. A new study finds that women who live in places with bright illumination at night (think Times Square in New York) are more apt to develop breast cancer than those who can gaze up at the night sky and see a full array of stars. Other research suggests that rotating shift workers have higher rates of breast and prostate cancers, heart disease, diabetes, and depression. U.S. News called on experts to explain the findings and how people should respond to them.
Can nighttime exposure to light really increase the risk of breast cancer?
Although the latest research doesn't prove this, the link is certainly plausible. Animal studies have shown that having abnormally low levels of the hormone melatonin, which is typically most abundant at night, increases the rates at which cancers grow. "There are, though, still a lot of uncertainties," says melatonin researcher George Brainard, a professor of neurology at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.
How could light at night lead to cancer?
The leading theory is that getting too much light at night disrupts the body's nocturnal release of melatonin into the bloodstream, causing a cascade of negative health effects like inflammation, tumor cell growth, and a suppressed immune system. The brain's pineal gland produces that hormone in the absence of light—but suppresses its production when light travels through the eyes. No one knows if there's an optimal level of melatonin or whether what matters is that the hormone's release comes at the same time each day, since it helps drive the body's circadian rhythm. "It could be a combination of all these factors," Brainard says. "We just don't know."
Should people start popping melatonin pills to prevent cancer?
"Nobody is suggesting that," Brainard emphasizes. "But there are appropriate times to take melatonin." Night shift workers might consider taking a supplement right before they go to sleep in the morning. Those who travel internationally can try it to reset their body's clock and avoid jet lag. "If I'm flying from Philadelphia to Paris," Brainard says, "I would take a dose in the evening right before takeoff to help me go to sleep earlier, and then when I arrive, I'd take it at the local bedtime." The appropriate dose ranges from 1 mg to 5 mg. Check with a doctor before taking it.
Should light exposure be minimized at night?
Experts think that's probably a good idea, though you certainly don't need to go to extremes, like wandering around a darkened house after sundown. You should, though, try to avoid bright lights, the kind you need for knitting, jigsaw puzzles, or other hobbies within three hours of bedtime, recommends Mark Rea, director of the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. And keep computer time at night to no more than 15 minutes. Sitting in the glare from the screen for prolonged periods of time could suppress the release of melatonin. On the other hand, he says, watching TV is fine since the amount of light exposure you get sitting several feet away is minimal. In the bedroom, use room-darkening shades or curtains to block out the glare from streetlights. Plus, you might want to leave on a night light in the bathroom for those 4 a.m. visits, since flipping on the main bathroom light for even a few minutes, Brainard says, could disrupt melatonin production. "I recommend using one with a red bulb," he adds, "since light at that wavelength has a lower intensity and is less likely to interfere with melatonin."
What about daytime exposure to light?
Natural daylight can be just as important as nighttime darkness in maintaining a normal circadian rhythm. Rea recommends getting outside for 15 minutes at the same time each day, preferably in the morning, so your body gets a clear signal that it's daytime, not night. "It's the regularity that's key," he says. Also, avoid sitting in a dimly lit office all day. Rea says that can confuse the body's circadian rhythm just as much as getting bright light at night.
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Published on 10.01.2008 - The Larsen Iceshelf Expedition
The members of Jon Bowermaster's expedition (The Larsen Iceshelf Expedition) have reached King George Island. Before continuing on their way to the Weddell Sea, they carried out a mission of aerial reconnaissance.
The Larsen Iceshelf expedition arrived at King George Island (see our map) on 5th January. Skip Novak's boat Pelagic is dealing well with the seas.As Jon Bowermaster is
very familiar with these latitudes, he is also well aware that the ice conditions â and hence the sailing conditions â can change dramatically in the Weddell Sea from one year to the next.
As part of the planning for this expedition, Jon monitored satellite maps for weeks and even months before setting out. "The Weddell Sea, which is where we are to be exploring," he wrote, "is one of the places in the Antarctic best known for its powerful sea-ice. For the past two months, several enormous icebergs have been blocking the entrance to what is known as Antarctic Sound, which is the route we would normally have taken. Our aim is to venture as far as possible into the Weddell Sea as the ice will allow us. So we needed to do some aerial reconnaissance to see what the best course would be for Pelagic and our kayaks."
So the expedition members boarded a Chilean Air Force Twin Otter for a 3-hour flight over the East coast of the Antarctic Peninsula and, more specifically, over James Ross Island.
As they flew over Antarctic Sound (see our map), they were surprised to see there was little ice covering the strait. But once they were over James Ross Island, they could see that the route they were intending to take with Pelagic, i.e. between James Ross Island and Vega Island, was completely blocked by ice. Bowermaster writes that he still has the maps for 2005 showing that the two islands were surrounded entirely by open water in that year.
As a result, they will have to come up with a new route.
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Controversial French Anti-Smoking Campaign
The French are very open-minded when it comes to sex. They are also open-minded in advertising. But in this case the controversy is very big and they say things have gone too far. This commercial doesn’t just evoke oral sex but it even depicts it. And these images have as target the young people that should be persuaded into non-smoking.
Now the family groups, the organizations for woman’s rights and of course the bloggers have joined the team of Nicolas Sarkozy‘s conservative government and they object to what Nadine Morano says, the Secretary of State for Family Affairs. She said the “public outrage to decency” are vowed to ban.
So this Wednesday, the Association of French Families have given an official complaint to the national advertising regulators and they are accusing this campaign of violating the ethic rules.
This all happens because these posters show a man and a woman who look like they are in their teens, kneeling before a fully clothed adult male. In the pictures a cigarette dangles from the young person’s mouth and it extends to the men’s pants disappearing there. Below this pictures it’s also said: “Smoking Means Being a Slave to Tobacco.”
So no matter the anti-smoking message, the public says that these ads are offensive and they are of a very bad taste. Monday, they debuted in cafes and tobacco shops. Some of the critics say they even show child pornography.
Here’s what Morano said on Tuesday on the RTL radio stations: “There are other ways of explaining to young people that cigarettes are addictive. Shocking people about tobacco doesn’t bother me, but there are other campaigns doing that.”But the anti-smoking group is disagreeing with the comments. The NSR said on the web page: “The first cigarette is often viewed as a rite of passage toward the adult world and an emancipation. The campaign seeks to reverse that impression and make people aware that smoking isn’t a defiance of authority, but instead a sign of submission and naiveté, a behavioral, psychological and physical submission to an addictive drug that will control their acts, dirty their bodies and cost them dearly.” This comes as a response to the fact that smoking has gotten lower to most age groups, but increased with 40 % on the 12 to 25 years old age group.
So, as sex sell and sends the message very good, NSR says that they used these images that they thought teenagers would find repulsive, when an elder manipulates a young woman to do his dirty bidding. How ever, this adds repels more that just people that would be smokers. Evryone on the smoking domain and even the owners of the bars and cafes where these posters have appeared are outraged by the explicit sexual content of these images.
A spokesman for the French affiliate of the British American Tobacco, Yves Trevilly, said that some one who works in the cigarette industry “could be compared to a rapist or a pedophile,” but the French Confederation of Tobacco Vendors say that the purpose of this commercial “no longer prevention, but uncalled-for provocation.”
But this is not the first controversial campaign on cigarettes by NSR, because late last year they released a report that said French people were increasingly flaunting anti-smoking laws in offices, trains and cafes.
In the mean time the fuss that was generated by the oral sex add shows that they’ve accomplished what they wanted to, they created a big issue on it. So that’s a good thing, as there are also other ads that could be seen as very controversial at the moments.
Like the ads for a proposed 47.5 billion dollars that the government has issued asking the taxpayers to approve and provide the stimulus investment for the infrastructure and businesses that have fallen afoul of feminists. These posters are showing Marianne, the Phrygian-bonneted symbol of the French Republic, barefoot, dressed in white and very pregnant.
The critics say that this send a very chauvinist message of women as a chaste, stay-at-home types who only have the role of providing their husbands with kids. Some of them even say the women are used for political purposes. A feminist blogger said on Le Feminin l’Emporte on February 18: “The hand of the state shouldn’t be in my uterus. And certainly not to look for money.”
The SNCF state railway has also gotten into troubles releasing a safety information ad posted in the trains from the southwestern part of France, telling passengers that they should be distrustful to Romanians.
The colored fliers say that the SNCF found “problems with Romanians” after “numerous thefts of luggage had been noticed” and they say “all acts by Romanians” should be reported.
The French author Mouloud Akkouch complained to the SNCF for this because he though it was the work of some pranksters. After wards he took the story to the media. But the SNCF didn’t stood by the story but they didn’t defend their side either.
A SNCF statement said: “This should not have happened. An internal inquiry is under way to determine how it occurred.”
Discriminators the French are, aren’t they?11
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Fetal ventriculomegaly: postnatal management.
ABSTRACT It is the current status of fetal ventriculomegaly that although the technology for diagnosis is advanced, it does not have significant impact on the management outcome. Fetal ventriculomegaly is mainly treated after birth.
We reviewed the literature and suggested policies of postnatal evaluation and surgical management of fetal hydrocephalus. Our experience of 44 cases of fetal ventriculomegaly diagnosed by fetal ultrasonography, in which major poor prognostic factors were absent and for which prenatal pediatric neurosurgical consultation was sought, was also presented.
Our experience showed etiologic heterogeneity of fetal ventriculomegaly although our cases seemed to be surgical candidates more likely than whole group of fetal ventriculomegaly. There were limitations in prenatal evaluation of fetal hydrocephalus. The first step for postnatal management is etiologic classification. It should be clarified after birth whether there is remarkable disturbance of cerebrospinal fluid dynamics or not. The rate of postnatal progression of ventricular dilatation is also important for the decision of treatment plan. For surgical treatment in very young children, special considerations should be paid on technical feasibility, rate of postoperative infection or malfunction, prevention of rapidly developing nervous system from the possible damage, and great plasticity of young brain.
Indication, methods, and timing of surgical treatment must be individually tailored according to the etiology, degree and rate of progression of ventriculomegaly, and patient's age when surgical treatment is considered.
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POSE IN PRESS A collection of articles about Pose Method and Dr.Romanov in various publications.
COMPETITOR SOUTHEAST (US)
The Force Moment in Swimming
by John Robson
An exclusive Competitor excerpt from Dr. Nicholas Romanov's forthcoming book, "The Pose Method of Triathlon Techniques."
Author’s Note: In 1996, during my short stint as editor of Florida Sports (FS) magazine (now Competitor Southeast and part of the Competitor network of magazines) FS Publisher Jim Woodman introduced me to the man behind the Pose Method concept (which Jim, a big fan, laughingly called Russian Running) the globe-trotting triathlon coach-at-large, Dr. Nicholas Romanov. Over the years, I got to know Dr. Romanov, then I got to write about him, and ultimately I got to write with him as the co-author of his first full-length book, “The Pose Method of Running,” which has now been sold in over 150 countries and is currently being translated into Spanish, Russian, German and Dutch. Three years later, we’re proud to present this exclusive excerpt on swimming from Chapter 49 of the follow-up book, “The Pose Method of Triathlon Techniques.”
…In the previous chapter we redefined the concept of swimming and recast it as the interaction between the body and the hand, with each playing a role in supporting the other. If we go way back into the book, we’ll recall the great quote from the Greek thinker, Archimedes, who, when talking about the power of levers, said: “Give me a place to stand and I will move the Earth.”
In swimming, that place to stand is the anchor created by your hips in the water and what it allows you to move is your body. To create a mental image of this, it can be helpful to think of an environment that is truly free of gravity — a spaceship. We’ve all seen video of astronauts or cosmonauts, flailing about the bay of their ship, only able to move in a given direction by pushing off a fixed object, generally the wall of the cabin.
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The reason they can’t move without the assistance of a fixed object is that in a truly gravity-free environment, there is no support. Without a reliable source of support, there is simply nothing against which we can apply the energy of our body mass, no way to generate forward momentum.
While we tend to think of water as being almost like outer space in regard to its ability to diminish the effects of gravity, we have already demonstrated that gravity is in fact hard at work when we’re in the pool or the ocean. But it is this phenomenon of reduced effects of gravity that makes it vital that we are as efficient as humanly possible in establishing — and working against — support in the water.
What Your Hips Really Do In Swimming
This is where the hips come in. It is a common misperception that the hips are the source of power in swimming. The thinking holds that the drive of the hips as they rotate from side to side generates the power that pulls the arm backward and moves the body forward. There most certainly is a vital interrelationship between the arms and the hips, but that’s not it.
As we discussed in the last chapter, when the active hand finishes its work under the general center of mass of the body, it begins to unweigh and lift out of the water. In turn, this causes the weight to come off the anchored hip and transfer to the opposite hip. The quicker this weight transfer takes place, the sooner the next hand can begin its work.
The key is that the hip must be set in place to provide the support against which the hand will work. Once the hip is ‘set,’ the hand can then establish its own support in the water to apply the weight of the body. This establishes a relationship between the floating support of the hip and the active/moving support of the hand onto which the body weight is being transferred.
It is in this relationship where our ability to swim fast and efficiently is developed.
As it is with all other sports, in swimming we are only as strong as our ability to use our body weight. The hand enters the water and actually exits the water ahead of where it entered, but it is the ability to move the body relative to the hand that makes for fast and efficient swimming. The interaction between the use of the hand as support to move the body, and the use of the body as support to move the hand, is the true demonstration of the skill of swimming.
The skill of any movement is the skill of shifting the body weight from one support to the other. What we feel is the pull of the hand toward the body and the shift of our weight to the other side. But what really happens is that — balanced on the support of the hand — we lift the body past the hand. During the pull, the hand/arm serves as a support for the body and the body as a support for the hand/arm to pull toward. It is a mutual relationship — neither one can do its work without the other.
The Force Moment
This mutual relationship leads to the force moment in swimming, the instant when you apply the maximum force possible in your stroke. With the hip and the hand locked into support, the weight of the upper torso begins its pass over the support hand. As it passes, the energy of that weight is pushed down on the hand, driving the swimmer forward. It is exactly the same phenomenon as in cycling when the foot passes through the three o’clock position.
To get a clear picture of how closely the swimming stroke resembles the cycling stroke, visualize the ‘clock’ of the cycling stroke, where the foot at the top of the stroke is said to be in the 12 o’clock position. In swimming, the point where the active hand first makes contact with the water correlates exactly — that is the 12 o’clock position for the swimming stroke. As the hand presses down and the weight of the upper torso is transferred onto the support of that hand, the hand passes from two o’clock through four o’clock, with the position of force moment peaking at three o’clock.
By the time the hand is at six o’clock, the weight of the body has passed the hand, which can then no longer provide support. The hand is no longer ‘loaded’ and it is important to quickly transfer the body weight to the next hand…again, just like in cycling. At this point, any effort to push back toward the hip is wasted effort and only serves to delay the transfer of support to the other hand.
|Dr.Romanov and Arturo Garza
Channeling Body Weight
So the strength of our swimming comes not from the strength of an independently ‘pulling’ arm, but instead from the swimmer’s ability to channel the body weight through the arm and hand, transmitting that potential energy as completely as possible. Without the strength and the skill to channel the energy, the swimmer will use a smaller percentage of the body weight as a power source and consequently swim slower.
The power source boils down to the communicative abilities of the arm and the body, which must work together as a single unit to achieve the best results. It is not a case of strong arms dragging the body along, but instead a case of a strong framework being established between the body and the arms that allows the body to pass most quickly through the water. Paramount in this is the swimmer’s own perception of what is happening, as the weight is transferred to the hand and his concentration to make the most of that relationship with every single stroke at the peak force moment.
This relationship and the ability to maintain it, is the key to an efficient and powerful swim stroke. The extent to which the arm is able to move the body weight or become a spring for the body, determines the efficiency of the stroke. The better you can channel your body weight and its power through the arm, the more efficient your swim stroke will be.
How much of your own body weight do you think you are channeling through the connection between your arm and your body? Most of us don’t have the skill to perceive this. In Pose Swimming we learn how to manage our own body weight by heightening our perception of feeling it and then transferring it to the next support.
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‘There may be issues at a local level’
A government watchdog has found that the UK has some of the cheapest fuel in Europe as prices in North Kirklees show a modest annual fall.
Compared to March last year, prices at the six garages the Reporter Series has been tracking are now slightly lower.
But drivers are still paying as much as 13p more for a litre of diesel than they were in 2011.
Recent increases led the Office of Fair Trading to carry out a study of the fuel sector which found that the rises were caused by the rising price of crude oil.
It found little evidence to show that prices are quick to rise and slow to fall as crude oil prices fluctuate and claimed that drivers on the continent pay more for fuel before tax.
OFT chief executive Clive Maxwell said: “We recognise that there has been widespread mistrust in how this market is operating. However, our analysis suggests that competition is working well... There may be some issues at a local level.”
The six petrol stations listed on the right are all selling fuel cheaper than in March last year, but all are more expensive than they were two years ago.
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Midbar said its technology, dubbed Cactus Data Shield, prevents people from illegally reproducing music without altering the sound quality. Midbar said the announcement, which did not indicate a time frame for the releases, includes CDs protected with its latest technology, which allows discs to be played on a CD player or a PC, resolving previous playability issues.
The announcement shows that digital rights management companies and record labels are aggressively pursuing copy-protection plans--even though most anti-piracy technologies are still in an experimental phase. Last year, for instance, record giant BMG Entertainment began testing technologies from security companies including Midbar, Macrovision and SunnComm. But the label's attempt to release discs protected by Midbar's technology in Germany led to consumer complaints that the CDs would not work on their players and forced BMG to abandon that project.
It is unclear how many people have purchased copy-protected discs. P.J. McNealy, research director for GartnerG2, a division of the Gartner research firm, noted that although more than 10 million CDs have been released in the market, it "still doesn't mean 10 million have been bought" or that the technology has been perfected.
Midbar says it is continuing to upgrade its technology.
"It's been an exciting year, packed with great achievements as well as useful learning experiences," Noam Zur, vice president of sales and marketing at Midbar, said in a statement. "We will continue to upgrade this already proven technology as we embark on the path to the next milestone."
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By Corrie MacLaggan
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry called on state lawmakers on Tuesday to pass a bill banning late-term abortions, a controversial prohibition that has been pushed by anti-abortion activists since 2010.
