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80. Extrinsic evidence admissible in cases of patent ambiguity.- Where the words of a will are unambiguous, but it is found by extrinsic evidence that they admit of applications, one only of which can have been intended by the testator, extrinsic evidence may be taken to show which of these applications was intended. Illustrations A man, having two cousins of the name of Mary, bequeaths a sum of money to" my cousin Mary". It appears that there are two persons, each answering the description in the will. That description, therefore, admits of two applications, only one of which can have been intended by the testator. Evidence is admissible to show which of the two applications was intended. A, by his will, leaves to B" my estate called Sultanpur Khurd". It turns out that he had two estates called Sultanpur Khurd. Evidence is admissible to show which estate was intended.	<urn:uuid:0c22aabc-42f8-46a8-8f9d-132470f9ba1d>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://indiankanoon.org/doc/938466/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.981723	194	1.554688	2
Liveblogging the Democratic Debate Posted by: McQ on Thursday, February 21, 2008 Live, from Austin Texas, it's the Hill and Barry show. Huge ovations for both of the candidates as they enter. Okay, the photo op is over and we begin the fun. CNN's Campbell Brown says there are no hard and fast rules, just a conversation. Yeah, we'll see. 8:06 - Hillary waxes nostalgic about her first political job registering voters in south Texas. A little name-dropping (Barbara Jordan) of notable Texans. And did you know that 350,000 Texas children a month get health care because she started children's health care. "We can do better than what we found at Water Reed" - she's on a veteran's riff. Of course they've (meaning government) never done better but the promises never end. 8:10 - Obama's turn. "We are a nation at war and our economy is in shambles". Now he's on the predatory loan riff. It is also victim time. No one ever talks about those who've overcome hardship and done well. Instead we get the "victim" stories. 8:12 - Whoa ... what's with Hillary? A fixed smile while Obama talks, and blink, blink, blink, blink. She hasn't looked away from him yet. OK, opening statements over. Now questions. 8:14 - Ah, the Cuba question. Would you meet with Raul Castro? Hillary - you bet, once the Cubans demonstrate a move toward democracy and freedom. In reality she's saying "no" since all of us know change isn't going to happen. Ah, now, when asked specifically "would you meet with him", she says "no, not unless there are changes". Obama - You said you'd meet, will you still do that? Yes, without preconditions but there has to be "preparations" - freedom of press, human rights, etc. That's trying to have it both ways folks. Wants to loosen travel restrictions and remittances. But no normalized relations until he saw changes. Bush, Bush, Bush ... Clinton: Era of unilateralism and arrogance is over ... Obama: President should take a much more active role in diplomacy because of the damage the Bush administration has done. 8:23 - Economy. How would a Prez Obama be different from a Prez Clinton in managing the economy? Who the hell wants a president managing the economy? Obama: Restore a sense of fairness and balance in our economy. No tax breaks for companies shipping jobs overseas. Roll back tax cuts to rich. Trade - strong labor, environmental and safety standards. Green economy. 1 billion to foreign economies (oil) should be spent on jobs and technologies here. Changes will only come about if we can form a working coalition for change which excludes special interests and lobbyists. Clinton: Day one on the economy - rid tax code of loopholes and special benefits. Pretty much the same thing as Obama. Trade - Same as Obama with a "trade timeout" for assessment. Plus a trade "prosecutor" to enforce trade agreements. Foreclosure - crack down on abusive lenders and moratorium on foreclosures. Ah - more victim stories to underscore the point. 90 day freeze. 8:31 - Immigration. Clinton: Talking about anchor babies and deportation of illegal parents. "Comprehensive immigration reform". Bad employers (crack down on the exploiters). Oh, good, and she'll help Mexico create more jobs for their citizens. And, of course, a path to citizenship introduced in the first 100 days of her presidency. Obama: Same as Clinton. Says "tone down the rhetoric". Comprehensive immigration reform. Now we're into a little of the politics of fear (discrimination against those with Hispanic surnames). Fix the legal immigration system (hey, something I agree with - it needs to be streamlined and speeded up). Improve relationship with Mexico. Bush, Bush, Bush ... 8:36 - Border fence. National sovereignty. Sen. Clinton you voted for the fence. Will you build it? Clinton: Ah, well, Bush, Bush, Bush. We need to review this. Some places a physical barrier makes sense. Hmmm ... as I recall, nothing ruled out a "virtual fence" in the original plan. "I think when I voted for this I was voting for that sort of a fence." Lord, she was fooled again. Deploy more personnel and technology instead of a physical fence. Obama: Clinton and I agree. Bush, Bush, Bush. Pass the DREAM act. Next! 8:43 - Is there a problem with the US becoming bi-lingual? Clinton: English should remain our common unifying language. That's how immigrants have become a part of America. But doesn't want to see English be the "official" language. Hmmm, one of the few things she's not really willing to make a law. Obama: Important that everyone learn English and that's a unifying language. Bi-lingual education? Sure. Children should learn a second language. Failure of NCLB - Bush, Bush, Bush, tests, Bush. Don't forget it was Teddy Kennedy's wet dream. Commercial break ... Gotta tell you, if this was supposed to be a break-out for Hillary Clinton, it isn't working. What is obvious, however, is there isn't a dime's worth of difference between the two and the rock star, and not the technocrat, is the one who is going to win. 8:51 - Question about campaign rhetoric. Talk v. action. All hat and no cattle. Clinton: Said it about Bush. [Really?] Claims that their campaign has been very civil, but it's true that she's the one with solutions. Ah, the "name one accomplishment" bit. You knew she'd use it. Obama: Yes, actions do speak louder than words, and his actions over his 20 years of public service have had much action. Now we're into the litany, as spare as it is. Wounded warriors - had to pay for meals and phone calls, until Obama came along. [Heh ... yeah, not exactly.] Claims Clinton has implied that those who support him are delusional. [She may have a point]. Difference between Clinton and Obama is Obama can "inspire" people to work for change. 8:58 - Plagiarism. Obama: Yes, two lines, words matter, Patrick is his National co-chair who suggested he use the words. Silly season in politics. Forget all of that, how are we going to make college affordable, etc. Not just hope and inspiration but a $4,000 tax credit to make college affordable. Specific, concrete proposals, not just words. Clinton: If you candidacy is about words, they should be your words. Clinton talks about the "YouTube" vids of the comparison. She's back on the "work hard" schtick. Now she's contrasting her "universal" health care system with his voluntary system. Bush, Bush, Bush. Obama: Health care programs are basically the same. Philosophical difference - mandated vs. voluntary. Different ways of getting there. —- commercial break Even with the fireworks, nothing much for Clinton here. Both the fighters are back in the middle of the ring and we continue. 9:11 - Standing O for the candidates as we come out of the break. Very enthusiastic crowd. Obama not ready to be commander-in-chief? Clinton: I'm ready, but let's go back to health care. Nobody happy with that move. Mandates are a must!! [Lord spare us]. She's reduced to quoting John Edwards. What if Social Security was voluntary [oh, I can dream]. Obama: Not a mandate on government to provide it, it is a mandate on citizens to get it. Uses MA system as a mandated system failing. Clinton: Victim stories. Obama has a mandate on parents to get insurance for their children and a fine. Back to the commander-in-chief question. Is Obama not ready? First lady stuff transformed into "foreign affairs" experience. Not convincing at all. Not answering the question yet. Ah, now its about "presidential leadership". Much more defining than "c-i-c". Kosovo, Pakistan, Cuba - I'm the one - Bush, Bush, Bush. Obama: My number 1 job as prez is to keep America safe and I will do what is necessary to keep America safe. See previous victory speech. Bush, Bush, Bush, end the war in Iraq. He knew a Captain who only had 29 of his platoon in Afghanistan because 15 were sent to Iraq. I'm throwing the BS flag. Captains don't lead platoons and platoons aren't split as they're integral parts of companies (which is what Captains command). Yeah, he knows his military. On to Clinton and her words to Petraeus. Is Iraq better off today than it was before the surge? Ah, surge gave us a "tactical advantage" but hasn't provided the outcome for which it was designed. So she's now talking about withdrawing troops in 60 days. She's simply ignoring any of the governmental progress recently noted. She'd pull 1 to 2 Bdes a month. "Not in the interest of America or the Iraqis to be there. It is up to the Iraqis to decide what type of country they'll have." Obama: "Tactical victory imposed on a huge strategic blunder". Another indication that he's not ready for prime-time as Cdr-in-chief. Again, not much here for Clinton to change the way the primaries are going for her. 9:32 - Q: Earmarks - Obama 91 mil. Refused to say where it went? Big smile then a "no, that's not true, we've disclosed where it went." Launches into his standard "transparency in government" schtick. 342 billion for Clinton. How about it Ms. Fiscal Responsiblity? Oh, well John McCain supports the Bush tax cuts. Bush, Bush, tax cuts, Bush, budget surplus, Bush. Bush, Bush, Bush, outsourcing government, Bush, fiscally irresponsible, Bush. See my economic blueprint. Q: Super Delegates. Clinton: Rules, will sort it out. Unified Democratic party. Obama: Will of the voters be what "ultimately determines who our next nominee will be". Victim stories. Dems can summon a sense of common purpose. Yeah, and a common purse, huh? Q: Leadership. Who's ready? Judgment - what is the moment that tested you the most. Obama: No single moment. Trajectory of my life. Into "single mom" story, mistakes, off course. Most important thing is learning to take responsibility for my own actions, etc. Back into stump speech. Eh. Pretty much dodged the question. Clinton: "I think everyone here knows I've lived through some crisis and challenging moments in my life"! Heh ... well there's that. Now she's into dodging the question as well. Victim stories. Faith. Upbringing. Blessings. Total dodge. Love fest. Oh, man, she's toast. It's almost like she's saying goodbye. It is mercifully over. The expected standing "O". Gotta tell you folks - a fairly standard performance for both with a small spike of excitement. 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The holy martyr Callisthene was born in Ephesus, and her father was the eparch Audactus. She was to marry the emperor Maximian Galerius (305-311), but her father would not consent to the match because the emperor was a pagan. Therefore, Audactus was deprived of his wealth and position, and was exiled to Melitene, Armenia where he was beheaded. Callisthene hid for a time in Nicomedia with a certain woman, and healed the woman’s daughter of an eye ailment. After the death of Maximian, Licinius (311-324) became the last pagan emperor. Callisthene became friendly with his Christian wife Constantia, the daughter of St Constantine (May 21). She told Constantia of all that had happened to her, and she helped Callisthene to regain her father’s wealth and possessions. She did not want these things for herself, but gave everything away to the poor. She also brought her father’s body back to Ephesus and built a church which was dedicated to him. St Callisthene devoted the rest of her life to Christ, and died in Ephesus in the first half of the fourth century.	<urn:uuid:ae445e38-f6ca-44bb-ad02-4dfb4ccb89ad>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://oca.org/saints/lives/2013/10/04/102868-martyr-callisthene-and-her-father-audactus-of-ephesus	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.990604	255	2.46875	2
The beautiful city Lahore had for decades been the heart of the Punjab The beautiful city One fine morning in 1947 with the partition of the country is into Hindu and Muslim states To erase it from the minds of the people something starling, and more beautiful, had to be made. The answer was Chadigarh. The man who could obliterate the past and focus attention on the future was Le Corbusier, the visionary who peeped into the 21st century. A gently rolling plain at the foot of the Corbu, as he had come to be known to the Punjabis, worked with frenzied zeal and the Punjabis matched it with equal enthusiasm. As the sketches left Corbu’s drawing-board the conceptions were transformed into concrete structures with zest. In 20sort years a beautiful city sprang up. Its eat row of hoses, wide tree –lined avenues, the parks and gardens and the walk along the canal gave renewed pride to the Punjabis. At last the ghost of Tags: The Beautiful City Lahore , Decades , Heart Of The Punjab This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.	<urn:uuid:0f979ac4-17a1-4b97-b472-a30fdb425e07>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.groundreport.com/Business/The-beautiful-city-Lahore-had-for-decades-been-the/2947619	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.949068	245	2.65625	3
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple” - Dr. Seuss I though of this quote when I came across an article by Alix Speigel, Old Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills . This article touches on an important topic for all parents, which is the ever growing support on the importance of creative, “old fashioned” play. Please take a moment to read this article along with my post today. Disorders like ADD and ADHD, childhood bipolar disorder, and Anxiety and Depression in children is reported to be at an all time high these days. While there is some controversy that these are over-diagnosed (which itself a topic for another blog post), it’s hard to deny that children today are struggling with issues surrounding poor impulse control, difficulty with emotional regulation, poor attention skills, etc. These are what we call “Executive Functions.” One of the current theories is that children today are not engaging in imaginative play, which researchers are discovering is a key component in developing executive functions. The types of toys available today, along with the electronics (tv, gaming systems, iPads) are what our kids are being exposed to and spending their time doing, rather than playing outside or using their imagination. A majority of people today think these latest and greatest toys and games make our kids smarter, but in fact, studies show just the opposite! For those of you with preteens and teenagers, this information is still relevant. Rather than watching tv or game for 2 hours after school, have your kids journal, read, or build something outside. The possibilities are endless. Changing your expectations of them now, after the bad habits have formed, will be your greatest challenge. Start out slow, maybe requiring reading time for just 15 minutes a day. Suggest some fun activities you can do as a family. Get creative and make it a priority. As a Play Therapist, I am encouraged by this growing research that supports the power of play in a child’s cognitive development. As a parent, I am relieved to know how simple it can be to create an enriched environment for my children to thrive and grow. We don’t have to spend a lot of money or stress that they don’t have the latest toy. Encouraging our children to play creatively with one another is one of the most important things we can do. Give them crayons, blocks, or a box and cheer on their imagination and zest for what the natural environment has to offer, rather than Mattel. Here are some more articles on the topic I think you will find interesting.	<urn:uuid:620d0f46-00e1-406d-8db7-421f43b349ed>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://kimscounselingcorner.com/2012/03/10/bringing-back-old-fashioned-play/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.961172	538	2.8125	3
Gorgeous & gruesome cakes for children : 30 original and fun designs kids will love London : New Holland, c2010. From Cinderella's Glass Slipper to a ghastly Swamp Monster, these cakes are sure to be the hit of any kid's party! Gorgeous & Gruesome Cakes for Children contains 30 fun and original designs that are easy to make and delicious to eat. Beginners will appreciate the comprehensive section on cake-decorating basics, including useful advice on the necessary tools and equipment, while more experienced bakers will find inspiration in the fresh, fascinating creations. With scrumptious cake recipes to get you started, your masterpiece is certain to taste as good as it looks (even if it looks like a gooey Alien Egg!).¬ Wedding cake art and design : a professional approach Toba Garrett ; photography by Lucy Schaeffer ; illustrations by Christine Mathews. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2010. A comprehensive, inspiring guide to the art, craft, and business of wedding cake design Combining inspirational cake designs, step-by-step decorating instruction, and advice on the fundamentals of running a successful cake business in a competitive market, Wedding Cake Art and Design is an invaluable guide for industry professionals and students. Master cake decorator Toba Garrett includes stunning designs for cakes inspired by textiles, seasons, fashion colors, flowers, and much more, and gives decorators the tools to translate their own clients' ideas into creative new designs. #xA0;#xA0;#xA0; " Decorating techniques ranging from simple to advanced are explained in a clear, fully-illustrated, step-by-step format #xA0;#xA0;#xA0; " Sample scenarios included throughout the book show readers how to handle a client consultation and how to create appropriate cakes for every client's budget, theme, and creative needs #xA0;#xA0;#xA0; " Nearly 200 beautiful full-color photographs showcase finished cakes and illustrate key decorating techniques, while full-color illustrations provide insight into the professional decorator's creative process #xA0;#xA0;#xA0; " Author Toba Garrett is one of the country's foremost artists in the field of cake decorating and the founder of the Institute for Culinary Education#x19;s Department of Cake Decorating and Design, where she now serves as master chef#x13;instructor and where she has trained some of the top cake artists in the world A must-have for professional cake decorators, baking and pastry students, and even advanced cake decorating hobbyists, Wedding Cake Art and Design is the only resource a decorator needs to design, plan, and execute picture-perfect wedding cakes for every client, every time. Cake pops : tips, tricks, and recipes for more than 40 irresistible mini treats by Bakerella ; by Angie Dudley. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2010. What's cuter than a cupcake? A cake pop, of course! Wildly popular blogger Bakerella (aka Angie Dudley) has turned cake pops into an international sensation! Cute little cakes on a stick from decorated balls to more ambitious shapes such as baby chicks, ice cream cones, and even cupcakes these adorable creations are the perfect alternative to cake at any party or get-together. Martha Stewart loved the cupcake pops so much she had Bakerella appear on her show to demonstrate making them. Now Angie makes it easy (use boxed cake mix Bakerella does!) and fun to recreate these amazing treats right at home with clear step-by-step instructions and photos of more than 40 featured projects, as well as clever tips for presentation, decorating, dipping, coloring and melting chocolate, and much more. 1000 ideas for decorating cupcakes, cookies & cakes Sandra Salamony & Gina M. Brown. Beverley, Mass. : Quarry Books, c2010. A sugar-coated feast for the eyes and the imagination-this exciting 1,000 collection presents glorious full-color photographs of beautiful, outrageous, and deliciously decorated desserts, from extravagant wedding and birthday cakes to cupcakes and cookies that are miniature works of art. Like all of the books in our 1,000 series, this is not an instructional book, rather, it is a visual showcase designed to provide endless inspiration for anyone who loves decorative baking and entertaining. Guaranteed to spice up birthday parties, anniversaries, and countless holidays, this medley of decoration tips is ideal for dressing up any type of cookie. Guidelines for sprucing up ready-made cookies are included as well as instructions for making fresh batches when needed. Each project is accompanied by accessible explanations, equipment recommendations, and lists for required utensils and ingredients. Providing a handy source for ideas and inspiration, this is a welcome reference for any aspiring bakerís kitchen. Candy construction : how to build edible race cars, castles, and other cool stuff out of store-bought candy! North Adams, Mass. : Storey Pub., c2010. This guide reveals how inexpensive and readily available store-bought candy can be used to build race cars, castles, and other cool stuff kids love. Each project is accompanied by full-color photos and step-by-step instructions. Cake decorating at home : discover the art of cake decorating for fun! Newton Abbot, Devon : David & Charles, 2010. Cake decorating is creative, fun and easy to learn, and this book proves that you shouldn't save your cake decorating ideas just for birthday and weddings! Over 30 designs for cakes, cupcakes, minicakes and cookies allow you to make sweet treats for friends and family all year round; the featured cake decorating techniques suit all skill levels.	<urn:uuid:270fef17-5a06-4fbf-826f-9c89eb57e369>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.slpl.org/slpl/interests/article240117353.asp	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.908583	1,232	1.703125	2
Last year the NHS underspent its budget by £900m, returning much of it to the Treasury. This raises serious questions about stewardship of public funds, at a time when hospitals with PFI-associated deficits, such as Hinchingbrooke, have been franchised out to companies such as Circle, and other PFI hospitals in south London and elsewhere are under "special measures". Before 1990 any hospital overspending would have been managed without recourse to closure, and failing hospitals were unheard of. Failure is a product of successive governments' policies since 1990: Kenneth Clarke's introduction of capital charges and trusts, New Labour's PFI policy, foundation trusts and payment by results, and now Lansley's new funding regime and policies. Given how quick Lansley has been to lay the blame for PFI at Labour's door, the question is why he has been so slow to open up the contracts to show the true cost of PFI. Why is he still sheltering PFI contracts behind claims of commercial confidentiality? The affordability problems caused by the high cost of PFI and debt finance are not new. Under New Labour, the Treasury and Department of Health signed off these PFI contracts, which lock the taxpayer into long-term debt. The chief executives of the trusts and PCTs were required to pass the affordability test set by the Treasury. In other words, they needed to show how the annual debt charge would be met from the operating budgets of hospitals and other services, ie the budget that normally pays for staff and supplies. Since the policy was launched in 1992, report after report over almost two decades has shown how each wave of PFI has been associated with trust mergers, leading to 30% reductions in beds; staff lay-offs; and closures of hospitals, accident and emergency departments and an untold number of community services – all because of lack of affordability. PFI, once trumpeted as the largest hospital-building programme, was in fact the largest NHS hospital and bed closure programme. When waiting lists rose under the last government, it injected new cash into healthcare but diverted the money to the private sector under the wasteful £4bn independent sector treatment centre programme instead of replacing lost capacity in the NHS. Now the needs of private financiers and banks are dictating the shape, size and scale of our health services. In 1990, hospitals paid no charge on their land, buildings and assets; today many PFI hospitals are paying more than 15%. The figure is rising fast. It is a product of ludicrously high fixed interest rates and a measure of "over-indexation", in which unitary charges are increased in line with inflation. At a time when the NHS budget is at best standing still or falling, this inflationary index means credit default or bankruptcy. The debt is toxic. However, the government will not allow hospitals to default on the debt (it would threaten all the other PFI schemes and result in the banks taking legal action). Moreover, PFI is a Treasury policy for the whole of the public sector and it is a policy that the Treasury is exporting abroad. The Treasury and health department signed off all the PFI deals in the full knowledge that affordability had been an issue from the very beginning. The Treasury stuck to the line that there was no alternative. And so, like its predecessor, the government seems to have taken the view that it is better to abolish the NHS – hence the latest wave of trust mergers as, across the country, groups of hospital trusts are brought together into one trust to allow a further wave of closures in the runup to privatisation and franchising out. Although deficits are driving the closures and mergers, the new political consensus is to dress closures, cuts and privatisation up as service redesign. Labour, deeply embarrassed by its role in PFI, has jumped on the bandwagon. This is what the public needs to know and is not being told. First, the high costs of PFI debt charges means that the NHS can only operate anything from a third to half as many services and staff as it would have done had the scheme been funded through conventional procurement. In other words, for every PFI hospital up and running, equity investors and bankers are charging as if for two. Edward Leigh, the chair of a Treasury committee report into PFI, called investor returns the unacceptable face of capitalism. Second, we can still afford to pay for universal healthcare – but only if we stop using NHS funds to prop up banks and equity investors. Third, it is PFI deficits that are driving service closures, not patient demand or an ageing population. Service closures have nothing to do with service redesign. Fourth, the government has now embarked on a new path, bringing in an Act that effectively abolishes the NHS, and which allows hospitals both to enter into more joint ventures with industry and to raise up to half their income from private patients. Two monsters are now unleashed – PFI and Lansley's Health and Social Care Act 2012. • Follow Comment is free on Twitter @commentisfree	<urn:uuid:e2670082-69a1-4d21-afa5-d80320391252>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/29/pfi-crippling-nhs	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.97007	1,030	1.890625	2
Thursday, May 23, 2013 WASHINGTON – The few fishermen who still ply New England's waters for cod, haddock and other groundfish are bracing for a double dose of bad news this week. A groundfishing boat heads toward shore Monday near the Portland Fish Pier. Tighter restrictions may force fishermen to shift to healthier species with larger catch limits. Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer The first arrived Monday when, as anticipated, the U.S. Senate approved a $60 billion Hurricane Sandy disaster relief bill that contained no federal aid for the northeastern groundfishery or several other fisheries that face "economic disasters." The second wave could arrive Wednesday or Thursday if federal regulators, as expected, slash already reduced catch limits by another 70 percent to 80 percent to protect fish populations that scientists now say are much smaller than previously thought. The prospect is fanning tension between fishermen, scientists and regulators who are struggling to rebuild fisheries that are central to New England's history and economy. "In the short term, fishing communities will suffer from the reductions," said Maggie Raymond, executive director of Associated Fishermen of Maine, a trade association of 25 active fishing vessels plus supporting industries. "If the collective goal is to rebuild stocks ... then if we don't start looking at the causes of the problem, we are not going to find a solution." As recently as 1990, an estimated 350 Maine-based vessels, supporting thousands of offshore and onshore jobs, spent at least part of their time hunting groundfish. Those vessels hauled in more than 15 million pounds of Atlantic cod alone that year, and millions more pounds of other bottom-dwelling species, according to statistics from the Maine Department of Marine Resources. Cod and other fish species then plummeted, due in no small part to overfishing. The result was ever-tightening catch limits. By 2011, the 40 to 45 vessels remaining in Maine hauled in just 750,000 pounds of cod. The 5 million total pounds of groundfish landed in Maine that year were valued at roughly $5.7 million, compared with a lobster catch valued at $334.6 million. Last year, the U.S. Department of Commerce designated the northeastern groundfishery an "economic disaster," opening the door for emergency federal funds to help support the industry, research programs or management practices. But Congress has yet to appropriate the money. And any hope of securing funds through the Hurricane Sandy disaster relief bill died in the House after budget hawks stripped unrelated disaster programs from the bill, which passed in the Senate on Monday. A bipartisan group of lawmakers from New England and Alaska -- another state with a certified fishery disaster -- vowed to return with another request or pursue other options. The process could take weeks or months. "It's one thing to get a disaster declaration on paper. It is another thing to be able to provide the relief," said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. "And I certainly intend to push until that relief is provided, not only for the families in Alaska, but for those that have been impacted by fisheries disasters throughout the country." Fishermen are bracing for much starker news from the New England Fishery Management Council later this week. The council's scientific advisory council is proposing an 81 percent cut in the Gulf of Maine cod catch and cuts of 60 percent to 70 percent for other species, based on dire stock assessments. Last week, the Northeast region's top regulator with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, John Bullard, told The Associated Press that the cuts "will have devastating impacts on the fleet, and on families, and on ports," but "reality is here and we have to face it." Vincent Balzano, a fisherman from Saco who serves on the council, said the biggest problem is that no one has figured out why many groundfish species have been slow to recover despite stringent catch limits. The industry will have to adapt by shifting to healthier species with larger catch limits, such as redfish and pollock. But he said there won't be enough fish to support the existing fleet. "When you are looking at an 80 percent reduction (in catch), it would be very difficult to maintain the same number of participants," Balzano said. But if anyone can adapt, it's fishermen, he said. "We have a lot of hard-working, resilient and innovative people," he said. "Bad news is nothing new to us." The cuts will not be felt uniformly throughout the industry. The most austere catch limits will affect near-shore vessels. Species farther out in the Gulf of Maine or on Georges Bank -- reachable only with multi-day trips -- are in better shape. James Odlin, whose Atlantic Trawlers Fishing operates five boats out of Maine and Massachusetts, said his group won't be affected as much as those that fish closer to shore. But Odlin, who recently completed several terms on the New England Fishery Management Council, said he has "very little faith" in the science suggesting that the fish stocks are in dire condition. "I don't know why we should believe the science when three years ago they said the stocks were rebuilding," Odlin said. Ben Martens, manager of the Port Clyde fishing sector and executive director of the Maine Coast Fishermen's Association, said people are upset and worried about how they will fare under the impending cuts. But they know that something must be done. "The stocks aren't there, based on what they are seeing," Martens said. "Right now, they are very concerned about what has happened to the stocks." Washington Bureau Chief Kevin Miller can be contacted at 317-6256 or at: On Twitter: @KevinMillerDC	<urn:uuid:8cb3391c-757e-408f-9970-a3dfe5f1bdf0>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.pressherald.com/news/Crippling-Fishery-Decline.html?pagenum=full	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.960399	1,186	2	2
WELL this is embarrassing. When a press release landed in my inbox a few months back about Oliver-area winery Tinhorn Creek getting certified as "Salmon Safe" I figured that was probably a given, since the winery is in a desert . . . in the Okanagan. Everyone knows salmon are a coastal fish, swimming up rivers, streams and byways here and up the coast. The only way Interior residents could get salmon, I reasoned, was by delivery truck. So I was surprised to find out that the salmon I was eating for dinner last week at Watermark Beach Resort in Osoyoos came from the same sparkling lake that the resort butts up against. It turns out there have always been native salmon species in the Okanagan. They make an incredible 1,000-kilometre journey from the mouth of the Columbia River where it bisects the states of Washington and Oregon, up the Columbia River, into the Okanagan River system. Hydro-electric dams on the Columbia and man-made adjustments to the river channels between the lakes, such as the Penticton Channel, gradually blocked the fish from returning to their spawning grounds. A decade ago, the number of salmon returning were down to a few thousand. Which makes it all the more incredible that this year, approximately 500,000 sockeye salmon are expected in the Okanagan River system. A recent press release from the Vancouver-based Pacific Salmon Foundation gives credit to a dedicated team of eight member communities known as the Okanagan Nation Alliance (ONA) for its work in recent years to restore sockeye abundance to numbers not seen since 1923. Which is why, after tucking into a Truffled Rocket Salad - a decadent arrangement of arugula tossed in a truffle vinaigrette, then garnished with B.C. blue cheese, vanilla poached pear and candied walnuts - I was able to enjoy wild salmon, caught in Osoyoos Lake. Watermark executive chef Jonas Stadtlander gets to work the outdoor barbecue on the resort's patio in the summer months, and it's there that he grills the succulent fish (along with seasonal veggies, corn on the cob and potatoes) then drizzles it in a local berry gastrique. A glass of crisp Gehringer Brothers Dry Riesling from the all-Okanagan wine list made it even better. For Watermark guests who want to do more than enjoy the bounty of the lake from the patio or wine bar, the resort is offering a special Watermark Fishing Excursion package until Aug. 31. Guided by both a sports fisherman, and representative from the ONA, eager fisherman will experience the thrill of witnessing the largest sockeye return in decades whilst learning about the traditions and culture behind these very precious fish. Each guest can legally catch and keep two salmon. Any beyond that are given to ONA to sell at a daily market at the Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre where along with the fish, fresh and organic produce will be available. Proceeds will keep this fishery alive. Rates for the package - which includes one night of accommodation and a four-hour fishing tour for two people - start from $409 based on double occupancy. For more information or for reservations, visit www. watermarkbeachresort.com. As for Tinhorn Creek Vineyards, it turns out that the certification they received from the Pacific Salmon Foundation is a big deal. One of the first wineries to do it, being Salmon Safe means passing a rigorous assessment of their environmental practices. Find out more at salmonsafe.org.	<urn:uuid:3255f55e-2a01-4dd4-9de7-484a4888ae91>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.nsnews.com/driving/Okanagan+sockeye+return/7056461/story.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.950613	758	1.585938	2
Campus Life Division Raymond Jones, Ph.D., Vice President for Campus Life - Career Services - Center for Spirituality and Social Change - Center for Student Leadership - Counseling Services - Dining Services - Health and Wellness Services - Housing and Residence Life - Office of Student Development and Responsibility - Public Safety The Campus Life Division enhances student learning at Notre Dame de Namur University through experiential educational programs and student services. Offices, services, and programs coordinated by the Campus Life Division are listed below. Designed to empower students and alumni to prepare for lifelong career success, Career Services provides individual career counseling, job and internship listings, job search assistance (including resume writing, networking, and interview preparation), and a career resource library. Throughout the academic year, Career Services offers classes that provide students with the opportunity to explore values and interests, assess their skills, develop and execute effective job search strategies, create career portfolios, and integrate classroom instruction with practical experience through internships. Career Services also sponsors numerous events including an Internship Fair, Spring Job Fair, Career Week, Etiquette Lunch, and graduate school practice tests. Center for Spirituality and Social Change The Center for Spirituality and Social Change engages students in a process that supports their spiritual development and illuminates the connection between spirituality and social change. Inspired by the Sisters of Notre Dame, the Center strives to create diverse opportunities for all members of the University community to tend the holy in themselves, each other, and the world. We offer annual retreats, spiritual direction, immersion experiences, and opportunities to participate in liturgy as well as contemplative yoga and spirituality workshops. We also work closely with the Dorothy Stang Center for Social Justice and Community Engagement, offering several collaborative, justice-oriented programs each year. A team of students and staff work together to support this vision. Center for Student Leadership Based on NDNU’s mission of values-based learning, the Center for Student Leadership develops students' talents and potential to be effective leaders in diverse and dynamic communities. The Center for Student Leadership is housed under the Division of Campus Life, and is responsible for advising Student Clubs & Organizations and Student Government (ASNDNU); Leadership Programs; New Student Orientation; Student Activities; Commencement; Family Weekend; and Tabard Inn. Student Clubs and Organizations More than 20 student organizations representing a wide array of interests are active at NDNU. Student organizations are an important part of campus life and allow you to pursue your special interests—both new ones and those you bring to campus. The CSL works with student organizations in planning on-campus meetings, workshops, speakers, cultural programs, service projects, and other special events. Associated Students of Notre Dame de Namur University The Associated Students of Notre Dame de Namur University (ASNDNU) is the official student governing body of the University. All students enrolled at the University are welcome to participate in Senate meetings. ASNDNU’s role is to: - Represent student rights, opinions, and needs - Enhance student growth on all levels: academic, social, cultural, and spiritual - Support the mission of the University - Uphold the rights and responsibilities of the students of Notre Dame de Namur University Through the Senate, students can express their opinions on matters pertaining to their life at the University, be instrumental in making changes, and serve on committees and councils for Academic Affairs, Campus Life, and other governance organizations. The Center for Student Leadership sponsors a number of programs throughout the year to develop and foster NDNU students’ leadership skills. Under general supervision of the Director of CSL and guidance from the Coordinating Team, the Leadership Intern will be responsible for coordinating the planning, publicity, production, and evaluation of CSL programs and events. Leadership and Public Service Minor Through an interdisciplinary curriculum, the Leadership & Public Service Minor will provide each student with the opportunity to develop core knowledge about leadership within the larger context of social action and social change and to demonstrate leadership through written, oral and community-based experiences. The Minor is a collaboration between the Center for Student Leadership and the School of Education & Leadership. Leadership Awards Ceremony Each spring, the CSL hosts a student leadership awards ceremony to publicly recognize the accomplishments of student leaders across campus. Awards of Excellence are given to outstanding students who have shown depth of leadership in the areas of: • The Collaborative Community • The Just Society • The Whole Person The CSL Award of Excellence is awarded to the student who shows depth and breadth of leadership in all three categories. The CSL also awards the Inner Fire Award to a faculty or staff member who has supported, provided, and/or encouraged students to develop or enhance their leadership potential. The Student Leadership Retreat is a weekend program held prior to the start of classes in the fall. The retreat is designed by University professionals to prepare selected and elected student leaders for their duties in the upcoming academic year. The Freshmen Leadership Retreat focuses on team building, diversity, and communication. All activities focus on building community and developing working relationships with their classmates. Living-Learning Community - Emerging Leaders The Emerging Leaders community is co-sponsored with Housing & Residence Life. The community is open to first-year students of all academic majors who are interested in reaching their academic and leadership potential. Students will become effective and ethical leaders through programs that develop and enhance the required skills, values, and commitment needed to be successful leaders. Students from this community will have the unique opportunity to develop skills that will prepare them for roles at NDNU such as Resident Advisor, Programming Board member, orientation leader, club or organization officer, athletic team captain, and/or community activist. New Student Orientation Orientation offers new students and their families a successful transition into NDNU life. A team of student leaders and professional staff provide incoming first year and transfer students with an introduction to academic and personal resources, encourage student involvement, and establish relationships with the campus environment. The Orientation Team members are selected each fall, and train during the spring semester to facilitate the summer orientation sessions. Training consists of enrolling in a 1-unit course, attending the Region II National Orientation Director’s Association regional conference, attending bi-weekly team meetings, and attending a spring retreat. The Orientation Team is responsible for the Week of Welcome (WOW) program for entering first-year students. WOW is a fun-filled social program of daily and evening events all geared towards acclimating new students to the campus and Belmont community. The Programming Board produces student activities and events at NDNU to creating a balance in students’ lives by providing fun, educational, and inspiring co-curricular events. The Programming Board is a student team made up of five Special Event coordinators who are responsible for planning and coordinating a calendar of activities for the NDNU student body. Alumni and Family Weekend This program connects families with all the different people that make up our dedicated and diverse university community. We value the student’s family as the cornerstone for the student’s ongoing success in their academic pursuits and look forward to making families feel as “at home” with our campus and our community. One of our core values is a commitment to build an interactive, interdisciplinary community of learners, and that can only be accomplish with the support of all those involved in the lives of our NDNU undergraduates. Alumni are invited back to reconnect with their classmates and to offer their insights to current students. The primary focus of Counseling Services is to enhance and promote the emotional well-being, personal growth and success of students. Students have an opportunity to discuss problems and decisions with a trained professional. Students explore ways to become more effective in personal relationships, to increase self-understanding and acceptance, to gain support during emotional crises, and to clarify short- and long-range goals. Bon Appetit Catering provides dining services to all students. Students living on campus are required to select a meal plan that fits their lifestyle. Commuter students can purchase a flex account with the Business Office to buy meals at a discounted rate of 8.25%. Health and Wellness Services offers a holistic approach to health education, counseling and support. It provides assessment, nutrition education, stress management, basic care for common health concerns and referrals to local health care providers as appropriate. Health and Wellness Services also coordinates student health insurance coverage. The office assures that all students who are required to have health insurance (see policy below) will be automatically billed and enrolled in the NDNU Insurance program unless a signed completed waiver form, verifying comparable coverage, is submitted to Health and Wellness Services by the deadline (For waiver criteria, deadline and forms visit http://www.ndnu.edu/campus-life/health-wellness/) Mandatory Health Insurance Policy: The following categories of students are required to have health insurance coverage and will automatically be charged and enrolled in the NDNU Insurance Plan: - All students living on campus (undergraduate, full-time or part-time); - All student-athletes; and - All international students (graduate and undergraduate) Students with comparable coverage may waive out of the NDNU Insurance Plan if the signed completed waiver form is submitted to Health & Wellness Services by the noted deadline. Students can review criteria for "comparable coverage" and download waiver form at http://www.ndnu.edu/campus-life/health-wellness/. Undergraduate students who are enrolled in at least six units, and Graduate students enrolled in 3 or more units are eligible to enroll in the NDNU International and Domestic Student Accident & Sickness Insurance Plan. To be insured the student must submit a completed and signed enrollment form to Health & Wellness Services, and have attended classes on campus for 45 days following the date of enrollment. Students can download enrollment form and review Insurance Policy at http://www.ndnu.edu/campus-life/health-wellness/. Housing and Residence Life Housing & Residence Life provides a healthy and safe living and learning community that embraces and promotes all forms of diversity, where students are challenged and supported in their development of values, personal responsibility and integrity through programs, staff engagement and leadership opportunities. The University offers students several different living environments: traditional co-educational facilities that accommodate men and women, apartment complexes accommodating upper-division men and women, and suite-style residences with single rooms. Resident Advisors serve as peer advisors and assist residents in developing their learning skills for community living and in developing competencies needed to live productive and responsible lives in a multicultural world. Within the residence halls, the staff works with students in planning educational, social, and recreational programs and in utilizing the cultural, intellectual, and athletic opportunities of San Francisco and the extended Bay Area. Resident students also have the opportunity to exchange ideas in spontaneous discussions, study groups, and cross-cultural experiences. Resident Directors are professional staff members that live and work on campus. They assist and supervise the Resident Advisors in their mission to develop communities and individuals. Required On-Campus Residence Policy: In the Fall and Spring semesters, any student with freshmen or sophomore standing who is registered full-time (12 or more units) is required to live on-campus. A student may be granted an exemption if he or she submits an exemption form documenting that he or she meets at least one of the criteria listed below: - Age 22 or more as of the prior August 1; or - Lived on-campus at NDNU or another higher education institution for at least four semesters (or equivalent); or - Lives with immediate family within San Mateo, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Alameda, or Contra Costa counties during the entire semester AND has a medical, financial, religious, or other compelling reason for not living on campus. For new students, the basis for class standing will be transferable credits on transcripts submitted to the Office of Admission. For continuing students, the basis for class standing will be academic units reflected on the NDNU transcripts. Any student requesting an exemption must submit an exemption form to HRL for approval. Failure to attain an approved exemption from the HRL will automatically result in the posting of the semester housing and meal plan charges to the student's NDNU account. The Office of Student Development and Responsibility (SDR) promotes and develops student learning, personal responsibility and conflict resolution skills through staff engagement, programs and leadership opportunities. The Office collaborates with other university offices in the development and implementation of student-related policies, procedures, and initiatives based on emerging student development trends. SDR manages the University's student conduct system and its processes. It coordinates the Student Conduct Board, which hears cases of alleged policy violations of the student code of conduct. SDR oversees the publication of the Student Handbook and reinforces "Students' Rights, Freedoms, and Responsibilities". SDR also oversees the Conflict Resolution Center, the Sexual Assault Response Network and an alcohol education program. Public Safety Officers patrol the campus 24/7 providing security and safety services to ensure a safe living, learning, and working environment for the University community. Public Safety oversees the parking management program.	<urn:uuid:c73658a8-cee9-4bda-aeb9-7bf6d60e454f>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.ndnu.edu/academics/catalog/archive/2008-2010/campus_life.aspx	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.940747	2,744	1.648438	2
