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Our Supreme Court, our founding fathers, and immigration vs. naturalization!
SCOTUS Upholds AZ Law Imposing Penalties On Employers
Published: May 26, 2011
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld an Arizona law that imposes harsh penalties on businesses that hire illegal immigrants.
The challenge to the Arizona law that was the subject of Thursday’s decision was brought by a coalition of business and civil liberties groups, with support from the Obama administration.
They said the law in question, the Legal Arizona Workers Act, conflicted with federal immigration policy.
Now, just for the record, let us review our founding fathers own words regarding immigration and naturalization.
The big lie, which Eric Holder and his puppet big media have been promoting is, that the federal government has supreme authority to deal with “immigration” and thus, exclusive authority over aliens who have invaded a State’s borders. They claim the exclusive power is found in Article VI, clause 2 of our federal Constitution which declares:
“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”
But the above “supremacy” only applies to those powers specifically enumerated and delegated by the States to the federal government in our written federal Constitution. And the irrefutable fact is, there is no power granted to Congress to regulate “immigration” mentioned in our Constitution! More importantly, a reading of the debates of our founding fathers involving our nation’s Rule of Naturalization in 1790 established beyond any doubt, the various States specifically avoided granting a sweeping power over immigration to Congress. And, the limited power granted is over “Naturalization” which is stated as follows:
Congress shall have power:
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization … Article 1, Section 8
The Constitution also states The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States Article IV, Section 2)
NOTE: It is important to keep in mind that prior to the adoption of our existing Constitution citizenship was bestowed under state law. And upon the adoption of our existing Constitution, as stated above, the Citizens of each State became entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. However, once the Constitution was ratified, the federal government was granted exclusive authority To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization …
Now, let us determine our founding fathers use of the word “Naturalization” and if there is a clear distinction between the word “Naturalization” as distinguished from “immigration” which is not even mentioned in our Constitution!
REPRESENTATIVE WHITE while debating the Rule of Naturalization notes the narrow limits of what “Naturalization” [a power granted to Congress] means, and he ”doubted whether the constitution authorized Congress to say on what terms aliens or citizens should hold lands in the respective States; the power vested by the Constitution in Congress, respecting the subject now before the House, extend to nothing more than making a uniform rule of naturalization. After a person has once become a citizen, the power of congress ceases to operate upon him; the rights and privileges of citizens in the several States belong to those States; but a citizen of one State is entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizens in the several States…..all, therefore, that the House have to do on this subject, is to confine themselves to an uniform rule of naturalization and not to a general definition of what constitutes the rights of citizenship in the several States.” see: Rule of Naturalization, Feb. 3rd, 1790,
And REPRESENTATIVE STONE … concluded that the laws and constitutions of the States, and the constitution of the United States; would trace out the steps by which they should acquire certain degrees of citizenship [page 1156]. Congress may point out a uniform rule of naturalization; but cannot say what shall be the effect of that naturalization, as it respects the particular States. Congress cannot say that foreigners, naturalized, under a general law, shall be entitled to privileges which the States withhold from native citizens. See: Rule of Naturalization, Feb. 3rd, 1790,
PAGE 1156 and PAGE 1157
In addition, REPRESENTATIVE SHERMAN, who attended the Convention which framed our Constitution expresses the very intentions for which the power [Naturalization] was granted to Congress. He says: “that Congress should have the power of naturalization, in order to prevent particular States receiving citizens, and forcing them upon others who would not have received them in any other manner. It was therefore meant to guard against an improper mode of naturalization, rather than foreigners should be received upon easier terms than those adopted by the several States.” see CONGRESSIONAL DEBATES, Rule of Naturalization, Feb. 3rd, 1790,
In fact, the power delegated to Congress over Naturalization was to preclude a State from granting citizenship on easy terms and allowing undesirables to gain citizenship, and those citizens then moving to another state and upsetting local customs or become disruptive to the general welfare of the State. The founders wanted to make certain that those who obtained citizenship would be productive citizens and loyal to America! And thus, the power was granted to Congress To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization… But, no power was ever granted to our federal government over the various States original policing powers dealing with immigration and aliens who enter their borders, and especially not over aliens who have entered our country or a state illegally!.
The only expressed authority regarding “migration“ found in our Constitution is Article 1, Section 9 which declares:
The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
And this provision was of course the precursor to ending slavery in America by taxing the importation of slaves, and not a grant of power to the federal government to enter a state and meddle in a state‘s policing powers designed to promote its internal general welfare ___ a power specifically retained by the States!
From the above we learn that, “migration” is the act by which people move from one place to another, while “Naturalization” is the act by which an alien becomes a citizen. We also learn that the rules by which a foreign national may become a citizen of the united States have been entrusted to Congress and done so for a specific reason ___ to ensure the general welfare of the states against undesirable aliens becoming citizens.
So, while President Obama and his Administration may pretend that the federal government has authority to determine immigration policy within a State‘s borders, our Constitution is very clear in granting Congress a power to establish how an alien may become a citizen of the united states, which has nothing to do with the State of Arizona, or any State in the union, from dealing with aliens who have entered their state illegally. The power over this subject matter has never been relinquished by the various united States and remains in tact as it was prior to the adoption of our Constitution which declares in crystal clear language: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States, respectively, or to the people.___ Tenth Amendment
"If the Constitution was ratified under the belief, sedulously propagated on all sides, that such protection was afforded, would it not now be a fraud upon the whole people to give a different construction to its powers?" Justice Story
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This study examines photographs of early manikins representing
Plains Indians in the Smithsonian Institution during the 1870s.
The kinds of research required and the types of information that
can be retrieved from historical photographs will be exemplified
through the analysis of these images.
A photograph of a manikin was selected for use in volume 13
of the Handbook of North American
Indians: Plains (2001) because it seemed to be a
very early museum representation of a Plains Indian. It
appeared to be half of a stereograph because of the rounded
top of the image and to have been taken at the Smithsonian Institution
Castle, due to the unique sandstone in the background of the
photograph. Comparative research brought to light three
other related prints, which initiated further investigation
as to whom the Plains Indian manikin in the photograph represented.
Use of Historical Photographs
Historical photographs relating to American Indians are primary
documents. They cannot be taken at face value, however,
but require comparative analysis supported by ethnohistorical
research. Fundamental questions must be asked in considering
a photograph as a historical artifact:
visual documents without first answering these fundamental questions
relegates them to the realm of generic Indian stereotypes.
Only after these fundamental questions have been answered can
responsible use be made of an image for research or publication.
An image that preserves the earliest manikin representing a Plains
Indian in the Smithsonian Institution will be discussed as an
example of the kinds of research required and the types of information
that can be retrieved from historical photographs. This example
reveals the politics of Plains Indian representation during the
1870s and serves to identify museum artifacts that had lost their
provenance over the course of more than a century.
What are they?
- What kind of image is it?
- When was it made?
- Who made it?
- Where was it made?
- How was it used?
- Who was the audience?
The term manikin or mannequin refers to four types of human imagery:
1) An early dress form
or tailor's dummy, which dates back to Ancient Egyptian's times;
such forms were found in King Tutankhamen's tomb
2) The fashion doll
3) A lay figure or artist's
4) A wax portraiture,
sculpture, or effigy (the Plains Indian Chief manikin under
discussion falls into this category)
viewed individually provide specific information about the ideal
racial type of a period and, in this case, insight into how
Plains Indians, in particular Sioux men, were perceived during
this time. It is questionable whether, by using a face
mask for a manikin or sculpting it from a photo of a real individual,
museum exhibitors intended to represent an individual or simply
a racial type. The fact that the clothing, ornaments, and handicrafts
used on the manikin were never owned by the named individual
or were even of the same tribal group leads one to believe that
no real personal association was attempted. While accuracy
in depicting a cultural type was no doubt desired, it would
appear that popular appeal was more important than representing
a particular individual.
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For the past year Yahaira Perez has led a group called Proyecto Mariposa, or Project Butterfly, that helps provide life skills to Latina girls and their mothers while ensuring they do not forget their Latin roots.
Proyecto Mariposa is made up of 16 mothers and their daughters, ages 2 to 13. They meet weekly at a church in Columbus to make crafts, read in Spanish and receive guidance on issues such as personal health and proper nutrition.
Yahaira, who moved from Puerto Rico to attend The Ohio State University, has gotten many people involved — including her family.
Brian Starner is a long-time friend of Yahaira and a WBCE listener.
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UN Cannot Confirm Iran's Nuclear Activities are Peaceful
The head of the United Nations' nuclear agency says he cannot confirm that Iran's atomic activities are peaceful.
Yukiya Amano says Tehran has not been providing the cooperation needed for International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors to clear up questions about its nuclear activities. He commented at the start of an IAEA board meeting Thursday in Austria.
His remarks come ahead of next week's meeting between Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalil, and EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton. Ashton will represent the five permanent U.N. Security Council members and Germany in talks about Iran's nuclear program.
Western nations have accused Iran of pursuing nuclear technology to make weapons. Iran denies the charge.
Amano also told the board he has asked Syria for greater cooperation in an ongoing probe into a suspected nuclear site. He also said he has "great concern" about North Korea's nuclear program.
Article by VOA News
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One Wisconsin school district "is so worried about losing state funding that it has stopped giving milk to elementary school kids during snack time."
Al Sharpton on Wednesday, September 7th, 2011 in a TV show
Rev. Al Sharpton says Wisconsin Gov. Walker's budget cuts led school district to cut milk from school kids' snack time
Schoolchildren in America’s Dairyland going without milk?
Blame Gov. Scott Walker, the Rev. Al Sharpton says.
Sharpton, a civil rights activist and former Democratic candidate for president, is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host and, since August 2011, permanent host of MSNBC’s "Politics Nation."
On Sept. 7, 2011, as part of a segment of "calling out" Republicans for acts of "injustice," Sharpton attacked Wisconsin’s first-term governor.
"Governor Scott Walker’s budget cuts mean some kids are going without," Sharpton declared. "One school district is so worried about losing state funding that it has stopped giving milk to elementary school kids during snack time."
Walker has prided himself as a budget cutter; his 2011-2013 spending plan reduced state funding of schools by nearly $800 million.
But did mere fear of state budget cuts leave some Wisconsin schoolchildren without milk to go with their graham crackers?
We called and emailed MSNBC and the National Action Network, Sharpton’s Harlem-based civil rights organization, asking for evidence to back up Sharpton’s statement. Neither responded.
But we found that the day before Sharpton’s program aired, the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison carried an article about milk for schoolchildren in Baraboo, which is about an hour northwest of the state capital.
The newspaper article said the Baraboo School District "decided to end its practice of providing milk with students' morning snack this year, citing concerns the state might eliminate subsidies for the program."
Sharpton wasn’t the only one to jump on the news.
The article was posted on the website of the Wisconsin Education Association Council, the state’s largest teachers union. The liberal Daily Kos blog, which has a national following, carried an article of its own. And "Fabulous Farm Babe" Pam Jahnke, who does a daily agribusiness report on Wisconsin radio stations, posted a poll question about the issue on her website.
To sort out whether Sharpton’s characterization of the situation was accurate, we interviewed Crystal Ritzenthaler, the school district’s superintendent; Kevin Vodak, the school board president; and Doug Mering, the board vice president.
All three said school administrators did eliminate milk during morning snack for elementary school students in the 2011-2012 school year.
But they said Walker’s state budget cuts had little, if anything, to do with the decision, which Ritzenthaler, the superintendent, said was made in spring 2011 while Walker’s budget was being debated.
The three Baraboo officials said that, for more than a year, the school district’s Wellness Committee had discussed milk being served during snack time and that the decision to eliminate the milk was recommended by the committee.
Ritzenthaler told us milk during snack was eliminated for a number of reasons:
1. Concern that children were consuming too much milk -- one half-pint carton during breakfast at school, another during morning snack and a third at lunch. There was a concern that the milk reduced the kids’ appetite for lunch, plus the school board wants to promote the drinking of water, which has been substituted for milk at snack time.
2. Concern about the amount of milk wasted because many children drank only a portion of the carton.
3. Administrative time needed to track how much milk was being consumed.
Ritzenthaler said less important factors were the $10,400 the school district spent on milk for snack time in 2010-2011 -- and the fact that figure likely was to increase because Walker’s budget cut 10 percent from the state’s funding of the program.
Walker spokesman Cullen Werwie confirmed the 10 percent cut.
The same set of reasons was cited in a May 25, 2011 email from Baraboo schools administrator and principal Molly Fitzgerald informing her fellow elementary school principals that milk at snack time would be eliminated. The email added that state funding for the program "may be eliminated anyway in the state budget."
Vodak, the school board president, was emphatic that budgetary considerations played little or no role in the decision to stop serving milk during snack time. He said he believed administrators cited cost as one of the reasons to eliminate the program only "as an afterthought" in explaining the decision.
So, is that the final word on why Baraboo kids aren’t drinking milk at snack time? Not quite.
Although the May 2011 email from Fitzgerald to principals emphasized non-budgetary reasons for eliminating milk at snack time, she gave a different response when interviewed by the local newspaper for an article Sept. 2. The program was eliminated "due to concerns the state might eliminate" its funding, the Baraboo News-Republic quoted Fitzgerald as saying.
News of the decision in early September troubled the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, so Laura Wilford, director of the board’s Wisconsin Dairy Council, contacted Baraboo school officials. She said she was told cost was the major reason for eliminating the program and that school officials were concerned about the condition of the Baraboo schools budget as well as cuts in state funding.
Ritzenthaler said the Baraboo paper didn’t accurately report Fitzgerald’s comments and that Fitzgerald has tried to clarify to the dairy council the non-budget reasons for eliminating milk at snack time.
We also asked Ritzenthaler for copies of minutes of recent meetings of the school district’s Wellness Committee, which Baraboo officials said had discussed the milk at snack program for a year or two. But she said the discussions aren’t reflected in the minutes.
OK, it’s almost break time.
In criticizing Walker, Sharpton said "one school district is so worried about losing state funding that it has stopped giving milk to elementary school kids during snack time." Baraboo school officials now say state budget cuts had little or nothing to do with the decision to stop providing milk at snack time, but previously some of them indicated that fear of state budget cuts was the main reason.
We rate Sharpton’s statement Half True.
Published: Monday, September 19th, 2011 at 9:00 a.m.
National Action Network, Al Sharpton biography
New York Times, Al Sharpton biography
New York Times, "Preaching gospel, not singing it," Aug. 30, 2011
MSNBC-TV, transcript of "Politics Nation" show, Sept. 7, 2011
Wisconsin State Journal, "Baraboo schools to stop providing milk during morning snacks," Sept. 6, 2011
Wisconsin Historical Society, "History of Circus World"
Foremost Farms USA, news release, May 11, 2011
Interview, Baraboo School Board vice president Doug Mering, Sept. 13, 2011
Interview and email interview, Baraboo School Board president Kevin Vodak, Sept. 13, 2011
Interview and email interview, Baraboo School District Administrator Crystal Ritzenthaler, Sept. 13, 14 and 16, 2011
Email interview, Gov. Scott Walker spokesman Cullen Werwie, Sept. 12 and 13, 2011
Interview, Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board’s Wisconsin Dairy Council director Laura Wilford, Sept. 13, 2011
Baraboo News-Republic, "Parent miffed over milk," Sept. 2, 2011
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,"Senate OK’d budget goes to Walker," June 16, 2011
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Electrical cardioversion for atrial fibrillation
Electrical cardioversion is a procedure in which an electric current is used to reset the heart's rhythm back to its regular pattern (normal sinus rhythm). The low-voltage electric current enters the body through metal paddles or patches applied to the chest wall. Cardioversion is used:
- To stop atrial fibrillation that has not stopped on its own or after a trial of antiarrhythmic medications has failed.
- As an emergency procedure to correct a fast heart rhythm that is causing low blood pressure, chest pain, or heart failure.
Before cardioversion for atrial fibrillation, you will be given medication to control pain and cause relaxation.
See illustrations of:
What To Expect After Treatment
If you have had atrial fibrillation for longer than 48 hours, your doctor will probably recommend that you take the anticoagulant warfarin(such as Coumadin) for at least 3 weeks before and for 1 to 3 months after the procedure.
If you have had atrial fibrillation for less than 48 hours, anticoagulants may not be needed before this procedure. However, you may still need to take anticoagulants for at least 4 weeks after this procedure.
Alternately, if you have had atrial fibrillation for more than 48 hours but a test called transesophageal echocardiogram has ruled out the presence of blood clots in the upper heart chambers (atria), you will not need anticoagulants before the procedure. However, you will still need to take anticoagulants for at least 1 month after cardioversion, even if no clots are seen.
Additional medications to help prevent the return of heart rhythm problems (antiarrhythmics) also may be given before and after the procedure. Your risk of developing atrial fibrillation again is greater if antiarrhythmics are not used following cardioversion.
After cardioversion, you will be monitored to ensure that you have a stable heart rhythm.
Why It Is Done
Cardioversion is used as an emergency procedure when symptoms of very low blood pressure, chest pain, or heart failure caused by rapid, irregular atrial fibrillation are present.
Cardioversion also is used in nonemergency situations to correct atrial fibrillation when medications have not been effective. Some doctors consider it the first choice in younger people or people who have developed atrial fibrillation within the last 48 hours.
How Well It Works
The success of electrical cardioversion depends on how long you have had atrial fibrillation and what is causing it. Cardioversion is less successful if you have had atrial fibrillation for longer than 1 year.
Electrical cardioversion is an effective treatment for recent-onset atrial fibrillation. About 86% of people who receive cardioversion return to normal sinus rhythm immediately after the procedure. This success rate increases to 94% when antiarrhythmic medications are given before cardioversion. However, only about 23% of those will remain in normal sinus rhythm after 1 year, and additional treatment may be needed.1 Although cardioversion can return the heart rhythm to normal, it does not act in the long term to maintain a normal rhythm.
Risks of the procedure include the following:
- A blood clot may become dislodged from the heart and cause a stroke. Your doctor will try to decrease this risk by using anticoagulants or other measures.
- The procedure may not work. Additional cardioversion or other treatment may be needed.
- Antiarrhythmic medications used before and after cardioversion or even the cardioversion itself may cause a life-threatening irregular heartbeat.
- You can have a reaction to the sedative given before the procedure. Harmful reactions are rare.
- You can get a small area of burn on your skin where the paddles are placed.
What To Think About
Cardioversion may be less successful or may not be recommended if you:
- Have had atrial fibrillation for more than a year.
- Have significant valve problems.
- Have an enlarged heart as a result of heart failure or cardiomyopathy.
- Have multiple recurrences of atrial fibrillation.
Cardioversion is more likely to be successful if:
- Atrial fibrillation has been present for less than a year.
- This is your first episode of atrial fibrillation.
- You are young.
- Antiarrhythmic medications are used along with cardioversion.
- Fuster V, et al. (2006). ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation—Executive summary. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines (Writing committee to revise the 2001 guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation). Circulation, 114(7): 700–752.
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Article published Oct 18, 2012
American signals help wanted
NEW YORK Wanted: A few good recruits to serve coffee and help combat terrorism at 30,000 feet.
American Airlines said Wednesday that it will post job openings for 1,500 flight attendants next month. It will start hiring in December and put the new staff in training beginning in January.
That may seem like a strange move for a company trying to cut labor costs under bankruptcy protection. But the airline needs to replace some of the 2,205 flight attendants who accepted a $40,000 buyout to leave the company — the equivalent of about a year’s salary. It’s the first time the company has hired flight attendants in 11 years.
The departing flight attendants all started working before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Since then, they’ve seen their company lose more than $10 billion.
The airline has about 16,000 flight attendants. The buyouts were part of a concessionary contract approved by flight attendants in August and were aimed at reducing the number of layoffs. The contract would impose tougher scheduling rules, but give the attendants a 3 percent stake in American’s parent, AMR Corp., after it emerges from bankruptcy protection.
AMR reported Wednesday that it lost $238 million in the third quarter on employee severance payouts and other costs related to its bankruptcy. The quarterly loss works out to 71 cents per share. A year ago, AMR lost $162 million, or 48 cents per share.
U.S. flight attendants made an average of $37,740 a year as of 2010, according to the most recent data available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. American says its flight attendants make about $45,000 a year on average, not including a supplement for meals and other travel expenses.
American’s flight attendants stay in the job for an average of 21 years — longer than any other work group. The average American flight attendant is now more than 50 years old, according to the Association of Professional Flight Attendants.
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Dr. Rajendra Pachauri Criticizes Senator James Inhofe for Persecuting Climate Change Scientists
Rajendra Kumar Pachauri is the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Today, the U. K. Guardian published an op-ed Dr. Pachauri wrote titled "Don't Hound the Climate Scientists" (3-26-10).
Dr. Pachauri criticizes climate change denialists in positions of power, such as Senator James Inhofe, for persecuting climate change scientists and accusing them of crimes. I agree with Dr. Pachauri: the political persecution of the climate scientists by the conspiracist Senator James Inhofe is despicable. The Senator is even demanding that the Justice Department investigate a list of scientists to see if they have committed research misconduct and crimes.
Senator Inhofe of Oklahoma is spearheading a vicious and mendacious campaign to intimidate and repress brilliant scientists who study global warming. The Senator, his political operatives, and other opponents of anthropogenic global warming---the tabloid U.K. Daily Mail, Fox News, Pravda, Libertarians, 9-11 "Truthers," and computer hackers (criminals)---are using a noxious slurry of dirty tricks, disinformation, manipulation of the media, and illegal activity to discredit and destroy climate scientists.
Senator Inhofe and other conspiracists in the denialist camp are depicting anthropogenic global warming as as a hoax perpetrated by scientists who are conspiring to steal our money and seize power.
Dr. Pachauri observes in the Guardian (3-26-10):
To dismiss the implications of climate change based on an error about the rate at which Himalayan glaciers are melting is an act of astonishing intellectual legerdemain. Yet this is what some doubters of climate change are claiming. But the reality is that our understanding of climate change is based on a vast and remarkably sound body of science – and is something we distort and trivialise at our peril...
Even more unfortunate is the effort of some in positions of power and responsibility to indict dedicated scientists as "climate criminals". I sincerely hope the world is not witnessing a new form of persecution of those who defy conventional ignorance and pay a terrible price for their scientifically valid beliefs. [See full text.]
According to an earlier article in the Guardian (3-1-10):
Climate scientists say Senator James Inhofe's call for a criminal investigation into American as well as British scientists who worked on the UN climate body's report or had communications with East Anglia's climate research unit represents an attempt to silence debate on the eve of new proposals for a climate change law.
Inhofe's document ends by naming 17 "key players" in the controversy about CRU's stolen emails, including the Britons Phil Jones and Keith Briffa.
"I think this is like a drag net, just to try and catch everyone whose name happens to be on this list. It's guilt by association and I thought those days were over 50 years ago," said Michael Oppenheimer, of Princeton University, who is on the list of 17 scientists. "It looks like a McCarthyite tactic: pull in anyone who had anything to do with anyone because they happened to converse with some by email, and threaten them with criminal activity."
Inhofe is also accused of further fuelling a spike in hate mail and politically motivated freedom of information requests in the three months since the emails of climate scientists were stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit.
Rick Piltz, a former official in the US government climate science programme who now runs the Climate Science Watch website [here], said Inhofe and others were getting in the way of scientific work. "Scientists who are working in federal labs are being subjected to inquisitions coming from Congress," he said. "There is no question that this is an orchestrated campaign to intimidate scientists."
Michael Mann, a scientist at Penn State University who is on Inhofe's list of 17, said that he had seen a sharp rise in hostile email since November.
"Some of the emails make thinly veiled threats of violence against me and even my family, and law enforcement authorities have been made aware of the matter," he told the Guardian.
He said the attacks appeared to be a co-ordinated effort. "Some of them look cut-and-paste."...
Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist at Nasa's Goddard Institute who is also on the list of 17, said he had seen an increase in freedom of information act requests. "In my previous six years I dealt with one FoIA request. In the last three months, we have had to deal with I think eight," he said. "These FoIAs are fishing expeditions for potentially embarrassing content but they are not FoIA requests for scientific information."
He said Inhofe's call for a criminal investigation created an atmosphere of intimidation. "The idea very clearly is to let it be known that should you be a scientist who speaks out in public then you will be intimidated, you will be harassed, and you will be threatened," he said. "The idea very clearly is to put a chilling effect on scientists speaking out in public and to tell others to keep their heads down. That kind of intimidation is very reminiscent of other periods in US history where people abused their position."
Other scientists on Inhofe's list of 17 admitted they were disturbed by the threat of criminal prosecution.
"I am worried about it, I have to say," said Raymond Bradley, director of the climate science research centre at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who is also on the list of 17. "You can understand that this powerful person is using the power of his office to intimidate people and to harass people and you wonder whether you should have legal counsel. It is a very intimidating thing and that is the point."
Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican on the Senate's environment and public works committee, released a document last week suggesting scientists be investigated for breaking three laws and four government regulations.
The document, produced by members of Inhofe's staff, recycles now familiar sceptic arguments about the stolen emails from East Anglia and the mistakes in the IPCC report.
But climate scientists say the report takes the campaign to a new level by threatening criminal prosecution. The report calls for the inspector generals of all US government agencies touching on the environment to investigate the scientists as a first step to possible prosecution.
"The minority staff of the Senate committee on environment and public works believe the scientists involved violated fundamental ethical principles governing taxpayer-funded research and, in some cases, may have violated federal laws," the report says. [See full text.]
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From iMovie to Final Cut: Creating a New Project
If you are making the transition to from iMovie to Final Cut Pro because you have reached the limits of the beginner video editing program, you will need to learn many things in order to use Final Cut Pro effectively. Even the simplest of tasks are different in Final Cut Pro, and you will need to learn to perform basic functions before you can begin editing videos. With this how-to guide, you will learn about some of the differences in iMovie and Final Cut Pro regarding the methods used to create a new video project.
What You Will Need
- A computer with Final Cut Pro Installed
- A video to edit
Step 1: Setting Up Project Folders
In iMovie, you were used to storing all of your videos in the Project Library and there was no need to create or choose folders for storage. However, with Final Cut Pro, things are not as easy. While you can store videos in the Final Cut Pro folder, this is not a very efficient way of managing your video projects. Therefore, you should create separate work folders for projects that you will be creating in Final Cut Pro. This will make locating and working with movies edited in Final Cut Pro much easier and allow you to get used to organizing your video files in a more efficient manner.
Step 2: Using the File Menu Bar to Create a New Project File
One step of the new project process in Final Cut Pro that you'll be familiar with is the ability to simply use the file menu bar to create a new movie file. Just as you did in iMovie, you can use the 'File | New Project' option to initiate the creation of a new project in Final Cut Pro. Also, you can press the command key on your Mac keyboard and "N" at the same time to open the New Project dialogue box.
Step 3: Setting Up a New Project
Once you initiate the creation of a new file via the 'File | New Project' menu bar option, things start to be a little different in terms of setting up your new project. In iMovie, the only options you need to be concerned with areas naming the new project file and choosing an aspect ratio. However, in Final Cut Pro, there are many options that you can choose from when creating a new project. In Final Cut Pro, not all options are mandatory in order to create a new project; however, at a minimum, you should enable the following options:
- Video Capture
- Audio Capture
- Video Render
- Audio Render
You'll then need to choose a folder where the project will be stored as well as give the new video project a file name.
Step 4: Saving the New Project File
In iMovie, video projects are automatically saved to the project library whenever you set the new project options. However, in Final Cut Pro, you need to manually save the project by going to the menu bar and clicking on the 'File | Save Project' option. Once you save your project, you can begin dragging and dropping video clips into Final Cut Pro to begin your editing process.Popular P&S Cameras for High Quality Photos:
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Detail from an illustration from a 16th century manuscript of Ramayana from Udaipur. This shows the ugly demonesses who are guarding Princess Sita at Ravana's palace in Sri Lanka. While Ravana lives in his luxurious palace, he is holding Sita captive in a nearby grove of Ashok trees. The women restlessly circle around their captive and torment her. As this picture shows, some of them had misshapen faces and animal heads.
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TransContinental Challenge 2011
On 3rd September Don plans to set off from San Francisco, and run 3,100 miles across the United States of America to New York, without a support team. This is the second leg of an attempt to break two of the most gruelling endurance records. He completed the first leg last year, when he rowed the North Atlantic Ocean in a 23 ft rowing boat with 3 others - Livar Nysted, Leven Brown and Ray Carroll. The team broke one of the oldest sporting World Records in history by 11 days, previously held by Harbo and Samuelsen.
Don is attempting to run the 3,100 miles in just 45 days. That's an average of 68 miles per day (up to 16 hours a day running and walking), to challenge the current world record which stands at 46 days. The route will take him through 12 states and some of the harshest terrain and weather conditions in the USA.
There will be stretches of highway where there is nothing but wilderness for 2-3 days. In these areas he will have to depend on his own intuition and skills to find water, safe places to sleep and to deal with the wildlife that will undoubtedly be encountered. In the populated areas he will be asking people to come and participate in running with him for a few miles to involve them in the fun and social aspect of the event.
Completion of this second leg will be a world's first, making Don the only person to have rowed an ocean and run across a continent.
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July 21, 2009
Problem-solving Exercises that Promote Intellectual Development
In a Journal of Engineering Education article (referenced below), Richard Felder and Rebecca Brent propose an instructional model that promotes the intellectual development of science and engineering students.
Among a number of conditions they identify as being relevant to intellectual development, they suggest particular kinds of problems for students to solve. Their list (summarized below) offers ideas relevant in any course where students solve problems.
Predicting outcomes—“Describe physical demonstrations or experiments and have students predict the outcomes and then describe (or if possible, carry out) the demonstrations or experiments and show the actual outcomes.” (p. 281) It is beneficial when students make incorrect predictions. If they are directly confronted with wrong mental pictures, they will be very motivated to make corrections and learn the right perspective on the problem.
Interpreting and modeling physical phenomena—In these problems, students are provided with data from a real or a hypothetical experiment, and then they are asked to use course concepts to explain the results.
Generating ideas and brainstorming—The idea here is to use open-ended exercises to disconnect students from their belief that every problem has one right answer. For example, a teacher might present students with a product design and have them brainstorm as many possible flaws and failures as they can think of. No answer is considered wrong during the brainstorming process.
Identifying problems and troubleshooting—Describe a device (such as a process or system) that is not working effectively, and ask students to speculate on the possible causes of the problem. They might also be asked to devise experimental tests that would confirm or refute their suppositions.
Formulating procedures for solving complex problems—In this situation, students are given “incompletely specified problems.” (p. 282) They start by itemizing what they know. Next they list what they need to know, and finally students explore how they will determine those unknowns. For example, would they look up the unknowns? Calculate them? Measure them? Estimate them from empirical correlations? Use rules of thumb?
Formulating problems—Rather than always giving students the problems, turn the tables. Have students look at previous course content from a designated time period (for example, one week, three weeks) and make up the problems that they then also solve. Challenge students (maybe by giving more credit) to come up with problems that require complex analysis, critical examination, or creative thinking.
Making judgments and decisions and justifying them— “Call on students to make and support judgments on ambiguous or controversial matters.” (p. 282) The point here is not the conclusion per se but the quality of the evidence and reasoning mustered to support their position. In order to do this, students must be taught to evaluate evidence in terms of its reliability and validity.
“Including a variety of problem types in assignments serves an important purpose besides promoting intellectual growth and adoption of a deep approach to learning. Some students are gifted in ways that may not show up on straightforward homework problems. When they are assigned problems that call for different skills, they sometimes discover talents they may not have known they possessed. The effect of this discovery on their self-confidence and subsequent performance levels—even on more conventional problems—can be quite dramatic.” (p. 282)
Reference: Felder, R. M. and Brent, R. (2004). The intellectual development of science and engineering students. Part 2: Teaching to promote growth. Journal of Engineering Education, October, 279–291.
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How Do I Replace a Sill Plate? The 203k Loan!
Replacing the sill plate on a house can sound like an impossible job. The sill plate is basically the buffer between the bottom of your walls and the top of your basement or foundation. It’s treated wood, and it’s anchored to the cement below. Sometimes these need to be replaced. (read about termite damage and sill plates here) But do you want to put jacks under your home and lift it up all on your own? It can be done.
I found an article on ehow.com that explains how to replace a sill plate.
It sounds like a big job to me. Or you can hire a professional to take care of it for you. But how do you pay for it? The Full 203k is used for anything structural. The sill plate falls under that category. Of course, the house must be an owner-occupied home, or fall under the multi-unit qualifications.
Some of the nuances of the FHA 203k loan
We know the sill plate is covered by the 203k renovation loan. Several items are NOT covered.
We also know that borrowers must be owner-occupied home buyers. FHA says investors and nonprofit organizations need not apply.
Ineligible properties include manufactured homes, log homes, homes that have never been completed and any home completely demolished INCLUDING the foundation. So as long as the foundation is there, the 203k is an option.