Seven states - Alabama, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska and Oklahoma - have put laws into effect in the past several years banning late term abortions, based on questionable medical research suggesting that a fetus feels pain starting at 20 weeks of gestation.
Another state, Georgia, has such a law scheduled to go into effect in January, although a lawsuit over the measure is pending in state court. Arizona also passed a similar law banning abortions 18 weeks after fertilization, but it has been blocked by federal courts.
Texas would be the largest state to pass such a measure, although Perry, a Republican, did not outline details of what he envisioned in a bill.
"We cannot, and we will not, stand idly by while the unborn are going through the agony of having their lives ended," Perry, a failed 2012 Republican presidential candidate, said in prepared remarks for a news conference on Tuesday.
Opponents of such proposals say they are based on unfounded science.
"And yet we see these bills proliferating across the country," said Elizabeth Nash, state issues manager for the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights. "It looks like this issue is one that state legislatures are going to be wrestling with for another year."
Arkansas, Virginia, Wisconsin and South Dakota are also expected to introduce such bills, Nash said.
The position of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is that there is "no legitimate scientific information that supports the statement that a fetus experiences pain."
The group notes that certain brain and neurological developments, including neurotransmitted hormones, have to be in place to perceive pain. Animal studies show these hormones are developed only in the last third of gestation.
Some anti-abortion arguments on fetal pain are taken from research by Kanwaljeet J.S. Anand, a professor of pediatrics, anesthesiology, anatomy and neurobiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
Anand has said that prenatal surgeries are routinely done with anesthetic, and that despite ACOG's 2005 statement, "the consensus opinion seems to be in favor of the fact that fetuses do perceive pain."
In Texas, the Legislature convenes in January with Republican majorities in both chambers. In 2011, Perry successfully pushed a measure requiring women seeking an abortion to first get a sonogram.
(Editing by Paul Thomasch and Christopher Wilson)
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Korean War Plane Restored
Korean War fighter jet restored and repainted in Appleton. Video by nbc26.comvideo
An area veteran has repainted and restored a fighter plane used by the Air Force in the Korean War. The F-86L fighter plane is on display outside of Appleton's American Legion Post 38. Veteran Paul Kryszak spent about two weeks repainting the jet and he still has to add some stripes to the wings and a few other details.
He was also involved in restoring a military cannon that's on display along Memorial Drive in Appleton.
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3D-printing studio Shapeways unveiled a new app Wednesday that allows customers to create their own 3D-printed rings without the need for sophisticated 3D-modeling software. To create a ring, just create and upload a flat, black-and-white pattern to Shapeways' Custom Ring App. The flat pattern will be printed in a ring shape, as you can see in the examples below: Rings cost as little as $2.30 and as much as $130 or more, depending on the material chosen.
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Possible abuses are emerging from the 3D-printing technology, including the ability to cheaply copy and reproduce works of art and jewelry.
Sheer blouses and body-hugging sheath dresses weren't the only things designer Kimberly Ovitz sent down the runway at her Fall/Winter 2013 collection show on Thursday. Clasped on the hands, ears and around the necks of models were pieces of 3D-printed jewelry, which Ovitz released on the website of 3D-printing firm Shapeways immediately after the show.
The watch and jewelry industry continues to lag behind others in its adoption of e-commerce, mobile and social media, a study released Thursday indicates. In a survey of 47 leading watch and jewelry brands, L2, a self-described "think tank" for luxury and digital innovation, found that less than half sell online. The majority of brand websites typically offer little beyond basic brand information and product images.
USB drives are one of the most useful items you can carry. To ensure you're never without storage, consider a flash drive necklace to keep your portable memory on you at all times. We have found 10 excellent examples of USB drive necklaces, to suit both feminine and masculine senses of style. SEE ALSO: 10 Pieces of Gorgeous Geek Jewelry [PICS] Take a look through our stylish selection in the image gallery above.
Summer is wedding season, and often requires formal wear. We have found 15 pairs of fabulous cufflinks that will look super-classy from a distance, and show off your geeky side up-close -- whether for the groom, best man, usher or guests. SEE ALSO: 10 Geeky Wedding Gifts for the Happy Couple Take a look through the gallery above for our fun and nerdy formal wear accessories. Let us know in the comments below which ones you think would look best adorning some crisp cuffs.
Looking for a unique piece of jewelry? Designer David Bizer creates necklaces that are customized to the sound of your voice. The waveform necklace is designed from a personal audio recording, sent via email. Depending on the material, which ranges from acrylic to silver, the necklaces are actually fairly affordable, starting at 10 to 20 euros ($12 to $24). SEE ALSO: Turn Your Foursquare Check-ins Into Jewelry If you're really into D.I.Y., Bizer's created a tutorial on how to make your own at home.
If your Busted Tees t-shirt isn't screaming "I live and breathe the Internet", you might want to accessorize. Meshu, a San Francisco-based startup, makes jewelry in the pattern of your Foursquare check-ins. After you connect your Foursquare account on Meshu's website, you can choose to design a piece based on all of your check-ins worldwide, or by more modest regions (such as the U.S., or Miami Beach). You can eliminate any check-in spots to alter the shape to your taste.
This Valentine's Day, don't say it with chocolates. Don't say it with flowers. Don't even think of saying it with a stuffed toy. Say it loud, proud and geeky with an 8-bit heart. We have found eight great accessories -- for both sexes -- that celebrate the classic pixelated heart. From a journal to jewelry and from $4 to $270, we're sure there's something here for the geek love of your life. Take a look through the gallery.
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Chloe + Isabel Quick Pitch: A fashion jewelry company reinventing the direct sales model online.
Tiffany has launched a multimedia-rich microsite and iPhone app designed to be the "go-to resource" for romantics everywhere.
It's news to no one that ecommerce is on the rise. Not only are more consumers turning to the web to purchase online for the first time, they're also beginning to purchase in more expensive categories -- including, one startup has found, in fine jewelry. Gemvara is a Boston-based startup that specializes in high-end, customizable jewelry.
Why buy standard department store jewelry when you can customize your own pieces online for around the same price? Jewelry is one of the hottest categories in the growing design-it-yourself market because it is extremely personal and highly configurable. Jewelry is the perfect fit for an online design tool that lets you mix and match colorful jewels and precious metals. Each piece that you design is built to order and is likely a one-of-a-kind.
The geek collective is nothing if not creative, and some of that creativity can be seen in the treasure trove of geek-themed jewelry available out there. With a nod to the subtle, rather than going down the route of plastering "nerd" on your forehead, we've scoured Etsy for 10 excellent examples of nerd-chic jewelry. Whether you're looking for a great gift, or just looking to spoil yourself, we're fairly sure there will be something in our gallery that will hit the right note.
As Kermit once wisely said, it isn't easy being green, especially if you're really into your gadgets, but recycling old products and buying new ones with an eye on eco is something we should all be doing. To help you out of your consumer vs. conscience crisis, we've handpicked ten amazing items from around the web that re-use existing materials to make a brand new product. Please add your own picks in the comments.
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1. Basic Grammar in Use With answers, with Audio CD : Self-study Reference and Practice for Students of English (Grammar in Use) by Raymond Murphy; Paperback: 312 pages, Cambridge University Press
Basic Grammar in Use, 2nd edition is a new edition of a highly successful text for high-beginning to low-intermediate students. This textbook focuses on the fundamental grammar structures normally taught in basic or introductory courses. Each of the 116 units are presented in a two-page spread, with simple, clear explanations on the left-hand page and abundant practice exercises to check understanding on the right. This new edition includes an Audio CD with example sentences, more detailed explanations, more exercises per unit, ten units of new material and a new section of Additional Exercises which give students the opportunity to consolidate what they have learned. An answer key is included. An edition without answers is also available. Basic Grammar in Use can be used as a class text or for self-study. Teachers using a main course book in lower-level classes may wish to assign Basic Grammar in Use as a reference guide so that students can look up grammar points that cause them difficulties.
2. Basic Grammar in Use Student’s book : Reference and Practice for Students of English (Grammar in Use) by Raymond Murphy; Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Designed for high-beginner to low-intermediate level learners, this American English edition of Essential Grammar in Use focuses on the fundamental structures of English grammar normally taught in basic or introductory courses. The easy-to-use layout is inviting to learners: presentation of new structures with examples appear on the left-hand page, and exercises to check under-standing on the right. Appendices deal with phrasal verbs, spelling and irregular verbs. The contents and index are clearly organised so that teachers and learners can easily find the unit or grammar point they need. There is a separate answer key for individual use and self-study. The key also provides a handy reference for teachers.
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Grammar in Use is a highly successful two-level grammar series known for its clear explanations and innovative format. Each unit is a two-page spread that presents a specific grammar point on the left-hand page and provides practice exercises on the right. An unique combination of reference grammar and practice, the books in this series can be used as classroom texts or for self-study. The Grammar in Use workbooks provide students with further opportunities to practice difficult grammar points and to consolidate their understanding of related grammar topics, such as different ways of expressing the future. They offer a wide range of activity types that include opportunities to work with grammatical structures in meaningful contexts. The workbooks also include review sections for each group of units in the student books. These groups, such as the Present and Past, Modals, and Articles, are listed in the table of contents of each student book. The Grammar in Use Intermediate and Basic Grammar in Use Workbooks are available with and without answers.
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Essential Grammar in Use is a grammar reference and practice book for elementary learners. Modelled on Raymond Murphy’s successful intermediate-level English Grammar in Use, it concentrates on areas of grammar normally taught at elementary level. – Easy to use: on each left-hand page a grammar point is explained and on the facing pages there are exercises to check understanding. – Clear explanations: grammar for elementary learners is explained in simple language. – Accessible: the clear contents list and index of grammatical items make it easy for learners to select the units they need. – Additional exercises: these offer extra practice of key grammar points. – Appendices: these references deal with tenses, irregular verbs, short forms, spelling and phrasal verbs. – Self-study: the book can be used by learners working independently. Answer Key: this contains the answers to all the exercises.
5. Basic English Grammar, Full Text by Betty Schrampfer Azar; Paperback: 480 pages Publisher: Pearson ESL; 2 edition
Now in an all-new second edition, this worktext presents basic structures and vocabulary in a step-by-step building process, along with lots of opportunity for practice through varied exercises. Covers all basic English grammar structures and concepts through clear, concise charts and examples. For beginning-level ESL learners.
6. Grammar Games: Cognitive, Affective and Drama Activities for EFL Students; Mario Rinvolcri, Paperback.
Grammar Games is a resource book for teachers, containing materials for over 50 games for use in the EFL classroom. Each game practices a particular grammatical item or group of items. Julie Lucas, our ESL expert, loves Grammar Games and recommends it to anyone who wishes to add a little fun to their grammar classes.
7. Fun with Grammar: Communicative Activities for Azar Grammar Series, Teacher’s Resource Book by Suzanne W. Woodward; Spiral-bound: 354 pages Publisher: Prentice Hall
This teacher resource book is filled with more than 200 communicative, interactive, task-based grammar games that help make learning grammar fun. All of these grammar activity ideas are keyed to the Azar English Grammar Series, by Betty Schrampfer Azar, and include complete step-by-step instructions for the activities to add a fun new learning dimension to the classroom. For all ESL grammar teachers.
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by Jesse Lanier Poe as told to her by her father, Francis Burdette Lanier (mother was Sally McDonald)
My grandfather, Rev. Walter Lanier, was born in Clark Co., Georgia, near Athens, April 29, 1819. He was married September 1840, to Mary Eliza Meade [Eliza Mary]. He was converted in 1841 and was made Class Leader of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in 1842. He was licensed to exhort in 1848 and to preach in the M. E. Church South in 1856.
Mary Eliza [Eliza Mary] Meade was the daughter of a slave-owning planter. It was a well-known fact that her husband, Walter Lanier, opposed slavery. This caused no friction in the family nor did it cause any inconvenience to the wife of the young church leader as long as she lived near her mother who quietly saw to it that her daughter had plenty of help. The time came, however, when Walter Lanier felt impelled to move back to North Georgia. We assume that he fely it to be a clear call to some phase of Christian duty. He gathered his wife and three small children and began preparations.
Going back to Athens, they moved in covered wagons. Everything was packed and the wagons loaded so they could start at daybreak. Something happened though and the journey was delayed for two days. One of the children saw a little colored boy peeking out from the covered wagon and upon investigation, it was discovered that Eliza's mother had concealed three slaves, a man, woman, and child, in the back of one of the wagons.
Mr. Lanier (as everyone called him) would have none of this and great excitement prevailed.
Two days later, another start was made. The wagons got an early start and they traveled steadily until early afternoon. They came to a large spring and creek where they all stopped for water for themselves and their stock, and to eat of their generous baskets of food prepared by Eliza's mother. While all of them walked up and down to rest themselves again from sitting so long, again one of the children discovereed something.
He saw one of the drivers hand a gourd of water into the wagon. Again Mr. Walter investigated. Behind a large piece of furniture sat Kizzie, all dressed up in a starched white sunbonnet. Kizzie was a fifteen-year old girl, black with very white teeth. Mr. Walter questioned her and found that only two people knew she was there -- her mistress (who was Mr. Walter's mother-in-law) and her pappy who was the driver of the wagon.
As always, when Mr. Walter was perplexed and burdened with a great decision to be made, he resorted to prayer. He called them all together, drivers of the two wagons, Kizzie, and his family; and there, by the creek in the wilderness of North Georgia, he begged that through the "mercies" of God he was led to make the right decision. He could send Kizzie back to her mistress by the drivers who would return with the wagons, or he could keep her and do the best he could with her as a free negro.
The decision was made through Kizzie herself. The prayer revealed to her that she might be sent back and by the time the prayer ended she was sobbing and shrieking and begging not to be sent back. She wanted to stay with Miss 'Liza.
And stay she did! She never left them.
When I was a child in about 1889 I went with my parents to visit Grandpa in Georgia. Aunt Kizzie was still there. I can remember her, tall, black, with snow-white hair. She had married and raised a family of good substantial boys and girls. It never did bother her that she was a free negro in a country of slaves. They always paid her a small wage. She didn't need it; she didn't want it but she had Miss 'Liza to keep it for her. By the time Sherman marched through Georgia she had quite a sizeable little sum in the hair-covered trunk- but that's another story.
By Robin Lanier as told to her by Frances Lanier, as told to Frances by her grandfather, Francis Burdette Lanier
Because Walter Lanier did not agree with slavery, he sympathized with some of the goals of the Union Army during the Civil War. During Sherman's march to sea, the general sent a scouting party ahead to check on provisions and the like. They came by Walter's homestead. At this time Burt Lanier (Francis Burdette Lanier, born in 1855) was only nine or ten years old. Anyway, Walter, sympathizing with the Union forces treated the scouts to a meal and a religious service of some kind (akin to prayer breakfast, I guess). The soldiers thanked the family and went on their way.
A few days later Sherman's main forces came through the area, burning every farm within the area, except Walter Lanier's. Burt Lanier climbed a tree on the family's property which was up on a hill. He told his granddaughter that from that vantage point he could see the smoke of burning farms for a five or ten mile radius.
My Mother wrote of her memories from about 1919-20.
by Mary Catharine Nicol 1997, 1998, 1999 ©
My earliest memories of going to Grandmother Lanier's house for a visit began with a long train ride from Lineville where we lived. Just standing by the tracks and having the train pull up, sent shivers up and down my spine. The engine was so huge and noisy to me. Then there were the cinders from the engine that always get into your eyes! The windows were raised on the train. By the time we reached our destination, we were pretty dirty!
One of my happiest memories was of the man on the train with the "goodies". He was called "the Butch". After the conductor collected the tickets, he would walk up and down the aisle with his basket. It was full of fruit and the most wonderful little pistols and lanterns made of glass and filled with tiny candies. All for sale. Of course, we always had to have one of each.
The train stopped, at long last, at Grassmere, which is across from Laniers Cemetery. There was a station there then where the little store is now. I may have been drawing on my imagination but I think Stelle "and company" met us in her car. I think she had driven down from LaGrange with "Baby" Stelle and Henry earlier. Penie was always there with Mary Jim and Aunt Nina (Uncle Noble's wife) was there with Mary and I'm sure some of her other children. I just remember Mary.
Speaking of the train-- we would lie in bed at night and hear the whistle of the freight train as it came through. Legend had it that the engineer's sweetheart had been killed at a train crossing. So he blew his whistle at every crossing he came to. My! It was a mournful sound! I'll always remember that.
Grandmother's house was a big one painted white with a long hall down the middle. On rainy days we had a little red wagon that we used to pull each other up and down it. The noise must have been awful for the adults! There e were two HUGE oak chifforobes in the hall where Grandmother kept clothes and linens. I don't remember closets except one in her bedroom. We slept in the front bedroom. We'd lie there and have fun listening to the adults talking just outside the window while they sat and rocked on the porch.
I remember there was mosquito netting over the bed, hung from the ceiling. We'd lie there and listen also to the hoot owls on the mountain just back of the house. It was an eerie sound. I don't ever remember being hot or uncomfortable.
There was the kitchen and dining room on that side of the house. The kitchen was presided over by two black women named Josie and Lena. Some wonderful food came out of that kitchen! We ate at a long table, covered with large white cloth and I guarantee it was loaded with food! I remember eating off of sprigged china plates, which I think was Havilland china. When one meal was finished the table was cleared except for the jellies, relishes, etc. The dishes were done and they again set the table and covered it with another white cloth until the next meal. Guess it was to keep the flies away.
There was no indoor plumbing in the home down there. (I have heard that their home in Talladega had the first indoor bathroom in the town). We had to go to the "Chick sales" outhouse that was back of the smokehouse. Believe it or not there was a Sears catalogue hung by the door! The smoke house which backed up to the outhouse had not been used for years. I remember the base of it was made of beautiful pink and white marble.
A big back porch was screened-in. When I was a baby (I was born down there) they hung a swing for me out there. The hooks were still there when I took our girls by to see there house. On the porch was a cistern; water for it caught (when it rained) in a container outside the porch, connected in some way to the cistern, You had to pump and pump the handle to get the water. Don't know what happened in dry weather! We were bathed in a zinc tub on that back porch. Wonder how many baths we were given!
