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Blastomycosis Acquired Occupationally During Prairie Dog Relocation -- Colorado, 1998
On August 31, 1998, two suspected cases of fungal pneumonia were reported to the Boulder County (Colorado) Health Department (BCHD). Both patients were immunocompetent, otherwise healthy adults working for the City of Boulder Open Space (CBOS) program on a prairie dog relocation project. This report summarizes the epidemiologic investigation by BCHD, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, and CDC; the findings indicate that these two persons acquired blastomycosis in Colorado, which is outside the area where the disease is endemic.
Patient 1. On August 28, a 25-year-old man was admitted to a hospital with a 12-day history of fever, weight loss, fatigue, arthralgias, and productive cough. He had been treated by a private physician with two antibiotics during the preceding 8 days. On hospital admission, a computed tomography (CT) scan demonstrated bilateral pulmonary diffuse nodular opacities. A subsequent open lung biopsy revealed small budding yeasts. After 10 days of culture, Blastomyces dermatitidis was identified and confirmed by DNA probe (GenProbe, San Diego, California *), both at the local hospital laboratory and at CDC. The patient was treated with intravenous (IV) amphotericin B for 10 days, followed by a prescribed 6-month course of oral itraconazole.
Patient 2. On September 3, a 35-year-old man sought care for a 15-day history of fever, fatigue, shortness of breath, arthralgias, skin lesions (punctate lesions on arms and trunk and lesions resembling erythema nodosum on legs), cough, chest pain, and weight loss. His symptoms did not improve after 9 days of treatment with two antibiotics, and he was admitted to the same hospital as patient 1. A CT scan revealed diffuse, bilateral pulmonary nodules. The consulting physician for this patient also had seen patient 1; on the basis of work history and clinical course of the disease, the consultant suspected a fungal pneumonia. Specimens obtained by transbronchial biopsy/lavage were negative for fungal elements by microscopic examination and culture. Open lung biopsy specimens revealed small budding yeasts morphologically indistinguishable from those found in patient 1. Biopsy specimens grew B. dermatitidis after 21 days of culture. The patient received IV amphotericin B for 14 days, and at discharge, a 6-month prescribed course of oral itraconazole.
The two ill persons had worked together on the prairie dog relocation project on August 3 and 10 (14 and 7 days before onset of illness for patient 1). Work practices at the relocation site included using a gasoline-powered auger and hand trowels to excavate abandoned prairie dog tunnels and burrows that were being used by many other animal species. The workers did not use personal protective equipment (e.g., protective clothing or face masks). All 15 workers involved in the project were interviewed. The two ill persons had performed vigorous digging, created large amounts of dust, and spent 6-7 hours each day with their faces close to the dirt. It rained on 13 of the 15 days during July 22-August 5 (Colorado State University Climate Center, unpublished data, 1998); Boulder received 4.4 inches of rain during this period (normal rainfall for July and August combined is 3.3 inches).
The 15 workers were interviewed for symptoms of disease, and chest radiographs were offered to all workers; 12 (including the two ill workers) received chest radiographs. Only the two ill persons had chest abnormalities; both previously had lived in areas where the disease is endemic and where they could have been exposed to B. dermatitidis, but neither reported a history of such illness. Persons describing any symptoms of disease were referred to an occupational health specialist for further evaluation. Blood from 14 workers (including the two ill workers) was submitted for serologic testing (e.g., complement fixation, immunodiffusion, and radioimmunoassay) (1); results are pending. CDC collected composite soil samples from burrows at the site for microbiologic analyses (2); results are pending.
Reported by: DD Lenaway, PhD, AM Bailey, MS, Boulder County Health Dept; H Smith, MD, MA DeGroote, MD, Boulder Community Hospital, Boulder; K Gershman, MD, RE Hoffman, MD, State Epidemiologist, Div of Epidemiology, Colorado Dept of Public Health and Environment. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; Mycotic Diseases Br, Div of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases; Div of Applied Public Health Training, Epidemiology Program Office; and an EIS Officer, CDC.
Editorial Note: This article describes the first reported cases of blastomycosis acquired in Colorado. Blastomycosis is caused by inhalation of spores from B. dermatitidis, a dimorphic fungus found in soil and rotting wood. Blastomycosis most commonly presents as a subacute pulmonary disease, but the clinical spectrum ranges from asymptomatic infection to disseminated disease involving the skin, bones, and genitourinary system (3,4). In the United States, disease occurs sporadically throughout the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys and the southeastern states (5). In states where blastomycosis is reportable (e.g., Wisconsin and Mississippi), the annual incidence of disease is 1.3-1.4 per 100,000 population; in areas where it is endemic, smaller areas of hyperendemicity can have rates of up to 41.9 cases per 100,000 persons (6,7).
In areas where blastomycosis is endemic, dogs infected with B. dermatitidis can signal increased risk for human infection (5). Few cases of blastomycosis have been reported among humans or animals in Colorado (8,9). Although both patients in this outbreak previously resided in areas where they could have been exposed to B. dermatitidis, it is unlikely that they would have concurrent reactivation of previously acquired disease.
Two factors may have contributed to blastomycosis in the two workers described in this report. First, B. dermatitidis is more common in soils with high nitrogen and organic content, which may have been provided by the stored food and fecal matter of the animals living in the burrows (2). Second, the above-average rainfall before the excavations may have been a factor, because humidity may aid reproduction of the organism (4).
Blastomycosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of illness in patients with subacute lobar or segmental pneumonia, particularly when it is refractory to initial antibiotic therapy and the patient has a history of outdoor occupational or recreational exposures. Serologic testing may assist in diagnosis, but complement fixation and immunodiffusion lack sensitivity and the WI-1 antigen-based antibody test has good sensitivity and specificity but is not widely available. Skin testing is not available for blastomycosis (4). Treatment of this disease includes ketoconazole or itraconazole for mild or moderate disease and intravenous amphotericin B for patients who are severely immunocompromised, have central nervous system involvement, or are severely ill.
The risk for exposure to blastomycosis remains small even in areas where the disease is endemic, and few public health recommendations have been developed for prevention of blastomycosis. Measures recommended for protecting workers against other endemic mycoses (e.g., histoplasmosis and coccidioidomycosis) probably will be protective against exposures to soil contaminated by B. dermatitidis (10). These measures include 1) use of a CDC-approved N-95 disposable half-facepiece filtering respirator (or equivalent) and protective clothing and shoe covers by all persons engaged in soil-disturbing activities during prairie dog relocation, 2) employer-provided instruction of all persons with potential to be engaged in these activities in the proper fitting and wearing of the recommended face mask, 3) implementation of a respiratory-protection program for employees, and 4) education of workers about clinical signs and symptoms of disease and screening and treatment options. Interim recommendations for workers engaged in prairie dog relocation have been developed by BCHD and will be modified as needed based on the serology and soil-testing results.
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“My children don’t seem to need me anymore,” a friend complained to me the other day. That isn’t unusual; I often hear parents express their concerns about how little their children learn from them nowadays or ask them questions. From finding the meaning of words and searching for street addresses to understanding how things work, children are increasingly turning to the net instead of their parents.
In the workplace, a similar transition is taking place with the widespread adoption of information technology. Managers are increasingly taking a back seat as information providers. From the moment employees sign up, organizations direct them to company intranets to understand different aspects of the job, the organization, clients, company policies, and often, the performance development program and its measurement metrics. (Click Here to Learn More….)
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Ashenden Family History
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"Only five to six agencies operating in Gurgaon have proper licenses and training establishment units, which are also mandatory. More than 400 agencies do not have training establishment units and licenses,” Dr Rao told this citizen journalist .
The additional Director General of Police (ADGP) (Law & Order) MS Mann had also promised to take strict and legal action against the agencies violating the norms. He also said that some of these agencies are operating after getting fake licenses, “which is a great cause of worry”. He had requested DCP Gurgaon to conduct a high-level inquiry to investigate the issue and find such agencies and punish them.
But it seems that no such action has been taken by the administration to curb these fake agencies who train these ‘helpless’ guards who can’t even save themselves, let alone saving the visitors to these malls. “People, who were in the mall, also saw guard getting beaten up and remaining people saw on the TV. What impression or confidence they will have now in these guards,” asked Ravish Bhatia, a Gurgaon resident.
The least, the government can do is provide self-defence training to these guards. This will at least build some confidence in the people who visit these malls.
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|UK Physicians Call for Legalization
In June, prominent physicians from the British Medical Association's (BMA) Scottish Regional Health Committee urged legalizing marijuana for medical and recreational purposes (Gillian Harris, "Doctors Call For Legalised Cannabis," The Times (UK), June 21, 1999; Daily Telegraph (UK), "Doctors Push For Legal Use Of Cannabis," June 21, 1999; Tim Winkler, "Doctors Back Legalising Cannabis," Scotsman (UK), June 21, 1999; Jeremy Laurance, "Doctors Urge Legalising of Cannabis," The Independent (UK), June 22, 1999).
George Venters, M.D., the committee chairman, argued that there was no evidence that cannabis was addictive and said, "I think more than half the population would support legislation if you laid out the evidence." The doctors contend the illegal status of marijuana encourages people to categorize the drug with heroin and cocaine, which in turn leads to the assumption that taking hard drugs is no more damaging than smoking marijuana. Venters asserted, "There is much more damage done by smoking [cigarettes] and alcohol than by cannabis. That is the issue." Dr. Brian Potter, Scottish secretary of the BMA, said, "What [the committee] is trying to say is that there are other dangerous drugs which are legalised and cause a lot more deaths. Certainly in Scotland, 35 people a day die from tobacco use. Maybe we should be focusing on that rather than putting our energies on cannabis."
Anti-drug agencies rejected the group's call to action, claiming decriminalization would lead young people to experiment with harder drugs. The director of Scotland Against Drugs, Alistair Ramsey, said that the legal status of cannabis was investigated last year by a select committee from the House of Lords and no reason was found to decriminalize or legalize the drug.
The BMA's Scottish committee submitted a motion to the BMA to support legalizing cannabis for medicinal purposes. However, the motion was narrowly rejected by representatives at the annual BMA conference in Belfast in early July. BMA representatives also rejected, by a large majority, a motion supporting decriminalization of marijuana for recreational use ("BMA Rejects Legalisation of Cannabis," BBC News, July 7, 1999).
Dr. Stephen Kisely, who proposed the medical marijuana motion, said: "The legal effects of cannabis are far worse than the medical and psychological effects. People who are prosecuted for possession of cannabis may have their livelihoods destroyed for the use of a compound which has less adverse consequences than alcohol and tobacco. The BMA should stand up and act to help its patients. Making them criminals does not help them."
Last year, the UK authorized the first medical trials of cannabis to begin in October 1999. GW Pharmaceuticals was granted permission to grow cannabis and administer it in clinical trials (see NewsBriefs, July-August 1998, p. 26). A greenhouse was constructed at an undisclosed site to produce a crop of potent sinsemilla plants to be used in trials at Hammersmith Hospital in West London and Derriford Hospital in Plymouth. Nine hundred patients will receive cannabis treatment between the two sites. Successful trials could pave the way for the adoption of a prescription system for medicinal marijuana.
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Absolutely epic maker tale from former Atari dev Scott Williamson, who writes:
So, you may be wondering why anyone would bother to make a version of a 30 year old vector arcade game on an arcane 33 year old platform? I was inspired by one of the greatest and most influential game programmers of all time to make something that he said was impossible. I don’t consider this a game development project, rather an alternative history art piece, a demonstration that it could indeed be done.
Back story: Porting Star Castle to the 2600 was the first assignment of now-legendary Atari game pioneer Howard Scott Warshaw, who eventually decided that “a decent version couldn’t be done” on the console hardware, and reorganized the core gameplay elements of Star Castle into Yar’s Revenge, which went on to become Atari’s best-selling original title for the 2600.
Now story: Williamson, who worked for Atari starting in ’87, became fascinated with the Star Castle challenge. He dug into the attic for his old Atari notebooks, cobbled together a development environment, and after much head-scratching and code-crunching, managed to pare Star Castle—sprites, sounds, AI, and all—down to 8K ROM / 128 bytes RAM (yes, that’s individual bytes, with no prefix). Then he designed fantastic retro Atari-style packaging for the game, including a clear-cased custom cartridge with internal LEDs that flash during gameplay.
That’s right: The cartridge lights up.
Don’t miss this one, folks. Link below. [Thanks, Scott!]
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Tibor Pusztai, Associate Professor
"When one teaches, one is not teaching subjects, but people. The things that I teach—primarily conducting and composition—are pretty esoteric and have to do very much with the development of self-confidence in the student. I bring the kids out of themselves, so that they can explore their own inner poetry. My task is to make my students understand that conducting, for instance, is the synthesis of all the various things that we study, such as history and harmony, and that the conductor is the galvanizer of all of this information when interpreting a score and seeing what the vision of a composer is. It's essential to teach this even if the student never conducts at all. For a business major, for instance, or a drummer, it might not be of great utility from a technical perspective, but from a conceptual perspective, certainly, it's very important."
"Music is very big, and I feel that all musicians should have a very broad appreciation of what music is about and not get stuck in a genre. If the students avail themselves of it, they have a very broad opportunity here at Berklee to experience a lot of different things. I find it very exciting how technologically advanced the school is, in terms of recording and synthesis and all the electronic gear. And also there is a faculty of very diverse people, and this is a place that understands and values that. As a teacher, one has to keep learning and broaden one's mind and be challenged, and this is a very cool place to do that."
"The orchestra has really become my instrument. I've worked with orchestras all over the world, and that's how I've made my living, besides being a composer. For me, one of the most valuable and interesting experiences was that I was appointed to the faculty at the New England Conservatory when I was 23. I was an assistant to Gunther Schuller, and that was an amazing experience in terms of my education and my development, to work next to such an extraordinary man, who is well-versed both in jazz and classical music, and the extraordinarily broad repertoire that we dealt with, from Renaissance to absolutely contemporary stuff. That informed and still informs my approach toward music-making and musicians. My emphasis has always been to train the complete musician. That's the way I've operated all my life."
- Music director, Manchester Symphony and Connecticut Valley Chamber Orchestra
- President of Connecticut Composers, New Voices Productions, and the Studio of Electronic Music
- Former conductor, Alvin Ailey Company, American Ballet Theater
- Former associate conductor and composer-in-residence, Hartford Symphony Orchestra
- Former faculty member, New England Conservatory of Music, Ithaca College, Teheran University, and Tanglewood
- Recipient of Koussevitzky Composition Prize and ASCAP Award (Programming)
- Numerous recordings
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The session at 1 p.m. Saturday is the most important seminar among more than 200 scheduled at the exposition.
After all, there will be little need in the Bay Area for all that gear on display at 400 exhibits if anglers don't get involved with efforts to halt the massive diversion of water from the Delta that is killing Northern California's fisheries.
And unless Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger comes to his senses, the imperiled salmon, striper and delta smelt fisheries will go belly up as he builds new dams and a peripheral canal to divert even more water to agricultural interests down south.
USAFishing.com's Mike Aughney, a Marin water district foreman, will moderate the forum, which includes noted fishery advocates: John Beuttler of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance; Dan Bacher of the Fish Sniffer newspaper; Jim Martin, former Oregon fisheries chief; Coastside Fishing Club's Dan Wolford, who serves on the federal Pacific Fishery Management Council; and Dick Poole of Water4Fish.Ê
The panel discussion about fishery mismanagement, water diversion schemes, plans to outlaw fishing in key coastal areas and what you can do to fight back, takes place at the exposition's Sportfishing Theater.
While you're there, be sure to sign the Water4Fish petition demanding that politicians protect our fisheries by
Since it is clear that if there are no fish, there will be no fishermen, anglers must seize every chance to flex their political and economic clout. Preserving and restoring fisheries pays off big time: A new California Trout study says anglers spend more than $2 billion a year on fishing in California alone.
If you can't attend the show, check out www.water4fish.org
Tickets to the San Mateo show cost $12 - in addition to a $7 parking fee.
- The first couple people to reach me on the phone in the Independent Journal newsroom Friday morning will get free tickets to the San Mateo show.
Tides are decent and rains have sweetened and churned the bay, putting sturgeon on the prowl. San Pablo Bay prospects are excellent.
Loch Lomond's Keith Fraser took a crew out this week, hooking four sturgeon in two hours, including an 82-inch creature hauled in by Rico Petri of Fairfax. A fish brought to the boat by a Berkeley graduate student, who is writing a thesis on sturgeon, also pushed seven feet.
"Those are monster fish," Fraser said, noting both were promptly released. Fraser was looking for a legal fish from 46 to 66 inches long to use during a filleting demonstration at his annual sturgeon seminar Jan. 26 at the Marin Rod and Gun Club.
Sturgeon are slow-growing senior citizens of the bay and should be regarded as a catch-and-release fishery regardless of length. Let them go to spawn and fight again another day.
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March 1, 2010
Abilities of Nationally Recognized Golfers With Disabilities Showcased During Adaptive Golf Challenge
Augusta, GA—Dennis Walters is a trick golfer who can hit precision shots blindfolded, through fire, and with unusual golf clubs made from a fishing rod or radiator hose, while Brad Clayton is a PGA Master Professional who has been named The Carolinas Section Teacher of the Year.
But their golf expertise isn’t their only similarity. Both Walters and Clayton have had to overcome disabilities to achieve their successes. Walters is paralyzed from the waist down, and Clayton is a right-arm amputee. Their love of the game of golf has fueled their dedication to demonstrate that golf is a sport that can be enjoyed by people in all walks of life, even those who may never have believed it would be possible to play.
Which makes them the perfect ambassadors to kick off the State Farm Adaptive Golf Challenge on Monday, April 5 (the Monday of Masters Week), presented by the Walton Foundation for Independence. The 6th annual event teams golfers with acquired disabilities from across the region with community golf enthusiasts for a day of friendly, competitive play. It also helps raise awareness of the benefit of sports and leisure programs for those with acquired disabilities like spinal cord injury, brain injury and more. “The ultimate goal of the Walton Foundation is to bring people with physical challenges closer to independence and to a meaningful life with family, friends and communities,” said Leslie Glass, Vice President of Development for the Walton Foundation for Independence.
In addition, the event is a fund-raiser for two Walton Foundation programs: Camp To Be Independent, a weeklong summer camp for children and young adults ages 8 to 21 who have sustained traumatic brain injuries, and monthly Adaptive Golf Clinics, which provide specially designed equipment and volunteer golf instructors to help those ages 15 and older with acquired disabilities learn or return to the game of golf. Last year’s event raised about $9,000 for both programs.
On Monday, April 5, Walters and Clayton will kick off the Adaptive Golf Challenge at The First Tee of Augusta with a demonstration and mini golf clinic that is open to the public and is from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. The event will also feature remarks by honorary chair, Augusta native and Champions Tour golfer Jim Dent and other distinguished guests. Registration for the Challenge will begin at 10:30 a.m. at the Augusta Municipal Golf Course. Sponsors include News12.
For golfers with acquired disabilities, adaptive carts are available for those who need them and participation in the Challenge is free (golfers must meet certain criteria). The Foundation is also accepting registrations for teams of community golfers. For information on how to participate in or support the Adaptive Golf Challenge, please call Vicki Greene at (706) 823-8584 or email email@example.com
Note to Media: To schedule interviews with Dennis Walters, Brad Clayton or a representative from the Walton Foundation for Independence, please contact Danielle Wong Moores at 706-434-1050.
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Last year I saw an amazing demonstration. Psykopaint was a web app, but no ordinary web app. This was an incredible photo-editing site which allowed users to turn their photos into “painted” works of art in the style of the masters such as Monet, Renoir or Van Gogh. It was showcased at the European accelerator Seedcamp, where Balderton Capital and Atlas Venture are investors. And sure enough, today Psykosoft, the company behind Psykopaint, inks a $500,000 seed funding round co-led by Balderton Capital and Atlas Venture. Angel investors from Harmonix (developers of Guitar Hero) and Brightcove also participated.
If Instagram is about stylizing photos, and Draw Something is about silly sketches, Psykopaint is about showing of your skills as a great master painter. “the goal is to make an artist out of everyone,” says Mathieu Gosselin, founder and CEO of Psykosoft.
Right now the app attracts over one million visitors per month and user rates are doubling every few weeks, says the company. So far 13 million people have used the site and about 2,500 paintings are uploaded to the gallery every day.
Gosselin says he plans to use the funding to build out the company’s existing apps on iPad and Windows 8, develop new products, and recruit.
Psykopaint works around digital goods, a model similar to Zynga games. You earn points for performing certain actions or you can buy some if you want to speed up the process.
Gosselin plans to run the company decentralised as they plan to hire talent globally.
On its future in tablets Gosselin also told us: “We focus on where we think there’s a market and for tablets we’re not sure there’s one for android (for tablets at least).”
On the product side Psykopaint just changed its model from a subscription based to digital goods.
“So now the next steps will be new brushes (including a totally new technique that we call remix brush) and new content like effects, features. We also plan improvements in the community like the ability to paint over someone else work and build a marketplace where our best painters will be able to sell their work,” he says.
Psykopaint is software which allows users to create amazing paintings with no skills. It works by sampling the colors of an image and applying it automatically to your brush, so you don’t need to worry about it and focus on a style you like. Psykopaint could be described as a mix of Corel Painter and Photoshop on LSD, or maybe the first creative entertainment software or a i’m-a-DIY-awesome-artist-in-5-minutes software, but it is so new and cool that we find it ourselves...
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The Center for Disease Control (CDC) continues to be concerned that our germaphobia is creating a far more dangerous situation than the one we are theoretically trying to prevent. With the rising use of antibacterial household cleaners we are creating super germs, which are becoming more and more resistant to our efforts to rid ourselves of them. We are also killing the beneficial bacteria we need to maintain a healthy environment.
Antibacterial cleaners were originally developed for use in hospitals and medical facilities, but have since been marketed aggressively for home use with substantial success. Most households use antibacterial products with regularity even though no one in the home is ill. The CDC has repeatedly said that there is no scientific evidence that shows that the use of antibacterial cleaners have any significant effect on the reduction of illnesses in a family over that of ordinary soap and water.
We are also seeing more bacteria resistant to antibiotics as well. We tend to think that every time we become ill the doctor should prescribe a miracle in the form of a pill or shot which will cure us instantly. This has led to the over use of antibiotics which in turn is creating resistant strains of bacteria.
With the rise in incidences of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylcoccus aureus (cMRSA) we are seeing evidence that the super bug issue is a real one.
Can we be too clean? Apparently we can.
Discuss this post at LawCo Talk
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Bobby Chinn first arrived in Vietnam 15 years ago after noticing a lack of Western-influenced restaurants. He’s now the chef and owner of the Hanoi-based Restaurant Bobby Chinn. Among a wild array of other things, Chinn has been the host of World Café Asia and World Café Middle East, and is the author of “Wild, Wild, East,” a book about Vietnamese cooking.
AsianSupper (AS): You were one of the first foreign chefs to set up in Hanoi -- what originally attracted you to Vietnam? And what’s kept you interested?
Bobby Chinn (BC): I was just a kid during the Vietnam War so I didn't really know much about what we were fighting for, like most Americans. My father suggested that I come out and have a look and I was very privileged to visit when I did, which was around 1992-3 as the country was in transition from moving away from a central market economy to a free market economy. I traveled to many different provinces and cities and read their history and developed an even great respect for the people. It was a very special time, there was no industrial expansion, the air was clean, most people were on bicycles, and there was no traffic, no litter or all the waste that capitalism brings. Everything moved slower, the food was cheap, there was a great sense of happiness, a very youthful market where people seemed to be content if not happy. Then there is the food, and I really do love the variety and quality of food here. In a nutshell, I fell in Love with Vietnam, and 16 years later, that feeling has not changed. I was able to be who ever I wanted to be, and this allowed me to make my dream come true.
AS: In the 15 years you’ve been in Hanoi, in what ways has the food scene changed (or not changed)?
BC: The proliferation of restaurants on all levels. Whether it is a one dish wonder, new concept like doner kebabs or gigantic seafood restaurants, the restaurant scene has changed just as dramatically as the skyline. There are more foreign chefs and foreign restaurant owners then before, so the variety of ethnic food has also expanded. The street food has changed a lot, where many vendors gave up selling local dishes from their houses to consumer electronics, or the rising price of real estate is sending some of those out of business. There is also a movement to prevent the walking vendors from setting up shops on the sidewalks, especially the old quarter, although there is a lot of resistance to this as it is part of the culture. Maybe they will follow Singapore and Malaysia, where they developed food court concepts. Farmers are also growing produce that was not available before, and the variety keeps on expanding. Imported meats, seafood and dairy are now readily available.
AS: Free association time! Describe Vietnamese food with the first 5 words you think of.
BC: Fresh, light, healthy, contemporary with a lot of contrast (in color and textures)
AS: What’s your daily routine when you’re in Hanoi? What markets do you hit and what do you look for?
BC: I have travelled so much that my routine has been lost and only recently have I been able to try and get back into a routine with discipline. I like to get up early and go to yoga class at 6:45 am. I then work out for another 45 minutes then I take a long walk around the lake. I swing by the restaurant and check up on the kitchen and make sure that everything is working. I generally do email and admin just before lunch, pop in and either help out for service or plan additions to the menu and new dishes. (This is usually done after service.)
When I am in Hanoi, I generally greet our guests by the door or the dining room to get feedback on service and food. I could be cooking, I could be waiting tables, or even bussing them, it really depends on where I feel I can help the operation. Sometimes however, being in the capital I am invited to events ranging from National days, cultural events, wine tastings, launches etc. Many of the wet markets have been closed down in favor of supermarkets. Most of my suppliers have moved to different areas, so its no longer the one stop shopping wet market I used to have. I have long-standing relationships with my suppliers and they know my standards so I don’t visit the markets with the same frequency as when I first moved here.
AS: You recently moved your restaurant from its original location on 1 Ba Trieu Street location to 77 Xuan Dieu Street. What was behind the move, and did you think of starting anew elsewhere in or outside of Vietnam?
BC: My rent increased to the point that it would not be economically viable to stay at the location. I moved the restaurant to my house as a temporary measure as I had developed the infrastructure over 8 years and felt a great obligation to our dedicated staff which had become an extended family to me and the idea of closing and leaving them didn't seem right. I would have felt guilty if I just closed down altogether. This was supposed to be a holding pattern while a better location opened up. I would have liked to have done something in Singapore at the IR, as I have a lot of faith in how things work over there. The Singapore Tourism Board is doing a lot to encourage tourism and the local market love food. I would open in a heartbeat if the right deal came my way.
AS: Where do you think the most interesting cooking is happening right now?
BC: I am biased towards San Francisco because they have taken sustainable organic farming to a level where the ingredients do all the work, and the entire city seems to be serious foodies. As far as technique finesse etc., Spain, France and Japan are high on the list, but I think there are talented chefs all over the world, some are known but the majority are unknown. You can name a city and say there are great chefs in San Francisco, New York, Sydney, London, Paris, Madrid, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong etc. These chefs, their food and ideas are not limited to the geography from where they made a name for themselves. With the Internet, trade magazines, cookbooks, u-tube which allows many to replicate, or borrow techniques without leaving their own backyard. There are some great restaurants in Singapore and KL etc. and there are many young passionate cooks that are busy learning all these ideas, techniques and finesse knowing that one day that they are going to make a name for themselves and pop up on the international scene as creating cutting edge food in the middle of some place you’ve never heard about.
AS: Your cooking has been described as Californian/French/Vietnamese. How would you describe your cooking? Are you bringing in different influences these days?
BC: I think as a cook we evolve, or stagnate and I am committed to pressing the envelope in trying new things. Filming World Cafe Asia changed the way I look at food. I am moving towards more sustainable ingredients, back to the roots, the basics. I am trying to let the ingredients play the central role and make food healthy where medicine is food and food is medicine. My menu is moving towards more global comfort food with Californian sensibilities. It’s more about execution then the creativity of it all as I see my customers are looking for the basics. I am trying to make my food lighter, more nutritious bringing out the natural flavors with great presentation. I have tasted so many wonderful dishes filming and that was so inspiring, that I want to make such dishes possible where the product mix becomes more important then the actual creativity.
The French Vietnamese thing was my ego food. As if my food needed an explanation of what it is and what inspired me to cook it, create it etc. To show where the ideas came from or the influences that changed the dish. Then in season 2 and 3 of World Cafe Asia I changed. I could eat sushi anywhere in the world, but is it right? I went diving and saw the destruction of the coral reefs and visited fish markets all over Asia and the Middle East to see endangered species being sold. I don’t want to make gastro-porn, where I take a non sustainable product and dress it up on a plate and make it look sexy. You are either part of the solution, or part of the problem and I want to develop creative alternatives that are part of the solution.
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[This is] the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord.
This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: "Write down on a scroll all the words that I have spoken to you,
for the days are certainly coming"-[this is] the Lord's declaration-"when I will restore the fortunes of My people Israel and Judah"-the Lord's declaration. "I will restore them to the land I gave to their ancestors and they will possess it."
These are the words the Lord spoke to Israel and Judah.
Yes, this is what the Lord says: We have heard a cry of terror, of dread-there is no peace.
Ask and see whether a male can give birth. Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor and every face turned pale?
How awful that day will be! There will be none like it! It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be delivered out of it.
"On that day"-[this is] the declaration of the Lord of Hosts-"I will break his yoke from your neck and snap your fetters so strangers will never again enslave him.
They will serve the Lord their God and I will raise up David their king for them."
As for you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid- [this is]*The bracketed text has been added for clarity. the Lord's declaration- and do not be dismayed, Israel, for I will without fail save you from far away, your descendants, from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return and have calm and quiet with no one to frighten him.
For I will be with you- [this is]*The bracketed text has been added for clarity. the Lord's declaration- to save you! I will bring destruction on all the nations where I have scattered you; however, I will not bring destruction on you. I will discipline you justly, but I will by no means leave you unpunished.
For this is what the Lord says: Your injury is incurable; your wound most severe.
No one takes up the case for your sores. You have nothing that can heal you.
All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer look for you, for I have struck you like an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your enormous guilt and your innumerable sins.
Why do you cry out about your injury? Your pain has no cure! I have done these things to you because of your enormous guilt and your innumerable sins.
Nevertheless, all who devoured you will be devoured, and all your adversaries-all of them- will go off into exile. Your despoilers will become spoil, and all who plunder you will be plundered.
