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July 23, 2011 (Kearny, NJ) A video excerpt, from the documentary film by Vic Losick which has now been removed from You Tube by its poster, has sparked a heated discussion about the Big Bang Theory on KearnyOnTheWeb's Discussion Board. It isn't clear why the original video was removed from You Tube but KOTW was able to locate an updated version of the original video on You Tube.
Here is a sample of the posts to the Kearny Discussion Board "In God We Teach documentary excerpt" discussion thread:
"While Mr. P. or any other teacher should not be teaching their religious beliefs in the Kearny Public Schools, the Big Bang theory could not have existed with the elements to make the Big Bang happen. Like where did the matter come from? Whether you like it or not everything has to have come from somewhere.
Now, when it comes to teaching the youth of America, the Big Bang theory seems to be the scientific thought of choice. I think educators should explore the theory of: "How could there be a Big Bang just like that?" Science does not have the answer to where the matter came from for the Big Bang. If you are going to preach the Big Bang theory, why not preach the other non-scientific beliefs as well? As no human was around when the supposed the Big Bang happened, why could that be just what it is said to be, just a possibility."
There are those who feel strongly that Kearny High School Teacher David Paczkiewicz should not be teaching and point out why they hold that belief:
"Paszkiewicz violated those basic rules. His arguments were illogical, deceptive and not based on facts or reason. He misused his authority to browbeat the students into agreeing with him, and when one student did not agree, instead of backing away, P told the students that if they did not agree with him, they belonged in hell. When confronted, he lied about it, not realizing that his words were recorded.
What does that tell you about the man? You can argue that he could get away with that statement in a religious school but that misses the point. He wasn't in a religious school and he lied about it when confronted. As you point out, he was in a public school where he should not saying such things in the first place, much less lying about it. He also told one Christian student to ignore his parents and his pastor on a religious point and listen to him. He told Matthew that if he was sincere, he would put his finger in Jesus' side, even though he obviously knew by then that this was completely contrary to Matthew's religious beliefs and upbringing.
The point is that Paszkiewicz cannot control himself. He is on a one-man crusade to save the world by any means necessary, even if it "requires" him to lie, intimidate, bully and deceive. He is arrogant to the point of telling students to ignore their parents and listen to him on matters of religion. And he will break basic rules of pedagogy (accepted educational methods) to do it. Even if he was in a religious school and some student had a different view of the same religion than he has, you couldn't trust him as a parent not to browbeat the kid. Now come on, you really think that someone like that belongs in a classroom where students have to learn something besides religion? I don't."
The above excerpts are only two examples of the Discussion surrounding the controversy sparked by then Kearny High School Student Matthew LaClair's recording and confrontation of David Paczkiewicz about in classroom statements which he felt crossed the line into preaching personal religious beliefs.
Join the Discussion by visiting and posting on our Discussion Board.
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Tourism industry leaders in Bonaire are well on the path to achieving their goal of becoming the world’s first carbon-neutral island destination. Tourism Corporation Bonaire (TCB) and Sustainable Travel International have set in motion a project to calculate, reduce, and offset the carbon footprint associated with travel and tourism to and within Bonaire in order to mitigate the negative environmental impacts. With the assessment of Bonaire’s carbon footprint complete and an educational program targeting businesses, tourists and residents in place, TCB and other stakeholders are now focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and offsetting unavoidable emissions.
- Establish Bonaire as the first destination in the world with a carbon neutral tourism industry
- Create and implement a strategy to help reduce existing tourism-related greenhouse gas emissions
- Engage local stakeholders in the public and private sectors
- Create effective branding and educational marketing collateral to further establish Bonaire as a green, low-carbon destination
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- Evaluated existing policies and programs that support reforestation, renewable energy and energy efficiency in Bonaire
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The American Expedition, under Commodore Perry, Landing in Japan July 14th, 1853
New York: Hatch & Severyn, Lithographers and Printers; and published by George S. Appleton, 1853. Hand-colored lithograph, 15½ x 21¼ inches. Neatly repaired tears in the upper portion of the image (in the sky). Lower margin shaved with loss to imprint, small abrasion near the imprint line.
A very rare and important American historical print, and a rare image of Perry's Japan Landing
This quite rare and important image depicts the magnificent ceremonial entrance of Commodore Matthew Perry and his marines to the court of the Japanese imperial commissioners at Uraga, Japan, the historic first American landing on Japanese soil. The American journalist and poet, Bayard Taylor, an important civilian member of Perry's expeditionary force (actually serving as "master mate" at Perry's official order), ably describes the great scene in his caption for the print: "The officers comprising the Commodore's escort formed a double line from the jetty and, as he passed between them, fell into the proper order behind him. He was received with the customary honors, and the procession immediately started for the place of reception. A stalwart boatswain's mate was selected to bear the broad pennant of the Commodore, supported by two very tall and powerful negro seamen completely armed. Behind these, followed two sailor boys bearing the letter of the president, and the Commodore's letter of credence in their sumptuous boxes, wrapped in scarlet cloth; then came the Commodore himself, with his staff and escort of officers. The marine force, a fine athletic body of men commanded by Major Gillen, with a detachment of the 'Mississippi' under Capt. Slack, led the way, and the corps of seamen from all the ships brought up the rear."
Charles Severyn, artist and lithographer, was a printmaker in New York circa 1845-60s. He usually worked independently, but was occasionally employed by Currier & Ives, and sometimes partnered in lithographic firms, notably with Eliphat Brown (ca. 1851-53) and George W. Hatch (1853-54). Severyn's image ably represents the pomp and excitement surrounding Perry's landing.
Peters, America on Stone, p.363, this image illustrated as plate 64; Who Was Who in American Art (Madison, Ct., 1999) III, p.2979; Groce & Wallace, p.569.
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Hoes is the plural form of the word hoe. The word hoe is originally used to describe a certain type of garden tool that is used to help break down dirt on the ground and to destroy weeds, in order to better a garden. Over the past few decades the word hoe has been used to describe a woman who’s job identifies with being a prostitute or a whore. More recently the word hoes is used to describe a group of females who act in a manner unbecoming, and who are fairly promiscuous without a care in the world. The word hoes is used a lot in hip hop music to speak of how certain females act in different situations. Most women think of the word hoes as an offensive slander and if called a hoe, many women are angered. Hoes is also a term used to describe men who are promiscuous as well, though many men that are called hoes do not seem to take this derogatorily.
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About 5,000 patients taking the prescription painkiller methadone die every year from the drug — the vast majority from accidental overdoses — and they account for about 1 in 3 deaths in the United States from prescription opiates, according to a new government report. Many of these deaths could be prevented if doctors curtailed prescribing this drug, said the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the report released Tuesday. The agency said the number of deaths from methadone overdose had risen sixfold over the past decade but decreased slightly since 2007. That could indicate that more doctors are following US Food and Drug Administration recommendations to prescribe the drug for pain relief only after other opiates fail to work. Methadone is also used to treat heroin addiction, but the CDC report focused only on the4 million methadone prescriptions written annually for pain relief. In Massachusetts, methadone prescriptions account for 9 to 11 percent of prescription painkillers dispensed in the state, according to the CDC report, compared to a national rate of 9 percent. D.K.
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Cosentino, the world leader in quartz surfacing and one of the world’s largest natural stone importers, announces the launch of ECO™ by Cosentino (www.ecobycosentino.com), a revolutionary new line of countertop and surfacing material composed of 75% recycled material. The launch of ECO™ by Cosentino sets an unprecedented standard for the green building and sustainable design industries.
The result of a six million dollar research and development investment, this innovative new product caters to the environmentally conscious and design-oriented architect, designer, and consumer by providing high performance, design and sustainability. ECO™ by Cosentino entered the market in April 2009, and is available at all Lowe’s stores nationwide as well as specialty kitchen and bath distributors and showrooms across the country. As the first green countertop with mass availability, ECO is a leading example of green becoming mainstream, accessible, and affordable.
“The launch of ECO by Cosentino is an exciting milestone for the company,” said Roberto Contreras, Jr., President of Cosentino North America. “It marks the introduction of an entirely new category to the industry and sets a new standard that not only complies with environmental regulations but goes beyond and invests in innovative environmental and conservation practices and technologies.”
ECO™ by Cosentino is composed of 75% post-industrial and post-consumer recycled raw material, including: mirrors salvaged from houses, building and factories; glass from windows and bottles; granulated glass from consumer recycling practices; porcelain from china, tiles, sinks, toilets and decorative elements; and industrial furnace residuals from factories in the form of crystallized ashes.
By utilizing these recycled materials, Cosentino is “upcycling” products that have reached the end of their lifecycle – meaning that they cannot be incorporated in to any other industrial product and would otherwise collect in landfill sites. According to Cosentino, approximately 3000 glass bottles equals 1Tn of raw materials. The production of ECO™ by Cosentino is expected to re-use the equivalent of 60,000,000 glass bottles every year. Reutilizing this huge amount of material prevents it from building up at landfills year after year, and reduces the need to mine for new resources. Moreover, for every square foot of ECO by Cosentino utilized, consumers are helping to save the same amount or more of natural resources.
The recycled content is then mixed with 25% natural material including: stone scrap from mountains, quarries, manufacturing, and fabrication; and is bonded together with a proprietary eco-friendly resin made in part by corn oil and resin. This pioneering resin is the result of a major research and development initiative, and is unmatched in the market today.
ECO™ by Cosentino’s unique make-up of recycled materials combined with natural elements is achieved through state-of-the-art technology and delivers a hard durable surface that has high stain, scratch and scorch performance. Unlike concrete-based countertops, ECO is a non-porous surfacing material and does not require sealers.ECO by Cosentino matches the sophisticated look, feel and high performance of quartz composite surfaces and natural stone surfaces such as marble and granite- but unlike granite it is far less damaging to the earth.
ECO™ by Cosentino is available in jumbo slabs of 63”x 128” and standard tile sizes of 12”x 12”, 18”x 18” and 24”x 24”. The jumbo slabs allow for a higher square footage of material per container, therefore minimizing the product’s carbon foot print, and provide a higher yield of material during fabrication, minimizing seams and waste. The slabs are available in 1.2cm, 2cm and 3cm thickness to respond to varying market needs. Architects and building teams will gain points toward LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council for a building project that utilizes ECO™ by Cosentino surfacing. ECO™ by Cosentino is GREENGUARD certified for low chemical emissions.
“ECO by Cosentino closely matches the superior durability of quartz surfaces, exceeds the performance of more conventional materials such as granite and marble, and is dramatically less damaging to the environment. It is the ideal product for today’s eco-minded consumer who seeks performance and sustainability, without sacrificing design,” said Valentin Tijeras Garcia, Director of Product Innovation, Cosentino.
At launch, ECO™ by Cosentino is available in two sophisticated color palettes - the Revive collection and the Green collection - totaling 10 individual designer colors, suitable for both commercial and residential projects. It is also available in both a polished and a matte Leather Texture™ finish.
Commitment to the Environment
Cosentino is committed to the continuous improvement and development of eco-friendly processes through innovation and technology. As the market for green products grows exponentially, the growth of the company is directly linked to its green practices that respect, protect and rebuild the environment - from the early stages of mining and sourcing raw materials, through to product manufacturing, distribution, fabrication and installation.
In the creation of ECO, Cosentino has advanced its environmental standards to a new high, including: minimizing dust emissions in all phases of production; purifying 99% of Volatile Organic Compound (VOCs) factory emissions; optimizing water usage through water reclamation processes that allows the company to use 94% recycled water in production processes; and pursuing quarry restoration and mountain reforestation under strict stewardship programs. In addition, all of the packaging and marketing materials created for the promotion of ECO are eco-friendly, made from recycled materials. As an industry world leader, Cosentino will apply these new standards across the board to all its full portfolio of existing products, including Silestone®
This press release is presented without editing for your information. Natural Home & Garden does not recommend, approve or endorse the products and/or services offered. You should use your own judgment and evaluate products and services carefully before deciding to purchase.
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This mosaic shows extraordinary details of tectonic deformation in the fractured south polar region of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, where jets of water ice spray outward to form Saturn's E ring. The images were captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.
This image and others like it from the close flyby of Enceladus on Nov. 21, 2009, are among the best visible light images Cassini will capture of the region around the “tiger stripes,” the fissures that spray icy particles, water vapor and organic compounds, before the moon's south polar region enters winter darkness for the coming years. Cassini scientists will use these new images to study geological activity associated with the tiger stripes and their effects on the surrounding terrain. See Baghdad Sulcus in 3-D and Bursting at the Seams to learn more.
In this view, three prominent tiger stripe fractures extend from the bottom center of the mosaic upwards toward the center. From left to right, they are Alexandria Sulcus, Cairo Sulcus, and Baghdad Sulcus. Across the middle of the image, near the northern end of the tiger stripes, a conspicuous pattern of parallel 90-degree bends has formed. The bends curve along similar paths, that is, starting in a direction parallel to tiger stripes at one end and turning perpendicular at the other. Changes in the nature of regional tectonic stresses presumably cause the bends and narrow ridges to form perpendicular to tiger stripe direction. Analyzing systematic tectonic patterns like these throughout the south polar region may lead to an understanding of the forces and mechanism that drive Enceladus' activity. See Baghdad and Cairo Sulci on Enceladus and Jet Blue to learn more.
This mosaic was created from six images that are also part of a larger mosaic (see New to Old on Enceladus ). The images were re-projected into orthographic map projection. This view looks toward south polar terrain of Enceladus (504 kilometers, 313 miles across). This view is centered on terrain at 73 degrees south latitude, 54 degrees west longitude.
The images were obtained in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Nov. 21, 2009. The view was obtained at distances of approximately 3,200 kilometers (2,000 miles) to 7,000 kilometers (4,300 miles). Image scale is about 18 meters (58 feet) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
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Legislation Seeks A Green Payoff To Offshore Drilling
Legislation proposed by a GOP congressman could pour billions into renewable energy over the next decade, letting green energy producers themselves bid on what gets funded.
Rep. Devin Nunes’ (R-Calif.) who introduced the bill, in late July, wants to use a reverse auction process to allocate future federal oil royalties to the best renewable energy projects and technologies, with the lowest-price-per-megawatt, (MW), bid winning funding.
“It’s clear and transparent; the people with the best technology will get the help,” Nunes says of the bill, dubbed “A Roadmap for America’s Energy Future,”
Depending on how much territory is eventually opened up to drilling, research firms estimate the royalties could be worth $10 billion to $50 billion a year.
Nunes says the plan could “potentially provide hundreds of billions in financing” for renewable energy over the next several decades.
Renewable energy advocates are cautiously optimistic, partly because the proposal comes from the Republican camp..
“This proposal is a positive step forward,” says Jesse Jenkins, director of energy and climate policy at progressive think tank The Breakthrough Institute. “It’s a sign that smart investments to boost U.S. clean energy production [and] spur innovation to reduce the price of emerging clean energy technologies are points that can enjoy bipartisan consensus.”
The proposed auctions would work alongside the existing grab-bag of subsidies for renewable energy, but clean energy developers and technology firms bidding in the auction would be barred from using those programs.
With bidders’ sizes likely to run the gamut, from start-up firms with new technologies to established utilities likePG&E and NextEra Energy Nunes would divide the auction into three sizes--less than 3MW in generation, 3-10MW, and over 10MW.
He says the concept should incentivize newer technologies that could dramatically reduce energy costs over time, while keeping developers of utility-scale power plants that use cheaper sources of green energy, like wind, from scooping up the entire auction.
Despite the potential gold rush for renewable energy the fund could inspire, analysts say in the wake of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico some in Washington may balk at Nunes’ plan because it only applies to new royalties,
That means expanded offshore drilling, including opening up the contentious Arctic National Wildlife refuge, as well as oil shale deposits.
Jenkins, for instance, says a $5/barrel fee on oil that's currently produced domestically could raise $40 billion a year, amounting to an increase of 12-15 cents per gallon at the pump – while safeguarding American waters from new drilling.
“That's small change,” he says. “And it’s within the regular ‘noise’ of fluctuating gas prices.”
There is also the issue of timing. The American Petroleum Institute estimates new offshore fields would yield oil in 10-15 years if work began today. That's a long time for renewable energy proponents to wait for financing.
Nunes has a solution to that.
With the royalties system in place currently, he says “bonus” fees would be paid up front for some new drilling, kick-starting the fund within two years.
While this proposal is unique, the use of auctions to spur energy and environmental improvements isn’t new.
Similar auctions already harness market forces to reduce greenhouse gases and increase energy efficiency efforts.
"A reverse auction is the most efficient way to award this financing," says Domaleski. “It is also the fairest, and it can be designed to level the playing field, " says Richard Domaleski, CEO of World Energy , which builds and manages energy- and carbon-related auction platforms.
He adds that reverse auctions allow the organizers to set values on key parameters—project size, jobs created, geographic location, or whatever may be important—and then tailor bidding to that.
The auction process would also be cheaper, he says, with auction fees typically around 2 percent of the awarded amount, versus the 7 percent of or more in managing manage applications for tax credits and other traditional subsidies.
Despite interest in similar auctions in the past from Democrats, Nunes’ co-sponsors are all Republicans, including Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID), Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) and noted deficit hawk Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI).
Nunes admits his bill is unlikely to attract a Democratic sponsor before the election, never mind get anywhere in the dying days of this Congress. However, a previous incarnation of his reverse auction concept in 2004 attracted the support of ten 10 Democrats, so he hopes to see some of them back on board after the midterm.
Bipartisanship support is crucial, says Jenkins..
“Regardless of what you believe about the urgency or importance of climate change, we can agree that making more clean, American energy, making it more affordable, and making it right here in the USA are all in the national interest,” says Jenkins.
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Tue August 26, 2008
Gay Marriage Ballot Wording Changed
By Howard Fischer
Phoenix, AZ – Voters will be told when they go to the polls that it is already illegal for gays to marry in this state -- maybe. Arizona Public Radio's Howard Fischer explains.
Secretary of State Jan Brewer originally did not want that
mentioned in the description of Proposition 102 she is required
to craft for the ballots. That measure would constitutionally
define marriage in Arizona as between one man and one woman.
Brewer had called the reference to the 1996 law confusing. When
Attorney General Terry Goddard refused to go along, she sued. On
Tuesday the two sides agreed to compromise language which does
mention the law, but in a way Brewer found acceptable. But that
isn't the end of the story. Late Tuesday backers of Prop 102
filed their own lawsuit against both Goddard and Brewer to strip
any mention of the existing law from the ballot description
despite their deal. Sen. Ron Gould whose legislation put the
issue on the ballot said there is no need to mention the statute.
(That's not what we voted on in the Legislature. We voted on
wording. We voted on the ballot question. And the attorney
general's trying to manipulate the ballot question and confuse
Backers of Prop 102 say the statutory ban is irrelevant because
it won't mean anything if a court decides that gays have a
constitutional right to wed. That's exactly what happened when
the California Supreme Court overturned that state's ban on same-
For Arizona Public Radio this is Howard Fischer.
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Online CPD recording
From April 2012, veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses will be able to record their continuing professional development (CPD) online, via a new system provided by the RCVS.
The online system should aid practice managers in ensuring that the vets and RVNs in their practice are properly recording the CPD they carry out, and are planning their CPD in order to gain maximum benefit from it.
The new system, which will be part of the Professional Development Record, will allow include a diary, notes section and upload facility, and will be available to all, free of charge.
It will enable users to share a summary of their CPD with their employer (for example, for a Practice Standards inspection).
It will not be compulsory to use the online system: the traditional RCVS CPD record card will remain available from RCVSonline.
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If you’re anything like me, then the transition to CD for music was a fantastic event many years ago. The music sounded better, switching between tracks was a breeze, and the discs were a lot more hard wearing than cassette tapes.
But in making the transition I was also left with a lot of old tapes, both commercial music tapes and blanks I had used to record the radio. You may even have some with memorable recordings on made by yourself that you just couldn’t get on CD.
Mine have been in a box gathering dust ever since CDs arrived, but now there is a very cheap and simple way to save the audio they hold. Japanese gadget maker Thanko has created a cassette tape to MP3 converter that takes the form of an old portable tape player like the old Walkmans.
It is called the Cassette Mate and connects to a PC through a USB port. An included piece of software then gives you a range of options for recording the audio as the tape plays and stores it on your hard drive as an MP3 file. It even detects the pause between songs and splits them up into tracks if desired.
While most of your old tapes might not be worth saving, I bet there’s a few that are. The good news is the Cassette Mate only costs $30 and runs off of 2 AA batteries, so even for a couple of tape recordings it’s not going to break the bank.
The only thing this device is missing is the ability to plug some headphones in and use it as a conventional portable player. It certainly has a nice retro look about it, so it’s a shame Thanko didn’t think to include that as a feature.
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|NHLBI Study: High Blood Pressure
Not Well Controlled Among Older Men and Women
Nearly three-fourths of men and women age 80 and older
have high blood pressure, but their conditions are frequently
not kept under control, according to new data from the
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI)
long-standing Framingham Heart Study. In this age group,
only 38 percent of men and 23 percent of women had blood
pressures that met targets set forth in the National
High Blood Pressure Education Program’s (NHBPEP) clinical
Full study results will be published in the July 27,
2005, edition of the Journal of the American Medical
This study shows that while the rate of high blood
pressure increased with age, numbers of people receiving
treatment for the condition did not. Seventy-four percent
of people age 80 and older had high blood pressure,
compared with 63 percent of those age 60 to 79 and 27
percent of those under the age of 60. However, less
than two thirds of hypertensive patients in the two
older age groups received treatment.
High blood pressure, also called hypertension, is a
major risk factor for the development of heart disease
and a leading cause of many life-threatening conditions
such as stroke, heart attack, and kidney failure.
“Many more men and women are now living healthy and
active lives into their 80s and 90s. As clinicians,
we should not loosen our management of high blood pressure
just because a patient has had the good fortune to reach
an older age,” said Daniel Levy, M.D., director of the
Framingham Heart Study and a study co-author. “For these
patients, managing high blood pressure may make the
difference between living many more healthy years, or
spending those years recovering from a debilitating
stroke or heart attack.”
Investigators from the Framingham Heart Study, a landmark
epidemiological study that began in 1948, analyzed data
from its original cohort of participants, enrolled in
1948-1952, and their offspring, enrolled 1971-1973.
In all, this study included 5,296 participants contributing
14,458 total examinations over the period studied. High
blood pressure was defined as a systolic blood pressure
of greater or equal to 140 mm Hg or diastolic blood
pressure greater than or equal to 90 mm Hg, or taking
medication for reducing blood pressure. Normal blood
pressure is less than 120 mm Hg systolic and less than
80 mm Hg diastolic.
According to the authors, the data suggest that the
poor control rates may be due in part to poor selection
of drug classes or from the use of a single drug for
therapy. Among all ages studied, 60 percent of patients
were treated with only one antihypertensive medication,
and only 23 percent of men and 38 percent of women over
age 80 were being treated with a diuretic.
Guidelines issued by NHLBI’s NHBPEP state that most
high blood pressure patients will require two or more
medications to get blood pressure down to target levels,
and that a diuretic should be one of the medications
used. Diuretics have been shown to be more beneficial
in lowering blood pressure and protecting against adverse
complications of hypertension.
The NHLBI’s hypertension guidelines are available online
in the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee
on the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Treatment
of High Blood Pressure. The guidelines are available
online at http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/hypertension/index.htm
To arrange an interview with Dr. Levy, please call
the NHLBI Communications Office at (301) 496-4236. To
interview the study’s lead author, Dr. Donald M. Lloyd-Jones
of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine,
please call (312) 503-8928.
NHLBI is part of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH), the Federal Government’s primary agency for biomedical
and behavioral research. NIH is a component of the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services. NHLBI press
releases and fact sheets, including information on high
blood pressure, can be found online at www.nhlbi.nih.gov.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) — The
Nation's Medical Research Agency — is comprised
of 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of
the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services.
It is the primary Federal agency for conducting and
supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical
research, and investigates the causes, treatments,
and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more
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This is a term used between black people showing their contempt for any of their kind if they act or think ‘white’.
I am truly staggered at this open hypocrisy, our courts have just had one five day high profile case amongst many, whereby courts can inflict punishments on a white person who even hints at noticing these peoples ‘colour’, these people who notice colour far more than we do & do themselves more harm with their own prejudice, than we do.
When a term such as ‘choc ice’ can be made on a public site insulting whiteness & not a word will be said by our authorities…….although it seems unfair, for that I’m glad, because this whole race issue is bizarre & banal.
I feel the whole JT incident was through career jealousy & racism was a useful tool & scapegoat.
The racist laws must be repealed, the whole issue has become a fiasco , drop the law & treat black people the same as white !
At present laws are loaded in their favour, this is totally wrong, a perfectly normal squabble between two grown men is blown up into a childish,toy throwing & expensive court case.
“The term choc-ice — dark on the outside but white inside – is a derogatory one often aimed at black people who are seen to be too keen to please white people – a contemporary version of the Uncle Tom insult.”
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CURRENT COMPANY: Essential Africa
To see a leopard during a safari is always a highlight and one that can take several trips to Africa in order to accomplish. During a recent safari to the Lower Zambezi National Park in Zambia we found a leopardess feeding on a baboon carcass late one afternoon, this in itself was fantastic, but we were in for a treat as the afternoon wore on.
The relative silence that we were experiencing while watching the leopard feed was suddenly shattered by the loud alarm calls of a big male baboon. The baboon had obviously spotted the leopard and was now charging in for a closer look, all the time rallying other members of the baboon troop in order to chase the leopard away.
Deciding that she was out numbered, the leopard and her sub adult male cub made a dash for the thicker bush, the baboons quickly deciphered who the more confident of the two leopards was and pushed home their attack on the young male leopard who vanished from view further up the gully. The female on the other hand was obviously more experienced and almost casually slunk into the safety of a nearby bush and lay down. She seemed to know that the baboons wouldn’t follow her into the thicket, she then spent the rest of the twilight laying patiently waiting for dark when she knew that the baboons would be up in the trees and she would once again have the upper hand and make full use of the dark night.
Sure enough, soon after dark she started walking and calling and we were then treated to seeing her with both of her sub adult cubs and shortly afterwards, and the father, who’s large shape and heavy set body left no doubt in our mind as to who the dominant male leopard was in this area. During the time we were with the four leopards the baboons had hardly stopped alarming from their roosts high above the ground, we knew that later that night there could well be another baboon casualty. We left the leopards to their secretive lives and headed back to camp full of smiles and appreciation for what we had just witnessed.
The rest of the safari proved to be some of the best leopard sightings I have ever had and during the course of the 12 day safari we managed to find and view no fewer than 14 individual leopards, not bad in anyone’s book!
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As critics and supporters of the Iraq war search for clues to bolster their arguments, the military's measurement of violence has become a source of intense debate. Some military analysts say Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, cherry-picked numbers to support claims the Pentagon's surge strategy is working. Others insist the numbers are, at the very least, an honest assessment of the situation on the ground.
October 1, 2007
Larry and I agree that Petraeus’ testimony would have been strengthened by discussing the limits of knowledge on the causes of declining violence. But we disagree on the trend: I think the evidence generally supports Petraeus’ claim that violence has declined. And I don’t think Larry can exclude the surge as a cause of this decline, or sustain his claim that any reduction is “mostly a result of the new arbitrary definition” of sectarian killings instead.
There are at least three problems here. First, Larry’s evidence to show that violence is not declining is problematic. He doesn’t address the range of sources examined in my backgrounder, but instead cites only the Defense Department’s most recent report to Congress (PDF), Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq (September 2007), which he says contradicts Petraeus. Larry doesn’t explain why he thinks this, but in fact it doesn’t. The DoD report uses a different measure than Petraeus’ charts (average daily killed and wounded, versus monthly killed for the MNF-I data). Since they’re counting different things, the figures won’t be the same. But the trends are actually quite similar even so: if one breaks out the civilian casualties from the awkward stacked bar chart in the DoD report and plots these over time, the DoD’s figures for civilian killed-and-wounded grow through 2006, then the upward trend is arrested late in the year and declines modestly thereafter. This is essentially the same trend that all sources report for 2006-7, including MNF-I. As with all the other sources with similar trends, the slope of the 2006 increase is steeper than that of the 2007 decline, so of course the average casualty figures for 2007 are greater than for 2006. But that does not mean that the DoD data show a worsening casualty picture in 2007, as Larry suggests. And it certainly does not mean that Petraeus’ findings are an unreasonable outlier contradicted by other, ostensibly more reliable sources.
Second, while much of Larry’s argument turns on claims about sectarian killings and definitions thereof, Petraeus’ testimony showed declines in total fatalities, total attacks, IEDs, Baghdad-only casualties, and “high profile” attacks, as well as just sectarian killings. Yet Larry treats only the sectarian subset and ignores everything else. What about all the rest? How is a claim about one definition supposed to challenge testimony about trends in a much wider range of phenomena?
Third, even for sectarian violence per se, one can’t prove that the surge was irrelevant by disputing a definition of “sectarian.” The MNF-I definition could be wrong and the surge could still account for all, some, or none of any real change in violence, sectarian or otherwise. To show any specific ground-truth role for the surge in any outcome would require evidence on causation that no one has yet produced. MNF-I cannot prove causation, but neither can Larry—and that means he can’t sustain his claim that the surge was unimportant any more than his opponents can prove that it was central. We just don’t know, hence neither can be excluded. I happen to think that MNF-I’s definition is a good deal less arbitrary than Larry does, but either way the definition dispute cannot bear the weight of the claims Larry bases on it.
Again, none of this proves or disproves any position on the war. But it’s important to be clear on what we know and don’t know if any position is to be defensible.
Lawrence J. Korb
September 27, 2007
In his thoughtful response, Steve Biddle makes several good points and challenges a couple of my assertions. He and I both agree that aggregate violence data alone are an insufficient basis to sustain a policy position and that a total withdrawal from Iraq is a desirable policy.
However, Steve also argues that there is little evidence to back up my claim that “violence is not going down.” What about the Pentagon’s latest quarterly report that came out last week? It shows that civilian casualties were lower in the months preceding the surge and higher in the months after the surge, the exact opposite of what Petraeus testified.
Steve also contends that I need to give the surge some (or more) credit for the apparent decline in sectarian violence. I believe that the decline is mostly a result of the new arbitrary definition of what constitutes sectarian violence. While the MNF may no longer be characterizing deaths as sectarian based upon which side of the head the bullet entered, they employ equally arbitrary criteria. As the Washington Post notes, Iraqis killed in a car bomb on August 25 in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad are labeled sectarian while Iraqis killed in a car bomb a week later near Ramadi were not. Or if victims are sprayed with gunfire, as opposed to a single shot, they are not considered sectarian.
How will the Petraeus MNF-I characterize the recent killing of Abu Risha, the Sunni Arab leader of the tribal Awakening Council in Anbar presumably by al-Qaeda in Iraq? Or the attacks on September 24 and 25 by Sunni Arab militants against police chiefs, ministry officials and tribal leaders? These attacks occurred primarily in mixed areas of Shiites and Sunnis or in exclusively Sunni areas. The MNF-I team leader for sectarian analysis captured the arbitrariness of these criteria when he told Karen DeYoung of the Washington Post, “if you and I pulled from the same database, and I pulled one day and you pulled the next, we would have totally different numbers.”
If General Petraeus were an attorney defending a client, he could be forgiven for trying to “prove” that the surge has reduced violence in general and sectarian violence in particular. But, as Steve acknowledges, this causation cannot be established with confidence. The General owes it to the troops he commands and the nation he serves to make it clear that there is a great deal of doubt about his interpretation of the data and about whether the surge is achieving any real security gains, let alone its strategic or political objectives which after all is its only purpose.