Air Force certifies ABL program ready for aircraft modifications Released: 15 Dec 1999 WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- The Air Force certified to Congress recently that the airborne laser program is on track and ready for its next major step: the start of extensive modifications on a prototype aircraft. The prototype, which will use a basic Boeing 747-400 freighter airframe, rolled off the assembly line Dec. 13 in Everett, Wash. As a result of this latest approval, the aircraft will fly to Wichita, Kan., in January to begin modifications that will take approximately 18 months. The final aircraft will be a YAL-1A Attack Laser, designed to carry a laser that can destroy missiles from hundreds of miles away. Secretary of the Air Force F. Whitten Peters' certification, in the form of a report to Congress, ended a two-week series of technical and programmatic presentations to senior Air Force and Department of Defense officials at the Pentagon by Col. Mike Booen, program director for the airborne laser. In the report, Peters certified the ABL program continues to meet or exceed every technical and programmatic milestone and remains on-cost and on-schedule. The Air Force certification report detailed the airborne laser's progress in five technical areas identified in an independent assessment team report delivered to Congress in March. Those technical areas include: 1) the North Oscura Peak test program; 2) scintillometry data collection and analysis; 3) the lethality/vulnerability program; 4) the countermeasures test and analysis effort; and 5) reduction and analysis of atmospheric data for fiscal years 1997 and 1998.	<urn:uuid:da9620a9-133f-49ed-b9ce-a3d929b04756>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/news99/n19991214_992236.htm	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.901843	333	1.570313	2
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLOCK-AND-DATA RECOVERY USING A SECONDARY DELAY-LOCKED LOOP BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 5 1. Field of the Invention The present invention generally relates to clock-and-data recovery systems where a periodic clock signal is to be extracted from non-periodic data, and the same clock is then 10 used to sample data with a minimum of errors. 2. Description of the Related Art Phase-locked loop circuits play a critical role in high speed data communications. They are used in clock-anddata recovery circuits, in which clock and data are recovered 15 from a single high-speed serial stream of non-return-to-zero data. Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and SONET/SDH transmission systems are specific examples of systems that typically use phase-locked loop-based clock-and-data recovery circuits. 20 FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a conventional phaselocked loop-based clock-and-data recovery 10, which has a phase detector 12, a loop filter 14, and a voltage-controlled oscillator 16. The phase-locked loop-based clock-and-data recovers circuit 10 is connected to a D-type flip-flop 18. The 25 phase detector 12 receives the clock data stream and the clock signal from the voltage-controlled oscillator 16, and compares the timing difference between the data transition in the data stream and the clock edge from the voltagecontrolled oscillator 16. The phase detector 12 then gener- 30 ates an error voltage to tune the voltage-controlled oscillator frequency. Conventional phase detectors 12 are usually also accompanied by a charge pump (not shown) in modern integrated circuit design. The loop filter 14 between the phase detector 35 12 and the voltage-controlled oscillator 16 rejects high frequency noise that is embedded in the incoming data. The feedback operation shown in FIG. 1 forces the clock edge from the voltage-controlled oscillator to be aligned to the data transition in steady state, and the D-type flip-flop 18 40 samples the data with the recovered clock signal. To reduce the bit-error rate of the communications link, the data should be retimed in such a way that the clock edge that is used to sample data is aligned to the middle of the data bit period. In clock-and-data recovery systems, noise is an overriding 45 design concern. For a phase-locked loop, noise is quantified by measuring the jitter of the phase-locked loop output. For example, for SONET applications, the jitter transfer function is important and is required to have less than a 0.1 dB peaking at 3 dB corner frequency. Jitter peaking should be 50 avoided when a phase-locked loop is used repeatedly, as in a SONET application, since it amplifies jitter at a certain frequency band where peaking occurs in jitter transfer function. The peaking at the 3 dB corner frequency usually happens if the loop dynamic of the phase-locked loop is not 55 well designed, which is one of the reasons that prevent phase-locked loop bandwidth from being widened. Thus, to design a low-jitter phase-locked loop is challenging in many ways due to stringent jitter budgets and loop bandwidth specifications. The phase-locked loop in a clock-and-data 60 recovery circuit provides three functions: (a) it filters out noise in the data channel: (b) it extracts clock information: and (c) it tracks the jitter of the data for better data retiming. Having the data sampled by a single D-type flip-flop, conventional phase-locked-loop based clock-and-data 65 recovery circuits provide instant data retiming with the recovered clock signal. To accommodate high-frequency timing variation of the data edge, the phase-locked loop needs to exhibit an agile response to track the short-term jitter using wide loop bandwidth. However, wide loop bandwidth can limit the noise-filtering from the data channel as the noise bandwidth increases. As the clock is perturbed by unwanted channel noise, the bit-error rate will increase simply due to the clock itself Therefore, there is a fundamental tradeoff in choosing loop bandwidth between the clock extraction and the data retiming. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the foregoing and other problems, drawbacks, and disadvantages of the conventional methods and structures, an object of the present invention is to provide a method and structure in which a clock and data recovery circuit includes a delay-locked-loop adapted to recover data from a data stream and a phase-locked-loop in communication with the delay-locked-loop and adapted to recover a clock signal from the data stream. An object of the present invention is to prevent perturbing the clock by unwanted channel noise. In a first aspect of the present invention, a clock and data recovery circuit includes a delay-locked-loop adapted to recover data from a data stream: and a phase-locked-loop in communication with the delay-locked-loop and adapted to recover a clock signal from the data stream. In a second aspect of the present invention, a method of recovering clock and data signals from a data stream, includes recovering data from said data stream in a delaylocked-loop: receiving said data stream in a phase-lockedloop from said delay-locked loop: and recovering a clock signal from said data stream in said phase-locked-loop. In a third aspect of the present invention, a circuit for recovering clock and data signals from a data stream, includes means for extracting a clock signal from the data stream: and means for extracting data from a data stream, wherein the means for extracting said clock signal and the means for extracting data are independent to optimally allocate bandwidth. In a fourth aspect of the present invention, a circuit for recovering clock and data signals from a data stream, includes means for recovering data from the data stream in a delay-locked-loop: means for receiving the data stream in a phase-locked-loop from the delay-locked loop: and means for recovering a clock signal from the data stream in the phase-locked-loop. With the unique and unobvious aspects of the present invention, a two-part topology performs clock-and-data recovery operations in two steps. The topology employs a delay-locked loop to make the data retiming process independent of a clock signal recovery function, in which the clock signal is extracted from the data channel by a phaselocked loop. The phase-locked loop extracts the clock information from a noisy serial stream of non-return-to-zero data and tracks the long-term jitter, while a delay-locked loop having a wide loop bandwidth performs data synchronization in the phase domain and tracks the short-term jitter. The separation of these functions allows the designer to optimally allocate the loop bandwidth for each function. With the present invention, one can provide a narrow or moderate bandwidth for the phase-locked loop for a clean clock signal and can provide a wide bandwidth for the delay-locked loop for prompt jitter tracking without creating jitter peaking. With the present invention, the jitter peaking can be avoided with wide loop bandwidth since the delay	<urn:uuid:1dbcc739-b101-4e2c-adfd-17fa2d335011>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.google.com/patents?pg=PA6&dq=7389243&id=yVF_AAAAEBAJ&output=text	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.909061	1,502	2.59375	3
In the beginning, people ate meat. The fat came with the meat. The best parts were the fattiest, bone marrow, etc. That where the saturated fats come from. That's what we were meant to eat. Omega 3 is another fat that we are biologically suited for. Omega 3 is the most common fat in the world. It's in grass, algae and most other plants at the bottom of the food chain. It accumulated in animals that eat those green plants. It's not in seeds with minor exceptions. Seed oil is a processed food that is low in both saturated fat an omega 3. Some plants have oil in their flesh like olives, coconuts, nuts and avocados. These don't have to be processed to extract oil, you just press it. It all comes back to "eat real food". Seed oils of any type, are not real foods. So I have another question on this subject...nut oils like peanut, walnut, almond, cashew, etc are ok then? I like olive and avocado, but I despise coconut oil. Tastes too much like coconut, which I hate. I also do not really like butter either (I know its weird, just not a big fan). But I like to top certain foods with like tuna with oils and just wondering what to use. Oh and what about flax seed oils then? Heard good things about it...	<urn:uuid:e0306ea9-e5de-455b-84f0-ec4bd6eba71f>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://exrx.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=5966&view=previous	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.975944	289	2.25	2
A fuel cell converts the chemical energy in hydrogen and oxygen into direct current electrical energy by electrochemical reactions. Fuel cells are devices that convert hydrogen gas directly into low-voltage, direct current electricity. The cell has no moving parts. \|13kW PEM fuel cell (Photo: Ballard Power Systems, Inc.) The process is essentially the reverse of the electrolytic method of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. In the fuel cell, the cathode terminal is positively charged and the anode terminal is negatively charged. These electrodes are separated by a membrane. Hydrogen gas is converted into electrons and protons (positive hydrogen ions) at the anode. The protons pass through the membrane to the cathode, leaving behind negatively charged electrons. This creates a flow of direct current electricity between the terminals when connected with an external circuit. This current can power an electric motor placed in this circuit. The hydrogen ions, electrons, and oxygen combine at the cathode to form water, the only byproduct of the process. The key element in a fuel cell is the ion (proton) exchange membrane. Its purpose is to separate the anode and cathode to prevent mixing of the fuel and oxidant and to provide an ionically conductive pathway for protons. Thus, its required properties are high ionic conductivity (and zero electronic conductivity) under cell operating conditions, long term chemical and mechanical stability at elevated temperatures in oxidizing and reducing environments, good mechanical strength with resistance to swelling, low oxidant and fuel crossover, pinhole free structure, interfacial compatibility with catalyst layers and low cost. \|Honda FCX fuel cell vehicle, December 2002. (Photo: Ballard Power Systems, Inc.)\| Fuel cells have the potential for excellent efficiency and can convert up to 75 percent of the energy in the fuel. When a fuel cell is used in an automobile, the automotive power train must be converted to electricity. Fuel cells may also be used as a stationary power source supplying electricity for a utility company or electricity to individual consumers. In automobiles, there are two major advantages of a fuel cell versus an internal combustion engine. The first is that the fuel cell is approximately twice as fuel-efficient (on a fuel-to-wheel basis). The second advantage is the next generation of automobiles may be electric-powered. Storing electricity for automotive use can only be done the by use of fuel cells. Battery technology cannot meet the weight, volume and range required for today’s automobile. On the negative side, a fuel cell will cost $3,000 to $5,000 per kW compared to $50 per kW for an internal combustion engine. Thus, reducing a fuel cell’s cost is the major R&D challenge. A fuel cell can operate on industrial waste hydrogen, hydrogen from propane, or methane generated at the waste-water treatment plants. Ultimately, hydrogen obtained from renewable resources such as solar, wind, or biomass energy will provide a sustainable and clean source of hydrogen for fuel cell power generation. There are five types of fuel cells available: Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) - A PEMFC fuel cell employs a solid organic polymer polyperfluorsulfonic acid electrolyte membrane and operates at temperatures of 60-100° C. PEMFC applications include electric utilities, portable power, and transportation. Its main advantages are that the solid electrolyte reduces corrosion, operates at low temperatures, and delivers quick start-up. Its disadvantages are that the cell requires expensive catalysts and the cell has high sensitivity to fuel impurities. Alkaline Fuel Cell (AFC) - An AFC employs an aqueous solution of potassium hydroxide soaked in a matrix electrolyte, and operates at temperatures of 90-100°C. AFC applications include military and space, and it is the technology that has been used by NASA for more than 25 years. Its main advantage is that cathode reaction is faster in the alkaline electrolyte, resulting in high performance. Its disadvantage is the requirement for pure hydrogen, requiring expensive CO2 removal from fuel and air streams. \|European fuel cell bus project, June 2002 (Photo: Ballard Power Systems, Inc.) Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell (PAFC) - A PAFC employs a matrix soaked with liquid phosphoric acid. It operates at temperatures of 175-200° C. PAFC applications include electric utility and transportation. Its main advantages are that it has up to 85% efficiency when used in cogeneration of electricity and heat, and it can use impure hydrogen as fuel. Its main disadvantages are that it requires a platinum catalyst, has low current and power, and requires a large size and weight. Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell (MCFC) - An MCFC employs a liquid solution of lithium, sodium, and/or potassium carbonates soaked in a matrix. It operates at 600-1000° C. The main MCFC applications are for electric utilities. Its advantages are its high efficiency, fuel flexibility and its ability to use a variety of catalysts. Its disadvantage is that the high temperature enhances corrosion and breakdown of cell components. Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) - An SOFC employs a solid zirconium oxide to which a small amount of yttria is added. It operates at 600-1000° C. Its main advantages are its high efficiency, fuel flexibility, ability to use a variety of catalysts and reduced corrosion. Its main disadvantage is that the high temperature spurs breakdown of cell components. 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What To Do When You Have Nothing To Blog About There comes a time when you get stuck while writing. I hear many people suggest to step away from the computer in order to reprogram and relax your mind. While this may be true, the matter of the fact is that you will eventually come back to the same place. Stay away from this loop or unproductivity. Pondering for ideas away from your computer does not mean a bird will tweet it into your ears. You need to get the sticky gum off your shoes and keep moving. This article will provide possible ideas that can help you with your writers block. Update Your Pages If you don’t have the urge to write, look elsewhere. Is there a page on your site that you feel could use a little more attention? Maybe it means adding some additional information for your readers/customers to comprehend. Try adding an image, include a video, add humor, make it entertaining, show your true self, and etc. I don’t care how good your about, contact, advertising, private policy, or any other page is. Nothing is ever perfect, therefore it can always use improvement. Check Out Other Blogs in Your Community There is nothing wrong at spying on your competition. With millions of blogs on the web there is an infinite source of content available. Check out what others are blogging about and see if you have something you can offer on the subject to be hosted on your blog. Be sure not to copy and paste their standing, provide a unique point of view related to the topic being discussed. Check the Comments Looking at previous comments that your readers have left is a great place to start. Often at times they might have left questions that you could answer with a blog post. This is a great way to hit two birds with one stone. A; you will be publishing a useful article. B; you just answered a serious question that the curious commenter had. When all else fails look for a funny or thought-provoking video. Don’t be limited to YouTube, there is a whole world of streaming video online that most people have never seen because they have settled for YouTube. Here is a small list of very informative websites that you can gain knowledge from. That way you will learn something, instead of wasting time watching cat videos. Write About How You Started Behind every business is a great story. Whether you might not think so, I think everybody is successful whenever they make a mistake. Now I’m not saying that you make mistakes on the reg and you should discuss them, but……you know what that would be a great article. Sorry for the sidetrack. As I was saying, you should share your behind-the-scenes-story. If you created your own business there was a problem in the industry you were trying to solve. There was something unique that drove you and that still drives you. Let people in on your secret and how you accomplished it. This is a great way to connect with your readers/customers. They will appreciate your wisdom and feel closer to you on a personal level. Look In Your Archives If your blog has been around for at least a year or so, chances are you have written a vast amount or blog posts. Taking a look at your archives might spark the idea to bring back an older post and update it. Or if you’re lazy just repost it. In most cases your readers will think it‘s a brand new post. Everybody knows that an average bounce rate is 80%. With this information in mind people mostly come to the website, read an article, and leave. Sadly we have over 1,000 posts on Inspirationfeed and it‘s very unlikely that most of our readers have read them all. Check Your Email Some readers look for advice and might email you personally to get your point of view on the subject. If the information can be public, you should consider making an article out of it. Most of the time we have similar questions, take for example the FAQ pages that most web apps have. Why is it there? To prevent unneeded emails from flowing into the inbox. Interview Someone You Admire If you don’t have anything unique to say today, find someone who does. Everybody has an idol. With the power of Internet you can reach almost anybody you wish. Every single website* has an email or a contact page. Try reaching your target and ask them if they would like to do an interview. Depending on how busy they are, most of the time they will be willing to. After all, any ind of press is good press. Keep it fast, friendly and informational. Check out our previous articles! - Four Ways to Stand Out as a Trustworthy Blogger - 9 Tips on How to Become a Better Writer - Want To Kick Ass at Guest Blogging? Don’t Be a Salesman. Be a Maven - 5 Changes in Google Panda 3.2 Update - The Truth about Blog Comments Did you enjoy this article? 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Skip to Main Content Multithreading and multi-core processing have been shown to be powerful approaches for boosting a system performance by taking advantage of parallelism in applications. This paper presents a processor design by unifying RISC and multithreading DSP for the sophisticated multimedia applications with advanced standards such as H.264. The proposed design not only minimizes integration costs for embedded multithreading/multi-core design by independent coherent threads, but also reduces the memory bandwidth requirements by one-stop streaming buffer and a very fast data exchange mechanism. With the proposed techniques and appropriate programming model, we can achieve 78% reduction of memory bandwidth and 89% reduction of processing time in H.264 video encoding, compared to traditional single stream micro-processor. Date of Conference: 4-8 June 2007	<urn:uuid:1725d0cc-e05a-4501-8a65-bc1f9989c03f>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=4261265&contentType=Conference+Publications	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.93249	161	1.914063	2
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition - n. A glazed, ring-shaped roll with a tough, chewy texture, made from plain yeast dough that is dropped briefly into nearly boiling water and then baked. - n. A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked. - n. tennis, slang A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero). - n. slang An overly materialistic and excessively groomed young man. GNU Webster's 1913 - n. a glazed leavened doughnut-shaped roll with a hard crust. - n. (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust - From Yiddish בייגל (beygl), ultimately from Old High German bouc, boug- ("ring, bracelet"), from Old High German boug ("ring"), from Proto-Germanic baug- (“ring”) plus Proto-Germanic -il (“noun suffix”); cf. obsolete English bee ("metal ring, bracelet"), Middle English bege, beh, Old English bēag, bēah, Old Frisian bāg, Old Saxon bōg, Middle Low German bōg, Old Norse baugr, all from Proto-Germanic baugaz (“ring”); also compare dialectal Austrian German Beugel, Beigel. (Wiktionary) - Yiddish beygl, from Middle High German böugel, diminutive of bouc, ring, from Old High German boug. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition) “The best place I know to get a bagel is the Bagel Hole in Brooklyn (7th Ave between 12th and 13th Sts), where the bagels are small, dense, moist, and chewy.” “Bagels or other bakery or grocery store: Plain bagel or honey whole-wheat bagel with 1 or 2 Tbsp. low-fat plain or low-fat strawberry cream cheese or whipped smoked salmon cream cheese” “I know what REAL pizza tastes like, and I know that a bagel is much more than a roll with a hole in the middle.” “I would like a cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese on the side.” “: D I love their multigrain bagel and their everything bagel.” “I live a block away from this place, I would like to know who sourced their crack-cocaine, because +$6 for a bagel is utter insanity.” “I had come across a delicious looking, sweet pumpkin bagel recipe over at Have Cake Will Travel a couple months ago and with a small surplus of the main ingredient lying wait in my freezer I made myself a plan.” “As long as the Hollywood "Hebrews" can make a profit ... they're as happy as Mort Zuckerman in bagel heaven!” “Would it spontaniously combust? what if I call my bagel a “bread casserole”, would it be safe then?” “Peggy 6: a one-man moveon. org energizer bunny. funny -- liberals hate monopolies -- except when they grace (monopolize) a blog with their wisdom. like the Mon. morning 20-min bagel meeting that turns into 2 hours of kvetching about everything from a to z.” These user-created lists contain the word ‘bagel’. There are a few short lists of Yiddish words, but none appropriate to the glory of the language, and none that are open. Thought I'd start one, and would love contributions. I'm tagging as I go, an... This is an experiment in public lists--something I've been thinking about for some time. The goal is to create a collection of short, powerful, evocative words. This is an open list. A... Ingredients, variations, folklore, things (and people) to eat it with, etc. Types of bread & breadmaking terms. Mainly I'm looking for plain or savoury breads but I'll accept the sweet-ish ones as long as they are more bread than cake :-) Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old. Looking for tweets for bagel.	<urn:uuid:07b0b3b8-e46c-4ec6-855e-a544a393901f>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.wordnik.com/words/bagel	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.916748	974	2.53125	3
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Anja Niedringhaus / AP, file Zalmai Faizi, a seven-year veteran of the Afghan National Police, last month buried his five-year-old daughter Ennah and 18-year-old son Zalkai after they were murdered by Taliban gunmen. The Taliban were driven from power in Afghanistan 11 years ago this week but remain a threat. NBC News spoke to Afghans who have suffered at their hands and looked at what people believe the country's future will hold after NATO troops withdraw in 2014. KABUL, Afghanistan -- Zalmai Faizi's two children were playing in his police car when the Taliban assassins pulled up on motorcycles. After having a few words with Faizi's son, the gunmen peppered the vehicle leaving the teenager and his five-year-old sister dead. Faizi rushed out of his house to find his kids in a pool of blood. As a police officer in Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni province, the 40-year-old carries out one of the world's most dangerous jobs. He paid an unimaginable price for his convictions. "I have been getting threats since last year by the Taliban, but I decided not to give it any attention," he told NBC News. "I was not the target because I came home 10 minutes before. They had a chat with my son and then they started firing." Faizi believes the Taliban wanted to teach him a lesson and send a message to others: Quit your job or pay a heavy price. He says he ignored the warnings simply because he had no other choice. He needed his monthly salary of $224 and had long-accepted that the job came with some risks. 'My only hope' Like many of his countrymen, Faizi believes in a secure and safe Afghanistan. Without people like him, Afghanistan could fall into chaos or back into the hands of the Taliban and warlords after NATO troops leave. Aref Karimi / AFP - Getty Images More than ten years after the beginning of the war, Afghanistan faces external pressure to reform as well as ongoing internal conflicts. He and his wife and their remaining kids are now in a desperate state, in fear for their own lives and catatonic with grief. "I have lost my young son and daughter who were my only hope and for whom I had great aspirations," he said through tears. Threats from the Taliban are a regular occurrence for all security officials in Afghanistan. The Taliban have sworn to kill anyone who colludes with "evil" Western forces. Faizi's kids were the latest in a long line of victims but such attacks are neither rare nor isolated. Analysts believe such incidents -- as well as insider attacks by Afghan security personnel targeting NATO troops -- are part of a Taliban plan to weaken government forces ahead of a comeback when foreign troops leave. Joint US-Afghan operations are becoming more common, and so are the risks. NBC's Lester Holt reports. In the lead-up to the planned withdrawal in 2014, Taliban strategies have become both smarter and more sinister. Just last month, six Afghan policemen were poisoned by their cook. As they lay unconscious they were shot dead by another colleague. The Taliban's fight for survival has become increasingly dirty, driven by a determination that the group will rise again. Notorious Taliban leader Mullah Omar remains elusive. Rumors of whether he is dead, alive or insane have gone into overdrive but his 10-year absence from the public stage has not lessened his influence. "He remains an important leader and figure for the Taliban, but the Taliban is successful because of middle-level commanders," NBC News terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann said. "It's like a franchise; it's decentralized enough so that the Taliban are going to be around whether or not there is a Mullah Omar." More Afghanistan coverage from NBC News He describes the Taliban today as a patchwork of groups spread across large regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan borders, held together by common religious beliefs, social objectives and an opposition to foreign "occupation." "At this point, they've put their differences aside in order to unite and fight the Western presence," Kohlmann added. Soosan Firooz rhymes about Afghanistan and the many crises its people have faced. In a country where public performance by women is frowned upon, this is no easy feat.Â NBC News' Tazeen Ahmad reports. Just over a decade ago, the world watched in horror as the Taliban blew up Buddhas in Bamiyan province and shot women at close range in a stadium in Kabul. Kohlmann says they have since, publicly at least, moderated and attempted to change their image so they can engage in the world of diplomacy. However, many ordinary people in Afghanistan believe the same medieval attitudes to women and justice are simmering below the surface, along with the Taliban's long-established appetite for unpalatable brutality. Jamieson Lesko / NBC News When they ruled Kabul in the 1990s, the Taliban forced people who were being executed up on to this diving board and pushed them into the empty pool below. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Kabul, where countless cemeteries sprawl across the city with no boundaries, some graves no more than a piece of rock in the ground. Within these cemeteries, lie the bodies of thousands of ordinary Afghans killed by the Taliban. It's a stark reminder of the city's dreadful history. At a hilltop above one graveyard is an Olympic-sized swimming pool. It was once the scene of heinous acts of cruelty when during the 1990s the Taliban forced people to climb to the top diving board and pushed them into the empty pool to meet a terrible death below. Tazeen Ahmad / NBC News Some of the graves in Kabul's cemeteries are no more than a piece of rock in the ground. Today's Taliban now defend their record on human rights. Whether the people of Afghanistan have forgotten is another story. However, a decade is a long time out of power. The Taliban have regrouped, modernized, learned new tricks and taken their battle to many fronts – including the Internet. They use Facebook to gather information and Twitter to spread their propaganda. Every attack is tweeted about immediately with over-inflated claims of how many "invaders" were killed. They've even got an ongoing online spat with ISAF – with each side equally determined to win the war of words. Away from cyberspace, some of the most notorious aspects of Taliban ideology have seeped into everyday life. In recent months, violence against women has increased dramatically. Afghanistan's Independent Human Right Commission on Tuesday said it has registered more than 3,000 cases of violence against women this year. More than 700 cases have been reported in Herat alone. Newlywed beheaded for her refusal to become prostitute Others say the numbers are far higher in more remote regions. Women have been burnt, mutilated, decapitated, had acid thrown in their faces, sold, prostituted, raped and used as currency. Not all of this is because of the Taliban, but women's groups say this increase in violence is part and parcel of the Taliban's legacy. A suicide bomber, disguised as an Afghan police officer, blew himself up outside a mosque in northern Afghanistan, killing 40 people and wounding more than 50. NBC's Tazeen Ahmad reports from Kabul. Despite public declarations to the contrary, the Taliban have not relinquished attempts to derail education for Afghan girls. During the summer, 160 schoolgirls were admitted to hospital in northern Afghanistan after they were poisoned; the police say the Taliban were responsible. Razia Jan, a strong-minded and charismatic Afghan-American, runs a girls school about 30 miles from Kabul called the Zubili Education Center. Remarkably, men in the surrounding seven villages have overcome their initial resistance and have now joined forces to become its biggest protectors. But the threat from the Taliban is never far away. Jan speaks cautiously, conscious of drawing too much unnecessary attention. Karen Wong / Razia's Ray of Hope Foundation Razia Jan's school provides free education to over 350 young girls every day. "There are now millions of girls that go to school but education has been and is going to be hurt by the Taliban," she told NBC News. "They are supposed to be students of religion but they are thugs; they are terrorists." This hasn't stopped Jan. Her school provides free education to more than 350 young girls daily. "It's such a blessing for them to learn something and go back home. The fathers are so proud," she says. Meet Afghanistan's 1st female rapper These small signs of hope and bravery can be found across Afghanistan. Gul Jan, a 55-year-old woman from northwest Afghanistan's Shebarghan city is more courageous than most. Her husband was murdered by the Taliban -- flogged, whipped and beaten for hours until he collapsed in front of their house. Shortly after his death, they forced her out of her home. Determined to survive for her five young children, Gul Jan rebuilt her life and now works as a tailor. That's no mean feat for a single mother in Afghanistan. She does not mince her words about the Taliban. "They are very bad people," she says. "People should go and ask them why they are doing this. This is not our religion." In recent months, there have also been reports of 10 separate anti-Taliban insurgencies occurring in remote regions of Afghanistan. However, analysts say these small steps are not indicative of a wider trend, at least not yet. NBC's Richard Engel examines America's progress after fighting for more than a decade in Afghanistan. Is there any evidence that the American plan to hand over a credible, stable Afghan government will work? But in Kabul, there are other signs of change. The blue burqa, one of the most potent images of Taliban times, is not as ubiquitous as it once was. Women across the capital wander around with full faces of make-up -- heads always draped with a shawl as is customary -- but also the flash of a killer heel beneath a long local robe, or the jangle of bracelets as they shop alone or in pairs. The tradition of a male companion has been long-deemed unnecessary. PhotoBlog: Afghan women learn literacy through mobile phones But as women wander through stores in central Kabul with names like "Life's Good," the shadow of the Taliban is never far away. "For years the Taliban have destroyed Afghanistan. They destroyed lives for girls," Razia Jan added. "But I think they are just cowards hiding in places where nobody can get to them and they come out like a snake and they bite you and then they slither back." She then adds with a smile, "I can imagine an Afghanistan that is someday free of the Taliban. It will take awhile, but I think it's possible." NBC News' Jamieson Lesko contributed to this report. Follow NBC News' Tazeen Ahmad on Twitter. As the security in Afghanistan crumbles, 'Nightly' returns to an orphanage that Brian Williams first visited in 2009 to find girls with big dreams who are focused on getting into college. 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[Florian Amrhein] made use of some old hardware to build his own internet radio in a 1930′s radio case. The original hardware is a tube-amplified radio which he picked up on eBay. There’s tons of room in there once he removed the original electronics and that’s a good thing because he crammed a lot of new parts into the build. The main one being an old laptop he had on hand. It’s got a 10″ screen which is too large for the opening, but that ended up being okay. He coded an interface with C and SDL which give him a visual representation of his favorite online streams. The knob to the right moves the red line when turned and causes the Debian box to change to the new stream using the Music Player Daemon. Two potentiometers control the tuning and volume, and there is also a rotary encoder which is not yet in use. All three are connected to the laptop via an Arduino. Check out the finished product in the video after the break. It sounds quite good thanks to the small automotive speaker and amplifier also crammed into the old case. If you don’t have a laptop lying around to use in a project like this consider a microcontroller and character LCD based system.	<urn:uuid:114b4a9c-65b3-493c-b5d9-480346d1151e>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://hackaday.com/2012/11/28/internet-radio-occupies-an-80-year-old-radio-case/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=0df65f7478	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.963082	265	2.28125	2
PMI in Uganda To address the alarming rates of malaria mortality in internally-displaced person (IDP) camps in northern Uganda, the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) distributed 260,000 free Long-Lasting Insecticide Nets (LLINs) to children and pregnant women. In addition, the PMI procured 166,000 insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) which are now being distributed in Uganda and the PMI is also helping private net producers expand their markets to those who can afford to pay, reaching another half million households. In September 2006, the PMI supported the launch of a 27 district net retreatment campaign titled, "Double Your Protection Against Malaria, Get Your Net Retreated." The campaign aims to retreat 600,000 ITNs over a period of one month. The photos below chronicle two activities: the distribution of ITNs in IDP camps, and the net retreatment campaign event in Nabwigulu sub-county, Kamuli district, located in eastern Uganda. Click here to enter the gallery or on the thumbnails below to see more. Insecticide-treated Mosquito Net (ITNs) Distribution PMI Net Retreatment Launch	<urn:uuid:72a317f6-540a-4283-831a-0586960627df>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.pmi.gov/news/photo_galleries/uganda/index.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.916126	251	1.875	2
VIENNA (AP) -- Diplomats say Iran has started changing some nuclear material that could be used for weapons into another form but in amounts too small to reduce concerns about its atomic program. They say it is changing small amounts of 20-percent uranium into reactor fuel. That 20 percent material is only a technical step away from weapons-grade uranium. Tehran last year converted close to 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of 20-percent uranium into reactor fuel before stopping. The diplomats said Monday conversion had restarted but remains vastly outpaced by 20-percent production. Experts estimate that Iran could have enough 20-percent uranium for one bomb by summer if further enriched. The diplomats are close to the International Atomic Energy Agency. They demanded anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the issue. Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.	<urn:uuid:8c17a008-72e3-480d-9dad-a2e26bab4b71>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.wtop.com/236/3222607/Diplomats-Iran-restarts-uranium-fuel-conversion	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.909326	187	2.546875	3
View Full Version : Discussion: Melt Through the Ice to Find Life 2005-Jul-19, 06:23 PM SUMMARY: Scientists can tell us what our climate on Earth was like in past by examining ice cores taken from glaciers. Tiny bubbles of air are trapped in the ice and maintain a historical record of ancient atmospheres. The effects of life make their mark in these ice samples as well. What if you examined the icecaps on Mars, or the layers of ice on Europa? NASA is considering a proposal for a small spacecraft that would land on Mars or Europa and melt its way throught the ice, collecting data as it descended, searching for clues about the presence of life. View full article (http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/dig_through_ice_life.html) What do you think about this story? Post your comments below. 2005-Jul-19, 07:41 PM They stole my idea! I tell you true, I thought about the concept some years ago when there was some hype about Europa. Granted, these guys have the details figured out much better that I do (directional manoeuvering, radiation sheilding, etc), but I still think I deserve royalties. Suffice to say, I think this is a pretty neat idea. 2005-Jul-20, 11:02 AM I think a mission to Europa should be at the top of Nasa's list. I'd love to see whats lurking down there in that ocean. Probably not fish as this article suggests... but perhaps bacteria, or even small single and multi celled organisms, algae or something we simply hanvt seen yet. 2005-Jul-20, 12:18 PM Yes! This is what I think is exciting. These missions just take sooo looong from beginning to landing. Of course, I'm still waiting to see if there is anything in Lake Vostok right here on Earth. 2005-Jul-20, 01:55 PM Just remember 2001 by Mr Clarke, if he gets the next bit right we will have a small and distant sun soon lol :lol: :D :P 2005-Jul-20, 02:11 PM Originally posted by mark mclellan@Jul 20 2005, 01:55 PM Just remember 2001 by Mr Clarke I don't recall which book the Europa thing was in. I think it was in "2010", but it might have been in "2061". There could be life on Europa. That might be one explanation for the cracks in the ice being brown. Or, they could simply be colored by sulfur compounds dredged up into the ice covered ocean by volcanic action. It will be interesting to find out. 2005-Jul-20, 06:24 PM Or, they could simply be colored by sulfur compounds dredged up into the ice covered ocean by volcanic action. Personally, I think this is the more likely explanation. To me this would be a VERY exciting finding, given what we have discovered around volcanic vents in the deep oceans of Earth. Either way, I too would love to see a mission get a "go". Powered by vBulletin® Version 4.2.0 Copyright © 2013 vBulletin Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved.	<urn:uuid:d44eee14-eaf6-4cd4-850f-14e3b3282f9d>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://cosmoquest.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-28492.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.953349	691	3.046875	3
