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Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
Ranked best M.B.A. programme in Thailand 2009
You can enter this M.B.A. programme at the beginning of each semester (January, May, or August).
In its 2009 ranking (published in 2010), QS TOPMBA ranks Asian University the Best Business School in Thailand by employer votes, and 30th in Asia.
The ultimate objective of the Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) program is to prepare the student for a career in business management, management services or management consulting in private or public sector organizations in Thailand and Asia. This is achieved by providing the students with a comprehensive grounding in the common body of business management knowledge, imparting practical skill and developing capabilities in the following areas:
- To model and analyze various kinds of business system and organizations; to apply appropriate problem solving approaches and management strategies; to improve organizational performance, and to provide an understanding of all aspects of business function to assist in the decision-making process;
- To select, and implement, specific business solutions using professionally-based judgment and a global perspective on business management;
- To communicate effectively in business management setting and managerial role, using written, oral and visual methods;
- To work independently and in multidisciplinary/multicultural teams, and to accept related responsibilities and professional obligations;
- To value ethics, integrity and honesty and provide leadership on both their professional and personal life;
- To recognize and fulfill life-long learning needs and opportunities.
This program is designed as a broad – base general M.B.A. degree. The curriculum consists of 12 graduate level subjects and an individual Project. The unifying theme of the program is ‘management in a changing environment’ with an emphasis on how management can monitor, plan and implement change to achieve organizational goals and objectives. This theme is reflected in the curriculum content of all subjects taught within this M.B.A.. Keeping in mind the bi-modal nature of the target student population, the degree curriculum will be offered in both a Full Time track and a Part Time track.
The rationale for selecting the specific the subjects included in this general M.B.A. curriculum follows the above aims and objectives of the program. The program design is broad-based so that all students will have a strong foundation in the functional as well as technical areas of business management, and will be able to pursue any specialization in the future. Individual subject descriptions appear later in this document.
A range of teaching and learning methods will be deployed across the program, in accordance with the overall, institutional Teaching and Learning Strategy. Lectures, tutorials, workshops and practical classes will be evident throughout the program and this contact time will be delineated within each Course Outline. In relation to tutorial activity, the students will be organized in ‘Syndicate Groups’. Syndicates are responsible for joint work (including assessed work) in form of case studies and reports, essays, problems and class presentations. However, each subject will adopt a strategy designed to impart a sense of responsibility for learning on the part of the student. Directed and resource-based learning, including appropriate use of information technology, will be employed throughout and will contribute to the development of ‘life-long learners’.
The basic program structure, as shown in the table below consists of 9 compulsory taught subjects, 3 electives and a degree project (or 1 elective and an MBA thesis respectively).
Option A (Thesis Option)
To complete the MBA degree, students have an option to undertake the 12-credit MBA thesis. After completing the Foundation and Functional subjects, students can start working on the MBA thesis after the third semester along with the electives.
Option B (Coursework and Independent Study Project)
Students may elect to substitute an Independent Study Project plus 2 additional electives in lieu of the MBA Thesis.
Please note: all MBA students in Option B will be required to successfully complete an oral comprehensive examination.
Full Time (“International MBA”) vs. Part Time Track (“International MBA with Executive option”)
As indicated earlier, the overall program structure provides for a Full Time track as well as a Part Time track. The Full Time track is ideally designed for qualified applicants who can make a full time commitment to their MBA for four consecutive semesters, completing their thesis or MBA Project in the fourth semester. In contrast, the Part Time track is designed for those who can carry only a partial course load for a variety of reasons, including existing work/family commitments.
||Can be completed within 1 year
||MBA Project (6 credits)
Thesis (12 credits)
||Can be completed within 16 months
Responsible faculty: Faculty of Business
Degree full name:
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Tue January 10, 2012
Ga. Parents, NAACP Demand Teacher's Firing Over 'Slave' Math Problem
The debate over a math problem at a Georgia elementary school intensified today with parents protesting and the Georgia NAACP calling for the teacher who wrote the math problem to be fired.
At issue is a third-grade worksheet that included references to slaves filling baskets with cotton and this question: "If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in one week? Two weeks?"
WSBTV, which first reported the story on Friday, said the Gwinnett County school district has launched a human resources investigation into the Nocross, Ga. school. In its report, the local station said one teacher wrote the question in attempt to circle back to a social studies lesson about Frederick Douglass. All nine teachers saw the questions, but no one objected.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports on the scene outside Beaver Ridge Elementary School:
"About 60 parents, community activists and church leaders assembled outside the school. A few carried signs that read: 'Shame on them' and 'The teachers need to be fired.' Some drivers passing by the demonstration honked to show support.
"Parent Christopher Braxton, who complained to the district about the slave math questions, said his son's class was being led by a substitute teacher for the second day in a row as the investigation into the incident continues.
"Braxton said Beaver Ridge Principal Jose DeJesus would not elaborate on the status of the probe or his son's teacher. 'They apologized for the situation and said they could not speak about it further until they finish the investigation,' Braxton said."
11 Alive spoke to Sloan Roach, a Gwinnett County School spokesperson, who said, "This was not done intentionally; there was no intent behind it; these were just not good questions that were asked."
Braxton told 11 Alive that part of his issue with the question is that he felt his child wasn't ready for that kind of lesson about slavery.
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This Chinese hospital has come up with a new take on the idea of the wheelie bin by fitting cleaners hired to empty bins with rollerskates to speed up the rubbish collection.
Park Fang who is manager at the Huaxi Hospital in Chengdu, in Sichuan province in south-west China said that they had been forced to cut the number of cleaners because of cost and also because the hospital was so large the staff that remained had been too slow to empty rubbish bins.
So they hired new cleaners with the one qualification being that they could rollerskate to a high standard and say that since then they haven't looked back. The new roller skater cleaners get paid 15% more than the old cleaners.
He said: "There were always too many cleaners here anyway marching backwards and forwards with rubbish and this way everything is done much faster with less staff. It's also fun to give people something to look at and nobody has to wait very long at all now for a bin to be emptied."
Lian Chen, one of the cleaners, said: "It is definitely the coolest job I have ever had. I get paid to roller skate eight hours a day and I love roller skating. The hospital is a great place to practice with lots of interesting things happening all the time."
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Amy Levin: Huffington Post Comedy recently ended a short and perhaps not-so-sweet competition called “Create Your Own Religion.” Though curiously lasting only three days, the call ushered in 906 submissions, including 113 (and counting) featured in a slideshow. The contest was open to anyone with enough free time to send in a catchy name, photo, and set of beliefs, rituals, and holidays – clearly, all a religion needs to survive.
The invitation is too good to paraphrase, so here it is:
You’ve got the long hair, the nice bushy beard, and lots of beliefs, but you don’t have the 2.2 billion adherents worldwide. Or perhaps you’re chubby and like to sit cross-legged, but no one is making statues of you. Or maybe you’re a mediocre sci-fi writer that wants people speaking your psuedoscience.
Well now you can be the next Jesus, the next Buddha, or even the next L. Ron Hubbard. Sign up now to create-your-own religion. You name it, write down the beliefs, rituals, and holidays. We will then post the best submissions on our site and allow you to compete for followers.
All religions had to start somewhere. There are 7 billion people out there who need something to believe, bring out your inner missionary and get converting!
According to those humored enough by stock religious figures to write this, religions are made up of three elements (not the trilogy you are thinking) and, of course, seek to proselytize. Their genesis occurs at the whim of an individual with enough social capital and good PR to win converts. However, scrutiny aside (for the moment) what did the modern prophets come up with?
Perusing the slide show, we find anything from “frisbeetology” to “The Temple of the Holy Mushroom” to “IDK,” the “new brand” of agnosticism. While some submissions were honorable missions like “Totrea,” to “worship and respect trees” and “Humanity,” the satirical tone of the guidelines didn’t bode well for humanistic idealists (but they’re lovable anyway). Indeed, the lucky first place winner was “The Holy MAC devotional congregation” (that’s holy macaroni), with second place “9th Order of the Eternal Pringles.” Both of which suggest another required element for a hot new religion: comfort food.
While we should probably take this all with a grain of salt, I find the subject matter is too provocative, and perhaps, too important. Is this an offensive mockery of ancient religious traditions, a stab at new religious movements (ahem, Scientology), or does it expose the delicate and abiding possibility of new social imaginings? Depending on who is answering, we may as well assume all three. However, based on this biblical flood of visionary creations, HuffPo is engaging in more than comedy.
In their coverage of the competition, CNN Belief Blog honed in on religion scholars’ ritualistic use of Robert Bellah’s “Sheilaism” for comparison. Bellah, a sociologist of religion, quotes a woman named Sheila Larson who describes her faith as “Sheilaism,” her own form of personal religion. Sheilaism is often used to describe the current New Age spiritual marketplace where individuals choose amongst a hodgepodge of traditions to create their personal utopian religion. Over the past few decades–even though scholars have adopted a more nuanced view of secularism–society continues to perceive religion as of the church (and missionaries) and not of the world. Religion, when highly qualified, continues to be viewed as individual and private, something which invokes the cryptic “spiritual but not religious” category.
If the create-your-own-religion competition is mediating the production of Sheilas (albeit with funnier names), then it serves to re-invoke the presumptuous idea that religion is individualistic, and that crafting our own faith is possible, and even ideal. Or, another possible thought: the abundant mockery of secular-sounding submissions like, “The Church of Baseball,” with rituals like “the Star-Spangled Banner before games” including the holidays, “Opening Day” and “The World Series” show us just how so-called secular and religious cultures mirror each other, as well as how ritualistic and communally oriented our society continues to become.
Recognizing such similarities and patterns may not have been the goal of the competition, but it provokes us to consider religion as more than church – maybe even food, art, or theater. One thing is for sure: while fraught with parody and performance, religions and their bedfellows (old and new) sure are creative.
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A novel regulatory pathway affecting red cell and platelet phenotype
A novel mutation has been identified in an Australian family with a combined defect in platelet and red cell function. This project will explore the molecular mechanism of this defect, with a focus on a new pathway regulating the cytoskeleton and platelet granule release.
Platelets are circulating cell-derived bodies which repair blood vessel damage and prevent blood loss. Inherited defects in platelet function cause serious and potentially life-threatening bleeding and there is a growing research focus on understanding these diseases. Our group has recently identified the genetic cause of an inherited defect in a large Australian family which affects both platelet and red cell function - this involves a key regulatory molecule which has not been linked to platelet function previously. The student will join our team investigating this exciting new pathway, using established cell lines and clinical samples from the family. S/he will learn a variety of platelet function assays, and combine these with biochemical and cell biology methods to discover the links between this new mutation and platelet function. Transgenic mice expressing the mutant factor will also be available for correlative in vivo studies early in 2012. This project will involved the student in a new and rapidly evolving field of coagulation research, that bridges clinical medicine and basic research.
Techniques for this project include:
- Molecular biology, screening for genetic mutations and preparing gene vectors for cell transfection
- Proteomic analysis of platelet and red cell lysates
- Biochemical methods including immunoprecipitation and Western blotting to identify molecular partners of the target protein
- Cell imaging by flow cytometry and confocal microscopy
Want to find out more?
Contact us to find out what’s involved in applying for a PhD.
Contact Research Expert to find out more about participating in this opportunity.
Browse for other opportunities within the North Shore - Kolling Institute of Medical Research .
The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is: 1393
Other opportunities with Associate Professor Chris Ward
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Texas Adult Protective Services (APS)
Adult Protective Services responsibilities include:
What We Do
APS investigates abuse, neglect, and exploitation of adults who are elderly or have disabilities. Any adult who has a disability or who is age 65 or older over that is in a state of abuse, neglect, or exploitation is eligible to receive adult protective services.
Victims of abuse, neglect, or exploitation may get short-term help with shelter, home repairs, food, transportation, managing money, medical care, home healthcare services, and mental health services.
APS's mission is to protect older adults and persons with disabilities from abuse, neglect, and exploitation by investigating and providing or arranging for services, if needed, to stop or prevent further harm.
The two major types of APS services are:
Note: APS provides interpreters as required by law for clients (and those suspected of abuse, neglect or exploitation) who have limited English skills or are blind, deaf, hard of hearing, etc.
Adult Abuse Facts
The problem of abuse of the elderly and adults with disabilities became widely recognized only in the past few decades. Yet, it may be as common as child abuse. As the number of older Texans and awareness of the issue has increased, so has the number of cases Texas APS investigates.
In 2011, APS completed 87,741 investigations of abuse, neglect, or exploitation involving adults living in Texas communities. Of those cases, 58,068 were confirmed as valid. That compares to 56,170 investigations and 40,559 confirmed cases just a decade earlier.
Signs of Abuse of the Elderly or People with Disabilities
Abuse may cause various injuries such as scratches, cuts, bruises, burns, broken bones, or bedsores. It can also result in confinement, rape or sexual misconduct, and verbal or psychological abuse.
Neglect may cause starvation, dehydration, over- or under-medication, unsanitary living conditions, lack of personal hygiene. Neglected adults may also not have heat, running water, electricity, medical care.
Exploitation may result in loss of property, money, or income. Exploitation means misusing the resources of an elderly or disabled person for personal or monetary benefit. This includes taking Social Security or SSI (Supplemental Security Income) checks, misusing a joint checking account, or taking property and other resources.
Sometimes adults who are 65 years old or older or those who have disabilities may become isolated or ill and not have someone who is willing and able to help meet their basic needs.
How You Can Help
Prevention and Public Awareness
- Elder Abuse Is Everyone's Business (awareness campaign and video)
- Web Video - A Closer Look at APS Caseworkers and Clients
- Health Information for Seniors (from U.S. government)
- Danger from Summer Heat is Everyone’s Business
APS Related Links
- APS History
- Community Satisfaction Survey Results Report
- APS and the TEAM Institute
- How to Request a Case Record
- See Agency Reports for addition presentations and reports
- Contract Services
Laws and Handbooks
- APS In-Home Services and Investigations Handbook
- APS Facility Investigations Handbook
- Proposed and Adopted Rules in the Texas Register
- Texas Adult Protection Legal Definitions
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The National Association of Environmental Professionals (NAEP) is...
. . . the multi-disciplinary association for professionals dedicated to the advancement of the environmental professions.
. . . a forum for state-of-the-art information on environmental planning, research and management.
. . . a network of professional contacts and exchange of information among colleagues in industry, government, academia, and the private sector.
. . . a resource for structured career development from student memberships to certification as an environmental professional.
. . . a strong proponent of ethics and the highest standards of practice in the environmental professions.
- Subscription to the peer-reviewed, quarterly journal Environmental Practice
- The NAEP National e-news, an exchange of short topics of interest, news and information
- Discounted fees for NAEP events:
- Annual Conference
- NAEP Logo Products
- Educational Courses and Seminars
- Regional meetings and events
- Discounted registration fees to our series of webinars
- Opportunities to advance personally and professionally through leadership positions in NAEP working groups, committees and the National Board of Directors
- Access to various reports completed by our Committee and Working Groups
- Access to a Career Center specifically targeted to the Environmental Professional
- Confidential search profile, Online Management tools, Automatic new job e-mail notification
- Avenues to network with professional contacts in industry, government, academia and the private sector
- Members sign the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice for Environmental Professionals
Why You Should Join:
- NAEP provides the access and network for you to grow as a professional. By providing two great publications in the peer reviewed Environmental Practice Journal and the revised and expanded NAEP E-News. Members get access to Environmental Practice online and in print. Our Affiliate Chapters provide a wealth of educational and networking events. We have established Affiliate Chapters throughout the US and if there is not one in your area please contact us. We have many chapters forming in many parts of the country. In 2011 NAEP started providing education to the professionals in the industry through a series of webinars. In 2011 NAEP held four webinars with an estimated attendance of 2,000 people. NAEP has held three webinars in 2012 – January, March and April. NAEP is planning another three webinars for the remainder of the year. There are many other benefits being developed and these benefits will be introduced over the next few months. This is a great time to get involved with NAEP. Please consider joining and getting involved in a Committee or a Work Group. Our sincere hope is we can learn from each other since that is the true power of an association.
NAEP Membership Application (online - pay by credit card or be invoiced)
NAEP Membership Application (if printing and mailing)
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I ONCE SAW Sandra Day O'Connor in my corner store, and years ago, before Justice O'Connor even sat on the U.S. Supreme Court, I used to push a stroller on the terrace surrounding the white marble temple where she works. But until Tuesday--even though the Court is only four blocks from my house--I'd never actually heard an oral argument there and seen the justices in session.
The case wasn't exactly exciting (at issue was the definition of "investment contract" in securities law), though it must have mattered to the administration since Solicitor General Ted Olson spoke in person. Instead, I was there because a friend who'd worked on the case had reserved a seat for me. Undistracted by legal preoccupations, I concentrated on soaking up the atmosphere.
Watching the justices, I was struck by how old they all are (or at least look--even Clarence Thomas's hair has gone gray), but also by how attentive they were. All appeared engaged; all asked repeated questions of counsel, except the famously silent Thomas, though he chatted privately with Justice Breyer.
I was impressed with the pains taken to pack in visitors. Not a seat is wasted. You can watch a whole case (an hour), as I did, or stay for three minutes. The idea is to let as many people as possible see their court in action.
Mostly, though, I took in the grandeur of the courtroom. It's immense and approximately square, with four huge Ionic columns on each side and a ceiling 44-feet high. What finally captured my attention were the large marble friezes at the top of the four walls.
From where I was sitting, I could see only two of them. The one over the justices' heads shows several allegorical figures, with right in the middle a tablet suspiciously numbered, in Roman numerals, I to X. The tableau to my left was a parade of figures from history. I picked out Napoleon and a Founding-era American in knee-breeches and a worthy in a curly wig and assorted medieval kings.
It was only later, downstairs on the way out, that I came across small-scale, three-dimensional reproductions of the friezes with all the figures labeled and could see the two panels I'd missed. They seemed truly relics from another age--though the building is only 68 years old.
THE CENTRAL FIGURES in the carving high above the justices' heads represent Majesty of Law and Power of Government. The tablet between them, the notice hedges, "symbolizes early written laws." Other figures are Wisdom and Justice.
The right-hand frieze begins the parade of lawgivers down through the millennia--Menes, Hammurabi, Moses (with his trusty Ten Commandments), Solomon, Lycurgus, Solon, Draco, Confucius, and Octavian, interspersed with allegorical representations of Fame, Authority, the Light of Wisdom, and History. And I found out who Napoleon's companions are on the frieze opposite: John Marshall, Sir William Blackstone, Hugo Grotius, Louis IX of France, King John of Magna Carta fame, Charlemagne, Muhammad, and Justinian.
But most striking of all--and more anachronistic even than this parade of dead mostly-white males (some of the allegorical figures are female)--was the panel on the back wall, the one the justices look at every day, if they care to raise their eyes. It depicts the confrontation of Good and Evil.
Explains the legend: "Its central motif depicts female figures of Justice and Divine Inspiration, flanked by allegorical representations of Truth and Wisdom. The struggle of good over evil is portrayed by The Powers of Good (Defense of Virtue, Charity, Peace, Harmony, and Security) on the left and The Powers of Evil (Corruption, Slander, Deception, and Despotic Power) on the right."
In the gift shop there were no postcards of these edifying works (created by one Adolph A. Weinman, a student of Saint-Gaudens). But back at the office I found them in glorious detail on the web. Feast your eyes here. (click on the two pictures of the courtroom labeled "North and South Courtroom Friezes" and "East and West Courtroom Friezes") and take in a whiff of a bygone culture--before the assaults on Western Civ. and the phallocracy made it camp to say in public that men down through the ages have striven to craft laws and institutions so that people can enjoy a degree of security and harmony; or to note that, imperfect though they invariably are, these codes and courts give political substance to aspirations for wisdom, truth, and justice; or to reflect with gratitude that the U.S. Supreme Court stands in that worthy line.
Claudia Winkler is a managing editor at The Weekly Standard.
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In Spring of 1999, Infrastructure, Telecommunications, and Networks operation implemented a functional and feasible Wireless infrastructure solution on experimental basis to connect Physical Plant to the main campus. Going from a shared 33kbps modem to a 2Mbps connection was a major boost to solving the connectivity problems of our colleagues at Physical Plant. The experiment was a success and since then inter-building wireless has been the choice for connecting remote campuses because of its high speed and no monthly cost. These remote campuses do not have institutional fiber or other wired media to connect to the main campus network backbone. A T1 based connection of equivalent bandwidth would cost thousands of dollars per month besides the expensive interface devices required on each side.
The implemented Wireless infrastructure uses spread spectrum compliant wireless technology. The inter-building Wireless links utilize directional antennas on each of the two sites to be connected. The telecommunication network devices on each of the two sites are connected to the respective LANs. The signal strength of a telecommunication-network device is effective enough to connect buildings which may be 10 to 20 miles apart (depending on the terrain) without the use of amplifiers.
Current Wireless Links
There are currently seven wireless links connected to the main campus network
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The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies’ database of marriages that took place from 1794-1895 in Gretna Green in Scotland, just over the border with England, has been made available online.
Ancestry.co.uk has added the database containing what has become known as the Lang Collection of Gretna Green Marriage Registers, named after David and Simon Lang, a father and son duo who were “priests” and performed many marriages in Gretna Green between 1794 and 1828.
Under the Marriage Act of 1753 (also known as Lord Hardwicke’s Marriage Act), clandestine or common-law marriages in England were made illegal. All marriages were required to have an official ceremony performed by a Church of England priest, unless the couple was Jewish or ‘Quaker’. The Act also required parental consent for parties under 21 years old and enforced the publication of Banns. This Act also applied in Wales and Ireland, but not in Scotland, however, which has its own legal system.
Couples wanting to get around these laws (for example because of no parental consent or personal objections to marrying in a church) often fled to Scottish border villages to get married where the English laws did not apply. Located just over the border, Gretna Green was one of the first villages encountered by elopers heading north. To this day, Gretna Green is still a very popular wedding destination (although not with elopers today!).
The entire collection covers the years 1794 to 1895, with a few earlier references. Since Gretna Green marriages were not exactly formal, the record keeping was not regulated, nor was it centralised. The Lang Registers cover around half of all Gretna Green marriages performed during the specified time period, and include over 10,000 records.
Sometimes marriages were recorded on scraps of pieces of paper, while at other times they were kept more formally and recorded in a book. The amount of information recorded could vary as well. However, Ancestry says that you’ll generally be able to find the following information:
- Names of bride and groom;
- Their counties of residence;
- Marriage date;
- Witnesses’ names.
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Memento: Muriel Hasbun Photographs
March 6, 2004–June 7, 2004
March 6, 2004–June 7, 2004
Since 1990, Muriel Hasbun has examined her complex cultural identity through an artistic exploration of family history. The many ethnic and religious cultures that comprise her heritage, and the diasporas that led her parents’ families to the Americas, are the subject of work combining her own photographs with snapshots, personal texts, even physical remnants of her childhood surroundings and those of her parents. Seeking a kind of realism laced with magic, Hasbun explores a world of shadows that survive their sources, bridging past and present to restore bonds separated by time and distance.
I come from peoples in exile…. My mother was born in Paris to Polish Jewish parents who settled in France just before World War II. My father was born in El Salvador to Palestinian Christian parents who settled in Central America shortly before World War I. I was born and raised in San Salvador and now live in Washington, DC. So I follow my family’s legacy of exodus…
A child of disparate cultures, rooted in one country but with origins traceable to many others, Muriel Hasbun grew quite naturally into an itinerant spirit and a belief that she, like her parents, was fated to exile. Her paternal grandparents emigrated to Central America as part of a Palestinian exodus occasioned by war, and nearly thirty years later her mother’s parents left Poland for France in the face of another war, and the impending persecution of their people that became the Holocaust. Hasbun herself grew up in El Salvador, a country beset for much of her childhood by pronounced political tension. She left for college in the United States at the height of El Salvador’s civil war, deeply attuned to schism, to conflict within.
Hasbun studied French literature at Georgetown, and photography at George Washington University, where she received a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1989. She came to the practice and theory of art easily; her father is a photographer, her mother, an art dealer. Photographer Ray Metzker, a visiting professor at George Washington, became an important mentor. Hasbun was especially inspired by Metzker’s pursuit of visual mystery through the fragmentation and synthesis of disparate pictorial elements. In her master’s thesis project, Hasbun also cited surrealist artist Man Ray’s photographic “dematerializationand transfiguration” of material reality as a major influence.
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For many pet owners, annual pet vaccinations are just part of owning a pet. It’s what we do. We get our pets vaccinated every year for the big pet illnesses that could make our pets sick -rabies, distemper, parvo, lymes, etc.
But in vet and animal health circles, there has been an ongoing debate about whether we really need to have these vaccinations on an annual basis. In fact, many have argued that we may even be over-vaccinating our pets.
Now, it appears that the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) may agree. Their Vaccination Guidelines, issued in 2011, indicate that some vaccinations, while necessary, may be able to be re-upped every three years versus every year.
Under the AAHA Guidelines, revaccination (or vaccine boosters for distemper, parvo and adeno) is suggested no more frequently than every three years. (May 2, 2012, Chicago Tribune, Steve Dale)
Before you go out and speak with your vet, please note that the AAHA also says:
These Guidelines and recommendations should not be construed as dictating an exclusive protocol , course of treatment, or procedure. Variations in practice may be warranted based on the needs of the individual patient, resources, and limitations unique to each individual practice setting. The Guidelines are not intended to be an AAHA standard of care.
I encourage you to read more about the vaccine recommendations in Steve Dale’s report and in the Guidelines I have linked above.
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November 28, 2011 (Updated Jan. 26, 2012)
Animation: The 2011 Hurricane Season in 4.5 minutes.
Download animation here. (Credit: NOAA)
The 2011 Atlantic hurricane season officially ended on November 30, having produced a total of 19 tropical storms of which seven became hurricanes, including four major hurricanes. This level of activity matched NOAA’s predictions and continues the trend of active hurricane seasons that began in 1995.
The 19 tropical storms represent the third-highest total (tied with 1887, 1995, and 2010) since records began in 1851 and is well above the average of 11. The number of major hurricanes is also well above the average of two. However, the number of hurricanes is close to the average of six. This year’s totals include a post-storm upgrade of Tropical Storm Nate to hurricane status, a post-storm upgrade of Hurricane Rina to major hurricane status, and the addition of a short-lived, unnamed tropical storm that formed in early September between Bermuda and Nova Scotia. This unnamed storm, along with several other weak, short-lived named storms, could have gone undetected without modern satellite technology.
Irene was the lone hurricane to hit the United States in 2011, and the first one to do so since Ike struck southeast Texas in 2008. Irene was also the most significant tropical cyclone to strike the Northeast since Hurricane Bob in 1991.
“Irene broke the ‘hurricane amnesia’ that can develop when so much time lapses between landfalling storms,” said Jack Hayes, Ph.D., director of NOAA’s National Weather Service. “This season is a reminder that storms can hit any part of our coast and that all regions need to be prepared each and every season.”
As far as landfalling major hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5 with top winds of 111mph and greater) are concerned, the lull continues. 2011 marks a record six straight years without one hitting the United States. The last one to do so was Wilma in 2005. Nonetheless, wind is not the only threat with tropical systems as proven by Irene and Lee, which caused deadly and destructive flooding. On average, more than half of the fatalities related to tropical systems are due to flooding.
Hurricane Irene - August 27, 2011
Hurricane Irene made landfall at approximately 7:30 am EDT on Aug. 27, 2011, near Cape Lookout, N.C. with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (Category 1). This NOAA GOES-13 satellite image captures Irene’s landfall moment.
Download animation here. (Credit: NOAA)
Hurricane Irene is an example of increasing accuracy in forecasting storm track. Its landfall in eastern North Carolina and path northward were accurately predicted more than four days in advance by NOAA’s National Hurricane Center using information from weather satellites, hurricane models, aircraft observations, and other data. NOAA’s delivery of critical environmental forecasts provided essential advance information that allowed emergency officials to plan necessary evacuations and sparked individuals to take safety precautions. But a weaker-than-anticipated Irene at landfall also highlighted the challenges that remain in forecasting storm intensity.
“Improving intensity forecasts is a focus of ongoing research and is part of NOAA’s Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project,” said Frank Marks, Ph.D., director of NOAA’s Hurricane Research Division. HFIP bridges research and operational components to better anticipate rapid changes in storm intensity and its goal to extend track forecasts from the current five days to seven days.
“Although the 2011 hurricane season has ended, our need to prepare for disasters hasn't,” said Craig Fugate, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “Being prepared for all kinds of hazards, from hurricanes to blizzards to tornadoes, is a year-round activity. We encourage all members of the team, especially the public, to continue to prepare for emergencies by staying informed of forecasted weather events, making an emergency plan, and building your emergency preparedness kit. Visit Ready.gov to learn more.”
NOAA will issue its initial outlook for the 2012 hurricane season in May just prior to the official start of the season on June 1.
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by Baroness Maggie Jones
This blog is a cross-post from Labour Lords
Later today I will propose a motion in the Lords which celebrates the contribution of schools to the wellbeing, personal and social needs of children and young people.
The debate will highlight the differences between Labour’s belief that schools have wider responsibilities to produce well rounded, confident and thoughtful young people, compared to the Coalition government’s obsession with league tables, testing and exam results.
Our arguments go to the heart of the education debate, raising issues about the purpose of education and challenging Michael Gove to a national debate to enable parents, teachers and young people themselves to raise their concerns about the government’s underlying educational philosophy.
