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Zane Grey Home Movies
Zane Grey (1872-1939)
Zane Grey, writer of popular adventure stories about the American West, was born Pearl Zane Gray in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1872. Changing his name to Zane Grey in early adulthood, he studied dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1896, and started his own practice in New York City. In November 1905 he married Lina Elise Roth, known as Dolly. The couple had three children: Romer (1909-1976), Betty (1912-2007), and Loren (1915-2007). Dolly Grey strongly supported her husband's ambitions to make his living as a writer, helping to edit his work and manage his career as he became increasingly successful. Zane Grey's prolific output included best-selling novels such as Riders of the Purple Sage, The Lone Star Ranger, and Under the Tonto Rim, many of which were made into equally successful Hollywood films. Grey lived the adventurous life he wrote about, spending months of each year camping in the Arizona desert or fishing off Tahiti and Australia. He was as famous for fishing as he was for writing about it, holding a number of world records including a 1,036-pound tiger shark.
Description of the Papers
The Betty Zane Grosso Collection of Zane and Dolly Grey Papers documents the life and work of the American writer Zane Grey and his wife Dolly Grey, and to some extent the lives of their children. The papers chiefly consist of correspondence between Zane and Dolly Grey from the time they met until his death, circa 1900-1939. Their letters document Zane Grey's frequent travels throughout the American West and in the South Pacific, his career as a writer, their marriage, and the growth of their family. The collection also includes some correspondence with others; a draft of Zane Grey's autobiography; Dolly Grey's diaries; photographs and ephemera; and ten films. Many of the films apparently document hunting and fishing expeditions, but the collection also includes a print of the 1936 Australian film "White Death," in which Grey was featured as himself, and two documentaries about Zane Grey produced in 1985 by his family.
Home Movies of the American West
Three films depicting Grey family travels in the American Northwest have been digitized and are available below. One film records travels in Utah, Wyoming, and on the Umpqua River in Oregon in 1937. The other two films, made after Zane Grey’s death, record scenes in Oregon and California. They appear to have been made by Zane Grey’s sons Loren and Romer Grey.
Due to commencement activities, the Beinecke Library will open at 2 p.m. on Monday, May 20.
Monday - Thursday: 9 am to 7 pm
Friday: 9 am to 5 pm
Saturday: 12 pm to 5 pm
Reading Room Hours
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I was again overcome by the story of David’s sin against Uriah (murder) and Bathsheba (adultery) and God’s response in 2 Samuel 11-12. David acknowledges that the one who has done such a thing deserves to die (12:5). But in the end Nathan says, “The Lord also has taken away your sin; you shall not die” (12:13).
But though the sin is taken away and the death sentence removed, Nathan says, “Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child that is born to you shall die” (12:14). In spite of forgiveness some “penalty” for the sin remains. I put “penalty” in quotes because I think we must distinguish consequences of forgiven sin (v. 13) from consequences of unforgiven sin. The latter are properly called penalties. The former we should probably call “disciplinary consequences.”
That is, they are related to the sin, and they reflect the displeasure of God for the sin, but their aim is not retributive justice. They are not part of condemnation. The aim of the consequences of forgiven sin is not to settle the accounts demanded by retributive justice.
That’s what hell is for. There is a judgment whose purpose is to vindicate the right by paying back the wrong thus establishing equity in God’s kingdom of righteousness. This is done on the cross for those who are in Christ and it is done in hell for those who are not.
But the aim of God-sent consequences of forgiven sin is not to settle accounts demanded by retributive justice. The aim of the God-sent consequences of forgiven sin are (1) to demonstrate the exceeding evil of sin, (2) to show that God does not take sin lightly even when he lays aside his punishment, (3) to humble and sanctify the forgiven sinner.
Thus Hebrews 12:6 teaches that “the Lord disciplines him whom he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
This is immensely important to teach in a day when there is an imbalance of emphasis on the Father’s forgiving tenderness to the exclusion of the Father’s forgiving toughness. Thus many people have no categories to handle the consequences of the sins in their lives except to become less biblical and God-centered in their interpretation of life.
By the power of truth and the Spirit we must learn to revel in the grace of God, the forgiveness of sins, the hope of glory, the joy of the Lord at the very same time that we may be suffering from the consequences of forgiven sin. We must not equate forgiveness with absence of painful impact. David’s life is a vivid illustration of this truth. May God give us the grace to learn it and live it.
Cherishing with you the tough and tender truth of God,
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Obituaries & Condolences
Florence Ann Black
Birth date: May 7, 1926
Death date: April 19, 2012
Florence Ann Black peacefully passed on Thursday, April 19 at her home in the Oaknoll Retirement Residence.
Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:00 am Monday April 23rd at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Iowa City with Father John Spiegel officiating. Visitation will be Sunday, April 22 from 2-6 PM at the Lensing Funeral Service in Iowa City with a Rosary at 4 PM. Private family burial service will be held at St. Michael’s Cemetery in Holbrook. In lieu of flowers, Florence’s memorial wishes are to the Regina Education Fund, Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation or the Oaknoll Foundation.
Florence was born May 7, 1926 in rural Iowa County, the sixth of eight children born to John and Mary (McCarty) Black. She was educated in the rural schools of Iowa County and graduated valedictorian of Parnell High School. She attended Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, Coe College in Cedar Rapids and the University of Iowa culminating in the Bachelor and Master of Science degrees.
Florence taught all grades in rural Iowa County schools for 17 years, often living with the families of students. She taught third grade in Williamsburg and in Iowa City elementary schools for 34 years. Florence let it be known she “never got out of the third grade and never wanted to”! She retired in 1995 from Robert Lucas Elementary School after a fifty-one year teaching career.
Florence had a great love of science, particularly geology and received several government grants to take advanced science courses. During a college field trip, Florence found and rescued a rare index fossil (a hexagon aria colony) in an area being prepared for the construction of the Duane Arnold Energy Center near Palo, Iowa. She also devised and constructed a rock key, a tool to assist in the identification of rocks and authored an article describing the construction and use of the rock key for utilization by classroom teachers.
A resident of Parnell, Iowa for 43 years, she was a member and supporter of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and served for several years on the Parnell City Council. Florence provided 22 years of loving care in her home for her father, John, and looked after her sister Helen during Helen’s illnesses.
Florence relocated to Iowa City and became a member of the Oaknoll Retirement Residence family in 2001. She greatly enjoyed the many activities available at Oaknoll and plunged heart and soul into a very active social life. From Scrabble games, to exercise classes (she took treats, of course) to the Saturday writing class, she truly enjoyed the many friends she made at Oaknoll. Especially dear to her heart was the “1st floor gang.”
Florence maintained her membership in the Iowa Retired Teachers’ Association, Delta Kappa Gamma and the “retired Lucas lovelies” and looked forward to their social gatherings. She was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church and baked for the Church sponsored Iowa City Free Lunch Program.
Three siblings survive Florence, Joseph Andrew (Madonna) Black of Williamsburg, Sister Mary Jean Margaret (Dorothy) Black, BVM of Mount Carmel in Dubuque, Harold “Jerry” (Jane) Black of Iowa City and many treasured nieces and nephews and grand nieces and grand nephews. She was preceded to Heaven by her parents and sisters Sister Mary Joanita (Agnes) Black, BVM, Helen Marie Black and two infant sisters Kathleen and Margaret Black.
Florence will be greatly missed and dearly remembered for so many, many reasons including never missing a birthday or anniversary, baking her heart out for family and friends, whipping up her famous potato salad and being kind, unassuming, patient and faithful to her family, friends, and The Lord.
Florence and her family extend gratitude to the Oaknoll staff that provided her with excellent care and loving support, to Iowa City Hospice who enriched her life and to her many caregivers at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, including: Drs. Charles R. Clark, Rebecca Hegeman, Teresa Brennan, and especially Helena Laroche.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.lensingfuneral.com
Memorials may be directed to Regina Education Fund, Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation or Oaknoll Foundation
2:00 pm to 6:00 pm on Sunday, April 22, 2012 at Lensing Funeral & Cremation Service - Iowa City 605 Kirkwood Avenue, P.O. 167 Iowa City Iowa 52244 (map/driving directions)
10:00 am on Monday, April 23, 2012 at St. Mary's Church (Iowa City) 220 E. Jefferson Iowa City Iowa 52245 (map/driving directions)
St. Michael's Cemetery, Holbrook
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I can remember back in the day when we connected to the Internet via a modem and were charged by the minute while accessing the Information Superhighway. Now, the Internet and really, the network it runs on, has pretty much become invisible to the naked eye. Just as we expect the lights to turn on when we flick a switch, we also pretty much expect the Internet to always be on and available without thinking twice about it. Internet service providers have gone from wanting Wi-Fi only in your house to working on providing connectivity to the entire city, giving the metro user Internet access from inside and outside of your home or office.
This explosion in connectivity has helped cloud computing systems and services to become such an active part of our daily lives that we, as consumers, do not really think of it; it has just become invisible. Although, the term “Cloud” will have a better chance of sticking long-term than Information Superhighway ever had. The cloud will get to a point where it is an invisible extension of the Internet, helping to create a seamless IT user experience and blurring the line between professional and personal. From your SkyDrive to your iCloud, and everything in-between, the cloud has given us so many different ways to move and share our data to make sure we have complete availability for things we need when we need them.
This blurring of the lines is a blessing and a curse. Yes, we become more productive with our time, but we have helped usher in an era where control of the data is really becoming out of control. Even as corporations establish standards and guidelines for data conduct, until corporate America catches up with the consumer offerings this data escape will continue, and it will require retraining of end-users to be secure and diligent with the data. How long will it be before we read in the news that someone’s personal DropBox account has been compromised and private data shared? We heard news like this when laptops where lost and/or stolen. One of the quickest policies that were put in place for lost equipment was encrypting the contents on the drive so it could not be opened or used. Taking advantage of encryption technologies for data at rest could be a very good first step to reign in the wild, wild data.
New cloud offerings seem to appear daily and are presenting consumers with more and more choices of different ways to make our lives easier. Now is the time to regroup, educate the users, and work on implementing controls to be able to keep our private data private. It all starts with education and understanding.
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This page is an overview page of all the articles that Earthquake-Report has written on the destructive March 11, 2011 Earthquake / Aftershock and tsunami.
The oldest page will be at the bottom of the list.
To serve our international readers who have friends and family in the disaster zone in Japan, we have started to publish the very long list of the deceased. To make it a little easier to consult, we have split the list in 1 page / prefecture. Iwate – Miyagi (the hardest hit prefectures)
Hokkaido - Ibaraki – Aomori - – Fukushima – Tokyo – Totigi - Saitama – Chiba – Kanagawa – Ishikawa – Shizuoka – Shiga – Saga – Hiroshima – Hyougo – Osaka
June 1 to June XX - Japan tsunami : Following up the aftermath (Part 16 – June)
April 29 to May 31 – A massive update for our CatDat Situation Report (Part 15)
April 13-14 - Killed persons lists of the different Eastern Honshu prefectures (see links above)
March 29 – April 1 – Real hope that the missing people list continue to get shorter (Part 9)
March 17 – 23 – Japan Tsunami – The death toll does not stop climbing (Part 6)
March 14 – 18 – Shallow very dangerous earthquake near Mount Fujiyama, Japan
March 12 – XX – Videos from the March 11 Japan Tsunami and Earthquake
March 9 – 11 – Massive 8.9 aftershock / earthquake along the Japanese coast
This post includes the extensive reporting on the 7.3 earthquake who initiated the later 8.9 quake from 2 days earlier.
January 25 – Earthquake Honshu Japan : Tokyo had a narrow escape ¦ again
This article has been published on January 25 2011 and discusses the earthquake risk of he greater Tokyo area.
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With plans to follow San Mateo County in banning single-use plastic bags, two cities will hold public hearings next week to discuss making the possible prohibition live on Earth Day.
In Foster City, the council will consider a second reading of an ordinance to amend its municipal code Monday night to ban single-use carry-out bags and require retailers to sell recycled paper bags or reusable bags at a minimum cost of 10 cents.
The San Bruno City Council will meet Tuesday night to consider similar amendments to its municipal code.
The two cities are following others in the area that have already signed on to adopt a countywide ordinance passed at the end of the year.
But plastic bag manufacturers contend reusable bags are actually worse for the environment and that banning them will lead to job losses.
Paper bags, made from trees, require four times as much energy to produce, according to the industry.
A plastic bag ban would kill jobs, hurt small business and the environment all at once, Cathy Browne, general manager of Huntington Park-based Crown Poly wrote in an opinion piece printed in the Daily Journal Thursday.
If the two councils move forward, city staff will begin outreach with residents and business owners.
The hope would be to make the ban live effective April 22, Earth Day. San Mateo County adopted its ban last year and several Peninsula cities, which had been holding out for a template model, are now following suit.
The county ordinance, which also begins in April and which the city ban echoes, allows patrons without reusable bags to request a single-use paper version from retailers for the price of first a dime and, after Jan. 1, 2015, a quarter. Retailers can voluntarily choose to give free bags to food stamp and WIC participants.
Bags without handles for medicine or to segregate food that might contaminate are exempt as are nonprofits such as Goodwill. Restaurants can still send food in to-go bags as public health officials have not yet ruled out the possibility of reusable bags leading to cross-contamination.
More than 20 billion disposable plastic bags are used in California annually — more than 500 bags per person per year in the county — and less than 8 percent are recycled, Dean Peterson, the county’s director of environmental health, told the Board of Supervisors in October when it considered the ban and an environmental impact report of a prohibition.
Twenty-four cities in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties participated in the EIR process but each city council that hasn’t already done so must adopt its own ban. Joining San Carlos were Belmont, Brisbane, Burlingame, Colma, Daly City, East Palo Alto, Foster City, Half Moon Bay, Menlo Park, Millbrae, Pacifica, Portola Valley, Redwood City, San Bruno, San Mateo, South San Francisco, Woodside, Milpitas, Cupertino, Los Gatos, Campbell and Mountain View.
In partnership with the San Bruno Chamber of Commerce, the city will host the retail businesses informational meeting Jan. 16 and will hold two community meetings Jan. 17 and in February.
A copy of the entire model ordinance is available at www.smchealth.org/bagban.
The Foster City Council meets 6:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 7, City Hall, 620 Foster City Blvd. The San Bruno City Council meets 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8 at the Senior Center, 1555 Crystal Springs Road.
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While state and federal health officials struggle to hold down soaring Medicaid drug spending, community pharmacy leaders are urging Congress to explore cost-cutting techniques that promote more rational prescription drug use.
In testimony before the House Health Subcommittee, National Association of Chain Drug Stores President Craig Fuller said that government cost-containment efforts should "reward behaviors that advance sound policy objectives." Specifically, Fuller called on federal and state Medicaid officials to adopt payment policies "that provide support to pharmacies that dispense generic drugs whenever possible" an approach that he said would result in "ultimately saving Medicaid billions of dollars."
Fuller also recommended the use of tiered copayments as an effective tool for increasing generic drug utilization. "By encouraging increased generic use, pharmacies can save Medicaid between $45 and $100 on each prescription," Fuller told Congress.
Mr. Rankin is a freelance medical writer.
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The core problem with climate change is not sea level rise or biodiversity; it is food supply. We are just barely able to feed the current six-and-a-half billion people on the planet. At 2 degrees hotter, many hundreds of millions are at risk but, with global cooperation and a switch away from meat production (let people eat the grain, not cows), they wouldn't have to starve. At 5 degrees hotter, there are no good options left. What makes this a political and potentially a strategic issue is the fact that the misery will not be equally shared. As rainfall patterns shift, some countries lose most of their best croplands while others come through the change unharmed or even gain new food-growing areas in the sub-Arctic. There is a bitter irony here, for the list of beneficiaries includes most of the countries that industrialised early and caused the problem to grow to its current size. There is also huge scope for conflict, including armed conflict, because nobody will sit quietly and watch their children starve when any alternatives remain, including violent ones. Some of those watching their children starve will have the resources and technology to threaten those who still have food (but just enough food). The only way to avoid this future, if it can be avoided, is to get greenhouse gas emissions down drastically in the next 10-15 years. But making the deal that would mandate and enforce those deep cuts in emissions, especially the part of the deal that brings the 'new' industrialising countries into the effort, is ferociously difficult politically, and there is no guarantee that it will happen in time. If it doesn't, the next few generations are in for a wild ride.
First published 2008
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The Bush Administration deserves praise for voicing support for
nuclear power in recent weeks at major international meetings.
President Bush recently spoke of the value of nuclear energy at the
Asian Pacific Economic Council forum. Shortly after, Secretary of
Energy Samuel Bodman delivered pro-nuclear remarks at the
International Atomic Energy Agency General Conference in Austria.
Such statements are vital as nations continue to grapple with
transforming their energy profiles to better reflect economic,
security, and environmental concerns while also striving to meet
energy demand, which is projected to skyrocket in the coming
The United States government predicts that domestic demand for
electricity will increase by 40 percent over the next 25 years. This
general increase must be met in an economically rational and
environmentally friendly way that does not increase America's
exposure to foreign vulnerabilities. Nuclear power can help do
The price of electricity produced by nuclear power plants is both
stable and affordable. Although the price of uranium has increased
in recent years, the monthly cost of producing electricity
from uranium-based fuel remains slightly less than coal and
substantially less than natural gas or oil. Electricity produced
by nuclear energy is minimally sensitive to uranium price swings,
because uranium accounts for only 5 to 13 percent of operating
costs for nuclear power plants. However, the increase in
uranium price does drive industry to invest in developing
additional natural uranium supplies. This is beneficial because it
lowers the demand for secondary uranium supplies, which include
national stockpiles and downblended uranium (obtained by turning
highly enriched, weapons-grade uranium into low-enriched, power
plant uranium). These supplies can then be set aside for other
The wider nuclear industry, like the uranium fuel market, is
currently in a transition period as nuclear power continues its
reemergence. One result is the spike in the value of some nuclear
goods and services. Demand has outstripped the ability of a largely
atrophied nuclear supplier base to respond. While some investments
are occurring, the nuclear industry must ultimately respond to
ensure adequate capability. Nonetheless, prices for
nuclear-produced electricity remain stable, and all indications are
that market forces will ensure that uranium supplies and other
nuclear services will meet demand.
These costs, however, are only associated with the current fleet
of power plants. The real question that remains about the long-term
affordability of nuclear power is the cost of new construction.
Industry leaders have assured the public that advances in
technology, streamlined regulation, and applying lessons learned
from the past will yield affordable nuclear power plants.
Environmental controls present perhaps the greatest regulatory
hurdle facing future energy supplies. Ironically, the push for
restrictions on CO2 presents an opportunity for nuclear power.
Carbon dioxide emissions are the latest anxiety driving
environmental activists. Their sophisticated public relations
campaign has convinced much of the world that CO2 and other
naturally occurring gases, such as methane, cause global warming
and must therefore be drastically reduced. The result is a plethora
of federal and international legislation under consideration to
restrict their release. States are also responding to CO2 fears. In
addition to numerous multi-state regional commitments, California
has enacted CO2 caps; seven other states are working on similar
mandates. Twenty other states are pursuing voluntary
restrictions. The likelihood is that some sort of CO2
caps will be put in place.
To avoid drastic consequences for the economy and for Americans'
lifestyles, an affordable energy source must be leveraged that can
meet their CO2 objectives. Because nuclear energy emits no
atmospheric pollutants, it is the best way to meet these
objectives. Ohio Governor Ted Strickland (D) recently acknowledged
the role for nuclear power by proposing that it be included as part
of its renewable energy portfolio.
Nuclear power is often maligned for its association with
"nuclear waste." This reputation is unfounded. In reality, nuclear
energy is extremely friendly to the environment because its
byproducts remain contained. Much of the byproduct, unlike that of
other power sources, is manageable and can be harnessed for future
While the anti-power environmentalists like to suggest that
wind, solar, biomass, and conservation are the answers to meeting
future energy demands, these sources are not as environmentally
friendly as they are often portrayed. Each option, even if it were
affordable and capable (which is questionable at best), would
require the development of huge swaths of land to accommodate
production. In addition to the unused cornfields of the Midwest,
using wind, solar, and biomass to meet future energy demand would
devour rainforests, mountain tops, and shorelines. According to a
1996 Nuclear Regulatory Commission document, producing 1000 MW
(electricity) would require up to150,000 acres using wind and
14,000 acres using solar, as opposed to 500-1000 acres using
nuclear. Brazil's reliance on biofuels is already
leading to fears of deforestation of the Amazon and other
biodiverse regions. However, it is worth noting that
although substantial terrain is required, activities such as
farming can coexist with wind turbines.
Decreasing American dependence on foreign energy has been at the
heart of the energy debate in recent years. However, dependence on
foreign sources of energy, per se, is not the problem. The problem
is that the United States has created economic and strategic
vulnerabilities by exposing itself to over-dependence on unstable
foreign energy sources. Expanding nuclear power in the United
States can help reduce this vulnerability.
Although America's current energy dependence is largely a
function of the petroleum-based transportation sector, trends
indicate that the larger energy sector is following suit. Most new
power plants brought online in recent years have been gas-fired.
While the United States is not currently dependent on natural gas
imports, greater mobility of natural gas in liquid form (LNG) makes
importing this resource in much higher quantities increasingly
likely. Indeed, America's imports of LNG have increased
approximately five-fold over the past decade. This trend
will likely accelerate, as most power plants now being planned will
be gas-fired as well.
While this should not deter the United States from developing
foreign sources of liquid natural gas and the domestic
infrastructure to support those imports, Americans should be alert
to the potential problems that these additional imports could
cause. Natural gas comes from many of the same regions where oil is
found, and public opposition to placing LNG terminals near
population centers has made infrastructure development difficult.
The potential result of greater reliance on natural gas will be an
expansion of America's economic and strategic vulnerabilities.
The President is right to continue to promote the important role
for nuclear energy in meeting future energy demand. While nuclear
power may not be an energy panacea, it has the potential to
alleviate many future concerns.
Jack Spencer is
Research Fellow for Nuclear Energy in the Thomas A. Roe
Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage
Department of Energy, Energy Information Agency, Annual Energy
Outlook 2007 with Projections to 2030
, February 2007, p.
U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Agency, Uranium
Marketing Annual Report, Table S1b, "Weighted-Average Price of
Uranium purchased by Owners and Operators of U.S. Civilian Nuclear
Power Reactors, 1994-2006," at www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/nuclear/umar/summarytable1.html
(September 19, 2007).
"Uranium Fuel Supply Adequate to Meet Present and Future Nuclear
Energy Demand," Nuclear Energy Institute Policy Brief,
January 2007, p. 3.
Estimates vary depending on source.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Generic Environmental Impact
Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, Division of
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Perhaps the single most overlooked attribute that has the potential to transform a life is curiosity. An inborn trait that defines us as small children; it is through our eagerness to explore, desire to understand and to know our world and ourselves that predicts our capacity to learn, change and adapt. Our social network and the depth of the relationships within that network exist in proportion to our curiosity. Like most human attributes, our capacity for curiosity is developmental, which means that it will grow given the proper conditions.
Curiosity is the seed of wonder in us and provides the easiest doorway to a positive outlook. It requires our full presence, and like a good friend will guide our attention with high quality awareness and questions. Many of us had this gift squelched too early to even notice it was gone. Nothing kills curiosity faster than disapproval and fear. If the messages we grow up hearing mostly started with “don’t,” our curiosity goes underground. When we are not safe to wonder, to question, to get dirty looking for answers we close off to much of the world.
A mind run by fear of disapproval and loneliness is a trap that literally slows down the thinking capacity. Like the hamster on a wheel, when our minds turn inward away from the vast possibility of life, it is easy to get caught in repetitive and unhealthy thoughts. Instead of seeking out new people and new ideas, our minds close off and slowly shut down to the wonder of being alive. Boredom is a symptom that describes a mind that has no way to reach beyond itself.
Lacking curiosity over time is how we lose access to our imagination. We accept any and all forms of projected entertainment to fill in the time. Curiosity is active and makes you want to do and discover. It is wholly unlike the millions of wasted hours that we collectively spend in front of a screen, passively participating in life as it is handed to us. Worse still, is that spending our time passively does little to prepare us for the changes that life exacts. If you can’t be curious or imagine your life differently, then our response to change is also stuck.
One of the places where our lacking curiosity takes the biggest toll is in our sexual lives. Too many of us are so terrified to open up to new worlds and possibilities in the mystery of our sexuality that our fear actually shuts down the libido all together. We long for sexual excitement and accept the packaged goods ready for easy download online rather than risk taking action and trying out new behaviors in our body, or even asking questions of our intimate partners. Without curiosity, we become numb, which explains the epidemic of people who cannot feel anything sexually. The key to this dilemma begins with cultivating a mind in full presence and practicing curiosity. Opening up to possibility, just even wondering about it will surprise you with the opportunities for more sexual satisfaction that exist in our own bedrooms.
Choosing to become more curious in any area in life will have positive benefits in all areas. Practicing the art of opening the mind while staying present whether in a new city or in a long standing intimate conflict will change the landscape in front of you. Start asking yourself why and why not when you hit a road block. Seek out and experiment with new flavors and scents, take time to really process the sensations on your tongue or in your nose. Stay curious in the experience until you can trace the new neural pathways opening in your brain. Scent and taste are some of the most visceral experiences we can trace that will wake up your brain in other areas. Transferring these tips into the bedroom are sure to wake up your curiosity. Dare yourself to get active doing something new next time you are bored. Find the small things around you that make you wonder. Better still; try to do just one thing with someone you love that makes you wonder how you never did it before.
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"A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world. Cervantes sent Don Quixote journeying and tore through the curtain. The world opened before the knight-errant in all the comical nakedness of its prose."
In this thought-provoking, endlessly enlightening, and entertaining essay on the art of the novel, renowned author Milan Kundera suggests that "the curtain" represents a ready-made perception of the world that each of us has - a pre-interpreted world. The job of the novelist, he argues, is to rip through the curtain and reveal what it hides. Here an incomparable literary artist cleverly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. In doing so, he celebrates a prose form that possesses the unique ability to transcend national and language boundaries in order to reveal some previously unknown aspect of human existence.
©2005 Milan Kundera (P)2012 HarperCollins Publishers
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Is frost setting in on your strawberries, or dipping temperatures terminating your tomatoes?
The growing season for temperate climate gardeners is pretty much over by this time of year. But we know locavores are hungry all-year-round, and that’s why we love to publish books to help you take control over your food supply even in the dead of winter. From Eliot Coleman’s easy methods of gardening under cold frames, to Sandor Katz’s techniques for turning your kitchen into a bubbly fermentation factory, our authors keep the homegrown fun going.
One of our favorite resources for off-season growing or simply growing food year-round in your urban “homestead” is Fresh Food from Small Spaces: The Square-Inch Gardener’s Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting by R. J. Ruppenthal. The book shows you how to grow vegetables on balconies and patios, but also how to grow some simple and nutritious foods indoors such as sprouts and mushrooms.
This excerpt explains how to start your very own oyster mushroom farm. Give it a try!
Oyster mushrooms are probably the easiest kind of mushrooms to grow. Though they are accustomed naturally to growing in wood, you also can raise oyster mushrooms in a variety of other growing media, including straw or sawdust. The easiest way to begin is with a kit. If you want to experiment on your own, then oysters give you a greater chance of success than other mushrooms. There are dozens of varieties of oyster mushrooms, from pin-sized to trumpet-sized, so check with your kit or spore supplier to see which kinds are available and recommended for your climate. Most grow in an ideal temperature range of about 55 to 65 degrees F.