FHA has a few other requirements like minimum cash investment and mortgage insurance. A licensed/approved contractor must also do the work. Some of these requirements have led people to ask, "Why are 203k loans so terrible and difficult to get?" As that article points out, they shouldn't be so bad. Having a 203k specialist on your team will help answer any of these questions before they’re asked. If you've had a bad experience with the 203k, let us know. Leave a comment below.
Like this information? Find out 4 more repairs covered with the 203k. Or download our free eBook, a 203k Survival Guide. And check the FHA 203k section on our website.
(sill plate photo: Conversations With Friends)
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Pulitzer Prize winning author, Booth Tarkington died on this day in 1946.
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Welcome to First Edition Points
We are an online reference guide providing collectors the details
necessary to help identify modern first edition books.
Today's Most Referenced First Edition Criteria and Points
How to Establish the Value of a Book
The key to establishing a book's value is to first ensure that it is a first edition. A first editions is the earliest printed copy of a published book. Collectors look for first edition books because these tend to have the highest demand and the greatest potential to increase in value over time. There are standard identification criteria that first editions conform because most, but not all, first edition books follow an established identification method established by each book publisher. These first edition criteria are details about what a book looked like when it was initially printed as a first edition. These details include details such as certain codes on the copyright page, the type of the binding, and particular text on the dust jacket.
In addition to the first edition criteria, there are sometimes points of issue that describe some part of a book which changes during the first printing without the standard first edition identification of the publisher changing, thus creating some copies of the first edition that have the point, and some that do not have the point. The most common type of first edition points of issue are typographical mistakes that were changed during the first printing. In these cases, the copies with the mistake are more desirable because they represent the earliest state of a first edition.
The fedpo.com website helps a collector understand the identification criteria and any first edition points of issue by describing details such as a book's binding, a specific typographical error, or a dust jacket review that can only be found on the earliest printings. First edition criteria and points of issue are usually subtle, but they are important features that distinguish a rare first edition from a common reprint.
The most common first edition criteria can be found on a book's copyright page. The copyright page may say that a book is a first edition, or a first printing, or first impression; and it may state additional printing information, or it may provide a printing code indicating what printing a book is from. Each publisher has used various methods over the years to indicate a book's edition and printing. Another common first edition indicator is a book's cover price, which is typically printed on the dust jacket. The presence of a price on a dust jacket is also the most fundamental way to ensure that the dust jacket is not from a book club edition or other type of reprint. Book club editions look similar to genuine first editions, but they are not first editions, and they have very little collectible value.
To find first edition criteria for a specific book, simply type in the name of the book, or the name of the author in the fields above; or browse all of our available entries by clicking on the bars at the bottom of this page. We have pages for hundreds of collectible books where we describe first edition criteria, provide photographs of known first editions, and provide pre-filled eBay, AbeBooks, and Biblio search links for each book so you can quickly establish its most recent market value.
Today's Featured Book: V.
March 30, 2010
V. was written by Thomas Pynchon. The first edition was published in 1963 by Lippincott. It was 492 pages long, and the retail price was $5.95.
First edition criteria: Copyright page has no mention of additional impressions. The copyright text is justified in a V pattern beginning with "COPYRIGHT © 1961, 1963 by Thomas Pynchon", and ending with "Manufactured in the United States of America by H. Wolf, N.Y. Designed by Marshall Lee." Boards are purple cloth with blindstamp "V"s on front with silver lettering and a large V on the spine. Top stain is blue. The dust jacket has chapter headings on the back and no reviews. $5.95 price is on the bottom right corner of the dust jacket front flap. Click here for more photos...
Previously Featured Book: The Stand
March 26, 2010
The Stand was written by Stephen King. The first edition was published in 1978 by Doubleday and Company. It was 823 pages long, and the retail price was $12.95.
Here are the first edition criteria: First Edition is stated on the bottom of the copyright page, with 1978 on title page, and "T39" gutter code on page 823. Boards are mustard with gold lettering on a black cloth spine. The first issue dust jacket has a price of $12.95 on the front flap, and a 35-line quote from the book on the back. The author bio on the back dust jacket flap mentions earlier books only - Carrie, The Shining, Salem's Lot, and Night Shift. Click here for more photos...
March 25, 2010
Episode in Palmetto was written by Erskine Caldwell. The first edition was published in 1950 by Duell, Sloan and Pearce. It was 252 pages long, and the retail price was $2.75.
The first edition criteria are as follows: First edition is stated on the copyright page with no references to subsequent printings. Binding is light green cloth. Back of the dust jacket has photo of the author next to the author's name, and without any critical reviews - only the phrase "America's Best-Selling Novelist". The top of the dust jacket front flap has the $2.75 price. The back dust jacket flap has an advertisement for the uniform edition of Erskine Caldwell. The publisher's name and address is at the bottom of both flaps. Click here for more photos...
March 22, 2010
Raintree County was written by Ross Lockridge. The first edition was published in 1948 by Houghton Mifflin Company. It was 1066 pages long, and the retail price was $3.95.
Here are the first edition criteria: 1948 is stated on the title page. Binding is green cloth with no book-of-the-month club dot on lower rear of board (near the the spine). The first issue dust jacket has a photo of the author on the back panel over a three paragraph biography where the third paragraph states that the author "has four children". This paragraph was removed after the author's death, but might have been restored in a facsimile edition decades later. The front flap of the first issue jacket has a price on the top, and there is no mention anywhere on the jacket that this book was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection.
All first printings seem to have the question "Wasn't Jesus God's?" on line 3 of page 152. We therefore do not consider it to be a first edition point. The question was removed shortly after the first printing, and was eventually restored decades later.
We have seen editions in tan bindings, but we have never observed one with 1948 on the title page, and this suggests that they are not first printings. Some tan binding books lack the book club dot, and some contain the "Wasn't Jesus God's?" question on page 152. These are probably early printings of the first edition. Their existence strengthens our believe that all first printings likely contain the "Wasn't Jesus God's?" question.
The background story of Raintree County and the Lockridge family history can be found at the Raintree County Home Page.
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March 20, 2010
The Dead Zone was written by Stephen King. The first edition was published in 1979 by Viking Press. It was 426 pages long, and the retail price was $11.95.
The first edition criteria are as follows: "First published in 1979 by The Viking Press" is stated on the copyright page with no references to subsequent printings. Boards are black with author's initials embossed on the front, and gold lettering on a black cloth spine. The dust jacket has no reviews. Back of dust jacket has an 11-line quote from the book with ISBN on the bottom right corner. The back dust jacket flap has a photo of the author above a 4-line bio. Click here for more photos...
March 18, 2010
Noah's Compass was written by Anne Tyler. The first edition was published in 2009 by Alfred A. Knopf. It was 277 pages long, and the retail price was $25.95.
Here are the first edition criteria: First Edition is stated on the copyright page with 2009 on the title page. Boards are light green with copper lettering on a textured light gray spine.
Noah's Compass raises significant questions about what it means when a book is published. As you can see from the first edition photos, all indications are that it was published in 2009. The copyright page states First Edition with 2009 as the copyright date. The title page states 2009. The back dust jacket flap has the code "10/2009", which indicates that the published time frame was around October 2009. There is in fact no mention of 2010 anywhere on the book. We even found a library copy where the Received Date was December 31, 2009 - and this lets us know that at least some copies were released in 2009.
Yet the publisher says that the publication date is January, 2010 on their website. The publisher also issued a "Signed Edition" limited to 50 copies; which is basically a regular first edition with a embossed band around the book, and a book plate signed by the author - this book plate explicitly states "FIRST EDITION 2010".
All of this suggests that the publisher intended to publish the book in 2009, and released some books in 2009. But for some reason the publisher changed its mind and declared a new publishing date after the book was already produced. So rather than changing the 2009 publishing information in the book, they left it alone, and simply declared a new publishing date, which they published on their website, in press releases, and on 50 "Signed Edition" book plates.
That said, we decided to go with the original information in the book and list its publication date as 2009. Our reasoning is that the year printed in the book will last longer than the "official" revised date which will only be evident in the 50 limited "Signed Editions". Click here for more photos...
March 08, 2010
Stallion Gate was written by Martin Cruz Smith. The first edition was published in 1986 by Random House. It was 321 pages long, and the retail price was $17.95.
The first edition criteria are as follows: First Edition is stated below Random House number line "24689753" AND there is no book club dot on the back boards.
Boards are blue/purple with silver lettering on a navy blue spine. The ISBN is present on the lower right corner of the dust jacket back panel.
Note: while the book club dust jacket can easily be identified by lack of price and lack of ISBN, the book itself states first edition with the same number line. The only difference between the true first edition book and the book club edition book is a small embossed dot on the back of the book club boards near the spine (see photo). Click here for more photos...
March 05, 2010
American Salvage was written by Bonnie Jo Campbell. The first edition was published in 2009 by Wayne State University Press. It was 170 pages long.
Here are the first edition criteria: The copyright page has full number line "13 12 11 10 09 5 4 3 2 1". Format is softcover.
The four reviews on the back of the first printing remained the same on the second and other early printings. These reviews are by Carolyn Chute, Rachael Perry, Laura Kasischke, and Jack Driscoll. American Salvage was published as part of Wayne State University's Made in Michigan writers series. The first printing consisted of 1,500 copies. There is no price listed anywhere on the book.
Note: American Salvage was reprinted by W. W. Norton & Company in late 2009. The Norton edition features the same cover photo by Mary Whalen, but the Norton edition uses a larger portion of the photo across the entire front cover, while the original Wayne State edition features a cropped photo that is positioned on the bottom two-thirds of the front cover. Also, the first Norton printing will have a full number line, so be careful not rely on this as your sole method of first edition identification.
American Salvage was a finalist for the National Book Award. Click here for more photos...
This website is intended to help guide you and give you insight into what to look for when identifying first editions. As such, the information presented here may not always be 100% accurate. Gathering and updating information about these books is more an art than a science, so some of our first edition points may be wrong. If you spot a mistake, drop us an e-mail and we will do our best to investigate and fix it.
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Is there anything LEGO can't build? Jen-Luc Piquant is positively giddy over a recent find while trawling Twitter. It seems science journalist Adam Rutherford (who once visited us here in Los Angeles and got to be all fabulous, attending film premieres and all) and some pals have put together a behind-the-scenes video of a guy who built a working replica of the famed (in certain circles) Antikythera Mechanism -- entirely out of LEGOs.
Allow me to plagiarize one of my own earlier posts to give you a bit of background. In 1900, a Greek sponge diver named Elias Stadiatis discovered the wreck of an ancient cargo ship off the coast of Antikythera island in Greece. He and other divers recovered all kinds of artifacts from the ship. A year later, an archaeologist was studying what he thought was just a piece of rock recovered from the shipwreck, and noticed there was a gear wheel embedded in it. It turned out to be an ancient mechanical device -- perhaps the earliest example of a geared device -- now known as the Antikythera mechanism and housed in the Bronze Collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. The device was originally housed in a wooden box roughly the size of a shoebox, with dials on the outside and containing a complex assembly of gear wheels within. Its very existence offers strong evidence that such technology existed as early as 150-100 BC but the knowledge was subsequently lost. Similar machines with equivalent complexity didn't appear again until the 18th century.
It took decades just to clean it off, and in 1951, a British science historian named Derek J. de Solla Price began his life's work investigating the theoretical workings of the device. Based on X-ray photographs of the fragments, he published a handful of minor papers before the first major paper appeared in Scientific American in June 1959.
Entitled "An Ancient Greek Computer," the article detailed Price's hypothesis that the mechanism had been used to calculate the motions of stars and planets -- making it the first known analog computer. A November 30, 2006, article in Nature included a new reconstruction of the device based on the high-resolution X-ray tomography conducted by the study. Based on the new discoveries, the mechanism has been pretty much confirmed to be an astronomical computer used to predict the positions of heavenly bodies in the sky.
And here's where the LEGO comes in, because now that the Antikythera Mechanism has been cleaned off, x-rayed, and reconstructed (at least on paper), those "blueprints" could be used to build a real working model with moving parts and everything. Out of plastic building blocks. The ancient Greeks didn't have LEGOs, otherwise I'm sure they would have done exactly what Andy Carol did. Per the Small Mammals blog:
This is a 2000-year-old analog computing device reconstructed out of Lego. It predicts solar and lunar eclipses, accurate to within two hours — all using plastic gears. Andy Carol, its designer, builds mechanical computers out of Lego as a hobby. He made this device basically because Adam Rutherford, an editor and producer at Nature, dared him to. When Adam heard that Andy had actually built the device, he called me and said, “Well, clearly we have to make some sort of film about this thing now.”
That was almost a year ago.
Read on to find out exactly how they did it. A year they spent on this -- just the film part! -- and the painstaking effort and professionalism definitely shows. This is so many kinds of win, I really have nothing much to say about it, other than to go all Keanu on you: "Whoa. Duuuudes....." Adam et al., you are my heroes.
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A Santa Barbara County Hotel Tax, Measure K
ballot question was on the June 8, 2010 ballot
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Measure K maintained an existing 10% bed tax rate on hotels in the unincorporated areas of the county. The bed tax for these hotels was moved to 10% from 8% in 1990, with the additional 2% set to expire in 2010. If Measure K had been defeated, the bed tax would have gone back to 8%. If that had happened, the county would have received about $1.2 million less in bed tax revenue than it currently does.
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- These final, certified results are from the Santa Barbara County elections office.
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The question on the ballot:
|| MEASURE K: Shall an ordinance to continue Section 32-12 of the Santa Barbara County Code to sustain the current transient occupancy tax rate of ten percent (10%) upon transients occupying defined hotels located only within the unincorporated area of Santa Barbara County be approved?
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By Dancho Danchev
On their way to occupy an even bigger market share, spammers constantly look for new ways to increase visitor conversion, and target as many users as possible with the least amount of time and money invested.
For years, their tactics included the development of cybercrime friendly online communities, sophisticated harvesting and validation of emails and user names across popular Web services, abusing the Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM) trust established between the most popular providers of free Web based email, development of DIY image spam generating platforms, conversion of malware-infected hosts into spam spewing zombies, and most importantly, efficient ways to bypass anti-spam filters put in place by the security industry.
In this post, I’ll profile a recently advertised Ask.fm spamming tool, capable of spamming thousands of users through the use of proxies, which are in fact malware-infected hosts converted to anonymization proxies.
Screenshot of the Ask.fm spamming tool:
Based on its features, it requires a valid account at Ask.fm to be used as a foundation of the campaign. It then requires a user names list, the spam message, and the speed of the spam campaign, in milliseconds. It also claims to have the capability to harvest user names of Ask.fm users based on a particular city. It also offers the ability to user proxies as a way to prevent the automatic detection of the spam campaign in cases when it’s relying on a single IP for the initial start of the campaign.
Would this DIY spamming tool have an impact on the popular Ask.fm service? Not at all. Thanks to the tool’s inability to support multiple automatically registered accounts in combination with proxies, I can conclude that it will have a very limited impact on the overall spam level at Ask.fm.
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Polar bears are not a pretty recent (~150,000 million years ago) offshoot of brown bears, that then adapted to Arctic conditions quickly, as previously thought. That idea had come from mitochondrial DNA study, and from some evidence that there have been some recent interbreeding between brown and polar bears. Mitochondrial DNA studies are useful, but they give an incomplete picture of evolution because mtDNA is transmitted only through the maternal lineage. A new analysis of 14 segments of nuclear DNA of polar bears, brown bears, and black bears reveals that brown bears and polar bears had a common ancestor that split from black bears approximately 600,000 years ago. Analysis of the whole genome of all 3 species is needed to pinpoint the exact date of the split. Apparently the mtDNA comes from a mating between extinct Irish brown bears and polar bears about 130,000 years ago, at times of environmental stress that caused a population bottleneck. The brown bear mitochondrial DNA then spread to the whole polar bear population.
Polar bears, long thought to have branched off relatively recently from brown bears, developing their white coats, webbed paws and other adaptations over the last 150,000 years or so to cope with life on Arctic Sea ice, are not descended from brown bears, scientists report.
Instead, according to a research team that looked at DNA samples from the two species and from black bears, the brown bear and polar bear ancestral lines have a common ancestor and split about 600,000 years ago.
The report, published online on Thursday in the journal Science, is the latest attempt to understand the surprisingly murky origins of one of the most familiar animals on earth, and a potent environmental symbol because it is losing the sea ice it depends on to a warming climate. Because of climate change, and threats from shipping, hunting and pollution, the polar bear is listed as “vulnerable,” one level below endangered, by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
The report comes to no conclusion about how sensitive the bears are to the current loss of the sea ice that they live on, and the evolutionary tale it presents can be read in different ways.
The findings challenge the idea that the bears adapted very quickly, but confirm that they have made it through warming periods and loss of sea ice before. It may have been touch and go for the bears, however, because the authors find evidence of evolutionary bottlenecks, probably during warm periods, when only small populations survived, even though warming was occurring much more slowly than it is now.
What they found, Dr. Hailer said, was that polar bears “are older and much more genetically unique” than had been thought. Other studies in the past few years suggested that the species was “a very recent offshoot from brown bears,” he said, dating from about 150,000 years ago.
Read the rest here.
You meant 6,000 years, correct? =)
No, she means further back in time thus 600,000 years/
ScienceDaily (Apr. 20, 2012) — A study appearing in the current issue of the journal Science reveals that polar bears evolved as early as some 600,000 years ago. An international team led by researchers from the German Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK‐F) shows the largest arctic carnivore to be five times older than previously recognized. The new findings on the evolutionary history of polar bears are the result of an analysis of information from the nuclear genome of polar and brown bears, and shed new light on conservation issues regarding this endangered arctic specialist.
But doone, the Earth is only 6,000 years old! :-P
Damn right, just ask Pat Robertson. =)
This one's a keeper. =)
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I wish it were as surprising as it is disturbing that nearly 20% of Americans now believe President Obama is a Muslim, but it’s not. Nor is it simply possible to explain the situation by asserting that that many Americans are kooks or idiots for believing it to be true, even though it is certainly not. So what is going on?
In a culture increasingly unable to distinguish between available data and reliable information, more and more Americans will think themselves justified in holding beliefs which have no basis in fact. And it is the glut of available data, available in far greater quantity and with far greater speed than most of us can handle intelligently, which contributes to the spread of absurd notions such as the one reported by this recent poll conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
One might attribute the rise in those who think the president is a Muslim, up from 11% in March 2009, to Mr. Obama’s recent comments affirming the right of Muslims to build a community center and mosque near the site of the 9/11 attacks, but the poll was conducted before the president made those remarks. And the idea that these numbers are related to Mr. Obama backing away from his beliefs as a Christian has no support either, having given numerous speeches in the past 18 months in which he has spoken about his personal religious beliefs.
It has been said that the only difference between perception and reality is that it’s harder to change perception, and never has that been truer than it is right now. All of us have access to any information we seek with a few simple clicks of a mouse. But the fact that something is available to us doesn’t make it true and certainly doesn’t make it good for us. In fact, the more choices that we have as consumers of any product, and especially so when it comes to information, the more discriminating we must become as consumers.
In the case of the growing numbers of people who believe that President Obama is a Muslim, that means asking ourselves questions about how we came to hold whatever belief we have on the matter, upon what sources do we base the contention, do they include sources of information which differ from our own political views, and does our opinion about the president’s religious persuasion simply confirm all of our other opinions about him?
Answering those kinds of questions is how we move from being brain-dead propagandists who simply seek the “facts” which confirm that which we already believe, to intelligent consumers in a world suffering from too much available information and too little wisdom to know how to assess it.
Happily, we can all cultivate the needed wisdom by simply slowing down, gathering views from multiple perspectives and remembering that it’s not possible for any of us to be right all of the time. In fact, if you are never wrong, you are never learning, and unless you think you are God, there is always more to learn.
People need not approve of President Obama or anything he does, but when our beliefs about who he is are detached from reality, even the legitimate critiques we may have, can be written off as the ravings of fools. In a culture which thrives on intelligent critique, as all democracies do, that would be tragic.
The Internet demands new skills from us. Once upon a time, we fought hard to obtain bits of information in a world where news traveled slowly and even then reached only a select elite. That too was bad for democracy. Happily, that era has passed.
Now we must shift from being miners chiseling out precious nuggets of news, to sharp-eyed sifters who can distinguish between precious facts and the fool’s gold of cheap propaganda. When that shift happens, the country will be stronger, whoever happens to be president and whatever faith they happen to follow.
Brad Hirschfield is the author of "You Don’t Have to Be Wrong for Me to Be Right: Finding Faith Without Fanaticism," and the President of Clal-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership.
Fox Forum is on Twitter. Follow us @fxnopinion.
Rabbi Brad Hirschfield is the author of "You Don’t Have to Be Wrong for Me to Be Right: Finding Faith Without Fanaticism," and president of Clal-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership.
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Winter's Hill Vineyard began when Peter and Emily Gladhart planted 20 acres of vines in 1990. 35 acres of Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, and Pinot Blanc now provide virtually all of the grapes used to make Winter's Hill wines.
Peter manages the vineyard along with a team of six long-term employees who perform the multitude of tasks necessary to produce exceptional fruit. All of the pruning, training, shoot thinning, crop reduction, and multiple passes of tucking are done by hand. Harvest is also done by hand, using small clippers and five gallon buckets. This means that each of our more than 42,000 plants is touched by a human hand more than 10 times a year. Two tractors are used for cultivation, mowing, spraying, hedging, and transporting the harvested grapes to the winery. A total of 435 hours of tractor usage per year gives you lots of time to think. The original 25 hp John Deere tractor we purchased in 1990 is still working hard every week.
Our vineyards are located in the Dundee Hills, where Oregon's modern wine industry began in the late 1960�s. We are fortunate to have ideal conditions for a vineyard. Elevation ranges from 525-750 feet above sea level, with a gentle Southern slope. Our soil is Jory, the most sought after soil type for producing premium wines in Oregon. Our property borders several of Oregon's best known vineyards, including Domaine Serene, Stoller, Eyrie, and Vista Hills. To locate our vineyard, follow the link to the Map of the Dundee Hills.
In the development of our vineyards, we have been careful to preserve important stands of Oregon White Oak and Douglas Fir woodland. These provide essential habitat for the many species of wildlife that share the Dundee Hills with us. We have also undertaken large scale efforts to restore heritage Oak Savannah, and re-establish native Willamette Valley prairie. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and Yamhill Country Soil and Water Conservation Department have both provided us with technical advice and financial assistance in recognition of the importance of this work. You can learn more about Oak Savannah restoration at OregonOaks.org, We are also pleased to be named to the Willamette Valley Birding Trail, additional recognition of the diverse and valuable wildlife habitat preserved at Winter's Hill.
In addition to producing our own Estate Wines, Winter's Hill also provides grapes to several other Oregon wineries. The fruit is of such high quality that many pay us the high compliment of producing 'Vineyard Designated' wines. That means that only Winter's Hill fruit is used in special bottlings and that fact is noted on the label. Please visit Anne Amie Vineyards, Matello Wine Cellars, Flying Dutchman Winery, Cottonwood Winery, and Lange Estate Winery, to learn more about the excellent wines they make with grapes from Winter's Hill Vineyard.
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Real People Real Problems: An Evaluation of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs of the Older Americans Act
ORIGINS OF THE STUDY AND REPORT
This report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) addresses important aspects of the LTC ombudsman program—specifically the LTC ombudsmen’s ability to deal with problems that affect the care provided to and the quality of life achieved by elderly residents of LTC facilities. The ombudsman program arose in response to the widespread perception of problems in nursing facility quality. The program began in 1972 through five state demonstration projects that were funded by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare’s Health Services and Mental Health Administration. The Administration on Aging (AoA) received responsibility for the program during a departmental reorganization in 1973 and has retained that responsibility over the past two decades.
Recently, policymakers—at the urging of ombudsmen themselves— concluded that a more in-depth examination of the program is warranted, with the aim of clarifying present strengths and weaknesses and assessing the program’s potential for future contributions. To this end, the Congress of the United States directed, in the 1992 reauthorization of the Older Americans Act (OAA), that the Assistant Secretary for Aging conduct a study of the state LTC ombudsman programs. Through a contractual arrangement, the IOM carried out the study.
This report is the culmination of that work, which commenced in October 1993. To conduct the study, the IOM appointed a 16-member expert committee comprising individuals recognized for their expertise in LTC, medicine, medical sociology, health care policy and research, clinical research, health law, health care administration, state government policy and program administration, consumer advocacy, public health, voluntarism, and the LTC ombudsman program (for details of committee members’ backgrounds and specialties, see Appendix D).
The committee’s report examines four key issues:
the extent of compliance with the program’s federal mandates, including conflict of interest issues;
the availability of, unmet need for, and effectiveness of the ombudsman program for residents of LTC facilities;
the adequacy of federal and other resources available to operate the programs; and
the need for and feasibility of providing ombudsman services to older individuals who are not residing in LTC facilities.
To inform itself on issues pertaining to this charge, the committee engaged in a variety of factfinding activities. These included site visits, seven commissioned papers, numerous contacts with a wide array of ombudsmen and
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If all goes to plan, student arriving for the first day of school this September will be greeted with solar panels layered on Belmont schools roofs, providing the town with environmentally-positive energy and the school department with millions of dollars in savings over the next decade.
And the beauty of the project concocted by the Belmont Solar Initiative is it would not cost Belmont a penny in capital while allowing the schools to keep approximately $2.6 million.
The plan to generate nearly a million-and-a-half kilowatt hour of energy annually from the town's six schools – the High School, Chenery Middle School and the four elementary schools – was presented to the Belmont School Committee Tuesday night, Jan. 24, by longtime environmental campaigner and Belmont Energy Committee co-chairman Roger Colton and Sustainable Belmont Chairman John Kolterman, both who head the Belmont Solar Initiative.
The plan to install solar photovoltaic system on school and other town buildings has been advocated since the release two years ago of the Belmont Climate Action Plan when Town Meeting endorsed reducing the town's carbon footprint by 80 percent by 2050.
"What we are proposing is not new concept," said Colton. "We are taking one of the recommendations and move it to implementation."
Under the plan, the six schools system would cut carbon dioxide by 1.3 million pounds. That would be like reducing vehicle trips in New England by 1.7 million miles.
While not calling the plan a total solution to cutting carbon and other chemicals in Belmont, Colton said he'd take the level of reduction "any day."
The plan presented Tuesday would involve the school department entering into a power purchase agreement. Rather than buying panels and run the system itself, the schools would "host" the system and purchase the electricity from the panels' owner and or operator.
Colton said being the system's host is made affordable for the panels owner by a series of federal and state solar power incentives including tax credits, a large first-year depreciation, state tax exemptions and a form of renewable energy certificate known as Solar Renewable Energy Certificates, that can be sold and traded or bartered on a market.
The schools would see direct cost savings with the reduction of electrical expenses from the power generated on-site at the full retail rate to the Belmont Municipal Light Department.
In addition, any "extra" energy produced from the system will be "returned" to the Light Department at the wholesale generation rate, reducing school department expenses further.
"This could be oodles of money," said Colton of the "this stream of revenue."
$2.6 million in a decade
While his initial calculations are $2.6 million over 10 years, "we have seen (similar environmental systems) become more valuable over time and I suspect that is what will happen here," said Colton.
"We are asking (the School Committee) to pursue a project that is environmentally and financially friendly," said Colton.
The School Committee will not need to look far to find someone experienced in converting roof tops to energy power plants. Interim Belmont School Superintendent Thomas Kingston oversaw the installation of solar power systems on Chelsea schools when he headed that school system earlier this decade.
"It was a success in Chelsea," said Kingston. While the system did not produce a substantial savings upfront, over time "the system did generate a significant amount to the bottom line," he said.
Furthermore, the system will have an educational component as students will be able to view instruments that show the power produced and consumed in kiosks in a central location as well as working panels located in parking lots; a concept that Kingston said was quite successful in Chelsea.
The Solar Initiative was not asking the School Committee to approve the plan Tuesday but only to approve the creation of a nine-member Belmont Solar Oversight Committee that will review the project and set up a timeline for its installation.
Under his ambitious time line, Colton foresees approval from the School Committee and the Belmont Board of Selectmen in the next few weeks to OK the Oversight group which will release a RFP (request for proposal) to interested firms willing to "host" the system.
He sees responses to the proposal by mid-May and a contract signed a month later with construction and installation from July to October of this year.
But Colton said if all goes well and "we all work hard," schools will have the panels up "before the kids are back to school."
"That would be extraordinarily exciting," said Colton.
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan is pushing for schools to stop using printed textbooks within the next few years.
It’s not just a matter of keeping the curriculum current, Duncan said. Digital textbooks will help American students keep up with other countries’ students who consistently outperform them.
Peggy Finch, Marion County Coordinator for Instructional Materials and Charter Schools, said digital resources will help students today learn best.
“We need to teach the way the kids learn, and they learn digitally,” she said.
Finch said it’s impossible for Marion County schools to stop using printed textbooks completely because there are not enough digital resources for every student.
“We’re not moving away from printed textbooks because we don’t have a single school with a computer for every child,” Finch said in reference to Marion County.
Besides that, Finch said there are still benefits to hard copies: “I don’t want them to become obsolete because there are times it’s nice to have a book. We have students right now who are very, very bright, who have access to all the tech out there, who still want a book.
The combination of digital resources and printed textbooks will provide the best way to teach students, Finch said, and there is no set date for when Marion County will go paperless.
“The more avenues you have for reaching students, the better you’re going to be.”
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Manipal University campus covers 313 acres of land with 20, 000 inhabitants and is built on lateritic rock. Over the years, the entire place has been transformed into a green campus, which is testimony of the dedication and commitment of the management towards a greener Manipal. This transformation was made possible by adopting various innovative and scientific methods in the areas of solid waste management, rainwater harvesting, energy conservation and waste water recycling to name a few
Since inception, the Manipal group has always viewed community and social development as its primary mission. There has always been a well-defined focus on enhancing the quality of life in and around Manipal. As part of this larger mission, it has been the constant endeavor of the Manipal group to make Manipal a ‘‘Sustainable Eco-campus’’.
Apart from this it is a ‘No Smoking Campus’ and all vehicles entering the campus are required to have a Pollution under control certificate. Rain water harvesting, conservation and recycling of water, state-of-the-art waste disposal systems, energy saving devices and use of solar energy wherever possible are a few innovative methods which have made the atmosphere in Manipal very eco-friendly.
Manipal University has been certified as complying to ISO 9001:2008 & 14001:2004 requirements which is a series of voluntary standards on Quality and Environmental Management Systems (EMS) developed and maintained by ISO. The ISO 14000 family addresses “Environmental Management". This means what the organization does to; minimize harmful effects on the environment caused by its activities and continually improve its environmental performance. At Manipal, ‘‘Sustainable Development” is not a mere slogan but has become a way of life.
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[Editor's note: Geeky urban geography with map diagrams! See related post discussing cultural background for US grids and the example block sizes in the Washington DC metro.]
Republished from Greater Greater Washington.
By Daniel Nairn • May 31, 2010 9:54 am
I wanted a nerdy planning-related poster for my wall (other than the periodic table of city planning), so I made one this week. I scoured Google Earth and measured that quintessentially American grid in about a hundred downtowns around the country.
Of course, there are variations in block proportions within downtowns, but I tried to pick cities that had more uniformity than average to come up with a single prototype. (Washington, DC has very little uniformity.)
Exploring these grid proportions messed with my preconceptions. I assumed the more western and newer cities would have larger grids than the more eastern and older cities, but no obvious pattern is discernible to me. Mobile, AL, settled by French colonists in the early 18th century, Tulsa, OK, a 19th century farming town, and Anchorage, AK, a 20th century frontier town, all share the same 300′ x 300′ internal block (street widths vary a little). What compelled the early settlers of these towns to choose, say, 220′ over 440′ lengths? I can’t say I have any idea right now.
Manhattan is also a curious story. According to Witold Rybczynski, the expanding nation unequivocally chose the 1811 Commissioner’s Grid of New York City over L’Enfant’s baroque-influenced plan for Washington, DC as the model for new towns. While this is surely true, it begs the question: why are New York’s long and skinny blocks not found anywhere else in the country? You would think at least one group of western settlers would seek to emulate their home town of New York more exactly.
I’m leaving aside the interesting value questions around block size. Ever since Jacobs, conventional wisdom has held that smaller blocks are preferable for walkability, but urban designer Fannis Grammenos challenges the grid somewhat in a Planetizen post.
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The Importance of a Coding Certificate
By Pamela Fisher, CCS, CCS-P
“To get certified or to not get certified, that is the question.”
The reality is that the need for attaining coding certification is growing every day. Employers value credentials. A recent American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) survey found that employers in the health care field place a high value on certification. Sixty-eight percent of employers reported that they chose a certified candidate over one who was not certified. Fifty-three percent consider certification when promoting employees over equally skilled and experienced workers. In addition to the perceived value of certification by employers, certified coding professionals report earning more than their non-certified peers.
There are two primary organizations that coders can become certified through, AHIMA and the American Association of Professional Coders (AAPC). Each organization has several certifications that coders can attain, but how do you know which certification is best for you?