Labour has a proud record on education and we don’t need lessons on the importance of educational attainment. There was a sustained period of improvement in education outcomes in the UK from 1997 to 2010. But at the same time, we recognised that pupils’ low achievement was only partly determined by their education. Factors such as levels of poverty, parental support, a stable home life and a lack of community aspiration also played a part.
That’s why we developed the Every Child Matters strategy, which sought to integrate children’s services so that every child would have the right to be happy, safe, achieve economic wellbeing, enjoy life and make a positive contribution. Measures such as Sure Start, improved nutrition and exercise in schools, programmes to tackle bullying and low self esteem and improved sex education all played their part.
Unfortunately, some of the first acts of the Coalition were to unpick our successes. The ring fenced funding for Sure Start was removed; nutritional standards for school food in academies were made voluntary – leading to a slide back to the days of junk food; the successful School Sports Partnership were abandoned – and then only partially reinstated after a national outcry; and PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education) has been taken out of the national curriculum and subjected to a prolonged and unresolved review.
So, despite David Cameron’s enthusiasm for promoting children’s wellbeing as a key priority, his Education Ministers are squeezing this out of the school environment. Ofsted is no longer required to measure it and both Mr Gove and Nick Gibb have described it as peripheral, or a distraction, from the core purpose of academic education.
Labour takes a different view. We believe that when schools tackle poor health or wider wellbeing and social issues they are improving the capacity of children to study, learn and excel. The two things should go together. We also believe that there are wider and softer skills which young people should learn in school that don’t have to be measured by exam results. A recent Work Foundation report identified that the growing number of young people not in Employment, Education or Training (NEETs) were hampered in finding work because of their lack of skills in communication or customer service.
These views are echoed by the CBI whose Director has criticised the government’s obsession with GCSE grades, arguing that it encourages short term cramming and frustrates teachers because it stops them delivering an inspirational classroom experience.
We agree with these sentiments, and will continue to make the case for a wider role for education, contributing to the wellbeing of young people and nurturing their creativity, confidence and life skills as well. That’s why Labour’s Childcare Commission – bringing together Shadow Cabinet members from across key Departments – has an important role in defining a new blueprint for integrated children’s services.
This is the right approach and we are confident that it’s what parents, children and employers want from the school experience. Perhaps if Mr Gove took time out from his crusade and engaged in a debate instead, we could, in time, persuade him too.
Baroness Maggie Jones of Whitchurch
is a Member of Labour’s Shadow Education team in the Lords
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The South Street Seaport in its current form is not long for this world, it seems, the New York Times reported. In a hearing yesterday with the Landmarks Preservation Commission, owner the Howard Hughes Corporation outlined its ambitious plans to “turn Pier 17 into a glass-clad shed dominated by two 60,000-square-foot sales floors on the upper level,” the Times said, which would mean that no large-scale retailers could be accommodated. And so far, the LPC seems receptive.
“We have in the past supported demolition when the trade-off is the new building is just as significant, if not more so,” Pablo Vengoechea, vice chairman of the LPC, said at the hearing.
Others retained their doubts, hinting that the troubled development, which has never made a profit, according to the Times, might have deeper flaws. “Do people shop on piers?” Frederick Bland, a commissioner with the LPC asked at the hearing.“Is putting a bunch of global generic shops on the pier the answer?” [NYT]
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A Change in AttitudeUsing the “change curve” to understand an employee’s emotional state – and when they’re most likely to use social media to convey it.
Businesses are always undergoing change – it’s a given. During that period of change, each employee will take a different length of time to adapt, and will go about making those changes in different ways.
Employers can help staff shift their approach to work by recognising where they stand emotionally, and understanding the “change curve” can swing a disgruntled employee from being angry about the changes to becoming a company ambassador.
Imagine a long-serving employee has been working the same way for five years. Suddenly, the company undergoes a massive shift – whether it is expanding globally, cutting headcount or implementing new technologies – and a directive comes from above its work processes are to change, along with the employee’s work habits.
At this point, Andrew Thomas, regional managing director at Ogilvy, says an employee might start to feel unhappy.
“Emotionally, I might feel misaligned with what the company wants to do, and I feel they don’t know how hard I have been working up to this point,” he says.
This emotional state is reflected on the change curve in the “anger” box, where an employee feels most disengaged.
To shift an employee’s attitude into the “commitment” box, they must go through an “acceptance” phase where they begin to embrace the idea of change and begin to want to be an ambassador for that change. At both points on the curve, this is where someone is most likely to use social media to vent.
“In that moment of emotional, ‘I’m going to tweet this’, these are the two stages at which I’m going to do it,” Thomas says.
This could be a negative message while they’re still sitting in the “anger” box or a positive message once they have reached the “ambassador” stage.
Either way, staff are going to use social media to communicate how they are feeling.
“This will happen and there’s nothing that will change that,” Thomas says.
“But you need to make sure you know about it as a company and make sure there is clarity and authenticity around social culture as an organisation. “This will let employees know how you expect them to behave online.”
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Q From Donna Gush: Piggyback is used so commonly that I’ve never really wondered about it until an advertisement on television here in New Zealand showed cartoon pigs standing on each other’s backs. Did the word ever actually have anything to do with pigs?
A Not originally. The pigs have sneaked in through human error.
It started out in the sixteenth century as pick pack, carrying something on the back or shoulders. Pick is a medieval version of pitch, so it meant a load that was pitched on to a person’s back for carrying. A little later, pickpack meant a ride on somebody’s shoulders.
After that, matters began to get muddled. Pack was changed into back through the obvious associations. Then it became pick-a-back. Finally, the pigs came along, in the nineteenth century, by a confusion between pick and pig, an obvious-enough change, not least because pick made no more sense to people in the word in those days than it does today. Piggy-back came along later in the century, with piggyback a modern loss of the hyphen.
We’re not sure in what country the pigs were introduced — some writers say it was in north America, others in Britain. There’s lots of evidence from English regional dialects of pig being part of the phrase by the early to middle part of the nineteenth century, which suggests it may originally have been British. Pig-a-back is known from the US no later than the 1860s but from Britain rather earlier — it appears in The Life of Beau Brummell, published in London in 1844, and in A Dialogue in the Devonshire Dialect of 1838 whose glossary explains, “Pig-a-back, said of schoolboys that ride on one another’s backs, straddling, as an Irishman would carry a pig.”
The earliest cases of piggy-back are from the US in the 1880s, though cases came along soon afterwards in Britain (the OED has a US citation dated 1843, but as this is in a comic description of a riot interrupting a wedding and refers to men actually carrying pigs, it looks like wordplay on pick-a-back). I’d guess the same processes of change were going on in both countries more or less at the same time and pace.
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In this category SCIENCE AND DOCUMENTS you will be able to step into a virtual library. This library will be updated and completed more and more. Beyond a structured bibliographical scientific part there is a subcategory with international and European documents for your research. In the beginning there is the general framework of the topic based on scientific publications to this issue of dog health and welfare and population control.
Dog ownership and canine overpulation
A general introduction
On Implications, effects, Problem Definition
Of all domestic animals, dogs are the ones who have been living with human for the longest time, for approximately 10.000 years. The importance of companion animals to humankind is inestimable because of emotional benefits, as well as the improvement of physical and mental health. A lot of people (51% in United States) consider their dog a family member. Worldwide, the dog population increased by 12% between 1998 and 2003, to an all-time high of 283 million dogs (Datamonitor, 2004).
Published data on aspects of domestic pet demographics are available from several countries, including Australia, the USA, Canada (Leslie et al., 1994), Italy (Slater et al., 2008, Di Nardo et al., 2008), Brazil (Serafini et al., 2008), Zimbabwe (Butler and Bingham, 2000) and Chile (Acosta-Jamett et al., 2010).
In some countries information is limited to market research to be used by the pet food industry. Data are available from animal welfare groups as well. In Europe, the presence of dogs was estimated at 41 million in 2003, more than 13,000 of these are guide dogs for blind, deaf or other disabled persons. At present the number of households with pets is estimated by the European Pet Food Industry Federation (FEDIAF, 2010) to have reached 62 millions with an estimate 56 millions of dogs. Despite this global attachment of our society towards companion animals, thousands of dogs are relinquished to shelters each year and several million of those are euthanised (HSUS, 2002).
In fact, euthanasia is the number one killer of all companion animals (Sturla, 1993). Professionals in the veterinary, animal control and animal welfare fields are now seeing companion animal overpopulation as a "people problem" rather than an animal problem (e.g., Arkow, 1991; Arluke, 1991; Miller, Staats, Partlo & Rada, 1996; Moulton, Wright & Rindy, 1991) with the individual and collective behaviour of people as a causal agent, while variables in the environment (animal welfare agencies, pet industry, media) are also believed to be contributing factors.
Other than being placed in overcrowded shelters and/or euthanised, many dogs are strays and roam free, becoming a nuisance and causing illness and harm to the community (Allen & Westbrook, 1979). These animals are either owned and allowed to roam unsupervised, or without an owner. Between these two extremes are animals which have some interaction with humans but do not officially belong to one particular person or family (neighbourhood or community owned dogs/cats) (Wandeler, 1985; Slater, 2002).
A subgroup of free roaming dogs are strays: recently owned but lost, escaped or abandoned animals and their offspring (Rubin and Beck, 1982; Slater, 2002).
Further complicating the classification of these subpopulations is the fact that dogs may move between these subpopulations during their lives, becoming more or less socialized or going from a pet to a stray to a pet again. Free roaming dogs are commonly socialized to some degree and they have contact with human beings who provide the food and shelter needed for survival. While feral dogs do exist, they are rather rare and elusive (Boitani et al., 1995). The situation of free roaming dog is comparable in central and southern America, Africa, Asia and southern Europe (Beran, 1982; Beran and Frith, 1988; Daniels and Bekoff, 1989; Matter et al., 2000; Butler et al., 2004; Ibarra et al., 2006; Ortega-Pacheco et al., 2007; Slater et al., 2008), although there are differences.
In Zimbabwe all dogs are owned but ranging free and breeding freely. The majority of dogs in India are strays, but though not owned and unprotected they often thrive in communities and may be fed by a group of people. In Bangkok, in 1999, it was estimated that of 630,000 dogs living there, approximately 110,000 (17%) were considered to be ownerless.
A questionnaire on the status of animal welfare legislation and its implementation was distributed by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) to 172 Member Countries in 2006, in order to collect data on the different national approaches to dog population control. Free roaming dogs were invariably considered to be a problem in most of the respondent countries (Dalla Villa et al., 2010).
Among all the problems considered, the stray dog management issue was ranked as "major" or "severe" more often than any of the other ones, confirming dog overpopulation as a complex web of multifaceted problems.
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Are there any differences between commands that you type into the terminal and commands you include in a script?
Your terminal runs a shell (most probably
Besides of this interactive mode you can also use your shell to run commands from a file. To execute the commands in your file you can either call the shell directly like
Most probably both your interactive shell and the shell used to run is
One important thing to note is that the script is run as a new process. This especially means that variables set in the script are not visible in the calling shell.
Without the export
In general, the answer would be "no", commands in shell are the same in scripts, in syntax and semantics.
But there is a bunch of small nuances related to configuration of environment (what variables are used and to what they are set).
no. a script is a list of command you can type in the terminal.
you can paste the totality of a script in the terminal and the result will be the same as running it.
inversely you can "save" your terminal commands inside of a file and turn it into a reusable script and share it with your family and friends.
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The Pointer, also called the English Pointer, is a British breed that was probably created by crossing a Foxhound and an Old Spanish Pointer. They belong to sporting group and are prized as a gun dog. The Pointer stands between 24 and 27 inches tall and they usually weigh between 44 and 66 pounds. They have a short dense coat that is primarily white with colored markings. Some of the colors found in this breed include: white, lemon, orange, liver, and black. Solid colors and tri-colors are also common.
The Pointer, also known as the English Pointer, is an extraordinary hunting dog. He has the desire to work tirelessly has great stamina and endurance. It gives the impression of elegance and power. With his intelligence, musculature, and affectionate nature, it is no surprise that Pointers are considered to be great companions inside the house or outside in the field.
Pointers are the most popular and probably the best pointing dogs in the world. They have incredible noses and their agility and speed is remarkable as well.
Origin of the Pointer
The earliest records to ever mention Pointers were dated around 1650. But most believed that their existence had started way earlier than the 1600s. They were widely considered to be a combination of Greyhounds, Foxhounds, Bloodhounds, and Bull Terriers. These are based on historical accounts and also, on anatomical and behavioral evaluation.
Apparently, the early breeders were planning to develop a super hunting dog in which they may have succeeded in doing because Pointers have dominated field games for a very long time.
Pointer Appearance and Abilities
The appearance of Pointers is perfectly fitting for the sporting type of dogs. They are well-balanced with speed, agility, and power. They are athletic and graceful. Pointers have a very noble stance and they always seem ready to go.
The expression is alert and their body is muscled. They have excellent tracking abilities and they are active and fast. They cover a lot of ground in their gallops.
They have short, sleek, shiny coats that come in primarily white, but may be liver, lemon, black or orange. Coats can either be solid, patched or speckled. Tri-colored is also permitted.
Temperament and Tendencies of the Pointer
Pointers are very playful and they always like to run around the field. They are very friendly they get along well with other animals, children and even strangers. They will only bark to announce an arrival of a stranger in the house but they are naturally, never aggressive or hostile.
The Pointers carry themselves in dignified manner. They will rarely be timid or violent. They are typically even-tempered and calm inside the house. Outside the field, they are enthusiastic and persistent in their work
Pointer Training and Care
Socialize Pointers to make most out of the breed. Lack of socialization may cause the dog to become very reserved towards strangers. Pointers love companionship. They usually want to be with their masters but they can wander off if they are tracking something.
Training pointers requires strength in leadership. Owners must establish natural authority. If Pointers find their owners weak-minded, they take the alpha role and they can become very willful.
Pointers are naturally clean dogs. House training them is not difficult but you still need to start early with the house training
Apartment living is okay but he will need lots of space to exercise his hunting instincts. Pointers need regular exercise to stay mentally and physically fit. If they lack physical and mental stimulation, they might channel their boredom to destructive behaviors.
A well exercised Pointer is calm at home. They tend to become “Couch Potatoes” always lounging and relaxing in very comfortable places inside the house like the bed and sofa.
Grooming is very easy. Occasional brushing to control the shedding is enough for Pointers.
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The 20 year financial depression in American real estate. Why housing will remain a poor investment well into 2020.
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The American housing market is floundering like a fish out of water. The economy is puttering along as middle class Americans confront a quality of life that is declining. Household incomes have fallen for well over a decade yet the dialogue from Wall Street and their political partners seems to focus on home prices rising. How can this disconnect and lie be perpetuated over and over? For what it is worth, we now live in a make believe economy portrayed by the scripted mainstream press. The economy is fine even though we have 45,000,000 Americans on food stamps. The housing market is improving even though prices are now at record lows for this cycle and 6,000,000 homes are sitting frivolously by in what is now called the shadow inventory. 20 million Americans are out of work, working part-time but wanting full-time gigs, or have dropped out of the labor force yet the economy is fine. The public needs to ask, “the economy is fine for what group of people?” The housing market is locking in a lost decade when it comes to values. How will the fragile psychology of people change when home prices enter a 20 year bear market?
The lost decade is here but is another one on the horizon for housing?
Home prices have painfully crawled back like a snail across the sidewalk to levels last seen in 2003. Other measures reflect a similar change. The chart above plots the Case Shiller Index and the Home Price Index. The Case Shiller is a more accurate measure since it looks at a broader pool of repeat home sales. The evidence is clear and all the wealth made on the housing bubble during the 2000s has largely gone to the banking center in Manhattan. American homeowners are unable to sell their home today for the peak prices that were reached during the mania of the housing bubble. Yet somehow banks are allowed to lock in peak prices when asking for taxpayer bailouts. The reason why it is likely another lost decade for housing is in the works is that most of the plutocracy does not keep their wealth in housing. Home equity is a large line item for the balance sheet of most middle class Americans. The only way housing for most will be saved is if plutocracy needs meet up per chance with middle class goals. The above chart tells you that housing is largely not that important to those shifting the levers of power.
And run the numbers for the typical household purchasing the median priced home even today:
The median price of a home in the U.S. is $158,000. The median household income is $50,000. In our scenario we assumed the family put 10 percent down. Yet in our budget, we see that the extra saving for the emergency fund and the IRA for retirement amounts to roughly $500. To save $15,800 it would take 31 months and this would include deferring all saving to the emergency fund or the retirement account. This is really the crux of the issue here. As things stand today, the environment is still focused on low down payments because home prices are still inflated. The market has heavily shifted to other government loan products that only require a down payment of 3 percent which seems odd given that the housing market is largely not a risk-free investment as many had once believed.
The biggest reason why another lost decade is likely to transpire is the weakness with household incomes. This is probably the number one factor. Even if the economy does recover, there is so much slack in labor that employers will likely just absorb sideline workers and there will be little need to increase wages. It is hard to envision a scenario where wages increase in the next 5 to 10 years without a solid jump in the employment market.
It is also the case that low mortgage rates are likely to change in the next few years because of global perception. For the moment, the panic in Europe is creating a safe haven bet in the U.S. But with persistent budget deficits that reach close to 10 percent of GDP we are in for a long haul. There is only so much goodwill that will be thrown over at keeping rates this low. If rates head back to more historical averages of 8.5 or 9 percent this will put a large dent in the already weak balance sheet of households. These rates are truly an anomaly:
That is another problem that will be coming down the pipeline at some point. It will certainly hit within the next decade and when it does, purchasing power will be hit and home prices will need to decline to meet the purchasing power of those actually buying the homes. These trends are apparent if people step back from the day to day rhetoric and nonsense that is heard on the mainstream media that assumes people have the attention span of a fly. Be more cautious when evaluating what is being told to you. These low rates are not common as the above chart shows. Even in the last 40 years the average 30 year fixed mortgage rate hovered around 8.84 percent; this amounts to an almost 100 percent increase from the current level today.
The impact of baby boomers
Over 70,000,000 baby boomers are now retiring in mass and many are looking to downsize their homes. Yet we are at an odd situation right now. We have for the first time in many generations a cohort of Americans with a higher standard of living now selling to a cohort of Americans that are poorer. Many boomers might have expected that the incoming cohort would be wealthy enough to pay top dollar for their properties but this is not going to be the case.
It is also the case that many boomers tapped into their home equity thus inflating their home values even higher. So many are now underwater, an estimated 11 million Americans are underwater on their mortgages, so many will likely stay put instead of selling for a loss. As boomers retire there will be a steady stream of housing entering the market right in conjunction with the 6,000,000 homes in the shadow inventory. Yet you also have a buying population that is financially in a poorer situation.
One angle that I have not seen examined is how many are selling properties in states that once had solid manufacturing economies. Many younger Americans will elect to move to larger metro areas and rent. Take the example of Detroit where the city population has fallen in half and real estate has been depressed for two solid decades already. All these factors point to weak decade for real estate. Why 10 years? It can go longer but we already have a baked in line of people retiring and we have yet to invent something that can reverse time. We have a massive amount of inventory that would take 5 years to liquidate assuming more prosperous economic projections. As historians look at these two decades they may call it the real estate driven depression.
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"When we come out, it's not just to parents and siblings.... sometimes it's to an entire clan. "
Lunar New Year: a time for renewal, a time to promote prosperity and good luck, a time to be with family. Families from places like China, Korea and Vietnam bring a variety of traditions to bear in marking the New Year on February 3rd. Cities with large Asian American populations will welcome the Year of the Rabbit with festive parades and celebrations. We expect that President Obama will make an official statement celebrating Lunar New Year on behalf of the entire American family.
Asian Americans/ South Asians/ Southeast Asians/ Pacific Islanders (AAPI) who are lesbian/ gay/ bisexual/ transgender (LGBT) often think about Lunar New Year in a unique way. On one hand, the family and cultural obligations that come with this time of year remind us that we often create and define family in very different ways than other members of LGBT communities -- our non-AAPI counterparts. The mutual interdependence we create among our families transcends small nuclear units, and requires us to think about our lives as openly LGBT people against a large backdrop. When we come out, it's not just to parents and siblings, but sometimes it's to an entire clan.
The ways in which we are out and assert our visibility in our families and communities must be unique as well. The mantra of "We're here! We're Queer! Get Used to it!" may suit us at the Gay Pride Parade and can even be part of our demand for the full inclusion of our AAPI communities within the LGBTQ rubric. But as we engage our own racial and ethnic communities, often including our own biological families -- our parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, even great grandparents -- we have had to find different mantras and strategies that better fit into these distinct cultural contexts.
Lunar New Year parades and cultural festivals have become a flash point for activists and organizations to claim our space within our AAPI communities. Last year, a Vietnamese LGBT contingent marched with its allies in Westminster, California's Tet Parade to observe Lunar New Year despite the vocal opposition of religious conservatives and elected officials. In Manhattan's famous Chinatown, the "Lunar New Year for All" coalition convened what's considered to be the first ever-queer contingent for the historic Lunar New Year Parade there.
Our Asian American/ Pacific Islander LGBT communities work hard to figure out the best ways to come out and create visibility in all our communities. The message of "Lunar New Year for All" is not only a stirring call for unity and an end to tolerance; it unapologetically claims our rightful space in our families and our communities:
Homophobia and discrimination continue to divide Asian American families and communities. Lunar New Year is a time when families come together to strengthen ties to our communities. This year, we are joining the Lunar New Year Parade to challenge homophobia and to honor all the different kinds of families in our community.
This week then, Asian American /Pacific Islander LGBT people will observe Lunar New Year in our families and our communities in ways large and small. In cities like New York, San Francisco, and Westminster, CA, queer contingents will march with pride to recognize Lunar New Year. In Los Angeles, the LGBTQ contingent is expected to be the largest contingent of any in the entire parade. At the same time, we will make progress with our families on a face-to-face level. We may do so by giving a traditional red envelope to a loved one as part of a committed same-sex relationship, or by creating good karma for the New Year by being more open in our families. Visibility may take different forms, but it "looks" the same regardless.
As we think about our life and times at this moment of challenge and adversity, the Lunar New Year hopefully signals a fork in the road for us to take and change our circumstances for the better. We take this moment to call for our families, our communities and our lawmakers to embrace each other and us despite our differences, and sometimes, because of them.
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Geographical Classification: Eastern Alps > Gailtal Alps > Lienz Dolomites > Soleck
Soleck - one of the most frustrating experiences I have had in my climbing career!
Soleck is a mountain to the south of the Lienz Dolomites separated by the main ridge (Simonskopf through Wilde Sender) only by the deep gorge of the Wildensenderbach Valley. This valley turns around Soleck in a 270° fashion only to end in the Karlahn Cirque at the base of Riebenkofel. Soleck itself has vertical north and west faces of about 700m height. In normal weather you can get a perfect view from the summit towards the Lienz Dolomites Main Ridge.
In all this Soleck is very much comparable to Croz dell'Altissimo in the Brenta Dolomites, one of my best climbing experiences.
So why the fuss?
Imagine you start on an almost perfect day - you want to tag three summits - let's say Soleck, Riebenkofel and Böses Weibele. You head for the first through dense forest still with sunny weather, traverse the southern slopes with beautiful limestone walls cropping out of the meadows and head for a little pass between Soleck and Riebenkofel. You reach that pass and - wow - there is the Lienz Dolomites southern Main Ridge at your fingertips. But before you have snatched the camera out of its pocket a multitude of thick clouds ooze through the valley to obscure the view! You go on to tag the second summit - still clouds - you have a freezing lunch sitting down among the sheep droppings. You decide to leave out the third mountain and head back to your car. And as you reach the car the sun comes peeping out of the clouds, the clouds disappear and everything is coloured white, green and blue! Aargh!
Actually I hold a grudge against this mountain but to be fair, I suppose I have to put up some specifics too. The actual height of Soleck is some kind of mystery to me - my maps state 2221m, my GPS measured 2216m and the sign near the summit cross states 2231m. Soleck is a rather popular mountain. Many of the tourists, who come to the Tuffbad Spa resort will do the Soleck climb for its shortness and for the views. The trail is a steep scramble however, much of the time leading through dense pine forests. As stated above, once you reach the timber line things get beautiful. The south face of Soleck is a steep meadow and here and there vertical 20m high walls pop up, several of them with bizarre rock formations. The summit itself is a little plateau which to the north and west quickly drops away into the Wildensenderbach Valley abyss.
The best trailhead for ascending Soleck is at Tuffbad located to the north of the Lesachtal Valley and can be reached from St. Lorenzen.
How to get to Lesachtal
From the West (Brenner Motorway A22)
Leave the Brenner Motorway near Brixen / Bressanone and follow SS49 to the east through Pustertal / Val Pusteria. To the east of Innichen / San Candido you cross the Austrian-Italian border and follow the road (now B100) to Tassenbach. Turn right (south-east) here onto B111, which you follow to St. Lorenzen
From the North
There are two possible roads:
- From Kitzbühel over B108 through the Felbertauern Tunnel to Lienz, then southeast to Oberdrauburg and Kötschach-Mauthen (B110), where you turn on to B111 west into Lesachtal.
- From Salzburg along motorway A10 to Spittal. Turn west on B100 to Oberdrauburg, there south to Kötschach-Mauthen were you turn east on B111.
From the South (Udine)
Take Motorway A23 to the exit Camia Tolmezzo. Follow SS52 north to Tolmezzo where you turn onto SS52 bis. This leads to Plöckenpass, where it crosses the Austro-Italian border. In Austria the road turns into B100 and at Kötschach-Mauthen you have to turn east on B111 into Lesachtal Valley.
There's no red tape here. There are many sheep as can be seen by their droppings on the summits so be careful when hiking with dogs.
When To Climb
Soleck is an all year mountain. The normal hiking season is May through late September but you can climb it as a ski tour together with Riebenkofel.
There are no large campgrounds in the area - the nearest one is at Kötschach-Mauthen. In most of the villages, however, you will find an inn or a hotel, where you can camp on the surrounding meadows for a small fee.
If you are looking for hotel rooms or apartments follow one of the links below.
- Lesachtal lodging (tiscover.at)
- Kötschach Mauthen lodging (tiscover.at)
- Lienz Dolomites lodging (tiscover.at)
- Hochpustertal lodging (tiscover.at)
Locals will tell you that often the days start out foggy but that around noon the sun starts coming through. With our ascent things seemed different.
For up to date weather information follow one the links below.
Maps 'n' Books
I have been using a map by Kompass Verlag, which is very good for the hiking trails though it does not show ALL the relevant summits of the area.
- Lienzer Dolomiten / Lesachtal
Kompass Map WK47
You’ll probably not be able to find anything on the Lienz Dolomites in a language other than German. The books I used are (both describe the ascents of Riebenkofel ):
- Hiking and Trekking
ISBN: 3-7633-4132-3 - German
ISBN: 3-7633-4307-5 - Italian
Good descriptions with maps covering: Defregger Berge, Villgrater Berge, Carnic Alps, Lienz Dolomites
- Gailtal – Lesachtal – Karnischer Höhenweg
Kompass Wanderbuch 982
Good Descriptions with maps and elevation profiles covering: Carnic Alps, Southern Lienz Dolomites, Gailtal Alps
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Energy balancing is a system of realigning and re-attuning the body’s electro-magnetic energy field. Similar to electrical energy that flows through the power lines to your home, the body’s energy flows through pathways in and around the body. When the body’s paths are interrupted, health and wellness can be compromised.
Every cell in your body vibrates. Stress, noise, diet, lack of exercise and, and emotions all affect the vibration of your cells and the resulting manifestation of your own energy body (or spirit). Through a variety of different vibrational healing techniques including sound therapy, tuning forks, and Reiki, Body-Centered Energy Balancing will cleanse energetic impurities, chakra blockages, and reestablish the harmonics of your own subtle energy.
Body-Centered Sound Therapy
There is great power in our breath and in the sound of our voices. This form of energetic bodywork focuses on breath and sound as an innate power within everyone that can be utilized to clear away unconscious or conscious energetic blockages that are holding us back from optimum health.
Reiki means universal energy. This ancient hands-on energy balancing system uses the practitioner as a conduit for bringing universal energy to a student’s physical body. Reiki is based on the belief that when spiritual energy is channeled through a practitioner, the patient’s spirit is healed, which in turn heals the physical body. It consists of gentle placement of the practitioner’s hands in twelve positions on the body for about three to five minutes for each position.
Balancing our Energetic Chakra System
The idea of a chakra system originates from Indian healing philosophy and can be considered a system of interconnected body-centered energy gateways. These energetic gateways interact with your physical body, as well as your spirit energy. Stressful emotions, poor nutrition, addictions, and negative thinking can both deplete and impede the energetic flow between your energy field (soul or spirit), chakra system, and physical body. When this happens a student often feels run down and tired. Body-Centered Energy Balancing works directly with the chakra system to remove blockages and restore an energetic flow that is both free mo ving and vibrant!
Benefits of Body-Centered Energy Balancing Include:
- Relief from pain, fatigue, and stress
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If you are interested in learning more about Body-Centered Energy Balancing or would like to make an appointment, call us at (570) 346-4621
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President Barack Obama used the first State of the Union address of his second term to try to breathe new life into his economic agenda, reviving modest measures to spur growth and trying to create fresh momentum in the all-but-stagnant talks over deficit reduction.
