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The era of tax-free e-mail, Internet shopping and broadband connections could end this fall, if recent proposals in the U.S. Congress prove successful.
State and local governments resumed a push to lobby Congress for far-reaching changes on two different fronts: gaining the ability to impose sales taxes on Net shopping, and being able to levy new monthly taxes on DSL and other connections. One senator is even predicting taxes on e-mail.
At the moment, states and municipalities are frequently barred by federal law from collecting both access and sales taxes. But they're hoping that their new lobbying effort, coordinated by groups including the National Governors Association, will pay off by permitting them to collect billions of dollars in new revenue by next year.
If that doesn't happen, other taxes may zoom upward instead, warned Sen. Michael Enzi, a Wyoming Republican, at a Senate hearing on Wednesday. "Are we implicitly blessing a situation where states are forced to raise other taxes, such as income or property taxes, to offset the growing loss of sales tax revenue?" Enzi said. "I want to avoid that."
A flurry of proposals that pro-tax advocates advanced push in that direction. Enzi introduced a bill that would usher in mandatory sales tax collection for Internet purchases. Second, in the House of Representatives, politicians weighed whether to let a temporary ban on Net access taxes lapse when it expires on November 1. A House backer of another pro-sales tax bill said this week to expect a final version by July.
"The independent and sovereign authority of states to develop their own revenue systems is a basic tenet of self government and our federal system," said David Quam, director of federal relations at the National Governors Association, during a Senate Commerce committee hearing on Wednesday.
Internet sales taxes
At the moment, for instance, Seattle-based Amazon.com is not required to collect sales taxes on shipments to millions of its customers in states like California, where Amazon has no offices. (Californians are supposed to voluntarily pay the tax owed when filing annual state tax returns, but few do.)
Ideas to alter this situation hardly represent a new debate: officials from the governors' association have been pressing Congress to enact such a law for at least six years. They invoke arguments--unsuccessful so far--like saying that reduced sales tax revenue threatens budgets for schools and police.
But with Democrats now in control of both chambers of Congress, the political dynamic appears to have shifted in favor of the pro-tax advocates and their allies on Capitol Hill. The NetChoice coalition, which counts as members eBay, Yahoo and the Electronic Retailing Association and opposes the sales tax plan, fears that the partisan shift will spell trouble.
One long-standing objection to mandatory sales tax collection, which the Supreme Court in a 1992 case left up to Congress to decide, is the complexity of more than 7,500 different tax agencies that each have their own (and frequently bizarre) rules. Some legal definitions (PDF) tax Milky Way Midnight candy bars as candy and treat the original Milky Way bar as food. Peanut butter Girl Scout cookies are candy, but Thin Mints or Caramel deLites are classified as food.
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As we approach the end of 2012, I want to thank everyone for your hard work and professionalism which has helped us achieve continuous crime reduction in the City. I’m especially thankful to you because I am fully aware you perform your duties during uncertain economic times, without complaint, and many times without recognition. It’s imperative you know how much I appreciate all you do for me, for the citizens of Los Angeles and for the LAPD.
This time of the year is especially poignant for me as I realize many people will spend the holiday season away from their friends and family. So, as we enjoy Thanksgiving and the upcoming holiday celebrations with our loved ones, let us remember those who are away from home during this time.
With that said, I would like to ask everyone to take a few moments this Veteran’s Day to pay tribute to our brothers and sisters in blue, and the many brave men and women, who so valiantly protect our Country and safeguard our freedom while serving in the United States Armed Forces.
History of West Valley Area
At the end of World War II a housing boom began in the San Fernando Valley. At this time the Van Nuys Station, which had opened in 1926, was the only police station in the Valley. By 1957 it became necessary to create a second police station to serve the ever-growing valley area.
On May 1, 1957, after some renovation, the first West Valley Police Station opened at a storefront location on Reseda Blvd. It was the first new division to be opened by the Los Angeles Police Department in more than 31 years. On opening day, a total of 112 personnel were assigned to the division, which would serve an area of 79 square miles and 160,000 residents. The boundaries of West Valley Area were Rinaldi Street on the north, Mulholland Drive on the south, Balboa Boulevard on the east and the City limits on the west.
On August 7, 1960, West Valley officers closed the temporary station and moved to their new home at 19020 Vanowen Street. The new state of the art station had 19,000 square feet of working space, a motor garage and parking for 200 vehicles. At the time of the opening, there were 156 police officers who patrolled 83 square miles and a population of 230,000. The new station would cost $600,000 to build.
After 40 years, the West Valley facility had become too small to accommodate all of the assigned employees and construction began on a new station. On April 14, 2005, the new West Valley Community Police Station was dedicated. The current facility consists of four structures on 3 acres of land. The cost of the facility was $26 million. Presently, 294 personnel are assigned to the Division. Its newly created boundaries now cover 33 square miles and serve a population of approximately 194,000.
Throughout the years West Valley Area has seen its share of high profile arrests, crimes and natural disasters. The most noteworthy was the January 17, 1994, magnitude 6.7, Northridge Earthquake which struck the western San Fernando Valley and greater Los Angeles area. The quake caused extensive damage and loss of life in the community of Northridge. Fifty-seven people were killed and more than 8,700 were injured.
Fallen Heroes of West Valley
Since the opening of the West Valley Area, four officers have been killed in the line of duty within the Division. A wonderful memorial for these fallen officers sits proudly just outside of the station entrance for all of our citizens to visit and pay tribute to these brave individuals:
- Motor Officer Martin Parker was killed in a motorcycle accident on September 14, 1961.
- Detective Thomas C. Williams was ambushed and killed in order to prevent him from testifying in a robbery trial on October 31, 1985.
- Motor Officer Randol L. Marshall was killed in a motorcycle accident on June 2, 1987.
- SWAT Officer Randal D. Simmons was killed by an armed suspect while making entry into a residence on February 7, 2008.
I hope to see all of you at the 2012 Chief’s Holiday Party which will take place on Saturday, December 15th, at the Omni Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. This annual party is always a lot of fun and a great way to celebrate the season with friends, co-workers and family.
Another event you will not want to miss will be the 9th Annual Holiday Assembly which will take place on December 13, 2012, at 1030 at the Deaton Auditorium. Don’t miss out on the gift giveaways, holiday themed contests, and free lunch. Please take time out of your work day to stop by and partake in the day’s activities.
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Introducing students to the complexities of the atmosphere and climate system
Cindy Shellito, University of Northern Colorado
As a meteorologist and paleoclimate modeler, nearly every course I have taught in the past five years has required students to delve into the complexities of the atmosphere and climate system, and consider both short and long-term temporal changes and feedbacks between system components. In introductory meteorology courses, I introduce students to the 3-dimensional fluid nature of the atmosphere; in Climatology and Paleoclimatology courses, I introduce students to the complex interactions between and among the Earth system that affect global climate on varied temporal and spatial scales; in Mesoscale Meteorology, a senior-level course, we focus on the complex dynamics of 'mesoscale' atmospheric phenomena such as low-level jets, thunderstorms and tornadoes. I have taught no class the same twice, as I find that each year I have a better grasp of the extent to which students have difficulty understanding concepts in my courses.
The primary challenges of teaching students about complex topics in meteorology and climate system dynamics are generally similar between introductory and more advanced courses. I see the following as the primary challenges:
- Overcoming simplified preconceptions. Students often enter my courses with their own ideas about how the atmosphere and climate system work. (For examples: students think that the ozone hole is causing global warming, or that wind causes weather). Additionally, if they are presented with new material too quickly, they will often seem to oversimplify new concepts as a way of trying to remember them.
- Promoting understanding of feedbacks. Students are often looking for very clear connections – they want to be able to state very explicit outcomes. Feedbacks muddy the process and throw into question their preconceptions about the linear nature of cause-effect relationships.
- Conveying the 4-dimentional nature of climate system interactions or of atmospheric motion. Truly understanding the nature of the atmosphere requires developing mental images of 3-dimensional structures in the atmosphere and then being able to move these structures in time. This is a challenging task that requires a significant amount of spatial ability when using something concrete (evolving landforms, for example), but it requires an added amount of imagination when trying to build these structures out of thin air!
Among the strategies I've adopted in my courses and scholarly pursuits to meet the challenges outlined above:
- Coach students in how to learn material on complex topics. Often students try to learn lots of new material by making index flash cards for memorizing definitions. Students who do this, often don't see the connections between concepts. Providing students with some instruction in how to use concept maps to supplement their studying encourages them to consider how various concepts are linked together. I also walk them through my own cognitive process in drawing, reading, and interpreting weather maps or maps of climate data. I start with the simplest possible map, then have them draw and interpret maps of increasing complexity. Next we add maps or visualizations that depict the atmosphere in motion.
- Assess students' preconceptions. What ideas do they have when they walk into my classroom? What ideas do I need to build on? In my introductory courses, I require my students to complete a short questionnaire during the first week of the semester asking them about their ideas concerning the structure of the atmosphere and climate change.
- Break complex systems down into components and focus on one component or process at a time. For example, in studying the climate system, we may focus on the atmosphere first, and then the ocean. After discussing the individual components, it's critical to link them together. In discussing the climate system, I do this by incorporating a discussion of the hydrologic and carbon cycles.
- Use current research data, online, or from journal articles, to make activities more relevant.
- Incorporate maps, models or simulations and visualizations. I find that numerical models of varying complexity can be useful tools for promoting understanding particularly of global-scale processes and feedbacks. I use a range of numerical models, beginning from a very simple energy-balance model, and progressing to more complex models in advanced courses. Or, I will provide exercises where students need to interpret/extrapolate data presented in visualizations. I find, however, that introducing students to models or model output is a very tricky thing. Not all students (particularly at the introductory level) are comfortable looking at maps and visualizations. It's important to give them sufficient background to understand how to read and interpret maps or visualizations. Introducing too much too soon – particularly animated visualizations – can be overwhelming.
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Since the election of Ma Ying-jeou as Taiwan’s president in 2008, tensions between Taiwan and mainland China have faded dramatically. Long gone is the crisis atmosphere that marked the presidencies of Lee Teng-hui and Chen Shui-bian. Instead of searching for ways to assert the island’s de facto independence — and perhaps move toward making that independence official — initiatives that occurred repeatedly under Chen, Ma has sought to reduce tensions with Beijing in multiple ways.
Over the past three years, the two governments have signed agreements establishing regularly scheduled commercial airline routes, improving procedures for tourist visits from the mainland, and most significant, creating the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement. The last measure establishes the basis for a Taiwan-mainland free trade community.
In addition to these important economic measures, a political dialogue that had been on hold since the late 1990s has resumed. Beijing also no longer seeks to entice the handful of countries that have diplomatic relations with Taipei to sever those relations. The Chinese government even agreed to let Taiwan have observer status in the World Health Assembly.
Washington welcomes the easing of tensions and is relieved about Ma’s conciliatory approach to dealing with the mainland. From the standpoint of U.S. officials, the current status quo is nearly ideal. Taiwan maintains its de facto independence, thus keeping Beijing from controlling the island and being able to project its military power out into the Pacific, but avoids engaging in the kinds of provocations that characterized the Lee and Chen years. Provocations greatly increase the risk of a military confrontation that would likely involve the United States.
Washington’s sense of relief is understandable and to some extent justified. However, the temporary easing of tensions between Taipei and Beijing needs to be seen as just that: temporary. The underlying, fundamental dispute has not gone away, nor is it likely to. Beijing still insists that Taiwan someday accept political reunification with the mainland. But the overwhelming majority of Taiwanese have no wish to see their self-governing island come under Beijing’s control. Ma’s accommodating posture merely postpones the day of reckoning.
When the United States invaded Iraq, General David Petraeus famously posed the question: “Tell me how this ends.” A similar question ought to be asked about the Taiwan issue: “Tell me how this ends peacefully.”
The various scenarios for a peaceful outcome do not inspire optimism. One theoretical possibility is that Beijing ultimately accepts Taiwan’s right to self-determination, even if Taiwanese voters choose independence. But the chances of that development are infinitesimally small. Both because of nationalist emotions and strategic calculations (Taiwan’s crucial geographic location within easy striking distance of the major sea lanes in the Western Pacific), no Chinese government is ever likely to accept the island’s legal separation from the mainland.
Another scenario is that the status quo (de facto but conciliatory independence) goes on indefinitely. Washington would certainly prefer that outcome, and it is the course the majority of Taiwanese endorse. Public opinion polls over the past two decades consistently show about 50 to 60 percent in favor of the status quo, compared to about 30 percent who want to push for formal independence and a mere 10 to 15 percent who advocate reunion with the mainland.
But however much U.S. leaders and the Taiwanese people might want the status quo to go on forever, that position is not acceptable to Beijing. As China’s military and economic clout grows, the timetable regarding a willingness to tolerate this ambiguous situation is shrinking. The status quo might continue for another decade, perhaps even two decades, but at some point the Chinese government is going to insist on substantive moves toward reunification.
Which brings us to the third scenario for a peaceful resolution: Taiwan capitulates to Beijing’s demands and negotiates a deal based on a version of the Hong Kong model — extensive autonomy but with full acceptance of Beijing’s sovereignty. That is the most likely of the three scenarios, but it is still a long-shot. As noted, few Taiwanese favor reunification. The growing economic ties between Taiwan and the mainland might increase that total modestly, but probably not more than that. A transformation of the mainland’s political system to a democracy would likely boost the percentage still more, but there is little likelihood of such a transformation in the foreseeable future. Moreover, even if China did become democratic, there are still sizable economic and cultural differences that would make most Taiwanese reluctant to embrace reunification.
Those troubling realizations should temper our sense of relief that the Taiwan issue is not a crisis at the moment. The issue is merely slumbering. None of the scenarios for a peaceful outcome is likely over the long term. And given Washington’s implicit security guarantee to Taiwan, contained in the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, that prospect should cause more than a little unease. The Taiwan issue is a ticking time bomb that at some point is almost certain to lead to a confrontation with China, unless the United States rescinds its risky commitment to defend the island.
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Under age alcohol laws in North Carolina govern individuals under 21 years old (the legal drinking age), charged with a Driving While Impaired Offense (DWI) under North Carolina General Statute NCGS 20-138.1 or Underage Driving After Consuming Drugs and/or Alcohol under North Carolina General Statute NCGS 20-138.3.
For the standard Driving While Impaired (DWI) charge, all the factors and elements of the crime are no different. The prosecution still needs to prove that the individual was appreciably impaired at any relevant time after the driving, and the legal limit is still 0.08 to prove appreciable impairment. The fact that the defendant was under 21 does not make him or her appreciably impaired at 0.05, or any other blood alcohol concentration less than 0.08. The burden of proof on the prosecutor is still just as high.
Under North Carolina under age alcohol laws, North Carolina General Statute NCGS 20-138.1, individuals under 21 years of age charged with Driving While Impaired are still subject to the same treatment as those who are of age charged with the same crime. The only difference is that if the defendant is convicted, he or she would not be eligible for a limited driving privilege.
Driving After Consuming Drugs and/or Alcohol While Under 21 years of Age is another crime that people under 21 can be charged with. The elements of this crime are:
What this law basically says is that it is illegal for any underage person to drive after drinking any amount of alcohol or consuming any drugs whatsoever. One will notice that there is no requirement for impairment whatsoever. This is also known as a Zero Per Se Offense. At trial, if the prosecution can prove that the defendant drank any amount of alcohol, even one swig of a beer, he or she will be found guilty provided the other elements of the crime have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Once again, impairment is irrelevant on this crime. Like NCGS 20-138.1, this offense is also an implied consent offense. A refusal of a chemical analysis will result in automatic suspension of one’s driving privileges. In addition, a refusal can and will be used against the defendant in the court of law and can weigh in on the guilt.
Violating under age alcohol laws and North Carolina General Statute NCGS 20-138.3 is a Class 2 misdemeanor. It is not punishable by the special DWI punishment provisions outlined in the other section of this webpage. A Class 2 misdemeanor is punishable up to 60 days of active jail time depending on the defendant’s prior record level and any aggravating or mitigating factors. The maximum fine for this offense is $1000. A person guilty of this offense will lose his or her driver’s license for one year.
Please note that one may be charged with Driving While Impaired (DWI) and Underage Driving After Consuming Drugs and or Alcohol. In fact, these two offenses are not exclusive to each other so one may be convicted of both offenses although a judge may not punish a defendant beyond the maximum punishment of the standard DWI under NCGS 20-138.1.
Please note that an underage person is NOT eligible for a limited driving privilege if he or she is convicted of the regular Driving While Impaired (DWI) charge, but is eligible for a limited driving privilege if he or she is only convicted under the Driving After Consuming while Underage charge. This makes sense as if an underage person is driving while impaired and shows a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.12, he or she should most likely be punished more severely than an underage person who just has a single beer and registers a 0.01 on the blood alcohol-screening device.
The requirements of a limited driving privilege for the Driving After Consuming Alcohol or Drugs while underage are:
The limitations on the conditional restoration of one’s driver’s license are that the individual have a blood alcohol content restriction of 0.00 until he or she turns 21 and that he or she willingly submit to a chemical test by a requesting law enforcement officer should the officer have reasonable grounds that the alcohol restriction has been violated. A violation of this restriction will result in an additional year of license revocation.
Thus, as one can see, it is much better for a college student under 21 to be charged with Underage Driving after Consuming than it is for a standard Driving While Impaired (DWI) charge. For the Underage Driving after Consuming, the defendant can at least get a limited driving privilege if convicted. If he or she were found guilty of the standard DWI NCGS 20-138.1, he or she would not even be able to get a limited driving privilege.
This Underage Driving After Consuming Alcohol or Drugs charge is often called many different names such as Baby DWI, Underage DWI, Underage Consuming and Driving, etc. The names are often very misleading because they make the offense sound like an underage individual drunk driving, when in reality, this offense carries a lesser punishment than a standard DWI or DUI. This is not to say that an underage person will not be charged with a standard DWI (as he or she most certainly would) when he or she is driving impaired.
For information on under age alcohol laws in North Carolina and to discuss your underage drunk driving circumstances with a knowledgeable and experienced attorney, contact the office of Everett Law Firm, P.A. in Chapel Hill, NC at (919) 942-8002 or toll free at (800) 942-8048. We provide service to many counties across the state, including Alamance, Anson, Caswell, Chatham, Durham, Orange, Person, Richmond, and Wake.
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Wood Products, Bioenergy and Climate: Lippke et al. Study
Here’s a link to the new paper Sustainable Biofuel Contributions to Carbon Mitigation and Energy Independence
Here’s the UW news release.
Proposals to remove the carbon dioxide caused by burning fossil fuel from the atmosphere include letting commercially managed forests grow longer between harvests or not cutting them at all.
An article (http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/2/4/861/) published in the journal Forests says, however, that Pacific Northwest trees grown and harvested sustainably, such as every 45 years, can both remove existing carbon dioxide from the air and help keep the gas from entering the atmosphere in the first place. That’s provided wood is used primarily for such things as building materials instead of cement and steel – which require more fossil fuels in their manufacture – and secondarily that wood wastes are used for biofuels to displace the use of fossil fuels.
“When it comes to keeping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, it makes more sense to use trees to recycle as much carbon as we can and offset the burning of fossil fuel than it does to store carbon in standing forests and continuing burning fossil fuels,” said Bruce Lippke (http://www.cfr.washington.edu/SFRPublic/People/FacultyProfile.aspx?PID=11), University of Washington professor emeritus of forest resources. (http://www.cfr.washington.edu/)
Lippke is one of eight co-authors of the article in Forests. It is the first to comprehensively calculate using woody biomass for bioenergy in addition to using wood for long-lived products. The article focuses on the extra carbon savings that can be squeezed from harvesting trees if bioenergy is generated using wood not suitable for long-term building materials. Such wood can come from the branches and other debris left after harvesting, materials thinned from stands or from plantations of fast-growing trees like willow.
For the article, the co-authors looked at selected bioenergy scenarios using wood from the U.S. Pacific Northwest, Southeast and Northeast.
They considered two ways of producing ethanol from woody biomass – gasification and fermentation – and used what’s called life cycle analysis to tally all the environmental effects of gathering, processing and using the resulting fuels. Considering everything that goes into it and how it burns when used as fuel, the researchers found ethanol from woody biomass emits 70 percent to slightly more than 100 percent less greenhouse gases than producing and using the equivalent energy from gasoline.
Achieving slightly more than a 100 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is possible using fermentation during which ethanol is produced and enough electricity is generated to offset the fossil fuel used in the fermentation process.
In contrast, producing and using corn ethanol to displace gasoline reduces greenhouse gas emissions 22 percent on average, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s fact sheet (http://tinyurl.com/EPAFactSheetAltFuels) “Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Expanded Renewable and Alternative Fuels Use.”
While biofuels from woody biomass are carbon friendly, Lippke cautions that the U.S. should not use tax breaks or other incentives that inadvertently divert wood to bioenergy that is better used for long-lived building materials and furniture.
“Substituting wood for non-wood building materials can displace far more carbon emissions than using the wood for biofuel,” the article says. “This fact creates a hierarchy of wood uses that can provide the greatest carbon mitigation for each source of supply.”
Lippke said using wood for products and bioenergy can be considered carbon neutral because the carbon dioxide trees absorb while growing eventually goes back to the atmosphere when, for instance, wood rots after building demolition or cars burn ethanol made from woody debris. With sustainably managed forests, that carbon dioxide is then absorbed by the growing trees awaiting the next harvest.
The co-authors aren’t advocating that all forests be harvested, just the ones designated to help counter carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Older forests, for instance, provide ecological values even though they absorb less carbon dioxide as they age.
In the article the authors also urge policymakers and citizens to consider not just carbon mitigation but to also find ways to weigh the importance of energy independence from fossil fuels when considering how to use woody biomass for bioenergy.
“Simply burning woody biomass to generate heat or electricity makes sense for carbon mitigation, he says, but there’s no energy independence gained,” Lippke said.
Carbon efficiency is however only one part of the equation, the authors wrote. Transportation fuels depend heavily on imported oil and therefore biofuels that replace them make additional contributions to the domestic economy, including energy independence and rural economic development, the authors said.
Other co-authors are Richard Gustafson and Elaine Oneil with the UW, Richard Venditti with North Carolina State University, Timothy Volk with the State University of New York, Leonard Johnson with the University of Idaho, Maureen Puettmann of WoodLife Environmental Consultants and Phillip Steele with Mississippi State University.
The publication integrates findings across many previous reports generated by a consortium of 17 research institutions that have been involved in life cycle analysis of wood products for more than 15 years through the Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials (http://www.corrim.org/), based at the UW. The recent biofuel life cycle research was funded with a grant from the U.S. Forest Service’s Forest Products Laboratory.
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New York County tops in pay in 1997
September 21, 1999
Workers in New York County, N.Y.—comprised entirely of the borough of Manhattan—had the highest average annual pay by far among all of the largest counties in 1997.
Average pay in Manhattan was $58,791 in 1997, well above the average of $49,867 for the county with the next highest pay level, Fairfield, Connecticut. Other counties in the top five in average pay were Santa Clara, California, at a level of $48,702, the District of Columbia at $46,775, and Arlington, Virginia, at $46,145.
The five large counties with the lowest pay in 1997 were all much below the national average of $30,336. The lowest level of average annual pay was reported in Horry County, S.C. ($19,527), followed by the counties of Hidalgo, Texas ($19,779), Cameron, Texas ($20,041), Yakima, Washington ($20,716), and Tulare, California. ($20,770).
The BLS Covered Employment and Wages program produced these data. Pay data presented here are for all workers covered by State and Federal unemployment insurance programs. Find more information on pay in large counties in 1997 in "Employment and Average Annual Pay for Large Counties, 1997," news release USDL 99-256. The largest counties are defined as those with covered employment levels of 75,000 or more in 1997.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Editor's Desk, New York County tops in pay in 1997 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/1999/sept/wk4/art02.htm (visited May 23, 2013).
Spotlight on Statistics: Productivity
This edition of Spotlight on Statistics examines labor productivity trends from 2000 through 2010 for selected industries and sectors within the nonfarm business sector of the U.S. economy. Read more »
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Telematics system developers ATX and OnStar are both touting studies conducted by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. The studies indicate that for reducing driver distraction, voice is preferable to manual data entry for texting in a vehicle, and voice is also preferable to manual methods for entering navigation destinations.
According to the studies, the number of eye glances to the mobile phone for manual texting was 20 times the number of glances to the button that initiates voice texting. The percentage of time a driver’s eyes were off the road was shorter when using the voice interface than with comparable tasks using a handheld phone. All handheld tasks required significantly more mental workload demand – more than double on average – than voice-based tasks. Also, according to the study, voice-based systems essentially erased the gap that exists between younger and older drivers in driving performance when using handheld devices.
Some say the method a driver uses for texting in a moving vehicle is irrelevant because texting is distracting by definition and automakers should not enable the feature. Similarly, hands-free calling is considered by many to be no safer than handheld cell phone use since phone calls are more distracting than conversations with passengers who provide a second (or third or fourth) pair of eyes to alert the driver to danger.
These arguments imply that technology is the problem, not the solution, and they make no allowance for the content of the call or conversation. Is calling a spouse to say “I should be home by 6pm,” or conveying the same message via voice text, more distracting than a major confrontation with someone in the car?
Drivers must take personal responsibility for avoiding all sources of distraction and technology can be more of a help than a hindrance. Automakers and suppliers are devoting a lot of thought and effort to enabling smartphone apps safely and evidence suggests that voice interfaces are part of the solution.
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By CHARLES BABINGTON
WASHINGTON (AP) – Dear voter: Want to know why Democrats and Republicans in Congress find it so hard to work together to solve tough problems like the debt ceiling, health care and Social Security?
Look in the mirror.
Americans gripe about cowardly, self-serving politicians, and Congress doubtlessly has its feckless moments and members. But voters are quick to overlook their own role in legislative impasses that keep the nation from resolving big, obvious, festering problems such as immigration, the long-term stability of Medicare, and now, the debt ceiling.
Here’s the truth: The overwhelming majority of senators and House members do what their constituents want them to do. Or, more to the point, they respond to people in their districts who bother to vote. Nothing is dearer to politicians than re-election, and most have a keen sense of when they are straying into dangerous waters.
For a growing number of senators and representatives, the only risk is in their party’s primary, not in the general election. Most voters, and many news outlets, ignore primaries. That gives control to a relative handful of motivated, hard-core liberals (in Democratic contests) and full-bore conservatives (in GOP primaries).
In politically balanced districts, a hard-right or hard-left nominee may have trouble in the general election, when many independent and centrist voters turn out. But many House districts today aren’t balanced, thanks largely to legislative gerrymandering and Americans’ inclination to live and work near people who share their views and values.
The result is districts so solidly conservative that no GOP nominee can possibly lose, or so firmly liberal that any Democratic nominee is certain to win. In these districts, the primary is the whole ball game.
Republican lawmakers are under constant pressure to drift to the right, to make sure no fire-breathing conservative outflanks them in a light-turnout primary dominated by ideologues. The same goes for Democrats on the left.
So who turns up on Capitol Hill for freshman orientation? Democrats and Republicans who can barely comprehend each other’s political viewpoints, let alone embrace them enough to pursue a possible compromise on big issues.
But what if a Republican and Democrat do decide to meet halfway in hopes of finding, say, a path to shore up Social Security for decades to come. What can they expect?
In some states and districts, they can expect to be drummed out of their party for the crime of engaging with “the enemy.” That’s what happened last year to Bob Bennett of Utah, a mainstream conservative Republican senator. A relatively small number of conservative activists, led by tea partyers, bounced him from the ticket at a GOP convention. They taunted Bennett with chants of “TARP, TARP.” He had voted for the bipartisan bank bailout legislation pushed by Republican President George W. Bush. The Senate’s GOP leaders also voted for the bill. But it was an unacceptable compromise in the eyes of Utah Republicans picking their Senate nominee.
In Alaska, GOP primary voters also kicked Sen. Lisa Murkowski off their ballot. She barely saved her seat with a scrappy write-in candidacy. Murkowski supported the bank bailout and, admittedly, is more moderate than the average congressional Republican. But her improbable write-in victory proved she is popular with Alaskans in general, even if her own party rejected her in the primary.
Tea party leaders spell out a warning in their periodic Washington rallies.
“The message is that we’re watching, and we want you to vote based on our core values,” Mark Meckler, a co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, said at one such event.
When Democratic leaders were struggling earlier this year to strike a budget deal and avert a government shutdown, Phil Kerpen of the conservative group Americans for Prosperity said sharply, “No Republican better help them.” The crowd cheered loudly.
Such threats are mainly aimed at Republicans for now, largely because of the tea party’s rapid rise. But Democratic lawmakers also know liberal discontent might undo them if they stray too far to the center.
“It’s astounding how often some Democratic leaders sacrifice principles when critical issues are at stake,” said a writer for the liberal AmericaBlog. The column rebuked Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., for working with the bipartisan “Gang of Six” on a debt-reduction plan.
A McClatchy-Marist poll this year found that 71 percent of registered voters want political leaders in Washington to compromise to get things done. If those voters skip key primaries, however, they may have little say in the matter. Political enthusiasts, whether they wear peace signs or “Don’t Tread On Me” T-shirts, will determine who gets elected in many districts before a wide swath of Americans even notice it’s an election year.
Except for a recently appointed senator from Nevada, every member of Congress got there the same way: American voters elected them.
People may bristle at the notion that we get the government we deserve. But there’s no denying we get the government we elect.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Repaying Student Loans
As mentioned earlier, loans must be repaid! After you graduate, leave school, or drop below half-time enrollment, you have six months before you must begin repaying your loans. It is important to begin repayment when you receive a bill from your lender. There are consequences for not making your monthly payment.
Keep track of what you owe and when repayment is due. Be aware that many students spend 10 to 20 years repaying college loans!
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ON GAZE THEORY
Alexandre Kojève was born in Russia into a well-to-do family; he was the nephew of the painter Kandinsky. In 1920, at the age of eighteen, he left Moscow in order to study in Germany, first in Berlin and then in Heidelberg. In 1926 he moved on to Paris, registering as a student at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, where he attended a course on Hegel’s religious philosophy given by a fellow-Russian, Alexandre Koyre, whom Kojève had previously met in Heidelberg. In 1932, Koyre repeated the course, which Kojève once again attended, and then, at the end of the academic year, Koyre quit Paris for the University of Cairo. Before he went, however, he asked Kojève to take over as leader of the Hegel seminar and Kojève agreed, teaching it consecutively for the next seven years, up until 1939. Among those who attended during this period were Georges Bataille, André Breton, Raymond Queneau, Jacques Lacan and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Kojève’s seminar on Hegel, particularly his interpretative reading of passages from Phenomenology of Spirit, was to have a startling effect on French intellectual life. Kojève is best known today for his presentation of the Hegelian idea of the ‘End of History’, given fresh prominence by Francis Fukuyama’s 1992 book on The End ofHistory and the Last Man. Here, however, I want to concentrate specifically on Kojève’s interpretation of Hegel’s theory of the gaze and the master–slave dialectic.
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Last week I shared a six minute video tour of the known universe. That video does a great job of helping viewers understand the scale of the universe. Today, through Google Maps Mania I found a new Google Chrome Web GL Experiment called 100,000 Stars that also does a good job of helping viewers understand the scale of the universe. 100,000 Stars is a visualization of the 100,000 stars closest to Earth. You can view the stars on your own or take an automated tour of the stars.
Applications for Education
The 100,000 Stars tour does a great job of putting distances between stars and planets into a perspective that students can understand.
100,000 Stars uses Web GL technology and you will have to use Google Chrome to view the tour correctly.
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e made which got him into trouble. But that ended happily and Sunny Boy was so happy at Brookside that he might have decided to be a farmer if he and his daddy and mother had not gone to the seashore to visit his Aunt Bessie.
"Sunny Boy at the Seashore" tells about the fun a small boy can find in the sand and of Sunny Boy's experiences in sailing boats, and especially about the time he drifted out to sea in a rowboat all by himself. His mother and daddy, in another boat, found him, though, and Sunny Boy thought he would like to be a sea captain like the kind Captain Franklin who ran the motor-boat which caught up with him just as he was beginning to be very much afraid he was lost.
Sunny Boy knew that he could not be a sea captain before he was grown up, and long before that, the very next month, in fact, Daddy and Mother Horton took him to New York City, and, dear me, didn't he find adventures there! He was lost twice and he took his mother shopping and he visited Central Park and the Statue of
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Written by Religion News Service
April 25, 2008
The Bible is the favorite book of all time for American adults, regardless of demographic group, according to a new 2008 Harris Interactive Poll.
Researchers said it's rare to find such consensus among Americans, regardless of gender, education level, geographic location, race/ethnicity or age. Yet, more than 2,500 Americans surveyed in an online poll agreed that the Bible is their No. 1 favorite book.
The poll also found that political affiliation did not affect novel preference -- Republicans, Democrats and Independents alike agreed on The Bible and "Gone With the Wind" as their top two favorite books.
According to the survey, America's favorite books are:
1. "The Bible"
2. "Gone With the Wind," by Margaret Mitchell
3. "Lord of the Rings" (series), by J.R.R. Tolkien
4. "Harry Potter" (series), by J.K. Rowling
5. "The Stand," by Stephen King
6. "The Da Vinci Code," by Dan Brown
7. "To Kill a Mockingbird," by Harper Lee
8. "Angels and Demons," by Dan Brown
9. "Atlas Shrugged," by Ayn Rand
10. "Catcher in the Rye," by J.D. Salinger
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I swore I’d never abuse a blog this way, but the following is straight b-roll. I’m cutting this out of a book I’m just now finishing. [UPDATE: It's finished.] George Wolfe, playwright and sometime artistic director of New York City’s Public Theater, was reputed to respond to actors’ suggestions for things they might want to add to a scene by making a scissor-snipping hand-motion in the air and saying “Save it for your nightclub act.” This snippet is is part of a much longer critique of the influential academic history of our time . . . [UPDATE: I may not be talking, really, about intellectual history per se. More about an overreliance on intellectual history by historians who for various reasons prefer discussing ideas to discussing political and economic action.]
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So here’s the thing:
I’m not saying intellectual historians harbor some evil desire to distort. Intellectual historians just want history to be intellectual.
In my lifetime, they’ve made it so — or at least made American founding history so. For anyone wondering how we traveled, in about sixty years, from the Beardians’ dominating founding history by promoting their somewhat oddball take on class conflict to Gordon Wood’s and others’ dominating it by promoting “republican synthesis,” I believe we can thank the mighty influence of Douglass Adair. How Adair looked at the founders is how we mostly look at them now, so I think it’s worth a glimpse at how he pulled that off.