Uncle Homer and Aunt Annie and family lived in the house at the foot of the hill. We were always together with the boys, especially Homer, Jr. and Miller. Lucille the only girl was older than we were and I'm sure too grownup to play with us. I always "looked up" to her. I thought she was the perfect teenager. Later Uncle Homer and family moved into the house with Grandmother.
Halfway up the hill there had been a tennis court, for our parents, when they were young. It was fairly overgrown when we came along but still level. we'd build bonfires there at night and talk and tell ghost stories until our parents called us to bed.
There were huge rockers on the porch which wrapped around three sides of the house. On one end, there was a large, long wooden swing painted green. It was not the usual slatted swing but with a solid back and bottom. Mary and I used to play with our dolls on it.
A store was at the foot of the hill. I can still smell the wonderful mixture of sawdust (on the meat market floor), pickles in kegs and cheeses. They also used some sort of oil on the floor to clean it. It was a "country store" smell. I'd like to bottle it and keep it!
They would give Mary and me a nickel or dime and we'd go down to the store. The lady would show us all their bolts of cloth and sell us a one-fourth or one-half yard to make doll clothes. Grandmother would furnish the thread and needles. We had a big time. Mary Jim and Stelle probably did the same thing but I'm not sure. We were the oldest!
Everyday we'd take turns riding down the hill in the red wagon. Then back we'd trudge with it so the next one could ride. The hill was a lot steeper and longer than it is now. They changed the road and cut into the side of the hill. Boy, would we get hot. Didn't seem to bother us though. I don't remember us having any squabbles. We must have, with all of us down there.
The Lanier boys would take us for an occasional wagon ride. That was always a treat.
On real hot days we were taken in the afternoon to Blue Springs to wade in the cool water. We didn't have bathing suits, I don't think. Guess the boys rolled up their pants legs. The girls all had "bloomers" to match our dresses so we'd tuck our dresses in and wade away. I'm sure we must have fallen down every now and then and gotten wet.
Blue Springs was a small pond quite a distance from the house. It was clear as crystal and our daddies used to fish there. There was a little stream that ran off from it and across the road. It was about ankle deep and clear too. That is the part we waded in. Daddy, Jimmie, and I went back down there several times, before Daddy died, but we never could locate it. We had some good times there, as children, and it was oh so cool on a hot Alabama day.
There was an old barn there back of the house that I vaguely remember. Guess it was torn down. Also a small cabin near the house that they called the slave cabin. Why, I don"t know. It must have been there a long time. It was used for storage by my time. That will always be a mystery to me, 'cause they surely didn't have slaves, even in the early years.
The little church that still stands there was built with lumber from our granddaddy's lumber mill. I think they said he and Uncle John (I never knew him either) donated it for the church. I remember Penie saying one of the highlights of their Saturdays was going with Grandmother (when they were children) and a couple of servants to clean the church and get it ready for Sunday.
Grandmother always made the Communion wine. I'm sure, remembering Grandmother, it was never used for anything else. Her recipe for Blackberry and Scuppernog wine are in the Lanier Reunion Cookbook. See recipes.
Those were happy days we spent "down in the country" as it was always spoken of!
Blackberry Wine: Mash berries. Let stand 48 hours. Strain. Add sugar until an egg floats in it. Let stand one week. Strain. Pour into bottles and cork.
Scuppernong Wine: Wash fruit. Mash all juice out possible. Let juice and hulls stand 48 hours. Drain. To one gallon juice, put about three ponds sugar. Let stand several weeks. Strain and cork.
Carol'sNote: For all you city folks out there, a scuppernong is a wild grape.
1 pound butter (real butter)
1 pound sugar
1 pound flour
one-half teaspoon mace
2 tablespoons brandy
Cream butter. Add sugar gradually and continue beating through. Add egg yolks, beaten until thick and lemon-colored, egg whites beaten until stiff, flour, mace and brandy. Beat vigorously 5 minutes. Bake in stem pan one and one-half hours in slow preheated oven (300 degrees).
6-8 small apples
6 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons butter
2 cups brown sugar
2 tablespoons vinegar
3 drops red food coloring
ice cream sticks (popsicle sticks)
Melt butter over slow heat; beat in sugar; add vinegar and water. Cook until it makes a hard ball in cold water. Add coloring. Take from stove. Stick ice cream stick into cores of apples after apples have been washed and dried. Dip into syrup covering the whole apple. Place on wax paper.
1 yeast cake
4 teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 heaping tablespoons lard (Crisco)
1 cup milk, slightly warmed
Cream yeast and sugar. Add lard, milk, salt, and enough flour to make dough. Put on floured board and beat with rolling pin until it blisters (it will actually blister). Roll out and cut as Parker House rolls. Let rise 2/3 hours. Bake in medium oven until brown.
1 quart heavy cream
1 cup sugar
6 egg whites, beaten until stiff
one-half box gelatin
Sherry and vanilla to taste
Whip cream until light and fluffy. Add egg whites and sugar. Flavor with sherry and vanilla to taste. Soak gelatin in cold water until soft. Let it melt by beating until it is dissolved. Pour gelatin into whipped cream. Beat 5 minutes. Cherries and nuts may be added. Set aside to congeal.
8 eggs, separated
2 level tablespoons gelatin
one-half cup cold water
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 cup orange juice
three-quarters teaspoon salt
2 cups sugar
2 tablespoons grated orange zest
1 and one-half dozen ladyfingers, split
Beat yolks. Add salt, orange juice, and half of sugar. Cook over boiling water until thick like custard. Add gelatin (which has been dissolved in water), lemon juice, orange zest and cool. Beat egg whites and add rest of sugar. Fold into custard. Line spring mold pan with ladyfingers around bottom and sides (and tube, if using tube pan). Pour custard into mold. Chill overnight.
one-half pint cream, whipped
1 and one-third teaspoon lemon juice
1 and one-third tablespoon grated orange zest
Make icing by combining cream, juice, zest. Unmold cake and frost. Decorate with orange slices and cherries. Keep refrigerated until ready for presentation.
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I don't know who first said it, but the Oxford English Dictionary has a little information about its background:
orig. N. Amer. Any commercial preparation used to style the hair or (occas.) as a cosmetic.
1989 St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 27 Apr. (Style West section) 4 The key to making mascara work is ‘to make sure that there is not too much product on it’.
1993 Chatelaine (Electronic ed.) Nov., Two of the most common mistakes people make with gel are using too much product and applying it incorrectly.
2001 N.Y. Mag. 25 June–2 July 58, I don't wash my hair or even rinse it after the beach—I just put a lot of product in to make it shiny.
2004 S. Olson Children of God go Bowling iii. 44 There was just the right amount of product in his hair to make it look both coifed and neglected.
So, the first published usage the OED knows about is 1989, but it was used there to mean mascara, not a hair care product. It was used for hair care products by 1993. (You could argue that in the 1989 and 1993 citations, product is actually referring back to an earlier noun, standing in for mascara or gel to avoid awkward repetition; in that case, the earliest OED citation that definitely uses product all by itself to mean hair care product comes in 2001.) The usage seems to have started in North America.
Anecdotally, the first place I heard the word used this way (I am not what you'd call fashion-forward) was on the TV show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy sometime around 2003 or 2004. After that, I started hearing it everywhere. Clearly they weren't the first to do it, but they may have been the ones who brought the term into the mainstream. (Then again, what's more mainstream than the St. Louis Post-Dispatch? I may need to rethink this theory.)
One more reference: on the animated TV show Drawn Together, in the episode entitled "Gay Bash," God appears as a character and says,
I love the gays! Come on, they're adorable! And calling hair gel product? That's just fancy, that's what that is!
The episode aired in 2004, at the height of Queer Eye's popularity.
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What's a Baba Ganoush? Sometimes spelled "Baba Ganouj" or other variant transliterations from the Arabic, it's one of my favorite ways to use an eggplant. Known throughout the Middle East, it could be described as eggplant dip, or hummus with an attitude. A bowl of Baba Ganouj, a stack of pitas, maybe a little salad, and you've got a light summer dinner ... and it even goes with wine!
I have been making it for years, using a variety of recipes from ethnic or vegetarian cookbooks, but my personal recipe "kicked up a notch" after I tasted - and sought to replicate - the unusually complex and smoky flavors of the Baba Ganoush that I enjoyed around 1993 at Al Dewan, our favorite Lebanese restaurant in New York City's Queens.
Its secret of success was simple: Rather than starting with a routine oven-baked eggplant, they cooked this luscious purple veggie over coals and wood. The combination of wood smoke and a gentle, mellow garlic flavor added an entire new dimension to something that was already a treat.
Here's the recipe - it's a bit time-consuming but involves very little effort.INGREDIENTS: (Serves two)
2 medium eggplants
Several cloves garlic
2 tablespoons olive oil
Juice of 1 lemon, about 2 to 4 tablespoons
1/2 cup tahini (sesame paste, available at ethnic groceries)
Italian (flat leaf) parsley
1. Wash and dry the eggplants. Slice a couple of garlic cloves into thin slivers. Cut slits all over the eggplants and insert slivers of garlic.
2. Start a fire in your barbecue grill and allow plenty of time for the coals to get good and hot. Add a couple of well-soaked chunks of hickory or other aromatic wood, and put the two eggplants (whole, in their skins) on the grill. Cook them over direct heat for 20 minutes or so, turning them every five minutes, until the skins are charred and the inside steaming and creamy. The fat eggplants will probably collapse into something resembling a deflated football. Don't worry about that.
3. Meanwhile, slice two more large cloves of garlic into paper-thin rounds, and cook them gently in 1 tablespoon olive oil until translucent but not brown. Put the garlic and oil into the bowl of your food processor and add 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon cumin. Process with the steel blade until the contents become a paste.
4. When the eggplants are done, allow them a little time to cool. Then peel them - the charred skin should be easy to remove, and you needn't worry if a few bits and fragments remain.
5. Put the eggplant "meat" into the processor bowl with the garlic mix and process until the contents are smooth. Add the lemon juice and the tahini, a little at a time (you may not need it all), processing until smooth and tasting as you go, until the flavor and texture are as you like it.
6. Spoon the Baba Ganoush into a serving dish, smooth the surface, and drizzle about 1 tablespoon of olive oil over the top. Garnish with a little chopped parsley and a bit more cumin. If you can resist pitching right in, it's good to allow a half-hour or so for the flavors to blend. Serve with toasted pita quarters (or give them a quick warming over what's left of the coals).
WINE MATCH: It's fun to experiment with dishes like this that aren't traditionally served with wine. I've found that off-dry German Rieslings at the Spatlese or Auslese level work surprisingly well. A drier but aromatic Alsatian Riesling or Gewurztraminer should also be interesting; ditto an Austrian Gruner Veltliner. Want a red? A dry and acidic item, perhaps a Chianti or Cotes-du-Rhone, ought to work well. Don't be afraid to experiment - and if you find an exceptional match, please let me know!Correction - it's about thyme
As several of you advised me, I carelessly neglected to tell you what to do with the thyme in last week's Italian lemon chicken recipe. I hope you figured out without my help that it should be included in Step 4, when you add the lemon juice, lemon zest and chicken broth.
You'll find the corrected recipe in our online archives at
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Before I tell you how I make my green, toothy kale, let me share Dr. Cinque's recent thoughts about kale. The guy is irresistible:
"Some foods suit us better if we cook them. Consider kale. It’s extremely nutritious, and you can eat it raw if you grow it yourself and pick it when it’s very young and tender, like lettuce. But, if you are buying kale at the supermarket, you had better cook it. It’s mature, which means that It’s too tough and fibrous to eat and digest raw. And even if the cooking destroys some of the vitamins, it doesn’t matter. There are so many vitamins there that you can afford to lose a few. So, don’t worry about it. You will get more good out of that vegetable if you cook it. Your bottom line (the amount you digest and absorb) will be greater, and that's what matters."
- Buy a bunch of kale, either the curly leaf (shown) or the darker, flatter leaf (lacinato, Russian, or dinosaur kale).
- Rinse it. Soak and swish it in the sink to remove soil and bugs.
- Bring a big pot or pan of water to a full boil. Add about 1/2 teaspoon salt to the water.*
- Chop kale. To remove the spine, fold the entire leaf and slice off the thick middle stem. Tear or cut the remaining leaves into about 2 inch pieces.
- Carefully submerge chopped kale into boiling, salted water. Stir until it comes back to a rolling boil. Cover almost all the way, allowing steam to escape. (You want to cook it fast with high heat so it doesn't lose color or structure.)
- Cook for 3 to 4 minutes, lifting lid every minute to stir and relieve pressure if needed. After 3 minutes start testing for doneness by removing a piece, letting it cool for a few seconds and gently tearing it. You can chew it too if it's cool enough. Stop cooking when it's no longer tough but still a little chewy.
- Strain kale as you would pasta. Rinse immediately under a stream of cold water to stop the cooking. Let drain.
I usually store this in the refrigerator so it's on hand when I make soup. I add it minced to leftover rice, as a porridge. It's also very good heated with sautéed onions.
Do you eat kale? How do you prepare it?
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Metro says its Measure J would speed up transportation projects listed in pink by allowing the agency to take out loans earlier and begin work within five years, instead of 20, as originally planned.
A half-cent sales tax for transportation would be extended for an extra 30 years if voters in Los Angeles County pass Measure J, which is backed by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Such a tax is already in place, but it is set to expire in 2039. Measure J, if passed, would extend that tax to 2069.
The transportation agency, which calls itself Metro, wants to lock in the extra 30 years so they can more more quickly complete work on a bevy of promised transportation projects, while taking advantage of current low interest rates and reduced construction costs.
The measure, which requires approval of two-thirds of voters, is being sold as a way to reduce traffic and create jobs.
It would speed up construction of expanded rail lines, and freeway and street improvements that were planned under the existing tax, which was passed as Measure R in 2008.
If Measure J passes, work would start on the projects within five years instead of 20 as originally planned.
Proponents of Measure J cite an analysis from the Los Angeles Economic Development Corp. (PDF) stating the Measure J would acclerate hiring for more than 400,000 new local jobs.
"Voters across the county agree that everyone benefits from traffic relief; everyone benefits when we put people to work," said Matt Szabo, a former LA deputy mayor and now executive director of the campaign's Yes on Measure J Committee for Jobs and Traffic Relief.
Opponents call the measure a "blank check" that would shift the financial burden of transportation projects to a future generation, with the tax hike set to continue until 2069. And they dispute the jobs figures, while arguing the list of projects benefits the city of LA more than other areas.
"It's very LA city-centric," said Tony Bell, spokesman for county Supervisor and Metro board Chairman Mike Antonovich, who opposes Measure J and opposed Measure R. "We have 88 cities and unincorporated areas … They're not getting their fair share."
Szabo disputed that, noting projects in the South Bay and San Gabriel Valley.
The measure would create no new projects, but a list of projects promised in Measure R would be accelerated. Those include:
Some projects depend on federal funding for completion - a fact that's been highlighted by critics of Measure J.
Proponents of the sales tax extension say the security of revenue in the future will allow Metro to take out bonds now at lower interest rates and not begin paying them back till 2039.
"We will be able to advance these projects at an extraordinarily low cost," Szabo said.
County supervisors Michael Antonovich and Don Knabe oppose the measure, as does LA City Councilman Bernard Parks.
They're joined by the Bus Riders Union, which has disapproved of Metro's emphasis on rail, and the Beverly Hills school board, which battled with Metro over safety concerns about the Westside Subway route.
Supporters include a coalition of business, environmental and labor groups, with LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa – the self-described "transportation mayor" – as a champion.
Measure J is projected to cost an average of about $25 per person annually, and is expected to generate some $90 billion between 2039 and 2069, Metro officials have said.
It was polling close to the two-thirds vote margin, according to a Yes on J internal poll released in September. Measure R passed with 67.9 percent of the vote in 2008.
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As a Justmeans staff writer for the Sustainable Foods editorial department, I explore the disparity between consumerism and independence through the topic of sustainability. As a self-described 'urban homesteader' I look to find the balance between a sustainable lifestyle and use of corporate convenience. I don't necessarily want to live without electricity, but I want to be comfortable if eve...
Senate Bill S510: Points & Counterpoints
Senate Bill S510, the Food Safety and Modernization Act is being discussed right now amongst senators, advocates and consumers; there are so many good points being made that some should be shared.
Grist has a very intensive series dedicated on the subject of the Act which you can find here.
Further, they have a point and counterpoint discussion with Kathleen Chrismer, a food-safety advocate. The point Ms. Chrismer makes is in regard to the "Tester Amendment" which excludes small farms (under $500mil annually) from the FDA regulations. She says,
"If small producers are not keeping good records of who they sell to, where they sell it, and how much is being sold, then I can see why they operate on slim profit margins. I don't think it will be easier for a small producer to retain an attorney to defend them when a food-borne illness victim's attorney files a complaint in court (followed by all the accompanying paperwork), rather than to have a written plan that shows they are taking the steps necessary to reduce the risk of contamination."
The response to this is simple: the problems don't often occur in small operations in the first place, specifically with farmers who relish the soil in practicing permaculture techniques. And we should be clear: ANY thing one puts into his body puts a person at risk, period. There's no doubt that there is a need to regulate a system that hasn't been updated since 1938; however, to include many small farms as equals to large corporations is like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. If there were already major problems within the small farm communities, then it would be a topic to address. Small farms provide an alternative. If we lose that alternative, our system is no longer one of choice. A system without choice is inherently authoritarian, but can easily lend itself to outright fascism.
The problem is within large farming operations that look at the dollar over the consumer; they look at numbers instead of people; they take shortcuts. Those shortcuts to reduce costs to sell cheaper products in larger quantities. This is the problem. This isn't about letting small farms run amok and do whatever they want. They can't do that anyway because they have to answer personally to their clientele.
If the government treats the small farm equally to the large farm in fines and records, we really can kiss our small farms good-bye. Large farms can absorb the cost and provide a "standard" which may not actually be a real standard of nutrition nor quality which we may receive from our neighbors' urban gardens, community gardens or small, local commercial farms that have reputations to protect.
The anecdotes she discusses were all cases of food borne illness spread by product grown in industrial factory farming. And yes, all farms should follow rules, of course; but to give the FDA the power to shut down small, accountable farms while they're trying to enforce the industrial system is absolutely not the way to do it. Let's first try to just get the big guys to look at their client base as people instead of numbers, and go from there. Food safety is in their best interest, too!
