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(Fredericksburg, VA) January 17, 2012 - The International Parking Institute (IPI) today published its Framework on Sustainability for Parking Design, Management, and Operations, outlining industry-wide goals and organization action items that provide education, incentives, and forums for members to learn about and contribute to sustainable parking solutions.
According to IPI Chair Casey Jones, CAPP, "This Framework represents a fundamental shift in thinking and reflects the integral role parking professionals play in helping communities achieve sustainability goals." Jones noted that the Framework is not an endpoint, but a living document that will be adapted over time to accommodate new ideas and advancements in the sustainability movement.
As stated in the Framework on Sustainability, parking and transportation solutions should balance economic feasibility, public health and welfare, and consideration of environmental effects. The Framework lists seven goals related to sustainability, as well as 10 action areas through which IPI, in close collaboration with its members, will focus efforts.
In the Framework on Sustainability, IPI pledges to promote and support seminars, publications, awards, education certification programs, and other tools and resources on sustainability topics. The Framework also states support for peer-to-peer sharing, long-term views, and third-party collaboration, which are all critical steps in making informed sustainability decisions.
IPI has already made significant strides in implementing many of the actions. Two years ago, the association created a Sustainability Committee, now co-chaired by Rachel Yoka, LEED AP BD+C, CPSM, Timothy Haahs & Associates, Inc. and Rick Decker, CAPP, Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport. In addition to working collaboratively with other organizations to advance environmental approaches, a book on parking sustainability, including case studies, is in the works.
Sustainability will also be a focus at IPI's 2012 Conference and Expo, the world's largest parking industry event. Scheduled for June 10-13 in Phoenix, Ariz., this year's conference includes an educational track on the topic.
In addition, IPI's annual Awards of Excellence competition, which recognizes outstanding achievements in parking, recently added two new categories to reward environmentally-friendly innovation in new and renovated facilities, as well as operations.
"Contrary to common misperceptions, parking is vital to sustainability," said Shawn Conrad, CAE, executive director of IPI. "well-planned parking can increase use of mass transportation, reduce the number of people commuting, and encourage alternative travel methods such as bicycling.
Conrad also noted that just reducing the amount of time it takes for drivers to find a parking spot can significantly reduce fuel waste and emissions, and this can be accomplished through smart planning combined with new technologies and mobile apps that make it easier to find and navigate to available parking spaces.
According to IPI's 2011 Emerging Trends in Parking report, an increasing demand for green and sustainable parking solutions is a leading industry trend.
Many parking facilities today are adopting best practices in sustainability with energy-efficient lighting, solar panels, and innovative water and waste management systems to reduce their carbon footprints. These include implementing recycling systems, using local and recycled materials in construction, and installing renewable energy technology such as photovoltaic, wind power, bio-fuels, and hydrogen fuel cells. An increasing number of parking facilities are also supporting sustainability by accommodating alternative fuel vehicles.
The International Parking Institute is the world's largest association representing parking professionals and the parking industry. Learn more and download IPI's Framework on Sustainability for Parking Design, Management and Operations at www.parking.org.
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The continued dependence on paper prescriptions in the NHS continues to put patients at risk NHS managers and pharmacists were told at an iSOFT-organised conference on 20 October.
“The reliance on paper in this day and age is ridiculous,” said Steve Freeborn, a former NHS pharmacist and university lecturer. Speaking at the e-prescribing and medicines management (ePMA) Excellence Forum at Wembley, Freeborn said: “With a sharp rise in the number of drugs and mounting pressure on NHS staff, the risk of medication errors has never been greater.”
This is backed by new research from the University of Reading which shows that 4% of prescriptions in primary care include “significant clinical errors”. The risks double in hospitals, where 8.9% of medication orders have errors. Lead researcher Dr Rachel Howard says time and workload issues and knowledge of patients are among the main causes of drug-related errors. The physical and emotional health of the doctors is another factor, Dr Howard said.
Junior doctors remain the biggest culprits, according to Professor Tim Dornan of the University of Maastricht. “Mistakes are found in 8% of prescriptions written by junior doctors.” Prof Dornan said there would be uproar if plane landings failed at the same rate, but it appeared acceptable in healthcare.
Freeborn says that while NHS trusts accept a switch to an e-prescribing system would cut errors, most lacked the will to change. “The NHS has seen too many (e-prescribing) pilot schemes and too few wide-scale implementations. But once set-up, systems can not be allowed to fail otherwise it is near impossible to implement a second time.”
Alex Jennings of University Hospital Aintree agreed.
“The roll-out of e-prescribing is risky if delayed,” he added. “You need to roll-out as quickly as possible.”
Helen Bennett, assistant director of IT at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, which is installing iSOFT’s ePMA, said careful planning and measurement are essential for a successful ePMA project. She said the trust is conducting an extensive data collection exercise to gauge current performance to demonstrate measureable improvements.
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Automotive industry to get huge shot in the arm for training, new equipment and product development
West Midlands firms are to share £124 million from the Government in a bid to create jobs and cut unemployment in the region.
The automotive industry was a major winner in the latest round of funding from the Regional Growth Fund.
Jaguar Land Rover will receive cash to invest in new equipment and training at its Land Rover plant in Solihull.
Aston Martin, in Gaydon, Warwickshire, will receive funds to help it generate new models, and to help pay for the development of a new, fuel-efficient engine.
Automotive component manufacturer Dana UK Axle Ltd, in Birmingham, received funding to help install new technology including laser welding equipment.
A total of 16 businesses will share in the funding, along with the University of Wolverhampton, which will receive cash from the Government to pass on to smaller businesses.
The sums allocated to individual schemes have not been published because they are considered commercially confidential. But the total package of £124 million is more than any other region of the country is receiving, and Ministers say the cash will create or safeguard 43,890 jobs in the West Midlands.
A total of £1 billion has been allocated nationally in this round of Regional Growth Fund funding. It comes on top of £1.4 billion, including £232 million for the West Midlands, provided in previous rounds.
Each successful bid was approved by a panel chaired by Lord Heseltine, the former Deputy Prime Minister, and the aim is to help private industry create jobs in regions which have been hit by the loss of jobs in the public sector.
Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, who is overseeing the programme, said: “This £1 billion boost for growth in towns and cities across England is creating jobs that will last in the parts of the country that need it most.
“In tough economic times the Regional Growth Fund is good value for taxpayers’ money – this £1 billion round of the fund is pulling in £6 billion of private sector investment.”
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Diversity of games platforms: the pros and cons
Tenshi's Ed Daly considers the good and bad of multiple platforms for start-up developers
There was once a time when "playing Nintendo" was a synonym for gaming - it was genericized. PlayStation got close in the 90s, like Hoover and vacuum cleaners. But it's impossible to imagine any single brand in the games market transcending its niche again.
For game creators the range of platforms to develop for has never been greater. And of course it often makes sense to release games across multiple platforms, whether that be in order to exploit a hit or to scramble together enough aggregate sales to make the P&L stack up.
"A platform may have a large audience but different genres perform very differently"
Steam, Origin, Facebook App v. standalone with Facebook Connect, G+, iOS (all of Phones, Pods, Pads?), Android (Phones, Pads, Notes), Kindle Fire, PlayStation Mobile, Xperia, Chrome Web Store, Windows Store, MacOS appstore, the casual portals or Bigpoint, 3DS, Vita, Wii, Wii U, X360 (Kinect?), XBLA, Xbox Live Indie, PS Minis, PSN, PlayStation 3, "Durango", "Orbis", Smart TV, erm Ouya (Okay, that'll do).
Supply-side logic suggests selecting a mix of platforms with similar specifications, display size, or UI mechanism (touch, dual analogue sticks, hand-wavy motion control). This reduces the incremental cost of supporting additional platforms - it creates economies of scope. Avoiding steep learning curves by leveraging development team experience makes sense too. And middleware can make all the difference.
The demand-side logic entails prioritising market size and audience taste - a platform may have a large audience but different genres perform very differently across platforms. And how about business models? Some platforms work great for free-to-play games (ability to analyse player behaviour, painlessly update games and run A-B tests) - others don't. Some platforms deliver lower volumes and high prices. Others offer lots of installs and modest conversion and average revenue per user. Does it make sense to test the market and if so which platforms provide the best evidence base for future versions? Or will you only achieve critical mass, viral growth and bang-for-your-marketing-buck by hitting multiple platforms simultaneously?
When supply and demand arguments conflict developers face tough decisions.
And sometimes platforms that work in isolation don't combine well. In mixing business models and price points there is a danger of cannibalising your own high value sales with a free version, or at least confusing your audience - of course most gamers have access to multiple platforms. But don't forget exclusivity in return for support from platforms, getting featured might make all the difference. Some platforms won't be accessible until you're proven on others (e.g. Steam), while others will be reluctant to take games that have appeared elsewhere first (Sony/Microsoft).
"In mixing business models and price points there is a danger of cannibalising your own high value sales with a free version"
The diversity of platforms means choice for consumers and a growing market. But fragmentation means economies of scope are more difficult to achieve and optimal multi-platform strategies more difficult to determine. While waiting for streaming to provide the elegant solution to the above (don't hold your breath) there are opportunities for middleware vendors and conversion houses. And there are also opportunities for game designers and brand managers that can turn the complex landscape to their advantage in building and exploiting game IP in ever more smart and creative ways.
We are surely at a peak of platform fragmentation and there will be more platforms exiting the above list than joining it over the next three years - especially those platforms tied to physical hardware. But the days of any "playing Nintendo" transcendent brand are surely gone for good.
Ed Daly is a Partner at Tenshi Consulting. Tenshi's group of games industry consultants are providing regular opinion pieces for GamesIndustry International.
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Something is wiping out honey bees across North America and a team of researchers is rushing to find out what it is.
What’s being called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has now been seen in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Florida, Georgia and way out in California. Some bee keepers have lost up to 80 percent of their colonies to the mysterious disorder.
Now, I’m admittedly not much of a bee fan. Several of my relatives are highly allergic, and I’ve only been stung once and hope I’ll be fine if it happens again, but they do kind of make me nervous when I see them buzzing around. And a bee die-off might not sound like a huge deal at first–I mean, we can go without honey, right?–but recall that many of these bees are also put to work pollinating crops, so a large-scale die-off isn’t so mundane, especially when they’re currently unsure about what’s causing it, or how to stop it:
Among the possible culprits are a fungus, virus, or a variety of microbes and pesticides. No one knows just yet. On first inspection, the pattern of die-offs resembles something that has been seen in more isolated cases in Louisiana, Texas and Australia, vanEngelsdorp said.
It’s interesting how they’re tracking and investigating it, though. Of course they’re examining the bees themselves for any clues to the illness, but they’re also using Google Earth to compare any geographic similarities between the outbreak sites, and using “a groundbreaking audio analysis technique that allows them to hear specific changes in bee colony sounds when specific chemicals are present. Chemical air sampling in hives is also being planned.”
We’ve seen how an invasive fungus is spreading and killing amphibians; it will be interesting to see if this is another example of the spread of an infectious agent, a toxic chemical, or another factor altogether as investigations continue and other colonies become active in the spring.
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What's NewAdded in alpha level and delta level settings at start of game. Alpha level gives your ship more health and is the default. Delta level is the same as it was in previous versions.
We separated them into 2 Game Center leader boards.
We also added in some Game Center achievements.
We appreciate your ratings and reviews!
Thanks for playing Astro Math!!!
App DescriptionYour spaceship got sucked into a wormhole and you ended up far away from Earth. Now you must make your way back through 32 star systems so you can get home. Good luck on your journey!
After you fly your spaceship through each star system you arrive at a planet. To earn money on the planet you get presented with 10 math word problems. For each problem you answer correctly you earn money to spend in the shop buying more health or improvements to your spaceship which can help you survive the next star system.
NOTES: We have tried to create a very fun arcade style game with math at certain points in the game as a needed element to win. You can configure the types of math word problems presented to include: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and extra thought.
We also recommend a pencil and paper is kept handy to work out the math problems. It is normal for children to want some help at first as they learn to read the problems and decide what math steps are needed. We have tried to create a super well done game that makes it fun to tackle math word problems which many children can struggle with. Even if they use a calculator to solve the math problems it will improve reading comprehension and problem solving abiltities.
Since it is configurable, we can recommend this game for children anywhere from 1st grade through 5th grade. That is not to say the game itself is not fun enough to be enjoyed by any age and help improve your math skills. Enjoy!
January 26, 2013 Price Decrease: $0.99 -> FREE!
April 27, 2012 Price Decrease: $0.99 -> FREE!
March 30, 2012 New version 1.0.2
March 05, 2012 New version 1.0.1
February 25, 2012 Initial Release
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Altitude: 2,655 feet
"As a pleasure resort, and in population, commerce, and industrial pursuits, Waynesville is one of the most important little cities in western North Carolina. Its location is beautiful and picturesque. The climate is delightful throughout the year; fine accommodations for visitors are provided by several excellent hotels and numerous boarding houses, and the scenery in the surrounding county is wonderfully attractive. The town was one of the first white settlements in this section and was named in honor of General Anthony Wayne, of Revolutionary War fame. It is the seat of Haywood County and, in all respects, is prosperous and progressive. Light and power are furnished by a complete and modern electrical power plant; the buildings, both public and private, are well constructed and handsome; the streets are paved and admirably maintained; three banks furnish adequate commercial facilities; and every line of business is represented by substantial men. Quite deservedly, the town frequently is referred to as 'Waynesville, the Beautiful.'
"In the surrounding county extensive lumbering operations are being carried on, some of the finest hard woods in the Southern Appalachians being found here. In the rich farming section by which the town is environed, particular attention is being devoted to fruit growing and stock raising. Both of these special agricultural industries are developing rapidly, as the soil, climate and general conditions render them very profitable.
"In the vicinity of the county seat are several interesting and beautiful resorts, including Haywood White Sulphur Springs, Eagles’ Nest on Junalaska Mountain, Lickston Mountain, Mount Olivet and Oak Park. About eight miles distant towards the South is Wessner Bald, a fine view of which may be had from the Southern Railway trains. This rugged peak may be reached by a rough trail from Waynesville, but once at its summit the tramper will be amply repaid for his trouble by the magnificent view to be obtained of the town and its surroundings and of the exquisitely beautiful valley of Wauteska."
"The Southern Railroad runs through the central southern or best agricultural portion of the county, through the Pigeon River and Richland Creek valleys, and affords good transportation facilities. A narrow gauge railroad, used by the Champion Fiber Company to get pulp wood in their plant, runs up Allen Creek a distance of about eight miles. This company has graded a railroad from Clyde to Sunburst, and expects to put it in operation soon. About 50 miles of macadam roads have been built in different directions from Waynesville. The dirt roads in the valleys are in good shape, but the rougher mountain roads are in bad shape."
- J.S. Holmes, Forest Conditions in Western North Carolina (1911), p. 43
"Within an easy ten-mile horse-back-ride of Waynesville is the beautiful Caney Fork Bald, 5,926 feet high; and three miles further along on the same trail is the highest summit of Richland Balsams---the Great Divide, with an altitude of 6,540 feet. This is the highest peak between the Great Smoky Mountains on the West and the Black Mountains on the East. The view from the summit of the Great Divide is unobstructed in every direction and is one of the most beautiful in the world. The crest of the Great Divide may be reached by trail from Waynesville through Mica Mine and Pigeon Deep Gap. By this route, one passes Cold Spring Knob, whence an excellent view of Cold Mountain to the East may be obtained. This long, round-backed ridge rises to a height of more than 6,000 feet. It looms against the azure of the sky as sharp-crested and Alp-like as does the famous Grandfather Mountain, far away to the Northward. South of Waynesville the mountains tower one above another until the most majestic is reached in Rough Butt Bald, 6,010 feet above sea-level. An excellent driveway extends via West Pigeon Fork and the Tuckasegee River to Lake Toxaway and the lovely Sapphire Country."
An advertisement for Eagle’s Nest and White Sulphur Springs, two of the premier hotels in the Waynesville area, appeared in Information to Visitors Concerning Greater Western North Carolina (1913). The Eagle's Nest was situated dramatically on Mount Junaluska, at an elevation of 5,000 feet, while the White Sulphur Springs Hotel, with its noted spring water, was near the center of town. Both hotels were listed in the Southern Railway’s guide Summer in “The Land of the Sky”: Resorts Along the Southern Railway (1915), which noted that White Sulphur Springs had a capacity of 200 guests and charged from $2.50 day to $12.50 a week and up, and that the 80 guests who could be accommodated at the Eagle's Nest should make application for rates.
A writer in The 1916 Pictorial Story of Haywood County described his trip to Eagles Nest, noting that the “journey . . . was made in the hotel’s regular `transfer,’ that accommodates twelve passengers – a modern, western type of stage . . .” and that “our trip of five miles took nearly three hours, but not a moment of it was dull.”
In 1918 both hotels befell different fates. The April 4, 1918, issue of the Carolina Mountaineer and Waynesville Courier (Waynesville, N.C.) reported on the acquisition of the White Sulphur Springs Hotel by the United States military as a recuperative center for personnel suffering from respiratory problems resulting from World War I. On April 25, 1918, the Carolina Mountaineer and Waynesville Courier reported that a fire of unknown origin had destroyed Eagles Nest three days earlier, bemoaning the loss of a hotel “so different from anything else in that line in our beautiful mountain section."
This image of the Waynesville Auto Repair Company from the 1916 Road Maps and Tour Book of Western North Carolina features a company advertisement that illustrates the emergent automobile age in western North Carolina. In The 1916 Pictorial Story of Haywood County, the company is described as:
“A High-Class Garage Made of Brick – This Company Handles Buick and Ford Automobiles and parts, and Does Repairing.
“The garage is about 100 by 50 feet in size, and has one of the best REPAIR departments in this section of the State, with a competent force of mechanics available at all times. They do vulcanizing of a superior quality. FREE AIR is furnished to any one desiring it; to get this, it is not necessary even to be a patron – just roll your car in and ask for the service. The garage is open day and night.
“We not only have the men who know how to fix nearly all the various car troubles, but also the tools and equipment with which they can do it.”
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Text excerpted from 1912 travel guide, The Western North Carolina Section at a Glance. Issued by the Passenger Traffic Department, Southern Railway, Premier Carrier of the South, Washington, D.C., 1912.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
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Welcome to Millbrook Academy
In case of bad weather please check the following website for school closures. http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/closedschools/
Millbrook Academy will be open as usual unless it is stated to be closed on the Gloucestershire Closed Schools website.
Millbrook Academy is a co-educational, fully comprehensive academy. It is an 11-18 academy for 600 students with a Sixth Form of 70 students. There are over 40 teaching staff.
- We are committed to provide an innovative and engaging curriculum that inspires all studetns to fulfill their potential.
- We have high standards and expectations.
- A curriculum that meets the needs of students, with a focus on teaching and learning.
- We are an inclusive Academy and we provided learning opportunities beyond the classroom
Principal - Mrs Jan Scott
I am delighted to welcome you to the website for Millbrook Academy and to introduce myself as the Principal.
At Millbrook Academy we care about the whole student making sure that we give everyone the opportunity to develop as individuals, providing support and guidance and providing all students with the skills and qualifications necessary for the increasingly competitive workplace of tomorrow. We believe that qualifications are important for all students as they leave us, whether they enter employment, work based training or continue with their studies and aim for Higher Education.
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- Tue 25 Jun 2013 - 09:00am SEN Induction Morning
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The true identity of Shakespeare is one such evidence-based literary question, as we already discussed previously at LawPundit at Legal Graphologists : A Query to You : What About the Christopher Marlowe - William Shakespeare - Controversy and The Signatures of These Two Authors? Are They By the Same Hand?
The late attorney Richard Paul "Dick" Roe was a retired California lawyer who spent the last 25 years of his life becoming an expert on Shakespeare, but not just in the traditional "literary" sense.
He personally traveled throughout Italy to find the locations of and information about geographic places and persons in Shakespeare's plays.
This resulted in a fantastic book, The Shakespeare Guide to Italy: Retracing the Bard's Unknown Travel, which provides a geographical factual basis for Shakespeare's plays.
I am reading this book now.
See the review at
- The Brooklyn Rail by William S. Niederkorn - Beyond the Previously Known Bard
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The Sigillum Dei Ameth as we have it is drawn from John Dee and Edward Kelly’s Spirit Actions given in Libri Primus & Secundus Mysteriorum, as elsewhere noted. The form given here is adapted from Clay Holden’s John Dee Publication Project1 version, first explication by us as part of the Center for Enochian Study working group.2 This was the first correction of the 22nd circumferential division from y14 to y15, an error made originally by Dee when transferring the data given in the Spirit Action to the physical construction of the Sigillum itself.3 That the y15 is correct is demonstrable by internal logic of the Sigillum’s structure (more anon). We have restored the A 666 to the 32nd circumferential division for reasons of the nomenclature of the Thrones, which will be explained in due course.
Dee was himself told originally to adapt the form from several in his own collection of Grimoires; but which one, was not made clear either by Dee or the Angels. A number of variations on the Seal of God or Seal of God’s Truth are to be found in MSS owned by Dee. Several follow the basic outline of the form given to Dee and Kelly of a lettered circumference with inscribed septagon, heptagram and internal heptagons, some even with an internal pentagram. A useful comparison of the likely candidates here can be found on the German Wikipedia.4 The version that Dee likely mainly worked is in Sloane MS. 313 (there are a number of versions in the Sloane and Royal collections) the so-called Sworn Book of Honorius the Magician (Gillette, NJ: Heptangle Books, 1977), but a serviceable online version is available at Joseph Peterson’s online Esoteric Archives.5
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Check out the surprising links between U. S. National Security and Long Term Sustainability
Our military is a vital and valued emblem of our country. These brave Americans devote their lives to our national security. That means now, as it has in the past, protecting the interests of the American way of life and U.S. assets. Surprisingly, military strategists are finding many links between our national security and the sustainability that may make our nation safer and more secure. To learn more about these intriguing connections, check out the links below in which military strategists examine the big picture for the U. S. in the foreseeable future. This insightful article (PDF) spells out the connection between rising gasoline prices and national security, and what we can do about it. Take a look at the Excellent commentary (PDF) and the Full Report (PDF) written by a Marine Colonel and a Navy Captain.
The article and report point out the undeniable link between volatile fuel costs, our daily lives and our nation’s security. The authors provide examples of simple but very effective measures that Americans can take that will lessen our dependency on foreign oil and materials.
Every day citizens, armed with caulk guns and insulation can decrease our country’s energy burden and help our military. By unplugging, simply driving slower and less, reducing our use of plastics and petroleum-based products, we can truly make a difference. Who knew it was as simple as making a few common-sense changes? Americans are dynamic, energetic people. Taking action comes naturally to us, so performing easy everyday energy-saving measures can be a way to show support for our military and our country. Addressing responsible, fundamental changes to ensure our energy independence is one key part of future U.S. security—security for our families, our military, and our proud and independent way of life. That’s something we can all get on board to do.
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Nancy R. Heisey is being taken for a ride, but she's not objecting. Heisey, chair of the Bible and religion department at Eastern Mennonite University in the USA, is "trying to do my responsible part" in caring for the environment by leaving her car at home and getting to campus by other means.
For two years now, she has committed herself to walking, biking or taking public transportation for the 1.5 mile commute to work. It may seem like a small gesture. But in a society like America's which has a long standing love affair with the car, it is a counter-cultural step - perhaps more so than in Britain or other parts of Europe.
Heisey, who is also president of Mennonite World Conference, "especially enjoys" taking the bus, she says. “I've gotten to know some neat people who are regular users.”
Heisey said that she began thinking about riding the bus after reading Ray Dirk's book, In God's Image, which includes stories of Anabaptist sisters and brothers in Cuba and Zimbabwe waiting for the bus to go to church.
She also pays attention to recycling. "It was a student of mine who chided me some time ago for not recycling my office copy of the daily newspaper. I'm doing that now. It's no big effort to keep a storage container handy for recyclable materials."
Recently Heisey and her spouse Paul Longacre have "recommitted ourselves to simplifying our diets, purchasing locally-produced foods whenever possible and planting a garden every year." Unless the weather is bad, the couple usually walks to church on Sunday mornings.
Heisey and Longacre are members of a local Voluntary Tax Group (http://voluntarygastax.org/) that calculates what should be a reasonable price for fuel and contributes to a fund based on the alternative figures.
"Practicing recycling and other simple efforts to help care for God's creation can be a natural part of our daily activities," Heisey says. "It's a matter of being willing to do some planning and being mindful of how our actions affect so many others."
[Acknowledgements to EMU and MWC]
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Michigan eLibrary Resources, Databases and MelCat!
Michigan Center for the Book
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James Oliver Curwood 's Castle located in Owosso, Michigan was used as his writing studio. It was built in 1922 and overlooks the Shiawassee River. According to the historical marker, a number of his later works were composed in the tower.
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Aluminum: Future Material of Choice or Out of the Mix?
Industry Experts Weigh in on that Million-Dollar Question
by Alan B. Goldberg
The question about the future of aluminum has more to do with where it is used rather than whether it will be used, and reports of its death have been exaggerated greatly. While many have various opinions about this material—its characteristics and practical use—most seem to agree that the outlook for aluminum windows and doors in the residential market is quite different than the commercial segment. Regardless of the application, aluminum has certain characteristics that are superior to other materials and that could be its salvation for the future.
Commercial Versus Residential
“I do believe aluminum is going to be around in the commercial fenestration business for ten years or more although it will diminish in popularity,” said Raj Goyal, director of business development for Graham Architectural Products.
Goyal said it is the only metal that will meet the requirements in the commercial world for curtainwall and large windows.
This assessment contrasts with the situation in the residential market.
“Those reports that predict the demise of aluminum have been blown out of proportion because of the energy requirements and growth of fiberglass, PVC and composites in the residential market,” he added.
Some have concluded, according to Goyal, that aluminum is not going to make it.
“I don’t believe aluminum will ever get back into the residential market,” he said.
Not everyone shares this view.
“There is a place for every material—vinyl, wood and aluminum. Each has its special characteristics and applications,” said Jim DiBacco, executive vice president for Astro Shapes. He pointed out that aluminum has been the right choice for many of his customers and disagreed with articles that were predicting its demise. Durability and the ability to accept virtually any color makes aluminum ideal in commercial and residential applications, particularly in coastal regions. Also, its uniqueness as an extrudable material is a factor in meeting codes and standards.
