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Sotomayor Decisions on Civil Cases By Amy Goldstein Sonia Sotomayor was a judge in Manhattan from 1992 to 1998 on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Since then, she has been a judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. As a trial judge, she presided over about 450 cases, according to the White House. And as an appellate judge, she has participated in more than 3,000 panel decision and written approximately 400 published opinions. SCOTUSBLOG takes a look at some of the civil cases over which she presided: The comments to this entry are closed.
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Greenpeace report gives choice to Korea: choose renewables - or get left behind Seoul- 19 April 2012-- South Korea’s energy supply could switch to nearly 60% renewable by 2050, phasing out nuclear power by 2030, creating jobs, reducing the cost of energy and generating massive savings in electricity supply, according to a new study done by Greenpeace International (1). Greenpeace today launched The Energy[R]evolution scenario for Korea, an in-depth study and model of an energy future for South Korea, carried out by Institute of Technical Thermodynamics at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), with Greenpeace International and the European Renewable Energy Council (2). The local Korean partners were Energy Alternative Forum (EAF) and Korea Federation for Environment Movement (KFEM). Today, around 80% of Korea’s primary energy supply comes from fossil fuels and 16% from nuclear energy, with just 2% supplied by renewable energy. If current South Korea policies continue, by 2050 it would invest 74% of its energy spending into nuclear power and only 20% into renewable energy and co-generation. The Greenpeace scenario turns this around to see a 90% investment into renewables and cogeneration by 2050. “South Korea has a massive potential in energy efficiency,” said Sven Teske as he launched the report aboard the Greenpeace ship “Esperanza” in Incheon, near Seoul. “Esperanza means ‘hope’ – and this work gives hope to a clean, renewable energy future for Korea, which is currently going down an expensive and dangerous nuclear path.” Last night, to support the launch of the report, and the beginning of the M/Y Esperanza ship tour, Greenpeace projected a message saying “New Korea New Energy” onto the dome of the building of the National Assembly in Seoul (3) Greenpeace Korea Climate and Energy campaigner team leader Hee-Song (Pino) Lee said the report should be a wake-up call for the Government, which not only had failed to look at alternatives to nuclear, but was also misleading the people. “This report exposes the cheap nuclear lies our Government is selling the Korean people. If we dropped nuclear power we could save around $4 billion a year in energy investments – from now to 2050. This money could cut university fees almost in half (4), improving Korea’s future competitiveness in terms of the economy and our brainpower. We would all be better off under this scenario.” A US report released just last week (5) showed Korea ranked only 15th in the G20 for its investments in renewable energy, lagging behind all its Asian G20 partners, including Indonesia and India. “It shameful that Korea’s investment in renewable energy does not live up to its international reputation as a stronger promoter of the Green Growth paradigm. Korea sees itself as an innovative economy – but this is far from the truth for the energy sector. But it’s not too late to change direction and our report shows this,” said Lee. He called on the Government of South Korea to immediately phase out all subsidies for fossil fuels and nuclear energy, to introduce mandatory efficiency standards and establish legally binding targets for renewable energy. Ahn Byung-ok, of the Energy Alternative Forum and the Institute for Climate Change Action said: “The future belongs to sun and wind, not nuclear. Greenpeace’s Energy [R]evolution scenario clearly shows the future direction that Korean society should be headed.” Wonyoung Yangyi, Director of KFEM, added "A high efficiency society achieved through an expansion of renewable energy and a smart demand management is the only way to escape from the risks of nuclear energy. Since Korea has a huge potential for renewable energy and energy efficiency, realising Greenpeace's Energy [R]evolution scenario is not that difficult. What will really make the difference is political will.” Communications Cindy Baxter +82 (0)10 4836 3224 Renewable Energy expert Sven Teske +49 171 8787 552 Greenpeace East Asia in Seoul: Climate Energy Campaigner Hee-Song Lee +82 (0)10 9186 0326 Communications Junghoon Choi +82 (0)10 4089 6980 (1) The Korea Energy [R]evolution models three energy scenarios: The reference scenario (current policies – from 2009), the Energy [R]evolution scenario and the Advanced Energy [R]evolution Scenario. (2) Greenpeace has published three global editions of the Energy [R]evolution, the latest being in 2010, and has carried out country-specific scenarios in over 30 countries or regions. The first global edition, published in January 2007, projected a global installed renewable capacity of 156 GW by 2010. By the end of 2009, 158 GW had been installed. www.energyblueprint.info (3) The projection, in English and Korean, can be seen here: Images available from… (4) Korean MP Yoo Won-il (Creative Korea Party) has calculated that cutting student university fees in half would cost about USD$5 billion. Under the Advanced Energy [R]evolution, investment in the energy sector would be much lower without nuclear – around USD$4 billion a year. (5) The report was published on April 11 by Pew Charitable Trusts in the US can be found at bit.ly/HybYFx . Korea contributed just 0.1% of the total G20 investment into renewable energy, recording a 5-year growth rate of -9%, beaten by Japan which ranked 8 with a 3.8% shares of total G20 investment and 5-year growth rate of +22%. Korea even lags behind developing countries like Indonesia and India in all categories in significant figures.
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President Obama says it’s time for wealthier Americans to pay higher taxes and last week the Democratically-controlled Senate agreed. But on Wednesday, the Republican-led House of Representatives began debate on a tax bill of its own. The GOP is pushing to extend existing tax rates on all income brackets and on capital gains, dividend and estate taxes as well as the Alternative Minimum Tax. Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., is a member of the House Budget Committee and the House GOP Leadership. He says the Senate bill was unconstitutional because all tax legislation must start in the House. “I’m not certain what the U.S. Senate was doing last week … it certaining wasn’t a constitutional action,” Price told WND. He also says the tax hikes on the wealthy are a bad idea, especially in a struggling economy. Price says the majority of small businesses file in the top individual tax bracket and raising taxes could mean the nationwide loss of more than 700,000 jobs. Price also elaborates on where the fight goes from here, given sharp disagreements between the parties and a massive tax hike for everyone looming in January if a deal cannot be struck.
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Undoubtedly one of the great strengths of laser cutting is it’s ability to so accurately create delicate patterns and surface details. Laser cutting is now allowing designers of shoes and accessories to produce products with more intricate patterns than ever before. On iaac blog I found Designer Roberto Cavilli, who has designed a new collection of products using leather but with all the fine detail of lace. The cut-out areas in the leather allow sections of brilliant colour from the satin underneath to show through. Another designer using laser cut patterns is Gabrielle Lewin. Her placemats available from MOMA have a flowing floral pattern laser cut into felt. She has also used the same techniques with her coasters. The fiore partition wall is another great example from Fabrizio Bertero. It’s got a laser cut leaf pattern in steel. The patrician makes great use of positive and negative space. It’s interesting how such a hard and heavy material has been made to look so warm and delicate.
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Kelly Herdrich, Contributing writer When a loved one receives a breast cancer diagnosis, being there for help and support is often the only, and best, thing you can do. However, it can't hurt to know something about the condition and its treatment. Here are some common terms and medical procedures to familiarize yourself with for those important talks with the breast cancer patient in your life. There are two main forms of breast cancer, each coming in two different forms, depending on their severity. According to MayoClinic.com, breast cancer most commonly begins in the milk-transporting ducts. WebMD.com notes two particular types of ductal carcinoma: invasive ductal carcinoma, which begins in the ducts and spreads to the fatty tissue around the duct, and ductal carcinoma in situ, where the cancer is still contained in the duct. This type of breast cancer begins in the lobules of the breast, where breast milk is made, according to WebMD.com. As with ductal carcinoma, lobular carcinoma comes in two forms: infiltrating lobular carcinoma, which has spread from the lobules, or lobular carcinoma in situ, which is still contained there. MayoClinic.com notes four procedures that may be undergone in conjunction with identifying breast cancer. A mammogram is an X-ray of the breast that commonly occurs in the early stages of diagnosis for breast cancer. Though many assume that ultrasounds are used only for examining pregnancies, ultrasounds are also helpful for doctors to examine lumps in the breast. If the doctor needs clearer pictures of the breast, he'll send the patient for an magnetic resonance iamge. This will paint a clearer picture than an ultrasound or a mammogram. A biopsy is performed to get more conclusive evidence directly from the source -- the breast tissue itself. A sample is taken from the lump and then sent to the lab for more conclusive analysis. There are a variety of treatment options for breast cancer, and the doctor will plan out a course of action depending on the type of cancer suspected from the procedures done. A mastectomy is what most women immediately think of when they hear the words breast cancer. In a mastectomy, the entire breast is removed. Lumpectomy In contrast to a mastectomy, in a lumpectomy, only the lump itself is removed. This is possible when the cancer has been contained and not spread to surrounding breast tissue.
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Remember when making a back-up of your data meant calling in a scribe and dictating for hours to the rhythm of a quill scratching on parchment? Well. Maybe not. But imaging technology has come a long way since the dark ages of 8-bit graphics and floppy disks. Evolving since the early 90s, disk imaging technology has made three prominent leaps of progress over the last two decades, resulting in the imaging software we’re familiar with today. Join us now, won’t you, for a journey along the Disk Imaging Technology Timeline: Early to mid 90s: Disk imaging and cloning technology becomes readily available to consumers, but is fairly limited in function. Users may use software to create an image of their PC, but that image is tied to the computer – images can only be restored to the same PC. The process requires a large number of floppy disks; tempers flare. Late 90s to 2009: New developments give disk imaging products the ability to create an image of a PC, and then restore that image to any other PC. However, limitations are still present: an image is tied to its operating system. An image of a PC running Windows 95 can only be restored to a computer running that same operating system. The total incorporation of compact discs (CDs) soothes the hearts and souls of the frustrated floppy-disk generation. 2010: The release of Windows 7 triggers the need to update PCs from XP or Vista. Imaging technology, as it was previously, is unable to restore users’ images of old XP or Vista PCs to new Windows 7 PCs. However, with the creation and release of PCmover Image Assistant, by Laplink Software, this gap in imaging technology is closed. The first and only software to restore images across different operating systems, PCmover Image Assistant completes another turn in the evolutionary path of disk imaging technology. Be sure to check out next week’s posting about how the disk imaging process actually works.
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Searching through some scanned documents, I came across an old photocopy from a book that I must have found years ago - not properly cited. My citation reads "1850 Mortality Schedule for State of Indiana" - no author, no date and no idea what repository I found this in. Listed on page 47 is a typed list of the mortality schedule for Madison County, Indiana, the 68th District, page 30 that lists my ancestor, William Shaw, husband of Mary (Heck) Shaw. William Shaw, age 50?, male, married, born in Pennsylvania, died September, Farmer, Bronchitis, sick 300 days. Also listed on the same page was a Mary Shaul, 6 months, female, born Indiana, died December, Arcipales, sick 30 days. I will need view the actually mortality schedule to obtain a proper source, but at least this gives me a clue as to when William died and the cause.
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Are you up to the adherence challenge? More than 60 schools of pharmacy and pharmacy groups across the country have joined forces in a massive, month-long campaign to boost Americans’ drug adherence rates. The National Consumer League’s Script Your Future Medication Adherence Team Challenge 2012-2013 kicks off a month-long series of events staged by pharmacy schools, and pharmacy and health profession students Feb. 1. Pharmacy schools can join the challenge “by implementing creative solutions in their communities to raise awareness and improve understanding about medication adherence,” according to a report from the challenge group. The effort is sponsored by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation and American Medical Association. Closely related to that effort is the Pharmacists Advancing Medication Adherence [PAMA] initiative, sponsored by AACP and the National Community Pharmacists Association [NCPA]. That campaign, which works in partnership with Script Your Future, also enlists pharmacy schools and student pharmacists in the ongoing battle to educate consumers about the importance of sticking with their drug regimens. One goal, according to AACP, is “to produce graduates that embrace pharmacists’ role as medication adherence counselors.” Lending urgency to the campaign: survey results show that nearly three out of four Americans don’t take their prescription medicines as directed, leading to poor health outcomes and hundreds of billions of dollars wasted each year on additional health costs and lost productivity. One school of pharmacy participating in the Medication Adherence Challenge is Ohio Northern University’s Raabe College of Pharmacy. The school’s chapter of the American Pharmacists Association’ Academy of Student Pharmacists “will work with students and faculty from the university's nursing program to consult and distribute information concerning medication adherence on Feb. 2 during the ONU Health Fair,” Drug Store News reported Jan. 25. How effective are these efforts at enlisting student pharmacists, and at boosting overall adherence rates among patients? As always, your feedback is welcome.
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Members of the Bloomington Tea Party are headed to Washington to take part in a national tax policy protest. The DC based policy group Americans for Prosperity is organizing the march. Group Vice President Allan Cobb says the center of the Tea Party movement is this kind of local grassroots advocacy. Indiana University professor of Political Science Margaret Hershey has studied the Tea Party movement. She does question the direct impact of the Tea Party. “Whether being organized and having rallies with people dressed up in Uncle Sam suits will make a difference is very difficult to say” Hershey says. “I’m not sure there is a lot of value added to that.” About sixty people attended a speaking engagement prior to the bus’s departure.
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Be A Dad: Tip 8 - Read to Your Children Dads have to make a special effort to read to their children in a world where television and video games dominate. It is important for dads to promote reading by reading your children when they are young. Encourage them to read on their own as they get older. Instill a love of reading in your children and you will help ensure that they have a lifetime of personal and career growth. (Taken from NFI’s best-selling brochure, 10 Ways to Be a Better Dad.) Tips for Investing through Reading - Start reading to your children at an early age. Even before your child is born, you can begin the habit of reading with your children. During the second trimester, babies can begin recognizing voices. Read a book together with Mom – your baby can hear the rhythmic sound of your voice as you read aloud. Once baby is born, reading out loud can be soothing to him or her. - Make reading part of your daily routine. Kids thrive when they have a predictable structure and routine; not only that, but making reading a set part of your day will ensure you don’t get too busy and skip it. Bedtime is a great time to read together to help your child settle down for the night, or try making storytime part of your morning or after school routine. Set aside 30 minutes every day for reading, either together or separately, and make sure the TV and computer are off during that time. - Encourage your children to read to you. This will help them improve reading skills, literacy, and comprehension and gain confidence in reading out loud. It will also give you an opportunity to praise and encourage them or coach them through a particular area they’re struggling with. - Make reading fun. Use different accents when you read out loud for each of the characters. Let your child act out the story as you read with stuffed animals or toys. Encourage him or her to pick out books that interest them, which will also give you insight into your son or daughter’s personality. - Take your kids to the library on a regular basis. Your community library offers your kids the chance to explore new interests and imaginary worlds through hundreds of books. Every couple weeks, make it a daddy-child “date” to go to the library and pick out 5 or 10 new books to read together. Your library probably also offers reading programs or special events that will make reading fun and encourage your child to expand his or her literary horizons. - Keep reading together even when your child is older. Your child will outgrow the stage where he or she needs you to read out loud, but there are ways to still bond over books. Read the same book separately and discuss with each other what you think. Pick a specific area you want to learn about together and get different books on the topic and share what you’ve researched. Gather the family together to read through some classics. An NFI staff member fondly recalls her dad reading aloud the J.R.R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings trilogy when she was in middle school. If you need some help knowing where to get started, check out this list of age-appropriate books recommended by the American Library Association and by Oprah.
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As an investor and practitioner of technical analysis, you must be able to read stock charts to understand how stock market trends are fluctuating. Whether you use line, bar or candlestick charts, you need to understand how stock prices, trading volume and momentum are moving to assess the opportunities and make the appropriate stock picks. By analyzing historical trading volume, opening and closing prices of a stock, Investors use charts to forecast future direction of the stock’s price. Knowing how to read charts assists investors in identifying stock market trends and helps them make more educated trading decisions. The line chart is the most commonly used chart and considered to be the most basic and easiest to understand. The lines within the chart connect the points where the stock rose and fell over a period of time. It begins with the opening price of the determined time and ends with the closing price. Traditionally they are used over long periods of time and help to understand the large scale stock market trends. Line charts are not used to determine future of stock market trends but are used as a way to measure the current and past movements of investments. This is because line charts only show one piece of information, the price, while other charts provide information about the trading range. More complex than the line chart, the bar chart expands information of each data point to the open, high, low and close price in a given period. For this reason, it is commonly called an OHLC chart. On the chart, a bar is a vertical line representing a time frame and the minimum and maximum price during that time. On the left side of each bar there is a small horizontal dash representing the opening stock price. There is a similar line on the right side of the bar, presenting the closing price of the stock. The bars are color coded to show gains (green) and losses (red). Investors and traders track stock market trends with this type of chart because it shows more technical depth research. The added information gives investors the tools to determine the stability of the stock. Candlestick charts originated from a form of Japanese charting system, but are similar to bar charts. Each candle consists of a body and shadows. The length and position of the candle are important pieces to understand in a candlestick chart and show the open and closing prices of the stock. The shadows represent the stock’s high and low values. Similar to the bar chart, the body of the candle is colored to show whether a gain (green) or a loss (red) took place. The extra information provided by the shadows can lead to better estimations of stock market trends. As investors increase in their knowledge of the market, charts give investors a better understanding of the stock market trends and specific stocks.
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Eight Six Hundred Twos February 14, 2012 3 Comments You can see this photo in a New Yorker article by Mary Norris about the Blackwing, though this blog isn’t cited. This picture is used for the Wikipedia article on the Blackwing, which has the text “blackwingpages” on it, but the blog name was removed and the photo darkened before the New Yorker published it. They credited Wikimedia Commons rather than this site, which is listed as the author of the photo.
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A 101-year-old former marathon runner and multiple world record holder will be the oldest man to carry the Olympic torch, according to an analysis of data on over 6,000 torchbearers. Fauja Singh announced his retirement from marathon running shortly before competing in the London Marathon last month, his last race. A Facebook page campaigning for his nomination has gathered almost 3,000 ‘Likes’, which helped contribute to the announcement of his participation in the torch relay last weekend. Previously the oldest participant was reported to be Diana Gold, who will be 100 when she carries the torch through Barnet. 11-year-old Dominic Macgowan from Birmingham can claim to be the most youthful torchbearer named on the London 2012 website – although almost 2,000 of the 8,000 torchbearers are yet to be announced. The analysis also reveals that the median age of torchbearers is 35, but teenagers dominate the field, with the most common age of torchbearers being 17, and almost a quarter of torchbearers aged 19 and younger. And London boasts by far the most torchbearers: its 355 torchbearers account for five times as many as the second most popular home town: Nottingham, with 66. Nottingham does particularly well for its population of around 285,000, less than a twenty-fifth of Greater London’s 7.2 million, although London’s 355 torchbearers do not include those who are more specific about their hometown, naming London suburbs such as Ealing and Harrow. Cities feature heavily in the top ten, including Glasgow and Aberdeen, Belfast, Manchester, Sheffield, Bristol, Leeds and Bournemouth. Wales is the only part of the UK unrepresented, with Cardiff’s 31 torchbearers putting it at 14th. We’ll be publishing further analysis of the torchbearers later this week. Thanks to Zarino Zappia and Scraperwiki for helping with the collation of data.
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The low energy spectrum of TeO2 bolometers: results and dark matter perspectives for the CUORE-0 and CUORE experiments We collected 19.4 days of data from four 750 g TeO 2 bolometers, and in three of them we were able to set the energy threshold around 3 keV using a new analysis technique. We found a background rate ranging from 25 cpd/keV/kg at 3 keV to 2 cpd/keV/kg at 25 keV, and a peak at 4.7 keV. The origin of this peak is presently unknown, but its presence is confirmed by a reanalysis of 62.7 kg days of data from the finished CUORICINO experiment. Finally, we report the expected sensitivities of the CUORE-0 (52 bolometers) and CUORE (988 bolometers) experiments to a WIMP annual modulation signal.
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Skip to content Skip to navigation menu 21 April 2011 The golden age of university autonomy is over and institutions must move forward and reinvent their public mission, an eminent sociologist will argue in a keynote lecture at Cardiff University. Professor Michael Burawoy of the University of California, Berkeley, is a leading proponent of public sociology, a renowned author, and a close observer of industrial workplaces in countries around the world. Most recently, he has turned to the study of his own workplace – the university – to consider the way social science itself is produced and then disseminated to diverse publics. Based on his current research, Professor Burawoy’s lecture, entitled Universities in Crisis will explore how universities around the world are subject to intensified regulation and marketisation. Because of this, Professor Burawoy suggests that the professional and policy dimensions are emphasised by universities at the expense of the critical and public dimensions. The lecture is the first in Cardiff University’s new Distinguished Lecture Series, which brings eminent and influential guest speakers to the University and a wider audience to showcase their work. The lecture takes place at Birt Acres lecture theatre, Bute Building, Cardiff on 9 June 2011 and starts at 6.00pm. A reception will take place beforehand from 5.30pm. To reserve a place at the lecture please email firstname.lastname@example.org or call 029 2087 6935.-ENDS- Notes to editors 1. Cardiff UniversityCardiff University is recognised in independent government assessments as one of Britain’s leading teaching and research universities and is a member of the Russell Group of the UK’s most research intensive universities. Among its academic staff are two Nobel Laureates, including the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Medicine, University President Professor Sir Martin Evans. Founded by Royal Charter in 1883, today the University combines impressive modern facilities and a dynamic approach to teaching and research. The University’s breadth of expertise in research and research-led teaching encompasses: the humanities; the natural, physical, health, life and social sciences; engineering and technology; preparation for a wide range of professions; and a longstanding commitment to lifelong learning. Three major new Research Institutes, offering radical new approaches to neurosciences and mental health, cancer stem cells and sustainable places were announced by the University in 2010. www.cardiff.ac.uk 2. For further informationVictoria DandoPublic RelationsCardiff UniversityTel: 02920 879074Email: DandoV2@cardiff.ac.uk This is an externally hosted beta service offered by Google.
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Vienna, May 7 – A senior Beijing official says that China will step up its research on and presence in the Arctic “to deal with the challenges and opportunities arising from the melting ice cover,” a declaration that suggests the Chinese authorities view themselves as an Arctic power ready to take its place among those countries which traditionally define themselves as such.. Yesterday, Qu Tanzhou, the director of the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration at the State Oceanic Administration, told “China Daily” that Beijing “needs to increase scientific research and expeditions to better comprehend” the possibilities that global warming offers in the Arctic region (www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2010-05/06/content_9814740.htm). Earlier this spring, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released an extensive report suggesting that China was closely examining the economic, military, and environmental consequences for Beijing of an ice-free Arctic during the summer months (www.sipri.org/media/pressreleases/100301chinaarcticreport). Qu’s comments now suggest that the Chinese authorities are now prepared to become more active. The Arctic and Antarctic Administration head said that “scientific expeditions are the first step,” a path that will involve both “cooperation” with other Arctic powers and “independent exploration.” The Chinese official noted that the Arctic has “30 percent of the world’s undiscovered gas and 13 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil,” resources that he described as “global not regional.” Indeed, he pointedly noted that the UN Convention on Law of the Sea limits a country’s territorial waters to 12 nautical miles from shore and fishing and mining zones to 200. And Qu said, the Law of the Sea Convention “stipulates that the high seas and the resources in the seabed there are the common heritage of mankind,” a position that could bring China into conflict with Moscow’s rather more expansive notion of the extent of the Russian seabed in the Arctic. According to Qu, China will focus its research “on the interaction of the atmosphere, the sea ice and the ocean,” building on the cooperation it has had with Norway at its “first and only Arctic scientific research base, the Yellow River Station on Norway’s Svalbard Island,” that opened in 2004 and working with Canada as well. More intriguingly, Qu said that Beijing “plans to build a new icebreaker for polar research.” UP to now, it has only a single such vessel, the Xuelong – “Snow Dragon” – which China purchased from Ukraine in 1993 and which has already “completed 24 research expeditions to the Antarctic and three to the Arctic.” Over the last two years, there has been increasing international attention to competition among the traditional Arctic powers – Russia, the Scandinavian countries, Canada and the United States. But China has now signaled that even though it does not have an Arctic coast, its leaders very much consider their country an emerging Arctic power.
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Updated 23 May, 2013, 8:16 pm IST Thursday January 26 09:41 am New online privacy policies cause furore Online giants Google and Facebook are facing renewed criticism over potential privacy violations, as both companies roll out new policies for how they deal with users' data. The companies say that their new policies make it easier to keep track of what users are sharing, but critics say that ease cuts both ways - potentially making it easier for users to mistakenly share data they would rather keep private. Al Jazeera's Tom Ackerman reports from Washington, DC, the US capital.
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A new report released today by UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, shows that the number of under-five deaths worldwide has declined from nearly 12 million in 1990 to 6.9 million in 2011. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / PRURGENT New York (Sharewellnewswire.com) September 13, 2012 – A new report released today by UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, shows that the number of under-five deaths worldwide has declined from nearly 12 million in 1990 to 6.9 million in 2011. ‘Levels & Trends in Child Mortality’ is based on estimates developed by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation and highlights enormous global progress in ending preventable child deaths worldwide. Yet, much more is required to bring these numbers to zero, chief among which is ensuring universal access to safe drinking water, improved sanitation, and hygiene promotion among the world’s poorest people and communities. Dr. David Winder, CEO of WaterAid in America, speaking about the new UNICEF ‘Levels & Trends in Child Mortality’ Report stated: "There is ample evidence to support the critical role of safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in helping to save seven million young children who are currently dying every year from entirely preventable causes. In fact, WASH is closely linked to three leading killers of children—pneumonia, diarrheal diseases and malaria—and to under-nutrition, to which more than one-third of under-five deaths is attributed. Without improved sanitation, hygiene and water resource management, we will not make sufficient headway in providing all children with the health and opportunities they deserve. This is one of many reasons that WaterAid is a proud partner of A Promise Renewed, a global partnership led by UNICEF and the Governments of the United States, Ethiopia and India, which aims to align the global community around a commitment to end preventable child deaths through a series of high-impact interventions, including WASH. Yet, this critically important effort will not succeed without significantly increased resources from all stakeholders and improved targeting of funds to ensure the poorest and most vulnerable are being reached.” The report shows that 11% of childhood deaths (759,000 per year / 2,079 per day) are attributable to diarrheal diseases, of which 88% (according to the WHO) can be directly attributed to a lack of clean water, safe sanitation and hygiene promotion. Additionally, a full 50% of global malnutrition is attributed to lack of access to high quality safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services, showing how critical WASH is as a foundation to health. The latest access figures (for 2010) show that 2.5 billion people (around 1 in 3 of the world’s population) still lack access to sanitation, while 783 million people (around 1 in 10 of the world’s population) still lack access to clean drinking water. In order to redress these gaps in basic dignity and human rights and contribute to ending preventable childhood deaths, WaterAid calls on the United States Congress to provide $400 million for safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, as approved for Fiscal Year 2013 by the Senate Appropriations Committee; and to urgently pass the Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act (H.R. 3658 and S. 641) in order to ensure that US agencies are focused on spending existing resources most effectively and increasing transparency in how they prioritize WASH interventions around the world, without spending any new money. For further information or interview requests, please contact Susannah Gold sgoldwateraidamerica.org or +1 917 207 5375 Embargoed copies of the new UNICEF ‘Levels & Trends in Child Mortality’ Report are available from the UNICEF media team, or via email from WaterAid. Details as to the levels of water and sanitation access across the globe can be accessed from www.wssinfo.org WaterAid’s vision is of a world where everyone has access to safe water and sanitation. The international organisation works in 27 countries across Africa, Asia, Central America and the Pacific region to transform lives by improving access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in some of the world’s poorest communities. Over the past 30 years, WaterAid has reached 15.9 million people with safe water and, since 2004, 11 million people with sanitation. For more information, visit www.wateraidamerica.org, follow wateraid on Twitter or visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ WaterAidAmerica. Further information on A Promise Renewed and evidence-based analysis of the highest-impact interventions to prevent under-five mortality rates is available at www.APromiseRenewed.org. A list of signatories to a non- governmental organization pledge to support and advance the objectives and approaches of A Promise Renewed are also available, in addition to a government pledge that has been signed by almost half of the world’s governments. The Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act (H.R 3658 and S. 641) is a bipartisan initiative led by Congressmen Judge Ted Poe (R-TX) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Senators Bob Corker (R-TN) and Richard Durbin (D-IL). Its objectives are to improve the efficiency of existing US investments in safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene; to increase transparency of investments and analysis of greatest impact; to enhance coordination across US foreign policy objectives; and to build US and global capacity to implement best-practice WASH programs—all without increasing the funds required. 783 million people in the world do not have access to safe water. This is around 1 in 10 people worldwide. 2.5 billion people in the world do not have access to adequate sanitation. This is around 1 in 3 people worldwide. An estimated 5-6% of Gross Domestic Product in countries of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia is lost each year due to lack of access to WASH. For every $1 invested in water and sanitation, $8 is returned in increased economic productivity and reduced health care costs. Just $25 can enable one person to access safe water, improved hygiene and sanitation.