September 25, 2007
Larry Korb and I may or may not disagree on Iraq policy (I’ve argued that either the Petraeus strategy or a total withdrawal from Iraq are defensible). But we clearly disagree on recent security trends and the data on these. Given space limitations I’ll highlight just three points of divergence.
Larry claims that “violence in Iraq is not going down.” I address the debate on Iraqi violence data in this Backgrounder. But the bottom line is that multiple, independent sources show essentially the same trend that Gen. Petraeus presented: total civilian casualties grew through 2006, crested late in that year, then declined in 2007. This decline may or may not continue, and either way, aggregate violence data alone are an insufficient basis to sustain a policy position on Iraq. But there is little evidence in other sources to back Larry’s view on this or to contradict MNF-I’s (Multi-National Force-Iraq).
Larry also contests the causes of any local decline, and rules out any role for the surge, substituting ethnic cleansing instead. Here, too, I treat the issue in this Backgrounder; suffice to say here that there has been a lot of sectarian cleansing in Iraq, but there has also been a 33 percent increase in US combat brigades, whose mission has shifted to population security. The data is insufficient to attribute a decline in civilian deaths to either cause – but it would be surprising if either cleansing or the surge could be wholly excluded. (Larry also repeats a widespread error holding that MNF-I characterizes deaths as sectarian based on which side of the head the bullet entered; this is simply not true, as Petraeus pointed out in his testimony).
Larry similarly holds that since MNF-I’s data show a decline in casualties prior to the completion of the surge, the surge cannot have been the cause. Yet things are not so simple. Muqtada al Sadr’s decision to order his militia to stand down shortly after the surge was announced – but long before it was fully in place – probably played an important role in reducing civilian fatalities early in 2007. Without a trustworthy account from Sadr himself we cannot know for sure why he did this. But a plausible possibility is a recalculation of his self-interest in light of the announced US troop increase, which would implicate the surge in any subsequent decline in violence. For now, though, causation cannot be established with confidence – hence one cannot rule out an important role for the surge in reducing Iraqi civilian casualties, as Dr. Korb does.
Lawrence J. Korb
September 25, 2007
Not since Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara has any defense official tried to dazzle the Congress and the American people with a bewildering set of selected statistics to prove that the U.S. is making military progress as General David Petraeus did. Using no less than 13 charts to back up his prepared testimony, Petraeus would have us believe that, as a result of the surge, violence in Iraq in general, and Baghdad in particular, is declining, sectarian violence is dropping, car bombings are falling, and the Iraq security forces are improving. But close examination of the data shows that Petraeus’ claims are misleading and contradict the independent analysis of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), the GAO, and the independent commission headed by General James Jones.
Violence in Iraq is not going down. In August, according to Iraq’s Interior ministry, 2,318 civilians died compared to 1,980 in July. Petraeus claimed that only about 1,500 died in August. Similarly violence in Baghdad is down because Baghdad has been ethnically cleansed, turning from a 65 percent Sunni city to 75 percent Shia. More than half of all Baghdad’s neighborhoods are now Shia dominated as compared to only a couple a year ago.
Sectarian deaths are down only because the definition has been narrowed. Petraeus’ numbers do not include Shia-on-Shia violence or Sunni-on-Sunni violence. Moreover, because it is very difficult to gauge the sectarian intent of particular murders the military often uses odd categorizations such as not counting people being shot in the head from the front. Even according to Petraeus’ own numbers the violence dropped before February of this year – but after the surge actually went into effect there was little change. And Petraeus did not tell us that the number of car bombings in Iraq was five percent higher in July than in December 2006.
Nor are the Iraqi security forces improving. The Jones commission concluded that the Iraqi National Police are so ineffective that they should be disbanded and reorganized and that the other security forces will not be able to fulfill an independent security role within the next 12 to 18 months and that the number of Iraqi Army units capable of operating independently dropped from 10 to 6 between March and July.
If things in Iraq are going as well as Petraeus claims, why do nearly 80 percent of Iraqis say that things are going badly and 70 percent believe that the escalation has worsened rather than improved security? And why has the number of people leaving the country each month doubled since the surge began? And most importantly, why have more American servicemen and women died this year than in any previous year of this mindless, senseless, and unnecessary war?
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|I.P. Brief:||This technology involves the use of certain enzymes as catalysts to synthesize a new class of polysiloxane materials for flame retardant materials. |
|Summary of I.P.:||Lower cost flame retardant treatments typically add 20 percent in weight and use toxic halogenated polymers, many of which are being banned worldwide today, for both environmental and human safety reasons. Melt drip is another undesirable property of these synthetic fabrics because the melt is known to cause additional serious burns.
This patented technology involves using certain enzymes (lipase, esterase, or protease) as catalysts to synthesize a new class of polysiloxane materials for flame retardant materials. The methods include the steps of mixing monomers and adding an enzyme to form a reaction mixture. The reaction mixture under polymerizing conditions is suitable to obtain a polyorganosilicone polymer or an alkylene glycol-based polyester polymer.
There are significant market needs for environmentally safe and cost effective flame retardant clothing. Burn injuries are increasing due to urban warfare and from a multitude of flame hazards such as incidental exposure, accidents with battlefield combustibles, and enemy attack with thermal or chemical weapons. The loss of highly trained military personnel in war combat from burn injuries is both detrimental to lives, military operations and costs for injury treatment. Biomedical applications, flame retardant clothing, drug delivery, tissue engineering, bio-implants, and scaffolds|
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|Market Size:||Tremendous market size for both biotech and materials market.|
|State of the Art:||Lower cost flame retardant treatments typically add 20 percent in weight and use toxic halogenated polymers, many of which are being banned worldwide for both environmental and human safety reasons. Melt drip is another undesirable property of these synthetic fabrics because the melt is known to cause additional serious burns.|
|Figures of Merit:||Environmentally safe, light weight and biocompatible. No excess reactants are needed resulting in lower production costs and is industrially significant. The involvement of an enzyme and the preparation process is biocompatible.|
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Development of bio applications that may require clinical trials.
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Enzymatic synthesis of multi-component copolymers and their structural characterization - Springer Netherlands, September 2003
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The point I'm making regarding Pictorialists leaning toward abstraction is that Pictorialists aren't necessarily or even normally trying to picture anything "straight".
Also f64 has no lock pre-visualization or seeing.
HCB used photography to "draw pictures" instead of pencil and paper.
I fully believe that HCB would have simply used a different medium if photography had not be available. Cameras and photographic processes were incidental to him, simply tools that were convenient in expressing ideas, not somthing that had a role in defining the idea.
[QUOTE=markbarendt;1427311]So what's wrong with photography imitating other art forms?[QUOTE]
Postivley nothing at all, if that is what you want to do.
I don't want to minimize the good that f64 has done, it provides a clear structure and understandable guidelines to achieve specific results. It encourages seeing before shooting, rigorous attention to detail.
It forgets/rejects though 1000's of years of artistic history and theory. It puts us in handcuffs of sorts.
So, now what?
Felt the need to respond, sorry, as my previous comment vaguely suggests where contemporary photography is at.
This wasn't the first time a bunch of artists got together to promote their work, think Impressionism for one example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism
The following was excerpted from this Wikipedia artical http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_f/64
Bolds added by me.
The first paragraph is purely subjective specifying "cleanness and definition" as a standard. That is obviously but one of many effects a lens and a piece of film can create and they essentially admit that in the third paragraph.
IMO they purposefully boxed themselves in simply as a marketing tool to be able to get more shows. Galleries love themes.
Group f/64 displayed the following manifesto at their 1932 exhibit:
The name of this Group is derived from a diaphragm number of the photographic lens. It signifies to a large extent the qualities of clearness and definition of the photographic image which is an important element in the work of members of this Group.
The chief object of the Group is to present in frequent shows what it considers the best contemporary photography of the West; in addition to the showing of the work of its members, it will include prints from other photographers who evidence tendencies in their work similar to that of the Group.
Group f/64 is not pretending to cover the entire spectrum of photography or to indicate through its selection of members any deprecating opinion of the photographers who are not included in its shows. There are great number of serious workers in photography whose style and technique does not relate to the metier of the Group.
Group f/64 limits its members and invitational names to those workers who are striving to define photography as an art form by simple and direct presentation through purely photographic methods. The Group will show no work at any time that does not conform to its standards of pure photography. Pure photography is defined as possessing no qualities of technique, composition or idea, derivative of any other art form. The production of the "Pictorialist," on the other hand, indicates a devotion to principles of art which are directly related to painting and the graphic arts.
The members of Group f/64 believe that photography, as an art form, must develop along lines defined by the actualities and limitations of the photographic medium, and must always remain independent of ideological conventions of art and aesthetics that are reminiscent of a period and culture antedating the growth of the medium itself.
The Group will appreciate information regarding any serious work in photography that has escaped its attention, and is favorable towards establishing itself as a Forum of Modern Photography.
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|Canto 10: The Summum Bonum||Chapter 66: Pauṇḍraka, the False Vasudeva|
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.66.24
sa nityaḿ bhagavad-dhyāna-
bibhrāṇaś ca hare rājan
svarūpaḿ tan-mayo 'bhavat
saḥ — he (Pauṇḍraka); nityam — constant; bhagavat — upon the Supreme Lord; dhyāna — by his meditation; pradhvasta — completely shattered; akhila — all; bandhanaḥ — whose bondage; bibhrāṇaḥ — assuming; ca — and; hareḥ — of Lord Kṛṣṇa; rājan — O King (Parīkṣit); svarūpam — the personal form; tat-mayaḥ — absorbed in consciousness of Him; abhavat — he became.
By constantly meditating upon the Supreme Lord, Pauṇḍraka shattered all his material bonds. Indeed, by imitating Lord Kṛṣṇa's appearance, O King, he ultimately became Kṛṣṇa conscious.
Śrīla Prabhupāda writes as follows in Kṛṣṇa: "As far as Pauṇḍraka was concerned, somehow or other he was always thinking of Vāsudeva by falsely dressing himself in that way, and therefore Pauṇḍraka achieved sārūpya, one of the five kinds of liberation, and was thus promoted to the Vaikuṇṭha planets, where the devotees have the same bodily features as Viṣṇu, with four hands holding the four symbols. Factually, his meditation was concentrated on the Viṣṇu form, but because he thought himself to be Lord Viṣṇu, he was offensive. After being killed by Kṛṣṇa. however, that offense was also mitigated. Thus he was given sārūpya liberation, and he attained the same form as the Lord."
Copyright © The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
His Holiness Hrdayananda dasa Goswami
Gopiparanadhana dasa Adhikari
Dravida dasa Brahmacari
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Cyclists railed that there is no California Vehicle Code prohibiting a cyclist from riding a bike on the sidewalk or on the extending crosswalk, in spite of the common misconception, pointing out that if there were prohibition, it would be based on local municipal code, not CVC. A review of Glendale Municipal Code reveals that there is a prohibition against sidewalk cycling in a business district.
10.64.025 Bicycle riding on sidewalks. No person shall ride or operate a bicycle upon any public sidewalk in any business district within the city except where such sidewalk is officially designated as part of an established bicycle route. Pedestrians shall have the right-of-way on sidewalks. The prohibition in this section shall not apply to peace officers on bicycle patrol. (Ord. 5116 § 1, 1996)
This started a debate over what constitutes a "business district" because the cyclist, Gerardo Ramos, was hit as he rode through the crosswalk at the intersection of North Concord Street and Milford Street. It appears to be a residential neighborhood but that's when things get murkier. The CVC defines a business district and it also defines a crosswalk.
Business District 235. A "business district" is that portion of a highway and the property contiguous thereto (a) upon one side of which highway, for a distance of 600 feet, 50 percent or more of the contiguous property fronting thereon is occupied by buildings in use for business, or (b) upon both sides of which highway, collectively, for a distance of 300 feet, 50 percent or more of the contiguous property fronting thereon is so occupied. A business district may be longer than the distances specified in this section if the above ratio of buildings in use for business to the length of the highway exists.
Business and Residence Districts: Determination 240. In determining whether a highway is within a business or residence district, the following limitations shall apply and shall qualify the definitions in Sections 235 and 515: (a) No building shall be regarded unless its entrance faces the highway and the front of the building is within 75 feet of the roadway. (b) Where a highway is physically divided into two or more roadways only those buildings facing each roadway separately shall be regarded for the purpose of determining whether the roadway is within a district. (c) All churches, apartments, hotels, multiple dwelling houses, clubs, and public buildings, other than schools, shall be deemed to be business structures. (d) A highway or portion of a highway shall not be deemed to be within a district regardless of the number of buildings upon the contiguous property if there is no right of access to the highway by vehicles from the contiguous property.
Crosswalk 275. "Crosswalk" is either: (a) That portion of a roadway included within the prolongation or connection of the boundary lines of sidewalks at intersection where the intersecting roadways meet at approximately right angles, except the prolongation of such lines from an alley across a street. (b) Any portion of a roadway distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, there shall not be a crosswalk where local authorities have placed signs indicating no crossing.
I mention the CVC definitions only because that is what the Glendale Police Department talked about during the four phone conversations I had with them, each time trying to find somebody who could speak authoritatively about the Glendale Police Department's reported 50/50 assessment of responsibility in the traffic collission that took the life of Gerardo Ramos. It was an obtuse and cumbersome journey, resulting in my simple request for a formal investigation.
I initially spoke to the reporter who wasn't interested in a retraction or a correction, saying "He's a Detective, I thought I could trust him." She was wrong as was the detective. There is no state law prohibiting cyclists from riding on the sidewalk. It may not be a good idea, in fact it's typically a terrible idea, but it is not a violation of state law. I was at least able to confirm that the reporter stood by her quote of the Glendale Police Detective who said the prosecutors would be filing misdemeanor charges against the motorist. They determined that the cyclist was partially to blame. “They agreed that it’s 50-50,” Mankarios said. “He violated the vehicle code, but in essence had she stopped, he would have gone right through and in front of her.”
I spoke to Officer Metz who was pleasant and helpful, unfortunately also completely misinformed as to the law and its application for cyclists. He referred to a California Vehicle Code ban on cyclists and other "coasting devices" which he repeated a couple of times in during our conversation. I've heard of cyclists and pedestrians being inappropriately grouped but never cyclists and skateboarders. Sure enough, there is a Glendale Muni Code that refers to coasting devices but it's all irrelevant to the incident that resulted in a motorist running a stop sign and hitting a cyclist, causing his death. Officer Metz explained that the crosswalk was an extension of the sidewalk and therefore a cyclist would be prohibited from the crosswalk. He then tired of our conversation and begged off.
I tried again, this time calling for the Chief and when that failed, asking for the Chief's Adjutant. Somehow this sounded like Public Information Officer and I ended up chatting with Sgt. Lorenz who was quite officious and touted the City of Glendale's commitment to safety, requested my query in writing, and aggressively steered the conversation in the general direction of "Move along now! There's nothing here for you to look at!"
I spoke to the Watch Commander, Sgt. Fernandez, who was very helpful and seemed as interested as I in digging through state code and local code and I was encouraged, not by his knowledge of the laws as they apply to cyclists but by his open and enthusiastic approach to my questions. Ultimately, he was a pleasure to talk to but we had a hard time determining if the location was a residential neighborhood or a business district. He gave me his best understanding of the law and the Glendale PD policy but suggested that I should talk to someone else.
I pressed on, this time determining that Sgt. Dennis Smith was in charge of Detective Ashraf Mankarios and I called him to discuss the Glendale Police Department's policy on cyclists on the sidewalks and the 50% determination of fault that Mankarios referred to in the Glendale News Press article. He was slippery!
Smith quickly threw up the first defense saying "We don't litigate in the newspaper and I'm not going to litigate on the phone." I pointed out that we weren't litigating and that repeating this protest three times was a simple straw man argument that completely avoided my simple question. I again asked "Did he stand by the 50-50 responsibility determination that Detective Mankarios referred to in the newspaper?"
This set Sgt. Smith off on a commentary on journalists, interviews, quotes, accuracy, and the fact that it is possible that Detective Mankarios was misquoted or misunderstood. I pointed out that I had confirmed the quote with the journalist but that, nevertheless, my question wasn't regarding his confidence in the article but on his personal and professional opinion on the 50-50 determination. He settled down and said the Glendale Police Department would not make a recommendation such as the 50-50 determination.
Now we were getting somewhere but not for long. He quickly pointed out that we had nothing more to talk about since there the GPD had no 50-50 position on the traffic colission that took the life of Gerardo Ramos. I pointed out that we were just getting started and that the larger issue here was the simple fact that out of five Glendale Police Department officers, four of them had misquoted the law, all stating that to ride a bike on the sidewalk is a violation of state law. It isn't, they are wrong and as to the Traffic Supervisor of the Glendale Police Department it was his responsibility to address the failure of his department to understand the law.
Sgt. Smith was good, he knew the code(s) for business districts, for crosswalks (marked and unmarked) and the muni code for sidewalk cycling. He also knew that I was asking him for an investigation, not just a conversation. He didn't let on immediately but he gave me instructions on how to file a complaint if I thought the Glendale Police Department had failed to perform its duties. His instructions amounted to an obstacle, not a solution. "Come down to the station and file a complaint if you think we should investigate this matter further." I pointed out that since I had him on the phone, he could simply take the complaint telephonically. He then instructed me to "go online, I'll direct you to the proper forms and you can download them, print them out, fill them out, then mail them to the Glendale Police Department." I thanked him for the suggestion but again pointed out that since I had him on the phone and since it was department policy to take complaints and reports telephonically, I would prefer to proceed with my request for an investigation telephonically. He acquiesced, asking if he could finish up with somebody at the counter and then call me back. I agreed, he called me back, and we proceeded with a request that he indicated would go to the supervising Lt. and then the Captain.
We now wait on the Glendale Police Department and their determination on what constitutes a business district and where a cyclist may ride a bike. Personally, I'm not advocating for sidewalk cycling but I understand it. Most importantly, I'm advocating for a police force that not only understands and enforces the law, but that also serves and protects those on the street who are most vulnerable.
This is Bike to Work week around the country. Gerardo Ramos simply wanted to ride his bike to work and his life ended because he crossed the street at the same time as a motorist who failed to stop at that stop sign. All the bike maps and Clif bars and patch kits celebrating Bike to Work week are just salt in the wound if the City of Glendale's Police Department can't clearly and cohesively communicate and defend a cyclists' right to travel safely and free of fear.
It's Bike to Work week and the City of Glendale has a lot of catching up to do!
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Center for Cardiovascular Innovation
The Center for Cardiovascular Innovation at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is dedicated to improving the quality of life and health outcomes of the millions of people with cardiovascular disease in the United States and worldwide.
The members of the Center for Cardiovascular Innovation are members of the full time faculty at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and staff members of the Division of Cardiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Their diverse backgrounds and expertise provide unique opportunities for interdisciplinary work with other departments at Northwestern University and with external organizations engaged in improving cardiovascular quality and outcomes.
Robert O. Bonow, MD, is the Max and Lilly Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Cardiology at the Feinberg School of Medicine and Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Innovation. A past president of the American Heart Association, Dr. Bonow is internationally recognized as an author, educator and clinical cardiologist. He is actively engaged in national healthcare quality initiatives.
Peter S. Pang, MD, is associate professor of emergency medicine and internal medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine and Associate Chief for Clinical Affairs in the Emergency Department at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. An acknowledged researcher in the treatment of acute heart failure, his studies address the issues of cardiovascular hospitalizations through the unique perspective of a busy emergency physician.
Mihai Gheorghiade, MD, is professor of medicine and surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine and Associate Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Innovation. He directs the Program for Experimental Cardiovascular Therapeutics at the Center. An internationally recognized expert in heart failure therapies and a prolific author, Dr. Gheorghiade has over 30 years experience in leading clinical trials in the treatment of this condition.
|Steven A. Farmer, MD, PhD, is assistant professor of medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine and holds a second faculty appointment in the Department of Management and Strategy at Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management. Dr. Farmer pursues the intersection between clinical medicine, economics, and healthcare policy, incorporating elements of cardiology, epidemiology, marketing, economics, law, and health policy.|
|Jeffrey J. Goldberger, MD, is professor of medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine and Director of the Program in Cardiac Arrhythmias at the Center. Dr. Goldberger is an expert in evaluation and treatment of abnormal heart rhythms, an accomplished clinical researcher and a national thought leader in designing new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for patients at highest risk of serious rhythm abnormalities.||Kathleen L. Grady, PhD, APN, is associate professor of surgery and medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine and Administrative Director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute of Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Dr. Grady is internationally recognized for her numerous research contributions on quality of life and patient-related outcomes in those with severe heart failure. She has been appointed to several national steering committees that focus on quality of care of patients with advanced heart disease.|
About the Center
Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine are launching the Center for Cardiovascular Innovation to improve the quality of care provided to millions of people with heart disease. We are inviting individuals who want to make a difference in the lives of heart disease patients to learn more about the initiatives of our Center, which is led with great distinction by internationally recognized cardiologist, scientist, and scholar Robert Bonow, MD.
Our goal is to seek new knowledge that will directly inform healthcare policy decisions that will enhance the quality of care for patients with heart disease.
Read more about Current Initiatives
Development & Alumni Relations
Feinberg School of Medicine
Arthur J. Rubloff Building, 9th floor
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Chicago, IL 60611
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"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
After four years at Bowdoin College in Maine, Nathaniel Hawthorne returned to his motherís attic in Salem, MA, and began to write and found it difficult. When he decided that his first novel, Fanshawe, was not good enough, he burned all unsold copies.
He fared better with short stories, and his first two volumes earned him considerable critical success, though little money. By 1842, heíd married and setted in Concord, which was then a hotbed of Transcendentalism.
Emerson lived there, as did Thoreau and Bronson Alcott, father of Louisa May Alcott. Though Hawthorne knew these people and even lived briefly in a utopian community, he had little in common with these philosophical minds. They wrote about the miraculous America now, he wrote about Americanís past.
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emotion. Hawthorne broke new ground
while looking back toward Americaís
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Arts and Crafts time for kids is always fun. They get to paint, use water colors, glue, scissors, tissue paper, macaroni and those pipe cleaner bendy things. But who was left to clean up all that stuff…and usually the child too? Well, Mom of course. Kids love to paint and draw and create. As parents we want to foster that creativity…but sometimes we don’t want to deal with the aftermath of what that creativity produced. I have a solution for you. Well, 5 solutions. Your iPad or other tablet device has several fantastic drawing apps that your child can use to create some pretty stellar art without getting permanent marker on their hands and the kitchen table. If you trust them enough with your iPad then they can create art whenever and wherever. Whether you are in the car on a long trip or just out running errands these apps can be a great mini art projects for them while they are in the car. Of course having them sit at the kitchen table and watch them draw to their hearts content works too.
Some of these apps will let you share the drawing on Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and email…perfect for sending your child’s masterpiece to grandma and grandpa. They all let you save the finished artwork and who knows, one might be so good you decide to print it out, or make some into canvas prints (you know who to call for that). Think of your iPad as a mobile canvas…no more scratch paper filling up your kitchen counter. Wow, we are solving all kinds of problems today.
Here they are in no particular order:
1. Drawing Pad by Darren Murtha Design – $1.99
2. Color & Draw for kids HD: 4 apps in 1 – Coloring Book for iPad by Tipitap Inc (long name) – $1.99
3. Doodle Kids by Virtual GS – FREE
4. Kids Paint by Virtual GS – $0.99
5. This one is a little unique. Draw and Tell, by Duck Duck Moose, will let your child draw their picture then they can record a message about their artwork to create animation or just to capture their voice. What a special gift to send to grandparents. Pretty cool. The app is $0.99
I hope that your kids enjoy using technology to create some new and different artwork. I don’t think anything will replace finger painting, glitter, and macaroni necklaces…but it is something fun for them to do and it keeps their creative juices flowing. You may have a budding Picasso or Van Gogh on your hands. If that is the case then we definitely need to get some canvas photo prints of their artwork…and maybe we can get their autograph.
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New dietary trends mean a whole lot of options, but what do they really mean for your health?
Organic, natural and whole grain options are booming in grocery stores, but University of Minnesota School of Public Health epidemiologists warn that shoppers may not be getting their money’s worth if they don’t know the ins and outs of the food trend known as “whole health solutions” and what falls more on the side of advertising hype.
The FDA defines whole heath solutions as diets that promote health and well being, prevent disease, help cure illnesses and protect the environment. The trend encompasses labeling which declares food as natural, organic or gluten-free.
The problem, according to U of M epidemiology experts, is that consumers aren’t always sure of the meaning behind the label and sometimes, the information can actually be misleading. A University of Minnesota expert who can discuss current dietary trends, label requirements and important nutritional information consumers need to know is:
Lisa Harnack, Ph.D., associate professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health.
“A lot of food manufacturers capitalize on “trigger terms” to push consumers toward products they believe are better for them,” said Harnack. “For example, products labeled as 'organic' generally cost more than those not labeled as 'organic'. Likewise, products specially formulated to be gluten-free, like gluten-free breads and pastas, cost far more than their gluten containing counterparts.
Organic. The term “organic” doesn’t always mean a food is more nutritious, it simply means the ingredients in the food or the food itself meets FDA organic standards in the growing process.
Natural Foods. Just like the term organic, “natural” isn’t a term that is synonymous with “more nutritious.” There are no specific or additional government regulations for a food to be labeled natural, it simply must pass the same regulations that apply to all foods.
Gluten-Free. One of the most popular food trends of the moment is “gluten-free.” Gluten itself isn’t bad unless you’re one of the 1% of Americans with celiac disease, and gluten-free food doesn’t mean healthier food. There is nothing beneficial to removing gluten from the diets of the majority of members of society.
“New food trends pose a challenge to the busy consumer who is trying to make smart food choices while shopping on a budget,” said Harnack. "It's important to arm yourself with knowledge about pitches on product packages so you don't fall prey to paying a premium for a food that doesn't necessarily offer extra health benefits."
To schedule an interview with Harnack, contact Laurel Herold, Academic Health Center, (612) 624-2449 or email@example.com.
Expert Alert is a service provided by the University News Service. Delivered regularly, Expert Alert is designed to connect university experts to today’s breaking news and current events. For an archive and other useful media services, visit www.umn.edu/news. Views expressed by experts do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Minnesota.
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For recent VMWare news articles, please > click here <
Virtualization is a growing trend that many companies in Canada are looking to utilize. In a general sense, it is the development of a virtual version of computing component or processing that previously physical existed. Examples of this include computer hardware, operating systems as well as storage and network capabilities. One company that that offers a number of virtualization products, services, and solutions is VMWare.
Based out of Palo Alto, California and founded in 1998, VMWare is a technology company that helps to speed up company’s transition to cloud computing and virtualization technologies in a manner that allows them to preserve current IT and technology. The companies Canadian Headquarters is located in Burlington Ontario.
Serving almost 200,000 customers and with more than 25,000 partners, the company offers virtualization software and solutions to companies of all shapes and sizes, including:
- Sole proprietors and individuals
- Small and medium sized businesses
- Large enterprises
VMWare offers a number of industry specific solutions to:
- Government agencies
- Educational institutions
- The healthcare industry
- Not for profit organizations
- Hosting providers and internet companies
Since 2004, when it was acquired by EMC Corporation, VMWare now operates as a separate software subsidiary.
VMWare partner network
With literally thousands of technology partners, VMWare offers many unique and custom business solutions for its customers. Here are some of the most notable partners that utilize VMware virtualization technologies:
- Hewlett Packard
VMware offers a number of specific virtualization solutions to its customers. They include:
- Datacenter solutions: These solutions include server consolidation, efficient server management, downtime management, and security and compliance strategies.
- Enterprise and SMB solutions: These solutions help enterprises efficient spend budget resources and create flexibility and efficient in terms of virtualization solutions.
- Desktop solutions: These solutions include desktop deployment, migration with applications, desktop virtualization, and solutions related to the management of remote virtual desktops.
- Cloud infrastructure solutions: VMware offers a number of cloud based solutions depending on your company’s needs. They include private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid cloud solutions.
VMware offers three main services to its customers. They include:
- Certification services: There are three certification options offed. They include VMware certified professional (VCP), VMware certified advanced professional (VCAP), and VMware certified design expert (VCDX).
- Education services: VMware offers a number of educational training services to its customers. Education streams include system administrator, IT architect, desktop administrator, and Operator, all of which can be delivered in a classroom setting, online, onsite, and self-paced.
- Consulting services: Professional consulting services are provided from start to finish for all virtualization and cloud needs. This includes the assessment, planning, building, and management of a custom solution.
VMware offers a wide variety of products to its customers. Product categories include:
- Datacenter and cloud infrastructure: Some of these products include vSphere, vCenter Operations Management Suite, VCloud Director and vShield.
- SMB products: Some of these products include Zimbra, Fusion, vCenter Protect Essenials Plus, and vSphere Storage Appliance.
- Consumer desktop products: These products include Fusion and Workstation.
- End user computing products: These products include View, ThinApp, Player, Workstation, SlideRocket, and Mobile Virtualization Platform.
- Security products: These products are part of the vShield product family and include the vShield app, app with data, Edge, and Endpoint.
- Application platform products: These products are part of the vFabric product family such as TC server, GemFire, Hyperic, RabbitMQ, SQLFire, and data director.
- Application management products: These products include vFabric Application Performance Manager, AppDirector, AppSpeed, and Studio.
- IT business management products: This includes the IT Business Management Suite, Chargeback Manager, and Service Manager.
- Operations management products: These products include vCenter CapacityIQ, Site Recovery Manager, and the vCenter product family.