Like Robert Brown and Forrest McDonald, in the 1950′s Douglass Adair took direct aim at Beard. Yet he didn’t employ tendentious economic studies like theirs. Adair made a highly nuanced appeal to the importance of the founders’ reading and thinking, especially about the meaning of virtue.
It’s surprising, given Beard’s obscurity today, to see how powerful Beard’s influence was when Adair began work. In his Ph.D dissertation Adair could only go so far. He basically said, “Yes, of course, it was all about financial self-interest, but I’m just saying the classics might have had something to do with it too.” And he acknowledged what then was supposed to be common knowledge among historians, that the framers acted to restrain democracy because “their pockets were being picked by the backcountry debtors.” The prejudice embedded in that remark, in favor of the creditors, would offend hardly anyone today, since the subject of founding debt and credit has become opaque for many readers. That’s a reflection of Adair’s success. He shifted the larger discussion entirely away from economic matters that he’d been forced to acknowledge, at least, when he started.
Adair curated the postwar development of founding history largely through his role as the editor of “The William & Mary Quarterly” in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Much of the writing he encouraged there carried forward his project: thinking ever more deeply and arguing ever more closely about liberal, republican, and classical theories of virtue in government — the appropriate way, to Adairites, to read America at its founding. Through that process, economic conflict among classes in founding America came to have relevance only in so far as it inspired Madison to write about faction, say, or John Adams to write about balance.
One of the revealing effects of Adair’s approach to the project of debunking Beard, important for the stories I tell, has to do with how we look at Alexander Hamilton. The pro-business, right-wing Beard debunker Forrest McDonald made Hamilton a hero. That was counterintuitive, given McDonald’s Goldwater connections and Hamilton’s ceaseless activism on behalf of government power. Then again, the New Dealers, whom McDonald opposed, had copped Jefferson for their own founding mascot (even more counterintuitively). McDonald’s admiration for Hamilton may also remind us that the right’s famous affection for liberty often has to do with ensuring that deleterious effects of private enterprise on less advantaged people might never serve as a reason to regulate private enterprise.
In contrast to McDonald’s right-wing style of Beard debunking, Adair’s middle-of-the-road liberalism makes Hamilton a social conservative, living in hysterical fear of a class war that Adair was out to define as chimerical. Adair thus doesn’t have to deny Beard’s contention that Hamilton’s efforts in public finance involved an attack on the less advantaged; [UPDATE: On reflection -- and on reading an essay by Pope McCorkle in American Journal of Legal History that I can't link to -- that's not really a Beard position. In the end, it's hard for me to say what Beard's position was, on a number of things, but what I really mean here is something like "Adair thus doesn't have to deny Beard-influenced contentions that founding finance policies associated with Hamilton and the Federalists involved an attack on the less advantaged"]; he just sees the Hamiltonian extremity of anti-populism as baseless, silly, off the point of founding history (as he’s tautologically defined it). Since balancing fights among Americans is what interests Adair and his liberal-intellectual progeny, and not the fights themselves, both Hamilton and his enemies in the eighteenth-century popular-finance movement exist by definition outside the mainstream of the American founding. The founding populist efforts I discuss, the desire to radically change American society, to make government economically egalitarian, nothing to do with the ideas of Jefferson and Madison — that’s a molehill of which Hamilton foolishly made a mountain, in Adair’s reading.
The problem with the Adair narrative — and I think this is emblematic of the preference for looking at ideas, not action — is that it fails to explain much of Hamilton, and much of what actually went on in the founding. For one thing, Hamilton’s manifest economic liberalism: that daring pursuit of financial innovation, which, combined with his hierarchical conservatism, made activist government such a powerfully stabilizing, nation-creating force in the 1790′s. In shifting history away from the class war in which both Hamilton and the popular-finance movement knew themselves to be engaged, the Adair narrative cleanses early American tendencies toward stability and liberalism of the economic regressiveness that (I believe) attended them. Great historians have thus continued to be happy to believe in Adair’s Hamilton the extremist social conservative and upper-class hysteric, important to mention but intellectually marginal to the American project, and because intellectually marginal, ultimately marginal. Biographers and politicians alike perennially insist on Hamilton’s importance. Major academic historians have mainly stuck to giving him his bare due without getting interested in him.
That’s because Hamilton was an actor, not a thinker, in that his thinking — at least as adept, in my view, as anybody else’s of his day — served action, and action occurs in conflict. None of that serves the prime Adair directive of seeing in founding America a synthesis, a resolution of conflict, carried out in the famous elites’ ideas about virtue. The populists of the day, to the extent that they were economic radicals, will always look to Adairites extremist and hysterically misguided, just as their opponent Hamilton does; or, to the extent that populists can be described as not politically radical, just eager for personal advancement, they can be seen as having been unfairly labeled radical by the reactionary Hamilton. Either way, their needs would soon be addressed — supposedly! — by the intellectually attractive Jefferson, and then met — supposedly! — in the age of Jackson, and the franchise was opened in the states throughout the nineteenth century, so why on earth discuss radical thought and action as important to the founding?
Here’s why I do: Hamilton and the radical populists saw one another clearly, and what they saw represents the great political struggle of the period, the struggle that made us, I think, and the struggle we’re still in. To Adairites, that’s all off point. In the Adair reading, Madison is the founder to watch — not Hamilton, not Washington, not really John Adams, certainly not Samuel Adams. Adair’s Madison reacts to the Madison that Beard had pushed on us in 1913 — a Madison not much more than a somewhat pretentious aristo looking out at all costs for his own wallet, his republican theory, supposedly by his own admission, just a tactic for pushing back against the masses. Adair’s 1950′s Madison, by contrast, stays bent over his books. A reader and writer more than anything else, Madison rarely even looks out the library window, so immersed is he in the world of ideas. Madison has thus become the ultimately appealing founder for many readers of founding history. How could he not be? Anyone who loves reading for the sake of knowledge, nuance, exploration — any reader of serious history — will naturally prefer to hang out with the bookish Adair philosopher Madison rather than the hypocritical Beard plutocrat Madison. The Virginian sought to defeat the most pernicious effects of faction, ingeniously, by permitting faction to thrive in a balanced system. Who among us wouldn’t want to sit in a hushed and cozy library with Madison, Adair, and the classical authors? It beats considering grubby matters like paper versus metal, economic interest, and class war. And how especially satisfying is it that those great classical thinkers’ thinking was made law, for the first time, thanks to Madison himself, in the founding of our own government? Madison looks like somebody we’d be pleased to exchange a few ideas with. He looks like a smarter version of somebody, we dare to believe, like us.
The flattering, sentimental attraction of that version of Madison is so great that we no longer remember the Madison who was a politician operating within alliances and under pressures, not always to perfectly consistent ends, and with highly ambiguous effects on our founding history. The Madison we like remains so pure of heart and thought that to conservatives he’s the first conservative, to liberals the first liberal. We don’t really need to care what he meant when he mentioned the disaster of paper money and devaluing of debt in “Federalist Ten,” an essay we cite approvingly on other matters more edifying and therefore nearer to our hearts. We forget that regardless of the degree to which Madison was interested in the subject of his own interest, he had a point of view on society that he may have mistaken, as the rest of us do, for the objective one, in which his conclusions were shaped to fit his social and economic position.
And we forget that Adair came up with all that stuff about Madison in full-on attack on what was then the dominant position in American founding history. Adair was attacking Beard. McDonald, openly scabrous in his disdain, admitted by his tone that the war he was fighting was a political one, but Adair took a cannier tack, and so utter has been his victory over Beard that we no longer know that Adair was engaged in warfare at all, or that the war had political and not only intellectual dimensions. The self-regarding attitude of judicious omniscience employed by Adair, Morgan, Hofstadter, Wood, et al, dims our awareness — by sheer force of the attitude more than by anything else — not only of the importance of financial and economic struggles in the American founding but also of the academic combat in which those historians made their careers. We’re no longer expected to register the degree to which, in the past they’re supposedly merely exposing to us “as it was” (as Wood has actually said about his own work), it is the historians, and not the historical figures they study, who have the most decisive interests.
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9 Martyred names that mean martyred for boys, listing Martyred baby names 1-9. Basil, Darius, Forest, Sebastian and Timothy are popular names. Aniketos, Cadoc, Eustace and Janus are uncommon names. View Martyred baby names for name meanings, search Martyred names for girls, or search other baby names.
Aniketos ... The name has survived in a small way in Catholic countries because of a second-century martyred pope who was later canonized.
Basil ... Also the name of several early saints martyred in the East ...
Cadoc ... Name of a sixth-century Welsh saint who was martyred by the Saxons.
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Eustace ... Saint Eustace (second century) was a Roman general who was converted and martyred ...
Forest ... Saint John Forest (16th century) was one of the numerous English priests who were martyred during the conflicts between King Henry VIII and the Pope ...
Janus ... A Saint Januarius was martyred in the fourth century AD.
Sebastian ... was a third-century martyred centurion who became patron saint of soldiers ...
Timothy ... he was martyred after denouncing worshippers of the Greek moon goddess Diana ...
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About Kala Sangam
Kala Sangam is a leading south Asian and collaborative arts organisation based at the Kala Sangam Arts Centre in Bradford.
In Sanskrit, Kala means arts and Sangam, a meeting point. Sangam also refers to a confluence of rivers, such as the Triveni Sangam in North India, where three rivers come together. Kala Sangam exists to bring people together through the arts.
Kala Sangam aims to increase understanding and appreciation of the cultural traditions of South Asia, whilst improving awareness of racial, cultural and social issues. Established in 1993, the company works with local and international artists to create and deliver collaborative work through performances, classes, workshops, and training courses. While most of the company’s work takes place in West Yorkshire, its touring programme and outreach activities extend across the UK and internationally.
The company delivers art and cultural activities that bring communities together by promoting understanding and mutual respect. Kala Sangam values diversity, ensuring fair access to services so that people of all ages and abilities can enjoy and participate in the arts. This work ties in with and is guided by the cultural vision for Bradford, which embraces the city’s rich cultural heritage as a legacy for the future generations.
Kala Sangam Academy provides south Asian arts education, research and career development opportunities. This is done through classes, workshops, masterclasses, work placements, residencies, national and international performance opportunities, arts awards, and continuous professional development (CPD) opportunities for artists and performing arts teachers.
Kala Sangam Box Office provides a box office and ticketing facility for events programmed at Kala Sangam Arts Centre, including our own and touring shows.
Kala Sangam Agency can arrange artists or manage artistic programming for your event. Both public and private events are catered for, including private parties, weddings, festivals and large public events. We also commission new touring work.
Kala Sangam Venues can arrange events space, catering and technical support for meetings and events at Kala Sangam Arts Centre, and can offer managed office/workshop/practice space for tenants and outside users.
click here to find out more about the spaces available
Kala Sangam Schools and Community teams can provide arts workshops, projects, classes and diversity days in schools and in the community. Our Schools and Community programmes promote understanding and mutual respect through the arts and provide accessible south Asian arts, culture and heritage education opportunities. We can offer curriculum-based or theme-based art workshops for your school or community group.
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Psychoanalysis does not profess the arrogance of religion, thank God. Sigmund Freud in the Play
Attention thinking theater-goers! If you haven’t caught up with Freud’s Last Session, the return of its original cast should goose you into action. This is a really smart, intriguing play, not for a moment dull or pedantic. Imagining a London meeting of the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, and the then largely unknown author, C.S. Lewis, playwright Mark St. Germain offers not only a battle of intellect and belief, but well drawn historical context, high drama, comic relief, and insights into both singular characters. The two men spar with increasing respect for one another in a particularly credible and appealing fashion.
September 1939. The invasion of Poland by Germany is announced by radio in the book and statue filled study of Freud’s recently acquired Hampstead house. Despite the fact his works were among those the Nazis burned, the doctor had been resistant to leaving Vienna. He’s 83 years old and in the last stages of particularly painful cancer. Still, Freud’s mind remains sharp and sufficiently curious to invite to his home C.S. Lewis, a young Oxford academic who was, before conversion at 32, a particularly vocal atheist, brought to Christianity, he wrote, like a prodigal “kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for escape.”
Now fully formed, Lewis’s ideas could not be more different from that of the doctor. Freud feels God is an illusion based on our need for powerful parenting, one no longer required now that it’s not used to restrain man’s violent nature. He is, he thinks, a realist: “Why should I take Christ’s word he was God any more than I believe any one of my patients who calls himself Christ.” The hypothetic discourse takes place before both Lewis’s masterful Chronicles of Narnia and his more important writings on Christianity. He’s 41.
A masterful piece of research and dramatization, Mark St. Germain’s script brings his protagonists to life peppering the stage with nuanced moments of acknowledgment and recognition. Radio broadcasts, air raid sirens and telephone calls are adroitly used to punctuate and place. The play is not only interesting, it’s unexpectedly moving and contains one of the best unresolved but neatly finished solutions I’ve witnessed.
Martin Rayner (Sigmund Freud) has created his character from the outside in. The viscerally painful gargling voice he employs, chest coughs, shortness of breath, staccato (Germanic) gestures of emphasis, and moments of humor affected with a decided twinkle, meld to present a defined portrait. Rayner’s watchfulness is never empty. Thoughts are constructed before they’re expressed. Balance of gravitas and fallibility is beautifully achieved.
Mark H. Dold (C.S. Lewis) – From his pressed flannels to the graceful ease with which he moves, Dold’s Lewis presents a picture of robust health and hope (faith?) in direct contrast to Freud’s illness and fatalism. The actor’s furtive skirting of Freud’s couch couldn’t be more genuine, his admiration for collected artifacts manages to appear reservedly tinged with envy, recollection of Lewis’s war time experience conjures tortured visual images, concern for his host is deft and touching.
Director Tyler Marchant has both orchestrated and choreographed what may seem a battle but is, in essence, a lively dance. Transitions from the depth of emotion to literal laughter are seamless. When one man lobs a thought the other finds worthy, there are pristine seconds where both players show awareness. An unanticipated physical intimacy is skillfully handled to make the most of its awkwardness without becoming melodramatic. Pacing is terrific.
Brian Prather’s Set, richly detailed and character specific, features Central Asian textiles, Egyptian amphoras, Greek and Indian statues, a wall of well bound journals, and a desk which opposite one another presents one Chinese and one Bank of England chair as if to show both sides of the coin. The well crafted window never shows a sign of daylight to which the men repeatedly refer, however. Mark Mariani’s Costumes evocatively describe the characters who inhabit them, offering the contrast of dark and light, classical and modern, patrician and practical, well worn and fresh pressed. Beth Lake’s Sound Design delivers sturdy contribution.
Photo credit Carol Rosegg
Sigmund Freud- Martin Rayner, C.S. Lewis- Mark H. Dold
Freud’s Last Session by Mark St. Germain
Directed by Tyler Marchant
Featuring Mark H. Dold & Martin Rayner
New World Stages
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Upload photos, chat with photographers, win prizes and much more for free!
In my last couple of blogs I discussed some of the photographers that inspire me at this moment in time. Why this moment, well my tastes change over time. Does anyone else find the same?
I thought I would look at a couple of photographers that drew inspiration from the art world.
The first is:
There are some amazing still life images that bare more than a passing resemblance to some of the great Dutch still life artists such as Pieter Claesz
The use of light and shade, composition, and harmony and discord in the images are superb .. did you know the extinguished candle in many of the images signifies mortality?
Another photographer, that has really got my imagination going recently is Gregory Crewsden now his work draws more than a passing resemblance to that of Edward Hopper .. There are some better examples of his work using a Google image search.
Even the ever popular Strobist movement uses the principals devised by many of the great old masters. Using light and shade to draw the eye. There was an article on the strobist site about this exact point.
I was about to sign off when I forgot about one of the best digital exponents Ben Goossens who drew inspiration from Rene Magritte .. again Google images gives a better impression of his work. Goossens also uses Dali as a source of his imagery.
I hope this has given a bit of food for thought.
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HISTORIC HOMES AND ARCHITECTURE
Canton boasts of significant architecture, not only in the Historical Business District located on Fulton, Peace and Center Streets, but also in its noblest of homes. Canton is fortunate to have preserved an inventory of historic homes that date back as early as the mid-1820s through the 1920s. Canton's featured homes are owned and lived in by third generation families to new residents that help maintain and preserve the integrity and beauty of these incredible architectural structures.
While visiting Canton, please make note that Canton's collections of homes feature Victorian, Georgian, Greek Revival, and Log Dogtrot styles.
The following are examples of Canton's enchanting style of architecture. Some of these are available for group tours by appointment only. For more information, please contact our office.
CANTON WELCOME CENTER
The Welcome Center shares a home with the Allison's Wells School of Arts & Crafts in the Trolio Hotel on the west side of Canton 's historic square. A trained staff assists visitors and tour groups. Open Mon - Fri, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM; Sat 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
OLD MADISON COUNTY JAIL (1870)
234 East Fulton Street
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this red brick building was completed in 1870 and used for over 90 years. Said to be one of the few penal structures of its period to be so well preserved, the cellblocks have been restored to their original condition. It is owned and maintained by the Canton Historical Society.
The Hickory Street or "Hollow" area was the location of several of Madison County 's early black-owned businesses. Tolliver's Café was a favorite of the railroad men who frequented it and talked of it when they traveled. The renowned Canton blues musician, Elmore James, played here in the 40's and 50's.
THE HOWCOTT MONUMENT
A 20-foot gray obelisk built between 1894 and 1900 by William Hill Howcott in honor of his body servant, Willis Howcott, a faithful servant and friend who followed him into battle and was killed. The monument, perhaps the only one of its kind in the South, was rededicated in 1984 and stands as a symbol of racial unity.
CANTON ANIMATION MUSEUMS
Experience the beauty of over 100 life-size moving figures depicting the history and heritage of Canton and the days of the Victorian Era. The museums are open the day after Thanksgiving thru Christmas.
HISTORIC CHURCH TOURS
Canton 's many historic churches feature beautiful and rare architecture.
TEMPLE B'NAI ISRAEL
A histrical marker commemorates this temple, built on the corner of Academy and Liberty Streets in 1874. Most of Canton 's large Jewish community were pioneer merchants and many buildings on Canton 's Square still bear the family names. The Jewish population dwindled and the temple was torn down in the 1970s.
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Uncle Sam wants to scare you away from smoking. The Feds couldn't force tobacco companies to put gruesome images on cigarette packages, so now it's going on the offense, launching a new anti-smoking ad campaign showing smokers barely holding onto life and limb.
The "Tips From Former Smokers" campaign will run for 12 weeks on TV, radio, billboards, the Internet, cinema, magazines and newspapers.
Creative for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ads mimics the style and approach of the proposed warning labels with the intent to scare the pants off of anyone who is a smoker or even thinking about taking up the nasty habit. The series of seven ads show smokers with every horrific disease imaginable trying to survive without limbs or living with a stoma (a surgical opening in the neck). Only one of the ads provides an uplifting message that former smokers can work their way back to health through exercise.
"Although they may be tough to watch, the ads show real people living with real, painful consequences from smoking," said CDC director Thomas Frieden. "There is sound evidence that supports the use of these types of hard-hitting images and messages to encourage smokers to quit, to keep children from ever beginning to smoke, and to drastically reduce the harm caused by tobacco."
All the ads are tagged with 1-800-QUIT-NOW or a Web site, which provides free quitting information.
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The graph below is a comparison of salary data for 10 jobs in Orlando, Florida, as provided by the free SalaryExpert®
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Horse Trainer: Prepares horses for riding, show, work, or racing using a training program. Feeds, exercises, grooms, and talks to horses to accustom them to human voice and contact. Talks to horses to calm and encourage them to follow lead, or standstill... [+] More
Horse Trainer: Prepares horses for riding, show, work, or racing using a training program. Feeds, exercises, grooms, and talks to horses to accustom them to human voice and contact. Talks to horses to calm and encourage them to follow lead, or standstill when hitched or groomed. Places tack or harness on horse to accustom horse to feel of equipment. Mounts and rides saddle horse to condition horse to respond to oral, spur, or rein command, according to knowledge of horse's temperament and riding technique. Hitches draft horse to wagon, sledge, or other horse drawn equipment and conditions horse to perform in single or multiple hitch, using rein and oral commands. Trains horses for show competition according to prescribed standards for gaits, form, manners, and performance, using knowledge of characteristics of different breeds and operating routines of horse shows. Retrains horses to break habits, such as kicking, bolting, and resisting bridling and grooming. Usually specializes in conditioning and developing horses of one breed only, or in training horses for one type of riding, driving, racing, or show activity. May train horses for racing, utilizing knowledge of training methods to plan training, according to peculiarities of each horse and instructs jockey on how to handle specific horse during race and be designated racehorse trainer. May train horses or other equines to carry pack loads and work as part of pack train. May arrange for mating of stallions and mares, and assist mares during foaling. May train horses as independent operator and advise owners on purchase.
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No credibility on environment
“(Global warming) is the greatest threat to life on the planet, (the effects of which) will be seen in our children’s lifetime.”
– Peter Kent in 1984
MIDLAND – It gets a bit rich when one of the most ideologically driven government Canada has ever seen accuses others of pushing an agenda.
When petulant Environment Minister Peter Kent peddles such accusations, you know things are getting absurd.
In Rio de Janeiro for a UN environment conference, Kent took a moment to slam critics of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s regime for spreading “misinformation” on the Tories’ approach to environmental protection.
“I think that Canada has been unfairly described as being outside the group of committed countries,” Kent told The Canadian Press. “Ideology plays a role, certainly, in the criticism.”
So, foregoing the obvious “pot calling the kettle black” analogy, does Kent have a point? Are the Conservatives really committed to environmental protection?
Well, here’s their record:
• In 2009, the Tories eliminated mandatory environmental assessments for major developments on Canadian rivers. The minister of transport can now make decisions without public input.
• In 2010, the environment minister was given more power to determine the scope (or lack of scope) of an environmental assessment. Legislative changes also saw some infrastructure projects exempted from environmental assessments.
• Canada’s commitment to the Kyoto Accord was effectively killed by the Harper Conservatives in 2011.
• Harper recently ended the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy.
• Harper terminated funding to the Experimental Lakes Area, an internationally recognized program to study pollution.
• The Harper omnibus budget bill targets the Fisheries Act (habitat protection), the Species at Risk Act, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, and more. It also allows Cabinet to overrule the National Energy Board.
• Millions are now set aside to go after environmental groups who accept foreign donations to protest oil projects.
Is Kent credible? Hardly.
Even past Progressive Conservative governments have acted to protect our water, forests, at-risk species, fishing habitats, etc. The Harper Conservatives seem intent on undoing decades of work, pursuing a legacy at odds with traditional Canadian values.
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One of the problems with easements is that their meaning may not always be obvious.
An easement is the right to use someone else’s land for a purpose. For example, an easement might allow a person access to their neighbour’s land in order to undertake repairs to their property.
In a recent case, the owners of a property in St Ives faced difficulties because of the nuisance caused by the behaviour of customers of a nearby beer garden. This could be reached via a rear entrance by way of a passageway across the property owner’s land. An easement over the passageway was contained in a 1921 conveyance and it provided that the passageway could be used to go to and from the property now being used as a beer garden, stipulating that the right existed ‘as now used by the vendor’.
The owner of the passageway sought to prevent drinkers from using it because of the nuisance they created. He relied on the terms of the easement, arguing that it was not applicable to the current use being made of the neighbouring property. In 1921, the premises had been a fishmonger’s shop - a very different use from running licensed premises.
The judge held that at the time the easement was created, the use of the passage would have been limited to suppliers, the fishmonger’s staff and trade customers. Accordingly, a ‘general’ right of access did not apply. This view was supported by the Court of Appeal.
In this case, the argument was successful because the use for which the easement was originally granted no longer prevailed. It is important to remember that where an easement exists that was granted many years ago, the right may or may not still exist. The easement has to be considered in context.
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- Published on Tuesday, 08 September 2009 15:09
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January 31st, 2011 by Jean Lafferty
The Super Bowl means party time at our house. We revel in the day, rootin’ and hootin’ at the game, the big name entertainers, and the year’s best commercials. We do it up big every year—a blowout event to which we invite favorite folks from two blocks around. Neighbors who’ve been coming for years include the Sallids, the (more…)
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January 19th, 2011 by CrispRoot
It was a Research from February 1998 that initially created the well known belief that there could be a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. In an article from The Washington Post published on January 06th, we learn that a recent analysis shows irregularities in this research questioning once more its’ veracity.
Read the article on the Washington Post
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Laced Canopy, 2002
Mosaic glass skylight in north control house
Laced Canopy has over 100 decorative glass mosaic panels - over one million fragments of glass - installed in the skylight of the subway control house, the first above-ground station house built in New York in over a century. The work's light and lacy effect is achieved from trapping the mosaic fragments between two sheets of specially fabricated glass. The knots interwoven into the composition are also representations of musical notes from Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto, referencing Verdi Park, in which the station is located, and the nearby Metropolitan Opera. Robert Hickman describes the sparkling canopy as "a delicate covering of crushed diamonds." Nineteenth-century English sources inform the work, whose concept is based on the 1851 London Crystal Palace; William Morris fabric and wallpaper designs, as well as Greco-Roman knot patterns, are incorporated as motifs.
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The North Dakota Senate has passed a measure would make it the state the first to ban abortions based on genetic defects such as Down Syndrome.
The measure would also ban abortion based on gender selection. Three other states throughout the country already have such laws.
Bill supporters say sex-selection abortions usually target female fetuses because of preference for a baby boy.
They say sex discrimination laws should also apply to the unborn.
Senator Margaret Sitte / (R) Bismarck: "is it right to discriminate against a human being based on his or her gender, based on his or her sexuality before that person is born and in our North Dakota Human Rights Act we say absolutely not."
Senator Connie Triplett / (D) Grand Forks: "now many of these abortion bills we have passed, the majority has attempted to control what happens to a woman's body" "and that Mr. President, in my mind, is an abomination, but this goes one step further, now you are attempting to control their mind."
Senator Carolyn Nelson / (D) Fargo: " this is not a problem that we have, and it is not our business, this is medical decision, and a medical decision is made between the parent, the mother, the doctor, and her God."
The Senate also approved a bill banning abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
If Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple signs the measure, North Dakota would have the most restrictive abortion laws in the U.S.
The measure approved by the Senate on Friday would ban most abortions if a fetal heartbeat can be detected.
It's one of several anti-abortion bills the Legislature has weighed this session.
The House is expected to vote on other abortion related bills next week.
There was a side show to the abortion debate in the Senate.
Democrat Senator Connie Triplett from Grand Forks walked out of the Senate chamber minutes after speaking out against the bill.
Minority leader, Mac Schneider says Triplett has strong feelings about the bills.
She did return after her fellow senators voted on the two abortion related bills.
It's action that is rare to see in the legislature.
Majority leader Rich Wardner says rules state if you are in the chambers you have to vote.
He says in the future if a member leaves, the full Senate will wait until that member returns to vote.
Neither leader will say Triplett left the floor in protest to the bills being passed.
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FRANKLIN. I repeat it, my enemy; for you would not only torment my body to death, but ruin my good name; you reproach me as a glutton and a tippler; now all the world, that knows me, will allow that I am neither the one nor the other.
GOUT. The world may think as it pleases; it is always very complaisant to itself, and sometimes to its friends; but I very well know that the quantity of meat and drink proper for a man, who takes a reasonable degree of exercise, would be too much for another, who never takes any.
FRANKLIN. I takeeh! oh!as much exerciseeh!as I can, Madam Gout. You know my sedentary state, and on that account, it would seem, Madam Gout, as if you might spare me a little, seeing it is not altogether my own fault.
GOUT.in life is a sedentary one, your amusements, your recreation, at least, should be active. You ought to walk or ride; or, if the weather prevents that, play at billiards. But let us examine your course of life. While the mornings are long, and you have leisure to go abroad, what do you do? Why, instead of gaining an appetite for breakfast, by salutary exercise, you amuse yourself with books, pamphlets, or newspapers, which commonly are not worth the reading. Yet you eat an inordinate breakfast, four dishes of tea, with cream, and one or two buttered toasts, with slices of hung beef, which I fancy are not things the most easily digested. Immediately afterwards you sit down to write at your desk, or converse with persons who apply to you on business. Thus the time passes till one, without any kind of bodily exercise. But all this I could pardon, in regard, as you say, to your sedentary condition. But what is your practice after dinner? Walking in the beautiful gardens of those friends with whom you have dined would be the choice of men of sense; yours is to be fixed down to chess, where you are found engaged for two or three hours! This is your perpetual recreation, which is the least eligible of any for a sedentary man, because, instead of accelerating the motion of the fluids, the rigid attention it requires helps to retard the circulation and obstruct internal secretions. Wrapt in the speculations of this wretched game, you destroy your constitution. What can be expected from such a course of living, but a body replete with stagnant humors, ready to fall prey to all kinds of dangerous maladies, if I, the Gout, did not occasionally bring you relief by agitating those humors, and so purifying or dissipating them? If it was in some nook or alley in Paris, deprived of walks, that you played awhile at chess after dinner, this might be excusable; but the same taste prevails with you in Passy, Auteuil, Montmartre, or Sanoy, places where there are the finest gardens and walks, a pure air, beautiful women, and most agreeable and instructive conversation; all which you might enjoy by frequenting the walks. But these are rejected for this abominable game of chess. Fie, then, Mr. Franklin! But amidst my instructions, I had almost forgot to administer my wholesome corrections; so take that twinge,and that.
GOUT. That, of all imaginable exercises, is the most slight and insignificant, if you allude to the motion of a carriage suspended on springs. By observing the degree of heat obtained by different kinds of motion, we may form an estimate of the quantity of exercise given by each. Thus, for example, if you turn out to walk in winter with cold feet, in an hours time you will be in a glow all over; ride on horseback, the same effect will scarcely be perceived by four hours round trotting; but if you loll in a carriage, such as you have mentioned, you may travel all day and gladly enter the last inn to warm your feet by a fire. Flatter yourself then no longer, that half an hours airing in your carriage deserves the name of exercise. Providence has appointed few to roll in carriages, while he has given to all a pair of legs, which are machines infinitely more commodious and serviceable. Be grateful, then, and make a proper use of yours. Would you know how they forward the circulation of your fluids, in the very action of transporting you from place to place; observe when you walk, that all your weight is alternately thrown from one leg to the other; this occasions a great pressure on the vessels of the foot, and repels their contents; when relieved, by the weight being thrown on the other foot, the vessels of the first are allowed to replenish, and, by a return of this weight, this repulsion again succeeds; thus accelerating the circulation of the blood. The heat produced in any given time depends on the degree of this acceleration; the fluids are shaken, the humors attenuated, the secretions facilitated, and all goes well; the cheeks are ruddy, and health is established. Behold your fair friend at Auteuil; a lady who received from bounteous nature more really useful science than half a dozen such pretenders to philosophy as you have been able to extract from all your books. When she honors you with a visit, it is on foot. She walks all hours of the day, and leaves indolence, and its concomitant maladies, to be endured by her horses. In this, see at once the preservative of her health and personal charms. But when you go to Auteuil, you must have your carriage, though it is no farther from Passy to Auteuil than from Auteuil to Passy.
GOUT. Do you remember how often you have promised yourself, the following morning, a walk in the grove of Boulogne, in the garden de la Muette, or in your own garden, and have violated your promise, alleging, at one time, it was too cold, at another too warm, too windy, too moist, or what else you pleased; when in truth it was too nothing, but your insuperable love of ease?
GOUT. So possible, that it is fact; you may rely on the accuracy of my statement. You know M. Brillons gardens, and what fine walks they contain; you know the handsome flight of an hundred steps, which lead from the terrace above to the lawn below. You have been in the practice of visiting this amiable family twice a week, after dinner, and it is a maxim of your own, that a man may take as much exercise in walking a mile, up and down stairs, as in ten on level ground. What an opportunity was here for you to have had exercise in both these ways! Did you embrace it, and how often?
GOUT. Even so. During the summer you went there at six o clock. You found the charming lady, with her lovely children and friends, eager to walk with you, and entertain you with their agreeable conversation; and what has been your choice? Why, to sit on the terrace, satisfy yourself with the fine prospect, and passing your eye over the beauties of the garden below, without taking one step to descend and walk about in them. On the contrary, you call for tea and the chess-board; and lo! you are occupied in your seat till nine oclock, and that besides two hours play after dinner; and then, instead of walking home, which would have bestirred you a little, you step into your carriage. How absurd to suppose that all this carelessness can be reconcilable with health, without my interposition!
GOUT. Burn it if you choose; you would at least get heat out of it once in this way; or, if you dislike that proposal, heres another for you; observe the poor peasants, who work in the vineyards and grounds about the villages of Passy, Auteuil, Chaillot, etc.; you may find every day among these deserving creatures, four or five old men and women, bent and perhaps crippled by weight of years, and too long and too great labor. After a most fatiguing day, these people have to trudge a mile or two to their smoky huts. Order your coachman to set them down. This is an act that will be good for your soul; and, at the same time, after your visit to the Brillons, if you return on foot, that will be good for your body.
GOUT. How ungrateful you are to say so! Is it not I who, in the character of your physician, have saved you from the palsy, dropsy, and apoplexy? one or other of which would have done for you long ago, but for me.
FRANKLIN. I submit, and thank you for the past, but entreat the discontinuance of your visits for the future; for, in my mind, one had better die than be cured so dolefully. Permit me just to hint, that I have also not been unfriendly to you. I never feed physician or quack of any kind, to enter the list against you; if then you do not leave me to my repose, it may be said you are ungrateful too.
GOUT. I can scarcely acknowledge that as any objection. As to quacks, I despise them; they may kill you indeed, but cannot injure me. And, as to regular physicians, they are at last convinced that the gout, in such a subject as you are, is no disease, but a remedy; and wherefore cure a remedy?but to our business,there.
GOUT. I know you too well. You promise fair; but, after a few months of good health, you will return to your old habits; your fine promises will be forgotten like the forms of the last years clouds. Let us then finish the account, and I will go. But I leave you with an assurance of visiting you again at a proper time and place; for my object is your good, and you are sensible now that I am your real friend.
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Healthcare commissioners – the organisations charged with purchasing health care for their local communities – often face the difficulty of knowing if they are commissioning the best possible health care, reveals a new report from ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) in collaboration with North East London Cancer Network, Roche Products Ltd and the National Cancer Action Team (NCAT).