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A Federal Reserve Bank Economist provides a hard look at the current economic situation. Even with the improvements the U.S. has seen in the past year or so, we’re not completely out of hot water yet. Bill Emmons, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, says the chance that the advanced economies will fall back into a recession in the next five years is about 50%. One driver in this is the financial health of the other major global markets. "The largest threat to U.S. expansion is further deterioration in Europe," Emmons says. Yet an economic downturn was already in the cards before Europe’s most recent economic blunders. Before the U.S. recession of 2008, global growth was at a nonsustainable pace. "The five years before the recession were the fastest economic growth in U.S. history. In retrospect, it was too fast," Emmons says. That rapid growth is what led to the bubble bursting in the housing and other financial markets, he says. Now, the global economies are growing, but slowly. Emmons says this slow growth will likely continue, and he pegs a 75% chance that the advanced economies will grow slowly during the next five years. China Economy Set for a Slow Down Emmons predicts a sluggish global economy, in part due to the dialing back of China’s economy. "China can’t possibility grow as fast over the next 20 years as in the past." The rapid growth that country has seen in the past 10 years has caused the need for financial and governmental catch-up. Emmons says there has been too much invest-ment, not enough consumption and concern that the banking system won’t evolve to the needed levels to adequately allocate capital. "There’s also a question whether the international market can adapt to China," he says. "The financial relationships and trade flows just with the U.S. have been causing pressure." Implications for Agriculture Around half of the top 10 countries that the U.S. exports corn, wheat and soybeans to are considered to be developing or emerging economies. Their economic health will greatly affect U.S. commodity prices. - December 2011
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Generally, you would use the Control Panel’s Add/Remove Programs tool or Vista’s Default Programs | Programs and Features page to uninstall programs from your computer. Now and again some of these uninstalls will leave program names behind which, when clicked on, either produce errors or no action. You can remove these invalid entries using the method described here. Note: To use the method described here you will be editing the registry. Editing the registry is tricky in that if you do it wrong you can cause problems with your computer up to and including rendering it inoperable. So, start by first making a restore point using the Windows System Restore utility. Close all open programs and then access the utility through the Start | Programs | Accessories | System Tools | System Restore menu sequence. Pick the Create a restore point radio button and then follow the instructions in the wizard. You will be making other backups as we go along as well. Note: The procedure described here only removes the references to an invalid entry in the Add/Remove Programs tool; it does not remove or uninstall a program. If a prior uninstall left residual materials on your hard disk in program directories or user data directories and/or other registry entries you will have to clean these up manually. Because each program is different in how it installs, instructions for doing that are beyond the scope of this document. OK, caveats given, let’s start: - Start the Registry Editor (Start | Run and then type “regedit” [no quotes] into the dialog box — in Vista just type “regedit” [no quotes] into the Start menu search box) - Navigate to this key value in the left pane: - Right click on the Uninstall entry. Select the “Export” option from the menu. Give the exported .REG file a name you can remember and store it in a location you can remember. Doing this makes a backup you can recover from if you make an editing error in the steps below. - Locate the specific key you wish to delete. It will likely have the name of the program but, in case not, scroll down each entry and look at the value for DisplayName. The key you want is the key that contains the same display name as you are trying to remove from the Add/Remove Programs menu. - If you want to be extra safe, right click on this key and again select Export and save the .REG file. - Once you have located and backed up the key containing the DisplayName you wish to delete from the Add/Remove Programs menu, delete that key from the registry. Delete only that key; do not delete the entire Uninstall entry or any other entries. - Close the Registry Editor (changes made to the registry via the Registry Editor take immediate effect so you don’t have to save anything before closing the editor). - Open the Add/Remove Programs utility from the Control Panel (in Vista use Vista’s Default Programs | Programs and Features page) and verify that the invalid entry is gone and that the other entries are still there. That should do the job. If you made an error along the way and need to recover either the specific key you deleted or the entire Uninstall key then double click on either the key’s .REG file or the Uninstall key’s .REG file. When you do this you will cause the Registry Editor to restore the values in that key to what they were before you attempted your edit. Should the worst happen and you change something in the registry that you should not have then you should be able to use the System Restore Utility to recover the system to the restore point you created and then start over again. Comments from Original Article: Said this on 2010-02-08 At 04:32 pm hi sorry to bug you but after going back through my add/remove program the file i am trying to remove is still showing up it is called chief architect it takes up 3.5g and i have never used it there is no option to remove it only a change option i did the stips you said and removed the key and sub keys but it still remains Said this on 2010-02-08 At 04:47 pm In reply to #2 What’s described here is a way to just remove bad entries in the add/remove menu and not a way to actually remove the programs themselves. Check for an uninstall program in the folder where the program itself is located. If found, run that to remove the program itself. If not, look in the All Programs menu. Sometimes companies will insert a link to an uninstall there instead of using the Windows Add/Remove menu. If nothing else works and you are certain you have no need for the software simply remove the folder where the program resides (you’ll likely have to do this as an administrator). There will likely be things associated with the program left on the system (registry entries, maybe a program data file for options, etc.) but these should not bother you. Said this on 2010-04-22 At 11:12 am when ever i have installed any software the should not come in add reomve progrmas what i should do pl reply me Said this on 2010-04-22 At 11:34 am In reply to #4 Look at the Start Menu item for the program. If there is no uninstall option in Add/Remove then there usually is an Uninstall program in the Start Menu folder for the program. Pick that. If there is none then contact the maker of the program for help. Said this on 2011-04-13 At 05:34 am hey what’s up my name is Michael i am having problems removing the crawler toolbar software from my add/remove programs every time i click on change/remove it pops up but then closes before i am able to click on next i have tried removing this crawler toolbar several times already i even went to crawler.com they told me how to do it but , its still doing the same thing the window pops up for me to uninstall it but then it closes quickly , i even down loaded a software to remove unwanted tool bars but i don’t think it worked can you please help me remove this crawler toolbar i would really appreciate it thanks [Sorry, never used it. But the instructions on their site seem straightforward. Make them help you. --DaBoss] Said this on 2011-04-26 At 06:22 pm Trying to follow these steps but none of the stuff I want to remove is appearing on the list under Uninstall. [These steps are for entries in the list that have no program associated with them. If you want to uninstall a program not on the list check the All Programs menu off the Start Menu to see if there is an uninstall link under that program's entry. In other cases, programs sometimes have an uninstall option in the program itself. Finally, go to the Program Files folder were the program is located and look for an Uninstall executable to run. --DaBoss]
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STANLEY, Falkland Islands – Falkland Islanders are praising plans for a referendum on their future, saying Wednesday it will show the world that they have no desire to be ruled by Argentina. Plans for the vote were announced as islanders celebrate the British military action that freed them from their South American neighbor 30 years ago. Festivities include a formal "Liberation Ball" Wednesday night and a march on Thursday to the town's Liberation Monument, along with speeches by visiting British dignitaries and local leaders honoring the troops who forced Argentina's military to surrender on June 14, 1982. Islanders hope it will all send a message to the United Nations, where Argentine President Cristina Fernandez is expected to argue before the de-colonization committee on Thursday that the "Islas Malvinas" remain an integral part of the Argentine nation, despite being colonized by Britain and held since 1833. The Argentine government has complained for years that Britain ignores U.N. resolutions urging talks on the islands' sovereignty, but rarely mentions the fate of the 3,000 or so residents of the islands, some of whose families have lived there continuously for nine generations. "It's about time" islanders hold the vote, said Norma Edwards, who lives on a remote West Falkland farm after serving as lawmaker in the islands' government for nearly 20 years. Argentina "might not take too much notice of the result," but the U.N.'s decolonization committee should listen, she said, and predicted that the outcome would be a resounding "yes" to remaining British. After the 1982 war with Argentina, the islands became a self-governing British overseas territory, with a directly elected legislative assembly that oversees the local Falkland Islands Government. Islanders still have British passports and benefit from a sizeable British defense force, and a visiting British governor still has veto power over local decisions, but islanders say he's never used it. The government hasn't determined yet how to phrase the referendum — for example, whether it will ask for a "Yes" or "No" on maintaining the islands' current political structure. Some islanders have suggested that only full independence from Britain will persuade the world that they are no longer "under the yoke" of imperial forces, as Argentina often says. Many suspect they'll never persuade Argentines to change their views. "If it will really do any good then I am all for it, however I do not believe this will convince Argentina that we want to remain British," said Brenda Berntsen, 54, a grandmother of five who lives in town. But other islanders say the referendum is a good move nonetheless. "Obviously we have to stay under Britain's umbrella for the time being," said Joyce Allan, 78, a great-grandmother whose ancestors were among the first settlers in the islands. "I see it as sending a message to the wider public to scotch the Argentine administration's absurd claim that we are being held here as hostages by Britain. This will tell the world in a loud and clear manner that we are Falkland Islanders and want to stay that way and that we want to determine our own future - with Britain." Islanders are hosting a large contingent of British military veterans and diplomats this week, led by Jeremy Browne, the United Kingdom's top diplomat for Latin America. On Wednesday, Browne participated in somber ceremonies at the British and Argentine battlefield cemeteries, laying a wreath of white poppies to honor the Argentines who lost their lives.
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We love our fruit with something kicking. Be it some sweetened plum powder with salt or some thick gooey palm sugar sauce called Rojak Sauce (bumbu rujak). On the street side in our city, there are many rojak vendors pushing little carts around. There are several versions too. Rojak tumbuk kacang is the fruit rojak with young plantain banana with roasted peanut in the rojak sauce. Very tangy, and can be very spicy with extra shrimp paste. The simpler fruit rojak is the most basic rojak sauce made from palm sugar block, tamarind, shrimp paste and fresh chili. The other variation include the way the fruit is cut, shredded or big chunk cut, preserved or fresh. Since the rojak sauce is extremely sweet and sour plus spicy, men don’t think too much of it, I never know why. But we girls adore them! There’s nothing better than a tea time with fruit rojak bought, iced tea and some prawn crackers with your girlfriends. Nibbling away and gossiping the neighbors, colleagues or the street cats. Most vendors only start selling after lunch and by 5pm, they’ll be all gone. These traditional rojak vendors don’t have cooler in their tricycle, so you wouldn’t want to buy fruit that has been out on the humid street for more than 6 hours. But all the sauce from these traditional vendors are made to order – meaning, they start grinding away in their mortal and pestle when you order them. That might take a while. For those lucky few households with Javanese helpers, homemade rojak sauce is only a phone call away. Whenever I was away on long trip, I long for homemade rojak sauce. With a handful of basic ingredients found in Asian groceries, it is easy to make! Add some cut fruits, they are ready to be served. Dip away – keep the iced-tea close by. Fruit Rojak Sauce 200 g palm sugar (gula merah/gula melaka), shaved 6 g (12) thai bird's eye chili (green chili) 15 g (1 teaspoon) tamarind pulp (asam jawa) 1.5 g (1/4 tsp) shrimp paste, toasted 1/4 tsp salt 5 tbsp warm water 50 g ground roasted peanut (optional) Combine all ingredients (except peanuts and water) in a mortar. Beat with pestle slowly until shaved sugar starting to melt, about 15 minutes. Add water. Alternatively, blend everything with electric blender / food processor until fine Serve with cut fruits and ground peanut. Refrigerates well, can last up to 2 weeks in tight container It is common for rojak sauce to be served with fruits with hard texture and crunchy to bite, such as jicama, cucumber, wax apples or guava. I think the whole purpose of the rojak sauce is to make plain fruit edible.
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3-D Printers Proliferate But desktop manufacturing isn't yet ready for your desk For years, visionary engineers have been touting the idea of a cheap box about the size of a microwave oven that could build arbitrary solid objects out of plastic, ceramics, metal, ice, and even living cells. During most of the 20-plus-year history of 3-D printing, "cheap" has been a distant vision, with industrial rapid-prototyping machines going for anywhere from US $15 000 to over $1 000 000. That number started to drop precipitously in 2007, with 3-D–printer designs from RepRap and Fab@Home that could be built for $500 to $2000 in materials (depending on what materials you wanted to print and how good you were at scrounging parts). This spring, 2-D printer giant Hewlett-Packard jumped on the moderate-price bandwagon, announcing it would introduce HP-branded 3-D printers (actually built by Stratasys) in Europe for 13 500, or about $17 500. If the price of a new compact car is more than you or your boss would like to spend, New York City start-up Makerbot Industries offers a small RepRap-derived printer kit for about $900. British RepRap parts supplier Bits From Bytes sells parts for a rather larger, reportedly more reliable unit for £750 (about $1200) and offers fully assembled machines for $3000 and up. But what are these machines actually good for? PR representatives for HP and Stratasys make it clear that their new machines are for mechanical engineers and designers to make mock-ups and prototypes of new ideas (and for educators teaching the next generation, who will likely work in a world where 3-D fabrication is commonplace), but not for consumers: Despite HP's reputation for building high-end consumer printers, this is not one of them. And although the fully assembled machines have established a strong reputation for reliability, do-it-yourselfers must beware the 3-D equivalent of the paper jam, which often involves scattered blobs of solidified plastic, smoking circuit boards, or half-melted motor mounting brackets. Internet forums and builder blogs are full of stories about hours spent rebuilding extruders, days tweaking the alignment of build platforms, and nights rewriting the software that "slices" designs into layers that can be built up on top of one another without drooping or warping or overtaxing a printer's tiny CPU. There is even a cottage industry of higher-strength spare parts for the kit components that are most likely to fail. If atoms are indeed the new bits, as the futurati have declared, then consider what the world will be like when mechanical objects are as buggy as the typical piece of software. Indeed, at the hacker level, the most popular print runs seem to be 3-D printer parts. If you want something built for use, you might have better luck shipping your design to one of the rapid-fabrication services that have sprung up all over the world. But Ian Adkins, technical director of Bits From Bytes, views things a little differently: Engineers, hackers, and educators have purchased thousands of the company's kits—initial production of the new fully assembled model is fully spoken for—and he is happy to report that at least some of his customers are building actual products as well as prototypes and models. If your annual production of any particular plastic bit is only a few hundred pieces, he says, the cost of a 3-D printer can be a fraction of the setup costs for machining or injection molding. And if tinkering is part of the attraction, you'll join thousands of other hackers who are getting the design of extruders, construction platforms, structural frames, controller boards, and other parts just right. Yours could be the innovation that makes cheap fabrication a turnkey process for the rest of us. Open-source design repository About the Author Paul Wallich, when not reporting on oddball technologies, takes to his shop to make small household parts by casting, carving, forming, filing, sawing, drilling, riveting, tapping, soldering, and gluing up laminated assemblies. He's also a regular contributor to IEEE Spectrum who's written about LED flashlights, personal supercomputers, and home nuclear fusion.
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Psoriasis is a chronic, immune disease that causes red, itchy, flaky and sometimes painful patches of skin anywhere on the body. While the exact cause is unknown, it's believed that at least 10 percent of the general population has a hereditary predisposition to the disease, though it develops in only 2-3 percent of people. Psoriasisanswers.com offers useful tools and educational information for people living with the disease. Beyond symptom tracking, Psoriasisanswers.com offers a guide to jumpstart disease discussions during office visits to ensure patients make the most of their face time with their dermatologist. "I greatly support these types of online resources being available to psoriasis patients," says Dr. Bruce Strober, assistant professor in the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology at New York University School of Medicine. "It's very important to have information about the type and frequency of symptoms that is as accurate as possible. These tools help patients prepare for their appointments so they might have more productive and informative conversations with their physician." Felicia Williams, who has psoriasis and is featured on Psoriasisanswers.com, urges people to be proactive about managing their condition. "It's important to take advantage of all the great resources out there like the tools on Psoriasisanswers.com. I'm thrilled to be able to share my story with others and encourage them to take control of their disease." Psoriasis Awareness Month is sponsored by major patient advocacy organizations to encourage broader public awareness of the condition and support for people with it. Psoriasis is a chronic, immune disease that appears on the skin. It affects an estimated 125 million people worldwide. It is a non-contagious disorder that speeds the growth cycle of skin cells and results in thick, scaly areas of skin. The most common form, called plaque psoriasis, appears as red, raised areas of skin covered with flaky white scales, which are often itchy and painful and can crack and bleed. Currently, there is no cure but treatment can help control the condition. Treatment may include topical agents, phototherapy or systemic medications taken orally or by injection or infusion. More information can be found at Psoriasisanswers.com. Abbott is a global, broad-based health care company devoted to the discovery, development, manufacture and marketing of pharmaceuticals and medical products, including nutritionals, devices and diagnostics. The company employs approximately 83,000 people and markets its products in more than 130 countries.
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One of the more interesting things about Mega, Kim Dotcom's just launched cloud storage service, is the client-side encryption. It's been one of the most touted features at the core of the service. Yet, despite all the hype, Mega doesn't make it all that clear how its encryption works. That may or may not be a conscious effort, but based on first impressions, it seems that Mega's encryption could do with some improvements and is not as secure as it could be. Mega boasts that all of your files are encrypted client-side, meaning they can only be read by you and whoever else has the encryption key for that particular file. Mega doesn't have that key so it can't know what you store on the service, a great way to waiver responsibility over what people upload and share. The files themselves are encrypted with the widely used AES-128 encryption protocol with the same key used to encrypt and decrypt them. So you may be wondering how this can work. Well, the truth is that the encryption key for all your files is actually stored in the cloud. The key itself is encrypted using your password, as Ars Technica explains This means that Mega can't know what it is, but it also means that your account and all of your files are only as safe as your password is. All anyone has to do to get access to everything is get your password. Granted, your account could be made more secure with something like two-step authentication, for a start, but, for now, the password is all you get. There's no password recovery method to keep your account safe yet, which means that if you forget your password, you won't be able to regain access to your account or, crucially, your files. UPDATE: Mega has explained some of its practices and rebutted some of the claims, you can find out more here
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NEW YORK - Few would doubt that Barack Obama has attracted more media coverage than his Republican rival John McCain, fueling suspicion that journalists are biased towards Obama. A Rasmussen Reports survey in July found that 49 percent of voters believe most reporters are trying to help Obama. Just 14 percent believed most reporters were trying to help McCain and 24 percent said most reporters tried to be objective. Many journalists argue that Obama, who would be the first black U.S. president, is simply a bigger story than McCain, who fits the traditional mold of a man running for president. Andrew Tyndall, whose Tyndall Report monitors news on the three major TV networks, said Obama’s overseas trip in July was “the culmination of the storyline about Obama getting all the media coverage.”
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- About Us - Our Team - News & Events - Articles & Presentations - Career Opportunities - Contact Us - Product Listing A-Z - Public Library - Art and Architecture - Black History and Literature - Counseling and Therapy - Criminal Justice - Health Sciences - LGBT studies - Performing Arts, Theatre & Film - Political Science - Religion and Social Thought - Women's History and Literature - Video Collections - Support Center - Customer & Technical Support - Request a Product Trial - Free Resources - Contact Your Account Rep - By Library Region - Global Distributors - License Info - FAQs and Troubleshooting - Discovery and MARC records - New Alexander Street Press Interface FAQ - Music Online Feature Overview 2013 - VAST: Academic Video Online Feature Overview 2013 - Press Room - Free Resources - Single Titles - Contact Us World Newsreels Online, 1929–1966 In December of 1941, cinema audiences around the world—from New York to Tokyo, Amsterdam to Paris—waited expectantly for news of Pearl Harbor. World Newsreels Online, 1929–1966 lets today’s students and historians see what those audiences saw and more, by delivering more than 500 hours of newsreel content instantly to any computer or mobile device. The content of the collection focuses primarily on the World War II era, with supplementary coverage of American life through the mid-1960s. This landmark online collection will include nine newsreel series from four countries—the United States, Japan, France, and the Netherlands. It includes 8,000 meticulously indexed and transcribed individual newsreels that bring the conflict to life in a visceral and immediate way that text cannot match. With one click, users can jump from city to city or date to date, viewing original footage with English transcription. In the years leading up to and during the war, newsreels had an unparalleled political and social impact. During this time period, all feature films worldwide would begin with a newsreel in the audience's native language. Topical coverage was broad, including health, scientific and industrial progress, religion, sports, fashion, politics, meteorology, agriculture, and disasters. In war times, the newsreel became increasingly important as a propaganda tool, with more than one-third of each newsreel devoted to the war. Today, newsreels provide a clear archive of how governments shared news, manipulated facts, and influenced their populace. These films are often the only audio-visual record that remains of historical and cultural events, making them a powerful resource for historians and students of politics, sports, economics, media studies, and other areas. The collection features full runs of newsreels in their original form wherever available. Content in World Newsreels Online, 1929–1966 includes: - Nippon News—36 hours of original Japanese newsreels from 1940 to 1948 with English transcripts. Driven by close collaboration between the government and the news industry, Nippon News was Japan’s only newsreel during World War II. - Four French newsreels that provide distinct perspectives and varying levels of propaganda. The collection provides 75 hours of fully translated and transcribed news items from: - Les Actualités Mondiales—Selections 15-20 minutes in length, adapted from the German series that ran from 1940 to 1946. - France Actualités—A coproduction of the Vichy regime and the Germans from 1942 to 1944. - France Libre Actualités—1944–1945 segments from an offshoot of the French Resistance. - Les Actualités Francaise—selections from the 1945–1969 series in which the French state discussed war topics, consequences, and reconstruction. - The March of Time™—The full run of this American series, 115 hours of fully transcribed content. The series, which aired in theaters and on television from 1929 to 1966, was set apart by its high production value and global coverage. - United Newsreel—More than 35 hours of the1942–1946 American weekly newsreel produced by the US Office of War Information, complete with transcripts. - Universal Newsreel—More than 200 hours of content with full transcripts from Universal Studios’s biweekly series that ran from 1929 to 1946. - Polygoon-Profliti—87 hours of original Dutch film clips produced from 1939–1945, which presents a strong picture of how propaganda was presented to occupied countries. Functionality for scholarship and classroom use Films in the collection have been fully translated and come paired with synched transcriptions, excepting Dutch content. The transcriptions are keyword searchable, opening up the materials for scholarly analysis and research. In-depth indexing by subject, year, historical era, historical event, people, and places lets users easily locate relevant materials. These indices can also be combined—for example to find specific words spoken by a particular person. - Compare Japanese and American footage from the Battle of Midway. - Examine Pearl Harbor footage from Axis and Allied perspectives, with a focus on perspectives from occupied countries. - Find footage of sporting events. - Which national leaders were featured in newsreels most frequently? - How did Japanese attitudes toward the US evolved over the course of the conflict? World Newsreels Online, 1929–1966 is an online collection available to academic, public, and school libraries worldwide via subscription or one-time purchase of perpetual rights. No special setup or software is required—all you need is a Web browser.
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Have nothing to do over the Winter Break? How about signing up for Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision, the world’s largest K-12 science and technology competition. It is simple! Students, working in a team of two to four, research scientific principles and current technologies as the basis for designing inventions that could exist in 20 years. Students on the four first-place winning teams will each receive a $10,000 U.S. Series EE Savings Bond (at maturity). Students on second-place teams will each receive a $5,000 Savings Bond (at maturity). This year, the teacher who submits the most eligible team projects in each grade category will receive a Toshiba tablet, and the school that submits the most eligible projects will receive $1,000 worth of Toshiba technology. For more information or an application, visit www.exploravision.org. The deadline is right around the corner, Jan. 31. Have news or information to share? Post a free announcement on Dacula Patch.
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The Slang / English used on this site was picked up while traveling 48 US states, Canada and the world. Auto Chains -- Chaining system attached to cannisters attached to the two drive axles. Activated by a flip of a switch in the tractor, the cannister descends throwing a 12-inch lengths of chain, attached to a rotating wheel, under the four inside drive tires. The tractor moves forward over the spinning chain lengths. Uber expensive, easy peasy to operate. AKA the Husband Helper because no husband is going to let his wife stand by the side of the road in a snowstorm to chain up by herself. See OnSpot. Auto Socks -- A Teflon coated fabric cover for big truck tires, that fits over the tires like a hairnet. A Norwegian invention, approved by the Department of Transportation (DoT) in Colorado to substitute for chains. And they are machine washable! Auxillary Power Unit (APU) -- A diesel-engine powered generator which provides electricity, heat and air conditioning to the tractor without running the primary diesel engine. Big House -- An RV-inspired extended sleeper tractor, complete with double bed, shower, toilet, kitchen sink, fridge, stove and usually big screen TV and satellite. Bobtail -- Tractor only, no trailer. Referred to by one friend as the BobCat, which I like better. Chain Law -- When DoT decides the roadway is not passable without chains, it issues a chain alert, all commercial vehicles must chain up, the number and configuration of chains depends on the state involved, to continue driving. Common on Snowqualmie Pass, Washington State, the Siskyous on I-5 in Oregon, Donner Pass between Nevada and California. Chicken Coop -- State Weigh Stations or Scale Houses where trucks can be inspected by DoT officers. Chicken lights -- Small lights installed on the side of the tractor and front bumper. Black Beauty has chicken lights, but I think of them as a necklace. Company Iron -- Refers to tractors owned by a motor carrier. Consignees -- Pronounced con-sin-ays, a la French sounding, we first heard this word at Schnieder National. This term refers to the party where the freight is delivered. It is picked up at the Shipper and delivered to the Consignee. Typically, both Shippers and Consignees have shipping and receiving departments. Curry Hook -- A nickname given by the British -- arguably the home of the best Indian food on the planet -- for the hook at the front of the Vespa above the floor plate. Drivers hang the customer's order from the hook enroute for home delivery. DoT -- Department of Transportation, a National agency and each state has a DoT. Doubles -- A traditional double is a tractor pulling two 27 foot pup trailers, a configuration used extensively by FedEx Freight and UPS. Other configurations involve longer trailers. Double Drop Low Boy -- A trailer deck that drops behind the drive axles, and again before the trailer axle. The trailer has a very low trailer deck, some are 18-inches off the ground when fully loaded, allowing a tall load to still clear a 13'6" bridge as opposed to a tradional flat bed trailer. Drag chain -- A chain required on one of the rear most trailer tires in Oregon and California under a Chain Law alert. DropDeck -- Platform trailer, see StepDeck. Dry Box (Dry Van) -- An empty 53 foot box trailer on wheels. Farang (fa-lahn) -- Thai word for foreigner. Flatbed -- A platform trailer, about five feet off the road, usually 48 feet to 53 feet in length. Florry -- Australian for fluorescent work gear, t-shirts, jackets, safety vests, toques. FMCSA -- Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the national regulator of the trucking industry. ‘gators -- Pieces of tire from Big Truck tire blowouts, and the separation of retreaded tires, seen littering the highways, especially in the hot weather in the Southern states. Gherkin -- German slang for idiot driver. German-born, Formula One champion Sebastien Vettel used the word, that we know as the pinky-sized, cucumber pickle, to describe a competing driver. Granny Lane -- Driving lane, or the slow lane. Hammer Lane -- The passing lane. Hammer -- Throttle or fuel pedal. Hammer down -- Full fuel pedal on. Used as expression for driving fast. Hanging the Irons -- Hanging chains on the truck tires. HazMat -- Hazardous Materials, a special endorsement, with a criminal background check required to pull HazMat loads. Hours of Service -- The trucker’s rule book outlining when and how long a driver can legally drive. Irons -- Tire chains. Marker Lights -- Lights on tractor and trailer on the side, top and rear, to define its shape. Drivers blink marker lights twice as a thank you. Nit Noi -- Thai word for "little bit." On Spot -- Automatic tire chains, activated with a flip of a switch on the dashboard. See Auto Chains. Overhead -- A big truck tuneup. Posh -- The dictionary says the word means elegant or luxurious, but it's the supposed origin of the word that we love. Although unproven, many believeit it stands for Port Out Starboard Home, the most desirable accommodations on a steamship voyage from England to India and return. Many truckers say Black Beauty is a posh ride. Power Only -- A tractor with no trailer attached. Pre-Pass -- A transponder attached to the front window of a Big Truck used to bypass a Weigh Station if the transponder gives a green signal. Green signals are given based on three major components, the safety rating of the carrier and the truck and the weight. For instance a truck registered as an 80,000 pound GVW must weigh less to get a green signal to bypass the scale. A red signal transmitted to the cab says the truck must enter the scale where the DOT officer can choose to inspect the tractor, trailer and/or the driver's logbook. Also see Weigh-In-Motion. Reefer - A temperature-controlled trailer to hold freight, typically food and pharmaceuticals, at a certain temperature, usually between -20F and 70F. Rocky Mountain Double -- A tractor pulling a 53 foot or 48 foot trailer and a 27 foot pup trailer. Running lights -- See Marker Lights. Scale House -- known to old time truckers as the Chicken Coop. This is the state DoT weigh stations, where trucks are weighed to determine if their weight is legal. In our case less than 80,000 pounds gross weight, generally made up of 12,000 pounds on the steer axle, 34,000 pounds on the two drive axles and the 34,000 pounds on the trailer axles. Shrimper -- The Atlantic Canada word for Yard Dog (see below). Stepdeck -- A platform trailer (also called DropDeck) with a top deck that is between eight and 11 feet long and a bottom deck, a drop deck, that is 40 to 42 feet long. Super Long -- A tractor pulling two, 53 foot trailers typically seen along I-90 in New York State and the Florida Turnpike, also, unbelievably in British Columbia on the mountainous Coquihalla Highway. Sweet Spot -- Sounds sexy, but, it's the speed at which the driver gets the best fuel mileage. For us it's 58 mph. Tractor -- A Power Unit with a Fifth Wheel, which PULLS freight in seperate trailers. Truck -- An an all-in-one unit attached to a box, which CARRIES freight. Triple -- A tractor pulling three 27 foot pup trailers, a configuration used extensively by FedEx Freight and UPS. TWIC (Transportation Worker Identification Credential) -- A tax grab against the working person in the form of a picture ID card. Promoted by the Security Industry, the TWIC costs truckers money and is completely useless. Every five years, we must pay $132.50 for a background check for the TWIC card. There are offices around the country, but almost none have Big Truck parking and they use bankers hours, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM. The cards are supposed to be used as ID in sensitive areas such as ports, but no one seems to have readers for the cards and they are almost never requested. Big manufacturers, such as Boeing will not accept TWIC cards as ID because they do not guarantee citizenship. And Wuppeee, the fee decreases March 19, 2012 to $129.75 due to a fee reduction in the FBI's finger-print based check. This is not small change, 2,106,123 people have been taxed, er, enrolled. We pay for the same background check for our Hazardous Materials endorsement every four years, which costs $91 in Florida, more in New York. Weigh-In-Motion -- Scales are implanted in the roadway to weigh the commercial vehicle, gross weight and axles, if the registered truck is under the maximum gross for the type of truck, the truck is given a green signal, a bypass on the Pre-Pass transponder in the cab. If not, a red signal is issued and the truck must enter the scales. At this time the DOT officer can inspect the tractor, trailer and/or the driver's logbook. Westcoast Mirror -- The giant side mirror on the driver and passenger sides of a tractor has two mirrors inside, the larger top one, is the actual view to the rear, the smaller, bottom mirror is a convex mirror, the "objects in mirror are closer than they appear" mirror. Both these mirrors are used continually to check the truck's blindspots. Wiggle Wagon -- Trucker’s name for Double and Triple Combinations since the truck is now articulated in two or three places. Wimp -- Vancouver, BC word for eight-ounce glass of beer. Yard Dog -- A small tractor with a fifth wheel that is used to move trailers in and out of loading docks. These are typically found in large distribution centers such as Wal-Mart. Yard Jockey -- The Yard Dog's driver.