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It looks as though energy efficiency is still a big priority
for municipalities and countries across the globe. We've already detailed energy-efficient LED
lighting efforts put forth by Raleigh, NC. We've also discussed how Australia and the European Union (EU)
plan to get rid of incandescent light bulbs by 2009. The United States is also
moving towards ushering out inefficient lighting with H.R. 1547, which was
published on March 15, 2007.
The bill (PDF),
which was submitted by California representative Jane Harman, indicates that
light bulbs which have an overall luminous efficacy of 60 lumens per watt
(lm/W) will be prohibited by January 1, 2012. The energy requirements get
progressively steeper every four years. On January 1, 2016, the requirement
will grow to 90 lm/W and will reach 120 lm/W by 2020.
A traditional 100W tungsten incandescent light has an
overall luminous efficacy of 17.5 lm/W. A 23W
compact fluorescent (100W equivalent) has an overall luminous efficacy of 60
Exemptions could be made by the Secretary of Energy for
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which the current enacted requirement will have to be adhered to.
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Pollies just trawling for votes over super-sized ship
If a movie director was going to invent a name for the “ship of doom” they’d probably come up with “supertrawler”.
Let’s face it, supertrawler sounds bad. It’s super (and not in the good way) and it “trawls” the ocean rapaciously consuming fish into its vast nets and freezers of doom. When the word “supertrawler” is said out loud it almost deserves its own soundtrack.
But it’s politics that led the Gillard government to turn its trawl of duty from the Netherlands to Australia a wasted journey. Now the government’s legislative response means the same quota of fish can be taken out of Australian waters by smaller, less efficient boats. Their net sizes can be the same. And they can waste fuel and emit greenhouse gases by returning to shore to dump the fish before going out to get extra catch.
Unsurprisingly some scientists are arguing the government’s moves smack of “populism before science”.
Congratulations Environment Minister, Tony Burke. You’ve really chalked up another victory for the environment.
Sadly the government’s reaction fits into a much broader pattern of behavior by our nation’s politicians and their indifference to how legislative action can deliver environmental outcomes.
Take the Federal government’s current progressing of its Illegal Logging Bill.
The point of the Bill is to stop timber illegally felled in other countries from making its way into Australia and being sold as the desk that your computer sits on top of.
The objectives sound admirable on environmental grounds. Illegally logged timber “bad”. Legally logged timber “good”. And in many ways the government’s motivations are right.
But good motivations don’t ensure the policy response attracts the same qualities. Especially when the government’s own advisers concluded an Illegal Logging Bill wouldn’t work.
The Centre for International Economics was commissioned by the Federal government to investigate what any illegal logging law would do.
Their study concluded “0.034 per cent of global timber production, and 0.34 of products incorporating illegally logged timber … [so the Bill] could reduce the global costs of illegal logging by 0.34 per cent … and may not be fully effective in eliminating illegal logging”.
Put more bluntly, a new law won’t stop the small problem but we’ll all feel a warm inner glow.
The problem is it that the Australian timber industry will pay for our good intentions by carrying more cost to prove they’re not illegally logged impacting on their international competitiveness.
Not that illegal logging is alone.
Taxpayer-funded organisations are similarly lobbying the government to make consumer boycotts against palm oil easier.
You know the drill - forests are being converted into agriculture land to grow palm oil in parts of Malaysia and Indonesia. And those palm oil plantations threaten orangutan populations.
So if we legislate to label palm oil on products, consumers can haze products that use it as an ingredient and save the orangutans.
Except, it isn’t that simple.
A recent study published by the New York Academy of Sciences found that there are a range of measures causing orangutan population loss, including farming practices and hunting by those on a subsistence living.
The study identified that ‘singling out a particular industry as the main culprit in this process ignores the contribution from others and is unlikely to lead to lasting solutions’.
Using simplistic measures like consumer boycotts might make ourselves feel better, but it only have a modest impact on addressing the root problem.
Worse, it could have the reverse effect and make it harder for subsistence farmers to survive meaning they convert more forest land for agriculture, not less.
That hasn’t stopped local retailers, like Subway, being targeted to change behavior in the false expectation that it will actually save orangutans.
That outcome wouldn’t be a victory for the environment. Unless a problem that is out of sight, is also out of mind.
Despite the reality of these simplistic campaigns their consequences were largely ignored in Parliamentary hearings into a Bill designed to drive consumer boycotts. Again, the passage of the Bill would have allowed us all to feel good about ourselves, even if it did nothing for the environment.
Businesses are rarely perfect. But in all three cases working with the companies involved seem like a more logical solution to achieving good environmental outcomes.
But as political responses to the supertrawler, palm oil and logging show, facts and evidence only play a small part behind grandstanding politicians who want to be seen to be in favour of the environment – even when there is no environmental benefit at all.
Tim Wilson is Director of the Sustainable Development Project and the IP and Free Trade Unit at the Institute of Public Affairs – www.ipa.org.au.
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We take for granted that we live in a free society. The phrase “it’s a free country” has been repeated so often that it’s become a bottled phrase – a combination of words that are always put together in the same order without being examined on their own. Many could argue, validly, that our society could be a lot more free than it is – we are compelled by government to do a lot of things we don’t agree with, and many actions that do not harm others are still restricted by law. We can make our society much freer.
But, grading on a curve, we live in a free society; a society whose freedom far outstrips several other places. It is important that we safeguard our freedoms (God, I sound like a friggin’ Tea Partier), because it’s really easy to lose them.
Police in Swaziland have arrested about 50 people ahead of protests against sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarchy, activists say. Most of those detained were later freed and hundreds of people marched through Manzini, Swaziland’s commercial centre. Several South Africans trade unionists were prevented from taking part in the march and deported.
I am not going to pretend that I am knowledgeable about the internal struggles of Swaziland (a small country on the northeast border of South Africa, if Google Maps is to be believed). However, I don’t have to be an expert in, or even generally aware of the political situation in any country to recognize tyranny. King Mswati III is clearly a corrupt leader who would rather rule by locking up his opposition than by leading effectively, with the welfare of his people in mind.
I’m happy to criticize Stephen Harper, particularly his attitude toward the media. He runs a government that was elected partially on a platform of accountability and transparency, and yet has been less forthcoming and more obscurantist than his predecessors. However, Mr. Harper does not lock up dissidents or legally punish those who disagree with him (although he certainly tries to punish them, but anyone would). The advantage to the legal system we have here in Canada is that it accurately recognizes and predicts that those who have power will do whatever they can to keep and increase it. Legal clauses are put into place to limit the amount of power an individual politician has, precisely because it is for the benefit of the entire society that corrupt leaders can be removed.
Sri Lankan MPs have approved proposals to let President Mahinda Rajapaksa seek an unlimited number of terms, in a move critics say could lead to dictatorship. The constitutional amendment also hugely boosts the president’s powers… The amendment also empowers him to appoint all the top judges and commissioners for elections, human rights and other affairs, unfettered by any legal veto.
Clearly the kind of foresight the framers of Canadian law had is not enjoyed by the members of Parliament in Sri Lanka. This move is so backward and nonsensical it’s tempting to think it’s a big joke being played on the rest of the world. While countries like Kenya are making positive steps to decentralize power from potentially (and historically) corrupt governments, Sri Lanka has made the decision to run screaming back into the past.
I now have more sympathy for the Tamils who are fleeing the country to come to Canada. If the Canadian parliament passed such a measure with such overwhelming support from even the opposition, I’d be on the first fishing trawler out of here. Apparently Europe is going to be overrun by niggers anyway, what’s one more?
A prominent human rights lawyer in Iran, Nasrin Sotoudeh, has been detained by the authorities. She is accused of spreading propaganda and conspiring to harm state security, her lawyer has said. Ms Sotoudeh has represented Iranian opposition activists and politicians, and prisoners sentenced to death for crimes committed when they were under the age of 18.
Pointing out the corruption and complete lack of human decency present in the Iranian regime is so easy as to almost not be worth the time it takes to write it down, but I thought it was relevant to point this story out, considering the topic of this post.
Tyranny is not the drunken, half-cocked fantasy of overzealous libertarians. It still exists in many places in the world, and when it begins to encroach on our rights (does anyone remember the G8/G20?), we have to speak up. I have a great deal more confidence in our system than these other places though – our laws were designed to protect us from this exact thing from happening.
It may also be worthwhile noting that despite all the abuse I heap on the religious, none of the three above stories have anything to do with religion. These are the kinds of threats that could still happen in our post-religion secular socialist utopia. Sometimes we have to protect ourselves from ourselves.
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Postal Archaeology - Part One
This project was managed by Paul Belford. Fieldwork was undertaken by Emma Dwyer and Simon Roper and the report was written by Emma Dwyer. A copy of this report and all photographs will be archived with Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust.
Photo 1 - The parcel, as it arrived in the Ironbridge Archaeology office
On the 15th December 2005 Ironbridge Archaeology undertook an archaeological excavation of a parcel received at the Ironbridge Archaeology offices, on the above date. The parcel was most recently located at Ordnance Survey Grid Reference SJ 6675 0475.
Ironbridge Archaeology decided to undertake stratigraphic excavation of the parcel in order to better understand its origins and the nature of its contents.
The most suitable method of excavation of the parcel was considered to be by scalpel. The primary record comprised an extensive series of digital photos taken with a 5 mega-pixel digital camera; this was used to record the process of excavation and any archaeological features and artefacts encountered during this process. All features were assigned context numbers and would have been recorded on pro-forma recording sheets and field drawings at 1:10/1:20 scale on drawing film if we'd been bothered.
The results can be split into two parts.
a) Recording of the external features of the parcel, and its opening, followed by
b) Recording of the contents.
The first two layers to be recorded were an adhesive label, on which the address of the archaeology unit was printed <1001> and a clear cellophane envelope on which was printed 'Documents Enclosed' <1002>. Contained within <1002> was a white sheet of paper <1003> measuring 297x210mm; comparison with similar artefacts held within the Ironbridge Gorge Museum suggested that this served the function of a dispatch note.
Photo 2 - The dispatch note
Contexts <1001> and <1002> were both overlying a layer of clear sellotape (1004) which in turn overlay brown parcel tape (1006) the cardboard box <1008> and an adhesive paper label attributing the contents of the box to a manufacturing establishment in California <1005>. Beneath the sellotape (1004) but overlying the brown parcel tape (1006) and cardboard box <1008> another adhesive paper label gave the address of a delivery depot in Daventry.
Photo 3 - Simon begins excavation
The decision was taken to access the deposits within the box directly, as the stratigraphic relationship between the features on the exterior of the box had been straightforward to ascertain, and did not warrant further investigation.
Photo 4 - The contents of the parcel in situ
Photo 5 - The assemblage
Examination of deposit (1009) revealed some exciting new illustration software (hurrah!). The software had travelled from where it was manufactured in California, all the way to Shropshire...via Daventry. On contacting the museum IT department it transpired that we were not the intended recipients of the parcel (oh).
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Two days ago, I had the pleasure of experiencing a great opportunity to get into a private university: the University of Tampa’s Automatic Admissions Day. It is on this day that representatives from the university would come to various high schools and evaluate the students to measure if they are worth being admitted into the University of Tampa.
Although nervous, I took note of what was going on mentally to portray to the public what it is like to be a part of this.
In preparation, one was to complete an application on UT’s website. Like any application, one was required to send in SAT or ACT scores to the admission’s office, as well as their transcript. Of course, considering Automatic Admissions Day is done at the high schools, the school will have your transcript on file and you will not have to prepare that yourself.
With signing up for this “interview,” one is also told that the application and essay both have waivers on them. This means that the whole opportunity was free and not even slightly time consuming.
The representatives, of course, will greet you and then begin to review your SAT/ACT scores. They will ask you simple questions based on your conduct. It is not that if you have been arrested, for example, that you necessarily will not get in, but they must ask to ensure that you would be a prime student for their school and also that you would regard other’s safety.
Then, the heart-stopping result would come from the representative’s mouth. The setting is a little impersonal, as other students are sitting around you, awaiting their turn to talk with the representative. Because of this impersonal setting, the representatives will not say no as an answer. Instead, they will tell you what you can do to improve your probability of acceptance into the school.
For example, I overheard another student being told that he should send in his updated SAT/ACT scores as soon as possible. It is not necessarily embarrassing, however, they do offer you other chances to get into the school.
Please note that although one may be told they need improvement in aspects of their application, that does not mean that their chances have been shot down.
If they say yes, then they will congratulate you and let you know as to what scholarships you are eligible for. They will hand you a folder, with a letter inside that will claim that after some time is given to process, your admission status will become “accepted” on your UT account.
You then have several months to decide whether or not you would like to attend the University of Tampa.
What a great experience this was! Not only were the benefits entirely free, the participants had to do barely any work. If you are interested in the University of Tampa’s Automatic Admissions Day, feel free to contact your school’s counselors or career advisors. I’m sure they’d be obliged to help in your path for your future.
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They listened to the powerful messages from the classmates they would no longer pass in the hall: Use opportunities; value education; nurture individualism.
They smiled and held up their diplomas as they passed so that their parents, friends and relatives -- who pushed forward in the bleachers armed with cameras -- could snap away.
They even performed the wave.
But perhaps the meaning of last night's graduation was captured the simplest by one young man who waved his diploma and shouted "I did it, I did it" as he walked off the stage at the Stabler Arena on the Lehigh University campus in Bethlehem.
More than 470 students -- the 1993 graduating class of Allen High School -- did it last night. They graduated.
In what may be a first for Allen High School, and at the least is a rarity, two sisters --Irene Ng and Jennifer Ng -- shared the honor of valedictorian.
"Was there any sibling rivalry?" Principal Louis DeLorenzo asked as he introduced them.
Irene Ng, who has appeared in the soap opera "All My Children" and is playing a feature role in the Oliver Stone movie "Heaven and Earth," encouraged classmates to draw on the nation's diversity.
"We, the younger generation of America, must not only learn to tolerate our neighbor, who may come from a different background, but also to make him our friend," said Ng, who will attend Harvard University and major in biochemistry and economics.
Jennifer Ng, who has a list of school accomplishments as long as her sister's, said she was reluctant to leave southeast Asia when her family decided to move to the United States five years ago. But now she said she is grateful for her experiences in the American education system, although she believes it needs to improve.
"My parents did in fact make a very wise decision," said Jennifer Ng, who will study chemical engineering at Cornell University. "I've benefited a great deal from both the Asian and the American educational system. From my ... heritage, I acquired the traits of diligence, discipline and effort. And in American schools, I learned liberalism, individualism and innovation."
But American schools need to lower the dropout rate and increase the number of days of school, she said, noting that students in other countries attend classes as many as 60 days longer than American students.
In a sharply worded speech, Patricia Larash, the class's salutatorian, said students should cultivate their individualism, set goals and conquer them. She also fired at the concept of self-esteem, saying that society wrongly is sending the message that everything is OK as long as people feel good about themselves.
"Life is not a spectator's sport," said Larash, who was a semifinalist in this year's teen "Jeopardy" contest. "You are the players. Don't spend your whole life on the bench."
She also said people of different cultural backgrounds should not waste time acting like victims but should rely on their strengths.
"Identifying yourself as a victim implies that you have no other qualities that deserve recognition," said Larash, who will attend Harvard University. "Change this. Draw attention to your talents, to your accomplishments, to your character."
From class president Jerry Scheirer, graduates got a mix of humor and seriousness. Scheirer thanked Irene Ng and another class officer for letting him copy their homework the last four years.
Scheirer advised the graduates to make good use of their time, and he tapped on their social conscience.
"Every moment is a great opportunity to do something good. But how many people actually do?" he asked.
He attacked apathy and asked why society has struggled with the same problems for generations.
"Everybody wants to help the homeless," he said. "How many people have actually gone out and delivered food to a homeless shelter? I know I'm at fault, too."
Students could have accomplished more and helped others better during their four years at Allen, but "don't let that happen with the rest of your life," he said.
"There's going to be many obstacles in your way...," he said. "But you know what would be the saddest thing of all? The saddest thing would be if you were your own obstacle, if you didn't get what you wanted out of life simply because you didn't try."
Also last night, the school presented its annual distinguished alumni award to Deborah Heiligman, a 1976 graduate who writes children's books. She's a resident of Bucks County.
Graduate Holly Wilde, president of the Student Government Association, also spoke, and graduate Eunice Rodriguez led recognition of the foreign exchange student graduates and Lehigh County Vocational-Technical School graduates.
The following students received awards:
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FIGURE S-1 Dietary reference intakes. This figure shows that the Estimated Average Requirement (EAR) is the intake at which the risk of inadequacy is 0.5 (50%) to an individual. The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) is the intake at which the risk of inadequacy is very small —only 0.02 to 0.03 (2% to 3%). The Adequate Intake (AI) does not bear a consistent relationship to the EAR or the RDA because it is set without being able to estimate the average requirement. It is assumed that the AI is at or above the RDA if one could be calculated. At intakes between the RDA and the Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL), the risks of inadequacy and of excess are both close to 0. At intakes above the UL, the risk of adverse effects may increase.
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[mythtv-users] OT: large file transfer inturruption/recover
dylan.semler at gmail.com
Tue May 23 03:07:38 UTC 2006
On 5/22/06, Graham Wood <mythtv-users at spam.dragonhold.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 01:11:43PM -0400, Dylan Semler wrote:
> > Why is it so important to use ssh underneath? Can I verify that passing
> > ssh to the rsync command is sufficient to tunnel it through ssh?
> The other options are rsyncd and rsh.
> rsyncd means running another daemon on the server which is visible to the
> net (or at least
> the machines you want to be able to access it). This is both a security
> risk (another
> possible attack vector) and unnecessary load on the server *grin*
> rsh transmits usernames/passwords in clear text.
> You can do a "ps -ef" on each end, and check to make sure that the two
> ends have ssh
> processes linked to the rsync ones. On the server you should see an sshd
> running as you
> (IIRC) that has rsync as a child process.
> On the client you should see an ssh process as a child of the rsync. You
> can also check
> open ports between the two servers to make sure that the connection is on
> port 22.