Let's face it; addiction treatment has not been very successful. But there is a clear reason for this: we haven't understood how it works. Once you do understand it, though, there are some critical steps you can take to break it. In my new book, Breaking Addiction: A 7-Step Handbook for Ending Any Addiction (HarperCollins, 2011), I describe those steps. As previous readers of this blog know, true addiction (versus simple physical dependence) is neither more nor less than an emotional solution to manage feelings of intolerable helplessness. When people feel utterly trapped they have to do something, and if they feel they can't act directly to get out of the trap then they have to do something else. The "something else" is a substitute action or displacement. It is this displaced action that we call an addiction. For example, Ron was sitting at his desk at 1 o'clock in the afternoon when a pile of new work was dumped on his desk. He already felt overwhelmed with all he had to do, and he'd promised his children that he'd come home and help them build a fort that evening. On top of that, he'd told his wife that tonight, for a change, he would come home early. He was trapped. But Ron suffered with alcoholism, so at that moment when he felt helpless in the face of the work that was piled high on his desk, he decided that he was going to have a drink when he got out of work. Significantly, as soon as he made this decision he felt less pressured. He could and would do something that he knew would make him feel better. He had reversed his helplessness. And his solution, drinking, was driven by the furious intensity that anyone feels when utterly trapped. However, his decision to drink was not a direct response to the actual work problem. He didn't go to complain to his boss, or determine that he would do a less thorough job with his new tasks. His drinking (or even just his decision to drink) was a substitute activity driven by all the intensity of a person trapped in a cave-in. We have a name for such intensely driven substitute actions: "addictions." Once you understand this is how addictions work, then there are steps you can take to combat the process. First, notice that the beginning of Ron's path toward drinking was hours before he actually drank, when he first thought about having a drink. I call this the "key moment" in addiction, and it is crucial to be able to identify it. Sometimes doing this is pretty easy, as in Ron's case. But the key moment can be harder to spot, because of your own defenses. For example, in another case in the book I describe a woman who became confused just when she felt most overwhelmed. This made it impossible for her to recognize when she felt anxious and despondent, just the moments that always led to her addictive behavior. Recognizing your defensive style is another of the steps in my book. But what can you do when the addictive urge is upon you? The basic idea is fairly simple and I describe it in the book in Step 6, "Short-term Strategies for Dealing with Addiction." If addictions are just displaced actions -- substitutes for doing something to directly deal with the trap -- then it is only necessary to undo this substitution and take a more direct action. For instance, a woman with food addiction regularly went home and binged on junk food when she felt left out and unimportant, such as often happened to her in social settings. After she learned how her addiction worked, she was able to manage the next meeting of her pottery group very differently. She didn't have to do anything extraordinary; she just spoke up a bit about her concerns as a new member of the group, and when she got home she didn't need to eat. She had learned what made her addiction go and addressed it directly. Another woman (whom I have described previously) felt she had to comply with her husband's demands to create a dinner for many guests on short notice. Usually, she meekly accepted these demands, and then took her Percodans. But when she was able to come up with a more direct solution ("I know I should have just told him to make his own damn dinner, but at least I figured out another way out"), and ordered take-out Chinese food, her addictive urge vanished! There was no magic here. She had just taken a more direct action to deal with her helplessness trap, so she didn't need her addictive act. Sometimes, though, finding the more direct action is more complicated, such as when there is no clear action that will solve the problem. In the book I describe a man whose urge to use heroin became nearly overwhelming when he realized that his girlfriend was going to break up with him. Here, there was no clear direct action he could take to reverse the helplessness he felt. He needed to think about his helplessness trap in a different way: from the standpoint of what this loss meant to him, rather than just the loss of his girlfriend. I describe how to go about refocusing on your feelings, rather than only the external reality, in Chapter 6. Step 7 in Breaking Addiction describes long-term strategies. These involve not just knowing how to identify the key moment on the path to addiction and how to manage the urges when they occur, but how to anticipate when they will occur and thereby avoid even having to reach the stage of intense feelings. When you have reached that point, the addiction is broken. There has been a great deal of pessimism about breaking addiction. But we are embarking on a new era in understanding and treating this very common problem. 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- THE MAGAZINE A manufacturer of engineered refractory products needed to improve quality, save time and alleviate potential health risks in its operations. The company combines seven different ingredients in a mixer to make refractories for the steel industry, and the operation required several employees to hand weigh the ingredients. The labor-intensive process repeatedly exposed employees to potentially dangerous materials and was time consuming, requiring 15 to 20 minutes to assemble each batch. Five of the refractory ingredients were delivered in bulk and stored outdoors in large hoppers. This material was dispensed from each hopper, hand weighed and placed on a conveyor for transport to the mixer. The other two ingredients came in 50-lb bulk bags. Each bag had to be cut open, and then the proper amount was hand weighed and dumped directly into the mixer. These manual material handling methods provided many opportunities for errors. To improve the process, the company turned to engineers at Bulk Equipment Systems Technology, Inc. (B.E.S.T., Inc.), who developed a creative solution. One common challenge and a driving factor when retrofitting a plant is to design a system that will fit into the available space. When practical, it is best to streamline a plant's operations by integrating new systems with the current equipment in the existing space. The challenge in this case was to design a batching system that would fit the existing space, alleviate employee exposure to chemicals, automate the weighing process, convey the materials to the mixer, guarantee product quality and provide historical batch data. Finding a SolutionTo meet those goals, B.E.S.T. Inc. engineers reconfigured the outlets from the five existing storage bins to transport the product into the plant. Newly installed screw conveyors transport product into a five-ingredient net weigh hopper, while two loss-of-weight bulk bag unloading stations simultaneously feed the desired amount of material. Both the net weigh hopper and the loss-of-weight unloading stations feed material onto a collection conveyor for transport to the existing mixer. A typical batch consists of 500 lbs from the loss-of-weight unloading stations and 1200 lbs in the net weigh hopper, with an accuracy of ñ0.2%. All seven materials are transported to the mixer on a flexible-walled belt conveyor. The new automated system enables the company to create a complete batch every three to five minutes. When the mixer is ready to make another batch, the system's automatic controller repeats the process. The refractory manufacturer significantly reduced employee exposure to the materials and has experienced a 75 to 80% decrease in processing time. Additionally, the B.E.S.T. automated control system's data logging capabilities enable the company to track current operations and review historical data. The company is now able to meet the demand for its products more economically, efficiently and safely. For more information about automated batching systems, contact B.E.S.T., Inc. at 1071 Industrial Parkway North, Brunswick, OH 44212; (800) 827-9237; e-mail firstname.lastname@example.org.	<urn:uuid:88a4578e-4c6d-458e-be15-64bd3c9f1425>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.ceramicindustry.com/articles/a-i-ci-i-online-exclusive-case-study-improved-batching	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.923728	642	1.992188	2
Conditions of Use I some what like school but it is alot more fun with friends.First,having friends at school is always nice and it is great to tell them about your first class and how you failed the math test. Second,the teachers are here to cheer you up when you are having a bad morning. Also, they make the end of your day happy so when you go home you are excited to see your family and tell them about your great day.Last,when you are at school it is a way to escape and learn instead of being at home being locked up in your house sitting on the couch and watching t.v. School is more educational then the t.v. So school is a good thing even when it is some what boring. Article posted August 25, 2011 at 03:14 PM • comment (2) • Reads 128 Return to Blog List Add a Comment I want to hang out day with my friends like you rather than going to SCHOOL! Comment Posted on September 13, 2011 at 03:45 PM by I like friends too!!! Comment Posted on September 13, 2011 at 03:40 PM by	<urn:uuid:387f219a-f299-4b5c-9fe6-40e015838502>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=1356511&mode=comment&user_id=&blogger_id=	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.961272	239	1.757813	2
Thanks to everyone who took the time to respond to last week's challenge. About 85 percent of you did not correctly identify the offending variable in the case study. Seventy percent thought it was one of the many variables they noticed between Test A and Test B. Here's a list of all the variables visible on the page: Remember, the goal was to bring the conversion rate back to where it was before the "improvements" started. When nine variables change at once, how can you determine which were effective? Only one? A combination? Did some of changes improve the conversion rate, only to be overwhelmed by others that made a negative impact? This is hardly a systematic method to measure, test and optimize. The bigger question is, how do you get the conversion rate back over 4.6 percent -- fast? Should time be spent testing each of the nine variables? That would work -- if we had nine weeks. Should they watch users and hope they articulate what hampered their motivation to buy? Users are rarely this insightful. This is when customer psychology insight and experience pay off. The following test increased the conversion rate back to 4.9 percent. The offending variable was Number 6, the "Enter Coupon Code" field on Test A. One of last week's respondents, Jill Whalen, got it right. As she expressed, "When I've seen these on sites, I wonder how I can get that discount too. I don't like having to pay full price knowing there's some way for me to get a discount I don't know about." Couldn't have said it better myself. Don't jump to the conclusion couponing on a site is a bad thing. It depends what sort of site you have and what business you're in. On this site, this one small change accounted for a 1,000 percent increase in volume. There are thousands of such variables on your site. Some have a major impact; some are only incremental. Ones that work for your widget business may not work for your brother's whatzit business. This applies whether your site targets consumers (B2C) or businesses (B2B). Identify these variables. Systematically measure, test and optimize. Have a system in place to categorize and account for each test and its result. Sometimes, a change will move your conversion rate only a bit. That doesn't mean your choice of variable had no impact. It could mean your choice of solution had no impact. Test, test, test! To approach this methodically, have someone around whose sole responsibility is conversion. According to a Wall Street Journal special report, only 53 percent of online retailers use conversion rate to gauge the success of their sites. With so much of the bottom line dependent on the conversion rate, it's amazing less than half of online companies take the time and effort to measure it. It's the exception, not the rule, to devote trained personnel to the task. Dell Computer Corp. is one of those exceptions. Sam Decker, senior manager of Dell's Consumer eBusiness (you may remember I mentioned him last week), created such a role, appointing a point person for a product line's success on the Web. Sam spoke last year at the eTail conference. "The Web producer is the champion for metrics like conversion rates, and the hub for cross-functional projects to improve that measure," he said. "That person coordinates metric analysis, content developers and product marketers. The idea of giving someone ownership of that measure is powerful." InterVideo's Ron Mayer elaborates: "It's interesting how a few words changed or a few sentences moved can make a big difference on what products people look at and choose on a Web site. Unless that messaging is in control of the people with sales responsibility, it's all too easy to have messaging that focuses people's attention away from whatever you want them to buy. "It's amazing to me how many times you'll get marketing groups responsible for attracting unique users to a Web site; corporate communication people writing copy for the Web site; and an e-commerce store that's put up as an afterthought." For over two years, I've been asking readers if they knew any companies with one person directly responsible for the sales effectiveness of the company Web site. Obviously, Dell is one and this is part of their winning formula. Does your company have that employee yet? Know your Ambiguous Customer: Effective Multi-Channel Tracking Wednesday, June 5 at 1pm ET - Learn why a move from the "batch and blast" email approach enables better conversations with your customers. Register today - don't miss this free webinar! Bryan Eisenberg is coauthor of the Wall Street Journal, Amazon, BusinessWeek, and New York Times bestselling books "Call to Action," "Waiting For Your Cat to Bark?," and "Always Be Testing." Bryan is a professional marketing speaker and has keynoted conferences globally such as SES, Shop.org, Direct Marketing Association, MarketingSherpa, Econsultancy, Webcom, SEM Konferansen Norway, the Canadian Marketing Association, and others. In 2010, Bryan was named a winner of the Direct Marketing Educational Foundation's Rising Stars Awards, which recognizes the most talented professionals 40 years of age or younger in the field of direct/interactive marketing. He is also cofounder and chairman emeritus of the Web Analytics Association. Bryan serves as an advisory board member of SES Conference & Expo, the eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit, and several venture capital backed companies. He works with his coauthor and brother Jeffrey Eisenberg. You can find them at BryanEisenberg.com. 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Jewish World Review April 10, 2012/ 18 Nissan, 5772 My Father's 1959 Tax Return By Tom Purcell http://www.JewishWorldReview.com \| I stumbled upon my father's 1959 income tax return a few years ago. Oh, how I long for the simplicity he enjoyed when he filed that year's taxes. For 1959, my father paid a measly 5 percent in federal taxes, even though his name wasn't Rockefeller. How did he do it? It was easy. For a year when the top income tax rate was 91 percent -- President Kennedy would slash rates a few years later -- deductions were many. Even middle-class people like my dad enjoyed their fair share of perks. He was a heavy smoker then -- who wasn't? -- and was able to deduct every penny he paid in cigarette taxes. He was able to deduct every penny he paid in gasoline taxes. If we had such a perk now, the federal government would go broke (that is, more broke than it is now). And he was able to deduct every penny he paid in state sales tax in Pennsylvania, another wonderful perk that would save the average Pennsylvanian a boatload in federal taxes every year. He took a $600 tax deduction for each of his two dependents, my sisters Kathy and Krissy -- a lot of dough relative to his income. For 2011, the deduction for each dependent is $3,750. On paper that is six times what my father got in 1959 -- but if properly adjusted for inflation it would be about $5,000 today. Here's one that grabbed my attention: In 1959, he paid only 2.5 percent of his income toward FICA (then, Social Security; now, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid). Now, aside from a temporary 2-percentage-point FICA tax break, the average employee pays 7.65 percent and his or her employer kicks in another 7.65 percent. I, being self-employed, have the pleasure of paying the full 15.3 percent myself. Despite the 2-percentage-point break for 2011, I will write out a sizable check to bring current the more than $12,000 in FICA contributions I am on the hook for. In any event, my father had his fair share of simple deductions in 1959, which helped offset his federal taxes. That helped him keep his total federal tax tab at a measly 5 percent. Better yet, his tax form was one sheet of paper printed on both sides. He had no calculator, nor did he need one. He did a test run in pencil on one copy of the form, then finalized a second in ink and mailed it in; he always got a refund. Which is why I long for the simplicity he enjoyed back then. In 1959, the federal tax code was about 15,000 pages. Today, it is more than 70,000 pages. Unlike my father, who was able to calculate his taxes quickly, I spend days getting mine in order, so I can hand them off to my CPA, so he can tell me I owe lots more than I feared I would. This year, after all my deductions for business and pain and suffering -- including the agitations of three rental properties and thousands of dollars invested in a big renovation project -- I will pay about 25 percent of my gross income in federal, state and local taxes. I consider myself lucky. Still, as April 17 approaches (April 15's on a Sunday this year), I look back fondly on 1959. I didn't pay a dime in taxes that year. I didn't waste a moment getting hundreds of receipts in order and panicking when my CPA told me what I owed. I wasn't born until 1962. Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in the media and Washington consider "must-reading". Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here. © 2012, Tom Purcell	<urn:uuid:120c3582-68d5-43d3-9698-ed095c6ff463>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0412/purcell041012.php3	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.978575	827	1.640625	2
Every year the President has to reauthorize an Executive Order that keeps a ban on financial transactions and new investments in Burma. Today President Obama reauthorized the Executive Order; however, later in the afternoon Secretary Clinton, standing alongside the Burmese Foreign Minister, announced that there would be a waiver added to this Executive Order. Now the only investments and financial transactions banned are those directly linked with the Burmese military. This is incredibly worrisome as there are no controls in place to make sure new investments respect human rights and engage in socially, economically, and environmentally just practices. Burma’s business sector is one of the most corrupt in the world and is tightly linked with top military figures. The sanctions remaining in place are the arms embargo and import ban. See our press release below: United States Government Ignores the Cries of Burma’s Oppressed Ethnic Nationalities, Rewards Burmese Regime with U.S. Dollars and Investment Note: Statement of Extraordinary Meeting of the United Nationalities Federal Council, dated May 10, 2012, is attached. click here (Washington DC May 17, 2012) Today the U.S. Campaign for Burma (USCB) expresses its concern over the US Administration’s announcement that the U.S. is lifting the financial transactions and investment ban on Burma through a presidential waiver. Lifting these major economic measures, just one week after the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), the alliance of nearly all ethnic resistance groups that have engaged in negotiations with the Burmese government to end the world’s longest civil war and reach a peaceful political settlement, called on foreign governments “to oppose and pressure Bamah Tatmadaw (The Burmese military) for its wrong actions. Accordingly, we would like to request the international community not to suspend or lift the remaining political, military, financial and economic sanctions” is effectively undermining their pursuit for an end to the Burmese military’s human rights abuses and genuine national reconciliation. While the international community has focused all of its attention on the nominally reversible changes made by President Thein Sein, such as Burma’s democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi taking a seat in Parliament, the reality is the Burmese military’s escalating assault against the Kachin ethnic minority in Northern Burma continues unabated and unnoticed. Their brutal military offensive has resulted in nearly one hundred thousand refugees who are hiding in makeshift shelters under heavy rain susceptible to severe infectious diseases. On May 1st, several Kachin women and girls of Chyi Chya Village, Pangwa Township in Kachin State, were gang-raped by Burmese Army soldiers. The soldiers gathered all women and girls into a house belonging to a regime’s militia and took turns raping them. This is not an isolated incident but one egregious case among many that are ongoing. The UNFC goes on to further state “the objective of Bamah Tatmadaw’s offensives in Northern Shan State and Kachin State with excessive military force is to protect foreign investments’ mega business projects.” President Obama’s and Secretary Clinton’s symbolic exclusion of investment with the military will not prevent the military from continuing to attack and assault ethnic villagers in the name of providing security for foreign investment projects that are eager to exploit the country’s vast natural resources located in ethnic areas. Further the absence of ‘binding’ or ‘required’ pre-conditions in favor of ‘encouraging’ transparency will not prevent human rights abuses from occurring as a result of foreign investment. The ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus released a statement today warning of the harmful effects of lifting the investment ban, “As everyone with any knowledge on Myanmar will attest, the changes we have seen to date are far from irreversible. It is ludicrous to reward the current government’s untested reforms by paving the way for a gold rush. Fighting in Myanmar’s ethnic areas continues and many of the ethnic leaders are concerned that these reforms are just a ploy to pave the way for ‘development’ projects on their lands,” said Kraisak Choonhavan, AIPMC Vice President and Deputy Leader of the Thai Democratic Party former Thai Senator. The suspension of sanctions on Burma delegitimizes ethnic nationalities demands for a cessation of hostilities in Kachin state, and prematurely rewards the Burmese regime while the military undertakes a clear escalation of violence. The absence of sanctions both condones the violence and removes the motivation for the government to engage in further and serious negotiations with ethnic groups. The removal of sanctions condones the violence, exacerbates the conflict, destabilizes the negotiations, and sets back the peace process. Aung Din, Executive Director of USCB, said “the United States will be responsible for generously rewarding the regime if the war in Kachin State and human rights abuses in ethnic areas do not end, hundreds of remaining political prisoners are not released, and political settlements between the regime and ethnic resistance groups are not realized.” # # #	<urn:uuid:55b471b8-d40c-4122-a9f6-4478b870df27>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://uscampaignforburma.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/dangerous-optimism/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.944661	1,059	2.140625	2
Diesel exhaust is carcinogenic in human lungs, according to a scientific working group of the World Health Organization after a week-long meeting to review the evidence. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) panel of experts unanimously agreed that there is now sufficient evidence to classify diesel exhaust as a group one human carcinogen, according to Christopher Portier, PhD, chairman of the working group. "Diesel exhaust is a cause of lung cancer in human beings," Portier, director of the CDC's National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, told reporters in a telephone media briefing. There is also more limited evidence that diesel exhaust may cause bladder cancer, said Portier. The classification is a change -- in 1989, IARC said diesel exhaust was "probably" a human carcinogen. Re-evaluating the status of diesel exhaust has been a priority for the agency since 1998. The week-long meeting also looked at the cancer risk of gasoline exhaust fumes and agreed they remain a group 2B substance that "possibly" causes cancer in humans. Although the working group said there is solid evidence that diesel exhaust can cause cancer, it's less clear what level of exposure is needed to increase the risk of disease. Much of the evidence reviewed by the group focused on people with occupational exposure to diesel exhaust, according to Kurt Straif, PhD, of the IARC -- underground miners, bus drivers, and railway workers, for instance. For those people, he said, the evidence suggests a marked increase in risk -- two- to three-fold for miners, for instance. Evidence is more limited for people with non-occupational exposure, Straif said, but the finding of the working group "really extends to all exposures, including exposure of the general population through traffic exhaust." On the other hand, he said, for most carcinogens risk is associated with dose. "When there is high exposure, the risk is higher and when the exposure is lower the risk is low," he said. The evidence clearly suggests that diesel exhaust is a public health issue, commented Christopher Wild, PhD, the director of IARC. But what regulatory agencies do with the findings is up to them, he said. "Our role has been to summarize the scientific evidence and put it into the public domain, so that governments can make decisions," he said. But, he added, "It's really up to national and international regulatory agencies to weigh that [evidence] in the balance." A summary of the working group's findings is expected to be published online in The Lancet Oncology on June 15.	<urn:uuid:937c7c97-2db9-4dd1-b965-65e0121de6d3>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.medpagetoday.com/HematologyOncology/OtherCancers/33226	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.959371	540	3.078125	3
You are currently browsing the tag archive for the ‘John Bell Hood’ tag. Historian and author Eric Jacobson describes John Bell Hood’s frontal assault at Franklin in it’s historical context for the Civil War and at Franklin. I have recently updated the Google Map of the Battle of Franklin (easy reference: www.FranklinBattlefield.com). If you have learned hot to navigate using the Google Map tools (or are learning) I’m sure you have already found that Google Maps is a hidden treasure. I have spent hours upon hours working on the Google Map of the Battle of Franklin over the past few years. It is always a work in progress and is constantly being upgraded and improved based on feedback I get from readers and the more I learn. There are many new features and enhancements awaiting the diligent map-student. Click on any object to see what hidden features lie buried underneath. I’ve even added the location marker and info on the unknown soldier’s remains discovered in May. From the Google Map of the Battle of Franklin you can: - see how the troops deployed before clashing around the Carter House. - watch embedded videos from expert historians describing the action from key points on the battlefield. - see historic pictures of homes and property pertinent to the battle - read contemporary accounts of soldiers, civilians and the newspapers - zoom in/out to find out more info on brigades and regiments - see pictures of actual soldiers who fought and died - really get a better scope of the battle as you experience an interactive layout of the battlefield Carnton is set to host the largest John Bell Hood exhibit in history! Carnton has gathered a variety of artifacts that once belonged to Hood.These items including his coat, hat, saddle, sword, and writing kitwill be on display at Carnton in the new Fleming Center. The exhibit entitled “Hood’s Legacy” willshowcase the items on loan to Carnton and provide information about the General’s life. Carnton Plantation will explore the man and his complete story, as well as his legacy. Well known in Middle Tennessee for the disastrous frontal assault of the earthworks at Franklin, Hood has a long and prestigious military career. He graduated West Point class of 1853, and fought Indians in the southwestern United States prior to the Civil War. When the Civil War started in 1861, Hood resigned his position in the U.S. military and joined the Confederate cause. Hood served in the Army of Northern Virginia and fought under General Robert E. Lee. By the summer of 1864, Hood had been elevated to command of the Army of Tennessee. While the results of the Tennessee campaign in the fall of 1864 were devastating, Hood never wavered. His reputation as a brave and daring commander held true. Accompanying this exhibit will be a panel discussion about Hood. This discussion will be held in two sessions both beginning at 6 pm: Friday, November 6 and Saturday November 7. Topics to be covered include the early life, military career, Tennessee Campaign, and legacy of General Hood. Please join us for both the exhibit and the discussion about this controversial figure in Civil War history. Where: Carnton Plantation, 1345 Carnton Lane, Franklin Admission: $12, $10 for ages over 65, $5 for ages 6-12, free for ages 4 and younger Info: www.carnton.org, 794-0903 And check out my recent interview with the Carnton collections manager about the Hood exhibit. - Hood’s uniform seen here on display at the Museum of the Confederacy According to historian Eric Jacobson, the Army of Tennessee had 28,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry when it arrived in middle Tennessee in late 1864. Hood took over the Army of Tennessee in July from Johnston. There were 8,000 Federals garrisoned at Nashville at the time. Hood would lose at least 7,500 at Franklin (30 Nov 1864) and another 6,600 at Nashville, two weeks later. When the Army of Tennessee retreated back to Pulaski in mid December 1864, the army was reduced to but a shadow of its former self. Confederate General, John Bell Hood Hood was the fifth commander of the Army of Tennessee. He commanded the army from July 17, 1864, until January 15, 1865. Many historians say his recklessness destroyed the Army of Tennessee. In just six months (July 1864 – December 1864) Hood lost at least 30,000 men* at a time when the Confederate army, and especially the Army of Tennessee, was in desperate need of men. *Casualty estimates are based on the conservative figures as reported by the National Park Service. Here are the major engagements Hood was involved in from the time he became commander of the Army of Tennessee. July 20 Peachtree Creek – 4,796 July 22 Atlanta – 8,499 July 28 Ezra Church – 3,000 Aug 31 – Sept 1 Jonesborough – 2,000 Nov 30 Franklin – 6,261 Dec 15 Nashville – 4,462	<urn:uuid:f63a4d29-24ff-488b-97e6-b78a7b611f48>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://battleoffranklin.wordpress.com/tag/john-bell-hood/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.956784	1,066	2.765625	3
How Easter and Christianity undermine atheism This Easter it seems that atheists have a lot to rejoice about. According to the latest data in the American Religious Identification Survey, the number of self-proclaimed atheists in America has nearly doubled since 2001 — from 900,000 to 1.6 million. In a nation that once prided itself on its Judeo-Christian heritage, one out of every five Americans now claims no religious identity whatsoever; and the number of self-proclaimed Christians has declined by a whopping 15%. Yes, those who believe in nothing seem to be winning more and more converts every year. The superstition of atheism Of course, it's not quite fair to say that atheists believe in nothing. They do believe in something — the philosophical theory known as Materialism, which states that the only thing that exists is matter; that all substances and all phenomena in the universe are purely physical. USA TODAY OPINION Faith. Religion. Spirituality. Meaning. In our ever-shrinking world, the tentacles of religion touch everything from governmental policy to individual morality to our basic social constructs. It affects the lives of people of great faith ? or no faith at all. This series of weekly columns ? launched in 2005 ? seeks to illuminate the national conversation. The problem is that this really isn't a theory at all. It's a superstition; a myth that basically says that everything in life — our thoughts, our emotions, our hopes, our ambitions, our passions, our memories, our philosophies, our politics, our beliefs in God and salvation and damnation — that all of this is merely the result of biochemical reactions and the movement of molecules in our brain. We can't reduce the whole of reality to what our senses tell us for the simple reason that our senses are notorious for lying to us. Our senses tell us that the world is flat, and yet it's not. Our senses tell us that the world is chaotic, and yet we know that on both a micro and a macro level, it's incredibly organized. Our senses tell us that we're stationary, and yet we're really moving at incredible speeds. We just can't see it. But the most important things in life can't be seen with the eyes. Ideas can't be seen. Love can't be seen. Honor can't be seen. This isn't a new concept. Judaism and Christianity and Islam and Buddhism have all taught for thousands of years that the highest forms of reality are invisible and mysterious. And these realities will never be reducible to clear-cut scientific formulae for the simple reason that they will never be fully comprehensible to the human mind. God didn't mean them to be. No less a genius than Albert Einstein once said: "The most beautiful thing we can experience in life is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: for his eyes are closed." Too many people go through life today with their eyes closed. They miss out on the mysterious because they're so fixated on what they can see and smell and touch and taste and hear. They're so steeped in the "superstition of materialism" that they're totally blind to the existence of another world — a radically different world than the one they're familiar with, but a world nonetheless: a world of miracles, a world of grace, a world of angels, a world of diabolical warfare, a world where the highest values are completely opposite from those of our secular society — where weakness equals strength, sacrifice equals salvation, and suffering equals unlimited power. Wishful thinking? Really? Atheists, of course, claim that all of this is absurd. Christianity, especially, they say, with its belief in Easter and the Resurrection, is nothing but "wishful thinking" — the product of weak human psychology; a psychology that is so afraid of death that it must create "delusional fantasies" in order to make life on Earth bearable. But is it wishful thinking to believe in hell, the devil and demons? Is it wishful thinking to believe we're going to be judged and held accountable for every sin we've ever committed? Is it wishful thinking to believe the best way to live our life is to sacrifice our own desires for the sake of others? Is it wishful thinking to believe that we should discipline our natural bodily urges for the sake of some unseen "kingdom"? And while we're at it, is it wishful thinking to believe God wants us to love our enemies? For goodness sake, what kind of demand is that? If human beings were going to invent a religion based on wishful thinking, they could come up with something a lot "easier" than Christianity. After all, why not wish for a religion that promised eternal life in heaven, but at the same time allowed promiscuous sex, encouraged gluttony, did away with all the commandments, and forbade anyone to ever mention the idea of judgment and punishment? Wouldn't that make a lot more sense? And yet, atheists persist in this ridiculous notion that human beings "invented" God merely because we're afraid of death and want to see our dead relatives again. Amazing. But atheists can scoff all they want. They can write all the bestselling books they want. No matter how hard they try, they will never succeed in making Christianity "a thing of the past." And they will never succeed in snuffing out that faith in God that all human beings naturally possess; a faith that is ingrained in our minds, hearts and souls forever. Why? Because aside from all the logical arguments for God's existence and all the miracles and all the truths contained in Scripture, one simple fact remains: 2,000 years ago, on that first, quiet Easter Sunday morning, Christ did rise. Anthony DeStefano is the author of the Doubleday book, The Invisible World: Understanding Angels, Demons and the Spiritual Realities that Surround Us.	<urn:uuid:52b4e6f2-a47c-4b81-843d-56fabc5af985>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-04-21-Easter-lesson-for-atheists.htm	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.948361	1,255	1.796875	2
[ Visit the ring \| Join the ring \| Nominate a site for the ring \| Report problems with the ring \| Information for ring members] [The beginning] [1999 till August 2000] [Yahoo! Webring integration] [Split rings] [ Prehistory \| Creation \| The first three months ] This page describes how I created the Science Humor webring, how I tried to get people to join the ring and what the results of those action were. As usually the history of a ring starts with a website, in this case my Science Jokes list, which has its own history. This is a list of jokes about the physical sciences, the biggest of its kind and I am quite proud of it. This story starts with me travelling around a science fiction ring, moving to the list of sites and accidently selecting the homepage of Webring.org. I never realized that most webrings came from the same place. I seem to remembers self-made cgi-scripts and just links with next and previous. This was different. Rings which everybody can make. There were lots of SF rings and enough Robert Jordan rings to make you nauseous And do not be mistaken: A few years back "The eye of the world" made me decide that the Tolkien imitation genre was not dead yet, but the series gets a bit drawn out these last books.. I spend some time visiting SF rings and later that week some literature rings and then I thought that I should submit my site to a webring. Looking under science did not give me anything, under humor were so many rings that I gave up, but webring also has a search engine and that found me a Fun Science ring. This ring was meant for education though, and it contained sites which could show children how much fun science could be. Nothing wrong with that, but my site is more for people who already love the sciences. I have given obligatory physics practicals to biology students at the university and the ones who did not like physics at the beginning, did not consider it fun at the end, at most bearable. It is much easier to show people that science is funny. So, my site did not fit any ring. Too bad. The next day, I had a reason to make a ring. My site started as a list to collect all the science humor on usenet so that it would not get lost when the posts expired, years of collecting. But now there are not many original science jokes on usenet (exept for puns, they still flower). Nowadays people put their original jokes on webpages and there was no need to collect them, besides that it would be stealing. I could only collect the links. But with a webring I could knit them together into a kind of meta-site, with an infinity of science humor, through which people could wander forever. With a bit of luck it can grow of itself, all owners of science humor pages announcing themselves to the ring and I could wander through all those pages forever without the difficulty of finding those pages. This was a wonderfull idea. I would start the ring immediately. This chapter is loosely based on a e-mail from Eric Stokien and my reaction on how I had followed his recipe for starting a ring on the ringmasters-l mailinglist on December 9, 1998, when the webpage existed about 2 months. This chapter was finished on January 8, 1999. I made a list of Science humor pages to which I had links. This list was only about physical sciences and mathematics (comparable to my own site), but I also had a psychology and an economy humor page in my general humor bookmark list. I guessed the commercial sites would not be interested and that the sites with only links would not be interesting. From the rest I searched the site for the e-mail adress of the maintainer. Sometimes I found that the site had disappeared, sometimes there was no e-mail adress, but this left 15 sites. October 16, 1998. I mailed those people if they would be interested in a science humor webring. I got 4 reactions within 12 hours and decided to make the ring. Saturday October 17, 1998 was the great day. I made the webring with the form on webring (http://www.webring.org/) I made the webring, which was pretty easy. Then I read the FAQ http://www.webring.org/help/ringmasterfaq/, as was suggested in the instructions I got in an e-mail from webring. I considered the FAQ very usefull but I found out that setting up a webring was more work than I had expected (I not only had to make a ring homepage and a webring html-fragment, but I also must work on the html-pages and e-mails that were part of the site submission process. This was the beginning of a very hectic time. I wanted to complete the ring setup before monday, when I had to work again. I saved some subscription pages from webrings I knew and used that to make my own. At the same time I made the html ring fragment. I made it a very simple one, a simplified version of the standard version, so that it could be seen by all browsers. I did not use any graphics. I do not wish to make the ring to make a too big impression on the member sites, many of which are text only. The FAQ also caused me to join the ringmaster mailinglist in the middle of the "wrongly adopted webring" affair, wich made me move to the digest within a day. Despite the flamewars in the list, I am still subscribed to it (January 1999) because of the many usefull tips. Next I worked a bit on the webring administration pages and entered the webring HTML fragment, using the variables within -- -- tags. The --id-- tag is replaced by the id number of a website, wich ensures customised webring fragments for every site. Very neat. Now everything should work and I submitted my own webpage. It worked beautifully. Okay, I found some spelling errors in the submission pages and e-mails and some very unclear parts, but it worked and I had a ring with one site. I repaired the errors. I was not smart enough to think of submitting test pages and throwing those out later, so I did not test the improved pages. The next step was getting members. First I e-mailed the people who had reacted to my first mail (as a matter of fact, I made an error, so I send a wrong URL). Finally, still on sunday, I sent all the 15 web-owners an official invitation (also to the people I invited before, because of that wrong URL). Within 2 days all original interested people reacted, only one withdrew his submission as he found out webring was a commercial organisation. From the other eleven, I got one new positive reaction. And there it was: a working web-ring! So how could I make the ring to grow. This consists of two steps. First find a fitting webpage, second convince the owner of that site to join the ring. Where could I find science humor sites. I used all these methods in two batches. The first just after creating the ring, the second during the Christmas hollidays. I sent a more or less standard e-mail to all the owners of these pages. That were 42 e-mails wich resulted in 13 members, 2 refusals, one person who sent me a lot of jokes from his old site and 26 without reaction. Except for the newsgroups all these resources are exhausted now (January 1999). Of course there will come new ones as the Internet grows, but at the moment I believe I know most sites that can be found this way. Anyway, I had a lot of fun searching the web for those sites. Another possibility is to advertise the ring. This is much more interesting. All the sites above were relatively easy found at logical places. Interesting sites which can not be found in the directories and who just happen to be difficult for the search engines can join the ring spontaneously and increase their visibility. That is the main purpose of the ring after all, that unknown sites profit from well known sites. There were some advertising methods I did not use, wrong or right, who can tell: What did all the advertising get me in three months: That is it for now. I guessed there would be a hundred fitting sites and found about 40, which seems pretty good. Of those I got 14 sites, about one in three, which seems rather bad. Maybe I should make more work of the invitations. Anyway 14 sites which I like to visit is not bad at all. \|001\|\|Science Jokes\|\|October 17, 1998\|\|Collection of mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology humor. It also includes humorous quotes, rhymes, mnemonics and anecdotes about scientists\|\|My own site\| \|002\|\|Laboratory of Laughter\|\|October 18, 1998\|\|a science humor index of biology, chemistry, physics and general science humor\| \|003\|\|The First Internet Gallery of Statistics Jokes\|\|October 19, 1998\|\|The greatest collection of jokes about statistics and statisticians on the Internet. The oldies but goodies are here but so also are many new jokes that have never before appeared in print.\| \|004\|\|The Archives of Statistics Fun\|\|October 19, 1998\|\|This site contains fun topics and anecdotes that can be used in the teaching of statistics. Tips on teaching and learning statistics are also included.\| \|005\|\|Parodies & Pastiches\|\|October 20, 1998\|\|This site presents a selection of parodies, pastiches and pseudo-scientific papers written by scientists, or by writers having a scientific background.\|\|This site also has a webring link on the French version of the page\| \|006\|\|Psychology humor\|\|October 25, 1998\|\|A collection of psychology jokes. Most are not funny. Psychologists have no sense of humor.\|\|The last of the original group\| \|007\|\|The Quantum Theory of Econodynamics\|\|November 2, 1998\|\|The Quantum Theory of Econodynamics is a collection of essays, stories, poems, and art. The entire site is economics related; the quantum theory essays relate concepts in physics to those in economics. The humor is "academic."\| \|008\|\|BioHazard Level 5 - Aliquotes Archive\|\|November 2, 1998\|\|Online archive of Aliquotes, a monthly journals of bioscience humor.\|\|Site closed June, 1999\| \|009\|\|Economics Humor\|\|November 3, 1998\|\|Humor directly related to economics only.\| \|010\|\|Sizzling Organic Chemistry Dramas\|\|November 21, 1998\|\|These are four somewhat bawdy (if you are a molecule) plays illustrating organic chemistry reaction mechanisms.\|\|Brenna Lorenz liked the webring so much, that she also joined the Fun Science ring\| \|011\|\|Astronomy Related Jokes\|\|December 10, 1998\|\|Astronomy Related Jokes\| \|012\|\|Songs of Cesium\|\|December 16, 1998\|\|Popular and classical songs rewritten to glorify the most sublime, explosive, and electropositive of elements, the almighty Cesium.\| \|013\|\|Dolly's Cloning Emporium\|\|January 1, 1999\|\|Dolly the Sheep's home page as it were. Sheep cloning, mouse cloning, human cloning, wildlife cloning... Biotech info, definitions, how-to, and the ever-present FAQ\| \|014\|\|Science Made Stupid\|\|January 1, 1999\|\|A tribute to the 1986 Hugo Award Winning book by Tom Weller.\| And finally the people whom this is all about, the visitors to science humor websites. They should have the advantage of an easy way to read more science humor and the member sites should have the advantage of more visitors, who like science humor. How succesfull has the ring been during the first three months? \|3.\|\|123\|\|75\|\|Laboratory of Laughter\| \|4.\|\|94\|\|52\|\|The First Internet Gallery of Statistics Jokes\| \|5.\|\|89\|\|38\|\|Parodies & Pastiches\| \|6.\|\|88\|\|42\|\|The Archives of Statistics Fun\| \|8.\|\|56\|\|56\|\|Sizzling Organic Chemistry Dramas\| \|9.\|\|56\|\|45\|\|BioHazard Level 5 - Aliquotes Archive\| \|10.\|\|55\|\|45\|\|The Quantum Theory of Econodynamics\| \|11.\|\|45\|\|45\|\|Astronomy Related Jokes\| \|12.\|\|34\|\|34\|\|Songs of Cesium\| \|13.\|\|17\|\|17\|\|Science Made Stupid\| \|14.\|\|14\|\|14\|\|Dolly's Cloning Emporium\| This is disappointing. The homepage of the science jokes is visited by over 8000 visitors in 8 weeks. Only 250 enter the ring, that is 3%. I do not know the number of visitors to the other sites, maybe the percentage is higher there. I have now put a ring fragment at the bottom of every page. As my site consists of many joke list, people can easily follow the ring instead of going back to the index if they wish to see other jokes. For more homogeneous sites, that will make no sense. I now start to wonder whether people want this ring. How many people visit a site from the next, previous and random links? (There are no statistics for people who come from the listing of the sites) \|1.\|\|61\|\|53\|\|The Quantum Theory of Econodynamics\| \|2.\|\|37\|\|16\|\|Laboratory of Laughter\| \|3.\|\|36\|\|33\|\|BioHazard Level 5 - Aliquotes Archive\| \|4.\|\|31\|\|12\|\|Parodies & Pastiches\| \|6.\|\|30\|\|11\|\|The Archives of Statistics Fun\| \|7.\|\|29\|\|29\|\|Astronomy Related Jokes\| \|8.\|\|27\|\|12\|\|The First Internet Gallery of Statistics Jokes\| \|11.\|\|16\|\|16\|\|Sizzling Organic Chemistry Dramas\| \|12.\|\|8\|\|8\|\|Dolly's Cloning Emporium\| \|13.\|\|5\|\|5\|\|Songs of Cesium\| \|14.\|\|4\|\|4\|\|Science Made Stupid\| I "stagger" the webring every other week, a function from webring that makes sites with many visitors lie next to sites with few visitors. This should cause sites at the bottom of the first list to be at the top of the second one. It seems to work more or less, as you can see. I am not going to tell what happens to webring, they can do that themselves if they like, but some things have effect on the rings. The origin and history of web ring can be read in the following articles: Web Rings / Will the Circle Be Unbroken? and Webrings own history page On November 11, I got an e-mail that Starseed inc., the webring company was taken over by Geocities, which hosts free websites and is notorious because of the agressive advertising on their pages. For webring this means they get enough money and commercial knowledge and they are very happy about it, but it almost cost me a member (Hi Jonathan), who luckily decided that as long as it does not influence the ringsites, there will be no problem. Another problem is the fact that sometimes the cgi-scripts did not work during the second half of november and in december. Once it seemed to be out of order for a day. (I did not test all the time, so maybe it were a few small disturbances). I understand that due to the massive growth of the number of rings, they need new machines and sometimes there are glitches and the ring does not work. Irritating, if that happens when I have just invited somebody to join the ring but also for ordinary ring use. I hope the problems will be solved soon. Last change: June 14, 1999 Information about the ring \| Visit the ring \| Join the ring \| Nominate a site for the ring \| Report problems with the ring \| Information for ring members] [The beginning] [1999 till August 2000] [Yahoo! Webring integration] Comments to the maintainer of the Science Humor Webring (Joachim Verhagen) This page is maintained by Joachim Verhagen	<urn:uuid:2e864e91-5bd1-4693-baed-3fdd2e38d612>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://jcdverha.home.xs4all.nl/scihum/history.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.951935	3,451	1.5	2