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From theme parks and water parks, to cinemas and safaris, we’ve selected 10 of the best days out and activities that are sure to keep the whole family entertained. Offering all kinds of thrills, from roller coasters and log flumes, to fast trains and dodgems, theme parks are all about having as much fun with your family as possible. Kids will love the variety of rides available in theme parks, but it is often a good idea to read up on the attractions first to make sure they suit both yours and your children’s interests and ages. If you are looking for a trip that balances fun with education, the zoo could be a perfect option. Zoos can provide a great educational experience for children of all ages, and those that are young at heart as well! There will usually be organised tours provided, as well as interactive features and exhibitions to enhance the entire experience. If you would rather see animals in their own environment, a safari park can be a wonderful experience. There are no cages or restricted areas, instead you will find acres of land where animals live naturally. Sticking with the animal theme, why not visit a farm? Days out at farms have grown in popularity over recent years, and with good reason. Not only are they one of the few outlets which truly allow children to interact with the animals, but farms actively encourage families to mix in with the animals, handling them and helping them with feeding. Most kids love playing in the water, so whether it is a water park or a swimming pool, both offer plenty of fun for the family. Swimming pools often offer small water flumes and some even have rapid rides, however if you’re after wave machines, waterfalls and gigantic water flumes then head over to a water theme park. If a water park doesn’t cut it for your family then how about a trip to the seaside? A weekend trip to the beach is a great British past time and one that your children are sure to love. England has some great seaside resorts offering sand castles, swimming and piers. With so many vouchers for restaurants available online you should also be able to fit in some traditional fish and chips to finish off the day. More interested in fish than water? Then get up close and personal with marine life at one of the many aquariums located up and down the country. Your family can encounter sea horses, sharks, sting rays and hundreds of other weird and wonderful creatures. Talks and feeding displays are also on hand to add an educational element to your trip. While museums may not be everyone’s idea of a fun day out, many modern museums offer exhibitions and activities aimed at entertaining the children in your family. While an art gallery may not be the most stimulating environment for young children, they will often love to learn about dinosaurs and animals, so spend time choosing the best museum for your whole family. Castles can be a great place for children with a wild imagination. From Warwick to Windsor, Leeds to Inverness, castles are dotted all over the UK and offer a variety of entertainment. Take a trip through history with a wax work exhibition, take part in a theatrical battle or just enjoy a picnic in the stunning grounds. London has so much to offer that it can easily fill up a day with entertaining activities for your family. Choose from museums, art galleries, aquariums and sightseeing tours. If you find a shopping voucher online then you will also be able to treat your family to a purchase or two from the famous Oxford Street.
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Kansas State Capitol - Online tour - Arrival of the Railroad Arrival of the Railroad by David H. Overmyer, first floor rotunda, northwest corner The Santa Fe and Oregon-California trails gave way to the state's railroads. Survey parties laid out the route of the railroads across Kansas. A military presence was established to protect workers along the routes. The first section of railroad was the Union Pacific, Eastern Division, opening between Topeka and Leavenworth in 1866. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway was organized in 1863. Late in 1868 the first tracks were laid in Topeka and by 1872 the Santa Fe track reached the western Kansas border.
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Surprise: 57 percent admit to using pirated software - By William Jackson - May 15, 2012 The Business Software Alliance has published an interesting finding in its latest study of software piracy. Fifty-seven percent of those surveyed admitted to using pirated software at least some of the time, with 31 percent saying they do it “all of the time.” Businesses are among the worst offenders. “Business decision-makers who admit they frequently pirate software are more than twice as likely as other computer users to say they buy software for one computer but then install it on additional machines in their offices,” according to the 2011 BSA Global Software Piracy Study. “This form of license abuse accounts for the vast majority of enterprise software piracy globally — and the commercial value of it adds up quickly, because it is not uncommon for large companies to make hundreds or thousands of illegal copies.” For some hacks, everything old is new again The study comes on the heels of numerous reports indicating that the bulk of security breaches are caused by known vulnerabilities for which patches or software updates are available. Is there a relationship between this volume of unlicensed software and the persistence of software that is not being properly maintained and patched? “It can be a security issue,” said BSA president and CEO Robert Holleyman. He said it is more likely to be a cultural problem than a direct correlation between vulnerabilities and pirated software. An organization that is sloppy in the management of its software use and licensing also is probably likely to have lax security policies as well, he said. Whatever the exact cause-and-effect relationship, it is easy to believe that unlicensed, undocumented software is unlikely to be adequately supported under an enterprise patch management program. The BSA report is based on IDC market data on PC and software sales in global markets, which Holleyman called the “gold standard” for what is happening in the computer market, combined with survey data gathered by Ipsos Public Affairs from 14,700 individuals in 33 countries representing about 80 percent of the global software market. The results indicate that about 42 percent of installed software around the world is pirated, with a commercial value of $63.4 billion. BSA does not claim that this value is the net loss to the software industry, because there is no way to tell what percentage of it would have been bought legally had it not been installed illegally. The United States is the most law-abiding country percentage-wise, with a piracy rate of about 19 percent. But because of the size of the U.S. market, it also accounts for the largest share of illegal software, an estimated $9.8 billion worth. China, which pirates an estimated 77 percent of its software, is in second place with a total value of about $8.9 billion. Chinese computer users spend on average just $8.89 on legal software for each computer, compared with $127 in the United States. BSA says that whatever the cost to the software industry, these figures represent a threat to U.S. economic well-being because of the unfair competitive advantage it gives businesses using pirated software. But the prevalence of pirated software in the enterprise, even at 19 percent in the United States, also represents a threat to IT security. In the first place, software from untrusted sources can come with malicious code already baked in, representing a direct threat. And even shrink-wrapped software from a reputable vendor is likely to contain vulnerabilities and will have to be maintained through patching and updates to avoid exploitation by the bad guys. If the software is being illegally copied and installed throughout an enterprise, the odds are it is not being properly managed. I have not seen any studies correlating security exploits with pirated software. It might not be a significant part of the intransigent security problems we are facing today. But then again, it might be. At any rate, it is one more reason to ensure that software is properly managed throughout the enterprise.
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It’s hard for legal dispensaries to get bank loans, and they can’t deduct expenses from their taxes. Let’s back legislation to fix that By Scott Shane Consider two small business owners: One sells a product that medical researchers have shown is a major cause of health problems, from cancer to heart disease. The other provides a medical treatment that doctors prescribe for glaucoma, pain, and the side effects of chemotherapy. Which owner can borrow from a bank and deduct expenses on income tax returns? The answer is the first, who sells cigarettes; the second, who sells medical marijuana, cannot. (To be clear, dispensary owners aren’t prohibited from applying for bank credit. The trouble is anti-money laundering statutes intended to stop illegal drug dealers make banks reluctant to do business with legal dealers.) In late May, two Democratic congressmen, Jared Polis of Colorado and Pete Stark of California, introduced bills to remedy the federal government’s bias against the owners of medical marijuana dispensaries. Representative Polis’s bill would permit medical marijuana sellers to borrow money from banks, while Congressman Stark’s bill would allow them to deduct business expenses from their taxes. Passage of these bills makes sense for four reasons. The first is fairness. No small business owners should be denied access to financing or be subject to unfair tax rules simply because they run a business that some in government don’t like. The government should create a level playing field for all business owners. As Polis explained when introducing his bill, “It is simply wrong for the federal government to intrude and threaten banks that are involved in legal transactions.” Using a law designed to root out illegal drug dealers, terrorists, fraudsters, and money launderers as a back-door way to make life difficult for the operators of medical marijuana dispensaries is simply unfair. If Congress doesn’t like state medical marijuana laws, it needs to challenge the legality of these laws directly rather than stack the rules against them. FAVORING TOBACCO OVER MARIJUANA But fairness isn’t the only reason I support these bills. I also find it perverse that the government favors the tobacco business over the medical marijuana industry when the former is responsible for several costly medical problems and the latter provides a medically prescribed treatment. Not only does the government’s approach makes it difficult for people who need physician-prescribed marijuana to get the treatments they need, imposing pain and hardship, but the approach is also backwards. The government supports the sale of cigarettes, which cause cancer, but discourages the sale of medical marijuana, which is used to manage the side effects of the chemotherapy that these cancer patients must endure. As for healthy individuals who abuse the system to get high, isn’t that why we spend large sums of money to stop the illegal drug trade? By blocking the growth of the medical marijuana industry, federal policy makers are missing a golden opportunity to encourage entrepreneurship. Government officials often speak of finding new, high-growth industries, which are rare. Consultancy See Change Strategy in Olney, Md., forecasts that medical marijuana, currently a $2 billion industry, will reach nearly $9 billion in five years. That’s about the same size as the dry cleaning and laundry service industry. Finally, by opposing the medical marijuana industry, the federal government is missing the chance to cut government expenditures and raise taxes in one of the few areas where such actions would face little opposition by business owners. Unlike virtually every other industry, where higher taxes are vehemently opposed, the medical marijuana industry welcomes higher taxes. In Oakland, for example, the industry drove the effort to impose a 1.8 percent tax on gross sales from medical marijuana sellers. The potential economic gains from the legalization of marijuana are far from trivial. A 2005 study by Jeffrey Miron, then a visiting economics professor at Harvard, found that government spending could be cut by $7.7 billion and tax revenue increased by $6.2 billion if marijuana sales were legal and taxed at the same rate as alcohol and tobacco. A $14 billion improvement in the government budget isn’t something to ignore, especially in the current environment of paralysis over how to reduce high deficits. Allowing owners of medical marijuana dispensaries to borrow money and deduct their business expenses from their taxes seems like a way to make policy fairer, encourage a high-growth industry, and reduce government expenditures and raise tax revenues without much opposition. Those seem to me like the kinds of objectives our elected officials should be striving for when introducing bills into Congress. Scott Shane is the A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Case Western Reserve University.
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Payne, Kim John Adult Nonfiction 649.1 P 2009 Summary: Today's busier, faster, supersized society is waging an undeclared war . . . on childhood. As the pace of life accelerates to hyperspeed-with too much stuff, too many choices, and too little time-children feel the pressure. They can become anxious, have trouble with friends and school, or even be diagnosed with behavioral problems. Now, in defense of the extraordinary power of less, internationally renowned family consultant Kim John Payne helps parents reclaim for their children the space and freedom that allkids need, allowing their children's attention to focus and their individuality to flourish. Based on Payne's twenty year's experience successfully counseling busy families, Simplicity Parenting teaches parents how to worry and hover less-and how to enjoy more. For those who want to slow their children's lives down but don't know where to start, Payne offers both inspiration and a blueprint for change. • Streamline your home environment. The average child has more than 150 toys. Here are tips for reducing the amount of toys, books, and clutter-as well as the lights, sounds, and general sensory overload that crowd the space young imaginations need in order to grow. • Establish rhythms and rituals. Predictability (routines) and transparency (knowing the day's plan) are soothing pressure valves for children. Here are ways to ease daily tensions, create battle-free mealtimes and bedtimes, and tell if your child is overwhelmed. • Schedule a break in the schedule. Too many activities may limit children's ability to motivate and direct themselves. Learn how to establish intervals of calm in your child's daily torrent of constant doing-and familiarize yourself with the pros and cons of organized sports and other "enrichment" activities. • Scale back on media and parental involvement.Back out of hyperparenting by managing your children's "screen time" to limit the endless and sometimes scary deluge of information and stimulation. Parental hovering is really about anxiety; by doing less and trusting more, parents can create a sanctuary that nurtures children's identity, well-being, and resiliency as they grow-slowly-into themselves. A manifesto for protecting the grace of childhood, Simplicity Parenting is an eloquent guide to bringing new rhythms to bear on the lifelong art of parenting. Question about returns, requests or other account details? Add a Comment
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Success Stories - Mary Kellogg Mary Kellogg, Bangor Community Health and Counseling Services, Mental Health Care In May, Mary Kellogg received her MSW degree from UMaine, two decades after earning degrees in law and foreign service from Georgetown University. The irony wasn’t lost on the Bangor lawyer. “I had a wonderful job in a legal practice,” says Kellogg, “but I wanted to get into work that related to people differently than I did in law. And from the time I started in the School of Social Work, it felt like the right thing for me, a different way of thinking about the world.” In her primary practicum at Community Health and Counseling Services in Bangor, Kellogg focused on geriatric mental health, which is so inextricably linked to physical health in older adults. At the center, Kellogg did mostly home-based therapy, with some case management. In her rotations, she had access to elders and their care providers in inpatient units at hospitals and mental health facilities. “Exposure to the interdisciplinary collaboration was an important part of my education,” she says. “It opened my eyes. I was finding work in geriatric mental health very satisfying.” Kellogg says she has learned important lessons about human dynamics, and the environmental, social and economic factors that can affect people’s mental outlooks. She also came to better understand the ongoing struggle of elders to navigate the often daunting and fragmented system of social services. “Understanding how different components of the system work is very important in providing effective service to the elderly,” says Kellogg, who is considering a career in geriatric case management, helping elders and their families find the services they need. Her focus is in keeping with her view of elders as “people who have lived rich and full lives, and who want to stay connected with others.” People like her mother, who was in declining health in the last few years of her life. “She opened my eyes to what it is like to try and help someone with the sorts of needs she had,” Kellogg says. “Yet even as the dementia progressed, the core of who she was as a person remained. She helped me understand this, and that was a gift.”
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I am working on a small project to install AIR application(native .exe & .dmg) with AIR runtime without needing the Administrator privilege so I used Captive runtime but the installation is still asking for admin privilege I bundled AIR application with AIR runtime using Captive runtime from flash builder 4.6, then I packaged this into a .MSI using Advanced Installer. Now when I install it for a user without admin privilege it prompts me for Admin credentials. Can you please tell me if 1. I need AIR distribution license to install AIR runtime without Admin privilege 2. Do I need a different installer 3. Am I missing any step here You shouldn't need the AIR distribution license for a captive runtime install. It sounds like you might just be running into a problem with your native installer. Is the final install location in a protected OS area (like program files)? Thanks for the response. The .msi installer installs the application in users application directory, so I have to navigate to the Applications directory to install my AIR applications. I would have thought the installer will install the AIR runtime and the AIR application for the user. So when I double click the AIR application .exe from the installed directory , it loads the application and then goes away in few seconds to bring up the installation process (this raises a question how did the application get loaded I should have seen installation process first) and then I see the Installation window for AIR runtime , desktop shortcut, start application after installation after clicking on yes it prompts me for admin privilege. 1. Is there a flag or setting while bundling the application to avoid the admin privilege to install AIR application & AIR runtime? 2. I have used Advanced Installer, Installsheild and Wixedit to create .msi package none of them install the AIR application & AIR runtime, installation occurs only after the user double clicks on the shortcut or .exe Is there are setting within the Installers? 3. The other question I had was after installing the application as an Admin I see two .exes one for the .msi and the other for AIR application. Is there a solution for this issue. If you're installing to a location where Windows requires elevated privileges, like Program Files, you'll need to have admin privileges to continue. Are you using an AIR based native installer or have you taken the application with the captive runtime and rolled this up in your own installer? Here's a section from the Installation and deployment options in Adobe AIR 3 article that might help: When designing an installer, one has the option to choose from approaches that may or may not require administrative privilege. For example, a drag-and-drop install on Mac OS X requires no special privilege; users can always copy the application into their own application folders, for which they have the necessary permissions. On the other hand, if registry keys must be written to the machine-specific portion of the registry on Windows, installation of that application will require administrative privilege to do so. The two installer formats directly supported by AIR, AIR files and native installers, have always required administrative privilege. This was a design decision made in part to simplify the implementation of the AIR installers: If administrative privilege is assumed to be available, implementation is possible if the registry can be written to, and so on. It was also selected because, in many enterprises, this is the desired behavior: administrators can use the privilege requirement to gate software installation. All the same, there are scenarios where supporting installation without requiring administrative privileges is desirable, or even necessary. This can now be achieved using custom installers; you simply need to author an installer that operates correctly with only standard user privilege. In practice this can be easy to achieve; a simple install-by-copy to a writable location (that is, in the user's own folder) will suffice. Should you author a more complex installer, you should keep in mind that the addition of certain operations during the install process will in turn reintroduce the requirement for administrative privileges. I have taken the application with the captive runtime and rolled this up in an .msi, I have used advanced Installer tool to create an .msi. And I also tried just copying the result of captive runtime generated package as below to the machine For windows after bundling the AIR runtime & Application using captive runtime I see a folder with - AIR and captiveAppEntry.exe And then I double clicked on the .exe but it will ask for admin privilege to install AIR runtime and AIR application. Any help or suggestion would be really helpfull , this is a show stopper for the release. Seems this client does not want to allow admin privilege to the users. I think I got it to work by updating the application descriptor, I had to enable the supportedProfile tag and add “extendedDesktop” profile. I wish Adobe had stated this obviously or may be I missed on the details. The next I treid was building OS native Installer (.exe & .dmg) bundle it with captive runtime and then package into a .msi for distribution for windows. But this does not seem to work, The runtime has to be installed in that case. Can someone please confirm if I can use native installers and captive runtime together. Thanks you so much Europe, Middle East and Africa
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The definition of smart investing is simple: Obtain the highest possible return for a given level of risk. But if you are like most investors, this process has eluded you. Here’s why: - If you are investing on your own, the process you are using is likely flawed. - If you are using a broker or adviser, chances are they are part of the problem and not the solution. It doesn’t help that most of the financial media encourages bad investor behavior. The message is that you should follow the financial news, do your research, and attempt to pick stocks and mutual funds that will outperform the markets. An endless stream of self-appointed financial experts engage in the prediction game. They freely dispense their views about the direction of the market, with no measure of or accountability for the accuracy of their musings. When they are correct, they are convinced they have special insight. When they are wrong, they shrug it off and move on. You are buffeted by conflicting views as you attempt to find advice that will make you a better investor. The number of options dreamed up by the securities industry doesn’t help. From gold to structured products and everything in-between, you are told there is a way to achieve high returns without increasing your risk—the holy grail of investing. But there is a better way. Manage your risk. The amount of your portfolio allocated to stocks is the primary determinant of your risk. The higher the percentage of stocks in your portfolio, the greater the risk, the more short-term volatility you will experience, and the higher your long-term returns. Focus on the allocation of your portfolio between stocks and bonds. You will find a good asset allocation questionnaire here. Avoid actively managed funds. There is big difference between hard data and the opinions of your self-interested broker or adviser. Over almost any 5-year period, between 60 percent and 90 percent of actively managed U.S. stock funds, international stock funds, emerging markets stock funds, and global fixed income funds underperform their category benchmark. Standard & Poors tracks the performance of these funds and compares them to their respective indexes. Avoid brokers. Maybe there are brokers who focus on your asset allocation and recommend a globally diversified portfolio of low management fee index funds. But I have reviewed thousands of account statements sent to me by clients and readers of my books and I have never seen one where this portfolio was in place. The harsh reality is that brokers recommend expensive, actively managed funds that are most likely to underperform their benchmarks. They give advice based on the false premise that they have expertise about stock and mutual fund selection or the direction of the markets. Simply stated, you cannot achieve your goal of becoming a smart investor if you are relying on a broker for investment advice. Educate yourself. You can read each of these books in two hours or less. If you do, you will never be a victim of the securities industry and you will become a smart investor: The Smartest Investment Book You’ll Ever Read. Discount my bias in recommending a book I authored. Hundreds of thousands of readers have fundamentally changed the way they invest and become smart investors based on the specific recommendations in this book. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing, by John Bogle. This is a succinct, easy-to-read, and easy to implement investing book by the co-founder of Vanguard. Dan Solin is a senior vice president of Index Funds Advisors. He is the author of the New York Times best sellers The Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Read, The Smartest 401(k) Book You'll Ever Read, and The Smartest Retirement Book You'll Ever Read. His new book, The Smartest Portfolio You'll Ever Own, will be released in September, 2011.
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Most Active Stories - Four Concerts Scheduled In Expanded, Larger Back Porch Music Series In Durham - Duke Professor Carries On Tradition Of Black Radical Poetry - Why Do Political Activists Burn Out? - First Openly Lesbian Presbyterian Pastor, One Year In - As Costa Concordia Sank, Newlyweds Allowed Others To Take Life Boats First Hosts, Reporters and Producers Thu December 13, 2012 Will A $1.9 Billion Settlement Be Enough To Change Banks' Behavior? Originally published on Thu December 13, 2012 11:55 am If a kid does something bad and you want to discipline him — give him a timeout, say, or take away a toy — there are some basic principles that seem to work. The punishment needs to happen quickly after the bad behavior. And it needs to be significant enough to get noticed. Those rules aren't just for kids; they need to hold true for any type of punishment to be effective. But if you're a federal regulator punishing a bank, it can be tough to be swift enough and to levee a penalty that's severe enough to make a difference. Take HSBC, the bank that just agreed to pay the U.S. government $1.9 billion to settle allegations that it laundered money for Mexican drug dealers. The bank's dealing with the drug dealers took place over a decade. "This is justice very much delayed, and that may be to a degree justice denied," says John Coffee, a law professor at Columbia and an expert in prosecuting white-collar crime. Simply punishing the corporation, years after the crime, might not send the message you want, according to Coffee. "The taking of billions of dollars in cash from Mexican drug cartels and funneling it into the U.S. into legitimate investments, that was done by individuals who knew what they were doing, and no one has been held accountable who is a flesh-and-blood human being," Coffee says. Then there's the amount of the penalty. "These fines are large from the perspective of you and me," says William K. Black, a former federal regulator. "From the perspective of the institution, they are simply a cost of doing business." Black points out that the $1.9 billion fine amounts to about one month of profits for the bank. There was something that the federal government could have done to punish the bank that really would have hurt: It could have indicted HSBC for laundering money for drug cartels. It could have revoked HSBC's federal insurance and made it impossible for the bank to operate in the United States. But Lanny Breuer from the Justice Department says the government didn't want to punish all of the innocent people who worked for the bank who would lose their jobs. He said when he announced the settlement this week that HSBC had cleaned house, was promising to have more oversight and was cooperating. "We've gone after the cartels, we've gone after the traffickers," Breuer said. "And in this particular case, we have held a financial institution absolutely accountable." But is $1.9 billion enough of a punishment to make all the other banks take notice? Will it scare bank managers out of doing business with shady clients? Clearly, no institution wants this kind of bad publicity. But in the past, Coffee says, the lessons that really shook up industries involved criminal indictments, not just money. Decades ago, for example, junk bond king Micheal Milken was charged with insider trading and went to jail. "I think that sent a message for a decade to Wall Street that this was very dangerous behavior — don't go anywhere near it," Coffee says. "And I think that message was internalized. I think most people did understand and did obey that norm." HSBC agreed to pay money, sure. But the settlement was over quickly. So far, even the stock price is holding steady. Clarification: In an early radio version of this story, a former regulator was quoted speculating that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner did not want to put HSBC out of business. We should have made it clear that it is the Justice Department, not the Treasury Department, that made the decision to defer prosecution of HSBC.
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I’ve been wanting to do a San Francisco Zoo historical post for more than a year. But once I pulled the file, it quickly became clear that the subject couldn’t be tackled in one post. In the decades after the SF Zoo started taking its present shape in 1940 (when the Works Progress Administration remodel debuted), I would estimate that between 8 and 12 percent of the crazy @#$% that happened in San Francisco was zoo-related. There’s no shortage of weird characters, idiotic crimes and animal-on-animal throwdowns. Did you know that on the grand opening of the WPA polar bear grotto, with local journalists and dozens of children in attendance, one of the bears mauled and killed its roommate — a horrible and prolonged scene that involved arterial spray and police emptying their guns into the exhibit? We’ll save that for another day. This week’s Let’s Go to the Morgue! features archive photos of zoo exhibits from the late 1940s/early 1950s, and 1972. The 1972 photos were shot by Joseph J. Rosenthal, a Chronicle photographer famous for capturing the iconic Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima photograph. Looking forward to your SF Zoo (formerly known as the Fleishhacker Zoo, after its founder Herbert Fleishhacker) memories in the comments. I’ll answer your questions, and may go back into the Chronicle photo morgue and take a few requests — I’ll answer anyone who messages me on Twitter @PeterHartlaub and uses the hashtag #MonkeyIsland. A few more thoughts … * Along with the sad state of the enclosures in the 1940s and 50s, I’m blown away by the relaxed rules for patrons. I think the kid feeding the zebra part of his sandwich in the gallery typifies this anything-goes attitude. In the post-war years, the zoo had serious financial struggles — made worse by a public (including this newspaper) which revolted against the idea of an admission fee. * A Chronicle editorial is below. The outrage over fees for zoos, museums and aquariums has died since this was printed in late 1956. It now costs $8 to park at the San Francisco Zoo. And at $12 for residents, I’d argue that the SF Zoo is one of the better entertainment deals in the city. * I was impressed with zoo staff during my visit yesterday. I spoke with four workers or docents, and each one either had worked there 15-plus years or grew up going to the zoo. At one point, I asked a random guy in a zoo uniform about the former location of the spider monkeys, and he gave a detailed history. He had worked at the exhibit before it was razed in the 1990s. Speaking of which … * If zoo officials are still talking to me after reading this post, I’d love to write a Chronicle story remembering Monkey Island. The monkeys went to another facility after the exhibit was damaged in the 1989 earthquake. I think it would be fun to pick some of the better stories about the island and do a “Where Are They Now?” with its inhabitants. Spider monkeys in captivity can live 25 years — is it possible one of them is still alive? * A fun SF Weekly story about the final days of Monkey Island is here. Written by author and Litquake co-founder Jack Boulware! * If you know what happened to the tram with the elephant head (see above), please message me at firstname.lastname@example.org. I’m guessing it was either scrapped or is in storage somewhere. But my fingers are crossed that something more interesting happened. It would be great if some zoo-nostalgic retiree in Danville is using it as a golf cart … * Ditto if you know the location of the old locomotive in the play area, although reports indicate it was scrapped. * I was happy to see most of the animals have moved into more spacious habitats from then to now. As it should be. I do think that the zoo’s absolute No. 1 priority should be to get the polar bears in a better habitat. (Something like the Grizzly Gulch enclosure.) It’s sad that their space has stayed essentially the same for the past 72 years. * One more article below about the SF Zoo and the World War II horse meat shortage. It almost seems fake. Did the Onion exist in 1943? PETER HARTLAUB is the pop culture critic at the San Francisco Chronicle and founder/editor of The Big Event. He takes requests. Contact him at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @peterhartlaub. Follow The Big Event on Facebook.
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LRT construction could begin within five years if local, provincial, and/or federal funding is identified, similar to the package triad put in place for Toronto. The Mississauga plan is part of Metrolinx's regional transit plan, labeled The Big Move, presented Thursday to the Toronto Board of Trade. The Big Move would invest C$50 billion over a 25-year period. The Mississauga LRT project would link Port Credit, located on Lake Ontario, with downtown Mississauga and roughly northwest to downtown Brampton, Ontario. The City of Mississauga has already started the design, engineering, and environmental assessment studies, according to local media. Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion has warned that the city's share for the project will require some form of tax or user fee. Other projects that are part of The Big Move include two new subway lines in Toronto, light rail transit in Hamilton and Brampton, and GO Transit improvements. Metrolinx on Wednesday signed an accord with Toronto to advance LRT in Canada's largest city.
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A modern dictionary of Catholic terms, both common and obscure. Find accurate definitions of words and phrases. Places for the education of children, in pre-Reformation times, attached to endowed chantries. In England most of the schools operated by the government after secession from Rome had been former chantry schools. All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
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Security threats that can't be stopped While enterprises face all kinds of security risks, including vulnerabilities that must be patched and viruses that bombard corporate firewalls, the threats that strike the most fear into the hearts of chief security officers and their employees are the ones nobody has thought of yet. After all, any known threat can be at least minimized, but a new exploit is always difficult to stop. "We have to expect that cyber outlaws are devising new attacks," said Stan Stahl, president of Citadel Information Group, a Los Angeles-based information security consultancy. "Cyber criminals are bright people, expert at thinking out-of-the-box." Last year alone, more than 4,000 computer flaws and viruses were found. That may be a scary message, but CIOs and security admins can greatly reduce their companies' risk of falling victim to attack by taking a few vital steps. Most of those steps have more to do with sound policy than with intricate technological hacker-traps. "There are no security silver bullets and no automatic technological answers," he said. "Senior management must take leadership and assume responsibility." [ Read more ] By subscribing to our early morning news update, you will receive a daily digest of the latest security news published on Help Net Security. With over 500 issues so far, reading our newsletter every Monday morning will keep you up-to-date with security risks out there.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — As six of its war dead were solemnly returned to Canada, a pair of roadside bombs killed two more Canadian soldiers Wednesday, signalling an apparent escalation of violence in a battle-scarred corner of Afghanistan. Three Canadians were injured in the latest attacks — one was in hospital with serious injuries but in stable condition; the other two suffered minor injuries. The latest blasts happened two hours and 750 metres apart. Killed were Master Corporal Allan Stewart, 30, and Trooper Patrick James Pentland, 23, both with the Royal Canadian Dragoons based in Petawawa, Ont. They were killed after their Coyote armoured reconnaissance vehicle struck an improvised explosive device, or IED, a short distance from where a similar bomb injured another soldier in a different convoy two hours earlier.Full story
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The union representing education workers in Ontario elementary schools said yesterday that despite "respectful and positive" talks with the government under newly-minted Premier Kathleen Wynne, it has no intention just yet of telling its members to end their boycott of extra-curricular activities. Since September, elementary school teachers have been protesting the government's passage of Bill 115 by declining to lead student clubs, sports teams or other extra-curricular activities. Change the conversation, support rabble.ca today. The ongoing labour crisis in Ontario's public schools may just be a prelude to a much broader battle about to unfold between the government and all public sector workers in the province. The Internet rescues political humour. I don't mean humour about politicians, which is doing fine. I mean the gormless putative humour voiced by politicians, that reporters often describe with one of journalism's most irritating words, quipped. ("They said they're furious? That's too bad," quips Mayor Ford.) Take Hillary Clinton, running four years ago for her party's presidential nomination. Her laugh itself -- a self-conscious attempt to prove she had a lighthearted side -- became a joke. But social media came to her aid through YouTube. Using the famous scene in the film Downfall, set in Hitler's bunker, with Hillary as Hitler, she lambasted her staff, via subtitles, for failing her against Obama: : ". . . Devastated by a far-reaching anti-worker bill (Bill 115 passed a few days ago), rank-and-file education workers convened a funeral for collective bargaining rights on the lawn of Queen's Park, Monday September 10, 2012. Workers and friends joined to reflect on our loss and pledge ourselves for the future. Dearly beloved, we rank-and-file members and education workers have gathered here today indeed during a very solemn dark day to commemorate another victim in the death of the march to austerity. As the McGuinty Government continues his attack on the rights of working people, as he attempts to pass such foul and distasteful legislation named the "Putting Students First Act."