AHIMA’s mission is “To be the professional community that improves health care by advancing best practices and standards for health information management, and the trusted source for education, research, and professional credentialing.” AHIMA offers the Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA), Registered Health Information Technologist (RHIT), Certified Coding Specialist (CCS), Certified Coding Specialist – Physician-Based (CCS-P), and Certified Coding Associate (CCA) certifications.
Currently, the CCS, CCS-P, and CCA certifications do not require a college degree, only a high school diploma or equivalent education. AHIMA is currently evaluating whether to elevate the requirement for their coding credentials to require an associate’s degree.
AAPC provides certified credentials to medical coders in physician offices, hospital outpatient facilities, ambulatory surgical centers, and in payer organizations. AAPC offers the Certified Professional Coder (CPC), Certified Professional Coder- Outpatient Hospital (CPC-H), Certified Professional Coder – payer (CPC-P), and certified interventional radiology cardiovascular coder (CIRCC).
AAPC recommends that applicants have an associate’s degree, but it is not a requirement. At least two years medical coding experience is required for the CPC, CPC-H, and CPC-P. Examinees without this experience will be awarded the designation of apprentice until certain requirements have been met.
There has been much debate over which organization and which certification is better. There is a lot of information out there and each individual should make their own decision as to which certification is best for them. The bottom line is that any coding certification is valuable, it just depends on what type of setting one wishes to work in.
A survey I conducted of several local North Carolina hospitals shows that most are now requiring a certification in order to be considered for a coding position. Typically the RHIA, RHIT or CCS certification is required. Some hospitals are now requiring that their uncertified coders become certified in order to keep their jobs, while some will not require previously hired coders to obtain credentials. One Raleigh hospital surveyed made an interesting observation that the Triangle area (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill) has an abundance of certified coders making it easy to choose a qualified candidate. There is plenty of competition out there, especially in this economy.
To get certified or to not get certified, the answer seems like an easy one to me!
Editor’s Note: Pamela Fisher, CCS, CCS-P, is a coding and auditing consultant in Apex, NC for Clinical-Insights.
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December 31, 2011
Sports physicals in Austin are nothing new, any family with that has teens will need one. You should be thinking ahead, though. Plan for what your kids are going to need in the coming years, that way you’ll know that your needs and the needs of your kdis will be met properly. See, a sports physical is something that is required by most schools for participation in different types of competitive sports. More than that, though, you want to know your kids are prepared and thoroughly checked out for yourself. For this reason, you want to think through what clinic you choose, and the strategy you use to provide the standard care (flu shots, sports physicals, checkups and the like) they receive. What does that mean? Let’s dig a little deeper.
You probably already know that there are dozens of institutions within a few miles of the typical home in Austin, Tx. that offer an array of services, from flu shots to checkups and other services. Most of these institutions offer competition based on price, but is that what you really want? You have to consider how they arrive at these cheaper (or at least, the perception of cheaper) prices. They have to hire at the lowest rate, which means they'll only attract the lowest level of talent. Is this who you want to be giving your kids a flu shot or a checkup?
A better plan is to have all your family's care provided under one roof. Have them attended by the same staff, and the same doctors, so that you know they'll get the same care.
This is important when it comes to sports physicals. Having all the records of your kids' health in one place, rather than spread out among the several institutions around town that you would use for all these other services, is a much better long terh strategy for your family's health.
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Testicular Cancer Treatment Increases Leukemia Risk
Men Who receive either of two kinds of treatment for testicular cancer appear to be at increased risk for leukemia, according to a recent study. Researchers found leukemia in men who received radiation therapy and in some taking cisplatin, a chemotherapy drug commonly used to treat testicular cancer.
The risk for men taking radiation therapy was three times greater than in those not receiving radiation, and men who received higher doses were at even greater risk. Cisplatin, a standard part of most testicular cancer chemotherapy combinations, also increased the risk of leukemia to three times higher than normal, and men receiving especially high doses were at greater risk for leukemia.
Researchers point out, however, that the benefits of both treatments far outweigh the small risk of leukemia. (Journal of the National Cancer Institute, July 19, 2000)
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Governor Ernie Fletcher’s Communications Office
Governor Fletcher Requests Ruling on Foundations of American Law and Government Display
Donated display includes copy of the King James version of the Ten Commandments
FRANKFORT, Ky. – Governor Ernie Fletcher has asked the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky to clarify an order it issued in 2006 to enjoin the display of a Ten Commandments monument on the Capitol Grounds.
A motion filed Oct. 29 by the Governor’s Office of General Counsel asks the court to stipulate that the injunction does not apply to a recently donated “Foundations of American Law and Government” display. The motion further contends that the display is constitutional since it has a predominately secular purpose and other federal courts have upheld identical displays.
The request was made after the “Foundations” display was donated to the Governor’s Office by a private citizen. In addition to a King James version of the Ten Commandments, the display includes a copy of the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, the Magna Carta, the lyrics of the Star Spangled Banner, the national motto, “In God We Trust,” the preamble to the Kentucky Constitution, the Bill of Rights and a picture of Lady Justice.
“After receiving this display – and hundreds of phone calls from constituents questioning why the Ten Commandments aren’t on display in the Capitol – I directed my general counsel to seek clarification of the existing court order,” said Governor Fletcher. “It is obvious that this subject is a passionate one for citizens across the Commonwealth. It is our duty to determine the legality of displaying these documents.”
The documents in the “Foundations” display are all of the same size and each is accompanied by a statement describing its historical and legal significance. The display is identical to the displays posted in the Mercer and Rowan County Courthouses and upheld as constitutional in ACLU v. Mercer County, Ky., 432 F.3d 624 (6th Cir. 2005) and ACLU v. Rowan County, Ky., --- F.Supp.2d ---, 2007 WL 2780386 (E.D. Ky. 2007).
In March 2006, Governor Fletcher signed HB 277 into law. That legislation directs the Historic Properties Advisory Commission to retrieve the Ten Commandments Monument donated by the Fraternal Order of Eagles and relocate it to the Capitol grounds.
However, in June 2006, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky entered an order preventing the display of the monument until the court reviews the state’s plan for the display and determines that it complies with applicable legal precedents.
On Oct. 29, 2007, the Governor's Office of General Counsel entered an appearance in the same federal court seeking to clarify the 2006 order.
If the court grants the motion, the Governor will promptly issue an executive order directing the Finance Cabinet to post the “Foundations” display inside the Capitol building for the purpose of educating citizens about the foundations of our law and government.
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No matter if we’re talking about cereal, cough syrup or batteries, products featuring nationally recognized name brands tend to cost more than their generic store-brand counterparts. But the assumption that higher price means higher quality is fading.
The Great Recession brought with it new opportunities for supermarkets and drugstores to reach out to consumers who grew increasingly eager to save on everyday purchases. One of the simplest strategies to trim bills has been to switch to cheaper brands — or rather, generic “no-name” brands sold only at specific chains.
These products, also categorized as store brands or private-label goods, include Archer Farms, available only at Target, Whole Foods’ 365 Everyday Value line and eponymous labels at CVS and Publix, among other stores. By late 2010, surveys indicated that 93% of consumers had changed their grocery-shopping habits because of the economic downturn, and many of them did so by trying out more store-branded goods, sampling everything from generic shampoo to generic frozen pizza.
For the most part, consumers have been impressed by the no-name brands, with many of them scoring well in blind taste tests. (The taste tests referenced were for things like orange juice and soup, not shampoo — though it’d be really impressive if any shampoo scored well in a taste-off.) Consumers have also gotten clued in to the fact that many “generic” store-brand foods are actually made by the same companies that produce the higher-priced name-brand stuff. The foods have been known to come out of the same factories, with the same ingredients inside and everything, with the only difference being the label. The result is that often, switching to a store brand is an easy way to save 30% or so, without sacrificing quality.
Because store-brand sales are often more profitable than those of national brands, major chains have been putting more effort into bringing generics to the marketplace. It’s been reported that the growth of store-brand sales at Safeway has been outpacing national brands by a ratio of 3 to 1, while nearly one-third of the new items introduced at Kroger stores are house-brand products.
As store brands inched up in popularity, private-label prices rose as well. Even so, it’s still common for store brands to cost 25% to 30% less than their name-brand equivalents at full retail prices.
What’s the latest on store brands? A new “Private Label” report from the Integer Group offers some insights. Here are some highlights from the study:
Women are especially likely to check out store brands. Most shoppers scope out both private-label and name-brand products before making purchases: 77% of all consumers report doing so. But women are far more likely to compare store and name brands — 9 in 10 are known to look at both options before making selections.
Guys are cool with generic health-and-beauty products. Unsurprisingly, women care more than men when it comes to products that go on their skin and in their hair. While 74% of women report a preference for name-brand health-and-beauty merchandise, just 56% of men say they like name brands better.
Brands make a big difference with laundry detergent. Of the eight product categories covered in the study (including batteries, ice cream, milk, cereal, and cookies and snacks), consumers think brand names are most important when it comes to laundry detergent: 69% prefer name brands in the category.
But not so much with medicine and milk. Only 26% of consumers report a preference for name-brand over house-brand milk. As for aspirin, cough syrup and other over-the-counter medicines, 68% of shoppers say they actually prefer the generic store-brand versions — presumably because they know the ingredients are virtually identical to pricier name brands.
Race plays a role in name-brand preference. African Americans are more likely to report a preference for name-brand detergent (76%), cereal (72%), cookies (68%) and ice cream (62%), compared with whites (68%, 61%, 56% and 50%, respectively). More whites, on the other hand, go for name-brand batteries — 65%, compared with 57% for African Americans.
Coupons and sales help boost name brands. Many of the shoppers refuse to switch to private-label products because of their impression that, with a little timing and strategy, generics aren’t much cheaper. Of those who stick with name brands, 45% say they do so at least partly because they can find coupons for their brands (up from 35% in 2010), and 41% say their brand is often on sale (up from 36% two years ago).
Fewer people assume a brand name means top quality. This is truly the biggest takeaway — and a cause for concern among manufacturers who think they can be successful simply because they have a nationally known brand. In 2010, 57% of consumers agreed with the statement “Brand names are not better quality.” More recently, the figure inched up to 64%.
And if brand names do not represent better quality, why would it be worth paying more for them?
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YUM-O! empowers kids and their families to develop healthy relationships with food and cooking.
Say hello to springtime with this delightful, wholesome meal!
Far Eastern flavors add an exotic touch to tender steak and noodles.
This catch of the day is reading for dipping!
This is the easiest ever (and super delicious!) lamb supper – it can even be prepared as a make-ahead meal!
Bettina Elias Siegel is a writer who is passionate about school food reform. Her blog, The Lunch Tray, initially launched as a journal of her school food reform initiatives in Houston, TX; it now draws readers from all fifty states and as many foreign countries who are interested in children and food and the relationship between the two – as Bettina sums it up, people who are interested in “kids and food, in school and out.”
School food reform is the "raison d’etre" of The Lunch Tray and Bettina posts about this topic – including the latest news, her own thoughts and guest blog posts – several times a week. There are also numerous resources on the site to help visitors learn about school reform and improve the food culture in their school districts.
You'll also find posts about handling picky eaters, exchanges between parents about lunch box ideas, weeknight dinners and recipes as well as all sorts of other interesting tidbits when it comes to kids and food.
Visit The Lunch Tray and join the conversation about school food reform and more!
with recipes that families will love cooking and eating together!more
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Hot peppers may help trim waistlineApril 28th, 2010 - 3:57 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, April 28 (IANS) Hot peppers contain a substance called capsaicin that not only adds spice to our food but can actually cause our body to heat up. Evidence suggests that the heat generating power of peppers can help shed those extra inches.
Researchers assume that plants evolved to contain capsaicin because it protected them from being eaten by insects and other pesky predators.
But they are learning that there is more than meets the eye when it comes to peppers.
In fact, there is growing evidence that the body heat generating power of peppers might even lend a hand in our quest to lose those extra inches accumulating around our waistline.
And fortunately for those of us who don’t eat hot peppers, a version of capsaicin called dihydrocapsiate (DCT) could have the same benefits as peppers without the pungency.
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) nutritionists set out to document its ability to increase heat production in human subjects who were on a weight-loss diet.
Led by David Heber, professor of medicine and public health, they recruited men and women who were willing to consume a very low-calorie liquid meal replacement product for 28 days.
The researchers then randomised the subjects to take either placebo pills or supplements containing the non-burning DCT pepper.
Two dosage levels of DCT were tested. At the beginning and end of the study, body weight and body fat were assessed, and the researchers determined energy expenditure (heat production) in each subject after he or she consumed one serving of the test meal.
Their data provided convincing evidence that, at least for several hours after the test meal was consumed, energy expenditure was significantly increased in the group consuming the highest amount of DCT.
In fact, it was almost double that of the placebo group. This suggests that eating this pepper-derived substance that doesn’t burn can have the same potential benefit as hot peppers at least in part by increasing food-induced heat production, said a UCLA release.
They were also able to show that DCT significantly increased fat oxidation, pushing the body to use more fat as fuel. This may help people lose weight when they consume a low-calorie diet by increasing metabolism.
Heber and his team presented their results at the Experimental Biology 2010 meeting in Anaheim, California.
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Voter turnout was low in Ivory Coast parliamentary elections Sunday, more than a year after a conflict over presidential polls led to widespread violence in the West African nation.
President Alassane Ouattara opened negotiations Thursday with a coalition of opposition parties to try to convince supporters of the country's former president not to boycott upcoming parliamentary elections.
Twelve members of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo's inner circle have been indicted for crimes relating to the post-electoral crisis that left over 3,000 dead.
Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara responds to allegations that Laurent Gbagbo supporters are still being targeted.
Ivory Coast's new president plans to make national harmony his top priority as he tries to pull his crisis-ridden country together after many months of political turbulence and what one just-released report calls a now-prevailing "climate of fear."
The Ivorian government announced the creation Thursday of a national investigation commission on the crimes perpetrated during the post-election crisis amid mounting pressure fom human rights organizations and the United Nations.
More than 300,000 people are still displaced from their homes in Ivory Coast two months after a political crisis was settled in the West African nation, the United Nations refugee agency said Tuesday.
President Alassane Ouattara got his cabinet Wednesday, after a six-month post-electoral crisis that claimed hundreds of lives.
A journalist who openly supported the Ivorian Popular Front of former President Laurent Gbagbo has been killed in a suburb of Abidjan, Reporters Without Borders said Wednesday.
Alassane Ouattara was inaugurated Saturday as president of troubled Ivory Coast in a ceremony that marked a symbolic end to months of political turmoil.
After months of uncertainty and bloodshed in Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara will take the reins of his troubled nation Saturday with the global spotlight cast upon him.
The president of the Ivory Coast is urging the International Criminal Court to investigate major crimes committed in his country after a disputed November election sparked a political standoff that left hundreds dead.
As current events in Ivory Coast highlight, elections are hardly the knock-out cure for countries dealing with deep social divisions and long histories of armed conflict. They just as often produce the sort of violent confrontation currently ensuing between the forces of deposed Ivorian leader Laurent Gbagbo and newly elected president, Alassane Ouattara. In such situations, international responses have also typically made things worse.
Forensic experts have unearthed about 68 bodies from another cluster of mass graves in war-torn Ivory Coast, a United Nations spokeswoman said Monday.
Alassane Ouattara was sworn in Friday as president of Ivory Coast, ending a months-long political standoff.
Heavy fighting continued Tuesday in Yopougon between forces loyal to President Alassane Ouattara and militiamen loyal to former President Laurent Gbagbo even as he was said to have accepted his loss of power.
Forces loyal to newly installed President Alassane Ouattara have killed a warlord who helped Ouattara win office, a defense ministry spokesman said Thursday.
The capture of Laurent Gbagbo, whose refusal to concede the presidency of the Ivory Coast to challenger Alassane Ouattara despite his internationally recognized election loss nearly five months ago, is being accompanied by calls for him and his associates to face justice. But it is unclear what form this justice will take.
The U.S. Embassy consular section in Abidjan may reopen Monday, but it initially will provide limited services, according to the State Department.
The former leader of Ivory Coast may have to face international charges for alleged crimes committed during his time in office, President Alassane Ouattara announced Wednesday, as he outlined his plans to bring peace and security to his nation.
Alassane Ouattara aspired to be president of Ivory Coast for decades. Now, after four long months of post-election turmoil and the capture of his political rival, the job is indisputably his.
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara calls on fighters loyal to Laurent Gbagbo to lay down their arms.
The European Union announced a recovery package of 180 million euros for the Ivory Coast on Tuesday as residents of the African nation attempted to adjust to life with a clear leader and relative stability after months of bloodshed.
CNN's Dan Rivers reports that the presidential tug-of-war in Ivory Coast appears to have come to a conclusion.
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara called for calm Monday after forces stormed the president's residence and arrested Laurent Gbagbo, whose refusal to accept the results of a presidential election last year plunged the West African nation into civil war.
The west African country of Ivory Coast - also known as Cote d'Ivoire -- has been rocked by civil conflict as forces loyal to opposition leader Alassane Ouattara seek to oust incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo after a disputed presidential election last November. Most of the international community recognize Ouattara's victory and are urging Gbagbo to go.
CNN's Becky Anderson speaks to the Red Cross about the humanitarian crisis in the Ivory Coast.
The man recognized by the international community to be Ivory Coast's rightful president is no stranger to the frustrations of winning his country's top job.
The border between the Ivory Coast and Ghana is closed as two politicians battle for control. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
Defiant as ever, Laurent Gbagbo remained hunkered down Thursday in the basement of his Abidjan residence, as a stern warning came from the United Nations that he should seize his last chance for a graceful exit.
Forces loyal to Ivory Coast's elected President Alassane Ouattara stormed the residence of his rival, Laurent Gbagbo, on Wednesday, an Ouattara spokeswoman said, potentially heralding the end of a bloody conflict in the West African country.
A Red Cross team says more than 800 have been killed in one town. CNN's Ralitsa Vassileva reports.
U.N. Special Envoy to the Ivory Coast tells CNN that combat is over and terms of Gbagbo's surrender are being finalized.
After days of heavy fighting, forces loyal to Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo laid down their arms Tuesday, and the self-declared president was negotiating the terms of his surrender, his foreign minister said.
Forces loyal to President Alassane Ouattara have surrounded the residence of rival Laurent Gbagbo, a spokesman for Ouattara told CNN Monday night.
Sensing an imminent victory, the government recognized by the international community as the rightful ruler of blood-soaked Ivory Coast said Saturday the other side has committed atrocities, is losing its top generals to defections and is looking for "cannon fodder" for its last stand.
Forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara took control of state-run television and attacked the residence of Laurent Gbagbo on Friday as Ivory Coast's bloody, four-month battle for political power appeared to enter its final stages .
Forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognized president of Ivory Coast, attacked the residence of disputed incumbent Laurent Gbagbo and took control of state-run TV early Friday morning, a spokesman for Ouattara told CNN.
As the world's attention is focused on the conflict in Libya, another African country -- the Ivory Coast on Africa's west coast -- may be sliding toward another bloody civil war, according to observers who keep a close eye on warring factions there.
The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to impose sanctions on disputed Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, his wife and three associates, as well as give U.N. peacekeepers more authority to protect civilians.
The internationally recognized president of Ivory Coast said he rejects the latest African Union envoy selected to help resolve the nation's tense political standoff.
In cities across the world, women marked the centennial International Women's Day. In Ivory Coast, the day took on poignancy for women who dared to take to blood-stained streets where seven of their own were shot down a few days before.
The U.N. mission in Ivory Coast reaffirmed its neutrality Tuesday despite a brewing conflict between government troops and a rebel movement that backs the internationally recognized winner of last year's election.
The African Union chief flew to Ivory Coast on Saturday to make another attempt to resolve the crisis there amid a slaughter of women protesters blamed on self-proclaimed President Laurent Gbagbo.
Fears grow that Ivory Coast is heading toward civil war. CNN's Ralitsa Vassileva reports.
The broadcast antennae for Ivory Coast's state news agency was targeted Saturday night by youths loyal to President-elect Alassane Ouattara, according to his representative to South Africa.
Eight newspapers halted operations in Ivory Coast to protest threats and hefty fines by officials supporting the nation's disputed president, press freedom groups said.
Hundreds of people fled a pro-Alassane Ouattara neighborhood in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, where forces loyal to incumbent President Laurent Gbabgbo have been fighting an armed Ouattara supporters for the past week.
Ivory Coast security forces loyal to incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo used tear gas and fired into the air to disperse supporters of Alassane Ouattara, authorities said Saturday.
France said Saturday it would not recognize the decision by Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo to cancel the diplomatic accreditation of French Ambassador Jean-Marc Simon.
The president of Botswana has invited the internationally recognized president of Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, for an official state visit, the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Botswana announced Wednesday.
A meeting between Ivory Coast's self-declared president Laurent Gbagbo and African leaders ends with no declaration.
More bloodshed is expected between self-declared President Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara.
Violence in Ivory Coast was ongoing amid a tense political standoff Wednesday, after at least five police officers were killed and three U.N. peacekeepers were wounded in an Abidjan neighborhood, and three other police officers were killed in clashes with protesters, officials said.
Ivory Coast President-elect Alassane Ouattara explains what strategies are in place if Laurent Gbagbo won't step aside.
At least five people were killed Tuesday in clashes between police and supporters of Ivory Coast's president-elect as a tense political standoff continued Tuesday in the West African nation.
Ivory Coast's president-elect is willing to add supporters of self-proclaimed president Laurent Gbagbo to his cabinet, provided the defiant incumbent steps down, the West African nation's ambassador to the United Nations said Monday.
African regional authorities are prepared to remove from office self-proclaimed President Laurent Gbagbo, who election observers say lost last November's presidential runoff but has refused to step down, Ivory Coast's President-elect Alassane Ouattara said Thursday.
Does this sound familiar? An election in Ivory Coast meant to unite a divided country instead ignites pre-existing tensions, leading to rampant human rights abuses.
Ivory Coast's diplomatic squabble centered Wednesday on a siege laid to a posh waterfront hotel where the president-elect has been holed up under the protection of United Nations peacekeepers.
The government of self-proclaimed President Laurent Gbagbo anounced Tuesday that a supporter of Alassane Ouattara was killed during a pre-dawn raid in Abidjan.
A new year opened with intransigence in a divided Ivory Coast, as two political rivals ignored threats and deadlines Saturday for one another to step down.
CNN's Nkepile Mabuse look at the ECOWAS delegation's overall strategy for the Ivory Coast and its impact on the region.
The three leaders representing a West African bloc will return to Ivory Coast next Monday to again try to defuse an escalating political crisis sparked by self-declared President Lauren Gbagbo's refusal to cede power.
A three-man West African delegation won't return to Ivory Coast until Monday, when it will ask self-declared President Laurent Gbagbo to relinquish his post or face a military ouster, a representative of the group said Friday.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, distressed over a call to attack the hotel where Ivory Coast's president-elect and U.N. security forces are based, said Thursday that the forces are "authorized to use all necessary means to protect its personnel" and any others at the location.
Edwige Tonete rarely steps out of her house in Abidjan these days. Something bad is looming in her beloved Ivory Coast.
Three African presidents met with their defiant counterpart in Ivory Coast Tuesday in an effort to defuse the country's political crisis.
Ivorians appeared Monday to be ignoring the call for a general strike by the man widely recognized as the Ivory Coast's legitimate leader following last month's presidential run-off election.
Fourteen African nations are threatening to force Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo to resign.
The disputed head of the Ivory Coast will not step down, one of his key ministers said Saturday, despite the threat by West African leaders to use military force to force him out.
At an emergency meeting Friday, West African leaders warned they will not hesitate to use "legitimate force" if necessary to defuse an escalating crisis in Ivory Coast sparked by incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo's refusal to cede power.
The ruling Ivory Coast government remained defiant Thursday, insisting that incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo should stay in power and that his supporters have acted justly despite a global outcry.
The tug-of-war between the two men who claim the presidency of the Ivory Coast intensified Wednesday.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday the situation in the Ivory Coast is increasingly volatile and the country risks a return to civil war.
A political standoff has forced nearly 4,000 citizens of northwest Ivory Coast to flee to neighboring countries, prompting fears of regional insecurity, according to the United Nations.
CNN's Jim Clancy interviews a senior adviser to incumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo about the unrest there.
Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo on Saturday ordered all U.N. peacekeeping forces out of the country a day after Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called on the disputed re-election winner to step down.
The U.S. is prepared to impose "targeted sanctions" on Ivory Coast's incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo, the State Department said Friday.
At least nine unarmed protesters in Ivory Coast's largest city were shot and killed by security forces Thursday, eyewitnesses told Amnesty International.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the "political stalemate" in the Ivory Coast could lead to fighting, and he repeated his call for the incumbent to leave office after losing the presidential runoff election last month.
Government troops backing Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo clashed with ex-rebels supporting the internationally recognized winner of last month's presidential vote Monday, as the European Union announced "targeted measures" aimed at Gbagbo's rule.
The head of a West African group of nations rejects the idea of power-sharing talks in the aftermath of the disputed Ivory Coast election, its president said Saturday.
Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, whose claim to office is in dispute following last month's national election, on Saturday accused Western officials of destabilizing his government by lobbying military leaders and state media to back his rival, Alassane Ouattara.
Facing increasing international criticism and the threat of sanctions, incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast said he would "sit down and talk" with his challenger in last month's presidential election.
The African Union has suspended the Ivory Coast from the organization amid the country's political chaos following a November runoff election, it said in a statement.
Ralitsa Vassileva reports on tension, unrest in the Ivory Coast, where both presidential candidates claim victory.
A European Commission spokeswoman hinted Monday at the possibility of sanctions against Ivory Coast if the country is unable to resolve its disputed presidential election.
Ivory Coast is in lockdown as the country's presidential election remains in dispute. CNN's Christian Purefoy explains.
First came a political row over the rightful winner of Ivory Coast's presidential election. Saturday, two men laid claim to the West African nation's highest post.
Two candidates. Two councils. Two winners. Add it up and it bodes for a mess in the already unstable West African nation of Ivory Coast.
The just-announced results of the Ivory Coast presidential elections failed to get an OK Thursday from the government body authorized to validate the results.
Some results from Ivory Coast's elections are now expected Wednesday, after it was pushed back twice.
Two members of Ivory Coast's electoral commission from President Laurent Gbagbo's party physically stopped the announcement of partial election results late Tuesday, arguing that the results were not complete and the announcement was illegal.
Early results from a small portion of ballots in Ivory Coast's presidential runoff gave former Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara a lead over the incumbent, Laurent Gbagbo, the country's electoral commission reported Monday.
Residents of Ivory Coast were stocking up on supplies Saturday ahead of five straight nights of curfew surrounding the presidential runoff election.
Campaigning for runoff elections in the Ivory Coast began Saturday with violent face-offs between young supporters of the two rival candidates.
Ivory Coast voters will chose between incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo and ex-prime minister Alassane Ouattara in a presidential election runoff November 21.
Incumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbabgo is slated to face ex-prime minister Alassane Ouattara later this month in a run-off vote for the country's leader.
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In reality, Facebook is now a public company with a less than admirable stock price; it should be no surprise that the bottom line is at the top of its list of priorities. Facebook relies on third party developers to create the apps that keep its users coming back for more, and jumping on the giant’s bandwagon is certainly a quick way for developers to attain massive success. On the other hand, this success can be fleeting (as many have already experienced), and it’s important for app creators to keep a close eye on what’s to come.
Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg
In an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Dalton Caldwell accuses top Facebook execs of threatening his latest start up, basically insisting that he sell to them or he’ll be crushed by them. The issue being that Caldwell was building an app that was similar to Facebook’s recently unveiled App Center. He states, “Previously, I had been reassured by Facebook dev-relations employees that the service I was building was an interesting/ valuable use of Open Graph & Facebook Platform”. In response to his objections they said, “sorry, we just need the revenue”.
Another interesting point to consider is that Facebook decides how many people an app is seen by, thereby controlling how viral it will or will not become. Facebook holds all the cards, and what was ‘popular’ last week could just as easily be non-existent this week.
It’s not all bad, however, as many startups would never have seen the growth they did without the help of Facebook. The fact remains that Facebook is a big public company, and along with that comes pressure to maintain revenue growth. It’s business. Perhaps App creators should be aware of this, and remember to keep a discerning eye open when making deals with a giants.
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Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
|King of the United Kingdom, Emperor of India, Emperor of Canada, Lord High Bruce of Australia, Most Merciful Sultan of Yorkshire, Fuhrer of the House of Windsor, Nazi|
|King Edward VIII (center) doing his bit for Anglo-Nazi relations.|
|Reign||1936 - 1936|
|Predecessor||King George V|
|Successor||King George VI|
|Issue||Democracy, Communism, Jews, fuzzy-wuzzies, Communist fuzzy-wuzzies|
“'WHY did my first son HAVE to become a Nazi? WHY?!?!”
Edward VIII (Edward Albert George Adolphus
von Wettin Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Patrick David; later The Duke of Windsor; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972) was a nazi asshole who just happened to be the king (And, as we all know, it's good to be the king!) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Despite being a nazi, the reason he voluntarily abdicated was forced off the throne was that he had married an American woman who had been married previously!!. Whilst the British establishment thought a bit of goosestepping and jew-bating was all perfectly acceptable, marrying a Yankee divorcee was simply a step too far.
edit Early life
Edward spent much of his early life being given money for free and being told he was better than everyone else by birthright and that Britain was the greatest and strongest country in the world. How this caused him to become attracted to fascist thinking is a complete mystery.
edit Military Service in World War I
Like most young men of his generation, Edward joined the army and fought in the First World War. Unlike most young men of his generation, Edward actually came back intact. This is because he wasn't allowed to be placed in any real danger, the army deferred all that to 'less important' posh people and poors.
edit Hitler Becomes the Chancellor of Germany
In 1933, Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany and responded to the uneasiness around the world at this news by canceling any further elections thus ensuring that no such thing could happen again. Edward paid numerous visits to "Britain's great chum" Adolf and the two were said to have sat late into the night discussing the wickedness of communists and Jews and how you're not allowed to shoot people in the back of the head without a "fair trial" anymore in Britain and how it's Democracy Gone Mad. Edward explained that in the old days when someone became king they were allowed to order people around and invade countries and stuff but that they'd had some sort of "glorious revolution" in England in 1688 and put some big wet called William III on the throne and that he'd given most of his power away to Parliament. Adolf agreed that this was not the way a country should be run and promised that, when Edward became King, Britain should be run in the proper manner again.
edit Edward as King
When his "father" died in 1936, Edward became king. However, this did not last long, as the prime minister at the time figured out Edwards dastardly plans to defend and aid Hitler. At this point, Edward had decided to abdicate, in favor of his younger "brother", Albert, but on one condition: Make Neville Chamberlain the prime minister.
Seriously, we already know what happened and can guess the other details. Please move on!
edit Green Acres
Moving to Hollywood in 1964, Edward Albert George Adolphus
von Wettin Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Windsor shortened his name to "Eddie Albert" and appeared in the American TV sitcom Green Acres as Oliver Stoned Douglas, opposite Princess Zsa Zsa Gabor, or Eva. Maybe it was Magda. Anyway, he left when CBS went crazy and began killing everything with a tree. And Pat Buttram, who probably didn't have a tree.
In 1972, his "brother" (who had staged his own death 20 years earlier) found Edward walking through the halls of Buckingham Palace and had decided that enough was enough: He had to turn Edward into a huff-worthy kitten. And he did just that. Edward VIII was no more. It is quite gay celebrating the death of your brother for 20 years in a stretch (Simpson did it first), only to find that your wimpy brother is alive, and actually dares to play kitty huffing with you. Imagine having a wimpy brother, who still manages to make you look like a hippie.
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Gladys Aylward may be small, but she serves a Big God! She’s seen Him lead through countless trials and challenges. But now, after eight years of service in China, Gladys is facing a crucial decision. Her village is under attack by the Japanese and the children in her care are in danger. Desperate to get the one hundred children out of harm’s way, the wounded Gladys awakens them in the night and begins a one hundred mile journey to safety. She is the only adult. There is no vehicle and no pack animal. They must carry what they need. It is a journey that can only be attempted with God at the lead.
As expected, the physical and emotional challenges of such a journey prove to be immense. Gladys must struggle through her own hunger, fatigue, injury, and illness in order to help the children persevere over the mountain. All the while they know enemy soldiers could attack. When they tire of singing songs, Gladys urges the children along with stories of God — sharing the many ways He has worked throughout her life.
Just when Gladys has given her all and seems unable to face one more roadblock, we find the tables have turned. The children whom she has protected, nourished, and led now offer hope back to her. They have learned well from their beloved role model and now remind her that God is still God and He will see them through. And indeed, He does.