The social-bookmarking site Pinterest has been around since 2010, but if you’re on Facebook you have probably noticed an upswing in people “pinning” things – that is, posting found images under their names, in folders like “Clothes I’d Like to Own” or “Places I’d Like to Visit.” If you are a woman you are much more likely to have heard of it, as women so far have been its primary users. But business magazines are calling it the fastest-growing site ever: It now has 12 million unique visitors. With so much momentum, it is unlikely that women will hang on to it as their little secret for much longer. Pinterest’s enthusiastic proponents say that there is nothing new about making collages of pictures that express our personalities: Most of us did it with cut-up magazines as children. But I think there is also something entirely contemporary about the kind of collecting that seems to dominate this site.... Read it all. Filed under: * Culture-Watch Art Blogging & the Internet --Social Networking Media Psychology Science & Technology Women * Economics, Politics Economy Consumer/consumer spending Corporations/Corporate Life Posted March 7, 2012 at 11:06 am To comment on this article: Go to Article ViewThe URL for this article is http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/41577/ © 2013 Kendall S. Harmon. All rights reserved. For original material from Titusonenine (such as articles and commentary by Dr. Harmon) permission to copy and distribute free of charge is granted, provided this notice, the logo, and the web site address are visible on all copies. For permission for use in for-profit publications, please email KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com << Return to Mobile view (headlines)	<urn:uuid:464d3a08-434e-481c-9e99-5d96360efd03>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/print_w_comments/41577/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.922369	403	1.65625	2
2010 boost for SA's Olympic hopes 12 October 2009 The decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to give Rio de Janeiro the right to host the 31st Olympiad in 2016 has raised South Africa's hopes of hosting the event in 2020. The Fifa football World Cup and the summer Olympic Games – the two biggest sporting events on the planet – are now to be held in Africa and South America for the first time. And with Brazil hosting the next edition of the football World Cup in 2014, the southern hemisphere has certainly staked its claim for hosting mega-sporting events. These endorsements also bear testimony to Brazil and South Africa's growing stature in the international arena, and have raised the hopes of hundreds of millions of people who desperately need the cash injection that these events provide. There are other interesting parallels between the two countries. Firstly, Rio twice previously failed to make the IOC shortlist for earlier Olympics, while Cape Town failed in its bid to host the event in 2004. With hindsight, we can be grateful that South Africa lost out on that bid, because it may have drained the cash reserves needed to back a second major sporting event. Similarly, we were fortunate to lose the rights to host the 2006 World Cup to Germany (by the narrowest margin in Fifa's history) because we would never have been ready to stage the tournament in time. Looking forward, South Africa's chances of hosting the 2020 Olympics will depend on next year's World Cup, but there is a growing consensus that it will be a safe and successful event. Three cities – Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg – would all be in the running, largely thanks to the new world-class stadiums and facilities that are nearing completion. However, Durban is emerging as the front-runner among the three, because it has incorporated its Olympic plans into its 2010 preparations. Like Melbourne, city planners aim to turn Durban into a sporting mecca, with the Olympic Games the ultimate target. The new Moses Mabhida stadium – framed by an extraordinary arch – will have capacity for 70 000 for the World Cup but can be expanded to 85 000 for events like the Olympics or the Commonwealth Games. Over the next few years, the port city will become one of the few cities in Africa where most of the main Olympic sporting codes can be played in a centrally located, international standard destination. In addition, the city has already secured the rights to host the 2011 congress of the International Olympic Committee, the first to be held in Africa. "There is this perception that the world ends after 2010, but we have never ever seen that," says Julie-May Ellingson, who heads the city's 2010 project. "Going right back to 2004, we spoke of 2010 and beyond." Irrespective of whether South Africa will host the Olympic Games, the 2010 World Cup has given it the opportunity to stake a serious claim. Urquhart is a former Fifa World Cup media officer and the current editor of Project 2010	<urn:uuid:22fde8d6-3bf5-4229-8eb9-31383bbf40c5>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.southafrica.info/2010/project2010column54.htm	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.956597	617	1.65625	2
February 2010 All News Celebrating Premier League 4sport Success What is Premier League 4 Sport? Barclays Premier League football clubs this year have been offering thousands of young people the chance to get involved with Olympic sports including Badminton, in a groundbreaking £3.8m partnership with the Government. The two and a half year scheme aims to increase participation of many young people between the ages of 11 and 16. It offers an introduction to judo, volleyball, table tennis and badminton to those who may have never played before and by doing so hopes to actively increase participation in the sport. The football clubs of the Premier League will link up with local badminton clubs to help attract young people in their area to take up badminton. The initiative will help the Government’s ambition to offer young people five hours of sport a week, as part of its 2012 plans. It also aims to decrease the amount of people who don’t continue in the sport when young people leave secondary school. Working with the sports governing bodies, the Youth Sport Trust, Sport England and the Premier League, clubs aim to get 25,000 young people, aged between 11 and 16, to join local sport clubs in the four Olympic sports of Badminton, Judo, Table Tennis and Volleyball during the scheme. BADMINTON England’s core aims is to increase participation, be fit for purpose and be recognised as the No. 1 nation in badminton by winning medals. All these aims are covered in the Premier League 4Sport scheme and BADMINTON England is setting up 80 new Satellite Badminton Clubs to attract more people into badminton. Chief Executive, Adrian Christy had the following to say: “Badminton is proud to be one of the most popular and fastest emerging sports in England and we are delighted to enter into this partnership with one of the biggest and best league competitions in the world. We are excited at the opportunity of taking our sport from strength to strength at a local level through the vehicle and profile the Premier League brings. This project will assist badminton in its ambition to introduce and retain more young people in our sport and further enhance our club structure whilst giving them a quality experience that hopefully develops into lifelong participation.” How is PL4Sport being delivered? The scheme began in April 2009 and many launches have been underway throughout the country with great success. Event days are established with strong media connections invited to every launch of the scheme making all the PL4sport launches a fun unique and exciting day. Below are some of the launches held to date: Attending the launches have been badminton players such as Rajiv Ouseph, Munn Tzin Bong, Helen Davis, Jessica Fletcher as well as retired badminton star, Ambassador Gail Emms, MBE. You can watch a BBC video of the Manchester United PL4Sport launch featuring Emms by clicking here. BADMINTON England aims to achieve the following with the help of the Premier League sport: 6,250 young people playing badminton over the next 2 ½ years 80 satellite badminton clubs around a minimum of 20 hub (Premier) badminton clubs working in partnership with the Premier League clubs Building closer links between badminton clubs and schools Prime Minister Support The Prime Minister Gordon Brown said: “This initiative is great news for young people and communities and will help get thousands more teenagers participating in sports over the next few years, building on our goal to get young people doing five hours of sport a week." "In the run up to 2012, we want to see more young people from all walks of life getting involved in sport. These new clubs are an excellent example of how the Olympic legacy will benefit people right across the country in years to come and how the Games can be used to inspire more people to get active."For more information on this new and exciting project, please e-mail firstname.lastname@example.org or telephone 01908 268400	<urn:uuid:3522088f-0348-4e0a-b3c6-b99a8e6d129b>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.badmintonengland.co.uk/show_news.asp?itemid=3087&itemTitle=Celebrating+Premier+League+4sport+Success&section=1006&sectionTitle=News&year=2010&month=2	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.94274	838	1.609375	2
As we all know, Google changed web mapping when they introduced Google Maps. At the time of writing this, tiled maps are now the norm with web mapping. For example, with ArcGIS Server, you cache as many of your layers as possible into cached map services, and then if need be, you pull in any of your operational layers via either dynamic or feature services. Once you have a cached service, there is no way to tweak the cartography without having to build a new cache again. I can understand from an API perspective, how you can send your style request in a JSON object. What I want to know is, how are they doing this at the back end? (Would be good to include a reference) If I look at the Styling Wizard with Firebug, and make changes to anything, I can see that new GET requests are made to return PNG images back to the client. There are near infinite variations you could apply, so they cannot have all the tiles pre-cooked and ready to serve out. Therefore, I can only assume they are creating these tiles on demand?	<urn:uuid:8852629e-1fb4-45ae-9373-3286de31b471>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/28089/how-are-google-serving-up-their-styled-maps	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.955633	229	2.078125	2
A fog seal is a light application of a diluted slow-setting asphalt emulsion to the surface of an aged (oxidized) pavement surface. Fog seals are low-cost and are used to restore flexibility to an existing HMA pavement surface. They may be able to temporarily postpone the need for a surface treatment or non-structural overlay. Slow-setting asphalt emulsion. None beyond the manufacturer’s. A test patch may be needed to determine the proper application rate. Fog seals are suitable for low-volume roads which can be closed to traffic for the 4 to 6 hours it takes for the slow-setting asphalt emulsion to break and set. An excessive application rate may result in a thin asphalt layer on top of the original HMA pavement. This layer can be very smooth and cause a loss of skid resistance. Sand should be kept in reserve to blot up areas of excess application.	<urn:uuid:9c1e5c40-acf5-4382-b900-289be7d4359d>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.pavementinteractive.org/article/fog-seals/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.909927	188	1.84375	2
Feared, revered, and often misunderstood, venomous snakes have been a source of legend and nightmare since time immemorial. In this comprehensive volume, author Mark O'Shea has combined expertly written, in-depth descriptions of the world's common and exotic venomous snakes, highlighted by previously unpublished gripping accounts of his adventures with snakes, including personal observations and several serious snakebite episodes. The book begins with a description of the anatomies of venomous snakes, along with their diversity and distribution. Also included is a unique in-depth look at the various types of snake venom and the ways that each type attacks the body. A section on anti-venom, including thoughts on the looming anti-venom crisis, is also presented. Information on the adaptations of ocean-dwelling snakes and issues of snake conservation as well as an examination of venomous lizards follow. From bamboo pitvipers to deep-diving seasnakes, and from adders and asps to terciopelos and the massasaugas, this book takes an original approach to examining these enthralling creatures. Rather than the typical taxonomic categorization, the snakes are grouped by geographic location: the Americas, Africa, Eurasia, Tropical Asia, Australasia, and the Oceans. Each section is illustrated with stunning and rare pictures, many of which were taken by the author himself. Suitable for professional snake handlers and armchair herpetologists alike, this extremely accessible book is an enthusiastic celebration of the diversity and beauty of venomous snakes worldwide. - Explores the secret world of venomous snakes, revealing their habitats, characteristics, and hunting and feeding behaviors - Contains thrilling details of O'Shea's own encounters with snakes - Provides detailed information on venomous snake diversity, venom types, and conservation - Includes a world map illustrating venomous snake distribution and detailed accounts of more than 170 species - Features over 150 full-color photographs, many of them of extremely rare species Mark O'Shea, curator of reptiles at West Midland Safari Park (U.K.), has participated in more than sixty fieldwork and filming exhibitions, traveling to every continent except Antarctica. "This is a large book with more than 150 quality full-color photographs, some of which may frighten the serpent-phobic."--Alvin Hutchinson, Library Journal "Poisonous snakes have been part of human legends - and nightmares - since the beginning of time. O'Shea, a reptile expert and television host, brings to life the world of serpents from around the world [with] hundreds of stunning, often rare, photographs."--The Globe & Mail "[D]azzling, a photographic journey among the scaly and the lethal."--Anneli Rufus, East Bay Express "If you want a world of information on venomous snakes then look no further than Venomous Snakes of the World. I promise you that you will find the text entertaining and the photos unforgettable."--The Flying Mullet Another Princeton book authored or coauthored by Mark O'Shea: Cloth: Not for sale in the Commonwealth (except Canada) and the European Union Paper: Not for sale in the Commonwealth (except Canada) and the European Union © Nikolai Orlov. Click to Enlarge © Daniel Heuclin Click to Enlarge Sri Lankan green pitviper © James Carmichael, Jr. Click to Enlarge	<urn:uuid:70301b49-4a08-46c3-84c1-9a8601fc6521>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8015.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.908453	721	2.796875	3
The Songwriter And His Song! "The ties that bind two hearts shall never be broken" was the final verse written by the songwriter whose eyes flowed tears. It was yet one more dedication of his love for the woman who had passed away eight years ago. As he tried to wipe his eyes, to look up at the 8 X 10 framed picture on the wall above his computer, still more tears were released. She was his inspiration for writing love songs and throughout the years they spent at each other's side, each new love song had made her blush. They both knew he would never cut a record, he'd never be heard on the radio. But still, she was happy to sit on the porch swing and listen to the words sung which held such a magical meaning for each of them. Emily was his life, the reason for his existence and yet, death took her one morning in the midst of a peaceful sleep. He never had that chance to tell her how deeply she filled his heart with joy before she died. When he finally could see her picture clearly, he saw the smile, that love swept smile that told him through good times or bad, they would never be apart. Yet, they were apart. On many a afternoon or evening he would go to the cemetery where she rest, placing a yellow rose upon her headstone and sitting down on the green grass. There he would tell her what he had been doing or thinking and of course, how deeply he missed her. He also from time to time would bring his guitar and play for her one of several songs which were special to Emily. This was such a morning and he parked his car in the space he always parked in, got out and walked to her grave. He placed a yellow rose upon her headstone as the sun was felt warm against his cheek. He sat down and laid his guitar beside him. As time passed, he told Emily of things that had happened since he had last visited her. He told her of his plans to finally get the courage to send some of his songs to a record label. Then he told her that he had finally finished writing his newest song called, "The Ties That Bind Two Hearts!" His tears had fell upon his guitar long before he had finished his song and once he finished he spoke. "I know you would have loved it my darling, I know you would of." When he had composed himself, he stood and leaned over and kissed her headstone softly. “Tonight, I’m going down to Millie’s Cafe darling and I'm going to sing this song to anyone who listens. I wish you could be there too." he said with a smile that always melted her heart. The songwriter turned and slowly walked back to his car and drove away. When his clock shown 7:15 pm, he drove down to Millie’s Cafe, just a small town place where folks shared a good meal and sometimes a song was sung. Karaoke was on Friday night's but this was Monday. He arrived at the cafe at 7:25 and as he walked into Millie’s, many looked up, smiled and waved. At 7:45, stage lights came on and Millie stepped out in her lavender dress with a strand of white pearls around her neck. She told the group of 19 diners that he was going to share with them his newest love song in memory of Emily and everyone began to clap. The songwriter wasn't shy, he had sang here many times and some people came to the cafe especially on Monday evenings hoping he'd be singing. When he stepped out onto the stage, everyone began to clap and cheer before a single song was sung. You could see his eyes beaming with excitement, for the love in his heart was matched by the sound of his voice and each word sung. He looked across the tables, one by one from left to right and said just one sentence. "This song is for you Emily. I wish you were here to hear me sing it." As he sang verse after verse, he could see the smiles, he could see the tears forming in each lady’s eyes. He could see them squeeze their partner's hands because the love he felt was felt in each verse. Just as he was almost finished and nearing the last verse, he happened to look to his right, at an empty table in the back corner. To his surprise he saw a single yellow rose on the table and in the once empty chair sat Emily. She had a beautiful soft glow surrounding her and there were tears of joy in her eyes. As he finished that verse and everyone began to clap, Emily picked up the rose and with her other hand, she waved goodbye and she disappeared. The songwriter didn't hear the cheering people who felt that he had sung the perfect love song. He didn't see the standing ovation given to him for the very first time. All he heard was the soft soothing voice of Emily whispering "I love you so much my darling, I will never forget your love for me." ©2006 Raymond Cook (All rights reserved)	<urn:uuid:dbdd20a9-4837-4a92-b89e-5133663d6403>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_forums/showthread.php?19044-The-Songwriter-And-His-Song!&p=142587&mode=threaded	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.996159	1,056	1.625	2
The Natural Resources Census (NRC) project aims at generation of a set of thematic maps through systematic inventory & mapping using Resourcesat data and creation of GIS database of the same for the whole country. The project uses IRS images (55m, 23m & 5.8m) to prepare natural resources information layers viz., land use/land cover, soil, land degradation, wetlands, vegetation, snow & glaciers, geomorphology at 1:50,000 scale and land use/land cover at 1:250,000 scale, periodically for monitoring the natural resources. Under NRC, rapid National level landuse/ landcover mapping on 1:250,000 scale using multi-temporal IRS AWiFS data using digital techniques has been completed successfully consequently for the fifth year (2008-2009) and accordingly the land use/land cover map of the country and interim report has been generated. The net sown area (NSA) during 2007-08 was found to be 139.72 mha comprising 43% of the total geographical area. The statistics are compared with 2006-07. It is found that NSA is marginally reduced from 140.24 Mha to 139.72 Mha. Land use/ land cover (LU/LC) mapping at 1:250,000 scale using IRS AWiFS data for the 5th cycle (2008-09) has been completed recently. The 1st cycle of the nation-wide land use/ land cover mapping at 1:50,000 scale using IRS data has been completed for the country (except for Jammu & Kashmir). Spatial database organization and generation of seamless database for entire country is in progress. Land degradation mapping at national level on 1:50,000 scale using IRS data has been completed for 70% of the geographical area of the country. Nationwide geomorphological and lineament mapping has been initiated on 1:50,000 scale using LISS-III data jointly with GSI. A genetic based classification system will be adopted with around 360 landforms units classified under 8 genetic classes. The project is planned to be executed in 3 year time frame.	<urn:uuid:f0e7c380-e6ab-4146-8e34-3e56fe183118>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.isro.org/scripts/rsa_nrc1.aspx	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.906526	433	2.96875	3
Ralph Nader: Obama's record belies inaugural's words A friend asked me what I was thinking while listening to President Obama’s inaugural address. Here were my reactions: Obama: “They [the Patriots of 1776] gave to us a republic, a government of and by and for the people.” The flood of money-shaping elections and politics has given us a corporate government of the Exxons, by the General Motors, for the DuPonts. Obama: “Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.” In his first term Obama was indifferent to the more than 300,000 preventable fatalities a year in this country from hospital infections and malpractice, adverse drug effects, and occupational disease/trauma, in addition to coming perils of viral epidemics from abroad. Obama: “…our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.” He reneged and kept silent on his repeated 2008 campaign promise to push for a $9.50 minimum wage by 2011 and for a card-check system to facilitate the growth of unions. In his first term he discouraged Democrats from championing these measures in Congress even though thirty million workers are making wages less than workers made in 1968, adjusted for inflation (see timeforaraise.org). He also opposed a Wall Street financial transaction tax and declined to reduce gigantic corporate welfare programs (that conservatives call “crony capitalism”) that beg for repeal. Obama: “We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations.” Obama and the emissaries he sends to international climate change conferences have brought up the rear among nations, infuriating our allies who looked to the U.S.A. for leadership. He never pressed for a carbon tax that even Exxon and leading conservatives, such as Gregory Mankiw, support (Mankiw was the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under George W. Bush). I also believe that Obama will approve the Keystone XL Pipeline that will carry 900,000 barrels of dirty tar sands oil through the U.S. every day. A decision that Jim Hansen of NASA said would be catastrophic. Obama: “[E]nduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war….We will defend our people and uphold our values through strength of arms and the rule of law.” Continued... Hello! This coming from the ex-Constitutional law teacher who has turned his imperial presidency into an institutionalized violator of the Constitution, federal statutes and international treaties. He has personally ordered many unlawful military incursions and slayings in countries that are not at war with the U.S. against people who do not constitute “imminent threats.” (See the new documentary Dirty Wars http://dirtywars.org/.) The week of his inauguration President Obama sent drones to destroy “suspects” and whoever may be with or near them, including children, without the rule of law being observed. He is the law – the secret prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner for such attacks that have taken many civilian lives and produced increased hatred toward the U.S. from Pakistan to Yemen. The alleged “secret law” in Justice Department memos that he relies on is designed to strip the Congress and the courts of their Constitutional roles, as well as to keep the American people in the dark about drone attack decisions he makes on what his aides called “Terror Tuesdays.” Obama: “We will support democracy from Asia to Africa, from the Americas to the Middle East….” What about attending to our deteriorating democratic protections and civil liberties in our country? Washington, D.C. is corporate occupied territory in all three branches of government. Never in the past half century have the people and concern for their necessities been more shut out of their government. It continues to be “pay to play” time in the nation’s capital. Obama: “You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time…” Well, then how about working to shift more power away from the few and toward the many? How about campaign finance reform and federal ballot access reform so voters can have more choices from third parties whose candidates, by the way, he should have been gracious enough to invite to his January 21, 2013 gala. Granted, inaugural addresses are meant to be general and inspirational, not programmatic and revelatory. In a few days, Mr. Obama will have a chance to present his program in his more lengthy State of the Union address before the Congress. But inaugurations set tones as did the dominant militaristic displays and the managed adulation of the “imperial presidency.” Tom Sherwood, a local commentator, watching the Inaugural parades up Pennsylvania Avenue from the sixth-floor balcony of the Newseum decried “the extraordinary expense – financial and psychological – of turning America’s Main Street into an armed camp where democracy is suspended for several days…. Protest groups are ‘assigned’ demonstration areas, and required to pay fees and adhere to strict assembly instructions…. This being the week of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, it makes you wonder what success would have been achieved if civil rights workers had acceded to police demands not to march here or there, or to pay to get detailed permits first.” Sherwood adds: “but why not a parade that showcases the social services, arts and industries, and sciences along with our military services.” He then gives examples for his refreshing proposal. (You can follow him on Twitter @tomsherwood.) Writing in The New York Times, David Brooks had qualms in an otherwise laudatory column on Obama’s speech, concluding that “we have no party that is comfortable with civil society, no party that understands the ways government and the market can both crush and nurture community, no party with new ideas about how these things might blend together.” Continued... 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The Connecticut State Politics blog covers all the news from the seat of Connecticut's government and the state's elected leaders with original reporting from Journal Register Connecticut staff, links to stories from other media and blogs, press releases, statements and more. Reports from Connecticut Group Editor Matt DeRienzo. Guide to Religious Services Note: All listings are paid advertisements. Unity in the Foothills 102 Prospect Street, Torrington, Ct 06790 A Course in Miracles Tuesday evenings 7 p.m Transformational Prayer Group Thursday 1:15 p.m. and Sunday 9 a.m. Northfield Bible Church 10 Camp Hill Road, Northfield, CT 06778 Bible Doctrines Class: Sunday at 9:00 a.m. Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. Bible Study: Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. Pot Luck Supper every 4th Friday of the Month at 6:15 p.m. ASSEMBLIES OF GOD First Assembly of God 387 New Harwinton Road, Torrington, CT 06790 Sunday School for all ages 9:30 a.m. Sunday Worship Service at 10:45 a.m. Family Night Thursday at 7:00 p.m. Adult Bible Study Prayer Service: Saturday at 9:15 a.m. Cable 5 Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 3 p.m. CONGREGATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHURCHES Founders Congregational Church 41 Birge Park Road, Harwinton, CT 06791 Sunday School and Services 10:00 a.m. Bible Study: Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. and Thursday at 10:00 a.m. Center Congregational Church 155 Main Street, Torrington, CT 06790 Sunday Services and Church School at 10:00 a.m. Note: All listings are paid advertisements.	<urn:uuid:c46bb1bd-4a52-46b3-b36d-89c6da1fbd4f>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://registercitizen.com/articles/2013/01/27/opinion/doc51060f3997ea5338790533.txt?viewmode=default	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.9421	1,943	1.554688	2
13.00 – 18.10, Friday 15 March (with registration from 12.30) 09.30 – 17.40, Saturday 16 March (with registration from 09.00) Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN God and humankind had been at one in paradise. The sanctuary of Jerusalem’s Temple, whose decoration recalled Eden, was in Jewish thought the navel of the world, the intersection of heaven and earth. The Temple was destroyed in 70 CE. The Christian Melito was already writing of Golgotha as the world’s centre by 160 CE. Many more of the Temple’s mythologies – and supposedly of its Solomonic and later artefacts – would be transferred to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre built by Constantine and completed in the construction of its Rotunda. Justinian and his panegyrists spoke in their turn of Hagia Sophia as the new Temple. The Dome of the Rock was probably designed to counter and surpass the Holy Sepulchre of the ‘Christian polytheists’. The Crusaders spoke of Al-Aqsa Mosque as the Temple or Palace of Solomon, and the Dome of the Rock as the Temple of the Lord in which the infant Jesus had been presented to God. The sanctity and significance of Jerusalem were recreated throughout Christendom in centrally planned churches and architectural motifs, in liturgical forms and in civic myths. In this Forum we study the expressions of the Temple and the Sepulchre in Christian architecture, and medieval devotion – both Christian and Muslim – to the holy places. The Courtauld Institute of Art and the Temple Church are coming together for their second joint-conference in March 2013. We will again spend time in the Temple’s Round Church, itself one of the grandest recreations of Jerusalem to survive in the West. To book a place: £26 (£16 students, Courtauld staff/students and concessions) BOOK ONLINE: http://courtauld-institute.digitalmuseum.co.uk Or send a cheque made payable to ‘Courtauld Institute of Art’ to: Research Forum Events Co-ordinator, Research Forum, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, stating the event title ‘Temple and Tomb’. For further information, email ResearchForumEvents@courtauld.ac.uk or call: 07834 521471 Organised by The Rev’d Robin Griffith-Jones (Master of The Temple; and senior lecturer in Theology, King's College London), Professor Eric Fernie (The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Professor David Park (The Send comments and questions to H-Net Webstaff. H-Net reproduces announcements that have been submitted to us as a free service to the academic community. If you are interested in an announcement listed here, please contact the organizers or patrons directly. Though we strive to provide accurate information, H-Net cannot accept responsibility for the text of announcements appearing in this service. (Administration)	<urn:uuid:a4146e1c-293e-47ed-98c3-05da8a08192a>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=201101	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.937498	668	2.28125	2
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, responded Monday to news that the Boy Scouts Of America may lift its ban on gay scouts and scout leaders by urging the organization not to give in to the "bullying of homosexual activists." Here's Perkins' full statement, sent out via email: "The Boy Scouts of America board would be making a serious mistake to bow to the strong-arm tactics of LGBT activists and open the organization to homosexuality. What has changed in terms of the Boy Scouts' concern for the well-being of the boys under their care? Or is this not about the well-being of the Scouts, but the funding for the organization? "The Boy Scouts has for decades been a force for moral integrity and leadership in the United States. Sadly, their principled stances have marked them as a target for harassment by homosexual activists and corporations such as UPS which are working to pressure the Boy Scouts into abandoning their historic values. "The mission of the Boy Scouts is 'to instill values in young people' and 'prepare them to make ethical choices,' and the Scout's oath includes a pledge 'to do my duty to God' and keep himself 'morally straight.' It is entirely reasonable and not at all unusual for those passages to be interpreted as requiring abstinence from homosexual conduct. "If the board capitulates to the bullying of homosexual activists, the Boy Scouts' legacy of producing great leaders will become yet another casualty of moral compromise. The Boy Scouts should stand firm in their timeless values and respect the right of parents to discuss these sexual topics with their children," concluded Perkins.	<urn:uuid:44bd271b-08f1-4442-8042-0b2379b9285a>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/tony-perkins-boy-scouts-shouldnt-give-in-to	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.959193	325	1.664063	2
Recorded on 09/14/2004, uploaded on 01/21/2009 Musician's or Publisher's Notes songs are typically sung by duos or trios with accompanying guitars. incorporates typical runs and harmonies in the supporting lines with these arrangements for solo guitar. Providing rich, dense harmonic texture underneath simple melodies. The first and third are revolutionary songs. The second is actually an arrangement of a song Ponce wrote for guitar and voice. Steven Vazquez Courtesy of International Music Foundation. We at classicalconnect.com believe that classical music is a necessity of life. It is our pleasure to be your virtual concert hall and bring you this performance. Copyright 2008-2010 Classical Connect, LLC	<urn:uuid:39398deb-6ae2-42dc-972e-0eaf70c07079>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.classicalconnect.com/Guitar_Music/Ponce/Pajarera/1509	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.904963	155	1.679688	2
Trust in Advertising - Paid, Owned and Earned In a recent Nielsen global study, all forms of paid advertising—TV, print, digital, radio—showed a gap in the “trust factor,” with a majority of respondents reporting that they don’t trust each type much or at all. Conversely, and not surprisingly, “recommendations from people I know” scored highest on trust, with 92% of consumers trusting this source completely or somewhat. Owned media, such as brand sites, scored higher than paid advertising, but lower than social recommendations. Yet advertising as a medium continues to thrive, with ad dollars on the rise globally and in many markets around the world. Now What? The Convergence of Paid, Owned and Earned Now that we’ve demonstrated what many of us already knew, what should we do about it? Does trust in advertising matter? If so, can we even do anything about it? Since trust in advertising lays along continuum that moves from earned (highest trust), to owned, then paid (lowest trust), it stands to reason that brands should want more earned and owned. But can paid be given up completely? For most brands, that strategy isn’t really feasible, given both the broad reach and historical success associated with paid media. Instead, we need to start thinking of how paid, owned and earned can work together to improve trust and deliver better results. Marketers continue to discuss them as if they are mutually exclusive media. They’re not. Now, technology is blurring the lines of paid, owned and earned media more than ever. Paid can also be social, as social is often about paid. Owned can have paid embedded media in it. And sometimes, all three can exist in one consumer touchpoint. What’s a CMO to make of this trend? 3 Examples of Convergence Between Paid, Owned and Earned 1. Paid Ads Work Harder with Social What actually happens when you combine social and paid advertising? Research on Facebook ads with and without a social layer (Jimmy, Billy and eight other friends are fans of Brand X), shows that social ads generate much stronger breakthrough and purchase intent than ads without a social layer. Why? Knowing that the advertised brand is liked by our friends builds trust. 2. Paid Digital Advertising Drives Owned Usage Digital advertising can drive consumers to a brand’s owned media. In the example below, we look at the effectiveness of four different brands’ digital advertising in driving consumers to their respective Web sites. Brands A & B were far more successful in doing so than Brands C & D. % of those exposed to the online display campaign that went on to visit a brand’s site post-exposure % of those not exposed to the online display advertising who visited a brand’s site 3. Owned Can Work Harder Than Paid What about owned media? Does it work once consumers arrive? One way of understanding this relationship is to measure the off-line sales impact of those consumers exposed, versus not exposed to your brand’s site. In the example below, we can see that exposure to Brand X’s site drove almost three times the sales lift of paid digital ads alone. The Opportunity – Putting it All Together Addressing the truth deficit in advertising is more than just making ads that are, well, true. It’s also about how to use paid, owned and earned media to your brand’s advantage. Using the example above, why not build social into your paid advertising (where possible), use your paid ads to drive consumers to your site and optimize your site to drive maximum on- or off-line purchase? Why not experiment with the myriad ways to engage your consumers across the paid, owned and earned continuum? Overcoming the trust deficit in advertising isn’t about making ads that aren’t misleading or exaggerated. It’s about adding in social and owned media experiences in ways that give paid media more legitimacy, enabling it to work harder for your brand.	<urn:uuid:e1fed359-1ce4-49a1-8b05-270e45048205>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/182986/trust-in-advertising-paid-owned-and-earned.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+online-media-daily+%28MediaPost+%7C+Online+Media+Daily%29	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.949428	849	1.804688	2