Monday, August 29, 2011Mitel, VMware tout virtual desktop voice solution Companies say they have found a way real time communications apps can work in a virtual desktop environment
Wednesday, August 24, 2011VMware now offers a developer edition for cloud service VMware has packaged a free developer edition of its Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service stack to run on a single computer
Monday, August 22, 2011Start-up releases unified VMware server, storage appliance Nutanix's Complete Cluster puts VMware servers, storage under one management GUI. Each 2U enclosure can grow by adding blocks, each of which is connected to the last through a 10Gbit/sec Ethernet connection
Wednesday, August 17, 2011Fired IT staff created virtual chaos at pharma company A former IT staffer has pleaded guilty to using a vSphere console he secretly installed to wipe company servers in retaliation for his firing
Wednesday, August 10, 2011Citrix buys RingCube for personalization technology The company says its purchase of the Mountain View, Calif., vendor will allow it to offer the personalization advantages of dedicated VDI with the cost advantages of pooled VDI
Monday, August 08, 2011VMware backpedals on price changes after user criticism Some customers complained to VMware that its model would restrict their virtualization efforts by requiring the purchase of more licenses to achieve the same level of consolidation. VMware's new licensing model was introduced on July 12
Tuesday, July 12, 2011VMware to launch cloud infrastructure suite VMware has bundled new versions of its vSphere, vCenter Site Recovery and other products into an integrated suite
Thursday, June 30, 2011Sidebar: 10 apps for Cius Want to know what to load on your Cius? Here's a look at what one reporter believes will be the most compelling applications for the tablet
Thursday, June 23, 2011VMware's Maritz sees 'post-document' era Huge streams of data will define hardware and change IT practices in the coming years, he said. Meanwhile, Maritz added, there will be conflicts over who can control that data and make money from that data
Thursday, May 19, 2011VMware seeks security 'manager of managers' role for vShield Antivirus vendors, including McAfee and Trend Micro, have opted for this agentless approach, with Symantec expected out soon as well. Some analysts are skeptical as others have tried something similar before
Tuesday, May 17, 2011VMware debuts sign-on service for cloud applications The federated sign-on service synchronizes with LDAP and Active Directory so no passwords or user names are exchanged. How Horizon App Manager offers more control over users of cloud-based services
Thursday, March 17, 2011Q&A: The Canuck on VMware User Group’s global board A new global board, formed by the VMware User Group program, starts its inaugural term this year. In this Q&A, the Canadian member of the 10-person team, Scott Elliott, talks to ComputerWorld Canada about the new board’s mission and what it wants to do for users
Wednesday, March 16, 2011VMware's client for iPad awaits Apple approval The delayed client was originally to be released last year. VMware doesn't know when the client will be approved, and so can't say when it will be made available to users
Thursday, March 03, 2011Need to get off of that cloud? A virtual moving van Many in the industry have likened IT's fears about this moving problem to the famous song about Hotel California: You can check in, but you can never leave
Tuesday, February 15, 2011VMWare shows off mobile virtualization on Android MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS: Users can securely seperate work applications from their personal applications. The idea is that enterprises can let their employees buy an Android phone and reduce potential security issues
Monday, February 14, 2011Windows fix on Patch Tuesday 'breaks' VMware software While it's not clear how widespread the problem is, Wolf fears that it could portend huge IT management headaches in the future. Find out more
Monday, February 07, 2011VMware taps ex-Softies to battle Microsoft As Paul Maritz spreads leadership responsibilities, three of VMware's top five officials are now ex-Microsoft executives
Monday, January 31, 2011VMware sales up 37 per cent on continued demand Licencing sales and services revenue now each count for about half of VMware's business, it said. The company expects revenue for the first quarter -- the one that ends March 31 -- to be between US$800 million and $820 million
Monday, December 20, 2010Amazon moves VMware's virtual machines to the cloud The company plans to make the VM Import feature compatible with more platforms for virtualization in the future. The new feature can be used in a number of migration and disaster recovery scenarios
Monday, December 13, 2010VMware to virtualize Android devices for business users The mobile hypervisor will separate corporate and personal data. The technology will work much like a server or desktop hypervisor
Monday, November 15, 2010Cisco expands into desktop virtualization To assure organizations that video and other rich media can work on virtualized desktops, Cisco will start selling thin clients and assure compatibility.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010VMware to offer cloud development environment In 2011, VMware will launch a hosted development environment that aims to ease deployment of applications to the cloud. What's in it for Java developers
Wednesday, October 13, 2010VMware aims to give IT more control over SaaS apps The recent acquisition of TriCipher will form the basis of upcoming products, says the company’s chief technology officer. User authentication will also be a focus
Monday, October 11, 2010New alliance addresses enterprise cloud needs Flexible 4 Business, formed by Orange Business Services, Cisco, EMC and VMware, team up on offering end-to-end cloud computing services. How it works
Tuesday, October 05, 2010Half of VMware customers virtualize Microsoft Exchange A VMware survey also found that SAP and Oracle apps are still predominately run on physical machines
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How many triangles can you make on the 3 by 3 pegboard?
Investigate the different shaped bracelets you could make from 18
different spherical beads. How do they compare if you use 24 beads?
Can you make these equilateral triangles fit together to cover the
paper without any gaps between them? Can you tessellate isosceles
Cong who goes to St. Peter's RC Primary, Aberdeen, sent in a correct solution to this problem. The key to answering it is to be sure you know what you mean by "different" triangles. Cong found 7 different triangles could be drawn on the nine-pin board which he drew:
He also sent in a table which gave some more information about each triangle:
Well answered, Cong, thank you.
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Floral shade aids search for Earths
The search continues for the Earth-like planets that scientists think are most likely to harbor life, and a newly refined sunflower-shaped device could one day reveal scores of candidates currently obscured by their neighboring star’s light.
In this schematic, a newly refined flower-shaped shield passes in front of a star, which could effectively shield a space-based telescope from the star’s bright light. The design could help astronomers to locate dim Earth-like planets orbiting close to overwhelmingly bright stars. Image is courtesy of Northrop Grumman Corporation.
To aid in the search, NASA previously called for the development of advanced
optics inside a space-based telescope to dim oppressively bright starlight.
But that project, called Terrestrial Planet Finder, was “deferred
indefinitely,” according to NASA’s Fiscal Year 2007 budget
Changing the shield shape from a circle to a flower, however, cancels out the extra light. Cash described the “perfected” mathematical equations that exactly define the flower shape in the July 6 Nature.
The new design, he says, increases the darkness 100,000 times over previous models. And compared to looking for planets with no shield at all, the increase in darkness equates to the difference between looking straight into the sun and looking at Mars at midnight, Cash says. That makes “all the difference in the world,” he says, for astronomers trying to spot planets outshined by a nearby star. Earth, for example, is 10 billion times fainter than the sun.
The shield currently remains in the concept phase of what Cash and colleagues call the New Worlds Observer mission. If built, the device would measure 30 to 50 meters across and be made from three layers of material similar to plastic trash bags.
Cash says that a shield could be built to work in concert with NASA’s currently planned space-based James Webb Telescope. If NASA agrees to fund that plan, the shield alone could be built by 2013 and would cost about $400 million, he says.
The preferred option, however, he says, is to launch the shield along with a new, specially designed telescope that can use photometry (to detect possible land and oceans) and spectroscopy (to detect atmospheric oxygen and methane). A new shield and telescope together would cost about $2 billion, and could launch within a decade, Cash says: “I’m very excited about the potential to search for oceans, beaches and slime planets.”
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The ABCs of Advocacy for Children With Special Needs
Parents, teachers and children working together as partners will enable children with special needs to access the appropriate services. This article aims to advance knowledge of the procedures and principles of the law and its recent changes and presents advocacy strategies to insure that all children receive a free, appropriate education.
Know the Federal Law
The IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) passed in 1997 insures that all children with disabilities receive a free, appropriate public education. The law provides for:
- An appropriate evaluation by the school district
- An Individual Education Plan to be implemented in the least restrictive environment
- Parent participation in decision making due process safeguards.
In 2004 Congress renewed the IDEA by passing IDEA04 , to take effect by July 2005. A main goal of the new law is to reduce paperwork requirements, thereby enabling special education teachers to spend more time with students. States have been directed to minimize the number of rules and regulations they require of local school districts and to identify any state-imposed rule, regulation or policy that is not required by federal regulations.
The first step for parents: If you suspect your child has a disability, you should
- Meet with teacher and/or principal and discuss ways to assist the child
- Request in writing from the appropriate committee listed below that your child be evaluated to determine what services would be appropriate. Be sure to keep copies of all of your correspondence and notes from all meetings and phone calls.
EI: Early Intervention (birth to age 3)
CPSE: Committee on Preschool Special Education (3ס years old)
CSE: Committee on Special Education (5–21 years of age)
Setting the process in motion
- Individual evaluations are provided by districts free of charge
- Written consent from parents is needed.
- Evaluation results help determine if your child has a specific learning disability or other classified weakness so that special education services or programs can be provided.
Reprinted with the permission of the NYU Child Study Center. © NYU Child Study Center.
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US Supreme Court considers major gun case
The Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments on Tuesday in a case about gun ownership rights that could have far-reaching implications on the ability of states and local communities to enact and enforce gun control laws.
The case stems from a long-standing handgun ban in Chicago.
Seventy-six-year old Otis McDonald lives in a crime-ridden community on Chicago's South Side and he wanted a handgun to defend himself against criminal gangs and drug dealers.
McDonald spoke to reporters outside the Supreme Court about his decision to challenge the Chicago handgun ban. "How can you even imagine that law-abiding elderly people like myself are going to be a danger to society when the young people running around with all these guns, they are the ones doing the shooting and killing and all that stuff. Those are the ones who need some discipline," he said.
Attorneys for McDonald and gun rights groups like the National Rifle Association argued that the 2008 Supreme Court decision legalizing handguns in Washington, D.C., should also apply to the rest of the country.
In that decision, the high court ruled that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees individuals the right to keep and bear arms in the District of Columbia.
Attorney Alan Gura argued McDonald's case before the nine-member Supreme Court. "Of course, we are not against all gun laws. But those gun laws that are designed only to make gun ownership expensive, burdensome or impossible are going to fall by the wayside. Those which actually do achieve a public safety benefit, of course, are not going to be threatened by this," said the attorney.
Gura contends that the court should extend the Second Amendment right to bear arms to the rest of the country. Washington, D.C. is considered a federal enclave, so the 2008 decision was limited to that jurisdiction.
Arguing to uphold the handgun ban was Chicago city attorney Benna Solomon. Solomon said that of the 412 murders involving firearms in Chicago in 2008, handguns were used in 402 of them.
"We in the city of Chicago have not taken the position that other governments around the country have to regulate handguns in the way that our citizens have chosen to do so. It works for Chicago and that is why we do it. It may not work other places and those places don't have to do it," said Solomon.
Supporters of gun control fear that a Supreme Court decision to extend a constitutional right to own a firearm nationwide would severely undermine the ability of state and local officials to enact reasonable restrictions on the ownership and use of firearms.
Paul Helmke is with the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. "With 30,000 people killed every year in this country with guns and 80,000 people injured every year in this country with guns, elected officials need to have some choices they can make to reduce crime and violence in their communities," he said.
Many legal scholars say that the five-member conservative majority on the Supreme Court will likely extend gun ownership protections in connection with the Chicago case, while leaving the door open to some regulation and restrictions by states and local communities.
A high court ruling is expected sometime before the end of June.VOA News
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Bunched or Retroflex? Which /r/ You?
I'll admit it: I'm at bit rusty on working on /r/ sounds. This is the first time in four school years that my caseload has included /r/ students due to my caseload/classroom assignments. Back at my previous job I had case after case of /r/ students,
and most of the children who learned the sound were dismissed. Now that I'm back
into full /r/ mode, I find that my skills in this area need a bit of
practice and refinement.
I have several students work on /r/ at all different levels. The cases that are giving me a run for my money this year involve students who are simply not stimulable for /r/.
Although they can discriminate correct vs. incorrect /r/s in my
speech, they just can't seem to "get" a correct /r/ in their own speech
patterns. I've been pulling everything out of my speech
bag of tricks, as has my graduate student extern, but in some cases we
just haven't been successful in eliciting a correct /r/! I know you've all been there - doing everything under the sun
except for standing on your head to elicit a correct /r/ sound (hmm,
should I try that one this week? You never know...),
and still no success. It's frustrating for us as SLPs, but it's also very frustrating for the students.
this week one of my SLP friends - you know,
the ones you ask for speech advice, give advice to, and trust
their professional judgments completely! -
sent a Facebook message to a group of her SLP friends asking for help
with - you guessed it! - a stubborn /r/ case! She had listed the numerous
strategies that she had tried with this student, but none of them had worked.
I offered her
one suggestion that I didn't see on the list: "How
about trying the retroflex /r/?" I suggested it
because the day before I had a student who just was not getting the
bunched /r/, so I tried the retroflex. Sure enough the student got it
and was saying works like "dollar" correctly within
five minutes! Proud of my retroflex success earlier the same week, I
just had to share it with her. Little did I know that this conversation would inspire this blog!
The SLP to whom I suggested the retroflex /r/ said she hadn't tried it because she "can't make a retroflex /r/, so it's really hard for me to teach.
I sound like a Wookie." (The Star Wars nerd in me loves this reference, as I can only imagine what she sounds like when trying to say a retroflex /r/!) However, another SLP friend of mine chimed in with her own opinion on the retroflex /r/: "I find
it's easier for them to see since they can keep their mouths open while
getting the tip of the tongue up and back. I can still look inside to see if
they are doing it, and they can see it in a mirror."
Then, in response to the Wookie comment, she noted, "I'm the
opposite...I can't teach the bunched /r/." I was completely fascinated by this discussion as I personally
can produce both the bunched and retroflex /r/. I've taught them both
over my years working in the schools. I prefer teaching the bunched /r/ (as that is how I say my /r/
sound), but I've had some students who just couldn't get it but did find
success with the retroflex.
appears in my small sample of colleagues that there are SLPs in all
three categories - those who can produce and teach both bunched and
/r/, those who can only teach and produce bunched /r/, and those who
can only teach and produce retroflex /r/!
I'd love to hear from more SLPs on this subject!
Which one /r/ you? Bunched? Retroflex? Both? Feel free to comment here or on the ADVANCE Facebook page!
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Climate science - Sept 23
Click on the headline (link) for the full text.
Many more articles are available through the Energy Bulletin homepage
Record sea ice melt this summer larger than Texas and Alaska
Jane Kay, San Francisco Chronicle
Shattering previous records, the sea ice in the Arctic shrank 1 million square miles more this summer than the average melt over 25 years, an area larger than Alaska and Texas combined, according to NASA satellite data released Thursday.
Scientists at the federally financed National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado attributed the big melt to a global increase in ocean and air temperatures. The melting was made worse by a cloudless summer in the Arctic, the researchers said.
"The Arctic sea ice is the first signal, and the biggest signal, of the effects of rising global temperatures," said Walt Meier, a research scientist at the center.
Data show the sea ice also is thinner. It's breaking up earlier in the spring and is freezing over later in the fall. There are more days with greater expanses of open water.
(21 September 2007)
Greenhouse Earth: Methane powered runaway global warming
Richard Ingham, AFP
Methane released from wetlands turned the Earth into a hothouse 55 million years ago, according to research released Wednesday that could shed light on a worrying aspect of today's climate-change crisis.
Scientists have long sought to understand the triggers for an extraordinary warming episode called the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), which occurred about 10 million years after the twilight of the dinosaurs.
Earth's surface warmed by at least five degrees Celsius (nine degrees Fahrenheit) in just a few hundred or a few thousand years.
...Richard Pancost, a researcher at Britain's University of Bristol [wrote]in the British journal Nature [that he believed] that the methane had remained locked up in the soil for millions of years before warming released it into the atmosphere.
(19 September 2007)
African deluge brings misery to 1.5m people
John Vidal in Soroti, Uganda; The Guardian
The small plane banks steeply to the east and the extent of the floods in the low-lying Teso region of Uganda become clear: mile upon mile of low-lying pasture land submerged, tens of thousands of acres of staple crops like cassava, millet and groundnuts waterlogged. There are impassable roads, overflowing rivers, stranded cattle and devastated bridges. Villages are cut off and mud houses and roads have been swept away.
But this is a fraction of the devastation caused by some of the heaviest rains in memory to have hit a great swath of Africa from the Sahel to the horn.
According to the UN yesterday, 18 of the poorest and normally driest countries in Africa, from Senegal, Mauritania, Mali and Burkina Faso in the west, to Kenya, Sudan and Ethiopia in the east, have been seriously hit by months of torrential rains which, meterologists forecast, will continue in places for many more weeks.
"We believe at least 650,000 homes have been destroyed, 1.5 million people affected and nearly 200 people so far drowned," said Elisabeth Brys, at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) in Geneva. "This is harvest time for many countries and there are already food shortages."
The rains, linked to ocean temperature changes of El Niño, have caught governments off guard. Many of the worst affected regions are remote from capitals and assessments are still being made.
(20 September 2007)
Related audio and Podcast by Vidal.
The North Pole Is Melting
David Biello, The Scientific American
The permanent Arctic ice cap dwindled to a record low this week, presaging a future of a summertime Northwest Passage and obscuring fog
'Tis the season in the Arctic when the sun disappears below the horizon and twilight replaces daylight. Temperatures drop and ice that melted throughout the Arctic summer begins to cover the world's northernmost ocean again. Scientists have used satellite pictures since 1979 to map the extent of such ice at its minimum, and the picture this year isn't pretty. Covering 1.59 million square miles (4.12 million square kilometers), this summer's sea ice shattered the previous record for the smallest ice cap of 2.05 million square miles (5.31 million square kilometers) in 2005-a further loss of sea ice area equivalent to the states of California and Texas combined.
"The sea ice cover this year has reached a new record low," says Mark Serreze, senior research scientist at the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. "It's not just that we beat the old record, we annihilated it."
NOT SO COLD FACT:
This year's summer ice cover, represented in white, is slightly more than 1 million square miles smaller than the long-term average, represented by the pink line.
(Image: NATIONAL SNOW AND ICE DATA CENTER)
(21 September 2007)
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Setting Up the Right Type of Feeder Under the Right Conditions Will Help Create an Ideal Haven for Birds
One of the best ways to attract birds to your home is to give them a place where they can eat. But simply setting up a bird feeder doesn't always work; there are different types of feeders and conditions that are ideal for attracting and then keeping birds around.
The winter is the best time to set out a feeder, since food is scarce; you're likely to attract a different variety and a large number of birds when it is colder out. However, if you do plan on setting one out in the winter, make sure there are no metal parts exposed on the feeder, for the safety and comfort of the birds. Once you start feeding birds during the winter months, make sure to keep feeding them regularly, because they are likely to get dependant on you as their food source during cold weather, and they will especially need it after winter storms.
Another thing to look for in a feeder is that it protects the food from rain, snow, as well as unwanted animals like squirrels. Also make sure that the feeder will protect the seeds from bird droppings.
When setting it up, make sure that it isn't near any predators that might put the birds in danger. For instance, if you have outdoor cats, your yard won't be a haven for birds.
If you keep these tips in mind when looking for one, chances are that you'll have an abundance of birds who want to stick around your home, now your next step is getting the right bird seed.
Different Feeders for Different Species
If you want to make your yard into a bird sanctuary, or would just like a few aviary visitors to watch from your window, one of the best things you can do is place a feeder in your yard...
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Garden Talk: January 31, 2008
From NGA Editors
Pink-Edged Sea Holly
Sea holly (Eryngium spp.) is a sun-loving, easy-to-grow perennial thats hardy in USDA zones 5 to 8. It features 3-foot-tall flower stalks topped with spiny, silvery blue flower heads. The flowers are favorites of butterflies and they hold their color indoors for months.
Until now this perennial was only noteworthy during its midsummer flowering phase, but the variety Jade Frost extends the show. The new foliage of Jade Frost unfurls in spring to reveal green leaves with rosy pink margins and veins. In summer the pink turns to cream and finally to white, and the green and white variegation remains throughout the season.
Jade Frost grows best in well-drained soil and is drought tolerant. For more information on this unique sea holly, go to: Wayside Gardens.
A Shovel With Attitude
The Kombi shovel is described as a shovel with attitude. One look at it makes you see why. It looks more like a medieval weapon than a garden tool. The Kombi has sharp, deeply serrated edges on both sides of the blade and a pointed blade tip for digging. It can edge, weed, cultivate, cut, and dig. No matter what kind of soil, the shovel can be used to strip sod, cut weeds or roots underground, shear off brush at ground level, and dig holes for planting.
Although this is one rugged tool, it's not recommended for prying out large stumps and rocks. Even though the blade is made from heavy-duty steel, the handle is wooden and can break.
The Kombi shovel comes in a long- and short-handled version, as well as a handy trowel size (pictured). For more information, go to: Mills Mix.
New Multicolored Dahlia
Dahlias come in a wide variety of colors that gardeners combine to produce a multicolored effect. Now a new variety offers multiple colors on one plant. Changing Colors dahlia features flowers in white, lavender, and dark purple, all on the same plant.
'Changing Colors' has 4-inch-diameter chrysanthemum-like blooms that begin in midsummer and continue until frost. Each flower opens dark purple and gradually fades to white, so a single plant with flowers at different stages of maturity looks like three different varieties planted together.
This dahlia grows 2 feet tall and wide and is hardy to USDA zone 8. In colder climates, gardeners can dig the tubers in fall and store them indoors during the winter.
For more information on this new variety, go to: Dutch Gardens.
Best Grass for Low-Nitrogen Lawns
Lawns are ubiquitous in the United States, and most homeowners fertilize their lawns at least once a year, usually with a high-nitrogen product. This has raised environmental concerns because fertilizer runoff can pollute waterways.
To help homeowners reduce their use of nitrogen fertilizer on cool-season grasses, researchers at Purdue University in Indiana tested eight different nitrogen fertilizer application rates on three different cool-season grasses -- Kentucky bluegrass, perennial ryegrass, and turf-type tall fescue. They wanted to determine which grass responded best to lower fertilization rates by evaluating characteristics such as dry matter yield, visual quality, canopy greenness, and disease susceptibility.
Although Kentucky bluegrass had better scores at higher nitrogen fertilization rates than the other two grasses in the study, turf-type tall fescue required less nitrogen input (less than 2.5 pounds nitrogen per 1,000 square feet per year) than Kentucky bluegrass to produce a lawn with acceptable visual quality and color and fewer disease problems. Perennial ryegrass required even more nitrogen fertilizer than Kentucky bluegrass to maintain its visual quality and color.
For more information about this study, go to: Agricultural Research Service.
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Update on Whakatane Mechanism
The Whakatane Mechanism, an IUCN “One Programme” initiative in which CEESP is deeply involved, aims to ensure that conservation policy and practice respect the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities, including those specified in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). It is a tool for the implementation of IUCN Resolution 4.052 and other resolutions taken by the WCC to respect the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities in conservation.
The Mechanism includes undertaking a fieldwork assessment in a protected area by a multi-stakeholder taskforce. This taskforce provides recommendations to address human rights violations and facilitates a dialogue in order to reach joint solutions to be put in place by the various parties involved. The Mechanism also celebrates and promotes best practices in conservation and successful partnerships between indigenous peoples, local communities and protected areas authorities.
Since January 2011, the Whakatane Mechanism has been piloted in two places: at Mount Elgon in western Kenya and in Ob Luang National Park in northern Thailand. The structure of both pilot Assessments was similar: a first roundtable that brought together the different institutions involved in the protected area to explain the concept of the Whakatane Mechanism and plan ahead. This was followed by a scoping study of several days in the protected area to meet with communities and local officials. A second roundtable followed to present and agree on the findings and recommendations of the Assessment.
A draft Framework for the Whakatane Mechanism has been developed jointly by the IUCN secretariat, IUCN-CEESP, IUCN-SPICEH, FPP with feedback by many others and based on the experience of the two pilot Assessments in Thailand and Kenya. Our aim is to circulate it within IUCN for wider feedback in order to agree on a final Framework by the end of the World Conservation Congress in Jeju. The draft Framework (available here) includes suggestions in track changes to facilitate a final agreement at WCC5. We would appreciate your feedback on it by August 30th. The details of the functioning of the Mechanism start on p10. Please send comments or text suggestions in track changes to email@example.com. We are looking forward to getting your input, support and ideas.
If you will be at the World Conservation Congress in Jeju, Korea, we would be very happy to welcome you at the side event on the Whakatane Mechanism (more information). You can also find more information about the Whakatane Mechanism on the website: www.whakatane-mechanism.org.
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Riverstone Holdings is confident the proposed Fiordland monorail should be granted a concession from the Department of Conservation, it was heard at the final hearing in Invercargill yesterday.
Riverstone Holdings has applied for a concession to build a 43km monorail from Kiwi Burn, near the Mavora Lakes, through the Snowdon Forest to Te Anau Downs, 29kms of which would be through conservation land. It would be the final journey in the proposed Fiordland Link experience, which would include a catamaran over Lake Wakatipu from Queenstown, and a four-wheel-drive journey to Mavora Lakes.
The proposal also includes a mountain bike track linking Lake Wakatipu and Lake Te Anau which would double as a maintenance road.
DoC has indicated it will approve the concessions, subject to public submissions.
Of the 318 submissions, 288 opposed it. Some reasons for the opposition were adverse effects on the ecology of the region, intrusion on the remoteness of the area, and significant effects on recreational activities.
Riverstone was given right of reply at the final hearing, and legal counsel Paul Beverley said the opposing submissions did not provide enough evidence to challenge the application.
"The decision maker has to decide whether there are any matters in the submissions that have not been adequately addressed by Riverstone.
"There has been no expert evidence that's of a nature and scope that it could challenge the expert evidence provided by Riverstone, therefore there's nothing in the submissions that should change the indication of the Minister to grant the concession."
Terrestrial ecologist Dr Gary Bramley said a number of ecological values within the Snowdon forest were already adversely effected by introduced mammals, so effects of the clearance of forest would be relatively minor.
"Provided that bats and other ecological values are protected adequately, the forest removal proposed is minor in the context of the wider forest area."
Riverstone also gave evidence from a principal engineer and an environmental master planner to address some of the concerns noted by submitters.
Riverstone chairman Bob Robertson said the Fiordland Link Experience was not about getting to Milford Sound faster, but creating a internationally renowned tourism experience.
"We are simply about creating an experience through New Zealand's back country in a sustainable way. We are certainly not wanting to be some sort of a developer who's going to ruin things in a major way."
Riverstone would also give a written reply, which would address submitters' issues in depth.
All the submissions will now be summarised and a recommendation issued to the Minister of Conservation's representative, who will be making the decision.
A final report will then be compiled, after which a final decision will be made.By Leeana Tamati of the Otago Daily Times
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There are many local wireless data services that we use today, however, there are two local wireless data services that millions of people use every day, for business, work, school, personal home use, scientific documentation, and communication. Local wireless data services have grown and expanded in communities around the globe. From, local wireless data services such as wireless cell phones, to wireless internet services have helped us to generate further education in our future, communicate with each other, and store valuable information, including scientific experiments and findings, etc. Local wireless data services such as cell phones are used every day by millions of people around the world as a form of communication. If you think back, years and years ago, before there were computers and cell phones as local wireless data services in our community, we only had house phones, to communicate. Long before that, we didnít even own phones at all, in the earliest times. Before cell phones we invented a device called a pager. This was a small device that you could carry in your pocket, or clip onto your belt loop; where someone could dial the number that was programmed to the pager, which would then allow the person who was calling the pager to punch in their number; the number would appear on the screen located on the front of the pager in order for you to see what number to call back, and who it was that was paging (If you knew their number by heart). After the pager, our local wireless data services for communication advanced to cell phones, which is what we use today. The first cell phones were very simple. They didnt have flip phones, or text messaging keyboards, etc. However, today we have advanced to further technology in our local wireless data services to include cameras on our phones, Internet, and video. It is amazing how advanced our world has come in the technology field.
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I’ve learned this stuff from personal experience, observation, and from report. I’ll let you guess which are which.
1. In Aruba, you are allowed to carry a lighter on the plane, but not scissors. This makes total sense.
2. What you are allowed to take in your carry-on differs from airport to airport. See #1.
3. The countries that you would think have the tightest airport security…don’t.
4. You can walk around Scandinavia by yourself in broad daylight, and then realize it is 10pm. Their time.
5. Once you have lived in Florida, “cold” takes on a whole ‘nother meaning when you travel north.
6. Yes, I still have a right to visit tropical islands even if I do live in Florida. You have no idea how many times I have been told, “Why would you come here when you live in Florida?” Um, A) Each island is completely different from Florida. B) I love to travel. C) Why you are visiting Canada when you live in Michigan? It makes the same kind of sense. IT’S A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PLACE.
7. Bring two cameras – one that has a rechargeable batteries, and one that has chargeable batteries. Yes, one of them will die on you.
8. If you forget your phone/camera/whatever charger, check with the front desk of the hotel. They almost always have a matching one that was left behind by someone else. Think of it as Charger Karma.
9. ALWAYS do carry-on. I even did carry-on for my 10-day trip to Scandinavia. You can do it. It saves time, and now it even saves you money. And guess what? You *always* have your luggage when you get off the plane. Unless you forget it on the plane.
10. Water-resistant is not the same thing as waterproof. Very important.
11. When you are in another country, make an attempt to at least learn some of the language. There is no rule that says that they *must* speak English. Even if they know it.
12. In some countries, their English is better than yours.
13. We seem to be the only country that does not have a standardized practice of teaching a foreign language as early as Kindergarten.
14. Being called by name over the plane intercom is like being called to the Principal’s office. The people on the plane even go, “Oooooo” like they did in elementary school.
15. Yes, people have actually realized they are on the wrong plane after the destination is announced. How they got on the plane in the first place…
16. Yes, try what they feed you. It may look like something you would never eat, but it may be delicious. Unless it is still moving. You might want to be careful with that one.
17. The smaller and more hole-in-the-wall a restaurant is, the more fabulous the food.
18. Any restaurant that has a 4’10″ Nonna/Grandma who mostly works in the basement cooking her life away and then occasionally comes up to yell at the servers, while they tremble with fear and reverence – this is an exponentially good restaurant.
19. If your passport is up for renewal in oh, the next 5 years, apply for a new one now. Every man, woman, and child is currently getting a passport. You qualify in one of those categories. So get a move on. Worst case scenario – contact your government representative if your renewal is taking a ridiculously slow amount of time. “Ridiculously slow” is subjective.
20. Bring hand sanitizer. I was doing this before it was cool. I now pretend I’m a trendsetter.
21. Hand sanitizer wipes do not count as a liquid – whoo hooo! More room in your quart-size bag.
22. Mascara counts as a liquid, depending on the airport. When in doubt, quart it.
23. That GE thingy at security that puffs air all around you? Thanks, GE. That thing is freaky. It’s like the glaucoma test at the eye doctor where they blow a puff of air at your eye…except it’s all over.
24. DO NOT buy a black suitcase. Good Lord, just don’t do it. Unless you have time to kill.
25. If you can afford to get or have the opportunity to trade in your miles for club level service at the airport – do it.
26. If you do the club level, they don’t call your flight out over the intercom. Just sayin’.
27. Those quiet cars on trains? There’s a reason why they have a picture of a sleeping phone. Because your phone should be SLEEPING. Not singing, not hollering, it should be QUIET. This can be achieved by turning your phone OFF. I know, amazing concept.
28. You learn more about who you are when you are around people who you are not.
29. Never pass up an opportunity to travel. Find a way. I don’t care if you have to rearrange your schedule, scrape together the money – just do it.
30. There is no such thing as a bad vacation. They just give you really good stories to tell when you get home.
31. Those guys with the AK-47s standing in the airport? They WILL shoot you. And quickly. So shut up and behave.
32. Traveling somewhere that is so different from what you are used to that it is like being on Mars – this is a very good thing.
33. We have no idea how good we have it. That is part of the reason why you need to travel – see how other people live (and live without).
34. Talk to people. I’ve met people on trips that I’m still in touch with years later. (Keep in mind that if it’s a cultural no-no to talk in a certain situation, don’t do it. You will look and feel stupid. And you may even have bigger consequences than that.)
35. If you are in the Tube in London, and someone starts talking to you, there’s a 99% chance they are American.
36. The French have an innate sense of style. It extends to their clothing, food, and conversation.
37. I love France and the French. If you tell me you don’t like France or the French, I will ask you if you have ever been to France. I will also ask you if you have ever been outside Paris. You will most likely answer “no” to one or both of these questions. I will then laugh.
38. “All-inclusive” does not translate into “Eat like an animal”. Use some decorum.
37. If you don’t know what decorum is, learn it. You represent the country you are from when you travel.
38. Make a list of things you want to visit in your lifetime. I prefer to call it my “Places I Want to Travel” list rather than “Places I Want to See Before I Die” list. The first version sounds much happier.
39. The people of China are some of the kindest and gracious people I have met.
40. You learn a lot about a country by going into a bookstore. And a post office.
41. Always have a pen and paper with you. And business cards.
42. If you are afraid of flying, just think of a plane as a bus in the air. It just takes a LOT longer to board this bus.
43. Turbulence is much less topsy-turvy than any rollercoaster.
44. You can still have a great conversation with someone even though you are speaking completely different languages.
45. This is coolest letter of any alphabet:
The Russian language also wins because it has like four Ys. That is cool.
46. Aruba is mostly desert. It is like Arizona, but with beaches.
47. Fear not. Just be careful.
48. Have fun. You paid for this trip – ENJOY IT.
49. Get prescriptions for antibiotics and Tamiflu filled before you leave on your trip.
50. Yes, it will be fine. You will just have a really great story when you get home.
51. Crying babies on planes: At least you aren’t the baby. This is one of the reasons earplugs were invented. Use them. Babies can’t help it, and yes, they do have to travel.
52. However, children who run up and down the aisles of the plane – yes, your kid is totally adorable. But I will trip over him. And all three of us will not be happy.