Entering his fifth year presiding over a flagging economy, the president on Tuesday declared the restoration of a strong middle class "our unfinished task" and called on a deeply divided Congress to find "reasonable compromise" to solve the nation's lingering fiscal ills.
The president renewed a series of proposals to boost U.S. manufacturing, aid struggling homeowners and invest in infrastructure. He proposed raising the minimum wage and vowed to seek a deficit reduction deal that balances taxes increases with changes to entitlements programs.
"It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth — a rising, thriving middle class," Obama told lawmakers gathered in the House chamber.
The hourlong speech largely abandoned the high, hopeful tone and delivery of the president's inaugural address last month, taking instead a wonkier and aggressive turn toward the next fight facing Washington: a standoff over the federal budget.
Obama and Republicans in Congress are hurtling toward another clash over deep spending cuts, known as sequestration, scheduled to take effect March 1. The cuts, which economists think could further stall economic growth, were passed as a way to force lawmakers to compromise on a less blunt approach to reducing the nation's $16 trillion debt. Obama suggested he would go further than he has in the past toward making changes to Medicare to curb spending, although he was not specific.
"I am open to additional reforms from both parties, so long as they don't violate the guarantee of a secure retirement," Obama said. "Our government shouldn't make promises we cannot keep, but we must keep the promises we've already made."
Lawmakers from Maryland are particularly concerned about across-the-board spending cuts that would kick in next month if Congress does not act. Economists have said those cuts could have a profound impact in the state, home to a high share of federal employees and contractors.
"Particularly for our region, we need a substitute for these across-the-board, mindless sequestration cuts," Sen. Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat, said in an interview. "Part of it is to bring in revenue by closing loopholes, but another part is you've got reduce spending in a more selective way."
Baltimore County Rep. John Sarbanes called the president's approach to dealing with sequestration "reasonable," arguing that the broad principles hewed closely to the proposal outlined by the 2010 bipartisan fiscal panel known to many as the Simpson-Bowles commission.
"We look for savings where we can, in a prudent way that does not negatively impact important investments that we need to make," the Democrat said.
Republicans were sharply critical of the address. Rep. Andy Harris, a Baltimore County lawmaker and the last Republican in Maryland's congressional delegation, said he was disappointed the speech focused on climate change and gun control instead of the national deficit.
"Like so many of President Obama's other lofty speeches, his words do not match his actions," Harris said in a statement. "Four straight trillion-dollar deficits under the president's watch clearly show we have a spending problem."
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By 2012, after a year of lurching from one fight to another with a GOP-led House of Representatives and with a re-election on the horizon, Obama offered only piecemeal executive orders and tougher talk, vowing to "fight obstruction with action."
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Still, as he stepped into the House chamber, Obama was surrounded by reminders of the human element and the political difficulties behind his legislative agenda. Democratic lawmakers brought victims of gun violence, including some of those affected by the December mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the impetus for the gun control push.
Republicans, too, issued invitations that underscored their positions. Natalie Hammond, a Newtown, Conn., teacher who was injured in the Sandy Hook shooting, found herself in the same audience as Ted Nugent, the rocker and gun enthusiast who declared he'd be "dead or in jail" if Obama won a second term.
First Lady Michelle Obama sat with the parents of Hadiya Pendleton, a Chicago teenager who was shot and killed just days after she traveled to Washington for the president's inauguration and who has become a symbol of the need for tougher gun laws.
Although heavy on domestic aims, Obama also used this remarks to tout progress on his foreign policy agenda. He announced plans to halve the number of troops serving in Afghanistan by February.
Included in a litany of measures Obama asked Congress to pass this year was the Paycheck Fairness Act, a measure sponsored by Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski to expand the landmark 1963 Equal Pay Act that prohibits wage discrimination based on gender. The proposal has repeatedly failed to capture momentum on Capitol Hill and, despite Obama's mention, it is unlikely to do so again this year.
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Know Your Network
Q: Wireless access points are notorious for shipping with security features disabled. Has that situation changed?
A: It's still the case, actually. Unfortunately, people want to connect first and be secure second. Or fifth. With a wireless access point, in the box you have the access point itself, the power cord, a quick-start guide, and the manual. And 90-something percent of people take the access point and the power cord out of the box, plug it in, run through the quick-start guide as far as setup, never take the manual out of the box, put the box in the closet . . .
Q: . . . and eventually throw the box out.
A: Exactly. And then you have all the default settings from the factory on your access point, and you're feeling good about yourself: "Hey, look, I set it up myself!" But if it's easy for you to use, it's easy for everyone to use, unfortunately.
Q: So how can people clean up their security? For starters, ensure that WEP or WPA is active, right?
A: Or hopefully WPA2. WEP and WPA can be cracked in under 10 minutes. It's madness! It used to be hours or days; now it's minutes.
Q: Online analyzers will scan your ports, and at least give people some understanding of how secure their network is. Are those valid?
A: A general port scan is going to tell you, "Okay, this server has port 25 open, and that server has port 80 open." Well, this server with port 25 open? It's my mail server; it's supposed to have port 25 open. That server over there, that's a Web server, and port 80 is supposed to be open. But is the port itself vulnerable? A port scan doesn't tell you that; it doesn't go deep enough. So, unfortunately, a port scan itself could give a false sense of security.
Generally speaking, hackers know that people have firewalls and so forth, and they craft their attacks to ride along the legitimate ports. So if you have a firewall and you have a Web server behind it with just port 80 open, well, they're not going to try to attack you on port 4444. They're going to attack you on port 80. In the past few years, the highest increase in Web attacks has been application-based Web attacks on port 80.
Q: Gary, you're scaring me!A: Then I'm doing my job!
Q: So WEP won't provide a lot of security, and port scans are misleading. What should people be doing?
A: But, again, hackers know you have a firewall. They'll carefully craft packets that will ride along through the firewall on a legitimate port. And they'll attack a victim machine on the inside and cause it to send the connection out to the attacker. If you're running a Unix system, they'll send /bin/sh; if you're running Windows, they'll send a C: prompt. And they'll set up a machine listening on the port. Then your machine on the inside, the victim, is pushing the connection out to the attacker, and the firewall becomes nothing more than a packet pass-through device, not providing any security.
So the mind-set of looking only at inbound traffic is not the way to do it; traffic should be considered as either-bound. Look at your firewall's rules and make sure you're only allowing traffic in on port 80 that should be on port 80. Then make sure that outbound traffic is only what should be going out. So you want to have a rule base for outbound traffic as well as inbound traffic.
Q: And your firewall's manual will go into detail about how to do thatbut it's probably 200 pages long, right?
A: The manual should be used as a reference, not as a novel. Even someone who understands this stuff shouldn't sit in bed at night reading through a manual. Look up "creating rules for my firewall." There's probably a section in the index for that.
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Margaret Suckley was a close friend and confidante of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and served as the archivist for the first American presidential library.
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Born on December 20, 1891, in Rhinebeck, New York, Margaret Suckley grew up in a traditional aristocratic home. A sixth cousin of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, she had a close relationship with him and served as librarian for the FDR Presidential Library. It was only after her death that the extent of their relationship was revealed through letters written over a 20-year span.
"The Roosevelts do everything in such a simple natural way that one feels that whatever happens is simple and natural! But it certainly is not in the simple and natural course of the life of a Suckley to be seeing, at first hand, the very core and hub of world history. It is fantastic. But here I am!"
Margaret “Daisy” Lynch Suckley was born on December 20, 1891, at the Wilderstein house in Rhinebeck, in New York’s Hudson Valley. Wilderstein (“wild man’s stone,” in German) had been in the family since 1852, when Margaret’s grandparents, Thomas and Catherine Suckley, built the 35-room Italianate villa. Margaret was the fifth of seven children born to Robert Bowne Suckley and his wife, Elizabeth Philips (Montgomery) Suckley. She attended Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania from 1912 to 1914, but her mother forbade her from graduating, presumably due to traditional views of a woman’s role in society. During World War I, Margaret served as a nurse’s aide at a military hospital on Ellis Island.
Suckley met Franklin Delano Roosevelt sometime in the 1920s. She was a sixth cousin who shared the same aristocratic upbringing as he. The two became good friends, and in 1933 Roosevelt invited Suckley to his first inauguration. Thereafter, she was a regular visitor to the White House, and he would visit her when he was at his home in Hyde Park, New York.
Suckley raised Scottish terriers, and in 1940 selected a particular one that she named “Big Boy.” She trained the dog to behave and do tricks such as “roll over,” “sit up” and “jump.” In November of that year, Suckley gave the dog to FDR as a gift. He renamed the dog “Murray the Outlaw of Falahill” after a Scottish ancestor. Before long the name was shortened to “Fala.” Suckley later co-wrote a children’s book entitled The True Story of Fala, which told the story of life in the White House through the eyes of a dog.
Fala became the subject of a short-lived political scandal during the 1944 presidential campaign, when Republicans accused the president of spending millions of dollars to have the Navy rescue the dog after it had been left behind on one of the Aleutian Islands during a presidential visit. Roosevelt made light of the incident during a campaign speech, when he said, “These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala.” The scandal was quickly defused.
In 1941, Suckley took the position of librarian for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, working with the president and organizing and selecting documents to be kept at the library. During World War II, Suckley was a frequent visitor to the White House and accompanied Roosevelt on his frequent trips across the country. After the president died in 1945, she continued her work at the library until she retired in 1963. After her retirement, Suckley returned to Wilderstein and lived there until her death of congestive heart failure at age 99 in 1991. She was just six months shy of her 100th birthday.
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It's a record year for Baltimore City, and this year it's one that has residents and city leaders optimistic that better days are truly ahead.
Baltimore recorded 196 homicides last year -- its lowest murder rate in more than 30 years. And that wasn't the only category showing improvement. Non-fatal shootings also recorded a drop, by 9 percent. Juvenile arrests declined 25 percent. And overall crime in Baltimore city dropped by 6 percent in 2011.
An I-Team analysis of population trends in 11 east Baltimore neighborhoods may provide one clue to the reduction in crime. There has been a 42 percent population decline since 1990. But regardless, city residents are feeling better about the city they call home. They believe police efforts, coupled with neighborhood revitalization projects -- like what you see around Johns Hopkins Hospital -- are making a difference.
But there is still work to be done. Property crime including burglaries and larcenies increased slightly; 4 percent. The mayor and police commissioner have their sleeves rolled up, ready to go to work and reach the goal of growing the city by 10,000 families over the next 10 years.
While that's a great goal, and we believe in all this city has to offer, we also believe its residents have to offer up the same sort of commitment and involvement that makes our city neighborhoods great. Get involved; join a neighborhood block group, or an organization that promotes green initiatives around the city. Keep an eye out for those things that just don't feel right, and let your city council representatives know what needs to be done in your community.
The statistics for 2011 are proof Baltimore is moving in the right direction; now it's about getting everyone moving in the same direction.
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The Auditor General receives external advice through several committees that have members from outside of the Office of the Auditor General of Canada:
- The OAG Audit Committee provides oversight on key aspects of quality and internal controls in the Office.
- The Panel of Senior Advisors provides strategic advice on the Office’s work.
- The Advisors on Aboriginal Issues provide advice on matters affecting Canada's First Nations and Inuit peoples.
- The Independent accounting and financial auditing advisory committee provides advice on audits of financial statements, helps the Auditor General monitor developments in the accounting and auditing professions, and considers the impact of these developments on the Office.
- The Panel of Environmental Advisors advises the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development on his work on behalf of the Auditor General, and on environmental and sustainable development matters.
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And a lake -- Big Blue Lake in northern Muskegon County -- a spot blessed by Mother Nature most days of the week, but especially so on Wednesday when 10 residents from Brookhaven Medical Care Facility left behind the day's worries, and their rooms at the nursing home, to go to camp.
"Just getting out is nice," said Victor Skuse, 70, who retired as the maintenance supervisor from Whitehall Leather Co. "It's just ... nice."
For five hours Wednesday, Skuse and the others were "on vacation," said Amber Uber of Muskegon, a nurse aide who has worked at Brookhaven for five years.
"Look," she said. "No buzzers, no lights, no nothing. You're on vacation."
Nothing stopped the eight men and two women from Brookhaven. Nothing held them back, not age nor limbs that didn't work as well as they once did. Even being in wheelchairs was no obstacle, not at Pioneer Trails, a barrier-free camp owned and operated by Pioneer Resources since 1991.
"It was always our vision to make the site accessible. From the very beginning, we said: Let's break down the barriers. There are so many barriers in the world," said Greg Scott, executive director of Pioneer Resources, an organization that helps, transports and employs people with disabilities.
Formerly Camp Emery, Pioneer Trails sits next to Camp Pendalouan, the Muskegon YMCA's camp on Big Blue Lake on the edge of the Manistee National Forest.
"This is nicer even than I expected," Skuse said.
From midmorning to well into the afternoon, Skuse and the others fished. They took turns riding on pontoon boats and took in sights that can only be described as spectacular.
A bald eagle soared overhead, riding a wind current across the lake from its nest high in a tree. Great blue herons flew low across the water, rousted from their own fishing spots. Dozens of snapping turtles and "painters" sunned themselves on fallen trees.
Schools of bass teased the willing anglers, staying just out of reach of everyone's fishing poles.
What does it mean to go to camp for a day?
"Oh, Lord," said Jose Garza Sr., who has been a resident at Brookhaven for six months. "I'm just like a preacher. It's hard to put it into words."
When asked how old he is, Garza teased: "You can ask me how much money I have in the bank before I tell you my age."
Back at Brookhaven, Garza is described as someone who is quiet and keeps to himself, said Dot Burrous, an activities aide.
But at camp, the retired Brunswick Corp. employee was teasing people, laughing at his own jokes and waxing poetic when asked about the trip to camp.
"Mother Nature. People. You don't have to worry about problems," he said. "It's a beautiful day. A glorious day."
The day couldn't have happened without people like Aletta Hepworth of Fruitport, a former Brookhaven employee who volunteered to help "because the residents are like family. I miss them when I'm not with them."
Then there is Karen Dixon of Muskegon, who has worked for 26 years in Brookhaven's kitchen. Dixon took a vacation day to be an extra pair of needed hands, usually helping 88-year-old Charlie Benham of Muskegon maneuver his wheelchair on and off the pontoon boat, eat lunch, bait his hook and paint a birdhouse to take back to his room as a souvenir of the day.
The logistics of making the day happen for the residents -- eight of whom were in wheelchairs and most of whom needed help doing the simplest of tasks -- was complicated.
"Worth every minute," Dixon said.
But of everyone on staff -- Brookhaven and Pioneer Trails employees alike -- the one who helped the most was Jake Schaafsma, a 24-year-old camp counselor who was the fishing guide.
Schaafsma lost an arm and sustained head injuries in a car accident when he was 17. The accident ended his college football career before it started. Schaafsma said he had "a whole bunch of football scholarships waiting for me" when he graduated from Forest Hills Central High School in Grand Rapids.
"But it was a blessing in disguise," he said. "If I hadn't been in that accident, I wouldn't have discovered what I really want to do: social work, working with people."
He was a one-man cheering section, especially to those who struggled a little to take part.
"I love this," Schaafsma said, slapping 75-year-old Jasper Love on the shoulder.
Love, who does not speak, flashed the young man a big smile.
"Jasper says he'd have had more fun if he'd caught a fish," Uber said, teasing Schaafsma.
Brookhaven residents take a field trip every year to the Muskegon channel to fish, said Melissa Pfenning, who is the activities director. But there's nothing quite like camp experience. She's scheduled two more trips in the fall so more of Brookhaven's 200-or-so residents can take part.
The medical care facility has a spacious courtyard, and staff and residents are building a nature path through the woods on the property "so people get outside. They don't stay indoors."
"But this," Pfenning said, looking at the water and sky, both so blue on a beautiful May day. "This is so appealing."
Garza summed up his time at camp just a little differently.
"Hell," he said, his voice booming throughout the rustic and ancient dining room hall after the second boat ride of the day. "It's been a blessing, top to bottom."
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Balancing nitrogen in grapes and wine
Wine flavors changed after foliar applications.
Catherine Jones, middle, puts Merlot grapes through a destemmer under the watchful eye of her advisor Joan Davenport.
For both grape growers and winemakers, the status of nitrogen in the vineyard can make big differences in fruit and wine quality. It’s a balance of not too much and not too little.
Catherine Jones, vineyard and winery technology grant director at Yakima Valley Community College, likens the nitrogen status to Goldilocks’s porridge in the nursery tale of the three bears. Jones, who is working on her master’s degree in soil science at Washington State University, says that growers must find the “just right” nitrogen levels that balance the vine’s nutrient needs for growth and plant development with the winemaker’s needs for adequate nitrogen in the juice for fermentation.
Like the porridge that’s too hot, Jones said that too much nitrogen in the vine results in vigorous canopy growth, increased leaf density, reduced fruit quality, shading of fruiting sites, which can reduce fruitfulness the next year, and leaching into the soil that can contaminate groundwater. But too little can result in poor vine growth, low vigor, small leaf area, chlorosis, and low crop yields.
In the fruit must or juice, the yeast needs nitrogen (ammonia and amino acids known as yeast assimilable nitrogen or YAN) for fermentation. Too much nitrogen causes increased cellular mass and fermentation rates, and can result in microbial instability, a haze to the wine, high volatile acidity, and an increase in the formation of methyl carbamate. Slow or stagnant fermentations, off flavors, and high levels of hydrogen sulfide are the results of too little nitrogen in the must.
Finding that “just right” amount of nitrogen in the must leads to steady and complete primary and secondary fermentation and good flavors in the wine, she said.
Past surveys of wine must analyzed by Washington State University scientists showed that up to 50 percent of the samples collected were deficient in YAN, and were below the 140 to 150 milligrams per liter nitrogen level that’s recommended for complete fermentation. YAN musts with less than 100 milligrams of nitrogen per liter are considered low, moderate YAN musts contain 250 to 350 milligrams of nitrogen per liter, and, high YAN musts have greater than 600 milligrams.
Low YAN must levels are a problem around the world, Jones said, adding that winemakers often add small amounts of nitrogen in the form of diammonium phosphate, yeast hulls, or other commercial products to “fix” the YAN levels in the must.
Jones set out to learn if late-season foliar nitrogen sprays, applied after veraison, could result in a more rapid nitrogen uptake than soil applications and improve YAN must levels. “The soil-applied vineyard nitrogen is not giving us enough nitrogen in the must,” she stated during a presentation of her master’s research at winter grape industry meetings.
Under the guidance of WSU soil scientist Dr. Joan Davenport, Jones compared foliar applications of 15 pounds of nitrogen per acre split over five weeks (a rate of 3 pounds per week) of conventional nitrogen, “UAN-32,” and an organic nitrogen. The two-year trial was conducted in Merlot and Riesling grapes, with applications beginning at veraison. She studied the effects on yield, yield components, vegetative growth, and flavor compounds.
A previous Cornell University study showed success in increasing YAN levels with a foliar application of 30 pounds of nitrogen per acre, Jones said. The Cornell study significantly increased YAN levels and reduced off flavors associated with atypical aging. Jones was concerned that a late-season application of 30 pounds of nitrogen in eastern Washington would be nearly as much as some growers apply all year.
“Rates that growers are applying to the soil may be efficient for plant growth, but they are not enough for yeast growth,” she said.
She included an organic nitrogen because winemakers are limited in what they can use to increase YAN must levels in organic wine.
She found no differences in vine growth—pruning weights, shoot emergence, shoot length, and leaf area—in the two years. She is still analyzing berry and wine data collected in 2010, the second year of the project.
In year one, the 15-pound nitrogen rate did not affect YAN levels in the control, conventional, and organic treatments. YAN for the treatments ranged from 98.7 to 100.8 milligrams of nitrogen per liter. But the nitrogen applications did change the flavor profile of the wines. A trained sensory panel found differences between the wines made from the treatments, although brix, pH, and titratable acidity of the berries were not statistically different. Analysis of berry and wine components, using gas chromatography, will be used to quantify flavor differences.
Although the foliar nitrogen applications didn’t increase the YAN levels, Jones noted that they didn’t affect canopy growth. A higher rate of nitrogen would likely have increased YAN levels, but could have also produced the unwanted effect of increased canopy growth, she said.
However, she’s encouraged by the difference in flavors she found from the nitrogen applications. Follow-up research is being considered that would apply the nitrogen through a drip irrigation system.
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Because of embarrassment and the desire to gain status in their community, there was a widespread cover-up involving ordinary families and officials to keep their convict past secret. During the early nineteenth century some families who had aquired wealth thought their convict antecedants were a handicap to them attaining status and respect. A case in point is Mary REIBY, nee HAYDOCK 1777-1855, the first female retailer in Sydney. At 13 she was transported to New South Wales for dressing up as a boy and stealing a horse. She arrived in 1792 on the 'Royal Admiral' and spent two years as a nursemaid. She married Thomas REIBY 1769-1811, an irish officer she had met on the voyage from Britain. Mary and Thomas set up a store near Sydney Harbour. Thomas spent a good deal of time buying ships and travelling and Mary looked after the business and their 7 children.
Thomas died in 1811 and Mary was left with the lot including a new warehouse in George Street. Mary was one of the earliest settlers of Hunters Hill. She built a cottageŚlater known as Fig Tree HouseŚon land that fronted the Lane Cove River; Reiby Street is named after her.
In 1821 She travelled back to England and bought valuable property and buildings over there, She lived off her investments and died a very wealthy woman.
Mary was far-sighted and when a sequence of official musters culminating in the census of 1828 came around she recorded the ship on which she had returned on after her visit to England, thereby appearing in the 1828 muster as came free on the 'Mariner' in 1821.
If Mary had not been so well known this stratagem would have created a huge puzzle for her decendants and family researchers.
*The full story of Mary REIBY as Mary REIBEY 1777-1855 can be obtained online.
**Dr.Alison Alexander an academic historian at the university of Tasmania asked 127 of her students if they were decended from convicts. Of nearly 20% who knew they were. 60% had only, discovered the information through research done by a family member.
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November 20, 2011
Top Iran Missile Chief Reported Killed in Explosion
Last Monday a huge, double explosion was heard in Tehran. Based on Western spy satellites, the following picture is reported by Debka.com, a site close to Israeli intelligence, but also known for less than 100% accuracy.
1. The double blast involved an advanced Iranian Seijil-2 missile, and devastated a 20 square mile area of the Alghadir missile base of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, the inner guard of the regime. The devastated missile base is located 30 miles west of Tehran.
2. Thirty-six military funerals were held in the following days. The dead include the chief of Iran's ballistic missile program, Major Gen. Moghaddam, and other top missile experts.
3. Moghaddam may have set off the double explosion himself by ordering a demonstration explosion of a new warhead for the missile. Debka speculates that the computer control system for the Seijil-2 demonstration warhead was infected by an advanced version of the Stuxnet virus or the new Duqu virus, or both.
Giving the command to explode the demo warhead may have triggered a computer signal that exploded both the warhead and the missile itself, thereby killing the chief of the missile program. That may account for the double explosion that was heard in Tehran, 30 miles away.
It is believed that an embedded sabotage virus is still infecting Iran's missile control systems, many months after the Stuxnet virus was first identified.
4. Moghaddan held two significant positions in his rise to head Iran's ballistic missile program. First, he was a personal security guard for the ruling ayatollah, Khamenei. Second, Moghaddan headed the massive missile armament of Hezbollah, the Iranian terrorist group that now controls Lebanon.
If this was indeed a targeted assassination, the message it sends to Iran's power clique is unmistakable. Iranian commanders must therefore be worried that a simple test command will kill them and their officers. Such a worry may not stop Iran's missile program, but it will sow fear in the upper ranks of the regime.
5. Iran's advanced ballistic missile program has therefore been decapitated for the time being. Nobody can be certain how far the damage will spread. It is certainly far more devastating than was first reported.
This is good news for anyone living within range of Iran's ballistic missiles, which is believed to be 1,200 miles. This range includes parts of Russia, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, Iraq, Turkey, and Israel.
Imagine nuclear missiles with a 1,200 mile range pointed at the United States from Cuba, and you get the picture.
If the Stuxnet scenario is correct, it is likely to involve a joint Israeli-CIA effort. None of Iran's near neighbors can live with nuclear missiles in the hands of a martyrdom regime. Cooperation by Russia and others may therefore be part of the picture.
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It occurred to me (again) the other day that the history of the Orion program to-date is a rich mine of project management lessons. Unfortunately, I don’t know that anyone on the inside has been keeping a detailed history of the program along the way.
I wish it had occurred to me to do so six years ago. The lower-level issues and decisions I’ve been involved in would alone make for some very interesting case studies.
UPDATE: entirely coincidentally, LM just signed a contract to build several production versions of these things for Canadian company Aviation Capital:
Alberta-based private company Aviation Capital Enterprises says it has inked a deal with US aerospace colossus Lockheed, builder of the P-791, to “design, develop, build, flight test and Federal Aviation Administration certify a family of hybrid aircraft”. The first ship, dubbed “SkyTug” and able to lift 20 tons, is to be delivered in 2012. Further versions are to scale up to “several hundred tons”, apparently.
While in other articles they reference humanitarian and disaster-relief applications, the focus appears to be on unspecified commercial applications.
Ahh, it seems like just yesterday when this idea was just a glimmer in some Skunk Works’ engineer’s eye, and now it’s all growed up…
Back in 1998 when some of my coworkers at Michoud were loaned out to work on this, it seemed like a clever but uneconomical idea — I mean, how much use would there be for an airship that could carry a dozen cargo containers anywhere in the world and land in places with no infrastructure beyond a parking lot or football/soccer field?
Clearly, events in the intervening decade have answered that question. Imagine how useful a fleet of full-sized airships like this could have been after Katrina, the Boxing Day Tsunami, the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and other natural disasters in remote areas or areas where the usual infrastructure (roads, airports) is temporarily inoperable.
It’s worth noting that there was a competitor of sorts for Aerocraft back in the day: CargoLifter. They didn’t have the same land-anywhere features, but the various CargoLifter vehicles were intended to carry large and bulky items too difficult or disruptive to transport by land.
Perhaps Rand is right – space isn’t important. Even to Lockheed Martin, a somewhat large player in the space biz, if our Flickr site is anything to go by.
Ten (old) pictures, three of which are nearly-three-year-old renderings of Orion, and none of which are of the External Tank, despite these being two of Space Systems’ most recognizable products. (There is even one picture of Atlas V, which is technically no longer an LM product.)
Meanwhile, there are hundreds of pictures of aircraft and other assorted defense items. One would think the PR squad could squeeze in at least one pic of the Orion ground test article, just to show the public that some progress is being made on the program.
NASA’s Pad Abort 1 will be the first fully integrated flight test of the launch abort system being developed for the Orion crew vehicle. The test is part of an ongoing mission to develop safer vehicles for human spaceflight applications.
A young girl sets out to prove herself by resolving a long-forgotten mystery. But when she gets close to the truth, what she thought was a harmless adventure becomes a threat to the future of the independent commercial settlements on Mars.
The opinions expressed in blog posts here are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer. Opinions expressed in blog comments are those of their respective commenters, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the author.
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Storytelling & Living History
The 2013 Season Is Almost Here!
Once Upon A Nation kicks off its storytelling and reenactments season on Memorial Day Weekend, May 25-27. For more information about locations and schedules, check out our Storytelling Benches and Historic Reenactment pages.
Enjoy true stories from Philadelphia's past beginning Memorial Day Weekend!
Learn about our nation's history from award-winning Once Upon A Nation storytellers at any of our 10 storytelling benches located in and around Independence National Historic Park. Best of all, it’s completely FREE!
The Once Upon A Nation storytellers aren’t dressed in colonial garb, but they’ll effortlessly transport you back in time as you sit on spacious and comfortable teak benches.
Stories last just a few minutes each and are told continuously during operating hours. You can start at any of the benches, all clearly marked with a “Once Upon A Nation” sign.
Fun For Kids
Wherever you elect to start your storytelling journey, be sure to ask your storyteller for a flag. Kids collect one star from each bench they visit; flags complete with stars may be presented for a fun prize at the Historic Philadelphia Center, the Betsy Ross House, or at Franklin Square.
Living History: Performances & Reenactments
Meet citizens of 18th & 19th century Philadelphia, and hear first-hand accounts of what it was like to live in colonial times. Watch and listen as history comes to life!
Join them for special events like the Military Muster and Declaration Readings. Pick up an Historic Philadelphia Gazette for a daily schedule.
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Plan your group trip to Historic Philadelphia with unique experiences from the Betsy Ross House, Franklin Square, Lights of Liberty, and Once Upon A Nation! From interactive Storytelling tours and Philadelphia-themed mini golf to performances by historic reenactors and dazzling 3-D shows, it's all listed right here!
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Coal Creek Fire and Rescue's fire station in New Richmond, Ind. where a new furnace and air conditioner will save energy and money. | Photo courtesy of New Richmond
"The fire station is a building that is in use 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so naturally it consumes a significant amount of energy," says Molly Whitehead, grants specialist for the Indiana Office of Energy Development.
Given constant use and the importance of fire stations to surrounding communities, the Indiana Office of Energy Development awarded funds from the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant to improve energy efficiency at some local fire stations.
In Coal Creek Township, Coal Creek Fire and Rescue received $27,000 from EECBG funding to install a new furnace and air conditioner at their New Richmond, Ind. fire station. The grant will also pay to better insulate the department.