Gladys Aylward’s faith and courage are strong examples for us. As a young Christian, Gladys faced immense obstacles. She had few means, was a poor student, and was told she should not become a missionary. Yet, Gladys decided that if God asked her to do something, she would do it. No barriers or roadblocks would stop her, as she trusted in His plan and provision. The road was often uncertain and difficult, but Gladys persevered with her Savior by her side. The small woman with a big God left a legacy of faith in her adopted land of China. Her story encourages each of us to follow as God leads and trust in His provision.
The Gladys Aylward Story Features
- English and Spanish languages with optional English subtitles.
- Original, full-length documentary featuring biographer Carol Purves and Gladys' adopted son Clifford Liu.
- Comprehensive leaders guide.
- Student guide and online activities.
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Extraction of zircon, rutile and ilmenite – used in ceramics and paint, paper and plastic production – is expected to start early next year from a beach north of Strandfontein on the west coast of the Western Cape.
In December 2008 Australian-listed Mineral Commodites (MRC) won the mining rights for the Tormin heavy minerals project, as it has been named by the company. The operation is not far from Lutzville, most famous for its liqueurs, and Vredendal, which is a major town serving the brandy-producing region.
The mine will be situated on the beach next to the Geelwalkaroo farm, not far from Koekenaap and about an hour and a half by motor vehicle from Vredendal. It is close to Eskom’s 100 megawatt Sere wind farm project, which is expected to be fully operational this year.
The company is confident the project will inject “more than” R1 billion a year into the provincial economy for a period of five years, believed to be the lifespan of the mine.
Mining analyst Peter Major of Cadiz Corporate Solutions believed that sea replenishment might lengthen the life of the mine considerably.
Pressed on how the company derived the R1bn figure, Cape Town-based MRC chief executive Andrew Lashbrooke said it was worked out on a five-to-one multiplier on the expected running cost of R220 million a year.
While a limited number of direct jobs would be created – about 40 in the construction phase and about 100 once operational – Lashbrooke believed that an additional 400 indirect jobs would result from the expansion of the transport and other feeder services.
The salary bill would be in the region of R25m a year while the fuel supply bill would likely be about R80m a year.
“It (the mining employment) will have a ripple effect,” he said.
Work would begin shortly to build a heavy metals separator plant on site. The mining will be carried out with a pump mounted on an excavator on the beach. At a concentrator plant, wet magnetic separators will remove ilmenite and garnet and a final zircon-rutile concentrate will be washed, filtered and bagged on site. At a dry separation plan garnet concentrate will be produced.
MRC, through a subsidiary company, has also won the prospecting rights to the Xolobeni mineral sands project on the Wild Coast of the Eastern Cape, near Port Edward. This project has been a source of some controversy as some of the Amadiba community who live on the land where the mining will take place have objected to the mining.
Lashbrooke acknowledged that there were also some objections to the Xolobeni project from the Wild Coast Sun, which had argued it would cause environmental damage in the area.
The Xolobeni titanium-bearing mineral sands could be a 25-year project but mining is not expected to start for another five years.
The Amadiba community have been brought on board as part of MRC’s empowerment partner for its Tormin project.
A number of members of the community’s leadership were flown in from the Eastern Cape for a tour of the Western Cape beach site last Thursday. They included Mqutshwa Yalo, a member of the Amadiba royal family, Khaliphile Baleni, the head chief of the Amadiba administrative area, and Jackson Dimane, a community member and ward councillor in Xolobeni.
The community of about 45 000 people are represented in a trust which has established a subsidiary firm, the Xolobeni Empowerment Company.
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Juvenile offenders in Colorado are usually tried as juveniles in juvenile courts. But a small portion are transferred to adult courts for trial, as either recognition of the more serious nature of their crimes or due to risk factors suggesting the adult system is better equipped to handle these juveniles.
This divided system is not up for debate — all agree that the criminal justice system is sometimes the best place for a juvenile offender. But Right on Crime's research indicates that judges are the best public officials to make the determination of which system should handle a juvenile offender, as opposed to the current system where a prosecutor can directly transfer a juvenile to the adult system under the direct-file system.
Judges, as neutral arbiters, are entrusted with many serious decisions in courtrooms across Colorado. Judges are deemed logical, objective overseers of trial determinations in almost every other stage of a criminal case — and juvenile placement should be included in the ambit of judicial trust.
Recently collected data shows that youths who have been transferred to the adult system without judicial consideration are not the most serious offenders. In fact, a 2012 Colorado Juvenile Defender Coalition study found more youths have been sent to adult court through direct file for drugs and other nonviolent crimes than for homicide. Further, some 80 percent of youths transferred without a judge's oversight had never been placed in a state youth lockup prior to their transfer.
The divided system — with some juveniles eligible for placement in the adult system — works best when adult lockups are reserved for the most serious juvenile offenders, truly the most heinous cases. Further, given the myriad of ways the juvenile justice system can rehabilitate juvenile offenders and turn them from a life of crime, youths should generally be allowed to exhaust their options in the juvenile justice system before being placed in the adult system.
This is because the juvenile justice system is uniquely adapted to the various needs and risk factors involved in a juvenile delinquent's life. From education to specific treatment and family-oriented interventions aimed at youths, the juvenile justice system has been more successful at rehabilitating juvenile offenders in Colorado and every other state in the nation. And that is the goal in every justice system interaction with a juvenile — rehabilitation to produce a law-abiding citizen, rather than a career criminal. Moreover, Bureau of Justice Statistics data has found youths are far more likely to be sexually and physically abused when placed in adult prisons.
In addition, under Colorado's blended sentencing scheme, serious juvenile offenders sentenced in juvenile courts can begin their term in a juvenile facility and be transferred to adult prisons to carry out the rest of their sentence. This permits serious juvenile offenders to still receive long terms to fit their criminal actions while not being shut out of the age-appropriate system created for them. Pending legislation this session would allow even longer blended sentences.
When Colorado lawmakers created the direct-file option, the expectation was that it would be used primarily for homicide cases. However, less serious offenders and juveniles who never spent time in a juvenile facility being sent to the adult system indicate the current system has gone too far and, like other governmental functions, needs appropriate checks and balances.
Accordingly, we believe that Colorado's judges should be given the ability to determine the most appropriate placement for a juvenile offender. Judges are trusted to make similarly serious determinations in Colorado's justice system, and this trust should be extended to juvenile placement.
Marc Levin is senior policy adviser for Right on Crime, a conservative criminal justice initiative. Mike Krause is director of the Justice Policy Initiative with the Independence Institute.
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Do You Eat Leftovers?
Today is national leftover day and it got me to wondering.
How many of us eat leftovers? I looked everywhere to find a picture to go with this story then it just hit me. Why not use the refrigerator in the station for the picture? So I went back to our fridge and took this picture. As you can see it is pretty rough in there. here is food in the fridge from restaurants that are no longer is business in this town. According to the Mayo Clinc:
You should eat refrigerated leftovers within four days to reduce the risk of food poisoning. If you don’t anticipate being able to eat leftovers within four days, freeze them immediately.
Really? I guess I am taking my life in my own hands by easting 7 day old leftovers. As a rule of thumb for me, if it doesn’t answer me when I ask how old it is..its safe to eat.
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From the bustling cities to the Piney Woods and West Texas deserts, no state has as much to offer travelers as Texas. I keep an ever-growing Texas To-Do list; here's one of my many entries.
Last May, cranes lifted a 480-ton theater out of the San Marcos River. It was the last remnant of the Aquarena Springs theme park, a fifties-era tourist attraction that famously featured underwater shows starring the Aquamaids, a mascot named Glurpo the Clown, and Ralph the swimming pig. In the early nineties, it was purchased by Southwest Texas State University (which we now know as Texas State University) and the submarine theater and the theme park, which had been struggling to lure in the hundreds of thousands of visitors that it once did, was shuttered. Sadly, watching the Aquamaids in their mermaid tails swim in perfect synchronicity is an item that will be never be crossed off of my Texas To-Do List. (I can still, however, buy my own copy of “Aquarena and Ralph,” a documentary of the diving pig, for $19.95.)
But luckily, the university has preserved one of the theme park’s best attractions: the glass-bottom boat rides, which give visitors the chance to peer into the crystal-clear waters to see the spring-fed world below. In addition to the thousands of springs themselves, which burble up from the sandy lake bottom, you can keep your eyes peeled for the eight endangered species that live here, like the Texas blind salamander and the fountain darter, or one of the volunteer divers who helps tend this underwater garden.Read More
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Area Natural Resources
Southeast Missouri State University is located at the head of the Mississippi River Delta. Located just one mile from the Mississippi River, the University can offer a unique setting for aquatic studies. Upland, our students work with conservation personnel to study and maintain Missouri natural resources. Downstream, our faculty and students collaborate with the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory for study and research on marine environments. The Shawnee National Forest, the most northern Bald Cypress swamp, lies just across the Mississippi. Whether you are interested in aquatic wildlife (plants, inverterbrates, or animals), marine animal behavior, or limestone cave life left by ancient water systems, Southeast is the place to study!
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Architect: Santiago Calatrava
Queen Sophia Palace of the Arts is the final structure built of a grand City of Arts and Sciences concept designed by the Valencia-born and internationally known architect, Santiago Calatrava, which began in 1995 and it was opened on 8 October 2005. The building is designed with a dual intention: that of acting as a multi-hall auditorium and also forming an urban landmark. It is used as an opera house, dance and music theatre.
Under the expansive curved-roof structure, 230 metres in length, the building rises fourteen stories and includes three stories below ground. The 40,000 sq. metre building contains four auditoriums of various sizes. The roof or “˜plume’ is the most structurally spectacular feature of the building, while the two “˜shells’ which embrace the building on the outside are made of laminated steel with an approximate weight of 3,000 tons and feature delicate ceramic work (trencadÃs) on the outside.
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How do I count loops . Maybe I'm using the wrong terms. How do I trace loops? It is Pseudocode not Java. I know it is hard for subject matter experts to 'dumb' down for someone like me but I do need help. I've tried several tutorials still in trouble. Thanks for your help.
a. Show the pseudocode declarations needed to declare two arrays - one an array which contains the names of the family members, and the other an array which contains the savings (i.e. money) held by each family member. The arrays are parallel arrays because the savings shown in the second array for a certain array position are the savings for the family member whose name appears in the same position in the first array.
This is what I put:
Declare Names (10) as Strings
Declare Savings, Total as Float
Declare K as integer[/i]
b. Write a function, which is called from the main module - this function will determine and return the total savings.
I went by an example that was in the book but would like to shorten this. Dont know if its right.
Declare totalSavings as float
Declare K as Int
Set K = 0
Set totalSavings = femaleSiblings(Savings)
Function femaleSavings(Savings) as float
Set femaleSavings = 0
For (K = 0, K<10, K++)
Write “Enter amount of member savings” + (K + 1)
Set femaleSavings= femaleSavings + Savings[K]
Write + totalSavings
c. Write a function also called from the main module - this function will determine and return the array index containing the largest savings. Your main program should then print the name of the person who holds those savings, as well as the amount.
This is far as I got. Am I on the right track.
Definitely don't know this
Next I need to analyze, design, and document a simple program that utilizes a good design process and incorporates sequential, selection and repetitive programming statements as well as at least one function call and the use of at least one array. Each of these items (sequential code, at least one selection statement, at least one loop, at least one function call, at least one array and associated processing of the array) is required, and must be present in code.
Also design a program that will allow a user to input a list of family members along with their age and state where they reside. Determine and print the average age of your family and print the names of anyone who live in Texas. You may assume that there are no more than 100 living relatives in your family.
•The first delivery is the project plan which provides your problem statements, problem analysis, and how it will comply with the project specifications.
•The final delivery will be a completed project design along with your code comments and comprehensive test plan.
I know a test plan is just redoing the code with different variables but first I must master the code to do the test
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If there is an anti-Israel/pro-Palestinian lobby in Norway, it will need to ensure that the public debate echoes its salient arguments: that Palestine is “good” and that Israel is “evil”. Only if this Manichean perspective can be brought to bear upon the electorate can the lobby succeed in winning support for sustained economic and political support to anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian forces of Hamas, Fatah, and an assorted host of NGOs. Simultaneously the lobby will seek to marginalize critics who challenge the axioms of the lobby. To what extent then, do we find this pattern of one-sided support of Palestine and axiomatic criticism of Israel in the public debate on Israel in Norway?
The media is the message
Multiple surveys and investigations have shown that the mainstream Norwegian media is biased against Israel and in favour of the Palestinian cause.
NRK’s “Cut and omit” broadcasting 2000: Editor Odd Sverre Hove’s analysis of how NRK covered the Intifada on the daily news. The analysis examined broadcasts from September 27th to November 21st, the first eight weeks of the second intifada. Hove’s central conclusions were a) that NRK systematically ignored the Palestinian gunfire which caused the Israelis to return fire b) that NRK consistently blended reporting with analysis c) that NRK failed to distinguish terrorism from self-defence.
Observer 2004: In April, May and June of this year, the following three out of eighteen conflict theatres dominated the media picture completely, receiving 84 percent of the coverage: Iraq, Afghanistan, the Middle East. Senior analyst in Observer, Henrik Høidahl, stated: “More than three million people have died in the civil war in Congo. This is many times more than in Iraq and Afghanistan together, yet we hardly hear of it in the Norwegian media. The coverage of foreign affairs is not in any sense proportional to the suffering”.
Observer 2006: NTB reported that this survey, of nine Norwegian newspapers, found that 32 percent of the coverage was on Iraq, 30 percent was on the Israel/Palestine conflict, 21 percent was on the war in Lebanon, 13 percent was on Afghanistan and the remaining 4 percent were on other conflicts.
Retriever 2009: This survey was carried out for NRK. It examined for bias 1 958 articles, comments and editorials in Norwegian media, from December 12th 2008 to January 9th 2009. Analyst Kristina Nielsen described the survey thus: “We have examined each article and seen if it assigns responsibility in one or the other direction. Where factual events are referred to, we have identified them as neutral. Articles where it for instance is voiced that one party is more responsible than the other, are identified as biased.” The following distribution of bias was found:
Retriever concluded: “The findings of this analysis show that Norwegian media disseminate the Palestinian narrative to a much larger extent than they do for the Israeli narrative. As the tendency actually was stronger prior to the attacks commenced on December 27th, this is an indication of how this is representative of the media-picture over time, and not just as a consequence of the invastion.”
The table below shows the results from the annual survey Nordiske Mediedager in 2009, which is carried out by Norsk Respons. As we can see, members of the Norwegian media corps are more likely to vote left-of-centre than a member of the general public. A full 66 percent of the Norwegian media corps that if the election was tomorrow, they would vote for either Arbeiderpartiet, SV or Rødt. The same parties, which attract only 45 percent support with the general public, constitute the base of anti-Israel politics in Norway.
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The results from Nordiske Mediedager 2010 show the same pattern. If Stortinget – Norway’s parliament – was to be put together by Norwegian journalists we would have seen the following distribution of parliamentary seats:
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In 2008 a survey by Norsk Respons examined the general knowledge level of Norwegian journalists. Professor Frank Aarebrot, at the time at the University of Bergen, stated that he was shocked over the results. Torgeir Foss, who has been working for Norske Mediedager since 1988, said that the survey showed the most sensational findings since he started working with it in 1988, and that it all is “just saddening”.
Groupthink in the media
Groupthink is a mode of thought which occurs in cohesive groups whose members strive to reach consensus without critically questioning the analysis by which this consensus is reached. Irving Janis defines groupthink thus: A mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members’ strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action.
The Norwegian media corps will risk being affected by groupthink then, to the extent that they constitute a cohesive in-group. In making such an assessment there are many different variables to consider. One important variable lies in political outlook, where we have already identified (see above) that the Norwegian media corps is “blood-red”. From a political perspective therefore, a significant proportion of the Norwegian media corps does indeed constitute a cohesive group – the vast majority of it supports left-wing parties which are savagely critical of Israel, and 28 percent support political parties which directly or indirectly calls for the destruction of Israel (SV and Rødt).
Another variable which contributes to cohesion lies in the socio-economic backgrounds we find that many Norwegian journalists have. Journalists openly admit that most of them are from the academic middle class, with highly educated parents who – more often than not – work for the state, rarely in the private sector but virtually never within commerce or the trades.
To the extent that the Norwegian media corps does engage in groupthink on the Israel-Palestine issue, we can expect to see symptoms of it among other in a sense of invulnerability, leading to excessive risk-taking, and stereotyping of opponents to the group. We find a prime example of how this can play out in the Norwegian media corps’ treatement of Israeli academic Manfred Gerstenfeld (See below).
Think tanks and research centres
Research in Norway is predominately carried out by research-centres attached to universities. Other large research-centres are FAFO and PRIO. When judging the produce of such centres, it rapidly becomes apparent that there is little understanding of Israel’s actions and politics. For example, in January 2009 Universitetsavisa – the newspaper at the University of Oslo – identified the attitudes of 22 Norwegian researchers as expressed in newspapers between December 26th and January 13th. In twelve of the articles the researcher distanced himself from Israel’s operations. In ten of the articles the researcher was more of less neutral. None of them voiced support for Israel’s actions. When Universitetsavisa asks researcher Hilde Henriksen Waage whether Norwegian researchers as a group are left-of-centre, she answers in the negative, claiming that Norwegian researchers are merely observing Israel from a number of different professional perspectives. This is an interesting comment coming from Hilde Henriksen Waage, who for years has being disseminating a conspiracy theory against Israel.
In 2009 the Jerusalem Post published an article on anti-Semitism which contained several factual errors. The Norwegian media, which is equally adept at publishing erroneous information, showed no mercy but pounced upon the case with great ferocity. “There were mistakes in the article” Norwegian journalists gloated. “There is no anti-Semitism in Norway” they concluded. It was at this point that Hilde Henriksen Waage launced her theory, claiming that “something akin to a smear campaign” had been waged against Norway for some time. NTB disseminated her theory to a number of newspapers at the time, and Waage has repeated it since. Here it is interesting to observe that the theory remains completely unsubstantiated. A theory such as Waage’s naturally awakens many questions such as: How do we identify this campaign? Who is behind it? Why is it being conducted, and how does it differ from legitimate criticism? Alas, at no point in time has the Norwegian public received any answers to these questions whatsoever. Hilde Henriksen Waage merely repeats, again and again, that someone in Jerusalem is plotting against Norway, and newspapers disseminate her theory without asking unnecessary questions. Eventually the theory of a “smear campaign” even made its way to Norway’s Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.
In February 2010 Jonas Gahr Støre went on a tour of the Middle East. During his stay in Israel he was met with critical and questioning articles in both Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post. Støre made light of this, saying to Norwegian media that the criticism was part of domestic Israeli politics and had little to do with Norway. In an interview in Haaretz however, Støre claimed that Norway was being smeared in what he described as an “orchestrated” campaign. When the Haaretz journalist inquired as to the details of this campaign, Støre declined to elaborate.
Another well-known researcher often questioned about the Middle East is Nils Butenschøn of the Norwegian Institute for Human Rights. When asked about the situation in Israel, Butenchøn will often suggest that the time has come to seriously contemplate a one-state solution. What the Norwegian journalists seem to be blissfully unaware of is that this has been Butenschøn’s position for forty years. In 1969 Butenschøn accepted leadership of Palfront – a pro-Palestinian movement associated with the Socialist Left, not to be confused with the communist affiliated Palkom – with the vision of winning “entire organizations and parties” for Palestine.
It is not necessarily a matter of concern when special interest groups propagandise and recruit at universities and colleges. It can be so however, when the group in question disseminates hurtful lies and incites to hatred. For instance it is not in itself problematic that the Palestinian cause finds organized support at many institutions of higher learning. It becomes problematic however, when we find the extent to which that the support goes beyond supplying humanitarian assistance and facilitating peace negotiations: the Palestine Committee has a long history of disseminating horror stories, from the complete fiction of Palestinian women being forced to march naked through the streets of Tel Aviv in 1948 to NORWAC’s claim that operation Cast Lead was part of a deliberate campaign of ethnic cleansing, with the expressed goal of murdering as many civilians as possible.
It is furthermore worrying to see how political allegiance to the Palestinian cause may blend in with even more explicit and overt forms of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. We find one example of this at the University College of Oslo, where the Muslim organization Islamnett is is “clearing Islam’s name” by confronting misconceptions about the religion. This is of course a honourable aim, and many would argue also a necessary one in a multicultural society like that of contemporary Norway. Yet when we examine the speakers and leaders associated with Islamenett we quickly see the contours of a completely different kind of organization:
Zulqarnain Sakander, spoke at an Islamnett event on September 8th 2008, when he suggested that “the Jews” were behind the 9/11 bombing. Hussein Yee, claims that “the Jews” celebrated when the twin towers fell, and warns against friendship with Christians and Jews thus: “The Jews are the most extreme nation upon earth. We can never completely trust them”. Yee has also claimed that Jews may kill non-Jews without perceiving it as sin.
Essam Talima, an office manager of Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Here it is appropriate to recall that al-Qaradawi has stated that Holocuast was a “divine punishment”. He has also expressed hope that Muslims will partake in the next round of “divine punishment” against the Jews.
The élan at Oslo University College is furthermore evident in that in 2009, a full ten percent of the students there reported that they would vote for Rødt (Red). Perhaps it is no coincidence that it is at precisely this college that we find Lars Gule, the first Norwegian to win notoriety as an international terrorist when he went on a mission to blow up an Israeli hotel for the DFLP.
It is important to stress that lobbying for Palestine is a perfectly legitimate endeavour. Demonizing Israel and making calls for actions which, directly or indirectly will lead to Israel’s destruction or place its inhabitants at risk, is not. Unfortunately we frequently do see examples of how the Norwegian debate on Israel virtually takes leave of its senses and spins out of control. One such example lies in Norway’s reception of Manfred Gerstenfeld.
Manfred Gerstenfeld is an Israeli academic on the board of the JCPA who has edited and co-authored two books on anti-Semitism in Norway. The first book, “Behind the Humanitarian Mask” was published in 2008 and awoke a moderate amount of interest, some of it benign, in Norway. Before the debate had a chance to take of however, Gerstenfeld was interviewed by TV2, a Norwegian television channel. Following this interview TV2 published an article on its website under the heading xx. The article offered two quotes allegedly made by Gerstenfeld, yy and zz. Gerstenfeld denied having made the statements he was quoted on, and took the case to the media complaints division PFU. PFU decided that Gerstenfeld’s statement of Norway being “a pioneer in anti-Semitism” was sufficiently similar to “Norway is the most anti-Semitic country in Europe” for TV2 to get away with it. PFU made the same ruling for Gerstenfeld’s two statements: 1) on the barbarity of whale-hunting and 2) on Norway’s lack of an intellectual culture, which TV2 had morphed into the following: “Norwegians are barbaric and unintelligent”. In spite of this TV2 changed the article in question, which no longer contains the offending quotes.
In 2010 Gerstenfeld edited and co-authored a Norwegian edition of “Behind the Humanitarian Mask” which focused exclusively on Norway. In this context he was interviewed by NRK’s correspondent to Israel, Sidsel Wold. Wold however lost the recorded interview, and instead aired a three minute broadcast which was problematic for three reasons: 1) Gerstenfeld’s voice was heard only for twenty seconds. This was not a recording from Wold’s interview, but something she had found on the internet. 2) Wold does not quote directly from Gerstenfeld’s book, but subjects the contents of it to her own free interpretation. It is difficult to recognize where Wold is speaking her own mind and where she is, allegedly, quoting Gerstenfeld. 3) Wold concludes on a completely different topic than that of the broadcast so far.
The graphic below shows how a handful of activists, strategically placed, can maintain a debate for perpetuity. The individual activist does not have to be proactive to contribute, but can merely react to the initiative of one of his brethren. All four individuals on the chart are former or current leaders or members of the board of Palestinakomiteen.
It is important to point out that there is nothing sinister or illegal with this kind of activity. In an open, democratic society, we are all allowed to organize in the pursuit of our interests. But in order to a society to remain open and democratic, political activity has to be recognized for what it is. In Norway today, the pro-Palestinian/anti-Israeli lobby “flies under the radar“.
While Norwegian intellectuals and journalists are quick to condemn the methods of the US Israel-lobby, they fail at identifying the very same methods when applied by the pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel lobby right here in Norway.
Infact, April 2010: http://infact.no/?page_id=2
NA24: http://www.na24.no/article2899236.ece
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The U.S. space agency is in much need of money in order to produce the next generation Ares rockets, which will attempt to return astronauts to the moon.
And they may raise some funds by selling off their space shuttles, at a cost of at least $42 million.
The advertised price is just the starting figure for any one of the orbiters Discovery, Atlantis or Endeavour, which between them have flown 86 missions into space since 1984.
Included is the minimum $6 million cost of stripping a shuttle of toxic and other hazardous materials, preparing it for travel and flying it to an airport of the buyer's choosing.
Maybe something for your garden?
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Juvenile mental health courts are delinquency courts with a dedicated calendar for minors who have a mental health diagnosis. These courts focus on providing access to treatment, consistent and intensive supervision, and academic and family support. As with juvenile drug court, these courts focus on accountability and realistic goals and expectations of each youth. Assessment and close monitoring are critical components of this type of court.
Mental health courts first emerged in the 1990s. In California, there are more than 40 mental health courts, including 11 juvenile mental health courts. Studies of mental health courts have shown promising results in several areas, including participants’ utilization of services, reduced recidivism, and cost savings to counties and states.
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Where is Vermeer's painting "The Girl with the Pearl Earring"?
"The Girl with the Pearl Earring" is a painting by the Dutch artist Jan Vermeer. It can be found in The Mauritshuis, a 17th-century structure built as a private residence for John Maurice of Nassau at The Hague in The Netherlands.
Since 1822, the Mauritshuis has housed the Royal Cabinet of Paintings, one of the most famous collections in the world. The collection features paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, including works by Rembrandt, Steen and Frans Hals.
To learn more about art history take a look at our Glossary of Art Movements.
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Bugiardini, Giuliano (1475 - 1554)
Scenes from the Story of Tobias (2)Date: c. 1500
Theme: Old Testament
Technique: Other/Unknown technique
Museum: Bode Museum
Size: 60 x 159 cm,
Notes: The story of Tobit, a book from the Apocrypha, was a particularly popular text because it is devoted to the wanderings of a boy, Tobias, in search of a cure for the blindness of his father, Tobit. Throughout his journey, Tobias is protected by a guardian angel, Raphael, and accompanied by his faithful dog. As so many young Florentines were commercial travelers or apprentices, often at worrisome distances from home, their parents had sufficient grounds for concern. Tobias' happy tale, along with its reassuring filial piety, was one they seldom tired of telling, whether in art or life.
Two grand, richly narrative friezelike images, known as 'spalliere' are ascribed to Bugiardini. The first panel shows, from left to right, Tobias taking leave of his parents, journeying with Raphael to catch the fish whose liver will cure Tobit, his engagement to Sarah, and their bridal night. The second panel presents Tobias leaving Sarah after a dance and banquet, his mother on a hilltop in the background.
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Jill Filipovic wrote an opinion column for The Guardian yesterday, arguing against the practice of women taking their husbands' names when they get married. It ended up linked on Jezebel and found its way to my Facebook feed where one particular statistic caught my eye. Filipovic claimed that 50% of Americans think a women should be legally required to take her husband's name.
First, some quick clarification of my biases here. Although I write under a hyphenate, I never have legally changed my name. I've never had a desire to do so. In my private life, I'm just Maggie Koerth and always will be. That said, I personally take issue with the implication at the center of Filipovic's article — that women shouldn't change their names and that to do so makes you a bad feminist. For me, this is one of those personal decisions where I'm like, whatever. Make your own choice. Just because I don't get it doesn't mean you're wrong.
But just like I take objection to being all judgey about personal choices, I also take objection to legally mandating personal choices, and I was kind of blown away by the idea that 50% of my fellow Americans think my last name should be illegal.
So I looked into that statistic. And then I got really annoyed.
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"Let there be an end to this epidemic of violence, this culture where if we can’t kill off our girls before they are born, we ensure that they live these lives of constant fear. Like many women in India, I rely on a layer of privilege, a network of friends, paranoid security measures and a huge dose of amnesia just to get around the city, just to travel in this country. So many more women have neither the privilege, nor the luxury of amnesia, and this week, perhaps we all stood up to say, 'Enough,' no matter how incoherently or angrily we said it." For Anonymous, by Nilanjana Roy
. — Xeni
The Italian neurologist and "senator for life" Rita Levi Montalcini, who won the Nobel Prize winner for Medicine in 1986, died in Rome. She was 103. Rome's mayor says the biologist, who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution, and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping unlock the mysteries of the cell, died at her home in the city. More at the Associated Press
. (HT: @csanz) — Xeni
Why are women first to pay for every crisis? In every society, capitalist, socialist, or transition? It's because the bodies of women are expendable.
I always noticed how women over eighty in Turin looked incredibly well, beautiful and loved and taken care of: desirable, because old and valuable. I connected this to Italy's long-established and sophisticated health care system. Italian hospitals were famous for methods which preserved the dignity of the patients, in tumor cures, especially breast cancer: the "invisible mastectomy" was invented in Milan. Rather than simply intervening in crisis, they were good at illness prevention and attentive follow-ups.
The economic crisis and financial harassment of Italy has reached this safe haven of health and dignity. In Turin, one of the best clinics for cure and prevention of breast cancer is about to be closed. The patients are on the streets, their appointments cannot be scheduled, they are paying for their urgent operations because their doctors cannot help them. The doctors are on the streets too.
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A wonderful article by Liz Szabo in USA Today on "I heart boobies," "save the ta-tas," and all those other horrible sexualized breast cancer campaigns that raise dubious funds for dubious goals and leave those of us who have the disease feeling demeaned. There is nothing sexy about breast cancer, and Szabo does a fantastic job in this piece explaining why. Above, one of the worst such campaigns I have ever seen.
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At left, the new Honda Fit She's, a car available in predictable pink or what the maker calls "eyeliner brown." The vehicle is designed for the female market in Japan, and costs around $17.5K USD at current exchange rates. Official website here, in Japanese.
The Honda Fit She's features a “Plasmacluster” climate control system the maker claims can improve skin quality, a windshield that prevents wrinkles, a pink interior stitching, "tutti-frutti-hued chrome bezels," and an adorable heart instead of an apostrophe in “She’s.”
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Fantasy author Cassandra Clare, writing about
her experience at the receiving end of some fairly serious and organized internet bullying.
These sort of attacks are so shocking/upsetting because they break the social contract we have come to expect decent people to adhere to: that people don’t attack your personal relationships, that they don’t sneer not just at your friends but at the idea that you might have friends, that they don’t attack the way you look or your family or your ethnicity/religion. The thing is, to the hate bloggers, and to the kind of people who send anonymous hateful messages, the object of their hate isn’t a person. To them, I am not a human being. My family are not real people.
Been there. It sucks. (via Maureen Johnson)
An Australian Department of Trade document listing the reasons women should not be hired to be trade commissioners
. "A spinster lady can, and often does, turn into something of a battleaxe with the passing years. A man usually mellows." (HT: @christinelhenry)
"One in three American Indian women have been raped or have experienced an attempted rape
," according to a Justice Department statistic cited in the NYT
. The rate of sexual assault among indigenous American women "is more than twice the national average," and it's particular grim in "Alaska’s isolated villages, where there are no roads in or out, and where people are further cut off by undependable telephone, electrical and Internet service." — Xeni
Really fascinating talk coming up at the Royal Society in London. Sharon Ruston, a professor of 19th century literature and culture, will be talking about the scientific texts that influenced Mary Wollstonecraft—the pioneering feminist who wrote Vindication of the Rights of Women
in 1792. Wollstonecraft isn't known for a connection to science, but during the time she was writing Vindication, she was also reading and reviewing books on natural history for a journal called Analytical Review
. Ruston says those books played a role in shaping Wollstonecraft's philosophy. Sounds cool! Event is September 28 at 1:00 pm. Recorded audio will be available online a few days later
. (Via Alice Bell) — Maggie
Here's an hour-long lecture and Q&A with Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). The lecture recounts the long, honorable history of women in atheism, and explicitly connects feminism and freethought. It's a great tour through the history -- the often secret history -- of women who fought and gave all, risking persecution for speaking out against religion and for women's rights to control their destinies. The lecture was recorded at the Center for Inquiry's 2012 Women in Secularism Conference, and FFRF was founded by Gaylor and her mother, Anne Nicol Gaylor.
CFI's Women in Secularism Conf. | Annie Laurie Gaylor: "The History of Women in Freethought"
Photo: Ranoush (cc) Illo: Rob Beschizza
Recent trends in Hijab fashion modernize a form of modest dress once defined by local traditions. In seeking self-expression, however, Muslim women find themselves targeted by a media industry with its own taste for female objectification.
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From Gina Trapani, a project to address the fact that in 2012, women still get paid less than men for the same work: Narrow the Gap. Happy International Women's Day.
Charles Tan sez, "Ekaterina Sedia translates a Russian fictional Table of Contents for Encyclopedia of Feminism According to Harry Potter."