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Tight Shoulders and Neck? All athletes, high-level or fitness enthusiasts, often push their limits to the extreme. Playing on hard surfaces and the uneven nature of tennis where one side is used more than the other, makes it hard on your body. You need to spend as much time and effort—if not more—on recreating balance and health in your body as you do on playing tennis. Almost everybody who experiences tight shoulders and neck accompanied with tension headaches knows how unpleasant the pain can be. A few people suffer from them regularly. The culprit is a bad posture with the head forward, weak upper back muscles and tight chest muscles. People with round upper backs and heads forward are a common sight when you look around. The older they are, the more distinct it is because the gravity will accelerate the process if the surrounding muscles are weak. Unfortunately, we can see this phenomenon among still relatively young tennis players as well. In the majority of tennis strokes, you perform an upper body turn while rotating and loading in your hips. Additionally, some of trunk rotation comes from the thoracic spine (the upper back). The overuse and small micro-tears will cause the upper back muscles to tighten to protect themselves. If the upper back becomes weak and tight, you experience severe problems and pains. The tight muscles do not allow as much blood flow into them and therefore there is not enough supply of nutrients and energy needed to stay healthy. Tight muscles eventually get weak and then tighten even more. You need to break this vicious circle. If you don’t stretch properly after physical activity, the muscle never gets elongated to its natural length and over time will adapt and become short. A bad posture with rounded back and shoulders tilted forward causes an additional stress on the upper back. The head is a very heavy object, weighing 10 to 12 pounds and if its position is only a few inches forward, the back and neck muscles must work much harder and get easily overloaded. Several things will help your aching and tight upper back: - Stretch regularly! Try this great stretching routine. (It is also available in interlinked PDF format for your phone or iPad) - Focus on your posture until it becomes a habit. - Bring your shoulders back and keep your head straight up. Remember that slouched shoulders can cause rotator cuff problems. - Strengthen the upper back muscles with a variety of rows and pulls. - Reposition the shoulders with elbow touches and arm circles. - Perform upper back myofascial release as described below: Upper Back Myofascial Release Tight muscles often contain trigger points. With stretching, you can lengthen the muscle, but if the trigger points remain there, the muscle will tend to shorten again. In addition to stretching, perform myofascial release to get rid of the trigger points. Lie down on a top of a foam ball or a tennis ball that you place under your upper back in the shoulder blade area. Bend your legs and lift the hips off the ground, which will help to apply sufficient pressure on the ball. Keep your hands either under your head to support it, extend them above your head, or give yourself a big hug— each variation will feel different. Experiment with the various positions to find the best response. Roll around until you find a painful trigger point, and while breathing deeply, stay on the spot until the pain dissipates. Then roll to another spot in your upper back and methodically go through the entire area, until you do not find any more trigger points. Keep your upper back muscles healthy and your posture straight. You will feel and look better, and your tennis game will benefit as well. Nutrition Tip – Chia Seeds Chia is an ancient plant with tremendous nutritional value and medicinal characteristics. The seeds were used by ancient cultures as high energy endurance food, especially for their running messengers, who would carry a small pouch with the seeds. Chia has been called ‘Indian Running Food’ and gives a steady stream of energy. - Chia is nutrient dense and full of trace minerals (like potassium), vitamins, antioxidants, fiber, and essential fatty acids. - It is high in omega-3 fatty acids, so it a great addition to anyone’s diet. - Chia seeds are a great way to clean out. The seeds bulk up and work like a digestive broom, sweeping through your intestinal tract, helping to dislodge and eliminate old accumulated waste in the intestines. Chia seeds have the ability to absorb more than twelve times their weight in water, thus allowing prolonged hydration. The seeds help in retaining moisture and regulate the body’s absorption of nutrients. Read more about Chia at Wikipedia. Benefits of Chia Seeds for athletes: • do digest easily • are absorbed very easily • muscle and tissue builder • increases energy and endurance • have extensive hydration properties • good source of protein, calcium, potassium and iron • high in both soluble and insoluble fiber The easily digestible chia seeds are a great post-workout snack because they transport fast to the tissues and are utilized by the cells. Chia seeds will replenish iron, calcium, and potassium — the lost minerals during your tennis practice hrough sweat and muscle contraction. Chia seeds help speed up the recovery thanks to to their high amounts of protein. Due to their exceptional water-absorption quality, they will help you prolong hydration and retain electrolytes. There are new drinks on the market where they add chia seeds in the drink. You can easily make such drink yourself: add the chia seeds into your favorite beverage, let them swell a bit, and then keep drinking. You can get chia seeds at any health food store, or at my favorite shopping place – Amazon.com. Here is my favorite brand of chia seeds on Amazon. Recommended Book of the Month – Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our habits, behaviors and lives? You decide to get fit, start working out and then something sabotages your efforts. Or you want to get lean, start a great healthy diet, but then one day you give in to the “bad” foods and your efforts are gone. Why does this happen more often than we wish? The authors of the book say that we have a conflict in our brains, because our minds are ruled by two different systems: 1) the rational mind, 2) the emotional mind, and they compete for control. The rational mind wants a great beach body; the emotional mind wants that Oreo cookie. The rational mind wants to change something at work; the emotional mind loves the comfort of the existing routine. This tension can doom a change effort—but if it is overcome, change can come quickly. The book is pretty short and very worth reading, because you will learn how to change your habits that will make you closer to your goals. Find Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard on Amazon. SAY THAT AGAIN? — a Humorous Play with Words - When chemists die, they barium. - Jokes about German sausage are the wurst. - I know a guy who’s addicted to brake fluid. He says he can stop any time. - I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me. - This girl said she recognized me from the vegetarian club, but I’d never met herbivore. - I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. I just can’t put it down. - They told me I had type-A blood, but it was a Type-O. - Why were the Indians here first? They had reservations. - We are going on a class trip to the Coca-Cola factory. I hope there’s no pop quiz. - I didn’t like my beard at first. Then it grew on me. - Did you hear about the cross-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn’t control her pupils? - Broken pencils are pointless. - I tried to catch some fog, but I mist. - What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary? A thesaurus. - England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool. - I used to be a banker, but then I lost interest. - I got a job at a bakery because I kneaded dough. - Haunted French pancakes give me the creapes. - Velcro — what a rip off! - A cartoonist was found dead in his home. Details are sketchy - Venison for dinner again? Oh deer! - The earthquake in Washington obviously was the government’s fault.
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Click here to give by credit card (via PayPal) or check. Send checks to PO Box 75, Putney VT 05346 We work in affiliation with Trainriders/Northeast, the regional rail advocates group which conceived and initiated the "Downeaster" Amtrak service from Boston to Maine. To join Trainriders Northeast,click here. 44% of greenhouse gasses in Vermont are produced by transportation (nationally, it's 28%). If we are serious about the environment we have to change transportation. Shipping by rail instead of truck reduces pollution (on average) by two-thirds, noise by one half, uses only 29% of the fuel and produces only 23% as much greenhouse gasses. Freight Rail Carbon Calculator The U.S. transportation system is 96% petroleum dependent, accounts for 71% of the country’s oil use, and consumes 25% of the world’s net output. Passenger trains are 20-40% more efficient. But consider: if the train is already going there, the carbon footprint of you riding it is *zero* ! Rail facilitates better land use, which may make the biggest difference.
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From Our Staff Correspondent and A.A.P. LONDON, Sept. 24.-The Bulgarian Govern- ment's execution of Nikola Petkov, leader of the main Opposition party, has shocked the western An official United States statement on the execution says that it is part of the Communist-dominated Bulgarian Government's march toward totalitarianism. Britain's Foreign Secretary, Mr. Bevin, is now discussing what action Britain can take to show her revulsion at the execution. REICHSTAG FIRE RECALLED Petkov, leader of the Agrarian National Union, a peasant party, was condemned to death last month "for having tried to over- throw the legal authority and re- store Fascism by conspiring with army organisations." After his trial, .Britain and America officially asked that the sentence be reviewed. The Rus- sian chairman of the Control Council in Bulgaria rejected the requests. Petkov was hanged in Sofia at midnight on Monday. The' United States Government statement on the execution says: "In the court of world opinion, the Bulgarian Government . has shown itself wanting with respect to the elementary principles of justice and the rights of man.. "Petkov's trial on charges of plot- ting against the Government was a travesty of justice. The timing and conduct of the trial make it abundantly clear that the trial con- stituted but one of a series of measures undertaken by the Com- munist-dominated Fatherland Front Government to move from the Bul- garian scene all save a purely nomi- nal opposition and lo consolidate, in spite of its professions to the contrary, a totalitarian form of "The trial of Petkov recalls to memory another trial which occurred in Leipzig 14 years ago." (This refers to the Reichstag fire trial, at which the Bulgarian Com- munist Georgi Dimitrov was the principal figure in the dock. Tho chief Nazi protagonist was Goering. Dimitrov is now Premier of Bulgaria,] "In that earlier trial, a Bulgarian defendant evoked world-wide admiration for his courageous de- fiance of the Nazi bully who par- ticipated in his prosecution. To-day, that defendant has assumed another role, and it is now the courage of another Bulgarian whose steadfast opposition to the forces of oppress- ion has evoked world-wide admira- tion. Mr. Clement Davies (Liberal), Lord Vansittart (Conservative), and Mr. A. R. Blackburn (Labour) yes-, terday issued a statement in London that "the judicial murder of Petkov shows a clear resemblance in general between Communist dictators like Dimitrov and Fascist dictators like Hitler." "Let us learn the lesson that there must be no appeasement of Com- munism," says the statement. "We must never again invite aggression by being weak. We must be reso- lute in our defence of freedom and the rule of law." "TREATY ALREADY VIOLATED" "The Times," London, com- ments that with the ink scarcely dry on the peace treaty ratifica- tion, Bulgaria has violated the second article of the treaty by murdering Petkov. ' This article reads: "Bulgaria shall take all measures necessary to secure to all persons under Bulgarian jurisdiction the enjoy- ment ^of human rights and of fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of expression, of the Press and publication, of religious worship, and of political opinion and public meeting." "MORE ARE SCHEDULED" The "New York Times" com- ments: "When a nation drapes itself in the robes of justice to murder its foremost patriot it not only com- mits a shameful crime, it makes a mistake. In the free world out- side it breeds horror and revulsion. Among its own people it' sows the seeds of resentment which some day will yield a crop of bloodshed to drench the savage band that rules I the land to-day. "Petkov was convicted long be- fore he was tried. Several more of these murders are scheduled in Sofia. They will surely be com- "Bulgana has moved faster1 into the Russian darkness than Hungary, a more politically conscious and ,resistant country, but look for the next senes of purge murders to start there " Sofia Radio, commenting on the execution last night, quoted a reso- lution passed by the central com- mittee of Bulgarian trade unions "To a dog a dog's death " FIGHT AGAINST NAZIS [Petkov spent several years beforo the war in Bulgarian prisons and concentration camps because he was opposed lo Bulgaria's increasingly pro-Nazi policy In 1944 he escaped from a Nazi internment camp and with four others founded the Fatherland Front resistance movement pledged to fight the Germans The Fatherland Front supported the Russian armies, and welcomed the Bulgarian Com- munist leader, Georai Dimitrov, when he returned after long exile spent mostly m Russia But the Communists quicklv took over the Fatherland Front, and Pet- kov, who had been deputy Prime Minister, went over lo the Opposi- tion with his Peasant Party mem- bers In last year's elections, in spite of strong Communist pressure, the Peasant Party won nearly a third of the votes In June of this year the Com- munist-dominated police arrested Petkov and 23 other leading mem- bers of the Opposition Petkov was tried by three Judges-all members of the Communist Party-and found guilty of supporting a secret mill- - tary organisation through which he and army officers had, it was alleged, hoped to seize power ]
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As we all know, Liberals are only tolerant with those who share their opinions and political ideology. Not exactly shocking news for those exposed to them for years, but the respected Pew Research Center has determined that political liberals are far less tolerant of opposing views than regular Americans. In a new study, the Pew Center for the Internet and American Life Project confirmed what most intelligent Americans had long sensed. That is, whenever they are challenged or confronted on the hollow falsity of their orthodoxy — such as, say, uniting diverse Americans — liberals tend to respond defensively with anger, even trying to shut off or silence critics. (i.e. photo above of President Obama reacting to Boston hecklers.) The new research found that instead of engaging in civil discourse or debate, fully 16% of liberals admitted to blocking, unfriending or overtly hiding someone on a social networking site because that person expressed views they disagreed with. That’s double the percentage of conservatives and more than twice the percentage of political moderates who behaved like that. The proportion jumps even higher when someone on a social site disagrees with a liberal’s post. Only 1% of moderates would block or shut out someone who dared to disagree with them, compared to 11% of liberals, whose rate was nearly three times that of conservatives. The same 11% of liberals would block or unfriend people who offended them by daring to argue about political issues, vs 6% and 7% for other political views.
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Free or low cost travel for seriously ill patients who can’t afford to pay for transport for medical treatment. Mary-Helen Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer Provides transportation to and from treatment, legal assistance, support groups, bereavement counseling, education and a smoking cessation program. 1707 L St. NW, Ste. 230 Washington, DC 20036 Web site: www.mautnerproject.org Telephone: 1-866-628-8637 or 202-332-5536 Air Care Alliance Listing of Air Care Alliance member organizations that offer free air transport for charitable purposes. AirLifeLine AirLifeLine provides free air transportation within 1000 nautical miles. The patient must be mobile enough to enter and exit the aircraft. There must be financial need and the patient needs to be medically stable enough to fly in a non-pressurized plane. Angel Flight West They provide non-emergency transportation for medical treatment for those that cannot afford it or cannot fly on public flights for health reasons. Road to Recovery An American Cancer Society service that finds volunteers to provide ground transportation to and from treatments for cancer patients in need. Corporate Angel Network Air transport for patients needing to travel for treatment, consultation, or an exam. They must be able to walk up the stairs of a private jet without assistance and need no form of life support or medical help on the plane. Micacle Flights for Kids They arrange flights from volunteer pilots for seriously ill children who otherwise would not be able to get to the treatment they need. Mercy Medical Airlift Their mission is “to facilitate a charitable means of long distance medical air transport for all medically indigent, low-income and financially vulnerable patients in our society thereby ensuring equal access to distant specialized medical treatment or to appropriate facilities and settings for continuing care”. National Association of Hospital Hospitality Houses They provide housing and associated support services for seriously ill patients and their families to allow the patients to receive necessary outpatient care. PatientTravel.org Formerly the National Patient Travel Helpline. They act as a clearinghouse to help match up patients in need with travel and related services. Volunteer Pilots Association A charitable non-profit organization of private pilots who offer free medical transport for those with a financial need.
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|James Abbott McNeil Whistler: 1843 - 1903 James Abbott McNeil Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the son of an army officer who had become an engineer and traveled widely in the exercise of his profession. From 1842 to 1849, the family lived mostly in St. Petersburg, Russia. Whistler took his first at lessons at the Academy of Fine Arts there. |On the death of his father in 1849, Whistler went back to America. In 1851 he enrolled at West Point Military Academy, but three years later he was dismissed (He failed chemistry). He worked for some time in Washington for the United States Coast and Geodetic Service, in which he received a useful training in etching. In 1855 he left America, never to return, and went to Paris to study art under Gleyre. There he knew Courbet, Manet, Monet, Degas, and Fantin-Latour. The Pre-raphaelite movement was well under way when the Salon des Refuses took place in 1863. One of the most detested pictures in that exhibition was Whistler's The White Girl. The painting, which Whistler preferred to call Symphony in White No.1 is one of the fine pictures of nascent impressionism, and there is no good explanation as to why Whistler at this point abandoned Paris to continue his career in England. Certainly it was not because he was wounded by the reception of The White Girl or because he feared a good fight. For the rest of his life he was one of the liveliest scrappers in London. Without adopting Pre-Raphaelitism he became a fixture in the Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic circle and that of the younger men, like Oscar Wilde, who carried Pre-Raphaelite aestheticism on into the 1890's with even more precious and immensely more sophisticated variations. He knew the poet Swinburne and the novelist and critic George Moore, he became a great dandy and famous wit, a bright figure among the creative talents and their admiring circle who continued the Pre-Raphaelite revolt against the materialism and stuffiness of the Victorian age. As an impressionist, Whistler never adopted the broken strokes and the sunlit effects developed by his former French associates. He worked instead more and more in a muted palette of grays and blacks, softly blended, painting the misty tonalities of evening or gray days, sometimes flecked or splashed with red or golden lights, with strong reference to Japanese prints or Oriental ink-wash drawings with there simplification and their subtle, colorless gradations. Ruskin, who had understood Turner's art when he was a young man, was unable to accept Whistler's now that he was an aging professor. He was so infuriated by Whistler's Falling Rocket, Nocturne in Black and Gold, a picture which might have delighted Turner, that he wrote, "I have seen, and heard, much of cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." Whistler sued Ruskin for libel, as much for the sport of it as for any reason, and after a well-publicized trail was awarded damages of one farthing. Poor Ruskin suffered a mental breakdown the following year (1878) and for the remaining miserable twenty-two years of his life was removed from the critical scene while Whistler continued to send up rockets. In Venice from 1879 to 1880, he produced a series of pastels and etchings. The prints, which have the shimmering light of the city for their subject, are an original contribution to graphic art. When whistler returned to London he was gradually able to sell his work, but the encounter with Ruskin had bankrupted him and he returned a bitter man and the less pleasant, caustic side of his nature emerged. He had always been vain and opinionated, considering the artist to be above normal criticism. Now his doctrine "art for art's sake" became an obsession. The style of his wit resembled that of his much younger acquaintance Oscar Wilde, though in a more barbed and personal vein. Whistler painted comparatively little in the last 20 years of his life. In 1888 he married Mrs. Godwin, a friend he had long admired. For some years they lived in Paris. The Portrait of the Artist's Mother was bought for the French nation in 1891. Whistler was made an officer of the Legion of Honor, and one of his lectures called "Ten o'Clock" was translated into French. Two years after his wife's death in 1896, he opened the short-lived Academie Whistler in Paris. By 1902, a sick man, he began to destroy the drawings and paintings he thought unsatisfactory. He died in London in 1903. |The White Girl: The Making of a Masterpiece||Whistler the Maverick| Please direct all inquiries, corrections, and submissions to firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Yin/Yang, Medicine and Physics The standard Western medical method of diagnosis of illness involves study of symptoms, as well as microbiological studies to determine which organism is involved. Drawbacks of this procedure are: (1) Many illnesses exhibit the same or similar symptoms. This fact is why many patients can be misdiagnosed, then prescribed treatments that do not work. The attempt at diagnosis then begins again, with accompanying treatments that may or may not clear up the symptoms. (2) Clearing up symptoms does not necessarily lead to cessation of illness. Often, illness will continue, though manifesting different symptoms. (3) The modern Western medical method considers each separate illness to be disassociated from other kinds of illness, or illness in general. For this reason, a patient who is systemically ill may be involved in repeated office visits for a variety of symptoms and treatments. In the end, the body can become so exhausted from prolonged treatment that "illness in general" is never resolved. (4) The patient may become bankrupt by the weight of expenses involved, or die from battling prolonged illness. In contrast, the Macrobiotic approach to illness is as follows: (1) Instead of trying to identify the type of illness involved from symptoms the body manifests, Macrobiotics views all illness as a manifestation of a too Yin or Yang overall condition, caused over time by too much Yin or Yang elements in the diet or lifestyle. Also, too little activity can lead to a Yin condition, and too much activity can lead to an overly Yin (exhausted) condition. Too much Yin or Yang in diet and beverages can lead to a condition that is either too Yin or too Yang, or both. (2) Fortifying (strengthening and rebuilding) a person with a Yin type of constitution or condition over a period of time by adopting a simpler, more Yang (Macrobiotic) style of eating allows the constitution slowly to become consolidated. Any symptoms of a Yin condition that previously appeared will gradually disappear. Ultimately, the body can be strengthened to the point where disease will no longer manifest. (3) Macrobiotics views disease as a general condition of imbalance. It therefore assists the body to rebuild itself. In this way, the constitution/condition as a whole improves to the point that the immune system can successfully maintain health under almost any conditions of stress or exposure to disease micro-organisms. This is called natural immunity. (4) The cost involved is often not more than, and usually less than, the cost to feed oneself consuming modern, processed foods. In this regard, Macrobiotics is the fulfillment of Hippocrates' admonishment, Let Medicine Be Thy Food and Food Thy Medicine. The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates is considered by Western medicine to be the "Father of Modern Medicine". His Hippocratic Oath must still be recited by all medical students before they are granted a license to practice medicine in the Western World. Every month, new theories, drugs, medicines and treatments arrive on the scene, ready to be snatched up by a public searching for the Fountain of Health and Youth. The fact that most of these medicines do not help, or may even worsen one's health, is overlooked, so strong is the belief that, if you search long enough, you will find the magic elixer, the panacea that will enable you to overcome whatever symptoms of illness you happen to be suffering from, and feel good again. This is why pharmaceutical companies continue to rake in billions of dollars every year selling over-the-counter, as well as prescription, drugs, that do little to rebuild the immune system and strengthen the body against disease. How can your body rally when it also has to cope with drugs? If all these medicines worked, and truly brought about a condition of health, we would long ago have outgrown the need for them. That these medicines have not enabled people to build a disease-free life, and in fact, have actually made some more dependent on them, as evidenced by the increasing consumption of pharmaceuticals every year, indicates these heavily-advertised commodities have brought us no closer to eradicating illness than before they were introduced. The general concepts of health according to Macrobiotics are as follows: (1) The body, as long as it continues to sustain life, holds the key to regeneration and rehabilitation. Drugs or other medical treatments do not possess this fundamental ability, nor trigger, aid or enhance the body's natural ability to overcome all illness and infirmity. (2) If we provide nourishment that is easily digested, properly balanced, and supplies what the body needs to repair and rebuild itself, it will eventually do this. However, we must also supply other conditions the body needs to rally, such as enough warmth, rest, activity, air and sunshine, as well as orderly and clean living conditions. One must also not neglect the importance of meaningful, loving relationships, as well as a deep faith in the Creative Force that sustains all life, or other spiritual values that enable us to sustain faith and hope in the face of adversities. (3) To achieve balanced health, one must at first study consciously what constitutes a balanced diet, as well understand those items which can cause imbalance, since many people in modern society have lost the sense of what foods and beverages balance or imbalance the body. (4) To simplify this study, Macrobiotics classifies all phenomena into opposites called "Yin" and "Yang". The concept of Yin and Yang is used because nothing else is so all-encompassing. Yin and Yang embraces (includes) all phenomena and all opposites. All other dualistic concepts are limited and incomplete. (5) If we study and ponder these deceptively simple concepts in depth, we will begin to see the universe, and all phenomena, as a field of interaction between opposite forces (Yin and Yang). Health is then seen as a dynamic equilibrium of Yin and Yang forces and influences, which can be varied and many. However, with the vision that Yin/Yang dialectical perception provides, we can assess each situation in life and arrive at a correct determination of causes and effects at work in each situation. As our comprehension of Yin/Yang dialectics progresses, our ability to correctly ascertain outcomes, causes and effects improves over time. (6) The process of living provides the training required to reach such deep comprehension. Yin/Yang education is an inherent part of life. It cannot really be taught; it must be learned. No amount of money can buy you such wisdom. (7) If you want such a comprehension of life, you must work hard, be active. You must recognize the validity of thinking in terms of Yin and Yang, and practice it as much as possible. (8) With a deep grasp of Yin/Yang dialectics, you hold a key that can decipher many mysteries. (9) All knowledge of enduring value is based on a comprehension of the dialectical nature of reality. "That which is" defines "that which is not", and vice versa. Encompassing "that which is" and "that which is not" is a more universal comprehension: All is illusion. That is, "illusion" means what we perceive with our senses as "reality" is simply a picture we construct in our mind of what reality is all about. Yet this "image" is just that -- just an image, not reality. Since we are NOT the reality itself, but we can only experience an IMAGE of reality (whatever that may be), reality is forever ungraspable, unfathomable, unless we can become it. This is the Buddhist way of knowledge -- to realize Thou Art That (tsam tsat tsi). (10) Therefore, all that is certain is that Reality is dialectical. This fact is observable and undeniable by anyone who has taken some time to observe the universe. For example, "light" and "darkness" appear to be opposites. Therefore, they define each other. However, upon closer inspection, where does light begin and darkness end? Does light displace darkness or simply energize it in some way? Yin/Yang dialectics simply states that light and dark are polarities in a continuum you could call "light/dark". Dark is considered Yin, because it is associated with passivity. Light is considered Yang because it is considered more active than darkness. Yet every front has a back: scientists are now discovering that the seeming passivity of darkness is actually very active. Indeed, the "void" of outer space, which appears to be totally empty, is actually full of activity of a far more formidable nature than anything hitherto recognized. In fact, many new ideas about "free energy" come from a realization that the greatest source of energy lies in the emptiness of space, not in the constructs of matter and energy. "Matter" and "energy" are polarities in a continuum, but what is the origin of this continuum? What is more fundamental than either matter or energy? If the "void" itself is the source of the matter/energy continuum, then of what is this "void" comprised? This could be the anti-matter universe that is postulated and confirmed by physics. Yin/Yang theory supports this concept, because a basic tenet of Yin/Yang dialectics is that everything possesses an equal opposite. In this case matter/energy's opposite twin that defines, sustains and perpetuates its existence is anti-matter/anti-energetic. That is, it must be something that is less than zero in weight (a property of "matter") and less than zero in activity. Most people have been educated to consider nothing can be less than nothing. "Nothing" is considered an absolute in this physical universe. However, Yin/Yang says if something were able to achieve less than zero weight, it would simply fly upwards instead of being drawn towards the Earth. It would also perpetually give off energy rather than absorb it or use it up. In fact, some of the new "free energy" devices being built and tested today exhibit these traits. These devices can alter the vibrational rate of objects so they begin to levitate. And they can produce more energy than is required to run them. In the world of traditional physics this would be considered impossible because the law of conservation of matter and energy appears to be violated. However, if the universe is indeed dialectical, as everything else is, then the possibility of an opposite universe with opposite physical laws would be logically consistent. At nearly absolute zero, liquefied helium begins to exhibit traits conventional liquids do not. For example, it will climb up the side and out of a beaker as if it were connected by a siphon tube. Ordinary liquids do not move against the force of gravity in this manner. Does this easily observable phenomenon not suggest that conventional (Newtonian) physical laws may not hold when we are dealing with unconventional (Quantum) states of matter or energy? Another easily noticeable effect is the levitation of certain rare earth materials and ceramics near absolute zero. If the alteration of energy state of these materials is what causes levitating capabilities, then why can't this same effect be achieved by alteration of energy states by other means, such as electrical, chemical, etc., at higher temperatures? Another easily noticeable effect is the levitation of certain rare earth materials and ceramics near absolute zero. If the alteration of energy state of these materials is what causes levitating capabilities, then why can't this same effect be achieved by alteration of energy states by other means, such as electrical, chemical, etc., at higher temperatures? If the research being conducted by some of the non-traditional physicists and experimenters is valid, as the video Free Energy -- The Race for Zero Point, as well as books such as Secret of the Creative Vacuum present, then the realities of a New Physics are being demonstrated as you read this article, and will soon revolutionize energy production, changing the world as we know it, in dramatic ways. The 21st Century is upon us. If we do not keep pace in all areas of life, we will be left behind as transformational breakthroughs, such as the dialectically-based system of Macrobiotics and Free Energy Research continue to forge into new regions of health and science, brought into reality by the unconventional pioneers of the New Millenium. If the conventional is acceptable to you, you will probably not be interested in studying anything revolutionary like Macrobiotics or Free Energy Theories. If you feel our conventional way of life is flawed, and needs to be re-examined from the most fundamental of concepts, then I would like to extend you a personal invitation to join this greatest of adventures -- the New Order of the Ages that is now dawning.
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Confirming past studies, we find strong evidence of an overall bandwagon effect; people become more supportive of policies that have more general support. We further find that both social acceptance and social learning drive the bandwagon effect. However, the effect of social learning is significantly and substantially stronger than that of social acceptance. Thus, the main reason that people conform to majority opinion in the political domain is that they believe there is information about the quality of the candidates or policies to be learned from mass support. We find no evidence for the third mechanism -- that people conform because they want to reduce cognitive dissonance related to not supporting a candidate that will likely win or policy that will likely be implemented. The idea of the bandwagon effect seems disheartening for democracy if conformity pressures silence minority opinions. However, this research has given us a reason for optimism; people seem to be conforming not only because they see normative value in being part of the majority but also because they believe that there is information in collective opinion. Citizens want to be informed and the collective wisdom of their fellow citizens is just one source of information on which they have learned to rely.PredictWise Understanding How Polls Affect Voters David M. Rothschild | PhD in Applied Economics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Economist with MicroSoft Research-NYC, and a fellow at the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia.