Most oyster mushroom growing kits consist of either a small inoculated log or a holey plastic bag filled with sterilized, inoculated straw or sawdust. You can make your own kit using any of these materials, but I will recommend one other method that has worked well for many indoor mushroom growers. For this you will need two milk cartons or small waxed-cardboard boxes, enough sawdust to fill them, 2 cups of whole grain flour or coffee grounds, and some oyster mushroom spawn. The basic steps are as follows, but feel free to improvise. If sawdust is unavailable, you could also use straw for this.
- Cut out the top of the milk cartons so that their edges are of even height. Punch several small holes in each side of both cartons.
- Sterilizing (optional): If you are using sawdust that has already been inoculated with spawn, then do not try to sterilize it or you will kill the fungi. If you are using additional sawdust that has not been inoculated yet, then you may want to sterilize it. The easiest ways to do this are by boiling, steaming, or microwaving it. If anyone else in your household might object to cooking sawdust in the kitchen, then you might want to try this step when no one else is home. To sterilize with a microwave oven, fill a microwave-safe bowl with sawdust, plus the flour or coffee grounds, and wet down this mass with enough water so that it is the consistency of a wet sponge. You may need to do several successive batches to sterilize all of your sawdust. Nuking the sawdust on high for two minutes or until the water begins to boil off will kill any unwanted organisms and leave your kitchen smelling like either a wood shop or coffee shop. You also can boil or steam the growing medium in a pot of water in the kitchen or over a campfire, with or without a steamer basket. After it has boiled for a few minutes, turn off the heat, keep the sawdust covered, and let it return to room temperature.
- Using non-chlorinated water, wet the sawdust until it’s thoroughly damp. Then mix in your spores or inoculated material.
- Tightly pack this damp growing medium into your milk cartons and leave them in a cellar, garage, storage locker, or dark cabinet. You can put some plastic underneath the cartons and cover them loosely with plastic if desired. If insects are a problem, then spray cooking oil around the plastic to trap them. Keep the sawdust mix moistened regularly with nonchlorinated water, and in a few months your fungi should fruit repeatedly. To harvest mushrooms, twist them out gently so that their stems do not break.
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The impact of drought on tree water use was investigated in remnant forest in the Liverpool Plains NSW. Tree water use was measured using commercial sap flow testers from December 2002 to September 2004 which corresponded with a period of drought and a period of higher rainfall. Understorey evapotranspiration and soil moisture were also measured. Water use of the stand of trees was a larger proportion of annual total rainfall (87%) during the drought period than during the post-drought period (50% water use) when rainfall was higher. Understorey water use was about 20% of rainfall, suggesting that the understorey evapotranspiration component of the water balance can make a significant contribution to water use and the availability of water for groundwater recharge. The results indicate that the remnant forest was able to survive during the drought because of deep roots. The findings also demonstrate the valuable role forests play in maintaining the hydrological balance and in ameliorating the development of dryland salinity in agricultural areas (A).
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Here are some of the latest features about area people and events.
If you would like to learn more about the region and read The Kenmare News every week, consider a subscription to The Kenmare News.
Special, November 10, 2010 -- A World War I and II Service Record from the Kenmare area listed the names of 17 men killed in action.
View a copy of that record, with photos.
Posted 4/24/12 (Tue)
By Caroline Downs
Tobacco users thinking about ways to break their habit can “kick start” their success with a class in Kenmare.
The two-hour Kick Start Tobacco Cessation class will take place Wednesday, May 9th, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm in the Third Floor Activity Room at Maple View of Kenmare.
The is no cost to attend the class.
“This class is geared toward anybody ready to quit smoking or chewing,” said Bonnie Riely, Tobacco Cessation Coordinator at First District Health Unit in Minot. “Whether you’ve quit before and relapsed, whether it’s your first time quitting, or for anybody who’s even thought about it.”
Bonnie teaches the class on a monthly basis in Minot and recently offered the Kick Start class twice in Garrison. She described the class as educational, and she wants everyone who comes to feel confident about their decision to end tobacco use. “It’s even better if they have a support person they can bring with them,” she said. “That support person is really important when you’re quitting tobacco.”
Bonnie knows what she’s talking about. “I smoked for 32 years,” she said. “My mom died from COPD four years ago, but she and I attended an eight week class in Minot before that. She was tobacco-free for a whole year before she died.”
The two-hour Kick Start class is a great way for smokers or tobacco chewers to begin. “It’s a casual, informal class,” said Bonnie. “I want people to feel comfortable.”
The class features a variety of activities, starting with a check on each class member’s carbon monoxide level. “They can see that number, see some of the toxins in their system,” she said.
During class, Bonnie will review the chemicals used in tobacco products and medications available to help individuals stop using tobacco. “We’ll also go over some medications that are not even in the stores yet,” she said.
Included in the class are displays of the health effects of tobacco use on the body, discussions about the Quitline and QuitNet resources, and advice about using Medicaid or private insurance to cover nicotine replacement and therapy.
“I encourage the participants in the class to call their insurance companies to see how much coverage they provide,” she said. “Most insurance companies are really good about tobacco cessation because they know people using tobacco have so many health issues.”
Bonnie described the Kick Start class as fast-paced. “There are so many things people aren’t even aware of,” she said. “We talk about the depression aspect of it and strategies to deal with that. We talk about the first week of quitting and what that’s like.”
She introduces a variety of medications, gums and lozenges available as aids to help tobacco users quit, with some free samples and coupons available to class participants. “They may have tried something 20 years ago, but things have changed,” she said. “The patch, the gum. Maybe it didn’t work for them back then, but it has changed now, and they need to know about that.”
Teens are welcome to attend the session as well, although Bonnie is prohibited from distributing any nicotine-replacement medications to them by law.
“I’ve had principals bring students they’ve caught smoking, and kids who’ve come on their own,” she said. “Even if somebody is not ready to quit yet, the seeds are planted. It’s about the education.”
And while everything in the Kick Start class takes place in one session, Bonnie noted support groups can form and carry on the work. She facilitates a Tackle Tobacco support group in Minot each week that area residents would be welcome to attend. “And that could happen in Kenmare if the group was willing to set something up,” she said.
As a former smoker, she emphasized she would never tell another person he or she had to quit, and she does not recommend quitting cold turkey.
“But 70 percent of the people who smoke or chew want to quit,” she added. “I would highly recommend anybody to come who is even thinking about quitting, and to bring your support person.”
Persons with further questions about the class should contact Bonnie at 701-837-5171 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.org.
“If people want to register ahead of time, they can call or email,” she said, “or they can just walk in that night.”
The Kick Start class is sponsored by FDHU and the Kenmare Tobacco-Free Coalition.
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Posted by bryankalbroskysucks | Filed under chad harbach,r.a. dickey,frank deford,tim wendel,david halberstam,sportswriting,sports,bill simmons,the art of fielding,wherever i wind up,over time,the summer of '68,the breaks of the game,
“The same goes for my favorite sports books. You can’t learn how to write unless you’re constantly reading, just like you can’t learn how to play music unless you listen to hundreds of different albums, or you can’t learn to speak a second language unless you actually go to a foreign country and practice it. For whatever reason, many aspiring sportswriters either don’t understand this, or they dismiss it altogether. In fact, I’ve had conversations at bars with younger people who have approached me, asked me for advice, and when I ask them what their favorite sports books are, they give me the Peyton Manning Face. I’m always astonished by this. How can you aspire to become a sportswriter without reading as many different styles and perspectives as you can?” -Bill Simmons “Best Sports Book Series”, 3/30/2006
So you think I did anything to solve this? Here’s a list of books that I bought today. Thanks, mom and dad, for the Amazon gift card!
- “The Art of Fielding” (2011) by Chad Harbach
- “Wherever I Wind Up” (2012) by R.A. Dickey
- “Over Time” (2012) by Frank DeFord
- “The Summer of ‘68” (2012) by Tim Wendel
- “The Breaks of the Game” (1981) by David Halberstam
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The NZ Herald editorial:
Video images of a 15-year-old Wanganui schoolgirl being kicked to unconsciousness by another girl in her class, have moved the Prime Minister to have all schools review their attitude to bullying.
“I worry about bullying,” he said, “I worry about youngsters going to school and being intimidated …” His concern sounds genuine, not driven by an opinion poll. If schools find it a little galling that he thinks they need this reminder, they should make the best of it.
They may have given a great deal of attention to bullying in its various forms, and devised carefully considered policies to guide their response to it, but this is their opportunity to assess whether the policy is working and give further thought to alternatives.
I thought the PM wrote to all schools was a good idea. It isn’t about finger pointing, but it would ensure that at the next board meeting there is a discussion about the current anti-bullying and activities, and whether they can be improved.
But sadly the NZEI gets all defensive, and puts out a PR saying:
Schools don’t need to be bullied into action
The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa says the Prime Minister is misguided to think that schools alone can stop bullying, as the root cause often lies well beyond the classroom.
John Key is instructing the Education Minister to write to all schools reminding them of their responsibilities and demanding they review their anti-bullying policies.
“Schools take bullying very seriously and encourage a zero-tolerance approach. They don’t need to be bullied into action,” says NZEI President Ian Leckie.
You know this really pisses me off. How dare Mr Leckie compare a letter from the Prime Minister to bullying, such as we saw with the 15 year old being beaten up. That just screams to me that the NZEI does in fact not give a fuck about bullying, if they just see it as a term to bash the Prime Minister with.
Leckie should be ashamed of that press release. It trivialises the issue.Tags: bullying, NZEI
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Six inches wider than a standard 48" gypsum board panel, Stretch54 reduces the number of joints in nine-foot walls for a smoother surface, critical for today's thinner wallpapers and new no-texture finishes. That’s because two standard width boards come up one foot short when hanging panels on nine-foot walls. A one-foot filler strip must be used to complete the wall, which also adds an additional joint to tape and float.
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Earth has been invaded by the aliens several times in its history. The Blackwood Project has uncovered evidence of invasions large and small at many different times. We all know of the current invasion and the full scale invasion in 1953. We've also discovered evidence of invasions in 1938, the 1300s, and as far back as 2000 years ago.
Through communication with other groups combating the aliens elsewhere around the world, we have uncovered another invasion which took place in the late 19th century. As with the more contemporary invasions, there seems to be-- collectively-- no memory of any invasion taking place, and physical evidence was apparently covered up by the world governments at the time. However, some records made by individuals who witnessed the invasion have survived.
The most significant of these is a story titled "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells which has been used as the basis for many other fictional invasion stories as well as a part of the U.S. government coverup of the 1938 invasion at Grover's Mill, New Jersey. However, Wells' story itself was a fictionalized version of an actual invasion.
More recently, more stories have been written, including tellings of the invasion of the late 19th century invasion in other areas of the world. Some of them are clearly fictional, but others seem to be close to the truth. Another is apparently the result of a major information leak in the Blackwood Project.
H.G. Wells' story has also been the inspiration for many graphic novel or comic versions of the invasion. All of them appear to be based on Wells' work with no real knowledge of the true invasions. Some are retellings in the same or different time periods, some are sequels set in other time periods, and some are completely different stories.
War of the Worlds and related imagery are Copyright by Paramount.
You may copy, distribute, prepare derivative works, reproduce, introduce into an electronic retrieval system, perform, and transmit portions of this publication provided that such use constitutes "fair use" under copyright law, or is otherwise permitted by applicable law.
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Friday, July 20, 2012
Denton offers an array of fishing opportunities
Denton Parks and Recreation is sponsoring a “Neighborhood Fishin’” program which hopes to make fishing fun and easy for the community.
Students trying to kick back and enjoy the summer break may want to consider investing in a rod and tackle.
Fishing is one of the most popular outdoor sports in the country, a great way to relax and the fastest-growing college sport in the country, according to the Association of College Anglers.
Denton sits conveniently between Lewisville Lake and Ray Roberts Lake, two sprawling man-made lakes that offer fishing opportunities on and offshore.
Students created the UNT Bass Club in 2005 to churn interest in fishing and compete in bass tournaments throughout the region. The 15-member club competes on lakes around North Texas against state rivals.
Mechanical engineering senior William Cartwright, the club’s vice president, has a unique way of describing his passion for fishing.
“It’s like NASCAR racing, a picnic and deer hunting all wrapped into one activity,” Cartwright said. “Then there are the beautiful sunrises and sunsets. The good days can be spiritual.”
Cartwright works with a youth outreach program called KIDFISH, which aims to educate a new generation of fishing enthusiasts. The group hopes to teach younger generations that spending quality time with friends and family is more rewarding than landing the big fish.
Cartwright enjoys his work with KIDFISH because it allows him to get out and interact with the local community.
“It lets us show that we’re more than just a bunch of guys that hang out and go fishing all the time,” he said.
Those who can’t make it out to the lake but are looking for a quick catch are in luck.
Denton Parks and Recreation is sponsoring a “Neighborhood Fishin’” program which hopes to make fishing fun and easy for the community. The south pond at South Lakes Park in Denton will be stocked with channel catfish throughout the summer and fall. Participants can fish with rod-and-reel only and keep up to five catches a day.
Business sophomore and bass club member Sean Watson said he had been fishing for years.
“What I like about it is picking apart the puzzle,” Watson said. “It’s figuring out the fish.”
For students interested in joining the bass club, registration is quick and easy. Just stop by one of the monthly meetings on campus and fill out a school waiver.
“We try to get new members in the very first tournament that we can,” Cartwright said. “That way its like boom, you’re fishing.”
More information can be found at untbassclub.webs.com.
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Fall can be a perfect time to whet the appetite with foraged food — if you have expert advice, exercise considerable caution and know exactly what you're looking at before you eat it.
Although we may think we've lost that urge in modern life, Green, co-author of "The Wild Table: Seasonal Foraged Food and Recipes," says it is still there and is most evident in children. Just look, she says, at how popular Halloween trick or treating and Easter egg hunts are with kids. Just be careful.
"You can become besotted with enthusiasm, and you can't let your emotions run away with you," Green warns. "When in doubt, throw it out."
While most of us don't need to forage to live, increasing numbers are growing to appreciate the gourmet element, the flavor aspect, of foraged goods.
"Our food tastes better when we work for it," says Hank Shaw of Orangevale, Calif., author of "Hunt, Gather, Cook: Finding the Forgotten Feast." "Anyone who has made a blueberry pie from blueberries they picked that day knows it tastes better."
Chef Sarah Scott, Green's co-author, describes foraged foods as truly seasonal treasures in a world of year-round edibles.
"When they're gone, they're gone. You can't bring them back any time of year," she says, noting the flavor of foods foraged in season can be so vivid. For her, that apex of flavor is found in cuitlacoche or corn smut, an edible fungus that attacks ears of corn.
"I tell you, it has the most amazing flavor," she says. "It is just the essence of corn. There's this rich, deep, earthy flavor that comes through."
People not only want more flavor but also a closer connection with their food. Witness the surge of interest in locally grown, locally sourced foodstuffs and the proliferation of farmers markets nationwide. Having the ability to go out and find one's own food, to have some control over one's own food sources, is becoming increasingly important.
Foraging can be incorporated into other outdoor activities, Green says: "Not only can you look at the beauty of the world, you can actually ingest it."
Seconding that multitasking sentiment is Steven Rinella, host of Travel Channel's "The Wild Within" and the author of "The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine."
"Ninety percent of the foraging I've done is with a gun in my hand," says the Brooklyn, N.Y., resident. "I'll be looking for game and stumble across something good to eat."
And although he doesn't much like the term — "Foraging sounds so much like something a chipmunk would do" — the appeal of the hunt itself is undeniable.
"We don't get that many eureka moments, but we can go out and find things, sometimes in suburban backyards, for heaven's sake," Green says. "Some of these things are really hiding in plain sight."
- Don't eat anything unless you know absolutely, positively what it is. Forager Connie Green gathers a new wild food multiple times for study before being comfortable enough to eat it.
- Take at least two guidebooks for your region along with you to identify edible foods.
- Don't forage alone. Tag along with or join local foraging, native plant and/or mycological societies.
- Avoid foraging along busy roadsides where plants may absorb pollutants or car exhaust; ditto near fields that may be sprayed with pesticides.
- Know the foraging rules for public lands; don't trespass on private property.
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Timothy Egan on American politics and life, as seen from the West.
So, they shut down a 10-mile stretch of one of the world’s busiest freeways for repair last weekend, in the nation’s most driver-stressed metropolis, and gave it a scary name — Carmageddon. Predictions were that Los Angeles would look like Mike Huckabee’s arteries before he lost a hundred pounds, and that chaos and road rage would reign under the tired sunlight of the Southland.
Lo, the weekend came and went, and a miracle was proclaimed — “a historic moment” in traffic history, as Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky called it. The 405 freeway opened 17 hours ahead of schedule. Pollution and smog levels dropped. A trio of pedestrians even dined on linen in the middle of the empty road. Ya-a-a-ay for L.A.!
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“They loved it,” said Yaroslavsky in an interview. “It was Carmaheaven. My e-mails and Facebook comments have been not just 95 percent positive, but effusive. People who live near the freeway heard birds chirping for the first time. They heard the sound of kids playing.”
As a nonevent, Carmageddon ranks with Y2K, the much feared global computer collapse at the millennium’s dawn. But as an urban epiphany, the weekend when Los Angeles became a small town was no small thing. It disproved some of the most worn-out clichés about the city, while offering students of urban behavior some tantalizing glimpses of a better future.
To cyclists, the peace and harmony of the weekend was proof that people can get around on two wheels instead of four. And yes, Los Angeles was a green dream for the 36 hours of the actual shutdown, but not necessarily because pedal power replaced internal combustion.
Normal traffic for a weekend on the 11-lane stretch of the 405 is about 500,000 vehicles. Everyone feared those half-million cars would spill onto side streets, hopelessly tying up the city. In fact, traffic was down more than 60 percent in the surrounding area. And the rest of the city went an entire weekend without a major traffic jam.
This is terrific news. But it doesn’t mean all those drivers took to scooters or bikes. It just means their cars stayed in park — by intent, rather than the usual rage-inducing standstill. On a typical weekday, bikers make up just 1 percent of commuters in Los Angeles. One percent. If that figure doubles with all the new initiatives in the city to expand lanes, it would be a worthy achievement – but sort of non-consequential in the big picture.
Los Angeles, or any major American city, will never be Amsterdam. Too many goods and services cannot move by bike. Nor will the majority of commuters hop on a skinny seat, not so long as the automobile remains dressing room, breakfast table and phone conference center for millions of harried workers. Even in the nation’s top major city for bikes, Portland, Oregon, cyclists are barely 6 percent of the commuting traffic.
But cyclists did have a fine open house last weekend, with many Angelenos feeling giddy about the extra breathing room for bikes. And they won a moral victory in that race between JetBlue’s gimmicky flight from Burbank to Long Beach and a group of bike riders. Total time for the short hop by plane, counting airport hassles, security and taxiing, was two hours and 45 minutes (the flight itself took 12 minutes). The cyclists beat them by more than an hour.
Reed Saxon/Associated Press
Mass transit ridership increased last weekend, but only 10 to 15 percent — hardly a watershed event. Even though Los Angeles has done a herculean job of increasing its rail and subway system, only 1 percent of 29 million daily trips originating in Los Angeles County are on rail.
Overwhelmingly, still, Los Angeles is the city of the lone person driving in a car — about 72 percent of all commuters. That will not change. People know they’re going to be stuck in traffic at any time (the “rush hour,” a period of peak congestion, is now eight hours). They also know idling costs them a lot of money (about $855 a year per driver), and time (about 50 hours). For these reasons, Los Angeles ranks number one in the commuter stress index put out by the Texas Transportation Institute. That is, they are the most miserable, and have been for some time.
No, the big lessons of Carmageddon are not about transportation. They are about something else, something less easily quantified. They are about the small salves in life that make a day easier, or even memorable. When millions of Angelenos decided to hold a block party, or go to the park, or ride a bike, or play soccer, or spend half a day at the farmers market, or take advantage of free admission at some museums, they found a city far removed from that awful commuter stress index.
“Overwhelmingly, people told me they had a positive experience,” said Yaroslavsky. “They said things like, ‘How do we keep this going?’ And ‘Let’s do it again.’” Yaroslavsky, one of the favorites if he runs for mayor in 2013, wasn’t the only politician to hear such a thing. Yes, businesses at the beaches suffered, because people feared making the trip. But for many, maybe even the majority, the holiday from routine proved to be a delight.
In the same way that people used to say that crime would never come down in a city of “Blade Runner” chaos (the murder rate is now the lowest in four decades), the horror predictions for life without a major car lane proved absurd. With Carmageddon, Los Angeles finally had the moment Rodney King asked for — everyone got along. And all it took was closing a freeway.
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There isn’t a person in the world, who has watched the news in the past 45 days and hasn’t heard either about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting or the new Gun Law, the Obama’s administration is trying to pass. This tragic incident in Connecticut, which took the lives of 28 people, made us reconsider our values and our children’s safety.
Soon after the massacre in Connecticut, Obama announced his intentions to reduce the public access to guns. There were many debates in the Senate and outside, because his Gun Law was going to override the Constitution of America, which is doubtlessly one of the greatest human inventions.
(You can read more about that here: http://modernpoliticians.com/does-the-constitution-even-matter-gun-laws/)
It was surprising to read that there are Democrats, who are against that law. On January 26, 2013, 5 Democrats from pro-gun states opposed the bill in its current form, but not entirely.
(You can read more about that here: http://modernpoliticians.com/democrats-say-no-to-the-ban-on-assault-weapons/)
Yesterday, the White House released a picture of Barack Obama shooting with rifle. They explained that, he is doing it to show the people he doesn’t feel animosity towards guns. The photo was taken on August 4, 2012 but was published only yesterday.
When I saw the picture, I was shocked. Who could have advised him to release it? To me it looks like a really bad moment to publish a photo like this. Barack Obama is in the middle of his Gun Law campaign, which will probably mark his whole 2nd mandate.
An essential quality of a leader is to be able to put himself on the place of the families of the victims. Barack Obama has probably done that and that’s why he wants to restrict the public access to guns. On the other hand, the White House published a photo of him shooting. How do these families feel now after what happened to their children and they saw their President with a rifle only 52 days after the massacre in Connecticut.
Personally, I think there must be a major change in the way normal people can get get to real guns in the USA. The process must be tightened but the eventual change mustn’t override the Constitution. That’s what makes the USA a factor on the international scene.
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Rehabilitation Robotics Newsletter
Machine Automation Helps--Rehabilitation Technologies at VTT
Virpi J. Santti
VTT Machine Automation
VTT is the Technical Research Centre of Finland. Research at VTT Machine
Automation is targeted not only to applications in machine automation, e.g.,
heavy work machines in forestry, but also to mobile robotics. The approach
is interdisciplinary, and multi-technical design services to industry are
offered. This article describes two projects on rehabilitation.
In our project "Robotics helps disabled to work" (contact person
Ari Virtanen), the pilot target was a 46 year old software developer with
tetraplegia. He has some mobility left in his hands but when he works at
home, he mainly uses a mouth stick for operating the computer. He works
laying in a bed and hence the area he can reach is very limited; only a
keyboard or a book in front of him can be reached at a time. Without the
robot workstation, he requires a personal assistant to handle manuals and
diskettes used in his work.
The installed robot workstation consists of a small industrial robot, Scorbot
ER V with five degrees of freedom. Scorbot's working area was expanded with
a linear axle. Some modifications were also needed in the gripper. This
robot now takes care of handling diskettes and brings manuals on request.
One of the main design principles was safety. The robot was placed so that
it could not come to close to the user and cause him any injuries. Special
attention was also paid to maintaining the working place as a home, e.g.,
one had to see over the equipment (the maximum height of the equipment being
The system was installed in June, 1992 and the user is satisfied with its
operation. It gives him more freedom and independence in his work. The reliability
of the system has been quite good.
The other project is more general (contact person Olavi Karasti) since it
is not built to serve one person only, but any wheelchair. The idea of the
project is to develop a product module that helps in controlling the movement
of a wheelchair. The implementation is based on a behavior-based concept
and environment perception with ultrasonics.
Before anything is installed to a real wheelchair, the algorithm is tested
on a JC-3 simulator. The simulator input is the environment (mostly walls),
the user behaviouring algorithm and the wheelchair model. The wheelchair
model also consists of ultrasonic sensors, which are simulated. During the
simulation, the movement of the wheelchair is seen picture by picture.
For the real world test phase, we have a self-made mobile platform which
has been used for other projects as well. This mobile robot has two driving
wheels, one on each side, and two caster wheels (one in the front and one
in the back). In addition to the fixed ultrasonic sensors which we use in
this project, there are also other ultrasonic sensors which can be rotated
with a stepper motor (scanning sensors) and US-sensors which can see a whole
level on one measure (omnidirectional sensors). The behavior-based concept
has successfully been tested with the vehicle.
In the final implementation, our module will be connected to M3S (a general-purpose
Multiple Master Multiple Slave intelligent interface for the rehabilitation
environment) in a way that it will capture the joystick signals and, depending
on the selected driving mode, send the modified commands to the motors or
guide the user with some interface media.
This project is a part of the project FOCUS (Focus On the Central position
of Users in the integrated Systems), which in turn belongs to the TIDE program
(Technology Initiative for Disabled and Elderly people) of the European
Commission. FOCUS will be running until the end of 1995.
For further information, please contact:
Ari Virtanen / Olavi Karasti
P.O. Box 13021
Phone: +358 31 316 3609 / +358 31 316 3635
Fax: +358 31 316 3494
The Project Showcase is a regular feature of the newsletter in which
a selected project or program is spotlighted. If you are interested in having
your project showcased, contact Tariq
Rahman or Julia Mercier at
URL of this document: http://www.asel.udel.edu/
Last updated: October 24, 1996
Copyright © Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories, 1996.
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“WHAT’S the scoop?” asked the young salesman registering a new sim card for a foreign journalist at the Econet headquarters in Harare on Thursday. “The constitutional referendum,” came the reply. "Oh that."
It has been a tortuous three years in the making but Zimbabwe’s new constitution, which was put to a referendum on Saturday March 16th, has elicited a jaw-breaking yawn from the country’s citizens. The three political parties stuck in an uneasy “government of national unity” have endorsed the draft constitution so the result of the poll—due by Thursday—is not in doubt. The headlines in the local independent press have lamented voter apathy though turnout may have been surprisingly strong. But the referendum’s main significance is as a staging post to an election that could take place as soon as July 18th. That poll is likely to be anything but dull.
If the constitution is endorsed it will rebalance power away from the state towards citizens, say its proponents. It contains a bill of rights and imposes term limits on the president and security chiefs. (The term limits are not retrospective so president Robert Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since 1980, could serve for another 10 years, were he to live that long.) The referendum was also a technical dry-run for Zimbabwe’s electoral commission and for observers from SADC, the 15-country regional bloc, which would be charged with ensuring that elections are free and fair.
The voting tents had barely been folded up when it became clear how difficult that task will be. On Sunday morning, four members of the political team of Morgan Tsvangirai, the prime minister and likeliest challenger to Mr Mugabe, were arrested by police on dubious-looking charges. Beatrice Mtetwa, a prominent human-rights lawyer, was also taken into policy custody for disputing the basis of the arrests. There are fears that such intimidation of Mr Mugabe’s opponents is likely to intensify as an election approaches. And a date has not yet been set.
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An Ovarian Blood Test
The OVA1 blood test checks five proteins that act differently under a microscope when a woman has ovarian cancer, giving a score between zero and 10 to indicate the odds that a mass is cancerous.
Pros & cons This test detected 76 percent of the malignancies missed by the standard CA 125 blood test used to detect ovarian cancer, a study in Obstetrics and Gynecology revealed. But there was a huge rate of false positives, something that could translate to women unnecessarily losing ovaries.