The report, Improving cancer outcomes through value-based commissioning, shows how this purchasing knowledge gap has been addressed by a working agreement between a team of cancer specialists - the National Cancer Action Team (NCAT), North East London Cancer Network (NELCN), North West London Cancer Network (NWLCN) and Roche Products Ltd.
Their project looked at breast cancer care pathways and based on the outcome of their work, ACCA offers five recommendations for other healthcare commissioners to ensure that cancer care is quality driven and clinically evidenced so it delivers the best value for money.
Mark Millar FCCA, member of ACCA’s health service network and of ACCA’s Council, plus a healthcare finance professional, says: 'The team’s work has focussed on defining and costing a clinically effective care pathway for the treatment of breast cancer, and they have developed a model that allows commissioners a chance to see which services are necessary to deliver the best value breast cancer care pathway, and how much these should cost.
'It was clear during this project that the team experienced many challenges. But the project team has been successful in their aim to support the more intelligent commissioning of breast cancer services, and this has the potential to be rolled out to other healthcare commissioners.'
ACCA’s five recommendations for healthcare commissioners are:
- That NHS organisations be required to place greater importance on producing accurate costing information and to fully explain any large deviations from the norm.
- That all chemotherapy providers be required to run a chemotherapy prescribing system incorporating an accurate costing module.
- That organisations be strongly encouraged to collect and submit the nationally agreed cancer minimum dataset, which will facilitate consistent internal and external reporting.
- That the Department of Health introduce best practice, pathway focused tariffs to support more innovative and flexible delivery of services.
- That commissioners are encouraged to ‘think outside the box’ when planning services rather than do that same as before.
Mark Millar concludes: 'It is good to see that this North London based project has been successful and has the potential to be nationwide. But it should also be noted that it was collaborative working relationships, not contractual arrangements, which were the crucial success factor in this case.'
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For more information, please contact:
Helen Thompson, ACCA Newsroom
+44 (0)20 7059 5759
+44 (0)7725 498654
Notes to Editors
- The report was launched at the Kings Fund in London on the evening of Tuesday 17 July. Speakers included: Stephen Parsons, Director, NCAT, Karen Hamilton, from ACCA health panel and Finance Lead for Commissioning at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; and Delyth Morgan, Chief Executive at Breakthrough Breast Cancer followed roles at Asthma UK, Shelter, and Workplace Nurseries Campaign.
- The report can be found in the 'Related Links' section to the left of this article.
- ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) is the global body for professional accountants. We aim to offer business-relevant, first-choice qualifications to people of application, ability and ambition around the world who seek a rewarding career in accountancy, finance and management.
- We support our 154,000 members and 432,000 students in 170 countries, helping them to develop successful careers in accounting and business, with the skills required by employers. We work through a network of over 80 offices and centres and more than 8,400 Approved Employers worldwide, who provide high standards of employee learning and development. Through our public interest remit, we promote appropriate regulation of accounting and conduct relevant research to ensure accountancy continues to grow in reputation and influence.
- Founded in 1904, ACCA has consistently held unique core values: opportunity, diversity, innovation, integrity and accountability. We believe that accountants bring value to economies in all stages of development and seek to develop capacity in the profession and encourage the adoption of global standards. Our values are aligned to the needs of employers in all sectors and we ensure that through our qualifications, we prepare accountants for business. We seek to open up the profession to people of all backgrounds and remove artificial barriers, innovating our qualifications and delivery to meet the diverse needs of trainee professionals and their employers.
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Monday, March 26, 2012
Contour Line Drawings of Shoes
Contour Drawings The students observed the details and lines on their shoes. They completed a contour line study of their footwear. Next, they turned these drawings into "miniature playgrounds" for stick people. Contour drawing helps define and explore edges through line and locates one object in relationship to another. It also establishes an expressive and accurate representation of the subject by the richness of the lines, thick or thin, crisp or soft, and the speed and rhythm with which they are drawn. Contour drawing enables the artist to develop the illusion of volume through space and line.
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Cancer and chemotherapy…
Any of these conditions can lead to peripheral neuropathy…
But what you might not realize is that you can develop peripheral neuropathy even if you’re perfectly healthy.
Athletes who take part in sports that require consistent overhead movement of the arms (like tennis, baseball, kayaking, volleyball) place a lot of strain on their shoulders. That places them at a much higher risk of overuse injuries.
And that can lead to a very specific type of neuropathy – suprascapular neuropathy.
What is Suprascapular Neuropathy?
Suprascapular neuropathy- that’s a real mouthful isn’t it? It may sound complicated but it really isn’t.
Suprascalupar neuropathy is nerve damage to the suprascapular nerve – the nerve that runs from the brachial plexus (a group of nerves in the neck and shoulders) to nerves that help the body fully rotate the arms. Suprascapular neuropathy causes shoulder pain and weakness and can lead to career ending pain for professional athletes or stop weekend warriors from doing what they love.
The most common symptoms of suprascapular neuropathy are:
- Deep, dull aching pain in the shoulder
- Weakness or muscle pain
- Frozen shoulder (inability to move the shoulder)
- Numbness and tingling
If any of these symptoms are keeping you sidelined, talk to your doctor or your local NeuropathyDR® clinician today.
Exactly What Causes Suprascapular Neuropathy?
As the suprascapular nerve passes over the shoulder blade, it can be compressed and stretched. When that happens repeatedly over a period of time, the nerve can become damaged and neuropathy develops. The first symptoms are usually pain and weakness when you try to rotate the shoulder. More than just being uncomfortable, the pain can disrupt your life on a daily basis.
Imagine trying to put on a t-shirt or reach for a can on the top shelf of your pantry with a frozen or extremely painful shoulder…
If your experiencing any of the above symptoms, contact your doctor or your local NeuropathyDR® clinician immediately to determine if you have nerve damage. You’ll need to start treatment immediately to prevent permanent damage.
What You Can Expect From Treatment
Your NeuropathyDR® clinician will start with nerve conduction studies to find out exactly where the nerves are damaged. Electromyography will show exactly how severe the damage is.
Once you know for sure you have suprascapular neuropathy, the first step will be stop participating in the sport that caused the injury (until the damage is repaired).
Next, you’ll start a course of physical therapy and prescribed exercise. Therapy will concentrate on maintaining your full range of motion and strengthening your shoulder muscles.
Your NeuropathyDR® clinician will employ a very specific treatment protocol depending on
- The location of your injury and how severe it is
- Your age, general health and typical activities
- How long you’ve had your symptoms and whether or not they was caused by overuse or a specific injury
If your shoulder pain is keeping you on the bench and stopping you from participating in the sports you love or even from living a normal life, call your doctor or your local NeuropathyDR® clinician today. Early intervention is one of the best ways to minimize the damage caused by suprascapular neuropathy and repair any nerve damage you may have suffered.
For more information on coping with suprascapular neuropathy, get your Free E-Book and subscription to the Weekly Ezine “Beating Neuropathy” at http://neuropathydr.com.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2005
A tale that will entrance you
The documentary boom continues unabated with "Spellbound," director Jeffrey Blitz's fascinating look at eight kids who entered America's National Spelling Bee in 1999. Released in 2003, this is the film Sophia Coppola was gushing about when she was in Tokyo for the release of "Lost in Translation." It's release here is more than a bit overdue, but well worth the wait.
With "Spellbound" -- titled "Challenge Kids" in Japan -- Blitz proves the virtues of a good doc. He can take a subject like "spelling bee" -- which is enough to make your eyes glaze over -- and from it sculpt a film that's funny, informative and insightful. It's a perfect example of the virtues of the indirect approach. While documentarians like Michael Moore go straight for the jugular in trying to analyze contemporary America -- all big issues, exclamation points and leading voiceovers -- Blitz tackles a topic that superficially isn't indicative of anything (except nerdiness), but through it paints a subtle portrait of the United States today.
The National Spelling Bee is an annual contest, held since 1925, to find the best speller in the 9-15 age group. Roughly 9 million kids compete in regional heats held at their schools, with only 249 going on to the final in Washington, D.C. This contest may be for kids, but some of the words they're required to spell would easily make adults cringe. Are you sure you know how to spell "mayonnaise" or "lycanthrope?" This writer, who prides himself on not using a spell-checker, was left with a brain-ache trying to deduce what the hell "apocope" meant, let alone how it was spelled.
"Spellbound" zooms in on eight young superspellers heading to the nationals, their backgrounds as diverse as the states they hail from. There's Angela from Texas, with braces and glasses, superficially gawky but with the kind of understated charm that would have Scarlett Johansen play her in any fictional re-make. Her achievement is all the more remarkable given that her father, Ubaldo, crossed into the States from Mexico illegally, and can't speak a bit of English.
Cut to Napur in Florida, whose parents Parag and Meena are first-generation immigrants from India, as are those of Neil in California. Neil does martial arts and prepares for the bee like a triathlete, spurred on by his father Rajesh, an overachiever who drives his son as hard as he does himself. Napur's parents are a bit more mellow, but her fire to win is apparent in the zeal with which she recounts beating the boy spellers at her school.
Ted is a tall, reticent boy in a lower-class region in Missouri (the correct spelling for "Mizzourah") where intelligence is not highly valued. With his love of weapons and black jackets, he looks like he'd be "bowling for Columbine" if not pouring his energy into spelling.
April from New Jersey is a more classic nerd, but her pessimistic attitude belies the eight hours a day she spends -- in the summer! -- poring over words. Her parents, as she perfectly describes them, are "like Edith and Archie Bunker"; her mom, the dingbat, admits she can't pronounce most of the words her daughter's studying. The opposite extreme is Emily, who lives in a wealthy Connecticut suburb, whose mother Suzanne is constantly cramming with her.
Rounding out the group are Ashley, the angelic daughter of a single mother in Washington, D.C., and Harry, a hyperactive little prat who looks like he stepped out of a Todd Solondz movie. His twisty, rubbery facial expressions while on the spot, struggling to recall a word, provide some great laughs.
The fact that this is a one-mistake-and-you're-out contest provides plenty of natural suspense, and you can't help but root for one kid or another. (Angela had my hopes, while I wished Harry a quick and humiliating defeat.) And unlike any Hollywood film, you don't know 20 minutes into it who's going to win.
But while the contest side of this is compelling and makes for great drama as the kids, all of whom you feel for, twist and squirm under the lights, it's the stuff that almost slips through the cracks -- the context -- that proves so fascinating. Down in Texas, one of Angela's neighbors comments, admiringly, that not all those Mexicans are "bums and thieves, there's some good ones too." Neil's mother Darshana notes how the competition isn't so hard because most American kids are so scattered and unfocused. If meditation caught on, she muses, things would be much tougher.
Any film full of kids -- before they hit their obnoxious teens -- has a certain built-in "kawaii" factor for adult viewers, and "Spellbound" is no exception. But with gentle strokes, it also sketches out bigger themes: America as a melting pot, the value of competition, modern attitudes toward winning and losing, high-pressure vs. low-key parenting. Amid the many docs lately that have taken America to task, rightly, for its failings, it's nice to find one that takes an honest agenda-free look and finds the egalitarian ideal -- of a meritocracy where hard work is rewarded -- still alive and well on a certain level, despite all the corrupt businessmen and silver-spoon politicians. The American Dream may not be knowing how to spell "prospicience," but the idea that knowledge and effort trump race and class certainly is.
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More than 1,500 New Yorkers gathered today in Manhattan to mourn the death of a 32 year-old gay man, who was shot down on Friday just blocks away from the historic Stonewall Inn in an apparent act of anti-gay bias.
Chile's President Proposes Civil Unions for Gay and Lesbian Couples
Chile's conservative president Sebastian Piñera proposed legislation on Tuesday, August 9, that would recognize civil unions for gay and lesbian couples and give them some of the same protections that are currently secured only by married couples.
“All forms of marriage deserve respect, dignity and the support of the state,” said President Piñera, who signed the proposal and sent it to Congress.
“This puts opposite-sex and same-sex couples on the same footing, because in both cases it is possible to develop love, affection and respect.”
Piñera was elected in 2010 and fulfills a campaign promise by signing this bill, which would give inheritance, social welfare, health care, and other benefits to gay and lesbian couples as well as unmarried straight couples. It is called the “Life Partner Agreement” (Acuerdo de Vida en Pareja), and it is estimated that around 2 million Chileans would qualify.
Although Piñera remains opposed to marriage equality, “that conviction does not prevent me from recognizing that other forms of affective relationships exist,” he said.
Currently, Argentina has passed marriage equality and both Brazil and Uruguay allow civil unions. (Advocates in Uruguay expect this legislation to soon expand into full marriage equality.) Mexico City and certain states in Mexico also allow same-sex couples to marry and adopt, which the country’s Supreme Court ruled must be recognized across the nation.
GLAAD applauds President Piñera’s initiative towards equality and urges media to continue their coverage of this important story.
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Marjorie Skubic, Derek Anderson, Mohammed Khalilia and Srikanth Kavirayani
In this paper, we describe a sketch-based interface to control a team of mobile robots. The sketch interface uses a PDA platform and incorporates editing commands and an HMM recognizer for classifying sketched symbols. In the paper, we describe the recognizer and report classification results on twelve sketched symbols. To control the robot team, a user sketches a configuration that represents a multi-robot formation, such as follow the leader or march side by side. A team of small mobile robots has been built to test the PDA interface. The robots achieve the formations through simple behaviors that use local color tracking. Each robot is fitted with brightly colored side panels to facilitate the formations. In the paper, we report observers’ comments from the AAAI Conference and Robotics Competition.
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Twenty kilometers north of Tangalla lies the large rock of Mulkirigala, reminiscent in shape to Sigiriya. The rock houses an impressive series of cave temples dating from the third century, similar to those of Dambulla. A mix between Sri Lanka’s two most famous sites, Mulkirigala sounded like a winner.
It was the sleepy Sunday following the Sri Lankan New Year festivities, and public transport was impossible, so we hired a tuk-tuk to reach the temple. After a flat landscape of fields, forests and ponds, the sudden appearance of Mulkirigala Rock, sticking 200 meters into the air, came as a surprise. We paid our entrance fees, removed our shoes and steeled ourselves for what looked like a long hike to the top. But a lot of Sinhalese families were there, taking advantage of the holiday, and where 70-year-old barefoot grannies can go, so can we!
Mercifully, there were a few interludes during the climb — terraces which held small temples, sleeping Buddhas, pools of water, and sweeping views over the surrounding countryside. On the biggest terrace was a set of caves which included the Raja Mahavihara, notable for its Dutch tiles and antique wooden chest. It was here that a British archaeologist discovered the ancient manuscripts of the Mahavamsa: the great chronicle of ancient Sri Lanka.
At the top of the hill, our otherwise pleasant day trip was ruined by two kids who were determined to pester us. We were the only foreigners on the rock, and they would not leave us alone, tugging at our arms and following us everywhere, despite (perhaps because of) our increasing frustration. I am slow to anger, but eventually lost my cool and yelled at them. It didn’t help. “Money? Rupee? Ten Rupee! Bon-Bon!” They continued to follow, grabbing us and pleading for things. When we gave up and decided to leave, they followed us down the stairs! I scolded them, like you would a stubborn dog following you home. “No! Go away! Bad! Bad children!” Nothing worked, not even appealing to other Sri Lankans who were bemusedly watching the drama.
Even though it was a tough ending, we had a good time at Mulkirigala. The site isn’t nearly as impressive as either Sigiriya or Dambulla, but that’s unfair. We don’t compare every movie against Citizen Kane and say, “Not as good, so not gonna watch it!” Mulkirigala is no Sigiriya, but it’s still worth a visit.
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Sour end to 2012 masks positive trends in America
By Greg McCune
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Many Americans seem to be in a sour mood as 2013 begins, after Hurricane Sandy ravaged parts of the East Coast, a gunman massacred 20 school children in Connecticut and a long, contentious election campaign was followed by failure to resolve the "fiscal cliff" issue by year-end.
Americans have not been very optimistic since the Great Recession of 2008-2009, but the gloom had begun to lift this year until the blast of bad news as 2012 ended, IPSOS pollster Cliff Young said on Monday. IPSOS polling showed that some angst set in as the year ended.
Sixty-eight percent of respondents said the economy was on the wrong track at the end of 2012, IPSOS said, and 64 percent had a negative opinion of national politics.
"I do think these events had some sort of effect on people's short-term prospects," Young said.
But the headlines of 2012 belie a number of positive underlying trends in America, and Young said he expects public opinion to turn more positive in the new year.
Here is a summary of some of the positive trends in health, health, security, the environment, personal finance and education:
COLLEGE EDUCATION: More than 30 percent of Americans 25 years of age or older have finished four years of college, the highest level since 1940. Another 26 percent of adults have completed one to three years of college such as a community college, according to Census Bureau data.
This is important because the lifetime earnings of a person with a college associate's degree working from age 25 to 64 will be $442,000 more than that of a high school graduate. A bachelor's degree could yield $1 million more in lifetime earnings, a Census Bureau study found. Continued...
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Take a load (of carbs) off
by Natalie GutierrezYouíve heard of the Atkins Diet, the South Beach Diet and the Low-Fat Diet. But have you heard of the Low-Glycemic Load (LGL) Diet? Itís certainly a mouthful to say, but some experts claim itís not the next fad, but is here to stay.
Researchers in the Medical School and School of Nursing are conducting a study of the effects of the LGL Diet on type 2 diabetics in San Antonio. Raymond George Troxler, M.D., M.P.H., clinical associate professor of medicine, is the principal investigator. Darlene Gilcreast, Ph.D., assistant professor, and Jeanne H. Loop, R.D., an adjunct faculty member, both in the department of chronic nursing care, are the co-investigators.
Most fad diets discourage eating all forms of carbohydrates. Yet, just as we already know that not all fat is bad, the same is true for carbohydrates. Some carbohydrates, when digested, cause blood sugar levels to rise rapidly in some people, while in others they have little effect.
The LGL diet focuses on calculating the glycemic index (rate at which foods turn into sugar in the body) of particular foods. The purpose is to allow individuals to reap the health benefits of consuming carbohydrates or sugar while reducing the overall "glycemic load" or total amount of glucose in a meal that may cause the bodyís blood sugar levels to rise to unhealthy levels.
How do I calculate Glycemic Load (GL)?
Net Carbs X Glycemic Index/100 = GL
To calculate the glycemic load of foods, take the amount (grams) of carbohydrates in a serving of food, multiply it by that foodís glycemic index and divide by 100 (pure glucose is the reference point and is assigned the value of 100).
"Our goal is to determine how well the LGL diet helps participants achieve weight loss and lower cholesterol and glucose levels," Dr. Gilcreast said. "We hope to introduce the LGL diet as one of the best methods to help diabetics avoid the deadly complications that result from the disease, and to improve their overall quality of life."
Dr. Gilcreast said calculating dietary glycemic load isnít simple. However, knowing the glycemic index of certain foods can help people make healthier choices.
What is the difference between glycemic index and glycemic load?
Glycemic index (GI) indicates how quickly a certain food turns into sugar in a personís body. Fifty grams is the marker used for all foods to calculate how quickly that amount of carbohydrate in the food will raise blood sugar in the body. GI alone does not determine how much total carbohydrate or sugar is in the entire serving of food.
Glycemic load indicates the total amount of glucose in the food. It allows consumers to calculate the total amount in terms of an average serving.
"We hope to help people who are or might become insulin resistant to create a healthy eating pattern that minimizes insulin secretion and reduces insulin resistance," she said. "For those who are not diabetic, the diet is a great way to avoid putting on those extra pounds that might put them at risk for the disease later in life."
The study is funded by a grant from the School of Nursing, from the Lt. Col. Philip Piccione and Col. Jean Migliorino Faculty Award, and by the Dr. Rosemary Kerr McKevitt Memorial Research Award.
For more information about enrolling in the study, call (210) 567-0345.
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Category Archive: Community
A couple quotations from Wendell Berry’s essay “The Loss of the Future” (in The Long-Legged House):
I cannot avoid the speculation that one of the reasons for our loss of idealism is that we have been for a long time in such constant migration from country to city and from city to city and from neighborhood to neighborhood. It seems to me that much of idealism has its source in the relation between a man and the place he thinks of as his home. The patriotism, say, that grows out of the concern for a particular place in which one expects to live one’s life is a more exacting emotion than that which grows out of concern for a nation. The charity that grows out of regard for neighbors with whom one expects to live one’s life is both a discipline and a reward; the charity that, knowing no neighbors, contributes to funds and foundations is, from the personal standpoint, only an excuse. It is patriotism in the abstract — nationalism — that is most apt to be fanatic or brutal or arrogant. It is when charity is possible only through institutions that it becomes indifferent, neither ennobling to the giver nor meaningful to the receiver. Institutional neighborliness can function as the very opposite of neighborliness, without impairing the moral credit or the self-satisfaction of the supporters of the institution. There is good reason, for instance, to suspect that the foreign mission programs of certain Christian denominations have served as substitutes for decent behavior at home, or as excuses for indecent behavior at home; in return for saving the soul of Negroes in Africa, one may with a free conscience exploit and demean the lives of Negroes in one’s own community (p. 49).
In a society of ghettoes many of the vital labors of our duty to each other cease to be personal. They are necessarily taken over by institutions; the distances between the giver and the receiver, the asker and the answerer, are so great that they are simply no longer negotiable by individuals. A man living in the country or a small town migiht aid one or two needy neighbors himself; the most obvious thing for him to do would not be to phone some bureau or agency of the government. But what could he do if he were to try to exercise the same charitable impulse in an urban slum, or in Appalachia? The moral dilemma is suggested by a walk on the Bowery, equipped with common decency and a pocketful of change. What is the Samaritan expected to do when he meets, instead of one in need, hundreds? Even if he had the money, he would not have the time. Now, in America, I think he is likely to feel that he is expected to do nothing. He is able to reflect that there are organizations to take care of that sort of thing.
My point is not that these agencies do their work badly, but that having contributed to one of them, or even having heard of one, the citizen is freed of a concern that is one of the necessary disciplines of citizenship. And the institutionalization of charity has its counterparts in all aspects of life, from the government down (pp. 52-53).
I suspect that Berry is right, that there has been a loss of community, due in part to increased mobility but also to television, which keeps people home at night and away from their neighbors, and to other factors, not so easy to trace. Elsewhere in this essay, Berry also talks about specialization and the way that specialists tend to form their own ghettoes, all focused on the same area, even if they don’t actually live in the same vicinity. A lot of what Berry is getting at is that life in cities tends to be relatively impersonal, and that has effects on our charity and our care for our neighbors.
If Berry is correct, one might think the solution would be to have everyone move to small or medium-sized towns. But Berry himself recognizes that that isn’t possible or likely. So what is the solution? In particular, what is our responsibility as Christians?
Let’s face it: the church can become another ghetto. We can talk a lot about community and build community with each other, and that may be attractive to those who long for community. But it’s also possible that in building the church community we turn our backs on our own neighborhoods. Isn’t it often the case that Christians don’t have non-Christian friends, that all our close relationships are with others in the same church community?
Let me hear your thoughts: In the face of the impersonalization brought on by charitable institutions, in the face of the general lack of neighborliness in our larger “communities,” what should we as Christians be doing to reverse these trends and to create not only close-knit relationships with each other but a true community that is attractive and healing for our larger towns and cities?
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The present history of both cities and their geography relates them to each other strongly. They had a common origin and a paralel history. After the Conquest of the Desert in 1876, the Funes family settled in the area with a resting lodge for travellers who rode on horseback from the Cordillera to the Valley, where the last railway station was.
In 1915 arrived the Ferrocarril del Sur to kilometre 1294, and brought the first drilling equipment for the perforation of the fisrt Pozo of Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales. The company, YPF built the town for the residence of its operators, on September 13, 1918.
The Registry Office was created on June 8, 1921, and on November 20, the railway station started to operate.
On November 24, 1966, YPF grants the area to the provincial state, and on February 1, 1967, Plaza Huincul´s Townhall was constituted. Since both communities were at first related to the central government through the company, they developed in a paralel way but independently from each other.
Visiting the Patagonian museums is a way of having a close link with the life, the customs and the natural environment of its communities.
Paleontology, archeology and history are some of the disciplines developed in these sections dedicated to witnessing the culture of the region.
There is a special section in Interpatagonia for lovers of photography and the adventure of discovering places, sceneries and tourist attractions. The idea is that you surf this section and watch the work done by our team of reporters and photographers and that you start planning your next trip to some of these destinations.
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The Centenary of Lincoln
Calgary HeraldPublished: Monday, February 09, 2009
The Herald published this editorial on Feb. 11, 1909, to honour the 100th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
The American public will tomorrow honour the memory of America's greatest son, Abraham Lincoln. One hundred years ago, on Feb. 12, the emancipator was born. To him it was given to demonstrate that simplicity is the true mantle of greatness. To him was ordained the task of setting the American people on the path of national virtue, of cauterizing wounds that could not otherwise have been healed, of freeing a people from bondage and of uniting the factions of his nation in a common destiny.
It is doubtful whether any character that lives in secular history possesses the same appeal to the human heart as that of Abraham Lincoln. A son of toil, a product of nature, he rose to the highest position in his country's gift by virtue of his single-minded honesty of purpose. One cannot imagine Lincoln ever becoming powerful through dubious means. His strength consisted in his retention of a clean heart and a clean mind. His nature was like a pool of crystal water. Had it been obscured by the mire of selfishness its virtue would have been lost.
To study Lincoln's life is a lesson in patriotism and purity. To read Lincoln's speeches is a revelation of the power of simple English. To revere Lincoln's memory is a tribute to all that is noblest and best in public life.
The United States owe much to Lincoln--more than to any other one man. So does Canada. When Lincoln struggled for the right of all men to liberty the principle was hardly established in this country. Canada was in a very plastic state and its future was immediately influenced by Lincoln's victory. Democracy was on trial and who can say to what extent the course of this new country was affected by the fortunate result of the contest to the south of it?
And the world owes Lincoln more even than does his own nation. He taught the lesson of humility in high places. He showed the power of simple truthfulness. He lived and died for freedom. He left to humanity the record of a lofty character and of great achievement. Canadians therefore as well as Americans, and all the peoples of the earth, must fittingly join tomorrow in doing honour to the memory of him whose proudest monument shall be the broken fetters of the slave.
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Valentine's Day Acrostic Poem
Show your third grader how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day. A personalized poem is a creative way for him to show how much he cares. It's a simple format, with endless variations. Additionally, the poetry writing process will help him improve his handwriting, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills.
What You Need:
- Construction paper (red, pink, or white)
- Lined paper
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How does meditation work? How can one achieve a constant meditative state? And in what way does kundalini practice relate to meditation?
Meditation is an adventure. An adventure into the unknown – the greatest adventure that the human mind can take. And by “adventure” I mean that you cannot be cultivated in it. First: you cannot know anything beforehand. Unless you know it, you cannot know it. Everything said ultimately means nothing. Truth remains unsaid. Much has been said – much has been said about nothing. However, not a single word of truth has been uttered.
Unless you know it, you cannot know it. But something about it can be indicated. It will never be to the point – it cannot be. The nature of the thing is such that this is impossible. You cannot say, “This is meditation.” All that is possible is to say is, “This is not meditation…this is not meditation…that is not meditation.” The remaining is. And the remaining is left unindicated.
There are many reasons for it. Meditation is something greater than the mind. It is not something which happens in the mind. It is something which happens to the mind, not in the mind. Otherwise the mind will be capable of defining it – the mind will be capable of knowing it, understanding it. It is not something happening in the mind, but to the mind. The happening is just as death happens to life: death never happens in life, it happens to life.
Meditation is just like death to the mind: as death is to life. We can say that meditation is a deeper death – not physical, but psychic. The deeper the death, the deeper is the possibility to be reborn. When there is a physical death, you will be reborn physically. But as far as you are concerned, nothing will have happened at all – nothing. You will remain the same: the same continuity, the same old one.
The deeper the death, the deeper is the resurrection. If you die psychologically – if the mind dies – then you are reborn. And this rebirth is not like a physical rebirth: because then the body is replaced – a new one replaces it. But when there is mental – psychic – death, the mind is not replaced. Consciousness remains without the mind.
So meditation is consciousness without the mind. An open sky without any walls around it. We can destroy the walls of this house, but not the room – because room means nothing but space. So now the room will be the room-ness. The room will be there under the open sky. Of course, you will no longer see it as the room, because now you cannot define it. It has become one with the sky. But the room is there – more than before. Only the walls are not. So, if you define the room as the room-ness – the emptiness between the walls – then without the walls the room will still be there. It will have become greater, infinite.
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LOCATION: Fresno County, California, 15 miles east of Coalinga, CA
SITE NAME: Indian Auxiliary Field No. 3. Also referred as Indian Auxiliary Landing Field; Lemoore Flying School; Lemoore Army Airfield, Auxiliary No. 3 (Indian), Huron.
SITE HISTORY: The 641.60 acres that compose the former Indian Auxiliary Field were acquired by the U.S. Government by Declaration of Taking in 1944. Prior to acquisition, the site was native pasture and had not been farmed. The site was developed as an auxiliary landing field by the Army Air Forces in connection with the Lemoore Basic Flying School. The improvements were hard surfaced runways, fencing, crash truck shelter, stage house, control tower, motor house, and latrine.
On 15 October 1944, the site was declared
surplus to the War Assets Administration (WAA). The WAA assumed
accountability of the site on 12 September 1946. Available records
do not indicate if any deed clauses, provisions, or restrictions
existed for the site.
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SECR "100 seater" 3rd as restored to SR livery as No.1098 in 1994
This coach was built very solidly, if simply, to carry London commuters. Having 10 seats in each of its ten compartments, it is known as a "Hundred Seater". With these services incresingly being electrified, in February 1943 it was piped through for push-pull working, and ended its days on the Lymington Branch.
Seven similar coaches were still in daily use in 1960 attached to sets of more modern Bulleid coaches on services from Tunbridge Wells West, Forest Row, and East Grinstead in-to and out-of London Bridge.
With nothing more than routine maintenance, painting, re-trimming of the seats, and a new roof-canvas, it was in service for many of its first twenty-nine years on the Bluebell, a testament to the quality of its design and construction. In 1992 it entered the carriage works for a major door overhaul, with minor repairs made to the structure of the coach. The external steel sheeting was also replaced, as were the windows, and through lighting control was fitted. It returned to traffic in 1994 carrying the lined Maunsell olive green that it carried in the 1930s, having been amongst the last SECR coaches to be repainted from that railway's plain brown post-war livery.
Go to a full article about the two Hundred Seaters, as part of the Carriage Fleet Review.
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NASA hopes some U.S. companies will soon be giving the Russians a run for their money to fly astronauts to the International Space Station.
Under a new draft solicitation unveiled Monday, the U.S. government is planning to buttress private space efforts to the tune of $1.6 billion beginning in July.
The agency intends to select at least two, and possibly more, candidate space taxis for funding, part of an ongoing effort to hand over crew transportation services to the space station to commercial providers. Since the space shuttles were retired this summer, Russia has a monopoly on station crew ferry flights, a service that costs more than $50 million per person.
Currently, the only other country that can fly people into orbit is China, which is not part of the space station program.
“Every year we do not have a commercial crew capability, the station is at risk,” NASA’s commercial spaceflight development director Phil McAlister said at an industry briefing in Florida on Friday.
The vulnerability of a $100 billion project was exposed last month after a Russian launch accident, which claimed a station cargo ship. The Progress freighter uses a nearly identical upper-stage motor on the Soyuz rockets that fly crew to the station.
The accident is delaying the arrival of the next station crew to at least mid-November. Any additional postponements could force managers to leave the station unoccupied for the first time in 11 years.
For its third round of Commercial Crew Development initiatives, NASA is looking for full-fledged systems — everything from launch vehicles, to spaceships, to mission control, the draft solicitation shows.
NASA currently is backing spaceship development work at four firms — Boeing, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), Sierra Nevada Corp., and Blue Origin, an aerospace startup owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Image: Artist’s rendering of Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser spaceplane, one of several budding commercial space taxis getting support from NASA. Credit: Sierra Nevada Corp.
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Posts tagged: building society
by Andy Golding, Chief Executive of Saffron Building Society
The question that every borrower wants to know the answer to is whether to tie themselves into a fixed rate mortgage deal, and at least get certainty, or whether to take a gamble on a variable rate and hope it pays off.
The answer is all a matter of what happens to interest rates. In the strangest set of economic circumstances for at least 60 years, there are many opinions but very few facts to go on.
Economists use the phrase “balance of probability” quite a bit, so what is the balance of probability for the direction of UK base rates?
Interest rates are used by the MPC to control inflation. The basic theory being that rising rates take capacity out of the economy and falling rates put it back in. With rates at an all time low and having been so for quite some time now, plus the impact of the significant Quantitative Easing programme, both designed to stimulate the economy out of recession, you could expect that now that the UK is back into growth again, that inflation could start to rise quite rapidly.
The latest readings show that high street sales picked up more than expected and the Bank of England’s survey of regional agents showed some relaxation in the availability of credit, some signs of rising pay and continued growth in the manufacturing sector.
The target CPI measure of inflation hit an eighteen year high of 3.7% in April, though has since dropped slightly to 3.4%, is still comfortably above the target rate of 2%. The RPI measure shows the cost of living having increased by more than 5% over the last year. The rise has been largely driven by the reversal of the VAT reduction, the weakness of sterling and higher fuel costs.
However, the Bank remains confident that the CPI measure will drop back below 2% within a year, as was outlined by the Governor in his letter to the Chancellor following the inflation release. The decision to keep monetary policy on hold has been unanimous until June’s MPC meeting, where one committee member voted to raise base rate to 0.75%. The MPC are also highlighting the need to tackle the fiscal deficit, although the Governor welcomed the plans he had seen last week. A credible deficit reduction strategy would increase the likelihood of rates remaining lower for longer.
The risks to the Bank’s view are that energy prices continue to rise as they have been doing, spurred on by speculators and Chinese consumption, (whose economy has returned to double digit growth) and VAT increases introduced in the emergency budget, coupled with strong exports and a continuing relaxing of credit. These factors together would push inflation higher still and would therefore put pressure on the Bank to raise rates.
So do you fix or not? Rates could rise quicker that the Bank are currently predicting. Probably not much, if at all in 2010, but potentially in 2011.
As a mortgage borrower, fixing now for, say, 5 years provides certainty of price. Fixed rates are unlikely to get any cheaper.