But I will bring you health and will heal you of your wounds- [this is]*The bracketed text has been added for clarity. the Lord's declaration- for they call you The Outcast, that Zion no one cares about.
This is what the Lord says: I will certainly restore the fortunes of Jacob's tents and show compassion on his dwellings. Every city will be rebuilt on its mound; every citadel will stand on its proper site.
Thanksgiving will come out of them, a sound of celebration. I will multiply them, and they will not decrease; I will honor them, and they will not be insignificant.
His children will be as in past days; his congregation will be established in My presence. I will punish all his oppressors.
Jacob's leader will be one of them; his ruler will issue from him. I will invite him to Me, and he will approach Me, for who would otherwise risk his life to approach Me? [This is]*The bracketed text has been added for clarity. the Lord's declaration.
You will be My people, and I will be your God.
Look, a storm from the Lord! Wrath has gone forth. A churning storm, it will whirl about the head of the wicked.
The Lord's burning anger will not turn back until He has completely fulfilled the purposes of His heart. In time to come you will understand it.
"At that time"-[this is] the Lord's declaration-"I will be God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people."
This is what the Lord says: They found favor in the wilderness- the people who survived the sword. [When] Israel went to find rest,
the Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore, I have continued to extend faithful love to you.
Again I will build you so that you will be rebuilt, Virgin Israel. You will take up your tambourines again and go forth in joyful dancing.
You will plant vineyards again on the mountains of Samaria; the planters will plant and will enjoy [the fruit].
For there will be a day when watchmen will call out in the hill country of Ephraim: Get up, let's go up to Zion, to the Lord our God!
For this is what the Lord says: Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the chief of the nations! Proclaim, praise, and say: Lord, save Your people, the remnant of Israel!
Watch! I am going to bring them from the northern land. I will gather them from remote regions of the earth- the blind and the lame will be with them, along with those who are pregnant and those about to give birth. They will return here as a great assembly!
They will come weeping, but I will bring them back with consolation. I will lead them to wadis [filled] with water by a smooth way where they will not stumble, for I am Israel's Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.
Nations, hear the word of the Lord, and tell it among the far off coastlands! Say: The One who scattered Israel will gather him. He will watch over him as a shepherd [guards] his flock,
for the Lord has ransomed Jacob and redeemed him from the power of one stronger than he.
They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant with joy because of the Lord's goodness, because of the grain, the new wine, the fresh oil, and because of the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like an irrigated garden, and they will no longer grow weak [from hunger].
Then the virgin will rejoice with dancing, while young and old men [rejoice] together. I will turn their mourning into joy, give them consolation, and [bring] happiness out of grief.
I will give the priests their fill with abundance, and My people will be satisfied with My goodness. [This is] the Lord's declaration.
This is what the Lord says: A voice was heard in Ramah, a lament with bitter weeping- Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children because they are no more.
This is what the Lord says: Keep your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for the reward for your work will come- [this is]*The bracketed text has been added for clarity. the Lord's declaration- and your children will return from the enemy's land.
There is hope for your future- [this is]*The bracketed text has been added for clarity. the Lord's declaration- and your children will return to their own territory.
I have heard Ephraim moaning: You disciplined me, and I have been disciplined like an untrained calf. Restore me, and I will return, for you, Lord, are my God.
After I returned, I repented; After I was instructed, I struck my thigh [in grief]. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.
Isn't Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Whenever I speak against him, I certainly still think about him. Therefore, My inner being yearns for him; I will truly have compassion on him. [This is] the Lord's declaration.
Set up road markers for yourself; establish signposts! Keep the highway in mind, the way you have traveled. Return, Virgin Israel! Return to these cities of yours.
How long will you turn here and there, faithless daughter? For the Lord creates something new in the land- a female will shelter a man.
This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: "When I restore their fortunes, they will once again speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities: May the Lord bless you, righteous settlement, holy mountain.
Judah and all its cities will live in it together-also farmers and those who move with the flocks-
for I satisfy the thirsty person and feed all those who are weak."
At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.
"The days are coming"-[this is] the Lord's declaration-"when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast.
Just as I watched over them to uproot and to tear them down, to demolish and to destroy, and to cause disaster, so will I be attentive to build and to plant them," says the Lord.
"In those days, it will never again be said: The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
Rather, each will die for his own wrongdoing. Anyone who eats sour grapes-his own teeth will be set on edge.
"Look, the days are coming"-[this is] the Lord's declaration-"when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
[This one will] not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt-a covenant they broke even though I had married them"-the Lord's declaration.
"Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days"-the Lord's declaration. "I will place My law within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be My people.
No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying: Know the Lord, for they will all know Me, from the least to the greatest of them"-the Lord's declaration. "For I will forgive their wrongdoing and never again remember their sin."
This is what the Lord says: The One who gives the sun for light by day, the fixed order of moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea and makes its waves roar- the Lord of Hosts is His name:
If this fixed order departs from My presence- [this is]*The bracketed text has been added for clarity. the Lord's declaration- then also Israel's descendants will cease to be a nation before Me forever.
This is what the Lord says: If the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below explored, I will reject all of Israel's descendants because of all they have done- [this is] the Lord's declaration.
"Look, the days are coming"-the Lord's declaration-"when the city from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate will be rebuilt for the Lord.
A measuring line will once again stretch out straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn toward Goah.
The whole valley-the corpses, the ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron Valley to the corner of the Horse Gate to the east-will be holy to the Lord. It will never be uprooted or demolished again."
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The first priority of Child and Family Services is to maintain children at home with their family, if they can safely do so. If a child cannot safely remain at home, the next best option is placement in the home of someone familiar – a kinship caregiver. Kinship caregivers are preferred placements for children due to their knowledge of and relationship with the family and the child. Because of their personal attachment to the child, kinship caregivers are generally willing to provide a permanent home for children who are unable to return home.
When kinship caregivers are identified, Child and Family Services will conduct an assessment to determine the ability and willingness of the kinship caregivers to promote safety, well-being, stability, and permanency for the child. When children are placed with a kinship caregiver, the relative can become a licensed foster care provider in order to get extra supports and services, while custody of the children remains with Child and Family Services. Custody can also be given to the relative, with the court often ordering In-Home Services be provided by Child and Family Services. We encourage kinship caregivers to become licensed foster parents so they will have the extra supports they need as they begin to care for the child.
If you have any questions about Kinship Care, please contact:
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New York, NY (PRWEB) December 07, 2012
All of England is delighted by the news of Kate’s pregnancy, especially coming a little more than a year after the royal wedding in April 2011. Although Kate’s pregnancy didn’t occur as quickly as Princess Diana’s pregnancy, which happened 100 days after her wedding, Dr. Bonnie warns that the relationship could follow the same pattern of joy, acceptance, tension, and finally break up if Prince William and Kate aren’t careful.
“The introduction of a baby creates a relationship triangle with any marriage,” Dr. Bonnie says. “The tragedy is that a baby causes nearly 70 percent of all couples to break up.” According to Dr. Fogarty (http://bit.ly/TDXwFw), relationship triangles can be one of the most difficult problems any couple faces with the introduction of a new baby.
Dr. Bonnie recommends that couples avoid relationship triangles, but this isn’t always possible, especially in the case of children. “William and Kate need to work together as a couple because the number one problem a baby causes is to take away each person’s attention from each other,” Dr. Bonnie says.
To minimize the effect of any relationship triangle, especially the introduction of a baby into a marriage, Dr. Bonnie recommends that couples follow three simple steps.
First, set aside 10 minutes with your partner to share your feelings about how the new baby is affecting your relationship with each other. Most importantly, share your feelings with no judgment or blame.
Second, when 10 minutes is up, kiss for 30 seconds and hug for 20 seconds so each partner feels loved and positive afterwards.
Third, schedule another 10-minute appointment to find a solution that the introduction of the baby may be causing for both partners. Often times, working together to resolve a problem can relieve any anxiety one person might feel about the relationship triangle, and that will increase the chances that the couple will stay together and bring their baby up in a loving and intact family no matter what the challenges may be.
To learn more about recognizing the warning signs of any relationship problem, such as domestic violence, and learn Dr. Bonnie’s Smart Heart skills for saving almost any relationship, Dr. Bonnie offers her book, “Make Up, Don’t Break Up.”
Find further advice from Dr. Bonnie, named Best Local New York Therapist by the US Commerce Association two years in a row, in her “5 Star Video Contributor" via YouTube/Google http://bit.ly/Ywwunw
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Exploring with MAPEH boasts of an encompassing coverage of music, art, physical education, and health!
The series aims to provide the students with up-to-date information, fresh inputs, and skill-enhancing activities that will arouse their interest in music, nurture their creative potential in art, build up physical fitness, promote consciousness about their own health, and ultimately develop their well-being.
Our World of MAPEH series is aligned with the Department of Education's latest curriculum. The series aims to foster the learners' appreciation of the arts, improve their creativity and thinking skills, and help them become healthy and productive citizens.
Each textbook in the series is bundled with an audio CD for a more enriching study of Music, P.E., and Health!
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"This movement is going to keep growing. You've got millions and millions of pissed-off Americans," filmmaker Michael Moore predicted at the first occupation of Wall Street Sept. 17. Deepak Chopra, also present, encouraged a spirit of compassion, claiming that the injustices were "created by fear and greed" and that a protest conducted in anger will only perpetrate more fear and greed and anger. "Ask yourself internally," said Chopra, "What kind of world do you want to live in?"
I can only answer after counting to 10, because injustice always makes me angry.
Solidarity occupation groups are organizing all over the country, from New York to Napa—and, on Saturday, Oct. 15, at 2pm, at Santa Rosa's City Hall. Whether or not Chopra shows up, if I'm asked what kind of world I want to live in, it's a world where executives who create a false economic boom face criminal charges. Rolling Stone reported March 3 that of those executives who created "an industrywide scam that involved the mass sale of mismarked, fraudulent mortgage-backed securities," not one was prosecuted "except Bernie Madoff, a flamboyant and pathological celebrity con artist whose victims happened to be other rich and famous people."
Pam Silleman, coordinator of the Napa Tea Party, admires the enthusiasm of the protesters. "I think a lot of the issues they have are the same issues the Tea Party supporters have," Silleman says, adding that Pennsyvania Avenue and Wall Street are on the same team. SocialistWorker.org expressed in an Oct. 3 blog, "Occupy Wall Street and its sister actions around the country have become lightning rods, drawing people fed up with every aspect of a world dominated by the greed and power of the 'one percent' on Wall Street and at the top of U.S. society."
Ali McGee, college senior, is part of the Occupy Humboldt (State University) settlement, where she and a fluctuating population of between five and 45 others have been living since Oct. 1. "We can't legally sleep on campus or use tents, so we use pop-ups with no sides," explains McGee. "A few volunteer to stay up and wake everyone when the campus police come by so we aren't technically sleeping here. We're working to pass a referendum to be able to stay here indefinitely. It's cold and dark and rainy up here in the winter, so that ought to say something about the commitment we share." Farmers bring organic vegetables to the protesters, who are working cooperatively with the University, Veterans for Peace and Occupy Arcata.
"I keep hearing from people who're frustrated and disgruntled, and they find commonality under this banner," says McGee. "We're the 99 percent fighting the 1 percent."
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(PhysOrg.com) -- “For the first time, fields of study relating both to cold atoms and to the nanoscale have intersected,” Lene Vestergaard Hau tells PhysOrg.com. “Even though both have been active areas of research, cold atoms have not been brought together with nanoscale structures at the single nanometer level. This is a totally new system.”
Hau is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University. Along with colleague J.A. Golovchenko, and graduate students Anne Goodsell and Trygve Ristroph, who are in her lab at Harvard, Hau was able to set up an experiment that allows for the observation of capture and field ionization of cold atoms. Their work can be found in Physical Review Letters: “Field Ionization of Cold Atoms near the Wall of a Single Carbon Nanotube.”
“What we observed has a number of interesting fundamental and practical implications,” Hau says. “We even compare the effects to those of a black hole.” She is quick to point out, though, that the atomic scale black hole effect is not gravitational. “It’s an effect created by an electric field, that creates a singular pull on an atom and ultimately rips it apart. Those dynamics have similarities to what happens in a black hole.”
In order to create the effect, Hau and her team grew a single-walled carbon nanotube in their lab. The nanotube was long — 10 microns — and freely suspended. The nanotube was also charged up to 300 volts, a highly unusual situation for a nanotube. Cold atoms were then introduced into the vacuum chamber holding the nanotube. “We launched a cold atom cloud toward the nanotube, and because of its charge, atoms were sucked in and captured,” Hau explains.
Once captured, an atom begins on a spiraling path, orbiting more and more rapidly, until it is ripped apart very close to the nanotube. The electron is sucked in, and a positive ion is shot off at a high energy. This ion is detected when it is ejected by the nanotube.
“When the electron is pulled in, it goes through a tunneling process,” Hau explains. “It has to go through areas that are classically forbidden. The process is quantum mechanical. We can observe the interaction of the atom and the nanotube as the electron is trying to tunnel, and this offers us a chance to peek at some of the interesting dynamics that happen at the nanoscale.”
Another possibility is that this combination of cold atoms with nanoscale structures could lead to new states of matter. “Since we now know how to suck atoms into orbit at such high spin rates, it could lead to a new state of cold-atomic matter that could be super interesting to study,” Hau points out.
Practically, this new system has potential as well. “We could make very sensitive detectors,” Hau says. “Things like ‘atom sniffers’ that detect trace gases could be an application for this work. Additionally, the possibility of single nanometer precision means super high spatial resolution. This system could be used in interferometers — interferometers built on a single chip and based on cold atoms, which would be of importance for navigation, for example.”
For now, though, Hau and her group are focusing on refining their technique. “We want to pursue both the fundamental aspect of creating new cold-matter states, and the development of sensitive detectors. This is something really new, and it has the potential to be developed into practical applications.”
Explore further: An environmentally friendly battery made from wood
More information: Anne Goodsell, et. al., “Field Ionization of Cold Atoms near the Wall of a Single Carbon Nanotube,” Physical Review Letters (2010). Available online: link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.133002
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Barack Obama has taken the reins, he is behind the wheel, with a delicate foot on the gas pedal. The American family Mini Van is on a new journey. With President-Elect Obama at the wheel, Rahm Emanuel riding shotgun, and the back of the van is loaded with the children of an American President.
This is a big family so the van has three rows of seats. In the first seat behind the driver there sits a CEO, a Union Boss, and an Army General. The second row seats a Hispanic immigrant, a pregnant teen, and a working mother. The third row is in chaos with a Catholic, a white baptist, and a black baptist. Everyone is shouting, “Are we there yet?”
All of the children were accidental – none of them were planned and none of them were aborted. The family is what it is. And no child will be left behind.
So what is a child? How do we think about children? Children are charming, charismatic, funny, innocent, happy. Each has a unique personality – none better or worse than another. And they each have their own destination. Some play soccer, some basketball, some volleyball (hockey is not allowed). Some like education with some excelling in science and math. Others think education is a bore – and particularly reject the idea of science. Some prefer the superstition of religion, some think in practical terms of cost benefit.
None of them are right or wrong. They are who they are – and this is what makes the family so much fun on the holidays.
But the holiday season will end on January 20, 2009. President Elect Obama has listened to each of the children and believes he understands their variety of needs and wants. Obama has told Rahm Emanuel where he wants to go – the destination he believes is best for each of his brood of children. The Mini Van is not fuel efficient so the trip will have to be well planned. Rahm is checking his map, charting a course, maximizing time, minimizing distance.
“Are we there yet?” The Van is not yet out of the garage and the children are complaining. The CEO, Union Boss, and Army General are leaning forward – speaking directly to the driver. Each of them is afraid the other will get to their destination first. The adolescent power struggle is on.
The back seat is in chaos with the Catholics and baptists arguing over the bottled water. They will ride the van for eternity rather than give up their right to sprinkle the water or to immerse themselves. Their noise is a mere distraction to the driver. Toddlers are like that.
The middle seat, like all middle children, feels ignored. The immigrant, the pregnant teen, and the working mother know they are not priorities. They wish for an audience with the parent – but they recognize their place in the world. And they quietly acquiesce to the adolescents in the front row.
The highways are full of pot holes, some bridges are near collapse, and the traffic lights are not synchronized. The family rides through the neighborhoods of the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Europe. Waters are rising from ice melts in the arctics, threatening the unstable bridges of humanity’s highways.
The driver is steady. He checks the map, and nods his approval. Yes, he says, I think we can get everyone to their destination on time.Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
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A new technique enables the conversion of an ordinary camera into a light-field camera capable of recording high-resolution, multiperspective images.
The Institute-wide Planning Task Force, which has been studying ways to reduce costs, boost revenues and increase MIT's effectiveness, will describe the recommendations of its various working groups in a report that will be made available to the MIT community later this summer.
The initial findings of the nine working groups that make up the Task Force were presented to Academic Council in June. Following further refinement in the weeks ahead, a full report will be distributed to the MIT community in August. Community members who wish to comment on the report's recommendations will have the opportunity to do so via the Idea Bank (http://ideabank.mit.edu), the online forum that earlier this year collected more than 1,000 proposals from students, faculty and staff.
"We're very pleased with the caliber of ideas that have emerged from this collaborative process," said Associate Provost Martin A. Schmidt, who is coordinating the work of the Task Force along with Vice Chancellor and Dean for Graduate Education Steven R. Lerman and Vice President for Finance Israel Ruiz. "We think it is critical that we make our report public this summer so that we can hear back from the community and prepare to begin taking action in the fall."
The report is expected to become the basis of a plan that will span several years. Some of the recommendations in the report are likely to begin soon, others will require several months, and yet others may take years to evaluate and implement.
Chancellor Phillip L. Clay, Provost L. Rafael Reif and Executive Vice President and Treasurer Theresa M. Stone formed the Task Force in response to the decline in revenues as a result of the global economic crisis. The committee and its working groups are charged with identifying and assessing opportunities to reduce MIT's expenses by $50-$100 million over the next two to three years, starting with the 2011 fiscal year. These reductions will follow an initial $50 million expense reduction already underway for FY 2010.
The Task Force and the working groups have developed a number of high-impact ideas related to new educational opportunities for MIT, gaining efficiencies, and modernizing many Institute processes. These recommendations reflect the collaborative efforts of faculty, staff, and students who brought their experience and knowledge to address problems in creative ways that might not have been evident with only one office or area examining the challenge.
To learn more about the Task Force, please visit http://web.mit.edu/instituteplanning/taskforce.html.
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You can say poop is poop no matter where it comes from, but it is cat poop that you really have to be concerned with when you are pregnant. Outdoor cats have a tendency to eat more wild animals....catch a parasite which causes "toxoplasmosis". It is passed on by their poop easier because of where they poop...litter boxes or your garden....or your kid's sandbox. They bury it with their feet and track around with it on them. Can you tell I don't like cats?
If you were infected you could have a high fever, swollen lymph system, vision disturbances....
I would say you are safe unless your little dog has had some road kill lately??
Good luck and congrats on your pregnancy!!!
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It was in January 1840 that the first number of Y Cenhadwr appeared. The Oneida Assembly of Welsh Congregationalists had for some time had under consideration the establishment of a monthly magazine for their denomination. In their Assembly in September 1839, Robert Everett, James Griffiths and Morris Roberts, the three strongest ministers of the district, were given the work of founding and editing such a paper. Circular letters were sent out asking support for the enterprise. The burden of the work from the first, as well as the expense, rested upon Dr. Everett, and in the Assembly of 1842 it was resolved that Y Cenhadwr was the property of Robert Everett and that from that time it should be carried on in his name and at his expense. The ministers resolved to support him in this in every way possible, beginning by addressing a letter to the people saying that they had seen by that time the difficulty of carrying on a magazine through a society, that no monetary return as to be expected, Dr. Everett having given his services as editor for the first two years without pay and even without his expenses paid. (21) Though after this time the connection of the Congregational organization with Y Cenhadwr was severed, it still remained, under Everett's management, devoted to the interests of that denomination.
The first two volumes of Y Cenhadwr were printed in Utica by R. W. Roberts, but this arrangement Everett found very burdensome. There was no railroad between Steuben and Utica and the frequent journeys between the two places on horseback, necessitated by the need for his oversight when the paper was in the press, were very onerous for a man who, beside his editorial work, had the charge of two churches. He was therefore glad to avail himself of the services of his sons, John and Robert, Jr., who had just graduated from Oneida Institute at Whitesboro, where they had learned the printer's art. After being printed in Remsen village for two years, Y Cenhadwr was moved to their house. In the parlor of the little parsonage, which stood off alone on his little hill farm a short distance from his Steuben church, Everett set up the printing press. The whole work of getting out the paper was after that done in his own house. As Y Cenhadwr grew and other things beside were being printed at its office, the quarters in the parlor became cramped and a new room had to be found. To provide the needed space an addition was built to the house, in the lower part of which the press was set up and in the upper half story the extra copies of Y Cenhadwr were stored with the exchanges that were always coming in.
Everett and his sons, John and Robert, were not the only ones in the family who took part in getting out the magazine. All save the youngest children had some share in the work. The mother was as interested in the continuance and success of Y Cenhadwr as was Everett himself, for it was missionary work among the Welsh in America of the most necessary kind. It was by her insistence that the little fortune left her from Wales was used to support Y Cenhadwr when the receipts from subscribers were not sufficient to meet running expenses. The children with their mother aided in the preparation of the loose sheets of the magazine for mailing by sewing them together with the covers and then wrapping and addressing them. (22) They aided also by doing much proofreading and one of the daughters by typesetting. The third son, Lewis, also helped in the publication as soon as he had finished school. It was a family affair in which all of the members took as large a part as they were able.
In this way was Y Cenhadwr published. Its influence was growing continually in Wales (23) as well as in this country. Like Y Cyfaill the paper never obtained a large circulation, (24) but like it also, and for the same reasons, its influence was not measured by the number on its subscription lists. It was not a paying business, but a philanthropic enterprise on Everett's part. The use of Mrs. Everett's funds has already been mentioned. Not until the early seventies did there begin to be a profit from the paper, and even then it was not large.
Dr. Everett continued the publication of the paper until his death in 1875. His son, Lewis Everett, who had for some years assisted his father, then took up the management of the paper at his father's house. In a year he bought the paper of his mother and removed it to his own home nearby. He continued to publish it until his death, when Rev. Edward Davies, a Welsh Congregational minister, bought it in 1882. He was pastor of Peniel and Bethel churches at Remsen, where he published Y Cenhadwr. He later had charge of the Steuben church, Dr. Everett's old pastorate. Davies remained here until 1898, when he removed to Waterville, taking Y Cenhadwr with him. In these later years, Mr. Davies was unable to do the work of the paper and the burden of the publication fell upon his son-in-law, Hugh Hughes, now of the Utica Press. The paper was suspended in 1901, because of the decrease in Welsh readers and the difficulty in securing help familiar with the Welsh language. (25)
Y Cenhadwr from the beginning had been strong for temperance. Davies was a Prohibitionist, and the paper under his editorship reflected his views. Its part in the movement against slavery is discussed elsewhere. As befitted a paper for the Welsh and especially denominational paper, a large part of the space was given to religious subjects; theological points were discussed at length; notable sermons were frequently printed; much space was given to the memoirs of clergymen in Wales and America and many columns were filed with reports of the various church meetings held by the Welsh Congregationalists throughout the country. Always a part of the paper was given to news from Wales and Europe and usually some space was given to the general news in America, as well as to the missionary news in various parts of the world. The Welsh love of poetry and music was appealed to by two or three pages monthly of verses and, at intervals, the score of a new hymn. There were no stories nor anything that resembled them, save at times an account of a trip from Wales to America or between two points in America. Anything of lighter character would have been out of keeping with the spirit both of the paper and of the bulk of the people who received it. This was the character of the paper which for sixty years held the foremost place among the Welsh American publications.
Everett's fame rests upon Y Cenhadwr and the brilliance of that paper has outshone that of two other papers which for a time Everett edited, Y Dyngarwr (The Philanthropist) and Y Detholydd (The Eclectic). Y Dyngarwr, an eight page monthly devoted to anti-slavery and temperance, was issued for one year from January to December 1843. (26) It was in a way an overflow from Y Cenhadwr. The abolition sentiment so strongly expressed in that magazine had alienated many of its subscribers, particularly those who lived in the South. Everett, appreciating above all the importance to his denomination of a religious paper, did not think himself justified in jeopardizing the life of that publication even for the great principle of freedom. So Y Dyngarwr was started and during its existence much of the material which otherwise would have gone into Y Cenhadwr or have been rejected because of the lack of space, was incorporated in it. The price of the paper was fifty cents a year; to ministers of all denominations it was sent free. It did not obtain a large circulation (27) and soon proved to be too expensive a luxury. Everett had to give it up at the end of one year.
Y Detholydd also was a kind of overflow from Y Cenhadwr. It had a somewhat longer life than Y Dyngarwr, coming out monthly from July 1850 to June 1852. It was for the most part made up of selections from the Welsh publications of Wales. Most of the periodicals from the principality were now coming to Y Cenhadwr office in exchange and there was much in them which Everett wished to give to the Welsh in America but for which there was not room in Y Cenhadwr. Such selections, religious, historical and biographical, as well as much of a miscellaneous character, were brought together in Y Detholydd. It was a sixteen page paper and sold at fifty cents a year.
Of the three chief denominations among the Welsh Americans, it has now been seen how two acquired a magazine in their interest. The Baptists were yet to find an organ for their denomination. They have been weaker in numbers than the Calvinistic Methodists and the Congregationalists and this accounts for their failure to maintain successfully the magazine started in their interest.
Y Cyfaill had at first circulated widely among them and reports of their church meetings were given much space in its columns. It soon, however, became unsatisfactory for the Baptists and there was a general demand among them for a paper of their own. This appeared in Y Beread; neu Drysorfa'r Bedyddwyr (The Berean; or The Treasury of the Baptists). The first number was issued in January 1842, a sixteen page fortnightly, edited by the Rev. D. Phillips and printed by William Osborn in New York. It was two dollars a year. Mr. William Lewis, a grocer in New York, was the treasurer. In the last issue, that for December 1842, the paper had changed to a monthly. The editor expected to continue it the following year but it does not appear that any other copies were issued after this. Its death was due probably to lack of financial support.
The Baptists did not remain long without a periodical devoted to their interests. In July 1844 appeared the first number of Seren Orllewinol (Western Star) edited by W. F. Phillips, a Baptist minister of Utica, and printed by Evan E. Roberts. Mr. David R. Morgans of Utica was the treasurer. It was a sixteen page paper bound in yellow covers. After February, 1845, the Seren was issued from the press of R. W. Roberts of Utica. In May the editor left Utica and in the July issue there appeared the following notice; "Considering the removal from Utica of the Rev. W. F. Phillips, recent editor of the Seren, it was thought necessary by the Assembly of the Baptists in New York and the eastern part of Pennsylvania, which met last month at Pottsville and Carbondale, to choose new officers for the Seren and therefore it was resolved that Rev. J. P. Harris of Minersville should be the editor and the Rev. W. Morgan, Pottsville, the treasurer, and because of the settlement of the editor near Pottsville, it is necessary to move the office of the Seren from Utica…." (28) The next three or four copies were issued from the press of William Osborn, New York City; beginning December 1845, they were printed at the office of the Miners' Journal at Pottsville, Pa. J. P. Harris continued to edit the paper from Minersville until the end of the year 1848. With the January issue 1849, Richard Edwards took charge of it as publisher and editor. The paper continued under Edwards' editorship till the end. It never was of either the size or the importance of Y Cyfaill or Y Cenhadwr. Its circulation was small, less than a thousand, (29) and not very many of the subscribers were in Oneida County. Edwards finally gave up the paper with the December issue of 1867, selling it for one hundred dollars to Rev. J. J. Morton of Summit Hill, Penna. (30) The latter changed the name to Y Wasg (The Press) and issued seven numbers, when the publication of it was suspended. (31)
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy
Stieg Larsson Trilogy: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage, 2009), The Girl Who Played With Fire (Vintage, 2010), and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Knopf, 2010)
I've always marveled that some children reared in dysfunctional families grow up to be marvelous, well-adjusted human beings. Others born into loving homes choose an opposite path.
Those who have scratched their way to maturity--even happiness--against the odds now have a new model and patron saint in Lisbeth Salander, the female protagonist of Stieg Larsson's best-selling Swedish trilogy: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.
Purists will argue that a literary character cannot qualify as a saint. There was a time when I, too, delimited my spiritual world along the boundary line separating fact and fiction. A crack appeared in my dualistic standard in 1969, when the Catholic Church admitted that shaky evidence existed to support the historicity of some saints who had long enjoyed annual feast days. Among those was everyone's favorite co-pilot and dashboard bobble head, St. Christopher.
Humans, religious or not, have always drawn inspiration from both legend and historical people and events. So, why not adopt Lisbeth Salander as a saint for our time?
I won't give away the details of her life story here for the sake of those who haven't read the books. Personal discovery of her inner life, values, and unique, but finely tuned, morality is one of the trilogy's great rewards. But I give nothing away by saying that the universe dealt Salander one of the worst hands of any child, fictional or real.
Canonizing Salander challenges us to adjust our understanding about morality. By rigid standards, behaviors that enable her to survive as a functioning human being are immoral. But behavior alone does not determine morality.
For me, the most sensible and hallowed definition of morality is enshrined in my own Catholic tradition. Individual conscience is the final arbiter, superseding everything else. The essence of morality is being human in the best sense, according to each person's capability. Since we are made in God's image, whatever helps us to grow emotionally and spiritually--and thus become more like God--is moral. A decision or action is immoral that causes us to be less than the person God created us to be.
Co-protagonist Mikael Blomkvist says of Lisbeth, a murder suspect in The Girl Who Played with Fire, that she possesses a highly developed sense of morality.
By this he means that her moral compass is trustworthy, and she operates from this core principle. By what right, then, does anyone judge her choices, especially in light of the abuse she suffered as a child and teen from the very adults responsible for guiding and protecting her?
That she arrives at womanhood as a still-moral and functioning human being is miracle enough to merit this fictional character the title of patron for the 21st century.