53. Spontaneous travel is some of the best traveling. Just hop on a plane and go somewhere. You can get great last-minute travel deals.
54. Yes, get your cell phone set up for international service. And in the case of AT&T, make sure you call and have it turned off when you get home. Because AT&T won’t do it automatically. Psst – they make more money that way.
55. As long as you have your a) meds and b) contacts/glasses (if you need them), you can pretty much get whatever you forgot when you get to your destination. And even a) and b) can be taken care of in many countries.
56. Sure, check out a McDonalds in another country just to see what they have there. But for the love of God, eat somewhere more local.
57. Your brain and neurons will thank you for traveling. They need some new scenery, too.
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Smarts and flexibility reign in this product genre
Just when you thought access control had hit its peak, there’s more innovation to report. Access control is not just for physical security anymore, even though that too has seen its share of technological advances. Access-control sensors can pinpoint the whereabouts of individuals, integrate with time and attendance features and even building-management systems. They can be integrated with occupancy sensors, video surveillance, locking devices and even the personal computer and other hardware and software.
Magnetic stripe cards are here to stay, but they’ve now been called on to do double duty. Cards are migrating to multitasking applications, such as providing access, debit and other varied functions within a facility. Proximity, both contact and contactless, is more reliable and cost-effective than ever, and is often used in conjunction with magnetic stripe in a dual-technology scenario.
In the United Kingdom, multifunction cards have been all the rage for years. Physical security, CCTV, access control and other high-tech solutions have been a mainstay there for many more years than in the United States. However, as this country seeks to beef up security at its borders, institutions and communities, a wide range of physical security will prevail. Biometrics will continue to take a key role, especially for higher levels of identification that may be afforded by fingerprint, retinal and various types of physical-characteristic scans.
As the evolution of access control continues, one thing is certain—it won’t remain based on a single technology. Multiple technologies and applications will reign. For example, magnetic stripe or swipe cards share the niche with biometrics and other technology.
Magnetic stripe still finds its applications, especially in those where many cards must be distributed, and even replaced on a regular basis. Here, magnetic stripe can cost cents per cards, versus higher price tags for proximity or other technologies. There’s a place for both, and manufacturers will continue to fully support these technologies.
According to Marc Freundlich, president of Indala, an ASSA ABLOY Group company based in San Jose, Calif., it is increasingly apparent that forces outside of physical security access have an impact on the market.
“We do not immediately think of products such as smart bank cards, biometric driver licenses, cashless vending machines or card-based, secure log-on PC programs when we think of access control. Nor do we consider the impact of processes such as how a university student buys lunch, how a patient receives medicine or how a factory-floor worker gets credit for completing a series of assembly-line tasks. They may at first seem unrelated to our world of physical security, but they are [related]. Forces outside the security industry play a crucial role in affecting and even driving its development. The business of security is changing. Its scope is growing,” Freundlich said.
Consumer needs are clearly a driver for some innovation tied to convenience, while the corporate market drives more multiuse physical-security solutions, he continued.
Multiapplication cards and biometrics continue to bring a sense of wizardry to access control. Some examples include: voice biometrics security solutions; smart cards for stadium applications and other functions such as employee management and cashless payment; secure global pilot credentials and more.
In addition, there are other technology trends emerging in the access-control market, according to Jerry Cordasco, vice president and general manager of Compass Technologies Inc., a Wheelock Co., Exton, Pa. “Cards aren’t going away. But now you can use a single card for security, and the administration of that is done from one central point, often computer-controlled. Or a controller will have its own built-in smarts. The integration of access control with other functions in a seamless solution is also a growing trend, such as digital video recording and surveillance. And, as radio frequency continues to come down in price, it will be more feasible to have access control provide longer read ranges,” he said.
Cordasco said access control will go beyond initial identification – especially as it continues to converge with radio frequency. For example, a corporation may use the card for access, but in an emergency be able to pinpoint the whereabouts of people within the facility. The trend toward RF usage, especially as the cost of radio-frequency identification used in the consumer market to track manufacturing, sales, etc., continues to evolve and mature, will find its way to physical security.
Access control is more than opening doors. It is a multifunction discipline that continues to integrate with other functions within a building. It is an important part of the continued move to integration and there’s no lack of innovation in sight. EC
O’MARA is the president of DLO Communications in Park Ridge, Ill., specializing in low-voltage. She can be reached at 847.384.1916 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
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When Volvo started the sales of trucks in 1928 it immediately became profitable, but not only for the customers but also for Volvo.
It was obvious to the management, Assar Gabrielsson and Gustaf Larson, that profitability was better for production of heavy-duty commercial vehicles than for passenger cars and small trucks. These light-duty vehicles sometimes had to be sold at loss due to fierce competition from manufacturers of (mostly American) cheap cars.
Larger trucks with special truck-components
In the 1930's, the major Swedish truck and bus manufacturers were Tidaholm and Scania-vabis. The number of trucks manufactured per year from each of these stall manufacturers seldom exceeded one hundred. It was, of course, tempting for Volvo to start the production and sales of large trucks.
In 1929 (when the LV Series 3 was presented, and design capacity was available for larger vehicles) Volvo started the design of larger trucks; the LV66- and LV68-series.
Previous trucks had been based to a large extent on components which were used also on the Volvo cars. For the new trucks (the first heavy-duty vehicles made by Volvo) stronger components were needed. The design of special truck-components, including engine, gearbox, rear axle and chassis components, was started.
Choosing the right engine
In the early stages of the planning for the new trucks, two different engine configurations were evaluated', either a six-in-line or a straight-eight. In the end, the more traditional six-cylinder engine configuration was chosen, in combination with an unsynchronized four-speed gearbox. Since the new trucks series spanned a rather large GVW range, in two- and three-axle versions, alternative rear axles were offered, with either single (for LV68/69/70) or double (for LV66/LV67) reduction.
The demanding task of snow ploughing
The new LV66- and LV68-series of trucks were introduced in 1931. They became quite popular, especially in the lighter version LV68/69/70 (the three different designations indicated different chassis wheelbases).
The heavy-duty LV66/67 types did not obtain the same popularity, for two reasons. The number of heavy-duty trucks sold annually was limited in those days, and the 75 bhp overhead-valve petrol-engine was not powerful enough for snow ploughing during severe Swedish winkers, a rather important source of income for the truck owners in those days.
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If there is one thing tougher than performing Wagner’s Ring operas, it is recording them. The array of forces is so large, the distances between them so great and the relation of essential to secondary so crucial to a successful outcome that the recording team requires almost as much time on the rehearsal stage as the orchestra and singers. Easy, it ain’t.
In what may be the first Ring ever recorded in Russia, music director Valery Gergiev gathers the hottest cast on earth. Jonas Kaufmann, in his early 40s, is a stress-free Siegmund. Nina Stemme mitigates power with beauty as Brünnhilde, René Pape is a strident Wotan and Anja Kampe an affecting Siegelinde. The remainder of the cast is Russian, though you would hardly know it from the crispness of their German diction and the tightness of the ensemble.
Valery Gergiev gathers the hottest cast on earth
There is a distinct Wagner tradition in Russia – the Ring was first staged in St Petersburg in 1907 – but it hibernated during the Soviet decades. Gergiev here has pasted is a layer of international glitz over an indigenous orchestra that plays with an intermittent roughness – not inappropriate to the textures, but unsettling if Bayreuth and Vienna are your preferred norm. Over four hours, the faint orchestral rasp adds a brutal undertone to the godly negotiations, a husky reminder of life’s fragility and a Dostoyevskian twist to the tale.
Gergiev is magisterial in Wagner, a rampaging pagan among the gods. Ex-Decca producer James Mallinson rules the sound decks and the result in this, the first of four releases, is as gripping as any Wagner recording of recent times, a box to sit unblushing beside Solti’s everlasting benchmark.
Artists: Jonas Kaufmann, Nina Stemme, René Pape, Anja Kampe, Mariinsky Orchestra/Valery Gergiev
Norman Lebrecht is a prolific commentator on music and cultural affairs and an award-winning novelist. See his blog Slipped Disc.
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Cinema was still a relatively new hybrid of art and technology when the RMS Titanic met its fate. But the movies wasted no time taking on a disaster that seemed to expose the hubris of embracing the new too hardily. From the start, film wove the true with the fictional, a habit enjoyed right up to director James Cameron’s 1997 romantic epic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as the White Star Line-crossed lovers Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater.
The first silent of merit is celebrating its own centennial. “Saved From the Titanic” was released just a month after the sinking. The one-reeler featured American actress Dorothy Winifred Gibson, who’d been a passenger on the ship. Other early efforts that utilized the ship’s ruin if not the vessel’s name: “Atlantis” (1913) and “Atlantic” (1929).
World War II saw the German-made “Titanic” (1943), a propaganda effort intended to exploit the oceanliner’s misfortune as a rank example of British incompentence. But the tale of people facing a heretofor unfathomable disaster sank at the box office.
“Regular bombing raids on German cities by the combined American and British air forces did not whet the public’s appetite for a disaster,” according to the Media Awareness Network, a Canadian media and Internet education website. “The Nazi censors yanked it from circulation when they discovered that German audiences were still far too sympathetic toward the British passengers despite the obvious propaganda quotient.”
There remain three vastly notable films about the disaster.
- “Titanic” (1953): Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch and Richard L. Breen won the best-original-screenplay Oscar for this tale of romantic woe and reckoning. Barbara Stanwyck and Clifton Webb star as the fictional Sturges, first-class passengers whose marriage has floundered. A fresh-faced Robert Wagner plays a nice Midwestern fella smitten with the wealthy couple’s daughter.
- “A Night to Remember” (1958): Movie purists and Titanic historians often hail this British take on the disaster as the best. It is indeed wondrous in its restraint. The film, based on Walter Lord’s book, did not include fictional characters but hewed to accurate depictions of the class hierarchies that doomed most of the third-class passengers who weren’t allowed on deck until lifeboats had left.
- “Titanic” (1997 and 2012): Writer-director Cameron’s titanic hit – which was re-released last week in 3-D – was the first film to sail past the billion-dollar box office beacon. It was nominated for 14 Oscars and won 11, including best picture and best director. It’s tarnished some by its over-the-top flourishes: Billy Zane wielding a gun, really? Celine Dion ruled the airwaves – and then some – with “My Heart Will Go On,” which won an Oscar.
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A few months ago Intel released the Ivy Bridge processor. Subsequently, computer manufacturers have been releasing computers with the processor and have been extolling the benefits of upgrading, along with some new features like Turbo Boost. These terms can be confusing and could trick you into unnecessary upgrades.
Here’s an overview of what exactly Ivy Bridge processors are, what Turbo Boost is, and what this means for your business.
What is Ivy Bridge? Ivy Bridge is a code name used by Intel to describe the 2012 version of its Core processors - Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7. With the release of Ivy Bridge, the actual Core processors have not changed names, just internal components that make them more efficient and faster. If you’re unsure whether a computer has an Ivy Bridge processor in it, the first number after the core type will start with a three i.e., Core i3-3XXX. What is this Turbo Boost that’s advertised? One of the new features introduced is something called Turbo Boost. If you’ve looked at the new laptops released by Apple a few weeks ago, you have undoubtedly heard of it. Turbo Boost is kind of similar to a turbo boost in a car; the processor runs at a certain speed, and when more power is needed, the processor goes into overdrive and delivers it. In tech speak, this is called, “overclocking”.
Overclocking isn’t a new concept, users have been able to do it for years, although, in older processors it was a complex task only experts would dare attempt. Intel’s new processors now do this automatically. There is an advantage to this: traditional overclocking causes processors to use more power and generate a lot more heat, Turbo Boost gives the benefits of overclocking when you need it, while saving energy when you don’t.
Should my business upgrade to Ivy Bridge? While the new processors do offer some, on paper at least, tempting benefits, it really depends on what you and your employees use your computers for. If you do work that requires a lot of processor power, like 3D rendering or running multiple virtual environments, then yes, you should consider upgrading. If your systems meet your needs now and for the foreseeable future, you won’t really gain anything from upgrading.
Upgrading your systems can be a time consuming and a large investment, it’s important to get the systems that match your needs. If you’re thinking about upgrading, or would like to learn more about Ivy Bridge, please contact us.
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Patent satellite offices sought by politicians
Kappos admitted at a recent Brookings Institution event that he’s been approached by nearly every state.
While politics tends to be behind many decisions in Washington, Kappos said the patent office has “a very straightforward set of objective measures that we’re looking at.”Continue Reading
Among those factors are the “prevalence of patent filers,” universities in the area, number of registered practitioners and cost of living, Kappos said. Most important, however, is the labor pool, he added.
“The benchmark issue, as leader of the agency, I’m trying to set these offices up so that we can hire and retain skilled professionals who can examine patent applications and who want to work for the USPTO,” Kappos said. “And who we will be able to retain at the USPTO. You cannot manage any enterprise if you get into the revolving door with the attrition problem.”
No one expects the new offices to be as vast as the PTO headquarters in Alexandria, Va., where about 9,000 employees now work, but each satellite office is estimated to produce 200 to 250 highly skilled jobs — such as engineers and scientists to examine patents. The offices also have the potential to become little economic engines, attracting law offices and ancillary businesses to relocate nearby.
“Most communities are so hungry for anything that produces jobs, even an office that’s small and produced a couple hundred jobs looks good,” said retired Judge Paul Michel, former chief of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Michel, an expert in patent issues, also said that having a PTO office gives local officials something to crow about.
“Employment is a big part of it, but I think in some sense, so is prestige,” he said.
Hank Nothhaft, an author and “serial entrepreneur,” who has been stumping for California on the issue, agreed.
“I’ve got to believe it would become a major bragging point to have a patent office,” he said, adding that it could also be a recruitment tool for economic development.
The final selection for the sites lies with the PTO director, but he can’t just put one anywhere. Congress ordered the director to locate the branch offices in different states and regionsand consider the economic impact and the availability of scientific and technically knowledgeable personnel.
California’s patent prowess may be well known, but there are other states that could also make a case based on innovation and creativity. Massachusetts has been mentioned as a potential site.
Meanwhile, lawmakers in the crucial swing state of Colorado are touting that state’s credentials: It’s got the third-largest aerospace industry in the country, the sixth-largest medical device industry and is a national hub for the clean energy industry.
“Locating in Colorado will put the USPTO at the center of one of the country’s most vibrant clusters of innovation, technological development and economic growth,” Bennet and Udall wrote. “Our state is a national leader in innovation-based industries and is heavily dependent on the approval of new patents for growth.”
That may be true, but only 43,910 patents were granted to inventors in Colorado since 1977, leaving the state in the middle of the pack.
The state, however, may have another draw for an administration that is facing a battle for reelection next year. Colorado voters have typically gone back and forth between supporting Democrats and Republicans.
With the law’s language on regional balancing, it’s highly unlikely two states in the West could win one of the satellite offices, and Nothhaft contends California’s lead in patent production gives it a leg up.
“Maybe they can get one out of three in the correct place,” he told POLITICO. “That would be a high batting average for Congress.”
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If your holiday poinsettia comes in a container wrapped in a foil outer cover, remove it or punch holes in the bottom to allow excess water to drain. Keep the soil around the poinsettia slightly moist, but not soggy, and place the plant in a bright window out of direct sunlight.
There are two types of flowering holiday cactus, the Christmas cactus and the Easter cactus. The Christmas cactus, Zygocactus truncates, usually flowers from Thanksgiving to Christmas and its leaves have pointed lobes. The Easter cactus, Schlumbergera bridgessii, has wider leaves, which are rounded. It usually flowers from Christmas to Easter. Allow soil to dry out between waterings and keep the plant in bright light while in bloom. These are long-lived plants that can be kept outside in the shade during most of the year. They do need to be protected from frost and freezing temperatures.
Kalanchoe, a winter-blooming succulent, has become popular as a holiday plant. The showy flowers are in terminal clusters and last for several weeks. Flower colors are yellow, pink, red and various shades of orange. Since this is a succulent plant, let the soil dry out between waterings.
Information from Carol Suggs and Theresa Badurek of the Pinellas County Extension Service and from the Hillsborough County Extension Gardening Almanac. Go to the extension websites at pinellascountyextension.org and hillsborough.extension.ufl.edu.
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Six commissions to promote and defend the interests of 161 member regions.
The CPMR decided to organise itself into geographical commissions in order to make it easier to articulate the particular circumstances of each of the major sea basins.
Each geographical commission has its own organisational structure, so that it can promote its specific identity and cooperate on subjects of common interest, while contributing to the cohesion and unity of the Conference.
The The Islands Commission was set up in 1979 to defend the notion that being an island is not synonymous with isolation.
The Atlantic Arc,
North Sea and Intermediterranean commissions were set up in 1989.
The Atlantic Arc Commission aims to make the western European seaboard more dynamic in face of the shift of the centre of gravity to the east. The North Sea Commission is working to turn its sea basin into a major economic entity. The Intermediterranean Commission focuses on the south of the Mediterranean and the development of the Euro-Mediterranean dialogue.
The Baltic Sea Commission was created in 1996. In anticipation of successive waves of EU enlargement, it promotes cooperation with the new members and Russia.
The Black Sea and Balkans commissions were created in 2002/2003. They merged in 2004 in order to develop joint projects and promote peace and stability.
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STRIKES are nothing new to France, but now it is archaeologists who have downed tools and taken to the streets.
The archaeologists laid down their trowels and brushes in protest at a decision by Alain Juppé, the Prime Minister, to allow a developer to demolish buildings on a medieval site without it being excavated first. They say this is a dangerous precedent that threatens archaeological sites throughout France.
"It's the first time that the deliberate destruction of national heritage has been so authorised," says Michel Vidal, director of archaeological services for the Midi-Pyrenees region, based in Toulouse. "It endangers all the archaeological sites in urban areas in France."
A law passed in 1980 normally requires a scientific excavation on any site where building work will destroy ancient artefacts. The law does not say who should pay for a dig. Normally the developers foot all or part of the bill, ...
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Weight-loss programmes can help even very young children slim down, and it appears that acting early may improve the odds of success, according to two European studies.
Excessive weight in childhood often stays into adulthood, where it has been linked to heart disease, diabetes and other health problems.
In one study, which appeared in the Archives of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, scientists in the Netherlands found that heavy three- to five-year-olds saw continued benefits from a weight-loss intervention at least several months after it ended.
A report from Sweden showed that overweight and obese children under ten were much more likely to have slower weight gain than adolescents getting similar behavioural treatments.
"What they are showing is a pretty consistent trend that if we were to intervene early, we could really have an effect on changing the trajectory of weight gain in children," said Elsie Taveras, a paediatrician at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, who co-wrote an editorial on the findings.
Dr Taveras said there is mounting evidence that paying attention to young kids may be a promising way to stem the global obesity epidemic.
In 2008, more than a third of US youths were either overweight or obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The numbers have also been on the rise in Europe, although they are lower than in the United States.
The Dutch researchers, led by Gianni Bocca of Beatrix Children's Hospital in Groningen, studied 75 heavy children who had been randomly assigned to either usual care or an intensive weight-loss programme.
The programme lasted four months and involved 25 sessions with dietary advice, exercise and, for the parents, behavioural counselling.
A year after the study began, children in the intervention group had gained 1.9kg on average, and those who got usual care had added another 3kg.
While that difference could have been due to chance, there was a statistically reliable difference in body mass index (BMI), a measure of height in relation to weight.
Children in the intervention group went down one unit in BMI, while the others saw no change.
"The magnitude of the effect, especially initially after the intervention, wasn't very large, but what needs to be taken into account was that these children were growing," Dr Taveras said.
"What these interventions are showing is that you can have an effect, and hopefully these interventions are changing the trajectory these children were headed towards."
She cautioned, though, that the Swedish findings, in a study led by Pernilla Danielsson of Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, were based on observations instead of an experiment.
That means it's possible that the children between 14 and 16, who saw no or little effect of the behavioral treatment, could have been particularly tough cases.
Still, Dr Taveras said, there is good evidence that heavy children who start weight-loss programmes early have an easier time slimming down.
"I hope that in a few years there will be more examples of programmes that aren't just clinical that we can send families to," she said.
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Growing Unbelief? 1 in 5 Americans Are Now Atheists, Agnostics or ‘Nones’
While the majority of the population still embraces the concept of a “God,” according to a new report, the proportion of Americans abandoning the notion that a higher power exists is expanding. Now, nearly one in five (19 percent) Americans report that they are a part of the “nones” — the growing group of religiously unaffiliated individuals.
Who are these “nones,” you ask? According to the USA Today, they are people who call themselves atheists, agnostics or those who simply embrace “nothing in particular.” According to Barry Kosmin, co-author of three American Religious Identification Surveys, the “nones” may be growing for a variety of reasons.
“Young people are resistant to the authority of institutional religion, older people are turned off by the politicization of religion, and people are simply less into theology than ever before,” he explains.
While some may deny that one or more of these reasons are at the center of the growing trend of non-belief, others will certainly agree that this is an issue worthy of further examination. Looking at the numbers, regardless of where one stands, is stunning. USA Today goes on to explain how this proportion has grown over the years:
Kosmin’s surveys were the first to brand the Nones in 1990 when they were 6% of U.S. adults. By 2008 survey, Nones were up to 15%. By 2010, another survey, the bi-annual General Social Survey, bumped the number to 18%.
Meanwhile, the Roman Catholic Church, the nation’s largest religious denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, Methodists and Lutherans, all show membership flat or inching downward, according to the 2012 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches.
The 19% count is based on aggregated surveys of 19,377 people conducted by the Pew Research Center throughout 2011.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
The Cruellest Month
With temperatures reaching 45 degrees Celsius up north, Facebook updates have begun quoting the opening line of T.S.Eliot's The Waste Land: April is the cruellest month.
In the poem, the line is meant ironically. It is spoken from the point of view of those who feel threatened by the awakening of spring, who prefer winter's 'forgetful snow'.
APRIL is the cruellest month,
breeding Lilacs out of the dead land,
mixing Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
Eliot plays off the prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, with its evocation of the sweetness of spring that inspires people to leave their homes for pilgrimages. Here are the opening lines of the Prologue (in somewhat modernised spelling, with difficult words explained in brackets):
When that April with his showers soote (sweet)
The drought of March hath pierced to the root
And bathed every vein (rootlet) in such liquor (liquid)
Of which virtúe engendered is the flower;
When Zephyrus (West Wind) eke (also) with his sweete breath
Inspired hath in every holt and heath (grove & field)
The tender croppes, and the younge sun (spring sun)
Hath in the Ram (Aries) his halfe course y-run,
And smalle fowles maken melody
That sleepen (who sleep) all the night with open eye
[So pricketh them Natúre in their couráges], (spurs / spirits)
Then longen folk to go on pilgrimáges,
All this is a far cry from the oven-like plains of North India. Another misunderstood phrase frequently used in these months is 'Indian Summer'. An Indian Summer has nothing to do with India. It refers to a sudden warming of weather that is occasionally witnessed in parts of North America in October, confounding the expectations of those who assume temperatures will keep dropping through autumn. The Indians in question are Native Americans, not desis.
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Gambian businesswomen are setting up a cluster that will bring businesses, particularly women businesses that are export-ready, to export to the international market, the American market in particular.
“This cluster will help us come together, put our resources and expertise together to access the international market,” said Amie Ceesay-Jaiteh, the proprietor and general manager of C J Enterprise, a company mainly involved in the business of exporting foodstuff (mostly fish) to the UK and America. She opined that when this cluster is ready there will be much foreign exchange coming into the country.
“Exports make the economy more viable,” she said, adding “the American Embassy in the Gambia is helping us in that regard; they are encouraging us to export more into the US market.”
With many years experience in exporting, Amie said the American market is huge, so when exporting there normally they will ask for about 4-5 containers, which is very difficult for individual businesses in The Gambia to provide but with such a cluster, “we can put together our resources and expertise to export in larger volume”, and take advantage of such a huge market.
Challenges of exporting
Amie recounts some challenges she encounter in exporting: “Actually there are challenges because we take fish abroad most of the time that it is difficult. Sometimes we take the fish to Europe, supply to the customers and some of them don’t pay on time. Sometimes you are there for a short period, say, two weeks. Some of them cannot gather your money and give it to you before you leave; they ask you to go, then they will transfer the money to you. You have to be calling them to send the money. That sometimes holds us back.”
Asked how easy it is be exporting, Amie said: “I would not say it is easy because before you venture into export you need to get the market, you need to go and find your customers to be able to sell your products. So if you don’t have the market it is difficult to venture into it. If you see me doing it and you think you can also do it as well, you should have it in mind that it involves a whole lot of things being put in place. You have to get customers who are ready to buy from you anywhere you want to export to.
“Before venturing into business you have to do research and market feasibility study to see what product you would be interested in selling. If you want to be an exporter it is even worth travelling abroad just to look for a market; you also have to go to the internet and search for wholesalers.”
The proprietor of CJ enterprise said exporting fish and agricultural products is something that she find “very interesting”. “I was running my own restaurant after I returned from UK where I studied Tourism and Hotel Management and Catering,” she said.
Mrs Ceesay-Jaiteh continued: “The time I was operating the restaurant I used to go to the market to buy fish and vegetables to sell in the restaurant; I used to meet fishmongers and vegetable sellers; I saw the constraints they were facing at that time. For instance, when you want to buy tomatoes in the market you discover there are abundant tomatoes at some point because they are all harvested together at a time, the same thing holds true of other vegetables. The market also used to be flooded with fish sometimes.
“So I use to think of ways of helping these people; incidentally when I went to UK, somebody approached me and said they needed fish in their shop, so I started buying fish and packing them in suitcases for export to the UK, until they made a law in Europe that we have to pack them properly. So we started air-freighting the fish, but we were doing it through establishments that had export permit. As the demand increased, we started exporting in containers. We started with 20-foot containers, but now we use 40-foot containers because the demand is increasing by the day.”
Advice to Gambians
At the moment “things are very hard”, businesses are experiencing very difficult times globally. When things are difficult, “I think Gambians should help each other; if a Gambian is in business, let’s support the person”. Amie opined that this is the only way the country can move forward and improve our lives.
She called on all and sundry to support Gambian businesses because Gambians are going into lots of businesses that would have been dominated by foreigners. Gambians are in supermarkets, minimarkets, import and export, so let us support each other. If a Gambian makes money, it stays in the country; it makes the economy more viable.
For example, she said, there is a Nigerian shop in London, Nigerians are so proud of going to that shop to buy instead of going to other shops; they will support their fellow Nigerians. So let’s do that - look at each other and support each other. That will take us from this level and probably it might reduce poverty because Gambians will be investing more in The Gambia and invest more in their families and that will lead to the growth of the economy. That is something that we are lacking, let’s give that support to each other.
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The Sharpe Community Scholars Program
No shortage of creative ideas for service.
Created in 2001 through a gift from the late Robert Sharpe and his wife, Jane, the Sharpe Community Scholars Program
extends the College's community-service tradition by offering
approximately 75 students the opportunity to connect their academic
studies with social action. Originally offering only one course
exploring academic concepts and theories each fall, the program now
offers five or six courses that are followed by service projects in the
spring, which allow students to apply their learning to real-world
For example, students under the supervision of Associate Professor of Modern Languages Jonathan Arries taught English as a second language in local schools. Others worked with Chris Howard, the Sharpe Professor of Civic Renewal, on improving middle and high school students’ study skills and their awareness of what college could do for them.
“Right now the Sharpe Program is a ‘freshman thing,’” says Monica Griffin, director of the program. “But freshmen move onward and upward, and they want to learn more.”
To that end, the program hopes to expand its student initiatives, create new community partnerships and provide more opportunities for upper-level Sharpe and non-Sharpe students. Additional funds are needed for faculty training, summer research, term professorships and alumni involvement.
“We’re bursting at the seams with student interest,” says Griffin. “Any creative outlet for the service-learning bug that bites them in that first year would be a wonderful addition to the program.”
That was the case for Angela Perkey ’08, who as a freshman received a Sharpe Community Scholars grant to conduct a service-learning project in Nashville, Tenn. The experience inspired her to found Students Serve, a non-profit organization that provides service-learning grants to students at other colleges and universities.
“Service-learning projects allow students to use the academic knowledge they are learning in classes and apply it to benefit their communities,” Perkey says. “Both communities and college students will benefit from receiving the grants. For example, a student majoring in engineering may apply for a grant to build flood resistant buildings for nonprofit organizations, homes, schools, and community areas that were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina or an education major may design an after-school curriculum and teach inner city children in New York how to start and manage a business.”
Learn more about the Sharpe Scholars Program.
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Michael Kindt, in his fun-loving manner, shocked people as he introduced numerous individuals around the globe to the pink messy goo pictured above. He writes:
Say hello to mechanically separated chicken.To present this news fairly, we must note that the infamous McDonald's McNuggets are no longer made from mechanically separated poultry as defined by the USDA. Several other fast food chains have also done away with mechanically separated meats for most of their items (KFC, for example, uses whole chicken for all but their 'chicken poppers'). But still, lot of the mass-produced chicken nuggets, hotdogs, and meat patties (including frozen dinners and other processed meats you buy in the frozen aisle of the grocery store) are made from mechanically separated chicken/turkey/pork. In general, if the food does not need to maintain its shape, it is cheaper to make from mechanically separated meat. Foods made with mechanically separated poultry animals are also now required to be labeled as containing "mechanically separated chicken or turkey" in their ingredients lists.
It’s what fast-food chicken is made from—things like chicken nuggets and patties, as well as the processed frozen chicken in the stores.
Basically, the entire chicken is smashed and pressed through a sieve—bones, eyes, guts, and all. It comes out looking like this.
There’s more: because it’s crawling with bacteria, it will be washed with ammonia, soaked in it, actually. Then, because it tastes gross, it will be reflavored artificially. And because it is weirdly pink, it will be dyed with artificial color.
But, hey, at least it tastes good, right?
High five America!
While "mechanically separated meat" may apply to several animals slaughtered in this fashion - turkey, chicken and pork - concerns over bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) have led to regulations that ban the use of mechanically separated beef cattle since 2004. The USDA states:
Due to FSIS regulations enacted in 2004 to protect consumers against Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, mechanically separated beef is considered inedible and is prohibited for use as human food. It is not permitted in hot dogs or any other processed product.Mechanically separated meat also does not actually contain the "bones and all." While it is all put through the same high pressured sieve, the purpose of the process is to force all the tissue matter from the bone - leaving nothing to waste. This was started in the 1960s when machines were first developed that were capable of doing so. Prior to that time, a lot of meat tissue went to waste because manufacturers couldn't get the last pieces of flesh from the bones of animals (it was done by hand).
Anhydrous ammonia is routinely used in packing plants to refrigerate the meat, and it has been known to leak into the meat product. Ammonium hydroxide is also often used as an antibacterial agent when meat is processed. But (again, to be precise) processed meat is not deliberately 'soaked' in ammonia.
Today, there are a number of tasty meat-free, soy-free options for nuggets available at your local whole foods store or in the health section of your local grocery. A favorite here has been the Southwestern Chik'n Wings from Quorn - they are delicious! Learn more about Quorn's use of microprotein (like the protein in mushrooms) here and see all their scrumptious alternative selections if you are shopping for some 'fast food' nuggets.
We also have the option to purchase whole, fresh, 'cruelty-free' meats (although we still have some hesitation as to whether such a thing exists) from our local farmers or whole foods suppliers. Cut them into small pieces, and bread them yourself with a variety of healthy coatings. See one option for home made nugget breading here.