“Durability is a critical factor when windows are going into high-rise residential and commercial buildings and aluminum windows are a necessity for this type of application,” said Bill Deuschle, vice president of quality and testing for Traco.
Although other materials can be used in place of aluminum, these do not have its structural integrity or durability. Subjecting other materials to conditions where they do not have the strength could present safety issues. As an example, Deuschle explained that a vinyl window installed in a high-rise structure where pressure and the force of wind are high and can be influenced even more by high-speed elevators, there could be glass displacement and breaking.
The Price of Energy Efficiency
Is safety being compromised by codes that are driven by energy efficiency?
“Although codes are taking factors like energy efficiency into consideration, one must look at the entire picture and part of that is safety,” said Deuschle.
He pointed out that until aluminum can meet some of the energy efficiency requirements, its market share will continue to drop to vinyl and wood, even though neither has the same level of structural strength.
“Energy consumption is being made the highest priority and I think that safety should be given the same priority,” he added.
Deuschle is not alone in his views about the influence of materials based on energy efficiency.
“The greatest challenge facing the aluminum window and door industry is one of vigilance and education of those governmental bodies and coding agencies which, due to a lack of understanding, can make decisions and regulations, based on faulty information, as to what is necessary to promote true energy efficiency in window and door products,” said Greg Patzer, director of communications and government relations for the Aluminum Extruders Council.
He added that the strength and rigidity of aluminum are what make it “most often the superior and preferred product for commercial and residential applications.”
Also, recyclability makes it an environmentally responsible choice.
“We still see aluminum (in commercial applications) as the material of choice for retail buildings, hotels, motels and office buildings,” said Bob Leyland, vice president of customer operations for Kawneer.
“We have not seen any decrease in the use of aluminum from architects, except where codes mandate the use of other materials (i.e. fire-rated products). And even in these cases, there are enhancements that can be made to aluminum systems to achieve the desired result.”
“The most important thing about aluminum is its strength-to-weight-
ratio. There is nothing else that is stronger. If I am working on a high-rise, I want a material that is known for its strength,” said Dave Miller, president and CEO for Azon.
In the commercial market, it is the only material that has such flexibility with finishes. It accepts any finish, he said.
Miller explained that the residential market is a different story.
Vinyl entered the market at a good time because aluminum was reaching that point where it was perceived as being of poor quality. He described aluminum screen doors as junk that contributed to the poor image of aluminum in windows. In spite of the reputation aluminum earned, Miller said it is still used in certain applications where materials take a lot of abuse, such as schools. Vinyl, which offers aesthetics and lower cost, will not last under demanding conditions. As examples, he mentioned apartments that originally had vinyl and have since switched to aluminum. Vinyl also offers limited colors.
“Aluminum will never have the position it once held in the residential market, but, like vinyl and wood, it will continue to have its place. I think it could garner 5 to 8 percent of the residential market,” said Miller.
For one window and door manufacturer in Chicago, the cycle of aluminum has had a significant impact on its business.
“When we began, the company name was Republic Aluminum Window & Door and we were a primary exclusively replacement storm window and door maker. In 1988, Republic added aluminum windows to its line-up. In 1997-8, the company dropped aluminum replacement windows and its storm products (with the exception of one line of storm doors and windows) because prices were very high, we couldn’t deal with the fluctuations and we saw that the market was shifting to vinyl,” said Amy Zimmerman, vice president of marketing for Republic Windows and Doors. “There is no question that aluminum represented a significant portion (more than $5 million annually) of our business. I must say, looking back, there will always be a place for aluminum because of its strength. There are applications where vinyl, in spite of its aesthetics, will not perform like aluminum or work in the same sized openings. Aluminum offers quite a choice in colors where vinyl is very limited.”
“The aluminum industry is beginning to see the light. The fact is, they went to sleep and slept for a long time,” said Goyal. “They didn’t understand what was going on with energy issues and they didn’t adjust thermal breaks to current high-performance needs. Today, companies are looking to make significant improvements in thermal break to meet future requirements of energy codes.”
“In the next five years, we will continue to see strong use of aluminum,” said Leyland. “One of its appealing features is that it is
considered a green product. We extrude it from billets and in many cases,the billets themselves are created from recycled aluminum. As a result, aluminum is a good product to consider when sustainability and environmental friendliness are concerns. From a thermal performance standpoint, it is a conductive material, but recent improvements in thermal break technologies enable aluminum systems to perform very well, thermally.”
“State-of-the art aluminum window and door products can, with the use of the latest glazing and thermal break technologies, meet and exceed realistic energy efficiency standards that we desire,” added Patzer. “When product durability and total life cycle are taken into account, aluminum products should be the products of choice for total energy.”
“I think it is safe to say that the use of aluminum is returning to apartments because longevity and durability have worked in its favor,” said Miller. “Five years ago, vinyl was the material of choice because of cost and aesthetics. We sell to the residential market including Florida. Based on its hurricane-resistance, aluminum is coming back. In retrospect, I would say aluminum has proven to be cyclical in nature.”
Alan Goldberg is a contributing writer for DWM. He has more than 30 years of experience in the insulating glass industry.
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Austerity and Solidarity in Europe: No Zero-Sum Game
EU governments are implementing austerity packages; populist and nationalist movements are growing; social discontent rages. The European Union is facing a crisis of multiple dimensions, both economic and financial, but also social and democratic.
How to cope with these current threats to the EU’s political and social cohesion by balancing crisis-induced austerity and the principle of solidarity amongst member states was the issue of this year’s Brussels Think Tank Dialogue on January 30th.
The debates amongst academic and political experts from all over Europe, including distinguished speakers like Martin Schulz, recently elected president of the European Parliament, Danuta Hübner, chair of the EP’s cohesion policy committee, and MEP Dimitrios Droutsas, former foreign minister of Greece, started with two perspectives on the austerity-solidarity equation currently predominating the public debate:
On the one hand, indiscriminate budget consolidation efforts are accused of exarcerbating economic recession and social hardships particularly in those EU countries most affected by the sovereign debt crisis. On the other hand, austerity policies may be considered as a necessary precondition for structural reforms enhancing competitiveness, growth and employment in member states lagging behind.
Most of the around 400 participants shared the perspective that there is no automatic trade-off between austerity and solidarity and that restoring sustainable public finances can and should be reconciled with a stronger focus on growth and jobs. Moreover, there was broad consensus that the issue of European solidarity should not be narrowed down to the current crisis-related debate. Keeping in mind that European integration is not just about economics but a political project, the principle of solidarity should also address issues like intergenerational justice in a resource-efficient EU, European migration policy or Europe’s role in the world.
Participants in the five workshops held at the 2012 Think-Tank Dialogue sketched the following ways forward for an EU striving for sound public finances, solid growth and solidarity:
“If we want to produce a resource-efficient Europe so that the pursuit of resource efficiency becomes a European resource in itself, we need to tailor the regulation to make sure that it is adaptable, flexible and able to evolve in line with costs and technological development.”
“As regards mitigating the social impact of the euro crisis, we must provide ways at the EU level to give young entrepreneurs an incentive for trying start-ups, to enhance young people’s mobility and to raise European funds and private funding for social enterprises with greater capital requirements, such as hospitals, social housing, or homes for the elderly and the disabled."
“The EU budget has an important role to play in Europe as a genuine investment tool for long-term growth and a source of finance for European public goods with high added value.”
“The Arab Spring offered the EU a perfect opportunity to present to the world a confident new foreign policy. But it came too early for the nascent European External Action Service to exert much influence. Member states still harbor different interests and pursue different priorities in the region, making it difficult to forge a common EU approach”.
“We must not over-react to the ‘immigration emergencies’ that the EU is experiencing, such as last April’s influx of Tunisians into Italy. No major changes to the Schengen Treaty are needed, but the Schengen Evaluation System must be improved.”
The annual Brussels Think Tank Dialogue is one of Europe’s leading dialogue platforms promoting the exchange between policymakers, academics and civil society on the EU’s political priorities. Since 2010 it has been jointly organized by the Bertelsmann Stiftung, Bruegel, CEPS, Confrontations Europe, the Egmont Institute, EPC, Friends of Europe – Les amis de l’Europe, Ifri, Madariaga – College of Europe Foundation and the SWP at the beginning of every year. The dialogue is kindly supported by Agence Europe and in 2012 Euractiv.com joined as media partner for the first time.
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A horse is a horse of course until Burger King admitted traces of horse DNA were found in samples of patties from a food-processing plant in Ireland. The neigh-sayers issued a statement that the meat never reached its eateries. Looks like the King may lose his crown as it seems whatever falls into the grinder is sometimes mixed with "blended" random animals.
“Four samples recently taken from the Silvercrest plant have shown the presence of very small trace levels of equine DNA. This product was never sold to our restaurants,” the company said in a statement on Thursday.
Burger King previously dropped the firm, which had been approved to supply burgers to its restaurants in Britain, Ireland and Denmark. Traces of horse DNA were found in beef burgers sold by supermarkets Tesco, Lidl, Aldi and Iceland. Well on one hand, you're eating a healthier and leaner meat, but you've also just eaten somebody's friend named "Flicka".
“We are deeply troubled by the findings of our investigation and apologize to our guests, who trust us to source only the highest quality 100 percent beef burgers. Our supplier has failed us and in turn we have failed you.” said Burger King’s vice president of global quality, Diego Beamonte.
They sound like they are beating a dead horse and Burger King has announced it's now releasing their all new, "Rodeo" sandwich. Have you heard what their new Kid's Meal toy is? A clip-on horse tail extensions for girls and lassos for the boys.
I'll have the Mr. Ed with cheese & bacon and all this time I thought that the "seabiscuit" in BK's Seabiscuit breakfast sandwich was referring to the bread used for the bun! I guess I'll just have to hoof it on over to McDonalds from now on.
The Miami-based chain said its investigation showed the source of the Silvercrest contamination was the same non-approved Polish supplier identified by the Irish department of agriculture.
"Hi-ho, Silver!........with cheese"
Food safety experts said horse meat poses no added health risks to consumers, but I bet
BK will have to pony up some cash to get rid of this bad publicity. I wonder if this will "trigger" any lawsuits?
It bears repeating.....
"To beef, or not to beef,
That is equestrian.
Happy trails to you, until we meet again Burger King!
The Humm just published another of my stories in their newspaper and online page 7
Now available on Amazon US and Amazon Canada. Canadians please contact me for books to get cheaper shipping.
Or buy the Kindle version now available on the US site.
Cowansville High School book will be available in January
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Deceased Estates (Trustee Act/Judicial Factors Act)
Executor? Reduce risk from estate creditors by placing Trustee Act 1925 notices in the UK's official paper of record.
Sometimes known as Notices to Creditors or Trustee Act notices, they are placed to minimise the liability of executors to outstanding debts for which the deceased's estate is liable.
Notices are easy to place (more details below) but if you are not a solicitor or a duly authorised representative of a London Clearing Bank then we do require a photocopy of the Grant of Probate. A mail forwarding facility is available for those Executors reluctant for their addresses to appear in print/online.
Full instructions for placing notices and a PDF template appear below. A Microsoft Word template is
Deceased estate notices for publication in the London Gazette may be submitted at lower cost by webform. For more details please contact us
If you would like to view recent notices
please see them here.
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What We Believe
"Diversity inspires us and motivates us. It is our differences that attract us and enrich our senses!"
The Andes of South America
Innovation: We continuously innovate in everything we do; our products and services, our business procedures, our methods, etc...
Multiculturalism: Diversity inspires us and motivates us. It is our differences that attract us and enrich our senses!Harmony: We strive to live in harmony with everyone and everything that surrounds us on this planet, and we insist on spreading these aspirations to as many people as possible.
Leadership: We aim for excellence in everything we do. We want to make a difference and follow this with concrete actions and determination.
Passion: We love what we do and it is with this love and passion that we are capable of creating amazing things.
We imagine a world where man will be able to live and progress in harmony with his natural and social environment and want to be the organization that participated to help make this possible through the tourism sector.
We want to have a concrete impact by changing things to conserve the natural and cultural beauties of our planet and to improve its environment. To do so, we plan to become the global leader in ecotourism (sustainable tourism).
Our MissionKepri's reason-for-being is to balance travelling with sustainable development, here's how we do it:
- Improve the ecological lifecycle of Kepri trips by measuring the impact of all our activities.
- Have a personal impact on the travelers, to surpass their trip experience expectations while promoting an responsible way of travelling.
- Creating a cultural bridge that allows travelers to feel like they are experiencing the true local way of life.
- Influence local service providers to value their social and natural environment and to help them develop better, more responsible ecotourism competencies.
- To be the answer for those who want to travel knowing that their trip's impact on the ecosystems of the planet is minimized, if not positive.
- To allow travelers to discover the most beautiful natural and cultural aspects of the planet while preserving its fragility.
- Recruit creative, dynamic, multicultural and entrepreneurial people who share the same cause (reconcile tourism with sustainable development).
- Continuously invest in R&D to develop new products and innovate to become the industry leader in ecotourism.
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This is one in a series of vignettes celebrating history. The series' name comes from the state motto, Ad astra per aspera: "To the stars through difficulties."
Wichitas secret, torrid love affair with jazz, bootlegging, drugs and prostitutes is out in the open.
The new book Wichita Jazz and Vice Between the World Wars, by Joshua Yearout examines that history. It will be featured at a reception honoring the author at 6 p.m. Friday at Wichitas City Arts.
Yearout, who wrote the book for his masters degree in public history at Wichita State University in 2005, had cancer and died last year. He was 33.
Yearout was an archivist in special collections at WSU and had access to many of the records in WSU collections. Profits from the book will go to his wife and daughter.
For local historians and history buffs, the 87-page book contains a comprehensive list of Wichita and Sedgwick County clubs and venues, and the performers who played in them through the years.
The book also explores some of the jazz greats who performed in Wichita such as Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong.
It was in Wichita that the electric guitar got its start. Wichita club and band leader Gage Brewer debuted the guitar.
And it was in Wichita that one of the greatest jazz musicians of the 20th century, Charlie Bird Parker, produced his first recording.
It was 1940 and Parker, then 20, was playing in Jay McShanns swing band. McShanns orchestra played at Trocadero, a club at 3400 W. Douglas. Parker made the recording at local radio station KFBI and included the songs I Found A New Baby, Body and Soul and Wichita Blues.
The book explores the going rates for alcohol in 1917. Topeka bootleggers charged $2 to $4.50 for a gallon of whiskey but Wichita bootleggers were charging up to $35 a quart. Kansas was a dry state at the time.
While not impossible to find a drink in Wichita, it was at least much more expensive, Yearout wrote.
He wrote that the Sept. 9, 1926, arrest of two known bootleggers, Sam and Ed Offut, made by Wichita Detective Dan Carrier, was as if scripted for a low-budget film noir.
Yearouts notes as taken from news accounts of the Wichita Eagle and Wichita Beacon read:
We overtook them and shook them down at Hydraulic and Third. Sam had a 30-30 Winchester between his legs and when Sam got out he had a pint of whiskey in his shirt and let it slip down his trousers and it broke. He started to fight. Mr. Carrier knocked him down with his six shooter. We told them to get into Mr. Carriers car and Mr. Carrier told me to drive.
The book was published, in part, by funding through Tom and Jill Docking, Caffe Moderne, Senseney Music and by WSUs College of Fine Arts, Office of the Dean.
The books will be sold at Caffe Moderne, Senseney Music and the Kansas African American Museum. They also will be available the night of the reception.
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Even before this year’s devastating earthquake destroyed much of Haiti’s infrastructure, the country was plagued with energy problems.
Only 25% of the country had access to the meager energy resources, and nearly half of that electricity was being stolen.
Those citizens that were able to afford it paid a hefty premium: On average, Haiti pays about four times what electricity users in the United States pay.
That could mean up to 30% of a Haitian’s earnings were spent on rudimentary power — mainly candles, kerosene, and timber. And since wood serves as the country’s principal energy source, Haiti has clear cut over 98% of the nation’s tree cover.
So, to say that Haiti has a serious, long-term energy emergency on its hands would be an understatement.
One company is seeking to take that fractured situation and provide the framework and software solutions to achieve 100% renewable energy in the country.
That company is Colorado-based Green Energy Corp. They have been pioneers in the smart grid market for over 25 years, providing software and engineering services to over 100 utilities.
The firm has also developed what they say is the first universal plan designed to provide developing nations with renewable power.
They have dubbed the pilot project the Global Energy Model, or GEM.
When company founder Daniel Gregory witnessed Haiti’s devastation first hand as part of a philanthropic envoy, he decided that it was an ideal place to launch GEM’s first pilot project. That one trip eventually led to the partnership with the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), with the goal of developing a GEM Working Group to make the project a reality.
The island nation has a number of unique characteristics which make it an ideal location to launch and implement GEM. What Haiti lacks in infrastructure, it makes up for with natural resources…
“They have the sun, wind and water that can be used to generate electricity in a renewable way,” Green Energy Corp. CEO Peter Gregory told me in a recent interview.
GEM would operate something like this…
Let’s look at the hard hit capital of Port au Prince. Instead of building one 120MW coal plant to feed fossil fuel power around the area, GEM imagines twelve 10MW solar plants surrounding the city, each feeding into a smart grid. And because Haiti is a mountainous country, the differential in elevation makes pumped hydro storage a clean and efficient supplemental energy option.
The model also incorporates a biomass plant, a wind farm, and vehicle-to-grid generation. By focusing efforts on a distribution model that would link smaller-scale renewable sources together closer to the load, Green Energy Corp claims that they can reduce the costs of transmitting energy. Plus, the model offers an opportunity for Haitians to set up small wind or solar farms, creating jobs and energy.
And since the pumped hydro storage needs man-made lakes to store water, villages could be constructed around the lakes — providing improved irrigation and an attractive alternative for displaced Haitians.
The conceptual figure below shows what Port au Prince could look like under GEM (click image to enlarge).
Enter the Green Energy Corp’s software platform — GreenBus — which promises to coordinate the generation from all of these renewable sources.
What makes the software revolutionary is that it’s open source technology that can be used on any control system. While traditional control systems are complex and use proprietary software for control functions and communication, GreenBus is based on open standards and all of the software is published to an open-source community.
“Let’s say that if before you had 25,000 control centers in the US, you’d have another 25,000 different software configurations. It’s simply not efficient,” Gregory said. “We need a ubiquitous solution so everyone can plug and play.”
Gregory is the first to admit that this is an ambitious project. But the company has found partnership in all the right places.
“Haiti just has that charisma that we need to get people off the dime. We have the ear of everyone that can make a difference there,” Gregory added.
In addition to the CGI, the GEM Working Group consists of some big names — both public and private — including the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the UN Environment Programme, Duke Energy, and EarthSpark International.
When I asked him how long such an endeavor would take, Gregory admitted that it was hard to say. The plan now is to phase in the project beginning with an 8-hour daytime power and gradually build up to a 24/7, 100% renewable energy system.
If successful, Green Energy Corp. hopes Haiti will serve as a model for other developing countries — places like Ethiopia, Sudan, Pakistan and the Congo.
“My personal belief is that, five years would be too long. But it needs to happen, there are so many issues in the world today, it’s life and death, it’s water… it’s humanity,” Gregory stressed.
“These things need to happen, and nothing should be holding us back.”
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THURSDAY, Sept. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Why is it that some people are much better at turning their thoughts inward and reflecting on their decisions than others? The answer, neuroscientists say, may come down partly to differences in brain structure.
In a study published in the Sept. 17 issue of Science, researchers report that people who are good at introspection, or "thinking about thinking," have a greater volume of gray matter in the area of the brain that lies directly behind the eyes.
"What this study does is allow us to have a better understanding of the biology of the brain that is linked to quite a high level of thinking, which is our ability to reflect on our thoughts and behaviors," said one of the study's lead authors, Steve Fleming, a doctoral candidate at University College London's Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging.
Fleming noted that introspection isn't the same as knowing the correct answer. "For example, if you're a contestant on a game show and you're uncertain about your answer, you might choose to ask the audience for help. That kind of introspective knowledge is different from your basic ability to make the right decision."
For the study, Fleming and his colleagues gave 32 healthy adults a computer test that was designed to measure how well each participant did at a task, as well as how confident that person was about his or her decisions during the task.
Each person was shown two screens, both of which contained six patterned patches. One of the screens, however, contained a single patch that was brighter than all the rest. The researchers asked the participants to identify which screen contained the brighter patch, and then to rate how confident they felt about their final answers. After the experiment, participants' brains were scanned using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
The researchers' theory was that individuals who were good at introspection would feel confident after choosing the right answer, and less so if they were incorrect. By tracking how accurately the participants were able to rate their own decision-making, researchers were able to gauge the participants' capacity for introspection.
Reviewing the results, Fleming's team found the capacity for introspection varied widely. They also discovered that a person's meta-cognitive, or "higher-thinking" introspective abilities, were significantly associated with the amount of gray matter in the right anterior prefrontal cortex of the brain and the structure of neighboring white matter.
To control for differences in the participants' ability to choose the correct answer, the researchers programmed the computer to give harder tests to the better observers and easier tests to the poorer observers.
In an editorial accompanying the study, the authors said that designing the test so that all of the participants were never completely sure if their answer was correct was a key advance.
"Previously, there's been some debate as to whether rating perceptual confidence genuinely involved metacognition," or whether people just focused on sensory input, said editorial co-author Hakwan Lau, an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia University in New York City. "So in a sense, by finding out which brain structures may be important for [introspection], they have contributed to clarifying the mechanisms underlying this sort of behavior."
Another expert agreed that the study findings were novel and intriguing. "What's interesting about this study is that such a high level of thought behavior can be correlated to a specific part of the brain," said Paul Sanberg, distinguished professor of neurosurgery and director of the University of South Florida Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair in Tampa.
"The reason this study is important is that you need to get a baseline of how the brain functions before you can begin to think about treatments that can help people enhance these kinds of behaviors," Sanberg said.
The association the researchers found doesn't necessarily mean that people with more gray matter in the prefrontal cortex will be more introspective than others, according to a statement accompanying the study release.
Fleming said that an unanswered question is whether people are born with these brain differences that allow them to be more introspective, or whether their specific thoughts and behaviors cause them to become better at it. "What we need to do is assess whether we can train people to be more introspective, and if so, does that lead to changes in these structures of the brain," he said.
He added that future studies are needed to look at whether the findings hold up for other kinds of introspective behavior.
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research has more about the brain.
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No produce shortages in Yazoo
By JAMIE PATTERSON
With poor weather and nationwide crop shortages making headlines, many in Yazoo City are wondering how their produce will be affected.
Most local merchants said there is nothing to be worried about with the recent produce hype.
“We are gonna have plenty of produce,” said Bennie Shiers, produce manager at Sunflower Grocery Store. “We’ll be fine.”
An article that appeared in The Wall Street Journal said that produce prices in grocery stores and other markets would increase because of a freeze that hit Mexico last February. It was reported that tomatoes, bell peppers and cucumbers were among the produce listed with the crop shortage. -------for the rest of the story see The Yazoo Herald printed edition or subscribe to the Digital Edition.----------
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Female Eagle Killed in Accident
The 15-year-old female eagle that had a following on the Norfolk Botanical Garden Eagle Cam was struck and killed by an airplane earlier this morning at the garden according to garden spokeswoman Kelly Gaita.
“We are fairly certain that this is the Norfolk Botanical Garden female eagle due to her physical characteristics, size and the fact that she has not been seen at the nest since the strike,” said Reese Lukei, a research associate with the Center for Conservation Biology in a statement released by the gardens.
The eagle was struck by an US Airways flight from Philadelphia either flying over Lake Whitehurst or over the runway according to Airport Deputy Executive Director Robert Bowen in an article by The Virginian-Pilot.
Experts will keep an eye on the nest as the female had been tending to three eaglets.
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North-West Rebellion (1885 and after)
The events of 1885 have been studied repeatedly and in great depth.
The dominant society tends to ask, "How did this happen?" while the
Métis people ask "How do we go on from here?" The following chronology
is based on a presentation from the University of Saskatchewan, which
archives hold many of the primary records of the events. Remember that
St. Laurent had been a community with a priest for 18 years, with an
organized community government for twelve years, and had, along with
surrounding communities of First Nations, Métis and settlers, sent many
petitions to Ottawa for action on the issues of land title and hunger.
Most of the Métis petitions had been sent through the agency of the
In 1884, only swift action by members of the fur trade community and
the NWMP prevented a full scale uprising by the First Nations. Bands
from north-eastern Alberta and north-western Saskatchewan had gathered
for a Sun-Dance, and their chiefs had met together with Louis Riel. They
decided not to join with him at that time. What the chiefs wanted was a
simple recognition by the Chief Commissioner of Indian Affairs that they
were living in a state of famine, which would have facilitated the
application of the "famine clause". Events came to a head when the NWMP
interrupted a ceremony to arrest a man who had stolen food.
Riel had sent tobacco to all the bands in Saskatchewan and Alberta,
asking for their support for the Metis grievances. Although some of the
bands did take action at the same time as the St. Laurent people, only
the bands directly connected, geographically, with St. Laurent were
directly allied with them.
Formal action began 24 March 1884, when the South Branch Métis held a
meeting in Batoche to discuss grievances. The thirty representatives
voted to invite Louis Riel back to act as political advisor and leader.
On 6 May 1884, at a joint meeting, the South Branch Métis and English
half-breeds passed several resolutions specifying grievances and adopted
a motion to seek Louis Riel's assistance. They followed their motion up
on 18 May 1884, when the Métis delegation left Batoche for Montana to
solicit Louis Riel's aid. The Métis delegation arrived in St. Peter's
Mission, in Montana on the 4-5 June 1884. Riel agreed to return with
them to Saskatchewan. By 5 July 1884, the delegation with Riel arrived
back at Tourond's Coulee (Fish Creek), North-West Territories. They
began meeting and formulating policy. On 28 July 1884, William H.
Jackson acting as secretary, issued a manifesto of the grievances and
objectives of the Settlers' Union. By 16 December 1884, Louis Riel had
prepared and sent a petition to the Secretary of State outlining Métis
grievances and demands.