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Oil, Energy and Middle East Project
The Institute is directing a joint project devoted to Oil and Energy and the Middle East. This is part of a multi-year joint effort by the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Princeton Environmental Institute to develop expertise and research excellence on three facets of the unequaled fossil fuel reserves in the Persian Gulf region. These are: 1) the geo-political and security considerations as well as the domestic politics of energy in the Gulf; 2) the economic and financial aspects of oil and gas markets; 3) the technological features and environmental implications of these particular reserves. TRI is running a speakers’ series related to the oil and energy project and hosting two research fellows. There are two themes we would like to focus on during this academic year: 1) the study of the effects of the recent petro-boom cycle, and now bust, and to compare this to the previous ones in the 1970s and 80s; 2) the study of the new industrialization policies of the Gulf countries as well as their food security policies. The two research fellows for the oil and energy project are: 1) Roger Stern who is working on the Iranian oil economy as well as US military doctrines with respect to force projection into the Persian Gulf; 2) Eckart Woertz of the Gulf Research Center in Dubai is completing a book on the politics of food security of the Gulf Cooperation Countries.
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An anti-abortion billboard on display in New York City’s Soho neighborhood has sparked a controversy over its message towards the African-American community.
The sign, which features an innocent looking black girl reads, “The most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb.”
The pro-life organization, Life Always, paid for the sign and defends its message as a way to bring attention to the high abortion rate in black communities. Pastor Stephen Broden, a Life Always board member, told reporters at a press conference on Wednesday that "it's hard to celebrate Black History Month" with abortion "hanging over our community."
Broden said the billboard’s message is meant to be a “proactive” way to bring attention to the issue that "abortion is out-pacing life in our community."
The billboard happens to be placed about a half mile from a Planned Parenthood’s Manhattan office. Critics noticed the location and lashed out at the message.
"They're attacking women for choosing abortion while simultaneously destroying family planning," said spokeswoman Mary Alice Carr for the New York-based National Institute for Reproductive Health. "Their hypocrisy is as large and as obnoxious as this billboard."
Rebecca Wind, a spokeswoman for the Guttmacher Institute, a New York-based research center for sexual and reproductive health told CNN that Life Always is probably considering statistics that say African-American women tend to have high abortion rates when compared to other demographic groups.
In Wind’s opinion the disparity is due in part to a "lack of adequate services" in many black communities, which "has resulted in more unintended pregnancies.”
Reverend Derek McCoy, another Life Always board member, was adamant when he told reporters something needs to be done about abortion in the black community and that the billboard "calling attention to a dramatic event."
"This is a truth and tragedy," he said. Of course critics disagree.
"The issue is here they are doing a campaign, targeting one group of women and making them feel guilty and shameful about family choices that they are making," Carr said. "You can't take a woman and lift her out of her experience."
Life Always plans to erect more billboards across the country.
After threats of protest outside the building the billboard was posted on, public saftey concerns were raised which forced Lamar Advertising, the company that rents the ad space, to pull the billboard. Hal Kilshaw, spokesperson for the Louisiana-based Lamar Advertising, said it was more a pulbic safety issue than controversy that caused them to pull the ad.
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Commemorations for Kiahk 29
On this day, of the year 551 of the world, as calculated by our glorious church, we celebrate the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Incarnate God in the Flesh from the virgin St. Mary. Through the Divine plan of God and His foreknowledge, Caesar Augustus issued a decree for a general census in all the Roman Empire. For that reason, Joseph rose, and the virgin with him, and went from the city of Nazareth to "Bethlehem" to be counted in the census there because he was from the tribe of Judah, from the house of David. Bethlehem was the city of David. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the Virgin gave birth to her first born child and she wrapped him in swaddling clothes and put him in a manger, for they did not have a place for them in the inn.
Now there were, in the same country, shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. Then the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all the people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David, a Savior, Who is Christ the Lord. And this will be the sign to you: you will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a manger." Suddenly there was, with the angel, a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying:
So it was, when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, that the shepherds said to one another, "Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us." And they came with haste and found the Babe, Mary, Joseph, and Salomi. The place was shining with light. Now when they had seen him, they made widely known the saying which was told them concerning this child. Then they worshipped the child and they returned, glorifying and praising God for all that they had heard and seen. (Luke 2:1-20)
On this day, the prophecies about the birth of the Lord from a chaste virgin had been fulfilled. Isaiah the prophet said, "Behold the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son and shall call His Name Immanuel." (Isaiah 7:14)
Ezekiel the prophet also said about this wonderful mystery, "And the Lord said to me, 'This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter by it, because the Lord God of Israel has entered by it, therefore it shall be shut."' (Ezekiel 44:2)
About this child, Daniel the prophet said, "I was watching in the night visions, and behold, One like the Son of Man, coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him. Then to Him was given dominion and glory and the Kingdom that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His Kingdom the one which shall not be destroyed." (Daniel 7:13-14)
Jeremiah the prophet said, "Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that I will raise to David a Branch of Righteousness; a King shall reign and prosper, and execute judgement and righteousness in the earth. In His days, Judah will be saved and Israel will dwell safely; Now this is His Name by which He will be called: The Lord Our Righteousness." (Jeremiah 23:5-6) We must therefore now direct our minds toward the manger of Bethlehem, where the Son of God was lying in it in the flesh at the time of His birth, contemplating in silence and reverence worthy of the mystery of the incarnation of God, and His birth in a manger for our salvation. Knowing that He teaches us through this mystery to despise the world and all the vain things in it, and that He urges us to be humble and to love our neighbor seeking his own good, and that we should live in virtue and holiness according to the Christian ethics; not ignoring the great dignity that has been granted to us by this Divine Incarnation.
Since we have kept this fast before the Advent, and have arrived at this glorious feast, we should receive it with purity and every good thing. We should extend our hand to comfort the weak, to help the poor, and to be instruments of peace and reconciliation among the people, taking our Lord Who has made an eternal peace by His Incarnation as our example. We should ask God in supplications to have compassion upon us and to forgive our sins, and to bless our gatherings, and to keep the life of His Holiness Pope ... , Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, to keep his pontificate for many years with the joy, peace and the safety of the church, and the advancement of his people in virtue. May God grant us many returns of this feast, filled with the blessings of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Who came for our salvation.
To Him be the Glory and Honor forever. Amen.
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GreenChoice Bank values our friends, neighbors, customers and staff who care about our community and work together to live more sustainably. Donna Serwetnyk, our assistant branch manager in Cicero, shares her thoughts on keeping within a budget and ways she tries be “green”…
What do you do to live more sustainably?
“I recycle at work and at home as much as possible. My family joined Chicago’s blue bin program two years ago, which has helped us recycle more and minimize what goes in the landfill. I also think twice before I grab my car keys. If I can walk an errand, I will. Walking is good exercise, benefits the environment and gives me a chance to bump into friends and check out the neighborhood.”
What’s one of your favorite sustainable businesses and why?
“I like that greener options are becoming easier to find. One of my favorites is Target’s Green Works cleaning products. I enjoy cleaning and by using more environmentally-friendly products, I can keep my household as chemical-free as possible.”
What do you like about working at GreenChoice Bank?
“It has opened my eyes to all the green ideas and choices that are out there – things I might not have otherwise known about. For instance, a few weeks ago, I volunteered to work GreenChoice Bank’s booth at Green Festival and I was able check out other exhibiting groups. It was impressive to see a crowd of people looking for sustainable ideas and realize the impact we can all make.”
What do you like about living in Chicagoland?
“I love that Chicago has so much going on. It’s fun to explore what’s happening in the ethnic neighborhoods, festivals, museums and farmers’ markets.”
What's a creative savings tip you can provide to our customers?
“I think it’s important to consciously live within your means. I’ve worked with my family to create a budget by forecasting and itemizing all of our annual bills. We put money aside in a separate ‘bills account’ each month to pay those off, and it helps ensure we don’t accrue credit card debit. If we make a major purchase, we pay it off right away before making another one. Planning ahead helps us manage our money wisely and save for the future.”
What’s your guilty pleasure?
“Sweets of any kind. I found a new favorite at the Green Festival – the peanut butter cup with fudge from Chicago Diner is delicious!”
If I weren’t a banker…
“I would own my own cleaning service. I find satisfaction in leaving a place cleaner than I found it, and I would clean in a greener way than other services do.”
Donna, what’s a question you’d like to ask our readers?
“What do you, or your family, do to help us live in a cleaner and greener environment?”
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They took it down recently while cleaning and found paperwork from the Alabama Central Railroad, which operated in Walker County for 55 years.
Although many of the documents were deteriorating, some were as pristine as the day they were printed. They included tax records from the 1920s, pay stubs and receipts from various businesses.
Missions Unlimited director Kenneth Key gave employee Charles Harper permission to do what he wanted with the contents of the box.
Harper, who was born a decade after the railroad closed, returned some of the records to the individuals and business owners involved. He kept the rest to preserve for future generations.
"It's of historical value to the county," Harper said.
The Alabama Central Railroad was incorporated in 1906, according to a history provided online by the Chamber of Commerce of Walker County.
It began as an investment of Enos M. Barton, co-founder of Western Electric Company. A charter was granted for a line from Tuscaloosa to Decatur. However, the original rails ran only 6.7 miles from Jasper to a lumber mill at Manchester.
By 1921, the line had been extended 8.7 miles to serve strip mines at Sunlight and Marigold.
In addition to lumber and coal, the Alabama Central also hauled passengers. At one time, the local train made two round trips a day and carried more than 3,000 people annually, according to the online history. The schedule was reduced to one trip during World War I, and only 16 riders were using the Alabama Central by 1925.
Ownership of the railroad changed several times during its five decades of existence. It frequently lost money, ran on only 15 miles of track and never had more than two locomotives.
However, it transported over four million tons of coal in its time, according to the Chamber's history.
It also captured the imagination of boys like Lanny Capps, who once ran away from home to watch trains stop at a watering hole near present-day Tubbs Salvage.
Capps said one unique feature of the Alabama Central was that it could not turn around. The caboose led the way and the engine backed from downtown Jasper to the Marigold tipple, according to an article from 1967 reprinted in the Chamber's online history.
"It moved so slow that the man on the caboose could jump off and run ahead of it to flag traffic. In later years, they dropped the caboose but hung off the back of the coal car," Capps said.
Capps said his brother used to hop the train in Jasper with a group of other teenage boys. They jumped off at Farmstead School and walked to a popular swimming hole nearby called Rock Crusher, a former strip mine.
When the boys were ready to come home, they went back to the school and hopped the train again as it brought back its loads of coal in the afternoon.
Older men were equally fascinated by the Alabama Central. Capps said his grandfather used to drive from Birmingham once a month to watch the No. 29 leave the station on 19th Street long after the heyday of steam engines was over.
An era ended in Walker County when C.A. Lee Jr., president of the Alabama Central, applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for abandonment of the unprofitable line in April 1960.
Engine 29 pulled into Jasper for the last time on May 26, 1961. Its sister engine, No. 28, was scrapped that December. The No. 29 now rests at the Alabama Mining Museum in Dora.
"It's a relic," Capps said.
Capps is helping the Chamber compile information for its website, www.alabamacentralrailroad.com. Anyone with additional history, photographs or other memorabilia to contribute may contact the Chamber of Commerce of Walker County at 384-4571.
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Terrain and Terroir Studies
The very character of any wine comes from the grapes that go into it. And the character of these grapes is firmly rooted in the place where they are grown.
Beginning in July 2001 and continuing through 2003, the NVV commissioned three studies. The first, completed in 2002, is The Foundations of Wine in the Napa Valley: Geology, Landscape and Climate of the Napa Valley AVA by EarthVision, Inc. This report provided the first comprehensive examination of the geologic history of the Napa Valley as it related to Napa Valley's grape-growing capabilities.
The following two studies, completed in 2003 by Terra Spase, Inc., are entitled Soils and Wine Grapes in the Napa Valley and Weather and Wine Grapes in the Napa Valley. Each of these studies provide an appellation-by-appellation profile of soils and climates within the Napa Valley American Viticultural Area (AVA).
The Geology Study - Key Findings
By creating a geologic tour of the creation of the Napa Valley appellation spanning 150 million years, the study uncovered exactly why and how the AVA is now home to such an incredibly diverse area of "parent material" - material from which soils are created -- and topography. It is this diversity of environments within the appellation that allows wine grape varieties to thrive.
Scientists Jonathan Swinchatt, EarthVision, and David Howell, U.S. Geological Survey, developed a new organizing concept - the Earth Process Unit, or EPU - to describe the sediments of the Napa Valley AVA. Basically, these EPUs allow the scientists to group and map the valley sediments based on one of the three processes by which they were created - weathering in place; deposited by streams draining the hills; or deposited by the Napa River. This new concept neatly "bridges" the gap between geology and soils science, which focuses strictly on describing and analyzing soil materials rather than determining their origin, evolutionary history, and detailed spatial variation - the goal of geology.
Swinchatt and Howell made a theoretical discovery that answers the mystery as to how the mid-valley hills in the Napa Valley were created. Gravitational force caused entire portions of the Vaca mountains on the east side of the Valley to break away as the range was raised by massive earth movement. The resulting "nested displacement" created a series of hillside plateaus that can be seen from above. When these areas broke away, they sent huge amounts of material down slope to the Valley floor below. The ancestral Napa River carried much of the loose debris down river into San Pablo Bay and beyond, leaving behind the large displaced blocks of intact rock that make up the mid-valley hills in the Yountville area. Swinchatt and Howell are currently conducting follow-up research to test this theory.
The Soils Study - Key Findings
There exist an amazing 33 different soil series in the Napa Valley representing six of the 12 soil orders that comprise modern soil taxonomy. In other words, in an area just 30 miles long and five miles wide, half of the soil orders that exist on the planet can be readily found.
Extensive soil diversity can also be found within individual appellations, such as the Spring Mountain AVA, which contains 22 different soils series. This amazing diversity within a single appellation is a major reason viticulturalists may not assume that any given vineyard will be represented by one soil type.
Soil scientist Paul Skinner of Terra Spase goes beyond a detailed description of soils to provide a helpful view of what is called "vigor potential," - a qualifier that assists growers assess what and how to grow in a given soil series. For example, vigor potential describes the effects of 20 different physical and chemical soil attributes on vine growth, water status and production parameters. The study identifies estimates of soil vigor potential in all 33 soil series in the appellation.
The Climate Study - Key Findings
The study reveals the very first appellation-by-appellation compilation of climate data in the Napa Valley. A unique method of data collection involved a series of nearly 90 monitored weather stations collecting measures of temperature, humidity and precipitation every 15 minutes from 1996 forward. (It should be noted that climate is the equivalent of the average weather of a period of five to 30 years, while weather is an accounting of similar conditions over a shorter period of time).
The study provides climatic detail within AVAs as well, by mapping "growing degree days" - the accumulation of hours that the temperature rises above 50° F. These variations, similar to the different soils series within a given appellation, enable growers to make critical vineyard decisions.
Skinner introduces readers to the concept of the "Mercedes Effect." The effect results when consistent hot, dry summer conditions are combined with a cooling marine fog layer over much of the Napa Valley, encouraging a cessation of vegetative growth and a shift to fruit ripening "as smoothly as a Mercedes changing gears." This effect, the study points out, "…may be one of the most important but overlooked climatic characteristics that set the Napa Valley AVA apart from other grape growing regions of the world."
For those who care to dig deeper into the world of wine, the findings of the science trilogy are eye-opening," said Abe Schoener, winemaker, Luna Vineyards. "Not only do we now have an understanding of the Napa Valley as a whole, but we are able to corroborate, on a scientific level, what both wine trade and consumers already perceive - that the Napa Valley is an ideal place to grow an amazingly diverse array of wine grapes. It appears our reputation for high quality wines is well-deserved," Schoener added.
In an effort to make the geology, soils and climate trilogy more approachable and accessible, the NVV sought the assistance of veteran wine writer Gerald Boyd. Read Gerald Boyd's essay, The Science Behind the Napa Valley Appellation.
A complete copy of the science trilogy is available for review in the offices of the Napa Valley Vintners in St. Helena, California.
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Jessica wrote -
From the Ian Somerhalder Foundation website
"Yep--you heard right. We want to open an Animal Sanctuary! While we have tremendous love for all the existing animal sanctuaries, we are aiming for something a little different. ISF intends on creating a safe haven for all the outcasted animals that have been neglected, mistreated and ultimately misunderstood. Some may see the potential in an abused animal as ending at the animal's personal rehabilitation. In our eyes, this is just the beginning. What if ISF provided opportunities for these misfits creatures to continue their emotional journey alongside others who were hurting from a life filled with dejection. Through the art of compassion, the continuously devastating issue of bullying in our country could be approached in an intensely impactful manner that encourages healthy relationships. We know in our hearts that animals and bullies share common emotional baggage. For example, an abused and neglected pitbull has the power to transform a school bully into a compassionate leader with a shift in benevolent consciousness. While both the dog and the bully are refused the opportunity to demonstrate their true potential within their daily lives, a healing and educational journey side by side has the power to manifest massive changes in perspective. We will bring the bruised together as a family to learn just how unique--and just very the same--we all are...and how if we unite...we are NOT the outcasted, we ARE the UNSTOPPABLE. We believe in the understanding that all living creatures deserve dignity, love, compassion and the right to life. If you support this understanding as well, and you see the potential in bringing together kids and bullies into an environment where their hearts can grow and flourish, we need your support to make this happen. Please help us create the funds necessary to establish this haven. We plan to responsibly raise 5 million dollars towards this goal--we promise to keep you informed on the amount we raise. Let's be the fit for the misfits!"
As you can tell, this is an amazing idea and I'm hoping to be able to contribute to raising funds for this incredible cause. My preliminary goal is to raise $5,000 for the Sanctuary by December 8th, 2012. I want to help raise money for thisbecause the sanctuary is a cause very dear to my own heart. I own three rescue cats and an adopted dog of my own, I volunteer for my local SPCA and work to raise money for local animal charities and shelters. As you can tell, yes, I love animals. But the ISF Animal Sanctuary will be so much more than that, and I love that ISF wants to create a place where "misfit" animals and kids alike can feel at home, where "troubled" children can learn patience, trust, and compassion from animals that have been shunned from society through abuse, neglect, or otherwise. I think it's a fantastic idea, but as we all know, such great things cannot happen without monetary support, which is where we come in.
Donate whatever amount you can afford - any amount, however big or small, is appreciated.
IMPORTANT: If you wish to also take part in the Ian Somerhalder birthday project, please visit: http://spbisfas.org/Home.html
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Publication Date:Dec 02, 2008
Source:University of Hong Kong
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McDonald's, the world-famous American fast food franchisor, entered mainland China in 1990, when Chinese franchise law did not even exist. In this once-closed country whose market only opened up to foreign investors in 1978, McDonald's had to adapt to an unfamiliar and rapidly changing environment. Not only was food culture in China vastly different from that in the West, but food culture, lifestyles and legal structure were altering as a result of surging economic growth and massive urbanization. Competition was also intensifying as local and foreign restaurants sought to capitalize on China's increasing affluence. As the growing middle class demanded higher standards from these companies, McDonald's local business practices in terms of food healthiness, employee welfare and other socio-environmental issues were put under close scrutiny in China. While the nation's booming economy provided environmental conditions suitable for fast-food culture, the environment also posed challenges to the survival of fast-food operators in the country. Would McDonald's be able to sustain its momentum as China transformed into a developed nation?
1. To examine the general environmental components that influence McDonald's operation in China 2. To identify opportunities and threats based on an external environmental analysis 3. To analyze the underlying structure of fast-food industry in China in terms of Porter's five competitive forces. 4. To understand the strategic group in which McDonald's competes most in China.
Competitive strategy; Marketing; Marketing strategy; Social policy; Strategy management
- Geographic: China
- Industry: Fast food
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- Advanced Dental Education in the United States
- Athletic Careers: Sports Medicine
- Basic Dental Education in the United States
- Complete Your Medical Study in the United States
- Dentistry: General Practice and Specialty Areas
- Licensure and Advanced D.M.D./D.D.S. Admission for Internationally Educated Dentists
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Complete Your Medical Study in the United States
In the United States, the residency is the essential final step in preparing physicians to practice medicine independently. It can also be the perfect opportunity for international physicians to gain experience in the United States.
Before undertaking a residency, U.S. students complete undergraduate study, then spend four more years in medical school, earning the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree. Unfortunately, because of relatively small enrollments and high competition for admission, international students have little chance of being admitted to M.D. programs in the United States. Such programs often only enroll residents of particular U.S. states or regions, and even those that are open to international application typically only admit a handful of international students, generally with U.S. bachelor’s degrees. However, many international medical graduates (IMGs) do complete residency programs in the United States.
Residency programs are designed to allow participants to gain expertise in a medical specialty and to gradually take on increasing responsibility for patient care within a supervised clinical environment. Programs typically last three to seven years, depending on the medical specialty chosen. Advanced medical technology and facilities, expert faculty, and the wide variety of programs available (approximately 8,300 educational programs in 126 specialty and subspecialty areas are currently accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education), can make U.S. residency an exciting opportunity.
You should be aware that the route to residency is not easy and that openings tend to be highly competitive. Before beginning, realistically assess your medical knowledge, English language skills, educational background, ability to travel for required testing and interviews in the United States, and how well your educational plans match home country needs (the ministry of health will be expected to support your final residency visa application). If you then decide that you are ready to join the thousands of IMGs who enter U.S. residencies each year, the outline provided here can guide you in achieving that goal.
Steps to a U.S. Medical Residency
The first essential is to obtain certification from the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG). Testing required for this certification may be begun while still in medical school, though the IMG must receive their final medical diploma and medical school transcript before being actually certified. Here are ECFMG’s requirements (see also www.ecfmg.org):
Complete at least two years at a medical school listed in the International Medical Education Directory (IMED) of the Foundation for Advocacy of International Medical Education and Research (accessible online at imed.ecfmg.org/).
Apply to ECFMG for a USMLE/ECFMG Identification Number by completing the application on their Web site. Once your eligibility is confirmed, obtain a scheduling permit from ECFMG for the three-month period during which you plan to take your first USMLE test.
Pass the USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 Clinical Knowledge (Step 2 CK). These computer-based examinations are offered at selected Thomson Prometric testing centers worldwide.
Pass the hands-on USMLE Step 2 Clinical Skills examination (Step 2 CS) examination administered by ECFMG in several U.S. locations (currently including Philadelphia, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston) throughout the year.
All three exams mentioned above must be passed within a seven-year period for the candidate to qualify for ECFMG certification. They can be taken in any order. Candidates who do not pass Step 1 or Step 2 CK can apply again immediately to re-take the test with a maximum of four attempts allowed per year. For Step 2 CS it is necessary to apply for a new eligibility period, and re-take attempts are limited to three per year.
No additional English proficiency examination is required. (In the past, TOEFL was required—but no longer.)
- Graduate from an IMED-listed medical school. Document the completion of all requirements for the receipt of the final medical diploma. Provide ECFMG with copies of the medical diploma and final medical school transcript. ECFMG will then independently verify these credentials with the medical school.
At the same time that IMGs are completing the ECFMG certification process, they can begin investigating residency options and applying to programs. IMGs must be ECFMG-certified before actually starting a residency.
Consult the Graduate Medical Education Directory, published by the American Medical Association (AMA) and/or the “FREIDA Online” database on the AMA Web site athttp://www.ama-assn.org, to choose appropriate programs.
Correspond with and, if possible, visit programs of interest. Interviews by phone or in-person are generally an important factor in the admissions process.
Apply directly to programs of interest, using their application forms or the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) as the programs specify. IMGs must have obtained an identification number exam through ECFMG (by applying for an exam) to apply through ERAS.
- Also apply to be matched with programs of interest through the National Resident Matching Program or specialty matching programs (if programs participate). See http://www.nrmp.org for more information.
Finally there is the visa application. IMGs must be ECFMG-certified and accepted to a residency before they can receive a visa for residency study.
Contact a designated sponsor (ECFMG for a J-1 visa, the residency program for an H-1B visa) to obtain certification to apply for a visa. A curriculum vita, letter from the home country ministry of health, and other materials will be required.
- Once certification to apply is received, contact a U.S. embassy or consulate to apply for the visa. Be prepared to document study plans, financial resources sufficient for your planned program, and intent to return home.
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Wednesday, Dec 10, 2008
In an interview with CBS today, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was asked how the U.S. image has fared under President Bush. Rice acknowledged that there were “some negative perceptions” but added that the U.S. is still quite popular:
But I’m always a little puzzled to find the two most populous countries in the world — China and India – even if you want to take the test of popularity, which by the way, I don’t think is the issue, but even if you wanted to take the test of popularity, the United States is very well regarded.
“Among several of America’s traditional allies, support has fallen steeply since 2002,” Pew noted in 2006. An April 2008 BBC poll of 17 countries found that views of US influence in the world are “predominantly negative”:
A November National Intelligence Council report predicted that U.S. influence will decline over the next two decades as China and India gain clout.
This article was posted: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 11:28 am
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In Maintenance, Two Plus Two Can Equal Eight
by Torbjörn Idhammar
Most maintenance departments profess to be convinced of the need for maintenance planning and scheduling and condition based maintenance. However, the benefit of using them together seems to be shrouded in mystery. Let’s open the hood and look at how they work together to produce results far exceeding that of the sum of the benefits of each used alone.
Let’s start by briefly examining each of the concepts in turn:
Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
In a nutshell, maintenance planning and scheduling prioritizes and organizes work so it can be executed in a highly efficient fashion.
Managers and hourly employees alike in stores, accounting, purchasing, engineering and production must buy in to the concept and do their part for it to work. Some of the major outcomes of planning and scheduling are:
- An organized approach to analyzing and executing any work identified
- Detailed plans, rules and records for the evaluation and execution of work
- Effective utilization of planners, supervisors and craftspeople.
These outcomes should yield these benefits:
- Cost savings due to efficient use of maintenance labor hours.
- Increased production yield from faster execution of all jobs.
- Reduced injuries and less stress from a better work flow.
As we can see, it’s all about efficiency and organization!
When maintenance planning and scheduling is implemented alone, craftspeople often continue to be frustrated with emergencies caused by “surprise” breakdowns, forcing them to bypass the planning and scheduling procedures they labored to hard and long to deploy.
Next, let’s look at condition based maintenance.
Condition Based Maintenance
Condition based maintenance or predictive maintenance as it’s often called, can be defined different ways. However, it is important to note that it goes far beyond vibration analysis.
The outcome of condition based maintenance is:
- Finding future failures before they manifest themselves as a breakdown of equipment or a component. A breakdown is defined as the loss of the function a components was designed to accomplish e.g., when a pump stops pumping.
As we can see, the outcome is pure information; knowing that an item will break in the future. This in itself does not prevent any failures, but it allows you to:
Gather information about the equipment and parts affected by the future breakdown.
- Plan and schedule the repair.
- Eliminate the cost of consequential damage caused by a functional failure. When you repair it before a breakdown develops, you typically save 50-90%. (compare Figures 2 & 3)
The degree of savings above depends on how early you catch it, if can be repaired online, and the cost of repairs. Compare finding an impending breakdown on a standard motor you have in stock, attached to a production line scheduled for maintenance next Wednesday at 8AM-4pm, to the scenario where a non-stock motor failed at night and forced a shutdown of the line for repair. The second scenario will cost much more than the first as people scramble to find what’s wrong, call in several trades and perhaps stores. Add overtime, production losses, and contacting supplier(s) to find replacements and a familiar picture emerges.
Implementation of predictive maintenance alone, frequently results in many items being flagged for repair. However, only some of them are actually being repaired as maintenance does not have the efficient work practices (read planning and scheduling). Of course, this demoralizes operators and craftspeople as most items they find using predictive maintenance still break down instead of being repaired when discovered.
On the other hand, when predictive maintenance and planning and scheduling are used together, they produce synergies like:
- reduced cost of spares and material
- increased labor productivity (primarily in maintenance but also for operators)
- better job satisfaction
- increased production yield
- effective work practices
- improved production quality
By now you can clearly see that two plus two can equal eight when you use planning and scheduling and predictive maintenance together.
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Ebenezer Cunningham's father was George Cunningham (born in Bethnal Green, London about 1846) who was a cabinet maker, and his mother was Fanny C Cunningham (born in Dalston, London about 1848). Ebenezer had an older brother George (born about 1879) and a younger brother Charles (born about 1884).
Ebenezer Cunningham was educated at Owen's School Islington and from there he won an open mathematical scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge, which he entered in 1899. His lecturers at Cambridge included Baker, Larmor, J G Leathem and R Pendlebury. Baker was his director of studies. At Cambridge his main interests outside mathematics were choral music and rowing. He became a pacifist while at Cambridge through the Boer War years 1899 to 1902 :-
The Boer War, which coincided with his undergraduate days, determined once and for all his attitude towards war; he was an uncompromising pacifist and, as such, his position during the First World War made him unpopular in many quarters, but his moderating influence with like-minded but hasty young men was highly beneficial, and his friends stuck to him.
After graduating as Senior Wrangler in 1902 he worked for a Smith's prize. Results similar to those he obtained were, unfortunately, published in a French journal before he had submitted. He started work on a new topic submitting a winning entry on matrices for the Smith's prize of 1904.
In 1904 not only was he elected to a Fellowship at St John's College but he also became a lecturer at Liverpool University. While at Liverpool he collaborated with Bateman.
Until 1907 he worked both in Liverpool and in Cambridge. Then he moved to University College London where he worked under Pearson. He wrote on linear differential equations, prompted by Pearson's work and other work related to statistics.
Although Cunningham's early papers were on analysis, he was soon to change topic. While at Cambridge, he had read Larmor's famous book Aether and Matter and then, in 1905, after reading Einstein's paper on special relativity, he began to work on that topic. Cunningham published The Principle of Relativity in 1914, the first English book on the topic. Many papers on relativity followed.
In fact Cunningham had returned to St John's College Cambridge in 1911, at the invitation of Baker. His work in Cambridge was interrupted by World War I when he worked on the land rather than join the army. Of course during this period he found it hard to keep in touch with developments in relativity theory which took place in Germany. After this he never returned to major research projects and spent the rest of his career as an enthusiastic teacher of mathematics at Cambridge. Cunningham himself blamed the administrative work for his lack of research, saying that it:-
... for some years came between me and any freedom to follow up and keep abreast of the extremely rapid advance of science.
Cunningham's pacifist views were connected to his strong religious views :-
A keenly religious man, Cunningham devoted a large amount of energy to affairs of Emmanuel Congregational Church, of which he was an office-bearer. He was chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales for 1953-54.
We have already mentioned his pacifist views during World War I but :-
Later he became attracted by the Oxford Group movement, though never by its extravagances.