How to screen now We all long for better ovarian cancer tests, but OVA1 probably isn't the answer. Unless you carry a gene mutation, "the potential harms of [any] screening outweigh the potential benefits," Dr. LeFevre says. Watch for symptoms like urinary changes, bloat, loss of appetite and wonky periods.
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7.9.12 -- This Associated Press article is amazing because it reveals that the IRS would be charged with collecting the ObamaCare taxes and would have the authority to penalize each uninsured adult $645. However, here is the kicker:
“There are no civil or criminal penalties for refusing to pay it and the IRS cannot seize bank accounts or dock wages to collect it.”
“No interest accumulates for unpaid penalties.”
“So how can the IRS enforce the mandate? Scary letters and threats to withhold tax refunds.”
“For those who don't qualify for a refund, a stern letter from the IRS can be effective, even if it doesn't come with the threat of civil or criminal penalties, said Elizabeth Maresca, a former IRS trial attorney…”
“The IRS is expected to spend $881 million on the law from 2010 through 2013, hiring more than 2,700 new workers and upgrading its computer systems…”
“…In 2010, House Ways and Means Committee Republicans issued a report saying the IRS may need as many as 16,500 additional auditors, agents and other employees "to investigate and collect billions in new taxes from Americans."
To read the entire article, please go to:
7.8.12 -- “Can IRS manage to police taxes and health care law?” -- by Stephen Ohlemacher, Associated Press -- http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/story/2012-07-09/IR...
6.28.12 – “The Most Deceptive Tax Increase in American History” – by David French
Excerpts from this article:
Under the Act’s complicated shared responsibility payment structure, the minimum shared responsibility payment amount per year for each adult who lacks minimum essential coverage will be $95 for 2014, $325 for 2015, $695 for 2016, and $695 or more for 2017 or later, increased due to cost-of-living adjustments…
…where a taxpayer’s household income (minus the amount of the applicable threshold for filing a tax return) is $50,000, the shared responsibility payment amount per year would be, at a minimum, $500 for 2014, $1,000 for 2015, and $1,250 for 2016 or later.
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(NAPSI)—Some may be surprised at the thought of the king of a North African country calling for the restoration of the country’s synagogues and acknowledging the country’s rich history of cultural diversity.
Yet that was exactly the case recently when Morocco’s King Mohammed VI highlighted Morocco’s Jewish heritage and reaffirmed his country’s commitment to religious freedom and diversity.
His comments came at the restoration ceremony of Slat al Fassiyine Synagogue in Fez. Built in the 17th century, it is the oldest synagogue in Fez, where much of the old city, or medina, has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The synagogue had fallen into disrepair and had been closed since the 1960s. With funding from Morocco’s Jewish community and the Federal Republic of Germany, Slat al Fassiyine has now been restored and a ceremony was held to celebrate the completion of the two-year renovation effort.
A Diverse Heritage
In his message, King Mohammed VI highlighted Morocco’s diverse cultural heritage: “The Moroccan people’s cultural traditions, which are steeped in history, are rooted in our citizens’ abiding commitment to the principles of coexistence, tolerance and harmony between the various components of the nation.
“As is enshrined in the Kingdom’s new Constitution, the Hebrew heritage is indeed one of the time-honored components of our national identity. For this reason, I wish to call for the restoration of all the synagogues in the other Moroccan cities so that they may serve not only as places of worship, but also as forums for cultural dialogue and for the promotion of our cultural values.”
The king also said the two-year restoration of the 17th century synagogue bore “eloquent testimony to the spiritual wealth and diversity of the Kingdom of Morocco and its heritage.”
A Message of Tolerance
Some 200 people attended the ceremony, including Moroccan Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane, representatives of the German government, and leaders of the Moroccan Jewish community.
Serge Berdugo, president of the Judeo-Moroccan Patrimony Foundation, said that the restoration is a “message of peace and tolerance.” “Slat al Fassiyine teaches us a beautiful lesson,” he said. “It represented the past, bound to disappear. Its restoration process anticipated the future, and that future is now. Moroccan Judaism’s time has come. This community is part of the Moroccan reality.”
This information is provided by Beckerman on behalf of the government of Morocco. Further information is available at the U.S. Department of Justice.
On the Net:North American Precis Syndicate, Inc.(NAPSI)
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As many as 70% of the web sites have vulnerabilities that could lead to the theft of sensitive corporate data such as credit card information and customer lists. Hackers are concentrating their efforts on web-based applications - shopping carts, forms, login pages, dynamic content, etc. Accessible 24/7 from anywhere across the world, insecure web applications provide easy access to backend corporate database.
Secure Information management is critical to any business strategy. Customers, partners or employees working internally & remotely, all want the assurance that online experience with your company will be safe & protected.
According to the ‘ Harris Poll’, with the internet usage rising to more than three-fourth(80%) of all adults or 184 million people, security has definitely posed itself as a major threat to a large share of human population.
Since the last five years, there were more than 600 reported internet security breaches involving the compromise of more then 89 million records in between 2005 to 2006 with the numbers skyrocketing to more than 220 million records in 2009. The number of reported security incidents demonstrate that self regulated and current security standards are failing to repel hackers and competition from hacking your applications.
After all the research, the following figures have proved that ethics & wisdom were totally compromised.
Sources of Breaches in Percent:-
External : 74%
Internal : 20%
Partner : 32%
The above values sum to more than 100% because in many cases there was an involvement of multiple parties.
We ensure that security is integral within the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) rather than implementing it in the end which, provides the customer a 360 degree security at a lower cost.
The following steps are undertaken to ascertain the security requirements of your organization or application:
- Assessment of current security policies and standards
- Detailed review of the security requirements depending upon the criticality
- Defining security requirements
- Code review (White Boxing)
- Penetration testing (Black Boxing)
- Reporting security issues and recommendations
- 24X7 managed security services after deployment of the solution
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Send us your pictures, video, news and views by texting NORTHERN ECHO to 80360 or email us
Campaign to tackle dog fouling launched
5:55pm Wednesday 6th February 2013 in Chester-le-Street
DOG owners who fail to clean up after their pets are being targeted in a month long campaign.
Durham County Council civic pride officers and neighbourhood wardens are tackling dog fouling to promote responsible dog ownership.
The scheme began today (Wednesday, February 6) and 15 hotspot areas will be targeted with a mixture of education and enforcement.
The first two weeks of the campaign will focus on education including promoting the Green Dog Walkers scheme.
There will be activities in schools and a golden ticket competition to reward responsible behaviour.
The second two weeks will see increased enforcement patrols in target areas to try to catch those who fail to clean up after their dog.
Free dog microchipping sessions will be available throughout the campaign.
Among the ares to be targeted are St Mary's churchyard, Barnard Castle, the area near Hartside Primary School, Crook, Cockton Hill Recreation Ground, Bishop Auckland, Jubilee Fields and Black Path, Shildon, and Jubilee Park area, Spennymoor.
Details on the sessions can be obtained by logging onto www.nationaldogcampaign.co.uk.
Anyone who can identify dog owners who fail to clean up after their pets should call 0300-026-1000 or visit www.durham.gov.uk/dogfouling.
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HEADNEWS: THE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER OF THE
HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS DIVISION OF THE AAS
Newsletter No. 99, December 2011
Back to Contents
10. The Next NASA X-ray Astronomy Mission, or the Mission Formerly Known as IXO
Michael Garcia (SAO) & Rob Petre (GSFC)
As we noted in our last HEAD newsletter, the results of the US Decadal Survey and ESA Cosmic Visions process, as well as fiscal resources have made it clear that IXO will not go forward this decade. The IXO study team has therefore been directing its efforts at a NASA-only, simplified and lower cost version of IXO dubbed AXSIO, the Advanced X-ray Spectroscopic Imaging Observatory. AXSIO has an effective area is 1m2 as compared to the 2.5m2 envisioned for IXO, but is able to address the majority of the IXO key science objectives. Many of the simplifications come directly from recommendations made by the Decadal Survey in the evaluation of IXO, including a reduction in the focal length to 10m, removing the extendable bench which allowed a 20m focal length, and relaxing the angular resolution requirement to 10 arc sec HPD (while retaining a goal of 5 arc sec).
In order to help direct X-ray astronomy technology and mission study efforts in the near term, NASA has released a Request for Information (RFI) entitled 'Concepts for the Next NASA X-ray Astronomy Mission'. Quoting from this RFI, "NASA is seeking information that can be used to develop concepts that meet some or all of the scientific objectives of the International X-ray Observatory (IXO). Information being sought includes relevant mission concepts, instrument concepts, enabling technologies, or any aspect of flight, ground or launch systems architecture." Responses were due Oct. 28, 2011, and a total of 28 (including AXSIO) were received.
The replies will be presented and discussed at a 2 day workshop hosted by the PCOS Program Office, which will take place on Dec. 14 --15 at the Maritime Institute, Linthicum, MD, near the BWI Airport. The workshop is open to all, but registration is required by Dec. 9, 2011. Based on community input at the workshop and the RFI responses, several mission concepts will be selected for further study. Further details on the workshop and the RFI responses can be found at:
Progress continues on key IXO technologies, including both the slumped glass mirrors and micro-calorimeter. Mirror substrates are now being consistently made at the 6.5 arc sec HPD level (two reflections) and the best substrates have 3.9 arc sec HPD. The ability to align and mount mirror pairs to achieve better than 10 arc sec HPD has now been demonstrated repeatedly.
Progress on small TES (transition edge sensor) micro-calorimeters has allowed them to operate at higher rates than envisioned for IXO. These were initially developed for solar physics applications, and 57 micron pixel devices have now reached energy resolution of 1.6 eV at 6 keV.
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The Shire of Kent covers an area in excess of 6,500 square kilometres, and is predominantly an agricultural area. The principal centres in the Shire are the towns of Nyabing (Population approx 120) and Pingrup (Population approx 80). Nyabing is approximately 320km south east of Perth and Pingrup a further 40km east of Nyabing. Both communities are renowned as being close knit, friendly, crime free and family orientated.
The Map is reproduced by permission of the Department of Land Administration (DOLA), Western Australia, CL98/2002. DOLA's website can be found at www.landonline.com.au.
Large-scale district maps are available for purchase from the Nyabing Shire Office. The maps show the location of residences and detail road names and a list of names referenced to the residences marked on the map are supplied with the map.
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Tuesday, 10 July 2012 9:58 AM
by Sarah Bartlett, press manager, United Response
Over the last few days, the media has been dominated by coverage of the long awaited draft social care bill. It is perhaps unsurprising therefore that an announcement by the Home Office yesterday of a new fund to support disabled people who wish to stand for elected office appears to have missed the news agenda.
The significance of this announcement however mustn’t be underestimated. Less than 10 years ago, the number of people with learning disabilities engaging with the democratic system and using their right to vote was shockingly low. In the 2005 General Election, for example, only 16 percent of people with learning disabilities voted compared with a national turnout of 61 percent.
In 2007, United Response set out to work with disabled people, political parties and government bodies to try and change this. Through its Every Vote Counts campaign, United Response raised awareness of the barriers that people with learning disabilities were facing when accessing the democratic system. This ranged from the physical voting environment to a lack of accessible information about candidates and political parties and a lack of awareness among candidates about the needs of learning disabled voters.
Every Vote Counts called on all political stakeholders to recognise the democratic rights of people with learning disabilities, and to work with disabled people and the organisations that represented them to increase voter turnout. It also called for all information to be made available in accessible formats, as well as for a review of membership processes to be carried out, to make it easier for disabled people to play a direct role in politics.
In 2010, it was clear, when all three major political parties made easy read versions of their manifestos available for the first time and the turnout among people with learning disabilities increased dramatically to 41 percent that the tide was beginning to turn for disabled people.
Earlier this year, we saw another significant development when the Responsible Reform Report – also know as the Spartacus Report – received huge public support and saw disabled people finally being recognised for the valuable and unique contribution they can make to political debate.
Yesterday’s announcement is yet another step on the road to political equality for disabled people. Of course there is more that still needs to be done. The Home Office’s online training course on standing for election could definitely be made more accessible, for one thing. But this new fund is a positive move in the right direction and at a time when there often seems to be very little to celebrate for disabled people, it should be recognised as such.
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Family Council provides parent input into school policies and development. Conducts activities for parent education and school involvement and links families to activities and volunteer opportunities within the Anser community. Also, provides an impartial voice to staff and the Community Board on issues or concerns parents bring to them. Ten members are elected by and from the Anser community each year and fill two-year terms. Family Council is a great vehicle to become involved. They meet on the first Wednesday of every month.
- Spring Auction- Each year parent volunteers co-chair the Spring Auction, the school’s biggest fundraiser. They rely on parent volunteers to perform the many tasks that need to be completed to make the auction a success.
- Community Builders – Helps new families feel welcome and contributes to staff morale. This group is involved in coordinating the communication of ideas and events at Anser. This is a subcommittee of Family Council.
- Junior High Grade Electives – Meets on a regular basis to facilitate safe and appropriate opportunities for our students.
- Library- Volunteers meet regularly to keep the library books in order, manage the annual Book Fair, order and maintain books and supervise the library for classroom visits.
- Volunteer – Coordinates many of the volunteer opportunities at the school. One major duty is to identify classroom coordinators who promote parent participation in classroom events and assist teachers as needed.
There is nothing here (yet).
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In Yosef's second dream [Bereshit 37:9-10] the sun,moon and 11 stars bowed down to him. The sun refers to Yaakov, the moon - Bilhah (or Rachel - Gemara Berachot 55a/b) and 11 stars - his 11 brothers.
So according to the Gemara, the moon part didn't come true. (Hence the Gemara learns that there is no dream without meaningless components) but seemingly the rest DID, so both Yaakov and 11 brothers bowed to Yosef.
and according to the Midrash (Bereshit Rabbah 84:11) It looks like the whole dream came true with the moon being Bilhah.
So both the Gemara and the Midrash hold that Yaakov bowed down to Yosef.
When did this occur?
Is it Bereshit 47:31 - which describes Yaakov bowing to Yosef?
I'm not sure though because:
1) According to Rashi's second explanation (on Bereshit 47:31) Yosef actually bowed to Hashem - not to Yosef
2) Although in the dream it just says that the sun,moon and stars bowed to Yosef, from Yaakov's interpretation of the dream (Genesis 37:10) it seems that bowing means " to the ground" - which is not what Genesis 47:31 describes.
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America’s roadless national forests belong to all Americans, and their request to reinstate the most popular rule in U.S. history should be honored.
Thanks to you and thousands of others, almost 55,000 Earthjustice supporters stepped up and signed our "Restore the Roadless Rule" petition, making this the most online signatures we have ever gathered. Thank you to everyone who took part—we could not have done it without you.
On March 2, 2006, the conservation community presented this petition to President Bush and the Department of Agriculture, with over 265,000 total signatures. In an unprecedented move, over 100 current and former Olympians signed the petition.
This petition asks the USDA to fulfill its duty as caretaker of these public lands, in trust for the American people, who have repeatedly made clear their desire that the USDA honor the Roadless Rule and protect these irreplaceable wild forests. We urge the Forest Service to its noble mission of "caring for the land and serving people." Once these natural treasures are gone, they are gone forever. Consistent with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), the below petition formally requests reinstatement of the Roadless Rule. The APA requires a prompt response from the USDA.
The petition declares that:
Full Petition Text:
Michael Johanns, Secretary
US Department of Agriculture
1400 Independence Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20250
Dear Secretary Johanns:
I strongly oppose the Bush administration's recent decision to revoke the Roadless Area Conservation Rule and replace it with a burdensome and uncertain state petition process. Protecting the 58.5 million acres of National Forest Roadless Areas is a core responsibility of the U.S. Forest Service to all Americans. It should not be contingent on action by state governors.
The Roadless Area Conservation Rule was the product of a massive public involvement process that included more than 600 public meetings and generated more than 1.6 million comments from the American people. More than 95 percent of those comments supported a strong nationwide policy protecting all National Forest Roadless Areas.
More Americans supported the Roadless Area Conservation Rule of 2001 than any other federal rule in U.S. history. And more Americans opposed the Bush administration's rescission of that rule than any other rule revision in history.
The American people have loudly, clearly, and in great numbers expressed their desire that you protect the clean water, undisturbed wildlife habitat, and backcountry recreational opportunities our remaining national forest roadless areas provide. And they have made clear that they do not want more of their taxpayer dollars to go toward roadbuilding in wild areas when there is already almost $10 billion in existing maintenance needed on forest service roads.
The Forest Service's rationale for such a rule is as valid today as it was in 2001. It ended decades of conflict. It helped the agency direct resources to its priority responsibilities. It halted expansion of a decaying, 400,000 mile forest road network that has saddled taxpayers with a $10 billion maintenance backlog. And it assured that the broader significance of nationally scarce roadless areas would not be overlooked through local decision-making.
Therefore, I hereby petition you to withdraw the decision of Under Secretary Mark Rey, published on Friday, May 13, 2005, revoking the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule and instituting a state petition process. I make this request pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, which requires each federal agency to "give an interested person the right to petition for the issuance, amendment, or repeal of a rule" (5 USC 553(e)). And please do not allow or reinstate any forest-specific exemptions from the 2001 rule, like the prior one for the Tongass rainforest.
Please promptly consider this petition and notify me of your decision, as required by 7 CFR 1.28.
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In January 2001, the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) published guidance recommending that acetylcholinesterase inhibitors should be available on the National Health Service (NHS) to patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD). 5 years on, the hopes of many that these drugs will continue to be available is dwindling after a protracted, and still ongoing, review by NICE of the 2001 guidelines.
In a draft review of guidance, published in March 2005, NICE reversed its previous recommendation, concluding that donepezil, rivastigmine, and galantamine should not be available on the NHS. In the past 5 years, data from clinical trials and meta-analyses investigating the clinical efficacy of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors for the treatment of AD have continued to accrue, but the practical effectiveness of these drugs remains controversial.
In 2004, the AD2000 trial—a non-industry sponsored trial done in patients with AD managed in the community—concluded that donepezil had no effect on time to institutionalisation and loss of activities of daily living. However, AD2000
received much criticism because it failed to enrol the expected number of patients due to the fact that NICE's 2001 guidance was published during the enrolment period, meaning that many of the trial centres could offer the drug to patients on prescription and so withdrew from the trial. More recently, a meta-analysis published in the BMJ
of 22 trials of donepezil, galantamine, and rivastigmine—most of which were sponsored by the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture the drugs—concluded that “because of flawed methods and small clinical benefits, the scientific basis for recommendation of cholinesterase inhibitors for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease is questionable”.
NICE, however, has taken a more positive view of the clinical evidence, concluding that the drugs improve cognitive and functional outcomes. NICE's revised recommendation therefore appears to be based not on the available clinical evidence but on its economic analyses, which concluded that the drugs were outside the cost-effectiveness limits of the NHS.
In a survey commissioned by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in response to the draft, over 95% of responders did not support NICE's proposal to withdraw approval of the acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, and a similar percentage thought the drugs should be available on the NHS. To campain against NICE's revised recommendation, the Alzheimer's Society has set up the Action on Alzheimer's Drug Alliance, supported by over 30 professional and patient organisations in the UK, including the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The issue has also entered the political arena, with over 100 UK members of parliament supporting the campaign, and a request from the Health Secretary that NICE reassess its cost-effectiveness analysis.
In an attempt to strengthen the basis of its recommendations, NICE has obtained more detailed trial data from the pharmaceutical companies to determine whether characteristics of patients who responded well to the treatments in clinical trials can be identified. If likely responders can be identified, the cost of treating non-responders for an initial 6 month period will be saved. An announcement by NICE regarding this new data is expected later this month.
The final guidance is expected to be published in April. In the mean time, the 2001 recommendations still stand, and patients already receiving treatment will continue to do so. However, if NICE's recommendation remains unchanged, patients with newly diagnosed AD will not be able to receive these drugs on the NHS. At present, there are no alternative symptomatic drug treatments for the disease since antipsychotics are no longer recommended due to adverse effects. There is also concern that the money saved by not prescribing acetylcholinesterase inhibitors will not be ploughed back in to memory-clinic services, leading to a decline in patient care.
According to a report by the Alzheimer's Society on drug treatment for AD, submitted to NICE in June 2004, the introduction of anticholinesterase inhibitors led to a “significant change in the culture of dementia care”. In a survey done by the Society, 73% of people with AD thought that the treatment had worked, and benefits to patient quality of life and carer burden and stress were highlighted. NICE needs to appreciate that the potential benefits of these drugs for patients and their carers cannot be distilled into monetary terms alone.
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Reuben Gilder papers
Little is known concerning the details of the life of Reuben Gilder, other than various accounts of his military service during the War of 1812 in the Fort Niagara, Canada, theater of war, along with selected subsequent experiences in the capacity of a retired military man and unsuccessful merchant in Baltimore during the 1810s and 1820s. Reuben Gilder married an Eliza Mary Hughes in Baltimore on February 17, 1819. According to Gilder's own accounts, he and his wife had at least one son, possibly named Columbus Franklin Gilder. Court records show that Reuben Gilder and his wife were granted a divorce on February 12, 1836. Gilder attempted a life in national politics, as evident from his application for the position of Doorkeeper (today Sergeant-at-Arms and Doorkeeper) of the U. S. Senate, which he failed to obtain. Gilder also suffered from various post-war ailments and health problems. The papers of Reuben Gilder consist of twenty-six letters written by Gilder to his former military comrade, Isaac Dutton Barnard, between 1815 and 1822. Subjects covered in the correspondence include: former military comrades, acquaintances, and experiences related to the War of 1812 in Canadian territory; military conflict with the Creek tribes of Native Americans; a variety of contemporaneous political matters and figures, including those in the local, national, and international arenas; and family, business, and health matters. Another, separate letter included in the papers was written by Reuben Gilder's wife, Eliza M. Gilder, in 1823. This letter is an urgent appeal to Isaac D. Barnard for his written recommendation for a military disability pension on behalf of her husband, Reuben Gilder. In a final, type-faced document of 1828, Reuben Gilder himself, Isaac D. Barnard, and the unknown individuals N. Towson and George Gibson all write on behalf of Reuben Gilder's ultimately unsuccessful quest to become Doorkeeper of the U. S. Senate.
Important Information for Users of the Collection
This collection is open for research.
Reuben Gilder papers, Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries.
Photocopies of original materials may be provided for a fee and at the discretion of the curator. Please see our Duplication of Materials policy for more information. Queries regarding publication rights and copyright status of materials within this collection should be directed to the appropriate curator.
This collection is PROCESSED.A full finding aid is available.
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Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.06.52
Olga Palagia, Bonna D. Wescoat (ed.), Samothracian Connections: Essays in Honor of James R. McCredie. Oxford/Oakville, CT: Oxbow Books, 2010. Pp. vi, 242. ISBN 9781842179703. $80.00.
Reviewed by Eva Winter, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Eva.Winter@ka.fak12.uni-muenchen.de)
Table of Contents
This Festschrift is a varied collection of 18 articles which honour the outstanding work of James R. McCredie on Samothrace. During the course of nearly 50 years of activity at the site, McCredie has influenced our understanding of the Sanctuary of the Great Gods as much as Alexander Conze, Karl Lehmann-Hartleben and Phyllis Williams Lehmann before him. At the same time, McCredie has managed to guide three generations of researchers. The versatility of his qualities as an archaeologist, colleague and teacher is obvious throughout the volume.
The series of articles starts with a short contribution by Irene Bald Romano, remembering McCredie’s service to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (starting in the late 1950s), and especially his duty as director from 1969 until 1977.
McCredie’s work at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University is sketched in the article of Mariët Westerman and Patricia Rubin. They stress his contribution as director from 1983 to 2002, especially in bringing three important excavations – Abydos, Aphrodisias and Samothrace – under the aegis of the Institute. As a result, the Institute was able to offer its students practical training in the field as well as expert teaching in the classroom. A list of the Samothrace excavation staff at the end of the Festschrift impressively shows how intensively students have been involved in fieldwork there. The impact of this involvement is demonstrated by the composition of the book itself, which presents the contributions of different generations of researchers and correspondingly represents different thematic and methodological interests.
Bonna D. Wescoat demonstrates that in his almost 50 (!) years on the site, McCredie more than doubled the number of recognised architectural structures, and was able as well to elucidate many details of those buildings that were known before he took up the directorship. One salient characteristic of his own work on architectural structures – apart from the detailed documentation of the monuments – is the graphic representation of his interpretations in plans, sections, and reconstructions, mostly done in collaboration with John Kurtich. This approach has been especially important at a sanctuary where very few of the buildings could be described as canonical – in either a functional or a formal sense. The many impressive drawings which accompany the two contributions by Bonna D. Wescoat give us cause to hope for a continuation of this tradition. Wescoat’s first article “J. R. McCredie and Samothracian Architecture” offers a good overview of the current state of research, followed by a complete bibliography of McCredie’s publications. Her second contribution, “Up against the wall,” is a detailed study of structural development of anta design within Samothracian architecture. The increasing importance of internal space, and a new configuration of anta and wall were both characteristic elements of Hellenistic architecture. Buildings at the sanctuary ranging in date from the late fourth to the mid-second century B. C. reflect the different stages of this development precisely.
In a tripartite contribution Dimitris Matsas, for many years the representative of the Greek Archaeological Service on Samothrace, looks at the impact of the island within the religious sphere. Using evidence from three different periods – Bronze Age sealings, the architectural development of the sanctuary under Macedonian patronage in Classical and Early Hellenistic times, and an eighteenth-century consecration agreement of several Samothracian monasteries, Matsas develops his thesis about the small island’s far-reaching religious importance.
Mary B. Moore takes a fragment of an Attic red-figured krater as the starting point for an iconographical survey of Apollo holding the kithara within multifigured compositions. Found inside the sanctuary at Samothrace, this Attic import from around 470/460 B. C. shows the arrival of Apollo – probably not in a wedding scene with Kadmos and Harmonia, but in connection with Artemis and Leto (or Dionysos and Nike), although the fragment is too small to identify the scene precisely. The presence of luxury wares at Samothrace during late classical times is attested later in the volume by a small fragment of a marble krater published by Jasper Gaunt.
Some sherds of moldmade bowls from the excavation are the subject of Susan I. Rotroff’s study. One of these bowls can be attributed by its signature KIPBEI to a workshop whose origin is widely disputed. On the basis of an extensive catalogue of the known pieces of the group, and considering the various arguments about distribution, chronology and iconography, Rotroff argues for an origin on the northwest coast of the Black Sea.
Alongside the problem of assigning functions to individual buildings within the sanctuary runs the general question of how exactly the mysteries at Samothrace worked. The building in the centre of the sanctuary – first named Alter Tempel, later Temenos and most recently Hall of the Choral Dancers – graphically demonstrates the uncertainties involved in the interpretation of uncanonical architecture. In his excellent article, Clemente Marconi tries to resolve some of these difficulties, starting with a full account of all known fragments of the 115 m long frieze of the building. He concludes that representations of choroi – choral dances, each composed of eight to nine dancers and a musician playing either the kithara, aulos or tympanon – once surrounded the entire building. He rejects earlier mythological interpretations of the frieze in favour of a more ritual reading of the great hall’s figural decoration as “an allusion to the spectacle of the annual summer festival.”
One of the big problems in dealing with ancient architecture is the reconstruction of a building’s ceiling. Amy A. Sowder shows the extent to which Samothracian architecture helps us in understanding this important architectural element. Especially useful are her two reconstructions of the Hieron’s porch, which used at least five different coffer sizes. Her study demonstrates the complex ways in which the ceiling influenced the appearance of the room and gave it a visual orientation.
The most famous monument of the sanctuary – the Victory of Samothrace – has until now been one of the most discussed among archaeologists: When was it erected and by whom? Olga Palagia offers answers to these questions, relating the monument to the last years of the Macedonian Kingdom and the establishment of the Roman province. Although we are unable to connect this donation with a particular individual, Palagia’s contribution shows that there were both continuities and changes in the transition of power during this period. Sheila Dillon’s article on votive statuettes of women supports the same conclusion.