Great, thanks for the help
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A Way To Find Enjoyment
At one time, Bangkok television aired the American situation comedy
LaVerne and Shirley. For whatever reason, officials there believed
that a disclaimer was necessary for the Thailand audience, so this
subtitle was added to each show: "The two women depicted in the
following episode are from an insane asylum."
Personally, I'm thankful there is a little silliness in the world.
And I don't mind not acting like everybody else. Like the
"irrepressible" educator and speaker Leo Buscaglia once said: "I don't
mind if people think I'm crazy. In fact, I think it's great! It
gives me tremendous latitude for behavior."
Buscaglia knew how to laugh. And I think knowing how to laugh and
have fun is an important part of living.
Someone asked me what I do for fun. I felt I should answer with
something others enjoy, like golf or skiing. But my idea of fun is
not usually associated with entertainment and recreation. It is more
about squeezing as much enjoyment into every day as I can. Instead
of looking for something fun to do, I try to make whatever I do a
little more fun. And if I can't always do things I enjoy, I can
learn to enjoy more of the things I do.
I like the word "enjoyment" because it has "joy" inside of it. So
does the word "rejoice." And rejoicing is a way to find enjoyment of
Speaking of Leo Buscaglia, he used to tell a story about his mother
and their "misery dinner." It was the night after his father came
home and said it looked as if he would have to go into bankruptcy
because his partner had absconded with their firm's funds. His
mother's response was to sell some of her jewelry to buy food enough
for a grand feast. At first, other members of the family scolded her
for it. But she told them that "the time for joy is now, when we
need it most, not next week." They learned to appreciate the hopeful
attitude that lifted them out of fear and into joy.
I want to learn to be happy even in those difficult and trying
times. I won't be happy FOR them (who likes problems?), just IN
them. I need the soothing medicine of laughter when it hurts. I want
to learn that the time for joy is now, when I need it most.
Maybe it sounds silly, but I want to learn to rejoice in all things.
And If I'm doing that well, it really doesn't matter what I like to
do for fun.
~ Steve Goodier ~
[ by: Steve Goodier -- Copyright © 2010 -- from Steve Goodier (LifeSupport@yahoogroups.com) ]
All Rights Reserved.
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Growing up in a racist family, John Miller only knew about blacks from the pictures on television and what his parents told him. In his entire sixteen years of life, he had only seen one black person in downtown Butte, Montana; and that was when he was eight.
One morning, John woke up and found himself in a strange bed and in a strange room. Getting up, John roamed through a house that was run down and very old. Passing by a mirror, he saw the same tanned face; but something was different - he had a 1950's style haircut. It didn't bother him, but he normally had his hair hanging over his face and a bowl haircut.
Going into the kitchen, John went to the cupboard and found some cornflakes. On his way back to the table, John found a calendar that had the date: September 10, 1957. John said out loud, "What on earth am I doing here?"
After eating breakfast, John went outside to get to his car and head for school. He noticed the house was on the edge of a cotton field. In the field, John saw his parents with some other people picking cotton; but what was really unusual to John was that a tall, black man was watching over them with a shotgun. He found his car, a 1957 blue Chevrolet Bel-Air, climbed in, and left. The black man yelled, "That boy has stolen my Chevy! When he gets back, he'll get the whippin' of his life!"
Arriving in town, John saw hundreds of black people, but hardly a single white person. His parents had told him how to talk to blacks, so he yelled racial slurs at them; they yelled the same taunts back at him, and threatened to call the police. John stopped his car at an ice cream shop. On the way, he was stared at by many black people; he felt so self-conscious that he didn't notice a sign that said, "NO WHITES ALLOWED."
Sitting down at a table, people got up and left the vicinity he was in. A man came up to him and said, "Boy, didn't you see a sign that said your kind ain't allowed? Get out of here before I call the police."
"What gives you the right to tell me what to do? I've been told blacks don't deserve to be here, so why don't you leave?" John sarcastically said.
Angry, the man slapped John in the face with the back of his hand and said, "Now, are you gonna' get out of here, or do you want more?"
"No, sir." John hurriedly left the ice cream shop.
Outside, a black and white Butte police car stopped behind John's Chevrolet as John was getting in. The two black police officers came around the car on opposite sides. The one next to the driver's side, Lieutenant Bowen, asked, "So, what is a poor white boy doing with a fine machine like this?"
"For your information, officer, this is my car. I also have rights that are protected by the United States Constitution, so you can't hurt me."
"Is that so? Pehrson, do you think this boy is a little too smart for his color?"
"Yes, as a matter of fact, I do. I say we should teach him a valuable lesson. He should learn never to talk back to his superiors. Lieutenant, let's do what we do best," Pehrson said.
Taking out billy clubs, the officers started beating the chrome-finished Chevy. The car was dented so badly it didn't look like the same car. John, terrified, got out of the car and faced Lieutenant Bowen. Before Bowen hit John, John punched the Lieutenant in the stomach hard enough to make the policeman fall over in pain.
Taking the opportunity, John grabbed Bowen's gun, then backed away towards the police car and said, "Lieutenant Pehrson, if you value your life, then don't move until I get safely away in your car...."
Before getting through an intersection, John heard a shotgun blast from fifty feet behind him; two other police cars were chasing him! The first blast took out the back window; the next blast blew out the cars' back tires. Going about 60 miles an hour, John spun out of control, crashing into an Oldsmobile. His last thoughts were, "I really wish I hadn't been racist. Now, I know how it feels to be on the other end. I wish I was home!"
Before the cars exploded, John woke up screaming and sweating. His parents rushed into his room, and his dad asked, "What happened, John?"
"I had a dream about the 1950's, except we, the white people, were the ones that were targets of racism, while blacks treated us just as badly as we treated them."
"That's weird! Your mom and I had the same dream."
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Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
The newest campaign from vegan advocacy group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine targets dairy in school lunches.
The newest campaign from vegan advocacy group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine targets dairy in school lunches. Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Forget the school vending machine fights. An anti-cheese group says that innocent-looking carton of milk on lunch trays is the real culprit for our children's weight woes.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit group known for bucking conventional nutrition wisdom, advocates for vegan alternatives to dairy. Earlier this year, it unleashed a campaign against milk-based products, showing people grabbing their excess fat and attributing the weight to cheese. Some folks called the campaign "obnoxious and offensive," but with the latest ad tactic, the group seems to have toned things down a bit.
This time, PCRM is using wholesome-looking families to target school lunches. It wants to replace calcium supplied by milk (popularized for children's diets in order to stave off rickets) with beans, sweet potatoes and figs. Its latest initiative, just launched in the Washington, D.C., metro area, charges milk with unnecessarily upping the saturated fat content of student diets.
PCRM's "Let's Really Move" theme riffs off of first lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign to end childhood obesity. It features kids like Sarah, from Georgia, pictured on a poster saying, "Let's move cheese out of my school lunch."
Neal Barnard, who founded PCRM in 1985, says the group wants schools to provide more beverage options to children and eventually abolish milk from schools altogether.
"The milk requirement is entirely cultural and business-based, and it has nothing to do with health," Barnard says. "The dairy industry is an extremely powerful lobby. And parents and kids think it's normal to drink milk. But it's not biologically normal; it's just culturally normal."
In fact, milk has been a nutritional requirement of the National School Lunch Program since the program was founded in 1946, although students can opt out of receiving a carton of milk on their lunch tray with a medical exemption. And cheese products are frequent flyers, too, as a cheap source of protein. Think about how often cheese pizza and grilled cheese sandwiches show up on the menu.
Turns out pizza is the second greatest source of calories consumed by children aged 2 through 18, according to the USDA. No. 1 source of calories? Grain-based desserts; and that's true for all age groups.
For its part, the National Dairy Council says Americans aren't getting enough milk, and dismisses the PCRM campaign as a publicity stunt. "They would love to see milk banned because they're an animal rights group and they want everyone to switch to a vegan diet," council spokesman Greg Miller tells The Salt. He says dairy is a cheaper and better-tasting way of getting nutrients into school lunches, adding that under the PCRM proposal, "kids are going to have to eat a lot of broccoli; they're going to have to eat a lot of kale. I don't know about you, but my kids are not big on kale."
This isn't the first time that milk's star billing on the school lunch tray has been challenged. Questions were raised about milk's fat content during the school lunch program overhaul in 2010, but it ultimately stayed on the revamped school lunch menus, primarily in its nonfat iteration.
Still, with an upsurge in the popularity of diets that eschew dairy and millions of Americans battling their bulge, PCRM's message may find some sympathetic ears.
Or maybe it'll have to wait until vegan cheese really does taste like cheese.
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In The Scandal of Evangelical Politics, Ronald J. Sider attempts to construct a methodology for evangelical Christians to participate faithfully in the political process. His construct is a backlash—to a degree—of the political monopolization of the religious right and its influence in politics. The book is a response to past evangelical involvement, which Sider sees as largely being a failure and highly contradictory. And while his methodology does not necessarily contradict any political goals of Christian conservatives, and is in fact in agreement with many, he wants to encourage greater biblical integrity and sound thinking.
Sider, for example, cites former senator Jesse Helms as an example of someone who brings faith into politics with improper or little theological reflection. Sider praises Helms for standing up for the unborn, then admonishes him by wondering how he supported the interests of tobacco. Sider then proceeds to say that Helms was not really a friend of the pro-life movement after all. Conservative figures are generally the ones cited in the book as examples of straying from a biblically faithful mandate. Sider quotes prominent Christian author Tim LaHaye, who declared, “The only way to have genuine spiritual revival is to have legislative reform.” But ironically one of the book’s endorsers, Jim Wallis of Sojourners, likens his own call for big government to a spiritual revival.
One of the strengths of Sider’s book is that he draws from a deep and diverse well of Christian tradition. Sider cites and discusses the importance of Catholic social teaching, the Reformed tradition, Lutherans, Wesleyans, and Anabaptists. Part of the design of his book is to construct a methodology that is unique to evangelicals. Sider says evangelicals have not developed anything that rivals the depth of Catholic social thinking, or the writings of Reinhold Niebuhr, which have been so influential for mainline Protestants.
There is certainly a great understanding that freedom, both religious and political, is much more pronounced in market economies. “On balance, a market economy respects human freedom better, creates wealth more efficiently, and tends to be better at reducing poverty,” says Sider. There is also a balance in his praise of free markets with a warning that “market economies tend to produce a consumeristic materialism that promotes devastating cultural decay," and cites the United States, United Kingdom, and China as countries that are becoming more unequal in the distribution of wealth. If there is one critique here it may be an overly optimistic belief that government intervention and regulation of the economy can fairly correct injustices.
Another key quality stressed by Sider is the importance of limiting the power of the state and the emphasis on space for human freedom to flourish as God intended. He even quotes Lord Acton’s popular dictum, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Sider understands the family and church is the proper segment to serve and assist those in need. “Any policy or political philosophy that immediately seeks state solutions for problems that could be solved just as well or better at the level of family violates the biblical framework that stresses the central societal role of the family,” says Sider. At the same time, he argues that sin and other variables call for state involvement and a repairing of community to correct injustices. And although Sider supports measures like state involvement for minimum wage laws, he thoroughly stresses limiting state power. “Only if the power of the state is significantly limited is there hope of avoiding gross evil on the part of the state,” says Sider.
The Scandal of Evangelical Politics also articulates the importance of traditional Christian teaching on marriage and human sexuality. Additionally, there is continued emphasis on parenthood and the family as being responsible for the love and care of children. Tax policies that favor marriage and discourage divorce are preferred.
Sider’s critique of Christian conservatives at times, calls for more distinguished thought. Ultimately, Sider’s methodological construct is a valuable source material for evangelically minded Christians. The book’s call for a “Biblically balanced political agenda” over and against narrow understandings committed solely to single issues is a worthy calling. The understanding that political involvement or action will never build a utopia and the additional emphasis of the need for limited state power is highly beneficial.
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RALEIGH, N.C. — Signs at the entrance gate explain the rules for visitors at the Franklin Correctional Center, but those rules are changing because state prison officials claim some visitors are not playing by the rules.
"We did some research and determined that some of the contraband that the inmates had was coming in through visitation," said Dennis Roland, of the state Division of Prisons.
In recent years, the prisoners have decided who they get to see. The state will now encourage prison superintendents to enforce an old rule that keeps the gate closed to anyone with a prior criminal record. In addition, children under 16 years of age will have to have a birth certificate to enter.
"That's really to make sure we know who it is coming in and we can also verify the age to make sure they are really a minor," Roland said.
Prison officials said they are out to better protect visiting children.
"We have inmates that, based on their crime, may not be around kids. I mean there could be a victim that some people might try to bring in and visit an inmate and we want to make sure that didn't happen," Roland said.
Ed Privette, with Prison Fellowship Ministries, understands what the state is trying to do, but he is concerned tougher visitation rules will destroy family bonds at a time when they are needed most.
"More than anything else, [it] helps break the cycle of crime," Privette said.
Civil rights advocates are considering a legal challenge to the new rules on the grounds they may infringe on visitors' rights. The prison visitation rules are scheduled to go into effect at the end of May.
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This analog computer can multiply, divide, square numbers, and find square roots. It has a maximum result of ten billion with an average precision of 2-3%. [Miroslav's] build recreates something he saw in a Popular Electronics magazine. It uses a resistor network made up of three potentiometers with a digital multimeter is an integral part of the machine. To multiply a number you set the needles on the first two knobs to the numbers on which you are operating. To find the result turn the third knob until the multimeter has been zeroed out and read the value that knob is pointing to. It seems much more simple than some of the discrete logic computers we’ve seen, yet it’s just as interesting.
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So I guess in the case of the alkali metals, since they have fewer valence electrons, they require fewer closest neighbors when forming metallic bonds? For the transition elements, is the same true that since they have a greater number of valence electrons, they require the maximum number of closest neighbors?
Also can these calculations you describe explain the structures of alloys? Can they explain precipitation reactions? Are these calculations based on QM?
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Global fields of mean lower-tropospheric temperature are derived from channel-2R of the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) flown aboard the NOAA series of polar-orbiting satellites (Spencer et al. 1990). Most of the earth is sampled twice daily from each of two MSU instruments flying concurrently on different satellites. The MSU data record began in 1979 and has continued uninterrupted since that time. During 1997, the annual-mean global lower-tropospheric temperature from the MSU (Fig. 5) was slightly below the 1979-95 base period mean (0.15°C). This value is the seventh coldest in the 19-yr record, and is comparable to that observed in 1996. The MSU-derived temperatures have averaged below the 17-yr average in five of the past six years. During this 6-yr period temperatures averaged 0.2-0.4°C below the warmer period of 1987-1991. Note that the very low temperatures recorded by the MSU instruments in 1992 and 1993 were strongly influenced by the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in June 1991. [In previous annual climate assessments lower-tropospheric temperatures derived from the MSU have been compared to estimates obtained from the global radiosonde network (e.g., Halpert and Bell 1997). However, radiosonde estimates for 1997 were unavailable for this Assessment.]
The regional patterns of lowertropospheric temperature anomalies show marked differences between the first and second halves of the year (Fig. 6). In the Tropics and subtropics, colder than normal conditions prevailed during January-June (Fig. 6a ), partly in association with a continuation of weak Pacific cold episode conditions into early 1997. In contrast, tropical temperatures were generally above-normal during July-December (Fig. 6b), and below-normal temperatures were primarily confined to Africa. During this period the largest positive anomalies were found over the eastern half of the Pacific Ocean in association with an El Niño-related extension of deep tropical convection to well east of the date line (see section 3a, Figs. 26c, d). This warmth is thermodynamically consistent with another well-known El Niño-related feature: subtropical anticyclonic circulation anomalies at upper levels of both hemispheres, flanking the region of enhanced tropical convection.
The July-December period also featured an eastward extension of abnormally warm temperatures to the northern half of South America and the tropical North Atlantic. This warmth was partly a result of advective processes, and in the Amazonian region was also the result of anomalous sinking motion in association with a weaker-than-normal upper-level anticyclonic circulation (see section 3a, Figs 27c, d).
In the extratropics, the January-June period featured below-normal temperatures over most of both hemispheres, with positive anomalies confined to western Europe, central and eastern Asia, the eastern North Atlantic and the high latitudes of the South Atlantic and South Indian oceans (Fig. 6a). In Eurasia, the pattern of abnormally warm temperatures over central Russia and colder-than-normal conditions over northern Europe was also evident in the seasonal surface temperature and snow cover fields (see section 5, Figs. 67, 69 , and 19a, b). These conditions were associated with an anomalous atmospheric circulation, characterized by a pronounced upper-level trough throughout western Russia and broad southwesterly flow farther downstream (see section 5, Figs. 68, 70).
In the Pacific/ North America region, the pattern of below-normal lowertroposphere temperatures throughout Canada and the northern tier of the United States, and above-normal temperatures over the high latitudes of the North Pacific, reflected recurring high-latitude blocking over the central North Pacific. This blocking pattern contributed to increased storminess and a series of major cold-air outbreaks across central North America. In contrast, the July-December period featured abnormally warm temperatures throughout Canada, and abnormally cool conditions across most of the United States (Fig. 6b). These differences in temperature between the first and second halves of the year are consistent with the transition from Pacific cold to warm episode conditions.
Over the North Atlantic, lower-tropospheric temperatures during July-December were abnormally warm at high latitudes and in the subtropics, and close to normal in the middle latitudes. These conditions reflected recurring high latitude blocking activity during the period, and an overall southward shift of the main belt of westerlies to the central North Atlantic (see section 5, Figs. 72, 74 ). These circulation features are consistent with a recurring negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), especially during October-December. Farther east, temperatures were generally below-normal across southeastern Europe during the period, in association with a persistent upper-level trough across the region. This trough was associated with an eastward extension of enhanced geostrophic westerlies across southern and central Europe, which contributed to increased storminess and above-normal rainfall throughout the region (see section 4d).
In the Southern Hemisphere extratropics, one of the most prominent features during July-December was persistent below-normal lowertropospheric temperatures across the central latitudes of the South Pacific. This pattern is consistent with the presence of strong El Niño conditions throughout the period and, in combination with abnormally warm temperatures in the subtropics, was associated with a pronounced eastward extension of the South Pacific jet stream to well east of the date line [see section 3a(4)]. Farther south, above-normal temperatures covered the high latitudes of the eastern South Pacific during the period, in association with a persistent pattern of above-normal heights and recurring blocking activity. Increased cool-season blocking activity is also favored in this region during strong Pacific warm episodes (Karoly 1989).