The town of Bainbridge will use $3,800 of its $54,000 EECBG to replace all T-12 fluorescent lighting fixtures in the Bainbridge Volunteer Fire Department building with more efficient T-8 fixtures.
For both fire stations, the modifications will save energy and money.
For the public good
Coal Creek Fire and Rescue, a non-profit volunteer fire department, will replace two five-ton heating and cooling units that sit outside the New Richmond station with attic-installed high efficiency furnaces and condenser units. Because the existing furnaces are configured to a "Y" duct system that was designed for a single heating and cooling unit, the two units typically "fight" each other when used at the same time -- thus losing efficiency.
"The system we have in place now has never been fully efficient," says Dale Jones, President of the Board of Directors for Coal Creek Fire and Rescue. "When we turned on the heat for one furnace, part of the heated air was returned by the ducting to the furnace that wasn’t in use."
According to Whitehead, the new installations, along with modifications to the existing ductwork in the building, are expected to save the fire department $2,300 per year and 2700 kWh per year. The project will begin in August with the energy efficient modifications to be completed by the winter.
Jones says the new furnace and air conditioner will allow firefighters at the fire station to better serve the public. While the fire station is only six years old, finding money to pay all the costs is often difficult.
"The grant has a big impact because it helps us free up resources for safety, equipment and gear at the station," says Jones. "We are a public service, so something like this goes right back to the people."
In Bainbridge, the fire station was originally constructed ten years ago, when there were no energy efficient lighting options available.
"This will be the first upgrade for the building," says Hartman. "We expect the upgrades to begin in the next few weeks and be completed by the end of summer."
Town clerk and treasurer Jason Hartman says the new T-8 lighting fixtures in the volunteer fire department are predicted to save $300 annually on electricity bills. The town expects a 13 to 15 year "return on investment" after conducting a recent energy audit, indicating $3,900 to $4,500 in possible long-term savings.
"The $300 annual savings may not seem like a lot to most people, but to a small rural fire department that operates solely with volunteers and relies on donations, this amount does make a difference in its ability to continue operations," says Hartman.
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For Equality; Against Privilege
Reclaiming a lost ideal.
MAY 11, 2012 by SHELDON RICHMAN
This TGIF originally ran July 7, 2006.
The freedom philosophy can be boiled down to two phrases: for equality, against privilege.
Intuitively, this should sound uncontroversial. We just finished celebrating the Fourth of July, which commemorates the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson’s elegant statement of the freedom philosophy proclaims: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. But since then the idea of equality has acquired many meanings that either work against the freedom philosophy or give it weak support. So how can it be a pillar of liberty?
As Auburn University philosopher Roderick T. Long wrote in The Freeman (“Liberty: The Other Equality”), notions such as equality under the law and equality of freedom fall short as libertarian ideals. After all, we could be equal under unlibertarian law (everyone gets drafted) or we could all have an equally small area of freedom (everyone may do whatever he wants between noon and three on alternate Wednesdays). That would be equality of a sort but not liberty.
The objections to economic equality are well known. Since in the free market unequal incomes are to be expected as a result of variations in talent, ambition, energy, health, luck, perception of consumer preferences, and so on, economic equality could be attempted (but not achieved) only through monstrous and continuing aggression by government officers. Something approaching equal poverty might be achieved (the political elite would no doubt be more equal than others), but equality at a decent level of prosperity is beyond the State’s ability, as Cuba and North Korea illustrate.
This would seem to leave little content for Jefferson’s ringing phrase. But Long shows that this is not the case. There is a significant sense of equality that gets short shrift in political philosophy, most likely because it is the libertarian sense. We do our cause an injustice by neglecting it.
The best-known formulation of this sense is from John Locke, Jefferson’s inspiration for the Declaration. Long writes:
Locke defines a state . . . of equality as one wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another, there being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another, without subordination or subjection. . . . [Emphasis added.]
In short, by the equality of men Locke and Jefferson meant not that all men are or ought to be equal in material advantages, but that all men (today it would be all persons, regardless of gender) are equal in authority. To subject an unconsenting person to one’s own will is to treat that person as one’s subordinate — illegitimately so, if we are all naturally equal.
Locke reinforced his thought thus:
[B]eing all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. . . . And, being furnished with like faculties, sharing all in one community of nature, there cannot be supposed any such subordination among us that may authorise us to destroy one another, as if we were made for one another’s uses, as the inferior ranks of creatures are for ours.
Long goes on to say that this Lockean equality (it can also be found in earlier writers, such as the Levellers, a group of English laissez-faire radicals) provides a powerful underpinning for the freedom philosophy:
The upshot of libertarian equality, equality in authority, is that government can possess no rights that its subjects lack–unless they freely surrender such rights by “deputation, commission, and free consent.” Since I have no right over anyone else’s person or property, I cannot delegate to government a right over anyone else’s person or property. . . . Libertarian equality . . . involves not merely equality before those who administer the law, but equality with them. Government must be restrained within the moral bounds applicable to private citizens. If I may not take your property without your consent, neither may the state.
Frederic Bastiat made the same argument in his great work The Law.
Opposition to privilege is simply the corollary of libertarian equality. If all are equal in authority, then no one may live at the expense of others without their consent. The word privilege is often used equivocally, but it has its roots in the idea of legal favoritism. It is composed of privus, meaning single, and lex or lege, meaning law. Thus a privilege is a government act that (forcibly) bestows favors on one person, or the few.
Historically, government’s primary function has been to exploit the industrious–anyone who works and trades in the market–for the sake of the political class, which prefers collecting subsidies to earning wages or profits. (This original class analysis was formulated by the laissez-faire theorists Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer, students of the economist J. B. Say, in the first half of the nineteenth century). The privileges take the form of tariffs, licenses, monopolies, land grants, [patents], and other subsidies. These enable favored interests to increase their incomes beyond what the market would provide, either by forcibly extracting wealth from producers or by barring them from competitively serving consumers. The name for this privilege-based system is mercantilism, and in many ways it lives on today even in market-oriented economies, which is why they are often called mixed economies.
The privilege part of the mix is a rank injustice against all honest industrious people and a violation of the principle of equal authority that animated so many early Americans.
Champions of liberty have a constant challenge in finding fresh and compelling ways to teach their philosophy to people with different perspectives. I have a hunch there is an audience looking for a philosophy that embraces equality of authority and opposes privilege.
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Sour grapes is the action of making something seem less important after finding out they can't have it.(noun)
An example of sour grapes is a man saying he didn't want to date a certain woman because she was dumb, after she decided to date someone else.
See sour grapes in Webster's New World College Dictionary
Origin: from Aesop's fable in which the fox, after futile efforts to reach some grapes, scorns them as being sour
See sour grapes in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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San Antonio’s Menger Hotel is more than just historic, but it’s now one of the spookiest hotels in the U.S. The downtown hotel ranked No. 3. of the 10 spookiest hotels in the U.S., based on traveler reviews and editors of TripAdvisor.
Built in 1859 across from the Alamo, the Menger is a hotspot for alleged paranormal activity, with numerous reports of ghost sightings of hotel employees and influential guests, according to TripAdvisor.
Teddy Roosevelt was said to have recruited his famed Rough Riders for the Spanish American War at the Menger.
Other spooky hotels include the Farnsworth House Inn in Gettysburg, Penn. It welcomes all visitors, including Confederate and Union ghosts from the American Civil War. And the St. James Hotel in Cimarron, N.M. once housed a who’s who of “Wild West” characters including Jesse James, Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid. Visitors may still see and hear the spirits of cowboys throughout the hotel.
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Satellite firm offers 4G network on back of 2G business model
Can Harbinger really change the industry?
Harbinger is an equity fund with really big plans: the idea is to build a national 4G network of 36,000 base stations using LTE technology, and then lease it to network operators too poor to build their own.
But to do that the company will have to launch a satellite or two and raise some serious cash, but if it can be done then the mobile business will change forever.
Building a mobile network requires enormous amounts of cash - some estimates claim you shouldn't be sitting down unless you've got $40bn to put on the table - but Harbinger reckons that with a suitably flexible FCC and a couple of satellite launches it can get the network operable for something in the region of $6bn.
The first cost saving comes from those satellites, or at least the frequencies in which they operate. Harbinger has bought into two satellite operators, getting compete ownership of SkyTerra and a decent stake in TerreStar Networks. With SkyTerra, Harbinger has access to 21MHz of national radio spectrum, but not in one place and most of it reserved for satellite use, under existing rules. The plan is to take advantage of a loophole in those rules to run a ground-based service that can compete with the incumbents on a level playing field.
Satellites have dedicated frequencies, but the limited transmission power of the satellite and the opaque nature of most rooftops limits the effective coverage, particularly indoors. For that reason satellite operators are permitted to run base stations on the ground, at the same frequency, to fill in the gaps caused by radio shadows. In the UK we call that the Complementary Ground Component (CGC), and Ofcom intends to bill for its use. In the USA it's know as the Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) and is free to use with the satellite licence.
So imagine for a moment that a satellite operator decides to build a national network of ground components just as a cellular operator does. Further imagine that said operator never gets round to launching any satellites. Now our operator can compete with the incumbent cellular operators without having to spend billions on cellular frequencies.
Such a thing wouldn't be allowed, of course, as the rules covering the spectrum require it to be used to satellite connections, but the FCC has been searching for a way to release that spectrum (as part of the National Broadband Plan), and sure enough last month the FCC approved Harbinger's business plan - relaxing the rules to a considerable degree.
Harbinger will still be required to launch a satellite or two, but it can start building the network first and worry about providing in-fill using satellites later. So Harbinger will be allowed to build a 4G network, and the FCC will even prevent any of the incumbents buying up more than 25 per cent of the capacity to ensure that it remains a wholesale operation.
Those incumbents are obviously up in arms. They valued the spectrum based on obligation to launch satellites - still an expensive business - and the business model for satellite telephones is far from proven. Military contracts and written-off debts keep Iridium in the air, but barely, so the operators had nothing to fear from satellite services unless they come to ground as Harbinger intends.
But ignoring sabre rattling from the incumbents, is Harbinger's plan really rational? Can a newcomer really build out a national network and make money on it?
It certainly won't be easy. The business plan calls for 36,000 base stations, which is a considerable undertaking by anyone's standards, and none of those base stations will be operating in bands already earmarked for LTE use. That means handsets and networking kit will have to be remarkably flexible. Existing networks operate within strict bands, allowing a handset to scan a few bands and locate a compatible operator, but deploying LTE at such unusual frequencies will need an even more flexible approach with the requisite additional development and testing.
Harbinger's budget also doesn't seem to include sufficient running costs for the new network: the if-you-build-it-they-will-come approach. The plan is based on 40 million predicted connections within the next five years, which is a hell of a lot even if one is selling wholesale.
Rumours are that T-Mobile is interested in doing a deal with Harbinger, but as the only operator not building its own 4G network T-Mobile would be remiss not to hold talks even if no agreement is reached. Harbinger also lists "PC manufacturers, national retailers, service providers without wireless capacity, CE manufacturers and mobile providers" as potential customers, and it'll need all of those to achieve 40 million connections.
But beyond the basic incredulity at the audacious scale of the plan are real concerns about the skills and experience that Harbinger can bring to bear. The fund recently drafted in ex-Orange boss Sanjiv Ahuja to run things, which is a good start, but just as you can't build a network overnight, you can't build a network operator overnight. Harbinger will no doubt outsource as much as possible, but the fund will likely find the network operator's club a hard one to join, especially if the existing members don't want to play. ®
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- ADD - attention deficit disorder
- minimal brain dysfunction
- A disorder characterized by persistent developmentally inappropriate inattention and impulsivity.
Definition from: Psychological Index Terms via Unified Medical Language System at the National Library of Medicine
- A syndrome of disordered learning and disruptive behavior that is not caused by any serious underlying physical or mental disorder and that has several subtypes characterized primarily by symptoms of inattentiveness or primarily by symptoms of hyperactivity and impulsive behavior (as in speaking out of turn) or by the significant expression of all three -- abbreviation ADD; called also minimal brain dysfunction.
Definition from: Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary by Merriam-Webster Inc.
See also Understanding Medical Terminology.
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Hard work and dedication are keys to success, but so is having the right space to do homework. Children can truly benefit from working in a quiet haven away from distractions where they can be comfortable and productive.
You can help your child create a homework haven. All you need is a dedicated space that can be kept clean and organized, that is large enough to hold your child’s projects, and that is out of the way of household traffic and distractions.
It’s never too late to start good homework habits, but the earlier the better. If your child learns good homework habits as soon as he or she starts doing homework, you won’t have to reteach these skills later.
Teach by example. Your workspace at home should have the same advantages that you want for your child – a quiet, adequate, well-organized space. Keep your desk clean and organized and it sends a message to your child of efficiency.
Find a quiet corner
Homework space needs to be quiet, tucked away from televisions, phones, and other distractions. Education.com suggests renovating a closet or building a nook into a place where your child can escape from noise and maintain focus. Simply remove the old contents and set up your new space within.
If space is at a premium or a closet can’t be sacrificed, loft beds are “out of the way,” while offering a cool college vibe, says wisegeek.com. Loft beds can be found through most furniture stores.
You can also redirect traffic around the home to accommodate “homework time.” Coordinate your bill-paying, reading or other non-distracting activities with homework time.
Clean and organized
According to Dr. Donald Wetmore’s TimeMeter.com, working on an unorganized desk leads to a productivity loss of 1.5 hours per every eight hours, or almost 20% of working time wasted. Young children may not know where an assignment is if it’s buried under other homework, and may miss turning in an important project. They’ll also waste precious time if they can’t keep one project separated from the next.
To organize your child’s desk, make sure everything has its own place to go; homework papers need to go into a filing system for storage or easy retrieval for later study, craft materials like glue, scissors, etc. need their own cabinet, drawer or bin, and pencils, pens and paper need to be easily accessible and well-stocked at all times.
Put what’s most important within the easiest reach, recommends www.Productivity501.com. That means your child should be able to instantly grab what he or she uses most often.
Scholastic.com says your child’s homework haven needs to be large enough to spread out for projects and book reports while also being at a good height for comfortable studying. Good seating will come in handy; a chair with adjustable height can keep your child studying without worry. If their feet don’t touch the ground- a footstool will keep them concentrating.
Studying is an important skill to develop. A space of his or her own can be a wonderful way to help your child.
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Rolf Boone - Olympian Oct 28, 2012
The Port of Olympia is back in the import business, bringing a product to the marine terminal that arrives in 11/2-ton “super sacks,” is dumped into enclosed rail cars and then travels 900 miles to the northwest corner of North Dakota, where it plays a role in an economic oil boom reminiscent of Alaska in the 1970s.
The new cargo represents $1.5 million in annual revenue for the port.
The product, manufactured in China, is called ceramic proppants – grains of sand with a hint of alumina that are coated with ceramics. The proppants are used in an oil exploration process known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” that literally props up the weight of the earth so that oil, deep underground, can be released.
For some, fracking is a controversial process, prone to contaminate groundwater, while others say fracking takes place at such deep levels underground that there is no threat to groundwater. Others, too, say the fracking process in North Dakota is closely regulated and means jobs and growth, as well as jobs in Olympia.
An economic development official in Williston, N.D., the center of much of the oil exploration in the state, said unemployment is seven-tenths of one percent; Washington state unemployment was 8.5 percent in September.
“If you’re not working, there’s something wrong,” said Shawn Wenko, assistant director for Williston economic development.
MORE THAN EXPORTS
The port’s marine terminal in recent years has mostly been an export port, sending logs to Japan, China and South Korea. Japan remains a steady log market for the port, but the China log market, after a red-hot 2011, has cooled to become what Port of Olympia marine terminal director Jim Amador calls a more “mature market.”
Because markets can change quickly, the port is constantly on the lookout for new cargoes, he said, finally securing shipments of ceramic proppants for the next two years with a Houston-based company, Rainbow Ceramics, with operations in China.
Three ships from China have made deliveries to the port this year, and another three are expected before the end of the year. The last ship to arrive at the port was the M/V Star Dieppe, which delivered 6,500 metric tons of ceramic proppants this month.
The $1.5 million revenue from the cargo, combined with the marine terminal’s existing business, boosts total marine terminal revenue to $4.5 million, a level not seen at the port since a Russian container line called Sunmar did business at the port in the late 1990s, finance director Jeff Smith said.
Other occasional imports at the port over the years: garnet – also a sand-like material, used for water-jet cutting technology – wind-farm wind blades headed to Eastern Washington, and aluminum ingots used to manufacture airplane parts.
Once the rail cars are loaded with proppants, they roll out of Olympia, typically during the late afternoon or evening, and head to East Olympia before connecting with BNSF railway lines in DuPont, said Mike Klass, marketing and resource planning manager for Tacoma Rail.
From there, the shipments can depart in one of three directions: south to Portland and east along the Columbia River; north to Everett and east through Wenatchee; or east through Yakima. No matter the route, they all wind up in Spokane and then head east through the Rockies to North Dakota, Klass said. The trip can take seven to 10 days, he said.
Once the proppants arrive in North Dakota, they are put to work in finding oil in the Bakken shale, deep underground in the northwest corner of the state, as well as Eastern Montana and parts of Saskatchewan. The town of Williston, the center of much of the oil exploration activity, has grown to 30,000 people, nearly tripling its population since 2009, Wenko, the Williston economic development official, said. It’s also the fastest-growing community under 50,000 people in the country, according to recent census data, he said.
Oil exploration is not new to North Dakota, Wenko said. It began in the early 1950s, then the state underwent boom and bust periods in the 1970s and 1980s. The Bakken shale was long thought to have oil, but the technology had not advanced to access it until the development of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing in the early 2000s, he said.
“Then things really took off,” Wenko said.
The Williston area is now home to 400 oil and gas service companies, including some of the largest in the world, such as Halliburton, he said. North Dakota is thought to have the capacity for 70,000 wells. Seven thousand wells have been drilled so far, and the oil service companies are drilling at a rate of 1,200 to 1,300 a year, Wenko said.
Sudden growth has produced some positives and negatives.
Unemployment is low, wages are high, but so is the cost of living, including high rents and the cost of goods. He also estimates the community is facing $500 million in infrastructure improvements, including upgrades to wastewater treatment, roads and an airport relocation, as well as more in the way of local government services, such as fire and police.
Positives include a generation of young people who have returned to Williston, including Wenko, 36, who, after graduating with a tourism degree, left the area for 15 years.
“You moved away because there was no opportunity,” he said.
The area also is developing a commercial base of restaurants and retail, and there’s a plan for downtown revitalization and increased funding for parks and recreation, he said.
Jim Knight, in charge of business development at the Port of Olympia, got a firsthand taste of Williston’s growth when he visited in February.
Unable to find a hotel room, he wound up staying in the house of somebody he met on the way there, and then spent a week sleeping under a pool table, he said.
But what about environmental concerns?
Wenko said there’s a misconception about the area that drilling is out of control, which is not the case, he said. “North Dakota regulates it very well,” Wenko said, although he added that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency continues to look at the fracturing process and that action by the federal agency could slow things.
Knight argues that the ceramic proppants are safer for port dock workers to handle because it doesn’t result in as much dust as typical sand does, he said. The proppants, too, are used in a process that takes place 10,000 feet below the surface of the earth, while groundwater typically is found between the surface and 1,000-foot levels, Knight said.
The EPA is set to release a progress report on hydraulic fracturing late this year; a draft report is due in 2014, according to the EPA website.
“The scope of the research includes the full lifespan of water in hydraulic fracturing, from acquisition of the water, through the mixing of chemicals and actual fracturing, to the post-fracturing stage, including the management of flowback and produced water and its ultimate treatment and disposal.”
Knight added that the new cargo helps the port meet its economic development mission, including about 40 dockworkers who now regularly work at the port’s marine terminal.
“We are participating in increasing our energy independence and jobs,” Knight said. “I couldn’t be prouder.”
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KEO International Consultants has received word from the USGBC that its design for Sabah Al Ahmed International Finance Center (ICF) has been precertified at the Gold level under the LEED-CS green building rating system. The 1.2 million sf, 40-story tower is the first building in Kuwait to be registered or precertified by the USGBC. As you can partially tell from the renderings, the design includes four stacked courtyard atriums ranging from 8-13 floors each. Three of the atriums serve the office portion of the building, while the fourth atrium serves the 200 key, 4-star business class hotel. The tower generates part of its energy from a PV system, as well as from roof-mounted wind turbines. You may be able to see the lattice-work of wind turbines at the crown of the building; I think they’re the vertical axis, helical-type, but it’s hard to tell with this one image. We’ll make sure to keep you posted …
The use of wind turbines at the building’s apex is similar to what’s planned for Discovery Tower in Houston. It’ll be interesting to see these designs meet reality — the media world will definitely have fun running video and stories of building integrated wind turbines.
[S2] = Skyscraper Sunday, a weekly article on green skyscrapers.Article tags: alternative energy, international
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In 1971, heavy rains fell across much of eastern Nebraska. Paleontologist Mike Voorhies In the summer he traveled to the farmlands in the entire Midwest City Orchard. What would discover exceeded their wildest dreams. It was a vision of a prehistoric sudden disaster. Voorhies Excavation revealed that the fossilized bones of 200 Rhinos, along with[...]Watch Documentary Online Now
Death is real, it is unannounced and can not be escaped. An ancient source of strength and guidance, The Tibetan Book of the Dead remains an essential teaching of the Himalayan Buddhist culture. Narrated by Leonard Cohen, this enlightening two-part series explores the sacred text and boldly visualizes the afterlife according to its profound wisdom. Part[...]Watch Documentary Online Now
Even secular scholars have rejected the idea of Christianity borrowing from the ancient mysteries. Respected Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard writes in Theories of Primitive Religion that "The evidence for this theory ... is negligible." "The first real parallel of a dying and rising god does not appear until the year 150, over one hundred years after[...]Watch Documentary Online Now
Shock legendary driving safety film with numerous scenes of mutilated cars and injured / dead and a voice devoid of compassion. Produced in cooperation with the Highway Patrol, Ohio State and were shown to millions of young drivers over 40 years. Signal 30 is just one of many driver education films produced by Highway Safety Films, shot[...]Watch Documentary Online Now
Modern forensic science make it impossible to commit murder and get away with it. But how easy would it be to beat the detectives? With the help of the best forensic scientists, and real life murder investigation, we explore if you can commit a perfect murder. The body is the most important piece of evidence in[...]Watch Documentary Online Now
In this documentary, Morgan Freeman dives deep into this question that has puzzled humans since the beginning of time: Is there life after death? Modern physics & neuroscience are venturing into the area once sacred, and radically changing our notions about life after death. Morgan Freeman hosts this polarized debate, where scientists and spiritualists attempt to define[...]Watch Documentary Online Now
The Buddha. The history of Buddhism is the story of a man's spiritual journey of enlightenment and the teachings and life forms that evolved from it. Siddhartha Gautama - Buddha. Finding the path to Enlightenment, Siddhartha was led by the pain of suffering and rebirth towards the path of enlightenment and became known as the[...]Watch Documentary Online Now
Medical advances in a fast pace; sometimes we can look forward for a world where death can never beat life. But this leaves us with a food for thought like Can we control and fix the errors that build up in our DNA over the years? Can we find a way to replace the chemistry of life[...]Watch Documentary Online Now
In the competitive struggle for survival, less powerful animals have developed a series of clever strategies to find and kill their targets. Traps, baits and lies can be the tricks known to man, but they are also cleverly used by the creatures of the animal kingdom. With the weapons of deception, animals can disarm and attract[...]Watch Documentary Online Now
Fourteen days of May is a documentary directed by Paul Hamann. The program chronicles the last days before the execution of Edward Earl Johnson, an American prisoner convicted of rape and murder. Johnson declared his innocence and claimed that his confession was made under duress. He was executed in Mississippi's gas chamber on May 20,[...]Watch Documentary Online Now
Louis Theroux travels to the center of the controversial hunting industry in South Africa. It's big business, drawing thousands of hunters' holiday a year. Keeping wild animals on the farm fence has made it cheaper and easier to hunt than ever, but Louis discovers that this industry, rather than endanger the species, has increased the[...]Watch Documentary Online Now
In medieval times, the firm belief that the world was flat led to the riots, isolation, and even death to those who dared to challenge this fallacy. Misconceptions and myths can be dangerous. Today, this same ignorance and intolerance has led to a backlash against Islam and Muslims. It will support the dissemination of true[...]Watch Documentary Online Now
Mariana van Zeller travels correspondent in Uganda, where many wonder if the growing influence of American religious groups has led to a movement to make homosexuality a crime punishable by death.
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The Alp Transit Tunnel was the obvious answer to the woes of European merchants and truckers who are deterred by the roadblock the majestic Alps present to them, while the rest of the world wonder about in awe about its magnificence oblivious to the woes of others! The Alps transit Tunnel will extend to over 56[...]Watch Documentary Online Now
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60 CREATIVE ACTIVITIES TO HELP CHILDREN RECOGNIZE JESUS
by Phyllis Vos Wezeman and Colleen Aalsburg Wiessner
This e-book offers sixty learning activities (in six chapters) to help fourth to eighth graders see Jesus by meeting the needs of those around them. The learning activities are introduced by scripture and organized into three parts that help leaders learn more about the specific need, locate the necessary supplies, and lead the young people through step-by-step activities. These include discussions, storytelling, letter-writing campaigns, scavenger hunts, role-play, puppetry, crafts, music, research projects and a variety of games.
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Ode to Stephen Bowling Dots, Dec'd
And did young Stephen sicken,
And did young Stephen die?
And did the sad hearts thicken,
And did the mourners cry?
No; such was not the fate of
Young Stephen Dowling Bots;
Though sad hearts round him thickened,
'Twas not from sickness' shots.
No whooping-cough did rack his frame,
Nor measles drear, with spots;
Not these impaired the sacred name
Of Stephen Dowling Bots.
Despised love struck not with woe
That head of curly knots,
Nor stomach troubles laid him low,
Young Stephen Dowling Bots.
O no. Then list with tearful eye,
Whilst I his fate do tell.
His soul did from this cold world fly,
By falling down a well.
They got him out and emptied him;
Alas it was too late;
His spirit was gone for to sport aloft
In the realms of the good and great.
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Cash discounts for gasoline purchases being offered to consumers finally hit the major news outlets. This was already "old news" in my case because it was already happening a week ago on the local level in my area. No surprise there! The news media usually takes their time about letting you know what's happening until they decide it's important enough to report. The convenience stores around here have been offering some pretty hefty discounts (as much as 20 cents / gallon at one location) for paying cash and a lot of people are going to have to take advantage of these discounts because the savings will be too good to turn down. This may ease the credit crunch on plastic money some but it's going to put a strain on the amount of cash at the banks.
So another advance warning for people out there is due. Troubled times always have a way of increasing the level of criminal activity. The problem is that there are a lot more criminals out there suffering the same financial difficulties as law-abiding citizens. The criminals out there are and will be even more desperate than in times past. And with their desperation, there comes an increased level of violence associated with their crimes.
It's already starting to happen on the local level here. The local nightly news broadcasts are already talking about the escalating violence that currently seems to be the norm instead of the exception. Crimes usually not associated with violent behavior are suddenly beginning to turn deadly. Desperate times create desperate people and the desperate criminals out there are starting to turn violent.
Keep your eyes open and watch what's happening on the local level in your area. The effects of what's happening in America is hitting closer and closer to home everyday. Be careful!
Stay above the water line!
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Maybe youre ready to dabble in gardening but dont want to dig up your yard. Or perhaps your outdoor space is limited to a rooftop, cement patio or fire escape. Whatever your reason, thanks to fantastic containers in a multitude of shapes and sizes, its never been easier to flex your green thumb in the smallest of spaces. Read on for expert advice to help you get growingplus check out WDs picks for wallet-friendly planters.
Gardening expert Iris Weaver of the Boston Center for Adult Education shares eight tips that will have you well on your way to a successful container garden:
1. Once you choose a space and decide where your containers will go, take note of how much sun, rain and wind the area gets.
2. Find out what type of climateor which USDA Zoneyour home is located in. Youll also need to consider your microclimate: the conditions that are specific to your little world, which will vary based on whether you live on a sprawling farm, in a city high-rise or something in between.
3. When picking out your plants, consider your needs as well as theirs. How often can you reasonably water? Dont choose high-maintenance plants if the answer is not often! If your space is sunny, are you willing to provide some shade? If not, skip shade-loving plants.
4. Always buy a high-quality soil. Shop around for a container mix, which will be formulated for your small, compact garden. Dont just scoop soil from your backyard or garden; it will likely be full of weeds just waiting to pop upplus, it will harden to a cement-like consistency over time.
5. Arrange and prep your containers before you start planting. If you wait until after you plant and water to configure your planters, even small ones may be too heavy to move. Once theyre in place, fill the bottom of extra-deep pots with upside-down plastic takeout containers or a bag of shipping peanuts; youll use less soil, which will help save money.
6. To plant your seedlings, cover the filler (if youre using it) with soil, or just add soil until the pot is about halfway full. Carefully pull a plant from the container it came in, gently work the roots apart and spread them over the top of the soil. Add more soil to hold the plant in place, gently pressing it down until the soil is about an inch below the planters rim.
7. Water your plants right awaytheyre thirsty! Pay attention to watering instructions; over- and under-watering are two surefire ways to kill plants. Lightly feed your plants immediately so they can absorb nutrients while they spread their roots and settle in. Follow package instructions for continued feedings.