On 28 January 1885, John A. Macdonald's cabinet authorized the
creation of a three-person commission to review and settle Métis and
Half-breed claims in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories, but
apparently did not notify the federal people out west. On 5 March 1885,
Louis Riel and a group of prominent Métis held a secret meeting. They
signed an oath to "save our country from a wicked government by taking
up arms if necessary." They were prepared to take whatever action was
necessary. On18 March 1885, the Métis seized control of St. Anthony's
Church, took hostages and cut the telegraph lines at Clarke's Crossing.
By 19 March 1885, they had formed the ministry and the army of the
Provisional Government of Saskatchewan. On 21 March 1885, the
Provisional Government formally demanded the North-West Mounted Police
surrender Fort Carlton.
In response, on 22 March 1885, the English Half-Breeds of St.
Catherine's and the Ridge voted to remain neutral in the event of armed
conflict. Farther afield, on 22 March 1885, the Winnipeg Militia was
ordered to a state of readiness and Major-General Frederick Dobson
Middleton was given command of the troops.
When a provisional government was declared in 1885, Dumont was named
"adjutant general of the Metis people." He proved himself an able
commander and his tiny army experienced some success against government
forces at Duck Lake and Fish Creek. On 26 March 1885, responding to a
rumour that the Mounted Police were moving out, the Métis force under
Gabriel Dumont engaged in an unplanned skirmish with Superintendent L.F.
Crozier's Mounted Police and volunteers at Duck Lake. The Police were
taken unawares and completely routed.
Rivalry and Union(1821)/Seven Oaks
Trade at Red River
Provisional Government (1869-1870)
Manitoba Act and Scrip
Post 1886: Rupture and Drift
Political Agitation (1870s and 1880s)
North-West Rebellion (1885 and after)
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Top 10 reasons for Python
Quoting from a big PowerPoint presentation. Great read! I downloaded the PPT file 2 days ago, and can't remember where in Bruce's site it was originally located. Note the last part about Perl!
Top 10 reasons for programming in Python
10. Reduced Clutter
Programs are read more than they are written
XP: Consistent formatting really is important
Readability and compactness
Part of "conservation of complexity"
Consistent use of programming idioms improves understandability
The opposite of "more than one way to do it"
9. It's not backward-compatible in exchange for pain
- C++: Backward compatible with C - its strength and its bane
- Java: more or less with C++ syntax (not too bad,but a lot of typing)
- Perl: compatible with every hacky syntax of every Unix tool ever invented
- C# and .NET: backward compatible with previous Microsoft marketing campaigns
8. It doesn't value performance over my productivity
- C++: can't let go of C performance
- Better than C, sure, but still takes forever to get something working; memory leaks are almost impossible to design out
- Java: Primitive types require awkward coding (primitives "necessary" for speed)
- As opposed to Python: everything is an object; escape mechanism (extension) for speed
7. It doesn't treat me like I'm stupid
- "Operator overloading is bad because you can make ugly code with it"
- "finalize( ) does something"
- "We reviewed Java designs before putting them into the language"
- "Java has an open development process"
6. I don't wait forever for a full implementation of the language
- Some features we invented in the C++ committee are still not implemented
- Unused features don't get tested; circular problem
- Many C++ vendors say "it's hard, andno one's asking for it."
5. It doesn't make assumptions about how we discover errors
- Is strong static type checking really the only way to be sure?
- Lack of good static typing in pre-ANSI C was certainly heaps of trouble
- Doesn't mean it's the best solution
- Errors discovered with real data seem to me to be the hardest to find
4. Marketing people are not involved
- "Java is flawless"
- Microsoft "Visual" "C++" - Microsoft happens
- Of course, Python isn't immune
3. I don't have to type so much
- … And I don't have to wade through so much code when I'm reading
- Conservation of complexity:simplicity really does make a difference
- But the right typing
- Not obscure like APL
- Not endlessly inventive like Perl or FORTH
2. My guesses are usually right
- I still have to look up how to open a file every time I do it in Java
- In fact, most things in Java require me to look something up
- I can remember many Python idioms because they're simpler
- One more reason I program faster
1. Python lets me focus on concepts
- No stumbling through Java designs, fighting with C++ compilations or run-time bugs.
- Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise.
- Perl is like vice grips. You can do anything with it, and it's the wrong tool for every job - Leaves teeth marks everywhere
- Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse. Larry Wall, 14 Oct 1998
- I would actively encourage my competition to use Perl. Sean True, 30 Mar 1999
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- 10:54 am - Sat, Sep 15, 2012
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We already know that, in many cases, retaining older buildings - especially those of architectural or historic character - can strengthen the enduring legacy and enjoyment of a community. But is it good for the environment? Lots of people think so, including architect Carl Elefante, who coined the wonderful phrase, “the greenest building is one that is already built,” because you don’t have to use environmental resources in constructing its replacement. (I have added that the phrase is most likely to be true if the building is in the right context.) But, especially considering the advanced green technology available for new construction, do the facts back that up?
The Preservation Green Lab of the National Trust for Historic Preservation has just released a detailed new study (available here) directly addressing these important questions. The study concludes that it can take between 10 and 80 years for a new, energy-efficient building to overcome, through more efficient operations, the negative energy and climate change impacts caused in the construction process. The study cautions, however, that there are environmental resources expended in rehabbing an older building as well; care must be taken in the selection of materials used in the rehabilitation or adaptation of older buildings, since “the benefits of reuse can be reduced or negated based on the type and quantity of materials selected for a reuse project.”
More here: The green dividend from reusing older buildings | Sustainable Cities Collective
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King/Chavez/Parks Visiting Professors
The Martin Luther King, Jr. . César Chávez . Rosa Parks Visiting Professors Program was created by the Michigan State Legislature in 1986 as part of the larger King.Chávez.Parks Initiative. The legislative intent is to stem the downward spiral of college graduation rates for students underrepresented in postsecondary education. Michigan's KCP Visiting Professors Program is intended to increase the number of underrepresented instructors in higher education institutions in the State. Preference may not be given to visiting faculty on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, gender, or national origin. Institutions should encourage applications from applicants who would otherwise not be adequately represented in the faculty
In support of this mission, the legislature created the Visiting Professors Program to increase the number of underrepresented instructors in the classroom to provide role models for underrepresented students. It has been possible for a student to complete his/her bachelor's degree without having been taught by a person who looked like him/her. The Visiting Professors Program provides a vital demonstration that a pool of talented underrepresented academics does exist.
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Europe Credit Crisis And U.S. Debt Gridlock Places Bank Of Canada In Conundrum
THE CANADIAN PRESS -- OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada faces a conundrum.
With the Canadian economy on track, it is not a question of whether the central bank should raise rates, but rather when the increase will come.
But faced with a growing credit crisis in Europe and fiscal gridlock in the United States, Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney has repeatedly raised concerns about the potential fallout on the Canadian economy.
"The proverbial rock is an economy that is expected to grow just fast enough to absorb the limited amounted of slack that's still tamping inflation," BMO economist Sal Guatieri wrote in a report.
"The hard place that Carney is caught between is the growing risk that Canada's economy will underperform if U.S. demand remains weak and/or Europe's credit crisis erupts and spews lava across global financial markets."
The central bank is widely expected to keep its overnight rate target at one per cent when it makes its rate announcement Tuesday, followed by its Monetary Policy Report on Wednesday.
The latter is expected to help clarify where the central bank sees the economy headed and just how concerned it is about the international chaos as it heads into the fall and its next rate announcement in September.
"In our view, a gentle tap on the brakes later this year, once the U.S. economy has perked up and Europe's crisis has calmed down, likely strikes the right balance," Guatieri wrote.
The latest rate announcement comes as U.S. lawmakers fight over increasing the government's debt limit. A failure to increase the cap by the Aug. 2 deadline could send shockwaves through the financial markets if the U.S. defaults on its debt.
Glen Hodgson, chief economist at the Conference Board of Canada, predicted the Bank of Canada would stay on the sidelines for now and look to increase rates in the fall.
"Increasing rates now with the U.S. not having a clear decision on the debt ceiling is inviting more instability and risk into Canada," he said.
Hodgson said Carney is right to also be worried about the affect of the Greek debt crisis on the banking sector.
The central bank's overnight target rate affects prime lending rates at the big banks and in turn the rates on variable rate mortgages and lines of credit.
An increase in the prime lending rate will push up the cost of borrowing for those using a line or credit and up mortgage payments for those with variable mortgages.
Speaking to a Senate committee last month, Carney warned that the second quarter in Canada could see growth drop all the way to the one per cent range, from 3.9 per cent in the first three months.
The bank last hiked interest rates in September 2010.
The C.D. Howe Institute's monetary policy council recommended last week central bank raise its target for the overnight interest rate by a quarter point to 1.25 per cent.
However, the recommendation by the mix of private sector economists and academics was not unanimous with five members of the panel recommending the increase and four others suggesting no change.
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The ends of the hoops are inserted 6 to 8 inches into the soil on each side of the row so that the width of the hoop at the base is 24 to 36 inches and the height at the apex of the hoop is 14 to 18 inches. The hoops are spaced about 4 feet apart in the row. There are many variations of these dimensions, depending on crop size. Hoops made from a coil of wire are installed by hand; but for machine-installed hoops, the wire has to be straight to properly feed into the machine. For most crops grown with hoop-supported covers, black plastic mulch is used for weed control as well as for improved crop growth.
After the hoops are set, the plastic cover is applied and secured by burying the edges with soil. The cover should be taut to prevent flapping in the wind. An alternative way of securing the cover is to insert an outer wire hoop over the inner hoop with a solid (non-perforated) plastic cover wedged between the two hoops. With the double hoop technique, the edges of the plastic are not buried so that the cover can be raised and lowered for ventilation.
Another method of covering is to use plastic with either slits or perforations (3/8 inch holes). Generally, daytime opening is not required, although at night there is a greater loss of heat through these openings than through solid plastic. The advantage over solid plastic is minimal, if any, labor for manual ventilation. Daytime opening is necessary for crops such as tomatoes and pepper if the temperature under the cover is expected to exceed 90oF for several hours. Under such conditions, the easiest way to ventilate quickly is to make long slits at the top of the low tunnel; but this should be done in anticipation of the high temperatures, not after the fact. Cucurbits (melons, cucumbers, and squash) are more tolerant of high temperatures.
Depending on the crop and the environmental conditions, the covers are left in place for 3 to 4 weeks and then removed. For crops requiring bee pollination, the covers are removed about the time of the appearance of the first female flowers. For wind pollinated crops (tomato, pepper, eggplant), time of removal is somewhat temperature dependent since temperatures should not exceed 90o F at the late bud to open flower stage for more than a few hours.
Research is being conducted at the Center for Plasticulture on the use of various kinds of low tunnels both in the field and in high tunnels.
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For starters, none of the evocative images from their recent work have an individual photographer’s byline. All are credited to Luceo.
Also, the group’s members traveled together. In a rented RV.
David Walter Banks, Kendrick Brinson, Matt Eich, Daryl Peveto and Matt Slaby journeyed through Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Nevada in late August, stopping for two to three days in a town to photograph different stories.
I’d call it a photographic road trip, but Mr. Banks doesn’t like to use the term “road trip” because it doesn’t convey the scope — or seriousness — of their approach to documenting rural America.
Fair enough. Their photographs back that up.
“What we can produce as a unit working together is more than the sum of our parts,” Mr. Banks said.
Mr. Banks, Ms. Brinson and Mr. Slaby started “Few and Far Between” in 2010 during a trip to Lebanon, Kan. The project has since grown to include eight different states. (Kevin German missed this trip because he was finishing his own motorcycle trip through Vietnam.)
The photographers described their project as the first in a series that will examine the changes sweeping over rural America, challenging the simple stereotypes of shrinking populations. If anything, they have seen slow growth, fueled by a shifting, globalized economy.
“This change in industry, however, does not represent an overall repurposing of rural communities,” they wrote on their Web site. “Instead, there has been a slow population decline in farming-based counties throughout the middle states of America offset by significant growth in Western states that boast alternative economies.”
The trip was funded by Luceo’s Project Fund, where a portion of every member’s assignment fee — editorial or commercial — finances individual or group projects.
They are trying to raise more money for future installments of the project and are selling a quirky, one-of-a-kind handmade book that includes original instant photos and artifacts gathered on this trip. Each member collected artifacts and documented their experiences using various instant cameras. The images and artifacts have been gathered and assembled by Mr. Peveto into a one-of-a-kind book.
After seeing these photos, I’m looking forward to the results of future trips and the monographs they plan to sell in their online store. But I’m still left wondering what to call this adventure.
How about a photographic rapid response team?
“There’s an image loose in the southwest corner of Idaho!” And off they go.
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using photoshop or other image editting programs to doctor pictures to suit your own version of events, based on the idea of "pics or its not true" (also known as "pics or it didn't happen"). using this as a threat against people that piss you off on the internet can give you leverage in forum arguments.
Steve: I live to piss you off, why can't you hack it?
Dan: say, remember that time in your life you weighed 400 pounds and wore a mumu?
Steve: lol no...that never happened!
Dan: then stop pissing me off and I won't photoshop it true.
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September 3, 1995
From KC Wildmoon
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Labor Day. Picnics, barbecues, massive department store sales. What's this got to do with work? Has the country collectively lost sight of the meaning of one of its most enduring holidays?
Maybe Labor Day has always been a little misunderstood. Seven days after he signed a bill designating the first Monday in September as a national holiday honoring workers, President Grover Cleveland sent the Army to quell a rebellion by striking Pullman workers.
Thirteen strikers were killed by the soldiers; union activist Eugene Debs went to jail because he refused to call a halt to the American Railway Workers' strike in Chicago.
And how about the date of that strike-breaking action? July 4, 1894. Independence Day, just two months before the first official national Labor Day was celebrated.
But Labor Day certainly wasn't an idea sprung from the head of Congress and shoved under the pen of President Cleveland. Matthew Maguire, a New Jersey machinist, and Peter J. McGuire, a New York carpenter who co-founded the precurser to the American Federation of Labor (AFL), decided something should be done to mark the strides already made toward creating a better workplace in America.
Working with the Central Labor Union of New York, Maguire and McGuire organized the country's first Labor Day parade -- 10,000 people took to the streets of New York City on September 5, 1882, and the holiday was born, at least unofficially.
Union organizing was always a little rocky -- organizers, like the fellow who arrived in Matewan, West Virginia, to organizer miners, were likely to end up dead. And strikes -- like the Chicago Pullman strike of 1894 -- were often met with violence. And employers sometimes used tragic means to keep unions from gaining a toehold in their companies.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 cost 146 people, almost all women, their lives. The reason? Many of the sweatshop's doors were locked, standard procedure to keep pesky union organizers out and employees under strict control.
So the labor union movement in America, despite reaching a high of 21.7 million members in 1978, has never fully taken hold. In the United States, it's almost a love it or hate it thing when it comes to labor unions, as it has been since the movement's furtive beginnings in the mid-1800s.
But as another long weekend rolls around, it could be good to remember a few of the gains that might not have come around if labor unions hadn't been fighting so hard -- the 40- hour work week, unemployment insurance, pensions and workman's compensation, to name a few.
So fire up the grill, cop a great bargain, and take a dip in the pool on Monday. But remember who it was that made this summer-ending holiday possible -- the American worker.
Copyright © 1995 Cable News Network, Inc.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Profile: Patricia Albere
Patricia Albere is an internationally recognized pioneer and teacher, championing Evolutionary Relationships in our intimate, social and professional lives. By removing the traditional roles and broken rules that have held us down for millennia, Evolutionary Relationships is our ideal way of interacting -- recognizing that in order to succeed, we must develop the skills of 'mutuality' that include love, trust and sharing. She has facilitated the transformation of thousands of lives and countless relationships worldwide.
Patricia is the founder of the Evolutionary Collective a transformational educational institute focused on discovering what's possible through our connection, relationships, collective consciousness, and creativity. Through teachings, talks, web-casts, live & virtual workshops and collaboration with others, the Evolutionary Collective is opening people to a radical shift in perspective, out of self-contained consciousness and into the profound inter-connectedness and larger concern for the well-being of the whole. She is also the popular host of Evolutionary Collective Conversations.
Patricia and her fiancé live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her book, Evolutionary Relationships, is expected to be released in 2012.Company: Evolutionary Collective
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Rationing would take effect as 1943 was about to dawn and in San Luis Obispo there was a run on canned meat. Local shoppers were suspected of hoarding.
San Luis Obispo postmaster William C. O’Donnell said that Christmas volume was the highest ever. Special trains were scheduled to pick up the extra mail.
Official word from Admiral Chester Nimitz at Pearl Harbor estimated that the war in the Pacific would take 5 more years. Germany would be defeated first and it was thought that Japan would not surrender until subdued by invasion.
The Soviet ring around 22 Nazi divisions near Stalingrad was growing tighter. Adolph Hitler had ordered the German troops hold ground but had no comprehension that the task of resupply by air was beyond the ability of the Luftwaffe. Aircraft were failing due to harsh winter conditions and poor mechanical training.
Fighting over England, Norway and North Africa had depleted the German air force and the Soviet Army was learning from previous mistakes. The battle for this region had been raging for five bloody months.
- Stalin calls for a fight to the death, World War II week by week
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|6 years ago :: Oct 21, 2007 - 6:29PM #1|
Because appropriate attention one’s nutritional intake is essential
to a healthy sense of well-being and our mental state,
and for the purpose of exploring and examining nutritional support issues relative to depression,
this thread is a consolidation of nutritional information for easy future reference.
Before I start, however, I need to remind you
that I am not a professional health care worker,
just a wise consumer.
Everything I will share here is a matter of public documentation available to all wise consumers.
Also, while vitamins/minerals are supplemental
(as in, they are “in addition to” not a “replacement for” treatment),
IME nutritional supplements can contribute a whole lot of valuable and significant support
to any healing process, physical or mental.
|6 years ago :: Oct 21, 2007 - 6:33PM #2|
Here was my own eye-opener with regards to nutrition and mental health:
an introduction to a chapter on the B-vitamin complex that I read in a nursing textbook on nutrition
opened with an anecdote about how in the early 1900's, newly learned attention to nutrition
actually changed the course of one hospital for its mentally ill patients.
This facility was cutting edge for its time, and they’d made news by adding a nutritionist to their staff.
In addition to increasing nutritional standards in the kitchen,
she promptly put all the patients on the same daily vitamin regimen.
Little by little the patients began to get better and to go home until ultimately,
the hospital closed entirely because so many patients had gone home.
What was her “miracle drug?”
Vitamin B complex.
In The Complete Book of Vitamins (Rodale Press, 1977), there’s a handy chart titled “Vitamins at a Glance”
which lists the separate components of the B-complex.
One column heading is “Preventive and/or Therapeutic Applications.”
In other words, what a vitamin can heal/cure/support.
Often times this column also indicates what the lack of a vitamin can cause.
Quoting from under that heading for B-complex vitamins and components,
here is a partial list of just the mind-related conditions that B-complex deals with:
“stress-induced diseases, emotional stability, nervous disorders, fatigue, personality disturbances, dementia, stress, weakness, irritability, mental fatigue, insomnia, schizophrenia, depression, and mental illness.”
Please note that nervous disorders, depression, insomnia, and mental illness
are mentioned in a number of the vitamin’s components.
Read on to find out how and why our new nutritionist was able to close down that hospital ...
|6 years ago :: Oct 21, 2007 - 6:43PM #3|
Among other things, B-complex is a mind-vitamin.
Again paraphrasing and quoting The Complete Book of Vitamins (Rodale):
…in trying to determine B-complex deficiency], “R. Glen Green, M.D. …
”When a patient experiences some or all of these things – even sometimes –
Now certainly I’m not suggesting that B-complex can cure schizophrenia.
But what is significant is that a simple vitamin has been linked
If you're interested in trying nutritional support for yourself, read on.
|6 years ago :: Oct 21, 2007 - 7:01PM #4|
Before giving the nutritional support of vitamin B-complex a try,
1. It’s very fragile and easily destroyed by excessive cooking, heat, or sunshine.
2. Stress also destroys B-complex, as does caffeine and smoking.
3. Among other foods like eggs, liver, brewer’s yeast, etc., B-complex is found in green leafy vegetables.
4. B-complex is a water soluble vitamin, meaning that it’s difficult to overdose,
5. For maximum benefit, vitamin B-complex should be taken with vitamin C to work efficiently.
6. It’s advisable to take B-complex with meals, or at least with milk.
7. Although the components of vitamin B-complex can be purchased separately,
8. If you already take a multivitamin, or if you’re looking to begin taking a multivitamin,
Still with me?
|6 years ago :: Oct 21, 2007 - 7:14PM #5|
The RDA, or Recommended Daily Allowance, is the government issued guidelines
On my personal journey, well, being an impatient person, I wanted results fast,
Think of it this way: your body is like your car.
Next: how to buy vitamins
|6 years ago :: Oct 21, 2007 - 7:23PM #6|
The key to a good multi-vitamin is a good B-complex (minimun: 50 mg.)
As it's explained, each component of the complex is a world of healing unto itself - but only within the complex.
|6 years ago :: Oct 21, 2007 - 7:37PM #7|
I am frequently asked if there’s a difference between natural and non-natural, or synthetic, nutritional supplements.
|6 years ago :: Oct 21, 2007 - 7:50PM #8|
Okay, so you've decided to give vitamins a try.
Now, you get to choose further – multi-vitamin or B-complex with supplementation?
Any form - tablet, pill, liquid - is effective,
Again, I'm not a healthcare professional –
Next: Questions we didn't cover
|6 years ago :: Oct 21, 2007 - 11:43PM #9|
Q: What is 5HTP? I’ve heard that it can help with depression.
'5 HTP, an amino acid, is a seratonin precursor.
Studies and clinical testing have shown that this over the counter supplement
to effectively treat depression, among other conditions.
For more information on 5HTP, click here
Q: I don't eat any veggies. I eat a lot of meats, and sugars, and starches. Is that bad?
A: While meat is okay (do be careful about too much red meat),
sugars and starches are nutritional demons.
Refined sugars are the worst,
and starches (a/k/a carbohydrates) are categorized into good and bad -
both groups provide energy,
but good carbohydrates (whole grains, sweet potatoes as opposed to white, etc.)
provide the body with long-lasting energy and maintain even blood sugar levels.
To understand carbohydrates, consult the “Glycemic Index.”
Click here to get to info on how it works.
Each food has a glycemic number depending on how fast it is digested.
The lower the number, the better the carbohydrate is.
Also click here then scroll down to get to a general list of foods on the glycemic index.
Vegetables (and fruits) are extremely important.
In addition to providing fiber to keep the system clean and toxin-free,
they also fight diseases like cancer, etc.
A juice, like V-8, makes vegetable intake less painful.
Get it salt free though and salt to taste if you must,
but if you can drink it totally unsalted, so much the better.
Fruits give a sugar boost without messing with the blood sugars
which in turn contributes to depression, low energy, weight gain, etc.
Unlike vegetable juices, however, fruit juices have a lot of sugar,
so opt for fresh fruit, or unsweetened canned fruit (although fiber content is compromised somewhat)
or even frozen fruit (like berries, etc.)
Dried fruits are good too, but cause dehydradration, so increase water intake –
plus avoid overeating dried fruits.
Q: Is it okay to eat just when I feel like it rather than on a schedule?
A: This works for some, but typically can cause problems
like weight gain, low energy, blood sugar problems, etc.
The body is like a vehicle, in that it’s important to keep it fueled.
A car can’t drive without gas, yet many people start their day without breakfast.
The body does best on a 3-meal schedule with about 4 hours between meals,
or 6 smaller meals with 3 hours in between.
Try both to see which your body responds best to…
the important thing is to keep the body evenly fueled.
Q: What are the best vitamins for me to take? Also do they have any side effects?
A: The best is a good multi-vitamin with minerals.
Typically, department or grocery store vitamins are not very good,
so if your budget allows,
purchase vitamins/minerals at a health food store.
In addition, if the multi-vitamin doesn’t lessen your depression,
supplement it with extra vitamin B complex.
To avoid side effects (usually nausea), take any vitamins/minerals with vitamin C –
it helps the body to assimilate the vitamins.
If nausea still occurs, take with a meal, or sometimes just with milk helps as well.
Q: And what's the easiest way to change my diet around,
without putting myself in major stress?
Actually, if present dietary habits are poor,
they create more stress than changing to healthier ones will cause.
Just go slowly. Don’t make a bunch of changes at once.
Change one thing at a time, and watch a few days for any reaction.
If none occur, then add another change and continue thusly.
Q: What do you do if you don't have enough money to buy good food
and cannot get food stamps?
A: Check with local churches and/or food banks –
Plus you can click here to get to a site called “America’s Second Harvest”
whose mission is to hook up struggling families with local food banks.
And click here to get to another non-profit, non-denominational food relief organization.
Q: I find it difficult to take pills and capsules. Is there an easier way
to supplement my vitamins and minerals intake?
A: You’re in luck!
There’s a product called “Alive,”
a multi-vitamin powder to mix with milk/juice/water -
for an ultra-shake /smoothie beverage
or an effervescent (soda-like) beverage.
Typically (and IMO) such products offer little by way of vitamins/minerals,
and they taste disgusting usually --
but this is by far the best and most complete product
quality-wise and taste-wise,
that I've ever come across ...
a virtual multi-vitamin (and a whole lot more) in a shake-like drink ... wow!
Here are a couple links to investigate further,
to check out the nutritional info,
or even to purchase it,
(although it is available at places like Whole Foods, the online price is better) ...
Click here to get to the effervescent version.
And click here
they also offer an apple cinnamon flavour,
but vanilla blends nicely with other flavours (like chocolate or orange juice ...yum!)
Now there's no excuse not to take your vitamins!!
|4 years ago :: Jun 22, 2009 - 3:22PM #10|
I do believe there is something constructive to taking the B vitamins, especially B6. When I am feeling "sluggish" I take it. Perhaps, taking them on a regular basis would be a better thing. Also, Magnesium seems to work wonders for me as well. I discussed this with my cardiologist, and he says it has something to do with electrolites in the body. Anyway, it brings about a calming effect for me. I would not take a trip without it.