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A 48-year-old beneficiary of the Islamic Relief loan scheme in Pakistan has been awarded a micro entrepreneurship award by Citi Bank and the Pakistan Poverty alleviation fund.
Mian Riaz was presented with the award for his work with street children, the unemployed and poor women. Riaz runs two schools as well as a vocational training centre. His success is down to the loans he obtained from Islamic Relief and investing them in his education scheme. To ensure that everyone gets an equal chance at education Riaz relaxes fees, his policy on uniforms and even provides free books for those attending his schools.
In his local area Riaz has worked endlessly to try and convince parents to send their children to school rather than go out onto the streets to beg. He has even reached out to women who beg by providing them with vocational education. He is trying to assist the women further by attempting to gain support for small business development which would enable the women to establish their own micro-enterprises.
Riaz came through a very competitive selection process to win the award which looked at people from across the country. Ms. Hina Rabbani Khar, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs spoke at the awards ceremony and acknowledged Islamic Relief’s efforts in microfinance as one of the tools to help eradicate poverty and strengthening communities and individuals.
Mr. Fadlullah Wilmot, Country Director of Islamic Relief, said: “This award is recognition of the dedication of Islamic Relief’s work to use microfinance as one of the tools to eliminate poverty as well as empowering communities”.
Poverty continues to be one of Pakistan’s most pressing and chronic problems. The poorest households spend at least 70% of their income on food – having stark consequences for their ability to afford health and education services. A range of conventional micro-finance schemes operate in Pakistan, but many drive poor people further under with their interest charges.
We have been helping families in the urban slums of Punjab and Islamabad for 10 years. Our Islamic micro-finance project provides interest-free loans so that entrepreneurs can earn a living. With these small loans, some of Pakistan’s most vulnerable people can get started on their own small enterprise, or even expand their business. This programme has provided close to half-a-million pounds in loans to over 3000 families for micro businesses, benefitting more than 20,000 individuals.
If you would like to see more success stories like Mian Riaz’s and help Islamic Relief to bring positive change in some of the world's most vulnerable communities, then please donate today.
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National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) are work based qualifications that are achieved through assessment and training. There are no examinations.
To achieve an NVQ, you must prove that you have the ability to carry out your job to the required standard. NVQs are based on National Occupational Standards that describe the competencies expected in any given job role. Typically, you will work towards an NVQ that reflects your role in a paid or voluntary position. For example someone working in an administrative office role may take an NVQ in Business and Administration. However, the Occupational Standards are generic and the NVQ Level 3 is made up of IT, Accounts, Customer Service and Secretarial Units making a flexible qualification to fit most job roles.
There are five Levels of NVQ ranging from Level 1, with the emphasis on basic work activities, to Level 5 for senior management.
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Can you imagine having a place for people to come and pay to cry? Well, according to the following report, there is something called a “cry bar” that was founded in Nanjing, China. I think this is a brilliant idea, especially because it might just be a way to remove some of the taboos of crying and public displays of grief.
By Josh Graves
Published July 01, 2012
A new kind of niche bar in Asia might surprise you; it’s called a “cry bar.” A “cry bar” is a bar with some sofas, a few tables, and lots and lots of tissues where people can pay $6 an hour to come in, sit, and cry. Owner Luo Jun in the Chinese port city of Nanjing said he opened the bar when clients from a previous business confessed a desire to cry but didn’t know when or where it would be appropriate to do so.
How many bars in the U.S. fill the same purpose? People gathering to mourn, staring down a bottle in silence and grief (This is partly what all the drinking on Mad Men is about, in my estimation).
And we don’t even know what’s happening. Drowning in sorrow. And unaware.
Numb. Mourning inside to the depths of our bones.
Scientists can detect a substantive difference between tears that come from common experience (onions) and the tears of raw emotion. Literally, tears are cleansing to the soul. What soap does for the body, tears do for the soul. Sacred Hebrew and Christian scriptures attest to this. Psalm 56:8 tells us that God desires to record every tear we shed. For when we are so sad that we are moved to tears, the very action of crying is comforting. So Paul writes in 2 Cor. 2:4 “For I wrote to you out of great distress and anguish of heart with my many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you.” Paul’s tears were from the deep places of mourning in his own heart.
You’re served divorce papers. You had no idea this was coming.
The doctor says, “We tried everything within our power. I’m sorry we couldn’t save her.”
Your boss informs you, “We’re going in a different direction.”
Mourning—the deliberate grieving, crying, processing, and sharing of shame, pain, and loss—is the means by which we curiously take on the strength of that which we overcome.
Mourning isn’t magic. Grieving isn’t a formula. But it is the way we continue to walk forward, even if we walk with a limp. Therapist Jennifer Dawn Watts notes, “True depression doesn’t come as a result of grieving. Most often grieving heals, whereas depression keeps us stuck. It’s grief avoidance.”
If you’re stuck in a moment, reach out to someone. Call your best friend. E-mail your rabbi or priest. Reach out to someone you trust. In the words of recent “American Idol winner” (theologians come in surprising forms) Phillip Phillips, “Settle down, it’ll all be clear. Don’t pay no mind to the demons they fill you with fear. The trouble it might drag you down. If you get lost, you can always be found. Just know you’re not alone.”
Tears might be the first sign of new life, new possibilities. Mourn Deeply. Grieve on.
Dr. Josh Graves is a minister and writer. You can read his blog @ http://www.joshugraves.com or follow him on Twitter @joshgraves . His next book, “Heaven on Earth” (Abingdon with Chris Seidman) comes out in December.
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A lathe is a machine tool for producing cylindrical, conical and flat surfaces. It can be used for drilling and boring holes which may be cylindrical or conical in shape. The basic engine lathe, one of the most widely used machine tools is very versatile when used by a skilled machinist. However, it is not particularly efficient when many identical parts must be machined as rapidly as possible. Numerical control is based on the use of numerical data for directly controlling the position of the operative units of a machine tool in machine operation. Today, a more popular adaptation of the basic process of NC is called Computer Numerical Control or CNC .
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Computerized Numerical Control (CNC) machining technology is a mouthful, but it is also fascinating by using computers to create metal parts and products for equipment and machines. In more simple terms, it is high-tech machining technology. Machining and metalworking have been developed with computer technology. More efficiency output operations with even greater precision resulted from this marriage of machining and computers. In this technology, the hydraulic system is extensively used to control the process and drive the machines. So, most of conventional lathe machine are currently converted to CNC lathe machine. The hydraulic circuit is very important for controlling the hydraulic system and describes the functional structure of the hydraulic system.
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Title: The Song of Achilles
Author: Madeline Miller
Published: Harper Collins, 2012
Where I Got It: This book was sent to me by the publisher for review.
I'm really not even sure where to begin with this review. As many of you know, I am a major fan of the classics. But a lot of them really intimidate me. Especially the Greeks. A few blogs I personally follow recently read The Iliad and The Odyssey and I really wanted to read them, but I was really scared. Then the opportunity to review this book, which is a modern retelling of The Iliad, came up. Needless to say I jumped on it and I am so glad that I did.
This book tells the story of The Iliad in novel form, which makes it incredibly accessible to readers who are unfamiliar with Homer or are just intimidated by it. Naturally, Miller had to take some creative license, but she did the research to make sure that she was at least in the spirit of the story. Miller chose to tell the story from the perspective of Patroclus, who was Achilles companion/lover. Patroclus was a very minor character in the original, so this was a very interesting choice for narrator, but I think it was spot on for telling a greater story about Achilles from someone very close to him.
The story starts off with Patroclus as a young boy witnessing the ceremony in which Helen (the face that launched a thousand ships) became betrothed to Menelaus. One thing leads to another and Patroclus finds himself in Phthia, where he soon meets young Achilles. They soon become companions. Then they become more than companions. Achilles's mother, Thetis, a sea-nymph, does not like Patroclus one bit. Achilles goes off for training and Patroclus soon follows. Eventually they find themselves called upon to fight in the war once Paris and Helen sneak off to Troy. Miller does a good job of developing life in the Greek camps on the island of Troy, but does not get bogged down in the fact that ten years pass while they're on the island. Then there are a few climactic battle scenes and the war ends.
I thought this book was exquisitely done. Miller's choice of Patroclus as the narrator was perfect. Because he is such a minor character in The Iliad, she was able to fully develop his personality. As Achilles's lover, Patroclus was able to give the reader a more human look at one of the most famous heroes of all time. The prospect of becoming a hero for all time surely changes a person, right? Right. And Patroclus is able to be sympathetic but also able to call it like he sees it when Achilles gets out of hand. Miller develops this dynamic into something of a beautiful love story of two individuals who truly and purely appreciate each other, a facet of the story that stands out very strongly in my mind.
Bottom Line: I highly recommend this book for people who are intimidated by Homer and are looking for an introduction before diving right in; for people who are looking for a good love story with a fair bit of action and adventure; and for people who really liked Homer and want something else.
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Three months after joining the YMCA and working out three times a week, Udona Love was curious to see whether she had made any progress.
A quick health assessment revealed a four-pound weight loss. But even more impressive was the change in body fat: It had dropped nearly 4 percent, to 34.8 percent.
Knowing her body fat percentage is far more helpful than the body mass index, which is based on a person’s height and weight, Love said.
“It lets me know what I need to work on to get to the level I need to be at,” she said.
Love was one of about a dozen people who took part Wednesday in a free fitness assessment offered by Spartan Stores YMCA. Participants learned their their BMI and body composition – the proportion of muscle and fat.
Of the two, the body composition was far more useful, participants said.
Their reactions echoed recent research that found the often-used BMI does a poor job in measuring a person’s fitness. A study released Tuesday found 39 percent of the people with an acceptable BMI actually were obese, according to their percent of body fat. And 3 percent of men who were classified as obese by their BMI in fact had healthy levels of body fat.
Twenty-year-old Jake Savage, of Wyoming, took advantage of the screening on his second day of membership at the YMCA. Savage, who is 6-2, had recently lost 40 pounds in three months of healthy eating. He was ready to start working out regularly.
He was glad to learn both his BMI and body composition, but Savage said the percent of body fat was a more practical measure.
“You know you’ve got to lose the body fat,” he said.
Justin Lyon, the YMCA’s senior health and wellness director, said Savage had already started on the right track by changing his eating habits – something that many people avoid even when they exercise. For exercise, Lyon advised Savage start doing some form of cardiovascular exercise five days a week.
Beverly Bloem, a 51-year-old from Kentwood, found her body fat, at 32.5 percent, was average for women her age. To get that level in the above-average range, Lyon said she would have to lose 2½ percent.
Bloem said she recently started working out with the encouragement of her son, David, who also came to the screening. Working on fitness with a 24-year-old could be frustrating, she said.
“He can eat a heck of a lot more than I can” without gaining weight, she said.
That is a function of the difference in their muscle mass, Lyon explained. While muscles use energy even when they aren’t working, fat “just sits there,” he said.
He suggested Bloem do interval training that alternates intense spurts of cardiovascular activity with periods of rest and recovery. And he recommended adding strength training to increase muscle mass – which would result in more calories being burned even at rest.
Udona Love, who came to the screening with her husband, Fredrick, said she has found the benefits of exercise went beyond losing weight and increasing muscle.
“It makes you feel so much better,” she said. “I sleep better, and I feel so much better during the day.”
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To break a coconut first remove the fiber attached to the coconut. As suggested by elders, leaving a small portion remove all the fiber (Elders say that one should not break coconut without fiber on it. To remove fiber it would be easy to use a pointed tool like screw driver. Take a pointed tool & pierce it into the fiber and separate it from the shell. Pull the separated fiber from the shell with fingers. Like this leaving a small portion remove all the fiber. After removing most of the fiber observe the coconut—it has three eyes and three lines (or Veins) passing between the eyes. Of the three eyes of coconut two eyes are close to each other--observe a line passing between these two eyes. For convenience name this line as “A”. Place your middle finger on this line (A) and observe that your thumb rests on the second line (Vein) & the ring finger rests on the third line (Vein). Holding coconut in this position very firmly, when one hits it on the ground it will break in one shot. Before breaking the coconut keep a glass nearby to collect the coconut water. Now holding the coconut as mentioned, hit it on the ground and observe that it will break in one shot. Collect the coconut water into a glass and separate the two pieces. After breaking the coconut remove the remaining fiber on the shell. Breaking coconut in this manner ensures that one will not be hurt and coconut breaks surely and evenly and also in one shot. The scientific reason in holding the coconut in the mentioned manner is as follows:
The part which is touching the ground while hitting will not have any line (Vein). So the coconut breaks evenly and easily. To clearly understand this, hold the coconut in the mentioned manner and turn it to observe that, that portion does not have any line (Vein). When a coconut is hit ON the line (Vein) then it would be difficult to break—and even if it breaks it would be uneven---and chances of shell piercing through your skin are more. So for easy and safe breaking always hold the coconut in the mentioned manner.
Asking us to leave a small amount of fiber may be the reason to easily hold small and big coconuts in our palm with the fiber touching the skin between the palm and the wrist which prevents us from hurting. And this fiber should help us in cleaning the graters also (as described below where I suggested to use an old tooth brush – in olden days brushes were not available and the coconut fiber itself was used to clean the graters)
Nowadays there are a few contraptions / equipments sold in the market to break a coconut also!!!!!!
Is it not easy to break a coconut in the manner shown in the video?
When a coconut is separated from the shell observe a brown color thin layer sticking to it. To get white coconut without the brown layer sticking to it, break the coconut as mentioned below:
Coconut Breaking 2:
Place the coconut in freezer for 24 hours. After 24 hours remove the coconut from freezer and separate the fiber leaving a small portion on it. Now break the coconut hitting on the ground as described above. Observe that the brown layer is sticking to the shell and we get white coconut. Hit the coconut on the ground till all the shell is removed and we get white coconut. Cut the white coconut in the center. Scoop out the frozen coconut water with a spoon---keeping this at room temperature it will turn into liquid---but observe that this coconut water would be tasteless.
A coconut grater has a spikes ball attached to a handle and a frame. Graters unused for long time would be rusted (as they are made of iron) and need to cleared of the rust before use. To remove rust on iron things scrub and wash them with rice water (Water collected after washing rice) using an old toothbrush. For better results soak the rusted iron thing in rice water overnight---rust will easily be removed. Dip an old toothbrush in rice water and wash the grater to remove rust. After clearing the rust wash the grater under running water tap to clean it. While cleaning the grater do not try to wash it with fingers as the spikes of the grater will be too sharp. After cleaning, store the grater under a shelf where it is not easy to get hurt. While storing, take care it is out of reach of children.
Another coconut grater is a one which has a handle attached to a spiked iron rod. Using different graters give different textured grated coconut!!!
Let us learn to grate coconut using the traditional coconut grater. Spread a plastic sheet on ground and place the grater with a plate to collect grated coconut. Place your foot on the bar of the grater to secure it from moving. Holding the coconut in the left hand, grate starting from the edges. Rotate the handle of the grater with right hand, holding the coconut in left hand. Also keep turning the coconut in left hand---turning is important for even grating. If one does not turn the coconut while grating the brown portion below the coconut also gets grated and the grated coconut appears dark in color. After grating the coconut remove the grated coconut stuck in the spikes of the grater using the handle of a spoon. Never try to remove the grated coconut stuck in the grater with fingers as the spikes of the grater would be too sharp. Observe the texture of the grated coconut—it would appear as bloomed flowers. Wash the grater under running tap—if required use an old toothbrush. At times even after thorough cleaning some traces of coconut is found sticking in the grater. Use a toothpick to remove the traces left in the grater---or use the good old technique of using coconut fiber (PEECHU) to clean the grater. After washing, store the grater under a shelf lest one gets hurt.
Now let us learn to grate coconut using the handy coconut scraper. Hold the coconut kernel in the left hand scrape starting from the edges. Turn the coconut in intervals and scrape to get flaky type grated coconut. Observe the texture of the scraped coconut which would be flaky yet soft.
Storing Grated Coconut:
When a coconut is grated using a traditional grater the texture will be soft and appears like bloomed flowers. When a coconut is scraped using coconut scraper, it will appear as flakes yet will be soft textured. When coconut is grated using a mixer grinder, the texture would be like grass and will be less tasty compared to the other two varieties. Along with the texture taste also differs!!!!
To store grated coconut fill sufficient quantity in zip lock bags and seal. Place these bags in a box. Store this box in freezer. As and when required, use the quantity required and store the remaining in the freezer. Fresh coconut is readily available throughout.
Points to notice:
Hold the coconut firmly while hitting the ground. Don’t leave any scope for the coconut to recoil and hit you in the reverse.
If you propose to store coconuts at home without breaking, ensure to shake them once atleast once during the day till you break them. This prevents them from rotting inside.
After grating you may sprinkle some sugar lightly on the grated coconut and eat it too!!! Childrenwould love it.
Hope this movie clip helps in breaking coconuts easily, grating smoothly and also storing coconut.
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The states are powerful enough to stand up to the federal government when it violates citizens’ rights. Learn how we can better leverage the power of states.
What does poisoning a goldfish to get revenge on a cheating spouse have to do with the President’s power to make treaties? The constitutionally correct answer is: Nothing at all. Unfortunately, that’s not how the Obama Administration sees it. The Administration is claiming power to get into a domestic dispute under the authority of a chemical weapons treaty. And it is aggressively advancing the proposition that Congress’s power is essentially unlimited when based on the treaty power.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FIXING FEDERAL DEBT IS UP TO THE STATES
Compact for America is exactly what Founders intended to check Washington
Webmaster's note: Nick Dranias will present on Compact for America, Saturday April 26, in Orlando, Florida. For more information about that event, click here.
Even in his sunset years, Ronald Reagan understood too well that Congress will never tie its own hands when it comes to debt spending. Lamenting the repeated failure of Congress to propose a Balanced Budget Amendment, Reagan wrote on May 23, 1994:
We can’t depend on Congress to discipline itself . . . we must rely on the states to force Congress to act on our amendment. Fortunately, our Nation’s Founders gave us the means to amend the Constitution through action of state legislatures . . . . That is the only strategy that will work.