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Hi, I am new to Qt. I am writing a small app for my N900 which displays the dip switch settings for various devices which are used in my line of work. The dip switches represent unique addresses and essentially are just binary numbers (not quite but close enough for this discussion). I have a horizontal slider connected to a QLCDNumber, when the slider is used the lcd number displays a value and a custom slot updates a row of 1-digit QLCDNumbers with the not quite binary version of the number which represents the dip switch positions. Its simple and works perfectly well. However I would also like the app to work in reverse, i.e. the user toggles the various 'dip switches' (digits of the QLCDNumbers) the first QLCDNumber and slider would then update to represent the relevant number. Easy I thought; I'll just use the QLCDNumber's clicked() signal to connect to custom slot to do the work. The user will click on a digit and the digit will toggle between 1 and 0. Then I realised that there isn't a clicked() signal available. So after this rather long pre-amble my question is: I know custom signals can be created for my own objects but can I create a custom signal for the existing stuff such as QLCDNumber? Oh and of course; if so how? Thanks in advance.
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Goya Foods donates over 300,000 pounds of Goya products and over 25,000 meals to victims of Hurricane Sandy in New York and New Jersey. With the aid of City Harvest in New York, The Community FoodBank of New Jersey, The United Way of Hudson County, local elected officials and Goya employees, Goya has already begun to donate products and hot meals to community organizations, shelters and soup kitchens throughout areas in New York City and New Jersey. Product donations include rice, beans, canned meat, hydro health water, coconut water, malta and nectars. “It has been a devastating time for so many people affected by Hurricane Sandy and we wanted to help out our fellow neighbors in New York and New Jersey by providing families and children with hot meals and food,” says Bob Unanue, President of Goya Foods. “We are diligently working with soup kitchens and making food donations over the next few days through the Goya Gives campaign. We encourage others to volunteer their time and to donate food, water, and supplies to all those who are without. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected by Hurricane Sandy and we thank everyone who has helped to make this donation possible.” This donation is part of the Goya Gives campaign, a series of donations Goya initiated in 2011 to celebrate its 75thanniversary. Goya Gives serves to encourage others to participate in the message of giving to those in need. Participants can also share and support the Goya Gives message with their friends through Facebook and Twitter, in addition, to donating food, supplies or funds directly to The United Way, City Harvest and The Community FoodBank of New Jersey. ”We are grateful to Goya and all the businesses and residents for the outpouring of donations received in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy,” says Jerramiah Healy, Mayor of Jersey City. “As we continue to recover from this devastating storm, we know our community will continue to come together to support one another.” Goya has a long history of providing aid to those impacted by natural disasters and has made significant donations both at home, including those impacted by Hurricane Katrina and Isaac in Louisiana as well as abroad in Mexico, Haiti, Chile, Peruand El Salvador, among others.
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1969 Stonewall gay rights uprising remembered June 22, 1999 NEW YORK (CNN) -- From more socially accepted lifestyles to ending discrimination in the workplace, gay and lesbian rights have come a long way since the June 1969 incident that sparked the gay pride movement. Commemorating the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall uprising, in which gays fought police harassment at New York City's Stonewall Inn, the National Park Service has added the inn and a nearby park to the National Register of Historic Places. President Bill Clinton weighed in to by declaring June as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month, a White House first. Since 1969, gays and lesbians have made serious in-roads in the economic sector. There are gay financial networks, corporate outreach for gays, major gay magazines with national circulation, and gay police officers. On the social front, many gays and lesbians live openly as couples; some are raising families. "I think we are a community that in some ways is reaching its power," said Paula Ettelbrick with the Empire State Pride Agenda. Barbara Raab, a volunteer with the New York City Gay and Lesbian Community Center agrees. "You can look at every aspect of gay life over the past 30 years," she said. "Things have exploded." Decades ago, gays had only dark, hidden bars as gathering spots. They lived under the constant the threat of arrest. All that changed on June 11, 1969, when some resisted police demands that they leave the Stonewall Inn. William Wynkoop remembers hearing the Stonewall uprising unfolding near his bedroom window. "Oh, I think I feel fear now, but not like what we experienced growing up," said Wynkoop, who has been with his partner for 50 years. He might never have imagined that New York would boast a gay and lesbian community center with hundreds of organizations. But gay and lesbian activists contend the movement has a long way to go. "Five states say specifically that gay people are felons or criminals," said Suzanne Goldberg with the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. But progress has been made. The bar where police once arrested people for being gay now gives awards to gay and lesbians for their good works. "We as a community and as individuals have moved worlds since then, but there is still a very long way to run," said Raab. Correspondent Maria Hinojosa contributed to this report. Southern Baptists rebuke Clinton over gay pride proclamation |Back to the top|| © 2001 Cable News Network. All Rights Reserved.| Terms under which this service is provided to you. Read our privacy guidelines.
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Autism recovery: A false hope? This mother is saying what no one wants to hear: Stories of autism cures are fairy tales. By Cammie McGovern With the new estimates released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that now put the incidence of autism diagnosis at one in 110 children (much higher for boys), I am thinking once again about the scores of parents out there who are facing not only a doctor’s dire prognosis but also an avalanche of confusing promises for recoveries and cures. When my son, who is now 13, was first diagnosed just after his third birthday, we didn’t yet have bookshelves groaning with autism memoirs. Back then you read the early bibles of hope, Let Me Hear Your Voice and Son-Rise. Hope came from a variety of treatments, but the message was always the same: If you commit all of your time, your money, and your family's life, recovery is possible. And who wouldn't do almost anything — mortgage a home, abandon a career, or move to be closer to doctors or schools — to enable an autistic child to lead a normal life? Here's the truth Now, as the mother of a 13-year-old, I will say what no parents who have just discovered their child is autistic want to hear but should, at least from one person: I've never met a recovered child outside the pages of those old books. Not that it doesn't happen; I'm sure it does. But it's extraordinarily rare, and it doesn't happen the way we once were led to believe. In saying this, I don’t mean to sabotage hope or the fiercesome faith one must keep, especially early on when a child’s progress can be so slow it sometimes feels nonexistent. It is essential for parents to maintain that faith because progress does happen. But after a decade of waging this war, I can also say this: Every parent of a child on the autism spectrum knows the feeling I've done everything possible — why isn't he better? The answer is simple: Because this is the way autism works. There are roadblocks in the brain, mysterious and unmovable. In mythologizing recovery, I fear we've set an impossibly high bar that's left the parents of a half million autistic children feeling like failures. They do get better I don't mean to sound pessimistic about the prospects for autistic children. On the contrary, I see greater optimism in delivering a more realistic message: Children are not cured, but they do get better. And better can be remarkable. At 13, my son is a far cry from the toddler who melted down when the sand was the wrong texture for drizzling. These days he embraces adventure, rides his bike, and repeats any story he tells five or six times. I remember thinking maybe we'd laugh someday at the lengths we went to when we were teaching him language — the flash cards, the drills, the repetitions. Now he's talking at last in his own quirky ways, and we don't laugh about the drills (though we laugh about plenty of other things). Language is a victory. So is connection and purposeful play. So are the simpler things: a full night's sleep, a tantrum-free day. Parents working toward these goals will one day be surprised and delighted by their children's funny new obsessions, odd fixations, and tentative but extraordinary connections with other children. Being more realistic from the start might make it possible to enjoy the journey and see it for what it is: Helping a child who will always function differently to communicate better and feel less frustrated. To aim for full recovery — for the person your child might have been without autism — is to enter a dangerous emotional landscape.
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Applications for the EQIP drought assistance are due Aug. 21, 2012. This assistance is part of continuing steps by the Obama Administration to assist producers in response to the historic drought. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack highlighted that USDA will utilize nearly $16 million in financial and technical assistance to immediately help crop and livestock producers in 19 states cope with the adverse impacts of the historic drought. In addition, USDA will initiate a transfer of $14 million in unobligated program funds into the Emergency Conservation Program. These funds can be used to assist in moving water to livestock in need, providing emergency forage for livestock, and rehabilitating lands severely impacted by the drought. Together, these efforts should provide nearly $30 million to producers struggling with drought conditions. “President Obama and I continue to work across the federal government to provide relief for those farmers and ranchers who are affected by the severe drought conditions impacting many states across our nation,” said Vilsack. “This additional assistance builds on a number of steps USDA has taken over the past few weeks to provide resources and flexibility in our existing programs to help producers endure these serious hardships. As this drought persists, the Obama Administration is committed to using existing authorities wherever possible to help the farmers, ranchers, small businesses, and communities being impacted.” Through EQIP, farmers can apply for numerous practices designed to provide immediate drought relief. Landowners with a current EQIP contract can also request a contract modification to re-schedule planned conservation practices such as prescribed grazing, livestock watering facilities, water conservation and other conservation activities on pasture and forest land until drought conditions improve. Counties in Georgia receiving assistance are indicated by the U.S. Drought Monitor Data shown below on the attached map under D3 Drought – Extreme and D4 Drought – Exceptional.
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Reward linked to image is enough to activate brain's visual cortex Once rhesus monkeys learn to associate a picture with a reward, the reward by itself becomes enough to alter the activity in the monkeys' visual cortex. This finding was made by neurophysiologists Wim Vanduffel and John Arsenault (KU Leuven and Harvard Medical School) and American colleagues using functional brain scans and was published recently in the leading journal Neuron. Our visual perception is not determined solely by retinal activity. Other factors also influence the processing of visual signals in the brain. "Selective attention is one such factor," says Professor Wim Vanduffel. "The more attention you pay to a stimulus, the better your visual perception is and the more effective your visual cortex is at processing that stimulus. Another factor is the reward value of a stimulus: when a visual signal becomes associated with a reward, it affects our processing of that visual signal. In this study, we wanted to investigate how a reward influences activity in the visual cortex." To do this, the researchers used a variant of Pavlov's well-known conditioning experiment: "Think of Pavlov giving a dog a treat after ringing a bell. The bell is the stimulus and the food is the reward. Eventually the dogs learned to associate the bell with the food and salivated at the sound of the bell alone. Essentially, Pavlov removed the reward but kept the stimulus. In this study, we removed the stimulus but kept the reward." In the study, the rhesus monkeys first encountered images projected on a screen followed by a juice reward (classical conditioning). Later, the monkeys received juice rewards while viewing a blank screen. fMRI brain scans taken during this experiment showed that the visual cortex of the monkeys was activated by being rewarded in the absence of any image. Importantly, these activations were not spread throughout the whole visual system but were instead confined to the specific brain regions responsible for processing the exact stimulus used earlier during conditioning. This result shows that information about rewards is being sent to the visual cortex to indicate which stimuli have been associated with rewards. Equally surprising, these reward-only trials were found to strengthen the cue-reward associations. This is more or less the equivalent to giving Pavlov's dog an extra treat after a conditioning session and noticing the next day that he salivates twice as much as before. More generally, this result suggests that rewards can be associated with stimuli over longer time scales than previously thought. Why does the visual cortex react selectively in the absence of a visual stimulus on the retina? One potential explanation is dopamine. "Dopamine is a signalling chemical (neurotransmitter) in nerve cells and plays an important role in processing rewards, motivation, and motor functions. Dopamine's role in reward signalling is the reason some Parkinson's patients fall into gambling addiction after taking dopamine-increasing drugs. Aware of dopamine's role in reward, we re-ran our experiments after giving the monkeys a small dose of a drug that blocks dopamine signalling. We found that the activations in the visual cortex were reduced by the dopamine blocker. What's likely happening here is that a reward signal is being sent to the visual cortex via dopamine," says Professor Vanduffel. The study used fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scans to visualise brain activity. fMRI scans map functional activity in the brain by detecting changes in blood flow. The oxygen content and the amount of blood in a given brain area vary according to the brain activity associated with a given task. 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Stop Lactation – 5 Ways to Reduce Milk Supply Most women may dread the word weaning, but they get scared more often at the thought that they have to stop lactating for them to stop breastfeeding. It follows the natural order of things – when baby weans, he will take to breast milk less; hence, your breast milk would stop production. Reducing your milk supply however, allows your body to have certain changes take place. To stop breastfeeding or even milk expressing cold turkey is not a wise idea. Gradual stopping is recommended. This will make your body adapt easier, you are less likely to develop mastitis (inflammation of the breast due to calcified dried-up milk in the milk ducts), and you won’t experience a drastic hormonal change which may lead to mood changes (including depression), and in rare cases, PPD (or post-partum depression). Here are 5 tips to help make your stop-lactating program successful and pain-free: Do not bind your breasts. This was practiced by our grandmothers in their time – one that is very outdated and medically speaking, very unsafe. This may lead to a plugged milk duct, or worse, breast infection. Always wear a comfortable, all-cotton bra with support but not too constricting so as to let your breasts “breathe”. Gradually eliminate one breastfeeding/pumping session at a time. It’s just like when you are weaning your child from breastfeeding – if he has 5 to 6 feedings in a day, eliminate one at a time, starting with the least favorite feed of the day, until you are left with morning and evening feeds. Then the day will come that you will be left with no more breastfeeding sessions, and your child has been successfully weaned off of breastfeeding. Stopping breast milk supply is parallel to that too. If you have excessive milk at times, express only when necessary and do not empty the breast– you need the body to figure out that breast milk demand is lesser now so the supply should decrease as well. Don’t worry; eventually your body will take the hint and start producing less milk. If you cannot take the pain, take something for it. There are medicine pain relievers that are safe to take while you are nursing, such as acetominophen and ibuprofen. However, it would still be a good idea to ask your health care provider or doctor about it, especially if you tend to develop allergic reactions to medicine. Cold compresses, also to help relieve pain. Some women claim that ice packs applied directly on the breast can help relieve pain. A bag of frozen peas does the same thing too. But most women are now turning to their greens – cold cabbage leaf compresses is a good treatment for moderate to severe engorgement of the breasts and is used to effectively (and eventually) stop milk production. It is also said (although no further studies have been made to repudiate or acknowledge the claim) that there are enzymes in the cabbage leaf that contribute to the stoppage of milk. Whatever you use, these cold compresses can be applied either at least four times a day or as needed. Take some tea. Some herbs are responsible for safely reducing breast milk production and can be taken a couple of times a day. Sage, spearmint and/or peppermint tea should be taken a cup each for about 5 to 6 times a day. Chickweed, lemon balm, sorrel, yarrow and oregano have essential oils that can be used as massage oils for the breast to relieve pain and discomforts. Mothers are often afraid of the consequences of stopping breast milk. As long as you do it gradually and safely, then there is absolutely no reason to fear.
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Teaching Video Summary Technique to ESL/EFL Students Tokyo Woman's Christian University (Tokyo, Japan) - Technique: to teach students how to summarize a short CNN/BBC video report in 5 sentences - Student level: High intermediate and above - Materials: A CNN/BBC video report, between 2-3 minutes ideally - Class time: One hour or more Why Use Video in the Classroom?Many students at this level have had years of textbooks. They are usually much more interested in watching videos. In particular, news videos have one major advantage over textbooks: they are up-to-the-minute. Why Summarize a Video Report?Because this is a very useful thinking skill. Students must select the essential points only from all the information they have, and fit that information together so that it flows logically and connects appropriately. Why Summarize a Video Report in 5 Sentences?Obviously, this number of sentences is not set in stone, but this length does help students work on being very selective with content and on writing very concisely. What is a Summary?A summary provides the essential points of a story (report, presentation etc.) in a general, logical, and connected way. Summaries do NOT include these areas (these belong in a retelling): - Background to the issue - Minor details - The student's own opinion - Statistics (e.g. 72% of people…) - Detailed explanations - Direct quotes This is a plot summary (general, essential points only): "It's a love story based in a New York hospital. A middle-aged doctor meets a nurse who …." This is a retelling (specific points, data, background etc): "It's a love story based in a New York hospital. It's the biggest hospital in the city with over 50 doctors, 17 nurses, and about 200 beds, but even so there usually aren't enough doctors to deal with all the cases. Anyway, one day, a 57 year old surgeon…" Teaching the 5-sentence Summary The Week BeforeIdeally, teach a listening class on the video itself the week before. This is so that students understand fully the video content before attempting the summary (summary skills are difficult: the first time you teach it, you will probably need at least an hour). Students should then be instructed to review their notes on the video for homework, especially any new vocabulary. On the Day: Step 1: Warm-up DiscussionAt the start of the summary class, show the video one more time to refresh the students' memory. Next, write the task on the whiteboard (to summarize the report in 5 sentences). Last, put students into pairs. Ask them to discuss with their partner these questions: Q1: What is a good summary? (general, essential, logical, connected, concise) Q2: Which of these might be included in a summary? - Essential information (yes) - Minor information (no) - Background information (no) - The main topic and why it's news (yes) - Long explanations (no) - Statistics (no) - Direct quotes (no) - A conclusion (yes) - Your personal opinion (no) - The opinion of people in the video (yes) Q3: How should you write the summary? Think about these points: - Type of language (formal) - 5 separate sentences or 1 complete paragraph (the latter) - Language to connect sentences together ( As a result; In addition; In conclusion etc.) Step 2: Writing Sentence 1In their pairs, students should work together to discuss their ideas for the first sentence. Tell them this should start with the sentence head: 'This report focuses on…' and go on to include the main focus of the report (what, where) and why the topic is news now. From my experience, the main focus is usually not difficult for students (e.g. teenage crime in Japan; AIDS battle in South Africa etc.) What is difficult is why it is news now -- AIDS in South Africa is not a new issue, so why has it been on TV recently? Technique: The teacher will need to help students here by writing on the whiteboard media phrases that indicate that something new is happening (these are sometimes called topicality focusers). Examples include: 'a new challenge/ plan/ policy (etc.) to…'; 'a new controversy over...'; 'growing concerns over…'; 'new efforts to…'). Impose a time limit. Remember, keep the task communicative by having students discuss their ideas first before writing it down. Then elicit answers and give feedback. Step 2: Writing Sentences 2, 3 and 4These sentences are the most difficult to write because students are trying to encapsulate the body of the report by selecting from all the pieces of information the 3 most significant. Tell them that CNN/BBC video reports usually follow logical stages. Below are some popular examples of report organization with the body sections in bold. Write these on the whiteboard. (Since most news is bad news, the most common type of reports deals with problems). Tell students that sentences 2, 3 and 4 from their summary should be selected from the body sections of the report. Which ones the students select depends on the content of the report, obviously. Tell them there is no perfect summary: several versions can all be acceptable. If students decide to include the opinions sections of the report, tell them that direct quotes are not to be used; instead, they should write, for example: 'According to the government,' or 'The government believes…' etc. Have students discuss in pairs first which three body categories they will choose from the video report to produce their three body sentences of the summary. Then, have them discuss how they should write them. Finally, have them write out the sentences, encouraging them to connect the sentences together logically. Set a time limit for this. Finally, elicit from the pairs and give feedback. Step 3: Writing Sentence 5This is usually the easiest sentence to write for students. The conclusion to most reports talks about the future, either optimistically or not, and gives the reason for this view, often as an adjective. The students' sentence 5 should do the same. Step 4: Appraising the SummariesNow it is time to hear the whole summary from each pairing, and to see which ones are best. Appraisal style depends on student level, class size, lesson duration, classroom equipment level etc. These are some suggestions: Student pairs write out their summary, working together on grammatical accuracy. Then each pair reads it out (student A reads sentence 1, then student B reads sentence 2 etc.). The class pairs listen and grade each one out of 10 as they hear it. Ask why the summary with the highest score sounded so good. For small classes, have students write out the summary on magnetic whiteboards placed on the wall. Instead of pairs, at the start of class you could group students into threes or fours. Again, the groups help each other with grammar. When finished, arrange the boards near each other; have students compare and vote. Give feedback. If there is no class time, have students write out their summary for homework. Next class, distribute photocopies of your own 5-sentence summary for students to compare theirs to. The Internet TESL Journal, Vol. XI, No. 11, November 2005
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Letter of the Day: Prop. 13 benefits Published: Monday, December 10, 2012 at 3:00 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, December 7, 2012 at 5:19 p.m. Prop. 13 benefits EDITOR: I recently heard Warren Buffet boast that he pays less in property taxes on his multimillion mansion in Southern California than he does at his modest ranch in Nebraska. Why do out-of-state property owners enjoy the benefits of California's Proposition 13? There should be a law that if you own property in California and do not pay California state taxes, then your property should be adjusted annually for value, and you then must pay the new property tax. If you want to become a California resident and pay state taxes on all your earnings, then you can continue to enjoy the Proposition 13 advantages. If this went to a vote, it would surely pass, because only California residents could vote for it. All rights reserved. This copyrighted material may not be re-published without permission. Links are encouraged.
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It happened again last Friday. I was walking with two friends to our car in a parking garage when I got a strange feeling that we were being followed. When I turned my head, I saw the front slope of a Toyota Prius, which was rolling quietly a few feet behind us. It only freaked me out a little before I stepped aside. Some people haven’t been so lucky: [Jana] Littrell, who is blind, was walking through a bank parking lot in the East Bay town of Albany a year ago when her foot was run over by a Toyota Prius backing out of a parking space. She wasn’t injured and the driver apologized effusively, she recalled. But the experience shook her up. “It has definitely put me more on my guard,” said Littrell, who teaches Braille to newly blind adults. “But I don’t know how much good that’s going to do me if I can’t hear the car coming.” Hybrid cars run solely on their electric motors at low speeds, which means they are virtually silent to pedestrians. For anyone who’s ever been in a hybrid (or electric car), the silence is one of the first things you’re aware of. According to The Associated Press, early results from an ongoing study at the University of California-Riverside found that “hybrids operating at slow speeds must be 40 percent closer to pedestrians than combustion-engine vehicles before they make enough noise for their location to be detected.” But so far, this hybrid creep seems to be an afterthought to the companies that make the cars. Two carmakers we spoke to said that it was never part of the discussion when developing their electric or hybrid vehicles. “It’s an easy fix,” one said. They’re going to have to start thinking about it soon. Two weeks ago, a bill was introduced in Congress requiring the Transportation Department to establish safety standards for hybrids and other quiet vehicles, which would include some sort of audible alert for pedestrians. Under the bill, the department would conduct a two-year study before issuing safety standards, and automakers would have two years to comply. The Los Angeles Times reports that Toyota is looking at the problem independently. And the solution might not be as simple as creating an artificial beep, like the sound of a garbage truck backing up: “Vehicle safety and pedestrian safety are at the top of our list,” spokesman Bill Kwong said. “At this point, we’re trying to balance the needs of sight-impaired people with other sociological concerns such as noise pollution.” One problem has been in isolating exactly what sounds most people associate with an approaching vehicle, such as the engine revving, the fan belt, tire noise or other sounds. Artificial warning cues “like chirping or chimes are not identified by test subjects as a vehicle at all,” the automaker said. Interim solutions include training guide dogs for the blind to detect cars by sight as well as sound. Training schools such as Guide Dogs for the Blind in San Rafael and Guide Dogs of the Desert near Palm Springs have added Priuses to their training regimens partly in response to concerns about hybrid cars. Anyone have a good solution?
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When the Culver Plaza building was recently torn down to make way for , Ed Massey’s 7,000 square foot ‘Syncopation’ mural, which had been in place since 2004, also had to be removed. , the mural was set to move to its new home at the Westside Neighborhood School in Del Rey. The piece has been in storage until now, and will finally be unveiled in an official ceremony at the school on Sept. 6. The installation’s 20 feet of stretched canvas encompasses the school’s central administration building and the campus' education facilities. “[I’m] excited by the idea of Syncopation being in a new and educational environment where it can inspire young people and can be appreciated by campus visitors, the community and passersby alike,” Massey, of Pacific Palisades, said in an official release. “Often when a building is demolished, the artwork is lost forever. In this case, we were able to save it and reuse it in a valuable way.” Brad Zacuto, head of Westside Neighborhood School said in an official statement he appreciates the fact that Massey’s works are often collaborative and that he lets children take part in their creation. “Ed Massey’s project-based approach is very closely aligned with how we teach and learn at Westside Neighborhood School,” he said. “We value and appreciate the process as well as the beauty of this artwork. We are honored to have it displayed on our building façade.” Zacuto added that when the mural is revealed to staff and students on Sept. 6, “everyone present will witness the transformation of the exterior of WNS from a neutral-looking space to a building making a dynamic, bold and bright statement. It is as if the new mural is a reflection of all the creativity and enthusiasm of the students inside the building and among the many creative enterprises in our surrounding community.”
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This sanctuary, for the local fishing community of Rhode Island is designed to be a multi-faith center for the people who live this common lifestyle. The project focuses on three important relationships in the life of these people. The first beginning that relationship with the stars in the night sky. The constellation of the “Big Dipper” has been created with holes in the concrete ceiling. The second is the majestic qualities found when beams of sunlight cut though the clouds. This is achieved with a complex collection of windows at the focus of the main space. The final and most important is the notion that faith exist “Between Realms” for the people of this lifestyle. It exists between the danger at sea, and the safety of home. The understanding of this relationship is accomplished by allowing the ocean tides to enter the sanctuary in order to create a focus to the dialog between the land and water. Location: Black Point, RI
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The Onion is a satirical publication that manages to produce pieces that are often indistinguishable from "real" articles. The latest issue contains an article on recent advances in stem cell medicine for hair regrowth entitled "Potential Baldness Cure Leads Man To Reverse Position On Stem-Cell Research." It nicely skewers all sides of the debate over stem cell medicine while almost passing for something you'd read in the Times. Some quotes: "I've always said I don't believe in that Frankenstein-type research, but lately I've been thinking that there might be something to it," said Tell, a 43-year-old father of two and victim of male-pattern baldness. "If there are people out there who could truly benefit from that stem-cell stuff, who are we to deny them?" The shift in thinking occurred just three days after Tell received a haircut that revealed a large, bare patch at the crown of his head. The bare patch accompanies the recently converted stem-cell-research advocate's receding hairline, of which he has long been aware. "It's touching to see Chuck give so much thought to this very complicated issue," Farmer said. "Given his emotional honesty, I wish I could bring myself to tell him that the stem cells used in this study differ from the embryonic stem cells that sparked the political debate he originally engaged in." It takes a little humor to show us the often ridiculous nature of the world we live in. It is saddening but true that the potential for curing baldness will likely do as much or more to advance the cause of regenerative medicine in the public eye as the potential to cure cancer, diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases. Human nature is an interesting thing, especially when it comes to self interest and our convictions.
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EPEAT is the preeminent environmental ratings system for desktops, laptops and monitors. The EPEAT system rates products as Bronze, Silver or Gold based on a multi-attribute standard (IEEE Standard 1680 for the Environmental Assessment of Personal Computer Products) encompassing 51 environmental performance criteria. MicroTech is a leading IT reseller — offering access across the U.S. Federal Government to over 300,000 commercial technology products and 2500 vendors via eight prominent ID/IQs and GWACs. “Our customers are looking for more environmentally friendly product choices,” said Tony Jimenez , President and CEO of MicroTech. “The EPEAT system’s breadth of products and manufacturers, stringent criteria and stakeholder involvement means that we can confidently promote EPEAT-registered products to our customers, knowing they will find the product solutions they need and also reap significant environmental benefits.” EPEAT Reseller Partners like MicroTech provide EPEAT product rating information in their electronic catalogs, train their sales staff to knowledgably support customers’ EPEAT purchasing, and provide customers with EPEAT purchase reporting on request. All of these services meet the requirements of EPEAT’s model purchasing criteria. “We congratulate MicroTech on responding to their customers’ desire to improve the environmental and energy performance of their computing operations by becoming an EPEAT Partner,” said Jeff Omelchuck of EPEAT. “By providing EPEAT ratings data to their end users, MicroTech will help them choose products with less toxic content, lower energy consumption and operating costs, and offer easier end of life management options. And as an EPEAT Partner, they communicate their commitment to supporting green initiatives to their customers, their suppliers and their employees.” All EPEAT registered products must meet 23 mandatory environmental criteria. An additional 28 optional criteria are used to determine whether products earn EPEAT Bronze, Silver, or Gold recognition. Compared to traditional computer equipment, all EPEAT-registered computers have reduced levels of cadmium, lead, and mercury to better protect human health and the environment. They are more energy efficient, which reduces costs and emissions of climate changing greenhouse gases. In addition, manufacturers must offer environmentally responsible recycling options for all EPEAT-registered products. “We are very excited to have the support we need from EPEAT to deliver ‘green’ value to our customers as we work with them to meet their product needs,” Jimenez said. “We also look forward to expanding the program as EPEAT adds new product standards in the future.” # # # MicroTech is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned and 8(a) Small Business (SDVOSB) delivering robust process-driven performance for mission success. MicroTech is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Symantec Managed Services Partner, Tandberg Platinum Partner, Autonomy Added Value Reseller, VMware Professional Partner, EMC Velocity Partner, Adobe Solutions Partner, and Polycom Premier Partner. MicroTech has been named to the prestigious Inc. 500, ranking the 500 fastest growing private companies, Washington Business Journal's Top 50 Fastest Growing Companies, Hispanic Business’ HB500 – as a Top 500 Hispanic-Owned Business, and Washington Technology's Top 25 8(a), recognizing the most successful 8(a) businesses in the government marketplace. MicroTech is headquartered just outside the Nation’s Capital in Vienna, Virginia, with key offices in Richmond, Greensboro, North Carolina, Huntsville, Alabama; and Colorado Springs, Colorado. For more details, visit www.MicroTech.net.