The continuation cultic activity during the first century B. C. is supported by an inscription on a statue base found in secondary use inside the sanctuary, and published here by Kevin Clinton and Nora Dimitrova. It documents honours for Q. Lutatius Catulus as patron, benefactor and saviour, by the people of Maroneia, and it was probably set up in the course of the Mithridatic wars. The second article on Samothracian epigraphy, by Robert L. Pounder, provides evidence that even if most parts of the sanctuary were badly damaged by an earthquake at the end of the first century A. D. (p. 83), the sanctuary still played an important role in the later Roman empire: Pounder presents a badly worn, graffito-like inscription on the doorjamb of the Neorion which might refer to some kind of repair to the building in the 3rd century A. D.
One of the most difficult aspects of an archaeological excavation running as long as the one at Samothrace concerns conservation and restoration. Stephen P. Koob gives an important insider’s overview of work on a variety of ancient materials. He outlines the challenges presented by limited space and difficult climatic conditions, as well as the support provided by close collaboration with the honorand.
In contrast to most of the articles of the Festschrift, which deal directly with material from the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, three of McCredie’s colleagues choose a wider range for their studies. Carol C. Mattusch gives us an idea of the different ways in which Greek art was displayed in Roman republican villas by contrasting the ideologies of L. Calpurnius Piso and his opponent Cicero. R. R. R. Smith draws attention to a Fayum papyrus of the third century B. C. which most probably preserves a Fayum teacher’s manual. The different columns of its text were framed by small architectural drawings, interpreted by Smith as a glimpse of the lost Alexandrian pavilion architecture which influenced the design of wall-paintings of the so called third style. Finally, Ioannis Akamatis introduces fragments of moldmade bowls from Florina, comparing them with other examples from Macedonia, all of which illustrate subjects inspired by the Homeric epics. He interprets the predominance of these themes as a consequence of the special social and political situation of this period.
Samothracian connections were manifold and multivalent in antiquity, and they continue to reach far beyond the small island at the northeastern edge of the Aegean. Those connections have been supported and stimulated for nearly half a century by James R. McCredie. This is the overriding impression that this well-printed and rich illustrated book communicates, thanks to the admirable work of the honorand and the two editors, Olga Palagia and Bonna D. Wescoat.
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Roberto Stantibanez appears in the following:
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
We explore the many variations of chilies and where they’ve traveled around the world since the start of the Columbian Exchange. Roberto Stantibañez, chef at Fonda and author ofTacos Tortas and Tamales , and food historian Dave Dewitt of Fiery-Foods, author of the Chile Pepper Encyclopediaexplain the origins and wide variety of chilies, and talk about how they're used from Mexico to Thailand.
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Summary: This charming gift book is chock-full of endearing true stories about cats, and niki anderson makes spot-on observations about life based on these adorable furry tales. The beauty of God's creation is evident in the lives of all of His creatures--and His wisdom is uniquely expressed in the delightful behaviors of the feline! A special bond naturally develops between cats and their owners, and we have so much to learn about living gracefully. In Whiskers, Wit, and Wisdom , Niki Anderson teaches us how to glean life lessons from our relationships with our cats. Cats do the funniest--and wisest--things! From being brazenly courageous to delightfully optimistic, sweetly loyal to having a fierce sense of honor, cats demonstrate that they have traits that most people only hope for. Clever elements sprinkle this cute volume, such as a "Purr-rayer," a short prayer that reinforces the core message of an anecdote about a cat, "The Tail End," brief lines which provide practical factual information that is both useful and fascinating, "Kitt Wit," a humorous quip that enhances the story, and "Bio-note," a few sentences that describe each cat's owner. Whiskers, Wit, and Wisdom is a must-have volume for cat lovers that is sure to brighten their day and make them look at their cats in a whole new light!
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Transparency key to achieve high economic growth: Vinod Rai
New Delhi: Concerned over corruption, Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai on Saturday cautioned that India cannot achieve and sustain high growth rate without transparency and accountability.
"Economic growth cannot be made sustainable, cannot be made inclusive, unless it is based on transparency and accountability," he said while speaking at the 11th All India Lokayuktas Conference 2012 here.
The issue of corruption in India is not new, he said, adding that the country needed to deal with it effectively to achieve and sustain 8 per cent economic growth rate as "there is just no (other) way."
Government auditor CAG in its reports on 2G spectrum, coal blocks allocation and other issues had highlighted various practises of the government that lead to huge loss to the exchequer. These reports had evoked sharp reaction from the government.
The Indian economy had been growing at over nine per cent till the global financial meltdown pulled the growth rate to 6.7 per cent in 2008-09.
As regards the functioning of the CAG, Rai said, the government auditor has started coming out with booklets to create public awareness on issues related day-to-day issues.
"We have now started reducing our complicated audit reports into small booklet named noddy books. On all issues related to social sector, we have brought booklet of 14-15 pages," he said.
The effort should be to achieve excellence and not "celebrate mediocrity", he added.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 03:20 am
Apple patent batch includes inductive charging, antenna-equipped dockA group of 27 patents awarded to Apple on Tuesday includes a patent for a docking station that could offer inductive charging and a "reradiating antenna" that could improve the cellular signal of a device while docked.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published this week a list of 28 patents that it had granted to Apple. Included among the list were filings for a light sensitive display, multi-touch gestures for scrolling lists and resizing content and a process for unlocking a device via gestures.
Perhaps the most interesting patent of the batch was Apple's "Antenna insert" application, as first noted by Patently Apple. The invention details a docking station that could have an antenna for improving wireless signal integrity, inductive charging circuits and even wireless or optical data links.
The background of the application details a problem that has arisen with docks for wireless handheld devices. In order to reduce user exposure to radiation, many companies design their cellular phones with the antennas as far from the user's head as possible, often at the base of the handset. However, such a design sometimes results in interference issues when the device is docked.
Apple's invention would eliminate the issue of interference by incorporating antennas within the docking station that would enhance the wireless performance of the docked handset. Adapters could help ensure that the devices "maintain proper antenna operation" even when attached to accessories, and they could also "enhance the integrity of wireless communication with a handheld device," possibly without the need for a "physical connector."
According to the application, a "reradiating antenna" describes one or more antennas "that both receive and transmit RF signals, such as once and data." Docking station antennas could actually be advantageous to wireless connectivity as they could be tuned to different frequency bands, the inventors noted.
The patent went on to explain charging situations for the dock that would include "inductive coupling" for the circuit. Care would be taken to guarantee the design avoids circuit interactions between the antenna and the charging components.
Victor Tiscareno, John Tang and Stephen Zadesky are listed as the inventors of the patent. Apple filed for the intellectual property on Jan. 7, 2008.
Apple has shown interest in inductive charging in the past. Earlier patent applications depict docking stations with inductance-based systems that could be used in both portrait and landscape mode. Another invention by Apple would make use of the audio cable from headphones as an inductive charging coil.
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IZBIT ABED RABBO, Gaza Strip — It was just after noon on Friday and time for the weekly communal prayer on a day when many Gazans needed divine guidance, but there was no place to pray.
Where the three-story Salahadin mosque once stood in this northern Gaza village, there's only a mountain of rubble. Residents said that Israeli soldiers demolished the mosque, using dynamite and a bulldozer, two weeks ago during their war on the militant Islamic group Hamas.
So at prayer time in Izbit Abed Rabbo, the first Friday since both Israel and Hamas declared cease-fires, several dozen male worshippers gathered in a sandy clearing near the wreckage of the mosque. Some men laid down mats; others took off their jackets and spread them in the dirt. A few men sat with their knees in the sand and their heads bowed, listening to the sermon.
"My dears, we have to be patient. We have to have some faith in Allah," said the imam, Mohammed Hamad. "Our prophets before us faced many struggles, and they were patient. We will wait for the compensation from God."
Israel says its forces crippled Hamas militants and their infrastructure, but they also did staggering damage to places that mark the everyday lives of Gaza's 1.5 million people. More than 1,300 Gazans, as well as 13 Israelis, died in the conflict.
Salahadin, where Hamad has been the imam for about 15 years, was one of 23 mosques that Palestinian officials say were damaged or destroyed in the offensive, along with 25 schools and hospitals, 1,500 factories and commercial structures and several thousand homes and apartment buildings. On Friday, under threatening skies, many Gazans had no choice but to pray outdoors.
Israel says that Hamas uses civilians as shields, and military officials have released video of weapons stored in mosques.
Residents said that militants didn't use the Salahadin mosque, however, and that Israeli tactics did the gravest harm to civilians.
Much of Izbit Abed Rabbo, a quiet farming enclave north of Gaza City, was leveled when Israeli tanks and infantry forces rolled through about two weeks ago, residents said. Down the street from the mosque, multi-story homes are in ruins, vehicles crushed and stray possessions, such as shoes and clothing, lie half-trampled in the sand.
Hamad said that gathering for the Friday prayer showed that the village would recover.
"Our prophet Mohammed said that all the earth is for Muslims, so we pray even though the Israelis demolished our mosque," Hamad said after the sermon. "We are not praying for the mosque walls; we are praying for Allah."
Many worshippers were returning to the village for the first time since fleeing the Israeli invasion and confronting hard memories.
Said Jalala, a 46-year-old university professor, lost his oldest son in March, when Israeli forces launched a brief incursion that killed nearly 100 Palestinians. This time, Jalala said, Israeli soldiers invaded his home and held him and eight other men hostage for 12 hours, moving them from house to house as warplanes circled overhead, occasionally firing into the surrounding neighborhoods.
One strike left a hole in the side of his three-story, custom-designed home. But he was struck by the devastation of the mosque, where he'd prayed for more than a decade.
"They had a mission this time to destroy mosques, I think," Jalala said. "Even areas they didn't enter, they destroyed mosques."
"They didn't destroy Hamas; they destroyed the people," said Hussein al Hawajari, whose 57-year-old mother was killed on the first day of the war when shrapnel from an Israeli airstrike hit her as she walked to the market.
"The children are Hamas? The tree is Hamas? The mosques are Hamas? The animals are Hamas?"
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The question we really need to ask ourselves is not “What weight should I be?” but “What should my body fat be for my age, height and gender?” and “What type of fat am I carrying?” This is what I am looking at in the second of my new series in the Irish Times Health Supplement. For the full article and 2 delicious recipes, click on the link below.
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
While gathering information to debunk the myth that low vaccination rates had anything to do with the pertussis epidemic of 2010, I stumbled across a chilling phenomena: the inner working of The Vaccine Machine.
While the CDC gets most of the attention when it comes to the relentless promotion of vaccination, it's shadowy organizations such as The California Immunization Coalition that do the real, behind-the-scenes dirty work upon vaccination depends.
The California Immunization Coalition calls itself a public/private partnership. I call it a collection of vested interests drawn from medicine, public health, insurance, the American Association of Pediatrics.
With the goal of further increasing the number of vaccines our children receive, The California Immunization Coalition has concocted something known as Preteen Vaccine Week.
The group calls Preteen Vaccine Week (occurring February 13-19 - mark your calendar) an "observance" to highlight the importance of vaccinations in 11 and 12 year olds - it's striking that they would use "observance" (a word often used in reference to religious affairs) in reference to this vaccine sales campaign
The event's 2011 goal is to encourage healthy children to go see the doctor so they can of course be vaccinated. This year features a special promotion: the implementation of a new law compelling 7th to 12th grade students to accept yet another dose of pertussis vaccine. Thankfully this law is, like all vaccination laws, still subject to the California philosophical exemption.
Of course pertussis is, according to public health groups not involved in preteen vaccine week, usually mild in older children and adults
So what happens (besides the pertussis vaccination) when they get the kids into the doctors office? Well eleven and twelve year olds just happen to be eligible for some really great additional vaccines.
They get a little meningococcal, a little flu, a second dose of the chicken pox, three doses of Gardasil and, as an added bonus when you fulfill your pertussis commitment, a dose of tetanus and diphtheria - both included in a kind of biologiccal happy meal that makes up the Tdap vaccine. Ah to be young again.
And no wonder these vaccine pushers are so excited. Eleven and twelve year olds have the potential to deliver one million more victims of compulsory vaccination to the Machine.
The California Immunization Coalition's web site offers materials for immunization coordinators and immunization program staff (I'm guessing these are functionaries working in either public health or the schools themselves] The ordering of campaign kits (featuring posters and brochures and reminder cards) is encouraged. These kits also contain "talking points" along with materials to craft press releases and implement media alerts.
Public health authorities, seeing every aspect of our lives as falling under their purview, even use their vaccine propaganda materials to exhort families to have dinners together and encourage children to get involved in community.
They talk incessantly of the new law requiring yet another dose of pertussis vaccine for middle and high school children yet not one word (unless well hidden) about the right of parents to receive an exemption.
The California Immunization Coalition's web site also offers links to The California Department of Public Health where one can obtain additional promotional materials. And, at the department of health, they're not only observing preteen vaccine week, they're "celebrating" it.
Sadly, during a time of massive budget deficits, they have the resources to indulge their public health fantasies
They encourage teachers to engage their students in herd immunity propaganda sessions. Other suggestions involve the playing of Vaccine Jeopardy (like the TV show) and vaccine-related scavenger hunts (perhaps to look for all the dead bodies strewning the neighborhood as a result of the flu). High schoolers are encourged to do vaccine skits for preteens while students of all ages are to do comic strips and posters extolling the miracle of vaccines - awards to the best little propagandist.
Sounds like a program Chairman Mao would be proud of.
*Note trying to work with some of their documents will cause your Word programs to freeze and crash. Also the documents did not allow for cutting and pasting.
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Click on the image to reveal Vanessa's hidden treasure.
There's a hidden treasure in your neighborhood. Actually, there's probably more than one:
- Within five miles of Caroline's house in Lakeville, Minnesota, there are 91 of them;
- Three miles from James' house in Madison, Wisconsin there are 30;
- Vanessa in Phoenix, Arizona has 18 treasures hidden less than two miles away;
- And the president of the United States has 40 …just one mile away from the White House!
Where did these treasures come from? It's not the work of pirates or secret agents.
The treasures are hidden by regular people playing a fun game called geocaching.
Any geocaching treasure can be found if you have the coordinates:
The treasure is hidden where the latitude and longitude cross each other.
This hidden treasure was found deep in the woods in an old tree.
A treasure container can be as simple as an old peanut butter jar.
Or it might be something tricky—a fake rock, a phony tree branch, a small magnet, or even a member of the animal kingdom!
The treasure chest that holds your hidden cache can be any shape or size.
If you're looking for millions of dollars, gold coins or expensive jewels, you might be disappointed. Just about every container will hold a logbook. This little notebook gives you the chance to record your visit.
Write down your nickname and when you found the treasure. That's proof that you found it!
Other items in a treasure container can be anything and everything. Larger containers will usually have small toys or other trinkets...
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Cramer, Alle Meenderts (1805-1894)
Alle Meenderts Cramer was a Dutch Mennonite preacher and historian, born 25 March 1805, at Norden, East Friesland, Germany, and died 14 December 1894 at Haarlem. He was the son of Meendert Alle Cramer and Geertje Cremer, both parents being of old Mennonite families. One of his ancestors fled from Antwerp because of his faith and settled in Norden and set up a mercantile establishment there. Alle Meenderts Cramer attended the German school in Norden. He was permitted to use the German language when he took the entrance examination in Amsterdam in 1828. As a student he made a highly favorable impression on his two professors, W. Cnoop Koopmans and Samuel Muller. He married Muller's daughter Elisabeth; the marriage lasted 45 years and was a happy one. To them were born nine children; one of the sons, Samuel Cramer, became professor at the Mennonite seminary in Amsterdam, while another, Hendrik, distinguished himself as the captain of a ship in a Dutch shipping company.
In 1829 Alle entered the preaching service in the Huizinge in the Dutch province of Groningen, now Middelstum, and in 1832 he accepted a call to Middelburg, which was at that time combined with Vlissingen. In 1849 his health made it necessary to have an assistant appointed, and later Klaas Rutger Pekelharing was made his colleague. They worked together until 1871, when Cramer retired. He lived in Lochern until 1890, and then in Haarlem, where he died in his 90th year.
Though his career was not externally particularly rich or brilliant, it was inwardly rich and beautiful. All who knew him agreed that he was a simple, modest, friendly and kindly person; as a preacher he did not make a striking impression, for his manner lacked oratory and figurative language. But his sermons were always logically developed, even when they dealt with emotional subjects. This economy of language, however, had its charms. "The Gospel does not require ornamentation," he was accustomed to say.
Partisanship was foreign to him; he preferred to call himself a follower of simple Biblical Christianity. He had an open mind for modern theology, but he also had his doubts about it. He collaborated with J. Boeke in a reply to J. Halbertsma, who in his book De Doopsgezinden en hunne herkomst (Deventer, 1843) pleaded for a liberal philosophy instead of Biblical theology. In his scholarly work he was frequently occupied with matters of dogma, but his strength lay first of all in his historical studies, as is shown in his published works. He is the author of Het leven en de verrigtingen van Menno Simons (Amsterdam, 1837) and of a biography of David Joris, which was published in parts V and VI of the Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis. Though these books are now antiquated, they offered building stones for later historiographers of the Mennonite brotherhood, Cramer having been a pioneer in the difficult path of Mennonite historiography. Further historical works by Cramer were "De twee acten van Prins Willem I betreffende de Doopsgezinden" (Vaderl. Letterocfeningen 1836), "Aanteekeningen van eene rondreis in alle Oud-Vlaamsche gemeenten in 1754" (Doopsgezind Jaarboekje 1844), "Het eigenaardige der Doopsgezinden, vooral hier te lande" (Doopsgezinde Bijdragen 1873). He belonged to a number of learned societies.
Cramer's interest in the practical was also apparent in his work for social welfare. In this field he accomplished much that has been of lasting value. He was one of the first to think of creating work for the unemployed for the cold winter months. In recognition of his services the government bestowed on him the Order of the Dutch Lion.
Cuperus, B. "Levensbericht van Alle Meenderts Cramer." Mededelingen v. Ned. Letterkunde (Leiden, 1895): 351-402.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 v. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: I, 376.
Visscher, H. and L. A. van Langeraad. Het protestantsche vaderland: biographisch woordenboek van protestantsche godgeleerden in Nederland, 8 vols. Utrecht, 1903-1918: II, 287-290 lists Cramer's numerous publications.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, pp. 730-731. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.
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MLA style: Westra, H. "Cramer, Alle Meenderts (1805-1894)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1953. Web. 21 May 2013. http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/cramer_alle_meenderts_1805_1894.
APA style: Westra, H. (1953). Cramer, Alle Meenderts (1805-1894). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 21 May 2013, from http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/cramer_alle_meenderts_1805_1894.
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When we hear about etching PCBs at home we assume that either Ferric Chloride or Cupric Chloride were used to eat away unmasked copper from the boards. But [Quinn Dunki] just wrote up her PCB etching guide and she doesn’t use either of those. Instead, she combines vinegar, hydrogen peroxide, and salt. It’s easier to find vinegar than muriatic acid (Cupric Chloride is made using this, peroxide, and adding the copper) so this is something to keep in mind if you’re in a pinch (or a Macgyver situation).
The rest of the process is what we’re used to. She’s using photoresistant boards which can be masked with a sheet of transparency instead of using the toner-transfer method. Once they take a bath in the developer solution she puts them in a shallow dish of vinegar and hydrogen peroxide along with a teaspoon of salt. She wipes the surface with a foam brush every minute or so, and inspects them every ten minutes to see if they’re done.
She does discuss disposal. Seems that she throws the solution in the garbage after each use. The liquid will contain copper salts which are bad for wildlife. We’ve heard that you should neutralize the acid and make a block of concrete using the liquid, then throw it in the garbage. Does anyone have a well-researched, ethical, and environmentally friendly way of getting rid of this stuff?
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It’s very common to start off on a diet with lots of enthusiasm, and then to quickly lose hope after a couple of weeks when the desired weight hasn’t been lost. Sometimes you’ll be fortunate and have fast results, but more often it will take more time and persistence. That’s why it’s helpful to understand what really works when it comes to weight loss, regardless of the specific diet you may be trying. Feel free to look at the extra topics written by this writer who’s focused on helping his followers by utilizing his vast knowledge – Isabel De Los Rios. Spend some time moving through these interesting articles as you are certain to understand something new and distinctive which you can put on straight away to see the final results.
If a diet book or something you read online tells you that you can lose weight without exercising, you should be very skeptical. Some diets may say or suggest this simply because many people want to believe it, whether it’s true or not. The fact is, it’s very unlikely that you will lose weight in the long run without getting regular exercise. Some starvation diets, which will leave you feeling too weak to exercise, may temporarily allow you to lose weight, but you won’t be able to maintain this for very long. It’s much better to accept that exercise is part of the weight loss equation, and not try to avoid this. One reason why many people fail with diets is that they aren’t aware of how much they’re eating. For one thing, foods aren’t always accurately labeled. There are often hidden calories in packaged foods, which is why some experts recommend you add 10% to the number of calories you believe you’re eating. Also, not everyone reads labels carefully. Some foods in packages and cans claim to contain two or more servings, which means that if you eat the whole thing, you have to multiply the number of calories “per serving” by the number of servings you consumed. Finally, people often snack during the day and not pay attention to all the extra calories they’re taking in. If you’re on a diet, then, you have to start paying close attention to how much you’re really eating. With regard to those who loved this brief post, you should find the subsequent facts worth it – Diet Plans.
Low carb diets have gotten so much publicity lately that some people believe that all carbohydrates are bad. This is not true, and your body needs its share of carbs to maintain its energy levels throughout the day. Of course, many foods contain carbohydrates, even vegetables, so it’s really a matter of choosing healthier carbs. The type of carbs to avoid are those that are highly processed, such as sugar and white flour. Whole grains, fruits and vegetables contain the healthy type of carbs. The better low carb diets actually tell you this, so when people think that all carbs are unhealthy, it’s often because they didn’t study their diet book closely enough. There are many ways to help you get better results from your diet. If you keep the above tips in mind, you should find it easier to avoid some of the pitfalls of dieting. Remember that people who are successful at dieting recognize that it takes some long term changes in your habits if you really want to lose weight.
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Posted: Dec 5, 2010 4:12 PM by Andrea Babin
Updated: Dec 5, 2010 4:12 PM
NEW ROADS, La. (AP) - Two years after Hurricane Gustav destroyed
large swaths of Louisiana pecan orchards, farmers have some good
news with the price of the nut doubling because of increased
Traditionally, pecan farmers could expect to get $1 and change
for a pound of pecans, said Randy Sanderlin, coordinator of the LSU
AgCenter Pecan Research and Extension Station in Shreveport.
The Advocate reports that this year, pecan farmers can bank on
getting about $2 a pound while the nuts are harvested throughout
the fall and winter.
Sanderlin suggests the price increase can be traced to an
explosion in foreign demand in Asian markets.
Specifically, the appetite for pecans in China and Hong Kong has
increased almost 10-fold since 2006, Sanderlin said.
U.S. pecan farmers exported about 9.2 million pounds of in-shell
pecans to China and Hong Kong in 2006, he said.
In 2009, that number rose to 88.6 million pounds, or about
one-third of the total 292 million pounds of pecans produced in the
U.S., he said.
The United States Department of Agriculture estimates this
year's pecan yield will top out around 270 million pounds, with 8
million pounds coming from Louisiana.
The increased demand could be a boon to local pecan farmers like
Andre Bergeron, owner of H.J. Bergeron Pecan Shelling Co. in New
When Hurricane Gustav tore through the area in 2008, the
southern part of the state was hit particularly hard, he said.
LSU plant pathologists estimate that storm winds significantly
damaged about 65 percent of pecan trees in southern Louisiana.
Bergeron, who owns about 1,200 trees on 400 acres, said he lost
about 30 percent of his trees to Gustav.
The trees left standing after the storm have fared relatively
well, he said, producing quality pecans even while under stress in
this years hot, dry summer.
"The southern part of the state, from Alexandria south should
have a good year," he said. "And we need a good year."
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Riddle of the Sands
September 07, 2009
Hurricane Bill paid a visit to Bermuda in the early morning hours of August 22, 2009. In doing so, he temporarily removed the sands from Grape Bay, one of the south shore beaches. The rocky scene in this photo is normally covered with beautiful smooth sand. What you see here is rarely uncovered for us to see; and what an amazing revelation it has provided to me. What are all the holes in the limestone? For the last seven years during my regular walks on the beach, I had assumed that when I found carved holes in the limestone, it was evidence of earlier inhabitants of the island and their search for building materials. I now believe I was completely wrong in that assessment.
A look at the naked beach reveals hundreds upon hundreds of holes "carved" into the exposed limestone. In addition, there are many holes with the fossilized remains of the previous inhabitants; colonies of coral (bottom photo). The exposed limestone seems to tell us that once this very area was covered with countless colonies of red coral. As the island was eroded by the relentless waves, the sands increased, eventually covering the coral. Over time most of the coral was worn away, providing Bermuda with its beautiful pink sands. What remained after the coral was gone -- holes in the solidified sands. The coral is now farther out to sea, but still lives on. In fact, Bermuda is the northernmost island that's surrounded by living colonies of coral.
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ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - It's a mission of super hero proportions. A man with cerebral palsy is reaching out to help children with the same disorder.
The idea is, if you feel like a super hero, you can act like one.
"I want to show them that it's possible to do what you can do while you can do it, as long as you try," said Marty Gregoire.
Gregoire had to undergo multiple surgeries just to walk. Now, he runs a 5K every single month. He motivates himself by motivating others.
He founded the Capes for Kids program, which provides personally monogrammed super-hero capes for children facing surgery or taking an important step in their CP treatment.
Gregoire is from New York, but on Thursday his work reached all the way to St. Louis.
Maya received her super hero cape to help her through recovery from a tough surgery at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
She had the same procedure that Gregoire had about eight years ago. She was one of two patients to receive capes at Children's Hospital Thursday.
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June 17, 2002 |
Twenty-one people, including five Hindu villagers, were killed on Sunday in several incidents of separatist violence in Indian Kashmir, police said. The violence comes despite U.S.-led international efforts to pull nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan back from the brink of a fourth war. Police said suspected Muslim rebels shot dead five Hindu villagers in the Himalayan region's Udhampur district on Sunday. Security forces rushed to the village.
September 6, 2004 |
After eight months of slow progress toward lasting peace, foreign ministers from India and Pakistan met Sunday to search for solutions to their main dispute, the 57-year conflict over the divided territory of Kashmir. Spokesmen for Indian Foreign Minister K. Natwar Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Mian Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri said talks on the first day of the two-day summit went well, but gave no details.
January 4, 1994 |
Talks between India and Pakistan on the Kashmir dispute ended in a flop Monday, with the countries still so far apart they could not even agree on a date for the next round of negotiations. "We are in the same position as when we started," Indian Foreign Secretary J.N. Dixit told reporters before catching a plane home from the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. The continuing stalemate after more than seven hours of negotiations bodes ill for the ability of Indian Prime Minister P.V.
July 12, 1999 |
Pakistani leaders said Sunday that military forces they were supporting had begun pulling back from Indian territory in Kashmir, signaling an end to two months of border fighting that brought the nuclear-armed states to the brink of a full-scale war. Pakistani Foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz said his government had decided to order the withdrawal of forces from the disputed Himalayan region to avert a larger conflict.
August 16, 1994 |
India and Pakistan entered their 48th year of independence this week by exchanging harsh, in-your-face remarks over Kashmir, showing yet again how acrimonious their relations remain after nearly half a century as unhappy neighbors. "With you, without you, in spite of you, Kashmir will remain an integral part of India," Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao, vowed Monday in a no-nonsense message directed at Pakistan.