That said even best buy fixed rate mortgages are significantly more expensive than best buy tracker or variable rates. If Mervyn King is right, you will take a hit on additional cost unnecessarily. Either way it’s a gamble. But even at 50/50 odds, ask yourself whether you could afford your mortgage if rates went up 3.5%. On a £150,000 interest only loan that is an increase of £437.50 per month!
There is no right answer, which is why Saffron offer both fixed and tracker mortgages in order that borrowers can choose whichever mortgage they feel most comfortable with. The advice we give is always to consider what you could afford if your payments increased, and whether that increase would be unfortunate or unfeasible for your circumstances.
Saffron Building Society is a regional building society and has been providing savings accounts and mortgages to communities in the East of England for over 160 years. They offer a range of fixed rate mortgages and tracker mortgages. They have over 120,000 members and are the ‘most followed’ Building Society on Twitter! Visit us at www.saffronbs.co.uk or follow us @SaffronBS
Following the emergency budget last week, many homeowners and landlords are picking through the new factors that have been thrown in to the to-buy-or-not-to-buy conundrum.
A few reassuring points remain:
- The new Government have some measures in place to tackle the wider fiscal issues over time.
- The public sector has scope to cut costs without dramatically pushing up unemployment which should keep demand healthy.
- Prices will be stable or only grow slowly for a fair while yet, allowing incomes and house prices to get that bit more comfortable in their relationship and give people time to clear other debt.
- We are still a nation of aspirant homeowners and property should remain a viable investment; and certainly the only one you can live in!
What about first time buyers?
Many people believe that house prices are unlikely to reduce further, so now could be a good time to take that step on to the first rung of home ownership. The biggest barrier facing first time buyers is getting an affordable mortgage and a big enough deposit.
For us, that’s where the regional building society can help. Knowledge of the local area and manually underwritten mortgages makes Saffron able to help first time buyers in our community. And that extra guidance and support from your mortgage lender makes a real difference when taking out your first mortgage.
What will happen to interest rates?
This is a question which we ask ourselves regularly. It’s a difficult one to call – and though there have been some murmurs that, considering the rise in inflation, the Bank of England ought to lift base rate off the floor, they’ve not moved yet, and when it does, it’s unlikely to be dramatic.
Saffron is prepared for base rate to remain at 0.5% throughout 2010 and we don’t anticipate it rising by more than a percent or so in 2011. It’s quite a conservative projection, but we have to play it safe and reforecast regularly as the climate changes.
Ultimately, though, this is all based on conjecture and opinion. To help you make up your own minds, here are a few facts:
- For the first time since the Thatcher days the percentage of people owning a home in the UK has declined.
- This recession was worse than the previous 2 – GDP fell for 6 consecutive quarters by 6% peak to trough, where as in 1980/81 and 1991/92 it fell 3.8% and 2.5% respectively.
- Industry faired better this time around, keeping more people in work – with unemployment peaking at 5% versus 1980/81 at 10.3% and 1991/92 at 9.9%.
- House price falls were bigger and quicker this time around with a range of 7 – 33%, against ranges of 0 – 12% in1980/81 and 0 – 15% in 1991/92.
- Low interest rates are helping keep repossessions low being at a peak of 6% pre this recession against 15% in both the 80’s and 90’s.
This article was written for thebigpropertylist.co.uk by Michelle Monck DipM ACIM, Head of Marketing at Saffron Building Society.
Saffron Building society is a regional building society that has been providing savings accounts and mortgages to communities in the East of England for over 160 years. They offer a range of fixed rate mortgages and tracker mortgages. They have over 120,000 members and are the ‘most followed’ Building Society on Twitter! Visit their website at www.saffronbs.co.uk or follow them @SaffronBS
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What Does “I’m Fine” Mean if you’re Depressed?
Asking someone with severe depression how they’re doing is very much like asking someone who is repeatedly being bashed over the head by a 2” X 4” how they’re doing.
How are you doing?
Oh, I’m fine, except for the 2” X 4” smashing into my skull.
Asking a depressed person how they’re doing is the same. They’re fine, except for the crippling, soul-sucking depression.
It’s not that people shouldn’t ask how you are, of course, just that the answer is a bit moot. If you’re depressed, it’s always the same. It pretty much doesn’t matter what’s happening around you, depression is the overwhelming feeling no matter what. If you could excise the depression, the answer would differ depending on life’s circumstances and psychology, but with depression: nothing else really matters.
Impact of Life’s Events on Depression
In my experience the best things in the world can happen to you and the depression just laughs, reminding the psyche that nothing can touch the madness of the brain. But bad things? I don’t know. The brain feeds off of them. I suppose bad things confirm everything depression is telling you and that confirmation leads to greater depths. It’s a downward spiral. The further you go the steeper it gets.
So, if you’re Depressed, How are You?
For me, I’ve rewritten the definition of the word “fine.”
Fine: death or dismemberment is not imminent.
Yes, I’m “fine.” My death or dismemberment is not imminent. It’s about as good as it gets in a severe depression.
Now most people don’t know I’ve rewritten the definition, few people have a Natasha-to-English dictionary, but somehow it makes me feel better. Like I’m not lying so much to so many people. Because the lying sucks so avoiding it in my head seems to matter.
Of course, it’s not like a significant part of the rest of the population isn’t lying when they say they’re “fine” too, so there’s really no need to feel so bad about it. But it just feels like such a big lie given how absolutely un-fine a severe depression makes you.
However, you could look at it this way: Saying we’re “fine” when we’re not. Just another way people with bipolar are just like everyone else.
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Oct. 22, 2009 (China Knowledge) - Intel Corp, the world's largest chip maker, said that it will invest additional US$75 million in Chengdu, the capital of city of Sichuan Province, Southwest China, sources reported.
It is the third time Intel has increased its investment in Chengdu, where it has assembly and test plant.
It is estimated that Intel's total investment in Chengdu will amount to US$600 million after the investment, which helped the city attract more information technology enterprises and complete the industrial chain.
Ge Jun, executive director of Intel China, said the procurement that supports operations of Chengdu plant are mainly done in the western province and Intel hopes Chengdu will attract downstream enterprises in PC and consumer electronics businesses.
It won't be long that West China will be as competitive as the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta, and it is a great opportunity for Intel to tap the rural markets in West China under the Chinese government's home appliance subsidy program in rural areas, according to Ge.
In February, Intel announced its plan to move the Shanghai chip assembly and test plant to Chengdu. The chip maker now has its research and development operations in Shanghai and a 12-inch wafer plant in Dalian, Liaoning Province.
Copyright © 2009 www.chinaknowledge.com
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A flagship scheme designed to encourage banks to lend to smaller businesses is said to be on course according to BBC News.
Speaking on the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme, their aim is to get banks to agree to £1.3bn worth of loans, with the government offering them the guarantee of a 75% loan to value rebate should borrowers default.
A flagship scheme to encourage banks to lend to small businesses is on course despite criticisms, according to the minister responsible.
The Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme aims to persuade banks to agree £1.3bn worth of loans.
The government is offering to pay the banks 75% of the value of the loan if the borrower defaults.
Critics say many businesses are still unaware of it and company directors are having to guarantee the loans.
Small businesses minister Shriti Vadera told BBC Radio 4's Money Box the government is on track to persuade the banks to loan the money it wants.
"We've now hit the rate that we need of eligible applications every week which means the scheme is completely on course," the minister said.
"We've currently got £115m of eligible applications, about £30m a week."
Nevertheless, a British Chamber of Commerce survey of 250 UK firms discovered 90% of those questioned did not know about it.
It only found one company which had actually been offered such a loan.
Others who have been offered loans object to having to offer 100% directors' guarantees.
Essex entrepreneur John Barton applied for an Enterprise Finance Guarantee backed loan for his health products business in February to help his cash flow.
As the government guarantees 75% of these loans, he hoped his bank would be willing to lend to him on favourable terms.
When he applied, he was disappointed to hear that the only way his bank would give him a such a loan was if 100% of the risk fell in the first instance personally on his firm's directors.
As a result, he decided not to take the loan up.
"I fail to see how it can be promoted as a scheme backed by the government when in fact it's backed by the company's own directors," he said.
The Federation of Small Businesses, which lobbied for the scheme to be set up, said at first many bank managers did not seem to know about it.
Stephen Alambritis, the FSB's spokesman, said the banks are now catching on but they are still putting up too many obstructions to those applying.
"The obstacles they're putting in the way are to say it needs to be looked at by more senior managers and they need more security," he told the programme.
The banks however say the scheme is proving successful.
Steve Cooper, managing director of Local Business Banking for Barclays, said his bank's managers have all been trained about the scheme and are lending to viable companies.
"We're currently processing between 30 and 40 applications a day and we're approving about £1m a day at the moment," he told the programme.
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Shisha Health Facts and Myths
It is true that the fame of shisha is spreading to all around the world as one of interesting enjoyment during gathering for example. There is also wide believe that shisha is better and healthier way for smoking. It is part of myths which can be found about shisha actually. There are some myths and facts about shisha which have to be learned more after all.
There is a myth about herbal shisha tobacco which is healthier than the regular one. The shisha health facts say that the carcinogens as well as tar are exposed to the smoker of herbal shisha just like natural or herbal cigarette smoking.
The thought of shisha smoking which will not be as addictive as cigarette smoking because shisha does not contain nicotine is totally myth. In fact, shisha is not different from regular tobacco which also has nicotine content within.
There is wide myth about shisha which has less nicotine than the regular tobacco smoking but shisha health facts tell different thing. The nicotine which is produced during shisha and cigarette smoking is almost the same. The level of nicotine in shisha smoking depends on the type of shisha tobacco. Best shisha tobacco will produce higher level of nicotine actually.
Many people believe that the lung will not be burnt when they are inhaling shisha so it must be healthier way for smoking. In fact, the smoke which is inhaled when people are enjoying shisha is cooled through the water so it will not burn the lung but it still contains carcinogens which is unhealthy.
The thought of many people about smoking shisha which is healthier than cigarette smoking is completely false. Although there is different tobacco processing between shisha and cigarette smoking, the result is still smoke which contains carcinogens and this is part of shisha health facts which people have to realize.
The water which is used in shisha smoking is believed as effective carcinogens filter but the carcinogens levels which will be inhaled by the body depend on the inhalation length, frequency, and depth as well as smoking duration. The shisha smoke contains particle of heavy metal, tar, as well as aerosol.
The myth about shisha smoking which has less long term health problem than cigarette smoking is truly different with shisha health facts. Various cancers as well as health and lung disease is led by shisha smoking. The shared use of shisha hose mouthpiece can spread other diseases including tuberculosis, hepatitis, and also herpes.
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St. Louis de Montfort tells us:
“At the end of these three weeks they should go to confession and Holy Communion with the intention of consecrating themselves to Jesus through Mary as slaves of love. When receiving Holy Communion they could follow the method given later on. They then recite the act of consecration which is given at the end of this book. If they do not have a printed copy of the act, they should write it out or have it copied and then sign it on the very day they make it.
“It would be very becoming if on that day they offered some tribute to Jesus and his Mother, either as a penance for past unfaithfulness to the promises made in baptism or as a sign of their submission to the sovereignty of Jesus and Mary. Such a tribute would be in accordance with each one’s ability and fervour and may take the form of fasting, an act of self-denial, the gift of an alms or the offering of a votive candle. If they gave only a pin as a token of their homage, provided it were given with a good heart, it would satisfy Jesus who considers only the good intention.
“Every year at least, on the same date, they should renew the consecration following the same exercises for three weeks. They might also renew it every month or even every day by saying this short prayer: I am all yours and all I have is yours, O dear Jesus, through Mary, your holy Mother.”
The Total Consecration consists in giving everything we are and have (including even the value of our good works and prayers) wholly and entirely to the Blessed Virgin Mary, with no strings attached. After consecrating oneself to Jesus through Mary in this manner, we no longer even offer prayers or sacrifices for specific intentions, but rather offer both the prayer and the intention to our Lady knowing that she sees all and will bring all things to fulfillment according to God’s will.
This is the devotion of holy slavery: To give over everything to Mary, and to live every moment of life (from this time forward) so that we do everything through Mary, with Mary, in Mary, and for Mary, in order that all may more perfectly be done through Jesus, with Jesus, in Jesus, and for Jesus.
Making the Total Consecration
After completing the thirty-three days of preparation, we:
1) Go to confession (within a week or two, before or after)
2) Receive communion with devotion (asking Mary to live in our soul and to receive Jesus there)
3) Recite the act of consecration, which is copied below. (the act of consecration may be recited alone or in a group, at home or in a church, before a priest or privately)
[many will write out by hand the prayer of consecration, at least that portion which is in italics]
4) Make some tribute to Jesus and Mary: especially the giving of an alms, or some special sacrifice
Practices for the rest of one’s life
From this day forward, we:
1) Go to confession and communion regularly (confession every month or every other month)
2) Daily recite some portion of the Rosary (hopefully, at least five decades)
3) Wear the brown scapular
4) Renew the consecration each year, following the same days of preparation beforehand
5) Offer all that we are and have, including even the value of all our prayers and good works, wholly and entirely to Jesus through Mary
Act of Consecration to Jesus through Mary
O Eternal and incarnate Wisdom! O sweetest and most adorable Jesus! True God and true man, only Son of the Eternal Father, and of Mary, always virgin! I adore Thee profoundly in the bosom and splendors of Thy Father during eternity; and I adore Thee also in the virginal bosom of Mary, Thy most worthy Mother, in the time of Thine incarnation.
I give Thee thanks for that Thou hast annihilated Thyself, taking the form of a slave in order to rescue me from the cruel slavery of the devil. I praise and glorify Thee for that Thou hast been pleased to submit Thyself to Mary, Thy holy Mother, in all things, in order to make me Thy faithful slave through her. But, alas! Ungrateful and faithless as I have been, I have not kept the promises which I made so solemnly to Thee in my Baptism; I have not fulfilled my obligations; I do not deserve to be called Thy child, nor yet Thy slave; and as there is nothing in me which does not merit Thine anger and Thy repulse, I dare not come by myself before Thy most holy and august Majesty. It is on this account that I have recourse to the intercession of Thy most holy Mother, whom Thou hast given me for a mediatrix with Thee. It is through her that I hope to obtain of Thee contrition, the pardon of my sins, and the acquisition and preservation of wisdom.
Hail, then, O immaculate Mary, living tabernacle of the Divinity, where the Eternal Wisdom willed to be hidden and to be adored by angels and by men! Hail, O Queen of Heaven and earth, to whose empire everything is subject which is under God. Hail, O sure refuge of sinners, whose mercy fails no one. Hear the desires which I have of the Divine Wisdom; and for that end receive the vows and offerings which in my lowliness I present to thee.
I, ___________________, a faithless sinner, renew and ratify today in thy hands the vows of my Baptism; I renounce forever Satan, his pomps and works; and I give myself entirely to Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Wisdom, to carry my cross after Him all the days of my life, and to be more faithful to Him than I have ever been before. In the presence of all the heavenly court I choose thee this day for my Mother and Mistress. I deliver and consecrate to thee, as thy slave, my body and soul, my goods, both interior and exterior, and even the value of all my good actions, past, present and future; leaving to thee the entire and full right of disposing of me, and all that belongs to me, without exception, according to thy good pleasure, for the greater glory of God in time and in eternity.
Receive, O benignant Virgin, this little offering of my slavery, in honor of, and in union with, that subjection which the Eternal Wisdom deigned to have to thy maternity; in homage to the power which both of you have over this poor sinner, and in thanksgiving for the privileges with which the Holy Trinity has favored thee. I declare that I wish henceforth, as thy true slave, to seek thy honor and to obey thee in all things.
O admirable Mother, present me to thy dear Son as His eternal slave, so that as He has redeemed me by thee, by thee He may receive me! O Mother of mercy, grant me the grace to obtain the true Wisdom of God; and for that end receive me among those whom thou lovest and teachest, whom thou leadest, nourishest and protectest as thy children and thy slaves.
O faithful Virgin, make me in all things so perfect a disciple, imitator and slave of the Incarnate Wisdom, Jesus Christ thy Son, that I may attain, by thine intercession and by thine example, to the fullness of His age on earth and of His glory in Heaven. Amen.
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The Railway Museum
A Japanese leading railway museum satisfies visitors from children to railway geeks!
© The Railway MuseumThe Railway Museum is a Japan's leading historical museum of railways which is run by East Japan Railway Culture Foundation, a Public Interest Incorporated Foundation. The museum exhibits, researches and studies the materials relating to railways in Japan and abroad. Visitors can learn the history and the structure of railways through interactive exhibits. Visitors can also experience operating a train.
© The Railway MuseumThe museum has 6 zones. An IC card such as Suica is used for admission. The first thing that welcomes visitors is “Entrance Zone." One of the largest model railway dioramas in Japan catches the visitors' eye.
The “History Zone" occupies about half of the entire space and is one of the main exhibits of this museum. The carriages which were actually used are exhibited as well as valuable materials. Visitors can see the transition in the railway technology epoch in Japan.
In the “Collection Zone," the collection and the library relating to railways are exhibited. A special exhibit is held sometimes. (Please visit the official site of the Railway Museum for the latest information.)
On the 1st floor of the “Learning Zone," there are the carriage factory laboratory where visitors can experience assembling and disassembling a carriage and the station laboratory where visitors can experience the works of station staff and the like. On the 2nd and 3rd floor, visitors can learn the principles and the structure of railways using interactive devices for which real parts and model carriages are heavily used.
In addition, there are the “Park Zone" where visitors can operate a miniature train and the “North Wing" where small children can enjoy safely.
This museum is where visitors of all ages, from children who love trains to adults who are railway fans, can enjoy.
Address: 3-47, Onari-cho, Omiya-ku, Saitama-city, Saitama
Hours open to visitors: 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. (Last admission 5:30 p.m.)
Admission Fee: Adults 1000 yen, Elementary and junior high school students 500 yen,
Young children (Preschool children 3 years old and up) 200 yen
Closed: Tuesday(Tuesday is open if it falls on a national holiday, and the day after that will be closed)and the year-end through the New Year periodParking Available (paid parking)
From Tokyo:[Rail]About 25-min by JR Shinkansen from Tokyo Station to Omiya Station, about 3-min by New Shuttle to Tetsudo-Hakubutsukan Station or about 25-min walk from Omiya Station
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Edited by Gerald Boerner
Science is on a continuing quest to explain the mechanisms that make the the world run. This applies to both the physical and biological worlds. One of these quest was successfully explained in the the mid-20th century at Cambridge University in England. Two researchers, James Watson and Francis Crick, who were trying to understand how genetic information was was transferred from parents to their offspring. They knew that DNA was involved, but the mechanism by which it was accomplished.
Using data from X-ray defraction studies of isolated strands of this DNA in the labs at King’s College, London, to develop a model of this complex molecule. The breakthrough came when they hypothesized a pair of helix structures that combined via some definable chemical bonds. The resulting double helix structure enabled biologists to explain how genetic material from each parent could recombine to reproduce to yield a range of physical characteristics.
I remember being assigned to read a number of books during my first semester in graduate school. One of the books was Watson’s “The Double Helix” the followed this discovery. It was fascinating reading! In 1962, Watson, Crick, and Wilkins received the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for this discovery of the Double Helix; another collaborator, Rosalind Franklin, would have been a party of this award if she were still alive. This is but one of the findings that makes the history of science so fascinating.
But, now is the time to move on to the exploration of today’s topic… GLB
These Introductory Comments are copyrighted:
Copyright©2011 — Gerald Boerner — All Rights Reserved
[ 4117 Words ]
Quotations Related to DNA:
“If you can write DNA, you’re no longer limited to ‘what is’ but to what you could make.”
— Drew Endy
“The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn’t want to.”
— Joseph Wambaugh
“It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all.”
— Arto Lindsay
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about the exhibition
New Works 10.2
July 15–September 12, 2010about the artist
Warsaw-based Monika Sosnowska builds architectural forms in response to specific spaces, then manipulates them, collapsing, deflating, and squeezing the work into alternate settings. By changing or removing the contextual information, she creates a disorienting effect, heightening our awareness of form and space. In an attempt to highlight the everyday banality of the physical areas we inhabit, she questions the afterlife of architecture, and recalls the historical moments the buildings were meant to embody, as well as their idealistic futility.
Sosnowska attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland, from 1993 to1998, before participating in various residency programs, including a study at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, from 1999 to 2000, and a residency at S-AIR, in Sapporo, Japan, in 2002. Solo exhibitions include Projects 83, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (2006) and Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany (2006). Sosnowska also represented Poland at the Venice Biennale 2007 in Italy. Group exhibitions include Les Promesses du Passé, Pompidou-Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France (2010); Monika Sosnowska/Andrea Zittel, Schaulager, Munchenstein/Basel, Switzerland (2008); and Stay Forever and Ever and Ever, South London Gallery, England (2007).
about the exhibition
For her Artpace exhibition, Fire Escape, Monika Sosnowska took her cue from local architecture, inspired by the ubiquitous emergency stairwells that scale the sides of older buildings throughout San Antonio. The image of the zig-zagging fire escape has become intuitive within Western architectural iconography. In response, Sosnowska has fabricated her own stairwell, stripping it of its functionality, dismantling the main elements of the apparatus, and giving each component its own autonomous sculptural identity. Together the pieces would comprise a small, working fire escape; but taken apart the segments are misshapen and warped beyond use, presented as a series of vignettes in their own space.
The horizontal metal platform and balustrade featured at the top of the stairwell have been detached from the stairs, then wedged and suspended into a corner of the gallery. The stairs and ladder extension of the stairwell are divided into two parts. The set of stairs hangs obliquely on the wall, folded and compressed, while the ladder rests in a composed, collapsed heap on the concrete floor of the space. The metal bars and plates that comprise the stairwell remain intact, but the sculptures, constructed in a 1:1 ratio, are curved and deformed, their original form rendered organically dysfunctional. The monumentality of each piece of the stairwell adds to the physical weight in tonnage; they are built just as an emergency stairwell would be: thick metal beams, steel steps, and a broad metal balustrade.
The image of emergency stairwells climbing urban architecture in cities across the United States has become so commonplace that little aesthetic consideration is given to them. Sosnowska challenges the relationships of architecture, and the elements that comprise a whole, altering perception, reviving memories, and inviting the viewer to recall associations with the often mundane objects.
-Leslie Moody Castro, Graduate Intern
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BEDERSI, ABRAHAM BEN ISAAC or BEDARESI:(Redirected from PENINI.)
Provençal poet; born at Béziers (whence his surname "Bedersi"—native of Béziers). The dates of his birth and death have not been ascertained. An elegy which he composed during his youth, upon the "Confiscation of the Books of the Law," is supposed by some scholars to refer to the burning of the Talmud in Paris about the year 1242; by others, to the confiscation of the Talmud in Aragon in 1264, as the direct result of the Barcelona controversy. If the latter view be correct, Bedersi may well have flourished about the year 1240 (Zunz, "Z. G." p. 413).
As appears from the letter sent by Bedersi to Don Vidal Solomon ("Ḥotam Toknit," p. 4), he went early (perhaps in 1273) to Perpignan, where he attended the lectures of Joseph Ezubi. He returned often to Perpignan and took an active part in its communal affairs. A number of his letters, contained in MS. cviii (72) of the Vienna Hofbibliothek, are written to prominent Jews in Barcelona, asking them to aid their less fortunate coreligionists. At one time he lived at Arles, and in 1285, during the war of France with Roussillon, he took refuge in Narbonne. He seems at one time to have been rich, for in a poem he declares that he is independent and writes for his own pleasure. The compiler of his diwan relates that Bedersi sent money to the wandering poet Gorni (Luzzatto, Intro. to "Ḥotam Toknit," p. 4).
Bedersi was a prolific writer. Several collections of his poems are still extant in manuscript in various libraries. The most complete manuscript is that in the British Museum, Add. No. 27,168. This contains an elegy on the death of his relative, David of Cabestan; several poems and letters addressed to Todros Abulafia and his companion, Abu al-Ḥasan Saul; poems dedicated to the physician of the king of Castile, Abu al-Ḥasan Meïr ibn al-Ḥarit; and the elegy mentioned above.
Two of Bedersi's works were published, with an interesting introduction by Luzzatto, by G. Polak, Amsterdam, 1862: (1) "Ḥereb ha-Mithapeket (A Revolving Sword), a poem of 210 strophes, according to the numerical value of the word
Bedersi's poetical works are the best proof of the decadence of Jewish poetry at that time. His style is stiff and unintelligible, though he possessed a thorough knowledge of Hebrew.
- Zunz, Z. G. p. 462;
- Munk, in Archives Israéites, 1847, p. 67;
- Kerem Ḥemed, iv. 57;
- Grätz, Gesch. der Juden, 3d ed., vii. 97;
- Renan-Neubauer, Les Rabbins Français, pp. 710 et seq.;
- Gross, Gallia Judaica, p. 100;
- Bergmann, Aus den Briefen Abraham Bedersi's, in Monatsschrift, xlii. 507 et seq.;
- one of Bedersi's letters was published in 1765 by Solomon da Piera as an appendix to his collection of Hebrew synonyms, entitled Maskiyyot Kesef.
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Developing Virtual Healthcare Systems in Complex Multi‑Agency Service Settings: the OLDES Project pp163-170
Recent developments in internet and digital technologies offer increasing possibilities for transforming the delivery of care by virtual means. However, the care of older people presents challenges and issues at many levels. The realities of the world of older people and of the multiple institutions and agencies that provide care services for them have to be better understood if virtual services are to be configured appropriately. This paper presents the results of an action research exploration of the complexity of needs found in care environments and the difficulties of configuring services when delivered in multi‑agency settings (i.e. jointly across organizational, professional and occupational boundaries). The deployment of a computer‑based graphical demonstrator is illustrated as one means through which, visualizations of different socio‑technical scenarios can be generated. We suggest that this tool can support processes of shared sense making amongst care agencies and institutions. In so doing, it can provide the basis for facilitating more effective 'user' engagement with the design, development and implementation of virtual healthcare systems.
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Lowen, Addie Wagon Mrs.
The following data is extracted from Muskogee And Northeastern Oklahoma.
Agricultural interests of Washington County find a prominent representative in Mrs. Addie Wagon Lowen, whose farm is situated near Bartlesville and constitutes one of the best improved and most desirable properties in this part of the state. She was born in Indiana, her parents being Richard and Victoria Evans (Pitman) McDaniel, the former a native of North Carolina, while the latter was born in eastern Tennessee. On coming to Indian Territory they settled near Bartlesville, where the father engaged in general farming and stock raising until his demise, which occurred in 1907. The mother is now living on a homestead in southern Oregon.
On the 22d of November, 1893, Addie McDaniel was united in marriage to Joseph Wagon, a member of the Delaware tribe, while she is of Cherokee, Scotch and Irish descent. They became the parents of two children: Edgar Joseph, who is deceased ; and Katie, who is a graduate of the local high school and also of the Bartlesville Business College. She has been in the employ of the Chamber of Commerce here, but is now with the Young Women's Christian Association in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mr. Wagon passed away on the 25th of April, 1899, and in 1901 his widow wedded N. L. Lowen, by whom she has two daughters, Sarah Viola and Mary Leathe, both graduates of the Bartlesville high school, and the latter will attend the University of Kansas in order to prepare herself for the career of a journalist.
Mrs. Lowen's farm comprises one hundred and seventy acres and is situated about four miles south of Bartlesville, in the beautifully wooded foothills of the Osage mountains. There is a fine orchard on the place and a large meadow devoted to the growing of millet, while they also raise large crops of corn, wheat and oats. They likewise devote considerable attention to dairying, keeping for this purpose forty head of cattle, consisting of Durhams and Jerseys, and owing to its excellent quality the output of their dairy always finds a ready market. The barns and other outbuildings are substantial and commodious and everything about the place gives evidence of the progressive spirit and practical methods of the owner.
Mrs. Lowen has witnessed much of the growth and development of this section of the state, in which she has taken an active part, and she is deeply interested in all that pertains to the welfare and progress of her community, while her admirable traits of character have won for her the esteem and friendship of many.
Source: Muskogee And Northeastern Oklahoma
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TEPCO, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, used to be in the business of supplying energy to the world's largest metropolis and its environs. Ten weeks after the disaster at its Fukushima nuclear power plant following the March 11th quake and tsunami, its primary activity is transforming into a massive financial-compensation vehicle, with a power company on the side.
The company has been reduced to a shell. Its shares have lost four-fifths of their value. Standard & Poor's and Moody's have downgraded its debt of around ¥7 trillion (about $85 billion) to just one notch above junk status. A government-ordered compensation plan, still being worked out, will see it making payouts far into the future.
On May 20th TEPCO posted the largest loss in Japanese corporate history outside of the financial sector, of ¥1.2 trillion. That does not include compensation payments (which are estimated at ¥2 trillion) by TEPCO, the government and possibly even other utility firms as well. TEPCO said it would sell all assets unrelated to supplying energy (such as property and cross-shareholdings) and halt its international plans. In a show of atonement, it cut the top brass's pay by 40% and workers' by as much as 25%. Its much-criticised president, Masataka Shimizu, stepped down.
Though neither the government nor TEPCO has said so, it is clear that the future of the firm is more as an appendage of the state than a business. Yet some of the government's ideas have highlighted its own lack of foresight and practical thinking. One cabinet minister demanded that Japanese banks write off a portion of TEPCO's debt—perhaps without considering what effect such a forced write-off might have on discouraging much-needed investment in the country's power-generating capacity.
Each day seems to bring worse news about the nuclear disaster playing out about a three-hour drive from Tokyo. It has recently been revealed that a meltdown in one and possibly three reactors occurred in the first 16 hours. Steps that could have prevented this or the subsequent explosions were never taken. The government plans to create an investigatory panel which is likely to include foreigners, in the hope that some outside scrutiny would make it harder to cover up embarrassing discoveries.
One way to salvage something useful from TEPCO might be to split it into two firms: one concerned with power generation and the other with power transmission. Shigeaki Koga, a trade-ministry official, proposes selling the transmission business to finance compensation claims and re-listing the generation business on the stockmarket.
As is often the case in Japan, the government is divided over this question. Prime Minister Naoto Kan has said that his cabinet will consider splitting TEPCO and reviewing Japan's energy monopolies when it devises a new energy policy this year. An influential cabinet member, Yukio Edano, agreed that Japan seeks to learn from other nations regarding structural separation. Banri Kaieda, Japan's economy and trade minister, who overseas energy policy, disagrees. "This is not something we should work on immediately," he told The Economist. "To divide responsibilities like that is a very complex business...But more than that, there are things we must do sooner. TEPCO and the government must make sure there is decent compensation to the people who have suffered." If he gets his way, TEPCO will become little more than a state-supervised indemnification mechanism.
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lustred glassArticle Free Pass
lustred glass, art glass in the Art Nouveau style. It is a delicately iridescent glass with rich colours. Lustred glass was first produced in the United States by Louis Comfort Tiffany during the late 1800s for use as windowpanes. The intention of the inventor of Tiffany lustred glass, Arthur J. Nash, was to recreate artificially the natural iridescent sheen produced by the corrosion of ancient buried glassware, such as that unearthed near Roman ruins. In 1893 Tiffany founded the Stourbridge Glass Company in Long Island, N.Y., to produce decorative lustred glassware, including drinking glasses, bowls, vases, lamps, and jewelry. Because of the tremendous popularity of this glassware, known by the trade name Favrile glass, the Stourbridge firm and other Tiffany companies continued to make thousands of lustred glass articles annually until 1933.
Although Tiffany lustred glass was inspired by the metallized glassware produced in the 1870s in Paris and Vienna, it differed from the European variety in that it had a pearl-like sheen rather than a mirrorlike finish. This variation resulted largely from differences in the type and colour of the glass to which the metallic lustre pigments were applied. On transparent glass, such as was used in Europe, the effect is a brilliant iridescence, but on opaque glass, which Tiffany employed, the effect is a soft, satiny sheen. Lustre applied to glass that is both transparent and yellow in colour produces gold, while transparent cobalt-blue glass sandwiched between two layers of transparent yellow glass turns to a deep and iridescent blue when lustred.
Among Tiffany’s more intricately and lavishly lustred wares is a textured variety. The textured surface was created by rolling glass, while still hot, over multicoloured crushed glass and by inducing and breaking bubbles on its surface. In another elaborate form of lustred ware, the opaque glass body is decorated with threads or patches of both transparent and coloured glass that produce contrasting effects of brilliance and subdued sheen when coated with a metallic compound.
See also Art Nouveau.
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The company that Mr. Lonniman works for just finished a new product. They wanted to promote it across the country. Mr. Lonniman was asked to travel by car to each of the 48 contiguous U.S. states to promote the product. He was told that he could visit each state in whatever order he chose, but the company wanted him to start in Delaware, at their headquarters.
They asked that he visit each state only once. He could not go back into a state he had already visited because this was the “Don’t Look Back” product tour. So, Mr. Lonniman sat down at his desk and began to plan his trip.
He realized immediately that it was going to be one long car trip. At that moment, his boss stopped by and said, “Hey, I’m going to join you when you reach your last state. I was born there and I’ve been looking for a reason to go back and visit. You can leave your rental car there, and I’ll fly you back in my private jet.”
Since Mr. Lonniman hadn’t planned his trip yet, how did his boss know which state was going to be Mr. Lonniman’s last state? And, which state would that be? Please tell the RiddleDude what state the boss would be waiting.
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Jon Patterson’s dairy milks 1,100 cows on a farm that’s been in the family since 1832.
My wife, Julie, and I are the sixth generation to live on our home farm, purchased in 1832. We are raising our kids, the seventh generation on our farm: Tad, 12; Wyatt, 9; and Reilley, 6.
The current dairy was built by my mother, Connie, after losing the 100-cow tie-stall to a fire in 1990. Mom started the dairy with a partner, 350 cows and a new facility.
I returned home from Alfred State College in 1994 and started working in crop production. In 2010, I took over as farm manager. After working in architectural design for four years, Julie went back to school in 1996 and received her bachelor’s degree in accounting. She now handles all the finances and human resource management for the dairy. I have two brothers and one sister who are not in the business.
We raise all our heifers ourselves, half on the main dairy and half at a facility seven miles away. We feed pasteurized waste milk to the calves along with a pasteurizer balancer. All heifer calves get 4 qt. of colostrum at birth and 2 qt. more within six hours.
Calves are housed and tethered in hutches to make feeding and bedding labor efficient. We breed heifers at 51" tall or about 12 months old. Pregnant heifers, after a 60-day check, are rotationally grazed on pasture in the summer months.