8. In addition to watering and feeding, to maintain your plants youll need to keep your containers free of dead and decaying matter. Youll also want to keep an eye out for pestsmany can be controlled without the use of chemicals, if you catch them early enough.
A trio of stacked planters in graduated sizes lets you arrange three miniature gardens at once. When selecting your plants, keep in mind that the top-tiered ones will get the most sun while the lower levels will be slightly shaded and catch any overflow watering from above. Pyramid Patio Planter, $24.99; CollectionsEtc.com.
Barrel of Flowers
Use a pair of wooden tubs flanking your front door to add bold splashes of seasonal color. The clean, simple design leaves the focus where it should beon the plants inside them. Matthews Four Seasons 17" Shallow Heartwood Barrel Tub, $22.97; Lowes.com.
Skys the Limit
You can enjoy summers bounty even in the most limited spaces. Topsy Turvys hanging planter lets gravity work its magic when theres no room for staking. Plus, it can even be hung out the window of a high-up apartment, giving you easy access to all the ingredients for homemade pasta sauce. Tomato & Herb Planter, $14.10; Amazon.com.
Each level of this tiered, weather-resistant iron planter has a coco liner, which ensures good drainage. With two stacked pots, it can be used to display a variety of plants without taking up too much space on your patio. 2-Tier Coco Plant Stand, $20.26; Walmart.com.
For a mini herb garden, use each pot in this stacked, tri-level planter to grow a different plant. At the end of summer, empty each level; they can be stored one inside the other till next growing season. Or, if your plants will last year-round, simply bring the container indoors. Mini-Garden Stacker, $34.95; Amazon.com.
If there are several plants you like that have different watering needs, plant each one in an inexpensive terra-cotta pot, then arrange the lot in this two-level decorative wagon. You can water some pots more frequently while letting others dry out. Pack the pots close together to give the appearance of a single container. Amish Wagon Decorative Garden Decor, $19.99; CollectionsEtc.com.
Dress up a fence with a series of coco-lined iron planters, which are perfect for both squat flowers, like pansies or impatiens, and weeping plants that will spill over their sides, such as sweet potato vines or wave petunias. These easy-to-install containers also work as window boxes. Panacea Products Flat Iron Series Window/Deck Planter, $19.99; Amazon.com.
Box o Blooms
This eye-catching box is made from solid teak, so it doesnt need a linerunlike other woods, teak is naturally resistant to moisture, rot and warping. Bonus: It comes with pre-drilled drainage holes, so your plants wont get waterlogged. Rectangle Teak Wood Herb Box, Prices start at $29.98; SimplyPlanters.com.
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Today's the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is a reflection of how far our nation has come and a reminder that we still have far to go.
Nearly a half century ago in the midst of widespread segregation and discrimination, King focused attention on the divisions and inequities in our society. And he implored people to create a better world.
In August 1963, King inspired millions when in a speech on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., he told of his dream, including: "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Today's second public inauguration of Barack Obama as president shows the strides we have made as a nation. In 2008 and 2012, Americans judged the presidential candidates not "by the color of their skin but by the content of their character," and twice a black man was chosen over his white rival.
Obama privately took the oath of office on Sunday in accordance with the Constitution and will repeat it today in a grand public ceremony. Traditionally, public inaugurations are not held on Sundays, hence the delay to today and the fortunate overlap with the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
Such an outcome would have seemed unthinkable in King's day, when there were white-only water fountains and African-Americans were barred from numerous establishments.
King told his audience in 1963 that 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, "the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination."
Clearly we have made progress, but prejudice lingers and discrimination still occurs, although at least now such action is widely condemned and people are better equipped to fight it.
Our nation has not achieved the utopia as outlined in King's inspiring speech. But we're a lot closer than we were.
Today, as we celebrate our progress and cheer on our 45th president as he embarks on a second term in office, let us rededicate ourselves to achieving King's vision before the centennial anniversary of that 1963 speech.
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For those of us who are comfortably ensconced in a middle-class world, a reference to the wheel of fortune is more likely to bring up an image of TV's Vanna White and the popular game show than a commentary on current events. But the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield will change that next weekend.
On Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 23 and 24, from noon to 5 p.m., artist Erika Harrsch will present an interactive performance at the Aldrich that asks participants to take a look at the compelling issues surrounding immigration.
Here, you too can spin the wheel of fortune, and if lucky, you'll win a passport to the United States of North America, a fictitious nation created by the artist that comprises Canada, the United States and Mexico.
"This piece expands the boundaries of these individual countries, questions the concept of nation and reflects on NAFTA" (North American Free Trade Agreement), said Harrsch, who has been presenting this project internationally since 2009.
"Every time this performance is presented, it is very surprising," said the artist, who moved to New York City from Mexico 12 years ago to pursue her career. "People have different reactions to this. That's what we want -- for people to come and have their own experiences."
She hopes it will encourage people to think about immigration, both legal and illegal, and open a dialog on it.
In this performance, Harrsch creates a passport office in the atrium of the museum and is on hand posing as the chief bureaucrat. Audience participation is vital to the exhibit's success. "I always create a pattern of reality, but a made-up reality," she said.
Those seeking a passport to the new nation fill out an application form that asks questions intended to stimulate conversation on the topic of immigration. "It's informal research on how people think and feel about these issues," she explained.
With that, you spin the wheel for one of several possibilities. You might be declined entry, or asked to try again or proceed with caution. You may be declared an illegal alien or told you are not eligible. However, if you win, you get the limited-edition passport, which is elaborately designed and looks quite authentic.
"The passport is a piece of art," said Harrsch. The green cover has an original seal that combines symbols of the three countries with a monarch butterfly at its center. The monarch inspired the project and is a symbol that runs through the exhibit.
Harrsch has been working for years on a project filming the sanctuaries of the monarch butterfly, following its epic annual migration between Mexico and Canada. She uses it as a symbol of metamorphosis, freedom and hope. Her own personal migrations for it gave birth to the idea for the passport project.
Direct access to the artist during the performance gives participants a chance for conversation with her as well as insights into her creative process.
As a reference to the U. S. green card diversity lottery, the exhibition has political implications, but its playful nature will be of interest to children as well as adults.
Tracy Moore, education director, said the project is "a spark for family dialogue about complicated issues." Children are further encouraged to partake of the museum's Drop In Hours program with educator-designed, self-led, art-making projects during the weekend.
"The program is for all ages -- visitors at any level of art comprehension and experience are invited to explore in a judgment-free environment," said Moore. "At the Aldrich, everyone is an artist with a vision, an idea and a voice."
Deb Keiser is a freelance writer; firstname.lastname@example.org
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Be careful when crossing a street !
In a nutshell
OK if you like and want to visit modern China
When visitinng or travelling here in Nanning it is definately advisable to wear a particle mask..The pollution here as in most big cities in China has extremely high levels. The locals know and are seen with a mask and it is a common sight..especially because of the many cars and motorcycles apparently that are here. I always carry masks with me when travelling anywhere in Asia due to the extreme pollution . These can be purchased in supermarkets, local markets and even some street vendors..They are very important if you suffer from bronchial problems or an asthmatic.The Pollution is really dangerous. The airborne pollution particles can trigger a bad asthma attack at anytime..
Always carry and use these particle masks
Carry extra inhalers for your asthma if you use them..
Also carry a small eye drops ..
Carry lots of small pocket packs of tissues..
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Re: ALL TAXATION IS THEFT!
Went to the site and understand the concept.
And, doesn't society need to record history correctly and teach it to the children so the same mistakes are not made?
Are the children of illiterate parents not supposed to learn because that is the parents responsibility?
It doesn't take that much money to run social education and healthcare. If we, as a society, provide these things to all members of society, I believe the man will have a rod and fish for himself; able to inject his working dollars the way he wants into the things he needs, which benefits everyone.
They steal far too much and do far too little with no cheques and balances.
I believe a mixed system can function.
If we live together in a village, is it not the responsibility to look after the weak and the sick, when there is no family there? Where are the morals of society? With money, themselves, or a hope for peace and building a better system which we will need because they are about to collapse this one.
Peace mary XXXXXX
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There are a variety of ways to perform usability testing on web sites and online applications. In fact, our access to tools and testing software seems to grow month by month. However, nothing beats human testing.
Of course, when you don’t have access or the budget to sit your customers down in front of a computer to watch them use your web site, there are decent substitutes or alternative ways to get good data. Someone asked me, “Can’t we get user data from Google Analytics?” Sure, you can. But the numbers don’t have little voices that explain why the left a page or where they got confused. We can get clues from logs and data tracking but its cold, emotionless and voiceless.
Grin and Bear It
My first choice will always be a user lab. But the reality is that small and medium businesses can’t afford this type of testing. Or they think they can’t. In truth, all you ever need to do is sit people down in front of a monitor, give them a task and be silent as they attempt to finish it. Offer someone a coupon, free dinner, gift card or some other incentive to bring them in for a few hours.
Remember these points:
- Find someone unfamiliar with your business and/or web site. After a few passes (and accidental suggestions from you or others nearby), they’re no objective or brand new.
- Assign one task at a time and make it one step and simple. “Find”, “Buy”, “Look for”, “Register”, “Show me where” and “Sign up” are common tasks.
- Be quiet. Expensive labs have video cameras and software inside the computer that follow eye movements and mouse clicks. In light of investing in all of that, just sit nearby and watch. Take into consideration that people get nervous. They’re not used to your keyboard. They may not have slept well or were late getting there. In truth, these are all the tiny extras human factors love to incorporate into their testing (our emotional state and environment.) Do what you can to put your person at ease. You only want to watch. It’s not a contest. You’re not judging them. Give them chocolate or tea.
- Listen. You not only want to watch someone use your web site, but you want to encourage them to tell you what they’re thinking as they go along. Encourage them to explain, AFTER the task, why they felt frustrated (if they don’t other swear at the screen). Why did the pick a certain product? Did they get lost? Could they read the pages? Were they distracted?
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College kids write papers now on how we got into Iraq. Or so it is with my friend's daughter. She's supposed to write a paper on one of the neocons. Which one should she pick? There's Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank. Doug Feith is writing a book. There's all the people at The Weekly Standard. There's also Robert Kagan, who wrote Of Paradise and Power, and his brother Fred Kagan, the think-tank guy who pushed the "surge."
My friend thinks his daughter should do Feith -- he's obscure enough, no one's doing him. And there's a case for doing Feith.
If I had a kid, I'd make her do Thucydides (460? - 400? B.C) -- he's an honorary neocon in a way, and no one's doing him. Indeed, he's the darling of the neocons. They simply love this guy. Donald Kagan, the father of Robert and Fred, has written four or five volumes on The Peloponnesian Wars, all to illustrate how the neocons should see the world. And other neocons like Victor Hansen Davis make a big fuss over Thucydides, too. And what's the moral they draw from Thucydides? "No mercy," my old college teacher said. The strong will crush the weak. If ever there's a case for pre-emptive war, it is all there in Thucydides. It's a world in which there is no world opinion, or international law. That kind of thing's for sissies, the neocon's would say Set up those prisons in Guantanamo. They don't cry over these things in Thucydides. You focus on being strong.
Yet maybe one should say something in Thucydides' defense.
First,, he was writing in Fifth Century B.C. There was no such thing as world opinion. There was no mass media. There was no CNN, or UN, or anything like the Hague. We were not wired up to each other. And there were no roadside bombs. What the neocons miss is that things that the Spartans could get away with in The Peloponessian Wars, they wouldn't even try to get away with now. It's not that we're "soft" in the twenty-first century. But our hard power is so dependent on our soft power that there are things a "realist" would have done once that anyone with a sense of reality wouldn't do now.
But it's not much of a defense, because even back then, at least Herodotus knew better. Maybe we're in Iraq because on the right, at the strategic institutes, they're too glued to their Thucydides and just ignore Herodotus. It's true, Thucydides is the "scientist" -- a real historian. Herodotus does tell some fairy tales. But in some ways, at least in the case of any war in the Middle East, Herodotus is a better guide. Certainly he's a bigger help in dealing with the Persian Empire, which we now know as Iran.
OK, Thucydides and Herodotus were covering different wars. With Thucydides, it's Athens v. Sparta. In Herodotus, it's Xerxes and Darius against the Greeks. And now, with Herodotus's war out as a movie, 300, it may be useful to look at what Herodotus has to say that Thucydides, and 300, do not.
First, the little guys can take on the Empire. The weak can beat the strong. Or as Herodotus makes clear, the poor can beat the rich. While you can get all that out of the movie, there's a bigger point: People ultimately don't have to fight to the death. Persia does back off. There isn't a surge. And Herodotus describes a different kind of world. In his world, there is reciprocity, balance of power. There is not exactly international law but there is custom, there are norms. Herodotus is fascinated by stories where people violate the norms, and get into messes, like the poor guy who gets talked by a king into looking on his naked wife.
Finally, a lot of things are luck. You can plan a war all right. But the gods may intervene. Expect the unexpected. Herodotus believes in the faerie people making mischief. And Herodotus may be right.
It's true even in Herodotus there's often no mercy. It has to be said -- there's a tolerance of torture. After a few chapters, it's hard to keep count of all the envoys who get blinded.
But the big lesson is: people are not like lab rats. They don't all behave the same. It's important to study different civilizations. The Egyptians do their thing. The Phoenicians do theirs. And these different cultures and civilizations create a kind of equilibrium.
One big blustery super-power can't dominate the world. Actually, the kind of hegemony that neocons call for isn't even really found in Thucydides. Ultimately, as some scholars note, even in Thucydides, Sparta backs off too. But it's even clearer in Herodotus: there is not so much a clash of civilizations as a plethora of them. And even one based on Hollywood cannot subdue the world.
Indeed, that's why Herodotus is more important than Thucydides for Americans. We're the most blinkered because we don't do what Herodotus did and travel around the world. In the United States, even the "internationalists" among us are really isolationists. Few of us ever really spend much time abroad. In op-eds, the neocons like to portray the right as the internationalist party and the left as isolationist. It's preposterous, of course. Look at their president -- he came to office in 2000 having spent less time abroad than any president since Coolidge.
At any rate, we should learn from the Persian Empire. Don't impale ourselves on little countries, especially the poor ones. That actually applies to the Persian Empire. So, hey, let's not invade Iran!
But we should also spend more funds to get our young people out of the library where they're reading Thucydides and get them to start living like Herodotus -- going out and seeing the world.
Thomas Geoghegan is a labor lawyer in Chicago. His most recent book is The Law In Shambles.
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What is this test?
This test measures the level of lead (a toxic metal) in urine. This test is used to evaluate and manage suspected lead poisoning.
What are related tests?
Why do I need this test?
Laboratory tests may be done for many reasons. Tests are performed for routine health screenings or if a disease or toxicity is suspected. Lab tests may be used to determine if a medical condition is improving or worsening. Lab tests may also be used to measure the success or failure of a medication or treatment plan. Lab tests may be ordered for professional or legal reasons. You may need this test if you have:
- Toxic effect of lead compound
When and how often should I have this test?
When and how often laboratory tests are done may depend on many factors. The timing of laboratory tests may rely on the results or completion of other tests, procedures, or treatments. Lab tests may be performed immediately in an emergency, or tests may be delayed as a condition is treated or monitored. A test may be suggested or become necessary when certain signs or symptoms appear.
Due to changes in the way your body naturally functions through the course of a day, lab tests may need to be performed at a certain time of day. If you have prepared for a test by changing your food or fluid intake, lab tests may be timed in accordance with those changes. Timing of tests may be based on increased and decreased levels of medications, drugs or other substances in the body.
The age or gender of the person being tested may affect when and how often a lab test is required. Chronic or progressive conditions may need ongoing monitoring through the use of lab tests. Conditions that worsen and improve may also need frequent monitoring. Certain tests may be repeated to obtain a series of results, or tests may need to be repeated to confirm or disprove results. Timing and frequency of lab tests may vary if they are performed for professional or legal reasons.
How should I get ready for the test?
Ask the healthcare worker for information about how to prepare for this test.
During a 24-hour urine collection, follow your usual diet and drink fluids as you ordinarily would, unless healthcare workers give you other instructions. Avoid drinking alcohol before and during the urine collection.
How is the test done?
For a 24-hour urine collection, all of the urine that you pass over a 24-hour time period must be collected. If you are in the hospital, a healthcare worker will collect your urine. You will receive a special container to collect the sample in if you are doing the collection at home. The following are directions for collecting a 24-hour urine sample while at home:
- In the morning scheduled to begin the urine collection, urinate in the toilet and flush away the first urine you pass. Write down the date and time. That is the start date and time for the collection.
- Collect all urine you pass, day and night, for 24 hours. Use the container given to you to collect the urine. Avoid using other containers. The urine sample must include the last urine that you pass 24 hours after starting the collection. Do not allow toilet paper, stool, or anything else to be added to the urine sample.
- Write down the date and time that the last sample is collected.
- The urine sample may need to be kept cool during the 24-hour collection period. If so, keep the closed container in a pan on ice. Do not put ice in the container with the urine.
Prior to or during the 24-hour urine collection, the healthcare worker will give you a solution containing a substance needed for the test. The substance is called edetate calcium disodium. The substance will be given by injection into your vein or muscle. Infusion of the test substance may take four to six hours.
How will the test feel?
The amount of discomfort you feel will depend on many factors, including your sensitivity to pain. Communicate how you are feeling with the person doing the test. Inform the person doing the test if you feel that you cannot continue with the test.
During injection of edetate calcium sodium into your vein or muscle, you may feel mild discomfort or pain at the location where the solution is being given.
What should I do after the test?
When 24-hour urine collection is complete, close the container and seal the lid tightly. Return the sample in the urine container to the facility or healthcare worker as instructed. If you had the sample in an ice bath, return the sample within two hours after removing the container from the ice bath.
What are the risks?
Ask the healthcare worker to explain the risks of this test or procedure to you before it is performed.
What are normal results for this test?
Laboratory test results may vary depending on your age, gender, health history, the method used for the test, and many other factors. If your results are different from the results suggested below, this may not mean that you have a disease. Contact your healthcare worker if you have any questions. The following is considered to be a normal result for this test:
- Index value: <1 (ratio of mcg of lead excreted to mg of edetate calcium disodium given)
What might affect my test results?
- Decreased results:
- Low iron levels
- Renal disorders
- Increased results:
- Repeated lead mobilization tests in patients with normal lead levels
What follow up should I do after this test?
Ask your healthcare worker how you will be informed of the test results. You may be asked to call for results, schedule an appointment to discuss results, or notified of results by mail. Follow up care varies depending on many factors related to your test. Sometimes there is no follow up after you have been notified of test results. At other times follow up may be suggested or necessary. Some examples of follow up care include changes to medication or treatment plans, referral to a specialist, more or less frequent monitoring, and additional tests or procedures. Talk with your healthcare worker about any concerns or questions you have regarding follow up care or instructions.
Where can I get more information?
- National Lead Information Center - http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/lead
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - http://www.cdc.gov
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When I look at the properties of a JPEG shot on my Canon 5D MkIII (set to the highest quality settings on the camera), i've noticed that the 'Horizontal/Vertical Resolution is 72 DPI' My only ...
I have an image in photoshop I want to print at 200%, and right now it's 48x18 inches, and the resolution is 72 dpi. I read somewhere that changing it to 600dpi would allow me to scale it by 200% at ...
A printing job requires a 72x72" image. I shoot with a D700. Is there any way to get a quality print at that size from a D700?
I want to scan a paper shown below. Actually I need the photo of the jets taking off, I dont need the entire newspaper. This is what I have - I have to do color scanning, I have a HP scanner which ...
I need to have an image printed as a poster 32″ by 18″ (about 80x45 cm) at 300 DPI, but I am unsure of how big the file must be. Also, what file format is best?
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How did Steve Jobs do it without Granholm? (The Michigan View 10.06.11)
Posted by hpayne on October 6, 2011
How did Steve Jobs do it without Jennifer Granholm and Barack Obama?
In barely three decades, Jobs helped create a tech revolution – from product to infrastructure – without a dollar of federal help. While snake oil salesmen Granobama claim to know the future and blow taxpayer dollars on it, Jobs and his peers created ideas that attracted billions of dollars of private capital. The result is a digital infrastructure that spans the globe totally independent of government subsidy.
Currently flogging her Big Government treatise, “A Governor’s Story,” the ex-governor claims new technologies will only get off the ground with government subsidy – what she calls “a partnership with business.” Granobama claims that private markets are incapable of leveraging the “interstates of the future.”
Yet Apple’s digital revolution did exactly that. The iPhone and its predecessors spawned consumer products in such demand that investors sunk billions – hundreds of billions of private dollars – into a cellular infrastructure that covers nearly every inch of America and beyond. And it’s not just phone service. You want alternatives? Think 3G and 4G digital networks, wireless infrastructure, cloud computing, and other innovation that Big Government never saw coming.
Jobs’ digital revolution did nothing to humble these Harvard Law-trained Masters of the Universe.
They blindly spout dogma that they alone know the “technologies of the future.” Solar. Wind. Hybrids. Indeed, we are fortunate that Jen and Barack were not in power when Jobs and his partner Steve Wozniak first innovated the PC computer. They might have tried to strangle it.
Today, America is in the midst of an energy revolution as entrepreneurs like Harold Hamm of Continental Resoruces innovate horizontal drilling technologies promising to double U.S. oil reserves.
Yet when Hamm joined other businessmen in a meeting with The One recently, he got the cold shoulder. “I told him of the revolution in the oil and gas industry and how we have the capacity to produce enough oil to enable America to replace OPEC. I wanted to make sure he knew about this,” Hamm relays to The Wall Street Journal.
The president’s reaction?
“He turned to me and said, ‘Oil and gas will be important for the next few years. But we need to go on to green and alternative energy. [Energy] Secretary [Steven] Chu has assured me that within five years, we can have a battery developed that will make a car with the equivalent of 130 miles per gallon.”
One can hear Obama now. . . “Oh sure, Mr. Jobs, coal-powered PCs will be important for the next few years. But Chu has assured me that within five years, we can power mainframes with wind turbines.”
Government know-it-alls ignore the capitalist incentives that unleashed Steve Jobs. Granobama claim that startups cannot compete against Big Business and their army of lobbyists – so they pour millions of tax dollars into Tesla and Fisker in order to “innovate” the “battery-powered cars of the future.”
The cellular industry took on that most entrenched establishment – Big Telecom and landline telephony – and won. Investor billions poured into handheld startups once they proved that cell phone tech was viable as an alternative to landlines. Why don’t markets invest money in the solar industry? Because it cannot compete. Solyndra’s owners needed federal funds because – unlike Jobs – they had failed to prove its viability as an alternative technology.
Steve Jobs is proof that private capital discovers the tech of the future. Granobama never saw it coming.
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Introduction to Database Design (on Rails): Part II
In a previous post, I explained the fundamentals of database design. This guide will cover the second half of that topic: how to make the database work with Rails. Before reading this you should have a good understanding of what a database is and how to organize one.
Rails is a framework that sits on top of the programming language Ruby. The framework speeds up web development by filling in code that you'd otherwise write from scratch on every new project. A component of this is ActiveRecord, a subset of Rails that acts as the bridge between your database and your Ruby code.
Here are two examples of a Ruby class:
A class is a just a blueprint for a given object. Just like a house is made from blueprints, an author object is made from an author class. And just like a database table describes one thing, so does a class.
We represent relationships between tables like this:
The top diagram should be familiar to you; it' s a simple foreign key/primary key database relationship. The Ruby classes at the bottom show how we represent this diagram in code. Here, we're saying that an author object will be the parent of many books, while a book object will have only one parent author.
Hint: it's often difficult to decide which class gets the :has_many and which gets the :belongs_to. The way you decide is by finding where the foreign key lives (in this example, the foreign key is authorid). The table with the foreign key will always be the :belongs_to._
This works for all types of relationships. You can add multiple foreign keys to a table and simply add another :belongs_to on your Ruby class:
You can relate tables that don't have a direct connection (like authors and stores) through a third table:
So, what's the point of defining these relationships? The main benefit is that Rails gives you a number of helpful methods to grab records quickly and efficiently. With these simple class definitions…
…I can do the following:
# find an author and see books by her rowling = Author.find_by_last_name("Rowling") rowling.books # ["Harry Potter", "Harry Potter 2"] (return values here are simplified for clarity) # find a book and see who the author is harry_potter = Book.find_by_title("Harry Potter") harry_potter.author # "J.K. Rowling" # add a book to an author harry_potter_3 = Book.new(title: "Harry Potter 3") rowling.books << harry_potter_3 # Ruby array push syntax rowling.books # ["Harry Potter", "Harry Potter 2", "Harry Potter 3"]
These simple methods will take care of querying the database, matching the foreign keys, and returning the correct records. Without the help of ActiveRecord, I would be responsible for writing this implementation code myself. Take the following example:
harry_potter = Book.find_by_title("Harry Potter") harry_potter.author # "J.K. Rowling"
If I didn't define my relationships, I would have to find the ID of the book "Harry Potter" in my database, find its author_id attribute, go to the authors table, find the author with that ID, then return that object. But since we've defined our Rails relationships, Active Record can select the right table and match the foreign keys automatically.
That about covers the basics. There are of course many different relationships I didn't cover here. You can read the full RailsGuide to get a handle on more advanced concepts, or feel free to leave a comment saying what you'd like me to expand on in a future post.
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Baba Ramdev Yoga
"Remedy of all illnesses lies in yoga and healthy lifestyle."
Swami Baba Ramdev is that one personality who brought health revolution or say Yoga revolution to India. He took the stand to change the lives of many people. With his in depth research on Yoga and Ayurveda, he created a beautiful niche for himself in the hearts of many people. At first, he came into limelight for his life changing Yoga skills. He taught people the simple methods of Yoga to stay healthy. In this article, we will discuss about Baba Ramdev and Ramdev Yoga.
Swami Baba Ramdev was once known as Ramkrishna Yadav. With time, his life journey with Yoga made him Swami Ramdev. Apart from Yoga, he is known as the master of Ayurveda and also has active participation in Indian politics. However, his main domain is Yoga.
Ramkrishna Yadav started his journey of Yoga from Jind, Haryana. He changed his name from Ramkrishna to Ramdev there only. At Jind, he joined Kalva Gurukul and offered free Yoga training to the people belonging to the villages of Haryana.
After few years, Ramdev travelled through Himalaya for meditation and self discipline for several years. After coming back, he settled down at Haridwar and studied ancient Indian scriptures at Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya for many years. Further, he founded Divya Yog Mandir Trust, Haridwar with some other people. The main objective of this trust is to popularize Yoga and Ayurveda among the people.
In 1995, he founded Divya Yoga Mandir Trust along with Acharya Balkrishna and Acharya Karamveer. Headquarters of this trust are at Kripalu Bagh Ashram, Haridwar.
Swami Baba Ramdev further became popular for promoting Yoga in India as well as various corners of the world. In no time, Baba Ramdev and Ramdev Yoga became a household word. Many people claimed for getting relieved from incurable diseases. Also, he is the founder of 'Patanjali Yog Peeth Trust'
Baba Ramdev Yoga procedure focused on Pranayama, which is a collection of breathing exercises, to eradicate the ailments of human body. The Pranayama helps in increasing the blood circulation, which accelerates the flow of blood in the internal organs and give them enough impulsion to lead a healthy life.
As Swami Baba Ramdev became the medium to spread the word of Pranayama and its benefits, people know it as Baba Ramdev Pranayam.
Main breathing exercises constituted with the art of Pranayama are as follows:
- Kapalbhati Pranayama
- Anulom Vilom Pranayama
- Udgeeth Pranayama
- Bahya Pranayama
- Bhramari Pranayama
- Bhastrika Pranayama
Kapalbhati Pranayama is basically a breath cleaning exercise. In this Pranayama, a person concentrates on continuously exhaling the air with force while sucking the tummy in.
Anulom-Vilom Pranayama is alternate nostril breathing. In this exercise, the practitioner inhales from one nostril while keeping the other nostril closed with a finger.
Udgeeth Pranayama is chanting with breathing. In this Pranayama, the practitioner first inhales and then hums the 'Om' spell until all the breath is out. The process goes on like this.
Bahya Pranayama is the process after exhaling. The practitioner make three locks in the body after exhaling the breath out - one is by squeezing the chin to the chest, second is squeezing the tummy in and the third one is pulling up the pelvic and pubic area.
Bhramari Pranayama is the bee breath exercise. In this Pranayama, the person inhales the breath and holds it. Further, he/she closes ears, nose and eyes with the help of fingers and thumbs and then hums until all the breath is out.
Bhastrika Pranayama is the bellows breath exercise. In this Pranayama, the practitioner inhales and exhales very energetically. The exercise includes exhaling the air with full force and doing vice versa while inhaling.
As per the studies and results noted by Swami Baba Ramdev, regular practice of these Pranayamas keeps an individual healthy. A person who practices Pranayama everyday hardly catches cold.
The aforesaid methods of Pranayama are quite simple to practice for a common man. To lead a healthy life, one should dedicate half an hour to one hour to these simple methods for staying healthy.