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How to Improve Your Soil Quality from Troy-Bilt
Soil fertility is the foundation for healthy grass. If your lawn is already established, improving soil quality is more challenging than if you are growing a new lawn. To boost the health and appearance of an existing lawn, follow these tips on how to improve soil quality. A fertilization technique called top-dressing can increase your soil fertility without damaging your grass. Early autumn is the best time to top-dress your lawn because it will allow your grass to grow before winter hits.
How to improve your soil quality with top-dressing
The first step to increasing soil fertility is to remove excess thatch, a layer of organic debris that can build up on top of the soil Thatch is considered excessive when it's more than half an inch thick. The layer can block air, water and sunlight from the grass and inhibit its growth. It also can make your lawn more susceptible to disease and insect infestation. You can use a dethatching rake or a power dethatcher to get rid of the debris.
Long grass is one of the main causes of thatch. To help prevent thatch from accumulating, use a mulching lawn mower to trim your grass to the appropriate height. Keeping your mower blades sharp will further protect your lawn against pests and disease.
The next step to improving soil quality is core aeration, which involves removing plugs of soil from your lawn. You should aerate your lawn every one to three years to reduce soil compaction, which makes it difficult for air, water and nutrients to reach grass roots. Aerating also promotes deeper root growth, which makes your lawn thicker and less vulnerable to drought.
Early fall is an ideal time to aerate your lawn because the grass is still growing and the soil tends to be moist, making the plugs easier to remove. To aerate your lawn, you can put an aerator attachment on your Troy-Bilt garden tiller. Before you begin, you should mark off any sprinkler heads, invisible pet fencing, and shallow pipes and electrical lines in your yard.
After you've aerated your lawn, you'll need to prepare a top-dressing. To determine what kind of top-dressing will maximize your soil fertility, you'll need to test your soil. One of the easiest ways to do this is to perform a "squeeze test." Take a handful of soil from your lawn. To get an accurate reading of your soil's texture and composition, the sample should be moist but not wet.
If the soil retains its shape and crumbles when you poke it, it is loamy. Loamy soil, which is a balanced combination of clay, silt and sand, provides the best environment for lawn growth. If it retains its shape but does not crumble when you poke it, it is clay soil. If it crumbles when you open your hand, it is sandy soil.
Once you've tested your soil, make top-dressing using a mixture of the following ingredients: sharp sand (not beach sand), loam or topsoil, and peat or compost. The kind of soil you have will determine what proportion of ingredients will provide optimum soil fertilization. For loamy soil, use an equal amount of each ingredient. For clay soil, use little or no loam or topsoil. For sandy soil, use little or no sand. Make each top-dressing to spread a half-inch layer over your entire lawn.
Sift your mixture and make sure it is dry and free of large clumps. Use a shovel to spread it over your lawn, filling aeration holes and covering thin or bare spots. Rake the top-dressing into your lawn until you can see your grass through it. To get the most out of your soil fertilization treatment, water your lawn thoroughly after top-dressing it.
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Wildlife photography can be gruelling, tedious work. But the payoff is you sometimes get something as amazing as this winning shot from the British Wildlife Photography Awards. It’s of gannets (birds), diving into the sea off the coast of north Scotland. And it’s breathtaking.
Here’s the photographer, Matt Doggett, talking about his photo, Gannet Jacuzzi:
“I like this image, as almost every stage of the action is captured-gannets entering the water, gannets eyeing up the fish, gannets taking the fish, gannets eating the fish and then finally leaving,” Dogget said in a statement. “It looks like chaos, but the gannets know exactly where the other birds are.”
Gannet Jacuzzi is the overall winner of the prestigious awards this year, but it’s in good company. You can check out all the winners over at the BWPA site, and we’ve also included a few more below. [BWP Awards via National Geographic via Get Outdoors]
Winner: Urban Wildlife
Starlings watching the Starlings, by Phil Jones
Winner: HD Video
Raymond Besant, Hoy Fulmars
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This was a prank/experiment CROSSOVER!
The other day, while boiling some pasta, I was fighting a mass of foam from the top of the pot.
"Why can't they make pasta that doesn't create a frothy head of bubbles?" I wondered.
But then I had a funny thought. Maybe I could make a box of pasta with SUPER foam!
If I could create a super foamy pasta recipe, people could brew it up at home then sneak it into their friends' pantries. That might be an excellent prank!
All I'd have to do is get some spaghetti and add some soap.
Generally, adding soap to food is a terrible idea, because someone might accidentally eat it.
However, because dried pasta is almost never eaten raw, I thought I could get around the digestive safety issue. Once the boiling pasta was gushing foam like a can of Edge Gel, the deception would be revealed and the pasta would get thrown out .
In a shallow baking pan, I added about a cup of liquid dish soap to a pound of spaghetti.
I spread out the noodles and let the soapy spaghetti dry in the sun.
About 448 pieces of spaghetti, according to how much is inside spaghetti?
But something unexpected happened. As it dried, the spaghetti warped!
I tried to limit the warpage by rotating the noodles. The finished product was a little less curvy, but there was no way this spaghetti haystack was going to fit back into the box.
I needed a different pasta. Something that could hold soap with a lot of surface area, but with a shape more able to withstand the drying process.
But, before I figured that out, I was dying to find out if this super-foamy pasta was going to work.
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Civic Forum next: Norway massacre affords lens to examine anti-Islamism
A best-selling author whose writing has explored Americans’ relationships to faith, Jeff Sharlet examines anti-Islamism through the lens of this year’s tragic massacre in Norway at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7, in Chase Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.
Part of the Harward Center for Community Partnerships’ Civic Forum Series, the event is open to the public at no cost. Supporting the lecture are the anthropology, English, politics, religious studies and rhetoric departments; the American cultural studies program; the humanities division; and the Office of Intercultural Education at Bates.
For more information, please contact 207-786-6202.
Sharlet’s talk, titled The Killer in Me: Reading the Oslo Manifesto’s Sources, reflects on the growing virulence of anti-Islamic activism and rhetoric through his analysis of a text issued by Anders Behring Breivik, whose bombing and shooting spree in Norway in July left more than 90 dead. The manifesto combines and amplifies “respectable” anti-Islamic rhetoric.
Sharlet has written or co-written several books examining the role of faith in Americans’ lives. The most recent is the essay collection Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country in Between, released in August by W. W. Norton & Company.
“The characters in Sweet Heaven . . . are rough, unfulfilled, often doomed,” wrote a Kansas City Star reviewer. “We always suspect that by the end, they will be betrayed by their beliefs, will be disillusioned or destroyed.
“But failure doesn’t make belief meaningless. It may be the only thing that gives faith meaning at all.”
Mellon Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth University, Sharlet is the author of the nationally best-selling The Family: the Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Harper, 2009), which exposes the workings of the underground evangelical group “The Family,” whose ranks include members of Congress and other powerful individuals.
“Sharlet’s book is one of the most compelling and brilliantly researched exposés you’ll ever read,” says author and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich — “just don’t read it alone at night!”
In 2000 Sharlet and novelist Peter Manseau created Killing the Buddah, an online literary magazine described as “an electronic Tower of Babel, a Talmudic cathedral of stories about faith lost and found.” (The phrase “Killing the Buddha” comes from a Buddhist sage who said, “The Buddha you meet is not the true Buddha, but an expression of your longing.”)
Success with Killing the Buddah inspired Sharlet and Manseau to spend a year investigating the American religious experience. This adventure showed them a cowboy church in Texas, witches in Kansas, a Pentecostal exorcism for a terrorist in North Carolina and an electric chair gospel choir in Florida.
Free Press published their findings in 2004 in a book with the same title as their website. Publishers Weekly describes Killing the Buddha as “perhaps the most original and insightful spiritual writing to come out of America since Jack Kerouac first hit the road.”
Sharlet has written for Mother Jones, New York, The Nation, The New Republic, The Washington Post, Salon, The Daily Beast and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has been a frequent guest on MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show” and NPR’s “Fresh Air,” and has appeared on HBO’s “Bill Maher Show,” Comedy Central’s “Daily Show,” NBC Nightly News and other broadcasts. He is a contributing editor to Harper’s and Rolling Stone.
He is working on a new book called Hammer Song, which he describes as “a short book about pop, folk, punk, sex, riots and the Cold War.”
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As 2012 winds down with New Year's Eve celebrations, hundreds of thousands of people have gathered in Times Square in New York to ring in the new year – 2013.
It's been an annual gathering since the first ball drop in Times Square in 1907 (the drop was omitted in 1942 and 1943 because of blackouts during World War II). New Year's Eve parties in Times Square date to 1904.
According to the Times Square District Management Association website, about 1 million people were expected to jam into the area to say goodbye to 2012 and watch the 12-foot-wide, 11,875-pound Waterford crystal ball drop and herald the start of 2013.
When midnight strikes, square-inch pieces of paper with tributes to Dick Clark, the longtime TV host of New Year's Eve parties from Times Square who died this year, will be part of the confetti that will shower Times Square.
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly predicted that Times Square would be the "safest place in the world on New Year's Eve."
For those who can't make it to Times Square and want to watch the run-up to the ball drop, the Times Square website offers this live webcast of the revelry:
Material from The Associated Press was included in this article
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Reality-TV impresario Simon Cowell poses for photos with fans as "Britain's Got Talent" kicks off its annual talent search Friday with an event at the Lyric Theatre in Manchester.
More than a decade after the first effort to blend reality TV with real-world spaceflight, talent-show impresario Simon Cowell says the winner of "Britain's Got Talent" could go into outer space on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo rocket plane.
"I love the idea that if they are up for it they have the option of performing in space," Cowell told Britain's Daily Star. The comment comes as Cowell is ramping up for a new season of the show that inspired "America's Got Talent."
Cowell has already signed up for his own flight on SpaceShipTwo, which could start flying passengers beyond the 100-kilometer (62-mile) boundary of outer space on $200,000 suborbital rides as early as next year. The longtime record producer, who left an enduring mark on reality-TV history as the black-garbed, brutally frank judge on "American Idol," hinted that he's worked out a deal with British billionaire Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic.
"It's tens of millions of pounds, but Richard genuinely is up for doing it," Cowell told the Star. "I am being serious, I swear to God and on my mum’s life. Don’t worry about the details, we’ll make it happen."
If Cowell is to make it happen anytime soon, the winner would most probably have to travel to New Mexico to follow through on the flight plan. And it seems unlikely that going into space would be a requirement placed on the winner, whoever he or she turns out to be.
Producers have tried for years to put together a reality-TV show focusing on spaceflight. The highest-profile effort was "Survivor" executive producer Mark Burnett's plans in 2000 for a show that would follow contestants through the training routine for spaceflight. The winner would have been sent to Russia's Mir space station — but that concept fizzled out even before Mir was deorbited in 2001.
Other proposed entertainment projects have revolved around pop singer Lance Bass and film director James Cameron. Just last week, Beyonce and Jay-Z were said to be interested in doing a music video aboard SpaceShipTwo.
No Hollywood space effort has yet gotten off the ground, but if anyone has the required combination of guts, glitz and gold, I suppose that'd be Branson. Like Cowell, Branson is a veteran of reality TV, having starred in "The Rebel Billionaire," a series that aired on Fox in 2004-2005.
Who knows? In the next year or two, there may be more than one way for reality-TV contestants to get into outer space. Andrew Nelson, chief operating officer for XCOR Aerospace, says his company is moving ahead with its own Lynx rocket plane — and he's not shy about courting Cowell's attention.
"If Simon wants to take a more exciting ride at half the price, I'd take his call," Nelson told me today.
More about commercial space:
- Next steps in a new space race
- Virgin Galactic picks Air Force pilot for spaceship
- Slideshow: The making of SpaceShipTwo
- Gallery: Ten players in the commercial space game
Alan Boyle is msnbc.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter and adding the Cosmic Log page to your Google+ presence. You can also check out "The Case for Pluto," my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.
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Often when someone hears about baptism for the forgiveness of sins, they will bring up the thief on the cross and use this example in their argument to deny that baptism has any connection with salvation. They will point out that the thief on the cross didn’t have time to be baptized. So someone might say “I want to be saved like the thief on the cross.” And its true that Jesus told the thief in Luke 23:43 “Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise.” So their point is that Jesus didn’t tell him to be baptized to be saved. People use this as an argument against the command to be baptized.
So here is a good question:
Can someone be saved like the thief on the cross TODAY?
1)We are not on the cross next to Jesus. We cannot be crucified alongside Jesus and suffer the same death.
2)While on earth, Jesus had the power to forgive sins . In Matthew 9:2, Jesus told a man that his sins were forgiven and the Jews were shocked. Jesus clarified this to them in Matthew 9:6 that he indeed had the power to forgive sins while on earth. Since Jesus directly promised this thief eternal life, nothing else was required.
3)It was not possible for someone to be baptized into the death of Jesus until He actually died. Let’s never forget that it was the death of Jesus that brought forth the new covenant. There was no new covenant without His death. After His death, the new covenant (or agreement) was in effect. You will see many examples in the Book of Acts of people entering this new covenant with God via baptism. Read Hebrew 9:15-17, Acts 2:38, And don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t just the act of getting wet. There is more involved which I discussed in my earlier post about How To Become a Christian.
4)The Bible doesn’t really say if the thief was ever baptized or not. Multitudes of people were being baptized during this time. In fact Mark 1:5 says “And all the country of Judea was going out to him (John the Baptist), and all the people of Jerusalem; and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.” That sounds like a lot, but in fact Jesus was baptizing more than John as stated in John 4:1. It’s just as possible that the thief was one of these people. But regardless, Jesus directly granted this man access to the Kingdom.
5)How did the thief know that Jesus was innocent and that Jesus was about to enter His Kingdom? Perhaps he had previously heard him speak or might have even been one of His disciples. We don’t know for sure, but there seems to be some evidence to suggest it. Read Luke 23:41-43.
Some people want to pattern their own salvation after the thief on the cross. The real is issue is not whether the thief was baptized. The better question to ask is whether baptism is necessary today for someone to have their sins forgiven and receive salvation. The early Christians preached about baptism and that is hard to ignore. The thief on the cross is not the pattern for salvation under the new covenant of Jesus Christ and it was never intended to be viewed that way.
As always, if you think that I’ve misrepresented Scripture in any way, please leave me a comment below. If you like the post, please pass it along via Facebook, Twitter, or Google+.
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Diana Nyad hopes the fourth time’s a charm.
CNN reports that as of last night, the open-water swimmer, 62, is well on her way in her fourth—and what she says will be her final—effort to swim 103 miles from Cuba to Key West, Florida, without a shark cage.
Nyad first attempted the feat in 1978 but had to stop because of battering waves, according to the network. She tried twice again in 2011 but was stopped after an asthma attack and then jellyfish stings.
“I’m feeling tremendous inner pressure that this has got to be it, this has got to be the last time,” she said on August 17, the day before she began the swim.
We hope she can feel our cheers.
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Crime, Fidelity & A Little Surety
Crime is a simple word for a multitude of dishonest acts. Crimes range from a simple street robbery to a safe burglary to a kidnapping. These definitions may help our look at crime insurance:
- Burglary— entering and leaving a premises with no legal right
- Robbery— taking property from a person by threat of physical or mental harm
- Theft— a catch-all category including the terms above
- Extortion— surrender of property by threat of physical or mental harm to a person or related third party
- Embezzlement— theft of others' property in your care
Before you buy crime insurance, review the coverage in your existing property insurance policies. Is your property insurance policy on a name peril basis? Or is it on an "everything is covered except" basis? It makes a difference! If it's a name peril, your need for separate crime insurance is likely to be important.
Crime insurance covers a broad range of activity:
- disappearance and destruction
The available insurance coverage is divided into a number of areas. These cover only specific types of crimes. Make sure you and your agent consider your particular exposures to crime. Some businesses need coverage for outside sign theft. Other businesses require coverage for safe burglary. Others require only employee honesty coverage.
Some crime coverage may be available in other insurance policies. For example, kidnapping can be part of a Directors and Officers policy.
What Are Fidelity & Surety?
Fidelity protects against loss from the dishonest or fraudulent acts of employees. Surety refers to the activity of bonding a person or persons. A surety bond provides for monetary compensation if the bonded person or organization fails to perform in a correct manner. Bonds are very common. Regular bonding is required of some firms such as contractors. There are fiduciary bonds, license bonds, permit bonds among others.
* Tip. The most trusted employee may turn to crime. How? Under the pressure of family money draining illness or serious money problems. Crime may not pay, but insurance does.
ISO and the Surety Association of America (SAA) both offer fidelity protection against employee criminal acts. We'll use ISO's crime program as a basis here.
Do I Need A Separate Crime Policy?
Your business needs crime insurance if:
- its property insurance doesn't offer crime coverage.
- a significant amount of money or securities passes through its hands.
- any employees have the opportunity to steal large amounts of money or valuable property.
Crime Insurance: Forms
Remember "claims made" policies? Crime insurance has a similar discovery form. A loss sustained form accompanies this.
Why two forms? Because employee-related crimes are silent crimes. Silent crimes are ones that may take place over a long period of time. They're often difficult to discover. The discovery form covers you for undiscovered employee crimes, even if they occurred before the policy began.
The ISO program allows crime coverage to be a separate crime policy. Or it can be a coverage part to join your other property coverage. Seven types of crime coverage are offered. You may take one, several, or all seven. The seven are:
- Employee Theft
- Forgery or Alteration
- Inside the Premises - Theft of Money & Securities
- Inside the Premises - Robbery or Safe Burglary of Other Property
- Outside the Premises
- Computer Fraud
- Money Orders and Counterfeit Paper Currency
Employee Theft covers loss or damage to money, securities and other property. You're covered whether an employee acted alone or with others.
Forgery or Alteration covers checks, drafts, promissory notes and similar items regarding the payment of a sum of money. The insurer pays your defense costs in addition to the dollar limits of your coverage.
Inside the Premises - Theft of Money & Securities covers theft, disappearance and destruction. Damage to the premises caused by an actual or attempted theft is covered. So is loss or damage to a locked safe, vault, cash register, cash box or cash drawer. Vandalism, if not related to a theft attempt, is excluded.
Inside the Premises - Robbery or Safe Burglary of Other Property. Damage is covered here as in the above coverage. The key to coverage here is other property. Nearly any tangible property is covered. This includes a piece of jewelry, a gun, a computer part, etc. This coverage meshes tangible property with the intangible property (above).
Outside the Premises protects money and securities in the hands of a messenger or an armored car service. The perils are theft, disappearance, or destruction. Property other than money and securities is covered only if the loss or damage results from an actual theft or attempted robbery.
Computer Fraud coverage fits money and securities coverage to the new financial world. Losses are paid when a computer is used to fraudulently transfer money, securities, and other property from your premises to a person or place outside your premises. This is NOT computer insurance; it is fraud insurance.
Money Orders and Counterfeit Paper Currency protects your acceptance of such items in good faith in exchange for merchandise or services.
These explanations of the seven crime coverages are short and simple. In truth, they are subject to many conditions, exclusions, definitions, etc.
* Tip. Pick through the seven for the ones most fitting for your business. Discuss with your agent how they will work for your firm's protection.
Who Is An Employee?
An employee, under Crime coverage, must be a natural person. A business organization is not an employee. Generally the right to control and to direct a person makes a person an employee.
For our purposes, an "employee" may also be a former employee who commits a wrongful act immediately after being let go. Managers are employees acting within the scope of their employment. Temporary workers are considered employees. Leased employees are not. Executive officers may or may not be employees for coverage purposes.
There are three ways to place employees under a Crime policy: as individuals, by position, or as groups of employees under blanket coverage. These are referred to as a name schedule, a position schedule, or a blanket schedule. Which schedule you would use depends on the employees you want covered.
Crime insurance has a wealth of endorsements used to modify the basic coverage. It takes a great deal of study on an insurance agent's part to set Crime coverage up properly.
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I have always had tingling fingertips and sometimes toes. It's not a circulation problem because i have warm hands and feet. The feeling gets worse when I'm anxious. I've used different strategies to deal with anxiety like talking out loud my thoughts, doing a physical activity, postponing negative thoughts to later. But nothing seems to be helping. Any suggestions?
If I am not mistaken, when you have an anxiety attack, I believe it has a tendency to effect you blood pressure. This very well might have something to do with it. Have you checked with you doctor yet. If not, I would check just to see what he thinks.
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Congo, Democratic Republic of the
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is governed under the constitution of 2006 as amended. The president, who is the head of state, is popularly elected and may serve two five-year terms. There is a bicameral legislature. The National Assembly has 500 members, who serve five-year terms; the majority (439) of the members are elected proportionally, the rest directly. The prime minister is chosen from the party or coalition that controls the assembly. The Senate has 108 indirectly elected members, who also serve for five years. Administratively, the country is divided into ten provinces (Bandundu, Bas-Congo, Équateur, Kasai-Occidental, Kasai-Oriental, Katanga, Maniema, Nord-Kivu, Orientale, and Sud-Kivu) and the federal district (which includes Kinshasa). Each province also has an elected assembly.
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
See more Encyclopedia articles on: Democratic Republic of the Congo Political Geography
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|Choosing Your Sexual Preference in the 21st Century
Dan: Hey, whaddya say you, me, Pamela and her sister go on a double date tonight?
Don: C’mon, eh; you know I’m gay.
Dan: Know what? I didn’t know any such thing. How did you decide you were gay?
Don: I wasn’t sure, so I took a survey online.
Dan: Okay… By any chance did the survey have ten questions?
Don: Yeah! How did you know?
Dan: Everybody knows that survey. It asks some dumb questions, and then, no matter what answers you give, it says, ‘You are definitely gay.’
Don: It doesn’t matter?
Dan: Not at all. Actually, they took that site down about a month ago. When did you do the survey?
Don: Over two years ago.
Dan: [long silence] Oh, my.
Don: [longer silence]
In a world where psychologists would have us believe that being gay is a matter of genetic predisposition, in many cases, it’s actually the product of much more random factors.
I’ve developed this idea more fully in things I’ve posted to other blogs, but you can read the original germ of the idea in a chapter of my book, The Pornography Effect. (Click the header when the chapter appears if you want to read the whole thing from beginning to end; it takes only 45 minutes.)
If you’re reading this, and you believe you are same sex attracted, consider the possibility that we all start out somewhat asexual (not bisexual) and that preferences are formed as a result of “who gets to us first.” I’m not trying to undermine what you believe you are, or try to preach to you about what you could be; I’m simply asking you to think back and reconsider what might have been. I’m just wanting to ask the question, “Is it possible that more random factors were at work? That some early sexual fulfillment was used as the basis as for a broader statement as to who you are?”
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This report describes the importance of comprehensive evaluation of security of smart grid technology, such as attacks employing both cyber and physical means. It also mentions that NIST's cybersecurity guidelines for smart grid, which was published in August 2010, do not cover few critical possibilities. Although NIST is on the process of releasing an upgraded version, this lack was one of the main instigators of this report. The objectives of this report are presented by discussing their importance and how the objectives are achieved. The three objectives were to (1) assess the extent to which NIST has developed smart grid cybersecurity guidelines; (2) evaluate FERC's efforts to adopt smart grid cybersecurity and other standards and monitor their use by industry; and (3) identify challenges associated with ensuring the cybersecurity of the smart grid.
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Roger Waters was a primary creative force in Pink Floyd from 1965 to 1983. He first met Syd Barrett, who would become the band's lead singer and guitarist, during his school days when both attended a Saturday art class. He moved to London to study architecture at Regent Street Polytechnic and there formed a band with drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Rick Wright; he played bass and sang. Barrett joined them, forming Pink Floyd. Though Barrett was the band's main songwriter at first, Waters wrote or co-wrote three songs on the first LP, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (August 1967), including...
Roger Waters Photos
Roger Waters was a primary creative force in Pink Floyd from 1965 to 1983. He first met Syd Barrett, who would become the band's lead singer and guitarist, during his school days when both attended a Saturday art class. He moved to London to study architecture at Regent Street Polytechnic and there formed a band with drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Rick Wright; he played bass and sang. Barrett joined them, forming Pink Floyd. Though Barrett was the band's main songwriter at first, Waters wrote or co-wrote three songs on the first LP, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (August 1967), including the solo composition "Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk." By the time of the group's second album, A Saucerful of Secrets (June 1968), Barrett had been replaced by David Gilmour and Waters had begun to take a more prominent role, contributing three songs and one co-composition to the LP. He also wrote or co-wrote all but one of the tunes for the band's soundtrack to the film More (July 1969), while his first solo work came on Ummagumma (November 1969), a two-LP set that consisted of one disc of live recordings and a second disc on which each bandmember contributed his own tracks. As of Atom Heart Mother (October 1970), Pink Floyd began to work up its material as a group, though Waters still contributed the sole composition "If." Working with Ron Geesin, he wrote the soundtrack for The Body (December 1970), his first work outside Pink Floyd. The band's next album, Meddle (November 1971), was entirely group written. But Waters wrote or co-wrote eight of the ten selections on Obscured by Clouds (June 1972), Pink Floyd's soundtrack for the film The Valley.
Pink Floyd's recordings were moderately successful through 1972. But The Dark Side of the Moon (March 1973), for which Waters wrote all the lyrics and some of the music, was a commercial breakthrough that became one of the most successful albums in rock history. (He was the sole author of the album's Top Ten hit, "Money.") He took an increasingly dominant role in the writing of subsequent Pink Floyd albums, writing all the lyrics and collaborating on the music for Wish You Were Here (September 1975), writing most of Animals (February 1977) and The Wall (November 1979), and writing all of The Final Cut (March 1983). All were million sellers, with The Wall in particular rivaling the sales of The Dark Side of the Moon. (Waters was the sole author of "Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2," a gold, number one single drawn from The Wall.)
Following the release of The Final Cut, Pink Floyd broke up and its members launched solo careers. Waters re-emerged with The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking (April 1984), which went gold. He followed with Radio K.A.O.S. (June 1987) and went on tour to promote the release. Meanwhile, David Gilmour's solo album About Face (February 1984) was also a gold seller, but he was discouraged by that showing and recruited Mason and Wright to re-form Pink Floyd. Waters sued, seeking an injunction to prevent the trio from touring as Pink Floyd without him, but he lost the case, and the Gilmour-led Pink Floyd went on to tour and recorded successfully without him.
Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Waters organized an all-star performance of The Wall in Berlin on July 21, 1990. It was filmed and recorded, resulting in the album The Wall: Live in Berlin (September 1990). He released a third solo album, Amused to Death (September 1992), but did not tour, though he made an appearance at a benefit concert in 1993. He spent much of the 1990s working on an opera, Ça Ira, set during the French Revolution. But in July and August 1999, he mounted his first U.S. tour in 12 years. It was so successful that he returned for a second leg in June and July 2000, and the concerts served as the basis for the two-CD set In the Flesh Live. Waters was not heard from for several years after that, although a collection of singles and album tracks, Flickering Flame: The Solo Years, Vol. 1, appeared internationally (but not in the U.S.) in May 2002. In July 2005, Waters reunited with Gilmour, Mason, and Wright for a one-off Pink Floyd performance at the Live 8 benefit concert in London's Hyde Park. Ça Ira finally emerged on disc in October 2005 and topped the Billboard magazine classical chart.
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U.S. medicine is in the middle of a cultural revolution, as young physicians intent on balancing work and family challenge the assumption that a doctor should be available to treat patients around the clock.
Walter Cheng, 32 years old, is in the profession's new guard. Upon graduating from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2004, he bristled at the notion espoused by some senior physicians that a doctor should put medicine above all else. "I thought, 'I don't really want to be that kind of doctor.'... My family is as important, if not more important, than my career."
That philosophy influenced Dr. Cheng's job search. Later this year, he plans to go to work as a hospitalist, an emerging breed of doctor that focuses on the general care of hospitalized patients. He was attracted to the job, at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, by the intellectual challenge of treating acutely ill patients who wind up in the hospital. Another big draw: a predictable schedule. "You come in at a certain hour. When you leave, your pager turns off," he says.
In a 2006 survey conducted by physician-staffing firm Merritt, Hawkins & Associates, 63% of medical residents said the availability of free time was causing them "a significant level of concern" as they entered the profession, up from 15% in 2001.
While quality-of-life issues have been long-festering for physicians, today's medical field is more accommodating. Younger doctors' attitudes are giving rise to different types of practice options. These range from small, membership-based primary-care facilities to hospital-specific jobs that keep doctors on predictable schedules.
At the same time, the attempt by new doctors to lead a less-pressured work life is putting additional strain on America's health-care system. Many are eschewing fields such as internal medicine, pediatrics and family medicine, choosing instead specialties that offer both higher pay and more predictable work hours. In family medicine, for example, hundreds of medical residency positions go unfilled every year. But competition for slots in dermatology residencies is fierce.
To adapt, American medicine is drifting away from the old standard -- in which a single doctor handled almost all of a patient's needs -- and toward a more team-based approach. This system includes not only multiple doctors but also nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
But rotating care among several medical professionals carries potential risks. Faced with an unfamiliar patient -- or incomplete knowledge of a person's condition -- a doctor may be ill-equipped to make spur-of-the-moment, life-and-death decisions. Edward Salsberg, director of the Association of American Medical Colleges' Center for Workforce Studies, says the team-based model works only if doctors have "a good medical record, good handoffs, etc., so if it's three in the morning and you're ill, someone can get your information."
The arrangement can be unsettling for some patients, especially in fields often associated with a high level of physician contact, such as obstetrics. Yet some obstetricians are on call -- working at a moment's notice -- less frequently than in the past. In some hospitals, it is no longer uncommon for women to have babies delivered by a doctor who has never treated them before.
"It's an uncomfortable situation when you're giving birth," says Marissa Vergnetti, whose first child was delivered at Abington Memorial Hospital in suburban Philadelphia by a doctor she had never met. "I think if I had known the doctor, there could have been more of a dialogue about what was happening. Or maybe the doctor would have been more invested in me."
John J. Kelly, Abington's chief of staff, says the hospital strives to have all patients meet their doctors well before delivery. But he recognizes that that doesn't always happen.
Louis Weinstein, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, argues that the old OB-GYN model doesn't always benefit patients -- and that younger doctors' reluctance to be on call 24/7 may well be a good thing for both patient and practitioner.
"I can promise you that I will be available for your delivery, but I have no idea how many hours I will have been up and...how many c-sections I will have done" since awakening, Dr. Weinstein says, describing the traditional model. "Or I can assure you that one of my colleagues will be fresh, will be available and will be focusing just on you. Which would you prefer?"
Obstetricians who work fixed hours at the hospital are often referred to as OB hospitalists. The term "hospitalist" was coined in the 1990s to describe a new type of doctor who focuses on patients who are in the hospital.
Today, there are more than 20,000 hospitalists in the U.S., according to the Society of Hospital Medicine, and many work set hours for a fixed salary. Their pay is often 15% to 20% higher than what primary-care doctors make. The vast majority are generalists, but a growing number are trained in obstetrics and other fields.
Nashville, Tenn.-based hospital chain HCA has hired OB hospitalists to staff roughly 20% of its labor and delivery units. It plans to double that figure in the next five years, says Jonathan B. Perlin, the company's chief medical officer. Among other duties, OB hospitalists treat indigent patients who show up at the emergency room needing OB-GYN care. The hospital-based obstetricians also care for women during the early stages of labor or when a woman's doctor is unable or unwilling to go to the hospital.
'The Hero Model'
Having obstetricians who work set shifts improves patient care, says Dr. Perlin. "There is a very fortunate convergence of a new appreciation for patient safety, and leaving behind some of the hero model of the lone ranger who is there 24/7, 365," he says.
Although some might paint the "me" generation of doctors as less committed or focused, leaders in the profession don't necessarily support that view. "There has been a sea change in how young physicians today balance professional responsibilities and personal needs compared to their colleagues from a few decades ago," says American Medical Association President Ronald Davis. "Physicians who manage their own stress and feel happy with their own daily circumstances are probably better physicians," he says.
For some younger doctors, being on call -- even on prescribed nights -- is too much. Judy Marvin left a five-doctor practice in Spokane, Wash., three years ago, at age 39, because she found it difficult to both care for her patients and raise two small children.
On nights when she was on call, she says she was often awakened by phone requests from patients or nurses. "I'll never take another job where I have to take calls from patients" after hours, she says. Today, Dr. Marvin works in Salem, Ore., at an OB hospitalist program created in 2005.
Some senior physicians gripe about the younger generation's scheduling boundaries -- and complain that older doctors must often pick up the slack.
"It really gets on your nerves when you get these young guys coming in and interviewing and they say, 'I'm not doing this, I'm not doing that,'" says Richard W. Schwartz, a 55-year-old professor of surgery at the University of Kentucky. "We have a bunch of guys in our 50s," he says, who handle most of the trauma and emergency calls.
The shift was growing evident even five years ago. Between 1996 and 2003, the proportion of women graduating from U.S. medical schools who chose more "controllable" lifestyles -- specialties allowing them to dictate hours spent on the job -- doubled. Those opting for more flexible fields rose to 36% from 18%, according to a 2005 study published in the journal Academic Medicine. For men, it rose to 45% from 28%, the study showed.
At 1Life Healthcare, a primary-care company that employs roughly 10 physicians in four San Francisco locations, doctors see patients at the office only. And unlike the old doctor-patient contract, 1Life physicians don't follow patients to the hospital. Rather, they defer those cases entirely to the receiving facility.
The company was founded in 2003 by Tom Lee, a 40-year-old doctor who became disillusioned with primary care during his residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston in the late 1990s.
"I envisioned myself doing old-school medicine. House calls, the way primary care was intended to be," Dr. Lee says. But he eventually found his vision at odds with the realities of modern health care, including administrative burdens, insurance paperwork and other bureaucratic headaches.
Physicians at 1Life earn a salary as well as productivity-based bonuses. They typically work four days a week, for eight or nine hours a day. The company, which Dr. Lee founded after completing his MBA at Stanford University, pays doctors' malpractice insurance and manages billing. The doctors accept insurance, but patients also pay an annual membership fee of about $100.
Other groups have created hybrid solutions that give doctors more predictable schedules. The obstetrician-gynecologists employed by Albert Einstein Healthcare Network in Philadelphia deliver babies only during three, 24-hour shifts in the hospital each month. The rest of the time, they treat patients in an office-based practice.
The hospital initially adopted the model in 2004 to improve efficiency. As a side benefit, it has also served as a tool to attract and retain young physicians.
When Stephanie Almeida, who is 33, started a 24-hour shift one recent Tuesday morning, two women were in labor: one she'd seen once before and one she'd never met. In a short conversation, the physician who was completing his 24-hour shift briefed her on the patients. A few hours later, Dr. Almeida had seen to the delivery of both women's babies.
Most expectant mothers don't mind the arrangement, Dr. Almeida says. That evening, another patient, Zaira Gonzalez, gave birth to twins. "I like it here," Ms. Gonzalez said of the hospital, where she had given birth before. Not knowing the physician "doesn't make a difference to me."
Write to Jacob Goldstein at email@example.comPrinted in The Wall Street Journal, page A1
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Across the street from the Thompson Ogle Building C O Wickenden designed another commercial building in 1889, a three bay building, mixing stone and red brick with a complex pattern under the cornice. The building stood for over a century before being demolished – here it is in 1981, dwarfed by the Standard Building next door. (And hasn’t that tree grown well in 30 years?)
The Vancouver World’ published a supplement in 1890 which managed to illustrate it as the Innes-Thompson Block, and refer to it in print as the Innes-Townley Block. F C Innes was undoubtedly one half of the development team. Like other important Vancouver developers J V Winch and Walter Gravely, Innes was a native of Cobourg in Ontario. He arrived in Vancouver in 1884 and teamed up in 1887 with S O Richards (of Toronto) to operate one of the most dynamic real estate, insurance and brokerage firms in the city. Innes was third in line when the sale of Canadian Pacific lots was first offered. An 1890 profile said “They own and control some of the most desirable property in the city”. In 1888 he hired N S Hoffar to design a house on Hastings at Burrard,
We are no further forward in positively identifying the Thompson – if there was a Thompson associated with this building – than we were with the block across the street. However, circumstantially Philip Nairn Thompson looks a likely contender here too; In 1896 Captain P Thompson occupied an office at 512 West Hastings (part of the Innes-Thompson Block) with prominent architect W T Dalton. If Innes partnered with a Townley, J W Townley, superintendent of the CPR in Vancouver is perhaps the more likely candidate.
The building was not demolished until 1993, making way for the Delta Suites hotel in a massive project designed by Aitken Wriglesworth that included Conference Plaza and the retention of the Bank of Toronto next door, later to become the Wosk Centre for Dialogue.
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Written by Christian author, Pola Muzyka.
There are times when the last thing on our minds is whether or not we are showing mercy. We, the offended, become the offender when lack of compassion and kindness spews forth from our mouths or actions. We feel justified. After all, we are the offended. But, is this what we expect from God?
We expect mercy to be eternal, everlasting, and gracious when it comes from God. So, why should we be merciful? We are not God. Why then, should we show mercy? Because, like forgiveness, without mercy we will never receive mercy. James 2:13 For to him who has shown no mercy the judgment [will be] merciless, but mercy [full of glad confidence] exults victoriously over judgment.
Every action we take and every reaction we have will dictate the results we receive now and in the coming judgment. Here on earth we face many personal trials and tribulations as we move forward in our attempts to navigate the roads of life. Every day we potentially face a threat in one way or another. Every day we have the potential of threatening in one way or another. For some, threats are a way to results. For others, understanding, compassion, and mercy is the key.
Who’s right and who’s wrong may not be in question when we face the ultimate last days or moments of our lives. At that time we will probably only be seeking mercy. The Word assures us that when we show mercy we will receive mercy and blessings. If we could gauge our temperament by the Word of God, mercy would exude from our very being every day of our lives.
The good Samaritan was a biblical example of mercy.
1. Show forgiveness quickly. Mercy is forgiving. Forgiveness can turn a volatile miscommunication into spiritual growth.
Colossians 3:12-13 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
James 2:12 So speak and so act as [people should] who are to be judged under the law of liberty [the moral instruction given by Christ, especially about love].
2. Attempt to understand before you judge. Judging quickly lacks mercy. It is for God to judge. Not us.
Romans 1:32 Although they know God’s judgment that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do these things but also approve of others who do them.
Romans 2:6-8 He will pay all people back for what they have done. 7He will give everlasting life to those who search for glory, honor, and immortality by persisting in doing what is good. But he will bring 8anger and fury on those who, in selfish pride, refuse to believe the truth and who follow what is wrong.
3. Acknowledge God in everything you do. Sinful humanity ignores God. If you refuse God or God’s guidance through his word and commandments, you may think you’re doing well, but your end is eternal death.
Proverbs 14:22 Don’t those who stray plan what is evil, while those who are merciful and faithful plan what is good?
Psalm 145:8 The Lord is merciful, compassionate, patient, and always ready to forgive.
4. Practice mercy to others in place of cruelty. When you show mercy to others, you are fulfilling God’s will in your life. God will replay. When you practice giving mercy, mercy is easier to give each time.
Matthew 5:7 Blessed are those who show mercy. They will be treated mercifully.
Proverbs 11:17 A merciful person helps himself, but a cruel person hurts himself.
Romans 12:19-21 Don’t take revenge, dear friends. Instead, let God’s anger take care of it. After all, Scripture says, “I alone have the right to take revenge. I will pay back, says the Lord.” 20But, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink. If you do this, you will make him feel guilty and ashamed.” 21Don’t let evil conquer you, but conquer evil with good.
5. Let others know about the mercy of God. In this way you share the good news of salvation.
Mark 5:19 But Jesus would not allow it. Instead, he told the man, “Go home to your family, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you and how merciful he has been to you.”
Luke 1:78 A new day will dawn on us from above because our God is loving and merciful.
Hebrews 2:17-18 Therefore, he had to become like his brothers and sisters so that he could be merciful. He became like them so that he could serve as a faithful chief priest in God’s presence and make peace with God for their sins. 18Because Jesus experienced temptation when he suffered, he is able to help others when they are tempted.
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A four-month-old girl suddenly stopped breathing. She died 24 hours later, from the H1N1 virus, at Rady Children's hospital.
Pauline Martinez-Wohlers was 4 months old and had no known underlying health conditions, according to the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency.
"If a child that age -- up to 5 years old -- gets a fever, shows symptoms, the parents should seek medical care as soon as possible because they can go down the tubes really fast," County public health officer Wilma Wooten said.
This case is very unusual because little Pauline didn't display any flu-like symptoms, Doctors said.
The horror started last week when the mother put the infant down for a nap.
"The baby was well, had a little bit of a cough for a few days, but no fever or runny nose," Dr. John Bradley of Children's Hospital said. "45 minutes later the mom comes in to check on the baby and the baby's not breathing."
Pauline was rushed by ambulance to Paradise Valley Medical Center where she was resuscitated and then brought to Children's Hospital for further treatment. But within 24 hours, the baby was dead. At first, doctors thought she had died from sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, until tests showed that she had the H1N1 virus.
"We now know that H1N1 probably had something to do with setting up the baby for not breathing," Dr. Bradley said.
The doctor also said it's still unknown how the baby contracted swine flu. Both of Pauline's siblings had been vaccinated but the parents had not gotten vaccinations because there weren't any left.
"These parents knew the value of immunization. They were trying to do the right thing, but we just don't have enough vaccine to immunize everyone at this point in time," Dr. Bradley said.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 37 people in the County have died of swine flu, including four non-residents. More than 600 people have been hospitalized as a result of the virus.
Last week, health officials said a 43-year-old woman with no medical problems was killed by swine flu. She was the sixth person to die with no health issues besides the H1N1 virus.
Also on Wednesday, the county said its six public health centers and one immunization clinic had each received between 20 to 60 additional doses of injectable H1N1 vaccine. This limited supply will be available for pregnant women.
Patients can go to the county's Web site or call 211 for additional information on the H1N1 influenza or vaccine availability at county facilities.
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Praise be to Allaah.
Praise be to Allaah, and blessings and peace be upon the
Messenger of Allaah (S) and his family and companions.
All the names of Allaah are tawqeefi, i.e., we should accept
what is narrated in the Qur’aan and Sunnah and not add or subtract anything.
Based on this, it is not correct to call Allaah by any name other than those
by which He has called Himself in His Book or those that His Messenger
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) called Him by in the saheeh
ahaadeeth, because the human mind cannot work out the names that Allaah
deserves, so we must stop at what is mentioned in the texts, because Allaah
says (interpretation of the meaning):
“And follow not (O man, i.e., say not, or do not, or witness
not) that of which you have no knowledge. Verily, the hearing, and the
sight, and the heart of each of those ones will be questioned (by Allaah)”
Calling Allaah by a name that He has not called Himself, or
denying a name by which he has called Himself is a transgression against the
rights of Allaah. So we should observe the proper etiquette and adhere to
that which is narrated in the texts.
With regard to words which are mentioned in the Qur’aan and
Sunnah only by way of description or information, and it is not narrated
that Allaah is called by these names, it is not correct to call Him by them,
because some of the attributes of Allaah have to do with His actions, and
the actions of Allaah have no end, just as His words have no end.
For example, some of the attributes of Allaah that refer to
His actions describe Him as coming, bringing, taking, withholding and
seizing etc., as Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“And your Lord comes with the angels in rows”
“He withholds the heaven from falling on the earth except
by His Leave”
“Verily, (O Muhammad) the Seizure (punishment) of your Lord
is severe and painful”
So we attribute these characteristics to Allaah as they are
mentioned, but we do not call Him by them (i.e., we do not make names out of
them), so we do not say that among His names are al-Jaa’i (the Comer),
al-Aati (the Comer), al-Mumsik (the Withholder) or al-Baatish (the Seizer),
etc. Rather we say that this is what He does and attribute those actions to
And Allaah knows best.
See al-Qawaa’id al-Mathla fi Sifaat-Illaahi wa Asmaa’ihi
al-Husna, 13, 21, by Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on
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Here a Face, There a Face at the library, a book about inanimate objects that look like faces. I had no idea if my 3 year old would see the faces or if it would be too abstract for him. He really liked it and saw some of the faces before I did. There was simple rhyming text as well.
Daddy saw the radio looked liked a face.
Linking to ABC and 123, Tuesday Tots, Crayon Freckles, Red Ted Art , Fun Sparks
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10 tips to save on outlet shopping
Find out which items have been made just for the outlets, how to reap the benefits of VIP clubs, which days and times are best to shop and more.
This post comes from Jeffrey Trull at partner site Money Talks News.
I recently trekked to a Gap outlet store hoping for big savings on quality pants. But I was surprised by what I found -- jeans that looked noticeably different and seemed of lower quality than the pairs I'd purchased at the mall back home. How could this be?
As it turns out, I wasn't mistaken. According to Consumer Reports, the Gap is one of the retailers that manufacture clothing specifically for outlets. This isn't the only trick retailers pull at outlet stores.
Here are some tips to get the most from your outlet shopping experience.
Give outlet goods a closer look.
Outlets aren't just for items that didn't sell at the retail store. Some offer "seconds" or "B-grade" goods, and many stores stock items that are made only for outlets, sometimes with noticeable differences in quality from what you'd find at the mall.
According to SmartMoney, 82% of products sold at outlets are made exclusively to be sold there. Gap, Brooks Brothers and Coach admit they manufacture separate lines of goods exclusively for their outlet stores.
Outlet-only clothing and goods vary in quality, so be sure to take a close look. Some items might say "outlet" or "factory line" right on the tag, while others can be harder to spot. Does the item feel as if it's lighter? Does the quality seem poor?
It's possible the outlet version is cheaply made and won't last as long as what you'd buy from the regular store, so factor in quality as well as price. On the other hand, some differences might be insignificant, and the savings may outweigh them.
Compare prices beforehand.
Retailers know you're looking for savings at outlet stores, and many try to make those discounts seem as deep as possible. You may see signs at the outlet store suggesting prices are 65% off, but keep in mind that Consumer Reports says average savings are closer to 38%. You'll often see markdowns from the manufacturer's suggested retail price, but outlet or not, customers rarely pay this "suggested" price.
If you want to know what you're really saving, check the retailer's website and compare prices. You may be surprised to find outlet discounts aren't as big as they claim.
Join online outlet clubs.
Premium Outlets and Tanger, two of the largest outlet operators, with 70 and 35 malls, respectively, offer exclusive promotions when you become a member of their "clubs." With Premium Outlets' free VIP Club, you'll receive online coupons and notifications of special events.
Tanger charges a one-time $10 fee to join TangerClub, but you'll get a $10 gift card in return, along with exclusive member offers and savings.
Get the best deals off-season.
Shop for your winter clothing in the summer and for summer items in winter to bring outlet prices down even further.
Time your shopping trip.
Outlets can be very busy, so you'll do best by avoiding both congestion and picked-over shelves by shopping at off-peak times. Experts suggest Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and shopping early in the day. If you're not a morning person, avoid the early afternoon and wait until dinnertime.
Check retail stores before outlets.
Try shopping the local mall during sales or with coupons, where you might find the prices to be comparable but the quality better. Don't forget to look at clearance items both in the store and online too.
Check with outlet centers for coupons and circulars.
Coupons and other discounts can make outlet shopping an even better deal. Call or go online to see if any coupons or circulars offer additional savings. Senior and military discounts might also be available.
Watch the return policy.
Unless you plan to drive back to the outlet mall, check the return policy before loading up on discounted goods. Many regular stores don't take returns from outlet locations.
Ask outlet staff.
If you have questions about the quality of outlet items, don't be afraid to ask store staff. Some employees may tell you if it's made for the outlet or offer other valuable information.
Don't fall into the day-trip trap.
Don't see anything you like? Don't be afraid to leave empty-handed.
Outlet malls are typically placed in far-away locations. Not only is this real estate cheaper but shoppers may also look at outlet shopping as investing in a full-day trip. With the expenses of gas, time and energy, shoppers may feel they need to justify the "sunk costs" and end up spending more than they otherwise would.
Ignore the impulse to spend more just to make the trip feel worthwhile. Shelling out more money for extra stuff won't make you feel better, no matter how much you spend on gas.
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According to utility industry estimates, in February 2002 natural gas prices in the U.S. were approximately $2.50/Btu. By February 2004, the price per Btu stood $3 higher at $5.50. Because of increased industrial and utility consumption of natural gas, the U. S. Department of Energy estimates fuel demand will increase 50% over the next 20 years, with nearly 1/3 of all power plants using natural gas as the main source of fuel.
Manufacturers are particularly vulnerable to rising energy costs because they are such big consumers of power. As the demand for natural gas continues to rise, the price of electricity may follow as power generators pass on the increase in fuel prices to its customers.
Why Gas-Fired Power Plants?
Why the move to natural gas? Gas burns much cleaner than coal, and gas-fired power plants are often cheaper to build because it costs much less to control the greenhouse gasses they do emit. Ryan Stensland, program manager for Midwest utility Alliant Energy, estimates that a coal plant can cost nearly $1 billion depending on its size, output and the type of coal it uses for fuel. Alliant Energy is about to complete construction of a new gas-fired power plant in Mason City, Iowa. According to Stensland, the new plant will come in at just under half that amount.
"It's also a matter of timing," said Stensland. "Coal plants can take up to seven or eight years to build, but we'll have our plant up and running in around two years from groundbreaking to generation."
Most regulated utilities in the United States have set rates that cover the cost of delivering electricity to end-users, which include a set rate of return, often in the range of 8-12%. When fuel prices rise, those costs are passed on to utility customers.
"The biggest drop in energy use comes from just lowering speed or flow by about 20%."
Manufacturers are most affected by this volatility in pricing, particularly heavy energy-users that run multiple shifts. If demand and pricing generally rise in the winter, it would cost that much more to produce goods in January than it would in May.
"Unfortunately, there's not much end users can do about pricing volatility," said Jodi Palmer, product manager for Alliant Energy's Performance Edge program, which helps large energy users implement energy efficiency programs. "What they can do is minimize costs by improving efficiency throughout their facility."
Whole-Facility Energy Efficiency
Whole-facility energy efficiency is a way manufacturers can take control of their energy costs. There are many processes manufacturers can take advantage of to increase their facility's energy efficiency. Palmer points to lighting systems, compressed air systems, and HVAC systems as prime examples
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, domestic manufacturers spend more than $33 billion on electricity each year and motor systems consume roughly 63% of all energy in the U.S. industrial sector.
"More than ever, power optimization tools, such as software, variable-frequency drives, energy-efficient motors and gears, motor controllers, power monitoring equipment, and energy management and support services, are having an immediate, measurable impact on a company's bottom line," a recent ARC Advisory Board white paper said.
Rockwell Automation's Allen-Bradley Drives product manager Rhode Nelson agrees: "When using a variable speed drive on centrifugal loads, energy consumption varies by the cube of speed," said Nelson. "For example, if you're running a fan and you only need half the air flow of the fan at maximum speed, you can use a drive to slow the fan to 1/2 speed. The work load of the fan goes down to 1/8 (1/2)3. That means that 7/8 of the money previously spent to operate the fan stays in the user's pocket."
Motors that power centrifugal fans and pumps account for the majority of industrial applications. The potential for energy savings increases as motor horsepower increases. "High horsepower, centrifugal loads lend themselves to huge amounts of energy savings," said Nelson. "And the biggest drop in energy use comes from just lowering speed or flow by about 20%. If a small reduction in the flow doesn't impact your process that much and you can use half as much energy doing so, than you're going to save big money on your energy bill."
Regenerative drives also help to save on overall energy costs by taking excess electricity the motor doesn't use and putting those kilowatts back on the line for the rest of the machine to use. T-Tek Material handling uses regenerative drives in the palletizers it produces for the soft drink industry, saving its customers up to 10% on electricity costs while using the machinery.
In the past, energy costs were relatively fixed, and there was little manufacturers could do when the bill came. But manufacturers and processors don't have to be at the whim of the energy market's forces or the weather. Technologies are now available that allow manufacturers to take control of their energy costs and protect themselves from market fluctuations.
About the author:
Brian Traff is vice-president, controls-services and equipment for T-Tek Material Handling, Inc. www.tteksystems.com
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Utah residents: Feral Animals Need Your HelpPosted by Stephan Otto, ALDF's Director of Legislative Affairs on March 10th, 2011
Update: Great news! HB 210 (anti-feral) died in the Senate, while SB 57 (pro-feral) passed. A big 'thank you' to everyone who contacted their legislators about these bills.