As to his interests outside mathematics :-
Music played a great part in his life, and on at least one occasion he electrified and humanized a somewhat solemn gathering at his house by sitting down at his piano and singing a comic song.
The obituary contains the following tribute:-
He was a man of patent sincerity and great kindness who served his college and university well.
Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
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2000: Business - Purple can be pleasing
Fort Worth, Texas
There is a French’s mustard jar on the desk of Larry Bodle, president and CEO of shaft maker United Sports Technologies.
This is the very jar that inspired UST’s wildly successful Proforce graphite wood shaft. The jar is mustard yellow with traces of purple. The shaft is mustard yellow with a purple section near the butt.
How ugly is the Proforce shaft, which was introduced in January 1999?
“Very few (PGA) Tour players think the color is very cool” Bodle said. “Some have just turned their backs and walked away.”
How successful is the Proforce shaft? José Maria Olazábal used it in his driver when he won the 1999 Masters. Jim Furyk used it in his driver when he won the 2000 Doral Ryder Open.
Miguel Angel Jiménez used it in his driver when he tied for second behind Tiger Woods in the 2000 U.S. Open. In the 2000 NCAA Division I Men’s Championship, UST was the third most popular wood shaft behind stalwarts True Temper and Aldila.
Young golfers across the country, including 2000 U.S. Junior champion Matthew Rosenfeld and U.S. Amateur champion Jeff Quinney, are flocking to this distinctive shaft. Three of eight quarterfinalists at the U.S. Amateur used the Proforce shaft in their drivers.
The company says the Proforce shaft is designed to produce a low, penetrating trajectory, but almost all players, when interviewed, talked about how far they seem to carry the ball on their tee shots.
“It really gets up in the air and goes,” Rosenfeld said.
“We were eating lunch, trying to decide what color the new shaft should be,” Bodle said. “Finally I told everybody, ‘We’ve got to come up with a racy look. We’ve got to be noticed. Make it look like this mustard jar.’ Reflecting back on that decision, I realize it was either boom or bust. We could have been laughed off the Tour.”
Well, maybe the laughs were snickers.
“We’ve been turned down by some of the top guys who wanted us to paint it a different color,” Bodle said. “We refuse to do this – for anybody.”
Here at UST headquarters, the shaft is often referred to as the Laker Launcher. Fans of the Los Angeles Lakers have a natural affinity for the shaft, as do fans of the Minnesota Vikings.
“We get calls all the time,” Bodle said, “asking about the Vikings shaft or the Laker shaft. We also get calls from schools who want to know if we can paint it in their colors. The answer is no.”
The Proforce, conceived to be used with today’s oversized driver heads, is made of sheet-wrapped graphite and contains a very stiff tip.
This, said Bodle, provides the stability that skilled players are seeking. So far the shaft has been produced in two models, 65 Gold and 75 Gold, reflecting the gram weights of the two shafts. A new version, 55 Gold, will be seen at the 2001 PGA Merchandise Show. A filament-wound graphite shaft for irons, the 95 Gold, also is part of the Proforce line.
The 65 Gold, the most popular of the Proforce shafts, is listed as having 3.2 degrees of torque.
The attention-grabbing shaft has changed UST’s business profile.
“Before this shaft, about 1 percent of our business was in the after-market,” Bodle said. “We sold almost exclusively to OEMs (original equipment manufacturers). Now more than 12 percent of our business is in the after-market.”
This means that independent clubmakers and hobbyists have discovered the Proforce. Before Proforce, golf’s most distinctive shafts probably were produced by A.J. Tech, which uses candy apple red paint on its shafts.
“That’s our identify,” said A.J. Tech founder Al Jackson. “In a place like Japan, it’s a status symbol. Sure, a few people in this country don’t like the candy apple red color, but now, compared to that UST shaft, we’re downright beautiful.”
Bodle laughs at the playful remarks of Jackson.
“The worst looking combination,” he said, “is probably our Proforce shaft with the Taylor Made copper head. It doesn’t match too well. If you can look at that, you can look at anything.”
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This page is dedicated to resources which explain the basics of gender, oppression and privilege. Please feel free to message me if you know of a link that should be added to this list.
To start off, a few of my own pieces (not because I think they are the best resources out there, but simply because in them I made points that are important to me personally in the most effective manner that I knew how): Not Your Mom’s Trans 101, The T Word, and Word Of The Day: Cis.
Erin’s Awesome Trans Glossary is awesome for basic terms.
Char C weighs in on what misgendering is and why it sucks.
And here’s something of Dreki’s For Parents.
Now, onto the hard part– stuff about privilege.
First of all, check out The National Transgender Discrimination Survey to find out what trans people in America are up against.
If someone says you are derailing you may find this helpful. If you are starting to get defensive, read this. If you are about to protest how good your intentions are, don’t. And think again before you call anyone “politically correct.”
If you can’t understand why trans people don’t want to be in your study, this may shed some light.
For gay cis men trying to figure out how gay trans men fit into the world of homos, I recommend this essay by J. Macey. It should dispel some of your misconceptions, which I know from experience are many.
Check out Transphobic Tropes at Questioning Transphobia, especially # 1: “Really A Man/Woman,” # 5 The Man In A Dress/Stealthy Deceiver double bind, # 6: Transition Is Mutiliation, and # 7: Socialization As A Child.
As far as print books go, I cannot recommend “Whipping Girl” by Julia Serano highly enough. Everyone should read it. It is an essential text for both feminist and transgender studies. It will turn your head right around and change the way you see the world.
“Transgender History” by Susan Stryker is likewise essential, and a quick read. “The Transgender Studies Reader,” edited by Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle, is a less quick read, but is also indispensable.
More to be added.
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Depression is characterized by both anhedonia (the loss of pleasure or lack of reactivity to rewarding stimuli) and increased stress responsiveness, but whether these two promising depressive endophenotypes interact and are modulated by genes remains largely unexplored. As an initial step to address these important issues, the main goal of this dissertation was to examine whether stress and genetic variation independently and interactively influence reinforcement learning, an important behavioral component of anhedonia.
Across the three studies of the current dissertation, participants completed a probabilistic reward learning task that allows for an objective assessment of an individual's ability to modulate behavior according to reinforcement history. In Study 1, we examined how mineralorcorticoid receptor (MR) iso/val genotype (rs5522) and acute laboratory stress impact behavioral reward learning. In Study 2, we probed how genetic variation within corticotrophin-releasing hormone type 1 receptor (CRHR1; rs12938031, rs110402, rs4076452, rs10445364) and stress affect behavioral reward learning and the feedback-related negativity (FRN). The FRN is an event-related potential (ERP) component theorized to reflect phasic dopaminergic bursts critically implicated in reinforcement learning. In Study 3, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to examine the neural correlates of reward learning and how perceived stress affects reward-related neural activation.
We hypothesized that stress would be associated with: (1) reduced behavioral reward learning, (2) enhanced FRN amplitude (reflective of a reliance on external feedback due to blunted learning), and (3) reduced activation to rewarding stimuli in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal regions previously implicated in integrating reinforcement history and coding the incentive value of stimuli. Furthermore, we expected that polymorphisms within the CRHR1 and MR genes associated with stress-related psychopathology or a dysregulated stress response would be associated with reduced reward learning, particularly under stress. Lastly, we hypothesized that stimuli predicting more frequent reward as well as unexpected reward delivery would be associated with elevated basal ganglia, anterior cingulate, and orbitofrontal cortex activation.
In line with our hypotheses, acute laboratory stress was associated with behavioral and ERP markers of reduced reinforcement learning (Studies 1 and 2). Furthermore, stress-induced deficits were potentiated by specific MR and CRHR1 genotypes. In Study 3, elevated basal ganglia and orbitofrontal cortex activation was observed in response to reward predicting stimuli and less frequent (and thus, unexpected) reward. Moreover, in Study 3, elevated stress perception was negatively associated with medial PFC activation to reward predicting stimuli and basal ganglia responses to reward feedback. Together, these data indicate that stress and genetic variants regulating the responsiveness of the stress response system individually and interactively impact reward processing. We conclude that: (1) stress-induced deficits in reward processing are a potential mechanism underlying the association between stress and depression, and (2) individuals with certain MR and CRHR1 polymorphisms are more susceptible to stress-induced dysfunction, which may partially explain their increased vulnerability to psychopathology.
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Google Chrome OS Will Fail: Here are the Fatal Flaws
The Chrome OS is here -- sort of. This week, Google was kind of enough to give the world a sneak peek at its nascent desktop operating system. And after months of speculation (and more than a few bogus screenshot galleries), I can finally say that I've seen the future ... and it's not Chrome OS.
The preceding statement should come as no surprise to readers of my Enterprise Desktop blog. I came to a similar conclusion months ago. When news of the existence of a Google OS project first leaked out, I gave it an ice cube's chance in hell of succeeding. Now, after watching a sometimes touchy-sounding crew from Google's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters walk us through the ins and outs of the Chrome OS, I'm more convinced than ever that my original assessment was right on the money.
Fatal flaw No. 1: The Linux foundation First, there's the core architecture. A derivative of Linux, the Chrome OS builds on Linus Torvald's popular open source foundation to create a lightweight, Web-oriented desktop environment. However, it also inherits that platform's many warts, including spotty hardware compatibility.
From power management to display support, Linux has long been a minefield of buggy code and half-baked device driver implementations. Google recognizes this fact and, in a page out of the Apple Macintosh playbook, has taken the draconian measure of allowing the Chrome OS to be distributed exclusively on a series of as-yet-undisclosed netbook-like devices.
It's a move born of desperation. Google knows it can't possibly establish a viable hardware ecosystem and still meet its self-imposed release deadline of "mid-2010." So rather than do the hard work of courting device vendors and building certification processes, Google is taking the easy way out by micromanaging which systems will be allowed to ship with the Chrome OS and then dumping responsibility for the rest of the ecosystem onto the open source community.
Fatal flaw No. 2: The Web user interface Then there's the user interface. Google looks at the world through the prism of a Web page. So it comes as no surprise that the primary interface to the Chrome OS is ... Chrome, as in the Google browser. Unlike a traditional OS, there's no desktop. The "applications" running under the Chrome OS are really just interactive Web pages, with the Chrome browser's tabs serving to separate and organize them visually on the screen. Basic configuration tasks, like defining Wi-Fi settings, are handled via Chrome OS-hosted pop-up windows, while a simple status bar-like strip at the top of the display informs you about battery life, connectivity status, and so on.
Sadly, none of the above UI constructs is particularly original or compelling. The tabbed interface and "dockable" favorites are clearly derivative of Mac OS X and/or Windows (depending on whom you ask), as are the status icons and pull-down applications menu. In fact, nothing about the Chrome OS UI jumps out as innovative. Rather, it simply replaces one set of metaphors (Start menu, taskbar/Dock, system tray) with a bunch of Webified equivalents. And though I can certainly appreciate the advantages of doing away with those heavy legacy OS windowing layers -- Web content is lighterweight and easier to isolate from a security standpoint -- it also serves to limit the environment's overall utility.
The world won't buy an inflexible OS And that's where I believe the Chrome OS ultimately fails. In its effort to pare the traditional OS model down to the bone, Google has thrown out the one characteristic that made Windows and, to a lesser extent, Mac OS X and full-blown Linux successful: flexibility.
Simply put, the Chrome OS is too narrow. It assumes that the world is ready to give up the traditional personal computing paradigm and live full time in the cloud. In reality, most users prefer a hybrid existence, with some of their data and applications stored locally, and others -- typically the freebies, like Gmail -- hosted online.
Perhaps the easiest way to put the Chrome OS into context is by comparing it to the OS it's designed to supplant: Microsoft Windows. Like the Chrome OS, Windows lets you boot your system, surf the Web, and manage your data. Unlike the Chrome OS, Windows also lets you run rich, local applications and services -- and do so on the hardware of your choosing.
Don't forget that Google's plans for acceptable hardware to run the Chrome OS is very limiting. No hard drives or even DVD drives; only solid state drives. That may reduce power usage and speed up boot time (as if that was really an issue), but it also means you can't run your own apps, or store and access data, when you don't have a live Internet connection. Plus, the supported laptops are only netbook-size laptops, with low-power CPUs that won't be all that capable. Sure, Google says you can use a PC or Mac for that stuff, and Google is right: You will. Why you would want a Web-only appliance as well is not so easy to answer.
The bottom line is that while there is virtually nothing that you'll be able to do with the Chrome OS that you won't be able to do equally well with Windows, there are literally millions of things that you can do with Windows today that you'll likely never be able to do with the Chrome OS.
So don't be surprised when you start hearing about early Chrome OS adopters trying to reformat their systems with Windows 7 Starter Edition. After all, people are easily distracted, and the Chrome OS already bores me to death.
This article, "Why Chrome OS will fail -- big time," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments on cloud computing, Google, and Chrome OS at InfoWorld.com.
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By Mary Slosson
(Reuters) - U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong, who took a giant leap for mankind when he became the first person to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 82, his family said on Saturday.
Armstrong died following complications from heart-bypass surgery he underwent earlier this month, the family said in a statement, just two days after his birthday on August 5.
As commander of the Apollo 11 mission, Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. As he stepped on the dusty surface, Armstrong said: "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind."
Those words endure as one of the best known quotes in the English language.
The Apollo 11 astronauts' euphoric moonwalk provided Americans with a sense of achievement in the space race with Cold War foe the Soviet Union and while Washington was engaged in a bloody war with the communists in Vietnam.
Neil Alden Armstrong was 38 years old at the time and even though he had fulfilled one of mankind's age-old quests that placed him at the pinnacle of human achievement, he did not revel in his accomplishment. He even seemed frustrated by the acclaim it brought.
"I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work," Armstrong said in an interview on CBS's "60 Minutes" program in 2005.
He once was asked how he felt knowing his footprints would likely stay on the moon's surface for thousands of years. "I kind of hope that somebody goes up there one of these days and cleans them up," he said.
A VERY PRIVATE MAN
James Hansen, author of "First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong," told CBS: "All of the attention that ... the public put on stepping down that ladder onto the surface itself, Neil never could really understand why there was so much focus on that."
The Apollo 11 moon mission turned out to be Armstrong's last space flight. The next year he was appointed to a desk job, being named NASA's deputy associate administrator for aeronautics in the office of advanced research and technology.
Armstrong's post-NASA life was a very private one. He took no major role in ceremonies marking the 25th anniversary of the moon landing. "He's a recluse's recluse," said Dave Garrett, a former NASA spokesman.
Hansen said stories of Armstrong dreaming of space exploration as a boy were apocryphal, although he was long dedicated to flight. "His life was about flying. His life was about piloting," Hansen said.
Born August 5, 1930, in Wapakoneta, Ohio, Armstrong was the first of three children of Stephen and Viola Armstrong. He married his college sweetheart, Janet Shearon, in 1956. They were divorced in 1994, when he married Carol Knight.
Armstrong had his first joyride in a plane at age 6. Growing up in Ohio, he began making model planes and by his early teens had amassed an extensive aviation library. With money earned from odd jobs, he took flying lessons and obtained his pilot's license even before he got a car license.
In high school he excelled in science and mathematics and won a U.S. Navy scholarship to Purdue University in Indiana, enrolling in 1947. He left after two years to become a Navy pilot, flying combat missions in the Korean War and winning three medals.
FLYING TEST PLANES
After the war he returned to Purdue and graduated in 1955 with an aeronautical engineering degree. He joined the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA), which became NASA in 1958.
Armstrong spent seven years at NACA's high-speed flight station at Edwards Air Force Base in California, becoming one of the world's best test pilots. He flew the X-15 rocket plane to the edge of space - 200,000 feet up at 4,000 mph.
In September 1962, Armstrong was selected by NASA to be an astronaut. He was command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission and backup command pilot for the Gemini 11 mission, both in 1966.
On the Gemini 8 mission, Armstrong and fellow astronaut David Scott performed the first successful docking of a manned spacecraft with another space vehicle.
Armstrong put his piloting skills to good use on the moon landing, overriding the automatic pilot so he and fellow astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin would not have to land their module in a big rocky crater.
Yet the landing was not without danger. The lander had only about 30 seconds of fuel left when Armstrong put it down in an area known as the Sea of Tranquility and calmly radioed back to Mission Control on Earth, "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
Aldrin, who along with Armstrong and Michael Collins formed the Apollo 11 crew, told BBC radio that he would remember Armstrong as "a very capable commander and leader of an achievement that will be recognized until man sets foot on the planet Mars."
Armstrong left the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) a year after Apollo 11 to become a professor of engineering at the University of Cincinnati.
DECLINES OFFERS TO RUN FOR OFFICE
After his aeronautical career, Armstrong was approached by political groups, but unlike former astronauts John Glenn and Harrison Schmitt who became U.S. senators, he declined all offers.
In 1986, he served on a presidential commission that investigated the explosion that destroyed the space shuttle Challenger, killing its crew of seven shortly after launch from Cape Canaveral in January of that year.
Armstrong made a rare public appearance several years ago when he testified to a congressional hearing against President Barack Obama administration's plans to buy rides from other countries and corporations to ferry U.S. astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
Armstrong also said that returning humans to the moon was not only desirable, but necessary for future exploration -- even though NASA says it is no longer a priority.
He lived in the Cincinnati area with his wife, Carol.
"We are heartbroken to share the news that Neil Armstrong has passed away," the family said in their statement. "Neil was our loving husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend."
His family expressed hope that young people around the world would be inspired by Armstrong's feat to push boundaries and serve a cause greater than themselves.
"The next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink," the family said.
Obama said that Armstrong "was among the greatest of American heroes - not just of his time, but of all time. ...
"Today, Neil's spirit of discovery lives on in all the men and women who have devoted their lives to exploring the unknown - including those who are ensuring that we reach higher and go further in space. That legacy will endure - sparked by a man who taught us the enormous power of one small step."
Glenn, an original NASA astronaut with Armstrong, spoke of his colleague's humble nature. "He was willing to dare greatly for his country and he was proud to do that and yet remained the same humble person he'd always been," he told CNN on Saturday.
The space agency sent out a brief statement in the wake of the news, saying it "offers its condolences on today's passing of Neil Armstrong, former test pilot, astronaut and the first man on the moon."
Armstrong is survived by his two sons, a stepson and stepdaughter, 10 grandchildren, a brother and a sister, NASA said.
Some controversy still surrounds his famous quote. The live broadcast did not have the "a" in "one small step for a man ..." He and NASA insisted static had obscured the "a," but after repeated playbacks, he admitted he may have dropped the letter and expressed a preference that quotations include the "a" in parentheses.
Asked to describe what it was like to stand on the moon, he told CBS:
"It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it."
(Writing by Philip Barbara, editing by Bill Trott and Christopher Wilson)
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ClipandCoach's Mistake - Free Toilet Training 101:
The often forgotten goal of house training is to teach your dog it is "safe" to go to the toilet outside and "dangerous" to go inside (that includes inside any building or home not just your own).
The way to achieve this:
1. Keep your dog or puppy in a confined space in the house, unless "empty" (toilet wise) and being directly supervised
A confined space can be a crate or pen (pen may contain an emergency toilet area if you wish. If so, bedding should be raised and at other end of toilet area with water/food bowls)
2. Take your dog/puppy out to the toilet on a regular schedule. Learn your dog's 'holding' ability. 8 week old puppies should go out every hour. As your puppy gets older this time will lengthen
3. In the beginning stages, only when your dog/puppy is "empty" may it be allowed free play in the house (this time will also depend on your dog/puppy's holding ability - return to the pen WAY before they will need to go again. For young puppy's stick to a few minutes)
4. When your dog/puppy goes to the toilet outside give praise and treats
5. You may begin to enlarge the area your dog/puppy is confined after 2 months of no accidents. Enlarge the area in stages until full run of the house is reached. If there is an accident, go back to smaller confinement and more regular toilet breaks.
6. Puppy's will toilet straight after naps, eating and playing
Tips for Mistake-Free Toilet Training:
- Don't assume your dog/puppy is toilet trained because they havn't had an accident in a while
- If you catch them in the middle of going inside make a startling noise/say name loudly to hopefully stop them going and quickly rush them outside
- As dogs act according to what they consider "safe" and "dangerous" you must praise and offer treats when your dog goes to the toilet in front of you outside to make up for the undesirable reaction you have (startling noise) when they go inside. Otherwise, your dog will learn it is "dangerous" to go the toilet in front of you or other humans and will wait until you leave the room or hide under the table and go.
- When your dog/puppy has been accident free in your home for a while, don't assume they understand they can't go to the toilet in other people's homes yet. (Remember the goal - safe outside, dangerous inside may not yet be understood)
- Don't spend time coming up with a thousand reasons why your dog had an accident inside (out of spite, attention seeking, jealousy etc). If there is an accident, just assume the safe and dangerous goal is not 100% understood by your dog and go back to the initial toilet training program
- Learn the signs ur dog needs to go (sniffing, circling, digging, dancing, barking, etc.)
MOST OF ALL don't take it personally when your dog has an accident. I mean, I'd probably go on your rug if I kept asking you where the toilet was and you ignored me, especially if I went there before and it was oh so relieving
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Director Kurt Maetzig dies
German director Kurt Maetzig has died, aged 101.
The filmmaker passed away on Wednesday, a former colleague confirms to Reuters. No further information about his cause of death was available as WENN went to press.
Berlin-born Maetzig was forbidden from making movies by the Nazis because his mother was Jewish, but he went on to work at East Germany's state-owned film company and created several propaganda films for the Communist party.
He was known for his drama Marriage In The Shadows, which tells the story of a couple who fled Nazi Germany in the 1940s and was viewed by more than 12 million people in the post-war years.
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Neither man was senior in his realm: a U.S. Army captain with a civil affairs group and a Sunni sheik of a middling tribe.
Both had elders of greater authority above them. To their critics and rivals, the two men were opportunists with outsized egos.
And yet, it is now clear that Capt. Travis Patriquin and Sheik Sattar abu Risha were major figures in the amazingly quick evolution of Iraq's Anbar province from a "lost cause" Al Qaeda stronghold in 2006 to a shining example by mid-2007 of the U.S. military and Sunni tribes teaming up to thwart the insurgency.
That's the compelling story of "A Soldier's Dream: Captain Travis Patriquin and the Awakening of Iraq" by veteran journalist William Doyle, a carefully reported and briskly written account that is strong in its thesis but even-handed in dealing with discordant notes.
Doyle's book is a tale of how even in modern warfare, with all its cultural intricacies and geopolitical considerations, two men can play a decisive role through dint of personality, adept maneuvering and, yes, a fair amount of individual ambition.
Patriquin, with service in Afghanistan and, with the Special Forces in South America, was a rarity among officers: an Arab linguist with a genuine interest and respect for Arab culture. He was willing to do combat with his enemy on the battlefield and with opponents inside the military bureaucracy.
Sattar was a businessman, cunning and ruthless — Tony Soprano in Arab garb. His grandfather had fought the British. Sattar had a lean, wolfish look; he knew how to handle an AK-47 and an Internet search engine. He boldly told reporters he wanted to meet withPresident George W. Bush.
Over enormous amounts of sweet tea and far too many cigarettes, Patriquin and Sattar formed an alliance of convenience. The sheik came to an ideology-free calculation: Al Qaeda was bad for business and the best way to rid Anbar of the insurgency was a partnership with the Americans.
Doyle does not oversell his main characters. Patriquin was not the first American officer to reach out to the Sunni sheiks in Anbar. Sattar was not the first sheik in the province to stand up to Al Qaeda.
But the two men and their moment coalesced.
One of the fascinating stories embedded in "A Soldier's Dream," is an account of a battle in late November 2006 outside the provincial capital of Ramadi. U.S. forces, with Patriquin on the phone to Sattar and other tribal leaders promising support, reinforced tribal fighters who were battling with a massed Al Qaeda force.
The fight at Shark Fin Peninsula on the Euphrates River proved to the tribes that the Americans were worthy partners who would not abandon them. Sattar's stature rose considerably with the other sheiks.
Patriquin and Sattar are the focus of "A Soldier's Dream" but there are other officers and sheiks of note: then-Col. Sean MacFarland and Lt. Col. Jim Lechner, both of whom took a chance on the upstart Patriquin; Col. Chuck Ferry, who led the American assault when the sheiks' troops were attacked by Al Qaeda; and Sheik Jassim, the tribal commander during the battle.
On Nov. 6, 2006, Patriquin was killed by a roadside bomb that exploded beneath his Humvee. And on Sept. 18, 2007, 10 days after he met with Bush in Iraq, Sattar was assassinated at his compound.
But the Anbar Awakening was firmly established and outlived both the tribal sheik and the ever-cheerful American officer. The long-term future of Anbar, indeed all of Iraq, is still in doubt, Doyle writes, but this unique partnership provided breathing space for the Iraqis to establish a post-Saddam future.
"Through an accident of history," Doyle writes, "Patriquin was placed unusually close to the absolute center of the action, wound up as a key cog in the machine, and by most accounts played his role brilliantly."
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A spate of deaths in the United States linked to a highly caffeinated energy drink will be looked at as part of a transtasman review that could see caffeine levels in such drinks slashed here.
Two nutrition experts have called for the review to be hastened, with one calling energy drinks "dangerous stuff".
The US Food and Drug Administration began an inquiry into the safety of the highly caffeinated Monster Energy drinks after receiving reports of five deaths.
Ministers responsible for transtasman food and beverage regulation last year began a full review of the policy guideline on caffeine, including the amount of caffeine in energy drinks.
The transtasman Food Regulation Standing Committee Caffeine Working Group is looking at global developments in caffeinated products and regulatory approaches being taken in other countries.
Its review could result in the New Zealand Government lowering its current caffeine cap.
The review, which will propose various options for amendments to the policy guideline, is due to be discussed next year.
A spokeswoman for the Australian Government's Department of Health and Ageing said the policy guideline could then be passed on to the bi-national government agency Food Standards Australia New Zealand for possible further action, including reviewing the regulation of caffeine in the Food Standards Code.
Monster Beverage, a US top seller and major player in the growing New Zealand energy drinks market, contains no more caffeine than most of its rivals on Kiwi shop shelves.
Monster and other energy drinks including Red Bull, Mother, and Demon all contain the maximum 32mg caffeine per 100ml allowed under the Food Standards Code.
AUT professor of nutrition Elaine Rush said there was so much about energy drinks that was not known. "It's assumed that it's safe but everyone seems to react differently to it."
Clinical nutrition expert and spokeswoman for Dietitians New Zealand, Cathy Khouri, urged the review to make its recommendations "sooner rather than later".
But she warned against introducing age restrictions or enforcing reduced caffeine levels on drink manufacturers.
"There will be other things children of that age will have to decide about ...
"I'd like them to be able to make informed choices and walk past these drinks in supermarkets and think it's not such a healthy choice.
Ms Khouri, an Otago University tutor, said the energy drinks industry was "serious big business" which was targeting youngsters with "cool" advertising campaigns like the smoking industry did in the 1950s.
"It is dangerous stuff and we need to act now," she said.
She hoped the review would see the drinks banned in schools, introduce healthy sports stars as role models, and slash currently "huge" portion sizes.
Monster, sold for around $3 per 500ml can, contains 160mg of caffeine per can - more than five times what's in a 330ml cola can and double a small coffee. It also contains guarana - a South American plant with high levels of natural caffeine - as well as ginseng, niacin, riboflavin, taurine, inositol, salt, and 57mg of sugar - which equates to 14 teaspoons.
The Ministry for Primary Industries has warned that in high doses, caffeine can lead to irritability, anxiety, dizziness, tremors, and insomnia.
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Mike Mayock (NFL.com) 2010 NFL Scouting Combine: What goes on at the Combine?
Each February, hundreds of the very best college football players are invited to the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Ind., where executives, coaches, scouts and doctors from all 32 NFL teams conduct an intense, four-day job interview in advance of the NFL Draft.
Here is a brief breakdown of the measurable drills:
The 40-yard dash is the marquee event at the combine. It's kind of like the 100-meters at the Olympics: It's all about speed, explosion and watching skilled athletes run great times. These athletes are timed at 10, 20 and 40-yard intervals. What the scouts are looking for is an explosion from a static start. Bench press The bench press is a test of strength -- 225 pounds, as many reps as the athlete can get. What the NFL scouts are also looking for is endurance. Anybody can do a max one time, but what the bench press tells the pro scouts is how often the athlete frequented his college weight room for the last 3-5 years.
The vertical jump is all about lower-body explosion and power. The athlete stands flat-footed and they measure his reach. It is important to accurately measure the reach, because the differential between the reach and the flag the athlete touches is his vertical jump measurement.
The broad jump is like being in gym class back in junior high school. Basically, it is testing an athlete's lower-body explosion and lower-body strength. The athlete starts out with a stance balanced and then he explodes out as far as he can. It tests explosion and balance, because he has to land without moving.
3 cone drill
The 3 cone drill tests an athlete's ability to change directions at a high speed. Three cones in an L-shape. He starts from the starting line, goes 5 yards to the first cone and back. Then, he turns, runs around the second cone, runs a weave around the third cone, which is the high point of the L, changes directions, comes back around that second cone and finishes.
The short shuttle is the first of the cone drills. It is known as the 5-10-5. What it tests is the athlete's lateral quickness and explosion in short areas. The athlete starts in the three-point stance, explodse out 5 yards to his right, touches the line, goes back 10 yards to his left, left hand touches the line, pivot, and he turns 5 more yards and finishes.
"There is a lot of emphasis put on (the combine)," Caserio said at last year’s event, "but the reality is that there is a lot of work that’s been done prior to that, so this is a culmination of things. You’re trying to put the finishing touches together basically on the combine, then there are individual workouts and pro days.
"I would say by this time you have a pretty good idea of who the players are."
- Erik Scalavino sends in his Combine Eve report from Indy.
- Paul Perillo reports Patriots DL Ron Brace appeared at a Boston event to encourage children to stay active and discussed how a lockout may affect rehabbing players.
- Patriots Today - Brace speaks to Boston youth. (2.20 min. video)
- Tom E. Curran sets the pre-Combine scene for us in Indy from a Patriots' perspective.
- Mike Rodak tells us how the Patriots approach the Combine.
- DJ Bean offers us an incomplete list of guys to keep an eye on in Indianapolis.
- Mike Reiss points out the Patriots have the league's top non-Combine team.
- Tom E. Curran wonders if Pittsburgh OL Willie Colon could wind up on the Patriots' radar.
- WEEI mocks the Draft with a pre-Combine effort. Patriots take DE Cameron Jordan (California) at 17 and OLB Akeem Ayers (UCLA) at 28.