There are many reasons for Arizona to reject the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, but one reason which has not gotten the attention it deserves is the increasing possibility that the provider tax being proposed to fund the expansion may be reduced or phased out, leaving Arizona with a bill we cannot afford.
A recent article in Time magazine by Steven Brill documents the enormously high prices we pay in this country for health care, including the markups and significant profits of “nonprofit” hospitals. For example, M.D. Anderson marked up an anti-cancer drug some 400 percent. Stamford Hospital billed an individual $8,000 for a test that Medicare would have reimbursed at $600. Blood tests are often marked up by more than 1,000 percent over verifiable costs. Brill’s article is 28 pages long and includes dozens of examples.
On August 12, 2010 the Goldwater Institute filed a lawsuit against President Obama's federal health care law. The lawsuit employs two unique arguments not used in any other case against national health care, in combination with the best arguments used in those cases.
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A previous version of the blog entry misspelled author Vishal Mangalwadi’s and Rabbi Daniel Sperber’s name.
I could see Anwar Sadat’s silhouette through the bulletproof window as his limousine approached Jerusalem’s King David Hotel. Seconds later, the Israeli police, who weren’t taking any chances, sprayed me, and those around me, with tear gas.
Four years later, in 1981, the Egyptians should have teargased their own soldiers to protect Sadat. The Middle East hasn’t changed much through the centuries, let alone the past three decades. Cultures clash, infighting abounds, and internal violence plagues many regions. Yet, in Israel one shared hope remains—a majority of all groups wants their children to be safe.
Zvi Hauser, Israel’s general secretary, told me as much as we spoke in the offices of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Hauser’s relentless advocacy for Israel’s youth was magnetic, and his love for his kids magnanimous. The same love came through in meetings with Islamic businessmen in houses they built, often with each floor for a different son.
My visit with Hauser was not long after the third U.S. presidential debate. I watched President Obama and Mitt Romney’s exchange at the National Press Club, where the room’s eerie silence spoke volumes. No euphoria. No condescending bayonet jabs around tables. Underpinning the foreign policy exchange was the reality of clashes between Islamic and Western cultures. Perhaps we would have been better served to hear the candidates discuss Samuel P. Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations” and the lesser known thesis of Vishal Mangalwadi’s “The Book that Made Your World.” There was a second elephant in the room, diametrically opposed worldviews and their manifestation in cultures.
Huntington defines civilization as “a cultural entity” and claims that “villages, regions, ethnic groups, nationalities, [and] religious groups, all have distinct cultures at different levels of cultural heterogeneity.” His familiar thesis is that “the great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. . . . The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics.” This thesis, though much-debated and trite classroom fodder, still begs the question about aligning with (or placing hope in) a culture antithetical to our own.
While meeting with Rabbi Daniel Sperber, recipient of the Israel Prize and president of Bar-Ilan University, he commented on our elections. “Your leaders tend to forget that the Holy Land and the Middle East are indeed ‘holy’ places.” A nod to Huntington’s notions.
Mangalwadi argues that Christianity’s triumph in the West aligned nations not only around religion, but rational thought and humanitarian notions. Islamic civilization stalled a millennium ago; “the Islamic civilization had surpassed Europe in nearly every respect. . . Now, the people of Spain translate as many books in Spanish each year as Arabs have translated into Arabic in the last thousand years. If you take oil out of the equation, then the 5 million people of Finland export more goods and services each year than the 165 million of the Arab world.”
Complementing rational thought, the Biblical suppositions of human dignity and the sanctity of life remain significant forces in a more civil West. Mangalwadi argues, “Its failure to appreciate the value and dignity of human beings prevented Islamic civilization from developing the full potential of its people. It trapped the masses without the fundamental rights and liberties that made it possible for the West to overtake Islamic civilization.”
The Israeli defense directive for us to wear seat belts as my flight to Jerusalem entered Israeli airspace was a subtle reminder that I’ll likely not witness another Egyptian presidential visit anytime soon. I’m not hearing any hope here for a sudden change in Arabic or Israeli worldviews, or a resolution of Huntington’s clashes. I suppose I’ll need to listen to Western political debates for such ideas, and Islamic and Jewish leaders in Jerusalem trying to comfort their children while standing in their homes’ bomb shelters.
One sobering reminder of the long cultural clash came from businessman, William Gross. As we left the home of a parent who had lost two children in separate suicide bombings, he commented about the “unprovoked” war, “You’d think that one thing the world learned from 135 CE [the brutal Bar Kochba Revolt] is that wars of choice are not good ones.”
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This just in from the Hill. On the same day President Bush will use the soldiers at Fort Bragg as a backdrop for his address on Iraq, conservatives in the House have voted to underfund veterans’ health care by at least $1 billion.
The backstory: Last week, the Washington Post revealed that the budget for veterans’ health care was suffering a billion dollar shortfall this year, a fact unearthed “only during lengthy questioning” of a Veterans Affairs undersecretary.
The Bush administration had claimed on multiple occassions that the current budget was enough to provide full care. Back in February, Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson testified that he was “satisfied that we can get the job done with this budget.” Later, when Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) tried to add funds into the VA budget, Nicholson wrote her a letter assuring that the VA did not “need emergency supplemental funds in FY2005 to continue to provide timely, quality service that is always our goal.”
Yet today, even after the administration’s misleading claims had been exposed, and despite brand new data showing that demand for veterans health programs had grown twice as fast as the VA predicted earlier this year, House conservatives still voted to block any additional funding for veterans’ care.
Moments ago, Rep. Chet Edwards (D-TX), the ranking minority member on the House Subcommittee on Military Quality of Life and Veterans Affairs, proposed making up the shortfall for vets’ care in a foreign aid bill that is still being considered. According to the AP, conservatives shot down the measure on a 217-189 vote.
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Various search algorithms for the double encoding can be defined, depending on the variables that are instantiated and the constraints that are used for propagation. Here we will restrict ourselves to algorithms that only instantiate original variables and perform propagation using the constraints between dual variables. Intuitively this is the most interesting class of algorithms because they combine nice features from the non-binary representation and the HVE (small domain sizes), and from the DE (strong propagation).
We first show that the FC versions for the HVE discussed in Section 3.2 can be adapted to yield algorithms that run on the double encoding. We call these algorithms dFC0-dFC5. Each algorithm dFC () instantiates only original variables and enforces AC on exactly the same set of variables of the double encoding as the corresponding algorithm hFC does in the HVE. For example, dFC5 will enforce AC on the set of dual variables, and original variables connected to them, such that each dual variable is connected to at least one past original variable and at least one future original variable. The difference between algorithm dFC () and hFC is that the former can exploit the constraints between dual variables to enforce a higher level of consistency than the latter. Not surprisingly, this results in stronger algorithms.
Proof: It is easy to see that if a value is pruned by hFCi in the HVE then it is also pruned by dFCi in the double encoding. This is a straightforward consequence of the fact that 1) the double encoding subsumes the HVE, and 2) algorithms dFCi and hFCi enforce AC on the same set of variables. Algorithm dFCi is strictly stronger than hFCi because, by exploiting the constraints between dual variables, it can prune more values than hFCi. Consider, for instance, a problem with two constraints and , where and . All variables , , have domains . The allowed tuples of the constraints are and . If is given value 0 in the HVE then algorithms hFC2-hFC5 will prune tuples and from the domains of dual variables and respectively. No other pruning will be performed. In the double encoding, the same variable assignment, by any of the algorithms dFC2-dFC5, will cause the domain wipe-out of the two dual variables.
Proof: To prove this, we can use Example 14 from the paper by Bacchus et al. bcvbw02. In this example we have a CSP with variables, , each with domain , and constraints:
Proof: To prove this we need to show two things: 1) The number of node visits made by MAC in the double encoding is at most by a polynomial factor greater than the number of node visits made by MAC in the HVE, 2) At each node, the worst-case cost of MAC in the double encoding is at most by a polynomial factor greater than the worst-case cost of AC in the HVE. The former is true since MAC in the double encoding is strictly stronger than MAC in the HVE. The latter can be established by considering the worst case complexities of the algorithms at each node. MAC in the HVE costs at each node, while MAC in the double encoding can use PW-AC to enforce AC, which costs . Therefore, there is only a polynomial difference.
Proof: The proof is very simple and it is based on comparing the size of the subsets of the problem where each algorithm enforces AC.
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Denver City Council today renewed the city's photo red-light program for the year, and unanimously voted to move forward a bill to reduce the fine for rolling past white stop-lines.
As it stands now, the program — which uses video and photos to catch traffic violators at four intersections — issues $75 citations to drivers caught running a red-light — or if their vehicles come to a halt beyond the stop-line.
It's the latter that has some Denverites and members of City Council upset.
An audit released in December found that a calibration of the red-light program allowed the city to target drivers who stopped past the white line. The change increased revenues at the four intersections by 465 percent.
Vendor ACS State and Local Solutions Inc. recalibrated the cameras in April. In the subsequent six months, the audit found, photo red-light violations resulted in $1.3 million in fines, compared with $230,000 in the four months before..
Now the council is contemplating reducing the fine for stop-line violations to $40.
Councilwoman Mary Beth Susman would like to take that a step further, proposing to issue a warning to first-time offenders instead.
She plans to ask for a postponement of the bill's second reading next week, so that the Health, Safety, Education and Services committee — which would oversee the matter — can at least examine her proposal and add language allowing warnings instead of fines.
"We want to keep people safe, and I think this program changes peoples behavior to think before stopping over the white line," said Susman, who represents District 5. "Though ignorance of the law is no excuse, there are people who may not understand that rule and perhaps a warning will get us as much change in behavior as a fine will."
Paul D. Lopez, who chairs the safety committee, says he believes a final vote on the bill will likely be postponed and reassessed.
"I do want to have a more lengthy discussion in committee, rather than on the council floor," said Lopez.
He also hopes for more input from the Denver Police Department as it is responsible for issuing these citations.
But Lopez stopped short of endorsing Susman's proposed warning for first-time offenses.
"I want to understand the science behind it and make sure it's consistent," Lopez said, "because my biggest interest in all this is to make sure we have public policy measures that are changing the behavior of motorists in our city."
District 8 Councilman Albus Brooks said he is certain at least a reduction in the fine will occur.
"It's an ordinance and we have to enforce it," said Brooks, who admits that he has received a ticket for stopping in a crosswalk. "I think it's ridiculous we charge people $75 when the intent is to reduce accidents and make sure people don't run red lights."
No other city in Colorado fines motorists for such red-light violations.
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Those who remember the 2008 GOP convention surely remember the chant of "Drill, baby, drill," led by then VP candidate Sarah Palin. As money seemingly always trumps the environment, high oil prices were making Americans think about more offshore oil drilling, despite the fact that any oil extracted that way would be a drop in the ocean of oil the U.S. needs.
It was also based on the fact that for two decades there had not been any large-scale accidents. That has radically changed, with the vast oil spill from the BP oil rig explosion begins to hit U.S. coastlines.
Bill Maher said it best in a tweet:
Every a**hole who ever chanted 'Drill baby drill' should have to report to the Gulf coast today for cleanup dutyThose who think technology is infallible are fools. It was 100 percent certain we would have another oil accident. The question was not if, but when.
Sarah Palin, head over to the Gulf Coast today, will ya?
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Tonight novelist Hilary Mantel was revealed as the winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize for fiction for her eleventh novel, Wolf Hall (Fourth Estate). Mantel, who was longlisted for the prize in 2005 for Beyond Black (Fourth Estate), received the fifty-thousand-pound award (approximately eighty thousand dollars) at a dinner at London's Guildhall.
In her winning book, Mantel weaves an historically-inspired story centered on Thomas Cromwell, who rose from working-class roots to become King Henry VIII's chief advisor. "With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident," reads the description of the novel on the Booker Web site, Wolf Hall "peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courage."
The book was selected from a shortlist that includes Sarah Waters's The Little Stranger (Virago) and A. S. Byatt's The Children's Book (Chatto and Windus). Lucasta Miller, John Mullan, James Naughtie, Sue Perkins, and Michael Prodge were the judges.
In the video below, Mantel reads from and talks about the "book she was born to write" at the Edwardian bookshop Daunt Books in London. The second and third segments of the talk are available on YouTube.
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The History Of Mountain Biking
There is a lot of history and information out there in regards to the history and origins of mountain biking, with some being recognized and some that depends on who has the best firm of public relations.
Some say that mountain biking began with the Buffalo Soldiers, which was a turn of the century infantry who customized bikes to carry gear over the rough and tough terrain. They began in August of 1896, over the course of 800 miles. Their mission was simple - to test bikes for military use in the toughest of terrain.
Others say it was the Velo Cross Club of France that started mountain biking. The club was comprised of 20 young bikers from Paris, who between 1951 and 1956 developed a sport that resembles present day mountain biking.
It could have also been John Finley Scott, who was the first mountain biker in the U.S. In 1953 he constructed what he called a "Woodsie Bike", using a diamond frame, balloon tires, flat handle bars, and cantilever brakes. He was more than 20 years ahead of his time. Even though he remained an off road enthusiast, there were many at that time who didn't share that same passion.
Today, we believe that the history of the mountain bike is most apparent in Northern California. There are a few areas that claim to be the first community for mountain biking, although each and every history book will tell you Marin County.
The sport of mountain biking has taken many twists and turns over the last several hundred years. Even though there are many that say different things about
the history and the beginning, we know one thing for sure - one thing has led to another and the sport of mountain biking was born.
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It depends on how many units you take, how you arrange your class schedule, and whether any of the classes have labs.
If the average quarter/semester is 15 units, then with no lab classes that is 15 hours of class per week, or about 3 hours per day.
One quarter I took physics with lab, biochemistry, and a biochemistry lab, for a total of 22.5 hours of class per week (and only 13 units!)
It really depends on what day of the week and what you major is along with what school you go to. I personally spend anywhere from three to six hours daily.
A full time student can expect to spend 12-15 hours a week in class.
a 16 credit student would spend a little less than 16 hrs per week in class
The average full-time college course load is about 16 hours. That is less than 14 hours in class. But twice that is needed for study.
It's been a long time since I was in school, but if I rememer right a three credit hour course meant three hours per week. It just depends on how many credit hours you sign up for and which classes. You might spend three hours on Monday, four on Tuesday, none on Wednesday and four each on Thursday and Friday. A full time student used to be 15-18 credit hours so that would mean three or four hours per day.
Also, each hour in class usually meant two or three hours study time outside of class.
It depends on the college requirements. My university requires that in order to be considered a full time student you have to be enrolled in at least 12 credit hours. Your schedule will vary from day to day depending on what classes you register for. I personally have some days that have as little as 2 hours of class and some days that have as many as 7 hours of class. But I am a science major and have to take labs as well as lectures. But in general you should need at least 12 hours a week that can be spread out over the days depending on how you arrange your schedule.
I spend 3 -4 hours per day in class or 15 -20 hours per week. and of coarse the majority of the work is done outside of class.
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Think about our foster mothers
Think about our Foster Mothers
Gordie Jones, D.V.M., kept a crowd curious with the ideas he developed over the years, all in the name of improving life for the dairy cow.
Cows turn right easier than they can turn left. Cows move faster when herded into a smaller space. You can nearly eliminate D.A.s on any farm with the right ration. The preceding three statements were just a fraction of the many ideas and lessons Gordie Jones, D.V.M., shared at the Dairy Management Workshops held cooperatively by the Minnesota Milk Producers Association and University of Minnesota Extension. The workshops took place on January 30 (St. Joseph, Minn.) and February 1 (Rochester, Minn.).
Jones is a partner in the Central Sands Dairy of Nekoosa, Wis. He presented two talks during each of the workshop days. He has experience as a practicing veterinarian in Michigan and Wisconsin and now is sought worldwide as a consultant and expert on dairy construction, design, and cow flow.
His first presentation, “Back to the basics: Concentric consistency,” talked all about the cow as the hero of the human race. Jones agrees with Hoard’s Dairyman magazine’s founder, W.D. Hoard, that the cow is indeed the “Foster Mother of the human race.”
After all, the small pox vaccine is based off the cow pox virus, resulting in the “mark of the cow” on hundreds of thousands of shoulders as a reaction from the vaccination. Jones also notes that vaca, the Spanish word for cow, is similar to the Latin vacca, the root word for vaccinate.
Three circles to think about
But the biggest piece of advice Jones pushed to the nearly 250 attendees of the sessions was to think about circles when thinking about how to manage our dairies. Each cow has a daily circle, just like you. How can we make every 24 hours a routine? When does she eat, get milked, and how long is she standing?
After the one-day circle, examine a year in a cow's life. That circle starts at the maternity pen. Think about how to get that cow back to the maternity pen in just one year. Where does she freshen, when does breeding start, and when is she dried off? Of course, there are many questions in between.
Finally, think about the two-year circle. That circle starts at the maternity pen, too, but this time begins with the calf. How do you get that calf into the maternity pen two years later? What is she fed, when is she vaccinated, and how is her first calving handled?
Jones insists that thinking about these three circles, no matter the size or shape of your farm, will allow you to dedicate your processes and facilities to the cow. And we do owe her respect, just like all mothers.
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Four for Four Years: Parenting Lessons For Our Elected Officials
Whether you are Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal, being a parent trumps everything Washington can offer up. And if you are like me, as much as you are proud to be an American, you are more often disgusted with the way our leaders go about getting elected to office. From the money that is spent, to the ads denigrating each other, to lack of character and example displayed by both sides of the aisle, I am troubled by our electoral system and ashamed of our political process.
What Washington needs might be a lesson or two drawn from the playbook of good parenting. Perhaps if our candidates took heed of the lessons we work so hard to instill in our kids and took stock of the example that those lessons provide, just maybe our country would be better for it. So while our candidates desperately seek four years of power, I offer up four parenting lessons that I propose our candidates think about as we near election day.
- Worry about yourself and stop tattle-telling on others: For once, I would like to hear our candidates focus on what they have done, have not done and what they plan on doing. There is a reason we get after our kids for telling on their little sister and the kid down the street. First, its god-awful annoying, but more importantly, it encourages them to take responsibility for themselves and to stop automatically blaming others. Furthermore, in not allowing them to constantly tattle-tell, kids figure out that solutions are best worked out with the source of the problem.