The Practice of Female Separatism in Daily Life of Luna Lovegood
Hermione Granger on Liberal Feminism
Female Empowerment in Academia Through the Eyes of Minerva McGonagall
Women in Politics: The Dilemma of Dolores Umbridge
Women in the Military and Psychological Violence: The Case of Bellatrix Lestrange
Consequences of Limiting Abortion Rights: The Tragedy of Lily Potter
The Death Toll of Unpaid Labor: The Duel of Molly Weasley and Bellatrix Lestrange
Replication of Violent Family Practices: Family Strategies of Nymphadora Tonks
The Duality of Economic Strategies for Women: Narcissa Malfoy
Russian Language Harry Potter Fandom is Awesome
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Guest post written by Tara Tyrrell, a current student at Yale University:
The admission rates for Yale University are steadily dropping as the number of applicants goes up every year, and it can seem discouraging for those who dream about getting in, but there are a few tips and tricks that might help in the application process. Yale is interested, first and foremost, in high levels of drive and intelligence, so the basics of high test scores and GPA are essential. Of course, this is not enough to represent you fully as the type of student that Yale is interested in accepting, so extracurriculars are very important to showcase on your resume. Any extracurricular that demonstrates creativity, leadership skills, or charity is preferable, so even if you only volunteered for a couple of hours on Earth Day or failed at your computer building experiment with your friends one Saturday when you were bored, be sure to mention it. Even if you weren’t successful or you didn’t stick with it, it shows that you are willing to try new things, enthusiastic and creative, and someone who stands out.
The second most important aspect of getting into Yale is a stellar personal statement. I was wait listed my senior year of high school, and it kicked me into high gear and prompted me to write a new personal statement that demonstrated how badly I wanted to be a part of the Yale experience (and how much I could do for Yale as a student). I am fully convinced that my personal statement was essential for getting me off the wait list because, though we often forget this in the mad rush of an application process, colleges want to be wanted. If you hold this school in high esteem, tell them. If they have been your dream school since you were five, be sure to let them know why. If you want this experience so badly that you can almost taste it, write it out. If you want to go to Yale, you will work harder to make the most of your experience, and admissions officers know that. Of course, this desire must be emphasized in the context of your well-rounded, hardworking, interesting resume, but telling a college how badly you want to be there always adds an extra element of enthusiasm that will make any school sit up and take notice. Good luck!
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The new documentary "Once in a Lullaby: The PS22 Chorus Story" follows the choir members of Public School 22 on their amazing journey from their school in Granitville, Staten Island, NY to their performance at the 2011 Academy Awards.
PS 22 is located in the Graniteville section of Staten Island, and its student body is composed of 78% black, Hispanic and Asian students.
The choir became a Youtube sensation after their videos went viral. They were once called "the best-known elementary school chorus on the planet" by New York magazine.
The group is led by chorus director Gregg Breinberg, better known as Mr. B and its memebers are mostly 5th grade students.
In December of 2010, Hollywood star Anne Hathaway visited PS 22 as a surprise guest during the choir's Annual Winter Concert and announced to the choir that they were not only invited, but that they would be singing at the Academy Awards.
With only five weeks before their big performance, the group rehearsed relentlessly. And it paid off. Their performance closing the 2011 Oscar's with a rendition of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" was one of the most memorable moments of the night.
You can see more of their work leading up to that Oscar's presentation in the documentary, which is being released on April 29th at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Check Out PS 22 Choir's Great Performances:
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First, the technical answer: Bacon is a particularly umami packed foodstuff, making it almost universally delicious.
This means that, more than other meats, it can be combined with other flavours in interesting ways. An event like BaconCamp showcases its flexibility; bacon can enhance dishes both savoury and sweet.
But on a more base level, I think bacon’s popularity (and cultishness) is more tied to its emotional feeling. Bacon is cheap and easy to cook. You can buy a large pack from the supermarket for a few bucks, and prepare it by frying, grilling, broiling or microwaving. (If good quality steak was as cheap and easy-to-prepare as bacon, we’d probably see FiletMignonCamps sprouting up!)
In the US, bacon’s an integral part of most of the crazy-huge breakfasts served at diners and restaurants, so it gets internally associated with the times you’ve treated yourself to breakfast out. And in the UK, a bacon butty, usually with plenty of ketchup (also extremely umamiful), is standard fare for when you’re short of cash, hungover and/or lazy (ie. students eat them A LOT)
Because of these experiences, bacon is subconsciously tied to “comfort food” in our brains. Most people enjoy it, and vegetarians often comment that bacon is the one meat they miss. Since it’s a relatively-unspoken common bond, when it is brought to the fore in (primarily internet) culture, it’s something large numbers of people respond to with “Yeah! I love bacon too!” Amplify this in the standard internet hyperbole filter, and there’s your “obsession”.
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For a long time engineering influenced software processes have looked for a way to express software designs in such a way that the designs can be handed off to a separate group to write the code, much as blueprints are used in building bridges. This would allow rare and expensive software designers to concentrate on the blueprints while many cheaper coders concentrate on construction.
As a result UmlAsBlueprint is a UmlMode that focuses on completeness. In forward engineering the idea is that blueprints are developed by a designer whose job is to build a detailed design for a programmer to code up. That design should be sufficiently complete that all design decisions are laid out and the programming should follow as a pretty straightforward activity that requires little thought. The designer may be the same person as the programmer, but usually the designer is a more senior developer who designs for a team of programmers.
In reverse engineering, blueprints aim to convey detailed information about the code, either in paper documents or as an interactive graphical browser. The blueprints can show every detail about a class in a graphical form that's easier for developers to understand.
Blueprints require much more sophisticated tools than sketches in order to handle the details required for the task. Specialized CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering) tools fall into this category (although the term CASE has become a dirty word and vendors try to avoid it now.) Forward engineering tools support diagram drawing and back it up with a repository to hold the information. Reverse engineering tools read source code and interpret from it into the repository and generate diagrams. Tools that can do both forward and reverse engineering like this are referred to as round-trip tools.
Some tools use the source code itself as the repository and use diagrams as a graphic viewport on the code. These tie much more closely into programming and often integrate directly with programming editors. I like to think of these as tripless tools.
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More than one million Latino families have either lost or will soon lose their homes. In California, Hispanic-owned homes account for nearly half (48 percent) of all foreclosures. The rapid loss of homes among Latino and Black homeowners has increased the gap in homeownership rates between White families and families of color. Our research shows that foreclosures wipe out wealth that should have paid for retirements and college educations, depress neighborhoods and home values, and harm family relationships.
Our efforts to support community-based housing counselors working with families in foreclosure has helped us better understand how national foreclosure prevention programs and policies can effectively reach the ten to 13 million families expected to lose their home during this calamity. As did others who are deeply concerned about the impact of the housing crises on families, we worked tirelessly to share information and provide guidance and recommendations to Congress and the administration. We had high hopes for the Obama administration's signature Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP). And when we recognized signs of trouble with HAMP's implementation, and complaints from the community began to mount, we offered additional options and solutions to administrators.
Unfortunately, many of our recommendations went unheeded. While HAMP set out to provide three to four million modifications, only 600,000 families have received permanent loan modifications through the program. Treasury has made some tweaks, but fundamental changes are needed to reach more families in distress. Our counselors still report difficulty obtaining modifications for worthy homeowners, and the lack of compliance has made justice unattainable for those wrongfully foreclosed upon. Moreover, the private sector's move away from HAMP―proprietary modifications outnumber HAMP modifications two to one―suggests that the program's influence and relevance are waning. At best, HAMP addresses the housing crises of yesterday; continued congressional focus on the program is preventing us from taking the bold steps that are needed to help millions of Americans facing foreclosure today.
For these reasons we are left with little choice but to support the "HAMP Termination Act of 2011" (H.R. 839). It's time to focus on foreclosure prevention remedies that reach further. Congress and the administration must consider more effective approaches, such as these five promising ideas:
•Leverage private-sector innovation. Rather than modifying mortgages one at a time, remaining HAMP funds could be leveraged to negotiate directly with investors to buy toxic mortgages in bulk. The savings can be passed to the homeowner in the form of principle write-downs and other modifications. Wall Street is way ahead on this, and similar models should be brought to scale.
•Support local success. Boston Community Capital is helping evicted homeowners reclaim their property. States are using the Hardest Hit Fund to respond to unique local conditions. Congress and the administration should elevate and scale local victories.
•Require more accountability from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The OCC called for an end to the "dual tracking" of foreclosures and modifications, and Bank of America has committed to partnering with others to address this unfair practice. Their efforts are severely undermined, however, without Fannie and Freddie on board. The Treasury and FHFA must compel the GSEs to implement this basic tenant of responsible foreclosure prevention.
•Give the state attorneys generals (AGs) a shot. The AGs must accomplish what the Treasury has not―set firm, enforceable rules for modifications that include principle write-downs. The recently leaked terms raise concerns that the settlement might not go far enough. The AGs must conduct a rigorous inquiry and not settle until they have the best deal for their state.
•Give homeowners some leverage. Many deserving homeowners miss out on modifications because they are mired in their servicer's bureaucracy. A little leverage in the form of a bankruptcy safety net would prompt more thorough customer service. Bankruptcy reform has failed in the House and Senate, but this budget-neutral option should be reconsidered for struggling homeowners.
Other efforts show more promise―namely the Neighborhood Stabilization Program and state endeavors through the Hardest Hit Fund―but these programs are not a substitute for a national strategy to modify mortgages for deserving homeowners.
Stabilizing our housing market is essential to our economic recovery and should be a concerted, bipartisan effort. We call on Congress and the administration to set politics aside and work together on a comprehensive strategy to put an end to needless and wrongful foreclosure.
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Where we live plays a critical role in our health and a new report released Wednesday, examines all 3,000 counties in the U.S. and ranked each county within each state by their quality of health.
If we step back and look at the big picture, what really influences our health is dependent on a plethora of factors. As stated earlier, where we live, our environment, what we eat and how much we eat, the economic climate, and even jobs and education all play a critical role.
The County Health Rankings, conducted by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is the first to rank the overall health of the counties in all 50 states. Out of the 67 counties in Florida, the panhandle faired well. Okaloosa County came in at #9 and Santa Rosa at #10. Bay County, however, came in at #36.
According to the report, several programs and changes in the county were attributed for Bay County's success:
•Gulf Coast Medical Center, Bay Medical Center and Health South Rehabilitation Hospital adopting tobacco free campus policy
•Increased provision of tobacco cessation classes and services.
•Bay Medical Center received a 3-year grant in 2009 for community tobacco cessation education and in-patient cessation support.
•Artful Truth program by the Tobacco Free Partnership and Students Working against Tobacco in partnership with Girls Inc. and Bay District Schools. Showcases youth art projects with anti-tobacco message.
•Smoking rates among adults decreased from 29% in 2002 to 22% in 2007.
•Increased education and self-management services for diabetics through a community partnership between Bay Medical Center, Community Health Center, St. Andrew Medical Clinic, and the Bay County Health Department.
•Creation of work site wellness programs to address health risk factors and healthy lifestyle behaviors.
•Gulf Coast Medical Center worked with area physicians to develop in-patient smoking cessation protocols.
•Creation of the Bay Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition to address underage drinking and prescription drug abuse.
•Creation of the St. Andrew Community Medical Clinic and the Community Health Center to address health care access. Includes assistance with prescription medication and dental services.
•Annual free school sports physicals provided through a partnership between the Bays Medical Society, Medical Reserve Corps, Bay District Schools, and the Bay County Health Department.
•Bay Medical Center offers free monthly glucose screenings and annual pediatric asthma screenings. They also provide asthma education in local schools.
•Gulf Coast Medical Center’s Commit to Fit program provides employers and community groups more than 20 free screenings.
Social and Economic
•Targeted reduction of “meth labs” by local law enforcement.
•Healthy Beaches monitoring program conducted by the Bay County Health Department.
•Creation and improvement of walking parks throughout the county.
“Expanding access to care is a goal of all health care providers in our community,” stated Gulf Coast Medical Center CEO Brian Baumgardner. Through our hospital’s Commit to Fit program, we have provided free health screenings and other resources to more than 10,000 Bay County residents in the last two years. Through our community and employer relationships we are helping detect emerging health issues before they become medical emergencies.”
“Bay County has a history of working together to address community issues. The impressive cooperative efforts in public health should be recognized and built upon to further address public health issues and improve health outcomes,” said Dennis Cookro, Acting Director, Bay County Health Department.
“I think it is important to remember that this is not a ranking of county health departments but rather the health of the community. Much of what influences how healthy we are and how long we live happens outside the doctor’s office, clinic or hospital. As a community, we should use the results of the County Health Rankings to spur all sectors – government, business, community and faith-based groups, education and public health – to work together on solutions that address barriers to good health. We should celebrate our successes and mobilize community leaders to invest in programs and policy changes that will improve health in Bay County.” said Dennis Cookro, M.D., M.P.H., Acting Director of the Bay County Health Department.
For information on how surrounding counties ranked, go to the online report, available at www.countyhealthrankings.org. The report includes a snapshot of each county in Florida with a color-coded map comparing each county’s overall health ranking. Researchers used five measures to assess the level of overall health or “health outcomes” for Florida by county: the rate of people dying before age 75, the percent of people who report being in fair or poor health, the numbers of days people report being in poor physical and poor mental health, and the rate of low-birthweight infants.
The report then looks at factors that affect people’s health within four categories: health behavior, clinical care, social and economic factors, and physical environment. Specific health factors looked at included rates of adult smoking, adult obesity, binge drinking, and teenage pregnancy; the number of uninsured adults, availability of primary care providers, and preventable hospital stays; rates of high school graduation, number of children in poverty, rates of violent crime, access to healthy foods, air pollution levels, and liquor store density.
A new line of caffeinated chewing gum is causing jitters among health advocates and prompting federal officials to take a new look at the proliferation of jolt-infused foods, including those marketed to children and teens.
Stress, the slowing of metabolism of middle age, and hormone changes after having a baby are three main reasons why many people see the numbers on the scale going up. Dr. Mehmet Oz shares tips on how to shed those final 10 pounds.
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HARRISON, Ark. (AP) - It looks like any other road-improvement project: orange barrels, repaving equipment and men in fluorescent vests. But a closer look reveals something curious.
Instead of making the street wider to accommodate more cars, the crew reduces it from four lanes to two in a project called a "road diet." The goal is to rein in aggressive drivers and make shopping areas friendlier to pedestrians.
The idea seems counterintuitive for traffic-choked towns, but it's catching on. In Harrison, a small city in northwest Arkansas, officials also hope it drums up more business along Main Street. Mayor Jeff Crockett wants drivers "to slow down, stop, shop, take your time getting through."
Some people say the plan seems to be working, citing an increase in foot traffic at stores. Others worry that the new configuration will have the opposite effect: If traffic backs up too much, people will flee Main Street for other routes.
"We're afraid of people avoiding this area," said Kristi Myers, who runs a tire and battery shop with her husband along the newly paved street. "If someone doesn't want to come down this road, less traffic means less business for us."
Road diets - and doubts about them - are not entirely new. A decade ago in University Place, Wash., city officials faced opposition when they eliminated some traffic lanes.
"The idea that you can take lanes away seems to some to be insanity," said Steve Sugg, city manager in the community about 40 miles southwest of Seattle.
Yet in University Place and scores of other communities that have taken similar measures, motorists are often pleasantly surprised. Commutes don't take much longer, and more drivers follow the speed limit, largely because they have no more passing lanes.
In Harrison, the road was narrowed to two driving lanes, with a turn lane in the middle.
But business owners such as Ernest Raney, who runs a pawn shop with his wife along Main Street, question whether it will achieve anything for businesses.
"They call it a road diet, which means they're going to cut back on traffic," Raney said. "But I can't imagine any businessman wanting less traffic in front of his business."
The pace of life has always been slow in this city of 13,000. People honk their horns to say hello, not to criticize someone's driving. Sales clerks and supermarket baggers know customers by name.
Traffic here hardly qualifies as gridlock compared with major metropolitan areas. More often than not, tourists headed north to Branson, Mo., or south to kayak on the Buffalo River bypass the city's downtown. And for visitors who venture onto the city's Main Street, there's not much to stop for.
City officials want the road diet to change that.
"Our hope is that it will spur more business development and growth," said Terry Cook, who runs the visitors bureau.
Road diets have served as economic-development tools in other communities, including Chandler, Ariz., where people working at office complexes used to climb behind the wheel if they wanted to cross the street for lunch.
Business has shot up since the suburb outside Phoenix completed a road diet last fall. Sales tax receipts are up, and more than a dozen new companies opened downtown, according to Teri Killgore, the downtown redevelopment manager.
Harrison completed its road diet only a few weeks ago, so it's too soon to know whether the new system will pay off.
So far, foot traffic at Lana Trublood's flower shop has more than doubled now that drivers can turn into her store more easily. Some customers told her they had wanted to stop by in the past but didn't want to risk opening their car doors into fast-moving traffic.
Down the street, at the pawn shop, Raney told a different story.
"I haven't heard anybody say they spotted this place because they were going slower," he said with a laugh.
In fact, he and his wife, Marie, say they haven't heard much positive feedback at all, except from customers who comment that the road is now smoother.
That would have happened anyway. The state resurfaced more than three miles of the street this year, including the 1.3 miles where the city got rid of a lane. The project cost $1.1 million – the same price without the road diet, since workers simply paint lines in different spots, according to the state highway and transportation department.
Much remains unchanged. Cars still zip by stores and screech to a halt at stoplights. The speed limit is the same.
Still, Dan Burden, who pushes road diets and other transportation ideas to make communities more walkable, says the road diet fits nicely with Harrison's goal of gleaning more revenue from its businesses.
"There are a lot of small, conservative towns ... that say, `We're not hippies but we want to make money,"' he said.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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MIAMI (AP) — Elvis may have left the building, but on one Miami street he’s making another appearance in time for his 78th birthday.
Neo-pop artist Pete Kirill painted a mural of Elvis on a building in Miami’s Wynwood arts district in honor of the rock ‘n’ roll king.
Kirill’s mural features Elvis in a black sweatsuit, thick gold rope necklace and high-top fade in front of a bright green background.
The artist told The Miami Herald he wanted to mix hip hop culture and the American icon to make a statement about how Elvis was influenced by black music, and how that in turn has been influenced by rock ‘n’ roll.
The mural was finished by Elvis’ birthday on Friday.
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The Unnayan Onneshan is a progressive think-tank that undertakes research for advancing ideas and building constituencies for social transformation. The Institute advances critical scholarship, promotes inter-disciplinary dialogue and amplifies grassroots perspectives. The public-interest research institute works in collaboration with national partners, international organisations and leading universities.
The Unnayan Onneshan - the Innovators was registered in 2003 as a not-for-profit trust to contribute towards search for solutions to endemic poverty, injustice, gender inequality and environmental degradation at the local, national and global levels. The philosophy, ideas and actions of the organization focus on pluralistic, participatory and sustainable development and seek to challenge the narrow theoretical and policy approaches derived from unitary models of development.
The mission is to champion innovation for exploring paths of social transformation towards a world, free from poverty, injustice, gender inequality and environmental degradation.
The purpose is to provide innovative ideas, alternative perspectives and critical approaches with a view to building constituencies for progressive transformation of people, environment, economy and society.
● A knowledge provider: The organisation infuses pluralism in perspectives by examining development intervention strategies, exposing its underlying paradigms and the impacts on the people, and explores alternative concepts, approaches, practices for contributing towards progressive social transformation.
● A catalyst for change agents and organizations: The organisation embarks upon perspective and capacity building as social action to build and strengthen constituencies of change agents of social transformation.
● A bridge between margin and centre: The organisation brings in indigenous perspectives from the margins to the centre with a view to shaping the global development discourse and democratizing policy making.
Since the organisation’s aim is to search for alternative paths of social transformation, we conceptualises paradigm of development as of social transformation and change. Therefore, the unit is society, which according to us, is an interwoven system consisting of economic, political and social sub-systems, intertwined at every sphere – local, national and global. The societal sub-system entails configuration of classes, which interact with each other in political arena in order to retain control over productive resources in the economic sphere. The political sub-system is reflection of societal sub-system as the dominant class attempts to arrive at or impose a set of collective goals. The economic sub-system actualized goals through the production of goods and services. In other words, the societal sub-system defines players, the political sub-system inscribes rules and economic sub-system actualizes the system of accumulation. Thus our policy analyzes and research is based on a theoretical structure that grids the transmission mechanism of the realities of concentration of wealth and power, differential access to markets and resources, and the impact of discriminatory policies and practices.
Research and Dialogue: As a think tank, much of the organisation’s work is about public policies, advanced from pro-poor perspectives. The organisation’s research outputs are designed to contribute to reframe policy debates and help citizens as well as policy entrepreneurs make optimal choices by providing the tools and information they need. The organisation has integrated stakeholder-learning as well as consensus-building workshops as part of its "thinking", research and dialogue process.
Constituency Building and Policy Literacy: A wing of the centre is engaged in perspective building and policy literacy programmes to help prepare change agents in association with civil society groups and social movements, as the organisation is concerned about social change and recognises that for social change to take place, it needs change agents. Besides the organisation use research and other projects to educate and outreach to a wider audience.
Strategic Influence and Policy Advocacy: The organisation put ideas directly to decision-makers at national and international levels through long cultivated connections with stakeholders such as public sector officials, politicians, business leaders, NGOs, trade unions, women groups, educators. The organisation also provides tailor made policy advisories and briefings to these stakeholders.
Action Research for Change: The organisation pursues an integrated knowledge management approach to employ participatory action methods that elevate the status of local observation and knowledge. Thus this Unit’s work embark on methods, which promote emancipatory praxis in the participants - a critical consciousness that is expressed in political as well as practical action for change.
Student Internship Programme: The Centre runs an active student internship programme. The fellowships are offered to dynamic, motivated fresh university graduates to up-skill their abilities to critically analyze and address the problems of development processes, pursuing progressive non-orthodox approaches.
Operational Units - Human Resources
The internal professional staff and external fellows are grouped into four function based operational units – Economic Policy, Social Policy, Climate Change, Biodiversity & DRR, and Perspective Building and Policy Literacy. The professional staffs, with expertise i all areas of development studies, were educated from top - ranking universities..
Economic Policy Unit: The Economic Policy Unit provides research and analysis to enable advocacy and campaigns in the field of economic policy for social justice. The aim is to examine public policies and development intervention strategies by exposing its underlying paradigms and the impacts on the people, and to explore alternative approaches to public policy questions. This Unit considers the processes and policies that potentially influence national and regional development in the context of an increasingly global economy. Research considerations include the roles of institutions, government policies, market structures, distributional issues, international trade and finance, and economic geography in explaining development and welfare.
Social Policy Unit: The Social Policy Unit conducts research and fosters discussion on all aspects of social policy. The aim is to reflect the experiences and views of the rights holders on policy interventions, and to communicate research findings with stakeholders in thinking through their implications with a view to bringing about change. The main topics of inquiry are: education, health, women and children.
Climate Change, Biodiversity and DRR Unit: The Unit forms a focused, interdisciplinary programme of research and advocacy to integrate rigorous natural and social sciences with policy, education and socially responsible conservation action. The work of the Unit relating to emergencies including disaster is rights-based to cover a full range of activities including, advocacy, prevention, preparedness, direct response and rehabilitation in situations created by war, drought, floods, earthquakes and famine.
Perspective Building and Policy Literacy Unit: The Unit provides resources and undertakes programmes for change agents and organisations with a view to building constituencies for progressive transformation of people, environment, economy and society. The programmes on capacity building is conceptualised as social action.
The organisation is located in the central part of the capital city of Bangladesh. The organisation has an expanding Resource Centre. The organisation has state-of-the-art technology for the workshops/policy literacy programmes which include multimedia computers with Plasma Screens. Each computer is connected with LAN and 24 hours internet is available.
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Charles Burton, associate professor of Political Science, did two interviews about the death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il.
- “Dictator’s death met with concern in Niagara” published in the Niagara Falls Review on Dec. 19
- an interview in Mandarin on the leadership succession in North Korea on Radio Canada International on Dec. 19 (Hear the interview here. It starts about seven minutes in after the news.)
Charles Burton also did an interview with Ezra Levant about China’s property bubble and revisions to China’s criminal procedures law broadcast on Sun TV “The Source” Dec. 13.
John Sainsbury, History professor, wrote “In the afterglow, a balanced view of empire” for the Globe and Mail on Dec. 15.
Andrea Doucet, professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, was mentioned in the Huffington Post article “Fathers: Equal In Marriage But Not In Divorce?” on Dec. 14.
Lisa Barrow, assistant professor in the Faculty of Business, wrote the column “Anti-bullying legislation a step in the right direction, but will it be enough?” in the Niagara Falls Review on Dec. 12.
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The German Pirate Party, which also seems to have a keen focus on the Internet, experienced something of a breakthrough in Germany's recent elections as protest party. However, concerns have arisen regarding the possibility of Holocaust denial among their ranks. Individuals from Israel's embassy in Berlin met with officials from the party and, for the most part, seem to have satisfied those concerns.
The Pirate Party is, however, like most European parties, of the Left and what its foreign policy views are, or may yet come to be defined as, remains somewhat unclear. The Pirates' primary focus seems to be on transparency in government. Yet, how they weigh in as regards some traditionally antisemitic governments in the Middle East is still unresolved (via the Jerusalem Post):
KIEL, Germany The German Pirate Party shook up the political establishment in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein by winning 8.2 percent of the vote on Sunday and securing seats in the state legislature. In a Saarland state election in March, the party received 7.4% of the vote.
The 30-year-old Pirate politician Patrick Ratzmann, from Kiel, said people say we are merely an Internet party. That is not true. We are a party that uses the Internet. He stressed that Pirates want to promote democracy understanding in the school system and a participatory learning process.
Wolfgang Dudda, a customs police official and Pirate party politician who is set to enter the state parliament in Kiel, told the Post that "We have a historic responsibility toward Israel. It is [an] obligation for us.
"And we will not give that up."
After the election victory in Kiel, he wrote the Post via email, noting "In a hard and unfair, especially at the end, election campaign from the other parties, the power of democratic renewal based on experience and percent brought a victory to the Pirate party."
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You know things are bad in the economy when what passes for good news is the hope that we’re probably not on the verge of the second Great Depression. “I think we know more than we did then, and just the fact that we have a big federal government is a stabilizing factor,” Paul Krugman of Princeton (and the New York Times) tells Fortune in a lengthy interview about the crisis. “But the current problem is still pretty awesome.” Krugman’s predictions: recession at least until mid-2010, $1 trillion in losses on mortgage-backed securities and 20 million Americans with negative equity in their homes. And yet, he allows that the crisis in the financial markets may not devastate Main Street as much as Wall Street. “Maybe it’ll turn out that all this Wall Street stuff is just less important than we think it is,” he says. Let’s hope so.
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Nailer writes "Bloomberg believe VMware's IPO today may the largest technology offering since Google. But doubts have been cast over the company's supposedly proprietary ESX product, as top 10 Linux contributor Christopher Hellwig claims the software may violate Linux kernel copyrights. 'Is Hellwig right, and is VMware a derived product of Linux? Unless vmkernel can be loaded without the Linux kernel, it would appear so. VMware was developed from another, long ago OS created as a research project, but it's unclear whether vmkernel was ported from that OS or rewritten as the Linux-requiring binary blob. What's more of an issue is that VMware had these serious questions posed directly to them a year ago, repeated in a public forum many times since, but have yet to respond at all.'"
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This course is offered in Silkroad International College....
BBA of Pokhara University is offered in Many Member colleges of edusanjal....
BHCM Course prepares students to enter management practice in health care setting....
The Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) is a special program in semester system. Admissions are now going on Affiliated colleges. ...
Students completing their Bachelors studies in BBM can join masters programs in most of the universities in India, and Overseas....
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Actually, ‘Biomedical engineering’ refers to the use of principles of engineering disciplines for clinical diagnosis and therapy and for investigating the physiological basis of disease. Biomedical Engineering is for students who have technical brain with an interest in medicine.
Any kind of engineering related to medical science is called biomedical engineering, It includes engineering of all kinds of therapeutic and diagnostic medical equipment (e.g. MRI, CT Scan, X-ray, Ultrasound, ECG, TMT etc.), implantable devices (e.g. Pacemakers, heart valves, artificial joints etc.) and Tissue engineering (repair or manufacture of new human tissues and organs from cells acquired from the patient).
Bachelor in Biomedical Engineering is a fairly new subject, not only in Nepal, but in the world itself. Bachelor in Biomedical Engineering program is run in Nepal with affiliation from Purbanchal University. It needs the study of human anatomy, physiology and diseases as well as various engineering disciplines such as computer engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical and electronics etc. It is a complex subject requiring mathematics as well as biological sciences.
Biomedical engineering also includes molecular and cellular engineering, tissue engineering, plasma engineering, intracellular physiological control mechanisms, drug regulation and drug delivery systems, rehabilitation engineering, and aids for the feeble and the disabled. Biomedical Engineering is an exciting and fast-moving field with ever-changing boundaries. Here at CBEAS, we are pushing those boundaries in a number of overlapping and interrelated areas.
Students from both Maths and/or Biology streams of +2 science or I.Sc. can apply for admissions for Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering (affiliated with Purbanchal University).
Where to Study?
In Nepal, the only college for studying Biomedical Engineering is the ‘College of Biomedical Engineering and Applied Sciences (CBEAS)’ located in Handigaun, Kathmandu (www.biomedical.edu.np) . In India there are a few private institutions running this course.
The cost of studying this course in Nepal is about NRs. 5,50,000.00, whereas in India, it costs about NRs.16,00,000.00 (excluding clothing, lodging and fooding).
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This month, our Akira Kurosawa Film Club turns to Sanshiro Sugata (1943), Kurosawa’s first feature film as a director after years spent as an assistant director and screenwriter. The availability of the film with English subtitles is not stellar, but do check out the Kurosawa DVDs page for more information.
In his autobiography, Kurosawa writes how he saw an ad for a new novel about a “rowdy young judo expert” and instantly felt that this would finally be the material with which he could make his directorial debut after a succession of scripts that had been turned down by wartime censors. The ad was for Tsuneo Tomita’s novel Sanshiro Sugata, which Kurosawa bought on the day that it came out, read it in one sitting, and immediately visited producer Nobuyoshi Morita, asking him to secure the rights the first thing next morning. Kurosawa’s instincts were correct, and within a few days, three major Japanese studios had offered to purchase the rights to Sanshiro Sugata. Ultimately the reason why he got the rights, or so Kurosawa writes, was that the author’s wife had read a positive article about him in a film magazine. (121-122) Galbraith, however, adds that even if Toho purchased the rights following Kurosawa’s advice, according to director Masahiro Makino the studio had in fact first offered the director’s chair to Makino, but he had declined, recommending Kurosawa. (39)
As Sanshiro Sugata was Kurosawa’s first film, it has received relatively much attention both from film critics and biographers. The film is set in the 1880s and tells the story of the titular Sanshiro Sugata, a young judo apprentice who has to learn both the physical and mental aspects of the then-new martial art. The film was made under military censorship, and as a result some commentators including Sorensen have interpreted it as a rather straightforward propaganda film, while others like Desser suggest that it in fact promotes a type of pacifist agenda: “To be a judo master [in Sanshiro Sugata] is to be free of ego, vanity, and the need for glory. The true way of Judo is non-violent.” (63)
The question how much of a propaganda film Sanshiro Sugata was is also reflected in the film’s release history. While the script was approved by wartime censors, the finished film was suddenly seen by the censorship board as too “British-American”. Despite this, the film was ultimately released as it was, possibly due to an intervention from director Yasujiro Ozu, who praised Kurosawa’s film in front of the censors. (Autobiography 131) However, a year after the release, the censors appear to have changed their minds, feeling the need to tamper with the already released work without Kurosawa’s consent. Consequently, the version of Sanshiro Sugata that we have today is some 18 minutes shorter than the original. The cut material was either lost or destroyed, and the removed scenes are in the now surviving 1952 version narrated through the use of explanatory title cards.