The Utah House of Representatives has just passed House Bill 210 to make it legal for any citizen to shoot an animal he or she believes to be feral in areas where hunting is not prohibited.
The bill's sponsor, Rep. Curt Oda, says the bill is meant to protect farmers and ranchers from prosecution for animal cruelty when they have to control feral animals. However, current Utah law already allows farmers and ranchers to protect their property by granting exemptions to the state animal protection laws.
HB 210 is a "solution" in search of a problem. The real consequences, if this bill were to become law, would be to expose feral animals to wanton, inhumane killing, and to make companion animals easy targets for anyone toting a gun. Trap-Neuter-Return programs are the more sensible, effective and humane way to handle feral cats, and another bill -- SB 57 -- aimed at assisting these valuable programs has been introduced.
HB 210 has already made the Utah legislature the target of jokes, but if put into effect, the law will be no joking matter.
Utah residents: Keep feral animals and your companion animals safe!
Send a polite letter to your state senator through ALDF's website, urging a vote against HB 210.
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A Celebration of Our History
April 22 -- October 29, 2000
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR
Supreme Court Justice
"Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time."
Supreme Court Justice
"Civil liberties are an essential part of the overall human rights concern--the equality of all people and the ability to be free.""
Two intelligent, ambitious women currently serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. One grew up in the rural West and the other in the urban East. One is a Republican and the other is a Democrat. But both faced discrimination because they were women and overcame adversity to sit on the high court.
Sandra Day O'Connor was the first woman to be appointed. After an education at Stanford University, she returned to her native Arizona and became involved in Republican Party politics. She was serving as on the Arizona Court of Appeals when Ronald Reagan nominated her to a seat on the Supreme Court in 1981.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the second woman nominated. Educated at Cornell University and Columbia University, Ginsburg became the first tenured female professor at the latter school. She became a judge of the U.S Court of Appeals in 1979 and was nominated to the high court by Bill Clinton in 1993.
Although they come from different backgrounds, these two justices share a sensitivity to women's issues and in recent years have taken moderate positions on cases before the court.
OATH OF OFFICE, autographed by Sandra Day O'Connor and Chief Justice Warren
PHOTO of O'Connor taking the oath of office.
AWARD, National First Ladies Hall of Fame, presented to O'Connor
MEET MY GRANDMOTHER written by O'Connor's granddaughter
LADY JUSTICE statue
OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH, autographed by O'Connor
-- On loan from the collections of the Supreme Court of the United States, Washington D.C.
-- On loan from the Supreme Court Historical Society, Washington D.C.
OPINIONS, autographed by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
PHOTOGRAPH, "Best wishes for the celebration of American Women 2000" autographed by Justice Ginsburg
-- On loan from Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington D.C.
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No report was available Friday from the expedition to the wreck of the USS Monitor off Cape Hatteras, N.C.
But updates received via e-mail earlier this week indicated that Navy divers had nearly completed their attempt to stabilize the sagging iron hull of the sunken vessel with a series of grout-filled fabric bags. They also began rigging the remaining components of the Engine Recovery Structure in preparation for lowering them over the hulk of the famous Civil War ship, which lies upside down in some 240 feet of water.
Bad weather suspended the expedition's operations Thursday, wrote historian Jeff Johnston, part of the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary team guiding the Navy divers.
But a newly arrived contingent of divers from the National Undersea Research Center at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, the Florida-based Cambrian Foundation and the Maritime Studies Program at East Carolina University was expected to begin working at the site as early as Friday, weather permitting.
Unlike the members of the Navy's Mobile Diving & Salvage Unit 2, who remain linked to the surface by an umbilical breathing line, the new group is composed of so-called "technical divers" specially equipped and trained to dive at such depths without lines or tethers.
Working under the guidance of Johnston and archaeologist John Broadwater, they will document the Navy's work on the Monitor's hull and the giant Engine Recovery Structure lowered over the hulk a week ago.
They also are scheduled to conduct post-mission surveys and a series of small-scale archaeological excavations within the ship's hull and turret after the Navy divers return to Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base in Virginia Beach sometime before the end of this month.
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Writing a titration coursework requires certain knowledge in chemistry that is why you have to do your best to remember everything you have learnt in your classes. The scientists proved that in order to make your memory work you should call recollections which went along with your process of study. So, try to remember a cute girl or boy sitting next to you who helped you to make the new material clear or think about an interesting video film you watched at your Chemistry class about the way molecules interact and mix up forming the new shapes. All those recollections were connected to studying the new material at your Chemistry classes.
Titration coursework is a kind of academic paper where you state your thoughts about the experiments you have conducted with the purpose of investigation of the density of one substance in relation to another. Your titration coursework is generalization of your knowledge in Chemistry. Are you good at Chemistry? Great! But that does not mean you should put off writing your titration coursework because the deadline may come very soon. Your titration coursework is the opportunity for you to show your research abilities. Who knows, perhaps, you will become an outstanding chemist due to your research! Besides, it is rather exciting to watch the reaction in the process if conducting an experiment. Tell about it in your titration courseworks.
Remember that your titration courseworks should be properly structured because your grade depends much on it. The titration coursework must have the introduction, the body and the conclusion. The introduction of your titration coursework should tell about the significance of the topic investigation. Prove that your topic is worth investigating. Give the rational explanation of the results you got in the conclusion of your titration coursework, present only positive results which you have managed to achieve.
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Who Are the 'Most 1% Friendly' Members of Congress?
Given the political premise of the question, perhaps it's not surprising that all of the lawmakers who got an "F" are Republicans--48 representatives and 11 senators--and all the members who got an "A+" are Democrats (plus Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders). But the report card also criticizes Democrats who have not distinguished themselves "as champions of greater equality."
The institute compiled the report based on 40 legislative actions over the past two years. Some of the bills considered, for instance, included legislation to establish a Buffett Rule.
Why grade Congress?
"Congress--more than any other institution in American life--has responsibility for the rules that determine how our economy operates," the reports authors write.
Take a look a at the report below.
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AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to millions of articles from top publications available through your library.
Byline: (EDITORS: Note time element in 7th graf.) By Judith Blake
By Judith Blake
SEATTLE _ It's a real pain in the neck.
And it visits an estimated 800,000 Americans every year. That's how many get whiplash injuries, usually from rear-end collisions on the highway.
Unfortunately, you could easily find yourself joining them, given that our highways annually see an estimated 3 million rear-enders and 6.2 million accidents of all kinds.
If whiplash visits you, here's some of what it could whip up: neck pain and stiffness, headaches, shoulder pain, low-back pain, dizziness, muscle spasms, numbness in an arm or hand, ringing in the ears, sleep disturbances and irritability. Not to mention frustration, disabling pain, lost work days, even depression, when these symptoms settle in for a long stay.
The problem is not being ignored, however. …
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Computing (FOLDOC) dictionary
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hardware (SMM) A reduced power consumption state provided by
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On Sept. 5, a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) panel ordered the commission to reconsider its earlier finding that Canadian lumber exports to the U.S. were a threat to the health of the U.S. lumber industry.
The NAFTA panel was critical of the commission’s finding, and charged that it was reached “on the basis of considerable speculation and conjecture.” The panel added that it was “particularly troubled by the extensive lack of analysis undertaken by the commission of the factors applicable to a determination of whether there is a threat of material injury to the domestic softwood lumber industry.”
The NAFTA panel can order the U.S. to rescind the duty — which would have the same force as a ruling by U.S. courts — if it does not receive a valid response from the U.S. commission.
Rayburn said that the latest proposal from Ottawa would compromise Canada’s interests in a number of ways.
“First, Canada would have to give up its legal appeals to the World Trade Organization and NAFTA, where its chance of success is very good and where it has already scored significant victories in its bid to break down trade barriers,” Rayburn said.
“Furthermore, if Ottawa were to enter into an agreement with Washington, it would be left at the mercy of U.S. lumber producers, who have a veto over any deal reached with the Canadian government,” he said.
“It makes absolutely no sense for Canada to agree to quotas and the other concessions demanded by U.S. lumber companies,” he said. “Such a deal not only harms Canada, but millions of American consumers who rely on a steady supply of softwood lumber. Quotas interfere with the market and cause increased price volatility, which negatively impacts home builders, lumber dealers, home buyers and consumers in the U.S.”
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The name Elva ranked 553rd in popularity for females of all ages in a sample of the 1990 US Census.
This name is highly rated in the 1990 U.S. Census popularity survey of all ages, but after 1960 does not appear in the state data listing the most popular baby names.
Many names emerged before the development of writing, or evolved from oral traditions, so when we investigate the origins of names, written records are of limited use.
Modern scholars rely on a host of techniques to overcome these difficulties, but researching names of truly obscure origin involves a blend of scholarship and educated guesswork. In cases such as this name, a theory on its origin and meaning has been developed, but it is not universally accepted.
We are interested in information you have on the source and meaning of this name. Select the link at the bottom of the page to send us an email describing your theory.
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Hi DW Community,
First time poster here but I read the forums quite often. In my first year Intro to Buddhism class, we were just given an assignment to write 2.5page max essay on Vajrayana and Zen Buddhist models. I was wondering if anyone had any pointers or knowledge they would like to share regarding the topic.
Here is the assignment outline:
Any information you guys care to share on the listed topics would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
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PHOENIX - Vacation season is here and if you have back or leg pain, traveling can be torture as sitting for long hours can really make pain worse.
Dr. Cecil Graham with AZ Pain Centers suggests when you are driving stop every 1.5 hours to walk around. If you are traveling by plane, you can get up and walk around a bit after the fasten seat belt signed has been turned off.
When sitting for long periods of time there is a component of restricting blood flow but there are also mechanical issues. Whenever you are sitting still, anything along the spine that creates pressure can be painful.
Many things can happen along the spine from a bulging disk that can push back or a herniated disk. Any of those things that put pressure on the nerve can effect the distribution of nerve flow and lead to pain.
Many patients Dr. Graham knows choose not to go on a trip because of the pain, but he said that doesn't have to be the case.
He said this type of problem happens with a lot of patients because pain effects their activity of daily living.
Dr. Graham makes the analogy that it is like restricting the flow of water through a hose, when you put pressure on it water can't move through it. The same thing happens if you put acute pressure on a nerve, leading to a mechanical irritation and causing all sorts of circulation problems.
At AZ Pain Centers their non-steroidal treatment goes to the underlying cause of the pain to find relief.
Pain is generated through an inflammatory response so the non-steroidal treatment goes to the source of that inflammation and is treated with an anti- inflammatory compound.
Managing pain along the sciatic nerve is pain free for the most part.
If you are someone who has a small issue go in before the pain exacerbates from an acute to chronic pain.
Don't wait too long, as Dr. Graham said sooner is better so you are not putting off your summer vacation.
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“Amend Article 25 of India Constitution”: AISSF (Peermohammad)
Published: August 18, 2012
Srinagar (August 18, 2012): All India Sikh Students Federation (Peermohammad) declared that only demand and goal of Sikh community should be amendment of Article 25 of the Indian constitution which usurps the separate identity of Sikhism. Karnail Singh Peermohammad, President AISSF (Peermohammad) attended the national level ethnic conference in Srinagar in which he raised the demand of Separate status of Sikhism as religion in India.
Taking a strong note of the discrimination Sikh community is facing in J&K, Peermohammad stated that It is more than twelve years when Sikhs were brutally murdered at Chattisinghpora but unfortunately successive governments have failed to appoint a commission that can investigate the role of Indian security forces in the massacre”. “Sikhs should not only demand claims for damages and employment opportunities but should also focus on the demand for restoration of their fundamental rights that have been systematically subjugated by the Indian Government” added Peermohammad.
It’s ironic that while Prime Minister and Chief of Indian Army both happen to be Sikhs, “the very constitution to which they have taken oath to protect and uphold does not recognize the separate identity of the religion they belong to”, stated Peermohammad. “Constitution of India is the only constitution in the world that claims to be secular and yet defines religion and undermines separate identity of Sikhism”. The Government of India should implement the recommendation of the National Commission to Review the Working of the Constitution (NCRWC) headed by the former Chief Justice of India, Justice M.N. Venkatachaliah to amend the Article 25 of the Constitution to restore the separate status of Sikhism.
AISSF (Peermohammad) declared to launch a national campaign in order to bring Sikh community on one platform regarding amendment to Article 25 of the Indian constitution.
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Cell phones today are more than a communication device. They have become an extension of ourselves. Practically every American has their cell phone with them all of the time. In fact, a study performed by Ericsson ConsumerLab, it was found that 35% of smartphone users reported using their phone before even getting out of bed in the morning.
Because our phones are an extension of our identity, we personalize them. We have specialized ringtones specific to friends and family, voice recordings, and cell phone cases in a multitude of colors and designs reflecting the image of ourselves we would like to portray. Inside are pictures of loved ones, personal information, calendars, games, phone numbers, emails and – pieces of you. Part of our deep attachment to cell phones is simply due to the convenience of the technology, but there is a cultural aspect of our attachment as well. As Americans we value individualism, our cell phones belong to us. They are personal and individualistic. It comes as no surprise then to learn that Americans like their advertising to be personalized as well. SMS marketing, due to its inherently personal nature, is the ideal form of marketing for individualistic Americans.
SMS text is the most personal form of advertising in the world today. More personal than a home phone or email address, messages sent via text message go directly to individuals. Radio, magazine and television ads try to reach a broad audience, and because of this broad range, they are largely ignored. Paper coupons are perceived to be trash, and in turn are not redeemed at a high rate. Cell phone coupons are useful, convenient and easy to use. These coupon codes and discounts are redeemed at rates from 5-20%, considerably higher than their paper coupon counterparts. Due to the highly personal nature of the cell phone, advertising directly to a person’s cell phone is highly effective, but requires respect and discretion to be most effective. Customers choose which companies can access them via cell phone by opting-in to SMS marketing campaigns. By doing so, consumers agree to receive messages from the companies they love, or those they want to learn more about. Of course the same power that allows customers to opt-in, also allows them to opt-out as well, if they should ever decide they no longer wanted to receive those messages.
This connection between customers and companies is a highly beneficial relationship for both consumer and company on a practical level. Companies are able to directly target customers with coupon codes and information at considerably less cost than traditional forms of advertising. Customers are given coupons in the most efficient and effective way. Many customers love the ease and convenience of SMS marketing. They welcome the messages and save a considerable amount of money with them. Many customers are too busy to clip coupons or to download emailed messages, the convenience of SMS messages allows them to save money and encourages them to visit businesses that use SMS.
The personal nature of SMS messages connects customers emotionally to the companies from which they receive these texts, encouraging loyalty to these companies. Customers feel the messages reflect an investment in their personal wellbeing. In return customers are more invested in the success and wellbeing of the company. Through repeated exposure to the messages sent by companies to their cell phones, customers become comfortable with the company and in turn look for this brand when shopping. Branding is the most important aspect and the primary object of every successful marketing campaign.
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Diseases of the Lung, Pleura, Airways, and Chest Wall
Lung cancer is the most significant cancer in this country, with over 220,000 individuals diagnosed in the United States in 2011. After decades of rising incidence, there has been a plateau and slight decline in lung cancer since the mid-1990s on the order of 1-2%, possibly due to the effect of declining tobacco cigarette smoking. However, lung cancer in non-smokers is increasing, indicating that the disease is going continue to be a major public health issue for the foreseeable future. More...
Many cancers spread into the lungs, and there are situations when removal of these metastatic nodules improves outcome. Surgery for lung metastases is indicated when the original tumor in another part of the body has been controlled and there are isolated metastases remaining in the chest. USC thoracic surgeons have extensive experience in removing metastatic nodules from the lungs from the chest due to a variety of tumors, such as colorectal cancer, germ cell tumors, liver cancers, sarcoma, melanoma, renal cell carcinoma, and other tumor types. More...
Mesothelioma is cancer of the pleura, or the inner lining of the chest, but it can also occur in the lining of the abdominal cavity. It is diagnosed in 2,500 to 3,000 patients per year in the United States, but the incidence of mesothelioma is expected to increase over the next decade due to the long latency period of its development, which can be between 15 and 50 years. It typically occurs in men more than women as a result of different rates of occupational exposure to asbestos. As the tumor grows it encases the lung and can produce fluid that compromises the function of the lung. More...
Malignant Pleural Effusion
Cancer that spreads into the pleural cavity, or the space between the lung and the chest wall, can create fluid or a pleural effusion. This process can occur from lung cancer, mesothelioma, or other types of cancers. As fluid accumulates, it displaces the lung and compromises its function, making patients feel short of breath or experience chest pain. More...
Chest Wall Tumors
End Stage Lung Disease and Lung Transplantation
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I think I replied to this thread, but my post seems to have disappeared.
I use the Walstad method, and I interpret her advice to mean "feed the fish generously, but don't leave rotting fish food on the bottom of the tank". I keep lots of detritivores in my tanks--snails, shrimp, catfish, etc.--so that no food remains uneaten for long.
Fish food is a source of nutrients for both fish and plants. It is a necessary input for the tank, just like light and water. What makes fish food safe as a fertilizer for plants is that it is "processed" by the animals; eaten, digested, and excreted in a form that can quickly be broken down by bacteria into compounds that feed plants but are safe for fish. It is not like dosing synthetic fertilizers, which are used directly by the plants.
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These are answers from Richard Bandler.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming is "The Study of the Structure of Subjective Experience and what can be calculated from it."
NLP is based on finding out what works and formalizing it. In order to formalize patterns I utilized everything from linguistics to holography. I didn't just elicit peoples' strategies since when I started out there weren't any strategies, yet. I invented them. Strategies are a model. A strategy is just that, a strategy.
I think it is important for people to make a distinction between a model and a technique.
A model (like Strategies, Submodalities, Anchoring, Transderivational Search, Chaining States, the Meta Model, Meta Programs, Semantic Primes, Semantic Density, etc.) will allow you to create new techniques. The techniques generated from these models are techniques, nothing more. When people discover what someone they consider to be a genius or expert does inside their head in order to perform a task exceptionally well using the models of NLP, what they've discovered is not a new model. It is a strategy. The sequencing of various aspects of the models that constitute NLP in order to change someone's internal representations is called a technique.
A model is a formal representation of behavior that allows prediction. Models are most commonly used in physics, e.g., in order to predict the rate of distribution of one liquid within another as well as how much movement the added liquid will have if poured from 2 inches above a beaker with a 2 inch diameter.
The models that constitute NLP are all formal models based on mathematical, logical principles such as predicate calculus and the mathematical equations underlying holography. Furthermore, all of these models are generative, e.g., when challenging one Meta Model distinction, the answer will always be a surface structure containing further Meta-Model distinctions. They are also recursive, i.e., the model can be applied to itself, e.g., you can use the Milton Model in order to define and utilize the distinctions described in The Hypnotic Patterns of Milton H. Erickson, M.D., Vol. 1 in order to understand how the book uses the principles described therein in order to teach them, i.e. it defines itself.
These distinctions will help people understand the difference between what a model and a technique is.
These tools were not developed in order to observe experts. They were discovered by observing experts. They were developed in order to further evolve human consciousness to the point that people could replicate skills and have deliberate control over their own consciousness. Nothing in NLP is analytical. It is all designed to be applied. If you do not know how to apply something that you learn as "NLP" then, it is either not NLP or you have a bad teacher. I think the best example of this misunderstanding is Meta-Programs. I've had people tell me that someone is a visual who sorts towards. That can't be true because if you ask a person to make a picture of themselves brushing their teeth with a toothbrush they just wiped their behind with, they probably won't move towards that. Most of you would probably say, "Yuck!" and move away from doing that. (If you behave in the previously described manner. STOP IT! It's not a good idea.)
Meta Programs describe how people sort through multiple generalizations. As such, they will tell you what lies inside and what lies outside of someone's generalizations about things like doors. When someone says, "Stupid door!", that gives you a pretty good idea about what lies outside their generalizations about what doors "are". If you then ask them how they know the door is "stupid", they'll give you an answer that will identify their "sorting style", i.e., "There's no knob," meaning that it can only be a not-stupid-door if it has a knob. If what they want is to be able to open more kinds of doors, then you have to teach them to sort for things other than just a knob in order to identify a door. That's how Meta-Programs work. They don't just describe someone diagnostically. They give you something to do.
NLP consists of models. By applying these models one can generate techniques. The models are patterns. As such, they will be true 100% of the time. That is why statistics don't apply.
There are many areas in which NLP has been utilized. Whatever your profession is, you can use NLP to build on whatever it is you are already doing.
Collapsing Anchors, Visual Squash, 6-step Reframing, V/K dissociation, Change Personal History, Belief Change, Reimprint (all which are sometimes called NLP), are some of the techniques that were derived from applying the models.
I have never once called anything I do a "procedure". I call them techniques or exercises. It's important to emphasize that NLP is an educational tool, not a form of therapy. We don't do therapy. We teach people some things about how their brains function and they use this information in order to change.
I have no idea what some of these products are. Once again, I think it is important for people to understand the distinction between a model and a technique. To use "products" also seems slightly misleading as I personally have used more of these simple things in business environments. I have used everything from strategies and anchoring to the Meta Model and Milton Model. Understanding board meetings seems to me to be the same as understanding how a family functions. I've done things like change where people sit at a table and change the outcome of the meeting.
I think the more you want to become more and more creative you have to not only elicit other peoples' (plural) strategies and replicate them yourself, but also modify others' strategies and have a strategy that creates new creativity strategies based on as many wonderful states as you can design for yourself. Therefore, in a way, the entire field of NLP is a creative tool, because I wanted to create something new.
Which learning strategies are useful in which contexts? What if we design new, more intense states and used those as the basis upon which we learn? All the models and techniques can be of use in many areas or professions. None of these areas are different from one another once you denominalize the words, i.e. "therapy, creativity, learning, business."
The NLP Presuppositions can be found on the NLP Presuppositions page.
See "What is DHE?"
None of these are the only way to learn NLP nor necessarily the best for any one person. The learning strategy they engage in will determine how they learn, but as we know, those aren't set in stone.
It isn't necessary that people go in any particular order. I know that some people make you do them in that order, but they are, as I originally designed them, different courses which cover different material and I know that learning doesn't come in levels, because, if it did, you would all have to have my personal history up to 1975 in order to use the Meta Model and that just isn't the case. There are also introduction courses, Design Human Engineering courses, business and personal consulting, Personal Enhancement Courses, NLP as an application to Hypnosis, Sales courses, etc.
I recommend reading Persuasion Engineering, The Structure of Magic Vol. I, and Vol. II, Time For A Change. Magic In Action II, Using Your Brain For A Change, Patterns of Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson Vol I & Vol. II, as well as The Adventures of Anybody. I also recommend reading the texts listed in the bibliography of The Structure of Magic I.
The tapes I recommend include Patterns of Persuasion, Design Human Engineering, Hypnosis in Munich (unedited), Personal Enhancement Series (The Neurosonics Tapes), The BarbizonTapes, and The NeuroSynchronizer.
Most of these products can be purchased through NLP Seminars Group International's online store: NLPStore.com.
See our Institutes listing.
Any references to the early work can be found in the bibliography to The Structure of Magic Vol. I.
These refer to some of the research that I used to develop NLP. Reading these books with a knowledge of what NLP is will show that they had something but didn't know what, yet. I took a few things from these and other places and formalized them into models which I apply. I would highly recommend reading those texts referred to the bibliography of The Structure of Magic Vol. I.
Sometimes it seems that NLPers ask stupid questions and the reason why NLPer's seem to ask stupid questions is because The Structure of Magic Vol. I is written backwards and doesn't tell you how to use the Meta Model in order to go somewhere. That's because it was a model of how therapists asked questions. Try reading chapter 4 from the last distinction to the first. That is the proper order.
*DHE and Design Human Engineering are used with the express written permission of Richard Bandler.
©1997 Richard Bandler
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Why astronauts’ immune systems don’t work well in space
Washington: Astronauts suffer from several types of stress while adapting to weightlessness in space.
For years, scientists have known that our immune system works less well in space, and trying to find the reason is a driving force for space research.
Researchers at the University of Teramo, the European Centre for Brain Research and the Santa Lucia Foundation have discovered that a particular enzyme, called 5-LOX, becomes more active in weightlessness.
The 5-LOX enzyme in part regulates the life expectancy of human cells. Most human cells divide and regenerate but the number of times they replicate is limited.
To find out if a change in 5-LOX enzyme activity could affect astronauts’ health in space, the researchers needed to test their theory in the only laboratory that can ‘switch off’ gravity: the International Space Station.
Blood samples from two healthy donors were sent to the orbital outpost. One set was exposed to weightlessness for two days, while the other was held in a small centrifuge to simulate Earth-like gravity. The samples were then frozen and sent back to Earth for analysis.
As predicted, the weightless samples showed more 5-LOX activity than the centrifuged samples and a set that had remained on the ground. In fact, the centrifuged samples remained identical to the ground samples.
“We now have a target enzyme that could play a real role in causing weakened immune systems,” Professor Mauro Maccarrone from the University of Teramo explained.
“The 5-LOX enzyme can be blocked with existing drugs, so using these findings to improve human health could be a close reality,” Maccarrone added.
Research will continue on the 5-LOX enzyme and related compounds. A follow-up experiment returned to Earth in a Soyuz capsule with the Expedition 30 crew last week.
Scientists will look for other changes in the cells to understand the underlying mechanisms fully.
Limiting biological activity of cell signals such as those controlled by 5-LOX might even slow parts of the ageing process.
These findings are being shared with the scientific community, especially researchers studying people with reduced immune response. The chances are that elderly people could benefit from this field of investigation.
First Published: Wednesday, May 09, 2012, 16:15
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Study and collection of natural materials
GW has a permit system in place for anyone who wishes to collect any material and/or carry out research within our parks and forests.
Generally the Low Impact Permit will be sufficient. However, use the High Impact Permit application if the activity involves:
Fill out pages 1-4 of the Low Impact application form or pages 1-5 of the High Impact application form and drop or send to:
Attn: Advisor, Biodiversity Monitoring
Greater Wellington Regional Council
142 Wakefield Street
Low Impact Application form, there is no processing fee.