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That’s right. In 6 weeks’ time, we went through a theology and history of the Bible as well as went through each of its 66 books. We went over their content, background, and application to life, spirituality, and the Gospel. We concluded with a discussion on how to use the Bible itself in our own personal spiritual lives. Below you will find audio of the sessions, as well as my notes for each week and link to the post in which you’ll find a little more information on each individual lecture, and an embedded audio player and document viewer. I’m in the long process of editing this and adding to it, with the hopes of self-publishing this content as a book in the Winter of 2012. Please feel free to comment on any lecture post with critiques, questions, disagreements, or requests for clarification. If you find yourself in the Philadelphia area, join us at liberti church center city, Sundays at 9:30am at 17th and Sansom St. in Center City Philadelphia. CLASS LECTURES & NOTES
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Youth restrictions to indoor tanning facilities are steadily growing,… (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles…) Indoor tanning raises the risk of skin cancer. Governments are acting, with restrictions on use of the facilities spreading across the U.S. and countries around the world. That’s the finding of a report just published online in the Archives of Dermatology after its Colorado authors conducted an exhaustive search on the Web for all tanning-related legislation worldwide. Few countries go as far as Brazil, where indoor tanning has been banned for everyone since 2011. (The ban is for cosmetic purposes, not therapeutic ones such as psoriasis treatment, for which UV exposure can be helpful because it tamps down the immune system.) But since 2003, when the last comprehensive survey was done, the number of countries (and Canada provinces and U.S. states) with restrictions of some stripe for minors has climbed, Dr. Mary Pawlak and coauthors found. In 2003, just two countries had tanning-bed restrictions for those 18 or younger: France and Brazil. Canada’s province of New Brunswick had them too. Only three states in the U.S. had age prohibitions: Texas (no tanning for kids 13 or younger), Wisconsin (16 or younger) and Illinois (14 or younger). A few things happened in the interim years, not least a 2009 decision by the World Health Organization to designate sunlamps, tanning beds and UV light as class 1 carcinogens. These are agents known to cause cancer in people. By 2011, legislation had marched along. Brazil had enacted its total ban. Eleven countries, including Brazil, had banned tanning beds for the 18-and-under set. (The countries are France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Belgium, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Brazil.) Eleven states in the U.S. had tanning-bed bans for minors and 21 required parents to either provide consent or go with their kid to the tanning salon. The U.S. also now has a 10% tanning bed tax, implemented in 2010 as part of health reform. Parts of Australia have restrictions too, and while New Brunswick had abandoned its effort, Nova Scotia and the Capital Regional District of British Columbia have implemented bans for youth. What’s wrong with a little old tan? 20% of people in the U.S. will get some kind of skin cancer in their lifetime. Studies of various stripes have linked the UV exposure to three types of skin cancer: basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and, most dangerous, a near-doubling in risk for melanoma. If you’re interested to know where your state stands on the matter, you can find that out at this web page of the National Conference of State Legislatures. Here’s what the Indoor Tanning Assn., a trade group, thinks of these various developments (which is to say, not much). For more on skin cancer and tanning beds, here are links to pages from the Skin Cancer Foundation and a WebMD article about the World Health Organization’s 2009 declaration. And here's a Los Angeles Times article that discusses various sunless-tanning options if you must, must have that bronzed-skin look.
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Running Late to Work? It May Not Matter If you were a little late to the office this morning, you may not need to stress about it too much. A new study indicates a lot of bosses are so sure that employees are working and checking emails before they come in that clock-watching is swiftly becoming a thing of the past. In a study of 1,000 US and European workers, data-protection company Mozy found almost three-quarters of employers now give mobile devices like smartphones to their teams, which empower workers to get things done wherever they happen to be. As a result, 73 percent of bosses trust their people are working long before they get to the office, so coming in about a half-hour late doesn’t send anyone into a panic. What’s more, most of those managers let employees work at home about a quarter of the time. It’s probably just as well since a standard 9-5 routine is now often considered an antiquated novelty. The Mozy study also found that, thanks to remote access, most people start checking their business email at 7:42 a.m., arrive at the office at 8:18 a.m. and leave at 5:48 p.m. — but they don’t actually disconnect from work fully until 7:19 p.m.
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By Michael Katz This Friday night’s appearance of Mingus Dynasty in a UCLA Live concert at Royce Hall brings to mind the first and only time I saw Charles Mingus perform. It was at a small club called the Good Karma, in the basement of a health food store in Madison, Wisconsin, circa 1976. I’d guess that Mingus was presenting work from the Changes One and Changes Two albums that were released around then, though Sue Mingus suggests he might have been performing Cumbia and Jazz Fusion, which I recall most distinctly from the Mingus Big Band’s Que Viva Mingus. What I do remember was getting there early and seeing Mingus sitting alone in front of his bass, going over music that would be played that night, the rest of the band nowhere in sight. He was a large man in a small room – it couldn’t have seated more than a hundred folks, if that. I had seen other big jazz names there — Mose Allison, Eddie Harris, George Benson – but none of them would fill the place like Mingus and his band. I didn’t know, as Sue Mingus related recently, that he had just been given the key to the city. If that seems a little incongruous to someone performing in the basement of a health food store, consider that the mayor was (and currently is again) Paul Soglin. In 1975, Soglin would have been barely 30, having arisen from the anti-war movement that swept over Madison to become mayor in 1973. The Changes albums had songs titled “Remember Rockefeller at Attica” and “Free Cell Block F, Tis Nazi USA,” so it’s not surprising that Soglin – whatever his level of jazz sophistication — would have considered Mingus a kindred spirit. The fusion of jazz and politics was an essential part of the Mingus ouevre, but it shouldn’t obscure the fact that he was one of the great composers of our time. He could be growling, or soulful, or bluesy, often all at the same time. His more contemplative, elegiac work, most notably “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat,” the homage to Lester Young, as well as “Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love,” were stirring and memorable. His compositions featured complex weavings of the horns and piano in his basic quartet or quintet, but they were engaging and immensely listenable. Some of the more overtly political themes were clearly reflected in the music. “Haitian Fight Song,” suggests the undercurrents of struggle and darkness in that historically beset land. (Though it also showed up in a VW Jetta commercial a few years ago). “Medititations on a Pair of Wire Cutters,” is similarly brooding and conspiratorial as it builds to a crescendo. In other tunes, such as the above-mentioned titles from the Changes albums, it’s harder to see the connections, or maybe the issues have just lost currency over the years. “Rockefeller” and “Cell Block F” are bright, aggressive compositions that still sound great, if somewhat disconnected from their original source. And of course there is no shortage of gospel and blues. “Mingus Ah Um,” which was recorded in 1959, leads off with “Better Git It In Your Soul” and includes, in addition to “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat,” “Fables of Faubus” and “Pussy Cat Dues.” The recent reissue CD, which also includes the albums The Clown and Pithecanthropus Erectus is a must for anyone’s desert island list. All this leads up to Friday night’s Royce Hall concert by the Mingus Dynasty septet. By supporting groups such as Mingus Dynasty and the Mingus Big Band, Sue Mingus has kept alive the legacy of her husband, who was diagnosed with ALS in 1977 and died in 1979 at the age of 56. Here in LA we don’t get the weekly exposure to the music that the Mingus Big Band provides in New York, though they have toured here on occasion. The smaller Dynasty is closer in size to the classic Mingus groups, and features stellar personnel. Alex Foster on reeds and Boris Kozlov on bass are co-leaders, along with fellow Mingus Big Band stalwarts Seamus Blake on tenor, Ku-umba Frank Lacy on trombone and vocals, Donald Edwards on drums and David Kikoski on piano. Rounding things out is emerging trumpet star Avishai Cohen. The opportunity to see this group playing Charles Mingus’s compositions is sure to be a rare treat. To read more iRoM reviews and posts by Michael Katz click HERE. Click HERE to visit Michael Katz’s personal blog, Katz of the Day.
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Results 1 to 7 of 7 Comfort Zone: Monday Motivation Look, let's speak plainly: pushing yourself isn't just something you need to be doing on the mat, or in the gym. It applies to all aspects of your life. And if you're not routinely apprehensive about something you're about to do, that's a symptom that you're insulating yourself from challenges or hardships that are actually opportunities for personal growth. Whether it's as simple as meeting new people, learning a new skill, or putting yourself into a situation where you haven't fully grasped all the particulars; if you don't pressure test your very existence, you'll never know what your limitations are. This is a fundamental concept here at Bullshido, that we've been espousing for over 10 years now: you learn best when there's a significant risk of failure. And the "Comfort Zone" can also be taken literally? In many places at this time of year (at least in the northern hemisphere), it's hotter than a gang of monkeys fucking in a burlap sack. Are you avoiding going for a run outside? Do you park closer to the building so you don't have to walk as far in the heat? Thing is, if you're comfortable, you're not getting better. If you're avoiding adversity, you won't be prepared for it when it kicks down your door; because it will -- that's how Life works.
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Consumer Reports Reveals Government Among Biggest Sources of ID Leaks BackBy —<strong>Yonkers, N.Y. — Aug. 4</strong><br />Americans trust government officials to safeguard sensitive personal and financial data, but government is among the biggest sources of ID leaks, according to a Consumer Reports investigation.<br /><br />The report "ID Leaks, A Surprising Source is Your Government at Work," in the September issue points out that penalties are also rarely imposed on those who are negligent.<br /><br />CR analyzed records of publicly reported data breaches compiled by the nonprofit Privacy Rights Clearinghouse and found that more than 230 security lapses by federal, state and local government from 2005 through mid-June 2008 resulted in the loss or exposure of at least 44 million consumer records containing Social Security or driver's license numbers and other personal data.<br /><br />That represents almost one out of five ID breaches of all types reported during that period. But even those statistics probably don't accurately portray the problem. CR reports that a 2006 investigation by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee found that 788 breaches had occurred in the three and a half years between January 2003 and July 2006 at 17 federal departments and agencies. Few of these incidents were publicly disclosed.<br /><br />A 2007 report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration revealed 24 incidents in which IRS laptops containing sensitive data for 480 taxpayers were lost or stolen because IRS employees put them in checked baggage at an airport, left them in unlocked cars or lost them on trains or buses. Only one of the employees was disciplined.<br /><br />What's more, according to the House Oversight Committee's annual security report card, the government as a whole got a C for 2007, up from a D+ two years earlier. And several federal departments including the Departments of the Treasury, Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Interior, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission got failing grades.<br /><br />"Only a small portion of data breaches get publicized, and with government data breaches, even fewer get identified because the government — unlike business — doesn't have a financial incentive to do so," said Robert Tiernan, managing editor of Consumer Reports. "It's very important that the government view citizens as their customers and place more value on sensitive information."<br /><br />The full report is available in the September issue of Consumer Reports on sale Aug. 5.<br /><br />The problem is not limited to lost laptops. Social Security numbers are visible on 40 million Medicare cards, as well as military identification cards and public court records throughout the country. The number of data breaches that result in ID theft is unknown because most victims don't know how their personal information was obtained. And it might be a year or two before the stolen ID is used.<br /><br /><strong>One Man's Nightmare</strong><br />CR recounted how Joe Protain, a 36-year-old surgeon from Warren, Ohio, received a far greater penalty that the $150 fine he paid for speeding. He discovered last year that traffic-court records publicly posted on the Franklin County Municipal Court Web site, including his address and Social Security number, enabled a ring of identity thieves to rack up more than $11,000 worth of charges in his name. He is still trying to recover from the fallout.<br /><br />One of the suspects confessed the ring used the Franklin County Municipal Court Web site to enter random Social Security numbers, changing one digit at a time until hitting a match with a number belonging to one of the thousands of people whose court records had been posted online since 2001. <br /><br />The records revealed the victim's name, address, age and, in some cases, driver's license numbers. That allowed members of the theft ring to obtain a copy of the victim's credit report and take over existing accounts or open new ones, with bills and purchases sent to a new address.<br /><br />Data breaches, like Protain's, in which identity thieves deliberately seek personal information for fraudulent purchases, pose the highest risk of identity theft. But congressional investigators found that unauthorized use of data by government employees and stolen laptops and computer storage devices were the most common sources of federal data losses.<br /><br />Even the Federal Trade Commission, the agency that imposed fines on businesses for egregious data breaches, disclosed in June 2006 a computer-theft incident: Two of its laptops containing sensitive information for 110 people, including financial-account numbers and Social Security numbers, were stolen when two of the agency's attorneys left them in a locked car.<br /><br /><strong>How to Protect Yourself</strong><br />When a brokerage firm or retailer has a data leak, consumers can take their business elsewhere, as almost one-third of breach victims do. But as customers of the government, consumers don't have a choice about giving personal data to federal, state and local officials. Consider taking these measures to guard against identity theft:<br /><br /><ul><li><strong>Monitor bank and credit-card accounts regularly</strong> to spot any questionable charges and report them immediately.</li><li><strong>Order a copy of your credit report</strong> from a different credit-reporting agency every four months. Consumers are entitled to a free copy from each of the three federal agencies. Go to www.annualcreditreport.com.</li><li><strong>Consider putting a freeze on your credit files</strong> unless you are currently seeking a loan or a credit card. A credit freeze effectively prevents identity thieves from opening new accounts in your name. For a list of instructions by state and other information, visit www.FinancialPrivacyNow.org, a site from Consumers Union.</li><li><strong>If you are involved in a case, contact the court clerk </strong>to find out how you can redact personal information before it is put online.</li><li><strong>Don't carry your Social Security card</strong> in your wallet, and shred documents with personally identifying information, such as driver's license and financial account numbers, before discarding them. </li></ul> Viewed 5940 times.
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AMIA 10x10 Courses Training Health Care Professionals to Serve as Informatics Leaders “We must invest not only in technology, but also in the education, training, and healthcare professionals who have knowledge and skills beyond clinical training. Every hospital, clinic, and healthcare organization will need professionals versed in informatics to assist with implementation, use, and success of health IT systems.” — Don E. Detmer, MD, MA, Past AMIA President 10x10 Virtual Courses Current 10x10 Virtual Offerings - Learn Online! 10x10 with Nova Southeastern University - May 13th - space available! 10x10 with OHSU - July 31st AMIA 10x10 Goal AMIA believes that strengthening the breadth and depth of the biomedical and health informatics workforce is a critical component in the transformation of the American health care system. AMIA is committed to the education and training of a new generation of clinical, public health, research, and translational bioinformatics informaticians to lead the transformation of the American health care system through the deployment and use of advanced clinical computing systems of care by the end of the decade. AMIA's 10x10 program aims to realize the goal of training 10,000 health care professionals in applied health and medical informatics within 10 years. This training will be conducted in a wide range of settings across the United States by AMIA in collaboration with key academic partners in the biomedical and health informatics education community. The AMIA membership includes thought leaders who are the most qualified to pursue this effort through their many current and future informatics training programs. These programs have a tradition of turning out the leading thinkers, dating back more than thirty years, many of whom are now at the forefront of the health information and communication technology (HICT) revolution. AMIA 10x10 Virtual Program AMIA's 10x10 utilizes curricular content from existing informatics training programs and other AMIA educational initiatives with a special emphasis toward those programs with a proven track record in distance learning. The content provides a framework but also covers plenty of detail, especially in areas such as electronic and personal health records, health information exchange, standards and terminology, and health care quality and error prevention. Currently AMIA's 10x10 courses cover the following topics in the field of informatics: - Clinical or health informatics - Clinical research informatics - Translational bioinformatics - Nursing informatics - Public Health informatics AMIA’s 10x10 involves participants developing solutions to problems in real-world settings, ideally their own, guided by established informatics principles. Participants will be exposed to a set of concepts that upon completion will enable them to serve as champions in their local hospitals, outpatient offices and clinics, and other health care settings to use relevant informatics views in their health information technology projects. Intensive in-person sessions will be located around the country, typically aligned with AMIA meetings (Joint Summits, Annual Symposium, or a separate non-AMIA meeting), sometimes co-located at the institutions of higher education, or offered as satellite meetings to various professional informatics, medical, nursing or meetings of other health professional groups. These sessions will provide additional lectures, panel discussions, project work, and an opportunity for students to interact in-person with faculty who are leading educators in the field of biomedical and health informatics. AMIA now offers an internationally-focused variation of the successful 10x10 program called i10x10. Courses qualifying for the i10x10 program should be endorsed by a local or regional International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) member society. Global partners interested in offering courses and learning more about i10x10 should contact AMIA. No application fee is required for submission of a proposal. AMIA 10x10 Course Refund/Transfer Policy If a registrant pays for a 10x10 course, then decides to withdraw from the course or cancel before the course start date, a full refund will be issued. If withdrawal or cancellation is submitted to AMIA up to 30 days into the course, a refund of half of the course tuition will be issued. Any cancellation or withdrawal occuring more than 30 days after a 10x10 course has begun, will not be eligible for a refund, instead, the registrant may transfer to another 10x10 course offered by the same host institution occurring within the same calendar year. Registrants may not transfer to a different host institution's 10x10 course, transfers may only occur within the same partner schools 10x10 program. If no transfer or refund request is received by AMIA within 30 days after a 10x10 course has ended, AMIA will assume all terms and conditions have been fulfilled. After that timeframe, registrants are not eligible for transfers or refunds. For additional information about 10x10, please contact Susanne Vellucci at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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EE168 Course description pictures today are all around us, on the web, on DVDs, and on digital satellite systems, for example. In this course we will investigate the creation and manipulation of digital images by computer. The course will consist of theoretical material introducing the mathematics of images and imaging, as well as computer laboratory exercises designed to introduce methods of real-world data manipulation. The format will consist of lectures on Mondays and Wednesdays, with Fridays devoted to lab exercises. The lab exercises will introduce various image processing topics, which will be examined in more detail in the homework assignments. Topics will include representation of two-dimensional data, time and frequency domain representations, filtering and enhancement, the Fourier transform, convolution, interpolation, color images, and techniques for animation. Lecture notes will be handed out routinely, and special handouts will also be distributed from time to time. Reading assignments will be given from the recommended text or from other sources, most of which will be on reserve at Terman Engineering Library. Homework assignments will generally be given out on Fridays and collected on Fridays, with the results handed back during the following week. Cooperation on homework is encouraged, but you are expected to keep the work on an approximately equal basis. There will be one midterm exam plus a final term project. Grades will be based on homework, the midterm exam, and the project, with weightings of approximately 40% on the final project, 25% on the midterm, 30% on homework, and up to 5% extra credit problems. We will implement many of the concepts presented in the course in a series ofcomputer exercises designed to acquaint you with computer manipulation of actual image data. The Stanford Center for Image Engineering (SCIEN) Lab in 021 Packard is available to you, and both the TA and professor will be available in or near the Lab on Fridays to help with the exercises. Additional problems will be given as homework. The resources required for the homework problems will be within the capability of the class computer accounts in the Leland system, but you are free to implement them on any machine on which you are comfortable. Most of the exercises can be done using Matlab, although many examples will be given using C and Fortran language routines. Again, you are permitted to implement the exercises using any language or system you wish-- it is the result that counts. rough schedule of the course is as follows, with more details in the course syllabus web page. We first introduce the ideas concerning how we define images and imaging. The next several weeks will cover how we apply systems theory, such as transforms and impulse functions, to two-dimensional imaging systems. This will be accompanied by several computer implementation exercises designed to introduce you to the real world of data, where things are often not as tidy as they may be in more theoretical circumstances. Topics such as sampling and interpolation, important in all data manipulation, follow. We will also introduce principles of color and color manipulation for special image effects. After the midterm, we will begin to apply the theoretical constructs from the first half of the course to a series of examples. Some examples will be illustrations of various methods to display 2-D or 3-D information, such as perspective viewing and the generation of anaglyphs (those red-green images creating stereo effects if you wear the funny glasses.) We will culminate by addressing computer animations, where we will design and create a series of digital images that will comprise a digital movie. The digital movies that you create, along with a written report, will serve as the final project. The final project will be a team effortconsisting of the design and animation of a digital movie incorporating the techniques introduced in the class. You will be free to choose your own subject; several examples will be provided that you may use. Recommended, but not required: Computer Vision and Image Processing, by Scott Umbaugh, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 1998. Note: this book is out of print, and we will distribute useful excerpts from it as required. If you wish to pick up your own copy from a secondary source, it is a decent introduction to image processing. None. This is an introduction to the subject of digital image processing, and should be approachable by most undergraduates. 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The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. National Emergency Care Enterprise: Advancing Care through Collaboration - Workshop Summary Tom Scalea, chair of the research panel, spoke next. He observed that the two issues that repeatedly emerged in all four sessions were money and workforce challenges. Among the four panel topics, he said emergency care research is probably the area where the least progress has been made in the past 3 years. He summarized the three major points of the research panel discussion. First, the field needs a team of investigators who can be funded and sustained through their entire career (much of the research conducted now, he said, is done on the backs of faculty practice plans). Second, research questions that cross traditional academic boundaries need to be defined, and people need to cooperate in order to be able to execute research plans. The corollary to this, he said, is identifying a way to fund that research. Little clinical research on trauma care is funded, he noted, other than perhaps by the Department of Defense. Finally, people need to grapple with regulatory issues that hinder emergency care research. Jon Krohmer, chair of the workforce panel, spoke third. He said the top take-home message from his panel was how pessimistic the discussion had been. The overall theme was that there are critical issues at the physician level, not just among the emergency physicians and trauma surgeons, but also the on-call specialists, critical care specialists, and other disciplines that are needed to support the emergency care system. The emergency nursing workforce also has significant challenges, particularly in recruiting and retaining sufficient numbers of nurses to care for patients appropriately. In addition, there are ongoing concerns with EMS personnel, particularly in terms of how they should fit into the broader emergency care system. Overall, he said, the system today is very stressed. Krohmer noted that his panel had discussed alternative models of care that involve mid-level providers, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners. However, he said that right now health profession students are not offered enough education in emergency health care. This problem needs to be addressed. Certification or some other type of recognition should be established, he said. Guy Clifton, chair of the fourth and final panel discussion oneconomics, said the combination of underpayment of public programs and growing numbers of the uninsured has produced a chronically underfunded system. He recalled trauma surgeon William Schwab’s statement that in Pennsylvania, the percentage of patients on which trauma hospitals lose money varies between 20 percent and 65 percent. Some hospitals are “operating on air.” Clifton said his panel’s discussion highlighted longstanding distortions in the Medicare Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) system. This discussion raised interesting questions regarding where the money would come from to rebalance the system. In a zero-sum situation, would transfer payments have to come from other specialties such as neurosurgery and
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I read this very interesting article at Om Malik on Broadband, where Dr. Alex Szalay of Johns Hopkins argues that Big Data – the enormously increased availability and analyzability of data as the world increasingly becomes digitized – will mean as much to science as the microscope once did. It made me think of Douglas Adams’ wonderful lecture on “Parrots, the Universe and Everything.” One of his central points there is that science is changing – from a focus on taking things apart to understand to one where we put them together so that we can watch them interact. On a smaller scale, I think this is extremely important for businesses, especially those that can be characterized as value networks, i.e. companies whose main value provisioning consists of connecting people and helping them exchange information, goods or money (well, OK then, money is information, I agree, but still.) At present, these companies segment their customers mainly by demographics (age, gender, location, education, etc.) or, for business customers, by size, industry and location. Massive data analysis will allow them to stop segmentation (which is only a representation reducing your market transaction cost, but also providing a less tailored product for the customer) and instead offer services and connections based on which other users each member is connected to and what they exchange. Imagine instead if your telephone company, bank or insurance company could analyze you in terms of your interactions with others. That would allow the telephone company to group and tailor their services for the customers that create the most traffic, have the biggest impact, prevent the most accidents or in other ways cause desirable changes in behaviors of those around them. This is now done in a very primitive way and after the fact – imagine if you could do it in real time.
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High-speed rail, investment-led model for growth, big projects, quality & corruption and affordable housing. Why do I suddenly see a parallel between Malaysia & China? Read on for an intriguing analysis of China’s growth strategy. It seems that China’s high-speed rail accident has attracted a lot of attention. Even FT Lex has something to say about it, believing that the pace of investment should be slowed. While I have been arguing here for a while that investment has to be slowed, it is rather harder to see if the “accident” can really be marked as the turning point of the Chinese investment-led growth model as some might believe. Before considering whetherx it is a turning point, let’s look beyond high-speed rail. Indeed, we actually have more bad news concerning Chinese infrastructure besides the crashing high-speed rail. We are seeing bridges collapsing here and there. This article summarises just a few of the collapsing bridges we have: 11 July in Yancheng, Jiangsu 14 July in Wuyishan, Fujian 15 July in Hangzhou 19 July in Beijing We have 4 bridges collapsed in 9 days, with another one with some sort of structural failure. Truth be told, we probably all know that things in China aren’t as reliable as we wish. Is the wave of “accidents” really unexpected? Maybe, maybe not. Now the theme we have here in the past months or so is that China has been relying too much on fixed-asset investment to get the economy going (translation: make the GDP numbers up). That’s why we saw the massive investment programme, particularly in the high-speed rail, in which the government has stepped up the pace of investment in the past 3 years or so, and now they have a really large network of high-speed trains. But is it worth it? My analysis shows that it probably isn’t (at least for the Hong Kong segment of the high-speed rail). FT Lex points out that there seems to have been an under-investment in the past on railways in China, and they are now furiously catching up with high-speed rail. But there is probably no need to be that furious. A few months ago, professor Kam-Wing Chan offers some stories during Chunyun (i.e. the annual chaotic transportation of migrant workers around the Chinese New Year), explaining why it was not at all a good idea to invest so much in high-speed rail: Chunyun 2011 is a telling example. Though the new high-speed trains had added notable rail capacity, ironically the migrant masses found it harder to get train tickets home. Many conventional trains were taken off the rails to make room for the fast ones, but their tickets were too expensive to most migrant travellers. This created a holiday crunch even worse than usual for seats on the regular trains. As a result, hordes of low-income travellers were pushed back onto cramped buses or forced to try something extraordinary to get home. Press reports of several chunyun transportation dramas have caught public attention in the last month. They tell the struggle of the have-nots being left behind in the new bullet-train age. After queuing for a train ticket home, and being third in the line for 14 hours without success, a migrant in Zhejiang unveiled his underpants in public to protest. In the south, a migrant couple did not even attempt to get a train ticket. Instead, loaded with luggage and their 6-year-old son, they rode a motorbike for eleven hours, braving numbing wintry weather for 320 km. Many more did the same despite the icy weather, and soon there were swarms of motorbikes on many highways, with police escorts helping in some instances. In an even more extreme case, after failing to get a regular train or bus ticket, eleven young migrants decided to implement “Plan C,” and jogged 130 km home together across frigid northern China. At the same time, some high-speed trains were leaving stations only half full, even in the peak holiday season. Under-utilisation aside, which is well expected (at least I think it is expected), there is the problem of corruption, which is also well expected. As this Reuters report points out, these large scale projects seem to be offering opportunity for corrupted officials to earn some quick bucks. Liu Zhijun, the former Minister for Rails, is the prime example of this, who has been sacked for precisely this reason. So is the high-speed rail “accident” a turning point for the investment-led growth model as some might believe (or wish)? It is actually hard to tell, in my view. The problems associated with the investment-led growth model is actually pretty obvious. Quality and corruption aside, the investment-led model is also associated to unsustainable debts, as a few other economists and I have argued for many times. There is no question that it has to stop, but whether the government will really stop is indeed questionable. The reason is that economic growth remains to be a very important target for the Chinese government. With weakened external demand post-financial crisis and the small share of consumption in the GDP, investment is the only thing the Chinese can count on when it comes to generating growth. After all, a government can’t force its people to buy more clothes or eat more, but they can certainly build some more stuff. That’s why the government thought it was a good idea to invest so much after the financial crisis. If the economy slows significantly (which is actually likely), there is no reason why the government won’t invest if economic growth remains the overriding target of the government. Indeed, it is probably happening already. Even the investment in high-speed rail may be slowed in near-term, the Chinese government is now furiously constructing affordable housing, which will most certainly help to cushion the potential growth shock if the government happens to be tightening too much. So despite the obvious unsustainability of the investment-led model, it is still too early to say that the government is indeed rebalancing towards consumption driven model. - Also sprach Analyst
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I Can't Seem to Get Rid of the Horses Recent Royal College of Art London (RCA) graduate Birgit Marie Schmidt combines playful notions of youth with intricate goldsmithing in her latest jewellery collection that bears a rather unusual name. Design.nl spoke to the designer and asked her what is the idea behind I Can't Seem to Get Rid of the Horses? "I combined a rather playful, or even naive, infantile obsession and imagination with the intricacy of goldsmithing to create well made, wearable pieces of jewellery that will last a lifetime and longer. The pieces are physical manifestations of surreal equestrian creatures." "Repetition and form manipulation were used as a tool to communicate the constant reoccurrence of my own infantile world of make-believe." Where does your obsession with horses come from? "When I was young I was fascinated by horses, I have early childhood memories of sitting under my grandmother's kitchen table where I would imagine adventures and draw pictures on the underside of the table. I had completely forgotten about this, but when I rediscovered these marks of my childhood imagination, it formed the starting point of my final collection." Tell us about the rather extraordinary name for your collection. "At the beginning of this project I had no intention of using animal symbols or shapes, actually I rather disliked the idea. But the horses kept coming back, hence the name. The manifestation of the horses could be a result of urban withdrawal from nature, as well as the comforting aspects of a childhood memory." With many fine institutions in the Netherlands, why choose to study at the RCA? "It was important for me to be exposed to people that have already gone through BA or similar kind of education, and the RCA is wholly postgraduate. Although I applied for the Design Academy Eindhoven, the RCA offers a unique course that focuses specifically on jewelry and applied art." "All final projects in our department are personal projects in which students are encouraged to test various disciplines such as sculpture, installations or material investigations." The result of which is apparent in Schmidt's collection which comprises a necklace, rings and earrings, all with a very sculptural look and feel. What message would you like to convey with your work? "That imagination and storytelling are a valuable part of humanity. I think different people will feel different things when seeing my work, depending on what they have experienced in their lives." The pieces are like tiny sculptures made of gold, did you experience any challenges during the design process? "The development of the metalworking was a challenge due to the intricacy of the pieces, but I learned a lot from that." "I carved and combines wax figures to later cast them in brass and silver, the shaping and carving took quite some time, as did the cleaning. After polishing the pieces were gold plated. Handmade jewellery involves a lot of steps, something the general public may not realize when they look at the finished product." Click on the images to enlarge Photography: Nick Clements Points of sale ( 7 Votes, average: 5 out of 5) click to vote - Amsterdam Fashion Week 2013 - Dutch Design Week 2012 - Milan 2012 - Amsterdam Fashion Week 2012 - Dutch Design Week 2011 - Amsterdam International Fashion Week 2010 - Amsterdam International Fashion Week 2011 - Dutch Design Week 2010 - Dutch Design Double 2010 - Milan 2010 - Design.nl 100th Issue Favourites - Dutch Design Week 2009 - Dutch Design Double 2009 - Milan 2009 - Amsterdam International Fashion Week 2009 - Going Out - Restaurants, bars, cafes, clubs and hotels - Graphic Design Festival 2008 - Dutch Design Week 2008 - Retail Therapy - Where to buy Dutch design - FreeDesigndom 2008 - Milan 2008 - Amsterdam International Fashion Week 2008 - Design.nl Tokyo favourites
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Gino the gorilla knows the drill. He reaches way up with his left hand and puts his right hand out to the side. When his keeper asks, he pushes his right leg out and presses his left thigh and chest against the crisscrossed bars of his enclosure. He knows that striking this unusual pose — it looks like an upright round of Twister — earns him a treat. He doesn't know that the ultrasound machine rolled up to the bars will collect information that could help gorillas beyond his Disney's Animal Kingdom home. The animal-programs team at Walt Disney World began this work late last year and is pioneering the process, which is notable because it uses no sedatives. This allows veterinarians to monitor vital signs of fully awake animals. "We've seen over the past 20, 30 years that as these big silverbacks get older, they have heart problems," said Dr. Mark Stetter, director of animal health for Disney's Animal Programs. Gorillas commonly are sedated to get snapshots of their hearts. That disturbs the animals, and it only allows at-rest readings. The result is an incomplete picture of the effects — good or bad — of heart medication. Now at Animal Kingdom, a sonogramist rolls an ultrasound machine near each gorilla's enclosure — not too close, of course — and a keeper places a probe against the posing gorilla's chest. "It's a neat combination of fields that may not always overlap," said Kristen Lukas, curator of conservation and science at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. "This whole notion of fusing training and using that relationship between the keeper and the animal to develop some of these behaviors helps us take better care of the animals." Each of Disney's eight grown gorillas, which folks may spy along the theme park's Pangani Forest Exploration Trail, have an individualized ultrasound regimen that factors in elements from their temperament to the thickness of their chest. "You'll see animals in different stances just because they need to orient their chest cavity in order to get the right angle on the probe," said Matt Hohne, animal-operations director at Disney's Animal Kingdom. A few gorillas learned quickly that the exams had tasty payoffs. "It's really a give-and-take relationship based on trust with their keepers," Hohne said. The animals' personalities shine through in the process. Kashata dislikes the cool gel used for sonograms, so keepers warm the gel before applying it to her chest. But when it is boisterous Gino's turn, he takes a swipe of the gel with his fingers and tastes it. He sometimes prefers the unflavored goo to the treat offered from his keeper. During a recent session, Gino was so enamored with the gel-smeared sensor that he attempted to pull it through to his side of the bars. Keepers reward the gorillas after they assume the proper positions. The animals also respond to specific movements, sounds and commands — as simple as the handlers saying "closer" or tapping a stick. Once the probe is in place, the sonogram machine records video and still images of the heart. A cardiologist later uses the data to check the organ's walls, effectiveness of ventricles and blood flow. Results are shared through an Association of Zoos and Aquariums cooperative group — cardiologists, pathologists, curators and veterinarians — that looks at cardiac diseases. Other institutions are trying the no-sedation method but not to the extent that Animal Kingdom has, Hohne said. '"Our ultimate goal is making sure that every institution with gorillas benefits as well," Hohne said. "It does nothing but benefit the species." Disney is preparing a video tutorial of its process, including the challenges. "It's so meaningful that we have a place like Disney that's taking the lead on things, not only doing it themselves but then working to get the information to the other institutions," said Lukas, who also serves as the chairwoman of AZA's Gorilla Species Survival Plan. "It's the future of where zoos are going." One finding: The sources of humans' heart problems are not the causes of gorillas' heart problems. "We're certainly seeing that it's age-related; it seems to be mostly in males," Stetter said. "But it doesn't appear to be cholesterol. It doesn't appear to be diet. And it doesn't appear to be the hardening of the arteries." Now that the Animal Kingdom gorillas are cooperating with the ultrasound procedure, the Disney team is working on another task: low-key blood-pressure checks. Naturally, there have been challenges, such as convincing the gorillas that they're not being given a new plaything. "How do you get a blood-pressure reading from a gorilla voluntarily without him sort of 'borrowing' that cuff?" Hohne wonders. (c) 2010, The Orlando Sentinel (Fla.). Visit the Sentinel on the World Wide Web at http:www.orlandosentinel.com/. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. PHOTO (from MCT Photo Service, 202-383-6099): gorilla-heart
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New ADA Rules Leave Some Scrambling As a new round of accessibility requirements take effect this week, some businesses are struggling to comply. The new regulations are part of a 2010 update to the Americans with Disabilities Act. Businesses were given until this year to adhere to many of the added requirements. Starting Thursday, rules will be in place for the first time ever mandating that public swimming pools, parks, golf courses, exercise clubs and other recreational facilities be accessible. Hotel reservation systems also must meet new standards. However, some businesses appear to be having difficulty meeting the requirements in time. USA Today reports that a number of hotels are considering closing their swimming pools and whirlpools because they don’t yet include lifts. In response a hospitality industry trade group — the American Hotel & Lodging Association — has asked the Justice Department to delay implementation of the new rules arguing that they are vague, but federal officials have not budged thus far. In addition to the new regulations regarding recreational facilities, the ADA update also included changes to building requirements, new standards for wheelchairs and clarified what qualifies as a service animal. Many of these rules took effect last year. The updates mark the first major overhaul of the ADA since it was enacted more than two decades ago.