June 12, 1999 |
Prospects for peace between India and Pakistan dimmed Friday as Indian leaders charged that six of their soldiers were mutilated and tortured to death while in Pakistani custody. Outrage among Indians crested on the eve of today's peace talks between the two countries, which have been engaged in heavy fighting along their disputed border in the Kashmir region since last month. The fighting has raised fears of a wider war between the two states, which tested nuclear weapons last year.
July 26, 2003 |
Indian soldiers killed 11 suspected Muslim rebels and five unarmed Bangladeshis trying to sneak into the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir on Friday, police said. Two Indian soldiers also were killed. Five of the suspected rebels were trying to cross to India's side of the Line of Control -- the boundary that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan -- about 75 miles north of Srinagar, a police officer said on condition of anonymity.
March 22, 2000 |
President Clinton opened his five-day tour of India on Tuesday by endorsing New Delhi's position on the volatile region of Kashmir, rejecting calls by longtime U.S. ally Pakistan to referee the dispute. Standing with Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Clinton implored the subcontinent's two nuclear-armed rivals to refrain from attacking each other across the 450-mile contested border known as the Line of Control.
July 11, 1999 |
India and the Muslim militants battling for control of northern Kashmir gave starkly conflicting signals Saturday about the situation on the ground and the prospects for a truce. Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said his forces had dislodged Muslim militant "infiltrators" from most of the areas they occupied and that "remaining pockets" would also be cleared. "The enemy's intrusion and aggression in Kargil has now been decisively turned back . . .
December 31, 1999 |
Indian negotiators have offered to release jailed Kashmiri militants to gain the freedom of more than 150 hostages on a hijacked jet in Afghanistan, but talks are deadlocked concerning the issue of sanctuaries for the hijackers and the militants, Afghan officials and other sources said Thursday.
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Circumcision and Psychological Harm
Last updated on 5th September 1998
Circumcision is a euphemism for genital reduction surgery or genital mutilation, performed by medically-licensed or unqualified practitioners for various reasons. It is important to define it honestly, for that is how the mind interprets it, with or without superimposed denials, explanations and intellectualisations.
Many circumcisions are performed on children, who, by definition are not able to give informed consent of the kind available to adults. They are vulnerable to coercion and manipulation and generally have little say in what happens to their bodies medically & surgically. They are not usually allowed to say no to medical procedures because it is deemed that parents & doctors "know best". However, it is unlikely that any child, asked if they would like a person with a knife to cut off part of their penis, would agree to such an action. This would be a normal psychological reaction to the threat of attack and is overruled at some psychological cost.
When one's own natural tendency to protect oneself is rendered ineffective, one loses a sense of one's own power over one's destiny & survival, and a feeling of helplessness ensues. This occurs in situations of rape, torture and sexual abuse. In a situation where a person feels he or she cannot escape physical attack, the mind will "escape" by a process of "dissociation" - it is as if the mind leaves the body temporarily, so that the body can endure the attack, but the mind does not have to. On returning to the body, the mind may then be subject to unconscious repetitions of the traumatic memories in flashbacks or nightmares. These recurring images may be triggered by any situation which reminds the sufferer of the original traumatic event; a child who has been subjected to a painful surgical procedure in hospital may develop a phobia of hospitals or doctors or people in white coats. The child, or later the adult he grows into, may sweat, have palpitations, feel breathless, nauseated, panicky or dizzy at the thought of the trauma situation and try to avoid it happening again. This may lead to difficulty when medical attention is genuinely needed for a subsequent illness.
One man, who had been subjected to circumcision at the age of three years old, vividly recalled at the age of thirty, how he had been undressed and his penis manipulated by a man in a mask pre-operatively, without his consent. The child had experienced an erection about which he was embarrassed, and then, post-operatively found himself with a bleeding, painful penis from which the foreskin had been amputated without his permission. This event had changed his life. He was angry that this had been done to him and humiliated by his powerlessness to protect himself from what felt like sexual manipulation. He felt that he had been sexually abused. In any other context than the medical one, the same sequence of events would be open to an interpretation of sexual abuse. To the child, the psychological impact is the same, whether it is illegal rape or legalised medical activity.
Another man, who was circumcised at the age of seven, asked what was going to happen to him in hospital. He was told that it was "nothing" and he didn't need to worry his head about it. After the operation he was devastated to find that part of his penis was missing and that his trust in his parents' words had been misplaced. It was as if his experience of losing part of his body was not worth a mention or an explanation.
The process of psychological dissociation from trauma, and the subsequent re-experiencing of frightening images, plus avoidance of situations which symbolise the trauma, is called Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD for short. It is a collection of symptoms recognised in some soldiers after combat and in victims of extreme terror. It has been shown to occur in women after gynaecological procedures and after circumcision in children of both sexes.
Some of the factors which contribute to the experience being traumatic are:
A child subjected to amputation of part of his body, whatever the reason given, is likely to experience all of these factors. In addition, if the child perceives that the parents have failed to protect him from surgical "attack", whatever their reasons, there is a loss of trust in the carers, and, perhaps, in all authority. This difficulty in trusting others can lead to avoidance of relationships, sometimes lifelong, and conflict with authority. Shame of the damaged penis and embarrassment about being mutilated can lead to avoidance of sexual relationships, again, sometimes lifelong.
The child may grow up in ignorance of his circumcision, particularly if it has been done shortly after birth and if his peers are also circumcised. However, when it is discovered that part of his genitalia has been removed without his permission, often for no good reason, there is a loss reaction amounting to grief. The loss may be minimised and trivialised so as not to expose the mind to too much psychic pain; the pain of loss is profound. There may be a denial of its significance and, in order to maintain the image of the parent as "good", it may be idealised as a "good thing" which parents should do to their children if they care about them. Hence, the transgenerational passage of circumcision practice from father to son. For the cycle of mutilation to be broken, at least one generation would need to face the true nature of the activity and acknowledge the harm and the pain caused. This is a courageous act, since it brings into play feelings of betrayal and abandonment by one's own parents; that instead of protecting one's body from harm, they have given their child into the hands of a stranger to remove part of his body.
The intellectualisation of a harmful act is a way of turning "bad" into "good" - the thought process may run thus: "my parents cut off part of my body and despite the fact that I didn't like it, my parents are good - so cutting off part of my body was good - therefore, to be a good parent myself, I must do the same to my son...". And so the cycle of abuse continues. Similarly within the medical profession- "I was circumcised/have done circumcisions - I was not harmed/have not harmed my patients - therefore to circumcise is trivial, harmless and necessary..." If the doctor is in a process of trying to deny that he has been harmed by his own circumcision, he may be psychologically compelled to repeat the act on his patients to "prove" that circumcision is "harmless". In addition, when a circumcision victim becomes a circumciser, he is no longer powerless to attack - he is now the powerful attacker, thus redressing some of the balance in relation to his own fear of repetition of his own trauma.
We all try to repeat traumatic situations in order to resolve the original anxiety: battered women marry violent husbands; the children of alcoholics may marry drinkers; and foreskin amputees sometimes become compulsive circumcisers. Freud called it, "the compulsion to repeat"; Alice Miller described how people who are dissociated from, and deny the significance of, the original cause of their own pain, will often find expression in destructive acts against others.
In order to heal losses of any kind and to avoid perpetuating harm on the next generation, it is therefore psychologically necessary to acknowledge the harm done by circumcision and to grieve its effect. This involves a painful and protracted process, including initial denial, followed by anger & blame, then anxiety & searching, sadness & depression, and, ultimately, acceptance and reinvestment of energy into the future.
Most important of all, is to enter the child's world and see circumcision for what it is from the child's perspective. It is a forced robbery of a treasured part of his body and nobody except he, as an adult, can legitimately give permission for its removal.
Bibliography & useful reading
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County Seat: Belle Fourche
Square Miles: 2,266
THE BUTTE COUNTY COURTHOUSE CELEBRATED 100 YEARS in 2011!
Butte County was established in the Dakota Territory on March 2, 1883, and given the descriptive name based on the French word for a hill. There are numerous buttes which arise abruptly from the prairies in the area. Butte County lies in northwestern South Dakota. There are two incorporated municipalities within Butte County; Belle Fourche and Newell.
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What is the JTAG Hack?Edit
This is a new hack which can boot homebrew code in less than 5 seconds. For now, all we need to know is that this is a new way to exploit the well-known 4532 kernel, in a way which also works on updated machines, unless they have been updated by the summer '09 update. It also works on all hardware types.
What does the JTAG Hack require?Edit
1. The hack requires a console that has not been updated to the August09 dashboard. Although some consoles with the 7371 kernel have already been patched to stop the JTAG hack. To find out what dashboard you have, turn on the System and navigate to the Settings. In there, hit "Console Settings". Now highlight "System Info". On the right side you'll see the Dashboard bum nuts
Version. This version must be lower than 2.0.7xxx, otherwise homebrew won't work.
2. Some soldering skills.
3. A computer with a LPT(printer) port or a USB Flasher.
What does the JTAG hack allow me to do?Edit
The hack allows you to run unsigned code also known as homebrew. Homebrew code allows the Xbox 360 console to do extended features outside what was planned by the manufacturer (Microsoft). e.g. Running Applications, Emulators, Linux, File browser capabilities, loaders for XEX (the 360 executable file), Copying Games from DVD to HDD and much more. The term (home brew) means software which wasn't made by a large company or organisation however is simply made at home by a individual or team of people (usually enthusiast or students)
Homebrew capabilities are really limitless, as it depends on the scene to make releases, many members of forums have made their own programming teams some work individually.
At the current moment the JTAG allows to following extended features:
Linux Support - Gentoo or Ubuntu - Full CPU support finds 3 CPU XENON cores, only lately has the distrubution of Linux been able to have full GPU support as a member of Xbox-scene has found a driver which works with the Xbox 360. Unfortunately No Sound Drivers are yet known of however the scene is slowly developing.
Run Games from Hard Drive or USB devices- There is various application for Homebrew enabled Jtag 360's which allows you to launch XEX files as well as convert them to games on demand so they could be read straight from the NXE dashboard. These games can then be transferred onto USB pendrive, hard drive or Xbox 360 Hard drive. Some programs which allow you to launch XEX files are XEXloader, XEX Menu.
Convert Xbox Live Arcade Demos to Full Version - With XM360 (Homebrew Application) for Xbox 360 consoles, you are able to convert Xbox Live Arcade Demos into the real full version thing. Excellent for everyone who enjoys those minigames.
Alternative Dashboards - Many teams are starting to create thier own dashboard like they have with the original Xbox console. These Dashboard also allow extended features such as FTP support, full file manager, temperature, fan control, launch homebrew and many more features. Some of the most known alternative dashboards are Freestyle Dash, XEXDash. 360 Menu and Ingenious.
Unban your System from Live - The Xbox 360 console has a Unique ID which allow Microsoft to determined whether it has been banned or not. This is your Console serial number and Mac address. The Jtag hack also allows you to change addresses which associate your unique console with Xbox Live. This is held within the NAND chip. This information is also known as your Keyvaults.
READ or CHANGE DVD KEY - There are many motherboards out there where the DVD key has been lost and the motherboard has become useless. With the Jtag hack you could change all of this. This is achieved by flashing Xellous onto your NAND chip. Xellous allows you to view your CPU key as well as DVD key. There is also another application which may help you with this task and is called Flash 360.
Preforming the JTAG hack.Edit
There is a large amount of JTAGing tutorials out there so no need to reinvent the wheel so here are a few links to ones i have found helpful. Allez l'OM ! 8--->
free60 good resource but it looks like their site is down atm
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- What is the MARCC-WV?
The MARCC is a branch of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America that covers Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington DC. The West Virginia District of the MARCC provides service and representation to Carpenters and Millwrights in our state.
We represent framers, floorlayers, commercial, industrial, and residential carpenters, pile drivers, sheet rockers, and many other specialties.
We represent workers who perform turbine maintenance and installation, machinery alignment, conveyor work and more.
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The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) has prodice a study that shows the top ranking careers in college education. What one must remember is that most people come out of college with exhorbitant load payments and the need to relocate after completing their degree study. Below you will find the most recent rating for college majors. What you won't find is that Union construction workers attend apprenticeship training for FREE and owe nothing after their initall training. All the while they are making money DURING their training. One full year of work as a journeyman worker equates to what one will hopefully make coming out of college (not counting what you have to pay for student loans!). Union construction can lead to a career of high wages for you and your family. Don't think that because you go to college you will make $100,000 a year.
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Top 10 Most Profitable College Majors
Graduating seniors in this subject area can expect a starting salary at a whopping $55,900 on average--even with no work experience--followed by electrical engineering at $52,899, according to a new salary survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges & Employers.
Top 10 most profitable college majors and the average starting salary:
- Chemical engineering, $55,900
- Electrical engineering, $52,899
- Mechanical engineering, $50,672
- Computer science, $50.046
- Accounting, $45,723
- Economics/Finance, $45,191
- Civil engineering, $44,999
- Business administration, $38,850
- Marketing, $36,260
- Liberal arts majors, $30,828
Source: National Association of Colleges & Employers
The NACE survey polled 83 private and state colleges nationwide. Some interesting facts:
- While computer science grads have had ever increasing salary offers, that streak ended this year with offers that were 2 percent less than a year ago.
- Accounting and economics experienced the greatest growth, rising 11 percent from a year ago.
- Liberal arts majors, such as history, English, chemistry and biology, may have finished last but they experienced an increase of 6.1 percent since the previous year.
- The average salary offer to marketing graduates fell by 3.4 percent from a year ago.
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Quartz pinch technology
New quartz pinch technology protects during transport and use
Osram has made its halogen studio lamps more efficient and resistant with a new technological development. The new quartz pinch technology significantly improves the stability of the lamp, especially when used in automated lights and during transport. In addition, luminous efficacy and service life are increased. The new technology means that the double Oscar winner Osram once again sets standards for studio and stage lighting.
Whether on stage or on film sets, spectacular productions demand a high level of light with maximum quality and simultaneously tough lamp designs. Osram halogen lamps for studio and stage applications meet these requirements and have now also been technologically optimised: with the new quartz pinch technology the "filament holders" are melted in transparent quartz rods that are tightly pinched under high temperature in the lamp bulbs of transparent quartz. The lateral mountings of tungsten can be done without and the number of components in the lamp is reduced to a minimum. Lamps featuring this technology are largely insensitive to impact and vibration because the mount with the filament segments can no longer knock against the bulb wall or fracture. Doing without conventional mounts also influences the purity and quality of the lamp and thus also achieves an improvement of efficiency. The lack of conventional filament mount also prevents shading in the luminaire or optical system, which in turn increases the efficiency of the lamp in the luminaire.
With the new quartz pinch technology, Osram has made its halogen studio lamps more efficient and resistant.
The new development is especially interesting for stage and show applications, because, during transport and also with use in spotlights with so-called "moving heads", the lamps are more robust and have a longer service life. Fully automatic, process-controlled production ensures a constantly uniform and high quality.
Osram has a long tradition in film and studio lighting and the company has been distinguished with two Oscars. In addition to halogen and high pressure discharge lamps, Osram now also offers LED solutions for set lighting.
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OSRAM AG (Munich, Germany) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Siemens AG and one of the two leading light manufacturers in the world. In fiscal year 2011 (ended September 30, 2011), it generated revenue of about 5 billion Euros. Osram is a high-tech company in the lighting sector and more than 70 percent of its revenue comes from energy efficient products. The company, which is very much internationally oriented, has around 41,000 employees worldwide, supplying customers in 150 countries from its 44 production sites in 16 countries (as of September 30, 2011). Additional information can be found in the internet at www.osram.com.
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...elevation is about 3,300 feet (1,000 metres), but individual peaks exceed that; Mount Guangming is 6,040 feet (1,840 metres) high. A secondary range, somewhat lower in elevation, known as the Jiuhua Mountains, runs parallel to the main range to the north along the southern bank of the Yangtze River.
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Israel’s brain power is increasingly global and mobile, and the country is moving to keep academics at home.
T el Aviv — Israeli Science Minister Daniel Hershkowitz announced recently that the country was unintentionally subsidizing the entire Western world to the tune of some $3 billion with its exported brain power.
“We have one tremendous resource and that’s our human capital,” Hershkowitz told a recent conference on education, basing his estimate on the amount Israel invests in training its academics, thousands of whom are working abroad. “But we are bearing witness to brain drain abroad.”
Some 25 percent of Israeli academics now have positions overseas, many in top American universities and research institutions — a figure so high that Israel has the dubious distinction of having the worst case of academic brain drain in the world. (By contrast only between 2 to 4 percent of academics from Western countries have professorships abroad.)
The trend is especially visible in the sciences and economics. For example, 33 percent of all computer science academics from Israel now hold professorships in top tier American universities alongside 29 percent of all Israeli economics Ph.Ds.
Although the exporting of brain power is being felt most acutely in Israeli universities which are struggling to recruit their best students home, increasing numbers of educated Israelis in high-tech and other sectors, along with those in the arts, are following higher salaries and better professional conditions and opportunities far from Israel’s shores.
One problem is that Israel’s standard of living may be on the rise, but not at the rate it is in Western countries.
“It’s a bad omen because it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep our best and brightest here,” said Dan Ben-David, a professor of public policy at Tel Aviv University and head of the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel.
Ehud Eiran, currently doing a post-doc in political science at Harvard University, says that the predominant question discussed at gatherings with fellow Israelis in Boston is whether or not “to stay or go.”
“By and large we are the only ones who want to head back,” he said of himself and his wife. “We are the minority.”
The reasons people cite not to return are professional considerations and concern over the direction the country is heading.
“Some people say, ‘Our parents were refugees and ran away from their homes to Israel and now it’s Israel that is the unsafe place,’” said Eiran. Referring to the Iranian nuclear threat, he adds: “Secular Zionism was meant to create a safe and stable home for Jews, but when our prime minister states that Israel is faced with circumstances similar to those of Jews in Europe circa 1938, I suspect that some Israelis might draw a different conclusion than the one [Benjamin] Netanyahu intended, and prefer to leave.”
As a small country with limited resources and an unstable security situation, the fact that some citizens will seek opportunities abroad is not a new development, especially in a globalized market. But recent studies indicated that the numbers of those leaving and not returning is on the rise, most notably among the educated.
A study from the Shalem Center, a Jerusalem think tank, examined the types of people who emigrate abroad and found that “they come disproportionately from the upper echelons of the educated.” Furthermore, the study’s authors, Eric D. Gould and Omer Moav, both Hebrew University economists, found that while it is usually developing nations that suffer significant brain drain, Israel is the rare example of a developed country experiencing such a dramatic loss of its talent pool.
Among those leaving in disproportionate numbers compared to native-born Israelis, their research found, are the more educated immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Their study examined the period between 1995 and 2002 and found that 4.7 percent of Israelis with masters’ degrees emigrated abroad but that the number was higher — 6.9 percent — for immigrants to Israel, most of whom were from FSU countries.
Compounding the brain drain problem is that so much of Israel’s potential work force, most notably the ultra-Orthodox and Arabs, do not work. This forces those who do work to carry a disproportionate tax burden. Taxation among the top 20 percent of income earners in Israel is one of the highest in the world.
“In Israel we have this huge weight of a very large and growing segment of the population which is not receiving the skills or education to work in a modern economy,” said Tel Aviv University’s Ben-David, referring to the increasingly substandard education in general in Israel but particularly in the Arab schools where budgets are lower and ultra-Orthodox schools where pupils, particularly the boys, receive minimum instruction in anything but religious studies.
The percentage of Arabs who do not work is twice the average of other developed countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and roughly six times the OECD average among the ultra-Orthodox. Both groups are the most quickly growing populations in the country — over one half of today’s elementary school students are either ultra-Orthodox or Arab.
Meanwhile, international achievement tests show that Israeli students are falling far behind their OECD counterparts.
“It’s an indication that our children are not being given the tools to compete in the market. In 10 to 15 years these children will not be able to compete economically with the kids beating them in tests today,” said Ben-David who sees a link between today’s non-working population and the education system. “Forget paying for the country. Where are the doctors going to come from?”
To confront the brain drain conundrum the Israeli government approved a $120 million plan in March to create 30 research centers with the hopes of luring Israeli scientists back to the country. According to the plan another $280 million would go to a foundation geared to set up new biotech companies.
“The government views the bringing in from overseas of outstanding Israeli and Jewish scientists and technicians as an important policy tool in raising the level of excellence at institutions of higher learning and in strengthening the supply of skilled workers in the economy,” said a statement issued by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office.
Michael Meijler, an organic chemist who recently returned to Israel after a post-doc at the prestigious Scripps Research Institute in San Diego to take a position in the chemistry department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, said the government plan is a good beginning.
“It’s good that it at least shows some initiative but at the same time budgets for the universities need to be increased significantly,” he said. In the last seven years the state has cut the higher education budget by about 25 percent to about $1.7 billion a year.
“It’s not enough to establish specific centers; there are huge gaps in all of the departments in the sciences which results in an even heavier burden on the resources,” said Meijler.
Scientists, because of the state cuts, have had to scramble to find their own ways to raise money for their research, making it tough to compete internationally.
“And of course Israel benefits tremendously from philanthropists, especially Jewish philanthropists, but that money too has gone down because of the global economic crisis and this too hurts universities,” he said.
Meijler and his wife, also a chemist, were tempted to remain in the United States, where the lifestyle is easier, salaries are significantly higher, teaching loads lighter and resources for research more plentiful.
But Meijler, who recently won a prestigious one million euro grant from the European Research Council for his research on communication between bacteria, said he and his wife returned to be close to family.
He is vexed by the brain drain phenomenon he witnessed first-hand among friends and colleagues who have decided to stay abroad. “I’m troubled because this is the largest potential Israel has ... the Israeli mind,” he said.
Micah Robinson immigrated to Israel from the United States 19 years ago, never imagining he might feel compelled to move back to America because of lack of job opportunities.
But at 41, with a Ph.D. in biology from the Weizmann Institute, and four young children, he found it difficult to make ends meet on the salary he had been earning at an Israeli biotech firm. He had ruled out academia because positions are so scarce. Until about 35 years ago Israel had a comparable amount of academic positions to the U.S. per capita, but since then, although the population has doubled, the amount of faculty positions have decreased.
Laid off two months ago, Robinson is now widening his job search to include biotech firms in the U.S.
“There is a feeling that science is not valued here when you offered 8,000 shekels a month [the equivalent of $25,000 a year],” he said. “How is that supposed to make you feel when you know that, looking at salaries in the United States, you could be making between $90,000 to $100,000 a year?”
“If I could get a decent salary I would prefer to be in Israel,” Robinson continued. “In many ways it’s a better quality of life, there is more social cohesion, it feels like a better place to raise kids and there is a sense of working collectively for something larger than ourselves,” he said.
Ben-David, who, after completing a Ph. D. at the University of Chicago, returned to Israel because it offered a unique feeling of belonging, said, “If Israel becomes an attractive place to be, people will come home.”
Among those optimistic about the consequences of the increasingly mobile and global Israeli brain is Tali Aben, a former partner in Gemini, one of Israel’s premier venture capital funds. After a total of nine years working and living in Silicon Valley she returned to Israel almost four years ago and is now working with international investors in the local clean-tech market.
For Israeli technology start-ups to successfully expand and develop, they almost always need a presence in the U.S., she said, and that means sending members of their Israeli teams to live there. Then there are the Israelis who work locally for large technology firms like Hewlett Packard or Intel who relocate abroad.
There may be thousands of Israelis in Silicon Valley today, but she said, “A lot of people come back. All the time.”
The back and forth is good for Israel, she argues. “I call it cross-pollination.
“You feel like you are on the cutting edge of engineering and technology [in Silicon Valley]; you are so close to the pulse of what is going on. It’s very much of a global melting pot compared to what is [in Israel],” she said.
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Ever feel like you’re fighting a losing battle to shed pounds? At some level, you are. Basically, our bodies are built to store fat. It’s not just about energy in versus energy out. Newgard gives the example of primitive man who manages to kill a woolly mammoth. “There’s a feast, but then the food source becomes nonexistent or scarce. So we have pathways that allow us to store in times of plenty to be ready for times of deprivation. Unfortunately, today we have ‘feast and feast some more and then feast again.’ That creates problems because our bodies are designed to store fat efficiently.”
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Both. But the slowing of metabolism is a real thing. “The primary thing that seems to occur is that mitochondria in the cells slow down with age,” says Newgard. (Think of mitochondria as little energy factories in cells that convert nutrients to power.)
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Being overweight due to what Newgard calls the “feast and feast economy” seems to slow metabolism as well. An overweight person burns fat even less efficiently. Moreover, all the calories that aren’t used get converted to fat for storage—all in preparation for the famine that never comes. It’s a vicious cycle.
Add to this the fact that we tend to become less active as the years go by, and you can see why the inches start to gather around your waist.
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It may sound simple and boring, but there’s good reason that balanced diets are what the nutrition experts always recommend. “Each of the primary food fuels has important individual contributions to make to the whole metabolic scheme,” Newgard says. Fatty acids are important in the synthesis of cell membranes. Carbs are a quick energy source and used for a whole plethora of biochemical reactions, including building DNA. Amino acids build protein—the structural basis of our cells. Again, all of this is part of metabolism—converting and using nutrients to maintain healthy cells, organs and tissues. Diets that eliminate an entire food group will take a toll on the body in the long run.
The twins recommend having whole-grain carbs with each meal (for brain and muscle fuel), but also including protein, which takes longer to digest and will keep you going longer. This means a turkey sandwich on whole wheat with mustard or whole-wheat pasta with chicken and veggies.
Don’t skip meals, say the twins. “You can get away with it in your 20s but eventually your body gets smart and starts to conserve when you go for awhile without eating. Skipping meals can lead to overeating because you’re hungry and then you are taking in extra calories when your body is starting to conserve,” adds Tammy.
“I describe it as the fed and fast states,” says Newgard. “ ‘Fed’ is when you’ve eaten a meal and there is energy coming into your system, whereas ‘fast’ is Saturday morning at 10 after eating at 7 the night before, so you’ve had no nutrients for 12 to 15 hours.” Your biochemistry is different in these two states and that directly affects when you feel hungry and full. “You may think that your cravings are controlled by you and your willpower. But in fact there’s a whole hormonal circuitry that controls these feelings.” So give your willpower a boost by eating a healthy breakfast.
“Every process in the body takes place in water,” says Lyssie Lakotos. “Drinking water helps with digestion and metabolism efficiency.” Plus, when you are dehydrated, you feel lethargic, you move less. “You don’t get up out of your office chair, and burn less energy that way too,” she adds.
What about green tea or diet aids? Do they speed metabolism?
You have to be careful with supplements that have caffeine and other herbs, as they are not necessarily safe. The twins steer people away from bitter orange (also known as citrus aurantium), which is especially popular now that ephedra is banned. “[Bitter orange] may increase risk of heart irregularities, increase blood pressure and interfere with some medications,” Tammy warns. When it comes to green tea, on the other hand, drink up. Studies have indicated that drinking about five cups of green tea a day may increase metabolism slightly. Plus it’s a great source of antioxidants.
In the end, age will slow us down. But by staying active and eating well, the experts agree: You can slow the effects of a slowing metabolism.
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The United States Embassy cable released by WikiLeaks reveals United Nations peacekeepers engaging in sexual misconduct with underage girls in Ivory Coast. Written in January 2010, the cable highlights the inappropriate actions of Beninese peacekeepers located in the poverty ridden western town of Toulepleu.
According to the cable, parents encouraged their daughters to sleep with the peacekeepers so they would provide for them. In 2009, Save The Children U.K., an aid organization, conducted a poll of 10 girls in Toulepleu.