When critics discuss Sanshiro Sugata, they tend to praise its form, while agreeing that the content wasn’t quite up yet with Kurosawa’s later standards. Desser goes as far as to claim that “Sanshiro Sugata is a formal triumph … stylistically more assured, more finely tuned, than any Kurosawa film until Stray Dog“. (63) Yoshimoto is of a similar opinion, noting that while the story of Sanshiro Sugata is very similar to other action films of the time, “[w]hat distinguishes it from other run-of-the-mill genre films using a similar narrative formula is first and foremost its form. … Each action scene had distinct formal features, which give the film a sense of variety and contrast.” (Yoshimoto 69-70)
Some of Kurosawa’s later stylistic innovations can in fact already be seen in Sanshiro Sugata. Perhaps the most interesting of these takes place at the end of the exhibition match between Sanshiro and Momma, when we see a paper door falling down in slow motion on the defeated Momma. Kurosawa would more influentially reuse the slow-motion technique in a fairly similar scene ten years later in Seven Samurai. Prince has dissected Sanshiro Sugata’s formal features in length, noting that many of Kurosawa’s trademark conventions were already present in his first feature but suggesting that it nevertheless “is a form looking for a content” (53), in which “the dialectic exists in terms of style only and has not been extended to the culture that informs that style”. (54)
Even if the story may not have been quite up to Kurosawa’s later standards, the film nevertheless contains many of the themes that would later appear throughout Kurosawa’s oeuvre. For instance, Sanshiro Sugata is already a prime example of Kurosawa’s father-son relationships. Tadao Sato (in Perspectives on Akira Kurosawa) writes that judo master Shogoro Yano is the first of Kurosawa’s father figures, and the relationship between him and Sugata “is like an ideal father-son relationship where the young man is modeling himself after the old man.” Sato further notes that “this ideal father-son relationship of militaristic Japan appears in several other war-time films. The father in the home was a microcosm of the emperor in the nation: as the emperor was the embodiment of virtue, so each father should be a small model of virtue.” Sato goes on to point out that although this “ideal, thought to embody feudalistic thinking, changed swiftly after the war … Kurosawa continued to portray noble fathers or father-substitutes, even after the war”.
This is of course not to say that Kurosawa necessarily clung to old, feudalistic traditions. An argument can be made that already in 1943, just like in his later post-war films, Kurosawa was contemplating the topic of change and modernity. “The struggle in Sanshiro Sugata is between ju-jitsu and judo, which comes to stand for the struggle between the old ways of traditionalism and feudalism and the new ways of competitive individualism. … What Sanshiro Sugata presents, then, is the struggle between tradition and innovation within a strictly Japanese context. A natural extension of this implied message is that Japan, to survive, must adapt.” (Desser 63) In this context, it must be noted that judo was historically developed as a scientifically research sport form of traditional jujutsu (or ‘jujitsu’) that had been developed by samurai for unarmed combat.
Another theme familiar from Kurosawa’s later films is the director’s love of his villains. Already in Sanshiro Sugata, Kurosawa found himself “strangely attracted by Higaki’s character. For this reason I portrayed Higaki’s demise with a great deal of affection.” (Autobiography 130) Furthermore, just like Kurosawa would go on to pair his heroes with his villains in films like The Quiet Duel, Stray Dog or High and Low, it can be argued, that “Higaki, in fact, is Sanshiro’s double, which Kurosawa makes clear through similar actions that he has each character repeat.” (Prince 48) One could say that Higaki, who dresses up in modern western garments, is a “failed” Sanshiro, much in the same way that Yusa for instance is a failed Murakami in Stray Dog. That Sanshiro himself has the potential of failure is evident from his behaviour early on in the film, but with the guidance of his father-figure Yano, he is saved from becoming like Higaki.
This touches on another theme familiar from Kurosawa’s later films. Galbraith labels this the “parallel education (i.e. physical or intellectual and metaphysical)” (41), through which Sanshiro is saved. In other words “Sanshiro”, writes Galbraith, “is an ordinary man in search of his self.” (41) Meanwhile Higaki, it could be argued, has the skills but lacks this “parallel education”, and is therefore ultimately doomed for failure.
The film also includes visual symbolism that Kurosawa would later go on to use again. Perhaps the most interesting of these is the lotus pond which, as Noel and Coco pointed out in last month’s discussion of Scandal, represents spiritual rebirth here, but later makes markedly different appearances in Kurosawa’s post-war films.
Sanshiro Sugata was both a critical and commercial success, even winning a few prizes (Galbraith 44-45), although some “Japanese reviewers found Kurosawa’s adaptation wanting in its portrayal of the spirit of judo.” (Desser 62) The film also helped to make a star out of Susumu Fujita, who played Sanshiro in the film. Fujita would go on to star also in The Men Who Thread on the Tiger’s Tail (1945), Sanshiro Sugata II (1945) and No Regrets for Our Youth (1946), and later acting in smaller roles also in Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress (1958), The Bad Sleep Well (1960), Yojimbo (1961) and High and Low (1963).
The film was influential also in other ways. In fact, Sanshiro Sugata’s history of remakes and remakes’ remakes is almost as long and winding as is that of Yojimbo’s. In addition to Kurosawa’s own 1945 sequel, the film has received a direct remake treatment at least twice, in 1955 and 1965. Of these two, the latter is the more interesting case. Overseen by Kurosawa himself and produced by Kurosawa Productions together with Toho, the film was even originally planned as Kurosawa’s next work after High and Low. (Galbraith 384-385) Instead, the film ultimately ended up as a quick remake directed by Seiichiro Uchikawa to recuperate costs generated by the long shoot of Red Beard.
This 1965 Sanshiro Sugata, which narrates the stories of both Sanshiro Sugata and its sequel Sanshiro Sugata Part II, was released less than two months after Red Beard, and starred many familiar faces from that film, including Toshiro Mifune as Shogoro Yano the judo master, and Yuzo Kayama (the young doctor of Red Beard) as the titular Sanshiro Sugata. According to Richie (22), the 1965 remake was also edited by Kurosawa himself, who “put whole scenes together in the same way” that he had in his original film. The film was financially successful, but an artistic failure, despite winning the Catholic International Prize in Rio. (Galbraith 385) While near impossible to get in any home video format these days, the film can apparently be found online, if you are patient enough and know where to look (try filecrop.com).
In any case, the remake history doesn’t end there. This 1965 remake itself was remade twice, first in 1970, and later in 1977. In addition to these, there is also a recent 2007 film called Sanshiro Sugata, which IMDb currently lists as a remake of Sanshiro Sugata II. I have no way of verifying what it actually is. Finally, there is a supposedly unrelated adaptation of the original novel from 1966, also called Sanshiro Sugata.
All in all, even if it may not have reached the artistic heights of Kurosawa’s later films, Sanshiro Sugata is a fairly interesting work, and well worth our attention this month. The forums, as always, are open for your comments, insights, and questions. How do you see Sanshiro Sugata? The work of a director still looking for his own domain? A wartime propaganda film? An exciting action flick? Destroyed by the censors’ meddling? The floor is yours.
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Now that's a family tree: English acorn returns home from Oz nearly 200 years later
AN English acorn taken to Australia nearly 200 years ago has produced a sapling that has been planted in the village it was taken from.
The acorn was taken Down Under when the Clarkson family resettled from Holme-On-Spalding-Moor in East Yorkshire in the 1820s.
The seeds survived an eight-month journey and even dodged a meteor strike before being planted by the settlers in their new home.
Now, 183 years later, saplings were taken to Yorkshire and have been planted by the grandson and granddaughter of the family now living in Holme House.
Aleck Brown, six, and his three-year-old sister Katy placed it where the original tree still stands.
The amazing journey came full-circle thanks to someone in Australia seeing a book written by Dr Robb Robinson called ’Far Horizons — From Hull to the Ends of the Earth’, which featured the fabled story of the acorns.
Dr Robinson said: “Around the 1820s the British Government were worried the French might settle western Australia as we didn’t have many people living there.
“They issued a call in all the national newspapers asking for settlers who would be willing to go there. The Clarksons were just one of the families who left from East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.
“There was plenty to contend with on the way, in fact the ship was hit by a meteor en-route killing a sheep and breaking a dog's leg.
“When they arrived the settlers made a home for themselves on an area of land called the Perth Peninsula not far from modern-day Perth."
Dr Robinson said he was amazed when he was contacted from Australia and told about the Oak trees where the Clarksons had settled, and so he asked if they could send a few acorns on a return journey back to England.
Dr Robinson soon decided the best place for the next generation of Oak trees was the garden where they came from.
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A brainstorming approach that encourages less verbal members of a group to participate.First, all members of the group write responses to the problem or question on separatecards, then the cards are silently grouped by each member while the others observe. After a discussion, the agreed upon arrangement is recorded as an outline or diagram.
Technique for motivating students by helping them believe they can "do things."
(Aims, Goals, Objectives)Edward de Bono's strategy to help students analyze the reasons behind actions.AGO: Aims, Goals, Objectives
A formal approach to discussing and researching issues. Students are polled for agreement or disagreement with a statement and their responses as a group are recordedin the matrix. Students research the topic, and again their responses are recorded. Finally,small groups to meet to to discuss the results and changes.Agree/Disagree Matrix
Used to explore opinions. As students stand in a circle, facing each other, the teacher makes a statement. Students who agree with the statement step into the circle.
(Analysis of Interactive Decision Areas)Creativity technique.Analysis of Interactive Decision Areas (AIDA)
Aims, Goals, Objectives
(AGO)Edward de Bono's strategy to help students analyze the reasons behind actions.AGO: Aims, Goals, Objectives
Students draw or motion in the air to demonstrate how they will carry out a procedure before they actually do so. Used in science labs, home economics, and classes wherestudents use tools or musical instruments.
(Adaptive Learning Environments Model)Combination of individual and whole class approach which helps to integrate studentswith special needs into the classroom.
Each student is assigned a different letter of the alphabet and asked to generate a wordstarting with that letter that is related to the topic being discussed. Students share their terms with the class.
Alphabetic Foods Teams
Brainstorm the names of 26 foods (apple, bread, etc.). A paper is passed within the groupand individuals write appropriate names in alphabetical order. Can be adapted to other categories (authors, cities, etc.).
Any of a variety of assessments that allow teachers to evaluate their students'understanding or performance. Examples include: performance assessments, portfolios, journals, and authentic assessments.Alternative Assessment - NCREL
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November 26, 2012 | CUNY School of Law
In a blog post for IntLawGrrls, Professor Rebecca Bratspies discusses the BP criminal settlement with the Department of Justice for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP will pay approximately $4.5 billion in fines and plead guilty to 14 criminal charges, including 12 felonies and 2 misdemeanors. “The criminal penalty assessed for the worst environmental disaster in the United States’ history did not even amount to one quarter’s profit for the main perpetrator,” writes Bratspies. “Whether one views the goal of criminal punishment as retribution or deterrence, it is difficult to see how the proposed plea deal and penalty accomplish the goal.”
Prof. Bratspies is the director of CUNY Law’s Center for Urban Environmental Reform. Her teaching and scholarly research focus on environmental and public international law, with a particular emphasis on how legal systems govern the global commons and how law can further sustainable development. She has published widely on the topics of environmental liability, regulatory uncertainty, regulation of international fisheries, and regulation of genetically modified food crops.
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Take the train: collecting U.S. mail with Railway Mail Service markings
By Janet Klug
One of the most popular topical stamp subjects collected is trains.
|Figure 1. A stampless letter mailed by Charles Mynn Thruston from Cumberland, Md., on Sept. 30, 1843. Thruston would later protect the railroads as a Union officer.
|Figure 2. An 1891 postmark from the Columbus, Midland and Cincinnati Railway Post Office route.
|Figure 3. A Cincinnati Transfer Clerk postmark dated Dec. 22, 1941.
|Figure 4. A postmark from the last trip of the Washington & Cincinnati RPO in 1967.
|Figure 5. A cropped image of the Brighton Street Car RPO postmark used in Cincinnati on Feb. 21, 1913.
Consider that many thousands of people also engage in model railroading or photograph their favorite locomotives. Train enthusiasts enjoy their hobby in many forms.
Train-loving postal history collectors turn their attention to mail that shows evidence of having been carried by rail.
In the United States, the first locomotive ran in Honesdale, Pa., in 1829. In 1832, the U.S. Post Office contracted with some stagecoach and railroad companies to carry mail.
Trains, powered by steam locomotives, were sprouting quickly. The railroads were the fastest and safest way to transport people and goods.
By 1838, all U.S. railroads were designated post routes by the U.S. Post Office Department. This action was the beginning of the Railroad Mail Service. Agents were appointed to handle the mail, assure that the sacks of mail were exchanged properly, and that correct delivery was maintained.
As the post office standardized the handling of mail carried by rail, postal markings indicating carriage by rail began appearing on letters.
Figure 1 shows a stampless letter sent from Cumberland, Md., on Sept. 30, 1843, and to Richard Halton Moale, an attorney. Postage stamps had not yet been issued by the U.S. Post Office Department, so the amount of postage collected is handwritten at the upper right corner.
On this example, that amount was 12½¢, the rate of a single letter traveling between 80 and 150 miles. The sender was Charles Mynn Thruston. Twenty years later, Thruston would be a brigadier general in the Union Army whose orders were to protect the B&O Railroad from falling into the hands of the Confederacy.
The 1850s was a time of rail expansion, with large cities being served by multiple lines. On route maps of the time, some cities look as though they are sitting in the center of a massive spider web.
In 1862, an experiment of sorting and bagging mail in a railroad car led to the formation of Railway Post Offices (RPOs).
Figure 2 shows an 1891 postmark from the Columbus, Midland, and Cincinnati RPO route, typical of the RPO postmarks that can be found from this period.
RPO mail clerks and route agents were employees of the post office who rode the trains and handled the mail. Route agents received, recorded and postmarked mail collected at stations. Railway mail clerks on these mail cars would sort mail received by the route agent and prepare the mail for distribution.
Transfer clerks worked from large transfer stations. They supervised the handling of mail at the depot, the loading and unloading of mail from trains, and assured that a train had sufficient suitable space to contain the mail that would be loaded and carried on the train.
Figure 3 shows a Cincinnati Transfer Clerk postmark dated Dec. 22, 1941. Notice the circular postmark bears the initials "R.M.S.," which stands for Railway Mail Service. The postmark also has a killer that strikes the stamp to invalidate the stamp for further use. Within the bars of the killer are the letters "R.M.S." again.
Figure 4 is a later RPO postmark from the last trip of the Washington & Cincinnati RPO, on Oct. 29, 1967. On this example, the duplex RMS killer can be seen clearly.
For those interested in delving deeper into collecting RPO covers, a great introduction is available on the Smithsonian National Postal Museum's web site at http://npm.si.edu/rms/history/index.html.
Excellent books are also helpful, but some of these are no longer in print. Your favorite philatelic library or literature dealer should be able to help you find a reading copy of United States Railroad Postmarks: 1837 to 1861 by C.W. Remele, and Railroad Postmarks of the United States 1861 to 1886 by Charles L. Towle and Henry A. Meyer.
The Mobile Post Office Society has a wealth of information available. Contact the MPOS by writing to Douglas N. Clark, Box 427, Marstons Mills, MA 02648; or visit www.eskimo.com/~rkunz/mposhome.html.
Mail was carried not just on large, well-known trains. Streetcars in some cities were also converted into mobile post offices and became part of the RPO system.
St. Louis had the first streetcar RPOs. This proved successful enough to extend the idea to an additional 13 cities: Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Rochester, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington D.C.
Figure 5 shows a cropped image of the Brighton Street Car RPO postmark used in Cincinnati on Feb. 21, 1913. The oval barred killer is not very clear, but it contains the distinctive "RMS" indicating that this was part of the Railway Mail Service.
The Mobile Post Office Society has published very useful monographs on the subject of streetcar RPOs.
The Cincinnati, Walnut Hills & Brighton RPO linked several post offices within the Cincinnati area. The route began at the main post office at Fountain Square in the center of the city. It traveled in a clockwise route that over time grew to 14 miles in length and made eight trips each weekday.
The route took the streetcar RPO up and down two of Cincinnati's four inclines, Mount Adams and Fairview, navigating the city's steepest hills. The CWH&B RPO was in service for 20 years, from 1895 to 1915.
If you know someone whose passion is trains, tell them about the Railway Mail Service and watch their eyes light up.
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A January 2011 examination of ERS's monthly milk cost-of-production (COP) estimates raised questions about the continued validity of the estimates, given recent volatility in the price of dairy feed. Questions about the calculation of the monthly State-level estimates, and the timing, availability, and representativeness of the data used were raised within ERS. As a result, publication of the series was suspended until ERS initiated an expert review process and received comments and recommendations on the monthly milk COP estimation procedures.
On the basis of reviewers' comments, ERS took the following actions:
- Discontinue the estimation of monthly State-level milk COP estimates. The lack of monthly State-level input price data compromises the ability to provide accurate monthly estimates.
- Continue publishing annual national and regional milk COP estimates. Annual national estimates of milk COP have been mandated in successive farm bill legislation since 1973.
- Publish annual State-level milk COP estimates based on NASS's annual State-level input price data. These estimates reflect differences in input market conditions across States.
- Publish annually updated milk COP estimates by size of operation based on information drawn from ARMS data and NASS's annual State-level input price data. Expert reviewers noted the importance of having data that show milk cost differences by size of operation.
- Publish monthly milk COP estimates for the nation using the most recent national ARMS milk COP per hundredweight and NASS's monthly, national input price indices. In the absence of monthly State-level prices, this is the only valid monthly series that can be estimated.
The estimates for items 2-4 are updated biannually, with preliminary estimates released in May of the subsequent year and final estimates released in October. For example, 2010 preliminary estimates were available in May 2011 and final estimates in October 2011. National monthly milk COP estimates (item 5) are updated during the last week of each subsequent month.
Monthly milk COP estimates by State, published prior to the expert review, are available from January 2003 through December 2010 16x16 - ZIP . Note: These estimates are presented as a historical record only and should not be used for analytical purposes. We recommend that national monthly and annual State-level or size-based milk COP estimates starting in 2005 be used as the basis for milk cost of production calculations.
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January 4, 2001
A member of L.A. Zimriyah Chorale recounts the group's November trip.
On Nov. 15, the Los Angeles Zimriyah Chorale, along with other Los Angeles choral groups, left for a European trip that included performances in Prague and, most notably, Nuremberg, where the chorale participated, on Nov. 25 and 26, in performances of Leonard Bernstein's "Symphony No. 3, Kaddish," in a concert hall built on the site of the famous Nazi Nuremberg rallies of the 1930s.
During the Czech leg of the trip, many of the choristers visited Terezin (Theresienstadt), the "model camp" at which the Nazis attempted to fool observers into believing that the Jews and others interned under the Hitler regime were well cared-for but which was really, as chorale member Sherri Lipman notes in this memoir of the trip, an "anteroom to Auschwitz."
Our visit to Terezin was difficult. It was my first exposure to the physical reality of a Nazi concentration camp. The contrast of the trip through the lovely Czech countryside to the ancient fortress town of Terezin was heavy upon me.
Once we arrived, we had the sense of a movie set or a Disney reproduction. Terezin was, in reality, an anteroom to Auschwitz. Most of Terezin's population was eventually shipped to that infamous place, and only a few remaining prisoners were well-fed and clothed to provide the International Red Cross and other observers with the fiction of good treatment.
I shall always remember a sense that I was being accompanied by the souls of those who had once lived there. They were there as we were shown the barracks for boys with the inscription "Yizkor" above the doorway. They shared my view of the cemeteries.
As we filed through the prison cells, the spooky showers, the dorms; as we saw the pictures drawn by the children trapped there; as we came upon the archway spelling out "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Work Will Make You Free"), all of these images were shared in a metaphysical way with those who had gone before us. As we sang two compositions composed at Terezin by Viktor Ullmann, who died there, I felt a sadness, yet a joy that was heightened by the sight of 2-year-old Gabriel Ellias, son of two of the chorale's members. The music survived its composer, but we were there to keep it alive. So many people perished, yet Gabriel was there. He was our victory.
Many of us, when passing the Jewish cemetery, placed a stone on a headstone and said a private prayer for the soul it memorialized. Each of us, for our own reasons, needed to leave something there.
Our tour finally took us to the railroad siding, off the main track, where the trains disgorged their doomed passengers. The sky was very blue, the grass around the tracks deep green, and the sun had come out. Together, we chanted "El Male Rachamim" and recited "Kaddish" and then, as if the song sprang from one collective mind, we began to sing "Ani Ma-amin" ("I Believe"). Among our tears and comforting embraces, I think I found a spark of peace.
There are those who suggest that the concentration camps should be torn down and monuments placed on the sites as a memorial. I disagree. The physical reality of the camps is not a tourist magnet. The camps are testimony to what human beings are capable of doing when no one speaks out against evil. I shall carry the image of Terezin all the days of my life.
I started with rage, a blackness in my heart as we entered Nuremberg. No amount of beautiful countryside or picture-postcard houses could dilute it. No pleasant lunch with friends, crammed into a tiny restaurant room, trying to make our wishes known to a nice waitress, helped. I felt the same anger that had kept me from ever visiting Germany before or from buying a German car or studying German or appreciating the music of Wagner.
But the rage began to break up after I entered the hall with my husband and friends and began rehearsing. As we sang together, Jews and non-Jews, children and adults, a little chink appeared in my emotions. Music can do that.
In this place, which was built for Nazis, there were no Nazis.
What a joy to work with the brilliance of the Nuremberg musicians and their director, Jac van Steen. During the days before the first performance, we perfected and tuned countless sections of the difficult work, while stage business was honed and lighting effects finalized.
Finally, it was Saturday night. Meistersinger Hall, this magnificent place set on the site of Hitler's monstrous rallies, in the city where the infamous Nuremberg Laws shackled thousands of Jews, was glittering. The auditorium was packed. We were elegant in our gowns and tuxedoes.
Never had we performed this work so well! We picked up our audience in our musical hands, the "speaker" of the piece grabbed them, and something magical occurred. There was a sense of communion, each of us linked in our own individual emotions, capturing the past and exposing it to the light. My rage eased ever so slightly and a new feeling began to take its place: hope!
When we finished, after the final "Amen" echoed through the hall, there was silence. The audience had stopped breathing and was afraid to do anything. Then, some tentative clapping, more hands, a collective roar, rhythmic applause, countless bows, flowers, our smiles.
In this place of immeasurable pain and madness, we arrived.
In this place, where once echoed the throbbing shrieks of hate, the forests of swastikas and the brutality of goose-stepping multitudes, we brought beauty.
In this place, we could never erase the past, but we could try to go forward.
In this place, I wanted to help change the future for my children and grandchildren. I wanted to show them that each of us must make a difference, by exposing blind hatred to the light of day.
My rage will never completely leave me, nor should it. I must use the power of that emotion for change. I am now a part of the future, and I refuse to let the past repeat itself. As long as I have the strength to do so, I shall try to be a voice that says we can be better.
I shall commit myself to the process of healing, so that unthinking hatreds cannot find currency in our world. It would be foolish to think that one person might make that much of a difference, but I know I'm not alone. Each of us was a part of it, and it all began ... in this place.
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I visited Salton Sea on January 13, 2013. It was sunny and modestly cool day. The few birds wading in the lake added color and beauty to the naked nature surrounding the controversial and threatened Salton Sea.
I saw few tourists and no one in a boat or fishing. Hard times have become a permanent feature of the life and death of Salton Sea. Yet, the information pamphlets I received on entering the "Salton Sea State Recreation Area" painted a picture of a huge lake thriving on tourism, fishing and millions upon millions of birds. The Salton Sea had become "a birdwatcher’s delight."
The Salton Sea is more than 100 years old, having been created by an accidental spill of the Colorado River in the middle of the Colorado Desert in southern California in 1905. It is, park cartographers say, "a landlocked extension of the Gulf of California."
Man intervened to make the Colorado River accident permanent, not because of love of a wild water lake, but because that lake allowed him to cultivate crops in the desert. Some 500,000 acres of desert have been converted into large farms in the Imperial and Coachella Valleys. These giant industrial one-crop farms grow alfalfa, beef, and vegetables valued at well over a billion dollars per year.
The businessmen who dreamt converting the desert to farms also dreamt of using the water of the Colorado River for irrigation. They convinced the State of California and the federal government to fund their expensive irrigation works.
However, growing crops in the desert demands lots of water - not merely to satisfy the thirst of the crops, but also to flush the excessive salts away from the roots of the crops. One acre of alfalfa, for example, requires six acre-feet of water. Some of that water goes to draining the soil of salts. The farms of the Coachella and Imperial Valleys have been plumped to carry salts and the remaining agricultural wastes (selenium, fertilizers and pesticides) to the Salton Sea, which, conveniently enough, sits between the Coachella and Imperial Valleys. Mexico’s New River also unloads tons of human, animal and industrial wastes right into the waters of the Salton Sea.
It is these wastes, particularly the excessive and constant agricultural wastes of the Coachella and Imperial Valleys, which have been killing the Salton Sea. The salts of the desert farms are making the water of the Salton Sea perilous for fish. Park documents say the sea is something like 30 percent saltier than the ocean.
Agricultural fertilizers cause algae blooms in the sea, which remove oxygen from the water, thus suffocating the fish that feed hundreds of thousands of migrating birds. Pesticides in the water kill fish outright or make the fish deadly food: weakening the immune system of or poisoning those who eat the fish. Finally, selenium may, and, sometimes, does cause harm to fish and to those eating the fish.
The 1990s nearly killed the Salton Sea. So many birds were dying that the park purchased an incinerator to burn them. In 1992, about 150,000 eared grebes died of poisoning.
Officials raised the specter of cholera and bacterial and viral infectious diseases, but failed to connect the dots with the toxic farm wastes. In 1994, another 20,000 eared grebes dropped dead. In 1996, about 15 to 20 percent of the white pelicans living in the West died at Salton Sea, including some 1,000 endangered brown pelicans. And in 1998, 7.6 million tilapia and croakers died from asphyxiation in the dead zones of the Salton Sea.
The bird die-offs speak loudly about the demise of this large lake in the flight path of hundreds of thousands of migrating birds. The poisoning of the sea also demonstrates that the Imperial and Coachella Valleys are unsustainable. They are primarily responsible for the ceaseless contamination of the Salton Sea with farm runoff loaded with selenium, pesticides, and fertilizers. Finally, the recurring death of migrating birds violates international law (the Migratory Bird Treaty) and national law (the Endangered Species Act).
The way out from death to life at the Salton Sea requires healing at the source: the industrial farming of the Imperial and Coachella Valleys needs to abandon its toxic ways. Encourage or mandate farmers to adopt pollution prevention methods: use fewer sprays, less or no pesticides at all; smaller amounts of fertilizers; crop diversification and crop rotation; and better irrigation management practices. The farmers must also clean their run-off before that waste enters the Salton Sea.
Mexico must also stop polluting the New River or American authorities must divert the New River away from the Salton Sea.
If such a strategy fails to heal the Salton Sea, the time is right to end farming in the desert and allow the Salton Sea to flourish. The federal government and the State of California ought to buy the desert back from the farmers, subtracting from the price all their investments in irrigation and water. Let the Colorado River replenish the water of the Salton Sea.
As it is, the sea is a haven for 80 to 90 percent of America’s endangered bird species. The Salton Sea is also a sanctuary for millions of migrating birds. Given time, a healed Salton Sea will become a paradise for birds and people seeking enjoyment and pleasure from a restored natural world.
Losing a billion dollars from farming is a small price to pay for saving America’s wildlife. Such a step will tell the world we are finally becoming serious in ending the scourge of pollution.
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July 18, 1999 |
It's time to put some teeth into the war on drug and alcohol abuse, Colonial School District officials say. And if that means monitoring students' off-campus behavior, they say, so be it. In an effort to curb the growing trend of substance abuse among teenagers, the school board is expected to consider at its meeting Thursday a controversial policy that would allow the suspension and expulsion of student violators from extracurricular activities....
February 27, 1994 |
People at a recent Board of Education meeting got a glimpse into the lives of West Deptford's students. A fourth of the district's sixth graders have tried alcohol, the audience and board learned Feb. 14. By 12th grade that number jumped to 92 percent. Those were among the findings of a survey tracking the use of drug and alcohol by students in grades five through 12. The purpose of the survey was to show the community what kinds of drug use are going on, where it is occurring, and how it is affecting the students, said Barbara Rakoczy, the district's substance awareness coordinator.
October 28, 1994 |
Teenagers who experiment with alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana are far more likely than other youths to dive into the world of cocaine and other illegal drugs, researchers at Columbia University said in a study released yesterday. Their conclusions were based on a fresh analysis of data gathered in the 1991 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse - door-to-door interviews in more than 30,000 households conducted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Among the surveyed 12-to-17-year-olds who had experimented with all three "gateway" substances, 18.6 percent had tried cocaine.
February 13, 1997 |
In a district that prides itself on high academic standards and the percentage of seniors going on to college, the news that its students are also well above average in drug and alcohol use was disturbing. Yesterday, the Great Valley School District went public with the results of a state survey showing that drug and alcohol use among Great Valley High School seniors is higher than the state average. "I don't suspect we are different from our neighboring school districts," Superintendent Rita Jones said, referring to other affluent public schools on the Main Line and in Chester County.
December 30, 2001 |
Slumped in their seats, chins in hands, the teenagers clearly did not want to be there. Cited for underage drinking, the 13 youths sat in the final session of a 12-hour substance-abuse class in Sharon Hill recently - part of Delaware County's stringent Neighborhood Crimes Task Force program. The class was part of their punishment. But the teens knew it was a good deal. Completing this first-time juvenile offenders' program saved them hefty fines, possible driver's license suspensions, and a permanent criminal record.
June 25, 1995 |
To fight drug abuse in the community, the township's Municipal Alliance sponsors Project Graduation and Drug Abuse Resistance Education programs during the school year. Now, school's out, but the Municipal Alliance's battle continues. The alliance is soliciting funds to send two local children identified as at-risk for substance abuse to summer camp. "Schools provide a wealth of support. Once the school's closed, all those resources disappear and (the children) are left with what is at home, and if the home's not strong, they're stuck," said Frank Plunkett, a police officer and chairman of the drug prevention group.
March 27, 1994 |
In time, James Crews grew accustomed to Cardboard City, the name adopted by those homeless folks who spent nights in cast-off boxes underground at the South Broad Street subway concourse. The echoes banging off the tiled walls, the stench of unwashed bodies, the windy clank of machinery hurtling by: It was home. "I thought sleeping in the subway was pretty good," Crews recalled yesterday, as he and 35 other once-homeless men made a bold step back into the real world as Horizon House of Rehabilitation Inc.'s class of 1994.
February 24, 1999 |
Penncrest High School officials yesterday pledged to redouble their efforts to educate students and parents about the dangers of inhalants after one was cited as the cause of a Jan. 29 crash that killed five members of the junior class. The district plans to offer workshops on inhalants and on strategies to narrow communication gaps between parents and students and faculty and students, said principal Joseph E. Haviland. They will be part of a series of workshops that the school has offered to help students and the community deal with the deaths, he said.
April 7, 2005 |
On Aug. 16, a man loaded a trash can into his shopping cart at the West Goshen Acme, filled it with $950 worth of baby formula, and tried to flee before being caught in the parking lot. Yesterday, Ryan M. Lorenski, 29, of Bethlehem, who is single with no children, learned the cost of his crime: a one- to four-year prison term. Chester County Court Judge Anthony A. Sarcione called Lorenski's criminal history "one of the most horrific" he had ever seen. Lorenski was found guilty by a jury of retail theft in February.
January 20, 2012 |
GEORGE FOREACRE is not a coldhearted guy. But he couldn't help but celebrate this week's death of notorious strip-club mogul Robert Laflar, who faced trial in October in the fatal beating of Foreacre's friend. "I know he [Laflar] has children, and they're innocents. That's the ones I feel bad for," said Foreacre, 37, who survived the 2009 attack outside Laflar's strip club that left him with four fractured vertebrae and his buddy Jimmy Koons dead. "But when you dance with the devil, you got to answer to the devil, and he answered to the devil today.
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Winters in northern Sweden are rather cold, with lot of snow. Summers are usually relatively warm. In autumn and spring there is occasional rain. Average temperature in Lulea in winter is about - 15C and in summer +18C. The short but spectacular spring and autumn help to counterbalance the effect of the winter. During the summer it never gets dark, and the sun does not set at all for some time. During the darkest weeks of winter there are four hours of full day-light.
There are good opportunities for winter sports such as ice-skating, ice-hockey or cross-country skiing.
Since the weather is very cold you should bring supplies of warm clothing such as coats, sweaters, warm socks, long underwear etc. You will also need at least one pair of comfortable and warm boots or walking shoes as well as casual shoes.
You will find that Swedish students dress more formally for student occasions and events. If you would like to attend these events you should bring something more formal to wear, like a suit or a dress.
EU/EEA citizens have the right to work in Sweden without a work and residence permit.
As a non EU/EEA citizen you have the right to work as long as you have your student visa.
However, it can be difficult to find a job, knowledge of the Swedish language is essential.
What kind of living expenses budget should you plan for?
Food: 2400 SEK/month
Accommodation: 2500 SEK/month
Course literature: 800 SEK/month
Telephone, newspapers etc: 400 SEK/month
Local travel: 200 SEK/month
Medical and personal care: 200 SEK/month
Clothes, hobbies and amusements: 800 SEK/month
Total: app 7300 SEK/month
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Fisheries wants 'No-go zone' back on the table
December 7, 2012 · 9:20 AM
By Steve Wehrly, Journal reporter
In 2009, the National Marine Fisheries Service proposed a "no-go zone" off the west side of San Juan Island to help protect the endangered Southern Resident killer whales.
After local whale-watch companies, kayakers and other voiced substantial, even heated, opposition to that "no-go" plan, the Fisheries Service, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, abandoned it in 2011 in favor of speed limits, increased buffers and public education efforts.