As Jamie Oliver recently reminded us in his "Food Revolution" there are many important reasons to ditch the pink bloody animal mush and eat real food. [See video below for Oliver's 'chicken nugget' experiment.] To learn more about where your food comes from and explore options for better, more responsible, eating for our future, see any of these excellent sources:
1) Fast Food Nation
2) The Omnivore's Dilemma and The Omnivore's Dilemma for Kids
3) In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
4) Food Inc.: A Participant Guide
5) Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
6) The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight and Saving the Planet
7) Diet for a Dead Planet
8) Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
9) Stuffed and Starved: The Battle for the World's Food System
10) The Future of Food
11) Forks Over Knives
12) The China Study
13) Anticancer: A New Way of Life
1) Food Inc. ~ Film Website
2) Fast Food Nation
3) Corn Kings ~ Film Website
4) The Cove ~ Film Website
5) Super Size Me
6) The End of the Line ~ Film Website
7) Food Matters ~ Film Website
8) Forks Over Knives ~ Film Website
9) The Beautiful Truth
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Looking for reliable sources on the history of vernacular jazz dance can sometimes be a tough process. Thankfully the ability to easily order books online has made it quite a bit easier to find these less-than-common books.
The first book I recommend for anyone looking to learn more about the history of the dance is Frankie Mannings autobiography, Ambassador of Lindy Hop, released earlier this year. While it may not be a comprehensive look at the development of jazz dance as a whole, it is the most inviting to the casual reader. Frankie Manning is an innovator and pioneer in the lindy hop community and has helped return the dance from a lost art to the strong and growing community it is now. It has a colloquial ease; full of anecdotes and memories of ballrooms and bands from the jazz era that make it hard to put down. It was co-authored by Cynthia Millman and there are small sidebars throughout the book with historical snippets on locations and various dances.
For a more historical perspective on the development of vernacular jazz dance Marshall Stearns Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance is a good choice. It lays out the history of the dance in a slightly haphazard manner from buck dancing and minstrel shows to the dance crazes of the twenties including charleston, black bottom, turkey trot and moves into the development of lindy hop and tap. It is more academic in nature than Frankie Manning’s book including Laban movement notation on how to perform various steps. There is also a companion book on the history of Jazz music by Marshall Stearns which follows a similar method in examining the development of jazz as a musical tradition.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oberon or Оберон is a nonlinear computer diagnostics device invented by Russian researchers from the Hospital of Senior Department of Public Health Services of Administration of Omsk Region, led by Vladimir Igorevich Nesterov.Oberon is a descendant of the original EAV (electroacupuncture) device invented in 1958 by German physician Reinhold Voll, combining Chinese acupuncture with the measurement of galvanic skin response. It is inspired by the work of Albert Abrams, Royal Raymond Rife and Helmut Schimmel.According to its inventors, Oberon “allows diagnosing not only pronounced pathological processes, but also the earliest forms of the diseases or predisposition to them,” however it “does not belong to the class of medical equipment and consequently does not have to be registered with the committees for certification and licensing of medical-purpose equipment.”Oberon works with software called Metapathia (Метапатия).
This article is based on an article from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and is available under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License.
In the Wikipedia there is a list with all authors of this article available.
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If other plants and flowers have their own national day of celebration — tulips (May 13), roses (June 12), and even dandelions (April 5) — why not the poinsettia? Not to worry my frugal friends the poinsettia hasn’t been slighted. In fact, Dec. 12 is officially National Poinsettia Day, an entire day devoted to honoring none other than Euphorbia pulcherrima, commonly known as the “poinsettia” or sometimes the “Christmas Star.”
Indigenous to Mexico and Central America, in warmer climates poinsettias grow in the wild as perennials, and develop into shrubs or even small trees. But for most of us northern dwellers, our prized poinsettias are usually temporary holiday decorations — bright and festive one day, then losing their leaves and withering the next, sometimes even before we pack away the other holiday decorations.
I won’t beat around the bush — or the poinsettia — because if you live in a nontropical climate, keeping your holiday poinsettia alive and making it bloom again in the future requires some serious commitment. But isn’t it worth the sacrifice, particularly if you’re truly a frugal gardener like me? In honor of National Poinsettia Day, here are some tips for making your “Christmas Star” last longer, and maybe even help it survive for Christmases to come:
- Light: Place your poinsettia in the sunniest room of the house and be careful not to let it touch a cold windowpane, in order to help it thrive and bloom longer this holiday season.
- Water: Every day or two, touch the top of the soil. When the surface is dry to the touch, water the plant until the water runs freely through the drainage holes in the pot. Discard any water that collects in the saucer, as poinsettias don’t like to be left standing in water (who does?).
- Temperature: Maintain a daytime temperature of 65-70 degrees, and, if possible, a few degrees cooler during the nighttime hours. This makes the poinsettia a good fit for any room in the house that you keep warmer during the day, then turn down the heat in during the night to save on energy costs.
Continue following these care instructions until early April, then allow the plant to gradually dry out, watering less frequently. In mid-May, cut the stems back to about 4 inches above the soil, repot in a slightly larger container, water thoroughly, and move to a sunny, warm location (75 degrees or so). When new growth appears, begin fertilizing the plant with a water soluble fertilizer every two weeks.
The plant can be moved outside to a slightly shaded location during the summer and continue to water and fertilize regularly. To promote winter blooming, pinch one inch from stems in early July, then pinch the new stems back again in mid- to late August, allowing three or four leaves to remain on each shoot. At that time, bring the plant back indoors and place it near a sunny window, continuing to water and fertilize. To have the plant flower around Christmastime, it needs complete darkness between 5 p.m. and 8 a.m. from Oct. 1 until Thanksgiving (place a box over it during that period, if necessary). Continue fertilizing the plant until mid-December. (See, I told you that this requires serious commitment.)
Last but not least, a final word in support of the precious poinsettia: Despite the popular belief the poinsettias are highly toxic, that’s greatly exaggerated. While poinsettias should not be deliberately eaten and their sap can cause an allergic reaction when exposed to the skin or eyes, studies by Ohio State University and others have shown that ingestion of even large amounts of the plant may cause diarrhea and vomiting, but no fatalities have ever been documented.
So give the poinsettia a break, particularly on National Poinsettia Day.
Photo credit: Denise Yeager
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In a recent blog on Harvard Business Reviews online (http://blogs.hbr.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/8878), Vijay Govindarajan and Justin Chakma argued that some VC firms operating in emerging economies follow a systems-based philosophy when making investment decisions. More specifically, some of these companies treat investments in discrete entities as part of a value chain(s), with multiple inter-relationships and inter-dependencies, that needs to function as a whole in order for the individual components to be viable. In scarce environments many of the components that new ventures require to strive (e.g. support services, manufacturing at higher scales, or distribution channels) often do not exist. Therefore, some VC firms, acting like gardeners who want to make sure that their ‘start-ups’ grow and bloom, plant seeds that are meant to benefit each other in a symbiotic fashion; by creating a more sustainable ecosystem the gardener facilitates growth of a specific investment as well as of entire value chains.
When analysing the influence of government support on innovation in Korean biotechnology SMEs Kang & Park (2011) have found that certain activities, in particular partnerships with upstream and downstream entities, are particularly effective in producing innovation outputs. For this to happen, the players in the system need to have access to a broad pool of information, technologies and financial and human resources (Kang & Park, 2011).
The CPGR has been created to support the development of the biotech sector in South Africa (SA), as an enabler of innovation. Applying an eco-system view, the SA government made the strategic decision to build enabling support infrastructure and resources to make sure biotech activity develops and, ultimately, grows into an economic power of its own.
Against this backdrop, the CPGR was built as an enabler of research and development in the ‘omics’ arena and, more broadly, of innovation in a system that is characterised by a lack of human resources and shortage of funding, to name just two of the major challenges. We found that funding available for academic research significantly limits access for scientists to an offering that is provided on a fee-for-service basis; what’s more, with teaching being part of the academic value chain, catering to the research component only meant that the value derived by scientists from our services was incomplete. In addition, because of the local biotech sector’s infant state we also found ourselves in a difficult situation regarding the generation of sustainable income streams from local industry.
We realised that the value chains in our environment were incomplete. Therefore, we decided to expand the scope of our activities to build capacity upstream and downstream of our core offering, not least by forging stronger relationships with the key players in the innovation system. Notably, the corresponding activities include a focus on human capital development, collaborative projects with academia and industry, and the creation of dedicated offerings for international biotech industry (www.dcyphr.org.za).
Achieving our mandate is a long-term project that requires patience and the ability to understand the complex interplay of a multitude of components in the innovation system and its impact on the viability of a specific asset, be it project, company or value chain. It requires the ability to respond to changes in the environment and careful understanding of the signals that the system sends in response to the interventions that we put in place. Below are some of the changes that we have made to our business model in tackling perceived gaps in up- and downstream of our value chain.
What Venture Capital Can Learn from Emerging Markets by Vijay Govindarajan (http://blogs.hbr.org/govindarajan/2011/02/what-venture-capital-can-learn.html)
Kyung-Nam Kang & Hayoung Park (2011) Influence of government R&D support and inter-firm collaborations on innovation in Korean biotechnology SMEs. In press
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Chartered Psychologist appearing on The Apprentice
A Chartered Psychologist is among the contestants for this year's series of the popular television show The Apprentice. Edna Agbarha is a Business Psychologist and will compete against 15 other hopefuls as she attempts to be selected by Lord Alan Sugar as the candidate with the most to offer.
The 36-year-old lives in London and worked for her uncle on a Covent Garden market stall when she was a teenager.
She and the other contestants will battle it out for a £250,000 prize fund that will be used by the winner to invest in their own business.
The victor is to choose what type of enterprise they would like to create and Lord Sugar - who is to share a 50/50 stake with the hired participant - will offer his backing and mentoring to the project.
Ms Agbarha is likely to face some stiff competition in the coming weeks, as her opponents include a Fast Food Marketing Entrepreneur, a Sales and Marketing Manager and a Senior Design Engineer.
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I am frightened, as are many in my occupation. I am a teacher inundated on a daily basis with statistics about students' poor performance on state tests. In school we receive weekly notices about curriculum development and changes in the core standards. Newspapers and magazines often feature articles about poor-performing schools and teacher accountability. Now there are new evaluation procedures linking teacher performance reviews with student academic achievement.
Why are so many of our students doing poorly on measures of academic achievement? Can lackluster teaching be the only reason for poor performance? I consider my colleagues and myself to be dedicated professionals. We work tirelessly to adapt to our students' academic, behavioral and emotional needs. Through the years, it has become clearer and clearer that we are working at cross-purposes with a culture that seems to place greater value on social networking and gaming than education and academic rigor.
The world is changing at a pace faster than we can keep up. Just 10 short years ago, we were not constantly "connected" and didn't have ready access to the volume of information we have now. With a click of a button on a cell phone, iPad or PC, we can communicate with just about anyone, do in-depth research and download a multitude of facts and information. Media and gaming opportunities are numerous, and developing even as I write this.
Advertisers inundate the public daily with reasons why we "need" to stay connected, but what we really need to do is consider what all of this is doing to our children. There has been a huge increase in the number of hours most children spend each day occupied with social networking, video gaming, watching television and texting. The side effects caused by these activities should sound a warning to all of us.
Decreased academic performance resulting in lower test scores, attention problems that are often severe, poor social and language skills and other behavioral concerns have been documented in study after study. Other research shows that actual physical changes occur in the brain. These changes can alter a host of human interactions, emotions and day-to-day functioning, including empathy, concentration and impulse control.
Conversations with my colleagues confirm distressing changes in elementary-age children. All have noted increases, particularly in the last 10 years, of severe attention problems, poor language skills, behavioral and social skills issues, and academic deficiencies. Children are spending more time indoors watching television, playing video games and using the Internet. Reading books has become secondary to these other activities.
It stands to reason that if something has the potential to be harmful and debilitating, we should be taking steps to protect our children from its devastating effects. Unfortunately, the statistics show the opposite is true: children as young as 8 years old spend six and a half hours every day engaged with technology and media.
In addition to affecting student academic success, some of the research suggests that the increase in bullying and childhood obesity in today's youth can be directly attributed to these passive forms of so-called entertainment. If a child spends six hours a day playing on a computer, watching television, gaming, chatting and texting on a phone, then those are six hours this child is not reading, exercising, socializing and interacting with family and friends in a meaningful, face-to-face way.
Instead of technology making us smarter, the evidence clearly shows it is having the opposite effect. Let's stop for a moment and think about the potential consequences if this trend continues:
The majority of adults and children are unable to focus and maintain attention to tasks for very long periods. Activities like balancing a checkbook, filling out a job application and following through on household chores are a struggle.
Reading for meaning and true comprehension is too difficult. Deep thinking skills needed for planning and problem solving are impaired because of the amount of sustained attention they require. Poor language development, inadequate social skills, lack of empathy, impulse control and obesity are the norm for our children.
Creative thought is dependent on technology. Behavior problems are rampant and difficult to control. Schools and law enforcement agencies are overwhelmed. People are less and less able to have face-to-face contact, preferring instead to communicate through technology.
Lest you think this is too farfetched, consider the most recent statistics on academic performance, childhood obesity and attention deficit disorder. Look around you in public places and observe how many people are texting or talking on their cellphones.
Every day, teachers like me are working to remediate the many problems associated with the negative effects of too much technology. We are vested with part of the responsibility for developing the skills our students need to be productive, intelligent and contributing members of society -- in short, good future citizens. But we must begin now to do more collaboratively as a culture to support these skills, and we can start today by:
* Demanding ongoing research regarding the effects of technology on children.
* Acknowledging the potential harm technology can cause our children.
* Limiting usage based on age.
* Educating parents about what research is showing.
* Encouraging families to establish technology-free times.
Treating symptoms while ignoring the cause is not a healthy practice. Knowing what we know, we must take steps now to remedy the problem at its source. Our children are depending on us.
Maria J. Steuernagel is a teacher at Gowanda Elementary School.
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Sermon for Reformation observed on Sunday, October 25, 2009
How many times haven't you heard it – the more things change, the more they stay the same? It is another way of saying that the truth is still the truth even when circumstances change. Long ago Jesus confronted a people who denied the truth and chose to live instead of the land of lies and deceit. Today we remember the lies and deceit that had hidden the Gospel and the good work of Martin Luther to raise up the truth of the Gospel for a whole world to see. Could it be that we heirs of Luther's legacy still live in denial of the fulness of that truth? We don’t want to believe that we are captive to sin but we also don’t want to believe that Christ has set us free to begin to change who we are. So who are we? Slaves to sin and unable to free ourselves or those who have been set free in Christ to live out His new life? Are we slaves or free?
Jesus said to the Jews who believed in Him – in other words not to people outside the Church but to believers – to you and to me: "If you live in My Word, you are truly My disciples and you will know the Truth and this Truth will set you free." These are powerful words of promise but the people refused His gift of freedom because they would not admit that they were slaves to anyone. They rejected the gift because to accept it would have meant admitting a truth to painful to admit. Jesus made it clear. Everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin and a prisoner of death. But they refused to admit Jesus was talking about them. Who me? A sinner? No way! Sin’s deceit works in us the denial of this truth.
Dale Meyer once put it this way: Are we sinners because we sin or do we sin because we are sinners? We are tempted to say we are only sinners when we do wrong, rejecting sin as a condition that has passed death upon us and kept us captive to its power. When I sin, then I am a sinner. When I don’t sin, I am not a sinner. But this is a false understanding of our sinful condition. We are not neutral people who can lean one way or the other. Scripture teaches that we sin because we are already sinners, we were born into this sin, and it has corrupted our nature so that whether we acknowledge it or not, we are sin's slave. We are not sinners because we do bad things – we do bad things because we are sinners.
When we deny what sin is, we only confirm the error. Is sin merely a wrong choice we make in the thoughts we think or the words we speak or the actions we take? Or, is sin also a captivity which has corrupted our nature and limited our choices only to that which is evil? If sin is something we do wrong, then the presumption is we can fix it by NOT doing the wrong. Like the Pharisees of old we are tempted to think sin can be fixed with a little tinkering with our moral compass.
Into these denials Jesus comes with truth. You are a sinner by nature and sin has held you captive to choose only evil... but I have the power to free you. Jesus points us to His righteous life, His life-giving death, and His resurrection to life without end. Here is your freedom. Now live in it. Live in the power of my Word and Truth. Live in the grace of forgiveness and love.
You might think we would welcome such a gift of freedom. But our sinful natures are not done with us yet. Christ offers us freedom but we are not so sure we want it. With this freedom comes responsibility. That is something we are not so sure we want. We are comfortable with the sin and we are not so sure about this freedom. As long as we are sinners and cannot change, we have an out – someone to blame and an excuse for our behavior. Like the old joke, “The devil made me do it.” But if Christ has set me free then with that freedom comes the responsibility to apply that grace to reshape our sinful lives.
First we deny that we are sinners or all that sin is all that bad... then when Christ sets us free, we deny that He has really set us free. Fear has trapped us in the realm of two denials. We deny that we are sinners and we deny His gift of freedom can make a difference to change us. We have excuses for why we aren't that bad and why we aren't that good.
Why do we insist upon living as slaves when Christ has set us free? There is the challenge laid at the feet of Christian people, born anew by baptism and living in grace! Why are we more comfortable with sin’s misery than Christ’s freedom? Why is it easier for us to keep on sinning than it is to try to resist the power of sin and live out Christ’s gift of new life?
Have you ever found yourself asking, “If Christ has restored me as a child of God, why do I live in the gutter? Why do I dabble at sins as if it were more fun to sin and to do what is good and right and true as a child of God? If Christ has saved me, why do I act as if I am still lost?” First we denied that sin was so bad we needed a Savior who would suffer and die. Then we deny that Christ’s freedom makes any difference in our lives. We are at home in the land of denial.
Fear keeps us captive. We may not want to live in the darkness but we are not so sure we want to live in the light either. Only the Holy Spirit can coax us from our fears. Only the Holy Spirit can coax us from darkness into Christ’s light. In that light our sin is exposed but exposed so that Christ may forgive us and set us free. Once set free in Christ, the goal of faith is to live always in the light where goodness and truth dwell.
Once we have been connected to the cross of Jesus where forgiveness, life and salvation are given to us, then we begin to live in the new realm of Christ’s freedom. Here is where we explore with Christ's power how to say no to our sinful thoughts, words and desires. Here is where we learn self-control by the teaching of the Spirit. Here is where we learn to desire that which is good and right and true. Here is where we begin the struggle to answer sin with Christ's righteousness. Here is where the me of sin begins to give way to the Thee of Christ alone. Freedom in Christ is not easy but it is the path we walk by faith.
So there we are – caught between to poles of denial and captive to the power of our fears. We fear acknowledging the sinful desires of our hearts and our captivity to sin that leads to death. But the path to freedom begins with our confession of this bondage, with our trust in the gift of freedom in Christ, and with the struggle to live as the people God says we are. We cannot afford to become too comfortable in sin’s misery. There is something wrong when we find it easier to be the old people we were than to trust in Christ and by the power of His grace become the new people He has called us to be in baptism.
Today He calls us to lay down our fears. Lay down the fears that would keep us from the honest confession of who we are because of sin. And lay down the fears that would keep us from honestly confronting and living out the new lives we were born into by baptism and in which we live by faith.
Did you hear on the news of a couple of prisoners whose sentences had been fulfilled, who had done their time and paid their debt to society... but who asked the warden to let them stay in prison. They were afraid to live as free men because of the responsibility that accompanies such freedom, because the work would be hard to find in this economy, and because the misery of their bondage was safer to them than their freedom in the world. Could we be like that? Could we be those prisoners who feel too comfortable in sin’s bondage to live in the freedom Christ has given to us through His death and resurrection? Today God calls us to acknowledge our sin and offer up its chains to Jesus and power of His suffering and death... and at the same time God calls us not to live in chains anymore. Brothers and sisters, the path of freedom and new life in Christ is a hard path and a narrow one... but any other path is the way of lies, deceit, fear, denial and death. Amen.
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Back in 1962 Malvina Reynolds wrote and sang a song, Little Boxes, that hit the charts that year and was further popularized the next year by Pete Seeger. Its memorable lyrics poked fun at the standardizing conformity of post-war suburban life in the United States:
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
I was in the lower elementary grades at the time, living — horror of horrors — in one of the western suburbs of Chicago: Wheaton, Illinois. I recall the song, and I can still sing at least some of it from memory, but its biting social commentary largely went over my head at the time.
Reynolds was not the first to look down on the suburbs. Ernest Hemingway is reputed to have said that his native village of Oak Park, just outside Chicago (and where yours truly happens to have been born), was characterized by "broad lawns and narrow minds." Countless books and films have made the suburbs look like fabricated, but fundamentally false, communities, where neighbours live adjacent to each other, but without forming lasting bonds of solidarity. Everyone, as the cliché puts it, tries to "keep up with the Joneses," i.e., to acquire that more expensive gas grill or to join the more exclusive country club.
I was inspired to reflect further on suburbia by this post from our resident Latin-rite Calvinist. As a product of the suburbs, I can attest to both their advantages and drawbacks.
Advantages: (1) As the central cores of American cities deteriorated, the suburbs offered a refuge where a way of life could be started anew. (2) They offered some of the virtues of both urban and rural life. The urban metropolis was never far away, especially if the suburb was served by a rail line or, later, one of the new limited-access highways begun in the 1950s and '60s. Yet there were often open spaces and farms outside of town. This was the case with Wheaton when I was growing up, though it's no longer true four decades later. (3) It seemed to be a good place to raise children. Wheaton had plenty of parks, and the public schools were amongst the best anywhere. (4) Although this was not true everywhere in the US, Wheaton had (and continues to have) thriving churches representing a variety of denominations.
Drawbacks: (1) The suburbs were just a tad too comfortable, especially the more prosperous ones. The social climate encouraged parental indulgence of children, who would grow up into the self-absorbed baby boomers, many of whom thought it their right not to grow up at all, at least with respect to manners, mores and dress. (2) The suburbs often contributed to the deterioration of city centres when those fleeing to the 'burbs took the tax base with them. This led to a situation in which residents of Wheaton, Evanston and Oak Park would commute into Chicago, using its services but contributing nothing to their upkeep, because only those actually living in Chicago were taxed. This has been less of a problem in Ontario, where regional or metropolitan governments are authorized to tax.
So what do we do with the peripheries of metropolitan areas? To begin with, they are not going to go away, the wishes of the Reynoldses, Seegers and Hemingways notwithstanding. As long as there have been cities, there have been people living at their edges. In third-world cities these take the form of shanty towns, inhabited by those who have left the countryside to seek work in the industries often associated with urban centres. But these are the polar opposite of the comfortable suburbs of North America and elsewhere in the western world, and they deserve to be treated as phenomena in their own right.
The place to start is to recognize that human settlement patterns are legitimately diverse, encompassing city centres, other urban neighbourhoods, near suburbs, far suburbs (near and far being relative to the available transportation), rural regions and small towns and villages. Each of these has its own beauty and integrity. Similarly each is in its own way subject to human sinfulness. There is nothing intrinsic to any of these settlement patterns that will insulate residents from the ravages of the fall. Nor should we wish to see any one of these squeeze the others out of existence.
I myself am currently living in a part of Hamilton, Ontario, that is generally considered to be suburban — that is, the part of the city above the escarpment popularly, if misleadingly, known as Hamilton Mountain. However, one of the benefits of living where we do is that we are within walking distance of two pharmacies, a supermarket, a variety store, a dry cleaner, a dollar store and the enormously popular Sweet Paradise Bakery. This is not generally characteristic of suburbia, where one must have an automobile to get anywhere at all.
Indeed, to my mind, the fact that suburbs are built around car ownership is one of the chief drawbacks of these communities. I think I was probably happiest living in the centre of Toronto nearly thirty years ago, where I didn't need a car. I was quite content to ride the trams, buses and subways, which would take me anywhere I wanted to go within the city. I could wish, among other things, that suburban areas would take more seriously the need for public transportation so as to diminish residents' dependence on the automobile.
So what is to be done. . . about the suburbs? Do they need renewal? Definitely. What shape should this take? That's for a future post.
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What did William and Lynne do with 386BSD?
386BSD was a fascinating project that both enjoyed. The community it formed made up a large part of their life. According to the website:
Interview "The Unknown Hackers" in Salon about authors 386BSD experience.
When the community could take on an area, complete portions of the system could be refined with the kernel getting smaller and the subsystem(s) becoming separately scaleable. As a result it departed further from UNIX antiquities, which annoyed many who didn't see (or care) the advantage, but were annoyed at the added workload this created. When it was mentioned that brk() had been finally exhumed from the kernel, Dennis Ritchie remarked that while wise, he didn't think those who used it as a simple checkpoint facility would be pleased (they weren't).
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American bishops and Pope Benedict himself are making unprecedented statements about the urgent need to defend the definition of marriage in our society, and to provide concrete support to young families.
Let’s start with Bishop Earl Boyea of Lansing, MI – writing about vocations week:
We have a vocation crisis in America. This is not what you think. It is a vocation crisis in marriage. Many are no longer getting married – and too many do not see their marriage as a sacrament, a means of grace for themselves and their families. Yet marriage and family are the natural heart of our society and the spiritual core of our church. Pope John Paul II stated in St. Louis in January 1999: “As the family goes, so goes the nation!” [Continue reading]
Catholic News Service reports on what Pope Benedict said recently about marriage (I am still looking for the full text in English) – unequivocal words:
Describing the family as the “the primary cell of society, … founded on marriage between a man and a woman”, the Pope noted how “it is in the family that children learn the human and Christian values which enable constructive and peaceful coexistence. It is in the family that we learn solidarity between generations, respect for rules, forgiveness and acceptance of others”. In this context he also noted how “the family must, then, be supported by policies … which aim at its consolidation and development, accompanied by appropriate educational efforts”.
“The approval of forms of union which pervert the essence and goal of the family ends up penalising those people who, not without effort, seek to maintain stable emotional ties which are juridically guaranteed and publicly recognised. In this context, the Church looks with favour upon all initiatives which seek to educate young people to experience love as a giving of self, with an exalted and oblational view of sexuality. To this end the various components of society must agree on the objectives of education, in order for human love not to be reduced to an article of consumption, but to be seen and lived as a fundamental experience which gives existence meaning and a goal”.
The pope goes on to call for “giving concrete support for maternity” for not being indifferent to the many abortions that are happening, for the need to care for the elderly, especially those who have no one to care for them already, of the need to support families experiencing financial difficulty, and to address the crisis of unemployment among young people.
Clearly, the pope’s comments on the need to sustain the traditional definition of marriage (as between one man and one woman) exist within a broad framework of supporting these natural marriages in many, many other ways. To put it in a phrase, the pope desires that we create a culture and communities supportive of marriage, because marriage between a man and a women creates and serves communities and culture.
Back on our own shores, Cardinal George (former President of the USCCB) had this to say about legal efforts to redefine the meaning of marriage:
“The Catholic spiritual leader of Chicago visited Boston College recently, where a doctoral student pressed Cardinal Francis George about the Church’s recent opposition to civil-unions legislation recently passed by the Illinois General Assembly.
George told student John Falcone his “argument was not with Mother Church but with Mother Nature,” adding that anyone who advocates same-sex marriage or its equivalent “has lost touch with the common understanding of the human race.”
“No one has the right to change marriage,” George went on to say, neither “the Church” nor “the state.”
While it is one thing “creating laws so that people don’t feel persecuted,” the cardinal explained, “don’t create a law that says apples are oranges.” For a lawmaker to do so, George added, he “betrays his vocation to pass good law,” especially problematic for a “Catholic lawmaker.” [Continue reading]
Whether it is coming from your local pastor, the former head of our bishop-pastors in America, or from the pastor of the universal church, the call is the same: promote marriage!
I intend to personally heed this call. And to that end I have accepted a position with the National Organization for Marriage as their Cultural Director. As always, my writing at AmericanPapist and work in collaboration with CatholicVote will continue uninterrupted. I look for your continued prayers and support!
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On Munday the first day of May, the Bill for
the Restitution of the Brothers and Sister of the
Duke of Norfolk; The Bill for the Restitution
in Blood of the Lord Dacres of the South; The Bill that Timber Trees in divers places shall not
be felled for Cole to make Iron; And the Bill
that the Inhabitants of Dorking, Coxall, and
Dedham Westharford, &c. may make Woollers
Cloths there; were each of them read the third
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The Bill lastly, that Watermen of the Thames
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On Tuesday the second day of May, the Bill
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The Bill lastly, for the continuance of divers
Acts, was brought from the Lords.
On Wednesday the third day of May, three Bills
of no great moment, had each of them one reading; of which the second being the Bill for carriage of Corn over Sea, when Wheat is 10s Barley 3s 8d, Beans and Rye at 6s, and Oats at 3s 4d,
the Quarter, was read the third time, and passed the House.
On Friday the 5th day of May, the Bill for
continuance of certain Acts, was read the third
time, and passed the House, and was sent up to
the Lords by Mr. Secretary.
On Saturday the 6th day of May, the Bill
touching Abbies, &c. was brought from the
Lords, to be reformed with three Provisoes of
their Lordships; And the Bill for preservation of
Fry of Fish, was likewise brought down from
the Lords to be amended.
May the 7th Sunday.
On Monday the 8th of May, the Provisoes in
the Bill for preservation of the Fry and Spawn
of Fish, were read the second and third time,
and passed the House.
In the Afternoon the Queens Majesty sitting in
her Royal Seat, the Lords and Commons attending Mr Speaker made a Learned Oration, Exhibiting the Bill for the Subsidy, and the Bill of
Tonnage and Poundage, and required the Queens
Assent might be given to such Bill as had passed
both the Houses; which Oration being praised
and Answered by the Lord Keeper of the Great
Seal, the Royal Assent was given to forty two
Acts, and by the Queens Pleasure this Parliament
¶ (fn. *) Henry the VI.6 Martii An. 31. called a Parliament at Reading; 8 Martii, Thorpe was Chosen
Speaker; from thence the Parliament was Adjourned to Westminster till 25. Apr. where it
continued till 2. July, and then Prorogued till
12. Nov. to Reading, again Adjourned till 12.
February, after till 14. at Westm. During these
Adjournments and Prorogations, Richard Duke
of York, having got the Ascendant of the King,
prepared Habiliments of War at the Palace of
the Bishop of Durham; (fn. ||) Thorpe being Speaker,
by Command of the King took the Arms; whereupon in Michaelmas Term the Duke brought his
Action of Trespass in the Exchequer, against
Thorpe, and upon Tryal that Term, recovered
a thousand pound Damages, and ten pound for
Costs of Suit, and thereupon Thorpe was Committed to the Prison of the Fleet, in Execution.
After all this the Parliament met 14. Feb. and
the Duke of York having got a Commission to
hold and dissolve the Parliament, laboured to
keep Thorpe in Prison, whom he mortally hated,
as being faithful to King Henry; and having
gained his point in the Lords House, afterwards
the Commons gave up their Speaker; which was
no sooner done, and another Chosen, but the
Duke, by the Assent of the Lords and Commons,
and after Confirmed by Commission from the
King, was made Protector of the Realm; Thorpe
having paid the Debt, fled to the Kings Party,
and after was taken at Nottingham Field, from
thence sent to Newgate, then to the Marshalsey,
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The Math Department invites speakers to give talks at our weekly Colloquium (Wednesday afternoons at 3). We encourage the students to attend these talks. We offer a combination of math talks, career talks as well as a workshop on applying to Ph.D. programs. In addition to our Colloquium, there are many other talks and colloquia going on at other Bay Area institutions. Check their websites for more information. Here is a short list.
- Bay Area Math Adventures (BAMA) - usually Wednesday evenings (monthly)
- Math Department Colloquium at San Jose State University - usually Wednesday afternoons
- Math Department Colloquium at Santa Clara University - usually Tuesday afternoons
- MSRI Special Events - MSRI sponsors a variety of talks from public events which are accessible to everyone to very technical talks.