- Mike Reiss compares the Patriots vs. Jets when looking at the first three rounds of the Draft over the last five years.
- Mike Reiss analyzes Don Banks' 2nd mock draft, that has the Patriots selecting DE Cameron Jordan and WR Torry Smith.
- Ian Rapoprt discusses Kevin Faulk's plans to continue his rehab in Louisiana at LSU, in the event of a lockout.
- Monique Walker catches up with Ron Brace as he talks about his offseason workouts and NFL uncertainty.
- Frank Mortimer reports how NFL strife may hurt the town of Foxboro.
- Jeff Howe counts down the top 10 NFL rookies from the 2010 season, including Devin McCourty and Rob Gronkowski.
- 2011 NFL Combine Live(NFL.com) Watch the Combine on NFL Network as it happens, beginning today at 2:30 ET, or watch all the action live online beginning February 26, at 9 a.m. ET.
- NFL.com Media Guide lists the player groups that will be available for interviews on the days ahead. Today's groups will be OL, K, P, LS and TE.
- Frank Tadych (NFL.com) Ready, set ... Combine. Some initial thoughts after a few hours getting re-acclimated to the Combine.
- Greg Gabriel (Nat'l Football Post) A typical trip to the Combine: What a visit to Indy is like for these NFL prospects.
- Wes Bunting (Nat'l Football Post) The Combine trap: These prospects could be in for a fall down the Draft board.
- Pat Kirwan (NFL.com) Combine offers teams picking in top 10 chance to eye talent.
- Dennis Dillon (Sporting News) Draftnik's guide to the biggest issues in class of '11.
- Sam Farmer (LA Times) Labor situation looms over NFL's Scouting Combine.
- MJD (Yahoo! Sports) Draft prospects prepare for Combine by --- Gorilla Attack!
- Adam Rank (NFL.com) Pick six: Top workout warriors at Combine.
- SI Classic NFL Combine stories over the years.
- Don Banks (SI) 2011 NFL Mock Draft 2.0: Patriots select DE Cameron Jordan (California) at 17 and WR Torrey Smith (Maryland) at 28.
- Albert Breer (NFL.com) One day to go in mediated labor talks between NFL, union.
- Tim Graham (ESPN) Adam Schefter Video: Despite talks, labor progress slow.
- Mike Florio (ProFootballTalk) Union claims reports of progress are "speculation".
- Gregg Rosenthal (ProFootballTalk) Rex Ryan and Mike Tannenbaum go Hollywood.
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Alternative Cancer Therapies Go Mainstream
Reviewed By Gary Vogin
Despite decades of searching, scientists are still struggling to find a cure for cancer. And though some conventional treatments can slow the spread of the disease, many are highly toxic and have harsh side effects. So it's no surprise that six of 10 people with the disease try some form of alternative (also called complementary) therapy, according to a survey by scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) which was published in the May 2000 issue of the journal Oncology Nursing Forum. Partly because so many patients are turning to alternative approaches, mainstream researchers are beginning to put these unproven therapies to the test in carefully controlled studies. Here are some of the most popular.
What it is: A mixture of eight Chinese herbs purported to treat prostate cancer.
Summary: The "natural" mixture was shown to be contaminated with synthetic drugs.
The evidence: In the Sept. 4, 2002, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, researchers analyzed eight lots of PC-SPES produced between 1996-2001. All lots contained various concentrations of the drugs Coumadin, Indocin, and DES. Coumadin is a blood thinner, and Indocin and DES have shown cancer-fighting properties.
Side effects and cautions: In a study reported in The New England Journal of Medicine on September 17, 1998, all men who tried PC-SPES experienced some breast tenderness and loss of libido. The synthetic drugs in PC-SPES could interfere with other drugs being taken.
What they are: Support groups, relaxation therapies, visual imagery, stress reduction techniques, and other approaches used to help patients relax and focus their minds on easing the symptoms of cancer and chemotherapies. Some researchers believe these techniques can even help patients fight the disease.
Summary: There's strong evidence that mind-body techniques ease symptoms, and preliminary evidence that they can also increase survival time.
The evidence: In a landmark study published in the Oct. 14, 1989, issue of The Lancet, Stanford University psychiatrist David Spiegel, MD, found that women with breast cancer who took part in weekly support groups in addition to their regular treatments lived twice as long, on average, as women who received only conventional therapy. In a follow-up trial, reported in 1999 in the journal Psycho-oncology, Spiegel studied 111 patients with breast cancer. Patients taking part in support groups experienced a 40% decrease in their scores on a scale that measures degree of mood disturbance and a similar drop on a scale that measures anxiety and depression in hospital patients. A wide variety of mind-body techniques are currently being tested at the NIH and at research centers around the country.
Side effects and cautions: The only worry is that some patients may choose mind-body techniques as a substitute for conventional therapy, rather than opting for both. The real benefits of these techniques, most researchers agree, are seen when they are used as a complement to more mainstream treatment.
What it is: A powder or extract made from the connective tissue of sharks, which is purported to contain substances that can shrink tumors.
Summary: There is no solid evidence that shark cartilage fights cancer, and several studies that show it's worthless.
The evidence: According to research published in the November-December 1998 issue of the journal Anticancer Research, scientists in Taiwan identified potent substances in shark cartilage that can block the formation of blood vessels to tumors. A dose of 200 micrograms of shark cartilage extract given to mice was enough to suppress the growth of melanomas, the researchers reported. Unfortunately, those promising findings haven't been repeated by other scientists.
Dutch researchers found no evidence that shark cartilage slowed the growth or reduced the size of tumors in mice, according to a report in the journal Acta Oncologia in 1998. What's more, research published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology in November 1998, found no evidence of tumor regression in any of 47 patients given shark cartilage. More clinical trials are under way.
Side effects and cautions: In the Journal of Clinical Oncology report, five patients had to be taken off shark cartilage treatment because they experienced nausea, vomiting, or constipation. Many cancer doctors worry that patients will use this unproven treatment in lieu of standard therapy. Environmentalists worry that the use of shark cartilage could endanger shark populations.
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HIPPY stands for Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters, and it’s a parent involvement, school program that preps parents when it comes to their three, four and five-year-old children reach success in school and beyond. This involves the parents getting familiar with a specific curriculum, books and materials that are all designed to help their children’s cognitive skills, literacy skills, and emotional/physical development.
I met with Tom Schneider of Milwaukee’s COA and volunteer Margie Margolies, to find out how HIPPY is meeting the needs of parents and their children’s education.
To find out how you can get involved within the program, click here or see below.
*Monday, December 12, 5-7pm it's HIPPY Family Gathering Night
Volunteers will help:
. serve dinner to HIPPY families
. do an art project with children
. read with children and lend books from the library (we need two volunteers to staff the library)
. supervise children during activities - story drama, children's yoga
When you arrive between 4:50 and 4:55 pm, you just sign in, put on a nametag, and ask for Margie or Julie.
RSVP to Margie at email@example.com (Coordinates volunteers for HIPPY Family Gathering Nights). Or to Julieat 263 8383 x118 or at firstname.lastname@example.org (HIPPY Co-Director) for further information regarding location, directions, and parking, and answer any questions
Additional Monday nights to volunteer:
January 9th, March 12th, April 9th, and May 14th.
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Developed in conjuction with SciTec Derby for the "Science in the Peak" festival,
Human Evolution is an interactive show that traces the ....
Explorer Dome offers a couple of shows that do not involve the Dome.
These shows are for secondary schools only and can be for larger audiences. However we recommend 30
to allow for debate and participation of all students.
The other show currently on offer to secondary schools that does not use the Dome is "SMARTER UK" - a neuroscience show centred on the increasing use of cognitive enhancers
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Cover cut-up venison stew-meat with filtered water and boil slowly four or five hours until tender; add sliced carrots and lovage2 (cut in small pieces with scissors) for the last 20 minutes. The stew can be served in bowls; the broth will be delicious. There is no need to add thickening, which would spoil the rotation diet. Carrots and celery can be served raw as salad. All three of these vegetables (plus others such as parsley and chervil) belong to the parsley food family.
Founded by MacArthur Foundation “genius” fellow Will Allen, Growing Power is an active farm producing tons of food each year, a food distribution hub and a training center. It’s also the home base for an expanding network of similar community food centers, including a Chicago branch run by Allen’s daughter, Erika. (Will & Erika Allen at left)
Dr. Reynes Carlos Reynes, M D, NOHA Vice President, Professional Advisory Board Member and the Director of the Integrative Therapies Wellness Center presented a lecture on March 10th, titled Drug - Nutrient Interactions, What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You, in Oak Park.
Jon Pangborn, MD, and a member of NOHA’s Professional Advisory Board, gave a presentation on March 11th, at the Skokie Theatre, entitled: Autism: Causes and Introductions to Interventions. Dr. Pangborn is co-founder of Defeat Autism Now (DAN) which he helped found over ten years ago with Bernard Rimland, MD and Sydney Backer, MD. Dr. Pangborn is also father to a 41 year old son who was diagnosed with Autism.
Anju Usman, MD gave a lecture titled: Biochemical Individuality and Autism in Oak Park on March 24. As director of the True Health Medical Center, Naperville, IL, Dr. Usman is very aware of the current Autism epidemic and how the number of cases is rising. She often treats autistic symptoms with biomedical interventions, for example melatonin to help sleep.
One of her main points in the lecture is that Autism is not only genetically based; it’s actually triggered by many chemicals and neurotoxins in children’s environment and in their diet.
There is little dispute that diet plays a key role in the development of type 2 diabetes (T2D), but far less is understood about the impact of individual nutrients in populations that do not follow a typical Western Diet.
The Shanghai Women's Health Study explored any relationship between calcium and magnesium intakes and the risk of T2D in a Chinese population.
Marjorie C. L. Fisher, who helped found and was a past President of NOHA*, passed away on January 16, 2009 from a stroke at age 85. Mrs. Fisher also served as editor, writer and researcher for NOHA’s newsletter for over 20 years.
In November, 2008, NOHA brought Loren Cordain, PhD to the Chicago area for a twoday program on his research into the diet of our paleolithic ancestors.
During the first Paelo Diet lecture, held in Oak Park, Dr. Cordain detailed the techniques and analysis used to draw conclusions of what comprised a ‘typical’ diet during the paleolithic period. (Dr. Cordain at left in photo)
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) affects approximately one percent of the adult population, and females are two to four times more susceptible than males.1 This disease is characte r ized by per s istent inflammation of the synovium, (a membrane lining in freely moving joints that secre tes fluid), destruction of bone and cartilage, and possible functional disability.
A five month investigation by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer into “honey laundering”, the intentional mislabeling of the country of origin, found that tons of Chinese honey coming into the U.S. is tainted with banned antibiotics.
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hi everyone, i just decided to learn c++ this summer so i'd be ahead of (most) people when i go back to school. i've only just started and as a first project i want to make a program that will convert text characters to their binary numbers and vice versa. the first programming language i learned was turing and it had a nice little feature that allowed you to use a char (they called them strings) kinda like an array. you could get a variable and look at each individual character within it as well as determine the length (how many characters). i was hoping to find out if c++ had something similar to this. here's how i figure my program will be:
- get input from user
- look at first character in user's input and compare it to a list of if statements, then assigning the matching binary number to another char that it will output to the screen once all binary numbers have been determined.
i hope i've explained my problem well enough for you to understand it and help me. remember, i'm not looking for anyone to write my program for me (what would be the point in that? i'm doing this for myself), i'm just trying to find out if i can look at each character in a variable.
please let me know if you have trouble understanding this... or if you've got an answer
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by Fr. James V. Schall, S.J.
“On the morning of the first day of the week, the disciples were gathered together behind locked doors, suddenly, Jesus stood among them and said: ‘Peace be with you,’ alleluia.”
— Antiphon, Evening Prayer, Easter Sunday.
In the twelfth chapter of the twenty-second book of the City of God, St. Augustine gives us a remarkably up-to-date objection to the resurrection of the body, one that might be of rather unsettling concern to many of our contemporaries. “It is the habit of the pagans to subject our belief in a bodily resurrection to a scrupulous examination and to ridicule it with such questions as, ‘What about abortions?’” Augustine tells us. “’Will they rise again?’ … Now we are not going to say that those infants (who die early) will not rise again: for they are capable not only of being born, but also of being reborn.” All persons capable of being born are capable of being reborn.
The fact that a significant percentage of the actual human race, though conceived, are not born, does not mean those unborn do not have the same destiny and purpose of those born. The pagan assumption is, of course, that, while those once born may perhaps rise again, surely not those who were never born but were instead aborted. In our time, the number of those who were not born but aborted, on a world wide scale, is simply staggering—around forty to fifty million a year at a minimum. Yet, these too participate in the same end designed for all of us.
Contemporary pagans and others usually do not give aborted infants the honor even of worrying themselves about the final status of such infants. Or of considering their final status as participators, directly or indirectly, in decisions and actions that terminate actual lives. But it is quite clear in this regard that the eternal status of aborted children is not a frivolous issue if their claim to humanness is as solid as that of anyone else, which it is.
Why bring up at this time the same issue of aborted children brought up by the pagans in Augustine’s time? It is standard biological and Church teaching, on the basis of evidence, that an individual human life begins at conception. However lightly we want to dance around this fact, it remains true. Everyone who ever came forth out of the womb had his beginning in the union of a male and female element. This new life is not “part” of the mother, nor is it unnatural to her body. That is where it belongs.
Moreover, aborted babies and babies who die in the womb before birth have the same destiny as the mother who carries them and the father who begot them. What it is to be a human being begins here. Mortal life ends with death, whenever that occurs, be it by abortion at five months, be it by miscarriage at six months, be it by sickness at three years, heart attack at thirty, or Parkinson’s disease at ninety-five.
Now none of these human beings, however or whenever his death might occur, is caused solely by his parents or by himself. The ultimate origin of each human person is within the Godhead itself, within the Trinity. Our initial origin is in the image of God in which our very possibility must first exist. This origin too is why we are all related to one another in our very being. To be a person is to be related to others. Our dependence on one another is based on trues of one another. And this trust must be freely accepted. In this sense, all abortions are a violation of a truest that is ultimately rooted in that Trinitarian life in which we are to participate in God’s grace.
Easter is our central feast, our fundamental doctrine. “If Christ be not risen,” Paul says, “our faith is in vain.” We grant that logic. That Christ rose from the dead is known to us because the fact of it was observed by certain definite witnesses. They did not invent what they saw, but, with some astonishment, reported what they went on. They were neither liars nor ideologues. They were not wishful thinkers or deluded mystics. Hard headed fishermen and a tax collector, among others, were among them. Many of them died for their testimony.
But when the Apostles were gathered together behind closed doors, they were in fact being cautious. What they were claiming in public was in its day not “politically correct.” They were testifying to the fact of the resurrection of Christ. Christ did not break down the doors to lead them out on a triumphant, overwhelming conquest. Rather, He appeared among them. He told them to be at peace. I bring this Easter passage up to remind us that even the aborted children are at peace. Even if their lives were unjustly cut off, God’s grace is sufficient for them to reach the end for which they were initially created as images of God.
The real drama of the aborted babies of our time, or any other time, concerns rather those who aborted them. To remind our contemporaries of their responsibility in this area is perhaps one often reasons that Benedict XVI speaks so often and so earnestly of final judgment. No human act is finally complete unless and until it is judged. Everything is done to keep the reality of abortions, what is actually done, from our eyes. They are in fact “behind closed doors.” But they bring no peace unless they are repented, and even then they unsettle our souls with the knowledge that members of our kind could justify such things.
And yet, Christ’s resurrection is an assurance that each of us, including those whose lives we cut short, will rise again, first to judgment. The assurance of that fact is this: When Christ appeared to the frightened Apostles after the resurrection, He told them that His peace was with them. Easter is indeed the Day the Lord hath made. This is why we can rejoice and be glad. It is not because whatever we do, including killing our kind as infants, makes no difference, but because it does matter. The peace follows the judgment of how we receive the give of the image of God in which we are all, from conception to death, created.
Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., is Professor of Political Philosophy at Georgetown University.
He is the author of numerous books on social issues, spirituality, culture, and literature including Another Sort of Learning, Idylls and Rambles, A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning, The Life of the Mind (ISI, 2006), The Sum Total of Human Happiness (St. Augustine's Press, 2007), The Regensburg Lecture (St. Augustine's Press, 2007), and The Mind That Is Catholic: Philosophical and Political Essays (CUA, 2008). His most recent book from Ignatius Press is The Order of Things(Ignatius Press, 2007).
His new book, The Modern Age, is available from St. Augustine's Press. Read more of his essays on his website.
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Both Linda McMahon and Chris Murphy send out scathing press releases and statements at a regular clip. However on Sept. 11, both campaigns took a moment to reflect on Sept. 11 by issuing statements about the 11th anniversary of the attacks.
Eleven years ago, we were confronted by the most horrific act of violence our country has ever experienced. Though that day will live in infamy, the response of the American people, in the days, weeks, and years following, represents the best of the American spirit. Family, friends, neighbors, and strangers came together in a time of uncertainty to lift each other up, stand against hatred and show the strength and resilience of our nation's character.
Despite the years that have passed, September 11th is forever etched in our memories. Just like so many Connecticut residents, I lost friends that day, and we will never forget those that perished. And to the men and women who risked their lives that earth-shattering day, we are forever indebted to you.
Today we remember the day that forever changed our nation – a day that claimed thousands of lives, tore at our soul, and united us as Americans.
My thoughts today are particularly with the many families in Connecticut who lost loved ones eleven years ago today. For them, the nation’s tragedy bears a personal scar, one that the passage of time will never erase.
I also extend my sincerest gratitude to the firefighters, EMTs, and other first responders who ran toward the towers while everyone else was running from them. Their heroism and sacrifices are an inspiration.
This somber anniversary is a reminder of why we must make sure our nation’s defenses remain strong. We are proud to have the best military in the world, and we must make sure the men and women who serve our country have the tools necessary to both deter future attacks and to respond decisively to those who seek to do us harm.
Jim Himes (D) looked back to Sept. 11, 2001 in a statement and remembered the mood in New York City after the terrorist attacks.
9/11 is still very much alive for me, as it is for you. I remember walking the streets of lower Manhattan feeling the anger, the confusion and the fear. But we are Americans, and we don't do fear very well, or for very long. So what I remember most about that day was the instinct that followed close on the heels of the fear: the instinct to help. We all felt it: my country, my people, my brothers and sisters have been attacked, what can I do to help?
Steve Obsitnik (R) is getting ready for the fast-approaching election. The candidate announced four new volunteer centers in Monroe, Ridgefield, Westport and Fairfield. The exact locations can be found on .
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On Feb. 14, an anonymous source released internal documents from the Heartland Institute, a conservative Chicago-based nonprofit that casts doubt on global warming science, to more than a dozen climate bloggers. The documents revealed Heartland's major funders, including the Charles Koch Foundation and many large corporations, detailed a nearly $1.6 million program to pay scientists to challenge the International Panel on Climate Change's findings, and ostensibly exposed plans for a high school curriculum skeptical of manmade climate change. "If these documents are real, they revealed the desperate efforts of a fringe denial group to deceive children and ruin their future," wrote Joe Romm at Climate Progress.
Most of them are real; the authenticity of parts of one remains uncertain. But the leak was overshadowed six days later by another scandal: Peter Gleick, president of the Oakland, Calif.-based Pacific Institute, an environmental and global security think tank, admitted on Huffington Post that he "solicited and received ... materials directly from the Heartland Institute under someone else's name." Soon after, the Heartland Institute announced that Gleick had impersonated one of its board members to obtain the documents. Gleick wrote: "My judgment was blinded by my frustration with the ongoing efforts -- often anonymous, well-funded, and coordinated -- to attack climate science and scientists."
He has since resigned from the American Geophysical Union's Task Force on Scientific Ethics, and is on indefinite leave from the Pacific Institute, which is investigating his actions. The Heartland Institute may seek to have him prosecuted for wire fraud.
Gleick -- 55, bearded, thin and precise -- seems like a man with a lot on his mind. He's often labeled as a climate scientist, but that is an incomplete description of his public persona: For 25 years, he has played a unique role in California's water world, as both a gadfly, pushing water bosses to rethink the way they run the system, and as a trusted counselor to those same water managers.
Gleick can be prickly. Last year, in a Sacramento Bee editorial, he lambasted the authors of a study on California's water problems, including several widely respected University of California-Davis faculty members, accusing them of "ignoring the most serious pieces of the puzzle" and misunderstanding "how it works in the real world."
"Peter does not suffer fools gladly," says one person who knows him well.
Yet many water czars respect Gleick, who has frequently been invited to brief water agencies, including the massive Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, on subjects like climate change. Steve Macaulay, former chief deputy director of the California Department of Water Resources and head of California Urban Water Agencies, a consortium of some of the state's biggest water providers, says, "Even though there was some distrust of Pacific Institute, and Peter in particular" as he pushed water bosses to plan for climate change and use water more efficiently, "a lot of what he was saying was right."
Gleick received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley's interdisciplinary Energy and Resources Group in 1986 and helped start the Pacific Institute in 1987. He testified before Congress for the first time that year, about climate change and its impacts on water, and a year later, made his debut at the California Legislature. "He's sort of bilingual, in that he can speak the science," says a Capitol staffer in Sacramento, "and he can speak in a way that a real estate agent can understand."
Since then, Gleick has appeared regularly before the Legislature and congressional committees. He is a relentless advocate of what -- borrowing a term from energy-efficiency guru Amory Lovins -- he calls "the soft path for water," employing technological efficiency and smarter pricing to reduce consumption. In 2003, a Pacific Institute report declared that California cities could get by on one-third less water "using existing technology without harming our economy or quality of life." Gleick believes significant savings can be reaped by replacing inefficient toilets, showerheads, washing machines and dishwashers, and by not watering lawns during the daytime. "It's not shorter showers, it's not brown lawns," he says. "It's doing what we want to do with less water."
California has dramatically cut its water use over the past several decades: In 2001, the state used less water than it did in 1975, despite a 60 percent larger population. Gleick has crusaded to push these numbers down further. At times, he has been censured for overselling that potential; in 2008, for instance, he was roundly criticized for exaggerating the amount of water farms could save. Yet, Macaulay says, Gleick has opened up the debate about water conservation, and made moderate conservation measures, once considered unrealistic, seem more tenable. As Lester Snow, the former head of California's Department of Water Resources, puts it, "Peter and some of his colleagues have taken a much more analytical look and said, 'Boy, there's a lot more that can be done.' "
Whether Gleick is directly responsible or not, the soft path has become increasingly important to state water planning. One of the biggest shifts came in 2005, when the California Department of Water Resources released its updated water plan, which focused on combining "portfolios" of soft approaches, including increasing water efficiency and reusing wastewater, "as opposed," Snow says, "to the build-this-dam-and-fill-that-gap approach." Gleick's efforts have, unquestionably, softened public and institutional averseness to water conservation. "I think Pacific Institute has ultimately helped urban water utilities make an easier transition to more aggressive water conservation," says Macaulay. "What was deemed beyond the pale 30 years ago is now an accepted part of life."
Still, Gleick's reputation could suffer greatly from the Heartland incident. And it's not clear who could assume his aggressive stance in the public debate and keep the pressure on water managers and lawmakers. As one political insider noted, the California Legislature is "not going to be able to use him as a witness for a while.
"The Republicans," he said, "would come unglued."
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The Interplay of Regulation and Marketing Incentives in Providing Food Safety
by Michael Ollinger
and Danna Moore
Economic Research Report No. (ERR-75) 52 pp, July 2009
Cover Image for ERR75
This report examines the impact of process regulations mandated under the Pathogen Reduction/Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (PR/HACCP) rule by the Food Safety and Inspection Service of USDA on food safety process control. The current level of food safety found in U.S. meat and poultry food products is a result of process and performance regulations and management-determined actions brought about by market incentives. Processing regulations include sanitation and other tasks related to food safety; management-determined actions include capital investment and other actions independent of process regulations, but possibly driven by performance standards. Performance standards—regulations that allow manufacturers to reach an acceptable level of food safety in any manner they see fit—are not a subject of this report. This study used the share of samples testing positive for Salmonella spp. as a measure of food safety process control in meat and poultry processing plants and found empirically that management-determined actions account for about two-thirds of the reduction in samples testing positive for Salmonella spp., while process regulations account for about a third of the reduction. The importance of process regulation varies, but accounts for 50 percent or more of process control in about a quarter of plants, and in some plants accounts for the entire process control system.
Keywords: Food safety, process regulations, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) rule, food safety regulations
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February 12, 2011 1 Comment
Haidt had the deck stacked by delivering that speech to a room of social psychologists. Skitka and Tetlock conducted research suggesting that liberals tend to attribute events (particularly negative) to external forces (e.g., SES) while conservatives attribute them to internal forces (e.g., morality- Haight’s speciality). Social psychologists are concerned with context, and have classically referred to a tendency to attribute behavior to internal rather than external explanations the fundamental attribution error… So social psychologists consider conservative attribution style an error. Conservative social psychologists would either have to refute attribution theory or do some wicked mental gymnastics to get around that level of cognitive dissonance.
Of course, I really wish I had thought of that myself, as I’m a big believer that attribution theory helps to explain political ideology (and that conservatives get it wrong). The world would be a better place if more people simply understood the fundamental attribution error.
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Makeflow is a workflow engine for executing large complex applications on clusters, clouds, and grids. It can be used to drive several different distributed computing systems, including Condor, SGE, and the included Work Queue system. It does not require a distributed filesystem, so you can use it to harness whatever collection of machines you have available. It is typically used for scaling up data-intensive scientific applications to hundreds or thousands of cores.
KaOS is a lightweight, multi-purpose embedded Linux platform designed for virtualization and cloud computing applications. KaOS is based on Linux KVM and is a true enterprise grade hypervisor platform. KaOS makes it easy to deploy KVM based virtualization solutions. KaOS is a lightweight platform, less than 10MB in size. The SDK provides everything necessary to rebuild the platform and comes with scripts to assist with building a KaOS-enabled Linux kernel. KaOS has a menu-driven CLI called AppQueue and a management process that replaces init and other functions called kattach.
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[Shawn] was looking for a way to shake up his decorations this Halloween and decided to build a new prop for his front yard. He had a pair of old oil barrels in his garage and thought they would look great with a little bit of work.
He bolted the pair of barrels together, then slapped a fresh coat of black paint on them before adding a bright yellow radiation trefoil to each one. One barrel contains a pneumatic piston that opens the lid, revealing a light up pumpkin, a fog machine, and a set of water nozzles that spray the area. The second drum houses an air compressor, a wireless router, and an IP camera for recording the action. A web-enabled Arduino triggers the lid and sprayer, both of which can be controlled from the comfort of his house.
We think it’s a creative use of some old scrap barrels, but we’re hoping he doesn’t plan on wetting trick-or-treaters that pass through, as it seems like a good way to get your house egged or otherwise vandalized on Halloween. If the water sprayer were perhaps swapped out with some other cool effects, [Shawn] is far less likely to be the target of some angry, wet teenagers.
Be sure to check out the video below to see the display in action.
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|1.||misconception of random (MOR)|
Basically the misuse of the word 'random' to describe or prescribe unrandom ideas.
Our brain works like flickering through television channels, get used to it.
Mostly committed by individuals to make their own idea sound cooler than it is or to express easy amusement to unheard ideas.
Think the episode of Spongebob Squarepants where a gorilla suddenly appeared into the scene, now that's random.
A: I was thinking of eating gummy bears that day
B: that's so random!
C: dude, misconception of random (MOR)!
A: I made a random dish that day. I used eggs and apples!
A: I should finish this book I'm reading soon... SNOWBALLS
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AT THE FRANCAISE
By DIANA BOURBON ();
June 29, 1924,
, Section Magazine, Page SM11, Column , words
AMERICAN theatrical producers, mindful of the careful expurgating which has to be done on French originals preparing for production in our United States: Puritan parents who have regularly protected their young from the contaminating "looseness" of the fare offered on Paris stages, will be surprised to learn of an acrimonious dispute now raging in the inner council circles of the Comedie Francaise -- the national theatre of France.
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Radicchio is a leaf chicory (Cichorium intybus, Asteraceae), sometimes known as Italian chicory. It is grown as a leaf vegetable which usually has white-veined red leaves. It has a bitter and spicy taste, which mellows when it is grilled or roasted. It can also be used to add colour and zest to salads.
In Italy, where the vegetable is quite popular, it is usually eaten grilled in olive oil, or mixed into dishes such as risotto: in the United States it is gaining in popularity but is more often eaten raw in salads. As with all chicories, if grown correctly its roots can be used to mix with coffee. It can also be served with pasta, in strudel, as a poultry stuffing, or as part of a tapenade.
Belgian endive is also known as French endive, witloof in the USA, chicory in the UK, as witlof (the Dutch name) in Australia, endive in France, and chicon in parts of Northern France and in Francophone parts of Belgium. It has a small head of cream-coloured, bitter leaves. It is grown completely underground or indoors in the absence of sunlight in order to prevent the leaves from turning green and opening up (etiolation). The plant has to be kept just below the soil surface as it grows, only showing the very tip of the leaves. It is often sold wrapped in blue paper to protect it from light and so preserve its pale colour and delicate flavour. The smooth, creamy white leaves may be served stuffed, baked, boiled, cut and cooked in a milk sauce, or simply cut raw. Slightly bitter, the whiter the leaf, the less bitter the taste. The harder inner part of the stem, at the bottom of the head, should be cut out before cooking to prevent bitterness. Belgium exports chicon/witloof to over 40 different countries. The technique for growing blanched endives was accidentally discovered in the 1850s in the Josaphat valley in Schaerbeek, Belgium. Endive is cultivated for culinary use by cutting the leaves from the growing plant, then keeping the living stem and root in a dark place. A new bud develops but without sunlight it is white and lacks the bitterness of the sun-exposed foliage. Today France is the largest producer of endives.
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Are you aware that you can shed weight by eating certain foods? Appears amazing, I am aware. After all, the so-called ‘experts’ have likely constantly recommended you to go without food to be able to shed weight. Right now, the foods I will tell you about don’t consist of virtually any specific metabolism-boosting chemical substances which will help an individual along with rapid loss of weight. Gynexin.
The truth is your body needs burning a lot of calories to be able to break down these kinds of ‘special’ food items. As you might be aware, the harder calories an individual burn off, the faster an individual shed weight. Follow this.