On Dec. 5, the Fisheries Service put the issue back on the table.
"In the final rule, we decided to gather additional information and conduct further analysis and public outreach on the concept," said Lynne Barre, branch chief of the Fisheries Service Protected Resources Division, in a recent letter to the San Juan County Council.
At a meeting of the Marine Resources Committee in Friday Harbor, Barre said that the Fisheries Service budget includes money for public outreach that needs to be used before March of next year. She suggested that NOAA wants to sponsor a conference to discuss the "no-go zone" and some of the "70 different suggestions" various people and groups have made for further protecting the whales, listed as endangered under federal law since 2005.
"This would be a conversation, not a workshop for setting policy," Barre said.
MRC Chairman John Aschoff and several committee members support such a meeting, as did San Juan County councilwoman Lovel Pratt. Councilman Rich Peterson, though not opposed to the meeting, suggested any decision be deferred until new council members Bob Jarman and Marc Forlenza joined the council next year. Pratt, Peterson and Councilman Howie Rosenfeld all were in attendance at the Dec. 5 MRC's meeting.
Peterson also distributed copies of a resolution passed without dissent by the county council Dec. 4 that states: "The County's position regarding the "No-Go Zone" as proposed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric (Administration) will be that position articulated by the San Juan County Council and not that of any of its subcommittees or advisory groups."
As proposed by Fisheries three years ago, the half-mile no-go zone would extend along the west side of San Juan Island, from Mitchell Bay at the north to Eagle Point at the south, and be in effect from the beginning of May through the end of September. It would apply to all types of vessels, including kayaks. It was offered up as part of the recovery plan that the federal agency was tasked with developing to help protect and to restore the population of Southern residents.
Several audience members expressed opposition to the no-go zone idea and to the proposed conference. Bill Wright, co-owner of whale watching company San Juan Safaris, said "NMFS should stop pushing no-go zones and instead work on salmon recovery and enforcing the current rules wherever whales are foraging."
Wright later said he wants to remind the NOAA Fisheries Service that "the county council, the town council, the visitors bureau and the chamber of commerce all told them to take the 'no-go zone' issue off the table."
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We can thank entrepreneurs for much of the success of the global economy over the past half century. And if we’re going to emerge from the worldwide economic slump, entrepreneurs will lead the way.
These driven, creative individuals know plenty about battling adversity. They’ve overcome infrastructure and regulatory hurdles to start their businesses. Often, they’ve fulfilled an unsatisfied demand and, in many cases, actually built demand by introducing new products to the market.
But despite all that entrepreneurs have contributed to the global economy and to wellbeing and human development worldwide, most leaders and policymakers don’t have a clue about what makes them successful or how to help them thrive. In the U.S., for example, nearly half of all jobs are in the small-business sector, and small businesses accounted for 65% of the net new jobs created between 1993 and 2009. Yet fewer than half of new American businesses survive their first five years.
To drive startups, the U.S. and other countries have created an infrastructure of incubators and coaching programs to support entrepreneurs and spur business growth. Though these programs are useful and necessary, they often overlook a key element in a new enterprise’s success: the innate talents that successful entrepreneurs bring to the task of building a business.
The process of entrepreneurship
Because entrepreneurship is vital to the global economy, Gallup scientifically studied entrepreneurs and the role of human motivations, perceptions, and behaviors in explaining entrepreneurial decision making. We started by studying how successful entrepreneurs behave and the activities they engage in to drive new venture creation or business growth. Focusing on the task or the process of entrepreneurship helps identify the innate talents that are most relevant to success.
Most current models of the entrepreneurial process propose a standard sequence of events, starting with opportunity recognition, resource acquisition, venture creation, and finally business expansion and growth. This sequence of events covers two developmental phases in the life cycle of a venture.
The first phase is the early or new business stage (entrepreneurial startup or firm less than three years old), which is characterized by innovation and creativity, a high sense of mission, short-term orientation, minimal hierarchy, and an autocratic management style. Entrepreneurs must be able to perform multiple roles, live with ambiguity, and develop an idea very quickly.
“I look out and I see opportunity,” says Shawn Macken, president and cofounder of Edge Technologies, LLC, which creates and sells a health and wellness dashboard system. “My first client was someone I knew through networking. He came to me and said, ‘Do you think you can do something for me?’ Sure. That’s my answer! I don’t know how we’re going to do it, but we’re going to do it.”
The second or formalized/structured phase (entrepreneurial stability, firm three or more years old) is characterized by an emphasis on service, a slower rate of innovation, decentralized decision making, institutionalized procedures, functional specialization, and a team approach to problem solving. In this phase, the entrepreneur’s focus shifts from high creativity, ideation, and basic planning to managing a more mature company with a larger workforce. The entrepreneur must be able to delegate power and take a team-based approach to running the company.
“If we want to go to a $15 [million] or a $150 million company, we have to expand our vision,” says Tom Long, president of ISI Technologies, which creates sales messaging solutions for companies. “We aren’t just a family company anymore, so we’re bringing everybody along on those kinds of decisions. And [my business partner] Bob is a big part of that.”
Each phase has its own demands, and the entrepreneur must perform a specific set of tasks to be successful in each phase. Many of the activities performed in the first phase continue to be important during the second phase. For instance, cultivating relationships is critical to access resources to start a venture, but successful entrepreneurs must keep building relationships in the later phase to further their business goals. The relative significance of each demand may vary from one phase to the other, but there often is a carry-over effect.
The demands of entrepreneurship
Though the activities that successful entrepreneurs must perform change over time, Gallup research shows that there are 10 functional demands that are enduring and universal. These demands encapsulate the tasks of entrepreneurship and are highly correlated with both business creation and business success. They also measure an individual’s ability to perform in the role of entrepreneur.
A person’s inherent talent and acquired ability (skills, knowledge, and experience) will influence how successfully and by what means he or she responds to the demands of the role. These demands require a behavioral response from the entrepreneur, which is framed by the individual’s dispositions and traits. Usually, the more prevalent the trait, the higher the likelihood that the demand will be met, resulting in better performance in the role. (See sidebar “The 10 Demands of Successful Entrepreneurs.”)
Different entrepreneurs bring different strengths to the role; some may be highly creative and competent but low on focus and relationship building. Others may be astute business thinkers but have problems delegating. Often, the gaps in ability to meet a certain demand can be filled by acquiring skills or knowledge or by establishing partnerships with others who have complementary talents, thus enabling the entrepreneur to meet the demands of the role.
“My partner and I saw things differently. He was looking more at building something for the future, while I was looking more at profitability,” says Bob Harris, Tom Long’s partner at ISI Technologies. This is precisely why Long brought him into the company, and it was a smart move. Each partner was focused on meeting a crucial demand of the business—one on developing products and the other on ensuring profitability. Understanding how to meet the different demands of entrepreneurship by forming a complementary relationship has helped the business overcome hurdles and grow. “Bob is exactly the right person, and his talents are exactly what we need,” Long says.
Success or failure
In his book The Coming Jobs War, Gallup Chairman and CEO Jim Clifton calls entrepreneurship the “scarcest, rarest, hardest energy and talent in the world to find.” Not enough people, or countries, understand who entrepreneurs are or how to develop them. Most leaders tend to overlook the entrepreneur when they discuss the factors behind the success or failure of an enterprise.
This ignorance is unhealthy and unproductive, because ultimately, it takes people to drive entrepreneurial activity—men and women who bring resources together to create new products and services. But personal characteristics and psychological factors play a crucial role in business success or failure. Those factors must be recognized, understood, and maximized if entrepreneurs are to succeed.
THE 10 DEMANDS OF SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEURS
1. Know your personal brand. Entrepreneurs must interact effectively with others. Successful entrepreneurs know themselves well and can perceive others accurately.
Having strong talent in this domain enables entrepreneurs to connect and interact with employees, customers, suppliers, and investors in a way that results in positive business outcomes. This demand is relevant when the business is established and entrepreneurs are likely to conduct negotiations, influence others, and motivate employees.
2. Take on challenges. There is an inherent risk involved in venture creation. Entrepreneurs must constantly make decisions in complex situations and often operate without complete knowledge of the factors that could positively or negatively affect their ventures. Moreover, most businesses are created with scarce resources, high uncertainty, and ambiguity. These conditions would deter most people from taking on the task of starting or growing a venture.
Entrepreneurs with strong talent in this domain stretch themselves, raise the bar, face their fears, and are willing to experiment. They resist constraints and have an overly optimistic perception of the risk involved. They are willing to seek out challenges and take the risks associated with venture creation and growth. This demand is most relevant in the early stage of business creation.
3. Think through possibilities and practicalities. Entrepreneurs must be creative and think beyond the boundaries of what exists. High scores in this domain lead entrepreneurs to stretch their imagination while absorbing existing facts to blend the present with the future.
Successful entrepreneurs take an existing idea or product and turn it into something better by looking at it with fresh eyes. Their creative minds typically fire with many different ideas. This demand is more relevant in the early stage, but its relevance continues into the later phase of the business life cycle.
4. Promote the business. Successful entrepreneurs are their own best spokespeople. Strong talent in this domain makes it easy for them to persuade others. This enables them to convey a clear and compelling message that promotes their point of view and their business. This demand is relevant in the early and the established stages of business.
5. Focus on business outcomes. Running a business requires focus. Profit orientation is a spontaneous, moment-to-moment mental activity. Highly successful entrepreneurs judge decisions as good or bad based on their observed or anticipated effect on profit. Successful business-focused entrepreneurs set goals and live by their commitment to them.
Entrepreneurs with high business focus set goals that are important to their business and that they can objectively measure. This demand is relevant in the early and the established stages of business.
6. Be a perpetual student of the business. Successful entrepreneurs are ongoing and active students who are preoccupied with their business and constantly seeking knowledge to grow their venture. This obsession is crucial to ensure business survival. Continually gaining input and acquiring the knowledge and skills required to grow the business are essential to an entrepreneur’s success. This demand is specifically relevant in the established stage of business.
7. Be self-reliant. In the early stage of business creation, entrepreneurs often fill multiple roles to address the needs of a startup. Successful entrepreneurs are prepared to do whatever must be done to see the business succeed. This demands high levels of self-reliance.
Though it takes many people to grow a successful venture, an entrepreneur’s sense of responsibility and levels of competence play a critical role in the early stage of venture creation. A word of caution: Entrepreneurs need self-reliance in the early stage of business development. But entrepreneurs who cannot contemplate a shift in style from self-reliance to delegation may ultimately hamper the growth of their business.
8. Be a self-starter. Startups and businesses that are growing rapidly demand long hours of work and high levels of energy and stamina. Successful entrepreneurs are passionate doers who push to make things happen. They show initiative and possess an enduring sense of urgency because there is never enough time to do it all. They see opportunity where others see roadblocks. This demand is relevant in the early and the established stages of business development.
9. Multiply yourself through delegation. As businesses grow, the autocratic, unilateral decision-making style of early-stage entrepreneurs must change into one in which the entrepreneurs delegate authority and take on the role of a team manager. Norman R. Smith and John B. Miner (1983) suggest that the transition point is around 30 employees and $750,000 in assets.
Entrepreneurs who are successful in leading their enterprises to the established stage recognize that they cannot do everything themselves. They are willing and able to contemplate a shift in style and control, thus accelerating the growth of the firm. This demand is specifically relevant in the established stage.
10. Build relationships. Starting or growing a business involves interacting with many people. An entrepreneur may be the originator of the idea, but almost immediately, he or she must interact with others to secure resources, engage with potential customers and suppliers, or hire and manage employees. The ability to build strong relationships is crucial for survival and growth.
Successful entrepreneurs are adept at building relationships. They have strong social awareness and can attract and maintain a constituency. The enthusiasm and positivity of strong relationship builders make it easier for others to interact with them. These entrepreneurs also have high standards of personal conduct that enable others to trust them and form strong relationships with them. This demand is relevant in the early and established stages.
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The time-honored tradition of displaying emotions to try to get a better deal might actually work, but inflating emotions can backfire, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
Authors Eduardo B. Andrade and Teck-Hua Ho (University of California, Berkeley) set out to examine "emotion gaming," the act of either concealing a current emotional state or displaying one that diverges from one's true state, in an attempt to improve a social (or consumer) interaction. An example of "emotion gaming" would be exaggerating anger while negotiating with a car dealer.
The researchers developed several experiments to test "emotion gaming." In one experiment, participants, who were told their payment was contingent on the outcome of two tasks, played two games involving interactive decision-making. In one game, the Dictator Game, a "proposer" was endowed with a pot of money to be split with the "receiver." The proposers were led to make unfair offers, which the receivers had to accept. The Dictator Game's purpose was to manipulate anger.
After recording their anger levels from the Dictator Game, participants played another game (the Ultimatum Game) meant to simulate a retail situation where a proposer offered a division of money and a receiver had to accept or reject it. However, a rejected offer meant that both players earned nothing. "The UG can capture the very last phase of a complex negotiation involving multiple stages (for example, buying a new car) where one party gives the final take-it-or-leave-it offer before walking away from the negotiation table," the authors explain.
Half of the receivers were informed that their last anger report would be shown to proposers before proposers made offers. The results showed that receivers inflate their levels of anger when they know that proposers will see their anger display before deciding on an offer. And the receivers readily acknowledged their strategic displays of emotions, believing them to be persuasive signals.
"Receivers do get a better offer from proposers as long as proposers have reason to believe that their partners' feelings are genuine. When proposers learn that receivers might be inflating anger, the impact of emotion gaming on proposers' offers goes away," the authors conclude.
Eduardo B. Andrade and Teck-Hua Ho. "Gaming Emotions in Social Interactions." Journal of Consumer Research: December 2009 (published online April 10, 2009).
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the medieval Florentine poet Dante Alighieri was an almost completely unknown figure in the United States. Yet, by mid-century, he was considered by many Americans to be one of the world's greatest poets and his major epic, the Divine Comedy, was translated during the Civil War by the most popular American poet at the time, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This dissertation examines Dante's nineteenth-century emergence in the United States and the historical and cultural reasons why Dante, for many nineteenth-century Americans, became a highly-regarded literary figure and an unexpectedly popular poet during the Civil War. Using new historicist and book studies methodologies, it argues that Dante was widely viewed as an important theological-political poet, a cultural representative of Italy and nineteenth-century Italian nationalism and liberalism, one who spoke powerfully to antebellum and wartime issues of national disunity, states' rights, the nature of empire, and the justice and injustice of civil war. American periodicals and English-language translations of the Comedy touted Dante as a great national poet--a model who might inspire any would-be national poet of the United States--while interpreting his biography and the Comedy in terms of American and transatlantic political events, ideologies, and discourses. Aware of such promotion, many American writers, including Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman, read and interpreted the Comedy in terms of national politics and, by the early 1860s, the Civil War. Given its relevance and popularity during the 1860s--numerous books by or about Dante were published in the United States during this decade--the Divine Comedy thus became an important epic poem of the Civil War, a poem that Longfellow and Walt Whitman turned to while constructing their wartime and Reconstruction-era poetry.
Copyright 2012 Joshua Steven Matthews
Matthews, Joshua Steven. "The American Alighieri: receptions of Dante in the United States, 1818-1867." dissertation, University of Iowa, 2012.
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You know it's unhealthy not to get ENOUGH exercise, but did it ever occur to you that it's also dangerous to overdo it? Turns out there really can be too much of a good thing -- in fact, a new study compares extreme exercise regimens to taking drugs!
The study, presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and published Tuesday in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings, finds that excessive exercise, such as "chronic training for, and competing in, extreme endurance exercise such as marathons, iron man distance triathlons and very long distance bicycle races" may cause serious cardiovascular injury.
"Physical exercise, though not a drug, possesses many traits of a powerful pharmacologic agent. A routine of daily physical activity can be highly effective for prevention and treatment of many diseases, including coronary heart disease, hypertension, heart failure and obesity," says lead author James H. O'Keefe, M.D., of Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City, Mo., in a press release. "However, as with any pharmacologic agent, a safe upper dose limit potentially exists, beyond which the adverse effects of physical exercise, such as musculoskeletal trauma and cardiovascular stress, may outweigh its benefits."
Dr. O'Keefe's data suggest that extreme endurance training can cause temporary structural changes to the heart, which, he says, usually returns to normal within one week. However, for some individuals, months and years of repetitive injury of this type can lead to the development of scar tissue and a thickened heart, which then can lead to abnormal heart rhythms and coronary heart disease.
Catherine G.R. Jackson, Ph.D., Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (FACSM), and professor and former chair of kinesiology at California State University, Fresno, tells HealthySELF that she is not surprised by the results of the study. "It is an outstanding observation and verification of what many of us have known for many years," she says.
According to Jackson, the potential danger of extreme exercising is not limited to heart issues. "Injury rates, mostly musculoskeletal, rise if individuals exercise more than five days per week," she says. "There can also be a depression of the immune system with prolonged exercise accompanied by lack of rest and recovery. Viral and bacterial infections would then increase."
But keep in mind -- this doesn't mean you should stop exercising!
"It's important to recognize that there are numerous health-related benefits to regular and appropriate levels of aerobic physical activity," says Michael F. Bergeron, Ph.D., FACSM, Executive Director, National Institute for Athletic Health & Performance and National Youth Sports Health & Safety Institute and a professor at the Sanford School of Medicine of The University of South Dakota. Those benefits, he says, include improvement in your cardiorespiratory fitness, which lowers your risk of morbidity and mortality.
In fact, even if you're working out TWICE a day, you're still in the clear as long as you're not overdoing it. "The accumulation of exercise throughout the day is fine as long as it is not excessive and not accompanied by severe fatigue," says Jackson.
Bergeron concurs, adding that it's important to make sure you're recovering between workouts, getting proper nutrition and staying hydrated. And while you should certainly participate in that marathon you've signed up for, you want to train carefully.
"There are many individuals who expect to train hard and fast over a very short period of time and do not gradually condition so that the body can adapt over time," Jackson says. She recommends working with an exercise physiologist to train safely.
Bergeron agrees that it's a bad idea to jump into a vigorous, too-fast training schedule if you're not physically prepared for it. "For those who over-train and reach a point of diminishing returns... it is time to back off, build in recovery periods, and vary training and activities throughout the year," he says.
When it comes down to it, Dr. O'Keefe says his study does not take away from the importance of getting ENOUGH exercise. "Physically active people are much healthier than their sedentary counterparts. Exercise is one of the most important things you need to do on a daily basis," he says in the press release. "But ... a lot of people do not understand that the lion's share of health benefits accrue at a relatively modest level. Extreme exercise is not really conducive to great cardiovascular health. Beyond 30-60 minutes per day, you reach a point of diminishing returns."
In other words, the main lesson from this study, according to Jackson, "Is that moderate exercise is beneficial and that those who do not participate in excessive exercise should not feel guilty."
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Photographs by Kadir van Lohuizen.
Dewi Lewis Publishing,
216 pp., 100 illustrations, 4¾x4¼".
This is a unique book. Part-bound in luxurious suede, and with a small
diamond on the front cover, it is printed in duotone and tritone on 5 different
papers (from rough to glossy), mirroring the progress of the diamond from
the mines of Africa to the world of fashion.
‘Diamond Matters’ records the whole process of the industry. Starting with
the mine and the workers – many of whom are just children – photographer
Kadir van Lohuizen tracks the precious stone on its socially upward journey.
With interviews from workers and others involved in the industry, it is a
beautiful yet deeply disturbing and thought-provoking book.
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From Our 2009 Archives
U.S. Pregnancy Rate Is Dropping
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CDC Report Shows the Abortion Rate Also Declined Between 1990 and 2005
Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD
Oct. 14, 2009 -- The U.S. pregnancy rate dropped by 11% from 1990 to 2005, a new CDC report shows.
According to that report, there were an estimated 6.4 million pregnancies in the U.S. in 2005, which works out to a rate of 103.2 pregnancies per 1,000 women ages 15-44, compared to a rate of 115.8 pregnancies per 1,000 women ages 15-44 in 1990.
The 2005 pregnancy rate is close to the nation's pregnancy rate in 1976, when the CDC started tracking pregnancy data.
Other findings, published in the CDC's National Vital Statistics Report, include:
The data do not include the 2006 rise in teen birth rates reported earlier this year.
The estimated 6,408,000 pregnancies in the U.S. in 2005 include 4.14 million live births, 1.21 million induced abortions, and 1.06 million miscarriages or other fetal losses.
The abortion rate fell during the years studied. Among married women, seven out of 1,000 pregnant women got an abortion in 2005, down from 11 per 1,000 pregnant women in 1990. Among unmarried women, 31 per 1,000 pregnant women got abortions in 2005, compared to 48 per 1,000 in 1990.
SOURCES: CDC, National Vital Statistics Report, Oct. 14, 2009; vol 58: pp 1-16.
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City to reduce speed limit on Port Credit street
The City of Mississauga is poised to lower the speed limit on Ben Machree Dr. in Port Credit after being asked to do so by residents.
Today at General Committee, councillors received a report from staff that calls for a reduction of the speed limit on the residential street from 50 kilometres per hour to 40 km/h. It must still be formally approved by Council, likely next week.
"This is another great example of making neighbourhoods safer one street at a time," said Ward 1 Councillor Jim Tovey, who represents the area.
A staff report found that most cars using the road were averaging just over 40 km/h. The report stated that reducing the speed limit wouldn't "negatively impact" traffic on the road.
Chris Mackie, speaking as president of the Cranberry Cove Port Credit Ratepayers Association, came before councillors in November with a petition signed by 48 people representing 42 households on the street asking for the speed reduction. He was before councillors again today (Wednesday, Jan. 9) and thanked them for addressing the issue.
During his previous deputation, Mackie said residents felt the road is too narrow for the current speed limit and also noted there are no sidewalks. As well, it's a fairly well-travelled road with poor sightlines and lots of young children on the street.
Last summer, the City's Road Safety Mississauga Advisory Committee looked into the issue of lowering speed limits on side streets. Information circulated at the time showed that a pedestrian hit by a vehicle travelling at 50 km/h has a much greater chance of serious injury than one hit by a vehicle travelling at 40 km/h.
In September, the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario published a Pedestrian Death Review that called for the Highway Traffic Act to be changed so municipalities can set the default speed limit in unsigned areas at 40 km/h rather than the current 50 km/h.
Tovey, meanwhile, said he's all for an overall reduction of speed limits on secondary roads.
"I'd be completely in favour of making a lot of our smaller neighbourhoods 40 km/h zones," said Tovey. "I think they would be a lot safer, particularly ones without sidewalks."
— with files from Torstar
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This first week of August marks World Breastfeeding Week. Breastfeeding exclusively for the first six months provides tremendous health benefits for your baby, because breast milk contains everything your baby needs – proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals and water – in just the right proportions.
Breast milk is the perfect nutritionally-complete food for babies and it’s chock-full of antibodies that protect the baby from infections. Nursing babies are at decreased risk
- for respiratory illness
- sudden infant death
- syndrome (SIDS)
- childhood obesity
Nursing moms need to eat well to produce a sufficient supply of healthy breast milk, and protein is especially important. Nursing moms should drink/eat…
- at least 3 cups of milk
- 6+ ounces of lean protein (fish, poultry, lean red meats, eggs, cheese, beans/peas)
- 4+ servings of fruits
- 3+ servings of vegetables
- 8+ servings of grains (breads, cereals, rice and pasta)
Nursing moms need 500 additional calories and more than 10 cups of fluids each day to produce adequate milk for their babies. And don’t forget to keep taking those prenatal vitamins!
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The word "frowns" uses 6 letters: F N O R S W.
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The ear-piercing sound of Indy cars lured more than 100,000 people to Baltimore for the city's first ever street race. Even after a year of dealing with road construction and closures, fans said the excitement on Labor Day weekend was worth those headaches.
They thought the races would be in gear for fives years. The city had a contract with Baltimore Racing Development, but as of Friday Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced the agreement is terminated after the BRD failed to pay $1.5 million it owes the city.
In a statement, she said "...BRD's corporate officers and managers have failed to take the appropriate steps to put the company on a sustainable path forward."
But when the event was announced in June 2010, the mayor made big promises.
"This event will be a game changer for Baltimore," she said.
It was for Regi's in Federal Hill. The news of a terminated contract traveled as fast as the race cars.
"Unless there's another vehicle to fill that void during that week, you can't come close to doing that kind of business that we did for the Grand Prix," said Alan Morstein, owner, Regi’s.
David Troy questioned the stability of BRD pretty early. He sued the city after learning more than 135 trees would be cut down for the race.
"I didn't feel like they had their game together. Speaking with them in late July, early August, what I learned very quickly is no one seemed to be in charge. Their finances seemed to be on fairly shaky ground," said Troy.
Replacing those trees remains as uncertain as the race that brought in $47 million.
"It's January as of two days from now and trying to get an event that big pulled off and coordinated by September seems like it might not be possible," said Troy.l
The city now has a right to reach out to other organizations to bring motorsports to Baltimore. But a lawsuit may come well before race cars around Inner Harbor next year.
Copyright 2011 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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The family of a man shot and killed by an undercover Baltimore police officer in 2009 has settled a lawsuit against the city for $100,000.
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Cold blast over interior West to fizzle East
The early season cold snap diving into the Rockies and western Great Plains is stunning. By Wednesday, large portions of that region will experience lows below zero and highs in the single digits or colder.
The National Weather Service Office in Salt Lake City is cautioning (h/t WeatherBug): "An exceptional high impact event still on tap for Tuesday evening. Utah has not seen an Arctic front like this in many years."
But while the East will turn colder Thursday into Friday as an Arctic front presses east, the cold air will lose much of its bite. Let's take a look at why.
The fact the East Coast will turn "a little bit" cold as opposed to "bitter" cold is related to the evolution of the Arctic high pressure center, the source of the cold air. The High, now plunging from the western provinces of Canada into the intermountain West, is on a course almost due south.
As the High drives southward, two things happen:
1) It loses its source of refrigeration, i.e. snow cover. Look at the evolution of the high pressure center in the image to the right compared to the locations with snow cover above. South and east of Northern Rockies and Northern Plains, there's no snow cover to help sustain the cold air.
2) It encounters more daylight. In its source region over the northwest provinces of Canada, there is little daylight this time of year. So as the Arctic high sinks south, it encounters more sunshine and, thus, the cold air erodes.
In addition, the High won't start to head east until it reaches the southern Plains around Thanksgiving Day. By the time it reaches the East Coast this weekend, it will be a shell of its former self.
To be sure, the High's arrival will usher in colder air -- but highs will be in the 30s to near 50 from the New England to the mid-Atlantic Saturday as opposed to the single digits and teens that impacted the Northern Plains just two days prior on Thanksgiving. In short, the East Coast will be served the West's stale cold air leftovers.
The evolution of this High is pretty characteristic of a La Nina winter as the primary jet stream trough (or dip) sets up from the interior West into the Great Plains pushing the heart of the cold air away from the East Coast. So expect to hear a lot more about "stale" cold air this winter.
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CureSearch for Children's Cancer funds and supportstargeted and innovative children's cancer research with measurableresults, and is the authoritative source of information and resourcesfor all those affected by children's cancer.
Problems related to cancer treatment that occur or persist after treatment is completed are known as "late effects." Unfortunately, three out of five survivors develop late effects. If they do occur, it is best to catch these early so treatment can begin right away. This is why ongoing follow-up care for children’s cancer survivors is so important.
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The battle of Valls (25 February 1809) saw the French defeat the right wing of an ambitious Spanish offensive aimed at recapturing Barcelona. The Spanish had been conducting a long siege of Barcelona during the summer and autumn of 1808, but they had been forced to abandon that siege after suffering a defeat at Cardadeu on 16 December 1808 at the hands of General St. Cyr. They had then been driven away from the vicinity of Barcelona after a second defeat at Molins del Rey on 21 December 1808, and had been forced to regroup around Tarragona.
After his daring dash across the mountains to Barcelona, St. Cyr was not willing to risk an early advance against Tarragona, and so the Spanish were able to rebuild their army. General Vives, the captain-general of Catalonia, was replaced by General Reding, who soon had 30,000 men at his disposal. Meanwhile St. Cyr, who had initially occupied a large area around Barcelona, had slowly been forced to pull his 23,000 men back towards the city.
This encouraged Reding to plan a new offensive. He split his army into two, posting his left wing at Igualada, under General Castro, and his right wing at Tarragona, 35 miles apart as the crow flies, but nearer to sixty miles apart on the mountain roads. Reding was planning to take advantage of his greater numbers to attack each of the French divisions simultaneously.
This plan would only have worked if St. Cyr had not responded to it, but of course he was not willing to fall into the Spanish trap. He decided to concentrate most of his troops against the Spanish left, leaving one division under Souham to face Reding. He would smash Castro’s division before Reding could come to his aid. At the combat of Igualada (16-17 February) St. Cyr successfully carried out the first of his plan, dispersing the Spanish left under Castro. He then turned south to deal with Reding.
When news of the defeat at Igualada reached Reding, he abandoned his own plans for an advance east towards Barcelona, and turned north to help Castro. He left Tarragona on 20 February, heading north towards Pal. At the same time St. Cyr was moving south down the valley of the Gaya River. By 21 February St. Cyr was around Villarodoña, while Reding was heading north towards Sarral and Santa Coloma. At the latter place Reding joined up with Castra and most of the left wing, giving him 20,000 men. However, he was now in danger of being cut off from his base at Tarragona, for St. Cyr was between him and the city.
Reding decided to return to Tarragona, and chose to use the road that passed through Valls, hoping to defeat Souham’s isolated division before he could join with St. Cyr. On the evening of 24 February the Spanish began a night march, which brought them to within two miles of Valls by the following morning. With him were just under 11,000 infantry, 700 cavalry and 8 guns.
St. Cyr was more interested in defeating Reding than in attacking Tarragona. When he first learnt that the Spanish were to his north, he had decided to follow them, but when he discovered that the Spanish had stopped and were about to turn south, he decided to block the two roads back to Tarragona. Souham’s division was to block the road at Valls, while Pino’s division blocked the road nine miles east at Pla. St. Cyr himself accompanied Pino’s division.
In theory Souham had a strong position at Valls. The town was located just to the east of the River Francoli. Reding’s road approached the river from the far side of the river, so the Spanish had to cross the Bridge of Goy, north west of Valls, before they could attack the French in strength. This should have given Pino plenty of time to reach Valls.
Reding’s night march caught the French by surprise. His vanguard reached the bridge at Goy between six and seven, drove in Souham’s guards at the bridge, and began to cross to the east bank. Souham, at the head of a force of 5,500 infantry and 500 cavalry, formed up in line of battle on the plains north of Valls. Reding underestimated the size of the force he was facing, and attacked with his vanguard and part of his centre. This attack was repelled, but over the course of the morning more of his troops were able to cross the river, and by noon Souham had been forced back to the town of Valls.
Reding now had a choice of options that could have led to success – he could either have attacked Souham with his entire force with a good chance of success, for Pino had still not arrived, or he could have continued on his way to Tarragona, for by noon most of his army and all of his baggage was on the east bank of the river. Instead, Reding chose to rest outside Valls, probably to give the rest of his army time to cross the river.
This should have led to disaster, but St. Cyr and Pino had not learnt of the battle until late in the morning. When the news finally reached St. Cyr he took command of Pino’s cavalry, and led it to Valls, leaving Pino behind with orders to bring his infantry along as quickly as possible. St. Cyr arrived at Valls soon after the first phase of the fighting had ended.
When Reding saw that reinforcements had reached the French, he decided to abandon both the march on Tarragona and the attack on Valls, and retreated back across the river to take up defensive positions in the hills on the west bank. He was given the time to perform this slow manoeuvre by Pino, who did not leave Pla until after noon, reaching Valls three hours later than expected.
Once his entire force was back together, St. Cyr launched a classic attack in columns against the Spanish line. Forming his two divisions into four massive columns, each one brigade strong, St. Cyr crossed the river at four separate places (three fords and the bridge), and advanced up the hill towards the Spanish lines. As had so often happened in the past, the sight of the massive French columns advancing towards their lines was too much for Reding’s men, and after firing a number of well volleys at the French broke and fled before the columns reached their lines. The only close quarters fighting took place on the far left, where Reding led a cavalry charge against the French flanks in which he sustained three sabre wounds. Although he escaped from the battlefield, these wounds would later prove fatal, and Reding died of his wounded several weeks later.