Study: Gay Youth (and Straight) More Suicidal in Conservative Regions Suicide attempts by gay teens - and even straight kids - are more common in politically conservative areas where schools don’t have programs supporting gay rights, a study involving nearly 32,000 high school students found. Those factors raised the odds and were a substantial influence on suicide attempts even when known risk contributors like depression and being bullied were considered, said study author Mark Hatzenbuehler, a Columbia University psychologist and researcher. His study found a higher rate of suicide attempts even among kids who weren’t bullied or depressed when they lived in counties less supportive of gays and with relatively few Democrats. A high proportion of Democrats was a measure used as a proxy for a more liberal environment. The research focused only on the state of Oregon and created a social index to assess which outside factors might contribute to suicidal tendencies. Other teen health experts called it a powerful, novel way to evaluate a tragic social problem. "Is it surprising? No. Is it important? Yes," said Dr. Robert Blum of Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study "takes our relatively superficial knowledge and provides a bit more depth. Clearly, we need lots more understanding, but this is very much a step in the right direction," he said. Blum serves on an Institute of Medicine committee that recently released a report urging more research on gay health issues. Blum said the new study is the kind of research the institute believes has been lacking. The independent group advises the government on health matters. The new study was published online Monday in the journal Pediatrics. Previous research has found disproportionately high suicide rates in gay teens. One highly publicized case involved a Rutgers University freshman who jumped off a bridge last year after classmates recorded and broadcast the 18-year-old having sex with a man. The study relied on teens’ self-reporting suicide attempts within the previous year. Roughly 20 percent of gay, lesbian and bisexual teens said they had made an attempt, versus 4 percent of straight kids. The study’s social index rated counties on five measures: prevalence of same-sex couples; registered Democratic voters; liberal views; schools with gay-straight alliances; schools with policies against bullying gay students; and schools with antidiscrimination policies that included sexual orientation. Gay, lesbian and bisexual teens living in counties with the lowest social index scores were 20 percent more likely to have attempted suicide than gays in counties with the highest index scores. Overall, about 25 percent of gay teens in low-scoring counties had attempted suicide, versus 20 percent of gay teens in high-scoring counties. Among straight teens, suicide attempts were 9 percent more common in low-scoring counties. There were 1,584 total suicide attempts - 304 of those among gays, lesbians and bisexuals. Hatzenbuehler said the results show that "environments that are good for gay youth are also healthy for heterosexual youth." The study is based on 2006-08 surveys of 11th-graders that state health officials conducted in Oregon classrooms; Oregon voter registration statistics; Census data on same-sex couples; and public school policies on gays and bullying. The researchers assessed proportions of Democrats versus Republicans; there were relatively few Independents. Information on non-voters wasn’t examined. Zachary Toomay, a high school senior from Arroyo Grande, Calif., said the study "seems not only plausible, but it’s true." The star swimmer, 18, lives in a conservative, mostly Republican county. He’s active in his school’s gay-straight alliance, and said he’d never been depressed until last year when classmates "ostracized" him for being vocal about gay rights. Toomay said signs of community intolerance, including bumper stickers opposing same-sex marriage, also made him feel down, and he sought guidance from a school counselor after contemplating suicide. Funding for the study came from the National Institutes for Health and a center for gay research at the Fenway Institute, an independent Harvard-affiliated health care and research center. Michael Resnick, a professor of adolescent mental health at the University of Minnesota’s medical school, said the study "certainly affirms what we’ve come to understand about children and youth in general. "They are both subtly and profoundly affected by what goes around them," he said, including the social climate and perceived support.	<urn:uuid:a651b01c-63ef-456a-a514-ddff8b8ce74b>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.edgelasvegas.com/news/118620/study:_gay_youth_(and_straight)_more_suicidal_in_conservative_regions	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.966213	926	1.90625	2
Maple Hill Cemetery Stroll is a 'living history lesson' "I looked it up. That's Latin for 'Pray for us all,' " he says of the grave-marker text. The man is wearing a top-hat and a homespun-wool black suit. He says his name is Leroy Pope Walker, the Secretary of War of the Confederacy that ordered the first shot of the Civil War at Fort Sumter. His real name is Henry Turner. He's chairman of the Maple Hill Cemetery Stroll, a fascinating event in which volunteers portray over 70 notable Huntsvillians buried here, and Turner portrays Walker. "This is a living history lesson, not some Hollywood stunt," Turner, 59, says. "What you hear is what's been researched on that particular character. We keep this as close to historically correct as possible." Maple Hill residents depicted in the stroll include: five Alabama governors; president of the defunct automobile company Studebaker (Albert Russel Erskine) and Molly Teal, the local madam who left her brothel building– and the land on which Huntsville Hospital is now located – to the city. There are soldiers from every war since the cemetery was deeded in 1822, including a sizeable Confederate section filled with small white obelisk markers and a large flag flying overhead. "There is a cross section of Huntsville's history here - from the potter's field, the indigent people who couldn't afford to be buried, all the way up to the wealthy cotton planters," Turner says. The monuments reflect that. From humble, time-worn tombstones to magnificent markers topped with angels, crosses or gargoyles. The stone doves atop one monument were once used for target practice by Union soldiers here during their occupation of Huntsville. On a recent Friday morning, the cemetery grounds are serene and doused in easy autumn sunlight and peppered with birdsong. Dogwood, cedar and ample trees dot the grassy and grounds. Turner, a contractor by trade, leads me along the asphalt paths that map Maple Hill, and his shoes make a ghostly click as he walks along. "They have wooden pegs in them and weigh about 20 pounds," Turner says of the shoes. His eyes are a piercing blue. "I said if I'm going to do it, I'm going all the way. Everything's authentic except my underwear...I pray for cool weather when we do this." Other curious stroll characters include a governor's daughter accidentally poisoned by a house servant and is said to be entombed in her mausoleum sitting in her favorite rocking chair. Then there's John Lee Robinson. He died in 1949, the same year his dog Mickey happened to pass away, and is buried with his faithful canine. Beside storied Huntsville folk, Maple Hill is also the resting place to Abraham Lincoln's brother-in-law, David Todd, and Mark Twain's first cousin, Jeremiah Clemens. Turner points to Todd's grave. "We had that stone purchased and put up here about three, four years ago," Turner says. "The reason that grave was never marked was David Todd didn't like his brother-on-law, and he actually fought for the Confederacy. But because of who he was, sentiments ran so high that when he passed away that they were in fear of some sort of desecration to his grave." A contractor by trade, Turner says it's his love of history and Huntsville - his family has resided in the city since 1809 and family members are buried in Maple Hill's historic and newer sections – that keeps him coming back. Apparently many other Huntsville residents are interested in their city's history, too. About 6,000 people passed through last year's stroll, Turner says. Material for characters' scripts is researched in history books, the Internet and family files at the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library. Hosted by the Huntsville Pilgrimage Association, a society that restores and preserves historic North Alabama's homes and buildings, the stroll is a free event. Donations are welcomed and encouraged. That revenue is used to restore Maple Hill monuments. "The monuments you see in the newer part of the cemetery are granite, which will last forever. Most of these are marble, which don't hold up over time and there was vandalism in the early years before the city really started patrolling the cemetery," Turner says. "To date we've spent somewhere between $270, 000 and $280,000 and have done some sort of repair on over 1,000 monuments." The stroll lasts two-and-half hours. New characters are added each year, and the class of 2012 includes Maple Hill's very first resident. "The oldest marker in this cemetery is 1820," Turner says. "It's an infant girl who died when she was about eight months old. This year for the first time I have a little girl who's going to portray her sister and visit the grave." Turner has been involved with the stroll since 1999, the year after the event began in its current, reenactment configuration. The Pilgrimage was already conducting a stroll, but the presentation was made by a single guide. Perky Taylor and Margaret Belle Crow made the push to have participants dress-up in character and portray Maple Hill residents in the first person. "We felt like it would bring more attention to the history of the cemetery if we did something different," Taylor says. She's on the front porch of her Southeast Huntsville home. "It was something we knew that was there and hadn't been tapped into. We've always tried to do the stroll tasteful and keep in mind that's a very reverent place. There are over 80,000 people buried here, so it's almost like a city within a city." After a solid debut, the character-driven stroll's attendance spiked in its second year, says Taylor, who was born and raised in Huntsville. Three generations of Taylor's family have been laid to rest in Maple Hill Cemetery. What part of your past is buried there? Maple Hill Cemetery Stroll When: 2-4:30 p.m. Sunday Where: Maple Hill Cemetery (202 Maple Hill Dr.) How much: Free (donations welcome) Details: 256-533-5723, huntsvillepilgrimage.org	<urn:uuid:0f33cbe1-87c0-4d0b-b5f6-8af3ef503b0a>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2012/10/maple_hill_cemetery_stroll_is.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.976107	1,327	2.3125	2
Some dairies are finding 25% abortion rates following vaccination with modified-live IBR vaccines. Modified-live versions implicated in repro failures Growing evidence suggests that modified-live virus (MLV) vaccines for infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR) do more harm than good when given to pregnant cattle. IBR is a herpes virus. Like all herpes viruses, it can go into a latency phase within the animal’s brain. But when the animal is stressed with another shot of the live virus, the virus is reactivated, enters the bloodstream and migrates to the ovaries and fast-growing tissue such as embryos and fetuses. Once there, it replicates and does its dirty work, says Chris Chase, a veterinarian with South Dakota State University. "Reproduction is a big problem with this virus," he says. "Diagnosticians now have enough experience with these episodes to say that post-vaccination abortion can occur following on-label use of vaccines with modified-live vaccine IBR virus," adds Donald O’Toole, a veterinarian with the University of Wyoming. "It is not just a problem when MLV vaccines are used off-label, as has been known for years." Abortion storms and poor reproduction can result, says Doug Scholz, director of veterinary services for Novartis Animal Health. He points to a number of large western dairies that experienced high numbers of abortions and poor conception rates when MLV IBR vaccines were given in the dry period and close-up pens. One Colorado dairy was seeing an abortion rate of nearly 25% and a conception rate of just 30%. When the dairy stopped using the MLV IBR vaccine, abortions dropped to 8% and the conception rate climbed to 45%. On a second dairy, pregnancy losses dropped from nearly 30% to less than 10% and the conception rate jumped by 15% when the ML IBR vaccine was no longer used. At the University of Wyoming, researchers found one or two aborted fetuses per day some 30 to 40 days after an MLV IBR vaccine was given to Angus heifers that were seven months pregnant. Total losses were 25% in the 55 heifers studied. "There was no evidence of infection other than IBR," O’Toole says. "My recommendation: Use inactivated IBR vaccines on breeding females." The tendency for the IBR virus to go into latency is also a problem when young calves are vaccinated with a modified-live vaccine. When they’re later stressed, the virus can then be reactivated. While this may cause only a slight fever for a day or two, the vaccinated animal can also shed live, virulent virus to its pen mates. If those animals are not vaccinated, an IBR outbreak can occur, says Clinton Jones, a veterinarian at the University of Nebraska. His bottom line: "Do not use an MLV IBR vaccine on young animals and do not mix unvaccinated calves." Inactivated IBR vaccines for both cows and calves are the preferred method of vaccination, say these veterinarians. "Inactivated vaccines will decrease symptoms during clinical outbreaks, and they eliminate the possibility of virus spread to the fetus," Jones says. - December 2012	<urn:uuid:2f4fce12-6997-4425-b343-76fabcd41af9>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.agweb.com/agday/article/rethink_mlv_ibr_vaccines/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.949397	675	2.609375	3
Sabarigiri School at Anchal features a residential central school and a higher secondary school. The residential central school follows the Central Board of Secondary Education pattern from kindergarten to the +2 level. In the higher secondary school, English is the medium of teaching and it follows the Kerala Government syllabus from standard I to XII. The school also encourages co-curricular activities. College level science and computer laboratories, library, medical attention, school auditorium and school buses are available. Separate hostel is available for boys and girls. The school also has a health club and gymnasium. Punalur Railway Station is 13 km to the north-east of Anchal, and Trivandrum International Airport is 58 km from Anchal.	<urn:uuid:f23a04ac-097b-4213-8b95-a7aeb61a40cc>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.india9.com/i9show/Sabarigiri-School-46884.htm	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.95222	152	1.796875	2
When it comes time to choosing a professional to help with a personal or family issue, sifting through all the different options can be confusing. Before entering graduate school to become a Licensed Professional Counselor, I had no idea the profession even existed, much less the difference between that license and any other. For Psychological Testing, you will generally seek services from a Clinical Psychologist. These professionals have a doctoral degree and more training than other mental health professionals in psychological testing. For Individual, Couples, or Family Counseling, you will do well with a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). Most Clinical Psychologists also offer counseling services. Each of these licensed professionals are trained in counseling a wide range of issues, with a slight difference in their educational and licensure requirements. If you have a choice among an LPC, LMFT, or LCSW, I recommend reviewing the backgrounds and any specializations of each individual to help sort through who may best fit your needs. You may also look at specializations or additional certifications for each professional that may fit your needs. For example, I have a certification as a Registered Play Therapist from the Association for Play Therapy. This just means I have completed the coursework and clinical experience requirements to implement the skills of play therapy into my practice with children. There are endless specializations that clinicians can obtain. If you see letters behind someone’s name that you don’t recognize, they are likely because they have a certification. Do your research to find out more about that training. PsychCentral.com has more detailed descriptions that may be helpful: Psychiatrist – A psychiatrist is a medical doctor and the only professional that specializes in mental health care and can prescribe medications. Psychologist - A psychologist is a professional who does psychotherapy and has a doctorate degree (such as a Ph.D. or Psy.D.). Psy.D. programs tend to focus on clinical practice and result in the professional having thousands of hours of clinical experience before they enter practice. Ph.D. programs can focus on either clinical or research work, and the amount of clinical experience a professional will gain varies from program to program. Psychologists receive specific training in diagnosis, psychological assessment, a wide variety of psychotherapies, research and more. Clinical Social Workers – Typically a clinical social worker will have completed a Master’s degree in social work (M.S.W.) and carry the LCSW designation if they are doing psychotherapy (Licensed Counselor of Social Work). Most programs require the professional to go through thousands of hours of direct clinical experience, and the program focuses on teaching principles of psychotherapy and social work. Marriage & Family Therapist – These therapists tend to have a Master’s degree (but can have as little as a Bachelor’s degree or less in some states) and typically have between hundreds to thousands of hours of direct clinical experience. Because this designation varies from state to state, the quality of the professional may also vary significantly from person to person. Licensed Professional Counselor – The requirements for this designation, which can be in addition to the professional’s educational degrees, vary from state to state. Most are Master’s level professionals who have had thousands of hours of direct clinical experience. Other – There are a wealth of other professional designations and initials that follow professionals’ names. Most of these designate a specialty certification or the like, not an educational degree. You May Also Like:	<urn:uuid:983a6260-ca07-41a0-b7a5-20ae9a0e82ac>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://kimscounselingcorner.com/tag/lcsw/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.951263	735	2.28125	2
Short for constant angular velocity, a technique for accessing data off of rotating disks. With CAV, the disk rotates at a constant speed regardless of what area of the disk is being accessed. This differs from Constant Linear Velocity (CLV), which rotates the disk faster for inner tracks. Disk drives use CAV, whereas CD-ROMs generally use CLV, though some newer drives use a combination of CAV and CLV. The advantage of CAV is that it is much simpler to design and produce because the motor doesn't need to change speed. In addition, CLV runs into problems for very high-speed CD-ROMs because there's a brief latency whenever the drive needs to change the rotational speed. Featured Partners Sponsored - Increase worker productivity, enhance data security, and enjoy greater energy savings. Find out how. Download the “Ultimate Desktop Simplicity Kit” now.» - Find out which 10 hardware additions will help you maintain excellent service and outstanding security for you and your customers. » - Server virtualization is growing in popularity, but the technology for securing it lags. To protect your virtual network.» - Before you implement a private cloud, find out what you need to know about automated delivery, virtual sprawl, and more. »	<urn:uuid:2f7577cb-628f-4fd8-a1a3-5f78936b9d8f>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/CAV.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.920516	266	3.140625	3
Guest Author - Deb Frost The “Mat-Su”, as this large, activity-filled valley in south central Alaska is called by locals, is a thriving residential, business and agricultural community only an hour’s drive from Anchorage. The valley holds some of Alaska’s most spectacular scenery, exciting summer and winter activities and historic sites of interest to visitors and residents alike. Surrounded by no less than three towering mountain ranges; the Alaska Range, the Talkeetna Mountains and the Chugach Mountains, the Mat-Su valley was given this name because it contains the entirety of the Matanuska and Susitna rivers, from river heads spouting from their mother glaciers all the way to the mouths of the rivers where they flow into Cook Inlet and the Pacific Ocean. From start to finish, these spectacular rivers are entirely within the bounds of the Mat-Su Valley. The Mat-Su has the fastest growing population of any geographic area in the entire state. In spite of this, visitors can still experience a very real “back to nature” atmosphere once they are off of the main highway. Like so much of Alaska, it’s a BIG valley. The verdant green valley floor is criss-crossed by rivers and streams of all sizes. Fast flowing glacial rivers from both the Knik and Matanuska glaciers carry massive loads of glacial silt down river each spring; ice cracking and booming as the rivers break free, sending muddy flood waters to temporarily widen and alter river beds across the valley. The rich silt contributes to the fertility of the valley where wild flowers and wild life abound each summer. Once the spring “break-up” is over and the brown, roiling rivers settle back into their banks, visitors can recognize true glacial rivers by their unique milky, opaque greenish-white water color and boulder strewn river bottoms. The color is reminiscent of opals or perhaps a pale shade of jade. It’s difficult to describe but easy to recognize when you see it. Follow the wide, meandering Matanuska River up into the mountains above Palmer by car and you will find the largest single glacier actually accessible by land vehicle. The Matanuska Glacier is 27 miles long and 1300 feet high, with the main entrance at Glacier Park at Mile 102 of the Glenn Highway. Here you can camp or park within view of the glacier and then hike or drive to the very edge of the ice. The park offers a choice of short, medium or day-long guided hikes right up onto the glacier – or the more challenging experience of a full day of ice climbing! If hiking is not your cup of tea, go the opposite direction and take a quiet, peaceful float trip down a lovely, scenic stretch of the Matanuska River, surrounded on both sides by lovely forests and towering mountains. Bald eagles, moose and other wildlife are not uncommon sights along the rivers edge. Looking for a little more excitement? There are various levels of white-water rafting adventures available as well. The Matanuska is a long, winding river with many faces, not all of them gentle. Take a slightly different route out of Palmer and you will find Knik Glacier not far off, peeking out from the edge of the massive ice fields on the back side of the Chugach mountain range. This slightly more off the road glacier can be accessed only by jet-boat or by guided ATV tours that go splashing through the braided shallows of the Knik River and offer a picnic lunch at the base of the glacier. Want to experience the wonder of it all in one day without all the driving or hiking? A flight-seeing trip by float plane is the perfect way to visit all of the Mat-Su Valley’s glaciers, rivers and mountains. Some tours will actually land you on top of a glacier for an exciting, awe-inspiring photo op. There are also a large number of carefully monitored, active salmon and trout rivers, streams and lakes throughout the Mat-Su valley, offering excellent fishing opportunities in season. Between sight-seeing, hiking, fishing, kayaking and river rafting, the rivers and glaciers of the Mat-Su are a draw for tourists and locals alike.	<urn:uuid:e2cf2198-6b2a-4e72-840b-4299138bb399>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art30315.asp	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.930692	884	2.28125	2
A Countrywide Financial call center in Simi Valley in 2004. (Stephen Osman / Los Angeles…) As Valentine’s Day approaches, many workplace managers are keeping an eye out for workplace romance that can destroy productivity. But one group of workplace consultants said that there’s another, bigger problem. Experts at Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. released a cautionary essay this week that warned managers to be on the lookout for workplace hostility. The firm, which helps displaced workers make the transition to reemployment, said that because workplaces are so understaffed, employees become overworked and frustration abounds. “Now we’re getting into a point in the economy where companies are going to start hiring soon,” Challenger spokesman James Pedderson said. “So now we’re starting to get to a point where people are going to start looking for new situations if they’re super unhappy. And these are the people who lasted through the recession. These are the employees the company thought worthy of keeping, so you don’t want to lose them now.” The essay cited numerous studies suggesting that workplace incivility is on the rise. The studies said that between 40% and 80% of people experienced varying forms of insults, rudeness, denigration and disrespect at work. The essay also cited a 2010 poll from the Workplace Bullying Institute reporting that 35% of people say they are bullied at work. "It might be a stretch to call workplaces a 'powder keg,' but managers should be on the lookout for signs of worker hostility and be prepared to act,” Chief Executive John A. Challenger wrote in the essay. “Often in situations where managers are aware of a problem between two or more co-workers, they merely look the other way.” Challenger provided 10 tips for employees on how to create better working environments. One was simply to leave temporarily. “Take a vacation,” the essay said. “Sometimes the best remedy for finding happiness at work is to step away from it.” Tesla unveils Model X electric sport-utility vehicle California sets new export record, eclipsing an 11-year-old mark Southern California home prices keep dropping; it's a time tunnel	<urn:uuid:8e09c7e9-975e-4b59-9c87-034776e04bab>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://articles.latimes.com/2012/feb/10/business/la-fi-workplace-hostility-20120210	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.954959	474	1.734375	2
British singer Peter Gabriel got a brief serenade from a member of the International Space Station crew on Wednesday during a visit to Mission Control in Houston. Canadian Chris Hadfield, Expedition 34's flight engineer, strummed a few chords of Gabriel's hit "In Your Eyes" during a nearly 12-minute chat with Gabriel and his family. Hadfield told Gabriel that he recorded two songs in space. The first, co-written with his brother, is a "space Christmas carol" called "Jewel in the Night." The second, a space-to-Earth collaboration with Canadian band Barenaked Ladies, is called "I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing)." Click on the video above to hear Hadfield's performance.	<urn:uuid:8451e2c0-b435-4f36-ac4f-9d4ea66d6f1f>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/22/peter-gabriel-hears-his-song-played-from-the-international-space-station/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.970556	155	1.585938	2
Several 8,000 year-old skulls mounted on stakes have been discovered in central Sweden. The find at the Kanaljorden excavation site is being praised as unique, with nothing like it having ever been found before. "We found two skulls that still had wooden stakes sticking out of them through a whole at the base of the skull," said archeologist Fredrik Hallgren. In total the skulls of 11 individuals have been found at the site. Several human skulls found mounted on wooden stakes have been uncovered from a Stone Age lake bed in central Sweden in what is believed to be the first discovery of its kind anywhere in the world. View: Full article \| Source: The Local Discuss: View comments (7)	<urn:uuid:9cf606de-7d27-4b12-84ca-4e0788d0615b>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewnews.php?id=214808	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.97727	148	3.0625	3
NYC's new 911 call center adopts Sept. 11 changes NEW YORK (AP) — The city's 911 operators are now able to give callers details about emergency events, reversing what the Sept. 11 Commission determined were flaws in a system that a decade ago denied people inside the burning World Trade Center potentially lifesaving information, officials said Thursday. "Call takers now are given specific information dealing with a particular emergency so that they can transfer that information to callers much more quickly," police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said at the formal launch of a new $680 million 911 call center. The new technology at the Brooklyn center will put more information into the hands of the 911 call takers, allowing officials to feed them information about an emergency and automatically showing them a map of the location of each caller. It also will prevent the system from getting overloaded in the event of a catastrophe, city officials said. In 2004, the federal commission, which was created to study the terror attacks and make recommendations designed to prevent future attacks, concluded that on Sept. 11, 2001, the phone system's operators and dispatchers were unaware that fire chiefs were evacuating the doomed twin towers because the city had no way of relaying that information. As panicked people called 911 seeking guidance on how to escape the burning 110-story buildings, the operators answering the phones were able to offer little help, and some told workers not to evacuate. More than 2,750 people were killed in the attack on the twin towers. The commission concluded that an unknown number of victims might have had a chance of survival if 911 operators had told them not to flee upward, where some found locked roof doors and no hope of escape. On Thursday, emergency officials said that the new call center is able to support a queue of 1,900 emergency calls — up from 500 in 2001. New switches mean the center can now receive up to 50,000 calls in an hour — an unheard-of number for a system that sees an average of 30,000 calls per day. Deputy Mayor for Operations Cas Holloway said that since beginning full operations with New York Police Department staffers last month, there already have been improvements. "It is performing exceptionally, and in fact the number of calls answered in under 10 seconds has gone up by 6 or 7 percent," he said. "The number of overall calls answered in 30 seconds or less is now at 99.9 percent." Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that, under the new system, precious seconds will be saved by requiring most callers to speak to only one operator, instead of repeating information to several. That operator will insert information into the computer system and loop in additional people if necessary, rather than transferring callers to different agencies as was previously done. The opening of the center was delayed by a few years due to what Holloway said had been problems with the new technology, which had frozen and shut down when handling a large number of calls. Holloway said the problems were fixed by the contractor. A second phase of the project, now expected to reach completion in 2015 and cost $2.1 billion, up from the $1.4 billion initially projected in 2004, will involve building another call center in the Bronx, to be used as a backup in the case of a catastrophe. Associated Press writer Colleen Long contributed to this report. Samantha Gross can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/samanthagross	<urn:uuid:5e4fc8ce-798d-4278-a83e-ec4b35acd5b6>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://cnsnews.com/nycs-new-911-call-center-adopts-sept-11-changes-0	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.96815	705	1.976563	2
LINGUIST List 16.1090 Thu Apr 07 2005 All: Obituary: Joseph Taglicht Editor for this issue: Michael Appleby <michaellinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.html. Obituary: Joseph Taglicht Message 1: Obituary: Joseph Taglicht From: Anita Mittwoch <msanitamscc.huji.ac.il> Subject: Obituary: Joseph Taglicht Joseph Taglicht died on March 11th in Jerusalem. Born in Berlin in 1926, Joe was saved by the 'Kindertransport', which enabled him to find refuge in England in 1939; he moved to Israel in 1951. From 1963 until his retirement in 1993 he was a member of the English department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Joe began his academic career as a medievalist, but later moved over to linguistics, working in the Hallidayan school which was then prevalent in London. His publications spanned a considerable range of topics, from the language of Ywain and Gawain (the subject of his Oxford doctoral thesis) to his last paper on the two functions of the word actually. He wrote on poetic metre, on relative constructions, on modals. But the main thread that runs through nearly all of his work is an abiding interest in intonation, in particular in the way intonation interacts with syntax, semantics and information structure. In some of this work he made use of oral corpus material, but he could also rely on an exceptionally sharp ear for the melodies of speech. With the publication in 1984 of his book Message and Emphasis: On Focus and Scope in English, he became an acknowledged authority in this field. Joe was a scholarly, and at the same time a very perceptive and sensitive, linguist; his grammaticality judgements could always be trusted without the slightest hesitation. Those who knew him will miss Joe for his unpretentious wisdom and humanity, for his generosity to colleagues, for his integrity and for the intellectual curiosity which he retained even during his last painful illness. Linguistic Field(s): Not Applicable Respond to list\|Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue	<urn:uuid:9ac1ec09-24c8-4338-84f8-2c4fd63fbce9>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://linguistlist.org/issues/16/16-1090.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.945078	519	1.65625	2
I am starting to doubt Ohm's law. I would like someone to point out why I am wrong. View Single Post Dec11-12, 09:18 PM what sort of white LED is it give us a part number ? it may be one that draws more current Hint.... If you ever want to doubt a known physical law, assume it's something you are doing wrong, not the law ;) I agree with you which is why I thought someone could point out where I am wrong. And about drawing more current wouldn't the current be restricted by the resistor?	<urn:uuid:e40e68e6-ce42-416c-a4a7-1d177b6098e6>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=4193843&postcount=5	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.968407	121	2.40625	2
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Heart disease kills 430,000 women each year, making it the No. 1 killer of women, said Dr. Vyshali Rao, head of the Women’s Heart Program at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena. “Most women in the United States don’t actually know that heart disease is their No. 1 killer,” she said. “If you ask most women, they will probably tell you breast cancer, or some type of cancer.” People can reduce their risk for heart disease by refraining from smoking, watching their weight, and eating plenty of fruits, vegetables and whole grains, Rao said. “Number one is to get yourself aware; go to your doctor,” Rao said. “It is your body, and it is the only body we have, so you can make yourself a promise that once a year you go get a full physical exam. A full physical exam will get about 80% of all the risk factors.” The stiletto strut attracted a cross section of media personalities and professional athletes, including Spanish-language radio host Luz Maria Brizeno, former Los Angeles Kings player Daryl Evans and actress Nia Peeples. Peeples, who emceed the event, said one of the most startling things about the statistics is realizing that heart disease is largely preventable. But most women are unaware of the risks. “I think it is largely because we are the caretakers for the most part; we have a tendency to put everybody else first,” Peeples said. “We don’t realize that it is just like on the airplane when they say we are going down and they drop that oxygen mask, you put that oxygen mask on yourself before your child, because you are ultimately responsible for that child.”	<urn:uuid:e508baeb-7a8f-44b1-b40b-1fba7066a3cd>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://articles.glendalenewspress.com/2011-02-03/news/tn-gnp-0204-heels_1_heart-disease-strut-risk	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.963581	378	2.28125	2
----The largest city in New Jersey, Newark is a major transportation hub with a culturally diverse population of 277,000 and a park that boasts the most extensive collection of cherry trees in the United States. It also has challenges, including the provision of safe, livable housing for low- and moderate-income residents. The Newark Housing Authority (NHA), which operates more than 8,700 housing units in 45 buildings, provides homes for almost 30,000 of the city’s resients. Ten of the authority’s buildings accommodate elderly and disabled residents; the remaining buildings are set aside for families. ---- A few years ago, the housing authority was having difficulty meeting its goal of providing safe homes. In many buildings, drug dealers had overtaken the stairwells. Mothers could not allow children to play outdoors. Seniors couldn’t leave their homes for fear of confrontation with drug dealers. ---- The NHA embarked on a major initiative to upgrade its physical security systems with the goal of providing more effective assistance to its staff and creating safer communities for residents. The agency consulted with Millennium Communications Group (MCG), which provides fiber optic networks and advanced technology solutions for governments, communities, utilities and educational institutions. After assessing the situation, MCG realized that a high-performance security solution was the best option to help the NHA regain control of its objectives. MCG recommended connecting the housing units with a fiber optic backbone – an infrastructure that was capable of handling a high-performance IP camera security solution. THE BENEFITS OF BANDWIDTH While the fiber network was being constructed, MCG’s team of information technology engineers started to develop the new IP solution for the NHA. After organizing facilities into subnets to reduce broadcast traffic, MCG began to design a 10 Gbps link from each of the buildings back to NHA headquarters. ---- This provided the bandwidth needed to carry images from more than 900 digital cameras located in and around the buildings. The IP cameras provide superior color images during both daytime and nighttime. With the fiber infrastructure in place, NHA employees could view, stream, transport and store the large footage files. Camera images can even be viewed in real time from centralized or remote locations. ---- The increased bandwidth that the fiber infrastructure afforded also made other security solutions possible. To increase the safety of the senior citizens and families in NHA buildings, MCG installed a visitor management system that allows the NHA management and security departments to obtain comprehensive reports detailing who visits the buildings, how long visitors stay and how often they visit. ---- To help the NHA monitor its buildings, MCG built a security operations center where the management and security departments can easily research video incidents, manage unwanted visitors and control resident and visitor access badging from a centralized location. CLEAR IMAGES DETER CRIME Prior to installing the IP cameras, the NHA maintained low-tech, black-andwhite cameras that were often unmonitored. If an incident occurred, finding usable camera footage was a matter of luck – and luck didn’t come all that often. With the new, high-performance, fiber-based physical security solution, the housing authority has been able to use camera footage to aid in prosecutions of crimes caught on camera. The crystal-clear quality of the incident footage was made possible by having enough bandwidth to transport and store the camera footage. ---- Since installing the system, the NHA has experienced excellent results. The Newark Police Department has complimented the NHA on the quality of its surveillance systems, including the noticeable improvements in quality of life for residents. Building residents feel safer rather than intruded upon. They experience remarkable improvements in quality of life within their technologically upgraded neighborhoods. With the fiber optic backbone and improved security systems in place, NHA staff can see progress toward making their communities safer and more attractive places to live. VoIP HELPS PAY FOR THE NETWORK A recent collaboration between MCG and the NHA resulted in the installation of a VoIP phone system that saved the NHA millions of dollars in telecommunications costs, compared with what it was paying the incumbent provider. Because the fiber network was already in place, the NHA had an easy time making the decision to advance its capabilities to include a VoIP solution. Lower monthly telecom costs would allow it to recoup the up-front costs of the system within two to three years. An IP-delivered telephone system allows four-digit dialing among NHA facilities, keeping calls from having to touch the public phone network – a further saving of thousands of dollars per month. ---- Future enhancements may include tying the visitor management system into the Newark Police Department’s felon and child-predator databases through a high-speed fiber optic connection. This collaboration will ensure that unwanted visitors do not intrude upon the NHA properties and will further protect its residents. The NHA also has the capability to institute new facial-recognition software if it decides that would be useful. Fiber continues to shows its flexibility and scalability as more and more advanced technologies are deployed. \|Newark’s new emergency operations center can keep the city functioning in an emergency SHARING THE RESOURCE Before the upgrade, the city of Newark had inconsistent technology on an unreliable copper network infrastructure. In rainy weather, the reliability of the network was shaky at best. Once city leaders made the decision to advance toward better technology, they recognized that the changes they wanted wouldn’t be possible given their existing infrastructure. ---- Installing a fiber infrastructure revealed further opportunities to share resources. The NHA already owned the pole space that hosted most of its newly installed fiber network. By using some of the NHA’s existing right-of-way, the city of Newark, the Newark Police Department and the Office of Emergency Management could also benefit from the new fiber optic infrastructure. After the NHA decided to build an emergency operations center in the same building as the new city police headquarters, fiber became the principal focus of the collaboration. By sharing its existing rightof- way, the NHA was able to connect to the police department; by the end of the project, all three entities were able to share camera footage and databases. ---- The city of Newark, the Department of Emergency Management and MCG worked with building architects to design, construct and integrate fiber technology into the new emergency operations center while installing the advanced electronics that would bring these entities together in a cohesive fiber network. MCG built the fiber network and connected it to multiple critical infrastructure sites and to repeater sites that spanned more than 12.5 miles. ---- Because Newark elected to connect its critical infrastructures with fiber, it now has the capacity to deliver the newest technologies available to each of these entities. The Police Department and the new emergency operations center did just that. Each entity now has a unique set of advanced technologies. ---- For safety and security, redundant capabilities were added to the network to allow the emergency operations center and the police department to operate and function flawlessly in any emergency. This is necessary for the seamless integration of safety measures and emergency response within the city. ---- Over the course of its work on the project, MCG helped implement a LAN/WAN system for voice and data, a wireless network, audio/video systems, controlled access, surveillance, and a data center that houses data from both the Police Department and the NHA. ---- Fiber continues to provide beneficial outcomes in even the most unlikely ways. Through their collaborative use of fiber optic broadband, the Newark Housing Authority, the Newark Police Department and the Office of Emergency Management increased their effectiveness in maintaining the community’s safety, created a reliable community resource and improved the quality of life for residents. ❖ \|About the Author Rachael Licata is communications manager for Millennium Communications Group, a provider of advanced network communication services, including engineering, design, systems integration and construction. Learn more at www.millenniuminc.com.	<urn:uuid:9436143c-a2bf-4ffd-9e15-02dab435a702>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.bbpmag.com/MuniPortal/EditorsChoice/0812editorschoice.php	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.954036	1,627	1.890625	2
I totally get this with kids. When you have more than one, and probably even when you have just one, its very easy to say, oh, he’s the whiny one, the needy one, the cuddly one, and so on, creating a shortcut in your head for thinking about them and relating to them. Over time, those labels develop from a shortcut for thinking about relationships into a factor that determines the way we relate to our children, from what we expect from them to how we respond to their needs. Of course, labeling is not limited to relationships we have with our kids. It also impacts the relationships we have with our colleagues. When a ’superstar’ asks for a few weeks off, we gladly and generously say yes. When a ’slacker’ makes the same request, we might grant it, but instead of thinking of it as a deserved break, it’s just one more line in the story that we have about that person. And these labels don’t always get created by accident. Often, we work very hard to create the labels that we give to people. Management books are full of tests, personality assessments and buzzwords that we can use to label people. Meyers-Briggs, StrenghtFinders, Emotional Intelligence, etc. Even when the labels aren’t specifically good/bad but just various colors of a rainbow, these labels can be dangerous. We use StrengthsFinders at work, which I think is a great tool for getting to know your co-workers. But, over time, its easy to think of people as just their labels, and to stop expecting things from them that goes beyond their label. This can make labels as limiting as they are useful. I recently re-took the StrengthsFinder test, and 4 of my 5 strengths had changed. At first, I was not only surprised, I was upset. I had really come to love my strengths, and was pretty unhappy to ‘lose’ some of them. That’s when I realized that I was relying too much on those labels and not enough on creating a more complex, but more nuanced, vision of myself that leaves room for me to grow and change. One of my strengths was ‘relator’ and my role at work is called ‘relationship lead.’ Which is nice synergy. Until I start thinking that maybe I want to shift roles, and my colleagues respond by saying, ‘but you have relator.’ And I know I’ve done the same things to other people. Its easy to see how negative labels can be damaging. But we also have to remember that even descriptive, useful labels of our kids and our colleagues can prevent us from taking a close look at what people are really like, and therefore can prevent us from seeing new possibilities.	<urn:uuid:88ddd081-3f00-42db-aa2e-a3508c9b3ed0>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://officemeetsplayground.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/the-power-of-labels-or-supernanny-vs-strenghtsfinder/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.977848	600	1.625	2