We do most all our own cropping. We crop 2,500 acres: 1,200 corn, 800 alfalfa, 200 grass, 200 wheat and 100 pasture. We do some custom harvesting of forages and manure pumping. We hire all baling, combining and some manure trucking.
We are looking into having someone mow and merge hay for chopping to keep equipment purchases low. The majority of our corn is strip-tilled or no-tilled. Wheat is no-tilled and hay fields are put in with conventional tillage to smooth out fields and enable efficient harvest.
In 2004, we started building a complete-mix anaerobic digester designed by RCM. We fired up the first gen-set [engine generator set] in October 2005. We take in food processing byproducts for the digester to boost gas production and increase revenue from the system to the farm.
In 2009, we installed our second gen-set, which brought production to 400 kw. All solids are removed for bedding before digestion and put under the cows daily. This has had a great impact on our ability to move manure in the summer months onto growing crops.
We appreciate the people who have worked with us over the years to help us get to where we are today. Also, we appreciate the people who work hard every day with us to be successful and treat our farm like it’s their own.
Whether it is Reilley helping look for heat cows or Tad and Wyatt mowing the lawn, this is a great place to raise a family, and we are thankful for the opportunity we have been provided.
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Northern Neighborhoods Safed
Ramat Razim, Neve Oranim and Menachem Begin, the new northern neighborhoods of Tzfat offer affordable housing with gardens, parks and facilities to residents who wish to live in a modern Tzfat neighborhood that has all the amenities of a small town.
In 1990, the fall of the Soviet Union set off a massive wave of Russian Jewish immigration to Israel. Most new Russian immigrants settled in the major metropolitan areas because of work possibilities but many thousands of new immigrants came to live in Tzfat.
These new immigrants looked for housing in the older Tzfat neighborhoods of Canaan and the Darom because these neighborhoods were more affordable. As Canaan and the Darom began to fill up with new Russian immigrants the prices of these properties began to rise. At this point veteran Tzfat residents started to explore other housing options.
The municipality of Tzfat, together with the Israeli Ministry of Housing, opened up three new neighborhoods north of Canaan along the Tzfat-Rosh Pinna Road. These neighborhoods, Ramat Razim, Neve Oranim and Menachem Begin were planned to provide housing and other services to the new residents.
Each of these neighborhoods has its own character and population. All are mixed, including older residents and young families as well as religious and non-religious residents. There are many English-speakers who live in these areas.
Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin was the first of the three neighborhoods to be built. It is on the southern side of the Tzfat-Rosh Pinna highway.There are single family wood-frame and block houses as well as duplexes. The original houses were one and two-story structures but apartment buildings were added later on. There are several day care centers, kindergartens and synagogues.
Neve Oranim and Ramat Razim
Houses in Neve Oranim and Ramat Razim, two neighborhoods which sit side-by-side on the northern side of the Tzfat-Rosh Pinna highway, are one and two-story block houses and apartment buildings. The neighborhoods include a shopping center with a supermarket and pharmacy, a public elementary school and synagogues. The population is mixed religious and non-religious.
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Re: Hadrosaur nesting strategy...(was Re: The Life of Birds- Pa
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Larry Febo wrote:
> I don`t know for sure. The avoidance of predation upon the young I had once
> read,...somewhere (can`t remember where). Sounded like a good, logical
> reason to me. It`s amazing how much evolution revolves around raising up a
> new brood. That`s the definition of biological fitness,...the number of
> offspring that survive to reproduce on their own.
Yes. But migration, like the giraffe's neck, could have several
functions including, reduced competition, predator swamping, and the
often emphasized (but in my view secondary concern) forage availability.
As you note below, food should be available in locations that the geese
spend in non-nesting season. Indeed, as seems to be the case on
some predator-less islands, geese that find their way lose the ability to
fly and find the trade off a good one. Some geese arrive at distant
nesting sites and don't feed at all, others gorge themselves. So there is
a lot of variation in the behavior.
The "sitting duck" problem is central. Large, ground-laying birds are
extremely vulnerable to predation. This is currently being demonstrated
at the expense of duck populations in the pot hole region. Once
impenetrable, these remnant wetlands are accessible to coyotes, foxes,
racoons, etc. etc.
> Then again, not all birds migrate. How do the tropical
> variety cope (with predators)?
I believe there are practically no large ground-laying birds in the
tropics (outside grasslands and excepting cassowaries). Certainly, the
great flocks of ducks and geese are pretty unanimous in their abandonment
of predator-rich habitats in nesting season (I hope Ron Orenstein is still
in the field and I can get away with that statement).
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People outside of the IT organization often protest that they wish their IT folks were more business savvy. Rarely does this dialogue provide any insight into the short coming of their IT staff and how their skills gap can be overcome. This week, we (the QRS EA Team) decided to explore this subject. Hope this will stimulate conversation.
In most non-IT companies, the IT Organization has two distinct but connected roles:
- Run the Business of IT: Just like Marketing, Finance, HR; the IT management is required to budget, plan their resources and deliver critical and non-critical services to all divisions of the organization. These services often include – email, access to internet, enterprise resource planning, batch processing, real-time integration between systems, systems maintenance and other IT operations. Furthermore, IT management is often asked to come up with new cost reductions without impacting the business. Most of the time, IT management performs this function very well.
- Help Exploit IT Capabilities: Help the line of business (LOB) exploit the information technology capabilities to improve the LOB’s performance – consequently performance of the Organization . The focus for IT is not cost reduction but increase revenue. In this role, IT is seen differently by different groups and IT sees itself differently as well. It is in this role “the Tech Speak” and “ the Business Speak ” chasm becomes the widest. For example, consider the following scenario: A FedEx customer wants to know when their package will arrive at the desired destination at certain price points. If FedEx accomplishes this task, the client will do business with FedEX again and again and again. If FedEx promises the above and is frequently unable to deliver the package with the agreed upon service level, the client will look for alternatives. Given this scenario – both IT and LOB management see the FedEx ability to meet client expectations differently. It is this different viewpoint of FedEx capability that causes the communication chasm and cause for frustration.
Going back to our scenario above, IT sees the FedEx capabilities as integrated set of web based, mobile computing and tightly integrated back office applications that are sitting on different platforms, with different end-of-life schedules, risks, available skills, ability to change and support etc. Conversely, the LOB Management sees this as both the client and delivery staff’s need to know the location of the package at all times. Should there be an exception alert, the right people who can take the necessary corrective action and measure their performance. This needs to be done 100% of time at known costs and constraints. Having seen this scenario played out so many times in different organizations and industries, we believe that both IT and Business needs to learn – “the Customer Speak” Know the salient characteristic what customer value and then define, develop and use the right capabilities to meet customer needs.
“Know the salient characteristics of what customer values”
Capability Based Planning is one proven approach that has been used to close the “Business Speak ” and “Tech Speak” chasm and enforce “Customer Speak ” in other industries; we believe it can be applied here as well. The key to successful transition to Capability Based Planning is:
- Management needs to clearly understand and communicate to all what customers value,
- Determine what people, process and technology capabilities will be required ,
- Evaluate whether the cost of these capabilities are consistent with what the client is prepared to pay.
- Does the organization currently have base capabilities to build and run the new capabilities or are these new capabilities are just pipe dreams?
- Knowing that people, process and technologies capabilities are developed and managed by different LOB’s in the organization, do you have oversight of who is able to orchestrate these silo capabilities to produce the valuable final product that customer cares?
In addition, management must also determine the following:
We believe that it is not IT who needs to learn business speak, it is both IT and Business who needs to learn the “Customer Speak” and then work together towards a single goal. One good starting point is to learn how to do Capability Based Planning or what we at QRS call – Capability Based Value Delivery.
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Instructables user [Kaeru no Ojisan] enjoys constructing R/C kit cars and wanted to build one that could be driven using a PC racing wheel he had on hand. Not satisfied with simply guiding it with the racing wheel, he added a web cam to the car so that he can monitor its location from the comfort of his desk chair.
The car is loaded down with all sorts of electronics to get the job done, requiring four separate battery packs to keep them online. An Arduino controls the motor and the steering servos, receiving its commands wirelessly via a Bluetooth add-on. The camera connects to a USB to Ethernet converter, which enables the car’s video feed to be transmitted via the onboard wireless router.
The racing wheel interface seems to work just fine, though we don’t doubt that the whole setup can be easily simplified, reducing both weight and battery count. While [Kaeru no Ojisan] says that the car is in its concept stages and there are a few bugs to work out, we think it’s a good start.
Stick around to see a quick video of the car in testing.
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The president’s plan announced today to create a $2 billion “energy security trust” – financed by existing government royalties from fossil fuel production – puts us on the wrong path. Linking the fund to oil and gas production will only encourage more dirty energy production. Better options exist.
This approach doesn’t create any additional cost for using fossil fuels, thus creating no incentive for firms to divert resources into safer, cleaner and more renewable sources of energy.
Additionally, linking modest investments in energy alternatives to oil and gas production creates a misguided incentive for more oil and gas drilling – a bad idea made worse without reform regulations and liability caps on offshore drilling. At a time when climate change is increasingly evident and BP is on trial for killing workers and doing untold damage to our coastline, we need a much more aggressive plan – one that will allow us to move away from fossil fuels and toward a sustainable future.
In the context of the current congressional push to expand offshore drilling, a proposal like the president’s shows that Congress and the administration have not learned any lessons from the BP disaster or the countless other crises that have come about because of our addiction to fossil fuels.
Congress has yet to enact a single reform in the wake of the nation’s largest environmental and industrial disaster. We can’t simply keep doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results.
Instead, the president should support the proposed Climate Protection Act of 2013, which would finance many more billions for clean energy through a progressive carbon fee. This plan would provide the freedom for the country to invest in a future that provides the power we need to run a prosperous society, while also leaving the world better off than we found it.
Tyson Slocum is Public Citizen’s energy program director. Follow him @TysonSlocum.
Come one, come all. Gather ’round for a pair of misguided tours touting the benefits of fracking, one organized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the other by the American Petroleum Institute.
The Big Business mouthpieces are hosting a series of rallies and spending millions in political advertising in – what a shock – key election swing states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, urging the Obama administration to do more to promote hydraulic fracturing. But the Chamber must have been too busy flapping its jowls to read today’s Wall Street Journal story (and others) describing how major natural gas producers are posting disappointing returns and even losses because – get this – there’s too much natural gas production already. Case in point: The U.S. recently surpassed Russia as the leading natural gas producer on the planet.
Not only is the surplus more than our market can consume, it is more than our atmosphere can handle. Advances in extraction technologies are allowing big polluters to get to resources that once seemed out of reach. That may mean short-term profits for the gas and oil industry but, for the rest of us, it means adjusting to the painful realities of climate change. Pushing the fracking agenda is bad business any way you look at it.
This proves that the Chamber is pushing a political, rather than a business, agenda. This is particularly the case as the Chamber dismisses genuine environmental and public health concerns associated with fracking as pandering to Obama’s “environmental voter base.” How cynical can you get: a corporate trade association dismissing genuine grassroots concerns about water contamination, and increased emissions from wells and trucks? Shame on the Chamber: There is no such thing as benign fossil fuel extraction. There are real impacts on real people living across America, many of whom are organizing this weekend in the first national rally against fracking. The Chamber’s dismissal of their concerns as political pandering is offensive.
A sound energy plan is one that would empower Main Street communities to take the lead on sustainable energy independence through the promotion of rooftop solar, energy efficiency incentives, mass transit and other job-creating clean energy investments.
Maybe it’s best for the Chamber to give its advertising expenditures to charity and leave energy policy to those who actually know what they’re talking about.
For information on this weekend’s events, visit: http://www.energyvox.org/2012/07/25/stop-the-frack-attack/.
It’s a class of prescription drugs millions of Americans take every day. If you aren’t one of the millions, chances are you know someone who is. Tomorrow we will be calling for strong warnings everyone should stay tuned for.
Also on our list–stopping the Keystones Tar Sands Pipeline! The controversial 1,700-mile project would carry tar sands oil from Canada to the U.S. and has become the most important environmental decision facing President Obama before the 2012 election. We are a part of a coalition opposing the pipeline, and our Energy Program Outreach Director Allison Fisher will have more later this week about ongoing protests and how you can get involved.
Feeling the heat. It’s August and our Energy Program Director Tyson Slocum thinks it’s about time financial speculators started sweating too. No amount of climate-controlled corporate office suite air conditioning could quell the unease industry reps, who are already on the defensive, are feeling following the leak of three year old trading documents to Slocum and the Wall Street Journal. The docs underscore the role that Goldman Sachs and others played in the 2008 gas price spike and prompted Tyson Slocum to issue a statement calling for disclosure and saying, among other things: “Far from heeding the hysterical calls of corporations that are rushing to use the dissemination of three-year-old records as an excuse to crack down on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, lawmakers should work with the agency to shine light on the sordid business of oil speculation. For too long, major corporations have reflexively deemed vast swaths of data “proprietary,” thereby removing critical information from the public domain.”
On Wednesday, we will be joining with a few key allies to deliver a stinging analysis that anyone who is concerned about our debt should take to heart. ATTENTION: Super Committee members, you’ll want to put away your talking points and get out your notebooks on this one.
As our energy guru Tyson Slocum just wrote, fracking is more than just a controversial method for extracting natural gas , it’s another weapon in the oil industries’ inside-coat-pocket-o-tricks. Yeah! As if we really needed another reason to dislike Big Oil.
Tyson Slocum debates fracking, Eagle Ford and the Safe Drinking Water Act on CNBC
Last week as industry executives gathered in Houston for a major global energy conference, the Houston Chronicle ran a front page story entitled, “Fracking foes put industry on the defensive,” which it then featured later on that day on the often turned to “FuelFix” blog. In it, reporter Brett Clanton writes: “Anyone scoring the ongoing debate over hydraulic fracturing would notice that critics of the controversial oil and natural gas extraction process have lately put a few points on the board.” He goes on to quote Public Citizen’s energy program director Tyson Slocum:
The next order of business is going to have to be holding politicians’ feet to the fire.
This is pretty much exactly what Slocum did last night in a debate with industry talking head John Killduff on CNBC regarding the oil industry’s push to use a form of fracking to access and exploit oil locked in shale rock in an area in Catalina, Texas, called Eagle Ford.
Slocum began by explaining that for each shale well that is made six million gallons of clean drinking water must be used. The water is loaded up with toxic chemicals, which the industry will not disclose and doesn’t have to because they are exempt under the Safe Drinking Water Act, and shot into the shale rock where 85 percent of it will remain. This brings about all kinds of problems and questions like, can you light your water on fire?
And yet, industry claims it’s totally safe:
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Below is a look at the fictional heroines created by Jane Austen in the six published novels written by her. So, without further ado . . .
JANE AUSTEN’S HEROINE GALLERY
Elinor Dashwood – “Sense and Sensibility” (1811)
Elinor Dashwood is the oldest Dashwood sister who symbolizes a coolness of judgement and strength of understanding. This leads her to be her mother’s frequent counsellor, and sometimes shows more common sense than the rest of her family. Elinor could have easily been regarded as a flawless character, if it were not for her penchant of suppressing her emotions just a little too much. Ironically, none of the actresses I have seen portray Elinor were never able to portray a nineteen year-old woman accurately.
1. Joanna David (1971) – She gave an excellent performance and was among the few who did not indulge in histronics. My only complaint was her slight inability to project Elinor’s passionate nature behind the sensible facade.
2. Irene Richards (1981) – I found her portrayal of Elinor to be solid and competent. But like David, she failed to expose Elinor’s passionate nature behind the stoic behavior.
3. Emma Thompson (1995) – Many have complained that she was too old to portray Elinor. Since the other actresses failed to convincingly portray a nineteen year-old woman, no matter how sensible, I find the complaints against Thompson irrelevant. Thankfully, Thompson did not bother to portray Elinor as a 19 year-old. And she managed to perfectly convey Elinor’s complexities behind the sensible facade.
4. Hattie Morahan (2008) – She gave an excellent performance and was able to convey Elinor’s passionate nature without any histronics. My only complaint was her tendency to express Elinor’s surprise with this deer-in-the-headlights look on her face.
Marianne Dashwood – “Sense and Sensibility” (1811)
This second Dashwood sister is a different kettle of fish from the first. Unlike Elinor, Marianne is an emotional adolescent who worships the idea of romance and excessive sentimentality. She can also be somewhat self-absorbed, yet at the same time, very loyal to her family.
1. Ciaran Madden – Either Madden had a bad director or the actress simply lacked the skills to portray the emotional and complex Marianne. Because she gave a very hammy performance.
2. Tracey Childs – She was quite good as Marianne, but there were times when she portrayed Marianne as a little too sober and sensible – even early in the story.
3. Kate Winslet (1995) – The actress was in my personal opinion, the best Marianne Dashwood I have ever seen. She conveyed Marianne’s complex and emotional nature with great skill, leading her to deservedly earn an Oscar nomination.
4. Charity Wakefield (2008) – She solidly portrayed the emotional Marianne, but there were moments when her performance seemed a bit mechanical.
Elizabeth Bennet – “Pride and Prejudice” (1813)
Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of an English gentleman and member of the landed gentry. She is probably the wittiest and most beloved of Austen’s heroines. Due to her father’s financial circumstances – despite being a landowner – Elizabeth is required to seek a marriage of convenience for economic security, despite her desire to marry for love.
1. Greer Garson (1940) – Her performance as Elizabeth Bennet has been greatly maligned in recent years, due to the discovery that she was in her mid-30s when she portrayed the role. Personally, I could not care less about her age. She was still marvelous as Elizabeth, capturing both the character’s wit and flaws perfectly.
2. Elizabeth Garvie (1980) – More than any other actress, Garvie portrayed Elizabeth with a soft-spoken gentility. Yet, she still managed to infuse a good deal of the character’s wit and steel with great skill.
3. Jennifer Ehle (1995) – Ehle is probably the most popular actress to portray Elizabeth and I can see why. She was perfect as the witty, yet prejudiced Elizabeth. And she deservedly won a BAFTA award for her performance.
4. Keira Knightley (2005) – The actress is not very popular with the public these days. Which is why many tend to be critical of her take on Elizabeth Bennet. Personally, I found it unique in that hers was the only Elizabeth in which the audience was given more than a glimpse of the effects of the Bennet family’s antics upon her psyche. I was more than impressed with Knightley’s performance and thought she truly deserved her Oscar nomination.
Jane Bennet – “Pride and Prejudice” (1813)
The oldest of the Bennet daughters is more beautiful, but just as sensible as her younger sister, Elizabeth. However, she has a sweet and shy nature and tends to make an effort to see the best in everyone. Her fate of a happily ever after proved to be almost as important as Elizabeth’s.
1. Maureen O’Sullivan (1940) – She was very charming as Jane Bennet. However, her Jane seemed to lack the sense that Austen’s literary character possessed.
2. Sabina Franklyn (1980) – She gave a solid performance as the sweet-tempered Jane. However, her take on the role made the character a little more livelier than Austen’s original character.
3. Susannah Harker (1995) – I really enjoyed Harker’s take on the Jane Bennet role. She did a great job in balancing Jane’s sweet temper, inclination to find the best in everyone and good sense that Elizabeth ignored many times.
4. Rosamund Pike (2005) – She gave a pretty good performance as the sweet and charming Jane, but rarely got the chance to act as the sensible older sister, due to director Joe Wright’s screenplay.
Fanny Price – “Mansfield Park” (1814)
Unfortunately, Fanny happens to be my least favorite Jane Austen heroine. While I might find some of her moral compass admirable and resistance to familial pressure to marry someone she did not love, I did not admire her hypocrisy and passive aggressive behavior. It is a pity that she acquired what she wanted in the end – namely her cousin Edmund Bertram as a spouse – without confronting his or her own personality flaws.
1. Sylvestra de Tourzel (1983) – She had some good moments in her performance as Fanny Price. Unfortunately, there were other moments when I found her portrayal stiff and emotionally unconvincing. Thankfully, de Tourzel became a much better actress over the years.
2. Frances O’Connor (1999) – The actress portrayed Fanny as a literary version of author Jane Austen – witty and literary minded. She skillfully infused a great deal of wit and charm into the character, yet at the same time, managed to maintain Fanny’s innocence and hypocrisy.
3. Billie Piper (2007) – Many Austen fans disliked her portrayal of Fanny. I did not mind her performance at all. She made Fanny a good deal more bearable to me. Piper’s Fanny lacked de Tourzel’s mechanical acting and O’Connor’s portrayal of Fanny as Jane Austen 2.0. More importantly, she did not portray Fanny as a hypocrite, as the other two did.
Emma Woodhouse – “Emma” (1815)
When Jane Austen first created the Emma Woodhouse character, she described the latter as “a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like”. And while there might be a good deal to dislike about Emma – her snobbery, selfishness and occasional lack of consideration for others – I cannot deny that she still remains one of the most likeable Austen heroines for me. In fact, she might be my favorite. She is very flawed, yet very approachable.
1. Doran Godwin (1972) – She came off as a bit haughty in the first half of the 1972 miniseries. But halfway into the production, she became warmer and funnier. Godwin also had strong chemistry with her co-stars John Carson and Debbie Bowen.
2. Gwyneth Paltrow (1996) – Paltrow’s portryal of Emma has to be the funniest I have ever seen. She was fantastic. Paltrow captured all of Emma’s caprices and positive traits with superb comic timing.
3. Kate Beckinsale (1996-97) – She did a very good job in capturing Emma’s snobbery and controlling manner. But . . . her Emma never struck me as particularly funny. I think Beckinsale developed good comic timing within a few years after this movie.
4. Romola Garai (2009) – Garai was another whose great comic timing was perfect for the role of Emma. My only complaint was her tendency to mug when expressing Emma’s surprise.
Catherine Morland – “Northanger Abbey” (1817)
I have something in common with the Catherine Morland character . . . we are both bookworms. However, Catherine is addicted to Gothic novel and has an imagination that nearly got the best of her. But she is also a charmer who proved to be capable of growth.
1. Katharine Schlesinger (1986) – I cannot deny that I disliked the 1986 version of Austen’s 1817 novel. However, I was impressed by Schlesinger’s spot on portrayal of the innocent and suggestive Katherine.
2. Felicity Jones (2007) – She did a superb job in not only capturing Catherine’s personality, she also gave the character a touch of humor in her scenes with actor J.J. Feild that I really appreciated.
Anne Elliot – “Persuasion” (1818)
1. Ann Firbank (1971) – Although I had issues with her early 70s beehive and constant use of a pensive expression, I must admit that I rather enjoyed her portrayal of the regretful Anne. And unlike many others, her age – late 30s – did not bother me one bit.
2. Amanda Root (1995) – Root’s performance probably created the most nervous Anne Elliot I have ever seen on screen. However, she still gave a superb performance.
3. Sally Hawkins (2007) – She was excellent as the soft-spoken Anne. More importantly, she did a wonderful job in expressing Anne’s emotions through her eyes.
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A nail gun, nailgun or nailer is a type of tool used to drive nails into wood or some other kind of material. It is usually driven by electromagnetism, compressed air (pneumatic), highly flammable gases such as butane or propane, or, for powder-actuated tools, a small explosive charge. Nail guns have in many ways replaced hammers as tools of choice among builders.
The first nail gun used air pressure and was introduced to the market in 1950 to speed the construction of housing floor sheathing and sub-floors. With the original nail gun the operator used it while standing and could nail 40-60 nails a minute and had a capacity of 400-600 nails.
Nail guns do not use individual fasteners. Instead, the fasteners are mounted in long strips (similar to a stick of staples) or collated in a paper or plastic carrier, depending on the design of the nailgun. Some full head nail guns, especially those used for pallet making and roofing, use long plastic or wire collated coils. Some strip nailers use a clipped head so the nails can be placed closer together, which facilitates less frequent reloading. Clip head nails are sometimes banned by state or local building codes. Full Round Head nails provide greater resistance to pull out as do ring shank nails. Nailers may also be of the 'coil' type where the fasteners come in either wire or plastic collation the advantage being a lot more fasteners per load, however, at the expense of extra weight. Industrial nailers designed for use against steel or concrete may have a self-loading action for the explosive caps, but most require nails to be loaded by hand. Nail guns vary in the length and gauge (thickness) of nails they can drive.
The smallest size of fasteners are normally 23 gauge (0.025 inches in diameter) commonly called "pin nailers" and generally have no head. They are used for attaching everything from beadings, mouldings and so forth to furniture all the way up to medium sized (7 to 8 inch) baseboard, crown molding and casing. Lengths are normally in the range ⅜ to 1¼ in. (10 to 32 mm) although some industrial tool manufacturers supply up to 2 in. (50 mm). The 23 gauge micro pin is rapidly gaining ground as users find that it leaves a much smaller hole than brad nails, thereby eliminating the time normally taken to fill holes while at the same time presenting a far better looking finished product.
The next size up is the 18 gauge (1.02 mm diameter) fixing, often referred to as a "brad nail". These fastenings are also used to fix mouldings but can be used in the same way as the smaller 22 to 24 gauge fastenings. Their greater strength leads to their use in trim carpentry on hardwoods where some hole filling is acceptable. Whilst most 18 gauge brads have heads, some manufacturers do offer headless fastenings. Lengths range from ⅝ in to 2 in. (16 mm to 50 mm)
Going up from 18 gauge fastenings the next sizes are 16 and 15 gauge (1.63 and 1.83 mm diameter). These are generally referred to as "finish nails". They come in lengths between ⅝ and 2½ in. (16 to 64 mm) and are used in the general fixing of much softwood and MDF trim work (such as baseboard/skirtings, architraves, etc.) where the holes will be filled and the work painted afterwards.
The largest sizes of conventional collated fastenings are the clipped head and full head nails which are used in framing, fencing and other forms of structural and exterior work. These nails generally have a shank diameter of 0.11 to 0.13 in. (2.9 to 3.1 mm) although some manufacturers offer smaller diameter nails as well. General lengths are in the range 2 in to 3 1⁄3 in (50 to 90 mm). Shank styles include plain, ring annular, twisted, etc. and a variety of materials and finishes are offered including plain steel, galvanized steel, sherardised steel, stainless steel, etc. depending on the pull-out resistance, corrosion resistance, etc. required for the given application. These sizes of fastenings are available in stick collated form (often 20° to 21° for full head, 28° to 34° for clipped head) or coil form (for use in pallet/roofing nailers) depending on the application. Full-head nails have greater pull-out resistance than clipped head nails and are mandated by code in many hurricane zones for structural framing.
Another type of fastening commonly found in construction is the strap fastening which is roughly analogous to the large head clout nail. These are used in conjunction with a strap shot nailer (or positive placement nailer UK) to fix metalwork such as joist hangers, corner plates, strengthening straps, etc. to timber structures. They differ from conventional nailers in that the point of the fastening is not sheathed so it can be exactly positioned before firing the nail gun.
Other specialist nailers are also available which can drive spikes up to 6¼ inches long, fix wood to steel, etc.
A variation on the nail gun is the palm nailer which is a lightweight handheld pneumatic nailer that straps to the hand. It is convenient for working in tight spaces where a conventional nailer will not fit and is flexible enough to drive either short nails into metal straps or six inch nails into timber. By repeated hammer action (of around 40 hits per second) the fastener is driven into the material by a more constant palm pressure (as opposed to a conventional nailgun which drives the nail against the inertia of the nailgun itself).
In the United States, about 42,000 people every year go to emergency rooms with injuries from nail guns, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Forty percent of those injuries occur to consumers. Nail gun injuries tripled between 1991 to 2005. Foot and hand injuries are among the most common. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that treating nail gun wounds costs at least $338 million per year nationally in emergency medical care, rehabilitation, and workers' compensation. Often personnel selling the tools know little about the dangers associated with their use or safety features that can prevent injuries.
Injuries to the fingers, hands, and feet are among the three most common, but there are also injuries that involve other body areas and internal organs. Some of these injuries are serious and some have resulted in death.
All kinds of nail guns can be dangerous, so safety precautions similar to those for a firearm are usually recommended for their use. For safety, nail guns are designed to be used with the muzzle touching the target. Unless specifically modified for the purpose, they are not effective as projectile weapons.
The most common firing mechanism is the dual-action contact-trip trigger, which requires that the manual trigger and nose contact element both be depressed for a nail to be discharged. The sequential-trip trigger, which is safer, requires the nose contact to be depressed before the manual trigger, rather than simultaneously with the trigger. Approximately 65% to 69% of injuries from contact-trip tools could be prevented through the use of a sequential-trip trigger, according to the CDC.
There is recoil associated with the discharge of a nail from a nail gun. Contact triggers allow the gun to fire unintended nails if the nose hits the wood surface or a previously placed nail following recoil. Nailers with touch tip (contact) triggers are susceptible to this double firing. According to a 2002 engineering report from the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC), the recoil and firing of the second nail occurs well before the trigger can be released. Acute injury rates are twice as high among users of tools with contact triggers.
In September 2011 The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) issued a nail gun safety guide that details practical steps to prevent injuries including use of tools with sequential triggers, training prior to use, and use of appropriate protective equipment such as eye protection.
Research aimed at reducing nail gun accidents among frame carpenters, among the heaviest users of nail guns, is ongoing.
Powder actuation
Explosive-powered ("powder actuated") nailguns fall into two broad categories:
- Direct drive or high velocity devices. This uses gas pressure acting directly on the nail to drive it.
- Indirect drive or low velocity devices. This uses gas pressure acting on a heavy piston which drives the nail. Indirect drive nailers are safer because they cannot launch a free-flying projectile even if tampered with or misused, and the lower velocity of the nails is less likely to cause explosive shattering of the work substrate.
Either type can, with the right cartridge loads, be very powerful, driving a nail or other fastener into hard concrete, stone, rolled steelwork, etc., with ease.
Cartridges, used in powder actuated nail guns
In popular culture
In Alan Wake's American Nightmare one of the protagonist's weapons is a nail gun.
In Final Destination 3, the character Erin Ulmer dies from being shot in the head by a nail gun.
See also
- Staple gun
- Air compressor
- Needlegun scaler
- Paslode Impulse, a trademarked name for a cordless nail gun powered by a small flammable gas explosion
- "Nailing Machine Speeds Building". Popular Mechanics 93 (3): 96. March 1950.
- Nail gun injuries Bituminous Insurance Safety News Briefs], 25 April 2008
- Lipscomb, Hester J.; Nolan, James; Patterson, Dennis; Fullen, Mark; Takacs, Brandon C.; Pompeii, Lisa A. (2011). "Buyer beware: Personnel selling nail guns know little about dangerous tools". American Journal of Industrial Medicine 54 (8): 571–8. doi:10.1002/ajim.20954. PMID 21472746.
- Nail found embedded in construction worker's skull USA Today Jan. 17 2005
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2007). "Nail-gun injuries treated in emergency departments--United States, 2001-2005". Morbidity and mortality weekly report 56 (14): 329–32. PMID 17431377.
- Lipscomb, Hester J.; Nolan, James; Patterson, Dennis; Dement, John M. (2008). "Prevention of traumatic nail gun injuries in apprentice carpenters: Use of population-based measures to monitor intervention effectiveness". American Journal of Industrial Medicine 51 (10): 719–27. doi:10.1002/ajim.20628. PMC 2574677. PMID 18704898.
- Nail Gun Safety: A Guide for Construction Contractors NIOSH/OSHA, Sept. 2011
- Prevention of Nail Gun Injuries in Residential Construction: Reaching a Broader “Target” CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training
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- Nail Gun Safety: The Facts
- Original nail gun idea started in Winsted
- Pritts, Timothy A; Knight, Douglas; Davis, Bradley R; Porembka, David; Cuschieri, Joseph (2005). "Accidental self-inflicted nail gun injury to the heart". Injury Extra 36 (11): 517–9. doi:10.1016/j.injury.2005.05.003.
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Age at marriage: The conventional wisdom is that the later you marry, the more likely that the marriage will last. This idea stems more from elite rejection of the 1950s model of family life than it does the research. (Research shows that teen marriages are the ones at risk).
Getting married while young is now considered low-class. By contrast, a long stretch of lies, used people, broken hearts, STDs, unwanted pregnancies, and abortions is a sign of enlightenment.
Tens of thousands of Americans have been asked about their age and marriage and their current marital status by the General Social Survey. I divided people into groups based on age at marriage, and looked at marital statuses after at least 20 years had passed:
Percent in each category
Married in teens
Married between ages 20 and 24
Married between ages of 25 and 29
Married between the ages of 30 and 34
Married between the ages of 35 and 39
Married between the ages of 40 and 44
The benefit that is gained by waiting is gained by your early 20s. The chance of being divorced or separated is roughly the same for everyone else, and the rate of widowhood is higher for those who married late.
Many of those who married later had failed cohabitation experiences which would add to the rate of relationship failures if they were counted.
Which reminds me of another research finding that contradicts the modern attitude toward family formation: people who cohabit before marriage are more, not less, likely to get divorced.
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The Greatest Wealth Transfer In History
When I began studying monetary history and wealth cycles, I was electrified by the realization that the same patterns have repeated over and over again, from ancient Greece and Rome to our own modern global society.
What really thrilled me was the realization that understanding those cycles gave me a roadmap for where today’s markets and the economy were headed. For example, I could see that every time in history that a government intervened in free markets, the markets would eventually undergo a correction. I could see that every time a government began devaluing its currency by creating more and more of it, certain events, like inflation or hyperinflation, would follow, every time.
My understanding of cycles has allowed to me to build a successful business and secure my family’s wealth. My strategy is to invest in accordance with the natural economic cycles that have occurred repeatedly throughout history. Time and again, I have made successful investments not because I’m some financial wizard, but because my understanding of those cycles gave me just a little bit of an informational edge over the next guy.
The purpose of this introduction to the Wealth Cycle Principle is to give you the opportunity to gain that edge as well.
What is a Cycle?
The word “cycle” comes from the Greek word kyklos, meaning cycle or circle. One common definition of cycle is “a periodically repeated sequence of events.”
The idea of a cycle is symbolized by a circle, which, because there is no beginning or end, represents recurrence. The symbolic circle is often divided into segments—often two, such as the Chinese yin and yang or day/night, but more often four segments, like the seasons.
“The reward of the historian is to locate patterns that recur over time and to discover the natural rhythm of social experience.”
-William Strauss and Neil Howe, The Fourth Turning
A recognition and understanding of cycles is one way human beings are able to recognize patterns in data. As early humans learned that events in nature recur over and over again with regularity, they developed the ability to plan for the future, which ultimately led to advanced civilizations.