High Impact Application form processing fee is $150 (GST inclusive). This must accompany your application or it will not be processed.
Each application received will be individually assessed by GW and Tangata Whenua. If your application is successful, you will be sent the completed and signed copy of the Permit. When you receive the Permit, sign in the space provided at the end of it. Any permit that is not signed by a GW Biodiversity staff member and the Applicant is deemed invalid.
When conducting the activity, you must carry the Permit with you at all times.
If you are unsuccessful in your application, you will be notified by a Greater Wellington staff member in writing or by telephone.
Please allow 2-3 weeks from Greater Wellington's receipt of your application for processing.
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10 Bad Eating Habits Parents Often Teach their Kids
Guest post by journalist, Suzanne Cullen.
Kids most often learn by example and I think we as parents tend to forget that fact as they get older. Once our kids are a little more self-reliant we usually go back to our habits as they were pre-children. As life picks up, moms go back to work when the kids start school, and everything gets busier, and it gets harder and harder to set a good example for our kids. Do you do any of the following bad habits in front of your kids?
#1 Salting your food before you taste it: This used to be a secret test that interviewers would use to size up a candidate for a job. Their reasoning? Salting your food before you taste it at a restaurant means that you have preconceived notions about how it will taste and this could trend over into other aspects of your personality. With children, using too much salt is a bad habit to get into because it’s not good for blood pressure and it makes your body retain water. Instead, try to use other spices to season your food, adding flavor without unnecessary sodium.
#2 Eating really fast: In our frenetic lives of running our children from activity to activity we often don’t have time to sit down as a family and enjoy our food. Eating too fast can lead to over eating because your body doesn’t realize that it’s full until after you’re done eating, and this can lead to weight gain. This is especially bad for our children because we are not teaching them to enjoy their food and listen to their body’s hunger cues. When they feel full they should stop eating.
#3 Skipping breakfast: We’ve all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day so why do so many adults still skip it? Scientific studies have shown that people who eat breakfast weigh less than those that skip breakfast so why do so many women still skip breakfast to save calories? Kids especially need breakfast to fuel their bodies and brains for a long day at school. Unlike adults, they can’t – and shouldn’t – get up and go to the vending machine when they are hungry.
#4 Midnight snacking: This late night habit of grabbing a snack is terrible for your system. Odds are that you are going to go to bed very soon after eating and those calories are not going to get burned off, which will also lead to weight gain. Kids who are active burn up calories a lot faster than adults and might need a healthy snack before they go to bed, but it should be at least a half an hour before bedtime and definitely not at midnight.
#5 Eating while driving: Again, in our hectic lives we’re constantly running from one activity to another, whether with the same child or a different child or our own personal activities. We grab a bite through the drive-thru and inhale it while going down the road, and we are inadvertently teaching our kids the same as they eat their nuggets and watch us in the back seat. What we should be showing them is to drive undistracted and that it’s important to focus on our food and enjoy what we are eating. Mindless eating is what also another cause of people being overweight.
#6 Skipping vegetables: We always think of children as not liking vegetables, but there are plenty of adults who don’t like vegetables either and it’s very hard to get your kids to eat vegetables if you don’t. Kids learn by example, and when you skip veggies they will skip them too.
#7 Eating out a lot: See a reoccurring theme here? When we are busy there’s no time for preparing a home cooked meal. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that restaurant food has a lot more sodium and calories than a home cooked meal. Look into other options, such as making meals ahead of time on the weekends so you can just take them from the freezer and heat them up, or get out your slow cooker and use it for hectic weeknights. What’s nice about a slow cooker is that if you take a few minutes in the morning to prepare it and turn it on you can forget it until you get home. Also, if you eat in shifts everyone can eat hot food when they are ready to eat.
#8 Consuming large portions: While we are out in those restaurants that we all love to frequent we are served huge portions of food that are much larger than the portions we should be eating. If we don’t get a big portion then we think we aren’t getting our money’s worth, but the portion sizes are at least twice if not three times that of a regular portion size. What we should be doing is eating the kid’s portion size instead. Keep in mind that our stomach is the size of our fist and that is how much food you should be putting in there. If you eat more than that you run the risk of stretching your stomach and then it will take more food to fill you up next time.
#9 Dipping food in sauces: Ketchup, mayonnaise, honey mustard, and ranch dressing are just a few of those wonderful sauces that we love to dip our food into. We can take a perfectly healthy stalk of celery and ruin it by dipping it into ranch dip. Our already unhealthy and greasy French fries get dipped in ketchup or mayonnaise so we can add a few hundred more calories to them. Kids learn by example, and if you think it tastes good then odds are they will too.
#10 Not drinking enough water: Serve water or milk at meals instead of other sugary options and your kids will be a lot healthier for it. As adults, we usually have coffee in the morning and then have a soft drink while out for lunch with friends from work. By the evening we’ll have anything from another soft drink to a glass of wine with dinner. During the day if we need a pick-me-up we’ll grab a caffeinated beverage. At no time do we drink water. If you drink more water your kids will drink more water and everyone will be a lot healthier for it.
How did you overcome any of these bad habits?
About the Author: Suzanne Cullen, regularly writes for http://www.aupair.org/. She is a graduate in English literature and currently pursuing her masters in Online Journalism. She can be reached via email at: email@example.com.
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As a boat angler who haunts Nantucket Sound, I'm especially concerned about its fish resources. Yet whenever I have sought solace from Cape Wind and the Corps in the form of cogent answers to my questions, I've gotten only what they hope to harness--wind.
by Ted Williams
in Fly Rod & Reel
There is little debate that the United States must overcome its addiction to finite, polluting, globe-warming fossil fuels. So here's a proposal for a cheap, renewable, non-polluting alternative energy source: Construct four hydro dams on the lower Snake River.
That proposal, eagerly embraced and implemented by Congress, is about 50 years old, but I cite it to make the point that all energy production has environmental costs. In this case the cost was the extirpation--now nearly complete--of the mightiest salmon and steelhead runs on the planet. The proposal was made by bureaucrats and engineers who either hadn't bothered to answer... [continue via Web link]
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Central Americans who are legally in the U-S because their countries were slammed by natural disasters are getting an 18-month extension.From this USCIS PDF:
The Department of Homeland Security is allowing the added time for citizens of Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador who have Temporary Protected Status.
Salvadorans have had the status since early 2001 after two earthquakes killed 12-hundred people. Nicaraguans and Hondurans have had the designation since Hurricane Mitch in 1998.
"Although Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador have made significant progress in their recovery and rebuilding efforts, each country continues to face social and economic challenges in their efforts to restore their nations to normalcy," said USCIS Director Emilio Gonzalez. "This 18 month extension reflects the United States' commitment to continue assisting our Central American neighbors on their road to recovery."Related from Feb 2006: "Temporary" Protected Status extended; preview of "guest" worker schemes
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"What would you do if you woke up tomorrow and you were beautiful?" That question was asked of comedy star and actress Margaret Cho when she was a guest on a radio show. The person posing the question was a male disc jockey. Totally taken aback by the effrontery of the query, Cho responded, "What do you mean?"
Her interviewer continued, "What if you woke up tomorrow and you were blonde, and you had blue eyes, and you were 5'11", and you weighed 100 pounds, and you were beautiful? What would you do?" Cho, with rapier wit replied, "I probably wouldn't get up because I'd be too weak to stand." (Note: The Metropolitan Life weight tables for women put a small framed woman of that height at the starting weight of 138; a large framed woman is within the healthy range at up to 170 pounds.)
Everyday young girls and women are being bombarded with images that set the standards for what constitutes visual attractiveness in our culture. Cho knows about these strictures first hand, and addresses them in her stand-up comedy special on Showtime entitled "Beautiful." Filmed nine days before the presidential election, Cho's act is political, provocative, and at times raunchy. Taking on issues of race, sexuality, and identity, Cho -- in her fifth stand-up comedy film -- recounts her experience and reaction to the radio personality who felt that she was missing the "beauty boat."
"I felt sorry for him," Cho tells the audience, "because if that's the only kind of person you think is beautiful, you must not see very much beauty at all in the world." Using a deadpan delivery she told the crowd, "I'm into complimenting myself, and I think you should do the same." Rhetorically asking, "What is beautiful?" she informed her listeners, "I'm coming out of the beautiful closet."
With Proposition 8 on California's ballot just over a week away from the date of her performance, she stated, "I think it's very political to feel beautiful, especially if you're queer. Because you have to take on the world every day of your life to survive."
Cho speaks from first hand experience about the perils of what can happen when you try to conform to an ideal that doesn't speak to your personal truth. In 1994, she was tapped to star in the first "Asian-American" sitcom on broadcast television. The show, All American Girl went through several phases as the creators debated if Cho was "too Asian or not sufficiently Asian." The final product got watered down, as network executives feared that the content was "too ethnic." That wasn't their only concern. They criticized Cho's physical appearance and her face structure (too round). As a result, she starved herself for weeks to achieve a weight loss that would be commensurate with their expectations. The goal was to have the right look in time to shoot the pilot episode. As Cho told me when we spoke by telephone, the result was not just a thinner Margaret Cho. Due to the crash diet she had undertaken, she developed kidney failure. The irony was that in order to play the role of herself, Cho had to morph into a different individual.
All American Girl was replaced in the line-up with The Drew Carey Show. Cho pointed out that a double standard was at play. Why wasn't Carey, also a comedian, judged by his looks?
Cho qualified "eating disorders as a terminal disease." "Women don't live their lives fully because they are always concerned about if they are thin enough to be attractive, instead of accepting their weight." For her, the struggle began at an early age; she had been dieting since the age of five. "I got it from my Mother," she said, referencing the stereotypical Asian female body type as "birdlike." Growing up, she felt out of place. When Hollywood came calling, it reactivated all of her childhood fears and insecurities. Not eating for a month to prepare herself for the debut episode of her show, Cho created health complications that still linger. Looking back, she depicts the experience as "very hard," but something that she learned from. "I didn't have to participate," she stated, "but I survived."
Cho is currently a member of the cast of Lifetime's new series "Drop Dead Diva," which premiered on July 12. The story line follows a shallow wanna-be model, who unexpectedly dies in a car crash and comes back to life in the body of a "plus-size brilliant attorney." Cho is on hand as her assistant, helping her to navigate the ramifications of her new physical presence. Lifetime is partnering with two non-profit organizations to drive a conversation about "being healthy at every size." Working with Jess Weiner, self-esteem and body image expert, mylifetime.com is featuring "toolkits" to help audiences explore the topics presented in each episode.
Fifteen years after All American Girl, women are still struggling to break free from the parameters of "conventional beauty." With Margaret Cho telling it like it is, the fight might become a little easier.
This article originally appeared on Empowher
Follow Marcia G. Yerman on Twitter: www.twitter.com/mgyerman
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Music is offered in various forms as one of the many Performing Arts available in the ‘Iolani School curriculum. This is one of the areas in the department that begins in the Lower School and transitions smoothly to the Upper School.
Students begin their study of music in the Lower School with general music classes. This leads to courses in concert and marching bands, stage bands, a large chorus and a select group, many string and symphonic orchestras, Suzuki classes, an Orff ensemble, music theory and chamber ensembles. The music groups have performed extensively throughout the United States and other countries.
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Georgian Huge French 18kt & Chalcedony Fob Pendant
A fob is an adornment or a seal that hangs from the ribbon or chain of a pocket watch. Its purpose is to decorate or add weight to the watch chain itself making it easier for the watch to be withdrawn from a pocket. The fob would have been used to seal the wax of a letter or note.
An absolutely fantastic and unusual gold fob from the Victorian (ca1880) era! This gorgeous French piece is made of 18kt yellow gold and is detailed with a wonderful double sided winged figure and a chalcedony seal. The fob, which is particularly large in size, is open in the center and on the sides and curled bars stretch from the torso of the figure. The base of the fob, surrounding the chalcedony seal, has a soft repousse design which carries around the entire piece and it hangs from a detailed bail that carries a complimentary garland design. The unusual gold figure rests atop a creamy white oval shaped chalcedony stone that is completely smooth. This wonderful French fob is very unusual and collectable. It's a very special piece and would make a perfect addition to any collection!
Measurements: The interior of the bail measures approximately 3/16" in diameter. The fob hangs a little less than 1 3/4" long, is 1 1/2" wide, and 1" in depth. The chalcedony fob measures approximately 1 1/8" long and 1" wide.
Condition: The overall condition of the fob is excellent. The handmade gold setting has 2 small dents that are hardly noticeable and not unusual for a Victorian fob. Other than this, there is no apparent damage to the gold figural fob, or to the chalcedony stone.
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Pajapati Gotami, Founder of the Order of Nuns
Gotami was the Buddha's foster mother as well as his maternal
aunt. King Suddodhana married both sisters Maya and younger
sister Gotami. When queen Maha Maya died on the 7th day of the
birth of Prince Siddattha her younger sister from that day became
the queen and foster mother of the prince.
miserably and lonely when Prince Siddhartha, Rahula his son
and her own son Nanda renounced the worldly life for the higher
life by entering the Noble Order. King Suddhodana also had passed
away on attaining Arahatship. Ordination was now foremost in
the Buddha on his visit to Kapilavathu and asked for the boon
of forming the Order of the Nuns. But three times the Buddha
turned down the request. She was dejected and returned home.
Soon 500 maidens gathered round her. They too, felt the urge
either through bereavement or following their beloved kith and
kin to seek ordination.
So she determined
to make amends. She shaved her hair and donned the yellow robe.
Her 500 followers followed her example. Kapilavastu was separated
from Jetavana monastery by a distance of 357 miles. She covered
the distance with her followers by foot although various chieftains
and lords placed chariots at their disposal. The dusty roads
in those days were quite unlike the roads of the present day.
There were no pavements or sealed surfaces. The gentle feet
of Maha Pajapati Gotami were unused to such rough conditions.
At the end of the journey they were thoroughly exhausted and
travel-worn. The march caused a great stir in the district through
which they passed. Such a walk attracted attention and soon
the crowds lined the route. She felt that in the circumstances
it was not fitting that she should court a refusal by the Buddha.
So she and her 500 companions lingered at the entrance of Jetavana
monastery when to their great good fortune Venerable Ananda
appeared. He was amazed to see his aunt in such a sorry state.
He inquired whether any calamity had befallen the royal house
of the Sakyans or whether there was a revolt. She assured him
there was nothing of the kind but told him the purpose of her
mission. Venerable Ananda was eminently fit to play the role
of a mediator. Again and again Venerable Ananda entreated the
Lord but only to be refused.
Venerable Ananda asked whether it was not possible for a woman
to attain the bliss of sainthood. The Buddha responded by saying
that a woman could attain as well as a man and then consented
to the establishment of the Order for Nuns, but only on eight
the 8 conditions:
1. A Bhikkuni
even if she was in the Order for 100 years must respect a Bhikkhu
even of a day's standing.
2. A Bhikkuni
should reside within 6 hours of travelling distance to and from
the monastery where Bhikkhus reside for advice.
3. On Observance
days a Bhikkhuni should consult the Bhikkhus.
4. A Bhikkhuni
should spend the Vassa (rains retreat) under the orders of both
Bhikhus and Bhikkhunis.
5. A Bhikkhuni
should ply her life by both the orders.
6. A Bhikkhuni
should on two years obtain the higher ordination (Upasampatha)
by both Orders.
7. A Bhikkhuni
cannot scold a Bhikkhu.
8. A Bhikkhuni
cannot advise a Bhikkhu rather it should be the other way about.
Ananda broached the news to Maha Pajapati Gotami she was glad.
She wholeheartedly accepted the conditions laid down by the
Buddha. She was true to her destiny, as not long afterwards
she became an Arahant. So likewise did her companions on listening
to the discourse called the Nandakovada Sutta by the Buddha.
The King of Lichchavis built a residence for her and her followers
the Buddha accompanied by eighty Maha Arahants and a huge concourse
of Bhikkhus visited Pinnacle Hall in the city of Vesali.
a sight Venerable Maha Pajapati Gotami was exceedingly glad.
The disciples were fully worthy of the Lord as he was of them.
She saw that Anna Kondanna, Sariputta, Mogallana, Khema, Uppalawanna,
Nanda, Rahula and his mother Yasodhara (Bimba Devi) were to
predecease the Lord. She was determined not to tarry but that
she should be the first to go. Although she was 120 years old
yet signs of old age were not visible. Her hair and teeth resemble
those of a girl of 16 years. At the moment of her resolution
of obtaining Parinibbana the earth trembled and quaked. The
thunder in the sky rent the air. Her companion's likewise sought
her companions proceeded to meet the Lord. Compliments were
exchanged. Although from the 7th day the prince was reared by
her the Buddha amply repaid the debt due to her by her ordination.
She gave a graphic picture of the infancy of Prince Siddhartha.
How she has fed and bathed the prince.
In the meantime
people from far and near flocked to the scene as the news spread.
Diverse deities came. Visva Kamma deity who by his psychic power
came to the rescue to provide much needed accommodation.
requested Venerable Maha Pajapati Gotami to clear doubts about
her sainthood. Then she paid tribute by performing many miraculous
acts and all present including the Maha Arahants marvelled.
her companions underwent the great release Parinirvana.
At last the cremation came to pass. The Lichchavi Princes brought
sandalwood for the funeral pyre and the caskets containing the
remains were made ready. The whole sky was overcast with the
heavenly host during the day. The stars and the moon shone brilliantly
overhead as night followed. People laid carpets and the deities
held a canopy overhead. It was a unique ceremony the Buddha
and the Maha Arahants graced, so the pyre was lit and only the
relics of Venerable Maha Pajapati Gotami remained like pearls
and those of others vanished from the scene. These relics were
placed in the Buddha's bowl and given to him. The Buddha extolled
the virtues of this great Arahant. He himself had ordained her
and been her teacher and this was said to dispel any doubts.
had a stupa built by the Lichavi Prince and the relics enshrined
and the Buddha Himself joined the funeral procession. This was
a unique honour paid by the Tathagata.
addressing the Monks and laity declared that Venerable Maha
Pajapati Gotami was foremost in attainments among the female
Maha Arahants of the Noble Order.
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Make the pastry by combining the flour and 1/4 teaspoon of the salt and then rubbing 1/4 cup of the ghee into the flour until well combined and mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add the water, a tablespoon at a time, until the pastry comes together to form a ball, about 10 tablespoons. Knead the dough lightly and then form into a disk, wrap in plastic wrap and transfer to the refrigerator to rest for at least 1 hour.
While the dough is resting, make the filling. Peel the potatoes and cut into small dice. Heat 1/4 cup of ghee in a medium skillet and add the onion. Cook until the onion is lightly caramelized, about 6 minutes. Add the ginger, chile, coriander, garam masala, and cumin seeds and cook until the spices are fragrant, about 2 minutes. Add the potatoes, 1 teaspoon of the remaining salt, and 1/8 teaspoon of the pepper and cook, stirring, until well combined, about 6 minutes. Add the peas and 3 tablespoons of the cilantro and set aside to cool completely.
While the filling is cooking, make the yogurt dipping sauce by combining the yogurt, remaining tablespoon of cilantro, mint, green onion, lemon juice, remaining 1/4 teaspoon of salt and remaining 1/8 teaspoon of pepper and stir to combine. Set aside, refrigerated, until ready to serve the samosas.
Divide the samosa dough into 10 portions and roll each piece of dough into a circle about 5 inches in diameter. Cut each circle in half. Lightly moisten the straight edge of each half circle and press together to seal; you should now have a cone-shaped portion of dough. Carefully spoon about 2 heaping tablespoons of the filling into the dough cone and then moisten the remaining edges with a bit of water and press together to seal. Repeat with the remaining portions of dough and filling.
When you are ready to fry the samosas, heat a large saucepan filled at least 2 inches with oil to about 340 degrees F. Fry the samosas, a few at a time and stirring to promote even cooking, until golden brown, about 4 minutes. (Note: these will float to the surface of the oil long before they are ready to be removed; make certain to cook them until the pastry is crispy and golden brown.) Remove using a slotted spoon and transfer to a paper-lined plate to drain. Repeat until all samosas have been fried. Serve immediately, with the yogurt dipping sauce and your favorite chutney.
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In a talk to graduating students, Professor David Besanko illustrates how their Kellogg education can help them understand — and overcome—the ‘remorseless workings of things’
6/24/2012 - Within tragedy lies opportunity — to gain wisdom and courage and to advance the common good.
In a final session for graduating Kellogg students and their guests on June 15, Professor David Besanko presented a series of cases studies illustrating the tragic events that can befall businesses, markets and society.
It might have seemed a sad topic for graduation day, but the message of the lecture was quite the opposite — in fact, uplifting.
“Tragedy is not inevitable,” Besanko, the Alvin J. Huss Distinguished Professor of Management and Strategy, told a packed audience in the Owen L. Coon Forum. “It can be overcome.”
Tragedy of the commons
Besanko’s first case addressed the collapse of the North Atlantic codfishing industry in the 1990s. Driven by self-interest without regard to the long-term benefit for all, North American firms thoroughly overfished and depleted a common resource.
Besanko used this textbook example of the “tragedy of the commons” to highlight the struggle between individual and collective interests. He counseled students to be cognizant of how they will help align private interests with communal welfare in real-life ways. Working together for the common good in any organization requires the ability to build esprit among members to achieve shared goals, he said.
Tragedy of the race between greed and fear
How did Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme snooker highly sophisticated investors? Posing this question, Besanko theorized that the tragedy of the race between greed and fear kept investors engaged despite obvious red flags.
“Maybe the returns were so high, investors felt it was better to stay in a little bit longer,” mused Besanko. The real tragedy, he said, was that they may have kept the scheme alive longer than necessary.
Pointing to the broad lessons gleaned from the Madoff case, Besanko advised students to look for disconfirming evidence and to be skeptical of the herd. “If it seems too good to be true, then it probably isn’t,” he said.
Tragedy of competitive escalation
For the first time, satellite radio’s Sirius XM — the result of a merger between Sirius and XM in 2008 — achieved a positive net income in 2011. But before they became one, the two firms fought for market leadership from 2002 to 2007, incurring combined losses of $11.6 billion.
This final case study showcased a market that eroded shareholder value. Besanko blamed the tragedy of competitive escalation for creating a winner-take-all environment.
The main lesson here is that “you shouldn’t play this game at all,” Besanko said. Successful organizations avoid trench warfare. They strive for autonomy by creating a distinctive mix of value and having the courage to go their own way, according to Besanko.
Besanko concluded the lecture by congratulating the Class of 2012. “The good news,” he said, is that the graduates will emerge from Kellogg “with the skill sets, judgment and courage to overcome tragedy wherever you find it.”
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al-MustanṣirArticle Free Pass
al-Mustanṣir, (born July 2, 1029, Egypt—died Jan. 10, 1094, Cairo), eighth Fāṭimid caliph. He inherited the rule of the most powerful Muslim state of the time, but, during his reign, which was the longest of any Muslim ruler, the Fāṭimid government suffered decisive and irrevocable setbacks.
He became caliph in 1036, when he was only seven years old, and real authority had to be wielded by his father’s vizier (prime minister) and, after the death of the latter, by al-Mustanṣir’s mother. During this time Egypt was frequently the scene of pitched battles between bodies of soldiery, usually ethnic groups, such as the Sudanese and Turks, who supported various politicians. Al-Mustanṣir lacked the influence to shape the direction of these events, although there were times when he personally led troops in battle. By 1073 he was reduced to desperation and secretly offered military authority in Egypt to the Armenian general Badr al-Jamālī. Badr accepted but insisted that he bring his own troops with him. In a swift series of brutal actions, Badr defeated the various military factions, executed a large number of Egyptian politicians, and thus restored relative peace and prosperity. Al-Mustanṣir strengthened his relations with Badr by securing the marriage of his youngest son to Badr’s daughter. He had, however, made a fateful decision, for real power now passed to Badr and after him to a series of other military commanders. Fāṭimid influence outside Egypt shrank, areas in North Africa slipped from al-Mustanṣir’s control, and conditions in Syria were so chaotic that it was impossible to offer effective resistance to the Seljuq Turks, who were advancing from the east. Through most of his reign al-Mustanṣir lived in great luxury, the source of which was profitable commercial relations with Indian Ocean powers and with Constantinople.
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Report 94-8: Breaking Camp -- Building a Campus: The Commission's Analysis of the Proposal to Create California State University, Monterey Bay, at Fort Ord
Published by The California Postsecondary Education CommissionJune 1994View Full Publication
Through a decision by the Base Closure Commission and the President of the United States, Fort Ord in Monterey County has been scheduled for virtual closure during Fall 1995. As a result of this decision, the California State University has been presented with a unique opportunity: the ceding of 1,286 acres of land and facilities has been estimated at approximately $1 billion - an amount that will probably be supplemented by additional funding for upgrading, conversion, and renovation. The Trustees have designated the new institution as "California State University, Monterey Bay" . . . . The Commission adopted this report at its meeting on June 6, 1994, on recommendation of its Educational Policy and Programs Committee.
Related Topics: Facilities Review
Further information may be obtained from the Commission's Research Staff
(916) 445-1000 or via e-mail at Research_Staff@cpec.ca.gov.
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May 15, 2008 — Literacy of Northern New York is seeking volunteers to teach English as a second language classes. The not-for-profit is trying to keep up with a growing number of military and academic spouses and farmworkers who want to learn English in Jefferson, Lewis, and St. Lawrence counties. Deborah Tate runs the organization's ESL program. She told David Sommerstein the students come from all over the world.