Swami Baba Ramdev Yoga & Pranayama Benefits
Benefits of the Baba Ramdev's Yoga and Pranyama are unending. If you had ever watched Swami Baba Ramdev Yoga show on Astha channel that telecasts at 5am, you must have noticed that everyday numerous people come out of the crowd to tell the world how they got cured of a horrible disease due to Baba Ramdev Yoga. Let's discuss some basic benefits here:
- Pranayama enhances the strength of lungs, which helps in treating lung and breathing ailments, such as Asthama, Bronchitis and many more
- It helps in relieving one's nervous anxiety and suppressed emotions
- Body immunity also gets increased
- Body as well as mind gets rejuvenated
- Chronic muscle tension around sensitive areas like digestive organs and heart gets released
- Concentration improves
- Purifies blood
- Eliminates toxins
- Increases oxygen density in blood
- Cures sleeping sicknesses like insomnia
- Improves blood circulation
- Stress level eases out
- Blood pressure problems come in control
- Digestion improves
These are some benefits from the point of view of a healthy man. Otherwise, these miraculous breathing exercises have treated many life taking diseases. Let's now know a bit about Baba Ramdev and his early life.
Baba Ramdev - Early Life
Baba Ramdev was born on 11 January 1965 at Ali Saiyad Pur Village, Mahendragarh district, Haryana, India. His father Ram Nivas Yadav and mother Gulab Devi named him Ramkrishna Yadav. He had an ordinary poor family background.
As a kid, he studied in a normal school till class 8. After that, he joined Gurukul at Khanpur Village where he first got introduced to Yoga officially. The Gurukul also taught him Sanskrit and he learnt everything under the guidance of Acharya Baldev. He left the Gurukul with a Post Graduate degree and specialization in Sanskrit grammar, Yoga, Vedas, Upanishads and Hindu philosophy. He took Sanyas after Gurukul and changed his name from Ramkrishna to Ramdev.
This was all brief about Swami Baba Ramdev and Ramdev Yoga. Hope this article would be helpful for many of you. Yoga is a miraculous science. Utilize the best of it with Swami Baba Ramdev Yoga's easy methods.
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Flea allergy dermatitis (FAD) is the most common skin condition in dogs. Dogs can develop this allergy as early as their first year, and it most commonly starts when dogs are young - up to five years old. Dogs of any age can develop FAD, though, and the symptoms of flea allergies will worsen with age.
Fleas are parasites that evolved to puncture the skin of dogs for their blood meal. Dogs typically react to flea bites with itching, redness, and inflammation. But dogs who are allergic to flea bites will have more severe symptoms and a much stronger, prolonged sense of itchiness.
Causes of Flea Allergy Dermatitis
Dogs who are hypersensitive to flea bites are reacting to antigens in the the flea’s saliva that their immune system does not recognize. Once bitten by a flea, the compounds in the flea saliva pass through the dog’s skin, causing a reaction that produces severe itching, redness, and swelling.
Symptoms of Flea Allergy Dermatitis
When an allergic dog is exposed to flea saliva, the area will become red, bumpy, and inflamed. With even one or two bites, the dog will feel constant itchiness and discomfort. And in severe cases, dogs will develop lesions and experience hair loss. Dogs who are allergic to flea bites often do more damage by scratching and biting the inflamed skin affected by the flea saliva. This creates an environment on the skin that is ripe for infection and secondary disease.
How to Treat Flea Allergy Dermatitis
Flea allergy dermatitis cannot be cured, though desensitisation therapy, like allergy shots, is an option. Removing fleas completely is the most effective way to protect your dog from flea bites, thus eliminating the cause of the skin condition. There are many ways to prevent fleas from infesting your pet, home, and yard, as well as treatments to relieve skin conditions associated with the allergy.
This information is for informational purposes only and is not meant as a substitute for the professional advice of, or diagnosis or treatment by, your veterinarian. Always seek the advice of your veterinarian or other qualified professional with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard or delay seeking professional advice due to what you may have read on our website.
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DHS vows to fix information network
Feds are collaborating with state and local first responders to improve data sharing
Despite spending, info-sharing and networks are lacking
Homeland Security Department officials made promises to improve DHS’ network for sharing data with state and local emergency responders. The officials told lawmakers this month they could expect to see marked improvements a year from now.
DHS officials vowed to fix the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN), which has attracted few users since its creation in 2003. By improving program management, making greater use of existing systems to avoid duplication and providing more usable content, the department can fix the problems that the Government Accountability Office and others have identified, said Wayne Parent, deputy director of DHS’ Office of Operations Coordination.
GAO, however, remains skeptical that DHS can achieve dramatic improvements in a year. The department is in the early stages of the improvement process, so it has not defined milestones or a time frame for the changes, said David Powner, GAO’s director of information technology management issues.
Powner told lawmakers that DHS deployed HSIN before it knew whether similar data-sharing networks existed or what data first responders needed.
“HSIN has been poorly managed and poorly coordinated,” Powner said May 10 during testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee’s Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment Subcommittee. DHS must integrate HSIN with the Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) program and other state and local law enforcement systems, he said.
In its haste to deploy HSIN after the 2001 terrorist attacks, the department failed to communicate with state and local organizations in planning and identifying what data-sharing capabilities were already available through RISS, Powner said.
RISS has been an effective program in identifying and targeting criminal activities and sharing intelligence across multistate and international borders, said Donald Kennedy, executive director of the New England State Police Information Network, one of six RISS centers.
“Without the benefit of intelligence, local and state law enforcement cannot be expected to be active partners in protecting our communities from terrorism,” Kennedy said.
RISS worked with DHS and the Justice Department to publish documents to which authorized users can gain access through Really Simple Syndication feeds. But during a network upgrade last year, DHS disrupted HSIN’s automated feeds to RISS, which meant RISS technical staff members had to search manually for documents posted on various HSIN sites, Kennedy said.
Parent said DHS will reopen the bridge to RISS by July. DHS has established better collaboration internally and is beginning to coordinate its activities with those of regional networks, he said.Local needs
For example, the Homeland Security Advisory Committee will identify state and local requirements for HSIN from representatives of those governments and the private sector. The group will meet for the first time in August, Parent said. DHS put out a call for members earlier this month.
Parent said HSIN will benefit from being part of the Information Sharing Environment, a collaborative effort of federal law enforcement and intelligence officials. An ISE working group is taking inventory of duplicative regional systems, a process that it will complete later this year, he said. ISE also provides content guidelines that will help HSIN share appropriate data with emergency responders.
“Quite frankly, if we had had an ISE type of effort in 2003, it would have been easier to make these decisions,” Parent said.
In addition to better understanding state and local data requirements, DHS is talking to the Coast Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Customs and Border Protection agency about their data needs. Significant progress
“As we collect the requirements, we’re running them through an integrated planning tool,” Parent said. “We’re putting [the requirements] into the budget cycle timelines for this year and then the out years”— fiscal 2008 through 2013, Parent said.
“I would say that when I’m here next year at this time, the odds are very good” that DHS will have significant progress to report, he said.
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Cat owners can generally depend on a cat's natural ability and desire to clean herself, but periodic baths may be necessary. The following tips can help you and your cat have a more pleasant bath experience.
Prior to the bath, you should groom your cat. Use a
fine-toothed comb, or
soft brush for shorthaired breeds and a
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soft slicker brush for longhaired breeds. Brush your cat thoroughly but gently, since the skin is thin and sensitive. Also, make sure to brush out any mats you may find - they are much harder to remove from wet hair. This is also a good time to check for sores, abscesses, lumps, and other skin problems.
Clean your cat's ears and look for any excess wax or debris in the ears. You should also
clip your cat's nails at this time. If your cat does not enjoy any of these procedures, wait until your cat has calmed down before starting the bath.
Assemble all the necessary
materials (a soft towel, soft brush, and a shampoo and conditioner formulated especially for cats) before you get your cat. If the shampoo is very thick, you can dilute it with water before use. Just prior to the bath, if your cat allows, place cotton balls in the ears and apply an ophthalmic ointment to protect the eyes. Place a towel in the bottom of the sink or tub to prevent slipping. Be sure the "bathroom" is warm, and that your cat has a warm place in which to dry.
Keep in mind that cats do not like to be restrained; so the less it feels like you are controlling your cat, the better. Speak in soft tones and try to appear calm, since your cat will become more nervous if she senses you are apprehensive. Signs that your cat is anxious include flattening of the ears or whiskers, tail thumping, loud vocalizations, and open mouth panting.
Use lukewarm water. Cats generally dislike sprays, so it is often better to pour water over the cat rather than spraying. If you must spray, avoid hard sprays and spraying near your cat's face. You may want to wrap your cat in a thin towel and wet the coat through the towel, and then apply the shampoo. After shampooing, rinse your cat thoroughly. Rinsing is the most important step. You may need to rinse your cat twice to ensure that all soap is removed from the skin and coat.
Dry your cat gently with a towel. "Blotting" is better than rubbing, especially in longhaired breeds. Longhaired breeds will also benefit from an additional brush-out and time under a blow dryer on a no-heat setting (use only if your cat will tolerate the noise).
If your cat absolutely cannot tolerate being wet, try using a waterless shampoo, or pre-moistened
bath towelettes for pets. You can also give your cat a "sponge bath" with a damp towel.
Remember, starting baths when your cat is still a kitten can help acclimate your cat to being bathed, making future baths faster, easier, and more comfortable for you and your cat.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Its spacious lobby was the meeting place of politicians and oil-rich millionaires.
Its guest rooms and restaurants bustled with the frenetic pace of freewheeling ranchers and drillers.
Its banquet rooms were the boisterous stumping ground of Oklahoma governors and at least four presidents.
The ornate Skirvin Hotel — opened in 1911 just four years after statehood — is the historic social hub of Oklahoma City. One of its oldest surviving structures, the 220,000-square-foot behemoth was a place residents and visitors to the new state wanted to see — and where they wanted to be seen.
The Skirvin's luster, hidden away for almost 20 years as it sat boarded up, will brighten the cityscape once again when it reopens on Monday as The Skirvin Hilton.
Following a $55 million top-to-bottom renovation, the structure's re-emergence as a full-service hotel marks the latest chapter in the Skirvin's 96-year history as well as an inner-city revival that has doubled the number of downtown hotel rooms to more than 1,400 in just seven years.
"It's difficult to completely sell the idea of a renaissance as long as the Skirvin Hotel was boarded up," said Mayor Mick Cornett. "It's further validation that downtown Oklahoma City is not the city it was."
"This is the crown jewel of the MAPS initiative," John Williams, general manager of The Skirvin Hilton, said referring to the Metropolitan Area Projects tax initiative that has financed downtown public improvements and encouraged public-private partnerships like the Skirvin, whose reopening is part of Oklahoma's year-long centennial celebration.
"This is symbolic of everything they wanted to do," Williams said. "We always saw this thing as a gem and a jewel."
Robert Henry, a judge on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and former Oklahoma attorney general, kept a room at the Skirvin for two-and-one-half years shortly before the hotel closed its doors in 1988. Even then, Henry said, the hotel was a playground for national and international stars.
"The Skirvin is a romantic place," said Henry, cousin of Gov. Brad Henry. "People are passionate about it. Its history is inseparable from the history of Oklahoma City."
During his time at the Skirvin, Robert Henry said he rubbed elbows with such luminaries as football icon Joe Namath, opera star Luciana Pavarotti, Dr. Christiaan Barnard, the pioneer heart surgeon, and ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Henry even had dinner one night with comedian and television star Danny Thomas in the Skirvin's restaurant, which he said was the finest downtown.
"If you were in the lobby of the Skirvin Hotel, whatever was going on in Oklahoma City would pass right in front of you," Henry said.
Built by William "Bill" Skirvin, who participated in the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889 and later made a fortune in land and oil, the Skirvin is located a short distance from railroad depots and is an example of the grand hotels that prospered during the golden age of railroad travel, said Bob Blackburn, executive director of the Oklahoma Historical Society.
"If you went anywhere in style and you could afford it, you went by railroad," Blackburn said.
Renovated periodically over the years, including expansion in the late 1920s that added a new wing and raised the hotel's height to 14 stories, the Skirvin struggled in the 1950s and 1960s as railroad travel declined and motor transportation drove residents and commerce to the suburbs.
Closed during the oil bust of 1988, the Skirvin fell into disrepair and was vandalized over the years. Its roof became a roost for pigeons and its once grand lobby a haven for the homeless as the building moved perilously close to the wrecking ball in the 1990s.
Plans to rehabilitate the structure were finalized four years ago by Skirvin Partners LLC, Marcus Hotels and Resorts of Milwaukee and Hilton.
Work has been underway for about 18 months and included replacement of two-thirds of the building's roof, 900 new windows and updated mechanical facilities to bring the structure up to modern standards, Williams said.
"Every pipe, every valve, every wire in this building is brand new," he said.
The hotel will open with 225 guest rooms including 20 suites and a presidential suite. Williams said corporate rates for a standard room will start at $189 a night. Rates for the hotel's rotunda suites will be a little over $300 a night. Weekend rates will begin at $139 a night.
Throughout the rehabilitation project, planners and craftsmen worked to maintain the structure's historical character to qualify for federal and state rehabilitation tax credits that could reduce the cost of the project by up to 40%, said Catherine Montgomery, an historic preservation architect with the state Historic Preservation Office.
"To their credit they went back and put a lot of effort into recovering those details," Montgomery said. "The development team was very cooperative with the tax credit process. They really respected the history associated with the building."
The process included painstaking repair and rehabilitation of the lobby, including 29 hand-carved Bacchus busts accented by gold leafing that peer from the top of structural pillars. Each pillar is enveloped by stained wood.
The lobby's arched wooden entry ways and tile floor are all original to 1911. Ornate art deco tile in the Skirvin's Park Avenue Grill are original to the hotel's expansion in the late 1920s.
Restoration work included four plaster gargoyles perched on lobby pillars near the hotel's new elevators and their original ornamental doors. Two of the gargoyles — complete with thick mustaches and piercing eyes — look suspiciously like Oklahoma's first House speaker and former Gov. William "Alfalfa Bill" Murray.
The Skirvin Hilton will have 18,500 square feet of meeting space including the completely renovated 2,600-square-foot Venetian Room, an elegant former dinner and dance club on the structure's 14th floor, and the 1,444-square-foot Continental Room.
But for all its amenities, Blackburn said the memories stirred among Oklahomans who have slept within the Skirvin's walls will be The Skirvin Hilton's greatest legacy.
"You have several generations of people from Oklahoma — people from Hobart and Woodward and McAlester and Lawton — who came to Oklahoma City and stayed at the Skirvin. We have all of these shared memories."
Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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There are two common purposes in educational evaluation which are, at times, in conflict with one another. Educational institutions usually require evaluation data to demonstrate effectiveness to funders and other stakeholders, and to provide a measure of performance for marketing purposes. Educational evaluation is also a professional activity that individual educators need to undertake if they intend to continuously review and enhance the learning they are endeavoring to facilitate.
Standards for educational evaluation
The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation published three sets of standards for educational evaluations. The Personnel Evaluation Standards was published in 1988, The Program Evaluation Standards (2nd edition) was published in 1994, and The Student Evaluations Standards was published in 2003.
Each publication presents and elaborates a set of standards for use in a variety of educational settings. The standards provide guidelines for designing, implementing, assessing and improving the identified form of evaluation. Each of the standards has been placed in one of four fundamental categories to promote evaluations that are proper, useful, feasible, and accurate.
The Personnel Evaluation Standards
- The propriety standards require that evaluations be conducted legally, ethically, and with due regard for the welfare of evaluatees and clients involved in.
- The utility standards are intended to guide evaluations so that they will be informative, timely, and influential.
- The feasibility standards call for evaluation systems that are as easy to implement as possible, efficient in their use of time and resources, adequately funded, and viable from a number of other standpoints.
- The accuracy standards require that the obtained information be technically accurate and that conclusions be linked logically to the data.
The Program Evaluation Standards
- The utility standards are intended to ensure that an evaluation will serve the information needs of intended users.
- The feasibility standards are intended to ensure that an evaluation will be realistic, prudent, diplomatic, and frugal.
- The propriety standards are intended to ensure that an evaluation will be conducted legally, ethically, and with due regard for the welfare of those involved in the evaluation, as well as those affected by its results.
- The accuracy standards are intended to ensure that an evaluation will reveal and convey technically adequate information about the features that determine worth or merit of the program being evaluated.
The Student Evaluation Standards
- The Propriety standards help ensure that student evaluations are conducted lawfully, ethically, and with regard to the rights of students and other persons affected by student evaluation.
- The Utility standards promote the design and implementation of informative, timely, and useful student evaluations.
- The Feasibility standards help ensure that student evaluations are practical; viable; cost-effective; and culturally, socially, and politically appropriate.
- The Accuracy standards help ensure that student evaluations will provide sound, accurate, and credible information about student learning and performance.
Criticism of educational evaluation
Evaluation in a democratic school
Sudbury model of democratic education schools do not perform and do not offer evaluations, assessments, transcripts, or recommendations, asserting that they do not rate people, and that school is not a judge; comparing students to each other, or to some standard that has been set is for them a violation of the student's right to privacy and to self-determination. Students decide for themselves how to measure their progress as self-starting learners as a process of self-evaluation: real lifelong learning and the proper educational evaluation for the 21st Century, they adduce.
According to Sudbury schools( Riaz Institute of education and research.)..., this policy does not cause harm to their students as they move on to life outside the school. However, they admit it makes the process more difficult, but that such hardship is part of the students learning to make their own way, set their own standards and meet their own goals.
The no-grading and no-rating policy helps to create an atmosphere free of competition among students or battles for adult approval, and encourages a positive co-operative environment amongst the student body.
The final stage of a Sudbury education, should the student choose to take it, is the graduation thesis. Each student writes on the topic of how they have prepared themselves for adulthood and entering the community at large. This thesis is submitted to the Assembly, who reviews it. The final stage of the thesis process is an oral defense given by the student in which they open the floor for questions, challenges and comments from all Assembly members. At the end, the Assembly votes by secret ballot on whether or not to award a diploma.
See also
- Alternative assessment
- Classroom walkthrough
- Competency evaluation
- Criterion-referenced test
- Design Focused Evaluation
- Evaluation methods and techniques
- Knowledge survey
- Norm-referenced test
- Performance evaluation
- Program evaluation
- Standardized testing
- Standardized testing and public policy
- Teacher quality assessment
- ^ Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. (1988). The Personnel Evaluation Standards: How to Assess Systems for Evaluating Educators. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
- ^ Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. (1994). The Program Evaluation Standards, 2nd Edition. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
- ^ Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. (2003). The Student Evaluation Standards: How to Improve Evaluations of Students. Newbury Park, CA: Corwin Press.
- Greenberg, D. (2000). 21st Century Schools, edited transcript of a talk delivered at the April 2000 International Conference on Learning in the 21st Century.
- Greenberg, D. (1987). Chapter 20, Evaluation, Free at Last — The Sudbury Valley School.
- Graduation Thesis Procedure, Mountain Laurel Sudbury School.
|Wikiversity has learning materials about Educational standards organisations|
- American Evaluation Association
- American Educational Research Association
- Assessment in Higher Education web site.
- Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation
- The EvaluationWiki - The mission of EvaluationWiki is to make freely available a compendium of up-to-date information and resources to everyone involved in the science and practice of evaluation. The EvaluationWiki is presented by the non-profit Evaluation Resource Institute.
- Wisconsin Center for Education Research
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Political Expression Guidelines
The University of Iowa is a community that values the free expression of ideas and whose members hold a variety of political and philosophical views. As a public institution we cannot appear to support any particular political party or candidate, and any indication of partisanship on the part of the institution is to be avoided. The concern about the appearance of institutional support for a particular political viewpoint must be balanced against our respect for the rights of individuals to express political views in a manner that does not suggest institutional support. We urge departments and individuals to be respectful of the diversity of beliefs and refrain from displaying any campaign materials that may be seen as implying institutional support for a particular political party or candidate. These guidelines discuss both public areas and personal workplaces.
A public area includes any University property where members of the public may receive services or attend public events. Campaign materials should not be displayed in public areas. Certain common areas within work units may also be public spaces. These are spaces that are shared by multiple employees in the performance of their jobs. Such areas would include break rooms, conference rooms, and reception areas within work units. Because these areas are shared, and are not personal workspaces, campaign materials are not appropriate in these spaces.
Personal workspaces are areas occupied by a single University employee and where other employees or members of the public generally do not enter. Private offices or cubicles, for example, may be personal workspaces. Individual employees may exercise their right to express their political views and display campaign materials in their personal workspaces unless other members of the University community (students, faculty, or staff) regularly enter their personal workspaces to conduct University business. In these circumstances, the occupant of the office must consider whether campaign materials might be viewed as implying University support for that political party or candidate.
Employees are generally prohibited from engaging in political activity during scheduled work hours or when using University equipment. Employees may wear clothes or political paraphernalia that advocate for or against candidates or that expressly advocate for or against ballot issues, provided that such does not compromise workplace safety. However, DEOs may exercise their discretion to enact internal rules that would prohibit the wearing of campaign materials in the workplace. Such rules would then be applied evenly to all those within a particular work group.
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A government counter-terrorism initiative, designed to improve intelligence sharing, has done little to make the country safer, after as much as $1.4 billion in spending, according to a congressional report released last week. The information sharing project’s setbacks illustrates for CIOs the challenge of extracting value from ambitious data analytics and business intelligence projects.
The report found that the Department of Homeland Security’s regional data-sharing sites produced intelligence that was “rarely timely,” “oftentimes shoddy” and seldom related to terrorism.
The more than 70 regional centers, known as “fusion centers,” were designed to allow data sharing between local police and federal agents.
The Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, led by Democratic Senator Carl Levin of Michigan and Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, spent two years interviewing dozens of federal and local officials and examining thousands of pages of intelligence and financial reports from the centers.
The investigation was unable to find any instance of reporting from fusion centers uncovering terror threats, or identify “a contribution such fusion center reporting made to disrupt an active terrorist plot.”
The investigation found the data sharing project was hobbled by poor training of analysts, gathering of irrelevant data–far outside the parameters of the anti-terror mission–and duplication of information already contained in older systems.
Those obstacles would be familiar to many CIOs trying to implement data-intensive business intelligence projects, said John Pescatore, a security analyst at Gartner.
“It’s always easy to keep feeding more and more information,” Pescatore said. “The expensive and difficult part is ensuring the quality of that data.”
Fusion centers grew out of the 9/11 Commission’s 2004 report, which found that intelligence agencies failed to “connect the dots,” or share intelligence across federal bureaucracies and with local police.
In the years that followed, DHS helped fund as many as 77 of the centers designed to help local and state police share “signs of terror,” in systems that could later be reviewed by federal counter-terrorism specialists, according to the report. By pulling in a broader range of raw data, from more diverse sources, the centers were intended to allow better analysis of potential terror threats.
But the system became clogged with mundane policing information, irrelevant observations and “useless reporting,” making it less effective for hunting terror suspects, the report found. Raw information fed into the system included an arrest for cocaine possession, a traffic accident involving an Afghan-born former Army translator and an account by wildlife officials of a Mexican fishing boat that appeared to be speeding towards international waters.
The catch-all approach to information used in fusion centers can wreck business analytics projects, Pescatore said. The ability to pull in growing stores of information can be tempting for CIOs. “But if you are using the wrong data to answer the wrong questions, you are going to come up with the wrong answers,” Pescatore said.
Police have increasingly used the centers for help with local crime, expanding the use of the system beyond counter-terrorism, congressional investigators found.
DHS spokesman Matthew Chandler said in an email the report was “out of date, inaccurate and misleading.” Chandler says the report relies on limited information, several years old, and the reporting process has been improved and streamlined in the years since the investigation began.
The congressional investigation also failed to grasp the role the centers play in “helping law enforcement on the frontlines better protect their communities from all threats, whether it is terrorism or other criminal activities,” Chandler said.
The mission creep that the committee says occurred at the centers is common at big corporations that put new business intelligence programs into place, Pescatore said. Over time, local units begin to feed information that is irrelevant to the original business purpose of the project, Pescatore said.
To prevent a shifting of focus, CIOs need to create short-term progress points, with specific measurable benefits that are assessed annually, Pescatore said. And to “avoid this kind of failure you need to have a standard process–every business unit does things the same way to get to that progress point.”
The problems for CIOs implementing data-intensive projects are often compounded by another shortcoming the report identified at fusion centers: poor training. Analysts at the fusion centers were required to have just one week of training before being deployed on the systems, which handled often sensitive information about U.S. citizens.
The fusion centers system was also criticized for generating information that often duplicated a “faster, more efficient” data system managed by Federal Bureau of Investigation, adding little value. Duplication can often happen when new data systems are brought in without considering that legacy systems may already be supporting the same function. “If the new way of doing things is better than the old system, get rid of the old one. If the new one is not proving to provide any value, you keep the old system,” Pescatore said. “Instead you had two systems running in parallel for years and years.”
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By Tim O’Meilia
The on-again, off-again breakwater project to protect South Palm Beach’s eroding shoreline is back on the drawing board six months after Palm Beach County officials had declared it so much scrap paper.
“Finally, I have some good news,” Leanne Welch, a supervisor in the county’s environmental resources management department, told the Town Council Sept. 20. “We have the go-ahead to restart the environmental impact study.”
The study was halted in March after county officials ended similar plans for a breakwater project on Singer Island; the Army Corps of Engineers opposed breakwaters that protruded from the ocean because of concerns that they would block the paths of turtle hatchlings. Submerged breakwaters are much less effective in preventing erosion.
“I don’t want to go down an avenue that is a no-go, that we already know is a locked door,” said Vice Mayor Joseph Flagello.
Welch said protecting the sea turtle population is less of a problem in South Palm Beach. “We don’t have one-tenth of the sea turtles here that we have at Singer Island,” she said, suggesting that there would be less concern about emergent breakwaters.
Welch and other county officials already have met with federal officials and determined that the study needn’t start from scratch with another scoping meeting, a public hearing and subsequent period for public comments. The meeting was held in March 2010.
As a result of complaints from environmentalists and surfers, engineers modified the plan to include nine groins instead of breakwaters in the area from the Mayfair House to the Ritz-Carlton resort, including in front of the Lantana public beach.
Along the remainder of the 1.3-mile project from Palm Beach to Manalapan, 16 visible breakwaters averaging 120 feet long would be placed 200 to 250 feet off shore.
The nine 115-foot groins in front of the five buildings just north of the Lantana beach would connect to the seawalls and be covered with 100,000 to 200,00 cubic yards of sand. The initial deposit of sand makes the structures more effective, Welch said.
“We don’t want something that looks like an eyesore on our beach,” Flagello said.
Two of the town’s 13 oceanfront condominiums have been evacuated during recent years because of storms, and several buildings have erected seawalls for protection.
Welch estimated the study would take 18 to 24 months. She said the county has set aside its share of the $400,000 cost of the study and later permitting.
South Palm Beach has $1.3 million in reserve for beach projects. Its share of the study is $40,000, 20 percent of the cost.
Neither the county nor the state has any construction money appropriated if the project is permitted. Federal protection for beach projects dropped from $56 million in 2009 to $9 million last year, Councilwoman Bonnie Fischer noted.
Several council members were concerned that the project may never be constructed for lack of money and were reluctant to spend more town money on preliminary studies.
“But then we’ll be shovel-ready,” Welch said. “The fact is there’s no sustainable beach now. We’re looking for the study to evaluate from an environmental, storm protection and recreational perspective what’s our best option.”
Of the ongoing erosion threat, Councilwoman Susan Lillybeck said: “I hope we can figure out a way not to make the situation worse.”
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On_A_Balanced_Budget_Amendment <== PDF version
The idea of adding an amendment to the U. S. Constitution requiring a federal balanced budget has been circulating since the Reagan era. Although it was proposed a few times in Congress over the years, it was never able to attain the required two-thirds affirmation in either House of Congress, which is necessary before any proposed amendment can be sent to the States for consideration. But with the large budget deficits of the past 5 years or so, this concept is coming into fashion again. A recent poll shows that a large majority of Americans now favor such an amendment. Advocates for a federal balanced budget amendment argue two points. First, they point out that most states have this requirement; the logic being, what is good for the states is good for the federal government. Their second argument is that the Congress would be forced to prioritize spending and balance those priorities with tax policies necessary to meet the revenue requirements. It is this lack of restraint, they say, that caused Congress to run up large deficits in nearly every year since the Carter administration. Generally the advocates allow two exceptions to the balanced budget rule: a) when the nation is in a state of war or some emergency; and b) by a supermajority of both Houses of Congress.
It appears to me that a balanced budget amendment is a bad idea whose time has come. First, there is no reason to believe that what is good for the states is necessarily good for the federal government, since they have inherently different duties. States do not have a role in foreign policy; they do not manage wars; they do not manage the currency. All of these pertain to situations relegated to the federal department because they represent existential threats; the cost of combating these, should it ever become necessary, must be paid. More than that, they must be paid regardless of any budget deals made by Congress. As for the stated exceptions, they will either be too restrictive (and thus potentially deadly), or so loose and subject to interpretation as to result in more talk than action. The great fallacy in the whole concept of exceptions is that no mention is made of who shall determine the conditions under which an exception applies consistent with the separation of powers between the President and the Congress. Shall conflicting claims of emergencies be arbitrated by the Supreme Court? If so, we would surrender our fiscal situation to robed masters who may not even understand the question, or who might impose their ideology on the budget. If not, we are back to the usual rhetoric between the President and the Congress — all pain, no gain.