Cloning is one of the best ways to propagate shrubby plants like rhododendron. Cloning, also called vegetative or asexual propagation, is how large growers produce thousands of identical plants at one time. Rhododendron is among the easier shrubs to clone and is sometimes done by the home gardener. Cloning produces new plants which are genetically identical to the parent plant. Plant propagators use tissue from the parent plant, encourage root growth, then establish the new plant in its own pot or new location. Asexual propagation is contrasted with sexual propagation where two plants contribute genetic material to produce a seed from which a new, unique plant will grow. Cloning rhododendrons produces plants true to the parent plant. Sexual reproduction can lead to offspring which have undesirable characteristics. Cloning assures that all of the beneficial characteristics of the parent plant are represented in the offspring. This is often a consideration with color, size, hardiness and disease resistance. It also cuts down on the time and resources required to establish large quantities of new plants. The methods used to clone rhododendrons are usually cutting and layering. In cutting, a plant tip is taken from the rhododendron, dipped in rooting hormone and placed in a light, well-drained medium until there are sufficient roots for transplanting to the garden. Layering consists of simply bending rhododendron branches down to the ground, covering part of it with soil and pinning the branch in place until roots grow. The new plant is separated from the parent when it has rooted sufficiently to be dug up and planted on its own. Cuttings are usually taken from August to October and placed in the garden or a larger pot the next spring. Rhododendrons can be layered in spring and separated from the parent and planted in early fall or the following spring. If you want to clone your own rhododendrons, you only need a few tools. A sharp knife ensures clean cuts, rooting hormone helps rooting, and a stiff wire keeps layered branches pinned to the ground.	<urn:uuid:514cb959-5e45-4e95-b207-36eb1d34ebad>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.gardenguides.com/130203-rhododendron-cloning.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.93552	428	3.203125	3
Great look ahead at some pretty amazing technologies that have the potential to dramatically change the landscape of how we work, live, and play--albeit, not necessarily in the 2012 timeframe. A couple of things stand out to me: The idea of plastic, hence biodegradeable, electronics seems like it could have some profound benefits long term given the heaps of disgarded equipment we see littering the landscapes of third-world nations. I'm also intrigued by the idea of organic LEDs. What makes an LED organic and what's the upshot of that? I'm struck by how closely the picks in this article written by our colleagues at EE Times dovetails with what we've been covering all year long here at Design News. So that says that we've been on the money, but more than that that these "hot" technologies are actually moving very quickly into the mainstream. For some, I see this and it's been obvious for a while (say, MEMs and photovoltaic cells). However, for others I'm a bit surprised to find the uptake might be quicker than I've been assuming. Here the key example is energy harvesting, which I guess is being goosed by its ROI. I am wondering the same thing about organic LEDs, Beth. Also, do organic LEDs have a similar lifespan of inorganic LEDs? Does one have advantages over the other? I'm definitely looking forward to learning more. My top-of-the-top votes would be for MEMS, which are amazing enablers and now come in so many different flavors, and energy harvesting, which is not only a good idea but may become more necessary in the search for alternative energy sources. I'd also vote for PV solar cells for the same reason. Organic LEDs took me by surprise, though--what a great idea. One high-rofile application of MEMS is in Holywood movies, such as Iron Man. The MEMS-based suits enable actotrs to do amazing stunts and we're going to see a lot more applications of the technology in the next few years. What a great, diverse of collection of technologies and applications. If I were a bettor, I'd put my money on the Internet of Things. It's doable and will have a lot of big, motivated players behind it. Even though it has great potential, I think it will emerge quietly, with many of us not even knowing its there. Good point on the Internet of Things, Chuck. I remember a lot of talk about this during the early dot com days. Then it kind of disappeared. Nice to see it revived. A lot of the technology is already there. It's a matter of deploying the technology in useful ways. In answer to your question, Beth, the "Internet of Things" is what I'll admit is an unusual term to describe the coming of 'Net connectivity to commonplace items. The biggest example would be, all appliances, from coffee makers and blenders to refrigerators, will be connected to the Internet. This will enable remote control, energy saving, and automatically pushed-down software updates. On the flip side, Internet of Things opponents worry about privacy (sucking down data about users' habits). Asia (particularly China) seems to be the nexus of initial activity of the Internet of Things, which may be why it's kind of a non-idiomatic English coinage. Intel, for one, sees a huge market selling processors which support the Internet connectivity of all these devices. I agree Jerry. a lot of the Internet of Things is technology looking for a problem. Some things -- like checking the expiration date on milk -- are better done analog. Like the smart thermostat hat learns your patterns. Is it that hard to turn the heat down when you'll be at work, then turning it back up when you get home? I just bought a new TV. It is internet ready to get netflix etc. I got a home entertainment system to go with it. It is internet enabled as well. I imagine almost anything that may want a software upgrade or other data from over the web could use connectivity. To get completely silly on the Internet of Things, some dot com wizards envision connectivity that can keep track of expiration dates on food in the fridge and let you know when the milk's about to go bad. Some systems have already been developed that run home heating and cooling as a smartphone app connected to your thermostat. You can remotely turn your cooling and heating on and off remotely -- as in heat the house I'm on my way home. Another app is the Internet-connected surveillance cameras that let parents check on the babysitter via the smartphone. One early role of the Internet of Things, Beth, is going to happen in retailing and in production inventory. If every product has a low-cost RFID tag, then it can theoretically report back to the Internet on its contents and location. That way, every item on the shelf at the grocery store or apparel shop is a known commodity, and can be inventoried by a computer, so that companies know when and where their products are consumed, and when they need to be re-stocked. Tracking via RFID tags on consumer products is a potentially iffy proposition, at least if companies expect to track their products in people's homes. This is because some people tear off the tags as soon as they get the product home, due to privacy concerns. Yes, it would have to be on a voluntary basis. Those who want to use the service would be motivated to make sure the tags stay in place. Privacy -- at least on some level -- is a generational concern. Facebook's Mark Zukerberg claims privacy isn’t important to people his age. He backed off that statement when attacked, but nonetheless, he revealed his view and he very well may be right. That may change as kids get older and find out prospective employers have learned to examine the Facebook sites of candidates. The internet of things does not seem to be taking off in the U.S. the way one would think, given its hype. I think in part this is the expense of adding Internet connectivity to small appliances, but more than that, it's a lack of Internet connectivity on the receiving (receptacle) end in legacy U.S. households. I don't know where the economic impetus will come from to fill in this hole. It's doable; you'd kind of need to deploy PoE (Power over Ethernet). But the numbers just don't work the way they did for, say, cable TV. Taking that one step further, Alex, I don't think a lot of consumers see the need for the Internet of Things. I have wireless access in my house, of course, but I see absolutely no need for my refrigerator to be on it. I've seen the ads for those that can keep track of what you have, make shopping lists and download recipes, but I don't need any of that. And after reading all of the monkey-designed washer articles, I SURE don't want anything else for them to get their hands on. I agree., I have no interest ijn having RFID tags on everything I own. I took a wireless security class, and one of the things mentioned was some theives were driving around with RFID readers trying to find homes with new televisions. Imagine if they could also hack into your home and shut off all lights before a home invasion? Just because it is possible to do something does not mean we should, Steve - Did your class happen to mention the best way of dealing with those RFID tags? Are these the ones that are in the boxes to prevent shoplifting (so its just a matter of finding and destoying, or are these tags in the new TV's themselves? Most items have the tags in the packaging. And Walmart for one, mandates supplies use them for inventory control. Problem is that I retain my boxes, at least until the warrenty expires. Of course, placing a box for a 60" TV out for trash pickup lets everyone in your neighborhood know who got a new toy. The near field communications is an interesting technology. It's being tested in some markets. Quite of number of phone makers and financial companies are investing in it. Apple is lining up patents to use it at Apple stores. We looked at a number of sources to determine this year's greenest cars, from KBB to automotive trade magazines to environmental organizations. These 14 cars emerged as being great at either stretching fuel or reducing carbon footprint. Healthcare might seem to be an unlikely target application for the Internet of Things technology, but recent developments show small ways that big-data is going to make an impact on patient care moving into the future. A quick look into the merger of two powerhouse 3D printing OEMs and the new leader in rapid prototyping solutions, Stratasys. The industrial revolution is now led by 3D printing and engineers are given the opportunity to fully maximize their design capabilities, reduce their time-to-market and functionally test prototypes cheaper, faster and easier. Bruce Bradshaw, Director of Marketing in North America, will explore the large product offering and variety of materials that will help CAD designers articulate their product design with actual, physical prototypes. 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In 1994, in Australia, a species of tree was found that had been thought extinct for millions of years. This bizarre-looking beast had been known about only from 120 million-year-old fossil leaves before this moment of pure magic. It is called the Wollemi Pine and fewer than one hundred exist in the wild. They have strange bark that looks like bubbles of chocolate, multiple trunks, and ferny-looking leaves growing in spirals. They can grow up to 125 feet tall. Soqotra is one of a remote group of islands in the northern part of the Indian Ocean, and part of the Republic of Yemen. It is one of four islands known as the "Galapagos of the Indian Ocean" because many of its plant and animal species are found nowhere else on earth. First settled 3.000 years ago by Arabian tribes, it was central to an ancient trade route across the Indian Ocean. One of its most famous exports was Cinnibar – Dragon's Blood Resin, prized by Alexander the Great. It comes from the Dracaena Cinnibari – the Dragon's Blood tree – found only on these islands. Also called the 'Tree of Life', most parts of this tree are used by the islanders for something. The giant mushroom shape has changed little in 30 million years. The name comes from the bright red resin collected by cutting the trunk, and used for medicinal purposes. Another very unusual plant is the Welwitschia, discovered first by Austrian botanist Friedrich Welwitsch in 1860 in the Namib desert of Angola. This is a plant of remarkably bizarre habits and survives in very harsh localities where the annual rainfall is often less than 25 mm and where the coastal fog is equivalent to about further 50 mm. The oldest living specimens are estimated at 1500 to 2000 years and capable of surviving severe conditions of stress. The sprawling shrub consists of just two leaves that never get shed, instead growing into fat dreadlocks as they get shredded by the harsh winds. Known as 'Onyanga' – onion of the desert – some parts of the plant are eaten by the local Herero people. From this giant of a strange plant to one that is anything but. The 'Wolffia angusta' is the world's smallest flower. A dozen plants would easily fit on the head of a pin and two plants in full bloom will fit inside a small printed letter "o." An average A4 size piece of paper could easily hold 100,000 of these plants with room to spare. Though this plant has no scent to speak of, certain plants around the world rely on truly obnoxious perfumes to attract the right pollinating insects. The Titan Arum, better known as the 'corpse flower' is very aptly named. Found in the forests of Western Sumatra, it is a huge plant which needs to be avoided if possible. Its botanical name is Amorphophallus, which translates to 'giant penis'. It is one of two enormous plants called corpse flowers because they give off a strong scent of rotting mammal flesh to attract meat-eating insects. The other, Rafflesia arnoldii, is also native to the Sumatra rainforests. The titan arum takes six years or more to flower from seed, but after that it blooms every four months. While the Amorphophallus could be likened by some to the human male sex organ, the plant world also depicts the female variety in the shape of another putrid smelling species, namely Hydnora Africana. It is a parasite living on the roots of another plant and gives off a strong smell of animal feces to attract the pollinating dung beetles. Yet another big, smelly plant with sexual overtones is the Dracunculus Vulgaris, also called the Voodoo Lily, the Dragon Arum, the Black Arum, the Snake Lily, the Stink Lily, the Black Dragon. In Greece, part of its native range, the plant is called Drakondia, the long spadex being viewed as a small dragon hiding in the spathe, or by some as a tongue licking at a female organ. This plant does, however, give off the scent of rotting flesh to attract the right flies. Be they gigantic or minute, these strange, sexy, smelly species of plants are all fascinating in their own right. You would need to travel the world if you wanted to see many of them first hand, though many can be seen in the UK at Kew Gardens and also at the botanical gardens in New York. There is such endless variety in every kind of life on earth, and we should be very grateful for that diversity. No matter how much you think you know, it is only a tiny drop in the ocean. There is always more to be discovered.	<urn:uuid:18b0c6ab-b7b5-4822-aa60-652ec30d5ffa>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/plants/news-strangest-smallest-%E2%80%93smelliest-sexiest-special-species-plants?image=2	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00064-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.961992	992	3.375	3
© 2006 University of Chicago Library Bekker, Immanuel. Papers 0.5 linear feet (1 box) Special Collections Research Center Immanuel Bekker (1785-1871) Philologist. The Papers consist entirely of correspondence addressed to Bekker. Some are semi-official communications (Niebuhr, W.V.Humboldt); many are of a scholarly nature, occasionally with extensive Greek quotations. Those written by Bekker's closer intimates are often typical of the need felt in the Romantic era to open one's heart to a friend, while a few are no more than short invitations (Reimer). The letters cover the period 1806 to 1853. The collection is open for research. Original documents, texts, and images represented by digital images linked to this finding aid are subject to U. S. copyright law. It is the user's sole responsibility to secure any necessary copyright permission to reproduce or publish documents, texts, and images from any holders of rights in the original materials. 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While this arrangement enabled Bekker to finish the Gymnasium, the experience may have brought about the bitterness and taciturnity that characterized him for the rest of his life (Schleiermacher once quipped that Bekker "could remain silent in seven languages"). In 1803 Bekker went to the University of Halle to study the new science of philology under Friedrich August Wolf (1759-1824). He soon won the recognition and esteem of this famous scholar who assisted him greatly. After he had received his doctorate, in 1806, Bekker was appointed Inspector of the Philological Seminary. He supplemented his income by writing reviews for the Jenaer Litteraturzeitung, which made his name known in scholarly circles. At Halle, Bekker came under the influence of Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, the great theologian and philosopher, who became his mentor and fatherly friend. At regular social gatherings arranged by Nanny, Schleiermacher's half-sister, Bekker met several fellow-students who became his intimate friends: Karl von Raumer, later professor of natural history and mineralogy at the University of Erlangen; Alexander von der Marwitz, a young Prussian nobleman and fervent patriot who fell in 1814 at the battle of Montmirail; R. von Przystanowsky, a Polish mineralogist; and Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, diplomat and soldier, whose wife Rahel was to preside over the most famous literary salon in Berlin. When Napoleon closed the University of Halle in 1806 Schleiermacher obtained for Bekker a position as tutor in classical languages to the children of Herr von Wulcknitz, a rich landowner at Lanke in the province of Brandenburg. There, in rural seclusion, Bekker pursued his studies and wrote his famous recension of Wolf's edition of Homer, which states the scholarly principles upon which he later acted. In April, 1810, on Wolf's recommendation, Bekker was appointed to a chair at the newly founded University of Berlin. He did not assume his new position at once, however, but, with Wolf's support, he urgently appealed to Wilhelm von Humboldt, Prussian minister of public instruction, to be granted a sabbatical leave and a stipend that would enable him to travel to Paris. In the wake of the victorious Napoleonic armies eager French scholars had removed all manuscripts worth taking from the libraries and archives of the conquered territories and sent them to Paris. There, in the Bibliotheque Impériale, lay a very large number of invaluable source materials. Bekker sensed the uniqueness of such anopportunity for examining manuscripts formerly dispersed all over continental Europe, especially at a time when travel was still a hardship, correspondence took a long time, and the owners of manuscripts were not always co-operative. Although there was "no precedence of a stipend being granted to a 'traveling philologist'" (v. Humboldt's letter of November 3, 1809) Bekker eventually had his way and arrived in the French capital in May of 1810. What he found there far surpassed his expectations. For three and a half years he spent up to twelve hours daily copying and collating Greek manuscripts. Bekker also established contacts with French colleagues, most notably Nicolas-Maximilien-Sidoine Séguier, who became one of his close friends. In 1815 Bekker was elected to the Berlin Academy on whose recommendation he returned to Paris with a special mission. His duties were described to him by Barthold Georg Niebuhr, the historian, who was then a functionary at the headquarters of the allied sovereigns (letter of July 25, 1815). Bekker was to supervise the return of all manuscripts purloined from German libraries and archives and of all art objects removed from their previous locations. His stay in Paris was short this time. While the French were condescendingly helpful to the conquered on his first visit, they now resented the conquerors, especially their official representatives, and the friends at home were concerned for Bekker's safety. Schleiermacher, in his letter of October 20, 1815, exhorts him "to return home not later than the last Prussian troops, lest the wrath of the French be directed against one of the few remaining Germans." When the Berlin Academy decided to publish a large, annotated edition of Aristotle and his scholiasts, Bekker was selected to visit the most important libraries of Europe to examine and copy source materials. His first station was Rome, where Niebuhr had been Prussian ambassador to the Papal Court since 1816. For the first time Bekker lived at Niebuhr's residence, where he probably became acquainted with Christian Karl Josias Bunsen, the ambassador's personal secretary and a distinguished scholar himself. While in Rome Bekker was introduced to Dorothea von Schlegel and met Henriette Herz, a previous acquaintance, who kept the other important salon in the Prussian capital. She was then the widow of Marcus Herz, a disciple and former student of Kant, who lectured in philosophy and natural sciences at the University of Berlin. Because of their frequent association for a year and a half in Italy and the growing intimacy between them, Bekker was moved to make her a proposal of marriage before they took leave in June, 1819, but was turned down because of their difference in age. They continued to be close friends. In the fall of 1819 Bekker visited Paris the third time and subsequently carried on his research in the libraries of the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, Leyden, and Heidelberg. All this time Schleiermacher, as one of the secretaries of the Berlin Academy, kept in touch with Bekker and encouraged him in his work. In 1825 Bekker married and founded his own household; the preceding years he had lived in the house of his publisher Georg Andreas Reimer. Schleiermacher had also lived in the publisher's house for some of that time. Since his student days Bekker's favorite project had been the compilation of a large Greek lexicon. He soon had to realize, however, that without an adequate number of reliable texts such an undertaking would be impossible. In recognition of this urgent need, he devoted himself-temporarily as he thought-to the task of editing Greek authors. But the manuscript collations he had accumulated in the course of many years provided him with such an abundance of material that he never found time to return, as planned, to his work on the lexicon. Instead Bekker became one of the most prolific editors of ancient texts, not only Greek and Latin, but later also Provencal, Old-French, and Italian. Bekker's importance lies in the fact that he was first to publish reliable editions of the classics in substantial numbers. It was his work in particular that put the study of Greek grammar and lexicography on a firm foundation. Details on Bekker are to be found in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, and in an article written by his son, Ernst Immanuel, after his death in 1871 and published in the magazine Presussische Jahrbücher ("Zur Erinnerung an meinen Vater," Vol. XXIX, pp. 553-585 and 641-668). Several of the letters in this collection are quoted there. All the German correspondents represented here, with the exception of Klein and Wülcknitz, are treated extensively in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Séguier will be found in any French biographical dictionary. Many were habitues of Henriette Herz' salon. On Bekker's role in this society, and especially on his relationship with Henriette Herz, useful information is to be found in Max J. Putzel's Letters of Henriette Herz to Immanuel Bekker, a doctoral dissertation (University of Chicago, 1965) based on part of this collection. The Immanuel Bekker Papers consist entirely of correspondence addressed to Bekker; the content of the letters varies. Some are semi-official communications (Niebuhr, W.V.Humboldt); many are of a scholarly nature, occasionally with extensive Greek quotations. Those written by Bekker's closer intimates are often typical of the need felt in the Romantic era to open one's heart to a friend. A few no more than short invitations (Reimer). The letters cover the period 1806 to 1853. The letters are arranged alphabetically by the 28 correspondents. Within each folder a chronological sequence has been maintained wherever possible. A small group of letters by obscure persons and fragments is found at the end. The following related resources are located in the Department of Special Collections: \|Box 1 Folder 1\| Christian Josias Bunsen (1791-1860), Prussian diplomat and scholar \|Box 1 Folder 2\| Franz Christian Gau (1790-1853), architect and antiquary \|Box 1 Folder 3\| Henriette Herz (1764-1847), presided over an important salon in Berlin \|Box 1 Folder 4\| Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), the famous naturalist and traveler \|Box 1 Folder 5\| Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835), philologist and man of letters, brother of the above \|Box 1 Folder 6\| Augusta Klein, friend of Henriette Herz. \|Box 1 Folder 7\| Alexander von der Marwitz (1787-1814), Prussian patriot and soldier \|Box 1 Folder 8\| Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776-1831), statesman and historian, Prussian ambassador to Rome \|Box 1 Folder 9\| R. v. Przystanowski \|Box 1 Folder 10\| Karl von Raumer (1783-1865), naturalist. \|Box 1 Folder 11\| Georg Andreas Reimer (1776-1842), Berlin bookdealer and printer, Bekker's publisher, and members of his family \|Box 1 Folder 12\| Dorothea v. Schlegel (1763-1839), wife of Friedrich v. 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Trends in U.S. Consumer Spending 30 October, 2012 \| (01 hr) Consumer spending in the U.S has experienced major changes during and after the great recession. In this webcast we will: - Learn about the main trends in U.S. consumer spending, focused on the impact of the housing market - Learn about the main factors impacting consumer spending - Learn about the trends in consumer spending by age, income, location, and other socioeconomic groupings - Learn about trends in consumer prices - Discuss the outlook for consumer spending in the coming year Audience: economists; strategists; professionals in consumer insights, marketing, or consumer experience Louise Keely is a Senior Vice President at Nielsen and concurrently serves as Chief Research Officer for The Demand Institute. Louise was most recently Intellectual Capital Director at The Cambridge Group, a division of Nielsen that specializes in... Full Bio Gad Levanon, Ph.D. Gad Levanon is director of macroeconomic research at The Conference Board, where he also leads the labor markets program. He also serves on The Demand Institute™ leadership team. Levanon created ... Full Bio	<urn:uuid:84698a7e-bba5-4ea3-88ec-41b287b81bd1>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.conference-board.org/webcasts/ondemand/webcastdetail.cfm?webcastid=2785	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.929046	239	1.804688	2
Health Spot: Mesa College bears no battery With domestic violence awareness month, October, steadily approaching there is a greater push for mindfulness of the issue and San Diego Mesa College has a variety of resources to help students who are affected by domestic violence. Domestic violence is when one partner acts in an abusive manner toward the other partner in an intimate relationship or marriage. Domestic violence crosses gender lines, can affect any age range and doesn’t care about ethnicity. It impacts straight and gay relationships, either partner in the relationship can be the abuser and at times other family members are also physically or emotionally abused. The behavior associated with domestic violence includes physical, sexual, verbal and other emotional abuse. The main goal of the abuser is always to gain and maintain total control over their victim. Mesa College has health professionals, counselors and psychologist available at the Health Services department. Police are also available to help victims of domestic violence. For physical violence, the physician and nurses on campus can mend and heal, but for the emotional turmoil brought on by domestic violence psychologist are ready to help. Typically the abuser creates a deep rooted sense of emotional manipulations before any physical abuse ever occurs. With this emotional handcuffing a victim who only seeks physical help and not emotional or psychological help will be at a greater risk of returning to the abuser. There is a huge misconception that a person who is in a real domestic violence relationship wouldn’t stay in the relationship, and thus when a victim returns to the relationship it’s proof that it “isn’t that bad” or the victim is “allowing it.” Generally the victim sees him or herself as having no choice but to return to the abuser. The abuser will typically remove associations with friends and family, lower the victim’s self-esteem and at times cause or worsen depression issues. It’s important to note that every relationship is unique and domestic violence takes on many forms; while some situations consist of verbal and emotional abuse (or none physical actions), others become quite physically violent where the victim is beaten and sometimes raped. Statistically women are six times more likely to become victims of domestic violence, but due to a greater stigma of men (both straight and gay) being seen as victims of domestic violence it is thought that few incidences are actually reported. According to the San Diego Domestic Violence Council website about 50 percent of all lesbians have experienced or will experience domestic violence. There are many signs to look out for if you think you might be in an abusive relationship; including your partner having a history of bad relationships or a violent past, he or she always blames others for their problems, blaming you for the violence, coercing the use of alcohol or drugs, acting controlling or manipulative, keeping you away from close friends and family, and talking about others in a sexual or derogatory manner. Relationships shouldn’t make you feel less confident about yourself, they shouldn’t scare you or keep you in a constant state of worry, they shouldn’t change your behavior in a negative way and they shouldn’t make you feel afraid of discussing problems with your partner. Police emergency line Health Services department Rape Aggression Defense Basics Self Defense Training. Held on Oct. 8 and Oct. 15 in room Q-100 from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. To register contact Cindy Cavada by phone at 619-388-2749 or by e-mail at email@example.com. Hope in the Park Held on Oct. 8 at Blaboa Park from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. There will be live music, food, games, community resources, food packages, contests and the organization is providing methods of healing for those affected by domestic violence, education about prevention and much more.	<urn:uuid:3d7b67d8-69b2-4d87-8ed0-058f69b5bc59>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.mesapress.com/opinion/2011/09/22/mesa-college-bears-no-battery/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.942707	802	2.8125	3
Pamplona’s Running of the Bulls is the Star Event of the Sanfermines: The Running of the Bulls (Encierro) is an event that takes place in many towns across Spain, however it is the Pamplona’s Encierro that is famous the world over, thanks to Hemingway. Over 85 years after Hemingway’s cult novel The Sun Also Rises, the Pamplona Running of the Bulls is still as popular as ever. The Running of the Bulls is the centre-stage event of Pamplona’s Sanfermines or Fiesta de San Fermín, an annual celebration that takes place in the city from July 6 – 14 . As we stand in front of the Town Hall, we learn of the four rockets and the significance of each of them in the organization of the running of the bulls: - the first rocket is fired from the main balcony of the Town Hall when the clock on the Church of San Cernin strikes 8:00 a.m. It signals the opening of the gates of the corral and the release of the bulls and oxen. Simultaneously, the barrier by the Municipal police is withdrawn and the runners are let through. - the second rocket is fired to signal that the entire herd of bulls have left the corral - the third rocket is fired when all the bulls have entered the bullring, and - the fourth rocket indicates that all the bulls are safely enclosed in the corral at the bullring and the bull run is over Plaza Consistorial seems awfully small and even with just breathing space between the runners, it’s hard to imagine how so many participants manage to squeeze into the space. They do warn that if you’re claustrophobic or have had too much to drink, you shouldn’t take part. Running of the Bulls Route Starting at Santo Domingo, the 848.6-metre Running of the Bulls route ends at the Bullring: Santo Domingo – Plaza Consistorial-Mercaderes – Estafeta – Baja de Javier – Telefonica – Lane – Bullring There are usually 6 bulls in the herd and they are accompanied by eight oxen. At the end of the run, the bulls are held at the Bullring corral and in the afternoon they are used for bullfights. Running of the Bulls Rules Whilst the event might look chaotic and rowdy, there are actually rules that the runners have to obey for their own safety and the safety of others. Pile-ups do occur – this is when one or a few people trip and cause others to fall over them. According to the experts, a cardinal rule is that if you do trip, and are in close proximity to the bulls, it’s best to curl up and keep still. You may be hurt by the trampling bulls, but the injuries are likely to be less fatal than being gored by a bull if you got up, as had happened to a young American runner. From the little coverage that we see on the news, the bull run might give the impression to thrillseekers that it is fun, but from the number of deaths and injuries to-date, we know that it is a dangerous sport. The rule says that you must be at least 18 to take part, but one of the fatalities was a 17 year old. Anyone mad enough to contemplate this bull run should at least find out from the locals, and the experienced, the tactics for being a good runner. Within a matter of a few minutes, when all the bulls have entered the bullring, the run is over. The bulls are held in the corral at the bullring and in the afternoon they engage in yet another popular Spanish tradition, the Bullfight. Watching the Bull Run For the majority of visitors who come to see the bull run, there are several places where you can watch it safely: many locals are renting out balconies for €20 – 30 per day; the outer barriers on the street are free but they are also very popular and you have to get there at least 90 minutes before the start; or at the bullring. The Running of the Bulls is the main event of the Pamplona Sanfemines, but throughout the nine-day festival there are lots of other ceremonies, events and festivities taking place. If you are contemplating attending Sanfemines, it is recommended that you book your accommodation way in advance for this highly popular festival.	<urn:uuid:ab7c94b9-0ce9-48b5-9844-303fd9f11ecf>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.travelsignposts.com/Spain/sightseeing/running-of-the-bulls	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.956876	942	1.859375	2
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Luke -Jr wrote: On Sunday 08 June 2008, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: and (b) control being transferred to a block of memory that isn't actually code, as can happen if exception vectors or global pointers-to-functions aren't set up correctly, or if the kernel stack is being corrupted. When you say "the instruction in question is a store word", how do you know that? The RI error spits out a bunch of info, including epc which presumably points to the instruction causing the problem: ac85ffc0; this is 'sw a1,-64(a0)' But unless the processor itself is actually defective, there is no way that a SW instruction can cause an RI exception. Sometimes a kernel crash is so violent that the kernel stack frame cannot be reliably decoded by the crash dump code, and this would appear to be one of those cases. I find the address of 0xac85ffc0 to be a bit suspicious, myself. That's a kseg1 (non-cacheable identity map) address for physical address 0x0c85ffc0, which would be legitimate (though suspicious) if you had 256MB of RAM, but the boot log quote you posted earlier suggests that you've only got 16M. Is there really memory of some kind at that address? Are you calling routines in a boot ROM from Linux? Debugging Linux kernel crashes is probably not the best way to learn the MIPS privileged resource architecture. I'd strongly recommend	<urn:uuid:75b5e4fd-07ae-49a8-b832-f4341a060ece>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2008-06/msg00043.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.919536	329	1.554688	2
31 January 1923 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski Polish right-winger Eligiusz Niewiadomski was executed in 1923 for assassinating Poland’s first President. He was sentenced to death for shooting Gabriel Narutowicz at an art exhibition in Warsaw. Known for his modernist paintings, art critic Niewiadomski was a member of the right-wing National Democratic Party in the early 1900s. But he became disaffected after they lost the first election. Poland was a young nation and went on to elect its first President in the shape of Narutowicz. Indeed he was inaugurated on 16 December 1922. But a mere five days later, he was dead. Niewiadomski was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by a firing squad. His execution took place at the Citadel in Warsaw and he was buried at the city’s Powązki Cemetery.	<urn:uuid:7f7a2cfa-14a7-46cd-a2ce-0f3dac73bb97>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://eotd.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/31-january-1923-eligiusz-niewiadomski/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.981887	200	2.734375	3
Critical Response Unit The California State University, East Bay Police Department is a participant in the CSU Northern California Critical Response Unit (CRU), a highly trained unit with representation from most of the CSU campuses. The unit is available upon request to assist CSU campuses with critical incidents, emergencies and disasters. CRU officers are trained in crowd control, dignitary protection, and disaster relief. Since its development in 1993, CRU has responded to CSU Northridge to assist in the aftermath of their major earthquake, provided special security for President Bill Clinton, The Rev. Jesse Jackson, and other dignitaries, and has responded to numerous other calls for help within the University system. A special component of the CRU is the highly trained Specialized Entry and Rescue Team (SERT). The SERT officers are trained in high risk building entries and hostage rescue. At the request of the Secret Service, SERT provided counter sniper placements during the visit of Vice President Al Gore and performed high-risk warrant service in various locations in the Bay Area for a San Francisco State University Police investigation.	<urn:uuid:70abaed2-e701-4c5c-b94f-f24744f52478>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www20.csueastbay.edu/af/departments/upd/police-services/citical-response-unit%20.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.938883	221	1.632813	2
To italicize or not to italicize. For Indian writers selling their English novels in the literary emporiums of the world, this apparently trivial decision has become absolutely crucial. There will have to be many Indian words in the ‘rich weave’ of their prose, especially the food words and the dirty words. Glossaries have become passé, but should the reader be thrown in at the deep end of postcolonial hybridity, or should they be helped gently along' Humankind cannot bear too much Otherness. Vikram Chandra, for instance, took the tough line. His Sacred Games, set largely in modern Mumbai, is full of the rawest Hindi slang, but there are no italics. Just nine-hundred, typographically undifferentiated pages. It works powerfully for the Indian reader, even if 900 pages is hard work. But no Booker for him, not even the shortlist. Kiran Desai is another kind of writer. She goes in for the italics, and even for the English translations often slipped in quietly, like a practised cicerone, as if this is how the back-and-forth people naturally talk as they skate between Kalimpong and New York. And sure enough, it worked for Desai’s judges. “‘Humara kya hoga, hai hai, humara kya hoga,’ he let his voice fly. ‘Hai hai, what will become of us'’ ‘Shut up,’ said the judge and thought, These damn servants born and brought up to scream.” This is a beautifully potted vignette of a certain idea of India made up of bilingualism, inequality (i.e. servants) and a colonial past. The screaming servant is a Nepali cook whose son is trying to pull himself out of illegal immigranthood in New York; the judge a crusty, Naipaulian old colonial in Kalimpong; and the whole scene is being presented through the eyes of an Indian girl in her late teens. She is the judge’s orphaned granddaughter, who will later lead a listlessly globalized life. There is even insurgency in the air: the Gorkhas are about to rise up in the hills. The servant is screaming because the young Gorkhas have just looted the judge’s house. It sounds simplistic and mean-minded to reiterate the cliché that most commercially successful English novels by ‘Indian’ writers are principally written for Western readers, and in being so they tell certain stories, over and over again, recreate certain moods, tones and atmospheres, and recycle images, tropes and vocabularies that give back to this market exactly what it expects, knows and likes to hear. Then, with a further turn of the screw, these expectations and this taste for the ‘Indo- Anglian’ — together with the words, images and stories they produce and are fed by — cross the seas and come back home in a strange critical circuit. “We” begin to like these words, images and stories too, and begin to see and read them, and therefore ourselves, in their mirror. The Booker has become an important critical judgment, and to the Indian reader, Arundhati Roy would not have been Arundhati Roy had she not got the Booker, and even if she had gone on to write more and better novels after the first one. As literary criticism goes, what I have just written is pretty crude. But perhaps there is no more nuanced way of putting this, because the phenomenon I am trying to describe here is essentially unsubtle and rather old. It is tied up with such tattered old binaries like East and West, Us and Them, and with something that Edward Said had begun to describe in the late Seventies. And at this point, I find myself trying desperately to avoid using the words, ‘Orientalism’ and ‘exoticization’, for they are such dreadful clichés, and are so often used by people who are vilely envious of, and full of personal malice against, successful writers who are given thousands of pounds as advance or prize money for their novels. But while reading Kiran Desai in the light of her winning the Booker, I suddenly realize, with a bit of a shock, that it is impossible to make sense of such a prize as the Booker, and of what is happening to it, without using this worn-out, and slightly tiresome, critical vocabulary. What Desai gives the Booker panel is Incredible India as Beautiful Writing. The stories are of loss and humiliation, displacement and dispossession — the rich music of victimhood is never not heard. But that makes it all the more poignant and beautiful, testing every skill that she may have honed at her creative writing course at Columbia University. None less than Borges provides her with the right words, in the epigraph, for expressing these feelings: “My humanity is in feeling we are all voices of the same poverty./ They speak of homeland.” And hence, this Beautiful Writing should not only tell the right Stories, but should also foreground the right Issues. That here, too, Desai has been successful or lucky is best proven by the opening paragraph of Pankaj Mishra’s review of her novel in the New York Times: “Desai’s extraordinary new novel manages to explore, with intimacy and insight, just about every contemporary international issue: globalization, multiculturalism, economic inequality, fundamentalism and terrorist violence. Despite being set in the mid-1980s, it seems the best kind of post-9/11 novel.” Both Desai and Mishra, with their impressive command over the interconnectedness of “every contemporary international issue”, are important literary figures in the “post-9/11” literary universe. Each, in his or her own way, lives out the privileges and pitfalls of somebody who is described on dust-jackets as “dividing her time between places”. Their books are ‘about’ so many things that can be listed in abstraction from the books themselves that it is often more stimulating and entertaining to hear them talk about their own books than to actually read them. Mishra’s recent nonfictional writings have explained the Budhha to the Western world and taught “India, Pakistan, Tibet and Beyond” how to be “Modern”, while his literary journalism has explicated the nuances of Indian life, literature and history with remarkable adroitness. But his one novel so far has died a quiet and unsurprising death. Kiran Desai, too, seems to be the sort of author whose beautiful writing and global empathies — the ability to perceive, understand and express the connections within a complicated existence in the world — would make a wonderful travelling belle-lettrist. Desai would be what Mishra is already: an ideal writer for the distinguished reviews that come out from London and New York, writing with equal ease about books, people, ideas and places for readers who are compelled by what Desai describes as “a desire for something beyond their own existence”. That is an admirable achievement. But the eminent women and men of letters in the Booker panel might still have wished to discriminate between belles-lettres and superior fiction.	<urn:uuid:967798a0-1572-4092-89f3-8138591c429b>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.telegraphindia.com/1061012/asp/opinion/story_6857011.asp	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.968717	1,535	1.921875	2