You can volunteer to be a tutor by calling 782-4270 in Jefferson and Lewis counties, and 265-0194 in St. Lawrence county. Go to full article
May 17, 2006 — Over the last five years, the number of Mexican and Central Americans working on the North Country's dairy farms has risen dramatically. Industry leaders agree farms depend on reliable, plentiful Hispanic labor to survive. If national estimates are right, about three-quarters of these workers entered the United States illegally. Farmers are not required to prove their workers are legal. In fact, they can be sued for discrimination if they challenge them. Still, dairy farmers find themselves on the wrong side of immigration law as it now stands. David Sommerstein has part two of our series, Latinos on the Farm. Go to full article
Apr 03, 2006 — Massive protests in California are providing a dramatic backdrop for the debate in Washington over America's immigration policy. The issue can seem distant in the North Country. But Jamaican apple pickers already use a legal guest worker program in the Champlain Valley. Illegal immigrants are becoming more common on area construction sites. And the number of Hispanic workers on dairy farms is growing fast. John Lincoln is president of the New York Farm Bureau. He employs two Guatemalan workers on his dairy farm near Canandaigua. David Sommerstein asked Lincoln what he sees in the immigration rallies in California. Go to full article
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By bringing the field of photovoltaics into medicine, researchers hope to create a far more precise method of drug delivery for fighting cancer. That’s right: this cancer cure involves tiny photovoltaic particles like the kind used in solar cells.
One of the major drawbacks of chemotherapy is that it damages far more of the body than just the malignant tumors it’s used to fight. In order to target just the cancerous areas, and not hit everything on the way there, researchers from the University of Texas in El Paso created a tiny solar cell. They attached model drugs to each side of the cell, one of which was positively charged, the other negatively. Once the tiny solar devices are in the body, doctors would blast the tumor with an infrared laser, causing the pholtovoltaic particles to release the drugs.
This would mean the medication would only be released at a specific location, and could be used to deliver the medical payload extremely specifically, and altering the intensity of light would control how much of the drug would be released.
At present, this work is just a proof of concept, and has a significant amount of work to go. We reported on a similar technique in November using fuzzy nanocubes.
Image of tiny photovoltaic flakes by Murat Okandan
This post originally appeared on io9.
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The best teachers would become coaches and mentors for rookie educators and veterans who need help with their technique, under a program now being considered for Montgomery County, Md. But in the midst of all the praise the idea is receiving, no one seems to be asking this question: Is it a good idea to pull the best teachers out of the classroom?
School board managers and teachers association leaders seem to think so, telling The Washington Post that the program is "cutting edge" and that it could be "the most important thing that happens to the Montgomery County public schools in the next year or two."
The program would work in this way: Teachers judged as "exemplary" would be trained to evaluate and mentor an estimated 800 to 1,000 new teachers hired in Montgomery County each year, as well as long-time teachers found to be in need of help. They would even have the power to recommend dismissals, though the final power to terminate would stay with the superintendent.
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British scientists have built a novel device that converts body movement into electricity capable of powering small gadgets such as GPS trackers.
The device, unveiled this week in the July issue of the journal Smart Materials and Structures, is designed to be worn on the knee and harnesses the energy produced by walking.
The journal said it could be used by the military to reduce the number of heavy batteries — each weighing up to 10 kg (20 lb) — that soldiers carry on foot patrol.
It was created by researchers at the Universities of Cranfield, Liverpool and Salford, originally with funding from the UK Ministry of Defence. The researchers estimate it could retail for 10 pounds if produced on an industrial scale.
The “energy harvester” is based on so-called piezoelectric materials that have long been used in sonar sensors and ultrasound scanners and have become the focus of energy generation research in recent years.
Scientists at Princeton University and the California Institute of Technology used a similar technology two years ago to develop electricity-generating rubber sheets.
The novelty of the British device is the way it uses the body’s movements to generate power.
An outer ring that rotates as the knee joint moves is fitted with 72 plectra that in turn move four energy-generating arms called bimorphs attached to an inner hub. The vibration generates the electricity.
Michele Pozzi, who led the development project, said researchers were looking at ways to make the device cheaper and more portable.
“There is an on-going project looking at manufacturing a more compact and truly wearable harvester,” the journal’s website quoted Pozzi as saying. “At the moment we are using precise but cost-effective manufacturing techniques for the plectra and casing and anticipate that remaining parts will be moulded industrially, slashing the cost.”
At the moment, the piece can harvest about two milliwatts of power but the researchers believe this could exceed 30 milliwatts with a few enhancements, enough for the latest GPS tracking devices.
The gadget could also have uses in medical monitoring devices, he said.
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Local High School Students Introduced to Engineering Technology
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As part of its continuing efforts to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the engineering technology program and Tau Alpha Pi, the engineering technology honor society at Piedmont Technical College, recently celebrated National Engineers Week by inviting high school students to learn more about the career.
“It was encouraging to see so many high school students getting excited about engineering,” said Cory Nickles, president of Tau Alpha Pi. “The engineering technology field is the future of South Carolina.”
More than 50 students and teachers from the Project Lead the Way classes at Ninety Six High School, Ware Shoal High School, McCormick High School and Abbeville High School visited the Greenwood campus where they were given tours of the engineering technology labs and introduced to the programs offered. The students along with current Piedmont Tech engineering technology students were then treated to lunch where Kelvin McGraw, an engineering manager with Eaton Corporation and a PTC graduate, encouraged students to continue their education.
“I truly believe that Piedmont Technical College is a great avenue for students to enroll and follow their career path and better themselves,” McGraw told the students.
The students were then challenged with an engineering puzzle activity. They had to figure out as a team how to balance 12 large nails on the head of one nail in a board.
“It may look like a game, but this is the same way challenging problems are solved every day in industry,” said Nickles. “It’s about working together to solve problems.”
The celebration of National Engineers Week was started in 1951 by the National Society of Professional Engineers in conjunction with President George Washington’s birthday. President Washington is considered as the nation’s first engineer, notably for his survey work. It is observed by more than 70 engineering, education, and cultural societies, and more than 50 corporations and government agencies. The purpose of National Engineers Week is to call attention to the contributions to society that engineers make. It is also a time for engineers to emphasize the importance of learning math, science, and technical skills.
Photo Caption: The engineering technology program and Tau Alpha Pi, the engineering technology honor society at Piedmont Technical College, recently celebrated National Engineers Week. PTC graduate Kelvin McGraw, an engineering manager with Eaton Corporation, center, encouraged more than 50 students and teachers from the Project Lead the Way classes at Ninety Six High School, Ware Shoals High School, McCormick High School and Abbeville High School.
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- Historic Sites
An astonishing saga of endurance and high courage told by a man who lived through it
February 1988 | Volume 39, Issue 1
It looked like a hopeless case. All men, no medicine, no phone, no way to get help, and not much experience with freezing and dying children. The house had six inches to a foot of snow on the board floor. Snow had blown in through the cracks. By this time three or four fathers and ranchers, who had been hunting all night and all day for the kids, had come. One of the fathers found his only child, a boy, dead. He also had been hunting all night and day for the bus, only to find his son at Andy’s house in the back room. But what a hero he was! This man worked all night along with all the rest and up to about noon the next day, when everyone started the search for the bus driver. Finally he collapsed in the snow and was taken to a hospital with pneumonia and did not get to go to the funeral of his only child.
In desperation we started rubbing the kids down with snow. We cut the top of a fifty-five-gallon barrel out and filled it with distillate—what’s now called diesel fuel. We stripped the kids, one by one, and put them in the barrel of distillate, trying to draw the frost out and get circulation going again, and keeping the temperature as high as possible in that shack, which was about forty to fifty degrees, using cow chips as fuel.
Some of the kids started to come to and began to ask where the driver was. We fed them warm water and potato soup. We had kids laying on horsehides, saddle blankets; anything that was loose on both ends, we used it. Kids would scream with pain as the frost started to come out. We would grab snow off the floor and rub their arms and legs. We knew this had worked in times past, for every man there, including myself, had experienced frozen feet or hands before.
We had to get a doctor and news to the outside world fast! Everyone was frantic, so here is what we did. This was now about six or seven o’clock at night on the second day. Some of the men raced by horseback and got three or four old cars at a large ranch nearby that belonged to ranch hands that worked there, and chained them bumper to bumper. They started out for a phone and help at Holly, Colorado, thirteen miles away. They had to go back the same road Dad and I had come up that same day. They had to go with the wind, or south. They also had to go through the same high drift that took Dad and me so long getting through, and the deep dip in the road. By using that many cars, it worked like a bulldozer, and the back cars pushed the front car right through all the drifts. In about an hour they reached a phone.
Andy asked us to help kill his suffocating cattle. We used ball-peen hammers.
In the meantime, while they were gone, Andy and I went back with a team of horses to the bus for the dead we had left. It was dark, and the moon started to show through the clouds, and as we drove along, still about twenty below zero, the wagon wheels would sing that crunching noise made by running over the frozen snow. It was not a very pleasant mission, but it had to be done. When we arrived back at the bus, we backed the wagon up to the open bus door. Andy looked in and turned his head and said, “Elbern, can you go in and get those kids?” What Andy saw inside that bus was a little boy with blood frozen on him from his head to his waist. As we found later, the children had slapped each other in desperate attempts to keep everyone awake. I told him to hold the reins of the team and I would go. Inside, the bus was half-full of snow and the children frozen together. One was a girl of fifteen, who died on her birthday; one girl, seven, turned out to be the driver’s daughter; there was a boy about eight years old. I pulled them apart, put them in my arms, and carried them out and laid each down in the wagon, which had bundles of feed at the bottom. Then we both got in the wagon and drove slowly back. The fathers were still all there, taking care of the children, working feverishly to save each one, but the families at home did not know what was going on. Someone had to go and notify mothers and families.
So me being the youngest in the bunch and raised a good horseman, they picked me for the ride at about 10:00 P.M. that night, to spread the word to the mothers at home. Andy said, “Go out and saddle up that brown cutting horse and ride the route and tell the wives and families what has happened and who is dead and who is alive.”
I didn’t relish the idea, but be strong I must. The storm had slowed down, still drifting and twenty to twenty-five below zero. My first thought was I never saw this horse before. So four or five men jumped up and said, “Let’s help that poor boy get started on his way.” We grabbed our coats, our masks over our faces, and headed for the barn.
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LA VERNE - A sweet spring tradition kicked off Saturday in La Verne, where residents are invited to soak up local history as they pluck oranges from one of the last working groves in the area amid historic buildings and artifacts.
The La Verne Heritage Foundation's orange picking event at Heritage Park, 5001 Via De Mansion, will continue from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays until a not-yet-determined date in mid-March.
The event gives residents a glimpse back in time to the late-19th and early-20th centuries, when much of what is now La Verne was dominated by citrus groves, La Verne Heritage Foundation volunteer Ron Baur said.
Baur first volunteered at the grove about 10 years ago at the suggestion of his wife.
"I was just overwhelmed how great this place was," he said.
In the front of the orange grove stands the Weber house, one of the oldest homes in La Verne, which was built in the 1880s and rescued from planned demolition in 1985 by a group of community members who came together to form the foundation, Baur explained.
Also mixed in among the 140 to 150 orange and grapefruit trees are a historical barn, shed and bunkhouse, a tractor and a host of tools and equipment used by local residents 100 years ago.
La Verne, which was called Lordsburg until the residents voted to change the name in 1917, depended heavily on the citrus industry.
"By 1919, more than a thousand carloads of fruit were being shipped
Though not the economical force it once was, the small historical grove at Heritage Park produces, "quite a bit," Baur said.
So there's plenty to share when the annual orange picking event rolls around.
Guests are invited to peruse the grounds and help themselves to oranges and grapefruit from the grove for $5 per bag.
"You can't get fresher," said DeWayne Henderson, 41, of Rancho Cucamonga, who picked oranges with his 15-year-old daughter, Emily Henderson of La Verne.
"We're having a great time. It's a perfect day for it," he added. "I think it's awesome that they make this available."
In addition the the public orange picking events on Saturdays, the foundation will also host educational school field trips weekday mornings March 6 through 16.
The children's tours include tractor rides and crafts with orange peels.
In October, similar tours are given with a pumpkin patch theme.
For more information, contact the La Verne Heritage Foundation at 909-593-2862.
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Sinks most often get jammed at the pop-up or strainer assemblies in the bottom of the sink and at the P-trap, that curvy pipe under the counter. They do plug up elsewhere, but it's best to start treating the problem at the sink, hoping for an easy-to-fix clog.
Here are a few methods for unclogging sinks.
CLEARING STRAINERS AND POP-UPS:
Remove the pop-up stopper from the sink. Some lift right out, others need to be rotated 90 degrees first, and some won't budge until unscrewed from the pivot rod at the back of the drainpipe under the sink.
As you lift it, the stopper might be entangled in a mucky mess, the cause of the clog. Reinstall the stopper after cleaning. If the clog persists, check the P-trap.
Most have built-in strainers that can clog. Use a teaspoon to remove enough debris to see whether the strainer is held in with a screw. If it is, unscrew and lift out the strainer and clean it. If the strainer can't be removed, continue spooning out debris, then scrub with a small brush and scouring powder. If water still drains slowly, it's on to the P-trap.
CLEARING DRAIN TRAPS
The dip in a P-trap is designed to trap and hold a small amount of water to prevent sewer gases from rising. Unfortunately, it also traps other things that eventually clog the drain. Here are five ways clear a drain in the order of which to try first.
1. Plunge it. Fast, easy, effective and requires only a $3 sink plunger. Run enough water into the sink to cover the rubber plunger cup. Seal the overflow drain with a wet rag. Turn the plunger sideways to get as much air out of the cup as possible, then place the cup over the drain and pump vigorously about 10 times. The alternating pressure and suction often dislodges the clog and sends it on its way. Once the drain is clear, run plenty of hot water down to flush away remaining sludge.
2. Snake it. A long, flexible cable known as an auger or a plumber's snake has a corkscrew-like end that bites into debris. While rotating the cable, feed the auger into the drain. You can either break apart the debris or pull it out through the drain.
Hand-operated augers are available at all hardware stores. Cost: $10 to $50 depending on the style and length.
3. Disconnect it. If you don't have an auger, remove the trap to clean it. Place a bucket under it to catch the water, then loosen couplings on each end with slip-joint pliers. (Wrap plier jaws with masking tape or a rag to keep from marring chrome-plated nuts.)
Use a bottle brush and hot soapy water to clean inside the trap. Before reassembling, check for cracks and corrosion, and replace with a new trap if necessary. Some traps have a clean-out plug on the bottom; poke a straightened coat hanger through this opening to try to remove the clog before taking out the trap.
4. Blast it. A balloonlike device can attach to a garden hose and dislodge debris with water pressure. The deflated balloon is inserted into the drain. When the water is turned on, the balloon expands inside the pipe and forces the clog free. Some folks swear by these things, but leaky pipes could result.
5. Dissolve it. Most chemical drain cleaners use caustic alkalis or acids. They can damage pipes and are hazardous. Try the mechanical methods listed above first. If you do resort to chemicals, wear goggles and rubber gloves, have plenty of ventilation, and follow label instructions.
1. Plunge it. Kitchen sinks often have more than one drain leading to the same trap. Before plunging, seal other drains, including the overflow, with wet rags. If the rubber drain hose from the dishwasher is pliable, temporarily clamp it off. If it's old and stiff, leave it alone.
2. Snake it. Run the snake into the side of the sink without the garbage disposal.
3. Disconnect it. Same method as bathroom sinks but more challenging because of additional pipes and hoses.
4. Blast it. Won't work on sinks with permanent strainers -- no way to get the balloon down the drain.
5. Dissolve it. Chemical cleaners can damage some garbage disposals. Check the owner's manual before dumping any chemical cleaner into the disposal.
-- Alan Keyes
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LVIII.—BEDFORD SQUARE (GENERAL).
During the period including the latter half of the 17th and the
early years of the 19th century, several large estates were laid out in the
western district of London. The planning of these generally included
several squares, each provided with a central garden for the use only of
the residents living in the surrounding houses.
When the 112 acres composing the Duke of Bedford's Bloomsbury
estate were developed, over 20 acres were laid out as gardens for the use
of the occupiers of the houses overlooking them. (fn. 1) This estate, with its
wide streets and spacious squares, is an excellent example of early town
planning, and affords an illustration of the advantages gained by the
community when a large area such as this is dealt with on generous lines
by the owner.
Bedford Square is about 520 feet long and 320 feet wide between
the houses, and the oval and beautifully wooded garden (Plate 61) measures
375 feet on the major and 255 feet on the minor axis.
The general architectural scheme of the square is interesting. Each
side is separately treated as an entire block of buildings, having a central
feature and wings. The central feature of each side is carried out in stucco,
having pilasters and pediments in the Ionic order, those to the north
and south having five pilasters (Plate 97), and those to the east and west,
four (Plate 89). The western house being smaller, however, has not the
additional walling extending beyond the pilasters.
The houses at the ends of each block have balustrades above the
main cornice, and, generally, the windows are ornamented with iron balconies
at the first floor level.
The round-headed entrance doorways, other than those to the central
houses, are rusticated in Coade's artificial stone, (fn. 2) and enclose a variety of
fanlights, of which a typical example is shown in No. 15 (Plate 80).
No drawing has been found showing the design for the laying out
of Bedford Square, which was carried out between the years 1775 and 1780.
The plots were leased by the Duke to various building owners. One plot
was taken by Thomas Leverton, architect, and 24 by Robert Crews and
William Scott, builders. (fn. 1)
These builders acquired many more plots on the estate, and it may
be supposed that, as they at times worked in partnership, the whole of
the buildings in the square and the houses in several of the adjoining
streets were erected by them, partly as a speculation and partly as
builders for other lessees.
There is much to support the view that Thomas Leverton was the
author of the general scheme and the designer of the houses. He
took up a building lease of No. 13 in 1775, practically at the
beginning of building operations He was a well-known architect,
who adopted the style of the period as represented by Henry Holland
and the Brothers Adam. (fn. 3) His work shows well-balanced composition
and refinement of detail. He employed, moreover, many of the designers
who worked for the Brothers Adam, such as Bonomi, the clever draughtsman
and architect, Angelica Kauffmann and Antonio Zucchi, the Italian
artist. It is also said that he employed Flaxman to execute carving,
and skilled Italian workmen to carry out his beautiful designs for
plaster work on ceilings, several of which are illustrated in this volume.
An example of his work has already been described in the previous
volume dealing with this parish, (fn. 4) namely at No. 65, Lincoln's Inn Fields,
erected in 1772. It will be seen, by examining plates Nos. 86 and
97 in that volume, that these designs show a similar architectural expression
to the houses of this square, and the internal decoration (especially of his
own house, and of No. 44) follows the general character of that in Lincoln's
With regard to the suggestion (fn. 5) that the Brothers Adam were the
designers of Bedford Square, it may be said that the only drawings found
appertaining to the square by these celebrated architects are preserved
in the Soane Museum, and represent two ceilings designed for Stainsforth,
Esq., dated 1779. Geo. Stainsforth took up his residence at No. 8,
Bedford Square in that year, (fn. 6) , but the house had already been in existence
for some time, as it is referred to as the northern boundary of No. 7, on
20th November, 1777. (fn. 7) There is no evidence that designs for the ceilings
referred to were actually carried out, as the present ceilings of the house
In the Council's collection are:—
General view looking north-east (photograph).
(fn. 8) General view looking south-east (photograph).
General view of north side (photograph).
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Uniform Rates For Pole Attachments Would Spur High-Speed
By: Linda Haugsted, Multichannel News
Uniform, lower rates for attaching broadband equipment to utility poles for all telecommunications providers would spur broadband deployment, especially in rural areas, according to a new policy paper by the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy.
The policy statement from the non-profit think tank concludes that the "current, complicated rate structure" charged by incumbent utilities causes "inefficient investment decisions and generally results in less broadband deployment." A uniform pricing structure would benefit consumers and increase social welfare, the organization opined.
Pole attachment rates paid by, for instance, cable operators who place plant onto telephone poles, are set by the Federal Communications Commission or by state utility commissions. The rates, now averaging in the mid-teens per pole, are set by coming up with the cost of the owning utility for the bare pole and the cost of ongoing maintenance divided among the users of the pole.
But for years, the companies that own the poles have argued that the rates they are paid for using the poles do not reflect modern costs. Also, they argue cable companies that have moved into telecommunications services should pay those higher use rates, not low cable rates, for using the poles.
"The convergence of communications networks has many implications, with one being that the regulated prices for pole attachments should likewise converge," said George Ford, co-author of the study and chief economist at the Phoenix Center. "Having different rates structures for cable and telephone companies might have made sense when congress and the FCC established this system thirty years ago when networks offered very different services. Today, economically efficient pricing implies the pole rate should be common for all broadband providers, and also be much lower than the rates charged today."
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Several days before the November elections, Sen. Dianne Feinstein asked agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to meet with her lawyers to prepare for the renewal of the Clinton-era gun ban, early in President Obama’s second term.
On Thursday, she emphasized the extensive planning that went into reviving her “assault weapons” ban. “The calls have been coming in as if this is some wild-eyed scheme,” Mrs. Feinstein told her colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee. “It is not.”
The intention of her legislation, the California Democrat said, “is to dry up the supply” of the 4 million semi-automatic rifles she describes as having a frightful appearance. She further pushed for enactment of a ban of ordinary rifle and pistol magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds.
More thoughtful committee members tried to steer the discussion away from emotion and toward the facts. Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican and the ranking member, noted that the Justice Department has yet to offer an opinion on the constitutionality of the bill. In light of the Supreme Court’s 2008 Heller decision strengthening the Second Amendment, he declared the bill was “fatally flawed.”
Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, argued that the “assault weapon” ban in effect between 1994 and 2004 made nobody safer. “We tried this experiment once, and it failed, and I think it promotes symbolism over seriousness to repeat that mistake,” he said. The real issue is “stopping deranged madmen from getting guns.”
To address that problem, Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, offers legislation with Democratic support to clarify under what circumstances mental illness is a disqualification to own a gun. It would make clear that the FBI’s instant background-check system must report cases where a judicial authority deems someone mentally ill, including those found not guilty in a criminal case by reason of insanity. It must include those determined to be an imminent danger to themselves or others, ruled incompetent to stand trial and forced to undergo involuntary treatment by a psychiatric hospital.
The Judiciary Committee put off the final vote on the “assault weapon” ban and three other pending gun bills until Tuesday, but all are expected to pass. Republicans on the committee are working on amendments to add a bit of common sense to the discussion. Mr. Cornyn wants to expand the exemption in Mrs. Feinstein’s bill for current and former law enforcement to cover the military and veterans. It’s important that Mrs. Feinstein’s bill as written never becomes the law of the land.
The Washington Times
© Copyright 2013 The Washington Times, LLC. Click here for reprint permission.
By Jay Sekulow
The left's outrage over the IRS turns to a plea to 'move on'
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‘Food can never just be about the bald story of the recipe: the meals we eat say something fundamental about who we are and how we want to live. Whenever an occasion matters to us, we mark this with food, from a birthday cake to a wedding breakfast. But Feast is not just about big-deal special occasions: it’s about the way we use food to celebrate life.’
A feast for the eyes and the senses, Feast is a must for every kitchen. In the style and tradition of Nigella’s classic How to Eat, it applies those same ‘Pleasures and Principles of Good Food’ to celebrations from feast days to familiar rites of passage.
Essentially about families and food, about public holidays and private passions, about how to celebrate the small everyday pleasures as well as the big occasions, it includes everything from Christmas, Thanksgiving, Hanukah and Eid, to Passover and Easter; from Valentine’s Day to that first breakfast in bed and Sunday lunch fit for the In-Laws; from a seasonal pumpkin feast to the ultimate Chocolate Cake Hall of Fame; from weddings to funerals, from Georgian and Venetian feasts to children’s favourites; from Carbfeast to a final post New Year fast…
Heartwarming, passionate, informed, refreshingly uncomplicated and full of ideas, Feast is destined to become a classic like How to Eat. Written with the same enjoyment, sensuality and practical awareness, and packed with over 300 recipes from all over the world and from near to home, Feast proclaims Nigella’s love of life and great food to celebrate it with.
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In Okemos, Dr. Dennis Perry at Meridian Primary Care, a partner of McLaren Greater Lansing, is treating gastroenteritis.
The main symptoms are: stomach cramping or discomfort, bloating, nausea and diarrhea. Fever is a less-common symptom, but a low-grade fever may be present.
Most cases of viral gastroenteritis aren't serious and will clear up on their own without specific treatment within a few days.
You should let your stomach settle by not eating or drinking for a few hours. Start a liquid diet and once you can keep down liquids for 24 hours, begin a BRAT diet (bananas, rice, applesauce, toast).
Use medications like ibuprofen sparingly because they can upset your stomach.
See a doctor if you can't keep liquids down for 24 hours or you've been vomiting for more than two days.
The most dangerous complication to watch out for is dehydration. Young children and the elderly are particularly susceptible.
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"Dad I need help".
The words that every parent dreads but would never want to miss hearing came as a text to Greg Bracey at 1.30am about a month ago.
The texter was his elder son Callum who was in a sleep-out just 100 metres from the family home at Tutukaka. It was a message that saved Callum from serious harm from meningococcal disease and his story comes as health officials are giving free meningococcal C vaccinations to children at 25 Rathbone St these school holidays.
Mr Bracey said when he got the text he raced to the sleep-out to find Callum delirious, the 16-year-old had sent the text just in time, drawing on the last vestiges of co-ordination to use the phone. His father, who has had Pre-Hospital Emergency Care training, quickly realised Callum was seriously ill.
"He had a roaring temperature, he was sensitive to light and his neck was stiff and painful, and he had a rash - classic symptoms of meningitis although the rash could have been caused by his temperature," says Mr Bracey.
The illness was moving so quickly he knew an ambulance would take too long to get there and decided to take Callum to hospital by car. He half-carried, half-walked a vomiting Callum to the car, strapping him into the seat. They arrived at the hospital about 2am.
"The staff hadn't known we were coming but they were fantastic. The decision was made to give him antibiotics ... They needed to do a lumbar puncture to find out if the disease was viral or bacterial, but apparently you can't do a lumbar puncture if the brain is swelling so he was flown to Auckland in the rescue helicopter.
The teen went straight into triage in Auckland given a scan, had a lumbar puncture and diagnosed with viral meningitis.
Callum and his father were back home in Whangarei by that evening. He was off school for a week and suffered from headaches during the next two to three weeks.
Mr Bracey says Callum is now "as fit as a fiddle" and yesterday father and son set out on a short tramping trip to a Department of Conservation hut on the north side of Whangaroa Harbour.
Mr Bracey, who is grateful for the care Callum received, also wants to remind parents that they must be vigilant about their kids. "Callum went to bed with a bit of a sniffy nose and a slight headache," he said.
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