The students are also encouraged to attend mathematics conferences which have been including activities tailored for undergraduate students.
Local and National Mathematics Conferences
Here is a a list of some local and national conferences
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|Northern California Undergraduate Mathematics Conference*||Mid April||Bay Area||Talks; Very accessible to students|
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world of the soul
The world of the soul is an alchemically,scienctifically,psychological innerstanding of what lies within. To find this out and to lay claim to knowledge, the members of this team have brought unique subjects to the table of reasoning....
Welcome All, striving to bring closure and insight, help an aid all to walk their own road.
This road is the inner balance of your own uniqueness...
Aurora May 11
amsun buzz on Soul science
consciousness vs subconsciousness
Pornography addiction: A neuroscience perspective
<img src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/04/KANDEL_AgeInsight-660x983.jpg" alt="" title="KANDEL_AgeInsight" width="590" height="893" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-105116" /> Eric Kandel is a titan of modern neuroscience. He won the Nobel Prize in 2000 not simply for discovering a new set of scientific facts (although he has discovered plenty of those), but for pioneering a new scientific approach.
Dec. 6, 2010 Study showing that humans have some psychic powers caps Daryl Bem's career It took eight years and nine experiments with more 1,000 participants, but the results offer evidence that humans have some ability to anticipate the future. "Of the various forms of ESP or psi, as we call it, precognition has always most intrigued me because it's the most magical," said Daryl Bem, professor of psychology emeritus, whose study will be published in the American Psychological Association's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology sometime next year. "It most violates our notion of how the physical world works.
What is Visual Thinking ?
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The process of deciding which students will attend which school in Mesa County continued Monday night in Grand Junction. Several parents attended an informational meeting to voice their concerns and get answers to their questions about redistricting.
It was the first time parents of students in Mesa County School District 51 were able to view possible new school boundaries. This meeting was the first of three. The school board presented 12 different possible realignments, all which were recommendations from the Long Range Planning Boundary Committee.
The realignments coincide with the opening of new schools in the district. Most of the parents were unsure of which school their children would attend once the boundaries were re–drawn. Some didn't want their children to have to switch schools and readjust.
Also discussed at the open house was the possiblity of adding another high school to the district. The board would like high school enrollments to drop to less than 1,000 students.
There will be two more open house meetings this week. The next one is on Wednesday at East Middle School, and the final one will be on Thursday at Fruita Monument High School.
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A brave mouse, a lazy fox, and a very determined turtle are featured players in a new puppet version of Aesop's Fables. For 2500 years these classic animal stories have been entertaining and teaching with lively fantasy and humor. Acclaimed puppeteer Steve Abrams performs Aesop's Fables as part of an introduction to puppet theater. The audience participates in designing a puppet as well as experiencing how a puppet moves and speaks.
The event is free and open to the public. Contact Tracey Pratt at the Tunkhannock Public Library for more information.
The Outreach lecture Program is funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Please visit our Commonwealth Lecture Program page for more information.
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The following excerpts are from the David Suzuki Foundation (Getting the Facts - Driven to Action - A Citizen’s Toolkit)
GETTING THE FACTS: THE COST OF SPRAWL
Sprawl doesn’t pay. In fact, sprawl hurts national and local economies. It costs more to accommodate growth by building new roads, electrical lines, sewer and water infrastructure for brand new subdivisions, office parks and shopping centres, than by integrating people into existing areas. There are further costs associated with impacts on the environment and on public health. The rise in cost is directly related to the distance traveled to city or town centres. More economic benefits of growth are realized if new residents and jobs are directed to existing developed areas.
In 20 years, Winnipeg’s urban boundary quadrupled even though its population only doubled. According to Statistics Canada, the City of Calgary exceeds 700 sq. kms - close to the size of New York City’s 5 boroughs. But Calgary is home to only 1/10 of the number of people as New York.
COST OF SPRAWL IN DOLLARS
Sprawl is supposed to be paid for by money raised from development charges and from property taxes collected from new residents. But this revenue falls far short of the costs.
• It costs more to live in sprawl developments.
• The price of a new home in a sprawling development might be cheaper but home resale values are less and property taxes are more likely to rise in the future.
• Car ownership and maintenance costs increase as families move farther from the downtown core. In 2001, Canadians spent 13% of their household income on cars, 19% on shelter and 11% on food. Residents of Houston, Texas (plagued by sprawl) spent 22% of their family income on cars, which surpassed housing costs at 16% of income.
COST OF SPRAWL ON THE ENVIRONMENT
Climate Change & Energy
• About 70% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transportation are from cars and trucks and 2/3 are generated within urban areas. The more urban areas extend outward the more GHG (Greenhouse Gas) emissions grow, making it difficult for Canada to meet its Kyoto pledge.
• Sprawl’s dominant reliance on cars strains Canada’s energy supply, and adds to pressures to find new supplies.
New tar sands oil extraction in Alberta produces 125 kg of GHG emissions for each barrel of oil produced, far more polluting than traditional energy sources.
Lands, Wildlife & Water Quality
• Sprawl consumes greenspace and forests.
•Woodlands and wetlands are sacrificed to sprawl, depriving wildlife of habitat and destroying native flora and fauna.
• Sprawl threatens rare and endangered species and contributes to exotic species invasion. Creating small isolated forest patches can disrupt pollination, seed dispersal, wildlife migration and breeding.
•Water quality and quantity declines with sprawl and the removal of forests by creating more pollutants and eliminating natural filters.
• Sprawl reduces rainwater absorption, interfering with the recharge of groundwater
Cost of Sprawl on Public Health
• Cars are a major source of air pollution. Over 16,000 Canadians die prematurely from air pollution each year. Smog and particulate matter also cause respiratory diseases and impair lung function
• Sprawl is linked to increases in obesity in Canada, due to a lack of space or opportunity for physical activity. Obesity can lead to heart disease, hypertension, stroke, some cancers and premature death.
• Sprawling subdivisions place time burdens on families with longer commutes and children who cannot travel independently. Families that need to downsize their homes often have to leave their neighbourhood and friends. Elderly residents who can no longer drive are isolated.
• The loss of nearby farmland reduces the availability of fresh fruits and vegetables.
• A recent study, in the medical journal Public Health Reports, showed that people living in walk-able
neighbourhoods were more likely to know their neighbours, participate politically, trust others, and
be socially engaged.
• The Ontario Medical Association says air pollution costs Ontario more than $1 billion a year in hospital admissions, emergency room visits and absenteeism from jobs.
No New Roads
Establish Moratoriums on Highway
and New Road Construction
Expanding local transportation choices is not enough. Every new highway, expressway or municipal thoroughfare encourages sprawl. Limited transportation dollars are better spent on public transit, bikeways and pedestrian routes. Congestion is alleviated when more people ride transit, not by building new roads.
Build Communities Under A New Standard
Establish Local Alternative Develop Standards
Alternative Development Standards (ADS) offer a new set of development regulations to help build communities that: are compact, affordable, competitive; support public transit; and are environmentally sensitive and socially responsible. Applying these standards in your community increases opportunities for growth within cities, eliminating the need for consumption of new land and creation of
more sprawl. Based on the concept of creating mixed-use communities, residents can live, work, shop and play all in the same neighborhood. Using ADS can reduce housing costs by 25-40% and reduces per-person production of greenhouse gases by 30-50%.
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Flaxseed has been most commonly used as a laxative due to the ability of flax to improve digestive health and relieve constipation. In accordance with the USDA’s health and nutrition guidelines, “one ounce of flax provides 32% of the UDSA’s reference daily intake of fiber.” http://www.flaxhealth.com/howflaxhelps.htm More recently, however, studies suggest that flaxseed offers an abundance of additional health benefits functioning to combat a variety of diseases. “Some call flaxseed one of the most powerful plant foods on the planet. Cultivated in Babylon as early as 3000 BC, King Charlemagne believed so strongly in the health benefits of flaxseed, that he passed laws requiring his subjects to consume it.” http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/benefits-of-flaxseed Rich in Omega-3 essential fatty acids, Flax’s health benefits include reducing cholesterol, controlling high blood pressure and reducing the risks of certain cancers. Flax helps to reduce blood clotting time, consequently significantly reducing the chance for heart attacks and strokes. Diet Doc now offers pure, golden ground flaxseed to the already impressive assortment of Diet Doc’s essential vitamin and mineral supplements available to Diet Doc’s patients. Vitamin and mineral supplements are vital to good health during a low calorie diet. Diet Doc ground flaxseed is grown in the USA.
Diet Doc has incorporated pure, golden ground flaxseed into their hCG diet plan, further providing clients a healthy road to fast weight loss. Dieters on a low calorie diet may lack nutrition or experience constipation. To prevent harmful side effects, Diet Doc offers a full range of dietary aids, including ground flaxseed to aid in digestion and provide extra nutritional supplementation to their clients on the low calorie, low carbohydrate hCG diet. Founder and CEO of Diet Doc, Julie Wright adds "Americans are realizing that being overweight may be the difference between enjoying a healthy quality of life and suffering from obesity-related conditions such as hypertension, heart disease and stroke. hCG treatment is medically supervised and, used in conjunction with a personalized low calorie, high protein diet, enables patients to lose weight fast in the most stubborn areas like waist, hips, and underarms." Diet Doc offers clients prescription strength hCG, along with unlimited support and consultation 6 days per week. Following a physician-monitored hCG plan will encourage healthy weight loss while also promoting healthy food choices. Prescription hCG, when used in conjunction with Diet Doc’s personalized diet plan, will produce equal to, and often greater results than risky invasive alternatives. At a fraction of the cost of most diet plans, Diet Doc’s personalized diet plan is affordable to everyone. Diet Doc offers a vast array of delicious diet food as well as an impressive collection of vitamin and mineral supplements, including pure, golden, ground flaxseed, specifically designed by Diet Doc’s weight loss doctors for results without unpleasant side effects.
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5 in Missouri reported ill from E. coli
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — State health officials say five people from central Missouri, including two toddlers, have contracted E. coli since late March.
The state health department said Monday it had not determined the source of the bacteria. But a Boone County health spokeswoman say three of the patients, including a 2-year-old, reported drinking raw dairy products.
The department says the 2-year-old was hospitalized and a 17-month-old developed life-threatening complications affecting the kidneys.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/IvI3xJ ) health officials said the other cases are in Cooper and Howard counties and it’s not known if raw milk is connected to those cases.
Health officials also say more cases of E. coli might be are suspected and might be confirmed after further testing.
Information from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, http://www.stltoday.com
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- Biography and Autobiography
- Courage, Bravery, Heroism
About This BookAlison Leslie Gold, author of Memories of Anne Frank, brings us the fascinating and little-known story of Chiune Sugihara (1900-1986), a Japanese diplomat who saved the lives of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust.
In 1940, Sugihara moved with his wife and children to Kaunas, Lithuania, where he was assigned the position of Vice Consul. As the war escalated, Jewish refugees, desperate to escape, descended on the Japanese consulate by the hundreds, begging to be issued visas. After much deliberation and consultation with his wife, Sugihara decided to grant the visas against the wishes of his superiors. Working each day from early in the morning until late into the night, he painstakingly wrote hundreds of visas by hand.
Woven into the story of Chiune Sugihara's incredible life are the experiences of Jewish families whose lives were forever altered by his bravery. Alison Leslie Gold's poignant book offers an unforgettable account of one of the largest rescues of Jews during the Holocaust.
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Home / Browse / Time Period / World War II through the Faubus Era (1941 - 1967) / Stephens, Steve
Stephen Owen Stephens is a well-known television and communications pioneer, most famous for Steve’s Show, a popular television program in the 1960s. He remained a communications specialist well into his retirement.
Steve Stephens was born on April 22, 1930, as Rufus James Stephens to Owen and Allie Mae Stephens, owners of a restaurant service station in Newport (Jackson County). Later his parents opened a furniture store in the same town, which they successfully operated for more than twenty years. Stephens attended Castle Heights Military Academy and later graduated from Newport High School in 1948. Following graduation, he attended the University of Arkansas until the fall of 1950 when, “looking for adventure,” he joined the U.S. Marine Corps. Attaining the rank of sergeant, he received three battle stars in Korea and was honorably discharged in 1954. Following the Korean War, he returned to Newport to join his father in the furniture store business.
While in the marines, Stephens was often asked if he had ever been a broadcaster, as he seemed to have a natural “radio voice.” After returning home, he began part-time radio work by becoming an announcer for radio station KNBY in Newport, where he was known as “The Voice of the White River Valley.”
His entry into radio coincided with the beginnings of rock and roll, and Stephens soon became a popular proponent of this new type of music. In 1957, an unplanned trip to Little Rock (Pulaski County) television station KTHV with popular rock and roll band Sonny Burgess and the Pacers resulted in his being offered a position as a “booth announcer” for the station. On April 21 of the same year, he married Ellen Beede of Newport. They had two sons: Stanton (deceased) and Steele. After nearly thirty years, the marriage ended in divorce.
Stephens was asked to host a television “dance party,” six months prior to the national launching of the ABC television program, American Bandstand. His first show aired on a Saturday afternoon in March 1957, and was initially called, Your Party. By May, the program had become so popular that it was expanded to six days a week and renamed Steve’s Show. At the suggestion of Jack Bomar, the television station manager, he changed his name to Stephen Owen Stephens for legal purposes.
Attendance at Steve’s Show soon became so high that, in order to comply with the city’s fire code, ticket reservations were required to limit the busloads of teenagers arriving from all over the state. Stephens helped launch the careers of Conway Twitty, Charlie Rich, Johnny Cash, Brenda Lee, Sonny Burgess, Fabian, and many others who appeared on his program during a seven-year period ending in 1964. As a result of his continuing popularity, Stephens was awarded a recording contract and recorded several songs during this period, including: “Honey Bee,” “Pizza Pete,” “How It Used to Be,” and “Weird Session.”
Teenagers selected Stephens as the Top Television Personality of Arkansas from 1957 to 1961. His popularity was recognized nationally when he came within one vote of being selected as the Nation’s Top Local Television Personality of 1960 by TV and Movie Screen Magazine.
From 1958 to 1965, he served as the senior weatherman for KTHV at both 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. and was the first forecaster in the state to use radar. He had another first when, on Christmas Eve in 1958, he became the first weatherman in the nation to use radar to “spot” Santa Claus flying into the state.
Stephens also created and produced a television program called Eye on Arkansas, which led him to negotiate with The Vapors nightclub in Hot Springs (Garland County) to publicize the club in exchange for appearances by the headliner acts. He interviewed such entertainment icons as Liberace, Patti Page, the Four Aces, Angie Dickinson, Bob Crosby, Mickey Rooney, the casts of TV’s The Beverly Hillbillies and Ponderosa, Roy Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ronald Reagan (while touring as the host of GE Theatre, prior to becoming governor of California), and many other notables.
In 1965, Stephens left KTHV to accept a position with U.S. Senator John McClellan in Washington DC as a special assistant in charge of media relations. In 1968, he returned to Little Rock to form his own public relations and advertising company. In 1986, he was approached by financier Jack Stephens to become assistant to the chairman of the board and director of communications for Stephens, Inc. He remained with Stephens Inc. until his retirement in 1998. Even after retirement, he has continued to serve as a voice talent for numerous local and national radio and television commercials. He has hosted the “Biography Arkansas” segment for KUAR radio since the segment's debut in 2005.
Stephens served as a National Trustee for the March of Dimes for more than a decade, was named an Honorary Life Trustee of the organization in 1998, and received the “Jonas Salk Lifetime Achievement Award” for his fundraising efforts. He is the founding chairman of the Greater Little Rock Motion Picture and Television Commission and created numerous charitable awards, including the Arkansas Citizen of the Year Award, the Vision award, and the Sidney McMath Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a founding member of the Little Rock Mayor’s Tourism Commission, as well as a founding member of the FBI Citizens’ Academy Foundation of Arkansas.
In recognition of his pioneering achievements in broadcasting, he was inducted into the Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame in October 2003, and on April 3, 2004, his name was added to the Arkansas Walk of Fame in Hot Springs. On April 22, 2010, Stephens was recognized by the Eighth General Assembly of the Arkansas House of Representatives with a Lifetime Achievement Citation "for maintaining a high degree of professionalism and integrity during his 50 years in business and broadcasting in Arkansas." In 2011, he was inducted into the Newport High School Hall of Fame.
For additional information:
Cunning, Chuck. Fate Has Been My Friend—The Life and Times of Steve Stephens. Hot Springs: Alexus Publishing, 1998.
Danielson, Kay. “Dancing the Past Today: Steverenos.” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, February 3, 1994, p. G1.
Hubbard, Sandra. Steve’s Show. Documentary film. Little Rock: Morning Star Studio, 2003.
Sallee, Bob. “Channel 11 Show Hosts a Pioneer in Rock ‘n’ Roll.” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, September 2, 1998, p. 4E
———. “Steve Stephens’ Career Chronicled in New Book.” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, September 3, 1998, p. 4E.
Stephens, Steve. “Interview with Steve Stephens.” June 2, 2009. Audio online at Butler Center AV/AR Audio Video Collection: Steve Stephens Interview (accessed May 7, 2012).
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GM to stop Duramax diesel output for 4½ months
DETROIT -- A 4½-month pause in production of the Duramax diesel engine threatens supplies of profitable Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra diesel pickups.
Not only is GM's pickup inventory lean, but analysts also predict that sales will start to recover while the Duramax engine plant is down.
GM is scheduled to stop building the current version of the Duramax in mid-December. Production of a re-engineered 2010 Duramax is scheduled to restart in late April.
During the pause, GM will retool the Moraine, Ohio, plant where the engine is built, and GM engineers will tune the 6.6-liter turbocharged diesel V-8 to meet tough new emissions rules that take effect Jan. 1.
The revised engine will add a system to inject urea into the exhaust periodically. The chemical reduces oxides of nitrogen or NOx. The pickups will add low-fluid alerts to prompt drivers to refill the urea tank.
Some dealers worry they may run out of diesel-powered versions of the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra because of the gap in production.
“We got a notice yesterday that starting immediately, we can no longer order the Duramax regular cab,” said Scott Brasher, general manager of Brasher Motor Co. in Weimar, Texas, near Houston.
Brasher still can order extended-cab diesels, and he expects to place his last order for them next month. He also has been buying diesel trucks from other dealers to pad his inventory.
GM Powertrain spokesman Tom Read said GM plans to build inventory of Duramax engines this fall. The Duramax for the 2009 model year can't be built after Dec. 31, but engines that already have been built can be installed in vehicles after that time.
Ford Motor Co. is also launching a new diesel truck engine next year. But spokesman Anne Marie Gattari said Ford dealers will not run out of diesel-powered Super Duty trucks.
Gattari said Ford will stop production of the 2010 model year F-series Super Duty in February and then switch to a new engine and revamped truck in the first quarter. Ford's re-engineered diesel pickup also uses urea injection to reduce harmful emissions.
As of Sept. 1, GM had a 60-day supply of Silverados and a 71-day supply of Sierras. GM won't say how many of those are diesel-powered.
“We've been communicating with dealers, and we feel very comfortable we can meet their needs,” said GMC spokeswoman Dayna Hart.
Chevrolet spokesman Brian Goebel said GM will build up diesel pickup inventory for the rest of the year. The company also uses the Duramax in chassis-cab models and large vans.
Brasher said many more buyers are taking a second look at the gasoline-powered version of the heavy-duty Silverado because of the high cost of the diesel engine and the higher cost of diesel fuel.
“We're having much better luck with the gasoline engine,” he said. “Right now sales are running 60 percent diesel, 40 percent gas. But three years ago, it was 90 percent diesel and 10 percent gas.”
GM is spending $70 million on the Duramax plant.
Urea as it's know to me is dehydrated horse pizz used as a substitute for salt on runways in the winter.
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Afterinjetion of urea into the exhaust is one of the few strategies makers of diesel engines can take to enable diesels to meet current exhaust emissions standards in the U.S.
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Thats the stuff .I know of no other production source for Urea
Amazing what you can find on the internet........
Urea or carbamide is an organic compound with the chemical formula (NH2)2CO. The molecule has two amine (-NH2) residues joined by a carbonyl (-CO-) functional group.
Urea plays an important role in the metabolism of nitrogen-containing compounds by animals, and is the main nitrogen-containing substance in the urine of mammals. Being solid, colourless, odorless, neither acidic nor basic, highly soluble in water, and relatively non-toxic, urea is widely used in fertilizers as a convenient source of nitrogen. Urea is also an important feedstock for the chemical industry. The synthesis of this organic compound by Friedrich Wöhler 1828 from an inorganic precursor was an important milestone in the development of chemistry.
More than 90% of world production is destined for use as a nitrogen-release fertilizer. Urea has the highest nitrogen content of all solid nitrogenous fertilizers in common use (46.7%). Therefore, it has the lowest transportation costs per unit of nitrogen nutrient.
In the soil, it hydrolyses back to ammonia and carbon dioxide. The ammonia is oxidized by bacteria in the soil to nitrate which can be absorbed by the plants. Urea is also used in many multi-component solid fertilizer formulations. Urea is highly soluble in water and is, therefore, also very suitable for use in fertilizer solutions (in combination with ammonium nitrate: UAN), e.g., in 'foliar feed' fertilizers. For fertilizer use, granules are preferred over prills because of their narrower particle size distribution which is an advantage for mechanical application.
The most common impurity of synthetic urea, biuret, must be present at less than 2%, as it impairs plant growth.
Urea is usually spread at rates of between 40 and 300 kg/ha, but actual spreading rates will vary according to farm type and region. It is better to make several small to medium applications at intervals to minimise leaching losses and increase efficient use of the N applied, compared with single heavy applications. During summer, urea should be spread just before, or during rain to reduce possible losses from volatilization (process wherein nitrogen is lost to the atmosphere as ammonia gas). Urea should not be mixed for any length of time with other fertilizers, as problems of physical quality may result.
Because of the high nitrogen concentration in urea, it is very important to achieve an even spread. The application equipment must be correctly calibrated and properly used. Drilling must not occur on contact with or close to seed, due to the risk of germination damage. Urea dissolves in water for application as a spray or through irrigation systems.
In grain and cotton crops, urea is often applied at the time of the last cultivation before planting. It should be applied into or be incorporated into the soil. In high rainfall areas and on sandy soils (where nitrogen can be lost through leaching) and where good in-season rainfall is expected, urea can be side- or top-dressed during the growing season. Top-dressing is also popular on pasture and forage crops. In cultivating sugarcane, urea is side-dressed after planting, and applied to each ratoon crop.
In irrigated crops, urea can be applied dry to the soil, or dissolved and applied through the irrigation water. Urea will dissolve in its own weight in water, but it becomes increasingly difficult to dissolve as the concentration increases. Dissolving urea in water is endothermic, causing the temperature of the solution to fall when urea dissolves.
As a practical guide, when preparing urea solutions for fertigation (injection into irrigation lines), dissolve no more than 30 kg urea per 100 L water.
In foliar sprays, urea concentrations of 0.5% – 2.0% are often used in horticultural crops. As urea sprays may damage crop foliage, specific advice should be sought before use. Low-biuret grades of urea should be used if urea sprays are to be applied regularly or to sensitive horticultural crops.
Like most nitrogen products, urea absorbs moisture from the atmosphere. Therefore it should be stored either in closed/sealed bags on pallets, or, if stored in bulk, under cover with a tarpaulin. As with most solid fertilizers, it should also be stored in a cool, dry, well-ventilated area.
Urea is a raw material for the manufactuer of many important chemicals, such as
* Various plastics, especially the urea-formaldehyde resins.
* Various adhesives, such as urea-formaldehyde or the urea-melamine-formaldehyde used in marine plywood.
* Potassium cyanate, another industrial feedstock.
* Urea nitrate, an explosive.
Urea has the ability to trap many organic compounds in the form of clathrates. The organic compounds are held in channels formed by interpenetrating helices comprising of hydrogen-bonded urea molecules. This behaviour can be used to separate mixtures, and has been used in the production of aviation fuel and lubricating oils, and in the separation of paraffins.
As the helices are interconnected, all helices in a crystal must have the same molecular handedness. This is determined when the crystal is nucleated and can thus be forced by seeding. The resulting crystals have been used to separate racemic mixtures.
Urea is used in SNCR and SCR reactions to reduce the NOx pollutants in exhaust gases from combustion, for example, from power plants and diesel engines. The BlueTec system, for example, injects water-based urea solution into the exhaust system. The ammonia produced by decomposition of the urea reacts with the nitrogen oxide emissions and is converted into nitrogen and water within the catalytic converter.
Other commercial uses
* A stabilizer in nitrocellulose explosives.
* A component of animal feed, providing a relatively cheap source of nitrogen to promote growth.
* A non-corroding alternative to rock salt for road de-icing, and the resurfacing of snowboarding halfpipes and terrain parks.
* A flavor-enhancing additive for cigarettes.
* A browning agent in factory-produced pretzels.
* An ingredient in some hair conditioners, facial cleansers, bath oils, skin softeners, and lotions.
* A reactant in some ready-to-use cold compresses for first-aid use, due to the endothermic reaction it creates when mixed with water.
* A cloud seeding agent, along with other salts.
* A flame-proofing agent, commonly used in dry chemical fire extinguisher charges such as the urea-potassium bicarbonate mixture.
* An ingredient in many tooth whitening products.
* An ingredient in dish soap.
* Along with ammonium phosphate, as a yeast nutrient, for fermentation of sugars into ethanol.
* An nutrient used by plankton in ocean nourishment experiments for geoengineering purposes.
* As an additive to extend the working temperature and open time of hide glue.
* As a solubility-enhancing and moisture-retaining additive to dye baths for textile dyeing or printing.
Urea in concentrations up to 10 M is a powerful protein denaturant as it disrupts the noncovalent bonds in the proteins. This property can be exploited to increase the solubility of some proteins.
A mixture of urea and choline chloride is used as a deep eutectic solvent, a type of ionic liquid.
Urea can serve as a hydrogen source, for subsequent power generation in a fuel cell. Urea present in urine/wastewater can be used directly (though bacteria normally quickly degrade urea.) Producing hydrogen by electrolysis of urea solution occurs at a lower voltage and uses less energy than by electrolysis of water.
Urea is used in topical dermatological products to promote rehydration of the skin. If covered by an occlusive dressing, 40% urea preparations may also be used for nonsurgical debridement of nails. This drug is also used as an earwax removal aid.
Like saline, urea injection is used to perform abortions. It is also the main component of an alternative medicinal treatment referred to as urine therapy.
The blood urea nitrogen (BUN) test is a measure of the amount of nitrogen in the blood that comes from urea. It is used as a marker of renal function.
Urea labeled with carbon-14 or carbon-13 is used in the urea breath test, which is used to detect the presence of the bacteria Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) in the stomach and duodenum of humans, associated with ulcers. The test detects the characteristic enzyme urease, produced by H. pylori, by a reaction that produces ammonia from urea. This increases the pH (reduces acidity) of the stomach environment around the bacteria. Similar bacteria species to H. pylori can be identified by the same test in animals such as apes, dogs, and cats (including big cats).
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The Housing Boom and Bust
Scary headlines and scarier statistics tell the story of a financial crisis on a scale not seen in decadescertainly not within the lifetime of most Americans. Moreover, this is a worldwide financial crisis. Financial institutions on both sides of the Atlantic have either collapsed or have been saved from collapse by government bailouts, as a result of buying securities based on American housing values that eroded or evaporated.
Now completely revised in paperback,The Housing Boom and Bustis designed to unravel the tangled threads of that story. It also attempts to determine whether what is being done to deal with the problem is more likely to make things better or worse.
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Make the Rink Pink
Rochester Institute of Technology hockey fans will be asked to put away their orange Tiger apparel on Jan. 30. Instead, they are asked to “Make the Rink Pink” in an effort to cure cancer.
RIT men’s and women’s hockey teams are working with Zeta Tau Alpha sorority to raise money for cancer. Both teams will don pink jerseys that will be auctioned off in the fund-raiser, while fans can also purchase pink T-shirts.
Tiger jerseys will be auctioned off online starting at noon Wednesday, Jan. 27, and ending at 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 31. Bidding begins at $50 per jersey. Jersey proceeds will go to Rochester General Hospital’s Lipson Cancer Center. The women’s jerseys will be worn in a game vs. Utica at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30. The men’s team will wear their pink jerseys when they face off against Bentley at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30.
“It’s going to be exciting to see the Tiger faithful convert from a sea of orange to a sea of pink for one special night,” says RIT men’s hockey coach Wayne Wilson. “Our players see this as an opportunity to be involved in a wonderful philanthropic event and a chance to give back to the Greater Rochester community.”
All fans can be a part of the action by purchasing a pink T-shirt from Zeta Tau Alpha sorority for $8, starting Jan. 25 in RIT’s Student Alumni Union. T-shirts will also be available at Ritter Arena on game day. Proceeds from the T-shirt sales will benefit the Susan G. Komen Cancer Foundation.
“Zeta Tau Alpha is thrilled to be a part of Make The Rink Pink,” says Amy Perazzo, president of Zeta Tau Alpha. “Our goal, along with men’s and women’s hockey, is to work together to raise cancer awareness and money for both the Lipson Cancer Center and Susan G. Komen Cancer Foundation. We are looking forward to a day full of pink and hockey.”For more information, visit: www.rit.edu/pink.
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Smart bandages use tiny electrodes to monitor bacterial growth in flesh wounds December 4, 2012 at 2:58 pm
In a recently published research paper, researchers explain how they use minuscule electrodes made of palladium to detect potentially deadly bacteria. When put into bandages, this technology has the potential to revolutionize they way we deal with flesh wounds and surface infections.
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Graphene supercapacitors are 20 times as powerful, can be made with a DVD burner March 19, 2012 at 8:05 am
Graphene capacitors are both highly flexible and have an energy density far beyond existing electrochemical capacitors, possibly within reach of conventional lithium-ion and nickel metal hydride batteries.
Liquid metal capsules used to make self-healing electronics December 21, 2011 at 12:40 pm
A crack team of engineers at the University of Illinois has developed an electronic circuit that autonomously self-heals when its metal traces are broken. This self-healing system restores conductivity within “mere microseconds,” which is apparently fast enough that operation can continue without interruption.
How to read a circuit schematic December 9, 2011 at 1:22 pm
The basis of almost everything we discuss here on ExtremeTech is the transistor — but just above that is a topic that we usually skirt around because no one, even hardcore nerds, really know anything about it. We are, of course, alluding to circuit schematics.
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Type: Steam sloop ; Armament 8
Launched : 5 Aug 1846 ;
Disposal date or year : 1863
BM: 1038 tons ; Propulsion: Screw
Machinery notes: 400
19 May 1845 the " Conflict " and " Desperate " were ordered to be built along the same lines as the " Encounter," .
Jan, 1846, Conflict, 10, steam frigate, screw by Sir W. Symonds, quarter built, at Pembroke. Designed as a sailing sloop, but changed to screw
20 Dec 1848 Sheerness.
18 Sep 1850 capture of a slave barque, name unknown. 21 Dec 1860 prize money due now payable.
10 Feb 1851 returned to Rio de Janeiro from Cape Frio, where the commanding officer of the Conflict was present when Brazilian police occupied the slave barracoons, and seized the slave-irons, stores, and other materials used to equip slave-vessels. They then proceeded to the depots and barracoons between Cape Frio and Bio das Ostras, where the process was repeated.
25 Mar 1851 went to sea to cruise to the north of Bahia.
31 Mar 1851 arrived and anchored at Maceio and discussed the state of the slave trade with the British Vice-Consul, Mr. Burnet : continued the cruise returning to Bahia.
4 Apr 1851 at Bahia received intelligence from the British Consul regarding the possibility of slave traders approaching the coast and in concert with the Brazilian authorities took steps to watch the coast-line accordingly.