Once we grow to be older, our own metabolism slows down substantially! Ever thought why many people put on weight in their midsection grow older? In the course of midsection grow older, an individual’s metabolism gets reduced; hence he’s not in a position to burn off just as much fat because he utilized to throughout his children’s. Consuming these kinds of ‘special’ food items is, nonetheless, a good way regarding improving your metabolism! In this article I will tell an individual concerning many of these food items:
1. Teas: If you are within the practice of consuming morning hours tea, change it along with teas! Normal teas are not bad, yet teas is even better! It has fat burning chemical substances which supports an individual along with weight loss. It’s no surprise that many from the fat burners available in the market have teas as a common element!
2. Peanut butter: Peanut butter is a great replacement the normal butter. Unlike the normal butter, which is rich in fat, peanut butter is rich in protein and also dietary fiber, each of which can help you along with weight loss. Although protein can help you burn fat because they build lean muscle mass, dietary fiber will help within controlling your own hunger for some time. http://mygreatproduct.com/gynexin-reviews.php.
Peanut butter is available from any neighborhood retailer however i would advise that you purchase natural kinds and avoid the favorite business manufacturers. Or maybe you want, prepare it in the home! Peanut butter makes for a great breakfast whenever coupled with wholemeal grain!
3. Almond: There are two types of fat available: the good and also the bad fatty acids. Unhealthy fatty acids should be prevented because they allow you to fat! The good fatty acids, alternatively, offer your body along with essential nutrients for example fatty acids. Almond is one this kind of food. It really is rich in fatty acids and also protein. Almond makes it possible to burn fat through improving your metabolism!
4. Espresso beans: Just how efficiently you’ll be able to suppress your own craving for food determines how rapid you’ll be able to shed weight. Espresso beans lead to a great hunger dietary supplement. Since they are rich in fiber, they help to maintain your stomach total for some time.
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Often compared to democratic leaders such as Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi, this extraordinary young woman was raised in the refugee camps of Iran and Pakistan. Inspired in part by her father's activism, Malalai became a teacher in secret girls' schools, holding classes in a series of basements. She hid her books under her burqa so the Taliban couldn't find them. She also helped establish a free medical clinic and orphanage in her impoverished home province of Farah. The endless wars of Afghanistan have created a generation of children without parents. Like so many others who have lost people they care about, Malalai lost one of her orphans when the girl's family members sold her into marriage.
While many have talked about the serious plight of women in Afghanistan, Malalai Joya takes us inside the country and shows us the desperate dayto-day situations these remarkable people face at every turn. She recounts some of the many acts of rebellion that are helping to change the country -- the women who bravely take to the streets in peaceful protest against their oppression; the men who step forward and claim "I am her mahram," so the fundamentalists won't punish a woman for walking alone; and the families that give their basements as classrooms for female students.
A controversial political figure in one of the most dangerous places on earth, Malalai Joya is a hero for our times, a young woman who refused to be silent, a young woman committed to making a difference in the world, no matter the cost.
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Friday, Sept. 4, 1953 | 6 a.m.
This desert resort town promises to become one of the nation's major horse racing and breeding centers as many owners and trainers pouring into the new Las Vegas Park race track for the September 4 opening state that they inted to keep their stables here the year around.
Eugene Flagg, who trains an 11 horse public stable which just arrived here from the Del Mar race track today declared:
"I am planning to maintain a public stable here permanently and utilize Las Vegas as a center of operations, sending horses out to race at Santa Anita, Hollywood, and Del Mar as well as racing here."
The owner of a nine horse Chicago stable which came in over the weekend said that he will base his operations at Las Vegas and race his horses both ehre and in Southern California. He stated:
"Last year it cost me $18,000 to send my horses to Pimlico, Bowie; Belmont Park, Arlington, Washington Park, and Santa Anita race tracks. The opening of the Las Vegas Park now affords me the opportunity of year around racing in the Southwest with large purses to shoot for at Santa Anita, Hollywood Park, Del Mar, and Las Vegas Park."
Some trainers expressed the belief that Las Vegas Park which now has 100 days of racing annually may eventually offer seven months of racing a year.
Flagg, who for many years owned breeding farms both in Wisconsin and Ohio declared that the Las Vegas area possesses everything neccessary to become a breeding center of major importance.
"There are vast area of pasture land available for this purpose," Flagg stated. "You have plenty of water here with Lake Mead only a few miles away, I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of people buy up land and go into the business of breeding thoroughbreds."
The Secretary of the Nevada Racing Commission, Harry E. Parker who has been a racing official for over 20 years, also expressed the breeding area of nationwide importance. Said Parker: "Las Vegas is a natural center of operations for horsemen who wish to race here and in southern California. They have the advantage at Las Vegas of a place to stable their horses during the entire year, and one of the country's top racing strips on which to train."
Parker said that the temperature weather is another big advantage for year round training activities in Southern Nevada.
The eveteran racing official likened Nevada breeding operations to California in 1934 when horse racing was legalized there. At that time California had only one large thoroughbred breeding farm owned by Norman W. Church. Now California has 156 breeding farms which represent an investment of over $90,00,00.
J. Kel Houssels, who has a breeding farm near Las Vegas, is the only breeder of importance in the state. He began his activities in 1948 and has been a consistent producer of good thoroughbreds with such stallions as Bymeabond and Flash 'O Night.
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The United Nations is at it again: finding new and “innovative” ways to create global taxes that would transfer hundreds of billions, and even trillions, of dollars from the rich nations of the world — especially the U.S. — to poorer ones, in line with U.N.-directed economic, social and environmental development.Needless to say, some countries already seem to be ahead of them...
These latest global tax proposals have received various forms of endorsement at U.N. meetings over the spring and summer, and will be entered into the record during the 67th U.N. General Assembly session, which began this week. The agenda for the entire session, lasting through December, is scheduled to be finalized on Friday.
How to convince developed countries wracked by economic recession and spiraling levels of government debt – especially the U.S. — is another issue, which the world organization may well end up trying to finesse.
As the U.N. itself notes, in a major report on the taxation topic titled, “In Search of New Development Finance” -- the main topic at a high-level international meeting of the U.N.’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) this summer -- “These proposals are subject to political controversy. For instance, many countries are not willing to support international forms of taxation, as these are said to undermine national sovereignty.”
Friday, September 28, 2012
World Tax Police
Leave it to the United Nations to do this:
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L-carnosine is made up of 2 amino acids, histidine and beta-alanine, making it a dipeptide. L-carnosine is most heavily concentrated in those body tissues with the greatest energy requirements; skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle and the brain. Carnosine has a broad range of functions in the body.
Carnosine's Health Benefits
Carnosine is a powerful antioxidant1 and metal-chelating agent2, but much of the interest in carnosine supplements center around its ability to inhibit the process of glycation3, which accelerates the aging process. Glycation occurs when sugar combines with protein, forming non-functional compounds (AGEs) that damage cells, impair normal function and generate free-radicals. Wrinkled skin, cataracts and some types of age-related mental decline are all examples of the effects of AGEs.
Of special interest to athletes and strength trainers is L-carnosine's effect on muscle function. Carnosine plays a major role as a pH buffer in muscle tissue, increasing its work capacity.4 Increasing carnosine levels is the focus of several preworkout formulas for this reason.
Carnosine supplements should be used as directed. Doses from 500-3000 mg have been used safely.
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Released: January 20, 2011
Economy Dominates Public's Agenda, Dims Hopes for the Future
Less Optimism about America's Long-Term Prospects
Section 1: Public’s Policy Priorities
A decade ago, in January 2001, the public’s policy agenda was very different. Then as now, strengthening the economy ranked at the top, but it was followed closely by improving education, reducing crime, and securing Social Security and Medicare. Improving the job situation ranked eighth among 11 policy priorities listed.
Today, the economy and jobs are the leading priorities, followed by defending the country against terrorism (73% top priority). Terrorism has been at or near the top of the annual priorities list since it was first included in 2002.
Reducing the budget deficit, or national debt, rated as a top policy priority during the 1990s, declined in importance in the early part of this decade, and has made a comeback in recent years. In January 2002, four months after the 9/11 attacks, just 35% said that reducing the budget deficit should be a top policy priority for President Bush and Congress.
By the beginning of Bush’s second term, in January 2005, 56% said that reducing the budget deficit should be a top priority. In January 2009, shortly before Obama took office, 53% rated the deficit as a top priority. That increased to 60% last year and 64% in the new survey. Currently, about as many rate the deficit as a top priority as did so in December 1994 (65%), at the end of Bill Clinton’s second year in office.
Deficit an Out-of-Power Concern?
Typically, members of the party that does not hold the White House view reducing the deficit as a more important priority than do members of the president’s party. This pattern was particularly evident during the Bush administration.
From 2002 to 2008, substantially more Democrats than Republicans rated reducing the budget deficit as a top priority. On several occasions during the Clinton administration, more Republicans than Democrats said that reducing the deficit – or paying off the national debt — was a top priority.
In the new survey, 68% of Republicans and 61% of Democrats see reducing the budget deficit as a top policy priority (this difference is not statistically significant). While deficit reduction ranks fifth among Republicans, it is the 9th-ranking priority for Democrats.
Crime Declines as Public Priority
With declining crime rates, the proportion saying that reducing crime should be a top national priority has fallen dramatically.
The percentage rating crime as a major priority fell nearly 30 points – from 76% to 47%– between 2001 and 2003. But these percentages subsequently increased – to 53% in 2004 and 2005, and 62% in 2006 and 2007. Since January 2007, the proportion saying that crime should be a top priority for the president and Congress has fallen by 18 points to 44%.
Compared with a decade ago, there has been an across-the-board decline in the percentage viewing crime as a major priority. However, as was the case in 2001, poor people and less-educated people are far more likely to rate crime as a top policy priority than are better educated and more affluent people.
More than half of those with no more than a high school education (58%) and those with family incomes of less than $30,000 (54%) say that reducing crime should be a top priority. That compares with just 27% of college graduates and an identical percentage of those with family incomes of $75,000 or more. Notably, these gaps were about as wide in 2001, when overall concern over crime was much greater.
Persistent Partisan Differences over Priorities
Roughly four-in-ten Democrats (41%) say that dealing with global warming should be a top priority for the president and Congress, compared with 29% of independents and just 10% of Republicans. The wide partisan gap over the importance of dealing with global warming is not new – it was approximately as large in 2010 and 2009.
Democrats also are far more likely to view reducing health care costs (28-point partisan gap), dealing with the problems of the poor (26 points), protecting the environment (24 points), and improving the educational system (23 points) as top priorities than are Republicans. These differences also are in line with previous policy priority surveys.
Improving the nation’s roads, bridges, and transportation does not rank as a particularly high priority for Democrats, Republicans or independents. Still, Democrats are more likely to see this as important (41% top priority vs. 30% of independents, 26% of Republicans. This is the case for dealing with obesity as well.
As in previous surveys, dealing with illegal immigration is a much higher priority for Republicans (61%) than for independents (47%) or Democrats (33%). There are more modest differences (11-point partisan gap) over defending the country from future terrorist attacks. These differences also are little changed from previous years.
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Peter Saville, Creative Director for the city of Manchester, England, was recently interviewed by The Atlantic Cities about a range of subjects, including the city’s brand. This quote on city brands, in particular, stood out:
“I was not interested in an official city logotype or a slogan. City logotypes do little and slogans are a sign of insecurity. If your place needs a slogan, it has a problem. A brand is not just a logotype, it’s a set of values that are communicated through actions.”
This hit home for Richmond, which has struggled over the years to establish a brand that feels both authentic and aspirational. RVA Creates is part of a grassroots effort to communicate Richmond’s existing groundswell of creativity and innovation. And it’s not the only effort underway.
“There’s nothing wrong with logos or slogans — I’d never argue that Avis’s ‘We try harder’ or Nike’s ‘Just Do It’ or Apple’s ‘Think Different’ aren’t powerful statements of what their brands stand for. But they’re not enough,” said Matt Williams, EVP/general manager for the Martin Agency and a member of the multi-agency group that launched RVA Creates. “If they don’t represent real behavior that people care about, they’re just empty turns of phrase. The brand is the behavior the slogan represents, not the slogan itself. Maybe your brand needs a slogan, maybe it doesn’t. But if you don’t have the corresponding behavior a catchy slogan won’t matter.”
And that’s the heart of RVA Creates—a recognition of the amazing things you, the residents of the Richmond region (or RVA as so many of us call it) are out there doing every single day.
Said Williams, “creativity is behavior, not just branding. The RVA idea is meant to tell stories of Richmond’s creativity and to enable the people to be more creative. We wanted to celebrate and unleash the creativity we all know is already here.”
You can help tell the stories that show RVA as a creative and innovative region by sending your stories of creativity and innovation in RVA to firstname.lastname@example.org, posting them in the comments below or sending them to the Facebook page or Twitter account.
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Rail Infrastructure Monitoring
Regular inspection of rail infrastructure, including the rails, track, overhead power distribution and associated trackside structures, is essential for safe and effective railway operation. The results from inspections are typically used to prioritise short term maintenance intervention and to plan longer term maintenance programs.
Increasingly rail systems are seeking technology-based inspection solutions that provide objective information on the condition of the infrastructure to support the development of cost-effective asset management. These technologies also have the potential to improve the safety of the public and railway personnel and to reduce inspection costs.
MRX Technologies, using our own technologies and working in conjunction with our technology partners, provides a range of infrastructure monitoring solutions including:
- Rail inspection
- Inspection of track and associated structures
- Monitoring of overhead traction power wires and structures
- Video surveys of track and associated equipment
As required to suit the operating conditions and constraints these measurement systems may be mounted on specialised inspection vehicles or be hosted by vehicles operating in revenue service. In some cases manually operated equipment may also be appropriate.
Comprehensive back-office software applications are available to analyse, report and archive the objective data captured by the measurment systems.
Please browse this section of our site for more information on these solutions or contact one of our consultants via our
online form, or by telephone to discuss your requirements.
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Information contained in big blocks of fair balance text in DTC ads is lost on consumers, but simplified “facts boxes” fare better, a study found.
One concern stated in the abstract of the study, published online by the Annals of Internal Medicine, was the lack of standardized information about the benefits and harms of drug therapies. “Although [DTC] ads are often justified as serving an educational purpose, they generally fail to provide the most fundamental information consumers need to make informed decisions: data on how well the drug works,” the editors of the study wrote.
"We think DTC ads should tell people how well drugs work, both in terms of benefit and harms," said Steven Woloshin, a co-author of the study.
The study disguised names of drugs and manufacturers to avoid any preconceived notions among participants. In a symptom drug box trial, participants were shown separate versions of a print ad for Maxtor, a proton pump inhibitor, and Amcid, an H2 blocker. For each drug, participants saw either one example of an ad with regular fair balance information, or an example using a drug “facts box” instead. Facts boxes are defined in the study as one page summaries of a drug's benefits and side effects, with the central information provided in a table that shows the chance of various outcomes for people who do and do not take the drug (example here).
In the case of the H2 blocker and PPI, the drug facts box decreased the perceived magnitude of side effects—92% said the side effects were small, compared with 42% of the controlled group. The drug box group's perceptions more accurately reflected the drugs' actual side effect profiles.
In a separate test of the same drugs, participants were asked to report perceived benefits of the products. Only 16% of the drug box group reported perceived benefits of the H2 blocker to be “extremely” or “very” effective, while 46% of the control group said the drug appeared to be extremely or very effective. Conversely, the drug box group more accurately assessed the benefits of the PPI—73% said that drug was extremely or very effective, compared with 53% of the control group. In each case, perceptions among the group viewing a drug facts box were more accurate in evaluating the drugs.
The authors of the study called on FDA staff to implement facts boxes, and to produce and routinely update them internally. “Given its central role in summarizing drug information, the FDA is the most important leverage point in getting balanced drug information to physicians and consumers,” the authors conclude, adding that “billions of dollars in marketing designed to generate enthusiasm for new products [leave consumers] vulnerable to persuasive marketing techniques and selective presentations of information.”
"We are presenting this work at the FDA's risk advisory committee meeting at the end of February," said Woloshin. "We think FDA is open to reformatting [fair balance] information."
Responding to an inquiry about the possible implementation of facts boxes, PhRMA spokesperson Jennifer Wall said: “Consistent with recent DTC guidelines, PhRMA is committed to a fair balance of risk and benefit information in all DTC advertising.”
The study was authored by Lisa Schwartz, Steven Woloshin and Gilbert Welch, all members of the faculty at Dartmouth Medical School.
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From the pulp-and-paper sector to mining and construction, business in British Columbia is relying on a shrinking pool of workers from across Canada and around the world to meet the need for skilled labour.
But the crisis hasn’t even started, according to a labour-market study to be released Tuesday from B.C.’s research universities. The report calculates that the tipping point – where the number of jobs in B.C. will exceed the number of qualified workers – is just three years away.
“Our overall objective is to alert British Columbians of the fundamental challenge we are facing in the economy,” Stephen Toope, president of the University of British Columbia, said in an interview. At a time when the provincial government is trimming spending on advanced education, he said time is short to respond to the pending shortfall. “We hope the government will pay close attention to that. … We are in trouble.”
The study is being released just three weeks before the B.C. Liberal government unveils its pre-election budget – a fiscal plan that is expected to leave little room for the kind of expanded postsecondary system that the heads of the province’s six research universities are calling for.
The province is expected to see more than a million job openings in this decade, and roughly three-quarters of those jobs will require a trade certificate or postsecondary education. The university study estimates that only a third of the job postings can be filled through immigration or in-migration from other parts of Canada.
In an election campaign where skills training is expected to be in the spotlight, the Liberals have been touting their plan to help train workers for the kinds of jobs B.C. will offer. But last year, the provincial budget set out $50-million in cuts from the advanced education budget over two years.
Since then, the government has rolled out a skills and training action plan that promises to help connect British Columbians with job training in areas where skills are in demand. It also is designed to encourage students to look at the technical and trades occupations where shortages are emerging.
But Andrew Petter, president of Simon Fraser University, suggested the government’s focus is too narrow.
“The skills and talent shortage is by no means limited to basic trades and skills,” he said. “Over the next five years, those skills gaps for higher levels of training will be greatest – we are talking about economists, managers – the people who are going to help the economy to grow.”
The use of Chinese migrant workers at a coal mine in northern British Columbia has attracted controversy, but Mr. Petter noted that the mining industry is already facing a much broader challenge in finding qualified engineers, geologists and machine operators. Court battles have dogged the Chinese mine workers. And bureaucratic backlogs have delayed skilled-immigrant applications.
“This is an economic imperative for the province,” Mr. Petter said. “We’re not going to be able to build those new mines if we don’t have the engineers.”
The province’s research universities have been calling for 11,000 new student spaces for university, college and trades training over the next four years. They also want more grants and scholarships, and better student loans, to make postsecondary education more accessible to British Columbians.
Bill Tam, president of the BC Technology Industry Association, said his industry is already hemmed in by the shortage of skilled labour – the lifeblood of the tech sector. “We are pretty much at full employment, and as we look ahead, we see a worrisome trend,” he said in an interview. The shortages span the sector, from digital media, such as Vancouver-based HootSuite, to hardware companies like the security monitoring firm Avigilon, that can’t keep up with demand.
Mr. Tam agreed the government’s skills-training agenda is too narrow. “I hope there is a broader view of where the talent challenges are going to be in the future,” he said. “We need the right balance. There continues to be a fundamental shift in the economy to greater knowledge-based sectors.”
The study ranks B.C. eighth among the provinces for granting undergraduate degrees, well below the Canadian average. In the past, it has made up the deficit through in-migration, but fewer Canadians are now relocating to the province.
The report predicts that by the end of the decade, “approximately 18,800 jobs could go unfilled because too few British Columbians have the necessary training.”
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A pilot program to recycle organic material such as shredded paper and grass clippings into compost will be become a city-wide option for San Antonio residents in the coming months.
Pizza boxes, leaves and other organic yard refuse -- as well as food scraps -- can also be placed in a third green-colored bin.
"All of those types of items can be put into the third cart and those items will get recycled once a week along with your garbage collection," said Tiffany Edmonds, spokesperson for the City San Antonio Solid Waste Management Department.
Unlike the solid waste recycling program with the blue-colored bins, participation in this program isn't automatic. An additional $3 fee will be charged to participants.
"Only residents that buy in or opt into the program will be charged the additional fee in their monthly bill. Other residents that decide that they do not want the program, then they wont be charged that three-dollar fee," Edmonds said.
The fee covers the cost of the collection and transport of the organic material.
Once the material is collected, it is transported to a local company, New Earth, at 7800 Interstate 10 East, for composting.
That organic material is eventually mixed in to their products like potting soil and sold locally in San Antonio.
Residents can also purchase the raw compost directly from the company.
"We also encourage residents, and teach them how to do backyard composting if they'd like to do that, too," Edmonds said.
Check with your HOA to make sure composting is allowed in your neighborhood.
For more information on the organic recycling program go to the City of San Antonio Solid Waste Management website.
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First snaps made of fetal brains wiring themselves up
The first images have been captured of the fetal brain at different stages of its development. The work gives a glimpse of how the brain’s neural connections form in the womb, and could one day lead to prenatal diagnosis and treatment of conditions such as autism and schizophrenia.
We know little about how the fetal brain grows and functions – not only because it is so small, says Moriah Thomason of Wayne State University in Detroit, but also because “a fetus is doing backflips as we scan it”, making it tricky to get a usable result.
Undeterred, Thomason’s team made a series of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans of the brains of 25 fetuses between 24 and 38 weeks old. Each scan lasted just over 10 minutes, and the team kept only the images taken when the fetus was relatively still.
The researchers used the scans to look at two well-understood features of the developing brain: the spacing of neural connections and the time at which they developed. As expected, the two halves of the fetal brain formed denser and more numerous connections between themselves from one week to the next. The earliest connections tended appear in the middle of the brain and spread outward as the brain continued to develop.
Thomason says that the team is now scanning up to 100 fetuses at different stages of development. These scans might allow them to start to see variation between individuals. They are also applying algorithms to the scanning program that will help correct for the fetus’s movements, so fewer scans will be needed in future.
Once they understand what a normal fetal brain looks like, the researchers hope to study brains that are forming abnormal connections. Disorders such as schizophrenia or autism, for instance, are believed to start during development and might be due to faulty brain connections. Understanding the patterns that characterise these diseases might one day allow physicians to spot early warning signs and intervene sooner. Just as importantly, such images might improve our understanding of how these conditions develop in the first place, Thomason says.
Emi Takahashi of Boston Children’s Hospital says that one way to do this would be to follow a large group of children after they are born, and look back at the prenatal scans of those who later develop a brain disorder. Although she says the study is a very good first step, understanding the miswiring of the brain is so difficult that it may be some time before the results of such work become useful in clinical settings.
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Important note: This Wiki page is edited by participants of the RDWG. It does not necessarily represent consensus and it may have incorrect information or information that is not supported by other Working Group participants, WAI, or W3C. It may also have some very useful information.
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Simple, Authoring Language, Rapid Development.
I contest that in the near future it will not be possible for an untrained author, to simply read a small specification of the language, open a text editor and create a page; simply uploading the result to the Web. Even the graphical tools which are supposed to simplify this process, such as “Dreamweaver”, have become bloated with features to accommodate increasingly complicated interplay of Web languages. Of course, simplified applications, such as “RapidWeaver”, “iWeb”, and Google “Sites”, have been established to hide this complexity. However, the freedom to use the tools one wishes, in the way one wishes, is rapidly becoming eroded. The reliance on complex language means that the Web is becoming increasingly restricted for the “Everyman” who help bring it to prominence. Although I see an accessibility problem here, I am not suggesting a “Luddite” like, return to the old days of Web authoring, but instead, am calling for a simplified all-in-one Web language (either declarative or meta) which can be learnt in a short amount of time, by untrained programmers, who can use a text editor as the creation tool. I realise that the complexities will need in some degree to be hidden, but assert that this trade-off will neither be missed or required by the majority of authors working predominantly in the “long tail”.
Web authoring is becoming an increasingly professionalised activity. What was once seen by programmers as being nothing more than a way of delivering information via a simple metalanguage has become an important platform for dynamic application development. We now see that there is a plethora of programmatic languages to make the Web more application like; browserless platforms, such as “Adobe AIR”, enable the mimicking of application interfaces and components while still using Web infrastructure; and, complex asynchronous communications and page updates have become the norm for industrial sites within the Alexa top 500. Indeed, the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) 5 draft specification implicitly acknowledge these changes by its focus on application programming. In this move to authoring professionalisation the key aspects of the Web which made its adoption so rapid have started to become neglected. Indeed, it is my contention that if development continues, by programmers—for programmers, unique aspects of the Web will become inaccessible to non-programmers and hobbyists, indeed the very people who made the Web of today. Certainly, it is not my intention to suggest that the professionalisation of Web authoring is negative across the board, indeed it is quite useful for a number of applications.
- Will higher level declarative or macro language (macros combining - html5+css3+js+ajax) which will remove some of this complexity (and build in accessibility from the start) and thereby make non-professional heterogeneous authoring viable again?
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The "horrible" September unemployment numbers should mean the forecast top levels of the United States-New Zealand dollar cross are not tested, BNZ currency strategist Mike Jones says.
Until Statistics New Zealand said unemployment was 7.3%, a 13-year high, Mr Jones had been contemplating a top end range of US81c to US83.5c for the kiwi.
"But with the risk of a Reserve Bank interest rate cut now very real, the topside looks unlikely to be tested. Still, we doubt we're on the cusp of a substantial downward correction."
The expectation of ongoing global optimism and rising New Zealand commodity prices meant Mr Jones' year-end US82c forecast for the kiwi still looked "about right".
In the near-term, he expected the dips to be limited to US80.8cAny underperformance by the New Zealand currency would be concentrated against the cross with the Australian dollar, he said.
Recent Australian data, including the employment rate falling in September, provided some contrast to the New Zealand outlook.
With the recent break below the A78.75 mark, the BNZ was looking for a move back down into the A77c to A78c range in the next few weeks, Mr Jones said.
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What is Orthomolecular Therapy?
Orthomolecular treatments are defined as the practice of providing the brain and the body with the best possible biochemical environment so that they can function at an optimal level, especially with those substances used by the body naturally such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids and other essential molecules. Vitamins and minerals are administered according to the individual needs of patients. Diet, low blood sugar, allergies, and thyroid problems are also addressed and considered important for the success of the therapy. If an individual is undertaking pharmaceutical treatment, orthomolecular therapy can support that the body by addressing nutrient deficiencies that can be created by some medications.
How Can a Person Receive Orthomolecular Therapy?
A physician should always be consulted when addressing serious medical problems. Contact information for practitioners practicing Orthomolecular medicine can be found through the Find a Practitioner (linked?) bar. Supplements, diet and all other therapies should be regulated to suit the needs of the individual patient. If your physician is not familiar with an orthomolecular therapy, the ISF can help direct them to other physicians who can consult. In addition, the ISF can provide literature for physicians.
Are there Adverse Effects of Orthomolecular Therapy?
Supplement therapies are very safe. A small percentage of people may experience some discomfort when taking certain nutrients. Determining the right dosage and form of supplementation is important. A pracitioner will evaluate each case individually and prescribe nutrients and dosages suitable to their patient.
How Effective is Orthomolecular Treatment?
In the treatment of schizophrenia, the American Schizophrenia Association Committee on Therapy, reported an 80 percent recovery rate based on a follow-up study of 1,500 patients. Other physicians report a recovery rate of more than 75 percent and considerably higher rates in children. Orthomolecular treatment is based in clinical nutrition, and supports the body’s natural function. The approach has been found highly effective in treating many disorders including depression, bi-polar (manic depressive disorder), alcoholism and addiction, arthritis, heart and circulatory problems, behavioural and learning difficulties in children and problems associated with aging, including but not limited to Alzheimer’s.
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Christianity in India traces its roots from the Apostle, St. Thomas. In spite of being a minority in the vast Hindu land, Christianity continues to thrive because it was founded on the profession of Faith of an eye witness to Christ's resurrection. Read More
By Fr. Basil Cole, OP. A must-have for every priest and seminarians. Fr. Basil Cole, the author, is concerned to explain the vices to which priests are often prone, and which vitiate their ministries.
By Fr. Basil Cole, OP. An interesting perusal of the teachings of the Catholic Faith on religious life. Sources from Sacred Scriptures, Vatican II and St. Thomas Aquinas are the basis of the exposition of this little gem.
Raise Happy Children
By Mary Ann Budnik. Happiness among children in the family consists in teaching them the virtues of the saints. Stuffing them with mere material satisfaction proves not only insufficient but also dangerous. Learn from the Christian wisdom of this book in raising a family.
Soul of the Apostolate
This classic masterpiece by Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard is a classic of spirituality for those who are engaged in the active apostolate. Known as the bedtime reading of St. Pius X, the book was praised by many spiritual writers.
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Christianity upholds that Jesus was crucified (killed upon the cross) in order to redeem the people of their sins and to atone for the Original Sin i.e. that of Adam.
There are many holes in this theory, as the Christians believe that God sacrificed His one and only begotten son for us mere mortals.
Firstly let us consider the events which actually took place at that
time, according to the different beliefs presented in this book.
The Christian Perspective :
The Christians, as mentioned, believe that Jesus, their lord, suffered
untold of pain, abuse and humiliation and finally death, just so that humanity
could be absolved of their sins.
The Jewish View :
The Jews, on the other hand, hold steadfast to the belief, to this day,
that they rightly crucified an imposter, one who falsely claimed to be
a prophet of God.
The Qadiani Concept :
In Mirza Ghulam Ahmedís interpretation of the facts, we encounter a
totally bizarre theory, in that Jesus is said to have somehow escaped crucifixion
and fled to Kashmir, where he died later on in life.
The Islamic Belief :
In Islam we believe that Jesus was neither crucified, nor was he an imposter and neither did he flee elsewhere. Islam gives an easily acceptable, feasible and valid account of the actual events concerning Jesus.
Jesus was raised up to the Creator, one of his disciples was, by the command of Allah (S.W.T.), given the resemblance of him and crucified in his place.
Back to contents of Hazrat Isa
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Based on settlement prices during the first half of February, the projected price for corn will be $5.73 per bushel for corn and $13.01 for soybeans, giving a soybean-to-corn price ratio of 2.27 (2.27 = $13.01 / $5.73). The 2013 corn projected price will be near the 2012 projected price and the 2013 soybean projected price will be above the 2012 level. The 2.27 soybean-to-corn price ratio is slightly above the average of price ratios in recent years.