Human understanding of cycles goes back thousands of years, beginning with the recognition of the human life cycle. Every human who has ever lived was subject to the human life cycle of birth, childhood, adulthood, aging and death.
Early humans also recognized the life cycles of animals and plants and the regular changing of the seasons. They learned to use their understanding of cycles to plan their hunts, to know when native plants would be ripe for harvest and eventually to develop agriculture. By developing an understanding of the past, humans learned to manage the future better.
Cycles, as our ancestors recognized, are relevant in all aspects of life, be it the lifecycle of a cicada or the birth and death of a planet. In fact, even our human behavior and personalities are subject to cycles. Changes in the seasons raise or dampen our spirits; many people respond with depression to dark, dreary winter and grow cheery with the advent of warm spring sunshine and bright summer days. Many cycles trigger polarities of moods—from peace to war, or, with market cycles, from “exuberance” to “depression.”
Markets, which are driven by human emotions such as greed and fear and behaviors also fluctuate in natural cycles. Economic cycles, like other natural cycles, exhibit the polarity of booms and busts.
Types of Economic Cycles
The first economist to identify economic cycles was 19th century French economist Clement Juglar, best known for identifying the 7-11 year fixed investment cycle which bears his name. Juglar’s template for economic cycles became a model for other economists to base their theories.
The basic format of an economic cycle is expansion, leading to crisis, followed by recession, and finally recovery, which leads back to expansion. The timing of basic economic cycles can be predicted with some regularity.
Early 20th century Russian statistician Nikolai Kondratieff theorized that Western capitalist economies are subject to long-term cycles of booms and busts that recur regularly in 50- to 60-year cycles, known today as Kontratieff waves. He claimed that these supercyles had been running since the beginning of time.
Another natural cycle is the currency cycle. The currency cycle occurs less regularly and less frequently, but always follows the same pattern. Societies start with quality money that holds its value (i.e. gold and silver), and then move to quantity but lower-value currency and then back again. These cycles ebb and flow throughout history, as naturally as the tides.
The currency cycle has been recurring for the past 2,400 years. Every time, governments in order to give themselves the power of deficit spending, begin to create more and more currency. As they create more currency, each unit of currency has less value. Eventually the people realize their currency doesn’t buy as much as it used to and is losing value. Every time for the past 2,400 years, the free market prevails. Gold and silver automatically revalue themselves. It’s a natural cycle, and it always ends the same way, with the value of gold and silver rising to account for the excess currency the government has created.
The stock cycle is a shorter cycle. For a time, stocks and real estate outperform gold, silver, and commodities. Then the cycle reverses, and gold, silver and commodities outperform stocks and real estate.
The Current Wealth Cycle
The Wealth Cycle Principle is a way for an observant investor to use market cycles to forecast market direction and choose investments based on those forecasts.
How does The Wealth Cycle Principle work? By recognizing what market cycle is currently in progress, identifying investments that are “in the cycle,” and investing heavily in them before they reach peak price. When those investments become overvalued, it’s time to sell. Adherents of the Wealth Cycle Principle spend lots of time learning and interpreting what their next “in the cycle” investment will be. They keep a sharp eye on market fundamentals and price fluctuations. Even though they are sticking to their strategy of investing in the identified cycle, they must be constantly alert to what’s happening in other sectors, antennae tuned to changing conditions and eyes peeled for the next big thing.
Today, we’re in a precious metals cycle. But thanks to a confluence of events and the cumulative results of decades-old fiscal policies and market manipulations, our current economic condition is exponentially more fraught with peril and opportunity than the mere progression of economic cycles would ordinarily entail.
Today, a fiat-currency cycle of unprecedented size and duration is coming to a close. That’s because for the first time in history, every single currency in existence in the world is a fiat currency, and because globalization has linked the economies of the world in interdependent relationships to an extent never before possible.
Every fiat currency ever invented has failed—a 100% failure rate. When the word’s fiat currencies begin falling like dominos, each taking the next one down with it, the world’s people will have nowhere to turn but to history’s recurring choice for real money, gold.
As the fiat currency bubble bursts, a commodity cycle is just beginning. The recent pain and losses associated with stocks, bonds and real estate have created a generation once burned and fearing the fire. Tangible commodities will become the investment of choice, and for many solid and historically supported reasons, gold and silver will be among the most sought-after commodities.
One reason gold prices must rise is that peak gold—the point at which the maximum amount of gold is available worldwide—has been reached, probably some 10 or so years ago, according to a 2009 statement by Aaron Regent, president and CEO of the world’s largest gold mining and production company, Barrick Gold. Peak gold means the lowest-hanging fruit of easily extracted, high-grade ore already has been harvested, and the amount of gold mined each year will continue decreasing into the future. Gold prices will necessarily have to go up in order to make mining operations pencil out.
Like gold, silver also has been used as money throughout human history. But silver also is an important component in many industrial applications, putting even more demand pressures on its price. And as with gold, we have reached peak silver. Today, very little silver is being mined.
Today there is probably six to seven times more gold available for investors to buy than silver. Today there is approximately 450 million ounces of silver available in stockpiles worldwide—about one ounce for every 14 people on earth. Silver prices are very low right now relative to gold, but those bargain-basement prices can’t hold much longer—despite government policies and financial sector machinations to manipulate the markets.
In fact, no one knows the true free market prices of gold and silver, because they have been artificially manipulated for so long. When the free markets do finally determine gold and silver’s true value (which they always have throughout time and inevitably will again), the wealth transfer will be mind-boggling.
The Next Great Wealth Cycle
I want to make it clear that I don’t advocate investing in gold and silver exclusively until the end of time. Ten or 20 years down the road, I might advise you to invest in something entirely different, because by then we may be in a different wealth cycle. But I will tell you that there may never be another opportunity like this one in my lifetime or yours to profit from the greatest transfer of wealth the world has ever known.
● Today’s currency bubble is inflated to unprecedented heights, and because every currency in the world is fiat currency, the only safe haven money investors can turn to is gold and silver.
● The end of the currency cycle corresponds to the winding down of a stock cycle, magnified as millions of retiring baby boomers are mandated to withdraw 401k funds from the market.
● As the currency and stock bubbles implode, a commodity cycle—favoring the two commodities that can be used as money when currency has become valueless—is just beginning.
● We’re living in a world that is interconnected and interdependent in ways unimagined a couple of decades ago. With communications occurring at the speed of light, with former developing nations now populated with eager investors, with global trade imbalances and unstable currencies balancing governments and markets on knife’s edge… when this correction starts, baby, it will be the mother of them all.
It all sounds pretty scary, I know. But that’s why you’re reading this primer, and that’s why you’re taking time to learn the lessons of the past. Knowing what has happened in the past is essential to becoming financially educated today. Knowing what missteps have led others to failure or ruin allows us to avoid those same missteps today. Recognizing patterns that have repeated over and over again in the past allows us to predict what will happen when we see those same patterns repeating today. A solid understanding of history and its relevance to the present allows us to face the future with confidence.
Now you have the tools and the knowledge; use them wisely, and you can ensure future security and prosperity for you and yours.
The information, opinions, and financial data presented are for educational purposes only and are not intended as investment advice. No guarantees are made as to the accuracy of the information provided herein. Situations can change from day to day. Every investor should do their own due-diligence to determine which investments are best for them.
You must assume the responsibility and liability for all decisions that you make on the basis of the information herein contained. GoldSilver.com, makes no warranties, expressed or implied, as to the fitness and accuracy of the information provided or for the results obtained by using the information. Those making investment decisions based on any of the information presented should do so in the knowledge that they could experience significant losses. In no event shall GoldSilver.com be liable for direct, indirect, or incidental damages resulting from the use of the information.
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And when you think ‘you’ve seen everything’, Greece’s lenders are always good for one or two additional surprises. Electricity bills will go up by 40% and public transport fares will increase by 25%. Yes. In times of harsh austerity, where many households struggle to make ends meet and the new austerity package will force millions deeper in despair.
Electricity bill hikes will affect private households and small enterprises making use of ‘low voltage electricity’. The hikes of total 40% will be implemented in two or three steps and are expected to go in effect in Janurary 2013.
Public Transport Fares
Hikes will be at least by 25%. Cheap tickets for buses, tram and trolley will go up to 1.50 euro (from 1.20 today) and for Metro or combined for all public transport means will go up to 1.75 euro (from 1.40 today).
The public transport hikes will have to be implemented by March 2013.
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Monrovia — Barely twenty-four hours after she announced her intention to stand for re-election in Liberia's 2011 presidential elections, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf received strong moral support from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
During a town-hall meeting with employees of the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C., to commemorate her first year in office, Mrs. Clinton said: "I was delighted to hear that Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said she will stand for re-election."
The U.S Secretary of State made specific reference to the pioneering role played by President Sirleaf in combating gender-based violence. Indeed, at different institutions in Liberia, including the Ministry of Gender and Development, the Liberia National Police, as well as the Special Court, the Government of Mrs. Sirleaf has created special programs for the protection of women and children who bore the brunt of the violence of the 14-year civil war.
Another topic raised by Secretary of State Clinton during her January 26 town-hall meeting centered on gender-based violence and recent events, among them the violence in Conakry.
It can be recalled that the Liberian President played a quiet but effective role in finding a peaceful outcome to the political tension that was rising in Guinea, especially after the violence that led to the deaths of hundreds of people and a spate of gender-based violence following a peaceful demonstration in Conakry last September.
Secretary of State Clinton added that President Sirleaf has "been one of the champions on [the issue of gender-based violence] in her political and government career."
The Liberian leader traveled to Guinea and Burkina Faso and, along with leaders of the sub-region, brokered a peace that is so far on course and should lead to the first free and fair democratic elections in the history of Guinea.
Moments after the President announced her intention to seek a second term, as she delivered her Annual Message to the National Legislature, thousands of jubilant supporters took to the streets to welcome the decision.
General and presidential elections are scheduled for 2011, and would mark the first time that Liberians have a chance to carry out a peaceful transition from one elected government to another. Announcing a candidacy that has long been the source of speculation, President Sirleaf declared: "I will be a formidable candidate."
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Friday, January 18, 2013
Pardon the obvious pun, but things are going swimmingly for the Greater Cleveland Aquarium one year after its opening on the west bank of the Flats.
“I can hardly believe it’s been a year. The time has gone by in a blink,” GCA General Manager Tami Brown said during an interview at the aquarium earlier this week.
Built for an estimated $33 million and opened to the public on Jan. 21, 2012, the 70,000-square-foot facility in the basement of the FirstEnergy Powerhouse has thus far welcomed 400,000 paying customers, according to Brown.
She was especially pleased by an estimated 40,000 people electing to purchase annual passes ranging in price from $50 (individual) to $90 (couple) to $130 (family).
“We’re so grateful for the support people have showed for the aquarium and for our staff,” Brown said.
The aquarium will formally celebrate its first birthday on Monday, Martin Luther King Day. To mark the occasion, admission prices will be reduced by $4 across the board to $17.95 (adults), $15.75 (seniors) and $11.95 (children 2 to 12).
There also will be cake, gift bags for children and face painting.
Brown said the aquarium’s traffic pattern was consistent through its first year.
“Each season had its own flow,” Brown said. “When we weren’t busy with guests, we were busy with school groups.
“It’s been steady. We had a great summer crowd because that’s when kids are out of school and people are most available. We’ll still learning about the cycle and what to expect.”
The aquarium has an estimated 5,000 fresh-water and salt-water creatures housed in 35 tanks. Display classifications are Ohio Lakes and Rivers, Exotic Freshwater, Florida Keys, Weird and Wonderful, Coastal, Tropical Reef and Sharks.
“By coming here, you get a great sense of what is in the water not only in our back yard but in the oceans,” Brown said. “I dare you not to become fascinated by what’s in the aquarium. And by becoming fascinated, you become a better steward of our bodies of water.”
Brown said there already have been some additions to the aquarium’s population. Newcomers include sea horses, scorpion fish and jellyfish.
The jellyfish are displayed in an overhead tank installed at the base of one of the Powerhouse’s towering smokestacks.
“With the lights shining down, it’s a crowd-stopper,” Brown said.
The 170-foot SeaTube, centerpiece of the shark exhibit, and the stingray touch pool continue to be visitor favorites.
“We’ve evolved already in our first year and have big plans for the year to come,” Brown said. “By Memorial Day, we’ll change out at least six of the 10 galleries. We’ll have new exhibits and new creatures to check out.”
Throughout the first year of operation, the aquarium staff has solicited input from visitors on every facet of the operation, including the $21.95 adult admission.
“We’ve heard from people that it’s expensive, but if you look at aquarium prices across the nation, it’s at the lower end of that range,” Brown said.
“While we understand the comment, we have a different business model than many other attractions in the region,” Brown added. “Because we are a for-profit, we don’t receive any tax income or donations. We have to earn the money to feed the fish.”
The aquarium’s builder and operator, Marinescape NZ Limited of New Zealand, has a blueprint for expansion.
“In five years, we’ll be a completely different and bigger place,” Brown said.
Greater Cleveland Aquarium
Where: FirstEnergy Powerhouse, 2000 Sycamore Street, Cleveland (west bank of the Flats)
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except Wednesday, with 8 p.m. closing. Last admission one hour before closing.
Admission: $21.95, adults; $19.75, seniors (60 and older); $15.95, children 2 to 12; children under 2, free. Annual passes start at $50
Parking: $3, Monday to Friday; $5, Saturday and Sunday
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Federal Perkins Loan
Perkins Loan (formerly Perkins Loan Program) is a federally funded program providing long-term low-interest (5%) loans
for students who demonstrate financial need. Interest does not accrue on the loan and there
is no repayment while the student is enrolled at least half time. Repayment begins nine
months following graduation, withdrawal, or enrollment below half-time status. The amount
of funds that is available for CSUF students depends upon the repayments of previous CSUF
borrowers and an annual federal allocation to the institution.
What is the Annual Loan Amount?
Up to $5,500 for CSUF Undergraduates, Teacher Credential Candidates.
Up to $8,000 for Graduates and Professional Students.
Is there a Cumulative Borrowing Limit?*
$5,500 per academic year for studies toward a bachelor's degree.
$8,000 for any student who has not completed two academic years of undergraduate work.
Grade 1 & 2: $11,000, Grade 3 & 4 $27,500 for a student who has completed an undergraduate degree.
$60,000 for studies towards professional or graduate degrees. The $60,000 includes amounts
borrowed for undergraduate study.
*The loan agreement may provide that the total payment to an institution by a borrower
be rounded to the next highest whole dollar amount that is a multiple of $5.
What are the Repayment Terms?
Are there Deferments?
- Repayment begins nine (9) months after the "Federal Perkins Loan Program: Perkins
Loan" borrower ceases to be at least a half-time student at this institution or an
approved institution of higher education.
- Ten years is the normal maximum repayment period allowed.
- Five percent (5) per annum is the interest rate charged on the unpaid principal balance.
- Forty dollars per month is the minimum repayment for funds received for the first time on or after October 1, 1992.
- Late fees of up to twenty percent (20 %) of the past due installment will accrue 30
days after each payment due date.
- Borrower is responsible for all collection agency fees, court costs, attorney fees and
other reasonable collection costs incurred in the collection of loans.
- The precise terms of repayment are specified in the promissory note, which will be provided
Deferments for "Federal Perkins Loan Program: Principal need not be paid and interest will not accrue. All deferments must be received during the period for which they apply.
Is it possible to Cancel the Loan?
- While you are attending an approved institution of higher education as at least a half-time
student or as a regular student in a course of study in a graduate fellowship approved
by the Secretary.
- Grad or post-graduate fellowship supported outside the U.S.
- Enrolled and in attendance in a course of study that is part of a rehabilitation-training
program for the disabled.
- A borrower who is serving on active duty or performing qualifying National Guard duty in connection with a war, military operation, or national emergency.
- For any period in which you are engaged in service eligible for cancellation.
- For a period not in excess of three (3) years during which:
- are seeking and unable to find full-time employment.
- have any reason that has caused or will cause you to have
an economic hardship (to be determined by your institution).
- An additional six (6) month grace period will be granted after the completion of any
period of deferment described above.
- Borrowers who are members of National Guard or Armed Forces Reserve, and Members of the Armed Forces who are retired status are eligible for thirteen (13) month Period of deferment if they were enrolled at the time of their activation.
A portion of the loan principal will be cancelled for each full year of service.
- Full-time teaching in an approved elementary or secondary school serving low-income
- Full-time special education teaching including infants, toddlers, children or youth
- Full-time teaching in a field of expertise that is determined by a state education agency to have a shortage of qualified teachers in that state.
- Full-time professional provider of early intervention services in public or non-profit
program under public supervision.
- Full-time provider or supervision of services to high-risk children from low-income
communities and their families.
- Full-time staff members in a "Head Start" program under the Economic Opportunity
Act of 1964 for a full academic year.
- Full-time teacher of math, foreign languages, bilingual education or other field as
authorized by the Secretary.
- Nurse or medical technicians providing health care services.
- As a full-time law enforcement officer or corrections officer for service to local,
State or Federal law enforcement or correction agencies and attorney employed in Federal Public Defender Organizations or Community Defender Organizations.
- Military service in an area that qualifies for special pay under Section 310 of Title
37 of the U.S. Code.
- Death or total permanent disability of the borrower.
- In addition to the above provisions, "Federal Perkins Loan Program: Perkins Loan"
borrowers are entitled to cancellation up to 70% of their "Federal Perkins Loan Program: Perkins
Loan" for service as a volunteer under the Peace Corps or AmeriCorps*VISTA Programs.
- Full time fire fighters with a local state, or Federal fire department or fire district.
- Full time faculty members at a Tribal College or University.
- Librarians with a master's degree in library science who are employed in an elementary or secondary school that qualifies for Title I funding, or in a public library that serves a geographic area that includes one or more Title I schools.
- Full time speech-language Pathologists with a master's degree who are working exclusively with Title I - eligible schools.
Are There Teacher
Borrowers performing teaching services might be eligible for cancellation credit that can
be applied toward payments of loan principal and accrued interest. A teacher is defined
as one who is a professional employee of a school or school system working on a full-time
basis and is devoted to providing classroom instruction or related services in support of
the education program.
Intro to list:
Handicapped Students - Teacher working in classes where the majority of the students
are handicapped and in an institution providing elementary or secondary education as determined
by state law.
Low Income - Teachers or staff members serving in public or nonprofit private elementary
or secondary schools which have a high concentrations of students from low-income families. However,
the school in which teaching service is performed must be included in the listing of schools
having High Concentration of Students From Low-Income Families, which is published in the
Federal Register. (The High Concentrations of Student from Low-Income Families is a document
compiled each year by the federal government from lists submitted by the individual states
of schools designated by those states to have a high concentration of students from low-income
families. Each state, however, is given a quota of schools to be listed and not all schools
having high concentration of students from low-income families will be listed. Only those
schools listed will be considered for special cancellation benefits.)
- Teachers in a low-income educational service agency.
Field of Expertise - Teachers in the field of mathematics, science, foreign languages, or bilingual education or in any field of expertise that is determined by a state education agency to have a shortage of qualified teachers in that state.
Up to 100% of the student loan funds disbursed can be canceled for teaching service performed
as detailed above in the following increments:
- 15% for each of the first two years of teaching service.
- 20% for both the third and fourth years of such service.
- 30% for the fifth year of service.
Preschool - Full-time staff member in a preschool program carried under section 222(a)(1)
of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, as amended, that is operated for a period comparable
to a full school year. Employment must be in a full-time professional capacity to complete
the educational part of the program; the salary must not exceed the salary of a comparable
employee of the local education agency. Funds are eligible for cancellation for 15% of the
eligible funds for each year of service.
Are There Provisions for Military Cancellation?
Funds are eligible for cancellation each full year of military
service performed in an area of hostility (combat zone) or an area of imminent danger that qualifies for special pay.
What About Forbearance?
Principal only will be deferred for a period not to exceed three
years if your annual loan repayment obligation equals or exceeds twenty (20) percent of
your gross income.
Can I Make a Payment in Advance?
Excess payments made on your loan apply to the accrued interest and principal of your loan
unless you designate it as an advance payment of your next installment.
What is the Minimum Payment?
Federal Perkins Loan at the same or other institutions may
be combined for a monthly minimum repayment amount of $40.00 unless the combined loans at
$40.00 per month would not repay the loans in ten years.
What is Loan Default?
- Default is defined as failure to make an installment payment when due or comply with
other terms of the promissory note.
- Defaulting on a loan may result in the account being reported to a credit bureau organization,
sent to a collection agency, ineligibility for further financial aid, withdrawal of campus
services, suit being brought against you, offset of the debt against State Income Tax
Refund, Lottery and your account being turned over to the Federal government for collection.
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Madison WI-based Orbital Technologies Corporation (ORBITEC(TM)) recently conducted several key rocket engine technology demonstrations at its large engine test facility in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Under observation by representatives from both NASA and the US Air Force, ORBITEC successfully completed a series of tests on its Vision flight rocket engine that enhances the maturation of ORBITEC's advanced technology acoustic igniter , vortex/cold wall combustion chamber, and carbon-carbon lightweight nozzle extension technologies. The Vision engine will be flight-demonstrated later this year launched out of Mojave, CA.
These technologies will also be incorporated into ORBITEC's new 30,000 lbf VR-3A Vision engine to address the US Air Force Advanced Upper Stage Engine Program (AUSEP) and potentially all in-space and planetary propulsion systems to include NASA's SLS. ORBITEC was just announced as an award recipient of the NASA SLS NRA for its Advanced Manufacturing Technology.
The VR-3A liquid rocket engine can be used on upper stages of medium- and heavy-class launch vehicles, including the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) family of launch vehicles and would be available to future launch vehicle providers. The VR-3A Vision Engine utilizes innovative, modern manufacturing approaches to reduce costs and improve performance. ORBITEC has assembled a team of experts in various aspects of liquid rocket engine technologies that bring substantial knowledge and experience to enhance scalable performance, reliability, and affordability of the VR-3A engine. The VR-3A Vision engine is a vortex-cooled, liquid propellant rocket engine. This state-of-the-art technology eliminates the need for regenerative cooling of rocket combustion chambers, dramatically reducing the cost of fabrication and resulting in simple, rugged thrust chambers that are not subject to severe thermal fatigue and, as a result, are highly reusable.
"We are very excited about the maturation of our Vision engine components and owe a large thanks to our subs and advisors for their contributions, including ATK, MOOG, Barber Nichols, Concepts NREC, Milwaukee School of Engineering and Boeing," said Paul Zamprelli, ORBITEC Business Director. "We look forward to supplying the Air Force, NASA and Commercial Markets with all of our affordable advanced engines and technologies."
ATK's Advanced Technologies and Products team has been developing affordable carbon-carbon components for aerospace applications. Working with the ORBITEC team, including Dr. Martin Chiaverini and J. Arthur (Chip) Sauer, ATK has applied this technology to develop a lightweight nozzle skirt extension for the VR-3A Vision engine. The design leverages ATK's experience with advanced solid rocket motor nozzles to create the technology for joining and sealing technology the hot carbon-carbon component to an actively cooled metal housing. Included in the design is an oxidation protection system for the flame-side surface of the skirt. Technology demonstrated on this engine is scalable to meet the AUSEP program requirements and other large liquid engines.
These advanced liquid propellant rocket propulsion technologies are expected to revolutionize space transportation delivery for the DOD and NASA and significantly reduce the operational costs of all propulsion systems.
About Orbital Technologies Corporation (ORBITEC)
ORBITEC is a leading high technology development company based in Madison, Wisconsin. ORBITEC offers commercially mature solutions and strong capabilities in five distinct areas: Next Generation Propulsion, Propellant, and Power Systems; Life Support and Environment Control; Bio-based products and production systems; Fire Suppression; ORBITEC has won more than $250 million in contracts to develop state-of-the-art technologies and products. The company has been able to convert research and development initiatives into leading technologies and mature the technologies to valuable products in their respective markets that provide significant cost advantages, superior functionality, and high reliability. ORBITEC is led by an experienced management team with over one hundred years of industry experience.
For more information please contact:
Orbital Technologies Corporation
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Twelve billion times a year, a disc of vanilla cream is stamped between two chocolate wafers to produce the Oreo, the world's most popular manufactured cookie.
An American staple since 1912, the Oreo has a flavor that contrasts sweet cream and crisp chocolate cookies. Its texture is marked by a distinct decorative pattern: a small, circular border hatched with short, shallow lines and an interior ringed with four-leaf clovers. But the cookie, 491 billion of which have sold worldwide, still leaves some details in question.
"Who Made that Oreo Emboss?" read a recent headline on a New York Times blog.
"Bill, Chapel Hill, NC," answered: "My father is William A. Turnier. He worked for the entire 49 years of his working life at Nabisco. In 19 he was assigned the task of producing a new design for the Oreo."
It turns out Bill Turnier of Chapel Hill really is the son of the man who, by nearly all accounts, designed the modern Oreo. To many, Bill Turnier's comment wasn't breaking news. Cookie and design enthusiasts have long credited William A. Turnier as the cookie's artist—and no one else has publicly emerged to claim the title—but they've done so without knowing many details about his life.
Bill Turnier has those details—stories and memories of his dad, a former mail boy-turned-design guru who also put his imprint on the Nutter Butter and the Milk-Bone. And he has the proof: High above a closet door in Turnier's tidy brick home in east Chapel Hill hangs a framed copy of the blueprint for the Oreo's most enduring design, unchanged for nearly 60 years. In the corner, the printed name: "W.A. Turnier"
Nabisco confirms that Turnier worked for the company between 1923 and 1973 as a member of the engineering department where he created dies—basically high-tech cookie cutters—to stamp patterns. The company won't, however, say that he made the design. "We have no way of knowing who came up with the actual visual concept of what each new cookie/ cracker product would look like," wrote an archivist for Kraft Foods Corporate Archives, who wishes to remain unnamed, in an email to the Indy. The blueprint hanging in Chapel Hill leaves the mystery open to interpretation. Nothing appears under the box for "Designed by," but "Drawn by" reveals the name W. A. Turnier penned by hand on July 17, 52. The only other name on the document shows up as the scribbled initials of an overseer in the box for "Checked by."
William Adelbert Turnier was born in Edgewater, N.J., in 1908. As a toddler, he became ill with polio. "That was very significant," Bill Turnier says. "My father dropped out of school at age 16. Kids were mean to him because he had a limp." So Turnier took a job in nearby New York City as a mail boy at Nabisco, which also employed his father, Adelbert.
When Turnier arrived at Nabisco in 1923, the Oreo was already well into production. It launched in 1912 and is believed to have taken its name from the Greek word for mound, the shape the cookie is reported to have briefly mimicked. That's hard to imagine today, when a great deal of the cookie's appeal has to do with its combination of three flat discs—two parts cookie and one part cream—which can be playfully pulled apart and reassembled.
Folklorist Elizabeth Mosby Adler addresses this in her essay from the early 1980s, "The Oreo Syndrome: Creative Eating," which uses the Oreo to deconstruct highly individualized rituals that people develop with certain foods. "Each technique is personal," she writes of the multi-part cookie. "Do you scrape the frosting off with your teeth? Do you carefully try to lift it off, separating the filling from the cookie? Are you a failure when you painstakingly pry the cookie open, only to have the frosting split and stay tightly attached to both sides?"
Noted food writer Colman Andrews of The Daily Meal says the meat of the matter is in the cream filling. "It's the whole point of Oreos," he proposes. "The chocolate cookies, which aren't particularly good as chocolate cookies go, are just the excuse to eat the rest—like the bottom part of muffins, when all anybody really wants are the tops. The white stuff appeals to that part of us that can't resist swiping a finger through the frosting on a cake."
Taste and technique aside, a great deal of the cookie's attention centers on its emboss—the textures and shapes on the chocolate. According to Nicola Twilley of The Atlantic, since its inception the cookie has had three designs. The first image was sparse, the seemingly hand-drawn script for "OREO" appearing alone with the letters R and E slightly taller than the O's. Half circles scalloped the edges, and an X marked each quarter of the cookie.
In 1924, the center was filled with a ring of laurels, two turtledoves and a thicker, more mechanical Oreo font. Then, in 1952, the current cookie was created. Of that design, architecture critic Paul Goldberger wrote in the Times on the cookie's 75th anniversary, "It stands as the archetype of its kind, a reminder that cookies are designed as consciously as buildings, and sometimes better."
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Lafayette, La. (1893-1921)
- The Lafayette gazette. : (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921
- Place of publication:
- Lafayette, La.
- Geographic coverage:
- Chas. A. Thomas and Homer J. Mouton
- Dates of publication:
- Ceased in June 1921?
- Vol. 1, no. 1 (Mar. 11, 1893)-
- Daily (except Sun.) <Sept. 2, 1918>-1921.
- Lafayette (La.)--Newspapers.
- Lafayette Parish (La.)--Newspapers.
- "Official journal of the parish", Sept. 15, 1895-Feb. 28, 1897; official journal of the parish and town of Lafayette, Mar. 6, 1897-July 8, 1905, and <June 22, 1920>; official journal of the town of Lafayette, July 15, 1905-<July 6, 1907>.
- Absorbed by: Daily advertiser (Lafayette, La.). July 1, 1921.
- Archived issues are available in digital format as part of the Library of Congress Chronicling America online collection.
- sn 88064111
- Succeeding Titles:
- Related Links:
- View complete holdings information
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The Lafayette Gazette was a weekly, four-page Democratic newspaper published in Lafayette, Louisiana, from 1893 to 1921. Located 15 miles west of the Atchafalaya Swamp and 35 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico, Lafayette is at the heart of Acadiana, a region settled in the eighteenth century by French colonists driven out of Nova Scotia during the French and Indian War. In the nineteenth century, most immigrants to the region came directly from France or from other parts of the United States. The population of Lafayette (the seat of Lafayette Parish) was about 3,000 in the 1890s. By 1910, the population had more than doubled, due in part to the opening in 1900 of the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette). Several sugar factories appeared around the turn of the century, contributing further to the town’s growth. Natural gas was discovered at nearby Breaux Bridge in 1899, followed by oil at Anse La Butte in 1902; these resources, however, were not fully exploited until the mid-twentieth century.
Homer J. Mouton (1870-1903), a son of former Louisiana lieutenant governor Charles Homer Mouton, founded the Lafayette Gazette in 1893 with Charles A. Thomas. Within year, Mouton had purchased Thomas’s share of the business and become its sole proprietor. Like his father (an officer in the White League, a Reconstruction-era paramilitary group formed to intimidate Republicans and black voters), Mouton strongly supported the doctrine of white supremacy. On economic issues, particularly during the election of 1896, he admitted the soundness of Republican over Democratic policy, but on account of his racist views could not bring himself to support the party of Lincoln. Outside of politics, Mouton’s reporting was moderately progressive. He showed great interest in the advancement of education in Lafayette, frequently reporting on the growth of the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute, local high schools, and the Chautauqua adult education movement. He supported Sunday (or blue) laws, which prohibited the conducting of business on the Sabbath, and devoted a column to the activities of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. An agricultural column sought to educate farm workers. While reporting on the local sugar industry (the mainstay of Lafayette Parish’s economy), Mouton also encouraged farmers to diversify their crops. After 1900, he printed occasional reports on oil exploration in south Louisiana. A “Town and Country” column carried social news from Lafayette and nearby towns, including Carencro, Duson, Broussardville (now Broussard), and Royville (now Youngsville). The United Confederate Veterans, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Attakapas Literary Society, and the Lafayette Baseball Club were among the many social organizations reported on.
Upon Mouton’s death in 1903, the Lafayette Gazette came under the management of his brothers Jerome (1876-1919) and Philip Mouton (1873-1962). In 1921, having been issued as a daily for three years, the paper was absorbed by Lafayette’s Daily Advertiser.
Provided by: Louisiana State University; Baton Rouge, LA
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GADSDEN PURCHASE, The. A tract of land lying partly within the present New Mexico and partly within the present Arizona, purchased from Mexico by the United States in 1854. It embraces 45,535 square miles, is bounded on the north by the Gila River, on the east by the Rio Grande, and on the west by the Colorado, and has an extreme breadth from north to south of 120 miles. For this the United States gave the sum of $10,000,000, while Mexico, besides making the cession, agreed (1) to the abrogation of the eleventh article of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (q.v.), and (2) to the abandonment of all damage claims arising from Indian incursions between 1848 and 1853. The land was regarded as of little use for agricultural purposes, and was purchased largely with a view to settling boundary disputes in that quarter between the two governments and to securing a desirable route for the projected Southern Pacific Railroad. The treaty of sale was negotiated with Santa Anna by James Gadsden (q.v.), then Minister to Mexico, in December, 1853, and, after undergoing modifications in the United States Senate, was finally ratified and proclaimed on June 30, 1854, Congress passing the necessary legislation on August 5th. The sale met with much opposition in Mexico, and caused the banishment of Santa Anna in 1855. For the text of the treaty, consult Haswell, Treaties and Conventions (Washington, 1889). See the map in the article United States, Extension of the Territory of the.
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If you've already planted corn, odds are you didn't plant it 4 inches deep. But if it's dry in your area, did you go deeper than 2 inches, often considered the standard for corn seeding depth? Or did you gamble for rain and go even shallower than 2 inches?
Precision Planting-sponsored studies in cooperation with Indiana Prairie Farmer and the Tippecanoe County Extension Service, with help from the crew at the Purdue University Throckmorton Research Center south of Lafayette, Ind., over the past two years said there was no significant difference in emergence or yield for corn planted 3 inches deep vs. 2 inches deep. That wasn't true of corn planted only one –inch deep, however. Two years ago the stand was significantly thinner and yields significantly lower for corn planted one -inch deep compared to corn planted at two, three and four- inch depths.
Still, farmers give me funny looks after reading about planting corn 4 inches deep. And perhaps they're right- if they planted their corn at that depth, maybe it would all rot. It hasn't in the plots so far, but the kicker is that we haven't been able to plant before mid-May, into cooler, more challenging soil conditions.
We hope to add to that part of the information base this year. A study is planned and hopefully corn will be planted soon, if it's not already, to determine what happens with such deep depths early in the season.
If modern hybrids really do have the ability to emerge from deeper depths even under cool conditions, then it would make one decision easier. If you were on the fence about how deep to plant, you could err on the side of going too deep rather than too shallow. The replicated data already says you can do that, and perhaps should do that, if planting in mid-May or later into decent soil conditions.