As to the advocates second line of reasoning, I doubt it will actually restrain Congress. Keep in mind that a considerable portion of the federal government’s spending is considered “off-budget”. In this context, “off-budget” refers to expenditures that are not called out on any budget document, including, at the present time, a) Social Security, b) the Postal Service, c) some funding for the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, and d) all of the bailouts. Fortunately, both on-budget and off-budget status is included when calculating the impact on the national debt. But under the proposed amendment, balancing the “budget” will be easy: Congress can simply relocate all the excesses to new categories of “off-budget” spending. It will not force Congress to set priorities in the normal sense of the word.
If any “balanced budget amendment” is to be considered, it must first specify that all revenue and all expenditures by the federal government must be included in the definition of “budget”. Otherwise, Congress will simply continue to expand the fiscal deceptions and fail to make progress on achieving fiscal stability. In order to force Congress to face the actual facts, we should require, if anything, a “zero-deficit” amendment rather than a “balanced budget” amendment.
Sachs/Mason-Dixon, 27 May 2011. The results indicated that a balanced budget amendment is favored by Republicans and Independents by 81% and 68% respectively; even Democrats favored it by 45%.
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Employees' Retirement System & GRIP
The Employees' Retirement System was established in 1965 as a defined benefit pension plan providing benefits to the employees of Montgomery County and other agencies or political subdivisions who elect to participate. The System is closed to employees hired on or after October 1, 1994, except public safety bargaining unit employees and those employees who elect to participate in the Guaranteed Retirement Income Plan (GRIP). There were 5,515 active members and 5,712 retirees participating in the System as of June 30, 2011.
The County established a Trust for the benefit of the members of the retirement system. The Board of Investment Trustees is responsible for the management of the Trust. In investing the Trust, an appropriate balance must be struck between risk taken and returns sought to ensure the financial wellbeing of the System. The Board of Investment Trustees has adopted investment policies that work to manage the risk to which the System is exposed while maximizing the potential for asset growth.
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This spring, because of travel and a conference I attended, I met more than 100 people from many countries. Seventeen in all, from Canada, England, Europe, Asia, and a few others.
Since I knew I was going to meet these people, I decided to conduct an informal survey, sort of an anecdotal review of health care in other countries and how the residents of those countries liked their health coverage. It is not a scientific study; there is no control group and the subjects were not chosen randomly, but the results were interesting nonetheless.
I asked each person the same question. “Tell me about health care in your country and how you like the care you have received.”
Many of the people I met were from Canada, and the age range was 40 to mid-80s. Every one of these people were very happy with the health care they had received in their lifetime, and some of the elderly people had had numerous major illnesses such as cancer, heart surgery, and others. The younger people were also happy with their care, and extremely grateful that they did not have to worry about their parents. They said they had excellent, timely care, and when I asked about all the long lines they laughed. There were waits for some things that were not urgent, they explained, but never long lines.
People from England were also very enthusiastic about their health care. One young woman had a very serious illness that required numerous surgeries and hospital stays. The only problem she had was finding the right specialists who could diagnose and treat her disease. That sounds a lot like here to me — it takes persistence to find the right doctor if you have an unusual illness. All the others, including a diabetic, a heart patient, and many with run of the mill illnesses were happy with the care they received. These were people from cities, the country and small towns, so it covered most geographic areas.
The Europeans were also enthusiastic about their health care, especially the couple from Sweden who explained so much about their system to me. It was certainly not socialistic the way they described it — but there were so many more programs to help women and children stay healthy.
I thought back to the one time I had to go to a hospital in New Zealand, where I know the health care is excellent because I lived there for awhile. After numerous
X-rays, tests, and an overnight stay, they apologized all over the place because they had to charge me $100. Even then, I wondered how much that would cost a visitor to the US.
I know from informal conversations with people in this country that many people are very unhappy with their health care and the costs involved, and these are the people with health insurance. The only ones who seem to be pleased with their health care coverage are those on Medicare. So it makes me wonder — what in the world is wrong with this country and why do we care so little about the health of all our citizens? That is not what capitalism is all about. We need to fight very hard in the next few years to keep the one program that people like — Medicare.
In closing, to find out what you know about the Affordable Care Act, take this quiz at healthreform.kkk.org. Less than 1 percent who took it got all 10 questions correct.
Misinformation keeps you from making smart decisions — so check your knowledge.
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Big as Barney: When Ryan notices how much everyone loves Barney, he tries to be just like him; but he has a hard time filling Barney's shoes. Then Ryan learns that he is special when he's just being himself! Educational theme: Being happy with who you are. Music curriculum: Exploring rhythm while singing. No, No, No!: It's just "one of those days" for Baby Bop! Every time she turns around, someone is telling her "no!" As her frustrations grow, Barney explains that the word "no" can help you avoid making mistakes or getting hurt. Educational theme: Following directions, being polite.
Visit the Website: http://www.pbs.org/barney/
Episode #1111 / Length: 28 minutes
- Monday, June 17th at 11:30 AM on KLRU
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Water down: Lots of rain but still below average
After a dry winter that brought less than half the average precipitation, fears of a drought à la 2002 have been averted by a very wet spring and what's been, to this point, a wetter than average summer season, according to state climatologist Jerry Stenger.
Those spring showers "made nothing short of a huge and very welcome difference," Stenger says, noting that 17 inches fell between late March and late June, bringing groundwater levels up from "disturbingly low" to the normal range throughout most of the area.
With June bringing 90 percent the average precipitation and a soggy, thunderstormy July hitting 150 percent of average rainfall at mid-month– measured at the McCormick Observatory– Stenger says the Charlottesville area ground water is in good shape and overall rainfall for the year has rebounded to reach 10 percent above average.
That's not the case in other places around the state, where rainfall hasn't been so plentiful.
In the Tidewater area, for instance, certain localities have already implemented water use restrictions to stave off supply problems, Stenger says, noting they're now "at the mercy of hit or miss thunderstorms."
But if this area's groundwater's in good shape, there are a few downsides to the ample rainfall.
"Lawns are overgrowing with reckless abandon, and with plenty of areas that don't dry out, mold spores are having a field day," says Stenger, suggesting that rain may actually be something to sneeze at.
"For those of us with allergy problems," Stenger says, "there is a virtual smorgasbord of goodies to attack our sinuses."
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Getting Back to Your Pre-Pregnancy Weight While Breastfeeding
NOTE: If you are NOT breastfeeding, please refer to the Getting Back to Your Pre-Pregnancy Weight article. This information in this article applies specifically to women who are breastfeeding.
The Basics of Pregnancy Weight Gain
During pregnancy, it was beneficial to your baby for you to gain a healthy amount of weight. At the same time, you were encouraged not to gain too much. Of the weight you gain during pregnancy, five to 12 pounds is typically maternal stores (supplies of extra fat that can be used as energy). However, if you gained more weight than recommended during pregnancy, you might have larger maternal stores. The larger the maternal store you have at the end of pregnancy, the harder your weight loss challenge after delivery.
Fat reserves serve as the body's insurance plan for available energy. The human body is designed to protect itself from starvation during times when food isn't readily available. When you eat too little, especially during times that your body requires more energy, such as pregnancy, breastfeeding, or illness, your body perceives itself as starving. Regardless of whether it is perceived or real starvation, your metabolism (the rate at which energy is used) will slow as a coping mechanism so it can preserve energy.
Fat reserves are necessary to make sure the body can continue to function 24/7. Fat reserves ensure energy is always available, even when we are not supplying it through regular meals and snacks. Slowing your metabolism when it's not getting enough fuel if your body's way of rationing those stores of precious fat.
The Basics of Weight Loss after Delivery
Our Post-Pregnancy Eating 101 article provides you with important nutrition information following delivery. Hopefully you have used that information and the links included to reset your BabyFit calorie and nutrient needs while you are breastfeeding. By following these guidelines and eating in your re-calculated calorie range, you should begin to slowly lose weight and return to your pre-pregnancy weight. However, sometimes there are small changes and tweaks that are needed to help the body begin to use the extra maternal stores for breastfeeding energy instead of storing it. The goal is to encourage your body to use maternal energy stores so you return to your pre-pregnancy weight.
Your body was designed to produce milk to feed your little one. Maternal stores serve as a wonderful and constant available energy source to ensure your body can produce milk at the rate and amount your little one needs. Breastfeeding is not only the best way to nourish your little one; it is also the most efficient way to use your maternal fat stores as they were intended. When you breastfeed, your body converts the nutrients you eat into the milk your baby eats. This is a very energy-demanding process and typically requires 750 calories a day more than your body needs to maintain its pre-pregnancy weight. The goal in post-pregnancy nutrition is to encourage the body to dip into those maternal stores slightly. To encourage this process, breastfeeding moms should increase their calories by about 500 calories over pre-pregnancy needs during the first few months. (Find more information here.) When this process works efficiently, it encourages your body to burn approximately 250 calories a day, which is about the same as 30 minutes of mild to moderate cardio activity. Though you might feel like you're eating more than you ever have (and that might be true), breastfeeding--not pregnancy--is the time when you're actually eating for two. Eating adequate calories to produce breastmilk will allow you to see safe, gradual weight loss.
For women having trouble losing weight while breastfeeding, the problem isn't that they're eating too much. More often, they're eating insufficient calories. Cutting calories while breastfeeding prompts the body to think it is starving, thus slowing down your metabolism. Though it seems counterintuitive, eating more calories will actually facilitate weight loss while breastfeeding.
The Basics of Weight Loss While Breastfeeding
Here are some basic principles to help you begin losing weight after delivery while making sure you are producing adequate milk to meet your little one's needs.
Eat balanced meals and snacks every few hours. Newborns generally eat every three to four hours or more often, which means your body is using energy to produce milk that often.
Drink plenty of water. Breastmilk is 50% water, and water is also an important part of the metabolic process. A good rule of thumb is to drink at least eight ounces after every nursing session around the clock.
Hunger cues are the way the body lets you know it is in need of more energy. Do not ignore hunger cues or delay responding, even if you only ate a short time before. If you're hungry just an hour or two after eating, perhaps the meal or snack was high in carbohydrates. Since they are a primary energy source, your body burns through them very quickly. Make sure you also have protein or fat with your carbohydrates to see if this pattern changes and you are satisfied longer.
After you have been released for exercise by your medical provider, it is important to include some into your post-pregnancy plan. Work to establish a fitness routine that gradually increases in frequency and duration. Be sure to include both cardio and strength training exercises that focus on your core. Try to include baby when possible. Strollers or front-of-the-body baby carriers provide wonderful resistance to help get your heart rate up while walking. Get outside or to a mall to walk and spend time with baby. Your little one can also be a great partner for strength training as well. These demos will help you learn how.
Remember that you gained weight slowly and you should lose weight slowly. Don't try to do anything drastic to lose weight faster. Instead, work on establishing healthy eating and fitness habits that will allow you to maintain a healthy rate of weight loss without dieting. Remember it is important to include a variety of foods in your healthy eating plan. (Use the Dietary Guidelines for Americans for help.)
If you are exercising, have a physically demanding or active job, or spend much of your day running around after other children and caring for your home, you may need even more calories than you think. Most times, hunger will help guide your intake to meet these increased needs as you work or care for your family. As long as you are listening to your hunger cues and eating enough to satisfy those cues, you should be meeting your body's needs. A good rule of thumb if you are very active is to eat an additional 100 calories for every mile run or 15 minutes of exercise over and above the increased needs you have for breastfeeding. So, if you run three miles, you'll need to add 300 calories throughout the day.
Some new breastfeeding moms will continue to lose more weight after reaching their pre-pregnancy weight because they have developed an efficient metabolic rate. This may seem ideal, but it can lead to a decrease in milk production, which is not desirable if you hope to continue breastfeeding.
If you want to drop below your pre-pregnancy weight, realize that your body may or may not cooperate. If weight loss was difficult before pregnancy, more than likely, you will have trouble both losing additional weight and providing an adequate milk supply. Instead of focusing on losing weight, consider your return to a pre-pregnancy weight a great success and focus on strength training to increase muscle strength and definition. The added muscle will help boost your metabolism!
Getting the Scale to Budge
Let's face it. Sometimes those last five or 10 pounds don't want to budge. Here are some tips to help problem solve:
If you were a yo-yo dieter or dealt with disordered eating issues before pregnancy, your body might hold on to those maternal fat stores as insurance. Your body remembers all those times it wasn't fueled properly, and given the chance, it wants to guard against that happening again. The best way to prevent this is to eat properly (as outlined above) for the first three months after delivery. Increasing your calories is the best way to get your metabolism going. It may take several weeks of consistently meeting or exceeding your energy needs to get your body to respond by beginning to release those maternal reserves.
It is also important to note at this stage post-pregnancy that stress can have a negative effect on weight loss. Your body's normal "fight or flight" mechanism responds to perceived danger by releasing adrenaline and cortisol to speed up your heart rate, slow digestion and move blood flow to major muscle groups and away from those of the digestive system. If you are rushing through your meals, live under a great deal of stress or get very little sleep, your weight-loss efforts could suffer. Here are some ways to recognize chronic stress and help reduce it.
Sometimes even when people do everything right, they still do not see the scale move. This may be related to hormones, medical conditions or a combination of the two. Sometimes there isn't anything more you can do but focus on maintaining your weight, making healthy food choices and exercising for good health. Once you stop breastfeeding, you can ramp up your weight-loss efforts to see if that helps, noting any symptoms that might be signs of a health issue and talking with your medical provider about what you are experiencing.
Remember that breastfeeding provides your little one with a wonderful nutritional start to life as well as creating lifelong bonding between the two of you. That is something much more important than a number on a scale and provides a wonderful value that is worth the price of a changing body. Don't give up in frustration. Stay focused on what you are doing right and trust that you body will respond as it should to nourish your baby and yourself.
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VIRGINIA GOV. ROBERT F. McDONNELL (R) has moved to gut an obnoxious bill, championed by Republican lawmakers, that would have needlessly stiffened voting requirements for Virginians. The governor’s level-headed move has annoyed his fellow Republicans, but it has also reaffirmed his reputation as a conservative who has governed mainly as a pragmatist — a reputation that propels him to the short list of Mitt Romney’s putative running mates.
Although he didn’t veto the bill, Mr. McDonnell offered a series of amendments whose effect will be to render the legislation all but moot. That’s a good thing, because the voter ID bill is a gratuitously divisive measure whose only effect would have been to invalidate ballots cast by thousands of poor, young, elderly and minority voters.
Under a state law that has worked well for decades, Virginia voters who lack identification may cast ballots anyway, providing they sign an affidavit attesting to their identity. Falsifying the affidavit is a felony under state law.
The law has never posed a problem; there is no evidence or history of any pattern, prevalence or systematic attempt at voter fraud in Virginia. Nonetheless, Republicans insisted that the law be changed. Under their bill, voters lacking ID could cast only provisional ballots, which would not count unless they faxed an ID to voting officials within a day or presented it personally.
Studies have shown that voters who lack identification tend to be disproportionately elderly, young, poor and black. That means the legislation was blatantly anti-democratic as well as anti-Democratic.
Mr. McDonnell’s proposed amendments would scrap the requirement that voters make a separate trek to local election offices to prove their identity. Instead, election officials would automatically compare signatures on provisional ballots with those on file. If the signatures match, the ballots would count. Voters who still wanted to make sure by presenting proof of identity would have two additional days to do so.
In the 2008 presidential election, about 12,000 Virginians lacked IDs when they cast their ballots. That was a tiny fraction of overall turnout — just a quarter to a third of 1 percent of the 3.7 million Virginia voters that day, according to state elections officials. But in a close election — and plenty of Virginia elections have been very close — those voters could easily provide a margin of victory.
Mr. McDonnell knows something about close elections. When he ran for Virginia attorney general in 2005, his margin of victory was so wafer-thin — 323 votes out of almost 2 million cast — that it redefined “wafer.” In that race, the 6,000 or 7,000 voters who lacked identification could have provided the margin of victory.
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NIH grant supports patient-physician communication research
April 6, 2011
Purdue University has received a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study patient and physician communication to improve interactions during physician visits and empower patients to participate actively in their care.
"The time between patients and physicians is precious, and each interaction is different, so this study will explore how communication affects clinical decisions, testing, prescribing and patient outcomes," said Cleveland Shields, associate professor of the Department of Human Development and Family Studies. "Patient-centered communication emphasizes understanding each patient's individual illness experience, needs and preferences, and helps patients participate in decision-making regarding care. Our goal is to improve patient-centered communication and clinical decisions by examining how clinicians can communicate better with patients who may differ according to age, sex, ethnicity and personality characteristics."
The co-principal investigator on the grant is Ronald Epstein from the University of Rochester Medical Center. Also on the research team is Jennifer Griggs at the University of Michigan Medical School and Haslyn Hunte, Purdue assistant professor in the Department of Health and Kinesiology. The grant started March 1.
Physicians, with their prior consent, will complete questionnaires and see "patients." The researchers will be using standardized patients, actors who undergo intensive training to portray patient roles convincingly and consistently, Shields said. These actors will make appointments with participating physicians in such a way that the physician believes that it is a real patient. Each visit will be unannounced and recorded using hidden audio-recorders.
Physicians in Indiana, New York and Michigan will participate in the study.
Shields and Hunte are faculty affiliates of the Purdue Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering, and Shields also is a faculty affiliate of the Purdue Center on Aging and the Life Course, and the Purdue Oncological Sciences Center.
May 29, 2013
Purdue is seeking candidates for a research cluster centered on Prevention of Chronic Disease/Public Health.Read Full Story
April 15, 2013
Information collected from individual patients at doctor's office and hospital visits could be used to improve health care and reduce costs on a national scale, according to a discussion paper released by the Institute of Medicine. As health careRead Full Story
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TESOL and Bilingual Education - Career & Professional Opportunities
TESOL and Bilingual Education are two critical shortage areas in Connecticut. Fairfield's TESOL and Bilingual Education program graduates are in high demand in Connecticut and throughout the region.
The comprehensive curriculum and field placements prepare candidates to work as TESOL teachers in grades K-12, or as bilingual elementary or bilingual secondary content area teachers.
Additional career opportunities include teaching overseas or in adult education.
Learn more about how the University's Career Planning Center can support your post-graduate goals, and how Fairfield's tight-knit alumni network can build career and mentoring opportunities that last a lifetime.
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We Have To Escape
A true, historical novel for young adults
Purchase the book online at:
Royal Fireworks Press
(ISBN: 088092-373-3; 1999; paperback; 185 pages)
support he needs to open up and tell the amazing story he has kept secret all this time. Andras begins with the terrifying
night the Hungarian Secret Police arrested his father and mother in his home town, Budapest, Hungary. He tells the poignant
story of his family's daring and frightening journey to the United States. Knowing they will be shot if captured, Andras and
his family obtain the forged documents needed to leave their shattered city. His boyish hopes for adventure turn into abject
fear the day Andras, his parents, grandfather and three sisters begin their escape. The courageous group must survive the
terror of bullets, border guards and prison as they begin their journey to freedom and acceptance in a new land.
We Have To Escape is a true story of an exciting and terror-filled escape to America. And how, once here, life for Andras
seems to be unjustly cruel as he tries to fit into a strange culture.
Judit Makranczy was born in Budapest, Hungary. Her novel depicts the events of her family.s triumphs and tragedies as
they flee their war-torn country.
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At least 40 million Americans each year suffer from chronic, long-term sleep disorders, and an additional 20 million experience occasional sleeping problems. These disorders and the resulting sleep deprivation interfere with work, driving, and social activities. They also account for an estimated $16 billion in medical costs each year, while the indirect costs due to lost productivity and other factors are probably much greater. Doctors have described more than 70 sleep disorders, most of which can be managed effectively once they are correctly diagnosed. The most common sleep disorders include insomnia, sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, and narcolepsy.
Almost everyone occasionally suffers from short-term insomnia. This problem can result from stress, jet lag, diet, or many other factors. Insomnia almost always affects job performance and well being the next day. About 60 million Americans a year have insomnia frequently or for extended periods of time, which leads to even more serious sleep deficits. Insomnia tends to increase with age and affects about 40 percent of women and 30 percent of men. It is often the major disabling symptom of an underlying medical disorder.
For short-term insomnia, doctors may prescribe sleeping pills. Most sleeping pills stop working after several weeks of nightly use, however, and long-term use can actually interfere with good sleep. Mild insomnia often can be prevented or cured by practicing good sleep habits. For more serious cases of insomnia, researchers are experimenting with light therapy and other ways to alter circadian cycles (regular changes in mental and physical characteristics that occur in the course of a day).
Sleep apnea is a disorder of interrupted breathing during sleep. It usually occurs in association with fat buildup or loss of muscle tone with aging. These changes allow the windpipe to collapse during breathing when muscles relax during sleep. This problem, called obstructive sleep apnea, is usually associated with loud snoring (though not everyone who snores has this disorder). Sleep apnea also can occur if the neurons that control breathing malfunction during sleep.
During an episode of obstructive apnea, the person's effort to inhale air creates suction that collapses the windpipe. This blocks the airflow for 10 seconds to a minute while the sleeping person struggles to breathe. When the person's blood oxygen level falls, the brain responds by awakening the person enough to tighten the upper airway muscles and open the windpipe. The person may snort or gasp, then resume snoring. This cycle may be repeated hundreds of times a night. The frequent awakenings that sleep apnea patients experience leave them continually sleepy and may lead to personality changes such as irritability or depression. Sleep apnea also deprives the person of oxygen, which can lead to morning headaches, a loss of interest in sex, or a decline in mental functioning. It also is linked to high blood pressure, irregular heartbeats, and an increased risk of heart attacks and stroke. Patients with severe, untreated sleep apnea are two to three times more likely to have automobile accidents than the general population. In some high-risk individuals, sleep apnea may even lead to sudden death from respiratory arrest during sleep.
An estimated 18 million Americans have sleep apnea. However, few of them have had the problem diagnosed. Patients with the typical features of sleep apnea, such as loud snoring, obesity, and excessive daytime sleepiness, should be referred to a specialized sleep center that can perform a test called polysomnography. This test records the patient's brain waves, heartbeat, and breathing during an entire night. If sleep apnea is diagnosed, several treatments are available. Mild sleep apnea frequently can be overcome through weight loss or by preventing the person from sleeping on his or her back. Other people may need special devices or surgery to correct the obstruction. People with sleep apnea should never take sedatives or sleeping pills, which can prevent them from awakening enough to breathe.
Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS)
Restless legs syndrome (RLS), a familial disorder causing unpleasant crawling, prickling, or tingling sensations in the legs and feet and an urge to move them for relief, is emerging as one of the most common sleep disorders, especially among older people. This disorder, which affects as many as 12 million Americans, leads to constant leg movement during the day and insomnia at night. Severe RLS is most common in elderly people, though symptoms may develop at any age. In some cases, it may be linked to other conditions such as anemia, pregnancy, or diabetes.
Many RLS patients also have a disorder known as periodic limb movement disorder or PLMD, which causes repetitive jerking movements of the limbs, especially the legs. These movements occur every 20 to 40 seconds and cause repeated awakening and severely fragmented sleep. In one study, RLS and PLMD accounted for a third of the insomnia seen in-patients older than age 60.
RLS and PLMD often can be relieved by drugs that affect the neurotransmitter dopamine, suggesting that dopamine abnormalities underlie these disorders' symptoms. Learning how these disorders occur may lead to better therapies in the future.
Narcolepsy affects an estimated 250,000 Americans. People with narcolepsy have frequent "sleep attacks" at various times of the day, even if they have had a normal amount of nighttime sleep. These attacks last from several seconds to more than 30 minutes. People with narcolepsy also may experience cataplexy (loss of muscle control during emotional situations), hallucinations, temporary paralysis when they awaken, and disrupted nighttime sleep. These symptoms seem to be features of REM sleep that appear during waking, which suggests that narcolepsy is a disorder of sleep regulation. The symptoms of narcolepsy typically appear during adolescence, though it often takes years to obtain a correct diagnosis. The disorder (or at least a predisposition to it) is usually hereditary, but it occasionally is linked to brain damage from a head injury or neurological disease.
Once narcolepsy is diagnosed, stimulants, antidepressants, or other drugs can help control the symptoms and prevent the embarrassing and dangerous effects of falling asleep at improper times. Naps at certain times of the day also may reduce the excessive daytime sleepiness. Scientists believe they will soon identify the gene defect or defects responsible for familial narcolepsy. This may lead to a new understanding of how the brain regulates sleep and new ways of preventing or controlling narcolepsy.
Source: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; February 16, 2000
Books on Sleep Disorders
The Promise of Sleep: A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explains the Vital Connection Between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night's Sleep
William C. Dement, MD, PhD, with Christopher Vaughan
Dell Books / 2000 / Paperback
Power Sleep: The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performance
Dr. James B. Maas
HarperCollins / 1999 / Paperback
Say Good Night to Insomnia
Gregg D. Jacobs, PhD
Owl Books / 1999 / Paperback
No More Sleepless Nights
Peter Hauri, PhD, Shirley Linde, PhD
John Wiley and Sons / 1996 / Paperback
Sleep Thief: Restless Legs Syndrome
Virginia Wilson, edited by Arthur S. Walters, MD
Galaxy Books / 1996 / Paperback
Sleep Disorders Newsletter: athealth.com
National and State Resources
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
American Academy of Sleep Medicine
National Sleep Foundation
Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation
Reviewed by AH: 3/2000
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Austria and Germany can be reached in just a short time, and the region is well situated for excursions to the mountains or on nearby Lake Constance. You couldn’t ask for a more central location, as it is positioned at the centre of the international conjunction formed by Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the Principality of Liechtenstein, allowing you to reach the St.Gallen-Lake Constance region quickly and comfortably.
Coming from Zurich, follow the A1 motorway and take the “Kreuzbleiche” exit for the St.Gallen city centre. To reach Rorschach, follow the A1 in the direction of St.Margrethen and take the Rorschach exit. Within the city, the modern parking guidance system will tell you where available parking spots can be found. Distances: Zurich 90 km, Chur 94 km, Bern 204 km, Munich 264 km, Stuttgart 284 km, Milan 294 km.
There are direct rail connections to St.Gallen every half hour from Zurich’s Main Station and the Zurich Airport. It takes just a one-hour comfortable train ride to reach the St.Gallen-Lake Constance region. There are also direct express trains to St.Gallen from Bern (2 hours), Geneva (4 hours) and Munich (3 hours).
Zurich Airport is just one hour’s drive or train ride (direct rail connection every half hour) from St.Gallen. Additionally, the St.Gallen-Altenrhein Airport, with daily flights to Vienna, is “right at your doorstep,” located just 10 minutes from Rorschach and 30 minutes from St.Gallen.
To travel more independently in our region, you can also reserve a taxi or your own tour bus. You will find the corresponding addresses here.more...
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Anthropol Anz. 2008 Jun;66(2):167-90.
Facial image of Biblical Jews from Israel.
Kobyliansky E, Balueva T, Veselovskaya E, Arensburg B.
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. email@example.com
The present report deals with reconstructing the facial shapes of ancient inhabitants of Israel based on their cranial remains. The skulls of a male from the Hellenistic period and a female from the Roman period have been reconstructed. They were restored using the most recently developed programs in anthropological facial reconstruction, especially that of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Balueva & Veselovskaya 2004). The basic craniometrical measurements of the two skulls were measured according to Martin & Saller (1957) and compared to the data from three ancient populations of Israel described by Arensburg et al. (1980): that of the Hellenistic period dating from 332 to 37 B.C., that of the Roman period, from 37 B.C. to 324 C.E., and that of the Byzantine period that continued until the Arab conquest in 640 C.E. Most of this osteological material was excavated in the Jordan River and the Dead Sea areas. A sample from the XVIIth century Jews from Prague (Matiegka 1926) was also used for osteometrical comparisons. The present study will characterize not only the osteological morphology of the material, but also the facial appearance of ancient inhabitants of Israel. From an anthropometric point of view, the two skulls studied here definitely belong to the same sample from the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine populations of Israel as well as from Jews from Prague. Based on its facial reconstruction, the male skull may belong to the large Mediterranean group that inhabited this area from historic to modern times. The female skull also exhibits all the Mediterranean features but, in addition, probably some equatorial (African) mixture manifested by the shape of the reconstructed nose and the facial prognatism.
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It began with a bulletin from the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles (1/4/06) accusing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of invoking an old anti-Semitic slur. In a Christmas Eve speech, the Center said, Chavez declared that "the world has wealth for all, but some minorities, the descendants of the same people that crucified Christ, have taken over all the wealth of the world."
The Voice of America (1/5/06) covered the charge immediately. Then opinion journals on the right took up the issue. "On Christmas Eve, Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez's Christian-socialist cant drifted into anti-Semitism," wrote the Daily Standard (1/12/06), the Weekly Standard's Web-only edition. The American Spectator (1/6/06) was so excited about the quote, which it called "the standard populist hatemongering of Latin America's new left leaders," that it presented it as coming from two different speeches:
Then more mainstream outlets began to pick up the story. "Chavez lambasted Jews (in a televised Christmas Eve speech, no less) as 'descendants of those who crucified Christ' and 'a minority [who] took the world's riches for themselves,'" the New York Daily News' Lloyd Grove reported (1/13/06). A column in the Los Angeles Times (1/14/06) used the quote to label Chavez "a jerk and a friend of tyranny." The Wall Street Journal's "Americas" columnist, Mary Anastasia O'Grady (1/16/06), called Chavez’s words "an ugly anti-Semitic swipe.”