Amazing Photo Captures 84 Million Stars in Our Milky Way Galaxy Astronomers have catalogued 84 million stars at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy using an enormous cosmic photo snapped by a telescope in Chile, a view that is billed as the largest survey ever of the stars in our galaxy's core. The staggering 9-gigapixel picture was created with data gathered by the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), an instrument at the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in northern Chile. The zoomable image is so large that it would measure 30 feet long by 23 feet tall (9 by 7 meters) if printed with the resolution of a typical book, researchers said. The catalogue derived from the new image contains 10 times more stars than previous studies have provided. It should help astronomers better understand the structure and evolution of our home galaxy, researchers said. "By observing in detail the myriads of stars surrounding the center of the Milky Way we can learn a lot more about the formation and evolution of not only our galaxy, but also spiral galaxies in general," study lead author Roberto Saito, of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad de Valparaíso and The Milky Way Millennium Nucleus, said in a statement. [Stunning Photos of Our Milky Way Galaxy] The huge new picture probes the Milky Way's central bulge, a concentration of ancient stars found near the core of most spiral galaxies. Getting good looks at this region is not an easy task. "Observations of the bulge of the Milky Way are very hard because it is obscured by dust," said co-author Dante Minniti, also of Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. "To peer into the heart of the galaxy, we need to observe in infrared light, which is less affected by the dust." VISTA was able to do just that, snapping thousands of infrared images that were combined to generate a monumental color mosaic measuring 108,200 by 81,500 pixels. It's one of the biggest astronomical images ever produced, researchers said. Astronomers identified 173 million different objects in the 9-billion-pixel image, of which 84 million could be confirmed as stars. The rest were distant objects such as galaxies, or they were too faint or blended to be identified conclusively. Saito and his team then plotted the brightness of each star against its color, creating a color-magnitude diagram with 84 million data points. These diagrams are valuable tools, helping astronomers study star properties such as temperature, mass and age. "Each star occupies a particular spot in this diagram at any moment during its lifetime," Minniti said. "Where it falls depends on how bright it is and how hot it is. Since the new data gives us a snapshot of all the stars in one go, we can now make a census of all the stars in this part of the Milky Way." The astronomers are making their data publicly available, so other research teams can use it to make exciting finds of their own. The team published their results in the August issue of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. MORE FROM SPACE.com	<urn:uuid:52fce0f7-8a77-4e4a-b81e-197d8d57a6ed>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.space.com/18193-milky-way-photo-84-millions-stars.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.941613	659	2.953125	3
Ever Pondered... How Destructive Obesity And Diabetes Can Be? By Ashish Jain This world is full of injustice. I paid the full air fare for flying from New Delhi to New York. My weight is 70 kgs. The gentleman sitting next to me, almost bursting out of the seat belt, must be weighing about 200 kgs. He has also paid the same amount. Is this not injustice? Why obese people are given this All said in good humor! The obese people are to be pitied rather than condemned. They know not what they are doing- how much they are eating. To say it in clear cut terms obesity is extending a direct invitation to diabetes. Not very long ago, diabetes caught hold of the elderly and the aged. Now even the children suffer from diabetes, not the rarest of the rare cases, but quite a good percentage. It is increasing at a rapid The reason is not far off to seek. The modern mothers think that the easiest way to handle the children is to fulfill their all demands. The chocolates, the pizzas, the salty chips, cold drinks, the processed foods and what not! The concept of right diet is not known to the children, but even the mothers wish to pretend ignorance, even if they know. Their placement of love for the children is wrong. Soon the children look like balloons and one fine day, when the doctor tells you that your kid has diabetes, you are shocked...How that can be...? Various studies reveal that over 20 % of the world population is obese. You suffer, and you pass on this heritage to your children. You spend the whole day sitting at the office, with mental labor, without any physical labor and once you enter the house, tired and exhausted, you refuse to go out of the drawing room. Changing the channels, by push of the remote button is only your physical exercise. Why blame anybody when you are declared to be a diabetic patient? Your diabetes is your own creation. “Doing nothing is not an option” they say. “In 1989 a study found that five per cent of children were classified as obese. By 1998, the figure had almost doubled. The incidence of obesity is also increasing with age; according to an English survey in 1996, approximately 17 per cent of 15 year olds are obese,” says Dr Penny Gibson, Consultant Paediatrician and Adviser on childhood obesity for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. There is conclusive proof that obesity is one of the strongest causes of diabetes. Unless something tangible steps are taken all over the World, by premium Organizations like World Health Organization, the day is not far off, when we shall have diabetic families, from the child to the grandfather! About the author: http://www.diabitieslife.com/diabetes/ & Diabities provides detailed information on diabities, diabities diet, diabities symptoms and more. Pedal Car Planet offers many fun ride-on toys for getting your children their much needed exercise, including pedal cars & pedal planes, retro tricycles, Big Wheels, and scoot-along, pedal-powered cars. Our pedal products make great collectibles & heirlooms!	<urn:uuid:56a36a77-88bc-4b1c-8df9-ff9c4082e843>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.pedalcarplanet.com/childobesitydiabetes	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.929512	720	2.015625	2
If you remember a little way back to August, we reported that India, among other nations, was threatening to ban Blackberry service due to security concerns. The Indian government had given RIM till the end of October to meet their demands for Blackberry service to continue. The main concern of the Indian ministry was the fact that emails, blackberry messenger, etc were encrypted and not accessible by the government. This concern was also raised by the UAE (United Arab Emirates) and RIM came to agreement with them that there would be some temporary measure put in place to allow the government certain provisions to access information. Basically RIM and the Indian government have reached the same type of agreement. The Ministry of Home Affairs said Friday that Research in Motion Ltd., the Canadian maker of the smart phones, has agreed to an interim arrangement for lawful interception of Blackberry messenger services – an instant messaging application – and pledged to provide a final solution by January. What this means is that Blackberry service will not be banned in India, which comes as a relief to many users. RIM now has a few more months to develop a permanent method for the Indian government to monitor encrypted information without opening up the flood gates. What do you think of these nations concerns regarding the security of Blackberry and RIM?? Please drop us a comment or head over to the Nerdberry Forums and get the discussion going. Source: CBS News Posted with my NerdBerry Torch 9800	<urn:uuid:81601ce1-d1cc-4df8-ab25-deb7b84e28b7>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://nerdberry.net/2010/11/08/india-and-rim-seemingly-come-to-terms-on-threat-of-blackberry-ban/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.96169	295	1.648438	2
Last Monday was Columbus Day, and here we see a global controversy in miniature. Some people look at Europe’s “universal” civilization as a bad thing. Perhaps they would have preferred to see the spread of Chinese civilization, or Islamic civilization. Would the Incas or the Aztecs have given us democracy and the free market, with the attending liberty and prosperity? Not likely. It may be said, despite the usual atrocities, that Western Civilization has been a good thing. Without Columbus and the discovery of the New World, the United States wouldn’t have come into existence. In that event, who would have pulled Europe and Asia out of the rubble of world war? The reader cannot imagine how many outraged letters I receive every week from readers who remind me that America’s legacy consists mainly of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Have we forgotten the history of the last twenty-five centuries? Have we forgotten the cruelty of the Persian emperors, the destruction of Carthage by Rome and the barbarian invasions that inundated Rome? Have we forgotten the whole murderous story with its Viking raiders, Mongol horsemen and cannibals? It is best to put everything into perspective. The era dominated by U.S. power and the American dollar hasn’t been the worst period of history. In fact, it has been one of the best. American power has stabilized the world so that a global system of trade has flourished. And it is that self-same system that supports over six billion human lives. Admittedly, this global system is not perfect. It is not utopia. But it is a far cry from the famine, pestilence and penury of “normal history” – of antiquity and the Dark Ages. Let us contemplate what might have been if the Nazis and Japanese had won the Second World War – or if Communism had triumphed during the Cold War. Does anyone really suppose the world would be better off? Men seldom appreciate what they have. In the midst of peace and plenty they curse the very mechanism that sustains them. They set aside the folkways that brought prosperity. They neglect the study of those subjects that foster liberty. Inevitably, all their vain enterprises become imbued with malice, spite and envy. They malign the rich and powerful. They curse the philosophers and embrace the false prophets and revolutionary pranksters of history. “America is evil,” they say. “American deserves to be destroyed.” Here lies the argument of the coming war. It is an argument that will be settled by the mass use of biological and nuclear weapons. For you cannot destroy a power as great as America, or eradicate its memory, without resorting to ultimate weapons. The reason that the Russians, Chinese, Iranians and others put such stock in nuclear weapons is obvious. These are the only weapons that promise to destroy the Americans. Therefore, history necessarily follows a logical path. The era dominated by American power and the American dollar isn’t going to last. The knives are out and the victim cannot escape. In the long run, something catches you by the heels. We all die. And that goes for nations as well as individuals. The student of history may predict what follows, as a matter of historical logic. The planet will descend into war and dictatorship. Even here in North America we have no assurance that freedom will be prevail. In the last twenty-five centuries of recorded history we find brief periods of republican-type government and much longer periods of monarchy and rule by warlords. Freedom is not the usual state of mankind. As Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote more than two centuries ago: “Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.” Our appreciation of today’s situation ought to be predicated on an understanding of the extent to which oppression has been the normal state of mankind. Let us therefore appreciate what America has wrought, admitting that bad outcomes have occurred. A balanced view, as opposed to an ideological view, considers the realistic alternatives. It should also be remembered that the problem of maintaining liberty and prosperity is predicated – first and foremost – on the problem of national survival. The ugly business of surviving against enemies and rivals isn’t something you can afford to set aside. Americans today are too quick to dismiss the threat of mass destruction that faces them. They decry open borders yet demand the cheap goods those open borders guarantee. It is not enough to survive. We want to live well, and we cling to our “American dream.” Prosperity fosters permissive and lax attitudes. Prosperity also leads us to forget that liberty requires an underlying “order.” As the situation in Iraq demonstrates, freedom may signify anarchy and civil war. The Americans were determined to give freedom to Iraq, lacking the brutality necessary for the establishment of order. If the Iraqi dictator murdered thirty thousand innocents a year, the liberation of Iraq has led to thirty thousand deaths a month. Order is more fundamental than liberty. Without order at the foundation, there can be no liberty worth having. This may seem a paradox to the latter-day liberal, yet it is entirely understandable to the conservative who has read Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France. The simple forms of the state – monarchy, aristocracy and democracy – tend to degenerate into tyranny, oligarchy and mob rule. According to ancient observers this could be expected within two or three generations of the state’s founding. By mixing elements of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy into a single constitution, each element checks the others thereby forestalling a descent into tyranny and civil war. There is a catch, of course. Certain preconditions are necessary for republican government to flourish. Niccolo Machiavelli listed six conditions, and these may be related loosely as follows: (1) That there is respect for tradition; (2) that the town dominate the country; (3) that popular power is institutionalized; (4) that a large middle class exists; (5) that civic spirit has not decayed; and (6) that there is knowledge of these things. If these conditions are not present, noted Machiavelli, men should not attempt republican government because such an attempt will ruin them. In the case of Iraq, the country’s traditions included Saddam’s secret police, mass political homicide, censorship, arbitrary arrest and torture. Popular power was not institutionalized and a large middle class did not exist. It is therefore easy to understand why America’s foreign policy in the Middle East has failed. The necessary preconditions for success were missing, as they are missing in many places around the globe. If people want to understand why democracy never triumphed in Russia, why it fails to emerge in China, one merely has to consider Machiavelli’s six conditions.The American failure abroad shouldn’t surprise us. Over the last thirty years Americans have lost the knowledge that attends the preservation of vital traditions (i.e., order) and civic spirit. We are therefore unable to recognize the proper course abroad. The time will soon come, as well, when we lose our way at home. James J. Puplava Financial Sense ® is a Registered P. O. Box 503147 San Diego, CA 92150-3147 USA 858.487.3939	<urn:uuid:db73b043-52e3-4d61-b592-09c32d8c36aa>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.financialsensearchive.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2007/1012.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.949104	1,518	2.25	2
The diversity and evolution of chelicerate hemocyanins Citation and License BMC Evolutionary Biology 2012, 12:19 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-12-19Published: 14 February 2012 Oxygen transport in the hemolymph of many arthropod species is facilitated by large copper-proteins referred to as hemocyanins. Arthropod hemocyanins are hexamers or oligomers of hexamers, which are characterized by a high O2 transport capacity and a high cooperativity, thereby enhancing O2 supply. Hemocyanin subunit sequences had been available from horseshoe crabs (Xiphosura) and various spiders (Araneae), but not from any other chelicerate taxon. To trace the evolution of hemocyanins and the emergence of the large hemocyanin oligomers, hemocyanin cDNA sequences were obtained from representatives of selected chelicerate classes. Hemocyanin subunits from a sea spider, a scorpion, a whip scorpion and a whip spider were sequenced. Hemocyanin has been lost in Opiliones, Pseudoscorpiones, Solifugae and Acari, which may be explained by the evolution of trachea (i.e., taxon Apulmonata). Bayesian phylogenetic analysis was used to reconstruct the evolution of hemocyanin subunits and a relaxed molecular clock approach was applied to date the major events. While the sea spider has a simple hexameric hemocyanin, four distinct subunit types evolved before Xiphosura and Arachnida diverged around 470 Ma ago, suggesting the existence of a 4 × 6mer at that time. Subsequently, independent gene duplication events gave rise to the other distinct subunits in each of the 8 × 6mer hemocyanin of Xiphosura and the 4 × 6mer of Arachnida. The hemocyanin sequences were used to infer the evolutionary history of chelicerates. The phylogenetic trees support a basal position of Pycnogonida, a sister group relationship of Xiphosura and Arachnida, and a sister group relationship of the whip scorpions and the whip spiders. Formation of a complex hemocyanin oligomer commenced early in the evolution of euchelicerates. A 4 × 6mer hemocyanin consisting of seven subunit types is conserved in most arachnids since more than 400 Ma, although some entelegyne spiders display selective subunit loss and independent oligomerization. Hemocyanins also turned out to be a good marker to trace chelicerate evolution, which is, however, limited by the loss of hemocyanin in some taxa. The molecular clock calculations were in excellent agreement with the fossil record, also demonstrating the applicability of hemocyanins for such approach.	<urn:uuid:45be03d5-f60e-4bdd-8bcc-12f7d8ceefbc>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/12/19/abstract?fmt_view=mobile	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.929811	611	2.671875	3
\|Stretching Your Frame of Mind, Part I Baraban Duration: 4 Weeks Cost: US$195 THE ARTIST'S PALETTE: Imagine yourself standing at some location with an artist's palette in your hand. A recently stretched canvas is waiting on an easel, and a jar full of cleaned brushes sits on a small table next to you. Cobalt and Ultramarine Blue, Raw Sienna and Burnt Umber are positioned side by side while Chromium Oxide Green, Cadmium Red and Yellow lie together opposite them; Mars Black and Titanium White sit in the middle. They all have been squeezed from tubes and anxious to be mixed together. Now, imagine that instead of all those wonderful pigments on your palette, there are the 'elements of design and composition'. Terms like: Vanishing Point, Negative Space, Perspective, Tension, Color, Texture, Pattern, Light and Line, have been etched into the aged wood. Everyone knows what happens when you mix red and blue, right? You get purple. How about when you mix blue and yellow together? Green, right again. But, what happens when you add Tension, a few Patterns, and Perspective together while taking your daughter's portrait during an outdoor birthday party? Or Negative Space, some Texture, and a Vanishing Point when you're composing a street scene in a small Tuscan village? Well, you'll get the picture. Remember you're still an artist, but a camera on a tripod has now replaced the stretched canvas and easel. Through examples of my own work, I'll help you develop your 'eye' by showing you how to incorporate these 'elements of design and composition' into your imagery. A new, finely tuned vision will be the result, and you will walk away armed with the ability to create powerful and memorable photographs. CHASING THE LIGHT: With assignments and exercises to heighten your awareness of shooting during 'the golden hour' (early morning and late afternoon), you will gain a better understanding and sensitivity to light, as it enhances every aspect of these important 'elements of design'. The differences between backlight, side and front light will be studied, and last, learning to use the 'angle of reflection' in directing the light source to the subject will soon be an integral part of your visual thought process. With computer software, I'll show you how to determine exactly where the sun will be anywhere on the planet from the moment it comes up at sunrise to the instant it sets; and where the shadows will fall days or even months before an important family outing, a personal trip, upcoming wedding, or commercial shoot. SEEING PAST FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Photographers tend to come across a location or a subject and take the first picture that they see, then move on leaving a lot still on the table. During week four, the class will look at what I call the 'Master Shot'. This is the first idea that pops into your thought process, and a photograph you could live with in case it started to rain on your parade. After taking this shot and putting it safely 'in the can', I will show you how to look for better ways to visually say the same thing or tell the same story. Getting up close and personal, looking at it from way down low then way up high, changing lenses, adding or subtracting props, and putting in or taking out people. Then, you'll look at it from various 'points of view' while constantly keeping in mind the direction of the light. What's important about the Master Shot, and the following images is that while you're shooting you'll be learning the difference between one of my favorite expressions; taking a picture and making a picture. THE "DOES IT" LIST FOR GOOD COMPOSITION: In this class, we'll discuss what I consider the ten most important areas to remember when composing your photographs, and you'll learn to love what I call my Fifteen Point Inspection Plan. This is when the commonly used phrase 'use it or lose it' will start to make sense. My Plan will become an important addition to the camera bag and you'll carry it with you wherever you go. I have conducted workshops in Maine, Santa Fe, California, Florida, Texas, and Canada. Intermediate to advanced amateurs as well as working professionals have all learned how to take their photography up a level. I promise you that "stretching your frame of mind", breaking the rules, and making mistakes in a supportive atmosphere will be a great way to spend the four weeks and learn! At the end of this course, provided you have committed yourself to the process of making better pictures, you will walk away with a much greater command of your craft. You'll be at a higher level of perception, and have a redesigned portfolio to show off your new skills. Since the class centers around the basic 'elements of design', I promise you that everyone, no matter the skill level, will benefit from this class. My work can be viewed at: www.joebaraban.com The only requirements you need for this class is a good working knowledge of your camera, and be able to shoot on the manual setting. Instructor: Joe Baraban After receiving his BA in Journalism, Joe ventured out into the freelance world and never looked back. For the past forty years, Joe has shot professionally for clients from Coca Cola to Hennessy, Cessna to United Air Lines and Boeing, and from Microsoft to IBM and HP. He has shot the full line car brochures for Acura, Saturn, and Range Rover, not to mention campaigns for Acura, Jaguar, Mazda and Ford. The tourism departments for Alberta, Canada, Pennsylvania, Alabama, and Texas have contracted Joe to shoot images for their state campaigns. Just to name a few. Over the years, National Geographic, Life, Texas Monthly, Time, Geo, Newsweek, and the New York Times Magazine have used Joe for several of their editorial assignments. Teaching people how to use their eye has always been one of Joe's passions, and he's conducted workshops around the world, including The Maine Media Workshop (fifteen years), The Santa Fe Workshop, The Julia Dean Workshop in Hollywood, The South Florida Workshop, The Pacific Northwest School of Art on Whidbey Island, The Texas Photographic workshop, Objectif's, a photographic organization in Singapore, and The Houston Center for Photography Photographic Workshop. Joe has also conducted continuing education classes at Rice University. He has been sought out as a guest speaker for various ASMP chapters (American Society of Media Photographers), advertising and art director’s clubs across the country, The Art Center in Pasadena, California, and Brooks Institute. He has given seminars at Photo East in New York, Photo West in San Francisco, and Viacom (the national photographic convention in Canada). Joe has had feature articles written about his work in Communication Arts Magazine, Photo District News, Japan’s Portfolio Magazine, and Studio Magazine. His work has appeared in CA, Photo Graphis, and The Mead Annual Report Show. His expertise had also spurred an invitation to judge the prestigious Communication Arts Photography Annual. Joe currently serves as a member of the Fuji Corporation ‘Talent Team’. What students are saying about Joe Baraban and his courses?	<urn:uuid:5250e824-829e-4e74-b2e7-1dec9476c4dd>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.ppsop.com/mind.aspx	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.944549	1,519	1.546875	2
Warner, R. (1995). BACK FIRE: THE CIA'S SECRET WAR IN LAOS AND ITS LINK TO THE WAR IN VIETNAM. NY: Simon & Schuster.Back Fire contains the reminiscences of various CIA officers as their secret guerrilla war became a major military operation eventually decimating the Hmong hilltribers that fought for the CIA. "From 1963 to 1973, behind a bizarre front of 'neutrality,' Laos was a secret annex to the main Vietnam theater, overseen by the U.S. ambassador, run by the Central Intelligence Agency, and bombed by the U.S. military, without the consent of Congress." To support the war the U.S. paid for the Lao Army -- Force Armee Royale (FAR), about fifteen thousand Thai SGUs, thirty thousand mostly Hmong irregulars, and the carpet bombing. Once the bombing began, the civilian population became the target for more than two million tons of bombs. Anthony Lewis wrote that this "was the most appalling episode of lawless cruelty in American history." Both this book and Conboy's book, Shadow War, show the inside of this major covert operation, describe the varied CIA personnel involved and to some extent detail the consequences of the secret operations of the CIA.	<urn:uuid:c4df7612-4853-4161-8ee0-01cb2d87b001>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/54/054.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.918485	263	2.0625	2
Peter Jay Martin, following in the footsteps of his father Joseph Lemuel Martin, authored a book that surveyed Revelation. Published by the McQuiddy Company (the Gospel Advocate publisher) in 1913, it was entitled The Mystery Finished, or The New Heavens and the New Earth. Peter’s book is not as well known as his father’s (The Voice of the Seven Thunders), but it was published in Nashville and advertised in Wallace’s Bible Banner as late as the early 1940s. Both Martins read Revelation, like Alexander Campbell, in the continuous-historical tradition, that is, Revelation is a “historfy of the church of Christ from A. D. 98 to its final trimuph” (Mystery, v). Both were postmillennialists, like Alexander Campbell. They both envisioned a triumphant church upon the earth before the second coming of Christ.When Satan is released at the end of the 1000 years and the nations gather to assault the Church, then Christ will come to defeat Satan, raise the dead and judge humanity. But they differed on the nature of the “new heavens and new earth.” P. J. identified the new earth with the postmillennial reign of Christ through the church while J. L. believed the new earth is the new creation of God after the first earth was “gone.” J. L. was uncertain whether the new earth would be created out of the materials of the old or out of nothing, but he was convinced that the new material earth would be the eternal dwelling place of God with humanity. P. J.’s understanding is more political than J. L.’s. The story of the emerging “new earth” is a “political” one where the “everlasting kingdom cut out of the mountain without hands shall fill the whole earth” (Mystery, 9). According to P.J., the present “political conditions” are demonic (Mystery, 174): A government of the reich, by the rich, and for the rich, in which women and children, little children, slave in the cruelest form, for the most menial wage; exploited without voice, & forever beyond the hope of redress, because the courts of injustice are moved by the rich, and legislation, desired to control and limit exploitation, is, as was understood before the enactment of these laws, held as unconstitutional, or by injunction without law, leaves the poor wage worker in the position of an outlaw; while, in addition to receiving the lowest remuneration(!) for his labor, he is also made to pay the highest price for the poorest quality of all necessities of life. The postmillennial kingdom of Christ–which is the new heavens and new earth– will involve a “radical change” such that there will be “no exploitation; no separation of parents and children, no foreclosing of mortgages, no sorrow nor crying” (Mystery, 179). P. J. Martin hopes for a political culture governed by the gospel as the church rather than the nations becomes “the political organization” that is “for the uplifting of the poor and needy and that stands for justice between man and man and between the rich and the poor” (Mystery, 180). In this way Christians will “posses the earth” (Mystery, 183) because in that postmillenial reign “the church has absorbed the world” (Mystery, 196). P. J. has no confidence that the nations as political entities will serve the poor or place others first. Only people transformed by the gospel are able to serve out the self-emptying spirit that energizes the gospel itself. He writes (Mystery, 199): …when this old world has been gospelized; ‘when every man seeks not his own, but another’s wealth;’ when men do unto others thus; every man seeking the welfare of the other man, thus fulfiling in acts, in actuality, the Golden Rule in doing unto other as you would have the other do to you, the gospel triumphant from the rivers to the ends of the earth, his will done on earth as in heaven, for which the writer ever prays in an absolute faith, then he has as lief live in Okalahoma as to go to heaven. When the “whole world,” this world, becomes the “habitation of God” in the postmillennial kingdom, “surely [even] Oklahoma will be good enough for us” (Mystery, 215). This is the “blessed hope of a redeemed earth–’the new heaven and new earth’” (Mystery, 221). The millennium–which precedes the second coming of Jesus–is a political embodiment of the gospel. There all the hopes of the prophets are fulfilled in the reign of Christ through the triumphant church. The gospel, in this vision, is both “political” and “religious.”	<urn:uuid:b0633daa-c37c-445b-9431-d76edc075aa5>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://johnmarkhicks.com/tag/postmillennialism/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.959995	1,061	2.09375	2
The abort function is a remnant of old programming practices, and it pains me to see it in modern software. While it’s great that a program detects an error, calling abort is equivalent to surrendering. It’s stating the program is unable to figure out how to deal with the error correctly. Calling exit from the middle of a program is the same thing: prematurely aborting the program. My criticisms are thus not strictly about abort, but any related method that abruptly terminates the program. Loss of information Abort statements do not carry a lot of useful information with them. Whatever context the program had, such as a stack trace and memory state, is lost once abort is called. The common case of abort, through an assert statement, does produce a single line of information. Most programs are complex enough that single statements like these become meaningless: while such a statement may clearly indicate the immediate error condition, lacking context prevents one from finding the root cause of the problem. I’m not forgetting that abort can result in a core dump (you need to turn them on). You could use a debugger to load this core and get information about the program: probably a stack trace and sometimes, if you’re lucky, you can investigate bits and pieces of the memory. A core dump is of course better than nothing. However, a structured error handling mechanism can produce more relevant details and will generate a more useful error report. Having to resort to always using the debugger to get such information also slows down the development process considerably. I have begun using LLVM as the last compilation stage for my Cloverleaf language. It uses a lot of assertions to detect errors. While I appreciate that the errors do get detected, the resulting abort is at the very least a serious annoyance. Were I able to correlate errors back to the source code I was compiling, it would be a lot easier to diagnose and correct problems. Instead I’m presented with generic error messages which reveal almost nothing about what I did wrong. Unable to handle the error It may seem obvious, but a very distinct problem with abort is that it does exactly what it says: aborts the program. This makes it impossible to recover. The number of errors conditions where recovery is not possible are few and far between. There are a handful of such cases, but even fairly extreme scenarios like a system fault, resource exhaustion, or even programmer error, can be handled gracefully. Calling abort is a unilateral decision that a given error condition is more important than every other line of code written on the project. On a previous project I used Google Protobuf for some of our serialization. That library would log to the console and abort when it detected errors. Our program was built to deal with errors, runtime and programmatic alike. We could easily recover from such errors if only given the chance. These calls to abort placed huge wildcards into the stability of our application. I was grateful that the library was eventually modified by our request to throw an exception instead. It is good to detect errors and prevent them from propagating. The correct approach is to return an error or raise an exception. In the case of LLVM one might argue that their library doesn’t allow error codes at this point, and exceptions aren’t used, so they have no choice but to call abort. However, I see this as a significant flaw in an otherwise very useful suite of tools. Libraries should be designed to deal with errors properly. Aborting a program is simply not a reasonable form of error handling.	<urn:uuid:ec27bf15-b98b-4cdf-90f2-83138672e3d8>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://mortoray.com/2012/12/06/antiquated-error-handling-abortexit/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.941064	729	2.6875	3
Interfaith experience: Catholic universities accommodate students of various religious backgrounds In today’s diverse world, most Catholic colleges and universities are home to several religious denominations, including Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, all manner of Christianity, and other faith-based and non-faith traditions. Just as they are working to accommodate Muslim students, Catholic universities must work to engage and communicate with these students as well. Leah Karchmer, a sophomore at DePaul University in Chicago, is one of the Vincentian school’s active Jewish students. As a board member of the Jewish student group Hillel, she meets regularly with other students for monthly Shabbat dinners and celebrations of the High Holy Days. Even though she chose to attend DePaul for its generous scholarship program, Karchmer said she’s been pleased with how respectful the school is toward religions in general. As an interfaith scholar for her university, she’s enjoyed engaging in dialogue with students from other backgrounds. The exposure to other belief systems, including Catholicism, has been eye-opening. “I realize so much more what we have in common as religious people, rather than focusing on the fact that we’re different religions,” she says. Tanushree Mondkar, a senior at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California, will graduate this June with her bachelor’s degree in political science. A practicing Hindu, she helped reboot her school’s Hindu student council in January 2010 and later served as its president. For the past three years she’s been involved in Santa Clara’s Interfaith Council. She sees the Catholic presence on campus daily, especially when passing by the university’s mission church. Rather than feeling isolated Mondkar likes that her school places such a large emphasis on spirituality. Growing up, Mondkar always celebrated the Hindu holidays and traditions with her family. Now, she likes being able to share her faith with other students. “This is what we do,” she says. “That should be shared because most people grow up with it and it’s an important aspect of their personal life, and in the public sense, a part of who they are.” But what about those students who don’t believe in God or have faith in any religion at all? According to a recent study released from the Pew Forum on Religious and Public Life, about one third of people between the ages of 18 and 30 no longer identify with any religion. At DePaul, those students are represented by the 100-member DePaul Alliance for Free Thought (DAFT), a student organization for atheists, agnostics, skeptics, and humanists. DePaul senior Heather Stebbins, an atheist, has been involved with DAFT for the past two years. She says the group is a safe space for discussions related to science, education, social issues, and social justice through the secular lens. The group also performs charitable projects and acts as a positive advocate for atheist and secular students on campus. While at DePaul, Stebbens says she’s learned that Catholicism is not just about ritual and tradition but that it can also include community service and volunteerism. She also enjoys being able to have discussions with students of all faith backgrounds. “For me personally, I feel like it’s been a very positive experience, getting together with people who believe different things,” Stebbens says. “At the end of the day, it always comes back to how can we take our respective ideas and beliefs and make that positive and do something positive in the world.” This article is a web-only feature that accompanies "Inter-religious Ed: Muslim students on Catholic campuses" which appeared in the February 2013 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 78, No. 2, pages 12-17).	<urn:uuid:ad8a56c5-cbc0-4bdf-8d5c-d155ef0e0433>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.uscatholic.org/articles/201301/interfaith-experience-catholic-universities-accommodate-students-various-religious	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.968645	807	2.3125	2
Get involved: send your pictures, video, news and views by texting TANEWS to 80360, or email Eye treatment 'could save NHS £84m' Both treatments improved sight in the affected eye by between one and two lines on a standard eye test, a study found The NHS could save more than £84 million a year if it switched treatment for a common eye condition to a cheaper drug used to treat cancer, study authors have claimed. One of the largest trials carried out in the field of eye disease in the UK has shown similar effectiveness in treating wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) when using either Lucentis, licensed for treating wet AMD, or Avastin, currently licensed for cancer treatment, research has found. Scientists and eye specialists at 23 hospitals and UK universities analysed the results from a trial, named IVAN, involving 610 people with wet AMD. The study authors said the findings indicated that the NHS in the UK could save £84.5 million a year, based on injecting 17,295 eyes each year, by switching from Lucentis to Avastin, and administering the treatment on an "as-needed" basis. Professor Usha Chakravarthy of Queen's University Belfast centre for vision and vascular science, who led the research study team, said: "The IVAN results at the end of the first year show that Lucentis and Avastin have similar effectiveness. "Regardless of the drug received, or treating monthly or as needed, sight in the affected eye improved by between one and two lines on a standard eye test." Wet AMD affects about 10% of all people with AMD, a common eye condition among people aged 50 and older and a leading cause of blindness in older adults. Currently Avastin is licensed for use in treating five different types of cancer, including cancer of the bowel and breast - but not for wet AMD.	<urn:uuid:62d93df7-6d50-46a4-9625-2cd1debe5a87>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/national/news/9692138.Eye_treatment__could_save_NHS___84m_/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.947528	395	2.171875	2
Designed for those who have already developed a basic competence in Arabic, this comprehensive synonyms guide aims to broaden and improve the learner's vocabulary by helping them find the right word for the right context. Presenting words of related meaning together, it provides a range of options which will help avoid repetition and improve style, enabling students to develop a deeper awareness of the subtle differences in meaning and usage of different words. Each entry is illustrated with authentic examples of the synonyms in use, showing their unique meanings and grammatical properties, and enabling students to quickly recognize them in real-life contexts. The book is complete with two clear indexes, in English and Arabic, enabling the reader to instantly and easily locate any word. An essential reference for college and undergraduate students, their teachers, and other language professionals seeking a clear, user-friendly guide to Arabic vocabulary and its usage. 1. Introduction; 2. Arabic synonyms; 3. Index of English words; 4. Index of Arabic words.	<urn:uuid:1cb2c8fb-a588-4b34-96c2-1573073e5f54>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-2855.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.9287	200	3.5	4
Making Science Hack Day happen We should have a Science Hack Day. Three months later, on the 19th and 20th of June, Science Hack Day happened. I still can’t quite believe it. The event was a great success, and more importantly, it was a lot of fun. But you can read all about that on the website, on Twitter and elsewhere. What I want to talk about is how Science Hack Day came together. When I first blogged about the day, right after the Open Science panel at South by Southwest, I wrote: I have no idea how to get a venue or sponsors. The first thing I did was to set up a wiki to get people brainstorming. Many of the proposed venues were places that had previously hosted BarCamps or other geek gatherings requiring plentiful bandwidth and/or sleepover capability. The Guardian offices came up quite early on. I hadn’t been there myself but I knew that it had been the venue for BarCamp London 6. I got in touch with Matt McAlister at The Guardian who, in a previous life, helped organise the first ever UK Hack Day. He gave the green light and in no time at all, I was talking to Alex Hazell, Events Executive at The Guardian. Her experience in organising previous events was invaluable in figuring out how to approach potential sponsors. Here’s what you need for a hack day: - physical space for two days, - bandwidth for a large number of developers, - food and drink, The first two were taken care of. The second two require money. The prizes are less of a priority but food and drink is essential hack fuel. That’s where the sponsors come in. Lunches and breakfasts could be provided by The Guardian catering staff but that requires paying for staffing costs as well as food. All in all, it’s about £2.5K for the number of people expected at Science Hack Day. That still left Saturday evening food. Pizza is the traditional dish of choice. £500 ought to cover it. Throw in another few hundred quid for prizes and that comes to about £3000. Rather than approaching companies to sponsor the whole amount, Alex recommended that I try asking for around £500 from each company I got in touch with. That’s a good amount of money but it’s small enough that people might be able to approve it without having to go through lots of bureaucratic procedures within their companies. That turned out to be a good policy and before long, quite a few companies had agreed to sponsor the event. Fortunately for me, The Guardian’s events team were able to bill them individually which meant I didn’t have to deal with that side of things. The Wellcome Trust, Nature, Thoughtworks, LCGOT and Elsevier were all invoiced separately for their contributions to the fund for canteen food and prizes. The pizza money came from YDN. As Christian was going to be there anyway, it was convenient for him to pay for the pizza with his company card rather than chasing the paper trail of Yahoo’s invoicing system. In retrospect, I probably could have got the lunches and breakfasts more cheaply by just getting sandwiches and pastries delivered but then I would have either needed sponsors that were capable of paying on the spot or I would have needed to pay for it myself and then reclaim it by invoicing sponsors. Unrelated to Science Hack Day, my pal Murray from Global Radio got in touch to ask if I would come in to chat to his team about HTML5. I said I’d love to …if Global Radio fancied sponsoring Science Hack Day. I’m devious like that. Murray got company approval and I left him to organise the booze for the event—£500 worth of booze. I thought that would be just about right. But I was thinking back to previous BarCamps, not hack days. It turns out that while beer is definitely required for lubricating late night games of Werewolf, it’s actually not all that important to hacking. It seems obvious in hindsight, but what hackers need are stimulants, not depressants. Fortunately, there was plenty of tea and coffee on hand. By the end of the event, there was also a massive surplus of beer. Ah well, you live and learn. The final sponsor was BERG. Their contribution wasn’t as large as the others but it had the advantage of being given in cash. That meant I had a petty cash fund throughout the day for repeat trips to the nearest supermarket for crisps, chocolate, and fruit. The latter food group was important because it was one that I had overlooked. So two valuable lessons learned were: - Less beer, more juice and caffeine. - Less junk food, more fruit. But those are relatively minor points. On the whole, everything went incredibly well. The total cost was around £4,000 but I reckon it would be possible to organise a two-day event like this for half that much by removing the staffing costs (and the drink costs) if you’re okay with sandwiches for lunch and you don’t mind not having many shiny prizes—we had Lego Mindstorms and telescopes for the winners. About 120 people signed up on the wiki. Another 20 or so listed themselves as “maybe.” I figured there would be the usual drop-out rate so I was expecting 80 or 90 people to make it on the day. That turned out to be a fairly accurate assessment. By Sunday, the numbers were down to around 75 because of non-returners: people who went home, rather than sleeping over, and then didn’t come back in the next day. A lot of those people couldn’t make it back because of family commitments—Sunday was Father’s Day. In the run-up to Science Hack Day, I wasn’t sure whether or not to create an EventBrite listing to manage attendance. But the wiki seemed to be working pretty well so I just stuck with that. Instead of emailing people, I used the Science Hack Day website and Twitter account to keep everyone up to date and to get some pre-event excitement going. I had a lot of help and support. Jessica helped out for the duration of Science Hack Day—I couldn’t have done it without her. In the weeks and months before the event, Matt Locke made some valuable introductions Natalie Villalobos went above and beyond the call of duty in putting me in touch with potential sponsors. Through her connections, I had the unbelievable honour of playing a specially recorded message at Science Hack Day from SETI’s Jill Tarter—the real-life inspiration for Ellie Arroway in Carl Sagan’s Contact: I’m still pinching myself about that. In fact, I’m still pinching myself about the whole event. How did I end up organising something like this? I’m so glad that, straight after being inspired by the Open Science panel at South by Southwest, I blogged my crazy idea to create a Science Hack Day. By planting a flag in the sand like that, it stopped being just another bit of wishful thinking and starting to become real. If I can do it, anyone can. And anyone should. There’s already a wiki page for other cities where Science Hack Days might be organised. You can help put one of those events together. Get excited and make things …with science! Find photos that I took on June 22nd, 2010.	<urn:uuid:56a63564-5f11-4074-9519-72446b1c877b>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://adactio.com/journal/1674/?flickr-user_id=74105777@N00&flickr-tags=scihack	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.975676	1,588	1.765625	2