5 Apr 1851 departed Bahia for Morro San Paulo.
6 Apr 1851 arrived Morro San Paulo, the Sharpshooter already being present, with a Brazilian schooner of war.
9 Apr 1851 departed for a cruise off the Barra dos Carvalhos and Camamu.
12 Apr 1851 returned to Morro San Paulo.
20 Apr 1851 Report on this date at Portsmouth that the vessel was at Rio.
19 May 1851 reports from Bahia that whilst the slave trade appears to be dead people ashore are worried that it wouldn't take too much for it to start up again if vigilance drops off.
4 Sep 1851 at Bahia.
Nov 1851 following reports that a brig and patacho were going to land a cargo of slaves on the shore in the vicinity of Benevente, to the north of Rio, the Conflict, Plumper and Bonetta were stationed to intercept the attempt, but nothing further was heard of the expected vessels.
30 Nov 1851 Lieutenant Commander G. F. Day arrived Bahia in the Conflict to take command of the Locust.
4 Jul 1853 Portsmouth. Carried out trials on the Boomerang propeller.
15 Apr 1854 captured Russian brig Patrioten [Prize Money per London Gazette of 21 Jul 1857].
18 Apr 1854, Conflict lost her Captain, John Foote, drowned, with four men, in a gig, off Memel - see p. 416 at www.archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory06clow
Apr-May 1854 the Amphion, Conflict, and other craft, meanwhile blockaded the Gulf of Riga, where the former captured a number of merchant vessels under batteries - see p. 416 at www.archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory06clow
17 Apr 1854 detained the Russian prize Carl Magnus.
17 Apr 1854 detained the Russian prize John.
17 Apr 1854 detained the Russian prize Industriae.
17 Apr 1854 detained the Russian prize Catherine Charlotte.
10 May 1854 the Amphion and Conflict captured Libau without firing a shot and took all the shipping in the port of Memel - see p. 416 at www.archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory06clow
25 May 1854 detained the Danish schooner, a prize, Steen Bille.
27 May 1854 Conflict and Amphion detained 8 x Russian Schooners.
1 Jun 1854 Conflict, Amphion and Archer detained the Nornin.
18 Jun 1854 Conflict and Cruiser detained the Nyverdal.
4 Feb 1856 Devonport. In Keyham Dock
23 Apr 1856, Present at Fleet Review, Spithead ; Commander Cochran
18 Oct 1857 departed England for anti slavery duties on the West Coast of Africa.
17 Dec 1857 boarded the U.S. merchant vessel Merchant to examine her papers. She was reported to have departed Feb 1858, from Mayumba, on the South Coast, with a cargo of 600 slaves.
27 Feb 1858 detained the slave schooner Wintermoyeh, L. Fuirflower, master, in Lat. 6° 12' S., long. 12° 9' E., in the River Congo. 29 Mar 1858 her papers and flag having been thrown overboard and was fitted out for the slave trade, in accordance with 2 & 3 Vict. cap. 73 was condemned at the Vice Admiralty Court at Sierra Leone. 11 Nov 1859 proceeds arising from the tonnage bounty due to be paid shortly, per Gazette.
12 Mar 1858 detained in Lat. 5° 45' S., long. 11° 50' E., the slave barque Almeida, Fisher, master, which was sent for adjudication to the Vice-Admiralty Court at Sierra Leone and on 12 Apr 1858 sentenced to be forfeited and on 11 Nov 1859 the London Gazette announced the situation regarding the distribution of the proceeds arising.
3 Apr 1858 when patrolling in the ship's cutter up stream in the River Congo the US barque Goldfinch of Salem was observed, without colours flying, and was visited briefly by the Assistant Surgeon to treat 2 men.
10 Apr 1858 remains in the R. Congo.
3 Jun 1858 in Loango Bay.
11 Jun 1858 detained the slave schooner Angeline, John Charles Smith, master, in Lat. 5° 56' S., long. 11° 50' E., near Molembo, when about to receive her human cargo, her papers and flag having been thrown overboard and was fitted out for the slave trade. She was sent to the Vice Admiralty Court at St. Helena in the charge of Lieutenant Henderson where she was condemned on 8 Jul 1858.
13 Jun 1858 anchored off Point Padrone, and entered the Congo the following morning and sent the crew of the prize to Punta da Lenha [one wonders whether there is not some connection between the prize crew and the Angeline in the previous paragraph ?
21 Jul 1858 off Shark's Point, River Congo, boarded a barque without any colours and sent a boarding party on board. She turned out to be the John Gilpin, from Moanda, trader on this coast.
11 Aug 1858 departed Fernando Po, for Sierra Leone, with 11 runaway slaves, for emancipation.
8 Dec 1858 arrived at Loanda, from the Island of Ascension, with Sir Henry Huntley, clerk to H.M. Commissioners at Loanda.
15 Dec 1858 in the River Congo, boarded and checked the papers of the US barque J. W. Reid.
1 Mar 1859 sailed from the River Congo, handing over to the Viper.
10 May 1859 appears to be back in the River Congo.
31 May 1859 the assumption made for 10 May appears to be correct as one of the ship's boats had returned this day from Punta da Lenha with news that the Emma Lincoln, a slave vessel, had stood in towards Cabenda on 25 May and would have embarked her cargo of slaves had not the Vesuvius's boat been present.
18 Sep 1859 detained in Lat. 1° 35' N., long. 10° 10' W., a slave barque, Name Unknown, with no papers and flying a red, white and blue flag, red to the mast, stated by her master to be worth nothing. The vessel was sent under the command of Mr. Bridge, to the Vice-Admiralty Court at Sierra Leone for adjudication where she was condemned on 3 Oct 1859. 330 doubloons were found amongst the master's effects and removed on board the Conflict for safety.
29 Sep 1859 departed Sierra Leone for England.
3 Nov 1859 returned to England from the West Coast of Africa.
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Northampton Area School District residents will have an opportunity to voice their opinions about the district in general and curriculum specifically with a survey that will be mailed Sept. 3 to 13,000 residents.
This is the first time such a survey has been circulated to all district residents.
The survey will allow residents to voice opinions in addition to answering a series of questions. When complete, the survey is to be mailed back to the district office. In order to return it, all the respondent will have to do is fold the survey over, secure it with tape and put it into the mail. No postage is required. It will take about 15 to 20 minutes to answer the questions.
Robert Gilly, district director of curriculum, said the survey was designed by the Instructional Coordinating Council (ICC), a group composed of school personnel, students and community members. Gilly said the purpose of the ICC is to examine curriculum issues in all grades and provide data for implementing curriculum improvements.
The first page contains a series of 11 questions related to residence, age, school level completed, employment status, grade level of children in school, preschool and day care attendance. The final question asks "Do/did your children enjoy school?" and offers room for comments.
The second series of 15 questions deals with general school information including specific questions about truancy, the use of parent volunteers in the classroom, class size and emphasis on extracurricular activities.
The third series of 84 questions deals with curriculum. The questions regard a belief in the importance of students learning a subject and how well the schools are preparing the student in that area. For example, one of the questions deals with the understanding of the effect of drugs and alcohol on the body.
Residents will have until Sept. 15 to complete the survey. When the information from the survey is tabulated, district residents will be informed of the results, Gilly said. However, Gilly could not give a date for the results to be released, saying that would be determined by the number of surveys returned and the amount of time it takes to review the data.
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Delta State Micro- Credit Programme’(DMCP) has in the last five years brought national and international recognition to Delta state, the state Commissioner for Poverty Alleviation Dr. Antonia Ashiedu tells VICTOR EFEIZOMOR
DeltaStateGovernment recognised that poverty is a threat to peace and security, to socio-economic development of the state and the human race in general. To alleviate poverty and drive socio-economic development at the grassroots, His Excellency, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan created the Delta Micro-Credit Programme. Also government acknowledges the contribution of microcredit delivery towards promoting productive self-employment , community development and diversification of the economy , especially to mainly an agro- based economy . To this end, the Delta State Credit Programme (DMCP) was established to address poverty among Deltans in rural communities and also the urban poor. Today, we thank God; we have made a very good impact in the state. I wouldn’t tell you it has been smooth-sailing since the beginning of the programme. It is important to note that since inception in December 14, 2007 to May 192011, a total of 85,776 persons, ( 7942 cluster groups ) comprising 54431 women and 31, 245 men were empowered in various micro enterprise. Indeed, if there was a big challenge we had, it was the cynicism of the people the programme was meant for. They were justifiably so, they thought this is another government arrangement, another formula for the government to use the name of the people. That kind of cynicism galvanised us to implement the blueprint, which we already had. And that blueprint was geared towards running the programme on a bottom-up , community –based approach model . It meant that you will not sit in the office to do the programme . You must go down to the people , you must relate with them , you must allow them to understand what the programme is . We did a lot of sanitisation to make them understand that they are principal partners of the programme . Once we were able to do this and with a lot of missionary zeal , they bought into the programme and it also proves what any development experts will tell you , that when people buy into any government programme , that programmev is very likely to success. This indeed has been why we had the kind of impact we had. This is actually the premise that guided this programme.
Disbursement to Deltans
We were very lucky in the programme office that when we presented the blueprint to the state governor, he accepted it. Essentially, that blueprint was the basis of what we wanted to do Number on, that governor should take itself away from the disbursement of the money , because once government begins to disburse money in this kind of programme, it gets misunderstood , if you don’t want government to start disbursing , what do you do? You have to go into partnership. we looked at the structures we had on ground. We consider the microfinance banks, which otherwise are just community –based banks. So we got the microfinance banks to partner with us based on mutually agreeable memorandum of understanding. One, they will become participating financial institution of the programme. And being participating financial institutions to the programme, they will work hand in hand with us as participating financial institution (PFI) . They will come along with us when we are organising the groups. We call these groups cluster groups, they will assist us in perfecting the groups, they will be with us when we are monitoring and mentoring the groups, the of course, there’s the capacity building of the groups , again , the disbursement is a critical aspect.
But after the disbursement, comes another major aspect and that is the monitoring and evaluation. If you don’t monitor all the time, if you don’t evaluate all the time, you are not going to understand when the groups run into trouble. Then you can prop them up , admonish them and get them back on track . So, the PFIs are with us because they are crucial in recovery because this is not a government largesse, it is not charity, neither is it safety net. What they recover gets back immediately into the programme fund and then re-injected, so that the volume of funds will enable us to reach out to more people. Every month we receive periodic reports on each cluster group, because we want to know how they are faring, if they are not doing well, we want to know. That is why in my office, everybody is busy all the time because the reports are coming in and we are analysing all the time.
As you very well know, this is the fifth anniversary of Uduaghan ‘s administration and it is only imperative that you that you get to a point as an administration when you must access your strengths and weakness with the view of charting a way forward in the delivery of democracy dividends to your people. We realized that there was the need to begin to project into the future and identify the best way to move our economy and development agenda to the next level and what became obvious to us was that the future would be dominated by Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME’s). Governor Udaugahn has always been passionate about diversifying the economy of the state away from our huge dependence on oil and this had motivated him to champion the initiative of Delta beyond oil as you know is a finite resources so we must begin to imagine what happens when the oil runs dry. In fact lets imagine what happens if even within our life time, a new source of energy was discovered. Where will we be with our huge dependence on oil revenue when this happens? In fact it has happened before when the price of oil fell and reduced what we have. In fact, we should not just be talking about Delta beyond but indeed Nigeria beyond oil. I refer you to a country like Singapore, which has no known natural resources but has leap frogged into its economy and development strides by looking at manufacturing as its major economic driver. Look at the Asian Tigers. They have become reference points in global economics success stories by what they have done with small businesses. There is the need therefore for us in Delta and indeed Nigeria to replicate the economic successes of these countries through our MSME’S. White collar jobs are gradually phasing out, the future belongs to the entrepreneur , so we decided that we must begin now to celebrate the SMSE’s and to do this we needed to create a platform through which they can be recognised and appreciated. These are people who feel very proud of their small businesses, and it really does not matter whether it is the women who fries bean cake( akara) in one small corner of her community or the young man who owns a barbing saloon , these are people who do their businesses with pride and have earned their livelihoods and become bread winners for their families. We needed to celebrate these proud and hard working Delta entrepreneurs and the best way to achieve this of course was to organise an exhibition for them where they would be giving the expose their occupation to the world.
Assessment of the scheme
It is better to start late than not to start all. Don’t forget that what we are talking about here is the future of our state, our children. Again, it is also about the vision and direction of the leadership in place. let me also tell you that up till now , the Micro and Medium Scale Enterprises have always been funded by government , but now we have a leadership which is bold enough to approach major financial institution like the World Bank because of the excellent track records we have of what we have done since we come on board , I am proud to say that we have a track record of discipline, commitment and hard work and we have put a structure on ground which cannot be easily dismantled , in fact , I make bold to say that it will be a political hara-kiri for any subsequent government to attempt to destroy or abandon what we have built.
I feel very fulfilled and elated, it is indeed a thing of joy to see a programme which one has labored for painstakingly and with complete dedication , coming to fruition like this. My Doctorial Thesis was on this very area. A lot of research and intellectual efforts has gone into this project, I must tell you that my work is based on comprehensive research and to see it been practicalised by any economist is indeed a thing of joy. The fact that I have been giving the opportunity to really transform my academic expertise into the practical realm of defining the economic direction of any state is indeed a thing of joy and I must express my profound gratitude to my governor , His Exellency for giving me the chance to accomplish this project , I feel fulfilled.
Interestingly, I must confess that the high point for me, contrary to what people may think , have not been the many awards we have won or the global recognition we have attracted for the state . What has actually giving me the most joy has been going to the communities severally and watching the metamorphosis of the programme. Most of the communities were largely uncharted areas when we started and our first mission was to sensitise them on the programme . Of course we met a lot of skepticism at that initial stage because the people were simply not interested , they had seen and heard so much talk like this in the simply not interested . They had seen and heard so much talk this in the past yet their communities were still moribund to say that least so they really did not give us a warm welcome. But then we heard a vision and as we went severally and out our structures in place the interest began to increase. We made our office accessible to them, set up a very simply and transparent procedure for registration through co-operatives and cluster groups and got the participating financial institutions which operated in the communities to make it easy for them to access the micro-credit. And from the initial small funding that we provided , we watched in amazements as entrepreneurs emerged and followed their transformation from small businesses to bigger businesses which now became employers of people . To have been a part of this transformation and seen the small businesses grow into big businesses from selling , milling and harvesting their brands to such heights that their products are now been displayed proudly and side by side with other highly regarded products, on the shelves of some of the biggest departmental stores and supermarkets in the land has indeed given me the greatest joy . This has been the real high points for me. Also, there have been low points for me and these occurred at inception . I was greatly disturbed by the initial cynicism of the very people for whom the programme was meant for , when we started . The people were disillusioned by the fact they regarded it as another government gimmick and this mind set actually justified their disillusionment . But we went about our work with missionary zeal and it was only a matter of time before the people themselves picked interest and even became apostles of our message. Thus by mid-2008, our programme took a life of its own and spread like wild fire as we moved in leaps and bounds to where we are today .
But, I still feel very low when I realise how poor our people , especially in the hinterlands really are . There is no glamour in poverty and I live through this day in day out . A lot of our communities , particularly in the riverine area have been degraded for so long and I do not feel happy about our hinterlands which are huge food basket just wasting away , undiscovered and unharnessed as a result of the difficult terrain that has made vehicules access to such food reservoirs practically impossible. I am very grateful to His Excellence Governor Uduaghan for making me the instrumentality of government to sow hope in the hinterlands.
Support from State Govt
The Delta State government is the driver of the programme and for His Excellency Dr. Emmnauel Uduaghan to declare a public holiday to celebrate the SMSE’s just tells you how much he believes and has been supportive of our efforts. I cannot remember any other state in the country which has declared a public holiday in recognition of the SMSE’s and this is indeed another clear manifestation of the tremendous support , goodwill and encouragement we have received from the governor since we came on board . Our gratitutde to him is immense and the fact that we have been working so hard to make the programme the success story it has become today is just our own small way of telling the governor that we appreciate all the support and goodwill he has giving us over the years.
Expectations of Deltans
I tell you that in a few months or years from now we will see net worth Deltans and corporate bodies coming to fund the SMES’s because they know it will become the catalyst to drive the economy. I was quit thrilled when I saw the great enthusiasm of Mr. Tony Elumelu for the SMSE’s during their tour of the exhibition stands. Like you very well know, Mr. Tony Elumelu is one of the success stories in the corporate world from Delta state. His track record in the banking industry and investment world speaks volumes. He is a proud son of Delta and Delta state is proud of him and for him to show that kind of enthusiasm for the SMSE’s is a clear indication that we are indeed on the right track and I have no doubt that in the not too distance future the SMSE’s will attract investments and attract capacity because we have put the structure in place to achieve this.
And let me quickly add that we have just two years to go. The last year is for mopping up and taking stock. The work has no doubt been hectic since we started, but it has been neatly structured and what we have hoped to achieve when we started has already has started unfolding. My philosophy in life is live and let live. I believe in touch lives positively and I know that there is enough for everyone, if only human beings would be less greedy. My final word to Deltans, especially those who have been with us from inception and those who intend to join us, is that they should remain focused, be disciplined and know that the sky is ceiling. I want to assure them that the small seed they have planted will surely grow to become abundant for them. You truly feel fulfilled when you know that people believe in you, I am fulfilled so far , but there is still more work ahead.
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After developing the most powerful laser ever made for use on an aircraft, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in Redondo Beach has been forced to transfer the engineers and other employees responsible for the effort to other programs.
The transfers, as well as about six retirements, bring to a close Northrop's involvement in a futuristic program to develop an airborne laser to destroy enemy missiles soon after liftoff.
Amid severe budget constraints, the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency decided not to extend the Airborne Laser Test Bed program, which put a high-power laser on a modified Boeing 747.
Northrop built that high-power laser and a secondary laser for Boeing Co., the program's prime contractor.
The program ends after 15 years and $5 billion of federal money spent.
"We have wound down our part of the work. The only thing going on now is the paperwork," Northrop spokesman Bob Bishop said. "We have redeployed all of (the program employees) internally. We had a few retirements, but for the rest we found other jobs for them."
On Feb. 14, the Missile Defense Agency announced that it had placed the laser-toting aircraft in long-term storage at Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, after spending years undergoing modification and testing at Edwards Air Force Base north of Palmdale.
"I think there's got to be a lot of credit for the people who worked on that system to create a speed-of-light weapon,"
He said the program's success in proving the technology led to the ending of further development since the next step would have been to turn the technology into an operational system.
"Going to that next step after proving the technology was just too expensive," Ellison said.
The laser technologies developed in the program could lead to more advancements in this field, said Guy Renard, Northrop's ALTB program director.
"ALTB has paved the way for high-power laser weapon systems on aircraft," Renard said in an email to the Daily Breeze. "Northrop Grumman developed the technology and proved the ability to operate a high-power laser on an aircraft, and acquire, track and destroy a target."
The program's technologies that apply directly to other laser weapon systems include the "ability to generate, control and propagate a high-power beam" and the capacity to keep the laser's optical components "perfectly positioned as the aircraft vibrated and flexed during flight," Renard said.
The high-power laser used chemical reactions to generate the beam needed to disable an enemy missile.
A second, less powerful laser run on electricity and developed by Northrop measured atmospheric turbulence. That allowed the main laser to make adjustments to limit distortions to the beam used to destroy a missile.
In February 2010, the airborne laser made a huge breakthrough when it destroyed a ballistic missile in the boost phase of flight.
That test represented the first time a laser had destroyed an in-flight ballistic missile. It was also the first time any system had destroyed a missile in boost phase.
Follow Muhammed El-Hasan on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dailybreezebiz
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ELKHART – It’s been a full year since a tragic accident near Middlebury killed two Amish children and injured three others. Now, Elkhart County Sheriff Brad Rogers has unveiled a new partnership with members of the Amish community.
On Labor Day of 2011, an SUV hit the pony cart 6 children were riding.
10-year-old Jenna Miller and 7-year-old Jolisa Miller died in the accident that raised questions about the laws surrounding the use of horse-drawn carts and buggies on the roadways.
Rogers says he is partnering with the Northern Indiana Safety Association to better educate people operating horse-drawn vehicles and reduce crashes involving buggies and carts.
A manual has been released for horse and buggy drivers who use public roads, but Rogers says it’s also designed to help visitors to the area who may not be familiar with horse and buggy operations.
The manual covers topics ranging from courtesy, conduct, buggy lighting, age of operators, driving on the roadway and rules of the road.
“The sheriff and the Amish Safety Committee recognizes the potential danger caused by the motoring public encountering horse-drawn vehicles and potential crashes, and this manual is an attempt to reduce accidents through increased awareness of all drivers on the roadways in Elkhart County,” said Rogers.
Soon after last year's deadly crash near Middlebury, Goshen College professor Steve Nolt, who has worked closely with Amish communities in both Pennsylvania and Elkhart County, offered some thoughts about horse and buggy safety.
“In some ways the Amish probably think about children in a pony cart much like children on a bicycle or a scooter or a moped in wider society,” Nolt explained.
He also said many Amish schools actually use a workbook to educate Amish children about buggy safety. But kids don’t generally get those workbooks until seventh or eighth grade. The child driving the pony cart hit by that SUV (Labor Day 2011) was only 10, the age of a fourth or fifth-grade student.
The Horse and Buggy Driver’s Manual is now available for pickup and distribution at the Elkhart County Sheriff’s office on C.R. 26 in Elkhart, Monday through Friday from 8:00 to 4:00 p.m.
The publication is free.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Identigene last month began placing its Identigene DNA paternity test kit on the shelves of New York-based Duane Reade pharmacies after meeting the more restrictive testing requirements for the state.
Unlike other states, New York requires a physician or attorney’s authorization for a paternity test, and as part of that, it mandates that the sample collection process be witnessed by a third party to ensure the chain of custody. This, and the fact that Identigene labs have been accredited by the New York Department of Health, establishes Identigene’s DNA paternity test kit as a legal test, as opposed to a peace-of-mind test.
Now any of Duane Reade’s 20 walk-in clinics can provide customers with paternity test authorization through the clinic physician. And if customers do not have access to a Duane Reade clinic, they can go to an Identigene-referred clinic for authorization and third-party collection services, the company stated.
To date, the Identigene DNA paternity test kit definitively has answered the question of a child’s paternal kinship for more than 350,000 individuals.
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Yasujiro Ozu:Tokyo Story
Thursday May 4, 2000
Director Yasujiro Ozu
Writers Yasujiro Ozu, Kogo Noda
Starring Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama
Japan,1953, 136 minutes
Those brought up on the energetic diet of American cinema may find it hard to
appreciate the quietist art of the great Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu. He
has been called the poet of family life, capable of taking the seemingly trivial
and making great drama of it. Nothing was too small to be significant.
Ozu steadfastly peers into the hearts and minds of his characters until we feel
we know them intimately. And the loyalty of those who love his work is as absolute
as his own conviction. The number of film-makers who have made pilgrimages to
his grave (marked simply by the Japanese word for nothing) runs into dozens.
Ozu started making films in 1927 and was one of the last to forsake the silent
cinema. Much of this early work has been lost or destroyed. But we know from
examples that he wasn't always as calmly contemplative as he was in his late
work, which reached the west only in the 60s. He could make boisterous comedies
and earthy chronicles of family life, containing outrageous sight gags. In the
last stretch of his life, however, he had refined his art so much that it hardly
seemed like art at all.
His most famous film, and certainly one of his
masterpieces, is Tokyo Story. In it an elderly
couple are taken to visit their grown-up children
in Tokyo. Too busy to entertain them, the children
pack them off to a noisy resort. Returning to
Tokyo, the old woman visits the widow of another son, who treats her better,
while the old man gets drunk with some old companions. They seem to realise
they are a burden, and simply try to smooth things over as best they can. By
now the children have, albeit guiltily, given up on them; even when their mother
is taken ill and dies, they rush back to Tokyo after attending the funeral.
A simple proverb expresses their failure: "Be kind to your parents while
they are alive. Filial piety cannot reach beyond the grave." The last sequence
is of the old man alone in his seaside home, followed by an outside shot of
the rooftops of the town and a boat passing by on the water. Life goes on.
The film condemns no one and its sense of inevitability carries with it only
a certain resigned sadness. "Isn't life disappointing," someone says
at one point. Yet the simple observations are so acute that you feel that no
other film could express its subject matter much better.
Ozu shoots his story with as little movement of the camera as possible. We view
scenes almost always from the floor, lower than the eye level of a seated character.
He insisted that no actor was to dominate a scene. The balance
of every scene had to be perfect. Chishu Ryu, who often played the father in
Ozu's films about family life, once had to complete two dozen devoted to raising
a tea cup. Tokyo Story was followed by eight other films, all of them
as masterful, and a group named after the seasons, including Early Spring
and An Autumn Afternoon. Each was about the problems of ordinary family
life. While their conservative nature made younger more polemical Japanese directors,
such as Imamura and Oshima, impatient, their universality has come to be recognised
the world over. Ozu was the most Japanese of film-makers, but his work can still
cross most cultural barriers.
As another reviewer puts it:
Ozu invented his own film language, capable of incomparably precise and
expression. It involves bold compositional contrasts; unflinching frames
that hold people and objects in complex, shifting patterns; and an engaging
way of moving a story cyclically through repeating locations. His spare,
plain stories usually permit him to explore some aspect of a breakdown in
traditional family relationships, which is partly why he has been called
"the most Japanese of Japanese directors." The more familiar one
becomes with Ozu's films, the more one becomes able to respond to them as
works of pure emotion.
Opening as an elderly couple looks forward to a rare trip to the city to
spend time with their grown children, Tokyo Story moves on from there
through disappointment, loss, and acceptance. Perhaps Ozu's most accessible
work, it's certainly one of his saddest. See http://www.hermenaut.com/a100.shtml
For more on Ozu and his filmography, see:
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From Microwave to Millimeter-Wave: the Design of Reconfigurable, High-Bandwidth CMOS Radios<-- Return to the list
Start Time: 2:00pm
End Time: 3:00pm
Speaker: Prof. Jeyanandh Paramesh
From: Carnegie Mellon University
Location: 633 Mudd
Hosted by: Columbia Integrated System Laboratory (CISL)
Abstract: From Microwave to Millimeter-wave: The Design of Reconfigurable, High-Bandwidth CMOS Radios The first part of this talk describes the application of phase-change vias to reconfigure CMOS integrated circuits. CMOS-compatible phase-change materials feature high contrasts in resistivity between the amorphous and crystalline states. While this property is being exploited in an emerging class of non-volatile memories, we are exploring its utility as a technological element to reconfigure integrated circuits, especially analog and RF circuits. The development of CMOS-compatible reconfigurable inductors, their application in a reconfigurable LC-VCO, as well as the underlying material choices and integration techniques are discussed. Other reconfigurable CMOS circuits including a low-offset comparator and a non-volatile look-up table are described. Characterization results from prototype circuits are presented to validate these concepts.
The second part of this talk addresses the design of low-power millimeter-wave radios in CMOS with extremely wide bandwidths. The mm-wave frequency bands hold enormous potential for multi-Gb/s communications as well as emerging imaging and ranging applications. The realization of this potential will be underpinned by the development of high-performance, power-efficient transceivers in nanoscale CMOS technologies. Two key challenges must be met towards achieving this goal. First, the mm-wave front-end circuits must be designed to operate over extremely wide bandwidths of several tens of GHz, both to exploit the large bandwidth availability, and also to provide sufficient margins to tolerate process, voltage and temperature variations that are increasingly problematic in nanoscale CMOS. Second, reducing power consumption in the front-end is imperative especially since phased-arrays are mandated in mm-wave transceivers.
This latter half of this talk describes our recent work towards achieving these goals. Transformer-based unilateralization techniques are introduced to enable the design of low-noise amplifiers that achieve over 10 GHz of bandwidth and can operate from a scalable power supply from the nominal voltage down to very low voltages. Low-voltage, ultra-wide bandwidth receivers for pulse-based mm-wave signals, and phased-array receivers, based on the aforementioned amplifiers, are presented. The design of transformer-based voltage-controlled oscillators with several tens of GHz of tuning range is then described. Results from the characterization of several test circuits in 130 nm and 45 nm CMOS technologies are presented.
Speaker Bio: Jeyanandh Paramesh received the B.Tech, degree from IIT, Madras, the M.S degree from Oregon State University and the Ph.D degrees from the University of Washington, Seattle, all in Electrical Engineering. He is currently Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He has held product development positions with Analog Devices, where he designed high-performance data converters, and Motorola where he designed analog and RF integrated circuits for cellular transceivers. From 2002 to 2004, he was with the Communications Circuit Lab, Intel where he developed multi-antenna receivers, high-efficiency power amplifiers and high-speed data converters high data-rate wireless transceivers. His research interests include the design of RF and mixed-signal integrated circuits and systems for a wide variety of applications.
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CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION OF THE JUDICIARY
(a) Purpose. Only by continuing their legal education can the Judiciary fulfill its obligation to competently serve the State. This Rule establishes minimum requirements for such continuing legal education and the means by which the requirements shall be enforced. For the purposes of this Rule, the term "judge" means all justices of the South Carolina Supreme Court, all judges of the Court of Appeals, all judges of the circuit court, all full-time and part-time masters-in-equity, all family court judges, and all probate judges (including associate and deputy probate judges and other persons, regardless of job description or title, who perform the duties of a probate judge either full-time or part-time). Nothing in this Rule shall be construed as preventing the Supreme Court from requiring mandatory attendance of judges at designated continuing legal education programs.
(b) Continuing Legal Education Requirement. A judge shall complete a minimum of 15 hours of continuing legal education approved by the Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization (Commission) each year. The annual reporting period for purposes of this Rule shall run from March 1 through the last day in February. A judge may be given credit in one or more succeeding reporting periods, not exceeding 3 such periods, for completing more than 15 hours of approved education during any one reporting period.
(c) Annual Report. On or before April 15 of each year, each judge shall make a written report to the Commission, on a form approved by the Commission, concerning his or her completion of approved continuing legal education during the preceding year. The form shall be accompanied by filing fees prescribed by the Commission.
(1) If it appears to the Commission that a judge has failed to comply with the requirements of this Rule, the Commission shall notify the judge in writing of this apparent non-compliance by certified mail, addressed to him or her at his or her last known address. The judge shall then have sixty (60) days after the mailing of the notice to file an affidavit responding to it. The response may include documents demonstrating that the judge has cured any deficiency. If after receiving the judge's response the Commission believes the judge is still in violation of this Rule, the Commission shall report the matter to the Supreme Court. Upon receiving a report of non-compliance, the Supreme Court may take such action as it deems appropriate.
(2) In addition, any judge who willfully fails to comply with this rule may be subject to disciplinary action under Rule 502, SCACR.
(3) For good cause shown, the Commission may, in individual cases involving hardship or extenuating circumstances, grant waivers of the minimum education requirements or extensions of time within which to fulfill the same or make the required reports.
Last amended by order dated May 3, 2006, effective immediately.
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When it entered the world in the final days of 2000, almost no one cared a jot about the Commodity Futures Modernization Act. In hindsight, the CFMA turned out to be one of the most momentous pieces of legislation passed during the entire Clinton administration—and one of the darkest spots on the record of Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. It began with a simple question: who should regulate derivatives, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission or the Securities and Exchange Commission? By answering “none of the above,” the CFMA essentially deregulated the entire derivatives market, including energy derivatives, as abused by Enron, and credit-default swaps, which allowed AIG Financial Products to binge on unlimited amounts of risk. Enron became the largest corporate fraud in history (and any Californian will be able to tell you about the consequences for energy prices in the state, which were pegged to market prices being manipulated by Enron traders), while AIG’s bailout cost U.S. taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars that were desperately needed elsewhere. But the most invidious effect of the CFMA wasn’t so much financial as political. It marked the point at which Washington became completely captured by Wall Street. Those who opposed the act were ousted; those who pushed it through, rewarded. Financial laws still can’t get passed unless and until the banks want them enacted. And we’re all suffering the consequences.