One can see why the words attributed to Chavez provoked outrage. After all, descriptions of the Jews as a wealthy minority that "crucified Christ" have been an anti-Semitic stock in trade for centuries. But the criticisms of Chavez almost uniformly used selective, even deceptive editing to remove material that put his words in a different context.
Here's a translation of the full passage from Chavez's speech (VoltaireNet, 1/18/06):
The biggest problem with depicting Chavez's speech as an anti-Semitic attack is that Chavez clearly suggested that "the descendants of those who crucified Christ" are the same people as "the descendants of those who expelled Bolivar from here." As American Rabbi Arthur Waskow, who questioned the charge, told the Associated Press (1/5/06), "I know of no one who accuses the Jews of fighting against Bolivar." Bolivar, in fact, fought against the government of King Ferdinand VII of Spain, who reinstituted the anti-Semitic Spanish Inquisition when he took power in 1813. According to the Jewish Virtual Library, a Jewish sympathizer in Curacao provided refuge to Bolivar and his family when he fled from Venezuela.
Most of the accounts attacking Chavez (the Daily Standard was an exception) left the reference to Bolivar out entirely; the Wiesenthal Center deleted that clause from the speech without even offering an ellipsis, which is tantamount to fabrication.
As Waskow further pointed out, in the Gospel accounts, "it was the Roman Empire, and Roman soldiers, who crucified Jesus." While it's true that anti-Semites often accuse Jews of killing Jesus, it's not fair to assert that anyone who refers to the crucifixion of Jesus is attacking the Jewish people.
That Chavez's comments were part of some anti-Semitic campaign is directly contradicted by a letter sent by the Confederation of Jewish Associations of Venezuela to the Wiesenthal Center (AP, 1/14/06). "We believe the president was not talking about Jews," the letter stated, complaining that "you have acted on your own, without consulting us, on issues that you don't know or understand." The American Jewish Committee and the American Jewish Congress agreed with the Venezuelan group's view that Chavez was not referring to Jews in his speech (Inter Press Service, 1/13/06).
In context, the Chavez speech seems to be an attempt by Chavez to link the attacks on his populist government to the attacks on his two oft-cited heroes, Jesus and Bolivar; the "minority" that would link the two would be the rich and powerful minority of society. The reference to "less than 10 percent of the world population" owning half the wealth also makes the idea that Chavez was talking about Jews far-fetched; 10 percent of 6 billion would be 600 million people. (According to the Encyclopedia Brittanica, there are approximately 15 million Jewish people in the world.)
Jim Lobe of Inter Press Service (1/13/06) pointed out the irony of conservative outlets like the Wall Street Journal and the Daily Standard, edited by William Kristol, promoting dubious accusations of anti-Semitism in Latin America:
Lobe pointed out the difference between Chavez's Venezuela and Argentina under military dictatorship: "Unlike Venezuela today, Argentina was then seen by the incoming Ronald Reagan administration (1981-1989) and its neo-conservative backers as a vital Cold-War ally." Surely anti-Semitism is a problem that deserves to be treated seriously, and not used as a pretense to bash official enemies.
Note: Some readers pointed out that before the Weisenthal Center, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency led the attack on Chavez's speech (12/30/05).
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While seagrasses can be damaged by random and unpredictable natural phenomena, following several simple steps can prevent the damage caused by humans.
Each species of seagrass recovers from damage at a different rate, but in general, recovery can take anywhere between a few months to several years. Injuries to leaves and stems are less detrimental than damage to the underground root system, from which seagrasses may not be able to recover.
As Florida's population grows, the number of boats on the water also increases. The negative effects of careless boating on seagrasses are becoming more pronounced, especially in nearshore communities and popular boat access areas. When a boat's propeller cuts through seagrasses, it fragments the bed and can restrict the movement of the species found in that habitat. This loss is detrimental to not only the animals that depend on seagrasses, but to the economy of the area and the state of Florida. The institute's 1995 publication, Scarring of Florida's Seagrasses: Assessment and Management Options, analyzes damage resulting from propeller scars in Florida's seagrass beds. This document includes many GIS-based maps documenting areas where scarring is present, information about the recovery of seagrasses after prop scar damage, and management options that address the problem.
Another important factor to consider when boating is what can happen to personal property when grounding in a shallow bottom area or seagrass bed: vessel engines, hulls, and propellers can be damaged. In addition to towing fees, groundings that cause damage to seagrasses can result in both federal and state fines. The economic and environmental importance of seagrasses has led to regulations that can hold boaters that scar seagrass beds responsible for the costs of assessing damage, restoring habitat, and long-term monitoring of the restored area.
The easiest way to protect seagrasses is by preventing damage in the first place. The tips that follow on how to protect seagrasses are taken directly from the institute's publication, Florida's Seagrass Meadows.
- Be Aware: If you live near the coast or along a river, be careful when applying fertilizers and pesticides to your lawn. Use only the amount of fertilizer required and consider using a slow-release fertilizer. Gutters and storm drains transport excess lawn chemicals to the water.
- Read the Waters: Wear polarized sunglasses when boating to reduce the surface glare to help you see shallow areas and seagrass beds. Polarized sunglasses can also help you see and avoid manatees and underwater hazards.
- Know Your Boating Signs and Markers: Operate your boat in marked channels to prevent running aground and damaging your boat and seagrass beds. Know the correct side to stay on when approaching channel markers. Learn the shapes and markings of signs warning boaters of dangerous shallows and areas where boats are prohibited by law.
- Know Your Depth and Draft: When in doubt about the depth, slow down and idle. If you are leaving a muddy trail behind your boat, you are probably cutting seagrass. Tilt or stop your engine if necessary. If you run aground, pole or walk your boat to deeper water. Never try to motor your way out. This will cause extensive damage to seagrass and may harm your motor. Know the times for your low and high tides.
- Be On the Lookout: Docks, boathouses, and even boats can block sunlight from reaching the seagrass below. When building or repairing a dock, consider building the dock five feet above the water and using grating rather than planks. Extend the dock to deeper water so your boat does not shade seagrass.
- Study Your Charts: Use navigational charts, fishing maps, or local boating guides to become familiar with waterways. These nautical charts alert you to shallow areas so you don't run aground and damage seagrass. Know before you go.
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Posted at 11:22 AM on December 14, 2007
by Craig Edwards
I was bemused when monitoring national press coverage of ice storm earlier this week from Oklahoma to Indiana. Journalist favored a closing sound bite, noting that the official start of winter was still ten days away. Nature operates on her own time table!
While the shortest daylight hours occur on December 22nd, it is a stretch to equate this late December day with the official start of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Temperatures have been down right nippy, when not bitterly cold in much of Minnesota since the waning days of November.
Meteorologists, in an attempt to simplify historical records, cluster the three month period of December through February as the winter season. Indeed, experiencing snowfall, icy winds and sub zero temperatures the last couple of weeks, I’d say winter’s arrival coincided with the meteorologist’s rationale.
To proclaim that the official start of winter comes on the Winter Solstice is to equate the official start of the holiday shopping season on Black Friday. Plenty of shopping takes place well before the Friday after Thanksgiving and a decent amount of winter occurs before the daylight begins to lengthen.
Would it be too arrogant to suggest that journalist call winter when they see it, not assigning the season a specific start up date? From where I sit, I have a hard time believing that the first two weeks of December 2007 could be accurately referred to as late autumn.
I agree with your intent there, Craig. So if the storm happens the day after the solstice, it's a winter storm, but two days earlier, it's a late-fall storm? What's the difference?
Well, sometimes wintry weather can hit early. Recall the Halloween Blizzard. Would one say that winter started on October 31 that year? Especially when nearly all that snow had (officially) melted by Thanksgiving?
I'd like to see the seasons redefined as starting (and ending) on the cross-quarter days, so that the solstices and equinoxes would be in the middle of the season. Summer, to me, should be the quarter (slightly longer due to Earth's elliptical orbit) of the year when the sun is highest in the sky.
Yeah, I know: good luck on that.
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Growing Up LGBT in America: Key Findings
The deck is stacked against young people growing up lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender in America. Official government discrimination or indifference along with social ostracism leaves many teens disaffected and disconnected in their own homes and neighborhoods. With an increase in public awareness about anti-LGBT bullying and harassment and the strikingly high number of LGBT youth who are homeless, in foster care, or living in high-risk situations, it is critical that we get a better understanding of the experiences, needs, and concerns of LGBT youth.
HRC’s report, Growing Up LGBT in America, is a groundbreaking survey of more than 10,000 LGBT-identified youth ages 13-17. It provides a stark picture of the difficulties they face -- the impact on their well-being is profound, however these youth are quite resilient. They find safe havens among their peers, online and in their schools. They remain optimistic and believe things will get better. Nevertheless, the findings are a call to action for all adults who want ensure that young people can thrive.
Learn more about Growing Up LGBT in America by downloading the PDF of the original report. You can also read and download HRC's follow up National Coming Out Day report here.
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A rate charged or paid for the use of money. This rate is expressed as percentage of the total amount or principal borrowed or loaned. Interest rates often change as a result of inflation, economic or other events, or as the result of government policy. Interest rates are very important barometers of the political and financial position of a country, as well as its economic health, and are the indicator of the cost of capital in that country to both companies and individuals.
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Home Air Cleaners - Allergy and Pollution Solutions
Home air cleaners are a good idea, especially if you’re one of the millions of people suffering from allergies, asthma and other respiratory conditions.
These appliances, however, cost anywhere from less than a hundred dollars to over a thousand dollars, so before you spend a dime the words to the wise are “Buyer Beware.”
For more specific detailed information about popular air cleaners, please click on these following links:
Indoor Air Purifier
Discount Air Purifier
An efficient home air cleaner will help reduce typical household pollutants – bacteria, pollen, tobacco smoke, dust and animal dander – down to a thousand times smaller than human hair. Some machines will even destroy molds, viruses and fungi.
But first a warning! Independent testing by Consumer Reports (May 2005) showed that some of the more expensive, highly promoted machines were not very effective. In some cases, the lower priced units worked far better than the more pricier models. And others units were found to emit high levels of ozone, which can cause coughing, wheezing and chest pain, deaden sense of smell and increase sensitivity to pollen, mold and other allergy triggers.
Consumer Reports recommends machines with a high clean air delivery rate (CADR) certification issued by the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM). A CADR rating over 350 is excellent. A rating below 75 is poor.
They also say machines that produce more than 50 parts per billion (ppb) of ozone expose users to potentially harmful high ozone levels. Therefore, you should probably think twice before purchasing an air cleaner with low CADR and/or high ozone or one that doesn’t include these ratings in their sales literature. And never buy a unit based solely on the manufacturer's sales pitch. Always try to get a second independent opinion.
One more thing! Most homes need only one unit per floor to do a good job of keeping the air as clean as possible - especially if there is a fairly open floor plan. Therefore, don't be fooled by the common "buy one and get half off on a second uniit" deal that many purifier companies offer. Place your unit at the end of a room near a door where traffic and air patterns flow and you'll get a lot more efficiency from just one machine.
No matter which machine you choose, the Environmental Protection Agency and the American Lung Association also recommend banning indoor smoking, candle burning, wood fires and scented household cleaners. They also suggest you keep all solvents, pesticides and heavy duty cleaners outside. And, by all means, keep your home well ventilated.
These steps along with a good air cleaner will do much to keep your home free of airborne irritants and make a tremendous difference in the quality of life for anyone with allergies and asthma. Remember, you can’t live without clean air. Your every breath depends upon it.
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Retirement expert Mark Miller urges pre-retirees to be mindful of how age, Medicare, and spousal strategies all interplay
with Social Security benefits.
Tags:Avoid These 3 Social Security Pitfalls,mark miller,morningstar,Retirement benefits,retirement plans,social security benefits,social security tips
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Christine Benz: Hi, I'm Christine Benz for Morningstar.com. By not properly managing Social Security benefits, seniors may forgo thousands of dollars over their lifetimes. Joining me to share three common pitfalls in Social Security is Morningstar contributor Mark Miller. Mark, thank you so much for being here. Mark Miller: My pleasure. Benz: Mark, you say one of the key pitfalls associated with Social Security is that people don't spend enough time calibrating what is the optimal time to start receiving benefits. Let's talk about that one. Miller: Yes. It's important to say there is no one-size-fits-all answer here. It really can vary by situation, but it's important to be aware of the impact of a decision to file early, to file at the full retirement age, or to file beyond. So, your Social Security benefit is determined by a formula called the primary insurance amount, which is a complex Social Security formula for averaging your lifetime earnings, which is in turn what drives what you get from Social Security in the way of benefits. So, to give you an idea of the order of magnitude of the impact of these decisions, the current full retirement age is about 66. If you file at 66, you get your full 100% of your benefit. If you file at 62, which is the first age you could file, you would get 75% of your monthly benefit. Benz: There is a lot of data showing that people do file right at 62. Miller: Many do. At least half of Americans do file early, and there can be good reasons for that. There could be an acute financial need; there could be a sense that their longevity is not going to be great. I'm not saying that's never the right thing to do, but it's just to be aware that your monthly benefit resets down to 75% of which you could be getting by waiting until 66. And then on the other side of that coin by waiting until 70, you would get a 132% of your monthly benefit. There is no point in waiting beyond 70 because the extra credits stop accruing at 70. So, that's the range you're looking at, 62 to 70. The rationale for waiting I would like to say think of it as buying yourself a high-yielding inflation-protected annuity. Benz: Good luck finding that right now, right in the marketplace. Miller: Good luck. You even might find it, but it's going to be darn expensive. And as we know annuities are not yielding much now because of the ultralow interest-rate environment. Social Security benefit formulas are not predicated on interest rates really. So, that's a big plus and the fact that you get the annual inflation increase, which also starts to really compound. Think about that 62 versus 66 or 70, what's that cost of living adjustment going to be computed against? You really take advantage of the power of Social Security by waiting if possible. There's even been good research to suggest that a good strategy can be paying for that delay if you need to by even drawing down from portfolio assets in the short term to pay for living expense. That's actually an excellent portfolio-protection tool down the road because you're getting so much higher Social Security benefits later on that it reduces that need to withdraw as much from your portfolio. Benz: Even though filing later can yield some powerful benefits, you say that those late filers need to be aware of another pitfall. Let's talk about that one. Miller: That's the Medicare pitfall. If you're enrolled in Social Security at age 65, you are automatically enrolled in Medicare, and you'll receive your Part A and Medicare card, which is the hospitalization. If you're not enrolled in Social Security at 65, you have to take the active step of enrolling, and here is the pitfall. If you're not enrolled at 65 and within a certain window of your 65th birthday, you start getting penalized for every year of delay, basically for every 12 months of delay past 65 for Medicare enrollment. It's a 10% penalty on your premiums that you'll pay in Part B, lifetime for every 12 months. Benz: So, that never goes away. Miller: No, it's permanent. And let's say, you made the mistake of waiting five years. You didn't enroll to Medicare until 70. You'd now be looking at a 50% lifetime increase. I mean it's just its painful. So, this is not a pitfall that you want to fall into. You want to make sure you enroll. The only exception is for people who are still working at 65 under certain situations can be exempt from enrolling for Medicare if they are still covered by employer insurance. Medicare is still the primary insurer at age 65, if you're working. If you work for a small business, with fewer than 20 workers, other than that, you can have an exemption from filing, but even there it's important to be careful. Make sure you have paperwork that you've notified Medicare that you're delaying. Some people even advocate going ahead and signing up for Medicare Part A, which is hospitalization, anyway because there is no premium attached. And then you're safe, you know you're in the system at age 65. Benz: Very little downside to it. Miller: Very little downside to it, and you avoid what could be a big downside. Benz: Let's talk about the final pitfall--that has to do with spousal and survivor benefits. What should people be mindful of there? Miller: Right. For couples, it's important to think about Social Security as a couples strategy, and sometimes people fail to do that and kind of have the blinders on it and think instead about their own benefit. But Social Security has really powerful spousal features that are important to be aware of, both spousal and survivor. The survivor benefit is the most simple to understand, which is that a surviving spouse can step up to a 100% of the deceased spouse's benefit in cases where that makes sense. That can be important because now the household has gone from two Social Security payments to one, but at least you can step up to 100% of the higher one if that's appropriate to do so. And then there can be situations with different spousal strategies. So, this involves where one spouse has a significantly higher earnings history than the other over the course of a lifetime and is entitled to a higher benefit. So, one that's fairly well-known is the file-and-suspense strategy, where the higher earner goes ahead and files for benefits at his or her full retirement age, but then immediately suspends payments. That permits the lower-earning spouse to step in and file for a spousal benefit. Benz: And get half of that. Miller: And get half, assuming that spouse is also at full retirement age. You can file below that age, but then you'll receive a reduction for that. So, if you filed for the spousal benefit, you can get half of the spouse's [benefit] to start having Social Security coming in, while the higher-earning spouse delays the filing to accrue additional benefits perhaps to 67, 68, or even 70. So, that's the file-and-suspend method. The other one is a little less-known, some people jokingly refer to it as "claim now, claim more later." Here, the higher-earning spouse delays filing for his or her own benefit and instead files for a spousal benefit for the lower-earning spouse, again just as a way to get some Social Security income coming in the door. Benz: Maybe as early as age 62 for that? Miller: You could do at your full retirement age, let's say 66, and whatever the spousal benefit that's available, you could take that. Benz: So, you're taking the spousal benefit for a period of time. Then at some point… Miller: File for your own. Benz: File for your own. Miller: They are all really versions of the same notion of delayed filing but get some money coming in the door short term. Benz: So, the idea is to get the biggest bang from that? Miller: Yes. It's a way of looking at lifetime bang for the buck. Benz: Mark, obviously there are a lot of different factors to consider here, but thanks for sharing some of the key pitfalls to avoid in Social Security. Miller: Thank you, Christine. Christine: Thanks for watching. I'm Christine Benz for Morningstar.com.
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With the Easter holiday fast approaching, tons of chocolate will soon be consumed. Dr. Dave Woynarowski is asked what the difference is between white, dark and milk chocolate and which is healthier for you.
(PRWEB) March 31, 2009 -- Every year at this time thousands of tons of chocolate Easter Bunnies are unleashed on the world; given as sweet treats for children, and the child in all of us. Some are white chocolate, some are milk chocolate and a few are dark chocolate but they all have one thing in common.
In spite of the innocent and well meaning feelings and traditions behind them, they are basically poisonous to the human body. At least that is the position taken by noted anti-aging expert Dr. Dave Woynarowski MD.
"Chocolates have been changed so much from their original very healthy form into the worst possible combination of highly-refined and man-made ingredients. Our bodies basically have to detoxify from them and treat them like poison!"
While this may seem a harsh judgment of a little harmless looking bunny, Dr. Woynarowski goes on to make the following points:
1) As a treat, the traditional Chocolate Easter bunny is very high in calories and almost completely devoid of nutritional value.
2) The white chocolate versions are even worse. White chocolate is basically the leftovers from making dark chocolate and has no real chocolate in it!
3) Unless the chocolate that goes into your bunny is high in Cacao content, low in fat and sweetened naturally, you are giving and getting a product loaded with refined sugar, no measurable antioxidant value and of course lots of man-made hydrogenated fats.
So what if we want to give a healthier treat? Can we still give chocolates?
"Sure," says Woynarowski. "Just look for a chocolate that has the following characteristics:
A) A high Cacao content; above 65% is best.
B) Cold processed manufacturing rather than traditional manufacturing which involves higher heat and removes the natural anti-oxidant power of chocolates.
C) Chocolates should be sweetened with natural sweeteners like organic cane sugar and Agave syrup, both of which are far less refined and cause far less sugar/insulin spikes in the body.
D) The additional of additional antioxidant flavorings like Acai berry among others to give the chocolate an even healthier outlook."
While you may not find this kind of chocolate in the shape of a bunny, you will love the taste and so will anyone you give it too.
"People who have tried the healthier version of chocolate, love its deep rich flavor. And they love knowing they are helping their bodies instead of causing a world of hurt!
For more information on healthy chocolate, visit Dr. Dave's website at: Chocolate Facts at DrDavesBest.com (http://www.drdavesbest.com/Chocolate_Facts)
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Vermont and the northern New York region. Located in Burlington, Fletcher Allen is a regional, academic healthcare center and teaching hospital in alliance with the University of Vermont.
The aorta, the largest artery in the body, carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body.
The aorta rises out of the left ventricle of the heart (the ascending aorta) and then curves down like an upside-down U (aortic arch). It passes through the chest cavity and the abdomen, ending where it branches into the iliac arteries, which provide blood to the pelvis and legs. Multiple branches come off the aorta throughout its course to supply blood to the various organs in its proximity.
The aorta, like all blood vessels, requires nutrients and oxygen for its survival. Blood vessels are constantly being injured and repaired, absorbing and secreting nutrients and chemicals through junctions in their walls.
Physicians classify the aorta and its branches based on their location within the body. The thoracic aorta is the portion of the aorta in the chest (or thorax), which includes the ascending portion, the arch, and the descending portion of the aorta. This section feeds blood vessels in virtually every structure in the upper body, including the brain, arms, lungs, and diaphragm.
The abdominal aorta is the portion of the aorta that passes through the diaphragm into the abdomen. This section feeds blood vessels to the abdominal organs (stomach, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, and bowel). The abdominal aorta eventually branches into the iliac arteries, which provide blood to the pelvis and legs.
The wall of the aorta contains three layers: the intima, media, and adventitia. The layers have significance both in the aorta's function and the pathology that is found when a disease process interferes with the makeup of the wall.
- The intima is made up of cells that line the blood vessel (endothelial cells), creating a smooth surface for the blood flow. This prevents clots (thrombi) from forming along the surface.
- The media is made up of smooth muscle cells that are flexible, allowing the aorta to expand and contract. It is this layer that provides the muscle and strength to the wall of the artery.
- The adventitia provides more strength to the vessel.
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Hygiene and safety rules to be applied
In electron microscopy, laboratory work requires the handling of chemicals that can be toxic, irritating or allergenic. Indeed, products such as fixatives like the glutaraldehyde or solvents used for sample preparation need to be used with extreme caution.
Gloves and gown must be worn, with all chemicals used in the hood.
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07. What is the definition of a family member?
Subject:Family Medical Leave
Under FMLA, a family member includes a son, daughter, spouse or parent. The OFLA definition is the same, but also includes a parent-in-law and same-gender domestic partner. FMLA protections do not extend to same or opposite-gender domestic partners although OSU sick leave policies do in some instances.
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place in Pallava dynasty
...where they became rulers. Their genealogy and chronology are highly disputed. The first group of Pallavas was mentioned in Prakrit (a simple and popular form of Sanskrit) records, which tell of King Vishnugopa, who was defeated and then liberated by Samudra Gupta, the emperor of Magadha, about the middle of the 4th century ce. A later Pallava king, Simhavarman, is mentioned in the Sanskrit...
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France to probe cancer link to genetically modified corn
- From: AFP
- September 20, 2012
FRANCE'S government has asked a health watchdog to carry out a probe, possibly leading to EU suspension of a genetically-modified corn, after a study in rats linked the grain to cancer.
Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll, Ecology Minister Delphine Batho and Health and Social Affairs Minister Marisol Touraine said they had asked the National Agency for Health Safety (ANSES) to investigate the finding.
"Depending on ANSES' opinion, the government will urge the European authorities to take all necessary measures to protect human and animal health," they said in a joint statement.
"(The measures) could go as far as invoking emergency suspension of imports of NK603 corn to Europe pending a re-examination of this product on the basis of enhanced assessment methods."
NK603 is a corn, also called maize, made by US agribusiness giant Monsanto.
It has been engineered to make it resistant to Monsanto's herbicide Roundup.
This enables farmers to douse fields with the weedkiller in a single go, thus offering substantial savings.
Genetically modified (GM) crops are widely grown in North America, Brazil and China but are a hot-button issue in Europe.
The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Food and Chemical Toxicology, says it is the first to look at rats over their normal lifespan of two years.
"For the first time ever, a GM organism and a herbicide have been evaluated for their long-term impact on health, and more thoroughly than by governments or the industry," Seralini told AFP. "The results are alarming."
Two hundred male and female rats were split into 10 groups of 10 animals.
One was a "control" group which was given ordinary rat food that contained 33 percent non-GM corn, and plain water.
Three groups were given ordinary rat food and water with increasing doses of Roundup, reflecting various concentrations of the herbicide in the food chain.
The other six were fed rat food of which 11, 22 or 33 percent comprised NK603 corn, either treated or not with Roundup when the corn was grown.
The researchers found that NK603 and Roundup both caused similar damage to the rats' health, whether they were consumed together or on their own.
Premature deaths and sickness were concentrated especially among females.
At the 14-month stage of experiment, no animals in the control groups showed any signs of cancer, but among females in the "treated" groups, tumours affected between 10 and 30 percent of the rodents.
"By the beginning of the 24th month, 50-80 percent of female animals had developed tumours in all treated groups, with up to three tumours per animal, whereas only 30 percent of controls were affected," it said
Males which fell sick suffered liver damage, developed kidney and skin tumours and digestive problems.
Breaking with a long tradition in scientific journalism, the authors allowed a selected group of reporters to have access to the paper, provided they signed confidentiality agreements that prevented them from consulting other experts about the research before publication.
Asked to respond, the French unit of Monsanto said "it is too soon to make a serious comment because we have to evaluate the study. As soon as it is available, our experts will look closely at it to give their scientific assessment."
Green groups say GM crops could be dangerous to health and the environment, although this claim has so far found no traction in large-scale studies.
The Monsanto spokesman said that "more than 300 peer-reviewed studies" had found that GM food was safe.
In 2009, the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) panel on GM organisms determined that NK603 was "as safe as conventional maize".
"Maize NK603 and derived products are unlikely to have any adverse effect on human and animal health in the context of the intended uses," it said, delivering a judgement based in part on a 90-day feeding study on rats.
NK603 can be imported but cannot be grown in Europe.
Only Monsanto's MON810 transgenic corn and a gene-modified potato, Amflora, made by BASF, have authorisation for being grown in Europe.
However, Austria, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Hungary, Luxembourg and Romania have outlawed the growing of MON810 on their territory, citing the principle of precaution.
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At the end of the mind blowingly counterintuitive post The More Dependent on the Government You Are, the More You Want to Cut It! I asked,
Anyone have any ideas as to what could be going on?
But why do regions that rely on the safety net elect politicians who want to tear it down? I’ve seen three main explanations.
First, there is Thomas Frank’s thesis in his book “What’s the Matter With Kansas?”: working-class Americans are induced to vote against their own interests by the G.O.P.’s exploitation of social issues. And it’s true that, for example, Americans who regularly attend church are much more likely to vote Republican, at any given level of income, than those who don’t.
Still, as Columbia University’s Andrew Gelman points out, the really striking red-blue voting divide is among the affluent: High-income residents of red states are overwhelmingly Republican; high-income residents of blue states only mildly more Republican than their poorer neighbors. Like Mr. Frank, Mr. Gelman invokes social issues, but in the opposite direction. Affluent voters in the Northeast tend to be social liberals who would benefit from tax cuts but are repelled by things like the G.O.P.’s war on contraception.
Finally, Cornell University’s Suzanne Mettler points out that many beneficiaries of government programs seem confused about their own place in the system. She tells us that 44 percent of Social Security recipients, 43 percent of those receiving unemployment benefits, and 40 percent of those on Medicare say that they “have not used a government program.”
Presumably, then, voters imagine that pledges to slash government spending mean cutting programs for the idle poor, not things they themselves count on. And this is a confusion politicians deliberately encourage. For example, when Mr. Romney responded to the new Obama budget, he condemned Mr. Obama for not taking on entitlement spending — and, in the very next breath, attacked him for cutting Medicare.
What do you think? Does he explain it? (And don't forget to check the comments on the original post.)
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Last night I was contemplating how traders who are unfamiliar with futures should think about the forthcoming VIX ETNs relative to the VIX index that many are already (somewhat) comfortable with.
Since the VIX ETNs are based on VIX futures with constant maturities of one month and five months, it is important that an understanding of these new volatility products be rooted in an appropriate concept of time. The first analogy that sprung to mind was that traders might consider the difficulty of guessing not just where a stock will be in another month, but where the 30 day moving average of that stock will be a month hence. Why? Because the 30 day moving average is smoothed and will not react as quickly to changes in the price as the underlying will, just like VIX futures vs. the VIX. (VIX Futures: The One Picture to Remember drives home this point in a succinct and memorable fashion.)
The more I think about it, however, the more the idea of moving averages as a proxy for futures movement may be one step too far removed from the VIX ETNs to bring some clarity to these new products. For that reason, I pulled together two graphs of the history of the VIX going back to 2007. In the top graph, I have a simple plot of the VIX (red) and the value of the VIX 21 trading days later (dotted blue). The key takeaway is that a lot can happen in 21 days. While the cash/spot VIX and the VIX front month futures rarely vary by more than 5%, investors might be surprised to learn that the difference between the VIX and the VIX +21 days was frequently as much as 30-50% (6-15 points per the gray line) during the relatively calm 2007. In 2008 we learned that the VIX was capable of moving more than 20 points in one month with surprising frequency, even getting 46 points out of line in late September.
The bottom chart adds the VIX +105 days to the mix. Most investors should consider that while their mind is anchored on the cash/spot VIX plotted in red, the reality is that in 21 and 105 days, almost anything can happen. That idea, along with a healthy understanding of mean reversion, should help the non-futures investor think about the new VIX ETNs.
[graphics: VIX and More]
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