Fickle late spring and early summer weather patterns with thunderstorms and hot temperatures can play havoc with seed planted at shallow depths, which may or may not be in enough moisture to germinate without more moisture. That's what happened in our replicated study in 2010. Some seed planted an inch deep apparently sprouted, then couldn't keep going until rain came. The one-inch planting depth ran two lead stages and about 20 bushels of yield potential behind all other planting depths all season long in 2010. The difference wasn't pronounced last year.
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May 21, 2012
So you just graduated! Yay! You have your cap and gown...and a mountain of student loan debt!! Wait. OK, so there is more to this whole graduating thing than you expected. But you can simplify your loans and pay them off more rapidly. Here’s how:
- Consolidate your loans for simplicity – You may not get a lower interest rate but you will get the convenience of having just one payment to make. Cutting down on managing multiple accounts makes it easier to avoid late fees and keep up with due dates. For more information check out www.finaid.com.
- Check to see if you qualify for the Obama Special Direct consolidation program – This new program started in January 2012 and is available through June 2012. If you qualify, you can consolidate your loans and get a 0.25% reduction in interest rate. You can become eligible for another 0.25% interest rate reduction if the loan is repaid through an automatic debit system. For more information on the program and to see if your loans qualify visit this site.
- Make additional payments – By making additional debt payments every month you may be able to pay off your student loan a lot faster. For example, if your student loan balance is $10,000 with an interest rate of 6.8% and minimum payment of $115 per month, it will take you 10 years to pay off the loan. If you add another $100 to your monthly payment for a total of $215 per month it will take 4.6 years to pay off the loan. Also, by paying $215.00 per month instead of the calculated payment of $115.08, you save $2,169.12 in interest charges.
- Get someone else to pay – I like this one. There a lot of occupations now offering to pay off your student loans as a recruiting tool. Programs such as AmeriCorps or Teach for America also offer grants to help you pay off your loans. Teaching in a low-income school may also qualify you for loan forgiveness.
- And don't forget: If you meet income requirements, you can deduct up to $2,500 per year in interest on any loans used for higher education.
When dealing with debt, the best thing you can do is educate yourself about your options. Do your research and then work on paying your student loans down step by step. Soon you’ll be able to pay them off and focus on the bright future ahead of you.
Brittney Castro is not affiliated with MadeWomenMag.com. Brittney A. Castro is a registered representative with and securities offered through LPL Financial, Member FINRA/SIPC. California Insurance License #0F33895. The opinions voiced in this material are for general information only and are not intended to provide specific advice or recommendations for any individual.
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I know a Mac volume can be renamed... obviously.
But if you look at the output of
diskutil you will see that a volume also has a "device name" that corresponds to the name it was given when it was formatted:
diskutil info /dev/disk0s1 | grep 'Media Name'
Running it on your root volume you will probably get "Macintosh HD" (or else something like "Untitled 1" if that's how you left it when formatting in Disk Utility). It seems this doesn't change when you rename the volume after the fact.
Why do these different names for the same volume exist?
Does anything even refer to this hidden name?
Can it be changed?
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Kuwaiti police use stun grenades to disperse protesters
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwaiti police used smoke and stun grenades to scatter hundreds of protesters outside the capital on Tuesday after they gathered to demand the dissolution of parliament and fresh elections, witnesses said.
An initial demonstration, part of a series of marches against what activists regard as a rubber-stamp parliament, took place in the east of the oil-producing Gulf Arab state without intervention by police.
But security forces later broke up a group of protesters who tried to march towards a highway, witnesses said.
Kuwait bans public gatherings of more than 20 people without a permit and demonstrations outside pre-assigned areas are often forcibly routed by police citing security reasons.
Protest marches have occurred more frequently in the U.S.-allied country since the ruling emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, used emergency powers in October to change the electoral system. He said the amendments were aimed at fixing a flawed voting system and would ensure political stability.
Opposition politicians, who include tribal figures and Islamists, say the new voting system was tailored to usher in a government-friendly parliament, and they boycotted elections on December 1 in protest.
A demonstration on the eve of the parliamentary vote calling for a boycott drew tens of thousands of Kuwaitis, in what organizers described as the largest march in the country's history. Since the election, the number of protesters taking part in marches organized through social media has dwindled.
A long-running power struggle between members of the elected parliament and a cabinet, appointed by a prime minister chosen by the emir, has held up reforms, stalled investment and prompted the dissolution of a series of assemblies.
Kuwait has the most open political system in the Gulf Arab region and a parliament with legislative powers that can question government ministers over policy.
However political parties are banned and the al-Sabah family, which has ruled Kuwait for more than 250 years, retains the main levers of power. Top portfolios such as the interior, defense and foreign ministries are held by al-Sabah relatives.
(Reporting by Mahmoud Harby; Writing by Sylvia Westall; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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This purified ABfinity™ recombinant rabbit anti-SAA1 monoclonal antibody is specific to mouse SAA1 protein. Serum amyloid A (SAA) proteins are involved in the acute phase responses; these are the immediate early host responses to inflammation. Rabbit anti-SAA1 monoclonal antibody is used in western blotting applications.
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• Host Species and Isotype: The host species and isotype of the antibody is rabbit IgG.
• Clone ID of Monoclonal Antibody (mAb): The rabbit anti-SAA1 monoclonal antibody clone is D9H4L41
• Reactivity: Reacts with mouse Serum Amyloid A (SAA1).
• Product Size: Rabbit anti-SAA1 monoclonal antibody is available in a 100 µg size.
Serum Amyloid A (SAA) proteins comprise a family of small (12-14 kDa, 104-112 amino acid residues), differentially expressed proteins that are highly conserved among vertebrates. SAA proteins are involved in the acute phase responses; these are the immediate early host responses to inflammation. During the acute phase, circulating SAA levels are increased by 100-1000 fold, reaching concentrations of up to one milligram per milliliter. Liver is the major site of SAA synthesis, although extra-hepatic expression has also been reported. Mouse SAA gene family maps to chromosome 7. In mouse, five SAA genes and four protein products have been identified: mouse SAA1, SAA2, SAA3 are the acute phase isoforms, SAA5 is constitutively expressed, and SAA4 is a pseudogene. SAAs belong to a category of acute phase proteins that also includes C-reactive protein (CRP), haptoglobin, ceruloplasmin, complement components C3 and C4, a1-acid glycoprotein, a1-proteinase inhibitor, and fibrinogen.
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Everywhere you turn nowadays, you hear about the cloud—that it’s a major step in the evolution of the Web and will change the way you develop, deploy and manage applications. But not everyone has figured out how the cloud really applies to them. This is especially true for those with medium-to-large infrastructures and relatively flat usage consumption—where the capitalized cost is beneficial compared to the operational cost of the cloud. However, if your infrastructure is on the small side or you have a dynamic consumption model, the cloud—Windows Azure—is a no-brainer. Moreover, for shops heavy in process, where standing up a development environment is like sending a bill to Capitol Hill, Windows Azure can provide a great platform for rapid prototyping.
It’s with those thoughts in mind that I want to point out some things about Windows Azure that I hope might spur you into putting the magazine down and putting some Windows Azure up.
For Windows Azure development, the tooling and the integration with Visual Studio has been pretty good—and is quickly evolving into great. You can find the latest set of tools in the Windows Azure Developer Center at bit.ly/xh1CAE.
As Figure 1 shows, you can select the type of roles and language you want for a new project. No matter what you choose, you can immediately take advantage of the tools integration. In my experience, the three features you’ll find most helpful are the development emulators, runtime debugging and integrated deployment.
Figure 1 Creating a New Project
The Windows Azure development environment consists of two emulators that allow you to easily run and debug your applications on your development machine before deployment (see Figure 2). The Windows Azure Compute Emulator is what lets you run your service locally for testing and debugging. With the Storage Emulator, you can test the storage locally.
Figure 2 The Windows Azure Compute Emulator and Storage Emulator Running
When the time is right, deployment to the Staging or Production environment is just a right-click away. The tools take care of packaging, moving and deploying the roles within your solution, and progress is reported back via Visual Studio, as Figure 3 shows.
Figure 3 Deployment Progress for Windows Azure as Reported Back Through Visual Studio
Early on, a big problem with Windows Azure was that you could’ve developed some code that worked perfectly locally, but failed or had terrible performance once deployed. Luckily, the introduction of IntelliTrace and profiling helped alleviate these issues. You can enable these features when you publish your solution, as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4 IntelliTrace and Profiling Settings in Windows Azure
For debugging hard-to-reproduce errors, especially those that seem to show up only in the production environment, there’s nothing quite as good as IntelliTrace. IntelliTrace essentially records the execution of your application, which you can then play back. For example, once you deploy the roles with IntelliTrace enabled, you can view the IntelliTrace logs and step through exactly what happened at what time (see Figure 5).
Figure 5 Debugging Windows Azure with IntelliTrace in Visual Studio
Once you’ve stepped into the thread, you can walk though any existing code to see what was changing during execution. When your site is bug-free (or as bug-free as it’s going to get) and you’re ready to try to identify performance issues, you can turn off IntelliTrace and turn on profiling. As you saw in Figure 4, you can select the type of profiling to do. For example, if you’re wondering what the call time is on individual methods, you might select Instrumentation. This method collects detailed timing data that’s useful for focused analysis and for analyzing input/output performance issues. It’s also useful for gathering detailed timing information about a section of your code and for understanding the impact of input and output operations on application performance. You can then walk through the site to execute the code base until you’re satisfied, at which point you’ll choose to “View Profiling Report” to see an instance in Server Explorer. Visual Studio will fetch the information and put together a report like the one depicted in Figure 6.
Figure 6 A Profiling Report
The report shows CPU usage over time, as well as the “Hot Path,” which alone might help you focus your efforts. If you’d like to dig a little further, however, a direct link in the Hot Path section lets you see the individual timing for each function. The main page also displays a nice graph indicating the functions that do the most individual work. Clearly, having IntelliTrace and profiling available directly from Visual Studio is a huge benefit, not only for productivity but also for product quality.
If you’ve been paying even marginal attention over the past few years, you know that one of the key promises of the cloud is the ability to scale on demand. For compute virtual machines (VMs), you can often just pay more for a larger role and get more resources. For Microsoft SQL Azure, though, the optimizations are a little more … well … manual.
It’s great to know that deploying to the cloud gives you the ability to scale the farm, but a more immediate question is often, “What size role do I need?” The answer is that it depends on traffic and what you’re doing. You can take an educated guess based on your past experience and on the specifications of the role sizes, as shown in Figure 7.
Figure 7 Virtual Machine Size Specifications
(6,144MB is reserved for system files)
One of these configurations is likely to meet your needs, especially in combination with the rest of the role instances in the farm. Take note that all attributes increase, including the available network bandwidth, which is often a secondary consideration for folks. Note also that you don’t really have to guess. Instead you can turn on profiling as discussed previously and collect actual metrics across the instances to assess performance. Based on profiling results, you can adjust the VM size and collect profiling information again until the sweet spot is reached. For edge conditions, you make a best-fit choice or find an alternative solution. For example, if your site serves a lot of content and isn’t very dynamic, you might choose one of the higher role specs or move to the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network.
Now for some mixed news: SQL Azure does not always give the performance you might get with your own private instance. You will, however, get consistent performance. There are a few things you can do to get the best possible performance and runtime behavior:
Over the years, one of the biggest mistakes I’ve seen people make when optimizing a site is to just increase the size of the hardware without doing anything else. Sometimes this helped a little, but as soon as load really spiked, the problem would come back with symptoms worse than ever, because the additional horsepower had the effect of making more things conflict more quickly and not actually resolving or mitigating the real issue. So, when I suggest repeating step 2, I’m not kidding. You can’t just throw more hardware at the problem and hope it isn’t a deadlocking issue. The SQL Azure Profiler tool can help you with this effort. I suggest you start with the optimization on your local instance prior to deploying to the cloud, and then use SQL Azure Profiler to help identify and make any adjustments needed once in the cloud.
As a final note, one strategy for increasing scale or size of a SQL Azure database is federation, commonly referred to as “data sharding,” which is a technique of horizontally partitioning data across multiple physical servers to provide application scale-out. This reduces individual query times, but adds the complexity of scattering the queries to target instances and gathering the results together once they’re complete. For example, you’ll get the benefit of running Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) operations and smaller datasets, and in parallel. The tax you’ll pay is having to broker the access across the shards. That being said, some of the largest sites employ sharding, prefetching and caching to manage queries, and you use those sites every day without much complaint about performance.
Early on it was not always easy to know what was going on in a Windows Azure deployment, but those days are long gone. Not only does Microsoft provide an ever-evolving management portal, but a management pack for System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) brings the management of your entire infrastructure into one place.
Windows Azure writes all of its diagnostics data out to a storage container. You can consume the logs directly and generate reports or take custom actions. However, you can also use SCOM to monitor Windows Azure applications. Those responsible for managing the infrastructure of an enterprise are inclined to be conservative and want full-featured tools for monitoring. Using a familiar solution like SCOM will help address the reservations that the infrastructure management team might have about deploying a cloud solution. SCOM lets you monitor the health of all Windows Azure deployments and enables you to drill down into Hosted Services, Roles and Role Instances. Built into the pack are alerts for services and performance, but a key benefit is that you can create your own rules and alerts relating to your deployments and the data being collected. An additional nicety is that rules for grooming the logs are built-in. As usual, if the logs aren’t pruned along the way, they can grow to be unmanageable. To help with that, the management pack comes with predefined rules:
• .NET Trace Grooming
• Performance Counter Grooming
• Event Log Grooming
These can be enabled to make sure your space usage doesn’t get out of hand, but you’ll need to balance that against the number of transactions to perform the tasks. You can download the System Center Monitoring Pack for Windows Azure Applications at bit.ly/o5MW4a.
Very often when a new technology comes along, you have to go through a fair amount of education and experience to become proficient: think about moving to Windows Presentation Foundation/Silverlight from Windows Forms, choosing whether to use ASP.NET or SharePoint, or even something more foundational such as deciding between procedural and object-oriented development. This is the very thing about the cloud, especially with the tooling available: If you’re already writing sites and services, you can continue to make the most of your .NET skills and investments and move straight to the cloud.
This doesn’t mean there aren’t some best practices to learn, but not much more than you’d already be doing to be thorough in your design and development. And, when you’re ready, the platform provides many additional features that can be learned and leveraged to make your solution secure and robust, and have the best performance without having to write the features or frameworks yourself.
Start now. That’s my advice. Go to azure.com, get the tools and get started. Use Windows Azure in your projects to prototype. Use it in your projects to provide otherwise hard-to-requisition resources. Use it for whatever you want, but use it. The cloud is the future we will all live in, and it will be as ubiquitous as running water and electricity. Cloud technologies are evolving to expand computing beyond the conventional to a model that will deliver computing power where it’s needed, when it’s needed and the way it’s needed. That’s something you want to be a part of.
Joseph Fultz is a software architect at Hewlett-Packard Co., working as part of the HP.com Global IT group. Previously he was a software architect for Microsoft, working with its top-tier enterprise and ISV customers defining architecture and designing solutions.
Thanks to the following technical expert for reviewing this article: Bruno Terkaly
I can give you one reason why I am not working with Azure yet, even though I would love to: HIPAA. As soon as they have solutions for data at rest encryption I will be all over it. Until then I can't do it no matter how secure the backend is otherwise.
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The new NCCN Guidelines for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia were presented at the NCCN 17th Annual Conference on March 17, 2012.
FORT WASHINGTON, PA — The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) has issued its first ever NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®) for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). The new guidelines were presented by the co-chairs of the NCCN ALL Panel, Joseph C. Alvarnas, MD, Director of Medical Quality and Associate Director in the Division of Hematology and Hemapoietic Cell Transplantation at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center and Patrick A. Brown, MD, Associate Professor of Oncology and Pediatrics/Director of the Pediatric Leukemia Program, at The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins.
"We felt that it was very important to develop a clear standard of treatment for adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)," said Dr. Brown. "We now have consistent data demonstrating that young adults - those between the ages of 15 and 39 - with ALL benefit significantly from treatments inspired by those used for children with ALL. The main reason for this is that younger adult patients can tolerate the intensive therapies that we use for our pediatric patients, and this translates into better outcomes. We hope that these new NCCN Guidelines will give oncologists the information they need to ensure that young adult ALL patients receive these intensive therapies."
Dr. Brown noted that there had been considerable cross-over and discussion between his group and the panel which just released the new NCCN Guidelines for Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Oncology headed by Peter F. Coccia, MD, of the UNMC Eppley Cancer Center at The Nebraska Medical Center. Both the NCCN ALL and AYA Guidelines emphasize the importance of providing expert, comprehensive supportive care and the importance of increasing the enrollment of young adult patients into clinical trials.
The NCCN Guidelines also address treatment for older ALL patients, a group that Dr. Brown said is often more difficult to treat successfully than the younger patients. This is in large part due to the higher frequency of poor-risk cytogenetic abnormalities observed among older adults with ALL. One such abnormality is a translocation that results in the Philadelphia chromosome (Ph), which leads to the formation of the BCR-ABL fusion gene. Given the poor prognosis associated with Ph-positive ALL, the NCCN Guidelines initially stratify patients (both in AYA and adults) based on the presence of this abnormality. Regardless of age group, patients with Ph-positive ALL benefit from treatment regimens that incorporate BCR-ABL-targeting tyrosine kinase inhibitors.
The role of allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) in treating ALL was also discussed. The NCCN Guidelines recommend allogeneic SCT as a consolidation option in patients with Ph-positive ALL, although the optimal role of SCT in this setting is yet to be defined. In addition, consolidation with allogeneic SCT is strongly recommended in patients with Ph-negative ALL with high-risk features. Evaluation of minimal residual disease can provide further risk stratification following initial induction therapy, and may help to identify patients who could potentially benefit from allogeneic SCT. Older adult patients, however, may not be appropriate candidates for SCT or intensive therapy options. Dr. Alvarnas discussed that in older adults, presence of comorbid factors such as organ dysfunction, limits the use of intensive regimens, which significantly impacts on the outcomes for this population. Dr. Brown pointed to the emergence of novel immune based therapies as new hope for increased remission rates and longer disease-free survival in older ALL patients.
Both Dr. Brown and Dr. Alvarnas emphasized the need for adequate central nervous system (CNS)-directed treatment to prevent CNS relapse for all patients with ALL, and the importance of comprehensive supportive care measures tailored to the needs of each patient.
"ALL is the rarest form of leukemia in adults," Dr. Brown said. "Its treatment poses many challenges and requires expertise and experience in a number of medical disciplines and supportive care areas. We recommend that ALL patients be referred to specialized treatment centers, and if possible, enrolled on clinical trials."
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®), a not-for-profit alliance of 23 of the world's leading cancer centers, is dedicated to improving the quality and effectiveness of care provided to patients with cancer. Through the leadership and expertise of clinical professionals at NCCN Member Institutions, NCCN develops resources that present valuable information to the numerous stakeholders in the health care delivery system. As the arbiter of high-quality cancer care, NCCN promotes the importance of continuous quality improvement and recognizes the significance of creating clinical practice guidelines appropriate for use by patients, clinicians, and other health care decision-makers. The primary goal of all NCCN initiatives is to improve the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of oncology practice so patients can live better lives. For more information, visit NCCN.org.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In the dead of winter, the air outside swings past zero on the Fahrenheit scale around the Anchorage area. Further north around Fairbanks, it gets even colder. But none of this dissuades tourists who see this as a time to take in some of the attractions that have built Alaska’s tourism reputation.
Deb Hickok, president of the Fairbanks Convention and Visitors Bureau, said Fairbanks remains a big draw to visitors in the winter despite subarctic temperatures. She said the big attraction there is the Aurora borealis, while other Alaskan-style activities like dog-mushing and ice fishing also draw tourists into the cold.
Such attractions have been packing the customers into the Chena Hot Springs Resort in Fairbanks for years. The resort’s Marketing Director Denise Ferree said the top draw is the hot springs themselves. Of course, Aurora borealis viewing is also at the top of the list, flowed by the Aurora Ice Museum, sled dog rides, flying snow machine tours and cross country skiing.
Free geothermal renewable energy tours are also bringing in a lot of interested groups, including students.
The northern lights in Alaska have still remained a unique business boost for much of the state. Hickok said Japanese tourists are coming in with really strong charter flight numbers to see the northern lights.
“The proprietor of the resort, Bernie Karl, always says about viewing the Aurora — ‘you can’t see them if you are not here,’” Ferree said.
Alaska’s terrain is also keeping visitors coming to the rest of the state. For example, skiing, snowshoeing, dog sledding and snow machine tours, not to mention the Spring Carnival in April and the Roundhouse Museum, have helped build Alyeska Resort into a staple of Girdwood.
Anchorage also holds popular tourist attractions in the winter, namely with the Iditarod, Tour of Anchorage and Fur Rendezvous.
Many resorts are gearing up for an anticipated busy winter. Their personnel contend that customers keep coming in during these months. A majority of these customers are domestic but the resorts are seeing more and more customers from overseas.
Ferree said a lot of visitors from Japan, Taiwan, Korea and China come between December and March to see the aurora borealis. The resort is also seeing increased visitors from Australia and Germany. Domestically, Chena’s largest visitor groups are from California, Arizona, Florida and Texas.
International tourism has grown so much that the resort has a designated vice president of Japanese marketing who partners with Japanese wholesalers and visits the country twice a year to set up groups.
“We are fortunate to have our Asian visitors sustain us during our busy season which is winter from mid December to the first part of April. We are an anomaly for the state of Alaska in that summer is our ‘slow’ season from May to mid-August and winter is our busiest season,” Ferree said.
Alyeska Resort spokeswoman Sandy Choi said they’re getting strong visitation from both the east and west American coasts as well as Europe. She said there are definitely more domestic visitors but that guests from predominant ski countries like the United Kingdom and Germany are up. She said there are more people from Switzerland and France in recent years too.
“They come to us because of the skiing,” she said.
Girdwood has a new addition this ski season: a season-wide itinerary of skiing and snowboarding professionals, courtesy of the adventure company EpicQuest, which operates out of Alyeska Resort. Customers will be accompanied by reigning free-skiing world champion Jess McMillan one week or ski film regular Ian McIntosh another.
Nine different experts from around the world plus Chugach powder guides will lead guests through their week-long, heli-skiing expeditions.
Famed ski photographer Scott Markewitz will also return to EpicQuest for a week this year to teach skiers how to capture their best moments.
EpicQuest has brought in renowned professionals before but this will be the first time they will be on-board continuously throughout the season from February through April.
“It’s something we always wanted to do,” said Chris Owens, EpicQuest co-founder and vice president of marketing and brand development. He said it can take quite a bit of time to build a roster of professionals.
“You’re not going to find another program like this in heli-skiing,” Owens said.
The ski business itself for the area is expected to increase. Choi said business has been increasing and the resort sees just more than 200,000 skier visits in the winter.
Owens said the ski business went down several years ago, estimating the economy discouraged such trips. He said it took a while for people to get back out there but business has been slowly increasing.
At the same time tourists explore what a last frontier winter is about, many Alaskans themselves decide it’s the season to take a trip out of the cold and the dark. Alaska Airlines spokeswoman Marianne Lindsey said California and Mexico are also popular winter destinations for Alaskans. Still, Hawaii is leading the pack here, particularly Honolulu.
During the first 2011 quarter Alaska Air had roughly 160 passengers flying daily between Alaska and Hawaii.
Alaska Airlines started flying between Alaska and Hawaii Dec. 9, 2007. Now, the airline has seven weekly nonstop roundtrip flights between Anchorage and Honolulu and three weekly nonstop roundtrip flights between Anchorage and Maui.
Alaska Air also has flights to Honolulu, Maui, the Big Island and Kauai via connections in Seattle.
Alaska Airlines acquired the customer base for Anchorage-based Hawaiian Vacations in 2008. Since then, it started offering its own packages via Alaska Airlines Vacations. There are still other carrier options between Alaska and Hawaii.
Hawaii has had 59,700 visitors from Alaska between January and November 2011, a 17 percent increase over the same period in 2010, according to the Hawaii Tourism Authority.
Some Alaska residents do choose to see more of their home state while on vacation. But this is not what such resorts bank on.
“Although we do have a good in-state business, and provided an Alaska Resident Rate year-round, our larger groups and visitors are from outside the state either domestically or internationally,” Ferree said.
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The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation has awarded CSTEEP a $175,000 grant to continue helping six metropolitan school districts assess their teaching and testing methods. In 1996, the foundation provided funds to launch the project, through which the center has provided technical assistance to public schools in Minneapolis; Long Beach, Calif.; San Diego; Corpus Christi, Texas; Louisville, Ky.; and Chattanooga, Tenn.
"We're helping them use the information they have on student achievement better," said Prof. Walter Haney (SOE), a CSTEEP researcher.
Also, the Ford Foundation has awarded $166,000 to an ongoing CSTEEP effort to monitor current events in educational testing. The grant was used to finance the creation of a Web site for the Consortium for Equity in Standards and Testing, which includes CSTEEP. The consortium advocates improvements in standardized testing to ensure fairness for students from racial and linguistic minorities.
Boisi Professor of Education George Madaus, the project director, said that the success CSTEEP has enjoyed in the competition for foundation grants - which has included $2 million in the past nine years from the Ford Foundation alone - shows the esteem in which the center is held in education circles.
"I think the track record of funding indicates people respect and trust what we do, enough to support it financially," Madaus said.
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Tuesday April 7, 2009
Colony of artists in Kuantan
NINE artists seeking a place for an art gallery have finally formed an artist house cum gallery in Taman Bukit Setongkol, Kuantan.
The group’s leader Abdullah Jones said the colony called Komuniti Pelukis Rajawali would be a haven for the artists to concentrate on their projects.
“There are a number of young and senior artists in Kuantan, but they are scattered around and hardly meet to exchange ideas, share experiences and discuss their paintings,” said Abdullah.
This realisation led him to meet Abdullah Hamdan, Abi Wafi and Amin Daud and gave birth to the idea that they needed a place to work as a group, said Abdullah.
“By renting a house, we are free to work at leisure.
“Sometimes, we forget to sleep because we are consumed by work and to meet deadlines for orders,” Abdullah said the colony attracted part-time artists.
“The part-timers, Najihah Lee Abdullah, Radzuan Mat Piah, Badrul Nizam and Nurhashimah Husain, are art teachers.
“It is also a place for them to store their work and learn first-hand on our techniques, which they can share with their students,” Abdullah said.
Because of this relationship, the artists had been to schools to speak as guests.
“We also set up art tuition classes for students at RM20 per session on Saturdays.
“The fee is nominal as we use the money to buy equipment,” he said, adding that there were 20 students.
At times, they organised workshops for those sitting for the SPM and STPM examinations, he added.
The gallery has 200 art pieces of various mediums and themes.
“We have been invited to exhibit our works at a commercial building in Indera Mahkota and at Hyatt Kuantan in May. Both events are organised by The Women’s Institute,” Abdullah said.
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Criminy, but Hitchens is brilliant, of course, but how did he become so at such a young age? Here, on C-SPAN from 1990, he, Brian, and Richard Critchfield discuss America and Britain after their recently-published and topical books.
One awesome point by Hitchens reminds me of a view about political parties that was discussed in one of my mid-1970s Political Science classes. The view was that a two-party system was effective at assisting voting choices among the public and that consistently voting along party lines was not a bad thing. The alternate view is the one championed on the streets in the U.S., and it is safe to say that we were all fed the same pablum notion (if from the press rather than from our parents) that “voting for the man” or “voting for the man, not the Party” was a virtue, and that voting along Party lines meant you were a simpleton, a lemming.
I grew up in a family where anything other than straight ticket voting was unthinkable, not merely out of loyalty, but more from the knowledge that your Party really was the one whose decisions, day-in-day-out, were most aligned with your views. This had been the orientation for several generations. Through all the Party twists and turns, adjustments and realignments. But then came the 50s, followed by the 60s. With somehow, the Democrats landing on the side of freedom, freedom of expression, freedom from the tyranny of “one-right-thinking”. In my view.
My grandfather was a Republican of the old cloth. The Party opposed to slavery. Simplistic, yes, but generally true. And the converse, about the Democratic Party, is also, and as generally, true. My grandfather, a State Senator in the Commonwealth of Kentucky (tell me again why they call them State Senators if Kentucky is a Commonwealth?) and the southeastern corner of the Commonwealth, in particular, for around 30 years, brought roads into that holy corner, sponsored legislation for free textbooks so that all children had access to education, and supported much other legislation that helped the common man, the heretofore uneducated or their children.
But somewhere (my job isn’t to know all the facts about how, but if you are, feel FREE to school me in the comments because I know I need to learn it), the Parties shifted, and my little corner of my Grandfather’s blood legacy finds itself at home today in the Democratic Party. I myself, as I love to hear Hitchens say, find it insulting to be considered that far right. I find it amusing to think that it is extreme to want corporations so radically transformed that it will require generations to redesign a smooth system. But that’s just me. Smile.
Chances are, if my brilliant father were alive, he could explain to me why he was still a Republican, much in the same way that I can follow Hitchens’ logic about the war on Iraq, and understand that he might be onto something, although I may not agree. Maybe Dad could explain to me why his Republicanism was an approach that could work. But since there’s no Republican alive with the mental faculties of my deceased father, I’m afraid I’m doomed to die unable to hear across that ethical divide.
I’m not sure that I would be up to the task of communicating to my father, in the same way, about why the Democratic Party of today best represents the values of my Grandfather. I think if I skip past my father, however, to my grandfather, or even to my grandfather’s father, I think I might more easily converse and would find a Republican who understood why I was a Democrat and would, if living today, switch Parties.
So, to the original point, that we have been fed this line that voting straight ticket is bad, and voting-for-the-man is good. Here’s what I think: someone likes the Party lines to be less than clear, to keep us confused, so that we really never quite know what we’re getting on Election Day, so that we’re not sure if it weren’t our fault when certain policies are championed by our chosen, so that maybe next Election Day, we won’t be that motivated to vote, because it didn’t work out so well the last time. You know what I mean.
Remind me. What’s wrong with having Parties with clear principles stated clearly?
I still remember that day in Poli Sci, when I first heard the concept that Party Politics is a useful tool. And find myself this morning hearing Hitchens speak to that topic, in the context of a comparative of the UK and USA, in his casual, youthful elegance.
Loaded by onto YouTube by The Film Archive. The transcription beneath the video begins at 7:55, but as, usual, I recommend listening to all and then going to the Film Archive to watch the entire program.
What I think I most miss by living here – and I agree with the lady that the British committee system is no good and the American hearings are a lot better – is simply the idea of the word “partisan.” I can’t stand the fact that in American political discussion, the word “bipartisan” is used to mean automatically very good, everyone trying to agree, everyone wanting to think and say the same thing, and that one of the worst things you can say of somebody is, they’re taking a partisan view, as if, if we go on like this, before we know where we are, we’ll have two parties. In other words, a one-party state mentality enforced in a sort of consensus talk and babble. . .
- Christopher Hitchens
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When food that we eat could potentially kill us, it’s tragic. Such is the case of peanut allergies in U.S. children that has become a great public health concern because of its increasing numbers and severity. According to medical studies, at least 18% of kids are allergic to food and 3 million American children have allergies to peanuts or tree nuts.
Food allergies in infants may present as a severe rash, bloody stool, poor weight gain, swelling or vomiting. These allergies are usually acquired during the 1st or 2d year of life. Allergies to cow’s milk and hen’s eggs are typically outgrown during childhood or adolescence, whereas peanut and tree nut allergies are more likely to continue into adulthood. The danger with peanuts is that it can cause severe breathing problems and a sudden drop in blood pressure which could potentially cause death.
Eating peanuts during pregnancy has always been controversial. Some schools of thought state that pregnant women should avoid eating peanuts to decrease the chance of allergies in their children. Other studies felt that there was no association with peanut allergies and a pregnant women’s diet.
Well now there’s a recent medical study from Denmark that states something completely different. According to the study, pregnant women should actually eat peanuts to reduce the risk of peanut allergies in their unborn.
According to the study, 60,000 pregnant women were evaluated along with their children until age 7 to look at the association between eating peanuts and the development of allergies. The results were surprising. There was a 25% decrease in the number of babies that developed allergies by 18 months and a 30% decrease by age 7. They concluded that pregnant women eating peanuts one or more times a week reduced the risk of the development of childhood peanut allergies. The researchers were bold enough to state that pregnant women should not avoid eating peanuts.
So, should U.S. pregnant women eat peanuts weekly to avoid future childhood allergies? It’s certainly food for thought.
November 10, 2010
Approximately one percent of our US population is affected by peanut allergies whose symptoms range from mild itching to full blown asthma and life-threatening shock. The good news is that 25 percent of children grow “out of it” by age 7 but that leaves the remaining 75 percent at risk for future complications. Peanut allergies fall into three categories: (1) those who inherited it from family genes; (2) those who obtained it through direct contact and (3) those who obtain it through the environment. When medical studies documented that babies can become sensitized (that is, capable of having an allergic reaction) either late in the third trimester or immediately at birth, the most common response was for the pregnant mom to avoid eating foods that might trigger this reaction. Mothers and fathers with allergies, siblings with a history of asthma were considered a high-risk as was their unborn child or sibling.
According to medical studies, pregnant mothers who avoided eating peanuts reduced the risk of their offspring’s allergies but did not prevent it. In another study, over 14,000 preschool children were studied and it was determined that despite their mothers’ consumption of peanuts, there was no association with peanut allergies. Therefore eating a peanut butter sandwich while pregnant will not harm your baby. At present, the American Academy of Pediatrics does not recommend a peanut-free diet during pregnancy or while breastfeeding to prevent peanut allergies. If you have avoided eating peanuts, are you compromising your unborn baby’s development? Probably not because peanuts are not considered an essential part of the American diet.
At present, the jury is still out regarding treatment methods for preventing peanut allergies but at least it has been established that the consumption of peanut butter by a pregnant woman has no bearing on the cause or effect of her offsprings’ allergies.
Do you know how to anticipate and manage the unexpected events that could occur during your pregnancy? You will if you purchase The Smart Mother’s Guide to a Better Pregnancy available on Amazon.com or wherever books are sold.
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A Map? On Flickr? Is that a question?
Not quite, but, it's OK. Yes! We've added a fabulous map of the world to Flickr. You can geotag your photos (in Organizr and through the map, on your photo page under the More menu) to show us where you took them, or you can just browse around the world and see where other people have been and what they saw.
What does "geotagged" mean?