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Over the Labor Day weekend of 1995, a ponytailed, bearded young software engineer named Pierre Omidyar wrote a code that enabled people to buy and sell items on the Internet. In the first few weeks after the program was introduced, items ranging from a Maxx comic book to a 1952 Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn changed hands. That program eventually became eBay. Not long after the company went public, in 1998, Omidyar’s share of the stock offering was roughly ten billion dollars, and he became the richest thirty-two-year-old in the world. He found the experience slightly unsettling—he told friends that he had never planned to get rich—and he continued driving his Volkswagen Golf. With his wife, Pam, he started a foundation to give away large sums of money, but he was frustrated by the constraints and inefficiencies of the nonprofit world. Omidyar was searching for a way to change things on a grand scale, and, like many other highly successful young West Coast entrepreneurs, he became interested in a field called microfinance, or microcredit. In November, 2004, he and Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the co-founders of Google, and other leaders of the high-tech community gathered at the San Francisco home of the venture capitalist John Doerr for a weekend session with Muhammad Yunus, who is considered the godfather of microcredit.
Yunus, a silver-haired man of sixty-six with a round, luminous countenance, is a highly gifted interlocutor between the extremely poor in the developing world and the West, and for years he had been seen as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. (This December, he will go to Oslo to receive it.) During the famine of 1974 in Bangladesh, when the dying lined the doorsteps of the better-off in Dhaka, Yunus, an economics professor at Chittagong University, found the theories he was teaching maddeningly irrelevant; so he went into a neighboring village and began talking to the poor. He experimented with ways of helping them—initially, he lent twenty-seven dollars to a group of forty-two villagers—and before long he became convinced that he had a remedy for their condition: providing very small individual loans to the impoverished to start activities ranging from making bamboo stools to buying a dairy cow. In 1976, after local banks refused his entreaties to make the loans, he resolved to do it himself, and he founded the Grameen Bank.
Yunus is a mesmerizing salesman. In the eighties and early nineties, the Grameen Bank received close to a hundred and fifty million dollars in soft loans and grants; today, funded by savings deposits from borrowers and others, it essentially supports itself. It has disbursed more than $5.3 billion to nearly seven million borrowers who have no collateral; ninety-six per cent of them are groups of women, who meet once a week and, through incentives, help to insure their individual loan repayments. (Traditionally, Third World banks lend only to men. Yunus says that he developed the policy of lending mainly to women not only because they were more responsible about re-paying the loans but because families benefitted more when the women controlled the money.) To cover the high cost of servicing these small loans, borrowers pay interest rates of up to twenty per cent, and Grameen claims that it recovers ninety-eight per cent of the loans. Some of Grameen’s numbers have been challenged, but no one disputes Yunus’s assertion that, contrary to traditional banking doctrine, the poor can be reliable borrowers, even at high rates of interest. These days, Yunus raises money for the Grameen Foundation, a global nonprofit group that supports microcredit institutions around the world. Many are related to the Grameen Bank, but only loosely; Yunus believes in locally designed, run, and controlled institutions.
As microcredit has changed in the past thirty years, achieving broad recognition and even some early commercial success, Yunus has modified his methods, but he has never wavered from his goal. He insists that microcredit can lead to a world in which poverty has been extinguished and that eventually, as he puts it, there will be “poverty museums.” He told his audience at Doerr’s home that more than fifty per cent of the Grameen Bank’s borrowers who have been in the program for more than five years have risen out of poverty, according to a simple measurement system that he himself had devised. (To have graduated from poverty, a family must have, among other things, a house with a tin roof; clean drinking water; a sanitary latrine; warm clothes for winter and mosquito netting for summer; about seventy-five dollars in a savings account; and schooling for the children.)
At lunch, Janet McKinley, a Grameen Foundation donor who used to run a major mutual fund and retired at the age of forty-nine to concentrate on microfinance, told the group that in 1995 she had visited a small program run by the Vietnam Women’s Union, and saw how a loan of twenty dollars could change a woman’s life. Her companion, George Miller (now her husband), gave the union a five-year grant of a million dollars, enabling it to expand from five hundred women to ten thousand, so that the more successful participants could get bigger loans and hire other women. McKinley and Miller returned each year. “There was a woman who started out with a mud hut,” McKinley recalled. “When we came back, she had a three-room house with a cement floor, and the pigs were in the hut she had stayed in before.” When the women first came for loans, “they sat hunched, looking down into their laps. They would take the money and fold it into a hairpin behind their ears, looking so frightened—because, they said, they were afraid they couldn’t pay it back. Two or three years later, these same women were running businesses, and were often involved in politics in their village.” She continued, “Does everyone succeed? No. But it is the same in the investment business. You don’t want to take a lot of risk? Buy some ducks. But the more risk-taking borrowers will pool their loans and buy a baby water buffalo and rent it to men for farming. And then there are those who blow right past livestock and build a brick factory.”
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Tagged: Beaujolais Nouveau
November 16, 2010
At the strike of midnight on the third thursday of every November, France erupts in massive celebration in honour of the unveiling (or should we say uncorking) of the Beaujolais Nouveau wine.
Beaujolais Nouveau, which is a young wine (only 6 weeks old) comes from a region south of Burgundy. The light-bodied and fruity wine must be finished by Christmas with the French government putting in place regulations that delay the wines release.
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Or, our secret languages and private lexicons
Fascinating essay on the flex and fix of language and how it shapes us as much as we shape it from thenonist .
Language. Isn’t our relationship with it strange? There is a sense somehow that language exists outside of us, that we are users of language only, consumers rather than manufacturers. When we are children language is offered to us as a fully formed quantity, to be learned and employed in just the way mathematics or chemistry are, replete with correct and incorrect solutions to the “problems” of expression. Language, of course, has the added characteristic of containing within itself “forbidden” ground– words and phrases which were you to utter them in polite company would illicit outrage, stern reproach, and disgust. Imagine, by way of comparison, stating the correlation coefficient between two variables at the dinner table only to be knocked up-side the head by an incensed Grandma. As adults most of us would seem to think about language only when searching our numb skulls for that elusive perfect word. And yet… behind closed doors?
Language is at once both a banal standardized system which requires work to master and a numinous corpus saturated with abstruse power. Though it lives in our mouths, coils like a parasite in our minds, and though we use it nearly as often as our own lungs, nothing about it seems to encourage intimacy. Scholarship? Sure. Respect? Yes. But a simple and warm familiarity? It wouldn’t seem so. To some degree this makes sense in that its roots are so deeply buried in our past that it might as well be a force of nature ?. And yet, be this all as it may, each and every mind is an incubator of language and each household a nursery. In these private places, cut-off from the ears of society, we giddily break the rules and bend language to our whims, compulsively coining new words, and naming things as though it were the first day of creation.
It seems to me that every household has its own private lexicon, filled with obtuse usages, alternate grammars, and esoteric slang. Am I mistaken in this? I know that in my household language is constantly morphing with new words being invented or co-opted, becoming prominent or falling out of use. It’s as if language was a kinky sex act, our enjoyment and particular proclivities something to be kept private and out of general ear-shot. I’ve occasionally found myself using a word or phrase from my private lexicon only to stop myself short or else be met with blank faces. It’s embarrassing somehow when one slips out.
It would appear a quite complex strata actually. There are the notions which float around in the primordial ooze of our consciousness never quite coalescing into words. There are the words so peculiar and intimate that they never actually reach our mouths but which none the less enjoy regular usage in our minds. ? Then there is the language which is shared between lovers, private words, often whispered like incantations, which define in some way the intimacy of a bedroom but hold no power beyond those walls or moments. Then there is the language of family or the language of a household. This is simultaneously shared and private, displaying in its microcosm the same ability to evolve and proliferate as language at large, but which remains cut-off like a Galapagos of wild syllables.
I think great catalysts in household languages are pets. It seems as though every pet owner calls his beloved little friend by a myriad of names, any name, in fact, but the one they initially chose. ? For example my cat’s are named Newton and Henry. What do my girlfriend and I actually call them?
Newton: Newtie, The Newts, The Belly, Lemon, Little Bull, Dew Beard, Dewbie, Ankle-Head, Nappy Dread, The Dust Brother, Chunk, Stankly, The Stink, etc, etc.
Henry: Fluffkin, Fuzzlet, Fuzzy-Pants, Manatee, The Griz, Gristle(e), Gristle-bee, Grozells, Grizbane, Hiney, Heinz, Heinrich, Doodie, The Doods, Martha Washington, etc, etc.
These of course do not in and of themselves constitute anything approaching a secret language, I only share them as an aside, there being a whole shorthand used in place of common nouns, verbs, and concepts used in my household. I’ll share just a couple of minor examples to illustrate-
This is a word which is related to the pet names above but is altogether more versatile. It sums up in two syllables any delighted surprise at seeing (usually on the television) some furry creature of interest. So rather than saying, for instance, “look honey! A very cute / strange / noteworthy member of the animal kingdom has made an unexpected appearance on the television, stop picking your nose and take a look for yourself.” Either of us can simply call out, “Stoony!” and the other will know instantly that our attention is required, front and center. Likewise the word can be used in plural form to note the appearance of a whole herd / pride / cete / litter / troup / etc. Dropping the “y” and adding an “s” at the end denotes familiarity as when it’s used for one of our own pets, or on occasion, one another, e.g. “Hey Stoons.” Lastly this word forms the root of further mutations such as the ever popular “Stoonhauser.”
We have a whole gamut of words which can substitute for saying “I love you.” We’ve co-opted three from Woody Allen’s film Annie Hall ?. These are–
I use all three fairly often. Other substitutions are–
Both of which are shortened versions of longer phrases since “elephant shoes” and “olive juice” are famously observed to so closely mimic the lip movements of saying “I love you.” After 8 years of expressing that sentiment the words can feel almost meaningless, so this little bit of differentiation (both from the norm, and from other instances of its use) adds something. When leaving the apartment in the morning I might say “Elephant” and be treated, in kind, to the response of “Olives.” No more need be said. Our household shorthand accomplishing in two words what would otherwise take 7, and with added value to boot thanks to its exclusivity.
As I said these are only a couple examples. It would seem that in my household at least the language which has emerged was guided by two main evolutionary factors: economy and amusement. If a word makes expressing ourselves simpler it sticks ? or alternately if something makes us laugh it sticks. What the factors are in other households I have no idea.
I have to imagine every home, everywhere, has its own strain of language subtly different from the norm, guided by its own principles. I imagine that when a word or peculiar usage actually makes the leap from a person’s mind into this testing ground of the home that perhaps .05% might make it out into the world and language at large as slang. That leaves a lot of playful and weird wordage which we keep behind closed doors away from the ears of our neighbors. It boggles the mind. If we marched out into the day using these mutated versions of our mother-tongues we’d all look at one another as if we were speaking nonsense, but it wouldn’t be true. Any word which has an intended meaning, agreed upon and understood by even two people, can’t be properly called nonsense can it? What we’d be speaking would be a billion subtly different dialects.
Admittedly I may be imagining all of this. Perhaps every household is not like mine. Perhaps other people put their energy into finding the most precise and perfect existing words to express themselves ? rather than just coining their own willy-nilly. But as monolithic and as much like work as language can feel when we are first introduced to it, as careful and polite as we are taught to be with our words in public, I can’t help but assume that, at home, people are as naughty and playful and weird with their words as they are with everything else.
Am I mistaken? You tell me .
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Thomas Edison at Menlo Park
Thomas Edison at Menlo Park
By the 1870s life was changing for Thomas Edison. Inventions such as the stock ticker and the quadruplex telegraph brought him a degree of wealth and notoriety. The wealth was nice, but fame grew tiresome. A constant stream of curious visitors came to his New York City lab, interrupting Edison’s work. The quiet and private countryside of New Jersey beckoned and in 1876 Edison moved his lab to Menlo Park. Only fifty miles away from New York City and located near a train line, Menlo Park offered Edison both solitude and easy access to Manhattan.
The lab at Menlo Park marked a turning point in Edison’s career. There, some of his most famous inventions, and the first inventions not directly related to the telegraph, were created. But Edison did not work alone. He hired a number of assistants, many of whom were integral to Edison’s success. These included Charles Batchelor, one of Edison’s first assistants, who would stay with Edison for many years, as would others such as Francis Upton and Francis Jehl.
phonograph in 1877. The phonograph is the precursor of all of today’s sound recording technologies, but at the time the idea of capturing, storing and reproducing sound was new. When it hit the newspapers in the late 1800s, Edison became internationally famous. One reporter dubbed him the “Wizard of Menlo Park,” and the title stuck.
Edison believed in working on many projects simultaneously, moving from one to another and following up on ideas that seemed most promising. About the time he was working on the phonograph, he became interested in the telephone, which had been introduced byAlexander Graham Bell in 1876. Curious about the new device, Edison began working on telephone-related technology and soon improved Bell’s transmitter - the part of the phone you speak into. His improvement, the carbon transmitter, was the basis of a vicious patent battle years later between Edison and two other inventors. Patents secure for a term of years the exclusive rights to make, use, or sell an invention. Patent battles are often fierce because a lot of money - as well as pride - is at stake. They would become a regular occurrence in Edison’s career.
Also in the late 1870s Edison began working on one of his most famous and enduring inventions - an improved system of electric lighting. A successful electric lighting system demanded better light bulbs, generators, and motors than had been used before in systems such as arc lighting. In 1879, after pouring thousands of working hours and even more thousands of dollars into this new system, he demonstrated it by lighting up his Menlo Park compound. Edison considered his electric lighting system so important he left Menlo Park and set up a new office back in New York where he could promote the sale of the new system. As a demonstration, he set up his own power plant on Pearl Street near the financial district in New York, and another system in downtown London. With these, Edison launched an electric power industry that still exists today.
The years at the Menlo Park labs were the most productive in Edison’s working life. In addition to the inventions that came out of the lab, the lab itself is noteworthy as another of Edison’s great inventions - the modern industrial research organization. Menlo Park was imitated by many large companies in the early 1900s and acted as a model for later industrial research labs such as the famous Bell Laboratories, also in New Jersey.
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AASHE: Humboldt State is an AASHE member giving all students access to AASHE’s Resource Center which has an extensive collection of policy databases, best practices, case studies, planning and assessment tools, surveys, reports, how-to guides, job descriptions, campus profiles, and many other invaluable resources. Just create an account using your Humboldt email address.
CSU Commitment to Sustainability: Stay up to date with what CSU and other campuses are doing about sustainability.
Green Room Certification: Learn more about what Housing and Dining are doing to reduce the impact of living on campus.
Humboldt Waste Management Authority Food Waste Program: The source for details on the Humboldt County food waste diversion effort and updates on the Food Waste Digester Project.
REPOWER Humboldt: The Redwood Coast Energy Authority and SERC have drafted a strategic plan to decrease dependence on imported energy and increase local renewable energy production. Check out the latest draft released fall 2012.
Schatz Energy Research Center: The Schatz Energy Research Center, also known as SERC, is researching renewable energy, energy efficiency, hydrogen energy systems and much, much more, right here at Humboldt State.
Self-Guided Sustainability Tour: This downloadable brochure presents a self-guided walking tour of the sustainability features at Humboldt State. Learn more about innovative campus initiatives like the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology (CCAT), the Hydrogen Fueling Station, and many more. This tour was developed by Erin Figueroa as part of her for-credit internship in the Office of Sustainably. (More about Office of Sustainability internships can be found here.)
STARS: STARS is also a resource for what other universities are doing nationwide to promote sustainability. Under STARS Institutions, STARS posts all the responses from rated institutions to all the questions asked in the STARS assessment. The Green House Gas Emissions report for STARS can be downloaded here.
Sustainability Course Listing
Follow these links to working inventories of sustainability-related and –focused courses, currently offered at HSU, developed by the Sustainability Steering Committee.
To see an explanation of how the course lists were created and how courses are identified in the Catalog or Class Schedule download the PDF document here.
Project and Document Database
This is a searchable database that includes student projects developed by ENVS classes and documents from Office of Sustainability projects and internships. Search out your areas of interest or send us your documents to add to the database.
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Leonardo da Vinci
La Bella Principessa by Leonardo da Vinci
This little portrait made big news on October 12, 2009 when Leonardo experts confidently attributed it to the Florentine Master based on forensic evidence.
Leonardo da Vinci - The Paintings
A chronological survey of Leonardo da Vinci's work as a painter, from his earliest 1470s efforts as an apprentice in Verrocchio's workshop, to his final painted piece, St. John the Baptist (1513-16).
Leonardo da Vinci Timeline
An in-depth, year by year guide to Leonardo da Vinci's life and the people and events that affected it.
Leonardo da Vinci Discussion Questions
Points to ponder after learning about Leonardo's life and work.
A Guide to Leonardo and His Art in The Da Vinci Code - Questions and Answers
An Art History Guide to Leonardo and Art in The Da Vinci Code - Answers to Your Frequently Asked Questions
New Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci Found!
Maike Vogt-Lüerssen, author of the recent book "Who is Mona Lisa? In search of her identity", has very generously shared an article here.
Mark Harden's Artchive - Leonardo da Vinci
Contains a biography, suggestions for further reading, and scroll down the page for an extensive, chronologically arranged image library.
Leonardo da Vinci
The Web Gallery of Art has (no surprise) an entire section devoted to our guy Leonardo. Works are arranged by date, for his paintings, and by medium for everything else. Excellent.
A resource for teachers and students developed by the Museum of Science, Boston. Although it's written towards an audience of 9 to 13 year olds, everything on the site could easily be adapted for younger (or older) students.
Leonardo da Vinci's Horse
The story of how, after a 500-year interval, the equestrian monument Leonardo had planned (and made the clay model for) was finally cast in bronze and installed in Milan. Here, too, are the details surrounding the horse's second casting and installation in the United States. All sorts of teaching resources are included.
A site devoted to the more strange and disturbing of Leonardo's works, including anatomical drawings and speculation about his "orientation". For this reason - as the site's author clearly notes - the material here is not recommended for children.
Salvator Mundi - The Newly Attributed Leonardo da Vinci Painting
Previously, this panel was thought to exist only as copies and one detailed, 1650 etching by Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, 1607-1677). This was a real jaw-dropper; the last painting by Leonardo to be authenticated was the Hermitage's Benois Madonna in 1909.
Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan
Contained more than 60 paintings and drawings by the Master, along with paintings by his pupils and collaborators. Almost all of Leonardo's surviving Milanese works were reunited --including two that have never been in the same room before: the National Gallery's The Virgin of the Rocks (ca. 1491/2-99 and 1506-08) and the Louvre's The Virgin of...
Was Leonardo a Vegetarian?
Leonardo seems to have become everyone's favorite celebrity spokesman for vegetarianism, but did he really eat a meat-free diet? There aren't actually that many facts saying either "yea" or "nay." Let's examine the few pieces of evidence we have that are backed up with sources, so that you can decide for yourself.
Artists' Quotes: Leonardo da Vinci
Quotes on art from Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A group of activists came together in Syracuse on Friday in an attempt to get the voters' voice back into politics.
In 2010, a Supreme Court ruling known as 'Citizens United' loosened campaign finance regulations, allowing corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns.
On the third anniversary of that ruling, local groups supporting the "Money Out, Voters In" movement gathered to express their reform ideas. They are asking Congress to overturn the Citizens United ruling in an attempt to prevent big corporations from controlling politics.
"It's not meant to be manipulated by corporations that really use our laws and our legal system for their own gain, usually disrespecting communities and really not having our best interest at heart," said Ursula Rozum, Move to Amend organizer.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is also in support of getting big money out of politics. He's called for more fair elections, including public financing, early full disclosure of spending, and a much lower contribution limit.
So far, 11 states have called for Citizens United to be overturned.
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Mobile World Congress: Taking a BYTE Out of Barcelona!
We arrived in Barcelona two days before the show started. The city is gorgeous, famous for its Gaudi architecture. The picture below, taken from Wikipedia because there are cranes now all over it during its completion, shows the famous Basilica I Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia. Construction began in 1882 and has proceeded off and on since. Now, in 2011, it is only halfway complete. The name Gaudi, as it refers to the architecture so prevalent here, refers to Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi, who died in 1926. These buildings look like sand castles. Wish you could see them. Check out the rest of the slideshow for some of the sights, eats and scenes at the Mobile World Congress as InformationWeek, Techweb, and the upcoming BYTE.com storm Barcelona. And I do mean storm. If you want to see show related pictures, they start after my touristy Barcelona slides. Check it all out, though! Well worth it. And stay tuned for more slideshows from Barcelona.
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|Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:09 am Post subject: Carbon nanotubes to the rescue of Moore's law
Over the next few years, semiconductor fabrication will move from the current state-of-the-art generation of 90 nanometer processes to the next 65 nm and 45 nm generations. Intel is even already working on 32 nm processor technology, code-named "Westmere", that is expected to hit the market sometime around 2009. The result of these efforts will be billion-transistor processors where a billion or more transistor-based circuits are integrated into a single chip. One of the increasingly difficult problems that chip designers are facing is that the high density of components packed on a chip makes interconnections increasingly difficult.
In order to be able to continue the trend predicted by Moore’s law, at least for a few more years, researchers are now turning to alternative materials for transistors and interconnect and one of the prime candidates for this job are single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT). However, one of the biggest limitations of conventional carbon nanotube device fabrication techniques today is the inability to scale up the processes to fabricate a large number of devices on a single chip. Researchers in Germany have now demonstrated the directed and precise assembly of single-nanotube devices with an integration density of several million devices per square centimeter, using a novel aspect of nanotube dielectrophoresis. This development is a big step towards commercial realization of CNT-based electronic devices and their integration into the existing silicon-based processor technologies.
"The fundamental issue of CNT device fabrication remains the biggest challenge for effective commercialization of nanotube electronics" Dr. Ralph Krupke explains. "For CNT electronics to become a reality, it should be possible to scale up the fabrication technique to simultaneously and reproducibly fabricate a very large number of such devices on a single chip, each accessible individually for electronic transport. Conventional nanotube growth and device fabrication techniques using chemical vapor deposition or spin-casting are unable to achieve this, due to a lack of precise control over nanotube positioning and orientation."
"Since these nanotubes are usually grown at temperatures greater then 500°C and show no growth selectivity between metallic and semi-conducting types, they can not be directly integrated into silicon-based micro-fabrication" adds Dr. Aravind Vijayaraghavan. "Due to the difficulties in handling and manipulating these nano-scale objects at the individual level, various attempts to assemble them into functional devices have met with limited success. In the ideal case, it should be possible to position an individual nanotube at a predefined location and orientation, forming robust, low-resistance, ohmic contacts to two metallic leads. Furthermore, it should be possible to do this at a scalable integration density with each nanotube forming an individually addressable device."
Krupke and Vijayaraghavan are scientists at the Institute of Nanotechnology (INT) at the Research Centre Karlsruhe in Germany. Together with colleagues from the INT and the University of Karlsruhe they authored a recent paper in Nano Letters, titled "Ultra-Large-Scale Directed Assembly of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Devices". In it, they report a novel aspect of dielectrophoretic deposition of CNTs, where the dielectrophoretic force field changes upon nanotube deposition and thereby self limits the directed assembly to a single nanotube or nanotube bundle at predefined locations.
In 2003, the group demonstrated that it is possible to deposit CNT bundles from an aqueous solution using a process called dielectrophoresis which uses inhomogeneous alternating electric fields to move and assemble nano-scale objects.
"Since then, we have made tremendous advances in understanding the dynamics of a carbon nanotube moving in such an electric field" says Vijayaraghavan. "The required inhomogeneous electric fields are generated by two opposing needle-shaped electrodes with a microscopic gap between their tips. We have discovered the mechanism that allows for a self-limiting deposition of CNTs to one per electrode pair. This happens because the first CNT that is deposited in the gap changes the electric field distribution around it incisively, leading to a repulsion of subsequent CNTs that attempt to enter the region of the gap."
The researchers in Karlsruhe have also developed and optimized the use of capacitively coupled electrodes, which enables them to reduce their dimensions and increase the density of electrode pairs that can be incorporated on a chip.
"Together, this allows us to fabricate separately addressable, individual SWCNT devices at an integration density comparable to ultra-large scale integration" says Krupke. "This is three to four orders of magnitude greater than what has been possible so far with any other technique."
This technique is very versatile. It is compatible with SWCNTs from any source, which are suitably dispersed in an aqueous surfactant solution. SWCNTs separated based on their length, diameter or even chirality can be readily assembled into large-scale functional arrays using this technique. The process is fully compatible with post-processing techniques and current microelectronics fabrication technologies, requires no high-temperature steps or chemical modification of the substrate or the CNT and is a one-step process that can be performed under ambient conditions.
This achievement takes CNT electronic devices a big step closer to integrating with microelectronics and expanding their scope for commercial viability. On a laboratory scale, it now allows for the fabrication of a large number of devices with identical CNT source and deposition conditions, to perform truly statistical measurements of CNT properties like electronic transport or Raman mapping.
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This is one of many examples of dynamic response feet, which are indicated for people whose gait patterns generate enough energy to be worth storing. For this reason, some prosthetists call them "energy storing feet." They incorporate elastic keel structures that absorb energy during midstance and terminal stance, and then "release" it during preswing and initial swing. Many types are available, including the College Park Foot (pictured here), the Otto Bock Dynamic Foot, the Flex Foot, the Seattle Foot, the Quantum Foot, and the Carbon Copy II. The durability of some new materials is not fully tested.
For an excellent summary of dynamic response feet, see Edelstein, J.E. (1988). Prosthetic feet: State of the art. Physical Therapy, 68, 1874-1881.
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For many food and beverage processors, it is hard to imagine a time when their companies operated without manufacturing software. For those who do remember, there also would have been no Food Safety Modernization Act to contend with, and no HAACP plans to follow, but there was a truckload of paper work.
In the 21st century, software is central to manufacturing of any scale. Those in charge of food and beverage plants need to consider their system options the same way they measure the value of a pump, a mixer or a fleet of delivery trucks.
"With all of the new regulations for food safety and traceability, a five-year-old solution that has not been updated to cover the latest regulations could be missing critical requirements," says Jack Payne, vice president of Atlanta-based CDC Software (www.cdcsoftware.com). "In order to stay updated with current requirements and trends, food manufacturers should keep current on releases and not fall behind."
As food processors compare ERP systems, and the relative merits of cloud-based and on-premise operation, there are several factors that are probably top of mind. These include mobile and remote accessibility, speed of operations (particularly speed related to traceability), support for procedural programs like HACCP and accountability for co-products and bi-products.
An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system allows a company to integrate all operations and resources through one program. This is the most common single solution software system used by manufacturers. It can stand alone or interface with a customer relationship management (CRM) system, as well as separate function systems such as warehouse, transportation and logistics systems. ERPs emerged in the 1990s as an outgrowth of material requirements planning (MRP) systems.
So, have most food manufacturers gone to a single ERP?
"The food industry is not that sophisticated in its use of automation and software," says Prashant Rayendran, chief operating officer at Pilgrim Software (www.pilgrimsoftware.com), Tampa, Fla. "Many still are using old mainframe systems and the usual paper-based processes."
Others are focused on single-systems, says Mel Smith, senior account executive with Plex Systems (www.plex.com), Aubrurn Hills, Mich. "Our preference is to provide a comprehensive solution – such as Plex Online – that addresses all of the requirements for the enterprise. When necessary, we provide unique niche functionality, such as import/export shipping or tax maintenance programs through certified partners that specialize in that function delivery."
Plex's flagship products are cloud-based, which means that data is stored online rather than in an on-premise server. Cloud systems offer a much lower overhead in terms of upfront costs and IT personnel, but Plex promotes its cloud solution as a living system, continually updated by users.
"The Food Safety Modernization Act and other regulations have forced the issue by requiring manufacturers to adopt technology that allows them to rapidly identify and track every single ingredient in their products," Smith says. "This provides an ideal environment for cloud computing as it introduces transparency and real-time monitoring of production facilities."
Also cloud-based is IQity Solutions (www.iqitysolutions.com), Wexford, Pa., and its flagship product, IQ-Fusion, a suite of "modules and pods, driven by a dynamic core analytical engine." Reaching all the way to the shop floor, and even into individual machines, it delivers production operations analyses that are correlated with real-time business outcomes and financial measures.
"We try to identify the 'opportunity value gap,' the variations in process controls that lead to cost increases or erosion of profitability," says Lance Roundy, director of integration services. The company was started by David Gustovich, who worked at Canada Post, Tyson Foods and ConAgra (as well as General Dynamics and Emerson Electric) and who saw a way to create semi-stock products and services out of all the unique and custom consulting services he had been providing as a consultant.
Mobile information access is expected by most of us in our day-to-day personal lives. It is just as important for businesses, including food manufacturing.
"The demand for mobility has accelerated dramatically in the last 10 years," says Brooke Webb, director of marketing at Vicinity Manufacturing (www.vicinitymanufacturing.com), Marietta, Ga. "Our latest version, V4, [currently in beta testing] has the ability to be accessed from anywhere. Desktop, iPad, iPhone, inside a CRM system, et cetera."
Other top considerations, especially for food users, include conformity with regulatory record-keeping requirements, recipe formulation, and tracking and cataloging of raw materials. Food manufacturing places even more demand on software, as raw materials are subject to seasonality and other fluctuations.
Another important consideration involves co-products and bi-products, which are nearly a non-issue to some consumer goods sectors. Compared to manufacturers of, say, door handles, food companies are more likely to shift production to address market fluctuations. Today's technology can easily meet those demands.
And what life expectancies can food makers expect from their software? Those offering cloud-based systems say their solutions may be immortal — no need to update to new versions, no servers to upgrade. Otherwise, 5-10 years is about average.
Several sources, including Vicinity's Webb, say manufacturers are now pushing software suppliers to do more.
"I would also say that consumers are getting smarter as well," Webb says. "With buyers having so many choices and information and product reviews at their fingertips … you have to release new functionality and features at least twice a year to stay ahead of the competition."
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MOSCOW, Mar 19, 2012 (IPS) - India’s proposal to set up a bank of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) will top the agenda at the summit of the group in New Delhi Mar. 28.
India believes a joint bank would be in line with the growing economic power of the five-nation group. The bank could firm up the position of BRICS as a powerful player in global decision-making.
"The BRICS bank does not need much capital for a start," Alexander Appokin, senior expert at the Moscow- based Centre for Macroeconomic Analysis and Forecasting tells IPS. "What is more important is that the BRICS development bank presents a unique opportunity for indirect investment of central bank foreign reserves inside the countries."
A BRICS bank could for example issue convertible debt, which would arguably be top-rated and can be bought by central banks of all BRICS countries. BRICS countries would thus have a vessel for investment risk-sharing.Read it at Inter Press Service
BRICS Bank Could Change the Money Game
Analysis by Kester Kenn Klomegah
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Brian Davies in Aquinas on God and Evil:
One might suggest that static, indifferent, and callous are how Aquinas positively describes God as being. But this suggestion seems somewhat implausible given what we have now seen Aquinas to be saying. Far from being static as is a stone, the God of Aquinas is actively present and freely at work throughout the created order. The range and extent of his activity is unsurpassed. And far from being indifferent and callous, the God of Aquinas freely gives creatures the goodness they posses, is drawn to (or positively wills) goodness in its various forms and as it exists perfectly in him, and sends us his Son to live and die so as to bring us to beatitude (assuming that what we want is what the Son of God incarnate wants). How less than static, indifferent, or callous could the God of Aquinas possibly be?
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