“Eight of the 10 said they had ongoing sexual relationships with Beninese soldiers in exchange for food or lodging,” the diplomat wrote in the cable, citing information shared with the embassy by a protection officer. Hamadoun Toure, U.N. mission spokesman, said the UN is concerned about the allegations and are taking the matter seriously.
“We have a zero-tolerance policy. We are here to protect the population, not engage in such things,” Toure said. The mission released an official statement on Thursday night concerning the misconduct. It stated said that authorities have formed a campaign with the soldiers to deal with what appears to be an ongoing problem. He said UN officials have traveled to the west on a “fact-finding mission.”
After receiving the reports two weeks ago, the Ivory Coast mission informed UN Headquarters, the Ivorian government and the home countries of the accused soldiers, according to the statement. The UN declined to mention the soldiers’ countries, citing confidentiality. Toure said any guilty soldiers would face repatriation and punishment from the judicial system in their own countries.
Earlier last week, UN spokesman Michel Bonnardeaux confirmed that 16 Beninese peacekeepers, 10 of which were commanders, engaged in sexual misconduct. According to the Associated Press, Bonnardeaux said that authorities “failed to maintain an environment that prevents sexual exploitation and abuse.”
Bonnardeaux added that 42 allegations of sexual abuse by UN staff in Ivory Coast have been reported since 2007. Sixteen of these cases involved minors. According to UN records, no new incidents have been reported this year. “If these allegations are founded, it would be the responsibility of the countries from which these peacekeepers come to take appropriate action against those involved,” the UN said in a statement.
Sexual misconduct by UN troops has been reported in a number of countries including Congo, Cambodia and Haiti. New abuse allegations against UN peacemakers in Haiti came to light on Friday.
According to an Al Jazeera article written Saturday, peacekeepers in Haiti face allegations of sexual abuse. The UN is investigating accusations that Uruguayan soldiers serving with the world body’s peacekeeping force in Haiti sexually assaulted an 18-year old man. Footage of the incident was captured by a mobile phone and was circulated throughout the country.
“We’re aware of this alleged incident. As soon as it was brought to our attention we immediately launched an internal investigation,” said Eliana Nabaa, spokeswoman for the UN’s Haiti peacekeeping mission, said on Friday. Nabaa echoed a message very similar to Toure’s remarks on the abuse in the Ivory Coast.
“We have a zero-tolerance policy towards sexual exploitation and abuse and we take it extremely seriously. If the allegations are proved, the soldiers must be brought to justice,” Nabaa said. A Haitian magistrate told the Agence France-Presse on Friday that he had turned the case over to prosecutors after viewing the evidence.
The alleged victim and his parents gave depositions in a courthouse in Port Salut, the southern seaside town where the attack is said to have occurred. The Haitian magistrate added that he was also investigating allegations of sexual relations between Uruguayan peacekeepers and young Haitian females who had become pregnant.
Bonnardeaux said the troops involved in the alleged incident in Haiti have been confined to their barracks while the investigation is conducted.
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Don't be left out of the ombre's craze, my friends. Update your wardrobe with these fun DIY fashion dyeing tips. Today, Edie shows you how to dip dye a hoodie and matching tank.
Don those rubber gloves and let's get started!
Dunk the shirt in warm water and wring out. This will help the fabric to absorb the dye better.
Drape the hoodie on a hanger with the hood and shoulders hanging down on one side.
Tie the sleeves around the hanger hook to hold it onto the hanger and away from the dye bath.
Mix two strengths of dye solution, one darker than the other. Here's the measurements for seafoam green.
Mix these solutions each to two gallons of hot water and stir well.
Dunk top half (hood & shoulders) in the dark dye bath for 6-8 minutes. Gentle swishing will help for even distribution for the dye. As you remove it from the dye bath, squeeze out excess dye.
Now aren't you glad you've got those rubber gloves?
Next, remove the hanger and immerse whole hoodie in the light dye bath, gently swishing for about one minute.
It's that easy!!
Remove from the dye and rinse under warm water, holding the light section up so excess dye flows down to the dark areas. Then run under cool water until the water runs clear.
Then wash it... dry it... and wear it!!!
You can use the same dye baths to make the matching tank. This time drunk the bottom of the shirt in the dark solution for a reverse effect. It'll look adorable peeking out of the bottom of the hoodie.
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MPs give emotive and graphic opinions on the abortion limit
The upper time limit for abortions will remain at 24 weeks after MPs voted against proposals to reduce it.
They rejected options ranging from 12 to 22 weeks in a series of votes.
Tory MP Nadine Dorries, a former nurse who proposed a 20-week limit, said a baby's rights should be considered at the point it had the "chance of life".
But pro-choice campaigners said there was no evidence of improved survival rates. The closest vote, on a 22-week limit, was defeated by 304 to 233.
Ms Dorries' proposal for a 20 week limit was defeated by 332 votes to 190.
In the first major challenge to Britain's abortion laws since 1990, when the legal limit was lowered from 28 to 24 weeks, MPs voted on a series of alternative limits of 12,16, 20 and 22 weeks - all of which were rejected.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown and most of the cabinet voted to keep the existing 24 limit, as did Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg.
But Catholic cabinet ministers Ruth Kelly, Des Browne and Paul Murphy voted for the lowest option - 12 weeks.
In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity
She said the government was "out of touch" with the public on the issue and Labour MPs had been "piling in" to "shore up" Mr Brown.
But Labour MP Kevin Barron, chairman of the Commons health committee, said there was no evidence of improvement in the survival rates of very premature babies.
He told the BBC: "If medical science was telling us that we ought to reduce the limit of weeks that we have, then maybe that's something that we should do, but it should be driven by science and not driven by some of the debate that we heard last night."
The votes followed two impassioned debates on the controversial Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill - the biggest shake-up of fertility law for nearly 20 years.
Earlier the government saw off another challenge to the bill when MPs rejected a cross-party move for doctors to consider the need for a "father and a mother" before allowing IVF treatment.
Health Minister Dawn Primarolo insisted there was no evidence requiring the abortion laws to be changed and said changing it would force the small number of women seeking late abortions to go elsewhere.
"Wouldn't it be appalling if we drove women back to where they were before the 1967 (Abortion) Act?" she said.
Right to choose
She said the limit had always been linked to the "potential viability of the foetus outside of the womb".
"That was the case in 1967. It was the case in 1990 and certainly the case now."
The vote followed months of lobbying by both sides
During the debate Ms Dorries said she believed the right of a woman to choose had its limits.
"I believe a baby has rights. Those rights kick in if that baby were born it would have a chance of life and if it feels pain as part of the abortion," she said.
But Julie Bentley, chief executive of the Family Planning Association, welcomed the votes.
"FPA are delight that Parliament has resisted cynical attempts by anti-abortion campaigners to reduce access to safe, legal abortion," she said.
"Cutting the time limit, even by a few weeks, would have directly contradicted medical and scientific evidence about foetal viability and would only have exacerbated the desperation of the small percentage of women needing later abortion," she said.
But the All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group said Parliament had defied overwhelming public opinion and pledged to fight for later abortions to be banned.
Coordinator Ian Lucas said: "We are disappointed MPs have not seen fit to recognise the wishes of three quarters of the population by lowering the time limit.
"We will continue to fight to reflect the wishes of the public and support the rights of the unborn child."
A bid to cut the limit to 12 weeks was opposed by 393 votes to 71. A further attempt to get the limit down to 16 weeks was defeated by 387 votes to 84.
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North Dakota Religious Freedom Amendment, Measure 3 (June 2012)
|Religious Freedom Amendment|
|Constitution:||Article I, North Dakota Constitution|
|Status:||On the ballot|
According to the proposed initiative, a person's right to act or refuse due to a religious belief may not be burdened by the government unless the government proves it has a "compelling interest" in regulating behavior. The measure is sponsored by the Religious Liberty Restoration Amendment Committee.
Text of measure
The measure as it appears on the ballot reads:
This initiated constitutional measure would add a new section to Article I of the North Dakota Constitution stating, "Government may not burden a person’s or religious organization’s religious liberty. The right to act or refuse to act in a manner motivated by a sincerely held religious belief may not be burdened unless the government proves it has a compelling governmental interest in infringing the specific act or refusal to act and has used the least restrictive means to further that interest. A burden includes indirect burdens such as withholding benefits, assessing penalties, or an exclusion from programs or access to facilities."
YES – means you approve the measure as stated above.
NO – means you reject the measure as stated above.
|Government may not burden a person's or religious organization's religious liberty. The right to act or refuse to act in a manner motivated by a sincerely held religious belief may not be burdened unless the government proves it has a compelling governmental interest in infringing the specific act or refusal to act and has used the least restrictive means to further that interest. A burden includes indirect burdens such as withholding benefits, assessing penalties, or an exclusion from programs or access to facilities.|
- According to the North Dakota Family Alliance website: "Measure 3 restores and preserves a person’s or organization’s religious liberty for our children and grandchildren, while respecting legitimate government interests as provided by our Founding Fathers."
- Tom Freier of the North Dakota Family Alliance stated, "To a great degree, that's really a measure of the people in government, whether it's in local government or state government, that they are discriminating against people of faith because of their religiously held beliefs. And this is an opportunity for the people of North Dakota to vote on a measure to protect those rights given to us in the First Amendment."
- The Religious Liberty Restoration Amendment Committee's website says the amendment will restore standards for when the government could make mandates counter to individuals' religious beliefs that existed before the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Employment Division v. Smith. According to the committee, the ruling allowed religious exercises to be protected by the First Amendment only when laws or regulations specifically targeted religion.
The following information was obtained from North Dakota Secretary of State website.
|ND Family Alliance||$10,001|
- North Dakotans Against Measure Three is the main group against the measure. According to the campaign website, "Measure 3 is so poorly written and confusing that it can open the door to endless litigation and legal wrangling, clogging our already crowded courts and costing tax payers more of their hard-earned money. We are all entitled to our own religious beliefs, but that doesn’t give anyone the right to harm other people."
- Other arguments that have been made against the measure include that freedom of religion is already a fundamental right in the United States; broad ballot language could lead to a rise in domestic violence because a person could claim that the country's laws don’t apply because some religions allow the discipline of wives and children as seen fit; certain religions could allow for polygamy, which could occur if the measure is passed due to the "misleading language".
- Former Governor George Sinner has come out against the measure arguing that there is no need for it and that it will actually take rights away from people. In an interview with KVRR, Sinner said, "Every individual has the right to his or her own choices and this will put the rights under control of a couple bishops."
- The North Dakota Women’s Network has passed a resolution in opposition to the measure. In a letter to the Bismark Tribune, co-chairwomen of the group, JoNell Bakke and Melissa Gillett, wrote, "The truth is, Measure 3 could lead to endless litigation and serious, even harmful, consequences for North Dakotans."
- The group North Dakotans Against Measure Three argues on their website that "If Measure 3 passes, it could allow a person to take advantage and use personal religious beliefs to claim the right to break important laws that are meant to protect all of us, like laws against child abuse, domestic violence and non-discrimination. This law could be manipulated and harm others."
Path to the ballot
- See also: North Dakota signature requirements
Amendment supporters were required to collect a minimum of 25,688 valid signatures by August 4, 2010 in order to place the measure on the 2010 ballot. However, as of the state's August petition drive deadline, supporters had only collected an estimated 22,000 signatures, falling short of the requirement.
Since the petition was valid for one year, petition organizers had until May 2, 2011, to submit signatures for the 2012 ballot. According to census numbers at the time, the measure required a minimum of 26,904 valid signatures in order to qualify for the 2012 ballot.
According to reports, in mid-April 2011 supporters submitted an estimated 30,000 petition signatures, exceeding the minimum requirement. Secretary of State Al Jaeger had until May 25, 2011, to verify the signatures.
The following is a timeline of events surrounding the measure:
|Deadline||Aug. 4 2010||Supporters miss filing deadline for the 2010 ballot.|
|Signature filing||Mid-Apr. 2011||Signatures were submitted by supporters to the secretary of state.|
|Signature verification||May 25, 2011||North Dakota Secretary of State Al Jaeger confirmed that supporters collected sufficient signatures.|
| By Eric Veram|
Ballot measure writer
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- ↑ Associated Press,"N.D. proposal aims to lift 'burdens' off religion," April 23, 2010
- ↑ One News Now,"ND hopes to lift religious 'burdens'," April 30, 2010
- ↑ Yes on Measure 3 campaign website
- ↑ Measure 3 text, retrieved from Secretary of State, April 25, 2012
- ↑ North Dakota Secretary of State,"Initiative, religious freedom," retrieved April 22, 2011
- ↑ NDFA Blog, "Religious Liberty Restoration Amendment", Retrieved May 22, 2012
- ↑ OneNewsNow.com,"North Dakota's need for 'religious freedom' measure," June 10, 2011
- ↑ Yes on Measure 3 'Why it Matters' page
- ↑ KVRR "Former ND Gov. Calls Measure 3 Dangerous," May 21, 2012
- ↑ Bismark Tribune "Measure 3 would create loopholes," May 17, 2012
- ↑ North Dakota Against Measure Three, "Learn More", Retrieved May 22, 2102
- ↑ The Forum Fargo-Moorhead,"Religion amendment won’t be on fall ballot in North Dakota," August 5, 2010
- ↑ Associated Press,"ND 'religious freedom' petition submitted," April 21, 2011
- ↑ The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead,"‘Religious freedom’ measure OK’d for North Dakota ballot," May 27, 2011
- ↑ Associated Press,"'Religious freedom' measure approved by Jaeger for June primary ballot," May 25, 2011
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By Rebecca Nappi
January 12, 2012
Jan Polek, of Spokane, a longtime activist for women’s rights, once said of society: “June Cleaver doesn’t live here anymore.”
Polek, 78, died Tuesday, after living a life nearly opposite of Cleaver, the 1950s television mom. She was outspoken about every issue she championed, including the right to die with dignity.
“If you wanted to know what an opinion was, she had it,” said close friend Sheri Barnard, the former Spokane mayor.
Polek, mentor to a generation of women who entered politics in the 1990s, never served in elective office herself. She ran twice for the Washington Legislature in the 6th District.
She lost both times, but the fact that she came so close in her first run in 1986 – 83 votes behind Republican John Moyer in the traditionally Republican district – helped encourage a young Eastern Washington University professor, Lisa Brown, to run for the state House of Representatives in 1992.
“She was a great promoter of women in politics,” said Brown, who won that 1992 race and subsequent races for the House and then the Senate, where she’s now the majority leader.
“She wanted (younger women) to understand that women didn’t always have the right to vote, let alone run for office.”
Through her work at the YWCA of Spokane and Community Colleges of Spokane, Polek pioneered services for battered women and women hoping to break out of traditional roles and support themselves financially.
Age and health problems didn’t slow her opinions. She wrote letters to the editor frequently. And in the mid-2000s, she wrote a regular column on aging issues for The Spokesman-Review.
After a heart attack in 2007, she wrote in her column: “I am not an invalid. It would be very easy for me to ‘fold my tent’ and let others care for me. But once you leave the race, it is very hard to get back in.”
Her daughter, Jenny Polek, said that “even in the hospital last week, people said, ‘I read your column all the time. I loved it.’ ”
In 2008, Polek actively campaigned for Washington’s proposed Death with Dignity Act, which eventually passed and allows people with terminal illnesses to take life-ending doses of prescription drugs.
In a 2008 interview she said: “I had a near-death experience. My daughter resuscitated me just as the paramedics arrived. That started me thinking about my own end. I realized I wanted power. Aging is full of indignities. One thing you can do is say, ‘This is my decision. This is what I want.’ It’s giving elderly people power and dignity.”
Polek didn’t need to make that decision in the end, after all. She died of pneumonia Tuesday night, surrounded by her family.
She also showed how a commitment to feminism wasn’t anti-family. She was married for 47 years to Fran Polek, a Gonzaga University English professor who died in 2002. Their year together in Romania in 1984 fueled the duo’s lasting commitment to Romanian immigrants in the United States.
Polek was proud of her work for Alcoholics Anonymous. Sober 45 years, she served on the national board and traveled to New York City for meetings.
“It was a huge part of her life that a lot of people didn’t know about,” said daughter Jenny. “It’s a spiritual program that provided her a way to serve others.”
Polek and her daughter were roommates and best friends for the past eight years. She was also devoted to her son, Frank Polek, an attorney in San Diego, and to his family.
Memorial services will be Saturday at 1 p.m. at CenterPointe, 1408 N. Washington St.
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Engage and connect with fellow educators and class parents by embracing the trending (and free!) social sharing site, Pinterest! A visual platform for connecting and inspiring with images, photos, and videos, Pinterest provides a unique opportunity for educators to share everything from creative lesson plans, favorite educational apps, and free activity sheets to learning games, class party ideas, and even favorite fashions and hobbies.
With a few simple steps, you will be well on your way to enhancing your classroom learning environment and continuing your own educational growth as a teacher in a technological world.
1. Get Started – We have all you need to know for setting up your own Pinterest account, creating boards, and grabbing a Pin It button here: Getting Started with Pinterest.
2. Begin Pinning – Pin the things that interest you as an educator and that you find beneficial for classroom teaching; go to blogs, websites, and online platforms and pin images that link back to those helpful resources.
3. Invite Others to Join – Talk to other teachers, staff and educators and find out if they are on Pinterest too. Invite them to collaborate on your boards and spread the word to other classes and teacher. To invite a collaborator to pin on your board, simply click the Edit button on your board – enter their name in the “Add Another Pinner” field and save!
4. Spread the Word – Let other teachers, staff and colleagues know you’re pinning fun ideas and ask them to follow, like and repin you! Include links to the Pinterest board(s) in class emails, eNewsletters, on the class blog or website, you name it!
Jessica Young is our Parent-Teacher Tuesday contributor and the community manager at VolunteerSpot.com. VolunteerSpot is an organization that saves teachers time and makes it easy to coordinate parents and volunteers to help at school and in their community. Every other Tuesday, Jess will offer great tips on making the most of Parent-Teacher meetings here on Navigator. Stay tuned!
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State Parks as Partners
|Goblin Valley State Park will be the site of an ultra marathon on Oct. 29.|
It seems to be a new way of looking at Utah State Parks and how they fit into the community and Robin Pearson is leading the effort. Pearson is a deputy director for the Department of Natural Resources. Pearson said they met with Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr. and he wants the Department of Natural Resources to add value to all of the natural resources in the state of Utah.
With this in mind, Pearson organized a meeting in Emery County with people in various positions in the community to gather input in how to add value to the state parks. Emery County was chosen as a pilot project because it contains four state parks including, Huntington Lake State Park, Millsite State Park, Goblin Valley State Park and Green River State Park which includes the Green River golf course.
"We want to think of ways to promote the parks and bring in more visitors to see the area and spend time here. We need a plan, a strategy," said Pearson. Pearson told of working on the Intermountain Power Project in Delta at the beginning of the project. The population of Delta was going to triple and he dealt with the opportunities and threats which accompanied such a population increase. During this time, Pearson viewed a video which helped him. He showed the video to those gathered. The video dealt with paradigms and what they are and how they can be dispelled.
Pearson said there are solutions out there, you just need to find them and bring the right people together. The solutions have always existed, but sometimes lie just beyond our reach. It takes people bright and smart enough to discover solutions to problems and invest the time and energy to find these solutions.
The video gave ideas as to why new ideas are so easily rejected by people. It is less work to do things as they have always been done. New ideas are resisted and they have been since the dawn of time. What prevents new ideas from being accepted? That's where the paradigm comes in, a paradigm is a model or pattern. Sets of rules and regulations provide rules for success. When these rules are challenged or don't meet our expectations then paradigms can act as filters.
In the field of science, what happens when science changes the boundaries? Some scientists would reject data which did not match the scientists paradigm. They were incapable of perceiving the data.
The paradigm affect blinds people to new opportunities. Paradigms keep us from discovering the future. The video told how the man who invented the Xerox machine was rejected when he tried to introduce his idea. People weren't interested. The perception and image of Japan and its products was also discussed and how they have changed their paradigm from cheap quality products to leaders in the high tech world of electronics.
One idea introduced was that when the paradigm shifts you go back to zero and past success guarantees nothing. He also told how the Swiss lost the watch market when they weren't willing to shift to the quartz watch movement and it was their inventors who first introduced the quartz watch.
People who say it can't be done should get out of the way for those who are doing it. The new rules lie at the edges. Those who are willing to change and run with new ideas are paradigm pioneers. It takes great courage and trust in judgment to jump in and see the world anew and be an optimist about the future. Be willing to be flexible and you'll be happy and busy for a lifetime.
|New sunshades at Goblin Valley keep the heat off visitors.|
Pearson said although the video was made in the 1980s it is still thought provoking and interesting and as true today as it was then. Thinking outside the box is never easy. One paradigm Pearson would like to change is that a government institute can't be advocates for change.
"Our new governor and the new director of the Department of Natural Resources, Mike Styler are advocates for change. Be a part of it, or come along kicking and screaming. I would like to see positive change to Emery County," said Pearson.
He said as state employees they would like to combine to create a plan and enhance goals and objectives to create growth in the communities. "We need to stand on each others shoulders and share thoughts and ideas on how to improve tourism and the economy for Emery County," said Pearson.
Pearson mentioned Moab and the changes that have taken place there since the uranium boom of the 50s. Moab has totally shifted and they are now an internationally known community. Cedar City and the summer games and the Shakespearian festival draw huge crowds each year and during the summer games, you can't find a motel room in Cedar.
Pearson said he wants the state parks to be an integral part of the economic strategy and to build an alliance between the county and state parks. In Wasatch County they wanted to keep the Olympic venue operating so they have a tubing hill which finances the other activities and the snow from the tubing hill waters the golf course in the summer. Also they have an event called the sheep dog trials where sheep dogs from all over the world come to compete at Soldier Hollow on Labor Day weekend. "At Willard Bay they have Christmas lights throughout the park and people circle through. More visitors means more money. We need destination visitors, we probably aren't going to get much more out of the locals, we need more tourism. We need to break down the barriers," said Pearson.
Utah is investing $18 million in tourism dollars to promote Utah outside the state, but it is hard to get legislators to buy into money to promote Utah in Utah. The state parks have virtually no money for marketing.
The idea came up of using the state parks as a base camp to reach out to outlying areas. When you come to Huntington Lake, bring your ATV, etc. The new generation of recreationalists like to get out and do things. Incredible opportunities are waiting. Young people like to book over the internet and side trips could be laid out. They like one stop shopping. Jason Curry told of a campground he'd been to where the firewood was donated by a local business and was free for campers to use. "Things like that add value to your total experience."
The group discussed ways to bring visitors into the county. Golf packages for winter golf in Green River was mentioned. Motels could offer buy one get one free golf passes with a paid motel room.
The group broke into three subgroups to brainstorm ideas and suggestions which were recorded and shared when the entire group reconvened. Ideas included: forming a media group to promote and formulate advertising, have a toll free number and website with all current events, develop a slogan, statement or brand for the area, capitalize on the proximity to the Wasatch Front to draw visitors to the area, have a fishing tournament at Huntington Lake, have a Green River triathlon, billboards on I-70 advertising the Castle Country, Amtrak packages to Green River, expand small town festivals, coordinate packages for visitors, superhost training for employees, low band radio broadcasts across I-70 promoting the area and activities, get info to visitors registered at the state parks; contact them by email, send welcome packages offering special deals and discounts, cater to overflow crowds from Moab on busy weekends, free visitation days at state parks, arrange tours with tour bus lines, more shooting matches at the shooting range in Green River, combine interest of visitors, shooting and golf packages, etc., geo cache event, bike festivals, hotel amenity bags, corporate tour packages, rentals of recreational equipment, etc.
The items were listed on the board and then prioritized. Committees were formed to begin work on proposed solutions.
Pearson said that money is always an issue and he would work on obtaining the funds to facilitate projects. The group plans to meet again as well as the subcommittees.
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James Hookway at The Wall Street Journal reports the Philippines' newest and most advanced warship, the BRP Gregorio del Pilar, sped out to confront two Chinese surveillance vessels in an apparent dispute over fishing rights.
Tensions are already high in the area as China declares rights to suspected oil and gas reserves beneath the sea floor, throughout the region.
Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert Del Rosario met with Chinese Ambassador Ma Keqing and both men restated their governments' position that the Scarborough Shoal where they're facing off is in their own country's territory and neither will stand down.
The Shoal is within a couple hundred miles of the Philippine coast, as shown in the map below.
While both sides say they want to defuse the situation diplomatically, it seems they've reached a sticking point, and neither side is prepared to budge.
"The ambassador of China took the view that they have full sovereignty over the Scarborough Shoal," Mr. del Rosario told the Associated Press. "So, in a sense we had reached an impasse in terms of our positions. And so there's a real challenge for us in terms of our agreement to keep on talking today."
In response, China rushed two surveillance vessels to the area, stopped the arrests, and the standoff began.
The Filipino sailors who boarded the Chinese vessels found illegally collected coral and live sharks aboard one of the boats.
The confrontations are not new, but the assertive Philippine response is. According to an unnamed Philippine military official "This is part of larger pattern. These new standoffs are coming to light only because we are better positioned to stand up to China now."
That ability comes as the U.S. renews attention on its long-time South Pacific ally, and sends much needed equipment to help it fend off Chinese assertiveness in the region, like the BRP Gregorio del Pilar facing off with China right now.
Acquiring the vessel was big news in the Philippines last summer and prompted the Inquirer Global Nation to say the vessel would help the country defend against an attack by "China's formidable armada."
"Imagine the Philippine David with its cutter slingshot against the China Goliath," Rodel Rotis wrote at the time.
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Born in Gerényes, Baranya County Antal Deli studied shortly in Pécs then, seeing no chance of living as an artist, started to work as a house-painter in Dombóvár and later, at an age of 17, in Budapest. A frequent library and museum visitor, he studied at the Industrial Drawing School and then at the Academy of Fine Arts under Károly Ferenczy. He met his future wife Rózsi Bacher at the Nagybánya Artist Colony in 1914. After serving as a soldier in the WWI he continued his studies at the Academy until 1921. He early and mid 20's works show influence of Neo-Classicism. He travelled to Munich, Paris and Italy to study in this period.
His second period, roughly a decade after 1937, is characterized by Constructivist influence. His landscapes and still-lifes mirror monumentalism, not unlike those of Barcsay's. In his final period his lighter and more colorful works show a more relaxed artistry related to, perhaps, the Post-Impressionist movement.
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China’s recent defense white paper did not include a reiteration of the nation’s traditional commitment to never use nuclear weapons first. The omission was not a signal that China abandoned no first use, despite U.S. speculation to the contrary. Read More
Latest Posts from Gregory Kulacki
May 9th, 2013
April 23rd, 2013
On April 16, the Chinese Ministry of Defense released a white paper that mentioned Chinese nuclear weapons but did not contain familiar language expressing China’s declaratory policy, particularly that China would never use nuclear weapons first, under any circumstances. This commitment to “no first use” has been a bedrock of Chinese nuclear weapons policy since the announcement was first made in 1964, immediately following China’s first nuclear weapons test. Read More
April 16th, 2013
The most well known and the least well appreciated statistic defining contemporary China is the size of its population, officially estimated to be 1.344 billion. That’s equivalent to the combined populations of the United States, Japan, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Canada, South Africa, Australia and Jamaica. Read More
April 13th, 2013
U.S. and Chinese leaders both seek a denuclearized North Korea. But they disagree, fundamentally, on how that can be achieved. U.S. analysts and observers frame that disagreement inaccurately, contributing to misunderstanding that unnecessarily undermines strategic trust between China and the United States. Read More
April 8th, 2013
Chinese State Councilor and former Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi spoke with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on the phone last week, reportedly about a wide range of unresolved issues between the two nations. Kerry is preparing to make his first visit to China as Secretary of State later this week. Read More
April 7th, 2013
October 2003: The Bartlett administration’s equivalent of Kurt Campbell explains why a North
Korean piano player cannot be allowed to defect to the United States.