The Importance of Head and Neck Lymphoscintigraphy in the Determination of Planning Target Volume for Radiation Therapy of Cephalo-Cervical and Aerodigestive Tumors Reviewer: William Levin, MD Last Modified: October 6, 2002 Presenter: F. Campostrini1 Presenter's Affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, ASL 21, Legnago, IT Type of Session: Scientific - Cancers of the head and neck region commonly spread throughout the body via the lymphatic system. - Radiation therapy can be employed to treat such cancers. - Radiation, when used, is typically given to the region of the primary tumor as well as to the neck, where lymph nodes are located. - Lymphoscintigraphy(LS) is a nuclear medicine technique allowing for visualization of lymph nodes. - The current study looks at the use of LS in regards to it's ablity to help locate neck lymph nodes in patients receiving radiation therapy. Materials and Methods - 28 patients with clinically negative lymph nodes were enrolled on this study. - The majority of patients had cancers of the oropharynx, larynx, or oral cavity. - Standard simulation was performed by 3 radiotherapists, at which time the planning treatment volume(PTV) was identified. - Technetium-99 nanocolloids were then injected at four sites (two frontal and two occipital) on the patients' scalp to identify the lymphatic drainage of the neck. - 3 hours later, a gammacamera was used to obtain images in the anterior and lateral positions. - The radiotherapists then reviewed the PTV's in relation to the LS images. - LS caused no significant patient discomfort, nor was it related with any significant side-effects. - Information gained by LS resulted in 70% of the original treatment plans being altered. - LS is a safe and effective method of identifying the lymph nodes treated in head and neck cancers. - LS allows for more accurate design of radiation treatment fields and potentially, better results. - By more precisely identifying treatment fields it is posssible to exclude uninvolved critical structures such as the spinal cord. - LS is a potentially valuable tool for determining radition treatment volumes in head and neck cancer patients. - It is likely, however, that this technique is highly operator dependent, and has a learning curve. - Therefore, clinician experience with this technique is required to ensure accuracy. Oncolink's ASTRO Coverage made possible by an unrestricted Educational Grant from Ortho Biotech.	<urn:uuid:944b8071-c211-4318-935e-88ee8b8bbec1>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.oncolink.org/conferences/article1.cfm?id=652&c=147	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.91884	547	3.21875	3
Issue 6.10 \| Oct 1998 Electric Mind (continued) At your Wardenclyffe Tower headquarters on Long Island. What happened? It was never finished. I thought it would take a year to establish commercially my wireless girdle around the world. Had this been achieved when it was planned, in 1903, the public would have clamored to send their messages to Europe or receive their dispatches from any other corner of the globe. Wasn't Marconi already ahead of you on this? Marconi was essentially trying to send pulsed frequencies, Morse code, dots and dashes. But he was using outmoded equipment, and Hertz's outmoded ideas, even if he did pirate my oscillators. Marconi tried to claim priority, but this was overturned in courts around the world. Now, you wanted to go way beyond mere data transmission - getting rid of power lines altogether and sending electricity through the air from Wardenclyffe. If a similar tower were placed, say, in England, which was my plan, then energy could be jumped by means of wireless over the Atlantic to that receiving tower. From there the electricity could be transmitted either by means of wireless to the local dwellings or by conventional means, that is, but using wires. Mostly, the idea would be to locate receiving plants at distant places that were not near sources of power, like waterfalls. You've always been keen on alternative energy. No matter what we attempt to do, no matter to what fields we turn our efforts, we are dependent on power. We have to evolve means of obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption and waste of any material whatever. If we use fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations. OK - we've heard that speech before. What do you propose? A far better way to obtain power would be to avail ourselves of the sun's rays, which beat the Earth incessantly and theoretically supply energy at a rate of over 1 million horsepower per square mile. Solar? We've got a storage problem there. That is where the research should be focused. One focus of your research a century ago was cellular - and your multiple-channel approach works around the current bandwidth crunch. My world telegraphy system makes use of continuous waves - what have come to be called Tesla currents - from which any number of operations can be derived. I realized that the first problem to overcome was that of interference, so I constructed vacuum tubes which responded to a combination of two or more frequencies. The telautomaton displayed at Madison Square Garden in 1898 was constructed in this fashion. By multiplying frequencies in this manner a virtually unlimited number of non-interfering channels can be created. The key is to combine frequencies. Primitive forms of artificial intelligence also came from your lab. What will our first true thinking machines look like? Primitive? I prefer the word fundamental. My plan was to construct an automaton which would have its "own mind," and by this I mean it would be able, independent of any operator, in response to external influences affecting its sensitive organs, to perform a great variety of acts and operations as if it had intelligence. It will be able to obey orders given far in advance, it will be capable of distinguishing between what it ought and ought not to do and of recording impressions which will definitely affect its subsequent actions. Further I do not believe that intelligence is artificial, but rather a property of matter. Matter is alive? Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living principle within. Everything that exists, organic or inorganic, animated or inert, is susceptible to stimulus from the outside. Tell us more about your work on telautomatons - in other words, robots. I conceived the idea of constructing such a machine, which would mechanically represent me and which would respond as I do myself, but of course in a much more primitive manner, to external influences. Whether the automaton be of flesh and bone, or wood and steel, it mattered little, provided it could undertake all the duties required of it like an intelligent being. With machines to do the work, man will be that much more free to increase his knowledge and productivity and thereby advance the planet. Let's talk about longevity. At the tender age of 77, back in 1933, you told The New York Times you expected to live past your 140th birthday. Really, you know, even now, I'm still a youngster. I've never felt better in my life. In my prime I did not possess the energy I have today. And what is more, in solving problems I use but a small part of the energy I possess for I have learned how to conserve it. But isn't part of longevity genes, not genius? I have descended from a people who came from the mountains of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, some who lived past 110, we even had one relative who made it to 129. I began from the start with the plan to outlive each of them. The secret of my own strength and vitality today is that in my youth I led a virtuous life. I have never dissipated this energy. I controlled my passions and appetites to make my dream come true - disciplining myself for a worthwhile life. Since I love my work above all things, it is only natural that I should continue it until I die. I want no vacation. Many are saddened and depressed by the brevity of life, and yet they do so many things to pave the way to an early grave. So how did you avoid an early demise? Human energy can be increased by careful attention to health, by substantial food in moderation, by regularity of habits, by adhering to the many precepts and laws of religion and hygiene, by the promotion of marriage, and conscientious attention to children. Laxity of morals is a terrible evil which poisons the body and mind.	<urn:uuid:5e54f770-1cff-41d5-a247-365dd1ef1977>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.10/tesla.html?pg=2&topic=&topic_set=	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.971023	1,269	1.703125	2
Need to carry some dirt? Catch a fish? Transport bundles of food or clothing? Store some household items? Fetch some water? Gather leaves after raking? Bring some lunch with you to work? Transport a pig to the market? You don’t need a shovel, fishing pole, suitcase, trunk, bucket, lunchbox, plastic bag, or cage. All you need is a basket. Baskets come in every shape and size in Thailand; in the course of a day you might end up buying your lunch from baskets being carried on the ends of poles by a street vendor. These baskets are called ‘gradjad mon’ in Thai while the whole carrying device is called ‘harp’. Or you might wind up watching someone empty their fish trap (called ‘sum pla’ in Thai) in the shallow areas of a flooded rice field. Baskets have existed in Thailand since the Neolithic era. Evidence of their long and enduring presence can be witnessed today in cave paintings, through archaeological finds, in mural paintings, and on most street corners. Unlike in the West, where baskets usually sit passively as decorative items and are occasionally used for picnics and as dirty clothes receptors, baskets made from natural materials in Thailand are used in a host of daily chores despite the invasion of plastic. Cylindrical baskets were a natural evolvement from early weaving methods when natural materials were woven into flat sheets and used as house walls, floors and sleeping mats. Bamboo is by far the most commonly found material used in basketry and weaving, but grasses, ferns, rattan, palms, wood and reeds are all incorporated into sometimes simple and sometimes spectacular patterns and forms which are typically geometric in shape. Once almost entirely utilitarian in nature, modern times have given birth to baskets in the form of jewelry boxes, pocketbooks, and lampshades, to name a few. Given the importance of baskets, one can imagine the vast amount of styles and functions they serve throughout the country. Common utilitarian baskets in Thailand illustrate that necessity is indeed the mother of invention. They include rice baskets (used not only to transport rice but to measure it), seed containers (lacquered baskets that keep contents safe from water and insects) water baskets (made out of palm leaves and typically fitted with a handle), glutinous rice baskets (used to store ‘sticky rice’ and often carried as lunch pails, especially in northeastern Thailand), and perhaps the most famous of Thai baskets, the fish trap: a bomb-shaped, three-foot long basket that allows fish to swim in, but not out. Thailand has diverse climates. Therefore each region has its own distinctive and celebrated style of basketry. This is often determined by the raw materials available in that area and, of course, the function the basket is supposed to serve. Before visiting a specific area of Thailand, a bit of research will let you find out what kind of basketry the area is famous for. Basketry is also heavily promoted by the tourist industry in Thailand. There is a host of tour operators that will be more than happy to take you to local production shops and vending area. Like most crafts in Thailand, basket weaving was a skill that was passed down from generation to generation. However, due to modern times, a taste for things from the West, and availability of cheap plastic goods, traditional knowledge of the craft has begun to fade. However, it is still possible to wander around small villages and see basket weaving in progress. Thanks to the efforts of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, many rural villagers continue to earn supplemental income through their weaving skills when they are not out in the rice fields. Through her programme, ‘Foundation for the Promotion of Supplementary Occupations and Related Techniques, popularly known as SUPPORT, a revival of traditional skills has taken place and basketry as a means of increasing rural income has become a reality. In fact, baskets are enjoying somewhat of a renaissance and are no longer viewed as something used by ‘the common folk.’ Sophisticated basket artistry can be found at the chicest of shops, while their rustic counterparts stand as firmly as ever at local markets. Baskets, they’ve been around forever and they are here to stay. Plastic bags and boxes simply can’t hold a candle to them. Spending time watching for different baskets pass you by is yet another fun way to pass the time in Thailand. Guessing what their probable function is can be a challenge. I once saw a wall filled with long and narrow baskets from a distance and thought they were car mufflers. And will never forget the day I decided I wanted to cook glutinous rice for dinner. Explaining my plan to a neighbour and my need to borrow the necessary tools, I was handed a wide mouthed funnel shaped basket and a big pot with a smile. 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-- Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) – Transitional fuel or replacement to oil? -- Undersea Cable - Will it work? Is it worth it? -- Is locally sourced biofuels a reality? -- Hawaii’s Energy Efficiency & Solar Industries: Rising or setting? The event was hosted by the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum with support from Blue Planet Foundation, Hawaii Energy, Hawaiian Electric Company, DBEDT and Think Tech Hawaii. Thanks to all the speakers and attendees! Photos of the event are posted here . We recently received this heartwarming note from a Blue Planet supporter who devoted her time, creativity, and money to advocate for Hawaii's clean energy future: Hi, I am a sixth grader from Kamehameha Elementary School. I chose to make recycled can tab bracelets and sell them to raise money for this cause, as a part of my service learning project. I collected the can tabs from friends and family, and my mom donated the Lucky Color Gum elastics from her business. I recruited my mom along with a couple of friends, and we made the bracelets. I am also a girl scout, so during cookie booth sales I sold bracelets as well. I made sure to mention the Blue Planet Foundation and your goal. I created a sign to advertise the bracelets and this foundation. In total, I dedicated 15 hours and 40 minutes of service. Because of this, today I am able to donate all $140 I raised! Thank you for your dedication, Aya! It's a good question. Let's do the first order approximation. First, how much electricity to we use? According to the DBEDT energy trends, we use about 10 terawatt-hours (TWhs) of electricity annually. In fact, 10125.94 gigawatt-hours (GWhs) in 2009, 10013.10 GWhs in 2010, and about 9985.55 GWhs in 2011. So that's our (hopefully shrinking) target. Second, how many roofs do we have to cover? Let's just look at residential. According to the 2011 US Census, Hawaii has 519,508 housing units, 39.2% of which are multi-family. So let's just look at the single family units (we'll be more conservative here and more generous elsewhere). So that gives us 315,861 single-family home rooftops. Now let's say for each rooftop we can fit a 4 kilowatt (kW) system. This is probably being a bit generous, given the size and possible shading issues. With all those rooftops tiled with 4 kW of PV each, we have 1,263,443 kWs, or 1263 MWs of PV (which, BTW, approaches the total system capacity on Oahu). Of course, the sun isn't always shining. In fact, for PV, the "capacity factor" is between 15% and 20%--meaning that at any given moment you will have able to produce between about 15% and 20% of the rated PV capacity. Let's use the generous 20%. For our rooftops this means (20% X 1263) 253 MW of PV capacity. Now we can look at the total production over one year (at the already "de-rated" PV installation). So 253 MW X 8760 hours in a year = 2,213,553 MWhs, or 2,214 GWhs, or 2.2 TWhs. This would provide about 22% of our overall electricity use. This 22% is probably conservative--we ignored all of the commercial rooftops. Plus we are seeing more and more large ground-mounted PV arrays (usually in 5 MW blocks because that is the largest size before the utility needs to competitively bid). Nonetheless, it reminds us that we need a mix of renewable energy sources. And yes, we hope to shave our 10 TWhs of usage by 30% come 2030 (the HCEI target), but we're also adding a bunch of electric vehicles to the grid (which could just cancel out that efficiency gain--which is fine for the big picture). By the way, any guess of how much all of that PV would cost? About $10 billion. It would pay for itself in about 13 years. Go out there and make history Featured Many out there may not know the story behind how Blue Planet Foundation came to be. Our founder Henk Rogers delivered the commencement address at University of Hawai‘i last Saturday, Dec. 17, and in his speech, he talks about why he started Blue Planet Foundation. It's a really inspiring speech. Go Henk! Read on... Funny comment on facebook! Want to learn more about the PUC's ruling on 14H? Here's the news release we sent out. Also here's Alan Yonan, Jr.'s story in the Star-Advertiser, and Sophie Cocke's article in Civil Beat. These interconnection-related issues are among the regulations that govern the addition of new renewable systems to the grid.	<urn:uuid:9a3ee0c6-26cb-4252-9afb-681479131c74>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://blueplanetfoundation.org/Recent-News/Tags/Tag/clean-energy.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.953367	1,050	2.4375	2
Bhils (bēlz) [key], people, numbering about 3 million, who inhabit portions of Pakistan and of W central India, especially S Rajasthan and Gujarat states. They speak an Indo-European language, Bhili, and retain a distinctive culture, much affected by, but not absorbed into, Hinduism. They were traditional enemies of the Rajputs and allies of the Mughals. See S. M. Doshi, Bhils (1971). The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.	<urn:uuid:90d60b32-c030-4e82-b766-701e010673d0>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/society/bhils.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.91493	121	2.84375	3
The Federal Reserve did not survey small debit card issuers about their costs of issuing before it issued rules that will directly impact their income from debit card interchange. According to the Federal Reserve's proposed debit interchange rule, the agency surveyed 131 debit card issuers with assets of over $10 billion in assets about their costs of issuing debit cards and received responses from 89. It did not mention surveying any smaller issuers about what they pay to issue debit cards. CUNA and NAFCU reported working with the Fed on the survey, but it is unclear whether they reported the debit issuing costs of any specific credit unions. This is important because the law that mandated that the Federal Reserve base its interchange rule on the costs of debit card issuing and credit unions, generally, have significantly higher debit card costs than much larger issuers have. "It's really the worst of both worlds," said Jeff Russell, executive vice president at The Members Group, a card processing CUSO affiliate with the Iowa Credit Union League. "The Federal Reserve didn't ask credit unions or other small issuers about their costs of debit issuing before it came up with a rule limiting debit interchange income that will end up impacting them."	<urn:uuid:0c118ffd-21c3-4b02-8be4-0dfc213ac19d>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.cutimes.com/2010/12/20/fed-debit-survey-did-not-include-small-issuers	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.973399	243	1.882813	2
Scarecrows appearing in Old Town The first straw-filled creatures of the season began appearing in Old Colorado City this week. They are precursors of the 14th annual Scarecrow Days promotion/event, sponsored this year by the Historic District Merchants of Old Colorado City. The official Scarecrow Days time frame will be Oct. 1-31. “Celebrity” judging of the creations will be Saturday, Oct. 2, with shoppers welcome to cast separate ballots for their favorites throughout the month. Based on past years, as the kickoff date gets closer, scarecrows will emerge in front of participating Old Town businesses, depending on how quickly their owners and/or staff find time to make them. All the scarecrows “should be out by the first of October,” HDM chair Nancy Stovall said. She wasn't sure how many there will be, but “we hope there will be quite a few on Oct. 2 for the judging.” Other features of Scarecrow Days will include a scarecrow-making competition for kids Oct. 9,“Spooky Stories” in Bancroft Park's Garvin Cabin Oct. 16, a coloring contest Oct. 1-24 and the 30th annual Halloween Safe Treats & Costume Contest Oct. 31. The Scarecrow Days kickoff date is a couple of weeks later than in past years; the HDM wanted the timing closer to the Oct. 2 date of the Giant Pumpkin Weigh-off, sponsored by the Old Colorado City Associates (OCCA) business group in Old Town Plaza, followed by a clear run-up to Halloween, according to Stovall. The OCCA used to bundle Scarecrow Days with the Weigh-off, but decided not to do both this year. For more information, call 633-6767 or go to historicdistrictmerchants.com. Westside Pioneer article	<urn:uuid:82e363a1-af05-46b3-84e3-f670c9f5ec88>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://westsidepioneer.com/Articles/091610/Scarecrows.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00064-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.947084	404	1.5	2
Find out how to tell if a wall is a bearing wall. Learn about the steps involved in the process of removing a load-bearing wall. Get tips on planning the electrical wiring and heat parts of the job. TOM: Well, you can actually make that dream a reality. Opening up a wall and even a bearing wall is something that can be done if – and that’s a big if – you take the proper precautions. Tom Silva , the general contractor from TV’s This Old House , is a very cautious guy when it comes to doing these sorts of projects. He’s here with some tips to help us get that job done. Tom, is this something a homeowner really can do? TOM SILVA: They really can do it if they have some skills. LESLIE: Wait. The question, I think, is: should they do it? Should. TOM SILVA: They shouldn’t do anything until they know what they need to carry that load above. And to find that out, they should get a structural engineer involved first. TOM: And that really is the key, because you can’t take a load-bearing wall apart without supporting what it is bearing, first. TOM SILVA: Exactly. Unless you have some kind of a magic skyhook that will hold that place up while you open it up below, it isn’t going to happen. LESLIE: Now, when you’re looking at your home, any tips on which walls are the load-bearing walls? Are they perpendicular? Do they run the same direction as the front and back of the house? TOM SILVA: Usually, the structure that is above the load-bearing wall – the floor joists or the roof structure or whatever, the ceiling joists – are usually perpendicular to that load-bearing wall. A load-bearing wall usually is a 2x4, not a 2x3 wall. So, you can have a wall that runs perpendicular to your joists. It can be a 2x3 wall but that doesn’t mean that – that means that that load-bearing wall – that 2x3 wall is not a load-bearing wall. TOM: Right. That’s more just a partition wall at that point, right? So, let’s just kind of give the listeners an overview of what the process is to remove or reconfigure a load-bearing wall. Let’s say that we wanted to put an opening in a wall. We mentioned earlier we start by supporting what’s there now, correct? TOM SILVA: Correct. And the way you support it is basically you build a – well, there’s a few ways you can do it but the way that I like to think about it is you build a wall next to the wall. And you build it close enough that it’s going to carry the load above but far enough away so that you can work there. TOM: Get in between it and work on it, right. TOM SILVA: Right. In some cases, you have to build a wall on both sides of the load-bearing wall, depending on if the joists above the wall are lapped and sitting on top of the wall. In that case, you’ve got to support it on both sides. TOM: So you build the support walls first. Then at that point, when you know that the load is now carried, now you can start doing your wall surgery on the load-bearing wall, correct? TOM SILVA: Right. And I like to do the wall surgery very gingerly. At first, before I even build my load-bearing walls , I remove the plaster so I can then assess the situation. I then build my load-bearing wall, whether I need one or two load-bearing walls. Once that’s in place and they’re nice and tight, I then take – and start by cutting, with a reciprocating saw, each stud one at a time. When I cut my first stud, I don’t remove it. I cut the next stud, don’t remove it and so on down the line. And when you make a cut with a reciprocating saw, you will know if there is load on it, because the blade will jam up. TOM: Right. It’ll pinch the blade. It’ll come down and pinch it and then you know it’s still under pressure. TOM SILVA: Right. Exactly. So what you can do is what I do: if there is still some pressure on the wall, I go back and make a second cut in the same cut. And when I get – all the way down the road, let’s say I’m cutting out six 2x4s and the first time I made a cut, there was a little bit of weight on it. I know if my blade doesn’t get pulled out of my saw and that saw doesn’t knock me on the ground, that there’s some pressure on my temporary walls. But I still don’t remove them until that blade goes through every single cut that I made, very easily. Slips through. Then I can remove my (inaudible at 0:25:46). LESLIE: And is that just a matter of readjusting the two sort of temporary load-bearing walls that you’ve made – maybe the height’s off, maybe they’re not spaced correctly – to sort of correct that situation? TOM SILVA: Eh, maybe you just didn’t make them tight enough when you put it in. And those load-bearing walls – you think about it: when those load-bearing walls are going to pick up a load above, they’re putting tension on the joists below, so there’s going to be some deflection in that floor, also. So you want to make sure that they’re tight. Usually, the rule of thumb I use is if you need a stud that’s 89 inches to get it in there and it measures nice, make it 89¼. TOM: Just to get a little pressure on it. TOM SILVA: Yeah. Jam them in. And then when you build that temporary wall, when you have your studs that are 16 on center, then take a cross brace across the middle and make a horizontal board, also. That will lock them together and it keeps them from bowing. TOM: Right. Because that ¼-inch can be taken up by the flex in the stud. TOM SILVA: Absolutely. Yep, yep. TOM: Alright. Now, once we get it supported, once we’ve got the studs cut out, of course we have to now replace that structural assembly. I think it’s important to note that you have to be very careful at this point, because the more studs you take out, the beefier that replacement structure has to be. If you’re going to change, for example, say, a 3-foot archway to a 6-foot archway, you’re going to need a bigger header. And you’re also going to need to make sure that wherever those studs that are holding that header in place, wherever they hit, there’s something underneath, right? TOM SILVA: Yeah, that’s right. There’s a point load that becomes – at the end of each stud that you have to address. And the opening that you make, if – a rule of thumb that I think about when I’m making an opening and there’s one level above, it’s a one-to-one ratio. So, 6 feet wide would be 6 inches high and there would be two 2x6s with a piece of – a plywood sandwich between them. When they’re – then on each end, they would rest on what is called a “jack stud” and next to that would be a king stud. Those studs have to rest on the plate of the existing wall but you have to make sure that what is below it is – be able to support that, also. TOM: So suffice to say, if you understand what we’re explaining to you right now, you may be able to do this project yourself. TOM SILVA: Right. TOM: If you have no clue, call a contractor. TOM SILVA: Call a contractor that does know how to do it because, yeah, you don’t want the second floor on the first floor. TOM: Yeah, that’d be bad. TOM SILVA: You have a set of stairs for that. TOM: Alright, Tom, before we let you go, I want to point out that there’s one other part of this that I think people don’t consider when it comes to reconfiguring their walls and that’s the mechanical systems. It’s not just the wood that you’re cutting. Start taking that wall apart, you could have some mechanical surprises, as well, right? TOM SILVA: All sorts of problems in those walls to deal with. There’s electrical. If you cut that before you’ve removed the plaster so you can see it, you could start a fire, you could get shocked, you could burn yourself. If there’s plumbing, you’ll get soaking wet and you’ll cause some damage. And if there’s ductwork, you’ve got to figure out how you’re going to reroute it. TOM: So, the bottom line is this is a project that can be done. There’s a lot that goes into it and a lot of thought, a lot of planning that has to happen before you pick up that saw and start cutting studs out of the way. TOM SILVA: Right. TOM: Tom Silva, general contractor from TV’s This Old House, great advice. Thanks so much for stopping by The Money Pit. TOM SILVA: Alright, guys. Thanks a lot. LESLIE: Alright. You can catch the current season of This Old House and Ask This Old House on PBS. For local listings and step-by-step videos of many common home improvement projects, visit ThisOldHouse.com. TOM: And This Old House and Ask This Old House are brought to you by The Home Depot. 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Brendan Marrocco, 26, of Staten Island, speaks Tuesday about the double arm transplant he underwent at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Former soldier Brendan Marrocco is speaking publicly Tuesday for the first time about his long recovery from a bomb blast in Iraq and what it feels like to have two new transplanted arms. Marrocco, 26, of Staten Island, N.Y., was the first servicemember of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to survive the loss of four limbs. He has said he "doesn't regret a thing." He's already moving his new arms. "My arms have given me a lot of hope. They feel great," Marrocco said in a briefing from Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore where he was the first soldier to receive a double arm transplant. "Don't have any pain anymore. Currently I don't have any feeling yet, but we'll get there. I can move my wrist a little bit." He lost both legs above the knees, his left arm below the elbow and his right arm above the elbow in Iraq when a military vehicle he was driving on Easter 2009 was struck by a roadside bomb. Marrocco is one of only seven people in the USA who have undergone successful double arm transplants. The 13-hour surgery was performed at Johns Hopkins on Dec. 18. It will take more than a year to know how fully Marrocco will be able to use the new arms, according to W.P. Andrew Lee, plastic surgeon at Johns Hopkins. Twenty-six-year-old Brendan Marrocco was the first soldier to survive losing all four limbs in the Iraq War, and doctors revealed Monday that he received a double-arm transplant on December 18 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. (Jan. 29) Asked what he looks forward to, Marrocco said, "I want to drive again. I used to really enjoy driving. It was a lot of fun for me. And I also want to hand cycle a marathon." "I'm looking forward to doing everything I could do before I got hurt,'' Marracco said. "I hated not having hands. You do everything with your hands." The surgery involved the connection of bones, blood vessels, muscles, tendons, nerves and skins on both arms. Lee told The Washington Post that new arms are never going to have 100% of the function of the limbs they replace, but patients have learned to tie shoes, use chopsticks and put their hair in ponytails. In a second innovative procedure, Marrocco was given a new anti-rejection regimen using bone marrow from the deceased donor. That allows him to not have to rely heavily on the anti-rejection transplant medications that have side effects, can cause cancer and threaten organs. Lee developed that approach while working at the University of Pittsburgh. His new arms "already move a little," Marrocco tweeted a month after the operation. He described himself on Facebook as "a wounded warrior, very wounded." The military is sponsoring operations like these to help wounded troops. About 300 have lost arms or hands in the wars. While many of the soldiers who lose lower limbs are outfitted with prostheses, those devices are not as advanced for arms and hands. The gathering at the briefing laughed when Johns Hopkins' surgeon Jaimie Shores kidded, "He won't throw like Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco,'' competing in this weekend's Super Bowl, "but he can try to throw a football sometime. I don't think we'll be able to hold him back."	<urn:uuid:fa98cb75-0c07-4757-a180-3244e9c5decd>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/29/soldier-double-arm-transplant-iraq/1873735/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.974781	744	1.5625	2
WASHINGTON, DC- Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Samuel W. Bodman today announced the selection of nine projects totaling nearly $24 million aimed at developing novel and cost-effective technologies to capture the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced in coal-fired power plants so that it can be safely and permanently sequestered. Grant recipients will contribute nearly $8 million in cost-sharing for the program. "Carbon sequestration promises to significantly reduce America's greenhouse gas emissions even as our economy grows. This combination helps protect the global climate, while promoting job creation and a high standard of living," Secretary Bodman said. "The key to successful carbon sequestration is technology development, including technologies to capture greenhouse gases such as CO2 before they are released to the atmosphere." The projects support the President's Global Climate Change Initiative, which calls for an 18 percent reduction in U.S. greenhouse gas intensity-the ratio of greenhouse gas emissions to economic output-by 18 percent by 2012. DOE's Energy Information Administration projects that fossil fuels provide 85 percent of the world's energy, a proportion the will remain virtually unchanged over the next two and a half decades as world energy consumption doubles. Even with advances in energy efficiency and the switch to less carbon-intensive fuels, the result is expected to be a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions-from 25,028 million metric tons in 2003 to 43,676 million metric tons in 2030- and the potential for changes in the global climate. To reduce greenhouse gas emissions and control global climate change, the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy has established an aggressive Carbon Sequestration Program. One aspect of the multifaceted program is the development of safe, effective, low-cost carbon sequestration technologies, an effort managed by the National Energy Technology Laboratory. Sequestration uses a variety of methods to remove greenhouse gases from power plant emissions or the air itself, and securely store those gases in geologic formations, soils and vegetation, or in other environmentally safe forms. The newly selected projects will focus on three pathways to CO2 capture: - Pre-combustion, in which fuel is gasified to form a mixture of hydrogen and CO2, called synthesis gas or "syngas," and CO2 is captured from the syngas before it is combusted. - Post-combustion, which involves capturing CO2 from flue gas after fuel has been combusted in air. Oxycombustion, in which fuel is combusted in pure or nearly pure oxygen rather than air, producing an exhaust mixture of CO2 and water that can easily be processed to produce pure CO2. The projects-which total more than $31 million, including nearly $8 million in cost-sharing from the recipients-are described below: - Carbozyme, Inc. (Monmouth Junction, N.J.) will evolve a second generation of their enzyme-based membrane design for capturing CO2 from the flue gas of coal-fired power plants. The technology has demonstrated high capture efficiency and low energy cost.. (DOE share: $944,807; recipient share: $229,863; duration: 36 months) - Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.) will develop a cost-effective, membrane-based process to separate CO2 from the flue gas of coal-fired power plants. They also intend to deliver condensed, high-pressure, supercritical CO2 to a pipeline for sequestration. (DOE share: $788,266; recipient share: $197,067; duration: 24 months) - University of Akron (Akron, Ohio) will develop a highly efficient, low-cost CO2 capture system. Built on integration of metal monoliths, material synthesis, and low-cost fabrication techniques, the researchers anticipate a breakthrough technology for the removalof CO2 from the flue gas of coal-fired power plants. (DOE share: $764,995; recipient share: $156,702; duration: 48 months) - Carbozyme, Inc. (Monmouth Junction, N.J.) will design, construct, test, and demonstrate a simple, efficient, and readily scalable enzyme-based flue gas cleanup technology for CO2 capture and will demonstrate a method for reasonable-cost treatment of other pollutants to achieve near-zero emissions from pulverized coal power plants. (DOE share: $4,799,175; recipient share: $1,370,430; duration: 36 months) - Praxair, Inc. (Tonawanda, N.Y.) will develop an oxycombustion process using an oxygen transport membrane to capture CO2 from coal-fired power plants. (DOE share: $4,742,780; recipient share: $2,553,806; duration: 36 months). - Research Triangle Institute (Research Triangle Park, N.C.) will expand on the process they have developed to capture CO2 from power plant flue gas using an inexpensive, dry, regenerable sorbent. (DOE share: $3,211,997; recipient share: $803,175; duration: 36 months) - SRI International (Menlo Park, Calif.) will fabricate a technically and economically viable CO2-capture system based on a promising membrane material for pre-combustion-based capture of CO2 . (DOE share: $4,047,695; recipient share: $1,036,159; duration: 36 months) - University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Ind.) will focus on the development of a new liquid absorbent for efficient post-combustion capture of CO2 from coal-fired power plants. (DOE share: $2,214,590; recipient share: $793,861; duration: 36 months) - UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.), a Honeywell Company, will develop a process that uses novel microporous metal organic frameworks having extremely high adsorption capacities for the removal of CO2 from coal-fired power plant flue gas. (DOE share: $2,238,171; recipient share: $559,543; duration: 36 months) John Grasser, 202/586-6503 Craig Stevens, 202/586-4940	<urn:uuid:dd45cd46-da82-4d9d-85d9-3d6098cf7c0e>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://energy.gov/articles/secretary-energy-announces-nearly-24-million-grants-carbon-sequestration-research	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.910976	1,313	3.0625	3
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) - Peter Lougheed, who as Alberta's premier turned the province into an oil-powered modern giant and an equal player in Canada's confederation, has died at age 84, family members said. His family said Lougheed, who served as premier from 1971 to 1985, died Thursday of natural causes. In thanking doctors who had cared for him, they confirmed he had been ill for months. "Today Canada lost a truly great man. Peter Lougheed was quite simply one of the most remarkable Canadians of his generation," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement. Lougheed took the reins of the fledgling Progressive Conservatives in 1965 and within six years had built a party that rejected a decades-old Social Credit dynasty and launched one of his own that continues to this day. As oil prices rose dramatically in the 1970s, Lougheed became a provincial folk hero and a nationally recognized figure for his epic battles with Ottawa over control of Alberta's black gold. He kick-started petroleum diversification by nurturing oilsands development that now sprawls throughout northern Alberta, has brought the province billions of dollars, and made it the economic driver of the country. Lougheed created a multibillion-dollar nest egg Heritage Savings Trust Fund as oil revenue began to pour in and championed medical research. He fought for a clause in the Constitution to ensure Canada would ultimately be governed by legislators and not the courts. Edgar Peter Lougheed was born July 26, 1928, in Calgary into an established family deeply involved in politics. His grandfather, James, had served in the Senate and in the cabinets of Conservative prime ministers Robert Borden and Arthur Meighen. Lougheed's father was a lawyer and, in 1952, 23-year-old Peter was also awarded a law degree. Two years later, he earned an MBA from Harvard. As an undergraduate at the University of Alberta, Lougheed played football for the Golden Bears and the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Eskimos. Lougheed married Jeanne Rogers of Forestburg, Alberta, and together they had four children. In 1965, at 36, Lougheed took over the Progressive Conservative party and rebuilt it from the ground up. He focused on strong candidates and constituencies, on one-on-one door-knocking and on the new medium of television, which was perfect for the telegenic Lougheed. In 1971, the Tories won the provincial election and Lougheed set to work growing and diversifying the province. He raised oil royalties to underscore provincial control of resources and encouraged a foundation of Alberta-based financial institutions to reduce reliance on central Canadian He encouraged funding and research into extracting oil from the rich bitumen deposits near Fort McMurray. To open up the business of government, Lougheed ordered that all daily proceedings in the house be recorded. The same year he ordered daily TV coverage of debates. Both continue to this day. The oil price increases of the 1970s, spiked by turmoil in the resource-rich Middle East, sent money pouring into Alberta coffers. But the federal government wanted domestic prices kept below world levels and also wanted a share of the wealth. Lougheed pushed back by refusing a deal with Pierre Trudeau, Liberal prime minister at the time, and later rejecting a similar one offered by Joe Clark and the Conservatives. In 1980, Trudeau brought in the national energy program, a package of taxes and rules designed to funnel more resource revenues to Ottawa while keeping the domestic price below world levels. Lougheed took it as a declaration of war. In an impassioned TV speech, in which he accused the federal government of having moved right into Alberta's living room, he threatened to cut oil production. In March 1981, Alberta cut its daily output of 1.2 million barrels by 60,000. Trudeau eventually relented and a face-saving deal was brokered that increased the price of oil and reaffirmed Alberta as the master of its own resources. Lougheed also took on Trudeau over the patriation of the Constitution in 1982. The package included an amending formula which, in Lougheed's eyes, gave too much power to Ontario and Quebec and shortchanged the other provinces. He also saw the proposed Constitution as posing a threat to provincial resource ownership. He began lobbying other premiers and eventually swung seven others against Trudeau. "From the very outset we felt the federal government and the provinces are equal," he said long afterwards. "We just refused to take a position of being junior." (Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. 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