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Sign our 2009 Petition for Hand-held Picture Menus - focus for 'Speak About Aphasia Month' 'Speak About Aphasia Month', Speakability's annual Aphasia awareness campaign, runs throughout the month of June. Throughout this campaign, Speakability and its network of support groups hold fundraising events to create better understanding of Aphasia in the community. Aphasia does not affect intelligence – so it is incredibly frustrating both for the person with Aphasia and for their relatives and carers. Imagine yourself knowing what you want to say but not being able to find the words to say it. This year, we are taking a lead from members of our Dundee Tayside 'Speakeasy' Self-Help Group, who have been trying to persuade their local coffee shops to provide hand-held picture menus for customers. We are supporting this campaign at a national level to encourage both large café chains and independent coffee shops to provide illustrated menus, so that people with communication problems can be confident about placing their order without relying on another person to do it for them. This simple solution will benefit both the potential customer and the shop owner! It seems a small request, but the absence of a hand-held picture menu in a café can make it impossible for a person with Aphasia to treat a friend to a coffee, and therefore undermines their self-esteem once again. We hope you will support our 2009 campaign by signing our petition for the provision of illustrated/photo hand-held menus in cafés. Please follow the link below to our online petition to make your voice count.
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Country of Origin: China 3-D Test: 2.5 x 1.3 x 2.5cm (1 x 1/2 x 1 in.) This lapel pin represents space shuttle mission STS-63 flown in February 1995 to rendezvous with the Russian space station Mir. It depicts both spacecraft, the United States and Russian flags, and the names of the shuttle crew. The pin is a souvenir for the flight of Magellan T. Bear on the STS-63 mission. Magellan T. Bear became the first official teddy bear in space, flying as the "education specialist" aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-63 mission in February 1995. The bear's journey was part of an ambitious educational project to stimulate interest in geography, science, and social studies. Students and faculty of Elk Creek Elementary School in Pine, Colorado, worked with NASA and Spacehab to have the teddy bear certified for spaceflight. The school also arranged for the bear to fly around the world, visit the South Pole, fly on United Airlines' first Boeing 777 flight, and attend U.S. Space Camp. Presented to the National Air and Space Museum in May 1998 by librarian Penny Wiedeke and principal Jerry Williams, Magellan T. Bear is on display in the "How Things Fly" gallery. Gift of Penny Wiedeke and Jerry Williams
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Adobe Illustrator is one of the more popular programs for creating vector images for a variety of uses from print to animation. In addition to taking an Adobe Illustrator course, you can also learn from tutorial websites. Many sites have archives of tips and techniques, but some sites have better variety and organization. Others provide a smaller list of extremely good tutorials. Until 2009, Smashing Magazine offered yearly lists of fantastic tutorials on their blog. The 2009 list includes some good beginner tutorials as well as detailed instructions for more advanced users. The Smashing Magazine blog is also worth browsing for their other tutorial lists. Layers Magazine compiled a long list of tutorials for both the beginning and advanced Adobe Illustrator artist. The tutorials are not organized for easy searching, but there is a wealth of information available for most art types. The Layers Magazine list has a number of tutorials for Illustrator's 3D tools. Adobe Illustrator Tutorials is an archive of around one hundred free Illustrator tutorials. Tutorials are arranged by category to help users find the information they need to learn more about basic tools, art techniques, web graphics, text and special effects. Vector Tuts Plus has a large quantity of vector art tutorials using Adobe Illustrator. Tutorials are neatly arranged in categories from a convenient drop-down menu. Vector Tuts Plus has text based tutorials as well as videos in all experience levels. Beginners can find all the tutorials they need in the "Basix" menu. The Adobe Exchange site is entirely community supported. Users upload tools and tutorials to share with the Exchange Community. The attentive user base makes the Exchange Community one of the best resources for all Adobe software, including Illustrator. The tutorial category is easy to access under the lists of tools for download, but there are no sub-categories within the tutorial section. This means that the tutorial rich Exchange Community can be somewhat difficult to browse. Larger Illustrator tutorial sites often sacrifice ease of use for greater variety of tutorials, while smaller lists may focus on only the best of tutorials. Good sites may have a lot of tutorials to choose from, but the best sites provide some degree of categorization or search functions.
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Staff column: Narrowing the broad brush we use It seems to be human nature to make others into stereotypical simpletons. If you don't believe that just read the comments in newspapers regarding stories that appear on their web sites. In Utah the initial comments on almost any story eventually turn into conservative vs. liberal or Mormon vs. non-Mormon. This seems to happen even when the story being commented upon is about something as simple as which is the best dog food for Labradors or what you should buy your grandkids for Christmas. It seems everyone wants to turn everything into an argument. While at this point we don't include comments about articles or editorials on our web site (we are working on doing that in the near future) we often hear from the public about articles or opinion pieces in our paper. Even if the subjects in the pieces are controversial, usually people are polite, even if they disagree with what is written. Over the years, though, things I have written have gathered some very interesting comments. Some of what I have been told I can't print. But what interests me the most about what people comment on, is what my political persuasion is. By some I have been called a "left wing liberal" one day and the next day a "right wing wacko" by someone else. Others have told me that my best friend must be Ted Kennedy, but another time someone said I ought to tell people that I belong to the Chris Buttar's club of stupid comments. Yes, I have been called many things. But of what political stance am I really? To be honest, I hadn't ever thought about it too much until one day when I was writing a piece on government efficiency. I found myself disgusted on how poorly some agencies were managed and started to rant and rave to myself. When I listened to what that inner voice was saying, I found I sounded like Pat Robertson on the 700 Club. So, I said to myself, I must be a conservative. But then I started thinking about all the things that I believe in and my views on those things that fall left of center. So does that make me a liberal? It was an epithany so I decided to make a list. Lists have always solved problems for me, so it seemed an appropriate thing to do. On a piece of paper I made a list of all the controversial subjects I could think of from the bridge to nowhere to whether government money should be used to study the sex habits of algae. Next to the list of subjects at the top of the page I put a C, L and M for conservative, liberal, moderate. Then I began to make check marks in the appropriate columns. Funny how you can even surprise yourself when you actually sit down and start to write down your beliefs. You find yourself agreeing with people you can't stand and disagreeing with others that you adore. When I was finished, I found my views on the world to be very mixed up and actually somewhat disconcerting. On some things I didn't even make sense to myself, so it is no wonder that I make little sense to others at times. Looking at what I came up with, I guess I am a social liberal while being financially conservative. But neither purely so. So politically speaking I am more complicated even than I thought. My point to all this is that when we paint someone with a broad brush, but only know a part of their political face, we make a big mistake. One hot political issue does not a person make. So I know from now on, when I find myself judging someone with just a little information about them, I will be sure to use a narrower brush than I have in the past.
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The Capo Caccia Workshops toward Cognitive Neuromorphic Engineering Organised by the Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI), ETH / UZH, Zurich, in collaboration with the Institute of Neuromorphic Engineering (INE), the series of "Capo Caccia Workshops toward Cognitive Neuromorphic Engineering" represents a new initiative started in 2007 to promote research and education in Neuromorphic Engineering. The workshop takes place Sardinia, Italy at the Hotel Capocaccia, close to the town of Alghero, and is complementary to the extremely successful Telluride Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop, organized yearly in the US. Both series of workshops are organized in unison, in a way to optimize continuity and impact. They both combine lectures on state-of-the-art results achieved in the domain of neuromorphic engineering, with tutorials and courses on interdisciplinary topics ranging from basic visual neuroscience to VLSI layout design techniques. The lectures and discussions are complemented by hands-on activities in which both young student and senior academic staff work together on practical projects such as BMI interfaces, robot locomotion, learning and classification with mixed SW and VLSI networks of spiking neurons, etc. For more information on this year's workshop, visit the main workshop site.
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Puffles are pets that you can get in Club Penguin. You can keep them in your igloo and feed and play with them. You can even take puffles on a walk with you around Club Penguin. Here’s what the puffle catalog says: Puffles are small, round, furry creatures native to the wilds of Club Penguin. they make excellent pets due to their friendliness, playfulness and loyalty. Everyone in Club Penguin can adopt up to two puffles, and members have the privilege of adopting up to fourteen. Eight kinds of puffles have been discovered, each with a different personality. Here are the eight different kinds of puffles that you can adopt: - Blue Puffle - Red Puffle - Pink Puffle - Black Puffle - Green Puffle - Purple Puffle - Yellow Puffle - White Puffle The Kinds of Puffles The blue puffle is mild-tempered, content and loyal. His favorite toy is a ball and he is very easy to take care off. The blue puffle can be adopted for 800 coins and is available for anyone on Club Penguin, even non-members. The Red puffle is adventurous and enthusiastic. Her favorite toys are bowling pins, and a cannon. She is originally from Rockhopper island. The red puffle can be adopted for 800 coins and is available for anyone on Club Penguin, even non-members. The pink puffle is active and cheery. Her favorite toys are jump rope and the trampoline. She loves to exercise and can be a huge help if you bring her with you to play the Aqua Grabber game. Pink puffles can be adopted for 800 coins and are only available to members on Club Penguin. The black puffle is the strong, silent type. His favorite toy is a skateboard and he is sometimes very energetic. The black puffle appears in many of the special missions on Club Penguin. He can be adopted for 800 coins and is only available to members on Club Penguin. The green puffle is energetic and playful. His favorite toys are the unicycle and propellor cap. He really likes to clown around. There is a green puffle sitting on the big speaker inside the Night Club. He can be adopted for 800 coins and is only available to members on Club Penguin. The purple puffle is usually happy. Her favorite toys are the bubble wand and disco ball. She loves to dance and is a finicky eater. The purple puffle can be adopted for 800 coins and is available to members on Club Penguin. The yellow puffle is artistic and spontaneous. His favorite toys are the paintbrush and easel. He is very creative and is a dreamer. The yellow puffle appeared at the end of 2007 in Club Penguin when the Stage was first introduced. The yellow puffle can be adopted for 800 coins and is available to Club Penguin members. White Puffles are new to Club Penguin. They started appearing in February, 2009 and became available for adoption in March. They are a little smaller than other puffles and very playful. They have a special power where they can turn everything to ice and use that power when they play in your igloo to create a small ice skating rink on the ground. Rumors about Puffles There are legends and stories about Golden Puffles. There is a book in the coffee shop that talks about them and a fake golden puffle is used as a decoy by G in Mission 10 – Waddle Squad to try and trap Herbert P. Bear. There have been many rumors and posting about Rainbow Puffles on forums and in blogs but there are no confirmed sightings and it is unlikely that there would ever really be a Rainbow Puffle on Club Penguin. More about Puffles No related posts.
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Knee – Runner’s Knee Dr. Ross Hauser, is the Medical Director of Caring Medical & Rehabilitation Services who specializes in Prolotherapy treatment for runner’s knee and other sports injuries. In this video he discusses why Prolotherapy is the preferred treatment for runner’s knee over knee surgery, such as arthroscopic surgery. Prolotherapy stimulates the body to repair, whereas surgery typically involves the removal of tissue which leads to arthritis. Dr. Hauser treats patients from around the world who come to his Chicago Sports Medicine clinic for Prolotherapy.
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Until now, the latest and greatest way to sustainable energy was high-altitude wind turbines. But multiple companies have made serious investments toward delivering solar energy from space within the next decade. Major U.S. companies are aggressively researching the technology to beam the energy from one big satellite and then transmit the power back to Earth. This would be a major breakthrough in not only the science field, but the sustainability field because unlike other sources of renewable energy, space solar power is not limited by geography. With the satellites orbiting nonstop, the power grid can be continuously fed. Click here for more info.
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Woodly Old Man The old man sits at his boiling pot, Eating boiled wood--even scalding hot. He nods his head and hums a song With his sage’s air, he could do no wrong. He mutters words that no one’s understood: “The sky dangles cobwebs, hence holes in wood.” His pate turns hot, his sweat falls and splatters; He yells in rage, “Who can plumb such matters? Those blasted donkeys, completely blind, Know nothing at all, keep changing their minds. They don't know the basics: which wood has the best juice, And why, on the moon's eleventh night, wood holes grow loose." He scribbles his calculations on the ground: Cracked wood, hollow wood--he writes numbers all around-- Which holes are tasty and which unwell, What sort of fissure has what kind of smell. One log against the other he’ll hit And say, “Every kind of wood I can outwit! I’ve handled wood and lumber and tree, I know how to deal with their depravity. Which wood turns tame, which wood has whims, Which wood is wistful, and which full of vim. Which wood can’t tell what’s good and what’s best-- And I know why some wood has more holes than the rest.” © 2003 by Prasenjit Gupta Translation Published March15, 2003 The original poem appeared under the title Abol Tabol in the children's magazine Sandesh in Phalgun, 1322 BE, and later under the title kaaTh buRo in the the collection of poems now titled Abol Tabol, first published in 1923. Prasenjit Gupta [Proshenjit Gupto Prasenjit Gupta is a translator and writer living in Iowa City. Click here to send your feedback learn more about the ITRANS script for Bengali,
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Largely because of weather, Illinois' turkey harvest continues to lag behind last year's near-record pace. Here's the latest from wild turkey project manager Paul Brewer: Preliminary Turkey Harvest Updates Rainy, cool, and in some area stormy weather continues to slow harvest this year. The South Zone third season concluded April 20th, with a third-season total harvest of 1082 birds, bringing the harvest after three seasons to 4,125. Last year's comparable harvest was 4,382, which is the harvest record for the South Zone through 3 seasons. Top five counties to date are Jefferson (255), Pope (247), Union (220), Jackson (208), and Randolph (206). Hunters harvested 1,860 turkeys in the North Zone's second season (ending 4-21-2011), bringing the harvest after two seasons to 4,287. Last year's comparable harvest was 4,948, which is the North Zone harvest record through 2 seasons. Top five counties are JoDaviess (301), Pike (274), Adams (230), Fulton (223), and Calhoun (172).
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011 | 7:55 AM (Cross posted on Official Google Blog) From tagging a post with your location, to checking in to a restaurant, to simply finding out where you are, location-based services have become some of the most popular features of today’s Internet. One of the key ways technology companies are able to determine a location for these services is through a location database, which matches publicly broadcast information about local wireless networks with their approximate geographic location. By looking for wireless access points that are close to a user’s phone, location providers can return the approximate location you need. In addition, this method is a good alternative to other approaches, like GPS, because it’s faster, it works indoors, and it’s more battery-efficient. The wireless access point information we use in our location database, the Google Location Server, doesn’t identify people. But as first mentioned in September, we can do more to address privacy concerns. We’re introducing a method that lets you opt out of having your wireless access point included in the Google Location Server. To opt out, visit your access point’s settings and change the wireless network name (or SSID) so that it ends with “_nomap”. For example, if your SSID is “Network”, you‘d need to change it to “Network_nomap”. To get started, visit this Help Center article to learn more about the process and to find links with specific instructions on how to change an access point’s SSID for various wireless access point manufacturers. As we explored different approaches for opting-out access points from the Google Location Server, we found that a method based on wireless network names provides the right balance of simplicity as well as protection against abuse. Specifically, this approach helps protect against others opting out your access point without your permission. Finally, because other location providers will also be able to observe these opt-outs, we hope that over time the “_nomap” string will be adopted universally. This would help benefit all users by providing everyone with a unified opt-out process regardless of location provider. Update Nov 21: Edited punctuation to clarify the "_nomap" tag.
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Teacher Resources by Grade |1st - 2nd||3rd - 4th| |5th - 6th||7th - 8th| |9th - 10th||11th - 12th| Delicious, Tasty, Yummy: Enriching Writing with Adjectives and Synonyms |Grades||3 – 5| |Lesson Plan Type||Standard Lesson| |Estimated Time||Six 30- to 60-minute sessions| - Increase knowledge by defining adjectives and synonyms - Demonstrate comprehension of adjectives and synonyms in a variety of ways—by using adjectives and synonyms to describe things that they see, by using alphabet organizers and webs to describe an object, and by identifying adjectives in a literary passage and replacing them with appropriate synonyms - Apply what they have learned about adjectives and synonyms by writing form poems - Practice working collaboratively to brainstorm and write their poems Adjectives and synonyms provide students with a variety of ways to express themselves both verbally and in writing. People, places, and things come alive when students are able to describe them using unique or "visual" words. Which sounds more interesting to you: "The bumpy moon is in the black sky" or "The cratered moon shines in the dark, onyx sky?" Dark and onyx are adjectives but are also synonyms for the word black. The second sentence provides richer details about the moon and the sky by using more vivid—and unexpected—descriptors. |1.||Read Apples by Gail Gibbons aloud to the class. This book has minimal text but provides illustrations of various types of apples. Guide students to focus on the appearance of apples, both inside and out, as Gibbons has done throughout the book. |2.||Divide the class into groups of three to four students. Give each group two apples of the same variety—one whole and one cut into enough pieces so that each team member gets one—and copies of the Describe Your Apples handout. Give them 15 minutes to brainstorm and record words that describe their apples. |3.||Gather the entire class together and ask teams to share words from their lists. Descriptive words might include: red, green, round, shiny, waxy, bruised, ripe, speckled, spotted, or wet. Record the class list on a board or flipchart. |4.||Explain to the class that they have created a list of words called adjectives to describe their apples. The list includes words that describe how the apples look, smell, feel and even taste. |5.||Ask students to define adjective, working toward the definition that it is a word that describes a person, place, or thing (noun). Talk about why adjectives are important. Questions for discussion include: |6.||Ask students to consider why adjectives are useful and helpful. What are some of their ideas? When do they use adjectives? Some ideas might include the following: |1.||Read The Supermarket by Kathleen Krull or The Supermarket by Harlow Rockwell (see Preparation 1). As you read the book aloud, draw students' attentions to all the things found in a supermarket and how adjectives are used to describe them. |2.||Give students a blank Alphabet Organizer handout and ask them, with the assistance of an adult, to visit their local grocery store during the next week. Instruct them to write an adjective in each box that describes an item found in the market. For example, in the Y box they might write "yellow bananas" and in the T box they might write "tangy tangerines." If you have chosen to make a transparency or chart of the Sample Grocery Adjectives Alphabet Organizer, show it to students as an example. Tell students they should make sure to write both the alphabet adjective and the corresponding item as described above. (Note: You may choose to omit the letter x.) Homework (due by Session 5): Complete the Alphabet Organizer. |1.||Model the creation of a simple web on the board using a different fruit as an example. Place the word lemon in the center and the descriptive words (i.e., bumpy, yellow, shiny, oval, and tangy) in circles branching from the center word. If you have chosen to make a transparency or chart of the Lemon Web, show it to students as an example containing first level, common words in blue circles and second level or more descriptive alternatives in green circles. |2.||Ask students to define the word synonym working toward the following definition: a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word. |3.||Using the class list of apple adjectives created in Session 1, ask students to identify several common words to describe apples. Common words may include the following: round, red, shiny, and green. |4.||Regroup students into the teams from Session 1. Instruct them to create a web by adding adjectives that are synonyms for the common words they have used to describe apples. |5.||Students should work on their webs either on paper or using the ReadWriteThink Webbing Tool (see Preparation 5). Encourage teams to use a dictionary or thesaurus to assist in building and expanding their webs. |6.||Select several teams to share their webs with the class. Are there similarities among the first-level and second-level words chosen by teams? Did any teams come up with some unique alternative descriptors? Briefly discuss how common adjectives describe an object sufficiently, but often more descriptive alternatives provide richer details. These details help to enhance writing allowing readers to "see" what the author is describing. Refer to the Apple Web for additional suggestions if needed. |1.||Write the following poem included in article "Form Poems for Tired Words" by Terry Henkelman on the board: |2.||Review the words in the poem and point out how each one is a synonym for the adjective funny. |3.||Model another form poem by selecting a word from the class list created during Session 1. Write the word on the board and solicit input from the class to complete the poem in the "So..." format. For example: |4.||Have students work in pairs to develop synonyms for two more apple adjectives. Instruct students to write the two adjectives at the top of the Form Poem Handout. Provide students with thesauri to help them identify synonyms for the selected words. |5.||Close this session by reading aloud Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective? by Brian P. Cleary. This book defines adjectives and includes numerous adjective examples. Work with students to select 10 adjectives from the book and list them on the board. |6.||Provide additional practice writing form poems by having student pairs select two adjectives from the list to begin additional poems on the Form Poem Handout. |1.||Group students in teams of three. Ask students to share their completed Alphabet Organizers. Provide each team with a blank Alphabet Organizer handout or access to the online Alphabet Organizer tool. Instruct teams to create an organizer that merges all of their ideas, choosing what they think are the best examples for each letter. Assign one student to be the recorder—either writing on the handout or typing into the computer. (Note: If students are working online, make sure they print out their organizers when they are complete.) |2.||After teams have completed their organizers, provide each with a brown paper bag and the following instructions: GREEN apple...If students complete the poems with time left over, you can give them time to illustrate their poems. Note: Before this session, allow students time to look at the picture books you have selected (see Preparation 7) and choose one that is interesting to them. Assign students partners based on their selections and make each pair photocopies of two pages from the book they have selected for them to rewrite. Pairs that have chosen the same book should be given different pages from that book to work on. |1.||Distribute the photocopies and ask student teams to "rewrite" the section by selecting several adjectives to be changed. Students can use highlighters to identify the original adjective and then write a synonym for each highlighted word above the original. |2.||Select several teams to share their work with the class. Ask one team member to read the original passage. Ask a second team member to read the revised passage. Make transparencies, if possible, to help students share their completed work more easily with others in the class. Questions for discussion include: - Collect the team webs and photocopy them to create web packets for each team. Using components of each web, work with students to build a class web to display on the wall. The class web should consist of synonyms for common words. Instruct students to look through the packet choosing words that are very descriptive or unique. As a class, decide which of these words will be included. The synonyms selected may be words that do not initially come to mind when describing an apple. For example, students might typically describe an apple as red. However, maroon provides richer detail describing a shade of red. - Ask students to write a form poem using the word "not" before each adjective. This format provides a series of opposites or antonyms for a particular word. - Read aloud Many Luscious Lollipops: A Book About Adjectives by Ruth Heller (Scholastic, 1989). Review the role of adjectives—to be specific and describe things, places, people, thoughts, ideas, emotions, and details (such as number, color, or size). After reading and discussion, post a colorful poster or picture on a bulletin board, chalkboard, or computer monitor. Have small groups visit the poster or monitor to examine the details of the picture. As a class, brainstorm words to describe the picture. - Encourage some friendly competition—who (or which teams) can describe an object using the most adjectives and synonyms? - Read A is for Angry: An Animal and Adjective Alphabet by Sandra Boynton (Workman Publishing, 1983) to the class. Ask students to create their own alphabet books describing themselves using adjectives and synonyms. For example, A is for Ambitious, B is for Bubbly, and C is for Conscientious. Encourage students to be creative! - Informally assess students' comprehension of adjectives and synonyms during class discussions and as you circulate while students are working in groups. - Collect and review the webs, organizers, and literary passage revisions. Are students using and identifying adjectives or are they using other parts of speech? Does students' work reflect an understanding of the material discussed? - Assess students' abilities to develop synonyms for adjectives as they complete webs, form poems, and literary passage revisions. Are students able to come up with several appropriate alternative words for a common adjective? - How well are students able to apply their knowledge of adjectives and synonyms to create the form poems? Did students correctly identify two words as adjectives to describe an apple? Do the five synonyms for each word have the same or similar meaning as the original word? - Assess students' abilities to work collaboratively by observing how team members contributed to and participated in each activity. Did every member offer suggestions and ideas? If someone emerged as a team leader, did that person encourage others to come up with ideas as well? Did teams engage in discussions to come to a consensus when completing activities? Observe and comment on the team dynamics and offer suggestions so that all members participate and are heard.
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|A1||X||Make quiz for Diana| |9:00||10:30||CS21A at F228| 1. The Mathematics of the 3D Rotation Matrix : 17:20 The set of special orthogonal matrices is a closed set. What does that mean, and why do we care? A question like this is usually discussed only in an upper-division set theory class, which is a class for seniors majoring in math on the theoretical side. Not math for engineering or science, but math for its own sake. By the time you get to a set theory class, you have passed all the difficult classes. Geometry, trigonometry, calculus and differential equations are behind you. As Terry Pratchett might say, you have gone through mathematics and come out the other side. In an upper division set theory class, you will consider a math fact such as "a set contains its elements". This fact will be given a fancy name, like "The Baire Category Theorem", and you will be asked to prove it. Since you are in the habit of following along (or you wouldn't have made it all the way through mathematics and out the other side), you know exactly what to do. You pull out a sharp pencil, and using the precise notation you were given earlier, you work out the proof in 4 or 5 lines. You are filled with a feeling of peace and confidence, as the rightness of the proof is crystal clear. Then you put the pencil away. You have finished your homework before your coffee has grown cold. Meanwhile, your friends across the hall in the Comp Sci department are receiving their homework assignment: Write an operating system. From scratch. Due Tuesday. And those guys wondered why I majored in math. I'd love to hear about any questions, comments, suggestions or links that you might have. Your comments will not be posted on this website immediately, but will be e-mailed to me first. You can use this form to get in touch with me, or e-mail me at email@example.com .