Geotagging is the art of adding location information to things like a photo. You can geotag your photos using Organizr, or directly from your individual photo pages.
As an aside, we're proud to say it's a word popularized by a Flickr alum, Dan Catt, who created a cool site called geobloggers.com and seeded the geotagging community around the Web.
There are a few geotag-related groups on Flickr too, like GeoTagging Flickr, that you might be interested in. See what people are doing with all this location information.
How do I add my photos to a map?
It's easy! To geotag a photo on your photo page, simply go to the More menu and select “Add to your map”.
To work with more than one image you can open Organizr and find the photo(s) you want to place on the map using Findr. Click the Map tab. Then, go to a location where you took your photo(s) by using either the "Find Location" box in the top right of the tab or the pan/zoom tools to browse to the location. When you've found the location, drag the photo(s) from Findr and drop it on the map. Easy!
You might like to start by watching our screencast of Geotags & You: How to add your photos to the map using Organizr.
What's around the corner?
To explore the area around a geotagged photo, just click the map on the right of the photo page and then "See nearby photos and videos."
On the nearby page (see it says "/nearby" up in the URL now ;) the radius of nearby photos and videos shown is determined by the level of zoom a photo was geotagged at, so it is different for different photos. Closer zoom shows a smaller area but more detail, and vice versa. "Show filters" lets you change who's photos you see and the timeframe represented.
Have fun exploring!
How do I change the location name?
It’s easy, just click on the location name on your photo page. Select "edit location" and pick a better name. When you choose a name we start by showing the most specific information we have (neighborhoods where available). If you don't see a good match click "See more names..." to look for a better fit.
"See more names..." will show larger geographic areas each time it is clicked. (i.e. neighborhoods > cities > counties > states). If you would like to see a more specific list of locations, you may need to remove the geotag data, then zoom in and re-add it. Then, when you submit the location, a more specific location should appear.
The corrections you make on the map help us define default locations and make the Flickr map smarter. Thanks! :)
Why am I having trouble seeing my photos on the global map?
The global map (that you access from the Explore menu) shows a lot of photos. Since we can only show about 250 photos at a time, you need to page through the results by clicking the little widget in the top left of the map. The photos on the map are sorted by either the most recent upload or the most interesting photos, so just like it's tricky to catch your photos in the most recent uploads, it's tricky to see your photos on the global map sometimes.
The best way to look at your photos is to go straight to your personal map. Click the "Map" link under the More menu on your main photos page.
How can I import geotagged photos?
If you've assigned geo data to your photos using tags, and wish to use that data to effortlessly place those photos on your map, you may do so at the Import geotagged photos page.
Can I save places on the map I use a lot?
Yep. We realized it's fairly common that people normally take photos in and around a few distinct areas, so we thought it would be handy to be able to load those places quickly on to the map in Organizr.
So, when you've opened up your map in Organizr, and you've found one of your favorite photo-taking places, click on the "Saved views" link in the top right. Then, you can add a label for the spot you're saving. Next time you want to geotag photos you've taken there, just click on the "Saved views" link. (You can add up to 16 different views.)
Can anybody see where my geotagged photos were taken? Is the location private?
You can keep where you took your photos private, if you want, or assign permission to any level you're comfortable with. You can set a default privacy level for any photos you add to the map, and you can change the location privacy per photo as well. To change the settings on a photo, double-click it in Organizr. Click the Location tab. That's where the privacy setting is, as well as the latitude and longitude of your photo's location. (You can edit that too, if you have that information.)
Remember that the photo's overall privacy setting overrides geo privacy. For example, if you make a photo available to friends only, only your friends can see the photo in the first place. You can add a secondary level of privacy for where the photo was taken, say, "Only You" can see it, but saying anyone can see where it was taken is kinda moot, because only your friends can see the photo in the first place. Get it?
Also, private photos which are placed on the map will not have location information show when accessed on a Guest Pass, even if your default privacy is set to show location to anyone.
What are the Flickr shapefiles?
The Flickr shapefiles are a visualization of the shape of the places where people have geotagged their photos on Flickr.
For every geotagged photo we store up to six Where On Earth (WOE) IDs. These are unique numeric identifiers that correspond to the hierarchy of places where a photo was taken: the neighbourhood, the town, the county, and so on up to the continent. (This process is usually referred to as "reverse-geocoding".)
Over time this got us wondering: If we plotted all the geotagged photos associated with a particular WOE ID, would we have enough data to generate a mostly accurate contour of that place? Not a perfect representation, perhaps, but something more fine-grained than a bounding box. It turns out we can.
How do the shapefiles work?
The shapefiles are generated using a mathematical technique called "Alpha shapes". Tran Kai Frank Da and Mariette Yvinec, authors of a computer programming library for generating Alpha shapes describe them like this:
"Imagine a huge mass of ice-cream making up the space ... and containing the points as "hard" chocolate pieces. Using one of those sphere-formed ice-cream spoons we carve out all parts of the ice-cream block we can reach without bumping into chocolate pieces, thereby even carving out holes in the inside (eg. parts not reachable by simply moving the spoon from the outside). We will eventually end up with a (not necessarily convex) object bounded by caps, arcs and points. If we now straighten all "round" faces to triangles and line segments, we have an intuitive description of what is called the alpha shape..."
What about privacy? Will someone be able to see where my house is?
No. The contours of the Flickr shapefiles are an aggregate of all the geotagged photos for a place. The geometries are designed to follow the shape all the points as closely as possible but the nature of the Alpha shapes also means that some points are ignored altogether.
Additionally, even if a person has geotagged a photo at the very edge of a shapefile all that would tell someone is that a photo was taken there. If you searched for photos taken at that exact point all the existing privacy restrictions (who can see my photos? who can the location my photo was taken at?) would be enforced.
Where can I find out more about the shapefiles?
There are a series of English language blog posts that cover the motivations and technical details behind the shapefiles project:
What's a geofence?
Geofences let you set your default geo privacy to Anyone, contacts only, etc. but still restrict it to 'Family Only' for home, or 'Friends only' for work, your favorite park, or any other area you want to be more private. So when you are out taking pictures on your camera phone you can have Flickr show the location but automatically hide it when you upload from home!
You can manage geofences on your geo privacy page.
How do I use geofences?
From your Geo Preferences page make sure you have your default privacy set. Then start creating a geofence by searching for a location. Tip: It's easiest to start by entering a full address.
(1) Center the dot over the location, (2) set the size of the fence, (3) set who can see it, and (4) give it a name. After you create the fence we will give you the option to (5) set the geoprivacy for all the photos already in that fence to your new preference.
To create or edit a geofence just set the name, location, and radius to let us know what area it should cover. You can set the location by searching for an address or zooming in on the map. After you create or edit the geofence, we give you the option to change all of the photos already in that fence.
Good things to know about geofences
- If two geofences overlap, we apply the one that is most private.
- If a photo's location is changed, we apply the more private option. For example, if you move a photo from inside a geofence where a 'Friends only' geo privacy was set, to an area where the default is 'Anyone' we use the 'Friends only' setting to maintain your privacy.
- The location we have is only as good as your device. If you upload a photo taken in a geofence, but your mobile phone reports the location incorrectly, it may show as outside the fence. Even in this case nothing is shown in the fence, as you specified and you can always change the location and geo privacy.
* Geofences are areas on the map which you want to be more private than your default. So if you have the overall default to 'Private' you won't have a need for geofences.
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St. Eleni, New Martyr of Lesbos
Commemorated on April 9
St. Eleni (who was also called Susanna) is one of the New Martyrs of Lesbos who are commemorated on Bright Tuesday. She was St. Irene’s older cousin, and suffered along with Sts. Raphael, Nicholas, and Irene on April 9, 1463 (Bright Tuesday).
On November 12, 1961, a woman by the name of Basilike Rallis had a dream in which she saw herself by the church at Karyes near the town of Thermi on the Greek island of Lesbos. As she looked inside the church, she saw a young girl about fourteen or fifteen years old, with a dark complexion and dark hair. Since the girl was praying, Mrs. Rallis also began to pray. The girl turned to her and said, “Do you know who I am? I am a martyr. Not like Renoula (a diminutive form of Irene), of course, but if you only knew what I endured! I lived with the mayor’s family, and I was also with them when the Turks tortured them here. They mistreated me and gave me such a horrible beating that I died from the pains. My name is Eleni.”
The saint also told Mrs. Rallis about an icon of the Mother of God that she had been asking about, revealing to her the place where it would be found.
When she awoke, Mrs. Rallis was reluctant to mention this dream to anyone. She said to herself, “If there really is another martyr named Eleni, I’ll see her again. Maybe someone else will see her, too, then I’ll tell. But who was this Eleni who lived with the mayor’s family? Perhaps she was their servant.”
The next night, she dreamed that she was in the village church. She saw three clerics coming out through the left door of the altar. She made the Sign of the Cross at once, for she thought that Satan might be tempting her. Then she saw the three clerics make the Sign of the Cross too. They looked at her and smiled as they slowly proceeded to the center of the church. “I recognized St. Raphael and St. Nicholas right away,” Mrs Rallis recalled, “but did not know the other saint. He was tall, middle-aged with a long grey beard and a lordly air about him.”
At that moment, a girl with a round face came out by the same door. She was beautiful, and she wore a rose-colored dress. Mrs. Rallis approached her and, kneeling before her, asked, “Are you also a saint?” “Yes,” the girl replied. “Sit down beside me, watch quietly, and I will explain some things to you.”
Others then began to come out from the same door and approached them. First, a man of medium height with civilian clothes and a long grey jacket walked past. The girl said to Mrs Rallis, “He is the teacher, Theodore.” Theodore was followed by another well-formed man. The saint said, “He is the mayor, Basil (St. Irene’s father).” Then a tall, stout woman of about forty came out with two girls whom Mrs. Rallis recognized at once. They were Sts. Irene and Eleni, of whom she had dreamt the night before.
The unknown saint who had appeared with Sts. Raphael and Nicholas identified the tall woman as Maria, the mayor’s wife, and the two girls as Renoula and Eleni. The saint asked Mrs Rallis, “Why, when you dreamed about her last evening, did you say that you would not say anything about it to anyone? Eleni is also a martyr, and she wishes to be remembered. She was not the mayor’s servant, but his orphaned niece who lived with them. Her proper name was Eleni. However, they also called her Susanna.” Mrs. Rallis slowly approached St. Irene, embraced her, and began to weep, saying, “O, my tortured little girl, how could these heartless evildoers burn you?” Then St. Irene also started to cry.
When Mrs. Rallis woke up, her eyes were filled with tears, and she thought that she would faint. So powerful was the dream that she later said, “Ah, that tortured child! How I ached for her! Every time I go to Karyes I will sit by her little tomb, and I will mourn as if she were my own child. Just think, they tortured the child in front of her father and in front of her mother who bore her. It seems to me that there does not exist a more terrible martyrdom for parents.”
By permission of the Orthodox Church in America (www.oca.org)
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Some toughts about our sport from Evi Tsape
Athens, Greece: New faces on the water
All of us are aware of the list of common misconceptions; they are everywhere! So many widely held, false ideas about everything concerning everyday life. If we would make a list of the most common fallacies, I am most certain that windsurfing would be somewhere among the top 10, and if it weren’t, then we should definitely add it there! Onlookers of our sport frequently assume that learning how to windsurf involves extraordinary muscular strength, extreme balance skills and a lot of frustration. Only the latter is (partly) true, and still, with good instruction, it can be eliminated.
At any beach in any part of the world you will see more men than women and more people in their 40s than children. But what about Athens, Greece? Is windsurfing a popular sport for children in the land of Aeolus, the greek ruler of the wind? Travel only as far as Schinias on a weekday evening or weekend morning and you will find yourself rubbing your eyes with surprise. Something strange is going on there; there are children cruising along with their 1.5 and 2m sails, big smiles on their faces and definitely proud that they can finally practice a sport that their parents find it difficult to learn!
Now, how did that happen? Not out of the blue of course. These children are part of a team that has long got together to draw up a plan on how to make windsurfing reachable as well as fun for children of all ages. If we introduced you to who is encouraging all these young children to try windsurfing, and guiding them through their first steps, to ensure that they will all be having a blast in the water 100% of the time, then we wouldn’t need to say much. As with food, when you use first class ingredients you are guaranteed a good meal. Equivalently, if you put together two great partners, an athlete -who loves windsurfing, teaching windsurfing and working with children- and a school -which excels in nurturing children's’ love of learning-, then you can imagine what will come out of it!
To put names to the theoretical characters above, we are pleased to announce that Evi Tsape and Costeas-Geitonas schools have joined forces towards a common cause: to fill the windsurfing sites of Athens and consequently Greece with children (initially) and then with their teachers, parents and whoever else will be put to shame by 7-18 year-old windsurfers who have already started training and will be effortlessly gliding on the water in zero time, showing us all how windsurfing is supposed to be done...
The windsurfing academy is being hosted at the windsurfing school of Karavi Schinias, on the northeast coast of Athens, Greece. The academy offers a windsurfing program which starts from scratch and covers everything up to intermediate and advanced sailing, in a continuous manner. Students are taught the beginning skills one-to-one, and are consequently put within a team of 4, to be given supervised lessons and keep progressing day by day. The windsurfing academy is presently manned by 22 students of Costeas-Geitonas School, all keen to learn how to windsurf. These kids all have such a natural talent and enjoy windsurfing so much; they are at the moment on their fourth week windsurfing, taking to it like ducks to water! They are amazing, so enthusiastic, so spontaneous, always living the moment out there on the windsurf board. And so proud to be able to master the kind of equipment that their parents think would need a PhD in physics to be able to handle!
So, if you come along and ask Costeas-Geitonas’ students at the academy, they can tell you that you don’t need any PhD, or strength, or anything in particular to be able to learn how to windsurf. They can tell you that windsurfing is really fun, and that it’s not so hard after all! There are no secrets; all there is to it is to learn how to use your body weight correctly, in order to counterbalance the force of the wind in your sail. Simple! We are most certain that we can show everybody that being out on the water is the most amazing thing in the world; when you become a windsurfer, nothing is the same anymore. You see the world from another perspective, you experience unique sensations, you push your own limits every day, you are able to see pictures that very few people have seen. Our young windsurfers are already enjoying one of life’s greatest privileges; why don’t you bring your kid over as well? You will be most surprised by what’s going to happen!
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A new coterie of artists have a razor wit, an eye for popular culture (historical, current, and a thread between eras) and a point of view that is both sophisticated and strangely democratic. The following artists communicate through technology as well as, or in spite of, the rarified world of the stark white gallery spaces of the elite.
Troy Gua: Le Petit Prince
The “Le Petit Prince” project is based on one original doll and his “adventures” through originally hand crafted costumes, props, and settings photographed by the artist. It was a deeply personal project, as Gua explains “Le Petit Prince was made late in 2011 in an attempt to cleanse myself from what I had been making and felt was becoming cynical work. I wanted to make something that made me happy. “
The full motion capture of Prince in his iconic purple glory spinning atop wax suggests the potential of a short film as well as being enjoyed as an animated gif, one that has been widely shared across social media such as tumblr. One second of this image creates an instant cultural reference: it links our shared memories of Purple Rain with the puppetry trend that appeals to nostalgic impulses and a pre CGI memory of “real effects” and artistry that has attained a special status in a technological era where realness is fleeting. This doll making speaks to an authentic badge of fandom as well as a casual appreciation of cuteness and satire that entered the modern social vocabulary through the films Team America: World Police, Being John Malkovich and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Furthermore, the hair alone is monumentally perfect.
Sally Edelstein uses collage “as a means of examining social fictions”. This artist applies a great curatorial eye to reference “banal images appropriated from vintage ads, periodicals, children’s school books, comic books, pulp fiction and all sorts of ephemera, dissociating the images from their original use to better re-evaluate its’ original message.”
The art form of collage and the ability to critique the mass media messages of the latter part of the 20th century make a perfect marriage. These works can be appreciated both viscerally and are aided through at least a few decades of women and gender studies/ media criticism courses in University curricula. As long as marketers and fashion tastemakers have been recycling trends, and as these cycles get shorter and more fragmented through culture, these old images and the artists who give them new life maintain an important place in pop culture. The appeal of this imagery is not only critical, humorous and ironic, but also straightforward: we wonder where all these old piles of magazines have gone and are interested to see them. The time wasting task of looking through piles of stuff is a lost art form for most of us. We miss it dearly.
Edelstein’s work doesn’t rely on obvious tropes about the experiences of women and families in exploring post war (50′s) America (and later eras). Rather, the artist digs deep and gives great thought to a spectrum of experiences. Think of the hours of work of clipping,cataloguing and organizing clips thematically, and the ensuing brainstorming and research that emerges. The subjects embrace and give pointed commentary about pressures (dieting /”containment”, the various ways women were expected to homemake (both “homemade” or “heat and serve” options were things marketed and sold, separating women from the core simplicity of accepted ideas of cooking that existed before the dominance of the wartime tin can) and the various complexities as well as freedoms of the working woman (birth control, the liberated women, and the nearly uncontrollable dirt that awaited the woman who dared to leave for the day). These loud and conflicting messages are layered with social and political movements of the day, a true collage of ideas and statements.
Surface by Aurelien Juner
The immediate thought: “why didn’t I think of that?!” is the hallmark of radical post-modern art. This might be the thought accompanying this piece, for example.
Deceptively simple. Who hasn’t defaced a fashion magazine, or wanted to, in a similar way? But the message becomes richer, deeper, and more original with every piece.
The subject being photographed is funny, common, seemingly accidental. The photography is exquisite, artful. The deconstruction/destruction/reconstruction of fashion magazine covers is wholly original, exciting, and evocative. A whole new form of reappropriation that constantly links back to the original production, to fashion and its messages. This art project must be viewed in its entirely to be appreciated as it goes deeper and to very unexpected places beneath the surfaces it touches.
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A great promise held out by the Web and one of the end uses of CRM is
providing personalization on a scale unimagined and unimaginable a few
years ago. Unfortunately, due to the ease of Internet access and the
poorly thought out condition of many companies' Web sites, many
customers are demanding information and do not know how to request that
information, and so they are off to the competition's site in a flash.
In the current economic climate, it is an imperative to generate repeat
customers and provide them with what they need in the fastest manner
possible. To help companies meet this imperative, SPSS, Inc., which has a
background of more than 30 years of work in providing businesses with
statistical analysis tools, has released the SPSS Recommendation Engine.
Developed by its Enabling Technologies Division (SPSS ETD), the SPSS
Recommendation Engine provides personalized recommendations to customers
through SPSS data mining, modeling and deployment technologies.
The SPSS Recommendation Engine is designed to make personalized
recommendations based on data derived from demographic attributes and
customer behavior, including past purchases and Web usage. The system
discovers customer segments, establishes product associations for each
segment and uses the segments to make recommendations. The recommendations
can then be deployed online to Web sites, call centers and
brick-and-mortar outlets or off-line to direct mail or marketing campaign
The SPSS Recommendation Engine provides recommendations based on the
previous behavior of individuals and groups. By analyzing the previous
behaviors of individuals or groups, an organization can better understand
its customers' wants and predict their behaviors. The SPSS
Recommendation Engine applies statistical analysis and data mining
technologies to actual customer behavior with demographic and transaction
data; models can be updated easily and frequently to include emerging
trends; it can build models for prediction; it can support existing rule
engines and can read an existing data mart; and it can deliver
personalized recommendations online, at the point and time of customer
The recommendation engine can also be used to reduce customer churn by
identifying customers at risk of leaving and develop personalized messages
or offers to retain those customers, help reduce fraud by detecting which
customers are likely to commit fraud or make fraudulent claims, as well as
improve campaign management by identifying individuals likely to respond
to specific promotional materials and activities.
As companies are creating more Web-based self-service options for their
customers to provide them with more service choices as well as lower support
costs, finding a way to measure and ensure the quality of that service
presents new challenges. A company may have spent years developing
outstanding phone service, but a lack of coordination in providing service
across all channels can lead to customers deserting in droves.
To aid companies in their quest to provide consistent service levels
across all contact channels, Witness Systems developed eQuality Discover,
which allows the recording and review of captured samples of customer Web
experiences so that companies can identify ways to improve their Web service
by determining how customers interact with their site.
During playback of a recorded Web visitor's session, users can view
exactly what occurred during the visitor's experience on the site,
including the amount of time spent on each page. Users can access a
thumbnail layout of the events that occurred during the Web visitor's
session, providing a visual summary of user activity. Users can configure
eQuality Discover to specify the conditions, or business rules, to trigger
an action before, during and after a Web self-service customer interaction.
The user can then retrieve a sample of sessions by simply searching selected
criteria, including the date, time or business rule. Users and reviewers of
recorded Web visitor sessions can add annotations during a playback to note,
or 'flag,' a significant occurrence on a specific page or an entire
session. Users can configure eQuality Discover to notify one or more people
throughout the enterprise by e-mail when the system initiates recording
through a specified business rule. Management teams and departments
throughout the enterprise can access all system functions from an Internet
Explorer browser, giving all authorized users throughout the company the
ability to replay recorded sessions from the Web without a dedicated replay
client. Users can also denote areas of the Web site to be 'masked' when
containing confidential and proprietary information during recording and
replay, such as credit card and account numbers.
Subsequent extensions of the eQuality customer interaction recording
suite will monitor other self-service interaction media, including voice
commerce, interactive voice response (IVR) and kiosks to help companies
enhance these other customer touch points.
With resources stretched to the limit in the past year, there has been a
necessary emphasis in corporate America to squeeze every ounce of
productivity out of workers as can be squeezed, to get as much efficiency as
can be gotten from its technology infrastructure and also to provide supreme
service to hang onto every customer that can be hung onto. Where these
forces come together perhaps with the greatest impact is in the contact
center, which, if operating properly, has one foot in the front office and
the other in the back office. To tie the two together and help keep the
customers satisfied (no matter the channel they are using), Edify has
released version 7.2 of its Electronic Workforce platform. The Electronic
Workforce platform is designed to give companies the ability to provide
better agent-assisted or self-service options for their customers.
Newly upgraded for version 7.2 are the automated and assisted e-mail
management and a fully integrated Windows 2000-based interactive voice
self-service (IVR) system that allows customers to take advantage of
speech-enabled applications from technology partners including SpeechWorks.
Edify Assisted Email adds to the capabilities of Edify Auto Response by
giving agents the ability to view and choose suggested replies to service
e-mail requests. Using Edify Assisted Email, the agents can incorporate a
customer's unique data to give a more accurate, personalized reply. The
Edify Response Repository merges static and dynamic data together
automatically, giving the agents the answers they need, when they need it.
Edify Assisted Email also provides e-mail routing capabilities and full
integration into the Edify Enterprise Interaction Center product suite.
The IVR integration with SpeechWorks provides enhanced speech recognition
capability, allowing customers to use speech recognition technology from
leading vendors including Nuance, Vocalis and SpeechWorks. These vendor
integrations enable users to add applications such as natural language and
directed menu speech recognition to provide easier navigation to improve
self-service options for customers or to get them to the proper agent
Electronic Workforce 7.2 also provides a computer-telephony integration (CTI)
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own CT desktop applications with Edify's Electronic Workforce platform.
Electronic Workforce 7.2 will be used to collect the automatic number
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application. CTI functionality can be purchased as a stand-alone option for
Issue tracking and resolution continues to be a major thorn in the side of
many companies. A service request may have come in weeks ago, but the
customer has no record of the complaint or may have contacted the wrong
department, which also has no record of it and has no way of gaining access
to it, all causing the customer to give up in frustration, saying, 'I wish
I could look it up myself,' or, even more disturbingly, 'that's the
last time I buy anything from them. Their help desk is no help at all.'
Aiming to combat such poor service, UniPress Software has released version
5.0 of its FootPrints software.
Among the features and functionality UniPress has improved or added in
FootPrints 5.0 are integrated support for Microsoft Active Directory and
LDAP directories, extensive e-mail integration, asset management, advanced
remote control and diagnostics and software change management and version
By integrating FootPrints with LDAP, users can dynamically access
addresses in Exchange or other address books while the information still
resides in the LDAP directory. By setting a pointer to the LDAP directory,
FootPrints can map the fields to get the data, so that separate address
books do not need to be imported, managed and updated by the service desk.
FootPrints 5.0 can build a comprehensive, fully searchable online
knowledge base to support Web-based collaboration and centralize workflow.
UniPress has added to the new version enhanced knowledge base capabilities,
including the ability to search public, online knowledge bases, better
manage FAQ lists and offer advanced search functionality for technicians
while entering a ticket.
Through an alliance with Centennial, FootPrints can now also provide
asset management capabilities, whereby users can identify and track PC and
network assets, hardware, software and changes from within FootPrints.
Version 5.0 is also integrated with AllChange to provide a Version Control
and Release Management module, which is an integrated tool to link the flow
of information about software configuration information and initial problem
reporting between help desk and software development teams. The Version
Control and Release Management module has the ability to automatically send
information and updates back to customers when the problem has been
UniPress is developing versions for German, Portuguese, French and
Spanish. Users will simply be required to change text files for the various
languages and not reprogram.
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Talk:Book of Revelation
This page needs alot of work
I fleshed out what I could, and provided a little info, but we really need some good, scholarly stuff, though I think we might want to avoid conjecture as much as possible, other than in the titles for such.
Well, fix my mistakes, I am proud, but I'll try to fight it down, Father. Aindriahhn 17:31, November 21, 2005 (CST)
- Don't take it personally Aindriahhn! We're all here to support each other to try to make this the best wiki we can! Fr. John
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The intro to this article needs to answer in its first sentence the question, "What is the Book of Revelation?" We have a number of articles with these bits of commentary beginning the article, but that isn't suitable to an encyclopedia article. —Fr. Andrew talk contribs (THINK!) 07:37, November 25, 2005 (CST)
- I've just added some extra information/material (e.g., Elijah and Enoch, the AmTract section and ext. links), which I thought might be useful in revising and expanding this article. User:Aindriahhn has kindly started the Book of Revelation entry few days ago, and I didn't want to mess up their original structuring of the article/plans of expanding it later on. In fact, in the Coptic Church, we would never consider any part of the Bible to be "spiritually dangerous" per se... (as the article currently reads, "it is certainly spiritually dangerous to try to read too deeply into it...") Also every year, on the night of Good Friday/Saturday of Delight (Light), the whole Book of Revelation is read aloud in every Coptic Orthodox Church around the world (see under 'Holy Week').
- The answer to your question "What is the Book of Revelation?" can be (partly) found in Book_of_Revelation#Additional_notes_on_the_Apocalypse_from_the_American_Tract_Society_Bible_Dictionary.
- Thanks and God bless. --Arbible 10:03, November 25, 2005 (CST)
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By Sue Leeman, Associated Press
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, England Adopt a gargoyle. Sponsor a spire.
It could help save the 800-year-old Holy Trinity Church, where William Shakespeare was baptized and where he lies buried with his wife, Anne Hathaway.
Church officials hope fans of the Bard around the world will help raise $6.3 million needed to repair a cracked spire, broken windows and eroding bricks — and address damage from years of dry rot and death watch beetle.
"It's absolutely desperate," said Josephine Walker of the Friends of Shakespeare's Church, which is in charge of fundraising. "It's raining, and as we speak, rain is pouring in through the clerestory windows."
It's a common story in the parishes of England, where hundreds of medieval churches need frequent loving care. The Church of England estimates some $680 million worth of repairs are underway or urgently needed, and few of the crumbling churches have connections to anyone as famous as Shakespeare.
The Friends of Shakespeare's Church already has an American fundraising arm — but church officials are concerned by the drop in Britain's tourist numbers following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as well as the July 7, 2005, suicide assault on London's transit system and more recent terrorism alerts. The number of U.S. tourists fell 13% from 2000 to 2005, when 4.2 million Americans visited Britain, according to government figures.
Catherine Penn, one of the trustees of the Friends, said urgent work had been done to repair the crumbling parapet, but donations from tourists have dropped for other repairs at the church, located in Stratford-upon-Avon, 120 miles northwest of London.
She urged supporters to "sponsor a gargoyle" to help the fund.
Shakespeare was baptized at Holy Trinity on April 26, 1564, and the church's burial register lists him as "Gulielimus, filius Johannes Shakspeare," (William, son of John Shakespeare.)
After a career writing and staging his plays in London, Shakespeare retired to Stratford in 1611, and was buried in the chancel — an area near the altar — on April 25, 1616, two days after his death.
Some 100,000 people visit Holy Trinity every year to view his resting place, with its inscription, "Will Shakspeare, Gent." The memorial was erected a few years after his death, and the plump-looking likeness on the gravestone is considered a good one.
"People say he looks like a well-fed pork butcher," said church warden Bill Hicks.
Shakespeare's prominent burial spot was not in honor of his supreme literary skill, but because in 1605 he bought privileges in the church which, among other things, obliged him to keep the chancel in good repair. But within a few years of his death, the structure was in danger of becoming one of the "bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang" mentioned in Shakespeare's Sonnet 73.
Church officials say repairs now are needed to the spire, the chancel, the north and south aisles, and the north and south transepts.
On the north transept, the orange stone buttresses are badly weathered and stained-glass windows are decaying. Stone on the south transept — which is missing a cross — is similarly weathered and shows signs of damp.
"It's a wonderful place with a wonderful heritage," said the Rev. Martin Gorick, the church vicar. "For 800 years this has been a meeting place and we want to keep it that way."
And just in case anyone might think of moving his remains, Shakespeare's gravestone offers a curse, written by the Bard himself.
"Good frend, for Iesus sake, forbeare
To digg the dyst encloased heare
Bleste be ye (the) man (who) spares thes stones
And curst be he (who) moves my bones."
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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The job market for recent grads appears stagnant, which might explain why half of prelaw students don’t plan on seeking legal jobs once they graduate. But if you do want a law job, it matters where you go to school.
- The employment rate of recent grads might be disappointing, but at least it’s consistent. Data from the American Bar Association shows that for 2012, 82 percent of graduates were employed nine months after graduation—the same percentage as in 2011. And 56 percent of the 2012 grads got a job that required bar passage, which was only 1 percent higher than last year.
- Greedy Associates think Washington, D.C., is a great place to find a legal job—even though one in 12 residents are lawyers (versus 1:260 nationwide). Among the five reasons D.C. is tops are that it’s “Hollywood for ugly people” and thanks to all the free food at the seemingly endless receptions, you may never have to buy groceries again.
- Given the stark reality of the legal job market, it’s not much of a surprise that only half of surveyed prelaw students plan to use their law degrees in the legal profession. That’s according to a recent survey by Kaplan Test Prep. Of the 200 prelaw students surveyed, 43 percent plan to use their law degrees in the business world.
- However, if you do want a job in the legal market, it matters where you go to school. That’s the finding of The National Law Journal, which dug through the ABA’s data and discovered which schools did the best in offering school-funded jobs, clerkships and jobs in that require bar passage.
- If what you really want is a federal clerkship, Above the Law covered the top 10 schools that offered the highest percentage of federal clerkships to its graduates. In a related post, ATL reported that clerkship hiring is getting earlier—so if you want that clerk job, you better start now.
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PHILADELPHIA – A research team led by Mitchell Lazar, MD, PhD, Director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, has used state-of-the-art genetic technology to map thousands of positions where a molecular “master regulator” of fat-cell biology is nestled in DNA to control genes in these cells. The findings appear online this week in Genes & Development.
The international obesity epidemic is leading to major health risks, including increased rates of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Obesity is caused by increased numbers of fat cells that store more fat than normal. “This research has the potential to lead to new ways to think about therapies aimed at reducing the number of fat cells or altering fat cell function in ways that reduce the complications of obesity,” says Lazar.
The master molecule is called PPAR gamma, a gene regulator that is also the target of a major class of antidiabetic drugs, which include Actos® and Avandia. PPAR gamma binds directly to DNA, regulating the production of proteins by turning genes on or off. Actos® and Avandia are effective in treating diabetes, but their side effects, which include weight gain, prevent them from being recommended as a first-line therapy. The drugs bind to PPAR gamma in the nucleus of fat cells, which affects the expression of many genes, about twenty of which were previously known.
New biocomputing methods allowed first author Martina I. Lefterova, a PhD candidate in the Lazar lab, to discover roughly 5,300 additional sites that PPAR gamma targets in fat-cell DNA. The amount of data is enormous, and may allow additional insights into how fat-cell genes are regulated.
“Until now, we were looking at how PPAR gamma works one gene at a time,” says Lazar. “It’s like we were peering at the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle in isolation. Now we can look at the full picture.” Analysis of the data has already led the Penn team to understand how different factors, including one called C/EBP, cooperate with PPAR gamma to fulfill fat cell functions.
Lefterova used a new technology called Chip on Chip that, in its first step, employs an antibody to isolate the segments of DNA attached to PPAR gamma. Then in the second step, a microarray chip is used to determine the genetic sequences of the isolated DNA.
Decreasing the side effects associated with antidiabetic drugs is the main clinical goal of this work. The major side effects related to the mechanisms of these drugs is increased fat and increased edema, or water weight gain, so understanding exactly where and how these drugs affect gene regulators like PPAR gamma—whether their binding to PPAR gamma turns genes on or off—is important.
“We want to be able to determine which genes we want to affect in one case, but not the other, in order to eliminate unwanted side effects, but keep the positive anti-diabetic effects,” says Lazar.
In addition to Lazar, Penn co-authors are David Steger, Michael Schupp, Ana Cristancho, Jonathan Schug, Dan Feng David Zhuo, and Christian Stoeckert, Jr. This was a collaboration with Shirley Liu and Yong Zhang of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. The National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases and the National Cancer Institute provided funding for this research.
PENN Medicine is a $3.6 billion enterprise dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. PENN Medicine consists of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
Penn's School of Medicine is currently ranked #4 in the nation in U.S.News & World Report's survey of top research-oriented medical schools; and, according to most recent data from the National Institutes of Health, received over $379 million in NIH research funds in the 2006 fiscal year. Supporting 1,700 fulltime faculty and 700 students, the School of Medicine is recognized worldwide for its superior education and training of the next generation of physician-scientists and leaders of academic medicine.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) includes its flagship hospital, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, rated one of the nation’s top ten “Honor Roll” hospitals by U.S.News & World Report; Pennsylvania Hospital, the nation's first hospital; and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. In addition UPHS includes a primary-care provider network; a faculty practice plan; home care, hospice, and nursing home; three multispecialty satellite facilities; as well as the Penn Medicine Rittenhouse campus, which offers comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation facilities and outpatient services in multiple specialties.
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