- A White Lie is Still a Lie: Call it what you will, when our leaders spin the truth, use carefully edited sound bites and misconstrue each other’s messages, it’s a lie. As good parents, we’re on the look out for truth. We not only want it for our kids, we require it. If we are requiring our kids to tell the truth, we should demand that our leaders do the same.
- If Billy Told You to Jump Off a Cliff, Would You? Often pulled from the playbook of parenthood, the frequently used term aims at teaching our kids to do the right thing and follow their own heart and own personal judgement. Why do our leaders seem to change their tune, alter their platforms and conform more than one can count? Given a parent’s perspective, our leaders are listening to Billy and jumping off cliffs more often than is humanly healthy. You see, in Washington, Billy comes in the form of money, influence and Super Pacs. Billy pays for elections and ultimately in the end, our leaders jump from many cliffs, thus abandoning their own heart and own personal judgement.
- When You Have Done Something Wrong, Say You’re Sorry: This lesson seems to have wandered off in general from our Great Nation. I was always raised with the understanding that if you screw up, admit it and make amends. No doubt it’s hard to swallow at times, but it’s the right thing to do without question. Wouldn’t it be refreshing for our leaders to open up a State of the Union or stump speech with something like, “First I want to apologize for my handling of the economy,” I would like to take responsibility for poor decisions that lead to soldiers losing their lives,” or “I cheated on my wife, it was wrong and I apologize to her and to my country.” One of the greatest epidemics in our land is the refusal to admit when you were wrong. Our athletes deny steroids, our politicians deny culpability and it’s wrong and cuts squarely against the grain of what we as parents work so hard to instill in our kids.
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Men Must Champion Feminine Women
Henry Makow Ph.D. – May 8, 2009 from 2001
A feminine woman has the effect of a sunrise on a man's soul.
In the words of novelist Alex Waugh, she draws a man "into a magic circle where everything is fresher, cleaner; where there is peace, warmth, comfort. She produces in him the desire to be his best."
Nothing on earth is so fine. On this continent, increasingly nothing is so rare.
The Official State Gender Ideology, feminism, has decreed that femininity is a "stereotype" invented by men to oppress women.
Feminism is no longer about equal opportunity for women. It is a thuggish, devious synthesis of Marxism and lesbianism used by ruling elites to undermine individuals and weaken society. It is to society what AIDS is to the body.
But men are also to blame. We have accepted the feminist lie that women should be independent and pursue careers. We have abandoned the many gentle and loving women who instinctively want to build their lives around a man. We have pursued the busy, neurotic, overachievers who guarantee us heartbreak, divorce and broken family.
By pursuing these women, we are really seeking our own lost masculinity. Many of us are happy to evade the responsibility of earning a living, and taking charge of a family. In either case we are condemning ourselves to frustration and arrested development.
For heterosexuals to find fulfillment, each sex must assume its instinctive part. The sex act is a metaphor: The man's spirit pervades the female and they become one. The male spirit must be active and the female receptive.
Many men ignore willing, feminine women who can provide Wholeness. These women cannot thrive, we cannot thrive, unless we recognize, defend and love them.
What is a feminine woman?
1. A feminine woman is motivated by love of husband and children. She is the heart of the family, devoted to her husband and children's wellbeing. This is her career. A woman who is preoccupied with another demanding career cannot pay attention to her family. Love is mainly paying attention. There is a New Yorker cartoon where a child is wearing a welder's mask and using a blowtorch to write, "I need love" on the living room wall. His mother says to her friend: "He's just doing that to get attention."
2. A feminine woman may have another career but it is her second priority. She is not driven by personal ambition. I liked the movie "Legally Blonde" because the heroine showed that she could excel in the work world but why bother? She had a more important goal: a husband and family.
Career is a feminist lie. Since when are careers the source of human fulfillment? What is so great about being an Assistant Loan Manager at a bank? Is society expected to provide successive legions of eager feminists with "fulfilling" careers to compensate for their loveless lives?
3. Feminists are teaching women to be "strong and independent." This is not feminine. Men respond to a woman's need. We want to rescue the damsel in distress and to win her favors. This archetype is also innate in women. She wants to be enlisted by a man.
A feminine woman DEPENDS on a man. This doesn't mean she is an emotional waif. She is competent but she doesn't pretend to be independent. Men and women need each other to be whole. As long as I have my wife, I am self-sufficient. So is she.
4. Just as the woman is the heart of the family, the man is the head and shoulders. A feminine woman is her husband's partner. They make decisions together but he has the last word. Men must be the visionaries, the navigators, and the captains. A woman's most important decision is the man she chooses to love.
5. A feminine woman is reserved. She wants a man to pay attention to "her" so she doesn't flaunt her sexuality. A woman wants to be loved more than anything in the world. She wants to be "known" in all her divinity. This happens when she is truly loved. Is it a coincidence the Bible uses the word "know" as in Abraham "knew" Sarah, to speak of sexual intercourse? All women are beautiful when they are loved.
Women's liberation has taught women to pursue sex for its own sake, as though they were men. This is not feminine. If a man prefers a new car, why would he marry a "used" woman? He doesn't want a car that's been driven by a lot of men. He doesn't know where it's been, what damage has been done. He will choose a brand new car. In my wife's words: "A man wants to be a woman's first lover; a woman wants to be his last."
I'm not saying all women should save their virginity until marriage but certainly sex should be reserved for honest, loving relationships. Men need to stop looking for sex and start looking for the right woman. That's the only guarantee of sex anyway.
If men chose wives with the same attention as cars, more marriages would succeed. Women are the vehicles to the future, in terms of emotional fulfillment and family. If men knew where they wanted to go, they would choose women who would get them there. They would not be blinded by sex.
6. A feminine woman tries to please the man she loves. No, this has not been outlawed, it just seems that way. A feminine woman generates love by giving love. She empowers her man by believing in him. Love is expressed in actions and effort. Baking a pie is an act of love. So is making the home beautiful. Are we so blind, impoverished and demoralized that we cannot appreciate this? Why have we allowed feminists to stigmatize homemaking? Women would be more than happy to be homemakers if it received the recognition and appreciation that it deserves.
A feminine woman has grace, beauty and wisdom. These all come from staying in touch with her spirit and not pursuing an exhausting career that requires masculine qualities.
On the "Oprah" Show, I saw three young women interviewed about the "quarter-life" crisis. They were having trouble getting their careers on track and because of their families' expectations they were falling apart.
Oprah urged these girls to "follow their instincts." No one mentioned that for women in their early twenties, "following their instincts" might entail having a baby. No one is following their instincts any more. They are doing what feminists tell them to do.
It's time men started listening to their instincts too. We want to be the masters of our domain. We want to love and possess ("pay attention," "know") our wives. We want to create families that are loving, lively and happy. It's time we embraced the quiet, unassuming beautiful women who want to be our soul mates.
Henry Makow, Ph.D. is the inventor of the board game Scruples and the author of "A Long Way to go for a Date." His past articles on Feminism and the New World Order can be found on his web site www.savethemales.ca He enjoys receiving comments at email@example.com
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Discussion of Mid East Events - continued
“The situation in the Middle East is changing daily. It is important to understand what is happening half a world away not only for its impact on the United States, but because it represents a major shift in the political character of a key part of the world,” says Dr. Larry Levinson, Professor of Political and Justice Studies, who is also coordinator of the GSU Honors Program.
Discussion panel members include Dr. Donald Culverson, Professor of Political and Justice Studies at GSU; Dr. Khalil Marrar, Professor of Political Science at DePaul University; Mr. Ahmed M. Rehab, Executive Director, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago); and Dr. Farouk Shaaban, Professor of Business Administration at GSU.
This program is part of the GSU Honors Program community lecture series, “Rhythms and Currents: Changes and Directions,” is designed to provide information and encourage discussion of current global and regional issues and interests.
Advance registration is not necessary. For more information, call 708.534.4578.
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Property crime has a significant impact on communities. Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) data released in September 2011 shows how many more people were victims of property crime than violent crime in 2010. Overall, U.S. residents age 12 or older experienced an estimated 3.8 million violent victimizations, 14.8 million property victimizations and 138,000 personal thefts (picked pockets and snatched purses).
The good news is fewer people were victims of violent crime (violent victimization dropped 13 percent) and property crime (property victimization dropped 6 percent). Why property crime has not gone up nationwide is somewhat subject to debate, and the extent to which recent economic conditions have impacted property crime might seem surprising.
Conventional wisdom would suggest property crime rates go up as the economy turns down. Richard Rosenfeld, Curators Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, adds that’s also what a great deal of research on past recessions has shown.
Yet, he points out, “Historically, we have seen high rates of unemployment and high inflation. Today, we’re in a period of high rates of unemployment but very low rates of inflation. In 2009, in the middle of the recession, prices declined and inflation went negative.
“To find an economic downturn that was characterized by deflation, negative inflation, you have to go back to the Great Depression, which was more serious, but also characterized by deflation. After a few years of crime rising at the start of the Great Depression, crime rates came down, and we may be seeing that same phenomenon again.”
A secondary economic factor for property crime not increasing may be high unemployment. Although a lack of income may lead someone to take what they cannot buy, Rosenfeld explains when unemployment rates are high people also are more likely to be at home, acting as guardians of their homes and perhaps their neighbors’ homes. When people leave their homes during an economic downturn, he points out they often carry items of less value with them, making them less attractive targets for street robbers.
Data-driven law enforcement
While economic factors are at play, law enforcement is also working smarter, trying new approaches and following crime data closely.
The Shawnee (Kan.) Police Department has seen a dramatic change in property crime rates since the agency started using Data-Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety (DDACTS), a strategy endorsed by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, Bureau of Justice Assistance and National Institute of Justice.
Christopher Bruce, an analytical specialist for DDACTS, compares Shawnee’s first year using DDACTS to the agency’s five-year average: Auto thefts fell 61 percent in the target zone, compared to a decline of 24 percent in the rest of the city. Auto burglaries fell 19 percent in the target zone, compared to an increase of 16 percent in the rest of the city. Residential burglary fell 20 percent in the target zone, compared to an increase of 2 percent in the rest of the city. Total property crime fell 25 percent in the target zone, compared to a decline of 15 percent in the rest of the city.
“These statistics indicate both significant declines in the target zone and statistically significant differences between the target zone and the rest of the city, showing that Shawnee’s DDACTS implementation undoubtedly had an effect on these crimes,” says Bruce.
Prior to DDACTS, Shawnee had district assignments for officers and occasionally engaged in hotspot policing for tactical and strategic problems. In July 2010, Shawnee began targeting a specific area based on overlapping crime and crash data.
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The progress of Bill C-25, which will end the so-called 'two for one credit', though Parliament troubles me. Bill C-25 would end the common practice of giving criminals a two-for-one credit for time served in jail before being sentenced. Instead, the bill would have judges give them a straight credit for time served. The political optics of getting 'tough on crime' in this way are sufficiently obvious that they can be passed over without elaboration.
That said the idea that 'criminals need to be in jail' is both simplistic and incorrect. Obviously I am not talking about serial killers or sexual predators here, and my feelings about things like the Karla Homolka case are undoubtedly very close to the of Minister Van Loan. This class of criminal makes up a tiny percentage of the people brought before our courts, however, and as the exceptions are a truly terrible sample on which to base the rule.
Two issues are problematic with this bill: the lack of costing and the absence of discussion or planning for what this means for our correctional system. Apparently the bill has been costed, but the numbers can not be released because of cabinet confidentiality. This is completely unacceptable - the lawmakers of the land are being asked to vote into law a bill that the government doesn't want them to see the numbers for? Not to mention it is difficult to see how cabinet confidentiality applies in this case, as the bill is an open matter before the house and no national security interests are at issue. That being said data from Statistics Canada indicates that the bill will lead to at least a 10 per cent increase in the federal prison population, and costs well over $100-million a year.
The cost is, of course, just a number. In point of fact it isn't, unless the Cabinet knows something that they don't want us to know, a terribly large number either. More important than the dollar number is the increase in the prison population. What this bill completely fails to discuss is what correctional services across the country are supposed to do with these new inmates, or how to reduce the numbers in the future or prevent recidivism among those convicted of crimes.
Moving beyond the problems I have with the particulars, or more accurately the lack of particulars, are the flawed principles that motivate it. What our government is proposing to do, in a smaller and less explicit way, is to follow the path blazed in the United States over the past 20 years. The process of mandatory sentencing and restrictions on options other than prison has led to a situation where there are now 2.3 million people incarcerated and another 5 million or so on parole or probation in the United States. To put his in perspective approximately one in every 18 men in the United States is behind bars or being monitored - an outcome that simply screams failure.
Restricting the Criminal Justice system's options is not actually helpful, as the administration of justice is as complex as the people the system serves. The government has not made a case that the 'two-for-one' practice is a serious flaw in the system. More importantly this bill strikes me as advancing an agenda of unthinking rigidity in the administration of Justice, the failed results of which are visible south of the border.
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Steve Metcalf is contacting northern Nevada and northwestern California registrants of the Pickens Plan to encourage you to join the Northern Nevada Energy Alternatives & Conservation Coalition (NNEACC) on the Pickens Plan website, http://push.pickensplan.com/group/northernnevadaalternativeenergyandconservationcons . The NNEACC is a new group, based in Reno, founded to educate and mobilize the public to encourage energy innovation, energy conservation and favorable public policy. We invite and encourage you to join!
The NNEACC endorses the Pickens Plan and salutes T. Boone Pickens for stepping forward to encourage the US government to take firm steps to wean the nation from its reliance on foreign oil to reduce global warming and in the interest of our economic welfare and national security. Wind and natural gas, the key focuses of the Pickens Plan, are important parts of the matrix of energy alternatives our nation needs to move toward.
The NNEACC respects your privacy. It will neither inundate you with email nor release your information to third parties. It will host monthly meetings with speakers across the full scope of energy alternatives, encourage committee participation to educate the public and mold public policy, and maintain a website to provide a knowledge base and intra-communication regarding energy conservation and emerging energy technologies.
There is much to be learned and much to be done. Working together will strengthen our voice and multiply the effectiveness of our efforts. Please join us at the link above and plan to attend the kick-off meeting on December 10 at UNR. See further details on the meeting and program at the bottom of this message.
NNEACC Planning Committee
Information About the First Meeting and Program
What: the first meeting of the Northern Nevada Energy Alternatives & Conservation Coalition (NNEACC) will include an organizational discussion of its objectives, immediate innitiatives and preliminary committee structure, and a presentation by the Director of the Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy followed by questions.
Where: the Mathewson IGT Knowledge Center, Room 107, on the University of Nevada Reno campus, Building 085 on the NNEACC map at http://push.pickensplan.com/group/northernnevadaalternativeenergyandconservationcons . Note the correct parking lot is 083.
When: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 6:00pm.
Who: Dr. Lisa Shevenell is a Hot Rocker. As a hydrogeologist and research scientist at the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology in the UNR and director of the University's Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy, she both stresses and studies the importance of America developing geothermal power and other renewable sources of energy. Dr. Shevenell will be discussing Nevada's geothermal potential: where it is located, its environmental impacts and benefits, and how that potential can be used directly as well as for producing clean, baseload, indigenous, renewable power for Nevada.
Transportation and parking: the NNEACC has special arrangements with UNR Parking Services. There will be signs posted at the indoor parking lot (083 on the NNEACC map) directing meeting attendees to the correct section for parking. Please DO NOT pay your parking at the garage as NNEACC has been asked to collect and pay the $3/car parking contribution directly to the UNR Parking Office. Remember, also, the free Sierra Spirit bus service available downtown that passes directly in front of the Mathewson Building, http://rtcwashoe.com/Schedules/map_files/map_SIERRASPIRIT.pdf . Meters in the open parking lot adjacent to the indoor lot are $1.50/hour, free after 8 PM.
After you get your friends to join the site, and send your letters off to Congress....I hope you will work to join the "100CLUB"... for members that have faxed in 100 or more signed pledges.
PLEDGES are the vehicle that can drive our numbers, we need to use them! It is a very easy ask- Boone has done the hard work. All we need to do is hitch our wagon to his horse and plow to the finish. I have sent in 300+ so far. We have 48 friends, that I know of, who are working on the challenge. By the end of the week that will be 5,000 new supporters of this plan- 4 times the number that joined the plan online this week.... with just 49 people!
IMAGINE what we could do if everyone that said they would do
anything they could to get this done, joined the "100CLUB"
It comes down to.... DO WE HAVE THE FORTITUDE? I hope so. We aren't asking folks to take up arms. But this IS our revolution. And we have a very small window to get it done. Would like your help.
ARE YOU IN?
Welcome and THANK YOU for joining Pickens Plan. We need you.
The stars have aligned to create the possibility of a paradigm shift that is and has been urgently needed. We have an angry citizenry due to pain at the pump, a presidential election on the horizon, and a man with a plan to dramatically and imminently reduce our dependance on foreign oil, who has the resources, contacts and connections, knowledge and "will" to get it done.
Please share this plan with your circle of friends, family and associates. Unrge them to JOIN. As you know, it is simply like signing a petition. With large numbers of supporters, we can put pressure to bear on Congress to incentivize alternative and renewable energies, and insure that our future president will be a leader that will push for domestic energy solutions. JFK once said. "in the next 10 years we will put a man on the moon". He got it done. We need that kind of leadership on energy.
Time is of the essence. If gas prices retreat the public will forget the pain, and our moment may be lost. How frightening to be looking back and apologizing to our children that we could not get this done when we had the chance.
For more information:
Check out Pickens "August Call to Action"- for a course of action!
Here is an informative video "Topeka, Kansas Town Hall Meeting": http://www.pickensplan.com/news/2008/08/04/video-of-the-topeka-town-hall
Here is Boone's appearrance on Larry King Live: ttp://www.pickensplan.com/news/2008/08/05/last-nights-larry-king-live-appearance/
Please friend me if you like. .
If you know someone in the press- get them to cover this.
If you know someone who blogs- get them to cover this.
If you can write to a Congressman/woman- get them to understand this.
If you know someone who is in the public eye- ask them to support this.
If you want to print downloadable flyers and put them in your car and/or business window- please do.
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