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- The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship - Simon & Schuster, 384 pp. HOW TO DESTROY A U.S. NAVY SHIP AND GET AWAY WITH IT James Scott’s father was a young ensign on board the U.S.S. Liberty when the Israelis attacked the ship with fighter jets, bomber jets, and torpedo boats. The Israeli jets strafed the American sailors as they were trying to escape the slaughter, while later, an Israeli torpedo blew a giant hole in the side of the ship which nearly sank the Liberty. Even napalm was used against the Liberty’s crew. A sitting duck for the Israeli Air Force and Navy, the Liberty was a U.S. intelligence ship that carried only 50 caliber machine guns for protection. That the ship didn’t sink is something of a miracle. The sneak Israeli attack resulted in the killing of 34 American sailors and wounded 171 more. The attack was a war crime of serious proportions. One of the officers aboard the Liberty when it was attacked, James Ennes, wrote a book about the attack several years ago, entitled Assault on the Liberty. But since that time additional information has been declassified and released, making James Scott’s book, Attack on the Liberty, a more thorough study of the destruction of the ship. The Liberty had been ordered by the Pentagon to sail off the coast of Israel and Egypt to pick up radio transmissions during the June, 1967 Arab-Israeli war. She had been sailing in international waters boasting a large American flag from her mast, with her identification “GTR 5″ in four foot white letters on her hull. The “5″ was six foot high. An Israeli government investigation concluded that the attack was an accident, noting also Israel’s apology. The Pentagon conducted an investigation that also concluded the attack was an accident. The glaring insufficiencies in both reports reflect the intention of both the Israeli and the American governments to cover up what really happened. It is that continuing cover-up that enrages the families of those U.S. sailors who were killed and wounded during the assault, as well as the bitter memories of those crew members who survived the attack. Neither investigation called as witnesses the Israeli pilots who bombed and strafed the ship — and dropped napalm on the American sailors — to testify. Neither did they call as witnesses the Israeli torpedo boat crews, nor the senior Israeli officers who were in command that day. Nor did the U.S. investigation explain why the U.S. government called back the U.S. fighter jets which were on their way to help defend the Liberty from the vicious attack. It is obvious that the Israelis intended that there be no survivors to describe what happened. But when it became clear that there were witnesses, the U.S. government ordered the surviving officers and men to maintain total silence about the attack, and to refrain from talking to anyone about what happened that day. It is only after they left the service that the survivors were able to open up, expressing their bitterness to anyone who would listen. They, of course, feel betrayed by their government, and show no signs of abandoning the fight to have the truth told in an official manner. One rationale offered by the Israelis was that the Liberty resembled an Egyptian horse and troop transport ship, the El Quseir. The problem with that explanation is that Egyptian ships have their ship’s names in Arabic on the hull, and not in English, as the Liberty had. As well, the Quseir is a much smaller ship than the Liberty, which had an array of antennae on its superstructure befitting its mission as an intelligence gathering ship. The mainstream press continues to ignore what happened, preferring instead to give excess coverage to missing blond teenagers, or taking part in the media orgy following the death of Michael Jackson. The survivors fight a lonely battle, continually ignored by members of Congress who have the ability to hold official hearings as part of an official investigation. The Pentagon, which, under the tutelage of Cyrus Vance, took part in the cover-up, has never been eager to pursue the matter. The Senate Armed Services Committee, the logical venue to investigate and to hold hearings, is currently chaired by Michigan Senator Carl Levin, who has little interest in pointing any fingers at Israel. Moreover, John McCain, a senior Republican on the Committee, has at stake the memory of his father, Admiral John McCain who relayed the order to the American fighter jets to return to their carrier before they could arrive to help the beleaguered Liberty crew. There is, however, a wealth of new information that has become available to assist in finding the truth of the attack. Author James Bamford, in his book, Body of Secrets, disclosed the presence of an American spy plane circling over the war zone which picked up radio traffic, and overheard Israeli pilots carrying out the attack, acknowledging that they knew the Liberty was an American ship. And James Scott has uncovered a treasure trove of declassified documents that back up the fact that the attack on a U.S ship was a deliberate act on the part of the Israelis. Even without such evidence, the Israeli explanations that they mistook the Liberty for an Egyptian ship defies logic. Israeli reconnaissance planes had been flying over the Liberty since early morning on June 8, 1967. It is beyond credibility that those planes could not identify a ship belonging to a supposed ally of Israel, especially one that was clearly marked, as the Liberty was. The Navy’s inquiry of the attack, which lasted only a week, resulted in a Pentagon-ordered cover-up of the attack. Captain Ward Boston, who was an assistant to Admiral Isaac Kidd, the chief investigator, in later years disclosed that Kidd actually had been ordered to conclude that the attack was accidental, despite evidence they had gathered to the contrary. Evidence collected for this book by the author clearly shows that some officers inside Israel’s chain of command understood that this was an American ship long before the torpedo attack that resulted in more than two-dozen of the Liberty’s 34 deaths. But they allowed the assault to continue. Israeli pilots radioed in the hull number of the Liberty more than 20 minutes before the torpedo strike, and that information was passed to the Israeli Navy. Had the attack stopped then, the majority of the lives lost that day would have been saved. The book reveals for the first time the extent of the outrage and widespread disbelief of many of President Johnson’s senior advisers over Israel’s claim that the attack was an accident. Even LBJ was convinced the attack was no accident and confided his disbelief in Israel’s story to a Newsweek reporter, stating that he believed Israel attacked the ship because it was spying on the war. The book also quotes many senior State Department, Navy, NSA and CIA officials talking of their disbelief in the story. The book further documents, through interviews with senior officials, how and why President Johnson decided to cover-up the assault. Johnson had a great fear of offending American Jewish supporters at a time when he was trying to maintain support for his failing Vietnam policy. In 1967, the U.S. lost an average of 26 men a day in Vietnam. In May of 1967, those numbers spiked to 37 men a day. The Liberty’s dead and wounded were essentially one day’s casualty count in Vietnam. Many American Jews were at the forefront of the anti-Vietnam War movement and Johnson feared that picking a fight over the Liberty would risk more loss of support from that important constituency. In effect, the Liberty was sacrificed to Lyndon Johnson’s failing war policy. Nicholas Katzenbach, the second in command of the State Department, is quoted discussing this in the book. “It was no help if you had a lot of people getting angry at the Israelis,” he said. “If the Israelis screw up the relations, then the Jewish groups are going to bail out the Israelis. It ends up with you having a more difficult situation than you would have otherwise.” Some American officials even considered sinking the Liberty at sea to prevent reporters from photographing it and inflaming public opinion against Israel. Scott’s book also shows how civilian leaders inside the Pentagon even went so far as to pressure the Navy to tone down the publicly released version of the court of inquiry, already weak to the point of ineffectiveness. When the draft was first given to the Navy for review, Chief of Naval Operations David McDonald was outraged. He wrote a memo that revealed his belief that the United States was trying to protect Israel. “I think that much of this is extraneous and leaves me with the feeling that we’re trying our best to excuse the attackers,” he wrote in a handwritten memo. “Were I a parent of one of the deceased this release would burn me up. I myself do not subscribe to it.” Very few people at senior levels of the Navy believed the attack was an accident. Jerome King, Jr., the senior aide to Adm. McDonald and later a vice admiral, on his first occasion to speak publicly about the Liberty said, “It certainly was not mistaken identity,” King said. “I don’t buy it. I never did. Nobody that I knew ever did either. It wasn’t as though it was at night or a rainy day or anything like that. There wasn’t any excuse for not knowing what the ship was. You could divine from just the apparatus on deck — all the antennae and so on — what its mission was.” Extensive Israeli documents Scott obtained for the book also reveal how officials at the Israeli Embassy in Washington devised their own plan to manipulate the American media to downplay the story and to pressure American officials to drop the case. Israeli officials convinced Newsweek to tone down a story on the Liberty and even had other stories killed. The embassy also tapped influential American Jews to help put pressure on the White House to make the Liberty issue go away. Israel’s apologists are many and varied on the question of whether the attack was deliberate, including Jay Cristol’s apologia to Ram Ron’s report. Cristol is a Federal Judge in Florida, and Ron was in the Israeli military and was tasked to investigate the incident. Ron had no experience either in naval operations or in Air Force operations. He did not interview any of the pilots who attacked the ship, nor did he interview any of the officers who were in charge of military operations for Israel at the time. Admiral Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, however, came out publicly in defense of the Liberty’s crew, calling the attack deliberate. Additionally, Congressman Pete McCloskey interviewed one of the Israeli pilots who confirmed that the Israeli military knew the Liberty was an American ship, but nevertheless continued with the bloody attack. Scott’s research of the newly available data leaves little room for doubt as to the deliberate nature of the attack, but what no one knows for certain is why Israel decided to attack a ship belonging to a supposed ally. There is adequate informed speculation, however. One theory has it that Lyndon Johnson had given Israel the go ahead to attack Egypt, but warned them to go no further. At the time, Egyptian President Nasser’s big mouth provided a rationale for Israel to attack first, which they did. Their propaganda, however, which has stuck in the minds of many, is that Egypt attacked first. Because Israel intended to also attack Syria, it wanted to prevent the U.S. government from listening to the radio traffic necessary to build up for such an attack on Syria. Israel wanted the attack to be a fait accompli, realizing that LBJ could do nothing about it once it happened. Another theory has it that Israel was slaughtering Egyptian prisoners it had captured, and wanted to prevent that knowledge from being overheard by the Americans. I strongly believe that this country owes the survivors of the Liberty at least a full governmental hearing on how the attack happened and who was ultimately responsible. Our country should do something that would signal to those survivors that their government cares about them. Absent that, we are at least entitled to no longer hear the political mantra that “we support our troops.” There is a way to show that support other than simply talking about it. James Abourezk, a veteran of the U.S. Navy, is a former U.S. Senator from South Dakota. He currently practices law in South Dakota.
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Working as an Antarctic Scientist What are you researching at the minute and what is the most exciting thing you have found out so far? The seal research on Bird Island mainly concentrates on the Antarctic fur seal and is based on both long-term monitoring programs and shorter experimental studies. Antarctic fur seals are highly synchronous annual breeders i.e. 90% of pups are born within three weeks of the year. The males come ashore a few weeks before the females to hold territories on the beaches where females will later give birth and breed. Questions we are trying to answer are as varied as how successful individual seals, both males and females, are at reproducing, and what, where and how do they feed once back at sea. To answer these questions, and others, we use genetic analysis to trace parenthood, observational reports and we deploy recording instruments on the animals before they go out for a foraging (i.e. feeding) trip. The instruments we deploy on fur seals record their position (we can map where they have been), how deep and often they dive (usually around 20m deep but some have been recorded at 181m) and what are the oceanic conditions where they feed. We have also in the past couple of years deployed some cameras and collected some very interesting and aesthetically pleasing pictures of the prey fur seal most abundantly eat: krill. I have attached a picture for you to see (below). Penguins: We have breeding Gentoo and Macaroni penguins here at Bird Island. The basic penguin research on these species looks at the number of birds, how many chicks they produce (their reproductive success), and what they eat (diet). The population sizes are monitored each summer by counting the number of occupied penguin nests in certain colonies. The macaroni penguins are found in three colonies - Little Mac, Middle Mac and Big Mac. The population size has been counted at Big and Little Mac for the past 26 years and so the work carried out each year is part of a very long-term programme. This year Big Mac had 74 000 penguins in it! There is also much more intensive research undertaken on macaroni penguins at Little Mac. In the past few years we have attached satellite tracking tags to penguins and have found out where they go to feed (forage) and when. We also attach TDRs (time-depth-recorders) and these tell us how deep they dive and how often. When all of this information is put together with the diet information we have all the details of each trip to sea that the penguins make. Another recent project has studied the energy that a macaroni penguin needs to walk. For this penguins walk on a treadmill, similar to the ones that you might find in any gym at home! The most exciting thing that I have found out so far is where the macaroni penguins go in the winter. After the penguins have finished breeding and moulting their old feathers out they go to sea for the whole 6 months of winter. Until just recently no one knew where they went, but in my first winter here we attached satellite tags to five penguins to see where they spent their winter. One of them swam half way to South Africa from here - about 1500 km in the rough Southern Ocean by a bird only about as big as a household cat! Albatrosses: A lot of the work I do is with Wandering Albatrosses, who have the largest wingspans of any bird (over three metres across). They are having problems because many get caught by accident on fishing hooks, and although some fishermen are trying very hard to find ways to catch fish without catching birds, their numbers are still going down every year. There are "pirate" fishing boats who catch fish illegally, and they don't care if they catch birds as well, as long as they can catch lots of fish and make lots of money. One of the things I do is look for albatrosses that have hooks caught in their legs or mouths, so I can cut the hooks off. To do that, I have to catch them, and it's quite scary, because they are as big as a wild swan but with huge hooked beaks like an eagle. They have to have very strong and sharp beaks for tearing into all the rubbery squid and scaly fish that they catch at sea, because like all birds, they don't have any teeth and can't chew. But this means they can also bite very hard, so I'm very careful when catching them! They are very quiet gentle birds otherwise, and will let you walk right up to their nests without flying away. I also stick small satellite tags onto the feathers on their backs with strong tape. The tags send a message up to satellites orbiting the Earth, and can tell us exactly where the birds go, when they leave their chicks to go off and find food. The chicks are sometimes left alone for weeks with no food, so they have to be very fat to survive. Their parents fly across thousands of kilometres of ocean and can go up to 135 kilometres per hour, although they are so good at catching the wind that they hardly need to flap their wings! There are also other species of albatrosses and petrels on Bird Island, and we study many of them. We put small metal numbered rings on their legs, so when we see them again and read the numbers we know exactly who they are (by checking in a computer database). For some of them, we have a record of every time they have nested on the island and even who their partners were, going back over 30 years. I look after a couple of experiments that look at the Earth's atmosphere around 100 km above the Earth. There is a powerful radar that looks at a layer in the atmosphere called the ionosphere. There are a set of experiments that measure naturally occurring radio waves. Lightning in South America can produce these radio waves and the ionosphere can help carry them to our sensitive receivers here in the Antarctic. There are also experiments that measure how the ionosphere absorbs radio waves that were generated out in Space and there are experiments that measure how the Earth's magnetic field varies. The Sun's radiation affects the Earth's ionosphere and we get e-mailed reports of how the Sun has been behaving over the past couple of days. It's then fascinating to see how what we have read about the Sun, affects our experiments a couple of days later. The SHARE (Southern Hemisphere Auroral Radar Experiment) radar at Halley is part of the SuperDARN (Super Dual Auraral Radar Network) project currently involving 15 radars in the Artic and the Antarctic. It is run as an international project between Arctic and Antarctic researchers in U.S.A, Canada, UK (between BAS and Leicester University), South Africa, Japan, France, Australia, Italy, Sweden and Finland. The SHARE radar can be thought of as a giant radar gun, like the police use to catch speeding motorists. It looks like 16 giant Television Aerials in a line and it measures the speed and direction that the plasma in the ionosphere moves. The faster the plasma is moving the more particle energy from the Sun is entering the atmosphere. This is what causes the aurora (lights in the sky at an altitude of around 100 km). The particle energy from the Sun is guided by the Earth's magnetic field lines (it helps to think of the Earth as a large bar magnet) so that it is deposited around the North and South Polar regions, triggering the aurora. The radar scans 4 million square kilometres of the ionosphere every two minutes. The data collected forms a worldwide picture of the movement of the ionosphere and this is helping scientists understand how solar energy interacts with the upper atmosphere (above 100 km) of the Earth. Because of the remoteness of Halley and the sheer quantity of data collected the files are transferred once a year to BAS in Cambridge for analysis, the data takes up to 24 CDs every year and this data is compressed as much as possible to squeeze it onto the CDs. I am responsible for the running of the radar and most of my time is spent making sure it is working properly and making upgrades to it when necessary Useful web links for more information on the SuperDARN radars: - British Antarctic Survey SHARE - Leicester University (they call it the Cutlass radar) - Johns Hopkins University - University of Saskatchewan Superdarn Site The maps below show the radar sites worldwide and the total coverage of the ionosphere, the center of the drawings are the North and South Poles (Halley is base H). And there's more! We also take regular measurements of the weather including wind speed, wind direction, temperature, solar and UV radiation, pressure, and humidity. We have experiments that record incredibly small changes in pressure (thousandths of a millibar) over a small area and others that profile the different density layers in the lower atmosphere. We take precipitation samples, profile katabatic winds using echoes from an array that beeps, we use different filters to make measurements of the air chemistry. Of course we also take regular ozone measurements and in fact it was here that the ozone hole was first discovered! Do you enjoy doing research/spending time in the Antarctic, and what are the people at your research station studying at the moment? I do like the life down here, as it is the ultimate adventure. I am just about to start preparing the equipment required for the coming summer project. I am lucky to be able to work with the best scientists in the country. As Field Assistant I am there to help and keep everyone safe. My first summer we were studying algae and lichens, clinging on to life at the edge of what is survivable for them. Conditions must be difficult for plant life as water is frozen, so not available, and the UV levels are high. My second summer project was spent extracting cores of sediment from the bottom of freshwater lakes; these have never been seen before and will contain a record of climate change over the last few million years. This summer coming I am working on a meteorology project studying the precipitation process in the Antarctic so we can better understand how the world's weather works. Just the most interesting job in the world. Doing research in Antarctica must be one of the most exciting places to do it. I am very lucky because I have field sites on the local islands, around the base and at a distant location where I get to camp every year for a few weeks. I have learnt how to drive a boat, rock-climb, abseil and ski, and all because of my job as biologist. Our local area has some stunning scenery and wonderful areas of vegetation. I couldn't ask for a more beautiful place to work. There are three scientists on base just now, two marine biologist and a terrestrial biologist. I am the terrestrial biologist and I am studying the effects of UV radiation on Antarctic bacteria. There are very few plants, insects and microbes on Antarctica and they have to survive in a very harsh environment. BAS scientists are very interested in how these organisms cope with natural stresses, such as very low temperatures, but we would also like to find out how they cope with new stresses such as increased exposure to UV radiation caused by ozone destruction. Our two marine biologists spend a lot of their time diving in the sea around Rothera which sometimes involves diving through several centimetres of sea-ice. We have an aquarium facility that is full of beautiful and colourful marine organisms that they have collected. There are several kinds of starfish, as well as sea lemons, sea cucumbers, spiders, clams, corals and limpets, to name just a few. 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Babywearing: The Benefits and Beauty of this Ancient Tradition by Maria Blois, MD Hale Publishing, 2005 Available from LLLI, No. 1745 Order online at http://store.llli.org or call 800-LALECHE Reviewed by Karen Meade Schwenksville PA USA From NEW BEGINNINGS, Vol. 23 No. 5, September-October 2006, pp. 226-7 Having raised several "sling babies" myself, I am always quick to suggest "babywearing" to any new mother who complains of not being able to get anything done because her baby always wants to be held. Until Dr. Blois's book became available, however, I was unable to direct these mothers to a single, comprehensive, easy-to-read and easy-to-follow resource on babywearing. Thanks to Dr. Blois, I now have two items to include in my standard baby shower gift basket -- a soft baby carrier and a copy of Babywearing: The Benefits and Beauty of this Ancient Tradition. The term, "babywearing," was coined and trademarked by breastfeeding and attachment parenting advocate Dr. William Sears. To quote Dr. Blois, babywearing "simply refers to carrying your baby in a soft carrier close to your body as you go about the business of your life." As more parents continue to rediscover the ancient tradition of babywearing, more baby product retailers -- both small family-run and larger companies -- have introduced their own variation of soft baby carriers. Until Dr. Blois wrote and published her book, however, there hadn't been a single, complete manual that covered both the benefits and the how-to's of babywearing. As both a medical doctor and a babywearing mother, Dr. Blois considers herself uniquely qualified to write a book about this topic. In her book's introduction, Dr. Blois makes three promises to her readers: In this book you will: learn how wearing your baby can make your baby more content, sleep better, learn better, and cry less. Hear from experienced babywearers from all over the country. Learn how to choose and use the carrier that is right for you. She delivers on all three of those promises. Babywearing's Biological Basis "Doesn't that hurt your back to carry your baby like that?" "Is your baby all right in that thing? "Shouldn't you put him down so he doesn't always want to be picked up?" "Don't you ever put that baby down?" Anyone who has been on the receiving end of these questions will definitely find the first section of Dr. Blois's book to be a valuable resource. While many parents stumble upon babywearing by accident -- discovering that keeping baby close calms baby and makes a mother's life easier -- far fewer realize that babywearing has its roots in ancient cultures where parents relied on personal instinct rather than today's modern infant care "experts." Stating that "biologically, babies need to be carried in order to thrive," Dr. Blois presents medical evidence of how babywearing enhances child development, noting that "babywearing allows for the continuation of a womb-like environment, giving the baby a chance for optimal brain and nervous system development." The book's first section continues with a chapter that discusses babywearing in special situations, such as with twins, adopted babies, babies with special needs, those who are critically ill, and premature babies in Kangaroo Care. For babies with special needs, Dr. Blois asserts, babywearing has an even greater impact on their health and well being. After reading this section, new parents will have an excellent grasp of the rationale behind babywearing and will be better able to educate any well-meaning naysayer they might encounter while out and about with their baby in a sling. Tips for Choosing a Carrier Once armed with a grasp of why they should wear their babies, readers will then face the task of choosing the right soft carrier for themselves and their babies. The second half of Dr. Blois's book sets out to demystify the soft baby carrier. Especially helpful are the full color photographs that depict mothers and fathers wearing their babies in all sorts of positions and situations. "The Babywearing Basics" section offers tips for choosing the right carrier, a safety checklist, and even instructions for how those handy with a sewing machine can make their own carrier. The remainder of the book lists, categorizes, and reviews practically every available soft carrier, including slings with rings, tie slings, pouches, hip slings, wraparounds, front/back pack soft vertical carriers, and torso/strapless back carriers. The brand comparison charts, complete with manufacturer contact information, eliminate the need for time consuming, individual research, and the book's numerous how-to photos and illustrations demystify the art of positioning baby for maximum comfort. Dr. Blois concludes her book with a section of frequently asked questions and a comprehensive sling resource listing. Dr. Blois, who is also a La Leche League Leader, suggests that new mothers attend a La Leche League Series Meeting for hands-on help with babywearing. The book's only drawback is its high cover price. At $29.95, it may well be too expensive for many families. Given this, I'd strongly encourage mothers to see if the book is available from their LLL Group's lending Library.
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Below is a report of one teachers thoughts on the subjecthttp://www.theteachersareblowingtheirwh ... tories.htm I have been involved in assisting a couple of Tanzanian students with their high school fees, which are less than $100.00 per year. After visiting the schools and reading their letters its impossible not notice the huge difference in attitude mentioned by the teacher in the article above. That teacher was very wrong to tell your daughter that she didn't like her. It probably meant your daughter didn't like her in the first place, and didn't make the all the right noises to get in her good books. They tend to go for the kids that suck up. When my son was at a Catholic High School about ten years ago one of the boys in his science class spoke the F word to the teacher. The teacher who did body building and was a very strong man grabbed him by the throat and dangled him in the air until his face turned very red. Years later we had a notice in our mail box: the teacher was standing for parliament, to be our local Labour party representative. He didn't fulfill his political ambitions and he certainly didn't get our vote!
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“There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.” -Hubert Humphrey After the cataclysm of The Flood, the descendants of Noah congregated in the plains of Shinar within the Fertile Crescent, and built a city. A city with a tower that reached for the heavens. It was meant to be a city for all mankind, where all of humanity could be united in peace and harmony in one place. God however, had other plans. He confused the languages of the idealistic builders which led to the dispersion of mankind across the face of the Earth. The structure became known as the Tower of Babel and it was never completed. Most Rabbinic commentators view the effort of the Tower of Babel as one of hubris, of man reaching to compete with God, to supplant God. They view the dispersion as a punishment. Ibn Ezra has a different take. Ibn Ezra (on Genesis 11:3) feels that there was no sin in the construction of the Tower and neither was there a punishment. Man in his youthful idealism sought to unite all people. To unite them around a physical structure that could be perceived by all. To keep the people concentrated in one place. Not to have divisions, or borders, or geographic differences, or national allegiances. They wished for a utopian unity of all people. There was no sin in these goals – they just weren’t what God planned for mankind – certainly not at that stage of history. God wanted Man to cover the Earth, to reach for the peaks of Everest and the plains of the Serengeti, to spread and divide, to form tribal and national identities, to have unique sub-groupings of families and peoples, to diversify and differentiate. God did not want a world of people with the same language, thoughts, opinions and tastes. He wanted a pageant of ideas, a cacophony of voices, a symphony of traditions. The dispersion of the Tower of Babel was not a punishment. It was a blessing. It has given us a world full of color, and sound, and discovery, and delight, in almost every corner of the globe. Imagine how much poorer we’d all be, if we were still congregated in some megalopolis, looking up at a tower in the plains of southern Iraq? Thank God He kicked us out of there. To my brand new nephew, Azriel Zechariah Tocker, to his parents Ilan and Rachel, to his grandparents and to his four older brothers. Mazal Tov! To his Honor, Judge Menachem Lieberman on his promotion to Lieutenant Colonel (Sgan Aluf) of the IDF. May he keep executing justice, strongly and fairly.
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Palestinians strike to protest rising prices RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Palestinians shuttered shops and blocked roads with burning tires across the West Bank to protest their government's failure to contain rising prices and pay salaries. Monday's protests were the largest show of popular discontent with the governing Palestinian Authority in its 18-year history. They followed a series of small but growing strikes over the past few weeks. Palestinians say their salaries can't keep up with the rising price of living and blame Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. But Fayyad's government is grappling with a sharp budgetary shortfall because the U.S. and Arab countries that sustain it haven't delivered promised aid money. Palestinian officials have allowed the protests to continue, rather than violently suppressing them as they have in the past, saying the unrest reflects popular anger with foreign donors.
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[Parameters: Topic='OCEANS', Term='OCEAN OPTICS', Variable_Level_1='ATTENUATION/TRANSMISSION'] ACS data collected on the BROKE-West SurveyEntry ID: BROKE-West_ACS Abstract: Profiles of visible light absorption and attenuation coefficients were measured in the upper 100m of the water column. The Wetlabs ACS spectral absorption and attenuation meter was mounted on a deployment frame together with a Seabird pump, a Wetlabs DH-4 data logger and two battery packs. This set-up was as recommended in the Wetlabs manual. The logger was ... set to control the ACS once the on/off magnet had been inserted. The data acquisition program comprised 2 minutes delay time to allow the instrument to be deployed over the stern; 30 seconds warm-up time; 30 seconds flush time during which the pump was activated, and finally 12 minutes of data acquisition. Physically, the instrument was attached to the winch, the magnet was inserted as soon as permission to deploy had been obtained from the bridge, the instrument was lowered directly to 20m, until 1.5 minutes since insertion of the magnet. The instrument was then brought to just below the surface and lowered at 0.5m per second to a depth of 100m, then retrieved at the same speed. Once the instrument was back on deck the magnet was removed to prevent dry operation of the pump. The data logger received an instrument-specific binary format data file for each deployment, with automatic sequential file numbering. These files were uploaded after each deployment. The Wetlabs software program WAP was used to extract ascii data from the binary files. This procedure included corrections for internal instrument temperature and the latest manufacturer's calibration for wavelength. Note that although daily calibrations were performed during the cruise, the manufacturer advised against using these calibrations as conditions were suboptimal (milli-Q water not fresh, environment not totally dry or well temperature-controlled). A matlab script, acs.m, written by the principal investigator, continues the data processing. Data recorded in air are discarded, remaining data are binned to 2m depth intervals, occasional spurious data with a discontinuity in absorption or attenuation spectra are removed, and a correction is applied to account for differences in ocean water temperature and salinity compared to the calibration conditions. This final step uses first-cut CTD data courtesy of the oceanography team (Bindoff et al). Not yet complete: Remaining spurious data need to be weeded out by hand. These include non-systematic quirks such as occurrence of bubbles or larger particles in the optical path. The depth needs to be corrected for an offset of some 4m plus the difference between the pressure sensor location and the ACS-inlet location. For each 100m profile, a single ascii file is available, comprising instrument calibration data and a time sequence of attenuation and absorption spectra. By placing each of the profile files from one cruise transect in a single directory, the acs.m routine can be applied to one leg at a time, yielding matlab fields of [station, depth (0:2m:100m), wavelength (87 wavelengths)]. The acs.m script includes details of which CTD station number refers to which ACS file number. This information is also supplied in the station log file jill_brokew_stations.xls. ACS - Absorption (a) Attenuation (c) Spectral meter, produced by Wetlabs CTD - Conductivity, Temperature, Pressure. This work was completed as part of ASAC projects 2655 and 2679 (ASAC_2655, ASAC_2679). (Click for Interactive Map) This data set description is a member of a collection. The collection is described in Start Date: 2006-01-17Stop Date: 2006-02-28 ISO Topic Category Quality Data quality appear good throughout. The ACS was successfully deployed at all CTD stations from CTD-22 to CTD-118, except CTD-59. See the parent record for details on the locations of these stations. Access Constraints These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL, and are supplied together with matlab scripts for processing and viewing the data. Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference at the provided URL when using these data. Data Set Progress Distribution Media: HTTP Distribution Size: 353 MB Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT Role: DIF AUTHOR Fax: +49 471 4831 1797 Email: j.schwarz at niwa.co.nz National Institute for Water and Atmosphere Research 295-301 Evans Bay Parade City: Greta Point Province or State: Wellington Postal Code: 6021 Country: New Zealand Creation and Review Dates DIF Creation Date: 2006-03-10 Last DIF Revision Date: 2010-08-19
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