Projected Prices in 2013
Projected prices are used to set crop insurance guarantees. These prices are based on settlement prices of Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) contracts during the month of February. The December contract is used for corn and the November contract is used for soybeans. These projected prices will have large impacts on risks farmers face during 2013. Higher projected prices will cause crop insurance products to offer more downside risk protection.
During the first half of February, settlement prices would result in a $5.73 projected price for corn. This $5.73 price is near the $5.68 price level for 2012; hence, the 2013 projected price likely will provide similar protection to that offered in 2012.
During the first half of February, settlement prices would result in a $13.01 projected price for soybeans. This $13.01 projected price is $.46 higher than the 2012 projected price of $12.55. Hence, the 2013 price likely will provide more risk protection for soybeans than the 2012 projected price.
Market prices provide some guidance for 2013 planting decisions. Higher soybean-to-corn price ratios tend to indicate that soybeans are more profitable to plant than corn, and vice versa. Based on CME settlement prices during the first half of February, the soybean-to-corn price ratio is 2.27.
From a long-run historical perspective, the 2.27 is below average (see Figure 1). From 1975 through 2012, the average soybean-to-corn price ratio based on projected prices is 2.32. Hence, from a longer-run historical perspective, the soybean-to-corn price relationship favors corn production compared to soybean production.
However, the 2013 soybean-to-corn price ratio is near the 2007 through 2012 average. Since 2007, the soybean-to-corn price ratio has averaged 2.22. Hence, the 2.27 for 2013 is slightly above the 2.27 recent average, suggesting 2013 prices slightly favors soybean production.
The 2.27 soybean-to-corn price ratio also is not the lowest that have occurred (see Figure 1). There have been four years in which the price ratio is below 2. These occurred in 1976 (soybean-to-corn price ratio of 1.87), 2001 (1.90), 2002 (1.94), and 2007 (1.99).
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In the United States, more people watch NASCAR racing than baseball, supposedly "America's pastime." It's second only to football, with 75 million dedicated fans who tune in (or show up) almost every weekend of the year to watch stock cars race around a track at speeds up to 190 mph (306 kph) [sources: Fulton, Eaton].
The cars' non-EPA-regulated engines and dangerously high speeds make the sport exciting to watch. They also make it one of the least environmentally friendly sports out there. NASCAR drivers make a living doing exactly what the rest of us are supposed to avoid in order to stave off global warming: Drive ridiculously powerful, gas-guzzling sports cars at extremely high speeds for entertainment value.
The sport burns so much fuel that the U.S. government labeled NASCAR a waste of gas during the fuel shortage of the 1970s. As a result, NASCAR shortened one of its races from 500 miles (804 kilometers) to 450 miles (724 kilometers) as a goodwill gesture. (It was a temporary change.)
So, just how much fuel does it take to hold a NASCAR race, and what effect does it really have on the state of the atmosphere? Is it a major CO2 contributor, or does it just get a bad rap because of the nature of the sport?
In this article, we'll find out whether NASCAR is as big an emitter as it seems. We'll check out the fuel and CO2 numbers, see how it compares to other activities, and look at the potentially "greener" future of the sport.
The first thing to understand when looking at NASCAR's carbon footprint is that race cars are even less like regular cars than some of us think. That speed comes at a price.
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Way Klingler Young Scholar Awards support promising young scholars in critical stages of their careers.
Dr. Krassimira Hristova, assistant professor of biological sciences, applies emerging trends in molecular and environmental microbiology to help understand and prevent the spread of contaminants. Her recent work focuses on methyl tertiary butyl, a gasoline additive that is one of the leading ground-water contaminants in the country. "By better understanding the enzyme pathways and genetic regulation of the contaminant biodegradation, we can help develop more efficient bio-remediation technologies for the cleanup of gasoline spills," Hristova says. She is currently researching the toxic effects of human exposure to metal nano-oxides, with the goal of engineering less toxic nanomaterials that reduce contamination of human cells, in addition to analyzing the spread of antibiotic resistance in the environment by anthropogenic -deriving from human- activities. Both studies have enormous potential to improve the health and safety of people around the world.
Help support the Department of Biological Sciences at Marquette.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvanias GRASP Lab have added new functionality to their Robot PR2. The Robot PR2, which has been given the nickname Graspy, has the ability to read for itself. Graspy can read anything from simple signs to full-length warnings. At this point it has yet to work with longer texts, but in time it may be able to read you a bedtime story.
Graspy is learning to read in the same way that a human toddler would learn. It begins by watching the words in order to recognize the shapes that the words take. Then it attaches a meaning to the shapes, associating the sound of the letter with its look. Then the process of sounding out the words begins. As new and less familiar words are brought into the mix, Graspy will try to match them to known words. Far from the simple word recognition of the current generation of text to speech systems, this system has the capacity to learn.
One robot specific issue to deal with is the font. An average person can encounter hundreds of fonts during their lifetime as a reader. For a human the ability to distinguish the same letter in different fonts is innate, for all but the most ornate or obtuse fonts. A robot is a bit more literal, and requires more processing power and learning time to keep track of 200 different ways to write the letter L or Z.
If you happen to have an ROS platform robot you can download the software for the upgrade from the school for free.
Explore further: Medical robot lets doctors beam in to check on patients
More information: www.ros.org/wiki/literate_pr2
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Good technology fits comfortably into your current, preferred system of what needs to be done for business. When done the right way, it fits in with minimal interruptions in the more traditional (and comfortable) style of doing business.
Making a change in the way we’ve done a particular task can always be a challenge. It is human nature to prefer “the way we’ve always done it here” in contrast to a new, unknown and confusing system. Smart technology (the type you want to embrace) takes account of what has been done before — and the way it was done — and blends the comfortable, known style with new developments which provide more optimal solutions for business.
Here are a couple of examples which you can use as models when you embrace new technology. Most businesses use forms to run business. Forms have been around probably since the days when papyrus was used in ancient Egypt for their version of documentation. When people have used a particular type of form, they grow comfortable with it and often prefer that to using something on a screen — even a small portable screen like a Smartphone or tablet.
Smart technology will take the familiar, old style and blend it with the benefits of newer technology. We are now seeing technologies emerge which take the familiar, established forms that a business uses and converts them to be easily used on a portable device with a screen (Smartphone, tablet, laptop, etc.). This way businesses can retain the familiarity of their forms while embracing the advantages of the new technology (readily available, ability to carry many forms easier, faster transmission and processing, etc.).
Another example of how good technology will blend into the work style that people embrace is with a new technology that recognizes the mobile nature of work today. More and more workers are breaking the chains that bind them to a desk at the office while embracing a portable, flexible lifestyle. This creates more productivity for the worker as well as more profitability for the business.
An example of this technology that blends portability with the stability of office-based communication is a new device which allows workers to insert their portable phones into a dock on a customized office phone. This seamless integration gives the worker the ability to use mobile phones when on the go, and use that same capability when at a more traditional office with all the features and benefits of a landline phone.
This blending of the old and the new in a comfortable method is most welcomed by workers who find they get the best of both worlds. They get the use of known, established ways of doing business, while bringing in innovative, new ways to get the job done better, faster, easier and cheaper.
You might want to see a couple of good examples of this style of combining the old with the new. A convenient app called Pronto Forms, gives the ability to create an electronic version of most business forms already in existence. You can transform that tried-and-tested form that you’re familiar with, into a form that is on the screen of your Smartphone, tablet and/or laptop. To get further help join us online.
In addition to that, the new AT&T iFusion SmartStation works with Office @ Hand to give you the ability to dock your Smartphone into a more traditional office phone. This way you get the best of both worlds with your phone needs.
Blending the old with the new is a key feature of good technology. This is one of the criteria that wise businesses embrace when selecting new technologies.
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A. POSITIONS AND HONORS HELD BY VON NEURATH.
He was a member of the Nazi Party from 30 January 1937 until 1945, and vas awarded the Golden Party Badge on 30 January 1937.
He was General in the SS. He was personally appointed Gruppenfuehrer by Hitler in September 1937, and was promoted to Obergruppenfuehrer on 21 June 1943.
He was Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Chancellorship of von Papen from 2 June 1932, and under the Chancellorship of Hitler from 30 January 1933 until he was replaced by von Ribbentrop on 4 February 1938.
He was Reich Minister from 4 February 1938 until May 1945.
He was President of the Secret Cabinet Council, to which he was appointed on 4 February 1938.
He was a member of the Reich Defense Council.
He was Reichs Protector for Bohemia and Moravia from 18 March 1939 until he was replaced by Frick on 25 August 1943.
He was awarded the Adlerorden by Hitler at the time of his appointment as Reich Protector. Ribbentrop was the only other German to receive this decoration.
These facts are collected in a document signed by von Neurath and his counsel (2972-PS). Von Neurath comments on certain of these matters. He says that the award of the Golden Party Badge was made on 30 January 1937 against his will and without his being asked. Yet he not only refrained from repudiating
the allegedly unwanted honor, but after receiving it attended meetings at which wars of aggression were planned, actively participated in the forcible annexation of Austria, and tyrannized over Bohemia and Moravia.
He also contends that his appointment as SS Gruppenfuehrer was also against his will and without his being asked. But in this connection, his wearing of the SS uniform, his receipt of the further promotion to Obergruppenfuehrer, and the actions against Bohemia and Moravia must be considered. In addition, von Neurath says that his appointment as Foreign Minister was by Reichspresident von Hindenburg. Yet President von Hindenburg died in 1934, and von Neurath continued as Foreign Minister until 1938, under the chancellorship first of von Papen and then of Hitler. He further claims that he was an inactive Minister from 4 February 1938 until May 1945. His activities in this connection will be mentioned below, particularly with regard to Bohemia and Moravia.
Von Neurath next alleges that the Secret Cabinet Council never sat or conferred. This Council, of which von Neurath was president, has been authoritatively described as a select committee of the Cabinet for the deliberation of foreign affairs, directly subordinated to the Fuehrer for counsel and assistance (1774-PS):
"A Privy Cabinet Council, to advise the Fuehrer in the basic problems of foreign policy, has been created by the decree of 4 February 1938 *** This Privy Cabinet Council is under the direction of Reich-Minister v. Neurath, and includes the Foreign Minister, the Air Minister, the Deputy Commander for the Fuehrer, the Propaganda Minister, the Chief of the Reich- Chancellery, the Commanders-in-Chief of the Army and Navy and the Chief of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces. The Privy Cabinet Council constitutes a select staff of collaborators of the Fuehrer which consists exclusively of members of the Government of the Reich; thus, it represents a select committee of the Reich Government for the deliberation on foreign affairs." (1774-PS)
The formal composition of this body is shown in 201-PS. Von Neurath held himself out as a member of this body by communicating with the British Ambassador on Secret Cabinet Council stationery. (3287-PS)
Von Neurath, finally, objects that he was not a member of the Reich Defense Council. This Council was set up soon after Hitler's accession to power, on 4 April 1933 (2261- PS). In an affidavit by Frick (2986-PS), this Council is described as follows:
" We were also members of the Reich Defense Council, which was supposed to plan preparations in case of war which later on were published by the Ministerial Council for the Defense of the Reich." (2986-PS)
The membership of this Council included the Minister for Foreign Affairs, who was then von Neurath. This is shown by a document giving the composition of the Reich Defense Council, and including among permanent members the Minister for Foreign Affairs (EC-177). That document is dated "Berlin, 22 May 1933," which was during von Neurath's tenure of that office.
The functioning of the Reich Defense Council, with a representative of von Neurath's ministry, von Beulow, present, is shown by the minutes of the 12th meeting on 14 May 1936 (EC-407). Under the secret law of 4 September 1938 von Neurath was a member of the Reich Defense Council by virtue of his presidency of the Secret Cabinet Council. This fact is shown by the enclosure of a copy of that law in a letter addressed to von Neurath as Reich Protector for Bohemia and Moravia on 6 September 1939 (2194-PS). It is curious that the Reich Protector for Bohemia and Moravia denies his membership in the Council when the letter enclosing the law is one addressed to him. This law describes the tasks of the Council as follows:
"The task of the Reich Defense Council consists, in peacetime, of the decision on all measures for the preparation of Reich defense, and the gathering together of all forces and means of the nation according to the- directions of the Leaders and Reich Chancellor. The tasks of the Council in wartime will be especially determined by the Leader and Reich Chancellor." (2194-PS)
The law also lists the permanent members of the Council, and the seventh one is the President of the Secret Cabinet Council, who was von Neurath.
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Few things are more personal than words. Words can pull emotion out of both the darkest places and the most joyful times. Words can bring tears, inspire great change or evoke deep fears. Like a book that helps you see another perspective. A song that brings tears. A speech that ignites a passion. Whether it’s poetry or prose, novels or lectures, all are words intended to draw a reaction or an emotion from the audience. Music does the same thing. Words put together in a perfect formula to incite a particular reaction. Words, be it music or writing, serve as an escape for me. Perhaps it’s because often, someone else’s words explain how I feel better than I’m able to do. Someone else’s words to help explain another time and another place. Words to explain history I wasn’t able to live. Words to explain emotions I didn’t know how to feel.
Monday, I escaped into a beautiful world of melodies and words. I use my own words in this space for the sole hope of never forgetting how I felt listening to Joy Williams and John Paul White, most commonly known as The Civil Wars. The sound that comes from these two is exquisite. And it’s pure.
Two voices and a guitar. Occasionally, a piano. It works, and it works well. When Williams opens her mouth, the hairs on my neck stand up. Her voice is so pure and emotional. You can feel the meaning behind the lyrics in her voice. Watching her sing — she moves in this whimsical way, almost like a ballerina moves across the stage. She has the perfect amount of play around the microphone, the perfect movements. There’s a grace to Williams, a vulnerability, like a fragile doll. The way she moves falls in line with her words: “In the meantime, I’ll be waiting for twenty years and twenty more.” You can feel the sadness, the sorrow in her voice — as if she’s truly been waiting 20 years. Maybe she has… for this stage with this partner.
Or maybe it’s because the words penned by White and Williams are relatable. “The less I give, the more I get back. Your hands can heal, your hands can bruise. I don’t have a choice, but I still choose you. I don’t love you, but I always will.” You can feel the draw, the pull, in these words. It’s the rawness of that relationship from your past — the one you put so much of yourself into but didn’t see the fruit — the one relationship that for the rest of your life, when you hear that name or that song or see that car, your emotions will always take you back. The Civil Wars elicit that emotion because the focus is on their voices — the feelings, the pain, the emotion. It’s honest.
The audience heard a new song Monday called “Same old. Same old.” It’s not been released, nor has it been heard by a live audience. It was perfection. Written about a relationship of heartache and despair, falling into the same old habits, but agreeing to do the same old things with that person forever. It was pure. The words. The guitar. The vocals.
When these two sing, you can feel the anguish, the desire behind the lyrics. Williams has a way of reaching your heart with her voice. You become entranced by her voice and you hear every word of the lyric. She’s genuine. The melodies are smooth and transitional, careful not to interrupt the story. Perfect in key. Perfect in pitch. Perfect in sound. True songwriters. True storytellers.
I found myself falling into a spell listening to these two Monday night. More than once, I felt tears form in the corners of my eyes as I listened. When you take a beautiful sound from guitar strings, combine it with an incredible vocal gift and then add lyrics like “slowly counting down the days till I know your name. The way your hand feels ’round my waist, the way you laugh, the way your kisses taste. I’ve missed you, but I haven’t met you. Oh, but I want to, how I do.” Perhaps it’s because the lyrics are what my heart feels. Maybe that’s why I feel so connected when I listen to The Civil Wars. But I don’t think their spell has only captured me. They seem to have entranced the likes of many people.
Words and music have the innate ability to forego time. They can take you back to a memory in a moment. Others can carry your imagination to a new place, full of hope and possibilities. “C’est la Mort” is one of those songs. The hope and possibility of having a love so big, so passionate, you don’t want to live — or die — without them.
I was familiar with Williams before she became one-half of this band. But together, what she and White are able to do, is breathtaking. They are a beautiful depiction of what music is supposed to be. There’s no flash, no big band, no presumption of fame. Just a singer, a songwriter and the tools of their trade. It’s perfect bliss. And Monday, I lost myself in an auditorium of 1,500 others. It was glorious.
I close my eyes, and these two musicians lose me in the music and the words. If you haven’t had the pleasure, please listen to them. And by all means, see them live.
*This review is an honest interpretation of how music — the Civil Wars in particular — move me. I am not an expert, nor do I pretend to know anything about music. I just know it moves me, and music one of my very favorite things.
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“Where did you come from to get here?” Crossing the Uzbek-Tajik border
Politics and Society, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan4 Comments
Editor’s note: British student Danny Gordon has been cycling across the world to raise money for UNICEF and Sports Relief. He recently passed through Central Eurasia, and NewEurasia managed to catch up with him to ask his impressions about crossing borders here…
Somewhere on the dusty, Kyzyl-Kum desert road between Nukus and Bukhara, I was stopped and offered tea by a large man who ran a roadside stall. It was a kindness that had been a common theme since Turkey. I leaned my bicycle against a post and children materialised as if from nowhere, curious about this alien form of “velosiped”.
I sat down, and the usual questions came, only now they came in Russian since my host presumed it more likely that he could be understood in Russian than Uzbek. “Where are you from?”, was the inevitable opener. It seemed innocuous enough, but so many before this man had asked me, and subsequently been overjoyed that the answer had been “England”, that it was obvious that this was more than just a conversation starter. It seemed to be a method by which you could quickly determine friend from your enemy.
That was important, since there was a national pride in Central Asia more deeply entrenched than almost anywhere else I had been on my travels. Traditions that had faded under the Soviet Union had been brought back with a vengeance. Flags signifying the unity of these new countries filled the skies of the cities, including the biggest in the world in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe.
The burly man who had offered me tea asked how far I had come. “Nine thousand kilometres”, I replied. He blew out his cheeks and let a gruff chuckle escape. “Where did you come from to get here?”, he asked. This was one step too far for my Russian. He caught the confused look on my face, and began listing countries in the hope I would catch his drift. “Ah OK”, I exclaimed knowingly, “I came through Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan”. He paused for a moment, forming an unspoken opinion. “And afterwards?”, he inquired, throwing his hands forwards to make the point. “Tajikistan”, I said. His brow furrowed. He took a moment, before looking at me again. “Uzbekistan”, he said clenching his right hand into a fist, “Takjikistan” he said, clenching his left hand into a fist. He bumped them together, and asked if I had understood. I nodded. It had taken me a while, but I had perfected the “I’m-on-your-side” nod.
I had known very little about this part of the world before cycling through, but it was apparent that there was animosity between some of the neighbours here. Subsequent tea-induced chats left me in no doubt that feelings of hostility had brewed between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan after the nations’ borders had been crudely drawn under the Soviet Union, with Turkic Uzbekistan now claiming ownership of ancient Persian silk-road cities Bukhara and Samarkand. I encountered so many people, in both nations, of mixed Uzbek-Tajik heritage and yet it seemed that the vast majority picked one allegiance rather than the other.
The stall owner had made his feelings about the Uzbek-Tajik relationship clear, but interestingly had given very little away about his feelings towards Kazakhstan. I was certain he would have commented, had he had a strong emotional reaction. But it was in keeping with the relatively relaxed border crossing between Uzbekistan and its Northern neighbour. True, I was checked three or four times for the correct documentation, but never aggressively and always quickly.
Unfortunately, I was soon to find out that his reaction predicted the state of the Uzbek-Tajik border too. The border intersecting the most direct route between Samarkand and Dushanbe had been shut by the Uzbeks and was kitted out with armed guards and innumerable banks of oil drums and barbed wire. The guards were aggressive, and had been given power to ensure the closure; a power they were clearly revelling in as they repeatedly administered orders to confirm their authority. It was a route that would surely have been the most efficient for Tajik commerce and trade. The inconvenience of a 500km detour to the next border crossing at Denov was not lost on me.
“Be careful”, the man shouted as he waved, tea-cup still in hand. I glanced over my shoulder, and watched him melt into the Kyzyl-Kum dust behind me.
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Exploring Maker Spaces – Updated!
[2/20/2013 The slide presentation below has been updated in preparation for my all staff presentation this Friday.]
As part of my strategic planning work I was tasked with introducing the idea of makerspaces to our Executive Leadership Council. I thought it was necessary to showcase some maker spaces in my presentation and connect the broader movement with campus initiatives to highlight the real world impact of student learning.
In my research I found the following blogs, articles, and websites to be most helpful.
1. Library as Incubator Project – an excellent source, culling together a lot of great initiatives around the country.
2. Makerspace: Madison Public Library sees innovation centers as a key part of its future
3. The Makings of Maker Spaces- a two part series from Library Journal
4. Milwaukee Makerspace an interesting local chapter
I would love to hear from you about maker spaces you are involved with and I’m especially interested in hearing about maker spaces on college campuses.
Here are a few academic libraries that have or are developing makerspaces
1. University of Mary Washington – ThinkLab
2. Valdosta State library – in development, hopefully will be up and running Spring 2013
3. North Carolina State University – Digital Media Lab
4. University of Tennessee Chattanooga – Jason Griffey the librarian behind the LibraryBox is the contact
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An alternative to crickets and fruitflies - Milkweed bugs
Just thought I'd post about a species I started breeding as an experiment but had success with - Milkweed bugs (Oncopeltus fasciatus
). They make a great alternative to crickets and fruitflies and my dart frogs have readily taken the the first few instars.
The bugs I breed are from a laboratory strain that can be raised on sunflower kernels. The native bugs feed on the poisonous milkweed and so should not be used.
I have been raising them in a plastic container with a stainless stell mesh over some of the lid to provide ventilation (note the mesh should be fine as the hatchlings are very small).
They are raised on dry kitchen towel with cardboard egg crate to hide under. A small plastic container filled with wet cotton wool provides humidity and a container with dry cotton wool is used as a laying medium. They are kept at 25-30C and at this temperature it takes around 5 weeks from hatchling to adult. Adult bugs are up to 20mm. Up to 4th instar are readily taken (although I mainly use the smaller bugs for the darts). Apparantly the adult bugs are not taken by frogs because of their taste.
Here's a few pictures:
Adult bugs feeding
Adult bug, hatchlings and eggs (orange) on cotton wool balls
Hatchlings and eggs
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Continuing its tradition of issuing major new rules near the end of the year, the federal Environmental Protection Agency has amended its air pollution rules for Portland cement plants such as Cemex Southeast in Houston County.
It also issued new rules for air pollution from boilers used at large industrial facilities like pulp mills such as Macons Graphic Packaging.
Environmental groups have accused the agency of bowing to industry pressure and issuing weaker rules than first proposed.
The most significant change for cement companies is probably the two-year extension the EPA gave for meeting the new standard. They now have until 2015 instead of 2013.
Cemex supports the new rule, which allows Cemex additional time to make investments and operational changes necessary to comply with the new standards, including planning, engineering, permitting, testing and construction of various new technologies that will be used to implement the ... standards, according to a statement provided by Cemex spokesman Sara Engdahl.
Cement plants grind limestone with other raw materials before heating them in a kiln. The resulting product is ground and mixed with gypsum to produce concrete.
The changes to the 2010 cement rule were made after both environmental groups and cement makers petitioned for reconsideration.
Engdahls e-mail indicated the Houston County Cemex plant, which employs about 125 people, will meet the standard by EPAs deadline.
The companys statement said Cemex will continue its ongoing commitment to environmental stewardship. The plant was honored by the EPA Energy Star program for the sixth year in a row, an achievement matched by only one other American cement plant, according to the company. The plant also uses alternative fuels like peanut hulls, wood chips and tire fluff to avoid using coal.
The amended cement rule also adjusts the way cement kilns monitor their fine particle pollution such as soot, which can cause heart and lung problems. And it changes limits for that type of pollution, as well as air toxins.
EPA estimated the changes to the rule will save the industry $2 million.
But environmental groups, using the EPAs own calculations of the environmental benefits of the 2010 rule, estimated the two-year delay will cause between 1,920 and 5,000 avoidable deaths and 3,000 non-fatal heart attacks, 34,000 cases of aggravated asthma and 260,000 days when people have to miss work because cement plants soot pollution has made them sick.
The other major air pollution rule issued last week placed new limits on mercury, sulfur dioxide and other pollutants coming from certain types of large industrial boilers.
Andy Johnson, Graphic Packaging director of Government Affairs and Sustainability, said in a prepared statement that the company was very active in providing input on the new EPA regulations, which it anticipates will affect the Macon mill.
But several years ago the mill received permission from state environmental officials to retire several coal-fired boilers. The biomass boiler that will replace one of them was designed to meet the anticipated new rule, said Steve Hanson, Graphic Packaging Macon mill manager. However, an existing biomass boiler likely will need additional equipment to meet the standard, he said in a prepared statement.
Our power boilers have been converted to burn natural gas, and the timing of their retirement will be evaluated after the startup of the new biomass boiler, he said.
The final version of the boiler rule was different from the EPAs original proposal, allowing more of certain kinds of pollution and less of others. Like the cement rules, compliance deadlines were pushed back, potentially giving affected mills until as late as 2016 to comply.
Johnson said extending the deadline will spread out demand on equipment suppliers and installers, which some had feared would be stretched too thin for all companies to meet the EPAs original timeline.
Both the cement and boiler regulations were triggered by previous amendments to the Clean Air Act and were supposed to have been completed 12 to 15 years ago.
Eric Cornwell, manager of stationary source permitting for the air branch of the Georgia Environmental Protection Division, said he and his colleagues have not yet analyzed how the new rules will affect specific Middle Georgia plants.
To contact writer S. Heather Duncan, call 744-4225.
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CAGeM staff has been providing special health education at our school for girls rescued from female genital mutilation. Rescued girls receive free primary education and if funded, will also receive free secondary and university education. The school also admits boys as they are vital to eradication of female genital mutilation. Boys are educated on the dangers of marrying a circumcised woman when they grow up. Most reasons for female genital mutilation involve men. Boys and girls are the future generation and sustained eradication of female genital mutilation will depend on them.
Because the school incorporates boys into the education program, the girls are assured that they will be able to marry men who do not support female genital mutilation in the future.
While the families of boys are required to contribute to their children's educational expenses, rescued girls are marginalized and have no family support. They are therefore completely financially supported by the CAGeM FGM rescue program which provides them with food, shelter, basic supplies, and education.
All girls in the rescue program either ran away from home escaping FGM, or were rescued from their community just before the procedure could occur. All girls receive maximum protection and their communities are targeted for eradication programs so that they can re-integrate into their communities without the risk of FGM. Parents receive special counseling to prevent female genital mutilation before their girls are released to them. CAGeM has re-integrated a total of 824 rescued girls back into their FGM free communities in 6 African countries. Most of these girls were actively involved as leaders in the eradication programs in their communities. They continued to receive education and career training after re-integration, eventually gaining employment or starting their own business. The girls are able to live healthy and financially secure lives without the pressure of FGM and contribute to the development of their communities.
Kumba Camara, one of our Rescue Leaders, went through the program and was re-integrated into her community after 6 years. "I'm now a nurse and can provide for my family. My mother is so proud of me though she was mad when I ran away at 11yrs old after my sister died of circumcision bleeding. She realizes that I would have never been able to help her if I was circumcised and married off with no education. I give free physicals and basic treatment to local women who cannot afford it. I'm very proud of myself for the stand I took against FGM in my community and leading the eradication movement here. It is my greatest accomplishment"
Thousands of girls escape FGM ever year; 3 million experience the procedure annually against their will. Our safe houses are not enough to accommodate all those at risk. CAGeM is actively seeking financial support to expand our safe houses and rescue programs so that every girl has a chance.
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Head of Mars Climate Orbiter Investigation Board Named
6 Oct 1999
(Source: NASA Headquarters)
Headquarters, Washington, DC
NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin today named Arthur G. Stephenson, director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, to be the head of the Mars Climate Orbiter Mission Failure Investigation Board.
The investigation board will look independently into all aspects of the failure of the mission, which was lost Sept. 23 as the spacecraft was entering orbit around Mars. The Board will report its initial findings to NASA Headquarters by Nov. 3, 1999. Other members of the board will be established shortly.
"As a proven private sector executive and now as a director of a NASA Center, Art Stephenson has all the skills necessary to lead a failure review team comprised of the nation's best and brightest. I have asked him to look at the implications of the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter as it relates to all NASA missions," Goldin said.
"The team hopes to verify whether the cause of this failure was a result of an inadequacy in our interplanetary navigation systems. Our systems should be robust enough to detect human and machine-made errors. The findings may lead to a fundamental change in the design of our future interplanetary missions," Goldin added.
Preliminary findings by an internal peer review at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA, indicate that a failure to recognize and correct an error in a transfer of information between the Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft team in Colorado and the mission navigation team in California led to the loss of the spacecraft. As reported last week, the peer review preliminary findings indicate that one team used English units while the other used metric units for a key spacecraft operation.
An internal JPL peer group and a special review board consisting of experts from JPL and outside organizations have already been formed to investigate the loss of Mars Climate Orbiter.
The support team for the Mars Surveyor 1998 missions continues to analyze all data and engineering processes related to the orbiter's companion mission, the Mars Polar Lander, to ensure that no similar issues exist within that mission. Mars Polar Lander is scheduled to arrive at Mars on Dec. 3 and land on rolling, icy terrain near the planet's South Pole.
Mars Climate Orbiter was one of a series of missions in a long-term program of Mars exploration managed by JPL for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, DC. JPL's industrial partner is Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, CO. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
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One of the best ways to protect your safety at work is to know your rights and be in control. You have the right to:
Others—including co-workers, receptionists or managers—should help you stay safe. If other people are involved in controlling the workplace or describing the services you provide, they also need to know your rules and boundaries, and should stick to them. This will help avoid safety problems during the service. Everyone should know and respect the safety systems at work.
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The film inception isn't really about dream sharing, and while your question asks if it's possible I think that part is mostly fiction. While we might be able to one day visualize dreams on a monitor while they happen, transferring and connecting two or more people to a host's dream is purely science fiction.
Still, the film is about planting ideas via one's dream. Using their subconscious to control their waking behavior. That part of the film is very plausible.
There are many psychology tests that measure's a persons ability to recall information from memory. When it comes to recalling information after a long period (several days) this is greatly improved if the information is studied just before a REM sleep cycle. If the person studies the information, sleeps and fails to dream, then recall performance is reduced.