April 1st, 2013
Chinese Astronaut Yang Liwei aboard his Shenzhou V spacecraft during China’s first human space flight in October 2003. Image captured from a Chinese Central Television (CCTV) broadcast.
In a March 28 essay in The Diplomat, Scott Pace, a leading U.S. space policy expert, argues the United States should take proactive steps “to shape the international environment for the space activities that our economy and security depend on.” One important step he suggests is to focus on Asia. Read More
March 27th, 2013
January 4th, 2013
In 2007 and 2010 China conducted anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons tests, both on January 11. Rumors circulating for the past few months suggest that some within the U.S. defense and intelligence community believe China is preparing to conduct another ASAT test.
December 8th, 2012
Newly appointed Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping may have broken new ground in Chinese nuclear weapons policy this week. Xi, who is also the new chair of China’s Central Military Commission (CMC), gave what China’s Wenhui Bao characterized as a “major address” to a delegation from China’s Second Artillery during a meeting in Beijing on 5 December. Read More
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The first time I read the Bible all the way through, I was 8 years old. Needless to say, I didn’t understand everything I read back then, but as I grew in Christ and became more knowledgeable, I realized that consistent study of the Word equips you in ways you never imagine. The Bible is, after all, the sword of the Spirit. You don’t usually internalize something just from reading it or hearing it only once. So regular study is a discipline that I have resumed this year. Ideally, I’d like to set aside quiet time for it daily, but I give myself the grace to miss a day here or there.
In 2007 I attended a 9-week women’s bible study on the book of Esther, right around the time the movie One Night With the King, (somewhat based on Esther), was released. I still have those notes, but decided to study the book again for another 9 weeks using Beth Moore’s guide, entitled Esther: It’s Tough Being a Woman. Moore approached the book in a totally different way, and I’ve just finished it. My initial hope was that I would gain a lot of insight into Esther’s redeeming character traits, plus anything new revelations God wanted to send my way for this season in my life. After all, a lot has happened in my life since ’07.
One of the things that strikes me, despite no mention of God in the whole book, is His presence in Esther’s life from beginning to end. She was a female, an orphan, and a Jew– three things that would normally give someone of her time unfavorable status. Although she was very beautiful, she was also wise and humble. God’s favor and His hand in her life were apparent from the very first mention of her in Chapter 2 (there are 10 dramatic chapters in all). It started with the position Esther took on (she was crowned Queen of Persia in 479 B.C.), wisdom in conflict “for such a time as this,” (Es 4:14) and the resulting establishment of the Jewish celebration of Purim (473 B.C.).
God’s presence and providence are shown throughout the book, as several ironies unfold and scripts are flipped. I specifically remember in these last few years how God turned my feelings of depression, entrapment, hopelessness, and discouragement to happiness, freedom, hope, and optimism. (Followers of this blog can see my progression.) How has God turned the tables in your life of late? If you’re coming up blank, what would you like to see change?
Below are some notes from Moore’s study that I think can stand alone without the context of the story of Esther. For those of you unfamiliar with the story, these snippets won’t give it all away. I encourage you to read it for yourself– you’ll be blessed.
Meanness always identifies a threat, whether it’s real or imagined. (Haman)
Because Satan has a limited leash where believers are concerned (God and Satan > Job 1), his most powerful tactics are psychological. He can profoundly and destructively influence our thoughts (if we let him).
God designed conviction to be uncomfortable so that we would hurry to repentance and find relief in restoration.
God told His people (the Israelites) from the time of Moses that He’d protect them and fight their battles for them as long as they worshipped Him only. If they forgot Him, He would still love them but not shield them; He used their enemies to turn His people back to Him. [God has blessed me tremendously, but He never lets me go too long without reminding me, through various circumstances, that I need Him every day of my life.]
We are significant. We may not have the title of “King/Queen,” but we are royalty and have been placed in our own sphere of influence no matter how great or small, “for such a time as this.” (See also Ephesians 1:1.) [Our lives matter more than we know, hope, or realize!]
You are not called to live an easy life, but a purposeful one. When you walk in your purpose, you will have to make some of the most difficult decisions of our lives. Just when we think we can’t do it, God steps in and does something miraculous, and we become something that we’re not, and “Who knows?” becomes “I know.”
Fasting with prayer allows you to wholeheartedly focus your petition before God. Refusing sustenance demonstrates desperation and sincerity to receive direction and deliverance.
In a crisis situation, there is no neutral position. Failure to decide brings personal loss and misses the opportunity to fulfill God’s purpose. [No decision is a decision.] Failure to decide is to decide on failure.
Our distrust of God tells our enemy exactly how to get to us.
Ironically, a person is never less aware of divine intervention than when s/he has been chosen to render it.
We don’t realize that our stronghold can be a person until it is one. A person becomes a snare to us anytime s/he consumes an excessive or unhealthy space in our thoughts (negative or positive). [Who is your obsession?] It’s not the person that emotionally masters us– it’s our thoughts about the person that emotionally master us.
Admitting you have an area of brokenness is a huge first step toward wholeness.
If the Jews had been annihilated, Jesus could not have come from their bloodline. Why do you think Satan tried so often to destroy the Jews? Jesus was a threat to him.
God cannot break His promises. His Word is not only His bond but His very breath.
There is shelter in the Most High (see also Ps 91), in whom we find our significance and the only satisfaction of our insatiable need to be noticed.
In the end, people don’t get away with murder or its premeditation.
Sometimes God wants to show us what we can do rather than let us find someone who can do it for us.
Getting the credit is the wrong reason to do the right thing.
Every time God shifts us/our circumstances around, He’s not just fulfilling His own pleasure (Phil 2:13) but He’s also working every detail, good and bad, for our good (Rom 8:28). No matter what evils schemes come against us, God will work it out, work it in, and work it well. (God specializes in reversals.)
I believe in the sun, even when it is not shining.
I believe in love, even when I do not feel it.
I believe in God, even when He is silent. ~ Author Unknown
How you ever been were you aware of being placed in a situation or position for a critical purpose (“for such a time as this”)? Did you expect God to use you? Have you ever seen Him turn the tables and ‘flip the script’ in your favor?
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The leech with big teeth which goes inside us especially gives me the creeps.
After the flood - spiders!
After a week of record rain, floodwaters across eastern Australia have forced the ground-dwelling spiders—and at least 13,000 people—to flee their homes, according to Reuters.
The rampant webs blanketing vast stretches of Wagga Wagga are likely "a dispersal mechanism that allows [spiders] to move out of places where they'd surely be drowned," said Robert Matthews, a professor emeritus of entomology at the University of Georgia.
Producing large quantities of silk creates a sort of "vast trampoline" that supports the spiders as they're fleeing the water, he noted.
A huge centipede killing a snake.
Uploaded by ChngClarence on Aug 13, 2008
This video was taken by a friend of my father in a plantation area in Penang around two weeks ago. After finishing off the snake, the centipede was then caged until the authority came to claim it for research purpose i assume. This centipede is in a massive size and it's the biggest I've ever seen so far. Its length might be exceeding 60 cm. Enjoy.
Ant death spirals are creepy.
Interesting that this sensational story didn't come out of the US, but from Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera‘s report on seafood in the Gulf Coast reads like a horror story: eyeless shrimp, fish with oozing sores, clawless crabs. Unfortunately these deformities are very real and disturbingly common two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Chemical dispersants used by BP to “clean up” the oil spill are the likely cause.
...half the shrimp caught in a Louisiana bay lacked eye sockets, according to fishers interviewed by journalist Dahr Jamail.
Climate Change is luring caterpillars with toxic spines north. These images show which ones to avoid from Florida to North Carolina. If you touch one by accident, put tape over the area and pull it off to remove the venomous spines. "...they’re breeds of caterpillar with spines so poisonous an accidental brush could put you in a world of pain…" [quote from 10 Amazing Discoveries You Missed This Week]
(dangerous) Moth Caterpillars Photos
I must have been really busy when you started this thread. I'm following it now. Gotta check out that fighting centipede.
As if zombie-ant fungus wasn't strange enough, there's a hyperparasitic fungus that helps the ants.
The research reveals, for the first time, how an entire ant colony is able to survive infestations by the zombie-ant fungus, which invades an ant's brain and causes it to march to its death at a mass grave near the ant colony, where the fungus spores erupt out of the ant's head. This photo shows a zombie ant with the brain-manipulating fungus (Ophiocordyceps unilateralis s.l.) having been castrated by an hyperparasite fungus (white with yellow material).
Oak processionary caterpillars
...63,000 toxin-filled hairs covering their bodies make them a crawling biohazard. A simple gust of wind can carry the weapons throughout the air, causing asthma, skin abrasions, anaphylactic shock, blindness and even death. And we're not talking about a few caterpillars here and there. When this species hatches, it becomes a giant, moving carpet of death.
And global warming has only helped them spread faster and farther.
We have mites living on our faces, which have no anus, so they store all of their poop till they die.
Scientists may have finally found what sparks the inflamed and reddened skin in people suffering from rosacea: tiny mites that crawl across most of our faces, unseen and unfelt.
As it turns out, the mites, which spend daytime hours in the glands that produce sweat and sebum, harbor a certain kind of bacteria in their digestive tracts. When the mites die, the bacteria spill out into the glands, according to a new report published in the Journal of Medical Microbiology.
That’s not a problem for most of us, says the study’s lead author Kevin Kavanagh, a researcher at the National University of Ireland. But when people have an especially heavy infestation of the little bugs, the release of bacteria can set off rosacea.
It is interesting to note that [the mites] do not have an anus and therefore all their waste is stored until they die and then it is released in one go.”
Skin problems only occur when mites die while in the glands during the day.At night they pop out and crawl around the surface of the skin often in search of a mate. Kavanagh notes that the mites can cover a lot of ground – moving as much as 4 inches before heading back to the glands. [emphasis mine]
This bug looks like it's made a killing carrying a remarkable number of dead bodies on its back to stop it becoming lunch. As this gruesome picture shows this insect has at least 20 ants on its back which according to scientists confuse potential predators like jumping spiders.
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Originally posted by Speckle
And maybe something a bit less convoluted, is a sock puppet the new term for troll?
The two terms are not interchangeable.
A troll is someone that post on the internet to stir up the people there. The troll is the actual person doing the trolling. If he creates one account
and that account reflects his real self, then it is not a sock puppet in any way shape or form.
A sock puppet is an account with an identity that is created by a person's sheer imagination that does not reflect his real life in any way shape or
A troll can create sock puppets, but a sock puppet isn’t always used for trolling.
A sock puppet is a fake identity that someone creates so they can use it to argue with their main identity on the forum, or argue with others in place
of themselves, or use it to push their agenda the forum, only to be thrown away when he gets tired of it. A person can only have one main identity at
a time, all the others he creates on the same forum are “sock puppets” The main identity is referred to as “the troll” the alternate
identifies are referred to as “his sock puppets” A person may just create sock puppets on a forum, and never create a main identity that he will
stick with over the years.
It comes from the thing children will do when they put a sock on their hand and pretend to talk to it as a second person. Or use the sock puppet to
talk in the place of themselves.
They can use several sock puppets in one discussion to try to give the people they are interacting with on the forum the idea that they are the
majority opinion, and the person they are interacting with is the minority. They use it to leverage for force of “popular opinion” on a person
they disagree with.
They also use puppets to allow them to argue both sides of an opinion, so they can get people pulled into an ongoing discussion, even though there is
only one person that is truly in the discussion at that point. The main identity, and a couple of his sock puppets.
That is why I use the term “sock puppet” when a large group has people, or computers to create fake identities across the net and use those
identities to push a subject. No one identity actually reflects a real person. The identity is just something dreamed up to fill a place holder on
that forum, along with several other sock puppets that person maintains on that same forum to allow them to leverage popular opinion.
They do it to give the “appearance” of a general underlying popular opinion on the internet. Someone that hasn’t made up his mind will look
across several websites and see the same general opinion across all of them, so he thinks that that opinion is probably the most reasonable and will
adjust his opinion to match. Even though all the people across all those sites that he looked at are just sock puppets for the same person that is
pushing a specified agenda.
They don’t come out and say “We are a representative of X organization” They say “I am just a normal joe and I agree with what X organization
If people see that X organization has an account on every website pushing their agenda, then they will just tune it out. But if they see what they
think is countless independent people all across the net saying they agree with X organization, then they pay more attention. It influences their
opinion a lot more because they want to fit in with “the majority”
One person can control hundreds of identities.
A few weeks back, I thought about posting a post talking about the chronic problem with sock puppets across the net that I have been seeing, but I
decided not to.
edit on 23-2-2013 by Mr Tranny because: (no reason given)
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Plight of Displaced Kachin Worsens, Aid Groups Warn
The health of tens of thousands of villagers displaced by the Kachin conflict is quickly deteriorating due to a severe shortage of aid supplies such as food, blankets and medicine, local relief groups warned, adding that the recent escalation in the fighting between Kachin rebels and the Burmese government is terrifying villagers and affecting their safety.
“The food security situation is very serious and the political situation is very tense,” said La Rip, coordinator of the Relief Action Network for IDPs and Refugees (RANIR), which coordinates aid for the displaced ethnic Kachin in Laiza, a town in a valley on the Burma-China border.
“There are more than 15,000 people in four camps around Laiza. They are really short on food supplies. But all other camps are also short on assistance,” he told The Irrawaddy by telephone on Friday.
The fighting between the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the Burmese government erupted in June 2011 after a 1994 ceasefire broke down. Kachin rebels demand more autonomy but the government wants to control the resource-rich ethnic region.
An estimated 100,000 Kachin villagers have since fled the violence. They now stay in 17 camps in rebel-held areas along Burma’s mountainous northern border, which China has closed off for refugees.
Local relief groups are struggling to support the villagers as aid supplies have been running low since last month. The groups have not received any international support since July, when the Burmese government cut off UN access to the area. Meanwhile, severe winter cold has also set in.
“The UN cannot access the IDPs [internally displaced persons] along the border, and the local aid agencies cannot address the needs here by themselves,” La Rip said, adding that villagers’ health was deteriorating due to insufficient supply of food and other necessities during their long stay in the camps.
“The situation is becoming worse… They’re only getting rice and salt, not any food supplements. We are concerned about the impacts of this on pregnant women, lactating mothers and young children,” La Rip said, adding that a survey in October found that a third of all young children were already undernourished.
Mary Tauwn, a relief worker from Wun Tawng Ningtwey (Light of the Kachin People) said the aid group lacked supplies for the six camps that it supports, while food and other items were expensive and scarce because all local roads were blocked.
“We can just provide for basic food stuffs like rice, salt and garlic. Some IDPs ask us: ‘Can you provide us some meat for nutrition?’ But we cannot,” she said, adding that villagers also required more clothing, blankets and medicine during the winter cold.
To make matters worse, fighting between Burmese government and Kachin guerrillas has intensified recently, with the Burmese military launching airstrikes with helicopter gunships and fighter jets in the strategically important Lajayang area, close to the KIA headquarters in Laiza. Ground fighting has reportedly also worsened in many areas.
La Rip said the intensification in the fighting was endangering villagers, for example when they go to inspect their village crops, while people in Laiza valley were deeply concerned as the fighting draws closer and jets bombed the surrounding mountains.
“Local people mostly stay home—normal life is crippled,” he said. “People are very scared that the government might take Laiza and there will be indiscriminate bombing and shelling.”
Mary Tauwn said that in Mai Ja Yang—an area north of Laiza, where Wun Tawng Ningtwey is based—ground fighting was getting closer. “Since [Thursday] morning we can hear mortar shells falling here. Some of the IDPs are frightened,” she said.
RANIR and other Kachin groups are now calling for immediate international support for the displaced. The groups sent out an appeal on Dec. 27 and on Thursday they sent a request for help to the Geneva headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross. The letter warned of “daily escalation of attacks,” AP reported.
“The situation is very urgent and we need to settle this issue,” La Rip said, explaining that if international aid could not reach rebel-controlled camps by road, then it should be provided to local relief groups, which could find ways to distribute it in the camps.
“I also urge the government to allow international aid to come in again and to end the fighting unconditionally,” he added.
International criticism of the Kachin conflicts has grown recently and the use of airpower by the Burmese government has caused particular concern. The US and UK governments, along with the UN, called on the warring parties this week to open negotiations and to allow international aid into Kachin-held camps.
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Bryce Huebner Receives Collaborative Grant as part of the University-wide Engaged Ethics Initiative
The grant, purposed to support collaborative research across the University, will fund a new study to be conducted by Professors Marsh (Psychology) and Bryce Huebner (Philosophy) have been awarded a Complex Moral Problems
The University has been continuing to emphasize and link our considerable strengths in practical or applied ethics across the three campuses through an Ethics Initiative, and the Complex Moral Problems stemmed from this desire to also support collaborative research on applied ethics across the University. To qualify for the award the project was concern a moral problem; these moral problems must be complex in a way that calls for, or would benefit from, interdisciplinary or collaborative treatment; the project must aim to engage in a useful way with real-world, morally significant problems actually faced by people. More information about the award can be found here.
The project will be testing moral reasoning in exceptionally altruistic people.
Well-done, Professor Huebner!
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Grow Vegetables The Easy Way In Fabric Grow Pot Containers
The Grow Pot is a soft-sided, breathable fabric container that releases heat to promote root growth. Similar to containers used by professional nurseries, it grows a better plant with more flowers and fruits, and more resistance to insects and diseases. 15 Gallon Pot is perfect for potatoes and cucumbers; 20 Gallon Pot is great for melons and tomatoes; 30 gallon works well for squash or multiple plants. Collapses easily for off-season storage.
Vegetable growing container
Strong fabric promotes root growth
Flexible containers collapse for storage
15 gallon, 18-1/2" dia. x 13-1/2"H
20 gallon, 20" dia. x 15"H
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Bigger than I thought
from Oak ridge, Tn
It's much larger than I thought it would be and consequently it took much more soil to fill it. But then there's also more space for plants since it is so large. It was hard to make it stay open while I filled it (having two people would work better). But once it's filled and planted, it's great for my rose bush.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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20 Gallon Wonder!
Perfect for your first attempts at growing a real tomato plant in limited space. It allows me to drag the 20 gallon version across a rather large and partially shaded patio for maximum sun exposure. Enormous tomato production!
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Great Potato Grow Pot
from Bremerton, WA
I've used plastic pots to grow potatoes for several years. This product outshown the plastic pots by a mile. My crops were larger. I like the pots because they are super easy to move around the deck, even for a senior citizen. Because they are fabric, you can really grab on and they are so lightweight. Fantastic product. Need to buy more for next year.
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(18 of 18 customers found this review helpful)
Easy to use, looks good!
from Mtn. Home, Ar.
East to fill with soilEasy to plant vegetablesLooks good and blends with the landscape
(30 of 30 customers found this review helpful)
from South Carolina
Because of deer and rabbits, I cannot plant a garden anywhere on my land. These grow pots now house my garden - right on my deck and they look super!
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The most important facet of a successful military operation is getting supplies to those in combat, and this increasingly is becoming a major issue for US and coalition forces in Afghanistan. Pakistan temporarily closed a major route which funnels supplies to forces in Afghanistan due to militant attacks. Closing the Khyber Pass will make difficult carrying out operations near the border of Pakistan or in eastern areas of Afghanistan. Militants have been constantly destroying vehicles and killing Pakistan soldiers.
The Obama administration intends to send an additional 30,000 troops to the Afghan fight, but if supply lines become cut, it will require diverting thousands of combat personnel to the task of maintaining supply lines. Of course, if Obama can re-establish relations with Russia, it would provide a safer route for supplies.
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GE has unveiled a six-car, solar-powered charging station in Plainville, CT at the company's facilities. The six Level 2 chargers capable of fully charging 13 cars a day and five cars at a time.
The solar carport is able to produce enough energy to power about 20 homes for a year and what doesn't go to charging EVs will go to the grid. When the charging station is overloaded, it will take back from the grid if necessary.
The station is currently a working demo of their technology and only open to the 300 employees who work at the GE facility, but may open to the public soon. GE hopes to build similar charging stations across the country.
written by Marcus Pradel, May 27, 2011
written by Abner Kent, August 17, 2011
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A Department of Education study has recommended the establishment of five new Educate Together schools around the country.
The recommendation comes after a survey of the areas found strong demand for multi-denominational education among parents living there.
The five areas are: Arklow, Co Wicklow; Castlebar, Co Mayo; Trim, Co Meath; Tramore, Co Waterford and Whitehall in Dublin
They are the first areas of 44 to be surveyed nationally.
An analysis of the results, published today, has found that between 37% and 50% of respondents wanted a greater choice of patronage, and up to a third said they would avail of new choices if they existed.
The new model most favoured by those who wanted change was a multi-denominational school run by patron body Educate Together.
The five areas are all places with no current multi-denominational provision and stable populations.
Castlebar has 11 schools in its wider area, all of which are Catholic.
Parents of pre-primary and primary school children were questioned for the online survey. They had to provide PPS numbers and other details to prove their identity and residence.
Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn said he would now ask the Catholic bishop in each of these areas to consider re-configuring their schools in order to free up school accommodation for the new educational provision.
Mr Quinn said the survey would be extended to other areas in January.
Almost 2,000 parents responded to the survey, representing almost 3,500 children, or between 23% and 43% of under-12s living in the different areas
Of those seeking a wider choice, Educate Together was the first preference of 56% to 76% of parents.
Irish language body An Foras Pátrúnachta was the preference for between 6% and 26% of respondents, while between 10% and 18% favoured the VECs.
Between 34% and 44% of respondents said they did not want to see more choice in their area.
Between 70% and 80% of parents said they wanted English language education. All these areas already have a Gaelscoil.
The study shows the level of demand for change is such that a five-classroom school could be opened immediately in Castlebar.
According to the analysis, demand in the other four areas suggests that four three-classroom schools could be filled immediately, with pupils already in the system.
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Healthy Living: Sunscreen
Most people love to enjoy the sunny weather, but you have to use proper protection especially when you're in direct sunlight. YNN's Shazia Khan has more.
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Fun in the sun could be dangerous if you're not wearing the right sunscreen. Doctors say you want one with broad spectrum coverage, offering protection against both UVA and UVB rays.
"The UVA rays are the deeper penetrating rays that cause skin cancer, but they also damage the collagen and elastic tissue which gives you all those wrinkles. UVB rays are the rays that cause burning," said Dr. Debra Jaliman, a dermatologist.
To protect against UVB rays, a sunscreen with at least a sun protection factor or SPF of 30 is recommend, whether you have light or dark skin.
"An SPF of 30, you're going to block out 96 percent of UVB rays. You're not going to get a sunburn, however, you're not protected against skin aging and skin cancer as these are primarily caused by UVA," said Dr. Dina Anderson, another dermatologist.
Most sunscreens have either physical or chemical blockers to protect against UVA rays. Chemical blockers, like the widely used avobenzone, also known as Parsol 1789, absorb UV radiation, while physical blockers, which tend to be more chalky, primarily reflect it.
"My favorites are the physical blockers. Those are zinc oxidide and titanium dioxide. Look for a high percentage so you can look for a 5 percent or 10 percent and you know you're getting good UVA protection and what's great about physical blockers, are they are not irritating to the skin," said Dr. Jaliman.
So its best for babies six months and older and those with sensitive skin.
It's recommended you apply a generous amount of sunscreen to all exposed areas, including lips, at least 20 minutes before heading outdoors. Doctors say you'll need to reapply every two hours depending on the amount of sun exposure and if you're hitting the water.
There is no such thing as water or sweat proof sunscreen, regardless of what some of the current labels say.
Aside from wearing sunscreen, limit sun exposure, wear a hat, cover up, and get an annual skin check with your dermatologist because the earlier you catch skin cancer, the easier it is to fight it.
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The landmark book Boys and Girls Learn Differently outlines the brain-based educational theories and techniques that can be used to transform classrooms and help children learn better. Now The Boys and Girls Learn Differently Action Guide for Teachers presents experiential learning techniques that teachers can use to create an environment and enriched curriculum that take into account the needs of the developing child's brain and allows both boys and girls to gain maximum learning opportunities. This important and easy-to-use guide is based on the latest scientific scholarship on the differences between boy's and girl's brains, neurological development, hormonal effects, behavior, and learning needs and offers information on what all children need to be able to learn effectively. Michael Gurian and his colleagues applied these recent discoveries in the field during a two-year Gurian Institute pilot program in Missouri that led to measurably better academic performance and improved behavior.
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When it comes to money, are you smarter than average?
Most (70%) describe their own financial smarts as "excellent/good", but only 30% are inclined to say the same about their neighbours.
Another example of Lake Wobegon effect? Probably, particularly when you consider it's pretty tough for the majority of people to be above average when it comes to money issues -- or anything else for that matter.
Nonetheless, most of us seem to believe that we've got the inside track when it comes to finances.
In fact, almost two thirds (65%) think that the average Canadian's level of financial knowledge is "not very good" and needs attention. At the same time, roughly the same percentage (64%) believe that financial literacy, or the lack of it, is a serious issue that requires improvement.
What about you? Do you you think you've got a bit of an edge when it comes to financial issues?
By Gordon Powers, MSN Money
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The Soft Sell: Companies Embracing Organic Cotton
“Organic cotton” brings to mind softness and purity, things most parents associate with their babies. Organic cotton has gained popularity in recent years –– particularly in infant fashions –– because of its gentleness on both the skin and the planet. Grown without pesticides and produced without excessive chemicals, organic cotton has been shown to cause fewer allergic reactions in chemical-sensitive individuals. This point is particularly important to parents of children with these sensitivities.
The market for organic cotton and other environmentally friendly clothing is full of both established and emerging companies. It pays to do a little research and find out which ones have the most cutting-edge styles, the most creative designs, and state-of-the-art “green” manufacturing practices. Here are a few worthy of retail consideration: Pickle Peas, mini mioche, Itsus Eco and Bungalow BeBe.
Tots are Never Fully Dressed without a Bib
Pickle Peas offers a variety of basic organic cotton shirts and pants sets, but they come with detachable bibs in the shape of cars, robots and animals. Kids will enjoy the cute slobber-catchers, and parents will appreciate the convenience of a bib that snaps on and off easily. The bibs can be mixed and matched with the separates, so baby can be cutely color-coordinated.
Pickle Peas’ founder Shannon Byrne was a mom inspired by her own life experiences. When her kids were going through the drooling that often accompanies teething, she sought a simple and effective way to manage the mess. She experimented with designs until she found one that worked, and the rest is history.
Drool over the full line at www.picklepeas.com
With mini mioche, Being Green is Cool
Ethical practices have always been at the core of mini mioche, founder Alyssa Kerbel’s business vision. The Toronto-based company’s products are designed and produced in Canada using water-based reusable dyes and organic cotton.
The clothing line focuses on neutral colors and the softest fabric. It also offers classy bib choices. Part of the line’s charm is that it breaks many of the rules of baby clothes. Rather than pink or blue bibs covered in smiling animals, mini mioche’s versions come in a simple, unadorned shape and classic colors like heather gray and navy blue.
If parents are looking for a collection of decidedly non-cutesy (but still very cute!) one-pieces, dresses, pants, and tops that make it easy to match baby’s outfits, mini mioche is an excellent choice.
Every color is “green” at www.minimioche.com
Itsus Eco Creates Apparel Art
These pieces are more than just clothing — they’re works of apparel art, and yet they’re super-comfortable and easy for an active little one to wear. Parents can take pride in buying a product made in North America under ethical conditions and from a company with a mission to revolutionize the process of producing organic cotton clothing.