As often happened in the Peninsular War, the French did not capture as many prisoners as they had expected. The hilly country behind the Spanish lines was not suited to cavalry, and the Spanish forces broke up into small parties, most of which eventually made their way back to Tarragona. The Spanish lost 1,500 killed and wounded and the same number of prisoners, while the French themselves suffered 1,000 casualties. In the aftermath of the battle, St. Cyr moved to blockade Tarragona, but he was still not interesting in conducting a regular siege, and with the British in command of the seas he was unable to prevent a constant flow of supplies from reaching the city. Once again another French battlefield victory had done little to improve their situation in Spain.
|The Spanish Ulcer, A History of the Peninsular War, David Gates. An excellent single volume history of the Peninsular War, which when it was published was the first really good English language history of the entire war since Oman. This is a well balanced work with detailed coverage of those campaigns conducted entirely by Spanish armies, as well as the better known British intervention in Portugal and Spain.|
|A History of the Peninsular War vol.2: Jan.-Sept. 1809 - From the Battle of Corunna to the end of the Talavera Campaign, Sir Charles Oman. Part two of Oman's classic history falls into two broad sections. The first half of the book looks at the period between the British evacuation from Corunna and the arrival of Wellesley in Portugal for the second time, five months when the Spanish fought alone, while the second half looks at Wellesley's campaign in the north of Portugal and his first campaign in Spain. One of the classic works of military history.|
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Plant Heritage is delighted to welcome a new Collection of Rosmarinus officinalis to its scheme.
When Steve and Angie Hipkin took over their nursery near New Quay, West Wales they inherited 20 Rosmarinus cultivars. In 2005, they met Madeline Sadler, an established National Collection holder, who inspired them to start collecting in earnest. Since then, the couple have added to the collection, which now has a staggering 84 cultivars.
Steve is not stopping there. He says, “I’d really like to find the double-flowered forms mentioned in old herbals and include some of the continental varieties in the Collection.”
To promote the Collection, Steve has built a web-site at www.rosemaries.co.uk
. Visitors to the web site will be able to buy rosemaries propagated from the Collection and learn more about this fascinating herb.
Mercy Morris, Conservation Officer for Plant Heritage, said, “It is very good news to see this new Rosmarinus National Collection.This represents a success in terms of conserving Rosmarinus,from one Collection to another, which secures their future in the longer term.”
Rosemary is a native plant of the Mediterranean where it grows as a component of the famous garrigue landscape of Provence. It is one of the oldest known culinary and medicinal herbs. In addition to the many folk and traditional uses of rosemary, modern scientists have found that extracts of Rosmarinus officinalis have anti-depressant, anti-microbial and anti-oxidant properties.
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St. Jude's Publishes Gene Therapy Study
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A study outlining a new gene therapy treatment for Hemophilia, developed at Saint Jude’s in Memphis, appears in this month’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
In a news release, St. Jude’s says the findings of a six-person study mark the first proof that gene therapy can reduce bleeding episodes for those suffering from the inherited blood disorder. Four of the six participants have reportedly had no bleeding episodes since undergoing the new therapy.
Dr. Andrew Davidoff is spokesman for St. Jude’s.
"The early results from our trial suggest that a simple, safe, single intervention may, in fact, cure patients with Hemophilia B and that its wide-spread availability is hopefully coming in the very near future."
The gene therapy was developed at St. Jude’s while clinical trials were conducted in England at the University College in London.
The study notes that at least one participant recently ran in a marathon without suffering any problems with bleeding.
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Baruch Students Place in CUNY Nobel Science Challenge
Two Baruch College students have been chosen as recipients of the 2009 CUNY Nobel Science Challenge, a CUNY-wide essay competition for undergraduate students. The challenge asked students to describe the basis behind one of 2009’s Nobel-prize winners in the categories of economics, physics, physiology/medicine, or chemistry, and to explain how their achievements will influence the world.
Baruch College economics major Patrick Pompili has been awarded the second-place prize for his essay on Elinor Ostrom’s analysis of economic governance, while biology major Naez Noor’s essay on Charles K. Kao’s Nobel received the third-place prize for perceptively examining the topic of optical (light-based) communication.
"Kao had a very simple idea, but the application of it had a really great effect," said Noor, who decided to put in his entry to the Challenge "on a whim." "I was aware of fiber optics before but not about who had come up with it and how it developed." To win this, he said, felt like "a real recognition of my writing ability and interest in science."
Essays are judged by a distinguished CUNY committee based on accuracy, clarity, and accessibility to the general public and can include supplemental graphics such as charts and tables to help achieve these goals.
"I was really surprised to win," said Pompili, a second year student with Baruch. "I thought I wrote a pretty good essay, but I thought I’d submit it and not hear back. This definitely encourages me to continue exploring opportunities like this, and it’s furthered my interest in economics – specifically environmental economics."
A reception is being held on Thursday, February 25th from 2-4 PM in the Kibbee Lounge at CUNY’s Central office to present prizes to all of the winning students, which include a Dell laptop and wireless printer for Pompili and an Amazon Kindle for Noor. The first-place prizewinner will be taking home a $5,000 award.
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This section identifies resources on the web that would appear useful to parents. These links do not constitute any endorsement by Hamilton Elementary School.
The PTA Central site provides relevant educational links for Parent Teacher Groups on a local, state and national level.
The American Library Association's parents web page contains great tips and hundreds of resources for parents.
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education offers publications, a question-and-answer service and discussion groups about education.
The National Parent Information Network provides access to research-based information about the process of parenting, and about family involvement in education.
The US Department of Education puts out many informative publications for parents including "Helping Your Child Learn to Read" and "Helping Your Child Use the Library."
A Parents Guide to the Internet is a very useful tool for parents concerned about their child's time on computers.
The National Center for Education Statistics is the primary federal entity responsible for collecting analyzing data that are related to education in the US and other nations.
National Research & Development Centers addresses nationally significant problems and issues in education, such as early childhood development, student achievement, second language learning and much more. Contains catalog of publications and services.
Parent Education Resources contains lots of information on preparing your child for kindergarten.
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The Center for New Discoveries in Learning gives you and your child the most advanced strategies available to be successful in school.
Discovery Channel School offers activities for parents to do with their children, help with science fair projects, information on TV viewing and lots more.
The Early Childhood Educators and Family Web Corner is the index to all things early childhood.
The Parents School Journal is an online journal dedicated to helping parents help their child in school.
The National PTA web site offers a wealth of information including legislative updates and ways for parents to get involved.
The Family Education Network offers tips on everything from after school child care to the family finances.
The Children's Environmental Health Network offers information on the issue of children?s health and links to resources and information in the field.
Children NOW's web site offers articles and publications about working families, children and the media, etc.
The National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth offers research and suggestions to help children achieve their full potential.
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Let's take a moment to consider the afterlife of hotel bathroom amenities.
Some soaps and toiletries are adopted by guests, transported to new sink countertops and shower caddies. Most, however, are hoisted by housekeeping into trash receptacles, a one-way ticket to the landfill.
But then there's a third way, a winding journey slick with suds and good intentions.
It's a way that came to Florida business traveler Shawn Seipler as he pondered the soap in his Minneapolis Holiday Inn room one day in 2008. Curious about the ultimate fate of the bar he barely had used, he trotted down to the front desk to ask about its post-checkout destiny. It would be tossed, he learned. It was an answer he would hear 30 more times during an informal poll of hotels conducted with his friend Paul Till.
The American hospitality industry is a big waster, creating nearly 200 million metric tons of solid waste per year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Of that heap, only 30 percent is recycled.
That wet bar of soap in a Midwestern hotel led Seipler and Till to found Clean the World, another blade in the hotel industry's growing "green" movement. (Add to the burgeoning field: liquid dispensers in the showers, smaller soaps and less-full bottles of toiletries.) The Orlando-based organization opened in 2009 with the twin goals of protecting the environment and improving sanitation in developing nations to help combat the biggest health threats to children: acute lower-respiratory infection and diarrheal disease.
Since then, the group has partnered with nearly 1,300 lodgings in North America and Puerto Rico and has handed out more than 10 million bars of soap in 45 countries, including El Salvador, Zimbabwe, Mongolia and Romania. The soap you used after, say, a romp in Disney World could wind up in the clutches of a child in Mali or a family in Haiti.
"We knew that 1 million soaps were getting thrown away every day and that there were 9,000 children dying a day," said Seipler. "This lights the fire to try to help and save them."
Of course, recycling hotel toiletries isn't Clean the World's own eco-invention. Hotels have been doling out reprocessed soaps and toiletries for years, but on a much smaller scale. At the turn of this century, a Texas organization started distributing hotel hygiene products to Mexican communities. Grass-roots groups also collected amenities and handed them out to local homeless shelters and hospitals.
Clean the World "took a lot of the little things that were going on and stepped them up," said Maher. A critical expansion, considering that there are 4.8 million guest rooms in the United States, each one outfitted with an array of toiletries.
Others also have joined the cause. In 2009, Derreck Kayongo, a Ugandan refugee, and his wife founded the Global Soap Project, a Georgia-based nonprofit group that recently shipped 10,000 bars of soap to the new country of South Sudan and has forged a partnership with Hilton Worldwide, a big fish in the hotel industry pond. In a smaller puddle, the Downstream Casino Resort in the tri-state area of Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas created with Joplin Workshops the Hand in Hand program in 2010. The group delivers kits stocked with recycled products (source: the 222-room casino, the Hilton Garden Inn in Joplin, Mo., and the Hotel Phillips in Kansas City, Mo.) to local Catholic missions and charitable centers, including women's and homeless shelters in tornado-torn Joplin.
To understand the cogs and wheels of this new venture, I visited Clean the World's headquarters in December. For two days, I followed the bubble as it bounced from hotel soap dish to grinding machine to open hands.
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Michael Figueroa, assistant executive housekeeper at the Peabody Orlando, kicked off the morning with a pep talk. At 8 a.m., he gathered the staff around an easel displaying the Clean the World logo and details.
"We support Haiti with our soaps," he said to the workers, 60 percent of whom immigrated from the impoverished nation. "So remember, during the workday, please collect the soaps in your little bags."
The day before, I had joined housekeeper Celine DeRosier during her morning rounds. DeRosier, a mother of four who moved to Florida from Haiti in 1985, swept the counter of used products, collecting one bottle each of shampoo, conditioner and lotion, plus two soaps, including one in the shape of the iconic Peabody duck. She tossed the toiletries into a plastic bag already two layers thick with recycled goods.
If the soap looks slightly used or wet, she bags it. If the item sat in the shower or rested on the lip of the tub, she tossed it in -- even full bottles of shampoo, conditioner and lotion.
Since signing up with Clean the World in 2009, the 1,641-room hotel has contributed more than 54,000 bars of soap, enough to provide almost 11,000 children with a month's supply, and 8,925 pounds of bottled amenities, enough for 6,347 children for an entire month. Now multiply that figure by daily deliveries of more than 100 boxes of soap to Clean the World, and you're swimming in suds.
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Till and Seipler started their enterprise in a single-car garage in South Florida. They also had a large obstacle to overcome: figuring out how to clean the soap, a redundant concept until you look at some of the donated stuff. (One word: hair. One response: ick.) They set up a lab in a friend's garage, improvising with Kenmore cookers, a meat grinder and soap molds.
Since then, they have upgraded their machinery. Now, one machine grinds the used soap down to pellets that resemble broken crayons. Then, with a quick change of parts, it mixes the ground-up soap with glycerine and water, shapes the goo into a long brick, then slices it.
The finished products, honeydew green and smelling of spring freshness, roll down the belt. The squares drop into cardboard boxes, ready for shipment to faraway lands.
The Orlando facility processes more than 40,000 bars of soap a day, mainly from properties on the East Coast. The center in Las Vegas covers the West Coast, including Laguna Beach, Calif., the first city to collaborate with the organization, and the Strip casinos.
The newest operation in Cincinnati will focus strictly on rebottling liquid amenities. Overall, the company, which weighs each incoming donation on a giant scale, has prevented 1.2 million pounds of waste from languishing in landfills.
"It's such a classic no-brainer," said Marshall Kelberman, the Peabody Orlando's rooms division director. "It's volunteer now, but I wouldn't be offended if it was regulatory."
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The National Film Board documentary 'Crapshoot': The Gamble with Our Wastes is available for viewing or purchase from the National Film Board.
Over the past ten years, more and more industries have been allowed to put their industrial liquid wastes on agricultural lands as a kind of 'soil conditioner'.
Where sewage treatment plants receive industrial wastes into the sewer systems, many provinces and territories now allow these wastes to be spread on farmland and rural lands under provincial
waste management permits.
Lately some municipalities and industries have tried to characterize these residual wastes as 'fertilizer' products to avoid provincial waste management requirements.
The heavy metals, chemicals, toxins, pathogens, and decomposed byproducts from these sludges can imbalance the soil, contaminate crops, harm wildlife and domestic animals, and pollute groundwater and surface waters. Papermill sludge can contain chemicals and components that reduce crop fertility and may cause reproductive difficulties in animals and people.
A study entitled, Interactions of pathogens and irritant chemicals in land applied sewage sludges (bio-solids) has been published in the peer reviewed journal BMC Public Health.
Industry should be responsible for the appropriate treatment and disposal of its wastes and municipalities should explore sustainable approaches to sanitation.
In the short run, composting and landfilling of sludge is preferable to agricultural use. In the long run, green builders and renovators should be encouraged to use composting toilets that are sparing of water sources and do not mix human toilet wastes with industrial chemicals. Source separation is the most environmentally sustainable approach. There are also some green renewable energy technologies for processing sludges.
Sierra Club Canada joins the Canadian Infectious Disease Society in calling for a moratorium on the land application of sewage sludge.
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Economic growth was stronger than originally thought at the end of 2011 as consumers increased their spending and businesses stocked up their inventories.
The U.S. Commerce Department said Wednesday that it would investigate allegations that Chinese solar cell manufacturers are illegally "dumping" their products on the American market at excessively cheap prices.
Nervous investors hoping for a reprieve this week will be disappointed.
U.S. stocks were set for a higher open Friday, following a choppy week of trading and huge gains in the previous session, as investors reacted to a healthy report on retail sales.
Americans earned a little bit more income in June, but they chose to stash it away rather than spend it.
Stocks are expected to start the week with a relief rally after President Obama announced late Sunday that a bipartisan deal had been reached on the debt ceiling.
The depths of the Great Recession were even greater than originally reported -- by $131 billion, to be exact.
U.S. economic growth remained disappointingly weak the first three months of the year, the government reported Thursday.
The risk of counterfeit electronics being used in military equipment has prompted a congressional investigation, the top senators on the Senate Armed Services Committee announced Wednesday.
As incomes slowly creep back up, Americans are spending more freely and saving less. Personal income rose 0.4% in December, following a 0.4% increase in November, according to data released Monday by the Commerce Department.
Stocks kicked off 2011 with gains last week despite lackluster economic news, but the week ahead could be more challenging as the quarterly earnings season gets underway.
Stocks are likely to trade in a narrow range during the home stretch of the year as investors lock in profits and leave their desks for the holidays.
The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a proposed new framework for protecting consumers' privacy online.
U.S. stocks eased off earlier gains but finished higher Tuesday, as investors found little reason to jump into the fray after the Fed kept rates steady and left its bond-buying plan alone.
Stocks closed out their worst week in three months on Friday, but it's a new week on Wall Street and investors are bracing for a slew of economic and corporate news to help set the tone.
Personal income registered an unexpected dip in September, while spending by individuals grew at a slower rate than expected, according to data released by the federal government Monday.
Investors are bracing for an onslaught of news this week: The earnings avalanche continues, midterm elections are approaching and economic data are due in a bunch of sectors.
The economy grew at a slightly faster pace in the second quarter than previously thought, but the pace of growth is still painfully slow.
The stock market's best week in a year has restored some confidence to battered investors, but the real test begins Monday when companies start reporting second quarter profits and losses.
The economy grew in the first quarter, but not quite as much as originally reported, the government said Thursday.
Personal income edged up slightly in January, and spending by individuals rose for a fourth straight month, according to government data released Monday.
Wall Street has finally gotten the piece of economic news it has been waiting for: the battered labor market may be starting to heal. But with major stock gauges at their highest levels in more than a year, recovery bets could already be baked into the cake.
The quarterly reporting period has gotten off to a bang-up start, with 81% of companies outshining analysts' forecasts. But with expectations now raised, the latest crop of strong results has had little impact on the broad market.
Retail sales fell in September after a popular program aimed at boosting auto sales ended, but the drop was smaller than economists had expected, government data showed Wednesday.
Investors are hoping the surprisingly strong summer market rally will last at least one more week -- before any second-guessing in the fall kicks in.
In less than 24 hours all full-power broadcast TV stations in the U.S. will flip a switch to stop broadcasting their analog TV signals and will only broadcast TV signals in digital. And for millions who are unprepared, it could mean lights out on their favorite TV shows.
When the $787 billion stimulus bill was passed by Congress in February, $317.2 billion in spending provisions were appropriated for various federal agencies. Take a look at an overview of the numbers, where available:
Consumers continued to retrench in December, capping off the worst year for consumer spending since 1961, according to a government report released Monday.
In a troubling sign that consumers are retrenching this holiday season, consumer spending and orders for durable goods fell further in November, according to government reports released Wednesday.
The dollar was mixed against major currencies on Friday as two better-than-expected economic reports gave the market hope, but rising inflation and higher oil prices weighed.
Stocks closed lower Monday, the third consecutive day of declines, as falling oil prices could not completely overcome concerns about the health of the nation's economy.
Personal income surged in May as the government's stimulus payment plan to jump-start the economy took effect, according to a report released Friday.
Like any mask-wearing serial killer in a cheesy horror movie, you just can't kill the American consumer.
Construction spending fell in February, according to a government report released Tuesday, but the decline was less than expected.
Personal income rose and a key measure of inflation held steady in February, but consumer spending remained weak, according to a government report released Friday.
Treasurys were higher Friday after a government report showed spending by individuals remained weak last month and a key measure of inflation held steady.
Sales of new homes plunged last month to their lowest level in more than 12 years, a grim testament to the problems plaguing the housing sector.
Demand for big-ticket items fell for the third straight month in October and came in weaker than had been forecast, according to a government report released Wednesday.
Retail sales grew at a sluggish pace in October as many cash-strapped Americans continue to struggle with higher gas prices, less equity in the home and tighter credit availability.
Construction spending posted a bigger-than-expected 0.2 percent gain in August as strength in non-residential construction offset a continued plunge in home building.
Demand for big-ticket manufactured goods plunged in August by the largest amount in seven months, with widespread weakness signaling a slowdown in the nation's industrial sector.
Construction activity plunged in July by the biggest amount in six months as spending on homes fell for a record 17th straight month.
Consumers returned to the malls in July after taking a breather in June, although worries about the future could make the rebound short-lived.
The U.S. gross domestic product came in at a 4.0 percent annual rate of growth for the second quarter, showing the highest growth rate in more than a year, according to the Commerce Department.
Inventories at U.S. businesses rose 0.4 percent as expected in June, Commerce Department data released on Monday showed.
New orders for long-lasting U.S-made manufactured goods rose 1.4 percent in June on a big rise in orders for non-defense aircraft, a Commerce Department report Thursday showed.
Construction spending rose 0.9 percent in May, well above expectations on an all-time high in the pace of both public spending and private non-residential spending, a Commerce Department report on Friday showed.
Housing starts slipped 2.1 percent in May to a slightly lower rate than analysts had expected while building permit activity increased more than anticipated, a government report showed Tuesday.
Stocks fell in light trading Friday amid concerns about the health of the economy.
Santa showed few signs of making a visit to Wall Street on Friday as stocks fell in light trading on concerns about the health of the economy.
Retail sales surged in the important holiday shopping month of November as shoppers flocked to malls in search of juicy deals on toys, electronics and other popular gift items.
Bond prices climbed Thursday after a robust report on durable goods revealed it fell short of expectations when the transportation component was stripped out.
Treasury prices slid Wednesday after strong manufacturing data suggested that the Fed would continue raising interest rates.
Bonds erased gains Wednesday after a government report showing a jump in new home sales offset a disappointing durable goods release that had pushed yields lower in early trading.
Automakers' "employee discount" incentives may have revved up overall retail sales in July, but some economists say widespread weakness in other categories could indicate that higher gas prices are beginning to weigh on consumer spending.
The pace of economic growth slowed a bit more than expected in the second quarter, but inflationary pressures remained well in check.
Investors will be hoping that encouraging news on the economy Friday could give stocks some respite after the previous session's brutal selloff on the back of growing unease about record-high oil prices.
Bond prices increased Wednesday after the government said orders for durable goods fell sharply in March. The dollar was little changed.
When the Commerce Department releases its retail sales report on Dec. 13, we'll get our first glimpse at holiday spending patterns. For the season, analysts are calling for shoppers to shell out 5 ...
Orders for long-lasting goods rose in September, the government reported Wednesday, coming in lower than estimates.
Sales of new homes fell from a record pace in June, the government reported Tuesday, but still came in above economists' estimates as buyers continue to shrug off higher mortgage rates.
April orders for long-lasting goods made in the United States posted the largest drop in 20 months, the government reported Wednesday, coming in well below economists' forecasts.
After muddling through several weeks of uncertainty, U.S. stock markets should enjoy a little more clarity in the coming week, but will get few signs of the future course of inflation and interest rates.
U.S. Treasury prices fell Wednesday following three consecutive days of gains and in anticipation of new supply hitting the market as an auction of five-year note kicks off.
The pace of new home sales in the United States slowed for the second straight month in December, the government said Wednesday, missing Wall Street expectations for a gain.
After the apparent fraud at WorldCom and Enron, the stupid accounting tricks at Qwest and Xerox, the zillion-dollar write-downs at AOL Time Warner and JDS Uniphase, the suspicion does begin to nag:...
IT COULD BE the biggest infrastructure problem of all. Once the envy of the world, America's system for gathering and interpreting economic statistics has fallen into disrepair. The resulting misme...
Encouraged by a recent string of stronger economic data, forecasters are growing more confident that 1993 will produce a solid expansion. Can we count on them to be right? Most failed to foresee ei...
A necessary evil in good times, inventory can turn into an outright demon when it piles up in a recession and keeps recovery at bay. That didn't happen last year, as responses from 175 executives i...
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If there's one thing the economy is producing lots of lately, it's bad news. Factory employment has dropped in nearly every month this year, pushing the total of manufacturing jobs down by 136,000 ...
Now that recession worries are safely on the back shelf, investors can take a calm look at what moderate economic growth will mean for the year ahead. Inflation will quicken, spurring the Fed to ti...
At anemic rates of less than 4.5% during the past four years, Americans' saving habits have become a national disgrace. But as the nation's personal- saving-rate figures at right indicate, a turnar...
SINCE AT LEAST the Book of Proverbs -- ''A wise man saves for the future, but a foolish man spends whatever he gets'' -- saving has stood as a test of virtue. America looks to be flunking the test ...
The economy lost some zing in the first quarter of this year, then lost a little more in the second quarter. Ominous trend? Not at all. Like a veteran hurler, the economy has more than made up for ...
LAST YEAR was a good one for corporate profits -- right? Well, that is the general perception, and taken as a whole it is still correct, but the most recent data from the Commerce Department show t...
FORECASTS are only as good as the data forecasters have on hand. The Commerce Department's recent GNP revisions reveal that growth over the past three years was better than forecasters had thought....
CONSUMERS have been spending heroically, keeping the economy's torpid growth from slowing even further. Their purchases zoomed at a 6.5% annual rate during the third quarter, more than offsetting t...
THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT the Commerce Department gave economists this year, too heavy for a stocking stuffer, was the most comprehensive revision of U.S. income and production data in a decade. Analys...
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Haiti had documented 54 deaths caused by Sandy — most in the nation's southern peninsula, which points toward Jamaica. Another 21 Haitians were still counted as missing, and many fear the death toll will rise as officials reach affected areas isolated by impassable roads and ruined bridges.
Hurricane Sandy only sideswiped Haiti during its early days. But reports so far suggest that even this indirect hit led to nearly as many deaths there as in the U.S. after the storm made landfall on the Mid-Atlantic coast.
As of Wednesday, Haiti had documented 54 deaths caused by Sandy — most in the nation's southern peninsula, which points toward Jamaica. Another 21 Haitians were still counted as missing, and many fear the death toll will rise as officials reach affected areas isolated by impassable roads and ruined bridges.
"We really aren't going to have a sense of the total impact because many places are cut off," Miami Herald reporter Jacqueline Charles said on The Takeaway.
The deluge from Sandy was of almost unimaginable proportions. More than 20 inches of rain drenched the southern peninsula in a 24-hour period. The natural disaster was amplified by a topography denuded of forests that were cut down for fuel.
"Deaths are primarily from flooding and mudslides," Alexis Ekert of Other Worlds a non-governmental human rights organization, writes from Haiti in an email to Shots.
A woman and her four children were crushed when the roof of their house collapsed in the southern town of Grand Goave. "Entire towns are inundated, roads and bridges washed out," Ekert reports.
Sandy has left 18,000 people homeless, according to Haiti's Civil Protection Agency.
Port-au-Prince, where nearly 370,000 people still live in camps set up after the 2010 earthquake, was spared Sandy's worst effects. But the storm brought more misery as the ground turned to mud and tattered tarps let rain in. "We are hungry, things for me are bad, our tarp is torn," one Haitian camp-dweller says in this video posted by The Washington Post.
But the hurricane's glancing blow will have lasting effects on a country that was already facing a severe food crisis.
"There was a drought earlier in the year, then Tropical Storm Isaac," Brian Concannon of the Boston-based Institute for Justice and Democracy told Shots. "And Haiti will suffer from price rises because of the US drought."
Moreover, Sandy's floods and mudslides killed many animals and destroyed both cash and subsistence crops. Banana, plantains and maize crops were ruined in the south, as was a coffee crop weeks from harvest. Officials say more than 70 percent of crops were destroyed.
"It was a relatively small disaster, but it will have a big impact," Amelie Gauthier of Oxfam told The Guardian. "All it takes is the loss of one or two lemon trees and some families will no longer be able to afford to send their children to school."
Health officials in Haiti worry about the floods increasing cholera's spread.
Concannon says there has already been growing unrest this fall, with fairly large demonstrations each week, over high food prices and allegations of government corruption. Haiti is in the middle of an electoral crisis as well, with disputed seats in its senate, that has virtually paralyzed the legislature.
"My guess is those demonstrations will pick up again," Concannon says.
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Nov 5th is Guy Fawkes day, killed trying to restore a Catholic to British throne
By: Patrick Roberts | Published Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 9:45 AM | Updated Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 9:45 AM
Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, ’twas his intent
To blow up the King and Parli’ment.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England’s overthrow;
By God’s mercy he was catch’d
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Hulloa boys, Hulloa boys, let the bells ring.
Hulloa boys, hulloa boys, God save the King!
George Washington called Guy Fawkes Day a grave insult to America's Catholics. After the Revolution, America stopped celebrating it
Millions of British still celebrate it with ‘Bonfire; night.
Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), died trying to restore a Catholic to the throne of England.
The Guy Fawkes gunpowder plot of 1605 has been famous ever since.
According to Wikikpedia, Fawkes was born and educated in York. His father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a Catholic.
Fawkes later converted to Catholicism and left for the continent, where he fought in the Eighty Years' War on the side of Catholic Spain against Protestant Dutch reformers. He travelled to Spain to seek support for a Catholic rebellion in England but was unsuccessful. He later met Thomas Wintour, with whom he returned to England.
Wintour introduced Fawkes to Robert Catesby, who planned to assassinate King James I and restore a Catholic monarch to the throne. The plotters secured the lease to an undercroft beneath the House of Lords, and Fawkes was placed in charge of the gunpowder they stockpiled there.
Prompted by the receipt of an anonymous letter, the authorities searched Westminster Palace during the early hours of 5 November, and found Fawkes guarding the explosives. Over the next few days, he was questioned and tortured, and eventually he broke. Immediately before his execution on 31 January, Fawkes jumped from the scaffold where he was to be hanged and broke his neck, thus avoiding the agony of the mutilation that followed.
Fawkes became synonymous with the Gunpowder Plot, the failure of which has been commemorated in England since 5 November 1605.
His effigy is often burned on a bonfire, commonly accompanied by a firework display.
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10-21-2010 09:24 PM
The entire idea of a sandbox as part of the Norton products will always end up being a mixed set with no clear winner that can be picked. When weighing the development costs against the possible rewards, it is unclear whether it would be worth the effort. Many people do not understand the purpose and function of a sandbox well enough that they would even understand why the files they downloaded in the sandbox are not on their machine after they exit the sandboxed application. I've seen instances when users close their Sandboxie-protected IE session and select the option to close without copying their downloaded files from the sandbox to another location then complain that the files they downloaded are no longer there even when they were told that those files would no longer be available to them. Others will sandbox applications that do not need to be sandboxed (I've seen people slapping Notepad into a sandbox just because "the sandbox keeps their system safe".) When running multiple applications in individual sandboxes you end up consuming a great deal of hard drive space so users must keep a large portion of their hard disks free in order to run their sandboxed apps. Sharing a single sandbox with multiple applications can save on the drive space issue but has been known to cause other conflicts on occasion.
All of that aside, a sandbox option could be used as a selling point for the product. In a default installation the option should be turned off. For those who opt to turn it on, the most common browsers, download managers, torrent clients, and mail clients installed on the user's system should be automatically configured to run in a sandbox.. For sandboxed web browser sessions, the user's favorites should be automatically synced on entry and exit (as long as they passed the Safe Web check). On exit, the user should be prompted IN A CLEAR FASHION that anything with the exception of their Favorites that is not explicitly selected to be copied out of the sandbox will be deleted.
Other potential issues arise considering automatic updating features of certain products. Should they be sandboxed or not? For example, Windows Update, Symantec LiveUpdate, etc should be exempt from sandboxing, but updaters for other products, especially those that download executable installers probably should not.
Any way you look at it, it would need to be highly configurable which is only going to make the code much more complex and more prone to errors.
10-23-2010 12:53 AM
I agree on the fact that it won't be on by default. Tehre will be regular uusers who won't have any idea on what to do with it. But than people will have a choice. Now they don't
11-08-2010 10:54 PM
How about the option simply to create sandboxed browser sessions, similar to a private browsing function? I don't need a sandbox if I'm just going online to check a few trusted websites, but there are times when the added security would be a comfort.
The benefit of this approach is that a sandboxed session can have very restrictive settings turned on by default, because everyday users might only choose to use it rarely -- they will understand that their bookmarks aren't in there and that anything downloaded will be deleted once the sesison ends (if it isn't exported out of the sandbox). Power users could have the option to tweak the settings and use it as their preferred means of surfing the web.
01-25-2011 10:40 PM - edited 01-25-2011 10:47 PM
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02-21-2011 09:05 AM
Who here would like to see a sandbox in Norton Internet Security 2012?.Lets be honest the difference between Norton Internet Security 2010 and 2011 was very small. Sandbox is the next step up in making Norton the best internet security ever. It's a big change and worth spending £50 on. Kaspersky and Comodo has seen how much more protection is possible with sandbox. It's time for Norton to take the next step up in internet security, if they do not take the step up the competitors will move ahead, and we don't want that.
All Symantec want is the utmost protection for their users. Give us something big with norton internet security 2012, a big change, sandbox is the way to do that. Take the step and prove not only your the best internet secuirty option, but your willing to use any way possible to protect your users.
02-21-2011 10:46 AM
I certainly don't want to see a sandbox option, imagine how much resorces this takes, Kaspersky is now the norton of old in my opinion, BLOATED!
Keep Norton lean and mean is what i say, all the reviews say It's currently the best security software outthere, and thats without a sandbox!
02-22-2011 01:06 AM
A sandbox offers protection, proof is other security firms are using them. The option to put a sandbox on the web browser is very important. I'm sure Norton could create a user friendly sandbox.. It would be a big change for them, something we need after the small change with 2010-2011. Norton should be using every way possible to protect us its users. Norton cannot give us 100% protection, obviously my computer has been compromised by malware, with Norton 360V5 running on it.. It's time for Norton to have stronger browser protection, sandbox can give us that. What are you waiting for symantec it's time to make the change.
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The Danish Medicines Agency has become aware of the product Viamax Energizer, which is sold on the internet as a product providing energy. An analysis carried out by the Swedish Medical Products Agency has shown that the product contains the active substances levodopa and theophylline, which does not appear from the packages. Several websites state that Viamax Energizer consists of well-balanced, natural herbs. This is not correct.
The active substances levodopa and theophylline are associated with a number of side effects, and the substances are ingredients in prescription-only medicines used for the treatment of parkinsonism and asthma respectively. Treatment with medicinal products containing these substances should only be commenced following advice from a doctor.
Viamax Energizer is not an authorised medicinal product, and we therefore warn against using it.
The Danish Medicines Agency advises patients who have taken Viamax Energizer to stop using it and to contact their doctor if they have any concerns. The illegal medicinal product may be handed over to a pharmacy for destruction.
The Danish Medicines Agency urges persons who buy medicinal products on the internet to be careful and to seek advice from their doctor before buying prescription-only medicinal products. The doctor may then assess the effect of the product and its side effects, including whether or not the product concerned would benefit the patient.
For further information , please contact Mette Touborg Heydenreich on tel.: +45 4488 9327.
Danish Medicines Agency, 15 July 2008
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Hominids Or Hominins Or Humans?
Thu Oct 22 02:05:25 BST 2009 by Homo Sapiens
Homo Sapiens didn't exist two million years ago. This is a human ancestor of some variety. We do need to know which one it was to determine the relevance of the research.
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