There is a connection between the development of long term memories and dreaming. Which raises the question, can you introduce new memories during a dream cycle? Yes, I think you can or at least it's a very popular myth.
More info here: http://dreamscience.org/idx_science_of_dreaming_section-1.htm
So to answer your question, the plot of the film is plausible, the technique used in the film is not.
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Podcast: Archaeological Excavations in Mongolia: Current Research
A Program on Central Asia panel presentation featuring lectures by Jan Bemmann and Ursula Brosseder of Bonn University
Jan Bemmann, Bonn University
The Orkhon Valley, Mongolia: A Center of Several Medieval Steppe Empires
The Orkhon Valley is located in the heart of Mongolia, 370 km west of Ulanbaator. During many centuries the Orkhon Valley was the center of several steppe empires. The Old Turk tribes erected the famous memorials of Khöshöö Tsaidam, the Uighurs built their Capital Karabalgasun (Ordu balik), and the Mongols founded in this valley Karakorum, the first capital of the Great Mongol World Empire. Since the first archaeological expedition, leaded by Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff (1891), the research has focused on the two world famous capitals und memorial places alone. In a new research project headed by the University of Bonn started in Summer 2008 all monuments are registered in the Middle Orkhon Valley with a special focus on walled enclosures. In a systematically approach we use aerial photograph analysis, satellite images and surveys. We are using the latest technology for photogrammetric and geomagnetic measurements. A small drone (an unmanned air-vehicle called octocopter) was developed to photogrammetrically survey monuments. Based on the vertical images, digital surface models (DSM) and true ortho photo mosaics were derived. The DSM were textured with the images and converted in interactive 3D models. To enable precise magnetic prospections of large areas in the order of tens of hectares within passable time a new motorized measurement system was developed at the Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT) in Jena, Germany. This is based on SQUIDs (Superconducting QUantum Interference Devices) – sensors, which provide highest magnetic field resolution also at fast movements over the ground. Astonishingly, most of the newly discovered walled enclosures date from the early Middle Ages, probably from the times of the Uighur Empire (744–840). In the Hinterland of Karabalgasun there are many contemporary settlement sites, cemeteries and production sites. It seems that the Uighurs used the whole Middle Orkhon Valley, whereas the Mongols used and settled more intensely in the Upper Orkhon Valley. A newly discovered Chinese inscription in a stone quarry in the Upper Orkhon Valley gives witness of building activities during the Kitan period.
Ursula Brosseder, Bonn University
Studies on the Xiongnu – The first Steppe Empire in Central Asia
Recent research has contributed greatly to a more differentiated view on the first Steppe Empire in Central Asia. In this lecture I focus on the Elite as documented in the written and archaeological record. Since Elite burials are only typical for a later stage of the Xiongnu Empire I discuss the possible explanations for this phenomenon. The Elite is embedded in a network of communication throughout the Eurasian Steppes, which is not only shown by foreign prestige goods in their burials, such as Chinese chariots or Graeco-Bactrian textiles, but will be exemplified with Belt plaques.
Sponsors: Asia Institute, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Published: Monday, April 11, 2011
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Common Coffee Brewing Methods
Here is a quick list starting from the best:
Choosing a fresh-roasted gourmet coffee is only half the battle when making a superior cup. The brewing method you use can be just as important. Coffee experts around the world agree that the best way to brew coffee is to use a French Press. Unfortunately, most people are too intimidated to try this method. This shouldn't worry you, however, because I am about to let you in on the simple secrets behind a great cup of French Press coffee!
To start, there are three things you need to make a French pressed coffee: water, coffee and a French Press. Bottled spring water is the absolute best water for pressing coffee. Fresh, course ground coffee from CoffeeAM is a necessity. Some of my favorites for pressing are Mexico 'Spirit of the Aztec,' India Mysore 'Gold Nugget,' and Organic Galapagos Island Estate. Any coffee can be pressed though, and I encourage you to try many of our fine coffees. The Bodum Chambord French Press is the final piece to the puzzle. I recommend this model for its quality and durability.
Now that you know the things you need to properly press coffee, just follow these directions for the best coffee you ever tasted.
- Begin heating the water.
- Grind 8 TBS of fresh, course ground coffee and place in the empty French Press.
- Just before boiling is reached remove from heat, start the timer and pour over the grounds.
- Stir the water and coffee for a couple second just after you have finished adding the water.
- Stir the water and coffee for a couple second just before you have reached the desired brew time.
- At 3 minutes and 55 seconds depress the plunger. Once the plunger reaches the bottom it is recommended that the brewed coffee be removed immediately to stop the brewing process. If the coffee remains in the press it will continue to extract and cause huge variations in the cup.
- Sit back and enjoy a wonderful cup of coffee.
I have found over years of brewing with a French Press that this is the best method, but I know that experimenting with your coffee preparation is one of the great things about gourmet coffee. Once you master the method I told you about, please try some variations to find that perfect cup of coffee just for you. Different coffee, amounts of coffee and brew times will all change the taste of your cup. Good luck and happy pressing!
C. Shawn Dunaway
Vacuum brewers aren't very common, but they make coffee just about as well as a French press since the coffee and water are brewing together. A vacuum brewer has an upper and a lower chamber connected by a tube with a small filter inside. Coffee grounds are placed in the upper, and water is placed in the lower. As the lower chamber is heated, the water rises up to meet the coffee in the upper chamber where the brewing begins. After brewing, the water (now coffee) cools and seeps back down into the lower chamber leaving the used coffee grinds behind in the upper chamber. Normally, the upper chamber is then removed and the lower chamber is used as the decanter for the finished coffee.
Vacuum brewers can be electric, stovetop, or even used over a sterno can for dramatic tabletop brewing!
The Toddy Maker
The toddy maker uses an unusual cold-brewing method that creates a coffee concentrate. This concentrate is then mixed with hot water to make coffee. The concentrate can be stored in a refrigerator and used to make one cup at a time if you so desire. This method makes for extremely low-acid coffee, which is recommended for coffee drinkers with stomach conditions.
Although this method sounds rather odd, the result in taste is very surprising. One drawback is the amount of time it takes to brew. A good idea is to brew the coffee overnight. Once brewed, the concentrate can produce more than just one pot of coffee, so it's not a nightly event for morning coffee!
Drip Grind with a Permanent Filter
Permanent filters are nice because they allow for better coffee taste. As mentioned earlier, paper filters can filter out more than just coffee grinds. Flavorful oils can be left behind in the filter and not make it to the finished brew. Since permanent filters allow for more liquid to pass through, the end result is more flavorful. Gold-plated perma-filters are the best since they don't add any unwanted metallic taste, and they are resistant to corrosion.
Drip Grind with a Paper Filter
The most common brew method happens to be the one with the least amount of flavor and aroma. However, mornings usually need to be made quick and simple. Most people have never had their coffee brewed any other way. If you are one of these people, do yourself a favor, get a small French press maker, and start experimenting!
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South Coast & Southern Highlands NSW National Parks
There are several National Parks in and around Kangaroo Valley. These include:
Morton National Park and Kangaroo Valley Nature Reserve which features 24 walks from Kangaroo Valley. These walks include Fitzroy Falls which is also a platypus and lyrebird habitat.
Seven Mile Beach is a pristine beach area backed by low forest, home to numerous species of small mammals.
Jervis Bay National Park is great for dolphins and sea birds
Minnamurra Rainforest which is home to a substantial lyrebird population
Spectacular views can be had from several vantage points throughout the National Parks of the South Highlands and South Coast regions of NSW Australia. Cambewarra Lookout in the Morton National Park offers panoramic views across farmlands, the Shoalhaven River and out over the South Coast beaches.
Here is a summary of the Great Walks you can enjoy in Kangaroo Valley (visit our community website for more details on specific walks -link below) and the surrounding area:
Bushwalking, Waterfalls, National Parks & Picnics
Crystal Creek Meadows Country Accommodation in Kangaroo Valley is perfectly located for bushwalking, country ambles and village strolls being surrounded by 24 terrific walks, and offering some of the finest and most dramatic views in Australia.
You don't have to be an experienced bushwalker or hiker because there is a range of grades and distances, from 1 km to an 8 hour 20 km trek.
If you are an overseas visitor searching for a closer look at Australian wildlife, a city dweller keen to embrace the wild open spaces or a couple wishing to enjoy a romantic stroll then Crystal Creek Meadows offers the perfect country accommodation. [see luxury cottage accommodation information...]
Here are a few of our favourite walks, but you can explore any of the 24 during your stay and we will be delighted to provide advice. We can also arrange a picnic hamper so you can relax and enjoy the day.
Kangaroo Valley Village Walks
Spend an hour walking around the Village's key sites; the showgrounds (considered by many to be the most picturesque in NSW), walk through the Kangaroo Valley village and on to Riverside Park where there are gas BBQs
Tom's Pool is a 2-3 hour walk from the Pioneer Museum by Hampden Bridge where you cross a swing bridge and a little log bridge, see Moss Gardens and have views of Kangaroo River.
Morton National Park
Three Views Walk (pictured). There are three walks which interconnect. You can do just one of the walks or all three. As you are located on top of the escarpements the trails are flat and reward you with spectacular views of Lake Yarrunga.
Kangaroo Valley Nature Reserve
Red Rocks. Walk or ride the track from the junction of the Cambewarra Lookout Road and Moss Vale Road. You pass glens and shady forests and then are rewarded with an important archaeological site
Kangaroo Valley Beautiful Picnic Spots
Wooden Suspension Bridge. There are two in fact. One by Upper River Hall and the other near Gerringong Falls. At both you can walk across the river and later low-level crossings so might get your feet wet. Both offer really enchanting places to picnic and splash about in the cool mountain streams.
Glenmurray Road. At the end of the public access is a beautiful river bank where you can rest and enjoy the cool river to sooth your feet!
Easy 1 hour walk that gives you three vantage points where you have truly magnificent views across the valley, with distant mountains, volcanoes while all the while you can enjoy passing delicate wild flowers under the canopy of gum trees with varieties such as as Sydney Peppermint and all the while listening to the wonderful bird songs.
Wildflower walk around the east rim is a delight as you explore the rainforest area and then reach Warrawong Lookout.
Arahams Bosom 2-3 hours walk that includes lush forests, open coastal heath, rocky platforms and great cave and an Aboriginal archaeological site.
Telegraph Creek and Green Patch involves forest and beautiful sandy bays and rocky headland.
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US 6208833 B1
A wideband signal distribution unit for receiving a plurality of inputs and having a plurality of outputs is provided. The distribution unit features a first combiner having an output and being connected to a first subset of the plurality of inputs. A second combiner having an output is connected to a second subset of the plurality of inputs. A phase shifting combiner having inputs each connected to the outputs of the first and second combiners supplies a combined signal to an output connected to a splitter which is connected to the plurality of signal distribution unit outputs. The phase shifting combiner is designed to apply a phase shift to one of its inputs.
1. A wideband signal distribution system for receiving a plurality of inputs and having a plurality of outputs, the distribution system being characterized by:
a first distribution unit having a first combiner, a second combiner and a phase shifting combiner;
said first combiner being connected to a first subset of the plurality of inputs and having a first output terminal to which is applied a first combined signal which is an additive combination of said first subset of the plurality of inputs;
said second combiner being connected to a second subset of the plurality of inputs and having a second output terminal to which is applied a second combined signal which is an additive combination of said second subset of the plurality of inputs;
said phase shifting combiner having inputs each connected to the first and second output terminals of the first and second combiners, respectively, wherein the phase shifting combiner applies a non-zero phase shift to said first combined signal, and the phase shifting combiner combines the first combined signal having the non-zero phase shift with the second combined signal having a zero phase shift to provide a third combined signal at an output of said phase shifting combiner, said output of said phase shifting combiner being connected to a splitter, said splitter being connected to a plurality of first distribution unit outputs; and
a second distribution unit cascaded with the first distribution unit such that at least one of the signal distribution unit outputs from the first distribution unit is coupled to an input of the second distribution unit.
2. The wideband signal distribution system as recited in claim 1 where in the non-zero phase shift is 180 degrees.
3. A wideband signal distribution system, the distribution system comprising:
(a) a first distribution unit including
(i) a plurality of input ports each adapted to be connected to a respective one of a plurality of cables;
(ii) a plurality of impedance matching devices each having its balanced end connected to a respective one of said input ports;
(iii) a first combiner having a first plurality of input terminals each connected to the unbalanced end of one of a first subset of said plurality of impedance matching devices and having an output terminal to which is applied a first combined signal which is an additive combination of all signals appearing at said first plurality of input terminals;
(iv) a second combiner having a second plurality of input terminals each connected to the unbalanced end of one of a second subset of said plurality of impedance matching devices and having an output terminal to which is applied a second combined signal which is an additive combination of all signals appearing at said second plurality of input terminals;
(v) a phase shifting combiner having input terminals each connected to the respective output terminals of the first and second combiners, the phase shifting combiner applying a non-zero phase shift to the first combined signal and combining the first combined signal having the non-zero phase shift with the second combined signal having a zero phase shift to provide a third combined signal at an output of said phase shifting combiner;
(vi) a splitter having an input terminal coupled to the output of the phase shifting combiner by a transmission path, and a plurality of output terminals to all of which is applied the third combined signal appearing at the splitter input terminal;
(vii) a second plurality of impedance matching devices each having its unbalanced end connected to a respective one of said splitter output terminals;
(viii) a plurality of output ports each connected to the balanced end of a respective one of said second plurality of impedance matching devices;
(b) a second distribution unit cascaded with the first distribution unit such that at least one of the output ports from the first distribution unit is coupled to an input of the second distribution unit.
This application claim benefit to Provisional application Ser. No. 60/020,848 filed Jun. 28, 1996.
This invention is related to a broad band signal distribution system, and more particularly to echo cancellation in such a system.
There are numerous instances where it is desired to distribute over wire within a relatively local area, such as a building, wideband signals modulated on to RF carriers. A particular application is the distribution of video signals. For example, a school may have a number of classrooms and administrative offices, each having a television monitor, and it may be desired at a given time to provide a program to all of the classrooms and offices, originating either from a source within one of the classrooms or offices, such as a VCR or from an outside source, such as a local cable system. Similarly, a corporation may have a building, or several closely spaced buildings, with numerous conference rooms equipped with television monitors and analogous program presentations may be desired. It is desirable in such a distribution system to have infrastructure which is relatively inexpensive and provides for easy expandability.
Since new construction is commonly prewired by the local telephone company using category 5 twisted pair cable, a system has been developed to distribute video or other wideband signals through this existing infrastructure. Such a system is disclosed in related patent applications Ser. Nos. 08/548,038 and 08/548,036 filed Oct. 25, 1995 respectively by the assignee hereof.
As shown in FIG. 1, the system consists of a distribution unit or a series of distribution units which may be cascaded to each other in a main wiring closet. These distribution units are connected via the category 5 twisted pair infrastructure to a plurality of outlets in different rooms. Each outlet may either be used as an input or an output. When used as an input, a baseband source signal such as one coming from a VCR is modulated and injected into the system through a breakout box having an enabling circuit which activates the input line. When used as an output, a monitor may be simply plugged into any wall outlet and tuned into the desired channel in order to receive the distributed program. This system is designed to support a plurality of channels in the frequency band of 7 Mhz to 211.25 Mhz.
The main component of this system is the distribution unit. FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of the distribution unit which includes the signal inlet, a signal outlet and switch means operable to either first state or a second state. When the switch means is in its first state, it couples the transmission path to the combiner and the splitter. When the switch means is in its second state, it couples the combiner to the signal outlet instead of to the transmission path and couples the splitter to the signal inlet instead of to the transmission path. This system may include several distribution units cascaded from each other as shown in FIG. 1 whereby one of the outlet ports of the first distribution unit is connected to the signal inlet of the second distribution unit and one of the input ports of the first distribution unit is connected to the signal outlet of the second distribution unit. The switch means of the first distribution unit is in its first state and the switch means of each of the cascaded distribution units are in a second state. The first distribution unit is therefore considered to be operating in the master mode and the subsequent cascaded distribution units are considered to be operating in the slave mode.
A problem exists in this system, however, in that unwanted signals result from crosstalk between the outbound signal path and inbound signal path at the connectors and other conductive and radiated sources within the distribution unit. The problem is increased due to the fact that the unwanted signals are coherently applied to the output connectors resulting in an in phase undesired signal appearing at all input connectors. The undesired signal is increased by combining eight separate undesired in phase signals at the combiner input.
It is an object of this invention to reduce the effects of crosstalk between outbound signal path and the inbound signal path in a distribution unit of a wideband signal distribution system. The object of this invention is achieved by providing a phase shifting combiner at the input to the distribution unit which has outputs that are 180° out of phase with each other resulting in a reduction in the power of unwanted crosstalk signals.
The invention will now be described by way of example with reference to the following figures of which:
FIG. 1 shows a pictorial representation of the wideband signal distribution system.
FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of a distribution unit for use in the system of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 shows a block diagram of a preferred distribution unit according to this invention.
FIG. 4 shows a detailed electrical schematic circuit diagram of the phase-shifting combiner according to this invention.
Referring to FIG. 2, a block diagram is shown of a distribution unit 60 which may be utilized in the system shown in FIG. 1. The distribution unit 60 includes eight input ports: 62-1, 62-2, 62-3, 62-4, 62-5, 62-6, 62-7, 62-8, and eight ouput ports: 64-1, 64-2, 64-3, 64-4, 64-6, 64-7, 64-8. Each of the ports 62, 64 is adapted for connection to the two wires of a respective twisted pair 66, 68. The incoming signals at the input port 62 are balanced signals transmitted over twisted pair cable which are coupled through respective baluns 70-1, 70-2, 70-3, 70-4, 70-5, 70-6, 70-7, 70-8 to a combiner circuit 72. The combiner circuit 72 serves to additively combine, in a passive manner, all of the signals appearing at its inputs 74-1 through 74-8 and provide a combined additive signal on its output lead 76. The output lead 76 is connected to the input of the amplifier 78, whose output lead 80 is connected to one part of the master/slave switch.
The combined additive signal consisting of each of the eight inputs from the combiner is then supplied through the input lead 82 to the splitter circuit 84 in unmodified form except for some attenuation through the splitter 84. These signals are provided as inputs to the respective baluns 88-1 through 88-8, which provide balanced signals to the output ports 64-1 through 64-8 for subsequent transmittal in balanced form over the twisted pair cable 68-1 through 68-8.
FIG. 2 also illustrates the master/slave switch as having three parts, 90, 92, 94, with all of the switch parts being shown here in the slave configuration. It will be recalled from FIG. 1 that these distribution units may be cascaded when more than eight outlets 26 are necessary in a system. In such a configuration the first distribution unit 38 is said to be in master mode and all subsequent cascaded units 52, 54 are said to be in slave mode. The default state therefore of the master/slave switch is its master position, so that the amplifier output 80 is coupled through the switch part 90 to a transmission path 95 including the equalizer 96, which connects the amplifier output 80 to the splitter input 82, through the switch parts 90, 94. At the same time, the switch part 92 couples the output of the oscillator circuit 98 to the transmission path 95 through the directional coupler 100. Thus, when the distribution unit 60 is operated in the master mode, the signals appearing at the input ports 62 are combined, looped back, combined with an oscillator signal, and transmitted out all of the output ports 64. Cascaded slave distribution units 52, 54 are designed to automatically sense the oscillator circuit 98 output of the master distribution unit 38, and automatically switch into slave mode by actuating the master/slave switch parts 90, 92, 94 such that they are in the position shown in FIG. 2.
A preferred embodiment of the distribution unit for use in the system of FIG. 1 is shown in FIG. 3 and will now be described in greater detail. This distribution unit design presents an improvement over that shown in FIG. 2 because here two combiners 300, 302 and a phase-shifting combiner 304 are provided at the input ports 62. The first combiner 300 serves to additively combine in a passive manner each of the signals appearing at input ports 74-1, 74-2, 74-3, 74-4. This additively combined signal is then supplied at zero phase to the phase shifting combiner 304. Similarly the second combiner 302 serves to additively combine in a passive manner all of the signals appearing at its input 74-5, 74-6, 74-7, 74-8. This additively combined signal from the second combiner 302 is supplied to the phase-shifting combiner 304 at 180° out of phase with the combined signal coming from the first combiner 300. The zero phase and phase-shifted signals are then combined at the phase-shifting combiner 304 and supplied to the output lead 76 which is connected to the input of the amplifier 78. The remainder of the video distribution unit is exactly the same as that described earlier with reference to FIG. 2.
Referring to FIG. 4 the combiners 300, 302 and the phase-shifting combiner 304 will be described in greater detail. This circuit schematic shows illustrative circuitry which may be utilized for these combiners 300, 302, 304. The first inputs 74-1, 74-2, 74-3, 74-4 are supplied to a passive network which combines these four input signals into an additive signal which is supplied to line 308 at zero degrees. Similarly inputs 74-5, 74-6, 74-7 and 74-8 are supplied to a passive network which combines these signals to form the additive signal supplied to the output 306. Both lines 306 and 308 feed into a phase-shifting combiner 304 which serves to add a 180° phase shift to the signal coming in on line 306. Phase-shifting combiner 304 also allows the input coming in on line 308 to pass without any phase shift. The combined signal exits the phase-shifting combiner on line 76 where it will pass to the amplifier 78.
The advantage of this invention is that the phase splitting combiner reduces the power of unwanted crosstalking signals.
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You are hereHome › Virtual Instructor Certificate Program
Virtual Instructor Certificate Program
The Virtual Instructor Certificate Program (VICP) is an online continuing education program for teachers, facilitators, paraprofessionals and administrators who support or teach students participating in online courses or online supplemental instruction through the Texas Virtual School Network. It is aligned with the national standards for quality online teaching established by the International Association for K-12 Online Learning. The program is structured around 11 topics that pertain to the effective development and delivery of instruction in an online environment.
Topics include the following:
- Introduction and Collaboration
- Research in Online Learning
- Online Interaction
- Introduction to Online Courses
- Planning for your Online Course
- Content Design and Development for Online Courses
- Online Assessment
- Implementation and Management
- Assessing the Quality of Online Instruction
- Student Support Services
Upon completion of the program, participants will have mastered the skills required by the North American Council for Online Learning to be successful distance education practitioners and will be eligible to deliver online courses as part of the Texas Virtual School Network.
Timeline & Cohorts
The program is six weeks and is offered at various times throughout the year. Current cohorts include the following:
- January 21 - March 4
- March 25 - May 6
- June 10 - July 22
- October 14 - November 25
Registration $1,250 per person. Group discounts are available for groups of three or more participating in the same cohort. Discounts also are available for Texas A&M University faculty and staff. For more information on these discounts, fill out the inquiry form below.
If you are interested in participating in VICP, fill out the inquiry form below. You will receive an e-mail with further instructions on how to register.
VICP Inquiry Form
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Rash on legs - allergy?
My 16-month grandson has been on Prosobee formula since he was born. Whenever he eats cheese, eggs, or other dairy products, his legs break out in raw, red patches. The doctor thinks that with the arrival of spring, i.e. wearing less clothing and not having dry, heated air in the house, that this will go away and we can start him on regular milk. What do you think?Question:
If you have noticed a reaction several times after your grandson has eaten dairy products and eggs, it seems like there is a connection and I would suspect an allergy to those two foods. Keep a diary that includes what he eats, the reaction, the weather, what he is wearing, and any other information you think would help the doctor make the proper diagnoses.
Allergies to milk and egg are not uncommon in young children, and if they are allergic you want to take the proper precautions by eliminating those foods and foods that contain them as ingredients. Simply clearing up the rash by wearing less clothing is treating the symptom, not the cause, if in fact, the cause is an allergic reaction to the ingestion of dairy and egg. However, a correct diagnoses is very important so you don't eliminate foods unnecessarily from your grandson's diet and put him at a nutritional deficit. This is especially true for foods such as milk, that can make a major nutritional contribution to the diet.
If after a speaking with the doctor again with the diary information, you are still doubtful about the diagnoses, then seek out the opinion of an M.D. specializing in allergies. The American Academy of Allergy and Immunology should be able to provide you with a list of allergist in your area. Call them at 1-800-822-asma.
Thank you for writing.Answer:
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Jesus Christ, nailed on the cross, has a penis covered by a bright red condom.
On the same wall beside where the giant crucifix hangs there are different posters of Mother Mary and Jesus Christ mixed with images of Mickey Mouse, US President Barack Obama and the Statue of Liberty.
This is ‘Poleteismo’ (Polytheism), an art installation by 37-year-old visual and performance artist Mideo Cruz.
The installation is now the centre of intense uproar from conservative Catholics, some of whom threatened to kill Cruz.
Cruz, a laidback guy living a bohemian life, now fears for his life, saying that fanatics may put a bullet on his head, just as John Lennon’s killer did to the Beatles star.
The exhibit opened at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), a government-owned institution for culture and the arts which was the project of former First Lady Imelda Marcos in the 1970s. Imelda, known for her lavish lifestyle, is the wife of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Now a Congressional representative in her home province in the northern Philippines, Imelda asked the CCP to shut down the exhibit, saying that art should only be beautiful.
A viewer, perhaps a conservative Catholic, has vandalized the artwork.
Eventually, CCP closed the exhibit, giving in to pressure and threats, a move widely criticized by local artists.
Yet religious groups, dressed in creaseless white robes, continue to condemn what for them is a blasphemous piece of art, forgetting that freedom of expression is fundamental and that it is this same freedom that allows them to practise their religion in public.
Indeed, the Catholic Church in the Philippines is missing the point.
Cruz’ artwork is merely a reflection of what this predominantly Catholic country has become; of how the practice of Christianity in the country has been reduced to worshipping religious icons, or a sort of polytheism.
‘This [installation] speaks about objects that we worship, how we create these gods and idols and how we in turn are created by our gods and idols,” Cruz said in an interview with Reuters.
In the same interview, Cruz explains that the giant crucifix with a penis that can be moved up and down symbolizes the patriarchal nature of Philippine society, where men continue to be worshipped, something that the country’s Spanish colonizers bequeathed.
As I write, there is an ongoing Senate investigation on the matter and Catholic conservatives are ganging up on Cruz.
Little do they realize, however, that Cruz’ work reflects the Philippines’ self-contradictions and ambiguities, excesses and deficiencies.
The truth hurts, of course.
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Spurring economic growth through agricultural investment
Global Donor Platform works to improve aid effectiveness and ensure agriculture's key role in hunger fight
20 September 2005, Rome -- Michael Wales, Principal Adviser of FAO's Investment Centre, explains why investment in rural areas is key to tackling poverty and talks about one initiative that is working to ensure that agriculture is front and centre on the poverty alleviation agenda.
FAO continues to drive home the message that more funds must be directed towards agriculture and rural development if countries are to meet the first Millennium Development Goal of halving by 2015 the number of people living in extreme poverty and suffering from hunger. Why is the focus on rural areas so important?
Around 75 percent of the world's poor live in rural areas. So tackling poverty means addressing the problems that these poor rural populations face. The irony is that the majority of these people are farmers, or depend on agriculture-related activities for their incomes, yet they do not produce or earn enough to meet their basic needs.
Growth is essential to alleviate poverty and growth means investment, particularly in agriculture.
What, if any, concrete steps are being taken by the international community in this regard?
One initiative dealing with this issue is the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development, which was created around three years ago to bring together donor organizations, and particularly those parts of donor organizations dealing with agriculture and rural development, with the idea of undertaking advocacy work in the development community on the crucial role agriculture plays in poverty alleviation.
Membership includes most of the major international financing institutions and bilateral development agencies.
What are the Platform's objectives?
The main objective is to reduce poverty and enhance economic growth in rural areas in developing countries through improved donor cooperation and harmonization of approaches and procedures. So it's in line with a growing trend towards harmonizing donor practices, evidenced in March by the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in which more than 100 donor and developing countries agreed to 50 commitments to enhance aid's impact on reducing poverty and inequality.
The Platform sees its role as identifying how this relates specifically to the agriculture sector -- what makes the agriculture sector different and distinct and how to translate these principles of donor harmonization and alignment into effective action at country level.
What has it done so far?
Four pilot countries - Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Nicaragua and Tanzania - were selected for assessments of what works and what doesn't, what conditions promote donor coordination in practice and what constraints hinder it, and how global level coordination can best support countries at national level. The idea is to promote a common programme and framework of support at country level so there is no duplication but rather complementarity of action among donors.
The assessments have been completed and detailed proposals for supporting the harmonization process have been prepared. Eventually, the Platform hopes that common procedures and agreed frameworks for donor activities can be developed at the country level.
The Platform also performs an advocacy role. For example, in response to the recent UN Summit, the 24 members have issued a short pamphlet emphasizing the critical importance of agriculture and rural development in addressing the first MDG.
What is FAO's role?
As donors and funding institutions put more into direct budget support and move away from projects and sector-specific support, ministries of agriculture need assistance in coming up with programmes and advocating for their importance on their country's poverty alleviation agendas. Agriculture tends to be the weakest sector in doing this, so we will be involved in training and capacity development so that they can come up with viable investment plans that are consistent with poverty reduction strategies and medium-term expenditure frameworks.
FAO is co-chair of the Global Donor Platform, along with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). As part of a three-year, 15 million euro food security programme funded by the European Commission, 1.4 million euros have been earmarked to FAO's Investment Centre for work with the Donor Platform. So we are playing quite a big role.
The tectonic plates of development assistance are moving and the Platform is riding this movement and trying to figure out what it means for agriculture. Poverty alleviation is not just about health and education - the focus must be on growth, wealth creation and incomes. You can build schools and health centres, but without growth in the economy, you can't afford to buy drugs or pay teachers. Agriculture has to have a central place on the agenda as the main driver of growth in most developing countries.
Members of the GDPRD:
French Development Agency (AFD), Asian Development Bank (ADB), Austrian Development Agency (ADA), Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Department for International Development (DFID), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), European Union, DG for Development (EU), Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Interamerican Development Bank (IADB), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Italian Ministry of Finance and Economy (MFE), KfW Entwicklungsbank (KfW), Ministry of Foreign Affairs-France (MAE), Ministry of Foreign Affairs-Luxemburg (MAE Lu), Ministry of Foreign Affairs-Finland (MFAF), Ministry of Foreign Affairs-Austria (MFA), Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Ministry of Foreign Affairs-Norway, The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (NMFA), The World Bank (WB), United States Agency for Intenational Development (USAID)
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