When Richard Brown started Itsus, he knew he wanted to create clothing that was environmentally friendly, but as he did research into the process of making cotton cloth, he realized he had his work cut out for him. In order to make products truly eco-safe, he would have to make changes at all levels of the manufacturing process, so he set out to do just that. Today, Itsus’ Eco System Green manufacturing method is gaining attention and respect from “green” clothing makers around the world.
Check out how Itsus puts the “Ohhh” in “organic” at www.itsus.ca
Bungalow BeBe Celebrates Individuality
For example, the boys line features a range of cargo shorts, comfy pants, hoodies, tees and button-down shirts in olive green, navy, tan and orange. The girls’ collection charms with simple a-line dresses, soft belted tops and ruffled capri pants with a color emphasis on pinks, lavenders and maroons. The ultra-soft Bungalow Booties are luxurious cotton baby booties with flap closures made to cradle a tiny feet.
Toni Romano launched Bungalow BeBe in 2007 to express her creative vision for infants’ apparel. She wanted to provide an organic cotton option that was not only modern and wearable, but also affordable. Her company has caught on and gotten plenty of positive retail attention for both children’s clothing and eco-friendly products.
Peek inside the Bungalow to see what’s new at www.bungalowbebe.com
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GOV 384N • Law and Justice
6:30 PM-9:30 PM
Law and Justice What is justice as conceived by contemporary philosophers? What is law? And what is the relationship between law and justice? John Rawls's conception of justice as fairness has dominated political philosophy for several decades, and Ronald Dworkin's defense of the proposition that moral principles have an essential role to play in law is an initially plausible view. Dworkin's view of law is usually contrasted with that of legal positivism, notably, H. L. A. Hart's version of it, which will be discussed at the beginning of the seminar. In addition to being about the nature of law, Hart's view also raises the issue of the relationship of law to justice and jurisprudence to political philosophy.
John Rawls, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement John Rawls, A Theory of Justice Ronald Dworkin, Law's Empire (other readings from H. L. A. Hart, Jules Coleman, and Brian Leiter)
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BERKELEY, California (Reuters) – Anti-Wall Street protesters remained in a camp of about 20 tents in the Northern California college town of Berkeley on Thursday, a day after authorities threatened to stop overnight camping.
Rising tensions over a possible eviction in Berkeley came as authorities in Tuscon, Arizona, said they had shut down a similar camp at a park in that city.
Two protesters were arrested overnight in Berkeley, one for public drunkenness and one for shoving an officer, said Sergeant Mary Kusmiss, a spokeswoman for the Berkeley Police Department.
The Occupy camp remains in the city’s Civic Center Park. On Wednesday, the city distributed flyers announcing plans to enforce a 10 p.m. curfew on the site, citing a rash of violence and other criminal behavior.
Protesters on Wednesday feared that a raid was imminent, but with their encampment still in place a day later, some in the group claimed victory.
Kusmiss said protesters are allowed to be in the park from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. She declined to say how the department would enforce the nighttime curfew or discuss what its strategy was to deal with overnight camping.
“We were very grateful that there were individuals who left voluntarily,” she said.
A sister Occupy protest on the nearby campus of the University of California at Berkeley, a cradle of 1960s student activism, was broken up in November by campus police who struck some students and faculty members with nightsticks.
In Tucson, police on Wednesday night cleared camping and other equipment from an Occupy camp in a city park, officials said.
Protesters had been at the park since November 3, and there were up to 10 of them at various times, but a high number of crimes at the site led to the decision to shut it down, said city spokesman Michael Graham.
Tucson police said they arrested one demonstrator who went back to the park after it was closed for the night.
(Reporting by Laird Harrison: Editing by Alex Dobuzinskis)
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Photo credit: Michael Prados
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Mad Men and me: A female copywriter reveals what it was really like to work at an advertising agency in the 60s
The television show Mad Men has won a worldwide fan base and awards for its portrayal of an advertising company in the 1950s and 60s.
Throughout the show's four series (the fifth will be broadcast later this month), chain smoking, drinking and adultery have been shown as the norm in the male dominated world. But how much is fact and how much is fiction?
According to one woman who was able to rise to become a copywriter in the 1960s despite her gender, much of the sexism, alcoholism and promiscuity in the show was part of her daily working life.
The cast of TV's Mad Men: Like Elisabeth Moss' character Peggy, front right, Jane Maas had to work hard to be taken seriously as a copywriter in a male dominated environment
Jane Maas worked for one of the biggest advertising agencies in New York, Ogilvy & Mather, as a copywriter and rose through the ranks to become a creative director.
Like Peggy Olson, played by Elisabeth Moss in Mad Men, she had to work twice as hard to prove herself in the role for far less pay than her male counter parts.
Maas admits in her memoirs, Mad Women, which have just been published, that she was often patronised by her colleagues who had no concept of sexual equality in the workplace - or outside it.
‘Why should men take [women] seriously as advertising professionals? Women weren’t even taken seriously as consumers,' she reveals. 'David Ogilvy wrote his famous statement, "The consumer is not a moron; she is your wife." '
Maas observes that women rising to positions of power was rare and even those who went to university like she did were not supposed to have career ambitions. Their number one priority was supposed to be marriage and children.
Most women even believed in the doctrine and would shun those of their gender who tried to break the stereotypes.
Any woman who did attain a career would be expected to give it up when they had children, it was simply socially unacceptable to be a working mother.
Man's world: As in the show, women in the 60s were routinely patronised and expected to give up their jobs when they became mothers
Working women 'knew, as did everybody, that they would continue working only until they were married, or at most until they were pregnant. In an advertising agency of the 1960s, a baby shower sounded the death knell of your career,’ says Maas.
She was able to break the mould and continue her career after having children thanks to the support of her liberal-minded husband, Michael, and a full-time housekeeper, Mabel.
But she admits like most working mothers, despite her success, she laments the time she lost watching her daughters grow up by putting her career first.
Insight: Jane Maas has revealed what it was really like to work for an advertising agency in the 60s
Like in Mad Men, Maas says office parties would often become 'sex and booze filled orgies' and knocking back spirits was considered the norm even during the working day. Most of the executives would have a drinks cabinet in their office, like the character Don Draper, without ever considering they could have an unhealthy alcohol dependency.
Despite the dangers of smoking beginning to be uncovered, puffing on cigarettes throughout the day was also the done thing - Maas even admits she lit up soon after labour while crading her newborn.
But while equality and health in the workplace left a lot to be desired in the sixties, Maas admits they did do one thing better - fashion.
Fabulous dresses, seamed stockings and pointy bras were the staples of her wardrobe and when she was promoted to a role beyond being a secretary, she was expected to wear a hat in the office to reflect her status.
Mad Women: The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue in the 60s and beyond by Jane Maas (Bantam Press, £12.99)
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November 25, 2008 By Patrick Michels
After watching hurricanes blow in from the Gulf of Mexico for so many years, Houston officials had a good sense of how the city's land reacts. They knew which areas will flood first, how severely and for how long.
But when it came to predicting how the population will be affected, they knew their data could be better. One major concern was identifying the people who, for health reasons, would need extra help during an evacuation. "Having data for who lives where, in terms of their vulnerabilities, gives you the ability to plan ahead for the type and quantity of supplies, and craft the messages that we need to get out to those folks," said Frank Levy, bureau chief of Public Health Preparedness at the Houston Department of Health and Human Services.
Though the city had already set up an emergency registry system, few of Houston's at-risk residents were signed up. Officials learned quickly that mapping the city's human landscape would require a more active effort. It would take an understanding of the community resources that could encourage people to sign up for the registry, and it would require a scientifically sound method for projecting that data across the entire population.
To analyze the data, the city found the right institution for the job in a unique school on the city's southwest side that's devoted to improving the way information is collected, analyzed and shared. Emergency preparedness officials teamed with the University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston, the only school in the nation devoted entirely to biomedical informatics, the science of handling medical information.
Studying Medical Informatics
Improving Houston's evacuation registry became just one part of a broad public health initiative called HealthQuilt, run by one of the school's professors, Dr. Kim Dunn. Dunn's project is a public health application. Along with preparing the medical support system for disasters, the project also aims to improve the exchange of health information and bring more specialty health care to the public health sector through telemedicine.
A guiding principle at the school is strengthening the medical system by working at the intersection of several different fields. The school itself is grounded in engineering, biomedicine, computer science and cognitive science. The school's academics say the flexibility to incorporate each area to varying degrees and also branch out into other fields, when appropriate, is something not possible at other universities with less-independent medical information science programs.
"Medical informatics is a unique discipline that has a set of tools that can be used in all these contexts," said Dr. Jack W. Smith, the school's dean. "I think we're certainly pioneers in creating a school that tries to tackle data info and knowledge problems across all these disciplines -- biomedical discovery, health care and public health. Because of the entrepreneurial and forward-looking culture of Texas, it's not surprising that the first school of this type would be in Texas."
In the years since the school's founding in 1997, the tools used to gather biomedical data have progressed so much that organizing and interpreting those numbers has emerged as a key growth area in medical research. Smith cited the Human Genome Project -- which decoded the map of human DNA -- as a prime example of the wealth of data available to researchers. "That's a tremendous challenge to manage and take advantage of that information. Increasingly vast storehouses of this information are digital," Smith said.
Focusing on Electronic Records
At the same time, the school is engaged in projects to improve the way patients' information is stored and passed along between health-care providers -- a chain at times as inscrutable as the blueprint of a DNA molecule. Electronic medical records (EMR) are a big cause that's gaining traction nationwide. "It's
This Digital Communities white paper highlights discussions with IT officials in four counties that have adopted shared services models. Our aim was to learn about the obstacles these governments have faced when it comes to shared services and what it takes to overcome those roadblocks. We also spoke with several members of the IT industry who have thought long and hard about these issues. The paper offers some best practices for shared government-to-government services, but also points out challenges that government and industry still must overcome before this model gains widespread adoption.
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Mentally prepared for unusual foods I was, but still I was completely taken by surprise when the individual dishes were placed in front of me, each and every one was unique and something I've never had before!
"Omakase is a Japanese phrase that means "I'll leave it to you" (from Japanese 任す, entrust).
The expression is used at sushi restaurants to leave the selection to the chef. It differs from ordering à la carte. The chef will generally present a series of plates, beginning with the lightest fare and proceeding to heaviest, richest dishes.
Customers ordering Omakase style expect the chef to be innovative and surprising in the selection of dishes, and the meal can be likened to an artistic performance by the chef." - wiki
Hinoki is a casual restaurant serving mid-high range Japanese food conveniently located in the CBD area. You won't find any pretentious atmosphere or over the top interior decor in this restaurant, just straightforward fresh good food and friendly chefs.
I brought my mum to have dinner because she's in love with Japanese food. She absolutely adored this place and the whole dining experience!
What we had in our Omakase set:
Aigamo (Smoked Duck Breast) - served with fish sperm and tomato. The tomato imported from Japan was amazing! If you've ever had a super sweet and expensive fruit from Japan, you'll know what I mean when I say it's NOT like your other normal fruits. And yes, you heard me, the white gunk in the spoon is fish sperm........ I'm having fish sperm in my first course. Interesting choice for appetizer huh? Can you see where this is going already? LOL.
I gave the fish sperm a try because Omakase is all about trying new things. It tasted like mayo / tofu with a thick and smooth texture. *feels a little less dignified on my blog*
Seiko Kani - a cold crab dish primarily eaten for its roe. I actually did not find this that special, but those who like crab roe would probably enjoy it more.
Kawahagi - A type of dried fish, I believe the chef called it a leather jacket fish. I know, lol at the name. It tasted kinda like dried cuttlefish except less pungent, but equally chewy and nicer tasting! My favorite appetizer thus far.
Speaking of the chef, I totally recommend getting the counter seats when you dine at Hinoki, especially if you get the Omakase set because you get to watch the skillful chefs prepare your food right in front of you! It's pretty cool watching them sleekly torch the raw fishes to get the top and edges slightly browned, and slicing the fishes ultra thinly.
Here is Chef Lawrence Chia, co-owner of Hinoki proudly presenting us our beautiful sashimi platter that he specially arranged for us! Chef Lawrence has over 20 years of Japanese cuisine experience with a substantial amount of following. He's also a great guy to talk to while having your meal, his tales of exotic Japanese food / its origins and outgoing character will keep you entertained throughout the meal.
Our beautifullll array of colorful assorted sashimi! Flounder, Yellowtail, Scallop, Toro, Baby Octopus and Angler Fish Liver. The freshest catch of the day, all one on plate. I've only ever had one type of sashimi seen here - the tuna. The rest were completely new to me, and I quite enjoyed all of them, especially the thin pieces of Flounder.
Chef Lawrence provided us this truffle oil infused sauce to dip the flounder pieces in. Delicious. ♥ ♥ ♥
To sidetrack a bit - when I first heard anger fish liver was on my plate, I was like WHAAAAT. o___O; It's the roundish piece of organ behind the wasabi in the pic above.
Do you guys even know what an angler fish is?! If you do, I'm sure you'll understand why I was so taken aback. If you don't, please educate yourself by clicking this. Or, think about the creepy prehistoric fish that was in Finding Nemo. It has a dangling bulb in front of its head, is ugly as hell with sharp teeth and a huge jaw, and tried to eat Nemo!!!!! Geddit now?
I freaking ate the LIVER of that animal. I never ever thought I'd put something like that in my mouth. This will probably be the first and last time I'd eat it. Not because it tastes bad, but because it is not something you'll see on a dinner menu anywhere. Like, sea urchins.... okay. That sort of level of exotic, I can deal with. But angler fish liver is really something else. It doesn't taste as rich or distinct as foie gras (these angler fishes were not force fed and fattened up like foie gras ducks are), it was in fact quite mild in taste and texture.
Here's my boyfriend looking cute and happy with his bento set. He finished work and was nearby, so we got him to join us for dinner! He opted for a bento set instead of Omakase since we were halfway done with ours, and it was value for money!
At $38 you get assorted sashimi, sushi, chawanmushi, tempura, grilled fish, stewed pork belly, among other things. The sushi and sashimi at Hinoki is of consistent impressive high quality, at first I thought only the Omakase would be a cut above the rest being higher priced than the normal menu, but even the bento set was good. :)
The next item to arrive on our table was equally as intriguing as the angler fish liver.
Giant Top Shell (Sazae) - with its insides gutted, meat chopped up and put back into the original shell with mushrooms and a tasty soup broth.. The blue tinge at the bottom of the shell was a slow flame heating the soup up.
"What is this animal?", I asked Chef Lawrence inquisitively.
"I'll show you. Let me get a live one."
Just like that, he plopped down this strange looking creature onto a chopping board, dug a knife into the shell, twisted it around a few times.... and pulled THIS monstrosity out!!!!! I was so shocked I didn't know how to react because it all happened so fast right in front of my eyes. Hahaha I remember squealing a lot in part amusement and horror, and even my mother and Sam were very bemused. It looks like a schlong. *coughs*
My mum loved it that she finished up to the very last drop of the soup herself! I had to get Sam to share mine.
Me sipping the soup slowly because it was so hot.... I asked for a spoon to drink the soup with, but Chef Lawrence insisted I pick up the thing with my fingers for the "real experience". Lol you had to hold it in a specific way in order not to burn yourself. #specialmealindeed
Kama Nitzuke (Cheek of Yellow Tail). This was really well done! The meat was so tender because its cheek meat, when you poked it with a fork it would fall off the bone.
Shio Ayu (Japanese River Trout). This and the cold crab made the least impression on me that night. I know they're supposed to be delicacies of sorts, but I didn't find them particularly tasty.
Green Asparagus with Asari (baby clams). Like an asian vongole! I liked the lightness of this dish, the small clams paired with the crunchy texture of the asparagus was a good combination, and it balanced out the meal nicely.
Chef Lawrence saved the best for the last, because the sushi platter was BOMBDIGGITY!!! Every single piece was delightful and mouthwateringly good. So craving for some right now.
I love how generous they are with the ingredients - you can barely see any sushi rice at all after its topped with a big piece of fish. The sushi rice was also not overly sour or sticky or mushy - it was literally perfect.
Even if you're not quite interested in Omakase dining, definitely give the sashimi and sushi at Hinoki a shot. It's nothing short of stellar. Sam's favorite was the foie gras with shrimp combo, and mine was the salmon, uni and unagi! Sorry I couldn't choose just one :P
It was my first time trying sea urchin and I actually quite like it, aside from the fact it can be slightly overpoweringly rich if you put the whole thing in your mouth at one go.
Our lovely meal ended off with Tuna Consumme, that came in a shot glass. It tasted kind of herbal and earthy to me.
Dessert was kept simple and easy on our already-full stomachs.
Matcha Mousse with Grape Sorbet. I loove the grape sorbet!! I'm a big fan of sorbet in general (it always the perfect dessert for me) and grape isn't a flavor you'd commonly find outside. It tasted kinda like bubblegum. Chef Lawrence said he specially imported it from Japan and that we won't be able to find it elsewhere....... *insert sad face here*
If you're looking to have an elegant Japanese meal but don't want to go to the usual overdone places or chain restaurants, Hinoki is a great place to switch things up a little. It is also conveniently located in the CBD area, so after work, you city working people can just swing by. The price for Omakase dining will vary, the one I had was $138++ per pax. They can tailor a menu for you according to your budget and preferred tastes!
Hinoki Japanese Dining
22 Cross Street #01-50 China Square Central
Food quality: 4.5/5
Service / Ambience: 4/5 (Chef Lawrence made our great meal even better!)
Value for Money: 3.5/5
Most suitable for: Adventurous foodies, true Japanese cuisine lovers who can pay the price for a good plate of sashimi, Omakase concept dining.
Looking for another place to satisfy your munchies? Check out other restaurant reviews I've done on various cuisines you'll find across Singapore here.
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What's On The Course?
The course places a strong emphasis on learning how other artists create images.AS Units:
- Unit 1: How to develop your work and ideas through the use of new materials and processes. How to work with a given theme to create a personal body of work influenced by the chosen artist.
- Unit 2: Practical exam externally set by AQA. This involves working from a chosen theme to develop a body of research, experimental developments and outcomes. these should demonstrate your media experiments and the influence different artists had in your work. It also includes a 5 hour practical supervised control piece.
Why study Art and Design?
- Unit 3: How to work with a given theme to create a personal body of work, influenced by your chosen artist. How to experiment with such methods as: paint techniques, collage, collograph, computer image manipulation and photography. How to mount your work to create a professional body of work.
- Unit 4: Practical exam externally set by AQA including a 15 hour practical supervised final outcome.
Do you enjoy working with different media and materials or have you always wanted to?
Do you want to experiment with colour, texture and drawing and painting techniques?
Do you want to make work that surprises you?
Then this is the course for you. You will gain knowledge, skills and enjoyment in the following:
What else can you do on the course?
- The basic elements that artists and designers use such as: line, tone, colour and texture.
- How to improve your skills in observation, drawing, painting, printing, image manipulation and digital photography.
- How to develop your work from initial ideas through to final outcomes.
- How to mount your work to make it look professional.
You will have the opportunity to travel to see exhibitions in London, Liverpool and Madrid and will have the opportunity to exhibit your work in the End of Year Exhibition. You'll also have the chance to be taught by practising artists. What the students say
"Art has always been my favourite subject and I want to go on and study it at university and teach it in the future. I've enjoyed the course and particularly like learning new techniques such as collages and texture work. I'm in a good group and I'd recommend it to any student who enjoyed art at high school." - Natalie Matthews, St Thomas More High SchoolPass Rates
In 2011 the student pass rate for A2 Fine Art was 100% with 100% of students achieving grades A*-C.
In 2010 the student pass rate for A2 Fine Art was 88% with 75% of students achieving grades A*-C.
Who Is It Suitable For?
You need to be someone who has an enthusiasm for making images, who is open-minded and willing to work outside your creative comfort zone by being prepared to try new and different ways of making works of art. The aim of the course is to help you to make a great leap in your creative ability and develop your confidence. We will help you to make interesting images.
The course is an excellent preparation for art and design degree courses progressing through to our pre-degree Foundation course and is ideally suited to those of you who have undertaken an art and design subject at GCSE level.
What Are The Entry Requirements?
The Academic Advanced Programme minimum entry requirement is five GCSEs (2Bs, 3Cs) including English Language/Literature and Maths.
You will also need an art portfolio, to be presented at interview.
What Other Subjects Can I Study With This Course?
You can study Fine Art with any combination of AS subjects, but should do no more than two Art and Design courses assessed by portfolio including Media and Drama.
What Can I Do Next?
Progression to Higher Education through our Foundation Art and Design course or by direct entry to an Honours Degree where applicable. Many of our students have progressed onto the Foundation Diploma in Art and Design onto Degrees in Fine Art and Photography.
What If I Need Support?
The College provides a range of learning support for students who would like extra help with their studies. If you need help in deciding what to study or information on travel, finance, childcare, personal or health concerns, contact the Information Centre
How Do I Apply?
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Sep 25, 2008
Avoid spelling errors!
Posted in: Process & Statistics
As you begin your MIT application and other college applications, I thought I'd give some tips on how to avoid simple spelling errors.
Most errors I see are not in the essay portion. People are pretty good about using spell check for that. More often, I see spelling errors in the activity list, list of honors and awards, self-reported coursework form, or short answer essays. So be careful in these sections, too!
What happens if you do have a spelling error? It's certainly not fatal, but it's something to avoid if you can. It's unlikely to be the difference between getting in and not getting in, but you'd rather look your best throughout the application.
My favorite spelling error on MIT applications is students who talk about taking "discreet math." Is this math that you do without showing off? (I think these students mean "discrete math")
I also like "duel enrollment" courses. Perhaps these students are preparing to join MIT's national champion Pistol Team? (Probably you mean "dual enrollment")
Both of these examples, of course, don't get caught by spell check, since both discreet and duel are actual words. So don't just rely on Microsoft Word to proofread your essay -- you'll want to take a keen look at it yourself.
Here is a non-scientific list of the most commonly misspelled words I see on applications. And, thanks to GoogleBattle, I'll tell you how often people on the Web make the same mistake.
- independent [independant, 6% of the time]
- calculus [calculous, 2%]
- honor roll [honor role, 2%]
- principal [principle, n/a]
- extracurricular [extracuricular, <1%]
- discrete math [discreet math, 1%]
- dual enrollment [duel enrollment, 1%]
- varsity [varisty, 1%]
- sophomore [sophmore, 8%]
I hope this is helpful! What are those words and terms that you most often get wrong?
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The Baby Blues
Sarah recalls crying uncontrollably for no apparent reason one day after the birth of her son almost five years ago. "I just felt completely overwhelmed and scared, because suddenly the life of this little being was all my responsibility. I had to feed him, make sure he got enough food, make sure that he didn't suffocate at night or swallow something and choke, or even drop from my hands ... I felt extremely restricted, imprisoned by his feeding schedule." Looking back, Sarah believes she suffered from the baby blues, a short-lived but often distressing condition that affects between 50 and 75 percent of all new mothers within the week after the birth of their baby.
According to Depression after Delivery, a national Postpartum Depression support organization, baby blues are a biological response to a woman's rapidly changing hormone levels after pregnancy. Yet sometimes the blues turn into postpartum depression. Learn the difference and where to find support if you're struggling with a postpartum mood disorder.
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I see this too often. It is a wonder that there are not more accidents. Driving to fast for conditions, following to close, eating and drinking while driving, are all common errors. Drivers become to familiar with their busses and they lose track. Busses do not stop on a dime and they are heavy and they take a lot of room to stop particularly when there are a lot of students on board. They cannot be designed to stop quickly as one would like, the laws of motion come to play "Bodies that are set in motion will remain in motion until an equal and opposite force stops it." Good thing that there were not students on board, some of them could very well have landed on the hosebed of the fire engine and ended up in the hospital. I think that school buss drivers need to renew their privalege, both classroom and road driving, to drive a scholl buss every year before school starts.
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Moral obligations are not the same thing as national obligations. And fulfilling one's moral obligations by invading other countries can lead to unintended consequences. What's that? You don't know what "unintended consequences" are? Okay, here you go.
Unintended consequences are outcomes that are not (or not limited to) what the actor intended in a particular situation. The unintended results may be foreseen or unforeseen, but they should be the logical or likely results of the action. For example, students of history often conjecture that if the Treaty of Versailles had not imposed such harsh conditions on Germany, World War II would not have occurred. From this perspective, one might consider the war an unintended consequence of the treaty.
You see, when you campaign for ideas like "taxes are bad" or "poor people are too fat anyway," sometimes there are consequences, like people suffering or infrastructure crumbling. Or you vote for Bush and our country is at war, in debt, and--now this is the important part--considered immoral for creating so much death and destruction.
We can also see the basis for Megan's moral foundation; God tells you what's right or wrong, because nobody could actually figure out what is good and what isn't without His Glorious Morality.
I can't see how you can have any sort of meaningful faith and divorce it from
your voting decisions. Religious faith is supposed to tell you, among
other things, what is right and wrong. How are you supposed to vote
without reference to your notions of goodness?
Well, let's think. Stealing and murder and lying hurt people, so they're wrong. Wow, that was easy! And I didn't need to drag a single archaic deity into it.
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Free Gaza Boats: Gone Fishing
by Greta Berlin
I sat at the front of the fishing boat, one of six that went out this morning. They are old wooden boats, outfitted with bits and pieces of mechanical parts, rope twisted together and fishing nets. Israel has refused to let Palestinians fish in their own waters for the past 15 months. Even before that, they restricted Palestinian fishermen to around 6 miles. Now, they shoot holes in the boats and in the fishermen if they are caught farther out than about a kilometer.
So today, 19 of us were going along to break a different kind of siege… the denial of Palestinian rights to fish, something every other country bordering the Mediterranean has. Only Palestinians are told they can’t fish for their livelihood, provide for their families and contribute to their own economy. We decided that, since we sailed into Gaza (one fisherman told us we were the first boats to come into the port in 35 years; they have been forced to buy everything from Israel, who charges them exhorbitant fees to buy their own fish back).
Twenty of us arrived at the port about 4:30, sleepy and stumbling about amid the dozens of security men standing there guarding us. We were told we’d have to wait, because the fishermen were afraid to go out to sea with us, uncertain whether they would be shot at or worse. Finally, four hours later, six boats showed up, and we boarded, two or three to a boat. The port is small but perfectly adequate for these boats plus our own two that were on the dock front to back. The media climbed into one of them, escorting us out.
All the Palestinians said they wanted to go our past the six mile limit. They were as eager as we were to test the noose hanging around their necks. At 8 miles, three Israeli patrol boats showed up, buzzing up and down in front of us, a man on a machine gun at the back of each one. The boat I was accompanying was owned by six cousins, the youngest 15, and they were, at first, nervous when the patrol boats showed up. I’m sure the Israelis were having a coronary wondering what to do with us, but they left us alone. I’m sure their media will now say they ‘escorted us’ out to sea, but that would be a lie.
Six hours later, the men had caught more fish in their nets than they had in four years. They were ecstatic, and I got to watch them haul the tons of fish up and over the back of the boat, sort them, water them down, they pick out the best 8 inch shrimp to cook for my friend, Moussa, and me. By the time we pulled back into port twelve hours later, my skin was bright pink from the sun, they were overjoyed with their catch, and the boats that went out would provide an income for over 16 families for a month.
“Will you come tomorrow? Will you come and fish again?” And, of course, we can’t. They had challenged Israel’s horrible siege on them, and, today, they won. But without us, will the Israeli come back tomorrow and get even?
We can hope that these men will be able to go out once more and do what generations of men have done… go fishing.
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